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Flint, Saginaw and Bay City.

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Milton Henshaw, ~owner of the Genesee firm, who alleged
that Hughes. didn~t have license: to operate the machines.
Hughes stateil that he had purchased five licenses and: h

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VOLUME 5~NUMBER 11

Ist Negro Named
Giiy Dept. Head

TOLEDO: ~: Armand Hocker,
1127 Woodland Ave., is slated
to become Superintendent of Toledo~s Street Department.

This is a signal achievement

for this community. Mr. Hocker
becomes ~the first Negro to be

appointed to a supervisory posi
tion ~in | the ai soins aa Govern,

date for an important appointment in the city government.

Mr. Hocker finished from Toledo University in Civil Engineering in.1949. He is a member
of the Ohio State Bar.

Feilore To Obey

Officers William Parrish.and
James Lane reported that they

at 364 Kennilworth was having
trouble. Upon arrival they talked
to Harold~. Liston,. 51.

Liston told them: that he lived
at the address and a lot of people were trying to kill him. Officers stated they tried to convince
him otherwise. Liston had insisted that it was necessary for
him to carry a gun to. work
every day in order to protect
himself.

The officers warned him
against carrying a concealed
weapon. At this time a ear pulled
up outside. Liston said it was
his ride to work..He left the
room, came back and started out
of the house. Officers followed
him to the sidewalk. They stopped
and searched him.

On. Liston~s person, they found
a.38 caliber, nickel ~plated-revolver fully loaded in his pants
pocket. There was no serial number on the gun as they had been
filed off:

Liston was placed under arrest
and taken to jail where he was
booked for carrying a concealed

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and ~ v. W. White.

_DETROIT, MICH,~XI Beta. Sigma Chapt er of Phi
sented a Provocative and enlightening for um on the
is its Future,~ on Sunday, Feb. 16th at the St. Antoine @sanch of the ~.M:C.A. L to
R,, H. L. Catchings, Moderator; William O liver, Mrs. aan Henry,

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Card Game
Leads To Beating

Joe N. Townsend, 33, of 824
E. Dartmouth Street gained $10.00~ and gained a beating according to reports to Police.

While playing a ten cents game
of.Tonk with four men and a
woman at 930 E. Warren, in room
24 about 4:30 p.m. last Saturday,
James Dean, 27, same address,
put his $10 bill on the table
and Townsend picked up the bill
and todk it to his bedroom. Upon
his return, Dean asked him for his
change or the bill. Townsend
would not* surrender the money, |

Dean and a companion, Dixon
Lee, 28, jumped Townsend,. beating him about the head and face.
Townsend, was taken to Hurley
Hospital. Officers picked up three
mén who departed rather hurriedly from the scene of the beating.
They were questioned and re
weapon and in possession of an
paris so firearm.

leased pending to signing of a
complaint.

Named A.M.E. 4th District
Convocation Secretary

Rev. Isaiah Snelling, Pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church

was elected Secretary of the

of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Evanston,

Illinois, February 14th-~18th.

Fourth District Convocation

By virtue of his election as
_Secretary, the Presiding Bishop,
~the Rt. Rev. Joseph Gomez, apjointed Pastor Snelling to serve
as a number of the Public Re-}:
lations Commission of the 4th

Episcopal District comprising the} ~..
Illinois, In
States of Michigan,

First Race.

asa flight stewardess.

The announcement was made
Sunday by Chatles Abrams,
chairman of the State Commission Against Discrimination,
who said the hostess would be
hired ~within ninety days.~

As a result of the airline's
pledge, the Commissioner - has
postponed a public hearing on a
charge by Miss Dorothy Franklin.of Astoria, Queens, that T. W.
A. had réfused to hire her as a
stewardess solely because she
was a Negro. The hearing had
been scheduled for Monday, If
she is not the stewardess Inred
by T. W. A., her case will be
heard on May 12..

by Goverhor Harriman.

will raise the regard.for and

ples of our country around the
world,~ he said.
- congratulate both T. W. A.

SUICIDE ATTEMPT FAILS

Claude Sintmons, 45, 1323 Florida Avenue, decided to end it all
last Saturday at 11 a.m. He cut
his wrist in his suicide attempt.

Simmons was discovered before
teo much blood had been lost.

the needs of the people of the

Community, materially, socially ' where five stitches were woeires:
ben the wound.

and: nd spiritually.

was taken to Hurley Hospi

TWA Airlines Hine.

Trans World Airlines has agreed to watene the first American airline flying international routes: to hire a Negro.

~ployed Miss Ruth Carol Taylor.
~Mohawk, which has its headquar
-T. W.-A.~s pledge was: hailed},

~The inclusion of Negroes. in}
the crews of American planes}

the understanding of the princi-}

+ to. Hurley Hospital.

and the State Commission
Against Diserimination on this
new advance, which follows the
example set. by New York State~ $s
Mohawk Airlines.~
MOHAWK SET PACE.

In December. Mohawk became
the first American airline to hire
a Negro stewardess when it em
ters in Ithaca, N. Y., flies routes
mainly in the. Northeast:

birea| Bermuda Shorts,

Flint Poli~e had received num@rous complaints on a 30-yeareld woman of 914 E: ~Taylor. Her)
behavior was considered a little
unusual. ~

A call last Saturday told of
her running. around in Bermuda
Shorts and barefooted (br-r-r).
The woman. was -takén to the
Pelice Station. While in the detention room, she disrobed and
burned her clothing.

She was taken to Hurley Hospital Annex. On previous occasions, she -had been released

Hl n-it:sdble late. date thus~ pee.
ardly: act ~still. pans) be. nye to!
{many readers..-~. |.

| A~ few Ps ago. a man~ nd L
| his~ expectant wife~ with~ nine]
Achildren moved into a heretofore|
all white neighborhood. The: ad-|/

dress:is 1034 Stockton. The fam-|

ily ~is Mr. and Mrs. Willie Rich-|
ards and -children.

On January 29, the first of a
series of incidents began. The
family was harrassed by having
windows broken. Unidentified
persons would fun -upon the
~porch. Police were called on
these occasions, but no one was
apprehended.

One night when unkhown persons were throwing. snowball at
the house, a nerved-rack ~son,
wanting to scare the tormentors,
fired ~a shotgun into the air. Al
most before the sinoke cleared,
Police were on the scene. Although the Richards family only
wanted the right to peaccful
possession of their property and
protection for themselves and
property, police confiscated the
gun and threatened to arrest
young Richards for -discharginz
a firearm within the city limits,

MARRIAGE
REVEALED

SPECIAL TO THE B. R.

TOLEDO, Ohio~According to
a-~reliable source Rev. T. T.
Newman, former pastor of Canaan Baptist Chureh, Flint. married Miss Desiree Taylor also
of. Flint here Monday, Feb. 17.

Miss Taylor was church secretary, during Rev. Newman~s Cop!
torage.

FORMER STAFF MEMBERS

EDIT SAGINAW PAPER

Al Gorner, former social writer of the B. R. is now publishing
a weekly newspaper to serve the
Saginaw. Valley. With him are
three other: former staff members, Mrs. Glenora Roland, Leon
Johnson, and Levi Smith.

There is no connection between the riew. weekly.and the
Bronze Reporter.

~and then oii ~Thursday the. 13,
some dastards had a brainstorm.
~Surely. this will ~make ~them
realize they had better - move,~
pulet. have: ne their. thought,

eke: oss against the porch igniting
Peace lunes f for. a: short ipa |

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ve ROC K, Ark.
Minnie Jean Brown, one of
a ahve Reqroes | ~ the Little
i ist Wi hool, ~was suspended t Wednesday. >

' Superintendent. of the city~s
schools, Virgil T. Blossom, sought
permanent expulsion because she
had ~talked back~ to a white girl
who was harassing her. The girl,
Frankie Gregg, was not suspended.

Principle Jess W. Matthews
told ~Mrs. Brown, in the suspension action that ~She was
suspended for talking back to
a white girl. Minnie Jean had
no right to retaliate.

~Had Five Incidents

~She broke* her. probation by
talking back, involved in five racial. incidents, she was suspénded
med before the Christmas holi
ays.

Mrs. Lu~y Bates, Ark. NAACP
president, and~ Clarence A. Laws,
southwest region NAACP representative, said in a joint statement:

~After all, school officials were
totally aware-of the intensity of
the harassments ~against Minnie
Jean. ~Th
even admitted she was provoked
to the verbal retaliation for which
expulsion is now. recommend

In a-telegram te Wayne Upton,
oresident sof the Little Rock
board, Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary, cited the harassment to which Miss Brown
and other Negro students at the
The: suspension ~of Miss Brown
on the charge of ~talking back
to a white girl,~ Mr. Wilkins
pointed out ~is an absurdity
which your board cannot accept
+ in the extraordinary situation
obtaining at Central High School.~

The complete text of Mr. Wil-}
kins~. eee follows:

(thé school. board)

owt eebotd will show. that the
New York~ office of NAACP has
refrained from injecting itself

into the Little Rock situation.

however the threatened perman
~ent. suspension of Minnie Jean

Brown impels.us to suggest that
in the interest of fair play in
which ~ Americans everywhere
have a stake the Board of Education ~reject:the recommended.
Minnie Jean Brown is formally
charged in a letter from ~her

principal with ~talking back to ~

a white girl.~ We submit that

in~ an ordinary situation _ this: -

would be an unthinkable basis

for expulsion.and that in the |

extraordinary situation obtaining
at Central High School it*is an
absurdity which your board cannot. accept.

Making due allowance for. the
pressures under which you are

operating we nevertheless feel.

that as~ responsible citizens you
cannot approve of this tactic. In
his letter the principal admits by
inference that there was provocation in the Brown case yet
the provocateur has not been penalized in any fashion while the
most drastic punishment has been
recommended for Minnie Jean. It
has been evident for several
months that the continuing har~ assments. at Central High have.
been the work of a very few
individual students.- ~
Reasonable Americans who
sympathize with your board as
it wrestles with a situation made
more difficult than it actually
is. Nevertheless wonder why the
usual disciplinary measures inherent in firm administration
have not been taken to curb
the tiny minority and thus permit the more than 1,9000 students to attend classes in peace,
rInstead, the persecuted Negro
students have been told in effect to- grin and bear it and in

The overwhelming majority of
white students at Central High
has been fair, The substantial and
thoughtful white citizens of
tle ~Rock have~ been. fair.: to Flint, Hughes~
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