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VOLUME I~NO. 20

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 ~e
TOLD

Compiled by
W. H. BONDS

CELEBRATES WITH

~Negro - hating, rabbleminded crackers of Georgia, in
celebrating the victory of Eugene Talmadge in outstripping
his other oppo
nents, and winning the governors hip 6f:
Georgia, riddled the bodies
of four Negroes, two of
which were
women, in an
effort to show:

southe rn Ne- W. H. Bonds:
groes that ~white supremacy~
still reigned in the South, and
that. the Ku Klux Klan was stil]

alive.

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ARNALL OFFERS
$10,000 REWARD:
IOV. ELLIS ARNALL., of
Georgia, who will not relinquish the. Georgia throne un1947, 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 totallmg 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 i...
N A STATEMENT to the
press recently, Governor
Arnall said: ~I am _ directing
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to keep its investigators
in Walton County until the
See~News and Views~Page 3

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SPANKED WITH
TWO-BY-FOUR

ECORSE, Mich. ~ Shirley
Edwards got to drinking on
last Saturday evening and decided to give his wife a spanking, so he went out and secur
~ed 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

regretted That~ thet peyre

to her suster's house at 494

gime of fair-minded Gov. Ellis
Arvall, and. got off to an. infamcus start last week with the
iynching of four ~Negroes near
here,

One of the Negroes, Roger
Malcolm, 27, tha sheriff said,
had just been released from jai!
under $600 bond On chages of
Stebbing his employer,~ Barney
Hester, a farmer. Hester is -in
a hospital.

The sheriff identified the othe:

Malcolm~s wife, and Geco"ge
and his wife,

as

Dorsey

| THEY ARE WAYLAID |

They were riding in an automobile with Loy Harrison, a
farmer, were en route fr rom Monroe, <to ~ Harrison's.farm<in
joining Oconee County when
they were waylaid at a_ bridge
over the Apalache River, the
Sheriff said,

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 was composed of 20
to 20 men, the sheriff reported.

ASSAILANT NAMED
The sheriff said it ~was believed the mob had not intended
to kill the women but unconfirmed reports said one:of them
recognized a member of the mob
and called him by his name. It
then was decided to shoot the
two women, the sheriff said,
Sheriff Gordon said Harrison
had brought Butler~s and Malcolni~s wives with him to MonSee~Gov. Arnall~Page 3

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Detroiter
Brings Suit
Against
Magazine

DETROIT, Mich ~ APNS~~

'T. W. BOYD Accuses Publish
er of Converting Facts and
Figures from His Copyrighted Story ~Counter Espionage on the Mason and Dixon Line by Negroes Passing
as Whites.~

The Crowell-Collier
lishing Company. of: Spring
field, Ohio, publishers of Col- |~

lier s Woman's Home Companion and American maga
zine, faces a $100, 000 mais fos

ir)

Ghee Book" ~Blackmailed by Col

and *~Count
ored and White~

er 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.
Asbury and the other to the
general office. The book was
acknowledged and_ returned
with certain statements after
several weeks. Numerous
facts, statistical and general
were used from the text. Mr.
Boyd's.book was copyrighted
in July, 1945. Several thousand copies,were sold and any
number of copies were sent to
social agencies, courts and
newspaper and magazine pub
lishers.
| Theodore ~W. Boyd.

Pres. Truman Orders
Fall Lynch Probe.

WASHINGTON ~ Attorney General Tom C, Clark
announced that President
Truman had expressed ~horror~ at the lynchings of four~
_Negroes near Monroe, Ga.

The President directed the
Justice Department to in
vestigate ~with all its reseurces,~
The Federal inquiry,

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 invéstigation would be made avail
able to the Governor of
Georgia, if mecessary, for
proper action of Georgia

civil. authorities,

The; Attorney general ex-.
pressed hope -for. an early.
~solution of what he called
~these shocking murders~
and called upon ~all our
citizens ~to repudiate: mob
rule.~ -. ns:

~This crime is. an affront
to decent Americanism. Only due process of law sustains our claim to orderly
self-government, The lives
and liberties of none of us
are safe when forces of terror operate outside the laws
of God and man,~

HUSBAND CUTS WIFE

ECORSE, Mich. ~ 3866
Fourteenth ~Street' was
scene of a fight on Saturday,
July 7, when Mr. Nathaniel
Brown cut his wife on the right
arm for reasons that are yet
unknown. However she doesn't want to peer ant

Pub
TO MEET JOCK AUGUST 16th

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

~might

the

in the picture whic

~Lena Horne
Scenes Cut from

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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 be ~ause,
in the opinion of Emuil- Bernstecker, theatre magnate, the
screcti star~s Singing number
prove objectionable to
some people in Knoxville.~

Miss Horne~s name, which has
been used in most advertisements of the picture,:!lso was
blacked ovt on the posters here,
The star, although given a pa:t
mary theat:cgoers feel~.does he an injus~ice, is at her lovelies: 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
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 he signed no comcomplaint against them. It was
og Lsinphe as a family row.

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U. S. Probes
Klan Activity
In Michigan

WASHINGTON, July 31~Ths
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 sa'd court action. will be instituted against
the Klan if such violations are
uncovered,

Evidence involving any. viola
ed cver to state authorities, if
requested.
The investigation is being

made under the direction of the

in New Work, Michigan, Tennessee, Florida, California, MisSissippi and Georgia,

Hewever, complaints are beae cont vived from all parts of

sens s sotivities, "The oviginators include~ individuals, labor

unions, civil rightS societies and
other organzatons,

Miss Campbell |

| Hostess at

Dinner Party

Miss Cathrine tas
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Hardric. 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 Uni
versity.

Harrison and
Kennedy United

In Marri
riage

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 world of suc
Memorial

In remembrance of my
~< husband who passed
Oo years ago, A
1944. 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 heartaching nothing can heal.

tions of state laws will be turn- |~

1 Represent The

depertment~s civil rights section.

1247 New Jersey St.

Eliotte ons River pei

PARK

Wife: Mrs. Julian Sulcer, i

Six Whites
With Farmer~s Death

Six
land-owners
have been charged with murder
in the fatal flogging of a Negro

LEXINGTON, Miss.
white Mississippi

whuse body was later dumped
in e~ bayou, County Attorney
Pat M, Barrett disclosed.

Tho Negro, Leon McTatie, 35,
was beaten with a leather strap
and a buggy whip, according to
Mrs. Dixie Roberts, wife of one
of the accused,

&

Charged

_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 the
30-acre farm of Dixie Robe'ts,
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 anthtopology at Columbia university, and faniéd for,
her co-authorship of ~Races of
Mankind,~ has just returned
from Paris, There she was a delegate to the sessions of the Women~s International Demecratic
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 supremacy
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,

Ban on Negro
Enlistments
Abroad Too

LEGHORN, Italy ~ ANP ~
Enlistment of Negro personnel
in the regular atmy has been

| suspended...in..the - Mediterranean...

theater in accordance with a
directive receivd from the wat
department by theatre
quaters in Caserta, se ae

ae

The new: war department *pol
icy affects.largely troops 3tationed inthe Leghorn ar@a 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 membevs and
one of three men who signed
incorporation papers ~in Jefferson Probate court last week

making the KKK officially an,

organized body here, The other
two were Dr, E, P, Pruitt, a
loca! 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
Maich 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 not bigots. All we want to do
is to keep the Negro in his place,~

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