Brownsville Weekly News

Flint Brownies

VOLUME ~~ NUMBER

FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1942

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Cam Leaders~
Appeal Ignored
By Government

Urgent Request
- Signed By
27 Persons

NEW YORK~(S N S)~TwentySeven leaders who signed an urgent. appeal to President, Rooseyvelt to stop fascist tactics from being applied tc colored Americans
in this country, have so far received only a brief acknowledgement of the receipt of thei; cémmunication from Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, to whom it
was referred The letter, which asked the President to call a conference to integrate Negroes into
America~s -war effort, was sent
February 5....more than. gq month
ago.

Among the signers are Claude A.
Barnett, director of the Associated
Negro Press; Mary McLeod Bethune, Lester B. Granger, executive secretary of the National Urban League; A. Philip Randolph,
Channing H,. Tobias of the National YMCA, and L. F. Ford of
_ the National ~Alliance of Postal
~Employees: D. V. Jemison, D.D.,
~president of the National Baptist
Convention, USA, Inc.; Rev. John
A. Gregg,: presiding Bishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church;
Rayford Logan, president, Alpha
Phj Alpha Fraternity; J. E.
Walker, MD.,. president, National
Negro Business League; and J.
Finley Wilson, Grand- Exalted Ruler of the IBPOE of W.

The appeal stated that =~ aes
act of rnsnnae by.

ing asked to give of theif subStance and~ to make every sacrifice, without at the same time be
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Flint Children Need
More Camp Life

FLINT, Michigan~There are
those who fight everything anybody
proposes that is for the betterment
of our general good. There are those

_ Who oppose every move anxious,

well meaning citizens attempt to
do here for mass benefit. How stupid! How ignorant!. How selfish!
There is nothing progressive in
that sort of people. They comment
that a camp built for use by the
Colored children will be segragation
You have a Clifford street center
and a St. John St. Center. Are they
not segregated centers?

Your churches are not operated by
white people. Your lodges are not.
Your.present camping _ privileges
~are not attended by white children.
White people condescend to allow
your children a brief stay in
their camps for a price. Your time
is limited. The I. M.-A. Park at
Potters Lake is let to you only
about ten hours per year. White
people do not attend your outings
there.

Would it be worst if you owned a
camp of your own, making? Would
it not give you initiative and self
reliance and manly appreciation to
be able to create something that
will bring credit to your citizenship
in this community?

Maybe you. just swear against pro
gressive moves only because you.

have. a pet project which
decided limitations; confining it
to your own selfish: and. meagre
ability to carry on. Most of you
kickers are simply small minded
Goons. Look around in this community and see if you can see
anything commendable that ~you

have been a party to help establish.
- Flint Colored citizens now _have
a chance to raise sufficient finance
to build a camp for themselves
Camps are private institutions, and
therefore do not come under the

ik the war offott Negidka ~ate ~be
~

Evidence Insufficient Says Grand Jary In ~
Refusing To Indict Sikeston, Mo. Lynchers

rolled in the sahoilacy pilot's course at the Coffey
Schoo] of Aeronautics, Chicago. Attractive and capable Willa B. Brown, instructor at the Coffey Schoo]
and the America~s ace Negro aviatrix, points out. details o~ a flight formation to the Hampton lads.

bts

Car} &. Johnson, Charlottesv
Smallwood, ~Hempstead, N. YY. All of the slate

completed the Civilian Pilot Training program at
Hampton Institute before going to Chicago.

A Lady Shows The Lads How It~s Done

(Hampton Institute Phote)

Harlem's

NEW. YORK~(C)~Robert Oo
Jordan, forty-one year old British
West. Indies Negro who has conducted a militant pro-Nazi campaign in ~Harlem in the last ~twe
years under the banner of his
Ethiopian-Pacific League, was

Notice

COMMUNITY CAMP ASSOCTATION SPONSORS THE MILLS
BROTHERS ~

FLINT ~ The Mills brothers will
appear next week in concert for
the benefit of the Community
Camp Fund. Hand Bills will be out
to tell the place where. The affair will be on ~the night of March
25, at 8 o~clock P.M. Advance tickets will be on sale at Elders Market St..John St., Dolls Beauty Shop,
Al's shoeshine parlor, and at ~
side Confectionery.

Everyoody will want to see these
Sine original entertainers in person. Watch fcr the hand bills this
weekend.

HERE IS AN
EYE-OPENER.

FLINT. Mich.~The following resolution and demand coming from
the authorities of the CIO, is reprinted to show how the Flint Citizens~ Mass meeting had effect. The
following resolution had been held
in the files of the offices of. the
locals here until this week, altho
they have had it for some time
We are happy to present the following; and want to remind you that
that meeting Sunday afternoon;?
March 8th, will long be remembered. Several resolutions were adopted.
Among them were the following.
An F. E. P. C.. committee to be
established in Flint, the other was
the correcting of the Sojourner
Truth: Housing controversy in Detroit. Altho this was a racial meeting, our duty Mette il the National

~Nazi Convicted:

Failed to Let,
FBI Know When He
Changed Address

convicted by a jury in the United
States District Court of violating
the alien registration act of 1940

In. the first prosecution under
the act here Jordan was found
guilty of failing to notify the
Commissioner of Immigration, and
Naturalization of three specific occasions of a change of address. He
will. be sentenced by Judge Edward
A. Conger and faces a maximum
term of ninety days and $300 fine.

Jordan, known to many Negroes
as the ~Harlem Nazi~ preaching to
his followers a ~new order~ patterned on economic security to be

found in an African empire, admit- |

ted on the witness stand at the
brief trial that he had violated the
régistration rules.

He registered under the act at
272 Manhattan Avenue. Last July
5th, he moved to 28 West 120th

St. On August 25, he moved to 5)

Mt. Morris Park and on Dec. 8,
he moved again, this time to 63
West 119th Street.

~ Agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, as well:as the city
police, were observing his actions
during this period and were attending Sunday night meetings of his
league at 113 Lenox Avenue. On

Feb. 17, the FBI arrested, him. He |.

was sent first to Ellis Island and
then to the Federal House of Detention, 427 West Street, where, unable to raise $500 bail, he remained
until March 9. He is- in his cell
now. os

In his speeches at Ethiopian- |
Pacific League meetings, as ~well as
on street corners, Jordan has mad~
no bones about his liking for Hitler. A famous climax to his oratory

Had Preached ~New Order~: fine job it has done for China in

bringing to the Chinese new culture, new life and new opportunities. Japan is the cultural center of
the world. I know because I have
lived there for four years. They
love Negroes and want to help

them. Hitler is opening the gate to.

let us be free. He is our friend.
There is no discrimination. in
Germany. Heil Hitler. I want you
mothers to write to your sons in
camp and tell them that when they
meet the Japs, to use their discretion.~

Named To Dep't
Of Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~Dr. F. D. Patterson, |

president of Tuskegee Institute, and Claude A. Barnett, director of Associated Negro Press, have been named special

assistants to the Secretary. of Agriculture.

The announce
ment of the appointments was made Saturday we Secretary

Claude R. Wickard.

Governor Silent
On Possible

Action By FBI

Judge Charges
Jurors To Be
~Fair And Honest~~

JEFFERSON CITY ~ Mo~

| (ANP)-~The report of a special.

vened a nton, ~Mo

gate the lynching of Cleo Wright.
cotton mill workers by~ a.mob at
Sikeston, Mo., January 25, was
made here last week to Circuit
Judge J. C. McDewell, stating that
it found insufficient evidence to
return a true Dill.

Read by the jury foremen, R. H.
Mackley, merchant - farmer of
Blodgett, Mo.. in the presence of
ahout 50 spectators, the report
stated, ~We, the grand jury, find
insufficient evidence to <veturn a
true bill in the matter of mob -activity at Sikeston; ~January 28,

~1942.

OFFICERS COMPLIMENTED

~We desire to compliment the
state highway patrol and county
officials for theit work in cornection with mob action.~

Judge McDowell. accepted the
report. without comment, and Gov.
Foirest C. Donnell refused to comment on the action of the jury until he conferred with Assi, Atty.
General Harry Kay, who aided in
the inquiry. The governor said hz
would talk with Kay as soon as

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Dr. Patterson and Mr. Barnett
-will serve the Secretary as conSultants and advisors on importanti problems affecting. Negro farmers and their part in the wer effort. One of their special functions
will be to help insure the integration and full participation of Negro farmers in: the food-for-freedom campaign.

FIRST IN HISTORY ~

The appointments of Mr. Barnett
and Doctor Patterson mark the first
time that members of ~the race
have been named assistants to the

Secretary of Agriculture. In. setting this precedent, Secretary Wick
ard makes Agriculture the third
Executive Branch of the Government.to place dees Americans in

dates back snveral: ~years and stems,

I. feel, from a genuine -desire to

help improve conditions on the
farm for thousands of your people.
In the position which I/am asking you to accept, you will, I believe, be able to. make a fine contribution to the general welfare of
Negro farmers. And in your current war effort your work of help~ing to promote the full participation of Negro farmers in the foodfor-freedom campaign will mean
for them a better diet and better
health.

~Now, a8 always, I feel that Negroes, both on the farm and in our
cities and towns are ready to do
their full share. I have no doubts
of their loyalty and devotion. But,
like all our people, their energies
must be implemented and directed
so that they may do the things
which count most toward final
victory. You can help lend that
direction, as well as aid/ my office
in devising ways and means of
giving Negro farmers the|most adequate assistance in their drive to
produce food for a wartime econ~omy. The Department stands ready

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TheChampAndTheRunner- upGetTogether

fled yweight Coemin: Private dee Louis ofa,
~United: States Army is pleturea here as he hi
with Wendell Willkie during the Navy Relief at] s
| Madison Square Garden. ~he show was held. ~ help } v
so ae es 70. Ab

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en~ s fine clothing,

Mrs. Rozetta Neal, charming wife of Eddie Neal, wha ie in. the
trucking business at West Memphis, is another renee West ~
is the fastest growing town in Eastern Arkansas,
Mrs,~ Neal is leaving in.a few weeks for Chicago to complete her
course in dress designing at Boone Clothing, Inc., eA in wom

ss growing pe
Truth Housing project broke

tear gas.

- On the same day, U. S. Dist. Attorney John C. Lehr announced
that evidence of a reported conspiracy to deprive citizens of their
constitutional rights in the housing
project was) being laid before a
federal grand jury at the request of
U: S. Attorney General Francis Biddle. The inquiry was Iaunched after
Biddle charged that a conspiracy
existed to prevent Negro lessees
from moving into the homes, a government backed project of the Detroit Housing commission.
The riot Tuesday began when
anti-Negro, group, was taken into
custody. He was released Wednesday following questioning by autho
Information On
All Civilian
Defense Matters

News readers may have the opportunity of getting first hand infor
ah defense at this office.

The United States Governmert
has sent literature on every phase
of the Civilian Defense questior
to us of the Flint-Brownies News
Staff. Any organization or club may
borrow a copy at a time for discussion in their meetings if they so
desire.

lows:
tection;

gency Medical field Units.

The Defense program: Haad~ book
for - -speakers; Hand book for Road
repair Crews: Hand book fcr demolition and Clearance Crews; CiVilian Air Patrol; Glass ani Glass

when more than 300 white pickets took exception to the are
rest of one of their number. The flare up_ was quickly quelled by 30 policemen stationed at baa project by the use of

Joseph Buffa, ring leader of the

Flint, Mich~Flint Brownics |

mation on things relating to civili-'

The subjects treated are as fo!Training courses for civilian Pro-;

Equipment and operation of emer-:

Negroes from occupying the $1,000,000

out here: last:: Tuseday ni

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Tities. Hoey

asic WOMEN *
The mob ye i ~of

women and but no legroes

were involved in the clash. Quiet

was restored late

but. pickets

cupy it.~.
According to aeicaences

families Sciiedoled: | to.

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on February 28, but early |

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