Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 26]

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ITY RQNED
ft ~~TING ~ During the thirty

AT DENTAL

~ond meeting of the Nattonal. District Assn., Louisville
i. W. M. Springer of Cin
@uzati, Ohio presented a_solid, Bronze~ Placque to Dr. Stepher J. Lewis of Manassas,

BUSINESS

ot ~Edward Gilbert, Director,
Figger and Better Business of
Phi- Beta Sigma Fraternity for
om ANP
Reéping Records Not Difficult
~~**"~a the business man who will
take the-time to -keep records
of his busin?ss transactions, it
will be-:evealed through f'gures that.such an effort is not in
fay. way difficult...che,..<aily record: which any
sm~l] busimess~ neelts are. faz
from hcing compticitcd. They
may be very simpls, easy to use
end casy to underziand.

They.- reflect only daily - activities in the business.

~These. activities: deal with cash
received. from~ sale: and from
other sources, ani with paynyents for merchandise and éxpenses and other payments on
loans, purchases of equipments,
eto..A- simple form for recording such transactions often called. a*one-book system and a description of how to use same is
ss.,follows:

In front of you is-to be visualized 2-white sheet of paper or a
common ledger, (a book used
by progressive business men, so:rranged_as to ~exhibit on;one
tae all the sum at the debit
of the accounts and on the other all~ those at the credit).
~The. captions across the top
cE, the pages show (A). date,
(B)";remarks. (C) cash receipts
referring to cash sales and monies received on. eecount. (D)

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Va., in recognition of his outsianding performance in creating and est4blishing the NDA~.
pubiication, Th2 Bulletin. Dr.
Springer is chairman of~ the
Board of Dir2ctors.~Atlas News

Photo.

| BACTS.

other income, this completes your
credit sida of your simple form
for recording daily activit:es. On
the right hand side of your ledger or your sheet may be found
or. you may place cash payments
or (debit) (E) merchandise.
operating expenses and
(G). other payments. Thus you.
have a complete simple form
for ~recording you daily transactions.
Now you are ready by applying the folfowing ~rules to have

Eerns Master's

NEW YORK ~ CN~ ~ M'ss
Matella. Maree, a teachar at

Georgia, earned her Master~s
degr2e in curriculum and teaching from Columbia university
this summer, and was cited for
her excellent work in her field.

While in the city studying Miss
Margee was active with some of
her Zeta Phi Beta sorors. She
also visited nearby cities~ Philadelphia visiting with her -sister, Mrs. Lillian Frances; and
her cousin Virginia Butler in
Providence, R. I.

Traveling back to Savannah,
in time for the opening of her
school, she stepped in Baltimore
and Washington, D. C. to chat
with Zetas and friends.

Miss Maree? is active in civic,
religious, and educational cir~ in Sav h, being an active

nember of pot - Zeta chapter
thks and a leader of Girl Scout
Troop No. 71. She returns to
her post better prepared to serve
youth and no doubt will be

an accurate picture of your daigg.mong thos: who will receive

ly income and expenditure: 1.
Total the day~s cash receipts
from cash sales and customer~s

payments on account. Enter this.

total in column (C).

2. Total the day~s other income
recaipts, enter this total in colnmn (D).

3. Total the day~s ~cash and
cheeks paid out for merchandise,
ente: this total in column (E).

4. Total the cash and checks
paia out for expenses, enter this
total in column (F).

5. Total other cash and checks
paid out for withdrawls, payments on fixtures,etc., enter this
total in column (G).

The foregoing description~ | of
one ~book~ system, although hav-,
ing. its::limitations, if put into
practice will prove valuable to
hte small business man. Once
tried all will agree that records
keeping is not difficu.t.

(To be continued)

Three Race Youths Receive Fisher
Body Awards for Model Cars

*hree Negro. youths racently
rreved themselves to be skilled
designers and model builders by
winning state awards in tho
Fisher Body: Craftsman~s Guild
cdmipetition.

~The: ~three boys designed and
bui's model. automobiles and entered them in the Guild~s 1946
competition. When state and
regional judging was concluded
at-varieus central judging points
throughout the country, it was
founc.,that second place for the
state of Oregon, Corfnecticut and
Louisiana had ben captured by
Negra: youths. Each of them received a cash award of $50.

Jesse Jackson, Jr., of Hartford,
took: second place for Connicticut im: the junior division~boys
of from 12 through 15 y2ars of
ag?..Dennis Hammond, Jr., of
_ Alexandria, won ~ second place
~for ~Louisiana in the senior divisidn-boys of from 16 through
19. De Norval Unthank, of Portjand, won a_ duplicate. second
award for Oregon in the junior
division. When names of th?
builders of the winning models
wefc-opened it was found that
Leland.Johnson, of Hillsboro,
Oreg.,, had won second award
for. Oregon but he is the son of
a General Motors employe and
rules of the competition provid
LeMoyne Expects
Large Enrollment

cml ~ANP~ The largest ~enrollment in recent years
was predicted for LeMoyne college~s 76th session by. acting dean
Pavi E.. Collins, here last week
in announcing ~ that freshman
tégistration would be held Sept.
4, while upper classmen will be
taFen''on September 6 and 7.

A limited number of scholarsnips were also announced as being;, available to new ~students
competitive examinations. Graduates of five Memphis and MidSouth: high schools have already

been awarded 23 scholarships.

ed for duplicate awards in any
case where th? son of a GM employe won. Unthank~s.. model
was next in line so he received
the auplicate $50 award.

Craftsman~s, Guild is a
G2neral Motors educational foun
dation which ha. sonductead
model car and mode! Napoleonic competitions since 1930 to
encourage youths to work. with
their hands and to study fine
craftsmanship.

The

REV.
Isdo.

ELLIOTT MASON, ToOhio who preached the
Brotherhood Sermon Thursday

night, September 5th, for ~the
Laymen of the Nation during
the National Baptist Laymen~s
Convention, September 4th~ to
7th, 1946, Ebsrezer Baptist
Church, Atlanta, Ga. a

Baked Applies

For baked apples, select souna
fruit. Wash, core and cover with
a mixture of sugar and water to satisfy individual's taste. Bake until
only one-fourth done, then place in
No. 2 Re-enameled cans to within
one-half inch of top.. Cover with the
sweetened juice to fill can. Seal immediately and process for 25 minutes in boiling hot water bath. (Coal
quickly, drr and label.

fall promotjon.

| JACKSON, Miss. ~NNPA
Aithewh all the colored persen. who allegedly shot down a
quartett of policemen near Magee, Miss., were lodged in a local ~jail near them scene of the
two-day manhunt for the aceused, there was no talk of mob

~

ers was mistreated in any par~ticular, Lieutenant Governor
~Fiela C. Wright told the NNPA
News Servic? last Saturday.

In a letter to Robert Durr,
editor of the Birmingham Weekly and a columnist for the NNPA
News Service, whose n2phew,

| Bill Craft, a. veteran, was one

of the persons arested, Lieutenant Governor Wright wrote:

~As you profess to be interested in the truth and in giving
the true story ~to the world~;
I take pleasure in giving you
t.ess facts. 4nd I trust you, in
~urn will do your part ir giving
the story to the world by releasing these facts to your NNPA
News Service and seeing to it
*hat they are published.

~It so happens that I personally. talked with your nephew,
"~. O. Craft, after h2 was captured by the officers of Smith
County. His story was given to
me freely and voluntarily at a

when he had no cause whaitsoever to tell: anything but the
truth.

~The story as ~given to me
by him hag heen substantiated,
<<,

practically all of the witnesses,
both white and. black. Your
nephew~s story is substantially
zs follows:

~Lete Sunday afternoon the
Craft boys, five in pumber, were
viding on their truck about th?
geacefu] countryside armed with
ap Army M-1.30 galiber rifle,
two Army carbine rifles ond a
22 caliber rifle. These hoys had
been to one church and were
ging to amother.

~In crossing one of the public
highways they made a stop and
parked their truck in such a
manner to partially block the
raain highway. While thus parked, a car in which there were
two white youths, one fourteen
years of age, came dow the
highway and fhad some dijfficulty in getting around the truck.
~These white hoys did nof stop

~

|their car, but in trying to man
suver around the truck shouted
something, your relatives do
not. recall what, at these Negro6.

~Thereupon Johny \ Craft
jumped from the truck and fired
at the white boys with the

ring four peace officers went
~9 the Craft home to question
them concerning the shooting
of the rifle at the automobile.

~Johnny Craft ard his broth- ers saw these four officers coming and laid ambush for them.
When the officers came close
enough, the Crafts without

violence and none of the prison-:

time and under circumstances:

Army M-1 rifle. Late that eve
Georgia as

~:1~ Paulsen School in Sayanmah, |

2

TEACHERS OF
VQCATIONAL AGRICULTURE

~ALABAMA

~Farm management, research,

poultry diseases and parasites |
and agricultural research were |5.

featured in the annual short
course of Alabama Teachers of
Vocational Agriculture which
met at Tuskegee institute this
month.

In the photo, left to right,
hack row: A. Shaw, C. T. Pat
Others Fa acing

a

ceva A Sepia, A. [=

ues,.~. H, Thurston, J.. W.
Tucker.
Fourth row: A. 8. Max
well, L. W. Bnet, A: tae

-T.

W. O. Jones, president, Charles
Hiouz2, W. R. Lawson, E. Palmore, A. J. Brown, I. C..Hartsfield. ~ >
Fifth row: R. L.. Patterson,
W. A. Whetstone, Roy Johnson,. H. May, J..M.~Thomas, W.
D.. Brown, DL. ~Banks, W. E
Cooper, J. A.. Williams.
Sixth row: A. Floyd ard: F.
McQueen, state teachers
trainers, ~ * ~ANP

r other

os.. Open Came

gulls open clams b drop.
ping them from a height ets the
cacka below

Lt, Gov. Wright Gives Re Reporter True
Story of What Happened in Miss.
Shooting; Reports No Mob Violence

warning opened fire.on them and
all four were wounded, three
seriously.

-<"Phe Craft Negroes ther fled
into the nearby woods. No further cfforts were made by peace
~fficers to apprehend these Negroes as they were given assur
ince that the Crafts would sur- |

lender peacefully on the following morning.

~During the night the Craft
Negrces returrred to their home
together with other Negroes and
the following morning as they
sat in their home loading the
firearms above-mention2d and
firearms which they had
#% quired during the night, they
Gbserved a larger group of officers approaching the house.

~Wherr these officers come
within range, the Craft Negroes
and the others in the house
opened fire on them and during
the shooting that folowed all of
these. Negroes escap2d to the
nearby woods. The officers continued their search for these
armed Ne2groes.arYd were successful in apprehending all of
them during the day and night
that followed.

~The foregoing is the story
given to me by your nephew,
W. Q. Craft, and substantiated
by. the other Negroes themselves,
To this I might~ add that none
uf, the Negroes was killed and
only one. was wounded and he
not seriously. Although these
Negroes were placcd in a~ local
jail nearby ~as they were apprzhended, there was no talk
ef any mob violence and they
were not mistreated in any particular.

~Now as your request the Negro~s story, it is my hope that,
you will communicate it to the
pyembers of your race through~
your news service and by so
doing,to some degree put a stop
~tu the effort of outside agitators to portray this incident as
an effort om the part of white
peace officers to lynch or mob a
group of innocent Negroes.

~As I have stated before, we
in Mississippi are law-abiding,
God-fearing citizens. We expect
and demand that all people,
white and black, respect the
lawful rights of others. We do
mot and will not permit anyone,
white or black, to shoot at in-.
nocent people traveling on our
highways and to undertake to
murder our law enforcement officers when they are parsorromng
their duties..

~Organizations which claim to
haye~for their purpose th2 protection of the rights of Negroes
could do much to foster their
cause if: they would accept and
publish true facts instead of
trying to distort the facts of
every incident so as to create
the impression that members of
your race are on every occasion
unjustly persecuted in the
Sou

Joe Louis

Opens Swank Cafe

ln Harlem: Many Celebrities

Attend Gala

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Joe
Louis is the idol of Harlem!
That statement is a decided fact
and far beyond a jest if tis
popularity and acclaim is judged by the grand opening of the
Joe Louis restauraat at 125th
street and Fifth avenue in the
heart of Harlem, Wednesday. ~

I was glad to be ore o* his
many personal friends wien he
entertained. so royally at a
~closed~ reception for aa~ afternoon soiree~ prior to ~1e doors
being threwn oper to the ~public; during which time a battery
of police grappled with a crowd
of 25,000 fans who. stimpeded
the whole street for blast: 1)
get a glimnse of the Brown
Bomber and his ~00 guests inside

When ecting mayor and president of the New Yu << City
council, V. R. Impelli:teri was
introduced by Harlem~s Negro
~Mayor,~ Bill (Bojingles) Robinscn to bring hearty ~greetings
from Mayor ODwyer and the
great city of New York, he paid
high tribute to Joe Louis as
one of its greatest citizens and
a cherished - exponent of~ his
race.

~~ eer ee

Doanies of Cafe

city~s newest and most moderr
dining place officially made Mr.
Louis president of th: institutior. a business man and a high.
ly respected citizerr of -New
York. Many other high city and
state officials, business and civic
leaders in addition to nis great
benefactor, Uncle Mike Jacobs,
along with a host of <lo;> fricnds
and admirers were present. A
buffet lurfch was provided free
for the guests.

~The Louis establishment is
brand new from -the cellar~ to
the roof, the whole thing built
and equipped as of postwar design by.eminent Negro. architect, Vertner Tandy, who built
the famous~ Mme. ~Walker ~estate
on the Hudson a decade ago. A
landmark of importance is a 109
foot mural on the west wall
with sketches of such notables
of Negro decent as Booker T.
Washington, Dr. George Washington Carver, Marian And=rson, Paul Robeson, Bill. Robinsor, tofether with the great
emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.
Df course the life sized lickness

cf the champion was ine evitable
ly admired.

Rey, W. L, Shepard, geen of
Deeds, Dist, of Columbia, Dismisses

Deputy Rec

WA SHINGTON "sea NNPA ~
The Rey. Manhelf A. Skgpard,
Recorder of -Degds, of the Disiriet: of Columbia; last. Eriday
summarily | ~dismigged:~ his) first
deputy recorder, Peoderione Ss.
Weaver...

The dismissal, etteatiye at the
close of.. busirresg:~~ ust 30, is
jikely to -have: * ussions,

Whether Mr. Weaver~ will carry
his fight against his dismissal
to the White Hm Soces
the Democratic
mittee, or all three~ enuld not be
lecrred last Friday. f

Weay2r personally knows
Prasident Truman, Chairman
Bob Hermegan of the Democratic~
natiorfal committee, and a num
ber: of Senators and Represen
~atives on the ropriations
and Discrict of Columbia Committee with which Mr. Shepard
must deal.

The dismissal of Weaver fol-|
lowed an exchange of motes on
August 28 between him and

'spard afid a personal conference. Mr. Shepard~s first note
informed Mr. Weaver that his
usefulness as first deputy recorder had come to an erfd and
demanded his resignation forthwith.

Mr. Weaver replied stating his
reluctance to resign without being informed of the charges
against him. He asked to be jnformed of the charges. At a confererree between him and Mr
Shepard he again requested to
be informed of the charges.
Later, on the same day, Mr

Shepard sent Mr. Weaver a s2c-'

rder Frederick Weaver

ong, note informin; him that
éinte -he, Weaver, had indicated
a reluctance to resign, his setvie~s would be term~itated at the
eleve of business Aagist.39.
After notifying ~Mr. Weaver of
{ the termination ~of his services,
Mr..Shepard~ dictited~ several
orders shifting personnel who
had awoiked in, the. office: af the
frst députy recorder to other
work in~ the-reeorder~s office..

Whe: er. the.dis nissal-of Mr.
Weaver was an oytzrowth of the
investigation inte tt office of
the Ie order of eeds by the
Federal] Bureau of: I: vestigation
cwuld 1ot.be leara 4. The FBI
complet.c its ins~stigation in
the Recorder~s office on August
if, but continued to interview
former employees. ~

As for as carr ne learned, it
has not been discias.1 at whcse
instance Attorney General Tom
C. Clark ordered the~ investigation eoy.ring the > nduct of the
office ind of soln: employecs.
The o*f'ce was said to be about
18,000. papers in a-rears im recsrdingrs When <t owas. aurned
over 40 Mr. ~Shepac > two years
ago, it was said to be less than
&C0 yavirs behind.

Mr. Weaver has been an cn
ployee of the Re:order~s officé|

for eleyen years. He has werked in \.Tious capacities from
messenger to first deputy recorder. On October 21, last, Mr.
Srepa.d gaye Mr Weaver a

grade promotion for meritorious:

strviccs. increasing his salazy

from $5,~80 to $5,3~9.

1 ard Walter W. Rollins,

~white, and

_ted with blocking

ies of being, tha; leader /ih fae |
battle of Sullivan~s folow ~in

~don of the 200-mari* pcsse.
~officer is said to have steered

~Hinds county. jail.
Johnny told the jailee he ~had | the two

slipped the posse by walking to ~tion~ will be -

Mendenhall and.down the G.

awhis fall.

Gaming Charge: Gan Out Be

Advliry Charge Against Rollins ~
In. Which He Was Given 2 Years

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland
NNPA ~ Former Chief Stowa veteran of 27 years~ service in the
Navi, who was convicted of
having committed adultery with
Mrs. Margaret A. Sima, Jr.,
sonteneed to two
years in prisor, demoted to steward~s mate third class and to
be given a bid conduct. disch~rge upon completion of his
senterce, was a surprise r2buttal witness last Wednesday in
the ~tiial of Lieutenant William

~

B Sima, Sr., Navy Academy
band leader.
Rol'ins, in whose quarters in

the North Severn Officers~ Club:
an all-night party: took place
Febvuary 9, was called to testify concerning ~gambling at that
party.

Himself convicted on the
gambling charge, Rollins -testified that although he, Lieutenant Sima and Sima~s son, Mus~cian First Class William R.
Sima, Jr., husband of Mrs. Margaret A. Sima, played cards
with chips valued at a penny,
there was no pay-off at the~ end
of the game.

Lieutenant Sima is Weing tried
tn charges which include culpadle inefficiency, neglect of duty,
verjury, extortion, gambling, con
duct unbecoming an officev,; application of goverrment property to his own benefit and violat-.
ing several Navy régulations.

The gambling charge grew out
of the all-night party in Rolling~
quarters. Another ~chatge * alleg-.d that Lt. Sima had been seryed food. and liguor. in \Rollins~
quarters without~ paying ~ ~for
them, thereby, applying ~to his
own benefit the ggg of the,
United States~ in one~ specifica~ion and the property~ of the
North Severn officers~ mess ~
liquor~under th? second speciticatiory.

Rollins was forced to testify
at the prosécutor~s request after,
he had refused to do~so on the

ground that his answers might |p

incriminate: Him: Under Navy
court-martial procedure | if a
witness is forced to testify after refusing, | sych testimony may
not be used as evidence against
him...

Lieutenant ~Commander william L. P. Burke, Naval Academy legal officer, as a rebutta
witness, testified Mrs. Mar aret
A. Sima, Jr., had volunteered to
him the information that there
was gambling and drinking in
Rollins~ quarters.;

Lieutenant Sima, his: wife his
son, and wife. ~all~ denied
vas gambling and ~Srinitig at

~he party.;
Musician First Class Sima + ~e
canvicted of introdycis
wife into Rollins~ guarters, but
was acquitted of gamt ing ~and_
drivking charges. | | conduct discharge was~ seni
Besides the adul iter charge,

zambling, ~theft of tig from
the officers~ clue, and drinking
charges. ~8

In the closing arguments last -
Thursday of the trial of Lieutenant Sima, the sever-mar
coprt-martial~ hard Defense
Council Hilary W. Gans ~term
~despicable~ Rollins~ appearance
us a witness.

The defense also: hagamered at
the prosecutions contention that
the North Severn Officers~ ~lub
was a part of fhe Naval ~Aca
|demy This was the: basis of ~the

gambling and misconduct chargvs against the Simas and Rollins.

Gans also assailed the ~$esti
|:aony of Mrs. Agnas Ruth Thom
psor, white, Annapplis
ser, who was present
d party~

dresoat

| ung~ poet from which the:
| three court~martials- resulted":

_ Mrs. Thompson. reversed, her
testimony in the Rollins case
after she testified at the aap of
young Sima t therg

iphine or gaptbling: Vecshe

White Officer Aids Fy

~ 2.

eh ATO

Escape to Avoid Being Lynched

JACKSON ~ ANP ~ An unidentified ~peace officer is. credja possible
lynching here recently by misleading an all-white posse. in
search of Johnny Craft, marine
veteran, who is being held in
the iinds county jail on charg
Smith county ~where four peace.
oficers were wounded.

Craft~s escape, - -aceording to
cfivcrs here~ Satitday was affected by the help; oi a-white
law enforcement, off.car. | wao
knew where he and 5;12r fugitives were hiding in the woods
that were, surrounded: by ascors,
The

the t.:se in another diseet:on~
and later picked up feh gave |
pim a sade toward Jae +5 and
adv sc~ him to subbed! to ihe ~
Hinds county jailer~ in order ~to
be placed in the ~mob-proof~

fing during feudirty~~

Cooper families~ allegedly invol:
ved in the Sullivan~s Hollow
shocting in ~which ohe~ Negro
was also wounded i ee ~
tle.:

Reports, followirig ~ the cup:

Negro families,
avhite families w

5 hag ~?
i ea ed

Negro f farm pastepe be Pa

both, white,.. aes antag ~~
formation thatthe four pea
officers werg.woutded: ~ducing
a. smoldering..feud,:, betyet

hite, fami jes?
its Aen ~aid

> adumittad shooting into ~eel tl

two white men were |
|i, Sek PB
Hinds: county~ it ~along

Garfield, W. Oj ~9.~d,, nh de
Craft. No sopérentedae

S. L railroad to Florene2 where

wat ae es. plop 49.
yy: Ww
Behng the
four Craft. peothanedi S ~EShi 3
Speculation~ is~ also~rife ~as to

he caught. a ride. here, officers.| what, ae he. hi law ~
said. Crafts suttendér én Aug. | forceme yal Me a
13 climaxed, a 24-hour. anhunt.,.he *lped save sayg, Johnny

for mem bers~ of the? in

and le iydehipg.

oi,4 Ai 8

Urge Vets to Accept ~Gl Bil
Of Rig shts~ Educational

chibi: ~Ala. ANP ~Nef
gro veterans were areal last
week to accept the~ edicaticnal
opportunities of the GI bill ef)
rights by Melvin J. Lacy, Puss
kegee graduate of.194],.. who
plans to enter the school of edu- |
cation of New Yory} i rey,

~I have. about four years of |
schooling coming to, me under~
GI bill of rights, ~ said Lacey, |
~and I intend to stay at New
York university until I get my
coctorate. I only hope that alf
eligible Negro-veterans will take!
advantage of the opportunities

~tment
Lacy, who served in ~World
War iI in the ETO for two and
one-half years, with the ~sing~ing engineers~ of: ~the 44st! Engineers General Service regiment,
415th Port company and the
~430th, Engineer Dump Truck
company, ~attended Shrivenham
American ~ unive Shrivenham,, fala army~s
educational program. He is now
employed. at Tuskegee institute
as a genral office | assistant in

afforded by this piece of govern- |.

the: presi

~The veteran "member of
the Alpha tiie Mu National
Honor Bz a: > Te noes

ture of 15.members of the two

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