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HOUSTON.—A group of the lead-
ing Negro citizens of Houston met
Thursday evening at 6 o’clock in
the Chamber of Commerce, at the
call of Henry, Grayson, director
of the movement, to sell stamps and
bonds in Harris County. Mr. Gray-
son had the group to organize on
the basis of sections and areas
throughout the county and appoint-
ed directors of each area.
In the First Ward, M. M. Pierson,
was appointed as director; in the
Third Ward, Prof. W. L. D. John-
son, director; in the Fourth Ward,
Mrs. Jessie Robinson, director; in
the Fourth Ward, Mrs. Jessie Rob-
inson, director; in the Fifth Ward,
Mrs. E. Ellison and Dr. F. H. LeGall;
Sixth Ward and West End, Dr. R.
H. Ward; Independence Heights, A.
Barnes, G. O. Burgess and E. W.
McCullough; in Harrisburg, Mr.
Curtis. director.
The directors and co-directors are
supposed to organize their respec-
tive agents in order to cover all
churches, all business establish -
ments, all organizations, and every
possible source or agency through
which' stamps or bonds can be sold.
Business places churches and others
who are able to do it, are asked to
in their communities. Employers
buy stamps and sell them to people
in their communities. .Employers
are asked to induce their employees
to subscribe for stamps or bonds
and let the money be deducted from
their payrolls. Mr. Grayson re-
ceived the enthusiastic support of
all present.
Among those present were: Miss
Ellie Alma Walls, O. K. Manning,
Prof. W. L. D. Johnson, Mrs. E.
Ellison, Rev. J. S. Scott, Dr. F. H.
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Subtle Flattery of an 1
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ense
LeGall, Mrs. Jessie Robinson, C. W.
Rice, Prof. W. L. Davis, Henry
Grayson and C. W. Wesley.
DRUGGISTS TO MEET
HOUSTON.—All retail druggists
in Harris County were called to
an emergency meeting at the
YMCA, Louisiana at Leeland. Fri-
day night, January 9, 1941, at 10:30
p.m. All drug stores throughout
this area closed at 10:00 p.m. in
order that all could attend this
meeting. .
Dr. Walter A. Coole, Medical
Director of the Harris County de-
fense program, who spoke for the
medical profession, stated that the
profession needed the druggists
help especially during this emerg-
ency and that they had been in-
corporated by Col. Ike Ashburn,
Civilian Defense Director for this
area, as a unit for Emergency Serv-
ice for Civilian Defense.
G. H. Perry Van Zandt, Director
of the Red Cross for this area, in-
vited the druggists to attend Red
Cross training classes so that all
drug stores could be designaed as
Red Cross Emergency Stations in
case of any emergency.
Grace Lallier of the Mading chain,
who is director of the sale of de-
fense stamps in drug stores in this
area, asked that all stores sell de-
fense stamps for the convenience of
their customers. ....
Lorenzo E. Kelly, Sr., and Hobart
O. Thomas, Sr., of the f orest Home
Drug Store, were the only Negro
druggists present. H. H. Willkie,
president of the Retail Druggist As-
sociation (white) who presided,
thanked Messrs. Kelly and Thomas
for their cooperation in attending
this emergency meeting.
DALLAS A. MARTIN, lone Ne-
gro national representative of the
R. C. A. Corporation, who is a
graduate of Lincoln University and
a former student of the R. C. A.
Institute, New York, is now visit-
ing Texas' colleges lecturing on
audio visual as sn aid to education.
HOUSTON.—Subject of a relent-
less manhunt that covered the en-
tire Southwest, three colored sol-
diers, a.w.o.l. from Fort Huachuca,
Arizona, were arrested in Houston
and Goose Creek Sunday for the
alleged murder of a white taxi
driver in Bisbee, Arizona.
Arrested by Colored Officer
J. C. Levice, arrested in Pelly of
the Tri-Cities area by N. T. Turner,
colored member of the Pelly police
force, is said to have confessed that
he saw two companions beat to
death the white taxi driver and
leave his body in a mesquite patch.
Levice was arrested in Oak Park
addition, colored residential section
of Pelly and turned over in the
custody of white officers who lodged
him in the Goose Creek jail until
he was picked up by San Antonio
officers for return to that city.
Charles Sanders, 21, and Grady
Cole, 20, named as the two accom-
plices by Levice, were arrested
here on leads supplied by Arizona
officials, and after making written
' statements, and were also turned
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FORMS PATRIOTIC UNION
HOUSTON.—A group of leaders
consisting of W. L. Davis, chairman.
Mess. . J. D. Bowles, R. V. Woods,
E. W. Green, I. B. Bryant, L. V.
Wakefield, D. A Hall, R. L. Isaacs,
F. W. Logan, S. A. Pleasants Jr.,
J. S. Scott; Misses Marjorie Ham-
mond, Betty Hamilton, and Mes-
dames A. P. Reed and Elsie Cof-
fey met last month and formed a
patriotic union to work for the
advancement of the National De-
fense Movement and tne integration
of Negroes in that movement.
The group plans to stimulate the
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Bishop Drive
In Full Gear
MARSHALL.—Bishop’s $50,000.00
Alumni Loyalty Campaign head-
quarters, set up in Dallas in Decem-
ber, have moved to Port Arthur and
Beaumont it was announced by
President Joseph J. Rhoads Mon-
day.
Prof. W. E. Sampson, principal of
the Lincoln High School, and Mr.,
Mack H. Hannah Jr., both promi-
nent citizens and Bishop Alumni in
Port Arthur will direct campaign
efforts in that city.
The kick-off luncheon will be
held in the Lincoln High School Fri-
day evening at 8 p. m.
The Beaumont Campaign will be
led by Professor Roy Fowler, teach-
er in the Hebert High School and
President of the Beaumont Bishop
club. The kick-off luncheon will
be Saturday evening at 8 p. m.
Special invitations from each di-
rector and news letters from the
Institution's President have been
sent to each of the more than 100
Alumni and former students, and
to a few of the College's closest
friends in the vicinity of the two
cities.
As previously announced funds
raised from these campaigns will be
used for building and campus im-
provements at the college.
over to San Antonio police Monday
morning.
Goose Creek officials, say Levice
signed a statement to the affect
that the three took "French Leave”
from the army camp Wednesday
night and spent the night in Mex-
ico. He asserted that they missed
revile the following morning and
decided to leave for home.
Working on the lead supplied by
Arizonia officials, San Antonio
police asked Pelly officers to be on
the lookout for Levice and to pick
him up for investigation.
; ‘ We made a deal with this taxi-
cab driver, after we planned to
take his cab away from him after
we was on our way, to drive us to
Douglas for $12.50,’ the statement
related.
“The cab driver bought us some
gin at a store, and we’all took a
drink, me in the front seat with
the driver, the other two in the
back seat.
“When we stopped on the side
of the road the two jumped on
the cab driver, Sanders hit him on
the head with the gin bottle. They
fought for about five minutes,
kicking and stomping him, and
they brought the cab driver, his
body limp, back to the car. I don't
know if he was dead or not, but
he never said anything after that.”
“The two dumped the body in a
mesquite thicket between Bisbee
and Douglas, Ariz., about 50 miles
east of Fort Huachuca, and then we
drove to El Paso, I drove part of
the way and bought all the gas and
oil. But I decided I waa going
to quit the two and come on home
by myself. I told them they'd get
caught before long. I don’t know
where they went, but I came on to
Houston, and to Pelly where I
went to see my sister.’
Working on the lead supplied by
Arizonia officials, San Antonio police
asked Pelly officers to be, on the
lookout for Levice and torpick him
up for investigation.
The colored officer knew him and
located him in the colored sections.
When asked about the slaying,
Levice is said to have told the of-
ficers he wanted to "toll the truth.”
Cole and Sanders were arrested
early Monday morning at the home
of Sanders’ uncle at 2601 Mills.
The slain taxi driver's blood
stained car was found near San
Antonio Sunday morning, where the
trio had abandoned it and caught a
freight train for Houston.
According to the story investigat-
ing officers say the soldiers told
them the brutal murder was practi-
cally committed with a bottle which
held gin the slain man had bought
for them at a country store in a
New Mexico town.
RAmS
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By Carter Wesley
purchase of defense stamps and
bonds and also contributions to the
Red Cross. The movement is pre-
dicted upon thre prongs: nahely: the
intelligent crusade, with a special
section headed by Dean J. D. Bow-
les; the economic front, headed by
Rev. F. W. Logan; and the moral
and spiritual front, headed by Drs.
S. A. Pleasant and J. S. Scott. The
Group got a head start on the other
organizations among Negroes and
is striving to keep the lead.
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In Hit-Run
Death Of Man
CHICAGO.—(ANP)-Loudly pro-
claiming he was being made a
victim of a "frame-up,” Dr. William
H. Harris, 46, south side dentist,
was led from an inquest hearing
last Tuesday after being ordered
held to grand jury on charge of
manslaughter growing out of an
automobile death. Earlier that day,
Dr. Harris had been arrested by
Lt. O’Donnell and Officers Wright
and Rapier after investigations
made by them pointed to Dr. Harris
as the man who had allegedly hit
and killed Gora Duson, 56, Christ,
mas night. x
According to Dr. Harris, his auto
bed struck a man but he claimed
that he had halted his car and
ascertained if the man had been
hurt. Finding him uninjured, but
a bit shaken, the dentist claims to
have gone about his way. How-
ever, testimony at Ine inquest by
an eyewitness to the incident, Mer-
rill Donoghue, general manager of
Smythe Furnituren compay, Evans-
ton, Illois, revealed that Dr.
Harris had refused to return to
the scene of the accident at first,
but later agreed to do so, and re-
turned in his auto in that direc-
tion. Donoghue, who followed the
dentist’s car, found that Dr. Harris
had not stopped, but kept .on go-
ing.
The accident had been put down
as unsolved by the police, when
Donoghue mentioned the incident
to a friend who in turn informed
ROOSTER FIGHTS MAN!
I know there are a great number
of people who will doubt that a
rooster and a man had a fight. But,
I saw with my own eyes a big white
rooster fighting with a mail carrier
in a yard on Court street, just off
Washington, Wednesday morning.
The mail carrier entered the drive-
way, to deposit mail. For some un-
known reason, the rooster attacked
the mail carrier and spurred him
on his leg above the ankle. The mail
carrier, pained, hurt and infuriated,
in turn attacked the rooster with
his feet. Naturally, the man won
and the rooster was finally kicked
over to the fence and up against
the fence until he was groggy. I
talked With the mail carrier and he
asked me, "Did you see that devil
spur me?” ?
I said, "Yes, and I saw you kick-
ing the devil out of him, too!”
He said, "I tried to kick the very
lights out of him. Why, the rascal,
spurring me like that!”
And then he rubbed his leg,
pulled up his trousers and showed
me where the rooster had spurred
him. The mail carrier went his way
and I drove on.
Just to keep the record straight
and to stop any skeptical guys from
calling me an unmitigated liar, the
mail carrier's name was O. C. Teal,
and I refer them to the gentleman
for verification. I never saw any-"
thing like it before and never
dreamed that a rooster would at-
tack a man, but I’m telling you
down in front and without any
apologies that there was a fight be-
tween a rooster and a man in this
year of our Lord.
COLD PRESS
§
I’ll be blest if there isn’t some-
thing always to plague a man who
runs a newspaper. This past week,
it was a cold cold press. Some of
you often in the winter complain
because the print is kind of gray
and doesn’t show up well. Well, it’s
always true that when the press is
cold and the ink is cold, it doesn’t
smear on the paper properly and
the paper is usually gray and the
print doesn't show well. This pass
week it was actually so cold in our
press room for a while Wednesday
night that we couldn’t turn the
press at all. We had to move in ex-
tensions of gas lines, seal up por-
tions of the pressroom and go to
other heroic methods to get the
press hot enough to even turn over.
The paper was late, the men had
headaches, the air was foul with
their curses and abuses of their lot,
nature, the press and people in
general. But that’s all a part of the
day’s work when you try to produce
a paper
§
PURE WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY
STAFF MEETING-
Well, week after next we will
have our annual staff mccting here
in the plant, consisting of all of
the key people that work in the
Informer group throughout the
state. All agents, managers and
supporters connected with the pa-
per are invited to the home base
January 24, for a drag-out program
and discussion together with fun
and banqueting. Don’t you wish
you belonged to The Informer
Informer
Lower payments
9.
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HI-YO SILVER:
group? Yes, we’ll argue, we’ll dis-
cuss, we’ll report, we’ll commiser-
ale, we ll eat and some will dance
and some will drink. But itll be 8
grand and glorious time when the
day shall have been finished. Some
will see others that they haven t
seen since the last annual meeting;
some will get a chance to come here
and visit friends that they havent
seen; and some who live in the
country will get to buy things in
the big store's perhaps, if they have
any money. Yes, sir, on the 24th all
roads will lead to The Informer
office from all over Texas.
§
DON’T SAY CAN’T - .
Herbert Kaufman once said: Im-
possibilities are merely the half-
hearted efforts of quitters. ’ When .
read that, I thought of the young
boy injured a few years ago so
that he has to lie in bed on his
back, who has succeeded in making
for himself a happy life .and who
furnishes cheer and good will to so
many people while he lies there,
with what most of us would count
as an eternal curse. I am thinking
of the great number of blind people
who have made lives for thrniselves,
with no eyes. ani. thus in what
would seem to be n permanently
dark world, have made lignt for
then selves. 1 am thinking of « man
who is deaf and dumb, who has
built a business that supports him-
self, attract more patronage than
any other business of its kind in
The ‘ty and which enables him to
send nis children to college. With
this nun is a deal and dumb wife
who also has con* b'te I to this
valia ■ deed. • am thinking of my
own Mother, who had three chil-
dren to rear with nobody to help
her except herself, and by sheer
will power even against the will of
her wayward boys, succeeded in
bringing them, to manhood and to
citizenship. And, I am thinking of
another widow in our day, who, in
the same predicament, has brought
three children to maturity, giving
them college education and other
facilities which makes them have
an equal start with o hers. Then,
when ; ou think of the people with
all their hands, all th ears, all
their sight and all their strength, .
with a whole world of opportuni-
ties about them and nothing to stop
them .whining and crying that they
haven’t had a chance and that
times are hard on them, you are
sort of inclined to believe that
when they claim that they can’t
find an opportunity, they should be
pern anently stamped with the quo-
ation from Herbert Kau’man above.
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THAT SCAMP, BYAKSl
I had a letter from Rufus G.
Byars, who visited Houston during
the early part of December. He was
genuinely sorry that I wasn’t here
so that he could point the butt of
one of his racy jokes at me. I was
glad that 1 missed his shafts but
really sorry that I missed the fi n
that we always -have when Rufus
Byars comes to town. He told me
in his letter, that he shot his best
ioke at Rev. A. A. Lucas, who was
among the guests at the smoker
which his sister, Mrs. Fannie Rob-
inson, had for him. I haven’t had
a chance to talk to Rev. Lucas
about it, but I’ll bet a pretty that
that joke was a lulu! When Byars
was down here before, he put all
Ask Better
Negro Schools
For Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss.—(ANP)—At its
recent annual meeting, the Missis-
sippi Conference of the Methodist
church, white, recorded its con-
viction that the state should pro-
vide better educational opportuni-
ties for its million Negro citizens,
and appointed a committee to con-
vey that conviction to the,
the superintendent of education, and
the members of the legislature.
The conference is composed of
several hundred preachers and
laymen and represents an organized
body of 80,000 Methodists, including
many of the most influential people
of the state.
CHAMPION-
(Continued From Page One)
ten, he was trying to pull himself
up for more. Every fan here was
glad Buddy didn’t succeed in get-
ting up. Nobody wanted to see Joe
commit mayhem until he dona the
uniform of Uncle Sam and mates
out his misery to the little yellow
faced cowards of Nippon, a job
Joe is longing for.
American Display
The fight was one of the shortest
in history, but nobody left grumb-
ling. What they missed in rounds
was made up in the greatest dis-
play of Americanism witnessed in
this troubled era.
Frank Fullam sent the boys out
right by reminding them that he
didn’t expect any trouble out of
them because they fought the Amer-
ican way. He was talking to a white
boy and a colored boy while Joe’s
people were busy fighting for a
chance to fight for their country.
They adhered to Fullam’s orders,
and when the last punch had been
tossed, only sportsmanlike remarks
were made by both contestanta,
who were riding the crest of a new
wave, . . . Blasting from the face
of America, a century of narrow-
minded reactionary attitude.
“Buddy to a brave, good boy,”
Joe said.
"I guess it will be left up te
father time to get him. He de-
serves everything the people gave
him,” Buddy said, evidently re-
membering the splendid ovation
received by the ring’s greatest
fighter when he entered the gar-
den tonight.
he was here, I. was in his city,
Washington. But we’ll remedy that,
because I'm going East again and I’ll
sure stop over to get some of his
good jokes in my system.
THE PRUDENT FAMILY-
Taxes are up, priorities are taking
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Brown,
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Blackma
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Gardner
Jackson,
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Johnson,
Poindext
Reeves,
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the police. The information was
kept secret by police officials until
the day of the inquest, at which
time Dr. Harris was arrested.
of our best raconteurs under the
table, and he did it so well that
none of them questioned it and all
of them admitted that he was the
i best. It just happened that when I erica.
effect, prices are rising and we are
obligated to send more stuff to
foreign -countries. It means that
there is going to be less for every-
body than there has been. The pru-
dent family will take counsel now
among themselves to waste less
food, clothing and other things, and
plan on buying less clothing, sup-
plies and other things which can be
deferred for 18 months or two years.
This is not a buyer’s market, mean-
ing this is not a time to buy. This
is a seller's market, meaning it's a
time to sell everything you oan sell
and get high prices and store the
money—or as much of it as you can—
away This question of saving means
saving in the kitchen, saving on
light, saving on gas which you turn,
out, saving on buttons and pins,
saving on food by plating gardens.
It means a down-to-the-earth, day-
by-day, and hour-by-hour saving
of everything, if you’re going to
get by with comfort and security
during the next year or so in Am-
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Marcella
Because of a revision in F.H.A.
payment schedule, our payments
were reduced. This saving is pass-
ed on to the purchasers of Clinton
Park homes.
$4.90 to $675 PER WEEK
$2500
Two of the smaller plans
DOWN ' can be bought for $12.50 -
• [down. Ask about them!
Within the past few days F. H. A. payment schedules on Title VI financing
have been revised, making the total payments lower. This difference is
passed on to the purchasers of Clinton Park Homes (even to those who
have already bought and agreed to pay the larger amounts.)
The saving is small in some cases, larger in others. Former $5.00 pay-
ments are now $4.90; former $6.35 payments are now $5.85; former $7.00
payments are now $6.75; etc. These lower payments make the purchase
of a Clinton Park home an even better investment than before. See them
now!
BUS SERVICE.
Saturday & Sunday
The necessary permits have not been received allowing regular scheduled
operation of the Clinton Park bus. But for the convenience of those who
want to inspect these homes the bus will operate from 9:00 in the morning
until 8:00 at night, Saturday and Sunday of this week. This service will
he FREE.
Here’s how to get there—Take the regular Houston Electric Co.’s Wayside
11ns (No. 68) from the corner of Prairie and San Jacinto to the end of the
line. The Clinton Park bus will meet every run at the end of the Wayside
line and take you to Clinton Park. This service is FREE-You can't pay
to ride on the Clinton Park Bus. All it costs you is the regular Houston
Electric Co. bus fare. Inspect Clinton Park this weekend.
TON PARK
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first time in any newspaper, with
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