Congressman '— of received Crow merce cons against charged Chicago road first-class transfer car. Jim are that ell’s sold made same says Mexican subjected third volvea the Negroes Crow, as declared case Court, privileges der 27, et judge during physician's able this Judge court. torneys ard, Judge counsel a years was tal pled September James argument ton, guilty der Judge granting on Judge Voters To The Polls Tuesday; Two Race Candidates On Ticket ——— 0 — — .Negro Vote May iDecide Election in Some Cases With a hard contest for the office of Commissioner of Streets and Parks An Kansas City, the general election next Tuesday has attracted consider* able Interest among the Colored vot ers In the second and third wards. And with two members of this group winning the nomination for the of fices of Board of Public Utilities and -Board of Education Indicates that the vote Tuesday will far surpass that of Monday In the primary. The fact that definite party lines appear to be one cf the issues In the selection of candidates in the Street Commission er fight, has caused increased activi ty among the Negro voters, and es pecially in the various partisan or ganizations. Although the city elec tion is supposed to be non-partisan, but Lh a week's campaigning and build-up for the -office in the Street Commissioner race has been similar to that of state elections, a Repub lican opposed by a Democrat. Henry F. Schaible, the present incumbent Is a Republican and is being opposed by Francis Blake, Democrat and for mer election commissioner under the Huxman administration. Fred R. Smith who received 4,671 votes together with William J. Christ who received 1,338, K. R. Lewis, W. O. Howe, and John Bea- zell all pledged their support to Schaible, and called upon the people who voted for them to support Schai ble in Tuesday’s election. Schaible showed strength in the coloied precincts over the other can didates. He received 2,597 votes. Blake received 1686 and the other •candidates received 2,187 votes. The total number of Negro votes cast last Monday in the Commissioner race xvas 6 470. Considerable interest was mani fested In the candidacy of the two race candidates, Ulysses G. Plum mer, Jr., who received 9,304 votes for the nominajian to the Board of "Public Utilities and Miss Thelma Rea Thurston who received 5,818 for the nomination to the Board of Educa tion. Plummer is an attorney at law and has practiced law In Kansas City for the past six years. Miss Thurston is a reporter and feature writer for the Kansas City Call. Both are active in the civic and so cial life oi this citv. Plummer showed considerably more strength than Miss Thurston, and Is the only candidate opposing- the .present five members of the Board who are James L. Beggs, Charles A. Lewder, Lawrence E. Wilson, James H. DeCoursey and George H. Long The present board ran far in the lead of Plummer, Miss Thurston Is opposing the present board of edu cation which is composed of Frank Rushton, president. W. R. Honnell, -vice president. John E. Carlson. George W. Mears. O. Q. Claflln and Robert E. Crowley. The new Sumner lilgh school which Is now being built was started under the administra tion of the present board. All receiv ed a strong vote In the Primary with Ralph Fulton, a young business man and Republican leader, and L. M. Lee Bower, young Democrat leader running very close to- several mem bers of the present board. Both Schaible organization [’Sflllll# ■ Mjjinixealer EDITION ^ f FOUN “ E “ loso ■ , , Vol. XLI No 12 KANSAS CITY. KANSAS FRIDAY, MAR. 31, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS Convict White Youth In Arkansas For The Rape Of Girl 13 i Hu wna Saved From The Chair, But Gits Lite In Pea LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 31— A stick of red and white peppermint candy proved damaging evidence against Elton Clifton, 23, white, who was sentenced to life Imprisonment here Friday for the rape of a 13- year-old race girl. It was the first time In th» nls- ory of Arkansas that a white man had been convicted of such a charge. A Jury, composed of 12 white men, deliberated only 40 minutes. Although the prosecution sought the death penalty, the rapist * was spared by character witnesses who testified that he had a good record. CANDY INTRODUCED The primary evidence Introduced by the prosecution was a stick of candy, wrapped in green tissue pa per which the young girl carried when she was attacked. The candy was found in Clifton's truck and a I store proprietor testified that he had sold the girl a similar stick of can dy a few hours before the attack was reported. • « The young girl was beaten with a blunt instrument, which she testified was a pistol, by a man who forced her into a truck and drove to an un inhabited section of the highway. She was raped, she testified, and taken back toward town before she was forced out of the truck. IN HOSPITAL Transferred to City hospital, her condition was found to be serious. Later she was moved to a North Lit tle Rock hospital, where she has been confined since. The child lives near Tie Plant. Clifton’s lawyer offered witnesses to prove an alibi. Six persons said they saw Clifton at Rose City and other places about 6 30 p. m. State witnesses declared a Race man and a white man obtained the license number of Clifton's track shortly after the girl was forced out onto the highway. Officers who traced the truck, tes rifled they found Clifton In a beer parl?r g short time tater. He stehd- j fastly denied the attack and altered J an explanation of blood found on hlsi clothing ^ ~m, 1 Cltfton, whose young wife and parents sat beside him as he was accused by a stream of state wit nesses, was pale but exhibited no emotion when the verdict was read. He said nothing. His mother bowed her head and wept. The father look King Solomon Pastor Voted 'Out’ But In Pulpit On Men’s Day; Rev. J. P. Houston Speaks "What la Man That Thou Are Mind ful of Hlnj?” was the theme of the fifteenth annual Men's Day sendees at the King Solomon Baptist church, Third sreet and Garfield avenue, ob served on Sunday, March 26, in three special services during the day. Arcording to the printed program, outlining the features of The Men's Day services, the Rev. R. H. How ard, two-month pastor of the King Solomon Baptist congregation, was scheduled to deliver the sermons at the morning and night sericcs. But, as the result of a church meeting, held by officers and mem bers of the King Solomon church on Friday night, March 24, and presided over by the Rev. P. J. Houston, preacher-member of the church, the pulpit was declared "vacant” and new trustee and deacon boards were nam ed. . These now officers, Eugene Ford, John H. Hannon, J. W. Mays, Char les H. Love, Silas Reed, George Grant, W. R. Knox, the trustees; and Ed Underwood, Henry Flakes, John Lee, Robert Claxton, W. M. Bledsoe, John Williams, the deacons, made up the official boards which were In charge of the Men's Day sendees on last Sunday. Although the pulpit had been de clared "vacant” Sunday morning, on the rostrum at the Men’s Pay servi ces were the Rev. James P. Dennis of St. Louis, the Rev. Mr. Houston, preacher-member of King Solomon, who was guest speaker of the Men’s Day, and the Rev. Mr. Howard who took no official part In the services. The Rev. Mr. Houston who acted as pastor during Presiding as master of ceremonies Sunday morning was Albert Scott, who before introducing the guests of the morning, commented that "all things work together for the good of those who trust God,” referring to the unsettled conditions In the church. He presented Charles Ladell, commander, and members of the Am erican Xeglon Post No. 217, who were guests at the Men’s Day servi ces. Following musical numbers by the American Legion’s boys' brass quar tet, and a solo by Charles Hunter, the Rev. Mr. Houston, speaker of the morning, spoke from the text, "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine," found in St. John 10:14. ’Shepherd and Sheep,' Text •To mind,” opened the Rev. Mr slated by other officers. Various offi cers arose to announce a joint meet ing of the new and old boards which was scheduled for the past Monday night and the announcement of ano ther church meeting which is sched uled for tonight. Another Meeting The second general church meeting which is scheduled for tonight will be similar to the one held last Friday night at which time new official boards were elected and at which time the pulpit was declared vacant. The Men’s Day services continued throughout the afternoon, at which time Atty. Elmer Jackson was sched uled as guest speaker and many other guests appeared on the program in solo and literary numbers. At the evening service the Rev. Mr. Houston delivered another sermon. Orgin Of Syphillis Not Known, Says Dr. Harold Thatcher CHICAGO. — That the disease, sy phillis, originated In Halt!, according to white writers engaged in the na tional campaign to make America aware of the seriousness of the dis ease, has been contradicted by a young Negro physician, Dr. Harold Thatcher, a native of Kansas City, Kansas. According to Dr. Thatcher, who is recognized as an authority in the field, "It is nearly impossible to as cribe its or gin to any particular coun try.” There are two theories. Dr. Thatch er said. One la that it was biought to Europe and civilization from Haiti by the sailors who went tn the New World with Columbus in 1492. The other Is that the disease was present in Europe long before the discovery of America, but was unrecognized. According to the Haitian theory, Ovieda, a Spanish physician, was In Barcelona at the rime of the return of Columbus in 1493, and found that the disease had been contracted in a mild form from the Indian women found in the West Indies. This was 125 years before Negroes were en slaved and shipped from Africa to America. Syphilis appeared in_ Africa and whlna about 1505. but only after via- ts to those places by Europeans. They say that Europe confused the disease with leprosy and had 19,000 hospitals in Europe before 1500, but they van'shed completely as syphillis came to the fore as a distinct dis ease. Dr. Harold Thatcher Is the son of N. W. Thatcher, undertaker, and Mrs. Thatcher, here. He is a gradu ate of Sumner high school. Bishop Hamlett To Be Men Day Speaker Sunday Bishop J. Arthur Hamlett, presi dent of the Kansas-Missourl Confer ence of the CME church, will speak at the morning service Sunday, April 2nd, at St. Peter’s Chapel, t8h and Oakland avenue. The men of the church will have charge of services throughout the day Sunday school will be conducted by Fred Williams, acting superintendent, at 9 a. m. At 10:30 the Junior church, Rev. Rich ard Bass, sponsor, will have charge and Dr. C. W. Alexander will be guest speaker. At 11 a. m., St Pe ter's Men Chorus will render'music and Bishop Hamlett will preach At 3 p. m., the devotional service will be led by N. V. Depriest; selections by St. Stephens' Men Chorus; Wel come address by Cecil Hersey; solo by F. K. Kirkpatrick; response by Roosevelt Butler; Sermon by Rev. I. H. Fisher, pastor of Olivet Baptist church; selections by the Choral Four, McCIunney Brothers and the Moneutree Singers. i At 6 p. m, Epworth League will be held with Wm. Martin, acting president, in charge. At 7:30 p. m., Attorney Forrest B. Anderson w.H give the address. Other numbers at this service will be selections by St. Peter’s Men's Chorus; solo by Rich ard Bass, and solo, R. H. Turner. The Finance Committee Is com Congress Agrees On Aviation School For Negroes f - _ WASHINGTON—Tinal^ House and Senate actlorT^on the Schwartz amendment to the Army Air Corps expansion b 11 authorizing av atlon training at at least one Negro col lege, is expected to be taken this week. This much was made known Monday when it was learned that, in spite of opposition, the House con ferees have accepted the amendment. Trouble for the amendment crop ped up from regular army sources, as might be expected. War depart ment lobby.sts lost no time disclos ing the displeasure of that depart ment’s officials over the prospect of having to make room for even ONE Jfegro aviator In the United States Air Corps. J SHUT SOUGHT As soon as the Schwartz Amend ment had been agreed to by the Sen ate Military Affairs Comm'ttee, be hind-the-scenes maneuvering was be gun to try to shift the responsibility for the aviation training stipulated to v the Civil Aeronautics Authority rather than the War Department. However, the language of the amendment, as sent to the House, does not change its substance. If passed by the House and the Senate In its present form, It will indicate that the first opening wedge in The Courier's fight to open the Federal military services to all cit'zens has been forged and that new ground can be taken from which to cany on the fight against exclusion and d scrim- ination. HOWARD BOARD MAY ACT MONDAY Although the colored univecs ty to be used as a training site for Negro aviators for the U. S. Army has not been named, it is reported here that the board of trustees of Howard University, at its meeting next Mon day, Is expected to take up he ques tion of setting up a course In aero nautics for the training of personnel as provided for under the bill. House Act’on Started On Anti-Lynch Bill I WASHINGTON, March 24—Repre- sentatlve Joseph A. Gavagan has de cided to start action toward the en actment of his federal antl-lynching bill in the House without waiting for eral antl-lynching bill comes at & time when our country has expressed Its Indignation over the inhuman treatment of other racial groups In foreign countries,” said a statement