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FLINT, awiepuie cai SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1941

NASHVILLE, Tenn.~Officials of
tional Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress in special session of the Board. at Nashville, Tenn.,. where the 1941 program was
t fer Houston meet June 17th to 22nd.
Rev. W. H. Jernagin, PresiVice President;
T,/Sims, Recording Secretary; Rev. L. D. Bunn,

mapped
Seated left to right:

dent; \Rev. O. C. Maxwell,

the Na-.

rector General;

Rev.

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| left to right:
| eral and Jas.
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bdlresponding ' Seicstadny?
President: National Baptist Convention. Standing,

Dr. D. V.

Jemison,

Prof. E. W. D. Isaac, Associate Di
Miss Lucie E. Campbell, Music Di
rectress; Matthew Burgess, Treasurer; Dr.
Talley, Dean; Dr. A. M. Townsend. Director GenE. Gaye; Department Leader.

M. A.

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OTHER SUITS MAY FOLLOW
WASHINGTON ~ (ANP) ~.Following the suit of Yancy Wil
liams for un injunction restraining certain military officials from
preventing him from enlisting in

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the aviaticn corps, Wendell Mac-,

Connell. attorney ~handling the
ease, declares he has ~been ~ approached by other young Negroes
desirous of following. suit and
entering action against the marine corps and the coast guard.

ee: of
Woman Gets Twelve

Months In Slaying

ATLANTA. Ga.~(SNS)~
A woman listed as Rosa Lee Trig

| ger was given a 12+month prison

sentence Tuesday morning upon
her plea in Fulton Superior Crim:
inal Court to a voluntary manslaughter charge in the pistol slav
ing last May'of a man ~listed as
Charlie Durden.

Wounded. By

a os: _ge
Birmingham Police

BIRMINGHAM ~ (A N P)
~*~] just dropped a pot shot
at him,~ is the way Detective
Grover Gilliland described his
shooting~ an 11-year-old boy
playing hookey from school
whom the officer suspected of
being a thief.

Shop lifters had stolen four
suits from a railroad: supply
company and officers had been
given a description of the suspects, When the detective and
his partner, H. H. Weir, saw
James Daniels and his friend,
Jack Dixon, 15, they ordered
them to halt. Dixon did so, and
called to his companion,
~You'd better stop, the officer
will shoot you.~ But. the child
continued running across a va
cant Jot; Gilliland shot him
from a. distance of about 100
yards.

The boys denied any connéction with the shoplifting but
admitted that they had been
away from school] for a number of days. Daniels is now in
Hillman hospital with a compound fracture of the left leg.

an article appearing in the current
issue of News-Week which states;

June after 43 years service, is now
on leave. and rumors at Fort. Riley

actually take over the command~.

ling leisurely, but he was supposed
to report to the new command at
the end of the past week.

Davis have appeared ~ since
promotion amd appointment
for the most part, he has ignored
ali of them, particularly those with
reference to the ill feeling of We.
gro een fomend i: acity.
|| mémbers: of the -crack ~ yegiment.cepting of eourse, his son and per
Refugees From Paris. Tell
Of Hitler~s Hate Tactics

~(NEW YORK~(A N P)~To
those readers of Hitler's ~Mein
Kampf,~ familiar with his conception of the way members of
the ~black races~. should be treated, reports of the astrocities to
which Negroes are being: subjected
in Nazi-dominated Paris. come as
no surprise.

In the fun-loving city which
American Negroes had formerly regarded as a veritable haven for the
oppressed, Hitler's theories have

shunted around to various prison
camps in occupied France where
~they serve as ~ for pris
Charge Colored
_ Women Sterilized
' By Nazi. Officers

had been taken over by a young
German who had been jiving in
Paris before the war and who

turned out to be one of Hitler~s
fifth columnists.

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The girls who were born in
France and spoke no English said
~When we ventured out into the
streets, the Germans would laugh
at us and call us animals.~

Mrs. Arabelle Middleton,. formerly of Washington, revealed
that she had been forced to leave

her 10-year-old son~ behind ~ with
white friends who promised to take

care of him ~until I am able to get

him out.~

Flint Federation Of Colored Women~s

Clubs Presents Mrs. Irene M. Gates

FLINT, Mich.~ The Federation
of Colored Women~s Clubs. - will
have as their guest speaker Mrs.

<erarenrer meres weal =S.

GENERAL B. 0. DAVIS SPIKES RUI
TO TAKE OVER COMMAND THIS:

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Davis To Be Aid
WASHINGTON, D. C.~(ANP)~Branding false all

statements to the contrary, Brig. Gen, Benjamin C. Davis,

spending a few days in Washington, declared he was on his

way to Ft. Riiey, Kans., where he would take command of
the brigade of cavalry regiments there, this week.

Youth, 16,
Tells Of
Torture

Calling Gen, Davis~ attention to

~Gen. Davis, due te retire next

have hinted that he may -never

The General said he was travel
Many stories concerning <yeneral
his
but

freely expressed themselves as saying they had never soldiered, aithough they had been members of
the outfit for a number of years.
until the colored- colonel took over
the command, There was no ill--
feeling among the enlisted men
concerning Col. Davis and _ they
felt, that the regiment had been
bettered.

In this particular regiment,: Col.
Davis had the cocperation and full
support of an entire staff of Negro
Officers, whereas in his hew assignment as Gen. Davis he will have
only. one colored officer and that
will be his son. The new command
is to be known as the Fourth
Cavalry brigade, composed of Negro troops with white officers, ex
soral aide.. Capt, pergerren O. Davis, Jr.

Italy Seeks Aid
In Removing White
| Ethiop Colonists

VICHY~(S N S)~Proof that the
vengeance of Haile Selassie~s natives is wreaking havoc on Italian
colonists in Ethiopia was revealed
here Saturday,

Italy hes sent a secret emissary
to Vichy with an urgent appeal for
aid. in removing:80,000 Italian colonists from Ethiopia, where they
face possible niassacre by Ethiopian rebels who are supporting Britain~s invasion of Italian East Africa. Among the Italians are 15,000
women and children whose lives are
threatened by the guerilla warfare

Captain

of the an rebels.

Quintar South
Only Witness To
Testi, Mondag; ewan i
violating the ~c ~civil rights~ of
a 16-year-old colored boy,
went on trial Monday marning before Federal Judge E.
Marvin Underwood in United
States District Court
Quintar South, former David T. Howard Junior High
School student, was the only
witness. to testify at the Monday session which lasted
three hours: The trial will be

resumed this morning at 10:

o~clock.

South went to the witness stand! t:
~ gressman Arthur

at 11:45 a. m. and testified until
12:45 p. m,, answering questions
put to.him by an~asistant United
States Attorney.

TELLS OF mcr eed IN
FEBRUARY,

The boy told of his arrest Jast
Yebruary in connection with a
burglary at Clark University. He
accused Officer Sutherland of
forcing a confession from him
after taking him into a photogra
pher~s dark room at the Police
Station and burning him _ three
times, twice on the arm and once
or the neck, with a hot electric
drying iron. ~South declared Sutherland slapped him before burning him

The U. Ss. district attorney, according to indications, will continue examining South this morning, after which the defense will
question the youth.:

Raymond W Martin and H. H.
~ysinger, assistant U. S. district
attorneys, are prosecuting. Clint
Hager and H. A. Allen are representing the policeman.

More than a score of witnesses
will testify during the trial.

Frank Wimberly, of 54 Howell
Street, and a state capitol em
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Collects $8,000 Damages
hae Does a Act

Bill Aids 15-Year Old Goorin Sugary

robbery. of a Savannah ~r

$50 c young
was tiade when Magistrate Charles Solomon ques-| He hitch-hiked to.
tioned the boy regarding his escape from the Geor-. ~janitor~s anion

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WASHINGTON ~(SNS) ~ ConWwW, Mitchell,
Democrat, Illinois continues in his
effort to break down racial discrimination in the United States
Army and Navy, it. was revealed
today.

His }atest move this week was to
appoint two colored boys ~to the
United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis,-and one colored boy to
the United States Military = Academy at West Point. The names
of these young men are: Toussaint

Mitchell Appoints Three c 63 ~
To Army, Navy Acudenaane

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Ill, Congressman
Continues Effort
To Break Barriers

Gaxisden, Jr., Nava] Academy; Al- |

vin Jerome Thompson, Naval Academy; and H. Minton - Francis,
Military Academy... These
men, if successful in passing the
mental and physical tests,: will be

admitted to the Naval Acadeny

at Annapolis and the Military Aca
Judge Bishop To
Be Main Speaker |

FLINT MICH. Judge Bishop
will be the principal speaker on
Wednesday, February 19, at Clifford St. Center, before the joint
session of the Youth Council of
the NAACP and the Federation oi
Colored Women~s Clubs. Judge
Bishop will speak on the subject:
~Juveriile Delinquency.~ Both the
Women~s clubs and the ~Youth
Council are asking every church,
club group, and family to come

out and take part in this ses
sion:
At the Youth Counci] meeting

| of Tuesday January 29th, presi
Dent ink yu have W ta |

bag and be left holding the bag,

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dent John. Gibson named Miss;
Racheal Wright chairman of the}

Social Committee,. Miss MaTian Wright,- Messrs. James
Murgerson: and R. Morri
Morrison for. their fine service in
the collection of doustons for~ the

young~

aly ~
are three: _colored

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D. Roosevelt. Friday gs when
Harlem School: of: Nursing to continue their nursing work in the

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