Prejudices Threaten Peace, Says U.S. Army
Tells Troops None Superior
Says Racial Prejudice Alienates Confidence of Nonwhite World
Jails English Girl
Virginia Jails English Bride
SERVING SIX MONTHS BECAUSE OF HER LOVE FOR AMERICAN NEGRO
STORE CLERK FOILS YOUTHFUL BANDITS; ONE OF FOUR KILLED. Arthur Lee Bransford, 56, 1426 West Liberty, a whiskey store clerk at 203 East Madison, was slated on a charge of manslaughter in police court this week after killing one of four youthful Negro bandits in an attempted hold-up at the dispensary late Saturday night. The dead man has been identified as Willie Forrest Lucas, 21, 3711 Hale Avenue. He was shot through the head. Police, now seeking a fifth member of the gang, apprehended three of the desperados shortly after the slaying. Held without bond on charges of armed robbery and attempted robbery were Charles Scott Miles, 24, 1633 West St. Catherine; his brother, James Miles, 23, same address, and Joseph People, Jr., 17, 3619 Kirby. Harold Germans, 2520 R. Virginia, is allegedly the missing member of the gang which is accused of a checkerboard series of robberies ranging from the theft of salable metal to holdups of gas stations and whiskey stores. Bransford, according  to police, leaped across the counter in the whiskey store and shot Lucas in the head, after the latter menaced the clerk with a [flourishing?] revolver. Max Wolf [(w.)?], proprietor of the store was [a?] witness to the fatal shooting. The arrested men were identified by three businessmen as men who either robbed them or made an attempt within the last seven days. Homer Pile (w.), 3336 Oleanda Avenue, told police that three of the men were the ones who (Continued on page 4)
CHESTER JOHNSON, DETECTIVE, DIES Chester Johnson, 60, 1127 West Chestnut, a city policeman for the last 19 years, died early Thursday morning, January 15, from an attack of acute indigestion. Johnson, who has been a plainclothesman for four years, appeared well and hearty the day before as he and his partner, William H. Walker, made their rounds. Funeral services, attended by high police officials, fellow patrolmen and friends, were held at the West Chestnut Street Baptist Church. Burial was in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. Johnson, one of the finest type of police officers, was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Louisville Consistory No. 41 and St. Thomas No. 2. Lodge rites were held at midnight January 18. Johnson is survived by a niece and nephew.
Speaker Meets President [photo] Pictured above, left to right, are Clarence Holte, New York, sales representative of Lever Brothers Company; Sylvanus E. Olympio, native of Lorae, Togoland, who was guest speaker in French and English at the United Nations, and an official of the Lever affiliated United Africa Company. next in the picture is Charl s Luckman, president of Lever Brothers, and a member of President Truman's Civil Right Committee, and who organized and headed the President's Food Conservation Committee. The picture was taken in Mr. Luckman's Lever House in Cambridge, Mass.
Says Educational Equality Step Nearer
TWO WOMEN GET 30 DAYS IN JAIL Two women, who were caught by alert employees of the Silver 5 and 10 Cent Store as they stuffed $18 worth of undergarments into waiting bags, drew sentences of 30 days in jail this week in police court. The women, Essie Murphy, 41, 321 Rear South Preston, and Nannie Buckner, 39, 832 Rear East Market, were arrested early Monday evening on a warrant sworn to by Walter Craig, store manager. Police said this was the first offense for the Murphy woman, as they explained the other woman was "an old professional." STORK BRINGS FINE 8-POUND BOY The stork brought a find eight-pound baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hayden, 928 West Walnut Street, Wednesday, January 15, Mrs. Hayden is the son of Mrs. Francis Smith, well known in church and political circles.
MAMMOTH PAYS 5 PERCENT DIVIDEND The annual meeting of the Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company was held at its Home Office Building, 606-608 West Walnut Street, January 13, with the Chairman of the Board W. C. Buford, presiding. In opening the meeting, the chairman, through facts and figures, cited the remarkable progress of the company during 1947, and Mr. Buford announced that the 32-year-old company had plans in the making for creating an Ordinary Department and rendering a larger service to its policyholders. Reports from the following officers were read: Miss Thelma J. Hall, Comptroller; L. T. Duncan, Treasurer; J. E. Hankins, Secretary, and A. D. Doss, Sr., President, a summary of which showed that the Company had made safe and sound investments. Because of the splendid results of the loyal agency force, together with the returns on investments, President Doss announced in his report that the Company had declared a 5 percent dividend to its stockholders. In anticipation of a vast expansion program, Mammoth is now in process of taking over the third floor of its Home Office Building for top executive offices. The company will also add to the Public Relations Department a library, research and information service. The Company reports a margin of decrease in operation expenses in 1947 over 1946, due to efficient management. J. E. Hankins, W. P. Offutt, E. C. Kenzer and Mrs. Agnes Glover were re-elected to the Board of Directors Robert Holloman was elected to the Board to fill the vacancy of his father. the late John Holloman. The stockholders affirmed the 5 per cent dividend immediately after business procedures were completed. J. E. Smith, Executive Vice-President and Agency Director of the Domestic Life Insurance Company, made significant observations and commended the accomplishments of Mammoth. Mrs. M. Mae Street-Kidd, Counselor of Public Relations, summarized activities of (Continued on Page 4)
CHICAGO PRINTERS' UNION BRINGS FIGHT ON DEFENDERS TO LOUISVILLE Simmons E. Wood, Chicago, a former resident of Louisville and son of the late Rev. J. E. Wood, prominent Baptist leader of Danville, Ky., is in the city this week on a special public relations mission as a representative of the Chicago Typographical Union, No. 16. According to Wood, his main purpose is to bring to the citizens here the facts behind the so-called printers' strike at the Robert S. Abbott Publishing Company, and is tied up with the Louisville Defender of December 14 carried a story, which claimed that its printers were out in support of the city-wide printers' strike which began in Chicago November 24. Wood, who worked as a composter for the Robert S. Abbott Publishing Company, said the printers were locked out December 5, after John H. Sengstacke, president, reneged on an agreement to pay the union scale that the 27 journeymen and three apprentices received the new rate for two weeks, and the publishing company's anti-union drive, aided and abetted by the Louisville Defender, began without warning. Wood, a former employee of The Leader in the late twenties, said that the printers resented Sengstacke's insistence they they should accept a "Jim Crow" wage scale because they are Negroes working for a Negro firm. Says the Typographical Union, No. 16, of Chicago: "The 27 journeymen and three apprentices in our ranks have been setting the type for (1) the city edition of the Chicago Defender, (2) the Gary edition of the Chicago Defender, (3) the national edition of the Chicago Defender, (4) the St. Louis edition of the Chicago Defender, (5) the city edition of the Louisville Defender, (6) the Kentucky state edition of the Louisville Defender, (7) the Michigan Chronicle. Our members have set those papers complete, advertising as well as news and other reading matter."
WHITE DOCTORS CURB RESTRICTIONS Rev. Daniel J. Jughlett, executive director of the Jefferson County Sunday School Association, and leaders of the Falls City Medical Society, said this week that a forward step toward the admittance of Negro doctors to the General Hospital, and the acceptance of them as members of the American Medical Association was made this week when the Jefferson County Medical Society removed the "white only" restrictions from its membership qualifications, imitating membership instead to "acceptable" physicians. At the meeting of the Society at the Pendennis Club, the word "white," stipulated in the by-laws since the Society was formed 40 or more years ago, replaced by the word "acceptable," which was adopted by a standing vote, with only a few dissenters. Reverend Hughlett, through the Educational Committee of the Jefferson County Association, has waged a long, unrelenting fight for certain rights and privileges for local Negro doctors and nurses.
New Move for Anti-Lynching Bill
Church Retains "Wilberforce"
Given Exclusive Right to Name
State Part of School Forbidden to Use "Wilberforce State College"
Reddick Quits N. Y. Library
Urged to Apply for Scholarships