READ THE UNLT/-.<O® NEWS ■ , ’ A $•, -.w* WHILE IT IS NEWS FIRST 6e IN YOUR MEMPHIS PER COPY WORLD VOLUME 20, NUMBER 95 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1952 ||||| Ml Live" Cable; Death Accidental Two Inmales at the Shelby Coun­ Gaston Hospital. ty Penal Farm died of electrocu­ The tragedies were officially list­ tion last Saturday while laboring on ed as “accidental death" and, ac­ a Covington Road sewer project. cording to Mr Campbell, there was The men were Roosevelt Jones, 18 no evidence of negligence. ' He of Kerrvlle and James Snead, 32, stated that no investigation has of Peach Ave., in Memphis been planned and that the case is . Jones, who was sent to the farm closed. in January of this year, was serving The body of 18-year-old Jones a three-year term dor Breaking and was taken to the Memphis United entering. Snead started serving a Funeral Home for burial arrange­ five-year petit larceny term in ments. His funeral was held yes­ April of 1950 terday in the Kerrville Bethlehem According to H. R. Campbell, Baptist Church. Reverends Samuel office manager at the penal farm, Herring and Arthur Williams will the two men were part of a road conduct the services with inter­ gang laying sewer pipe A large ment in Kerrville. crane was being used to lower the Jones Is survived by his mother, concrete pipe into place in the Mrs. Ethel Exum of Kerrville; and ditch with the two men guiding it. six brothers and half-brothers, Ben Some version of the story have Jones. Thomas Jones, Solomon Jr. it that the boom of the crane struck Jones, Artis Exum, Marcelus Exum and overhead power Urie - others and Mike Exum. say that there was no actual con­ The known survivors of James tact but that the current jumped a Snead are four sisters; Mrs. Emma few feet to the boom. Mason, Mrs Edna Simms, Mrs. At any rate, the two men were Vallie Mae Russell and Mrs Mag- electrocuted by the currents cours-1 nolia Taylor. Snead was born and ing down the.heavy chain. An’ S_ educated in Memphis - his mother GUESTS WHO ENJOYED THE HOSPITALITY OF riett Walker, Miss Mae Della Reeves, Mrs. Allie W. Qualls ambulance was Imme­ and father are both deceased. MISS GERTRUDE WALKER at a Cocktail and Mae Roberts, Mrs. Cleo Roberts, Mrs. Melba Bris­ diately sent for but both men were Final funeral arrangements had not pronounced dead on arrival at John been completed at press time. Bridge-Dinner Party are: Seated on Floor—(Left coe, and Mrs. Harriett Davis; Standing are Mrs. Attalla Street, Wylam, Birmingham. A/the to right)—Mrs. Thelma McCorkle, Miss Walker, Marrietf Lotting, Mrs. Marion Johns, Mrs. Alma FIVE ALABAMA SOLDIERS GET TOGETHER (above) are: Pfc. James E. Montgomery (left), of hostess; Mrs. Julia Hooks Gordon, Mrs._Marjorie Booth, Mrs. Walterine M. Outjaw, Mrs. Louise in Korea where they are serving with the 25th Ulen, Mrs. Juanito.-Arnold, and Mrs. Celeste Por­ Davis, Mrs. Bernice Williams and Miss Jewel Homemade Bomb Tossed Division’s crack 69lh Field Artillery Battalion. ter. (Second row) Miss Ruth Holmes, Mrs. Har- Gentry.—(Photo By Hooks). Composing the rare portrait of democracy above Rte. 1, Parrish. T|ie five expect io be rotate^’ are left to right, front row: Pfc. Nathaniel Jen­ to the United States sometime soon.—(U. S. Armf -, kins, of Short Creek; Pfc, James W. Skipper, of Photo). Rte. 2, Cordova; and Sgt. Eddie Ragland, of 720 KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An oc- 1husband received several threaten­ cupant of a home, recently bought Iing telephone calls - before they by Negroes, tossed out a homemade Imoved into the house. They are the bomb early, Wednesday as soon as <only Negroes in the block. Demo Leaders 1,068 Delegates Take Part it was thrown in a window. The Crittenden, a Navy veteran with bomb exploded on the driveway 19 . months overseas service, is a and no one was Injured. Several :railway postal clerk. Blocking Hirn windows in nearby homes were- •Police are searching for the In 20 Hours OFBalloting broken. bomb-thrower. .if:-.1« By THOMAS JEFFERSON FLANAGAN .<dates, stickers, cards . and other CHICAGO, Illinois—(SNS)—Three bishops of the African Mettv- Miss Morlcne Johnston was sit­ CHICAGO, Illinois—Climaxing a riotious uproar ,of a hectic vote seeking paraphenalla. The Kefauver Says odisf Episcopal Church were elected early Tuesday here by 1,058 . sign painters did a healthy bush ting in the front room with' Mrs. delegates to the 34th General Conference of the AME Church erf», session of the General Conference of the AME Church, convening ' LOS ANGELES, Calif, Sena­ tic... in printing signs bearing pic­ Charles C. Crittenden, one of the ter more than 20 hours of balloting at the Chicago Coliseum, set»; in Chicago's spacious Coliseum, the General officers election new owners, when the smoking Price Control tor Estes Kefauver charged Wed­ tures and names of' candidates. nesday that California’s Bop De-, through its long drag of a heavy grind, came to an end late Sat­ missile landed near them. She im­ ting an all-time precedent in AME church circles. The shoe shine boys almost desert­ mediately seized the towel it was mocratlc leaders are ganging up on urday night, with the election of Dr. S. L. Jones, of Minden, Louisi­ him to stop his presidential cam­ THOSE ELECTED C. Carswell, Presiding Elder, 4r-. « ed their shoe shining tp carry ban wrapped in and threw the bomb ana, editor of the Southwestern Christian Recorder over his near­ ners and big placards hoisted on paign for’ the state’s convention The bishops elected are the Rev. ’the Atlanta Conference; .W'“i out. T.-J—Davis, Atlanta minister,amy..;. est opponent, Dr. R. H. Porter, of Atlanta's Allen Temple AME sticks all through the ■ Coliseum, votes.’ ’• . _ , H. Thomas Primm of New-Orleans, Mrs. Crittenden said she and her Church. out in the corridors and even in The Senator from Tennessee the Rev. E. C. Hatcher of Nash­ medical doctor; Dr. D. T. Babcock, Dr. P. W. Rogers, the incumbent. | Atlanta In the Greater Morris front of the building. So Chicago's Identified Attorney General Ed­ ville. Tenn., and the Rev. Freder­ Atlanta, and Dr. A. O. Wilson,/it Macon. None of them .were>aayh,; - was. elected Secretary of the. ‘Brown_and in hundreds jof men Coliseum muchly resembles a huge mond Brown, form®, state Sena­ ick D. Jordan of Los Angeles,’Cal. steel mill with pickets slowly wak­ WASHINGTON. D. C. — The tor George Luckey and oilman Ed­ The bishops were scheduled to be pointed to the bishopric. ' I«;. ;’. / Church Extension .Department; Dr. that he has built throughout the Jfflee of Price Stabilization Mon­ land. ing around it with signs Bias Groups win Pauley as leaders of "an un­ consecrated by the senior presiding One of the hardest roufht '.tidfJ.', V A.’- S. Jackson, of Texas was re­ day lifted price controls on raw usual stop-Kefauver movement In bishop William A. Fountain, Sr., of elected Secretary of Finance; Dr. After the election of the editor cotton arid virtually all textile ties before the central conference- L. L. Berry; Secretary of Missions; California.” Atlanta, with Bishop John A. of the Southwestern Christian. Re­ Barred From fabrics because they are selling be- was the charge made on Dr. G. A. Singleton, Editor of the in the return to the educational Kefauver declared: "These three Gregg of Kansas City, Kas; deliv­ lcw government ceilings. ering the sermon. order, headed by a group of layme' AME Review, Dr. E. A Selby of field,- In which he has spent most aré seeking a franchise in Cali­ who sought to take over some.j . Alabama was elected Secretary of of his life.. University OPS officials warned, however, fornia’s primary to trade in their Municipal Judge Perry B. Jack- that, if cotton should rise within the functions of’ the Blsttajj the Sunday School Union over the Dr. Fountain comes to this of­ own behalf at the Democratic Na­ son of Cleveland, Ohio was elected Council meant to end much.cm veteran publisher of another Gen­ fice in his own right; while his MADISON, Wisconsin — The two cents a pound of the suspend­ tional Convention, 1 favor a na­ Judicial Council president at an ed ceilings the controls will be re­ fusion and stay off court ¿'¡pit eration. Dr. Ira T. Bryant of himself, his friends were happy to University of Wisconsin Board of tional primary with -every presi­ organization meeting of the ceedlngs. The measure setting .^ Regents was urged Tuesday to bar imposed. Similar safeguards were Nashville,- Tenn Dr. William A. give him a wholesome vindication dential candidate would have to Church’s Judicial Conference. the judicial council was adopt« Fountain, Jr., Secretary of Edu- corder, the conference adjourned. ( from the campus any new student taken on other items eased from come before the people of the 48 For Editorial under the controls program. Earlier In the conference, Wil­ Wednesday after a heated debat . cation. The Coliseum staged holy wor­ organization which -discriminates states." «V ; Dr. Fountain was late in decld- ship Sunday with a sermon by against candidates for membership Raw­ cotton was brought under liam A. Fountain, Jr., former pres­ STORMY SESSION »ing to make the race and in the Bishop Cary A. Gibbs of South STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — (ANP) because of race or color. control several months ago over ident of Morris Brown College and ", ■’ ’’«... manner in which he bemeaned Africa. — Cliff. W. MacKay, editor, The University faculty members ap­ bitter protests from producers, Electronic Rifle son of the recently retired Bishop The action' came as a citami» father has made an unexcelled The Coliseum will, long remem­ AfioAmerican Newspapers, was proved the recommendation at a .brokers and processors, who claim­ William A.