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REGISTER'S TENTH
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Ob. 11—NO. ia
Phillis Wheatley High in Fiesta River Fete
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PRICE FIVE CESTH
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, Al'HIli 1941
C%LF&", President Told
Gets Under Way
HOUSTON, Texas—After having Wn postponed from April
14, the Texas white primary case, Hasgett vs. an
Blackburn, opened here Friday morning. April 18. Judge i.
M. Kennedy of the United States district court for the south-
ern district of Texas is hearing the eaie „
Proceedings began last January when Sidney Hasgetta
qualified voter filed a complaint on charges that he was denied
* ^ statutes
the right to vote in the Democratic
Shown above Is the decorated
bout of Pblllls Wheatley senior
Mhool, one of t!0 participating in
Ban Antonio's first Fiesta river
fete, as King Antonio XXXIII
entered the royal Fiesta kingdom,
Monday night. In n driziling rain.
Despite the Inclement weather,
some BO,000 persons saw the river
procession. Decorated to represent
a chariot, the Wheatley boat was
made of fresh cut flowers, hun-
dreds of larkspur, sunflowers, corn
flowers, and bluebonnets going to
complete the design.
WHEA TLEY HIGH SCHOOL
IN FiESTA RIVER FETE
Song is Ended
piIIMJS Wheatley senior
school was one of the 60
participating groups in San
: Antonio's first river fete as
King Antonio XXXIII de-
' parted from the traditional
! procedure, and entered his
j Fiesta kingdom by water, the
I royal float following a pro-
' cession of 60 gaily bedecked
1 and decorated watercraft on
San Antonio river, Monday
iig. It marked the first
Wheatley had partlripat-
Fiehta activities.
Ills Wheatley band
of three bands
ntage point* a-
-1 of the river
'y -Iber two be-
v ^ *efferson aiid'
>and yaaa '*-
of a trio of
(lie king (in real life, George
F'ledrich), with the sixtieth
bearing the snow white royal
steed. The watercraft entries
Included local schools, colleges,
city and county officials, ihe
Cavaliers, former Fiesta kings,
army representatlvef. Battle of
Flowers association officials,
and organizations.
The Wheatley entry was dec-
orated to represent a chariot,
with Its being designed with
fresh eut flowers, with lark-
spur, sunflowers, cornflowers,
and bluebonnets being used.
As the craft floated down the
river. Its occupants occasion-
ally sang, '"Swing low, Sweet
Chariot," and "Deep River."
Wheatley students on the
craft were the Misses Minnie
EU?5rt«!wTHtrttaS
Naomi Askey, Marie Kyle,
F-vrriett Scott, Irene Fullmore,
Ernestine Christopher. "«
Travis Stevens, John Middle-
ton and Waldress James.
i wri
■'*
primary, August 15, 19-Ki, after he
had appeared at the polls with his
poll tax receipt. Denial was bas-
ed on the fact that he i# a Ne-
gro.
Thnrgood Marshall, special coun-
sel for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, who with W. J. Durham
of Sherman, Texas, is acting for
Hasgett, issued the following state-
ment :
"The question involved is
whether or not the Deuiocrtic
primary ill Texas is 'state ac-
tion' within the meaning of
the fifteenth amendment to
the United States Constitution.
We maintain that the right to
vote Includes three distinct
steps: (1) qualifying to vote,
(2) selection of candidate®,
and (3) the actual election.
The supreme court has held
that Negroes cannot be pre-
vented from taking pait in
steps one and three. ^ e
maintain that the selection of
candidates by a primary elec-
tion pursuant to state statutes
U J't-t as inueh a part of the
eleeiin machinery of the state
t|e actual election.
... will show at the hear-
ing List the primary elections
are fade and held pursuant to
statutes which are followed.
rfi the Democratic party in
Teiel is a loose-Jointed or-
ganisation with no set rules or
rcgr atlons except the statutes
h they follow.
will also show that
ce 1850 all Democratic
liees have been elected in
with two exceptions.
We I will show further that
irlnmrles use the county
whb
Soldier Lynched
~OnPoiice Force Jn StrOIl g
Letters to Roosevelt,
War Secretary
2 rs
Association for the Advancement of Colored People> ^ge
of tb, d«,.h of Print. r.ta H,H .f
the 24th Infantry, located at Fort Benmng, Ga.
The letter asked "action deemed necessary to disco;er
and punish the perpetrators of this crime.
— The association
th
Maxine Sullivan
Seeks Divorce.
Hotel Room ^nin ...^
"Other Woman"
and other state officers
leso primary elections and
v the state machinery,
'e will also show that Ne-
ll in Houston formerly
J in primary elections
$8 1°"*' when they were
,1 by statute."
I defendants will maintain
lie primnry Is a private lnsti-
uuil Is not "state action.'
StitchesNeeded to
rUp Woman After
id Uses Blade
JlLIl'S alberson
named "regular" this week
Julius Alberson, 28, of 820 Cu-|
lebra avenue, was one of 20 erst-
while police cadets, who, this week,
were named regular members of
the San Antonio Police depart-
ment, at a salary of lloO Per
niuuth, following the successful
completion, Sunday, of the required
training period. As n regular of-
ficer. Albersou will be on proba-
tion lor a one-year period.
Alberson la the son of Mrs
Robeson Concert
Head Tells Whv
J C
Mrs.FDR,SheQuit|!
uded tl<e
killing^ Private Hall a* a lynch-
ing, and in its letter to Secretary
Stimson said:
"We feel certain thit the W~r
department does not wish the
crime of lynching to be perpetrat-
'd on the reservation of one < f
its largest forts In connection
with the training of .in army sup-
__________ I nitu uiv
Participation of National of
Negro Congress Causes
GeneralComplications
racy.
To President Roosevelt, the
NAACP wrote that failure of ihe
proper authorities to seek out and
punish the lynchers "would lie a
further blow at the morale ot
colored Americans whj are being
urged daily to give unstinted sup-
port to the national defense ef*
MAXINE SIXUVAN
marriage hits rocks
Wi"
Intercollegiate /nterracm/ Body
76 Protest Hotel s Back-Door,
Papers' Picture-Taking Policies
IT was learned this JJJUSi"1Organised in
it tonio Intercollegiate interracial relations, is
February for the pnrpoj of bettenng mt^ ^ ^ ^ ^
writing strong letter* of P certain discriminatory prac-
three local newspapers concern g t the hands of
tices recently experienced by the comuu
the hotel and papers
Sullivan, she of the Scottish M-
lads, and John Kirby, he of the
kingdom of swing and the Duffys
Tavern radio program, having
struck a flat note in their marital
harmonizing, took the matter . to
The marital song has fni1^ *°5
Maxine Sullivan, she of Mb
iXoond fame, and John Klrl*
Nationally known '^nd leader. T^he
loud whisper, t a ^ fam0us harmonmnis, •— -- lle_
^%""7"Ifr^tc10nngn^l toid'omcUl Ke-
z s-s-jS1 sl t a
Judge about , a bedroom ««e ,r - a
pllu UW*v — JT •
concerning the hotel incident. *
was learned 1hat the Intercol-
leglate Interracial committee.
„hlch Includes faculty member
and students of four local Instltu-
tions—St. philips junior, and In-
carnate Word colleges and St.
Mary s university and th* Univer
City of San Antonio-had "
tended nn invitation to attend a
lecture, at which a University^
Texfis professor would be the
■prnker, on April 7. .t the ^
Anthony hotel. The
Sponsored by Temple Beth E and
the University of San Antonl .
When tjie invitation was con-
Jed to the St. Philip's group
Dean John Harris inquired of the
aponsors concerning a policy
Harris understood was in force
"t "he hotel, that Negroe. could
«nter the establishment only
through the rear /ub^oeot l^
-vest i^at ion revealed tiiat this
the policy of the hotel, and the
Management was adamant in Its
position that the policy would not
ie changed for the particular oc
'"ilean 'llarris informed the s^n-
aors that, under those conditions
the St. PhlUPS group would
he able to attend.
" ■ tt Johnson
However, A. i •
to the hotel to attend the lecture
hut was not permitted to enter
the front door, lie refused to use
the rear entrance.
Can't Take Pictures
Efforts have been made to have
the dally newspapers take pictures
of the Intercollegiate Interracial
committee. Although all tJree
local papers have been liberal in
their publicising of the orgliniz' '
don of, and the activities of the
committee, all three, according to
committee member, have refused
to take, or use, pictuiea of the
group, because of the presence of
the Negro members.
volvlng Kirby and an unnamed
'other woman," and asked
d™Ty were married in
Kirby, according to
contesting the action Ihe
songstress asks no alimony.
St. Paul Church,
St. Philip's Aid
Nursery School
The sponsoring committee of the
WPA nursery school, in u"
Brackenrldge school building, con
tinning its drive for food and
supplies for the under
other
"'The committee decided Monday,
The commit.^.- - -
to send letters of protest to the
papers and to the hotel, and to
release a statement of the In
cldents, and copies of the j
to the Negro press, and a loca
rTX: of the Intercol
leglate Interracial committee are
r^'.ehton E. Harrell, Jr.. Vut
verslty of San Antonio, president;
Mix B. James, St. Philips Junior
college, vice president; Miss Shi
,„y Jones, incarnate Word col-
lege, secretary; Bt'l St^
Mary's university, corresponding
secretary: Ernest ThrendglU. St
privileged youngsters the nursery
Dr. Rob't Weaver
Heads New 0PM
ftegrip Division
..I to San Antonio Bcgister
serves, announced, this week, that
two new groups-St. Paul Meth-
odist church, and St. PhiUp's Jun-
lor college-had aide l materially
lu the committee's efforts.
Sunday, April '20, St. Paul, of
which the Rev. Mr. Robert S_
Mosby IS pastor, collected *1~<<
for the scv ol. Anl « this sum
over to # nursery school treas-
urer. HM Mosby has designated
the third Sunday In each month as
a time to take a sparial collection
for thl* project.
Saturday, April 19. St
presented a
ended and that she wanted a
divorce The step put an end to
X that had been mouthed
about since late last Jear that
[the two celebrities were not hit-
ting it off so well.
(►f course, as Mailne te Is .
hubby John bad induced in a
of extra-curricula marital work
in November, and was surprised
!- two of her friends, Charles
Clark and Mrs. Georgia Spencer
while in the process. The other
woman" was not Identified-
Seems that on the night of
November 2i, Clark, at the request
of Miss Sullivan who wanted him
to "check on" John's alleged in-
discretion, accompanied by Mrs.
spencer observed Kirby leave the
Beachcomber, Broadw ay liltery,
about two in the morning, lie was
greeted by the "other woman and
together they went tothe nearby
garage for his car. rhe
ordered a cab and trailed the
Kirby car to the Braddock hotel
f'n, a.ncMW* "t«n> f "
OCIHBVBK^N.^ pe a;ia , ,e late l.nlhev Alh.r-
is the firs, Negro to
~"tad! !k> appointed to the force since the
I, Mavlielle " Hayes, inauguration of the present cadet
I i ,,tner husband I'er- training system by former police
- - •« -- rears ago.
The new policeman graduated
from Douglass high school in 1929.
Popular and active in school and
extra-curricular activities, he was
president of his class. Entering
Wllherforce university, Xenia.
Ohio, he received the bachelor of
arts degree In 1935. Since 1938,
he has served, irregularly, as a
jubBtitute teacher ill the Sail An-
tonio public school system. For
the past several years, he has
been employed by the Alamo Na-
tional bank.
On December 21, 1939, Alberson
and Miss Grace Anderson of
Zanesville, Ohio, were married.
He took the civil service ex-
amination for the police depart-
ment, early in February, of this
year, and, successfully passing,
was certified for cadet service on
February 24.
By The Anuciattd Hegro Prcsi
WASHINGTON, I). C.-ln per
sonal interview with an AXP rep-
resentative, Mrs. Gifford Piueliot,
wife of the former governor of
Pennsylvania, told her story of the! fort. iercrnl
withdrawal of herself as chair- After being mlsaed for several
man and Mrs. Eleanor Uocaeveltl weeks the decomp sed Wly
™ honorary .iwnsor of the Paul Private Hail, a l^y-r-old vol-
by police charged with
saolt with a deadly weapon.
One of the numerous cuts
missed the jugular vein only
by e fraction of an inch, but
in spite of this and a great
loss of blood the woman will
recover, l)r. Perry said.
i u 1 Robeson
Concert Causes
fD,C. Hullabaloo
(See DIVORCE. Page 5.)
Says Headline
Hunting4 Advisers
Hamper Progress
By CARL WILLIAMS
For the Antedated Negro Pre«t
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Ne*
Deal headline hunters—self-PUbll-
rhlllp s cited "advisers" who use tbelr sov-
presented « be^fU iOCW- *llh! ^""^SSf^ftwtunel-ar. «-
TV it""t lw" * «
itnd two dollars in oasn
The nursery school, for ll"(
privileged children, opera es from
eielit in the morning until five
£ the afternoon, five .ays a
week, the entire year. The -at
i
NGTON. D. C.—Creation
• -lion \f the Office
. pJSMl'ii Management, de-
Voted entirely to the inUgratiOQ
of Negroes Into the national de-
fense program, was anftjgnee^ ^
day evening, April
Hillnian, associate
OPM, in
fense program. «^ following officers were elect
April ' 3 . _ - rinnrnu. Diesidt
purpose of promoting more har-
monious race relationships, and at
the same time to help make better
citizens of the Negro to the ex-
tent of making them Job '""'j"" - (he BeVi,„ «others uw
„b well as,job seekers, o^ndlng arl^^ ^ ^ NVPA, but the
Shreveport citizens have organteed I ^ ex,ui m«nt .ud aU
a Negro chamber of ^uuerce. 1,^,, applies are provided ly
„« « . « •'""'H'VCr-'".™,.. ; «
IK* children registered at the school.
Every effort Ls made to establish
dangering the fight of Negwes for
full integration into American in-
dnstrlal and civic life, It was re-
vealed here last week, and th*
jug the sincere efforts of hard-
working New Deal appointee* to
improve the lot of the Negro
masses.
Equally as detrimental, however,
has been f"< gullibility of the Ne-
„r„ public—including a sizable
' the Negro press—I
iThf Awociated Jffgro Pr«l
USH1NGTON, I). C—True to
nl the l'aul Robeson concert,
dnled for the Jim Crow 1'iine
a. tonight, Friday, April 25,
[began erupting, and if some
isn't takeu to cap the
ding volcauo of gas, more
norks will result.
Irst scheduled for Constitution
ha the concert, then under the
H(yi nsorship of a group seeking to
(Hi China, was chalrmaned by
Mi s. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the
foi iper governor of Pennsylvania.
Ir . Pinchot issued statements
co teeming the denial of the use
of constitution hall, and was bit-
te in her pronouncement against
tb - 1MK. '
llrs Pinchot now has resigned
g,i chairmanship and retired as
sponsor. Which was also done
bj Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt aud a
It of others because, the eon-
1 is a joint benefit, with the
jteiiounl Negro congress purport-
to- to share lu the general pro-
teeiif , ,
biiiug as her reason the dual
fceaeflt, one for aid to China to
liar medical supplies and the other,
for Negroes," Mrs. Pinchot
that the two are so far apart
rtiere is no connection between the
Lo aud the benefit should be for
leltlier one or the other, and not
tt, two organisations.
Criticism is also being leveled
i n„ National Negro congress for
iirti' ipating In the concert In
"line arena, declaring that by
sanctioning the concert in such a
oiate the Congress Is inconsistent
to lapportlng an institution which
,«nnits a vicious Jim Crow rule
in p.iem its maintenance.
«Mle Other units, endeavorms
,0 p.,t over a civil rights bill In
• Hi district, are fighting nil or-
SiMtious which ban Negroes
■ —- the Na
Police Under
Fire Following
Death of EmCee
Roi«esou coiweru to he held at the
fllne arena.'
"Sometime ago," said Mrs. Pin-
chot, "Mrs. Robeson was in Chlnn
and met Mine Chiang Kai Chek,
wife of the great general who Is
waging his country's fight against
the Japanese aggressor. Mme.
Chiang Kai Ohek praised Mr.
Robeson's magnificent voice and
expressed a desire to have bim
sing sometime for Chinas Iienefit,
Mr. Robeson promised he would.
So the New York Committee
for Aid to China made the neces-
sary arrangements here in Wash-
ington and asked me to accept the
chairmanship.
"We went about our arrange-
ments and managed to get some
publicity through the refusal of the
DAR representative to permit us
the use of Constitution hall. This
we anticipated, but never have
we been bluntly told and given a
reason as in this instance. The
man was very undiplomatic in the
whole thing, and very frankly said
they refused to rent the hall for
Negro singers.
"Then we obtained the Shore-
ham hotel, which was at first re-
fused us, but when we found that
was too small, we got the audi-
torium of the Press club. When
we found this too small, we ob-
tained the t'line arena.
"Not until we bad gotten out
i No- laaiKi""""
public Places
I'si-la t* ul No*r,> congress, b>
this concert, apparen
was granted April 11.
director
of I Dr. E. W. Duncan, president; Leon*
-,h to the first ar-
tfl
nual confcrek iffon the Negro In
(See DI^SION, Page 6.)
nrd HtPherton, secretary; Dr. J.
p. Taylor, treasurer, and A.
Walton, first ylce-presldenL
St" bits of food and health
Z the tots. SO as to develop
sound bodies to be molded into
good citizens. _ ^ ——11
segment of iu« rj-"4 ™| .TuWI
acceptlaiJ these headline hunter*, , row for its own
at their own personal estln«tes,,tlo# - lcH|ng ont a howl
while indiscriminately assailing the l«' • • sious ag„lnst sneh
sincere Negro advisers who «re,cn "th
MUVVIV
figliting without benefit of *8*-,
(See SlAMTKIs
iiw" Mm V,l"l (is Of CUU1C — "
jLlwrlmluallons. rhe beans
HULLABALOO, P«^e W 5 ^ 5 )
By The Aiioelated Neffro Prest
NEW YORK, N. Y—The police
dejartment is investigating the
eircumstances surrounding the nn
explained week-end death of Grant
Oliver (Pork Chops) Paige, 27,
well-known night club entertainer, j
and master-of-ceremonies, 4S hours,
after an alleged "brutal beating" |
said to have beeu administered |
to him following his arrest on a
charge later described as "felon-
ious assault."
Meanwhile, owing to the pre-
cipitous nature of the incident
and the Indignation of the hun-
dreds of persons who witnessed
the vicious attack 011 Paige by the
officers, and the manner in which
they dragged him into the 123rd
street police station with a rope
around his body, several civic
organizations are interesting them-
selves in the case Including the
Citizens Committee of Greater New
York.
It has been learned that Patrol-
man Edward Siuger and Detectives
William Hogan and Philip Klieger,
all white, have been questioned by
department officials in connection
with their part In the arrest and
assault of Paige. iN hat other
Steps are being taken to place
responsibility could not lie de-
Hospital authorities at
Uellevue say that he died of
peritonitis.
Information collected from vari-
ous sources reveal that Paige l e
came engaged In a dispute with
unteer from ^llltei>-jkf A.Jr.,
discovered swinging friai f
with his arms tied behind h in
and his legs bound together.
Southern Youth loigress Speaks
The Southern Negro Youta con-
gress declared the statement issued
by l'revost Marshall Herbert B.
iiux, in which he declared that
"death might have resulted from
hanging or sulfide" indicated a
bland attempt on the part of array ^
authorities to close the case by
shifting the blame for the crime
onto the corpse of the victim.
The Southern Negri Youth con-
gress also directed a letter to the
President, demaudiug a full Investi-
gation of the crime, "with the im-
mediate court martial of tlo.se
officers directly responsible for
the protection and safety of the
soldiers of Fort Beaning."
Dent to Address
National TB Ass'n
Meeting in S, A.
By The A odat«d Kegrn rreti
A. W. Dent, superintendent,
Flint-Goodrldge hospital of Dillard
university. New Orleans, and IT.
Connie R. Y'erwood, state depart-
ment of health, Austin, will speak
at the special session devoted lo
tuberculosis education for special
groups held during the .'!Tth an-
nual meeting of the National
Tuberculosis association. which
will be held here May 5-8.
Tills session will be held the
afternoon of the second day ot
the meeting, Tuesday. Mny «.
Dent will discuss the role of
the Negro hospital in the control
of tuberculosis, and Dr Yerwood
will report on 10 years ot progress
in Negro health work In Texas.
Miss Pansy Nichols, executive sec-
retary, Texas Tuberculosis assoeic
(See TELLS, Page 5.)
White Fireman
Kidnaps, Rapes
Young Woman
LONG ISLAND, CITY, N. Y
A white fireman, employed at La
Guardla field, accused of kidnap-
ing and criminally assaulting Bet-
ty Johnson, 21, of Queens Village,
L. I., in the early morning hours
of Wednesdav, has been released tion, Austin, collaborated with Dr.
... i i_ xl. n.nimpati.tn C\t tllf*
accept-1 termmed
itly con-
in $2500 ball and the case ad-
journed to May 8.
Arrested the same day by De
tective G. McEUigott. brother of
Fire Commissioner John J. Mc-
Elligott, at his job, William Jacobs,
married and the father of two
children, was arraigned Thursday
ill felony court.
Miss Johnson's story Is that
while sitting lu a parked car
with Clarence Mendel, a friend,
Jacobs approached them, and,
brandishing what turned out to
lie a toy pistol, ordered her to
get out of the car and get into
his. This she did and he drove to
a point near the intersection of
Rockaway avenue and
boulevard and is said to have
attacked her, then made her leave
the car. ~
The matter was reported !o the
police by Meiulel who observed
Jacobs' auto license number as
Ihe drove his car away.
Yerwood in the preparation of the
paper.
Speaking at the same session
will lie Mrs. D. McDonald, ex-
ecutive secretary. South Carolina
Tuberculosis association, Columbia,
S. C. who will present Sonth
Carol aa's program for Negroes.
The subject of tuberculosis
among Negroes will be discussed,
at the medical session, Monday
afternoon, May >1. by Drs. \ ietor
F. Cullcn and Reuben Hoffman ot
the Maryland Tuberculosis sana-
toria.
At this session, the tuberculosa
control programs of Mexico, Hepnb-
— lie of Panama aud Argentina
Daisley J will lie presented respectively by.
Dr. Donato G. Alarcon, department
of public health, Mexico City, Me*,
ico; Dr. Aniadeo Vicente MasteV
lari, director, department o{
hygiene and public health, Pan-
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