Brownsville Weekly News

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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

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Verdict Shocks

Judge; Demands
Poll Of Jurors

Resort To
Ruse To
Avert Clash.

SPARTA, Wis~(ANP) ~ After
nang charges of. rape and assanlt 1d May 12 against three
soldiers of the 184th field artillery.
now stationed at Fort Custer, an
all-white jury in Monroe county
cirevit court of Judge Charles
here returned a
verdict.of not guilty last Saturday.
~The verdict returned after Capt.
Louis Euclid Taylor and Gen. William. J..Warfield had presented
unshakable defense in setting forth
circumstances upon which charges
were based, came as a shock to
Judge Beckman. The judge persconally polled the entire jury at the
close of the trial to ascertain the
veracity of the decision.

John: Orgain, James Hilliard,
Royal T, Hudgle and Clarence Fravier, the. defendants all of Chicago,
were agcused of criminally attackine Miss. Violet Van Kirk, white, of
Sparta and beating her escort, Pvt.
Forest ~Stagg, white, attached to
2ist. field artillery regiment, aftér
enccuntering the couple in a lonely field at Sparta a the night of
Mey 10.

FALSE TESTIMONY.

Denying | the charges, the defendants cited that they, along with
other white and colored soldiers,
hed accidentally come across the
couple lying in a field a short distance from a skating rink in which
tha soldiers -had attended a dance.
They testified that instead of joinine the ~rest of the soldiers in kidding. the couple about their embarrassing situation, they had: nothing more to do with the affair..

False testimony made to military
au ithorities. at Fort Custer by Vereck Edwards, alias ~Burt Dickson,~
a Nesiio M.P., that he had witnessed the attack on the girl by. the
soldiers caused their subsequent arrest: However, at Saturday~s trial
in Cant. Taylor's - meen gt
en false, and evidence that Ed.
wards~ mental status bordered close
upon a state of delinquency nullified his previous testimony.

NOT GUILTY

The failure of Miss Van Kirk
ard t. Stagg to identify any of

the a~cused as their assailants also
ai fe. ued jury in reaching the ~not
enn Ity~ verdict.

~ development took place
that &fternoon after the boys had
been *released from jail into the
custody of apt. Taylor. An official ~of Camp McCoy military police, apt. Arthur Davidson, white,
notified Capt. Taylor that he intende@ taking the defendants to his
headquarters at Camp McCoy to
await arrangements for. transporting them ~back to their regiment.
He was accompanied by several
aides. Sensing the hostile attitudes
of the white~ soldiers, Capt: Taylor
refuséd to relinquish custody of his
clients.

The. revelation that the youths
~were tricks into signing-their name:

a blank shee= of paper, to which
later} a typewritten confession to
the alleged, assault and rape was
added, brought to light another of
the numerous devices: resorted to by
Sparta authorities to gain conviction rr the defendants:

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High Council ~
Masons To Meet
At Allen Univ.

To Be Conferred

Upon Several

BALTIMORE~(ANP)~The united supteme council of the sovereign,
grand ingectors general of the 33rd"
and last degree of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish ~Rite of Freemasonry for the southern jurisdiction ~of the: United States of America, Prince Hall affiliation; of which
Willard ~W. Allen is the most puissant ~sovereign grand commander
and James T. Beason the secretary
general, will. assemble in its 55th
annual session in the auditorium 0:
Allen university, Columbia, S. C.,
the home of Scottish Rite Freeinasonry, Oct. 19-21.

The delegation will leave by
special train~ from Baltimore, Md..
on Saturday at 5:42 p.m. over the
Pennsylvania railroad. and from
Washington, D. C. at 7:04 p.m.
over the Southern railroad, arriving
in Columbia at 8:20 a.m. Sunday
morning.

The session will ~open with a
memorial service te the deceased
members, Sunday night. The sernon will be delivered by the Rt.
Rev. Monroe H. Davis, bishop of
the Second Episccpal district of the
AME church. The music will be
furnished by the chorus of Allen
university, assisted y Graham
Jackson of Atlanta, noted singer
and radi, artist.

The session will oven proper
Monday morning at 9:00. ai~ 11:0C
the sovereign grand commanier
will deliver his aliocution.

The honorary -33rd degree will be
conferred On Monday at 4:00 p.m.
In ~thi, class will be Bishop J. S.
Flipper. senior bishop of the AME

church, Graham Jackson ~ and
others.
Dr. Sumner A. Furniss of the

northern jurisdiction, Rishop David
Sims and James A. Jackson. 33rd
degree, and one of the deputies af
large, have been invited to be the
guest, cf the council.

This supreme council covers 2?
states. C. C..,.Johnson consistory
cf Columbia,. will host this body.
J. E. Dicken is the deputy for the
state and J. S. Sfanback~ the
grand master.

Willard W. Allen, in addition to
being the sovereign grand comwancer and grand master of the
state of Maryland, is one of the
regional vice presidents of the Natidnal Negro Business League and
a member of the executive committee of the National Negro Insurance association. He is also a trustee of the Morgan State College
and one of the mest active citizers
in Maryland.

The delegates will leave Columbia
on Tuesday and wills arrive in
Washington and Baltimore Wedtee | tieding morning.

MANY GET USO JOBS -
~WASHINGTON, ~(ANP)~ Fas
ter and faster new men are being
appointed to take over the duties
of the United Service Organization
for enlisted men in camps. These
men are being assigned to spots |
nearby the camps and- wil] look}
after their recreational activities in|
an effort to keep down the Vices |
which usually follow camps.

It requires the tatex obtained
from two hevea trees for an entire
year to~ provide enough rubber for:. = ply tire for a small automo
seem ene

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Checking over the route and time schedule of
the convoy from For, Dix, N. J., to Fort Devens,
Mass., of the 372nd Infantry, at the New York end
of the George Washington Bridge, are left to
right: Capt. Leroy Clay of the Service Co. 372nd
Infantry in charge of the conyoy; Lt. Vernon F.

As Convoy Route For 372nd Was Checked

Greene, of the Service Co. 372nd Infantry, Lt, Os.
wald J. Wines, of Headquarters Co. 372nd Infantry, and Major H. A. Bruce, observing the movements for the Headquarters of the Second Army.
Capt. Clay and Lt. Greene are from Baltimore and
Lt. Wines from Washington, D. C.~(ANP)

NEW YORK~(SNS)~- The effect on cclored workers of the vitiual closed shop agieement grant~ed by the Office of Production
Management tothe Building Trades
i Union of the American ~-deration
ef Labor, was urgently requested
for inclusion in the investigation
| of mennoclistie practices being conMee by Thurmond Arnold of the

S. Department of Justice, by
thn NASCP on October 19.! The NAACP poirted cout- the
{grave prnportarce of the matter to
~Negro workers because many AFL

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I signee iadto ln pent is 2 ek tee eee ee ae Bigpetine sue aay Teen; CeUnspe.

tuilding trade
Many Locals deny. membership
through. constitutional, Openly Bar ritual and other means.
~ In support of. its request the AsNegro Workers scciation named specific instances

of exclusion by AFL unions in St.
Louis, in Milan, Tennessee, where
the Carpenters~ Local No. 259 of
Tenn..,
clearance to any Negro worker in
spite of the expressed willingness
of the company t, hire colored
in Chicago,
Plumbers Local No. 130 bars Negro
members, and in Joliet, Til, where
167, Electricians Union
refused clearance to Negro elec- |.

Others named were the titheha:
Brotherhood cf Carpenters
and Jciners, Loca: 89, Mobile, Ala.:
Brotherhood cf Painters, Decora- *;
tcrs and Paper Hangers, Baltimore,,'
Md., and Omaha, Neb., and Car-| Map)
De and Joiners of Washington, j

~The NAACP. said that prejudice
on the part of AFL labor unions
invades the aircraft industry and
hry por idine ee pa Beri i

of. al
ccntracted by Boeing Aircraft Com- | Get Tuxedo ~Club~SES the difrerpany, Seattle, Weshington, which|, At Drug

xe ' further promise that I will &

Probe Of AFL Monopoly On
Building Jobs Is Sought

unions completely ~ ville, Tenn., and at neither

to Negroes,are Negroes doing production Lae

provisions,

the Bethlehem Shipyaras,
Francisco, Calif.

refused to grant jdent~s Executive order.

Through the same Machinists un~ion Negroes have -heen barred atSan

The NAACF placed responsibility
for clearing up-the situation on the
government in-view ofthe Presi
Til., where

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Of50 Negro insurance companies,
of various types, in the United
States, more ihan 25 already have

notified the Treasury of initia)
nurchases of Defense Bonds
amounting to a total of $469,074.
Six of ~these companies bought
$50,~0@ worth of Series F acd G,
the max:mirn aout amy corgorayermittr3 ~9. buy in one
year. They are: Mammoth Lif:
and Accident, Louisville; Gupreme
Camp of American Woodmen, Denver; Atlanta Life, Atlanta; Southern: Aid Society of. Virginia, ichmond; North Carolina Mutual
Durham; and Universal Life, Memphis.

The Federal Life Insurance Company of Washington, D, C. reporied purchasing 800. er com-~paniés include the milgriee Health
and Life, Augusta, Ga. and the
Metropolitan. Funeral System Association,. each~ $20,000; Virginia
Benefit Life, Richmond
$15,000; Domestic Life and Accident, Louisville, $15,000.

Five companies reported purchases of $10,000 worth of Defeuse
Bonds each. They are: The Great
Lakes Mutual, Detroit; Golden
State Mutua] Life, Los Angeles;
United Mutual Benefit Association.
New York; Guaranty Life, Savannah; and Afro-American - Life,
~Jacksonville. Bleded

In Memphis the Negro Division
of the Defense Savings Committee
hay laid out for itself- the following five-point program (1) Canvass
all Negro business houses to explain~ the allotment = plan; (2)
~Buy-a-Bond~ Sunday; (3) _Speakers bureau te serve club and lodge

Negroes B uying
Defense Bonds

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~The American ~deat
ividually and through his organizations, is participating al:tively in the National Defense Savings Program,
according to information reaching the Treasury Department.

j meetings;

(4). School - parades: (5)
Distribution of posters and.placards, etc., by Negro Boy Scouts,

The Lichtman chain of Negro
theaters in Washington, D. C., has
inaugurated, the sale of Defense

Savings Stamps in their theater
lnphies, and a notice on the screen
asks patrons to take their change
in Defense Stamps.

Many business organizations,
caurehes and social clubs are actively interested in promoting the
sale of: Defense Bends and Stamps,
the reports show. In. addition,
Special "meetings designed to stimulate interest in. the Defense Savings Program have been a
in Cleveland, Columbus. anid Cincinnati, 'O., gee nc Ind.,
Braddock, Duthesh ~
Greensboro, fn C.. St. Louis, ie
St. ~Paul, Duluth and Minneapolis,
Minn.,- Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, Wash:, Portland, Ore., Stockton, Sacramento, Salinas, Venice,
Los Angeles and Pasadena, Calit.,
El] Paso, Tex., Pueblo and Denver,
Colo., and Omaha, Neb:

RELEASES LATE BOOK

NEW YORK ~(ANP)~ The Negro Publication Society of America
recently ~announced the publication
of ~The Kidnapped and the Ransomed,~ a true story of Peter Still
vor family, written by Kate Picka 7

The novel is a tragic ae of a
boy who was kidnapped, sold into

slavery and then ransomed after

forty years; and it is held to be

forerunner of inspiring works deal
ing with historical and cultural information of thé~ Négro people.

|Full. Tie 0PM
Field Man Need

Of Detroit Area-:

Suggestion Is
+ Labor Committee

DETROIT. Mich~(SNS) ~ To
awaken~ the Negfo workefs of ~this
city te ttie problems involved~ in
the scheduled lay-off of 100,000
men which has already begun in

~| plants here, the Labor and Indus
try Committee of the local branch
cf the NAACP held a conference
1o discuss ~the training, apprenticeship and employment of the Negro
ity defénse Industries in Michigan,
Saturday and ~Sunday, October~ 4
~and 5.

Out of the conference came a request. for a full-time Negro representative of the Office of
tion~ - Management ~to ~be omer

-| in~ Detroit:

It was complained that
could be no effective follow- of
FEPC investigations and other efforts to stop violations of the President~s Executive Order under the

representative has to cover three
statés~Ohio, ~ and a:

igan.

A number of outstanding vis
ers, iticluding Herace R.
~labor~ expert and newspaper colhmmnikt: Walter Hardin, International representative of the UAWCIC and Horace White ~cormmissioner of the Detroit~ Housing
Commission, acquainted the audi
titig job training and referrals,
union and plant procedure and the
work of the Office of Production
Management and the Fair Employment Practice ttee in connectioh. with ~em Oy ent ~.ef INegroes.

Aggie Graduates
=| LOOK Into This.

WASHINGTON; C~(ANP)~
Graduates of spn it he schools
would 46 well t. ok into the pos~sibilities of jobs With the government as junior soil conservationists, ~the s@lary~range of which-suns
frém ~$1.620 to $2,000: per annum.

Students or graduates versed in
agrcnomy, anitnal husbandry, and
agricultural ~ education, especially
young mien just finishing: ~college,
are needéd in this fieldi ~~ --~

~Examinations ~wily be ~held and
the~ applications are~ reveivable. until~ December 31.

' This Offers ome of the finest-.opportunities for ~trained persons ~that
have been presentéd receritly and
there is a Great need for* such~ persons.

Applications may be had by writing the Civil Service Commission
in~ Washington.

The Globe Trotter.

By Cliff Re |

HUNTING

ments they have yet advanced.

fof ~religious

rother~s eye.~

MACKAY
their frantic effort to
foreign policy which is based on keeping alive

THE REAL TRAGEDY

on-interventionists are now

3 galled God-deprived Russians. That, no, doubt, is
why President- Roosevelt spoke ou; so forcefully
on the issué at his press conferen

The President called attention to Article 124
in the Rassian constitution which not-only guar
entees. Sreedom of

step fu America~ s

dem of énti-xeligioud apg ES
-A virtual hornet~s nest. was stirred by the

sintemient. A cherus of. complaints from many
and ~non-interver- ~

American.clergymen followed

~tionists, happy in the: knowledge that they had

Another Smokescreen

EXCUSES to keep from helping
the valiant Russian forces to stem the sweeping
avalanche of Hitler~s hordes, America~s non-interventionists, whose~ ranks include the appeasers, the
fascist-minded and those down-right in love with
the ex-paperhanger~s ~new order~ plan of world
ccnquest, during the past week reached way down
to bring out one of, the most incongruous argu
They got cramps in their fingers pointing to
what they termed Russia~s lack
freedom,~ conven-iently forgetting Christ~s admoinition to ~firs; pluck the beam
ut of thine own eye, then~ thou
an see clearly the mote in thy

Of course, our non-interventionists are not really: seriously
interested in religious freedom,
For any of their other four freeEdoms of which President Roose_vélt has~spoken so forcefully. If
so they would not..now be cresting all of this confusion
stymie the government~s

these freedoms now being so seriously
by the Hitler-inspired world revolution.

The tragedy is that many unsuspecting per.
0% will fall victim to this bogus sympathy ~tn

ce.

~Christians.~ If:

You would

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threatened

Surprising
e for the so- pti that
che km

Article 123

jon and jim crow Statutes the
an scene.

rot even ~the~ non-ifi
~hollow mockery,~

thus hak! been ais to thant the carefully laid
plans of the would-be. world conqueror,

NONSENSICAL ARGUMENT.. i

Nonsensical is this plea that we ~not help Rus.
sia fight the Nazis ~because the Russians are. not

a bandit is holding a gun in your

face and another armed man appears, would you
keep your rescuer from shooting the bandit jong
cnough to ask him Whether or not he:
~freedém of religion~?
this catechism of the Russians.

believed in
Just. as: silly ia

be entirely too-gratefuly to ~your

Hardly.

rescuer for getting tha; gun out of ~your. face.

Too, before pointing so hard at Russia; ~it
might be well fer some of our re
to put: in everyday practice some ~of
principles they: so ardently profess.

It is no secret that the section of Am
that boasts the most churches, the most preacher
and the most ~Christians,~ i
also: boast~ the most bitter hatreds and.
blind intolerances.

One American churchman sneered at the Rus
sian constitutional provision, of religious freedom
as a ~hollow mockery,~ forgetting that the Russians
could justly snéer back at certain provisiont of
United States Constitution, say the 14th and 16th
amendments, as being: ~hollow mockeries:~..

_THESE ARE NOT MOCKERIES

It certainly could be argued tha, yon deat
ing provisions of the Russian

with racial issues are not ~moekeries,
ss ay oo and rigidly enforced.

vet the Christa

is the section

~ moat

Constitu

are re:
to most Americans wii be, the
Russia~ unqualifiedly yw perl

plague

of the Russian ~ Constitution: which
terventionists ca can~ argue isa, but goes one sr
~Fas spel ctohts of sMiewnanst te, &
pres ta" of ne
in of -co ~
ik ~ay gti.

~Any direct or i

fur
ther "served: to beclond -the issue, joined in the
Jefrain. ap ev aakae: That this religious issue was ~ smokescreen, -e
without edn oi toy past allowed by

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rights, ~or. conve~-+!-- any establishment of
ee re et ree ep

Strong words are. Bost

present plan where the ~present

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