Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 30]

; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12,1 1946

~MEHARRY. DOCTORS

in ~cooperation. with Meharry
Medica];coliege. Ten doctors and
s2nidr~ medical students from
Mehatry~ conducted the examinatiom~ of~more than 2,000 students

EXAMINE TU. KEGEE STUDENT 5
~Theslasgest and most~ complete student health examinaticn
in the history of Tuskege2} institute has just been completed

| Gwew
kegee,

in the auguratior of the new
and comprehensive student health program of the John A~ AnMemorial -hospital of Tus
Reading left to right. on the
first row: Dr. E. E. Caldwell,
fellow-r2sident and instructor in
pediatrics at Meharry in charg?
of the group; L. D. Rickman,

G. C: Cypress Jr, Ralph B.
Cozort, senior medical student;
Dr. Waldo L. Cain, assistant
res:dent. in surgery at Meharry;
back row: Henry W. Robinson,
senior laboratory technitian, Alfred P. Reed, Alonzo. Boddie,
Thomas Davis, Jr., and: Charles
F. Gordon Jr5 senior medical
| Snase

Army Eases up;
ToAccept 1,000
More Negroes

WASHINGTON ~ ANP
As a reversal of its order barring induction and enlistment of
Negroes, the war department instructed the selective service system to induct 1,000 Negroes duting the month of October, it
was anrounced ~here last Thursday. Draft quota for this month
is s2t at 35,000 men.

This reversal in policy stems
from _a.new law Suit brought in
district court recently by Washington~youth who had been ~efused. - permission to enlist, said
one war department spokesmary.
This youth, Robert B. Kelly, 19,
recéived~special orders from the
war department last. Thursday,
ordering. him to r2port to Fort
Mead, Md., for processing.

At the same time, other: Negroes trying to enlist were given applications and told to re
turn for furth2?r orders. One
requirement has been set for
their~ ~acceptance, however ~
they must show evidence?
having completed high
education.

Last September,
partment halted gen2ral induction and enlistment of Negross
on the grounds that the, quota
had been exceed2?d. Negroes are
admitted into army_ under
a 10 per cent ratio to whites.
This ratio is based on the country~s Negro population. At pr2sent, Negroes form. 15 per cent
of the army~s strength.

According to Joseph C. WadCy, the attorney representing
Kelly, along with Atty. Charles
A.,. Houston, the war department~s:move has ~taken away
the ~-grounds for a_ preliminary
injunction,~ but was uncertain
~whether, it removed grounds for
a permanent~ injunction. H2 did
point out that there is mo high
school education requirement for
white candidates for enlistment
in the Army.

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BURY FIRST JERSEY WAR DEAD
RETURNED FOR FINAL RITES

PLEASANTVILLE, N. J.
ANP ~ Last rites were performed for Pfc. Joseph Martin, first
of New Jersey~s war dad, returned for burial last Wednesday. The body was returned under the army quartermaster
grave registration service~s program to return bodies of serv-.icemer under certain conditions
killed in dverseas theatres.

Martin, a former member of
the 3418 Quartermaster Truck
company, died last August 2 in
Schwanewede, Germany, while
on active duty with his outfit.
The body laid~ in state at the
hom2 of the soldier~s parents last

~_~

Tuesday. Funeral services were
held the following day in St.
Paul AME church, with Rev.
J. E. Earls oficiating. Martin
lived ir Atlantic City and Pleasantville all of his life.

Surviving the deceased: soldier
are his mother and father, Mr.
and Mrs. John Martin; three sisters, Sarah and: Susie Martin,
Pleasantville; Mrs. Helen Glass
of Atlantic City; and two brothers, Cpl. Robert Martin, on duty

i Manila, and Jamés, Pleasantville. Interment was in the
family~s plot at Pleasantville
cementery. ie

Georgia National Guard.
Head Against Negro Units

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ If the
view of'S. Marvin Grifin, head
of the Georgia National guard
prevails, there will be no Negro
guardsmer in the state, it was

the war de- |

disclosed by a letter received

of | last week by C. A. Scott, edischool! tor and general manager of the
| Atlanta Daily World.

Early in August, Scott wrote
to Gov. Ellis Arnall and Maj. B.
B~ Miltonberger, chief of the National Guard bureau in Washington, asking the consideration
of the appointment of Negrc
gi.ardsmen in the state as a
means of prevnting mob-violence
and asuring protection for Negro
citizens in the event of interrac-,;
ial conflict. It was stated in the
request that something ~shoulil
be done by th? national and
state governments to alleviate
this feeling of insecurity among
the great mass of Negroés in this
stat~. and at the same time,
cause the masses of white people
to realize that we have certuin
el mentary rights s2?cured by the
constitution that must be respected.~

It was pointed out that the
white guardsmen did not pro
F lint Pcailes Selected as Training
Center for eet Work Students

NEW ORLEANS ~ ANP ~
Flint-Goodridge hospital has
been selected as a training center for Atlanta University
School of Social work. In a recent survey made by national
authorities and sponsored by the
New Orleans Council of Social
Agencies, it~ was pointed out
that the social service d:2partment met all of the professional
requirements for a training prograra and recommended an expansion of the department in -all
of its phases.

According to S. Tanner Stafford, superintendent, FlintGoodridge is the only accreadited hospital in the south where
Negro-~students may obtain this.
typ? of experience in medical
social, work.

The student this year will be
Mrs. Carrie Bernice Wassen
from Atlanta. She received her
bachelor of-arts degree from
Paine college, Augusta, Ga., and

e

has completed a year of graduate work at the Atlanta University School of Social work. Mrs.

~Wasson will spend 18 weeks at)

Fi.nt-Goodridge on a full-time
basis. She will be under the
supervision of Mrs. Bernice Farley, director of the social ser
vie? department.

1 Times

RD CRE

tect the Negro community ir the
race riot at Columbia, Tenn., last
February.

Gov. Arnall replied to the request that he was passing the
matter on to Adj. Gan. Marvin
Griffin, ~with a request that he
consider- the suggestion,~ A _ letter dated August 19 from Col.
D.llen S. Meyers, in the absence
of Ger~. Miltonberger, stated tivat
the recruiting of state guard
units was a matter for the state
tu decide.

On Aug. 21, Genéral Griffin
replied to Mr. Scott~s letter that
ha~ been forwarded him by
Governor Arnall and, evaded the
specific question of the appointment of Negro guardsmen. In
reily to arfother letter written
~y him, however, he made it
ci~ur that he was against tne
appointment of Negroes, although.
i~ ~s understood that the federal
povernment supplies some of ~I.c
funas for the support of state

troops,
In a blunt statement, Adj.
Gen. Griffén, who ran for ljeu
ienamt governor in the recen~
July 17 primary. ona ~white
su)cemacy~ platform, wrote
~The organization of National,
guurd ynits in the state of
Georgia as. now contemplated,
will be sufficient to provide pr -
tection of life and proprty ard
preservation of peace, orders anc
public safety undér.~ competent
crders of state authorities.~ Tne
Georgia National guard wil!.give the above protection regarcless of race, creed, or nitionulality, and as long as I
am adjutant general no Negro
un~t of the Georgia National
guard will be orgamized in, this
state.~

Nat~t Negro Congress Head Pleads"
Unity Between Negroes and Labor

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Several hundred delegates to the
fifth biennial convention of the
Transport Workers urion of
America heard Dr. Max Yergan,

| president of the National Negro

congress, advance: a plea for
unity between Negroes and organized labor to end discrimination, at the closimg session of
the meet in Transport hall here
last TueSday.

Presented to delegates as ~a
friend of the Transport Workers
union~ by ~Michael J. Quill, reelected international pr2sident of
the labor group, the NNC head
declared that ~~Negroes will continue to fight the policy of segregatior. in many labor unions,~
and unity was essential becaus?
if the large percentage of Negroes in the working clashes, He
also called upon organized labor

~all countries where an~~army of

THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

+ eae a a

Mark Ethridge Tells Facts to.
p! White Audience -

Mississip

MERIDIAN st ~ANP- ~
The view that the south cannot
exist on low wages and the
economic subjection of a race
was taker~ by Mark Ethridge,
white publisher of the Louisville
Courier-Journal and Louisville
in an address before the
Executive~s club here last Saturday night. Mr. Ethridge, a
native of Meridian, pleaded that
~as a matter of fairness and
justice, the nation employ some

Ex-Deputy Sheriff
Jailed for Beating
Race Prisoner

EDWARDSVILLE, Il. ~ANP
~A $100, fine and 60 days in the
in the county jail in the penalty
Marion Booth, 53-year-old farmer deputy sh?riff of Madison
county, will pay for beating a
Negre prisoner recently while
transporting him here from Alton.

Two other former deputies in- |~

volved in the beating have.
changed their pleas to guilty.
They are Delmar Monken, Wood
River, Ill., and Vernie Grinder,
Granite City. They will be tried
at a later date, according to
information received here Morrday.

All three of the deputies resigned. when news of beating the
Negro prisoner leaked out. They
confessed. their guilt and. prosecution action, followed. immediat2ly.:

~of the vesarves it has. drained:
from us to repair th? ravages to
the jiand~ and to the. Deople of
~this section.~

Declaring that much
South~s natural resgurces
been wasted, most its population had migrated to * oth~r
sections of the country | because
of better economic opportunities
offered, he declar2d, ~There is
no medicine that will be good~
for our economic ills until we
in the south become gonvinced

of. the

Before. anything. much, ~can ~be
done about it, there must. ~come

her cotton market ag. a, world
Market in the. old, s2nge. is ~gone
forever and that. ~she Tust, ad:
just. herself to.a new economy.
~There must come to the. south,
~the recognition. that. she will.
never have a real democracy as
long as she denies half her population, white and. black, the

measures as the poll ac
the white. supre} wn

The white. publisher referred.
to Mississippi and. Georgia's re-.
cent elections as ~the lowest.
form of demagogery. and cowardice int that, they were. pitched upon the basis. of human minority,~
~artd asserted that ~ther2 must
come to the south the recognition,
that pride is no substitute for
bread, for education, for the
minimum benfits of civilization, and that to obtain these we
~must call upon the rest of the
mation not only for justice. but
also for help.~

and

WASHINGTON. see pica

other group of carefully selected
young women who, will serve
as Red. Cross representative. in
various areas.overseas. where
colored soldiers. are stationed,
have completed. their. orientation
training and ane awaiting trams-.
portation. In cooperation. with
the army, the Red. Cross is servicing installations of troops in

occupation, is being maintained,
Colored soldiers are located in
most of these areas.

In the group which is pro-/}
ceeding to New York from
which port they are expected
to sail are:

Miss Etta V. Varnett of Chicago, a graduate of Talladega
college who has pursued, graduate work at the University of
Chicago. Miss Barnett taught. at
Talladega last year. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
A. Barnett.

Miss Gloria Hedrick, the
daughter of Rev. and Mrs, Banius. C. Hedrick, is a hative of
Chicago, and a, graduate of Wil
SENDS MORE

berforce. university. -

Miss Clara Cooper is, a grad- ~
uate of Xavier umiversity and
hag just finished a year~s, training on a Red. Cross scholarship
at Howard university. She hails
from North Carolina.

Miss Anita Barrow, a native}:
of Lincoln Ridge, Ky., recived.
her B A degree from Kentucky
State college and her M; S. degree from Atlanta School of So- |:
ciai work.

Miss Estelle Britton who un- |'
til recently was employed in.
the Chicago public school system received her B, A. from
Howazd university and her master~s from the University of
Chicago. She is a native of Vir-}

iinia.
iss Catherine Maudlin of At- |
lanta is a graduate of Lincoln
Unversity, Jeffersor City, Mo.
She leaves a post as asSistant
io Mrs. Mary Bethune in the offics of the Council of Negro
Women.
Miss Claudine Leigh, a former school teacher at West Point,
Ga., served as senior hostess at
Camp Livingston, La. She is a
graduate of Spelman college.
Jesse O. Thomas annourtced

to fight the Sn oe of lynch

fand 200. special trade and agri
OVERSEAS.

that Misses. Barnett, Conber.
Barrow and Leigh are assigned
to. the European theater and
will probably go to Germany.
Misses Britton and Mauldin are
scheduled for the Mediterranean theatre.

Welcome Gold
Coast Warriors
Home a

WINNEBA, Gold Coast, West
Africa ~ ANP ~ Soldiers from |
the Gold Coast who fought for
Ertgland in. the recent _war are
being returned home from. So, |
East Asia.and North Africa
where they. saw service. They |)
have been welcomed: in, thé time}
honored ative custem.. with}
each receiving gifts of sheep,
fowls, yams, ohions, pepper, fire- |
wood, clothes and hair ~ prushes
from his wife and family.

The soldier knows~ he is to
receive these gifts ard: awaits |
them with members of his |
household and friends,
the women arrived ~presente are}
offered, and the:

~er, an indication of. his py
in battle. Womén gre. ta, ke |

~im, the village every., Syening |

~walking~ in~ single. f

ing presents. on, their. Maat andl
cn, Rglished, brass, trays for their |:
returned menial

Ateace College ~

Eprollment Soars|

ALCORN, Miss. ~ ANP ~ Al
almest 800 students, according
~to the registrar~s. most recent report, with the following
distribution; 400 college, 100
high, school, 75 elementary school,

culture, students.

More than 200 students have
been refused admission b2cause
all dormitories are filed. Two
dormitories for men and 32 fiveroom apartments for married

students are now. b2ing erected} ~

om the campus to help-ease the
housing shortage.

terror~ issue.

__. ee.

had}

that we- are economically - it.

to the south recognition~ ~that a

right to franchise thro ugh such | ~

DEMS C

~When &

soldier ~ds then di
bathed: in ~white clay~ or "powd-;

~

~corn A.&M. calHege has enrolled} '

Neos BN api! aa,

HOTEL YOUNG~Hotel Young, )has a private. bath, ~telephone,
recently built by E. F. Young,))radic and hot-and eold.wat-r.

J? in Meridian; Miss., at a cost |
of $100,000, is rated as one of |

the mast modern hovels in the | Young Beauty aaronbey
country. Each of its 30 rooms |

Mr. Young also owns the. Young
Cosmetics company -'and. the:

CHARGE

paralyzed veterans

t | tees, ~e

DEWEY |

Harlem Vet a
First to ~
Get Auto

NEW YORK ~ ANP-~Douglas Willis, ~Negro. veteran cor~

+| fined in Kingsbridge~ hospital;

Bronx, was~ ore: of: ~the two: first
Oo rereive
automobiles under the congres
| sional act by which. the. governe.

ment furnishes: ABs, to, amanus

Willis, 39, was i sere
| iously whep.an~ automabile

Pltruck he was driving turned

over near Brisbane, Australia,
in\ 1944, Sifiee that time, he has

~|bedn a paraplegic patient, that

is one>.sufsering with. paralysis
lor the less~of use of his neta
below. the waisti=._ vt aes
The automobile, 4; hew
Ford, was presented is at
the ee Pistisins: by ae
Gen, |

Ev tat ott Sy

the government

chase of such, specially equipped automobiles. Under the. rul
| ing, veterans who have, lost, the

WITH KLAN CONSPIRACY

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~~Call
ing upon Gov. Dewey to make

public the names of 1,100 members of, the Ku Klux Klan reportedly still active in New
York state, the D3mocratic State
committee charged the Republicans, with a conspiracy to conceal subersive elemfnts within
its own rarks,

The list, according to.D-mocratic sources, was turned over
to Gov. Dewey, earlier this year
by Atty. Gen. Goldstein who
made a study of the hooded ord2i~s uttempts to resume activi
"Mies. >Goldstein~s study: ~resulted

in the dismissal of Horace.A.
Demarest, an official of the Motor Vehicle bureau, who was
active in Queens county _ politics::

The Democrats say. that a

eheck of the names of the Gold-.

stein list would disclose. a large
portion of the known KKK
members to be registered Re-.
publicans. Many, they claim,
live in Queens and are still aetive in GOP clubs in that area.

Ii is hinted that some of the
names on the list ar2 already
known and it is believed that a
copy of the list is at the Democratic party headquarters in
New York City.

Democrats plan te make an
issue of this Klan, matter in the
coming gubernatorial campaign
and have several. embarr: sein:
questions to ask ~Mr: ~Dewey~ in=
cluding, ~What highly placed
Republican state feader insisted,
over the objectior of ~ several
Queens Jéaders, that Demarest
be givgh his post~ with ~the Moter Wehicle bureau?~:

Race Man Builds. Tube F actor y

BLOWN TRUCK TUBES MADE INTO

ss dinate lem

PASSENGER TUBES

oe

af * in Detroit, Michigan,
Simpson

owns and operates a tire and tube reconditi

00x16, made from 3ex6 tauck tube)
~at 526 East Forest Ryentiel Frédrick

lant,

which has. ang from a ~hote-in-the-wall~ to a sizeab

with, a
some. of the fhe |

The plant now has contracts servicing
est ck lines ~in the country.: -
in the reconditioning of tubes, is the conver: | /

sion. Ar bl blown: truck tubes into serviceable passenger tubes of all
sizes.. Suerte at users of these tubés are loud in their praise of |

Sealy Brat,@* 8

Scratched by colored peyple)

as compared with the regular ~thin-skin? passeng- |
a use, and which are sold at prices much ~hi ~than
fire ~Tube ~Remodeling System.~ Tubes and.

és ~built

keep going during the tire and tube ra eriod.
a Wen mapiencd business man, and ~ is.
ng in demand thropghout the nation.
(8 is one foarte t oes ~ agen 68 ype: sketches ine
' presented to acquaint the with what. race men. are d
in an to break into the ~big business ring,~ whose surface |~

|:Negro womart to

é/2'A flier himself, hée hired

use Of one or both legs ag gervice connected. ateabatigs, are
entitled. to, for 4 ~cir, a
truck, a jeép or ~ heh other ~onveyance provided cost does
not exceed st abak a

The Veteran makes: his, applicatior to the ~local regional office, where. the blank. is. properly filled out and returned: to
the vet: He then takes it to his
dealer and is given his choice of
a car plus the bill~ The govérnment pays the dealer, no money going to the, veteran. This
$1,600 cannat. be~ applied to a
higner priced car, mor will a
veteran. be reimbursed ifthe already, purchased. a. car. prior..ta.
| making his application. for _ the
pService..

* -s

Takes ~Albng Own
Physician on:
Transocean Hep

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ John

Hope, widow of the late Dr.
John. Hope,. presix _of Atlanta
university, was npdined on

her recent 2,400-mile transocéan
airplane hop to Hawaii by her
private physician, Dr. J, Ed
{mond Bryant. chief: of Provident.

hospital's ~~ ~of ae dis--
ORS33.. set Bg a Oe
Mrs. Hope, ~according to. hae
diabl3 sourcésy becomes~ the~ first
take along
her private physician on such a
long flight. She flew to Hono~lulu ~to livé with ner ~son, Lt
Comdr. Edward ~.. Hope, in
Hawaii. Lt. Comdr~ Hope is: said
to be the only. Negro lieutenant
commander in the. navy..
Dr. -Bryant, who red, Hope, is polig, nicelyoap
~his return here last. week,

{said the 2,400-mils flight took

nine and one-half hours. Patient
and doctor flew alk sway from
San. Frandisco. ~to~ pnolifa, ~he
raaid. Dr. Bryartt visited Honoluju~s Tuberculosis hospital.

a
private plane to, get as aerial
view ~of the Hawalian islands.

(He, was greatly impressed by.

the beauty of iewah, he said,
Dr. Bryant has been attached to
Provident hospital's staff her

| sinee 1937 and ~has. been attend
ing physician to. Mrs. Hope. for
agarly two. years.

duction of ca bad
alloys such as. mgt terrochrome, phosphates, silicon carbide,
uumingus abragyvés. iron ore reduc
ion and other electro processes

$7.50 Profiet

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