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GETTING THURGOOD'S ~EAR ~ NAACP director directer-counsel,
Thurgood Marshall (left), lide tall ger~ to @ doaenaee Laake he
Kivie Kaplan of Boston (center), co-chairman of the Association's

life membership commitiee, and Prof.:S. Ralph Harlow of Oak

Bluffs, Mass., aon NAACP
NAACP~s
Phote).

director. Trio was present during the
St ee oe ee (Newspress

Repeal Of Excise Tax |
~Would Aid Employment

Pepeal of the automotive excise tax would help~ alleviate
growing unemployment in the
automotive industry, Congressman Charles. E. betcwx merit said

TEEN MECCA.

a
et
ble.

The owners of the 8th. St
Cafe have their share of trou
Mr. and Mrs.
been in the restaurant business
two years, In recent months, they
report trouble with teen-agers:

A group loiters in the. placé,
using vulgar language and destroying seats and counters with
knives, they said.

Also the youngsters use the

floor space for a dance hall arid | -

annoy the waitresses.

Last Saturday, a juvenile was
arrested for cutting the telephone
receiver and throwing it Away.
Sunday night, police arrested a
group of boys for loitering in
and around the cafe..

~ Loots Great wis
Insurance Office

Last Saturday, Feb. 9, John
and: Charles Scott, employees of
the Great Lakes Mutual Insurance Co., discovered the front

door of the office had been.

opened during the~ night.
}Malcoim Corrin, manager,
was called: He found papers

disturbed. and the transom open..

The_safa. was found to be locked.
However, when Mrs. Theresa
Phenisee, office secretary, opened
the Office at 8:15 am. Monday

_ nforming, she noticed that her }.

desk had been. ransacked; the
dia] on the safe had been moved
and a*check on the contents
found a grey cash box contain
ing $127 in silver and bills miss- |:

CHARGE. WHITES HARASS:
LITRE ROCK 9
KEUKA PARK, N. Y. (ANP}~
Chief NAACP ~Special Counsel
wigrointt Marshall,. charged.in
speech at Keuka College here

last week thaf a group of about
40 white students are taking part

in daily harassment of thes nine f
Negro pupils enrolled at ~Little
Rock~s Central High school.

Describing the type of treatment accorded the nipe, Marshall said trays were spilled on
them, and that they are sometimes shoved and spat on. ~It~
goes on day after day,~ he
seid, praising the gente yt of
the

Roy Autry. have

recently in-a speech ~on the floor

of the-House of Representatives

His remarks followed. a. statement by President Eisenhower at
his regular news conference. that
a tax 9 could be a'reserve weiipon in ighting a consent. ee0 -| nomic slump. ' igh heed

~yf such a principle eee

fior, me~ in:
acute;~ Mr. ~chiainacinte ~saith, ~

~I want. the record to be eléar
that Iam not advocating 4-gén
~eral tax cut at the present time,

but that I am simply urging that
the principle of tax relief to
stimulate our economy. be: ~put
to use on a slective basis in one
of our most important industries,
before it is too late,~ he said.
The Sixth District Representative on Wednesday wrote to
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, chairman
of the House Ways and Means
Committee,~ urging that early
hearings be scheduled on his
bill to repeal ~the automotive
excise tax. The bill has been
pending before the committee
since its introduction last year.

~Repeal of. this tax would -provide an immediate impetus to a
vital segment of our economy and
meet the growing unemployment
in the automotive and many related ~industries,~ ~Mr. Chamberlain said.. He said that the drop in automobile production affects Michigan more acutely than anywhere
else, but has an adverse effect

~jon the entire economy.

~When the economic: weather
in: Michigan turns cold, the entire nation shivers,~~ he added.

ECORSE,. Michigan (Special) ~

Seven people, including jan

were charged Tuesday wi with ~

drivers licenses to mentally and physx

| $25 to $45 each, based on the. a. Detective Lt. Louis Audia, 45,
a 14year veteran of the Ecorse

Police Department, | is accused a8 ~

read of the group.

~ Tommie Prince, 43; of 2460
S. Deacon; Edgar Boyd, 46, address unknown, arid-four John
Does wére named along with |

him in ~warrants charging con- |

spiracy. to violate - the State. Sete

Motor Vehicle Code,

Common Pleas Court. Judge -L. |: ff
Eugene Sharp ayraigned _ 4417

Of, 4238: Tenth,
pines Tey, ~Boye dis not in},

5 Pobr: recently els te d Mas 4;
Eli Civhgan took~ action on: an: tie

~_ front.

Alvin T. Royal to pend three
other police officers, presently
under Bohn Grand Jury. indictmient, ahd -asked~ three. members
of the Police and Fire Commission, also under indictment, | to
resign, i

The Mayor said he~ acted for
the ~general good of the City,~

Following Ciungan~s orders,
Foyal suspended Roosevelt Lac-|
Fey, assistant chief. of detectives,
and Inspectors Alvin Gillman and!
Roscoe Bobo.

The three wére ainong 31 persons indicted in 1956 for confy to violate~State gambling
laws

Police ~and~ Fire Commission
members Irvin Steffes, Patrick~
Slitti and ~Greelie Dukes refused
siufigan~s.request for their resignation. ~They said they wanted
to consult their attorney.

They also are under the grand
jury. indictment.

Ciungan also moved. to suspend three other policemen. He
wouldn~t reveal their names, he

Detroit Will Feel Loss of

~Rev. Horace

two months.

Reverend White, long noted-and respected for his out}Standing leadership in the community as well as church af}

fairs, was 50 years old.

He held degrees from * Ohio
Wesleyan University, Oberlin
College and University of Michigan. He~was the first Negro.
member of the Detroit Housing
Commission and served one term

Representatives. He served also
on the Wayne County Board of
Supervisors.

Active in the Detroit Branch

commendafor his work during the

The Reverend Horace A. White, pastor of Plymouth. Céni:
-@regational Church, died here this Asoers pr ea illness of |

in 32941 in the State House of |.

said, until they could be located.

A. White

race riots in ~1943 here. ~

Te eead Ge ee i |
Lapeer Consultation Center for.
the State Home and ~Training erty,

School.

1954.

of re on a 9 Congregational |

iChurch<f; yéars.
| mitted: ne,. Howne claimed it'was the others

a > ~wallet: with: ~identification
papers and a factory badge.
Last*week a man-was arrested
for being drunk.. He said his
wallet ~had been stolen containing
$10. ~by a man in a-1953 Buick,
after he took fiim- te a house
of ~il ~Tepute ~ on Liberty St.
This man~s name-is ~. M. Jarrell, ~which corfesponded with

| the name of identification papers.

January was unable to account
for ~the stolen property in his
car. He was booked for larceny

from ~@ person.

Woman, 101.

DTEROIT, Michigan (Special)~

Mrs. Isabell Hogan, born. in |.

slavery~ on a Georgia plantation,
died in her home at 3795 Montgomery Monday. at the age of
161.

Mrs.~ Hogan had always said
~When the good. Berd wants me

ITH be-ready to go,~ and during

the Jast few days she told her
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Browa,
~I~m waiting-on the Lord.~
~I've get to go now~ is what
she repeated at the very end.
|. The*body will lie in state at
tthe. Stinson. Funeral ~Home until
when she will bé
buriedis ~following services at the
Second Baptist. Church where she
attended services* sehr 35 years.

Mrs. Harriet Walker, 1 1024 Lib-, isthe proud trainer of Duke,
is~ the. dog of Mrs. Robert

ho
=F fe 1442 grr 45 Davison,
service award from the ~Associa: |/ chigan:

as~.2@

A~ few years ~ago when Mrs.:
Bertha R. Simms of Belmont St.,
began to~ sell real estate there
was nothing particularly unique
about it. However, Mrs. Simms
was not satisfied with being a
sales lady.

Somewhere, somehow, she pictured herself as a broker in real
estate. and insurance.

- She worked hard and studied
diligently. First, she earhed the
right to. be a real estate broker.
Recently the State Board of Insurance granted her license as a
solicitor for general insurance,

Mrs. Simms is~ the first raco
woman in this area to earn such
a_ distinction in the insurance
field.

NAACPers
To Hear
Dr. Firebald

Dr. Joseph Firebald, professor
of: English at the Flint College
of *the University of Michigan,
will be the guest ~speaker at the
regular monthly meeting~ of the
NAACP ~which will be held Sunday, Feb. 16th, at 3:30 p.m, at
Piosteer Hall, 3801 North St. Dr.
Firebald will discuss racial tensions in South Africa..

Dr. Firebald taught English lit~lerature at a university in South
Africa for a péfiod of one year
prior to coming to Flint. He was
able to see first hand the effects | ~

of the African ~Apathied~ policy |.

of: complete. segregation.

Philip A, Hart, now completing
his second term as Michigan~s
lieutenant governor, formally announced Monday that he- will

seek the Democratic nomination
for the U. S. Senate.

Hart launched his cam ign

~| with the simple promise ~fo de
vote my entire energies fo actively serve the best interests of
all Michigan citizens.~ ~

Hart said -he. will continue to
give first ~attention to his. duties
as lieutenant governor but plans
a vigorous campaign to meet vofters in every. Michigan county..

~I: have mo. commitments. to
serve any single ~lass or credo,~
the. 45-year-old. lieutenant governor told a isi press conference,

Prior to his election as: lieutenant governor in 1954 Hart held
several key. governmental posts.
He was~ ~named, the state corporation and: ~securities ~commissioner
in 1949 and: ~Yater was state director of the-Office-of Price Stabilization: Hart-sas~ appointed U.
S.. district attorney for eastern
Michigan in 1952 and during his
term indictments ~were issued
against ~ six ~Communist leaders.
The Federal Businéss Association
named Hart the ~Outstanding Fed

1952.~

visor to Governor Williams beees hen became a. candidate for
utenant governor. After fulrile his plelge. fo make the of
a a job, Hart was re
from 1941 to 1946
during World

eral a for the Year! *

ties Gin ioaae rac Voket: wee

ning the first) d

Sent:

er returned to service with the
4th Infantry Division and terminated active duty with the rank
of lieutenant colonel. His decorations include the. French Croix
de Guerre.

Hart also~ has been active in
civic affairs, serving as Uirector
of Boys Republic in Farmington,
Bosco House in -Detroit, and the
Urban League of. Pontiac. He- is
Michigan chairman of the American. Christian Palestine Committee and a member of the Detroit
Committee on Foreign Relations
and Lansing World Affairs! Council. He also has ~been active in
several bar associations and ik a
former president of the Michigan
State Bar Fouridation.

Hart is married. to the former
Jane C. Briggs ~of Detroit and

they reside in Lansing. with their -

four sons and four daughters.
ari graduated SEN peretes from
bo
the University of ~Michigan law
school.

In sirtiouncing ~his: candidacy
Hart ~said ~many Michigan. citizens ate disillusioned and. disappointed by failures of the national~ Republican administration. to
keep this nation apace with world
progress.~

~The Republican policies have

versity and ~