PARK DIRECTOR MAKES REPLY TO COMPTROLLER
LACK OF FUNDS FOR CHICKASAW
MORGAN SAYS ROSER IS CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION IN REPORT TO MAYOR Under fire from the City Comptroller's office on his administration of City parks and playgrounds, City Park Director T. Byrne Morgan, in a detailed report to Mayor E. Leland Taylor, this week observed that Roser, the comptroller, "is a candidate for re-election." Morgan, who was named as a co-defendant with the City of Louisville in a suit filed to force admission of Negroes to all city parks, was accused of "either gross negligence or inefficient management" of the parks by Comptroller Roser, in a report to Mayor Taylor and the Board of Aldermen last week. Morgan admitted he was forced to answer the charges of the comptroller when the latter asked why it was necessary to give Morgan $300 to attend a convention of city park directors in San Francisco. Morgan said his park supervisors told him that Roser did not make the examination "he says he made. These examinations were made by two young men in his office who have had little, if any, experience in this sort of thing. But, be that as it may, the charges had to do principally with broken benches, leaking plumbing, swelling toilets, buildings in bad repair and in need of paint." Morgan said Roser referred to the increases granted by the Board of Aldermen. "Mr. Roser does not make mention of the fact that said increase does not equal the increases in wages and salaries, much less the increase in cost of materials, supplies, etc.," Morgan said. To make repairs and improvements, he said he had received less than he asked for in the last three budgets. "There isn't a toilet in a park, playground, or golf course in the system that isn't cleaned, and I mean scrubbed, each morning and disinfectant used," Morgan said. "Some irresponsible unthinking individuals will fail to flush a toilet. That condition has been found on every inspection I have made." The slide minus its board in Chickasaw Park was explained  by Morgan as due to the board's being splintered. The slide then was blocked to protect children, he said. No replacement was made, he said, because such equipment has been hard to buy and because "of our limited amount of funds."
WHITE SLAYER'S BOND $10,000 Revealed in court as a former convict, released from prison where he served time for murder, Oda Allen, white, charged with murder in connection with the September 8 slaying of a colored man at Preston and Fehr Avenue, was placed under a $10,000 bond and bound over to the grand jury this week. The bullet-riddled body of the slain man was identified as Julius Lewis, 51, 813 West St. Catherine. Allen declares that he shot Lewis after he and an unkown woman accomplice tried to rob him after asking for a match. The slayer told the court that he recognized the two people as his assailants in a previous hold-up on the same corner. Several witnesses who claim to have heard the shots, or arrived at the corner soon after the slaying, identified Allen as the man they saw running away from the scene. One youth, testifying for the Commonwealth, related how he and a companion passed by the corner before the shooting and saw Lewis sitting on the curbstone asleep. "We put our arms around him and tried to raise him on his feet," the boy declared as he explained to the court that Lewis was "so drunk he was unconscious." C. Ewbanks Tucker, prosecu- (Continued on Page 4)
MARRIAGES AGAIN PERMITTED IN MEDITERRANEAN THEATER
RACE HOMICIDES CONTINUES MOUNT Homicide among Negroes, out of proportion to the total population of this city, continues to be the No 1 headache of city officials, it was revealed here this week. Thomas E. Long, 25, 535 Finzer, became twenty-fourth on the City's list of race "passion" slayings, after he was fatally stabbed in the heart at 1929 Eddy last Saturday night. Police arrested Irene Leona Weatherford, 26, 535 Finzer, on a charge of murder. Shrouded in mystery, the stabbing allegedly followed an argument between Long and the accused woman. According to information re- (Continued on Page 4)
CHURCH SPEAKER [Photo] William H. Gray President of Florida A. and M. College, who was the Booker T. Washington memorial night speaker at the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City recently. See article. 
MRS. S. O. JOHNSON SUCCUMBS Mrs. Lillian Johnson, wife of S. O. Johnson, prominent citizen and race leader, succumbed at the Johnson home early Thursday morning. Mrs. Johnson had been ill several months. Funeral services are being held at the home, 2015 W. Magazine today, Saturday, at 2 p. m. Burial in Eastern Cemetery. More in detail next week.
SAYS YOUTH NEED TRAINING IN PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING NOT MILITARY
Tucker, Police Clash
TUCKER, POLICE CLASH IN COURT
MILITANT ATTORNEY CHARGED OFFICER WITH MISTREATING NEGROES
Attorney C. Ewbanks Tucker, militant race lawyer, arrested and slated on a disorderly conduct charge this week after a white city policeman said he made uncomplimentary remarks about the Louisville police force, also faces disbarment as a practicing attorney here, as a result of an altercation with three white policemen Wednesday morning, September 17. Sharply criticizing Patrolman Marvin Almon, w., 828 East Madison, twice accused of mistreating Negroes in making arrests, Tucker was slated on the disorderly conduct charge after Almon complained that he made uncomplimentary remarks about police. The attorney, after making bond swore out warrant for the arrest of three white policemen, who he accused of "jumping" him in the police court corridor after the trial. Attorney Tucker had been retained by Mrs. Grace Miller and her 14-year-old daughter, who were arrested by Patrolman Almon Sunday
night, August 31, on charges of disorderly conduct and delinquency. The officer said he heard the woman's daughter use "vile and abusive" language, as she protested a white youth squirting water on her, as she passed the boy's home going to church. Almon, off-duty at the time, lives downstairs under the boy. Mrs. Miller was slated on the disorderly conduct charge after Almon said she tried to interfere with the arrest of the girl. Two eye-witnesses reported Almon arrested the woman at the point of a pistol, advising her "you d--d N--s are trying to run this town." Almon is identified as the policeman who clubbed Ernest Rice of Park Boulevard early in March. A responsible source, close to Attorney Tucker, who could not (Continued on Page 4)
YOUTHS ROBBED, ARRESTED FREED Two Indianapolis youths, discovered by City police asleep in a public park last week, were granted a new trial and finally released on their own bond after court officials found a Western Union money order on one of the boys proving their contention that they were trying to get out of town. The two teen-age youths, Ellis Paul Allen and Commodore Burnett, said they came to Louisville from Indianapolis to see the Kentucky State Fair. They were forced to seek sheltered in an undisclosed park after being robbed, they said. Arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and vagrancy, the youths had been sentenced to 10 days in jail. Police Judge McLellan granted the new trial when the police court matron checked with the Western Union office and found that the parents of the youths had wired them enough money to come home.
WHITE MINISTER WHO RENOUNCES RACE IS WELCOMED BY NAACP
CAMPAIGN LEADER [Photo] Charles W. Anderson Charles W. Anderson, former member of the State Legislature, and at present Assistant Commonwealth Attorney, was named this week, Chairman of the Colored Division of the State Republican Campaign organization for the November election.
LOGAN, HOOPER, HICKS, REDDICK AT HAMPTON Hampton, Va., Sept. 18.--Hampton Institute's 1947-48 Lecture Series will present Rayford Logan, author, editor, and professor of history at Howard University; Alfred Hooper, lecturer, writer, and mathematician; Granville Hicks, literary critic, biographer, and writer on social questions; and Laurence Reddick, curator of the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library, Chairman J. Saunders Redding announced this week.
3,000 VOTE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA
YOUTHS PLEDGE FIGHT on Liquor
12,000 ATTEND COAST CONGRESS
600 COLORED TAKE ACTIVE PART IN SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MEET
ASKS $50,000 SUIT DISMISSED
FOUR BURNED IN EXPLOSION Four horribly-burned men - three white and one colored, employed at Emmett Packing Company, 1202 Story Avenue, died this week as a result of burns sustained last Friday evening, September 12, when a blood-dryer, processing blood and bones into fertilizer, exploded while in operation, showering them with its hot contents. Cause of the explosion has not yet been determined, City officials said. Henry Glanz, white, 2451 Alta, died September 14 - the last of the four. "It was a miracle how the doctor kept those men alive as long as he did," the Coroner said. Eighty-five to 90 per cent of the body area was badly burned on each of the men, he added. The men were Johh M. Preher, w., 64, 223 East Kentucky, assistant foreman; Reginald Bailey, 35, 621 Cawthorn; Hillis List, w., Jewish Hospital, and Henry Glanz.
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