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feltocrw Without Straggle
*" '"<r« i» no struptglc, tnere to
0 progress. Those who protest to
fitti' freedom, and yet depreciato
Mtwion, art men who want cropt
Vithaut ploughing op th» ground,
it. concedes nothing without
^dMnndk It never did and never
•-Frederick Douglatt
SA7V
City Edition lie
AWONIfcREGISTEE
RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS
City Edition 120
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tlic SAN ANTONIO ana
SOUTH TEXAS News
While It is News. Com-
plete National and World
.Wide News Coverage.
With
Out of CHr, It*
HAS ANTONIO, TKXAH.MUMAV, J A NX'At 1 It, IMI
With Jlupplrm-nt, <imi of city, 12a
ITS VOl'K NBWSPli
Heroic Bellman
Given $1,000 Rewar
By Fire Survivor
His Bravery Helped
■any Escape Death ki
Florida Hotel Tragedy
By the Assoclnted Negro Press
JACKSONVILLE, Flit.—An act
«f fcra\ery above and beyond the
mII of duty during the December 20
Bseeevelt hotel fire In which 22 per-
MWf l»«t their Uvea, was rewarded
b*n last wcok when a Negro bell-
man waa presented a gift of $1,000
by a grateful survivor.
Recipient of the csah gift wna Wil-
Haoi It. Hambry who waa on duty
during the conflagration that occur-
red during the festive 'Oator bowl
rid classic while the hotel waft
trended with out-of-town gue*ts.
D. B. Lipecotnhe, tire president of
the Harnett National bank here, re-
a letter from Charlee M
B*-ves, president of the Firat Provi-
tent company of Hanford, N. O., re-
quest ing that Hambry'a acta of hero-
in be publicly recognized and that
hi* unme be aubmitted for a national
citation.
In hie letter tt Lipscomhe. Heevea
Mid that liambry'a action during the
file helped to late himself. his family
•ad othern on the third floor.
The North Carolinian said Hambry
•e*ed with utter disregard for hia
(iw safety," emphasizing that had
II thL been lor the bellman's bravery.
wmj occupants «»n the floor would
p*r hart been K' • • <> * chance to
mvt.
Although TUmbry waa signally rec-
4hiasd srxf rewarded (or his bravery,
■feral other employees of the hotel
Mr* tlx credited with left of hero-
in that tndoubteJljr helped to keep
Ike disesfer't death Ml down to its
Mtal of M Htm.
luorutl Alton Jeoeph Orowder la
indited by hotel etfieiala with turn-
its la tba firat alarm and bringing
Itataat tid to th« burning building
I were atin In bed or
rjtHftt. William Brown,
•-rked flva floort, going np a bark
tulrwty ami worhlag hia war op to
tl^ arvaath floor before ■ heavy paU
it smoke pmtat«4 Ma going forth.r.
heslerted mora than 100 guests be-
Mkavat forced to retreat to the
„ pgnnd floor of the hotel.
Bellmaa Abraham Spina (a cred-
it! with hating awakened an eetl-
aatrd 30 peraont before amoke also
invented hia tarrying on hia eelf-
appointed task of spreading the fire
Kara ta hotel gueata.
«
Pullman Porter
Sues A. Philip
Randolph, BSC.
Br the Aaeociated Negro Prcae
KANSAS CITY, Kansaa_A vet-
ran Pullman porter who describes
kimaelf aa "a pioneer member of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Cor Por-
Wn," tnd who claims to have ban-
IM between 500 and 1,000 griev-
incea without pay aa the union's local
reaireaentative, last week filed ault
■gainst the BNCP and A. Philip
Randolph, ita president. He charges
that they failed to repreaeut him In
a long-standing dispute with the l'ull-
aian company.
He la Rufus Norman, who salu Be
had served for about 20 yeara aa
president of the local here. He aaid
ka kas an unsettled grievance with
tke Pullman company dating back to
1038, aud that the union haa not
helped him. He was hired by the com-
pany on April 2, 1919.
Norman claimed that on June H,
IMS, after he backed a threatened
atrite againet the Pullman company,
he *aa fired from hia job and refused
r«mploynirnt for a period of 10 yeara
■tf ail montha.
During thia period, he said, He
(leaded for assistance from the
■aim but it would not come to hia
mhfrr— with the fesult that he wns
Matd to fight th, <w*e In the courta
Utadelf He won his case and was re-
taliated with full Seniority rights,
tat le continued to fight for back pay
benefits for the period he waa "ille-
gally" held out of service.
At this point, Norman aaid In a
alatement to the Aaaociated Negro
|-_ ^ k. p, w<4) liter, first flee presi-
dent of th* union, stepped It and
perataded him, against his will, to
_'j§r a $250 ttttlement from the
jyiaan company. Norman said \\ eb-
** told him that "getting him back
loSrork waa worth a million dol.ars
(gee PORTRR, Ptge *.)
♦ :—T
AU Four Tires
Of S. A. Woman's
Auto are Slashed
A 47-year-old man was booked for
aiallrious mischief in'a reported'tire-
(Inshing ense. Friday night, In the
JOII block of Maryland street. .
Mrs. Btella Mae Miller. 45. 421
Couth Polaris, told police thrtt ahe
and the man became Involved In an
argument, following which lie cut all
(our white-wall tirea from her au-
fomobile. »
He then allegedly went to her
and was prowling in her store-
whea officers arrested him
RAY YOl'R HELP NEKUKI)-Dr. Kenneth W. Clement. Heveland,
president National lftdlCll iifs<K iatiou; Mrs. ABSlt Wo KoviOtt Kocky
.Mount, N. O.. grand basilpua Higma (lammu Rho sorority, nud City Coun-
cilman Gilbert W. Lindnay, I^oa Angeles, say your help is needed in the
11HW March of 1 times.
Klansman Who
Castrated Negro
Freed from Pen
Sadist Released After
ServingFour Easy Years
Of 20-Year Sentence
By the Associated Negro Press
MONTGOMERY. Ala. — Another
glaring example of Alabama's fail-
ure to fully puniith white men for
Crimea agaiuat Negroes came last
week with the sudden release from
prison of an admitted Ku Klnx
Klansman after he had served less
than the required one-third of a 20-
year aentence for caMtrating a Negro.
This came on the heels of the sen-
tencing recently of a white boy, Larry
Joe Sima, 10, to a mere seven months
in jail for killing a Negro youth,
Virgil Ware, 13, ahortly after the
Hept. 15 bombing of the sixteenth
Street llaptiat church in Blrmlng*
ham, in which four little Nefro girls
wero killed.
A_ campaign of terror, Including
the bombing of Negro homes, was
sweeping Birmingham at the time,
and in that atmoisphere, ymtnf Ware-
apparently felt free to gun down tke
Nefro bojr.
The freed mutilator la Jessy Ma-
bry, who kidnaped Judge Edward
Aaron. 2M, as he walked afoftfc a road
near Birmingham with, hia friend,
drove him to an abandoned hone* on
the outskirts of town, and then beat
him unconacious.
The group climaxed their attack on
Aaron by emasrulsting him to prove,
according to their own teetimony,
that ihey were worthy of being ad-
mitted to the anti-Negro organisa-
tion.
However, although Mubry admitted
hia complicity in the mutilation and
waa sentenced to 20 yearn in jail, he
enjoyed a relatively unrestricted pris-
on term.
Convicted of mayhem, Mubry was
sentenced on April 2, I'XW, but spent
slightly more than four yeara in jail
aa a trusty at • prison ranch near
Greensboro. He should not have been
eligible for pnrole until after he had
served one-third, or a little more
than six years, of the prison term.
By comparison, Negroes last aum-
(Se# KLAN'SMAX, Page S.)
♦
"Bonanza" Stars
Spurn 'Sippi
Jim Crow Show
By the Assorlsted Negro Press
JACKSON, Mina—8tara of the
television show "Bonanza** have re-
fused to keep a scheduled personal
appearance here February 1-2, after
being notified by the NAACP that
the audience would be aegregated.
Lome Greene, Michael Landon and
Dan Blocker have wired promoters
of the show, which Is to be staged at
the State Fair Coliseum, that they
will not come to Jackson unlesa they
are guaranteed the spectntora will not
be segregated.
Dan Blocker, the massively-built
actor who playa •'Hoes," also made
known Ma stand In a personal letter
to Charlea Kvers. NAACP Mississippi
field secretary, who had called upon
the trio to cancel the engagement
Singer Ordered Out
Of Town for Calling
Martin Luther King
By the Associated Negro Press
ATLANTA, (in.—Gospel ring-
_f\ er minister ( Iropliu* Robin-
son of HI. liouk was ordered to
leave his home state of Mississ-
ippi recently while visitin? his
sister in Inverness after whiles
overheard him placing a long dis-
tance call to the Atlanta offices
of IH*. Martin l^uther King. Jr..
president of the Southern Chris-
tian leadership conference.
The gospel singer and pastor
of the Bethlehem Missionary
Baptist rhnrrli in Ht. I^oulb.
though horn In Canton. Miss.,
was given two hours to leave
Inverness when whiles suspected
him of being a civil rights agent
following the phone call.
He later learned that tlie may-
or of the rlty was among whites
In the store who overheard him
placing the call to Atlanta.
Rev. Robinson said he was not
harmed and later left the small
rvrnl town voluntarily.
Heart Attack Ki'ls
+ ' ■
Texas Extension
Service Leader
Churchman Dies at Wheel of Auto
Fred T. Mackey is Found
Guilty of Tax Evasion
Br ne Asnoctntcd Negro Picae
HAMMOND, Ind.—Gary policy king and financier, Fred T.
Maskey, wan found guilty here last week of evading pay-
ment of $770,000 in federal income taxes by ft jury that delib-
erated for five dcys after the lengthy teniational trial was
abruptly concluded.
Federal Judge George N. Bcamer gave defeme attorneys
Robert Dovvnir.g nnd Edward Strob until Feb.'3 to pre:eut a
motion for n new trial. Meanwhile! mt and most complete presentation
Mackey'a $5,000 bond wna contin-
ued.
Ilix con\let ion on five counts makes
liirn liable to a possible sentence of
five years in jail and a $.V).(MH) fine.
ever made in th* federal euurt here.
It had been expect'-1 that Mackey's
defense would tnke four or five weeks.
Though the government had origi-
nally charged that Mackey owed
The trial had conic to n sudden nnd i JtyDO.OOO in unpaid taxes, it scaled
uncx|Mctcd conclusion when Mack-
ey's lawyer presented only a surpris-
ing two-hour defense against a gov-
ernment cane that included K«i wit*
nesscs, 1.500 exhibits, nnd more than
SOO pounds of evideuce that took six
weeks to present.
Court attaches suid it was the long-
the amount down t»» *770.000.
Defense Attorney Downing declared
that the government's only purpose
in presenting the monthly wagering
tax returns wns to prejudice the
jurors against the defendant who is
(Sao Of If-TV. Page 7.)
die
FDD IF. A. LDMKRSON
DIES AT WHEEL OF CAR
A. Kdmerson. <!!».
Ed-
011 South | when the accident occurred.
Ilackherry, widely known churchman, shortly liefore 0:30.
Eddie A. Edmerson
Struck Down by
Sudden Heart Attack
A RETIRED San Antonio post office employee, and widely
known churchman, died at the wheel of his car at he tuf-
fered a sudden heart attack. Thursday afternoon. Jan. 23, at
East Commerce and Hackberry streets. The out-of-control
automobile traveled thrcugh a red light, struck the curb, then
crashed into a service station at 931 East Commerce street,
where it narrowly missed gasoline pumps, and smashed ft
plate gla-n window. I ——————————
Dead on arrival at Santa Rosa I
Medicul center was Eddie A. Kdiuer-
aon. 00. 011 South Hackberry street.
Kdmerson had been carrying his
sister-in-law. Mrs. W. M. Coleman, j
to a dentist's office, for an appoint- |k
fraternalist and retired (ioat office
employee, suffered a fatal heart at-
Mrs. Coleman was not injured.
She told Register that the car.
"Officer Traps
S. A. Burglar, 17.
Inside College
tack nt East Commerce and Hack-, north on Hackberry. bad been
berry streets. Thursday morning. *top|ied at Commerce b> a red traf-
(See SHOW, Pago ?.)
(Special to Ran Aatmiio Register)
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texaa — Mar-
shall Vernon Brown. 58. state leader
for Nefro agricultural extension
service work in Texaa since 1050.
suffered a fatal heart attack at his
home, here, during the noon hour on
Wednesday.
Brown began his extension service
career in 1037 when he wns named
Negro county agricultural agent for
Ilraaoria county. He wns transferred
to the headquarters staff at Prairie
View State college in IfMl to be-
come administrative assistant. He
waa promoted to state lender in
April, 1050.
Brown was born In Mndisonville.
July 20. 1005. He was a graduate of
Prairio View high school and Prairie
View college with a B. S. degree in
agricultural education. He had nlso
completed considerable graduate work
at Prairie View during summer ses-
sions.
After graduating from Prairie
View, he served briefly as dean of
men at his alma mater; for four years
a clerk in the university fiscal
office, and taught vocational agricul-
ture at Powell Point high school for
two yeara before joining the extension
service.
Brown in 1003 was one of six hon-
ored by the alumni association of
Prairie View for "outstanding serv-
ice in community development and
Industrial relations." He was present-
ed the aasociatLu's Achievement
award. Hia work in farm and home
safety won for kim the Texaa Safety
aasoriation's Farm and Ranch award.
He waa on leave from June to De-
cember, 1063, and served as a tech-
nical lender under the Agency for
International Development (AID) for
a group of foreign trainees from
Northern Rhodesia, Northern Nii'C.in
and Nyaaaland.
Ta commenting upon the loss. Di-
rector John E. Hutchinson. Texas
agricultural extension service, said.
*Mr. Brown was a capable and effi-
cient worker. His extensive exper-
ience and training In all phases of
extension work made him a valued
(See ATTACK. Page t.)
House Vote on Rights Hill
Seen by Liucoln's Birthday
BY ADOLPH J. SLAUGHTER
Associated Negro Press Washington Bttre.m
W ASHINGTON—House rules committee ekftirn.n. Howard
" W. Smith, of Virginia, agreed last week to end the unoffi-
cial " filibuster" he has waged for two weekk and allow the
civil righte bill to go to the floor of the Honae by January 31.
The agreement wat made between meabert of Smith s
powerful committee and leaden of the Honae of Repretenta-
witnesses" talking on the bill nntil
this time next jear, if left to his own
devices.
Although the wily old southerner
who calla the civil rights biU a "mon-
strosity" had previously state* k* Um than lf>
would attempt to finish hearings in
hia committee by the end of January,
the action last Thursday by the
House leadership literally compels
him to do so.
Smith had lined up eome 30 "wit-
nesses" to tnlfc on the bill, most of
them from the South nnd hostile.
At the aan»c tijue the civil rights
foe waa pledging t* report the hill out
of hia committee i»y the en4 of Jan-
uary—hia commit hearings bad so
been condi
In addition, he agritif * h*M Ma
hearings from Tuesday through
Thursday—just three day* a weMr.
But if Smith, who knew from the
beginning he Wns playing a losing
hand, had believed he could delay the
(See VOTE. Page 7.)
morning,
Jan 23. us he was driving his auto-
mobile.
The car went out of control and j
smashed into
fic light.
She said thnt the vehicle started
to move while the light was still red.
Mime Mjiti,»u. A unl1 hhe n.lni.ini»li«l:
passenger in the machine. Mrs. W.
M. Coleman, hia sister-in-lnw, and
who he was driving into a dentist's
office, was not injured in the crash.
Clearing House
Planned by Jol
Subcommittee
Death Claims
Mrs. Eddie L
Bryant at 99
Mrs. Eddie L. Bryant, 410 Spruce,
who wns less than five months from
her one hundredth birthdn.v, died in
her sleep, Thursday. Jnn. 23. She had
l>een ill since Christmas eve. Mrs.
Bryant had suffered a heart ailment.
She was born June 10, 1804, in
Cuero, the oldest of eleven children
of Kuebcn and Mrs. Malinda Wil-
liams Henderson.
On Feb. 14, 1000, she became the
bride of Thomas Milfred Bryant.
They were the parents of three chil-
dren. twins, and, ten years later, a
daughter.
The marringe of more than a half
(See DEATH, Pago 3.)
♦
Youth, Hit by Car,
Has Possible
Fractured Le[
A 16-year-old boy, Herman Miller,
1334 North Gevers, suffered n pos-
sible broken left leg. and other in-
juries, Wednesday night, Jan. 22,
when he was run down by an auto-
mobile at Lamar and Lockhart
streets.
Driver of the accident machine
(See Page S.)
Synagogue Refuses
To Do Business
With Biased Firms
B.v tile Atmx iotr.l Xfgro Pn «»
?T. 1 flu Th lonm-rciilion
of Um I nlltd Hebrew
temple, hat juloptrd » pot'O »'
ttlth bufiinraa firm*,
rnnipiuiira, rmtui-
rente end hotel- that do no*
practice discrimination.
Rabbi Jrrome W. (irollnMr
•aid members of I he rentreite-
tion agreed unanimously at en
annual meeting to award ron-
trarta only to firma that do not
discriminate in employment.
s
ten
destine oak
construct in
Woman's Teeth
Knocked Out,
Eyes Blackened
(icorge Nunn, 3.1, wns arrested
Friday evening, and booked for ag-
gravated nasault on a female, drunk,
nnd disturbing the pence, as the result
of an incident in which ^ his es-
trnnged wife, Mrs. Emma Nunn. iti).
107 Walters, had several teeth knock-
ed out, and her eyes badly swollen,
Officers, answering a call to
Houston and Walters streets, said
that Mrs. Nunn was "spitting blood
nnd teeth" when they arrived. She
identified Nunn as her assailant.
He was taken into custody about
n block from the acene of the attack.
Officer R. V. Bradley reported that
(See TEETH. Page S.)
In s meeting held Wedneaday
llht. January 22. at Second Baptist
church, the sub-committee of the city
council's Committee on Equal Em-
ployment for the Equally Qualified,
net tm lay the groundwork for ef-
fecting » modified etsah program of
securing employment for qualified
persons.
The committee Is joined together In
an effort to find wats, practical
methods, of achieving the foal of
equal job opportuninefl.
Ah attempt is being made to work
out elear-cut programs that will lead
to the elimination of bias and prej-
udice in employment, regardless of
race or religion.
Dr. Herbert Caideron. general
chairman of the committee spoke
briefly to the sub-committee. Hnrry
S. Jonce served at chairman of the
meeting.
Dr. Celderon said that letters iden-
tifying the committee hud been sent
to every buainees and professional
concern In the city, inviting their
participstion in the undertaking. He
pointed out that many firms have al-
ready taken the initiative in adopt-
ing fair employment practices, and
that the committee'a job now is to
find the prospective employee and take
ste|»a toward bringing the employee
and the job together.
A list of available jobe or those
about to become available will be fur-
nished the committee regularly from
the personnel offices of business hous-
es, labor groups, local and national
governments.
Headquarters for filing applica-
tions will be Hicks Beauty school.
;t2N South Piue street. CApltol 8-
0016. from 8 :30 o'clock iu the morn-
ing to 10 o'clock at night, daily,
Tuesdays through Saturdays, aud
from 6 to 10 In the evening, Mon-
days. Applications will not be tsken
on Sunday.
Part time work for high school
nnd college students has been suggest-
ed to firms as a means of letting
prospective employees gain experience
liefore applying for permanent work.
The lack of experience in many areas
has often been the deterrent In in-
stances of job placement.
High schools and colleges are being
urged to submit names of such avail-
able atudents. who. in turn, must
make application for the desired
Kddie. the light b still red."
Slumped over the wheel, Edinernon
did not reply, and the machine con-
tinued to move across the street,
and onto the service sration premises,
with Mrs. Coleman attempting to
steer the vehicle.
A 11 "j>e ambulance carried him
to Santa Rosa Medical centar whara
he was pronounced dead on araivaL
Bom in Travis County
Edmerson wns born in Travis
county, Sept. 0, H04. the eldest of
seven children of Israel and lira.
Waiting Detective
Watches Youth Brealj
In, Then Nabe Him
A police stake-out at r^peatedig
burglarised St. Philip's college ne£
ted a 17-year-old youth who was
trapped inside the auto-mechitui"S
ahop. Monday night.
Booked for burglary waa Clarencs
Williams. 464 Gsrcia. Police aaid
that he had been released from Gateq*
ville last Oct. 2ft. where he ha4
served six months for burglary.
St. Philip'a has been burglarised
almost weekly, fgr a considerable
period of time. Officers, anticipating
another visit, ataked out the campus,
with Infective Inveetigator A. Hon*
Lucy I'ark Edmereoo. He tlwpded, ulv0i Jf i c,jnw,ied insi'de «|
public echool In M.uor aud Auetie. ^ ^ trmrd with a 12-tenfj
He wee a vetereu of TVorld ^*'1 Cotton.
I, end. following hia diecharce. «•> | Muntalfo ttw Willlema appi
[the building, look ip, and tbea
| open • window, with a
driver. He tUmbtd
Aug. 14, 1919. eetabliehed
In 8ea Antonio. It 1832,
*1?.JliTTnf Mimli I**1 eeWer. He eUmbod late
He had become a member oC Mount | ^ buildian. then abut the windutr
Zioa First Bsptiat church % 11 Si-TrST* 1 ^
and aerred the chinch la assay *qs> f — *
pecities. He wss peesldaat sf the I
senior choir for many years, wss •
deacon, a trustee, and had
as treasurer of the church for 11
years, a position be held st the time
of hia death.
He entered the employ of the San
Antonio po*t office Oct. 11. 1987. and
was retired from the maintenance
service of the department, Octe 9,
11*13. after some yeara serrlfs.
Edmerson was a member Sf lbs
Veterans of World War I; Psst 800
American Legion; Lincoln Barracks.
No. 17*fl: Knights ot Pythias.
Krushall Pride lodge No. 284, and
ed Is him is i
ly, and was arrested.
Williams waa wearing black leethtf
glovee, and had three screw driven
and s pinch bsr lp his poeseaaion.
Police reported that Williame
mitted he hnrglariaed the college th#
(See WHEEL
♦
Page 1)
Two Injured
In Funeral
Procession Crash
(See JOB. Page i.)
A funeral cortege collision resulted
in injuries to two persons Saturday.
As the procession for Eddie A. Ed-
merson was en route to Fast flew
cemetery, a sudden atop was neces-
sary on South New Braunfele, near
Delmar.
The car driven by Milton Douglas.
1638 Nolan, could not stop quickly
enough, snd ran Into the resr of the
machine operated by Mrs. Ruby Ag-
nes Fields. 616 Iowa. With her was
her husbuud. William Fielda.
Mrs. Maude Irvin, 1*1.1 Virginia
boulevard, and Mrs. L. E. Smith, 110
Runge, riding in the Douglas auto-
mobile, were injured, according to
l»olice records. Also s paaeenger in
the car. and reported hurt, was M**-
Emma Robinson. 910 South Cherry.
She was not liated aa injured on
the traffic report.
Neither Mrs. Fields nor Fields wss
hurt.
Damage to Douglas's I960 Chevro-
let Impale was set at IQIS7, to Mrs.
Fields' 196ft Oldmnobile. $100.
(See OFFICER, Psgs ft.)
♦
One Slashed
As Teen-Age
S. A. Girls Battle
As two teen-age girte battled, Tuc*
day, iu the 160o block of Montana,
one 10, reportedly whipped out %
knife rnd slashed her antagouiat.
Cut on the right arm and hand waf
Aunie .^ae Wright, 17, 1830 Monfc
tana. A Cortes ambulance carried het
to t^ie Robert B. Green hospital fo#
treatment.
The Wright g!rl told police thai
she and a 10-year-old Montana atreqs
girl l>«cgme involved In s fight. A|
the affray progressed, the Montanq
street girl fulled a knife snd slash*
ed her foe.
The knife wielder wae hooked fo|
aggravated aaftault. ^
i
San Antonio
Woman, 72, Found
Dead in Home
20 Yunft Cities Have More Negroes than 11 Dixie States
By th, Aaaociated Negro Preee
CHICAGO — Chicago', Negre
population exceede that of 41
ef (be SO etatea compriainf tht
United Statee ef America.
The estimated Negro popula-
tion of the nation's second larg-
est clt- ;-aa t-t.000, aa ef Jan-
uary I, leau.
New York, with a total of 1,-
*SS,400. le the only American
city with a greater Negro popu-
lation than Chicago. The nation's
largest city also tops every stele
in the Negro population rank.
The trend toward northern
urban concentration of the Negre
population is revealed In a report
by the Chicago Committee of
line Hundred, based on a special
Negro population projection com-
piled by a nationally-known
data gathering agency.
Erneet R. Rather, preeident of
the it-year-old Chicago civil er-
gsnlistlnn, compoeed of buslnese
and profeeeional people, said, the
report «te prepared from basic
data publlahed by the Consumer
Markets department of the
Standard Rate tnd Data set vice.
The lets projections are based
en the ltet census.
Th« Negro population data re-
port wat supervised by Let
U lack well, director of reaearch for
the to—illliti
The iiriedary Negre market la
found In tht metro areas ef the
country whtre CT per eeat el the
total Negre population reeidee.
The entire Negro population
of the 11 Deep South statee ex-
ceed* by only two million the
eesnbined Negro population of the
top metropolitan arena ef
North, Midweet and Wett, ac-
cording to the report.
An estimated 9.103,MOO Ne-
groee live in the 11 Deep South
states.
Alabama haa 1,004,200; Ar-
kansas, 3*4.»00; Florida, l.OSt,-
A00; Georgia, 1,104,500; Louis-
Una, 1.103.300; Mississippi, *tO,-
000; North Carolina, l.l&tt.HOO;
Oklahoma, 100,700; South Caro-
lina, 847,000; Tennessee, eiO,-
400; Virginia, 008,100.
The top 10 metropolitan treat
outside the South, with a total
Negro popular!sn Is exeeta tf
7,000,000. Include; >.
New Torit City, 1.333,400;
Chicago, 070,000; Washington,
D. C„ 508,000; Loo Angelee,
510,000; Baltimore, 414.700; De-
troit, 013,700; St. Louie, 31*,-
Cleveiand, MI.OOO; rhlla
711,800; Pittsburgh,
171 300; Ran I'renclsco, 270,400;
Indianapolis. 10},»00; Kansas
Oty, m.so<.: Newark. 152.&00;
Clneiwmtl. IM.400; Milwaukee,
70,500; Buffalo, *0.300; Gary,
Ind. (nMiropolitaii area) 14,200;
Wilmington (Del.) 40,500, and
Yonnfitowa Warren, Ohio, 51,-
100.
Appro>leiatei> six mUlion Ne-
grooe reside 10 major ciMee
si the Etst. Midweet and Far
Weal, the report reveds.
The population of these ten
eltiet—Ceirxe. New Yerh, Loo
Angelee. Washington D. C.;
TTtlihi Detroit. St. I.euls,
Cleveland and rhllsdeiphla- al-
meat matches the total Negro
pomilati.in of <*' »'* lnMt 1,0,1'
L^r. l7- regards U Negroee)
state*
The combined Negro popula-
tion of Alabama. Florida, North
Carolina. I»u!s4ana and Miss-
issippi Is eetimated at O.SM.OOO.
The Southweoterr state of
Texaa, with 1.172.000 Negroes is
eettpeed red) by New York City.
Aooeton. Texas, haa a Negro
population of let.000.
Approximately two million Ne-
groee reside In a docen metropoli-
tan areaa with over too.ooo
Negro population in six southern
statsa, Alabama. Florida. Georgia,
Tenneeeee, Virginia and Louis-
New Orleans Is the largest of
theae metropolitan centers with
an eatimated Negre population of
184.000.
Chicago'e 0*0.000 Negroes
comprise almost five per rent
of the total Negro population
(10,000.000) of the I nked Statee.
file Windy City haa elm tot 100,-
000 more Negroes than the en-
tire state of Mleelsslppl (MO,.
800).
However, a large percesitage el
the Negro population of Chicago
la comprised of hamw residents
ef Mississippi.
Washington, D. C- Is the only
major city in the Coifed Statee
with a majority Negro popula-
tion. An eatimated 5ft per eeat el
the residents of the nation's capi-
tal are Negro.
Vermont, with 500 Negroes,
and North Dakota (1.000) hava
the low "at Negro population el
all the 50 Mate*.
Though Negroes comprise
about M per rent tf the total
(See MORE. Pago 1.)
A verdict of denlli from naturj
cauacK haa Wen pronounced in
paaaing of Mro. Rcsmc Hacon, 73, 1
Cornell. She died in her residence 1
tween 6 o'clock, Friday evening, J ltd
24. aud Sunday morning.
Mrs. Margaret King. A8, 6.''0 Keg
tucisy, sister-in-law of the decedgl
had trifd repeatedly to routact
liatstp by teltpbone for two days, i
finally enllstwl the assistance of _
^'het the doora to the reaidei^
were 'otuid to be locked from t^a
inside, Offli^r D. ITarp forced If
trance into the house. ||
Mra. Bacon was found slumped
a chair in the living room, dead.
I
%
(See WOMAN. Page 5.1
♦
72-Year-Old S. A.
Man Dies in Sleep
Carroll Dickson. 72. 223 Muskogej
apparently died iu his sleep, Thul
day morning, about .'t o'clock.
His wife, Mrs. Ella Dickson,
that her husband had been ill
diabetes for seven yenrs. She
dared that when she checked on
at 2 o'clock, he was still alive.
Death apparendy came about 8 i
clock.
a officers arrested him. data gathering agenry. top metropolltao areas Of mo mm; iicveiane, asi.noo; riwa- southern state* - — ,— '
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