Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 16]

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Duck Hunters
Given) Longer
ing Period

Duck hunters in both upiand
and downstate Ohio may have
better hunting this fall if the
recommendations of the Ohio
Conservation Commission to the

~VU. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
are accepted. The.

Commission
>equext that
Federal Wildlife Servic: give

Friday voted to
the F

~Ohio a split season~ on water
fpw! by orening the season for
the 10 counties ccriprising the

Lake Erie District ~during October anc. November. ani for

inland Ohio the months of November and Decewber affording. inland nunters a_ better
chance~at waterfow! migvating

southward.

Furthe- recomm-ndation pronot
have a split s#ason that the
Sta'e be placed in the zone that

~ most closely includes the sea
> prospects

son stipulated in the Ohio Code,
October 16 to December 14,
which compromise the hunting
for both the Lake

-, and inland hunters.

The commission favored a reduced bag limit if conditions indicate a reduced duck population.

In a telephone communication Friday mornjng to Conser
vation Commissioner H, A. Rid-,

er, an official of tne U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service -ndicated
thar the waterfowl. season this
fall would be?st.ortencd frora
the 1945 80-day season to 60
days. The communication did
not, however, rvrsvral any probable dates~ or powible zovung,
but did request recommendations from the Ohio Conservation Commission.

Thursday~s action by the Com.
mission on resolutions presented at the annual game hearing
attended by the 14 farmer and
sportsman representatives and
the general public Thursday
morning established tentative
hunting and trapping seasons
and bag limits as follows: Pheasant, Ruffed Grouse and Hungarian Partridge, Nov 15 to Nov.
30. Daily bag limit, 2, and posession, 2. Rabbit, Nov. 15 to
Jan. 1 with daily limit of 4
and 4 in possession. The north
~ern and southern squirrel hunt
ing zone system was abolished

_ Setting the open season for the, would be

sep season on skunk. For

entire state as September 14
to September 28 wih.a daily
limit of 4 and possession 4.

Acting upon recommendations
presented at the game _ hearing,
the commission voted that there
no open season on
deer in Ohio,

Trapping for the iniand district was set at November 15

No. January 15 with the exception

of District 7 (Southern Ohio)
in which. there will be no opthe

~Lake Erie trapping district the

~open season will be December

1 to March 15.
All hunting~ and trapping will

begin at 12 noon EST on. the
opening day with the exception

of raccoon hunting which will
begin at 6 p.m. and continue
to 6 a.m.,each day of the season. All dates - -are~ inclusive.

The above: regulations are

~tentative and~ will be subject

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to- official adoption at the Commission~s ae ee meeting.

Safety: Council
Acts to Avert
Holiday Accidents

~~GHICAGO. -+ This Fourth of
July may see a holiday-starved
public roll up the greatest milage ever recorded on the nation~s speedometers in any week
end, the National Safety Council said today.
More important, the ~Council fears it will be the deadliest. week-end in the country~s
history~unless the emergehcy

jg met with eeeeerspotion
_ iby. everybody.

More than 20 million vechicles
will pack the highways during
the fourday holiday period, the
Council estimated..They will
travel more than four billion
_ miles.

=< ane ~Mobilizing to vert the threat
ened disaster, 150 national organizations are cooperating with

the Council in a _ nationwide
Fourth of July campaign to
consolidate public and oficial

support behind the slogan, ~Be
Alive. on the Fifth!~

In appealing for public cooperatipn in. the campaign, Ned
H. Dearborn, president of the
Council,. -said, ~J hate to, throw
cold water on holiday~ anticipation but me ~have the same

a i iaiaatidliad

| governor,

THE VETERAN'S LIGHTHOUSE |

& By. Joseph Francis Albright
for ANP ~

VA going on 40- hour ~week,
come July*1. Order not mandatory, however, ~and ~ divisions
with back.ogs need not comply, i

Pointing out that out of the
261,600 handicapped vets registered with USES in April only
11,000 have been placed in
jobs. DVA is clamoring for a
tigrtening up of the application

and effectiveness of disabled

veterans prefercnce.
Califernia reports that the
state expects more than, 300,-]_

000 veterans to take up on-thejob training out thre. By he
end of July job training approvals will reach 2,009 monthly.

Occupational testing and guidance shou:id -be a must! with
every vet. Square pegs in tound
holes will not get the
possible income in this world
af specialized skilis.

~In New York City, the board}

of estimate established a $130,000 revolving fund with which
to provide working capital for
vets~ business training program
at the College of the City of
New York, This is an under
writing procedure that is being

adopted by more and more loeal and state governments to
give the vet a leg-up in the
pursuit of his education. |

Organizations. still not alert
to the dire need of Negro. veterans for assistance. Too many
tetters from Negro vets everywhere complaining of: this ~apathy. Attention all churches, lodges, clubs, unions, guilds, etc.,
Send $1.15 to the superintendent
of documents, U, S. Government
Printing office, Washington 25,
D. C., and get these two books,
Veterans administration Pamphlet No. 44 entitled *~Vetérans
Benefits~ and ~Laws. Relating
to Veterans.~ Learn the law, and
teach it to a veteran, Better get
on the ball before many of these
PPP RC RHce are Rens,

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In the meantime, vet, show

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highest |

some personal ~concern Besael
and join a veterans~ organization now. {js Jee

Any organization ~need 'ng assistance or advice in help'ng
veterans write to Joseph F. Albrigh', special axsistant -to- the
adimin~stra'or, Veterans administration, Washingion 25, D. C.

Missouri hous2 of réepresentatives killed the senate bonus
plan ($10 per monh of service
up to $406.) Reason:. vets. pzrotested sales tax. method: fo:
raising $150 million dol a: s te
finaace~ it.

Sugges~~ion to. vets: if you
are planning on going to schoo.
this fall, make your ~- contac:.
early. All schools will be overcrowded, and the sooner you get
under the wire, the be~ ter,

Despite congressional efforts

to c.ear the air, surplus p! ~oper.
ties d-stribution to yots still remains under fire. A full-divss
congressional investigation

tion to vets is being made.

The battle to hold prices. own
directly affects every Negro
veteran. Run away inflation will

place financial restrictions up-'

on them which will be ~felt for
a generation. Better get in on
this fight. It is your money
which is involved,

Do not get too excited about
building a home until something
is done concerning the present
inflationary trend in material
costs. Take it easy. There is no
point in assuming an unwarranted debt which will burden you
beyond your ability to eventually pay.

USES says postwar unemploy
~ment peak is passed, and con.

ditions will steadily improve.
Labor department states that
15 per cent of the 12 million
workers in manufacturing plants
are vets, as compared with $
million last December.

Keep that NSL insurance policy paid up,

So. Carolina May Have Special
Session on Bus Jim Crow Ruling

i Gevernie ee J. Williams, informed quarters | said
tihs week, is considering ordering a special session of the
state legislation to find ways
and means of circumventing the
recent supreme court decision
(Irene Morgan case) outlawing a jimcrow bus travel,

Several requests for the action have been addressed to the
these quarters ~ say,

which are ~in keeping with his]

state~s customs..

Faced with paying equal sal-]

aries to school teachers, state
law-makers held a secret twoweek session, emerging with the
re-certification plan; and immediately after the Texas primary. decision, was TYrendered
former Governor Olin D. Johnston. now U. S. senator from
South Carolina. ordered a special session to repeal al state
laws governing the primary.

EX-SLAVE~S PRE-HISTORIC
ART AMAZES CRITICS

MONTGOMERY,.Ala. ~-ANP
--. America~s art critics are still
expressing amszement at the
pre-historic act of 92 year old
Bill Traylor, who lives! here
with one cf his daughters.

Untouched by formal education, ~Uncle Bill~ as he
known, was born a slave on the
plantation of George Traylor in
the backlands of. this state near
Benton and never started drawing until 6 years ago. He worked his farmlarrd ~until that time
as.a means of rearing his 25
chiidren, but drifted into this
mty after the death of his wife
and the old white pear~ he
knew.

~Before taking to art, he 4 -worked in a shoe factory here until~ rheumatism compelled him
to quit his job and sell pencils
on the street. His pencils gave
out~ He began to wander ound
town, sleeping on a bundle of
gray rags, until he decided on
an abandoned doorway as a permenant home. That doorway
became his first studio.

He began to make old skeichings on bits of paper and cardboards, which passersby kicked
his way. He drew dogs; cats,
horses, people. His figures were
frequently dabbed in the muddy

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combination of facts which led
the Council before V-J Day to

predict the present upsurge in:

accidental deaths. ~4

~More travel, a long awaited
vacation season in full swing,
worn out. tires and cals, rundown highways and a~ earefree
attitude that often becomes a
careless attitude~all this simply adds to more tragedy. A
prédiction can~t spoil your ~holiday but an accident can.~

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co.ors of paint he would find
here and there, and they appeared as unearthly c*eatures.
Women were often painted
green faced, dogs a flaming red
ena trees a brilliant yellow,

First publie attention to Uncle Bills art ~came through
Charles Shannon, white winner
of. two
for painting southern scenes, who
associated the art with pre-historic~ African cave art, His designs were as lyrical: as those
of Pablo Picasso, the Spanisa |
modernist, critics said.

~The old Negro~s work was
too rare and remarkable to be
tampered with,~ Shannon. told
his white friends. ~Bill had never been influenc-d by.anything
outside his own. feelings. It,
would have been wrong to show
him a_ single picture.which
might have influenced him.~

Shannon was instrumental in
having the ex-slave~s -paintings
exhibited along with his mura~
of Uncle Bill at work in his

~street corner studio. The white

artist is planning to have a for
tal exhibition of the aged or-|.

tist~s paintings, but Uncle Bill
has unfortunately lost a leg since
the first public showing of his
wo~ks and it is doubtful if e
will live to See his pictures exhibited again. He continues to
reproduce primitive~ African
art in 20th century Alabama.
tu the amazement of critics but
his mind seems lost in memories
of nis youthful plantation years.

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An apple for dessert in the school
ehild~s. lunch is a most effective

tooth ~cleanser and~ ~breath sweeten
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pF ms ~ a. 1

evidence is given that distribu
Rosenwald fellowships}.

| SATURDAY, ~yuLy 6, 1946

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HONORARY DOCTOR~S. DEGREE for Mrs, Terrell~ Scenes
as Wilberforce university bestowed upon Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell of Washington, D. C.,
the honorary degree of Doctor
of Letters. Upper left: Fresident Charles H. Wesley reads

citation as he 2onfers~ degree.
Upper right: Miss ~ Hallie Q.
Brown, famed Wilberforce teacher and octogenarian joins Mrs.
Terrell, a contemporary. in a
pose. Lower:.. Group of Delta
Sigma Theta notables.join Mrs.
Terrell who is an honorary Del
Left to right: Miss Selma Lane, Mrs. Reber S. Cann,
grand secretary; Mrs, _ Terrell,
Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander, distinguished lawyer and first president of Delta and. Li. Col.
Charity Adams, recent highest
ranking Negro WAC officer.

ta soror.

Miss. Vets
Urged to Help
Defeat Bilbo

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ ~Terming
) the defeat of Sen, Bi~bo of Mississippi in the cur election
campaign now going on in that
state a goal which ~will be a
victory for the veopte of Mississippi and the nation,~ Kenneth C. Kennedy national commaiudcy of the United Negro and
Alliei Veterans of America, urged Negro veicrans in that state
to s2gister and vote jn he Democietic primary July '2,

rent

Keanedy issuecdl ing stutement
ner2. from the mnutional keadquarters of UNAVA ~in veply to
an open letter Bilbo! published,
urging his opponents ~g the Mississippi senatoriai race to join
with him in -trying to bar Negrucs from voting in the Democratic primaries July 2.

Send Negro
Vet Back to

Chain Gang

By Jarvis Robinson

TRENTON, N. J. ~ ANP --
The New Jersey State Supreme
court ruled that 20-year-old
Negro U. S. Army veteran, Jay
Gould Cotten, must return to
a chain gang in Georgia.

In part the state supreme court
Gecision said: ~It is clear that
the asy.um. state of a person
fleeing the state ef hs: conviction for a crime has;no right to
consider the merits of his trial,

obligation of the asylum state
to surrender the person_to the
state from which he fled.~

The court~s decision backed
~New Jersey Supreme Court
Justice Joseph B.~Perskie~s ruling in Atlantic City in May
when he refused the review of
extradition proceedings. Supreme Court Justice Perskie indicated that New Jersey has no
right to rule on the legality of
Cotton~s trial in Georgia.

The Asbiry. Park: oN... J.,
American Legion. post engaged
an attorney, Robert Queen, for
Cotton. Queen said that his
client 'was 14 years old when he
was senténced and should have
~been tried in a juvenile court
rather than a criminal court.

Cotton, a war veteran of 3
campaigns, stated that he receiv.
ed cruel treatment, from older
men of the chain gang and he
escoped two weeks. after his
conviction. He came to New
York and under the impression
there that he had to register
for the draft, did so under the
name of his father, Mack Cotton,

He enlisted: in May, | 1942, in
Richmond, Va., under the name
of Buddie H. Brown, indicating
nis ~age as 22. As a_ technical
sergeant. he spent 22 months

overseas and was 50 per cent. business

~secretary-treasurer of tha s~ate

~but only the question as:to the};
~planhed to oust him~ for banning
~the meeting of whites dnd Ne
~ing. here by, denying the use of

mission for.cal 253, let him go ahead and

NAACP ATTORNEY WINS~.
ANOTHER EXTRADITION CASE

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Charles,
Houston, 45, resident of Chicago
Heights, allegedly a __ fugitive
from Missisippi, last week was
saved from extradition to Hollanddale, Miss., by persistent
efforts of his ~atturney, Robert
&. Bryant,. of the - Chicago
Branch NAACP,

Houston~s re~urn to Mississip
pi was sought on a charge of
selung mortgaged property
without informing the buyer
that there was an outstanding

mortgage against the property.
T~2 was arrested May. 28 and
given 24 hours to file a_ writ
if haveas korpus or accompany
the Mississippi sheriff back to
Holiandale.

In his argument pefore Chief
Justice Harold G. Ward-on June
22, Bryant disclosed that~ the
charge arose out of a sharecroppers~ relationship in Mississippi
where Houston occupied a two
room shack on a plantation belonging to G.- B, Saunde~s- and
that Houston started working

for Saunders in 1941 and ~pro
ed oa ~b:ttle lasting a few
~hours~ and clim~:eo. by the
~\Brit~sh officer~s cCeath -wnen

| Téa; Pond Erection of or de

New Negro University ~ omar

DALLAS ~ ANP ~ PPlans|
for the -rrection~ of ~ a: new Negro university as a means of
keeping the Universi y of Texas ~~tlv-white~ promises. to be
the main topic.i dscussion. during the regents~ meeting on July
12.,and 13.;

The new umnivérsitv
afa 9 Prairie Jiaw. co eee, re.
eontly rated to university staius, but will t2ach law, medi:
eine pharmacy, - liberal arts
and graduate work, in keep ng
with a court ruling last week
on Negro educat~on in the case
of ex-sorviceman Marion Sweai:
who wa iS denied admissign to the
University. of Texas -because he
is a Ilgre.

Absence of..the
and By a sik onal

will. not

arts
from

liberal
courses

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Prairie View's ~curriculum was
one of the factors on which
Sweatt~s case was based. A joint
University of Texas and A. and -
M. ~coliege committee; studying
long-range development in Negro education, anounced that
Prairie View will continue to
be operated but ~A. and M.
caculiy amembers might be called upon to teach advanced
engineering and - ~educational
work there pending establishment of a new Negro faculty.~
Location of.the new state.uniHouston or this city, it is stated.
Current indications show, more
reht indications here show more
concern about legal. strategems

to block the admittance. of Ne
groes to, the University. Af ~Tex
ew

as.

Report of Killing During | A
Riot Draws Commander's.

ROME ~ ANP. ~A dispatch;
in the Rome newspaper Giornale: d~Italia to the ffect that:
a British. ~officer had: been kill.
~ed in an ~alleged -riot between
American. white
troops was reported. as being
false by Lt. -Col..R. M. Grow,
American commardant.at Ciampine air base.where- the _ incident was reported to have happensd June 19.

Col. Crow announced that he
wou'td issue a formal protest
to Rome newspapers through
the army~s: -pablic relations: office in Caserta.

The newspaper repert describ
Americar Negro ~troops. clashed
with military polu~men who,

and. WNegro|.

were azempting to eject. 30,

eged
) tetest

young Italian} igetinep tim the

eet

fieid, sid Bure.:
~Col. -Crow ~ dastseed the re.
port was ~pompletel: unfounded.~

~No blows: Awere: siiock No
persons.: were -hurt, No British

captain... WAS:; ~Adfled: ~No MPs
were involved,~,~the: lonel. said.. The only, foundation _for the

report,, he said he could _jmagine, was a noisy altercation
between 12: Negro.. soldiers and
a téw white soldiers over. whether two. girls, could. be. broughe
on the field. desired ae

~The. girls: never did get on
the. field,~. he added, ~and no
plows~ were struck and no 7e
wer taken to the stockade.~

Cal.; Crow said that he had
ordered an investigation of the
affair,.

duced $8,500 worth of. cotton

for.Saunders. Saunders; as is
the southern custom, in the
course of his employment furn
ished Houston with supplies and
equipment amounting to $1,500.
The landlord has an automatic
lien on future crops being produced until the cost of this eq.
uipment is paid. Notwithstanding the gross income produced
by Houston and turned over to~
the land:ord, Saunders charged,
Houston ~3~ill owed $300 which
Saunders claims was recorded
Net a truck belonging to -Hous-/
ton,!

Bryant ~revealed that there
was no lién in fact and that the
landlord had been more. than
amply ~naid. After a hearing of
the evidenee, Judge Ward ordered Houston to be dischargcd.

fugitive
of Mis.
the NA,
less than

~Th's is the second
wanted by ~the
sissippi and saved by
A.:C P. attorney ~in
two months.

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CIO May Oust Business! |

HOLLYWOOD ~ ANP ~
Hishlighting what is predicted
to be famous Hollywood Bowl~s
greatest season and enacting an
important episode in recsal._ isto:y, Rudolph Dunbar, gifted
conductor and foreign correspondent for the Associated
Press, will conduct the symphony orchestra, August 22.
Dorothy Maynor, superb soprano, who each season ~ draws
capacity audiences ~to the sPhiiHarmonic, auditoriunt, will? be
guest soloist on this night, An
all-Negro chorus will assist,

Rudolph Dunbar to Conduct for
thesis Maynor at Hollywood Bowl

] compromising some. of the fin
est artists in the country, including many from the lical
field.

It is considered that the fact
of Leopold Stokowski~s_ being
the new music director of. the
bow] accounts for Negroes being accorded these annua! /honors, since it is well known that
he~ has~ iorig* been intérestéd in
Negroes. He has especially been
a sponsore ~of, ~ William Grant
Still and a personal friend of

his family.

Girl Wins Scholarship to Howard
On Perfect Attendance Record

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~.A perfect 12-year school. attendance
reccrd has won a. four-year
sctolarship to Howard university
for Miss Bernice Gore, a mem
Executive for Jim Crow ~ am

COLUMBIA, S. C. ~ AN P~,
Violation of the CIO~s no-dis-'
evimination code may result in!
the ouster of M. L. Wood, white |
representative of the
Textile Workers union of America (CIO), Local 253, according to an announcement hve
last week by Anthony Lucio,

PAC.

Wood resigned from ~the state |~

PAC before Lucio. anounced: he

groes at a scheduled PAC meéet
the Local~s hall to the PAC.~ Local hote~s declined to grant pera PAC meeting,

since it was understood that
Negroes would be. invited | to}.
atiend. ~ '

~Tf: I had -known:. ~~Lucio}

was going to do this (oust him

-himy from both: the: PAC. and|!
I- would not have resi-|'
-gned.~ Wood said. {As:far.as Lu-,cio is concerned, I am a white
~South Carolinian and I belive
~in what the Democratic party
~stands for. As far as ousting me

CIC),

as husiness representatives. ofol
try~

Since Wood has voluntarily
resigned. from the Political Action committee, - Lucio

ted from the CIO.
~{ will see to it, and use everything in my power to re
disabied wher. discharged.
Cotion was shot in his right
knee about two months ago
near Freéhold, N. J; by a New
Jersey state trooper who thought
ne knew him as a dtaft dodger.

Old Kidfor ~
Rape Killing |

raped. and strangled 48 year old
iMrs,
a. rubber company executive,

ting fire to: her oome to hide

stated |;
~that he plans to have him oust
move a character of this hort |
from the CIO, PAC, and any.
ether progressive organization |
to be formed in this "countcy,~ |
declared Lucio.

Lucio, port agent in Charlestion for the. National Marit ime
union (CiO), left here for a
conference: it New York.. but
prontised to~ eall~ a mrecting of
the state PAC on his return to
iron out~ the difficulties over
the proposed meeting here.

Hold 14 Year

Langhorne, Pa,~CNS ~ Fourteen -year old) Aaron. Shelton,
Jr., whose 5 foot 11 inches in
heigh belies his young age,
nos beer: aeld for the Grand
jury on the. charges..that he

Walter: A. Sutlind, wife of

Aarcn is being held at the
Bucks County jail for the slay~ing of Mrs. She'ticn, a mother
of tvyo children, and later set
the crime, District Attorney Edward, Biester seeking to get
Aaron tried: at Oyer and Terminul Court and 1:o0t in a juvenil<
court, despite the i-ct that the
poker face bey is cr.ly 14 and
will nor b2:15. until next month.

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Vegetable Dish
Try mixing tomatoes and ce
secasionally for a yoed veget
jish.

ber of Booker T. Waeshing:.n
hig? school~s 1948 sraduation
C.a~ss.
According to C. N_ Corne~l,
prinvipal -of. Booker.T,. Wash-;
ingion high. schooi, Miss ~Gare; completed her high school course
by an unbroken attendance of
12 yeais in school, which in
cluded not ~absent nor tardy
one single day during that period.~ A white boy is reported
to have. complete1 his. _,higi.
schoo] course wiih a zvecotd of
il years of perfect atvendance.

Miss Gore, who plans to conplete her pharmacy course at
Howard, does. not; seek a movie
~contract nor to get tearried for
at least a year after completion
of her college e~du-:-tion, she
said..:

Baptists Pledge Support to AntiDiscriaatlen Church Councils

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~: In sup;
port of fheir~ announced * programs to oust ~the pattern of

segregation im tace': -relatvens
~as unnecessary and under.
able,~ the National | Baptist

Sunday School and BIU con
~gress, holding its annual meet
ing Fere recently, went on record in indorsement of the Federal Council of. Christian
Churches in America, the Fraternal Council of Negro Church-|.
es in Amefica,* and''the United
Negro - and rigs ee -
America, - aire ~

- Both the councils and: the vet-}
erans~ ~organization watrant approbation, the. Baptists said, because of their
stand for economic, ~social and
racial equality, and for their)
examination of policies and
practices of segregation within
their own ranks in the interest
of furthering brotherhood among
raecs, classes and nations.

Other- resolutions passed by
the congress:.include an approvai of p.anned - -parenthood as
ssential to the. health and wel
fare of family~ life, a commen.
dation of the supreme court. of

the United States for the recent]:
segregation |:

decision outlawing
on interstate buses, eondemma
tion, of jim crowisnydiserimin
ation and class @istinctior; and =
commendation of the American

uncomiprising|

~Bible society. for its~ service to
~the armed fortes: during the war
igeriod. edhe Oe

tt ~was unanimously. voted | to
pole Dr. W. Jernagin, congress president, as a delegate
to the next session of the youth
council, meeting in~: connection
with the World Baptist alliance
in Copenhigget~ Denmark, ~in
1947.

| Wesley Pelham.
Moore Graduates

~FLINT, Mich: ~APNS _
~Wesley Pelham ~Moore, son
of the late Dr. and Mrs. J. W.
Moore, of 711 East Wellington Avenue, was graduated on

ENYA

June 7 from the medical school

of Howard University, Washington, D.C. Upon graduat
~v| ing--he~was commissioned a

first lieutenant in-the Reserve
Medical Corps. -Aftér a ~brief
~vacation at home young Doctor: Moore will. interne at the
~Wayne County General Hospital in the Detroit area.

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