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Frederick and Robin St.,
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: ON HEALTH WEEK PROGRAM
DE, CONNIE YERWOOD, of Austin, served as state doctor during
National Near Health Week. Doctor Terwood, in addition to putting
A mendid program, was well received by the social set. Photo by
Palmer for The Informer.
PROGRAM F 0 R PRI
P.-T.A. MEETING VICTIM OF IRATE
AL IS
ANNOUNCED FATHER’SBLOWS
Conference Will Be Neglect of Little Girl
Held In Dallas
April 22-23
Is Charged By
Father
AND TEXAS FREEMAN
as Second Class matter at Houston Post once under Act of March 3. 1879.
44TH YEAR. NO. 72
PRICE SEVEN CENS
A COLORE
SOUTHWEST'S
LARGEST
WEEKLY
DALLAS.—Continuing a unique
mors-eurtsce misted at
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HOUSTON, TEXAS SATURDAY, APRIL 17,1937
NNOUNCES COOKING
Howard U. Artiste
P Lynch
WHITE SLAYER
CAREER ENDS
PRICE 7 CENTS
:REVUE F(
BIG NIGHTS, APRIL 28-30
Gala Event Promises To Smash All Previous
Records; Miss Ruth Scott Will Have "
Charge Of Demonstrations
By Sanders S. Mason
An event, which promises to gain the distinction of be-
ing the largest and most elaborate affair of the early
season, is the Informer's Fifth Annual Home-Makers Insti-
tute and Style Revue, scheduled for three big nights at the
spacious and comfortable Odd Fellows Auditorium, corner
of Louisiana and Prairie, April
28th, through 30th, inclusive. It
promises to exceed by far any pre-
vious event of its kind ever held
in the city.
Styles WIU Be Presented
A precedent will be set inasmuch
as it will be the first time a Style
Revue has ever been sponsored in
connection with a Cooking School.
Hundreds of beautiful styles in la-
dies evening apparel will be shown
by charming damsels from Hous-
ton's social elites. The gowns will
be furnished by Houston’s leading
stores. In addition there will be
styles and fashions shown by men.
The event promises to furnish plen-
ty of hilarous fun and information
for those who attend.
Many Free Prises
There will be a number of val-
mestic Science at Wheatley and
prominently known for her bril-
liant home demonstration work,
will have charge of the demonstra-
lions and lectures. Mim Scott will
be assisted by experienced teachers
and students, who will be named
later. She will use only the high-
est quality products, furnished by
merchants cooperating in the
school, for her demonstration work.
The Cooking School will open
with a session at 7:30 p. m. each
(See ANNOUNCES, Page 3.)
C. C. ASKS THAT
uable prizes given away absolute- ,
ly free. Heading the prize list will
be a $39.00 Sealy Mattress that
wiU be given to the person hold-
WHARTON.—Al Smith, father of . . - y ---------.
s mon urnptrteter F.ASANn: t: t -
nouneed the omeal program of the principal, in getting his daughter
anm comerence, of Parents and to a doctor after she had cut her
• Leaders of Parent-Teache rAssocia- knee at school struck Prof Atkin-
tions in the Southwest here Sun- at school struck Atkin-
day.-
before several large audiences, in-
cluding Salem, New Hope, Greater
Shiloh and Good Street Baptist
churches, the president emphasized
the conference and Bishop’s Min-
isters Institute as features of the
institutions.
The conference, which is planned
for parents as wen as for P.-T. A.
leaders, will be conducted April
22-23. Though only in its third year
the movement has acquired a fol-
lowing of nearly three hundred pro-
gressive lay-educators, represent-
ing the states of Oklahoma, Texas,
Arkansas and Louisiana. .
Various phases of the conference
theme, “The Improvement of Fam-
ily Relationships” will be present-
ed to the body in addresses, panel
jury discussions, demonstrations.
"Ms num" sente xendunt or
Columbia University, teacher of Do-
son twice in the mouth when he
met him at a drug store in town
Friday, April 9. Mr. Smith’s daugh-
ter, Sadie Lee, 10, gashed her knee
the day before on a broken bottle
so seriously that a vein was severed
and eighteen stiches had to be
taken.
Appear on Program on Amrn e &
At Nation’s Capitol OF PORTER GETS e
WASHINGTON.—(ANP)—Featur-
ing Todd Duncan, baritone, assistant
professor of music Howard univer-
sity and star of the opera "Porgy
and Bess," as guest soloist, a pro-
gram by Howard U. artists was pre-
sented Wednesday evening at the
White House, the musicians appear-
ing at the invitatio not President
and Mrs. Roosevelt A varied pro-
gram of spirituals and classical num-
bora was offered by the Howard
University Glee Club, directed by
Bay Tibbs, professor of music. The
accompanists were Cecil Cohen,
music faculty member and- Robert
Nolan, student t
The occasion was the State Din-
ner, given by the nation’s chief ex-
ecutive, and his wife, honoring the
Governor General of Canada and
Lady Tweedsmuir. It was one of the
most notable events of the year on
the White Bouse social calendar and
attended by the highest ranking of-
ficials of the government
5-YEAR TERM
Murdered Rolland In
White Beauty
Parlor
lying Trips
HOUSTON-Herbert Couch, 17-
year-old white youth, was found
guilty of the murder of Joe Rol-
land. 27, beauty shop porter, and
.sentenced to five years in prison by
a jury in criminal district court
here Tuesday night
The defendant appeared in court
Wednesday morning and accepted
the sentence from Judge Max Rog-
ers of Centerville, who was sub-
stituting for Judge Whit Boyd. *
Couch admitted slugging Rolland
with a hammer and stabbing him
to death with a butcher knife on
March 18 in a white beauty shop in
the 1500 block of Almeda Road, but
declared he acted in self-defense
after the colored man attacked him.
Rolland had been stabbed in the
W. 8. FRANCIS
DEBATE BEGINS
ONGAVAGAN
LYNCH MEASURE
By Carter Wesley
Tuesday we mounted our restless
- steed and hled us away to Galves-
tun. Enroute we made one short
stop at Dickinson to sell Principal
J. O. Williams space in The In-
former Business and Service Direc-
tory, which is being compiled for
Texas. We spent a half hour ex-
plaining the details to Rev. O. L.
Hegmon, who was in Galveston con-
ducting a ten day revival. Mrs.
J. A. Gabriel and Sam McKibben.
W.S. FRANCE.
EDUCATOR, DIES
AT RESIDENCE
heart and six times in the back and
his skull was fractured when the
body was found.
Confession Is Bead
A confession, made to Captain
George Peyton of the police homi-
cide squad by Couch after his ar-
rest, was read to the jury. In it
Couch stated he went to the beauty
shop with Joe Rolland in his car
after midnight on the morning of
March 16.
“Wewere in the shop about 30 Former Principal Of
minutes, and we started arguing. — . 1
Z.i.haraeaor mre.Ca for Couch’s statement read, “and I hit . Douglass, Langston
oumer and hit the road for Joe Rolland in the head with a g 29
---------4And Gregory
Secretary S ub mits
sable him. "
(See PROGRAM FOB, Page 7)
COLLEGE YM-YW
ASSOCIATIONS
CLOSE MEETING
According to the father, Sadie
Lee injured her knee at the morn-
ing recess. A teacher, Mrs. Juanita
Johnson, reported the accident to
principal, who was reported to have
said “wrap her knee up and let her
lie on the bench until I get time to
take her to the doctor." The teacher
told him that the child was too
badly hurt to remain there, and
took her to Dr. Ennis Martin, who
treated her and told Mrs. Johnson
that if the child had waited an hour
longer, she would have bled to
death. After taking the child home,
the teacher returned to her classes,
where she was “bawled out.”
Mr. Smith mid of the incident
Rev. T. S. Ledbetter
Represents College
AUSTIN.—Rev. T. S. Ledbetter,
college pastor at Tillotson College,
was the official representative of
Tillotson at the Texas-Oklahoma
Congregational Conference held at
Corpus Christi, Texas, on April 9
and 10.
The Conference, which comprises
all Congregational Churches in Tex-
as and Oklahoma, met at Tillotson
College last year.
INUSIEL MELI
AT TILLOTSON
Appeal To City
Council
ter 45 minutes with Aaron Jeffer-
son, dean of Informer managers and
Mrs. Grace Williams, his able as-
sistant, we rushed back.
Saturday Attorney H. S. Davis
HOUSTON.—Within a week of and I left his office at 2:30 and
the passage of the bond issue, Chas. I brought up in Austin at 6 p. m.
A. Shaw, secretary of the Houston I After 45 minutes of business, we
Negro Chamber of Commerce, has dropped in on Louis Lyons and
appealed to the City Council to ap- -
ply part of the bond money to sec-
tions in which Negroes live. Such
action provoked much favorable
comment from Negroes.
The appeal was made in the fol-
lowing letter:
To The Honorable Mayor and
Commissioners
Of the City of Houston
City Hall
Houston, Texas
Gentlemen:
During the recent campaign for
the approval of the various bond
issues for the greatly needed civic
improvements of our city a com-
mittee of representative colored
citizens from the Houston Negro
Mrs. “Mickey” the dearly beloved
of all, who visit Austin. Henry
bought eight giant sticks of red
candy, kind you used to buy in
your school days. Five were the
kind that sold then two-for-a-nick-
el. The others were an inch and a
half in diameter and about a foot
long. I surmised that he was go-
ing to give one to each of his girls
and decided that the man with the
harum doesn’t have much on him!
We went by Dr. Louis Mitchell's
and found him and Prof. Oscar
1 Joe Holland and I were in the
back of the beauty shop and Joe
started an argument and I hit him,
and after I hit him we tussled up
to the front of the building, and I
got the butcher knife and slabbed
him, Joe Holland.
Get Into Argument
“We were arguing about who I
was to go out with. I had said I was
going to call Pete, and Joe Rolland
said ‘no, you are not going to call
him.’
“And then we started to fighting,
so I hit him with the hammer, and
(See WHITE SLAYER, Page s.)
TRIAL OF SEVEN
TO BE MONDAY
HOUSTON.—The Y. M. and Y.
W. C. A. Associations from Hous-
ton College and Rice Institute made
history and pioneered the way for
many other conferences when they
entertained the college associations
at the drug store: "I asked him
(Prof. Atkinson) why he didn’t
make an effort to assist my kid to
the doctor. He said he did. I told
him all the teachers said he didn’t
make any effort at all. Then he
said whoever said it was a lie. Then
I hit him in the mouth two times.”
Later Mr. Smith said that Prof. At-
kinson had tried to apologize to
him. """
Prof. Atkinson denied the charge
of negligence, saying that the re-
quest for the little girl to be taken
home was granted immediately. He
also said that the seriousness of the
injury was not mentioned to him,
and that he was surprised to learn
of it
AUSTIN.—The annual meeting of
the trustees of Tillotson College
was held in the office of President
Mary E. Branch on Thursday, April
15. Dr. Fred L. Brownlee, New
York, executive secretary of the
A. M. A., Mr. George N. White, New
York, assoiate secretary of the A.
M. A., Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames of
Atlanta, secretary of the Inter-Ra-
cial Commission, Mrs. E. F. Dennis
of Austin, Alumni member of the
Board, and Miss Mary E. Branch,
president of the college, were pres-
ent The purpose of the meeting was
a general discussion of the policies
and development of Tillotson for
i the coming year.
(See C. of C. Page 3.)
MEN PREFER GIRLS WHO *
HAVE CLEAR COMPLEXIONS
It takes a lovely skin, girls, to win men’s
hearts. Te bleach skin lighter and clearer
depend on FAN TAN BLEACH CREAM.
Only sec at druggists.
Lawless and Ora Elliott, playing a
social game of hit-and-take. Louis
said they were about to come to
Houston, and expected us to wait
at my office for them and, supply
some drinks and what it took for
a party. We gave them a pint to
sustain their strength until they
could get here. We had a pleasant
HOUSTON.—The trial of seven
people, two of them women, indicted
for the murder of Tipp Simmons,
while spacial officer, at El Campo
in last September, is scheduled for
visit with Dean Austin of Samuel Monday morning in the court of
Huston.
CHARLTON-POLLARD SENIORS
Judge Whit Boyd,
The defendants are Juanita Smith,
Mattie Richardson, Major Doug-
lass, Willie and Brady Caesar, Sam-
uel Taylor, and Clarence Johnson.
The case was moved to Harris
county on change of venue. Sim-
mons was cut to death at a dance
hall in El Campo when he inter-
ceded in an argument
HOUSTON —wimam’s. Francis,
principal in the Houston school
system for more than a quarter cen-
tury, died at his home, 1815 Jack-
son, at 2:25 p.m. last Sunday. He
had been confined to bed with ill-
ness three months.
Prof. Francis had served as prin-
cipal of Douglass, Langston and
Gregory elementary schools. He had I
been absent from his post at Greg-
ory school since last October be-
cause of his health.
A native of Jamaica, West Indies,
Prof. Francis came to Texas from 1
New York City. At Wharton .he 1
joined a Mr. Roseway, a fellow 1
countryman, who helped him obtain 1
work in the Wharton County school.
In 1890 he accepted a principal-
ship at Edna. At the end of two
years he moved to Houston, where 1
he was associated with W. B. Cogle, 1
another fellow countryman, James 1
D. Ryan and W. E. Miller.
Mr. Francis succeeded Prof. Cogle 1
as head of the Fifth Ward school.
He later became principal of Doug- 1
lass school when it was situated 1
opposite his home on Jackson street, 1
and remained at that post when the 1
school was moved to McGowen I
avenue. He was moved to Langston 1
in 1928, and was principal there
until he was transferred to Greg-1
ory over two years ago.
At the time of his death Prof. I
Francis owned a large amount of 1
real estate in the third ward, in-1
eluding his home, a two-story frame 1
structure at 1817 Jackson. He has
never been married and leaves no I
relatives in the United States. A1
sister, Mrs. Delilah Kelly, and two
nieces live in Porus, Jamaica.
Miss Jean Lewis has been em-
from Sam Huston State Teachers’
College, Huntsville, Stephen F.
Austin, Sam Huston, Prairie View,
Tillotson, The University of Texas
and the University of Houston,
last week end. The meeting was
opened with a banquet at the Y.
W. C. A. Center (Rusk and Aus-
• tin) followed by a panel discussion
of the “Interpretation of Religion
INFORMER IS SPONSORING A
STATE BUSINESS DIRECTORY
on a College campus" led by Miss. THE INFORMER PUBLISHING COMPANY is sponsor-
Agusta Roberts from the Universi- ing the printing of a STANDARD BUSINESS and SERVICE
“Saturday or the conference the | DIRECTORY of the State of Texas, compiling within it the
Mar where the entire day was spent | pictures, ads, addresses, histories, and mottoes of all religi-
delegation motored to Casal Del ous, educational, professional and business institutions and
in discussion and other forms of
leadership training courses, in tue
afternoon Dean It O’Hara La-
nier of the Houston College ad-
dressed the assembly, who had
gathered around a camp fire on
this subject “Youth Religion, and
a New Social Order.”
Sunday the closing service was
held at the Y center with Rev.
Burt Helm giving the closing ad-
dress The delegates from these va-
rious colleges numbered J
eighty. Representatives from the
National Association were Fern
Babcock and Ruth Johnson. The
presidents of the local associations not even recorded in the shift-
who were responsible for this at-______
fair were Goldie Taylor of the
Houston College Y. W. C. A.
Mary Margaret Blair, of the Rice IAN BLEnur unarm
Institute Y. W. C. A. and Roy light, bright, clear and levelgodif kem
Leeland Hopkins, from the Hous- 2.===== 29=
Ion College Y. M. C. A.
individuals in the State, as a ready medium by which any
persons or institutions of standing may be reached.
Many already realize the great
handicap of not having such a
guide in our state for our race.
As other states are building direc-
tories and setting the example, we
felt that Texas should follow suit.
For the white race in Texas,
there is the Who’s Who, State Di-
.a- rectory. Almanacs. Assorted Blue
around Books for every city. Annuals and
1 Year Books to record every inci-
deni and the least achievement.
But the achievements and en-
deavors of Negroes of Texas are
FAN TAN BLEACH CREAM
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Thousands of women use genuine FAN
TAN BLEACH CREAM to make their skin
FAN TAN BLEACH CREAM from
druggist. .
yo
ing sands of the swift winds—they
are never recorded for future guid-
ance, either of ourselves or poster-
ity. We cannot write a worthwhie
history of the Negro in Texas
because there are no records. The
historian must accept the preju-
diced versions found in white a -
chives or seek some old Negro
with fading memory.
Shall those, who come after us,
find the same lack in us as we suf-
fer from those who went before?
Wouldn’t it be well for us to unite
to build a record of what we are
doing? We think we need a busi-
ness and service directory of and
for Texas Negroes.
We expect to print more than
— --------- ma
(See DIRECTORY, Page 7)
Standing, Miss Juanita Cameron, honor student; Joe Come, captain
of the football team; Miss Florence Washington, Popular seamstress. Sit-
ting, Mim Helen Dejean, popular member of the Charlton-Pollard Spe-
cial Group. All are seniors at Charlten-Pollard High school, Beaumont.
(See FRANCIS, Page 3.)
Mitchell-N. A. A. C. P.
Feud Flames Over
Petition
WASHINGTON, —(ANP) —The
House of Representatives Monday
passed the Gavagan anti-lynching
bill after the first reading by a
vote of 281 to 108, and then ap-
proved a resolution, placing the
measure before the chamber Tues-
day for debate.
Thirteen years ago the Dyer anti-
lynching bill also passed the lower
house by an overwhelming ma-
jority but was filibustered to death
in the senate. Sponsors of the Gav-
agan bill, which has the support
of the N. A. A. C. P., hope it will
not share a similar fate.
The N. A. A. C. P.-Arthur Mitch-
ell feud, which has been smoulder-
ing for several years and burst
forth into heated flame last week
as the association fought to throw
out the Illinois congressman’s anti-
lynching statute and substitute the
stronger measure proposed by Rep-
resentative Gavagan of New Yprk,
continues to rage despite passage
by the House Monday of the latter’s
bill after the first reading. •
Although Mitchell said before the
Monday vote that he would support
the Gavagan measure or any other
anti-lynching bill, he believes it Js
unconstitutional. As-for the NAACP
in general and Walter White in .
particular, they are still, persons
non grate with the lone colored,
congressman. .....
j “No more vicious and false prop-
I aganda has ever been directed a-
I gainst a bill in Congress than has
I been perpetrated against my own
j proposed legislation, H. R. 2251,”
I he proclaimed from the floor of the
house after his measure had been
rejected last Wednesday.
“All manner of false, vicious and
unwarranted statements and releases
were sent out by the NAACP. These
documents have been characteris-
tic of the secretary of that organi-
zation. I greatly fear that by this
false propaganda and this idiotic
maneuvering they have severely
hurt the cause of anti-lynching ra-
ther than helped it I wish I could
believe otherwise but I cannot.”
Declaring that, “In my judgement,
the Gavagan bill is unconstitu-
tional,” Mitchell said, I believe my
bill is constitutional and the best
out of the 59 or more introduced
in this session of Congress. Out-
standing legal authorities are al-
most unanimous in believing the
Gavagan bill unconstitutional.
Nevertheless, I think a poorly
(See DEBATE, Page 8)
SENIOR AND
YOUTH NAACP
WILL HOLD MEET
FACTS BEHIND BARRING OF
NEGRO HALL ARE REVEALED
PRAIRIE VIEW. - Through the
following correspondence Principal
W. R. Banks of Prairie View Col-
lege. unfolds and exposes the cal-
culating prejudice which engineered
the Negro Hall out of the coming
exposition at Dallas.
• April 7, 1937
Mr. Carter Wesley
The Houston Informer
2418 Leeland Avenue
Houston. Texas
Dear Mr. Wesley:
I believe that the Public is en-
titled to know the movements be-
hind the scene which finally termi-
nated the active Participation of
Negroes in the Pan-American Ex-
position for this year, and razing the
Hall of Negro Life.
When the Information came to me
in December that there was a move-
ment to discontinue the Negro Build-
ing. we immediately got busy and
contacted the Dallas Manager and
they informed us that the difficulty
was with the Federal Government
Upon receipt of this information, we
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sent protests to Representatives and
Senators from Texas, and the Vice-
President. Also, the matter was
taken up personally with Mrs.
Roosevelt.
I am handing you herewith Ex-
hibits which will give you the whole
history of the case:
Exhibit-1 .Shows the budget rec-
ommendation for the Negro Partici-
pation in the Pan-American Expo-
sition which was filed on December
9. 1936. (He attended exhibit
9. 1936. (He attached exhibit but we
aren’t printing it. $19,200 was re-
quested. There was an estimated
balance from the Centennial of
$15,800, making $35,000 requested).
Exhibit-2 Is a letter from Vice-
President John Garner to Dr. Eu-
gene Kinckle Jones, Chairman of the
Federal Negro Advisory Commis-
sion, to discontinue the Negro Build-
ing. This communication is not
dated, but I presume it was some-
where about the first of January,
1937. You will keep in mind that all
of this transpired without consult-
ing Mr. Jones or any member of the
Negro Federal Advisory Committee.
(See FACrs, Page 7)
HOUSTON.—The Senior Council
of the N. A. A. C. P. and the Youth
Council of the same organization
will hold a joint mass meeting Sun-
day, April 18. at 3:30 p.m., at the
Good Hope Baptist church, corner
Wilson and Saulnier.
C. F. Richardson, Sr., and James
Jemison, presidents of the Senior
and Youth Councils, respectively,
will speak on the occasion.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
HERE ARE THE ,
WINNING JOKES
After reading over the many
jokes submitted in the joke contest,
the judges finally picked out the
winning ones and it was no easy
matter, for they all were good!
The first prize of $1.00 goes to
Fred A. Sublett, 4610 New Orleans,
Houston for this joke:
THE ONLY WAY TO LICK HIM
• Calling her class to the floor the
teacher purged her pupils memory
with rapid fire questions. “What
men’s pictures are on stamps?” Wil-
(See JOKES, Page 2)
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I on FAN TAN BLEACR CREAM, did
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