Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 33]

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~BETHEL MEMBERS:

CONFIDENT OF
WINNING SUIT

DE: ROIT, Mich. ~ APNS~

On Friday; October 25, Judg?
Thomas Murphy dismissed the
Injunction which the Officers of
Bethel had~ obtained against Rev.
J. A. Dames. The action resulted from the susp2nsion cf fourteen Officers by Rev. Dames.
The Officers who have made
terrific sacrifices for Beth?: from
15 to 40 y2ars are sure they
are not guilty of mothing that
calls for suspension.

QUARTERLY CONFERENCE

Our Pastor is. King in our
church with almost unlimited
power. He has the power to appoint all officers and name Trus,
tees. He also has the power to
Stispend all of these for certain
things uhtil the n?xt Quarterly
Conference. But our Quarteriy
Conference is ro haven of Justice. Our last Quarterly Conference where Edward Rodgers,
Trustee for twenty-five years was
mobbed and persecuted, was the
worst disgrace ever seen in Bethel Church.

Presiding Elder R. F. Washington -was an absolute Dictator. He ruled like Hitler. Violated the laws of the Church
and denied m?mbers the right
to talk, make motions and ask
questions. ~

While the Officers must face
the~ Quarterly Conference made
up of members appointed by the
Pastor, they do rrot hope to find
in it the Spirit of Love or Justice.

FORCED INTO COUR!1

Bishop Gregg is
for the awful mess at

Bethel.

responsible

He could have settled it in one
hour and saved the church. We
will always worder why he refused to do such a thing for a
church that has done so much
for him and the connection.

Appeals were made to the
Pastor and to the Presiding El,
der. Three Hundred membezs
sent Bishop Gregg telegrams
asking him to com? to Bethel.
He never answerec cne. The
fourteerr officers out of seventeen signed a tel@gram aSking
Bishop to come, and he did not
even reply. Other letters, resolutions and committees were sent
to Bishop Gregg and until now
has ignored all of them. Fourteen Officers out of seventeen

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signed a letter to Bishop Fountain, the Senior Bisnop, and he
never answered. So after being
denied every opportunity in the
Church, after being absolutely
ignored amd. mistreated by the
leaders, ministers and_ bishops,
what else could the officers do
except turn to the courts.

If the Bishop would rather
talk to the Judge than the mem,
bers of Bethel, it is his privilege. For one hundred five years
Bethel has stood like ~a -lighthouse in Detroit and she deser
ves to be saved at any rost and
sacrifice,

TO SUPREME COURT

Can on? man be Judge, Prosecutor amd Jury and Indict, Con,
viet and Sentence a man without giving him a fair chance to
defend himself éven in the

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Respectfully Solicits
Your Support

BE SURE TO VOTE

NOV. 5

shurch. Is the ~law: o. ~fthe
Church abové- the Constitution
of the United States.

We believe every American is
absolutely guaranteed some
rights that rot even the church
can take away from him. Hitlers in.church who Sentence
people without a just and fair

trial ought to be stopped at any
cost.

| tions involved in Bethel~s troub
righteous fight.
must ultimately save or destroy
the AME Church. ~
| The questions now &plitting
the AME Bishops _and calling
for a Special General Conference
~in Little Rock with grave con,
sequences for our ~future.

The questions are sure to be

demand the amswers before it is
too late. Lets have a reformation
and save our connection. A
Revolution will surely kill it.
When the Officers appeal2d the
caSe to Michigan Supreme Court
they are looking for answers to
help save the church.

now is the time to show it in
courage, sacrifice amd hard work.
Now is the time to show. it by
standing up like real men and
women and fighting for everything that is right and dec2nt in

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~THE FLINT SPOKESMAN.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1946

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_ | Georgia Schools

ATLANTA ANP Out
of the $4,408,000 allotted by the
state of Georgia to 16 colleges
during the last fiscal year, two
N:gro colleges, Fort Valley and!
Albany, receiv2d less than $250,000, it was revealed by State
Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Hs last
week.

Fort Valley State college received $131,439 and Albany State
college received $105,593 in net
allotment. Their total allotment
amounied to about one-twentieth
of the $4,408,000 given all the
institutions of higher learning.

The various colleges took: in
$4,376,011 in fees, tuition, board
~making a grand total income
for the system of $8,792,874, including $8,863 ir gifts.

The board of régents spent
$25,000 paying tuition for Negro2s at graduate schools outside
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members of the African M2:h
j charges. While the trial was in

~cepted~ the service and his usual

MAN DIES
DETROIT, Mich. ~ APNS ~
Mri, Horace Carter, aged 61,
of 1564 Brewster Street paid
the debt that we all must pay
a few nights ago.

Mr. Carter was a long time
citizen of Detroit, had many
~relativés and friends to mourn
his passing.

our Church...
Signed:

James A. Murphy, Aaron C.
Toodle, Chas. Ward, Ernest W.
H. Johrrson, Alfred L. Watkins,
Wm. E. Boone, M. L. Spears,
Elam Dudley, J. C Cushing,
Robzrt Washington, Stampp Willis, Theodore T. Jones, John Artis, Edward Rodgers.

Bishop Sims Still Battles for
Chee to Win His Trial

Bishops, ministers; laity ard
odist Episcopal Church, gather3d in Cincinnati to try Bishop
David Sims on 4 number of

progress, a United States Marshall enter2?d and served papers
on Bishop Ransom ard the trial
committee, staying, temporarily,
court proceedings. Bishop Sims
and his battery of lawyers had
gone-~into Federal District Court
of Southern Ohio and secured a
temporary injunction from Judge
Mell Underwood, returnable ir
ten days. Bishop RansOm_ ac
calm and cultured manner,
thanked the Marshall but told
Bishop Sims that ~You are but
delaying thee day when the
wrath of the African Methodist,
Episcopal Cnurch will descend
on you im destructive form.~
Th?reupon ten of the Bishops
presest, in person or by proxy,
adopied a resolution declaring
that Bishop Sims was in rebel
Non against the AME Church

and representing, as they did, a
two-thirds majority of the total
numb; of bishops, vacated Bish,
op Sim~s positiorr as Bishop over the first Episcopal district
and appointed two of their number to take charge of administration of work, pending the call
of the general conferenc2 in
November, 1946, at Little Rock,
Age, 2 Sat

Bishop S. u. Green was assigned to~preside over Philad2lphia,
Delaware and Nova Scotia: corr
ferences. Bishop R. R. Wright}:

was assigned to preside over
~New J2rsey, New England, and
Bermuda _ conferences, together
with New York, to which he had
been - previously assigned.

It is not quite char where
next, Bishop Sims will take: the
church in order to avoid:a trial.
Churchmert everywhere would
like to know what the trapped
bishop hopes to gain in fl2eing
from one court to another. The

~found floating ina bayou two

(MISSISSIPPI JURY FREES ~
WHITES IN LYNCHING OF NEGR

LEXINGTON, Miss. ~ ANP~ the theft of a saddle from Jeff

After only 10 mirfutes of deliberations, the Holmes county jury
found five white men ~innocent~
last week of manslaughter
charges in: the lynching of a
Negro farmhand, Leorr McAtee,
whose beaten body ~had been

ays after he had received ~a
few licks~ as admitted by one
of the defendants.

McAtee had been charged with

Dodd, a cotton planter; and had
beer~ released into Dodd's~ ~custody when the charge,jwas withdrawn. Two days later, July 24,
McAtee~s body was found float
ing in a bayou. During the trial

Dodd. testified. that | McAtée
~made a break at. me ahd I hit
him.~ He added that th others
~hit him a few licks, I think,
but I was so excited I don~t
know.~ McAtee, he Said, had

broken away and run off.

Campbell Sits In
On UN Confab; -
Byrnes Gives OK

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~-One
of th2 few Ameriecans,- other
than official -U. Sv. representatives, to sit in on -the Paris
Peace conference sessions was

bishop~s tactics maybe good legal
procedure but it certainly is
poor Christian beheavor.

White Girl Changes Story~

[it~s White Killers Now!

SAVANNAH, Gi. ~ ANP ~
Tt:2 white theater usherette, who
previously declared two NeNegroes killed her escort and
attacked her, changed her story
last week.

Twe2nty-one-year old Betty
DeLcach told police that the
slayers were two white youths
who lived next door to her
home.

Anthony Elixson, 22 year-old
white city fireman, was slain on
the night of Aug. 7. His body
was found in an automobile on

a lonely road near here. The girl

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groes involved in the case and
a wide pdlice search resulted,

but. changed after. police beeame~, suspicious
So.icitor General Andrew J.

Ryans, Jr., said white girl declared she had withheld identification of the two youths becaus: thty had threatened tc
kill her if she informed police
of their identity.

The white girl~s identification

investigation by Ryan, police
and G~orgi2 Bureau ef Investigation agents. 3

~Ryan said the girl identified
the youths, both about 20 years
and told about the same

iated at first. In her first version
she said two Negro2s approached the car in~ which she and
Elixson were seated about 1 a.
m. One of the men forced Elixson to walk down the road while
the other ~held her i mthe car.

subsequeritly declared two Ne
of the two followed 10 weeks of

Charles M.. Cafnpbell, ~ ~servicemen~s secretary of the Harlem
-branch YMCA, who recently re-turrred here after a tnree month
stay in Europe. Campbell, in
telling of his experience, gives
U. S. Secretary of State James
F. Byrnes credit for seeing to it
that he had a chance ~o look
~nm on the cinference.

It all happened during Camp~beil~s two and one half weeks
stay in the French capita!. One
day he recognized Sery Byrnes
on the street with an unidentified

sire to see what the conference
was like, he approached the state
secretary and evinced an interest in the meeting. Byrnes is

She said there was a shot and
she was then dragged from the
car and attacked twice by edeh
man.

The solicitor said the white
youth denied any conn?ction
with the killing. Ryan said, however, that evidence gathered by
officers pointed toward.one of
the youths before the girl made
the identification.

After her statement, the girl
was returned to jail where she
is being held for medical treat
companion. Prompted by a de- |:

said to have paused long =nough
to ask where Campbell ~lived in
America and then refeyred him
to the American headquarters
with instructions to~say that ~Mr.
Byrnes s?2nt me.~.

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light of the first anniversaly
~meeting with the Central Chrigtian- Churgh and the United
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The s2rmor was delivered by

Rev. Charnels with R: L. Jat

dan officiating. The United

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