Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 32]

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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN |

Personals

The Famous Mme. W. C.
| Wright and~ the Wingo Chorus
of Detroit, will present the ~Unshadowed Cross~ Oct. 28 at the.
fIsrael Church No. 5 at 3202
Michigan and Hickory St. Every
one is cordially invited to come
and hear these lovely voices.

The Score
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~tien for a people to take but
this is the only means left to
us to gain the self respect that
is the heritage of our people
and all future generations.

~The PAC can follow the precedent that was followed by the.
man, for whom it was organized
to support. When Mr. Roos2velt
found that it was necessary for
the~ sake of expedierrcy to drop
Mr. Wallace, he had no qualms
to take action. The situation in
Flint is an analogous situation.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Powell
cof Kalamazoo, Michigan, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Windell
Mitham of Howard Avenue and
Mr. and Mrs. Isom Martin of
Pasenda Ave.

Vets Challenge

~Word comes. to the oolumn

that there ar2 persons in the Conti;::. ontir.aed fro H e

community who. are indulging ( d m Page One)

in making derogatory remarks| business. We understand that he

has a reputatior for working to
issue liquor license, but for the
several thousand Negroes in his
Ward, ther? is only one. In
fact, he and his colleagues have
seen fit to issue one class C license for the 15.000 Negroes in
the entir2 city (yes, we know
there are a couple of club license, but they are for a select
few).

We ask you to think and give
us your answer.

THE VETERANS BETTER
GOVERNMENT LEAGUE.
Editor~s Not?:~This letter does
not express the opinions of. the
Flint Spokesman and we will

gladly print both sides of the
Story.

zgainst our candidate. We have
refrained from saying anything
gbout the incumbent candidate.
If however this is a challeng?
we would like to stake the charxeter of our candidate against
any man running. We have been
surprised at the purported source
of these remarks, because the
father of these two young men
that have been r2ported making
them has been a. prominent druggist on St. Johns Street for over
a generation and many race
people support his store. If this
continues we will be forced to
* retalitate in kind. -

Let us not be caught asleep
at the switch. From now until
election day it is to the best

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Seek Prosecution va White Bus
Driver for Killing Aged Man

HOUSTON ~ ANP ~ Joint bers of both races, served as a
local action here is demanding} protest against pistol-packing
prosecution of a white bus driver} bus drivers. Spearheaded by the
for wanton shodting of an aged local NAACP branch. 19 organiNegro~ man recently, who at-|2ations were repesented - at his
tempted to act aS peacemaker} ~uneral.
in at argument between his| Branch met his death on a
killer and a 17-year-old Negro| Nance street bus -her? last
yquth, ~ month as he dashed from his

Victim of the armed bus driv-| rear seat to intervene with the
er~s blazing gun was Derry} bus driver, ~whom he knew,was
Branch, 65-year-old father, whose} armed, in behalf of a Negro
death shocked this city and| boy. The angry bus driver ord
SENATE Ct

ered the age man back to his

TO: WHITEWASH;
SENATOR BILBO -

WASHINGTON. ~ ANP. ~ Alli ity entitling a man to @ chairof the hullabaloo raised over} ~Mamship of important committhe senatorial committee appoin-! tees:may. result in Bilbo retainted to investigate Bilbo may die! ing his seat. in~the senate and
down to a mere zephyr and the| getting a coat: of whitewash in
offender subjected to nothing} spite of his. villifications and
more than a mild slap of the threats against nee in his}
wrist out of the whole affair~! state.

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- DETROIT; Mich. ~ = ipas be are ake a

i Dettelténg entitled ~. to ~ séeial:
beeutity bertefits have been losing the money because they did
not know about
D. Waechter,
Detroit downtown

it,

office,
- ~In fact,~ he said,
~recently.

al law. was changed, ~ effective
January 1. After the ~first of the

Benjamin
Manager of the
said
~the feder
who stops work -beciltibe
Sick. He can ~coll pays
ments for as ie se is ae

si ces

pene eee ae ae. ~Checks don~t ~star omat i. \
cally. You have to make applcation to one of our offices. =

~Under the new law, on Jaf.

whose funeral, attended by mem

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ing day they had be2n demonstrating in front of Legion headquarters, when.he was singled

seat. witnesses said. then fired
two shots at him. One strick him
in the arm, the other pi~rred
his: left jaw. The old mam died
a few days later.

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A joint protest to the city
council by the 19 labor, church,
civic and social organizations

if he even gets that.

Consider -that the
of the committee making
investigation
cloth as Bilbo, Ellender of Louisiara. On February 6, Senator
Ellender made hig views
racial matters clear by assuriitg

year we
ments

ARRESTED FOR CARRYING
CONCEALED WEAPONS
Ecorse ~ Layman Mitchell of
4005 16th Street was arrested.
by officers: Campbell ~and Bobo}.
for carrying concealed See.

chairman
the
is of #the same;

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on
Prior ~to his arrest~ ~Mitchell

retroactive

months for people

know they had any
bas VO i * he

| Said.~ ~arise. ~in. the case

1 we can begin paying retrdéaetively for three months, which
will afford some pcxotection.~~~
Ragan! ag a Also social security pensions
~ oe ~are: based om the amount of tax- -
Tosses. as able earnings, benefits will conpef-| tinue rising gradually for the

can begir making payfor three
who ~didn~t

out and set upon by the mobbists. They knocked him down,
tore. a banner from his hands
and destroyed it, dragged him a
consid2rable. distance, tore his

caused the~ Mayor to appoint an
investigating committee?. which
promises to bring in details on
why bus drivers are armed as
well as om the slaying of the

clothes, and rare him pairrfully.- -

It is because that by California law, more than two men are
considered a mob, and dragging
any one a_ specified distance
turns.a simple -battery case into
a kidnapping, that San Francisco
police.ar: anxiops to capture
-Brown~s attackers. Members of
Brown~s organization~ here reveal that he also plans to sue

aged man, who was~ an Outstanding local citizen.

Beside the NAACR, som2 of
the other organizations protesting Branch~s death are the
Texas Civil Rights congress,
United Citizens for Democracy,
Wnited Negro and Allied veterans, National Maritime union,
local branch; Food and Tobaccolocal 582; Houston Barber~s
association, International Long
interest of every citizen -of - th?
third Ward. to get out and work
for the election of George Friley. If you eannot remember all
that. has be2n said in this article
~then cut it out,~carry it with

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the letter. To do this is to use ond
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the national body of the American Legion for damages. Brown
| took. an active part among the
d2legates to the Security Conference in San Francisco a year
ago.

shoremen association. locals 872,
1271, 1331, 1409 -and 1525; Retail Beer and Merchants association. ard UMW Scottish Rite
Grand. lodge.
Branch~s survivors include a
wife, three grown ~sons, two of
whom arc postal carriers, and
three daughters, one a_ local
schoolteacher. Funeral services
were held at Mt. Zion church.
Nam:2 of the Negro youth with
whom the bus driver was arguing is still umknown, but witmesses say he eScaped unhurt
after the aged man fell mortally
wounded.

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Justice Schreiber~s opinion upheld the right of the church to
try Bishop Sims in the strongest possible language, even going so far as to say that the injustice which Sims had feared
would be dorfe him, is perspective, merely anticipatory
quoting from a previous decision
the judge said ~It is a fundamental rule that even in cases
otherwise warranting judicial
interpostion, the~ courts will not
as a rul2, take jurisdiction unless the complaining ~member has
exhausted such remedy as may
be provided by the laws of the

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had had a fight-with Robert Dalton at which time ~ Dalton was
cut by Mitchell. Mitchell, being
afraid of later being attacked ~by.
Dalton was carrying an umregselpislga~ ~suit, ie prOtcHon gy

his collegues:

~We (in the south) do not attempt to hurt the. colored man,
but we simply make him realize
that the white race is superior;
to the colored Face in every re-.
spect.~: |

weal oo Pes or ty 12 Vet Hospitals
~tf we give the colored peo- Deny Negro Vets
Exceih ~

ple of this nation political equali-|

ty, it will lead to social equality

and social equality will ~lead to

degradation of our race.~ - Recent reports show~ that of
the 12~ Veteran. hospitals which |
deny hospitalization to Negro
vets, except. in extreme emer-;

Ellender made - this statement}
during the month-long filibuster
early in this year in which he,
Bilbo and others. talked the
FEPC to death.:

Ellender agrees with Bilbo~ in
standing against intermarriage.
The Mississippian has written a
book about this and says th?
furore over his primary campaign speeches has given itl >
helpful pubHcity.

Shortly after the Bilbo primary, several Republican senators on the committee expressed
indignation. at. Bilbo~s tactics
and indicated they might join
the movement to bar him: from

veterans.~ Of ~the nearly 10,673:
colored veterans hospitalized in
~other Veteran Administration
hospitals, ds of August 31, 4,379
or nearly 50 per cnt were \re
eeiving care under jim~ crow ~@)n4 ditions.
In an effort to call attention to
Federal and State governmert
officials to the inadequate tr2atment of Negro veterans in
State of Mississippi. a statewide meeting is being called on

ts

th?y said a. satisfactory inquiry
had been started, although they
complained that - the aimed: Stx: Mitton Triton Mieco

Bilbo were vague. _ About Bix Ini ton Silton electrons.

in atendance.

pet Ri: 8 ~be

peurity

ergency,

gency cases, Georgia dnd Mis-}
sissippi have no beds for N2groy.

ae Beal ~hOctober 31. at Central Method-|
he! oe: ist. church, in Jackson, Miss.
abl a iene wa High officials in governmental

ESE MNS Fey ne owev~ts| affairs of state and nation, are

any reason,~ he said,

ensi
are towered iby- the

~When they cease work. for
~they are

eligible. to a ly for social s2 -eae
ae J proyided~ they:. ~ alumip
~THisy don't _ fave to _eetirg tien HY heal rleciro proeesses. ~
sons ~Over 66, who lose their jobs| next 80-odd. years, he pointed bo
becaus2 of illness or any other | out. 1S = a
reasons. =;..PENSION AT ONCE Oarhea 3 alent ~3:

Carbon is an essential ingredlexé
in smelting operations for the |
duction of calcium carbide, ferr@
~alloys:such as ferrosilicon and ferté
ghrome, phosphates, silicon carbidé,

abrasives, iron-ore

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There will be a variety show
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