Bronze Reporter [Volume: 4, Issue: 36]

the City Commissioners and

week.

Ta'p wapocienly doves was
ing last week with members
of the Association and Pred
Zeim, Oakland County Prosecutor, came charges of a four
and ~one-half million dolar
seer medics ehh ire Se
ciple backing ~houses.~ %

Zeim, in a statement ST
ing in a daily paper, réfuted. the
reports of. meeting with mem+bers of the Association -in. this
matter and the alleged secret
meeting.

In a méeting held Tuesday
with -police members ~ it ~was
brought out that these conditions

}enietbling ~and

- emis ~

vice in the city.
~Commission: Aroused
The regular Tuesday night

meeting of the City Commission |.

Saw several commissioners stating that any charges by ~the
officers association should -be
proven and- brought to the. attention of the body forthright.

Commissioner James A, Dugan stated ~they better come
forth and prove what they *
charge.~

All the - Commissioners,. excepting Gilbert W. Long criticized the officers for filing their
charges with the press. before
taking. it-to the Civil *Service
Commission.

Possible Offficer Ouster
_. Commissioner Philip Rowston:
Stated that if these officers are
making ~unfounded statements
they should be considered for
removal from the force.

The ~Commission does not
have power to act in the dispute
because the Civil Service has
jurisdiction in the matter. Walter K. Willman, City Manager,
informed the Commission that
he has had no formal complaints.
against Straley by the group.

In recent published newspaper articles asserting thai
the Police Officers Association
has charged that Chief Straley
has hampered the operation of
the vice squad thereby allowing the growth of number rackets and other vices.

They also charged that there
has been improper use of. of-|
ficial vehicles. by ranking officers, a failure to grant pay~ in
creases, changes of wording of}.
prisoners~ statements, discrimi
nation among officers and poor
public relations by Straley with
judges, county prosecutors, ~state
police and others.

Approximately 95 of the 110
~ officers belong to the Association, |

A FEPC complaint has Peele
ly been filed against the ie ger
ment-and Straley alleging.
crimination in their ~employment
policies. ~

sioner, Pol,
And Chief All Get In Act:

PONTIAC~(Special)~In a wide open running feud be-|
tween the Pontiac Police Officers Association and their chief | |
Herbert W. Straley, which has brought a hue and cry from |
the prosecutor's office~as te}.
~put up or shut up~ regarding charges, rumored or other- | |
wise from the Association, -has come into full bloom: this |~

\Mortician fie~ n
existed two years ago. Zeim jin-|'

ech

teause it ref

Elects Officers

jans Association, an organization comprising the

Hotel, Detroit, Mich. ~

~he Michigan Select. Mortic- | *
Saginaw) F
Valley area and Detroit, ~held Z
iis annual meeting in Gotham 4

Mim Wright of M. A Wright hy

Mo., August 5-8.

There are now 21 members. of
the Association. It is mandatory.
that when ~the -membership
reaches 25, four delegates will
be sent to the national convention,

It ~is almost assured that by
~| ~onvention time.Spencer will
automatically be one of the four
because of this increased mem~bership. _ President, secretary
and ~second, vice. will represent

Funeral Home, North street, was F

ot Home +3
ortuary Convention~
~4 whieh will be held in St. Louis,

~with amazing accuracy the speed

the Morticians~ Association
along with elected delegates.

et, Pig aoe es seen
The Traffic Division of. the.
Flint Police. Department is waging an all. out war on ~speeders.
With~ spéed-watch equipment,
officers are able to -determine

of ~any automobile. ~
~Recently a team of traffic
Officefs set up a ~watch station~ on Stevens street, From
8 a.m. until appfoimately 2:30

p. m. on this particular day,
5 mene Byron Wirick | and

~
To

Chetlie:-Jensen. issued 26 tickets for excessive speeding.

~Officer Jensen: stated~ that
speed has been the major cause

the city of Flint this year. ~The
pedestrian and other innocent
persons are suffering injury and
loss of. life because of speed, fs
he said.

~People have to learn to drive
within the posted speed Limits.~:~WASHINGTON. ~The U. S.
Supreme Court agreed on May
27. to review an Alabama case
in which the NAACP was held
to be in contempt of court be~to turn over
its membership list to the state~s
attorney general.

* Last July, a circuit court in
~Montgomery. Ala., levied a
~$100,000 fine against the
NAACP for refusing to submit its Alabama membership
records. The previous month,
the NAACP had been banned
in- Alabama by a temporary

~The membership list was demanded by the Alabama. attorney general. in connection
with the state~s suit ta ban
NAACP activity, allegedly~ for
failure to register with the.state.
When the Association offered. to
seuister, the court ruled i. weed

ae
NAACP special;

Analysing the results of a ref
Submitted to the electorate on

ehout a change in the sfatus |
quo,~

~The only: effective relief has
been. through legal action in the
courts. Consequently, the entire
panoply of state power has been
invoked for the purpose of jinsulating state policies of racial. segregation against errant attack in the courts....

~Yet Negro Americans~ lonly
effective redress lies in ~such
litigation, in the free exercise
of the ballot, and freedom of

speech and assembly. Only

High Court Will Review ~
Ala. NAACP Conviction |

through joint and concerted exercise of these rights can a weak
and unpopular minority succeed
in securing equality before the
law...

~The pattern is clear~either
by legislative or judicial act to
seek to prevent... (the NAACP)
and its members from~ continuing its activities, with the expectation that such state action will
effectively frustrate efforts of
citizens ofthe state to seek full
compliance with the law as declared by this Co

Voters Defeat J.C. Picjesel

~NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y~

érendum on a proposal to build
a@ new school in an all-Negro
area, Rev. M. DeWitt Bullock,
president of the New Rochelle
NAACP branch, said today that
the defeat @f this proposal indicated that the ~citizens of New
Rochelle, white and Negro, voted
_ |against payment for separate but
@gual schools.~ it~

~\ The proposal, one of seven

{pressure tactics.,Jt-lost the ref
| of the. segregated Negro. area,
}.the so ape ea that -the ton,

But the voters rejected it.
~~The board hasbeen taught
a lesson in integration as far
as citizens of New Rochelle are
concerned,~ Mr. Bullock declared. ~It. is my feeling, that
now the board realizes that peoples will no longer -sit idly by
in our community and.allow
school - officials. to turn their
backs upon our American democracy.

~The board detested its own
referendum by poor public relations, misrepresentation and

erendum because it is out of

touchiwith the thinking of the} <
majarity of the citizens.~

| f, Sdnaten Tr ~

Z Graduates
se Eighty-nine degrees will be con
Lincoln ~University (Mo.) ~ on

| Services and Government Opera
|| faghty-fourth Congress, to" Bor
~ Public: ator committee!

nation where Baha~ is~ now re
-where are not only invited but

Speak To

~JEFFERSON CITY.~ Mo. ~

ferred on graduates from Missouri and surtounditig states at

Monday, in colorful exerciSes to
be held at 7:30 p.m: on the quadrangle in front of the administration building. * =

Speaker for. the - commencement: convocation ' will be ~Senator Stuart Symington (D., Mo.).

Sertator.~ Symington was appointed the nation~s ~first secretary:in the Air Force in 1947:
and was elected U: S. from {Yissouri on Nov, 4, 1952, ~for a term
ending~ Jan, 3, 1959,

In the Fighthy-third Cartictions
he was appointed to the Armed

tions committes, and in the

meeting the provision was approved. by a vote of~ ba

SANS Wahu
sae ER Oe kee go #

WASHINGTON (Special) The south ~tise ~won. an ~iin
portant round in the civil rights bill i ge A jury
provision. was approved this week which will suites
render ~the bill ineffective. ~
~. Chaitman Eastland (D., Miss.) annoanéed that i in a lhe

~Six Democrats and one Re- |
~publicans ~yoted for the amend~ment, Three Republicams voted
agains! if,~;

~Eastland is chairman in charge
of the important Senate. Judic-;
iary Committee which virtually
éontrols, the making of bills ~in
the Senate:.

~The amendment would ~guar-| fa
antee trial by ~jury to persons
accused of contempt of. court in
civil: tights.cases. Those who|
are ~backing and. urgirig passage!
of the scivil rights bill agrue that} [73
the Sopthern juries would very
unlikely~ convict a person
charged with violating court
orders: in. ~yoting or other civil
rights cases, 7

dn essente the.amendment provides for @ jury trial when persons: bring actions against others
fer not allowing.them to. vote
Or receive equal civil rights,

The rights. bill. is expected to}:

Pic week

reach: the house. floor sometime}

To be observed: each. year
on the second Sunday in June,
Race Amity: Day will this year,
on June 9, call for special activity in all 1,500 localities in the

side. Mer of good will every
ese to participate.

A public meeting, planned by
the Flint's Baha~i Assembly~ for}
this area, will be held Sunday
at 3:30 ee. thé Internatidnal
agg Liberty St. in

Flint, Theme for this. observance
is ~Race Amity for World

osenberg,
Michigan State University in
Lansing and Abu Rahman of
Pakistan, now a student at University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor.

A Fellowship Tea will follow
at 6 p.m. at the home of Mr.
and Mrs, Eugene Peters, 1514
Crissman Everyone is cordially
invited to attend each meeting.

Although ~problems of race
they have now become dangerhave ong been with America,
ously acute and complex, the
Assembly asserted in its initiatory statement. ~What is of vital concern for the well-being|.
of one segment of the human
race is of vital concern to
all, Inter-racial relationships today are no longer a matter of
domestic concern, but have become of much consequence in
distant lands.~

~We see no way for the solution of our ow nation~s problem, or even for the establishment. of. abiding world peace
until there is recognition of the
unity of the human race, and

Race amity Bay as an annual natipnai itehiance has
been inaugurated by the National Baha~i Assembly for the
yromotion of higher standards of inter-racial relafionship
and of true understanding of

of all automobile accidents ir |

}sembly explained.

' most popular aus F aenidaed A
the Til Morocco Hal]: May - 18.
The president: of the ~Seven
Stars, Mrs. Rhoda~: Jackson, |
was crowned. She along with

her ~club. members and. guest

wére treated to a:special table
with a beautiful spring bouquet of flowers. centering it
and sparkling champagne.

The crowning of the popular
club president will be an annual affair the third Sunday
in May of each year.: The
queen will be determined: by
the number of popularity
votes they sell, All presidents
are looking forward to this.
gala yearly occasion, ~

Frank Jones, president of
the Mombo, received a gift
token of the tremendous round

applause he received from
the audience,

~the oneness of ail mankind.

cans of both ~racés.

~There. has been a continual
evolution of inter-racial activity
throughout Baha~i communities
since that time and adherence to
a policy of. no racial separation
within all-Baha~i groups. One
of the purposes of the present
Ten-Year, world-wide Spiritual
Crusade~ jn. which Baha~is are
engaged is the promotion of inter-racial. amity. ~The oneness
of mankinw in all its implications. of -religious and racial
unity is the pivot around which
the teachings of the Baha~i
World aFith revolve,~ the As-| of

~Our Sorrow~ Rites Held

Royal: Daughter Ruler Ladesta~H. Neely conducted a
special counsel rites for the late Daughter Jessie Haynes
the I. B. P, O. E. of W. held

who passed last week.
am
special] ~Our Sorrow~ Rites

Elks Name Three: s for the late Daughter Jessie

Fourteen ladies who have|Haynes, who passed last week.

The Genesee Temple No. 550

sought membership in Genesee
Temple No, 550 of the Elks were
awarded ie seond and third
degrees: y.

Mrs. Ola Hughes Smith,
special deputy commission from
Grand Dt.~Rulér, presided over
a most ~impressive ceremony,
Those assisting Dt. Smith with
the ceremonies of the evening
were: Dts. Ethe] Lee Mustin,
chaplain, Olga Walker, vice Dt.
Ruler Ethel Pettiway assistant
vice Dt. Ruler, Carolyn Hoskins,
Mildred Brown,~ James Ola
Jones, Escorts and Dt.. Ruler,
Ladesta Neely. ~

Those: receiving degrees were

+

The special counsel rites was
conducted by Royal Daughter.
Ladesta H.: Neely at the. chapel
of the Butler Funeral ~Home

~| Tuesday, June 4.

The Past Daughter Rulers participating in the ceremony were
neat Counsel. Regalia, ~including
Past Daughter Ruler Sash and
four-cornered caps.

The loyal daughters who attended the rites included: Ola
Hughes Smith, Helyne Hamiilton
Holbrook, Jessie Reynolds, Madeline Mackey, Olga Walker; JesSie Ruth aWlker, Queen iWtt,
Eleanor Roper, Aby Polk, Addie
|Rae, Orene Brown, Carrie Miller,
Minie Burtdn, Ethel Pettiway,
Ethel Mustin, Maggie Jaskson,
Bessie Evans, Sallie | Smith,
Louise Dunlayfi Eunice Holmes,
Johnnie Woodward. -
Campbell, Helen Cobb.

- Funeral Service was held ~at
Macedonia Baptist Church, Wednesday, June 5. Rev. Ira Wat
Lee; kins officiated ~and the arrange
ment were by the. BUTLER
FUNERAL HOME.