San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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This Firm a Member
THE ban antonio
negro chamber or
commerce
Sajv Awtojvic Register
VOL. 9—NO. 2
RIGHT . JUSTICE . PROGRESS
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PRICE FIVE CKNTi
Health Week Closes With Colorful Parade
US WHEATLEY HIGH SCHOOL
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"Sepia Mayoralty" Nears Run-Off
35 Stitches in
Man s Head,Face
Following Fight
—
J P. Brown, 714 Virginia Boulevi d r suffering a badly
• battered hiUd, in which there are 07 stitches, a bruised,
swollen, badly lacerated face that required eight stitches—
a total of 35 stitches for all hft wounds—and, in addition
to these physical injuries, was arrested and booked for
discharging firearms within the city limits, and rudely dis-
playing a pistol, while Tommy Grite, 718 Virginia Boulevard,
is facing n booking of simple u>:
Above are shown a few scenes
snapped as San Antonio closed its
«nnual observance of National Ne-
gro Health Week with a mile-
long parade, Sunday, April 9, that
was viewed by several thousands
of Interested spectators, who
thronged the Hue of march, that
Included the downtown business
•ection.
Top picture: The band of the
Phillis Wheatley senior school.
with its baton tossing and twir- by schools, civic organizations, and
clubs. This is the entry of the
West Side Junior league.
ling, dervishing drum majors. In
this photo both drum majors have
tossed their batons high in the
air, and nre waiting for them to
again descend to retrieving dist-
ance. The Wheatleyifes' baton
tossing is sensational, with the
stuffb often being thrown as high
as two stories in the air.
Second picture: One of the mary
floats entered in the procession
Third picture: The float entered
by the Phillis Wheatley senior
school, and one of the most ap-
plauded displays in the parade.
Last picture: The Douglass jun-
ior school's nattily uniformed
band—the only junior high school
band in the entire South—with its
prancing drum major, and pretty
and petite majorettes.
fault following an altercation, Sat-
urday.
In an interview with n Register
reporter, Crice stated thnt, "I
have a very sick sister and she
was upset when a shot was fired
next door. A few minutes later,
J. P. Brown came out into the
street brandishing an old fashioned
..18 calibre pistol, cursing and
creating a scene." It was later
learned, according to Grice, that
Brown had allegedly chased hi?
nephew, Wesley, out of the house
with his gun after having taken
a pot shot at him in the house.
"Upon going to the door," stated
Grlee, "I asked Mr. Brown to
please respect my sick sister and
kindly not curse and holler in
front of the house." Whereupon
Brown is said to have yelled,
"Go get Kilday. This is J. P.
Brown. I'll be here till Kilday
eoine.s." Grice further stated that
his next-door neighbor "strutted
up and down the sidewalk with
his pistol sticking in his waist
"Tiiifl'iMir'":"
111* Kt'iM'inl notions whop.
ginia Boulevard, and came
chatting a woman, who ran
Grlee's residence. Just past til
house, Grice salil that Broan
caught her, and the cursing started
again.
asked Brown, "What are you
raising tills Ouin about?" Where-
upon he said that Brown replied,
"Hell, I am a citizen. I do what
I please." "Yes," said Grice,
"Maybe so, but not In front of
my house." At this point, Grice
said that Brown made a break
through his gate, reaching. In his
wnist band where he had been
carrying the pistol, and that he
(Grice) leaped off his porch and
met the charge.
After a forty-minute melee
Brown fled, tearing a gaping hole
in the hedge and scaling his fence,
to effect his escape.
ISrown (Jives Version
Brown, his head swathed la
bniulage and adhesive tape, grant
ed Register an interview and
stated that, "My girl friend and
Man Who Knows
Nothing jailed
for (kitting Girl
strated Lover Accused
Of Cutting Young
Woman in Back
Buried
in.
Annual Health Week Closes
With Mile-Long Procession
WITH several thousands of persons viewing the more than mile long procession, San
Antonio's observance of the silver anniversary of National Negro Health Week came
to a colorful climax Sunday, with the annual "health parade" in which local citizens en-
thusiastically demonstrated their keen interest in matters of personUl, home, and com-
munity health.
The line of march of the procession caried into, and through, the downtown business
section, the parade moving west on Commerce, from Hackberry, as far as North St. Mary's
street, then to Houston, eaat on Houston to Hackberry to the Library Auditorium oil
Centre street.
The parade was headed by a
motorcycle squad, followed by
cars containing city and county
officials, including Mayor 0. K.
Quln, Tax Commissioner Theo M.
Plummer, County Judge C. W.
Anderson, Hart McCormick, dis-
trict clerk; and Dr. W. A- King,
ity health officer. P. G. Lucas,
president, and George H. Craze,
executive secretary, represented
the Bexar County Tuberculosis
association, which helped to spon-
sor the local observance of Negro
Health Week in cooperation with
the Volunteer Health League.
In the procession were many dec-
orated floats and cars entered by
schools, civic, and social organi-
zations. The Phillis Wheatley
senior school band, with Its baton-
twirling, high stepping drum majors,
and the Douglass Junior school
band, with its pretty little maj-
orettes, were the music units in
the march.
Phillis Wheatley, Douglass, Dun-
(See PARADE, Page $.)
(See STITCHES, Page 5.)
Final Rites Held
Saturday for Mrs.
H. Washington
Marian Anderson Thrills 75,000
In Open Air Concert In Capitol
rh Anoetated Negro Preu
,JASHINGTON, D. C—The capitol city's largest crowd
■' turned out Sunday afternoon to hear the world's greatest
intralto, Marian Anderson, in tt free concert staged at the
ih)w spot of Washington. With Abraham Lincoln's statue
ig her background and the Washington monument looming
is the distance, Miss Anderson sang from a small rostrum
.miitructod for the purpose as 75,000 members of both races
ai'o «ager attention.
Arriving nt the Lincoln memorial
few minutes before the concort
u icliedulcd to be broadcast
nigh a national lieokup, Miss
n-lemon was led through the vast
mblage by Secretary Iekes,
er whoso sponsorship the con-
l wsu given after she had been
denied use of Constitution hall,
owned by the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and Central
high school auditorium.
Ickcs himself introduced the
noted singer. Indirectly chiding the
D.A.R. for refnsing to let her use
Constitution hall, and praising tho
(See SINUS, P«ge «.).
Youth is Prison
Inmate by Day,
Burglar by Night
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Al-
though Arthur Charles, 19,
was serving a light sentence
in the Ensley jail, (ills did
■lot deter hint from follow-
ing a burglar's career.
Charles was nude a trusty
at the JaH, which gave him
the privilege of going ho
at night. All went well
until he was caught last
week with another youth
breaking into « drug store,
and confessed to IS burg-
laries iu the last three
' months, among them a safe-
cracking Job at Fair-
field theatre iu which $907
loot WW .
"Fntangliiitf <i bewildering maz?
of'fabrications and misstatement.*,
the identity of a girl who wa--
t'reii:ed at the Rolwrt 11. Green
hoti' tal, Monday, for serious stal
wwiids, has been established, and
the alleged knife wielder—who
can* d considerable headache to
hQity iuI attaches, police, reporters,
and the girl's family before the
truth was ascertained—has been
arreted, booked, and jailed in
ugtlon with the ease.
y, April 10, police records
a woman entered on
[•rwpital records as "Maiy
jOh, ~t, 113 AJui>aiii<t Street'
ted at the Rrbert I),
li for serious knife
xv01jiid«. According to the report
Grice declared that h£ "been stabbed In the back,
at Victoria and Hackberry streets,
by an unknown party" and, ftl
though the wound was considered
serious, by hospital Attendants
she, or someone, had insisted she
be taken home.
^Investigation revealed that no
"Mji'y Jackson" lived at the ad-j
<Jre>- given. T. J. Jackson, Si.
lived there, however, and T. J.
Jackson had not been cut, but, )♦
dev« loped, had done some cutting.
Getting all the facts together, it
Anally developed that Miss Juauito
Qaiidy, .*131 Indiana .Street, a
former girl friend of Jackson*?,
ha>: been the knife victim.
According to the evidence, Jack
son and Miss Gandy had quarreled,
and he had become incensed when
a reconciliation was not effected.
As she was en route home, follow
tog Jo ckaon's futile attempt at
reconciliation, he is said to have
Iveitaken her, and to have stabbe.l
Iky with a knife, lie then took
her to the Robert II. Green hos-
pitnl, entered her as "Mary Jack-
Bort", with the statement, "cut by
jbknown", and effected hei re-
ject- after, emergency treatment,
flier carried her to within a short
Jhiitance of her home, and put
hir out of the car. Sorely wound
e<! the girl staggered and stumbled
a.* jhe tried to get to her residence.
A 'friend, observing her unusual
tradition, notified her mother.
jTne dazed and semi-conscious
girl was unable to tell what iiad
llsippened. Jackson telephoned, but
protested to the wouuded girl's
Bidther that he neither knew
lirfthing about her condition, nor
lihAt she had been hurt. He
Jbroniised he would "be over" and
njailc things over with th< mother,
iffc Gandy was rushed back to
lit hospital, where, it was said,
|ier wounds, unattended as they
Jwer<\ were nearing the danger
tjjgc. Jackson never kept the
'appointment" with Miss Gaudy's
Lother, and a search was insti-
tuted.
He was arrested Tuesday, April
31, and booked for aggravated as-
sault on a female. The next day,
Wednesday, April 12, he was
released under $200 bond.
MRS. AODIE HANDLE
SON, a resident of San Antonio i. r
fifty years, for whom finol rii
were conducted Wednesday, Ap il
5, from her home, 1822 N v. la
Street, where she had succumbi d,
Monday, to an illness of nearly
a year. The Rev. W. M. Ellis., n
officiated.
The decedent, a native of Van
Buren, Arkansas, was first brought
to Texas at the age of ten. She
came to San Antonio in 188!).
Mouton Holds Lead With
4100 Votes; Shaw 2nd,
Inman Takes Third
I50LLING relentlessly along; behi'ng a continuous burgage
^ of votes, Herbert Mouton moved closer to a place in th«
runoff of the "sepia mayoralty" election, when, on Tuesday
election officials of the San Antonio Negro Chamber of
Commerce—under the auspices of which the campaign is
being conducted—announced that Mouton had polled an even
2,000 votes during the week, bringing his total to 4,100. To
Ity for I lie
Death CI a i m s
Builder of Bethel
A. M. E. Church
Rev. Dr. Handy S. Sinvi
Succumbs to Illness
Of Nine Years
n
must receive at lea
by Tuesday, April
was within 000 vote*
with a full week to
a powerful organize
getters behind him,
his own inlefatigal
ff, Candida
tt ."/MM) Vl •
18. MOU!
of qualify]
go, and. w
tion of c vo
together w
Shaw is Se
and
during
Acute Indigestion
Proves Fatal to
Mrs. Mary Wells
Suddenly 111, Resident
For 33 Years Dies in
Arms of Son
I/irRcly attended, quiot, and im
pressive funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon, April 8, at
St. James A. M. E. church;; for
Mrs. Hettie Washington, a rest
dent of San Antonio for thirty-
five years and one of its most
esteemed citizens.
Mrs. Washington succumbed Fri-
day morning, nt one o'clock, at
.Medical and Surgical hospital fol-
lowing nn operation the day be-
fore. First stricken on January
first, the decedent soon rallied
and was able to be np and about
her home. On April 3 she suf-
fered another attack from which
she waB not to recover. She en-
tered the hospital Wednesday
morning, April 5, and underwent
an operation at eight o'clock
Thursday. Deoth followed some
seventeen hours later.
ltom rfcttie Williams in Hal-
lettsvllle, Texas, Lavaca county,
April B, 1887, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Garey Williams, the
decedent first came to Ban An
tonio in 1903, shortly following
her marriage to Plea Washington,
and had resided here continuously
since that time. Washington die<)
June 27, 1922.
Mrs. Washington had bees
member of Bt. James A. IL ft,
church for a number of yeare and
was one of that body's most arden;
and coosclentloaa workers, active-
ly participating in many of iu
activities until Incapacitated by
SS ISP* *«• "■>
4,000 CATHOUC CONVERTS
CruiaUor 5c* Agency
NDW YORK, N. Y.—The occa-
sion of the presentation of a
passion play. "Barter", by Father
prban Nagle, O. P., with an a)l
Jfcgro Catholic cast at St. Mark's
■church, West 138th street, Friday
evening, recalled that this church,
ot which the present pastor is
Father Michael F. Mulvoy, 0. S.
Jfp., has won 4,000 Negro Catholic
converts since its founding in 1907
Suddenly jbtricken with acute in
tflgVBtlo o, mbcut 12 .*05 o'clock
Thursday morning, April 6, Mrs.
Mary Wells, 10.r> Cactus Strec:,
succumbed, «ome fifteen minutes
later, In the arms of her son.
She had retired nt. 11:30, seem
Ingly in perfect health. Shortly
after midnight, she called her son,
John, telling him to bring her some
hot water and soda. However,
when he reached her bedside, she
declared she was too ill to take it.
Standing beside her bed, with her
head resting on the arms of :er
son, she died, about VI :20, as ho
attempted to aid her.
A native of Gonzales, Texas.
Mrs. Wells had resided in San
Antonio for thirty-three years.
In 189G, she and John WelLs
were morried, there being four
children born to the couple. Sue
was an active member of New
Light liaptist church, from which
largely attended funeral services
were conducted Monday afternoon,
April 10, witli the Rev. J. N
With Bethel Afrir-an Methodist j
Episcopal church filled to capacity, j
and with the mayor of the city cfi ,
San Antonio iu attendance through* I •
out the services, final rites were i
conducted Wednesday, April ID. I
for the Hev. l)r. Ibtndy Samuel
Sims, distinguished pulpiteer, and' •
esteemed member of the African
Methodist church, who died Sun-
day morning. April i>. nt the a gel
of 70, at his home, 230 Meet i
selieidt Street, following an ill- \
ne*n of nine years.
l>r. Sims Is eredited with
building the imposing edifice
from which h K obsequies were
conducted. lie served n*
pastor of lielhel for a lial/-
douen yt
-t.ite Baptist cl
m votes to p
supporters nre
cerh over his
for, with the
1*
pi
lun
tie c
standing,.
ionization back*
ing him that had been originally
t up to elect the Hev. W. S.
Brent, who withdrew, and with
Archie Johnson throwing the Pull-
man porters* support to lnm;\n,
thera should be little ques'.ina
nbout bin reAcbiug t* + w
K. Cbrismnn In in fourth position
At the decedent'ft own request. / _rk/. . „
Bishop C. n. Yonn* «nd Dr. W. *' b 790 TO,M' T-
O. Boyd funer.illri'd the remains. I"""'0 a*" I"'"M * r<,p°rt*
Rev. A. W. Harvey, present pastor| j"'"*
of Bethel, acted as master of in ",,e d'',rk r^ r«lin? hi*
ceremonies. Prank E. Lewis Fu Rs'rl",? ' . ... .
neral Home was In charge. InieJ Promises F,reworks
ment was in City cemetery No. T"e real fireworks of tl^ mayor.
alty campaign ai^ txpeeted in th*
Many out-of-town churchmen I I0"0ff' that Mouto-i,
and officials of tl,e denomination!1™" !"* " " ^ ''"UK
were in attendance at the Impress 1 ".'rr'"® hree'"'?yu baftlp >•
Ive rites, including Bishop George P?' 1™
B. Young, Waco; Rev A. W.| "a?
Williams, Houston; Rev. O. H
(See FATAL, Page 5.)
Aged San Antonio
Woman is Found
Dying 011 Porch
An apparent victim^ of acute in-
digestion from which she was a
chronic sufferer. Mrs. Susan John-
son, 75, 1610 West Houston Street,
died nt her home early Wednesday
morning. Stricken after she ha 1
retired for the night, Mrs. John-
son was found, in a dying condi
tion, on the rear porch of her
home, where she had supposedly
gone in nn effort to get fresh air,
by her son, Anderson Johnson, with
whom she lived and to whom she
had called to bring her "some hot
water and soda." After admin
istering the medicine, a neighlwr,
Mrs. Elizabeth Stiles, 1010 West
Houston Street, was summoned,
the man proceeding to bathe his
stricken mother's face with damp
ened towels. When the neighbor
arrived, a few minutes after hav-
ing been notified, Johnson, his
mother's head in his arms, re
marked to her "I believe mother
is dead". An attempt was made
to revive her but to no avail.
Officers were notified, as was
Justice of Peace Raymond Ger-
hard t.
The decedent was born in Mis
souri and brought to Texas ut an
early age. She had lived in San
Antonk) for approximately sixty-
five years. During her early girl-
hood, she was married to Henry
Johnson to which union eight chil-
dren rere born. She had been a
widow for the past forty years,
having made her home with her
any on
Bens, Waco; Rev. E. I). Cooper,
presiding elder, Bryan district.
Bryan: Rev. J. B. Butler, presid I
ing elder, Palestine district, whose
home, however, is in Son Antonio.
Mayor C. K. Quin, in brief, but!
significant remarks, pointed to the
decedent as a man whose life, by:
precept and example, was rerr;
worthy of emulation.
Native of Florida
Rev. Sims was born November!
2-2, at Madison county, Flor-
ida. lie attended Richardson's'
academy, Lake City, Florida, and
was awarded the doctor of divinity
degree from Paul Quinn college,
Waco, Texas. In the African
Methodist church, to which he wa«
converted in 1881, Ik s rved, dur-
ing his career, as Sunday school
tocher, class leader, superintend ;
out, steward, trustee, preacher, |
and presiding elder.
He was mentioned, in 1016, a^i
a logical candidate for the off
of financial secretary of the A.
M. E. church. In 1020, he ran i tr
the pension bureau of the A. M.
K. church. He served as a trustee
of Paul Quinn college.
He was licensed to preach in
1S00, at Lake City, Florida, and
was ordained deacon in 1S94 at
Ocala, Florida.
\
to be exhausted 1
returned a winner.
Mouton should draw appreciable
support from the memberships f
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
and the Alamo Athletic Associa-
tion with his being a board of di-
rector of both organisations, and
important und ef fee lire memocr
in nH their activities. He should
also pull many votes from the
(See NEARS, Page 5.)
Woman. Resident
Of Citv for Half
Century. Pa s s e s
A wide!;
of Van An
Wilson, w
fifty year
known pi
onto, Mrs.
io had li
. died a
uioer resident
A<1 lie Ranc'ie
ed here for
her home.
In 1880 he and Miss M> A.
Hester were married, this union
enduring until his death.
The decedent came to Texas in
1807, and was made, presiding
elder of the El Paso district, serv-
ing for five years. He served
1822 Nevada Street, Monday, April
3, succumbing to ; n illne- of
nearly a year. She had been con-
fined to bed for the past i!x
.months.
The decedent was in her eljrlny-
ninth yt-ir, having been born ni
Van Buren, Hrkan>as. July 21,
1 lsno. In 1S(10, the decedent's par-
ents Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Gib-
lions, moved to Lavernia, t'e\:i3.
J hi 1S80 she came t > San Anton.o,
: requiring property, a Sialf century
j ago, at the Nevada street site
| where she lived until her death.
' She w-:s married, at fifteen, t *
the same capacity in the Wacol 'i0U*
Tex a
(See M ILDER, Page 5.)
as a churvli for .white Catholi* fraternal
FDR CONGRATULATES KAPPAS
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.™G. James
Fleming, editor of the Kappa
Journal, announces receipt of a
letter of congratulation from Pr. s
Ident Roosevelt on the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Kappa Journal,
which is published this week.
The President wrote: "I eon
gratulate you and the members of
the staff of Kappa Alpha Psi
Journal on the completion of
twenty-five years of continuous
publication. In extending greetings
may I express the hope that for
long years to come your magazine
may uphold the best traditions
journalism.'*
Randle. at Nt w Braunfe1?,
To this union thirtc n
children were born. Death claimed
Randle in 1909.
March 11, 1015, Mrs. Ran-iie
and William Wilson were married*
The decedent was a member of
Jacob Chapel M. E. church for
many years, actively participating1
in its endeavors until her health
failed.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday, April r . from the
residence, with the Rev. rend W.
M. Ellison officiating. The -.serv-
ices were largely attended. Inter-
ment was in U.B.F. cemetery, Col-
lins Funeral Home in charge.
Surviving nre three daughters-*
Mrs. Daisy Wallace. Mrs. Mnri£
Florence, ami Mrs. Annie Sanders^
John and Will liaudie, son#
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