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~ FLINT-BROWNSVILLE NEWS |

830 Pingree Phone 9-7571 Flint, Michigan
HENRY G. REYNOLDS.................. Editor and Publisher
BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS......:.....2....: Associate Editor
WHAJAM INGE de..... os eco. Director of Photography
RIGHARD BURKS.................... Manager of Circulation
RRR I oe occ ce ae veins ae Adv. Manager
MOE tem Gee....... oe ae |. Adv, Asst.

Unusual Physical Stature In Mary Smith

(Family Stock Gigantic) |

FLINT, Michigan~The unusual height and keen features >f
Mrs. Mary Smith, deceased, mother of Mrs. Louise| Morgan, uf
Flint. shows an example of that splendid phvsical spe~imen found
in certain well-bred,. and accomplished natives in our, Fatherland.
Africa. She was the type of Negro race strain that ntakes for the
superb physical human which is characteristic of ~true |Negro manhood and womanhood.

Mrs. Smith can well represent that type of Colored: folk who
were represented by a well-developed African tribe whose prowess
and intelligence were brought out in a recent moving picture shown

-at the Rialto some months ago, in which American democratic cul~ ture held.to its own habit of throw ing in the thought that such great
people are not Negroes. If these fine people are not Negroes.
what are they? Can it be deducted that the white American way of
life interest itself in destroying the better qualities of Negro Racial
contribution to mankind? A study of the practices here would invite one to such a conclusion. |

Mrs. Smith has a son in Texas who is seven feet tall, well proportioned and wise. He is a good father and husband, Negroes
need not be ashamed of anvthing the Race has come to. It does
have a great background ~which had a mighty hand in the develop
ment of the progress of man. He may not he told this, or he may
not fing current or later-day history putting laurels in his roads of
progress, but the fact remains. the Negro is a great human being.
Ethiopian influences tempered the wor]d when Greece and Rome
begin their ascendancy. Egyptian culture and art fvere Negro.
Hannibal, Toussaint I. Overture, Cipio Africanus and Solomon
were Negro supernien. The Queen of Sheba, Cledpatra, Queen
of Alexar:dria, Egvpt, pvere Negro women. Haile }Selassie is 4
sreat black man. There are many great black meh now in the
world doing worthwhile things for mankind.

Dr. George W. Carver, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Dr: Booker T.
Washington, Honorable Frederick Douglass, General, B. O. Davis,
Colonel Charles Young, Chrisnus Attucks, hero of the Revolutionary
War, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Mary Bethune. Phyllis Wheatley, Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, Marian Anderson, Robert Abbott, Robert I.
Vann, all are PROVING EXAMPLES of the metal of merit

inherent in the Negro.

~We should take thought an |
of the Negro people more and more, lest sve lose sight of these folk
and their contributions to civilization and mankind. | Don~t be too

d go after the history) of the doings

tive, who had employed him on
Saturdays as a yard worker.

An investigation was started
after she visited South. |
_OFFICER SUSPENDED
FROM FORCE

The, investigation resulted in
Sutherland~s suspension from the
police force and a Fultoa County
indictment returned against hir
~on an ~assault and battery~
charge. (He was acquitted of
this charge in a Fulton Crimina}
Court and returned to his police
job.)

Following an investigation by
the Federal Grand Jury, that
body indicted Officer Sutherlane
on March 12, 1940. He was in
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dicted on three counts.

If Sutherland is convicted on
all three counts, he wil] face
maximum penalty of 12 years in
prison and a $7,000 fine.

The first count of th? indict.
ment returned against Office)
Sutherland charges that by strik.
ing, battering, be cing, burning,
essaulting and torturing South
the young victim was deprived of
~the privilege ~of equal protection of the law and the immuni
ty from legal assault, battery ano
torture by ay person exercising
state authority.~

_ A maximum penalty of 10 years
in prison and a $5,000 fine are/
provided for this court aloné.

~TORTURED WITHOUT
CAUSE~

The first count pf the indict
ment further states that Soutt
was ~tortured without legal cause
or justification~ in the acts of
the office:, as the wording put if
~~by burning him on the left fore
arm and at front base of the
neck and upper chest with ~ hot

Negro In The

| punishments, pains and penalties

much engrossed in the flairs of the people who want to sell you
their selfish picture of accomplishment in contrast to our own
which they omit when goog and emphasize when not. Negro people have much more to contribute to the upbuilding of mankind than.
mere physical exhibitions of strength.
self evident fact which cannot be readily obscured.
the iealdus races are forced to give cognizance of it.
good qualities are not visible to the eya so they appropriate this
opportunity to éensor the history, twist the current doings of our
people, whenever those doings are creditable so ~that small credit
or none at all can be registered in the generation's mind. This is
a long-ranee program, planned and kept alive through the vigilance
atc The truth will out some day,
~Honry G. Reynolds.

REGISTER AND VOTE FOR VAN DYNE

Youth, 16, Tells |

(Continued from Page 1)

This is why |
But other

burn the boy, that the wounds
were inflicted outside the jail) if
he was. burned, and that Soul
was guilty of the burglarv cha

On the stand Monday; the you
declared he spent | several da
with other youthful suspects 1
cell at the City Jail during
latter part of last February, d
ing which time. he claimel the ~
fession was forced from him.
was transferred to Fulton Tov
where he remained two: or th
days before being |sent to the
venile Home.

~During the time he was in
Police Station and Fulton T
er, he did not have the opport
ty of talking to any ~relati
South declared. | Je.

Aecording to the boy, light
thrown on the case by Mrs
~. Harrison, wife, of a South
Bell. Telephone Company exe

ploye, is the only colored man
rendering jury service, but he
was not selected to try the Sutherland case.

ATTEMPT TO PROVE
FORCED CONFESSION

After the jury was qualified,
District Attorney Martin pointed
out that the Governmeént woulé
prove that Officer Sutherland
forced a confession from a youth
who was not guilty of the charge.
He contended that the boy signed
the confession after the officer
burned him ahout the body with a
hot iron.
| Defense Attorney
formed the jury. that

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Fiece of iron, and by slapp'n
and hitting him with: his fist, and
by striking him with said hot iror
in order to illegally coerce from
him to make a confession and
admission of his guilt in said
burglary case,~

The second count of the ind~et.
ment charges that the officer
subjected South to ~different
than those provided by law
account of his being a Negro.~

The third count against Suth
erland charges that his actions
deprived the arrested youth of
his right ~to be sure in his person, | ~
and the right not to be compelled
to be a witness against himself.
and also ~~the right that no eruel
and unusual punishments be inflicted upon him.~

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Nat'l Defense

ference on Adult Education
the Negro adopted~
~The Negro in the National Crisis.~
This is fast becoming a
One subject for discussion wherever Negroes congregate for a. bit

and with some. evident
This is the first of several discussions of Conference subjects~~~Majority-Minority Relations in
National
reference to Negroes.

MAJORITY WAR-MINDED
become war-minded. It now believes that it must wage war for

self-maintenance.
place like home~~ and home

valuation of Congressman Mitchell

or him, and dictate to him when

It was true that he was
strong man in DePriest, and it is

~ be just ~another DePriest.~ But.
ided right early that he was go
jertain ~know-it-alls~ he stood by

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Ethiopia Is Coming 7
THE PRESENT WORLD conflict may decide as
the Bible has so vividly predicted~the coming of
Ethiopia into its own. More and more greatly: looms

stands for.

forth the wings of the black kingdom over the Afriean Continent.
At first thought, that might
_ seem fantastic when it is remem- bered that the greed of the everwarring Europeans| has been
turned for a long time towards
cutting up the dark continent.:
But, when it is recalled that there
is @ great possibility that those
same Europeans may Yun each
other ~nuts~: with bombs and gas,
while black men are denied their
use, even in so-called democracies, then anything can happen.
Back in his homeland, Selassie looms a greater figure on the
world scene than when he tried
to hold the mechanized army. of
Mussolini bent on conquest <of his kingdom in 1935 -36. He has brought to his native hordes the newest
types of guns, ammunition and other implements of
warfare that British civilization can afford. He is
helping to tear apart the empire of Africa as built
up for scores of yeare by inhabitants of ~the boot.~
Press dispatches every day tell us that Il Duce~s kingdom is falling apart under the thrusts of black men
led on by the British and free French.
BRITISH CATCH IT AT HOME
It is a curious something, howeyer, that at home
Britain is facing the test of her life. Bases, far, near
and wide, have been established by Hitler from
which he may hurl the missiles of death upon the

that of their ho,] the darkér and

trying to control

FOWLKES

day.

Seeing and Saying ~ By Witiam A. Fowlkes

the prospect of the Negus, Haile Selassie, spreadiag | Lingperch, sey thet Beit

the monstrous preparations of war-minded Germany,
which is relying for the most part on the power of
the packages of destruction hurled downward by dive
bombers. They say that the British government may
be run out of the
tralia or South Africa, whose climates are akin to

SUPPOSE HITLER WINS?

Suppose Hitler prevails on the European
nent afid the islands that surround it?
looms the greater possibility of a warfare between

Africa ahd Europe. Hitler would have his hands full

cupied by force of arms and deceif and whose people he is sending to starvation and despair. Selassie
might well come into his own during such a destruction of person and prestige as is today represented
by the white conquerors.

The gods of fate have so turned this woria
situation until anything can happen, most.of which
would be opposite to what is the present status quo.
What have seemed the impossibilities as described in
~The Great Book~ are certainly the possibilities to
A great revolution is going on in the world today. It is @ revolution brought on by war and the
destruction of man-made machines. Its effect will be /.
felt in the ~utmost parts of the earth. The question
is, will black men in the so-called democracies awaken to their possibilities and forget the slave complex. Or, will they go on and on driven and shod?

man leader and his staff are preparing, p
~der tag~ when the combined might of
ers may push over John Bull and everything he | ig

es, including Colonel] Charles
Britain.CANNOT win against

to, let us say, Canada, Aus
Ns
contiThen there
whiter nations as represented by

the nations whose lands he has oc
WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

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trusting only those folk who show
by physical features, social activity
and tradition complete or almost ~
complete harmony. This attitude
puts Negroes in a difficult spot.
They are forced to walk in | the.

~sun light.~

Then there 1s a practical side to
preparation for war or defense,
which ever one thinks the United
States is preparing for, which is
peculiar to the times. Jobs are being created by the tens of thousands and the unemployed white

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By WALTER R, CHIVERS |
THE RECENT ANNUAL Con- |
and
~as its theme

i

Number

of intellectual gymnastics er

whenever news-| people need them, want them and
paper column-| intend by means fair or foul -to
ists have be-| have them. _

come tempér- The work requires, in the' main, |
arily _intellect- semi-skilled or skilled workmen
wally 5. eFELE of ~loyalty to one~s country~ or
and must have! ~doing one~s bit~ adds prestige. to

these jobs and makes them ~white
men~s~ jobs.
OPPOSE NEGROES

something ready

for~ the ~mnext
edition.

The amount
superfictat
played on_ this

of

CHIVERS
subject is short of disgusting. The
Conference, however, made a serious effort to face the bare facts

the use of arms and then~ being
supplied with them..It is a fact
that military training tends to
make men wave confidence in
themselves and military crises develop leaders of great stature because they achieve through a combination of intelligence and reckless courage. A soldier knows that
he is a citizen~many folk. think
such knowledge is ~dangerous~, for
Negroes.

War breaks out when hate for
the real or imagined enemy has
become institutionalized. The processes that make war possible gain
their. effectiveness by living-on an
exclusive diet of hate. producing
vitamins. This hate is directed: toward an enemy who may be 4@
racia] group or cultural group or.
both.

Because Negroes bear a differ
SUCCESS.

the
Crisis~~with particular

The majority racia] group has

~There. is no
must
defended. Chauvinism is becomy rampant. Nationalism defies
~inking and reflection. Nationaltends to promote racia] solity among the ruling racial
oups. Their suspicions permit of

Exports of rubber products:
pm the United States in the entiating mark of color ~
ited States in the first 11| Makes them so easily distinguish

ed they are again on the spot.
Which mean, of course, they must
develop protective strategy.. Being continually in the ~sun.

bnths last year were valued at
0,434,778, compared with $35,4,152 in the similar period of
39.

and pays ~good wages.~ The flavor | white people who find it. most ~re
light~ and ~on the spot~ is a trying life to say the least. It is likely
to make people nervous and sensitive. People so irritated have to be
careful to keep from bringing the
~wrath of the gods down on their
CASE OF THE NAVY

There are many reasons, and
good ones too, for doubting the
good that will come from Negro
pressure groups trying to force
openings in the armed service for

Negroes where it is publicly known /

that they are not wanted because
of raw prejudice. For instance,
there is a long tradition against Negtjoes becoming sailors ~nd seamen. The Navy has been particularly attractive to that group of

pulsive~ to recognize Negroes as
fit for anything other than menial
service.

This hate has too long 2: history
to be broken~ down overnight. Pressure from Negroes, at this ab
There are so many other vital
needs ~ that Negroes need to
and can fight for that
will not cause such bad and disadvantageous. reactions. They can
watch carefully and check the
treatment of Negro soldiers in
those ~armed forces where they are
accepted freely. Fight for them on
this more friendly soil and encourage them to excel. in. such
branches of service.

FIGHT FOR JOBS

These Negro pressure groups can
fight for jobs iti weal en ex-; + a
This expansion is largely due. to
national. défense. needs. ft. would
be to the advantage of the Negro,
as a minority group to demonstrate at every nity, his
A minority group, if it
is to survive, must display a
whole-hearted patriotism when
ly one that might conceivably. result, in war. ~;

&

BETWEEN THE LINES

had to hurry and get their runs
before Mathewson ~warmed ~up;~
for once he was ~warm,~ the Case
of the opposition was ~hopeless!
Mitchell was not so spectacular immediately after he took up his
abode in Washington; but he grad
y DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK
(FOR ANP) |

UR MAJOR. PROPHET:
DNGRESSMAN MITCHELL
Some weeks ago the C.I.A.A.,
nh organization governing the athtic activities of the Negro colges of the South Atlantic states
et at Virginia Union university
h Richmond. They presented as
heir. main speafer Congressman
rthur W. Mitchell.~ Students and
ywnsmen turned out in large numprs to get a closeup of the con- |ressman from Illinois.

~It may be remembered that critwere rather caustic in their

to say at present he is right and
ready. Anyway. Negro Richmond
was mighty glad to get a first-hand
performance of our only distintinguished congfessman.

Congressman Mifchell held a vast
audience spell-bound. - Even the
dinner gongs could not: divert the
attention of the students from the

~

uring the early months of his
pjourn in Washington. They had
in vain to chart his course

nd how to proceed. Congressman
itehell refused to be the rubber
tamp type of representative many
oneously had supposed.
following

qually true many had wanted him

hell saw it otherwise. He de
ng to be himself, and aithough he
himself severely criticized by

is guns ahd won for himself a
enown that is going to be lasting.
the best baseball pitchers ate those
ho start rather slowly and ~warm

ually ~warmed up~ and it is safe |

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~Whenever I see a big crowd of
Negroes in. court I know it is because of a church fight~ the white
1an said as. he turned and walkec
away, a wide grin covering ht
face. f
Probably the attorney

good by saying only church disputes
attract large crowds of colored
people to courthouses. Very well
did he know at that time that
murders have a big following o
the curious, gossip-hunting human
veings. ~;

He, like others, can glance at
crowd of colored courthouse frequenters, and decide the nature of
the trial, Anyone knows a minister by sight, and when several
of them are seen in a courthouse
with a bunch ~ of serious-looking
fellows, well, it~s a church fight.

When a crowd. of intelligentlooking, well-dressed ~colored men
and women are seen standing near
the courtroom, the observer immediately puts it in the, Negro Society Murder class. ~

~Just another Negro killing~ is
what the observer decides upon
seeing a bunch of overall-clad, unkempt colored persons hanging
around a courtroom door, ef

But, as that lawyer said, an observer has. no trouble at'.all in
casing a church fight. ~And aeccording to the papers, church disputes are quite in style this season. e

Perhaps history is repeating It-.
self. I hope so. What I mean by
that is I hope church ~ wrangles
are not new to civilization.

The youngster just coming on
the scene may be discouraged~ by
these church scraps. He could use
them as an excuse for not participat~ng in religious activities.
These flare-ups have the tendency.

church crowd.

= ZZ SOLLL
~Facts Is Facts!~ |
ROBERT M. RATCLIFFE
s ): ING ON HERE? - Looks like a ~
fight is being aired out,~ remarked a white lawyer ~
worked his way through a crowd of colored people stanc
in the corridor of Atanta~s courthouse,: o
~Yes, we have just settled a little church matter
court,~ one of the gentlemen replide. ~

" thought
he was making the ministers feel

to encourage him to join the non-| ~. But, I believe, should the young | tum
mian or woman be told that chureh | Co

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church, ~ =
Church ~fights have been and will |
reontinue to be and what's more,
~church Members appear to enjoy
them.~ igystiontty is ~here to wai,
" Paith fh God. and fellowship in
services and freedom in the spirit
be z z 9 Y ghd
oblivious~ to man-made-and ~ ae

OF CONN Oe ON in oo hee ae
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revently ay. comutendable~ bed

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From My Study

By REV. JOHN CLARENCE WRIGHT

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races. met at Wesley Memotial Church last week in what,
Many are optimistic~ enough ~to
believe will prove a history making conference. The eve of the observance of Race Relations Sunday
and World-Wide _ Brotherhood
Weew was the occasion and at Atlanta: Branch of the Urban League
was the agency which brought
them together. Over three fourths
of those present were Colored, representing all the local alliamces
bev practically every ~ denomina
on.:
The white brethren, always a bit

~cautious~ were not so strongly
represented numerically. Judged
however by the fervent prayers)
the lusty singing, of ~I want to
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