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—NO. 4.
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1940
PIUWI
Races Youngest
Candidate Holds
On To First Place
HOUSTON.—For the first time since the contest opened
first place has been, held for, two successive weeks by the
same person, and Theodore Hogrobrook, the youngest person
in the race, is the man who is leading for the second week
with 151,500. votes. H. M. Morgan, the eagle of East Texas,
is second with 60,500 votes. Hobart =*=
Taylor, the slow starter has churned
up to third place with 45,000 votes.
Mmes. Coleman, has dropped to
fourth place with 20,000 votes. L.
B. "Swifty” Davis has fifth place
with 11,500 votes.
1 There are still many votes avail-
able for the candidates which have
not yet been assigned to anybody.
There ara, also many people who
say that they are still going to sub-
sor’be before the contest is over.
It’s difficult also to tell whether or
not any of the candidates are hold-
ing out large blocks of votes. But
taking the race on its face, it looks
like Hogrobrook is running the very
heart out of the rest of the candi-
antes.”- V
. We would like to have the gen-
eral‘public remember that the sub-
scription will help in establishing
this press and,all of those who
are interacted in helping in the es-
tablishment of this-press can do so
- now, at a time when it will be ap-
preciated, by subscribing. Subscrip-
tions can be sent directly to the
aercomee or can he turned in through
real speed.
What will another week show in
this contest? 1
THE HONOR ROLL
f
that
the
• hsie
sneepi to water
what they pro-
This Honor Roll consists of the
people who believe in Negro
leadership and who are inter-
ested in the growth and the ex-
pansion of a strong paper. They
have shown their interest and
have won places on this Honor
Roll by subscribing for two years
or more to The Informer papers,
in order to help to build a bigger
press and make more jobs for
Negroes. They represent the peo-
ple who do not merely wish for
Negro, progress but who do some-
thing about it.
The Honor Roll this week, in
the order in which the subscrip-
tions were taken out, is as fol-
lows’: '
1. J. W. Rice
2. Percy Foreman
3. G. A Crawford
4. Mack H. Hannah
1 ITE Yeager
1a E S on
Folarea Carnegie Library
and Robin st.',
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Annual Subscription......i
2 Years Subscription ........ $4.75
6c City; 7c EX
r
>nze Governor
mold naidee, llwho still hasn’t
ot above the ground, told an In-
ormer reporter. Saturday that he
3 vas going to win the race, that he
was a dark horse, and sure to win.
1 It was also noticeable in Dallat that
there was much sentiment for Mme.
# Coleman and manyt’ people were
saying that they were going to sub.
scribe with her. We heard one man
ay that he was goingto take out
wo subscriptions for two years and
1 give all of the votes to Mme. Cole-
man. Evidently, something hap-
bened. to delay the gentleman or
le. changed his mind because those
- votes didn’t reach the office before
closing, time thia week. .
. Lite need be said about Hogro-
brook's race because Y the figures
show for themselves. “Swifty” Da-
eis campaign manager has been
calling from Longview to check on
the campaign and it may be that
there to some hidden funds in that
section and they are waiting to
pounce out on the leaders and
sweep in front. Neither can anyone
count H. M. Morgan, the eagle of
East Texas, out in any race that he
enters. Morgan, is an experienced
campaigner and as foxy as they
come. He has also had experience
with! State leadership of organiza-
tions and can appreciate the ad-
vantage of being the Bronze Gov-
ernor. Well, there are factors on
any tide and it’s hard, to tell now
what may happen in the race but,
as we look at it, we see Theodore
Hogrobrook showing his heels to
the pack and if he keeps the stride
the jack and if he keeps the stride
that he is going, the other contest-
ants will have to get up and show
4-526*2:
13 Joseon J. Rhoads
14. Dr. Theima Patten-Law
15. Dr. P. W. Beal
16. Dr. B. J. Covington
17. W. Davis ,
18. O. K. Manning
19. M. W. Shank
20. Hobart Taylor
21. Mrs. G. M. Farmer
22. L. H. Spivey
23. El Dorado Ballroom (C. A.
Dupree)
24. Arthur S. Hames
% 25. John Codwell *
26. Sid Hilliard
27. Dr. J. G. Gathings
28. Dr. F. H. LeGall
29. Blanche Jackson
30. Fred Johnson
31. W. E. Miller . .
32. Y. M. C. A. (Colored
Branch)
83. M. W. Dogan
34. Mrs. P. V. Williams
35. Rev. T. J. Goodall
38. Inez Hogrobrook
3T. H. M. Morgan
38. L. L. Lockhart
39. Wilbur Woodruff
40. W. E. Lee
41. MR. Laurence Griffith Pratt
42. H. S. Davis
43. Dr. J. S. Douglass
44. I. L. A. Local No. 1512
(C. A. Harris, President)
45. Holmes Cleaners
46. Mrs. B. Jefferies
47. Alfred Angel
48. Clara Rhone
40. Herbert S, Ammons
50. Clyde Blakley
■ 51. Madison-Minor Funeral
Home N 7.
52. Samuel L. Payne
53. Mrs. Mabel Wesley
54. Lewis Jones
55, W. t. D. Johnson
56. J. E. Robinson
57. dunios. Chamber of
58. Charlie Porter
59. Psi chapter of Iota Phi
Lambda sorority
60. Rev. J. 8. Scott
Ethiopia
Ready To
Attack
According to reports picked
up in America over short
wave radio, Haile Selassie, de-
posed Emperor of Ethiopia,
is ready to strike at Italy’s
Fascist ‘avaders. Already well
armed Ethopian armies are
said to be on the march and dealing
■ serious blows to Italian communi-
cation lines. .
In a broadcast .over the Columbia
Broadcasting System Wednesday
right, Linton Wells, traveler, lec-
1, turer and journalist, said the Lion
of Judah had established head-
quarters in Egyptian Sudan and had
received many Ethiopian chieftans,
who have remained loyal to his
cause during h’s exile in London.
According to Wells, Selassie gave
these chieftans large sums of the
. Italian Lira, which to the official
" money of Ethiopia. This says Wells,
is to "buy” Ethiopian leaders who
are presently in the Fascist camp.
They were also given huge quanti-
ties of arms to return to Ethiopia
with, over secret trails never tra-
versed by white men. Both arms
. and money were furnished by Eng-
. land. A
To suppliment the arms and
money England is sending into
Ethiopia, a sar idron of R. A F.
pilots who are being dispatched to
, join the Ethiopian armies in their
attack on Italian armies and out-
1 posts. Wells was in Ethiopia at the
1 Sisiomith
pany’ their courage, which all but
routed: the Italians untU they re-
sorted to the use of poison gas when
they first invaded the African
Kingdom.
It was also pointed out that II
= READY TO STRIKE
was reported as being ret
---. HOUSTON.—Death has taken one
motord vs.' Roon
ase is back in .
un again, anter
: for the T. T.
Davis, et al,
ge Hannah’s
Civil Court
of Third Ward’s and Houston’s most
valuable citizens' in the death of
Carl Lott, 52, .3233 Beulah street,
who died at his home last Monday
Light.
Mr. Lett’s death came as a sur-
prise to the whole city and especial-
ly to Third Ward, his community,
in which he has played such a large
part in building.
MRS. IS THE NAME
This choice morsel of femininity is the recent Mrs. Julius
P. Carter, the former Miss Carmeta Carr, young Houston
socialite whose quiet week-end marriage to Julius P. Carter,
photographer for The Informer, has created much social
interest. This young couple plays a prominent part in
younger Houston’s smart set.
rter Hears
Women Tell
ick Stories
HOUSTON—Two colored women sat in Captain George
C. Peyton’s office last Wednesday morning, in the presence
of an Informer reporter, and told with shameful countenances
how they had been viciously raped by two young colored
men they identified' as L. C. Cross, 21,1932 Briley, and Leon
Washington, 19,” alias “Contractor,”
2809 Rusk avenue. .
The allleged . savageness of the
two young men claimed that-they
had picked last Tuesday night as a
time to rove the streets of Third
Ward in search of innocent prey.
Both ladies said that they were at-
tacked by the young men on the
same night, last Tuesday.
According to Emma Morris, 35,
3504 McGowen, she was returning
home last Tuesday night from a
trip to a friend’s house who lives on
the corner of Sampson and Pierce,
and as she came into the 3400 block
of Webster street, a man walked up
behind her and grabbed her. She
said he hit her a few times and then
threw her down and attacked her.
She claims she made a break and
got free. She stated that she was
suffering from a wound made by a
brick where she was hit oh the
back of her head. ,
Police Officers, Irwin and Clark
state that they immediately took up
the search for the alleged assailants
NAACP Files Suit TO
Secure Equal Pay For
Louisville Teachers
LOL ISVILLE, Ky.—A suit to compel the local school
board to pay salaries to Negro public school teachers in this
city equal to salaries paid to white teachers doing similar
work, was filed here Thursday, December 5, by Attorney
Prentice Thomas in behalf of Miss Valla Dudley Abbington
and other teachers, according to an ---------------------------
announcement made today by the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People which
is handling the case.
Decision to file the suit, which is
being brought in the United States
. district court for the western district
of Kentucky, was determined by a
local teachers’ group and a citizens’
committee, following a hearing be-
[ fore the school board, December 3.
At this hearing, which was crowded
with teachers, many of whom had
to stand, John A. Miller,’ board
chairman, made it plain that no
. monies would be added to the 1941
education budget in order to equal-
ize salaries during 1941.
A dramatic moment was reached
during the hearing when Miller, ob-
viously seeking to intimidate the
teachers, asked the crowded board
room how many teachers were pres-
ent Without a moment’s hesitation,
the teachers raised their hands for
all to see.
Without answering Miss Abbing-
ton’s petition, the board chairman
sought to forestall further action by
getting the teachers to accept equal
izattan of salaries over a five-year
a general assault on Italians
country. The Non of-quumm yrer
receiving the unlimited support of
England and is said to have an army
of two hundred thousand well armed
troops under the command of gen-
erals loyal to him. 4
__snubs rlary dimerentiais would
ww..i h Weakoniy whs. 12, :
IPmmnnne . of Mayor Joseph D. Scholtz,” he point-
ed out “said I might quote him here
or anywhere as favoring elimination,
not only of this discrimination, but
in regard to any salaries.”
differentials would
Appeals’ in Galveston had re-
irsed and remanded the case to
e lower courts for further ection.
he hearing, which was scheduled
or this week, will be heard next
Thursday in Judge Hannah’s court.
The case gained notoriety when
he Roosevelt Davis faction sought
a have Rev. T. T. Bradford ousted
s pastor Of ML Olive Baptist Church
in the-basis of an election return
onducted last September by R. R
Even to the night of his deaths, at the first report of the alleged
Mr. Lott was a devoted member in
the “plifting of his community, navy
ing attended the Third Ward Civic
meeting on the night of his death.
After the “meeting he went ho me
and died, later that night.
The life of Carl Lott reads like
fiction in that he started from
scratch and lived to operate the
first Negro nursery and florist shop
in the city. Mr. Lott, seeing the vai-
ue-and the possibilities in his chosen
vocation, urged his son to sturv
toward the nursery business and
Lent Carl Lott, Junior, to Tuskegce
(See LOTT, Pare 3)
rapists’ activities but it wasn't until
the young men had allegedly made
their second attack that the officers
arrested them. DY 9
The second attack of the night
was against 21-year-old Mahalie
Ward 2407 Dennis, who told officers
that she was standing in front of
Noah’s Ark, 2400 Pease, waiting for
her boy friend to meet her so that
they could get some victrola records,
when the two young men came up
to her and grabbed her on the spot,
about 10:30 Tuesday night, and at-
tacked her in the Shadows of Noah’s
(See REPORTER, Page 2) ....
of Aldermen to find the funds neces-’ -
sary to remove the differential.
In her petition. Miss Abbington, a
high school teacher, states that she w
is a graduate of Michigan State
Normal College, has taken summer
courses at Columbia and ■ Michigan /
universities, and has taught for the
past ten years in Louisville. Her
salary is 81,490 a year, while the
salary paid to a white teacher doing ,
similar work is $1,750, according %
to the present salary schedule op-
erating in Louisville.
“The practical application of this %
salary schedule,” according to the
petition. "U and will be to pay all
Negro teachers 85 per cent the
salary paid white teachers with equal /
qualifications and experiences and/
performing the same duties, because
of race or color.
The NAACP attorneys seekpun’
have the court issue an injunction)
to restrain the Louisville school /
board from continuing to operate -
under this salary schedule, on the
ground that it constitutes a denial
to Negro citizens of the equal pro-
taction of the laws guaranteed by
the fourteenth amendment to the
kart Of th* Association’s MUM
-==
sett K ‘.’EEL. at
Duca will not be able to send aid
to his troops once the Ethiopian
attack gets fully underway. On the
Grecian front his troops are on the
run. The English have opened an
offensive in Africa and their lines
around Sidi Berani have been cut.
To add to the woes of the Italian
leader, there is discontent on the
home front and Hitler has labeled
Germany a Socialist state, suggest-
ing a closer tie with Moscow. Such
a tie can never be to the best in-
teract of Italy. So distreasing is the
wave of discontent in Italy that
Mussolini has removed Marshall
Pietro Badogolio, the man who
saved his hide in Ethiopia. Chief of
the Italian staff.
Marshall Rodolpho Grazziana,
head of the Italian forces in Africa,
is rated Italy’s second best soldier
and its best desert strategist. Should
England be successful in its attack
on, his forces it would just about
leave Italy leaderless and pave the
way for England and her allies to
drive them out of the war.
It is predicted that within the
next ten days heavy fighting will
break out in Ethiopia and the Lion
of Judah will return < to assume
leadership of his people.
David Spurlock in a
Leads Informer,
Clark’s Contest
HOUSTON. —The Clark’s Credit
Store and Informer newsboy con-
test showed David Spurlock with
thirty points, the high boy for the
week of the 7th. Omar Denman was
the . next with 25 points, and Mat-
thew Valley was third with 20
points.
On the other hand, Omar Den-
man as high boy with 50 points
total gain for the period to date.
Allen Ford was the runner-up with
a total gain of 47 points. Many of
the boys have already won sprint
prizes of ties, sweaters, socks, et
cetera. Also a great number have
won the Clark’s Credit Store-
Informer canvas bags to carry their
papers’ in. These bags can be seen
on the streets now wherever the
boys 'go, with the large letters
showing Clark’s Credit Store-and
the Informer in two colors.
Leroy Massey, Leon Napper and
McKinley Johnson deserve honor-
able mention because they have
also done well over the total period.
Any of the boys may top the boys
mentioned before the contest ends.
The final stretch is on because the
contest will close December 21. This
means that we have one week to
go and all those who wish to win
(See CONTEST, Page 2)
ound
In Bayou
HOUSTON.—An emergency call
was sent in from Parker’s Dock to
the police department, stating that
a man’s body was seen floating in
Buffalo Bayou Police found a man
identified as Richard Singleterry,
36, Spring, Texas, floating around,
about, one half mile from the Port-
land Cement company.
The records say the body was
spotted by U. V. Duncan, 7929 Cap-
itol, near the Parker Brothers’ boat,
'•Virginia.”
Fingerprints of the corpse estab-
lished it as Singleferry, alias, Rob-
ert Brown, alias, "Hustler,” who
(See MAN, Page 21
Interracial
Comm. Heart
Dr. Ira D. Reid
HOUSTON—The Texas Commis-
sion on Interracial Cooperation pre-
sented to Houston an intellectual
feast Friday,- which was capped and
highlighted by the masterful address
of Dr. Ira De A. Reid on the sub-
ject of the Negro add the South. Dr.
Reid’s address was, factual logical
and most persuasive. The “19th an-
nual meeting will long be remem-
bered.
Also on the program was an ad-
dress by Victor H. Schoffelmayer,
agricultural editor of the Dallas
Morning News, on the subject of the
Negro and Agriculture. Mr. Schof-
felmayer was ill and could not be
present, but sent his paper which
was read by Merril Brown. Mr.
Brown did an excellent job" of both
reading the paper and interpreting
the matter to the audience in the
discussion period which followed.
There was an address by Carter
Wesley on the Negro and Politics.
In the evening session, there was
an open forum on the Negro and
Education, at which time there was
much lively discussion and informa-
tion was given to the meeting which
many of those present did not
dream existed regarding educational
systems in Texas. Mrs. Jessie Daniel
Ames came on from Atlanta and
was a moving force throughout the
session.
The Houston Glee club, under the
direction of Mrs. Shivery, rendered
some very enjoyable and well-pre-
pared music. But, as indicated above,
the treat of the day was the speech
by Dr. Ira De Reid on the Negro
and the South.
Thurgood Marshall spacial NAACP
counsel who came here for the hear-
ing told the board that the case
was being fought on the basis of
a denial of constitutional rights to
Negro teachers. Marshall cited a
recent United States Court of Ap-
peals decision, won by the NAACP
in the Norfolk, Virginia salary case,
which declared that the payment of
unequal salaries on the basis — of
color was unconstitutional. This de-
cision, he said, was sustained by the
United States Supreme Court
In a sly attempt to get over the
point that inclusion of the $52,000 in
the 1941 budget, which has not yet
been passed upon by the city, would
create racial antagonisms, MiUer
said:
"The money will have to come
off everybody’s salary, aU up and
down the line.”
The NAACP special counsel an-
swered immediately: "We are ab-
solately oppoaed to cutting the white
people’s or anybody’s salary. That
is why we are bringing suit. We
want to increase salaries, not cut
them.” Marshall then pointed out
that the board might ask the Board
NAACP To Hold
Election Sunday
The annual election of omeers
and executive committee members
of the Houston branch of the Na-
tional Association for the Advance-
mentr of Colored People will be
held at the East Trinity Methodist
Church, McGowen at St Charles,
at 3 p.m. Sunday, December 15. All
members are urged to attend and
take part
Rev. A A. Lucas will deliver the’
annual president's address and re-
ports on the association's activi- -
ties will make a short talk on the
"Early History of the NAACP." **
Members of the nominating com- ...
mittee are A W. Jackson,. Rev.”
John D. Moore, Sidney Hasgett, N
H. Fitch and Mrs. Lula White.
Those composing the auditing, com-. )
mittee are O. K. Manninggo-Mrey
Carter W. Wesley and William
1 Membership campaign reports
will be made prior to the election.
Strike
Many Negro Worker
local 138, A. of L. %
At the Borden plant, U
some colored men workit
inside but they were a
work, there in order toe
THINK OF THE
UNFORTUNATE
Have you given any thought to
the many unfortunate families
who, unless some good Samaritan
remembers them, must go with-
out something for Christmas? We
have arranged to receive gifts
from readers and friends to be
given to worthy families who are
in need. Gitte for children and
women are badly needed. This is
a chance to buy some Christmas
happiness. Send in your gift to-
day
Mother Of
Slain Man
Sought Here
HOUSTON.—A request has been
made by the Missing Persons Bu-
reau of the Houston Police Depart-
ment that Mrs. Ethel W. Allen get
in touch with Leroy Davis 2211
East Second avenue, in Galveston.
Davis was in Houston, Thursday,
locking for the lady to tell her of
the death of her son, Floyd Robin-
son, who was killed in a fight
Thursday morning.
Undertakers are holding the body
pending word from the mother.
Anyone knowing Mrs. Allen is
asked to get in touch with the
Missing Persons Bureau or Davis
in Galveston.
HOUSTON. — Milk! The fastest
paying farm product in the South
today has . suffered a tremendous
loss in this ares, as far as the farm-
er and the milk producers are con-
cerned, because of the milk drivers’
deadlock with the leading milk
dairies of the city.
Local 133, consisting of some 149
milk drivers, white and colored, de-
clared that they had asked their
employers, the Associated Milk pro-
ducers of the city consisting of
six or more of the leading city
dairies, for higher wages, plus the
commission granted to milk drivers.
They claim that their demands
were ignored and that they were
locked out. Negotiations started Im-
mediately between the union’s head,
and the producers’ head.
The Borden Milk company, locat-
ed at Texas and Chartres, is the
only local dairy employing some
colored milk deliverymen, and those
who claimed that they were locked
out with the rest of the union men
are Walter Simpson, Willie Hall,
Harold Hughes and Herman Wash-
ington.
When the pickets were tamed
around the various milk plants, in-
side workers of the dairies immedi-
ately walked out of the plants. The
walk-out affected hundreds of col-
ored men who earn their living
working inside the dairies. Most of
the colored workers on the inside
were union men, affiliated with
the
skeleton staff for the pro _
milk for hospitals and schools.
All of the city dairies are send
ing some milk to a central plant
which, takes the milk to schools and
hospitals. Another milk is being
sold fromthe docks of they plantsry
In a bulletin issued by "the 1
at their headquarters in Carpel
Hall on the corner of Chenever
McGowen, it was learned
union wishes to establish, a ’ M
$30 plus commissions for all
drivers. The producers in a’si
bulletin pointed out that they
now paying $22.50 to milk dr
and some make as high as fifty
lars per week.
In interviewing some of the
ored milk drivers, they seemed
to cooperate with the union,
some < the colored inside wo
ing out in order to help their e
ergafithe Iemea "%
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