The Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1940 Page: 3 of 16
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THE IN FORMER, SA
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1. Decesnes 1, 140 -
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t Active preparal
, the site of the lar
housing project in th _____
this week when the Interstate
Wrecking Company opened its field
office at 802 Nash, corner Chambers,
and announced g pre-wrecking sale
cf the 275 buildings to be wrecked
lion for clearing, confident that Continuation of the
brisk sales so far this week will ac-
Kt low rent
South began
and removed from the site.
The city is to be congratulated
upon the successful consummation
of this project by the Housing Au-
thority of the City of Houston, Tex-
as. The project is designated as
"Tex 5-4," and is embraced in the
territory bounded by Buffalo Drive,
Reiner, West Dallas, and GiUette
Streets.
Actual demolition cannot begin
until an official work order is is-
sued through the Housing Author-
ity of the city of Houston. In order
to expedite completion, the actual
time allowed for -clearing the site
will be short, and the Interstate
Wrecking Company expects to sell
most of the buildings before com-
mencing wrecking operations, and
the officials of 'this company feel
complish this purpose and make it
possible to conduct wrecking op-
crations speedily. Early prices are
aimed at this objective.
The wise experience of the of-
ficials of the Interstate Wrecking
Company assures capable handling
of that company’s portion of the
project The experience and help-
ful cooperation of these officials is .
available to building buyers.
The work provided in the de- ,
molition of buildings and clearing 1
the site, and in the construction of J
the new project in the slack season
of the building trades, will be very
welcome to labor. All labor em-
ployed in all stages of this project
will be paid in accordance with N.
L. R. B. regulations.
Decry Posthumous
Attack On Leader
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — (ANP) — Seething indignation
charactrized the session of the executive board of the Na-
tional Baptist Convention, Inc., meeting here last Wednesday
for the first time since the death of Dr. L. K. Williams
president of the great religious organization, as its member
uscussed the posthumous attack
wo Young
Women Try
Suicide Here
■ UPSTON.—Iwo young women at-
mpted suicide hire last week, and
.otb gave family trouble as their
San Felipe
Once A Lan
Down
• per week
Watches - Diamonds
Jewelry
LADIES WATCHES
$17.75
LADIES DIAMOND ,
RINGS
$9.75
Mrs. Edwards’
Car Is In Crash
HOUSTON.—Mrs. Annie G. Hall
Edwards, home demonstration agent
of Harris County, crashed into a
Chevrolet pickup truck on the West-
heimer Road, the first of the week,
when the driver of the truck care-
lessly turned in her path. Mrs. Ed-
wards, who was driving a ‘37 Ford,
got out of her car and the driver
of the pickup truck, who was white,
got out of his.
The driver tried to loud-talk Mrs.
Edwards and to hold her responsible
for the accident. Those who know
Mrs. Edwards can guess what hap-
pened. She gave the gentleman such
a complete dressing down and
tongue-lashing that he was speech-
less for a moment While he was in
that state, Mrs. Edwards mounted
her car, mumbling that she had her
work to attend to, and was off
and gone.
GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE
HOUSTON.—Howard Shaw, who
was recently charged with assault
to murder against Oliver Byrd, 2405
■ McGregor, was tried in Judge
Boyd’s court last Tuesday. He plead-
ed guilty to the charge and was
given a four-year suspended sen-
ast
TEXAS
Jewelry Co.
904 Capitol Ave.
For Your Cough
Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-
flamed bronchial mucous mem-
branes. Tell your dr
a bottle of Creomul:
derstanding you ran
quickly allays the c
to have your money
for C
it to sell you
with the un-
C the way it
or you are
SION
CHARLIE PORTER
OLD SUBSCRIBERS
CHARLIE PORTER, 810 Lakin St.,
has been a subscriber to the Texas
Freeman and The Informer since
1903. He remembers the time when
the paper was a small four page
folder, carrying very little news.
He remembers when it became a
larger paper and was printed in the
Western Newspaper Union shops
downtown. He remembers when The
Informer Publishing Company was
organized and established its first
plant to publish its own paper. He
remembers when the Company out-
grew the first Babcock press and put
n a Duplex. He remembers when
The Informer absorbed the Texas
Freeman.
Wednesday, Porter said that he
just wanted to come out to the plant
and have a look at that new press.
Having seen all of the old ones, he
ust couldn’t rest until he got a
look at the hew press so that his
picture of the growth of the organ-
ization could be complete. He begun
subscribing with C. N. Love, the
Editor of the Texas Freeman. For
awhile he subscribed to both the
Informer and the Texas Freeman,
until they were merged. Charlie
Porter is part and sinew of the
growth and development of the
plant, being in the roots of it and
having grown with it Logically his
name will be a fitting
name should be placed on the Honor
Roll of those who believe in Negro
progress. His name will be a fitting
part of the metal plate which will
serve as a cornerstone for the new
press. The Informer is proud of
Charlie Porter and his two year
subscription and would like some-
day to get a group of the old sub-
scribers to this plant and make a
picture of them and teii the people
about their development and growth
along with the Company.
Barbers Meet
HOUSTON.—The Houston Barbers
Club met last Tuesday night at the
Fashion Barber Shop, 611 West Dal-
las. W. R. Melton, presiding.
The club discussed the coming of
the bill which will be presented be-
fore the Texas Legislature concern-
ing barber rates and the sanitation
of colored barbershops.
It was stated by the president that
the Associated Master Barbers of
America, one of the largest barber
organizations in America, is behind
the Texas movement.
made upon their leader in a ser-
mon reported preached in New
York City by the Rev. A Clayton
Powell, Jr., pastor of Abyssinian
Baptist church of that city. Rev
Powell was charged with unethical
conduct by various ministers pres-
ent who had read the story of his
alleged intemperate utterance in an
eastern newspaper.
The executive board adopted a set
of resolutions extolling the work
and character of Dr. Williams and
expressing their unbounded confi-
dence in the man and their rever-
ence of his memory. At the same
time the group condemned in
corching language the views al-
leged to have been expressed by
Powell when, in a pulpit address,
he is charged with seeking to link
the name of Dr. Williams with the
unsolved murder of E. D. Pierson,
a former auditor for the Nations’
Baptist Publishing board of Nash
ville who was slain a dozen years
ago as he traveled through Indiana
to make a report to superior offi-
cers. Powell is charged with preach-
ing a sensational sermon in which
he struck at the dead man’s mem-
ory by innuendo and in which he
dragged the gruesome details of the
unexplained tragedy forth in de-
tail as he sought to link the name
of his own denomination’s depart-
ed chieftain to the event.
Bitter condemnation of Rev. Pow-
ell has been voiced by both min-
isters and laymen, not alone in
Louisville but in Chicago and his
own city of New York as well as
throughout the country wherever
the text of this attack had pene-
rated.
In New York City where the Bap-
tist Minister’s conference held a
memorial service for Dr. Williams
last Monday, leading pastors, though
not calling his name, branded the
young preacher as “unchristian”
and a "sensation seeker.” Rev. O.
Clay Maxwell, pastor of Mount
Olive Baptist church and an officer
in the National Baptist convention,
said that Powell’s alleged charges
were “without any foundation in
fact” and “unchristian and unwise.”
The conference then went on record
ENVIRONMENT
Create an environment for our children to live in—an environment in
which they can develop into the fine men and women we hope them to be
and find employment. " . <
As parents, we like to feel that we are supplying our children with
every necessity: food, clothing, shelter, medical attention and unstinted
devotion. We spend the best years of our lives sending them to school,
carrying them to church and watching over them while they develop from
infancy to adulthood.
When we stop there we have fallen short of our duty to them that
we most dearly love. We should create an environment where our chil-
dren can grow up to a useful life and lucrative employment by supporting
the institutions that are most likely to appreciate and employ them.
Spend your money with the Negro businesses of Texas—businesses op- •
erated by Texas Negroes and for Negroes of Texas.
EXCELSIOR LIFE INSURANCE CO. employs more Negroes than
any other institution operated by Texas Negroes. Every policy you take
with us helps to employ another man or woman.
HOME OFFICE
i 818 GOOD ST.
DALLAS, TEXAS
one <# the large-t local r-urch r
ganizations in the country, chal-
lenged Rev. Powell to produce n.
tacts, in a set of resolutions passer
last Mondcy, the conference wen
n record as follows:
1
“The Bapt st Ministers Conferener
f Chicago and Vicinity was great-
ly shocked by an aruel appears.
.1 the public press, credited to Rey
V Clayton Powell, Jr., and attack-
ing the memory of the late Dr. L.
C Williams.
"We do hereby invite Rev. Pow-
11 to come to Chicago at the ex-
bens? of the Chicago Baptist Min-
ister's Conference to give the defi-
nite facts and information upon
which he baaed the statement cred-
ited to him. We issue this invita-
tion to Rev. Powell because of our
profound respect for and apprecia-
tion of the matchless leadersmap and
unto rnished character of the late
lamented Dr. L. K. Williams."
The resolution committee was
composed of Rev. W. L. Petty, pres-
ident cf the state association, chair-
man; W. R. Jackson, secretary, H.
M. Smith, D. Z. Jackson, A. H. Reed,
J. T. Carr and J. W. Ward.
Is Victim
Of Thieves
HOUSTON-Minnie Frazier
re-
itives.
The two young women. Miss Al-
serta Harris, 25. 620 Robin Street,
llegedly drank some lysol about 6
% m. last Sa’urday; the other, M st
Ora Lee Glover, 30, 2607 St.
Charles, drank a bottle of lysol
about 10:30 a. m. last Saturday
according to police records.
Heart Attack
Proves Fatal
HOUSTON.—According to police
coords, James Allen, 76, 1000
Nagle, was found dead by Ralph
Pina, 16, white, 319 N Live Oak.
ast Saturday, at the foot of North
Live Oak Street.
Judge Macs held an inquest into
he death, and it was found out
hat the man had died of a heart
attack and exposure. He was found
o be the father of Rosie Lee Wil-
liams, 1009 Nagle, who identified
he body.
Says
Over
id
Fades Into Past
the Sam Realty Company, and fam-
e being evicted daily with n
HOUSTON—San Felipe Hill is a
lonely graveyard of vacant houses,
made so by the U. S. Housing Act
which condemned the section from
Buffalo Bayou to West Dallas, bor-
dered hv Crosby street.
Row upon row and street upon
street of empty, hollow holes gape
at the dead silence of the dark at-
mosphere as the hollow echoes of a
reminiscent era stands again in
the night on the hill that has been
called one of the oldest landmarks
in the city.
Slum quarters, the place has been
called, and so the Houston Housing
Authorities recommended the site
to the government for erecting a
liveaole community for the nordic
race.
Most of the homes are owned by
ilies are being evicted daily
place to go. They wander about
city like lost sheep, flowing f
one ward to the other in seare
shelter. Rent in other sections is
the rise ag the Fourth Ward
graters begin their trek.
BROWNWOOD
Lenard Scott was a week-end
guest of relatives in Austin, Texas.
Mrs. Dorothy Chandeler and Miss
Thelma Thomas are guests of Mrs.
Dilsie Finley of Lampasas
- Grand Chancellor R. A. Hester of
ported to police that she had been
robbed of two table cloths, one new
pink laid napkin, eleven pairs of
pillow cases, six towels, one dress-
er scarf, six yards of window ■
drapery, one piece of white outing,
one long finger nail file, and three
full white sheets.
She stated that she was robbed
of her goods between 7 a. m. and
noon, last Sunday. She gave her
address as 2805 Rosalie Street.
as endorsing Dr. Williams’ life and
work. Observers expect the con-
ference to demand a retraction by
the young minister. The executive,
board here at Louisville instructed
Atty. Wm. H. Haynes, its general
counsel, to seek an explanation of
the incident and to investigate what.
appropriate action might be taken.
Stepping across the denomination-
al line, Dr. George Singleton, edi-
tor of the Christian Recorder, of-
ficial organ of the African Metho-
dist Episcopal church, charged Rev.
Powell with being a “publicity
speaker." In the same denomina-
tion, Rev. A. Wayman Ward of Chi-
caeo, reflecting the attitude of the
AME ministers of that city, said
that the radical young minister's ac-
tion as reported was “plain low-
down” and expressed the view that
journalism which played up or ao-
cepted a statement of the sort with-
out investigation was equally cul-
pable.
In Chicago, the Baptist Minister’s
—onference of Chicago and Vicinity,
Four Hurt
When Car
Turns Over
HOUSTON-Mr. Claude Greene,
3451 McGowen, and his wife, Mrs.
Alyce Mae Green, in company with
two other persons were seriously
hurt last Sunday night when the
car in which they were riding, turn-
ed over three times, falling off the
Hempstead Highway, between Prai-
rie View and Hempstead.
The party was returning from
Navasola, when the accident occur-
red. The Singleton ambulance rush-
ed the party to the Prairie View
hospital, w here they were treated by
Dr. Fionklin. They were then
brought to Houston and received
treatments from Dr. Gathings.
BUY N. A. A. C. P.
CHRISTMAS SEALS
ABBEST ORDERS CANCELED
HOUSTON—Last Friday’s can-
cellation of arrests included James
Banks, 1409 Jensen, chagred with
theft; Frank. Jones, charged with
bus robbery, who has been arrest-
ed; and James Banks again who has
been arrested for allegedly robbing
two cafes.
EN ------
roNTo
The New Summerfield Colored
High School, is. a consolidated school
of three communities: Sweet Zion,
Pleasant Plain, and Pine Hill. The
school is located in the Pine Hill
Community. This school is making
rapid progress under the supervis-
ion of Prof. Colquit D. Yancy who
resigned his position as teacher of
Vocational Agriculture at Calvert
Texas, to accept the position here,
and his very efficient staff of teach-
ers from the local communities,
Mrs. A M. Cannot, Prof. Cecil
Franklin, Miss Elvie Fuller, and
Mrs. Maudie Johnson.
Shotgun Blast
Sends Husband
To Jeff Davis
HOUSTON.—Henry Massey, 35,
C12 Saulnier, lay in the Jefferson
Davis Hospital, suffering from a
blast from a 410 guage shotgun, the
results of an argument with his
wife, -Olympia Massey, 25, accord-
ing to police record.
According to the homicide rec-
ords, Massey was shot about three
inches below the navel and about
one-fourth of an inch to the left
of it He was treated by Dr. Smith,
and was said to be in a critical
condition.
Olympia Massey told police that
she and her husband had gotten in-
to an argument and he hit her. She
then stated that she got the gun of
John Parkinson, a resident of the
same house, and shot her husband,
with it.
The gun is in the homicide de-
partment, tagged as evidence. State-
ments were taken from witnesses,
■ Lucille Parkinson and Eugene Jack-
son, both of 812 Saulnier.
A distinctive design
silver on red background
BOOM or 100 — $1.00
Order from
N. A. A. C. P. 1
69 Fifth Ave. New York City
---------- MARLIN ------
Dear customers, I thank you very
much for continuing to buy the
paper after my missing several
week-
Fune rnl services were held for
Mrs. Theresa Jackson at the Mar-1
lin Baptist Church Sunday. Shaw
and Robertson Funeral home had
charge of the body.
■ The Bronze Governor of the
State of Texas has Marlin in a great
uproar. The candidates for this of-
fice are: W. K. Roberston. Moses
- Carroll, Oliver Lights, C. A. Way-
mon and S. T. Hall. The Negro
citizens are satisfied with either one
of these candiadtes, so may the best
man win. They are satisfied be-
caue all of them have and are will-
ing to play their parts in any move-
ment for the betterment of the
racer, CLr
There has been a boy scout troup
organized here which is claiming
much interest among the civic
minded people.—B. B. Shaw, re-
porter and agent,
HOUSTON.—Marshall Page, 37,
1411 LaBranch, was recorded in the
police records as having been taken
o the Jeff Davis Hospital where
he was treated by Dr. Montgomery
for a laceration of the head. She
was treated and released.
The records showed that she
said she was hit over the head by
Abe Harris, 34, 2810 Rusk Street
Harris was arrested last Saturday
and charged with assault to murder
in Judge Maes’ court.
THIEF GETS SPREAD
HOUSTON.—Myrtle Scott,
Hutchins, reported to police that
-he had been robbed of one Jap-
onese bed-spread from her home.
She stated that the spread was of
assorted colors. She said the rob-
bery occurred sometime between
Dallas was a guest of home folk
Friday.
Ample preparations are being
made for the community Christmas
tree which will be held at Mount
Zion Baptist Church December 24.
The special committee will call in
person for your donation. A. D.
Roberson, chairman; Frank Wilson
and Lewis Upshaw, assistants.
Brownwood friends were grleyed
to hear of the passing of J. D Cald-
well Sr. of Pittsburgh, Pa., brother
of R. A. Hester. Hurviving him is
J. D. Caldwell, Jr., and his wife in
Pittsburgh.
1420
noon and 7:20 p. m. last Friday.
MONTHALIA
Our school is moving along splen-
didly under our teacher, Mrs. A. J.
Has ey. Bro. Robinson and Rev.
Fields and wife or Coleman ran a
very successful meeting from 20-
24. About $40.00 was raised for Bro.
Robinson. Rev. C. Robinson, a
young minister, made our hearts,
burn with a great message on the
23rd. God bless him. Miss A. M. S.
The housing project authorities
are recommending the Cuney Home
project in lower Third Ward, but
a number of the families, stated to
the Informer that they couldn’t
move into the homes because of the
rigid laws concerning the inhabi-
tants of the project homes.
A number of the praces now near
the Jefferson Davis Hospital have
received their dispossession notices
so daily a stream of bleak eyed,
from the housing authorities, and
wondering people can be seen wan-
dering from ward to ward, seeking
for a place they might call their
home.
YATES NIGHT school. NEW*
By Celestine Connor
Mrs. Addison's room plans to have
a Christmas party. Mrs. Ida Jack-
son is the chairman of this com-
mittee. The entire school will pre-
sent “The Story of the Christmas
Cards" in music and drama. Mrs.
Leona Robinson has charge of the
music. The singers are Mesdames
Moore, Godfrey, Walker and Messrs.
Wiley, James and Robinson. The
actors will be Evy Fay Crews, Ce-
lestine Connor and Mesdames Cea-
sar and Anderson. Celestine Connor
will also do the announcing. The
program will be given on the date
we close for the holidays.
Mm. Walker is head of the Tree
Committee; Mrs. Clara Addigon,
Decoration; and Willie Mae Moore
will be the postmistress, to hand
out greeting cards. The program
promises to be one of the best in
the history of the school.
White of San Antonio visited us
last week. Rev. & N. Harvey is —. — -
with us this week. ’ «iM problems.
The night school is in deepest
sympathy with Mr. E. V. Pitts in
the recent, loss of his dear wife.
Mr. Pitts is head custodian for the
building and is always ready to
help the night school with their
Big Values Today - Sat.- Mon.-Tue.
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SAUCE
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Tomatoes 3
AMERICAN MAID FANCY
FLOUR 24
HUNTS SUPREME SMALL
Asparagus
ARMOUR’S STAR
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TEXAS JUICE FULL, NICE SIZE
RD
JI
Oranges 3
FINEST FRESH COFFEE
J. W. SPECIAL
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