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Fire Hose Waters ~Daddy~ Grace's Flock -

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~-When more
than 200 members of the United House of Prayer
requested baptism, Bishop C. M. ~Daddy~ founder,
to the fire department and was
quickly obliged. Here, he~s shown sprinkling the
fiock in Washington, D. C. August 24. (The Dunk. |

sent an S, O.~S.

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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 194~

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ing was done yjcariously by the bishop, Fireman
J. M. Carter was actually in charge of the hose,
which is barked~live a howitzer against the side of
a fire engine from company No. 4. (International

By ALVIN

time.

nations,

British officials, however, have
not. been very helpful in the enforcement of this neutrality and
in- one instance there was a very
close shave, causing the United
States government to back up the
Liberians in their stand.
COUNTRY SUFFERS
ECONOMICALLY:

Economically, the Liberians have
suffered from the war in that their
trade with the adjacent French
possessions has been cut off. French
territory almost completely = surrounds Liberia ~with the exception
of the northwest border which adjoins Sierra Leone, a British territory:.

At the time, the few Germans
who were left in Liberia, merchants dnd traders who had been
there for years, were doing their
best to keep the little trade they
had. Intense trading was done

March-On-Washington Committee

Plans Report To Nation Meeting

Slated Speakers
~Include Heads Of.Militant Bodies

we
i ~aie are afoot to stage a huge
by -the.March-onHineton ~Committee in Chicage
on Sunday, September 28th, for
the purpose of making a report
to the Nation in the midwest. The
meeting will be under the auspices |
of the Chicago Division of _ the|
Mardh-on-Washingto movement, |
whese local director is Dr. Charles |
Wesley Burton |
Speakers on this occasion wil!
include A. Phillip~ Randolph, Naticnal Director of the March-onWashington Committee; Walter
White, Secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; Lester B.
Granger, Assistant Executive Sectetary of the National Urban League; Mr. M. P. Web&ter, First
International Vice-President
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Cat
Porters and:a member of the
President~s Fair Employment
Practice Committee; Mr. Earl B.
Dickerson of Chicago~s Aldermanic
"Board and also a member of the
President~s Fair Employment
Practice Committee, An invitation
has been sent to Mr. Mack Ethridge, Chairman of the Fair gee
ployment Practice Committee; to |
address the meeting.

This meeting will. be a part ~ of
the program to mobilize public
sentiment behind the President's
txecutive Order and the Fair Employment Practice Committee to
ban discriminations in National
Defehse on account of race, creed,

color or national origin.

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RUSSIANS, GERMANS LOCKED
IN. BATTLE
By The Scott Newspape~: ~Syndicate |
Germany and Russia were locked |
in one of the greatest battles of |
mankind Sunday and the Soviets |
were declared smashing at the German center. "The Germans. touched |
off the European war with the |
blitzkrieg invasion of Central |
Europe two years ago.

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Julian's Wife Bails Out On Black
Eagle, Refuses To Talk About It

NEW YORK~(C)~Mrs, Coi. Hubert Faunteroy
Julian has bailed out on Harlem~s Black Eagle.
fanded in court with a separation action against the
on July 4, 1926. At that time, Julian was starting a
~lier, who himself landed in the East River mudflats

Mrs. Julian charges crueity and abandonment by
the man who lent a helping hand to beleagured Britain
by going to join R. A:-F. forces in Canada.

~It~s something I don~t wish to discuss~, she said, when questioned at the Julians~ apart
She

refuses to talk about the

stenographers In War
Dept. Segregated

WASHINGTON ~ (ANP) ~
Hidden away on the seecnd floor
in the sixth wing of the huge munitions building of the war department is a little coterie of five
eclored sten~graphers ~ part of
the famous ~pool~~ of ~ colored
rirls hired.
Acccrding

to infcermation, a

pool -is merely a receiving | sec- |.
tion, where girls await calls to)
other appointments in the department. They werk -here until |
2 vacaney occurs and then they |
are assigned tc offices- needing~
their services.

The usual length of service in|

pool is from | four to five weeks |; consists

~net te speak to the colored girls

but these girls have spent = as
many months in -this_ private
pocl with no changes. -

Each cf the ycung women
has her name on her desk, printed in huge letters on a card, and
ach one has a: typewriter.

The: majority cf! their work
in making stencils and
cne young woman js reported to
have typed one. manuscript 36
times~just a repetition of what

she has done.before.
White girls;who wish to be
friendly with them are warned

end. jJeave them severely alone

| with a product known as ~piassava~
| & hemp like material which is
imanufactured from fibers of @
Liberia plant. Gerrnany had been
buying this when the British stepped in through their charge
@affaires and precipitated a very
unpleasant situation.

Because the British. maintain a
strong blockade of the West African
coast, it is almest impossible for
any vessels other than those of the
British and her allies to enter the
few ports Liberia has. At the same
time, Britain maintains a wide~epread blacklist of nations suspect
ied of dealing with the Axis powers
~and once threatened to put Liberia

in this category. Only the insistence
of this government is said to have
prevented such a_ step.

~ Information from this section ~of
the West Coast is rather meager,
it is reported, since the United

~| States maintains a man at Daker,

in the Sengal and another at Lagos,
some thousand miles apart in @
rough wild territory.
FIRESTONE RUBBER
INTERESTS

United States interests in Liberia
are centered in the Firestone Rubber plantations, which have increased their output several hundred percent in the past four or
five years; the Bank of Monrovia,
and the United ~States Trading
Company, Few Americans are in
the country, so no problem of
evacuation would he involved
should there come a time for such
action. Scattered throughut the
country are a few ericans~
~drifters~ as the state department
calls them~ who would naturally
A short-while ago, there was
some trouble about the natives, but
this was quickly put down and now
seek to get back to this country in
the event of trouble.
Liberia seems to ~be on the right
side of the fence~ according to department.

One of the difficulties Liberia

was not accustomed to such treatment, bucked the line and was
ifmmediately transferred to a
point where she -would not~ come
in contact with the colored workers.

None of the girls will permit
her name to be used to protest
against such treatment and it is
said that the ccndition confronting them is well known to offacials of the war. department
who, it is believed, could do some
One girl from Pennsylvania, who

thing to remedy the situation.

Governor Stassen Denies
Racial Discrimination

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.~(ANP)~ |
| White and Negro citizens of the,
twin cities"rubbed elbows at~a mass |
meeting sponsored by the Minneso- | |
ta Negro Defense committee, Tues- |
day night, in the Hallie Q. Brown |~
Commiunty house, to hear Gov.
Harold E. Stassen defend himself |
against charges of discriminating |
against Negroes in Minnesota |
Home Defense force.

| Rev. Clarence T. Nelson, pastor |
}of Camphor Memorial

Methodist
church and publicity chairman of
the defense committee, gave a brief
review of the committee~s fight to
have Negroes enlisted: in Minnesota~s home defense program. Following this, Frank L. Alsup, chairman
of the committee, in his introductory remarks, told the governor that
the people would not be interested
in his speech if it were on any other
subject than that which they had
gathered together to hear.

Gov. Stassen~s address for the
most part was given over to the cit
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~ing of instances to show that he

js not and never has been preju
Cites Instances
To Show He Has
Not Been Biased

diced nor ever done anything in
|his public career that could be labeled discriminatory to the Negro.
He referred to his association with
Negroes in the ROTC and as a
pullman conductor, saying ~I am
against discrimination an dthat has
been my attitude from the chadle.~

He lauded the work of Atty. Ray- |

mond Cannon, Mill City, Minn.,
and Lawrence Tarver, St. Paul, in
compiling a report for the inclusion
of Negroes in the defense force of
the state and remarked that it was
their suggestion that the organization of a jim-crow unit in the home
reve giE program -would be inadvisable.

Blame for discrimination of cole
ored was placed upon the United

States army officers in the force
who are following the army coae
of placing Negroes in separate
units. To the charges of the governor that the committee had been
unfair to him, J. Nataniel Smith,
St. Paul, defended the committee~s
action in asking thr.t practices of
discrimination be wiped out. Smith
said that the committee had ~been
informed by Rep. Mielvin Mass that
the U. S. government had nothing

sen to issue non-~liscrimination order.

In answer to the governor~s statement that he would work with the
committee to make a test ease of
the discriminatory army code, Cecil Newman, editor and publisher
of the St. Paul. Recorder and Minneapolis Spokesman, challenged the
governor to strike the first blow in
the fight by the issuance of an order to the effect that Negroes be
inculcated in Minnesota~s home de
that he could not do that. a

Weather
Officials Declare
Neutrality State

E. WHITE

WASHINGTON~(ANP)~Liberia, the Negfo republic
of western Africa, is in no immediate danger from Nazi influence, according to officials of the department of state who
have had the situation under close observation for some

Immediately upon the declavation of war, ~Liberia issued
a statement on its neutrality, which has been strictly enforced. Sc much so that the Liberian. government has almost bent over backward to keep from offending the warring

faces, like the United States, is
transportation. The lack of facilities
to transport the few products of the
country has proven a serious handicap. However, it is interesting to
note that the development of the

| port of Marshall, just below Mon-:
of the out- |

rovia, has been one
standing achievements of the coun
Monrovia as a Seaport and
though a smaller town, has made

"great progress in the past few

years. ae

STERN -MEASURES TAKEN
Little evidence of: political in
trigue is fourd -in Monrovia, so
stern are the measures adopted by
the: government. Although all of
the first 'class nations have representatives in the little town, there
is little political entanglement and
the general~ situation is well in
hand,

Entrusted to the care of Lester
A. Walton, the affairs of this government are capably administered.

Reports to the state department
cover a wide range of topics, much
of which is confidential and cannot be released to the general public. However, Liberia has not been
considered as a2, possibility for the
construction of air bases, although
there have been many reports to.
that effect.

Any fear the Liberians may have
that. Germiay and the Axis powers
are headed toward the country
May be dispelled, it is reported, because the Axis has its hands full
elsewhre at present, anl any drive
on the African counties would

to do with the state militia, hence
the committee reqtiested Gov. Stas
have to be a concentrated effort,
involving ~the territory in Africa,
but~ any moves in this direction
would involve Germany directly
with the United ~States, which will
not~ brook any infringment upon
Libera nor its sovereign rights nor
territory.?

Haiti Gives
Details Of Nazi
Protest Refusal

Charge d~Affaires -
Rebuked For His

Objections

WASHINGTON~(ANP) ~ A
German protest to the government of Haiti against acceptance
cf the American black list has
been forcefully rejected, and the
Germans charge d~affaires in effect rebuked for having interposed objections. This was learned Friday with the transmission
to the Haitian legation here of
the exchange of correspondence
between the German charge
d'affaires, Walter Kaempfe, and
the Haitian minister of foreign
affairs, Charles Fombrun.

The issue arcse when, on July
30, the. German legation in Port
au Prince transmitted its protest
to the foreign office. The protest
declared that the black list had

terribly handicapped the commercial activities cf German
firms in Haiti.~ ~But it went
further; it conveyed threat that

if Haiti accepted this American
~infringement,~ she would suffer reprisals from Germany after the war..

The acutal lanuage of the protest at this. point was, ~~An acceptance of this American infringement withcut opposition
from the Haitian government..
would nct, after the war, remain
without bearing on the German
decisions at the time when German-Haitian commercial activities are renewed.~

WARM REJOINER

This threat: Ww ~ warm rejeiner_ from theg Haitian government, doubtless" at the direction
of President. Elie Lescot, who un
~| til his inauguration last May 15
~| served as Haitian

minister in
Washingten, and who is a strong
supporter.cf inter-American cooperation,

The Haitian action in this matter was more than a mere gesture, since the commerce and -industry cf Haiti are made to suffer by acceptance of the black
list, there being several German
firms jin Haiti which employ

numbers of Haitians throughout
the. country.

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o Nazi Fear In Liberia; U.S. Keeps
ye On Africa Republic

try to date. Marshall has surpassed |.
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Punch ~Em Well, My Son!

Punching rivets has taken on added importance in recent days, due
to increased orders of war materials for the machines of the fighting
Democracies and defense of our native land. For numerous causes, Negroes heretofore have been denied the right to handle electrie-hammers
such as this in the hands of Corporal Anthony Jones, of Champaign,
Jones is at the Chanute Field Air Corps Technical Training School
Increased pressure, from Hitler is: changing

DETROIT~,ANP) ~ The annual
conference of the National,Urban
League, held over the Labor Day
week-end, brought more than 200
staff, board and committee members of urban leagues the coutnry
over to the Green Pastures camp
of the Detroit Urba nelague, just
outside Jackson, Mich. The conclave, which convened Saturday,
lasted three days, featured the
theme of.the Negro in national-defense, indicative of the league~s recognition that integration in present.
day emergency programs will be the
basis of future social status of Negroes in America for several decades.

The newly-appointed executive
director of the President~s Fair Employment Practice committee, Lawrence Cramer, discussed plans
which are to prevent racial dissrimination in defense inaustries.
As a rebuttal, he was presented
with authoritative facts proving the

pear a raagy of discrimination despite the Presiednt~s executive order.

The first conference, session, Saturday evening, was opened by L.
Hollingsworth, president of the National Urban league, with Fred M.
Butzel, member of Detroit~s urban
league executive board, greeting the

members. Speaking on the topic

Defense Theme Of
UrbanLeague Meet

~Action Forward,~ Miss Sara Southall, chairman of industrial committee. of the Chicago
league, gave the viewpoint of board
members on the job that the league
faces today and in future years.
Lester B. Granger, assistant executive secretary of the National Urban league; Edward S. Lewis, executive secretary of Baltimore Urban league, and Jesse O. Thomas,
field director of the National Urban league, also addressed the
body.

Specific ways of attacking existing problems on national and local
scales were discussed in Sunday
and Monday sessions: Feasible
methods and techniques to be employed in the defense program by
which Negro and white communities can be encouraged to work cooperatively in solving problems facing the Negro population were discussed and the findings were pre
sented in resolution form at the.

conferrnce~p closing session, Monday evening.

Invitations were also issued to
officials representing the OPM, the
Division of Defense Housing Coordination, Bureau of Employment
Security, NYA, and FWA to confer
with the league members on the
position of the Negro in national
defense. -

Urgan

Waiters, Red
Caps é-sctendl
Strike Soon

But Railroad

Association
Plans Reduction

By RIENZI B. LEMUS
_ WASHINGTON ~ (ANP)~ On
August 23, it was officially stated
in the papers that American Federation of Labor dining car workers will take a strike vote owing to
long practiced ignoring of their
demands of the nation~s railroads
for wages and working rules~ adjustment, and it is reported that

' | redeaps will do likewise, for similar
Teasons, Such moves put these

classes of employes into the _ big
parade~a nation-wide rail strike is
in the offing.

August 26, all railroads were
formally advised by the Association
of American Railroads to. commence drastic curtailments in
pasenger train operation now. This
association is same to the railroad
Managers as labor unions are to
the workers, and its headquarters
are located here, its reason for so
advising its members railroads was
stated to be the imperative need of
clearing all tracks and terminals
for freight and troop trains because of national defense needs
Okvious objective is, though, the

~Yailroads~ ~need~ of taking much

of the ground from under the feet
of the strike threatening unions.

Tt is palpable that ere lon~, war
shai virtually eliminate passenger train service genrally, so ~might

| a5 well now as just a little while

later,~ would appear to be the way
in which the railroads are called -
upon to view the situation at this
time. That would send many senjor passenger train operatives into freight tarin service, and jun- |
iors to extra werk and WPA~
which is the ultimate fate of many,
anyway.
IN NEW AGE

Perhaps never before were present demands of the public for railpassengers accommodations equalled. They are accounted for by war.
wages, on the one hand, and on the

factor is oil, heavy oil fuel for the
Diese] engines: all of which soon
shall be required for our sea-going
war Diesels. Coal-turning locomotives are comparatively too expen~
sive for general streamline train
service. Besides, the national coal
situation remains potentially therefore far less untenable than the
positions of the unions.:

At actual handling of passengers
in keeping the stream flowing
steadily, the great common denominators in the employ sphere are redcaps at terminals and dining car
cooks and waiters en ~route. Elimi--
nation of most passenger trains
means eliminations of most of the
great common demoniators. Adequate dining car personnel. has
become a headache for most managers and the Association of Amer-.
ican Railroads has not yet become
reconciled to the fact of a minimum
wage established for redcaps for
the first time ever, by an act of
congress in 1938. The association~s.
call on the raikroads to curtail
passenger train operation now appears to be effect, threatened strikes
of dining car workers and bh aaa
the precipitating cause.

rival sent Duncan money to join.
him,

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LOS ANGELES ~ (ANP)~A
knife-blade was nct sufficient to
severe the life-long friendship of
Lendon Gale and William (Kaiser) Duncan, airport ~employees, it
was established last Thursday
night, when Gale suffered a lefteye wound, assertedly at the
hands of his pal, which necessitated remcval of his eye.

The altercation occurred following an argument between
Dunean and his asserted girlfriend, Miss May Levy, at the
home of a friend of Duncan~s,
when it was asserted that Duncan
was discovered by Miss Levy
entertaining ancther. woman, Becoming enraged the woman, Bereled with Duncan and left the
scene, it was said.

Returning to her home in the
Roxie Apartment house, which
she is said to own, Miss Levy was
interrupted by banging on her
door and was allegedly confron:ed by Duncan, who had kicked
the door in. A short altercaticn
followed in which the woman a!
American makes accounted for 83
percent of all motor vehicles
throughout the world on -January

1, the Department of Commerce
says.

REFUSES TO PROSECUTE
FRIEND WHO CUT OUT EYE

legedly suffered two black eyes.
Duncan, itis alleged, had been
drinking heavily.

Attracted by the noise, Gale
whe also resides in the apartment
house, attempted to separate the
couple and was accidentally stabbed in the left eye. His eye was
removed at, the. California hospital.

However,~ no charges were preferred against his assailant. The
twe men were life-long friends,
having grown up~ together in
Shreveport, La, Aecording to
friends of the men, Gale asser*
| Angeles and shortly after his ar
edly preceded Duncan to Los.

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