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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN ~

These are the officers of the church, missionary and young

people~s departments of the 25th National~ Convention

of the

Disciples of Christ at-their Silver Jubi'e: Celebration at A. and
I. State College, Nashville, Tennessee. August 19-25.

Me.

Center front is President R. Wesley Watson, of St. Louis,

Disciples Of Christ
In Successful Meet ~

_ venient: der S. Kenny~-of Jchnson City,
* Tennessee,

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ministers and missionary workers

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Gove wonderful service in the

By MRS. W. A. SCOTT, Sr.

The Disciples of Christ closed
their twenty-fifth annual national convention in a great Silver
Jubilee celebration August 19-25 in
Nashville, Tennessee, the place. of
its organization 25 years ago by
the late Elder Preston Taylor.

The hundreds of delegates and
visitors who came by railroad and
motor from all sections of the

~country were comfortably housed
and fed in the spacious buildings
of A and I. State College where
~Many of the sessioris were held.
The other meetings were in Lea
Avenue Church. This very con
arrangement was. due
mainly to the splendid hospitality

and cooperation of President W. J.

Hale and Prof. Merl Eppse of the

Silver Jubilee
High-lights

By MRS. W. A. SCOTT, SR.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH National Conventicn of the Christian
Church ~ Disciples of Christ~
was celebrated as a great. home
coming.

It was a great pleasure to greet
friends whom the years had long
separated. Among these was
Mrs. H. A. Singleton in whose
home, in Louisville, Ky., the writer began her 28 years. experience as a minister~s wife.

Among those who were missed
at the annual gathering was Elkept

whom illness

away.:

Mrs. Rosa L. Wicks of Washington, D. C., is among new
~friends made.

Dr. J. E. Walker, outstanding
layman and fcr 25 years treasurer
of the National Convention was
speaker at the Friday night meeling at Lea Avenue Church, and
he is still treasurer.

It was quite interesting to note
how that delegation cf more than
three hundred could adjourn for
dinner on A.-and I. State College campus and in a iittle while
be reassembed in Lea Avenue
Church in the City.

Mrs. Alice Collens cf Youngstown, Ohio, enjoyed shaking
hands with friends of former
years. in church work.

Mrs. Rosa Brown Jiracey, promotional secretary, was gist
speaker Sunday at the Woman~s
Day program at St. John~s A. M.
E. Church.

The official program was a
ecmpliment to the pregram committee. It seems,nothing was~
omitted for the benefit of the
delegates. It contained warm

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greetings from the ~ governor,

mayer and many other prominent: people.:

Rev. R. H. Davis of Chicago
was amone those who enjoyed
meetine new friends and greeting
eld ecquaintances at the Silver
Jubilee...

Quite a number of Christian:

filled various pulpits in the city

the closing Sunday.
~ Byerybody enjoyed Mrs. El

-chairman of the Silver Frupitee
committee.

The reports from the -church,
Missionary Society and Young Peoples~ Departments all showed
progress and deep interest in the
work, All sessions were harmoniously conducted. The convention theme
was ~Facing the ~ Crisis with
Christ~.

Many well prepared and _ inspirine addresses and sermons were
~eri~oyed throughout the meeting.
Mrs, Rosa Page Welsh of Chicago
and,Mrs. Duke of Los Angeles made
fine musical contributions.

Among the many very enjoyable
social functions were the Ministers~
Breakfast Conferences. The Ministers~ ~Wives~ Banquet, the elaborate reception by president and Mrs.
W. J. Hale, and, the big picnic by
Mrs. Taylor at her home in GreenWood Park.; |

The sunrise prayer service Sun-.

day morning and the memorial
service at the grave of Elder Pres~ Taylor were outstanding servces.
_ Most of the officers;elected in all departments. Los
Angeles was chosen as the next
place of meeting.

were | Te
cafeteria. She made many happy
souls when she anncunced one
aay to the two long ~dinner lines:
~All with gray hair may be served first.~~~ We feit sorry for those
who had darkened their tresses
betore leaving for the silver jubisGe,

There are.206
Protestantism in
cording to one
speakers,

divisions of
America, | acof the convention

Rev. Moore of Paris, Kentucky
preached a fine sermon in which
be quoted President Jas. A. Garfield~a Disciple of Christ ~ as
saying after he became~ president
of the United States, ~There is
no honor so great as to preach
the gospel.~

Mrs: H. L. Herod of: Indianapclis: made an interesting report
as delegate to the International
Convention of Disciples of Christ.
Noting the favorable changes in
racial relations she said. ~The international does not ~meet. any
place where ample provision | cannct be made for All the brethren.~~

The mingling together. of white
and colored workers of. the Christian Church is something interesting to see. Mrs. H. B. Marx

(white) executive secretary of
missionary organizations said of:
the Nashville trip, ~~We have had
the time of our lives. It is wonderful. We would not have missed
it for anything. We hcpe we have
helped you scme. You have helped us tremendously.~

Other white workers, who
made inspiring addresses are Mrs.
R. A. Doan, who spent twenty-five
years in Japan and is now vicepresident of the United Christian
Missionary Society, and James A. |
Crain, secretarv of Social Educa-.|
tion of the UCMS.

Mrs. Preston Taylor, proved,
a wonderful hostess at the big
picnic she gave for the visitors 4
at Greenwood park. More than
three hundred were served~ 2
bountiful picnic plate and water
melon a plenty.

Mrs. Callie Haynes of the Lea
Avenue Christian Church had 17
vears of loyal service to Mrs. Carrie L. Herman rewarded by a beavest' cf $10,000 in her will. It is
ssid that Mrs. Haynes was regarded not as a servant but a confi
he

dential companion to Mrs, Her
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* Officers Of 25th National Convention, Di

sciples Of Christ

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Appointment In
Negro Town Irks

Entire Populace

PINE BLUFF, Ark. ~ (ANP) ~
The supine manner in which Nezroes in this congressional district
lie down and permit their rights to
betrampled on is due as much to
their failure to vote as any other
cause. Failure to pay poll tax and
to vote on the part of the 50,000
Negro citizens in the Fifth Congressional district is strictly the
fault of the colored people. They
could vote if they chose and could
name the man who represents the
district in congress. While it would
be improbable that a Negro could
be elected, at least a liberal, decent
white candidate-could be named.

+ The appointment of a white woman as postmistress in the all Negro community of Menifee is the
straw which it is hoped broke the
camel~s back and which has arous
Arkansas Negroes Jarred

Into Seeking Use Of Vote

ed the citizens to the point where
they may bestir themselves and pay
their poll tax.

~The appointment of this postal
official for Menifee.is~ truly a
blackout for democrady,~ said W.
Harold Flowers, secretary of the
Committee on Negro Orgonizations.
~The appointment was made after
Negro residents-had exhausted every means known to secure the appointment of one of three Negro
eligibles whose names were on the
qualified list as a result of a competitive examination.~
~INFLUENCE~ SEEN

Mrs. Letha E. Malone, white, was
sworn in office by Prof. J. C. McDaniel, a member of the Committee
on Negro Organization, after having been one of the many persons
to urge participation on the part
of Negroes taking civil service examinations. Regarded as a man of
influence in the community, many
of the residents believe that his opposition to a Negro postmaster was
responsible in a large measure for
the appointment of Mrs. Malone.

A petition signed by more than

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man,

A grcup of ladies including Mrs. Frankie Pearce, president of the Tennessee Federation
of Colored Women~s Clubs very

-one year in June and I am begin
ting the encouargement from you

much appreciated the gallant
service of Eld. Isam. Franklin
it the big picnic. dinner.

Women Chauffeurs were very
much in evidence at the Nashville
meet, As we sat on the porch at
Hale Hall and saw many big
fine cars starting out on their
Ieng return journeys home, we
observed women holding~ the

wheels. A good reason why no accidents were heard of.

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I honestly feel that you are going
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don~t think yeu have any worries.., get the thought of what this
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think the other man I was going:
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good husband? |

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need.... what you need is to try
te understand the husband you
have and give up the idea of leaving him and taking another. If
your husband won~t give you the
money you want.... get a job and
make it yourself. After all you
would feel more independent and

yrould have less time to fuss with

him.
M. E. B~I am planning on taking nurse

training this fall. Will
I succeed?

through. A
very nice profession for you young

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SD isis BE set Ain ge ay aia S allie

250 citizens of the community, urging Congressman David D. Terry to
appoint a Negro postmaster was
filed after it was learned that the
~appointment was under the sole
jurisdiction of the postoffice department, due to the fact that the
salary was less than $500 per annun. Among the signers of the petition were three white persons.

67th Fires First
Anti-Tank Guns
At Camp Wolters

CAMP WOLTERS~(A N P)~Selectees of the 67th battalion were
selected to be the first to fire the.50 caliber machine guns on_ the

placement training center. Brig. Gen.
William M. Simpson, camp commander, turned out to watch the
colored battalion: pepper shots: at
' the cable-drawn white target which
dodged and zig-zagged through the
woods, simulating an advancing
tank. The firing was directed by
Major William C. Saffarans, bat
The memorial service, in beautiful Greenwood ~Cemetery for
Eld. Taylor was. conducted by
Rosa Brown Bracey of St. Louis.
A large circle including Eld. Tay
lor~s~ grave was formed for the
service and we truly feel that
~Eld. Taylor is still within our circle for at the death of his beleved widow the bulk of the Taylor fortune goes to the brother
-| Administrator Fiorella H. LaGuar
don, Arkansas.

| DETROIT PROTEST MEET

anti-tank range at this infantry re-.

Michiganders Say
White Arkansans
Acted In Bands

NTW YORK ~ Civilian Defense

dia has received requests that the
President instruct the army to. issue a directive abolishing all racial
segregation in army camps and.
other places in control of the army;
that Negro military policemen be
placed on equal footing and equipped as are all other military police; that orders be issued assuring protection for Negro troops stationed in southern areas and that
law. enforcement agencies should
attend the illegal actions of state
police and peace officers at Gur
Mr. LaGuardia received the requests from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People along with four affidavits from members of the 94th Engineers division stationed at Camp
Robinson, Ark., who went AWOL
~rather than submit to intimidation
by state patrolmen and civilians
there.

The $ffidavitse were made after
the protest mass meeting held in
Detroit, Michigan, by the local
branch NAACP last Sunday. The
four men had made their way back
to Michigan by hitch-hiking and
riding freight cars, and their sworn
statements underscored the vile
treatment to which they were subjected.

were colored troops forced off the
highway at machine gun-point by
bands of whites, but their commanding officers. were insulted and
one white lietuenant, Donald Curry, was slapped by a patrolman.
Protesting againts teh imperious
demands of the southerners to ~get
those damn niggers off the highway,~ the white officers were called ~nigger-lovers~ and ~damn
Yankees.~~;

The NAACP placed the responsibility for race clashes in and
around military camps on the government~s policy of segregation. It
stated that the episodes in Akransas
and North Carolina are the direct
outgrowth of the philosophy of the
War Department which caters to
southern segregation tradition. The
NAACP emphasized the imperative
nedii for a chance in this philosophy. 7

The basic fatc, the Association
said, is ~that the army has apparently not decided what it intends
to do in utilizing Negro soldiers. It
would appear that the present plan
is to assign mostfi if not all, Negro troops to labor battalions.
Practically none of the Negro units
are as yet parts of the army divisions. It would appear to be im
hood. It will likely be used for a
training. school for ministers.

The men testified that not only:

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1941

Jim Crow Policy Of
Government Blamed
For Army Camp Riots

or not it is going to use Negro troops or to excuse Negroes from

troops on the same basis as other military service.~

mother.

Trainee Is Flown To His
Mother's Funeral By Navy

MONTGOMERY, Ala.~(ANP)~A naval airplane
was placed at George Thomas~ disposal last week by
officials of the Norfolk (Va.) Naval Training station,
in order that. Thomas might attend the funeral of his

Thomas~ mother died Monday, and George was
notified by telegram from his father.
sage to his commanding officer, he was surprised a few
hours later to find that a plane had been ordered to
bring him here for. the last rites of his mother. The

Showing the mes
ship landed at Maxwell field Tuesday.

By CHARLES H. LOEB.

CLEVELAND~(A N P) ~ Atty.
Perry B. Jackson, assistant police
prosecutor and former member of
the Cleveland City Council and
Ohio legislature, became the first
Negro ever to occupy a policy-making post in the mayor~s cabinet,
when Mayor Edward Blythin named him secretary to Utilities Direetor John A. Hickey. In his new post,
Atty. Jackson will serve primarily
as go-between the utilities.
department and city council, and
will no doubt be called upon for
a study of all legislation affecting
that department.

Atty. Jackson is state president
of the Ohio IBPOE of W., and
assistant grand legal advisor
the Elks Grand Lodge. He will attend the Elk~s grand convention before entering his new duties.

Meanwhile, in a sweeping action,
Mayor Blythin named Atty: William B. Saunders, who has been
working in the police prosecutor~s
office as a representative of the

KKK ASKS SEGREGATION
OF NEGRO ACTIVITIES
LAURENS, S. C~(ANP)~The
unemployed extension director of
the Ku Klux Klan, Fred V. Johnson, announced recently that the
Laurens Klan has petitioned the
city council here to pass ordinances
prohibiting Negroes from congrega
requiring them to be off principal
streets by 9 p. m. They also ask
that all Negro activities be confined to segregated districts. It is re
perative that the army make up
its mind definitely as to whether

ported, that there is no record of
racial discord in Laurens lately.

BY OL HARRINGTON _

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can~t let folk knew that!~

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The position pays $3,600 annually, |

of.

utilities department, to succeed Mr. | _

ting on sidewalks of the town, and
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Perry Jackson Named
To Secretarial Post

Jackson, and named Atty. John E.
Ballard to succeed Mr. Saunders.
All the appointments.were made
with the approval of the Negro Republican leaders in Cleveland led
by Atty. Lawrence O. Payne, state
Republican leader.

Two Appointed

To Work With _
Race Consumers

Miss Sunie Steele
And Mrs, Laura
Daly Are Named _

Division, announced this week appointments of Miss Sunie Steele,
of Trenton, N. J., and Mrs. Laura
R. Daly, of Tuskegee Institute,
Alabamm, as regional representatives to work with Negro groups
for ~the Consumer Division. Miss
Steele will contact consumers in
the area for Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware,
Michigan and Kentucky. Mrs. Daly
will work in the South Atlantic
Seaboard area, and in Alabama

Mississippi.

oN
_ ~Our representatives are charged
with a four-fold service,~ Miss~
Elliott said. (1) They will explain

suming public and point out the
ways in which the publice can co
their selection,. purchase, and use
of civilian goods. (2) They will
make available to customers in theiz
regions educational materials and
information from this office on the
problems of price, supply, substitute materials, and conservatign
methods. (3) They will help con.
sumers to help themselves through

stat facilities for raising standards
of living, facilities. such as surplus
distribution channels, school lunch

use of city markets, etc. And, fi
ly, and very important to us, they
will keep us informed in detail of

~the effects of the Deferise Program

on the standard of living of the
civilian populetion of the various
regions throughout the country~.

RESPONSIBILITIES PLACED

Miss Steele and Mrs. Daly will be |
to Miss Fran.

responsible

g

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ge

number | made up for Clark

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the use of all available local and ~

Supply, in charge of the Consumer

| the OPACS program to the con- ~

operate with national defense in ~