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Informer Chooses
Governor W. H. Hastie
A s
Man Of The Year”
The Informer’s MAN of the YEAR ‘
is Govenor William H Hastie of the
Virgin Islands. Governor Hastie is
not chosen simply because he holds
the highest appointive government
post ever to go to a Negro but be-
cause his having that post carries
with it a symbolism significant to
aU Negroes. He is an able man to
whom many honors have come bul
no honor he has received ever was
great enough to buy his integrity
or to compromise his honesty. In
war time he held the most im-
portant post a Negro had in the
government but he surrendered the
honor of that position rather than'
sell his people short. His resignation
from the War Department post em-
barrassed the government but when
a Negro was sought for the biggest
job that same government had to
bestow in peace time the honest,
uncompromising, William H Hastie
was called to fill it.
WILLIAM HASTIE
Neentenin Dna Ytrof Xis
Wasn’t Crazy After All
By MARTIN MAYFIELD, JR.
HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
COLORED BRANCH
Death Takes Talmadge, Selah!
The Anformer
>TEXASCFREEMAN7
VOL. 53—No. 2
Judge William H Hastie, former
dean of the Howard university law
school, was announced as President Paata—. %
Truman’s choice for governor of the UASHes IWO
Virgin Islands on Saturday, Janu-f----------
ary 12. His name went to the senate •• •
- confirmation when that body re-An rreTan
convened January 14. Judge Hastie eeRGl ■■■ ■ CuLCe
has a comprehensive knowledge of naz-s
government in this Caribbean ter-FOT AlemInO
ritory where he served as federal " w KeTS
judge from 1937 to 1939. At the out-
break of the war President Roose-1 niro rorgeTV
velt named Judge Hastie civilian O •
aide to the secretary of war from ________....
which position he resigned in pro-the part of two tellers
test against the army’s discrimina-National Bank resulted in the ap-
tors policies toward colored sol- prehension of Robert Batteau, 24
diers in January 1983. and resumed suspected m forging the name of
his duties as dean at Howard uni-Dr. C. B. Johnson, prominent dent-
_ . ____, . ist on Dowling street, to two Fifty-
Judge Hastie argued the issue of dollar checks .... .
Negroes voting in state, county and and the other December
city elections before the Supreme man
Court in the case or Smith versus
HOUSTON 1, TEXAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1946
Neman M. Sweatt
Our “Man Of Texas”
As a symbol. Heman Marion
Sweatt marks the emergence of the
good whhite people were willing to
Negro in Texas as an adult and a
. .. .. citizen. Older Negroes have gotten ~owa ..e me uays v, via black
H0OCIONQuick thinking on benefits for themselves and for their Joe are really gone and the day of
e mart of twn teller- at the First ,________Mr jn„„h .5___J.°
one December 15,
J 18. The
was held by the tellers for
police after he attempted to cash
. -t’levered the decision a third check for $140 with the
in the case of Grover versus Town- dentist’s signature, December 21
send. As the attorney who effected officers stated.
I just finished talking to a crazy man. -__________
He wasn’t the type of fellow you’d find in an insane the opening of the polls in primary)
asylum or we wouldn’t publish anything about him in our elections for Negroes, he is best The tellers, C. A. Hattmann and
asyiam WANOn puoiisn anyining about in OUE: own to Texans. J. S. Pointer became suspicious
paper. But he was crazy, alright.
J. S. Pointer became suspicious
CITY
EDITION i
PRICE: 10 Cents
Final Rites Held
For Claud Green
HOUSTON — Funeral services
for Mr. Claud Green, 4205 Coke
street, who died at Jefferson Da-
vis hospital December 18, were
give.
What Sweatt has represented held Monday, December 23, at St
shows that the days of Old Black Luke’s Episcopal church, the Rev.
W Wilkins, pastor, officiating.
Mr Joseph has come • Interment was at the Oak Park
* Josepn has come cemetery, with Clay and Clay fu-
Heman Sweatt showed courage inineral home in charge of the fu-
making application for entry to the neral arrangements.
University of Texas Law school and . Mr. Green, & native of Houston,
upon demal suing in the courts for had been employed as a staff rep.
■ in me courts for resentative for the Atlanta Life
Insurance company for the last
law trat-n in Texas provided by
the State. He ran personal risks,
which as an extremely intelligent
man, he clearly recognized He may
(See SWEATT, P. 7. Col. 2)
(See RITES, P. 7. Cel 3)
Pistol
“Waver”
Nabbed
HOUSTON - After threatening
the safety of customers by waving
a pistol in a cafe on Lyons aves
nue, Robert Earl Jarmon, was later-
arrested and charged with going to
■ another cafe on Jensen Drive and
| shooting a customer. Two charges,
rudely displaying firearms and as-
sault tr murder, were placed
against him in Judge W. C. Ragan’s
court.
Edmund Hudson, 43, of 2722
Lorraine, the customer who was
shot in the cafe on Jensen Drive,
was carried to the Jefferson Davis
hospital where he had run and
(See CAFE P. 7. Col. 3) . .
He was just about the dizziest
guy that I have ever talked
with. Let me tell you about him
and the crazy things he told me.
Ho came in the newsroom and
asked if I was a reporter.
“Are you a reporter,” he ask-
ed me. I told him I was.
“Well,” he said, "I got a mes-
sage I want to report before I
leave this nation.”
So I put a piece of copy paper
In my typewriter and took down
the random talk that this guy
dictated to me.
It could be that he was not the
wacky fellow. Maybe I’m the one
that should see a physician. I'll
pass this fella’s story on to the
readers of The Informer. You can
be the judge in deciding if I am
right in my convictions of the
saneness of this gentleman.
Hit And Run Driver
Pleads Guilty; Gets
Two-Year Sentence
HOUSTON - Henry Jefferson,
37, of 3460 Bremond avenue, now
serving a one-year term in the
Harris County jail pleaded guilty
before District Judge Langston
G King, Wednesday to a charge
of failing to stop and render aid,
in the connection with the Octob-
' A 26, traffic fatality of Earl H.
simar. 21-year-old student of the
University of Texas, and was sen-
tenced to serve two years in the
penitentiary.
The one year jail term that
Jefferson is now serving was al-
so. in connection with Smith's
death; he was found guilty of
negligent homicide shortly fol-
lowing the mishap.
These are the events that led to
Smart's death and subsequently
to two convictions against Jeffer-
son:
Smart and some friends had
stopped on South Main near the
under pass to repair a tire that
had blown out, when aboard al-
legedly projecting from Jeffer-
son’s passing truck struck the
student, killing him instantly.
Deputy sheriffs later traced the
truck as belonging to Jefferson
and arrested the man charging
him with negligent homicide and
failing to stop and render aid.
During the trial in which Jef-
ferson was tried for negligent
homicide before County Judge Al-
lie Peyton, he said that he did
not have any knowledge that the
board projecting from his truck
a had struck anyone.
A Jefferson will begin his peni-
tentiary sentence after comple-
tion of his jail term.
The first thing he told me was
his name.
“My name is Neetenin Dna Ytrof
Xis,” he said.
That, of course, struck me as
being very odd. I asked him where
in the world he got such a pecu-
liar name, and he didn't answer,
I asked him, if he would kindly
pronounce the name for me but
he refused to do that, too. so I
let him continue with his story.
He continued that he had been
around this land of ours one year.
That was something else I did
not understand because he looked
every bit of being 88-year-old.
He had a long, long beard; his
hair and beard were white as
snow; and when he talked his
voice sounded weak and tremb-
ling. As he walked about the news-
room he had to use a walking
cane to aid himself in getting
from one place to the other.
None of Judge Hasises honors Saturday, when Batteau presented
earn for him more respect than C__: ’....._ 1
the position he took in the War signature Mr. Hartmann had cash.
' Department. Finding himself unable ed the other checks for Batteau and
to influence the army brass hats on
what he ce-sidered fundamental is-
sues affecting Negro service in the________. ... ..... ...
armed forces, he resigned the post, lano, right around the corner from
His resignation spotlighted the is-
sues for which he had worked un-
availingly within the War Departt-
ment and reforms were immediately
r’ertalo. '. his refusal to lend
his prestige to cloak with discrim-
ination against Negro soldiers he —---------
etprd a re utation for bono andpin A
integrity. 7 A.EESG
Judge Hastie is 41 as old He HASJHVAIdiTOI
holds a bachelor's degree from Am---•-
herst college where ha was presi-
dent of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
His law degrees, LLB and SJ.D.
were awarded by Howard univer-
sity. He is an AME, Mason, and
Omega Phi Psi. In 1M3 he was
awarded the coveted Spingarn
medal.
the third check with the doctor’s
signature Mr. Hartmann had cas’s-
remembered him, the teller held
Batteau until officers arrived.
Batteau who lives on 3408 De-
College Of Pacific
Official Denies Race
Gridster Was Left
Behind
62-Year-Old Man
Found Dead
HOUSTON — Apparently dying
' after a heart attack during the
night, the body of 62-year-old
Archie Stevens of 1811% Davis,
was discovered in bed by his son,
Archie Stevens, Jr. about 5:90 a.
i
Dr. Johnson, implicated another HEMAN SWEATT
youth in the forgeries, officers people . indirection—pleading ca-
stated. Both Ritteau and the youth jolne. making the appeal of the
he named, were arrested and are weak and mistreated Negro to some
being held for further investiga- white *
tion, officers stated. Sons wAme
person who would
champion their cause. These older
#%
Victim Buried
In Kilgore
men always operated in a twilight
“whest dealer and gompromisceaad
subterfuges could be made.
Heman Sweatt is a bold detail of
a new pattern. The old pattern was
in in which egroes were accorded
privileges and received gifts from
government, from employers, and
through other sources of vested
m., December 21.
Dr. McAllister who examined the
body stated that death had oc-
curred about three hours to the
time it was discovered. Mr. Ste-
HOUSTON — The College of
Pacific's Public Relations of- . ,
ficer denied the fact that Mil- iyens h“d ^•B in ill health for
lard “Brother" Mitchell, Hous-
tonian. was a member of the
football squad and was left be-
hind when the California team
about a year. The funeral was
held Monday. Clay and Clay fune-
. ral home in charge of arrange-
played North Texas in the Op-
timists Bowl at Public School
stadium, Saturday, December:
21 ..Erothel” Mitchell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mitchell,
wrote home and stated that ho
was playing on the team and
had made outstanding records
ments.
One Injured
In Gang Fight
HOUSTON - A forty-six-year-
old man ended up in Jefferson
Davis hospital with several
wounds, after he had been alleg-
edly beaten by two brothers dur-
ing a gang fight occurring in the
45 block of McKee last Thursday
morning.
The victim to the onset which
was brought about by the two
brothers, is Anthony Hardaway,
of 4510 McKee. The accused broth- 1
ers are Dink and Bell Clay, of
4719 Harding.
These are the events that led •
to the fight, as reconstructed
(See INJURED, F. 7. Col. 4) 3
Georgians Saved Fran
White Supremacy Rule
ATLANTA, Ga.—The queer “unit 1 hardest-fought, and when victory
system” of Georgia gave to ‘Gene was his the old campaigner admitted
Talmadge a fourth term as governor that “it took years off my life."
of that state against the wishes of Talmadge particularly wanted to
the majority of the voters but God liv to scrve another term. He felt
in his wisdom prevented Talmadge his election in 1946 on the “white
from taking office and ruling supremacy” issue was a vindication
. ___Georgia again .ith policies of white of the “race” stand which cost him
although there were a number supremacy enforced by armed men, the governorship four eara ago He
of them attending the college. j Gene Talmadge is dead and nobody had fired two state university of-
----------------------------- knows who will be governor of feials because, he said, they wanted
---------- Georgia for the next four years but Negro-white mixing in schools.
it will not be the champion of E action brought disaccredita-
“white supremacy to whom the; tion to the state university system
hate groups in Georgia looked hope-and Ellis Arnall, backed by thous-
fully to take off them the fatal ands of college students, rode into
pressure relentlessly applied by - Imadge’s office with a promise
Governor Ellis Arnall, to restore college standings He did.
Talmadge's passing prior to his This time it was Talmadge who
inauguration loosed a storm of made a promise—to restore the
books newspapers and magazines political speculation as to who would | Democratic white primary to “the
to the patients; the supplies com- govern the state. There were these white folks” by changing the port
mittee makes surgical dressings: three principal conjectures, to a private club and thus exclude
the loan chest committee obtains 1. That the Legislature convening Negro voters. He planned to 1-e-
braces, crutches and clothing for January 13 would elect a governor onally ask the 1947 legislature for
the patients who need them; a to succeed Ellis Gibbs Arnall, whose his “white rimary” laws. : —;
while attending College of Pa-
cific.
The Public Relations officer
admitted that there
HOUSTON — The body of 18- white power. Negroes formerly got
year-old Mary Daniel, was ship-schools and paved streets and better
ped to her home. Kilgore, Texas, wages by appealing to the sympathy
for burial by the Frazier Funeral and hv ane spirit of those in con-
Home Saturday, December 21. trol. They never got what they
Miss Daniels was found at 9 a deserved but what the powers-that
.------[be were kind enough to give them.
L’See VICTIM, F. 7. Cal. 2| and were grateful for whatever
was a
Hawaiian member of the team,
but no Negroes had enlisted
in football training this season
Then he started talking like
he was a king or an emperor or
something. Said he had been hav-
ing some trouble with John L.lnigh places, but too many of them
Lewis and the soft coal miners;: -----------
and added that former secretary! (See HASTIE, Page 7, Cell. 1)
cf commerce Henry Wallace did -------------
too much talking for his own
E F= Man, 49, to Year’s “Women In Yellow" Carry Christmas
(Right here I interrupted the 17th Fire Victim
old fellow. I still wanted him to -
pronounce his entire name for
me).
“Look here, old man,” I said,
“How do you pronounce your
name 7"
Many men have received honors
in 19’6, Many men have reached
Cheer To Negro Patients At J. D.
HOUSTON— Early Sunday Gus
Green, 49, of Trinity Gardens, be-!
came fire victim number 17 for HOUSTON — Christmas came ornamenting the two wards with
this year. Mr. Green was trapped, to the Negro patients at Jeffer- a varied collection of yule sea-
in the garage apartment of rela-i son Davis hospital last Thursday son decorations.
tives located at 2510% Lamar. when the Negro branch of the The auxiliary works through
The building was on fire all over "Women in Yellow- (an auxil- committees.m addition to 7heU
when firemen reached the scene, iary at Jefferson Davis) lighted unselfish humane services per -
They were informed that Mr. Green UP the two colored wards with an formed every holiday season clinic committee, who cooperates liberal administration the conserva-
was still Inside. Quickly laying their assortment of bright decoration, these committees perform many
heavy hose three different pumper and conducted A three hour tour other duties throughout the whole
crews sought their way inside the of distributing gifts to those who year,
raging fire Mr. Green was found are sick. . . .
on the kitchen floor near bis bed. I The auxiliary, which carries the s These are, the committees and
but was beyond human aid, mme "The Women Yellow” ten which aids the hospital
The relatives Mr and Mrs Cur- # the co or of their m staff in preparing food for the ill; 1
ley Green, stated the victim had workers consisting of over 100 a library committee distributes
been seen smoking in bed shortly solum workers and whose work
before find broke out in the kit- Polnter Worers and hose work ----------------------------
III. - W w supplement in many ways the --1 -----
chen. Aprarently Mr. Green was professional services rendered by -----------------------------------------
Well, he just ignored the ques-
tion and told me the persons be
was in sympathy with.
“The four Negroes that were
lynched in Georgia this year was
a terrible mar against civilized
people. My sympathy went for
those four souls, as well as with
all the people that died in the big
train wreck and the big hotel fires
during the past year.
“And I was terribly hurt when
the news reached me that Damon
Runyon had died; he was a great
newspaper man and a great guy.
“I felt sorry for Harry Tru-
ies ^^X^ oercemme.br M^^ and the hospital sift of these 100
administration were pathetic I ------------
tell you.”
with physicians in work with tive Talmadge was to inherit,
“out” patients; and the children’s 2 Gov. Arnall would hold over
committee helps in the feeding and for another four-year term.
entertaining juvenile patients of 3. Lt. Gov. M E. Thompson,
the hospital, -scheduled to take office January 14,
The women connected with the would file suit claiming succession
| Negro branch of “The Women in to the governorship.
| Yellow" render their services one Talmadge's election to a fourth
day a week (Thursday) through- term capped a political career as
i cut the year. tor. y as it was successful. He
I asked him* if he was sorry
when he heard about the death
of Georgia's governor elect Eu-
gene Talmadge. He said he wasn’t.
Then I asked him again how be
pronounced his funny name, but
he didn't tell me; instead be
started talking crazier than ever:
"I am leaving this land pretty
scon; in fact, someone else has
already taken over my work. I
would like for you to pass on to
(See XMAS, F. 7. Col. 1)
then burned as he slumped to the or more women, twenty of the
floor in trying to escape from the group make up the Negro branch
fire. of the auxiliary. Mrs. A. M. Ran-
The justice of the peace had the som is the Negro group’s chair-
body held for further examination man. Mrs. Joseph W. Evans and
but was urable to find anything Mrs. Donald Yarborough are the
out of order in the man's death, chairman and executive secretary!
He later issued the caused er of the entire auxiliary (white as
death due ′ to strangulation by well as colored) respectively,
smoke and burns suffered in the Last Thursday morning, Mrs.
fire Ransoms group made a good-will
s G _. | tour through the charity Negro
, Curley Green tried in vain to en- -ards—third and fourth floors,
ter the rolling flames and smoke leaving a Christmas gift with
when the fire first was discovered, cacn patient and then “proceeded
He barely managed to escape the Ite bring more good cheer and
fast spreading fire himself. Christmas spirit to the sick by
J. B. Robinson,
Informer Agent,
Reported Improved
HOUSTON — J. B. Robinson,
of 2309 Jarrell, a star salesman
of the Informer newspaper, is
ill in the Negro hospital, but
was reported to be improving
Monday evening.
Mr. Robinson sells over five
hundred Informer papers week-
ly. The publisher, editors and
entire staff of the Informer
wish him a speedy recovery.
In additoin to Mrs. A. M. Ran-’ruled by bayonet as well as by law.
sum, the chairman of the Negro Seventeen times he called out troops
group, these are the other mem- to oust public officials and to quell
bers: strike riots
Mrs. J. Ganaway, Mrs. M. L The riartial lav suppression of
Grays. Mrs B J Covington Mrs labor disturbances when he was
Mrs oetsomeE MEs. Mrs M. Li governor in 1935 permanently alien-
Reszare, "Me "st ssaing ated what labor vote he had.
Mrs. J. H. Allen, Mrs L. Allen. The country-reared lawyer-farmer
Mirs. R. V. Franks Mrs. E. Bailey, told his rural constitutents, he
Mr C Jones F scored the vote and influence of the
andtr. and E. wealthy. It was his boast that he
1 Rev D Anderson Rev J i never, in any election, carried a
Gamble and Rev. M. L. McGowen county with a street car in it. But
are the three males connected political students knew Talmadge
with t he group and render chap- ften had the support of railroads,
lain services to the colored pa- r sine few corporations
tients. Talmadge's last campaign was his
Father Divine’s
Mission Bequeathed
$500,000 Estate
NEW YORK — (ANP) —
Two Father Divine organiza-
tions, established by followers
of the cultist leader, were
named as beneficiaries of the
estimated $500,000 residuary es-
fate of Mrs. Sheldon Lyon,
wealthy white woman who died
last October 10 at the age of
85, it was disclosed here last
Tuesday when the will was
*iled in surrogate’s court.
At the same time. Attorney
George J. Reagan announced
that he had obtained a show,
cause order from Surrogate
William T. Collins on behalf
of Dr. William Hills Sb ‘don,
brother of the deceased, to in-
vestigate two of the recipients
named in the will.
a • HoustorTHESE ARE “THE WOMEN IN YELLOW”—These ladies brought cheer and the Christmas spirit to patients in Jefferson Davis hospital last Thursday morning, when they decorated the Negro wards at the
, bren"v! ELE* a DOM T MET: t mhes: mo Wriehar Mrs. J. Samaway, Mrs. M. L Grays, Mrs. A. M. Ransom C(airman), Mrs. B. J. Covingt on, Mrs. #. Montgomery, Mrs. L. M. Lee, Mrs. E. V. Loi,
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