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INNOCENT NEGROES SHOT BY LYNCHERS ATLANTA. Ga. November &—Of the four Negroes recently shot by lynching mobs in the vicinity of Tus caloosa. Alabama three of them fatally, one was undoubtedly inno cent and all the other three possibly so according to a report made pub lic today by the Southern Commis son on the Study of Lynching after a careful investigation of the whole situation. No convincing proof of guilt was found in either case. County officers charged with the protection of these men either con nived with the mob says the Com mission or else “exhibited inexcus able inefficiency and stupidity.” It is suggested that certain of those offi cers should be impeached by the Su preme Court of Alabama and be re moved from office by the Governor, if found guilty of either charge. The courts of the community have failed completely in their duty, ac cording to the Commission. “Both mobs were made up largely of Tus caloosa people” it says. “Many in the, community knew their identities and a really vigorous investigations would have been productive of indict ments.” The community has been in a state of extreme hysteria, according to the Commission induced partly by the efforts of the International Labor Defense to force its way into the case. “Much of this hysteria” the Commission says “was traceable to unreasoning fear that communist agencies had actually organized among the Negroes a conspiracy of violence outrage and insurrection.” As a matter of fact the Commission i'ound no evidence whatever of any uch spirit among the Negro popula . ion or of any sustained activity on the part of communists to organize ' hem. With regard to the community’s effort to excuse itself because of communist interference the Commis sion fires this telling shot: “The Tuscaloosa community could hardly have placed itself in a worse light than it did by insisting that the Ne groes’ defense be left in local hands and then permitting them to be mur dered.” In conclusion hope is expressed that the authorities of Tuscaloosa county may yet make some effective effort to bring the lynchers to jus tice. Should this hope fail the Com mission lays upon the Supreme Court and the Governor the responsibility for exercising the punitive power re posed in their hands by the constitu tion of the state. ‘GREEN PASTURES’ COMES . HOME By R. B. Eleazer ATLANTA Ga. November 8— "Green Pastures” has come home at last—not to the place of its birth but back to the land of its descent where through the centuries its es sential significance has been slowly shaped in the thought the experience and the emotions of a great race. And what a homecoming it has been! What enthusiastic welcome the play has received; what unstinted praise on the part of critics and public! What appreciation offstage of the venerable artst who dared es say the role of God and had the dramatic ability—and the essential greatness of character —to make of that role the most sensational dramatic success of the century! In its tour of Southern cities ev ery where successful the play opened | Monday in Atlanta for eight perform ances. Pressed with invitations far beyond the possibility of acceptance I Richard B. Harrison who plays “de Lawd” appeared three times Sunday j before large church audiences gath ered to greet him. Two hundred I white and colored college students j heard him at the Central Congre ■ gational Church in a meeting ar ranged by the Interracial Student Council. An hour later a crowded house greeted him at Big Bethel A.. M.. E.. Church; and at the evening hour he addressed the largest aud ience ever assembled in Druid Hills Methodist Church South one of the leading white churches in the city. Every seat was taken every inch of standing room was occupied upstairs i and down the vestibule was packed j and people looked in from the out side steps through two sets of open ed doors. At the conclusion of his Sunday evening address simple unpreten tious and winning Mr. Harrison was thronged as on the other two oc casions with people eager to express their appreciation and to grasp his hand. The fine unstrained courtesy extended him by the pastor a native Vh^ginian late from Louisiana the rapt attention given him by the aud ience and the ovation accorded him at the conclusion of his address would have been an interesting study for those who think of race relations in the South solely in terms of lynch ing bees. It might at least have sug gested the idea that the worst in Southern race relations is not neces sarily the best. On Tuesday morning Mr. Harrison spoke to the student body of Agnes Scott College one of the South’s most notable and conservative schools for the education of young women. He was introduced by the president and made a most favorable impression upon faculty and students. On Thurs day morning he spoke at Atlanta University and on Friday he has been invited to address the 1200 stu dents of Emory. On Monday night the play opened before a packed house. Of the effect the dramatic critic of the morning Constitution wrote: “There is a spell woven over the audience during the opening scene, and they leave still with that spell upon them. The only thing to say is to give thanks that we have been privileged to come un der its effect.” The house has been sold out at every performance and hundreds have been turned away. There has been no suggestion of un 1'ayorable criticism from any source whatever. This is not an effort to “press agent” Green Pastures. No such ef fort is necessary. I felt however that your readers might be glad to know how this great all Negro production has been received in the South and that they might be encouraged by the answer as I have been to a little more of confidence in the essential soundness of human nature and to greater hope for the improvement of race relations in this section. NINE OF NINETEEN CHILDREN OF ONE FAMILY ENTER FIRST GRADE IN SCHOOL FORT GAINES Ga. Npvember 8— (CNS)—Reuben Davis and his wife live a few miles from town with a family of nineteen children. Recently they decided that nine of them rang ing in age 6 to 15 should enter school. Davis came to town last week and bought nine primers asking for and receiving cut rate prices on the wholesale deal. POLICE CONTINUE “GORILLA” ' MYTH NEW YORK, November 8—((CNA j )—The police department Freeman Piikett a, largsic footer Negro here today and held him on charges of at tacking women and robbing men in Central Park. The white press in New York has been yelling about the act ivities of the Gorilla man in Central Park for the last months. About ten days ago a large man was captured in the park and charged with the same crime. Upon examination it was discovered that the man was not a Negro at all but a white man who had blacked his face. This has been a common occurrence in these parts lately. The police department has no evidence against Pinkett except that of two old men who hazily recollect that he took money from them at the point of a knife. TELEGRAM RECEIVED TODAY ON ARMWOOD LYNCHING FROM L. S. N. R HEAD NEW YORK, November 8—(CNA Maryland lynching part wave of lynching and Mass terror provoked by Roosevelt-Johnson driving force putting across wagecutting starva tion program NRA unprecedented in History of America stop safeguards for lives of Negro People only guar anteed by nationwide mobilization working class toiling Negro Masses in Mass protest action stop masses white and black face terror program if common enemy stop build League Struggle Negro Rights in fight for Equal Rights Negro Masses and as ally of oppressed native and foreign j bora white workers stop make Ny ! gad Rockland meeting starting point , mobilization. Signed Robert R. Moore. ! EVEN MARYLAND DEMOCRATS ADVOCATE GOVERNOR RITCH IE’S IMPEACHMENT — BALTIMORE, Md. November 9— The impeachment and indictment of Governor Albert C. Ritchie for his “criminal negligence” in failing to prevent the lynching last week of George Armwood, was urged by Isaac Loeb Strauss, prominent local lawyer, in an address before the As sociated Democratic Clubs November 1. Mr.. Strauss was a former attorn ey general of Maryland and joins with many others in condemnation of Ritchie’s “do nothing policy” in re cent Eastern Shore lynching orgies. - Head The Guide Spend a Dollar and Make a Job Square Deal Stores Free Delivery - __-_Nov. 9-12 FRESH COUNTRY EGGS, *',iozen18c SQUARE DEAL COFFEE ,b 19c SWEET POTATOES' ™ow ?ams 6 Ibs- 25c No. 2*4 cans j^i^c PUMPKIN No-2 cans 10° AMERICAN CREAM CHEESE lb 18c FULLER’S TOOTH PASTE’ E*rge lube 39c TOILET SO AP {lia" fr' CREAMERY BUTTER lb 22'ic MELO CUP COFFEE can 29c BLACK-EYED PEAS’2 !bs 15c MINCE MEAT packagI 10c MACARONI, SPAGHETTE AND NOODLES’pkg-each 5C TIT? 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Ask that your order be written on the above named stores. _ 4«» •■"■* *• ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS RE WARD OFFERED IN PRINCESS ANNE LYNCHING NEW YORK CITY, November 8— Declaring that ne genuine effort is being mace by public officials to identify the lynchers of George Arm wood Negro at Princess Anne, Md. the American Civil Liberties Union offers a reward of one thousand dol lars for information leading to the final conviction in the courts of any member of the lynch mob which mur dered Armwood on October 17 1933. “The A.. C.. L.. U.. has posted this offer of a reward” said Roger N. Baldwin director “because it is plain that without such an incentive wit nesses will not talk. It is already apparent that no genuine effort is being made by the public officials charged wiih the investigation. The state of feeling on the Eastern Shore is evidently such that any witness iuns considerable risk in coming for ward with specific identification.) Yet obviously many members of the mob can be identified by State troop J ers officials and by-standers. “In no lynch case in recent years were members of the mob so easy to identify. Failure to do so condemns the administration of justice in Mary land. While we offer this reward in the hope that identifications will be made indictments found and convic ions obtained we have already indic ated our doubts by appealing to the Attorney General of the United States for a federal investigation to | be followed by appropriate action in the federal courts. Our attorneys ■ advise us that such an investigation ! is authorized by statue and that pro j eeedings may be had in the federal courts where the State courts fail to j act.” CRAWFORD CASE IN VIRGINIA ATTRACTING WIDE ATTENTION LEESBURG Va. November 9—(C NS)—While there is a sensational undercurrent of scandal and charges leged murder case flying about the of a frame-up in the Crawford al vicinlty here leading citizens of the State are determined that no one shall justly accuse the Virginia au thorities of trying to railroad Craw j lord to the electric chair. To this end the Richmond Times Dispatch in i leading editorial “Eyes on Virginia” says: “The eyes of the country will be upon Virginia when George Craw ford, Negro goes to trial on a charge o* murdering Mrs. Agnes Boeing Illsley spotswoman and her elderly white maid. “National attention wias called to the case when Judge James Arnold Lowell of the United States District Court in Boston granted a stay of an extradition order on the ground that Virginia does not permit Ne groes to serve on juries. “It is safe to say that the trial will equal in interest the famous I Scottsboro case. “Certainly the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People will keep the limelight of I publicity turned on the courtroom. The association already has raised a defense fund and chief counsel for 1 Crawford will be Dean Charles Hou ston of the Howard University Law School a Harvard graduate and one of the leading Negro attorneys in the country. “Virginia will let its justice be swerved neither to right nor left by the public interest expressed in the case. Virginians are certain in their | own minds that Crawford will re ceive impartial judgment. It remains1 only to convince the rest of the coun-! try that such is the case. ~ i “Virginia is moving circumspectly in the case. This is wise. It should make plain to the rest of the coun try that a repetition of the race hatred evident in the Scottsboro case is an impossibility in the Old Dom inion. “Let Crawford be given every benefit of the law. Let the facts, pro and con be developed clearly. Let the jury act without prejudice. Be the decision what it may let Virginia stand forth before the nation as a State in which justice is administer ed fearlessly and in accordance with the evidence.” ----- MARRIAGE REQUEST OF DOOM ED MEN BY OFFICIALS WASHINGTON, November 7—(C NS. — After lengthy consideration the requests of two men convicted of murder and awaiting execution, to permit them to be married were den ied by the District Commissioners. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, presi dent of the Board of Commissioners, merely announced the board had de cided that as a matter of public policy the requests of the two men would be refused. One of the men was executed Fri day, October 27, and the other, who is the father of two children by a common-law7 wife whom he now wish | es to marry is scheduled to be exe j cuted November 29. It was learned, however, that the Commissioners were guided by the feeling that to permit the marriages would establish a precedent which might embarrass the District govern ment, and were convinced that no good would be accomplished by per mitting matrimony. They felt also ! that the staging of marriage cere monies under such sensational cir- i cumstances would give to the Dis trict unfavorable national publicity. I SIX ARRESTED IN NEW TERROR REIGN IN TALLAPOOSA, CHAMB ERS COUNTIES. ALA. By JIM MALLORY DADEVILLE, Ala. November 9— Seven Negro members of the Share Cropper Union have been arrested here, charged with assault with in tent to murder. Nine more who are sought for, are in hiding. Carloads of armed deputies are touring the Ne gro communities, Negro cabins are being turned inside out in a search for literature, guns and lists of members of the Croppers Union. A new wave of terror has been let loose in Tallapoosa County and Chambers County and a wave of lynching is be ing arranged in preparation for the S-cottsboro trial coming up Novem ber 27. The excuse given for this particu lar series of raids is that a Negro stool-pigeon and strike breaker, Paul Powell was given a severe beating recently. The landlords sent Powell into the Union as a spy, ordering him to get the names of leading members and turn the list over to the sheriff at Lafayette. Powell worked under the direction of Frank vVood, a white landlord who has an- I nounced that he is ready to kill ev- j sry member of the Share Croppers Union. Wood’s cotton fields were Kiycotted this fall by the union I members, because he refu-ed to pay : the standard price of 50 cents a hun dred for picking, the only person who entered Wood’s cotton fields was Powell. Powell was warned by the Union to stay out of the fields. A few days later he went with Wood to Lafayette, and the next day car loads of deputies arrived in Dadeville The croppers who have already The croppers who hrjve already been arrested here: James Kimball, George Sims Jim Spence and John Tut Carl, John Willis, Perry Hill Taylor. They are held in $1000 bond each.. The Share Croppers Union has grown until its size and power are a nightmare to the landlords.. The year has been a bitter one for the small farmers, the croppers and the ten ants. This, and the steady end bril liant organizational work of the Ln ion leaders, have brought the mem bership to the 5500 mark.. The Dadeville croppers, under the leadership of the Union, have re fused to sign the government cheeks made out jointly to them and to the, landlords, for the cotton the crop pers plowed under.. The joint checks are a scheme agreed on by the land lords and the government, which makes it possible for the landlords, —'a'Z Omaha Poultry Market SPECIAL—LEGHORNS HENS, lb. 10c LIVE OR DRESSED POULTRY—FRESH COUNTRY EGGS AND BUTTER Phone WEbster 1100 1114 North 24th Stseet u&i... i once he-has the cropper’s signature, to steal the entire sum. The landlord need merely put forward the claim that the money is owing to him for food and clothing furnished the crop per in the past. A cropper from Dadeville writes the following description of how the landlords steal the money for the plowed-under cotton. Landlord Smith meets a cropper on his land, John Brown, “John” says the landlord—in the South, in accordance with a well-established system of Insulting practices any white man may address a Negro of any age by his first name—“John I just got the cotton check in from the Post Office. Come on up to the house and make your mark and get your share. ” John Brown goes to the house where he finds the landlord’s wife. The presence of the white wo men is a silent threat that a rape charge will follow any attempt of the cropper to demand his share of the ch^ck. “Now, John,” says the landlorij “I’m signing my name here. Just tjjuch the pen, while I sign yours, jj>r make your mark.” If the cropped signs, the landlord goes on as follows: "Now John less run up your ajcount. You owe me $150 for the sermon. But your share of this check 4 for $100. So we’ll count that off and now you only owe me $50.00 The croppers of Dadeville and sur rounding areas, however feeling strong in their organization, refuse to sign these cherks. They are also preparing a determined struggle a gainst eviction from the land which is one of the results of the campaign to reduce cotton acreage. “You can either become cash tenants or get off the land” say the landlords.. This will not mean an increase in cash tenants for the croppers have less money than ever this year.. It will mean—unless the organized power of the croppers agricultural workers and small farmers can prevent it, the mass eviction of hundreds of thou sands of croppers from their fields and cabins.. These evictions may take the form ol starvation the landlord refusing to furnish these croppers. Or in many cases the croppers will be driven off by the sheriffs and deputies. More than ever this winter the landlords are determined to smash the Coppers’ Union.. The arrests in Dadeville are the beginning of a new terror drive . The ILD. has called for speeding of protests to Bob Slay High Sheiff at Lafayette Alabama . Stop the hand of the landlords in their new attack on the brave share croppers of Alabama. NAZI CHAIN LETTER STARTED IN LOS ANGELES ATTACKS NEGROES. JEWS NEW YORK November 9 — A chain-letter started by the Aryan Book Store 902 South Alvarado St. Los Angeles California and signed by Paul Thumlitz the proprietor and a swastika emblem of Hitler’s Nazis attacking both Negroes and Jews is reproduced in the November num ber of “Red Front” a magazine pub lished here.. The letter reproduced in fascimile and attacked in an adjoining column by the editors of the paper says “The Jews are not of the White Race they are Semites (Half Niggers.”) I he letter instructs its recipient to copy it ten times and send it to that many friends.. LAWYER DENIED LEE’S AND OFFICERS GUARD THE GRAVE BALTIMORE Md. November 8 — (CNS)—Immediately after Euel Lee j condemned for the murder of an ' Eastern Shore farmer was executed by hanging last Friday Bernard Ades | his attorney claimed the body on the j ground that Lee had willed it to him. It was claimed that Ades wanted to take the body to New York and stage an elaborate funeral service. The claim was denied and contested in court for two days. Willis R. Jones deputy attorney general argued that inasmuch a- Lee had no relatives the duty of burying him rested with the warden of (he penitentiary here un der a provision of Maryland law. The court ruled against Ades and the body \ias buried in Maryland and a guard of 30 officers placed over it. The rumoit that Communists might attempt to disinter the body and take it to flew York for a demon stration did r>ot materialize and later the guard dwindled to our two State policemen am: two deputy sheriffs of Anne Arundel County in which the cemetery lies. VIRGIN ISLAND CHIEF SAYS rOBS ARE AVAILABLE FOR ALL WASSINGTON, November 8— (C NS)—Paul Pearson, governor of the Virgin Islands cables from St. Croix that all of the 800 unemployed in that city will soon be at work and at St. Thomas 700 of the 950 workless are to be taken care of in public works projects. The unemployment problem in the Island has thus been solved. kvery project authorized for the Virgin Islands is already under way. The allotments include roads, build ing repairs building a leper asylum construction of a government hotel and building low-cost housing.