Brownsville Weekly News

: ne. fore him at any moment and hold

| that-he would not. be able to iift,

_ leaving the kitchen door open be' hipd- him.--He stood in -the. dark
~ hetir ~the -bottom
_ todth: the ~concrete floer. He bent

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FLINT BROWNIES NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN.

_that his breathiing was as loud as

vpon his back and listened to the 4

> and~ ~ toward Bante: stomach.

A. & T. College honored Dr,

years on occasion of his 87th birthday with a special |
program, which was held in Harriscn auditorium _~ of Negro education.~
reek. jare: Dr. F. D. Bluford, president of the college, Dr.

Noble, and Professor Taylor.

The program was formed

veiling of 2 portrait of Dr. Noble by Professor H.

M. ~. 8. Noble,

around the un- |

Clinton Taylor, Director of Arts at the college, who

n.of the A. & T. board of trustees for od did the painting ~in appreciation of the interest Dr.
Noble has shown in the college and in advanc:m:nt

Reading from left to right

By RICHARD

NATIVE SON

WRIGHT

ba INSTALLMENT X

He turned her on her side in
his arms; he was breathing hard
and his body trembled. He eased
her~ down, --listening to the soft
rustle of her skirts. He pushed her
head into a corner, but her legs
were toc long and would not go in.

He thought he heard a noise and
straightened; it seemed to him

wind in a storm, He listened and
heard nothing. He had to get her
legs in! Bend her iegs at the knees
he ~thought. Yes,
more.. ~He bent them some more.
Sweat dripped frqm his chin onto
his ~hands. He doubled her knees
and pushed her completely | into
the. ~trunk. That much was done,
He eased the tcp down and
fumbled in the darkness for the
latch and heard it click loudly.
~He stood up and caught hold
of one of the handles - of the
trank and: pulled.. The trunk
wotild not-move. He was weak
and his hands were ~slippery
With sweat. He~.gritted his.
teeth and caught the - trunk
with both hands and pulled it.
téthe. door. He opened the: ~
door atid looked into: the hall;
it: was empty and silent. He
stood the trunk on end. and
carried his right hand*over his ~
left shoulder and stooped. and
catght the strap and lifted the
trunk to his back. Now, he
weuld have to stand up. He

strained;. the muscles of his
shoulders and legs ~ quivered
with effort, He rose, swaying,

biting his lips.

Putting cne foot carefully before
the other, he went down ~the hall,
dewn the stairs, then through another hall to the kitchen and paused, His back ached and the strap
cut inte his palm like fire. The
trunk seemed to weigh a ton. He
expected the white blur to step be
out its hand and touch the trunk
and demand to" Inow what ~was in
ite

He wanted to rat the trunk
down.and rest; but he was afraid

it again. He walked-~across the
kitehen floor; down the _ steps,

ered basement: with the trunk.
roaring draft of the furnace and
sag%.the coals burning red ~through
the cracks. He stooped, waiting to
ef the trunk

mére and.rested on one kree. His
hand, seared: with fire, slipped
f.the strap and the trunk hit
the~floor with ~a loud clatter. He
heht. forward and squeezed his

fiery.. pain.

~He~ stared at dine furnace: He
~trembled with another _ idea.
He-he ~could, he-he could put
her, he could put her in the
furnace. -He- would burn her!
That~ was the safest thing of
all to do. He. went to the furwee~ and- opened the door; A. Fuge. red bed. of coals blazed |
end quivered _ with molten
fury. t
He opened the trunk. ~She was

as he had put her; ~her head buried
in: one ~eorner and her knees bent

almost. A little |

He jwould have to lift her again.
He stooped and caught her shoulders and lifted her in his arms. He
went to the door of the furnace
and paused. The fire seethed.

Ought he to put her in head or

feet first? Because he was tired
and scared, and because her feet
were nearer, he pushed her in feet

first. The heat blasted his hands. 4

He had all but her shoulders
in He looked into the furnace;
her clothes were ablaze and
smoke was filling the interior
so that he could scarcely see.
The draft roared upward, Groning in his ears. He gripped.
her shoulders and pushed hard
but the body would not go any
further, He tried again, but her
head- still remained out. Now.
He wanted to strike something

with his fist. What could he do?
He stepped back.and looked.

A noise made him whirl; ~two
green burning pools-pocls of accusation and guilt~stared at him
from a white. blur that sat perched
upon the edge of the -trunk. His

| mouth: opened in ~a silent scream

and.his body became hotly paralyzed. It was the white cat and its
round green eyes gazed past him
at the white face hanging limply
from gthe fiery furnace door. God!
He closed his mouth and swallow~
ed. Should~ he catch the cat and
kill it and put it in the furnace,
too? He made a move. The cat
stood up; its white fur bristled;
its bac karched. He tried to grab
it-and it bounded past him with a
long wail of fear and scampered
up the steps and through the door
and out of sight. Oh! He had left
the kitchen door open. That was
it.sHe closed the door and _ stood
again before the furnace, thinking. Cats can~t taik...:

He got his knife from his pocket
end opened it and stood by the
furnace, looking at Mary~s throat!
Ceuld he do it? He had to Would
there be- blood? Oh, Lord He looked rovnd with a haunted and
pleading look in his eyes. He saw
a pile of old. newspapers stacked
carefully in a corner. He got a
thick wad cf them and held them
under the head. He touched the
sharp blade to the throat, just
tcuched it, as if expecting the
knife te cut the flesh of itself as
if he did not have to put pressure
behind it Wistfully, he gazed at the
edge of the blade resting on the
skin; and gleaming mental! reflected the trethulous fury of the coals
Yes; he had to. Gently, he sawed
the ~blade into the flesh and struck
a-bone. He gritted his teeth and
cut harder. As yet there was no
bleod anywhere but on the knife.
But the bone made _ it difficult.
Sweat crawled down his back.
Then blood crept onward in widening circles of pink on the newspapers, spreading quickly now.
He whacked at the bone with the
knife. The head hung limply on
the newspapers, the curly _ black
hait- dragging about- in blicod. He
whacked harder, but the head

4 Would not come. eff.

He paused, hysterical. He want
ed to fun from the basement and}

go as far as possible from the

~| sight of this bloody throat. But he
1 sould not. He must not. He had to

burn this girl. With eyes glazed,
with nerves tingling with excitement, he looked about the basement. He saw a hatchét. Yes! That
would do it. He spread a neat layer
of newspapers beneath the head,
at a slanting angle with his left
hand and, after pausing in an attitude of prayer, sent the blade of
the hatchet into the bone of the
throat with all the strength of his

Money Back If This Rheumatic Recipe ais:
- { the thou
body. The head rolled off.

He was not crying but his
lips were trembling and his
chest was heavirig. He wanted
to lie down upon the floor and
sleep off the horror of this
thing But he had to get out
of here. Quickly, he wrapped
the head in the newsPapers

_and used the wad to push the
blocdy trunk of the body deeper into the farnace. Then he
shoved the head in. ie haichet
went next.

Would there~ be coal enough to
burn the body? No one would
come down here before ten o~clock
in the morning, maybe. He looked
at his watch. It was four o~clock.
He got another piece of paper and
wiped his knife with it. He put
the paper into the furnace and
the knife into his pocket. He pulled. the~ lever, and coal rattled
against the sides of the tin chute
and he saw the whole furnace
hlaze and the draft roared still
louder. When the body was covered. with coal, he pushed the lever
back: Now!

Then, abruptly, he stepped back
from the furnace and looked at it,
his mouth open. Hell! Folks~d
smell it! There would be an odor
and someone would look in the
furnace. Aimlessly, his eyes search.
ac the basement. There! That

ought todo it! He saw the smutty

tlades cf an electric exhaust fan
high up in the wall of the basement, back of~the furnace. He
found the switch and threw it.
There was a quick whir, then a
hum. Things would be all right
now; the exhaust fan would Suck
the air out of the basement ~ and
there would be on scent.

He shut the trunk and pushed it
into a corner. In the morning he
would take it to the station. He
looked around to see if- he.had
left anything that would betray
him; he. saw nothing.

He went out of the back. door; a few fine flakes of snow
were floating down, It had
grown colder. The car was still
in the driveway. Yes, he would

Jeave it there.

oan and Mary were sitting in the

car, kissing. They said, Good night,
Bigger. And he said, Gocd
night... And he touched his hand

to his cap...

As he passed the car he saw the
door was still open. Mary's: purse
was on the flocr. He took it and
closed the door. Naw! Leave it
open; he opened it and went on
down the driveway.

The streets were empty and
silent. The wird chilled his ~wet
body. He tucked the purse under
his arm and walked. Whav would
happen now? Ought he to run
away? He stopped at a _ street
corne: and lecked into the purse.
There was a thick roll of bills; tens
and twenties.. Good! He would
wait antil morning to decide what
to do. He was tried and sleepy.

He hurried home and ran
up the steps and went on tiptoe into the roon. His mother
and brother and sister breathed
regularly in sleep. He began to
undress, thinking, I'll tell ~em
I left her with Jan in the car
after I took the trunk down in
the basement, In the morning

_ Vl take the trunk to the sta~tion, like she told me...

He felt. something heavy sagging
in his shirt; it was the gun. He
took it out; it was warm and wet.
He shoved it under the pillow.

They can~t say I did it. If they
do, they can~t prove it.

He eased the covers of the bed
back and slipped beneath them

Resolution Of

City Council

Looms As Bar

Allowed to Enroll
After Suit Filed
By Gaffney Woman

COLUMBIA, S. C~(SNS)~Nesroes are enrolling to vote in the
Democratic primary
resclution passed by the City
Democratic executive committee
mey sucecssfully prevent them
~from - exercising their right of
franchise. But unless Negroes are
allowed to vote in the Democratic
primary, the NAACP said, this
~yeek, legal action will be instituted.

The action by city officials permitting #Negroes to enroll is direct
result of the suit filed by Mrs.
Tortie P. Gaffney of Gaffney, 5.
C. and three others because -election judges refused to allow them
to register for the 1940 presidential
primary the NAACP stated.

he resolution passed by the city
Democratic executive commitiee
on January 22 shortly before the
trial in the Gaffney case occurred
states: ~Every Negro applying to
vote in the city Democratic
primary mustbe known to have
voted the Democratic ticket continuously since 1876.~

According to that, a Negro muistbe at least 87 years old and must.
have voted the Democratic ticket
for the last 66 years to be eligible
now. City officials are quoted as
saying that enrollment clerks have
been instructed to allow Negroes
to enroll, but that qualifications
for voting in the primaries must
be met before they can vote.

The Columbia branch NAACP
has already succeeded in getting

50. pérsons to enrol and is aiming
at-a top figure of 500.

Essay Judges.
Are Selected: NEW YORK ~(SNS) Mrs.
Jessie Fauset Harris, writer and
former literary editor of the Crisis
and Lewis Gannett, book editor of
the New York Herald Tribune, will
be the judges for the second annual NAACP youth essay contest.

The contest, which began February 15 will end April 1..The subject
is, ~What Democracy Means To
Me.~ There are two sets of prizes,
one for high school students and
one for college students. All prizes
will be U. S. defense bonds and in
denominations of $100, $50 and $25.

Jesse Owens,
Noted Track Star

By MACEO HILL

COLUMBUS, Ohio~(S N 8S)~
Rumor that Jesse Owens~ marriage
is headed for the rocks was spiked here Monday.

An investigation revealed that a
divorce petiticn filed here carried
the names of Jesse and Ruth
Owens, but not the famous Jesse
and his wife.

Owens~ track events several years
back brought him _ international
fame. He and his wife make their
home here, but at present the cinder path star is in Washington
where he is serving as national
director of activities for Negroes,
Office of. Civilian Defense.

and stretched out beside Buddy; in
five minutes he was sound asleep.
(To Be Continued)

here, but a |
No Divorce For |

Negroes Must Be 8
To Vote In Columbia

+ In Chaplain School

Chaplain Robert Johnson
Smith, who has just been assigned to active duty at the ~Chaplain~s School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He is the first Negro to be assigned to this recently activated chaplain~s school. He
is a graduate of Morehouse College, 1937, and of Andover New~
ton Theological Seminary, Mass.
In civilian life the is the minister
of the Calvary Baptist Church,
Haverhill, Mass. }

Man Loses Life

In House Blaze

VALDOSTA, Ga. ~ (SNS) ~
Believed to have died of suffoca- |
tion, the: body of Sam Marshall,
turpentine farm worker, was
found behind a door early Sunday
morning by firemen who were
| caled to the ~. to fight a
4 blaze.

Marshall~s family znd three
other families. fled from the blazing house unharmed. Firemen
reasoned that the victim was
trapped by fire and smoke.

Clothes on his body were not)

burned.

Sailor Killed In
Action At Sea

LILLINGTON, N. C.,~ (ANP) ~
The Navy Department notified Oscar Davis here Tuesday that his 30 -year-old son, Chester Davis, hat
been lost at sea. According to the
report the victin> was a mess attendant aboard the destroyer Jacob
Jones. which was torpedoed by an
enemy submarine off Cape May, N

J., early February 28, with a loss in

excess of 100 lives.

Davis, who had been in the navy
for seven years, spent the entire
time as a member of the crew of
the ill-fated destroyer. At the time

Says Fair Play
|Would Wipe Out
ms Fear Of Loyalty

| white people of this section have
| no resson to fear the loyalty of the
} Negroes, if they only play fair and
| | practice true democracy is the asM\sertion of U. S. Falls, regional vice| president of the National Negro
| Business League, following reports
jin the St. Louis-Post Dispatch con| cerning an investigation of the Pa
| World, which, at one time, enjoyed
4 much: popularity here.

~| states,

| we are individually qualified to fill,

- Race Not Fooled |
By Japanese Bids,
Asserts Falls:

ST. LOUIS ~(SNS). ~ That the

cific Movement of the Eastern

~The Pacific Movement,~ Falls
~has been a nightmare to
our leaders -for years, even when it
was first organized and its objectives determined. We stamped it as
a money scheme to swindle innocent Negroes out of their earnings
and did. not endorse it our Business
League and further discouraged it
among our people.~

BID TURNED DOWN

Falls recalls that request by leaders of the Pacific Movement to address the League meetings in 1932
were turned down~ as the members
of the local branch of the NNBL
were sure that the Pacific Movement no merit their support.

~It is the general opinion among
business leaders, here and throughout the nation, ~Falls. continued,
~that the Negro will remain loyal to
this government and will fight for
Democracy at home as_ well as
throughout the world. The 13,000,000
American Negroes know Japan is an
Axis partner. We do not believe in
the doctrine advecated by the Italian government, neither can we forget the statement that the black
people were the common enemies of
the Italians ~at ~the time ~ of ~the
Ethiopian invasion.~

~America will have no fear of thé
Negro turning traitor if the true
principles of Democracy are applied
to us every other minority group.
Give us the opportunity to earn, to
fight in all branches of military
service and fill military posts that

protect our homes from mob violence with strong legislation and accord us the rights guaranteed by the
Constitution of this nation. We
stand willing and ready to do our
work,~

Falls, who has served with the]
famed Ninth Calvary, has been active in the Business League affairs
for many years, having served as organizer, secretary and president,
~prior to his-elevation- to thé regional
post. He was a pioneer in the NNBL

of his death, he was receiving $112
monthly, $25 of which was allotted
to his father. oo

movement, along with the late
Booker T. Washington.,

Says Influence Of White.
~Race Definitely Waning

NEW YORK~(C)~Pearl As)
Buck novelist and President of the
East and West association, predicted in an address before that
group this week at the WadlorfAstoria that the white race would
never again be dominant in the
same way that it has been. jn the }
past. She said~ the old order is
passing upon ~the ~inexorable re--,
turns of injustice and: denial of
freedom.~

~Those who wage this war for
freedom,~ she continued, ~~~~must
have the. widest possible under
standiag of what freedom~ means,
or it will be lost however the armies:

win it, Sooner or later there will
be war again and war and war
again, unless this one issue of
freedom for all is put into the
bedrock of human life, as essential as bread and air and water.
| So long as it.~is avcside issue, or

only a slogan, jt is riothing at all,
and what we are fighting for in
this war is the same old sickening
inadequacy of a few dominant powerful people and all the rest unsatisfied and rebellious and brooding the next war before the ink is
is dry on the ee

~a?

ADDIS ABABA~(C)~Emperor Haile ~Selassie of Ethiopia,
has offered the services of one of his sons and a brigade of his troops.
~to fight in the field along side the armies of the British Empire.~

BY PROF. ABBE WALL

IN THE SHADOW

OF THE STARS

ACE

E: D. ~I get lots of pleasure in
reading your column. Please tell me
if I will get the. chance to move to
the. home my sister left me at her
death? I want to know how to
write for a private answer too?.Ans: Before you can move you
must get with your two brothers
and all three of you come to a
definite decision about the place. -.it was left to you and

All three of you, with:
won~t be able to live there together,

in selling you their share
of the place.... else you are going
to have to give up the idea of living there altogether. Yes you may

j send for an Astrology Reading. The

price is 25c. Be sure to send your
name, birthdate and a self addressed stamped _ envelope for a private reply.

P. P. C~My wife is nice in her
way but I find myself not satisfied
She is one of the biggest liars I~ve
ever known and sticks to it. too. As
long as I was drinking hard it was
okey but since I have stopped
drinking I have time to realize and
see things as they are. There are
things that have happened that if
she knew about, she would break
the jail down with me. Please tell
me what to do?

Ans: Ever since yey and she
have been married both of you have.
failed to place confidence. in one
another. There is no way ~to live
happily together if you don~t pull
together and share alike. Sit down

and find out how she feels about
continuing on. do your part toward bringing about a. complete
change in your home life. You, as
well as your wife must learn to be
honest. ie

E. S~I am a student in a certain
college and I am very poor in one
of my subjects which is Algebra. 1
am in need of your advice and I
wish to know what I could do in
order to pass my- course as I would

Aad Gon bo |

Find out if the boys will be in- | muck

and talk things over with your boat |

Rate _to_ fail as I_am_ putting out

t00 much money to go to school?

Ans: It will be necessary for you,
to receive some extra

Speak to seme of the stusésee Ee
your class who are further advanepaemegen thelr help arrange sm
genra al as

pay ~féé for this

think I should. He doesn~t think
dnvehier: Goad T teaey of say
aughter. 0~ or:
with my father? 4

Ans: A marriage right now would

|
el

you a few.more months toe think.
this matter over. He sure is crazy.
abeut you and I don~t think it will
take any_ ~~ on your part

against
boy, but he does you should te.. ~ older - before getting mar-.

|

P. H. D~We have been married
for 3 years and I love my husband,
Does he love me and his baby? He
seems to think someone is trying Si
harm him and what, could it be? |

Ans: Go to your husband and ask~
that he come home to you and the
baby. He loves you....

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Sigs your aus mama, boise ak

peace.~

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JIVE GRAY

~ RESUME
The Stery te Dete

The Liberator, a roce publication,: wants information that calls for daring. The Boss calls on its crack
the assignment, Jive Gray seeks his
side kick; ~Chick~. Off they stort for

Pal

all the time. They toke 6 plane, with
Jive Gray at tke controls. He opens

the throttle and the slick monoplone by the seat of his ponts yelling,
\ dives into the wind. The plone sud- ~Come on, Jive, get me out of this
denly crashed into the trees, bring- gol~ dumed tree.~ A bit discomfined
ing its nose deep into the hard Chick blames Jive for his ideo of o

wreck burst into flames. First thought ~ have to fly out.~ Chick soid, ~The
was to get Chick out of the flames. next time 1 do any flying will be

He heard a noise like someone call
ing. As he looked eriend thre wits
Chick, hanging to a limb of the tree

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