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ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

announce
of her yourg
Mrs, Rosa Seay
the ~engagement
est son, My, Robert Seay, to
Miss Ester, Clark, popular beautician Of Doll~s Beauty Salon.
is set for

October 25, 1946.

North Side.

Matronsin
Novel Venture.

FLINT Mich,, Aug, 24 ~At
its very incipiency, the Flint
Spokesman has champiored interprize among our group. This
policy. has been meticulously
followed: and now~ when _ the
weaker Sex, go all out in a new

enterpris?.we naturally have
_ Our kat in our hand, Our congratulations this week go to

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Mrs. Beulah Hunt of 810 1-2
Dewey Street and her _ sisterin law, Mrs, Charles Alexander,
These two ladi2s are pooling
their talents to- give Flint~a
new service. Mrs, Alexander
wili type any and all kinds of
letters, make out official documents etc, Mrs. Hunt makes a
specialty of all. kind of crochet

ome

work, All kinds -of fancy things
for the house or baby. You
will find their ad elsewhere in
this paper,

Rey. Arnold

Honored on
4th Anniversary

By Miss Mazl Heller
Rev. and Mrs. Arnold Mis
tress of Ceremony, Visiting
Minister, Officers, Members and
- Friends; Today marks another

milestone for our dear and beloved Pastor, Rev, J. S. Arnold,
in the pastorship of the Antioch Baptist Church, For four
years he has dutifully carried
On the work of our Lord and
Savious Jesus Christ here among us, Four years he has
given us\inspiring and_ soul
stirring messages that has
caused many to stop by the
wayside, count up the costs
and make a stand for our God.
This fourth year~s anniversary
is given to bestow honor and
praise upon a most devoted
and Christian leader. During

- these days of world turmoil, it

is a grand idea of a congregation to decide to pin some
flowers on their leader,

It is surprising some times to
know just what people are
thinking of you, and they usually wait until you are dead
to tell it, but occasions of this
kind give frignds an opportunity. to express themselves.

* The poet has said:. If with pleasure you are view
_ ing
Any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love
- him, tell him now;

Don't withhold your approbation
Till the parson makes oration |

And he lies with snowy lilies
o~er his brow,

For no matter how you shout
- See~Rev, Arnold~Page 8

iRev. E. D. Scott

Beaten In Mississippi

The Rev. E. D, Scott, AME
Minister, well known in Meth
Odist circlés, was pounced on
and beaten in Hazelhurst, Miss.,
last week.

info:mation. reMr. Scott, had

According to
ceived, the Rev,
taken a visiting quartet. to a
down-town restaurant for
iunch, When they emerged from
the restaurant, they found -that
their car had been ~wedged. in~
by a white man, When Rev.
Scott found it impossible to
get his car out, one of the young
ladies got out and asked the
white man to pull up a litile
and let Rev. Scott out,

The.|and began to beat him. Rev.

white man became en-; cOmmunity,

raged and began to abuse the
young woman and later rushed up to Rev. Scott, who was
sitting at the -wheel of his car.

Mr; Scott informed the white
m:+; that he was a minister,
and only wanted to get his car
out so as to take the quartet
home, This had little or no effect, as the white man, who
later was identified as an offi~er, kept pounding away in
merciless fashion, The bé~tter
citizens of the community, both
white and colored are somewhat alarmed over the sudden
outburst of lawlessness in this

Flint to Be Represented at
Nat~l Urban League Conference

[and whites will discuss inter
_ Fint will be among 54 cities
of 27 states to be represented
at the annual conference of
the National Urban League in|
St. Louis, Mo., September 25- |
29, the opening date of ywhich
will mark the 157th anniversary of the proposal of the
Bill of Rights.

Charles Eason, exécutive secretary of the Flint Urban League, will attend, and other
members of: the board of directors are expecting to go,

Main emphasis. of the conference will be concerned with

effective methods of oppOsing
race hate and solving social
problms __ through ~American

teamwork in local communities~
and will be based. on the slogan, ~American Teamwork
Works: Attacking Postwar
Problems in Race Relations,~
The Urban League an Organization to promote ~better understanding between

Negroes:

racial problems as they affect
communities, and the five ss

of work Shop. SaspOP a wil Be:

solutions for su lems

employment, housing ~tad com- |

munity planning, The sessions
will be addressed by both Negro and white leaders in_ industry, labor, government and
public welfare from both
northern and southern states,
~The meeting in St, Louis,
which the league describes as
ai ~border line city which may
well become an example of the
best or worst in northern and
Southern racial patterns,~ is
coming at a critical time. Tension spots increasing with the
rise of the Ku Klux Klan, price

increases, continuing low wages|

and thousands of unsatisfactory
employed and unhoused veterans ~are calling for new approaches by Urban ~League af_See~Flint To Be~Page 8

Civil Rights Congress Asks Tom
Clark to Nab 3 in Ga. Lynching

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~Urging that the department of justice Make arrests in the recent

quadruple lynching in Walton,~

County, Ga., as a way of cracking the case wide open_ the
Civil Rights Congress revealed
Friday it has written to U. S.
Atty. Gen, Tom Clark asking
for information on three key
figures deeply involved.in_ the
events~ that led to the ~ massacre,

Based on details it had obtained through its own investigator who had spent several

weeks on the scene,
asserted that the deputy ~sheriff
who released~ Roger Malcolm
from jail for the trip that resulted in the death of himself
and three companions, is the
~brother in law of Barney Hester, Jr., whose alleged _ stab
bing at the hands of Malcolm

set in motion the chain ot
eveuts leading to the lynching,

No record of the alleged $600
bond under which the deputy
sheriff said he released Malcolm ~could be found even 3
days after the lynching,~ it was
asserted in the Ietter to the
attorney ~ general signed by
George Marshall, CRC chairman of the board.

-his car-was halted just outside
the CRC]

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The attorney general was
also told that this deputy sheriff, Louis Howard, had been
~seen in the vicinity of ~the
lynching site half an hour following the massacre and one
and a half hours before J, Roy
Harrison, the sole survivor,
gave the alarm,~

On July 25 Harrison, who
said. he had put up..bond for
Malcolm~s release from the
Walton County jail, was driving Malcolm. his wife and another couple to his farm when

of Monroe by an unmasked mob
which riddled all four Negroes
with bullets. Malcolm had been
jailed on a charge of having

_See~Civil Rights~Page 8

Nat'l Soft Ball Chief Rules M &

AME MINISTER

Rev. R. H. Pittman

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DETROIT, Mich,
Tne Rev, Robert H, Pittman, 78 of 6084 Woodrow, died

at Receiving hospital, Monday. at
2 a.m., after having been struck
and fatally: injured early Sunday night at the intersection of

Woodrow and Milford. \

Noted as a great church builder when the Rev, Pittman came
to Tebernacle Baptpist church,
about 19 years ago the services
were held in the basement, and
the membership Was struggling
under a heavy debt. Rev, Pittman soon organized the members, and began work in earnest and sOon the edifice began
to take form, and within a few
years the beautiful structure
which now houses the large
membership of Tabernacle Baptist church was completed, At
the time of his death the church
was debt-free | also two vacant lots on either side of the
church and the parsonage at
6084 Woodrow have been bought
and paid for,

While he did not occupy his
pulpit Sunday morning, ia visiting local minister, the Rev. F.
A. Williams, filled the pulpit at
this time, Rev, Pittman occupied the pulpit Sunday night,
where he preached a soul-stirring sermon to a large congregation,

At the conclusion of his sermon he soon left his church on

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Fatally Injured When
Struck By Automobile

~ APNS~ the way to his parsonage home,

6084 Woodrow when the
tragedy occurred.;

fatal

Rev, Pittman was struck by
a car driven by Oliver Simpkins, 48 956767 Taft street, who
told police that as he was ~making a left hand turn at the intersection of Milford and Woodrow, the Rev, Mr, Pittman stepped into the path of the swerving car,* and that the accident
was unavoidable. Simpkins was
questioned by police but was
not held.

The wife of Rev, Pittman had
just returned from a_ vacation
in California, and when news
of the fatal accident of her husband was made known to her,
Mrs, Pittman collapsed. At Receiving hospital, when the Rev,
Pittman passed, Mrs, Pittman,
who had been somewhat revived, suffered a total -collapse, and was placed under the
care of a physician and taken
home,

After the fatal accident, Rev.
Pittman - never regained consciousness. It is said that many
of his members also collapsed
when news réached them of their |
pastor~s death, He was loved by
his entire membership| who
sought his advice, both in spiritual and temporal things, as
he was a sane, and thoughtful
leader, and respected by all who
knew him.

His body will lie in state from
Friday at 11 a.m, to Saturday,
11 a.m,. at the church which
is located at Beechwood, corner
Milford. The Rev. Lee T, Clay
will preside at funeral. The
funeral oration will be delivered by the Rev. H, H. Coleman,
Saturday, at 11 a.m,, August 31.

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ehild~s lunch is a most effective

tooth clearser and breath sweeten

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EATEN

-|Ruling Bars M. and S. from

National Tournament in Chicago

In a ruling overriding an order issued by Judge Paul G,
of Ingram County,

the

ning a National Crown. The
boys are- thorough sportsmen
and can beat any tSam_ that

National Soft Ball association! will take the diamond but they

has ruled against that the M &|

S, has.not been reinstated and
that they are ineligible to play
in the national tournament in
Chicago, this week-end. Mr,
Kipke, ome of the state commissioners has invited Royal
Oak, who had been put out of
conipetition by the M & 5S
team, to take M & S~s place in
the forthcoming event, It should
be noted that M & S had beaten
every team that came b2fore
it and was almost sure of win
are powerless against intriguc
and conspiracy as they have
been subjected to in the past
crisis, -

Since. their case cannot be
cOnsider2?d until the meeting of

the Soft Ball Association in
January, the M & S Orange
team haSn~t a chance, The

Spokesman, as well as all p?ople who believe in honesty and
fair play, deplore this sickening situation.

Crowd of 350 Turn Out

For Protest Rally

Many prominent
turned out for the NAACP
Protest Rally to hear Mr, Robert Teiunion of the ~Americanism Committee and Mr, Page
Keyes,.Executive Secretary of

citizens

the Genesee County Tax Asso-~| ciation whem- were- the guest} longing te-the NAACP are urg-} Sacred.Heart.. church. and~ St.

speakers for the.progam. other
outstanding speakers were
George Friley, of the white Elephant Restaurant, Morris
Branch of American Legion,
Bolza Baxter of Baxter~s Cleaners, Johnson Buchanan of the
CIO, Jesse Governor, President
of the NAACP
Scott, whom acted
of Ceremonies for

as Master
the Protest

and Attorney

Rally.

The Rally was well attended
with our people becoming more
conscious of the importance of
such organizations as the Americanism Council and the N, A.
A, C..P., all persons fot be
ed to do so for everyone who
believes in the Negro race
should belong to the organization that is doing more than
any other organization in the
country to bring about equal
rights and opportunities and
justice to those whom are victims of- unfair circumstances,
Membership dues are. only
$1.00 per year. Join now,

Juke Boxes Strike Sour Note;
Partner Seeks End of Firm

Dissolution of a partnership
for placing muSic machines in
places of business is asked in a
suit filed in Circuit Court by
Clair W, James against Charles
Bailey, Formed Sept. 8, 1945,
the partnership has an income
of about $600 monthly, the
suit says.

Judge Clifford, A. Bishop has
signed an injunction forbidding
Bailey to collect the income,
replace the machines or molest
James, Appointment of a receiver. and an accounting at
the hands of the court are requested,

James says he furnished cash
for a downpayment on the first
10 mahcines and that Bailey
was to repair and keep them
running, Receipts were to pay
for.them, with the. partnevs dividing the remaining income,
James Says he put in $3,000,
Bailey nothing. The machines

are now paid for,

James charges money was
collected and no _ accounting
made and that Bailey has removed the partnership machines and replaced them with
some he claims to own.

Removed after three years of
Service atop the Mott Foundation Building and Longfellow
Scheol, respectively, the big
noisemakers are gathering dust
at the Smith St. yards,.

City Manager Gundrythe Sirens did a swell job during the war, but that the City
hasn~t figured out any peacetime uSe for them,

No.use? You can almost
imagine the big fellows swelling up with. indignant pride,
Even if the City won~t pension
~em. off, just think of the possibilities,

Thsy could be super-duper

See~Juke Boxes~Page 8

says

LABOR DAY FESTIVAL

RIVER~

PAR K_
DINING and DANCING
Music by

WOMACK
and His Band Direct from the Coast
ADMISSION 60 CENTS
Saturday 31 - Sunday 1 - Monday 2

Dancing from 10 ~til 4

ELOIS

Out Of Tourney

Pear)
in
Louis Woman~ was a gucsi

CBS GUEST Singer
Bailey, latest prima donna
~St
artist on the ~Jack Smith
Show~ over CBS last Tuesday,
August 20th,

Negro Priests
At Testimonial

FR, DUKETTE, FLINT,
LISTED AS SPEAKER

Negro priests will participate
in the ~Testimonial to Coloréd
Missions~ which the Catholic
Interracial council of Detroit
ig sponsoring September 8 at

Bonaventures monastery,

Fr, Austin Chachery, the firsi
Negro to. be ordained priest in
the Order of the Most Holy
Trinity, will represent his com
munity, which is devoted to
Southern missions, Fr. Norman
Dukette, -a. former paStor ~ of

St,.Benedict the Moor parish,
now stationed in Flint, will be
a. speaker at the dinner, ~

The junior and senior choirs
of Sacred Heart parish will assist at the solemn Mass to be
celebrated at 10 a, m. Fourth
Degree Knights of Columbus_
Knights of St, Peter. Claver
and Knights of St. John will
be -guards of honor.

Suspension of

M. and S. Lifted |

FLINT, Mich. Aug, 24, 1946~

In a sweeping act of justice,
Judge Paul Eger, of Lansing,
Mich., granted an injunction

lifting the ban that was preventing the M & S Orange soit
ball team of Flint from -detending their State title,.Qrdge
Eger~s decision, bore out in
every category the story that.
appeared in last week~s Flipt
Spokesman, to the effect that
an arch-conspiracy: was behind
the suspension of the Orange
linen, J udge. Eger, castigated
Mr, Kipke, for the slip shod
way in which he conducted

himself as a commissioner ar
rogards to notifying the local
team that Al Linde, was under
suspension. Since this decision
the M & Shave have given a
good account of themselves by
beating all the teams that have
come before them,

TO OPEN MODERN BEAUTY
SALON

Mrs. Margaret Farmer, formerly of Detroit, now residing
in Flint at 412 E, 9th St., is
opening a modern beauty Salon to be named Margaret~s
Beauty Salon, Mrs, Farmer is
a graduate of Beaudett Academy of Beauty Culture in Detroit which is an all white
schocl of nationally known rep
utation,

| PRE HOLIDAY ~ROYAL ak a DS Admission ---3100 | SUNDAY, ~
L D A N C E GARDEN CLUB xf and His Band Given by Thrift Club SEPT EMBER ~J

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