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I Ho Progress Without Struggle '
"If there is no struggle, there is
■o progress. Those who profess to
hvor freedom, and yet depreciat*
agitation, are men who want ero|*
without ploughing np the ground.
.. . Power concedes nothing without
• demand. It never did and never
will." —Frederick Douglast
San Antonio register
City Edition 12c
RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS
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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FHIOAT. FKIIKt AHY 1, 1*57
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ITS 101 K NEWSPAPI
Gov't Asks Joe
Louis to Pay More
Than He Made
$1,150,000 Already Paid,
$1,200,000 Asked, Total
$50,000 Over Earnings
tfy th* Aaooclated Ntiro Prfin
CHICAGO—L'ni'le Hnm Is nuking
krnirr htuvjtwcliht champion Joe
Loiili to !>•}' ninri- in tuxen than
Ic ever f ru«' In th« rin*.
This fontimijoa If ramie !>}• toe
Jo Lou I. JTund, lnr„ fl r a eirc-
tul financial analy«i« of Joc'n tax rt-
luriw durinj hl« rin* rarwt, and
tftrr hi* rttirrmrnt. The rtatiatical
Wudy wn« made by accountants for
the fund, a non-profit organisation
at Post Office Hoi 1174 in Chicago
which ia heade<l by ex-champlon Jack
Dein| y. The funil la conducting a
ranipnign to obtain a arttleinent of
Jiie's tai trouble*.
Vain* Information from Joe I-oui*
kltnaelf, a well aa all available tax
figure*, the fund found that Joe'*
tax pavment* to the government have
exceeded 11.1511,0011. The internal rev
«nue bureau i* now nuking added
payment* of f1,200,000 in tnxea, |>en
altie* and lntere*t.
The total bill, paid and nnpald,
add* up to 'j,:i.vi,(Kio, which i* ao,
' IKMI more than he ever enrned in the
I ring after hi* manager* took their 50
1 per cent out of hi* |tiir*e#<,
! "My gro«* pur*e« during my ring
'career," *tate* Joe, "came to a total
|,f *4,000.000. Half went to my man-
f acers and more than half of the net
tlhit wa* left has gone to the govern
Bicnt for taxea."
(lrgnniter of the Joe I^Mli* fund.
bu*inesamen John Younghcin of Nor-
folk, Xebraaka, and Oeorge Reeve*,
f Denver, jatint out that Joe* tax bill
present* more penalties and in
enat than actual tnxea. "Joe has
a victim of bud bookkeeping,
leclnred Yoangheln. "Contrary to
bat aome | eople think, lie hu* paid
plenty—-more than a million dollars
In all. Hut because he knew nothing
about finance* and got bad advice ou
Something he knew nothing about, he
wound up In trouble with I'ncle Sain.
Joe paid every penny of taxes he
wn* told to pay by hia accountants
during the best jeart of lila career.
'Some critics of Joe claim that
> never paid hia taxes. Nothing
uld be further from the truth, lie
paid I'ncle Sam far wore than
ict people. Joe paid a million dol-
r>. which was all !• thought he
wed. Now the government wants
norc and Joe would like to pay every
hiug thev ask for in penalties and
merest. But Joe ju t <loe«n-t have
be money.
"We feel that the American public
.III want to help Joe out of his trou-
lies. Joe did mure than bis share for i
Second Attempt to "Get" 'Bama Leader Fails
(See MH'IH, Page 5.1
>ippi Negro
Editor Wants
[ore Uncle Toms
R> rbe **BorHted Negrr Pre«s
JACKSON. Mi«*. — "The South
.jecd* more so-called 'Uncle Tom*.'
to keep the Negro race from being
led over a precipice," according to
Percy Greene, editor of the weekly
Jackson Advocate.
In an editorial last week. Greene
■mid that Negro leaders who hove
pleaded moderation on the segrega-
tion Issue, and have nought to main-
tain a "friendly, respectful attitude'
to white lenders have been called "I n-
lle Toms." , , .
The editor said "new and brash
Negro leadership" has caused members
of his race to "lose whatever wel-
come they might have hnd in the coun-
cils of authority by vituperative,^vin-
dictive and caluminous speeches.
Greene declared that "the ma*ses
of Negroes In the South are begin-
ning to see that they are being led
over a precipice by the siren calls of
the new Negro leadership.
Greene pointed out that the ^
Tom" name was calculated by the
"new Negro leadership to subject con-
aervative Negroes to ridicule, derision
and contempt by the Negro communi-
Greene placed the late Booker T
Washington at the bead of the list
•( "Unci* Toms."
"The greatest need for the Negro
In Jackson, Miss., and the rest of the
South Is more and more Uncle Toms,
Greene stated. ^
JjegionReady to Fight
For Jim Crow Says
National Commander
r By the Associated Negro Press
ATLANTA, Ga.—Negro veterans of
the V. S. armed forces here unci
throughout the nation were startled
Thursday, when W. C. (Pan) Daniel,
national commander of the American
legion, told the Georgia legislature
that the Legion was ready "to flgnt
to preserve segregation.
Daniel assured the legislators that
the American Legion Is a staunch ad-
vocate of atatee' rights, and ' will fight
to uphold the traditions of Georgia.
Then, after his 'stirring speech,
Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin con-
ferred the rank of "colonel" on the
Legion's commander.
iff isws «
Crockett street, complained to police,
Tuesday, that a 37-year-old man,
Whom she had Invited into her opart-
best. kit ktr with M Hat*
§r ; - '
ANDREW JAC KSON
ONE HIDE TOO MANY—A 29-
year-old San Antonian who bad been
taking joy rides since 1052—in other
Iteople's cars, without their knowl-
rdge or consent—t«K k one ride too
many, last week.
He also made n mistake when he
developed a Cadillac complex, when,
for the past five years, his taste has
been running to Ford*—for a reason
of course.
And he certainly slipped when he
"borrowed" a car that belonged to
the federel Nirenn of narcotic*—Mr.
Sam himself—even though the fed-
• nil men didn't know the cur hnd been
"borrowed** for a day or ho.
At any rate, overplaying his hand
led to the arret.t, Thursday, Febru-
ary 24. of Andrew Jackson, IMC
Westfall, who was hooked for theft
over with his being turned over
to the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion, Friday, hooked for theft of
government property, and jailed.
Jackson told police that he had
taken the car from the Menger park-
ing lot at Ilonhuiii and Crockett
streets, Wednesday, January 23, drove
it that night, then parked • it nenr
the office of the Alamo Iron works
When he returned Thursday night,
January 24. the car was still where
he had left it. So he drove it again.
That's when he stretched his luck.
The federals, in the interim, had dis-
covered their blue and cream Caddie
coupe was missing, and reported it
stolen. Patrolman John Carver spot-
ted it, at Water and Kast Commerce,
and Jackson wrs arrested.
SINCE *R2—NEVER CAUGHT
Jackson said that he had stolen
some 2ft cars during the past
"several" months, lie added that
he hnd been stealing cars from
the downtown area, taking them
for joy rides, since 1952, and had
never been caught. t'snally. he
said, he left the stolen vehicles
In the rear of the Coca-Cola bot-
tling company.
Ordinarily, he told officers, ears he
took were 1050 Fords, or older, be
cause they were the easiest to steal.
He described a simple method he used
to stort the machines.
Has Traffic Tickets
He evidently wasn't too careful with
his driving, either. At the time of
his arrest Jackson had in his posses-
sion numerous traffic tickets for speed
ing, running red lights, no driver's
license, and other infractions. All coin
mitted In stolen cars, of course.
Dixie Whites Not Free to Speak, Write,
Assemble or Petition, Atlanta Told
NAACP Secretary Says
South Now Facing
Thought Control
Ella Fitzgerald's
Airline Suit
Settled for $7500
Woman, Axed by
Mate, Sues U. Sr
Wins $25,000
Asa Spaulding
On Important
Federal Body
Bv the Associated Negro Press
WASHINGTON — Asa Spaulding
of Durham, N. C.—one of the coun-
try's foremost Negro authorities on
insurance and banking—has been ap-
pointed n member of the national com-
mittee of the Voluntary Home Mort-
gage Credit program.
The 15-man committee, composed of
leaders in hanking, mortgage and
insurance, and building, Is the policy
making body of the VF1MCP—a pro-
gram established by the present admin-
istration to facilitate the flow of gov-
ernment insured and guaranteed home
loans to small towns, remote communi-
ties and minority groups.
Spaulding is vice president and ac-
tuary of the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance company, Durham. He
is also director of the Mechanics and
Farmers bonk at Durham and of the
Mutual Building and Loan associa-
tion, also at Durham.
Spaulding is the first Negro actuory
in the country. He has served as con-
sulting actuary for the Winston Mu-
tual Life Insurance company, the
Dunbar Life Insurance company, and
the National Insurance association of
which he has also been first vice presi-
dent and chairman of the executive
committee.
Owensboro Schools
To Desegregate
Bv the Associated Negro Press
OWENSBORO, Ky.—Resident! of
this city were elated Monday to learu
that the board of education of Web-
ster county, scene of Bchool disorders
last year, has informed the U. 8.
District Judge Henry X/. Brooks that
the board will desegregate "all schools
under its jurisdiction" next Septem-
ber. Board members said the Integra-
tion program was adopted unanimous-
ly-
The announcement was an answer
to a suit filed by James A. Crumlin,
attorney for the NAACP, after Negro
pupils were refused admission to
Clay elementary school in Webster
countj last September.
Air Discrimination
Case is Settled
Out of Court
By the Associated Negro Press
NEW YORK—Songstress Ella Fitz-
gerald and her traveling group last
week settled a damage suit against
the Pan-American World airways out
of court.
A representative of the airline said
they were bumped off one of the
company's planes through "inndvert-
. and not l * cause of racial dis-
crimination. The settlement was for
$7,000.
The suit was filed in federal court
in December, 1954. It charged that
earlier in ihe year, during n Honolulu
stopover, Miss Fitzgerald, her accom-
panist and her secretary were pre
vented from continuing on a Son
Francisco-Australia flight because of
their race.
The suit further contended that the
incident caused great embarrassment
and prevented Miss Fitzgerald from
keeping her Australian committments.
The PWA spokesman said the sing-
er wus "a frequent and valued cus-
tomer of rail-American" and expressed
regret that she was inconvenienced.
Three Killed
As Tornado
Hits Louisiana
By the AssocIr.ted Negro Press
PRINCETON, La.—At least three
Negroes died last week as tornadoes
hit points In Louisiana. Oklahoma and
Missouri, leaving death and destruc-
tion in their wakes.
A total of 11 persons were killed
in the three states. Sixteen persons
were injured and sixteen homes
wrecked.
The three Negroes were killed and
six others injured as the twister struck
between Princeton and Bellevue in
northwestern Louisiana. Five homes
were demolished and a dozen badly
damaged.
Listed as dead in Louisiana were
Alison Low, 58, and his wife, Mny
Ann, 56, both of whom died in the
collapse of their home. Ruth Bradford,
six-month old infant, was killed In
another house.
At Shreveport, Mrs. Josephine John-
son, 64. was one of many persons in-
jured by flying debris. She told
newsmen:
"The door blew open and I got up
to Hose It. Before I could close it,
the roof blew off and the walls fell
down."
Mrs. Gussie Piatt, 30, treated at
a Shreveport hospital, told this
story:
"It knocked me out, but when I
came to I was wedged against the
gate. I got loose and was brought
to Shrevc|>ort.'*
She suffered a broken right arm
and it took six stitches to close a rip
In her ear.
All of the dead in Louisiana were
Negroes, and so were the Injured ex-
cept for one man.
♦
Solon Charges
He's Stripped
Of Seniority
By the Associated Negro Press
WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam
Clayton I'owell, Jr., the controversial
congressman front Harlem, chnrged
this week that the house education
and labor committee "has stripped"
him of his seniority.
Powell called a press conference
and told newsmen that the committee
voted 10 to 0 against a motion calling
upon the Chairman to respect senior-
ity in the appointment of sub-commit-
tee chairmen.
The New York congressman said
the motion was offered by Rep. Edith
(ireen, Democrat of Oregon, after Rep.
Graham Barden, Democrat of North
Carolina, and chairman of the com
inittee, told him he would not be
named to head a sub-committee.
Powell said that every Republican
member of the committee voted with
Bardeu, along with six Democrats, of
whom five are going to be named to
head tub-committees.
A member of the committee since
he was elected to congress 14 years
ago, Powell has been under fire from
the Democratic colleagues because he
supported President Elsenhower a re-
(See SOLON, Page *J
By the Associated Negro Pra«i
^TLANTA, Ga NAACP Executive Secretly Roy Wilkins,
addressing; a meeting of the Atlanta HAACP last week, de-
clared that "most white people in the ■•nth are not free to-
day."
Wilkins said the white southerner il not free to speak, to
write, to assemble, or to petition.
matte to think their own
has conn* from any high offi-
ia).
He added:
kVX, WW IWKVUawV)
4' They are on the brink of being
ights," the fiery- Negro lender as- rebuke
thoughts,
serted in a speech which also at-
tacked President Eisenhower for not
using "hiN high office" to curb law-
lessness and violence against the Ne-
gro in the South.
Of th" situation of the white south-
erner, Wilkins added:
'Their ministers are not free to
preach unless their sermons uphold
segregation. Even those who believe
in segregation, but do not believe in
the wild words and the cowardly
crimes of the extremists, do not dare
to offer a inild dissent."
The NAACP officer said the Presi-
dent con see the plight of the Hun-
garians, he gives the drouth area his
l>ersonal attention, but he "chooses
to remain silent while American citi-
zens are being bludgeoned out of their
freedom and their rights."
Wilkins said "our churches have
been bombed, o«r mlniatera arretted,
our boys and girls driven from school
by mobs, our families uprooted and
made to flee for their lives" and no
The wave of terror and
intimidation that has swept sections
of the South in recent weeks without
rebuke from < ur president or from
any other VespnuHihle federal or local
official is a reproach to our nation
and to humo decency."
Wilkins noted that Georgia's Gov.
Marvin Griffin, in a recent address
to the legislature, colled for the pres-
ervation of racial segregation "no
matter what any court may rule."
By this declaration, Wilkins said,
Griffin "was telling all irresponsible
elements in Georgia, and, indeed, in
the South, that they need not pay at-
tention to the courts. He was giving
a green light to the hoodlums.
"The dynonuter, the sniper, the poi-
son pen artist, the cross burner and
the run-of-the-mill mobster have all
been given *iji*olut on in advance by
Gov. QriUiiM and others like him in
Bomber Pitied
By Most Badly
Hurt Victim
By the Aaaoclated Negro Press
NKW YORK — Two Of the
moat interested persons In the
rapture of New York City's fan-
tastic Mad Bomber were Mr .
Alice Mcl>anlels and IJoyd Hill.
She was hia nut door neighbor
in Waterbury, Conn., and Hill
waa seriously wounded by one of
the S3 bombs planted by the meek
and mild George P. Metesky over
m period of 16 years.
Mrs. McDanlels, mother of 19
children, was flabbergasted to
discover that the terrorist, for
whose capture $20,000 had been
offered, had been her neighbor
for three years.
When she moved in, she said
Metesky and hls twe sisters shout-
ed that they hated them, first be-
cause they were colored, and sec-
ond because of the children. Me-
tesky was especially mean and
warned them to move "or else,"
she itvriiled. She admitted that
now-she was really scared to think
of what could have happened to
them.
HUi wounded by a bomb
planted In the Pennsylvania Rail-
road station men's washroom.
It happened Feb. 21, 1950, aa he
was going about his duties as
porter. He declared that he had
nothing but sympathy for Me-
(See BOMBER, Page 7.)
D. C. Hospital Ruled
Negligent in Mental
Patient's Escape
By the Associated Negro Press
WASHINGTON — Mrs. Barbara
Vanison, who was felled with an
ax two years ago, recently won a
$25,000 suit against the United Stntes.
Mrs. Vanison chnrged the officials
at St. Elizabeth mental hospital with
negligence In permitting her mentally
ill husband to escape in 1054.
The husband returned home and
struck his wife on the head with
hatchet causing a skull fracture and
brain damage.
Judge Itose Ricley, who heard the
ense without a jury, ruled in favor of
Mrs. Vanison, who was 10 at the time
of the incident.
Maurice 8. Vanison, 25, was found
of unsound mipd by the municipal
court judge and committed to St. Eliz-
abeth two years ago. He was accused
at that time of assaulting his wife
and his mother-in-law.
When first committed, he was kept
in maximum security. Finally, when
doctors decided he was no longer
dangerous, he wns transferred to a
minimum security word.
Three weeks after Vanison escaped
he attacked his wife with the hatchet.
His wife contends thot the government
was negligent in pern, tting a pa-
tient to escape and not notifying police
pf the escape or making any effort
to epprsfcend him.
Assistant V. 8. Attorney Edward
O. Fennell claims that the hospital
does not notify police of an escape
If the escapee is not considered dang
erous.
HOB AH I T. TAYLOR
m\H SPEAK EH, SUNDAY — Ho-
bart T. flftiylor of Houston, nation-
ally known Texan, will be the guest
speaker, Bunday afternoon, Febru-
ary 3, at Friendship Baptist church,
when Alamo City branch of the Young
Men's Christian association observes
National IMCA Sunday. The pro-
gram will-start at 3 :30. The Rev. G.
C. Coleman Is pastor of Friendship
Baptist, which is located at 835 Iowa.
Taylor Is president of the Taylor
company, Houston, the H. T. Cab
companyvice president of the First
Eastern Mortgage company of De-
troit, Midi ; member of the board
of directors of the United Negro col-
lege fund; member of the board of
management of the South Central
(Sea SPEAKER, Page 7.)
'Sippi Lily White GOP's Given
Patrouage;HowardKeepsPost
By the Associated Negro prees
JACKSON, Miss.—"Lily White" Bajmblicans of Mississippi,
returning home from the Eisenhower Inaugural ceremonies in
Washington, brought the weloome news to their white constitu-
ents that OOP leaders of the itate will have full power to dis-
pense federal patronage in Mississippi, but without official
recognition by the Republican national committee.
Observers here and in the North, view the "compromise
ns another administration move to
draw continued support from the
white voters of the state. It was
stated that the GOP bigwigs decided
at their Washington meeting to post-
pone "for a short time longer," re-
placing Perry Howard, veteran Negro
lender, as national committeeman fci1
Mississippi.
Howard, for more than a generation,
has held the Negro vote In this state
in the "palm of bis hand," through
activities of his Black and Tan party,
which-is registered under state law as
the ' Grand Ole Patty of Mississippi."
Perry Howard is the only remain-
ing member of the famed GOP quar-
tet oI Negro leaders, who, for more
than Han. were recogniied as
the "mouthpiece" of the Negro elector-
ate thronfhout the country. The other
three, now deceased, were Col. Ros-
ooe Conk'.! . Simmons, Illinois; Bob
Church of Tennessee, and Henry Lin-
coln John* m of Georgia.
Th, Mississippi "Lily White" group,
making a determined effort to oust
Perry BtMrard ">e senior member
of th« Knablican national commit-
tee, to haded by the following: E.
O. Spencer of .In'kson, national com-
mitteeman for the "Mississippi Re-
publics!, Party": Verger, Jack-
son, state chairman, and Mrs. Balfour
Miller, Natchca national committee-
Man Suddenly
Fists Wife
As Cops Watch
William Killough, 40. 1121 West
Mistletoe, wa> arretted Saturday eve-
ning, and booked for aggravated aR-
inult on a female, after he hod struck
his wife, Mrs. Ernestine Killough, on
the face with his fiats, in the pres
ence of police officers.
Mrs. Killough had colled police aft-
er Killough allegedly chased her out
of the house.
Officer W. W. Hudson reported
that he talked to Killough, who con-
sented to leave the premises.
As Killough was walking out of
the door, he punched his wife in the
face with his fists. At the time of
this surprise fisting, Officer R. Stahl
was standing some two feet away from
Killough, and Hudson was about five
feet away.
Tuskcgee Institute
Chapel Burns
To Ground
TUSKEGEE, Ala —The Tuskegee
Institute chapel caught fire near mid-
night Tuesday. January 22, and was
completely destroyed.
Cause of fire was not immediately
determined. However, the first alorm
wns sounded from a nearby dormitory
for women, during the height of a
severe electrical storm.
The fire spread so rapidly that fire
fighting equipment was of little use.
In addition to the Institute volun-
teer fire squad and the fire depart-
ment from the city of Tuskegee, the
Veterans administration hospital fire
department joined in keeping flames
from spreading to other buildings.
Although the chapel was partially
insured, it will be impossible to dupli-
cate much of the fine old timber and
hand work of the original.
Man Killed, Two
Girls Hurt as
School Bus Overturns
COFFEEYILTJE, Miss. — One man
was killed and two teen-age girls In-
jured in a school bus wreck that over-
turned the vehicle.
The dead man was Identified by
state highway patrolmen as 88-.vear-
old Willie Sykes of Coffeevllle. Two
teen-age girls suffered injuries. They
are: •
Anna Ruth Blnnil, lfl, who suffered
a broken hip, and Annie Bell Winters,
also lfl, who received a fractured
knee.
Police said all three were passen-
gers in n school bus when it turned
over on Highway 7. two mt'es south
Bomb Tossed on Porch
Of Rev. King's Home
Fails to Explode
(By the Associated Negro Press)
MONTGOMERY, Ala —a homemade bomb—described by po-
lice as "big enough to blow up half a city block"—misfired
Sunday after it was thrown on the porch of Rev. Martin Luther
King's home.
However, another Negro home was bombed almost simul-
taneously in a new outbreak of racial violence growing out of
the long and bitter fight by the city's 60.000 Negro residents
for integration of public bunes.
The unexploded bomb was found to
contain 12 sticks of dynamite. It lay
untouched for more than an hour be-
fore a state toxicologic dismantled
the apparatus.
Montgomery police roped off the
area while the bomb was being dis-
mantled. For a time, the fuse could
be seen smouldering.
Rev. King, a Baptift minister and
lender of the bus integration move-
ment, was away from home with his
family at the time.
This was the second time within a
month that an nttempt has been
made to blow up his home. On Jan
10, his home wns damaged in a series
of blasts which also damaged four
churches.
Rev. King appeared on the scen<
shortly after the other bomb shattered
one side of the home of Allen Robert
son, a 80-year-old hospital attend
ant.
Tliis bomb was thrown between
the Robertson house and a filling stn
tion.
Two Negro taxi drivers and an-
other employee of the cab compan>
suffered cuts and scratches from fly
ing gloss ond wood.
Robertson and his wife and daugh
ter were asleep in another part of
the house when the blast occurred.
After a mob of about 300 angry
Negroes crowded the area, Rev. King
cautioned:
"Don't get your guns. Don't
shoot bark or tear no one.
"Through our suffering we will
change the hearts of those who
are cowardly enough to throw
dynamite at onr homes."
Later In the day. Rev. King preaoh-
a sermon at his Bell Street Bap-
tist church and called on his followers
for continued resistance without vio-
lence.
"We've got to let it be known oil
over Montgomery that to stop our
quest for equality it is going to be
necessary to blow up 50,000 homes,"
he said.
The 28-year-old leader said Ne-
groes must continue to follow a policy
of non-violence because "our oppres-
sors control the police, the National
guard, even, and if they send the fed-
eral government In here, that will be
white folks, too."
He added: "The world is looking
at Montgomery. We will determine
the integration move over the South.
"Even in the face of death, we
must struggle to save our nation."
ed
Inn Robbed After
Obliging Hijackers
Take Owner Home
A group of youths, who had been
refused after-hours service, obliging-
ly carried a Joe Louis drive tavern
operator to his home, Saturday, and
then, from all indications, returned to
the place and looted it.
O. R. Campbell, 322 Corliss, said
that he was asleep in his place of
business, Campbell's inn, 111 Joe
Louis drive, about 1:30, Saturday
morning, when he was awakened by
six youths who wanted to buy some
beer. Campbell refused to serve them,
ond ordered them to leave.
They then told CYrtnpbell that if he
wanted a ride into town, they would
take him to his residence. He agreed,
and the youths carried him home.
They apparently returned.
Intruders crashed a mr door to
enter the place, broke into a juke
box from which they took $45 in
ash and all the records—100, They
•orried a cigarette vending machine
outside, demolished it, and took about
$16 worth of cigarettes. The de-
stroyed machine was valued at $100.
Liquor Store
Held Up in
Daylight Robbery
A holdup trio slugged the manager
of a Hedges street liquor store, in
daylight robbery, Friday, and es-
caped with about $63.
Wesley Anderson, manager of Bur-
leson Package store, 356 Hedges, told
police that three Anglo-Americans en-
tered the place about 12:30, and ask-
ed for a package of cigarettes.
When Anderson turned to get the
package, one of the trio struck him
with a flashlight, and ordered him into
o rear room, as another scooped up
about $63 in bills and change from
Fender Benders
Smash to Record
Property Damage
Weekly 'Wreck
Period" Losses
Total $12,025
Traffic accident property damages
roared to a new high for a weekly
wreck period." lost week, when San
Antonio's fender-bending and rear-end
smashing battalions crashed, smashed,
tideswiped and banged thnr way to
lumages totnling $12,025. There have
been "periods" when there were mora
ccidents, and more vehicles involved,
but none when damage was a« great.
There were separate accident!
nvolving 7Ti vehicles.
Four vehicles were either not dan*
lged, or damages were not immediately
ndicated.
Thirteen persons were injured. Eight
Irivers had no licenses. Polie# report#
indicated that ten drivers were drunk^
r had been drinking.
Wednesday. February 2.'*. whe^
Mrs Gladys J. Price. 56, 1U01 T<yw
send, was driving carelessly, according
to police reiHwts, she collided with a
properly parked truck owned h\ San
Terrell, 30. 1(120 Gorman, in th*
1100 block of West liildebraud, knock-
ing the truck 00 feet from the point
of Impact. Mrs. Price suffered faco
lacerations and wns taken to Baptist
Memorial hospital by Hope ambulance.
Damage to the truck was $60; to Mrs.
Price's machine, $250.
When TTiomas Jackson, Jr.. 44. 315.
Robeson, stopped for a traffic light
In the 1800 block of East Commerce^.
Wednesday, he was struck, in the rear,
by a machine operated by Mrs. Jessio
Bush Parker, 54, 624 Nebraska, with
each vehicle sustaining $30 damages.
Police reports indicate Mrs. Parker
kept improper lookout.
Police reports indicate Mrs. Erns
I'ankratz, 55, Tarpley, Texas, fail-
ed to grant the right of way, and both
she and Sylvester Muse, 20, 607
Dawson, kept improper lookout. Wed-
nesday, when they collided at North
Zarzamora and West Mistletoe, their
sustaining respective damages of
$175 and $125.
Andrew M. Guerrero. 23, 2505 Mo-
rales. and Walter L. Thomas, 71, 810-
Lombrano, collided, Wednesday, at th®
intersection of North Floreg and West
Cypress, when, police report, Guerrero-
exceeded s safe speed; Thomas failed
to grant the right of way. and both
kept improper lookout. The impact
caused Thomas's vehicle to jump th*
curb where it went between a tred
and a house at 1341 North Flore*
resident listed as Mrs. Buknke, and
(See DAMAGE, Page 3.)
Negro Named
To Top YMCA
Post in Chicago
By the Associated Negro Press
CHICAGO—O. O. Morris, execu-
tive secretary of the Washington Park
YMCA, has been appointed assistant
general secretary of the YMCA of
Chicago, marking the first time is
local history that a Negro has beeil
placed in a policy-making position 14
the organization.
L. L. McClow, general secretary of
the YMCA of Chicago, said the
polntment was a move to get toj
YMCA executives to help determin
the policy of the Chicago organization.
Morris becomes one of eight assisj.
ant secretary's under McClow.
Chicago, with 34 separate YMCA
buildings, is the largest YMCA center
in the world.
Boy, 7, Runs
Into Side of Car
^ jbe daylight. r e< .)
A seven-yeor-old boy, Tommy Grab-
tree, 1701 Avenue B, was injured
Tuesday afternoon, but not severelj
when he ran into the side of an aub
mobile operated by Ervin Freemadj
27, 512 North Cherry, in the
block of Cosa Blanca.
Freeman was driving from
Ice station. The boy, running down \
sidewalk, dashed into the car,
ting it midway the right fender.
The boy, who ran home before n
lice arrived, received a bruise un4
his chin, and a cut Inside his moht^
Freeman, it developed, did sol fcS
is driver's ticeuefc ,
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