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HAN ANTONIO. TEXAS, FMHAY. DECEMBER 21, 1051
texan's receive n'aacp life-membership plaques—
Photograph shown Kdwln C. Washington, Jr., Southwest regional secre-
tary for the NAACP (at right), presenting life membership plaques to
Mrs. Lulu Whit?, of Houston anil to A. Mnceo Smith nt Dallas, as -Mrs.
Juanita Craft (left), state NAACP organizer, looks on.
Mrs. White, state director of branches, was honored with the NAACP
life membership by the Texas Conference of Branches for her work in
raising $7.<HK> during the year for the Fighting Fund for Freedom. The
life membership for Smith was the gift of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Inc., of which he Is general president. The cost of a life membership is
>.-,00.
On making this presentation. Regional Secretary Washington launched
n campaign to secure at least 30 additional life memberships In Texas
during 1033. •
Why Didn't
He Steal
A Horn?
A 26-year-old man who "need-
ed » horn," and broke into
a west side cafe to get the
money to buy it, walked out of
the place into the waiting arms
of police, Tuesday morning,
about 2 o'clock.
Francis tawis Jones, 26, 416
East Crockett street, arrested,
hooked, and jailed, for burglar)'
and theft, said that he "needed
a horn," and money with which
to buy it.
Welman Wells, brother of
Robert Wells, proprietor of Ru-
bin's cafe, 1516 North Zarza-
mora street, saw a man In the
place, and called indite.
A few minutes after Officer
H. O. Iferrera had seen a man
near a cigarette machine, Jones
walked out the rear door of
the cafe—Into the arms of an-
other police officer.
The cigarette machine had
heen looted. A total of $12.54
was found on Jones in small
change.
Bag, Containing
$5,000 in Cash,
Bonds, Stolen
A large red plastic purse con-
taining about $5,000 in cash, bonds,
and postal savings, was reported
missing, Saturday, Dec. 18, from
the home of Mrs. Mary McDew,
1715 Hays street. Also in the purse
were personal papers, a will, and a
bank book.
Three days elapsed, from the time
of the discovery of the theft, before
police were notified. *
Mrs. McDew said she last had
the purse on Saturday, Dec. 11,
and missed it Wednesday, Dec. 15.
Police were notified Dec. 18.
She said that a rear window
screen is customarily left unlocked
and her small boy sometimes climbs
through the window. * She stated
that one day, last week, she noticed
that the window had been raised,
and a table in front of it had been
moved. She was not certain, how-
ever, whether or not one of the
family had raised the window and
moved the table.
The purse contained $500 in cash,
$2,500 in postal savings checks, and
the rest in bonds.
♦
Two Prowle rs
Nabbed as They
Rob Night Club
Friday night, Dec. 17, police cor-
ncrfed two men inside tlieNBig Ap-
ple night club, 3514 Nebraska—
which had been closed for several
days—as they were in the act of
burglarizing the place.
Arrested and bdoked for burglary
and theft under $50 were Ernest
Jones, 32, 213 Gibbs, and Jesse
Stevens, 33, 1724'/a East Houston
street. A juke box and a cigarette
vending machine had been looted.
The condition of an octogenarian and the pair had, in their posses
San Antonio Gets
No Relief from
Traffic Accidents
San Antonio has received no let-
op in its continuing epidemic of
traffic accidents with the mount-
ing toll of damages splrailng ever
upwards.
At least four persons were in-
jured severely enough to require hos-
pitalization. A four-year-old boy was
struck by a car but not seriously
Injured. Among other things a car
crashed into a business place. •
Wednesday afternoon, in the 800
block of Brooklyn, a 11)33 Oldsino-
1/Ile, driven by Mrs. Lnsoi Ayeock
Jones, 807 Fargo, and a 104(1 Chev-
rolet, driven liy lido Julius Froebel,
400 Fox Halt lane, were In colli-
sion, when Mrs. Jones pulled out
from a parking space. Damage to
each car was listed as $(lrt. officer
W. I. Potts listed three traffic
violations against the Oldsmoiille.
Both drivers were booked for negli-
gent collision.
Three cars were In collision, Fri-
day, Dec. 17, nt Gevers and Ne-
braska. Mrs. Elizabeth Ervin Wheel-
er, 31, 212 nalton alley, driving
1031 Chevrolet coach, attempted to
make a left turn, and a 1040 Olds-
mobile driven by Richard E. Gries-
enhack, 22, 411 East park, crashed
Into the rear end of Mrs. Wheeler's
car. It was knocked into the side of
a passing 1030 Mercury, driven by
Gene Baxter Reeves, 18, 327 North
Gevers.
Damage to fhe Oldsmoblle was
|80, to the Chevrolet, $30, and to
tiie Mercury, $10.
Cars driven by J. E. Passmore,
81, 235 Rvan drive, and Mrs. Bcr-
nlce Morris, 20, 015 South Cherry,
collided nt North Pino and Van Ness
streets, Friday night, nbout 11 O'-
clock. Passmore, going south on
Pine, had, immediately preceding
the crash, stopped f°r a traffic sign.
Mrs. Morris was traveling east
on Van Ness. The front ends of
both vehicles were damaged. Pass-
jnore's car sustained $75 damages,
Mrs. Morris, $23. Both were booked
for negligent collision. Both drivers
were listed as not keeping proper
lookout.
A 1051 Dodge coach and a 1933
Chevrolet truck, collided, Friday, in
the 100 Mock of Rlttcrman road,
with $120 damages being done the
automobile, $20 to the truck.
Maurice E. Freeman, 10, 1213
Wiltshire, driver of the Dodge, said
that he saw the lights of tJ«.e truck,
driven by Willie L. Hancock, 37,
503 Neches, Austin Texas, signaling
to. indicate a left turn, but "he
thought he could pass."
An accident, In the 1200 block of
East Commerce, that belonged In
last week's listing, resulted In $130
damages, Monday, Dec. 13. Andrew
J. r^gnon, 55, 704 East Cypress,
(See NO; Page 9.)
Octogenarian,Hit
By Car, Reported
In Fair Condition
Alabamans Get 18 Months in Slavery Case
Chicago Girl, 6,
Awarded$225,000
Damages byCourt
Jdry Gives Record Sum
For Brain Injnry When
Hit by Chi Bus
Bv the Associated Nemo Press
CHICAGO — Some *225,000 was
awarded last week to a six-year-old
Negro girl who suffered a brain
injury wlien lilt by a Chicago Tran-
sit authority transportation vehicle
during April, 1052.
A jury in Circuit court awarded
that amount to Doris Jean Robin-
son for injuries to her brain which
attorneys said would necessitate
that money to "send the child to
special schools."
Attys. Director and Llelienson ar-
gued before Judge L. L. Winn that
because of the Injuries, suffered
while the girl and her sister were
crossing n street. Doris now is re-
garded as a men Tally retarded child.
Juanita, Doris' seven-year-old sis-
ter. received $.">00.
The $22>*»,000 awarded to Doris
reportedly is the highest ever Riven
for injuries in a state court in Illi-
nois.
Doris and Juanita are the chil-
dren of Mrs. Rosetta Robinson.
struck by nn automobile nearly two
weeks ogo remains fair, it was re-
ported, this week.
The accident victim. Candeler
Zertuche, 80, 811 Paso Hondo, was
struck early Saturday night, Dec.
11 at East Commerce and Palmet-
to by a car driven by Lehman Book-
er, 50, 1836 East Houston.
Booker told investigators that lie
was blinded by the lights of an ap-
proaching vehicle, as he was trav-
eling east on Commerce. Zcrtuche
was walking north, across the street,
•t the intersection.
Zertuche's injuries Included lac-
erations about the head and face,
Und a possible fractured pelvis.
sion, 59 packages of cigarettes.
Jones, who attempted to escape,
was cut off by officers, police re-
ported, and Stevens was found hid-
ing in a check room.
MINISTER, WIFE SEPARATE
By the Associated Negro Press
BROOKLYN—Rev. Sandy P. Ray,
pastor, Cornerstone Baptist church,
and his wife, Katherine, whom tie
married 20 years ago, have come to
the parting of the ways. Mrs. Ray,
a former Philadelphlan, is a concert
singer.
An announcement last week dis-
closed "legal separation" proceed*
lags between the couple.
St. I. Politician
Again Indicted
For Bribery
By R. C. FISHER
For tfie Associated Negro Press
ST. IAJCIB, Mo.—A fourth brib-
ery Indictment against Alderman
Ben Oliver, sixth ward Democrat,
was voted hj^tlie circuit court grand
Jury last week.
Tin1 latest indictment; elinrges
Oliver with receiving a $200 bribe
in connection with a zoning ordl
nance. Oliver has denied the charge.
It is believed by many St. Louis
citizens that the cause of Oliver's
trouble Is his refusal to adhere to
the outlined program of Raymond
H. Tucker, mayor of St. Louis.
Mark Henneley, attorney for Oli-
ver said the latest indictment
against Oliver Is "very unusual,"
oonsidering the fact that a few
weeks ago a former grand jury
voted lliere was no true bill against
him.
Circuit Atty. Edward L. Dowd
said Fred Schwalg, president of
Wristberg Real Estate company in
this city, gave the money to Oliver
Feb. 20, ll).",3. at city hall, after a
meeting of the aldermanic zoning
committee.
Oliver, a member of the commit-
tee, refused to accept a company
check tendered by Schwalg, who
then cashed n check and gave the
alderman the .$200 in currency,
Dowd related.
Although the committee had ap-
proved a zoning bill by Schwalg,
the real estate man demurred on
giving the money to Oliver, saying
"How do I know the hoard will
pass the bill?" the circuit attorney
said.
"You give me the money*find the
ordinance will be passed," Drtwd
quoted Oliver as telling Schwalg.
The bill was enacted tbreo weeks
later.
Schwalg met Oliver, in whose dis-
trict the property Is located, In Jan-
uary, lira. Oliver at first demanded
jsKO for getting a zoning change
enacted, then reduced his demand
to $200, Dowd said. A bill seeking
the rezonlng was introduced by
Oliver In the board of aldermen,
Jan. 0, lira.
The three previous Indictments
against Oliver were voted last July.
In one, he Is charged with soliciting
a $2.~»0 bribe from Steamer Service
company, in connection with the
company's efforts to.Install an elec-
trlocable along the Mississippi river
front. The money was not paid.
A second Indictment charges Oli-
ver with soliciting a $.">00 bribe from
nn officer of the National Lighting
Protection company, to expedite a
hill to permit the firm to buy city-
owned land. This alleged suggestion
Civil Rights Gains Hailed
OnBill ofRightsAnniversary
By the Assoctatod Negro i'iest*
NEW YORK—The steady march forward in constitutional
guarantees of civil rights was cited last week by the Ameri-
can Jewish committee. The report marked the 163rd anniversary
of the Bill of Rights.
"New gains have repeatedly overjhadowed events regarded
as epochal when they occurred," Iriving M. Engel, president of
the organization, stated.
Today, 12 states and 32 cities have | cliscrlmlfin! i<»u in Washington. To
fair employment laws, three states " *" '
have fair education laws and five
states have enforceable public ac-
commodation laws, the report said.
It continued:
"Five years ago, %tlie first Negro
college professor was appointed ; the
first. Negro office-holder in the
South came forth; the first Negro
doctor 011 the staff of a genera^
hospital took Ills post. Today sucn
•firsts' could probably fill this en-
tire book.
"Five years ago. the National
Committee on Segregation in the
Nation's Capitol scored widespread
day segre t ion in public facilities
in the cni nl is the exception.
"Flve"y»ars ago, Negro students
were rarely admitted to southern
state unlv silics. Today, some 2,(KK)
Negro St n. lent.' attend integrated
college -rooms in tlie South."
The U. S. Supreme court's decision
last May 17 banning segregation In
the nation public schools M as term-
ed the Hnn'st far-reaching advance
of all."
"In etten area of American life."
the report <i<" lured, "the gap be-
tween Ideals and practices Is closing
—slowly, to he sure, but steadily."
0
(See POLITICIAN. Page 3.)
Three ChildrenBurn
To Death in Oil
Stove Explosion
By the Associated Negro Press
NEWARK, N. J.—Three children
were burned to death I^st week
here when an oil stove, arouml
which they were huddled exploded.
The dead were Karen Barnes, 18
months; Clifton, 3 years, and Gor-
don, 4. Keith, 0. escaped.
The victims were the children of
Mrs. Nathan Barnes. The father was
nt work at iTtactory and thv mother
was visiting neighbors when the fa-
tal blast occurred.
This DisturbanceJust
As Good as One
Cops Looking for
FKICER W. W. Schrlever,
'railed fo the 100 block of
Hedges to investigate a distur-
bance, Tuesday, found nothing,
hut at East Commerce and New
Hraunfels, lie saw a man und
two women, sisters, battling in
the street.
Tlie man, William Herron,
according to the officer, was
lieating his wife, Mrs. Julia
Herron, 70G East Huitaelte,
on the head and body with his
fists.
Herrnn was arrested and
booked for aggravated assault,
i —
Dancer, Refused!
Service by Chi
Tavern, Files Suit
By the Associated Ncrno Press
CHICAGO — Clayton "Peg Leg"
Bates, one-legged tap dancer, has
sued a Chicago tavern that refused
liim service.
Hates, who has appeared on sev-
eral television programs, is one of
four persons involved in a $2000
civil rights suit filed in municipal
court against the owner of a tavern
in a wiiite neighborhood.
Included in the suit are Miss Wor-
thy Ij. Ward, Evanston, III.; and
Mrs. and Mrs. Max Rcdmon, India-
napolis.
According to the suit, Bates, Miss
Ward, and the Redmon couple who
are white, entered the tavern and
waited for service.
The bartender, who was said to
have recognized Bates, telling him
lie had seen him 011 the Ed Sullivan
telecast the Sunday previous, told
the entertainer that it was not
the policy of the club to serve Ne-
groes.
Under the Illinois Civil Rights
statute, a maximum of $."00 may be
sought by each person discriminated
In public establishments. Bates' at-
torney filed action last week with
the Illinois Liquor Control commis-
sion, to have the license of the tav-
ern revoked.
Pro Grid Great
Escapes Injury
As Gunman Slain
By the Associated Negro Tress
CLEVEI \XI), Ohio—Marion Mot-
ley, retire ! fullback of the Cleve-
land Rrov 11s professional football
team, and one of the gnme's all-
time greats, ton rely escaped being
shot: gunman, last week,
who woW^er ahot to death in a gun
duel w*tk iv.-o poiict'iiifii.
The shooting occurred in Motley's
bar.
Motley paid n man, later identi-
fied as Sam Willlford, came into his
bar and Menumded payment of $1
which he.claimed Motley owed him.
Motley denied it and ordered the
man out.
He left, but returned a few min-
utes later, according to Motley,
with a gun in his hand and again
demanded payment of the $1. Mot-
ley said he get change for a $10 hill
and gave It to Willlford saying that
he didn't bwo 1 ho money but would
give Mm Che $1 to avoid trouble.
Motley 2 then called the police
and when two officers arrived and
asked him where the man was who
wa3 causing the disturbance. Motley
pointed to a group of men standing
in front of the bar and said, "He's
standing in that group with a gun."
Before the officers could get out
tfieir service revolvers. Williford Is
alleged to have said, "Yes, I got a
S. A. Preacher
Jailed for Driving
Whilelntoxicated
CIcric Offers Bribe, tho.n
Curses Cop, Threatens
"To Get His Job"'
of the brothers was needed to work
the family farm.
Originally, four brothers and two
cousins were Indicted 011 the slavery
charges, but the government asked [
that the other charges he dismissed.
A 47-year-old Baptist preacher,
described as "very drunk," directed
pleas, then a bribe, then profanity
and abuse, and a promise to get the
job of a city police officer who
stopped him, early Friday morning.
nt Pine and Nebraska streets, and
booked him for driving while in-
toxicated.
The minister, the Rev. L. C. Jef-
ferson, 47, 727 Indiana, was held
in .fail about five hours. He identi-
fied himself as the pastor of Laurel
Heights Baptist church.
Officer W. A. James reported
that he observed an automobile
weaving from lane to lane, and
stopped the car at Pine and Ne-
braska streets to investigate. He
said the driver was very drunk.
and James asked him to get out
of the automobile. The driver, Rev.
Jefferson, staggered and almost fell.
When James told the man he was
going to book him for driving while
intoxicated, Rev. Jefferson asked
him not to do it. saying he was a
minister and also worked at Kelly
Air Force base. Then Jefferson of-
fered James $20 to release him.
James declined.
Then the minister, James said,
became very abusive, cursed him.
and told James that he would gQt
bis job for arresting him.
Jefferson was placet! In the patrol , violenc e
wagon, and Officer F.. (Iraf was Iorr* nn" Mlne'
called to the scene, to be a witness
to the minister's drunken condi-
tion.
At headquarters. Rev. Jefferson
refused to take the drunkometer
test.
Light Terms Given Brothers
Convicted of Holding
Negroes Slaves
Uy the Associated Negro Picas
JMRMINGHAM, Ala.—Two prosperous white brothers who held
two men as slaves were sentenced to 1^ 'z years on federal
peonage charges.
The brothers, farmers in west-central Alabama, were sen-
tenced by U. S. District court Judge Lynn. They were convicted
in May
Judge Lynn ordered Oscar Edwin Dial, 34. to begin serving
Ills prison term Christmas eve. hut I — —.
allowed his brother, Fred, 2.", to1
postpone his imprisonment until ' ll flfTI'111rSl/ctorwInt*
August, after their attorneys plead-1 " UlllCtllU y MctllUCI
ed that Fred was ill and that
S h o t as W i f e
Misses T a r <r e t
Osear anil Freil were f.mnil guilt? j \|| Tlll'ee Bullets Fired
nf paying fines of Negroes being , , , ... ,
helil In Alabama anil Mississippi | At barmaid MlSS, hilt
One Hits Patron
jails, and bringing them to the Dial
farm where they were forced to
work without pay. The farm Is near
the Mississippi-Alabama bonier.
Reporters noted that the sentences
seemed light. Oscar, it was pointed
out, could have received up to 10
years in prison. Fred could have
received a maximum of 15 years
in jail.
Roth brothers had been found
guilty of conspiring to hold Hubert
Thompson and Coye l.ee Tanksly
I in involuntary servitude by acts of
Tanksly appeared as a
(See fit N.MAN. Page 3.)
Arkawsan, Attacked
With Claw Hammer,
Sues for $35,000
By the:'Assnciate<l Negro Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—A Negro
who charged that he suffered head
injuries after ho was attacked with
a claw habimer by the operator of
the Commercial hotel, lias sued for
$35,000 dainages.
Joe Williams brought the suit
against Mack Ilonneyeutt. Williams
said that fionneycutt ordered him to
leave the hotel after an argument
with another man and then attacked
him wlTfo a claw hammer as he was
leaving.
Man Who Bought Home for Negro
In "White"Section,Given 15Years
Man Interferes,
Swings at Cop.
Gets Black jacked ;>■
Upsden Marshall, 36, 222 Belmont,
who is reported to have walked up
and started whispering to three
prisoners held by officers in a nar-
cotics case,*and to have swung at
an officer when ordered away, was
blackjacked, relieved of a knife in
his hand, and booked for Aggravated
assault on an officer. Tuesday night.
Walter Adams, 20. 826 Arthur
walk: Billy (ieorge, 23. 100 Kansas,
and Don Millholland, 21. 401 Hud-
son, had been arrested for illegal
possession of marijuana and barbi-
turates in.the 200 block of South
New Braunfcls. They were stand-
ing by the car as it was being
searched.
Marshall walked up and started
whispering to one of them. Sergeant
George T. Martin ordered him away.
Marshall is alleged to have "let
out a whoop." and to have swung
at Martin with his right baud. Mar-
tin hit Marshall in the face, and
as somebody yelled out that Mar-
shall had a knife in Ills left hand,
other officers joined the fracas, with
Detective G. V. Gutierrez hitting
Marshall on the head with a black-
jack. and Detective Joe Xeaves, Jr.,
grabbing the knife.
Marshall was treated nt Robert
R. Green hospital, and booked for
aggravated assault on an officer.
Adams, George, and Millholland
were booked for illegal jiossession
of narcotics.
against the brothers. Thompson, who
nrcordinir to tlw frnvornmpnt vrns
hnntpn when he fried to escape from
fhe farm, was dead at fhe time of
fhe trial.
The government said he died of
pneumonia three days after ills at-
tempted escape.
The jury, in addition, found Fred
Dial guilty of forcing Thompson to
work for him in payment of a sup-
posed debt.
In bis testimony before the court,
ankslv described how Oscar got
him out of jail by paying a $21.25
fine. lie said that immediately after
the fine was paid. Dial took him
to flie farm where lie promised him
$3 a day in pay for various kinds
of work.
Tanksly said he worked two and
a half months and received no
money.
He told the court that he was
kicked off the farm when he be-
came ill.
U. 8. Atty. Frank M. Johnson,
who asked dismissal of fhe other
cases, said that "in all probability"
be will ask dismissal of two more
counts charging the brothers with
further civil rights violations.
An innocent bystander was shot;
but not seriously wounded. Friday
evening, Dec. 17. when a 4K vear old
woman walked into the 1' lyhouse
bar and lounge, East Com-
merce street, and started shooting
at a barmaid. At least three shots
were fired.
Wounded was Miss Ruth Mat
Wilson, 21,1538 Burleson. Miss Wil-
Ison was shot in the upper left hip,
I with the .bullet ranging downward
I to a point just above the knee,
witness 1 Charges of assault to murder have
By the Associated Negro Press
Louisville, Ky.—a white
newspaper man wuo pur-
chased a home for a Negro in
an all-white section of this city,
was sentenced to 15 years in
prison and fined $5,000 after
being convicted'of "advocating
sedition."
Carl Braden, 40, purchased
the home in his own name, for
Andrew Wade IV, a Negro con-
tractor, early last spring and
later transferred it to Wade. In
June, a mysterious explosion
occurred at the home.
Opinion in the community
was split as to the cause of
the blast. Some charged white
hate groups with dynamiting
the group. Later, Common-
wealth's Atty. A. Scott Hamil-
ton, accused Braden and others
of setting off the explosion to
foment trouble between whites
and Negroes.
Braden,* who- worked for the
Louisville-Carrier-Journal as a
copy reader, was dismissed from
the paper following his convic-
tion. He had been kept on the
payroll during the course of
the trial.
Motions for a new trial and
another for arrest of judgment
were filed last weelt, and Judge
L. R.* Curtis was scheduled
to rule on them soon.
If all fitoeals fail, and Braden
can't p$j the $5,000 fine, he
must serve it out at the rate
of $2 a |ay. His 15-year term
would ndt Iwgin until the full
amount ot the fine is satisfied.
SumtniAg up the ease for the
prosecution. Asst. (Common-
wealth's Att>'. LUtiretKV E; Ur-
ging told the jurv it had a
simple issue to decide, iliat ' se-
dition is Communism and Com-
munism is sedition—there is no
disttertton."
Atty. Robert Zollin-
red the i**ue was
man has tl»e right
lion different from
_ community."
the collide of the trial,
ta. Abeam, a Louis-
stress who said she
working .for the FBI
In a Communist cell
itificd both Braden
ifc as members of
Mrs..
villa
had
as a
gromfc
and Ms
the
Sh. said she was invited In-
t9n iHOMG. rage 3.)
those m
Mother of Six
Asks $25,000
In Death of Son, 7
By the Associated Necro Press
CHICAGO—A relief recipient
whose seven-year-old eliild was
hilled in a fall from a staircase
which she considered defective,
has filed snit here against her
landlord for $25,000.
Mrs. Mary Starlts, mother of
si\, abandoned by her husband
several years ago, according to
Iter attorney, filed the suit after
her hoy fell through a stairway
from which several rails were
broken.
The boy died in the hospital
the day of the fail.
Flames Slightly
Burn Two Men,
Do $150 Damages
Two men suffered minor Imrns,
and damage of about $150 was done,
Saturday morning, when fire broke
out.in a two-room garage apartment
In the rear of 1423 East Houston.
Norman Green and James Carter,
residents, received the burns, but
were not hospitalized. .
Cause of the blaze was not Im-
mediately ascertained.
Officer Tlnvarts
Brown St.Woman
In Suicide Trv
J
A Brown street woman tflio at-
tempted to commit suicide, Wednes-
day night, Dec. IS, was booked and
Incarcerated, as officers feared she
would make another attempt at
self-destruction.
Police got an anonymous call,
shortly before 8 o'clock, that Mrs.
Lois Bennett, 214 Brown, was trying
to J<111 herself. Investigating, Pa-
trolman W. I. Potts gained entrance
to the house, to find all of the gas
jets open.
She suffered no ill effects, so
quickly bad police acted. When
they learned that she would be
alone In the house until about 10:fl0,
she was booked for drunk, and jail-
ed as a precautionary measure.
Ex-Beau Crashes
In Door, Beats,
ThreatensWoman
A 44-year-old man who, Satur-
day morning, broke down the front j
door of his ex-girl friend's residence,
and beat her, was arrested and book-
ed for burglary, aggravated assault,
and was held for interrogation by
the homicide division.
Miss Catherine Faulder, 1722 Ne-
braska. complained that shortly be-
fore .1 o'clock in the morning. (Ieorge
E. Bankhead, 44, 120 North Mos-
quito, crashed through her front
door, beat her about the face and
bodv with his fists, and threatened
to kill her.
GOVERNOR AT HOWARD
WASHINGTON — Gov. McKeldln
of Maryland spoke last week at
Howard university here during
xeligious em nil a sis week aervice* 1
been filed agafnsf Mr*. Lero.v < Tink-
er/ Jetfery, TVoodJake Country
club, identified as the pistol wield*
er.
The target of Mrs. Jeffery's fusil-
lade was Mrs. Janle Skinner 27,
Marion hotel. 110 Heiman. Mrs.
Skinner, whose husband is an air-
man stationed at Bergstrom Air
Force base at Austin, said flint
she didn't know why Mrs. .Icffery
shot at her. but "surmised" that "it
in.V he because she is jealous of
me." She denied going with Mrs.
Jeffery's husband.
j it was the second time in a month
I that Mrs. Jeffery had biased away
with a pistol. The first had been one
month to the day—-on Nov. 17—at
Woodlake. Officers reported that
Mrs. Jeffery, on that occasion, had
walked into the kitchen of the es-
tablishment that she and her hus-
band. Leroy Jeffery. r»4. operate
on the Sulphur Springs road and
found liiin with a woman.
Mrs. Jeffery took a shot at him.
Officers reported that she kept re-
peating Hint she was going to kill
Jeffery if It was the last thing that
she did. and at tempt e<1 to strike him
in the officers' presence. In the
meantime, tlie other woman bad
disappeared.
Jeffery declined to file charges
against his wife.
"Most of tlie participants" in-
volved in last, week's Commerce
street shooting, officers reported,
were invohed in tlie shooting at
I Woodlake.
I Mrs. Skinner, who bad been work-
ing at the East. Commerce street
establishment about two weeks, told
officers that she was at one end of
fhe bar. last Friday, when she saw
Mrs. Jeffery enter.
Police quoted Mrs. Skinner nf
saying:
(See BYSTANDER. Page 3.)
GI, Sentenced
To 'Sippi Electric
Chair. Gets Stay
By tlie Associated Negro Tresn
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi
probably will have to look elsewhere
for its IftOtli victim to die in tho
electric chair, for a Negro soldier
scheduled to die Friday, Deo. 17. was
granted a stay of execution.
lie is Mack Lewis who was grant-
ed a stay by Harvey McGhee. chief
tate supreme court justice. If Lew-
is' execution had been carried out
he probably would have been th«
last person to die in the electric
chair In Mississippi before the stato
abandons that method of capital
execution, for the gas chamber.
Lewis was convicted of murdering J
Kenneth L. Mason In Bay St. Louis
in May of last year. A native of
Buffalo, N. Y., he had been give*
a ride by Mason on a lonely roa<!
In Hancock county. Lewis supposed*
ly fatally shot Mason after robbing
him.
Lewis' stay will allow him to Uf
peal the lower court ?erdlet
11. S. Sunreine court
rdlet to
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