Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 28]

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1946

| THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

~By ALVIN MOSES.

| NEW YORK~(ANP)~WILLIE BRYANT ankled up to
~your favorite reporter on things that. happen just: before day
break and whispered:.

~~Isn't.that JOE LOUIS name a golden

rabbit's foot~: and | merely looked at the dean of the MC's and

smiled knowingly:.. We were standing near the curb of the
125th Street Sic-restatiranit that bears the name Joe Louis, Inc.. JOE WELLS, is the proudest as well as the happiest night
sbet owner in the east and for very solid reasons indeed: as we
go to press, Mr. Wells has anriounced that.on Tuesday evening
he will formally introduceto the New York public CHARLES
STEWART, wizard of the Hammond ~organ, called by mus~c
critics of the nation one of the truly great organists of this cen
tury... | was just wondering if you were ~able~to guess the name

| Frank G. Greenwood, director,

| Selon~
~Held 0 Over

~ ANP By
Ponca A demand, ~Stevedore,~
depicting Dixie race and class
Lroblems, will ba presented by
the. Chicago. Negro Art th2ater
in enother series of performances, according to an arfnouncement here Thursday night by

~

following conclusion of th2 six
th performance at the CNAT
auditorium.
The. play attracted sell-out

crowes during the first six performances, Greenwood said. and
the same interest is predicted

of the artist who will weave a story about Stewart ~at the miicro
phone?

BRYANT.

I think nota few. of you felt; it would be oes WILLIE

LYNN RICHARDSON, a ~charmitig girl with a rich, sultry

Voice, plays-the solovox at Wells in addition to being a most

capable pianist.

church and concert field.

~She is the~ daughter of ALTA BROWN, one

of the finé voices of yesteryear, and still very ~active

in the

Now that RICHARD BARTHELMESS, Holtyweod # screen
star, paid a visit to Johnny Barrorie~ s CLUB~ BARON which |

nicknamed ~Harlem's jewel case,~

~many of the local nite spot

operators are contacting bookies and agents about having name

celeb frequent their spots.

%

BABE. WALLACE, long couinitiitened by me one of the most
- -polished as well as capable emcees and actors extant, joins the
cast of LYSISTRATA, tke all-Negro company, in the role of
~~Kinesias ~~T wo.performers in..particular: we must see in this

play scheduled for October opening,. and they..are ETTA MO
TEN and Wallace...

Wave cabaret, is well and doing all right,

AL DOUGLAS, former owner. of Heat

En ts" -Aplet

Springs, Ark., and we are. sorry that pressure of business in
connection with our new magazine, AMATEUR SONG, prevented our writing you in this envelope you provided for same. Douglas has a juke box.empire. that takes 99 per cent..of
his time plus a. thriving hotel business on, 151Ist Street, upper

Harlem.
tive.. The answer as to whether he is broke is in the negaiT wish I had Al Douglas~ money bags, and I think you

sepnida~ t mind carrying them around either.

GOD SENDS SUNDAY,

written by my friend ARNA

BONTEMPS, was a case in point where a producer (Edward
Gross, Hollywood) sent out a hurry call for an outstanding colored writer to iron out the rough spots; in this instance. it-was

the late-lamented. COUNTEE CULLEN, whom

Our voice has Jong shouted for the ac
called to his final rest.
tion Hollywood. now provides

Creater

the

with our-colleague of. years

standing,. CARLTON MOSS,.- pak there watching: things, from
my, lighthouse post: -I'd say to queries ac vanced to me on th~'s

subject.

All is well, quite well.

BENNY CARTER, the

powerful ~hé-man of the muical world and a versatile, hand
leader, writes from the west coast that every thing is under con
trol.

We say versatile because Benjamin. plays more than

a fe instruments and is internationally hailed for his bril
liance on sax and trumpet.

THE SPORTS REALM

By

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Ralph. _Campbell

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~In - his ~238d defense of* his}
title, the incomparable Joe tages
was greater than ever. No champion, in any division, barring
ifenry Armstrong, the fantastic
buzz-saw, has put his. title at
stake each time that he climbed
through the rop2s.. Jack Dempsey should be pittied for enGeavoring tb class himself + with
the Brown Bomber. Louis has. trever ducked an oppon2nt and
does not ~take ~a ~beating to win. |

Dempsey dodg2d' rnany ~ draw- |.

ing the color line ~ and took
numerous blows, because he had.
no defense. Comparatively, Louis
far out-shadows oF old boy. Put
us on record ~: saying ~that
Chémpion joes, ~most critical
mouthpiece will be Jack Dempsty, when and if the Dark Destroyer ever suffers defeat.
Whereas, Dempsey gives him fair
eredit,.it does not-ecome from
his heart: There is always a
- loop-hole, depicting.a weakness
of: Louis, that has not as ~yet
been. fulfilled.

Cherles ~Buddy~ Young, now
released from the Navy, -and
back at Illinois, has continued
with his s2nsational.~ play.
Against Pitt the Ebony Express
clicked: of a 46 yard run to a
touchdown on the second play
of the game. Toutéd as greater:
than ~Red~ Grange, and only a
sophomore, Young should enjoy._ a great season.:

*

There is a. "fellow~trt New! Yor~
City, named Baby Cole, whom
iWity ~say ran. off$190 pohtis. in
pecket billiards recently. Quite

a% artist, isn~t he? He is look-|

ed to met Ralph Greenleaf,
world~s champion cueist in Philiy ~on the 26th and the old boy

wiJl have a job on his hands to}.

prove his boast; that. he can
beat any Negro. pool player in
_ the courttry.

Satchel Page, one of tha great
i
-0

est hurlers in ue seated of

baseball; will * oppose ~the Newark Eagles. on the 27th in the
Negro World Series. Ol Satch
is pitching for the Kansas City

Monarchs.

Tis said that efforts are being
made to match Henry Bruim,
top-flight middleweight boxer,
with either Tony Zale, current
champion, or Rocky Graziaro,
s:nsatidnal purfcher.

Don~t rush your boy too fast
Jack Singer, that~s what has
ruined many promising boys
here in the past. We'd like to
see~ Brimm against. any. other
cf the ~First ten~ in his division ~ even if omy a th? exer: ence.. The HBC has lined up JoeMuscato. against Arturo wasted
for. October -15th.

abl ks

That cerntadl us that ~Cyclone~~ Williams has ~not seen
éction since h2 performed so
well against Godoy. We hope
that he isn~t getting the ~rurraround,~ because he has earned a ~shot at some other nationally famous pug.

This. ~corner is picking Tony
Zale to halt the advance of
Rogky Graziaro, in New York
on Friday~ night. ~

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~Negro Football

for the. final shows. His annowuncement that the amateur
CNAT group wiil present ~Stevedore~~ in several citi~s was
Claiified by. Harris Gaines, public relations head, who said
planus call for the tour to include Detroit, Cincinnati and
possibly Cleveland:

~We were told by a city official of St. Louis that the play
is too hot: for that town,~ Gaines
disclosed.

~Stevedore~ is a story of New
Orieans dock workers attempt to

|HONOLULU NEGROES PROTEST
RACE RIOT ~WHITEWASH~

*HONOLULU, T. H. The
Honolulu: branch of the Natioral
Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent the
fuliowing telegrams to President
Truman and Attorney Gen2ral
Tom Clark, in corfnection with

~

~he race riots in. Columbia,
tenn.
The telegram to- President

Yruman said:

~The roughshoding over the,
civil libsrties of Negro citizens
at Columbia. Tenn:, is a disgrace
to our government. The indiffererees shown by the justice department to these outrag?s dues
noting. More than invite further
tersecution upon the heads of

An ferica ~s defenseless colored
cit.zens.
We call upon you, as chief

executive of this great nation
to instruct the attorrfey general
to protect the -civil liberties o
those Negros now lIanglishing in
jai.

~We urge you to puniss the
sate militia men and patrolmen
who wantonly beat and killed
Negro civilians. A.rfew shame

tion stands guilty beforg the
conscience of mankind.

~We beseech you *o act now.~

The telegram to attorney generai, Tom Clark, reads as foliows:

~The outrages committced
<gainst America~s colored <itizens at Columbia. Terfn., can
not go unanswered. We _ are
deeply moved over this new
terror~this shooting down of
unarmed Negroes by. state militia men.

~We gather from ~the press
that the trial at Columbia was
a whitewash. How _ long, _ Sir,
must justice sleep? Amez~ca is
spiritually dying because of the
indifferences of the federal g*vernment to such crimes.

~We beseech you to act. Assign FBI men to the case and
show the American people that
thousands of young black and
white American soldiers did not
die in vain.~

Both telegrams were sigtfed. bz
Flemming R. Waller, president
yf the NAACP in Honolulu. MWalter is an aircraft "mechanic

yas come to America. The na~

at Ford Island.

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unionize for better working conditions and higher wages and is
interwoven im a Dixie ~ background of prejudice against Ne-:
gro~és,

Requests for the play have
come from Warehouse Work=2rs
vpnion, Local 208; Food, Tobacro and Agricultural Workers.
union, Chicago Urban league,
Anrerican Youth for: Democracy,
arJ interracial committees of
the University of Illinois. Stevedore is presented by an interracial cast, with many of the
white actors being members of
the CIO theater workshop.

Deen Almquist, the white actor who plays the hated role of
the anti-Negro Walcott, is one
of the leaders in interracial r?2 -lations in real life. He has been
engaged by the National Broadcasting company to present a 13 -week coast-to-coast radio series |
ef ~Tales of~ Foreign Service,~
slated for Friday evenings at
11:30 over WMAQ.

WAS ROBBEvD BEHIND
WINE SHOP

COLUMBUS, Ohio. ~ APNS
Paul Riddl2, 443 E. Mourtd,
told police that he was knocked
down by four men and robbed
of $20 about 2:30 a. m. September 21. He said it happened in
~ne rear of the Main St. Wins
Shop, 343 E. Main St.

Yale Has First

Star in Histo
ar in History

Yale University is sesing its
first Negro football star in all
tts leng history. Levi Jackson,
age 20 years, weight 190 pounds
-~a New Haven, Conn. high
school product, is the player in
question. In scrimmage practice
last week he dazzled the assembled guests ard experts. Attesting to the significance of the
eccasion was the presence of a
larze number of Yaie football
iiameortals, several of whom
traveled considerable distances
to attend. Whether Levi Jackson ever seriously dreamed of
crashing the Yale tradition
against colored players is rot
known, but there are many reasons why. he must have wanted:
desperately to play for Yale. One~
was that. Yale was his team. As
a Boy Scout, h2 got customary
f-2e seats back of the goal line
to all minor games. A more
intimate, emotional reason -uncoubtedly was that for more
ther twenty years his dad has
b2en associated with Yale as a
co: k in its dormitories. In any
-evynt he is playing. tha game
like a champion and the coaching staff thinks him Extra Specirl. If is predicted that he will
do for football what Joe Louis
is doing for boxing and Jackie
Robirson is doing for baseball.

~Leaky Roof

Water which comes into a building
through a leaky roof spreads out under the roofing to the roof boards
the plates and studs, and into the

~ecratic Primary elections will be

|. white -status.

~once in each quarter, and after

Talmade Says
Georgia Will
Pattern After
South Carolina

ATLANTA ANP ~ The
rewly won right of Georgia Negrces to participate in the Dem
shortlived if Gov.-nominate Eugene Talmadge has his way and
makes good his aims and plans
to restore the wy to. a td

Tzlmadge told newsmen; that
he will ask the state corfvention
at Macon to uphold his plans
to make the party a ~voluntary
party association.~

Motley Great
As Cleveland

Tonples Bisons

By Ralph Campbell
BUFFALO, N. Y.~APNS~
Sunday evening at the Civic
Stadium,. before 33,000 fans, the
night of the Cleveland Browns
exemplified itself and they rolled over the Buffalo Bisons to
win, 28-0: The Browns scored

each: touchdown, the sensatiorral
kicking ~Special Delivery~
Jones converted, to make it 20
in a row that-he has made.
it was a matter of too much
power and speed against Buffalo. Cleveland sported a huge,
towering line and a hard-runnitfg backfield, in which they
used the shifty Tommy Colello
for diversion. Marion Motley,
a 215 pound bundle of destruction, remindful of the famous
~Big-train~ Moody of Morgan
farac, led the running attack,
and started them on their wirning way with a 35 yard jaunt
in the first quarter. Throughout |
the contest, it was this former i
Nevada star, who bucked: th?
Buffalo line like a projectile to
pick up necessary yardage.
Buffalo fought gallantly, but
they were outclassed. Their run
their passing was uselés# against
Cleveland~s alert setondary.

Notr2 Dame star, kept them in
the running. Juzwick was: at his

ning attack was throttled; and~!

Only the - hippity-hop~ of the;
sueedy Steve Juywick, former |

Report Shows
How Race Vote
Beat Enemy

WASHINGTON
Republican and
leaders here are studying a report on how Kansas City Wegro voters removed Rep. Roger
C. Slaughter, an acknowledged
FEPC foe, from office during
the August 6th primary.

Forwé@jed here by D. H.
Davis, JrQqbusiness manager of
the Kansas Wity Call, a weekly
newspaper, the report covers
Negro voting in four~ wards and
reveals the intention of Negro

ANP

voters. not to return their ene- |
mies to congress. They recalled that Slaughter remarked:

~Tl sure ag hell opposed the
bill for a fair employment prac
| tices commission and I~m proud

of the fact that my vote was
what killed it.~:

Eros Axtell, Slaughter~s opponent, polled 12,168 votes, of
which nearly 7,000 were Negro
votes, while Slaughter polled a
mere 2,053 votes in the first
four wards. Warring that Negroes will show the same resentment toward other members of
congress, Democrats or Republicans, whose records are ~bad~
on legislation involving the security and rights of minority
groups, Davis termed Slaughter~s defeat was ~clearly attributed to the Negro~s vote against
him in the Fifth Congressior~al
district.~

MAN AND WOMAN IN
BLOODY FIGHT

ECORSE~When police officers arrived at 3838 Seventeenth Street they found David Burks, and his wife very
bloody. They had been fighting. David said that his wife
had -been drinking and when
she came home she. began
fighting with him without
cause. After explaining th~s fo
officers, David got his clothing
waleauiate te left.

best late in the game, when Buffalo began to move, ~but the
minutes ticked away, and: it was
to> late.

The middle of Cleveland~s line
was mighty, no one man exceeding the other
However,. big Bill Willis was
prominent, blocking well- and
tackling hard.
for his great playirfg when attending Ohio State University. ~

It was the third straight loss
for Buffalo, _but they lost to a
powerful team, one which is a

w-lIis end floors.

in ability.

Willis is knowrr}

cistinet threat to all others ini
competition for the AA champ--

ionship.

Democratic } -

Jo Baker
Undergoes Third

Operation
By Edgar A. Wiggins

PARIS ~ ANP ~ Josephine
Baker, internationally famous
darfrer, was given a third operation here last week for dysentery at the Ambrose Pare, a
~privete clinic. follwing a_sudder relapse.

Dr. A. Bergeret, eminent dysentery specialist, was compelled to return from his vacation
to administer the operation and
another blood transfusion. He
has been her attending physician
since her arrival here more than
two months ago by piane from
Morocco.:

This is the second time Miss
Baker has been stricken by dysentery in Morocco. Due to the
foors and fruits of Mosocco
many foreigrers have been
stricken by the intestinal diseas2. Her last attack was on
July 4, the day before she was
to entertain American soldiers
at Port Lyautey. Her first attack was two years ago.

Miss Baker has cancelled all
plans to. rehearse for a new Folies Bergere review this fall, she
told me when I visited her hospital rcom in Neuilly. Her co.dition has improved since the
third operation, hospital reports
ciscicsed.

Curtis Mosby
Pleads ~Not

Cuilty~

LOS ANGELES @ ANP ~
Curtis Mosby, owner of four
large places of business on Central. avenue here. pleaded ~not
guilty~ Monday im Judge Beaumonts federal court on three
counts of concealing assets in a
bankruptcy writ.

The indictment had been voted late in August but was not
made known until last week
when Mosby was. compelled to
put up $1,000 bond for his appearance for arraignment. He is
charged with~ failure to disclose~
his half interest in the Club
Alabam, $7,000 in:a Kansas City
bank, and real estate in excess
of $10,000 when he filed bartk
ruptcy proceedings. sometime
ago.
Beside the Club Alabam,

where a large staff of waiters,
high-salaried musicians, bartenders and maintenance men are
employed. he operates the Club
Alabam grill, the Last Word
Cocktail lounge and the Pig~n
Pit Rossitierré, which also r2 -quires a large number of. employes.

Mosby, a former musiciart, has
a reported $5,000 monthly payroll and his yearly gross from
his four business places for an
eight-year period is said to be
$20,000, or $2,020,000 gross income, Some of his old employes
include Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Ivie Anderson, a form
}ing, I wish I could take ~th2se

N. B. ALLEN, Ex2cutive Secre~ary of the Columbus Urban
League. William W. Layton, Industrial _ Relations Secretary.
Alexander B. Mapp, Youth Dizector and Mrs. Jane Hollingsworth, Assistant to ~the Director of the Community and
Neighborhood D2partments are
attending the National Urban
Leauge Conference in St. Louis,
Mo., from September 25-29.

This year~s conference theme
is ~American Team Work
Works Attackirg Postwar
Problems in Race Relations.~

N. B. Allen is to make a report to the Executive Secretaries Council on Minimum ~Wages,
and W. W. Layton will participate in a Seminar on ~The Negro Worker orfe Year after V-J
Dav.~ Speaking on ~The Ne2rc Worker im Manufacturing
In~ustries.~

SMILES

Visitor: ~What a glorious paint
colors home with me.~

Artist: You will ~ ~you're sétting on my~ paint~bdk.~~~""" ~"

a. ese

The boss says that when he
w2s a boy on the farm they had
a inule that was just like one
cf the family. ~Yes and I know
which one.~:

Horse sense is that sense which
keeps a horse from betting or

the human race.
s

said an ambitious

NY. Police Slow
Toe Investigate
Village Mob Casi

NEW YORK While. the
gang of race-baiting, Negre-hating men go unapprehended,- who.:
for the past few months
made New York~s Greenwich
Villnge area a place of terror
fcr Negroes who work or- livé
there, the police investigation. of
th incidents reported by {12~
N: A. A. C. P. goes forward itt
a curious fashion.

Vietims of mob beatings - or
intimidations are being subj:ct=:
ed to a kind of police quest~ on*
ing on their affiliations with.
various organizations, on wh
ther or not they attended a recent Civil Rights Congress protest meeting in the neighborhood, on -whether they wrot2 Itters. to the Mayor.

ve

According to a reliable so-1rce,
some people are wondering
whether the police are really as
intrested in prosecuting members
cf the mob as in silencing the
complaints.

In response to NAACP pro~
tests, Police.Commissioner Arthus W. Wallander promis -d:.

~This particular areas is oe
ently rec3iving special attention,
and you may be surf that thesé
incidents will be carefull7 in-~
vestigated amd prompt action
taken as the facts in each cas?
warrant.~

Says Victor Reisel, New York
Post columnist, of the gang.
~They aren~t just a gang of
young men. They talk in Ku
KInx Klan jargon. They o-7verate
like night riders without burnimg crosses. There has been

| much of this since the KKK
was spotlighted. by widespread

cublicity a few months ago.

Fispecially since the qua:lruple
Monroe, Ga., lynchings for which
no one was arrested, although,
the FBI is reported by exzellent
scurces to have the names of
self-appointed executioners,
of Negroes.~

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something that will be acc2pted
by the first magazine it is sent

~At last,~

young novelist ~I have written

to.~ ~What. is. 35~ asked hisfriend. ~A check for a iecks |
subscription.~

7 Negroes Influenced Brazil:
Against Hitler, Says Color Magazine

Negro citizens of Brazil] wer?
powerful factors which influenced the largest country in South
America~ to take sides with the
Aliies during the last war.

This important revelation is
brought: out in the current issu2
of COLOR which through a series of pictures ~ show thousands of Negroes ir popular
mass movement crowding the
streets of Rio de Jan?rio in popalar demonstrations demanding
that Brazil declare war on Hit~er and his Ku Kluxers who
waged a war to scatter white

Negroes constituting necrly 3
per cent of Prazil, a country
that is Latin and recognize; abil?
ily rather than skin colcr anq
alert to the danger of Nazism;
I. J. K. Wells. Editor of Color,
states~ It is not surprising that
rare were hostile to the

reachings of Hitler that Ary:
ans should rule the world.

7

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ase

1~ its eight page Sepembax.
story on the Negro im Latin ~
America, Color presents a -eres$
section of racial freedom in ~both |
Portugese and Spanish Ameri:

supremacy over th2 world.

er chorus girl in his revue, Wynonie Harris arfd Lillian Ranaolph.

Hearing on his case is scheduled for Oct. 7,- Judge Beaumont. announced.

{15,000 Return
To Atlanta
Public Schools

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ An 6stimated total of 15,000 young

4 people returned to their respec
tive schools in the Atlartta system last week. Booker T. Wash
A ington High School, with a_fac-|ulty of 125, reported over 1,000

pupils enrolled in the first three
hours of registration, with 1,050
enrolled at Washington Junior
high school, 900 at the Davis
street section of the school, and
1,990 matriculated in the serior

| high division.

David T. Howard, Junior Hi:} school reported registration of |

3,223 pupils between the hours
of 9 a. m. and 12 o~clock noon

on the opening day.

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