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MISSISSIPPI JUDGE SCORES SAVAGE TORTURE OF CONDEMNED NEGROES V A. A. C. P. Rushes Legal Aid To Halt Hanging Of Three. New York, Feb. 1.—In a strongly worded dissenting opinion, Justice Anderson of the Mississippi Supreme Court has roundly condemned the con viction of Henry Shields. Ed Brown and Yank Ellington, three Negroes accused of murder rig Raymond Ste wart, a white farmer. They are sen tenced to die February 8. “Leaving ®ut the confessions, the evidence was wholly insufficient to sustain the convict on”. Judge Ander sen declares, “the evidence showed without any subt .antial conflict that a: •- Hants were driven, to confess their guilt by most brutal and tm rnererfui .wn.pp.ngs and beatings at the hands of persons who doubtless thought they were guilty ■ -Wipe cm these confession*, and the court would haw been forced to direct a verdict of not guilty. The court had staring it in the face th-s incompe tent testimony without which there ccuid be no conviction. Must the lives of the appellants be taken by the law, because their counsel faded to bring to th- attention of the court this incompetent evidence? Are they without remedy? Cites Scottsboro Cases Viewing ta s trial as a whole, it ap pears to me that it is condemned by the principles laid down by the Su preme Court of the L'nited States in the Scottsboro cases. Appellants were denied due process—a fair and impar tial tr.ai. They were represented by Counsel who had neither time nor opportunity to do their part. Due process requires representation by counsel, dither employed by the accus ed or appointed by the court. The court so held in the Alabama caees. . “In some quarters there appears to be very little regard for that provis ion of the bill jf rights guaranteeing persons charged with crime from be ing forced to give evidence against themselves (Section 26 of the Consti tution. The pincers, the rack, the hose, the third degree, or their equiva lent. are still in use". [tumor Woman in Case Rumor has .t that Stewart was having an affa r with a colored woman whether agreeably or by force is not known. Shields is said to have pro tested against this affair. Shields was arrested following the death of Stewart and police staged the usual subterfuge of “planting” a bloody axe and clothing in his home. Nothing forth, r was heard of these articles after his arrest. They were not introduced in ev.denee. Following a severe beating at the hands of the police. Shields "confessed" and impli cated Brown and Ellington whom, he said, offered him 312 to help them eh! Stewart a out some money alleg edly due them. The two men also “confessed” after being savagely beaten, A number of white men, in cluding a minister, were then called in to see that the confessions were made “freely and voluntarily”. 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HAINES CO. ~ 4 Glenn Building Cinrinnati, Oisio f % * act faded to object to the brutally ex tracted “confessions” without which the evidence was wholly insufficient to conv ct. No witnesses were called at the "trial". N. A. A. C. P. Rushes to Men's Defense Immediate!;! upon having the case brought to its attention, the Legal Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple retained State Senator John A. Clark of Jl ssissppi to prepare an ap peal to the United States Supreme Court. This action will automatically tay the execution of the three men on February 8. Cff cial - of the Association assert that th_s case, exposing as it does the criminal maladministration of jus tice in Mississippi the use of savage methods >? forcing confessions and the de-rial of due process of law, is a most momentous and significant one ir the struggle for Negro rights. Contributions are urged to aid in the three men’s defense. FOUR NEGRO COLLEGES AIDING .ANTI-LYNCH BILL New York—Four leading Ne gro colleges are nuw aiding the fight for the passage of the Cos tig an-Wagner federal anti-Iynch intr bill, according to Miss Kath erine Gardner, Department of Race Relations of the Federal i ouncil of Churches of Christ of America. Students of Shaw university have sent over 100 letters to Pre sident Roosevelt, as have the stu dents and faculty of Barber Scotia college. Talladega college stu dents have circulated a memorial while the Howard University Stir den; council of the College of Liberal Arts’ has likewise taken action. "I am hoping” says. Miss Gardner, "that this interest will spread into ail the colleges and that they will continue their bar rage of letters and telegrams. Miss Gardner complained some time ago that 64 oer cent out of 65 of the heads of Negro colleges had taken no action on the Fed eral Council’s appeal to push ac tion on the bill by petitioning President Roosevelt nnd members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. GAINS 25% LBS. IN TWO MONTHS COD LIVER OIL-Once a Punishment—Now a Treat Strip trv-ng to for -» veer children to take nasty tasting. tiav red cad li ter oik. Give them Coco C -x: the cod Ever oil with a delicious chocolate taste—tad wand: their bodies zr-» daily with vigorous, athletic strength; Mrs. i lender ot iliiwauaea cava: ae tore m-f cmJi ieo& Coco GotLideomiy weight'd SO lbs. Sow, tn kca months' time she weighs 105 ’-a lbs. jrid she Liz not been ill since/9 Other cod liver oik have ociy V A and D. but Coco Cod is 2j60 rich in Vitamin E—the appetite and growth pTOQQQng mmrri-.n. Start y-mr children with Coco Cod today. 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James Weldon Johnson is chair man of the dinner committee which includes Dr. Will Alexan der, Mary McLeod Bethune, Hom er S. Brown. Harry T. Burleigh. Senator Arthur Capper, W. P. Dabney, Clarence Darrow Hays, Jesse S. Hesisp. Charles H. Hous ton. Richard B. Harrison, Arthur Capper, W. P. Dabney, Ciarence Darrow, Dr. W. E. *B. DuBois. Feiix Frankfurter, Richard B. Harrison, Arthur Garfield Hays. Dr. Mordeeai W. Johnson Secretary Haroki L. Iekes, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, Dr. William Allan Neilson, Louts L. Residing. William Rosenwaid, Dr. Emmett J. Sect;, Judge Charles E. Toney, William- Allen White.- - Prominent Minister Arrested for Fighting Discrimination Clanton. Pa. — CNA) — Rev. Y<*nn McFarland, James Hail and Ai Martin, white, were arrested here in the office of the princi pal of the local high school for demanding the abolition of dis' crimination against Negro stu dents. the arrested three were part of a delegation of 60 Negro and white students. Several hundred students and parents assembled in front of the school in solidarity action with the delegation. The demonstration was organized by the Young Communist League. At a hearing the same day, the Mayor attempted to split the united front fight against jim crow by freeing Rev. McFarland while sentencing Ha:l and Mar tin. RACE RELATIONS MASS MEETING THRONGS BROADWAY THEATRE Iowa Educator Delivers Stirring Address B1' Fritz Cansler Denver, Colo., Feb. 8.—The largest crowd in the history of the local Race Relations Week celebrations which have been sponsored by the local Com mission for the pest ten years, heard the eloquent Dr. George A. Steiner of Grinnel College, Iowa last Sunday night in the spacious auditorium of the Broadway Theatre. Seldom in recent years has the ancient edifice witnessed a larger or more interested gathering. The theatre was literally filled from “pit to dome” with all three floors crowded with eager lis teners from the ret/ beginning of the strains- “Carmen” played by the or chestra of Manuel High School, to the closing benediction recited by Rabbi C. H. Kauvar of the local synagogue, and the recessional “Marche Miiitaire” played by the youthful musicians of the high school band. Dr. Vere V. Loper, chairman of the Interracial Commission presided and spoke briefly of the work of the or ganization. The invocation was giv er. by Rev. R. S. Brown, and the dou ble quartet of the Immaculate Concep tion Cathedral (Catholic) sang three splendid numbers. The offertory Spirituals rendered by the Treble Clef Club, a group of women singers under the direction of Mrs. Irene McWil liams were among the most enjoyable features of the program and won pro longed applause from the large aud iance. The Denver Consular corps were the special guests and occupied places in the boxes. Dr. Edward A. Steiner, vetteran professor of Grinnel College delivered the principal address. A man of wide experience, of ripe scholarship and of broad human sympathies, Dr. Stein er's remarks ran the whole gamut of emotions from the gay witticisms * ~ ■ - — — _ — V Damp Wash! 3^0 Per Pound Minimum bundle 48c Edholm and Sherman LaUNDERER AND DRY CLEANERS 2401 North 24th St. Wt 6055 - — ---- --/ with which he embellished his remark able address, to the stern and uncom promising' denunciation with which he charterized the degradation and de basement of personality through many c-f the accepted practices inculcated in American race and color prejudice. Dr. Steiner scored with unmerciful bitterness the inequalities in life im posed on minority and defenseless groups. He pictured in a drametis and graphic way the wrongs inflicted upon the Negro since his involuntary seizure and importation into this country under the cruel slave sys tem of capture and transportation. He called upon Americans to repent of the sin of prejudice and grant to all of her children an equal chance to live and contribute to the making of a new and better social order. Discussion groups, further carrying oat the Commission's plans for. the observance of the week, met on.Mon-, day and Tuesday at the downtown YWCA, with a large and interested attendance. Dr. Ben Cherrington of the University of Denver, led the dis cussion. At Chappel House, Denver's Art Museum on Monday night, another large group of citizens gathered to witness the exhibit which had been prepared by the committee and tto listen to a lecture on "The Art f tit: Negro" by Mr. Watson Bidwell of the Art Museum. The exhibit gathered and circulated by the Harmon Founda tion formed the nucleus of the exhibit j which will be shown all week under i the direction of the committee whose j ihairman is Mrs. Geraldine Lkghtner. The reading of Countee Cullen's poems by Mrs. Wilda Dean was one | of the most enjoyable features of j M :*nday night's program. After giv ing a brief history of the young poet’s life, the reader gave with her delight ful diction and well modulated voice a number of Cullen’s poems expressive of his life's philosophy and his genius ’ as a writer. Other exercise* of the week which was gmnerali i observed were pro grams and addresses in schools and colleges, with sermons and talks in church and young people's groups in all parts of the city. Art Exhibit On Lynching Opens In New York Feb. 15 New York.—An exhibit called “'An-Art Commentary on Lynch* i ins:,” will open February 15 at the .Jacques Seligm.au Galleries, 3 East 51st S reef under the spon sorship of- a group of distinguish ed patrons of both races. It will close March 2. Included in the exhibit will be oils, sculpture, black-and-white and photograph a'! on the sub ject of lynching A long list of eoloned and white artists have subin: ted p.te s for the exhibit, including Hale Wood raff, E. Campb. P, Thomas Ben ton. John Stewar; Carry and Jul ius Block. Airs. Pearl S. Buck, famous novelist, will speak at the pre~ view. The foreword for the cat alog has been writ en by Sher wood Anderson, well known southern writer. Among the patrons are; I>r. and Mrs. Ernest Alexander. Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Beard, Step hen Vincent Benet, Elmer A. Car ter. Countee Cullen, Virginias Dabney. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Marion Cuthbert. Hubert T. De laney, George Gershwin. Zona Gale, Senator and Mrs. Edward P. Gostigan, Mrs. Bernard S. Beutseh. Mrs. John Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. BuPose Heyward, Robert Bmchley, Fannie Hurst, Rose McClendon, Dr. Allan Locke. Mr. and Mrs. James Weldon Johnson, George For. Milton, Dorothy Parker. lion. 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