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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICH.

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, out

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By SIMEON BOOKER, JR,
(ANP) ~

RICHMOND, Va

Here's a story that the metropoli
tan newspapers overlooked some
\ how or other.

Vir.
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Charles T. Russell,
superintendent

Prof.
ginia % Union~s

_ buildifgs and grounds, will super- |

vise the actua]~construction of the
' Belgian World~s Fair building on
The faVan

| Kuyck, will make advisory trips

here at various times but the Negro
architect will be on hand 24 hours
@ day.

Architectural work nothing
new to Prof. Russell. He was
the first. Negro certified architect
in the state passing the exams more
sian 20 years ago. ] He has designed

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Dr. Reddick To Tour
Haitian Nation In May

NEWYOR K CITY~(SNS) ~ In
line ~With the effarts of the United
States Depertment of State and
related institutions to foster the de_
velopment of cutural -elations
among the American Republics,
Dr. L. D. Reddick, curator of the
Schomburg Collection will spend
the month of May in Haiti,

He will travel as a representative of the New York Public Library. and. will make a survey of
the cfiltural résources of the Re-, und sUpervised constructions of the

buildings, on the Union campus, |
At Tuskegee under Dr. Booker T.:
Washington, Prof. Russell was the |
| head of the construction depart- |
ment and was a very close friend |
of the educator.

Prof. Russel) has been at Vii |
gini~Union since 1907. He is
member of both the Virginia So-'
ciety of Architects and the Profes- |
sional Engineers, Architects, and)
Land and Surveyors association,

The beautiful $700,000 structure
crgimally designed as a one build_ |
ing college is now being disman- |
tied and the material shipped to}
the Union campus ~here. Almost |
50 trucks have arrived already but
according to Architect Russell, the
actual construction Will not begin

public of Haiti. He will attend the
inauguration of the New Haitian
President Elie Lescot which takes
place on May 15th.
Short visits will be made trom
Port-4u.Prince to the Dominican
tepublic, Porto Rico and ~the Republic of Cuba. The chief purpose
of this whole endeavor is to arrange for the exchange of books
and other literature between. libraries of the United States and
those of Haiti and other island re.
publics.

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Fotton-Ed~ Smith~s

Son. Taken In Draft |

ewASwsUrTON. D. C-~(ANP)~
When Cotton Ed Smith, senator
from South Carolina, walked out
atic National Conven' Se a Negro prayed, he
~ocustti ven. More keenly the attention of 18,000.000 American. cit_
izens on: his future actions.

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on July 1 Ellison Smith, Jr.

Their turn came last week iin:
the local draft board refused to
grant Smith~s son deferment from
army duty further than July il,
the end of the school term.

Young Smith, who is 26, is a
student in a law schoo] here as
well as a clerk at the salary of
$3,900 per annum to ome of the
committees of congress.

Armed with a letter signed by
1@ members of the committee, he
went before the appeal board. only
to be rejected. His. august Negrohating father cried out that his~
scn was ~being persecuted~ and
not being given a fair chance the
same as other American vouths:ap-. plying for deferment in the draft.

The local board turned a~ deaf
eer to the senator's rantings and

his place the! same ag any other

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| citizen of the country, white or.
black, in the armed forces for be,

| period of training.

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| American author~ to be
{in New York. In accepting the gift,, takes.

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Negro. To Supervise e Belgian
Building Assembly At Union

Prof, Russell
To Be On Hand
24 Hours A Day

until about the middle of May.

The drive to secure funds for the
re-erection\ of the Belgium build.
ing ~is progressing in all sections
of the country. Friends of the
school are being urged to aid in
the bringing: of the landmark to
the ~historic Union campus.

~Author~s Fund

Gets Play Award

NEW -YORK, CITY~~ANP)~
The Sidney Howard Memorial
award ~of $1,500, for which ~Native
Son~ has been considered in the
running, will not be made this

| year but rather the money is being donated to the Authors league
of America,

The announcement came from
the office of the Playwrights company which each year makes the
award for the best first play by an
produced

the league will establish the ~Sidney. Howard Memorial fund from
which financia! assistance will be
given to needy playwrights.
WANTS: SPEEDY. ACTION

WASHINGTON, D. ~.~Senaior
H. H. Schwartz; chairman of the
Senate sub-committee to hear-Sen~ate Resolution 75, on his~ returr
here from Wyoming, wired the Na-.
ticnal Association for the Advancement. of Colored People, April 17.
indicating his desire for speedy
ances on the resolution

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(SNS)~After having been
postponed from April 14, the
Texas white primary case,
Hasgett vs. Werner and
Blackburn, opened here Friday morning, April 18. Judge
T. M. Kennerly of the United

T States district. court for the

Fire Victims
Can't Obtain
Any Legal Aid:

PHILADELPHIA~(A N P) ~
Relatives of the fire victims ui the,
Maryland fire witich three weeks~
ago brought death to eight;; eople,
cannot get any lawyer to represent
them, it was relateq here last weck
as Mr. and -Mrs. Samuel McBride
brought an eye-witness account of
conditions on the Maryland Eastern
Shore,

McBride, who works at the famous Bookbinder~s restaurant here,
lust_his mother, a sister, and wn
aunt in~ the blaze, respectively, Le
titia McBride, 60: Mrs., Alice
> 42; and Mrs. Anna Jones,
In the hosital in Chance, Md..

be'ng available atout them.

which started in a WVvA-NYA mattress project brought deaca and
injuries to Negroes bec2use, following southern custom, the Negroes
on the project were put in an old
' condemned frame building on the
campus of; the Princess Ann Academy, while white women also
learning mattress making were located in much more modern and
Substantial~ buildings. _
Believing that whcever is to

blamed for the deaths should 3
brought into court and sued, the
[prerenay tried to get legal aid in
| Maryland, but found no Negro
| lawyers in the area of tj.e ire
willirg: to even consider the cas.
There are no colored lawyers there.
They are now appealing to the
NAACP to~ use its offices to bring
some justices to those who suffer;
due to their loss of relatives.

Vote Restriction |
Placed-Under Fire

HOUSTON, Texas~j

there are still 29 critically nurt Negroes, with very little irfcrmation |

McBride points ou: that the fire -

end

hearing the case.

Proceedings began last
January when Sidney Hasgett, a qualified voter filed a
complaint on charges that he
was denied the right to vote
in the Democratic primary August 15, 1940, after he had appeared at the polls with his poll tax
receipt, Denial was based, on the
fact that he is a Negro.

Thurgood Marshall, special coun| sel for the National Association

People, who with W. J. Durham

of Sherman, Texas, is acting for
Hagsett, issued the following

statement:.

~The question involved is
whether. or not the Democratic primary in Texas is
~state action within the meaning of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution. We maintain that
the right to vote includes three
distinct steps: (1) qualifying to
vote, (2) selection of candidates, and (3) the actual election.. The supreme court has
held that Negroes cannot be
prevented from taking part in
steps one and three. We maintain that the selection of candidates by a primary election
pursuant to state statutes is
just as: much a part of the elec_
tion machinery of the state as
the actual election.

~We will show at the hear-? ing that the primary elections '
are made and held pursuant to
statutes which.are_ followed.
That the Democratic -nominees
Texas is a loose-jointed organization with~ no set rules or

regulations. except the statutes
which, they. follow.

~We will also show that since
1859. all. Democratic nominees
have been elected in Texas
With two exceptions. We will
show. further that the primaries
use the county clerk and other -..
state officers in these primary
elections and follow the state

~ machinery.

~We will also show that Negroes in Houston formerly
voted in primary elections
prior to 19923 when they were
barred by statute.~

The defendants will maintain
that the primary is a iprivate insti.
tution and is not a ~state action.~

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if it is natural or not? Tell me if
this man I have is trying to get
me out of the way for someone
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you see a good doctor about your
physical condition right away.
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about.your sickness, Your husband. isn~t trying to get you out
of the way. Although he is a
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-Tradition-shattering Dr.

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_ Malcolm S. MacLean, president of Hampton Institute, occupying
front seat of big plane, let loose another academic
bogey this. week when he went stunting in the sky
Hampton student body.

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Philip Lee, of Gloucester, Va., student pilot, is sit--
ting directly behind President MacLean, They are
seen talking to N. Milton Hill, of Washington, D.
left, and Edward J. Reese, Jr., of Rahway, N.
dis before taking off. (Hampton Institute Photo)

Sawmill Owner
Held In Contempt |
By N. C. Judge

WILSON, N. C. ~ (ANP) ~ A

federal court judge found Kemp}

Billings, saw mill operator, guilty.
of court, for violating the wagehour law at his mill, after he had
agreed to a consent judgment and

injunction against. his place last |

Morehouse Prexy Speaks

ORANGEBURG, S. C.~President M. F. Whittaker, South

Carolina State College, poses with
Morehouse College, Atlanta, who

Dr. Benjamin E.; Mays, president
Was a recent speaker at South

Carolina State College. The exercises were sponsored by the Y. M.

C. A; organizations of the college.

A capacity audience of visitors,

faculty members and students was enthralled by the eloquent and

masterful] delivery of Dr. Mays.

WILBERFORCE, Ohio~(ANP)~
The~ state of Ohio, through its assembly, ~has approved a biennial
appropriation for Wilberforce University (state department) of $692,000. The budget, recommended by
Gov. John W. Bricker, represents
over the budget approved by the
an increase of more than -$200,000

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WILBERFORCE BUDGET
TOTALS $692,000

Davey administration.

Increases in the new appropriation provide for an increase of

$36,000 in personal service and |

maintenance items and $105,000 in
additions and betterments over the
last budget. This is the largest
budget approved
since 1929.

The new funds will be available

for the school just as soon as the |

Copeland, an. ~eapleye said
Billing. paid. them only for the

Pays Workers Legal Wages,
Then Takes Back A Portion

year. He had at that time agreed

~to abide by the wage-hour act, but

it was brovght out in court Monday that Billings had failed to do
so, ip
Witnesses for the government,

employes of Billings, testified that

their ~employer would pay them -

$2.40 a day and then take 40 cents
back from: them. They said they
returned the~ money at his request
and he had told them ~TI just can~t
afford to pay you more than- 20
cents an hour.~

~Sometimes he took it out of our.

pay envelopes and ees: we
eovs ~it-back to him when he ask:

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time the mill Was running.

When Billings took the stand, he
said he had taken fhe 40 cents a
day from the employes for carrying them to and from work daily.
On questioning by Federal Judge
Meekins, Billings said he charged a
man just as mUch to haul him two
miles as he did one hauled 20.
Billings was given a six months
suspeyded sentence. The, judge
warned, ~Yuu~ll have to pay these
workers of yours 30 cents an hour
for eight hours work: a day.~

house. for department of home economics, repairs to all major buiidings, acquisition of 85 acres of farm
land for agricultural developments,
and considerable mechanical and
scientific equipment: for ~ various
denartments.

These funds will be expended by
the state department, headed by
Supt. Carl C. Jenkins.

CAMP WALLACE, Tex.~(ANP)
~KEaster service wree provided fox
the 2,000 Negro inductees at Camp
Wallace, near Galveston, by the
Houstor Colcred Chamber of Conr
merce. A motorcade of 50 Houstonians made the trip.

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