Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 27]

PAGE SIX

THE FLINT SPOKESMAN _

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1946

To Investigate The ( Campaign
Expenditures of Sen. Bilho

WASHINGTON ~ NNPA: -
Th2 <Senate Campaign expend
tures. inv*Stigating committ?<
egrecd last, Friday to invest~
gite ~he M('ssissippi primary
campaign~ of Senator Theodor:
G. (The Man) Bilbo.

The committze acted on
sworn charg?:s that colored people were prevented from voting
by certaiir statements of Bilbo.

Senptor Allen J. Ellender,
Democrat, of Louisiana, committeé chairman, said _ investi
gators ~would be sent into M~sisissippi as soon as competent
personirel could be employed,
and th2 committe would decide
later whether to old _ public
hearings: involving
against Bilbo. Elleander pointed out that the committee is
required by the law creating it
to inv7stigate all sworrm charges.:

Edgar~ G. Brown, director of
the. National _. Negro Council,
filed one.of the complaints
against Bilbo. He charged that
Bilbo in speeches widely. printed and. broadcast urged ~redblooded Anglo-Saxons in Mississippi to resort to'any means
to keep all Negroes from voting in the primary elections.~

Dr. James L. Rumble of
New York, chairman of the
Citizens National League, Inc.,
asked ~impeachment procegdings" against Bilbo as unfit to
sit in the Senate and accused
him of ~un-American activities
specifically designed -to liquidate the minority group f citizers.~ This led Ellender-to remark:

~All of these panaiaiile seem
to come from New York or
somewhere else, but that~ does
not mearr we're not going to
look into them.~

After reading Brown~s affidavit Ellender commented that
no sworn Statements had come
from residents of Mississippi.

~Ch, we can provide you with
plenty of them,~ Brown said.

Ellender -said some committee members had suggested the
charges against Bilbo might

appropriately be referred to the |:

Senate Privileges and Elections
Committe, but ~we've authorized
Our investigators to look into this
matter.~ ~

Another

complaint against
Bilbo,

involving the 1940 pri
accusations
phe ke s43) pid certin ac'vitles wiih a member of the
wes filed by Ross Col-. on? of the unsuccesful can
~dates for Bilbo~s saat. It was
rot Supported, by a sworn statemem. Ellender said Collins had
been asked whether he wanted
to mak? his statement under
Oath and had indicated he might

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turn it: over to the Mead War!.

investigating Cdmmittce.

Collins charged that Bilbo had
accepted $25,000 from a Mississip
pi war contractor several y2ars
ago.

Attorney General Tom Clark
~'s investigating incidents involving abridgement of civil rights
in Mississippi. He ordered and in
auiry after th? NNPA News
Service had submitted to the
Civil Rights Section of the Jus
tice Department an_ affidavit
made by Etoy Fletcher, a vsteran of Puckett, Mississippi,

who aleged-that he was unmer- |.

cifully flogged by four white
men after he had attempted to
régister to vote in Brandon, Miss.

The campaign expenditures in
vestigating committee also de
cided to investigate the primary

-'ecampaigr of Senator Kenneth

McKellar, of Tenn.

McKellar. president of the
Senete, and veteran member of
the powerful Memphis political
macnine led by ~Boss~ Ed
vsjrump, has ben accused in a
sworn affidavit submitted to the
committee of havirg spent more
in his recent campaign than allowed under Tennesse law.

All members of the campaign
expenditures investigating committee were present at: last
Fridays: meeting except Senator
Elmer Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, They were, besides
Ellender, Senators Burnet R.
Maybank, Democrat, of South
Carolina, and Clyde Bridg2s, of
New Hampshire, and B. B. Hickenleoper, of Iowa, Republicans.

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TUSKEGEE POLIO PATIENTS
EXHIBIT HANDICRAFT ~ Willie.Frank Howard,:Fort Deposit, Ala., (right) and Eli Robinson, Baltimore, (left) discuss a
hand-woven rug and other articles made by the patients at
the: infantile paralySis center at

Tuskegee institute.

In a recent exhibit more than
75 articles from whisk brooms
to luncheon sets and from pot
holders to jewelry boxes were
shown. Instructors in handicrafts
at the polio-center are Mrs. Lizelle P. Allen and Miss Carrie

aan conieeetmainenll Wetman i:

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B. Kinner.

~This exhibit, ~ said Dr. John
W. Chenault, head of the center, ~represents only the beginming of a larger rehabilitation
program to train our patients
for useful occupations.~~-ANP.

Mrs. Vining
To Tutor
Jap Prince

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prince of Japan will carry to
her task a wide background of
working with all kinds of people, it was revealed here.

Mrs. Vinimrg, author and member of the. publicity staff of the
American Friends Service Committee for the past year, is a
member of the Philadelphia
branch of the National Asociation for the Advancement ~of
Colored People, and has. worR~d very closely with the Committee on Race Relations of the
Ame@can Friends Service Committe.:

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Quaker Approaches to the Race

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Sepia Stars Fool Critics in
1946 Minor League Debuts

By ~DOC~ KOUNTZ

BOSTON ANP Al
Smith, that beloved champion
of the common man, use to put
it this way: ~Well, let~s look
at the record.~

So, being it is a lomg time
since -the 1946 umpires yelled
opening game play ball, let~s
lamp the records of sepia stars
in the freshman year of their
play in organized baseball.
JACKIE FOOLED. THEM

Let~s look at Jackie Robinson, second baseman for the
Morttreal Royals of the triple
A International league; former
member of the Kartsas City
Monarchs. of the sepia (at least
Class A) American league.

As the Cubans say, Jackie
good field, not hit. That~s what
the wise guys said when this
ex-Uclan All-American (and
present U. S. war vet ~ don~t
forget that, son) made his spotlighted debut im the south last
spring. Well, Robinson was just
foolin~ the white folks because
there never was a KC Monarch
who can~t hit. I know that and
Tl live around Boston. So, the
final regular I. L. seasorr (the
play-offs are extra) shows Robinson leading all batters and
the most runs too. What a laugh
he had, only he~s too modest to
laugh. His KC ex-team mates
laughed for Jackie.

ROY HOMERING KING

Big Dan Newcombe and scrap- |

py Roy Campenella would be
my choice for the ball players of
1946 to be rated next to Jackie.
The only colored battery in the
minor leagues, these stars came
up from the colored National
league. Roy led the New England league this year in homeruns arid batted over.300. Newcombat not only was a slugging
pitcher, he also won 14 ball
games for those second place
Nashua Dodgers. Big Don was
right at the top of the list although he made his debut late.

~Camp,~ the catcher, worked extra hard in his freshman
year. He mostly caught for
white pitchers, often in double
headers. Everyone wanted
~Camp~ behind the plate because he was tops in the trade.
Roy, worked so hard that his
batting suffered. and it was
really a terrific triumph when
he managed to keep in the.300
circle. It was a surprise when
he went out and led the league
with 14 home runs.
NEWCOMBE LED
PITCHERS

So the wis? boys~ -gueSsed
wrong on both ~Camp~ amd
Jack'e. And being underdogs,
it helped them exceed evpectations. Many will still say Jackje and Camp aren~t the best
secord baseman and catcher ir
either the sepia National or
American. But we must conceded they have beer good representatives.

Newcombe has been a pleas
ant surprise and also a. keen
reflectior on the ability of
Rickey~s scouts. The rookie

Problem,~ which was recently
published by the Amevican Sérvice Committee.

| good in the mincrs.

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for. &

pitchers, headed by Newcombe,
all made good this year. Newcombe won 14 and only _ lost
four. Johnny Wright and Roy
Partow were moved down to
Three Rivers of the Pan American league but they will not
stay there. At last readings,
Johnny had the same 12-4 card
as Big Don Newcombe. That
was. before Don won two more.
Partow had nine wins and no
losses. So Newcmbe,.Wright,
and Partow were in the top
listing of their leagues.

And the boys tell me that
Charlie Bird pitched some brilliant- ball for Providence,: a: second division club: of the N. E.
league. Now if this is the same
Charlie Bird who pitched for
such outfit as Fall Rivers you
will hear a lot about him. Bird
was one of tha top. strikeout
artists in the league this year
fanning. -over 130 batters.. At
last reports: he sad won 11, lost
10.

I told New ~England league
prexy,- Claude B.. Davidsorr,
last winter, fiat if given a
chance, our lads would make
So if he
wants to look ~st ~the records

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1946 Clendening
Award Goes

To Dr. Graham

~ow Yorn, 77. ~. ~ (Global)
For being in the vanguard of
every struggle for Negro and
white labor~s rights in the South,
Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of the University of North
Carolina, will get the 1946
Clendening Award of the Workers Defense League.

Dr. Graham has opened up the
University to labor institutes,
which sets a precedent in the
South. Through his years of active work with the National
Sharecroppers Fund he has contributed much to the campaign
to improve corfditions of sharecroprers and tenant farmers. |

Pres2ntation of the award will
take place at a luncheon during the 10th anniversary conference: of the WDL, November
2, at the Henry Hudson Hotel
in New York City. The award,
for distinguished service in be
half of labor~s rights, has been

Ziven each year since~ 1941.

Recipients have been Senator
Robert M. La Follette, Jr., made
by Clemendening himself,) Johrt
fF. Finerty, A Philip Randolph
and Rev. James Myers.

After the death of David L.
Clendening, a founder -of the
WDL and ~its chief executive of
five years, the award was namd in his honor.. The award, a
plauge, was desigrted by~ Lillian
Bass.

Harlem Hard
Hit by Strikes.

New York, N. Y. ~ (Global)
Already groggy from the phoney OPA bill recently passed,
whick raised necessary food
prices beyond the reach of many
Harlem housewives, thousands
of low paid Harlemites face
leaner rations if the current City
strangling strike of truck driv
-ers contirrues.

With pickets from the powerful Local 807 Teamsters~ Union
(AFL), standing guard at the
Bronx-Westchester line of the
Boston Post Road to turn back
all trucks except those carrying
perishables and emergency supplies,
its food store Supplies depleted
and most of the larger, more
reasonable stores closed.

Pig Grooders
Electric pig brooders help to
save one extra pig per litter and
give an earlier pig crop, especially
in the colder sections. The brooder
provides a warm hover for the pigs

be will find them available.

when not nursing

Big Rally In New York
Against Racial Bias

An all-day conference of civic
and educational organizations in
New York: State to rally public
opinion for the élimirration of
racial and religious discrimination in education will be
at the Hotel New Yorker, on
Monday, September 23, it was
announced yesterday by Dr. Alvir Johnson, Chairman of the
New York State Committee
Against Discrimination in Education, 212 West 50th Street,
New York 19, N. Y. '

Speakers at the conference
will include the Honorable Herbert Lehman, former Governor
of the State of New York and
Democratic candidate for United States Senator; Irving Ives,
former Majority Leader of the
State Assembly, and \Republican
candidate for United States Senator; State Senator Walter Mahoney of Buffalo, Republican;
and Assemblyman Berrrard Austin of Brooklyn, Democrat, cosponsors of the Austin-Mahoney
Bill to outlaw discrimination in
education; City Councilman Walter R. Hart, Chairman of the
specia] committee set up by the
New York City Council to investigate discrimination jn institutions of higher learning; Dr.
Channing Tobias, Director of the
Phelps-Stokes Fund; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, resident of the
American Jewish Congress; Fiorello La Guardia; and Henry
Epstein, former Solicitor-General of New York State.

~The purpose of the conferenDr. Johnsorr said, ~is to
create a non-partisan public opinion in.the State: of New York
State Commission which
would have the legal right to
outlaw discrimination and the
quota system in educatior. This

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held |

~commission to investigate

Comniission,. will restore to our
youth their inherent right to full
educational opportunities which
is the basis of our democracy.~

The conference is being Sponsored: by a non-partisarr committee headed by Dr. Johnson,
President Emeritus of the New
School~ of Social Research. He

~was chairman of the Committee

on Discrimination of the War
Council of the State of New
York, Vice-Chairman of the
the
need for a state anti-discrimination law, and is now serving
on the Owen D. Young Commission investigating the need
for a state university.

Others on the sponsoring Committee include Dr. Emanuel
Chapman of the Committee. of
Catholics for Human Rights,
Harold Grano of the New York
State Industrial Uniorr Council
CIC Edward S. Lewish of the
Urban League of Greater New.
York, Thurgood Marshal] of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
Alexander H. Pekelis of the
Jewish Congress, and Robert
Searle of the Greater New York
Federation of Churches. Sidney

R. Katz,.ot. the Americar Jew
ish Congress, is secretary of
the Committee.
More than 30 million complete baB

end roller bearings were made each
month during the last two war years
by the anti-friction bearing manu
facturers for U. S. military eqtip
ment.. Approximately 100 million

ball and roller bearings of all types

were made during the iast war year Dr Canady will tecture~ cies s

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BEATING THE GUN~

By ALVIN MOSES

LET~S HONOR JACKIE ROBINSON. a:

NEW YORK~(ANP)~JACKIE ROBINSON is eae
more than merely an American name. He is a baséball symbol
just as certainly as was and is, ~~Babe~~ Ruth, His courage,
sp endid character and intelligence stems from a long line of
Afr.can forbears who once were world leaders. ' The theater
of sports in its entirety holds no more fabulous character than
this uroad-shouldered 26-year-old youth who was famous in.
four ~ at the University of California at Los Angeles, long
beicie Urooklyn~s Branch Rickey scouted him while with Kan~sas ity Monarchs of the Negro National League.
SCAL~D THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS

ktobinson was no brash youth crammed. filled with over
confidence. Back-in the dark days whtn he was being virtue!ly barred in. the: backyard ball parks of prejudiced.Flor da,

BTTITULELHITLI TT OMT its

~poner

Jackie told reporters;.)~~This is my big chance. I. can't. say
whether | have the ability to make the Montreal team.: ~1 only
know that | will be in there giving it all I've got. wih both

ands punching. I believe 1 am ready for my, great chance mentally as well as physically.~

Jackie is not being quoted above verbatum. We 'recall.
from~ 6ur.éarlier stores on~ him. that he stated substantially what
we tell you.,

~Montreal, with Robinson cteiae a owl game, at ~the o
stone hassock, went on to win the pennant miles ahead of the
field. Robinson batted like the~ hinges of Hadés-catving a record-that stands out like the herdic stone figures of the late Gutzum Borglumon Stone:Mountain.:.

- Yes, this personably, colored youth climbed mpatthine -~
social ostracism in, achieying a goal that fellows like JIMMY
POWERS, sports editor, N.Y. Daily News, said. ~It~s 100
to | that Robinson will not make~ the grade at Montreal, and
most certainly,~not the. big leagues.~

WE WERE HIS CHEERING SECTION

Who cheered him on his tortuous way, you and I. Members ~of America~s ~largest minority group (the real thinkers
among us) knew well.that ~Robinson~s succéss meant much to
other lads of his. race... The Ivy league for some: 100-odd
years wanted no.part of Negroes, They too ksuch Jews as
Andy Cohen (N.Y.-Giants, 1923) and Johnny~ Kling (Chicago
Cubs of ~Tinker, Evers to: Chance fame).. / with a sort. of
tongue-in-cheek attitude... The Jewish boys had well planned
and studied propaganda behind: them plus: the war chest of
American Jewry.

Jackie, stout fella, had his faith in himself oid his God:
the belief and confidence of Branch Rickey; and the prayers
and hopes of his own people. It is salutary that thousands. upon
thousands of white fans (also teammates and manager) lined
up solidly~ behind this game kid whom | nicknamed many years
ago: while he was ~at UCLA~ ~the one-man ~riot~ squad"~ be- ~
cause~of his ability~ to~ ~outfight~ most | men when inset rovoked or'sat upon::'. bilge
MERE IS MY COMMITTEE CHOICE

1 demand that we have a JACKIE ROBINSON rage The
first Negro player to ~crash ~organized baseball since George
Stovey arid Fleetwood Walker, most glamorous members of
the Walker boys of Ohio leagues fame, Jackie should be signally honored. | suggest the following men to line it up: Wendell Smith, brilliant Pittsburgh Courier writer; Tom. Wilson,
president, Negro National League; James Semler and~ Curtis
Leake, Black Yankees; Joe Bostic, Amsterdam News; Abe and
Effie Manley; Dr. J. B. Martin, NAL, Dr. Channing Tob ~ass
Paul Robeson; Adam Powell Jr,

WE ANSWER A FEW JUESTIONS!

Q: Whi si top hitter for: my team, Black. Veoknes: even
though many of the fans cannot see them?~James veers 256
W. 116th St., New York City.. A: Hayes, catcher; with a 273 batting~ average up ~ tte
Sept. 9 game. hustling ball player this Hayes, in there trying
all the time. *

Q: Is Ray Robinedn Wiherweicht chaitpon SE ma ~wert
now that Servo has ducked out of the title bout?+~R.H:G.,
Buffalo, N.Y.

A: He is in my ack. But according to ~~Moyle,~~ Robinson js not boss.,Here is the stery in a nutshell: Chairman
Egan and C. B. Powell;: commissioner, declared Servo~s title.

~vacated~ giving him-an. indefinite suspension. - Egan said,

~Under the circumstances |: cannpt recognize Robinson as
champion, and I herewith order an elimination tournament.~

Q: Who are the nominal leaders in Negro National Leazue
_ = ry sr ea ae ~ league leadership, in
ividual batting and: pitc?~-Lero bisa
Club, 168: W. 132d St: NYC:. 6 dial rpce genie:

A: Newark Eagles with team average. of 304 re 58
games; Philly Stars lead in team fielding With..967 for 55
games in which the Quakers had 67 errors and completed 39
dougle ~plays; Monty Irvin, Newark Eagles, is bating championh
with a lush.395 total at press time. | Irvin has appeared in 56
games, has 210 A.B.; has driven in 59 runs; 83-base hits; 20
tow-baggers; 4 triples; 8 homers; 56 RBI; and~stolen seven
bases this '46 season to date; Max Mannings Newark, tops the
pitchers with an impressive.917 percentage, form 11 wins and
only 1 loss. He has appeared in 19 games and struck out! 76
in 120 innings pitching. Max completed 9 games and ~has |
shutout to his record. is Hap, ie

Many Colored:
Psychologists
Attend Meet

PHILADELPHIA ~ NNPA ~
Colored. ~psychologists. 460k: an |

New, York area.for the Ameriart
Friends Service Commi t tee
(Quakers), under their visiting |
lectureship plan. He will spend
a week more Ort these campuses,
teaching subjects in his~ own

field, speaking informally to. faculty members and students and

active part in the fifty-fourth
annual convention of the. Ameri-: D adi =;

atly contributcan Psychological: Association }~ od LIL iy Sects Ce: ~Twent

which closed its meetings here

last. Saturday at. the. University

of Pennsylvania. os
Dr. Herman G. -Canady,~ ~head

tieth Century Psychology~ and.
~Psychology... for ~the *Akmed
Services.~ In addition he has
contributed~ many articles to*: psychological magazines,.

The others who dtichded were
Dr, James Bayton, aid Bebchree

college;~ Drs.| Frapitig "

-and Martin D. Jenkins, Howard
university; Prof. S. O. Roberts,
Fisk, and Miss Astrea Campbell,

|whese=Mistitution ~was not Jeatn-~
ed.

West Virginia State College, at--
tended not orly the regular session, but also functioned as a
member of. the. Representative:
Council, one of the important
governing boards of the ~Aamo
tion.
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