Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 24]

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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

_ Bishop~s Council Puts Bishop Gis
Back in Charge of First Diocese

_ WASHINGTON ~ NNPA~
The Bishops~ Council of the
African Methodist Episcopal

Church, holding a_ special- session here ~last Thursday at the
Offices of.the financial secretary
put Bishop David H, Sims of
Philadelphia, back in complete
charge of the denomination~s
first diocese *

Under the decisions of the
Bishops, Bishop R, R. Wright,
Jr., was relieved of his assignment as ~aSsociate bishop~ of
the diocese.

Th2 arrangement by which
Bishop Wrighit becamp associate bishop of the first dio-.ceSe with power tO supervise
the New York annual conference? ~was adopted by the Bishops~ Council at a meeting in
Kansas City, Kansas, in June,

Representatives of virtually
~every district in the church
were in attendance, The largest
delegation came from the first
diocese and consisted of both
Pastors and laymen,

Foltowing adjournment of
the Council, which was attended
by all except thre? ~ bishops,
Bishop Sims ~said: ~The Church
has spokén. We will abide by
the decision of the Church,~

For years, the New York antual ~conference has been a
~rouble spot in the first diocese
with occasional resort to. the
courts to settle church disputes.

The trouble reached its
heighth after the last session
ef the New York anual conference, at which Bishop Sims
transferred the Rev, Jacob A.
Portlock from the pastorate of
Bethe] AME Chutch and the
Rev, Chester Clark from the
pastorate of Emanu2?2l - church.

The Bishops, meeting in New
York for a session of the Foreign Mission Board heard a
statement of grievances and
subsequently when the Bishops~
Council met at Kansas City in
Jun assigned Bishop Wright
as ~associate bishop,~ to assist
Bishop Sims and to supervise
the New York Annual Conference,

~Court action followed with
- the followers of Bishop Sims
securing a temporary injunction r2straining Bishop Wright
trom taking any Official action
in the New York conference
and left the ~Bethel church in

charge of Bishop Sims~ appointee.

Bishops attending the Council~s meeting included: Bishops
W. A. Fountain, senior bishop;
R, R;,. Wright. Jr... David H.
Sims, D, Ward Nichols, S.
Green, George W, Baber,
H, Clayborn,- M, H... Davis,
Y. Tookes, J, A. Gregg. A.
Allen and F, M, Reid, * Absent
were Bishops. Noah W. Williams, G, B. Young, and Reverdy C, Ransom.

Negroes Honor

White Ballplayer

Columbia, S, C,~ANP~An
unofficial ~Frankie Baumholtz
night~ was declared by Negro

ball fans attending the final
game of a Series between two
white teams the Columbia Reds
and Columbus, played at Capital City park here last Tuesday night, and cash contributions were given the White
Columbia outfielder,

Spokesman for the segregated colored section of the stands,

~he Rev. S. P, Pearson, came
onto the field as Baumbholtz
came to bat in the Irst ~inning,
Pearson presented the ball

player with a cash contribution
taken up just before the game,
and also gave the player a min
iature bat for his infant son,
Frankie, Jr,
SERVO IN HOT SEARCH

FOR TUNEUP BEFORE
SEEING RAY ~SUGAR~.
SEPTEMBER 6

~UNEW YORK ~CNS ~ Marty
Servo and manager Al Weil
have together been nagging the
Boxing Commission for a. tuneup bout before Marty sees Ray
Sugar Robinson September 6th,
~Nix,~ has said the Commission
time, and time again, Wherein
fast thinking Weil ~ finally
thought of* ponting out Ray~s

Albany, ~If he can, why can~t
my boy?~ screamed Weil, So far
this hasn~t worked, Much desparing Weil fearing he will never get a Commission o.k. on a
regular bout, has annexed Bob
by Lakin for a special ten round
with his Marty at Fort Dix.

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GEORGE, N, Y. ANP
Two of the most active stud2nis
at th2 Boas Summer School
of cance at Bolton Landing on
Lake George this year were Isab2] Hamill, (left) of Fisk
university and Curtiss James
(right) of Hampton insiitute,
Miss Hamill is the daughter
of Dr, Stephen A. Hamill of

Philacelphia. She is a junior
at Fisk, majoring in physical
education,

James lives in Madison, N,
J. and. is a junior at Hampton
institute, majoring in musSic,

He was granted the Franz Boas
scholarship at the summer

Fisk And Hampton Students
Attend Boas Summer School

4 BOLTON LANDING, LAKE

school this year for his work
in the role of Booker T, Washington in the dance pageant presented by* Hampton institute at
the unveiling of the statue of
the great educator in the
New York University Hall of
fame.

Miss Fanziska Boas, (center)
daughter of the famious anthropologist, carries out in her
school of dance the same prvinciples of -racial equality that
marked her father~s work,~ The
Franz- Boas. scholarship _ will
be offered again in the summer
of 1947. to a student of a Negro university,

By JAMES L, HICKS
NNPA Staff Writer

WASHINGTON ~ The local
body of the American Federa~tion of Labor has informed the
United States Employment Services that if that agency moves
~to end race segregation in its
~local offic?s, the union will
take the issue to members of
the House Appropriations Committee, who oppose integration,
and will seek to have the agency~s cffices here abolished,
it waS learned here last Friday.

The threat by the unton to
~the agency followed an _ announcement by the Congress of
Industrial Organizations that it
would picket the local offices
of USES in protest against the
agency~s policy of maintaining
| Separate facilities for white and

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AFL Favors Segregation in USES
Washington, D. C. Offices

A delegation of the local AFL
called on USES and told them
that the local AFL is unalterably opposed to the mixing of
the races in the District of
Columbia,

In taking its stand against
integration, the local AFL director attention to the fact tha
ys unions maintain separate
faciliies for white and colored

workers in. the District of Co
lumbia. The races are kept separate in locker rooms, tool
sheds, eating facilities, toilets

and offices, the union representatives said, Even separate water pails are provided for white
and colored laborers: they
pointed out, ~

The delegation warn2d USES
officials that it would charge
the agency with attempting to
bring about social reforms, if
integration were attempted, and
stated that Such an attempt
might be the forerunner of
racial disturbances,. Before the conclusion of the
conference they drew from local officials a pledge that no
attempts at integration would
be mad? without authority form
thte direcor of the fourth regional district of USES,

Meanwhile the CIO last Wed-|

lota Phi Lambdas Meet ~ ee
In Hopkinsville, Kentucky

nesday threw a picket line
around the offices of Robert
Goodwin, national director of
USES, with 200 white and colored pickets marching before
his office in the Labor Department carrying signs which
read ~Goodwin Def?nds Segregation at USES,~ ~Jim Crow
Is Hitler~s Brother,~ ~Smash
Jim Crow at USES,~ and ~Veterans Want Equal Job Opportunity for All Am*éricans~.
Following the one-day demonstration, Miss Gertrude Evans, secretary of the Washington Industrial Union Council
(CIO); said that the CIO
would continue its fight against
discrimination and segregation
in the agency and that petitions
are now being circulated obtaining names of prominent
peopie in business. and government who endorse the fight.
The fight against segregation
in thé USES dates back
hearing b2fore the House Appropriations Committee in 1941
when reactionary membérs of
the Committee, who opposed
fntegration, made an_ alleged
off the record ~deal~ with U,
S.E,S, heads in which it was
agreed that segregation would
be maintained in. the
District of Columbia office,
Since that time the United
Public Workers of America has
twice protested to the United
Civil Service Commission that the agency was using
discriminatory practices in its
referrals of white and colored
applicants to government jobs,
An investigation by the Civil
Service Commission substantiated the charg2s of the UPWA
and the Commission ordered
USES to desist from ~ Practie?s
Two months later after a
follow-up chack by the UPWA
similar charges wre again

fevelled at the agency, At that}
tim? Civil Service promised an-.

other investigation and C, C,
Hathaway public relations of
| ticer for the Commission, said

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agency~s | ~

ON THE LIMB

With George Lyle Jr.
An NNPA Sports Feature
The jumping from the Mexi
can League back to the United States by Catcher Mickey
Owen. quite a question for
baseball fans in several instances,

Of course,.the first thought
that pops up is ~What will
Chandler do?~

Colored baseball fans however, have a second and more
pertinent point: ~What is the
Situation with the colored ball
player in Mexico?~

According to the former
Dodger backstop, conditions are
terrible in the ~South of the
Border~ ~land, Food, living conditions and the fact that the
Mexican native is a wild, and
oftimes impulsive creature, were
too much for Mickey to cope
with.

Colored interests is heightened by the knowledge that just
two Or: three ~weeks ago two
members of one of the Negro
National League teams, the
Phiiadelphia Stars, answered
the lure of Mexican gold.

If, as. Owen says, the condi-|

tions are So bad in Mexico, how

will they, and the others who

preceeded them there fare?

To date none of the dozen

players who are under a five
year ban have seemed dissatisfied with his lot.. Not too much has been Said
ly the recently appointed Secretary to the Pennsylvania
State Athletic Commission. Sam
Evans,

Taking over a job which
had. been vacant for over a
year was no easy task, saat f
Slowly and surely the man
who founded the Youth City|
Movement is whipping th'ngs
into line, <

~One of my. first jobs,~ he
reminisced, ~was to get a system set up here, and now after 2 few months hard work it
is coming along fine.~

Meanwhile Leon Rains, the
chairman of the three-man
board, continues to ignore the
demands made by colored
sports fans to appoint more colored persOns to positions on the
Commission~s staff of fight
judges, referees, and so forth,
or to give the lone colored
judge Dave Howard, a local
fireman, an Opportunity to
work in the big bouts,

THE SPORTS REALM

By Ralph Campbell
GODOY WINS
OQVER WILLIAMS
Cherley ~Cyclone~ Williams
skyrocketed out of the darkness last Wednesday night in
a gripping battle against Artu
to Godoy, the South American

Champion. He wound up on
the losing end of a ten-round
battle, but not until he had
vindicated himself and erased
all doubts as.to his pemence
and: ability.

Godoy had to earn victory
the hard way, His moSt potent
blows swished the air as the
rangy Cyclone danced in and

tout of reach, But Godoy kept

boring in and when he finally
got there, he scored often and
nard with both ands to the
face and body, It was here that
he won the fight.

Godoy dropped his foe in the
2d with a leaping left hook
that landed flush on the jaw,
Cyclone took a nine count, then
boxed his way through the remander of the round, Throughout the bout and particularly
in the 3rd, 6th and 9th rounds,
the hard hitting Williams
caught
left uppercuts that qarred him
a. la Louis.

It was a great fight and a
moral victory for big boy Wiljliams, who won~t concede a
possible chance against the man
who is angling for a shot at
Joe Louis a 3rd time.

Prentiss Hall. popular light

Godoy with steaming:

heavyweight, snatched victory
from his willing opponent, Art
Hardy, when ke landed a beautiful inside right to the jaw
in the 5th round, Hardy, leading up to that time, fell out as
if hit by a pole, It was the
second time that Hall had KO~d
Hardy of Pittsburgh,

Hard hitting Allen Faulkner
boxed and punched his way to
a six round triumph over Sam
Mack in another interesting
setto. The latter was a game
and ever-dangerous foe, looping vicious overhand rights and
lefts, but clever Allan merely
dancet away, then countered
with his own thunderous rights
and wicked lefts to win an
easy margin,

Vic ~Flashy~ Eisen registered his second straight KO win
in two pro Starts at the expense of the rough and cagey

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BLACK YANKEES COMING GREAT TEAM

NEW YORK~(ANP)~The recent Philadelphia Sears:
Black Yankees 12 inning baseball game at the historic Polo
Grounds was one of the best games played in New York. in
many years. We do not~ merely mean semi-professional ball
games. The type of baseball the Semler owned Black. Yanks
displayed against the Goose Curry-led Philly Stars was big
time stuff, measured by any yard stick you wish to employ:

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In eking out a Dinning victory over their determined opponents, in which Fernandez and Alex (Lionheart) Newkirk
shared pitchig honors for the Yankees, some 11,000 fans cheert
ed ths great plays made from start to finishe~ Gone were the

early-season boos. Gone were the thin-skinsied: logal admirers
who. have been clamorink for a hustling, ~aggressive: sclub lik

the one ~Soldier Boy~ trotted out on - field that reenable
Sunday afternoon.: % i

were the real big league McCoy.~ Frém gigantic Barbee.
initial~ hassock clear around the outfield posts to #4
Hayes behind the place,~ the players were -6n ~their toes "ey
secénd~ of the way. Newkirk took: over in, the fourth sd dis ~
played a masterly brand of hurling until Ricks, who ~bad ~eliev'
ed McHenry of the Phils, hurled. a wild pitch giving she hice

victory.

For. those fans who have asked me. if Rightfielder Snead
of the Black Yankees was secured from the Cincinnati, Clowns;
the answer is in the negative. ~Semler got Snead from: Jacks
sonville, Fla. Also in the case of Palm, that very promising
third baseman of the local setup, he did not come from Pittsburgh but is a Panamanian whom Billy Yancey first put the

| finger of approval on while instructing in the Canal zone areai

LARRY DOBY CATCHES FANS FANCY ~

Lary Doby is the Newark~ Eagles~ second Lasenes wis
has beenjcalled by: white and colored baseball scouts the finest
infielder at the position in Negro ball circles. Not a few deem
him of major league caliber rating him above Jackie Robinson,
Montreal Club of the International League, on pivot plays
around the keystone sack..,,.Fahs returning from the All-Star
game played Aug. 15 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, literally rave about ~Doby~s work in: that: game (Eastern nine won)~
comparing him with former greats like Bobby Downs and éven
the incomparable -~Bingo~~ DeMoss.

It is claimed that the ~ ~skeeter state~~ athlete is equally -
home on the basketball court and that he will play for the Triangles, only colored entrant inthe newly formed New: York
Scottie Ramadge of Toronto,
Ramadge started fast,

no target in the slippery. little
Eisen. who taiooed a left jab
off his counte*nance as regular
as the beat of a drum. Vic ~sci
him up~ then finished him with
right crosses to the chin, The end
came!in 2:18 of te 3rd round,
George Teague banged out
a decision in four rounds over
his rougk theugh out-classed
opponent in the opener,
All in all, it was a fine card,
ard the HBC will do well to

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ATLANTA, Ga, ~ The annual meeting of the Iota Phi
Lambda Sorority will be~ held
this year at Hopkinsville, Ky.
with Xi Chapter, August 24 -27. All sessions will be held at
the B, T, Washington School,
731 E, Second Street, -

The convention will open
witn Executive Board meeting
at 10 A, M. Saturday, August
24. F(-gistration of delegates
will begin at 12 noon, after
which a. Get-Acquainted luncheon is planned until 2:30 p, m,
in the Cafeteria,

The first business seSsion,
according to President L, M.
Parker, is scheduled for 2:30
P, M. Saturday. This séssion
will be dedicated to all members who gave military~ and
civilian services during World
War II, featuring Sorors Margaet G, Sims, who served with
the American Red Cross, Mildred R, Miller | United Service
Organization and Rosa L. Richardson_ who is with UNRRA,

The educational meeting

Sunday afternoon in the school}

auditorium will give forth such
noted participants as Hon,
Lackey, Mayor of Hopkinsville,

if the charges were again found
true, the only course of action

left to.the Commission would

be to'refer the matter to President Truman,

Thus far the Commission has
not made public its firidings in
the second investigation.

Goodwin, USES head, had
~no comment~ to make when
asked about the picket line
thrown around his office.

Labor Department officials
were equally silent when confronted with the fact that the
AFL charges come to the at
tention of NNPA,
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Mrs. Lola M, Parker, national
president; Mrs, O, P. Williams,
national educational
the Reverends R, S,. Lasley
and Thos, H. Copeland; greeting from various Greek letter
organizations and community
groups, interspiced with musical numbers by Sorors Mary E.
Buckner of Xi Chapter and Eva
L. Thomas of Delta,

The annual address of the
National President will be given on Monday, The ~convention
theme is ~Iota. Phi Lambda~s;
Role in the Future of Negro
Youth,~ Speakers on the theme
will be Sorors Thelma~ Freeman, Susie Bronaugh, Ethel
Cheatham and Annie Fields.

A full program will carry the
mee.ing through ipeccanee =
gust 27th,

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New Jersey Professional. Baskethall League. Jesse Miles, fa
winging; mous figure in. sports and for 22 years director of the Orange-.
all sorts of blows, but he found] Triangle Athletic Club,,.N.J.,

s high. hopes of whipping Bob
Douglas~ celebrated ~~Rens~ with the Doby sparkplug quintet

of his.

The Triangles expect to have several noted courteers in
~addition to Doby, viz: ~~Hoss~~ Pearson, Sonny Spain, Johnny
Brown, Eddie (Rens)* Younger, Lou (Rens) Badger, Ernie
Young and John Wilson.

~MELTIN~ POT~~~ 4
i anon}

JERSEY JOE WALCOTT, 32-year-old hanecisht contender and father of six children, did it again.... Friday evening, Aug. 16, at Madison Square Garden, the folner sparmate
of Joe Louis Kiiocked out Tommy Gomez, (white) Fort Tam>
ps, Fla., in 1:21 second. of the third round of} the Feature! ~LO
rounder before 11,657 paid customers... Spotting the ex-Gl
seven years, the dynamic punching Walcott who fears no man
scored impressively over the cocksure Gomez who was. tossed.
in with Walcott because the ~~smart-money-boys~~ had it figured out that Gomez ~would derail Walcott's ambitions "fora
championship shot. f.

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Walcott, punched with too much au~hority for Gomez:. In fact, we know of no heavyweight except the champion
who might have stood up'under the mighty blows Walcott
rained upon the unfrotunate~ Gomez, Purple~ Heart winnér in
the late world war... KENNY WASHINGTON, one of football~s immortals, now a member of Adam Walsh's Los Angeles
Rams, may not show to advantage this season due~ to knee
trouble.~.. The irony' of the former UCLA? college star's~ luck
lies in the fact that had he been signed by thé pro's at the ~time~
when he, Woodrow Wilson Strode and other colored gridders
were at their peak, his fame now ~would overshadow that~ of
Ernie Nevers in my humhle estimation.

Ike Williams, NBA lightweight boss, should fing his eek
lish invasion soft picking.... HENRY (Speed) MERCHANT,
centerfielder of the sensational ~ Indianapolis Clowns, beat
Olympian JESS OWENS a step in a ~~freak~ 100 a fortnight,
ago at the Polo. Grounds ball park~;.. The occasion was the
meeting of the Clowns and Alex Pothpey's N.Y. Cubans, a
game that was won by the Clowns incidentally.. - the. odd eal
of the race;lay: in the: factthat while Merchant ran on the. flat,.
Owens in order to. apace matters, skipped over the. low-,
seeovccoes | hurdles. 3

REECE ~ (Salas TATUM, ~éloiigaed ~ia~ impish" Sirus!
baseman of the Syd Polack-managed Clowns, has endearéd~
himself in the heart of local baseball fans as no player ~ can ~Te
call since Joe Williams~ days... That ~Goose~ is~a mess as

~Granny~ would say... Few iuardidne of the initial hassock

\ can stretch for a ball wikia five feet of the loose-limbed Tat
um
action: he can whale that old apple a country mile

connects solidly; and as for that Chatlie Chaplin dog~. He is the surest sort of catch~on balls frred~in any~ ds
en~ he~
ttt of his,

|~that is simply money-at- -the- box-office for the Clowns whér-.

ever they are booked.

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Many persons have Written in aking if: hee HAVANA LA~
PALOMAS, great nine out of Guba, will appear at: Yankéé
Stadium ~or the Polo Grounds this season. My answer -was~in'
the negative after chats~ with the owners of 'the Black Yankees~
and New York Cubans~. ~To B., J. Haskins~ letter of
from Kansas City, Kan., we ~answer as follows: ~JACKI ROB
INSON is batting.376 as we beat a press deadline~ ~and leads:
the INTERNAT. LEAGUE in this department.

BOB FOXWORTH, that powerful- dere kid
whom I told you about months back, ~ka 'Jaome,
Memphis, in second canto | of a scheduled ten Gut Chicago way,~
Aug. 16; The Cleveland Browns of the AAC Footballefrcuit
added the second colored player in MARION 5225 ~
Ib. fullback gr red a ~Great. ~Lakes-Naval- Training: Station
ander coach PAL SA Owht formerly of Ohio State* BILL~

- Phone CHerry 1308,
DETROIT 26, MICRIGAN

WILLIS, great tackle in his undergraduate days-at Ohio Seater 7
is the other colored neyes. trying out for the squad. | 7, oe