Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 27]

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"SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1946

THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

pRB a a

Nite Lifei in New York

By ALVIN MOSES

DAWN 1 PATROL..: ~NEW YORK~ (ANP) OPENING OF JO~ LOUIS~ bar
_Testaurant was the talk of the town since Sept. 5,
tional impression, of how local townpeople felt about the ornately- decorated spot was most interesting to me:: Two-thirds
of the curious asked a perfectly naturaly question:. really own ithe joint outright?~

The trade. winds, ~which unfailingly Saul ray ~anid J cold but
~blow,~~ have -it ~this: way:~Louis does 'ndthave a lock,
' stock and barrel:headlock on the spot:

BROOKS has the main say, so those ~in the know~ blurt out.
eolumnisi- said that Louis wou'd
have ~~an air conditioner apartment~in the spot. plus: a desi of
7 8,000: for use of his money-getting-name.~ é

~As for JOE LOUIS, he calls Joe, Louis, Ince.
~MY NITESPOT.~
and may no headwinds trouble your sea. odyssey.

always ~

Some weeks back a Broadway

125th Street,

it~ was fun listening ~to~ ~Tex~ Fonteneau, ~Hoss~
Harris and g'her lads about town |

Harry Wiley Jr., ~Brother~
chat about the singing merits~

Voice~ who hails from ~West: Virginia,, in the Rainbow Dining. Fonteneau thinks Turner one af |
the top voices in the land the discussion waxed warm and long

Room, Fonteneau~ s state.,).

~ ~Lady Lou,~
Corner).

the smiling
Amster dam coverage??

WILLIE - BRY ANT. jabeed) a rcewonell achievement Shsile~

_ acing ns:MC at Joe Louis~ spot the other night.
train~ng for Tami Mauriello there) we renewed frinnidilbigss will
POMPTCN LAKES last Sunday, (the Brown Bomber
MAL FRASIER, Aost of CLUB SUDAN,
HERBERT (Georgia Rose) TAYLOR, secretary of the Art and Musical Club, ~BILL BOTTOMS, the
maitre-de-hotel (best cook on earth) atcrrding to Louis; BERTHA LAMBERT. social~te;: DR. THADDEUS JONES, ResyJOSEFINA WALDON,
~Skimp~~ Grayton, Harlem picts Dey and many, many others

Lenox Avenue;

lyn, ae

too numerous to list here.

JIMMY (Apollo theater)

busy. work-a- -day_ chores to smile sweetly at my. wife. white |
scribble madly in my ~Dawn, Patyol,\,

friend of many years~ standing.

the all-time great musicians, opened at, the: -Apollo: Playhouse |
the | 3th with a great band and swiftly-moving revue.
FITZGERALD, the nursery rhyme: songstress who naaliored a
ditty named ~A Tisket A Tasket~
(cabbage, or loose-lettuce the trade calls it); was
Apollo fans during her one-week sojourn there a fortnight ago.

4,.the lush-appearing SWEETHEARTS OF
_ RHYTHM come to the FRANK SCHIFFMAN playhouse which

~On Oct.

is the ~Operations Crossroad~

musical world-.

132d Street and Seventh, is ~fot there anymore...
That story in a local newspaper stating that Ed Smal's.had
lost $175,000 has not been confirmed i in the least.
est reports have the sum, at~ ~some - $150-grand, legs than the

-,+ HONI COLES, the best dancer these~ eves
have ever seen, is-as smooth, but far more~polished, as the first
evening | saw his act About seven years ago..
former:stage vane astd and they make a grand heme team.

A cross-sec
~Does Louis

Some moneybag named

1 West
2-0-0- take your choice

* ~Steele,
**The

of one Merril Turner,

~barmaid ait ~PERCY~S (Harris

In fact, lat
~Whi'e at

142d Street and

Hunter: College de-lovely;

MARSHALL, stops from. his

otebook,.. He's an old
OTE WILLIAMS, one of. ELLA

into gobs of real money

loved by

of 12Ith Stréet and Uptown

was |.

~Porgy and Bess~. Company las:

-York Recital,

dice with a full skirt of candy
~Porgy and Bess~

New. York, N. ~Y. When
Matty2 Jean Johnson, Dramatic
Soprano who was with the USO

season, thrilled a large audience last Friday evening when
she appeared in h2r first New
at the Salvation
Army Servicemen~s Club on
124th Street.

Appearing before a most appreciative audience, Mattye Jean
was a picture of charm in an
evening gown with black bostripe taffeta. Included among
h@ + selections were numbers
from the German Lieder
~Still Wie Die Nacht~ and others
in English~Ah Love but a Day. H's wife is a

- Dr. Ira De A. Reid Appointed Visiting
Professor at Haverford College, Pa.

~NNPA}.:

HAVERFORD, Pa.
~Dr. Ira De A. Reid, chairman
of the sociology department of:
has. beea
appointed visiting professor ~of
sociology at Hayerford Collage.
~for the comimg term beginning
- Seotenbe 18, Dr. Gilbert F.
White, president _ of Haxertons,
announced, last Wednesday.:: Br ~Reid, the first célored
person to be named to the
Haverford~ faculty, ~was ~earlier
this year appointed ~professor in~
the College of Education of~
New York: university for 1946 -47. His~basic work will be~ at
New York: university, but: he
will spend three: days- a week

~ gat Haverford, where he will

teach ane course in sociology
and will..b2 available for in:
formal discussions with students
and faculty members.

Dr. Reid was graduated ~from
Morehouse college in Atlants,
holds a master of arts dégrae
from the University of Pitt3 -burg, and the doctor of philosophy degree from Columbia
university. He. has" also studied

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~mittee and has been on. the fac
He. is the iauthor of several
books, including ~The Negro
Immigrant,~" ~In A Minor
Key.~ ~The! Urban: Negro Work
er in the United States,~ and
eoHaborated with~ Arthur Raper
on ~Sharecroppers All.~ He is
associate executive director ~of
the. Southern Regional Courrcil,
and was a consultant on lhe
Social. Security~ Board for several years. ~He is considered in
expert on social. security.

Reid~s appointment; to
Haverford, a Quaker. collez:, is
not his first eorttaet with the
Quakers. For many ~yeas he
has worked. clostly with - the
Amsrican Friends Service Com
ulty. of.several Institutes of
International, Relations, ~ sporrsored each summer... ~the
Service Committee, Ditring the
past year he spent four months
teaching and lecturing at many
Friends~, avd, non-f"\; -nds~
schools zal ~colleges in the
Philadelphia, area, iacluding the
Unversity ~--of - Penns;lvania,
Skidmore,Coilege (New York),
~ranklin and Ma: shall. College,

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Maria; Will O~ Te Wisp ~
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Journey Now. In each selection
the.-Singer~s diction. as well as
her tones was superb. In- Will
O-The Wisp and Ave Maria the
audience was able to see that
Miss Johnson had mastery of
tone, quality and flexibility of
voice,

Noteworthy of mention too
was: the keen sense o7 sincerity
and interpretation which Miss
Johnson put into each selection
including the Spiritual ~On Ma
Journey Now.~

The Artist was presented by
Leigh Whipper, noted Actor, and
Clayence Jones, Musician was

~her: ~Accompanist. Soor~ she will

appear in Recitals throughout
the South under the sponsorship
of Mr. Whipper; and. while on
Tcur her mother, Mrs. Nettie
Johnson will remain here | in

Derricotte Shows
Old Form
\t Michigan

DETROIT, Mich. ~ APNS~
Gen? Derricotte who was a
star at the University of Michigan before he was inducted into
armed forces is out agein. ard
is Now displaying his old form.

Sacaking o: being. out, Derri~otte is out in mor2 ways tnan
one, for instance in a scrimmage
the other day the blues with
which Derricotts was playing
with, swamped~ the reds 69 to
10., Derricotte alone was responsible for nearly half the points
made. He skeedaddled over the
line five times.

tle verfor d.._ Following Dr.. Rds lecture
et. Haverford, the s:udents, in
=n editorial in the student news
vayer ~The Have-fer1 News,~
proposed Dr. Reid as a candidate
to fill a vacancy in the soci
o:ogy department.

Soprano Has

First New York Recital;
Pleases Her Audience

Mattye Jean Jchnson

New York at the home ~ 462
Covenant ~ with another daughter ~ Ertha Elmore.

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Convict 130
Seldiers in,
Station Melee

FLORENCE,~ S: C: ~ ANP~
Sentences of 15 days im jail
of $17 fines were handed down
last Monday night by Mayor R.
F. Ziegler to 130 Negro soldiers,
for their part in a melee at the
railroad station last Sunday
night.

According to the testimony of
Sgt. B. L. Miller, white MP,
he and another MP had taken
four soldiers: into custody becauSe they were creating a disturbance. This is alleged to have
precipitated the melee. An AtJantic Coast Line railroad policeman, H. F. Swilly, testified that
the 130 men advanced upon the
MPs to release the four soldiers

and he threw down on* them

with a riot gun ordering them
to back up or ~Ill blow everyone~s brains out.~ y

All the soldiers pleaded innocent.

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TRAVELOGUE OF A SOLDIER

FORT EUSTIS
The Caissons from Fort Eustis
pega boa in the nich of time.
th2r hours~
sane ~destruction for the forty
of us. The blood thirsty mosquitoes were returning in full.compliment to lay waste to th?ir
G. I. quarry.

Fort Eustis was approximate-:

ly 3 1-2 miles from the peaceful little village of Lee Hall,
Virginia. We boarded our carvass @ovired carriers and moved cut for our new home. As
our six-by-sixes hummed down
the Richmond-Norfolk Auto
strata, (highway) the only indication. and evidence of life
existing in these parts were the
peculiar moises made by our
stomachs. Our very guts w2?2re
growiing like tthe call of the
wild.

At 7:30 p. m. we entsred the
premises of Fort Eustis. At this
point we were Separated from
our white buddies. Our driver
had been instructed to deliver
kis cargo (us) to Dog Battery
%th Battalion. We arrived at

| Dog battery fifteen minutes af
ter our departure from the
~nain gete. Th2 joint was crawling with soldiers. The battalion
recreatior hall was jammed. to
capacity. The area theatre had
long closed it~s door to the many
hundreds who had formé?d lines
fo seo a movie. We drew our
bedding from the supply and
waited patiently for the chow

cal! which did not come until |

we received instruction on how
to make a bed the. G, I. way.
We sweated out the sergeart~s
instructions then we wer? permiticd to go to chow.

The mess Sergeant called us
everything but soldiers. He us2d
an adjective for everything on
the table. I had heard butter
called many things in my life
but he gave us a new mame for
it. In spite of what the Sarge
caled the food, we ate it. After
hearing the Mess Sergeant address we were convinced that
this vras more than we had bargained for. His meals turned out
to be-no better than th? names
he called us. His meat was so
tough we couldn~t stick the fork
in the gravy.

As quite as it was kept we
had no alternative-as far as
the Sarge and his food was
concerned. We either laid~ it between our form 32~s_ (teeth)
for grinding or w2 left it. We
dared not speak above a Sigh.
One ca@mment and we would
have found ourselves massaging
pots and pans for the duration
of our training. It would have
been equally as futile to leave

delay would have

the heaping quantities of bread

and cold stew because our bread
baskets had -waited too long
to be refilled. A couple of sad
sacks sneezed too loud and they
suddenly found themselves in
the middle of the mess hall sink
giving the china, porceline, pots
amd pans their daily bath. Our

Jhearts bled. for them yet we

dared not go n~ar because the
Sarge had made it quit? clear
that his. floor needed a_ scrubbing. ~ |

We finished our meal and
moved out in nothing flat. After this meal we realiz2d that
Fort Niagara was a Sunday picnic in comparisor~ with this in-'
ferno. We were satisfied that,
they had moved us from the
frying pan and put us in the
fir?.

They didn~t have many latrin~s but they did have an inexhaustible supply of pots, parts,
tree stumps and Serg2ants. Incidentally the mosquito d2fense
command were giving birth to
millions of their young to ~reassure us that we would never
have a dull moment. The corporals* and s?rgeants_ drilled
corms on our feet by day and
marched callouses. on our fee:
by right. The tree roots in Virginia grew very deep but w?2
managed to hue them from the
good earth. Day by day it was
hup-two-three, reveille and ~etreat. My, oh my, but this was
monotonous, vut we had to
keer. going or dig a hole to
China. We learned to stand at
attention while the mosquitoes
with their. armor piercing bills
drilled~ for blood. As a rule it
wasn~t good etiquette to disturb
the little fellows when - they
were eating. The Sarge always,
told us-to let them eat because
they would go away when they!
got enough.

After five weeks of drill, puptents, pots, pans and harassing
sergeznts we were so belligerant that~ we could have killed
the very grourd that Hitler and
his ruper-mén called their home.
We had a job that we couldn~t
quit. This was Hitler~s, Mussolini~s, and Tojo~s mess but we
had to clean it up. We sweated
out three more we2ks of boot
training, and most of my buddies wére getting ready to move
again. The remaining part of us
wér2 ear-marked for the Cadre
and Specialists schools. We considered this a break because
the majority of the boot camp
graduates were slated for Camp
Stoneman, California. Camp
Stoneman was the jump-off point
for the Southwest Pacific and
ali points beyond.

(Next week ~ North Carolina).

Dentists Conclude 33rd Annual
Session in Louisville, Kentucky

By Atlas News Service

LOUISVILLE, Ky. ~ The 33rd
anrtual session of the Nat~l Dental Association was concluded
here or Friday, August 23, and
was proclaimed as one of the
most succesful in the organization~s history. Six hundred and
seventeen dentists registered,
and many of them brought their
families.

Dr.~ R. H. Thompson, of Westfield, N. J. succeed?d Dr. D. H.
Turpim as president, and Dr. J.

A. dackson, of Charlotte, Va.,
was reelected secretary-treas-"
urer.

Three new mempers elected -to
the board of directors, are Dr.
B. J. Marton, of New Orleans,
La. (three year term) and Drs.
Hosea Proffitt, Helena, Ark. and
C. M. Jones, of South Carolina,
each to one-year terms.

The president-elect is Dr. ~.
W. Taggart, of Birmingham, Ala.,
while Dr. Russell A. Dixon, dean
of the dental scheol at Howard
university, war elect?d vice
president. His victory came unexpectedly after his gpponent
withdrew over the prosp2ct of a
heated contest.

The Association presented ~ a
solid brenge tablet to Dr, Stephen J. Lewis, af Manasas, Va.,
editor of the Official NDA orgam, known as the Bulletin in
recognition ef his outstanding
eervice.

Meharry and Howard univer
sity members: and a postwar

planning committee to distribute~

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especially prepared booklets on
dentistry to the gerferal public,
was appointed. This body is under the chairmanship of Dr.
T. Grady of Washington, D. C.

Numerous speakers urged an
inecreas? in dental students, as
1,700 Negro dentists rfow practing in the United States is in- }
adequate.

Among the prominent Dentists
from throughout the country ir
attendarrce were the following::

Drs. J. A. Jackson, Charlotte,
Va., Clifton O. Dummett of Meharry Dental College, Russell

tO 1% 0, Ho ward
University, C. Milton Young,
~Louisville, Ky., A. M. Mackel,
Nachez, Miss., William H. All2n 4
Meharry Dental Colleges, Allen
P. West, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew J. Stich, Elliot C, Small,
Joseph H. Plummer, William C.
Giles, Charles E. Wiliams, Dentai L. Claiborn?, G. W. Fields,
John I. Miles, O. R. Ennis, Mautice R. Herbert, William Q. Saddler, al of Chicago; Robert W.
Harrison, Yazoo City, Miss., Ronald Lowell, Millard R. Bean,
Washington, D. C., Andrew E.
McDonald, New Orleans, L12.,
Herrry W. Hunter, Cleveland,
Ohio, S. J. Collum, Jr., Houston.
Texas, Phillips Brooks, Broklyn

N. Y~., Elvin V. Neal, E. W. Harrison, Los Angeles, California,
Percy Fitzgerald, J. Edward

Bowman, Washirgton, D. C., W.
T. Grady, Washington, D. C.,

"places.

~Har-pton orgznization.

LIONEL HAMPTON

Lionel Hampton's Orchestra

Maintains Record-Breaking __.

Pace on West Coast:

Los Angeles ~ Lionel Hampton and his: orchestra, topping
~two world-famous' orchestras
duriyg a theatre engagement in
San Diego, are now holding
forth at the Trianon Ballroom
out South Gate way.

At the half-way mark cf his
current engagement, it. jappears
that Hampton~ will ~break his
own all-time: reterd thera,~ established about a year ago, thius
muintaining his record-breaking
yace in coast theatres and dance

Reports of gross receipts at
the Orpheum Theatre in San
Diego, show that the Hampton
aggregation topped both Harry
James and Woody Herman at
the box office ~ all~this dzspbite
a polio epidemic.

Among the guests at Hampton~s record-breaking Opening
night at the Trianon were several Music Corporation of
America executives who were
making a téur of entertainment
spots in Los Angeles and Hol.
lywocd and environs... Thé Music Corporation of Am#rica biggies stayed throughout the
evening.

A band critic during the evening opined~ that the p?2rsonabl~
band leader and crew are ~the
new Lionel Hampton band which
~can swing but is easy on the
ears.~

At a recording s:sSion in Hoilywood last Monday for Decca
Records, when Lionel recorded
~The Pencil Broke and That~s
All Sh Wrote,~ two important
announcemenis came from the

~Lionel hzs signed ~local ypro
university.

The Asociation voted to m2ei
in Detroit, Michigen in. 1947, after a very close contzst with Los.
Angeles, California.

duct Joe Comfort, who tor thir
with Charley Harris, give; tie
maestro two of the cot ttry~s
best bassists. Comfort is r contly out of the service - thi; iz a
part of*Lion?] Hampton~s ~2arch
for Talent program.,

Mrs.
dent of Ham-Tome Records,
America~s fastest growinz rocording company, disclose th2
appointment of Elmer Fair, Musicians Union, Local 767. official, as a. distributor of HamnTone Records on the Pacific
Coast. The appointment, first to
be held by a Negro in the West,

leave Fain free to contin.2 his
union duties.
Although he made np) ane

nouncement, Hampton himniod another Sensational discicsur2
which h? will make in the near
future. It is expected to.k2 an
announcement of an engage=
ment in October at a new own:
town Los Angel?s ballroc.a.

The Hampton band mov-3 in,
to the famous Millior Dollz
Theetre the first week in October. tej

Columbus
Students Receive.
Degrees at Ohio
State -

COLUMBUS, Ohio ~ APNS

Among many students rcéiving thtir. M. A. degrees at Ohio
State this summer, were Mar
garet Elizabeth Day, Robert Pete
Griffir, Hilliary Rice Hatchet,
Esther M2rle Jackson, Alma
Louise Porter and James Sauire
Wade all of Columbus. ~ ~

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