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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1941

He Gets Call

Rev. Harvey E. Johnson, pastor
of the First Congregationa] church
-at Montgomery, Ala., for nearly
five years, will ask a leave of absence to take up his work as army
chaplain. He has been appointed
active Scoutmaster and is a past
Master Mason, Worshipful Master
and Patron of the Order of the
Fastern Star. He is~ a member of
the Alpha Phi Alpha Greek Letter
Fraternity, and is principal of the
Powder Srrings public school in

Georgia,

FLORIDA TEACHER
BRUTALLY BEATEN
BY PATROLMAN

~$T. PETERSBURG, Fila. ~
(ANP)~Miss Alceta Hargray,
decal schoo] senenee was mevtely

it sang te his method of arresting an alleged traftic. law
violator,

~According toe witnesses, the
young woman accompanied by
her sister-in-law came upon a
group of white persons standing
around watching Patrolman
Verne Goodbread beating Andrew Jamisen into insensibility.
Her remark: ~Isn~t there some
other way. to arrest that man
without beating him that way?~
caused Goodbread to turn to her
knocking her down in the street
and kickivz her,

Miss Hargray~s brother, Mese,
came up and demanded that the
efticer stop beating his sister.
Witnesses say the brother had a
knife in his hand. Miss Annie
Mae Roundtree, who had been
observing the scene from her
cer, apPpreached the group and
was arrested along with ~Miss
Hargray her brother, and her
sister.in-law.

- Jamison, badly bruised and
swellen as a result of the beating given him by the officer, was
~fined $115 for reckless drivirg
and assaulting an officer. ~The
others were held under $200

MRS. ABBOTT A
BLAMES SENGSTA(

E FOR

FLINT, Mich.~The Flint-BrownsNews has been asked to conduct a
straw poll to learn the majority
will as to what two Colored people shall be appointed, member, of
the Genesee Board of Supervisors.
Thi, paper will gladly render this
service.

The poll will be conducted like
the regular official elections in that
there will be a primary and g general straw.poll. It has begun with
thig issue of the newspaper. Two
issues Will carry. the allot for the
primary and three issues will carry the ballot for the general poll.

There are two* members of the
{hoard of Supervisors. to be ap
pointed from among! the Colorec
| pecple by the Mayor~ and city

' Council. The people may enter as
many names for the primary pol)

as they wish. The four candidates
| receiving the highest number of

votes in the primary will be the;

nominees for the general election in
the final straw poll. This will folJow the primary poll immediately

~Whe purpose of this straw poll ix:
to find out from the colored people
what persons they would want te. fill the office of County Supervisors as members on that board.
This: method will. greatly aid the
appointing authorities! in their desire to appoint men whom the
colored generally approve. It will
eliminate the old method of secretly storming the Mayor's office and
that of the Commissioner by certain individuals, whose approval by
the majority of the colored people
may be doubtful.

Some of the duties of the Supervisor, are to look after the
proper assessment of! property; to
see that Rents of houses by tenants are not too high as compared
to the location and value of that
property; to control the disbursements of the people~s ~taxes anc
look after the general economy
and welfare of people here.

bond, and fined $50 each.

Dr. Joseph Cole
Is Presented By
Mt. Olive Church

~Dr. Joseph Cole, graduate artist
in music from the Detroit Institute of Music, will appear in recital, Friday, March 21st, at Mount
Olive Baptist church. Dr. Cole enjoys the high estimation of music
critics and one of the most prom-, ising of present day artists in
America. His tutelage has been under some of the leading artists in
music in this country.

Many newspaper authorities have
given him their approbation. Says
Cecil Smith of the Chicago Daily

Wews: ~Cole is on the high road
to Success.~ Says Herman Dewries: ~He needs not far any

~cert singer of remarkable ability.~
_ Mr. Robert L. Nolan, Mr. Cole~s

Colored people generally pay too
MUCH RENT for the HOUSES
THEY occupy.

In some instances, they pay too
purchase. To make an example: A
certain family bought a home for
two thousand dollars paying twe
hundred down. The contract stated
that all taxes due at the time of
purchase by this family and al)
future taxes must be paid by the
buyers of that property. The taxes
due at time of purchase were
rated on the original price of the
property which was four thousand
dollars, The huyers shculd not- be
made to. pay taxes on the four
thousand dollars. They should pay
only taxes on the two thousand:
dollars, the yalue of the home of
the present time.

A situation like this comes under
the jurisdicton of the County
Board of Supervisors. Negroes, are
placed under this kind of burden
in many cases. Our colored Supervisor, can doa lot of good in this
respect if in no other. This situation is not new for the colored

} people. It existed while other Col
ored Supervisors were in office.
Put nobody heard of their making
any effort to correct such g condition. Now, do not believe that
because the other Supervisors wht
filled the post we are now balloting to fill, were colored that nc
colored man will try doing these: things.
~eomparison with any other sing- |

We do not want to say that because one colored ~man fails, all
cclored men will fail. Colored
people have good men and better
men just like any other race has.
Some of our colored men will do
the right thing. All we have to dc
is to give them that opportunity
Lets vote for this) kind of person for the office of Supervisor.

There are many duties which the
board of Supervisors do that may
make better conditions among the
poor people and their gurroundings. We have no~ record of any

of these things having been done

_ Be. present at Mount Olive Fri- / or even attempted, by: the former

fay night.

| individual, of color who have been,

Majority Will -

evealed

enjoying the emoluments of. that
office. A puble office should function in the direct interest of the
people. As far as the County Supervisor~, office is concerned, the
colored- men who are appointed are
there to do something in the interest and for the good of their people. Can anyone dig up any good
the former colored members of
the board have done? Maybe you
might find something one of them
has done that is good. But you wili
prebably discover that this thing
that he has done has been something. MINOR in the scale of necéssity among the colored people here
The attitude of certain of the former colored supervisors has been one
of special enjoyment of the post
simply to be advertised as such an
officer holder. It made a. big hit
and gave personal prestige which
could be cashed in on, and has
been. But the tax money spent to
pay the salary would -haye done
more good to the people who hao
to pay them if. their pia whieh
wert Tor this 6
funded.

Now let us get ble and do neg
thing whick will open the eyes Oi
our sleeping elements. Lets make 9
yote which will ~speak for us ait
the ~appointing tabie~ of the au:
thorities for the Board of superviscrs. Put your choice~s name on
the ballot, if it is not on there already; and vote on it. Then cut out
the ballot and mail it to the Voluntary Committee Flint-Brownsville
News, 830 Pingree. The Commitieze
who will count the ballots shall be
composed/ of those seven persons
who volunteer to do this. These

people must register their name:
with the Flint-Brownsville New:
immediately upon reading this
article, so they cun get organized.

Below is the official. ballot of the
Flint-Brownsville New. which seek:
to find out whom the colored, peovle wish to be their two member:
of the County Supervisors for the
present term or ensuing one:

Vote for two on the North Side;
and for two on the South Side.

The following names are simple
suggestions and do not represent
the opinion of this paper. So far
as this paper is concerned they are
just names; A voter may insert his
choice on the lines appearing on
the ballot: The ballot. must be
marked immediately and clipped
out.and.mailed at once to the FlintBrownsville News, 830 Pingree.

Seven persons are hereby asked to
vohinteer at the end of the pri
ETHIOPIA~Haile Selassie

lost his kingdom
to Italy, but ~the hk 38 nee moparch still hasan |.
Ne ~army; Mh:

~Selassie Inspects. Native Troops

~(Acme Photo)

Parents
Colored
Deposed General

Manager Branded
As ~Trouble-Maker~

CHICAGO ~ (A N RP) ~
| Branding John Sengstacke,
' recently deposed president
| and general manager of the

maker,~ Mrs. Edna R. Ab
bott, widow of the late editor
and publisher, Robert S. Ab
bott, in a petition filed Thursday in probate court denied
she was white since both par} ents were Negroes,

PLINT,
Staite

Mich-~The Michigan,
Employment Service today '

began a State-Wide drive to reg- |
ister ALL workers possessing abil- |

ity or training usable in National
Defense industries.

Each of the 50 offices operated
by the Service are now utilizing
radio, newspapers, billboards, motion pictures~every means possible to impress upon worker~ the
vital necessity of their registering
for work.

Millions of dollars in National
Defense contracts. have been
swarded to Michigan industries.
Plants are being expanded. New
machines are being put into use.
Within a short-time, this tremendous expansion of activities wil) re
maries to help in~ the counting.

Please write the Filint-Brownsville ~from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Mon
in thiy respect.

THE PRIMARY BALLOT FOLLOWS:

START DRIVE TO
RECRUIT WORKERS

sult in Negro workers being used
in a-greater degree.

It is absolutely vital, if our National -Defense program isito succeed, that Michigan industries be
able to find the men necessary to
produce. The drive to register -all
workers is on behalf of National
Defense and it is important to remember that in the current campaign for worker registrations, individuals do not have to be unemployed in order to register.

If 2 man is now employed at a
job which does not utilize the.
training or skill he may possess
as the result: @ ewfier employment
in another field, he should, by all; Means, register at one of the pub[te employment offices.

These offices wil] remain open

| days threugh Fridays. Workers are

turged to register. immediately if
| they have not \already done so
with the past thirty days.

es
Kiddies Aided By
Fort Worth Zetas

FORT WORTH, Tex~(ANP) ~
Psi Zete chapter of the Zeta Ph:
Beta sorority selected. as a civic
project, correcting defective visior
and purchasing glasse, for under
privilege school children.

Fifty-two children have already
received aid from this organization
The school nurse, Mrs. A. B. Miller
whose duty it is to test the visior
of children in the various school:
of -the city, submits to the sorority
the names of those who are being
hindered in school due to defertive
vision and recommends the treat
ment necessary.

Psi Zeta chapter has presented tc
the health department of the Fort
Worth Public schools $240 to be
used for this purpose. The chapter~s annual Blue Revue is the sole
the ~proceeds from which are used for the
maintenance of the sorority Gilass
money-raising project,

es fund. Thi, year~s Blue Revue.

musical comedy, is set for Aa

night.

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Thadeus

Charlotte

Herman Strong
Archie Johnson
Henry Clark |

Williams

Albert Harper

EACH SIDE OF TOWN VOTE FOR TWO ON HIS SIDE:
VOTEFORTWOONLY VOTEFORTWO ONLY

NORTH SIDERS SOUTH SIDERS

E. J. Timmons
A. F. Butler

Isiah Beck

Ola Hughes

J ames Williams, Jr.
Babe Brandon

have~ no interest in the estate because they were not legally martied.

Mrs. Abbott~s answer set torth
that Miss Sengstacke~s charges
were inspired by her nephew, John,
who in February was demoted to
vice-president at a salary of | $45. weekly and removed from the board
of directors ana office of general
manager.

The widow says Sengstacke ~repeatedly threatened to make. trouble and cause litigation~. unless
she agreed to retain him in a cer/ tain. position at the publication for
the rest of his life, and also objected to her renunciation under
the will and instead obtaining a
widow~s portion ~because it would
reduce the other shares as _ Brovided by the will~

Not only is she the lawful widow
of the deceased publisher, but John
so testified in court under oath
March 15, 1940. He had not believed that to be the truth, he was

Says Both!

Chicago Defender, a ~trouble |i

aad

ffs

Audit and. Control committee ~
that the necessary funds. can

ont

tional contracte have been award--
ed to firms which refuse to ems
ploy Negroes. ae

Tt has béen revealed recently
that the following New York firms
have pleced requests for ~white,
Christian help only~: Metal Manu
duty bound to so inform the court,
says the petition, which also poinis
out that since the recent action

statue of limitations..

both parents were Negroes, she is
therefore a Negro and her marriage to Mr. Abbott at Crown

binding.

News Has Praise
For Grocer Who
Hired Two Negroes

store for employing two of ow
people as clerks in his store. Good
deeds like this deserve mentioning. It is a. pity that many more
such business concerns do not do

was not filed within nine month~:
~ after Sengstacke~s testimony, under |
state. law it is now barred by the

Mrs. Abbott also says that since

Point, Ind., in 1934, was legal and |

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