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VOLUME XV
TOUSTON INI
AND TEXAS FREEMAN
A WARMLY NEWSPAPER roir ALL. THE PEOPLE
HOUSTON, TEXAS; SATURDAY^ JUNE 24, 1933
Ben Stuberville Is Held For Murder Without Bon
SLAYER OFFERS
YOUNG GIRL AND
BABY AS REASON
ALUMNI HEAD
, Houston.—Did the eyes of a 16 year
old girl bore accusingly and search-
ingly into those of 20 years old, Mel-
vin Guidry as he lay laboriously
breathing his last near a vacant lot
in the fashionably, exclusive, white,
River Oaks district? Did conscience
haunt him, as he slowly but surely
entered into the shades of death? Or
did the eyes of the girl in the thoughts
of the dying man hover over him,
gently, scarressing him, and did the
lips of the girl in the cloud, growing
dimmer as life ebbed* away, breathe a
silent prayer that his life be spared,
and if that not be possible, that God
have mercy on his soul? Will the
pangs of iconscience haunt this girl
throughout the remainder of her life?
Did the killing of that boy in any
way vindicate her honor? Or, was
she the cause of an innocent boy, a
wrictim of circumstance, coming to an
untimely and tragic death?
Although these are not the ques- dent’s Association,
tions on which the case will be decided " -’
by judge and jury who make up part
of the machinery of the law, they are
important, for they are the human in-
terest questions which have revolved
around similar instances for ages
past.
The facts are simply that Melvin
Guidry, 20, was shot twice by a pistol,
OSCAR J. THOMAS who was re-
cently elected president of The Prai-
rie View Alumni and Former Stu-
(See STUBERVILLE, Page 8)
.ABI
GH
Austin.—Winners in an essay writ-
ing contest conducted in Texas high
schools for the school year just ended
are announced today by the Texas
Tuberculosis Association. '
Cash prises of fifteen, ten and five
dollars were given by a director of the
Association for the best essay on the
subject, “What Should a High School
Pupil Know About Tuberculosis.” Con-
testants competed in two groups—
senior and junior divisions—awards
were made in each group.
Winners are J. B. Holt, eleventh
grade, Abilene, first prise, senior di-
vision; Christine Garrett, ninth grade,
Hempstead, second prise, senior di-
vision; Mary Ellen Siddall, ninth
grade, Gainesville, third prise, senior
division: Mary Shirkey, seventh grade,
Beaumont, first prize, junior division;
Tom Thomas, 8th grade, Gainesville,
second prise, junior division; and
Henrietta Speckles, eighth grade.
Hoffman School, Bexar County, third
prize junior division.
More than two thousand essays
were submitted in the contest which
was open to high school pupils living
outside the five largest cities in the
state. Judges were Dr. F. R. Collard,
physician, Wichita Falls: Mrs. A. 0.
Calhoun, director of health and phy-
sical education, Denton Public schools,
and Miss Rhoda Foster, nurse, Fort
Worth.
EW LIBRARIAN
TAKES UP POST
Houston.—James Hulbert, new li-
brarian at the Negro library, has ar-
rived in the city and assumed his
duties as new head of the Carnegie
branch. The improvements at the Ne-
gro library are also being rushed
toward completion. These improve-
ments include a cleaning and refinish-
ing of the woodwork and the floors,
and a redecoration of the walls. In-
deed, the program calls for making
the Negro library new as far as these
improvements on the inside can make
it so.
Not only does the Negro library
have a new librarian and “new
clothes” on the inside to greet old and
new readers, but the Negro library
also has new recognition within the
Negro group. The library board has
approved the recommendation of its
Negro branch committee for the ap-
pointment of a colored branch ad-
visory committoe, whose functions “will
be to co-operate “in building up inter-
est in the library, encouraging its use
and in interpreting the library
board’s plans to the colored citizen-
*Te members of the colored com-
mittee are E. O. Smith, chairman;
James D. Ryan, vice chairman; Mrs.
Edna Griffin, secretary; W. E. Miller,
treasurer; L. H. Spivey, Mrs. T. M.
Fairchild and J. Alston Atkins.
ARRESTED FOR FIGHTING
Houston.—Officers Snow and Hen-
derson arrested Dave Harrison Friday
about 6 o'clock in the evening on a
warrant sworn out in Judge Over-
me “ ME him with •-
SHE GOES FREE
- COLORED BRANCH
HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
- HOUSTON, TEXAS,
' OUR PHONE NUMBER
IS PRESTON
Carnegie Library
Col. Branch
Frederick St
NUMBER 5
BEAUTY WORK IS DR. T.L HUNTER NEGRO CALLED
ADDED TO WILEY BECOMES HEAD ON GRAND JURY
STUDY COURSE OF MEDIC BODY FOR FIRST TIME
ACQUIT HER ON
MURDER CHARGE
IN MATE’S DEATH
Marshall.—The edu
which has been con
world wide economic upheaval is giw-II
ing occasion for considerable thought
and worry to leaders in this field.
President Dogan of Wiley College
says a great many readjustments in
curriculum will need te be made tell
order to meet the situation. Among ttihe"
tution are reorganization of cases te
orientation so as te make this ser-
vice available te students on other
than arbitrary basis, he stated, tons
enabling seniors as well as freshmen
to take advantage of it; the schaal is
also adding a near course—Beanly
Culture—as a means of helping to
meet the problem of unemployment.
This course will be under the dimed
supervision of a licensed bberuliiciiam
President Dogan says this is jus
another pioneering move on the part
of Wiley to meet changed and dhang
ing conditions in the educational amd
economic fields. “Adaptation is tte
life process of civilization, whether is
its individual or organizational as
Mr. Thomas , was born in Nacog-
doches County, Texas, where he re-________----------
ceived his elementary training. Later pecta,” asserts President D
he entered Prairie View College and thinks there will probably
finished his high school and college adjustments in the educatii
education, receiving his Bachelor of gram at Wiley by the openin
Science degree. He has done gradu- ~ ” 4 — * 41- *---2
ate work in Hampton Institute, Vir-
ginia.
After teaching several years in the
rural schools of Nacogdoches and
Shelby Counties, Mr. Thomas was
elected teacher at Texas College which .
position he held three years. It was ADT
here that he became acquainted with
the illustrious character—President
V-CHA *new hands Prine
In August nineteen hundred 1
twenty-three, Mr. Thomas was offer-
ed the position principal and vocation-
al and agriculture teacher at Cameron,
Texas. He accepted this position with
the promise that within a short while
the old building which then stood on
the beautiful school grounds would
be replaced by a modern school build-
ing. Through the efforts of the sup-
._______E of
fall term, in the hope of putting i
(See BEAUTY WORK, Page BI
TIA
P
DE T-L HUNTER
Dalles.—Dr. T. L. Hunter, promi-
ment diendintt of Marshall, took over
the meims off toe presidency for the cur-
remit year, and Miss A. E. Hughes,
weill kmowm pharmacist of Clarksville,
was chimen president-elect, as Me 47th
annual semi off the Lone Star State
Maidlicall, Dental, and Pharmaceutical
Amaranth- stated one of the most
interesting meetings te its history.
Ouber cillicers elected were: Dr. J.
LIV a **-
Alexandria, Va.—For the first time
in the history of this city a colored
man, Lucius Gaines, has been called
as a member of, the grand jury. Judge
William P. Woolls on Monday called
Gaines after he had been told by
Charles H. Houston, attorney for the
National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People, and J. Byron
Hopkins of this city, that the question
of unconstitutional indictment would
be raised if Negroes were excluded
from the jury panel in the case about
to be tried.
Without waiting for the attorney!
to file their papers, Judge Woolls call-
a new grand jury with a Negro on it.
This is the identical point raised by*
the N. A. A. C. P. in its fight on the
attempt of Virginia to extradite
George Crawford from Boston to Mid-
dleburg, Va., for trial for murder. The
N. A. A. C. P. attorneys in the Craw-
ford case contend that Crawford is
illegally and unconstitutionally in-
dicted because Negroes were barred
from the grand jury which indicted
him.
MRS. MYRTLE MIDDLETON
PRAIRIE VIEW
TEACHERS OFF
Houston.—Juneteenth, or June 19,
1938, to be exact, turned out to be a
real emancipation day for .Mrs. Myrtle
Middleton, prominent Houston society
woman and singer, who is now visit-
ing with relatives and friends in her
old home town, Hearne. Texas. For
it was on the Juneteenth, Monday of
this week, that the grand jury of
Harris County no-billed Mrs. Middle-
ton in the case in which she was
charged with the murder of her hus-
band, the late H. M. Middleton, Sr.
The examining trial was held on
June 7, 1988, and just 12 days later
the grand jury returned its verdict,
which freed Mrs. Middleton from all
criminal liability in connection with
the death of her husband, who was
shot and killed at the family home,
2515 Berry Avenue, at 11:50 p.m. Sat-
urday, June 3, 1983.
[
At the time of the shooting officers
who came to the scene soon after it'
occurred stated that they found the
body lying on its face in the back-
yard, near the steps, and that a bullet
from a .45 U. S. automatic had en-
tered the mouth, ranging downward
to the right, shattering the lower
right jaw, emerging just to the right
of the spinal column, and causing
By Napoleon B. Edward
Prairie View.—Principal W. R.
The / wacowm
and shall from a comk
Worth Concn" men in
Coach” Harry Long, and Den
Daniel were in a serious ■
cident.
1
(See ALUMNI HEAD, Page 8)
DIES SUDDENLY
Houston.—A verdict of death due to
natural causes was rendered by Jus-
tice Overstreet in the death of Sump-
ter Lee, who died at his home, 8444
Calhoun Street, about 7 o’clock Tues-
day evening. Mrs. Emma Lee, his
wife, made a statement in which she
said that he complained of feeling
badly and went to the bathroom, call-
ing to her. She went in and found
him vomiting. He fell to the floor.
She called for aid and got him back
to the bedroom, but by that time he
was dead. Ptomaine poison was sug-
gested as a probable cause of death.
The body was turned over to Fair-
child Undertaking Company.
The car in which they were riding
was struck by a car driven by a while
man. Quite a bit of damage was done
“Little Coach” was knocked umican-
scious and for a while he was thought
to be dead. Dean Daniel lost a few
front teeth. And Big Coach was
scratched and bruised consideralily.
The latest report states that Harry
Long is out of danger and the others
are recovering from miner scratches
and bruises. The white driver admitted
that he was in fault and tan agreed
to pay all damages.
RICHMOND WOMAN
IS LAID TO REST
OFF TO STUDY
The atone off treasurer was
with the seezetmes's office.
were three tores of elinies
is, and the ese,
clinic. Two rata
(See HUNTBE, Page 8)
YOUTH
1020ATOD
ON JUNETEENTH
An leant ame tragedy marred the
Jumellieth celebration in Houston
this year. Antihurr Cameo, 16, off 2611
Prwidemre Street, was drowned in
Green’s Bayou about 4 p. m. on June-
teemtih, wihere he and a group of boys
and girls went to enjoy a Juneteenth
pirie.
A mumbler ef leys and girls were in
mber swimming, when Cameo
Richmond. — Funeral services for
Mrs. Lydia Jones, a Fort Bend County the “Ater swimig, when Cameo
: resident, were held Sunday, June 18. wenit down. He is said to have called
at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, *—
G. Carter delivering the funeral am-
tion.
Burial was in Thomas Cemetery
with Fort Bend Fraternal Umdertak-
ing Company in charge. Mrs. Jones
was a member of the church for many
years and she was also a member of
Rebecca Temple No. 2, S. M. T,, Mrs.
Mays McCullough, princess, and a
member of Superior Court of Calantihe
No. 443, Mrs. H. L Rogian, worthy
councellor. Her husband, Somine
Jones; one son, Johnnie Taylor, Port
Angeles, Washington; one brother,
Sam Cooksie, Richmond; two cousins,
Mrs. J. H. Wilson and Sophia Herd,
Santa Barbara, Calif., and many other
relatives survive.
, Rev. D. for his hubly, * lay about his age,
- "who was juntt on the other side of the
hill firlhiing. The panie stricken swim-
--"" - going to the rescue
hny, nam to get his
mers, instead of
of the drowning ------
dhum and wihem they gott back, the boy
had disappeared. George Miller, who
Rums, fillna toe be# from the
AUTO ACCIDENT
PROF, TATUM GETS
10TH
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Houstium—Mr. and Mrs. F. BL Grif-
fin of 3MB Orange Street, and A.
Gawens, were seriously hurt in an auto
accident whliile em mute to Waco. The
accident orruned near Bryan. Mr.
9 u.utie ltcntrl
c.moonenstf 1st M
suffered altar injuries. He was
me * Th "emits
EE-HS FE
Mm. Ex wan =. SE
At the last annual meeting of toe
Prairie View Alumni Association,
which convened in Prairie View May
27, R. T. Tatum, principal of Adams
Elementary School, was re-elected
treasurer of the abate association * d Mrs. Cleveland Retter
the tenth consecutive term. -*--"
He is the only officer of too former
administration that was m ejected
Professor Tatum received a umami-
mous re-election of a suspen
the rules for the election of (
m st en "
merfined Monday at Hotel Dieu
sin =212.lsti, impete
In the case here in Alexandria, a
colored man, Lloyd Wade, of New
York, is being held for manslaughter
arising out of an automobile accident
June 4 here in which a white man was
killed. Wade’s attorneys, Mr. Hopkins
and W. Butta of this city consulted
with Mr. Houston, who has been ac-
tive in Crawford case, and Messrs.
Houston and Hopkins obtained from
Judge Woolls a statement that, be
never considered Negroes for jury
service. The attorneys then served no-
tice they would raise the constitu-
mal legal action.
E. F. Hoffman, clerk of the court,
stated that the names of 20 colored
persons would be added to the regular
jury list within the next few days by
the jury commissioners.
STEP-SON OF MRS.
BLANCH JACKSON
KILLED BY WIFE
Banks evinces an eagerness that Pral-
rie View State Normal and Industrial
College shall continue to meet fully
every requirement of a first class in-
stitution and fulfill the needs of the
increasing population of the state, Il-
is in keeping with this uplifted edu-
cational procedure that professors and.
instructors of Prairie View State Nor-
mal and Industrial College are contin-
ually going to and coming from load-
ing colleges and universities of the
country. They are likewise anxious to
127 S RSF = A AO N
ever-changing civilization.
Among the professors and inustruc-
tors of the college away on leave of
absence for study during the summer
are Messrs. J. J. Abernethy, Kansas
State Agricultural College, Manhat-
tan, Kansas; N. A. Jones, D. W. Mar-
tin, L. P. Muckelroy, Kansas State
College, Pittsburg, Kansas; and Miss
Anna L. Campbell, Northwestern Uni-
vorsity, Evanston, Ill.
The professor! and instructors who
have recently returned to the college
: death instantly.
At the examining trial the only
witness called warn Miss Lillian Hen-
derson, cousin of Mrs. Middleton. Miss
Henderson testified that on the night
of the shooting she heard Mr. Middle-
ton come in about midnight; that Mrs.
Middleton got after him about staying
out so late; that Mr. Middleton got
(See MIDDLETON, Page 8)
8
Houston.—Another great oak in the
Baptist forest laid down the earthly
fight last Saturday at 5:45 p.m., when
Rev. W. H. Snow, pastor of the Bethel
Baptist Church of Stafford, Texas, and
board member of the Southwest Cen-
tral District Association, passed on
to his reward.
—___. _ ,. , , , after studying abroad are Messrs. C.
Houston.—Elridge Jackson, step- L. Wilson, who received the degree of
son of Mrs. Elridge Jackson, s'’ well master of science from Kansas State
known Houston business woman and Agricultural College; and S. H. Set-
owner and manager of Jackson Un- - 54
dertaking Company on West Dallas
Street, was stabbed to death by his
estranged wife, Mrs. Mary Jackson,
age 34, at her home, 8113 Rosetta,
about half past three Sunday after-
noon, June 18. He died before help
could reach him and before making a
statement on the case.
Persons familiar with the lives of
the two stated that Jackson and his
wife had not lived together for about
a year, and that for the past two or
three months, the woman had been liv-
ing with another man. The other man
was referred to by witnesses as “Wal-
ter,” but he was not at home at the
time of the killing and has not been
interviewed.
In a statement to police, made after
she had been taken to the sheriff’s |
office in a taxi by one Oserne John-,
sea, 28, 3408 Travis, who she said was
a friend. Mrs. Jackson said that her
husband came to her home about 3
o’clock in a quarrelsome mood and
(See JACKSON, Page 8)
tier, who had been a pupil in the
graduate school of the Kansas insti-
tution.
For advanced courses required of
students attending the summer school,
the following professors have been
added: Mrs. Sadie M. Boyce, A. M.,
education; Miss Beulah Farmer, A. M.,
commerce; and Miss Vivienne Hollis,
physical education.
Most of the students enrolled in the
summer school are experienced teach-
ers and industrialists in the various
cities and communities of Texas. They
are sincere in their work, reflecting
upon the college no less than upon
themselves.
Rev. Snow was a big land owner
and oil man of DeWalt, Texas, in ad-
dition to being a leading Baptist min-
ister, and he had pastored in his
earlier days some of the leading
churches of his denomination, among
which were the St Mark and Sweet
Home Baptist Churches of Houston,
and the Spring Creek Baptist Church
of Foster, Texas.
Funeral services were held flcat at
10 a. m. last Wednesday, at the Little
Zion Baptist Church, Houston, and at
4 p.m. of the same day at the lit.
Olive Baptist Church, DeWalt, Texas,
where burial took place.
Rev. Snow is survived by a wife, a
son, a brother, a sister, and one grand-
child, as well as a host of other rela-
tives and friends.
E
J, cri
SENIOR DENT.
T POWELL POI
HIGH SCHOOL BAND .
MASTER IMPROVES
AFTER OPERATION
Houston.—Officials at the Houston
Negro Hospital have advised that C.
C. Sudduth, youthful director of the
famous Chariton-Pollard High School
Band and teacher at Charlton Pollard,
is rapidly recovering at the hospital,
following a major operation perform-
ed about two weeks ago.
When visited recently by represen-
tatives of The Beaumont Informer and
The Houston Informer and Texas
Freeman, Prof. Sudduth was in good
spirits, and was calling for a copy of
The Beaumont Informer, which he has
asked for consistently while in the
hospital.
J. J. ABERNETHY, disector of the
school of industrial engineering at the
Prairie View State Normal and Indus-
trial College, has been granted a leave
of absence for the purpose of further
study at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College, Manhattan, Kansas.
Prof. Abernethy holds a B. S. de-
gree from the Kansas institution, and
those who are “within the know” feel
sure that, when the well known Prai-
rie View engineer returns to hie du-
ties, he will have another degree to
his credit
ARRESTED ON THEFT CHARGE
Houston.—On a warrant sworn out
in Judge Ray’s court by Oscar Powell,
1260 McCall, Officers Pickens and
Harper arrested Miss Lottie Box, at
her home, 1209 McCall, about 4 o’clock
Saturday morning on a charge of
theft. She is alleged to have taken
$5 in cash from Powell.
18302
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Mrs. Middleton No Willed by Crane Jeny.
& Miro. Blanche Jackmos Step san Nun a 1, wi.
t 4. State Medical A
soociation Elects Oiicon
5. Wiley Teachers Hurt in Auto Wreck.
6. Noted Baptist Preacher Buried.
* —-------------------
* 7. How to Stop Negroes From Mundening ench Ouber qlit
* a. Shall Negroes Vote in Texas (FiminD).
a CR * m
1 =. Cimbee Writes First Letter From New York.
10. Young Girls and the Y. W. C. A. Mmols Cho
1L News of Houston and Beaumont Cliurchen
12. Baptist Unity Articles.
13. More Social News All the Time.
14. Let Us Prepare for Work (BEinial).
15. Beauty Culture Added to Cillege Crane.
16. All the News That's Fit to Tint.
READ THE OUSTON INFO
a
The work which Prof. Sudduth has
done in building the Charlton-Pollard
band is one of the most outstanding
and remarkable pieces of musical
achievements yet to be recorded in
high school circles, and those who
hoar that band once always want to
hear it again.
Prof. Sudduth has been advised by
Ms physician that he will be able to
return to Beaumont in a few days, of
which fact he and his many friends
in Beaumont and in Houston are very
sind. ___
N. A. A. C. P. PLAYLET
Benumont.—The playlet “Pilgrim
Traveler,” sponsored by. Mr. and Mrs.
L. Thomas, which was given for the
benefit of the membership drive, was
successfully performed Thursday
night, June 15, to a large and appre-
8. J. CULLUM, JR.
S. J Cullum, who has been in at-
tendance at the Marquette University
Dental College at Milwaukee, Wis.,
has returned home for the summer.
In company with him is his wife; they
motored from Milwaukee to Houston.
En route they made stops at Chicago
to view some of the World’s Fair; at
Gary, Ind.; at Talladega College in
Alabama, and at Meridian, Miss., the
home of Mr. Cullum's parents.
Mr. Cullum reports a very success-
ful year at Marquette. In a class of
86 students his scholarship gives him
seventh place and in the dental clinic,
the total number of patients that he
has served to higher than any of his
senownelnsematen or any of the
BY 8. E. PALMER
Teacher of Vocational Agriculture
Kendleton, June 12.—“Evening
schools will pay,” is tbs way adult
farmers of the Powell Point Com-
munity expresses it, who have been
* attending six months of evening
school courses, conducted at the Powell
Point Community Training School by
S. E. Palmer, teacher of vocational
agriculture.
The problems that were discussed
were selected by the farmers, based
around their immediate needs, (“A
Live at Home Program”).
Most of the members have shown
intense interest in the work by car-
ring on a number of improved farm
practices. The problems that were dis-
follows: "Starting and maintajSng*a
year round garden,” “Home canning
of the surplus vegetables,” “Starting
and caring for an orchard,” “Controll-
tpouftrf p.onH.aumberd meech,” and
As a result of the evening school
===,
riety of Carpenter peach trees and
Kieffer pear trees to begin their or-
chards. it seem that when times get
better, so this group of farmers can
invest a little more along this line,
they will be through living in South-
went Texas, and using fruit grown in
the valley and other sections of the
country.
Most of the members are now pur-
chasing cans, and making other prepa-
rations to can their surplus vegetables.
Three demonstrations have already
been given in home canning, one dur-
ing last week end with over one hun-
dred cans of corn canned. ;
GIBSON HONORED
Beaumont.—o. P. Gibson, who was
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