Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 27]

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Celonial F ighters to Be Cut

oie
rom
LONDON ~ ANP ~ Coloral
military units will be deleted
before. the films ofthe recent
Victory pdrade will be shown
to the world, it was learned
here last week.
In commenting on the ~move
blet..out colonial fighters, he;
African Daily Comet: said:
-~The cutting of colonial units
rom. the film version: of the
London Victory parad2 beinsereened in England and whicl.
no doubt, will be scretned i

other parts of the world f |

purposes of impcvial propaga ~-;
da;-crouses not so much rese:- |

ment jm vs_as contempt. 7 1~
~an -f these galant ~ ~:n

* > had ought to: preserve c~$7~"*4m to London proves ts
~fer all an act dictated by

~erexpodiency,,:
~Doubtless, the screening o'
caionial troops in their smart
kits and bearing to white auc
ifmecs:-would, not botp~ the in
rerial cause in any ~way. Suc
a ~film may hav? ~unfavorab~
~ Tevercussions abrozd. Peor
miay have other notions abnesla ~so-caled British paternal:

Victory Parade Films

ism being presented as something genuine and selfless.

~Elsewhere in this issue, a
currespondent condemns a. r2 -cent edition of the Colonial
Film unit~ entitled ~Fight for
ir~ According to our contrioyu.. ul Africans both
wemen were presented
disgraceful attires.
ver2 shown with old
on t5ivir bodies amd little
~cloth around their
sts. The most disgrace2 -uite =f the show was the
f pur women~olk.

newn naked, even

entirely naked.

We Ss

on
ad

+ ays go

ie. stuff that -im
als in ~ the Afripres2nted to the

4 > worst, not best.
cs than ~th2 Colonial

~ made of the - Gold
veing taken daily in
wnaer -~s- obviously these are? ot. +b.~ Unfortumate ~for
the world is. gat
wer every day and

\ wv-dressing seems to
} so Dne.~

a v: UNION ACTS TO

U.S. JOB DISCRIMINATION

WASHINGTON ANP
Action to curb job discrimination, against Negro and other
minority group publi~ workers
of the federal, state ard locai
governm nts was initiated here
last week during the firs: meeting of the newly form2d antiCiscvimination commission of the
United Public workers of. Amer
ick, CTO.

' -_Information on the forms and
extent of racial and religious
uiscrimination in employment
practices against N2gro and other ~Public workers will be col-'
ic@téd and recommendations for
upion actions to curb employ
ment discriminatior wil b?2
made, the four-man commission
announced. A questionnaire was
sent: to~ each of the 500 UPWCIO locals throughout the coun~try Ltequiring investigation. of
the _actual situation in all sorts
ef ~government | establishments
and urging each local to appoint an _ anti-discriminatior

~1p is baton by Secretary Wallace to. assure Negro. workers
laid off by the department of
comm2rce the fairest possible
cpportunities for ~employment
elsewhere for bring
elsewhere were approved by the
commission, which also congra
Sr

tulated UPW~s local 3 for b-ineine USES discrimination ~ to
Wallace~s attention.

Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach~s ~xpression of willireness
to. correct USES - discriminatien
welcomed, th2 commission
staied, because ~the eyes of. the
world are on the U. S.. who. can
hardly afford to do less. than
tractie? v Jit she preaches about
equal Opportunity and equal
rights for all.~

The commission, composed of
UPW Vice Presid2nts Thomas
Richardson and Arthur Stein and
International Board - members
twart Guinier, Dorothy Bailey
and Albert Scott, askz7d~ the following questions on job. dis~
crimination:

1. ~What is the proportion of
Negro (or other minority group
yorkers. if your agency?

2..~What, was the effect of the
war period or the hiring of minority group workers?

3. ~What is th? effect now in
the reconverSion period?

4. ~What types of job do the
minority group workers held in
your agency?

5. ~Do: you think that ~your
agerrcy~s hiring policy of Negro
that of a private employer in
workers is better or wors? tharr
the community?~

Was

San Bernadino, Calif. Sheriff

Names First Negro

BY LURLINE CHERRY
~ SAN: BERNARDINO, Cal.. ASP~ Sheriff Emmitt L. Shay
appointed Christopher M. Barnwell as a full-fledged d2puty in
his. department last week makin~ MiMd the first Negra to- be
nanied-a deputy sheriff im the
largest county in the world.
The deputy~s appointment was
the result of a conference between the sheriff and J. Robert
Smith, editor of the Tri-County Bullet~y yp2wspaper im which
the newsman requested the appointment. The naming of Barnwell brings to two history-making records secured by the newspaper ir less than a month. Last
month::the editor succeeded in
getting his wife named as tke
first.Negro school teacher in the
tity school system.
' In..making the appointment,
Sherif. Shay said, ~Barnwell~s
powers. will be equivalent to
those~of any other deputy ard

Deputy
there is to be do distinction. He
is a full-fledged deputy sheriff.~
Barnwell has already been on
assignments with a white partner and has already had his turn
as a guard in-the jail.
_ Barntw2l, a native of Bomberg,
S. C., is a graduate of South
Carclina State A. and. ~M: college. He pursued a cdurse in detective work while barbering in
Philadelphia y2ars ago. A member of the Masonic and Elk fraternal organizations, he lives
with his wife at 1063 Ninth st.
When the mewspaper was Jaunched ~a little over a year ago,
the only positions held by Negroes was a street sweeper in
city ana two teachers in the
city btside janitors. Since then
Negroes have two mail carriers
in the post office. a city school
teacher and a deputy sheriff.
Efforts are now umcer way for
volice and firemen as well aS
clerks. Se

| Caared a
To Get Homes
In Tuscaloosa,

Alabama

-. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -
NNPA ~ Ground will be broken this week for a new subdivision for colored. veterans
ere, and corttract for construction of sixty-six duplex dwellings and a store on the site
will-be awarded also this week,
John Leland, local real estate
cperator, anounced last Thurs
day..Cost of the project, which
has keen approved for financing
by the ~ Federal -Housing Ad-:

moini:;tration, was_ set

at; ap
ae ween ~

proximately $550,000.

Some of the buildings will
be sold, but the majority will
be rented, the rental ranging
from $30 to $35 a month, accordimg to the owner.

|
The buildings will be of
concrete block~ construction,
with two families livng in each
building. Some of the homes
will be offered for sale for $7,750 each.

Paving of streets will start
this week, Mr. Leland Said, adding that the subdivision would
be ~one of the firrest for Negroes in the entire south.~

The property is located near
the Alabama Great Southern

Railroad Station, and in front

of the riding academy on Har
THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

Pictured above gre representatives of the nation~s major trade publications
who assembled at a special luncheon given by Interstate United Newspapers,
Incorporated, at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York City, to hear from Mr Edgar
A. Steele of the Research Company of America, details of the Brand Preference
Study which has just been launched, coast to coast. Reading left to right, in
Picture'No. ~ ore Miss Clora Ligon, Secretary to Mr Black of Interstate, Mr.
David Kaplon of Drug Topics, Miss Barbora Way of Food Field Reporter,
Mr. Edgar A. Steele of the Research Company of America, who is conducting
the survey, Mr. Williom G. Black, Soles Manager of interstate; Picture No. 2:
Mr James Singleton of Sales Management, Mr. Mel Reed of Sales Maragement, Mr.-Chandler Grannis of Publisher's Weekly, Mr. Raymond Peck, Vice
President of Interstate, Miss!. M. Levetown, Business Manager of Interstate;
Picture No, 3: Mr. Joseph Koehler of The Billboard, Mr. Nathan Keine of
Printers Ink, Mr. Donald Eastman of Printers Ink; Picture No. 4: Mr, Fine of the

Intolerance

CLEVELAND NNPA

a gasoline statior and besides
deve~bping a large business,
also aides in bringing about a
better racial undé@rstanding to
the community in the success
story of Herman D. Burrell,
and his wife, Eleanor.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Ohio~s. - largest. morning newspaper, recently lauded the two
Fisk university gracuates who
for the past year have been distributing monthly news letters
to customers. and _ meighbors
arking for racial tolerance and
understanding.

A few raonths. before the
Burrells took ~over the gasoline
station in the Glenville | area,
the neighborhood had been the
scene of a minor. racial disturbance. Conditiofis were ~unstable
as colored. families began to
moye into the Section.

Burrell aimed his advertise
Cleveliat College Grad~
Lauded for His Work Reahaet

How a young college graduate | letter,
took over the management of! of the community~s race rela
~|lieving this tension. In one news

work

he explained the
tions agency; in another, he
explained many of the Jewish
holidays and celebrations; in
another, he told about Brotherhood Week.

Todd Simon, the Plain Dealer reporter, began his article,
~No oil company I bet ever
thought of a~lubricant to end
friction between racial groups.
But there is a young petrol and
petroleum dealer doing that
that.~ The article ~ described
Burrell~s unuSual but constructive publicity policies.

- Burrel, formerly an. OPA information specialists, an Urban
League. industrial secretary, a
school teacher, a construction
worker, a recreation worker, a
tirst aid instructor, and a salesmar, ~has a master~s degree in
Soc:ology from Fisk. He is now
planning to begin work on
a doctorate in Sociology at

ment of his station toward re-! Western Reserve university.

Kentucky Court
Revokes KKK
Charter

FRANKFORT, Ky. ~ ANP ~
The circuit court of Kentucky

corporate rights of the Ku Klux
Klan in this state Wednesday.
Jutiige W. B. Ardery entered the
judgment as the result of a ~suit

brought by Atty. Gen. Eldon S.
Dummitt. No One appeared to
contest the case. -

The judgment found as true
the charges by Dummitt that the
klan had gained corporate privileges in Kentucky through falsely claiming its purpose to be
benevolert and eleemosynary.
The judgment said further that
the klan had ~caried on ita, business and affairs in Kentucky
cortrary to law and order artd

and. dignity
commonwealth by forment
against the peace
of
ing racial and reti;ious hatren

and prejudice through ter:ror
grove road.

ism and propaganda.

7

entered an order revoking the

~No Virgin

Islander in
September Draft

WASHINGTON ~ NNPA ~
The War Department has asked the Selective Service Systein
not to indicate any Virgin Islanders in the 25,000 men to be
called up in the Septembér
draft, it was learned last Friday.

Colonel Campbell C. Johrrson,
executive assistant to Major
General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, has
been sent to the Virgin Islands
to consider the advisability of
ending conscriptior in the islawds, Selective Service officials
said.Colonel Johnson left Washington last Thursday.

The Virgin Islands worn the

right to furnish men for the

United States armed forces in
Jume, 1944. Between: that time
and -the draft ~holiday~ last
July, the islands furnished a
total of 807 mer.

the Virhqbagk nJGdm

The exclusion of inductees

from the Virgin Islands is in

pea
+

~Seale Cpapiny of ~iia, Mr. Ralph Head of Piece Grocott
Magazine, Mr M.: Roffel of Advertising & Selling, Mr. Chase of Tide
azine, Mr. Stewart of The New York Times, and Mr. Koselow of the Herald
Tribune. Also~ present at the luncheon were Mr. George Bidermon of Adve

GETTING DETAILS OF COAST TO COAST BRAND PREFERENCE STUDY
st

tising Age ond Mr. Joseph L. Wootton of Inferstate. This is the largest grou 4
of trade publications ever to assemble to secure data on any project of interest~

to the Negro.

Pictured below is port of the grovp of Negro wothinns see bagenths hadi?
in New York, Monday~ moming, August 19th. In the picture, Mr. Steele of
_ the Research Company of America is giving instructions to the interrogators,

ywho

are college. students from various colleges and universities in and around~,
"New York. Simultaneous studies ~ are, being made in other cities aptieeraet

the country. Findings of the survey will be mode.available as soon as tabu-'

lations can be. mode.

All pictures by BILLY ROWE: Recon Bein~ '

\t Hampton
WASHINGTON ~ NNPA. ~

Thomas E. Hawkins, assistant
dear~ of men at Howard univer
stiy for thirteen years, has re
signed his positfon to become
dean of men. at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, it
was learned last Thursday. His
resignation became effective, or
July 13.

At Hampton; Mr. Hawkins
will succeed -Major Walter. R.
Brown as dean of men. Major

Brown has been made _ secretary of Hampton, it was learned.

A popular. campus figure, Mr.
Hawkins~-entered Howard as a
student in 1927 and won renown as.a football. player when
he was named on the AllAmerican team of that year.
He also was picked.on the AllAmericay team.-of 1928. -

He graduated? frém ~Howard
in 1931. and was appointed. assistant dean ~of ~men in~ 1932.
From 1932 to 1938 he algo served as. assistant football coach
under ~ Coaches. - Tom: -Burdell,
former Northwestern star, and
Harry Payne, former: Howard
star.

In 1938 Mr. Hawking receiv
ed his masters degree-in per
sonnes] administration at Columbia university, and in 1941 he
did graduate work at the University of California.

Mr. Hawkins this year was

elected president of the Deans
Asscciation of the Colored Intercollegiate AssOciation, a post
which he now holds.
} Concerning hig resignatéon,
he seid, ~My life is dedicated
to personnel work ard this was
an opportunity for advancement.~

Carbon Ingredient

Carbon is an essential ingredient
in smelting operations for the production of calcium earbide, ferro
alloys such as ferrosilicon and ferrochrome, phosphates, silicon carbide,
luminous abrasives, iron ore redue
tian and nth electro ornresses

line with the War Department's
announcement recently that it
will not accept any more colored -men until its colored
strength is substantially reduca

ns | Two Race
Delegates te

Texas Deme

Confab

FORT WORTH, Texas, ~ANP
Alfred Goodwin, newly elected
chairman of Precinet 59, and G.
W. Williams, civic leader and
president of the Fort Worth Urban league, were the official delegates to the state Democratic
convntion which converfed in
San Antonio, Sept. 10.

Goodwin and. Williams are the
first two Negroes to b2 elected
delegates at a county confab
in Tarrart county for representation at a state convention of
Democratic voters. They will
represent the Negro. citizenry in
their political affiliations.

Goodwin is a member of Phi
Beta Sigma fraternity. An alumrus of Wiley College, he formetly lived in Oklahoma City
and is a native of Bvaumont.
G. W. Williams is a former
school teacher.

Dudley Redd and T. C. Caldwell, members of the Young
Negro Democrats, Ft. Worth, accompanied the official delegates
to the Alamo City and attended
some of the state convention sessions, it was learned.

Mixed Blood
Freed Latin

America - Color
CHARLESTON, W. Va.
Leaders of mixed Negro, Indian
and white blood were the men
who liberated the southern hemisphere says the September issue of COLOR magazine in a
10-page story in pictures in the
Negro in Latin American countries and continue to dominate
their political and economic institutions, the magazirre points
sut.
Simon. Bolivar, half Indian,
and half Spanish is cited as the
western hemisphere _ liberator
who has freed more countrizs
than any man of modern times.

| Mary other big features are in
>

Honey Production
Honey production varies from
year to year due to differences in
weather, riant remih and other
conditions

cluded.

iceived his army discharge.

dio Geis

TT 7

__SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2: 21, 0d

NNPA Staff Writer
WASHINGTON ~ NNPA*~

The Vetera f Administration
has disallowed a claim for $240
a month service-connected disability pension filed by Isaac
Woodard, color:d veteran: who
was blinded by a white policeman on the day: oi his discharge, it was learned here
last Friday.

Although the VA refused to
comment on the cas?, it was
learned that Woodard has. filed
a second claim asking fcr a
non-:orviee connectsd disability
nens'on which, if. granted, will
alow.Bim $20 a mcsth:

Woodard~s first ciaim for a
service-conn>cted disability ~was
bas~d on the fact that he receiv-d the beating which
sulted in his blindness on February 12, th2 same day he re
rn.
su

Officials records ~show that
Woccard was paid by the army
for the day February 12. This
led sorne p~ople inierested in
his cas? to contend that he was
still in the army on that day
and, therefore, blinded while in
the service and entitled to a
service-connected disability Pension. ~

Malcolm _ Cotton
Birmingham, regional secretary
for the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare,
Thursday night. He ~spoke ~before the New York City Commiitee of the conferertce at the
Willkie
Twenty West Fortieth, street.

want
Klan,~ the harm it was doing
and ~the~ lyneh teror that~ is
running rampant today,~
blamed the~ resurgence ~of the
klar; on ~yested ~interasts.~ He
linked
owners and industrialists ~who
hove no use~ for demd-racy~

Houston, Texas, and <c.
cf Mis.
former National Secretary (of ~
the Daughters 0~ the American
Kievolution, said that the ~great
majority of esuightened~ South
ee

NEW ~YORK. id -NNPA -
Only a small. minority of white
Southerners are joining forces
with the Ku~ Kux Klan today,

Dobbs o f

declared -last

Memorial Building,

Dobbs ~ said~ he ~did not
to ~underestimat2 the

Mr.

and
~reactionary~ plantotion
' are

nd charged that - the<e

figkting to maintain ~white ~gupremacy as the - slogan of~ the
Democratie party ~in the South."

Mr. Dobbs who. is a native, of

nephew
Dixie - Catton. Hietirens,

white poople are opposer

to the Klan and canbe brought

The Veterans Administration | into the field to outlaw its: ex
refused to say on what, grounds

Woodard~s first claim had
been disallowed, but Major
Robert LeCompte cf th? War

Dspertnient's Bureau of Public
Relations said ~hat for pay pur
posed the War Departn-ont
looked upon a man as being
discharged as of midnight of.

the day for which he was Iast
pa:d, but that for the purpose
of military justice amj pensions
it assymed him to be discharged the instant his discharge
papers wer? handed to him.

Informed sourc?s have felt
that the VA adhered to this policy in~ ruling out Woodard~s
first claim.

The law under which Wood
istence.~ He declared. thatthe
need of the South:
~leadership in this~ fight against
insipid fascism:

today. is

Amirini~
of ~Atlanta,

qn:
Clark ~Fo*~man

yrenident of the conferwme2 asked that Am2nncan de> -gates 9 ~
the peac?

ecnferenc at Paris
~face the; facts ~and~ ~(abandon

double talk~ about ~the assimilation rather t.an the ~perpetua,
~Von of racial: mindfitics, +64,

Vithout mntioning his har | is

Mr. Foreman mad? ~referonde to
a aispateh from Paris~
quoted Lieutenant~ ~Général * Ww..

whic

Bectell: Smith a8 ~saying: ~Tt

is difficult fora ~citizen~ of the
United Sto7s to understand ' ~the

desire to perpetuate racial | ~mi
ard~s first claim was filed stat- | norities rather th } si Sheen
es-that ~If the disabled per- | them.~ LOS)

son, as the.result...of service} ~~We' approve~ ~taartity the
incurred disability, has: suffered | Stan which our~ debeghtion tak
the anatomical loss~ or: loss ~of
use of both hands, or both feet,
or one hand and one -foot, or
is blind in both. eyes with.5-200
visual acuity or.1gss, or is per
could be given to. Sqlve our

es in Paris with~ réapect'to~8th.

er minority groups,~ he said.
~We only~ wish that the~sime
amount of effort-and leadership

manently bedridden or ~ s0| minority problems ~in ~this counhelpless as to be in need of |.tty-~ QO
regular aid and_ attendance, ~Tf the sleaeiae ~recently held |
the monthly persion shall be | i the South vhad ~been phen
$200 es 4 by the United onc

Last month President Truman | ment officials, ie a
signed legislation authorizing | European co earn "abd if
a 20 per cent increase: in all the people over | ~21 had been ~
pensions which would increase | 2lowed to vote, the South would

the amount allowed under
law to $240.

Since the VA has disallowed
the _ ~service-connected~. claim)
Woodard's_ only recourse is to
the law governing; ~nén- setvice
comnectsd disabilities. ~

Under this law Woodard can
only recive $60 a month until

is

to
face us at Home and abr

have far better re resentation
|im Congress~ and our Govéernment would be better prepared

on.

salve the problems _w
'Mr, F oreman. also made. ref
erence to ~charges of discrimina |
tion made to President Truman--by Charles.G. ge _pres
he is 65 years old and will_not |idemt of the ).~eterans,
be permitted ~tb have an;out- Ine, ~With uma 08 wet
side incdme to exceed $2, 500~ ~erar~s and racial a rities, froa
per year, the limit permitted pecially Negroes, being ~

to. be earned by married men
receiving such~ a_perrsion.

ard just how the money recently raised at a New York:
benefit show is turned over to
him:,

It should be dotecaitnad: the
official said, whether- or, not
it would he: better ~ta give it
to him in a lump sum thereby disqualifying him for a pension this yéar ~or? whether to}
place it im a bank and allot
him. $2,400 a. year, an income
which would permit him to receive the pension, eat the fame
time.

Possibility --that- -Woodard~s
Status in being a selectee rath-|
er than a regular. army ~ man,
might have influented the VA;
in ruling out his first claim
was raised here wher a VA official reealled paralléd cases to
Woodard~s following the last.
war. 4

At that time. he stated the
VA regarded a regular army.

they are,
that ed begin at.

A VA official citéd the fact z
that it is important. to, Wood- 1"

mittistrator of ~the
in Nashville, said, thet |

cently a~ memorial~ service |:
testing lynchings. In. the. Deep~

' ~gue,
200;000

roped a ~Georgia

learned last Friday,,: ie 2 nel

ge ail

RN ee
a

* ai aL ye
4:

~iglent

South~ is growing ~n uence,
in. spite of, ~the. f lynechings ~and: mss Bice

when~ added to ~
ravings of.Bilbo,

comme rol
ture of th

at
He said ~that, at, although
vata ~is ~a Sea ~ er to~

15,000 persons there pag

iter Ka

South, he said, ~white supremacy is practically a dead ispoliti ~,* and more thar
~persons ar? ~
d Texis year.

~co

as for elections held

wae turned ewer, to the Federal
Bureau of Investig:

ation it was

sas |; /
i

man as one having a contract [~

w'th the government which was
not terminated until miditight~
of the day on which his erlistment expired. Draftees, how;
ever, h> explained, wer2 ionk-]|'
~d: upon. as being, discharged
as soon~ ag.théy were harded}{
their discharg> papers. inasmuch as there had ben no 2ontract between him ~ and~,

~War Department. Woodard was

a dtaftee. -,
The file of the Woodard cas2

-

re:

by Pes