BISHOP REID STIRS A. M. E. COUNCIL LEADERS
URGED TO STAND BEHIND CHURCH
ASKS MORAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT IN FIGHT FOR WILBERFORCE
The Bishops' and Connectional Councils of the A. M. E. Church were held in Louisville this week at Quinn Chapel. The meeting brought to the city the several bishops, general officers, nd leaders of the denomination from all sections of the nation. The welcome program was held Thursday night with Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr., of the 13th Episcopal District, which includes the Kentucky Conferences, presiding. The several addresses of welcome were responded to by Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York. In addition to the usual church and racial matters which come before the Bishops' and Connectional Councils, and the reports of the various epartments of the church, one of the added important features of the meeting here was the matter of Wilberforce University. A strong denounciation of Presdent Charles W. Wesley, who was ousted by the trustees representing the church last week, but who was elected as president of the part of the institution under the jurisdiction of the State of Ohio, was made by Bishop Frank Madison Reid, in a stirring address, Thursday afternoon. Bishop Reid, who graduated from Central High School here and formerly pastored Quinn Chapel, urged that bishops, ministers, and laymen of the denomination forget any personal differences for the good of the church and school, and to stand squarely behind Bishop R. C. Ransom, chairman of the Council of Bishops and of the trustee board at Wilberforce, as the leader in the fight against Wesley and the State of Ohio, with their moral and financial support.
MURRAY N.A.A.C.P. MEET SPEAKER
PROMINENT CANDIDATE FOR BISHOPRIC HUSBAND OF CITY GIRL HERE FOR MEET
[Photo] Rev. F. D. Jordan - Rev. Frederick D. Jordan host-pastor for the 1948 session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which meets in Los Angeles, California is in the city attending the sessions at Quinn Chapel. As a part of the preparation for the General Conference a $100,000 addition to the church, historic Eighth and Towne Avenue, is nearing completion. This unit will house the Religious Education facilities, Church Parlor, Administrative Officer, etc, for the organization. In addition to his church activities, the estimate which the city of Los Angeles as a whole placed upon the services of Rev. Jordan, is indicated in the frequency and variety of calls made upon him for civic cimmittees and speaking engagements. He has recently spoken for the Jewish War Veterans, at Occidental (Continued on Page 4)
Sissles Still Fight Over "Kids"
Life for Murderer
Wife Murderer Is Given Life
IS ABLE TO MAKE BARGAIN IN LAST Minute Effort To Escape Death
In a dramatic last minute effort to escape possible death in the electric chair for the gun-barrel slaying of his wife March 31, Inman English, 31, 455 South 7th Street, suddenly changed his plea to guilty and received life imprisonment in the penitentiary, Tuesday, June 17. A criminal court jury had heard the testimony for nearly five hours. The confessed slayer nattily dressed in a pin-stripe suit was visibly nervous as the case neared completion. Defense Attorney, Frank R. Cahill requested a five minute recess just before summation of the case which ended in adirected verdict upon the recommendation of Commonwealth Attorney, Chares W. Anderson Jr. English, who ran a restaurant at 6th and Walnut street known as "Duckies," beat his wife Mary Louise to death with a ring-handled pistol early the morning of March 31, in a drunken and jealous frenzy. Cahill sought to prove English killed his wife in a drunken rage because of a man named Jim Smith who lived upstairs over the 6th street restaurant. Witnesses for both the Commonwealth and the defense denied knowing any man by that name who lived in the building. Dr. Roy L. Carter, coroner of Jefferson County told the jury (Continued on Page 4)
WESLEY CALLS FOR CHANGE OF NATIONAL AND WORLD LEADERSHIP
Tried Patience, SAYS HUGHLETT
TRIED PATIENCE, SAYS HUGHLETT By D. J. Hughlett We have tried to have patience with the slow movement of the nurse training school at Red Cross Hospital. Month after month we have questioned the delay we have seen the tendency of the Board to become self-sufficient and not use the medium of cooperation with the city fully used and finally dwindle to the point where one man ran the whole show, and in Negro fashion. This one man happened to be white. We have been slow to say what was stated to us recently by one of the top members of the Board in reference to not being willing to make the last hurdle in the Nurse training school, or the 50-patient daily average, which could have been done by affiliation with General Hospital, a thing promised during the early stages of the game, but later for some reason repudiated, with the assertion that the General Hospital standard was so low that it would not do us any good. If this can be beat then we can make a boat. A new day and a new deal is needed at Red Cross, if the health needs of the Negro people of Louisville are to be met properly and successfully.
GETS QUICK "NOT GUILTY" OF INCEST WITH DAUGHTER; CHURCH FRIENDS HAPPY A criminal court jury deliberated 28 minutes in returning a verdict of "not guilty" in the case of John Arlington Anderson,33, 1643 W. St. Catherine, accused of having immoral relations with his fourteen year old daughter, Wednesday evening, June 18. Arrested on a warrant sworn to by his wife Lucille Anderson the indictment charged that Anderson committed incest with his daughter. Defense attorney, Brent Overstreet claimed that Anderson was the victim of a "frame-up." Atty C. Eubanks Tucker prosecuting declared that the defendant hid behind the sanctity of the church to commit a lecherous act Anderson was congratulated upon his freedom by a group of well-wishers from his church who believed him innocent.
CONGRATULATES HONOR GRADUATE
In the above picture, President John W. Taylor of the University of Louisville, congratulates Miss Gwendolyn Mitchell an honor graduate, at the Louisville Municipal College Commencement, Monday night at Quinn Chapel. See article.
SOUTHERNER WHO STRUCK WOMAN FINED AND KNOCKED OUT BY HUSBAND
Swedish Women Protest Brutality
3 STRICKEN MEET SUDDEN DEATHS
Two cases of indigestion and one of lockjaw brought sudden death to two women and a man this week according to the coroner's office.
William Durrett, 36, 417 No. Hite Street, died suddenly Saturday June 15 at 2:30 A. M., after eating a hearty meal. Lizzie Lovings, 416 R. South 3rd died at General Hospital June 11th at 10:10 P. M., after sharp pains and a fainting spell. She was dead on arrival at the hospital, medical authorities agreed her death was caused by heart failure after eating. Gladys West Jones, 444 South 16th St. died June 13th 7:00 A. M. of tetnus (Lockjaw). An investigation into the cause is being conducted by hospital authorities, the coroner's office reported.
FALLS FROM BUILDING SCAFFOLD DIES AT RED CROSS HOSPITAL - HOD-CARRIER WAS HANDLING TILE AT NEW COURIER-JOURNAL BUILDING A ten foot fall from a scaffold where he was handing tile to a worker on the new Courier Journal and Louisville Times building at 6th and Broadway, resulted in the death of Fount Barnett, 62, 635 South 8th St., early Monday morning June 16. Barnett was admitted to the Red Cross Hospital at 10:50 and died less than two hours later. witnesses to the disaster said Mr. Barnett stepped back on the scaffolding and lost his footing. He was a hod-carrier for more than thirty years. His funeral was held Thursday June 19 from Green Street Baptist Church. Interment at Louisville Cemetary with Burns Funeral Home officiating. Survivors are: Five daughters and two sons.
BED SMOKING, DRUNK; DEATH Smoking a cigarette in bed while under the influence of an intoxicant caused the death of Will Griffith, 33, 519 Rear So. 7th Street, Deputy Coroner Joseph Beck reported this week. Griffith died of second and third degree burns at the General Hospital early Monday morning, June 16. His back, neck, chest and lower extremities were burned crisp, the county officer reported. Frances Gore, 519 Rear South 7th told the county officials that she left the house about 9:00 that morning and came back about 2:00 and found Griffith in bed engulfed in smoke. His body became surrounded by flame when she lifted him from the bed.
TO REPRESENT NAACP AT NATIONAL MEET At the recent monthly meeting of the Louisville Branch N. A. A. C. P., Mrs. Henrietta P. Butler, secretary of the American Baptist, and secretary of the organization; Woodford Porter, manager, A. D. Porter and Sons Funeral Home, and manager of the recent N. A. A. C. P. membership campaign, and I. Willis Cole, publisher, former president of the Branch were elected as delegates to represent the organization at the annual meeting of the National Association in Washington, D. C., June 24--29.
19 GET MUNICIPAL COLLEGE DIPLOMAS Diplomas were given to 19 graduates of Louisville Municipal College by President John W. Taylor of the University of Louisville, at Quinn Chapel, Monday night. The following were presented to the president by Dean Bertram W. Doyle: Misses Gwendolyn Mitchell and Evelyn Williams, winners of first and second honors, Mary Anderson, Fanny Bullitt, Katherine Burton, Elizabeth Cole, Wilma Douglass, Paralee Fields, Christal Hayes, Dorothy Harris, Irma Owens, Elizabeth Schultz, Sadie Tate, Vivian Washington, Elnora White, Suella Wiggington, Morse Henry Coleman, David White and Winifred Wise. The Commencement address was delivered by Cleo W. Blackburn, superintendent of the Flanner Settlement House, who reminded the graduates that Negroes could make an important contribution to the world because they understood suffering. (Continued on Page 4)
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