Homicides Decreased In Louisville Area
Report made by Chief Heustis
31 in 1949; Ten lower than any recent year; 13 white and 18 colored
Chief of Police Carl Heustis announced this week that homicides in Louisville in 1949 numbered 31, ten lower than any recent year. Of these, he said, 13 were white and 18 colored. The Negro homicides alone numbered 40 in 1948.
Chief Heustis gave credit for the drop of 77 per cent in the Second Police District during 1949 to the Vice Squad. He related that only five persons were killed in the area bounded by Broadway and the River and Preston and Eighteenth during 1949 as compared with 22 killed in 1948.
Of the 31 homicides 18 were committed in homes, with firearms used as weapons in 17 of the deaths. Fist fights resulted in three of the fatalities.
The report for 1949 as given by Chief Heustis, brings to mind the study compiled and announced by Mrs. Ruth Russell, a sociology student at the University of Louisville, in 1949, which revealed that there were 498 homicides committed in Louisville during the past ten-year period between 1936 and 1945, that 401 were men and 97 women, and that 401 of the victims were Negroes and 141 white. 
Mrs. Russell attributed the high rate among Negroes more to environment, deteriorated property, undesirable institutions, cheap rents, no organized facilities, and dense population. The report revealed that the Haymarket area had the highest yearly rate per 100,000 population -- 75. Areas in the central business district or adjacent to it were reported as a close second.
NAACP Elects Board Members
Illinois Governor Names Former Bar Head Interracial Commission Chairman
Supermarket Fined For Super-Charging 
Allen J. Bass, owner of Allen's Supermarket, 720 W. Walnut, and whose patrons are largely colored, was fined $35 in Ordinance Court this week on the charge of the use of false scales.
William H. Ising, Jr., supervisor of weights and measures, said that Bass used "fast" scales, that they were off zero in favor of the seller. He said that Bass by using the scales overcharged one customer 90 cents on a roast and another 45 cents on an amount of bacon.
RED CROSS AID GIVEN APPROVAL Red Cross was one of the two hospitals in Kentucky that were given U. S. - State approval last week to plans for additions through federal aid. Paul A. Hackney, director of hospital services for the State Department of Health, said the approval permits contractors to begin work immediately. Red Cross is to receive $635,395 for the purpose of increasing its bed capacity from 60 to 100, and the hospital expanded will have 35 surgical, 30 medical, 25 obstetrical, 8 pediatric and 12 orthopedic beds. The addition to the hospital is also to have four operating rooms, two delivery and two labor rooms, a laboratory and an x-ray room, and a boiler room and laundry.
Children Massacred
Three Children Shot To Death
Father Critically Wounded and Daughter Who Escaped Rape, Shot; Men Hunted
Married to Wealthy White Girl, Tells Parents He Will Take Good Care of Her
MAXIMUM FOR SELLING LIQUOR  Walter Taylor, 66, was fined $100 in Police Court for selling liquor without a license.  Taylor, who was arrested in the 3000 block on Rodman, pleaded guilty.  A. J. Bartholomew, City Liquor Administrator, asked for a stiff penalty, and Judge Cates gave Taylor the maximum fine.
Identified in Bus Robbery, Shooting
Alvin H. Pendleton was singled out by two nurses, as the man who staged a robbery on the Chestnut Street bus line, at 30th and Madison, on Sunday, and shot the driver, William A. Ellingsworth, 1223 F. Breckinridge. The nurses, Mrs. Marcella [Erba?], Kentucky Baptist Hospital and Miss Marilyn Cain, Norton Memorial Infirmary, are reported as being the only passengers on the bus at the time of the incident. Pendleton, who was identified in the police showup, and lives in the 2800 black Eddy, obtained $40 in the robbery. He is charged with malicious shooting and wounding.
From Ministry to Medicine
IN AUDITORIUM PIANO CONCERT Tella Marie Cole DeBose Tourgee DeBose Tourgee DeBose and Tella Marie Cole DeBose will be [illegible] March 5, at 4 p. m., by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, for the benefit of its Scholarship Fund. Mrs. Katherine Cole Lawery is president of the Delta's Louisville chapter and Miss Hattie [illegible] Morton is chairman of the program committee. Mr. DeBose is head of the Music Department at Southern University and Mrs. DeBose is among the capable faculty members of the department, having under her training individual and college singing groups, which have won high praise in personal appearances and over the radio. Tourgee DeBose, the husband of Tella Marie, appeared in the performance of the difficult Capriccio Brilliant of Mendelssohn at the age of 15. Graduating at Fisk University, he received a scholarship to Oberlin, and in his first year won a place on the honor program which was noticed by the Associated Press. He became a member of the faculty at Howard University and later Talladega College. Winning a scholarship with Carl Friedberg, he was later awarded a scholarship for study abroad and as a student in Cortot's famous school in Paris he revolutionized his technical system and has become an exponent of the brilliant but French style. Tourgee DeBose has appeared in many cities including New York, Philadelphia and Washington, and at Fisk and Howard Universities, and other institutions where he has enjoyed many return engagements. DeBose was recently presented before a sophisticated audience at the famous University of Notre Dame, where he drew rapt attention.  Tella Marie was discovered as an exceptionally talented and promising pianist by Miss Emma Minnis, prominent Louisville music teacher, at the age of 5, and under whose training she made her first public appearance at the age of 7. She was the youngest pupil to complete the Matthews' course in pianoforte at 12. Beginning at the age of five, Tella Marie appeared on the annual K.N.E.A. musical programs under the direction of Miss R. Lillian Carpenter, until she graduated from Central High School with honors, and received the Nannie Board Crume music award. Between the ages of seven and twelve, she was presented in recitals in Lexington, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Dayton, Chicago, New York and Indianapolis before the National Association of Musicians, and Memphis where the superintendent of education suggested the discontinuance of lesson periods, if necessary, in the colored schools in order to hear her. She also appeared over station WAVE, and in recitals at Lane, West Kentucky, and Kentucky State colleges. Tella Marie became the pupil of Dean Dwight Anderson of the University of Louisville in 1938, was awarded a scholarship by him in 1940, and he presented her in a recital at Louisville Municipal College in 1940. She appeared before the Scholarship Committee of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music for an audition in August, 1941, won the maximum scholarship amount, entered Oberlin at 16, as the youngest student, was the second honor winner the first semester and graduated with honors, and scholarship recommendations for further study in 1946. While at Southern University she has done private study, looking forward to a still greater preparation and a larger service. In their Louisville concert at the Auditorium, March 5, Tourgee and Tella Marie will appear in individual piano presentations and also together in special two-piano performances.
MAMMOTH HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING
SIX PERCENT DIVIDEND VOTED
ROBERT HOLLOMAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF COMPANY TO SUCCEED ILL A. D. DOSS The 25th annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company was held at the Home Office, Tuesday, January 10. The meeting was presided over by W. C. Buford, chairman of the Board of Directors.
Notwithstanding the unsettled economic conditions caused by [labor?] unrest and socio-political uncertainty, the reports of the officers to the representative number of stockholders present, showed a company income of more than two million dollars, an industrial debit of $45,000 and a substantial increase in hospitalization and ordinary contracts.
The program of expansion which carried the Mammoth into three new states, Missouri, Illinois and West Virginia, through the capable and energetic members of the agency force was acknowledged as being responsible for the steady growth and development of the company.
Following the report of the officers, Chairman Buford announced that the Board of Directors had declared a dividend of 6%, the largest in the history of the company, was voted for the stockholders through a motion made by I. Willis Cole, a member of the Board, after the reports of the officers were made at a session of the Board of Directors, on Monday, January 9. The reports also perhaps, had to do with the increasing of the salaries of the officers at a session of the Board which followed the meeting of the stockholders Tuesday afternoon.
Members of the Board of Directors, whose terms had expired were re-elected at the stockholders meeting as follows:
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Sue for Park Rights in Texas
Refused Permit For Drive-In Theatre
The Planning and Zoning Commission turned down a request for a drive-in theater for colored people on Newburg Road, Thursday.
The authority was sought by Robert Mattingly, contracter, 3817 Popular Level Road, and Fred Belcher, Anchorage automobile salesman. Constructed in Newburg at the Southern Railroad crossing, the project was to accommodate 450 cars.
In turning down the proposition the Planning and Zoning Commission said that the Newburg neighborhood's best use was said to be for single-family houses, and that a drive-in theater would create a traffic hazard on Newburg Road.
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