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Vol. 37—No. 42_ Reg, u. 1946 TELEPHONE BOU 7002 ^ R 20, 1946 TWO SECTIONS — SECTION ONE
WINS TRIBUNE AWARD. Mercedes Tatum, student at
the Art Institute of Chicago and winner of a $50 award
in the Chicago Tribune’s 1946 American Fashions com
petition, inspects the hostess gown made from her design
and displayed by Model Edith Luce at the Tribune’s sev
enth annual American Fashions show in WGN studio thea
tre Oct. 3 and 4. Her coat-style hostess gown is of flame
colored lastex.
MARRIAGE FAILS;
VET KILLS SELF
A coroner’s jury called it "suicide while temporarily
insane”. But failure to adjust to post-war marital life was
seen by police this week in the self-hanging early Saturday
of an ex-GI following a long quarrel with his wife.
The veteran was Ralph Perry,
26, a painter and interior decora
tor, who was found by his wife,
- Ocie, hanging from a pipe in the
bathroom in a home at 4231 Prai
rie av. where they roomed.
The distraught, 21-year-old war
bride told Wabash police that she
and her husband had quarreled
from 1:30 to 5 a.m. that moiming
about his jealous disposition. As
in previous arguments, she said,
he thieatened suicide but she paid
it no attention.
The wife sketched for police the
night before the suicide.
They had attended the Tuske
gee-Wilberforce football game at
Comiskey Park and returned home
about 1:30 a.m. They began to
quarrel about his jealousy, she
said.
“He said what he thought and
that made me angry and 1 said a
few harsh things,” she explained.
She reassured him before going to
bed that everything “is all right”.
The wife said she went to bed
thinking they’d made up, but upon
awakening around 7:45 a.m. she
noticed he wasn’t in his bed. She
started looking for him and found
him hanging in the bathroom.
Mrs. Perry stated that they had
been married nearly four years
and had married while he was in
the army. They had argued fre
quently, she said, but she thought
it was like any other married
couple.
Referring again to their quarrel
of the night before, the wife said:.
“He had said so many times that
he figured he was just trouble and
a bother to me on account of his
jealousy, but I assured him he
wasn’t/ I asked him not to con
tinue arguing or being jealous as
it was hard on both of us.”
She recalled that he had threat
ened suicide on several occasions
bv saying “what would you do if I
killed myself”, but she said she ]
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never took it seriously.
Perry, who spent, three years in
the army, had been employed
about a week on a job-as painter
and decorator, his wife said.
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AFTERMATH OF
FOOTBALL GAME:
TWO INJURED
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The annual Tuskegee-Wilber
force football game is an exciting
sports event for most spectators,
but police records this week reveal
another side.
As a result of the usual fisti
cuffs, knife-play and brawling that
accompanies major sports events
at Comiskey Park, 35th and
Shields, two persons were serious
ly hurt Friday night.
Kenneth Clark, 46, 5619 Indi
ana av., was stabbed in the. left
side by an unknown man during a
fight in front of the park, Stanton
police stated.
A 14-year old youth, -Tame?
Seales, of 1842 Roosevelt rd., wras
struck on the nose by an unknown
man, suffering a severe bruise and
possibly a fracture, police said.
Both were treated at Michael
Reese hospital.
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SPEAKS AT COMMUNITY
CENTER
The south and west side units
of the Junior. Women’s Auxiliary
of the Chicago Urban League are
planning an interesting program
for their October 18th meeting
at the Parkway Community House,
5120 South Parkway. Dr. Alfred
C. Kinsey, Professor of Zoology
at the University of Indiana wHl
talk to the group on the subject
of “HUMAN SEX BEHAVIOR.”
The time is 8:00 p.m.
TAVERN PLOTTERS
FREE; NO EVIDENCE
The south side tavern plot investigation, begun with
front page fanfare in the daily press six weeks ago, fizzled
to a silent end in the 48th st. police court Wednesday
morning,
Municipal Judge William V. Daly, declaring that the
defendants were arrested on hear
say evidence”, dismissed disorder
ly conduct charges against all ten.
Sgt. Carl Nelson of the Wabash
station stated that the men were
held for investigation and that no
evidence had been turned up that
could be presented to a grand
jury. He had no witnesses to pre
sent in court Wednesday.
The entire closing procedure in
the case took ab^ut two minutes,
bringing to a total of about four
minutes the hoodlums have spent
in court since sensational charges
were leveled against them in early
September.
Three Known Racketeer*
The defendants included three
well-known north side racketeers,
who allegedly have been trying to
muscle in on south side rackets.
They are Paul Labriola, 30, 710
l Ridgeway; Martin (the Ox\ Ochs,
33, 5921 Irving Park rd.; ana'
! James Barsella, 31, 849 N. Ayers.;
Other defendants were James!
'Weinberg, 45, 4406 Broadway;'
Julius Breakstone, 38, 741 Bromp-!
ton; Robert Harper, 47, 4045!
Clifton; J. A. Bowman, 61, 516
N. Clark; ed Redding, 45, 3456
j S. State; George Berger, 33, and
| Sol Friedman, 32, 1118 N. State.
The ten were rounded up in
: two spectacular raids by police on
Aug. 29. They were accused of
plotting to stage a carnival as a
means to extort an estimated
$115,000 from taverns, breweries
and distilleries on the south side.
The victims, according *to the
plan, were to be forced to take
out advertisements in the carni
val program at exorbitant rates.
Collections were underway when
the arrests were made, police said.
Booked on disorderly conduct
ASK EXTRADITION
OF AGITATOR AT
I LYNCH RALLY
Initial steps were taken this
week by the Chicago Branch Na- j
j tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People to
| have Lech Denton, white, sabateur
of the Congress Street Plaza anti
; lynch rally September 16, extra
dited from Tennessee for trial j
: here.
Bond posted by Denton, an AFL
organizer from Chattanooga, was
j ordered forfeited and a capias
warrant issued by Judge John J.
Grffin Monday, October 14, after
the southerner’s attorney had se
cured four continuances. Neither
appeared at Monday’s hearing.
Pressing thorough prosecution
of the case, Henry W. McGee,
president of the Local Branch of
the NAACP, this week in letters
to Governor Dwight H. Green and
States Attorney William J. Touhy,
declared “that the flagrant disres
j pect for the courts of Illinois by
! Lech Denton who has refused to
come back to Chicago to stand
: trial , , , should not be permitted
! to go unchallenged.”
Assistant State’s Attorney John
Hendricks and Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel Harry Iseberg, acting
for the newly created civil rights
section of the city law department
handled the prosecution of the
case. Attorney William M. Book
er appeared as a friend of the
court and Milas S. Stephens, of
the Citizens Committee Against
Lynching, was in court with a
delegation,
Denton was rescued from an
irate throng by police after he cut
wires of the public address system
being used during the anti-lynch
rally last September at which
Canada Lee, noted actor, was
principal speaker.
charges, the hoodlums appeared in
police court Sept. 4 but the case
was continued to Oct. 16 for fur
ther investigation.
MIUTARYRITES
AT 8th ARMORY
FOR OVID HARRIS
Impressive military funer
al services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at the
Eighth Regiment Armory,
3517 Giles for Ovid E. Har
ris, 50, of 3605 South Park
way. ft
A former ma ior ' in th>
184th field artillery regiment.
Harris died Sunday in the Hines
unit of the Veterans Administra
tion hospital following an illness
of three weeks.
Pallbearers were Dr. Harold
Thatcher, James E. Knight, Col.
Theophilus Mann, Col. William H.
Lewis, Col. Benote Lee, and Col.
Oscar Randall.
A firing squad assigned from ;
Major Euclid Louis Taylor’s first
battalion, 8th Infantry, IRM, com-!
manded by Capt. Louis Banks, fir
ed a volley at the grave in Lincoln
cemetery.
Harris, a supervising accountant !
for the Illinois Department of
Revenue, is survived by his wife, |
Clarabelle, and a son, Ovid E. Jr. |
Born in Galveston. Texas, he came j
to Chicago in 1914.
After securing a bachelor’s de-i
gree in business administration j
from Northwestern University he i
began to practice accounting and
entered the Illinois Department of
Revenue in 1933.
A veteran of both wars, Harris
served as a sergeant in the 803rd
Pioneer Infantry Regiment in
World War I and attained the
rank of major in World War II.
He was a member of the Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, the Military
Order of the Cooties, The Ameri
can Legion, Kappa Alpha Psi fra
ternity and The Angels, a men’s
social club.
Riot Victims
Still Face
Reprisals
NEW YORK—Despite the
favorable verdict in the re
cent Lawrenceburg riot trial,
defense attorneys warned
this week that legal reprisals
still awaited Columbia,
Tenn. Negroes.
Hitting at jubiliation at the ver
dict, Dr. Leon Ransom, NAACP
attorney, pointed out that two de
fendants must still face trial on
the charges for which 23 of 25
defendants were acquitted. He
also stated that all the men acquit
ted at Lawrenceburg must stand
trial on other indictments just as
serious.
Oliver Harrington, NAACP pub
lic relations counsel, severely cri- j
ticized the attitude that the ac
quittal at Lawrenceburg indicated
a triumph of democracy and that
the south, if left alone, can handle
its own problems.
"Those innocent men were ac
quitted after the southern court
discovered that Americans in
other parts of the country demand
ed simple justice,” he said referr
ing to the large press corps pre
sent for the trial.
THEIRS A HAPPY REUNION. Broad smiles on the faces
of World Heavy weight Champion Joe Louis and his man
ager, John Roxborough speak of a happy reunion. Rox
borough, recently released from prison, and the champ
celebrated his return in Detroit, recently.— (ACME photo)
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Tunstall Wins
Jim Crow Rail
Union Case
NORFOLK, Va.—The right of
Negro railmen to equal employ
ment opportunities was upheld in
the United States District Court
of eastern Virginia in a decision
handed down last week in the
famous Tunstall case.
The court ruled that the rail
road brotherhoods, acting as ex
clusive bargaining agencies under
the Railway Labor act, “is under
the obligation of representing
fairly and without discrimination”
Tunstall and other Negro workers.
Tom Tunstall, a fireman of the
Norfolk and Southern railroad,
entered the suit to test the validity
of an agreement between the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Engineers and company
officials barring Negro workers
from promotions.
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NAB 2 SUSPECTS
IN POLICE SLAYING
Lie tests will be given to deter
mine whether the two prowlers ar
rested at 5408 Princeton Monday
night are the bandits wanted in
the Sept. 30 slaying of Lt. Her
man Ziebell of Forest Park police.
The two arrested are John Pen
dleton, 30, of 328 E. Garfield
blvd., and Elmer Griffin, 17, of
5313 S. State st.
Sgt. Martin McElligott of Stock
yards police said they answered
the descriptions of the bandits
who shot Lt. Ziebell when he sur
prised them robbing a service sta
tion at Desplaines ave. and Roose
velt rd. in Forest Park,
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MUSICAL PROGRAM
AT BETHESDA
The Gospel chorus of Greater
Bethesda Baptist church, 5301
So. Michigan ave., is sponsoring
a musical program for the pre
anniversary of the pastor, Dr, A.
Alfred Watts. Guest artist will
be Master James H. Harris, the
world’s youngest gospel singer.
Assisting will be other well known
gospel singers. Mrs. Gertrude
Elam, president; J. C. Williams,
director.
Major Jones left .South Center
to become first vice president and
general manager of the National
Investors Corporation, a newly or
ganized finance and investment
company with offices at 35 South
Dearborn st.
Jones, who started at South
Center when the store first opened
its doors early in 1928, will be
the operating head of the new or
ganization.
This company plans to finance
existing business enterpi-ises and
purchase, de.velop and manage
merchandising and “service”
businesses, such as laundries and
dry cleaning plants. It will also
purchase or acquire stocks and in
terests in other corporations or
organizations.
The genial department store
executive played an important
part in training the people of the
community in retail selling and
store operations. His success in
operating the 47.th street’s largest
RICHARD L. JONES
department store for 18 years en
couraged a large number of south
siders to enter the field of retail
ing.
Jones* sales pi-omotional events
are credited with contributing to
the store’s continued success. His
annual baby parades on South
Parkway were eagerly awaited and
his “Dick Jones Days” became na
tionally'famous,
“Dick” Jones will be long re
membered by south siders as the
man who gave them quality mer
chandise and good service, adjust
ed their complaints and trained
hundreds of men and women to
sell.
DAUGHTER FINDS
BODY IN CLOSET
Confronted Tuesday with the fiendish murder of a
mother of three, Stanton av, police this week sought a sus
pect whom neighbors said had been friendly with the vic
tim for several years.
Butler-Killer
On Trial; Call
Mind Experts
NEW YORK—A battle of!
psychiatrists lomed this week j
as the trial of Ward Beecher
Carraway, colored butler
charged with the murder of
a Long Island socialite, got i
under way.
Defense Attorney Charles R.
Weeks indicated that his case will
include a review of the “perfect
servant’s” life from childhood, sup
I ported by the testimony of psy
| chiatrists that the 23-year-old
murderer and rapist was mentally j
' deficient. .
The prosecution, iir was learned, i
will also present psychiatrists in
an attempt to prove that the de
fendant was mentally competent
and sane at the time he killed the
socialite mother and raped and
shot her daughter.
Select Jury
Carraway who is charged with
murdering Mrs. Marjory Logan,
50, in her home in fashionable
Flower Hill district, appeared in
court last week as selection of the
jury began.
Apparently bent on robbery, the
butler, it is charged gained en
trance to the Logan home. Con
fronted by the matron, he shot her
after obtaining $10. The daugh
ter, Miss Marjory Logan, 26, was
then robbed of $100, forced to
submit to a criminal attack, and
later shot in the face and neck.
Carraway was originally charg
ed with attacking Miss Logan, an
ex-WAC, but later was indicted on
the more serious charge of mur
der.
The victims were the wife and
daughter of William Logan, a di
rector of the baking soda firm of
Church and Sloan.
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VANDERBILT PROF TO
ADDRESS NURSES
NEW' YORK — (ANP) — Miss
Helen Howell, associate professor
of public health nursing at Van
derbilt university, Nashville, will
be a principal speaker at the
southern regional conference of
the National Association of Color
ed Graduate nurses (NACCN) in
Nashville, Oct. 25-26. General
theme of the conference will re
volve around thorough discussion
of the entire field of nursing and
the relationship of the Negro
nurse thereto.
The mother, reported missing
for 24 hours, was found around
9 a.m. by her 13-year-old daughter
brutally stabbed to death. Her
hody had been stuffed into a clnsef
in their apartment in the Mec^a
building at 3338 S. State st
The victim was Mrs. Min. • -
Vaughn. Her daughter, Juanita a
student at the Lucy Flowers sc ho- l
for girls, made the gruesome dis
covery. The body had been placed
in sitting position on a trunk.
Multiple Knife Wounds
Although no murder weapon was
found police disclosed that mul
tiple wounds on the left side of
the chest, one of them above the
heart, indicated that knife had
been used. A piece of white cloth
was tied around her head.
The body obviously had been
placed in the clos< t b\ her *=sa*l
ant, police said.
Discover of th • hod••
w**. accident, w< - disclosed.
The daughter had just reported
her disappearance to police a
short time before she opened the
closet door.
The victim has two other chil
dren, an 11-year-old daughter, Lu
cille, and a son, Raymond, 10.
Police stated they are investi
gating acquaintances of the wom
an in the hope of finding a man
whom a neighbor heard arguing
and fighting with the dead woman
Monday morning.
Continue Inquest
Pending further investigation,
an inquest into the murder, begun
Wednesday morning at Jones Fun
eral Home at 3315 S'. State st.,
was continued to Nov. 12 at the
48th st. police court.
Juanita told police she became
worried when she awakened Tues
day to find her mother hadn’t come
home. The children were usually
notified if she was going to be
out late, the girl said.
She stated that she saw her
mother last early Monday morn
ing when she left home to attend
classes at the Lucy Flowers school.
She returned home that afternoon
about 4:30. After waiting for their
mother until about fi:20, she and
her sister went to a show. They
went to bed upon returning home
and left a light on in case she
came in late.
Finds Back Door Open
The next morning, Juanita said,
she became uneasy. She remem
bered that Lucille had mentioned
finding the bedroom light on and
the back door open when she came
home the afternoon before.
She went to a neighbor’s apart
ment and reported her mother
missing to Stanton police. A few
minutes later while dressing for
school, she entered the closet.
A woman whose name police re
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Check of Records Brings a
Change in Covenant Case
Defense Attorney Loring B.
Moore refused to accept a trans
fer of a restrictive covenant case
from Superior Judge U. S. Schwartz
until he checked the records in
the Recorder’s office, and what he
saw there made him change his
mind rapidly.
Moore represents Leon J. Smith,
50, a dining car waiter, who has
a motion pending before the chan
cellor to dismiss a suit seeking
to evict him and his four small
children from their home at 6633
Maryland av.
When the case came up last
week, Judge Schwartz offered to
transfer the case for reassignment,
stating:
“I think you ought to know
that some years ago a group in
cluding Irvin C. Mollison told me
I was not impartial in these cases.**
Moore replied that he was sat
isfied to have the judge hear the
case. It was continued over the
week-end.
On Monday, however, the de
fense attorney checked the rec
ords in the Recorder’s office. He
said he found there the name of
Marguerite L. Schwartz signed
the restrictive covenant from the
judge’s address at 1125 E. 48th st.
When Moore came "back into
court, he did not mention his dis
covery, but he accepted the trans
fer and quick.
The case was reassigned to
Judge Frank M. Padden, one of
the three chancellors in the court
this term, and was set for hearing
on Oct. 17.