LAUDED FOR FINE STATE Oklahoma Capitol Historical TV Society The ON Dispatch ONWARD TO THE HEIGHTS VOLUME 32-NUMBER 48. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, NOVEMBER 22, 1947 WIFE FREED IN FATAL SHOOTING OF HUSBAND BEN SHAW KILLED AS PAIR 'SHOOT IT OUT IN GAMBLING FIGHT A gun fight Sunday night at 712 N. Kelham resulted in the fatal shooting of Ben Shaw, 52, of 605 N. Jordan, who died almost instantly of three bullet wounds and serious wounding of a second man, Will Allen, 43, of 312 N. E.
1st. Allen is in Mercy hospital being treated for a pistol shot in the left thigh which range up- Trojans Tangle With Taft "11" Friday Coach Moses "Pi Yi" 'Miller's Douglass High school Trojan conference leaders put their enviable record on stiff trial here at Page re stadium Friday night when the local gridsters take on the heavy eleven from D. B. 0. institute of Taft.
Reported to be the heaviest high school team in the state, with plenty of punch and defense, the Taft footballers also have an eye on Big Four honors this season, though recently losing to Tulsa 7-6 in a hotly contested match. The game is scheduled for 8:15 p. m. 'TEEN AGE GIRL JAILED BY PARENTS FOR ABUSE A 19-year-old girl with a police record as long, if not as. tragic as most hardened criminals, was fined $7 in city police court Saturday on complaint signed by her parents, accusing her of abus- ing the mother and father by "using loud, profane language while in a drunken condition." The girl's record goes back several years, beginning with truancy and leading to a half dozen arrests and fines in 1947 for fighting in beer taverns, disorderly conduct, loitering around a disorderly house, molesting and vagrancy.
TAFT MURDER CASE CONTINUED ward and lodged in the small of back. the shooting followed a gambling Early police, reports state that affair ending shortly after 7 Pm Sunday night. Allen is alleged to have exchanged shots with the slain man after receiving a shot fired from Shaw's gun, went to his car and attempted to drive to; hospital, but became exhausted from loss of blood and lost control of the car in the 900 block NE 7. Detectives Filson and Gear, assisting in the investigating at the Kelham avenue shooting scene, learned that Allen had driven off and proceeded to the hospitat, and by chance spotted the crashed vehicle near Laird and Seventh A McKay ambulance was called to take the shot victim to Mercy hospital. Reports state that Allen would not make a statement regarding whereabouts of the gun he allegedly used.
Further investigation by plain clothesmen, Filson and Gear revealed the name of a man known as "Fairgrounds" as accompanying Allen as he drove off for the hospital. A man giving his name a6 Babe Haley and popularly known as living at 16. W. Pottawotamie, was questioned by the detectives and surrendered a .32 Colt automatic, allegedly fired by Allen. Haley is reported to have told the plainclothesmen that his sor.
Emerson Haley had pawned the gun to Allen for $10, that he removed the gun from Allen's pock-, et after the vehicle crashed on on east seventh. MUSKOGEE, The case of a The body of the fatally wounded charge of Mrs. Lettye Hardeman, man, Shaw, was received Temby matron at D. B. 0., Taft, where- ple Funeral Directors and later rein she was charged with causing moved to the Rolfe Funeral Home the death of an inmate of the for services Friday from the Anhome, up for trial Wednesday, tioch Baptist Church, 4th and was continued to November 26th.
Bath. CONTRIBUTING TO DELINQUENCY OF MINOR GETS SIX MONTH AND $200 FINE FOR THIRTY YEAR OLD MAN A sentence of six months of $200 was meted out to a pleas court of Carl Traub twelve white business men tributing to the delinquency JAILED EX-CON FACES LONG SENTENCE A man with a record of twelve convictions of assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying concealed weapons and a year's prison sentence for assault, is held in the county jail for prosecution after being fined $20 in city police court November 17 for cutting Robert 'Bob' Berry, of 600 NE 1st. The jailed man was identified as Johnnie Jackson, 35, of 217 N. Geary, and was arersted at NE 2nd by Patrolman Henry McMullen. Conviction in state court after a former felony sentence can demand a 99-years term.
SECOND SHOOTING IN WESTTOWN Robert Lloyd, 26, of 11 South Klein, was shot in the left thigh with a .32 caliber revolver about 3 a. m. November 16, allegedly by Joseph Tunley, 108. So. Douglas whom police are holding for investigation pending recovery of Lloyd.
The shooting took place in the westtown section. The bullet did not make exit and lodged in the man's back near the spine. The fracas is reported by eyewitnesses to have started after a quarrel over the affections of 18-year-old girl. Witnesses state that Tunley fired three times at Lloyd. NAACP MEETING LARGEST CONFERENCE IN NAACP HISTORY ELECTS NEW OFFICIALS; PASSES STRONG LEGISLATION Roscoe Dunjee Resigns Presidency; H.
W. Williamston to Lead Association PRICE 5 CENTS Jones Shotgun Victim Treated At Hospital Jethro Webb, 43, living southwest of Jones, northeast Oklahoma county, was treated in Mercy hospital Wednesday night, Nov. 12, for buckshot wounds in the left thigh and legs allegedly fired from a shotgun in the hands of Dave Robinson, 55, who lives in Jones area. According to reports gathered in the sheriff's office, Webb charged Robinson with quarrelling on a job at 'a Midwest city construction project where worked. Webb claimed in the report that Robinson was drunk on the job, began quarrelling and started a fight which he reported to the foreman who fired Robinson off the job.
Webb further alleges that Robinson layed in wait for 1 him proachineshed rural down a home lane about p. m. that night and deliberately fired a charge of No. 4 buckshots point blank. Robinson is held in the county jail of charges of assault with a dangerous weapon.
12 MONTHS FOR POSSESSION Twelve months in jail was meted out to' Arthur Jackson in federal court Monday for possession and concealing non-tax paid whiskey. Jackson's attorney, Wm. H. Lewis, secured stay of commitment until January5, 1948, to permit the man to wind up certain business affairs. OKLAHOMA CITY WINS 1948 MEET telling the association that their! battle was very similar to the fight that organized labor has been waging throughout the years, and assured them that the two must continue to fight side by side.
John Jay Jones, president of the Texas state conference, brought greeting from the Lone Star state and promised to work closely with Oklahoma and the other states in the southwest region toward securing all civil rights that citizens are entitled to under the constitution. Dunjee Resigns Presidency The packed house at the afternoon session was given its first shock when Jimmy Stewart, president of the Oklahoma City branch, read the president's annual address which offered regret that the dent's health would not permit present condition of the presi-, him to be present, and after enumerating the work of the association during the past year, as well as the desires for the future, requested the conference to accept his resignation. The convention immediately went into an uproar. There could not have been much more confusion at the death of lof Hiram Abiff during the building King Soloman's temple. It was only after much pleading by Stewart, that this was the heart-felt (Continued on Page 9, Col.
1) By JIMMY STEWART the rain came with the largest delegation ever to attend a state NAACP conference, there was pienty of fire from the welcome addresses to the closing session of the 13th annual conference held here Nov. 13 and 14. Joe Durnoncourt, regional CIO organizer of Oklahoma City, started the ball rolling in the first regular session by Kappa Founder Dies While Sleep Notice To Public For Advertising, Church and Social News The Black Dispatch will go to press one day earlier next week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. The City edition will be published on Wednesday. This will make it necessary for the deadline on all copy to be one day earlier.
Church news must be in the office by Monday at 12:00 O'Clock. Social news by Tuesday at 12:00 O'Clock and Advertising, Tuesday at 12:00. The management "Is It Unlawful To Have A Still?" Asks Federal Juryman After listening to a parade of federal agents describe a lengthy automobile chase of two Negro defendants charged with operating two huge stills with 275 gallons of fermented mash in barrels, one of the twelve all-white jurymen, raised his finger to Judge Edgar S. Vaught and asked "Is it unlawful to have a still?" Courtroom Tilter After the courtroom laughter died down, the court read verbatum text of the a alcoholic law and explained two indictments against the defendants charged with operating a still and distilling moonshine. Green Pastures Men The defendants were named as James Newby and Robert Earl Lee, both of Green Pastures.
After more than two hours deliberation the jury returned a not guilty verdict. Agents Mark Stills Testimony by federal operatives revealed that the two huge homemade moonshine whiskey plants had been located in the Spencer area and watched over a lengthy period. When unknown operators failed to appear for lengthy periods of time, the government agents stated they inspected the equipment and secretly marked the tanks. "Moving" Still On a second inspection, the G-men discovered one marked still had been removed. Later this still bobbed-up at another location.
On a second inspection of still No. 2, the two defendants were seen driving which off rapidly in a '35 roadswas chased for more than two miles before overtaken. Evidently the jury didn't believe foot-tracks from the still to roadside tire tracks belonged too Newby and Lee, nor did they believe federal agents could positively identify fresh car tracks at the No. 2 distillery as those of roadster chased over sandy roads near Spencer. Charles W.
A dams, Perrine Building, represented the defendants. U. S. Attorney General Wm. A.
Berry prosecuted the case. Whites Protest Ban On Two Negro Kids In Baby Contest CASPER, Wyo. (ANP) A storm of protest was stirred up by white mothers here Friday when two Negro mothers made public charges that officials of a baby contest, sponsored by local women's auxiliary of the Order of Moose, had removed their children's names from the running "because of our color." The charges were made by Mrs. Harry Gray, wife of a veteran, and Mrs. Roscoe Howard.
Mrs. Gray said she was forced to withdraw her son, Ronald, 3, who was among the leaders in the baby balloting. She said she had received an invitation to enter Ronald in the contest, that she had taken him to contest headquarters to be registered and had received a book of chances to be sold on a victory bond. For each 30-cent chance she sold, Ronald received one vote. Mrs.
Gray said she had sold 1,500 chances and a friend had added an additional 450.. Bert Johnson, district governor of the Moose lodge, said that Mrs. Gray's charges had been investigated, but indignant protests continued to pour into the organization 'FESS' IVERSON WIDOW CLEARED OF MURDER CHARGE; CLAIMS SLAIN HUSBAND ATTEMPTED TO KILL HER Slain Man Was Drunk, Threatening With Open Knife THREE SHOTS FROM .38 REVOLVER HIT KATY CAR CLEANER Murder charges against Mrs. Marzee Elsie Iverson, 46, who admitted shooting her husband with a .38 caliber Colt revolver last Saturday night in their 10 N. Ellison home, were dismissed Wednesday evening by Justice of Peace Paul Powers, in whose court preliminary hearing was held.
The widow testified that since? their marriage last March, her husband would get drunk each 1st and 16th (pay-days) and come home quarrelling and threatening her life. About 8:00 p. m. Saturday she returned to her home to find the husband inebrinated and in a quarrelsome mood. During the course of one-hour the slain man had threatened her several times.
In an effort to avoid the drunken man, Mrs. Iverson said she prepared to take a bath, but was pulled out of the room and shoved into the kitchen by the man. Following her into the kitchen, Iverson drew a knife, cursing and declaring his intention to kill her, said the woman. Mrs. Iverson said she ran to the bedroom and got a revolver her (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.
COL. 1 FESTUS IVERSON TULSANS WIN RESTRICTIVE COVENANT CASE IN HIGH I COURT TULSA, The State Supreme Court upheld the decision of North Tulsans moving into the T. Dickson Hunter and Broadview additions. The long court battle was settled Monday when State Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Tulsa county court to allow Negroes to buy and move into the additions. The court contended that a restriction against selling property to Negroes could not be applied to entire areas unless all property owners agreed to it.
McArthur alleged that the restrictive agreements in the three districts names 75 per cent or more of the owners. Action was brought against Gilliam and Walter R. Summers, as well as 125 other Tulsans owning lots in this section, but the Tulsa court held that Negroes buy lots in the area if whites owning them chose to sell to colored people. The T. Dickson addition lies on both sides of Reading between Queen and Seminole the Hunter addition is bounded on north by Queen and on the south by between St.
Louis and Peoria; and the Broadview addition is just east of the Hunter addition. Women's Federation To Meet in Shawnee On next Saturday, Nov. 22, at 10 a. m. the federated club ladies of Shawnee will be hostesses to members of the central region of Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
The president, Mrs. Elphanie Young, is asking all ladies of the central region to please be present and help in the formulation of vital plans that are to be worked out. We will so be graced with the Mrs. Mildred red Williams, of Tulsa. presence our state president, DIVORCE PLANNED BY WIFE OF N.
Y. NEWSPAPERMAN NEW YORK (ANP) -Enid Raphael, dramatic actress, wife of Ted Yates, newspaperman and director of the Independent Press service, is planning a divorce. INDIANAPOLIS, (ANP) Elder W. Diggs, founder of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and local school principal, died in his sleep here Saturday morning, and was buried Wednesday, Nov. 12.
from the Willis funeral Funeral services were Diggs was born in Christian county, Kentucky, and was a graduate of Indiana State Teachers college and Indiana university. While at Indiana, he organized the small group of Negro students there, in order to secure for themselves better living accommodations and some recognition on the campus. That organization WaS the first Alpha chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, founded Jan. 5, 1911. He was the national president (grand polemarch) of the fraternity for six years, having, served longer than any other executive.
He was later awarded Kappa Alpha Psi's Laurel wreaththe highest honor of the fraterInity. 'Cry Baby' Spears Jailed On Drunk Driving Count 2 WOMEN LEAP FROM CAR SAYS PATROLMAN Louis B. 'Cry Baby' Spears, 35, of 711 NE 4, was fined a total of $40 for drunkeness land drunk driving Tuesday morning in city court after his arrest at 6:15 a. m. the previous morning following a car wreck near 815 NE 4, according to records in the police bureau.
Spears was held for investigation until Monday morning police court session. According to the report, Spears was driving at an excessive rate west on Fourth and hit a "properly parked" '38 Pontiac sedan in front of 815 NE 4th, "knocking it 20 feet." Beat Patrolman Jacko reported two unidentified women leaping from the Spears car and running west. Traffic investigators reported the right side of Spears' windshield being broken and "matts of feminine hair" found. The Spears car, a '42 2-door Buick, was imponded in the Dent garage. The parked car was registered in the name of Jessie Adams, address given as 815 NE 4th.
FILSON-GEAR GET 4 HITS IN WEEK ON POLICY WHEEL Four hits within a week for more than $200 on local policy wheels is better than a lot of numbers players can boast, but City Detectives Leslie L. Filson and Harlish V. Gear, made public record of the fact in the court of Municipal Judge Mike Foster. With the idea of catching operators with the main source of lottery paraphenalia, the detectives made a round of suspected "numbers drawings" nabbing two in a residence in the 400 block North Geary, two in the rear of a prominent barber shop, and a choice haul of rubber stamps, "strips," pads and other lottery gadgets in a recently rented rear basem*nt room in the unit block on East Second near the Sante Fe "el." "BAD BOY" AND JENKINS FOUND GUILTY ON U. S.
'DOPE CHARGE federal grand jury Tuesday afternoon found Raymond "Bad Boy" Campbell, 35 and Fred Clifford Jenkins, about 50, guilty as charged last month in a grand jury indictment of Acquiring 30 grains of marihauna without paying transfer tax and failing to register as a dealer in narcotics. Sentence will be pronounced by presiding judge Edgar S. Vaught on Monday. NATION'S GREAT HAIL JOHNSON INAUGURAL AS FIRST NEGRO PRESIDENT OF FISK UNIVERSITY President Truman's Message Lauds Leader Of 81-Year-Old College GRANDDAUGHTER OF FIRST HEAD LEADS PROCESSION "BADDEST IN TOWN SUBDUED BY OFFICER BROWNE in the county jail and a fine thirty-year-old man in common Tuesday afternoon after a jury of found the fedendant guilty of conof a 15-year-old girl. Defendant's attorney did not place his client on the stand for the trial, but based defense on technique of cross examining prosecution witnesses.
Unlike many such cases, as widely reported, the and her mother fully cooperated with the county juvenile officer and both took the stand, facing the man and giving damaging and terribly embarrasing accounts of sordid experiences with the defendant. Assistant County Attorney George Miller, prosecuted case and in final remarks to the jury said, "the people on the eastside of the city are entitled to full protection of the law and is within your power to give to them." Maximum fine and sentence in such cases is $500 and 6 months in the county jail. Asst. Juvenile Officer Fred Wright, was a principal and related pertinent facts from his lengthy investigation in the case. Eviction Fight Dropped by Coed MADISON, Wis.
(ANP) Iris Alexander, 19 year old white junior from New York attending the University of Wisconsin, anannounced last week that she had given up her plan to fight eviction from her room in a private home for dating a Negro student. "I'm the baddest in town and you ain't takin' me' down," yelled a drunk in the Pleasure Gardens tavern Sunday night when Beat Patrolman D. L. Browne arrested the man for breaking beer bottles on the ern floor and generally streaking the house and occupants. Patrolman Browne finally got the inebriated man to the street and started east toward the 2nd and Stiles patrol box when the drunk jerked away and threw a wild hay-maker, barely missing the uniformed officer's chin.
well Officer Browne, an ex-GI schooled in the manly art, was forced to subdue the uncivil character to the extent that a trip to Mercy hospital was quired before incarceration at the city hostelry. In municipal court Monday morning the sobered drunk was identified as Sylvester Phillips, 26, of 523 N. Lindsay. Judge Foster fined the man $12 for drunkenness and $10 for resisting an officer. LITTLE PROGRESS IN PROBE OF FIRE DEATHS CHICAGO, (CNS) The inquest which is being held at Mayor Kennelly's request to probe the disastrous tenement fire that took the lives of 10 Negroes, Oct.
10th, is progressingly slowly. This week a mystery auto highlighted the hearing, but is proving of little worth. According to Henry Bailey of 235 N. Sacramento there was an automobile parked before the burning building on the night of Oct. 10th.
It was driven by two men, one wearing army clothing, who ran out of the building just before the explosion which preceded the fire. Bailey even pointed out the car and police kept an eye on it for several days. But then Police Sgt. Dooley of the detective bureau noted several discrepancies in Bailey's story. The inquest will be resumed again Nov.
12. NASHVILLE, Tenn. mic Johnson regalia and impressive was invested as sixth during windy outdoor exercises Over two thousand shivering spectators joined with 300 delegates of colleges and cultural societies in honoring the 54 year old statesman and scholar who becomes the first Negro to head the 81 year old In a slow deliberate voice, Doctor Johnson took his stand on his four pillars of faith -work, justice, freedom, and moral powerthat were to guide him in discharging his newly accepted duties and responsibilities. The new president was invested by L. Hollingsworth Wood, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fisk university, who pledged full loyalty and support to the administration, and called a moment of silence to link the for, future with the glowing ideals of the past.
The Honorable Thomas L. Cummings, mayor of Nashville, and Honorable Jim Nance McCord, governor of Tennessee, brought greetings from the citizens which (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1) Sanford Declines Muskogee Post It was reported this week that Mr. J. W.
Sanford, former Langston university president, now presently engaged in several confining business enterprises in the capitol city, declined a recent offer of Supervisor, Separate Schools of Muskogee. Mr. Sanford, who' devoted a number of years to the teaching profession in Texas and Oklahoma, is stated to have carefully studied the Muskogee set-up and after lengthy consideration, wrote Supt. Harry D. Simmons of the Muskogee schools, that he could not accept the post in view of his business operations in Oklahoma City, the distance from Muskogee and confinement at Muskogee that the supervisory post would entail.
Amid a colorful array of acadeceremony, Doctor Charles S. president of Fisk university, Friday afternoon. Nov. 7. Moonshiner Gets 12 Months Medic Treatment Sentence Condition of health was no impairment in sentencing 8 Negro defendant to 12 months in a federal institution for possession of a distillery, distilling and making fermented ingredients, Monday in U.
S. Court. The defendant, Lorenza Caldwell, past middle-aged man of raw-boned features closely resembling effects of alcoholism, stood impatiently before Judge Edgar S. Vaught as his attorney requested stay of sentence for reasons of health. The judge quickly retorted, "Oh, we'll (U.
take good care of him Probation officer, see that this man is sent where he can get treatment for alcoholism." MOONSHINER GETS 12 MONTHS AND $500 Judge Edgar S. Vaught in federal court Monday morning sentenced Otis O'Neal to 12. months and a $500 fine after the defendant pleaded guilty to possession of a distillery, distilling whiskey, making-fermenting, and working at a still. Twelve months was meted out on each of the four counts, to run concurrently. Stay of commitment until January 5 was given to permit the man to wind up business affairs.
SCOUTCARMEN CATCH MAN IN CLOSED TAVERN Scoutcar Patrolmen J. H. Maddox and C. W. Pierce booked Roosevelt Cox, 24, no address, for 2nd degree burglary after finding him at 3:30 a.
m. in the Blue Front tavern, 628 NE 1. According to the officers' re port, the front door had been A pried open and the man appeared to be in the act of rifling a cigaret machine when apprehended. The alleged burglar received two-year sentence in 1942 for entering a grocery at 800 NE.
