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FIGHTS
TONIGHT

With three Flint boys on the
card, this Friday night~s professional fight card at the IMA
Auditorium should provide more

them usual initcrest for local
fans.?

In addition. to Jock Lesli:,
Flint~s Blond Bomber, who

mects Aponte Torres of Mexico
City, Promoter Tommy Cussans
has signed Herb Taylor ard
Shorty Jones in supporting niatches. Taylor, a middleweight, is

statzd to meet Tony Gallo of

Detroit, while Jones will clash
with Tom Kitty, Detroit welterweight.

Neither Taylor or Jones need
any introduction to Flint fans.
Jones ard his unorthodox fighting style n2arly -stole CusSans~
last. show. Again Friday fans
should get their moneys worth
as Jones is a willing mixer regardless of his opponent and
Kitty is said to be the same
type of. fighter.:

With a chanc? to build him
i -pelf up from a four-round fight
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er, Jomes-has -been ~training reiigiously for his Friday battle.

~ GRAND
HOLLOWE~EN
MASQUERADE

THURSDAY,
OCTOBER
31

ROYAL
GARDENS

9:30 to 1:30
GIVEN BY THE

TOPPERS |

~ PRIZES
GIVEN

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In a joint celebration of their
_e::thdays, Mrs. Gertrude Willhiams of Kansas City, Mo., and
Mr. Willie Pea of the California Club were awed at the magnitude of the elaborate nine
cours? dinner party given in
their honor by Mrs. Ida Miller
of Campau. Mrs. Miller proved
to be the perfect hostess with
her wit and charm that makes
everyone in her presence jovial

Club Worker

Returns Home

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Mrs, Mollie Jeff2rson, prominent club worker and citizen of
Artesia, Miss... has returned
home after spending a delightful five weeks vacation in our
fair city visitng her daughter,
Mrs, Ella. Talbert. of Dakota St.,
who is one of Flint~s outstandim club work~rs and now serv
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See~Club/Worker~Page 3

|tim Saturday night,

FETED AT DINNER sdehietss

Mrs. Gertrude Williams and Mr. Willie Pea,

and contented.

Mrs. Miller expressed sincere
Eappiness in the visit of her
cousin. Mrs. Gertrude Williams
vthom she has not seen in 12
years and so it was a fitting occasion when Mrs. Williams~ birthday came at this time. Mrs.
Williams is visiting with her
companion. Mrs. Beatrice Wal:
ker, also of Kansas..

After a week~s stay in our fair
city, these two Kansonians are
quoted as saying that they enjoyed their visit in Flint.

Guests present for this luxurious dinner party were Miss
Christine Slaughter. Clarence
Milier, Normar Bettes, Arnette
Bowers. Al Hadley, Al Brown,
Clotela Jenkins, Maxine Lawrence, Rose Jones, Lucille Howard, and a host of others.

' and Informer

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INDICTS Sit
CAROLINA
LYNCHER

BARNWELL, S. C. ~ ANP~
A murder indictment agairrst
William Craig, white farmer

charged with firing the _ shots

which exeéuted James Walker, |.

Jr., near Elko, S. C., Aug. 12 in

~a mob acti on, was returned by

the Barnwell county Grand Jury

there Monday night.

- A coroner~s jury exonerated;Craig at Elko om Aug. 19 but

the grand jury ordered him

{hound over to the February term

of general sessions court. Craig
has been under liberty of a
$2,500 bond since his arrest by

Sheriff Jeff Balck.
John H. Me-} ~

At
Cray,

Columbia,
editor of the Lighthouse
who uncovered
Said while the

the lynching,

ase oes -

~which drew. no interest
from Gov. Ransome J. Williams/
to 1 vhom several persons and
crganizations had appealed.

McCray said Tuesday that
readers of his paper had sent
ir. more than $180 demandirg
that the mobbists be brought to
justice and that many times this
emount was expected by the end
of the month.

Walker was shot in the back
standing on his father~s porch,
when he had arrived to visit
ess than arf hour before. Craig
See~Indicts Lyncher~Page 8

WHAT DO
YOU KNOW?

What. do you. know about
Flint? What should Flint Negroes do about housing, lawless~tess, delinquency, the Negro in
business, the rising tide of intolerance and _ everything else
that is plaguing the Negro Community. For answers and a posSible solution, read The Score.
A forthcoming column that will
begin ir the Flint Spokesman in
the October 4th issue. ~

ELKO, S. C. ~ ANP ~ Elko
mobbists, many of whom were
members of a group which lyncued James Walker Jr., August
12, claimed another Negro vicSeptember
7, it was announced this week.
Tne victim, Freddy Pryor, is
confined at home r&covering
fiom wounds inflicted by a
crank case harmdle and divers
othcr weapons in the establishment of John Craig, brother to
William Craig. who~ has been
chaige?d with the Walker slaying.

Witnesses said Pryor entered
the place to make a_ purchase
artd immediately became the target of. several white men present who made insulting remarks.
Wher Pryor ignored the remarks, a white man known as
~Mr. Morris,~ is said to have
walked up to him and said, ~nigger, you look. like you don~t
like what we say. Do you?~
When Pryor continued to re
main quiet Morris is said to!

ELKO LYNCHES
SECOND VICTIM

the victim threw up his hands
to ward off further blows, severa! of the other men pountced
vn. him saying he had attempted.
to hit a white man.

Beaten until he lay bloody
and unconscious on the floor,
Psycr was rushed to a nearby
Kospital by a white man_ who
huiried into the place-from the
outside when the commotior began. Known to have participated in this beating were John
Craig, ~Booty~ Hare, William
Craig and Barney Givhans. all

rrembers of the Walker lynch
group.

LYNCHING PENALTY

URGED
CHICAGO ~ Sept. 119. ~
The Brotherhood. of. Sleeping

Car Porters (A-F. of L.) called
on Congress today to penalize
tax-paying residents of commun
n ve slapped him reeling and asitits in which lynchings occur.

|| sz jury pction was PE teh

| Parkland. St. was th

Interracial
Center Honors

Frank Manley

FRANK MANLEY

Mr.. Frank Manley of. the
Mott Foundation was sigrally
ponored. Be the members and

sic with Mrs. McBride as pianist. Mrs. Odell Broadway of
mistress
of ceremonies. Mr. Russell spoke
cn behalf of the center. Mr.
Clifford Fielder, the presidertt of
tne FICC spoke for his organization. Mrs. Granville Franklin,
one of Flint~s civic leaders,
spcke in her own way.

Mr. Manley was presented with
a plaque. Many lauditory phrases were uttered in extoling the
character of work that has beer
done under Mr. Manley~s supervision and direction. All of
this wWas planned unknown to
Mr. Manley. When he called upon to speak, he could mot find
weérds to express his gratitude.

Many of Flint~s outstanding
citizens attended the affair and
pledged their support to the
many coming programs to be
held at the FICC. The first will
be a musical on October 6, 1946,
starring Miss Josie Johnson ard
Mr. Rudolph Scott. This prom~ses to be one of the outstanding events of the season with
the FICC committee under the
direction. of Mrs. Odell Broadway working hard toward the
success of the affair.

Johnson, Cayton
Nuptials Held

Bethlehem Temple Church
was the scene of the wedding
of.Izora Cayton ard William
Joknson on Saturday at 6:30 p.
m. The Eelder F. R. Bolden performed the service before 150
Euests.

The petite, aeritie bride was
given in marriage by her /brother, Agustus Cayton, and was attired in a marquisette gown with
a sweetheart neckline which was
shirred to the waistline. She
wore a floor length veil and
her dress was a three quarter
iength sleeve style. She wore a
gold cross around her neck.

Reba Johnson was the maid
of honor, wearing a_ beautiful
Shezr pink gown and caring
Pink gladiolas, and the bridesmaid was Barbara Bolden who
also was attired in pink sheer.

Clarence Campbell was best
man and Earl Mitchell was ushee:

The bride was the daughter
vf Mrs. Gertrude Engram, who

See~Johnson, Cayton~Page 8

Baptist Choir furnished the mu-|

PAUL ROBESON
HEADS GROUP
CALLING ON PRES.

- WASHINGTON ~ A national
conference on lynching mapped
a program aimed at curbing
mob violence. eee

It sent a delegation which told
Presiderrt Truman that if the
Government doesn~t do something about the matter ~the Newroes will.~

Paul Robeson, Negro singer
whc was a sponsor of the conference, was in the group and
in telling reporters afterward of
the meeting said Mr. Truman
hed objected to parts of the propusea program.

Robeson said he read a mé~ssage to: Mr. Truman asking him
to issue ~a formal public statement expressing your views on
acti and recommending a

The. President, Robeson said,
indicated political matters made
it difficult to issue a statement
of his views at this time.

The President took exception,
Rokeson said, to a suggestion by
the delegation that it ~seemed

sank eli:

inept for the United States to
take the lead in the Nurenberg
Trials ard fall so far behind in
respect to justice to Negroes in
this country.~

The Presidential view, Robeson said, was that Americans
should not tie domestic matters
to the international situation.

SEGREGATION ON TRAINS
IS RULED ILLEGAL
WASHINGTON ~ The Court
of Appeals for the iDstrict of
Columbia ruled that segregation
cf Negroes on railroad cars is

illegal.

Justice E. Barrett Prettyman
delivered the opinior, reversing

~Tyashington goer spit

He called attention to a recent
Supreme Court decision ruling
out segregation on irtterstate~ busses, then said that there ~is~ no
valid distinction between segregation in busses and in railroad
cals.~

WHITES FIRE ON TRAIN
BEARING RACE VETERANS

LYNCHBURG. S. C. ~ANP~
Sheriff -Dan Clarke of Florence
county said at Florence Monday

that an original belief that
Charles Green of Lyrtchburg,
home. of the late ~Cotton Ed~

Smith, had been seriously inj.red by shots from a train carrying Negro veterans, had to be
discounted,

Sheriff Clarke~s retraction
vame after Sumter offices who
boarded the train when it reached there about 30. minutes after
passing here last Thursday nite,
had failed to find any weapons
among the -~ere than 500 soN
iers.

The Sumter officers said a
smashed window indicated that
the train, had been fired upon
but none aboard was injured.
Sc.eriff Clarke said Green, who
is confined in the McLeort hospital at Florence, was wounded
by buckshot.

Official sources here believe
the blast was fired by an uniaentified white person. The nite
before the shooting 1325 colored
veterans were taken from an Atlarttic Coast line train, 20 miles
irom here, and fined by Florence officers.

AME Bishops Controversy Thickens;
Two Bishops Summoned for Trial

By William A. Fowlkes

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ The defense in the Sept. 25 trial charging a conspiracy between Bishup David H. Sims of Philadelphia and Senior Bishop W. A.
Fountain of Atlanta seemed last
wiek to have thrown a monkey
wrench into the trial machinery. Unless something else develops, there won~t be a trial,
because there won~t be ar~ AME
bishop not involved im the charges and _ counter-chargers surrounding the attempt to oust
Bishop Sims from his New York
diocese.

An airmaii summons to Bishops Fountain and sims had beer
dispatched eariy last week by
Vice-Serfior Bishop Reverdy C.
Ransom of Wilberforce, demanding their appearance at the trial
slated for Bridge Street church.
Plaintiffs, reportedly backed by
a group of bishops said to be
~pposing Bishop Sims, had _ bas~d their action upon charges
that~ Bishop Sims had refused
to recognize the authority of Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr., in the
New York Annual _ conference
and that Bishop Fountain refused to put a motion at the meeting of the council in Washingten which would have clarified

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the action taken at Kansas City
in naming Bishop Wright associate bishop with full authority
in New York conference. A civil court. suit on Sept. 23 will
see Bishop Sims seek a permanent injunction restraining Bishep Wright frum functioning over
See~AME Bishops~Page 8

Miss Cuetta Jones
Resigns Urban
League Post

Cuetta E. Jones resigned her
position as Civic Education Secretary of the Urban League of
Flint, effective October 15. Miss
Jones joined the staff of the
League on March 15. 1945, and
for the past 15 months has devoted h2r time to the development of a neighborhood group
work program. Prior to coming
to the League, Miss Jorfes has
s@rved as Program Director of
tne USO in Seattle Washington.
A former Wsident of New York
City, Miss. Jones plans to return
East for a brief rest before resuming work.

A successor to Miss Jones will
be named later.

a district court ruling in a ~ $45, aCi
500 casaee Se gainat the Bows |-y

h Carolina Lyncher Indicted

U. S. Asked to

'Take Over

Meat Industry

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ A reéquest that the U. S. governnrent
~ake over the meat packing industry. came last week
Ralph Helstein, president of the
United Packinghouse Workers
of America (CIO), as Negro
workers were included among

~| the thousands~ of jobless pack
inghouse employes now _ being

laid off.

Rejecting attempts of packers
to blame the OPA, Helstein
charged the current meat shortage to their intense greed for
unrestrained profits. They wr2cked the marketing balance which
resulted in the meat famirre, he
said, in creating an _ artificial

~meat shortage for the operation

of black market profiteers.

Hard hit are Negro packing--
house. workers, who form the

ment control is necessary, he
added, to insure responsible
Erofits to packers, reasonable
prices ~to consumers and producers end jobs to workers.

On the other hand, big business has received the aid of the
AFI. Butchers unior in fighting
OPA price control of meat.

Gulls Open Clams |
Herring gulls open clams by
ping them from a beight ~
rocks below.

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