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REGISTER
GIVES YOU THE NEWS
While It Is
NEWS!
Sajv Antojvio Register
RIGHT . JUSTICE . PROGRESS
JOYOUS *
EASTER :
GREETINGS
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i.VOU 8— NO. 2
HAN ANTONIO, TEXAS FKID-M. Al'lill, 15,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Colorful Parade
Closes "Health
Week" Program
Sunday Procession is Most Spectacular
In the Ten - Year Historv
Of Annual Event
MOVES WITHOUT HITCH
Al Jolson Denies
Knowing Petition
-Was Anii - Negro
Signed Without Reading;
Did Not Know of
Color Clause
k
State Department ofHealth Official,Dr.J.M.
Coleman, is Principal Speaker at
Closing Mass Meeting
SAN Antanio's 1938 observance of National Negro Health
■Week clcsstl Sunday afternoon with a mammoth parade
led by a squad of motorcycle police, and followed by cars
conf ining Mayor C. K 0;uin and the city commissioners; Dr.
James P. Hollers, president of the board of education; L.
P. Bishop, representing the city health department; P. G.
Lucns, president of the Bexar County Tuberculosis Associa-
tion, mid officials of the Volunteer
Health League.
Many beautifully decorated cars
and floats, entered by acIiooIs clubs,
and civic organizations, numerous
uniformed marching groups from
local schools, and the bands from
I'hylllfl Wheatley and Douglass
schools nerved to make th© 1038
parade the high point, during the
ten years this spectacular event
has marked the close of the Health
Week program.
Floats representing Wheatley,
Douglass, Booker T. Washington,
Graut. Sojourner Truth, South
Han Antcnlo, Holy Redeemer, and
other schools efleited rounds of
applause from the thousand.* of
spectators lining the curbs. The
parade traversed the principal
business streets of the city, giving
many white citlzenx the opportun-
Phillis Wheatley High School Band leads Colorful "Health Parade"
By BILLY <"K.C.M> SMITH
For The Amo.' luted Negro Trent
liOS ANGELES, Cal—A storm
of indignation which shook the
Nesro; population of this city last
week when local weekly paper*
-Hftycd Al JoLson. faincd ntnr of
slaje, screen and radio, because
ho hnd altesffdly taken n leading
part In banning Negroes from the
Ban Fernando valley abated this
week when Jolson emphatically
denied having knowingly partici-
pated in the affair.
Several of the local newspapers
played the story in black banners,
end almrst at once o strong move-
ment to boycott a soap company
which sponsors Jolson's radio show
was launched.
Imitated Negroes
Resentment against the famous
"mammy singer" was especially
sharp becahse of the fact that for
two decades he has b:eu known
as a friend and admirer of the
colored race; and has, in fact, built
his success on characterizations
taken from Negro life.
Jolson, himself mayor of Enclno,
in the heart of the San Fernando
Valley, an exclusive residential
section, signed a petition which
sought to bar horses, cows, goats
and other farm animals from the
valley; and which included a
clause also barring non-white res-
idents. Ironically enough, the
situation has existed since Decem-
ber, but did not come to the at-
tention of the Negro press until
last week when the city council
turned down the petition, after
Jolson, having become aware of
the full intent of the instrument,
had gone before the council him-
self and asked that it not be made
into a city ordinance.
In an exclusive interview with
this writer of the Vine Street
theatre in Hollywood, from which
ity to witness the place in which
health improvement is held by San
Antonio's Negro men, women, and
children.
Under the able direction of S.
J. Sutton, general chairman of the
Volunteer Health League, and
Cameron Booker, parade marshal,
the parade moved on schedule, and
was carried out without a hitch
to mar the well-organized arrange-
ments which had entailed weeks
of planning.
Returning to the Library Audi-
torium about .r :00 o'clock, the
parade disbanded, and many of the
spectators and marchers tiled into
the building for the liniTl musa
meeting at which the principal
speaker was I)r. J. M. Coleman
of the state department of health
at Austin.
Following the invocation by
Prof. Sutton, Dr. Coleman spoke
011 the subject, "The Health De-
partment—Its Relation to the Fam-
ily Physician." In his address,
Dr. Coleman stressed the important
place of the American Negro in
the public health program in which
he pointed out the various ways
in which the general practitioner
fitted in with this program. The
speaker urged the necessity of|
seeking knowledge, and said that
the great problem of health author-
ities of today is the ignorance and
neglect of many people, quoting
the words of the prophet, "My
people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge,'' to emphasize this
point.
(Sec DENIES, Page 5.)
Nab Chi Killer
Bandits Who Slay
Six Since Dec.
By Tbe Associated Kcgro Press.
CHICAGO, 111.—Chicago's most
notorious terror bandits of recent
years—the "long and short" killers
—were arrested Sunday and have
confessed slaving five persons on
the Southside since early in De-
cember.
The six held without bond as
the terror slayers^hree of them
in their early twenties—are Billie
Kichardson, 20; George Hill, 27;
David Yancey, 22; Jerry Vaughn,
23; Louis Mitchell, 23, and Clar-
fttce Harrison, 30. Richardson,
^t^rt" of the gang, admitted two
Atrrdors, and Mitchell, "Long" of
the bandits has confessed to one
murder.
All of the members are from
Memphis. Richardson first came
NATIONAL NKPO
Health Wax
M
Texan,Railroaded
To Chair, Saved
By High Court
Boh White Gets Respite from Death as
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Reverses Death Sentence
San Antonio's annual Health
Week observance came to a color-j
fill close, last Sunday, with the
longest and most spectacular I
parade in the ten-year history of
the program in the city. i shor1
Shown above is the crock band 0ff
of Phi 11 is Wheatley high scliool,
which headed the profession, as T1'1 '*
it swung west on Commerce street, I Litany
fter the parade "shoved, of the marchers crowded into the
its three-mile inarch. structure to hear the closing pro-
irade disbanded at the Brani of the 1938 Health Week
\uditorlum, where scores | effort.
S.A.to Choose''Sepia Mayor' Next Month
DECISION MEANS NEW TRIAL
j Farmer Tried andConvicted,LastSummer,at
Livingstone While Mobsters Howled,
Drove Race from Town
A USTIN, Texas.—Last week, railroaded to die. hapless, ll-
^ literate Eob White, young Polk county firmer, gained at
least a temporary respite from death, when, Wednesday April
C. the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, reversed the sentencs
of death in the electric chair for an alleged criminal attack up.
on a Polk county woman, and remanded the tuse to the courts.
White was arrested, tried, and convicted at Livingston
last summer under a mobocratic
Dean Pickens
Tells FDR Cure
For Spy Fears
Let Negroes—True, Loyal
—Work in Armament,
Munitions Plants
By The Associated lteirro Press
SEATTLE, Wash.—As n result
of the rseent disclosures by the
Federal Dureait of lnrcetigntlon
of the activity of foreign spies in
this country, and their attempts
to gain information about Amer-
ica's armament secret# and forti-
fication plans, Dean William
Pickens, director of branches, Na-
tional Association for the Advance-
ment of (Colored People and a
federal forum speaker who recently
delivered a series of lectures in
this state, this week suggested a
remedy for th 1 evil in a letter to
President Roosevelt.
Dean Pickens also sent copies of
his letter to the Secretary of War,
the Secretary of the Navy and the
head of the F.B.L The letter:
"Dear Mr. President:
"Our government is afraid
of spies and enemies within
our gates; especially in our
munitions and armament fac-
tories and on our defense sites.
Under this menace we wonder
why the government does not
turn more to the employment
IT wlis officially announced this; week that the almost six-
* months overdue election contest to determine "sepia Ban
Antonio's Negro mayor" will got' under way in May. The
contest and campaign will again fee sponsored by the Royal
Portina social club, the popular
that pioneered in stUging the
second "sepia mayor" in the
—the fall of 103ft—almost every
city in Texas of any appreciable
size has selected a "Negro mayor".
San Antonio's first contest re
suited in the election—after
most bitter and hard fought ca
pnisrn—tt O. E. Fitzgerald bi
1KSB main, nnd NAACP pr*«idi
to the «OTt-Wxl p-mt, "Wtttl tils liosl
out I. C. Collins, well known
fraternallst and funeral director,
in the last sixty seconds of the
election.. Collins had led through-
out the primary, and until exactly
one minute before poll-closing time.
With sixty seconds to go, the
Fitzgerald machine dumped one
thousand ballots in one of the
polling places, winning the race
irganization of young men
contest, and electing the
of Texas. Since that time
I) margin of 150 votes.
jt^gerald has already declared
jMl seek reelection.
rles Dare, "the father" of
ayoral idea in Han Antonio,
^ acting an general director
project for hln organization.
Uto forth-
week'# Register. The
Canadian Ne.« r o
Field in S. A. for
ImmigrationDept
FirstTime inCity'sHistory
That Alien Negro Has
Been Detained
jury asse
ns death
ntmsophere, with tlie
ing his punishment
the electric chair.
During White's trial at Living-
ston, all Negroes were run out |
of town, and the feeling was so *
intense against the defendant that
the sheriff had to deputize nearly!
UN) men to protect the prisoner,
while the state dispatched a nuni-'
When an eighteen-year-old Ca-
nadian born Negro, and an English
subject, was arrested Monday,
her of Texas Rangers to ttie scene
Attempted! iol duo
Lands C ireus
^ o r k e r in jail
Man Who Attacks Fellow
Employee Sentenced in
Few Hours
An ex-employee of the Tom Mix
tor taking precautionary Htet* I circus, who quit the t how to ko
to protect White from mob vlo elsewhere, was l eateu cad oat,
lence, the sheriff of l'olk eouut.v' Tu«*day April 12, wlieu another
was forced out of his offlee, which ^ ^
. - I tempted to rob him, with^lta*
: J1, ya*rat he Juid bi'ld fur ovtr twenty years, j would-lte victlui rtuamu*
held ft., ttaUM-Huto, WWI, cinrlct,- • ' ^ rtVuuW
d to let their intentions-to-run
mown to either Charles Dare
r, jtnmbcrt 2-0113, or U. J. An-
drew*, at San Antonio Register,
Cat in «ira I 1721.
(See TELLS, Page 5.)
Last So. Carolina
RaceCongressman
Succumbs at 88
U.S. Senate's Probe of Discrimination
In the Federal Civil Service ^ill
Include Jim Crowing. Abuses of Negro
Jcsfio Jcffrrson, of Mimlen,
Louisiana, suffered cuts on the left
side of the face, and bruiaet and
contusions in the affray.
Arrested, booked. an<I convicted
within a few hours for the mis-
demeanor was Puliiam Jeffrey,
his ho
(Sec PARADE, Page 5.)
Um NAil> *>age ft.)
Policy Baron Won't
Pay $100 "Hit"—
Fined $500
By Tlio Associated fferro Prwr
KIRMIN (, HAM, Ala.—
Winston *teynolds, white
policy king, found it cost
more to pay the court than
to pay Mrs. Kosalee I'hillipM,
who won but couldn't collect.
Mrs. Phillips' camc
out, anil she prepared to
collect $100 011 a 50 cent bet.
But Reynolds relumed her
50 cents, saying her book
got "shut out" that day be-
fore the drawings. When
she still Insisted on collect-
ing her winnings, the white
niHii allegedly thrratene:! her.
The woman went in hiding
and got in touch with police
through her husband, ltry-
nolds was arrested and Fri-
day drew a tine.
For not paying $100 to
Mrs. Phillips, the policy king
paid $500 to the city court
!'*r operating • lottery.
are rampant in the civil service.
He claims, that the main proposal
of ills resolution is "to investigate
the discrimination that has been
occurring in the various govern-
ment departments under civil tterv
lc?, with reference to promotions,
OHAUIjBSTON, 8. C.—Thomas j transfers, disciplinary incisures,
Ezekicl Miller, last surviving Ne- ielc-' , ,
gro member of congress from this j It 's a wt'^' known fact that Ne-
stute and a former member
both the state senate nnd state
house of representatives, died Fri-
day at his home at the age of 88
Negroes, will be investigated by a committee of five senator!
under a resolution introduced by Senator Allen J. Eliender
of Louisiana and passed by the Be a te last week.
Senator Eliender, one of the bitterest opponents of the j Sl ^
federal anti-lynching bill, has long i;;eu interested in reform-
ing certo.in evils which he charges app' i its branch s >nnl to the
public generally to send to its na-
tion • fi!i Fifth avenue, Xew
YorU i' y, the lntcst correct in-
■J "?u|djw reyuuiii* iMMNItal-
— — —. „„„ conrtctilft pnrely on I ixtutoir, ar.tf with Justice nctlm*
is expected to get under, amnorttles, t was the first time In f circumstantial evidence and *.! w/lWr t« p« tbe illwa assailant
my ft ho citys history that any NegroL, „ 7 hlr„ beM d the ban.
rants to the post of "sepia had ,,cpn I"'1'1 '°r <he immigration Ulat 0 bl'"l
n Antonio's Negro mayor" are '"''Partment, and the officials' lirst |10 " tr,'e a,ld "'hipix-d 'lm -
cafif of dealing with u Canadian f he confessed the crime, nnd then
of color. j placed him in the Jefferson county
A youth who gave the name of' >til at Iteauinont.
Raymond Franklin was picked up I Tin* Houston branch of the Xa-
by Detectives Hob Lowe and Joel tlonal Association for the Advance
Passant in a routine procedure, went °f Colored People, president j
When he was questioned, officers which is the militant c. F.
refused to believe the youth when Ihanlson, Houston editor, l r
he told them he was a native of interested in the case, and
Halifax, Xovia Scotia, and that I initiated a state-wide campaign to
obtain funds for White's legal de-1
fense before the appellate court,
and retained a firm of Houston;
lawyers who argued the appeal be-
fore the high court on March !>.
White's appeal was prepared ai:d
argued by the law firm of Peden, J
Johnson and Peden. While J. P.!
the
Detroit,
story told of-
his home was in Montreal, Canada.
Officers thought that the youth
merely wanted to go to Canada.
However, Franklin not only pro-
—= - • / .1 duced recent letters from Iih
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Various types of discrimination in j „„h(,r in jio,,,,.,.,,
« the federal civil service, inclu< .g discrimination Ugainst chicuntentary evidence
the
but otiier
establishing
his identity and nativity.
It was also discovered that his
years.
Miller, an attorney, took a lead-
ing part in establishing the South
Carolina state college at Orange-
burg, and was its lirst president,
holding that post for 10 years. He
also aided white education, for in
1881, when the state legislature
was voting to reopen South Caro-
lina college, now the University
of South Carolina, nnd the Citadel,
another college, Ills vote carried
the house in favor of the Citadel,
toward which strong opposition
had developed.
He was born in Perrebeville, S.
C., June 17, 1840, and after attend-
ing the public schools in Charles-
ton nnd Hudson, N. Y., was grad-
uated from Lincoln university,
Pennsylvania, in 1872. He was
school commissioner Of Beaufort
county in this state in 1872, and
was a member of the state house
of representatives in 1874, 1876
and 1878. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1875,
prai icing at Beaufort; he was a
member of the state executive com-
mittee, 1878-80, and served in the
state senate in 1880.
Running for congress ns a
of groes are discriminated against in
the civil service, not only in the
securing of appointments ufter they
have passed the examination, but,
in the few places to which they
are appointed, they are greatly
restricted as to promotions and
transfers, and are held strictly to
disciplinary measures. The postal
service, although It has many Ne-
groes in it, is notorious for its
discriminatory treatment.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
wrote Senator Eliender concerning
the investigation, asking permis-
sion to appear before the commit-
tee and submit records showing
"abuses regarding Negroes qual-
ified for civil service appoint-
ment." seuator Eliender has not
specifically noted the Negroes in
his resolution or in his correspond-
ence, but the language of the re*
olut ion is so broad that cases of
Negro discrimination can be easily
included.
Tl e N.A.A.C.P. has sent out an
(See l,4St. Page 5.)
fori 'ii on any civil service dis-
erlii.tipii against Negroes in
var. ins. localities. The N.A.A.C.P.
emphasi/A's that this information
mu e accurate and factual with
nar's dates, addresses, and with
dot on niary evidence such as let-
ter .' lating, etc. It will be use-
les> t« send mere complaints with-
on: fa ts. The Association empha
s\z - < l*o that this investigation
do< ii t concern state or city
civ;1 service, but merely the fed-
era' civil service having to do with
go\ jnment departments.
O'lie civil service was criticized
in Jie syndicated column "The
Washington Merry (.'o-Kound" writ-
ten by Robert S. Allen and Drew
Pearson, as being controlled, not
by lie three civil service eom-
mi.v oners, but by certain key
men and women who have a tight
grip upon the machinery and
wit. have resisted efforts to re-
form the procedure. The column
declares that James D. Yaden.
Jlef of the examining division,
^olds the power of life and death
OY( i all applicants for jobs."
The hearing 011 civil service dis-
ci iniination U scheduled to be held
in the latter part of April and,
therefi re, all information on this
tc-ii should be sent to tb« N.A.
A C.P. quickly as possible.
riginal entry into the I'uited | Se"tcd the Polk county N
had been irregular.
is being held for final action
by immigration officials, and will,
in all probability, be deported.
win
Michigan.
According
fleers. Jeffe
Tuesday, re<
him. Before
Antonio, he
first see son
his first going to
n the IMH) blo.-k
street. He was followed by Jef-
rey and two other men from the
'how grounds to the establishment
Rogers, Hill and Holnnd repre-j ^ tjh.
>d that
of
1:
ray due
rom San
he would
n. with
illshment
No
addr
at 1
at-
rart 1
y is alleged to ha v.
son, without provocai
pulled his knife and
'son, at the
Two Sail Antonio
F 0 r u m Centers
Meet Same Nisrht
J( ff:
Jeffi
then
Jeff*
tempting
Jeffrey was a
officers, taking n<
making bond 011 a
and then leaving
11 ni-
st r nek
11, and
lashed
nt-
to
ppreliended,
tow 1
WON'T PROSECUTE
A twenty-three year old youth,
who was arrested Tuesday, April
12, In connection with .the theft
of a white gold wrist watch from
Addle Ma« Goniales, 115 Archllles
street, went free when the com-
plainant refused to prosecute,
when the watch was recove.du-
This week, two of the four public
affairs forum centers of san An-
tonio and vicinity were the scenes
of interesting Kiitherings, although
I'oth programs did fall on the
same night. In each case, how-
ever, the federal sponsored adult
education projects were attended
liy appreciative and interested au-
diences.
Monday night, April 11, a repre-
sentative crowd heard I'rofessor
A. B. Wacker, of the University
of San Antonio, lecture most in-
formatively ond interestingly on
tlie topic, "Is Our I H'mocrac y
Democratic?" It was Profcrtior
\\ acker's second appearance be-
fore the Douglass center, his first
discourse having so impressed and
entertained the assemblage that
he hod been requested to appear
at this meeting. Following the
close of his address, he answered
nearly a score of questions.
Douglass' next forum will be
held Monday, April 25.
Pictures at Wheatley
An Interested group at the Phil-
lis Wheatley high school center,
heard and witnessed the Illustrat-
ed lecture by Strang Nuyfach, local
the original trial, when 111
torney appointed by the
witiidrew voluntarily from the cn-c
and asked Attorney Rog. rs and his
associates to handle the defense.
The decision of Texas' highest
criminal appelate court means that
White will have a new trial, and
that he may possibly be granted | circus, booked him,
a change of venue, and be tricnl i disturbing the peac\
prejudiced nndjj„g remanded to jail.
Brought to a quick trial in
Judge Bat Corrigan's court, Jef-
frey was lined one dollar and
co.sts (a total of thirteeu dollars),
''l'" • on the peace disturbance charge,
and ten dollars and costs (a total
dollars) on a charge
f simple assault that was lodged
in some other 1c
inflamed county.
One « f the principal reasons for]
reversal and remanding of White's!
death sentence was due to a1
faulty procedure in which the
fendant was deprived of a bill of
exceptions during the original trial i 0f t'vontv tw
by the presiding judge. W. B.
with
ut lirst,
with his
and
his
rge,
the
for
be-
Browder, and the argument of the
state prosecutor before the jury
which was held to bo prejudicial.
Dt Tbe Associated Negro Prc«s
f 8T. Lol'IS.—Although Negroes 1 architect, whose subject was "The
|rc 0,dy 11 per cent of the city's
lotm1 population, they ar0 29 per
Ent of the unemployed, it was
revealed last week by the federal
Unemployment survey. Total num-
b,r of all citizens Jobless is 61,-
X73, the report sets forth. ^ 1
Housing Problem: Is Government
Participation Desirable?" Moving
pictures of San Antonio's slum
areas—almost wholly confined to
the Latin-American quarter—added
(See SAME, Page 5.)
Doomed Boy,16, Gets
ReprieveWhen White
Students Protest
By The \wor!sted Nepro Press
RALEIGH. N. C.—Mann
Smith, Ifi, scheduled to die
in the lethal chamber Friday
for allegedly raping a girl
on March 31, 1937, was
granted a 30-day reprieve
Moiulay by Gov. Hoey after
a group of about 20 white
sociology students at the
university of North Carolina.
< hnpel Hill, presented a pe-
tition to fh:> governor asking
that the youth's life be spar-
ed because of his age and
lie be committed to an insti-
tution of juvenile delin-
quency.
Simultaneously, Commis-
sioner of Paroles ICdwin Gill
arm or.need a hearing on the
Smith case would be held
against hiui, his tines and costs
totaling thirty-five dollars.
He is "working it out" in jail.
—
One W o m a n to
Hospital, Another
To Jail in Fight
One woman was sent to the
Robert B. Green hospital, danger-
ously stabbed, slashed, and beaten,
and her alleged woman assailant
was arrested, booked for assault
to murder, and remanded to jail,
iia the result of a furious flgh*,
Thursday, April 7. reputedly at
1004 West Commerce Street.
The wounded woman was Ella
Eloise Lowe, 28, of 1010 West Coin-
j merce Street, who was stabbed in
the back, slashed about the face,
head, and body, and suffered a
severe heating about tht face and
body. She was rush >d to tht
county hospital In an ambulance.
She accused Marie Marshall, 23
years old, who gave 325 Monterrey
April 21. lTn!ess further j St re^et n* her address, ns her as
action is taken, the reprieve sailant. The Marshall woman wa{
automatically sets tho youth's j arrested^ hooked, and placed ii
death for Maj jail
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