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VOLUME 17—NUMBER 50
With Supplement, Oul of City, 12c
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948
With Supplement, Out of City, \U
PRICK TEN CENT!
WOMEN KILL TWO MEN AS 1947 WANES
Woman Drives
Ice Pick Into
Man's Lung
THE second of two men to be
slain by women in the last
week of 1947 "died, Sunday,
, when Albert Slade, Jr., suc-
cumbed at Santa Rosa hospital.
His wife, Mrs. Jessie Slade 31,
bad plunged an ice pick deep
into his left shoulder, Christinas
day, at the family residence, 41
Rudolph street, following n terrific
I Christmas eve beating adinlnlster-
I *d to her by Slade.
L According to Mrs. Slade, her hus*
I baud had beaten her repeatedly, nnd
her face ami body bear marks und
gears that are Paid to have cohie
from his nttackH in tlie past, lie
recently boat her with an Iron pipe.
An autopsy, Mild by Justify of the
Fence Krank Vunghau to have lieen
unauthorized, and |ierformed by I>r.
J. M. Moore, disclosed tIk* ice plek
haW punctured Shole's lime lionler!
nnd covering of the heart, canting n
hemorrhage. County doctors were
ordered to perform another autopsy
However, it was also report««d
t!:n! a hrniu abace** was found, and
be was unable to determine the
cause of death.
^Irs. Hlade said that the man
fcm hef continually, and that she
Has tired of taking Id* brutal mis
treatment
After he was stahl ed. Slade stum-
bled onto the back porch of Whit-
Bey M. Wilson, MM St. Martin
®rcaue, and asked Wilson to call a
doctor. Wilsou pulled the lev pick
from Slade'a shoulder, ami the*
wounded man was carried to Santa
Rota hospital, whore he died at
• 40 Sunday erenlng.
A charge of murder was filed
^gainst Wr*. Slade, Tuesday, In
u«tif of the Peace Vauglian's
lurt/ with the woman being later
lease! under SI.•"•00 bond.
'Men Crash into
Plate Glass in
Christmas Bailie
Evidently, the "Peace on earth,
gtHKl will to Juki" idea doesn't mem
Very much to a young Harrison
•trcet'insn, who, according to po-
lice records stnhlted n Dawsoa
atreet woman In tho liack, while nl a
North New Itraunfels iTtnoe bar,
Christmas day, with the ct precipi-
tating ■ uilhl "riot."
According to pollie reports. Frank
Basel. 80S Harrison street, was the
knife wltlder, and suffering a minor
knife wound In her bii k nan Miss
Jtf.irjr Smith, addreu listed as 153r
| Dawson ttrect.
Itlchard Deary, 21. 11.1 Harrison
atreet. and Milton An run, 4S, 21W
Vanuesa, allegedly took "gldea" In
llic affray, and in the ensuing
aniffle, Aaron was cut on the right
h ind, and the fight, by then a free-
forall. continued to the outside of
the establishment, where all four
principal* crashed through the
plute glass window of a barher
| >p next door.
Ti e belligerents nil suffered minor
#>unds with their being treated by
private physicians.
Andrew Freeland, owner of the
liullillng. estimated tho dnniage to
tbe Imrlier ahop window at $7.">, for
wbMi be assumed responsibility.
I A'o nrrest waa made In the case.
Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, in National Convention Here, Make Pilgrimage to Alamo
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Woman SI ays Common-law
Husband Who Reveals
"Family Affairs"
A 26-year-old woman fatally knifed her common law husband,
late Friday, Dec, 26, in an altercation, in an Agnes street
tavern, that developed the woman said, because !' the man 'e
j disclosure of "family affairs."
'|j The man slain was George Washington Spencil, 36, 118
■ Clarence, who died shortly after being admitted to Stinta Rom
hospital, about 6:40, Friday evening. Spencil suffered a deep
f cut in the upper right chest, and — —
was stabbed, also, above the left
I eye.
! A few hours later. Miss Betty
j Mae Calvert apiieared at the shcr-
| iff's office, where she admitted
the killing and was booked for nitir-
j der. Spencil'a slaying was the
eleventh for 11)47.
FIRST OF TWO
Speneil's death was the first
of two men to lie slain by wo-
men in the fading days of IS47.
Miss Calvert said that she and
i Spend! bad be«i living together
as man and wife since J044, The
i day of the killing, she said that she
{and the man were at the bar of
j Bee's place, 112 Agnes street—the
scene of another murder in May—j of second degree
; drinl.ing whiskey, when "George got | slaying of Italph
White Arkaib.au
Gets 21 Y ears
For Killing \egro
Murderer's Brother and
Sister to be Tried
As Accessories
By The Associated N -ifrn Pr-*s
JONESBOUO. Ark.—Pound guilty
murder in
IKmaidrton,
the
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to telling the people there what he last Sept. 21. Walter Montague. ttt-
! had done for me and my folks, " year-old local huairexs nun, white.
She said that she remonstrated was sentenced by Judge An\ Harrf-
Iwith Spencil abdut revealing their son In Craighead iret *t *ourt here
j personal affairs, with his allegedly to L l years In the stat* penitentiary,
replying that If she didn't like what The Jury returned It* verdict after
lie was doing and saying, ".. you leas than four hour*' MH rat)<m.
j know what you can do." Montague, prenUb nt f the Jouea-
Bpencil pulled and opened his boro Transfer company, was ehnreed
knife. The woman, who is left-hand- with killing IHmaldaon. -in employee,
ed, put her hand in her coat pocket. ; in company office* in the prest'ooe
and opened her knife. Witnesses of bis brother and aiatrr The <
said that Hpencil shoved the woman victed man pleads *elf-«Wcnse.
| against a door of the place. | Ills brother. ItyrniH, 44. and mister.
She drove the raaor-sharp bladel Miss Gladys Montague, 40. aw
deep into hla cheat. Ho swiftly did 1 scheduled to face charges of first
she strike, that none realised the , degree murder an eomseortee to ttai
man had been cut. When lie, ex- t crime, at anolh** t««ra >f (he ■-■ml
^ ciaVute<t -Oh, tHnt womiu ha* cut \ nrne was releuee* <m
',n^ • «*>metwk*y an^w^Ted that] bond pending aa sm>*Mii ►# «tntt
Vr I "®lere nothing wrong with you." . supreme court.
*V* K i Rnnticll Inalaliwl «•,>> ft I I a I
Ijist Sunday afternoon, the members of l>elta Sigma
Theta worority, which behl its nineteenth annual convention
here, Dec. 27-31, took time out from Its business sesslona
tt> make the traditional pilgrimage of Uslting organizations
to the Alamo, where a wreath was pin ml at the historic
Texas shrine of liberty.
From left to right, in the front row, are: Miss Lucia
T. Thomas, Chicago attorney, formerly of San Antonio,
the (jaughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Dell McKlnney 912 North San
Jacinto; Mrs. Christine S. Shackles, Austin, director, south-
west region; Mra. Loulterta Wilson, Cincinnati, Ohio, chair-
man, standards committee; Miss Eva Dixon, Kansas City;
Mo.; Mrs. Minerva Johnson, Nashville, Tenn., grand histor-
ian; Mrs. Dorothy Lrmss. Philadelphia, Pa., grand Joamal-
1st; Miss Dorothy I. Height, New York, N. Y., grand Ylee
president; and chairman of Hie national convention com-
mittee; Mrs. Uattle Briscoe, San Antonio, president of the
host chapter; Mrs. Beatrice R. Penman, Kansas City, Kan.,
grand treasurer; Mrs. Myra D. Hem mine*, San Antonio, a
founder of the sorority, and co-chairman of the national
convention committee; Mrs. Ruen S. Cann, Cincinnati, Ohio,
grand secretary; Mrs. Gloria Hewlett Glover, Gary, Ind.,
under graduate coordinator; Mrs. Mae Wright Downs, grand
I Rpesicij insisted that he had l*eeu I
dent, Baltfmire. JM.; Mrs Ethel Has®* flarrls piii-. '"f; *'"1 'frr Silt* Calvert :
.bnrgh. Pa., Pan-Hcllcnlc representative; Mr. Ir.-ile hand, with the woman ntn-
"ellan Kin,, Phoenix, Anz, director, fnr^ve,t TgtoJ ■'"* "" "t the'
Mrs. Kdnn Johnson Morris. Oarr, Ifid.; Mrs. Jtroleuu Sneed' Fi Jt ,n roflm' al"1 ont *
,. "w|. I side door. She then walked to a hus I
*top, caught n hus, and w«nt to the '
l'clrolt, Mich., director, midwest region; Mra. Addle Jonet,
>tciiiphl , Tenn., director, aoutheru region; Mrs. Muriel
Johnson, Glen Hurnie, Md., director, eastern region; Mrs.
Alyce Monroe Reld, Kansas Cl|y, Mo., director, central
region; Mrs. Alma Harlee, Philadelphia, Pa., chairman of
the Jewelry committee; Miss ISertell Collins Wright, chnlr-
Bnui public affairs committee.
Photo by Col.man
Deltas Elect Dorothy Height New President
Wiley Will Not
Readmit Student
Council Members
Car Kills Woman
Crossing Street
Myra Hemmings
OfS.A.Named
Historian
CLIMAXING one of the most
interesting and successful
conventions in the history of i 40-year-old San Antonio woman died Ids than an hour after
the organization, Delta Sigma \ she had been struck by an automobile in the 5900 block of
Theta, in its linal day. Wed West Commerce, the day before Christma,, for the fourth Negro
uninnir of K o n n ri H Kontiat .« .n ..... ' . 0 .
MARSHALL, Tcxn*.—Wiley col-
lege, which was closed by executive
order of President E. C. McLcod,
Dec. IS, when tin* student body I
angrily walled out, as Bishop Rob- | 'f*
ert N. Brooks attempted to an- | L1?® or^niza«on, Delta Blgma
nounce, at a meet lug, Wednesday,
und In dissolving the student cone "h"r, ,• e'®cted Mlss Dorothy brought the city s total traffic toll to 47.
I. Height of New York City, N. v, Killed was Miss Hattie Mae Hatchet, 300 Albert street, who
was ,truck by a car driven by Tom Ropkit 25, 112 Queen's
mittee or council, nnd other actions
taken by the board of trustees, has
(See WILEY, Page 5.)
Nine Dixie College Heads
Oppose End of Jim Crow
By The Associated Ne*ro Press
nyASHlNGTON, D. 0—Presidents of nine white southern col-
m lege, bitterly attacked the recommendation of the Pres-
ident', commission on higher education that tho dual lystem
of schools, now in effect in 17 states, be eliminated, and agreed
with four southern members of the commission thit it would
be "impractical and unwise" to end the Rgregation of Negro
and white children in the south by atw government edict.
The nine president* were Colgate condl)tills affect adversely tin
W. IMrdeu Jr., Cnlverslty of Vir-
ginia ; Bennet H. Branacotub, Van
derhllt; Isaiah Bowman, John Hop-
kins; Hamilton Holt, Uolllna col-
lege : John D. Williams, University
of Mississippi; Father IWtrlck J.
Jlulloran, Bt. Louis university; Bn-
fua C, Harris. Tulane university; T.
8. Painter, University of Terns;
and Lewi* W. Jones University of
ArkanM*
The dissenting bloc of the eotn-
nlaalon Included Douglas Houthball
Freeman, editor of the Richmond
Newa Leader; Arthur H. Complon,
ebnncellor, Washington nniverslty j
St Louis; Lewi* W. Jones, and
Ooodrlcli C. White, president, Euiory
university, Atlanta.
Tlilf rroup had Issued * statement
"W* mognic* that
the llres
of our Negro citizens' aud that
groat Inequality of opportunity,
economic and educational, is a fact
We are concerned that as rapidly as
possible conditions should be Im-
proved, Inequalities removed aud
greater opportunities provided for
all our people.
"But we believe that efforts to-
ward these ends must, in the south,
be mndc within the established pat-
terns of social relationship*. We be-
lieve that pronouncements such as
those on the question of segregation
jeopard lie these efforts, Impede
progress and threaten tragedy to tti#
people of the a«uth, both white and
Negro."
The college presidents held that
(3ee HEAPS, Page 8.)
grand president for 194S-A0. Miss
Height was graud vice president,
A San Antouian, and one of the
founders of the organization, Mrs.
MISS DOROTHY IIKK.IIT
Myra J. Hemming^, was elected to
tho post of hlstor'an.
Other grand officers named were
—Mrs. lira Lee Mitchell of New
Orleans, vice president; Mrs. Rcba
Cann of Cincinnati, Ohio, reelected
secretary; Mrs. Beatrice Penman
of Kansas City, Kansas, reelected
treasurer; and Mrs. Dnrothy Lymas
of Philadelphia, Pa., reelected
Journalist.
Three hundred and fifty register-
ed delegates, representing 1U8 cliap-
(8ee DF.LTAS, page S.)
court, at 3 :ill o'clock In the after-
noon. She died at 4 :L"0 In Santa I
Ros* hospital.
Miss Hatchet suffered compound
fractures of both legs aud left
arm, and ber left eye was knocked I
out.
One witness said that the death
ear, a 1IM1 Cadillac sedan, had,
Just before the accident, pa«siil hint
on the right side, trnvellug between
,'iO nnd liS miles an hour.
According to other it I tn rises. Miss
Hatchet was crossing from the north
to the south side of the street, ami
was n few Inches from the gravel
shoulder when she wns struck, with
the woman being hurled over the
hood. Either her clothes or liody
tore the handle off the left car door.
Hopkins, who was going west on
Commerce, said that In trying to
pess a car traveling In the same
direction, he did not see Miss Hat-
chet crossing the street Hopkins
said he was going about 3.1 miles an
hour. lie wus booked for negli-
gent homicide.
■
SLASHED BY ACCUSER
fleorgo Warner, 3«, 12(1 Vargas
street, aaid that he was slashed on
tile cheek, Saturday, by a man who
npproaehed him lu the 800 block
of Hedge* street, and accused Warn-
er of dealing "some wine."
PISTOL STOLEN
Clarence Wilson. B01 II11 d s o n
street, told pollcs that * ,3s i-allbre
plstoi was stolen. Saturday, front
his car, parked <n front of the
bouse.
Santa Fe R.R.
Workers Win
Damages Denied
Woman Beaten
By Memphis Cops
By The Associated Negro Pre.s
MKMFH1&- lidetaide Hid*
son. 2S, lost Iter suit lor &f,000
auaiust (wo Memphis poliremcn
whom she rharqed with heatiiu;
her brutally without cause after
arresting her some weeks ago.
The two white policemen, W. L.
Williams aiar.l 1. S. I*awrenee,
claimed Miss Hudson was in-
sulting and abusive ami defied
tliem to arrest Iter, apparently
indicating these were sufficient
reason* for fcwHwg her.
A jury heard the ease in cir-
cuit court and found f; r the
pclicemcn. The local \ \\t I*
liad collected money to enable
the suit to be filed, as part of
an ef.ort to halt the virious
brutality of Memphis police.
Cop Plays Santa
OneD ay,Framed
! home of a sister.
As Spend!, knife in hand, .-based
the woman into the kitchen, Claude
Thompson, .TO, 212 Holland street,
who said he thought they were
ploying, grabbed SpencU's arm. and
told him "to quit playing like that."
Spencil went outside, where, a
few moments later, Charlie Kanf-
man, it illu West Russell (rear),
found him lying In the street, where
he. had collapsed. Kaufman snld
that Spencil had told hlci 'hat he
had been cut. aud had asked him
i Kaufman
Kaufman hud witnessed the alt.
cation between the man and woman
UniversalMilitary
Training Opposed
By Veteran Croup
nnd had s* cn h<
the chest, but h<
know that she
hand.
The wounded
Santa Rosa h.
ambulance, whet
ed dead shortly
About 11 o'cloc
Calvert walked
office, and surr
Beside Tlaonii
other witnesses
street. 8617
Miss FrunMe >
lough.
By The Associated Nc«f.i I're*s
\N ANIIIN<;t« >N —Insisting that
univerKsI military 'raming Is Inttk
unrenlislie ami waNteful m anatomle
age, the American vetei
tee on Thursday asked
the house Repuldiean x
mittee to reject all
conipuUory training.
"Cnlversal military trslni
utslde with him. j
de«'lared. "I MT provides
defense for this Country
modern atomic bai'teriojogteai
fare than did (Yang's Magi not
but threatens to lull us Into
same feeling of fab*** security.
"L'MT is now Mrir nrotuoti l
the same lu
three-rim: <
ir strike St
snld thnf 1
uid a knife
man was a
ipital in a
« he was in
mcil in |
' didn't
in her
ried to
ins eommit-
me^nbers at
pering r . ®.
0[xmals fot
ng Is
I rob-
p AVO
mors
gal dm
war-
line,
the
IXtil t
hot
Mis
Howard
HOUSE ENTERED
One dollar was reported
from the home of Mrs. Kliucr
liauis, ItilfT Montana treari
thieves, Sunday.
outspoken advo
training have i
selves with th<
recom mends tloa
"The l'nsilde
states that ir Hi
MT would hav,
! of weakening o
ithen the adopt
of
witb
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>'he
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12 Mu;ders, 4Traffic Deaths,
Fidit for Jobs Suspended, Next „ , . . '
.. - i ^ I ouicide in j. A., in 1947
By The Assoc dNTiroTB
CHICAGO, udge Walter L. L«-|
Buy of U. 8 district court handed
down a three t>age decision here last
week upholdiUK the right of TMX)
Negro porter- and brskemen of the
Santa Fe rftilnwid to continue in
their Jobs ami thus temporarily end-
*d a five-ye .ad fisht to block I
efforts of wMlc brskemen to take
their Jobs, tfe'cause they were uot
union membei
The dlschaigcd workers, some of
whom had bet n employetl by the
Wllruad since 1800, will l e allowed ;
to work desji. the fact that the
union will not admit them as mem-
' era, bnt the will not work ac-
cording to atnt 'illy rizhts. The Ne-
fro train workers were represi nted j
hy Atty. Rich I K. We«tbroi>Ka.
hit*with knucks
Mil
lag, 2IS Ord street, |
- to police that she had I
wen slugged on Christmas eve, by |
a man wear!'brass knuckles, st
llaekVrry *, Ord fstrefds with her i
glasses b# lu, broken. Sl e Identl-1
«ed her K '<t. asalr.st whtui.
"he Mild, .he ild fl In charges. I
INDIAN ll'OI.IS.—Patrolman
Ja< que Durham had the unique
mirieiSl i f being praised I.)
u nfardc-titiiti' family for hi-
re-hiiidling of the (lirlstntas
spirit one day, ami, two dais
later, findir; himself suspee l
etl on what lie calls a "trinuii
ed-tip charge of iastibonlina
lion."* m
Tlte story goes hack several
months ago when Durham whs
the rcntr.il figure in a police
sltnhcnp in which he rliurged
certain officers and superior*
with aerepllng bribes front
Camblers. Kor Ills part in the
slialiciip, Durham declares he
has been made lite hull of
numerous r It a r ( e s Ineludiu;
murder.
Monday, Dec. tf, Duriiam ar
rested Walter Italian! (white)
for fleeing a store with a bos
of unpaid groceries. Ilall.rd.
who Is father of (we sick chll
dren, had been laid up for five
months with a leg Injur), lie
went to the store to spend his
Ust $10 for groceries. White in
the slure, he derided to !ik>
(See NAVfA. Page 5.1
| * third less than the appalling all-time high of 18 if 1046
j - "there were 12 homicides in the city and county, in the year just
closed, involving Ncgioes. One was interracial, the murder of
a Latin American by a Negro. The 1947 total wia the smn'lnU
since 1943. when eight were slain To 1940 goes the best record
of the past two decades. Only two were slain during that year
* ,ere were seven kiIled ,n 1941' w,th homicides takirg , 3„".V)Cn
and startling Jump to 14
j There were eight in HH.*!, t
In 1044, fifteen lu UHo, m
(record is In ]!I4(L
Two of the past year's i
came during Ih last iittie
the year, within a couple <
of each other.
Coiucideiitilly, both w-
stances "of wimien killing m
first such siayingH of the
One Suicide
Of s number of attoiupt-
waa only one sul fde In 1 ? 7.
'80-year-old Man Ingrain, \l
hliiiaelf to death, Sept. s
four Traffic Heaths
The year saw four per -n
in traffle mishaps, ihroc wit
city liaiiiH, one outside t!
• but within the county. Tlie
• last fatality occurred with t
in
MM2.
een
the
>f i\n\s
< f the year rtuiiaining
Blade favorite VI
Of U 47's twehe tunn
eight were stahlie I
death, three were steit
and one was mortally
a shotgun. In the hi i f(
were com mi !ed with •
murderous r: *i r harp :
as the "Dull.i* spe ii.-
Hidy -men.
seems to CSl
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