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Man Who Slew Own
Children Loses Plea
To Supreme Court
New Orleans, Jan 23 (ANP)—
Failure of officials In Caldwell Par
ish In Incude Negroes on the jury
lists as was mad mandatory by
the SroMsbore? decision means no
thin? in the care of ill nm GT
colored farmer sen enced to die for
murdering his stepdaughter and
his wn two small child' on. Th'
death sentence was upheld a«t weak
by tho s a*o supreme court.
Gill sought a new I rial on
grounds that the general venire
box of Ca'dwrll parish contained
the name </t only one Negro at the
time the grand jury that Indited
b'm was drawn, and also the name
of only one Negro was on the po it
list at the time the trial jury was
selected.
The defense said colored persons
had been excluded from grand and
petit juries b-cause of race for
msnv years, which constl'utes a
denial of due process of law.
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St. I/fin is. Mo., Jan. HO (By T?. O. Fisher for ANP)—Charles
I.a Peer, white, self-styled preacher and communist leader, Was
'■ntet c A to 1R months in the Leavenworth Penitentiary by
United States District Judge Charles B. Davis, last Tuesday,
mi hi p'ea of guilty so sending lihe oi's, scurrilous and defama
tory matter through the mails to the St. Louis Argus, newspaper
published by members of our rae< it "HU! Market St.
r wan Indicted by a feder
1 r~r' ’ i -"” 1 ' ■r evidence had
1 i "p p- sente ) indicating that he
sent f< r , ■. 1 a .Is to the S'- Louis
\ iru iii rung reprisals if the
pewer continued printing stories
h lit hr nglng and Iv'nchlng In the
|s"'*t)i. ami bore such signatures us
“Branch legion, Italian or white.”
f nt inspectors said La Peer
admitted sending about a dozen
a s of the same nature to the
j,i w> iapers during 1934, 1935 and
i i93r
After reading the Indictment,
Judge Pa' Is said, “newspapers have
a right to b« proteteed from on
slaughts like this. The St. L°uls
Argus is an old Institution and <loe®
t gi eat deal of good work. It shculd
ls> protected. I’ll sentence you to
18 months In Leavenworth”
The maximum penalty on the
charge Is five years’ Imprisonment
and a fine (vf$5,00Q. The section of
the postal laws Involved prohibits
writing of such matier on postcards
or outside of envelopes.
Under the name of Jo*hn C. La
Peer, LaPeer wos one of the leud
er of the “old guard” St. I/nds
Communists who fought the police
directing relief demonstrations at
the City Hall some yars ngo and
resisted evictions. He was at one
time secretary of the Unemployed
Council of St. Louis. Hut because
ho did not believe in ra> lal equal
ity which the Communists pracltced,
withdrew from Communiatic activi
ties, telling newspaper men his ex
perience as a Communist “sicken
ed” him.
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24th and Grant Ha. 4634
RABE'S BUFFET
2425 N. 24th St.Ja. 9195
Cafes
American Wiener Shop
2609 N. 24th Street
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2010% N. 24th St Ja. 8676
Alberta’a Sandwich Shop
4887 8. 28th St Ma. 0967
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Mil Lake St Ja. 9044
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■812 N. 24th StHa. 4226
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2601 Coming St At 66M
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JOHNSON DRUG
1904 N. 24th St Wa. 0998
DUFFY PHARMACY
!4th and Lake We. 0609
Cleaners and Tailora
TOBY’S IDEAL CLEANERS
5237 N. 20th St. At 6166
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Electrical Appliances
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Norge Appliance Co.
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Graders
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Grading and Excavation
4506 Amea Ave. Ka. 0816
Grocery Stores
HERMAN’S MARKET
24th sad LakeWs. 6444
Garages
E L. MERRIWEATHER GARAGE
2200 No, 22nd St- AT 6007
Landries
EMERSON LAUNDRY
2824, N. 24th St We. 1020
KDHOLM A SHERMAN
2401 N. 24th St_Ws. 6066
Mena meat Makers
HEFT A NOYES
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Produce Markets
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Service and Tranafar Stations
Levison Service Station, 2808 N. 24
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White Child Stars
Adore Hattie Mc
I)?niei
Los Angeles, Jan. 30 (ANP)-—I
"Hello Hattie." shouted little Jam
Withers to Htattle MeDtantels as
she rame running on the final (lavs
shooting, “Can This Be Dixie." Hat
tie, as “Uzzle," was seated s»nte
30 feet above the sound-stage floor
with 300 pounds of Troy Brown, on
a small platform with a coil-spring j
'•ase. It was a figment from the
Imagination <>f the scene architect to
represent a mint press for 1 Col
i-n-1 Peachtree’s Canned Mlnt-Ju
leps.’’
llattle was nr.’t a bit In love with
the precarious footing and this
really dangerous bit of acting, as j
she and the cruiser-weight Troy
danced to the strains of the julep
song. All those beads of perspira
tion rn her bow were not from the;
heat either but she waved back to j
Jane, and forced a wry smile as
If she was thinking “Oh, If I could
only come down from here.
All the stars old and young like
smiling friendly Hattie and Indd-,
en'ally this Is the second time this j
season that she has played In a
film with the highly salaried little j
juvenile artist. The last was as
“Kittle Silvers” In “Gentle Julia”
ns it was titled then. Upon Us com
p’etlon the busy colored featured
player worked with a flock of little
stars the “Our Gang” at Hal
Ronch studio as the mother of lit
tle “Stymie” Beard In “Arbor Day.”
To Jail For Fraudu
lent Advertisements
Washing.on, Ja.n. (ANT*) —j
Waltefr G. Critehlow, white of
Wheaton, 111., was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary
a few days ago after the U. S.
Department of State received \
complaints from all over the |
world that his device known as
.he Vix Va.por Humidifier and I
Gasoline Saver was a fake and
he had used the mails for fraud
ulent advertising.
Critehlow may be remember
ed by many men of the peg-top
trousctrs era. He advertised
extensively in the co'ored news
papers of tha.t period and sold
many pairs of these trousers
to Negroes throughout the na
tion by mail.
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Six Years “Trial
Marriage” Survive
Cristobal, C. Z, Jan. 30 (By E
J„ JamA*son f°r ANP)—A: trial
marriage entered into by Garrick
and Henrietta, Smith when he was
37 and she 27, proved satisfactory
to both parties and Friday last they
became legally man and wife after
ihe Re-.. James A. Blake, pastor of
ihe Crlstuba' Colon Baptist chinch
'aught up wish them.
fi ugn, the Negro couple
obtained license to marry in th
. .i c.a os DptDd1 Court of
I \ B CSU-e they had 10
swear to the affidavit written out
ike white clerk, it is believed
i'v parlies ih .tight themselves mar
ried and there it rested. Since then
Miss Smi 4h had been kn'wn as
Mrs. Garrick.
Tho error of their ways brought
forcibly to them, the couple sought
the advice of their spiritual leader
and °n Friday Rev. Mr. Blake sol
emnized he nuptials.
Monday when Mr. Bhike made
his official report and returns to
ihe District Court, the present was
not a bit surprised at the date of
Issuance of the license as such
things and not so rare in the li
cense bureau’s history.
The groom is now 43 and his
bride 33.
Boys, 16, 17, Hanged
In Mississippi For
Murder They Deny
West Point, Miss., Jan 30 (ANP)
—Protesting their innocence al
most with their last breaths, two
young boys, George Owens, 17 and
Joa Phillips, 16, were hanged just
before daybreak Wednesday morn
ing for the murder of Herman
Whatley, white, eccentric Clay
county filling station operator.
There wete about 100 persons in
eluding 1 woman, on the second
floor room of the county jail where
the double execution took place.
‘ I iust want to tell vnu people
that I am innocent of the crime I
am accused of. i don't know any
thing about,” Owns said from the
scnfold. He was the first to go.
“What is done In the dark will
come to light and some day after
poor Owens' dealh and mine, you
will find the murderer,” said Phil
11ytr- before he died- * I was h°me In
b«'d when the crime was done.”
The boys were convicted and
given the death penalty early last
year for having robbed anil killed
WTivdey at his filling station and
store near West Point. Although
'hey protested their Innocence from
their arrest, they were convicted,
the death sentence upheld by the
state supreme court and a plea for
life imprisonment denied by Gov.
Hugh White.
1EX-SLAVE, 83
INTERESTING
MINISTER
Ran Against Bryan
for Sesator in Nebr. on
Prohibition Ticket
San Dcigo, Calif., .Ian. 80 (By
M. L. Brown fnr ANP)—Rev. Geo
rge W. Wood bey is among the in
teresting members of the Calvary
Baptist church who have passed
heir 80 year marks. Rev. Wcodbey
was born on his master’s farm in
eastern Tennessee, Oct. 5, 1854. He
had the advantage of only two short
terms of pay school before he was
80. He then enrolled in an adult
night school, and attended rain or
shine for eight months.
Rev, Woodbey has always an ar
dent student ever since he learned
to read. '‘The New Testament was
the only book I could get aside from
my two school books. I read it over
and over, and it seemed so wonder
ful to me,” he said with sparkling
eyes. He now has a library of more
than a thousand volumes, and reads
most of the time. He hs written
several bof.s, served as columnist
for white weeklies, and Is authority
of the ancient history of Negro peo
ple.
Rev. Woodbey was called to the
ministry in 1864, and preached his
first sermon in his mother’s house
as there was no church. He organ
ized and pastored the African Rapt
1st church in Wichita, Kas. (now
Calvary) and also Zion Baptist
church in Omaha, He pastored
at Atchison, Kas. and at St. Joseph
Mo, In pioneer days- After coming
to California, Rev. Woodbey poster
ed in Redland and San Diego.
Rev. Woodbey and Mrs. Wood
| bey, his wife, who aLso pastored a
church in Omaha, were employed
by the Prohibition Party as lectur
ers, and served in that capacity
j for nine years, traveling over the
country. Mrs. Woodbey was at one
lime president, and the only Negro
member of the WCTU in Omaha.
He was nominated for lieutenant
governor of Nebraska by the Pro
, hibition Party, and ran for state
! senatorr of his party while W’illiam
Jenning Bryan ran for the same
office in the first district in Nebr
aska.
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