The Informer and Texas Freeman (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 3, 1942 Page: 3 of 20
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THE INFORMER, SATURDAY;OCTOBER 3,1942
PAGE THREE
Love Slayer Of Longview Soldier Sentence
Says .
Sergeant Fathered
Her 3 yr. Old Child
Call To Arms Ends
Saga Of Devil Boy
To Expert Printer
Dentist's Wife Buys Bonds
At Great Lakes
LAWTON, Okla.—(ANP)— Sarah
Nash, 23, who shot and killed Sgt.
Clarence Patterson, stationed at
Fort Sill, was sentenced to three
years in the state penitentiary last
Friday. The sentence started Mon-
day, The soldier was slain Sept.
6. He 'was a native of Longview,
Tex.
William (Billie) Underwood, Jr.,
on of Mr. and Mrs. William Un-
derwood, Sr., of Houston who is
serving his country in the navy and
is stationed at Great Lakes, Illinois,
wishes his relatives and friends to
know he is progressing, and will
continue to do his part as a prog-
ressive American citizen.
Billie received his training in the
Houston Public Schools.
BE A DETECTIVE
Work home or travel. Experience
Unnecessary
PARTICULARS FREE - Write
Detective Geo. F. Wagner
2640 Broadway, N. Y.
Pleaded "Guilty"
The woman pleaded guilty to
charges of first degree manslaugh-
ter, The county attorney, Ralph
Cline, asked a four year sentence.
Her attorney, E. J. Conn, who came
here from Lufkin, Texas, to defend
her, requested a two year sentence.
The court compromised. She is to
get time off for her good behavior.
The young woman testified she
visited his commanding officers
at Fort Sill and they had prom-
ised to use their iufluence to have
him marry her so that her child
might have a legal name. She
said she promised them she would
give Patterson a divorce after the
marriage which she sought only
for the sake of her child.
Miss Nash said on the night of
the shooting, Patterson showed up
with a gun which she asked him
to leave with her until he was ready
to return to camp. He did this and
left for a round of the night sopts,
she said.
Shot In Scuffle
She went in search for him later
in the night, Miss Nash testified,
and the shooting followed when he
tried to wrest the gun from her.
There were no witnesses to the
shooting.
Migs Nash told the court she fin-
ished high school and has attended
college. Her attorney told the court
she came from a good family in
Texas.
An Italian-born Oregon stonecut-
ter contributed 1,500 pounds of fine-
steel stone-cutting tools to the local
scrap campaign.
Howard University
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AHD
ARCHITECTURE
Offers
Engineering, Science And Man-
agement - War Training Certifi
cate Courses
Sponsored By the U. S. Office of Education
OPEN TO MEN AND WOMEN
TUITION FREE-
COURSE
REGISTRATION DATE
1. ENGINEERING DRAWING (18 weeks) OCTOBER 5- 6
M. W. T. W. Th. F. S.—6:30 to 10:30 p. m.
Prerequsite: High School graduation with at
least two (2) years of Mathematics.
2. TOOL ENGINEERING (18 weeks) - " “
M. T. W. Th. F. S.—6:30 to 10:30 p. m.
Prerequisite: Three years of an Engineering
School Course of study or the equivalent in
training and experience. High school grad-
nates with creative ability and experience in
engineering drafting or shop practice or tool
and die making or machine tool operations
may be qualified for admission.
3. SURVEYING AND MAPPING (16 weeks) “ " “
M. T. W.—6:30 to 10:30 p. m., Sat. 1-5 P. M.
Prerequisite: High school graduation includ-
ing Trigonometry.
4. GEODETIC COMPUTER (14 weeks) - ""
M. and F.—7:00 to 11:00 p. m.
Prerequisite: Course in Geodetic Observer or
two (2) years college work in Mathematics or
the equivalent thereof in training and ex-
perience.
S. ELEMENTS OF MACHINE DESIGN (18 weeks) " " “
M. T. W. Th.—6:30 to 10:30 p. m.
Prerequisite High school graduation with at
least two (2) years Mathematics and some
experience in drafting.
6. ELECTRIC POWER MACHINERY AND
EQUIPMENT (18 weeks) "" “
M. T. W. Th. F.—7:00 to 10:00 p. m.
Prerequisite: High school graduation with at
least two (2) years Mathematics and funda-
mental knowledge of direct and alternating
current electricity.
7. ELEMENTARY ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS
AND MACHINERY (18 weeks)
M. T. W. Th.—7:00 to 10:00 p. m.
Prerequisite: High school graduation with al
least two (2) years Mathematics. Persons
with some practical experience preferred.
8. FULL-TIME DAY COURSE FOR JUN-
IOR PHYSICISTS AND PHYSICS
TEACHERS (24 weeks)
Prerequisite: Completion of at least two (2)
years of college work with one year of college
Mathematics and one year of college Physics.
Students with higher qualifications will be
admitted.
9. QUANTITATIVE CHEMISTRY (12 weeks)
M. W. F.—6:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. m.
Prerequisite: E.S.M.D.T. Course in Qualitative
Chemistry or one year of college Chemistry.
10. INDUSTRIAL ACCOUNTING (15 weeks)
T. and Th.—7:30 to 10:30 P. M.
Prerequisite: High school graduation with two
(2) years Mathematics and employment In
Accounting work of war industries. This
course is not open to Government employees
except those directly engaged in war pro-
Auction work.
OCTOBER 16th
OCTOBER 23rd
NOVEMBER 13tb
REGISTRATION
Room 28 in Douglass Hall, 6 P. M. to 9 P. M. on the dates
indicated. For further information, address
THE REGISTRAR
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C.
MRS. DENNIE MAE MILLER
Mrs. Miller, WAAC,
Typifies A Spirit
HOUSTON-The true spirit of that it “offered a broader oppor-
the Negro race was typified by
Mrs. Dennie Mae Miller, above,
wife of a Beaumont physician,
when she declared that the colored
race as a whole was eager and will-
ing to do their share in furthering
the war effort of our country in
any way possible; by enlistment for
active or noncombatant duty, as-
sistance in organizations designed to
aid in important work to be done
at home or the various other means
of defeating the enemies of De-
mocracy.
Mrs. Miller was among the
score of women,' both white and
colored, who were enlisted in
the Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps at the U. S. Army Re-
cruiting Station in Houston
last week.
She is at present a member of
the American Woman's Voluntary
Service at Beaumont, and has been
active in organizing and promoting
the work of that organization a-
mong her race in that city. She is
especially interested in civilian de-
fense through chemical warfare and
is now chairman of the motor
corps, which she organized a few
months ago.
Broader Opportunity
Mrs. Miller was prompted to en-
list in the WAAC due to the fact
tunity to do more for my country.”
she plans to ‘interest other women
of her race in enlisting, she declar-
ed.
“There is an urgent need for
colored women because of the fact
that reserve WAAC applicants are
being used so rapidly,” Lt. Col
Chase P. Kirkpatrick, commanding
" officer of the Houston Recruiting
Station, has announced.
No proof of formal education is
necessary.. Principal requirements
are that applicants be able to pass
a simple mental test, be physically
sound and between the ages of 21
to 45. Applicants should' apply at
the Houston Recruiting Station, 23Z
Old City Hall Building, where they
will be interviewed.
By J. Don Davis
John Brown will go into
training to join the fight on
the Axis Friday. That line
won’t mean much to you un-
less you read the rest of this
story.
It was a little over four
years ago, they tell me, that
a little stiff-faced boy showed
up around the plant and was
assigned the none too glori-
fied task of stuffing papers. In
those days the big rotary press was
printed in two sections on that
darling old iron girl, Betsy. A spe-
cial crew had to be maintained to
put the two sections together.
Steps Up A Notch
The little mean looking fellow
went about his task as if it was
the biggest assignment in his youth-
ful life. Then they needed another
man to help with the work of run-
ning the old press.
Still with that unconcerned, mean
look, Brown stepped up a notch and
by the time we became a part of
these journals he could do a fair
job of running it alone. That he
knew its mechanism is definitely
ascertained by the fact that on two
or three occasions I teamed with
him and we got out some badly
needed extra copies. How he was
able to achieve the feat with me
as his only help is one of those
mysteries I’d rather blow off a-
bout than try to solve'.
Work slackened on the press
and it looked like the shelf for
the kid, but a person was need-
ed to play the printer’s devil
role of replacing linotype slugs
marred by errors with correct-
ed ones. If you have ever been
around a print shop you know
it's no fun to wear the devil
title. He went about it as re-
ligfousty as I did, when an edi-
tor with a kind heart for the
poor took a deep breath and as-
signed me to my first story.
The devil role brought Brown
in contact with all of the works
that make the paper click. He
watched, studied, and learned. With
his heart in his mouth he was even-
tually assigned to make up a page
of type. That was the crowning
event in any printer’s devil's life.
What, a whole page in the paper
made up by him!
Broad-minded and fair—there are
many other things that could be
written about the chap who never
had a formal day of training in print-
ing in his life. Much has happen-
ed between his start at the bottom
and his rise to the top. He stands
as a challenge to the products of
the colleges and universities. He
has set a dizzy pace ... a pace
that many have started but few
have kept,
Sad Event
It's kind of sickening to think
that next week Brown will not be
there to place that seemingly in-
significant piece of type in a hole
that “makes” the issue, to expedite
time by doing it as we usually do
while I am at ahother task. It
seems like the breaking up of a
major cog in a machine that has
clicked on the same cylinder over
a period of years.
As I write this, full grown and
married, Brown is assembling what
could prove his last type. Deter-
mination is written all over that
face. Every page he puts together
for this issue must be good.
Ena Of The Trail
It's like losing a right hand and
were he headed anywhere but to
Uncle Sam I'd be an envious char-
acter, but as it is we are all hop-
ing for Brown's return. We are los-
ing a good man and a great kid . . .
a kid who blazed a trail on his
ability to take it. Uncle Sam is
getting a good soldier . ..a soldier
with unlimited possibilities ... a
soldier who might rise from, that
private role to any heights pos-
sible.
MRS. C. L. BARNES, wife of Doctor Barnes, prominent Houston
dentist, adds to the ever increasing number of investors in the world’s
best bargain. War Savings Bonds, by purchasing one of the $1,000 denom-
ination. Arrangements for the sale were made through the Harris County
War Bonds Division.
Mrs. Barnes Is shown receiving the bond from Henry Grayson, chair-
man of the county Negro division promoting the government’s War Sav-
ing program.
Sales were advanced on the same day when James Davis bought
$314.50 worth of bonds before leaving for the navy.
Give Some Guns
To Boys At Front
Old flatirons, lawnmowers, wash
pails and stoves are important in
the all-out scrap metal drive con-
ducted through October 17.
Take a look at what gome of these
lowly, much-walked over things can
do to help win the war:
Old flatiron
30 hand grenades
Electric iron
five 37-mm. anti-aircraft shells
Lawnmower
six three-inch shells
Refrigerator
12 .45-caliber submachine guns
Wash pall
Kitchen sink
Large ash can
25
three bayonets E
three-inch shells
.30-caliber rifles 4
Set of skid chains
20 .37-mm. anti-aircraft shells "
Old kitchen stove
10 four-inch shells ;
Now start looking and get scrap
metal together and turn it in and
help keep our war production plants
booming and turning out shells,
guns, bayonets and tanks!
Finished -
Alton D. Harris, honor man, 12
Camp Robert Smalls, U. S. Naval
Training Station, Great Lakes, Illi-
nois.
Charges Wife
With Bigamy
Houston.—Mary Smith, alias
Ragan’s court last week when her
husband, Dread Edmonson, learn-
ed that she was also married to
Sylvester Stevenson, and left her,
according to police records.
The report said Edmonson mar-
ried Mary Smith on Sept. 30, 1941.
He lived with her until two months
ago when he is said to have found
out that she was married to
Stevenson.
Stevenson stated, according to
the police record, that he married
her Feb. 4, 1940, and lived with
her until March, 1940, when she
left him. The record said the wo-
man used the name of Alma Effie
Mary Smith when she married
Stevenson, and Mary Smith when
marrying Edmonson.
ATTENDS DISTRICT
CONVOCATION
Mrs. Mary Wright, of Camilla,
Texas, sister of Mrs. Inez Constance,
2005 Deschaumes street visited last
week attending the district convo-
cation.
Her first day was spent with her
sister and niece, Mrs. Constance
and Mrs. Warren, and entertained
with a lovely dinner. Elder Jones
of Cammilla, Texas was present
also. Fried fish, with creamed po-
tatoes, spaghetti salad, pork roast,
beef roast, candied yarns, rice, rolls,
jello with crushed pineapples and
ice cream was served.
Mrs. Wright visited her friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Barnes at the funeral
home. She had dinner with Mr.
and Mrs. Hector.
Parked Car Hit,
Two Are Hurt
HOUSTON—Changing a tire at
2 a.m. was disastrous for Johnnie
Cotton, 30, and Verneth Sanglin,
21, when their car was struck by
another fast moving car allegedly
belonging to James Thompson, 21
years old Sunday, who was arrest-
ed Sunday by deputies and charged
with failure to, stop to render aid.
Cotton sustained a fractured skull,
shock and possible internal injuries,
and Sanglin was badly shaken up
with minor injuries.
According to Chief's Deputy An-
gus .Morrison, there were four oc-
cupants of the car Thompson was
driving, all of whom abandoned
it and fled following the accident.
Serious injuries were sustained
by Dan Levi, 22, who lives at 2717
Wipprecht street, when he was
riding his bicycle at Dowling and
McGowen Thursday night.
A lacerated right arm and bruises
were his chief injuries.
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500 Attend
Kelley Courts
Ceremony
The memorial and unveiling
ceremony held at Kelley Courts
Sunday evening was attended by
more than 500 people. Prof. Nat
Q. Henderson, in his own way, ex-
tolled the many good qualities of
A. K. Kelley, Rev. John D. Moore,
gave a wonderful discourse on how
the colored people became the first
group to get a housing project in
the city of Houston.
The memorial address was given
by Pastor McKean and will be
remembered by all. He led the song
"Servant of God Well Done.” The
sum total of his address was: To
live in the hearts of those left be-
hind is not to die." -
The unveiling of the picture was
the crowning part of the service.
Mrs. Louise Robinson Johnson
made the speech presenting the
picture, and Mrs. Janie Kelley, the
trusted daughter-in-law of Mr.
Kelley, raised the .veil from the pic
ture. She made appropriate re-
marks for the family.
The acceptance on the part of
the Housing Authority was made
by Judson W. Robinson, manager
of Kelley Courts. The acceptance
on the part of the tenants was
made by a member of the Tenant’s
Association. Sutton Batteau, H. P.
Carter, manager of the Cuney
homes made the opening remarks
representing the Houston Housing
Authority. Prof. R M. Catchings,
a Deacon of the Mt. Zion church,
and well known to all Houston,
served as master of ceremonies.
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