Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 32]

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26,1946 -

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RK~~-(ANP)~JAMES WELDON OHNSON,
Rothe~ ~City Called Heaven,~ i
~yentténat title listed above~..

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thoughrasp: the con-'. He was like most of*ts, a great~

admirer 9, the exceptional, tnlente of PAUL* ROBESON

is ~weekend.

cold by
Aen
Amer.
YMCA fe

\ shops arid the quasi
Aly the tradewinds, whic
YS BLOW as we've einted out in this.spage
3 BESON'S: talk ~on ~Russia,~ a ~Pattern for Real. zf
ep popracy, | * discussed everywhere..

hocial ~élubrooms, politi cal Varkroerha, barber- |

~town halls" more commonly known as |

invariably blow hot ~Sad

~ churches,.. taverns and cocktail lounges.

The ~big fella,~

gigantic in ~an Gat Alectual sense, ~hea

have made a tour with me of my DAWN. PATROL reserva
tions: in, order to hear the Indian chants, uttered -whenever his.
which. was often, we,assure you. ~+ Robeson, a
inkers everywhere, is now worshipped, by the for
name ean u
symbal with th

gotten man of no-letters, as. against the picture; they held:.of

him'back in 1920 when he was considered.a ~~snob"~
ing withon a gold-lined i ivory, tower, and: not nearly,, the~ voice. of.

y the common man as the street-corner-commoner, has. made- of

| him today.

~ head ~ fe ee Se

Not a few of the down wi ~oo tetas at gif days

complain bitterly, over the.,$1.2. (rinemiere top) for the~ Pee

poned.opening of ~LYSISTRATAG sige. basube 74

itt Bat
them~

i6, seni. rh fGerald pallets: Misia City, Kans., he ~nel
talked of band, singer in the couyntry~today (my pitiion) is
STURAT FOSTER, ex-choirboy with.FOMMY -DORSEY~s. Foster took over where, a bird,~
isked ae the betting against~his making Wood I in ~such a épot was

or.

a cool 5, to. | against him.
believe. ~Me..

the Musedvite boundary }:

tics.

eth,~

THERESA RICHARDS,

to in years.
exceptional voice range..

~MAURICE: ROCCO, a key figure in the bart of jazz
miusit; ~was*tendered a very nicé suppy party, Thursday ~night,
10 at CLUB BARON by INTERNATIONAL. NEGRO

Oct.

PRESS, courtesy of ROXY THEATER and ~
MORRIS THEATRICAL AGENCY.
down ~to play~ wizard of the 88. is a popular figute wherever
he goes, makés a nice speech when called~ upon;' ~and.
enjoyed the evening~immensely:
figure~in the~ nitelife world lorded over by ~decent and~ enterprising.colored. business men, still- holes out at. SARATOGA
while his bar-grill- cbcltpil Jonnge caters to overflow
~WE j

SPRIN

crowds 1

ightly. ~*

~KLEEBER (Dark Prince} WILLIS has an idea that he can
phyA fair rotund~ of golf but JUNIE~BYRD**tnd* HERBIE |
(Georgia Rose). TAYLOR are willing to take the popular Har
ag fem playboy on Wwith<only a ~two weeks~ notice;

From ave Hill, Mass.,
Car isle, ex- -schoolmarm, wants to, know ~ehat, information we

have of that master of Russian music MOUSSORGSKY:

Weeks of intensive research Mrs. Carlisle furnishes ~his
briefisketch: His:full namie is Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky;
he: was born on March 16; 1839, at Karevo; a village nearest to. He appeats' to ~have been a diligent
scholar,. his ~biogtaphers claiming a définite aptitude ~to history
and philosophy in addition to love for music and military~ tdc-. In 1863 he madg-his first serious attempt at~ opera, Us
ing ine setting of Flaubert~s SALAABO.
BORiS' ~GODOUNOF, | established Moussorgsky as a: creative
attist anid ~one of the world~s leading musical innovators.

NOTEBOOK JOTTINGS ~

EUGENE, O'NEJL~s masterpiece,..
~togk New York theater-goers by shoei Oct... 9; the critics
~acclaimed it and, this premiere, (are you listening, puearate
patrons? ))~saw two ducats selling for $50..
~goodwill ~ambaseador of song~.
resenting the Col. Young Memorial Foundations, Inc., and A.

Merral Willis~ Harlem, Town Hall 303

aged. Miss Richards.is a coloratura soprano at an

~ouldn't ~subscribe~ fo. ~a3 eir point rs yi ew, pipe!
this fromthe opposite corner:
seé What eyétyone claims should be a sptak kling

TOM~ PRICE ($1.80) ~ for a prémiere is. equal

| "Sd; why get all het up over the $12 gomie ~Folk,
| ehelt out for the sacred right of | ~being - mae

/hen,one real y. wants-to

play, the BOTto 2 free pass,

feel inclined: tg., EXCLUSIVE

named SINATRA flour
i He has made better, than. good,
a.Mrs.. Eunice,G.

His music- drama,

| "The, Iceman ~Com-. ah hum!~.

rep-. dwell-.

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~THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

NEW YORK ~ CNS ~ ~Pete
Johnson, the Kansas City~ Boogie
Woogie King,. now ~house-warming~ thé dazy, Cafe! Soci3ty Downtown nightly, is quite proud of
his newest addition to~ the -recordinge field ~ ~The Atomic
Boogie.~ eee

~Weve had everything els?
~atomic~, from the.blues to the
bomb itself,~ Pete says, ~so why
not, a boogie. with ponee behind
it??~ i
This amazing boogie has set
of supporting mén all-its own:
Jack: Parker,' drums; Abé Bolar.~

West 125th Street, is,

fadio artists we ve listene

Hand:

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the WILLIAM. The ~'T' won't ever sit

we. JOE WELLES; a toweriag

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~ PARIS; ~Tr., wis-called' to Boston Oct. 13, due~ to deaif of his.

aunt, -

IN~S' recorded tune
tober~.

a lady whom he was ~exceptionally fond ~of
LEADERS M \GAZINE has selected oui Friend,

~Atomic
ARTHUR LEE~ (Georgia, Boy) Sithpk! Hs,~

sor of one ~of the greatest tenor: voices in show Busitiess,

BANDPETE JOHN- |

Boogie,~ the catch- number ~of 4

a ait rit ok, And Grow to Tour Sout America This Fall

i téh wéeks at the exclusive LATIN QUARTER cb. "7
& ~ Society~ must on the~ wealthy set's nie Patrolling af 3a |

of th2

Jewish Congress
Asks Governors
To Out-law r Klan

NEW YORK ~ ~ The
American. Jewish ~ eae ress
through its commission on law
and social action,asked th? governors amd attorneys-general of
42 states to outlaw the Ku Klux
Klan and to revoke their charters, it was announced this week.

A similar request has gone
to U. S. Atty. General Tom
Clark for suitable federal actiort.

Six states have already taken action against the klan along
lirfes advocated by the Ameri
canJewish congress,

In California, New York, and
Kentucky, upon the request of
the respective states~ attorneysgeneral, court orders have already heen obtained dissolving
the KKK, In Georgia and New

| Jersey similar court actions have

been inisituted by the attorneys

| general and are now pending. In

Pennsylvania, the state police
commissioner has been requested

Pete ~Johnson

Pete Johnson Is First to
Come up with ~Atomic Boogie~

Lips Pag2, trumpet; Don Stovall, also sax; Budd Johnson,
tenor sax and Clyde Bernhardt,
trombone. ~Atomic~ is a National record with ~Back Room
Blues~ featuring Pet2 and Hot
Lips Page, on the reverse.
Already winning acciaim, ~Acomic Boogie~ was honored by
being choser~ as the top record
month: by Bandleaders
Magazine. In addition,-The Billboard rated it as most likely to
achieve the over-all best sellers
list and the most-played charts.
And~the city~s disc jockeys ar?
wearing it out. ~ E

~bass; Yimmy: Shirley, guitar; Hot

~LIONEL HAMPTON. Grosses Over $35,000 in a Seven-Day Stand at Aquarium: Restaurant, New York.

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Cleveland Editor

'Refused Service

He Swank Cafe

CLEVELAND ~ ANP ~Ed:

4 ward Hocker. owner of a restau-~

rant in Baybridge, O., known as
the Log Cabin, was arrested last
we2k on a charge of discriminating aftes Eugene F. Cheeks,
publishes, author: and editor of
the Cleveland Guide, had s2cured a warrant for his arrest for
refusing to serve him.

The editor was accompanied

by three other persons, who

were told by a waitresses that

they did not serve Negroes.
This is the third time the edi
tor has secured a warrant for

violators of Ohio~s Civil Rights

law.

1 pals.

by the goverrfor to make a complete investigation of the klan~s
~ activities.

~This action in a few states,

| while significant, is insufficient,~

Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman
of the executive committee of
the American Jewish congress.
wrot2 to the 42 other state officers.

~Outlawed in orfe state.~ ~Rabbi Miller wrote, ~the center of
KKK activities will be shifted
to another state. If any substantial progress is to be made
in the struggle to outlaw the
spread of racial and religious
hatred practiced by the Ku Klux
Klan, the law ~_ enforcement
agencies of all the states must
take appropriate action to remove the cloak of legality under which the klan continues to
function.~

(Seek Louis

For Baltimore

\Fight in Sept.

The Maryland State Athletic
Commission voted unanimously
to ask promoter Mike Jacobs of
New York to consider a heavyweight title fight at the Baltimore Municipal Stadium next
summer with Champion Joe
Louis and Curtis Sheppard, Baltimore heavy weight as princi
Sheppard, is one of the hardest punch?rs among the heavies
and was named No. 1 challenger
by the commission at a Monday
night meeting.

The three man commission
will call upon Jacobs at his}
New York Office November 15
and officially extend the Baltimore invitation:

MAN SHOT; SHOOTER. $ CAPTURED

- On the night of Oti.. 22 Mrs.
Larsena Bell was brought into
Receiving Hospital

by the name of rank Kelly
claims that he saw it all and
stated that whew he walked in
i to the Golden Bar at Fredrick &

Hastings he saw five men amd
one woman standing outside
arguing: Thty were Thomas
Bell, Woodrow W._ Ross, three
men that he did not know and
Larserma Bell, the wife of Thomas Bell. As time went by the
argument became more ~and
more furious, until one of the
unidentified men finally hit Mrs.
Bell, thus making her husband
very angry. He ran to his car
which was parked a short: distance away and got a shotgurr
from the trunk of it and gav?
chase to the man that hit his
wife, firing three shots. Later
policemen were called to the Receiving Hospital to investigat2

brought into Seldon~s

for this act.

_| tights statute of Ohio.

from gunshot wounds. A manf

the shooting of a man by the
name of Alex Seldon. Bell was suspicions however, lacking tanroom gible evidence. To date the FBI
where he was immediately iden- h
tified as the man that did the of the mob have b2en identified.
shooting, Bell.is now in prison Sheriff Gordon said last week

|Ask Grand

Jury Probe of
Police Assaults

~CLEVELAND ~ ANP ~ A
grand -jury investigation of actiois. of the Cleveland ~ Police
department in recent assaults on
Negroes and whites attending
Biaclid Beach park has beer asked. by the local branch~ of. the
NAACP.

~The amus?ment park was closed during its last week end of
operation at the request of Mayor Thomas A. Burke after a c\y
patrolman had been shot thru
the leg and anoth:r clubbed.
over the forehead when they intervened in the barring of a
Negro couple from the dartc?
floor, Both Negroes, the patrolmen, Lynn Coleman and Henry
MacKey, were in plain clothes.
-The latter incident occurred
on Sept. 23 and was the second
mixed group sponsored by the
Committee of Racial ~ equality
which had beer ousted from
the-park this summer. The drive

park, which does not permit
Negroes to dance, skate or swim
and bars mixed groups from th2
premises, was begun with a
trip by an interracial group of
members of the National Negro
congress, American Youth for
Democracy and United Negro
and: Allied Veterans of America.

Investigation by the grand
jury to discover evidence of police. laxity in protecting the
~rights of citizens was one of
Several demands mad2 by the
NAACP in a petition drawn up
by Atty. George Johnson, member of the legal redress committee. and signed by Nathan K.
Christopher, president, and
Charles P. Lucas, executive secretary.

The petition presented following advice to Patrolman Mac
| Key not to press for. a. warrant

against the Beach guard who
aSsaulted him and filing of departmental charges against Patrolman Coleman, charges that
~racial tensior~ prevailing as a
result of the Euclid beach situation has increased rather than
d2creased.~

Stemming from the fact that
On. two occasions the two members of the race relations department of the police department wer2 detailed to the park,
but failed to ~see anything,~ the
petition hinted collusior between the department and park
Officials to violate the civil

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FBI Fans Out
{n Walton
Lynching Probe

~ MONROE, Ga. ANP ~ Sheriff
EB. S. Gordon, of Walton county, said last. week that FBI
agents had gone into- Oconee,
~Morgan, Rockdale, Barrow and

UJ

_ | Newton counties, furthering their

investigation of the July 25 lynching-ot Roger Malcom, his wife,
Mis. ~Dorothy Malcolm; George
Dorsey and his wife, Mrs. Mae

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suffering pM: Dorsey, near this city.:

Atty.. Gen. Tom Clark ordered an investigation by the department of justice Friday, July
26, and agertts have been in
Walton county since that time;
carrying on a tedious investigation.

~ On September 27 Charlie
Weeks, special agent of the FBI
in charge of the Walton county
probe, anrfounced that not an
inkling of ~conclusive evidece~
had turned up in |. connection
with the lynchings. The special
squad of FBI agents under~ Mr.
Werks set headuarters in
Monroe with instructions to remain on the job until the mobsters are apprehended and are
brought to trial. Weeks suceeded John Frost, former head of
the Atlanta office of the FBI,

>| who resigned a short while aft
er the probe got underway.
During the investigation, the
agents said they have definite

denied that any members:

he always had been of the opin
to. change the policy of the;

cision of: the Sup--me

AS I SEE IT

By E. Vincent Suitt

The industrial and labor situation in the Frontier area ranks
im the upper brack2t compared
to the rest of the nation~s areas
of industry. Production and employment are fast being normally adjusted. to the extent that
goods and servic?s are reaching
a new post-war high. and problems of unemployment are ber
coming fewer.

With the increased population,

male employables can procur?

work..Many of the heavy industries today are in need of
workers. However, it is true
that there ar2.not jobs available according to every worker~s skill or training ~ but ~ a
man carr get a job. On the other
hand there are those workers,
who; becaus: of the war-time
~snap~ training, believe they can
perform many of the technical
eperations in industry today,
but many of the operations used
during wartime productior have
become obsolete.

According to plans for future
industrial activities on the
Frontier, the area will no doubt
be in need of workers who possess higher skills thar~ are needed now. The writer~s experience, however, has been that
marty of those who have performed various types of: wartime-productiorg-operations, did
not learn too much about those
operations, but rather went thru
~the motions~ as instructed by

not. In other words there~ wWas.a
definite lack of concentrations

on: the part of many -

This does not refer to any~-speei
fic racial or religious group -but~
does have its bearing on those
groups that were integrated in--
to industries for the first. time:
that organized labor bera:?
more pronounced. Many wo: Ke
ers took the position that t ru
labor, jobs were gained. Inother words ~ organized labor
was thought of as an institution
which. gave one a ticket to go~
to work. However, the leacer-:
ship of labor has, by way of its~
educational program, introduc3d
to the worker, philosophies cort:~
crete to a good Organization. Tlic
bases of such philosophies havé*
as their crux ~ protection for.
the worker; progress for they
employer. Protection for the,
woker includes: fair wages, g00~a*
working conditions, etc.~ Progress for the employer results
from a worker~s receiving < de-'
cent living wage and hevinggood working corditions from
which the worker will dev2lopan industrial attitude that will
give rise to industries perfectness in production. With phil-~
osophies of the aforementioned~
types, it behooves those in of-"
ganized labor, to become godd'
participant observers, to pay~
dues, to help shape and make

a foreman, superior or what

policies tc. he

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The Shape of Things As The} y Ar 2:

By Layou

one.

The Department of Justice has
been returned, against. certain
members of the white race for
the lynching of a Negro in Louisiana. This is indeed, progress,
and to think it took an Attorney General from Texas to secure these indictnyents.

Secretary Wallace gent a letter to the writer cf this column,
in response to a telegram s2nt
after his Madison Square Garden speech. You do not know
how much it has eacouraged me
to: receive th2 spontaneous response of literally thousands of
people ~ people who ultimately will determirfe whether we
are going~to have one free world
or whether we are Zoing to he
Swept into a world-wide holocaust. We must al] of us keep
up the good work, each in his
own Way.~ It is our opinion that |
all liberals of whatever color or
creed will be cheared by Mr..
Wallace~s d2terminittion to st
up the fight.

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The Republicans are not nOw
quite so Happy,-as the registra
tion figures of New York State | *

have become -avai'able. Th: trementdous increase in New York
City and the emocratic finishing ground is giving them
much concern. They are whistling in the dari: by saying. the
people regisier:d to vote as 2
protest egainst the Democratic
administra~ion. But~ history has |
proven, Tamm:.ny never register2d to vote Htepublican.
Georgia and Alabama are following in the foctsters of Sou~h.
Carolina in naullify'ng the deCour~
granting Negroes right to
vote in the I}2mocratic Primaries. I remember that these same.
States followed South Carolina
in succession and got a beating
that nobody has forgotterr. South
Carolina is a bad state to follow in dzfying the Constitution
and the laws of our government.

ion that the perpetrators of the
crime were not p2ople who lived
in Walton county. _

The lynchimg victims _ were
taken from the cat driven by
Loy Harrison, white farmer of
Oconee county, in +

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evening |:

France has adopted Con stitue.
tion which leans heavily to left.
of center. I syppose the Com--
munists in France will be blam-,
ed for this forward looking Con-,
stitution. What w2 need in this
country is to resubmit ours toy
the people so that those of us
who were exc'uded from votingon it when it was adopted will
now have a chince to do so. *.

oe
~ ~~~ on

The decontrol of b2ef by the:
President under pressure, may:
be a boomeramg to those wha
sought to use the people~s nung=;
er for m2at as a political issues:
When people are satisfied. they?
do not easily charge. ~

Geen

Winston Church:il, the~ grea~
war leader of Engiand, ~is try-~
ing ~ to regain constrvative con--
trol of the British government:
But im the 21 by-elections tak
ing place in Englani in the past
15 months the Labor Gevern-:
ment won: all of them. It looks
as though England is ~saf: for:
the Socialists Labor Governmentfor some years to come,. since.
there will be rfo general tection.
until 1959. fe

er eb oF

Things ar2. movirg slowly~ ins
the Negro section of Buffalo in
both parties, perhups both~ ofthem think they have. the Nez
gro vot? sewed up.; ~

Pe.

Walter Winchell in his briadcast Onelast Sunday night dra~
matically anrrounzed tiat the:
United States Seaator. B:ibo;
~ad accepted payments of $25,400 and $8,700 from certain fi-m3 -~oing business with the govs
'y hope of the United States
Senate refusing to seat nim. No
| public servant wh~) accepts mon=
2y from firms coing busincsswith the governrnent has any.
right to a seat in the U. S. Senate. If the head Committee is
worth it~s salt something defic
nite and drastic will be doné
with this unfit and unworthy.
public servant.

SOM iit ts
Louisiana~s Best

Cc
For Love, Money,

of July 25 and sHot to death:

by a mob pf white men.

dexterity, industrial positlventss.

It wag during the war per.od~

ernment. We see in this our on -

Trouble. Write for FREE Sam.