Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 36]

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Salute...

The Bronze Reporter is salutting General Motors in the celebration of its Golden Milestone
feels that it is an appropriate
time to review the past history
of Flints~ pioneer Negro citizens
because thru GM leadership, the
impact: of the automobile age
has been reflected in the economic life of Flint and every segment of the community has been
affected in some manner.

From the tiney fur-trading
post of 1819, to the bustling, dynamic city of today, has been a
long step ~ and many have been
responsible for this progress ~
the greatest single factor ~ the
organization of General Motors
by W. C. Durant, in 1908.

The promise of good - paying
factory jobs lured many Negroes
end rapidly added to the small
group that had settled here as
early as 1876 ~ ten years after~
the was between the stafes.

For many this promise has
been fulfilled. Negroes enjoy as
good a standard of living here as
in ~any other part of the*country,
and better than many. Second

Pioneet Hall, "3801 North ~I.

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~third generation families

and
find this a good place to live.

In the next few weeks The
Bronze Repo.ter will unfold to
its readers many interesting sidelights to the early history of the
Negro in Flint,

The Bronze Reporter adds its
salute to General Motors during
the Golden Milestone Celébration of its 50th Anniversary.

NEGRO SEA CAPIAINSEEKS COMPTROLLER POST
IN NEW YORK (ifr

NEW YORK~The first Negro
to command an American merchant vessel, Captain Hugh N.
Mulzac, is running for the office |,

\of Comptroller for the State of

tNew York on the indeyentioat:
Socialist ticket.

Captain Mulzac was captain
~of the Liberty Ship ~Booker T.
Washington~ for five years. during World War W and nee
~an integrated crew..

officers.

Family
By Police.

~FLINT ~ Mrs. DavidBrezelle, 1617 Harrison, reported to the Bronze Reporter that, she and her family were
mistreated by Southfield Police as they returned home

from a church convention in
Mrs. Brezelle states that

Mis-treated

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Detroit Sunday, August 2.
as they turned on to Tele
graph ~Road, a Plymouth car filled with teenage boys
struck their car from the rear. The driver of the other
car, who lived in the neighborhood, called Southfield po
lice.

Mrs. Brezelle said the police refused to: give the other car a ticket though the driver had been drinking. Mrs.
Brezelle~s daughter talled State police. When they- arrived on the scene, the Southfield police told them they
weren~t needed and sent them away.

Mrs. Brezelle states that though they were unfairly
and discourteously,.treated, they. are thankful that their
lives were spared. She has turned her claim over to her

insurance company.

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ew a seatearer for 45 years

#yzier and Elder Ernest Floyd.

21ST ANNUAL SESSION of the Chicago:: River
Auxiliary convened at Primitive Baptist Churehy~
pastor. Left to right, FIRST ROW: Rev. T. Ford, Rev. A. J. Warren, Mr. J. L. Preston, Rev.. J. T.
Howse, Deacon J. H. Jordon. SECOND ROW: Déa con L. North, Deacon J. J. Williams, Deacon M.
oe ~eflin. THIRD ROW: Deacon~ A. Dair MeConnell, Mr. J. W. Russell, Rev. Herman Hardison,~ Rev.
achanan. FOURTH ROW: ~Rev. W: L. Townsend, aie G. Oliver, Rev. J. W. E. Jasper, Elder.

ve. Baptist Aésociation and Women~s District
W.-Hancock, August 8th. Rev. A, M. Martin, |~

NAACP Executive Secretary '
television interview here.

_ Interviewed. by a panel of
lawyers on a popular program
over KMOX-TV, Mr. Wilkins
expressed the opinion that ~the
turning force was the magic.
federal troops idea.~

Two hundred thousand qualified voters in the state ~didn~t
feel it was necessary to come out
and vote~ in the primary despite
the injection of ~pure racism~ in
the campaign, the NAACP leader
pointed out.

In.response to a question as
to whether a delay in Little Rock
might not provide a needed ~cooling-off~ period, the NAACP
leader flatly rejectéd=the. ptoposal. ~I wouldn~t, delay, two~ and
a half months? to say nothing of

two and a half years. I would

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ST. LOUIS.~The crucial factor in the landslide:renomination of Gov. Orval E. Faubus in Arkansas was not:the
issue of.school integration but the ~inflammatory~ campaign against the use of federa} tr

~co-owner of a bar at 809 Six-Mile

wes | last week by Recorder~s Judge

in Little Rock,
Roy Wilkins declared in a

never agree to it voluntarily,~
Mr. Wilkins asserted.

The Eagubus victory, he said,
may well prove embatrassing to
the national -Demoératic party
which will have to take a stand
on this issue.

~A good many Negro Democrats in the northern states ate

a little uneasy, wondering if

| government has an obligation to

the Faubus philosophy is going
to be condoned by the party as
a whole.~

Questioned about the role of
the federal government in the
NAACP appeal against a twoand-a-half year suspension of integration in Little Rock, Mr. Wilkins declared that ~the ~federal

act in these matters, and it has
failed to act, except to call out
troops.

The President, he siihted: out,
~has more power than merely
the power to call out troops....
He hast vast powers of persuasion.~

Central State College

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~WILBERFOCRE, Ohio ~.A
total enrollment of 1,461.at
Central State ollegCe during
1957-58 was reported~ this week
by the Office of the egRistrar.

The fiscal year quota includes
the 1958 ~summer ~quarter as
well as the past two semesters. |
It. was the eighth consecutive
year of a gradual increase in
enrollment which began climbe upwarG in 1950. The. 1957 -
In Bias Calas

DETROIT~Francis Kapel, 57,

Road, was found guilty of violating the State Civil Rights Law

Willie.G. Hobbs,..32 of:13953
Lumpkin, said he was denied ser
wlebaasthe bar Aug.~ ee es.: Hninistvation,?

ie| religious |

58 enroliment -was the highest
recorded in the history of the
College. The estimated enrollment for next year is slightly
over 1500.

~ At the present time the total
number of freshmen expected
to. enter is 341 compared with
321. of this same date last July.
However, additional applications are being processed daily.
The total number of new students: this year is expected to
exceed the total enrolled last
year,

Last year the largest divisions
in number of students enrolled

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and |
~and |
Industrial and Technical Edu-)a~

were: Arts and Sciences,
Education, 296; Business ~
227; Health
167;

Physieal Education, -

papa 85.

~Men continue to outnumber;
women, 782 to 679. Although |~
Ohio students outnumber those] -

from other. geographical. areas,

~Bad. Pavement Causes:
| 'Dis-satisfaction

A group of irate citizens.on Roberts street: are protesting

and on Lomita street.

~We have been assessed $290.00
each and we considered this a
property improvement. Instead,
tthe street is worse than ever,~
Mr. French said.

Residents complain that the;black top is so gummy that it

sticks to their car~tires and shoes.
It is impossible to roll it. Several
complaints have been: made to
First Ward Commissioner Charles
Brown.

~Residents ~went to the commission meeting Monday night, Aug.
11, to bring the situation before
the Commission, but were persuaded ~by Mr. Brown to wait a
couple of weeks until he could
try to get it improved, it is re
|Miss. Sheriff

WATER VALLEY, Miss. ~ A
210-pound sheriff is on trial in
this deep Southern town, charged
with having administered a fatal
beating toa Negro deliveryman
in the Yalobusha -County jail,
June 21.

The sheriff, who faces manslaughter charges, will be tried
by an all-white jury ~ nothing
ncw in Mississippi.

What IS new and unusual
about the case, however, is the
fact that the sheriff's accusers
are white persons.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Vaustiaa,
of Water Valley, Miss., initiated
the action: against Sheriff J. G.
(Buster) Treloar.

Witnessed Beating
They insist that they had witnessed the beating of Woodrow
Wilson Daniels, 37, a life-long
resident of Water Valley, who
died a few days after the beating.

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SHERIFF FREED QUICKLY

WATER VALLEY, Miss. (CNS)
- Citing ~it was the only thing
the jury~ could do~the N----s
were getting out of hand around
here talking smart to you right
on the street,~ Sheriff Buster
Treloar, who beat Woodrow Wilson Daniels, a-Negro, to death,
was acquitted after less than 30
minutes of trial.

ee black top paving which the ~ity has used on their block

Mr. Bonnie French, 4610: Roberts street,- spokesman
for the group, said that at the time they signed. up to
have the block paved, they understood that asphalt paving
was to be~ used. Instead a process called ~oil lag~~ was put. down last week, despite widespread dissatisfaction with
| this method from other parts of the city.

ported.

Mr. Brown is now on vacation
and was unavailable for comment
as we go to press.

NEWS | } BRIEFS ~

Providinie R. LThe Providence, R. I. chapter of Sweet
Adelines, Inc., last week announced their withdrawal from
the women~s international - singing organization because ~changes
in the by-laws exclude Negroes
from eigen ew tone

ISSUE NEW ~CURRENCY~
ACCRA, Ghana.~Ghana~s first

national. currency ~was issiied last

week, with the notes having the

Toledo, Ohio.~Dr. Everett. 0.
Campbell, a June graduate of the
Unive ty of Michigan School of
Medicine,~ has become the first
Negro interne at~ Toledorhospital,
the city~s largest. privately operated institution.

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FATHER TO DIE,

Raleigh, N. C.~Matthew Phillip Bass, father of ~six -children,
was senténced ~to die in the state
gas cHamber for assaulting a 35
year old woman.

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ADMIT BEATING

Nashville; Tenn:~Richard Lilliard, 38, held~ in the city work-.
house, where witnesses said he
acted ~kind of crazy;~ was found
dead last week in a blood-smeared
padded cell and one of.-.three
workhouse guards admitted. hitting him, ~maybe six, seven or
eight: times.~

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GHANA WILL SEND TROOPS

NEW. YORK. ~ Dr..Kwame.
Nkrumah, ~prime. minister of
Ghana, said. Sunday his government would send troops to Lebanon as part of a United Nations
police force. The Prime Minister
said if no one else in the U. N,
general assembly proposes. the
establishment.of an international
military force to replace U. S.
troops, Ghana will do it... Dr.
Nkrumah made the statements
on the NBC-TV program~ ~Meet

There -were four eye-witnesses.

Central ~State College~s students}

also come from 33

and Pakistan; two from Iran;

~OF the 1,461 we! listed some |
Ban ag

were:

re Poe

4 428 |

states, in-.| *
cluding one each from India:

distribution among 33 different\
denominations ~ in f

a ee ae Nobie Butler, secretary: 2
~manager, Doris Wiloon, treasurer; Vergie

the Press~ which originated here.

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