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_ FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1941:

The Army Handles Bread By The Truck Load

Private First Class Norbert
truck) and Private
Washington, D. C.,

M. King (on
Augustus Peyton, both of
load bread for ~delivery to the
44th Divsion which was on maneuvers in Virginia. |

The 372nd Infantry stationed at Fort Dix, N.
J., has been assigned the job of furnishing the rations for the 44th Division.

Washington Sniper Must
Take Last March Oct. 8

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Found Guilty of Slaying Three;. Negroes; New Trial Is Asked; WASHINGTON, D. C.~(ANP)~
John Eugene Eklund, white sniper,
convicted of the murder of three
Négroes, will die in the electric
chair in the district jail sometime
between the hours of 10 p. m. and
8a. m. on Monday, Oct. 8.

~Sentence was passeaq upon Eklund by Judge James M. Proctor
who overruled defense counsel~s

otion for a new trial.

lation Was~ rife as to the
Mtcome of the trial ever since Ek~Vga was arrested on the testimony of an erstwhile friend. Deid that illegal use of a dicta
phone had been used to overhear
a portion of -Eklund~s conversation
with his attorney, following his
conviction by the jury, a new trial
was asked.

Inasmuch as the jury had tound
the defendant guilty of murdering
in the first degree, the death sentence was imperative.

Eklund was convicted of having
shot and killed three Negroes in
the darkness of night, declaring he
had an enmity toward Negroes because Negroes had been unkind to
him.while he was serving a prison
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One Bank For Every
~One Million Negroes

By EMORY 0. JACKSON; For every million Negroes in the
United States, there is only one
Negro bank. There are 13 Negro
banks and 13 million Negroes.

* These 13 banks have -2stimated
total assets of $7,575,000 and an
approximate average of $631,250
dollars... fnspection of the estimated manner-in which these assets are in.
vested show they are soundly distributed over seven items.

~Though many students work the
field of ~finance ~and _ banking
among Negroes, there seems to
be little popularized research on
the subject. Papers have been
written showing how Negro banks
fare during the bank-failure
epidemic, but -other aspects of the
problem have apparently been
neglected.

A REVEALING STUDY

It might prove revealing to have
a_study made of how Negro money
fdred in white banks during the
period when there were wholesale
closing of such institutions. An un.
studied observation by this writer
réflects that many Negroes lost
mecney in white banks. So did

ites. But the difference is that
where the white lost. the lost went
whites. But, for most part. the

Ides of Negroes went to whites,

that way creating a lost to the
OUD.

~s study of this kind, te be valuaie. should be objective and
should not seek to prove anything.

ving prevents research.
~Experiments with many kinds of
Neo banks have been ~tried.
~White bankers have attempted to
operate banks exclusively for Ne-~gor-people. They have been those
backed by interracially set-ups.
Anid those surviving are operated by
Négroes for the general public. But
they are chiefly patronized by
Ne@eroes. '
BUSINESS AIDS BANKS

An important observation is that
ut banks. are located in the

ngholds of Negro business.
a of Negro banks has often
the barometer of Negro busi
negs. Research on this point is
~neg@ded. to clear it up.

1is writer has no reason for
the lack of Negro banks in many
of the other heavy populated Ne=) pel

Tt would do well to place Negro
eamings along side the figures on

_ spendings. Negroes spend in
neighborhood of four billion

- annually. ~That is great. Or their savings

or nvestments @ proper pro
of that monéy? It is being wisely
Gs it bringing all the bene
- fits tmherent in it? Bank savings

~are but one of the many forms of

~

| savings.

BANKS~ LOCATION~'
APPROXIMATE ASSETS
Citizens Southern,~Philadelphia,
$800,000.
Industrial ~ Bank~~ Washington,
D.:C., $1,200,000.
Consolidated Bank and Trust Comyany~Richmond, Ya., $1,100,000.

Farmers ahd Merchants Bank,~

Durham and Raleigh, N. C.. $1,Citizens ~Trust~Atlanta, Ga.,
$875,000.

Citizens Bank and Trust Company~Nashville, Tenn., $350,000.
Tuskegee Industrial and Saving
Bank~-Tuskegee, Ala. $400,000.
Fraternal Bank and Trust Company~Fort Worth, Texas, $500,000.
The Bank of Boley~ Beley,

Okla., $75,000.
Victory Savings Bank~Columbia,
S. ~C., $75,000.

UHI SAS be che owt ee $7,573,060.

BVOUREE ei ie 631,250

Approximate Average Distribution of Assets.
ITEMS~PERCENTAGE
Cash 24
U. S. Bonds 10
State Bonds 7
Other Bonds 5
Loans 45
Real Estate 3
ne Assests 3

Total

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Danville; Bank~Danvilley Va.
$300 000.

Crown Saving Bank~ Newport |
News, Va., $500,000.

Known to police and newspapers
as ~The Sniper~. because of the
mechanics adopted in slaying his
Victims, when he was first arrested,
Eklund was thought not to be the
man, but ballistics experts and other witnesses produced testimony to
the contrary and the jury found
him guilty of the murders.

One eyewitness to a slaying who
managed to escape, although her
boy friend was slain, positively
identified Eklund, and this marked the turning point in the trial
which attracted nation-wide at
| been beaten but not: seriously.

EASTMAN,

precedented action.

some 100 automobiles.

section Tuesday night.

The Eastman mob began form.
ing shortly ~afternoon Wednesday
grew from 500 to 700 persons Wed.
nesday night and a section storm:
ed the jail, guarded by half é,
dozen county officers.;

Taken to a secluded spot and re.
portedly beaten that he might confess the crime, Spivey refused anc |
was so convincing in his ~not

guilty~ ~claim that the mob returned him to jail about midnight 4
Wednesday ~for want of evidence.~

He is being held cn grand jury
action on a charge of attempted
assault of the white woman.

Sheriff Lewis said Spivey _

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stateq it was his:understanding
that Spivey ~wouldn~t confess and
the crowd didn~t feel they coulda
lynch him.~

Contacted ~Thursday, President
F. D. Patterson of Tuskegee In.

LAST RITES FOR
COL. CARTER

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. ~(A.
N. P.)\~Flags at half staff, last
military rites for Col. Louis A.
Carter, retired chaplain, were held
at Fort Huachuca, Thursday afternoon, where he last served the army from which he retired in

February, 1940.

tention.

4 000Idle Workers
Listed In Cleveland

CLEVELAND~(ANP)~Approximately 4,000 Negro workers available in Cleveland should be given
employment in keeping with their
skills or talents, according to a
statement by C. F. Palmer, defense
housing coordinator, made Thursday before a joint meeting of the
Metropolitan Housing authority and
the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. be

~Imporation of labor for defense
industries, with consequent exaggeration of the need for defense
housing, could be considerably lessened if employers would relax
their specifications to permit a
greater use of the Negro labor
market,~ the coordinator said.

the division of defense housing coordination, defense manufacturing
alone in Cleveland will require 14,350 skilled and 11,283 semi-skilled
workers during ~the next 12 months.

The locality will not be able to
supply that volume of labor, and
imporation will be necessary. However, utilization of Negro workers
presently available could reduce
the total number to be imported to
a considerable extent.

CHAMBER ELECTS PHYSICIAN

COLUMBUS, O. (ANP)~ The
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
has elected Dr. J. J. Carter to
membership aNd he becomes the
first Negro to be thus hqnored in

According to surveys available to: this city.

Dodge Coun tyMan
iEscapes Lynching
Wednesday Night

Ga.~ (SNS)~Because he wouldn~t confess
to an assault charge, 28-year-old Eddie Lee Spivey was returned to Dodge county jail late Wednesday night by a mob
of between 500 and 700 persons in what was believed an un
Deputy Sheriff Gus Lewis said Spivey was dragged from
the jail and whisked out of-town at the head of a line of
He had been jailed for an attempted
assault upon a 65-year-old white woman in the Mt. Ariat

~of Centralia,

anWho Wouldn~ 'tConfess
Returned To Jail By Mob

stitute, where records on lynchings
are kept, said the Eastman occur:
rence was unprecedented as far as

Receives Honor

SGT. SAMUEL F. BAKER

he knew.

Race Bus

Drivers

GettingRunaround

IW YORK~(C)~ The
recently passed examinations
busses on New York streets, f

nine young Negro men, who
qualifying them to drive
fee] that thev are being given

the runaround by the Fifth Ave. Coach Company and the
New York City Omnibus Corp., according to statements
made by three of them this week, Hiawatha Lynn, 29, Eddie Gordon, 31, and Elmer 0. Haney, 37.

Officials of the bus companies,
however, asserted that there was no
justification for the men~s suspicions and that the companies are
living up to their agreement with
the United Negro Bus Strike Committee and the Transport Workers
Union. (This agreement signed
April 19th provided for hiring Negroes to the extent of 17 per cent
of all workers of the company~s
employ.

The nine men sini their physical
examination May 20th in the Company~s office at 650 West 132nd
Street. Immediately, thereafter,
they were each given 7 days training of 10 hours each at actual bus
driving.

Mr. Gordon, former Olympic and
world broad-jump champion, said
yesterday that inquires at the company~s offices brought the response
that the first 25 men taken on
would include the nine Negro applicants on the waiting list. A member of the United Negro Bus As
sociation said later that there is a}.

possibility that if the Transport
Workers Union is granted the eighthour day for which it bargained |

FIRST SARGE AT 20

FORT WARREN, Wyo.~ (ANP)
~Just 20 years old and with only
a year and four months of enlisted army service, Clifford Johnson
Illinois, is now a
first sergeant in the Fourth Quartermaster Training regiment.

The | Globe Trotter

~ ee By Cliff Mackay

Brighter
Things Get

UNDISPUTABLE IS the fact
brought about; ever so slowly is now
taking on under the pressure policy
that a brighter day is looming in
these United States for you and
yours. The chahge which has been
of determined) leaders and a sympathetic attitude of a liberal president an acceldrated speed.

One -does not? have to be a. con- firmed optimist
* to see this im- ~provement. It is: happening every
day. You see it,
= you read it, you

long way to go,~
says the pessimist. And ~we~ve
come a long way,
MACKAY _ says the optimist.
Both views aré correct. The writer,
however, always prefers to walk in
the sunshine and would take the
optimistic view.
THEY'RE WRONG
~ ~There are those who argue-that
we are further behind economically,
socially and politically, than we
were during e first war to ~save
democracy.~ They~re: wrong.
Others argue - that we have no
stake in this-- conflict, that

no matter whether we are. govern- -

ed under a Nazi system or the present limited democracy, we will still
be at the end,!grasping for crumbs,
~protesting and resolving~ without

avail. This last group also is wrong,

more.so than Lindbergh and

Wheeler.

Under Hitler there would be no
such things as a protest, a resolution. And Hitler has made no effort whatsoever to conceal his ut
ter contempt for all the millions on the nation~s capital is threaten
of people in the world whose skin
differs in color from his.

To those who doubt, one has but
to review just how far we have
come, not in a score of years, not
even in a decade but within the
last five years.

OBTAIN OPPORTUNITY. During the 165 years~ history of
the United -States, you have never
been given the opportunity that is
yours today to serve your country.

During 1917, only two branches
of the service was.open to black
Americans, They were in the service or labor units and the infantry. A different picture presents itself today~a picture changed not
through any beneficient spirit of
the army, but through the relentless and unceasing pounding of determined leadership.

Today you see black boys man- |
ning giant coast artillery guns,
they~ve been organized into antiaircraft units, they~re in the engineers corps, they serve in antitank divisions, and shortly they
will sprout wings under the program of the 99th Pursuit Squadron,
the world~s first black fighterplane corps.

CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS

That~s considerable progress and
that~s just in~the armed forces. Attention after all this time has been
focussed on how air-tight has been
the exclusion of -black faces from
the nation~s major industries.

The nation has known it for
years, Negroes certainly have
known it, but heretofore have done
very: little about it. Now comes the
eme proclaimed by _. President Roosevelt in the national de-. made,

ed, and presto, a President long
silent on this greatest threat to
democracy hands down first a memorandum, quickly followed by an
executive order,~the.- first such
document directed for your benefit since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

HISTORY IS MADE

History in America is again
with you as the central |
figure. The President says that a
person~s color must no longer disqualify him for a job. That is as it
should be. Certainly if black men
are good enough to fight, bleed and
die for democracy, they should be
good enough to work for it. No one
could honestly dispute the logic
of that. a

Rapidly concerns which during
all their past years of existence
have never seen fit to place the
name of a Negro on their payrolls
are sending out calls for you.

The 100-year old Pratt and
Whitney Corporation in Connecticut, which has never hired Negroes,
is unable to explain why. The personnel manager sends out for a
crew of fifty.

The Curtis-Wright Cerporation
decides that from a standpoint of
loyalty, no class of labor has a
record that matches the Negro~s.
They will shortly put on several
thousand

The United States Government

~
ne

following the recent strike a few
Negro drivers may be taken on
within. | a _month.

SAYS, ATTACK LIKELY

CLINTON, N. Y., ~ (ANP) ~
Speaking at the commencement of
Hamilton college where he received
an honorary doctor of laws degree,
Charles Harwood, governor of the
Virgin Islands, expressed the opinion that the Islands as this country~s farthest outpost in the Atlantic, probably would be the iret to
be attacked.

- WASHINGTON, D. C~(SNS)~

{contributed to the saving of Gov
For Heroism
| Samuel Baker Is

Honored for Part
Played at Fire

The War Department has announced the citation for award of the.
Soldier~s Medal for heroism to Sergeant Samuel F. Baker, Company F.

The officiai citation reads: For
the truck greasing building of a
Construction Company at Fort
Huachuca, Arizona, January 16,
1941. When the post fire engine arrived on the scene of the fire, the
building, one dump truck and. several drums of lubricating oil were
burning rapidly. During the fire,
efforts were made by civilians employed by the Company: to remove
hot drums of oil fromthe then almost completely burned _ building
until one drum exploded and several men were burned. Sergeant
Baker, Assistant Fire Marshall at
the Post, having escaped injury during the explosion, with utter disregard of his own personal safety,
kept fire hose on the remaining
drums which were ~ then bulgine
with hot oil. Due to the naw pressure it was necessary for him to approach within fifteen feet of the
oil drums in his attempt to cool
the unexploded drums, and by ~his
untiring efforts assisted in britiging
a dangerous fire under control. The
high degree: of heroism displayed by
Sergeant Baker on this occasion

ernment property and possibly human life and reflected great credit
upon himself and the military seryice. |

Sergeant Baker has eight honorable discharges from the United
inca Rainn ~ all of which bear the
character of ~Excellent.~ He is serving at present with
ters Detchmen

25th Infantry, United States Army. |

ocgg, We March, aan

Well! What Next

heroism displayed during a fire in |.

CAMP DAVIS, N. C.~(ANP)~
When it comes to climbing trees,
Pvt. Garvie Aldridge of the 54th
Coast Artillery, Camp Davis, might
be classed as ~backward~. Not that
he can~t climb a tree. It~s just that
he prefers to ascend a tree trunk
feet first.

Garvie~s proficiency in Upside.
down climbing was brought to the
attention of Captain C. L. Partin,
adjutant of the 54th, who photographed the Wharton, Tex., selectee
in action.

~Heck, anyone can climb a tree
the regular way,~ was the 'youth~s
comment when asked why he liked
to climb trees in reverse. Aldridge
is 29. years old. Next to baseball
and swimming, tree-climbing is his
favorite sport.

Before his induction into ~the
worked

saga tater

Peters Wins One First And A

Third Place In Typing Contest

Woman with Electric Machine:

GHICAGO ~ (ANP)~A world~s
championship on_ portable typewriters with a new record of 115
net words per minute, and third
in the contest on standard ma
~chines were won by -Cortez W.

Peters at the Sherman Hotel Friday night. It was the first world
championship contest since 1987.
Three contestants broke~ the
world record for the professional]
one hour event on standard machines. It was believed the contest
would be between Peters and Al.

Wilberforce~s
Affairs Now In
Critical State

May Lose Rating
Unless Action Is

Forthcoming

XENIA, O.~(ANP)~Efforts to
compose the differences between
the state trustees and the church
trustees of Wilberforce university
appeared to be at a temporary
sialemate last week when the>col.
lege ~normal and industrial board
met and decided to set up its owl
educational program. |

The CNI boarc which is appoint--
éd by the state to administer the
state supported. side of the institution, set up a committee to formulate a complete and full educational and administrative program
fer its own work. The- committee
is. composed of Wilbur A. Page,
Margaret Barnes, Charles Isom,
Robert Shauter and Augustus G.

Parker

The ~committee is to develop its
plans and notify the AME board
of trustees of its action. The com
~| mittee has also been ordered to

notify the AME group that plans
must be made for the immediate
Shouldering of; the financial responsibility for their share of th>
various aetrices which the institu.

Comes out First with 149 Words

bert Tangora, white, who for many
years have been recognized as the
world~s fastest, but an upset occurred when Miss Margaret Hanna, white, using an all-electric
machine established a new record
of 149 net words per minute for |
the hour~s writing.

Many observers, however believed Miss Hanna did not provide
fair competition for the hand-operated machines used by Peters
and Tangora. With the _ electric
machine the carriage return is

| automatic, the shifting for capitals

is automatic, a light shows when

Sues Policeman |
Who Was Rough
For $25,000

Baltimore Editor
Resents Fact That

BALTIMORE~(A& N P)~Carl
Murphy, president and editor of
the Afro-America. newspapers,
filed -. suit Tuesday for - $25,000
damages in city court against the
Officer who arrested him on May
5 when the editor refused to an-.
Swer questions pertaining to an
aute accident in which Mrs. Murphy was involved and which he
did not see.

The officer, Horace A. Hennze,,
had. Murphy taken to police
station and docketegd on a disorderly conduct charge which was
dismisseq during the hearing next
day because of insufficient testimony. Two days after the inci-:
dent, Editor Murphy asked the
police commissioner to file charges
against the officer and allow him
to appear against him.

~The commissioner, declaring
that he had no reason to file such
charges, denied the request.

NAMES HOUSING PROJECT ~

~Gilpin Court~ will be the name of
the Negro housing project

He Was Locked Up| |

RICHMOND, Va. ~ (ANP) ~/'
here, it~

was revealed last week by ~ the

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the end of a line and the end of @
Page are reached.

On the hand machine all such.
operations are manual and consume both time and energy. A
feather~ s touch will
Sensitive- electric machine but a
half inch stroke is necessary ~

the hand model, tThe previous record, set on a

hand mechine, was 141 words per
minute by Tangora. At that time

Peters~ mark wag 138. This year -.

Tangora raised his sveed to 142
while Peters was. a fraction better
than 141? thus causing all three
winners to break the old- mark.

What thrilling words! They mean
so much - and yet, many will
never know the joy of using them.
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