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VOLUME ~ NUMBER

FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1941

Wavell~s African Successor

Now that Genera] Archibald Wavell has been transferred to Syria~
the command of the potential ~hot spot~ in Africa goes to General Sir
Claude. Auchinleck, shown left, in Egypt, with Maj. Gen. H. W. B.
Hughes, center, ard Lieut. Gen. Sir James Marshal-Cornwall. It is be
Heved Germany may soon launch

ar African offensive,

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~PRINT, Mich~Seeking the aid: and cooperation of the colored peo
betterment of the children
tending schools, the Superintendent of Schocls in Flint meets with
the Ashociation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc., at Clifford Street
Centes on September 30th at 7:30

Gur officials of the Board of
Education will also be present at

_ this meeting. The matters in hand

are of the most vital..importance

- to the Colored people of Flint. All

parents must be present and all
adults are requested to be present
to get the first hand information
which is needed to effect the
kind of cooperation the members
of the Board of Education seek of

us.
>" The question of the betterment
of our youth should interest all of
you. This is one of the community
problems which requires special attention and thoughtful analysis in
order to be able to produce the
brand of healthful relationship between the school authorities and
our children and ourselves,

our citizenry would ~be proud to

endorse,

More credit is due the Association of Colored Women~s Clubs for
taking the front in matters of this
kind. More power to. them. There
should ~be a Men~s group which
could do its part in efforts like
this from time to time.

When we learn to put a whole lot
of interest in these things and
begin to actually do something to
increase the benefits accruing frum
such mutual undertakings, we will
be starting in the right direction
for a better plane of living.

It would be a fine thing if, from
this instance, the leadership would
pestir itself to consolidate the
many-headed. groups into one big

tion thaving' a cen.
authority to take care of al public
problems. Such a covurse cat but
lead to a united front in things
which concern the Race group in
Flint. | Over-individualism and
super-egoism would then be. submerged to realms of oblivion where
they belong, end Race progress
here would finally have a road
upon which to advance. ~

Breaking Down Color
Line In Industry

' By HOWARD COONLEY
Then. the lowest-skilled workers
got squeezed out first, though many
the higher-skilled workers kept
groups; but no doubt the Neworkers, by and large,.were

Ferdest hit, for as a group they
had not been for the

skill:many of them possessed.

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get used to new ways. Then they
become habits.

Another reason, unfair as it may
seem, is the fact that Negro workers were employed extensively. as
strikebreakers for many years and
so incurred the hostility of organized labor. That. memory, t am happy to say, is passing.

A third reason is that the Machine Age has. required new skills
which Negro-workers have not been
overcrowded. Fortunately opportunities to learn these skills are now
increasing..

Other racial groups have had

privileged competitors in their
economic life. The Catholic Irish

NEGRO SOLDIERS~ PROBLEMS
JN, AIDE HASTIE S$

Austin Denies
He'll Head A

Baptist Splif

Cites Abuses
In Election
During Session

By HERMAN CLAYTON

CLEVELAND~(A N P) ~ Contrary to rumors afloat, the Dr. J.
C. Austin, Chicago unsuccessful
candidate for president of the National Beptist Convention, does not
plan effort to start a new body
of Ba nor to institute court
action in contestation of) the election, in. which, according to. Rev.
Austin, only a mysterious ~hand
full~ of the more than 12,000 messengers who had streamed from all
parts of the country for the express
aoa! of voting, were so permit
Instead Rev, Austin says he plans
to form into permanent organiza
too long a time ed the Baptist convention.~

These abuses, Dr. Austin said, expressed themselves in the refusal
of what he tefms the machinme-run
convention to register opposition
delegates and in what Dr. Austin
says is the fradulent practice of issuing non-negotiable checks to
cover the expenses of non-eligible
machine delegates, in the gross disregard of constitutional provision,
and in the ~un-christian. and un
democratic gagging of opposition
sentiment.~
Proof of some of these. abuses

Rev. Austin furnishes in the following ~ases:

The machine, having fraudulently registered most of the huge Alabama delegation, upon being challenged, feverishly sought to cut the
number down sv as to wipe out the
disparity between the number of
delegates and the amount or money
collected. In order to nullify the
rising avalanche of opposition votes,
constitutional clause granting ~ to
churches additional delegates at
the machine totally disregarded the
$5 per delegate and arbitrarily limited the church delegation to- 10.
When opposition speakers sought
to correct irregularities they were
howled and heckled down.:

~However, these are not matters
to drag into court,~ the militant
Chicago pastor said.~ I shall -continue the fight I started in St. Louis
in 1922 for a clean, orderly, democratic, progresive and. Christian
convention. Though the one past
was a far cry from that ideal, I am
not dismayed, or discouraged.

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With a white membership, the
group was organized

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tion the 1,000 ministers who in Mt
Zion Baptist Church while |

have -~for |

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Only a test, but the picture is a.. The navy marksmen scored
during the testa. The torpedoes afe.equipped with dummy

torpedo. practice.

U. S. Navy Practices Torpedoing

beauty. ~It was tak

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Washington's
Union Square
Tribulations
Of Citizens
Are Related

WASHINGTON (ANP) ~ Police
brutality gota thorough going over
last week at a protest at
Washington~s Union square, Some
500 persons listened as-Doxey. A.
Wilkerson of Howard university re.
lated the trials and tribulations of
citizens under the ineffilent direction of the local department.

Placards used in a march from
the Second precinct at 5th and L
streets up to the 13th precinct at
9th and Florida Avenue decried
Jim-Crow and demanded a colored
captain for the 13th precinct, which
is in a district almost wholly NeA hearse and undertaker~s auto--
mobile carried signs in memory of
persons shot in recent months by
police,

A banner was carried by a group

Sg teat camera ee ee

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Negro Workers

(Crash Bendix

Plant In Ind.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (ANP)~ Negro workers have at last been given
employment in the Bendix plant
here. Bendix, one of the largest
manufacturers of auto and air
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Named In Suit |
LOUISVILLE~ (ANP)~Following swiftly the refusal
of the University of Kentucky to admit Charles Eubank of
Louisvijle to its engineering school, suit was filed in Fayette
Circuit court at Lexington against the University by Atty.
Prentice Thomas acting for Fubank, Thus the second step
was taken in Kentucky~s struggle for unfettered higher ed
ucation.

The history of Negro education
in this state since 1904 is a record
of biased and constructed attempts
to limit training only te manual
and menial efforts, and couch it in
industrial terms. Under the latter
heading, slow progress was attained by the educators
who laid the foundation for later
development, which even then felb
short of adequate preparation,

FIVE GIVE AID

During the past fifty years only
five outstanding Kentucky statesmen: have openly advocated and
supported movements for the developments of higher training for
Negroes within the state. They
were former governers W. O.
Bradley and Edwin P. Morrow,
former United States Senators Ollie James, O, Owsley Stanley, and
Richard P. ~

apportioned
school;. | clent, the legislature should

At the time, Dr. Donovan was |
fully aware that this fund
$9,000 had been exhausted. This
sum, designated annually, could be
among 500 state high

desirous of obtain.

Kentucky Negroes so long have
gwemainad passive, Lewis assetted
further, ~The colored people and
white people have been getting
along fine in Kentucky, and we
don~t like the idea of stirring things
up.~

Atty.-Gen, Meredith, said to
have his eyes upon the gubernatorial nomination, as yet has voiced
no: opinion....except through his
assistant. But to Kentuckians his

colors were raiséd when he joined |.

with officials of. other southern
states in fighting the transportation suit brought and won by RepArthur Mitchell. a~

STATES OPINION

The attorney generals office,
lipwever, was forced to admif
that, ~Under the constitution equa]
educational opportunties must be
given Negroes, and if the present
fund for that purpose is pee
erease it,~, wile

From. metropolitan centers of
the state there is an overwhelm
Curbing

~IT can assure you that it

costia, D. C.

In his address, he told of undertakings by the War Department to
put an end to prejudices practiced
against colored soldiers in some
sections. His address in full reads:

~The dedication of a project is
customarily an occasion for lauda-.
tory expressions concerning the significance and symbolism of the
new venture. As we are assembled
here on the banks of the Anacostia

as we view this: comfortable and
well organized camp now available

in the middle of an area already p
dedicated to recreational activities, |

is the serious purpose of the

War Department to build military and civilian morale, and
that the special problems of the Negro soldier are receiving
particu'ar consideration,~ declared William H. Hastie, civil-. -
ian aide to the Secretary of War, in his address Sunday at
dedication ~ceremonies of the ~Anacostia Leave Camp, Ana
battle. It will be found in. every

walk of life. In the task before us,
all men of all races must be made

be made to feel that the purpose of
our Government is to provide for
the common welfare of all the peo
soldier who visits our city...

approximately 90,000 Negro soldiers
who are now members of the Army
of the United States, will be able to
visit Washington, and those who do
come here can come only infre~quently. In most cases the soldiers

seeks recreation in a community
very near to his -station. He must
rely upon the hospitality of that
neighboring community. It is incumbent on the community that. it
not be apathetic or indifferent toward the soldier. ~

DEDICATE HUMAN BEINGS

- ~Our greatest immediate need is
not the dedication of camps and
other physical facilities, but a dedication of ourselves as Americans to
the practice of the ideals we profess. In words we

every American citizen. In
we honor every soldier, both as the
wearer of the

protect the rest of us. But it is not
enough to utter: such words.
must believe ifi them and

their midst as outsiders to be tolerated and exploited, or if soldiers
treat the nearby town as merely. a
place to carouse without regard to
~the rights and sensibilities of the

~A great responsibility, therefore,
rests upon thoughtful, honorable

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~But comparatively few of the| P~

on leave for a day or a week end |.

the city of ~ Fayetteville,
from the civilian police

separa
~of selected permanent personnel,
colored as well as white, without

~It may be well to point out
that: at a seddnd station where trgent need for Negro Military Policemen has ~recently béen indi