TEEN AGES GET 25 YEARS
GIVEN ADDITIONAL FIVE YEARS FOR AUTO THEFT BY JUDGE SHELBOURNE
Oscar Robinson, 14, Mobile, Alabama, and his companion, Edward Laury, 16, were sentenced this week in Federal Court by Judge Shelbourne to 25 years each in federal prison on kidnapping charges. In addition to the above sentence each boy was sentenced five years on federal automobile theft charges.
The two teen-ages pleaded guilty to taking the automobile of Joseph McDevitt, 23, Birmingham, and forcing him to ride with them to Hardin County where the car was wrecked.
In discussing the case Laury explained: "We didn't intend to kidnap the man. We just wanted to get out of the South where we had a rough time."
At the time of the kidnapping from a reform school in Mount both boys had just escaped Meigs, Alabama.
Since the accident McDevitt has been continually bedridden with a broken back. At the time of his arrest Robinson received two bullet wounds in his left leg.
On good behavior the boys can serve the 25 year sentence and the concurrent 5 year sentence in one-third of the time given.
NAACP Loses In Membership
[Baby] Faces This [photo]
Death Sentence First in 16 Years
FINAL RITES FOR MRS. EDNA HUGHES
Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Helen Goodwin Hughes, prominent Louisville resident, who died at her home, 2526 W. Walnut Street, Friday, April 28, were held Monday, May 1, 3:00 p. m. at the Plymouth Congregational Church.
For a number of years Mrs. Hughes had been very active in civic and church affairs of the city; she was well known as a soloist. Up until her recent illness she was a public school teacher in the Louisville schools.
She is survived by her husband, George Hughes; three daughters, Mrs. Mina H. Glass, Mrs. Abby H. Fife, and Miss Fannette Hughes; a sister, Mrs. Mary Daniel; two foster sons, Alvin Gannett and Gentry Pope; other relatives and a host of friends.
To Present Program [photo] Dean A. Franklin Fisher Atlanta, Ga., who will present a Four-Year Program at the National Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress which meets here in June.
HEAVY FINES FOR DRUNKEN DRIVING
"I never caused anybody any trouble." These words spoken by Thomas L. Lightsy, 35, of 1200 Block Euclid, an employee for the past 16 years at American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation, appearing in Traffic Court this week with a string of driving arrests, were interrupted by Judge Hellman.
"You are certainly a potential killer with the kind of driving you've been doing."
Lightsey was given a $100 fine or a drunken driving arrest on January 21 at 10th and Walnut, a [$500?] fine and six months in the workhouse for a similar arrest on February 11 at Second and Main, and the nonappealable and nine-days- and-$19 for a drunk-in-a-public-place charges on both occasions.
Lightsey's other arrests: January 20, 1948, drunken driving, filed away, fined $20 for reckless driving; November 26, 1948, drunken driving, filed away, fined $50 for public drunkenness, and this week charged with reckless driving, destroying private property, assault and battery and driving without license. Police said that he ran a stoplight at Seventh and Hill and hit another car. Case was continued to May 16.
KY. P.T.A. OPPOSES SOCIAL MEDICINE
Louisville--With a total membership of 113,208, the Kentucky Congress of Parent Teachers Association has passed a resolution opposing Compulsory Health Insurance. Such action was taken April 28, in Owensboro, during the annual convention of the congress, which is comprised of 631 councils.
More than 100 organizations in Kentucky, including service clubs, American Legion Posts and auxiliaries, various trade groups and county medical societies, have endorsed resolutions in opposition to the federal government's plan of Socialized Medicine, according to the field secretary of the Kentucky State Medical Association.
NATIONAL INSURANCE ASSA. PUTS ON DRIVE
The National Insurance Negro Insurance Association, composed of 52 Negro Insurance Companies of America, announced this week its annual campaign, May 8 through 13 to educate present and future policyholders about wise insurance investments. Emphasis this year will be in the fields of investment contracts, hospitalization policies, endowment, payment life, and numerous other contracts that can be used for the education of children or for the down payment on a home or an automobile.
In Louisville the Negro Life Underwriters are represented by the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co, 729 West Walnut, Mammoth Life Insurance Company, 422 So. 6th., Atlanta Life Insurance Company, 710 West Walnut, and the Domestic Life Insurance Company, 601 West Walnut.
Her Big Moment Ended Confessed Kidnapper [photo]
HO! HUM! AT IT AGAIN AT INTERNATIONAL
Threatened by a general strike called for midnight Tuesday, May 9, by leaders of the Farm Equipment and Metal Workers Council-UE, the International Harvester Company charged the union with "shotgun bargaining" technique in a letter released this week to all employees represented by the union. Labor relations manager, William J. Reilly, charged the union leaders with making unreasonable demands and with misrepresenting facts concerning negotiations.
The FE leaders have placed the following demands before the company for negotiation:
(1) A 12-cent-an-hour general wage increase.
2() A 35-hour week with 40 hours pay.
(3) Demands for pension, health, and welfare benefits.
In addition to the above demands the company is faced with a long list contract changes pushed by the union leaders.
The company's plant here in Louisville has been the scene of recent "wildcat" strikes. Disputes arose over the dismissal of a union steward, seniority rights and other issues. A succession of such strikes in the local plant here during the past few years has kept many employees in a state of anxiety. One worker, refusing the use of his name ,explained: "My job's hardly more than a hobby."
Citing the "wildest" strike here in Louisville and the one in Richmond, Indiana, International Harvester, called off scheduled contract talk with FE officials in Chicago.
Fate Against Suicide, Man Jailed
ATWOOD S. WILSON GUIDE RIGHT SPEAKER AT K.S.C.
Speaking on the subject "Vocational Efficiency", Atwood S. Wilson, principal of Central High School, addressed the Alpha Upsilon Chapter, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, in their annual Guide Right celebration, at Kentucky State College on May 3.
Mr. Wilson, who is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi and the father of five daughters, four of whom are Kentucky State graduates, pointed out that the students of today are citizens of tomorrow and that they should consider every point of importance in preparing themselves for "the changing world." He said: "Our present international state is filled with a turmoil of vast complexity. Worldly conditions have been increased with a technological boom such as has never before been witnessed by the people of our time." This he pointed out, has caused mass unemployment. He further stressed that unless we prepare ourselves to cope with the situation, we shall find its problems mounting with unbelievable rapidity.
In concluding his speech, Mr. Wilson outlined "ten commandments of success," which, he stated, would assist students in adequately preparing themselves for vocations of their choice. Work hard, study hard, conquest, have self-reliance, be have iniative, have the spirit of trustworthy, have the spirit of
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CORRECTION
The Louisville Leader, in its April 29 Issue, incorrectly listed Rev. C. L. Finch of the Chestnut Street C.M.E. Church as being a candidate for the bishopric of the C.M.E. Church along with Rev. Bertram W. Doyle.
In a statement this week from Kansas City where the C.M.E.'s are holding their General Conference Rev. Finch said, "I have no intentions of running and don't know how such a rumor got started."
Negro on Jury of White Capital Case
A Mother's Joy Unbound [photo]
AWARDED DAMAGES IN BUS CO. SUIT
GRANTED 1,500 IN RETRIAL
WAS FORCIBLY EJECTED FROM BUS ON TRIP TO PADUCAH IN 1946
Damages of $1,500 were awarded last week to Miss Elizabeth Whiteside by Judge Roy M. Shelburne of United States District Court on retrial of her suit against the Southern Bus Lines. The retrial was ordered by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, to which the case had been carried by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Miss Whiteside, who was forcibly ejected from a bus on a trip from Cairo, Ill., to Paducah, Ky., on May 6, 1946, at first lost her case in the lower court, which held that the regulation of the bus company requiring Negroes to sit in the rear was reasonable and that Miss Whiteside's refusal to move to the rear was grounds for her removal from the bus.
In November, 1949, the Cir- in Cincinnati invalidated regulations by bus lines and other public carriers requiring segregation of passengers in interstate travel. Basing its decision on the Supreme Court ruling in the Morgan case, the court ruled that such separation of passengers placed an undue burden on interstate commerce.
Court Upholds Georgia Law
JACKSON JUNIOR HIGH 20TH ANNIVERSARY
On May 9, 1950 at 8:00 p.m. Jackson Junior High School is celebrating its Twentieth Anniversary.
The program will portray all phases of school life, including exhibits of work done by the students. Mr. Charles Steele of the Urban League will be the guest speaker.
The public is invited.
A place of honor will be given the Jackson alumni.