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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1946

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Gov. Arnall Posts
$10,000 Reward For
Ruthless Killers

* MONROE, Ga, ~ ANP~With.the election of Eugene Talmadge
as Georgia~s next governor virtually. assured, Ku Kiux Klan
tactics -began to emerge from
the cover taken during the re
WORLD NEWS
AND VIEWS

WORLD -NEWS BRIEFLY
TOLD

Compiled by
W. H. BONDS

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| THEY ARE WAYLAID

_ CELEBRATES WITH

Negro - hating, rabbleminded crackers of Georgia, in
celebrating the victory of Eugene Talmadge in. outstripping
his other opponents, and win
ning the gov
ernorship 6

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groes, two of:
-which were
women, in an!
effort to show-+
southe r n- Ne- W. H. Bonds
groes that ~white: supremacy~
still reigned in the South, and
that the Ku Klux Klan was still

alive.
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ARNALL OFFERS
$10,000 REWARD
OV. ELLIS ARNALL, ~ of
Georgia, who will not reliriquish the-Georgia throne until January, 1947, is to be
commended for his stand on
the recent hideous lynching of
four Negroes by Georgia
hoodlums. The young, fairminded governor has offered
rewards totalling more _ than. $10,000 for a solution of the
crime, and the. bringing of the
guilty mobsters to justice.

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FBI ON MOBSTERS~.
TRAIL

N A STATEMENT to the

press recently, Governor

Arnall said: ~~] am_ directing
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to keep its investigators
in Walton County until the
See~News and Views~Page 3
SPANKED WITH
~ TWO-BY-FOUR

ECORSE, Mich. ~ Shirley
Edwards got to drinking on
last Saturday evening and dccided to give his wife a spanking, so he went out and secured himself a two-by-four, three
feet long and whipped his
wife. He gave her a black eye

and a bruised forehead.
She had to be carried over
to her suster's house at 494

be regretted that the}

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Detroiter

Against

gime of fair-minded Gov. Ellis
Arnall, and got off* to an in- s
famcus start last week with the al
iynching of fotir ~Negroes near agazine
here,

One of the Negroes, Roger DETROIT, Mich ~ APNS ~
Malcolm, 27, the sheriff said,'T. W. BOYD Accuses Publish
had just been released from jail

under $600 bond on chages of| Figures from His Copyrightstepbing his employer,~ Barney ed Story ~Counter EspionHester, a farmer. Hester is in} age on the Mason and Dixa hospital. on Line by Negroes Passing

as Whites.~~

The Crowell-Collier
lishing Company
field, Ohio, publishers of Colliers Woman's Home Companion and American maga
zine, faces a $100, 000 suit fo

The sheriff identified the othe:
Malcolm~s wife, and Geo"ge
and his wife,

as

Dorsey

They were riding in an automob:~Je with Loy Harrison, a
farmer, were en route from Monroa, ~to. Harrison~s..farmv<in.ads}
joining Ocomee County when
they were waylaid at a_ hridge
over the Apalache River, the
Sheriff said,

the book ~Blackmailed by Cot

ored and White" and ~~Counter Espionage on the Mason
and Dixon.,Line.~~ The suit is
based on Collier's current Aug.
3 issue containing the story
~Who Is a Negro~ by Herbert
Asbury. Mr. Boyd.states that
in July, 1945 he florwarded
two copies of his book to the
Crowell - Collier Publishing
Company. One copy was sent
to the direct attention of Mr.

Harrison, at a cOrner~s inquest.
the sheriff said, testified he could
not identify any member of the
band which waylaid him. The
jury returned a verdict of death
at the hands of unknown parties,

The mob was composed of 20

to 20 men, the sheriff reported.| Asbury and the other to the
general office~ The book was

ASSAILANT NAMED acknowledged and_ returned
The sheriff said it was be- with certain statements after
lieved the mob had not intended several weeks. ~Numerous
to kill the women ~but uncon-| facts statistical and general
firmed reports said one of them] were used from the text.. Mr.

recognized a member-of the mob
and called him by his name. It
then was decided to shoot the
two women, the sheriff said,

Boyd~s book was copyrighted
in July, 1945. Several thousand copies were sold and any
number of copies were sent to

Sheriff Gordon said Harrison] social agencies, courts and
had brought Butler~s and Mal- newspaper and magazine pubcolni~s wives with him to Mon
lishers.

See~Gov. Arnall~Page. 3 Theodore W. Boyd.

Pres. Truman Orders
Fall Lynch Probe

civil authorities,.

The; Attorney general expressed hope -for. an early
solution of what he _ called

WASHINGTON ~ Aittorney General Tom C, Clark
announced that President
Truman had expressed ~hor
ror~ at the lynchings of four~ ~these shocking murders~

_Negroes near Monroe, Ga. and called upon ~all our
The President directed the citizens to repudiate mob

Justice Department to in- rule,~ - - d

vestigate ~with ~all its resources.~ ~This crime is. an affront
The Federal inquiry, to decent Americanism. On
which Clark said is being
carried on ~in the tradition
of the FBI,~ has two aims:
1~To see whether the mob
members. can be arrested
and prosecuted under Federal statute,
2~To assist Georgia authorities in identifying members
of the mob and prosecuting
them under state laws,
Clark announced that the
entire record of the investigation would be made avail
ly due process of law sus~tains our claim to orderly
self-government, The lives
and liberties of none of us
~are safe when forces of ter~ror operate outside the laws
of God and man,~

HUSBAND CUTS WIFE
ECORSE, Mich. ~ 3866
Fourteenth Street was the
scene of a fight on Saturday,
July 7, when Mr. Nathaniel

Brown cut his wife on the right

able to the Governor of | arm for reasons that are yet
Georgia, if mecessary, for | unknown. However she doesproper action bee Georgia | n't want to prosecute him.

Brings Suit

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Pub- |
_of Spring
TO MEET JOCK AUGUST 16th

Pe atatned

Willie Anderson

The fight that has all fight
fens talking is here at last.
Promoter Tommy Cussans,
after much grief and disappointments, got together the
greatest boxing show ever to
be put on in Flint, two outstanding boxers have been
making a name for themselves

in the boxing world. Anderson in his last appearance here
expressed his desire to fight
Jock, and felt sure that he
would conquer Jock in _ short
time. No one will~ want to miss
this fight so get your tickets
early. Tickets on sale at the
St. John Street Pharmacy.

Southern Senators Gird

For Anti-Poll Tax Fight

WASHINGTON ANP ~
Threatening to keep the 79th
congress in session all summer,
if necessary, to defeat the anti-poll tax bill with a filibuster,
sOuthern- senators, headed by
Sen, Walter F, George (Dem.,
Ga.)~ were gitding forces last

Lena Horne

Scenes Cut from: & &

Follies in Tenn. ~
~KNOXVILLE, Tenn, ~ ANP
~Scenes in the movie picture,
~Ziegfield Follies of 1946~ featuring Lena Horne, were cu: out
before it was shown to Knoxville audiences recently bh: -ause,
in thé opinion of Emil Bernstecker, theatre magnate, the
screc -star~s Singing number
~might prove objectiorable to

~some people in Knoxville.~:

Miss Horne~s name, which has
been used in most advertisements of the picture,:lso was
blacked ovi-on the posters here,
The star, although given a pa:t
in ~the picture whic) mary theat? ~goers feel~ does he* an injus~ice, is at her lovel: ~os: in the
close - ~Ups,

week for a fight on the measure
to be launched this week as the
last issue of the present session,

Attempts to pass the _ bill,
which would outlaw the poll
tax as a requirement for voting
in federal elections, was promised by Senate Democratic
Leader Alben W, Barkley, (Ky.)
~who withheld the issue until
~must~ ~ legislation, including
OPA revival, was concluded,

' Sen, Barkley. disclosed that
discussions of the poll tax bill
with proponents and opponents,
including terms under which it
may be brought up* for senate
consideration, have been held
for several months.

MAN BITTEN IN
FAMILY ROW

ECORSE, Mich. ~ R o y
Laws,.who tried to prevent
Earnes Baral and his sister
from fighting turned out to be
the man who was fought.

When the fight was over he
came up with a konk over the
head and a plug bitten out of
his neck.

However se signed no comcomplaint against them. It was
just recorded asa om on row.

U. S. Probes
Klan Activity
In Michigan

WASHINGTON, July 31~Thse
justice department. disclosed today that jt is investigating Ku
Klux Klan activities in seven
States to determine whether federal laws are being violated,

The department said court action. will be instituted against
the Klan if such violations are
uncovered,

Evidence involving any violations

ed cver to state authorities, if
requested.
The investigation is being

made under the direction of the
depertment~s civil rights sevtion
in New Work, Michigan, Tennessee, Florida, California, MisSissippi and Georgia,

However, complaints are be
ing received from all parts of
jabber, CO! bit -aboutsthe: -resungermttye

Klan~s activities, The originators include individuals, labor
unions,.civil rights societies and
other organzatons,

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Miss Campbell

| Hostess at

Dinner Party

Miss Cathrine
daughter of Mr.

tg
and Mrs, Hard
ric, Campbell of Gilespie St.,
wa; hostess at a dinner party
last weekend, Those present

were Arnold Baker, Anna Mae
Gillespie of. Pontiac,.Mrs. Barbara Roberts, Miss Hazel Terrell, Willie McClain and Sylvester Moore, A very delicious
dinner was served by Mrs,
Campbell and daughter Abbie,
whe is home from Howard University.

Harrison and
Kennedy United
In Marriage

Eugene Harrison and Audrey
Kennedy were married at the
home of Mr, and Mrs. Le Nere
of Lippincott Blvd, The Flint

Spokesman wishes this popular

young couple a orld of suc
~Wemornl

In remembrance of my
ag husband who passed
~ years ago,
F eg ago, August 1,
His loving smile and happy face,
A broken link I can never
replace.
So certainly on earth this
sorrow fell.
Memories I treasure no
One can steal.:
Death leaves. a heartachWife: Mrs. Julian Sulcer,
1247 New Jersey St.

of state laws will be turn- |~

To Represent The

Six Whites

=

ED IN MI

Charged |

With Farmer~s Death

LEXINGTON, Miss, Six
white Mississippi land-owners
have been charged with murder
in the fatal flogging of a Negro
whuse body was later dumped
in e bayou, County Attorney
Pat M, Barrett disclosed.

Th2 Negro; Leon McTatie, 35,
was beaten with a leather strap

and a buggy whip, according to}

Mrs. Dixie Roberts, wife of one
of the aceused,

The flogging occurred on July
22, Barrett said, and McTatic~s
body was found two days later.
floating in a bayou 60 miles
away, near Indianola in Sunflower County,

McTatie was a tenant on th2
30-acre farm of Dixie Roberts,
one of the~men held, and had
been accused of steaiing a saddle,:

Negro at
UN Assembly

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Dr.
Gene Weltfish, well known professor in anthropology at Columia university, and
her
Mankind,~ has just returned
from Paris, There she was a delegate to the sessions of the Wo
men~s International Democratic

federation in which the women~

of 17 countries were, represented.

Dr. Weltfish is to help carry

to the United Nations assembl:
two demands made by the federation, These are that ~the condition of the Negro in the United States be investigated and
the women political prisoners in
Spain be liberated,

TALMADGE SUPPORTER
CALLED ~SMARTEST
NEGRO IN SOUTH~

ALBANY, Ga. ~ ANP ~
Dr, J. W. Holley, local citizen who reportedly supported the ~white supremzcy
candidate, Eugene Talmadge.
in the recent state primaries,
has been called ~the smartest Negro in the south~ by
the governor-elect.

Talmadge said the physician had advised Georgia
Negroes not to vote in the
primary because they were
being used ~as tools of the
Communists and Secy, of
Commerce Henry Wallace,~
Dr. Holley, who owns a
farm near here, is _presidentemeritus of Albany State
college,

faniéd ~for
co-authorship of ~Races of]

Ban on Negro
Enlistments
Abroad Too

LEGHORN, Italy ~ ANP ~
Enlistment of Negro personnel

-in the regular army has been ~
| suspended...in the - Mediterranean.. theater

in accordance with a
directive receivd from the wat
department by theatre hvadquaters in Caserta,

The new war department pol-:

icy affects largely troops 3tztioned in the Leghorn area under peninsular base section, the
army service force in Italy, to.
which all but two units in Italy

composed of Negrces ate as-.,

signed to attached,

Alabama KKK
On The Boom

BIRMINGHAM ~ ANP ~The
Ku Klux Klan is not only alive
again in Alabama but booming
according to William Hugh
Morris, one of its members and
one of three men who signed
incgeporation papers in Jefferson Probate court last week

making the KKK officially an,

organized body here, The other
two were Dr, E, P, Pruitt, a
locai physician, who has said in
interviews that he is the grand

cyclops of the Robert E, Lee ~

chapter of the KKK, and Robert
~Gulledge Sr., a real estate operator,

The first eVidence of a revival of the klan here last
Match when a large fiery cross
was burned on top of a hill, in
Tarrant City, a suburb,

Mcrris said ~the klan is made
up of Christian gentlemen. We
are rot bigots. All we want to do
is to keep the Negro in his place,~

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