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LEIBOWITZ in APPEAL
SAYSNAMES ON JURY
LIST WERE FAKE ONES
FIGHT CONTINUES
TO GET VOTE ON
ANTI-LYNCH BILL

Observation-Disclosures that
Congress- gan ill-afford to adjourn
without voting the Costigan-Wag-
ne1 enti-lynching bill, Senator Ed
ward P. Costigan Monday urged
his colleagues to take an early vote
on the measure. Mr.. Costigan pre-
sented formal memorial support
ing the bill from Mrs. f. S. Park
er, secretary of the Woman's Mis-
sionary Council of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. This
memorial declared the council re-
presented 225,0OO white southern
women.
In new statement this week
the N.A.A.C.P. branded those sem
ators who are blocking the bill as
persons fighting for the right to
lynch"
tits known that Senator George
of Georgia, Senator Stephens of
Mississippi, Senator Long of Lou
isiana, and Senator Joseph T. Ro-
binson Of Arkansas are fighting
the bill. The lynching records Of
these states from 1882 to date were
released by the N.A.A.C.P. as fol-
lows: Georgia, 46S; Mississippi,
452; Louisiana, s45; Arkansas, 24e.
these senators, whether they
like it or not, are fighting this bill
because its passage win check the
states right to lynch human be-
ings," the N.A.A.C.P. statement
said.
In his press conference Friday,
President Roosevelt said he had
suggested to administrative leaders
that a vote be taken on the anti
lynching bill. However, he is not
insisting on it.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-06-07
Scientist Says Nordics With
Hairy Bodies Near Kin to Ape

cause he IS 50 hairy while the col
ored people and the Mongolians
are 50 much less hairy.
since apes have little or no lips,
then the thick lips Of the colored
mait would make him furthest a.
way from them, and would make
the Nordic, with his thin lips, near
est, he pointed out.
Tests Not InfaIIible Gauge
DIR. Klineberg considered in de-
tail the results of intelligence tests
and admitted that up to the pres
ent, on the average, colored people
do not score as high as whites, but
he added that psychologists real
ize that environment and back
ground play a most important part
in all intelligence testing"
He reminded the forum that ev-
en- in the case of army tests, col
ored people in the Northern states
ranked higher than whites in sew
eral Southern states.
Two Southern professors, Drs.
Peterson and Lanier, in testing col
ored school children in Nashville,
Chicago, Ind New York, found the
highest intelligence in New York,
next Chicago. and Nashville, last;
but they came to the conclusion
that "selective migration" from the
South 70 the North was responsi-
BILE for this better showing, rather
than the better opportunities ZEN
vironment) of New York and Chi
cago.
A study just completed by Dr..
Klineberg and other Columbia ply
biologists, show, however, that bet
ter opportunities are reflected in
the results of intelligence tests.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-06-07
ALA. SUPREME
COURT ASKED TO
DISMISS CASE

MONTGOMERY, Ala. y Alaba-
mas jury system was again made
the target of a villifying attack
this week when attorneys for the
Scottsboro boys submitted an APP
peal to the State Supreme Court
for reversal of death sentences to
two Of the nine defendants.
The boys doomed to death in
the electric chair are Clarence
Norris and Haywood Patterson.
Attorneys for the convicted boys
conferred their attack on the syste-
matte exclusion of colored persons
from the jury list Of the counties
because of their race. Upon this
ground, Attorney Leibowitz charg-
ed that the defendants should not
only be granted a new trial, but
the indictments charging them
with attacking Victoria Price, q
white mill hand, aboard South
ern Railway freight train near
Paint Rock, Ala, on March %,
1881, should be dismissed.
The attorneys argued that evl-
dence had been shown that the
names of colored persons on the
Morgan County jury rolls had
been forged. The defense during
the last trials, with the aid of a
handwriting expert, showed the
forgery and it was passed. '"Thc
person who comitted that forgery
had legal mind" Attorney Lei
bowitz argued.
An attack was made on the at
titude of Judge James Callahan as
being unfair. 1t was argued that
the trial judge was hostile toward
the defense and allowed the State
to use every type of conduct UNI
becoming to a courtroom.
Should the Supreme Court up
held the decision of the lower
courts an appeal will be made to
the United States Supreme Court
where fight win be waged on
the jury system of Alabama.
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NEW YORK Tie superstitions
which most white people possess
considering colored people are
childish. declared DR.. Otto Kline
berg, psychologist Of Columbia o.
in addressing the Adult
Education Forum at the w. 1S5th
st. library, Thursday night of last
week.
Or. Klineberg spoke on Racial
Differences" and debunIked the
many theories, born of prejudice.
which hold colored people as being
inferior.
He also told of several research
studies in anthropology by both
American and foreign scientists
which tend to show that color Of
skin. size Of lips, extense of hairi-
ness. or size of brain do not show
racial inferiority or superiority.
different racial groups have
different body odors," he explain
ed, ''but that is due to slightly diff
ferent physiological factors, and do
not at all denote any inferiority or
superiority; and, as a matter Of
fact, when the races live together,
they become accustomed to each
others body odors."
Noses Are Sensitive
while the so-called odor of coll
ored people may be Objectionable
to whites, at the same time, the
smell of whites is quite obnoxious
to the Orientals," he said.
He dealt with the greater length
OF arms of colored people, but ex-
planned that if this fact means that
they are nearer the ape, then it
must also be true that the white
man is nearer the anthropoids, be-
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Money the Leveler


THREE THOUSAND WOMEN,
white and colored in Philadelphia.
stood in line ia answer to an adj
vertisement requesting the services
Of 100 young women. so white end.
so coIcred, to act as nshers during
the Revival" of Cider Michaux,
which runs in Philadelphia during
the next two weeks.
More than Two thousand Of the
applicants were members Of the so
cs4led superior race. Elder Mich
aux is colored These woman have
no objection to working for a col
cred mans money
Money, like death, is the great
leveier. Money knows no color
line Interracial committees pirate
foolishly Of mental attitudes. Greed
for money raises TIE color bar. e.
economic power win lower the bar
riers.
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insult MONEY
NOT IDENTIFIED
SAYS DEPR|EST

WASHINGTON. D. C.Repre-
Sentative Oscar DePriest, Republic
can, Of Illinois, denied Tuesday
that he had ever knowingly ac-
copied money from Samuel insult,
now awaiting trial in Chicago in
connection with the collapse of his
utility companies.
A Federal Trade Commission
examiner testified, last Monday,
that the law firm of Schuyler and
Weinfeld of Chicago had contri-
buted "a lot of money" received
from insult utility interests. to
Mr.. DePriest to line up the coIored
vote in Chicago's South Side.
Not Concerned With Source
Commenting on the testimony,
Mr.. DePriest said he had always
worked among colored voters "and
I have always received money to
pay the necessary expenses for
such work.
but this money came from q
political Jackpot, and who filled
it was never any business of mine
I don't know. was interested in
swinging voters, not in collecting
contributions"
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EDITORIAL
For Our Defense


THE SEATTLE BRANCH Of the
National Association for the Adj
vancement Of colored People is
conducting its annual drive for
membership. No one who reads
should be unmindful Of the WORK
Of the g.A.A.C.P. No one should
have to be urged to JON the Assoc
citation which has faced the fire Of
the opposition to equal rights for
eolored Americans for twenty-five
years.
But since human nature is as It
is, those who are interested in the
promotion Of a square deal for col
ored people must bestir themselves
and go out into the highways and
constrain their fellow citizens 70
support the organisation which has
accomplished most Tor colored peo-
pie.
SEATTLE STANDS IN great
need Of a strong virile organiza-
ton, constantly on the alert. to
break down racial barriers. There
must be a definite program which
has as its purpose the destruction
Of discrimination. But the program
viii be just another plan unless It
has foreceful organization to
make It effective. And no associ-
alton is strong without an alive.
deeply interested membership.
It seems. therefore, that the first
requisite for a greater N.A.A.C.P.
is real aggressive membership.
People who win not only join and
pay their dues. but who viii at
tend meetings ana give their best
effort e the building Of an unbeat-
able force to right the wrongs
which colored people endure
IT IS AxIoNATIc that those
who refuse to fight for freedom
never get it. The combined expert
ence Of the ages prove that organ
lied effort under intelligent leader
ship accomplishes whas would 9TH
erwise be impossible. Logic and
common sense dictate. therefore,
that all who claim they are inter-
ested n obtaining their personal
freedom from the jail Of racial OPP
preston should join the N.A.A-C.P.
Therein lies our strength and our
salvation.
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Battering Barriers Of Prejudice
Stirring Chapters From the 25-Year History
OF the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People

The Fight for the Right to Vote
Clearly understanding that with
out the right to vote the Negro in
American democracy is powerless
to attack the evils of color discrim-
nation and race segregation, the
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People has
from its birth in 1909 fought to en-
franchise the Negro and teach him
how to use the ballot intelligently.
AS DR.. w. E. B. Dubois, militant
editor of the Crisis and unrelent-
ing foe of segregation, told the Ma
tional Negro Conference in 1909:
1.-THE voteless Negro is a provoca-
ton, an invitation to oppression,
a plaything for mobs and bonanza
for demagogues."
In 1913 the Association fought
the constitutionality of the So
called Grandfather clause of the
Oklahoma constitution providing
for an educational test to be pass
ed by all persons before being re-
gistered as voters, and then ex-
empted from its provisions every
one except colored persons, the ex-
emptions being SO worded as to a.
void the appearance of discrimin-
alton on the ground of race or col
or. The state officials were pro-
secuted and convicted under the
United States civic rights act. They
appealed to the United State SUI
preme court and the Association
G.-gued the unconstitutionaIity Of
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Bride Is Just rs;
Groom Is Only IS

KANSAS CITY-Although old
enough to be his mother, Mrs. An
nabelle Price Fields, 76, was mar
ried Monday of last week to Tobe
Parlor, who is 45.
This is the third marriage for
the bride and the second for the
groom. She is head matron at the
Shubert Theatre and has lived here
half century.
Mrs. Parlor says she thought he
was joking when ne asked her to
marry him. Reminded of the diff
ference in their ages, he only said,
What difference does that make 2"
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Bar Colored Seniors
From School Dance

OCEAN CITY, N. ]. Three
members of the senior class of the
local high school were requested
to leave the junior prom last Fri
day night, given in honor of the
senior class and to which the three
colored members had been duly in
vited.
With their guests, all attired in
suitable fashion, they were met at
the door by a teacher of the school
and asked to leave. Court action
Is planned if apologies are not
forthcoming.
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GETTLE KIDNAPPING
USED TO BOOST
COLORED HELP

LOS ANGELES, Calm a dri, 9
to secure more employment for col
cred domestic workers, the atten-
ton of white householders in and
around Los Angeles is being call
ed to the part played in the Gettle
kidnapping by former white en-
ployee of the Gettle estate.
The recently organized Califor-
mia Cooperative Improvement AS
sociation is conducting the drive
and, aside from newspaper publ
city, sends five hundred letters to
potential white employers weekly.
The suspicion surrounding a
white employee In connection with
the Lindbergh kidnapping is also
mentioned in the letter, which calls
attention to the thousands of we'll
trained honest and faithful eolored
domestics now unemployed in the
city.
Millions of white families in the
East and South" the letters con-
tinued, Know nothing but color
ed household help, which has al
ways proved faithful and efficient.
Colored domestic servants are US
ed almost exclusively at the White
House in Washington"
George A. Beavers, Jr., is presi-
dent of the association and John
R. Williams is chairman of the
committee on investigation of do
nestle employment.
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r. was different. There is doubt
as to which group preceded the
other into this rocky and rugged
little seaport town.
The fact remains that today we
find the darker subjetcs of Portu-
gal outnumbering the darker Am
orleans by almost ten to one and
during al these years the members
of the former group have managed
to keep themselves aloof from the
American brothers of color.
New Bedford has no Harlem,
with it's heterogeneous mixture of
races. New Bedford has two dis
tinct black belts. One, the West
End, is INHABITED by descendants
of American slaves and the South
End is the habitat of the brown
immigrants from Cape Verde Is
lands, a Portuguese possession off
the west c,ast of Africa. The two
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the offending clause. In 1915 the
u. S. supreme court handed down
a decision holding the Grandfather
clause to be a mere evasion in
tended to disfranchise colored pec-
pie and distinctly affirmed the
right of cclored people to vote UNI
der the Fifteenth Amendment. This
was the greatest victory scored by
Negroes in generation for the
right to vote, rendered invalid as
it did all such discriminatory leg
islation passed by the southern
states.
Instructing Negro Voters
During the war period 1917-1s,
the Association was active not only
in combating efforts to stop Ne
groes from voting, but in also in
structing them in the use Of the
ballot and urging them to register.
The Atlanta branch increased the
colored registration there from 700
to 5000 and succeeded in relieving
the deplorable school conditions by
securing a new grammar school.
Similar increase in registration got
four men called to jury duty at
Columbia, S. c., Asheville. N. C..
Birmingham. Ala, and at Falls
Church, Va, branches carried on
registration campaigns. Boston en-
Outraged naturalization Of foreign
colored people. The Oklahoma
branches fought denial Of registra-
ton and Boley secured a regist-
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Texas White Women
Back Anti-Lynch Bill

Ell PAso, Texas The Women's
City Government Club, white, OF
this city, has announced that it is
asking the two Texas senators to
support the Costigan-Wagner anti
lynching bill, following a request
by the N.A.A.C.P.
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IL Year Old Boy Dies
Weighed 24O Pounds

PHILADELPHIA (LNS) Adolf
plus Maclzie, 12-year-old boy in
the eighth grade of the Reynolds
public school, who weighed $40
pounds, died last week of heart
failure the result of overweight.
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Vote Denied in Fla.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. amp -
The right of the Democratic Par
ty to exclude colored voters was
sustained IN a recent ruling by Cir
cult Judge George Copper Gibbs in
the case of Sylyanus H. Hart.
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sons. regardless Of their color, are
freely admitted to the restaurant
and served without question.
Speaking for Mr.. DePriest, Lew
Is asked that the committee not
only report on the question Of au-
thority for the Accounts Commit
tee to establish any rule discrimin-
ating against any person in the
matter of service in the public
restaurant of the House because of
race or color but also that It rec
ommend that any order barring
any person from service in the res
taurant because of race or color
be forthwith rescinded.
Warren EvasIve
Testifying in his own behalf,
Warren, a burly southerner, who
halls from North Carolina. told the
committee the restaurant has
been operated in exactly the same
manner since it was first establish
ed to date" He proved evasive,
however, when questioned by the
committee members. Asked point
blank whether the restaurant was
intended solely for the use Of mem
bers Of the House, or whether it
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Better to remain silent and
be thought fool than to speak
and remove all possible doubt. .
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You can lead a boy to college
but you can't make him think.
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Boob are cod but suTe frIends.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24
TECH To HOLD
SENIOR CLASS
DAY EXERCISES
Breakfast and Business
Meeting viii Feature
Program.

Glass day exercises for seniors at
Technical high school will be held
tomorrow, with a breakfast in the
school lunchroom and the final
business meeting of the year in the
auditorium. Glass day chairmen
are Ruth Shannon and Jean Cor
ton.
The breakfast will begin at 8.
Music will be supplied by the Tech
orchestra. Speeches will be given
by five of the six senior sponsor
room presidents; Kenneth Anthony,
GervaiS Fais, Robert Kuerst, Horace
Russell and John Townsend.
Following this the senior class
song, led by William Herbert and
accompanied by Dorothy Woods,
the composer, will be sung. Rus
sell Freeman will play a piano solo.
Robert Morgan, the sixth senior
sponsor room president, will pre-
side at the $50 business meeting.
James Westover at the organ will
play the assembly music. Mary Jane
Miller, acting secretary, will read
the roll call of officers.
Music will be furnished by Will
liam Herbert and Robert Kuerst.
Reports of committees will be
given by chairmen of the senior
committees, Thelma Cooley, John
Thurston, Lewis Gray, Virginia
Mock, Gustav Klippel, Martha
Weddle, Beatrice Risk, Bernard
Flaherty, kathleen Cunningham,
Ruth Shannon, Robert Hoffman and
Marjorie Kaiser.
Following a talk by Dewitt S.
Morgan, principal, Miss Clara Ry-
ans expression class will present
an original act written by Dorothy
Hoff. A poem by Martha Rudgins
will be read by Mary Jane Nc
Gaughey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24
YOUNG G. OPP.
LEAGUE LISTS
S793 EXPENSES
Contributions to Primary
Election Campaign
Are Filed.

Contributions totaling $793 were
received by the Ioung Republican
League, a group opposed to the reg
ular G.. o. P. party, according to a
primary expense statement filed
with Glenn B. RalSton, county
clerk.
Contributors included George L.
Denny, DR.. Ralph R. Coble, Harvey
a. Grabill, Frank Cones, James M
Allison and Charles w. Mann.
The Young Republican Organiza-
ton of Marion county, a group
aligned with the party organization,
spent S462.90 in a statement out
lined to the county clerk.
The Irvington Republican Group
fled statement of $26025 in ex-
penditures.
Ralph NJ. Spann, G. o. P. nomi-
nee for criminal judge, listed $500
expenditures.
Republicans filing expense state
mentS yesterday were Frederick R.
Bonifleld, for criminal court judge,
$58164, with contributions of $500,
including a 5000 donation by Ira
M. Holmes, attorney; $50 from John
Lewis, attorney, and $50 from Glenn
E. Black; Edward Holl, city clerk,
$1,000, including a $35 contribution
to the county committee; Edward
L. Dietz, Center township justice of
the pace. $65.11; Dwight R. John
son, county treasurer, $42.12, and
Stuart A. Coulter, state representa-
tive, $89.71, including a $25 contri-
button to the Republican Union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24
Gov. M'NUT,T TO
Be KEYNOTER
Democratic Convention to
Be Opened June IL by
Jackson,

Nomination of the United States
senate candidate will be the first
order of business when the Demo-
cratic state convention is held June
II at Cadle tabernacle.
The convention will be opened at
$50 a. m. by State Chairman Omer
Jackson and. following an invoca-
ton, Mrs. Inez Scholl, Connersville,
state vice-chairman, will make a
five minute talk.
The keynote address then will be
made by Governor Paul V. McNutt
and Senator Frederick Van Mugs
will take over the convention as
permanent chairman. Committee
reports and adoption of the plat
form will follow and then will come
the nomination Of the state ticket.
Convention arrangements were
made yesterday by a committee
comprised of Chairman jackson,
Mrs. Schol, Alden Baker, Mobiles
Vile; Virgil Simmons Bluffton, and
Mrs. Albert Losche, Indianapolis.
Perry Mozart, Paoli, public Serv-
ice commission member, was named
chairman of platform advisory
committee of twelve members from
each congressional district.
Arrangements committee for the
Republican state convention June 5,
also to be held at Cadle, will meet
soon, Chairman Don B. Irwin said
yesterday.
No keynoter has been chosen for
the Republican session. Most fire.
quently mentioned for this honor
are Major Norman A. Irnlie, Culver;
Frederick Lands. LoganSport, and
Professor j. Raymond Schultz. North
Manchester.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24
UTILITY RATE CUT
ORDER CANCELLED
Public Service Company Is
Granted Rehearinq.

The order fixing utility rate re-
auctions of more than 100000 a
year has been Cancelled by the pub
lie service commission with grant,
ing of a rehearing to the Public
Service Company of Indiana.
The rehearing will void federal
court order issued April 81 in which
the public service commission was
enjoined from putting the reduc-
tions into effect. The reductions
were to have been effective May /.
Utility experts say granting of the
rehearing Is strategic retreat" by
the commission because the john
son bill has been signed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt since the original
order was issued. The johnson bill
makes it more difficult for utilities
to get into federal court and may
take rate cases there only after ex-
hausting the state courts.
The commission set May % for
rehearing of the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24
Births

Harry and Reda Robbins, city hospital.
John and Evelyn Girvin. SIS Warren.
Asa and Margaret Jones' 637 North
Temple.
Hester and Elfel White, 1889 Rochester.
Lewis and Helen Bishop. Methodist hos
pital
Dewey and Kathryn Fitch, Methodist
hospital
Paul and Edith Hutzler, Methodist hos
pital
Elda and iva zigler. Methodist hospital.
Alva and Lora Haley, Methodist hos
pital.
Gilbert and Emma Burnett las Douglas
William and Drucilla Cochran, Coleman
hospital.
Hallet and Jessie Kilbourne, Coleman
John and Virginia Myers, Coleman hos
pital
George and Sarah Murphy, Coleman
hospital.
Robert and Lucinda overstreet. Coleman
hospital.
Mark and Sylvia shugart. Coleman hos
Louis and virgie Griffith. sss South
Holmes.
Girls
Joe and Grace Schanke, Harding and
Hannah.
Charles and zelda Busenburg, Coleman
George and Mary okey. Coleman hos
pital
Sheriff. snd Dorothy Stafford. Coleman
hospital