Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 5]

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SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1946

Federal Church Council~s Anti_ Segregation Resolution Challenges
Pace Churchmen To Action -

By Bishop R. R, Wright
for ANP:

~~the past half century, It came

_ than

out straight against segregation,

It urged the church to abolish Livingstone, and other colleges,
national, and. hundreds upon hundreds of
state and local coun- primary and elementary schools,
It urged them to abolish and thereby helped to make
Segregation in the local church. freedom real.

Segregation in their
regional,

cils,

membership, by receiving mem-'
bers of all races and putting
them to work. It states that segregation in churches is -worse
in* schools, It urged the
churches to find a way of im~plementing their anti-segregation program,

~ Now there will be those who

~Swill say this is only a gesture,. Giscount it and say it will come
_ to naught. like similar resolu
= tions of the past, That is why

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_ ~ver made ~by the chuches. against slavery,. primary,

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Say this word, Even if I
granted thdt this is merely a
gesture, it is the greatest gesture
in
this generation, People of ~ the
last ceniury called the. first
churches~ first timid resolutions
mere gestures,
But the chuches once stated
got bolder. and bolder~ until
those not against slavery ha&
to withdraw. from many churches, For no _ group * supported
emancipation. with more deter

Votes In
Georgia
Primary

FORT VALLEY, Ga, ~ANP
~Negro ~citizens of Fort Valley participated Friday for the
first time in the Democratic. Approximately 200
were registered: and a large
percentage took advantage of
the. voting privilege. A mayor,
three aldérmen, and other city
officials. ~were elected, Voting

' And

The recent. pronouncement of group camz2 to the -support of
the Federal Council of Church- the former slave as did the
is the churches which not only agi.
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Brown, Virginia Union, Allen,

Now a similar situation ha
arisen, and the churcenes which
have been the backbone of our
racial advance have taken. a
firm stand on segregation. This
means that the job is now for
all churches to take advantage
of this clear cut position of the
American Protestant churches,
and do something about it,

Never before has has there
been as great a need of close
inter-church organization among
Negroes as: now? Negro. church
leaders should.,.be ~aware. of
this, The. Federal Council ~has
put the weapon in: their hands,
They must help use it. If they
do not*then the people who
oppose a quality in the church |.
will say that the Negroes want
segregation; and make the inactivity of the. Negro churches
the basis for asserting Negro,
approval of segregation all down
the line: industry, politics, busineSs, labor, etc,

the Fraternal

Council of Negro Churches has
been organized for just such an

Fortunately,

hour like this, It. must now
get busy, or it will- fail the
el.ire race, Negro churches

should not,see the need of roganizing not only on a national
basis, but in every State, city
and town, and secure the unit.
ed cooperation of the so-called
white churches in their fight for
equality,

Let no one think that. the
Federal Council has converted
all. of the 50,000,000 members
of the. Christian churches or a
majority, ~The council has ~not
converted them; it has put them
on. the spot, ~The Negro church
Hospital

Site Urged
For Vet

WASHINGTON ANP
Construction of ound Bayou
as site of the proposed new
Miss~ssippi hospital for Negro
veterans was urged last week
in-a letter from Dr, C, Herbert Marshall to Maj, Gen, Paul
R, Hawley, medical director of
the Veterans~ administration,

Ds, Marshall, chairman of the
trustee board of the ~ National
Medical association, rapped Mc
Comb, reported-.to~ be the. locattion chosen and pointed out unique merits of the all-Negro
town, Describing McComb as
a sort of social ~~Alcatraz,~~ he
said:

~Mound Bayou is about the
only * place in Mississippi that
a major portion of colored phy
sicians would consider,~ He said].

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AN EARLY ROME, SLAVES SPRAYED __

further that McComb, if chosen
would become a serious area of
racial ~tension. The pay scale
for domestics in that city is so
low; he said, that -* ~the white
community would develop ~certain~ resentments when. thoir
domestics ~would leave to wor!
at the veterans~ nispital. _

es with forward looking whiter
christians~ of whom there are:
millicns in both the north: 1
south must work together to
abolish. segregation, jim crowism and all sorts of un-Christjan and undemocratic dicrimination,

Tne Negro often appear to
be inclined fo sit by and wait fcr

things to be put into their laps,|

and to complain if they are not
put there, But we are fast
learning, as labor people have
already. learned, that after all
we must do our part, and that
is the main part if we are to
get fair consideration for our
people. Nobody will do for us

what we should and can do for
ourselves. Not évon~ the Federal
Council ~can tio for the Negro
church what the Negro church
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AT TLANTA~ ANP ~ In requesting~ the Atlanta. Real Esvate. board to stop the pracuce,of eertain real.estate:.dealers.on encouraging Negroes to
buy property in white residential areas, Mayor William B,
Hartsfield last.week made it
clear: that he - was - concerned
with protecting the ~innocent~

white~ people, who are being
displaced.
' The~ mayor stated ~that two

realtors: are advertising property for sale to Negroes in white
neighborhoods,'. and = indicated
~that: he, had ~numerous complaints from white residents in
~various sections of the city, asking that steps be taken to stop
this practice,

_In_ referring the matter

to

White rob pa an Retr

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E. M, -Chapman:. f abident of
the real. estate ~board, ~the may-'
or ~pointed Out -that..the city}
never zones. ~Property for white
or ~for colored,~ and <asked a
thorough~ investigation, ~If- any.
agents are dmaking | undue prof. |
its by selling. property in white
tfeighborhoods tp Negroes, {I
think they ought-to be publicly,
exposed,~ the mayor said,

' Meanwhile, the ~xpansion~ of
the. Negro population into formerly ~white residential areas.
continues, mainly because of
the growing numbers of people,;
In; several sections, Negroes al. |
ready own homes ~now -occu-.
pied by. ~whites ~who have been |
given 7?OPA notices to move because ~the: houses are. to be occupied by their new owners,

+|Protest Exclusion Of Negro Lawyers
To Probe Army Courts Martials

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Exclu,
sion of Negro lawyers to probe
court-martial injustices ~was
protested here Monday by Atty,~
Earl B. Dickerson,. president of
he National Bar association, in
a letter to Secretary of War
Patterson, Members of the
American Bar asSociation have
been invited by the war department to inquire into ~ army
court-martial procedures,

~I submit that this is a. tra.
gic mistake,~ Dickerson~s _letter said, ~The American Bar
association does not admit qual:
ified Negro lawyers to mem.
bership, Thus, the organfization you have ~selected to int
quire impartially into a matter
of vital importance to all the
Americans, is by its very or:
ganzafon completely unfitted
for the important task assign
ed to it.~ a

Didkerson. pointed out that,
according to war department
figures, 17 pet cent of: all ~Amer:
ican soldiers convicted of mili.
tary offenses during: ~this war
were Negroes. ~Therefore, 4
segregated group that has never
exceeded nine and one half per
cent of the total strength of
the army contributed - this disproporionate percentage to the
number ~of recorded offenses,
Obviously one of the most important -considerations before

ny investigative board inquiring into army justice ~is whether. or. not. solders who stand
accused of offenses receive fair
and _ impartial trials,

~There is~ no likelihood that,
this will be inquired. into by a
group appointed by the Ameri-.
can Bar association, ~ the NBA,
president said.

He~ reminded~ ~Patterson that
the exclusion of Negro lawyers)
from~ the committee appointed)
to vente army courts- mar-!

to serve on the war departmenf?
Separation boards that were or-'

ganized ~6 inquire into~ blue

discharge, a Negro officer on
a war department clemency
board and a Negro general officer in the inspector general's
department...
Dickerson depiaved that the
~most important policy board
appointed will give no consideration to one of the most serious of the many charges. against
the system of military. justice~
and voiced his.protest in the
name of 1,000 Negro lawyers,
who ~comprise the membership
of the National Bar association.~~
He asked that lawyers of all
bar associations be represented

enlisted men, Negroes,

according to Frank T, Cleverley,

|8ro servicemen and white serv
ts,

bplartacial
Red Crass
Staff Praised

NAPLES, Italy ~ ANP ~
The new consolidated Red Cross
clubs in the European -theatre
of occupation, Serving officers,
whites,
ann varied nationalities with an
interracial staff, are models of
working and racial harmony,

Red Cross commissioner to Italy, The arrangement brought
about by combination of clubs
due to decreased military personnel marks one of the happist phases in the Red Cross
entire operation in the theatre,
Mr, Cleverley says,

Miss Elaine Pollard, who
seryed in the Mediterranean
theatre for a, year, is a staff
member of the Connecticut club
here which is a combination of
thrée: former Naples~ clubs, the
Officers~ club, the Library and
the: original Continental, Working with ~Mary ~Reinberg, formerly of the Officers~ club and
~Alice Carey, former Contin.
ental club staff member, Miss.
Pollard reports the new arrangement to be ideal,

For date dances, the club furnishes Italian hostesses for Ne
icemen dance with. Negro. Red
-4 Cross sworkers: all~~ia, ~8 genial
{spirit of. comraderie, She. says,
\Ana- at~ ~all times, the ~staff,,under. direction of Frederick P,
Lentz,
dissension, she Stresses,
Ina recent. letter to Jesse O.
Thomas, -assistant to.-vice chairman,,. domestic services. of the
American Red. Cross, -Mr,: Cleverley described: the new arrangement as. following the:
~basic; principles. of -democracy
in which so many of us: have ~a

a~

lief~ in practical. application,

S. C Weesliers |
Plan School
~Bus Suit:

SIMPSONVILLE, Ss. C,
ANP The Palmetto State
Teachers~ association, working
with. the S, C: Conference of
NAACP,.plans court action. to
establish ~adequate and equal~
bus transportation of colered
school ~children,: Roy Cunningham, treasurer of a _ transportation committee working on the
action said this week,

A three-week old campaign
for court action funds, Cun~ningham safd, had metteda large
amount. It would be used, with
additional amounts, to do something about the ridiculous dif.
frential in. this phase of state
life, The transportation committee found that less than one
per cent of transportaion funds
was spent by the state on Negroes who. are 44 per cent of

on the important committee,

the population,

Race Marines Seek Probe Of

Marine Discharge
ine Discha
By Doyle J. Carr.

NASHVILLE ~ ANP ~ An
Tipit elon of the marine discharge system is being requested by Negro marines, who are
being issued ~other than honorable~ discharges. _

Basis. for the requested investigation is race prejudice,
Negro marines charge, which is
proved by the marine ~white
supremacy~ policy of placing
white officers over Negro persontrel, Many..Negro marines
have refused ~other than honorable~ ~discharges on the
ground. they. were being victimized by racial prejudice.

According to a report, 83 per

~lcent of one company of Negro

marines received ~other than
honorable~: discharges, A marine
must have a marking of 3.8 in
military efficiency and an average of the same to: obtain
an honorable discharge. These
2fficiency marks are placed in
his record book by his commanding oficer, Other than 3.8

taverage gives the marine an

~tial, is ~inconsistent with re-| ~other than honorable~ ~dis~cent war department appoint- | charge. re ject

ments in this field,~ He refer-| Objection to an ~other than
red to Negro officers designated-"ionorable~ discharge~ is based

Ftipon its~ outside effect in. se
turing employment opportunities for the discharged marine,

System

works together ~without |

very. firm conviction. and be
Negro GOP Chairman Endorsed~
By Negro Republican Leaders _

ANP. -

CHICAGO ~ ri
Horsement of B, Carroll Reece,
a native of Tennessee, as national chairman of the Republifan party came last. week from~
several. outstanding local Re-.
publican leaders on the basis of:
his voting-record in congress on
measufes affecting aaa welfare
pf Negroes,

Reece~s backing of ite FEPC
bill, anti-poll ~tax! ~bill, ~ antiynehng. bill and other progpessivé measures, was- recalled
by Atty, Willian E, King, second ward Republican committceman -and~ congressional canHidate, and Dr, J. B. Martin,
a prominent local Republican
leader and president of the
Negro, American baseball league, Both endorsed the new
GOP national leader on a personel knowledge of him as well
as ~his favorable support of legislation designed ~to aid Negroes,
~I don~t know of anyone who
has a-better record: for voting
on issues affecting. Negroes,~
said Attorney King, ~But be
ing a Republican, and a nativ
of Tennessee, his. appointment
witl.probably engender more
Nears criticism than the appo. u.ment. of Hannegan to a
similar a Aaa in the Demobracic pariy.~~
| ~If I did not know the man,
I would not think much of ap- |
pointing a Tennessean to~ head
the ~Republican party,~ said Dr, |

artin. ~He has voted for all,
issues that are designed to help
~Negroes, Those who don~t know
him now will find out that he:
is -the right mari, The Republican, ~party; made~ 3 a wige; ighoice.~~ |

'to lead the Republican

ment

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Martin and King agreed ~thet
Negroes will not relish he idea
' of naming a native of Tennessee
party,
but that is because they don~t
know Reece. Both point to his
background, which includes an

~American and Engliseh education

and declared that the new chair
~man is truly an amazing para- -

dox among the white. natives of
Tennessee. ~
An effort to ~contact Val Wash
ington, Oscar DePriest and
Robert R, Church ~ and other
leading Republicans fir -com
on Reece~s appointment.
was unsuccessful, although it is -
rumored they have reacted favorably to the new GOP lead
er, | athe.

Meantime, Reece clashed with
President Truman over the definition of ~liberal,~ Truman
criticized his selection, by.implication last week: during a news
conference, whle Reece, took
the opportunity to brand | the
President~s party as ~~) the~ party
of reaction~ during,a.radio. inteview.

- Reece said; a ~liberal, was -one
who sought to put.a limit upon
the powers of kings,. or; upon
the powers of parliament, -Today in the United, States,~ the
~liberal~. is the ~man~ wk
fights~ encroadhments ~by -
Federal Government upon~ the
freedom of the citizen,~ ~ se
added that ~the one:. group:
the United States which "haa
fought constantly to curb the
bureaucratic powers of big government~ is the ~ party.

NASHVILLE ~ ANP ~ Laying $1,000 on the table and
pledging themselves to raise a
$10,000 budget, before the annual meeting in Philadelphia,

{members of the steering, committee of the National~ Negro}.

Business league -met on the
campus of the A. and I: State
college Tuesday with Dr, J. E:
Walker, Memphis, presiding,
The Tuesday session marked
the greatest attendance --assembled at~a Steering committee in
many years, and: enthusiasm was
at a~ higher pitch than ever before, ~Interest. centered. around
the ~selection of: an. editor of the
Journal of Negro. Business
which Roscoe Dunjee, -president
bf the league; said-*must be
provided for. Following the
liiness and death of M. S, Stuart, whom Dunjee named =~ at
New Orleans to edit the new
ournal, Dunjee.has been editng it but he said in the Tuesfay meeting that the league
should immediately elect some
Ne to carry on,

The league plans at an early
late to employ a full-time paid
executive secretary and the
concensus of opinion is. that
the secretary should also serve
as editor of the journal. All
pf the committee were: ~Javish

Many employers, not knowing
nullify. the marine~s. rights to
veteranfs dompensation,
rights under the GI bill of
rights, would be hesitant to
employ an ex-marine with an.
~other. than honorable~ discharge, -

The refusal of Negro marines,
at Montford Point Camp, N,.C.,
to accept the ~other gthan_ honorable~ discharge resulted in
an investigation: A marine gen-.

eral was sent there to solve the+/
problem that was holding up
the discharge system, A refusal
of any type of discharge, he
said, means to remain in the|0
marines ~until you have~ obtained the type you desire,

He remarked that he could
not change the marine -corps
ruling on discharges but advised that the discharges be accepted with the reservation to
filé a complaint with the discharge board of review. If you
write your complaint. to ~ this
board, they-will notify you when
and~ where they will meet in
order that you may attend, present your case ahd work out

something pertaining to your |

discharge, he said,
The marine corps issued many

kinds of discharges, Some of

that such, a discharge does not

* and:

ississippi Hotel
ires Negro.

Bell Boys

JACKSON, Miss, ~(ANP)~
The Edwards: hotel fired its Negro bellboys here last week and
replaced ~em with White bell
boys, ig

Patyons at the Edwards had
been served by Negro bell. boys.
fot almost three-quarters of a
century.

No. notice was given to the
bell _boys until the day- the
change was ~made, Bell boys
coming to work for ~the. 11
o~cloek shift found the nite
boys. already.-in uniform and at
work, According to reports this
was the first knowledge that
even the bell captajns had that
the change~ was being contem
plated.

The Edwards usually employs
about 30 bell boys. Included
among those fired were a number of hororably discharged
veterans, previously employed
at the Edwards, and who had
Teturned to their jobs upon ~release fro service.

peeeerereraeencmnteaaes

them are honorable, ~other than
honorable,~ ~undesirable,~ ~~convenience~ and ~dishonorable, "

jof. O, K, Manning,

Business, Committee To Raise

'$10,000 By Philadelphia Meet

in their praise of the new magazine, now in its third issue,
and the new publication,.according to the financial report
executive
secretary, is self supporting,
~ A~ letter received from J. S,
Benn, Philadelphia, inviting. the
league to hold its session in
Philadelphia was read, and the
committee unanimously voted
to hold its session there, fixing
the date as either the third or
fourth week in August, and
leaving it up to Dunjee to determine which is the most desirable date,. The committee heard addresses delivered by W., E, Turner,
state director of education, and
President W. S. Davis, of A,
and I, State coliege during the
afternoon session,.: All ~delegates
were housed on the A. and I,
campus. A, Macco Smith discussed at length his plans for
the: nationwide observance of
the Booker T, Washington Me
morial dinners during. April,
Secretary Mannin~s reports
showed the league~s finances

are in a healthy condition,

In addition to Chairman~ Walker and President Dunjee,
members of the committee who
attended the meeting ~were Don
Davis, Hampton institute; J. B,
Blayton, Atlanta; O, K, Man
ning, Dr. C, W. Pemberton,
Houston; G, W.: Powell, Jack.
sonville, Fla.; Mrs, ~Curistina

Fuqua, Detroit; Leroy Crayton, ~
Cleveland; B. J, Strode, Gl.
veston; W. H. Hollis, -A,- G.
Gaston, Mrs, G, E,- Anderson,
Birtningham; Carlton Gaines,
Detrcit; George W. Cox, Durham, Joseph P. Geddes, New
Orleans; B, G, Olive,- ~Macoe
Smith, Memphis; Horace~ Sudduth, Cincinnati; R, E. ~ Clay,
Nashville,

Final Rites
For pace
Publisher

LOUISVILLE: = ANP ~ Funeral services were held here
~Friday for Williaim. ~Warley,
publisher, of thr Louisville
News, Death of the. 62.year-old
newspaperman camé after ~ ar
illness of three wecks, if,

and publisher of the News since
1912, -was, noted for the. part
he played in influencing--the
supreme court to hand down a.
decision allowing Negroes to
live west of 18th street hére,

_|He was vice president of the

NAACP and a member éf the
Falls City Chamber. of Commerce,

nryet cot

Warley, a native of Louis@ille