Brownsville Weekly News

VOLUME ~ NUMBER

FLINT, MICHIGAN, S.

Heroic Action Of

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Where 202 Lost Lives In Miss.

Fire

These exclusive SNS photos show interior and
exterior views of the dance hall in Natchez, Miss.
where 202 dancing guests of the Moneywasters~ Club
lest their lives last Tuesday night when trapped by
Walter Barnes and his orchestra of Chicago

fire,

were heroes of the aftatr, In a futile effort to halt
the stampede the orchestra:
flames licked around.
ing the leader, perished.

kept playing, while.
Nine of the musicians, includ
- AME~s Invade

Motor City

DETROIT, Mich~(WNS)~Hunhdreds of members of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church are
inv: Detroit this week to at
tend the general confererice of the.

~ church which is being held for
twenty-one days at the Bbenezer
A. M.-E. Church at Willis and
Brush Streets.

Representing althost every Negro
community in the United States,
the conference is here to elect. new
bishops and to assign pastors to
new churches.

Dr. George W. Baber, pastor of

the Ebenezer Church and the Rev.
Joseph Gomez of Oleveland, Ohio
and former pastor of the Bethel
AME Church here, are two of the
favorite candidates for the bishopvic positions.

Closely allied with the opening
of the conference is the the Seventy-Five Years of Negro Progress
Exposition which is opening at
the Convention Hajl on the tenth
of May.:

Two Women
Detained On
Gambling Charges

| LANSING~Two Lansing women
| were arrested on charges of pos:
~sessing gambling equipment today
after police took them, into custody
for investigation.

The women are Mrs, Grace Wagoner, 39, of 319 Hil) street, anc
Mrs. FPiose Owns, 36, of 911 West
street. Police said the women were
seen getting into a car at Logah

and Olds avenue and were stoppeo

police headquarters one of the
for questioning.

When the police car arrived a!
women attempted to destroy several ~numbers books and dream

cards, They were questioneg further by Police Chief John~ F
O'Brien.

Julia C. reer
Takes Interstate
Laurels |

~LANSING, Mich.~(WNS)~

Her plea for a,more enlightened
treatment of the Colored race Friday had won Julia~ Cloteéle Rose- |
mond, Negro junior at Michigar
State college, the women~s cham
pionship. in. the Interstate Ofatori- |

cal - association ~contest poneludes;
Thursday at Rock Jsland, Ml, according to an Associated Press dis.
patch.

Miss Rosemond won. first place
in thé women~s finals with her oration on the topic, ~Exiled by: Prej-'
udice~. It was the sate as yet |

which had won hep.@ victory in the |

state contest in January.

Originally. from Greensboro, N.
C., Miss Rosemong transferreg ~to
Michigan State ~nearly two yeart
ago from Bennett. college at Greensboro, Her home now js in Detroil
where she: has a~ Sister teaching in
the Detroit school system.

Paul Bagwell, oratorical coach in
the speech ang tits. départment at M. ~. C, has been~ Mis:
Rosemond~s mentor e% hér success.
ful competition during the pas!
year. She also is: credited with
having a promising: singing. voice
though she is not~a music student
Her major subject: is easy

BOSTON~(ANP)~Cole mee
Braithwaite of: Cainbridge, Mass, Mass,,
a first year student in the Harvard cniversity graduate school of
arts and sciences, - Jnas just -been
awarded a Daniel. ~Ay Backley
scholarship - for the academic. year
1940-1941. He is. the ~soft~ of'Dr. ~ase
Mrs. John - Ay

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~yamong them Prof. Woodrick Mc
| and Ed Frazier, operator ~of the
~ Rhythm Night -Club-- where the

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"Many Tone
"Among Those '
(Who Succumbed

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~tHere is a partial list -
identified dead in the:<

hall tragedy Tuesday. -anigh
which: Claimed 202 lives:

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saxophone.

| Several sthool texchiers: nea~ 30 -leaders were also. victims
Guire, music teacher at Brumfield
high school and member of Omege
Psi Phi fraternity;> Misses. Jessie
Craig. and Alva Miller, teachers;
Miss Pearl E Jackson, secretary to |
Dr. A. W. Dumas, president ~of the
Nationa] Medical association: Mise

Thelma Lioyd, former Universal
Life Insurance Company secretary,

bolocaust occurred.
Others identified, were:

| Alexander, Princess, 3 Alexander
Children, "Adams, Inez, Boyd,
Birdie Lee; Bares Walter; Biggs,
Elbert; Benard, Jolin; Bonds, Joe;
Brooks, Robert; Burns, Ethel;
Brown, Ruth.

Cates, Wendall; Crates, Louise;
Coel, James; Carr, Nellie; Collins, Samuel; Colburn, Polly; Cole,
Jimmie; Carr,. Willie; 3. members

Heroie Action
Of Fire Victims
At Natchez Told

treme endof the 200-foot building
only to find the - window barred

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Names Of.
a &; y ss
VictimsAre

Was
and. John Henderson, August, Ga, |

~NATCHEZ,. Miss pee!:
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A Big Telegram For A Fine Actress

Mar Hettia "Meet 2k who won the Keclesy
Award for her excellent portrayal of ~Mammy~ in
is shown as she points to

~Gone With The Wind~, is

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~the enlarged telegram signed by. approximately. ~
5,000 of her \Negro fams in "Washington, D. Cc... /
She received the wire recently,

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Colored Masons ra
Lansing Confab

LANSING,. Mich. (WNS)~Twenty-seven. ~masters. and. delegates,
including past masters, and standing committees of the Most Wor--
shipful~ union, Grand, Lodge - of
Michigan, F. and A. M.,.concluded a two-day session here Wednesday. Greetings were brought before
the body: by John Exigar Smith.
past grand master, from the Most
Worshipful Acacia. grand aimed: of
the District ~of Columbia? #
Sessions, held ~in the new Masonic home cf Capitol Lodge No. 8,:
F. and &: M.; the Lansing colored
lodge which was host group jnere,
were devoted largely to reports of.

on.

subordinate lodges was reported in
a healthy..state, with an accretion
of thembers. discuosed. Two new
lodges, Capston ~and Ionic, were
reported as having seen organized
in Detroit.

PIA Holds Regular
| Session

FLINT, Mich~The Pioneers Improvement Association held its regular session last Sunday.afternoon
in the auditorium of Shiloh Baptist church. A rather large number Was present and business was
discussed along with reports from
the committees, This organization

is~ doing one of the est jobs a):
yatee mmsanteaatiiond

VETERANS EMPLOYMENT COUNCIL
OF GENESSEE COUNTY

FLINT, Mich. ~ The Veterans

World, and Spanish Wars. who are
not. working now, One feature of
this program will be a radio hour |.

pacing

the ~etitries fighting. hard to. wim

June 15th. Help your favorite get

Kenneth Oden Post:

' _ pert in the |

s prizes: to be.

given will be expensive and the reWe -wish.| 5
to encourage ge taper ey = e

The final~count will be just before} thr