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Ruling Invalidates
Laws In Nine Other
Southern States!

WASHINGTON,

D.C.~The old Virginia law requiring

Negroes on buses to be seaied separate.y from whites, in interstate travel, was ruled unconstitutional, by a recent Supreme

court decision in a 6-| decision.

In his dissent, Justice Harold H. Bur:on declared that the
decision could invalidate similar laws in nine other states.

A. & I COED ~ Miss Annalea

Raymond, daughter of Mr, and
Mrs. Earl Raymond = of 2038
Crocker, returned home last
week for the summer vacation,
Miss Raymond is attending A.
& I, College in Nashville, Tenn |
and is already taking an active
part in Flint~s social activities,

| probability means,
| Mississippi,

The nine other states, in all
Louisiana,
Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Arkansas, South Caro
lina, Texas and North Carolina,

The majority opinion concluded that ~seating arrangements
for different races in interstate
moior travel require a_ single,
uniform rule to promote and
protect national travel,~

The 6-1 Supreme Court decision should be a great rehief
to Negro travel
southern climes, Heretofore

interstate
they

have been molested in no small~

degree in the South, where on

~many occasions they were snat: |=
ched from busses and jailed by

law enforcement. officers for
~violating the South~s segregation laws,~ by riding up front

with white people.

On many occasions
there were enough whites to occupy
not even allowed to occupy the

most hindermost seats, but found
to stand.

when

entire bus, Negroes were

Community Organization Council

To Organize ~League of Clubs~

A desert and coffee hour was
held at the YWCA given by the
Community Organization Council, for the purpose of coordinating a plan whereby more effective service may be rendered
the community through Social
Agencies and Civic Organizations

Representatives present were
Mrs. G. Franklin, Mrs, F. Gillespie, Mrs. M, King,~ Mrs, L,
Caldwell, Mrs, A. Broadnax,
Mrs. M, Johnson, Miss L. Van
Zandt, Mr. I, Beck, Mr, J, Governor, Mrs..A. Robinson, Mrs.
E. C, Robinson, Mrs. G, ~
erts and. Miss C, Jones.

A brief sketch of:the work
being carried on in their respective agencies was given by Mrs.
E. C. Robinson, Director of the
Clifford St. Center, Miss Van
Visiting Nurse, Mott
Mr. J, Governor
for FICC, Mrs, M. Johnson,
Director of the St, John Si.
Center. Mrs, G. Roberts Activities Secretary YWCA and Miss

Foundation,

' C, Jones, Civic Secretary Urban

temporary Secretary,

League of Flint,

By means of increased - participation and interpretation ~ it
was felt that much good could
be accomplished.if there was established a central Coordinating
body to assist the council in
developing programs and planning methods of procedure. It
was therefore voted that a ~League of Clubs~ be organized with
at least one representative of
each of the Social and Civie
Clubs as members, Mrs. G.
Franklin was elected as temporary chairman, Mrs, A. Roberis,
Mr J.
Govenor, chairman membership

- committee, with Mrs, A. Broad
nax and Mrs. M. JohnSon as co- |

chairmen. All clubs are invited
to join the League of clubs, let
us hear from you if your club
would like to join,

Miss Watkins
Speaks Vows

Miss Wilma Watkins, the
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Fred
Wilson of Pingree and an Elm
Park deb,, was married to Mr,
Don Kersey, of- 1866 Clifford St.,
at 2:00 p. m. Sunday, The ceremony took place at the home of
the bride~s mother and father,

The bride was attired in a
beautiful Beige ensemble and
wore an orchid corsage. Her sister Gloria ~attended her as
bridesmaid. She wore agua with
a pink carnation corsage. Mr.
Samuel McClarin served as best
man,

Mr. Kersey is tne son of Mrs.
Bessie Kersey of 1816 Clifford
St.

Egg White Watery
Sixty-six per cent of an egg~s
weight is water.

US SEGREGATI

GEORGE FRILEY |

World Champion Detroit Tigers
To Play Here June 17th; Exhibition

Its goal, a complete sellout
of Atwood Stadium, the Flint
Junior Chamber.of Commerce
this week opened the advance
ticket sale for world champion Detroit Tigers~ exhibition
game against the Flint AillStars.

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Game time has been set for
8:30 under the lights.

The contest is being sponsored by the Flint Junior
Chamber of Commerce and
the Flint Baseball Commission.
Local share of the gate receipts
will go to the Commission's
Junior Boys Baseball program.
Advanced sales will be handled on a& group basis. Tickets
will be sold in a block of 10
or more. They may be obtained at the Chamber of Commerce office, 509 East Harnson Street. Mail orders will
be accepted. Reserve seats
will sell for $1 and box seats
for $1.50. Geneval admission
will be 50c. Boys who play
on teams in the City-Wide
Baseball Commission program
will be admitted free.

The. following J.C. men are
participating in the program;

BILBO FACES DEFEAT

WASHINGTON, ANP ~

The best news from Dixie
since ~Lee~s surrender hit the
newsstands here last week.
Bilbo, say some political observers in the area misdepresented by the senator,
stands a good chance to lose

the election.

During the past - week,
newspapers in Mississippi
and adjoining states have
openly forecast that the senator will not ~even swing a

ad

Plurality in the first Demo.
cratic primary,

Since May 4, Bilbo ond his
campaign entourage have
been churning up the familiar Bilbo bugaboos ~ the
FEPC, the Jews and racial
equality, He also has re.
minded his listeners that as
chairman. of the district committee he can ~spring~ them
out of the Washington jail
any time they come here,

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Advance Ticket Sales, Anson
Hedgecock; Manpower, Elwood Boyer; Promotion, Jack

Kidd; Gate Teller, Kenneth
Cummings; Ushers, DeVere
Bogier, Bob Largent, G. Logan; ~. Szabo, C. George,

Ned Capp, George Way, Bob
Pratt, Keith Burden, Leo Van
Huff, Jeffrie Marshall, Ray
Whitehurst, Ferris Curtis, Barney Luce, Ray Moses, Lesley
Longworth, John Bamford,
Ward Anderson, Len Filer, Bob
Krause, John Murray, Bob
Emmons,, Ailen Dillon, Tom
Sumner, Bob. Darby, Tom Zlatec, Bill Galliver, Merl Sipes,
Herman Myers, Joe Ryder,
Stanley Glow, Jack Cramer,
A. J. Lynch, Bob Lawler, Sandy Peterson, Bob Perry and
Don DeCew.

~ Ticket sellers are:

Carl

Sherff, Dave Stinson, Merton Bender, De Vere
Bobier, James Cohoon, J.

Buckner, Roy Burgess, Franklin Comins, Walter Holloway,
Frank Hoffstetter, Herbert Millikan, Fred Moon, Stuart Norwood, Hector Seaton, Griffith
Stegall, John Thomas and Al
Melvin Banner is general
chairman of the Junior Chamber Committee working with
the Flint Baseball Commission.

Nylons! Ladies,
Nylons

Get your subscription to the
Flint Spokesman paper to-day,
so that you can enter the contest for six pairs of 52 stocking in your own size. Don~t wait
~it may be too late, for stockings free, upon your knee,
~Phone 5-3338 for information.

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GEO. FRILEY NOMINATED

FLINT, Mich, ~ APNS ~Mr,
George Friley, Flint business
man and civic leader, was mandatcrily nominated as a eandidate for commissioner of the
3rd Ward, A Spokesman of. the
Community Civic League pointed cut that Mr. Friley~s -name
will not appear upon the primary ballot as the city is- reluctant to go to the expense of
placing the name upon the ballot since there will not ybe a
contest. However the nam? will
be on. the election ballot in November;

BITTER FIGHT

The reactionaries staged a bitter fight in trying to sitymie
Friley~s.. campaign,.. It..segmed
that their very watchword was
to ~Step Friley.~ The community was stirred more than at any
time in the memory of political
Students here, At the Jast minute there was a great rush upon the part of new comers to
register so that they can qualify to vote in the coming election, The very fact that there

Gifford~s Default, Rev. Vaughns~
Failure to File; Results in No Contest

~had been a charge by the oppo
sition that Communist were aiding Friley~s campaign and the
fact that it was alleged that
certain parties were intimidated
by a threat of a poSsible resurrection of.the infamous Ku Klux
Klan, whetted the interest of
citizens who otherwise would
have been indifferent.
LEADERS SATISFIED

Civic league leaders expressed
themselves as being satisfied
with the results. It is lamented,
however, that there were those
in the community who possess
a degree of prominence becaus2
of their connection who failed to
support Friley, They were within their rights, but it is considered that the role that has been
played by our leaders who have
been willing to work against
the -best interest of the colored
~people: is a thing of the past, It
should be considered by all that
those who work against the best
interest of the community, invite the apes of the community.

PHILADELPHIA ~ ANP ~
Morrell Burgess, 32, was shot
Monday night by police who
mistook him for an automobile
thief. Burgess had reported his
cat, a Buick Sedan, as stolen
and had failed to notify the police when he recovered it,

Monday night police were called to investigate two men who
were seen working on a car late
at night.
the car Burgess ran and when
he failed to halt at the officer~s
command he was shot in the
right leg and a finger of the

Policeman Shoots Owner of ~Stolen~
Automobile; Mistaken for Thief

left hand,

When. arrested Burgess told
police that he and his friend,
Joan Strong, 18, were helping a
third man to move from his apariment, and when Burgess
saw the policemen approaching
he was afraid that the third man
was stealing something,

Burgess is at present being
detained. in the Philadelphia
General hospital under police
guard. He will be questioned
further when. he is_ released,
Police state they are doubtful
his car was ever stolen.

ATLANTA ANP The

lanta Civic-Political league last
week heard charges that ~two
or three. Negroes are running
out in front and advocating the
candidacy of a man in the race
for governor who is linked with
the Ku Klux Klan.~

an the light of the charges,
the league. appointed a committee to visit the ministers~ union.

No Mail
For Colored

COLUMBIA, S.C, ~ANP
~James M. Hinton, state
president of the South Car.
olina - NAACP conference,
said this week the postmas.
ter general~s office had informed him it was investigating an NAACP complaint
that letter carriers in the
town of Kershaw, S. C,, refused to make deliveries to
the homes of Negro residents,

The promise to investigate
the matter came after the
NAACP reported that Ne.
groes in Kershaw were forc-.
ed to walk to the post office
for their mail while carriers
delivered to whites next

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door to them.

strategy committee of the At-~

Declare War on Georgia
Negroes Seeking Handouts

meetings to ask cooperation with
the ~league and other political
organizations in. the endorsement of -a: gubernatorial _candidate in the July 17 primary. |

Strong terms were expressed
against ~any)Negro leader who
supports a Kian candidate.~ ~We
cannot stand. any selling out of
our people at this crucial time
or any time,~ one member declared,;

| South Carolina
Hotel Bars CIO

Negro Leaders

é te hh S.C, ~ ANP ~
Staff officials of southern CIO
TWUA workers announced this
week cancellation of their conference meeting at the Wade
Hampton hotel here when hotel
officials announced Negroes attending the conference would

be. denied. admission and use of

hotel facilities,

The conference was scheduled!

for June 10-11. Efforts to locate

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another site here were in prog
~ress early in the week,

OUTLAWED

Wilson Says Ex-Bros.
Of New York Lodge
"Out To Get Him~ |

By CONRAD. ~LARK t
DANVILLE, Va. ~ (ANP)~That revolting members =

the Elks have made a ~~threat~~

on his life, a report that leaked

out from New York not so very long ago, was confirmed here
this week by J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler.

Mr. Wilson attended the
State association here and it was
during one of the day~s sessions
(May 22) that he told the more
than 75 delegates present of
the ~threat,~

He said that many of the exbrothers of the New York lodges that are now suspended, are
~out to get him,~ and he presented photostatic copies of let
ters: written by them to other
members of lodges throughout
the country,

One of the letters told of the
~secret~ meeting called _ last
month in New York, which was
presided over by one of the exexalted rulers, and a complete
copy of the minutes of that

meeting was also in the hands of

Wilson,: ~

Parts of the ituudes told of
the coming plans of the insurgents. in regards to the grand
lodge convention to be held in
August and one of the speakers
there said that ~Wilson must. be
gotten, anything short of murder,~ and that he would continue his efforts in fighting for
his dethroning this summer.

After spending three days in
Virginia, Mr. Wilson and party,
including Judge William Hueston, grand commissioner of education for the Elks, returned to
Washington and two days later
flew to Chicago and from there
to Kentucky and North Carolina
to attend other state association
ses3ions,

Memo: To
High School
Students

Going to college? Now is the
time to make your application to
colleges throughout the country
for fall entrance. Consider carefully curriculum, finance, living
quarters, job possibilities, educational and recreational - advantages. Will I need further education after college? Do I know
exactly what I want to do?

The Urban League maintains
a listing of all the colleges and
universities throughout the
country and available to help
you secure information relative
to the school of your choice, Also there are many college cat
annual session of the Virginia

Peay ten oat

FISK COED ~ Miss Glofia

Dean Mills, ome of Flint~s Pop=. ~

ular young Socialites, is* now
home for the summer vacation.
Miss Mills is the daughter~of
Mr, and Mrs. Albert Mills of:
1221 Alabama St.

alogues and year books that we
will gladly loan you upon request, Remember our Vocational slogan:: ~The future is yours,
plan and prepare,~ Come into
the Urban League Office and let

~jus help you,

Flint Golf:
Club Host.
To Toledo Club

The Flint Golf Club is looking forward to the golf tournament Sunday, June 9, at which
time they play host to the Toledo Golf Club, whom also has
jthe edge so far over the Flint
club, Sundays match will tell the

tale of which is really the best
~club. Golfers to-be are urged to
turn out,

WILLIAM H. BONDS, who organized the A, P, N. S. Newspaper Chain, a progressive
movement, sponsored by Atlas
Power Cooperative, with headquarters at 260 E. Vernor Highway. Detroit, has been acting
in the capacity of General Man-~
ager, The growth of the syndicate has been almost phenomenal, with 10 progressive news
{papers representing various sec
tions of the country, now dotting the newspaper chain,~

At a recent meeting of the
Board of Directors, Mr, Bonds
was elevated to the responsible
position of executive editor of
The Detroit Journal, and its affiliate newspapers, along with
his duties as general manager.

Mr. Bonds will leave within a
few weeks for New York City,
where he will confer with nationa! representatives in the advertising field in the hope. of
landing some large contracis for
A. P. N, S, newsnapers.

Water which comes into a building
through a leaky roof spreads out under the roofing to the roof boards
the plates and studs, and into the
walls and floors.

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