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Meridian for a visit of several
days in the home of the formers
aunt, Mrs. S. b. McIlwain.
Miss Irene Virgins, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Virgins.
was under overnight observation
Tuesday at the Jackson County
hospital as it was feared that
she was threatened with an at
tack Of appendicitis. The fear
proved groundless and Miss Wig
gins returned home Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond r.
King extended hospitality to a
group of their friends at a supper
on the Lawn OF their home at
700 18th Street on the evening
of July 4.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lane are
receiving congratulations over
the birth Of a daughter to them,
Wednesday, July 10 at | p m.
at the Jackson County hospital.
1t. Is. 81 Donald f. Frederic
of the United States Navy is
home on terminal leave after hav-
ing received his release from
he service and is with his
mother. Mrs. Mildred Frederic.
1905 Buena Vista street. Nh.
Frederic saw four and a half
years of service; was in the thick
of action in the Mediterranean
African area and was awarded the
Purple Heart for wounds receiv-
ed at that time. For a number
of months he has been an instruc-
tor in the naval school at Cor
nell University at Ithaca, N. Y.
Friends of Mrs. o. V. Streed
and daughter, Miss Isabel. will
be interested to learn that they
sailed from New York, July 3,
bound for Sweden where they
will visit relatives through the
summer. Mr.. Streed is visiting
his brother, Eric, and family at
Springfield, Mass. where he has
been joined by his brother, John,
of st. Paul, Mimi.
Sister Angelica has returned to
the Convent of the Most Holy
Sacrament after an absence of
five weeks while visiting Lafay-
cite, Beaux Bridge, and Crowley
La.
Miss Jane Coleman has returned
to her home on Cherubuseo
street after an absence of three
weeks while visiting in jackson
and Kosciusko, Miss.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Weldon
SOC 18th street, announce tbs
birth of a son, Robert Michael, a
the Jackson County hospital july
7, 1916.
Miss Katherine Moak has re.
turned from Hattiesburg where
she mad been visiting friends.
Miss Edna Willis is recovering
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city hospital, at Mobile.

~ @Vef+tN4f q At''t4Nf
Miss Doris Hamilton, 710 18th
Street has as guest, Miss Ruth
Hamilton of Albuquerque, N.
NJ.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Brewer
are the parents of a daughter who
was born to them at the jackson
County hospital Wednesday, July
10.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. McIlwain
flew to Memphis Tuesday night
where they were among the 25
dealers invited to attend the
luncheon given Wednesday for
tic president OF the Chrysler
Corporation. They returned home
that evening.
Miss Jean Bates, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. NJ. Bates has
returned from a stay of five
weeks in Calhoun City, Miss.
Baylous Stokes, who flew
from New Orleans to Detroit,
Mich. Sunday returned home
Wednesday. He was driven to
New Orleans Sunday by Mrs.
Stokes who was accompanied by
Mrs. Morris Doughty of Natchez.
Fhe two latter returned home
Monday.
Mrs. A. D. Nadeau and son,
sergeant A. d Nadeau, Jr., who
1as lately returned from service
With the u. S. Army in Germany,
ave returned to their home at
1obile after a weekend visit with
he formers sister, Mrs. E. w.
higgins and family.
Mrs. Z. l.. Holden and children.
}ubba and Sylvia Nell, have re-
urned after a visit of two weeks
n Meadville, Miss. Mrs. Holden
las as guest her sister, Mrs. +.
w. Young who stopped for the
gisit while en- route to her home
1t Miami.
Nj. and Mrs. P. w. Price have
as guest, Mrs. T. j. Price of
Starkville, Miss.
Guests in the home of DIR. and
Mrs. S. B. MeIlwain over the
weekend we're the formers BROTH
er, w. M. McIlwain. a lawyer of
Union Springs, Ala, and his two
daughters, Flora and Mary, and
nephew, DR.. A. j. MeIlwain, and
Mrs. McIlwain and their son,
Mike, of Jackson, Miss.
Mesdemes Joe Savage, Grady
Upton and Louise Anderson were
visitors to Mobile Tuesday.
Congressman and Mrs. William
M. Colmer and sons, Billy and
Tom, are members of a party en-
joying a few days rest on Ship
Island.
Mrs. Royce Kimball and son,
Royce, Jr., have arrived from
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more or less the same group.
IF Rotary and its detectives
mean what it should to the in
dividual member, our attendance
would be what it should be-" he
said, in pointing to the perfect
attendance record of a number of
members which extends from one
year to the 23-year perfect attend
ance of Capt. H. H. Cole.
Former President Roy Owens
was presented with a past-presi-
dents button at the close of the
meeting, and the presidents but
ton turned over to Mr.. Virgins,
who took office last week.
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On Thursday afternoon the
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Miss Doris Hamilton, ITO 18th
Street has as guest, Miss Ruth
Hamilton of Albuquerque, N.
NJ.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

Major Jones left South Center
to become first vice president and
general manager of the National
Investors Corporation, a newly or
gained 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 enterprises and
purchase, develop and manage
merchandising and "service"
businesses, such as laundries and
dry cleaning plants. 1t 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 47th streets largest
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
Riot Victims
Still Face
RepxiSalS

NEW YORK-Despite the
favorable verdict in the re-
cent Lawrenceburg riot trial,
defense attorneys warned
this week that legal reprisals
still aw ait e d Columbia,
Tenn. Negroes.
Hitting at jubiliation at the YER
dict, DR.. Leon Ransom, NAACP
attorney, pointed out that two de-
PENDANTS must still face trial on
the charges for which % 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
lie relations counsel, severely cri-
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 &C
quilted 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.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
ASK ExTRADITI0N
OF AGITAT0R AT
LYNCH RALLY

Initial steps were taken this
week by the Chicago Branch Ma
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
here. .
Bond posted by Denton, an AFL
organizer from Chattanooga, was
ordered forfeited and a capias
warrant issued by Judge John j.
Griffin Monday, October IA, after
the southerner's attorney had Sc
cured four continuances. Neither
appeared at Mondays 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 fragrant disres-
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 States ATTORNEY John
Hendricks and Assistant Corpora
ton 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.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

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 home at 1921 Prai-
RE av. where they roomed.
The distraught, 21-year-oId war
bride told Wabash police that she
and her husband had quarreled
from 1880 to am. that morning
about his jealous disposition. AS
in previous arguments, she said,
he threatened 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 1870 am. They began to
quarrel about his jealousy, she
said.
"He said what he thought and
that made me angry and | said
few harsh things" she explained.
She treasured him before going to
bed that everything lis all right.
The wife said she went to bed
thinking they'd made up, but upon
awakening around 7:45 am. 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 fire.
ouently, 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
q bother to me on account of his
jealousy, but | assured him he
wasn't. I asked him not to con-
tinue arguing or being jealous as
il was hard on both of u.s."
She recalled that he had threat
aned suicide on several occasions
NV saving "what would you do if l
Killed myself, but she said she
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
AFTERMATH OF
FOOTBALL GAME:
TWO INJURED

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 fsti-
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, As, 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, James
Scales, Of 1912 Roosevelt rd., was
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.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
Check Of Records Brings a
Change I'm Covenant Case

Defense Attorney Loring B.
Moore refused to accept trans
fer of a restrictive covenant case
from Superior Judge U. S. Schwartz
until he checked the records in
the Recorders Office, and what he
saw there made him change his
mind rapidly.
Moore represents Leon ]. Smith,
so, dining car waiter, who has
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:
81 think you ought to know
that some years ago a group in
Guiding Irwin G.. Mollison told me
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
VANDERBILT PROF TO
ADDRESS NURSES

NEW YORK - CAMP - 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. 1926. 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.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
TunstaII Wins
Jim Crow Roll
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 decision
handed down last week in the
famous Tunstall case.
The court ruled that the rail
road brotherhoods, acting as ex-
elusive bargaining agencies under
the Railway Labor act, sis under
the obligation of representing
fairly and without discrimination"
Tunstall and other Negro workers.
Tom Tunstall, 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.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

The mother, reported missing
for "a hours, was found around
am. by her 13-year-old daughter
brutally stabbed to death. Her
body had been stuffed into a closet
in their apartment in the Mecca
building at 1888 S. State st.
The victim was Mrs Minnie
Vaughn. Her daughter, Juanita,
student at the Lucy Flowers school
for girls, made the gruesone 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 null
tlple 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 closet by her assail-
ant, police said.
Discovery of the mother. hoFv
was. by, accident, vas disclosed.
The daughter had just reported
her disappearance to police a
short time before she opened the
closet door.
The victim has two other chill
dren, an 11-year-old daughter, Luz
ellie, and son, Raymond, 10.
Police stated they are invests
eating acquaintance 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 1915 S. State ST.,
was continued to Nov. II at the
48th st. police court.
Jdanita 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 1870. After waiting for their
mother until about 6:2O, 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 neighbours 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-
Continued on Page p
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
BukleT-KiIIeF
On Trial; COLL
Mind Experts

NEW YORK-A battle of
psychiatrists lomed this week
as the trial of Ward Beecher
Carraway, colored butler
charged with the murder of
a Long Island socialite, got
under way.
Defense Attorney Charles r
Weeks indicated that his case will
include a review of the perfect
servants" life from childhood, sup.
ported by the testimony of psy.
chiatrists that the 23-year-olc
murderer and rapist was mentally
deficient. fs.s
The prosecution, iifwas learned
will also present psychiatrists in
an attempt to prove that the de-
PENDANT 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
numbering Mrs. Marjory Logan,
so, 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 $40. The daugh-
ter, Miss Marjory Logan, 26, was
then robbed Of 500, 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 MUIR
der.
The victims were the wife and
daughter Of William Logan, a di-
rector of the baking soda firm OF
Church and Sloan.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

defendants were arrested on shear
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 about 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 Racketeers
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, 80, ITO
Ridgeway; Martin tthe Ok Ochz,
SO, 1921 Irving Park I'd; and
James Barsella, 81, $40 N. Ayers.
Other defendants were James
Weinberg, As, 4406 Broadway;
Julius Breakstone, 38, TAI Bromp-
ton; Robert Harper, Al, 4O45
Clifton; J. A. Bowman, 81, SIG
n. Clark; ed Redding, AS, 1856
s. State; George Berger, 80, and
Sol Friedman, 80, 1118 N. State.
The ten were rounded up in
two spectacular raids by police on
Aug. 20. They were accused of
plotting to stage a carnival as a
means to extort an estimated
S115,0O0 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
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
MILITARY RITES
AT 9th ARMORY
FOR OVID HARRIS

Impressive military funer-
al services were held We'd
nesday afternoon at the
Eighth Regiment Armory,
3517 Giles for Ovid E. Har-
ris, so, of 1905 South Park
way. a
A former major in the
184th field artillery regiment,
Harris died Sunday in the Hines
unit of the Veterans Administra-
ton hospital following an illness
of three weeks.
Pallbearers were DIR. Harold
Thatcher, James E. Knight, Col
Theophilus Mann, Col. William H
Lewis, Col. Denote Lee, and Col
Oscar Randall.
A firing squad assigned from
Major Euclid Louis Taylor's first
battalion, 9Th Infantry, IRM, com.
manded by Capt. Louis Banks, fir.
ed a volIey at the grave in Lincoln
cemetery.
Harris, supervising accountant
for the Illinois Department OF
Revenue, is survived by his wife
Clarabelle, and son, Ovid E. Jr
Born in Galveston, Texas, he came
to Chicago in 1914.
After securing a bachelors de.
gree in business administration
from Northwestern University he
began to practice accounting and
entered the Illinois Department OF
Revenue in 1888.
A veteran of both wars, Harris
served as sergeant in the 803rd
Pioneer Infantry Regiment in
World War / 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 Coolies, The Ameri-
can Legion, Kappa Alpha Psi fra
ternity and The Angels, a mems
social club.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

I was not impartial in these cases."
Moore replied that he was SAT-
isfed to have the Judge hear the
case. 1t was continued over the
weekend.
On Monday, however, the de-
tense attorney checked the rec
ords in the Recorders Office. He
said he found there the name Of
Marguerite L. Schwartz signed
the restrictive covenant from the
Judges address at 1925 E. 48th st.
When Moore came back into
court, he did not mention his disc
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. II.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
NAB 2 SUSPECTS
I'm POLICE Staying

Lie tests will be given to deter
mine whether the two providers ar
rested at 5408 Princeton Monday
night are the bandits wanted in
the Sept. 80 Staying Of 1t. Her
man Ziebell Of Forest Park police.
The two arrested are John Pen
dleton, 80, Of 1928 E. Garfield
blvd, and Elmer Griffin, II, of
5313 S. State st.
Sgt. Martin McEIligott of Stock
yards police said they answered
the descriptions Of the bandits
who shot 1t. Ziebell when he sur
prised them robbing service sta
ton at Desplaines ave. and Roose-
welt I'd. in Forest Park.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

department store for Is years en-
couraged large number of south
siders to enter the field of retail
ing.
Jones' sales promotional events
are credited with contributing to
the stores continued success. His
annual baby parades on South
Parkway were eagerly awaited and
his "Dick Jones Days" became ma
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.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
MUSICAL PROGRAM
AT BETHESDA

The Gospel chorus of Greater
Bethesda Baptist church, 1901
So. Michigan ave-, is sponsoring
musical program for the pre-
anniversary of the pastor, DR.. A.
Alfred Watts. Guest artist will
be Master James H. Harris, the
worlds youngest gospel singer.
Assisting will be other well known
gospel singers. Mrs. Gertrude
Elan, president; j. C. Williams,
director.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
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,
$3.50 South Parkway. Dr.. Alfred
G. Kinsey, Professor of Zoology
at the University Of Indiana Will
talk to the group on the subject
of "HUMAN SEX BEHAVIOR"
The time is 500 pm.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

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.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
DAUGHTER FINDS
BODY In CLOSET

Confronted Tuesday with the fendish murder Of a
mother of three Stanton police this week sought ss
pect whom neighbors said had been friendly with the VIC
tim for several years.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

charges, the hoodlums appeared in
police court Sept 4 but the case
was continued to Oct. 16 for fur
Their investigation.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20

TAVERN PLOTTERS
FREE; NO EVIDENCE

The south side tavern plot investigation begun with
front page fanfare in the daily six weeks zzed
to silent end in the 48th ST. police court Wednesday
morning.
Municipal Judge William Y. DAILY, declaring that the
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
Dick Jones Leaves South
ceNxes; ss.SEe. Loop concexr

Major Richard I. Dick Jones has resigned his pos
as vice president public relations director of South
Center department store, it disclosed Monday by
store officials.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1946-10-20
MARRIAGE FAILS;
VET KILLS SELF

coroners jury called it 'sucide while temporarily
insane But failure to adjust to postwar marital life
by police this week in the sefhangng early Saturday