Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 22]

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FLINT
NEWS
IN BRIEF

2 Youths Steal Auto Lighter

While his 1958-Chevrolet wa:
parked in a Hamady parking lot
Tuesday Ray Glendenninzy 47
reports two young men jumper
into. the ear, stole his. lightei
and replaced it with a burned
out one.

A witness-to the Larceny was
able to furnish a description of
the car used to make a getaway
irttcluding the license number.

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FUSED SERVICE ~
DESTROYS PROPERTY

After he was refused service
im a restaurant because of his
intoximated condition, Leona
Diamond, an employee of.the
Humpty-Dumpty. restaurant, reported that a Louis Higgins, 78,
grabbed a 36~ x 12~ glass pie
ee >, case and threw it on the floor,
O Sresking it.

The case was valued at $30.
Higgins was arrested for being
drunk on the street.

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INDECENT EXPOSURE

According to a Northend principal, children have complained.

that a man in a Buick car has
been exposing himself to the
~school children.

Three girls were able to. secure the license. numbér of the
cat used by the man. Polite are
baa for ae cae.

A.M.~ Tuesday,~ someone slashed

~ the, top:. Damage - was estimated
at $85. Smith.did not have in~suranée. >. ~;

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DEAF MUTE ASSAULTED
~A 31-year-old deaf mute reported that between 3 and 4
A.M. Tuesday, three men ~broke

< ~*~::into~ her apartment and criminal
_ ly assaulted her. She stated that
er she knows the identity of the
~. men.

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oa RECOVERS MISSING CHECKS
ae Green. B. ~Huddleston, 769 E.
~Wager, receivedl two checks from
-- Sedlewski~s grocery ~Monday.
Two juveniles had attempted to
_Cash them. One was for $103.50
and the other for $12.70.
The checks had -apparently
been taken from the mail -box.
He has suspects.

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Desegregation

11:30 P.M. Mondsy, iad 12: 30 |

~| on school desegregation. It wants

~ple~ movement among

Buy a NAACP

Membership Now |

The NAACP membership cam
paign is now. in full swing. Its)
suceess obviously depends vrs- }

+ anvanner in which the public
responds. ~

There are reasons, both loca~

and national, for buying a mem- 7

bership in the NAACP. The simsie fact is that the field in which

~he NAACP is forced to work is|
xtremely broad and problems

f operating are comn}cated by |
~nited personnel and funds,

~ If| | every person honestly incrested in ending second class
~t'zenship for all Americans in

he Saginaw community were to/|

tive two dollars, the fimancial
worries of the Saginaw branch
would be eliminated.

Freedom is everybody~s" busi
ness, You can help make it. your |.

business by supporting the
NAACP now. All Saginaw~s leading (citizens are urged to put
their full support behind this
campaign and make it a suecessful one that all freedom-loving
people can be proud of,

Urge Talks On

NASHVILLE ~ Roy Wilkins,
executive secretary of the Nationa Association for the Advance
of Colored People, ~today
for ~people to people~.
pa ang ogee! between, they

front. We nasi ~people to peothe citizens
of goodwill in the South, a movement that will rise above the
rabble-rousers, the sowers of
falsehood and suspicion, a movement that ~will get around ~the
self-seeking politicians who would
make personal capital of dissension and fear.. ~The vast majority~ of white
southerners wants peace and progress and obedience to the law

to find a way to comply in good
faith, with deliberate speed.

WORDS OF WISDOM

~In all thy ways acknowledge
him~ and ~he will direct thy
paths.~~~Prov. 3:6.

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~Mother | Of The Year =

DETROIT, Michigan (Special) ~ -
AMONG OTHER prominents at~

Ball were, left to right: Cong.

Charles ap th ee

the Cotillion Club, apa Mrs.

~Atty. ~Daisy Bates! hittle Rock, Ark.
the Annual Cotillion Debutante Damon J. ~Keith, president of NAACP re

~Mrs. Daisy Bates, heroic
leader of Little Rock. school ~in
1800. persons listefied intently as.
Mrs.- Bates related the tragic
happenings since ~last September
28rd, when Gov. Orval Faubus
summoned the National Guard
tu prevent. Negro~ children attending Central High: School,
Little Rock, Ark. ~

The dynamic leader described
to her listeners how a heretofore
quiet, peaceful, relatively proprogressive community has relived the horrors. of the Civil
War during the past seven
months. Law and order was superseded by terror and violence
of savage mobs mobs of prosegregationists while the Goverhor gloated. National Guardsmen
pledged to perserve law and order turned their backs when Ne.

gro men, women and children
were - slapped, kicked, cursed
and beaten.

Since the Federal troops -came

in under. the.order of President Eisenhower the mob hysteria has subsided, she. stated.
Most residents of Little Rogk
now go calmly about their daily
routine of living. But, a hard
core of segregationists persist in
a ~campaign of threats and attempted- intimidation| of the
Bates~ the nine Negro students
and: their families.

Most of the action directed
against the nine Negro students
is carried on nage inside Central High Scheol. ~ix.e prinkipal

Detroiters Get Fir Fit
Of Little Rock ~

tegration crisis, sdnssers an ov

thing. ~The aullewce of fits than

tripped as sey, het up or. ~dec~
stairs. In the class room glue

aval Me ne coints, in.

room they must be alert to avoid
hot..seeup poured down~ their
Sacks, or dirty objects being
threwn:. in their food while they
are eating. In the halls they
are victims of scurrilous remarks
and frequently spit at by the socaHed ~defenders of ~white supremacy;~ ~ 3 P.M. home to
mother ~ who receives several
threatening telephone messages during the evening, warning against sending the cirl or
boy back to schoohithe next day.

The Bates~ home remains under constant armed guard, due
to eontinuing death threats she
and~ her husband -receive. All
advertising. has been withdrawn
from the Arkansas State Press~
militant journal: published by
Mr. and Mrs. Bates. Advertisers
who have capitulated to the_demands of the _ segregationists
include_the telephone, gas and
power,.companies in addition to
humerous private firms. The
Bates-have suffered losses in advertising revenue alone in excess of $25,000.00.

~Mrs. |Bates admits she has
been sorely tried by the enormity of the persecution she is ex-periencing. But, with her head
|held high and her voice steady,
\of the school stubbornly refuses
|to discipline the offenders ~or
~prevent the harassment and
abuse to the Negro children.

Mrs. Bates described a typi
To City

NAACP Resolution
Commision

At a meeting of the City Commission Monday night, May

5, the Commissioners adepted and forwarded to. the Police

The resolution stems from the
recent recurrence cf violence against the Willie Richards family
on. Steckton Street. The resolutien points out that since January, City police have not found:
any suspects or made any ar-!

irest in the case.

On Tuesday, April 29. a win-}
dow. was broken,
glass over the kitchen table
where the family wa: eating.
On Wednesday,. April 30, the
County Board of Supervisors un-|animously adopted a amilar resolution.

The resolution, preiaied by a
special committee of the NAACP,

}of which arl CErompton is chair
man, was presented by~ County

-| Supervisor, Floyd J. McCree, who

denied.any political. implieations.
He and Ninth Ward Supervisor,

shattering ~

Jethro~ ~Walton, had held a con-}

Department a resolution calling upon the Police wy ah
rment to take action in the ~_ Richard~s case.

e Commission as to what was
being done about the family. City
M Chergwin replied that
he~ had ordered Chief Paul to
exercise every effort to apprehend persons responsible. é..Carl Delling, Third: Ward Commissioner, remarked ~It ~taken to the Board of Supervis
first. |.don~t know what's behind
dt, this is an election-year." (Delling is running for Sheriff):

When: McCree introduced the
~NAACP resolution, Delling said

cme reads in os lunch | pow

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Crisis

ical day in the life of tye nine |

ee: She stated they must}

Ae bravely. affirmed she will
never: give up ~the~ fight until
the. constitutional right of these
children to attend free schools
in a free America has been demonstrated.

She said ~ *Il am sustained
by my faith in God and the
courage of thesé teen age pioneers for freedom and their parents.~ Not a single one of the
original greup of nine has shown
any sign of weakening or withdrawing.

Same Old South ~ But
A: New Negro

Mrs. Bates asserted ~ ~We are
not dealing with a new South.
The South remains unchanged,
(still unable to disrobe itself from
the cloak of ignorance, superstitions and tradition which shielded her. in the pre-reconstruction
era. But, out of the confused
South ~ a new Negro has emerged ~ firm in his determination
to. walk in human dignity and experience first class citizenship.~

~The segregationists,~ she observed, ~are using every traditional weapon ~ night riding,
vandalism; cross burnin~s, every
vicious form cf harassment and
intimidation plus-the courts, but,
we will not run or turn back.~., Eighteen law suits are currenty pending in Arkansas, directed!
ithaca cholishing the N.A.A.C.P. |
~irs. Bates is named as defendant |
'n 17 of. these svits.. Vithey

| Warrants Issued For.

21 Alleged

Gamblers

> = By ROL MARK-~
Muxicipal Court Judge Doiv yd wR.: Freeman. dismissed

care e agciast Mrs. Deboralr

Aten and twenty: other ~

ms. The group was ciarged with fre yuenting a -
stab~ishment at 2922 Dwicht St., as the result of a raid
oi 19. Judge Freemin ruled the City - could not. Brave

Irs. Alew~s hares wee ed as a gaming house.~ ~-.

RE-ISSUES ~WARRANT ~
Assistant City. Attorney Wade
infsrmed Judge ~ Fréeaan that he would have a warf~ane re-issued for the d-fendant re-issued for the dcfendnother charge cf aiding and abtting in gambling. The 21. per-,oms were re-arrested, bui report
| >:d~ to police headquarters with
ut the benefit of a police escort.
They posted. bond and a trial
jate was set for May 16.

Heretofore, it was a rare thing
for Negroes to ~fight~ an arrest
charge. Usually those~ arrested
would appear in the iiuncipal
Court on a Monday, plead guil:
ty and pay fines. Those involved
in the April 17 Dwight St. raid
stated. that police forcibly entered the Allen home, hitting
the front door so hard that the
lock was knocked under the
dinning room ~table.

FORCED TO POSE

_They further stated to the B. R.
that the police chad to force a
man and a woman to pose for
pictures in the home during the
raid. The others cooperated. The
woman is said to have had her
arms pinned behind her by an

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officer and made to. look: at. he

camera.

POLICE DENIES USE OF. FORCE
Detective Robert. Smith,. viee

~squad, declared that no one ~:s

farced by Sheer Strength to have
his picture taken: He pointed that
one man wouldn~t ~cooperate:so
they waited until he -eame- out.
cf doors on his way to fhe-patrol
wagon before his picture Was
snapped...

The hue and ery of "these: ~per
sons most frequently arrested for
gambling is that the police. department is turning its: head..away from whité gamblers and
are consistently - ~picking~:.on
them. Ranking members of the
police department; when cohfronted with this. allegation.. had
this to say: ~We. either. receive
complaints from irate wives whose
husbands have~ lost their~ ~pay
checks week after week, thus
resulting in hardships on families, or gamblers who after losing
their money thinks. that they
have been cheated. We: handle
complaints as-they come.in and
the -colored people complain
more frequently and are - freer
with information.

During the yeat of 1949. a ~group ~of women~ ~from de

Wolverine Bapfist State Convention made a tour through
the Detroit Detention Home, and while there the guide
pointed out the need of a place for Negro Children who
had become the victims over which they had no control,
but because of broken homes by. separation of parents or
through death or other means, they had no oe: eo

but in the detention home.

We were challenged by this
statement: as: Baptist Women. ~A
Child whose faith is Catholic or
a Jewish Child seldom spend a
night in the detention home, but
Baptist children must stay until
we. can relocate them.

From this challenge; in 1950,
under the matchless le2dership
of Mrs. Carrié E. Phillips. and
Rev. E. L. Todd, a recommendation was adopted by the Wolverine Baptist State Convention,
that the dream of the Women
would become a reality..-.

In 1952 a building for such a
home was purchased af 4306 Pacific Ave. for $5000 and turned

jinto ~the hands of the women

for further plans.

Rev. W. E. Ramsey was made
Chairman of the Trustee Board
with Rev. Charles Nicks, Rev, F.
P. Jones, Mrs. Carrie E. Phillips,
and Rev. E. L. Todd.

Mrs. V. O. Jones was made

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On the eve at ~opening ~the
home,~ darkness overshadowed
our view. We applied for clearance through the city and found
that the area was not zoned for
a children~s: home. During this
period, the State Convention
changed administration. Rev. W.
M. Haney was elected President
and Rev. E. L. Todd became
President Emeritus,.

Like in all organizations, a
new President. brings héw ~plans,
so on November 11, 1956, the
present Children~s Home plans

Chairman cf the Board of Direc-| were reclined and ~newly. organ
tors under the Woman~s Convention, with each District President
and one other member of each;District. Under these workers,
the home was paid for in a very

short time: *

ized. Rev. A. A Banks, Jr. was
elected Chairman, Rev.: Charles

Nicks,. Rev.~ Jesse Jai. McNeil,
Rev. W. M. L Fee ~Mrs. Georgia
Collins, ~Mrs. Willa M: Grimes,

and Mrs. Carrie E. le

while he was- concerned, jt had |) ~.

come too late - hecause ~ three
months had elapsed sinee it was
first. brought to. the. Ss ~of
the Cenmuission. ~

NAACP President,
out. Delling |

Attorney. Herman.. Gibson,
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ig oe at the Urban League ss Rob, 2 ie Zora oe mtn