Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 44]

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FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY ~

301 ~. KEARSLEY

FLINT 2, MICH.

VOLUME 5~NUMMER 48 44

one: i | unr, MiciGAN SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1956 RECEIV EU

Flint Negroes:

Bury Good

FLINT PU

Mob Threatens
Bates Family

LITTLE ROCK~The object of constant harassment during the past week at her residence, Mrs. Daisy Bates, school

integration leader and president of the Arkansas NAACP,
early Wednesday morning was forced to resort to gunfire

in defense of her home.~

Wednesday morning, for the
fourth time this week, unidentified persons barraged the residence with stones and broke glass
on the inclosed porch and windows.

Plagued to the point of pel
peration, Mrs. Bates and her
husband rushed out about 3 a.
m. and fired -five or more shots
at the fleeing white hoodiums.

Three crosses have. been
burned on the Bates~ lawn and
shots also have been fired at
the residence.

In the meantime Mrs. Bates
and her. publisher-husband re-. main as determined as Governor

Orval Faubus in their resolve to
continue their fight in behalf of
colored students entering any
schools opened in Little Rock.
Along with the confused and
frustrated whites of this embat
- tled city, the 30,000 more Ne
groes here confront the grim

possibility that-their-children face |
a year without schooling.. \
Current opinion. among. both

~ Negroes and whites is that with
out the interference of Gov. Faubus the integration of public

schools in Little Rock might by
now. have become an accomplished fact.

For years regarded as one of
the most liberal cities in the
South, this city of more than

1 100,000 population, nearly one
third of which is Negro, today is
an embarrassed and ashamed
city.

Little Rock is. vistualiy: crumbling under. the withering. glare
ef national and international publicity~none of which is-a source
of pride to its thinking citizens.

For years thé buses have
been desegregated, some eating

places integrated, the police de- |.

Rev. Martin Luther King Sees Possibility
em Plot on His Life

~Bo of:non-violence;- our

partment has about a half dozen
colered police, and up, to fast
summer a quiet move was afoot
to mix the city~s public swimming pools.

The present confusiop and~ ~antagonisms, in the opinion of Ot

Teside

City and Arkansas, are due oe a
the political. ambitions of Orval
Faubus, the man who has made.

himself ~king~~~if.only for a
troubled day.

Ohio NAACP Refuses
To Withdraw Criticism

COLUMBUS, Ohio~The Ohio
State Conference of NAACP
branches, through the chairman
of its resolutions committee, has
politely refused ~to modify or
set aside~ a resolution condemning Senator John W. Bricker for
advocating and supporting legislation designed to curb the United

States Supreme Court.

The Ohio senator had written
to Barbee William Durham, executive secretary of the Columbus NAACP branch and chairman
pf the commiitee which drafted
the resolution, disavowing any
attack. upon the Supreme Court's
anti-segregation rulings and urging withdrawal of the resolution
adopted at a state-wide NAACP
conference in Toledo on Sept.
20.

In his letter to Mr. Durham,
Senator Bricker enclosed the full
text of an address he had delivered in Cleveland on Sept. 17.

*"You. will nete,~ he said, ~that
I did not refer to the Supreme
Coui}~s 1954 decision in the

~school segregation case. I-have

never cited that case as an example of judicial legislation because I think it is clearly distinguishable from those: cases in
which the Supreme Court has
overreached _ its constitutional
~aupthority. You will also note
that I made it clear that an
independer.t_-rditiary must be
preserved and that I would not
be a party to any punitive action
against the Supreme Court.~

In response to the Senator's
letter, Mr. Durham. conceded
that the Ohio Republican did not
cite the anti-segregation ruling
as an example o fjudicial legislation. However, he told Senator
Bricker, ~you did charge that
the Supreme Court has assumed

MITCHELL BLASTS FAUBUS, BIAS

MADI, N. J~Secretary of
Labor
Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus
today in assailing job discrimination as ~wasteful, senseless
and immoral.~ '

In another obvious reference to
Faubus and Virginia Gov. J.
Jr., the labor
~was vital for
America to remove job barriers
erected because of race or relig-!

itchell took a slap at |

what are primarily legislative
has handled cases arising /under
powers because of the manner it
the Fourteenth Amendment. This
is exactly what southern senators
and other segregationists are
saying and since you did not, in
your speech, make an exception
of the 1954 school case, there
was no way for our committee to
see any difference between what
you said and what the segregationists are saying. And this is
not to say that the NAACP would
limit ifs concern about attacks
upon the Supreme Court to this
particular type of case.

Fine Major
For Hitting

BONN, Germany. ~ A United
States Army major was convicted
last week of disorderly conduct
~and was fined $1,000 for having
struck a Negro civilian entertainer in an officers~ club.

The general court martial ac-~
quitted Maj. Leonard Bailey of
Salt Lake City of the more
serious charges of ~inflicting
serious bodily injury,~ assault
and conduct unbecoming an
officer
The two-day trial before a
ccurt martial of a eolonel and six
lieutenant colonels was at the
headquarters of the army~s Western Area Command at Kaiserlautern.

Seeger and iy
To Appear Here

Song stylists, Pete Seeger and
Sonny Terry will appear at Ballenger Field House on Friday,
October 10, at 8 p.m.

Seeger represents a _ resur
gence of the true folk ~songs. In|

his songs, he tells wistfully of
incredible events of Texas and
Tennessee.:

Discovered by Alan Lomax,
Sonny Terry has been featured
in New York~s Carnegie Hall.
Some of his well known blues
hits haye been ~Weeping the
Blues~ and ~Louise.~

This. program is guaranteed

to be a hit for everyone in the
audience.

os

Members of the cast for the ddadant: ~Christianity in a Crisis.~

_ (See Story Page 3)

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of a 1 Dixie-tnspired plot to have
him assassinated has not been
eliminated from the mind of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., of Montgomery, Ala., who was stabbed in
the chest, Sept. 20, by a southern
Negro woman | two months up
from Georgia.,

This idea was passed among
to newsmen this week when, for
the first time since the stabbing,
Dr. King held a press conference
in his room at! the Harlem Hospital.:

POSSIBLY HIRED

~T have no knowledge that this
woman (Izola Ware Curry) was
sent by the South. It is a possibility, however. Even. if she
is unbalanced, an unbalanced
person can be-~used~ by persons
of sound mind.~

Speculation on the possibility
of the Rev. Mr. King~s pianned
assassination grew to sizable proportions last week, when it was
learned funds were being. sent
to her by white groups from her
native State of Georgia.

RECOVERING WELL

Now well on the road to recovery, Dr. King is expected to
remain under physicians~ care at
Harlem Hospital, or in the New
York area, for ~at least -another
two weeks..

~PUNISHMENT~ OUT

Of Or janized St South

a a hea te: ~see 42. eves

~|few days,~ Dr. King said,

Izola
Curry ~punished? He added he
would ~rather see an effort made
to ~rehabilitate her~ in order
that she might take her place in
some community as a useful citizen.

He further added that such
aid.as she has received from
white supremacists in the South
~are expressions of the reactionaries who are not willing to accept the racial change which is
inevitable.~

~SPREADING DISEASE~

Dr. King viewed the incident
as a ~spreading disease~ rather
than as an isolated thing. ~It
is an expression of a climate of
bitterness and hatred which is
now prevalent in the country.~
he said.

~Something needs be done to
stem the tide,~ the pastor said,
~and if local authorities will not
or cannot do it; the Federal Government must.~

FAITH DEEPENED

~The experience of these last
~has
deepened my faith in the ~relevance of the spirit of non-violence
if - necessary social change is
peacefully to take place.

~T have been. brought to see
its wider social significance. I

am. now. convinced that if the

The, critically wounded pastor 'Negro holds fast to the spirit

Little Rock

Appeals Court Munday extended
for nine days the restraining
order prohibiting the openihg
private, segregated. institutions.
of Little Rock~s high schools as

The three Appeal Court judges
extended the week-old restraining order through.Oct. 15.

Miller has dismissed on a
technicality the NAACP~s demand
that the school-leasing plan be
declared unconstitutional.

Monday~s decision was 2 temperary: setback for the NAACP,
which had asked that. the temporary restraining order be re:
placed by an injunction perman
2ntly blocking the school-leasing
olan. '
Richard Butler, attorney for
the Little Rock |Seaoot soara.
counteced with a warning that
~there will be no high school

Raney said he could not im-_|

- mediately determine whether pri
se Ba ne oe

Holds On:

Clinton School Bombed

ST. LOUIS~A United States; vate schools will open this week

or next.

The Private Sciooi Corp. earlier announced plans to opexee |
high schools for white children.
in private building3, such as
churches. They would be financed
by private donations. ~

In Alexandria, Va., Federal
Judze Albert V. Bryan refused
to dismiss~a suit secking the
adinission of 14-Negro children
to Alexandria~s all-white public
schools.

The principal of intezrated
Clinton (Tenn.) High School,
which was wrecked Sunday by 3
bemos expertly set~ off in earlymorning fog, said. classes will
be resumed Tuesday.

IN WASHINGTON, the Sz
dreme Court launched its 1958 -59 regular term Monday with
a pronouncement from Justice
Felix Frankfurter that critics
have a right to voice their disagreement with the court~s in
perio rulings. ca

ig

~Criticism need not be stilled.~

Frankfurter said. ~Active obstruction or defiance is barred.~

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strnggle and
example will challenge and ceip
redeem not only America, but
the world.~ he said.

Exams Now
Open For
Academies

Congressman Diggs (D., Mich.)
has announced the United States
Civil Service Commission examination on Monday, Nov. 17, for
designation to Academies.

_ The-designation examinations
are preliminary fests and serve
as a form of objective measurement to aid members of Congress in their selection of candidates to the United ~States
Military, Naval, Air Force and
Merchant Marine Academies.

~They arc. also of value to pro<.
péctive candidates by ~indicat: n:
to them those areas~ of ~stay -
wherein titeir sabes aptitude
lis.

SENTENCED IN
KNIFING CASE

GRAND RAPIDS~Floyd Gullick, 34, of 746 Logan St., S.E.,
convicted June 13, cf breaking
and entering an apartment on
Sheldon Ave., S.E., with intention to commit felonious ~assault,
was sentenced Monday in Superior Court to three to 15 years
~in Souhtern Michigan prison.

Gullick was accused cf entering the apartment and threatening a woman fijnaos aemite with
a kn-fe.

Une Gtizens
To Vote e

Between October 1 and Election Day; November 4, Michigan~s
eligible voters can look for some
high-octane enthusiasm and vol
Oi} }dealers in Michigan.
Encouraging every elizible citzen to. vote November 4 will be
| nearly 2,000 small businessmén
operating Standard staticns in

portant crossroad in M crigan.
These dealers are attacking the

lackadaisical voter attitude with

the same zeal as they. do in ser
that come on their driveways.
~These dealers are not con
cerned as to how one will vote~

~Vote as you please~~they say, |

~but vote.~

atile performance by Standard |

BLIC LIBRARY

Find ~No Cause For Action~

In Police Brutality Probe

Investigation Committee Finds ~No Cause for Action~
In Police Brutality Investigation ~
In a City Commission meeting last Monday night, the
City~ Commissioners investigating alleged police brutality

against Negroes revealed that they found no cause ine

action.

Protesting the decision of the
committee and the treatment
that Negroes receive from policemen, 750 Negroes gathered
at the civic center Tuesday at
12:30 p.m. for the burial of ~Mr.

| Good Faith.~ ~Rev.~ Eugene Mil
ler officiated and gave the eulogy. He ~was~ assisted by ~Rev.~
Herman Hamilton.

After the ceremony, the procession proceeded north on Saginaw Street on foot with the participants carrying banners they
used while picketing City Hall.
The procession stopped at the
Flint River just north of Waters
Street where they threw ~Mr.
Good Faith~ to his watery grave.

After the: ritual, participants
walked back to City Hall where
they continued to picket.

The investigation was started when a young woman complained that she had been han-~

dled roughly,and arrested -

without reason by two plain
clothes detectives. The investigation was brought about by
the NAACP who were later
excluded from the hearings.
Officers involved in the brutality incidents have not been

Tilt Murder Trial
Dramatized Here

The play, ~Mississippi Mud,~
will be presented on October 21
at 8:30 p.m. in the basement of
the First Baptist Church on E.
Court Street.

The one act play, written by
Bea Enders and Ed Shepard is
a re-~reation of the Emitt Till
murder trial. Only the names
have been changed. _
~ ~Mississippi me won first
prize this year in the one act
contest at the Community Theatre Association of Michigan.
Members of the cast include
Andy Edgerton, Ed Berryman,
Frank Moulton, Al Brooks, Beryl
Schannon, Clissom Woods, -Marshall. Burns, Jim Davidson, Ger;
ald Fargot, Bob Plourde and
Jerry England.

Tickets dare available at the
Unitarian Church.and at the
Bronze Reporter office, 1301 Lapeer St. Price $1.00.

| pany.

~transferred, demoted or removed

from the police force.

Rev. L, W: Pryor informed
the B. R. that a Ministers~ Alliance, composed of colored ministers, will be formed at Antioch
Baptist Church~ today, October
11, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Pryor has
been elected temporary ~chairman.

Flint. |
NEWS in BRIEF

John Byrd of New Jersey
Street reported theft of a blue
checked gaberdine suit, valued

at. about $25.00 taken from a

house at the corner of McClellan
and. North Streets. Byrd can
identify ~and ean. be~ contacted
at American frm and Coal Com
ae. AE ee a dais
Genesee~ County Clerk~s Office
charges Joyce Ann Williams,
3612 Michigan Avenue and Sheppard A. BeGay with perjury in
application for marriage license
in Genesee County.
% Co co

Henrietta McNeely of Pine
Bluff, Arkansas request to locate
her husband, Walter E.. McNeely
who has been working in Flint
since June, 1953, at GM Auto
factory ~ last address, 1705%
Clifford pircet..
% %

Geraldine Gill, 203 Burr Blvd.
took 11 pills used in treatments
of colds and sore. throat. Her
husband came home 45 minutes
later and found her laying on
the floor. He rushed her to the
hospital where ~she _ received
treatment. She said she took
the pills because of domestic
troubles.

Color Line Remains
for Dixie Titlefest

Birmingham, Ala. ~ Birmingham~s law forbidding race-mixing in sports events cannot be
relaxed to permit Texas League
Negroes to play here, Mayor
James W. Morgan said today. _

Austin and Corpus Christi

competing in the Texas League
playoffs, have Negroes.

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practically every cty, town and
village and at abot every im
vicing. motorists~ automobilés

TV SCIENCE show for teachers to feature Flint consultant ~
New Cnannel 0 series 1s ~oar. Wizard~ Type for ~feachers. ~Basic

science made fascinating~ is the claim made for a new television

seri~s slated to begin Sunday, October 19, at 12:30
WNEM-TY, Channel 5. Cosponsored by the station and
Foundation Program of the Flint Board of Ed on, t, Mott
20.

week series will feature science lecture-demonstrations by

Galley, consultant for curriculum researeh in science and mathe
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