San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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OWERS COLOR BAR
Sec'y Knox Announces
Race May Enter All
Branches of Service
Bj The AuocUted S iri Frets
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Frank Knox, secretary of the navy,
announced Tuesday that restrictions against Negro en-
listments were being lowered, and that the new naval policy
called for the inclusion of Negroes in combat units including
the coast guard, marines and on warships.
Previously Negroes have been restricted to service as
mcssmcn exclusively. This policy has met strenuous protests
mid Ii"iny conferences have been
beil seeking n broadening of this
poller.
Secy. Knox announced the Ne-
gro riuiibiit units would serve un-
der white officers.-
{Secretary Knox said that event-
ually Negroes may be usi-d to man
small warships like destroyers or
patrol rraft. As they gain ex-
perience, lie- salil, Negroes will be
iii.iiiv peiij Off litis but no dcilulil-
plan In.* been worked out tn com-
ittl ii<-i> Negro officers Immediately.
There will be a special Negro
outfit iu the marines, he said, and
Negroes will be assigned to work
on construction crews, outfits sim-
ilar to the navy's construction bat
tnllons.
The secretary of the navy said
thnt the plan to open the navy to
Negroes has been worked out
carefully anil that "the whole thing
will be carried along In a cordial
spirit of experimentation to make
the maximum use of Negroes in
the most effective way to avoid
difficulties of racial character.
Knox added that "tlie recruiting
u{ .Negroes £u 1 sen ice in iiiu uum-
man branch Is to continue with
out interruption or change." Of
course, the same physical and
mental standards required of all
navy recruits will lie required for
Negroes. s
San if jvtcwi® Register
rig:
VOL. 12—NO. 10
JUSTICE . PROGRESS
ANTONIO. THXAK, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1942
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Cops' Fusillade Drops Fleeing S. A. Man
Gen. B. 0. Davis
Heads Probe of
New Jersey Riot
By Th« AMorlated Negro Prtll
■pOET DIX. N.J.—Brig. Oen. B. 0. Davis, ranking Negro of.
* ficer in the United 8taUs army and assistant to army in-
spector general, Saturday launched an investigation into the
riot deaths Thursday night of two colored soldiers and a white
military policeman and the wounding of five other Negroes.
Th{_jNcw JSfork Port of Embarkation, which now has
/tiriudiction over "tort Dix, at the same time began inquiry
in
J lie
Race Troops Have
No D i ffi cultie s
In Au str alia
Country "Accepts" Soldiers, but
Hopeslts Women Will Remember
Land's "White" Policy
Bj Thii Associated Negro Preti
CHICAGO, 111.—Australia is willing to accept Negro soldiers
as members of the American armed forces, but leaders
there are hopiug that the national white policy will be
thoroughly understood and respected by the whole population,
women in particular, according to first articles released in
America last week by correspondents of the daily press who
accompanied the AEF to Australia.
Since there nre no colored peo-
\
tho shooting. Tlie two nre
lieing held Jointly with Gen. Davis,
iirre from Washington, as
Ho was being led back to the
building, Waidron said, who sol-
diers, armed with rifle®, crept up
^ .. .. behind StrontJi cod fired three
lirnd of the liivesHgntj^ commit- —
fa*, shot
' fee. Another probe by a l>oard
of Fort Dix officers, headed by
'' Ueut. Cot. Arthur Graut, was
s Differ as Man,Shot
Stand Owner,Stops
hree More Slugs
-old San Antonio man, a principal in a pistol battle
tscapade the accounts of which vary greatly, miracu-
lously ' Reaped death as hs fell, with three bullet wounds--
from ft fusillade of shots by officers—after he had already
been w oanded once by a white hamburger stand operator,
shortly before midnight, Tuesday.
Th«. wounded man who is expected to recover, is Arthur
shore Into his back. H , fell dead
with a bullet In the heart. His
assailant, later Identified as Pvt.
Isaac W. Brown of Henderson,
United Friday by the pout Com- Tenn., was shot down by Hayliof.
wander, Col. C. 51. Howell. . A volley of rifle sliols from
< '<il. Howell, as post Investigation colored soldiers followed this gun-
petarled, called the riot "merely a play. Waidron by tills time bad
i aUiioat racial significance,
l'vt. Joseph (iray, accused of
having provoked the shooting by
attempting to snatch the pistol of
Pvt. L C. Haylioe of Lansing,
Mich., white M.l\, was the first
participant called. He allegedly
graiilieil the gnu as Hayhoe sought
to quiet an argument over use of a
telephone booth between two white
and one Negro soldier In the
Wfldrim sports palace, a recrea-
• ■ tlon center on private property
Ll across a highway from a Negro
' . barracks.
I t Tne owner of Waidron. Augustus
Waidron, white, of Trenton, raid
Gray left a howling alley to snatch
#t Hnylioe's gun. Gray then fled
from the building pursued by Hay-
hoe and another white M.P., Pvt.
llanle W. Stronth of Honey Camp,
Va. Outside tliey fired three or
four shots In the air and Gray
stopped.
extinguished his outside lights.
Hayhoe retreated Into the build-
ing with two other M.P.'s Including
Pvt. Hon Blitckman of New York
City, a Negro. They were soon
reinforced by 25 M.I', reserves.
Bullets flew back anil forth
across a highway, with MP's tak-
ing up positions outside of the
restaurant, and flic soldiers firing
from a barracks building a few
yards away. With the arrival of
staff officers, the battle ended.
Inside the barracks. Brown, anil
Corp. W. E. Hall w ere found dead.
The wounded were all Negroes.
One was shot while taking a
shower hath.
MP's wete armed with shotguns,
their regular equipment, while the
soldiers used service rifles. Eye-
witnessees say that after the first
exchange of shots, tlie gunfire was
spasmodic and not more than 50
or 00 shots were fired.
Corpus School
May be Turned
Over to Whites
COB PUS CHRISTI, Texas-
School authorities admitted, this
week, that they did have under
consideration, the transferring, to
white children, the new Roy Mor-
ris school, erected in the Agnes
section, and originally designated
and Intended for Negroes. These
officials said, however, that Ne-
gro™ would profit from any
change made.
One school authority, questioned
concerning the rumors, of the
' transfer, declared, "There has beer,
some discussion concerning the
Roy Morris school, hut if changes
should be made, the colored peo-
ple will profit many times from
the change, as plans would lie ar-
ranged for a better school proposi-
tion. If the proposition cannot
lie perfected, the Negroes will enter
school In the Agnes section."
Another offidnt said, "We are
considering this matter, but It is
our plan to justify any move made,
and we nre endeavoring to pur-
chase' a larger tract of laud, and
will know In three or four days
whether It ca:. be purchased If
St can lie purchased, we wiM begin
( the erection of a building in less
i time than a month,"
Mississippi Woman
Pays $7,500 for
Traffic Accident
GREENVILLE, Mlss.-The
settlement of a $50,000 judg-
ment won In the lower court
here, against Mrs. Ethel Cox
Howard of Indiariola, Miss.,
by Lucille Ware, while, for
$7,500 was reported this
week. The judgment was
handed down in 1940 as (he
result of the accidental kill-
ing of Ware hi March, 1940.
Mrs, Howard, herself
wliluw, b one of the prom
iin nt women of Mississippi.
She is a member of the fam
ons Cox family of Indianola.
being the daughter of Wayne
Cox, wealthy planter and
founder of the Delta Penny
Savings bank and the Mis-
sissippi Beneficial Life In-
surance company. She tvas
the sister-in-law of Terry W.
Howard. Mississippi's Repub-
lican national rommitteeman
pies living in Australia — other
than aborigines on reservations in
northern and central Australia, or
on the islands surrounding the
continent—tlie problem of recrea-
tion for Negro soldiers is expected
to prove troublesome. Occasionally
a colored soldier is teen on the
street chatting with an Australian
girl, but thus far no trouble lias
been reported.
Negro soldiers, at present, in
Australia, number several hundred,
malnl£^i^m__theiJjhiM£o1_ Detroit
and St. Louis areas. They are
members mainly of engineer units.
TUey will work o.i construction
jobs.
Those soldiers nre the first Ne-
groes to land In that country ex-
cept under severe restriction*. An
exclusion act was passed several
decades ago t" ke®p Australia a
"white man's land" and excluding
all colored persons, Including orient-
als anil Negroes, from taking up
permanent residence. It was con-
tended this would prevent tlie im-
portation of cheap labor. Negro
athletes and entertainers have en-
tered Australia, but only on
temporary visas.
Since the aborigines live in var-
ious stages of semi-civilization in
the wildest part of the continent,
most Australians were frankly
curious and stared at the new-
comers. When they learned there
was no salary discrimination
against colored soldiers, and they
were oil a par with white soldiers
of the same rank, Australians be-
gan accepting them as a part of
the American army and have wel-
comed tliem In most places.
The soldiers, part of a lmge con-
voy which also carried white mem-
bers of the AEF, did not know
their destination when they em-
barked. White officers were ap-
(See AUSTRALIA, Page 5.)
Two Men Tap
Cash Register,
Flee with Coin
Two bold daylight thieves, who
apparently did some expert tim-
ing, ?re $40 richer Saturday
evening, at the expense of O. C.
Booker, Chestnut street tailor, who
made the mistake of going to the
rear of his shop without taking
the cash register along for com
pany.
Parking their automobile directly
across the street from the tailor-
ing establishment, where they had
full view of tTie shop's interior,
the snatch artists waited until
the proprietor went to the rear
of the place, whereupon they
(See TAP, Page 5.)
To Tuskegec
stand
Thomas, i 108 McLeod street, an
auto Mechanic. He was wouuileil
once te j.be left side; once In the
throat i <; >nce in the right arm, lie-
low the elbow; and once on the
left aids'' f tlie head, where he
was grari fcd by a bullet, just above
the eir. '1 He Is in the Robert B.
Green henspltai, under police guard.
Dally -yiewspaper reports had the
man shiBt from three to seven
times. JjStatemeuts, as late as
Wed lies (liny afternoon, had bee«
i;ecur«fr%^rrom Just about every-
1>q- ept Thomas.
a winqtttter reporter got Tliomas'
version AJ the affray as the latter
lay in InL s hospital bed.
Thorn'! f\ told a Register reporter
that, f-'f the past two years he
hnd* fn^ throit^aer^—
ready to wait on you. Get on
out!"
Thomas declared that, surprised,
be resented being cursed, and told
Brown so, but after giving voice
to his feellugs, went out. Brown
followed him out, and, when he
reached the sidewalk, asked Thom-
as if he knew whom lie was talk-
ing to.
Thomas said that when he re-
plied that he didn't care, Brown,
about five feet away, suddenly
drew a pistol, and fired one shot,
the bullet hitting lilm in the left
side. Thomas said he then pulled
bis gun, and fired twice at Brown,
missing both times. He said that
he had only two bullets in the gun,
which he said that he- had cleaned,
where he
White Paramour
Poisons, Burns
Woman'sHusband
Texas Landowner, 72, Started
Romance 22 Years Ago, When
Girl was 16, He, 50
Special to San Autoaln K«|[l 1rr
ATHENS, Texas—a 22 year-old illicit interracial romsunc#
that began over two decades ago when a prominent wbit«
man, at that time 50. seduced a 16-year-old colored girl, elided
in a gruesome tragedy. Friday, that left the now 38-ye2r-old
woman a widow, and her paramour, and another white man
charged with murder.
The murder charges were filed Sunday against Tom Hobbs,
well-to-do and prominent Van
Gets 10 Years
Tlie ex-!
DR. C. AUSTIN WHITTIER
leaves today for clinic
Dr. C. Austin Whittier, founder
of the Whittier clinic, and one
of this section's most progressive
physicians and surgeons, is de-
parting, today, for Tuskegee In-
stitute, Alabama, to attend the
annually conducted clinic at the
John A. Andrews and United
States Veterans hospitals.
The ciiuic—which Dr. Whittier
attends each year, and at which
lie is a well known figure—will
be held from Sunday, April 12,
through Friday, April 17.
Dr. Whittier will return to the
city to resume his practice, Mon-
day, April 20.
♦
San Angelo
Stirred by Firing
Of Race Newsies
whenei
the Ant^
aide and
works
Travis.
Tuesda|
went It;
a liana
did -n ,
Tlitniiiitf.l
coupi |
'fhomatr
exploded-
"I don'
niggers 1/1
thing be I
outside 11
there uti I
be fonnd no one
ile window, he went in-
placed his order. Thomas
a shop at 308 West
night, about 11:30 he
P> the place, and ordered
>r. Brown told him he
have any hamburgers.
i*l! iinked Itn
of hot dogs," Then
lid 'hat Brown suddenly
want any G d—-
hire. If yon want any-
, you will have to go
the window, and stay
II I get G d
the!
RFoW
without ammunition, h
i shot at him again, as he
fled, but missed.
Two detectives cruising In the
vicinity, happened to be passing,
and witnessed the shooting. They
started in pursuit of Thomas, with
the officers openlDg fire. In this
fusillade, Thomas was shot three
more times.
According to sworn statements
made by Detectives J. A. Mounger
and O. L. Cramer, they were at
the Intersection of Houston and
Camaron streets, when they saw
Thomas, standing on tlie jldewalk.
(See FUSILLADE. Page 5.)
May
Here for
eer Corps
Special to San Antonio KrtrltUr
SAN AXGELO, Texas — Indig-
nant Race citizens were said to be
preparing to boycott a local Sun-
day paper, as a result of the
publication's discharging alt Ne-
gro carriers, nnd replacing them
with white boys.
The paper bad been delivered in
the Race district by members of
the local Boy Scout troop, with
the Scouts using the commission
earned for furthering the Scout
program here.
Lenders of the boycott movement
point out thnt seven Negro publi-
cations come into San Angelo
weekly, nnd they are urging Race
citizens to throw their full sup-
port to these newspapers, owned,
operated, and controlled by Ne-
groes. In the face of what is
termed "grossly unfair" treatment
by the local paper.
law hvsband,
Former S.A. Woman Calls L srs Wife, then Kills Him
Alfreda N ul . 32, 115 Brown
•Hay* was omaiHtfU to the connty
' | Tuesday inovnissg, badly
i: !?■ , and suffering posjibte
i, allegedly nt the ««d I'll kill hlii, before I'll let Ma
T OS ANGBLES, Cal.—In one o'
^ the west coast's most bizarre
"eternal triangle" killings, a 23-
year old bride of tlirce months,
answered her ringing telephone to
honr a hysterical voice on the
other end screnui:
"IJpve Bfnest, sad he loves me,
come back to yon!"
—struck dumb with terror—heard
a pistol bark again and again and
again. And then came a low,
agonized, gnsping groan. A voice
that was unmistakably that of her
tavMtiid's.
And thus died. Eroest Dtnalrtey,
36. yBB |
Held as the killer is Mrs. Ijsea
Hatchett, 87. described as a fortier
Then th* horrified foung wife Km socialite, the Xouaer
A specifcl quota for colored work-
men, In I skilled crafis, for enlist-
ment in he U. S. Army Engineers
corps, fe r direct assignment for
training i it Camp Claiborne, Louis-
iana, wai announced this week by
Colonel ll Cinzie B. Edmunds, com-
manding 1 officer of tlie San An-
tonio di* net recruiting office.
ColQi'e<! roer, 18 to 4f , married
or single experienced in one of
15 dlffei At crafts, are eligible,
anil are irgei to npply immediate-
ly at , PKBt Office building or
at the Jistrlct army recruiting
office in Sa* Antonio, or in the
post offi' f at Temple, Austin, San
Augelo, Victoria, Corpus Chrlstl
and Browiisvllle.
Each applicant should bring a
letter JriM a former, or present
employer, .or other proof of ap-
plicants experience in his trade,
as: blaestmltb, general construc-
tloa fore Jan. railway construction
foreman, iemoiltio:; man and fore-
man, era* operator, crane shovel
operants wiSpressor operator, fore-
man tMthanic, structural steel
worker, (ivrarryman, rigger and
foreman, Jackhnmmer operator,
tool rcfea keeper, water supply
orator and welder.
its for enlistment are
i to apply at once, ns the
limited and closes May
Edinnads explained.
Mrs.Cornelia Ross
Is Victim of
Stomach Ailment
Death claimed one of San Au-
tonio's most prominent and widely
known church workers and fra
ternallsts Saturday, April 4, when
Mrs. Cornelia Rose, 08, succumbed
to a stomach ailment. She died
at her home, 1515 East Houston
street.
A native of Seguin, Texas, where
she was boru, April 21, 1873, she
atteuileil the Seguin public schools
and moved to San Antonio in
1801. A few years Inter, she be-
came the bride of Charley H. Rose,
the union terminating In divorce.
Following the divorce, action Mrs.
Rose went to Califfrnla where
she spent considerable time with
relatives and friends.
Prominent in church and fra-
ternal circles, she was a member
of Bethel AME church where she
was a member of the deaconess
board, and also of St. Phyllis court
of Calanthe, No. 57.
Largely attended and beautifully
Impressive funeral services were
held Wednesday afternoon from
Mount Pleasant Methodist church,
Seguin, Texas, with the Rev. H. F.
Cooper, pastor of San Antonio's
Bethel officiating, assisted by Rev.
J. Hutcliesor Services were un-
der auspices of St. Phyllis court,
with Carter Undertaking company
(See AILMENT, Page 5.)
W. R. M AYNARI)
sentenced for embezzlement
I; Tfc« A undated Hun mil
Tl'SKECEE, Ala. — l'rlsou sen-
tences of ten and five years respec-
tively were meted out Monday to
W. R. Maynard and Frank Sea-
brooks for embezzlement of funds
from the Tuskegee Institute Sav-
ings hank.
Shortages of around $20,000 were
discovered early In January in the
accounts of Maynard, cashier, and
Seabrooks, his assistant. The dep-
redations had apparently been go-
ing on for considerable time. It
was revealed that Maynard had
(See GETS, Page 5.)
Kicked Messman
Rips Sailor Who
Demands Bus Seat
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas-
Arnold Christian, Negro mess at-
tendant, attached to the naval
air station here, is being held in
the county jail, fbr the slashing of
George W. Gilbert, white, aviation
mate, third class, who attacked
the Negro. Saturday morning, when
he refused to give up his seat on
a naval bus.
The knifing occurred near Park
street, and resulted when a group
of white sailors boarded the bus,
nnd, finding no soats unoccupied,
demanded that tlm Negro sailors
relinquish their seats to them.
When they refused, Gilliert be-
came enraged, and began cursing,
slapping, and kicking Christian
Christian, In defense, slashed Gil
liert in the abdomen.
Tlie knifed man was taken to
the naval air station, where doc-
tors nt first reported his condition
serious. He has since, however,
improved considerably.
Richardson, of San Antonio,
member of a prominent Texas fam-1
ily. Sfle, too, Is married, and)
lives with her husband at
Santa Barbara aveno*. *>k
tragedy occurred.
Denipsey, a
Mrs. Hatshctt had goto
Sether lor three years,
romance started
s&e 34
fnonths ago, Dcmpsey bloody climax with Mrs. Hatchett's
ikirl nearer his own age. call to Mrs. Dcmpsey, with five
/lie older woman quar- pistol shots punctuating the en-
itly, i suing conversation. Four of the
iiljut, Dempsey called bullets found their mark--Vwo In
atchett. Following the the man's abdomen, one I* his
cf three other guests, chest, and one to an arm. The
fonnd the wosaau puiwoman t-iilleil police. They
two nu-n and a worn- found Dempsey dead In the door- t *n illustrated "aer talk
quarreled forlousiy. ivaj of the Hatchett Seme.
leached Ms tmlbl . i The Noma*
vT Tj
ing stories. In one she said that
Dempsey bad secured the gun from
her bed, and bad threatened
her. Later, s** declared that she
wan unable to remember anything.
As ro wiiai Dempsey wfcs doing
white iis sweetheart called his
Zandt county landowner, and his
cousin, J. M. Simrns. Hoblis con-
fessed poisoning Papen Bradley,
the man whose wife Hobbs "had-
known" for 22 years. Bradley's
body was next placed in a liay-
field barn, aud the building «et
afire.
Mrs. Dora Watson Bradley, w|i#
had married the murdered u<sn
In tWO, was absolved, in the coi
blame In her husband's death.
Hobbs' statement to Sheriff Jess
Sweeten revealed that Hobbs hfiS
poisoned a soft _ drink offered
Bradley, and that the latter died
In the hack seat of an automobile
after Hobbs and Slmms had driven
out of Athens last Friday after-
«WN| V
Slmms' statement said that be
knew nothing of the polsonedi
drink before Bradley died in xbu
car.
Tlie body, both confession!
agreed, was placed in the barn,
and it was set ablaze. The half,
cremated remains were discovered
Saturday.
Hobbs said that, on the insist-
ence of her folks, the then Dora
W„(m.ii married Bradley two years
ago. Their relationship continued
after the marriage. *
"I talked to her," Hobbs said,
"and tried to get her not to
marry, but she said that her folk*
wanted her to marry. After Dor*
married, I continued to come to
her house, but I would always
come when her husband was not
at home. He worked on the road.
"I often took her driving in my
car. Dora was dissatisfied with
being married, and wanted to get
rid of her husband, hut he would
not leave her, and would not let
her leave him."
" I
■ I
m
Health Week to
Close with Mass
Meeting, Sunday
San Antonio's observance of 1042
National Negro Health week-
April 5 to 12—will close Sunday
with a general meeting of citizens
to be held at the Library aiiitlto-
rlum at 5 o'clock. It was announc-
ed Wednesday by S. J. Sutton,
general chairman of the Volunteer
Health league, which is sponsoring
the health week program. The
meeting Is being held in lien of
the annual health parade which
will be omitted this year on ac-
count of the war, Sutton said.
Speakers on the program will in-
clude Dr. W. A. King, city health
officer; Dr. J. W. Goode, chair-
man of the board of health; and
Mrs. W. W. Maxwell, president
of the Bexar County Medical aux-
iliary. George H. Craie of th«
Bexar County Tuberculosis asso-
ciation, will show a new mot lost
picture, entitled, "Another to Con-
quer."
The chairman also ' announced J
that a garden display Is being
planned by the Woman's ®!ub un.
der the chairmanship of Mrs.
Mabel h. Booker, Mrs. O. a
Fitzgerald and Mrs. W. V. Htir.l
are those who will exhibit
i. R. .Mnvfis, win act as chalg-
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