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- FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1941

Primary Poll Results~~

Van Dyne, Birch, Robinson And Timmons
~Win; Dr. Leach Trails Ninth In Line

{ And Two More Sign Up

The Flint-Brownsville News straw
poll fer the colored people~s choice
for County. Supervisors finds the.
popular will distinctly pronounced.
The poll brings to light at least one
fact: That ts, the colored people of
Flint only need to be given a
chanée to express themselves on
public questions and all matters
where sOme one or two of their
number may act as their representative, in places of authority.

Another thing n shows: Thai
the common practice of certain individual, following the motive of

-@ current song hit ~My Echo, My

Shadow. and Me~ ~We Three,~ has
very little if. any support. (It is
HIGHTIME ike coolred people of
Flint should be putiing an end to. this undemocratic way of getting

in front of them by any selfish individual; The following is the final
count of the vote, cast by the colored people of Flint in this survey
of the~ popular will in such matters:

NORTH SIDERS

R. M. Yan. OU ae ce 370
deen: BR sean. 211
Charlotte Franklin.......... 143
Henry UM ak ve teens 117

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The Run off will take place with
the next issue of the Flint Brownsville News. The Mayor of Flint has
Results by night letter (Telegram)

" been provided with a copy of the

He is in the knowledge of thi, campajen and its import.
~Signed Voluntary Committee,
Floyd Jennings, chairman,
H. G, Reynolds, secretary.

Judge Elliott
Will Address
Flint NAACP

The Plint branch of the Nationa)
Association for the Advancement
of. Colored People will have as
guest speaker, Judge Phillip Elliot

on Sunday, April 20, at Canaan |

Baptist Church, 3 P.M.

Put a pin in your calendar for
that day; for you must surely be
there. Judge Elliott will have
eonething to say that will be of
- great importance to Colored people
in Plint. Every Church is asked to
set aside that afternoon to allow
their members and pastors a
shance to participate in the doings
which touch our economic existence
and future

progress. -
ce ee eas te, |

J Donald Wilson, Secretary.

Negro Women Join
Picket Lines At

MITCHELL FIELD, N; Y.~The Army Air Corps is signing -up recruits right and left these days as public interest in national defense

grows.

Lieutenant Joe L, Mason, Headquarters Squadron, 33rd Pur
suit Group, explains instruments to John Peterson (1.) and James White,
both of Rockville Center, N. Y.. who~ve just signed up.

~Session Is Set

For April 18, 19

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WASHINGTON, D, C.~(ANP)--
The division of Negro affairs of the
United States Department /of Commerce will hold a conference on
Negro business in Washington, Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19,
it Wag announced last week.

The purpose of the conference is
to constitute and effect a~ more adequate integration into the program
of the department of commerce of
Negro business problems.

The conference is expected to
constitute an effective instrument
whereby business men ahd educators might seek a common approach
to their problems and be able to

consult ao confer with government.

agencies toward a solution there of,
The facilities, factual studies and
advice of department business spetjalists will be utilized by) the ccemmittee, particularly in connection
with business management and
small scale retailing.

As a practical application thereof,
it is planned to install a model store
in the Commerce Department audi
torium, specific instruction on
modern store alrahgement, advertising and salesmanship will be offered, by specialists of the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce,

Ranking officials of the RFC,

oe

USHA and FIDC will address the
conference on the work and policies
of. the federal loan agency.

The ~farming out~~ program of
the labor division, National Defense
Advisory commission, designed to

~| affect a wider dispersion of defense

contracts will be a topic of consuming interest to sub-contractors and

_others whose business facilities meet

defense requirements.

The necessity of trained and effi.
cient persone] in business management and the correlation: of business administration curricula with
pratical needs, are recognized. The

professors of.commerce and finance

of Howard university, Jesse W.
Lewis, James B. Mitchell and H.
Naylor Fitzhugh, ~re giving intensive study to a revision of - business
curricula in educational institutions
to cope with practical ~business
problems.

The sponsor and ~Work-Study~
plan of Western Reserve university
and other institutions; wherein a
program of integrating students into bUsinesses and mercantile establishments while pursuing their academic studies, will be studié@ with
a view toward a wider application
among ~interested Cae institutions.:

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To Call Rest Of Reserve Officers ae

Calls for the remaining reserve officers will be issue dshortly, according. to information from the
war department, where higher ups
are pleased with the results by the
colored reserve: basa: already in

camp and given. further training
courses in the various schools set
up by -the army.

TEXAS LEGISLATURE OBJECTS
AUSTIN, Texas~(A N P)~At a

A for these poor kids. No offense, we: ~You cannot
Guilty % my Court.~ This the talk

$50 nor more than $500.

New York Senate Passes -
Anti-Discrimination Bill

ALBANY, N. Y.~(ANP)~The senate has passed
without debate and sent to the Assembly the Mahoney
bill designed to end employment discrimination on the
basis of race, color.or creed by firms holding defense
contracts. The bill carries with it a fine not less than

This measure is one of three anti-d~scrimination
bills that are expected to be voted upon by the legislature before adjourning on April 4, The others are the
Burrows and Andrews bills both of ~which outlaw
racial bias in various forms.

Judge Edwin D. Mallory
~Railroads~ Colored Folk
Through Manicipal Court

According to reports on Friday
morning, March 28, 1941, severa)
young women pleaded not guilty on
charges of disorderly conduct before Judge Mallory. When the girls
answered the judge~, charges plead
ing not guilty, the Judge simply

x ly pronounced fines of $5.00. each

ignored their pleas and immediatetold bad been _ con

Plead Not

going the rounds of the streets in

Flint this week.

Savilla Howard, Amelia Middleton and Cleo Brooks were amone
tre unfortunate~ young ~people whc
were dragged into court and treated like slaves.

It is noticeable tnat this sort of
action by the judge comeg right at
election time when he can curry the
favor of some of the voters to help

JOSEPH R. JOSEPH
~is the choice of the Independent
Voters~ League for circuit judge.

Refuses
To Change
Attitude

keep him inoffice. Justice 1s. what

less unfortunate ones among the
coloréd people. so a judge can win
favor among their enemies.

Petite Beauty Tells How
She Crashed Hollywood!

By DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

HOLLYWOOD~(TYP)~Lady Luck has
~been my pal ever since I came to Californig ten years ago

as a kid.

My sister, another~ girl and I
worked out a trio act, with songs
and dancing, and somehow talked
our way into several night club
spots. In 1935 we went to Honolu
ilu, and to our amazement got a

surprising amount of good publicity.. When we -returned to California, there were contracts waiting. which took us to Scotland dnd
Ireland, many parts of Europe and
last but not least, the Cdtton
Club in New York.

Along ~about that time we had
an offer to travel in Jimmy Lunceford~s band, but when one of the
other girls married the trumpet
player, the act was broken up.

I returned to Holiywood and
went into the cast of ~Meet The
People~ where I did a
number and a couple of ~dead pan~
numbets, which seemed tp please
the critics, and, as a result, I was
asked to appear solo at the ~It
Cafe~ and ~La Conga,~ while being given the lead in the all-Negro
smn production, ~Four soured

e~,.

I did some Warner _~ Brothers
shorts, in the meantime, and made
a guest appearance at Ciro~s, Hollywood'~s swankiest night club,

Spanish.

certainly

DOKOTHY DANDRIDGE |
when Republic offered me a real
opportunity in ~Lady From New
Orleans~, with John Wayne and
Ona Munson. I play the role of
~Felice,~ Miss Munson~s maid, and
hope that. this: big break will lead
to further. screen roles.

~Lady From New Orleans~, which
also features Ray Middleton, Henry

Realistic Background
For neon ned s bates ad

~NEW YORE CITY~@ N S)~A contributes th the striking story of |

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- DETROIT,
a letter to Dr. J. J. McClendon,
vice chairman of locai draft board
No. 3, the Navy department has
re-affirmed its anti-Negro attitude.

The letter, signed by C. W.
Nimita, chief of the Bureau of
Navigation, states once more ~the
Navy Departinet, for some time
past, has refused to accept applications for enlistment from Negroes
in any but the messman branch.~

Dr. McClendon had written the
Secretary of the Navy asking information upon~ application of Ne
gto youths for training in the Unit
ed States Naval Aviation Reserve.
The Nimitz letter stated.

Navy Department: has, for
time past, refused to accept ap
groes in any but the.
branch. This policy was instituted
in the interest of harmony and
efficiency aboard ships after many
years of experience. The principles
which dictated the adoption of that
~policy apply equally to the appointment of Negroes as officers, either

| in the Regular Navy or the Navy

~This is no reflection upor

Reserve.
on: Negroes, either as a race; individually. It is simply a matter

of practicability. One does not instaf a part in a machine, no matter how excellent that part may be
in itself, unless it will fit and
work smoothly with the other parts.
That, frankly, covers the Navy

Department~s attitude on this ques
would form a small unassimilable
minority which, despite anything
we could do would inevitably form
a source of discord that would be
harmful to the Service.~

Dr. McClendon wrote, alse, to

who replied that he was ~in complete agreement~ with Dr. McCl ~g letter to the Secretary
of the Navy, and was writing himself to the Secretary.

- his career,

Mich~(S N 8S)~In

~As you no doubt are aware, the~
some

plicants for enlistment from Nemessman

tion. Negro officers aboard ship

Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg,

At an executive session held
by the Independent Colored

Voters~ League on the 25th|

day of March, 1941, it was
unanimously decided that Joseph R. Joseph was to be theiz
choice for Circuit Judge. At
the meeting held by the organization it was. felt that
due to the outstanding ability

of Mr. Joseph as an attorney |

and his remarkable record as
prosecutor that he should be
endorsed for Circuit Judge.
Reference was made dtring the meeting of the work
that he had done and especially the two highlights of
He enforced the
' Civil Liberties Act that was
passed, The group, in carefu}

his administration more prosecution and complaints were

checking, found that during

handled under this section of

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ward his record in -proseedt*
ing the ~Black Legion~ ot
this community and -a~
that finally went to the
preme Court. in - which his
theories of the law were af.
firmed..

All of these facts were con.

bon

us Fesolution Bi ales him asthe
outstanding candidate. for
Circnit Judge in the: coming
election. We feel that we bee
do something, now, to
place a Wise man, a
man anda fair man in the.
Cireuit Judge~s chair. ~
Dennis Jackson, Pres.)

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Prominent N.Y.

jury last week refused to indict the
socially ~prominent Roscoe. Conklin
Bruce, Jr., 33, son of the wellknown Bruce family, on the charge
of burglary brought against him
the week before by Mary E. Gilbert, 28-year-old registered nurse.
The case was presented by assistant district attorney Arold Bauman.

In her papers of complaint Miss
Gilbert charged that Bruce, on
March 18, entered her apartment
during her absence and removed
threfrom a Remington typewriter
valued at $89. Entry is supposed to
have been made with a pass key
which would ordinarily permit
similar entry to several ~ ~ other
suites in. the Dunbar apartments,
formerly managed by the defendant~s father.

The machine was returned the
following day but to the next door
apartment of Mrs. Estelle Chavis
Mourning. A note attached explained that owing to his behalf
this Miss Gilbert was probably
wrought up.over the incident,
Bruce did not wish to immedidately confront her but would rather
take his medicine at a later date.

In the evidence presented which
tended to mitigate the return. of
an indictment was the fact that

Os occasions borrowed the typewriter from Miss Gilbert, Secondly,
a pocket-book containing a large
sum of money and laying in sight
was not touched, all of which made
the burglary charge unstable.
Following the complaint of Miss
Gilbert, Detectives Barts and Flay
took up the case and arrested
Bruce soon: after as he was jeaving the Eighth Avenue entrance
to the Dunbar apartments after
having ~seen a friend home.~.

that, a total of 1,157 Negro youth

Bruce had on a number of previ- |

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