Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 20]

PAGE SIX

SATURDAY,

AUGUST 3, 1946

Debt of Gratitude Owed

Agencies

For Changes in Racial Attitudes
Asserts Jesse. Thomas /

- Jesse O: Thomas, asSistant to
the vice chairman of the American Red Cross, believes that.America owes a debt of gratiitude to the Red Cross and other agencies for what has been
accomplished in changing the
racial attitudes of soldiers. during the war, In his. travels
abroad, Mr, Thomas found that
during the war black and white

_ soldiers were able to fraternize
under normal circumstances
which would be unheard of and. not:permitted in their native
stace.

~War, - Peace,
and Race,~ at the weekly assembly of the Atlanta University Summer School Mr, Thomas stated that there is a new
mental attitude on the continent toward Negvoes, For the
first time in their lives, white
solaiers have discovered that
conduct is more important than
colcr, and for the first time,
American Negroes have found
theinselves ranked as first class
_ citizens, which has done much
wor their own personal evaluation,

Mr, Thomas Uclieves. that
thinking in terms of Wendell
Willkie's ~One World,~ American soldiers returning home
wil! be better citizens because
of tha broadening of their intercultural relations and of the
mutual understanding they have
been able to gain.

He stated that the American
Reo Cross, which has done
much to erase the coniused. social outlook of soldiers, is now
making an effort to bring its
donrestic program up to.the
levels it attained during the
war, Mr, Thomas made it clear
that despite the fact that considerable ground has k>2n gained in the war, ~the Negro must
coOninue to fight for the things
that are rightfully his: He believes the opening of new jobs
is indicative of a hopeful sign

Speaking on

with the Practice. By _ getting
communities to register | mass
protest, he Said, individuals by
assuming responsibility,
help to change public opinion,

Likeria

Grateful for

U.S. Aid

WASHINGTON ANP ~
Liberia is grateful to the United States for the service renderec by the Foreign Economic
adrainistration and the U. ~S,
Public Health service, In a recent publication in Monrovia,
the work of Frank E, Pinder,
agricultural expert, was praised
for arousing ~enthusiam ~ and
hore in the feelings of the man
on the farm and the. man in
the bush whose imterest were
being served,~ An article: also
attributed the decline of malafia and other diseases
to the efforts: of a public health mission. At the same

time, an appeal was made for
Negro physicians to come to
Liberia.

In discussing the agragrian
situation in Liberia, the editorjal said the mission was ~con
fronted by a raw and hostilé

env.romnent and enmeshed in
a paganism that was both un
(yielding and. often aggresively.
| unfr iendly, Liberia

constantly
has labored under an cconomic
handicap, The. people were
thrust on their~ own too soon,
Not economics, but political issues engaged the geniuses of
our minds, and political duties
the bulk of our manpower.~

Trea FEC has - brought..4
~great light into a more perplexing situation,~ he writer
said, ~Modern methods were
introduced, bringing more and
better crops, improved cattle
and an increasing abundance of

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PICTURED ABOVE ARE THE

winners of the competitive $100.

cecholarships offered by Gamma
Zeta Omega chapter of Alpha
Kappa sorority of Miami, Fla,
for
right: first winner was- Charlotte Eudora Gwynn Marquess,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Joe
Marquess. She has finished two
years of pre-nursing at Fisk
university and is now at Meharry ~Medical College Training
school, She is a member of the

the past four years, Left to
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Ivy Leaf Pledge Club. Barbara
Altnea McKinney won the 1945
$100 scholarship. She is the niece
of Mrs, Maria Fredericks of Miami, She is a sophomore and a
freshman consultant at Talladega college where she is mazjoring in foreign languages, As a
senior in high school, she was
the winner of many outstanding
awards, among them being the
Phi Delta Kappa scholarship of
$100, Ellen Tucker,, whose par
Tucker of Cocoanut Grove, Fla.,
was the 1944 winner. She is a
junior, a major in psychology at
Tallodega college, where she is
a member of the YWCA and the
Little Theater. This year the
scholarship award went to Arleen Roslyn Nixon, the daughter
of Mr, and Mrs. Hugh: Stanley
Nixon, She plans to enter Tennessee State in the fall to study
laboratory. technology. The last
pic'vre in the group is that of

studying for her Master~s at Co
ents are Mr... and Mrs, Henry

Miss Ethel Grice, untiring, con
ose

scientous basileus of Gamma
Zeta Omega chapter of Alpha
Kappa Soroity of Miami, Fla.
She has been uniquely successful
in t:at capacity and holds the
sarie post for another year. She
repiesented the sorority at, the
recnt southeastern regional, She
is a teacher in and head.of the
natural sciences department at
Dorsey high school, Miss Grice
has a B, S, from Clarke and is

lumbia. (ANP)

Urge Negroes
To Votein
Arkansas Primary

L~'TTLE ROCK ~~~ANP~ Dr.
J, M.: Robinson, president of the
Arkansas Negro Democratic association, said here Monday that
there were 9,000 Negroes who
we.e Democrats among those
wno are registered and qualified ~to vote in the primary next
Tuesday. He is urging them ali
to go to the polls and vote but
said that there would be no
mass; ~voting for any one candidate since insofar as the association was concerned they
were simply Democrats~ and

didate he wished to support,

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In a_ statement coricerning Mr, Pinder former ly was witl Secur ity. administration, being
segregated blood banks, Mr, the. department of Agriculturd loaned to the FEPC for this
Thomas mentioned that. public] and was one of the outstanding mission as a -senior agricultur
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government

Honor Dr. e- Bonner |

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~CAMBRIDGE, iy MASS. ~ ~ Frances
~Jones Bonner, M.~D., daughter of
President and Mrs. David ~D. Jones
of Bennett. College, Greensboro, N.C.,
is the first winner of the Helen Putnam ~Fellowship ~for Advanced~ Research in Genetics or Mental Health
~at Radcliffe College here. The award
~to Dr. Bonner is for $2,000 for an 11 -month period of research on heredi
and social factors~ in hysteria.. Bonner is a niece.of Methodist -
Bishop Robert E. Jones (retired) now
of Waveland, Miss.

A graduate of Bennett: College, Dr.
Bonner-studied medicine in Boston 4
University, finishing in 1943, Following her internship and~ residency
she became an associate-in research
in neuropathology at Boston City
Hospital and an assistant laboratory -
Anstructor~in ~this field at: Harvard.

~She. was. more recently honored |
with a'Fellowship in~ Pédiatrics by
the Executive Board of Trustees: col
the Children~s Hospital, Boston.,Dr.
Bonner~s ~husbarid, also~ a physician,
is in the ~Army. Medical Corps and: =
now-serving in~ the OS:

Paice Heads
Caribbean

Commission

WASHINGTON ANP
Lawrence W. Cramer, former
governor of Virgin Islands and
later executive secretary of the
FEPC, has been named executive secretary of the revived Caribbean commission, through
which four governments will

~_~ _

atternpt to better the ~conditions4.

of. the islands under their jur
France, Holland, England: and
the United States are the four
nations forming the association
which promises to give natives
more to say in the administration of island affairs.

Although most of the islands!
are colonies of some ~ foreign
government, the status of Martinique, Dominica and Guadalupe, French possessions, will
soon become states in French
which may affect

the agreement,

Arother factor which May
prove embarrassing is. the rise
of communism in the French
possessions, where members of
the party have been elected to

office.

Mr. Cramer, who resigned his
FEPC post in which he made
quite a reputation to enter the
armed forces, being commissione@ upon discharged, was
special adviser to the state department and moved up from
that position to his new office,

At
tion from FEPC it was. reported that Mr, Crammer had been

the time of his resigna
invited to join the faculty at

Haiverd university,

NEW. YORK ~ ANP.~ One
of Harlem~s best known and
best liked young business men
is. Heri: Hollis. Harri has made

in the crowdéd ~city, Himself 1
devotee of bicycle riding and a
former bike champion, he opened a store at 135 West 135th
street, the home of the old New
York News, about 1936, Since
that time, his buSiness,of renting; repairing and selling bicycles has brought him a com{fortable living.

All types of bikes avé in hus
-' store

and tthe crowds. which
visit there on Saturdays, Sundays and~ holidays ~aS well as
evenings during the week, keep
his manager, Clarence Smalls,
busier than he wants to be,

| Harri~s ehief mechanic is Roh~ert Murphy, a young Negro who
is "a wizard with machines, Bob
frequently is called on to take
eare of the ~Whizzer~ on which
Beau Jack scoots around Harlem
in his spare time, Beau is a bike

MEET HARLEM~S
iIBIKE KING

himself indspensable ~to Harlem,:

~|furnishing ~ méans for récreation (
~ing. Beau tossed a softball to a

fan and is one of Harri~s best
customers.

Shortly after his fight with
Sammy Angott in Washington,
Beau brought his ~Whizzer~
for Bob to go over, While~ wait
pal outside ~and commented on
Samn:y Angott who apparently
was something less than a gentheman when the two met it:
Washington recently, Reau sa/<
Angott used an epitiet wnd referred disparagingly to his family
tree, to which B@au promp~iv
responded with a_ barrage of
fists that almost wrecxed Angott.

Bet with all of his ~success,
Haris still is bouyantly young
and loves, better than anything
else. to pedal a few miles on
his favorite bike, At one time
he had the only three seater in
New York renting it to movie
concerns and theatrical groups
at. ~ fancy price.

On the Serious side, Harri is

married and a member of the]

Nation~s Leaders ~Ton Vets

board of managers of the Har-,
lem YMCA,

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~Ferdinand Q. Morton, after 24
yearc service with the munici
civil ~Service commission,
chosen président of the
Comm, at 'a meeting of he
agency last: week.Mr, Morton
thus becomes the first Negro
to kold such a post in th
United States,

pal
was

He succeeds Harry W, Marsh
as president. Mr, Marsh~s term
expired On May 31 and Mayor
O~Dwyer named Joseph A. McNamaira of Brooklyn his successor.: '

M:, Morton who is 65 and
single, was first apointed to he
commission by Mayor John
Hylan On January 1, 1922, He
was reappointed by Mayor
~games J, Walker and Mr, LaGuerdia, One of the few Negroes. to hold a_ high ~: municipal
eliice in the Old Tammany
day:, he was also one of the
few Tammany ~appointees te
survive the LaGuardia administration,:

He had been a staunch Dem-|

ocrat and One of Tammany~s
most ardent leaders in Harlem
until 1930 when he transferred
his allegiance to the American
Labor party, the group supperted by Mr, LaGuardia. Since
that time, Mr. Morton has made
little~ political. ~news.

He was born in Macon, Miss.,
attended Phillips Exter aiademy,
Ncw Hampshire, and was a
member. ~of the class of i3~9 at
Havvard, After studying law at)
~Boston university, he engaged
in private prictice until 1916
when he became one of the
first. members of his race to be
named an. assistant district attorfey in the New York Coun
-ty D, A.~s office as head of the

indictment -bureau, He remained there until Mayor John F;.(Rea- Mike) Hylan - appointed
him to the.commission.

In his new position as president, Mr, Morton will receive
$8,500 yearly instead of $8,000
which has been -his salary. His
term expires May 31, 1948, and
it is expected that he will then

| retire.on a pension, since his

appointment would be a
moot question. The municipal
u

Ferdinand Q. Morton to Head |

Civil Service Commission

~firs: baseman of the Indianapolis

civil service is one of the largest employers in. the -country,
having 18,000 police and.12,000
firemen and: an almost as large
number of:.teachers, A number
of Negroes ate employed in each
of these municipal servires,

Hawaii Awaits
Satchel Page,
Jesse Owens

HONOLULU ~ ANP ~ Hon
clulu sports~ fans are looking
forward to: an appearance here
on September 20 of Satchel

Paige, the greut. pitcher, and
Jesse Owens, 1936 O'ympic
cnampioa runner.

Tne diamond star and Owens
will come here with an all-star
team: picked from the Negro
American league, for a_ ser-es
cf gumes with Hawaiian teams
at Honolulu stadium.

Among the baseball stars com:
prising the team wil! ne W., S.
Welch manager of the Cincinnatt: Crescents; ~Goose~ Tatum,

Clowns and a great attraction
on the field; Frank (Groundhog)
Thompson, half-pint hurler of
the Crescents; Art Wilson, Birm
ingham Black Barons~ shortstop;
Edward Steel, hard hitter; Pike
Dav.s, secomd baseman; ~Luke~
Easter; and Paul Hardy.

Tatum, a favorite in the islands, is remembered for his
épeparance. here with the Harlem Globe Trotter Cagers_ last
spring,

Indians Join
Africans in
Denouncing Smuts

DURBAN, South Africa
ANP ~ Under the leadership of

es

Prime Minister Jan Smuts, a bill |

has been in introduced into~ the
house of assembly at ~Capetown
here in South Africa which
would limit land tenure and set

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are agreeable to him.

~GUINEA PIGS AT BIKINI.

iirst Schmeling nightmare.

so as to stop Mauriello in the.

mind.

glove-bombs at you.:

the annals of fistiana:;.

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BEATING THE GUN.

By ALVIN MOSES -

pears in the newspapers of the nation and quite,

ranking radio commentators, boxing is in a bad way.
ily submit that it is and especially is this true of the State of
New York, where Commissioner Edward Eagan eats from the
hand of Michael Strauss Jacobs.
you might have surmised a member of the state athletic commission, boxing~s governing body, ~ he is merely the promoter who tells commissions (or so it appears) what matches

Let the:tinhorns bet on whom they choose.
ing folk,. JOHN Q. PUBLIC, have their moral-bankrolls on Joe
Louis}~don~t let any poppycock. lull you into a false sense of
security. All of your challengers are in there throwing TNT
See that you are in condition to retaliate
as long as you: remaina fighting ~ one of:the greatest in

RTS

NEW YORK ~(ANP)~ In reality this, is an sesbeobiiiiil:
open letter to Joe Louis, world~s heavyweight boxing champ
If the sports-layman-is to completely digest all that ap
few of the
We read
Jacobs, by the way, is not as

Come next September, one Joe Louis steps into the ring to
defend his crown for the 23d time against Tami Mauriello,
Bronzite, who has been adjudged the easiest sort of a pushover
for Louis match against any man active in the prize ring today.
I've said repeatedly, weeks and weeks before the actual fight
date, just how Louis~ opponents figured to stand up, Again |
say that Mauriello will be licked by the champion barring accidents or some unforseen act of God. By the same token | say
that champion Joe Louis must not pay the slightest attention to
these written and spoken (radio) statements which purport to
make Mautriello what the trade calls~~a ring bum.~
They:said ~the same thing of Two-Ton Galento, first name
Tony, don't you remember, Joe?
ed with: that strip of Manhattan Island faboulously known as
~JacSb~s Beach~ can get you to train indifferently (as you did
for the first Max Schmeling fight) ~stiff punching
tiello might sneak thru in the only way he possibly can.
boxing world knows that a trained and: alert Louigis as deadly
to an opponent as~The ATMO BOMB WAS TQ THE: STEEL

If betting row strongly link
ami Mau
The

Train as you did for Billy: Conn and all yout previous opponents dating fromthe Jack Sharkey comebact

Millions of colored and white
A\mercans consider you a sports idol Joe, an honor you have
richly won measured by any yardstick one employs.
money... The Tami Mauriello fight means money in the bank,
not property- poor situations that have bled you white.

fight, after the

You need

Train
very first second of the fight.

Recognize the fact that the fella can punch much harder than
Conn or most any of your opponents we can quickly recall to

~the real sport
fia

By Luther A. Townsley

CHICAGO ~ ~ANP ~ National ~leaders.of both races joined
witn members of the United and
Allied Veterans of America Tuesday night to extend honors to
Joe Louis, world heavyweight
champion, at a testimonial ban~quct here at the Parkway. ballroom.

- Before more than 300 $10-aplate diners, the Rev, Archibald
J. Carey, master of cerémonies
and pastor of the Woodlawn
AME church, read statements
attesting to Joe~s contribution to
_America in peace and war.

~Tributes to the king of fistiana came from Mayor Edward: J:
Kelly, Chicago; Rep, Adam C,
Powell, New York; Henry A.
Wallace, secretary of commerce;
- Congresswoman - Helen ~-Gahagan
Douglas; Jack Dempsey,~ former
heavyweight champion; Governor Dwight H,. Gréen,-- Minois;
David K. Niles, administrative
assistant to President -Truman
and Thomas J, Wright, Mayor~s
committee on Human mats
Chicago,;

~The United Negro and Allied
vetcrans of America gives this

national commander, in recognition of your splendid. record of
consistent sportsman ship and
clean living, as one of America~s greatest athletes.and your
Outstanding service

ture. In the course of a demonstration which took place recently, several thousand Indian men
and women paraded amid shouts
of ~Down With Smuts,~

The meeting urged the government of India to withdraw
the office of Indian High commissioner in South Africa and
to refuse to trade with. this
couniry. Dr, Y. M. Dadoo, president of the TransVaal Indian
congress, said that the proposed
coremunal representation, the
same as allowed native Africans,
was a calculated -insult to the
Indian community. The doctrine
of ~white supremacy could lead

up limited representation for
Indians in the national legisla
he said, only to greater conflict
between whites and non-whites.

testimonial to you, its honorary:

in World

In Tribute to Joe Louis

~War II,~ read a UNAVA. state

e

meiit. se i od

~Jt is significant that our organization should have you as
its honorary national. commander because its program is a
fighting program, and our purpose is to deliver the knockout
punch to injustice and _ intolerance,~ UNAVA continued, ~We
will defend the rights of veterans
wit the samé courage and determination with ~which. you defended your title,

~We pay tribute here to an
outstanding son: of the Negro
people and to one. of America~s
outstanding citizens. We wish
you ~a long and constructive life
dedicated to the preservation of
the American sportsmanship and
democratic progress.~

The ~UNAVA. statement ~ _was
signed by ~Kenneth C:* Kennedy,

national commander, George B.
|Murphy Jr.,

national adjutant;
Lester Davis, national finance
officer; Ulysses S, Keys, national advocate, and Charles R. Watkins, national chaplain,
UNAVA presented Joe with
a ccrol] and honorary membership card, Greetings were extended from the sixth service
command by Brig. Gen, Paul
B, Kelly. Capt. H, A, Lincoln,
Ninth Naval district, represented
the Navy and Col. Clifton E,
Jores represented the Eighth
Regiment national guard.
~While there are many Negro
artists, scientists, and educators
in the Negro race, Jog Louis
has in his way done more to
help the Negro~s cause than any

of them,~ Capt, Lincoln commerted, '
Jo2~s mother, Mrs, Lillie

Brocks, _was_ prtesented with

flov.ers by former WAC Capt.
Ru~h Freeman, as.UNAVA's
greetings to her, In her acceptance remarks, she said: -

~I want Joe to-:be a loyal son,
a fighting champion and. a great
American citizen,~

Former heavyweight chindelal
May Bear brought along Maxie

|Rosenblum to climax:the even-:
~which ~was

ing~S entertainment,
followed by the dyhamic -remark of former Lt. Earl Sardon,
president of the Chicago Council.f UNAVA. 8

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