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Address
Cancelled

Blames Race
Prejudice For

830 Pingree Ave.

Flint, Michigan " Phone 2-7571

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| Beasie Ann Reynolds ccc Society Editor: Member of The White Newspaper Syndicate
LeRoy G. White, Gen, Mgr.

10021 Jos. GCampau Ave. ~ Detroit, Mich. ~
ee _ Times Change.

Times do change. Witness the truly magnilicent spectacle of
thousarids of merchants in virtually every county of the nation
striving to dispose of the South~s surplus cotton! This is the
kind of Enion that Abraham Lincoln visualized over half a. century ago.anudst the bitterness of the bloodiest civil war in history.

Cotton is the life of the South. Cotton is bread~and butter
to millions of people, both in the South and other sections of thr

- comitry.| A glutted cotton market imperils the welfare of thes~
millions.~ Cotton exports are at dismal. lows. The solution to the
cation problem must be fond, in part at least, at home, Tins,}!

10 a nutshell, is the impelling motive;behind the cotton ~cam- rg Congressman. not to speak
paign.~ is i ~ Davis pointed out that Congress
Every resource of modern distribution is being called into|man Mitchell is an ardent New
action. During the week from May 17 through May 25, shoppers raagvle arn brig tr ypc
will see store fronts arid showcases banked with cotton products| close to the college that political

and appealing posters mutely reminding them that by. purchasing | strife engendered.by the fact that

a cotton goods article they will be helping their neighbors ~down ony a Se ceman; =
South.~ The promotional campaign in behalf of~ ~King Cotton~ ~Carve ry a Pe pig 2%

is far more than merely another sales promotion stunt. It is in- | ment at Washington, D. C. blamed

_ dicative of a new era, an era in, which organized cooperation be- | ~race prejudice~ for the ageonee~

tween producers retailers promises to reign supreme, the kind of bogs Reg pe ata Laure nade
cooperation that benefits consumers. Efficiency. and service at | emphatically "denied.

mininium cost, are its bywords.

Yes, there is far more than appears to the eye in the pro-, dn tor ik, beneane knoe

motion of cotton week. It is a powerful example of Lincoln's pay 2 noma

| Mahel Jones West, executive sec
Cancellation

BIRMINGHAM~ (SNS) ~ Rumors ran wild in Alabama civic
circles as a result of the: unexpected cancellation of an address
-to have ben made by Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell Monday
at Howard College..

A storm of protests, including the
circulation of a handbill against
the appearance of Congressman
Mitchell is said to have resulted
in Maj, Harwell G. Davis, advis
cancellation of the Howard ColJ that a handbill circulated by

A racial angle crept into the; ~4 early this week in Birmingham
~more -perfect Union.~

retary of the Alabama Council of
Democratic Clubs had _ raised the
issue,

RAISED OBJECTION
This organization is said to have

Have A Safe Summer

Summer isn~t far away. And the coming of that pleasant
season means, to mOst of us, vacations adventures in the out-ofdoors, work about the house and garden, and a generally happy
and healthful time. on: the Southern Conference of; Human Welfare held in Birmingham in 1939-and which recently
concluded a session at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The handbill
called attention to ~the repudiated
s0-called Southern Conference for

We'can do much to assure happiness and healthfulness by
doing dur part to fight/summer fire hazards this year. Fach.
change of season: brings new dangers. Uncut dry grass ina vacant
lot, combined with a carelessly disposed of cigar butt, may mark

anesthe, starting point of a holocaust that will destroy lives and prop- Human Welfare throws ae a
erty. And a vacationist~s carcleSstiéés with a Gampfire may~Te- |imae~ thet Mitchell's~ speech at
suit im: the razing of thousands of acres of magnificent timberland | Howard College could bring ~no
which: Nature spent centuries in creating. greater affront could be offered the

people of Alabama~, the pamph'et
continues: ~the Alabama Council of

Democratic Clubs on behalf of the

womanhood of the South condemns
and deplores this attempted new attack on the South. We call upon
the white men of the South to
see to it that our Southern ideals
and traditions are respected. and
that all attempts to destroy white
supremacy be repudiated and denounced as unwarranted meddling.

Many persons believed that
Maj. Davis action was influenced
by the fact that he formerly held
offce under the New Deal and that
Mitchell~s speech: might be conam ee strued as a play for the continu
was ation of the new deal and a boost
Sane Approach for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
~ Sti Others were confused as to how, a; talk ~on racial tolerance~ could be
carried into such ~sink hole topics~
as the New Deal in view of the
South~s traditional voting heritage
Whether or not vital political significance could be. credited to a
cancellation of Mitchell~s appearance was still in doubt.

Mitchell had been invited to address Negro civic leaders Sunday
at Slossfield Community Center.
This was to have been his major
speaking engagement in the city.
The Howard College speech was to
have been made on the invitation
of Harry Teel, president of the
Howard College International Relations Club. All parties concerned were said to be in harmony with
the congressman~s appearance until Maj. Davis unexpected -announcement came.

~The Birmingham News. quoted
Mitchell in Washington as saying
his primary objective in coming
to Birmingham was to pay a visit
to -relatives in the city.

One nationally-known Nnewsgathering agency quoted Mi
in Washington as saying he accepted the invitation to address
T~yward College studehits at thie
request of Teel and Davis.

~t have been communicated with
~this morning by. the president of
the:school,~ Mitchell was quoted
as saying, ~who informed me that
notwithstanding the fact the invitation to speak came from practically every organization of the
college, reinforced by his own special request and the request of the

Every town should adopt a ~clean-up~ campaign during the
~ summer months. Old shacks, prime breeding places of fire,
should be razed. Garages and homes should be painted. And
the utmost care should be taken with any and all flammable ma
* terials.:

There~s one more little task that every householder should
perform in summer, in the interest of comfort as well as safety.
That is to put the heating plant into prime condition before next
winter brings its demands for warmth. Don~t trust heating plant
repairs to yourself or another amateur. Have them done by an
expert, who knows his job~the money spent may pay tremendous
dividends.:

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~Cooperation~ is one word that is attaining increased signifi_cance. It is defined as working together toward a common end.
G erative organizations during the past few years have sprung
up ~rom one end of the country. to the other, like mushrooms after
a shower, All have not been as benevolent in purpose as the term
implies.~ But farmers for and wide have discovered that marng cooperatives, organized to work toward the maintenance of
-prices and stable markets for farm products, are highly beneficial to agriculture, as well as to consumers.

Marketing ~co-ops~ have steadily increased in number and
size. They do not seek partisan political ballyhoo and tax sub_ sidies, They are in reality one of the few sane approaches to the

manifold." problems
farms.

besetting America~s six and a half million

ver 1 OO, She's ~
eéady For Death

* RALEIGH; N. C.~(ANP)~Living in a cabin built
by#her father in 1850, Mrs. Betty Byrd, known to the community as Aunt Betty Byrd, knows that she is over 100
of age and this week expressed the thought that
eddy to die. ~All I do now is have the misery,~ she
_ eonfided.to.a reporter, ~I have lived long enough, and I

a he ee well go along~up to the Lord.~
attitiide is understandable ther and. mother were alive. She
on the part of Aunt Betty, for the | asserted proudly that her daddy
cable which her father built 7 and sarank e koe ee ee
} Sago. now is dilapidated and | sons an she never
es is located on a dirt | a slave. ~The free issue was an act | faculty adviser, some dissatisfacof Congress passed in. 1834, which | tion has See aan =
guaranteed the rig: derstand
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with the president, it. is race prejudice that has brought about this
change.~ a

charity for|~ new YORK--(CNA)~Race haAunt Betty was dropped when the | treq and intolerance were sharply
organization learned that her son | condemned at the New York Yearly
but the kindness of | Meeting of the Deligious Society of
Lee Sorrell, who held the! priends, which held sessions this
to the cabin, enables | week at 221 East Fifteenth
8 in ~the cabin her father | with an attendance~ of 700 members
may live there as long} from New York, New Jersey, ConSorrel) said. j necticut and Pennsylvania,

raised an objection to and a war).

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Pretty Mrs. Marva Trotter Louis, all dressed
up in her finery, is recognized as one of America~s
fashion experts. The smart little lady is now on @
southern tour showing off her wardrobe.

scene, the cute

In this

Champion Joe Louis appears

little wife of World Heavyweight
to be thinking~

thinking maybe of her prizefighter husband.

Names Of Victims

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of Dorsey family.

Dance,. Dorothy; Davis, Johnny;
Dennis B.; Dickerson, Eliza; Frazier,
Ed; Franklin, Leonard; Fletcher,
Roy;. Freeman, Katie; Green,
Corine; Holmes, Bessie; Hall,
Marie; Hunt, Ernest; Miqdon,
Genette; Hall, Richard; Hockett,
Ella; Holmes, Bessie; Ivoxy, Florida Lee; Jackson; Henry; *Jchnson,
W. E.; Johnson, Clorine; Jackson,
Willie; Jefergans, Birch; Johnson, |
Leola; Jackson, Henry, Jr.; Johnson, James; Jackson, Margaret;
Johnson, Marie; Johnson, W. E.;
Johnson, Lee Andrew; Johnson,
Welbert.

Kingsberry, N. S.; Kelley, Delial,
Kingsbury, McKinley; Log &n,
Johnnie Boy; Lloyd, Willie; Lloyd,
Renetta; Lee, Ed; Logan, Mary;
Lights, Gladys: Lewis. Ben; Lloyd,
Welma; Lewis Marshall; Mae,
Willie:. Machine, Willie; Marshal,
Lewis; Minor, Alfred; Matthews,
Katie; Moore, Katie; Moore, Leonard; MceMillion, Vernon.

Minor, George: Matthews, Gernon; Macique, Clarence; Nelson,
Mose: Odom, Cornelia; Parker
Edward: Phone, Vira: Roberts,

Sara; Rhone, Vera: Robinson, Annie. Mac; Reed, John: Roberts.
Calvin; Reed, Sara; Roman, Perry; Roach, Millie; Shaw, Emma;
Stott, Paul; Mary, Shaw.

Simmons, Delia; Scott Delia;
Seott, Ethel; Scott, Edgar Lee;
Stewart, Lucille; Scott, George;
Sims, Leola; Smith, Green; Sloan,
Mary; Smiht, T. J. Scott, Emma;
Sheely, Dola: Scott, Willie; Sally,
Catherine: Sweek, Arthur; Shaw
Fmma; Stone, Mary. Sims, Leola;
Statt, Paul; Shaw Mary; Simmon,
Willie; Simms, Delice: Scott,
Ethel; Scott, Edgar Lee; Stewart,
Lucile; Scott, George. Z

Taylor, ~dna Towncreedem,
Gelaquine; Thomas, Evelyn; Taylor, H. S.: Williams, Rossista;
Williams, Leanoard; Washington,
Jessie; Woods, Leroy; Will; Baby;
Whethers, Lilly; Wallace, Sammy,
~Woods; Malitiden; Williams Johnny; White, Cassy; - Wilson, Bennie; Whethers, Lilly; Wylor,. Edna; Williams, Zealia; - Williams,
Resiska.

Fight For Passage
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their evil designs without exercising the ~slightest determination
to put up ~any. effective resistance,~ the NAACP seeretary declared, ~you admit in your letter of April.22 that you are unable, at this jate date in the session, to give us any information
as to when the anti-lynching bill
will. be. taken up in the Senate.~

Lashing out at the disgraceful
lack of fighting leadership in the
senate that could rally the majority opinion in that body- for
the bill if it would do so, White

ernment in our country, is

f this legislation do not

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Case Worker

Mrs, Minnie Bowick Edwards,
alumna of the Atlanta University
School of Social Work, has recently been appointed case worker with
the Public Assistance Division,
Washington, D. C. The wife of the
Rev, A. Joseph Edwards, pastor of
the -Zion Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., she was formerly
employed as a dietitian at the U.
Veterans Mospital, ~Tuskegee,
and ag a Home Demonstration
Agent, U. S, Department of Agricultural Economics, in Fulton
County, Atlanta, Georgia, -

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Teachers Barred
From City Statue

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (C) A group
of young~ colored teachers here
was denied the privilege of entering Vulcan, the iron man statue
standing atop Red Mountain as a
symbo] of the vast supply of iron
ore to be found in the hills surrounding the ~Magic City of the
South;~ last week. '

The colored people of Birmingham cofitributed, through taxes, to
the erection of Vulcan, help to
maintain the park, and feel they
should be allowed to visit the
statue at any hour of the day.

Vulcan ang the park that surrounds the statue is considered one
ef the beautiful. dnd interesting
spots in the City, and the teachers
had included it on their spring pro
gram as one of the places to visit.| ~

However, the guard, white, on duty. informed them that there is @
city ordinance that prohibits Negroes from entering the statue after 9:30 in the morning, and could
not be allowed to enter the statue
proper. ~

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Heroic Action

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be a real hero again when he was
the third man to enter the ruins
foliowing the fire..He was seeking
a wife this time only to find her
among the unfortunate victims on
the. floor.
NEARLY 800 PRESENT

Jimmie Swift, one.of the: four

spiers of. the... Walter,.Barnes
travelling aggregation who was

tioned at the door with Alan.Barnes,.brother of the band. leader
stated that 573 paid admissions
had been counted and estimated
that an additional two: hundred
were in on passes.. Only a few persons had departed.when the disaster struck at exactly 11:45 o~clocF

| Tuesday night in a hall that was

originally constructed fora fra
~| ternal order known thirty years

ago as Zion Hall.
The place was later used as 8
stable, later as a bottling plant and
a Sanctified church. It was open3d for dances more than two years
ago nnd. the management taken

windows and the back door about
a year ago.

Several witnesses to the fire
stated that firemen were iate ~in
getting water in the flaming building and place thehigh toli of: human lives partly to their delay.
Red Cross medical authorities and
local physicians state that many
of the victims: who were not
seriously. burned died from poisonous fumes caused by the flames in
a building whosé roof and sides
were constructed of galvanized
metal and steam ~caused when
water was turned into the burning
inferno,;

VIS4rORS KILLED

Ed Frazier, operator of the
Rhythm Night Club, had enjeyed
the largest crowd of the season
and was outside the building wnen
the fire broke out. He dashed into the- office to protect his money
and the milling crowd prevented
his escape. -His body was found
near the front entrance and the
chief of police stated that the
money box was found almost a
place empty.

youth, quit school last year
sufizort his mother and according to Mrs. Nettie Mason, the
mother, ~went out Tuesday for
little fun. Today she was making

over by Ed Frazier who barred the

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She.sat ~to near the front~ ona
Lonsdale bus, Mrs. Ruth Hamilton,
appearing in court this week tc
answer these charges was -spared

further humiliation when Judge | ~y,

Bob Williams, municipal court
justice, threw the case out cf court
because of ridiculousness of the
charges.

In dismissing the court, Judge
Williams said to the complainants.
~If you desire to prosecute this
woMan On any such charge then
take it to a state court.~ Attempting to explain their action later,
bus officials declared that the bu:
driver, causing the action, was new.

Mrs. Hamilton, a teacher in the

the bus daily to and from her work,

= |.: pes
cae oe f

Though she was not locked up,

was held until her uncle came
and made bond, she reports. -

CONTINUE BOYCOTT |.

ROCK HILL, 8S. C~(A N P)~
Two months have passed and the

| estimated 55 Negro business estab
lishments in this city are still boycotting the local Coca Cola bottling

Maynard nursery schooi here, rode |

use the Coca Cola company here
cusplaced colored labor with white.

PIA Holds Regular ~

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group of people could ~wish for Besides making a very substantial investment in property and creating
an income for its members, it is
developing tremendous understand
members. There is considerable
evidence of a growing appreciation
among the citizenry here for cooperation and mutual help in things
economic. One cf the most essential principles for the moment: is
that of effecting general unity
throughout the whole~ group instead of the several unattached
units We now know are beginning.
~This condition signifies the typical ~apartness~ Negroes have been
afflicted with ever since those crucial days of chattel slavery. This
idea is of a truth a hangover from
those days of the master~s teachings when the waite bosses taught
us to distrust one another in order
that they would have less trouble
in handling the slaves. They would
keep us afraid to get together for
a common cause. We shall have to
learn to unlearn this sort.of. thing,

Avail $1,000,000
For Projects.

~Wednesday was received here from
Nathan Strauss, administrator of
the United States Housing Authority that a million dollars had been
made available for two low-rent
housing projects, one for colored
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fire, left a widow, Mrs. Geneva

ages are two, ten, thirteen and
fifteen. The youngsters have not
yet realized that their only
breadwinner has passed. ~

Willie Burns, 20 years old, was
dancing near a side window when
the fire started and said.tnat it
was fully five minutes before. it
occurred to him to use 4a chair
with the aid of another to break
the boards and glass from a nearby window. He aided in getting. a
girl he~ identified as Demple McCullen through the window who
was on fire and permitted ~three
persons to escape out the window
before going through himself. Only five others came out that \window he said. Tne hero exhibited
@ scar on the ear and leg and
said that his sister and a uncle
perished in the flames. phy
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Alex White lost. two first
sins in the fire.
Jessie Washington, one of tne

band) victims, was to have played
in his home town of Vicksburg~ on
Wednesday night.

Walter Barnes and his. family

also lived in that city ~ several
years and the city planned to
turn out to welcome the tnree

ADMINISTER RITES |.

Thirty-five members of ~ the
Catholic faith perished in the fire
where a large number of tne

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DOTHAN, Ala. ~ Announcement:

Simon, and four children wnose |

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To Probe
Py Pb oo Sigs
Bombing
High School
Tutor Escaped 3
Serious Injury

_. WASHINGTON ~ (SNS) ~
FBI officials have made no move
to investigate the outrage against
Mrs. Edna Holland, local. high
school teacher, whose home, 1324
Harvard street, Northwest, was
bombed by hoodlums on Friday,
April 19.

Mrs. Holland herself escaped
serious. injuries only because she
~stopped to attend a recital before returning from school to
-her home which is located in a
so-called exclusive white neighborhood.:. ~The explosion shattered all ~the
front windows in the house, tear-.
ing window frames from their
moprings, unhinged doors, and
tore a large hole in the six-inch
cement porch, Windows in nearby.
homes also were broken, - ~
THEORY OFFERED |

rorize Mrs. Holland in an effort
to make her. quit her home which
is, located in a_ section where
whites have made us of a ~restrictive covenant~ grrangement
among themselves to keep Negroes from buying homes in this
area,

_. Mr. Ming and Dean William
H. Hastie, of the Howard University law school, who is chairman of the NAACP~s national le
_ gal committee, conferred Thurs
day, April 25, with Major Ernest

Brown, chief. of the D. C. police

~in ~an effort to push a local police. investigation,. |

The NAACP telegram, which
was addressed to O. John Rogge,

assistant United State Attorney..General in charge of the Justice

Department~s.civil liberties divis
jon, was signed by Walter White,

eexecutive secretary of the
NAACP. The text:
~National office of National

| Association for Advancement of

Colored People urges investigation by Department of Justice of
bombing of home of Mrs. Edna
Holland. at.824 Harvard street,
Distriet of Columbia. Decisive

_action in bringing criminals to

justice wil lact ag deterrent of.
similar outrages.~

and one for white.

- The projects ~will be widely ~
separated~ it was said by the Dothan Housing Authority. ~

Nat'l Insurance.
Week Secretary

company. Their, boycott began be- ~

FBI Fails

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