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CONGRESS CONSIDERS ANTI-LYNCH BILLS
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such State shall be reason of such failure, neglect, or refusal to be deemed to have denied such person the equal protection of laws of the State, and to the end that the protection guaranteed to persons within the jurisdiction of the several States, or to citizens of the United States, by the Constitution of the United States, may be secured, the provisions of this Act are enacted.
Sec. 3. Any officer or employee of any State or governmental subdivision who is charged with the duty or who possesses the power or authority as such officer or employee to protect the life or person of any individual injured or put to death by any mob or riotous assemblage or any officer or employee of any State or governmental subdivision having any such individual in his charge as a prisoner, who falls, neglects, or refuses to make all diligent efforts to protect such individual from being so injured or being put to death, or any officer or employee of any State or governmental subdivision charged with the duty of apprehending, keeping in custody, or prosecuting to final judgment under the laws of such State all persons so participating, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding five years by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Any officer or employee of any State or governmental subdivision, acting as such officer or employees under authority of State law, having in his custody or control a prisoner, who shall conspire, combine, or confederate with any person to injure or put such prisoner to death without authority of law, or who shall conspire, combine or confederate with any person to suffer such a prisoner to be taken or obtained from his custody or control for the purpose of being injured or put to death without autohrity of law shall be guilty of a felony, and those who so conspire, combine or confederate with such officer or employee shall likewise be guilty of a felony. On conviction the parties participating therein shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than five years or for life. 
Sec. 4. The District Court of the judician district wherein the person is injured or put to death by a mob or riotous assemblage shall have jurisdiction to try and to punish, in accordance with the laws of the State where the injury is inflicted or the homicide is committed, any and all persons who participate therein; Provided, that it is the first made to appear to such Court (1) That the officers of the State charged with the duty of apprehending, prosecuting and punishing such offender under the laws of the State shall have failed, neglected or refused to apprehend, prosecute or punish such offenders; (2) That the jurors obtainable for service in the State Court having jurisdiction of the offense are so strongly opposed to such prosecution and punishment that there is no probability that those guilty of the offense can be punished in such State Courts. 
A failure of the officers aforesaid for more than thirty days after the commission of such offense to apprehend or indict the persons guilty thereof, or a failure diligently to prosecute such persons, shall be sufficient to constitute prima facie evidence of the failure, neglect, or refusal described in the above priviso.
Sec. 5. Any county in which a person is put to death by a mnob or riotous assemblage shall forgeit $10,000, which sum may be recovered by suit therefor in the name of the Unite States against such county for use of the family, if any, of the person so put to death; if he has no family, then of his dependent parents, if any; otherwise for the use of the United States. Such action shall be brought and prosecuted by the District Attorney of the United States of the district in the United States District Court for such district. If such forfeiture be not paid upon recovery of a judgment therefor, such court shall have jurisdiction to enforce payment thereof by levy of execution upon any property of the country, or may otherwise compel payment thereof by mandamus or other appropriate process; and any officer of such county or other person who disobeys or fails to comply with any lawful order of the Court in the premises shall be liable to punishment as for contempt and to any other penalty provided by law therefor. 
Sec. 6. In the event that any person so put to death shall have been transported by such mob or riotous assemblage from one county to another county during the time intervening between his capture and putting to death, the county in which he is seized and the county in which he is put to death shall be jointly and severally liable to pay the forfeiture herein provided.
Sec. 7. Any act committed in any state or Territory of the United States in violation of the rights of a citizen or subject of a foreign country secured to such citizen or subject by treaty between the United States and such foreign country, which act constitutes a crime under the laws of such State or Territory, shall constitute a like crime against the peace and dignity of the courts of said State or Territory, and within the period limited by the laws of such State or Territory, and may be prosecuted in like manner as sentences upon conviction for crime under the laws of the United States.
Sec. 8. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
The bills just introduced in Congress by Senator Costigan, and Representative Guyer present a new challenge to all lovers of justice in America, and to the Negro in particular. Although the crime of lynching is not murder "for colored only," the Negro has been the most frequent victim of this atrocity in America. President Roosevelt has taken the lead in two forthright denunciations of lynching within the last month. We as the persons most immediately affected cannot be less outspoken. The voice which every member of Congress knows and heeds is the voice of his constituent, the voter back in his home state or district.
EVERY NEGRO IN WASHINGTON WHO CLAIMS A VOTING RESIDENCE IS DUTY BOUNT TO SEND A PERSONAL MESSAGE TO HIS SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE DEMANDING THAT HE ACTIVELY SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION. THOSE WHO ARE NOT VOTERS HAVE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS WHO ARE. THROUGH THEM THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH THE SAME END. 

REVEREND A. F. ELMES TO SPEAK
At the next meeting of the Alliance which will be held on Saturday, January 13, 1934, in the auditorium of the Y.M.C.A. at 7:30 p.m., the Reverent A. F. Elmes will address the members. 
Reverent Elmes is the pastor of the People's Congregational Church located on M Street, between 6th and 7th.
The Alliance urges the public to attend this meeting and see the progress which the organization is making and at the same time receive the messages which come from our guest speakers.

FUTURE SPEAKERS
Reverent E. C. Smith, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church will address the Alliance on Saturday, January 20.
Dean William West, dean of Men at Howard University, will be the guest speaker the following Saturday, January 27.
Arrange your week-end schedule so that you will have the hours between 7:30 and 9:00 p.m., free to attend the Alliance meetings in the Y.M.C.A.

LINCOLN THEATRE
1215 YOU STREET, N.W.
Phone North 3000
ONE WEEK BEGINNING FRIDAY, JANUARY 12th
The King of Crooners - The Queen of the Movies
Bing Crosby --- Marion Davies 
in
"GOING HOLLYWOOD"
Hear Bing Sing "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines"
"Our Big Love Scene," "Temptation," Cinderella Fella"

REPUBLIC THEATRE
1343 YOU STREET, N.W. 
Phone North 3000
5--Days Only--5
BEGINNING FRIDAY JANUARY 12th
Richard Dix
in "Ace of Aces"
with ELIZABETH ALLAN --- TULLY MARSHALL
WEDNESDAY ADN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17th & 18th
Preston Foster
in
"CORRUPTION"

Broadway
SUNDAY-MONDAY
JAN. 14-15
ANN HARDING in
"The RIght to Romance"
with 
Nile Asther, Sari Maritza
Robert Young
Extra Added Attraction
ADELAIDE HALL
is "On the Air and Off"

TUES., WED., THURS., FRI.
JAN. 16-18-18-19
MAE WEST
is 
"I'm No Angel"
with CARY GRANT
NUF SED!
Come Early and Avoid the Rush

SATURDAY ONLY JAN 20
Nick Stuart in 
"POLICE CALL"
Also Chapter No. 7
"GORDON of GHOST CITY"
Starring BUCK JONES

ROSALIA
SUNDAY-MONDAY JAN. 14-15
H.G. Wells's
"INVISIBLE MAN"
The Year's Most Fantastic Sotry

TUESDAY JAN. 16
"S.O.S. ICEBERG"
With Rod La Rocque
Chapter No. 3
"Fighting with Kit Carson"

WED.-THURS. JAN. 17-18
Bing Crosby in
"Too Much Harmony"
With Jack Oakie, Skeet Gallagher, Judith Allen

FRIDAY Jan. 19
"BEAUTY FOR SALE"
with
Alice Brady, Otto Kruger,
Madge Evans

SATURDAY JAN. 20
John Wayne in 
"Sage Brush Trail"
Also Chapter No. 6
"GORDON of GHOST CITY"
Starring BUCK JONES

MOTT
SUNDAY-MONDAY JAN. 14-16
H.G. Wells's 
"INVISIBLE MAN"
The Years Most Fantastic Sotry

TUESDAY JAN.16
Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy
"Destination Unknown"
Also
"Goldie Gets Along"

WEDNESDAY JAN. 17
Constance Bennet in
"After Tonight"
with Gilbert Roland
Also
Chap. No. 6, 'Three Muskateers'

THURSDAY JAN. 18
Tim McCoy in 
"Western Code"
Also
"Sister to Judas"

SATURDAY JAN. 20
Ken Maynard in
"Strawberry Roan"
Also Chapter No. 6
"GORDON of GHOST CITY"
Starring BUCK JONES

BOOKER - T
ONE WEEK
BEGINNING
FRIDAY,
JANUARY 12TH
Phone North 3000
"The House of Hits"
1433 YOU STREET, N.W.
John Barrymore
in Elmer Rice's State Success
"COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW"
with BEBE DANIELS --- DORIS KENYON