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‘UBLIC LIBRARY WAR 20 1947 Law Violations Exposed In Royalty Oak .— 7 Le Se eet Betr wh A GN EY OF MICHIGA Tribune 2.1 DETROIT IT 1, MICHIGA IGAN ———$ ee CHURCH ROW BRINGS POLICE Royal Oak Township Negro policemen are forbidden to arrest white men, no matter what their crime, accord ing to Dr. J. W. Edwards, Republican candidate for Su pervisor of Royal Oak Township. The campaign, which will culminate with the election on April 7, is especially hot because the township's Negro population has been immensely increased by the Oakdale Gar dens housing project POPULATION CROWS The incumbent supervisor, George S. Horkey, who seeks re-election,told the TRIBUNE that in 1940 there were 6500 whites and 2500 Negroes in the township. Now, he said, there are 5500 to 6000 more Negroes in the project. Edwards, a physician in the community for 17 years, makes the following charges against Harkey and his administration: 1. The Negro part of the township receives inadequate Protection against fire, and crime, and has inadequate wa ter and sewage disposal. 2. The chief of police con ducts raids at which he brings his own personal judge, fines everybody $5 on the spot, and often allows the joints to con tinue operations. Edward says that persons who cannot pay the fines are driven around by the police to see friends until they raise the fine money. CHARGES BRIBERY 3. He charges that just a few dave ago the chief made a raid in which 54 were arrested, and fined $10 each. It was reported, he savas, that the fine money was used to attempt to votes for the administration. 4. Lemar Baskin Was mu dered ot September 15 1946 while a vain attempt was made to find a policeman. All Negro Policemen were away from the community chauffeuring the white policemen, BEATEN UP . The police chief is sus pected of having had a tavern closed because he was beaten up there because of the cruelty of policemen, who whip men without — provocation. 6. There is no sewage dis posal between 13 and 14. mie roads, and the school in the area is @ Menace to health, be cause its water is contaminated. NO LIGHTS © There are no lights be tween TO and 44. 1itle vad, qd people ace adh, thes move fusly struck down’ by autormo piles. Crimer of Clalence occur on an average of the a week because of the lack oflights In his own defense, Harkey clais that he had appointed 5 Negro policemen, and 3 whites, and 4 colored firemen and 3 whites. He says that the Ne- Rines and whites in the town ship can and wilh work together, and that they must take fear of their indebtedness together. Violence sent several persons to Receiving hospital over the weekend, while others were taken into police custody, charg ed with the commission of the acts of violence. Police are holding Mrs. Cath ering Woods, 24, of 1470 Monc roe, who told police she stabbed Henry Griffin, 30, of the same address, when he attempted to rape her in her home while her husband was out. Friday eve ning, Griffin is critically wounded and Mrs. Woods is being held pending further developments on his injuries. FORCED WAY IN : Police are investigating John Hill, who went to Receiving hospital with wounds on his scalp, om the poossibility that he may have been the man who forced his way Saturday night into the home of James Care gile 23, of 19952 Birwood swings in a switchblade knife. Cargile hit ‘the intruder ‘in the head with a poker and he retreated. Hill lives at 19993 Bir wood, and is 45 years old. While forcing his way into the Cargile home he insisted it was his own, and persisted in that story at the hospital. He is held for ine vestigation of felonious assault. WENT TO PARTY Homer Johnson, 22, of 20525 Roselawn, was treated in High land Park General hospital, ear ly, Saturday morning, with a pos sitive fracture of the skull and lacerations’ of jet-ear and scalp. He sai he was hurt in a fight that started at a party at the horn of a goal he knew only as Margaret. He saw that the fight started at her home, and then moved OUT to the street, where four al ive men assaulted him, one of them, with a lead pipe. He went Home after the fight, but was taken to the hospital by his bro ther. WIFE CUT HIM George Woods 60, 688 Na poleot, was taken to Receiving hospital from his home early Saturday morning, with stab wounds in the left chest and lacerations on the back of his neck. He told police he was cut by his common-law wife, Laura Douglas, 37, in an argument ov er dinking. She escaped. Willie’ Snell, 3), and his wife Bessie, 30, both of 920 Theo ore, were taken to Receiving Ospital from their home. Fri day night, the husband with a unshot wound of the right and, while the wife had wounds on the scalp, right ear, and one, Willie said he and hs wife had been in an argument, and his wife had shot him. Before she could do any more damage he took the gun from her, he said, and tut her with it. Both are being held. he in the hose pital, end she im police head- Quarters. for further investiga tion of possexienm an unregistered gun.
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Sat, Mar 22, 1947
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