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Liberian Editor Discusses Varying
Viewpoints of American and Liberian

Negroes; Both Should Get Together

* MONROVIA ~ ANP ~ J. W.
H, McClain, managing editor of
the Liberian Mirror of this city
pointed to some of the viewpoints which make it difficult

-for Liberian and American Ne
groes to get together for their
common good recently,
~We have long asserted the

_erying need of Liberia for popu
lation,~ said Mr. McClain, ~~population which could be provided
by the large scale immigration
of American and. West Indian
Negroes and by the return of
thousands of our own aborigines now undergoing a Self-imposed exile in foreign countries
because of lack of economic opportunities at home,

~It is freely admitted by Liberians of all classes that our
country needs to be developed.
A very large number of the
concede the fact that
we iack the requisits manpower and capital to do this, However it is only fair to point
out that we Liberians consider
ourselves justified in our at-. tituce toward immigration when

we note how God-almighty superior most West Indian and
American Negroes who come out
here feel toward our literate
class, not to mention = uneducated tribesmen.

~They. - disdainfully contrast
with the luxuries of civilization built up by
the white man in the countries
from which they come. Most
of them soon become dissatis
fied with braving the pioneering life and return to the ~fleshpots of Egypt~, thereby deliberately exchanging the status of

full-fledged citizens in a coun
try which sets no limits ~ to
thei: ambitions, for that of. being third-class citizens in @
country ruled by white people
and where for the most part they
are merely tolerated,

~This superiority complex of
most immigrants naturally antagonizes the average Libérian
who. because he is a full fledged citizen or official of a sovereign state, considers himself

the superior of all Negroes who}

have no poltical or social equality in the land of their birth,
The educated Liberian feels that
while most Negroes living in
lands ruled by the white man
may, for that reason, possess
more and better academic and
technological training and skills,
yet the fact that the Liberian
is a factor, important or otherwise in the fabric of an independent government, contributing to its functioning which enablés him to meet the white man
on an equal level, that he ~is,
therefore, superior to the aforementioned Negro.

~It remains for some competent and impartial critic to determine whctther present day
American and West Indian Negrues ate justified in looking
down their noses at Liberians
or whether we Liberians have
any juStification for our feel
Cab Owners Win Right to
Compete Against | Bus Line

LITTLE ROCK ~ ANP ~
joint meeting of the city council transportation and public
utilities committee approved last
week the petition of five local
taxi cab. operators to operate
cabs between College Station
and this city despite protests of
Horace A. Iling, bus lien operation,

The five ~cab owners, who
paid $30 each as city. ~license
fee for six months, are Arthur
Brown, J, T. Thompson, Henry
M. Dodson, E, L, Robertson and
Benny Keewn. Twenty Negro

and 15 white residents in the
area to be served by the cab
line signed a petition to city
officials ~in the name of God
and for the sake of humanty.~

Iling has not paid a city license fee for two years, aldermen said.and J, Ross Robley,
lawyer for thé cab owners, said
his clients furnished service at

all houfs in addition to reguar-.

ly scheduled service,,The Iling
bus line did not adequately serve
a community of 3,000 Pepe ey
he argued.

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'SKEGEE CHAIRMAN

Basil O~Connor, newly elected chairman of TuSkegee Institute~s trustee board is also chairman, The American Red Cross
and president of the National

Foundation for Infantile. paralysis, Law partner of late president F, D. Roosévelt, he is expecied, to be an asset in furthering Negro education, ~ANP
Photo.

floney Production
Honey production varies from
year to year due to differences in
weather, plant growth and other
conditions.

ing or smug superiority. over
these Negroes who, for the
present, have no independent
government of their own,

~It goes without saying that
if we really desired immigra
-tion that we could have long

ago have worked out a plan
attractive enough to induce sufficient immigrants to come and
throw in their lot with us. Even
now a few of our people who
have been trained~ in America
and other countries are trickling back to take advantage of
the opportunities being offered
by the activities of the new
harbor being built and the U.
S. Health and Agricultural missions.~

President ~Tubman, however,
in a recent address, said he had
been greatly impressed by the
progress which he found American Negroes making and he
welcomed artisians, skilled
workmen and professional of
business men who desired to
emigrate to Liberia,

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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1946

Cocoa Research

To Be Extended.

In Trinidad

PORT AU-SPAIN, Trinidad~
ANP ~ The possibility that
cocoa research will be extended
at the Imperial college of Tropical agriculture was predicted
here recently by Prof. E, E,
Cheeseman, head of the department of botany and genetics.

Increased. facilities have been
already made available for fundamental research in Trinidad,
existing lines of research will
be extended and speeded up, he
said, as a result of the recent
eoc)a research. conference in
London, The legislative council has already granted the Imperial college $1,300 for additional research facilities this
year.

South Afri
Ca
Taxes Reli
xes Relief
Food Gifts ~
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NEW YORK ~ CNS ~ Paul
Robéson, chairman of the Council on, African Affairs, Inc.,
charged that desperately needed food sent to the Union of
South. Africa for famine relief,
was taxed 25 per cent by the
South African ~government.
Shipment of milk, corn, beans,
fish, and. other foods, were subjected fo the import, which was
paid by the Seuth African
Food Fund, a relief organization, from funds previously sent
by ~the Council, Starvation in
the interior of South: Africa is
the result of. the most severe
drought in 25 years,. and failure
of the government to take adequate steps to feed its people,
Robeson stated. The government

has. refused to allocate food it
holds in warehouses there,

The famine and the general
condition of the South African
Negro will be the subject of a
rally in Madison Square Garden, June 6th, called by the
Council.

College Forms
NAACP Chapter

KITTRELL, N. C, ~ ANP ~
A scries of major events at Kittrell college here included three
prominent visitors and the organization of college chapter of
the NAACP,

The. three visitors were Mrs.
Mary E. Langsford, field consultant of the Planned Parenthoid Federation of America, Inc.,
the. Rev, G. Murray Branch,
secretary of the southern region
of the Students Christian association of the YMCA, ~Atlanta;-and Prof, E. D, Johnson,
principal pf the public school
at Henderson, N. C., and former member of the Kittrell college~s faculty,

heavy libel suit cies ne Bs

objection,

Y fted- of beauty culture and ma

Ebony~s Story on + Jap Louis tis May

Bring Heavy Libel Suit

CHICAGO ~
magezine may soon be filed by
Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing
champion, through his lawyer,
William Temple, over a feature
Story in the May issue on ~How
Joe Louis spent $2,000,000.~

In his training camp at
Pompton Lakes, N, J., Joe
blasted the magazine article as
~scandalous~ and a ~sneer on
his personal life,~ His -major
according to his
statement was to the paragraph which hinted his ~indebtedness amounted to around
$300,000, |

Meanwhile here, Temple admitted he plans to file suit, but
refused to name the sum be
yond saying he will file for a

mean $100,000 or more, according to reports.

John J.f Johnson, publisher! =
of Ebony denied all intent to
damage or harm the iy |
and has declared publicly that

l=
~considerable sum,~ which may |=

he is prepared to prove hs

statement in the article.
~The story was not wiitten |
hurriedly, or with any intent

to damage the reputation of Mr.,

Louis, for whom we have great
regard,~ Johnosn said.

Tae story shows how Joe
spent $2,000,000 in various ways
~including bad investments,
riding Stables, golf bets, and
gifis to ~leechlike camp followers.~

Detroit Girl Wins 5

Sports

Letters This Year; Hos 1] Letters
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DETROIT ~ ANP
singular honor of having won
five letters in sports during the
1945-46 school year goes to 17
year old Geraldine Broyles of
this city, senior. student at),
Northern High School, This~ is |
believed~ to -be a record. here
for girl athletes and: most certainiy she is the first Negro
girl to have accomplished such
a feat, Miss Broyles, who graduates- in June, won letters in
hockey,. tennis, ~- baskefball,
swimming, and as cheerleader.
She also has two captain~s stars |
as captain of Northern~s hock- |
ey team.

She is the proud possessor ~of |
11 letters won during ~her 3
years in high school while eeping up a good scholastic aver
~ radio

age.

~I literally pushed myself
forward in hurtling some of
the many prejudicial barriers
for. which Northern has been
noted,. particularly towards Negro girls,~ she said, ~We. crashed the gates in many of the
heretofore~ closed clubs and ~paved the way, I hope, for those
who. are. to follow.~ é

~Jerry,~ as she, is familiarly known to her~ school chums,

recently won. first prize in -a
~citywide essay contest for high

school students on tuberculosis and read her script over a
-getwork. She is. very
proud of her athletic prowess

}and.she hopes. to go on to colge. to major, in pnysiest edu
cation,

Women Beauticians~ Establish
New Rules for Men Invaders

NEW. YORK~ Calvin~s News
Service) ~ Five hundred women meeting in the first Official
Beauticans~ Congress of the National Beauty Culturists League
here last week heard delegate
afte; delegate call for the ousting of men: ~invaders~ into.

ufacturing of special brands of
cosmetics, It was claimed ~men~
can work on equality with women but not as masters.~ Chief
speakers were Mrs, Sara Spencer Washington, of Apex Hair

and News Company, Atlantic
City, Mrs. Cordelia Greene
Johnson, National President,
Mrs. Maude Gadsen, head of

the Beauticians Volunteer Corps,
Mrs; Carrie Taylor of Batron,
La.,, Mrs. Pricila Dean Lewis,
of Indianapolis, Indiana, Mrs.
Essie Davison of Philadelphia,
Mrs, BeSser Mercer of Washington, D. C.; and. Mts. Mamye
e| Tilghman of Baltimore, | Md.

spit

Thee were the usual style
shows, entertainment at Club
Sudan, and Mothers Day Services..In a speech by Mrs. Emma
Clarrisa Clement~ selected
~Mother of the Year,~ by the
Golden Rule Foundation, beauticians were called upon through
out the country to give aid to
the starving children of Europe.

Returning African
No Job Problem in

KENYA, Africa~ ANP ~ Returning Askari veterans face no
job problems. Reabsorption of
these men is centralized in a
new orgahization jointly managed by the manpower board
and the native labor office, Of

~Sugar Hill~ Judge Gets
Insulting Letters from Whites.

LOS ANGLES ~~ANP ~ As_

unmoved as he was on that
memorable two weeks age when
his decision gave Negroes. the
right to live in the ~Sugar Hill~
district or anywhere else, Judge
Thurmond Clarke has been the

target of a ~poison pen~ barrage, from fascist-minded inGividuals ever since, But to

offset these race-baiting blasts,
there, have come many others
from white correspondents
praising his stand,

A large number
ministers, repeating the ~

came from
fear
| less jurist~s statements that the

Negro had earned the right to
live where he chooses, by. his
sacrifices. during the war. Others come from. mothers of boys

~son,

who had fought beside colored
buddies at the front.~
Touching the political angle,
others predicted an igneminous
defeat for Judge Clarke at the
polls when he comes up for reelection in 1948, several predicting that he would win up eking
out a méager existence ~practicing law on Central avenue
among his Negro friends.~

But Clarke, 43 year old native
former athlete, and son
of a superior court judge, now
deceased, said, ~whatever:
public reaction, I could have
decided no differently? When
the time~ comes. to evade an
issue, I shall no longer feel I
am able to sit upon the bench,~

Claim Veterans~ Hospitals ead

Show Rank Discrimination

ATLANTA~ ANP ~ At a
conference sponsored by the
Georgia Veterans league to discuss the subject of hospitalization for veterans, Atlanta veterans and citizens went on record as urging the Veterans administration to ~integrate Negro veterans in whatever hospitai program of expansion is
worked out.~

In a letter to General Omar

Bradley, chief of the Veterans
administration in Washington,

_D.C., a committee of these partcpating in the conference point--

ed out that at the present time
there is not a single hospital

in the state of Georgia which
adequately hospitalizes _ Negro
veterans in a permenent. basis.
The letter charged that Hospital
No. 48 in Atlanta admits only
two Negroes per month and
even thesé must be emergency
cases,

The letter was signed by Dean
B. R. Brazeal, of Morehouse
college, chairman; Charles W.,
Grecnlea, director if Hunter
Street USO~ Charles R. Milton,
commander of the Georgia Veteran league, Inc.; Russell Carter, league program chairman
and Schley Williamson, World
War I veteran.
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Veterans Face

Askari

the 10,000 released in October,
a cross section interview disclosed that most of them want

to spend a few months at home

~to bring our house in order,~
That will take between ~six
months to a-year,~ they said.

While the er-Askari has to
ask for work, the central labor
organization can tell him what it
has to offer in the way of employment. The army~s post release: labor training establishments were taken over by the
civic~ manpower - reasbsorption
board in October -and will be
ready to receive ex-servicemen
by; the beginning of January.

The frequent divergency between the army and civilian
labor grading necessitates a
standardized labor grading
form, which will be closely connected with the scaling of
wages, Every ex-Askari_ will
be provided with free travel
warrant to any part. of the col
the |, ony for ~ his first Civilian~ job.

Only 3,000 of the 10,000 men
of the first discharged group of
Askaris were reabsorbed by
Kenya colony. The rest were
sent to the various east: African terTitories.

Chicago Clerics

Hear Baptist

Leader

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Local
Baptist ministers, representing
the various Chicago-land Baptist
associations, heard. an address
here Monday by the Rev. Henry
A, Boyd, Nashville, secretary of
the National Baptist Publishing
-Boara, during a seSsion of the
Baptist Ministers Alliance,

The Rev. Boyd, who spoke at
Du Sable: high school Sunday, is
here to outline plans for the
42nd session of the Sunday
School congreSs next year,

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BEATING THE GUN:

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QUESTIONS??? AND ANSWERS??? ag

Philalelphia.
A: The ~
tridge.

in sioazangaiia ee Garten.

town, W. Va.~

all time.

still fishing with live bait.

can a ssure you.
Rickey?~B.H.G., Boston.
A: No, I do not.
Nines, New York. ~
(:

the foremost white pitchers

bury, Conn.

Fla.

short: Wilson, third base.
Q: What was

Puerto Rico.
Stars.

A: I our better ballplayers (and Partlow
class) cannot make minor- -league status, we might
forge: about the majors~ standard for another 25 years.
{ think Partlow will do all right at Montreal.

Singular Senege'ese,~~ a
freakish tendencies and escapades in general, never fought EsHe went 15 torrid rounds with the classy Kid Norfolk

A: ~Dizzy~ Dismukes, Indianapolis ABS's.

~Slim~ Jones~
born and when. what was his strikeout record pete while.
playing ball in Puerto Rico?~J.H.B.. St. Louis. ~ -

A: Stuart Jones: Baltimore; May 16, 1913. With "Fea
Burnett, the great catcher. work~ng with Jones and. bringing
out the greatness that made him a rival of ~Satch~ Paige, the
elongated Jones fanned 210 batsmen during the fall of 33 in
This stunt won him the job with Ed Boldens

NEW YORK~(ANP)~Q: It was announced on May
15 that Branch Rickey, Mahatma of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
had signed Roy Partlow for his Montreal Royals club of which
Jack e Robiason and pitcher Wright are members.
chink Partlow wll make the grade? ~E.R.B., Jersey City.

Do you

is _in_ that
as well
Yes,

Q: Did Battling Siki knock out Larry Estridge and did he
engaged Kid Norfolk in battle while aaa date Glover,

great warrior despite his

~Q: Who was the colored bascall pitcher who defeated
the Pittsburgh Pirates more than 25 years ago whipping Howard Camnitz (Kentucky Roscbud), white, one of the National
league's outstanding moundsmen? ~Robert Wheeler, Morgan-.

Q: What 1912 (Stockholm, Sweden) Olympic athlete of
color was an odds-on-favorite to triumph over the 1-2-3 finalists (Ralph Craig, A~vah T. Meyer and Don Lippincott, U. of
P.), America, in the 100 meter event and what prevented him
from achieving this?~Paul Johnson.

A: Howard P. Drew. ~A pulled tendon, occurring after
Drew had won an 1.1 second 100 meter tral, put him out of
the running for both sprint events.

Q: ~I claim that the Universiy.of lowa had a Negro sprinter and broad jumper who won fame at the Olympics held in
Belgium 20-odd years ago. My friends say | am confusing him
with the~ 1928-lowa star'who was also an Olympian.

fix things up for me Al?~Lester McFadden, Fayetteville, N. C.

A: The Négro athlete who performed during the years
you ~ment on (Belgium, Olympics) did not attend, lowa, but
Dubuque College, i in the state: of lowa.
SOL BUTLER. ~ However;.in. 1928 Iowa University boasted a
colored Olympian who was one of the finest broad jumpers of
Later he became affiliated with the Grand Street Athletic Club (mostly white performers) -of New York City.

Q: What is the best (salmon) bait.to catch your supper
with live, or dead?~Roy Featherstone, Medford, Wis.

(A: Once in a while we meet up with an old timer who is
I would say that the best bait would
be smelts (if available); and they do not have to be alive I
Salmon a | so bite eagerly on minnows, taken
directly from the, water to be fished.

J: Do you think Newcombe and Campanella of the ee
hua Baseball Club (New Hapmshire League)
made the majors had they been sent there directly by Branch

Wil you

His- name. would-be *

would. have

Q: Who is leading the Negro Nat~onal Baseball League
to the time (5-18- 46) you receive my letter?~Clarence

A: Newark Eagles with three wins and no lonees.

Terris (the great man) McDuffie has licked some of
in organized. baseball~.
wou'dn't he have been efually as great a s a member of the
Dodgers, Giants or Boston Red Sox?}~Oscar Pettiford, Dan
Why

A: I think he would, Ozzie.

Q: Did ~Bizz~ Mackey. present Newark Eagles manager,
~play w'th the Philly Stars of '33 and do you recall the members
of that sensational Négro infield?>~+Roy Weatherly, Orlando,

A: Yes. Mackey was a member then. The 1933 infield
éonsisted of Dallard, firet base; Stevens, second; Dick Lundy,

full name, where he was

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Russian Heavy
Wants Bout
With Joe Louis

MOSCOW ~ ANP ~ Nikolai
Korolyov, who recently regained his title as absolute
heavyweight title holder of Russia, has expressed a desire to
have a match with Joe Louis,
whom he aldently admires.

Korolyov made his wishes
shortly after outpointing Navasardev, his tough opponent,
here last week before a capacity
crowd at the local arena, He has
international boxing experience
and has defeated some of the
best of his class in France, Belgium, Norway and other countries, He has won 91 of 105
professional fights, of which 25
were knockouts and 13 were
draws.

Louis-Conn
Fight to Be

Televisioned ~

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~Television sets were removed from
the gymnasium of Hunter college here where the United
sembled to. portray the forthNation~s conference have - ascoming Louis-Conn championship boxing match at Yankee
stadium on June 19, UN officials protested the action of the
Radio Corporation of AInOr ae,
but found RCA unyielding, *

The 10 television instruments
will be replaced by a public ad:
dress system, UN officials hinted, to bring the organization~s
proceedings to the packed audience in the chamber, RCA
representatives reported privately | ~that the UN had lost its
radic~ ~appeal and its rating had
dropped to a low point.

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