Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 13]

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serra ate at oc lige ha ge

~a, 4606: Maines.
% Friday, Feb. 28th,
~with manslaughter in. Henry, last August 3rd.
4 iatrel between the sixty
n and his fifty-four.
wife over her. alleged
hess, led to the ~ stab
Mrs. Henry alleges that hee

htisband had been drinking ali

stabbing of her hus| |

~day on- the day -of-his- death. He}--

had quarreled with her on the
street, accusing her of having
affairs with other men. She: urged im to go home to avoid
ress BA ya ~ vind Pcl a car, as he

"Se i Rdg cae home later
with 4hree friends, Leroy and

Anha Williams, of Baltimore St,
pe John Byrd, residing at Duffy~ Hotel. She found her husbatid asleep in a chair.

She went to the kitchen to
prepare ~coffee and chicken for
her guests.

Her husband awoke and continued the quarrel. During the
course of the argument, he staggered about the room and bumpad into a piece of furniture. At

point the stabbing took
plate. This was at 10:30 P.M.

One of the visitors called an
ambulance and the. pelice. Henry
was rushed to Hurley Hospital
whitrs he died at 4AM. |
~ Mts. Henry had left the ~house
@ was not arrested until the
# day at her home when she

The trial is now in progress
in a feat Court.

and: had fogs readied a

hey were ordered to ~report
> gk at nine: A.M. viekres- morn
The ~ complainant, Mrs.; Laurie
Sellers, 19, of 703 Piergon.~ St.
testified that on the evening of
Dec. 6th, she was walking home
from -her job-.at Michigan Bell
Tel. Co. at 9 P.M. A man grabbed
her at:the~corner of Third and
Liberty Strects. He held a cold
~sharp instrument at her throat
and forced her in to am open
garage on Fifth St. where he
criminally assaulted her. -

| He then. patted her on the

ooc girl:.and could -go home
ow; according to Mrs. Sellers.
j} The accused man, Sylvester
~Nixon, 27; was. arrested in the

= and told her she~ was a

/ Rialto Theatre at about 2:30. a.m.
/ Saturday Dee. 7th.. He: gave a
>, complete account of his activities

the night of Dec. 6th. Three alibi
witnesses testified in his behalf
at the trial.

* Nixon was wearing a red jacket. similar to the one described
by the victim. -

Nixon came to Flint from Columbus, South Carolina on Nov.
3. He had~ been working three
days at the. Univeristy Kingdom Rescue Baptist. Church.
He also makes costume jewelry

= INY. Fare

+ County

ing, demanded that the City
ereise its power to approve

This action came in the wake
of Police eonfiscation of several
vending machines owned by the
concern. A jurisdictional controversy-had developed between the
Genesee Vending) Company and
the Cooper-Pope (Mending Service.

Cooper-Pope a Negro owned
and operated firm had been~ attempting to obtain a license to
operate in the city of Flint

estimated $250,000; cigarette market in the Flint Negro neighborhoods now being served by Genesee Vending Company.

Delling might have been an
attorney. pleading his case. beforé.a jury in a court of law.
He made-a passionate plea to
his feliow Commissioners on be
Sect ee, An East ~Arkansas: plantation
owner has offered to underwrite
transportation to New York for
any of.the~ eight remaining Negro students at Central ~High who
want to leave.

J. R. Bush, Heiena, revealed
today that he has sent a telegram~
to the principal of New Lincoln
school in New York where Minnie Jean Brown ~enrolled yésterday.

The taxpayers of Arkansas. are
greatly indebted to you for giving~ scholarship to Minnie Jean
Brown,~ Bush~s telegram said.
~Through your~ generosity~ you
have eliminated.one-finth of the
$4.5 million cost cost jon unnecessary military foree.

~I will gladly. pay American
Airlines fares to New York for
ithe remaining eight students and
Daisy Bates as chaperone. This
unselfish offer is good only until
March }: Advise acceptance by
wire~ ~

You Can't Drink,
Smoke On County

If: ~you~ ve ant the habit, a pack
of cigarettes or a can of beer
can be pretty important, apparently.

*Some ~persons on welfare have
been included such items in food
they pick up at grocery. stores
with food orders issued by the
Degegenent of Social

Welfare.
And a few ietieded 80. disgrunt
~Hed -when...refused these items

Carl Delling Fights Fot
Negro Applicants Rig ats

In a surprise move at the City Commission mee ast
Monday, March 3, Third Ward. Commissioner, CatP De
Commission be ~alowed to ex: ~
or deny a license to. Charles, 4
Hughes and the Cooper-Pope Vending Service: i

half of.Charles: Hughes and the}.

and. benefit from some ofthe}:

" lapplication for @

| ANNOYED BY

Cooper-Pope organization.

ants had a police record, but
he called for understanding since'}:
others with police records aré
businesses in the city.
sioner, insisted: upon the Commission~s right to approve
deny the application._

was consulted for a ruling im

had refused the license.

the City Commisisoner.
This ruling in effect suspends

Clerk denying Hughes. licens

Cooper-Pope Machines......The gis aowe ue

+ iets

gig pi kes a ri

> | = a t en
license.

Mary. Hinton of Asylum St.
reported to police that about 3:45
Tuesday, March 4th, she received
a telephone call from an uwnknown man who uses very vulgar
and profane language. He tries
to proposition her to meet him.

She stated when,told she would~
report the calls to police, he
threatened her by- saying she~d
better watch her step.

This is the third time in six
months such a ~call has been received, Miss Hinton said.

EXPECTANT MOMS Ct MOMS COURSE

The Clara Elizabeth Fand for
Maternal Health will start seven,
weekly mothercraft classes at
1:30 PM. Friday at McLaren Goneral Hospital.

Miss Sylvia Krejci, Clara Elizabeth. senior nurse, will teach
the course for expectant mothers. Discussions ~will include -
health~ habits during pregnancy
and how a mother can help herself: have an easier time in labor.
There will be. a trip through
a hospital maternity department.

There is no charge for the

not: necessary. ~

~

Passage of Fair
Practices Bill Sought
NEW YORK ~ The ee |

State NAACP will conduct a state
wide campaign to secure passage

lation recently introduced-in the

Michigan legislature, it was an
~nounced: here today by Madison

5S. Jones, the Association~s tite
for. housing.

He admitted that. the apialine;

permitted to operate legitimate
Delling, the fighting comand i
or}

City Attorney, William Kane)
much as the City Clerk~s: offite;
~Kane ruled the Police Depart-}
ment was empowered to advise).
the final decision can rest wile:
the previous order~by. the City].:
and ordering the ee 4 e:

~g: q

class and advance registration is |:

of fair housing practices legis- |.

give hes ~Humber but siiggested
] the Bible, the

fiten from Atlanta two

j

o~s attending on a
here.~ (U 1

N~w YORK~Three legal actions involving the constitutional
rights of Negroes were taken
this week by attornzys for the
NAACP Lezal Defenge and Edu-ecational Fund, Ine. One was in
the Littie Rock Hish Schooi-case
snd two were continuing efforts
to gain the admission, cf Virzil
Yawkins to tre University. of
~Jorida. Law Scheel.

WTTLE ROCK SCHOOL CASE

In the Little Rock case a bricf
was filed on Fevruary 26 with
the UW: S. Court ~f. Appeals,
Rghty Circu't-in St. Louis by
fAACP Legal Difcnse and Educational, Fund attorneys. They ure
ged the court to affirm a judgment ef a district court which
prohibited interference ~with the
Little Rocks court approved plan
to integrate its high ~schools.

On August 29,:Ic7,.a state
court order was obtéined by
Mrs. Lae Temaaen, a white; Pine ff, Ariss

anni ean Brown 5% Lu-ycai-uiu INEgIO St

School in Little Rock, Ark., gets acquainted with her poks Paty
(Standing), of Worchester,: Mass. ~as she attends classes first:day: at the
High School, West 110th St,; Manhattan; Pei aes bol ahd: her class- -
predominately white sthool a Walter:

a ee

Sehota

ep shat)

os te

parent and taxpayer, which re-i peals for the Fifth Circuit ~in
strained the school board from,

proceeding with its plan to intexrate and, in effect, overrode
the. judgments and decrees of
fsderal courts approving the plan.

On tie same..cay the Little
Reck school board petitioned the
U. S. District Court to enjoin
Mrs. Thomason from using. the
st't2 ecurt: order. This in~unction was grafited and the Little,
Rock high school proceeded to
desegregate.~

Attorneys for the Negro studerts are~ Wiley ~A. Brarion cf;
~9 end, 231 I... ed
Murshait) divccet. 2c jet-c fc
RAACP Legal PP se ne.
cat 'n3al F fund ptotf in Mev Yer~,
VIRGIL HAKWINS CAS7

Virgi! Hawkins, who has ben
seeking admission *t> the Schoo!
of Law cf the University.of
Florida since 1949, appealed to
the United States Court of Ap
BI, Michigan <Special)~

at his hotel, 92 Ers:

Mrs. Ida Jackson, 3:

lated by ~the prophet which ~said

if your problems to. Prophet
Swain,~ so she d her
ADC check and took. money

and her problems to ~him.

Before she got, too far in her
troubles prophet, her
for $25, ch as
being~a consultant After she
handed over the money. the con
go srogee: tp epmbere

explained
Sackson 4 ~that he couldn't ~exactly

~For Profit
~To Jail

= et Ernest: Swain, five-feot, one-inch, 120 pound
odfied relicioe Sor a ime was nabbed by police Monday

5, of 26s King, read a handbill circu
~Then he rhentioned: the ninth
Psalm, ' seventh chapter, eighth
verse.

Out gent ~Mrs. Jackson to =e
$12 on number. 978.

It didn~t pay off either.

This time Mrs. Ja
her problems to the
Police Station. Four officers visited the prophet and took him
tot _ station for a little free

tion.
They also~ detained Herbert

took

Wood, 28, the prophet~s doorman;

and Lue. Robinson, 31,
prophet~s ~female assistant.

The prophet said-he came Pye
weeks 480.

the

es ~Miriam ~Davis

et expel

(L), and

e,-Min-.
~told reporters: is ust know ed

New Orleans, La., on February
23, from the refusal of U. S.
District Judge Dozier DeVane of
Tallahassee, Fla. to issue a preiiminary in~dnction in Hawkins~
latest court action so that he
could be admitted t> the school
yin~ further delay. ~

Hawkins filed. his suit in
fog rédaral district court in TalYahassee, Fla, January. 14;. 1958,
at thé suggestion cf the U. S.
supra)
Supreme Court refused for the,; thi rd time t6 jSsue~ an order for
~his prompt admission déspite the:| fact that the high Court had rul
ad hm entitted to prompt admission on several prior appeals...
When Hawkins filed his, notice
cf appeal with the District Court,
the Attorney General of Florida, *
Richard Ervin, asked the court
for an- order staying,. in effect,
all further proceedings in the
case until the Court of Appeals
acted upon his appeal. The distric~ court~ etl the order.
As a result, Hawkins is now prohibited from pressing his case
to a final-decision which woul:
him to be-admitted to the Sepem.
ber 1958 ~term.
In view of. this action

~oodward,:

Hawkins~. attorneys have also

to issue a writ of mandamus
directing Judge Dozier DeVane

ing the appeal.
Attorneys. for Hawkins are
Francisco A. Rodriguez of Tam
pa, Fla., Thurgood Marshall and ha

Mrs. Constance Baker:, Motley,
| both. of New York. ~~;

{had difficulty finding a.On. January
when a ~grqu)
thered~ a Pin

| police confiscated ~the gun

a new tactic ih
foree- the fan
ag nolan gle:
wilt e Richards; 4094
Stockton Street, 'r 146
Wrean that a fs thre

ednesday ae

~ Richards, ee ~ Buick - today
worker, has a large. family ~~
niné children. He. has
housing at a ~Price ~he ~
ford:.

The ~Stockton; ~Street:.
fargo thé, semi at. @

aoiocaipnes hepekiae:

On: the night. ot Janu
3 gee rly
the air to scare them: pages

threatening to arrest~ Cal.:

On February 13, a burning
cross was placed at the door
-steps of the family, seriously
endangering the lives of the expectant mother: and her children.

Three: of the Richards children
attend Oak School where they

Mr..
petitioned the Court. of Appeals | 2

to proceed -with the ~ase pend- home of

the only Negroes: enrolied. On -
ithe first day ~of. registration,
the principal is reported to have
said,, ~How. would you like ~ it

me Court after the Florida. if white. reiags came..to your

schools?~ ~:

However, the ~children report

they receive. good treatment at
|the school and the other children are friendly.
Mr. Richard states that he has
jomnae an increase. in police
patrols in the neighborhood since
[the last window-breaking..

Although the case has received
little attention in the daily press,

*jmost responsible.people in the

city are concerned about the continuing situation. -

Church. groups, social agencies and individuals: have ex