The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
lid LAWYERS
DRIVEN FROM
TUSCALOOSA
Driven from Alabama
Town; Later Taken to
Birmingham Jail
MENACED BY ARMED MOB
Barred from Defense
Of Framed Negroes

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. a.
Allen Taub, irving Scawab and
Frank B. Irwin were late last night
taken to the Birmingham police
station. Irwin, a local lawyer, was
released. Taub and Schwab, who
are associated with the Scottsboro
legal staff, are reported to have
been escorted out of town. Il was
later reported that they returned
to Birmingham this morning.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Aug. 2. -
Three International Labor Defense
lawyers, barred by the court from the
defense of three Negroes framed on
charges Of rape and murder, whose
relatives had retained them, were
taken out Of town here yesterday by
National Guardsmen, 65 of whom
had been called out here. On the
way to Birmingham the train on
which they were riding was halted by
mob of one hundred, organized by
Tuscaloosa county authorities, which
threatened to lynch the three.
The lawyers were Allan Taub, Irv-
ing Schwab and Frank B. Irwin. They
were retained to defend Dan Pippen
Jr., Is; A. T. Harden and Ernest
Clarke.
Case Adjourned.
In the court room, crowded with
members of the lynch mob, Pippen
and his father and mother, Dan Pip
pen, Sr. and Mrs. Lucinda Pippen,
were told that it would be highly
advisable" for them to repudiate the
LID. attorneys and to state they
wanted the services of the local Ku
Klux Khan attorneys appointed by
the court. It was reported that the
defendants were beaten to force them
to repudiate the LID.
Following the incident in the court,
the case was adjourned and Dan
Pippen, Jr., taken to Montgomery
fail.
The LID. attorneys had been de-
MED permission to see their clients
in Jail previous to the trial, and had
come to court with the intention OF
demanding a postponement of the
trial on the ground that the defense
could not be prepared. Judge Foster
before the trial refused to order Sher-
if R. L. Shamblin to permit the
lawyers to see their clients on the
ground that he did not want another
Scottsboro case, with its inevitable
exposure Of Southern lynch law.
1t was reported from Birmingham
today that the police would make an
attempt to drive the lawyers out of
that city also, but the LID. an
nounced that they would not only
stay there, but would remain in the
case, and demand an immediate
change Of venue for the trial
In a gesture paralleling that of
Judge A. E. Hawkins at the first
Scottsboro trials, when he ASSIGNED
Athe entire bar of Ccottsboro" to de
fend' the nine innocent boys, Judge
Henry B. Foster here appointed five
local attorneys to defend" Pippen
and his four co-defendants.
Besides Pippen, Ernest Clarke is
charged with assault and murder and
A. T. Harden with being an Access
sorry. Both these boys were arrested
apparently because they were friends
of Pippen and belonged to the same
singing club Pippen, Sr., is charged
with obstructing the investigation be-
cause he told police his son was
working with him in the field OF
Willie Jimison at the time the crime
was committed, and Unison himself
was arrested when he appeared be-
fore the grand jury to confirm this
statement.