Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1932 — Page 2

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RULE NE6ROES MUST DIE FOR GIRL ATTACKS High Court Upholds Death Verdict in Freight Car Crime. Bv r tilt'd prr** MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 24. —The Alabama supreme court today upheld seven of eight convictions In the Scottsboro assault case, resulting from an alleged attack by Negro youths on two white girls. The Negroes had been sentenced to death after a trial under protection of national guardsmen. Attorneys retained by the International Labor Defense appealed the convictions to the state supreme court. The supreme court set May L3, a Friday, as the execution date. Charges against the Negroes grew out of an episode on a freight train mar Scottsboro, Ala., last March. Testimony at the trial was that Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, white girls, “hoboing" from Chattanooga to Huntsville. Ala., were in a freight car with seven white youths when ten or twelve Negroes Jumped aboard. Fists started to flv. The white youths were thrown irom the train, one by one. According to the testimony of the girls, the Negroes then attacked them. Nine Negroes were arrested soon after the freight car incident by a posse which met the train at Pairtsville, Ala. When the prisoners were thrust into the Scottsboro jail, a mob formed “muttering about lynching. National guardsmen were summoned. The Negroes were bundled out into automobiles and taken to Gadsden, Ala., for safe keeping. Their trial was held at Scottsboro, in the small court house protected by guardsmen with machine guns and bayonets, who kept crowds estimated at 10,000 to 20,000 in order. The trials were speedy. Eight of Ihe defendants were sentenced to death. The ninth, only 14. obtained a mlstrtal on technical grounds. He will be retried at the spring term of court. VETERANS OPEN OFFICE Newly Incorporated Organization Will Seek lo Expand. Offices of the recently incorpora t- j ed National United American Veterans have been opened at 604 Inland Bank building, where offices of the state and Marion county organisations also are located. National officers are Edward O. Bchaub, commander; Ralph E. Greene, vice commander, and Herman H. Hiles. adjutant. All are residents of this city. It is planned to form local organizations in every state, composed of men who served in the SpanishAmerican and World wars, in peace time military service and in all campaigns conducted by the military forces. SPEAKS AT TABERNACLE Mrs. Albert M. Johnson Will Talk at Cadle Tonight. Speaker at Cadle tabernacle tonight and Friday and Sunday nights will be Mrs. Albert M. Johnson of Chicago and Death Valley, Cal., nationally known radio speaker, and a member of the staff at the Paul Rader tabernacle, Chicago. A four-act Easter play will be presented Sunday afternoon. The Cadle choir, directed by Alvin L. Carter, will offer special music in collection with the play.

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Screen Actor Loses $20,000 to Embezzler

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/Jy Vnilrd Prut* LOS ANGELES, March 24Embezzlement of $20,000 from Ramon Novarro. motion picture actor, was revealed today when credit, of $26,373 and a refund of $4,063 for over-assessment of income tax and interests were approved.. The credit and refund was granted upon proof of the em-. bezzlement, but neither the actor nor his attorney. Stanley Barnes, would give details. STATE REALTORS BACK TAX RELIEF PROGRAM Association's Governors Urge Call for Special Assembly Session. Indorsement of the tax relief and economy program outlined recently by the citizens' tax committee was adopted by the board of governors of the Indiana Real Estate Association Wednesday at the Washington. The board also went on record urging Governor Harry G. Leslie to call a special session of the general assembly for the sole purpose of passing legislation to lower the tax burden on real property. A resolution was adopted, without dissent, favoring a $1.50 maximum tax rate on real estate. Albert E. Uhl, vice-president of the association and former president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, discussed citizens’ tax committee activities and program, in which he participated as a member.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MARCH 24,1932