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RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS
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Die SAN ANTONIO and
SOUTH TEXAS News
.While It is NEWS. Com-
plete National and World
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ThousandsAttend
Rites for "Four-
Legged Girl"
BettyLou Williams,Victim
Of Heart Attack,Buried
In Native Georgia
fly the Associated Negro Press
ALBANY, Ga.—An est limited sev
#ral thousand townsjieople here last
Week attended the funeral of Betty
Lou Wllllafns. known around the
world as the "Four Tagged Girl."
Death entne to the 22-year-old
tide show performer suddenly when
she suffered a heart attack in Tren-
ton, N. J., where she wan appearing
In the fnlr grounds show, "The
World of Mirth."
Betty I/>u was horn with an addi-
tional torso which had two addi-
tional legs.
Although reports say that the at-
tack nine without warning. It was
learned that Betty Lou and her
brother Louis, were involved In a
serious auto accident three days be-
fore her death.
Appearing physically unharmed
after the accident, the brother stat-
ed that following the crash, his sis-
ter seemed unduly tense. Three
years prior to the mishap, she was
in a similar incident, in which her
sister was killed.
However, the day is'fore her
death, she reported for work.
Since she was three years old.
Betty Lou had been a sideshow
performer. Her agent. Dick Best, re-
lated that he spotted her in her na-
tive town of Albany, (Ja., when she
wns playing with mud pies.
Thirteen other children are In
the Williams family. Betty Lou whs
the principal means of support for
her family, recently purchasing an
exiienslve hojpe for them in Albany.
Although no estimate was given as
to the amount of money she grossed
in her acts, It was speculated that it
was about a quarter of a million
. dollars.
She performed all over the nation
and recently earned $7."»0 weekly at
Coney Island, N. Y. (For the past
several years, she appeared In Kan
Antonio during the Fiesta observ-
ance.)
While Betty Lon's death was of-
flcally attrlU?*, ' a heart attack.
• .ifccr'V.. 4fc"#oiiie speculation that she
I 41edj0f a broken heart. Her romance
[ with an Ernie Lombard was Mamed
; by many as the cause of her great
, unhapplness.
Lombard and Betty Lou met In
Texas, earlier, this year, white he
was In service. After his discharge,
they traveled froOi show to show to-
. get her.
Tall, ollve-sklnned Lombard fi-
nally left her and returned to his
home in New Iberia. La. Rumors
spread that Lombard had been pre-
viously married.
It was rumored that Betty Lou
was almost prostrate with grief
when Lombard left her.
Recent. stories ran to the effect
that Betty Lou had become engaged
to a school teacher in her native
Albany.
W. R. Bryant
Heads Community
Chest Campaign
W. R. Bryant, insurance execu-
tive, and widely known in civic and
community affairs has been named
chairman of the Metropolitan "E"
division in the current Community
Chest campaign.
He has called a meeting for to-
night (Friday) at 7:30, at the Pine
Street branch YWCA, at which
time it i« planned to complete organ-
ization of the division, and to select
teams and team leaders.
Bryp.ift Is asking all volunteers
who ha^e worked in the Chest
drive the past two years to attend
tonight's meeting and to agajn work
(See CIIEStT I'aRS 3.)
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MISS TIIKLMA JOHNSON
FAIR HOSTKSS — Miss Thelma
Johnson, pictured aliove, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Johnson,
Seguin, served ns official hostess
of the colored division of the Gua
dalu|»e county fair, held Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Oct. 7, 8, I).
Miss Johnson won In coui]ietition
with five other candidates, Wednes
day night. Oct. (1, at the Agrlnil-
ture building. She represented Del-
ta Sigma Theta sorority.
Runnerup was Miss Betty L'ssery,
representing the Industrial Arts
club. Other contestants were Miss
Gwendolyn Carter, representing the
June Civic club; Miss Gracie Wil-
son. New Ilomemakers of America
of Ball hiuli School; Miss Shirley
Morgan, 4-11 clubs of the county,
and Miss Kula J'aye Merriweather,
NAACP Youth council*
The affair was s|»onsored by the
Colored Home Demonstration coun-
cil of the county, of which Mrs.
Clara Walker Is president.
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Four Hurt as Cars
Crash at Drive-in
Movie Entrance
Four i»ersons were Injured, but
none seriously, In a collision at one
of the entrances to the Rigsby
Drive-In theatre, on Highway 87.
Arthur Lee Jones. 27 ,183K Burnet,
driver of one car, was cut aliout the
face and arms, and both knees were
bruised. His wife, Mrs. Willie B.
Jones, 28, suffered multiple abra-
sions and contusions of the body,
right hip; and right arm.
▲ pnsftenger, 1 Rylveater Johnson,
21, a soldier stathyied at Fort Sain
Houston, received Injuries to his
right arm.
Joe Sierra, 42. 1402 Stevens, driv-
er of the second machine, suffered
shock, and multiple bruises about
the body.
All of the injured were treated at
Brooke Army hospital.
Joues was traveling southeast on
Highway 87, and was turning into
the theatre, and Sierra, driving
without lijrhts, was going northwest
on the highway, when the colli-
sion occurred.
After the crash, both cars came
to rest In a ditch on the northeast
side of the highway.
Both cart were very badly dam-
aged.
With Supplement, Pot of City, IU
Marian Anderson
Signs Metro
Opera Contract
World-Famed Singer First
Negro to Sign Contract
" With Met
By the Associated Negro Press
NEW YORK—Marian Anderson,
one of the world's greatest contral-
tos, signed a contract with the Met-
ropolitan Opera, last week, to sing
with that organization this coming
season. She is the first Negro con-
tracted by Met ro| toll tan Opera.
Miss Anderson's debut will he in
January when she apjienrs in the
opera "The Masked Ball." Her role
will be that of the fortune teller, one
of the most important in the o|>era.
She is expected to make three re-
peat performances of this opera
during the season.
Because of her heavy concert com-
mitments, usually made a year in
advance, it is hardly possible that
Miss Anderson will have other sing-
ing roles at the Metropolitan this
season. Her "Masked Ball" ai>-
pearanees will be sandwiched in be-
tween the concert dates.
The news that Miss Anderson
had been sought for the Met had the
entire musical world stirring and
long before the diva signed the con-
tract* she was receiving congrat-
ulatory messages through her man-
ager. S. Hurok's office.
For the first opera Dimltrl Mlt-
ropolls will conduct.
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A. Clayton Powell's
Finances Being Eyed
By Tax Department
Uy the Associated Negro Press
NEW YORK—Talk that the
Internal revenue depart-
ment is Riving Adam Clayton
Powell's finances n thorough
going over are rife in Harlem.
ReMriefi, the explanation of the
now famous $:t,000 loan to huy
a sports model ear. Is also get-
ting another airing along Har-
lem's sidewalks.
Meanwhile. Powell's secre-
taries. I.ennnn and Howard,
have hern pin-pointed as likely
subjects for investigation.
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J. A. Pulliams, Sr.,
Retired RR Man,
Taken bv Death
HAN ANTONIO. TKXA8, fHIBAV, tlt'TOIIKK IS, 1951
With' Supplement. Out of Clti, 12c
ITS YOUR KEWSPAPn
Pedestrian, Struck
By Hit-Run Car,
Not Seriously Hurt
Clar.de Wilson, 131 Swiss, es-
cai»ed serious injuries, Saturday
night, when he was struck by
hit-and-run driver at East Com-
merce and Hackberry streets.
Wilson told officers that he was
walking with the proper traffic
light when an automobile struck
him on the right side, hurling him
to the curb.
After hitting Wilson, the driver
of the car sped from the scene,
without stopping.
Wilson suffered multiple pain-
ful bruises.
Dr.Charles L. Hill Resigns
, As Wilberforce U. President
By CONRAD CLARK
For the Associated Negro Press
f|\[EW YORK—Dr. Charles L. Hill, president, Wilberforce uni-
1^1 versity, Xenia, Ohio, resigned from his office, as of Friday,
Oct. 1, it was confirmed here last week, by the Rt. Rev. D. Ward
Nichols, presiding bishop of the First Episcopal district, AME
church, member of the trustees board of the university and
secretary, AME Bishops council.
Dr. Gilbert H. Jones, vice president of the school and dean
©f the college, automatically became A telephone conversation with
the acting president and his office
won tl.e approval of Bishops I. H.
Bonner, ninth; E. C. Hatcher, 13th
and 14th; C. A Gibbs, 11th, and D.
Ward Nichols, f^rst episcopal dis-
tricts.
I'ulcss a special call meeting Is
lield by the trustees, whose chair-
man Is Bishop Allen, to designate
Dr. Jones .president of the sc!u)ol
or someone else, the vice president
will act In Dr. -Hill's place until
the board convene:! et its next regu-
lar session In June, lOfio..
It was also reported that Dr.
ITil! resigned to become pastor of
Ebenezer AMW church, Detroit, by
appointment of Bishop George Ba-
lier of the Fourth district, which in
the ex-president—between Dr. Hill
and Dr. Jones, while the former was
in Cincinnati en route to his new
assignment in Detroit—confirmed
the report that he had "made a
change."
Two Sundoys ago Dr. Hill
preached at the Detroit church,
which was the center of a recent
controversy in the fourth district.
Although Bishop Nichols had pre-
dicted, in a public release, last
week, that Dr. Hill would resign,
the re^gnation, coming within a
week of the bishop's statement, was
a bit unex|>ected.
The three bishops Volc'rg thein
approval of Dr. Jones as acting
president, were attending the se'v
dudes the Motor City. The church' enth annual education chautautjua
reportedly Is one of the most ira-1 V
portent in the A&1F connection. I (See W1LBKRFORCR, Page 3.)
John Allen Pulliams, Sr., 74, 113
Utah street, retired railway em-
ployee. and i resident of San An-
tonio for 44 years, died Thursday,
Oct. 7, at Brooke Army hospital,
where he had been u patient since
Sept. 27.
He had l>ecn in ill health for five
years, and confined to IkmI for the
past 18 months, under a physician's
care.
Pulliams was born in San Marcos.
Aug. 10. 1880 with his establishing
permanent residence in San An-
tonio in 1010. He and Miss Emma
Coleman were married in 1017. She
died Nov. 12, 104.".
Tu 11 la ins was in the employ of
the Southern Pacific railway com-
pany for 34 years, before lie was
retired in January, 1040.
He was a member of Mount Zion
First Baptist church from which
funeral services were conducted
Tuesday morning. The pastor, the
Rev. C. W. Black, officiated, with
Frank E. Lewis funeral home in
charge. Interment was in Eastview
cemetery.
Survivors Include two sons. War-
rant officer John A. Pulliams, Jr.,
IT. S. army, stationed in Stuttgart,
Germany, and Master Sergeant
Charles A. Pulliams. Kelly Air Force
base; three daughters- Mrs. Velzora
Pines, Mrs. Carrie E. Parker, of
Oakland, Cal.. and Mrs. Shellie Pul-
liams of San Bernardino, Cal.; 10
grandchildren, and four great grand-
children.
Diehards Fade as Integration Goes On
"Healthy Baby" Contest
Attracts Much Interest
PIRST entries in Carnation's first animal Hometown "Healthy
* Baby Contest," conducted in conjunction with San Antonio
Register indicate a heavy interest on the part of readers to
share in the big cash prizes—totaling $800 that wiU be awarded
in December, following the conclusion of the contest.
Announcement of the contest was made in Register, just
one week ago, with complete details, a schedule of prizes, and
Everett W. Gates
Dies in N. York
Auto Accident
News was received here, Friday
evening of the death in New York
of Everett W. Gates, son of S. II.
Gates, 520 North. Palmetto street,
retired junior school principal, in
an automobile accident. His home
was In Englewood, New Jersey. De-
tails of the accident were not Im-
mediately available.
A native of Yoakum, Texas, he
came to this city when a young
child, received his public school
training here, and was a graduate
of Douglass high scbotfl. He attend-
ed Howard university in Washing*
ton. D.. C.
He went to New York in the early
twenties and resided there for a
few years before moving to Engle-
wood, New Jersey, where he made
his home. He was employed in the
United States post office in New
York City.
Survivors include his father, S.
H. Gates who flew to New York,
Saturday; widow, Mrs. Ivy Louise
Gates; daughter, Miss Marian
Gates; sister, Mrs. Vera J. Stevens,
T.os Angeles, Calfornla; aunts, Mrs.
Grace Andrews and Mrs. Marie IIol-
loway, Los Angeles, California:
and Mrs. M. D. Clark,, this city;
and uncle, Oran Gates of Brecken-
ridge, Texas.
an official entry blank. This an
nouncement Is being related, on
Page 2, in this issue by tlie Carna-
tion company, which is attempting
to find the healthiest huhy among
Register readers in this urea. The
contest will close on Nov. 17. and
he winners announced shortly there-
after.
This contest Is being conducted
by the Carnation company in the
interest of research, and to help
babies everywhere. Carnation milk
is the safest of all forms of cow's
milk for babies, it is country-fresh
whole milk with only water re-
moved. To this is added Vitumln
1)3—the "sunshine" vitamin, Carna-
tion Is pasteurized and liomogen*
ized, then sterilized after it is in
the can to make it absolutely safe.
Constant research over the years
is responsible for the outstanding
excellence of Carnation milk. This
research starts with cattle breeding
ou the world Famous Carnation
farms near Seattle, Washington.'
Here Carnation has developed new-
blood lines capable of producing bet-
Man, 75, Waits
InVain forReturn
Of Stolen Money
'• -jl!
After , willing (tw# days for the
promised return of money stolen by
a prowler, a 75-year-otd Frederick
street man carried his atory to po-
lice. Saturday. But officers going
to the house of the stiKiiect, to ques-
tion tilin* Weft? nrtttftle to make con-
tact when he refused to answer
the door. ., •'
Andrew Rhodes, 7,r», 307 Freder-
ick (rear), (old detectives that-,
Thursday morning, Oct. 7. ahcut
3 fi'cloCk. he had awakened to find
a Wyoming street, man standing at
the foot of Ills bed. The man ran
from the room, and Rhodes dis-
covered that 120 was missing from
his billfold in a pocket of his trous-
ers which were hanging on a 1/ed-
post.
Rhodes then went to the sus
pects house and talked to his moth-
er. She pleaded with Rhodes to not.
call police until she had time to
talk to her son, and try to get him
to return the money.
Rhodes waited until Saturday,
and the money had not been re-
turned. Then, when he knew the
man to be at home, Rhodes called
officers.
Accompanied by a police sergeant,
Rhodes went to the suspect's house,
but they were unable to gain ad-
mittance when the man, who with-
out. doubt, was inside would not
come to the door.
ter anU greater amounts of miik and
butterfat (ban ever before.
Actually, of tin :i0 greatest butter-
fat and'milk |m..iucers of all time,
nearly hall have come from the re-
markable herd of c»oo Holsteius
maintained on these farms.
This com est, now being conduct-
ed by the <"uination company with
the assistance «.f Register, requires
nothing more of entrants than a
snapshot of hah.v taken within the
last three nioiithv The baby must
be three year* of age or younger,
and raised on a t arnation milk for-
mula. Parenis may enter more than
rihe child where a family has sev-
eral infants who fall within tills
age classiflfat ion. Each should lie
entered separately, using se|»arate
snapshots mid separate entry blanks.
Six cash prizes totaling $500 will
be awarded the winners shortly af-
ter the ch*f» of the contest on No-
vemher 17. Tlie irrand prize to the
"healthiest kihy'' in this area will
be a check for M00. Four promi-
<P • CONTEST, Vnff V.)
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Threatened Tidal Wave of
Reaction Turns Out to be
Ripple in Pond
By the Associated Nprto Press
WASHINGTON—The threatened tidal wave of reaction againsl
desegregation that began with strikes in Milford. Del., and
i spread to Baltimore and Washington, turned out to be nothing
more than a ripple in a pond.
Although the Milford situation produced a victory for the
segregationalists, much larger Wilmington experienced little
difficulty as Negroes and whites sat in the same classrooms.
A four-day simlenl strike nuiiinst I
LITIIEK H. WILEY
OltKEQI IKS HKI J) — Funeral
rites were conducted Tuesday after-
noon. from St. Philip's Episcopal
church, for Luther II. Wiley, prom-
inent San Aiitiuiinn. and retired
railway i»ostal clerk. He succumbed
to a heart attack, Friday morn-
ing. Oct. N. at his home, 132 Spruce
Street. Father Herbert Morris offi-
ciated at the funeral services, with
Lewis Funeral home in charge.
Luther H. Wiley,
Victim of Heart
Disease, Buried
Luther II. Wiley, (Vs. well-known
Sail Antuuiuu, a retired railway
mail clerk, humimbed to a heart
attack. Friday ipprnlug, Oct. H, at
bis residence, 132 Spr»n*e. After an
inhalator crew administered oxy-
gen. for some time, Wiley was car-
ried to Robert H. Green hospital
where lie was pronounced dead on
arrival at 0 :40 o'clock. He had been
! a resident of San Antonio for 45
1 * he-
on Srpt^*3, and was c<
f fincnltnlL' aw
Man Struck, Said
Threatened With
Death by Brother
A Morris alley man complained
to police, Monday, that his 44-
year-old brother struck him on the
head, and threatened to shoot liini
to death.
In connection with the case, Jack
D. Johnson. 44. 122 Morris 'alley,
wns arrested and booked for aggra-
vated assault.
A(folph Johnson. 120 Morris alley,
said that he was sitting down at
the corner of Cherry and Victoria
streets, when his brother, Jack,
came up to him and ordered:
"Get up, you SOB!"
Jack Johnson is alleged to have
pulled a .38 calibre snub-nose re-
volver, and struck Adolph John-
son over the left ear, when the lat-
ter started to get up. Adolph said
that he was dazed.
Jack, he said, pointed the pistol
at him, and told him that he was
going to kill him. The threatened
man ran.
Jack Johnson was arrested at his
place of business, Cherry
street. The pistol was found hidden
In a linen closet.
IBKRT L. CARTER
NAACP SPEAKER — The next
steps iu ^9>egregation and integra-
tion will he the Mihject of of an
address which will l>« delivered by
Attorney 'Hohert L. Curler at the
Sunday afternoon. Oct. 24, public
mass meeting of tin Statj Confer-
ence of Brain hcv N'AACP, w hich
will lie held in Waco.
San Antonian
Drops Dead as
He Cuts Grass1
Death struck suddenly, Monday,
to claim an Iowa street man. who
apparently, was in good health. Vic-
tim of a. heart attack was Robert
Shaw, 423 Iowa.
His son, Joseph Shaw, said that
Shaw was cuj^g grass when he
was suddenly stricken. lie bail
neither been ill. nor under the care
of a doctor.
A Collins ambulance carried tho
stricken man to Santa Rosa hospi-
tal, where lie was pronounced dead
on arrival.
henrt attack
onfined to
ihospltal- fmtil Xiies
jfcCT he was relenved
to..f)MMSfe m Ills home.
He whs born July 13. 1880. In
nrenhirm. Texas, the Sou of the late
Henry and Mrs. Havana Wiley, lie
attended the Hrenliam public
schools, and Wiley college at Mar-
shall. Texas. He and Miss Cora
Nunley of San Antonio were married
Sept. 22. 1000.
lie entered the railway mail serv-
ice. Oct. 17. lf*00. and. through a 30-
year period established an enviable
record. He had to his credit 2X case
examinations of 100 per cent, and
many certificates of no-merit points
for excellent service. He was re-
garded as one of the most efficient
railway postal clerks in his district,
and on July 1. 1020. was promoted
to elerk-iii-chargc. Wiley was re-
tired from the service, May 31,
1047.
Wiley was a prominent member of
St. Philip's Episcopal church, from
funeral services were held'
i.v afternoon, with Father
Herbert Morris officiating. Frank
E. Lewis, funeral director, in
charge. Interment was in Eastview
cemetery.
Survivors include the widow. Mrs.
Cora Wiley; sister. Mrs. Hannah
Compton. and brother. Henry Wiley,
both of Brenhain, Texas.
integration iu capital schools ap-
pea red to In1 breaking up despite a
(Jeorgia congressman's advise to
strikers to keep the strikes going.
Rep. Davis (D., C>a.) admitted
he told students at Anacostia high
school to strike, and at the same
time castigated tlie Supreme court's
decision as an "outrageous attempt
to force upon an unwilling people
the personal and sociological views
of the court.''
Rut a warning by Hohart M.
Corning, superintendent of schools,
drowned out the ranting of Davis.
Corning warned early last week that
any students who failed to report
for classes by Friday would lose,
for the rest of the year, the oppor-
tunity to play on school athletic
teams, hold office in school clubs,
or represent their schools in musical,
drnmatic or other extra-curricular
activities.
The warning struck home to many
of tlie 2.700 students who were hav-
ing a good time striking, hut didn't
like the idea of being excluded from
activities. Principal Eugene Grif-
fith of Anacostia. which hud 700
absentees at the beginning of tlie
week, reported that "a flood of stu-
dents have been returning to class-
es."
Meanwhile, in Baltimore, cegre-
gatlonallsts went down to defeat on
several fronts. Although the stu-
dent strikes were given much pub-
licity. the student bodies of the at
Houston Pair, '
Accused of Taking
Car, Arrested
Men WhoTookAutomohiloj
By Force, Nabbed '
Two Days Later
An interracial pair that recently
came here from Houston, was ar-
rested Wednesday, Oct. 6, ami
charged with the theft of an auto-
mobile two days before. The car
was recovered the same day that
it allegedly had been taken from
Its owner, but not before a fender
had been dented, and a spare tire#
cigarette lighter and a flashlight
were stolen from it.
Booked for automobile theft, in
the case, were Thomas L. Fayne,
(white), 34, lO.'l South Pine street^
ami Ollle Sellers. 24. 010 Ulnlne,
both of whom came here from Hous-
ton three weeks ago.
Victim in the case was identi-
fied as Eddie Myers, 118 Alpine^
who said that, Monday, Oct. 4^
Fayne aud Sellers asked him for •
ride. He staled that when he re-
fused, he was beaten up, and his-
fected schools totnled not more than car—a M)52 Ford—taken from blm
20.000 of the 141 .*00 students in
the cif.v. .Not more than 26 of 170
Schools "were affected by the rioters.
And there was every evidence that
the rioters were kids out to have
a good time and were egged on by
disgruntled parents. Swept np in
the anti-racial fervor spread by
adult white supremacists, they
at East Commerce and Live Oall
streets. J
The machine was recovered th#
same nfght, but the two men efudof
capture.
Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 6, My-'
ers' son-in-law. Felton Nance, 111
Alpine, spotted the two men at
Chestnut and Commerce. They wert
seemed to be enjoying the tumult taken info custody, and carried t*
S. A. Woman Gets
SevereHead Injuries
In Street Attack
Mrs. Gladys Williams, 614 South
Pine stieet, received severe lacera-
tions at the back of her head, Sat-
urday night, when, according to her
report to police, an unidentified per-
soiil struck her with a blunt instru-
ment.
The attack, she said, "occurred In
the 400 block of South Olive street.
Mrs. Williams caught a bus and
rode to Baptist. V'wwjttl hospital
for treatment
Three Injured
When Car ^Driver
Sleeps at Wheel
Three fersnns won injured nlunit
4 o'clock, Hitndiiy mornhig, when
their enr rrnehod into n culvert
nhout 15 miles from the city, on
Highway* 110. eu«t. when the driver
fell asleep at the wheel.
Norman ^28 Hays
street, suffered possible internal in-
juries. and month laceration*.
Two pSsent'ers. Kdward L. Cros-
by, 20, 8.-10 night l.ine mainten-
ance, Randolph Air Korec hase, and
Johnny Allen. 2fi. 1 Ml Fairfax, hnth
received head injuries mid shock.
All were curried to Santa Rosa
hospital;
Woman Arrested
In Sunday Knifing
Of Man Friend
Miss Beatrice Kelly, 2X12 Virginia
bonlevard, wns arrested «nd booked
for agrfrayslftl assault with a knife
iH connect inn with the slashing,
Sunday .n|rtit of her man friend,
Robert Thompson. of the Virgi-
nia bontevnril address.
In the affray, Thompson received
a deep cut over the elbow of his
left arm And n less severe cut high-
er up on the same arm.
A Carter imbalance carried bim
to Sobert U crvw JiokdIIuI.
Thieves Show
Familiarity With
Places Robbed
Thieves were busy during the1
week end, and in most Instances,
they nppearod to be persons famil-
iar wit ii t lie places burglarized.
Mrs. ,T. Henry, 404 North Monu-
mental. complained to police thnt
after n certain person bad visited
her home, and departed, Sunday
afternoon, she noticed thnt her
husband's .45 calibre revolver was
missing from its usual place under-
neath a mattress.
Mrs. Hattie M. Brown, 120 Sam-
ple. reported to officers that, either
Thursday or Friday, a billfold eon-i
tabling $1(50 was romoved from its
hiding place beneath a vanity She
did not, However, discover that
the wallet was missing until Satur
day morning.
Mrs. Elizabeth Larkin, 781 East
Crockett, complained, Sunday after-
noon. that a large overnight bag
containing silk under garment^ and
night riot lies, had disappeared. She
suspected a man who had helped
her move, the night before. J:i con-
nection with this caw, a 80-year-
old South Hackberry street man
was arrested, Monday and booked
for theft under $50.
Mrs. Christine Watson, 1909 No-
lan complained lo detectives that
between 3 and 8 o'clock. Saturday
morning, her place of business at
102 Meerscheldt street was bur-
glarized, with the coin, boxes of the
cigarette machine, Juke box, and
marble table being lootod, and an
undetermined amount of money tak-
en. L I- - • *
and unrest. They carried placards
and shouted insults at Negroes*
Hut when a Negro standing at s
curb watching the marchers, lost
his hat in the wind, it was a white
high school student who jumped to
recover it. After returning it to
its owner, he rejoined the marchers.
At Southern hiult school in Haiti-
more, members of tlie football squad
collectively guaranteed the safety
of its one Negro member if he came
out for regular practice. The boy
was a junior named Melvln Thomp-
son. He played several minutes at
right guard during the team's first
two games.
Conch T.ce Horowitz said the
squad originally had been 40 strong.
It lost eight members over the seg-
regation issue—they decided not to
attend classes. The remaining 32
got together and assured Thomp-
son. in effect, that if he came out
to Swan park for practice, they
would run "interference'' for him.
Other developments in Baltimore
included:
1. A Judge in superior court dis-
missed a writ obtained by two
groups, including the N A A W P,
which would have compelled Haiti-
more school commissioners to pro-
vide segregated facilities.
Myers' house. He identified them
ns the pair that had taken his caj1
from him.
S. A. Blind Man '
Leaves Next Week •
For New "Eyes*
Henry Smith, 419 Roberts street
blind masseur,-is now completing
arangements to depart from Rani
Antonio next week, probably Oe^
21. for Morristown, N. J., where h4
will purchase a new seeing eyi
dog.
The acquiring of the dog has been
made possible by the readers of
Register who responded to storlef
that related how Smith's dog, 2
boxer had suddenly become viciou»|
some few weeks ago, and had bitten
him. It was necessary for him t4
get rid of the animal.
It Mas also necessary for him t£
get another dog, to afford him
maximum security in pursuit of hl4
gainful employment.
Smith, blinded 13 years ago In aol
accident in Oklahoma, had not
2. Firm police tactics reduced to been dismayed by his handicap otf
(See DIEHARDS, Page 3.) I
(See "EYES," Pago «.)
P0W Tells of Red Brutality
BeforeSenateSub-Committee
By the Associated Negro Pre»» f
WASHINGTON—Members of the Senate Internal Security)
sub-committee were sad last week as they listened to Gpl»
Page Thomas Baylor relate his experience during the 38 months
which he was held as a prisoner of war.
The corporal said he was beaten a couple of timea witlj
rifle butts and shovels because he refused to writ# propaganda
articles for two Chinese Red magazines.
His front teeth were knocked out,
he said, and his back bruised when
Jie failed to write or talk about
capitalism.
The China Weekly Review and
the China Monthly Review were
frequently circulated among the
pr'soners, Cpl. Baylor testified, and
discussions were held on the articles
appearing. The Communists ap-
pointed a monitor in each squad to
hold discussions and the POW's
statements were carried back to
Chinese headquarters.
When he refused to taks part
in the discussions. Cpl. Baylor said
he was accused of trying to "over-
throw" the studies given the Ameri-
can POWs and was transferred to
a reactionary labor camp, on Aug.
7, 1951.
The Comtr.unIsta said i"»ey w*we
going to make or break Baylor with
their propaganda indoctrination, but
the corporal only replied that hf
didn't care what they did Just 0
they gave him something to eat.
He said the Reds called hlial
"cunning and cute" and put him in
the "hole" for 15 days with no medl*
cal treatment for the first thref
days. He received several beating*,
but still refused to take part lr. tbi
propaganda discussions.
He was released from the "hole*
finally and told that if he wrot*
propaganda they would give hint
something to heal his wounds.
When he held out to his j revlouif
decision, he was thrown back w
the "hole" where he remained foj
83 days. During this time he con*
tracted pneumonia and was not pe«t
mitred to see anything or hear any*
tblhg during the entire period.
When he was finally released fct
v>
i&m row, fat* *•>
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