Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 12]

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1946

THE FLINT SPOKESMAN ~

hi ace COUNT BASIE |: Mak cate to His Book Se a ae ae

SEEIN~

~STARS

- With polloies Calvm;

Lena Horne has
office and friends.playing
film, ~Till The Clouds
By~ does not appear
time, Lena

and quiet in the Long Island
Home where she~s staying.

fbnekor Claghorn, she wiseacre ffom Fred Allen~s radio
show, will be on hand for the
New ~York Newspaper Guild

pariy at Club 65 in wich the |
ty Downtown

entire Cafe Socie
show, featuring. Josh White and
-the King- Cole Trio from the
Zanzibar will stop by...~
Otto Hardwick, after 20. years
working with Duke Ellington
as a firgt sax player left last
eek. Why? And Al Hibbler,
Dakss great -blind singer. was
_ given a three week ~vacation~
without pay when the. band began a date at ~the Paramount.

~-@mly Hibbler wasn~t ~told about

it. until opening day. Pert Penny Singleton, famous for her
~Blondie~ series, has penned a
personal message to mothers in

an agticle to appear in a forth-|

coming

issue of Allure Magazine.;

Lena Horne and Paul Robeson!
~with Duke

gave a sensible. press conference
when they spoke their broadminded views > which took in

plans for a new world--most of |

which will benefit our. people,
Lena Horne wore the vogue coca brown in suede shoes,
gray suit and mink, Robeson is
gaining too much weight, The
Edwards Sisters back into the
Apollo,

Rex Stewart, heavy set, friendly formerly Duke Ellington
trumpeter, will play his own!

composition.with the New York | me

estr2 May 3lst. This is the first.| Robinson.
~rage in welcoming

Philharmonic Symphony Orch
time the Philharmonic has play
the MGM
pam
es to locate her, Since her next
Roll
for some
isn~t too keen on
publicity~just wants some rest

~to. see Marie Ellington, farmer,
Duke &trongstréss. do her) own
version of ~Personality~ at the
~Zanzibar, Jetta Kelly, the -Chicago rep, for Adlune Magaz:ne, -
left New Youk for Home the
day the trains~ ~were to ~stop,
'Penn. Station ~warned that passengers coud ~travel~ at their own
risk. One-fourth ef the wa, to
Chicago an~a#reemrent was made
for a 5-day éxtension. Charge,
ate being~ made in the Louis
Jordan: univ. ~ile. Moune, the
French ~star, is anxious to teach
her friends how to ride, She
intends to join a riding ~party
with Josh White this summer,

That Constellftion the ~King
Cote Trio ~rode. from California was grounded in Pittsburgh due to foul weather and
they were forced to stay overnight in the coal city.) The

three, plus valet~ and. road
manager had to sleep in~ one
room because of hotel sho!tage, and nobody got any) rest!~
They turned up the. day after
they got in at the Kraft Music~
Ha~l air rehearsal in real; Cal:fornia attire only to be | met
with drizzing rain. So off

to

steel~

buy raincoats. ' Opening; nigh:
at the Zanzibar was #ushed
Ellington, Gene
Krupa and other bandleaders
catching Nat Cole for a quick
talk. Oscar and Johnny spent
most of their*time at the Turf
Bar. Nat confessed in all the
time he had been to the Zanzibar, he had never seen: himself
on that stage and he wouldn't
unti} he was actually thede. The
first night.the- boys came out
to sing ~It~s Better To Be By
Yourself, ~Sweet Lorraine~ and
~Route 66~. they were ~ called
|to do ~Straighten, Up.~
show, then featuring Bill
went into a:fit of
the _ long
ed a jazz composition at Carne. | awaited three men of music to

gie Hall and the first time a

Negro has been so honored. In
addition, Rex will play with his
~Rextet~ in the ~pop~ concert.

Eieanor Roosevelt shook hands
with Lawrence Winters formerly named Lawrence Whisonant,
on his performance in ~Call mé
Mister.~ The,ex-GI has~ a~ com:
mendable part, Duke Ellington
and Al Hibler came. separately

SPPOPO9 CODE

~Do You Need. Help?

Franklin E.

Potter

Conusuk Prof.

Psychologist &
Personal horoscope and three
questions an.
swered. Enclose
$1 and self-addressed stamped envelope &
birthdate,

Complete line
~f psychie sup.
plies.

Ask about Prof. Potter~s
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~ -_~

the Zanzibar stage,

Rochester ~singing ~Mary
Jane~ is almost impossible,.In
his routine, the ~Tea For. Two~
music which always introduced
Kitty Murray, boxum commedienne, is now ~being played for
a beautiful, shapely girl and
their. dance together loses all
comedy appea, To see Kitty
dancing -with Rochester in
which he slaps,;: pushes and
shoves her inti place, has been
the number one riotous dct of
te year. Evidently, Rochester
knows this as they are trying:
to take Kitty from her
Rendezvous spot to join the
Zanzibar show.

Chinese Enterprise

The scientific ingenuity, patience
and skill of the Chinese were re
vealed anew on a recent~ government mission to the Orient. In a visit to a Chinese city famous the last
2,000 years for brine wells, Chinese
were seen drilling deep wells for
brine and natural gas. Tne interesting aspect is that they have penetrated to depths of 3,500 to 4,000 feet
without any metal equipment except
the cutting edge of a drill. They are
using and have used, for hundreds
of years, drilling methods developed
independently in Armevica.

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Score,~ ~ ~Body and Soul,~

~comedian. Malina Miller has a

Elks |

Nite Lifein New York)

By ALVIN MOSES:

2

NEW YORK~(ANP)~MGM | is ok sania in

| the history of jazz COUNT BASIE and his manager, Mit Eb
bings, are currently writing~MGM feels that a musical revue
sparked by the Basie Scnius should have mighty fine musical
revue possibilities and they are in there punching for the
-sereen rights. Ethel Watérs, one of. the: decorative jewels at
Johnny Barrone~s: Club Barron, these 85.degree evenings, ~is
back on. the. wax beat again~ and her legions. of admirers happy. we'll say they are~La: Waters, queen of -American music
hall songstresses, has signed with. Continental for a series of
discs under the supervision of Leonard: Feather of Esquire
Magazine and Metronome. fame.

The Julliard School ~of * ~Music, ~ ~arinounces ~ chat popular~

Teddy Wilson, pianist de'uxe, will be one of its instructors dur
ling the. summer term. beginning July 1 ~and ending fisbiet 9:

The Wilson course, ~~piano, jazz improvisation," es one|one hour private lesson, and one, two- -hour élass ~weekly; the
registration is limited to this column ~ requests. oe ~plicants:
not to contact us by letter but to, write to President human
in New York City direct. _:

Jimamy Edwards, youngest, as we. Tt as. most. progressive of
the independent colored, booking agents in the theatrical field,

| tells me that he has. many good opportunities. for, youngsters

(colored and white) between the ages af 13 and 18, who pos8C88 acting. ability. He has been: commissioned asa bonded agent o inerview.as. well as audition these, ' ~teen-agers~ for the
purpose of securing principa~s for a,meyie designed to show
that American youngsters can live happily together while
vorking ~qut useful livés. The Edwards studio iis. located at

217 W. 125th, Suit 120, New Rork i intermews are from]

4to 7 P, M.

Duke Ellington, who has.in rec wait: years won. the: unanimous acclaim of the ~~ionghairs of the music: realm,ag well as
the jazz wizards, has been. u real honored: ~Dawing, his coming appearance at New, York's. swank Paramount, theatre,
Duke will present awards to ~the three _youths ~who last season won out in the Ellington Julliard scholar-hip competition,
the winners being Elaine Jones, 17, typanist; Paul Rudoff,

French horn, 18, and Warren Norwood, flute, of Forest Hills,;

L. I.: the award entitles~the winners to a three years course: at
the Julliard school. | -

The lazy langour and sultry high jinks produced on wax
recordings only by incomparable Pearl Bailey, Sister of the
now preaching Bi | Bailey, brings us around to highly recommending her ~~It~s A Woman's Prerogative,~ and ~Logalize
My Name~. The, Herb Jeffries recording of ~What's the|.
is simply terrific; Since this column
has had little to say in recent months about, the nice looking),
~ad once associated wi *h the, Duke Ellington menage,
thought this would be a,nice spot to set our readers etraight
on record purchases.,

Earl Bostic, a tenor, saxist who rates away up high,
back at Murrains playing to fairly good | crowds. Ella abe
ald has me working overtime answering mail from distant
cities anest her announced waxing of ~Flying Home,~ Decca
Recording officia's tell me that either June or July will see the
release of this Fitzgerald masterpiece~ which figures to sell a
half millions discs before Christmas time rolls by.

King Cole Loses Right
Trio Steals ~ To Bar
Kraft Show Negro Skaters

NEW YORK ~.CNS ~ The CHICAGO ~- ANP The
first summer show of the Kraft | White City roller skating rink
Music Hall here in the NBC] agreed last week tq admit Nebuilding was. termed. ~lousy~,| grees; on a: par, with. whites
as Eddie Duchin, Malina Mil-|through Robert Michel, managler and Russ Casé~s orchestra | er, who, appeared.before Muniproved unable to carry.on as cipal Judge Jay: A, ~Schiller on
Bing Crosby had, as far as| charges -of yiolating the city~s
listeners were concerned, eiv:l rights ordinance.

Michel was arrested iast- Jan,
5 aiter three Negroes had been
denied admiesion to his skating
rink.. They were. William C.
Payne, ~Pinkner. Hayes, and Wil. |
loughby Abner, the~ latter a

member of the ~Chicago Indus- |
trial council~ of the CIO.

Judge Schiller élosed the case
by dropping charges against
Michel and disorderly conduct,
_charges,' growing out of a demonstretion outside of White City,
agaiust 12 white and Negro.
youths, most of-them students of
Roosevelt college.

~The only part of the program
I enjoyed was the King Cole
Trio,~ spoke an average American who -attended the. broadcast. The jokes were horrible
and silly, Eddie Duchin~s play.
ing was good but he~s not a

pleasing voice but there was no
~punch~ to the show, The only
~punch~ was the five minutes
of the King Cole Trio. They
kept the show moving. That
~Route 66~ is sharp, And I was
real happy to see Negro boys
walking off with the program.
And it was none of that ~Yes,
Mr, Duchin~ stuff, Nat Cole
called Eddie Duchin ~Eddie~
like it should be. Sure did make
me feel pac us

~~

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DUKE ELLINGTON
Awards Scholarships to Contest Winners

~Heat~ on, Policy Operation Shifts ~
To Chicago Suburbs

JONES~ KIDNAPPING
LEADS TO RACKET, PROBE.

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Most
policy wheels in Chicago -are
reported closed, but the num.
bers game continues to flourish
in East Chicago, Gary, Indiana
Harbor, and other suburban
communities, south of the city,
Operations were ~moved~ to the

varied outskirts sites when po-.

lice, spprred. by: th~ kidnapping

WE |of~ Edward. ~P eA GRAS, reputed

stellar figure in the Policy world

~redoubled efforis: to wipe out

the leech-like game so~ prevalent on Chicago~s, southside.

Jones, ~abducted on May ll
and held prisoner for five days
until his release was obtained
through payment. of. $100,000
ransom by. his brother, George,
has been- quizzed -by police, but
has consistently refused-to divulge any~evidence which might
aid in tracking down his abductors.

Scme ~effects of the ~heat~

put on policy operators.by -au-.

thorities, can. be seen in the
~change from ~wide open~, trans-actions ~to the ~back alley~ ~methods~ used. before protettien was
~assured by official handouts, _
Jones~ kidnapping revealed to
police just how policy was bécoming and the abduction-is seen
as the-beginning of a renewal of
the type of Capone era: -gang

warfare which made pies ee tt
alleged friendship with ~ Jones

shotguns and bloody féuds, The | they

lucgative aspects of ~the. game, | po

city ~identified with ~sawed.

it ~is felt, have drawn: it. to the |

attention of other - ~racial his

'who.will attempt to ~tauseléin.!?. This is especially evident; since

- Jones has ~pulled the ~eiling

no. arrests have been made in
the Jones~ case, and the victim
himself remain silent in ~gang
fashion,~ and refuse8 to aid police in their search for his captors. Officials in the state~s attorney~s office last week said
they were no nearer a solution
of the myStery than they were
on May 17 when Jones was released, unharmed and apparently none the worse for his experience.

~A period of interrogation followed the rtimors that Jones
had been seen in three different
places, by a trio of persons,
several hours before he was
picked up at 62nd and Ada Sis,
a full day after the ransom had
been delivered, Intimates of
Jones have advanced the idea
that perhaps his presenc was
necessary in order that the larges
amount of money may be drawn |
from the bank,

Chicago banks, currency exchanges, and various enterprises- have been given a list of the
serial numbers on the $50 and
$100. bills that were delivered
in ~tne ransom box, and they are
being published in newspapers
thravghout the country.

Sources close to Jones have
revealed his intimacy with well
known west side hoodlums, who
have long police records, and
are.- described as ruthless ~ in
~methods: to obtain what they
want. ~Tt_is thought that through

learned all details of the
_setup,. and now want to
move. in. Other policy operators
on. the southside are saying that

~down on the rackets.~

with us. We women.'~ean help
the men of our group to do 4
gieater work by uniting in unit-~
ed force. Our headquarters are

loczted at the St. -Anthony
Teraple, 6300 St. Aubin Street:
cor. of Adele.

For information call To 5 -
8760 or Te. 1-1775.
Rev. Mother Bradley Lewis,

President and Founde:.

~ Rev. M. ~. Anderson,
Vice-President.

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Last Rites ioe fe ia

GOP. Leader, Slated for Saturday

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Funeral
services for former Ald. Louis
B. Anderson, 76-year-old Republican leader here, were held at
St. Thomas~ Episcopal church
Saturday. Internment was in a
local cemetery,

Anderson, who rose to political fame here more than 30
years ago, died at his -residence
of bronchial pneumonia Tuesday.
He had been ill since Christmas,

The nzenith of Anderson~s
political career was marked by
his seven conSecutive terms as

alderman of the powerful sec.
|-end ward. He rose to be -the

late Mayor William Hale

~Thempson~s floor leader of the

city council. He was first elect.
ed on the Republican ticket in
1917, after he had served as an
assistant state~s attorney from

1898 to 1914, He resigned from

the city corporation counsel~s
staff to become alderman.
Anderson~s_ political demise
began when he aspired for the
U. S. congress in 1934 as rep.
resentative of ~the first congressional district, He defeated Os.

B. ~Anderson,

ear~ DePriest in the Republican
primary for nomination but was
defeated by a narrow margin of
213 votes in the general election
~by Arthur W. Mitchell, the
Democrat~s candidate, Following that election, he retired from
politics,

Born in Petersburg, Va., on
April 17, 1870, Anderson was
educated in the local public

schools there and received h~s
higher education at Virginia
Normal and Industrial institute
and the Kent College of Law
here, where he graduated in
1897.

He is survived by his wife,
Mrs, Oneita Anderson; a daughter, Jessica, and a brother and

sister in Washington, all reported tc be enroute here for the

funeral Saturday. ~

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weather, plant growth and other

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Stage and Screen Celebrities

NEW YORK ~ Calvin~s News

Service) ~ With the downtown
and uptown area crowded to
its capacity with famous -namés,

New York began an all-time

Summer season of welcoming #

the stars in qur midst.

With Eddie Rochester Anderson opening at the Zanzibar, the
King Cole Trio co-starring;
Duke Ellington at the Paramount; Count Basie at the
Roxy; Ethel Waters at the BaTon; Billy Daniels at Jock~s;

Billy -Eckstein ai

and Kitty Murray at the Elks
the. Sundan.
Rendezvous, the townspeople

are kept on the go,

~
-

In addition, celebrities have
come to the big city. Jack
Benny, Phil Harris, Alice Faye,
Lena Horne, Abbott and Castello, Lucille Ball, Joan Fontaine,
Gary Grant, Perry Como, Ann
Sheriden, Gene Kelly, Dorothy
Lamour are combining work
and pleasure in the big city.

S. C. Negroes Prepare to Vote
In Spite of Obstacles

COLUMBIA, S, C. ~ ANP ~

~Preparation to vote in~ the
Democratic primaries in this
state was expressed here last

week by 150 delegates to a state
wide meeting of the South ~Carolina Progressive Democratic party.

A fiery keynote speech was
delivered by A, J, Clement,
Charleston insurance man, on the
efforts of white Democrats to
block Negro voters in the primaries. He called the action of
the recent state Democrat:~convention as ~defiance and utter
disdain of the highest: court of
the land,~ in denouncing - their
plots to deny suffrage rights to
Negroes.

Clement ridiculed the white
Democrats~ anti-Negro stand by
saying they ~dared to fool them
selves into a false state of se.

curity by adoption of some ram
shackled, bombastic and redun- |

dant porridge of words as to
who is a ~Democrat.~ ~. The word
Democrat, was defined in a resolution adopted by the delegates
to the state convention, which
would, according to Clement, bar
all Negroes and ~80 per cent of

the white people of the state,~

The insurance man~s - sp2ech
was highlighted when he said:
~We are not going to give anyone trouble,~ but ~if presenzing
ourselves brings trouble,

then |

let trouble come,~ -

A determination to seek legal
Tecourse for those who are denie@ the right to vote in the primaries was expresséd by J, M.
Hinton, president of the local
branch of the NAACP, who remarked that ~the NAACP is sure
that the eight old tired men
will liberate the Negroes in
South Carolina as they did in
Texas; Georgia and Florida.

Thirteen resolutions wer?
adopted as the party platform,
including enactment of federal
laws to make officers found gui'ty of participating. in mob actions guilty of (insurrection
against the federal governhmer::,
re-allocation of the number oi
congressmen in states ~which
circumvent~ free voting of all
citizens, immediate court acticn
against boards of registraticn
~suspected of deliberately~ re.
stricting, Negro registration and
inelusion of ~~competent colorcd
citizens~ on grounds charg:d
with projects ~of interest of all
citizens,~

~Clement was elected execut:-e
secretary. Other officers elec:od
were John H. McCray, editor of
The Lighthouse and Inform:r,
chairman of the party; John H.
Green, Charleston, first vice
chairman; the Rev, B, F, Sumpter of Union, second vice chzirman,:

Federal and State Authorities
Join Forces to Kill KKK

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ A joint
drive to smash the revived hooded KKK organization in Georgia

was initiated here last week by
federal and _ state authorities,
with the U. ~S, government

spearheading the move by de
marding klan payment of
$685,305 in back ~taxes that
cover a 20-year period.

A tax collection suit has already been filed by the federal
government while Governor Ellis Arnall has simultaneously
ordered the state attorney gen
eral to bring court action to re
voke the Ku Klux Klan~s charIn reubking KKK activithe

it mecessary to convene

legislature~ in spécial~ Session to
~behood~

the night riders.

Arnall~s determination to
smaSh -the- Klan in Georgia is
backed by the AFL, CIO. and
independent | labor __ unions,
which made a demand on May
10 for an investigation into the
revival of KKK activities by
the FBI and treasury department.~ They noted that the
knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc,, announced suspension of
activities in 1944 ~because of
unpaid federal taxes amounting to more than half a million
dollars,~ but that it has resumed activities,

Arnal suggested a number of
legal grounds for revoking the
klan charter, including violation of state criminal laws and
violation of each of its charter

| Claims of being a fraternal,

non-profit and non-political organization, His three-page directive to Atty, Gen. Eugene
Cook, on the subject of revocation of the KKK charter urged the Atty. Gen. to confer
with the United States attorney general on the possibility

~| of bringing about an FBI jin
vestigation.

The Ku Klux Klan ~suspended~ its corporate activities on
June 4, 1944 but filed with

the Georgia secretary of state

the country,
-last week.

a certificate of corporate registeration for the Knights of

the Ku iKlux Elan, dnc, on
March 21, this year, Governor
Arnall mentioned paying 4:12

fee covering corporate activi!~ -3

for. 1941 to 1946 incluSive.

The government~s tax suit
against the KKK was filed in
superior court of Fulton co:n- ~
ty by Marion Allen, collecisr ~
of internal revenue, and se2ks
to collect $685,305 in back taxes for the years of 1921 through
1924 and for 1926,

Army Film
On Negro
Out Seon

NEW YORK ANP
~Teamwork,~ the two-reel sequel
to the Negro Soldier produced /
by the army signal corps frorm a.
script by Carlton Moss, will be
released to theatres throughout
it was- announced

The film, which pictures the
contributions made by Nezro
soldiers in the air, at the front
and behind the firing lines, emphasizes the following poin:s:
How Hitler~s agents in America
helped spread the myth of Ne..
gro inferiority; how Protestant,
Catholic, Jew, Gentile, Neg:o
and whites all hit the beach u7 -der the same enemy fire, whon
it felt the same pain, and-when
wounded were aided by a plas.
ma of blood of all races; how
~Negroes helped with the war

for a democracy they knew docs
not exist,

In announcing distribution o2
Teamwork, Arthur Mayer and
~Joseph Burstyn said the war department picture should be
shown in every community so
that ~the American people will
fully appreciate the role payed ~
by all minority groups in the 4
winning of the war,~ ie

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