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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, A PHP, 24, 1942
Haiti President Visits Son at School
PRICE FIVE CENTS
President Bile Le*cot, of He
Republic of Haiti, In Auierlcs on
* *""<lwl11 tour, recently called
' *iT*T5t" bl. omina "*Minul"j' tCiiOO.',
at. Rock Castle. Virginia, for a
vltlt with his rod. Max Leseot, a
student at St. Emma's.
The top picture shown the Hait-
ian president and hln purtj as
they reviewed tbe Ht Rminn cadet
corps. From left to right are El1e
Garcia, secretary of the naltlan
legation; Maurice D'Artigne, min-
inter of agriculture In Haiti; Trea-
Jdent IiMcot; Rev. Fr. Frederick,
0. 8. B., director of St. Km ma's;
aiMl Philip Chan, Haitian coait
guard commander.
The middle' panel idiows the dis
tlngulsbed father as be chatted
Kith his son/ MaxT*iol''JVfiuB dnii.
Young Leseot Is taking the afri
cultural course at this boarding
high school, and. on completion of
hla studies, will return to Haiti
to further the development of agri-
culture there.
Id the third photograph, Tresl
dent Leseot la shown as he con
gratulated James Clark, first cap-
tain of the Nt. Emma cndet corps,
enthusiastically praising the mil-
itary precision shown by the itu
denta In their drill.
Fritz Cansler, Ex-
Dallas "Y" Sec'y,
Passes on Coast
W70SD has keen received here, of the death, Friday night,
W April 17, in Los Angeles, California, of Fritz Cansler.
former executive secretary of the Dallas Moorland branch
YMOA, and well known in San Antonio, and throughout Tex-
ts Cansler died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen
Veney.
Cansler, one of the outstanding executives of the YMCA
.movement, was secretary of the
Dallas branch from 1036 until 111
health forced Mr retirement In
the summer of 1M1
Cansler wail born In Maryvllle,
•frnnenee, but went to Knoiville,
■with his parents, when a very
sciall boy, where he attended
school, and completed the normal
course at Knoiville college. He
was td later study at the Spring-
field (Massachusetts) YMCA col-
lege, the uolvereity of Pennsyl-
vania, and the University of Den-
ver.
In Ills early manhood, he became
a cle.-k In the census office la
Washington, D. ©.; and later serv-
ed as teacher a ad coach of tbe
Mrtoxville, Tennessee, high school.
When a wealthy Negro citlsen of
city made a bequest of a
building to YMCA wort,
r became one of the most
lay worke«< in the organl-
l«ter entering "Y' work
life career.
When America entered World
War I, Cansler early volunteered
for YMCA war work, nnd, follow-
ing a course of Intensive training
at the Springfield YMCA college
was sent to France. He was with
combat troops near the front, Ir.
beleaguered and shell-torn Paris,
In battered Verdun, and at Breft.
On his return to America, Can-
sler was offered the secretaryship
of the YMCA at Jlarrlsburg,
Pennsylvania, where he served
until called to Philadelphia, to
organize and conduct the educa-
tional program at the Southwest
branch "X."
Early In 1026, he accepted the
executive secretaryship of Use
Glcjaarm Branch YMCA, la Denver,
Colorado, when It occupied Its
Just completed new $100,000 build-
ing. Hia wort in the nationally
known Glenarm branch brought
nation - wide attention, and he
turned down many attractive of-
fers before taking the post in Dal-
(See CANSLER, Page ,V)
Three Indicted by
U.S. in Detroit
Housing Riots
fipwlal to Has Antonio RegUter
TT'ASHINGTON, D. C—Attorney General Francis Biddle an-
" ncunced, Thursday, that a federal grand jury sitting in
the eastern district of Michigan, at Detroit, had returned an
indictment against three officers and members of the National
Workers league and the Seven Mile-Fenelon Improvement
association, of Detroit, charging a conspiracy to prevent Negro
tenants from occupying the Sojourner Truth homes, a project
Detroit Auto
Pl int Drops Ban
Against Race
Whites Given Choice of
Wo*l king with Negroes
Being Fired
of the United States Housing
authority.
The Investigation was made un-
der the supervision of John Lelir,
United States attorney for the
eastern district of Michigan, and
the case was presented to the
grand Jury by Frank H.. Patton,
special assistant to the attorney
general.
Those named In the Indictment
were Parker Sage and Garland L.
Alderman, treasurer and secretary,
respectively, of the National Work-
ers league; and Virgil Chandler,
organizer and officer of the Seven
Mile-Fenelon Improvement associa-
tion, all of Detroit.
Also named in tbe indictment as
co-conspirators were Joseph P.
Buffa, real estate dealer and pres-
ident of the Fenelon Improvement
association; John Dalzell, secre-
tary of the Fenelon Improvement
association; Fred E. Moriasterskl,
vice president of the association;
and Leonard J. Stewart, treasurer
of the association.
Tbe indictment contained two
counts. Tbe first charged a viola-
tion of civil rights under Section
it
M, Title IK IT. 8. Code, In thai
certain persona were prevented
from occupying federally - owned
premises for which they had ex-
ecuted leases. The second charges
prisoument for six years.
The Sojourner Truth Koinea Is
a low cost housing project of
the United States Housing author-
ity, located on a site recommended
by the Detroit Planning commis-
sion in 103!) as being suitable for
Negro occupancy. The project was
completed In February, 1942, and
occupancy was scheduled to begin
on February US. When tbe first
group of .Negro tenants attempted
to move in, they encountered a
picket line and were stoned and
had their belongings destroyed by
a mob.
The Indictment charges that the
defendants, for some time prior
to February 28, and up to, and in-
cluding, the day, preceding the re-
turn of the indictment! canned a
picket line to be rnnintained around
the housing project for the purpose
of preventing occupancy by the
tenants; that they publicly threat-
ened rioting and bloodshed it Ne-
gro tenants attempted to occupy
the project; that they Induced
other members of the National
Workers league and the Seven
Mile-Fenelon Improvement asso-
ciation to engage In picketing tbe
project; and lhfct they 'prevented
By, ISAAC JONES
Fsr^lhe Atftnrlnted ffru PrMI
^ UIT, Mich.—The Packard
Motor ^ftirvompany, famous for
years .for its various models of
beam.inl cars whose slogan was
"Ask l'h4 Man Who Owns One,"
its age old discrimination
bar li4t week when two colored
!e«, James McCullers and
Itoyer, were transferred
mother department in the
id given Jobs as metal
This marks the first
the history of the coin-
colored workers have
this department.
San Antonio Has
Riotous Week-End
Corpus Scribe
Met I
denied
ard pi iht last October after meet-
ing al
reporti fl for work, white employees
In tW
stage
men it
The
and Boyer had been
the same Jobs at the I'ack-
requlremcnts. When they
department threatened to
1 walk-out, which caused the
be reassigned to their same
jobs : i laborers.
company dropped the 01s-
1 by force, "the authorized agents
nt the Federal Works administra-
tor, to wit. Cnr >'. Lnrooa^ggd
the members of tbe Detroit Hons
criinln lion bar last week as the
f five months of beating
'Lc bush, nnd conferences
labor, management gnd
nt.
, two men reported to
iw*«ek. In the metal and
department, white etn-
stopiied work nntll tbey
that they woold hose
with these colored men
[ilssed. However, it la
this warning waa not
Wy until several |>ad
betwd
fiiiHi
a seditious conspiracy, "to prevent, I9jf
hinder or delay the execution of
any Taw of the Cnlted States" un-
der Section 6, Title 18, TJ. S. Code.
The maximum penalty under 1'ue
first count Is a |5,000 fine and
Imprisonment for ten years. Under
the second count the maximum
penalty la a ffi.000 fine and lip-
said cltlsena as tenants in th«
said Sujouf net: Truth Housing
project, in the lawful executlo*"
Of federal statutes.
The rffjucst for the grand jury
Investigation was ronde by Attor-
ney General Francis Biddle on
March 0. 1048.
MM
Two Wounded as
Corpus Christi
Women Battle
C'O&PUS CHBISTI, Texas—One Corpus Christi woman was
' stabbed with an ice pick, in an "eternal triangle'' affair,
and another was smashed over the head with a bottle, in two
separate incidents Tuesday, that sent two to tbe hospital, and
two women to jail.
In the "triangle" affair, the wife got the worst of the
fight, when Mrs. Elsie Williams, of San Luis alley, was stabbed
in the shoulder with an ice pick,
murderouaiy wielded by Katherlne
McCanliey, 1020 North Tancabun
street. The fight started over tbe
affections of Mrs. Williams' hus-
band.
The McCaulley woman was ar-
rested by Officer Forrest Alex-
ander, and lodged in the city jail,
being Inter transferred to the
county Jail, with assault, and at-
tempt to murder charges filed
against iier.
In a fight between Earline Tay-
lor, and Eva Joe Alten, in a grill!
on Hamirez street, Miss Allen shot
tered a bottle across the skull 'Of
Miss Taylor, Inflicting severe
^pounds. The Injured woman 1b
known to be "dangerous," and
quick to use a knife, and served a
jail term, for cutting a man In a
resort three 05 four months ago,
Both women were taken Into
custody immediately by Officer
Forrest Alexander. Miss Taylor
was taken to tbe hospital, and
later transferred to the city jail.
The other woman was lodged In
the city jail.
retCorpus
Dusers
OFFICER W. K. BROWN
handles Register In Gulf city
CORPUS CHRISTI, "Texas—Al
though be baa been In charge of
tbe Register agency in Corpus
Christi less than two months, City
Police Officer W. K. Brown, one
of tbe Gnlf city"# most interesting
personalities, has already moved
into the No. 1 spot of Register
agents in Southwest Texas, more
papers now being distributed In
Corpus than in any other of the
dozens of towns, In this section of
the state, where the paper Is sold.
The husky Corpus police officer.
Blade Wieiders Run Wild,
Free-for-AIl bights
At Dance, Resort
CAN ANTONIO experienced one of its most riotous periods
^ in months during the past week-end, with there being n/ach
blood-letting, as touchy tempers flared, and the city e un-
restrained army of knife toters ran amuck.
The week's biggest wholesale carving spree was Monday
night, at the Library auditorium when some half-dozen per-
sons were ripped, slashed, and stabbed in varying degrees of
severity.
New Ford Bomber
Plant to Hire
1,000 Women
By III Akiorlatrd H*fro Pfhi
DETROIT, Mich*—Afford-
lag U anion officials here
having to do with tbe or-
ganising of the Ford Motor
company union employee*
the new Willow Run
plant near Ypsllautl, Mich.,
among the thousands to be
employed there will be 15,tHXi
women and out of every ltKI
women employed, seven will
be Negroes. The total will
be more than U
Principals and participant* ia
Monday's brawl, which, for a short
while almost reached the propor-
tions of a riot, have been reluc-
tant to discuss the swlngirg i,i>d
slicing bee that sent three per-
sons to the Itobert B. Greet hos-
pital, for treatment, aui: five
others receiving treatment lioia
< -'her sources.
Before the Monday night <
it is said that a group of ' It*
merry-makers-to-be pooled their fV
nancial resources, and purchased
some eight dollars worth of
whiskey and gin, which was p.u-
ed to form a most potest *
and one which, probably, bro„gjit
ming
,ljs CHJtlSTI, Vevik—
t,. r, welt known business
aly lost his pants, fate
. The lots veuW
y'-beea-so had, as TurllW
Ity of other trousers, Utif
Ulcular pair happened ft)
i<bout $200.
1,1 whose -esidence adjoin*
or store on North Staples
>]ad removed the , trousers
in wj 1 was a billfold containing
Ikn * r . .. . .
(
Wv
mo
ma
tk!
coot.
Toh
his li
street
the
o'cloe!
Thl
dence
tbe
alley,
taklnf
eurrpi
yean. Is a 1 ative of
il product of that elty1
system, and a 1K25 graduate of
tMmglaas bigh School. He played
football—a bruising tackle—under
J. D. Lowery, Jr., at Douglass. He
has lived in Corpus since 11*34.
itlnce "Joining the Corpus force.
Ve v.-1 yTr>*Mi-WT
^aDetritffnTtTT
Quits After US.
Housing Order
tr. There wis also tepoviMi 7*^
•tances of "weed" inhaling.
At any rate, shortly after 11
o'clock, bedlam broke loose on the '
floor of the audlto-iuin, li'fiue*
flashed right and left, and tolh
brawlers and bystanders wbo ceijld
not get out of the way in time.
(At* M'RIBK. Page 1.)
11
loney, shortly before
^Tuesday night.
ies quietly entered the r«d
through a window, snatched
nls, and fled down the
removing tbe billfold, and
the mouey, which was in
■y of large denominations.
sll<> >ly after 11 o'clock, Turner
dlsco<
1 lives
lia pp.
billfol
about
J?
glartii
Clia|n
800 r
eneS
faaOly
red the trousers were gone,
i gntion revealed what had
ed. The pants and empty
were found in the alley,
live feet apart.
night before. Monday,
had attempted to bur-
tbe home of Mrs. Florence
an, Turner's grandmother,
rker etreet, but were fright-
wny when memtiers. of the
were awakened.
First Group of Aircraft Mechanic
TraineesLeavesDuncanField,Mon
For Advanced Study at Tuskegee
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
>E POSTPONED
Texas—^The Teias iicmoeratie "wiritc
cane, set for trial, April 20, was cen-
onday.
riurg to reports, that
BETWEEN 4# and W) em-
ployee-trainees of the air-
craft mechanical school at
Duncan field, who have sue-
eesefaUy completed 12 weeks
of basic training, will leave,
Mor'ay, for Mie Tuskegee,
Alabama, air field, for advanc-
ed study.
The federal government di-
rected training school at Bua-
ean fie*d is under tee dlrees
tioai «t Maarice Jones, who
recently resigned his position
in tbe San Antonio public
school system — in which ho
had taught for M years—to
accept the government Job.
Training is given In three
fieltlM—aircraft electrical me-
chanics; engine and welding}
and machine shop work, Basle
instruction is give In math'
ematics, physics, depot reguU-
tit-ns and organlaation, blue-
print reading, and theory tad
practice of the trader 8 0-
tiion si SteurB
is repaired before the advanc-
ed study, to which this group
is moving Monday, is given.
Jones has a B.& degree, in
mechanical engineering, from
the I'nlvenity of Illinois, and
has done graduate work at the
University «' Chicago.
W. B. Miller, who has walk-
ed at Dmcs-i fWA- fa*
years, will he In charts a#
depot students while they
at Tnabecee. Assisting M
witt be OUle WMaia,
been tmplayod at
for it real*. In
of their services, both
and Miller were ititwWy pro*
Rented Veteran's pins by Col.
Dehnar H. Dun ton, the field
commanding officer.
A majority of the young
men. It was Jlselosed, who
hare qnattfM for tfce ad-
vanced training at tuskegee
an graduates or ex-slali.'^a
•f #HW Wbeatley ralor
Ma u Stricken by
ysis, Dies
Three Days
■ Tuesday, April 14, with
Of paralysis, liobert Wat-
[16, died Friday morning,
at bis home, 1035 Lorn-
let. He had lived in Iten
dor ID years.
re of I.ullng, Teias, Wat-
Md to Waco, at an early
he and Miss Willie
mnan were married, two
born to the couple,
inrtage was later dissolved
1923, Watklns established
In san Antonio, and, on
1964, he and Mrs.
day were wed.
lent was a member of
Uetkodlat church, and,
served as member oT
board. Be waa a
for many years, of >mer-
Ci.M p No. 8, which,
he served as vice
were conducted Bun
in from Bt Paul, with
|U 8. Moshy officiating,
iking company in
services being under
picas of American Wood-
No. 6. Interment was
Ex-Con Caught
As He Attempts
To Loot Store
A 31-year-old man was surprised,
an<
glarlzing the H. C. Ilees Optical
company, 407 Bast Houston street,
late Tuesday night.
A former employee, the man was
caught in the store, with his hav-
ing already removed, from the
show cases, a quantity of mer-
chandise valued at $130.50.
The man, admittedly an ex-con-
vict, giv.ng the name of Charles
Hicks, 1107 East Commerce street,
was booked for burglary, and was
filed on in Justice of the peace
court.
Hicks bad worked at tbe place
several months ago, at which time
be had "cased" the establishment.
Tuesday night be went about his
job" quite deliberately, removing
his clothing, with the exception
of his undertvear, and donning a
white smock.
In the midst of his activities,
an officer, and the manager of
the store, William Shawger, who
bad been watching, took him Into
custody. Hicks had carefully
selected a number of articles, re
moved them from the cases, and
placed tbem on a counter pre-
<8** CAPOHT, Page .)
0
Three-Year-Old
Girl B i 11 e n on
Face by Dog
Three-year-oid S^tty Jo John-
son, 120 North Cberty street, waa.
severely bitten, aad ner face lac-
erated, Sunday morning when she
was attacked by a drtfc at tbe
homo of friends, 721 Zasf .Crockett
street \
Her face was ripped on th* left
cheek, Just below the eye, and on
the upper lip, when the dog at-
tacked her as she was playing in
the bouse with other children.
Inmates in another room heard
the child's screams, and rescued
h;r from tbe dog. ghe waa taken
to Ui Robert B. Green hespltal.
to the
Br Th« .Trm i
WCXKOIT, Mich.—Heports here! "M*"' i'hree special oTt„+rn
last week held that Police Com-1 w.e.re maule(I' flI1<1' K>"' P©"t e
miggioiier Frank D. Eamou's mi-
iRiifttion, following close upon tbe
heels of a federal order that tbe
citj move Negro tenants into tbe
Sojourner Truth defence bousing
project, was precipitated by this
order.
Kamon, commissioner for slight-
ly more than two years, resigned
soon after John B. filandford, Jr.,
national housing administrator,
caught in the act of bur- wired the Detroit housing com-
mission to more Negroes into the
vacant Sojourner Truth buildings
as soon as expedient.
This move on the part of the
government climaxed several weeks
of trouble between Negroes and
whites, during which time a num-
ber of riots took place. The first,
arising when Negroes attempted to
move in the project February 28,
resulted in scores of injuries. Fol-
lowing this trouble. Eaman told
Mayor Jeffries that it would take
at least 3,000 policemen to move
the Negro tenants in, and an army
to maintain their safety.
A wire from John B. Blandford.
Jr., of the National Housing ad-
ministration placed the responsi-
bility for effecting the govern-
ment's order on the Detroit city
government.
Death C1 a ims
Widely Known
Seguin Carpenter
SEGl'IN, Texas—George Cole-
man, widely known carpenter and
life time citizen of Seguin, died
Monday iiOrnlng, April 13 at his
home, after an Illness of eight
weeks. Funeral services were held
Wednesday evening from Zlon Hill
Baptist church, Rev. W. I. Eector,
officiating. Surviving are the widow,
Mrs. Ildltk Coleman; motber, Mrs.
Amanda Coleman; two daughters,
Mra. W. C. Walker of Pleasanton,
Mrs. C. N. Shandy of San Antonio;
three sons, Hev. G. C. Coleman, L
T. and Sidney Coleman ot 8an
Antonio; three sisters, Mrs. A.
Perryman, Mrs. T. Kyle and Mrs.
D. M. Johnson, San Antonio; four
brothers, Kddie, Jim, Haney and
Albert Coleman, and seven gr:.!]d
children.
ST. IiOUIS, Mo.—Eleven em-
ployees of the Argus publishing
company, publishers of the 8t.
Louis Aigjs, went on strike last
week to enforce demands for re-
Mt
>5®
officers finally forced their way
Into the fight, they too, were glvca
something of a working over bo-
fore the fracas was brought under
control.
Arrested and booked for af-
fray In connection with this, Out-
break were—Clifton Amlres, and.
Floyd Amires, of 42(i Monterrey j
Robert Davis, 910 Xortb Cl.erry j
Alvin Drummer and Glenn Prum-
mer. of 311 Refugio; and BwMy
Shaw, 106 Applln.
The following were Injured dur-
ing the melee, and were treated
at tbe Robert R. Green hospital
—Isabel Jones, 1035 West Freneb,
lacerations on forehead and fare;
Julius Evans, 927 Lomhranc, In-
jured shoulder; Ernest Davis, 441
Micklejohn, slashed on arm.
Five others known to ha«e .been
cut, hit with 1 wittles, or otherwise
injured, did not go to the- hospital.
Another Row
A few hours later, another J. w
developed at the Life Saver y' 11,
S24 East Commerce street. A num-
ber of the battlers were arreted,
their giving the following names
nnd addresses, when hooked for
disturbing the peace. O. B. ("Lit-
tle Red") Patterson, 120 North
Cherry street: Felton Nance, 2227
Wyoming; Alvin James, S15 .North
Rrasos street: Frank Hazel, 003
Blnehonnet; Herbert Haiel, 603
Bluebonnet.
Cot While Watching
According to a tale related by
Barrian Tucker, 23, 813 Nerth
Mesqnite street, who was taken to
tbe Robert B. Green hospital, Fri-
day. April 17, to be treated for
knife wounds on the neck, be was
stabbed as he "watched" a figli(,
between two men, in the 600 biocl
of East Commerce street. He wif
he tiecaine so intent in his look-
ing. that he came within range ot
the flying steel. There is do record
of the "actual" belligerents s&ffer-
lng hurts. Only Tucker, according
to his quaint story, "got it ia the
neck."
Sunday, April 10, Ned Wheat,
10, 717 Seguin, required hospital-
isation when he was slashed by
a man at Carnm and New Rre in-
fels avenue.
Sunday, April 20, a scoi t
Investigating a report that a
man" was lu Travis park,
covered Clifton Blevlns, 21,
St. James street, suffering '
wounds in the left side
Blevins told officers
man had cat him,
in tbe morning.
Commerce
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