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Bahai To Observe ~
Negro History Week

By Marv Peters
Members of the Baha~i World Faith in Flint will joiri
with some 1600 Baha~i communities in the United States in
observing Negro History Week, February 10-17. ~_

~The Oneness of Mankind~ is prcmoting the understanding
the theme for the race ami:y of the oneness of mankind.~
meeting to be held at the In-' a National Baha~i a mgas de
ternational Institute, 514 Lib-| siatement said.
erty St., Flint, on Sunday, Feb, ~Conescious,Of the| actual
10, at 3 p.m.

Speakers for the pane! discussion are Dr, Thomas J. Edwards,
Mr. Bernard Streets, Dr. Franklin D. Elmer and George H.
Bradt, III. The moderator ~will
be Mrs. YL. W. Eggleston of
Davison.

Dr. Edwards To Speak~

Dr. Edwards, phychologist, is
Girector of research and special
services at Flint Junior College.
Mr. Bernard Streets is a student
at University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor. -

Dr. Elmer is: minister at the
First Baptist Church in Flint:
George H. Brandt III, local attorney, is vice chairman of the

ot the "Bast Central States Teaching Committee for Baha'is.
Baha'is consider this occasion
an opportunity to assist in
promtoing a fuller understanding of the significant con
tions, such. as, all are ithe servants of one God: all are -de
scendants: of Adam and all
are created from the ~same
clay.~

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tributions the Negro race has | ~Baha~s have, the | further
made to our civilization, as a {conviction that we. are now:
part of the more inclusive living in a new cycle ~af human |

Baha~i ten year crusade for power in which the foundations

Eisenhower

Trip South | | 4

Drebident peonhewey last
week through a White House
correspondent aide, indicated
that he will not acede to a
~request~ of prominent Negro
Southerners, ~to visit the
South, and or use his good offices to help-stem the tide of
violence~ as directed toward
the Negro population in several
cities.

Three weeks ago, about time
the president was flying to the
southwest to investigate the
~drouth~, the Negro leaders
met in Atlanta, and drafted the
fetter to the president.

Sicsswhale. eight men, arrested jin Montgomery last week,
remained in jail, pending further action by Sine authori
> re.

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for the unity. of the sons of
men and thei drawing together
of all races and classes will be ~

established in this century, de- cournennitines ATHLETE~
stroying the curse of war and
releasing human powers for the] '
| building of the finest civilization the world has yet known.~ |

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that the Herald Publication Chreulation is up.

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Circulation sworn and audited by Michigan Minorities

Joe Thompson, Vice-Pres. and Audit Chief

BRONZE REPORTER

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A Givmpic decathlon | a: Milt Campbell (left) and. Jerry Tubbs, fleet University of. Olda-~.
homa linernan, chat at the anntal awards dinner of the Philadelphia sports: writers. Campbell holds plaque awarded him~ ~s~

the ~Nation's Outstanding Athlete.~ Tubbs was named ~Une
__of the Year.~ | (Newspress Photo).;

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Slated For

the NAACP a desegregation

The program |will be opened

jobs 3,497 with introductory remarks by: Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive
efele. 38s 805 secretary.
There will be brief pickup
513 statements. by Rev. Martin
Luther King, leader of the
nF 3,027 Montgomery bus) protest movement; Dr. Walter A. Young, a
5 000 member of the St. Louis boari? cf education; and Loren Miller,
4 329 Los Angeles civil rights atpie 8 9 torney. Mr. Wilkins will give a
1 700 concluding statement.
9 Also this month, employees at
tei the Mid-Town post office here
18.871 conducted an NAACP member9 ship and fund-raising campaign~

and presented $$250 to the Association.

The action marked the fourth
consecutive year that an NAACP
The total investment in Boy

Desegregation Report

Broadcast

NEW YORK.~In observance of the 48th anniversary of

progress report will be broad
cast. over the network failities of the National Broadcasting
Company at 10:15-10:30; EST, Monday, Feb. 11, en the eve
of the 148th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

Hunter-Slayer
Goes to Trial

Charged with the murder of
& farmer during a hunting trip
last fall, a 48-year-old Detroiter,
formerly a Common Pleas baliff, faces trial in White Cloud,
Michigan Thursday.

_ James M. King, 48 of 28941
Martinsville, Sumpter Township, go before Curcuit Judge
Earl C. Pugsley.

King is accused of slaying
George L. Kriese, 34-year-old
farmer, after toe latter ahd ordered him, and thee other members of his hunting party of

Scout camps throughout the na
the farmer~s private land.

~tion exceeds $55,000,000.

Atlanta's Rev. Borders
Speaks In Detroit

The Rev. Dr. William Holmes Borders, one of the six

| organized~

oe involved. ~

the ring. had a ~printing. press,
check ~protector, ahd Stole iden
Has paid circulation of January 26, ste
4,296 |

clergymen recently arrested for violating. Atlanta~s bus segregation laws, will be one of the principal speakers at a
special Detroit observance of the 48th anniversary of the

~ Your Key To A $19,250,

(Flint~s Negro Weekly).
1301 Lapeer St. | |

Representating a penetration of approximately
82% of Flint~s Total Negro F amily Units
Market is the

BRONZE REPORTER

Cited as one of the top ten
of America~s prteachers, Dr:
Borders is pastor of the Wheat
Street Baptist Church in At-. Janta, Ga., and one of the most;
active of the leaders of the Atlanta movement against racial
segregation.

Also addressing the special
service will be Rev, Glenn P.
Smiley of the Fellowship of Re~ae 3 conciliation. Smiley is a
~ CE, 8-6688 ~native of Texas and Field Séc-|
retary of his organization.
Through his efforts much has

been done to make the non
Lh
pt

NAACP Tuesday, February 12, at 8 p.m. at the Ebenezer
AME Church, corner Brush and Willis.

violent _movement~ throughout
the whole South successful and
effective. He is a Methodist
| clergyman. BY ae oe
Cause of Freedom

Planned __as...a. -Service...of
~Thanksgiving and: Tribute for
the Causé of Freedom and the
NAACP, the program will also

ture special music and church
i 3 throughout the ame

wr P Since 1910 more iad 28;000,000 boys and leaders have been
active in the Boy Scouts of
America.

_porter~s

in Check Ring

Alert work by the Detroit Police Department~s ~pad
check~ detail resulted in arrest of five of what officers tert
~he slickest~ check passers ever apprehended in the city.~
Nearly $60,000 in ~bak checks~ had been cashed: in~
_ Detroit and suburbs, according to police.

Held for investigating of uttering. and publishing aie:

|| George W. Kinchen, 32, of 3782

Belvidere, alleged ieader of the
ring; Samuel Chess, 42, of 77
Erskine, Lieutenant of the: gang;
Jack Alexander,.346 Holford;

|Jessee Woods; 54~Wason; John

Hatten, 4071 Scotten, and Alon
|zo Evans, 21023 Westview, Fern4 dale,

Other members of the ~well

check-passing ring

re sought by. Detroit police.
According.to police,.Chess was

|the ~key~ to breaking the ring.

Following his arrest, police say

~| they weer led to Chess after ar
resting several, members of the
ring, who referred to gee as

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tifications from unsuspecting individuals, then forged their
names, ~ ai.
Ex-Convict Talks

Chess who had served three
terms~ in Jackson:for robbery,
gave police his reasons for;
~spilling the beans~ on_ other
members of the ring, after he
~was confronted with information, collected over the past
year by Detective Inspector
James J. Dunleavy.and = his
squad.

~T know this~it~s the end of
the road for me,~ Chess declred,
~By the time I get out this time
I~m going to be too old to do
anything.

~You know, I nevér co-operated with the police before.
Those other times I got picked
upu for holdups I wasn~t tell-. ing purehece-woni be

My had it figured pat thet
re ad tet Bt >

keeper. It~s: about~ time 1. told: all
{ know, because: I'm. tired of
running and.hiding.~

~We'd keep track ~of oh
store where a check wis
cashed, so one man didfi~t gét
hit too often and beconie sus::
picious of our arvana Chess~. said.

He said checks ~bearing ~the
name of any givén corhpany
never were passed for more than
two days. In that way, he ex
plained, they were out of circylation before. the foreey 3 was
discovered,. -

~Walkaway. Morey~ |

He said the checks-were nae
out,. so -that-. the ~
money~~the amount: the: passer

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$8 or $9 for grocevies~ and ~still
come away with. $100, " Chess
said.

~At some markets whete they
didn~t like to cash checks we'd
make ~out the check for about
$122. The store manager
wouldn~t want to lose a sale~ of
$22, so he~d cash it.~

$35 To Passers

get $35 per check, and the driver
about $49 fo revery check passed
by his erew. He said he and
other leaders got the rest, or
bout $55 per.check, out of which
they paid expenses.

Dunleavy said minor members
of the ring had been arrested
from time to time in recent
months, and that Chess~ name
kept appearing in their statements. Investigation of Chess

ing nothing.
~But I'm. not my brother~s

and his associates led to the
roundup, Dunleavy said.

Molests 5

-Year-Old
Neighborhood Girl

A 22-year-old Pontiac man has beeh sentenced to life
in prison after being convicted of attacking a 5-year-old
girl early in November of last year.! Jesse Eberhardt, 22, of 308
Howard MeWNeill- St., was ordered retained. to Oakland

County Jail pending transfer to ~

State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson,.
Judge H. Russel] Holland,
in handing down Eberhardt~s
sentence, last Monday, Febru
Eberhardt was convicted of

statutory rape of a 5-year-old -
neighbor girl, November 11,

1956,
The life sentence of Eberhardt was the first life sentence

~since. June 1, 1955 imposed in
Oakland County Circuit Court,

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| tor crime less than murder.

Darcy DeMille

Darcy DeMille the Bronze ReNew.. Motion. Picture
Editor, feature writer and Asso
ciate Society Editor has written
for several. national magazines.
Her new serial story ~The Girl
In The Green Velvet Shroud,~

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Chess said the passer would