Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 23]

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ME EDUCATIONAL CON~@RESS AND YOUTH CONVO~CATION ~ The Ninth Connecttona: Education Congress and

Youth Convocation of the AME

~church | held in Chicago Aug,

i 11, was the largest gathering
held by the church this year,
| Nearly 1,000 young people from; every section of the country
were delegates,
the

Will Provides

For ~Elegant~

Funeral

~ CLEVELAND ~ ANP ~ When

the last will and_ testiment* of
Mrs,~ Mary A, Diehl who died

~he#e August 8, was admitted to

', probate, it was diScovered that

~av~clause contained therein stipu
lated that her funeral was to
cost ~not less than $2,000 or
more than $4,500.~ The funeral

_ of the 65 year old woman was: home and had gradually increas
meonterence~s main~ emphasis will

--eppesing race hate and solving

SSter;
for the plots and $3 a week to

held last Monday,

Broken down into specific
items the will provided that she
be buried in-a $2,000 casket
which she had -paid for and,marked with a nail ~~high up

in the back at the right hand
side~ to. make certain. she
got the right one, Pictures of
~service were taken by a com~mercial photographer and prints
sent $to relatives and. friends,
The mininister officiating at the
services was provided for with
$200; and like. amount seé aside
for, the choir and for flowers,

In addition, $1,000 went for
tha.erection of a gravestone over
her grave; $400 for marker over~
-her, mother~s grave; $30 a month
for a caretaker for her grave
and. those of her mother and
$200 a year fcr flowers
~each of two churches for flowers in her Memory,

She was a poor woman when
she cam2 to this city from Murfreesboro, Tenn,, 5% years ago
but by 1909 she had made
enough money to buy a small

ed her real estate holdirigs.

Nat'l. Urban
League to

St.-Louis

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Kiel
Municipal auditorium, St, Louis~
wilf be the site of the 1946 annual conference of the National
Urban league, September 25-29,
President William H. Baldwin
cf New York City. announced
here Thursday, With the opening
date. marking the 157t anniversary of the propoSal of the bill
of rights to the constitution, the
of

~be upon effective methods

~Arkansas Sheriff Holds Three i

Ten bishops of} They asked. for
denomination -and the en-{ cipation

tire roster of genéral officers
were in attendance, A remarkably fine group of young people composed the conference,
greater partiaffais of the

in the

church and for a larg2r share
in the management of the congress, both of which requests
were granted,

of Nash
Dr, S, S, Morris,

ville, general sscretary of the
department of religious education, D. C, W. Abingion, dean
of religious instruction, E, A,
Selvy, treasurer, Bishops Wm,
A, Fountain.S,, L, Greig and

HY. Tookss are the mth behind the success of this érganization, Andrew White s2rved
as president during the war
years, |

Bishop John. A. Gregg, hosi: wee att,
bishop and' Mrs; Gregg are
shown in the center of the
picture,: eo

| Whites Who Attacked Negroes

JONESBORO Ark, ~ ANP. ~
ove: Leon Brown and Deputy
| Sheriff C, Di Wilson after an
investigation of a fracas between
two m2n and a woman, all white
[znd a group of Negroes, charged the whites with attempt to
~kill and aggravated asSault on
the Negroes here. Monday,, The whites, I. S, Thornsberry,; 33, of Marrianna; Miss Louise}

| Baskins, 26 of Forrest. City and
|Dewey Taylor, of. Marrianna,
| ware driving a truck on Highyeti 1, south of here. when they.
| encountered a.car ~driven by
John Bennett of Jonesboro who
had five colored people~. with
him. They were returning. from

af funeral, Bennett said that
ni aa deol repeatedly fired a
pistol at them and finally stopped. his truck across the highway, alighted and advanced upon
the group. with a pistol, He
struck the gun in Bennett~s ribs
and snapped the trigger several
times, Bennett then struck the
white man with a hatchet that
he had in the car aatictinng a
deep: gash,

Sheriff Brown said he~ was
convinced. that the Negroes. were
telling the truth about the altercation, They were ordered freed,
Thoinsberry was kept in jail
and. the sheriff said he would
prosecute the three whites,

MACON, Ga, AND LL,
Marshall, president of the Progressive Democratic ~club: of Bibb

~lest week following his arrest
on a.charge of; distributing markfed balicts in the Jeu,.17.. primary,

Marshal blamed the angered
Talmadge faction in Bibb county
politics for his arrest, while denying any illegal act on his parz,
He said that beaten faction in
the Bibh county voting was aitempting to make rim the goai

and to frighten the 10 000 registGeorgia erea.

County Sheriff Walden and City
Detectives C, C..Britt and L, C;:

county;. was out on $2,900 bond}

ered Negro voters in this ceniral

Marshall was arrsted by Bibb

Distribution of Marked Ballots

Charged te Georgia Businessman

McCullom, It was reliably reported that a deputy sheriff had
remerked prior to Marshall~s arrest that he knew the move
would frighten the Progressive
celui leader, but that it should
serve be ~slow up the other Ne
groes,

On July 17 when marked ballots were reported found at Bibb
polling places, polic2 arrested
no One in connection with the
case, However, an-official said
he would press. for an investigation by the grand. jury.

Maishalt is a substantial citizen of Macon, owning a *dry
goods store and being president
of Good Homes Development association, a. realty, project.

ean S,.C. ANP
Executixe ofivers of ths Prog:
ressive Democratic party, meet:
ing here last vabanrastac scored
what they termed ~new terror
schemes~ being <devoloped by
whites opposed to Negroes voting as Democrats,:

The PDP leaders were referring specifically to a $250,000
libel suit filed against three of
Social problems through *~team
the theme ~American T2am
lems in Race Relations,~

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~~ QGak, Highland Park

paleo Halee wee. -

New ~Terror~ Scheme Adopted
By South Carolina Whites

ficers, John H, McCray, stat?
chairman, Mrs, Annie B2lle Weston, secretary, and J. C, Artemus ~treasurer, by Rep. Fred L,
Heirs of Bamberg county, The
Heis~s action folowed a letter
of j.rotest from. the party over
his reported interference with
the registration of Negroes in

Bamberg county, V4
a

Leaders held the Heirs action
indicated a plan to frighten coun
ty FDP leaders and to call a

work~ in local communities, with| halt to the arpid growth and

expansion of the party, formed

work: Attacking Postwar Prob- in 1944 to break the neck of the

~white primary,~

~If we bow and whine before
an unjust action such. is
this ~ one official said, ~then we
can look for it in practically
every county, The obvious attempt is to frighten possible
precinct and club leadé~rs in districts in the process of organizxg. Moreover, it os a chalenge
to us to just let present rulers
treat us anyway, law or no law,

and hav2 our program halted.~ |

The ~2xecutives voted unanimously to accept the challenge
court.
Anoth?r resolution, providing for
a counter suit for malicious pros2cution, is expected to be followed,

DIFS OF SUI
IN HOPPER
ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ Arthur
Murphy, 55, was killed by suffocation last week when he fel!
from a box cur into a concrete
Pit.1.to which ire had beer~ Ioad
FOCATION

ing sard, and tons of sand fvex
ed h.m into the Lopper beneath,
_ Werkmen tri.d unsuccessfu.ly
to retrive the tody and save
Murvhy.:

7 Brown, Cyrus and. Greene,

Klan Cross
Burned in
Memphis, Tenn.

MEMPHIS ~ ANP ~ Persistent rumors that the nefarious
Ku Klux Klan is active here received confirmation last weekend with the testimony of several that they saw a cross burning at the corner of McLemore
and Cottage streets | Sunday
night, August 4,

Dr. R. A. Venson, prominent
Memphian reported that he saw
the cross while enroute home
from church, He said the cross
was in the street near a drugstoce~ burning furiously while
a large number of persons looked 07,

Venson Said it might be pos
sible that the cross -was work
of pranksters, but there have
been persistent grapevine rumors that the klan is on the loose
here,

Tle hooded converts were once
stror.g in Memphis, but the ord
~er Was discredited in the middle

*20~s thanks to the paign of
protests and sgocbdsion coadiutted
by the local daily pres and
liberal elements, The August 4
report is the first definite report
thai the klan has resumed outwar? activity in Memphis since
1920.

Oscar Brown.
To Leave Chi
Housing Post

-~ ANP.~ Atty,
the

CHICAGO
Oscar C, Brown, who.. for

past six yearS as manager of the

vrincipal.low cost housing projects in Chicago with chiefly. colored tenants, has been a key
figure in Chicago~s housing situation, has resigned, On. Sept;
30, he announced, he will return
to the law firm of. Brown,
at
the same time entering the real
estate field as a financial adVisor to home.owners and: prospective purchasers,

Brown managed from its inception the Ida B. Wells hommes,
one of the.largest projects of its
kind in the country, During the
past two years after four years
at the Ida B, Wells, he transferred to the. West Chestefield
honres and the Altgeld gardens,
In his letter of resignation addressed to Miss Elizabeth Wood
executive secretary of the Chicago Housing authority, Brown
pointed to the fact that in the
~nree communities which he had
managed, there: were 3,400 families consisting of 16,000 people,
He satd that the excellent respunse from the tenants had- set
a very high standard of comreunity living.

Jan Smuts

To US.

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Africans~ bitterest enemy, Jan Smuts
~is reportedly planning to visit the United States in the interests of the Indian population of South Africa. It is said
he plans to present the cause
of the Indians before the Unit
ed Nations;

~to

-|Gov. Hastie to. Prebe Rent

Increases, Governmental Operation

ST, THOMAS;.V. I; ~ ANP ~
A cétailed study of the governmeni operation and also protests
against rent increases in federal
low cost. housing: projects here
is being made by: Governor Hastie, it was. diSelosed. =~re -last
week.

For the past three weeks the
governor.- has been~ looking "into
charges that a ruling class existed which was called the ~royal femily~ and made up of white
planters and businessmen, who
rractically ran the government
of the islands, It is reported that
Governor Hastie plans many reforrns that are necessary, after
he completes his survey,

Tenants of the housing project known as the Berg homes
laid protests with. Governor
Hastie last week against increases in rents which went into ef
fect on August 1, Rents, in some
cases* have been increased 300
per cent, it is alleged,

The project is under the Federal. Housing authority and su
pervised by the San Juan office.

Development, several~ years,ago
as a means of slum, clearanc?
and to. provide better homes. for
low. income groups, the. development is clean: and sanitary,
having. conveniences not found
~n the average tenement houses
here,

a

South Carolina Negro Named as
Party Candidate for Congress

COLUMBIA, S.C, ~ ANP ~
At the second congressional district and Richland county con
~ventions held ~Here. last- week,

Es, Leevy;,Negro | acting chairman in the place of (~~Tisless~)
Joe Tolbert, white,.of Green:
wood, as nominated as the Republican candidate for: congress,
The Tolbert-Leevy faction also
designated -a full legislative
ticket of Republican candidai2s

for the house and senate in
Richmond county.
Leevy, formerly an_ active

méraber of the National Negro
Business ledgue, in recent years
has trained with | the Tolbert
faction of ~the Republican party
popularly known as the ~Black
and Tans,~ As Tolbret has
grown old. Leevy has advanced,
H ewas also a candidate for the
years ago.

If the Progressive Democratic
party should decide to support
Leevy as a Negro, even though
he is a Republican, there might
be a chance to elect a Negro
congressman | observers believe,

AME~s Launch Building Fund
Drive for Payne Theological Semin~y

WILBERFORCE O, ANP
A two year building fund drive
for Payne theological ~ seminary
nere was launched last wees al
Copping Chapel, AME church
in~ Chicago by the presidirg
elders * of: the fourth episcopal
district,

A total of ~$150,000: is ~slated
to: be. raised by. 1947. for: the
building project, ~Representing
Indiana;. Illinois, Michigan, Chicags: and northwestérn * conferences, a report of: ~the meeting
disciased that
raised for Payne's iw building
program,

This was nearly. $3,000 ovei
-and above one. half, of the total
quota assigned, according to the
Rev, William. E, Guy, presid.
ing elder of ~the AME Northwestern conference, Every _ biship of the AME~ church ~is

~ly divided on this

pledged to enter tis campaign
for e greater Payne Theological
Seminary, he said; About $30 -000: inas. already been raised toward improvements~ for Payne,
revealed D, John H. Lewis
originator of the idea,

Bishcp. John ~A, Gregg. is head
of the fourth AME district,

b

63 Graduate
From Atlanta U.
ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ A formula for Straightening owt: present chaotic _warld conditions: was:
given~ to the? graduating; class. of
Atlanta university last week
by President: Rufus EF,. Clement
at the first summer school commencemeéent exercises since the

affiliation of the Atlanta colleges
in 1929,

~Sixty-three graduate and professional degrees were awarded
by Presidnt~ Clement ~to; igradtates of the school of arts and
sciences, the school of ~ social
work and the school of education,

According to President- Clement,
Negro in America give more
than lip service to~ the-idea of
the - brotherhood,of,man.4-. that.
it is as wrong. for the Negro to
generalize with- regard: to~ = Oy
ple of other racial groups as it
is for other: facial.s groups to
cen ~about! tte Negro.~ *

ROH ILIAD
SUIT AGAINST eS
UNIVERSITY PEADIED, _
SUMPTER, S. C, ~ ANP ~

Atty, E, A, Parkers chief council for an.NAACP sponsored

|

| Shavers, ~

~Tt is pertigent that the.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, ~ANP ~
Following in ~the footste ae of
other interracial churshes located in Berkeley, San Francisco,
and Los Angeles. the,

| Heights Community church here
~| last

Friday voted, to. extend
membership. privi eges: ~to all
races. The announcement, came
simultaneously. with that of the
appointment of the Rev. - M:
president of the local
braach NAACP and World -War
~TY veteran a8 co-pestor of the
church, ~and was ~raade by, the
Rev, Lowel, a Cantrel,
who has been pas~or of
ehurch for the past nie.

The decktion ~by ~the: all-white

the
ts.

interracial was the outgrowth of
a meeting of local racial groups
ang organizations on July | 24,
Addressing the congregation was
the founder of the interracial
Pilgram ~ House, Los Angeles.
who. explained: the functioning
of his movement.

Rev, Cantrell, speaking of the:
decision; ~said, ~y am extremely
happy to have the privilege of
cooperating with a minister of.
another congrégation, ~Too ~long
has the chureh held bad frcm
admitting into.ifwll fellawship
he, members of other races, I
~consider it: a: very high pressure
to have a ~part in this venture. ~

Legan ~ Heights~ was_ Dinded
in~ 1886~ in one: of San ~Diego's
oldest residentiab. districts, where
whites, Mexicans, Neégrdes~ and
other racial groups ~liye wide by
Sido ee ~ ERB IMEIEF

The new cO-pastor served as
USO. director in Fal ~Brook,
Cal,, and/Civilian minister. at a

nearby nayal base for two years,
Hes
1943,

was ordained February if

pies: ep ~~Atlanta
citizens raised over ad 000 for

the United Negrb. Call sil sir
it was anounced fast wee by,

su~t to force South Carolina to}~. R Yates, general chairman,

provide equal graduate training
facilities for ~Negroés; said-Monday that he and. his associate
council, Atty. Harold R, Boulware of Columbia, were-cOm:pleting the case in behalf _ of
two~ complaining veterans and,
that the case*would be filed with,
in a month,~ "~

Lawyer Parker said the acticin
is bcing taken ~because the~ state
offers not a Single graduate
course for Negroes. |

Leaky Roof ~~

Water which comes into:a- build
through a leaky roof spreads out un.
der the roofing: to the ~root~ boards,
the plates and studg,, Y eam into the
walls end floors.:%

Give Negroes Equal Job
Opportunities, Says Increasmge

Minority of Public: DENVER ~. ANP ~Should
Negroes and whites have the
same chance to get any. kind of
job i the United Siates? Today
the white public is almost equalquestion:

49 per cent say whites should

~SHRINE LEADERS
to holding a conference relative
completing final plans for the
45th Imperial Council of the
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
to be held here Aug, 18 to 23.
the above Nobles Keid a pow
wow: Capt. C, Graham, chair-H; Jones,

ge eee
en Pita, as iad taba.

Prior~

+e

maz of Cunveniic n* Coben ies,

Wm. E,. Johnson, ~ Ilus:rious
Poizntate of. Pyram-d Temple,
the host, Raymond E, Jackson,
Imperial Potentate of the
Shriners, Charles C, Quander,
Imp2rial. Recorder, - and. Ralph
vice. chaiman. ~ -

have first chance at jobs, but~ 47:
per cent believe: that Negroes}

-Should have an equal: opportuni.
ty ~ attording to Hiationwelde

~survey results just reléased By

the National Opinion Research
center, University of Denver; ~},

Two years ago, at the height

of the war, Opinion divided less }

evenly, with 52 per cent of. a.
white cross-section believing
white people should have priorijy/ and 42 per écrit | ~baying
that. Negroes ~and whites- should
have the same chance to. get any:
job, ~ UF v ~ wy, ~ sg ~4

When, on the more Fecent surVey, Negro~s were asked the
same question~ 92~ per: cen! de
See
|Crow Fights~

b } ~The
F Authority, ~ acting. on 4, fecommendation of. the board:,of sup
|~ Bxeoutive E
of~ the~ Been:; plications

| 'pidksting for" ~faiy en

In~the clean: Up drive -of> the
last two- ~weeks, workers ~prodiic
ed ~about $2; 506. and the advanced. gifts. committee, reported th
er

SAN FRANCISCO ~ -ANP~
Bay Area ~frientis of demoeracy
| racked.up -two... vietories,.in..the
fight, ache Jim. crow tbs. week,

% ~Rranciaco, ~Housing~

ervisors,- saree to endé its, -Poli~.
cy of se; i teterat

heretofore. te
alter.-a policy Bt
sat 'N

vets..were segregated, ans Negro

vets. given a chance 7 Nee
sina ~vacated. by: wets.

The San Francisco Council for~
Civic unity with the support of~
labor and progressive groups
succéeded in getting the board~
of supervisors to. recr nmmend that.

fhe. housing rie oes iy its dis
érimination.

Ik Oakdlatid,! ~atter 43 days of
t at
the ~Safeway ~store~ ~at-12th and:
Ade:ine streets. ~the Big grocety
chain agreed* to * hire- a> Negro

manded an equal ri iw 1x te

con:p2te inthe dabor,anar

Se
STRUCK it aeAD ~With A
BRICK i "2

Freni: Scie, ~3,,
Naghton St,, was 'struck aa Rs
head with a brick, Ahout -7;39.
p, m, August 16, police reported. It was ferther- stated ~that
Hughes was struck while~in a
fight wath- Bill, Hines ~aé *Har
and Carles St,
Ash e

at

He bog

dels | aah -t

risoui

treated for:

h

* ~fhe dorderient~ came in nego
ace tbhétween Safeway offi
~idis and ~representatives of the
Citizens Committee for Fair em
~ineluding ~the Rev. H
p: freA Joh Psd e East Bay
Interdenominatio- Ministerial. -

jallinnee, G,; Ly Dellums of the.
Oakland chapter of the NAACP.>
Lows J,| SegAl pf the Jewish
sa Rel oe st the.

hire a Negros gt the 12th and
~did beh ex to place Ne- |

grces: in other,stores -ag: well...

ei ee et Sd a

Boa

white:

membership to make the church -

ape oe net only pores to:

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