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BROAD AXi”—ThE
Vol. XXXII. ___5 CENTS PER COPY THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 30, 1927 No. 33
Hon. Michael Hughes, General Superintendent of Police of Chicago, Has
Shook Up the Police Force, From Afore to Aft, in Its Re-organization
Process and for the Good of the Order He Has Transferred Many Police
Officials and Patrolmen Around at the Various Stations.
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CHIEF HUGHES SHOULD BE FUR
NISHED AT LEAST WITH ONE
THOUSAND EXTRA POLICE WHO
SHOULD BE ARMED TO THE
teeth and instructed to
SHOOT TO KILL THE UNDESIR
ABLE AND LAW-BREAKING ELE
MENTS WHICH HAVE INFESTED
THIS CITY FOR MANY YEARS
PAST.
NO PERSON, WHITE OR COLORED,
SHOULD BE SHOWN ANY FAVOR
WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO VIO
LATING THE LAWS OF THIS CITY.
THE SHEEP AND GOATS MUST
BE DIVIDED RIGHT NOW IN ORDER
TO PREVENT CHICAGO FROM BE
COMING THE WICKEDEST AND
MOST CRIMINAL CITY ON EARTH.
Hon. Michael Hughes, the wide
awake chief of the police department,
continues to shake up the police force
in ali parts of this city. The changes
being made for the good of the order.
Chief Hughes in his great drive
against the criminals means business,
and he will hold every captain strictly
responsible for the amount of crime
and gambling in his district. He has
let it be known to the whole world.
Stop Raiding Homes
“Pay roll roberics have got to stop.
We are going to clean up the gang
sters. Thugs, gunmen, holdup men,
and bad characters of every sort are
to be driven out of the city. My or
ders are to stop raiding private homes
and business houses and concentrate
on knocking out crime.”
Chief Hughes Reads the Riot Act to
His Commanding Officers
Wednesday Chief Hughes lectured
to some of his high police officers and
he spoke in part as follows:
“Stop kicking in doors of homes,
soda parlors, and pool rooms. Go
after the criminals,” the chief told the
captains who were assembled at the
Des Plaines station for their first
meeting under the new administration.
Policeman’s Job Defined
“You are not to condone any no
torious or flagrant gambling, vice, or
bootlegging, of course, but these
things should be secondary. If a man
wants to have a good time, that’s his
business so long as he doesn’t violate
the law or interfere with the rights
of others. The policeman's job is to
catch thieves and thugs and that is
what I want you to concentrate on
first in managing your districts.”
During the campaign. Mayor
Thontpsoh seldom failed to draw a
roar of applause when he lambasted
HON. WILLIAM R. FETZER
^ of the best and most popular Municipal Court
Chicago,, President of the Fort Dearborn Athletac Club
is holding two sessions of his court dady
assist the Judges in cleaning up the crrii do^cets of tne
court.. He holds one session each day at the Pekm Court
and the other at the South Clark Street Court.
HON. MICHAEL HUGHES
General Superintendent of Police, who calls upon the news
papers and the public spirited citizens in general to aid
him in his great drive against the violators of the laws and
to drive them out of Chicago.
the police for “fanning mattresses and
frisking pantries for pints” and for
interfering with the privacy of citi
zens. If elected, he declared, he
would cal! off the police from the
snooping business and “put them back
on the streets to drive out the crooks.”
Political observers, arguing that the
vast majority of Chicagoans want
their beer delivered to the back door
safely more than they want a saintly
reputation for the city, asserted that
this was Mr. Thompson’s most effec
tive vote-getting plank.
Transmits Mayor’s Pledges
Chief Hughes transmitted Mayor
Thompson’s campaign pledges on
crooks almost verbatim.
“If you know where there’s a crim
inal hiding, go in and get him if you
have to shoot the place to pieces,” he
ordered. “But if I catch any police
man entering a home or place of busi
ness for any other purpose, I’ll strip
him of his star. That is one thing I
will not tolerate.”
Wholesale arrests of citizens round
ed up in raids on soft drink parlors
and at card parties only clog up the
courts to no purpose, and make the
public hate the police because they
are tyrants, not protectors, the chief
said.
“It isn’t how many people you ar
rest that counts, but the kind you ar
rest,” he added. “I’d rather have one
crook in jail than a hundred good
citizens.”
“Sort Out the Prisoners”
“There have been entirely too many
honest, hard working men and women
dragged into police stations and locked
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up because they had a flask of home
brew.
"You should sort out your prison
ers. When you have a man with a
bad record who can’t explain what his
business is or where he lives, keep him
locked up for investigation, but those
who can establish their identities as
good citizens should be released and
sent home.”
Chief Hughes expressed himself as
greatly pleased with the enthusiastic
reaction of the captains to the state
ment of his policies. Despite the griev
ances caused by recent transfers, he
asserted, the morale of the force as a
whole was never so high as it is now.
Chief Hughes’ merciless drive against
the criminals has started many of them
on the dead run.
URBAN LEAGUE REPORTS ON
INDUSTRY FOR MARCH
Bulletin No. 13 of the Industrial
Relations Department of the National
Urban League summarizes employ
ment conditions as follows:
General Conditions
Employment improved somewhat
during March, the advance coming
late .in the month. The iron and steel
plants, in which a large proportion of
Negroes are employed, showed im
provement in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Prolonged unemployment periods in
the West were eased and the month
closed with brighter prospects for
April.
Conditions Among Negroes
Reports from our associates in scat
tered parts of the United States tell
of unemployment and curtailment in
working hours almost without excep
tion. This caused a general restless
ness with the result that workers
moved back and forth among cities
within easy reach of each other. Bal
timore and Columbus, usually fruitful
cities for Negro workers, and among
the last to feel the depression, report
ed large numbers out of work.
Specific reasons were given for the
shortage of work among Negroes in
certain cities. For instance, in Spring
field; Illinois, mine lockouts or strikes
have forced some 5,000 men out of
work, of whom 225 were Negroes; and
in Florida work ordinarily done by
Negroes is being taken from them and
given to whites, and wages have been
cut. In Milwaukee the retirement of
colored waiters has been forced by
patrons of a large hotel.
Organized Labor
Here and there were incidents
showing relationship with organized
labor. In Baltimore, the Young
Workers Labor Party- has been espe
cially active—two colored speakers ap
pearing at its open forum.
One half of the brick-masons of
Lexington, Kentucky, who received a
raise from $1.25 to $1.50 per hour were
Negroes.
In Philadelphia, through the Arm
strong Association there, the co-opera
tion of colored employees was sought
and secured in a recent labdt dispute
between the Manufacturers’ Associa
tion and the labor forces of that city.
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Manson
have removed from 5333 S. Michigan
boulevard to 5401 S. Michigan boule
vard, where they will be pleased to
meet their many friends.
UTAH HINDU GRANTED CHEM
ISTRY HONORS AT PURDUE
Salt Lake City, Utah.—Bal Dev
Kaura, brilliant Hindu student at the
University of Utah, has recently been
granted an assistantship in chemistry
at Purdue University for the years
1927-28.
Born in Sringobindpur, Punjab, In
dia, Kaura was educated in the public
schools of his native country. He
came to the United States in 1922 and
in 1925 graduated from the University
of Utah School of Mines with the de
gree of bachelor of science in chemical
engineering. He received his M. S.
degree in 1926. Besides being a joint
author with Dr. Walter D. Bonner of
a number of scientific papers in the
Journal of the American Chemical So
ciety, Kuara has held a School of
Mines fellowship at the University for
the past year. He will take up his
duties at Purdue University in Sep
tember.
IMPROVING
Mrs. Mattie Fly, 22 E. 42nd street,
who has been quite ill for several
weeks, is improving and hopes to be
able to go out again.
SHERIFF IS GIVEN MEDAL FOR
SAVING NEGRO FROM MOB
Kentucky Governor Presents Trophy
on Behalf of Interracial
Commission
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Frankfort. Ky.—Sheriff P. R. Brown
of Graves County, who in 1926 saved
a Negro from mob violence at May
field, Ky.{ has been awarded a medal
by the Southern Interracial Commis
sion Governor Fields has announced.
The award was the first of its kind to
be made in Kentucky, and Governor
Fields, in sending the medal to Brown
in behalf of the Commission, con
gratulated him upon the “splendid
service” he had rendered his state and
nation.
The handsome bronze medal bears
a heroic figure with drawn sword
standing in front of a temple of jus
tice, surrounded by the legend “In
Defense of Law and Civilization.” The
award was passed upon by a commis
sion composed of Hon. Hugh M. Dor
sey, former Governor of Georgia, Gov.
John W. Martin, of Florida, the late
Governor Henry L. Whitfield of Mis
sissippi, Mrs. J. H. McCoy of Ala
bama, George B. Dealey, editor of the
Dallas News, and Marshall Ballard,
editor of the New Orleans Item.
When on June 21 of 1926. a mob
gathered about the Mayfield jail to
get Willie Busby, Negro, charged
with attacking a white girl. Brown
gathered up his deputies and drove
seventy-five miles at night through
two rivers to carry the Negro to safety.
EIGHT GIRLS ARRESTED IN
RAID ON INDECENT
REVUE
New York.—Eight colored actresses
were arrested in a raid on the Lafay
ette Theatre Thursday where they
were appearing in Leonard Harper’s
“Kentucky Club,” a revue. They wefe
booked at the 135th street station on a
charge of participating in an immoral
and indecent act. All were released
on temporary bails of $500 each.
Those taken in the raid were Peggy
Burnett, Frances Hubbard, Bertha
Young, Mary Duval, Mabel Savoy,
Mable Nichols, Mary Saunders, and
Azalyn Lynch.
WHITE MOTHER SLAYER OF
TWO TOTS CONFESSES LOVE
OF NEGRO AS CAUSE OF
CRIME
Salt Lake City, Utah.—Professing
ardent love for her Negro lover and
freely admitting the desire to get rid
of her family in-order to be with him,
Mrs. Ilia Peterson, (white), confessed
before the district court here recently
that she put the strychnine in the food
served" her» family on the night of
March 8, that resulted in the death of
her baby boy, Kenneth, and her foster
baby daughter, Margaret Bateman
Only the fact that she put an overdose
of the strychnine, purchased by Wyn
don in Los Angeles, in the fatal meal
prevented the rest of her family from
suffering the same fate as that of the
babies. The bitter taste made them
shun the food.
Negro Pleads Guilty
Ben Wyndon, colored Pullman por
ter of Los Angeles, implicated through
his affections for Mrs. Peterson, plead
ed guilty to a statutory charge ami
was sentenced to an indeterminate
term in the state penitentiary.
Mrs. Wyndon remained loyal to her
husband and stood by him to the end.
Colored Society Shocked
The love-nest of Wyndon and Mrs.
Peterson is stated to have been at the
home of Mrs. Punch Leonard Jackson,
252 Center street, a revelation which
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shocked local colored society circles,
as the Jacksons are great social lead
ers and church members.
SERGEANT L. RAFFERTY
If you wish to come in contact with
an officer of the law, one who is
what you might call true, then we
present to you Sergeant L. Rafferty,
now holding the fort in Chief Deputy
Alcock’s office. He is a wide-awake
and efficient policeman and one who
has weathered th^ storm through
many years of service on the city’s
police force. During the terrible time
of the race riots in 1919 he stood like
a stone wall between the contending
sides of both white and black, ever
upholding the majesty of the law. This
and other commendable acts of brav
ery and fair play upon his part forces
us to allot him a place in the role of
being one of Chicago’s finest officers.
HON. THOMAS O. WALLACE
The honorable and high class Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Cook County, who is one of the most popular public officials
in this city, and many of his friends would like to see him
enter the race as the Republican candidate for Sheriff of
Cook County in 1928.