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Volume 2- No. 5

Phone CE 8-6688

Flint, Michigan, patunday, October 15, 1955

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PRETTY STUDENT NURSE AT HURLEY HOSPITAL

~Miss Sharon R. Wilson, 20, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert T. Wilson, 2021 Dwight. Miss Wilson is in-her third year
at Hurley -Hospital and is classified as a senior nurse. She is a

- June, 1953, Flint Central- High School graduate. Her church
membership is held at Mount Olive Baptist Church. She quickly
named fishing apd traveling as her favorite pastimes. |

When'asked how was she attracted to the nursing profession,
Miss Wilson explained that her mother~s influence ad much to
do with it, as her mother~s ambition was to be a nurse.

Upon ~graduation, Miss Wilson will have had the benefit of ~
training in a field which is to her liking - psychiatric nursing.
She stated that she has been to Pontiac for three months, (ahem,

~for professional training that is).

In February, 1956, she will enter

The Herman Kiefer Hospital in Detroit for six to seven weeks of
more training. Her friends wish. her ~ success in her nursing

-career,

Urban League Seeks Negro
Pilots On Comm. Airlines.. Wages All-Out Fight To End
| Dscrimination
New |York ~City The Urban
League~ of; Greater New York has

announced the start of ~Opera+

tion Wings,~ and all-cut campaign
to break down. discrimination in
flight positions by the |nation~s
major arlines.
Recruits, highly qualified
personnel

The league president, Mrs.
Sophia} Y, Jacobs, revealed that
the organization, for the past few
months,. has. been~ recruiting
highly. qualified Negro pilots, copilots, navyigators,. flight |engineers, flight radio operators, stewards and stewardesses in anticipation of a- break in the discriminatory hiring practices.

Non-diserimination Centract -

[ ~Clause *.

The President~s Committee on
Government ~ Cantracts has | authorizéd ia subcommittee to meet
with transportation and union
representatives | to explain, the
governineyt~s: determination that, a clause be included in all.con| tracts.

No maior
in any flight capacity, although
some airlines: recently began hiring Negroes in such capacities as

~ticket. sales, ramp agents and
some other public contact and
white-collar positions.

| More Qualified |
A league official stated that
the group~ has recéived and screened new, mg wien for Fant

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~authorities

airline hires Negroes | ~

positions and that there are at
least one hundred Negro applicants who are believed qualified
for the several flight jobs.

~We have applications from
scores of Negro pilots, for instance with flying time ranging
up to 11,000 hours with every
type plane being used -by commercial airlimes today.~ said T.
W:; -Kheel, chairman of the

'leaque~s airlines committee.

Must Act or Lose Millions of
Dollars
Mrs. Jacobs~ said: ~The fact
that the government up to now
has not insisted on the non-discrimination clause in ~contracts

with the airlines apparently con
vinced the companies that federal
sanctioned discrimination.~

~As late as last week, the vice
president of one major ~ airline
repeated to league representatives
statements made by.his president,
that the company was~
prenared~ to. hire Negroes in
flight canacities.

~The forthright position.of the
President~s Committee
-onvinee the airlines that they
must act in good faith, and that
it is futile to try -to hold back
progress.~

~Tf the airlines continue to refuse to hire well-qualified Negroes for~flight ~positions, thev
must face the fact that they: will
lose millions. of dollars yearly in
federal contrr ts,~ Mrs. Jacobs
concluded.

~Emmett Louis Till,

~Tout that Mississippi has ~

~that! can be done to their

~not yet:

should |

NAACP Ask
Occupation of Miss.
To Curb Terror

Phicagp ~ The Chicago Branch
of the l~ational Association For
the. Advancement of -Colored
People called on the federal government to~ occupy Mississippi
with federal troops to halt what

it termed. ~the wave of terror,
intimidation and lynching of
Negroes~ in the state.

~The résolution was passed at
a special. meeting of the Executive Committee. of the Chicago
NAACP Friday, October 7, as an
outgrowth of the murder of
14-year-old
Chicago Negro lad in Mississippi.

The American. Civil Liberties
Union, at the same time, issued a
statement in which it said that
America cannot be called ~a true
~démocracy~ until Coygstitutional
guarantees are accorded all cit
izens, regardiess of race or
color.
The ACLU noted that two

white men charged with the mur
jder were acquitted by an_ all
white jury.

The Chicago NAACP pointed
~a long
history and record of state-condoned disregard~ for democratic
principles.:

It added: ~These charges weigh
heavily against the state~s right
to sovereignty~ among the states
of this union.~

Two Sumner, Mississippi white
men, Roy Bryant, 24,
halfbrother, J. WW, Milam, 36 acquitted of young ~Till~s murder
after the Chicago boy allegedly
wolf whistled at Bryant~s wife.

Hints On Home

Improvements

By Herman Marshall, Sales
Engineer-Eagle Modernization Co.

This column is written as; a

} public service to the many people

who are faced with cramped
living space ih their homes. It
is not intended as a ~commercial~
for: my company, but rather as a
public ~service.

My- experience with home modernization has convinced me that
many people are either unaware
of the potential
home

or they are fearful that the cost

~might be too high.

THere~ are several companies
here in Flint that are in the busines$ of h6me modernization, con
~sequently you may rest assured

that/prices will not-be out of line
because of competition. To the
average layman, there is much
Space going to waste simply because he has his mind on-other
problems and cannot ~see~ what
his eres has to offer.

Negroes, ~ unfortunately,
victims of an acute housing shortage. Their need for more -room
constantly changes as the children
grow older or when. they
one! or two of their parents weit
the home.

There are many satisfied customers who have converted/ a
seemingly unuseful attic~ info a

~nic@ income producing apartment.

The cost ~an usually be absorbed
in 4 matter of months.and thereby giving the owner the bepefit
of meagre space and income.
Then, too, the additional living
quarters can be a-booh to people
coming to Flint in dire need~ of
rooms,

We at the Eagle Modernization
invite you to ~call~ us and obtain
estimates, We'll see you next
week, ee

Diggs Coming To ~Till Protest~

Rally

Flint NAACP Branch Calls For Mass Turn-out.

Citizens Still Disturbed. Mothers Demand Action

FLINT ~ In a statement to The Bronze Reporter, Leo A.
Greene, chairman of the Protest Committee, said,
being developed for one of the biggest mass meetings ever to be
We want to impress upon every
citizen, Negro and white, to take a stand against these barbaric
practices which are common in the South. Come to the Rally ~
your presence and support are needed. America will not and }
cannot. permit the TILL; CASE DECISION to pass by without

held by Negroes in Flint.

protesting.

and his:

improvement

are | ~

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Mothers Are Fearful

Atty. Herman Gibson, branch president, Said, ~It is fastastichow quickly mothers have sensed that their children would be
in constant jeopardy whenever they have occasion to return
~home~. They urge that anything and bal br mgige be done to see

_to it that this sort of thing: never happens again.~

Letter From. Diggs

In a letter to: ~Atty. Gibson, Congressman: Diggs said in part,
~Please express my humble gratitude to your members and tell
~them that I will be happy to attend at that time,~
Diggs was an observer at! the now infamous t~ial of the Till Murder defendants. He wall be the principal speaker.

~Plans are

Congressman

~Freedom Fight~ |
Funds Pours Into |
N.A.A.C.P Hatrs.:

New |York City ~ After chai |

acquittal of two men--of;) murdering Emmett Till, many persons and organizations have sent
contributions to strengthen. the
NAACP in its work in Mississippi
and elsewhere.

Hundreds of people have sent
messages or telephoned offering

their help in the fight: |

Concord Baptist churech of
Brooklyn topped the list of ~ash
donations with an amount. of
$1,000. A donation of $100, ~which
was part of his savings, was
broyght in personally by a' white
man associated with a natipnal
broadcasting company.

A tvpical message accompany:
ing the contributions was as follows: ~Enclosed you will find a
postal money order of _!_| to
help carry on this fight for freedom throughout the U.S.) A. so
that~my child and future children
would enjoy the rights of all the

people. a wish success} inj your
mission.~ |

Atlanta: White Man
Gets Life Sentence For
Slaying Negro Porter

Atlanta, Ga, ~ A 48-year old

white man was sentenced to life ~

in prison for slaying a 52-year
old Negro red cap in a crowded
bus station last June 14. Sentence
was pronounced on Carl Jackson
Rogers after a number of wit
nesses explained how Rogers took -

the life of Fleming Lee.

Police told Judge Ralph H.
Pharr in Fulton Superior Court
that Lee~s dying words were that
he had never seen Rogers before.
Rogers was quoted by officers as
saying: ~I just walked up to him
and shot him.~ Rogers had also

Jaccused Lee of. ~talking sharp~

to him.:

Lee~s 24-year old daughter,
Mrs. Albertine Hamilton, had
just left the. bus station to re
turn to Bartow, Fla., following a -
short visit with her parents.

The shooting ended _ 2" years
of service with the Greyhound
Bus Co.,

Jt is almost always. to save
telling a great, deal that women
tell a little to their husbands. ~
Rochebrune

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TOP. NCO IN FLINT~S ARMY RECRUITING OFFICE

M- Sgt. John H. Simms, | 401 E. 12th St., is now the non-commissioned officer in charge of the Genesee County, Lapeer

_ County and Shiawassee County District of the Army. recruiting -
service. He replaced M-Ssgt. Leroy Sipes last summer when sipes
-was transferred from the Flint area. Sgt. Simms is shown above

enlishing a Flint man..