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VOL. XXX—No. 29 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SATURDAY JUNE 19, 1943 PRICE 10 CENTS
“No Cure For Love” Seusational Romance Serial Each Week on Page 12
The newest addition to the
staff of the Chicago World is the
lovely M|ss Joan Hopkins, of
3547 South Parkway. Miss Hop
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kins not only brings glamour to
the World office, but an efficient
and capable ability. The Chicago
World is proud of this young lady.
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SPRINGFIELD, 111.,—A per
manent memorial wil be install- I
ed at the College of Liberia now
under construction in Monrovia, '
capital of the Negro republic in I
West Africa, Jay Monaghan, state ]
historian in charge of the Illinois
State Historical library, announ
ced today.
The memorial is being pre
pared by a committee named by
Governor Dwight H. Green, of
which Monaghan is chairman.
The memorial consists of three I
parts, only one of which remains j
to be completed.
The three parts of the exhibit
are a bronze life-mask of Aibra- <
ham Lincoln, five by eight foot !
mural, and facsimilies of histor- !
ic papers pertaining to Liberia, j
The originals of these papers 1
are in the Illinois State Histor- J
ical Library and most of them |
are in the Lincoln collection.
The papers will be arranged in !
in a display case which, with |
the mural, will be framed in ma- |
hogany and bamboo, native Lib- j
end an woods, in such a way as I
to eoibijitute a Slinjgle comple- j
mentary unit.
In emphasizing that it is par
ticularly appropriate ior the
i hite of Illinois to undertake’
such a memorial, Governor
Greeh 1 ointed cut that Lincoln
was almost entirely responsible
for United States recognition of
Lie L.en new republic. Although
Liberia proclaimed .'ts indedpen
dence in 1847 and was recogniz
ed by most nations of the world
in the next few yeans it was not
until 18-62, after Lincoln became
1 resident, that America granted
recognition. Lincoln’s recom
mendations on this are shown
in the papers to be made a part
of the memorial.
Tlip life-mask bust of Lincoln
is one made by Leonard Volk, a
famous sculptor of the Civil Wa"
peroid. it is from one of only two
life-wasks ever made of the
Emncipator.
The mural, which is the part |
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of the memorial yet to be com
pleted, is being painted by Cecil
Nelson of Champaign, Negro
graduate of tli eCollege of Fine
and Arts of the University of Ul_
inois. A preliminary sketch of
Artisit Nelson’s work was pres
ented to the committee this
week. It depicts the develop
ment of the Negroes of Liberia
from .plantation laborers to skill,
ed workers and masters of the
arts and sciences.
— VOTE REPUBLICAN _
TVaffic Bureau
Squad Cars Issued
Stolen Car Books
All Traffic Bureau squad cars
were issued Stolen Car Books
this week in a coordinatred ef
fort wiit'h stolen car details to
speed up the recovery of stolen
vehicles, Charles O’Regan, Chief
of the Traffic Division, announ
ced today. These books, contain
ing an up to the minute license
directory, will keep Traffic Bu
reau cas interned of all stolen
veh'cles in Chicago.
Although Chicago Police have
an enviable 08 per cent stolen
car recovery record, additional
effcrt by the 86 Accident Inves
tigation and Traffic Enforcement
cars is calculated to aid in the
prevention of auto thefts, appre
hension of auto thieves, and re
duction of “loss-recovery” time.
— VOTE REPUBLICAN —
Fair Trade is an established
principle of law under which
property rights in trade brands,
and the integrity of the products
which bear them, are protected
in the public interest against di
lution, defamation and degrada
tion by predatory resellers seek
ing monopoly of distribution
through deceptive pricing prac
tices. j ,
POLICE SEARCH
FOR MAN KNOWN
ONLY AS DAVIO
Police began a search yester
day for a Negro known only as
David in the investigation of the
murder of Miss Anna Heidsiek,
63, who was strangled in her
rooming house at 217 S. Ashland
blvd., in the old “gold coast” of
Chicago’s west side.
She was found dead in her bed
room Sunday morning, with * a
strip of torn bedspread knotted
around her throat. The room was
ransacked, indicating robbery as
the motive.
David’s name was given to
police by Nelson Evans, 43, Ne
gro handyman who lives in the
basement of the Ashland blvd.
building a remodeled, old time
mansion with a coach house in
the- rear.
LIE TEST INCONCLUSIVE
Evans and a friend, Sanders
Nicholson, IS, Negro, of 1140 S.
Central Park av., were given a
lie detector test but police were
unable to get conclusive results
from either. Both men were too
nervous, police said, to allow
proper registration of their re-.
action to questions. Nicholson, J
arrested when he came to Evans’ !
apartment for a visit, denid any !
knowledge of the murder.
Evans tol ddetectives he went j
to a pool hall at State and Har- !
risen s<v, Saturday Infeht and ■
later visited a tavern in N. Clark !
st„ below Chicago av. There, he .
said he met David.
Evans said he and David j
struck up a quick friendship, and
that he took David to his base- 1
ment quarters at about 1 a. m. I
Sunday. They played cards, and !
at 2 a. m., he herad footsteps
above liis room, which is below
Miss Heidsiek’s.
WORKED IN RESTAURANT I
Evans sid he had worked from •
11 a. m. to 9 p. m. Sunday in
t'ht Towne restaurant at 4823
Cermak rd., Cicero. George
Chistos, part owner of. the rest
aurant, told police Evans’ time
card showed he checked in at
10:55 a. m. and left at 9 P. m.
As far as police could learn,
Miss Heidsiek had no enemies.
Neighbors and roomerse consid
ered her a quiet woman. She
came from Hovleton. in down
state Illinois about 15 years ago
to work as housekeeper fod John
Boyle, owner of the 217 S. Ash
land blvd. building.
Boyle died two years ago and
MJiss Heidsiek, thru stmie ar
rangement with his estate man
agers of heirs, took over the
home and rented out rooms.
— VOTE REPUBLICAN —
United Mutual
Offers Training
Under G! Bill
NEW YORK — The United
Mutual Life Insurance Company
is the first Negro insurance firm
to institute courses under the
GI Bill of Rights, it was reveal
ed this week. In cooperation with
the Insurance Society of New
York, the Company has set up
courses in life insurance, leading
up to instruction for the general
broker’s license, Gartered Life
Underwriter’s diploma, and Life
insurance agency management.
Upon successful completion of
te com ;e, wic covers a period
of ten, weeks, an examination
for te State Insurance License
will follow immediately. On the
job training is also offered by
the United Mutual Insurance
Company. In addition, the Vet
eran who qualified for a state
license may continue the full
course of study offered by the
Insurance Society of New York.
The trainee will receive a fixed j
weekly wage from the insurance
company and subsistence from
the Veterans’ Administration.
Single Veterans may earn as
much as $175 while training, and
one with dependents may earn
up to $200. A married Veteran
may earn up to $200.
The course is open to both men
and women Veteians. The of
fices of the United Mutual are
at 310 Lenox av. It will give
further information to those rn
teresteC !
ELECT NEGRO TO RICHMOND, VA. CITY COUNCIL
2,500 PESONS
ATTEND CHURCH
MASS MEETING
Elimintion of an alleged police
payoff and shakedown system on
the South Side was demanded
unanimously by 2,500 persons
who jammed the Metropolitan,
Community church last night at
“Stop Crime” mass meeting.
Instead of squad cars travel
ing “one place of recreation to
another collecting funds,” < the
congested area needs patrolmen
walking their beats to demon
strate that the law is at hand,
said State Sen. . C. Wimbish (3d.,
Dem.)
He demanded a “new broom”
to sweep out the Wabash av.,
police district, charging they
have permitted gambling , and
there has been no real shake up
in the last 20 years.
Aid. Archibald J. Carey? Jr..
(3d) asserted the present force j
is inadequate and “too motoriz
ed,” urging assignment of beat
men “available where crimes are !
happening.”
Lucius C. Harper, executive
editor of the Chicago Defender,
calle dfor a united community
for bringing law enforcement up
to par.
— VOTE REPUBLICAN —
Fight Not Postponed,
NEW YORK—Though a news j
bulletin from reliable Walter1
Winchell stated that the Louis- :
-uodisod aq Pino ay iqSiJ WO»t»A\ I
ed because Joe Louis was unable j
to get in shape in time, fight of- ,
ficials deny this and are contin
uing to sell tickets of which ;
prices start from $50 on down, j
As far as they are concerned, j
the fight is on for June 23rd and i
by 11 p. m. that night the world i
will know just who is Champ. I
— VOTE REPUBLICAN —
Plans have been completed for
publican of a book which will
provide information on all drug
products sold in Oklahoma under
Fair Trade Laws. The volume is
expected to be ready for dis
tribution soon.
Capt. O’Connell
Is Efficient, Able
Police Officer
One of the most outstanding
and efficient police officers on
the South Side s Capt Harry J.
O’Connell, of the Third District
I
HARRY J. O’CONNELL
Police Sstation.
Capt. O’Connell has been 14
jnontlus in the district and in tihe
course of that time has done
all within his power to build up
and aid the people of that dist
rict. As he says, “The day of the j
knockdown and drag out police- I
man is past. Today, police offic- I
eis use diplomacy and discretion I
in handling cases. Police of to- j
day want the people to look upon j
them as men wiho are to help
them, not boogie men to »care
and intimidate them.”
Capt. O’Connell first joined the
police force in June of 1924 as a
patrolman. In 1927 he was pro
moted to Sergeant. Nine years
later, in 1936 he became a lieu
tenant, and in 1938 he was pro
Continued On Page Two
5,000 NEGROES HOMELESS IN
OREGON FLOOD'SAY REPORTS
NEW .YORK—l“The commun- .
ity of Vanport has been comp
letely demolished. Five thousand !
Negroes, a large portion of the J
population, are homeless,” Ed,- I
win Berry, Executive Secretary, i
Portland Urban League stated i
in a report to the organization’s !
national headquarters in New !
York this week. The make-shift j
town, thrown into panic by late j
warnings of danger, was flood
ed within minutes by fifteen
feet of water when the Colum
bia River tore through the weak
dikes protecting the area.
Reports of casualties, Berry
said, are very yconflictmg and
entirely premature. Assoicated
Piess reports have already indi
cated that no one knew how
many of the 18,700 Vanport re
sidents had perished. Portland
city officials admit. there is no
way or making a complete re
port on casualties until the river
recedes, a matter of weeks.
Vanport, six year old suburb
of Portland, one of the nation s
largest war housing areas, was
completely inundated when the
the Columbia River dikes gave
way last Sunday afternoon. The
temporary war housing, biult for
shipyard workers and thir fam
ilies, too flimsily constructed to
meet the ouset of rushing flood
waters, collapsed miserably. The
paration to leave. According to
Associated press reports, army
engineers had checked the dikes
on Saturday, May 29, before they
broke the next day at 4:15 p. m.,
and released a notice saying,
“You will have time to leave.
Don’t get excited. You will be
warned if necessary.” Only the
Vanport Housing Authority
warning siren, sounded minutes
febore the flood waters broke
into the area, saved the lives of
those who escaped. More recent
reports indicate the “dikes” were
hardly more than trestles cov
ered by dirt. High water is still
hampering efforts to make res
cues and recover bodies.
Berry, who is serving as a
member of the Disaster Com
mittee, fetated that the flood
sufferers are being taken care
of “without the slightest indi
cation of discrimination orsegre
iiatiou.”
“All local and national social
work agencies located in the
area,” he said, “have generously
provided their services, with the
American Red Cross in charge,
provided in abundance and there
is no actual material discomfort
amng the sufferers. The home
less are being housed in tempor
al1 dormitories and homes of
people in the Portland commun
ity.”
Continued On Page Two
SEAMAN BODY
AGREES TO
HIRE NEGROES
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The
Seaman Body plant of the Nash
Kelvinator Corp., told Dan Tra
vis, Milwaukee representative of
the Chicago World ,this week
that the firm will hire several
Negro employes,
Travis has been meeting with
officials of the company on this
question for some time, and has
contracted the plant’s UAW-CIO
union about the problem on sev
eral occasions.
The plant manager asked
Travis to provide several Negro
es to be the first ones to go to
work at the plant.
In accordance with this, all
interested persons are.-asked to
contact Dan Travis at 806 W.
Walnut st., and Travis will ar
range for interviews.
Remember, though, this is a
big chance. The Seaman Body
Corp. wants good, reliable men.
If you’re not willing to work and
to show up for work regularly,
don’t come around. If we make
a poor showing, there may not
be any more jobs available for
Negroes there. If we do a good
job, there will be many opport
unities for mere to be hired later.
So if you’re interested n
working hard at a good job,
contact Dan Travis.
— VOTE REPUBLICAN —
Negro Is
Florida Top
Cattle Man
Largest Negro-owned ranch in
the United States is a 20,000-acre
livestock empire in the heart of
Cracker Florida owned by 60
year old Lawrence Silas accord
ing to a July Ebony photo-pro
file claiming that the colored
cattle baron’s mixed ranch crew
includes 24 Negro and white cow
hands.
“On his vast beef on the hoof
empire in flat, sandy Kissimmee
Valley, heart of a Florida indus
try that ranks second only to
Texas, Silas has won a niche as
one of the ibest-known and most
able cattlemen in the nation,”
Ebony says. “His buying and
selling for big-monied ranchers
has earned him the statuis of a
bread-and-butter friend of the
state’s biggest operators—a very
unique distinction for a Negro
in Dixie.”
Silas’ matchless aptitude for
picing top values in bovine ani
mals is credited with making
many of Florida’s biggest ranch
ers and he is known up and
down the valley as a canny judge
of cowflesh and unbeatable trad
er. A shoestring rancher at the
start,Slias says:
“I just built up my herds by
buying a cow or two at a time,
selling has and putting money
into shes.”
j — VOTE REPUBLICAN —
The Miller-Tydings act and
’! Fair 'Trade laws of 45 states
I were approved 85 percent to 11
percent in a referendum of mem
| hers of the National Federation
! of Small Business. Four percent
did not vote.
— VOTE REPUBLICAN —
Surveys show that Fair Trade
usually effects an actual reduct
ion in prices while enhancing
quality and improving values.
New Traffic Law
Enforcement Plan
Gets Underway
Law enforcement in general
will be strengthened throughout
Chicago as a result of foe city’s
new traffic control program,
Police Commissioner John C.
Prendergast said today.
“Officers thoroughly trained
in traffic control, accident pre
vention and accident investiga
tion can take care of almost any
law enforcement situation,” the
commissioner said. “A policeman
who can track down a hit and
run driver is equally capable of
• catching a murderer or a thief.
“The police department,” he
} said, “certainly does not intend
: to devote all of its time to ap
; prehend'ing traffic law violators.
I We -have specially trained men
whose job it is to gee that Chi
! cago’s traffic laws are observed.
But, in addition, they well take
| -5p.*?priate, and necessary actios
against any and all law-break
I ers. Conversely, every other i>ol
i ice officer in Chicago will make
j arrests for traffic law viola
| tions.”
i Commissioner Prendergast
| pointed out that Chicago has
i an opportunity, through this new
traffic safety program, to reduce
I its motor vehicle deaths by 40
| per1 cent in two years.” He said
that 50S people were killed and
! 22,000 injured on Chicago streets
1 last year.
, “I want to make it clear,” the
commissioner said, “that Chi
cago’s Traffic Bureau is not be
ing strengthened at the expense
of any other department. We will
I work with the minimum number
of officers necessary to do a
j good job.”
From now until July 1, Pren
dergast stated, Chicago will have
a “warm-up” period. Police Of
ficers will continue to make ar
rests for dangerous or potenti
ally dangerous violations, but
t'heir main efforts will he dir
ected along educational and
| warning lines. Drivers and ped
I estrians alike will be given the
1 opportunity to know traffic laws
and obey thme.
“Beginning July 1,” he con.
eluded, “officers will gradually
increase their traffic supervis
ion. This will be done on a sel
ective basis. Traffic supervision
will be increased during the
hours most accidents are ocour
ing, where they are happening,
and’ will be directed at those vio
lations most likely to result in
accidents.”
_ VOTE REPUBLICAN —
Everybody is benefited by Fair
j Trade, according to American
| Fair Trade Council. It works for
i the best interests of consumers,
| distributors and manufacturers.
First to Hold
Office Since the
Reconstruction
RICHMOND, VaJ—Oliver W,
Hill, 31, attorney, has been elec
ted to Richmond’s city council,
the first Negro to be electd to a
Richmond office since recon.
j struotion days.
Returns showed, that he gained
the last of nine places that he
gained the last of nine places and
was 150 votes ahead of T. B. Du
Cuennois, area director for the
CIO, who was on a slate of nine
offered by the Richmond Citi
zens association. The associa
tion’s other eight candidates won
easily.
Hill ran for the Democratic
nomination to the house of dele
gates from Richmond in last
year’s primary and missed by
only 190 votes. He polled 9,097
votes in the council race.
Another Negro in the rce polled
only 618 votes an was next to
the bottom in the 20 man field.
At least 2,000 of the votes for
-Hill were credited to white vot
I ers. In the 40th precinct, a whol
| ly white section, he ran ahead of
| 17 white candidates.
— VOTE REPUBLICAN —
SAFETY COUNCIL
URGE MOTHERS
TO WATCH KIDS
(30) SAFETY COUNCIL.
Reports of accidents resulting
from children falling from win
doys have prompted the Greater
Chicago Safety Council to issue
a warning to householders to
make sure screens are securely
fastened.
Each year many children are
crippled or killed by falling from
windows wrhose screens are care_
lessly put in and noj reinforced!
by hook attachments, Joseph F.
Stech, manager of the Council,
stated. At this time of the year
when screens are being inseiled!
parents should caution children
against leaning on screens or
sitting on window-sills and as a
further protection should see
that the screens are not torn and
are properly secured.
It .'.5 a comparatively simple
to see that these adjustments
j are made and they will save the
I :>arei-ts worry and expens and
• the children l'Som permanent
disability, the warning conclud
McKay Body Trained In by Railway
! Express; No Prejudice Charged
NEW YORK—The fact that
I John Peters associated with the
I Griffin—Peters Funeral Home
I on Wednesday spent the hours
' from 9 a. m. pacing Penn Sta
j tion watching every train in
} from Chicago for the body of
I famed writer Claude McKay, was
I not due to prejudice, as rumored
i It was all an unfortunate mix*
| up originating from Chicago
where friends booked the McKay
body to be shipped aboard the
! crack train, Pacemaker, without
understanding that Penn Station
officials refuse coffins Without
escorts. The reforfe, it was put
on a freighter by Railway Ex
press and did not arrive in time
for Catholic services Wednesday
; afternoon.
The daily press, awaiting the
: arrival of McKay’s body for their
j deadlines, were ready to think
it was a prejudiced matter when
it was learned the shipment had
been refused on the Pacemaker.
However, quick checking reveal
ed the true reason and though
mass was said for McKay, who
had been a Catholic just one
year, the bereaved, including
McKay’s 24 year old daughter, a
brilliant Barnard college grad
uate, went through the services
without his coffin.
Fair Trade legislation does not
stop all price-cuttling. It only
prohibits subminimum prices on
the particular trade-marked pro.
duct on which the manufacturer
hr«s announced his intention of
maintaining a miniimum price.