aie#ori a.pe i¢wfrom titeAir. VarySays Bojangles sc.NG. WILL BACK ROOSEVELT \MAticnican WeaFINAL .EC. C. SPAULDI,me _s: WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 12, 1936 - Prices: 7c in D.C.; 10c Elsewhere. E . Whether or not the GOP wins its fight to get Jesse Owens on the stump or Landesat least they have gotten a sunflower in his buttonhole,_ |UNIA Meeting Victim 40th Ga. Mob Hangs oN) 0 PoliticsEnds in CanadaroRoNT ar) @INCE Suspect Whilethan 500 officers and mem-| Since 9 2 5 Sheriff Sleepsbers of the Universal Ne-gro Improvement Associa- f) 7 tor Jesse �fn (UNLA), headed by Second Jury's Freak Verdict _DAVTON, Ga, tetinued on page 2, col. amy, , arrested after °Cotime nme tet | Frees Slayer of CCC Maniiresking into the house ot SAYS Bill "But G.O.P. Saya widow, was lynched here,Lawrence Basey was the fortieth colored per- Sunday, by a mob of about al:son shot to death by Metropolitan police since 1925. 200 white hoodlums while Owens Is for LandonEvery officer involved has been exonerated. Most of Sheriff J. T. Bryant slept.the victims were under 21 years of age. McCamy was shot down by themob, which surrounded the jail,|NEW YORK " oJesse Owens, world Ts fastest runneg,last week announced his support of Gov. Alfred M.Following twenty-two hours of hearings and de-| 1. he attempted to escape after| Landon for President and told Representative Joseph Wea.fiberdtions, during which one coroners Jury was dis- | she leaders took him from his cell.| Martin, Jr., white, Republican Eastern campaign mana,charged, Officer Vivian H. Landrum, white, of the | More or less dead, he was strung 8�,�%, that he would take the stump for the Republicam.e,Ninth precinct, was exonerated late Tuesday night Ms yp to a telephone pole 277 his Presidential nominee. �the fatal shooting of Lawrence Basey, 27, a CCC enrollee, | poay riddled with bullets. This bulletin was sent out by G.O.P. headquartethe night of August ae » Sheriff Bryant was asleep in his' on Tuesday.The second jury, which! ° quarters adjacent to the jail. Hej ;rreported at 10 p.tn., almost: Hung Jurve i) Basey said that when he aztived at the! oJesse Owens will not stump; Qwens Takes Plane -. e . ~five hours after it retired.| Case Thought First | scene of the lynching McCamy for Landon or any other puliti-i dict the as-' - ° 9 was dead and the mob had dis-: cian, � says Bill (Bojangles) Sal to See Gov. Landon :based its verdict on in History of D.C | oon 1sumption that Landrum J) - persed. "inson, unofficial Mayor of Harlem © CLEVELAND, 0. " Jeseofeared for his life as @ re-' Go far as this city Ts oldest Year's Twelfth Lynching | and world-famous tap dancer; Owens left by plane Tues- Tsult of a mental process,| jawyers can remember, the McCamy Ts death marks the when interviewed at the T.incoln| day for Topeka, Kas, where J; «|and not by.any overt act or} coroner's jury which on Sat- | twelfth lynching of the year, the| Theatre where T he headed the) he will meet Gov. Alf Lam ohf-acts � onthe part of hia vic-) urday considered for twelve | last being in Fort Smith, Ark., in: stage show which inaugurated the} don, Republican presidential» fftim. . hours the fatal shooting of a July, when officers and citizens, theatrical season here last week.| nominee. yePleads Mental Vision ccc lee b white | Shot down a preacher-farmhand,; oI Tve known Jesse for quite a While he has no defintte .; ~ ero 7 8 Charles Evans. number of yoors and I have aj Plans for aiding Landor, *Landrum had testified, when policeman, was the first ever . ; O la ' der-asked whether any of the five! dischar ed) here without This community will be remem-/ genuine «Zaid for his future and RII AEA SICcc he had placed und peerine a verdict bered as that in which Miss Juli-.1 advised him not to get tangled stood that the Kansan Ts man- .o men he hac pa under & . ; j Cc ith it. � agers might make him offers.arrest just before the shooting John R. Pinkett, Jr., 22, of | ette Derricotte, national YWCA/up with it. £had actually struck him, that he 122 V Street, Northwest, was | official and Fisk University fac- Won't Allow It now and can Tt be dabbling in po=!did not give them a chance, as jay he ote Cave. wore ulty ale te was fatally oes o1 absolutely won't allow | litical matters. � a 4a ovision of Officer Kennedy at white. - , |i Sm auto accident, in 1930, and! Oens to stump for Governor| With these two conflicting. TTruxton Circle flashed through According to reports, five | �*S refused admission to the local 7 sndon or anybody else or to take | opinions sent out this week, the.Pande ' jurors favored exoneration of hospital. any part in politics, � Marty For-|public will have to wait tocat) . ; the officer, while one is said kins, white, Owens Ts pro manager, | what actually will happen.He was apparently referring) to have held out for grand Sheriff N am eS Three told the Associated Negro Press as} The G.O.P. campaign commit aaeto the slaying of Milo Kennedy,| jury action. It was generally a i :white policeman, in Logan Cir-| assumed that Pinkett was the soon as the news reached fm. | reported hats ; ariLL lone juror opposing exonera- o] didn't even know about this} oOwens visited Republicag iContinued on Page 6, Col. 7 tion of the officer. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (ANP) " | Statement at headquarters. I|headquarters at 41 East 42000 m' | wouldn't have allowed him to/Street and met newspaper men WiST: . . . . Three rsons will be on tye aa a :; What a Whale of a Diffe rence a Few Yea rs Make ® o the tat ot J. Carroll Cate, Knox | take any side in the ae Mr. Martin T ee Press oeLatset photo of Marcus Garvey, founder of Universal Negro Improvement League, au } In ants County sheriff, who assumed of- Coie , had nown eee , 4 seid he wanted . aoe oven ontwho attended a league convention in Montregl, Canada, last week. Ten years ago . fice this week. Rufus Cain and| oI don Tt think he Ts interesiet (Tee ee "and expected to go til\ ) : . Lindsey Graves have been named much one way oF the other Topeka to see him. - 3politics. He told me he voted the ahe was more pépular in New York than Father Divine. The best he could do was to Mesitie anal tha sheritt bee) an Be ot. ETEi 5 i - eputies im . a ve . 'go to Toronto. He, is barred from the United States. New York has forgotten him. F D Re- elected nounced he will appoint a third | Republican ticket but beyond that) 1 Oimpie triumphs would |e ® %detective at|didn Tt pay much attention to poli-Se rhoauienn tics. He Ts in the public's hands Continued on page 2, col. 7Soviet Reds Admit They re ;. . e e V . . oya ; ee | Insurance Head Had Been Young White Methodists Vote |Are Wiser Than God Listed os G.O.P. Speaker}! Unification, 147-17 13t . ; e e e e a«ee , +. | own Unillication, i:. P oo : oThe publishing of my name as G.O.P. cam- __White youth oWe expect you to live Christianity, 4U:S. Tourists Who Say RUSSIA FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY || paign speaker is without my knowledge or consent, � ||, BEREA COM re In-| or quit talking about it. � [So) sit ae) Nea pa gpa ble pg CIE alpine stitute here voted against unification Conservative churchmen sought dur } |N +t Mi S ) PROVIDED 60D IS AGAINST IT Mutual Life Insurance Company, told the AFRO- with-the M.E. Church, South, 467 to 17 | ing the year to curb the liberal move- }éENR TO MUX severely AMERICAN, Tuesday. : : n the | round that the plan called for | ment among young people. Two white.Hleckled | One white Georgian and a white Texan, while not expressing oI feel that a change in administration at this ° at f colored brethren leaders, Kirkpatrick and Owengeer,,ol . . themselves as being for or against jim crow schools, said they time of national economic improvement would not segregation ol colore . . led here last year, were sent Apne "S= thought that mixing would odisturb � the races, that oGo din- P , improv" They also voted to boycott the Louis- detailed here year, F;.\ By WARVEY. TARTWELL _| tended for the races to be apaft, � that mixing omight result in be wise. To my way of thinking, if the present ad- lie and Nashville Railroad because of | where. The understanding was that they- ; || social equality and intermarriage, � etc., etc. ministration had done little else than revive con- Vule Bishop Blake, quoted | were too progressive. :with so Gals sebotarshige toe the ltr and mixing of | tb o168 +0 sdowalities in Soviet Russi on fe OD eid one te sying, oWhat else did you expect? � Juanita Jackson of Baltimore, is a}a s rsni e i i} ssia 0 ) is. i H : LJ T : ¢ }@ate, their inferior Paces te rerulted tn complete harmony, boar dgy oven Phe rule, when raja basis, it would have justified its exis was given the reply: vice-president of the body. aa j th ' ti segregation, country w 6: ae tal tio per pase with continesl racial latusbancts and programs, ie. Iynchings a een 5 WOM AN ACCUSE fPere il | Si Sr ang og, eta Ot ond er || TAM. NC = EPIL oe Brothers, Alleged Embezzlers ace, . T ofade among Americans visiting|| while ;before the Revolution, when there was a God, racial Lem - yak for othe ol . a er ro ers, eg SLAYING INTRUMoscow, dyring the past summer.|| separation and perpetual bloody feuds and strife, the Bible || |; BP os ; . Below are given the comments ee gunternan, wore ers emer Te econ e wisdom of: Bobs Specidinn, f I d e rom Prison at. several Ameri Bs u . vu T B F R d fatal shSoe ie He iewitenemtat| Of Bank Funds, Releas sone; JUNE PURCELL GUILD | Gren of t eget MRS, FAUSET HEADS Com any an the Mechanic Pict Page 2 tice Cox took cognizance that "ta .° o net poor home in "the 1400 Meck faT ; a te h- . ures on Page nts onmember of the staff of ore of tne ceity and superte| : and Farmers Bank of Dur ° the offenses to which the brothers oward. satisfying the bank's May Price, is AARMagis Union University: oSeg.| {elias of inferiority and supelie ham, N.C.; stated that he| Edward A. and Clarence ;he ' : ~ . = : ded guilty were committedTat eacols are distinctly dis. | °"'Y- Even where tne aporopns WOMEN DEMOCRATS favors the re-election of{S. Baker, former cashier|PMto) OO. ine indetermin-| Sblgatlons. | seg to nave] Women's Bureau, pending aiwy tions and other things are equal, o* President Franklin D. Roose-| and bookkeper, respective-| ate sentence Act. been. influenced to some extent] quest.: fo colored people. t . i| be De féveannot supply equal or nearly so, the jim crow school velt. ly, of the. Prudential Bank,| he brothers are required to by numerous appeals by friends ome oS ee mis hi irable. � . oh. 8facilities to both races, (°7%�"�, 19 highly undes NEW YORK "Mrs. o : released from J. ¥, Reeves, white,races.| oMiss HELEN PATTERSON Ts. Crystal t am a firm Believer - have: been report to J. Y. s and acquaintances on behalf of to Freedmen's Hospital suffe:the' law. demands it,| , Byrd'Fauset, of Philadelphia, was| President Reosevelt Ts her Lorton Reformatory, where] District probation officer, once aite), student, University of ° pls, administration. � he sald, T = the Baker brothers.lice colored people al- Wisconsin: o4 think that pda named by the Democratic Ne-) he had dene se a they were serving embezzle-jmonth during their probationary Bishop Intercedes from gunshot wound near,period. They were granted per-| . rose said to nave T made such: bume. ¢verywhere receive, in- ne a distinc tional Committee to head up the|: revive confidence in'banking |ment sentences of from " ,pei traisiing in jim crow schools, schools are a di t disadvantage women's division campaign for| business and banks. on vighteen months to three|mission to leave Washington and appeals, either in writing or in ; ¢WE ts: but-an example ot the| Continued on page 2, col. 7 | the Democratic party, Friday. # sound basis:he would have years each. are reported to have gone to eee ee UNIDENTIFIED BOY ity Yeal, life the colored | ~ = Mrs. Fauset, prominent in peli~| -Sastified hls position. Richmond. Bishop James Freeman of thedees not Charles. E. Mitchell, head of| Their release followed a suc-Mt ot get his cdnetitutional , | ties, and civic work, is a former T , ° $100,000 Reported Missing | washington Cathedral; the Rev. DROWNS AT WH AR_ oe at - ; The -AFRO-AMERICAN international : secretary of the ie Lage Suse | ccna cessful plea id wer rscelindieeos The brothers were originally Thomas J. Brown, Episcopal rec a7 Bous. | Publitned every Saturday by | YWCA and hasbeen te head listed Mr. Spaulding as « speaker ray met Taredibork eae ne sentenced on pleas of guilty to| tor ete of . uke Sooke nt, Unj versity _ The APRO-AMBRICAN of the WPA work in Philadelphia. me me ; one count each of separate in- University; "George A, Robinson,| The body of an unideritified?ae i on July 15, 1035, and :., . COMPANY }. : raithin rhe pair. They, were|dictments.. The amount involved) 1419 G Street, Northwest; Dr.| year-old boy was fished out of nisiitiitt ies | MBANEST BANDIT CAUGHThone, | Decatu: 009 | ce "_ "_ "aiely given new sentences| in the pleas was $500, although) Hamilton S. Martin, Col. West A.' water, Wednesday, in front«of @\ ee aioe . i months each, #nd put) the amount allegedly found) Hamilton; Water Street fish wharf, oy: Reterall tes diese Pewvtaiticn i- Silemteats : DE ee ~ " ,Semes) fi EP inte,' Tes reiae MM adk| Spies 28, 2417 N Van Pert waswyihe br | ogduring the investigation, 4 \of thelr transactions was given) » be aa team ag white market employee ane La51 08 around gien,eee, Atlanta; C. Lucien Skinner, G. ene... bere.)alin were. Bascom . Slemp, poleon youth iy ssid. to :