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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICH.

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1941

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_ _~The tower to the Belgian World~s Fair
vilion has been presented to Virginia Union Universty, Richmond, by the Belgian government and

Robert

Virginia Union Tower To Memorialize Vann

L. Vann

Memorial
Tower

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will be known as the Robert L. Vann* Memorial

Tower in paral of the late editor and publisher,

a graduate ~of the institution. A nationwide drive
is underway to raise $25,000 to
tower at New York, transport it to Richmond and

dismantle the

re-erect it.~ (ANP)

Failure To Name Negro On11 -Man Labor Board Irks NAACP

Membership Of
George Harrison
Also Protested.:
NEW YORK CITY~(SNS)~
Failure of President ~R6osevelt to
_ Iwelude a Negro as a member of the
mediation board of eleveh -persons
occasioned ~keen disappeintment~
to the NAACTP., according. to a let
ter from~ Walter White, ~ NAACP
secretarp to Mr. Roosevelt March

The. NAACP letter also. scored
the naming ~by the ~ President ol
George. M: Harrison, grand presitent of ~the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, betause Harrison~s union ~bars persons from: membership~ on account

yf race, creed and color~.

Harrison, who has been mentioned for several federal: posts,
tas been criticized severely for
anti-Negro attitude of his union.
The text of the NAACP letter~ follows:

~Tt is with keen disappointment
that we note you not only failed to
melude -a.qualified Negro as a
nembher of the Mediation Board of
eleven appointed by you yesterday

ut that vou appointed a man) who
heads a labor union whose constiution bars persons from memberhin on account of race, creed and
rclor. We refer te George M. |/Harrison, grand president of | the
B-otherhood of Railway / and
Stesamshin Clerks.

~Thirteen million Negrvues; and

their friends view this with dismay /

They wonder. what hope there is

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for the Negro

in the industrial
vhase of thé national deTense proxzam, for which the Negro is taxed along with his. white fellow
citizen, when you as_ president
select, ag a member of the Mediation Board a man. who heads a
union which draws lines of color
and creed. One wonders if there is
any hope of industrial democracy
and justice for the Negro and other
minorities in such an _ arrangement.~ ~: 5 j

Lescott Loses
Hope Of Being
Haitian Prexy

WASHINGTON, D, C~(A N P)
~-~Any hope Eli Lescot, formerly
minister to the United States from
Haiti, may have had for the rresidency of his country was rudely
dashed to earth last weék, when
the Haitian chdmber of deputies
and the senate concurred in a
resolution giving Stenio.Vinceni
another five. years term as president of the little island republic.

Lescot had previously on frequent
cecassions declaréd himself a friend
cf the American Negro and openly
advocated a closer alliance between
the race~in this country and in
kis own native Haiti, and convinced ~the people: that he is. entitled
to this~ additionaj term, against the
precepts of the Haitian constitution.

Hated. by Haitian exiles now-in
this country, Vincent is the target
st which many a political intrigue
in Haiti is aimed.

Having been in office ten years~!
on May i15, Stenio Vincent will ~
have five more yeats, giving him
the longest term of office of any
ruler of the: ~turbulent = republic
since its inception, provided, as_ it
has been. mentioned, there is no
upheavel to. throw him out of ofvanes. i

Senate | Passes

Aid Bill, 67-9

Waduiictont 4s N 8)~The
$7,000,000,000 lease-lend bill was
passed in the Senate Monday, 67

to-9.
Peay these was discussed less thantwo hour betore put to a vote,

out that the establishment of

ject ~colored~ peoples.

Dismissing the Nazi theory of the
supremacy of any one racial type,
Mathews assetis that the ~ruting
principle for ordered life in human
relationships is that of cooperation
economic, political, social and domestic.~ |Accepting this theory
there are left two alternative views

| of the post-war world order as re
lated to those who are now subject
people.

The first solution, advocated by
ymen like Norman Bentwich and G
~.. H. Cule, proposes the ~tinternationalizing of these territories
under federal trustee administrators who would foster institution:
of African and cther self-government ihv@ving an executive international civil service.~~

On the cther hand, men like W.
B. Mumford advocates ~(largely on
the ground that this is the clearly
expressed will of almost all vocal
~African leadershp), that Britain.
Freed France, Belgium, etc., joining after the war with America in
@ cooperative order of democracies
should brvug on their subject. peoples to self-government along the
lines cf democratisation already increasingly at work; especially in

the British Commonwealth: of Na! tions.~

It is *the latter solution whicl:
Mr. Matthews favors, and he feel:
that now is the time to consider
the issues. He says, ~We cannoi
begin to solve them. until we have
vanquished. the world enemies of
freedcm. But we can only prepare
cursleves for that post-war progress, if, while fighting for victory,
we get a clear vision of the use to
which we shall put that triumph
when it is won.~

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Negro Poems To
Be Dramatized

~On CBS Network

NEW YORK CITY~(SNS)~
Two poems expressing the deep
emotionalism of the Negro race
ate to be dramatized by the Columbia Workshop and presented
over Columbia network on ~Sunday,
March 30. WABC-CBS, 10:30 to
11:00 p. m. EST. Early broadcast
to West at 8:00 p. m EST.)

The first dramatization is to
re that cf Vachel Lindsay~s ~The
Congo,~ with the haunting rhythms
of voodo drums and a vivid word
ticture of the African Negro.
kKiatherine Lane.Amderson has
given special dramatic treatment
te the poem for radio performance.
She presented the poetic drama
\hile a student at the University
~f Southern California and then
~pent years of,effort. on perfecting her cencent until it was presented last Cctober at Madison
Syuare Garden with a ~*massed
speeking chorus. a Negro ballet and
musica] ensemble.

~The Creation~ is a dramatization of a. reverent paraphrase of
the First Chanter of Genesis, from
James Weldon Johnson~s book of
Ncgro poems and verse,. ~God's
Trombones.~ The ~Juanita Hall
Singers are featured in the proGuction, with chorig speaking ana
vocal sound effects devised by Miss
Hal}. Similar treatment was in
Britain. Darker Races Must

elf-Government After War ~

Race Relations.
Must Be Adjusted.

LONDON~(ANP) ~ Basil a writing for the
News Letter of the English League of Colored Peoples, points

any lasting world peace at the

conclusion. of the war depends upon the adjustment of relations hetween the western ~white~ nations and the now su)
African Donor
Of Spitfires To
Britain Passes

BASUTOLAND, South Africa~.ANP~~One of the most liberal] of
South African chieftans, Seeiso
Griffith, paramount: of Basutoland,
hes buried Friday in a ceremony

ttended by many chiefs and dignibetiod

Chief Seeiso was known to be
nite al supporter of the British war

ause; he had contributed a reguine sum to the war funds from his
~wn pocket besides encouraging the
vee efforts of his people.

Representing the high commissioner, Sir Zdward Ha~ding, who
~vas absent because of illnes s, the
~esident commissioner, Lt. Col. E.
C. Richard, C M. G..spoke at
the services, specifically mentioning the gift of 1000,000 poun:is
~hich: the Pasuto nation had re~ently given for the purchase of
~pitfire fighters for Britain, a gift
~ade largely at the intigation of
the Basuto chief.

The funeral service was conducted by a Roman Catholic priest
who represented the bishop of
Basutoland, now in Canada. Women of the royal house were there
xound the graveside in the
ical place~ assigned them according to custom.

TEXAS EDITOR,
WHO BROKE UP,
KLAN PASSES

HOUSTON~ (ANP) ~The man

credited with doing more than any
other one individual to break up

~the activities of the Ku Klux Klan

in this state, M. BE. Foster, white,
founder of the Houston Chroni 2:
and editor emeritus of-the Houston 'Press, has retired after 5 years
cf newspaper work.

His fight against the Klan was
the most intensive of his many attempts to better conditions in
Texas, and Foster employed every
means possible to drive out the
night riders who were taking the
law into their own hands in the
early 1920~s. The fighting editor~s
iife was threatened many times,
and one night a fiery cross was
hurned on the lawn of his home,
which was guarded day and night.
Foster was instrumenfal in
bringing many others into the
ranks of Klan foes, and he. was
gratified to see it pass, from power
with the election of Mrs. Miriam
A (~Ma~) Ferguson as governor
of Texas,

troduced when ~The Creation~ was
presented in Columbia network~s
~Pursuit of Happiness~ serics.

George Zachary supervises and
directs both productions, which
had been scheduled for an earlier
Columbia Workshop broadcast, but

which were postponed to Sunday,

March 30.

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Teachers, Vice~ Versa. ~

It was plenty of fun Friday at Atlanta~s Wash- | class, while below a group of teachers,, who served
ag hall monitors are caught acting like boys and
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CHICAGO~(A N P)~The abortive attempt on the part of ~ Miss
Rebecca. Sengstacke, half-sister oi
tne late editor. and publisher, Robert.S. Abbott, to prevent Abbott~.
widow from. sharing in his estate
by-a. petition contending that
Mrs. Abbott is a white woman, and
therefore not legally married, failed Tuesday when the case was
heard in the probate court of Judge
John J, O~Connell.

Witness for Atty. Kirby Wells
white, lawyer for the complainant
was Mrs. Nathan K. McGill, wife
of the former general counsel ol
the Defender~. Her testimony was
ruled out when Judge ~O~Connel:
ruleq that she had-no facts upon
which to base her allegation that
Mrs. Abbott is a white woman,
and that a statement which she
claims Mrs. Abbott made at the
time of her marriage is only heresay.

ronitoine for the defense, Atty.
Edward H. Morris told the court
that he had known. Mrs. Abbott
since she was four years old, had

did not -look after her, the county
made me her guardain and pays me
to look after her. Now she has 4
little property and they are 1l00king for me to pay the taxes,- Tell
me what to do? She won't. stay
here long at-a time.

but simce you have been ap
Ans.: This is a complicated mess

pointed the woman~s a. and |

Reveal Eastern
Paper Seeks To
Buy Defender

lived across the street from her for
many year,-and that her parents,
George and Sarah Brown, were always considered colored. by the
community in which they lived. To
his testimony Judge O~Connell appended, ~I~ve known Attorney Morris for 25 years and his word is
good enough for me.

The petition was then referred
to Commissioner Francis A. McKeever, for special adjudication,

claims against the estate amounting to more than $10,000 and owe~
to the law firm of Cashin, Morris
and. Harris, the editor~s physician,
Dr. Ben Goldiman, and a funeral
debt, set aside as ~exorbitant, was
denied by the court.

they are paying ~you five dollars a
| month to look after her.. I shoyld
' think that it would be a

amble to pay
snd hold on to the receipt. Dae to
the fact that the old woman~s
/ mind isn~t just right will be taken
~inte consideratien. bat influence her to the best of your
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and 2 $1,000 bond was asked for
Miss Sengstacke.
Atty. ~Well~s petition to have

her taxes this year,

Widow Is Winner As Abbott
Will Comes Up For Hearing

A $50,000 offer by an eastern
newspaper for the 200,000- shares of
stock outstanding in the Chicago
Defender was revealed by Atty.
James B. Cashin, co-executor of
the estate, and one of the members
cf the board of directors of the
Defender. It: was his suggestion
that the assets of the estate. be
liquidated in order to pay off the
claims. He also told of.. another
person, an unnamed lawyer, who
was willing to buy control of the
paper at a slightly higher figure.

However, this suggestion was
tabled as Mrs. Abbott~s lawyer,
Atty. Prescott, announced that the
creditors of the estate were willing
to give her some additional time
in which to settle. the accounts.

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