The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-20

their hand by printing all the SLAM
derS on the front page. Proof that
these charges we're lies, if printed at
all, was hidden away in corners on
tthe inside. The Chattanooga News
and the Times-the latter owned by
the Ochs family Of the New York
Times-vied with each other in be-
laboring tn Scottsboro defense-all
the while maintaining they wanted
Justice" for the boys.
Alabama Police Suppress Evidence
of Boys Innocence.
Then came a new assault. A
prizehghter named Danny Dundee
was arrested for fighting in Hunts
vile, Ala, home of the two prosti-
tutes in the Scottsboro case. In his
pocket was letter written by Ruby
Bates to her lover, asking him to
come back to her and saying she
had never been touched by any OF
the Negro boys.
The letter corroborates the state
ment made again and again by the
boys, that when Ruby was first taken
from the train, she denied that the
boys had molested her.
The Huntsville police raised a wild
hullabaloo about this letter telling
the truth Of the Scottsboro case.
They said Danny Dundee had been
hired to get the girl drunk and make
her sign it. They made her sign an
other statement saying the letter was
not true, and she had signed it when
she "was so drunk she didn't know
what she was doing" This charge
too was used by Roddy in fling his
"unethical conduct" complaints with
the bar association against the boys
lawyer. He did not have courage to
come out openly this time, 1t was
announced that a lawyer in town,
whose name was not revealed, had
moved to have Cl1alrl1ee disbarred.
Expose, smash Attacks TO Cripple
Defense,
One by one, by patient work,
Chamlee and the LID. have exposed
these plots to cripple the Scottsboro
defense.
Asbury Clay and his wife came TO
see the lawyer and signed sworn
statements saying that they had seen
the girls in Negro brothels with Negro
men and that they had never been
paid to sign false statements by
Chan1lee. The Ganders signed q sworn
statement that he recognized the
girls too and had never been in the
penitentiary at all.
George Proctor, a writer for the
New Masses, made a sworn state
ment that he had given the prize
fighter Danny Dundee railroad fare
and expenses to get. information
about the Bates girl. Dundee had said
he knew her well, and even now in
sists that there was no drinking. The
letter then is the truth and proves
the boys are innocentl Demand is
now being made by the LID. that
the Huntsville police submit it as
evidence for the trials.
Feeling against the Negro masses,
however, has only become more in
tense among the respectable white
folks" here, as one by one their
frame ups and conspiracies were
blown up.
Try Frame Up Negro Elevator
Operator.
young white girl stepped into an
in building in the heart
Of town early last night The Negro
operator says the elevator accidently
started down instead of UP. Imme-
diately the girl began to scream. The
man tried to stop her. Terror stricken
--as Negroes in this city have been
for rnonths--he tied her mouth and
ran
She does not charge that he at
tackled her, and she is in no way in
jured.
Yet so bent are these leading
white folk" on keeping the niger
in his place. that posses and mobs
secured the hills all through the
night in search for this one poor
hunted Negro elevator man.
This morning he was caught.
There is talk of lynching. The
chief of police promises quick act
ion." He is saying, In other words,
'Letus do it, folks. We will do II
quickly and just as well. Then no.
body can say ugly things about our
fair city of Chattanooga"
This correspondent answered three
telephone conversations In which the
good citizens Of Chattanooga called
up Chamlee TO tell him that there
was another Niger rape case in
town" and "let the old-----come
On out and try to defend this one
too"
Only the most serious, determined
lighting on the part Of Negro and
white workers can save these boysi