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N.N.A. CASE REACHES COURT BALANCED NEWS FEARLESS OPINIONS NEW NEGRO OPINION WASHINGTON'S PROGRESSIVE WEEKLY Second Year--No. 27 Washington, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934 Price 2 Pennies FIGHT STARTS RIOT PRINCESS ANNE IS SCENE OF RACE DISTURBANCE Town That Saw Lynching of Armwood Again Aflame As Fight Starts PRINCESS ANNE, Md.--This town that saw the lynching of George Armwood October was the scene of a race riot last Saturday. Colored and white men clashed in street fights and the colored section was invaded and women and children driven from their homes. There were no casualties and within twenty-four hours the disturbance, which was exagerrated, had quieted down. Continued on Page 4 [[line]] BOY, 6, IS KILLED BY AUTO; MAN EXONERATED Playing Child Darts Before Car; Coroner's Jury Releases Driver Raymond Thompson, 6, 1200 block of S St. N. W., was knocked down and instantly killed by an automobile near his home on the 9th of September. The driver of the car, Horace Griffith, 30, 1800 block of Vernon St. N.W., took the boy to Freedmen's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead of a fractured skull. Griffith was exonerated by a coroner's jury Monday. He testified that the child jumped out suddenly to run across the street. He said he applied his brakes, but the time was too short to prevent hitting the boy. The brakes of Griffith's car had been inspected and were pronounced all right by the Police Department. [[line]] Alliance Attorney Argues For Right To Picket, After Trick "Dismissal" Fails In spite of the fact that in open court the attorneys for the High Ice Cream Company had agreed to dismiss "without prejudice" their request for a preliminary injunction against the New Negro Alliance to prevent their 11th Street store from being picketed, the case was argued before Justice Letts Wednesday. What might be considered a bold trick was uncovered when the lawyers on boths sides got together to sign the order dismissing the action. Belford V. Lawson, representing the New Negro Alliance with William H. Hastie and Thelma Ackiss, was presented with an agreement which in effect would have nullified the dismissal of the High case. The agreement which the attorneys for the New Negro Alliance were asked to sign carried a clause that the NRA would refrain from picketing the store of the High Ice Cream Company. Since the Ice Cream Company has not acceded to the requests of the NRA that a colored employee be placed in the store at 3124 11th St. N. W., Mr. Lawson refused to sign such an agreement and the case went back to the court for argument. LAWSON ARGUES The case of the High Company was presented by Philip Rosenfeld. He addressed the Judge for about twenty minutes. Belford V. Lawson representing the Alliance spoke on the motion for about an hour. He asked that the court dismiss the rule to show cause as being illegal and contrary to the best law in such cases. He cited a recently decided case in New York where a judge had held that consumers had the right to picketwhen they had any real or fancied grievances against a business. Judge Letts refused to hand down a decision in the matter and took the matter under advisement. In view of the fact that it was Justice Letts who handed down the adverse decision in the Kaufmann case, which is now being appealed, this delay in making a similar decision is considered a real victory for the Alliance. [[line]] HIT-RUN DRIVER STRIKES PEDESTRIAN Believed to be the victim of a hit-and-run motorist, an unidentified man is in serious condition at Casualty Hospital. The man was removed to the hospital by the Bladensburg Rescue Squad near Hyattsville. Supposedly he was walking along the highway when he was struck by a passing machine. A lookout has been issued for two trucks believed involved in the accident. [[line]] AFFIDAVITS ON TEXAS PRIMARY CASE "LOST" Justice Department Receives 20 Affidavits, But Whereabouts Now Mystery. By Capital News Service A first-class mystery has developed in connection with the "loss" of the twenty affidavits of qualified Negro Democrats of Texas, testifying to their exclusion from the July 28 primary election in that State. The 20 affidavits were sent to the Department of Justice by the N.A.A.C.P. national office and their receipt acknowledged by Joseph D. Keeman, assistant at- Continued on Page 4 [[line]] John A. Lankford Made Vice President of National Technical Association By Capital News Service DAYTON, Ohio - The Sixth Annual Convention of the National Technical Association was held here last week, the Ohio branch of the Association, including J.A. Dunn, E. Ryder, E.P. Taylor, E.L. Nickerson, John L. Thomas, W.L. Landoune, and Fred Grigsby, being host to the national body. Thirty delegates representing Architects, Engineers and Chemists of five local branches located in Chicago, Detroit, Dayton, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C., together with a few non-delegate members and a large group of visitors listened to an address of welcome from Mayor Charles W. Brennan of Dayton, who frankly acknowledged surprise when informed that the gathering represented more than three hundred professionally trained men in the field of science. Continued on Page 4 [[line]] REV. BUNDRANT WINS FREEDOM IN OHIO COURT Charges of False Pretenses Fail as Local Minister Faces Accusers By Capital News Service IRONTON, Ohio - The Rev. John W. Bundrant of Washington, D.C. who was brought here from the Capital City to face a false pretense charge was dismissed when the case was brought into court last week. After waiving an extradition hearing in the District of Columbia Police Court, the Rev. Bundrant, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Washington, was brought to Ironton, in charge of two officers to face the false pretense charge. A man by he name of Andrew Washington was the complainant and the charge set forth that the Washington pastor who pastored here some ten years ago, was the co-maker of a promissory note for $300 claiming that he owned some property which would be used as security for the amount of the note. It was further stated that the pastor was not the owner of the property and left the city. In court the charges were not proven and the Rev. Bundrant was given a "clean bill." It was shown that other endorsers paid the note and immediately upon dismissal of the case the outraged pastor left for Washington, his friend stating that the charge was the work of enemies here and purely a 'spite affair.' When the Rev. Bundrant was Continued on page 4 [[line]] WIFE SUES CAR CO. FOR $10,000 IN MATES DEATH Attorneys for Mrs. Wright Name Capital Transit Co in Damage Suit The Capital Transit Company was made defendant in a suit for damage filed late this week through Attorney William L. Houston of the firm Houston and Houston. Mrs. Margaret Wright, 1505 Eighth Street, Northwest, signed the petition which seeks $10,000 in the death of her late husband, Joseph Wright. An order naming Mrs. Wright administratix of the estate of her Continued on Page 2 [[line]] PROF. ROY TIBBS TO SAIL FOR VIENNA [[line]] By Capital News Service Prof. Roy W. Tibbs, instractor in piano and organ at Howard University, and nationally known concert pianist, will sail next week for Vienna, Austria, where he will further his musical stady during the coming winter. Prof. Tibbs, who won a scholarship for his musical advancements, has been greanted a leave of absence from Howard University. [[line]] "EMPTY GUN" WOUNDS YOUTH [[line]] Eugene Ball, 20, 300 Block of L St. N.W., was shot in the knee when an "empty" gun which he was cleaning was discharged. [[line]] Ira DeA. Reid Resigins from Urban League; Goes to Atlanta University [[line]] By Capital News Service NEW YORK CITY-Ira DeA. Reid, for the past six years director of the Department of Research of the National Urban League, has resigned to head the Department of Sociology at the Atlanta University. He is returning to his alma mater which he left twelve years ago, having graduated from Moorehouse College, now merged with Spelman College to form the new Atlanta University. Mr. Reid states that one of his first tasks will be to work out in cooperation with Fisk University and the University of North Carolina a study on the participation of the Negro in the social and political set-up in the South. He hopes to uncover and analyze factors which limit the Negro's Continued on Page 2
