The Informer and Texas Freeman (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 17, 1942 Page: 2 of 16
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TWO_____-__s ATURDAY, JANT AIIY 17, 1912
ISK STUDENT SUES RAI
AY FOR ATTACK
Senior Attacked 3
By Brakeman, Says
His Jaw Was Broken
CHICAGO.—(ANP)—A suit was entered against the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railway here by James W. Tyler,
senior at Fisk university, Nashville, seeking heavy damages
as result of the conduct of C. H. Morris, white brakeman of
the company who viciously hit and broke Tyler’s jaw. Ths in-
-is These delegates to the 31st Grand
Chapter Meeting of Kappa Alpha
...Psi Fraternity in Indianapolis last
: week voted to buy $3,000 worth of
U. S. Defense bonds, at the same
- time calling on President Roosevelt
1 end racial discrimination in de-
Pictured in the front row are sev.
eral Kuppa officers as follows: Left
to Right: Curtis I. Gordon, St.
Louis; Dr. W. Leon Brown, provin-
cial polemarch, Philadelphia; Ray
Ware, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. R. Eugene
Clarke, Cincinnati; Julius L. Mor-
gan, Chicago, all provincial pole-
Technicality May
Be Used To Cheat
Expert Out Of Job
WASHINGTON.—(ANP)—A technicality written into
the "requirements" may be the one thing that will keep
George Derrick, radio expert, out of the promised job with
the war department, it was learned here last week. This
technicality, "applicant must have studied or be a graduate
.-------------------------------------- of a recognized school specializing
Traveler And
lecturer To
Make Speech
, HOUSTON.—Coming to Houston
from an 18-mount tour of the South-
reastern States, Dallas A. Martin,
first and lone Negro national repre-
sentative of the RCA corporation,
with offices in New York City, re-
cited an enviable record made by
him during this time. He has lec-
, turerd to some 50 schools and col-
. eges on how modern, audia-visual
+ aide to education can be put to
more effective use in Negro schools,
1 colleges and universities.
Not a salesman in the fullest sense
of the word, Mr. Martn has done
much to make the educatonal insti-
tution* RCA appliance-minded-
Scheduled to spend a little over a
week in Houston he will deliver
lectures to students at Houston Col-
. lege and the several high schools
EE “The’ modern phonograph, great-
E Sly improved, he nummerous assis-
btants,” Martin said. “Slides and
3Emotion pictures, both with and
without sound accompaniment, have
- been put to work to assist in teach-
ing many subjects. The radio has
, come to the aid of the teacher in
* bringing special school programs to
. the classroom and in bringing first
hand news of latest events.”
FE One of the newest unit developed
2Pbrr RCA is the portable recorder,
SEMr. Martin stated. This instrument
atmakes record* any where and they
#may be played beck immdiately on
th any phonograph or the machine
"itself. These records halp correct
Z faulty diction in pupils and are
3 excellent in showing improvements
- in the pupil after defects have been
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that the war department will hide
behind in preventing Derrick from
taking his pre-offered job.
Originally offered the positions
because of his knowledge of radio,
Derrick was turned down when he
went to the personnel officer of
the war department because, it is
alleged, he was a Negro.
Quite a furor was raised over
the rejection, with the NAACP,
FEPC and the civilian aide to the
secretary of war ail taking a hand
in the investigation.
LAST RITES SAID FOB
DALLASITE IN TERRELL
DALLAS—Mrs. Mary Lou Horn-
age, of 3431 Mingo street, long-time
member of the Hopewell Baptist
church, died Sunday, January 4, at
her home. The funeral services were
held in Terrell, Tuesday, January 6.
The Rev. A. McKnight, pastor of
Hopewell Baptist church, officiated
at the funeral.
Mrs. Hornage was a member of
the Ever Royal Court No. 37.
Survivors are four children, one
sister, brother, sister-in-law, and
other relatives.
sity, from which he holds a B. S.
degree, Marin has also attended
RCA Institute in New York City,
Making his home in Camden, N. J.,
he was pulled from the classroom
before completion of his term be-
cause of his proficiency in his
classses and sent out on the road
for the company. Since that time
he has made quite a record for
himself as a lecturer.
On completing his business in
Houston he will go to Prairie View
College where he will spend some
time before leaving on a tour of
Texas, making such towns as San
Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Waco. Mar-
shall and Tyler,,
Texas To Supply
Barbers For
Every State
You would be surprised to know
that every state in the Union is look-
ing k> the Tyler Barber College for
trained barbers. An unusual oppor-
tunity for courageous young men
and women to supply other states
as well as our own with this type
of service, and at the same time
raise our economic status in each
community, which means a better
livelihood.
Hundreds of applications now on
our flies from states throughout the
spending four to five years in liter-
ary colleges, unless you know you
won’t be an object of charity after
graduation. Uae your thinking abil-
it by choosing a field that offers
a future. We guarantee to secure
all graduates a lucrative position in
almost any city or town in the
United States. Join the prepared
group and be Independent for life.
Your security in the future ded
pends on your action now.
For further information write the
Tyler Barber College, H. M. Mor-
gan. President; Tyler, Texas, or MM
Dowling Street, Houston, Toxes,
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KAPPA ALPHA PSI DELEGATES AID DEFENSE
marchs; Girard T. Bryant, Kansas was elected to his twentieth year
City, Mo. grand historian; Gloster
B. Current Detroit, Victor L. Hicks,
Detroit, and James E. Anderson, all
members of the grand board of di-
rectors; Donald L. Hollowell Jack-
son, Tenn., grand strategus: Atty. J.
Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Chicago, who
the defense picture shortly after
enactment of the Draft Act. Many
white northerners were sent to the
several nearby camps and were at-
tracted to the many creole girls that
inhabit the area They are said to
have been free in escorting the ere-
the nation in service in the serious
emergency by which we are now
confronted.” The committee took
the position that “Democracy must
• be had in reality as well as the-
ory,”
participating in the Regional Con-
ference which was held in Mineral
Wells, from January 4 to 10 were:
J, D. Gross, field executive in
Dallas, and Lewis Watte, field
scout executive in Houston, who
were among the forty scout ex-
ecutives of Region Nine.
Mr. Gross received a reward for
making all of his objectives for
the year of 1841, and Mr. Watts
received the first degree of the
scout executives.
Remember Pearl Barber
SCHOOL TO BEAR HER NAME
To honor the memory of her untiring and unselfish ef-
forts to develop the educational program in Houston and
Texas, it was announced this week that for the first time in
Houston history a school will bear the name of a woman
when Highland Heights School becomes Mabel B. Wesley
School.—(Story on page one)
CME'S Warn That
Peace Must Be More
“HEALTH IS
WEALTH”
Than Mere Armistice
JACKSON, Tenn.—(ANP)—A report by a special com-
mittee at the annual meeting of the Executive Committee of
the CME board of education here this week said:
"By far too many people in responsible positions think
only in terms of cessation of armed hostilities in speaking
of peace, the more overt and easily
obvious horrors and brutalities
from which we all recoil. We fear
that too many who shall sit about
th. peace table when that hour
comes shall be thinking chiefly, if
not entirely, in such terms."
Bishop W. Y. Bell Cordele, Ga.,
a ranking member of the commit-
tee, observed in his contribution
that "But peace, to be peace, must
be more than a mere armistice."
He pertinently asked “What peace - ______________________
can there be while injustice flour- ling may be available and effort be
ishes anywhere in the earth among
any social or economic classes, na-
tions, religious or racial minorites.
or over overpowered and unjustly
exploited majorities?”
"It betokens enlightenment,”
Bishop Bell said, "to think in terms
of justice, fairness and humanity
with regard to the possessor and
the non-possessor nations, but
clearer enlightenment demands
equal justice, fairness and human-
ity alike for hitherto possessor, non-
possessor and possessed peoples—
the haves, have-nots and the had!"
Prof. W. A. Bell, Birmingham,
said “we are definitely convinced
that our nation will not be able
to utilise Ite fullest resources in
manpower in the present crisis
unless and until the college, for
Negro youth are in position to
utilise their facilities for specal-
ized training in national defense
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MUSTEROLE
as grand keeper of records and ex-
chequer; Atty, James E. Scott.
Washington realtor, who retired
atfer three terms as grand pole-
march; Elder W. Diggs, Indianapo-
lis, one of the founders of the fra-
ternity and for six years grand
courses and allied areas.”
After citing that, “information
reaching us relative to colleges for
Negro youth are unable to setup
and operate courses in training for
the national defense because of the
provisions and restrictions under
which such training is authorized,"
Prof. Bell said. "We urge that im-
mediate steps be taken to make
possible training for defense in all
Negro colleges where such train-
made to permit Negro youth to
make their best contribution to
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"THE JAPS MIGHT AS WELL
HAVE ATTACKED”-OUR MAN
ALEXANDRIA, La. —"The Japs
might have well been attacking as
far as I was concerned. I ducked,"
thus wired a reporter for this paper,
who happened to be near the scene
of action. Some of his observations
on the beastly affair follow:
Alexandria has a considerable
number of friendly whites who
resent the riot.
Many claim their business is be-
ing hurt by restricting the Negro
soldiers from the city.
There is almost completed a sixty-
two thousand dollar USO center for
Negro soldiers, manned by a full
and capable staff. The center is one
of the nation’s finest. High army
officials are said to be here from
Washington investigating the situa-
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polemarch Robert E. Lewis, Chica-
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ole beauties around town, having no
elements of the racial prejudices
that typify Alexandria.
Whites resented this and called
upon Negro leaders to assist in put-
ting an end to it.
Most of the soldiers involved in
the brawl are accredited as being
from the north, making them
longed-for-prey by the race-baiting
whites that make up the nordic cit-
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Capitol e
cident occurred when Tyler was
enroute to this city Dec. 49 to visit
his relatives, Mr, and Mrs. Robert
A. Cole.
According to Tyler’s story, 30
students left Nashville to spend the
holidays in Chicago, but Tyler and
his roommate, Roscoe C. Bryant
Jr., of Tulsa, Okla , missed the
train, and had to make connections
with it later at Evansville, Ind. The
two young men questioned Morris
regarding the whereabouts of the
students who had left the train and
gone into the station.
Morris is reported to have said,
“I'm not interested in your people,
so get the hell outs here.”
With the return of the group to
the train, Tyler was approached by
Morris in the vestibule of the coach
and without warning knocked
down. Before anything could be
done, Morris fled to the next coach.
John Arrington, Harvey Proctor
and Roscoe Bryant took Tyler in
the coach where Morris had seated
himself with Conductor Sears and
asked for an explanation for the
attack to which Morris declared
"I’ll explain' and dealt Tyler an-
other hammer-like blow to the jaw,
breaking it.
No attempt by Conductor Sears
was made to restrain Morris, but
he wired ahead to Terre Haute to
have a physician meet the train
with four policemen to arrest Ty-
ler. Police refused to arrest Tyler
after hearing the facts of the case,
but two of them rode to Chicago
with the students to prevent trou-
ble.
Upon arrival in the city, Dr. Ed-
ward Beasley was secured by the
Coles, to examine the student’s jaw,
which had swollen almost twice its
size. The doctor's examination re-
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vealed that his jaw was badly
splintered, deafness had set in the
left ear, and the sight of his left
eye was impaired. He was rushed
to Provident hospital where he re-
mained 10 or more days for treat-
ment. Tyler returned to school last
week, but is still under th* care of
physicians at Meharry hospital,
near Fisk's campus.
Claim agent for the railroad, H.
B. Wise, sought to compromise the
case by acknowledging the miscon-
duct of the brakeman, but offers
for an out-of-court settlement were
turned down by Atty. James B.
Cashin, who represents Tyler.
Name Catchings
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courthouse to be qualified as De-
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also received notice from the sch-
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tax in the school system. Mr.
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