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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NZWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1941

nation-wide drive far
duminum to aid in meeting the

#r ~the National Defense Program is beiky
@~ve*<fferts of the Aluminum for Defense Committee

iz
ced
Go:

_Friendship Baptist Church of
&heve photo,
s -

Mrs, R. E.

Thomas, member of the

collecting Scrap
eurrent shortage
boosted by

Atianta. In _ the

Jones. Incidentally,
of this church for over 59 years.~ (Photo by DAVIS.,

committee, is showi ing a piece of the coflecnet fsbtal
to, 1 to r, Billy James, Jr. Minnie Rose James, ~Rev.
E. R. Carter, pastor of the church, and Barbara. Ann

Dr. Carter has been the pastor

aeLe

Texas Selects 64 Students

For Out-Of-State Education

-~AUSTIN,. Tex~(A N_ P)~The
state department of education ir

and professional students have been
selected to benefit from the $50,006

educational appropriation in, out-ol

~Texas revealed that 64 ~ graduate

Bottlecaps Keep

Him Off Relief

NEW YORK~\C)~All day long,. Arnold Heward, 38-year-old Negro,..- Swands,on a street corner making

baskets, tables and other~ articles
~ 0%, bottle caps, and marvels at

e ~no-accountness, of some peoPeg. hey ~stand right _ here,
watching me do it,~ he says. ~And

_ Shey don~t: ever catch on. Don~t

Bnow. what it~s all about. Then
fhey go and collect their relief.~
~ Four years ~ago, Arnold was a
Po driver withcut a job. So he
ok an old nail and a hammer he
found, gathered a handful of dis~rded bottle caps and some wire,
fivested 20 cents a screw driver
god a pair of pliers, ang he had a
business, He bangs a hole in each
g2p, rums the wire through and
then - fashions full-size chairs.
gnoking stands, floor lamps and

Apprentices
Being Sought
By Navy Yard, Youths Will
~Earn $3.20 Daily, While Learning

~.
s WASHINGTON, D. C.~~(ANP)
* Négro youths who wish to beme skilled mechanics may d9
y and earn $3.20 a day while beig trained by applying for apyentice training at the Washingwen Navy yard. A test for apprenees between the ages cf 12 and
2 has just - been -announced by
ge U. S. Civil Serviee Commison. Application. blanks, which
ust be filed before August 27,
hoy be obtained from any first
#: seond class post office in the
*Pnited States, Residents cf the
gnited Se area should apply
pai the fourth civil service
(gstrict.,
Examination f or positions
d: ich are now open in 17 difyent trades,- consists of intellidence test and a physical examnation. Applicants are accepted
ih the general order of their ratiig, asthe Navy department does
t exercise a cne-in-three rule
jinwfilling - vacancies.
More than.a score of Negro
amprentices who finished training
Washington Navy yard were
ployed there as_ mechanists
tect February after Dr. Weaver,
~Ben an administrative assistant
Sidney man in the National
ite Advisory commission, investigated reports of discrirnina-n against Negroes in the Navy
vvard, At thé. same time, another
recre of Negro youths were ad~ted to. app
re, Many of these have gradua into. regular employment. at
da'~ly wages of from.$%,48 to $8.
foot stools. ~Ain~t they beautiful?~
he says. to assembling onlookers.;Fireprfof, beautiful and forty
years guarantee. If I-ain~t here
then, see-my __ secretiary.... maybe
she~ll be divin~~~

The articles ~go very fast, Arnold says. A ~chair for you to sit
in~ broght $10; smoking stand $2;
table $4; and basket $1. The chair
contained 4,500 bottle, caps and
weighed soemuch you could scarcely lift it. A simple ~basket ~weighs
25 pounds. Arnold, who lives at
the downtown Bowery Biltmore
Hotel, averages $20 a week. When
he isn~t busy bottle-capping he
does odd jobs as a handyman.

He interrupted his work Wednes.day at Washington jand Blarclay
Streets, to watch cops load two
white drunks into a patrol wagon
and drive away.

~The no-accountness
people amazes me,~

Delay Eviction
Of Mother Of 25

CHICAGO--(A' N P)~Mrs. Ada
Hunt, appearing before Judge Cecil
Smith in Renters~ court Wednesday
stated that she was 47 years ~:d....8nq mother of 25 chlidren, 14
Gf whom are living.

Mrs. Hunt _was in court protesting an attempt to evict her and
fijer
their flat by the Western State
bank for non-payment of $15 for a
hialf-month~s rent.

Since losing her WPA job, she
has been unable to find work.
Judge Smith delayde eviction proceedings- 19 days....five days as
alloweq for such cases and one day
for each of her living children.

of
he said.

some

six youngest. childrj2n from 7

~education - of

|

$50,000 Fund
Ig Appropriated
For Purpose

state institutions during 1941-42
Cases of others who seek to secure
this aid are pendin.

Having mace no provision for the
graduate students
~within the state, to conform with
the supreme court decision in the
Gaines case; it is said that ~ very
likely Texas will make additional
preparation for graduate and professional work ~within her borders
during the next session of the state
legislature.

A committee on scholarship aid
to Negro residents of Texas attending graduate~ ~and professional
schools formed a policy for determining the eligibility of applicants
for the scholarships. To be eligible,
one must be a resident of Texas
for more than eight years.

Fo: graduate ssudy, the applicant
must hold a bachelor~s degree from
an institution approved by ~the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools or, an equivalent agency.

However, to1 professional study,
the student need only to meet the
requirements of such ~professional
school study. A few fiélds of
study that are considered professional do not require college work
in preparation. Preference will be
given to college graduates, if selection is necessary.

Application. blanks, supplied by
the committee, must be filed with
complete transcripts of all college
or ~university work done. Grants for
work toward a master~s degree will
not. be made in fields in which such
work is provided for ~at Prairie
View college, and are tentative until student submits an _ official
statement of his entrance into the
chosen institution. -

Students are <equired to carry a
normal schedule, and~ may accept
scholarships or employment from
the institution they attend, without
reduction of the grant. However, if
duties incident to accepting the
Scholarship or. work from the
school prevent students from. successfully carrying their normal schedule, such may not be accepted.
After any report period, a grant
may be terminated if the commission feels that the student is not
succeeding in his studies.

Getting Jump On The Nazis

ATLANTIC

Sa-n isons Ghiapaen 4s ailiGllid gor Saseegsteramamaeriie anaes
States is reported negotiating for air base rights in Brazil to offset any
German threat to Dakar, French West Afri~a, revived sixtee Admiral Jean
Darian, advocate of floser relations with Germany, has been given comntice training | plete control over French military matters. Some legislators in Wash
ington have suggested that Martinique, French island in the West In-|
dies, be seized. Natal, Brazil seaport and stopping-off place fer ocean.
flights, is only 1,620 miles from Dakar.

(te et a rs

~Skilled Mene:
~Finally Hired

EERE

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In Mobile, Ala.

~To White Local

ters. are working on the 500 -
which the Public

of $1,409,000.

Informed that the contractor had
not employed the required percentage of Negro labor orly because
white carpenters threateneg. tc
wadk off the job if Negro carpenters were employed, My. Carmoady
sent a telegram to the business
agent of the white local citing the
President~s nori-discrimination order and the. non-discrimination
policy of the Federal Works Agency, and called upon the union to
State its position, Both Negro and
white carpenters belong to ~ the
same union but are organizeg in
separate locals.

SENDS AGENT

Failing to receive a satisfactory
answer to his telegram Mr. Carmody -sent a FWA labor relations
representative into Mobile to effect a settlement. Meanwaile, William J. Trent, J... FWA Racial Relations Officer, was in contact with
the business agent of the Negro
local and with. other 'eaders of the
~gro community. These efforts
resulted in the breakdown of racia)
Ciscrimination on this job.

In accordance with the FWA
Regulation, the contractor was required to pay 22 percent of the
payroll for skilleqd workers and 74
percent for the unskilled payroll to
Negro workers as evidence of nondiscrimination. While Negro cement finishers and other skiiled
workers had been ~employed in the
construction of the project, Negrc
carpenters had been refused jobs
until Mr. Carmody intervened.

TEXT OF WIRE

The complete text of Administrator Carmody~s wire to L. M
Cooper, business ~ of the whitc '
local fellows.

~~Because of their violation of
the terms of their contract with
respect to non-discrimination ir
the employment gf workers on oul!
defense housing project in Mobile
we have recently been having conversations with Kenneth Gidden:
and J. F. Pate Construction Company. They are fully aware of
their responsibilities, and they are
fully aware, too, of the proclamations of the President of the United States with Yespect. to refraining from disc?imination against
Negro workers on defense jobs.
They inform us; that they are
ready and willing -to comply with
the terms of the contract and with
the provisions for defense employment Set up by the president, But
in Mobile they are wnable at present to do that because they are informed that if they ~employ Negro
carpenters, as wag confiemplated
On that job and as is beiiie done
on hundrefis of other defense
jobs, you will order the members
of your locs1 to withdraw from the
job and wse your influence to
have other tradés withdraw with
you. If this is true, it would, of
course, jeopardize ~the completion
of this important defense job. T
understand, first that there are
separate locals, One ~or White carpenters and ~one for colored carpénters, both organized and recognized by the International. I have
been informe fi that the colored Jocal is the oldest carpenters~ local
in Mobile. Tt vinderstand, also, that
members of both locals have already worked, together on a slumtlearanee. hoatsing project in Morie within the past two years. T
kave not har your side of the
story. X ne'yer like tv pass judgment until & have heard all sides.
Pecause Wey are under ~terrific pressure to get these defonse housing
Jcbs pang eg ted and ready for occupancy I, shall appreciate your
udvising me a8 soon as possible
how we cain comply with the President~s aest to desist from ~discriminatidn and arrange for the
con
terms of | their contract with us. I
have beet: told- that you will throw
telegram. in the -wastebasket. I Go
not believe it. I think you will take
this tedegram in the wastbasket. Ido

~ @ggd Jonn~ M. Carmody,
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ER AP YO eae TEST

WASHINGTON, D. ~.~}
(SNS~As the result of the}
| direct ititérvention o Federal}!
Works Administrator John}:
M. Carmody, Negro carpen- |i

unit defense housing project}.~ iY
Buildings |; sewrer
Administration is developing |;
in Mobile, Alabamh, at a-cost |:

to comply with the

e.

Carpenters Get Jobs

Aes" | PNAS

5 = é- ~for ee
Feo as ~the tenth Quadrennial Convention closed in Denver
Friday.

Dining Car Men
Taking Vote On
Proposed Strike

Wage Wacveaie
Of 30:Cents An
Hour is Sought

CHICAGO (ANP)~ Distribution of official strike ballots among
membership of the 13 affiliated
locals of the Joint Council of Dining. Oar Employees and Hotel and
Restaurant Employes~ International
alliance and Bartenders~ International league of America was begun
August 5, the execution of which
will decide if the majority of the
members desire to strike for & Wage |
inerease of 30 cents per hour.

Besides seeking an hourly increase of 30 cents, the circular accompanying the ballot states that
the council desires to effect a 170
cent per hour minimum to each
employe and national handling of
conferences and proposal of certain
carriers for revision of rules.

The ballots are to be returned to
the Joint Council of Dining Car
Employes~ headquarters in Chicago
not later than Sept. 5.

For two years, dining car workers have petitioned railroads for
a reduction of hours worked per
month, thus raising the hourly rate
now being paid but in all cases,
carriers have persistently refused
to grant any concession that would
increase dining car workers~ salaries.

~=| demolished. The driver

"Camp Croft
Recruits Sustain
Fractured Legs

SPARTANBURG, S. C~(~ANP)
Five soldiers, stationed at Camp
' Croft and a taxicab driver were
seriously injured rarly Friday
when the cab struck the Frey~s
creek bridge abutement on Greenville highway hear Clevedale, was
of the
vehicle, Thomas Foster, was reported in a critical condition at
county colored hospital.

The sojdiers, all of the 27th
training battalion, were removed
to the station hospital at Camp
Croft. Suffering from compound
fractures of both legs was Pvt.
Kenneth Fisher, Greenwich, Conn.,
whose condition was announced as
critical.

Sgt. Larce L. Lee, Jackson, Tenn.,
sustained a fractured hig bone
and pelvis; Pvis. Isaac E. Bryan,
Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., multiple concussions of abdomen and chest;
LeRoy L. Simpson, Orlando, Fia.,
lacerations of the left leg; and
Alonzo B. James, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
brain concussion and scalp lacerations.

County officers C. N. Hill and
~'R R. (Dick) Southers and military
police investigating the crash,
stated the car struck with ~such
severe impact the body was ripped
from the chassis and the motor
torn from its mountings, and
caught fire.

GOVERNOR SPARES LIFE

RALEIGH, N. C.~(ANP)~Joseph
Samuel Miller, 17, was spared from
death in the Central prison gas
chamber Friday morning when Gov.
Broughton commuted his death
sentence to life imprisonment.

of Tuskegee Institute.

Directs Soldiers~ Chorus

Pit: tiene~ ete

ase ~
~Sgt. Abner Erwin Jackson, 27, son of Mrs. Carrie Jackson, Eufaula,
Ala., is shown as he leads the Reception Center Chorus at Fost Bénning.
Sergeant Jackson, a musician in private life, organized the chorus several months ago and has been its director since that time. The chorus.
has already earned a wide reputation. Sgt. Jackson is a former stadent

FORT BENNING, Ga.~tS N 8S)

~~There~s music in the ait~
uroung the Reception Center, Fort
Benning, Ga,, these days anc one
of those. chiefly responsible for this
much-aprreciated entertainment. is
Set, Abner Erwin Jackson, Tallahasse, Florida, versmtile musician
and well-known director of choral
ensembles,

Sergeant Jackson, 24, the son. 0i
Mrs. Carrie Jackson, Eufala, Ala..
Was busy with music work when
he was inducted into the Army on
February 18, 1941, in Tallahassee,
Florida, and he has been just as
occupied with similar duties since
that time.

Jackson, who became an acting
sergeant shortly. after he was inducted, is the organizer and present director of the Reception Censingers recruited from entistec
personne] at the Center.

Sergeant Jackson has
musically inclineq since his youth
when he studied piano lessons at

none, Later when he apes

connected with Provident. sig

Py

~

New Chief ~At Provident

cease oe pi AO yikes: oh.
--new chief of staff at Provident hospital, Chicago, and recognized
as one of the nation~s foremost ~guthorities tr the field of internal
medicine. Born at Springfield, Mo., ~52 years ago, Dr. Wilburn finished Lincoln university, Mo., in 1905 and received an A. B. from
Kansas university. in 1910, also taking his first two years of medicine there, as well as postSraduate work in histology and anatomy.
After teaching biology in the Muskogee, Okla., high school and becoming principal of ~an elementary school in Kaneas City, Kans., he
attended Illinois U. where he obtained his M. D. degree -im 1920,
later taking postgraduate work at the University of Chicago,
hac been assistant in niedicine at the University of [lincis College
of Medicine and a physician in the division of communicable dislenses of the Chicago Health department, Since 1921 the has been

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~Frankie And Joht
$200,000 From Film a.

Negro Lawyers Win First

Round; Case Ordered to Trial |

ST. LUUIS~(SNS)~Jude Robert L.. Anderson, Division No. 1, of the St. Louis Circuit Court, Tuesday, August
12, who some months ago issued a writ of attachment tying
up the assets and picturés of Republic Pictures Corporation
of New York, upon the motions of Attorneys Mc Lemore and
Witherspcon, race lawyers who represented Miss Frankie
Baker, the famous figure in the ~Frankie and Johnnie~ ~pisode, overruled demurrers of various out-of-town defendants
who were endeavoring to prevent th case from coming up
for a hearing, and ordered that the case be set for trial.

| Miss Baker, now residing in Portland, Oregon, through the local law

firm, is:suing the Republic Pictures
for $200,000 for the casting, produc
tion and showing of the moving pic- |

ture ~Frankie and Johnnie~ which
starred Chester Morris and other
outstanding screen stars. The case,

which has attracted nation-wide if
terest, has been. pending in the Circuit Court for more than two years,
During that period, various motions, depositions and pleadings

have been carried on by both sides, |

the latest step involying volumfhous
briefs filed by. both the plaintiff
and defendants.

One of the highlights of the depositions was the testimony of the
late George Britt, who was the
father of the famous Johnny Britt,
well dressed young race man of
the ~Gay Nineties~ whose alleged
love affair with Miss: Baker was
the basis of the internationally famous ballad known variously as
~Frankie and Johnny~ which contains the oft-repeated and. unforgetable lines, ~He was her man, but
he done her wrong.~

It is expected that the case will

~try the hew Queen NOW wit
~OLIVE OIL IN IT. SEE for yourself what this extra richness does to
_bring out all the deep young beauty
of. your: hair. Get Queen today. At
lies Oo sa tor ik- druggists A; WANTED. Write
~Newbro, Dept.
Atlanta, Georgia.

PHAIR DRESSING

i @ | IVE Iii

ter Male Chorus, composed of 21.

been |:

+o] a a % a oq

| demurrers ~filed on

Music in Tie hie
At Fort Benning:

Tuskegee, Alabama, he played the
bassoon in the college band and
ih a woodwind ensemble in the college chapel.

Beg ming interested in choral
work after he left Tuskegee, Jackson organized thé Mixed Chorus of
the. Randall Memorial. Baptist
Church in Eufala, Alabama, in 1937
and 1938. The following year, he

organized the Musie Lovers Male
prior in Tallahassee which gained considerable recognition through
weekly broadcasts from Taliahassee and concerts in muhy

southern cities, While. in,.the
Florida city, Jackson _. di| rected the choir of the Bethel

Baptist Church in Tallahassee.
Despite his experience in sa
Jackson says he never sings,
ferrimg to ~stick t o deecttng~
which he knows he can do. -
acts as drum major for the Receptoh Center bond at its frequent -
Jackson.; is
serving as a company. clerk at.the
oa. Center at ae

Be ot Ae Oe

pipes ff t of verruling the
effect of o

fr Republic~s be-~

half is that the defendants must

now prepare to face a court battle

before a St. Louis jury..

Recruited, From
Nearby Areas;
LOUISUILLE (AND, ar
br yl near

at its preesnt rate.
Pcl prec ypan gs Te TF.
tion this week when J. A. Thomas,