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FOLl'ME 17—NUMBER 26
Willi Supplement, Out of City, 12c
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JI I.Y 18, 1917
With Supplement, Out of City, lie
PRICE TEN CENTS
CowedGirlBeaten
With Brick by
CommonLawMate
Compelled to Run Away
From Home, Live With
Man, Girl Says
A mnn Is being sought for tlie
Wednesday morning beating, with a
jrick, of a young woman who, ac-
cording to information given to po-
lee, bad been beaten by the man on
>ast occasions, and had been so
:errorized that she had been iffrald
to complain to police, lie is also re-
ported to have forced the girl to
run away from her home In Lonls-
/ille, Ky„ and to live bore with him
as his common law wife.
In the Wednesday Incident, she
s*as lienten about the bend and
ihoulders. with a brick, and suf-
fered a gash over the right eye.
In a past assault, the man is re-
ported to have lieaten the yonng
soman with a belt, and, only last
ir«H'k, had slashed her on the arm
With a knife, and then "dared her to
call the law." She lienrs theee knife
wounds, on the leh arm, above the
elbow, to verify to the knifing
Charge.
Dies Suddenly;
f
JIMMIE LINCEFORI)
stricken in Oregon
Jiinmie Lunceford, world famed
orchestra leader, was suddenly
stricken, Saturday, a few minutes
before he was scheduled to make a
personal appearanee at a Seaside,
In" the Wednesday brick-beating! Oregon, music shop, and succumbed
Government Asked to Investigate
Georgia Prison Camp Massacre
Vet to Get Car He Won
Incident, another young woman, a
friend, attempted to defend the girl
from the brutal assault, and prob-
Ibly saved her from more serious
Injury. The beaten girl was treated
at the county hospital.
The mnn had not been appre-
hended late yesterday afternoon.
in an ambulance, before a hospital
could Im> reached.
Lunceford was very popular in
San Antonio, where he had many
personal friends, and, only a few
weeks ago, carried a number of
friends sky riding, in bis plane,
ubove the city.
Citizens Rally to P. 0. Employee
Sentenced for Relieving Himself
Bv The A*«"xlnfed NV^ro l'rr*s
Atlanta, <;a.—The Atlanta
branch of the National
Postal alliance airl Interested
ritlicns liave taken up the ca>e
of Robert I. Smith, postal em-
ployee rrceully nenteneed to
nerie four year* In prison for
ptiblir indereney. Smith ad-
mitted during his trial that he
hail relieved himself in a wood-
eil area of a white resilient ial
cert ion.
News of Smith's gentenre has
evoked national, as well as local
rearliiin. Sentiment expressed is
tin,i Uur consideration was not
given cxlinur.tln:: elreumstanres
karrmmilin^ the ease.
Smith was on duty at the time
of Ills arrest and said he stop-
ped in a desolate, wooded spot
In the lliirkheail serlion to re-
lic* • hiniM'lf aliire no lellet
fncil!tlc* were available to Ne-
gro transient* In the seetion.
Several white women who re-
portedly happened to lie pacing
by are saiil to have seen Smith
and preferred charges against
him.
Arresting p o 11 e e "dogged"
Smith, lie reported, and beat
him about the fare and head
with a blaekjnrk in ail attempt
to make liiai plead guilty to the
indecent expo lire ellarue.
It is believed that police were
■;:urred into tile aition during
their search for clues in the
famous Kefoule murder ease,
which they have not solved as
yet. They are reported to have
gone to Smith's home and "turn-
ed it upside down," stating they
«vrr« looking for a diamond
ring and kodak, objects said to
be missing from the Rcfoule
borne.
Smith, currently out on $2,000
apical bond, was considered an
efficient postal employee, lie
had performed his duty for six
or seven years, prior to the In-
cident. He had no previous
criminal record.
Nations Ire Causes N. C.
Kiwanians to Back Up
1 2-Y e a r-0 1 <] New Texas Stale
l£rl ear-uiu University to
Mississippi Girl Open Sept. 8
|. HOl'STON, Texas.—'
Raped by White
0* Hi* Uteri Neurn t'ttw
J A OK SOX, Miss.—Hinds county
peace officers began a search Satur-
day for an unidentified white mnn
who raped a 12-year-old girl in a
wooded section five miles south of
Terry.
The white mnn had been to her
home several tlipes recently to get
her to "keep the children," while he
and his wife went fishing, the girl
told police. When she finally agreed,
he picked her up Saturday morning
•round 7 a. m., and drove her to a
secluded place near Terry where
he spread a quilt on the ground and
criminally assaulted her. He brought
her to her home about uoon, she
■aid.
An examination by Dr. George
T lie
hoard of regents of the new
Texas university for Negroes
r.iet July 8 : . I MMU other
matters set the opening date for
the 1947-48 session as Sept. 8
or thereabout.
Applicants are to lie address-
ed to the registrar, Texas State
university tor Negroes, Petro-
leum building, Kooui 1002,
liouston, Texas.
The fees will he "in keeping" j
with those charged by other
Texas state institutions.
Marcus Ray H
Quits as Aide to
War Secretary
Takes Overseas Post, With
Old Rank of Colonel,
Under Gen. Clay
Oy The Associated Nesro Press
WASHINGTON.—Marcus Rny
officially resigned his post as civil-
ian aide to the secretary of war
hero Tuesday, and his assistant,
James O. Evans, was named to re-
place him in an acting capacity.
Ray, who was adviser on Negro
affairs to Secy. Robert Patterson
for more than a y<>ar and a half,
Is returning to duty as Negro ad-
viser on the staff of Gen. Lucius
Clay, commanding general of the
European theatre, lie will resume
his rank of colonel and will leave
for the new post July iio.
Ray's resignation was tendered
because of the ex-colonel's dis-
agreement with the reluctant stand
made by the war department to ap-
ply recommendations of the Glllem
board to bring about a more effec-
tive usage of Negro manpower in
the post-war army.
'The Glllem board recommenda-
tions represented n sound approach
to a manpower problem which has
cost this nation dearly In two mod-
ern wars," he said and viewed his
aide service as having been "highly
gratifying in meeting realistic under-
standing and courage in the facing
of the problems which have develop-
ed in our nation in the army's
utilization of Negro manpower."
He pointed out that "progress has
been made in the implementation of
many of the Glllem board recom-
mendations approved by the secre-
tary in April, 1940.
"For the first time in the history
of the United States army, we have
a written and approved policy for
Negro troop utilization. This, I
think, Is a major accomplishment."
Secy. Patterson wrote the resign-
ing ndvlser that "your service has
been loyal, effective, and of decided
value to ihe army. You have Cover-
ed all fields of aetivity, including
the overseas areas, and from a Li
quarters, I have had reports com-
mending the worth of your contri-
bution,
"It was characteristic of your
pntr?oti.sui that after long and faith-
ful service to the army throughout
the war, you consented to under-
take the work of "civilian aide in a
trying aud critical period. It Is also
In line with your spirit of self
sacrifice that you are now
to serve with the army in Germany." street, v.
As adviser to Gen. Clay, Ray will j injtcjy established by other witnesses, that Grimes was not ^
the attacker.
Ernestine Cevallos, 13, 130 Rusk, was a !eep in bed, Friday j
night, when a man, entering tfce
house through the unlocked front
door, went to the rear lied room In
which the girl was sleeping, g< t In
the bed. and attempted to criminal-
ly assault her. As she struggled,
the man choked her, and bit her
! about the face and neck.
| The girl's outcries brought her
[ mother, Mrs. Josephine Cevallos,
' who had been In the back yard, run-
ning Into the house. She pulled the
mnn off her daughter, and tried to
i hold him. but he struck her and fled.
The girl was treated at the Rob-
AIIOSKIE, N. C.—With the
indignation and maledic-
tions of a nation deluging this
town's Kiwanis club over its
refusal to give a new Cadillac
to the navy veteran who won
it, because be was a Negro, the
local organisation underwent a
change of niind. and aiinounrcd
Wednesday afternoon, that
young llarvey Jones, the win-
ner. would lie given a new
Cadillac, after all.
At the same time, it was
learned that the club itself
faced disciplinary action from
its international officials. The
fate of the Ahoshie rluli will
be considered at the meeting of
the board of directors of the In-
ternational Service club, at its
Aug. 9-10 meeting in Chicago,
according to Dr. Charles W.
Armstrong of Salisbury, N. C.,
president of Kiwanis interna-
tional.
There Is a growing demand
from Kiwanis officials arrl Ki-
wanians that the club's charter
be revolted.
Hardly had the wire services
carried the news of the Fas-
cist-like action of the local club
before funds were being start-
ed all over the country to buy
Jones a < adillac. First to act
was the newspaper I'M of New
York Cit \ which, Wednesday,
ashed for donations to buy Jones
a duplicat 1 ( adillac to take the
place of i he one that lie won,
but didn't win, at the local
lottery.
CORPI S (IIRI ST I ACTS
The Corpus Cliristi. Texas,
down-town Kiwanis club, also
oil Wednct; iv, voted to start
a nation-wide campaign to raise
to buy Jones a car. The
Corpus club asked the support
of Kiwara^ International in the
collection i from each mem-
ber, with the Corpus Christians
immediat ly starting a collec-
tion.
S. A. PRIEST GIVES $1
In San \ntonio, the Very
Rev. Me ignor John I* Mor-
kovsky, pastor of St. Leo's
Catholic church, and superin-
(See KIWANIANS, Page 4.)
Wrong Man'Identified'
In Rape Casejleieased
ALTHOUGH at first identified 'oy 0Jd rlotlm of
an attempted attack, and her mother, as the girl's assailant
Alleged Rapist
Rescued from
Mob by Officer
Tension Hifih as Alleged
Attack Follows Killing
Of Deputy Sheriff
By The Associated Nearo Press
, KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—John Flem-
ing. 40, was rescued by ('apt. Elmer
Dykes, of the local police depart-
ment, here, last week, from a mob of
200 whites, bent on lynching him for
the alleged rape of n white girl.
Fleming was being beaten by the
mob w hen he tore himself loose and
ran blindly along a river front sec-
tion, with a vanguard of the mob
at his heels. Before the mob could
recapture him, Dykes stepped in and
whisked him to safety.
As a result of the beating, the vic-
tim suffered the loss of nil eye-ball
and several severe bruises and cuts.
He Is now in Knozville General hos-
pital under police protection.
The rapidity with which the mob
spirit came was blamed on an earl-1
ler racial Incident in which Jess
Evans, a local farmer, shot and kill
ed Deputy Sheriff Harly Nelson,
21. in a gun battle just outside the
city. Evans was subsequently killed
by state and city police
According to Sheriff Cate, the
deputy was slain while seeking to
arrest Evans for shooting at a
white man.
"Nelson went up to the door of a
house where Evans had taken ref-
uge after shooting at a farmer,"
the sheriff said. "Ho asked the Ne-
gro to surrender, but instead the
Negro shot him through a window."
I He said that 20 carloads of of-
Drunken Warden Accused of
Leading Mass Slaying
Of Seven Prisoners
Bj The Asftociated Xegro Pre««
\1 ASHINGTON.—Following the mass slaying of seven Nc£to>
" prisoners in a Georgia prison camp near Anquilla, Ga.,
Thursday, high government officials here were caught :n a.
deluge of requests for an immediate federal investigation.
Walter White, NAACP executive secretary, wired C 8.
Atty. Gen. Tom C. Clark that NAACP investigators found no
justification for the killings and the Chicago NAACP branch
urged President Truman, Clark and :
J. Edgar Hoover. FBI bend, to t f . i<. , .
prosecute Warden IJ. Q. Worthy Luton financial
Secretary,$43,000
Reported Missing
; and bis guards lor the wholesale
murders.
| The Chicago council of the Na-
i tional Negro congress sent a letter
to the United Nations demanding
I "full citizenship for the Negro peo-
ple of America." following the kill-
I Ings. Addressed to Trygve Lie, UN ,
. commission on human rights, the let- Chicago UPYV-CIO Lc&rflS
; ter said that the "brutal murder of j
seven Negro prisoners near Bruns-
i wick, Go., by prison guards led by
I the warden" is evidence "of the
t inability of local governments to |
■ protect the civil rights of the Negro !
people."
i Testimony before a coroner's jury
Saturday blamed the mass slay lugs
I on Warden Worthy's drunken
whims. Twenty-seven of the all-Negro
camp's prisoners had rebelled about
working in disease-Infested water
and were lined up and marched
back to the prison camp where five
were accused of being ringleaders.
I One of the five was Willie II. Bell,
a small prisoner, whom Worthy or-
Of Shortage After
Officer Vanishes
Oy Tli* ARftrwfareri Nerro Pre*#
CHICAGO, III —Mi*nhers of Jcml
347. CIO United Packinghouse Work*
ers union, leam-il about a U00
shortage last week after the mys-
terious disappear iuc- of their finan-
cial secretary.
Police were called to fi
whereabouts of Randolph I.u
has been re-elect *d flnanciiJ
tary for the last sis years,
ing a statement to the 10,(
I dominant ly Negro member*
According to an uudit m;
the
who
'•rtv
low-
pie-
fU®rs surrounded the bouse and .tiered to step axide from the group tho «tatement said, "it is found that
tKvatift was again ordered to come! Bell defied Worthy's order be approximately $4:t.000 Is uuaceouut-
[out. Wh^n be refused, tear gas was 'cause he thought the warden armed ^ ln union funds
I fired Into the house and officer*
/ rushed In, and Emus was killed.
bo concerned primarily with putting
the Glllem report Into operation In
the European theatre. He is said to
have the hacking of Secy. Patterson
and Gen. CIny In this usslghmcnt.
Army Calls for
NegroEnlistments
To Fill Quota
mv coins of Friday niEht. Joe Louis Grimes. 20, 518'* East Commerce If Arr#.ofPd
iormany." I street, was released from custody, Mondiv, when it was def-j1'1 " 11 micsicu
For Attempted
Attack on Girl, 19
with a .38 calibre pisfoi, wanted to I -"To ^ a complete Investigation
kill hini, he told the corntwr'g jury, i this shortage and protect the in-
Itell also charged that Worthy was I **re«ts of its membership?, f b *
"half drunk" when the shooting f'PW-TIO has enlisted the aid of
fChlca go polio
The war department has an-
nounced a present ueed for enlist-
ment of Negro soldiers In order to | ert B. Green hospital for abrasions
maintain a 10 per cent Negro
HIT WITH BOTTLE
Ruth Ella Jones, 111 Agnes street,
complatucd to police that she was
struck on the head with a bottle,
early Sunday morning, by a man
who entered her home.
Miss Jones was taken to Robert
_ B. Green hospital in a Carter am-
niioy, afndii county boalth officer, I butane,, a n d released followlnf
confirmed the child'* report that 1 treatment. Hlie refused to fHe
■he had heen assaulted. I charm* against her attacker.
Jimmie Lunceford, Famed
Band Leader, Dies Suddenly
Kr The Ai.oclntrd N.(ro Pr...
SEASIDE, Ore.—Death struck down Jimmie Lunceford, one-
time member of the famous trio of top "big name" bands-
Ellington, Calloway and Lunceford—just before he was to have
made a personal appearance at a local music shop here Saturday.
Aocording to Ed Rosenburg, the band's traveling manager,
Lunceford suffered a convulsive attack and died in an am-
bulance en route to Seaside hospital,
strength In the army in accordance
with the Glllem board recommenda-
tion.
Enlistments are now open for Ne- _ • o J
groes In both the army air and St. IjOUIS SoildS
ground forces. A mental test score XcXcIS
f.tv fiiilL'liiimit In I .
and lacerations about the nock, and
a lacerated and bruised thumb on
the left hand, but she had not l>een
violated.
On the general description furn-
ished by tli
Grimes, wl*
Antonio fr<
arrested in
Commerce s
Mrs. Cevall-
man who at
though in t
scuffle, neiti;
very well.
However. <
Mrs. Leslie
Monumental
rtah, who .«
from the 1>
get a Yery
testified tl
man. On tl
Grimes wn
The girl i
sought.
girl
recei
i G<
ind her mother,
ly came to San
rgla, was later
GOO block of East
t. Both Miss and
Id that he was the
pted the attack, nl-
excitement of the
A 21-year-old man was arrested
and jailed, Tuesday night, following
a reported attempted criminal at-
tack, during which a 19-year-old
pr was able to see him ' girl successfully resisted the man's
I efforts.
ther witnesses, Mr. and *r t t-v • ,, .< .
1 Mm can. 525 South ! U" L' -1' tt,IJri>ss llstcJ ns
and Edward Craig, 107 208 U'S street, has been charged
w the man as he came j with aggravated assault on a female,
jse, and were aide to ■ jn connection with the case, on com-
good picture of him
half drunk-
occurred.
The warden did tell Bell to "come
out, Peewee, I wanf to kill you,"
said Charles Veal, an Atlanta pris-
oner. Another Atlanta inmate. How- i
ard Adams, told the jury Worthy
began shooting with his pistol anil
yelled to the four guards to "let
'em have it!"
Worthy deuied that statement by
stating the guards knew to "let j
'em have it" when they started run- I
ning. But why the inmates elected
to run still remains unclear. One
was shot dead as he attempted to
deer the camp's eight foot high
wire fence, and the other six were
killed between the spot where they ,
state's
Luke,
department and
attorney to find Ba
the financial secroti
•Jph
0/
(See SECRETABY, Page 3.)
S. A. Preacher
Assessed Fine
For Bad Check
Pleading guilty,
ing. in county co
yesterday
irt numlier
were lined up and the fence's boun- Judge O. J. Matthews presldlr
Grimes was not the
. and other evidence,
cleaned.
-ailant Is still being
Born In Fulton, Miss., In 1902 of
musically-inclined parents, the first
Instrument the young Jimmie learn-
ed to play was a guitar He finished
high school as the valedictorian of
his class, and then entered Fisk uni-
versity where the first Idea of set-
ting up an orchestra occurred to
him.
During lits Fisk days, he learned
to plsy the saxophone, clarinet,
trombone and flute. Though his
other subjects suffered as a result*
of his musical studies, he did man-
age to play football, win a B.A. de-
gree and four athletic letters. He
also sang with the orlglual Fisk
choir.
His first professional engagement
was at the old Andrew Jackson
tiocl In Nashville, in 1025, but the
group was broken up when Jimmie
I entered City college, New York, for
1 graduate work. From there, ho wcut
to Canada and then returned to
r
It was In 19.14 that the Lunceford
aggregation began to get on big
time. He joined Duke Ellington and
Cab Calloway under the manage-
ment of Irving Mills, and took over
a s|iot at the Cotton club In New
York formerly held by Cab. From
then on, the baud grew In populari-
ty.
Home of the band members were
Sf Oliver, Willie Smith, Henry
Wells, Russell Boles, Paul Webster,
Eddie Tompkins aud Dan Grlssom.
A great favorite in Europe, the
Lunceford crew was the subject of
discussion In the November-Decem-
ber, 11)37 Issue of Hot Jaw, the of-
ficial publication of the Interna-
tional Federation of Hot clubs,
Paris. In addition, nfU'r the llliera-
tlon of Belgium, that government
pluced an order for a large quanti-
ty of recordings by the Lunceford
fcroup, Including an original number
drowned up by the band leader and
crftled "Belgian Stouip."
of 17 is required for enlistment In
the air corps and a mental score
test of 13 for the ground forces, the
announcement stated.
Men applying for enlistment to
fill their own vacancies within 20
days of discharge may enlist at the
post, camp or station at which they
have served. Other applications are
referred to the nearest U. H. army
recruiting station for enlistment or
reenllstmcnt
♦
Mag Feature Says
Negro GIs Make
Better Loan Risk
By The Arsoclated Nesro Pr««s
CHICAGO. 111.—Though only one
out of eight Negro applieaata is sue-
co^ful In obtaining Veterans ud-
ministration-sponsored loans, a
photM-story iu August Ebony de-
clares that the percentage of failures
among colored G I's receiving loans
Is lower than that for whites.
"Only 000 white and colored vets
out of 60,480 have failed." says the
Ebony feature which is entitled
"G 1 Loan*." This is a low percent-
age of only 1.0. And of this per-
centage the rate for colored is even
lower than that for whites.
Bankers Insist on 24-carat, gilt
edge .collateral and previous busi-
ness experience Is granting a G I
loan, the feature explains. And gain-
ing lyink approval Is like taking a
bench head under fire.
For Negroes ft is oven harder
than for whites, the article con-
tinues. And most loans to colored
vets arc made north of the Mnson
and Dixon line, whereas Oil per cent
of all Negro vets Uve in the south.
A survey of the 13 inrgest cities in
Mississippi dlscliyjos only two Ne-
groes whom V A okayed for loans
out of a total of 3,220 grafted in the
entire ** te
City Blast Victims
Employer-Lover
Doesn't Testify
In Slave Case
By Th. A,.
SAN 1(1!
Mr. and M
Bv The Aiwwvlated N«*kto Pr.M
st. i .otis, Mo.—Various No-
rth fliurrlirs and nreanliatlniis
here liad contributed a total o(
*6Gli last week for (lie relief of
vlrt'ms in Hie Te\ati City blast
last April 16. The total Is fx-.
rP?;'riV,°rerr.nh ,7#° "b" ""
Mrs. W. C. BrklRrs, pastpres- r'lbo lestlZn^of
Walter P. Harmon being given.
Harmon Is the first hushaud of
■ Mrs. Ingstl , the man who was
charged wit!: being intimate with
plaint of Miss Dorothy Jean Ken*
ney, 100 North Swiss street.
Miss Kenney said that she was en
route to her home, when Davis ac-
costed her in the INK) block of
Ilosack street, about 10:40 o'clock.
daries. The rest of the group of
fell to the ground when the shoot-
ing started. Five of the seven were
killed instantly and two died of
wounds.
Worthy also denied being drunk.
He planned to place the five ring-
leaders in the camp's "hot box," a
< m-
two,
g. to
ted Seero Pttm
i, Cal.—The case of
Mfred Ingalls. white,
n charges of holding
Ident of the City Association of
Colored Women's elubs, flew to
the stricken city last week to
present the donations to Mayor
.1. C. Trahan. She said the
money was raised by an Infor-
mal committee after she had
made an Inspection trip to Tex-
as City last May. The money
will not be earmarked for dis-
tribution to Neirroes, she said,
but will lie spent for whatever
purposes Mayor Trahan nut)'
deride.
Mm. Bridges, wife of a phy-
sician, aaid she expected to
briiiK bark with her for adop-
tion one or two rhildren made
orphans by the explosion. Dr.
anld Mrs. Bridges have no rhil-
dren.
NAACP, Others
Sued by Theatres
For Picketing
By Th« Awiocltttod Nesro Fre««
BAN FRANCISCO.—8 n per lor
court hearings on the Nasser broth-
ers theatres' mlllon-dollar injunc-
tion suit against the Committee for
Fair employment will be resumed
here early In August before Judge
Thomas M. Foley.
The suit Is the result of picket
lines established by the committee
Feb. 17 In front of two of the Nas-
the then IT year-old domestic. His
testimony fur the prosecution was
expected fc> add a few more details
to the ret ried statements having
to do with t!i« slavery of Miss Jones.
She said that he grabbed her, ami j device similar to the old, unventilat-
trted to push her into some bushes,
with his throwing her to the ground,
and attempting to assault her. She
managed to fight free, and r *n.
In the struggle, Miss Kcnney's
clothing was torn, and a package,
In which was a dress, was also bad-
ly torn. Miss Kenney was also
covered with dirt, from her strug-
gles on the ground, and pieces of
sunflower and grass became en-
tangled in her hair.
Passenger Hurl in
Crash, Two Cars
Badly Damaged
One person was Injured and two
cars badly damaged, in an auto-
•barge of swindling in
with a check issued t > a do
store, the Rev. F J Wil
Earl street, was fined $■". and co*tg
making s total of $20 9". He nlstf
paid the firm. Hutching brother*
the amount of the worthless ehe it
$315,541.
Rev. Wilson, according to the reo
ords in the case, bad. on Nov. 2
1issued a check to llutchina
drawn on Frost National hank, lj*
the amount of $,'Ml.r Q, but did nrt
have sufficient funds deiioslted fo<
payment.
Following futile efforts, by tbi
store, to |pat the money, charges oi
swindling irerc filed against Rev.
Wilson on June 2t Two davs later.
ed "sweat box," that was outlawed
iu Georgia's penal system In 1038
following the death of an 18-year-
| old white prisoner, Ernest I ck-
lear. The old "sweat box" was an
1 eight by eight foot air-tight struc-
I ture into which men were crammed
for punishment.
j Of the 27 prisoners involved in
the incident, all hut five were trans-
ferret! to camp No 18 the d:iy before j $200 bond was posted for the clergy-
from camp No. 5 at Folkston. man, and the trial date set for July
115, with its being postponed until
(See MASSACRE, Page 4.) | yesterday morning
Over 200 in Attendance at
Methodist Dis't Conference
W ITH a general attendance of more than 200. including 25
" visiting ministers, the 73rd annual session of the San At.
tonio district conference of the West Texas conference. Mew
No rM* u «n« given by Ernest mobile eulllslim. Mnmluy night, July ,
A. Tolla,'chief of Hie prowentton, 14. In the 2000 block En t Com
for not u*l s nnnnon after rushing meree street.
him here. !: hud b«*n generally be-! Driver, of the machine* were „f ,u„ j m „ i . i
lleved that Harmon was dead, but luted as Allen D. Coleman. 10. 311 | area, of the Methodist church, opened Monday, July
the nil j :>i-tcd in the search for ltcfugio street, and Albert L. Lewis, 14, at East St. Paul Methodist church, the Rev. M A. Freeman,
him until be was discovered In 1108 North Centre.
Washington I The Injured man was Melvln Mil-
Spectators were especially an*- j ler, 20, 027 Palmetto, a passenger In
(See NAACP, Tag* #•)
loua to wnu'h Harmons expression
when hll \-«lfe testified that Dora
brazenly b< .i>.> d that llarmon want-
ed her be. i c she was "the best
woman" ami that she knew wlmt
men wanlr l
Mrs. Ing.i;- testified that Dora's
pay was stopped when llarmon
decided to attend Georgetown unl-
verslty lav school. He was said to
have been receiving only $1,200 a
year.
"Dor, W.>.nled to stay," without
pay. the d< VihI:int said and added:
"Slncc tbei :• lie never would accept
any pay."
"Dora I id no need for money.i
8he had li
—* joint i-anl
She did Ju-1 v
Just one ,f u«."
She Mid slic
and
for her In 1!"'
■bit lies and security
account wllh me.
it we did. She was
married llarmon tn
I xira came to work
Hlie told of bow
(He CASE, Page W
Coleman's car, who suffered lacera
Hons above the rinht eye, and
bruises about the body. He was
treated at Robert B. Green Memo-
rial hospital.
According to police reports, Cole-
man, traveling east on Commerce
street, at an estimated 40 miles per
hour, crashed head on Into Lewis'
car, when OotaMHI attempted to
pr.ss another automobile, also travel-
ing cast.
In attempting to get back Into
his trafflee laiic, Coleman snld that
he lost control of his machine, with
its swerving to tbo wrong side of
the stnet.
Lenls stated that he saw the car
reproaching, and* In an effort to
avoid the crash, had pulled his car
as far right as possible and had
come to a complete stop: The front
ends of bofh cars were badly dam-
aged.
Both drivers were charged wit*
failure to have a driver's licence
pastor. The sessions will continue through 8unday, July 20.
The conference has as its theme, "World Evangelism," and
a feature of the session Is the in- Christian service, Mrs. Leona Ta-
stltute on Christian education for bor, president; district stewards,
young people and adults, which has Methodist youth fellowship pre*
attracted many young persons. It Idents, board of lay activities, and
is the 26th annual church school to "hurch school superintendants fr«*m
lw conducted in the San Antonio the 30 charges in the district. Ths
district. i total membership totals more than
The conference and Institute open- 5,000.
ed Monday morning. Monday even- j Morning watch asssions are being
Ing a welcome program was held, conducted by Rev R. L. Palmer of
at which the principal speaker was Corpus Christi. Afternoon sessions
Raymond South, commlsioner of are divided into two groups—busi-
fire and pollee, who represented news sessions for adults, while the
Mayor Alfred Callaghan, In extend- 'youngpeople are Instructed in handl-
ing a welcome greeting to the del- craft, taught by Mrs. M. M. Loud;
egatlon from the city of San An- recreational activities beaded by
tonio. South was Introduced by Rev.
M. A. Freeman. Others appearing
on program were Mrs. Ida C. Sut-
ton, the Fast St. Paul Metludlst
^Jmlr, Rev. G. A. Deslandes, Mrs.
Ethel Browh, Mrs. Harold Kllpat
Mrs. Dolores L. Linton; snd drama,
taught by Miss Carmen Tillman.
Rev. Robert S. Mosby, .pastor ol
St. Paul Methodist church, Is pros
Went of the conference board of edu-
cation, Rev. I. B. Loud* chairmai
riek, Mrs. Rnmonn Brown. Emory of tlie conference and president o
King, and Rev. F. M. Hudspeth. district superintendents of the arep
The district conference is torn- ——-
nosed oi the Women's Society of <&** fnvKKUENCIi, Fugs 4.)^
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