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Where You Can’t Work /V /V' /V'/V Twenty-live Million Black People
jf- *iPTHE PAPER A? WITH a universal APPEAL " )f- of America
VOL. 18 NO. 30 . SATURDAY JUNE 23RD 1934 PRICE 5 CENTS in city 7 cents elsewhere
Preoiring to Entertain Friends
Miss June Fisher is the daughter of Mr. Wm. Fisher
who was born in Milwaukee, Wis. She expects to re
fu1V?Jn k°nor ^er fiends wrho contemplate attending
the World’s Fair. She is a popular school teacher and is
, delighted over the report that the school board is soon
L to pay the teachers.
VCOPS SEEK KILLER
' AS JURY NS
GUILTY VE
At the inquest of Wren Jamison 1
which was held at he county morgue
on June 14, Y. Z. Armour, the de
fendant, was held for murder by the
coroner’s jury. Armour shot him
down in front of the barber shop at
1701 Walnut street . The wife of
Jamison, Olive Jamison, said she
begged her brother not to hurt her
husband, Wren Johnson.
Since the shooting, Armour has
not ben apprehended. The deceased
and his family were represented by
Attorney James T. Lorick who wj!1
continue in the case after the family
returns from New Orleans where the
body will be shipped.
Millidgeville, Ga., June 19—Reese
Castleberry of Pickens county and
Floyd South of Atlanta, were exe
cuted here June 15 for murders.
South paid the penalty for the kill
ing of an Atlanta merchant while
Castleberry died for killing a chain
gang guard during an attempted es
cape. Castleberry was the third
colored convict to be executed for
the killing of Lee Lindsey, the
county convict guard. The ’ other
two met their deaths in the chair
last October. Castleberry admitted
he was in the gang which killed
Lindsey, but that lie did not do the
actual shooting. Governor Talmadge
refused last minute clemency to the
doomed men. George Cole, under
death sentence for the killing of a
Clarke county colored man, is still
awaiting a plea of commutation.
GOLD COAST WEST
AFRICA HAS DAILY
NEWSPAPER NOW
Accra, Gold Coast. W. Africa June
19—“The Times” of West Africa, a
daily newspaper, has made its ap
pearance and seems headed for a
long and successful life, according
to reaction shown among the “Col
oured” people here. The newspaper
carries news items of general inter
est; political gossip, social ne1 s,
etc., Mr. Covssory is managing edi
tor of the Guinea Time Publishing
Co., owners of the paper.
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Fighting
Atty George W. Blackwell, who is
making a heroic fight in the Turner
law suit case for Mrs. Turner’s rel
atives to be benefitted. In court
Tuesday, it was continued.
Alberta Stewart
Victor This Week
The interest in the Popularity
Contest Campaign that has been
launched bv the Chicago World is
waxing hot. All the contestants are
taking a lively interest in the cam
paign. Each week the young ladies
are rushing here and there making
a heroic effort to increase their
votes. In some cases its like a live
ly political campaign. The contes
tants have appointed their captains
and lieutenants and they in turn are
securing the support of their friends.
The mail bag of the Chicago
World is filled every day with votes
It is startling to see the genuine
interest that these charming young
ladies are taking in this fight to
win. It’s a friendly rivalry. Others
bring their votes in and its a pleas
ure to hear them in the office, tell
how delighted they are to be in the
race.
The grand prize of $500 is causing
Continued On Page Four
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WOMAN SLAYS COP
WHO WAS BRUTAL
TO HER; IS FREED
Death again struck down a mem
ber of the police departmen when
Ofifcer James Freeman of the 27th
street station was shot and killed bv
his wife Olga Freeman, 29 years old
early Saturday morning as the cli
max to an all night brawl in which
Freman is alleged to have brutally
beaten his wife.
At the Wabash avenue station,
Mrs. Freeman told police that her
husband threatened to beat her to
death and that she shot him in self
defense. The shooting occurred at
their apartment at 5156 South Park
wav on the second floor and was
v, it:Tcd by A-"i'ceuiau ■ ■ C ju;ill,
David Winburn.
According to the woman’s state
ment to officer had accused her of
being intimate with Winburn and
during the melee struck and kicked
her several times. She locked herself
in a bedroom to escape his wrath
and he started to kick the door in.
She then snatched up his revolver
which was laying on a near-by bed
' and fired one shot thru the door
which ;truck Freeman just above
the heart.
It was said that he ran from the
Continued On Page Six
GOP SLAYERS TO
GO TO CHAIR ON
OCTOBER 12
Overruling a motion for a new
trial. Judge Walter Steffen Saturday
set October 12th as date on wrhici
Alonzo McNeil. 28, 1928 Maypole
avenue and George Walker, 24, 33!
East Garfield Boulevard, must die
in the chair for their part in the
murder of Patrolmen JOfficer
ths bandit while they'^^Btholdinj
un Bert’s Booterv.
Stiff Sentences For Accomplices.
Henry Moore, 21, also of the Gar
field address, wras given a sentence
of 99 years. Walker and McNei
fired the fatal shots while Moore
w:as in the back of the store. The
patrolman was caught in their cross
fire and literally riddled with bul
lets.
Noble Easley, 28, 5297 Prairie
avenue and Herman Clement3, 26
335 Garfield boulevard, were giver
sentences of 50 years each. The\
were outside in the "get-awr.v” cai
during the holdup.
LOOP RESTAURANT
OFFERS INSULT TO
COLORED CITIZENS
The writer of this article was desi
rous of a cool drink on Monday of
this vve^k. entered a Harding res • |
taurant, 131 N. Clark Street an.l;
was grossly insulted. He asked for
a bottle ot tc-er and the bartender
was long r.tout serving him and
when he did, brough him a warm
bottle, sat it before him with a ven
geance, did not uncot k it and walk
ed away. The writer laid down a dol
lar bill and when the change was
thrown in front of him, the writer
asked if this was the kind of service
the Harding people extended color
ed citizens.
The writer then told the bartender
that his money was worth more to
him than the slop he was serving
him and called for the manager. As
usual, the manager was out and the
bartender said that they
did not care for his trade. The wri
ter then found that Mr. Harding
who operates a chain of resaurants
had his main office at 21 S. Wabash
avenue.
Mr. Harding was immediately
sought. The treatment was ex
plained to and Mr. Harding
flatly told the writer that: “We
don’t refuse to serve you people un
less you insist, no matter what kind
of treatment the bartender gives
vou: in fact we don’t want your
trade.” He then asked “What are
Continued From Page 6
CHANGE DEFENDER
TO “OPEN SHOP”
The Chicago Defender, edited
and published by Robert S. Abbott
and N. K. McGill, general manager,
switched from a closed -hop to an
open shop on Saturday. Forty full
and part time employes were dis
missed including 37 whites and three
colored. McGill’s actual dismissal of
the union employes was sudden.
Colored lynotype operaters and ex
perts im every department have been
secured from different weekly news
papers here and all parts of the
country.
rOPEKAKANSAS
HITS NEW HIGH
ON COLOR LINE
Topeka. Kans. June 19— The col
or line flared up here Wednesday
in a ruling made bv the City Com
mission in a Petition made by the
Colored Parent Teachers Associa
tion who sought permission to use
the Community house, a tax-sup
Continued From Page Two
COLORED HURT
IN HURRICANE
Ferriday, La., June 19—Many
colored tenant*’ homes were totally
destroyed here Saturday by the force
of a seventy-mile hurrcane which
tore in from the Gulf of Mexico at
noon damaging practicaly every
building in the town. The storm
struck all along the Louisiana coast
and caused damages estimated at
thousands of dollars.
On Tour
, I
. | Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, sec
(reary of the Women’s National
I Convention, President of the Girl’s
National Training School, Wash
ington, D. C., is now speaking and
preparing her report for the con
vention which meets in September.
OPERATION KILLS
BOY PRODIGY
Boston, June 19—Following an
appendix operation, John Shankle.
Tr., seven year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Shankle, 57 St. Gormain
street, died June 4. The lad had
just finished a yVrs work of the
fourth grade in the C. C. Perkins
school on St. Bontelph street.
A. P. RANDOLPH
JUBILANT OVER
PULLMAN VICTORY
Nearing mid-night, Monday, Tune
18th, the filibuster of Senator Hast
ings of Dcleware agaist the Amend
ments to the Railway Labor Act,
petered out. and thru the general
shin and stregety of Senator C. C.
Dill of Washington, Berton K.
Wheeler of Montana and Robret La
i Follette of Wisconsin, the famous
measure came to a vote and was
nassed overwhelmingly, stated A.
Phillip Randolph, National President
in the Chicago headquarters, 4231
Michigan avenue, where he, to
gether with M. P. Webster, Chair
man General of the F.xecutive Board
i« planning to make use of the new
rail law to protect and advance the
interests of the porters and maids
to collective bargaining.
The passage of this bill is the re
sult of the militant and aggressive
fight made at the hearings before !
the Senate and House Committees [
on Tnterstafe and Foregin Com
merce. bv leaders of twentv-one
standard railway unions and the
Brotherhood of Sleepnig Car Por
ters. continued Mr. Randolph.
Continued On Page Seven !
POLICY STATION IS SCENE
OF SHOOTING; WOMAN
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Mrs. Irma Swan, age 33, of 4059
Michigan avenue was hot and dan
gerously wounded by Rubin Lewis
late Saturday evening when she
walked into the line of fire which
Lewis was directing at his wife,
Thelma Pryor, from whom he was
estranged.
The shooting occurred in a policy
station at 118 East 41st street where
Mrs. Pryor was working in the
capcity of a “play taker” for people
who came to the palce to enter
numbers.
According to her statement, Lew
is came/into the establishment and
.if
•he ti^& him to wait until he 1 aa
flnishec^mking a play and tuen she
could talK to him. He said, “This
is a h. .. .1 of a time to be concern
ed with someone else.” He then
reached into his hip pocket and
produced a gun with which he
sought to intimidate the woman and
she sought shelter beneath the coun
ter. Lewis started behind the coun
ter to start a brawl when he was
Continued On Page Three
TWO BROTHERS
ARE KILLED BY
SPEEDING CAR
Atlanta, Ga., June 19—John, aged
4 and Harold aged 3, sons of Mrs.
Addie Bell Moreland, 3344 Hynum
street, died in Grady hospital a few
minutes after they had been struck
by a car driven by Mrs. Robert
Campbell, Sr., of 210 Forest avenue,
here Fridav. The white woman is
being held on charges of reckless
driving and her bond set at $500
She was still in jail unable to fur
nish bond. The two boys were play
ing on the sidewalk in front of a
church at the corner of Butler and
Harris street, when Mhs, Campbell
ran into another machine driven by
Clyde J. Chastain, whtie 86d, Briar
cliff Road, and veered across the
sidewalk into the side of the church
crushing the two brothers. 1 he wo
man told hospital officials she was
on the way to Grady hospital tak
ing her sick daughter there.
PAVES WAY TO PAY
SCHOOL TEACHERS
Passage bv Congress of the au
thorization for Federal loans to
provide cash for unpaid school tea
chers paves the way for Chicago
♦■eachers to he paid in full. Thru
the efforts of Mayor Kelly, Chicago
is ready to take full advantage of
this act of Congress.
Action has already been taken to
provide the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation with additional securi
ty for Chicago’s loan to pay teach
ers. This additional security is
based on $30,000/100 worth of school
property not used for school pur
nses. Mayor Kelly conceived this
idea and thru his relentless efforts
has seen the plan mature to a place
where pay is in sight for Chicago
teachers.
CITY TO ASSIST IN
PHONE REFUND
According to Mayor E. J. Kelly,
full service will be given citizens
of Chicago by an information booth
on the first f’oor of the city hall as
to the manner in wihch refunds will
be made to users of coin telephone
boxes under a recent ruling of the
United States Supreme court. The
total amount of the refund, which
is scheduled to !>e made beginnii^^
is schedules to be iji^le^
“It is not necessary to employ
anyone to help vou get your rebate,”
the mayor declared, “this informa
tion booth, which will he establish
ed shortly, will give all the infor
mation and help needed to secure
your refund. I believe it is essen
tial for the city to establish such
special sources of information when
such a large number of our citizens
are vitally effected.
Honored
William H. Haynes, one of Chi
cago’s prominent lawyers who is a
candidate for Municipal Court Judge
in the fall election, was given a
very high rating in a canvass by the
Cook County Bar Association on
Tuesday of this week. Of the twenty
five or thirty lawyers who are run
ning, Atty. Haynes was given about
the rank of sixth. He n one of he
best prepared men of all candidates
who are running and is well quali
fied for the position.
NEW YORK WIDOW
ENDS LIFE WITH
LEAP INTO RIVER
New York, June 15—Mary Thom
as, 45. 105 East 113th street, dis
gusted with life, disillusioned and
disappointed committed suicide by
leaping from the Willis avenue
Bridge into the Harlem River late
hursday night, ending a bitter
struggle for existence to support
her four children.
LEON JOHNSON INJURED
Leon Johnson, 48 years old was in
a serious condition Wednesday as a
result of a bullet wound received at
an early {iour Monday morning
quarrel after a drinking party in hia
home at 2602 W. Washington Blvd.