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saptists Demand End To

onss MICHIGAN~ CROWNED.
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Le MISS ELSIE PRATT

A, state. wide popularity con
test climaxed at Back of. Moon
summer resort in Bitely,- Michigan, on Labor Day with the
erowning of Miss. Elsie Pratt

6f Flint as Queen of Michigan.

~very active among the

sare

Miss Pratt is the lovely
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cl2veland Pratt of Maines St. and
at present is employed at the
A. C. Spark Plug as the only
Negro Clerk. $

The curvaceous Miss Pratt is
social
circles recently: placing in the

Flint Annual Golf Tournament. |

During the. war, she did her
bit,~ by servirrg as President of
the Flint USO Club.

- She he gee to thank each

and everyone who madeé her victory possible and would like
this creed quoted whichis by
Edwin Markham which is very
fitting:

A CREED

There is a destiny that makes
us brothers,

None goes his way alone.

All that we send into the lives
of others

Come back into our owrn.

I care not what his temples or
his ' creeds,

One thing holds firm and fast~

That into his fateful heap of
days and deeds

The soul of man is cast.

MAY OUST SEN.

BILBO AS

~WASHINGTON ANP
There is haope that Theodore G.
Bilbo may be ousted as chair
man of the senate committee for
the district when congress con~enes. A recent congressional
act. reducing the numb2r. of
~committees in the serfate from
30. to 15 (including the district
committee) will. result in strict
enforcement of th? seniority
rule for chairmanships.

The 15 senior Democratic senr
jors ~ assuring thé party remains im power~will have first
claim to chairmanships. As the
list now stands, Bilbo is 20th
in the line -of continuous Services He has been there since. _ January; 1935.

The Reorganization act * also
limits each senator to membership: on just two committ2 eS,
not including the district eommittee, and Bilbo is a member
of. the~ rules, pensions, library,: ~commerce, and agriculture. Bil
ba~s. only chance to keep his

district committee chairmanship

is: ~for some other senator with
seniority to renounce his claim
and'this keen. observers feel they

~MAYOR~ |

will not do.

_Bilbo acquired the title ~~mayor~ of the district when he assumed the chairmanship when
two other senators with. seniority
refused. But with the elimirtation of these committees, the
senior senators will fall back to
other committees which they
steered clear of in the past in
order to retain chairmanships.

RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS
ELECT NEGRO DELEGATE
NEW YORK ~ ANP ~When
Joseph B. Greene took his s2at
at the last meeting of the New
York AFL Central Trades and
Labor council as a delegate

from th? N. Y. Railway Mail as-,

sociation, jim crow in the labor
movement was. given another
well-deserved shove. QOniy a
year ago, following a U.~S. Suvreme court decision outlawing
the national body~s ~Caucasian
clause~ in the state of New York
~neene and six other Negzo

railway postal clerks wer" welcomed
cal,

~into the New York lo
~vey of the

Oct. 16 Deadline
For Voters to
Register

A group of influential citi
zens are putting on a concer- |.
~| trated drive to get all citizens

registered before fhe 16th of
October to enable them to vote
in the General election. When
one of the volunteer workers
come to your house, she is coming there to help you. To inform you whether or not you
are eligible to vote If you are

not, she will see to it that you} ~

will be furnished transportation at your convenience to
and from the City Hall.

This was decided after a sureligible voters,
was found out that there were
less than 1 per cent ircrease
in registration since the 1944
election. >

This depiorable situation can
be remedied by ali citizens not
registered to do so now before
the 16th of @:tober.

John L. Webb,

Miss. Fraternal
tLeader, Passes

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. ~
(Special) ~John L. Webb, 69,
grand master, Stringer Mason- ||
ic Grand Lodge, F. and A.M.,
of the State of Mississippi,
died at his home here: abou:
1:15 last Friday. His death||
was attributed to a liver ailment after treatment for which |_
he had only a few days before
returned from the Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minn.

John L. Webb was born on
Sept. 17 1877, in Tuskegee,
Ala., one of the 11 children of
the Rev. and Mrs. B. L. Webb.
The father being a_ widely
known Baptist minister. After
public school he entered Tuskegee Institute where he | received a trade certificate in
carpentry in 1900. After
working as foreman on_ the
construction of some of the
best buildings on Tuskegee's
campus he went first to Louisiana, ~then to Arkansas, and
later; to Mississippi, where he
won considerable success as a
building contractor. The town
of Phillips, Miss., was built almostwholy by him during his
work as a contractor in Missis
sz) te L. Webb~Page 7

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~| lint Cleaner
e| e
Hires Silk
Finisher

The Hollywood Cleaners, one
of the outstanding cleaners in
our icity, owned and operated
by Mr. Oscar Calloway who
is a staunch supporter of the
Flint Spokesman. Mr. Calloway
was in desperate need of a silk
finisher for his establishment.
Mr. Calloway promptly called
the [Flint Spokesman who inswered his call and after orte
week of advertising for an expert silk finisher the add was
answered by Miss Edna Brandon who is an expert in the
care! of ladies garments. Ladies
who want expert work done
ort their valuable silks, call the
Hollywood Cleaners. Phone 9 -
year to year due to differences in
weether, plant growth and other
vonditions

it].

DENTS GET TOGETHER ~
Above scene was caught at
Louisville, Ky., where the. thirty-seecond Annual meeting of
the. National Dental Associa
tion.comvened recently. From

-W. M.
F.
C: -1,. <Thomas,
Db. H. ~Luarpin,
EE. W..: Tag
Drs.
Ohio,

ivit to right -are:
Springer, ~Cincinnatj,
O. Sweeney,
iouisville, Ky.,
Nashville, Tenn.,

gert, Birmingham, Ala., Dean

Photo.

T. W.~Myers,. Louisville. Derttal
College, H. C.. Edwards, Washington, D. C., ~and -P. Ww. -Hill,
Clarksdale, Miss. ~ Atlas. News

PT PERE ET ORE LEE COR TT ETRY ME FE RTD:
~Report Chicago Southsiders -

~Drink $24,000,009 Annually

|: NASHVILLE~(ANP)~Negroes on Chicago~s south |

| side consume $24,000,000 in alcoholic liquors 2 year, warns |

Frazier T. Lane, director of the civic education, department | ~Quillar,~

| of the Chicago Urban League i in an article for the. Septem- |

| ber issue of Message magazine entitled, ~The High Cost of |
| the Tavern Among the Negro Group. ~
| agreed, ~ he says, ~that three-fourths of the alcoholic liquors
sold i in Chicago are sold o on the south side.~

~It is generally

U.S. Rushes Smallpex ees

To Liberia to Combat Epidemic

WASHINGTON ~ NNPA ~
Twenty thousand points of
smallpox vaccine was rushed by
airplane to Liberia last Sunday
by the American Red Cross and
the United States Public Health
Service to combat an epidemic
which has broken out ir the
Liberian hinterland, the Red
Cross announced.

The epidemic was reported by
R. O~Hara_ Lanier, American
minister to Liberia, who said
in a cable to the State Department that the disease had
reached the. proportions of -an
epidemic in the hinterland areas

but the death rate so far has
been low.

The special pians to fly the
vaccine? to Liberia was chartered by the Firestone Tire and
Rubber company, which owns a
rubber plantation im the West
African republic. The plane left
the United States Sunday.

In a Message to President W.
V. S. Tubman of Liberia,. the
Red Croégs said the vitally:needed vaccine was ~a gift from the
Amevican people.~ The message
also stated that if additiorral

vaccine were required, it would.

ke sent immediately by the Red
Cross.

Urban League
Seeks Home

Grour Leaders

The Michigan State College
Home Economic~ Extension is
offering a program in homemaking to all housewives in the
city of Flint. A leadership trainimg course is being offered and
the Urban League would - like
representatives of as many
clubs and organizations as possible to participate and become:
leaders of their special groups.

A tentative program has been
set ~beginning September 11,
1946. ~Rally Day~ at the Cen
tral Christiarr Church; Septem- |

ber 16-24, -Making. Motions
Count;. October 30, special interest, including meals, cloth
ing and: furniture;~ November 5
and 6, Making Motions Count;
February 12, amd 14,,1947,
Mending Woolens; March 4 and
5, Mending Cottons.

Any person interested in taking. the trainimg course may
secure additional information
by. calling Cuetta E.. Jom2s, 4 -
5521, at the Urban League.

Mass. FEPC
Hires Race Vet

BOSTON ~-.ANP ~ A ocolored World War II veteran, 28 -year old Elwood S. McKinney
has been appointed to the Massachusetts three-member = Fair.Employment commission. which

became an official body here
August 21. Others appointed
were Mrs. Mildred H. Mahoney.
wife of a Boston university professor and a liberal social worker; end Judge A. K. Cohen, a
liberal Jewish attorney of long
legal standing in this city.
Massachusetts which now joins

vew York in the fight against
~=*-]2rance won FEPC only

> most bitter fight. Wi
~cali ion of Catholics, colored,
and Jews, the measure here was
finatly.put over. This area is
largely Catholic and Archbishop
Richerd J. Cushing urged ~ his

followers to pass the. bill along
vith of other

Ta--
ad ore

races,

a
tietes

and _ colors,

a|cided to toss out the

MeQuillar Is

Favorite in

| Eddy Fistcufts~

* ~Odds~ will ~favor Bobby, ~McPort - Huron~ ~Negro, |

~when he ~comes to the~ défense
~of his ~state* lightweight: boxing

championship Friday~ ~ ~ttight~ at
the - IMA Auditorium. rs

~

-ecie ui these odds: aare: pased -McQuillar~s: greater
speed Gad ~Eddy is confident - he
can match~it. If he can the
Port Huron boy is certain to
encourtter trouble as Eddy
packs considerable punch for
his weight.

~IT not only believe I can
catch up with McQuillar, but
I believe I can floor him,~ said
Eddy early this~ week. ~I want
that title back and I~m going
out from the opening round to
get it.

~IT -have always fought my
bect fights ir Flint I am in the
best of condition and there is
not any reason why I can~t
whip him,~ continued Eddy.

McQuillar, who arrived here
early this week, has been working out regularly at the FICC
gymnasium. These closing sé~ssiors devoted to boxing and
finishing work on the speed
bag have put McQuillar in razor edge condition for the Friday battle.

In summing up Fridays fight
McQuillar said: I beat Eddy
with greater speed and boxing
skill when I took the title in
Detroit and I cam do it again.
What is more I have. been
working out regularly in Joe
Louis~ camp for the last month
and in that time I developed. a
good deal more kick in my
punches. Mr. Eddy may be in
for a big surprise.~ ~

A bit more interest was added to the show this week when
Atler Ellis, discoveror of Joe
Louis, offered to work McQuillars corner for rothing. Ellis has worked all of Eddy~s
top. fights, but recently they
had a falling out and Eddy deDetroit
Negro. This may prove a. real
handicap to Eddy as Ellis is
regarded as ome of the smartest handlers in the business.

Promoter Tommy. Cussans
has again lined up an attractive supporting card for Friday. One match of particular interest to. Flint fans. will. bring
~ See~MecQuillar Is~Page 8.

Inj ustice

Lynchings Deplored,
Gov. Snubs Invitation

By WILLIAM A. FOWLKES
ATLANTA~(ANP)~Dr. D. V. Jemison, eT, and
the entire slate of incumbent officia's of the National Bapt~st
~Convention, Inc., were reelected by roaring acclamation Wednesday, a few hours after the nation~s largest Negro organization opened officially and immediately following the reading

of the sixth annual message of
the Selma, Ala., leader of
the mammoth gathering at
City Auditorium., Upwards of 20,000 Baptist
gathered from ~the far-flung
corners of the natior, taxed.Atianta~s convention hospitality
aid in~ many instances, because
of the rush and. pregs of the
throngs, sOme were denied accommodations of housing until
the convention meting was well
spent.

Dr. Jemisor~s message, read
to the convention by the. Rev.
J, C. WaShington, of Alabama,
challenged America and. the
world.to fairer treatment of the

massacre near Morrrae, Ga., as
~- blot. to the nation~s history
and as. a reason some delegates
might have refrained from com
for the convention meeting.

Citivg the history of the
American Negro~s loyalty to and
deferse of his country, Dr.-Jemison laid down a platform of
race relations expressing -what
the Negro ~stands for and what
we believe to be right, just and
fair for our.group.~ The platform declared:

~We do not desire, wher a
Negro has committed a crime,
that he be shield2d or harbored by members of his race. We
want, when a Negro has committed a crime, that he be given a fair trial before an unprejudiced, ~interracial jury, and not
have to suffer mob violence.

~We plead for equal rights in
the courts of the country.

~We want the anti-lynching
bill, which has been a stench in

passed.

~We want the.Fair ~niployment Practice commission bill
to be passed. The passing of this
bill will mean more et the Negro than anythir~g else, as it relates to his economic standing
and security.

~We believe in the abolition
of the poll tax. We do not: believe that anyone should be barred from voting because of poll
tax:

~We plead for arf equal opportunity to educate ourselv2s
and our children, just as other
people do.

~We plead for the abolution
of the jim crow system on pub
lic carriers. When2ver equa~
fares are paid, eugal a~comodations should be given.

~We plead for full recognition for Negro women, and that
they will rot be label2d as Jane.
Sally, or Mary, but that they be
honored, as other women are
with the titles Miss or Mrs.

~We want to vote, for th:
reason that no race or natior
zan protect itself which o2~:
10t use a ballot.~ |

Hitting the recent wave a!
lynch atrocities, Dr. Jemison deflared:

~Thi some states w2 have lynchings and murders. The fact is,
there is not any state in the
See Jemison Reeiected~Page 8

| Negro, pointing~ to ~the - récent

ing to this part of the country:

~troit,

AME Annual

Confab Meets.
'n Saginaw

In. a Most inspiring program
and one that highlighted the
AME Corfferenc2, was.staged
Saturday night at the Bethel
AME Church in Saginaw, Mich.
The ~meeting was participated
in by young people from. all
over the Fourth Episcopal district, and was under th2 leadership of Mrs.. Davis. The
young people of the Ebenezer
Church proved to be stella. muSicians. Their renditions were
erthusiastically received. This

sam2. group of young people,
under the direction of Mrs.
Harris, journeyed to Des

Moines, Iowa to participate. in
the LLaymen Convention there.. The.. highlight of the eritire
program was the Oratorical
Contest. in which girls from
Fort Waym?, Saginaw and Departicipated. The winner
of this contest was Miss Jones
from Detroit, who received a
fifty dollar prize to go toward
her education fund. She spoké
very eloquently on ~Tomorrow~s Church~. Despite the fact
that Wings Over Jordan was
also in Saginaw, the Layman
carr boast of a full house.

The aims of the Lay organization is_to train the youth in
the duties and functions of the
church. Dr. J. L.- Leach is the
Lay director for this district.
Dr. Leach is doing a grand work~
in developing the young peo~ple for the duties that will

confront them tomorrow. -~
the nostrils = congress to be|~

Many Flintites journeyed to

Saginaw over the week end to

attend the Convention. Some of
those seen mingling im the
crowd, were: Rev. Walter Crider, and son, Walter, Jr., Rev.
and Mrs. J. W. Walker, Mrs.
Gaither Gamble, Mr. and Mrs:
E. T. Gantt, Mrs. Gwennola
Amith, Mrs. Mary Kelly, Mrs.
Evelyn Howard ard Marilynn,

Mrs. Bertha John$on, Mrs. Bir
die Wallace, Mrs. Carrie Pack
rer, Mrs. Cleo Miller, Mr. Frank
~Cé6ke and Woodward,

Frank

Gillespie, Lawrence Cromwell,: John Means, Ruby Turner,..Mar
ion Coates, Mrs. Ella Suléer,
Alice Hollins, Dr. and Mrs..
Leach, and many others tha:

the reporter did not see.

Nation Warned
Of Possible

Meat Famine.

NEW YORK ~ CNS ~ Hard'y a news commentator speaks
~oday without saying something ~
ibout the possible meat short~ge since there seems to b2.a
aeat race on in Chicago with
hogs and cattle being rushed
be sae the market.. for imme
ciste sale, although ~ sane ~is
nats underweight.,

Packers are saying in nosmall terms ~eat meat now~ because you won't eat it later,..unSee~Nation Warned~Page. &

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