Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 43]

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1947

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Expected for Boxing Show

~ Once again as. he,.has done | cato, have, won:
SO.;-many times. before,;
+ Singer. has. put together one of | met, last. January..28 ~with Oma
Asher, finest |. boxing shows, that; taking, a close;, But ~falo.. has eyer had the. pri
slashing

vilege~ of seeing. Not~ only. has}est gathernig, ever to watch a
he a top. main bout in bringing professional: fight. in. Buffalo.
~hee Oma here, again to fight Again. last,,September __ they

_ Phil, ~Muscato, but he has, also fought for the second time. and

put on, the same ecard. Allan. Muscata Ww eathered a. last-round
Fantknén, who js~ rated as Buf- attack and.a knockdown by
fito's ~topnotch welterweight.| Oma to take, the, decision. This |

Vie Fistn, along~ with ydclon2=
Williams and ~~Bo Dollar~~ Mil
time they. drew a

9,832 fight fans.

crowd. of

sap also will fight oppoh@nt~filti.* +. ~
not yet named, But, all in lh. it filso appearing on the card
vat) ee ore gbda" fight~ ~afte a an- ~Wil.be Tommy Stenhouse three

other.~
sh ~-sgeeye ~Lee! Orig and Phil Mus: |

tithe main event winner in Syra
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use ~this Ww inter.

EVERYTHING "N-SPORTS ~

feted BOBBY McQUILLAN

Bobby McQuillait' who~ was
+, matched;.hereyrecently tq fight

illie Pep, champion, to only
~have the bout canceled ig still
going great. ~And ~ anxiously
waiting the chance to ' appear

bey

~ grounds. i

~Let's all hope that aA will
be ~given a bout here in the
near, future, as we would like, to see him in action: here once

again.

ROBINSON WINS ATHLETE
~OF THE YEAR HONOR ~

i ae poll ccmediiesadl by. se
~Pittsburgh Courier, here is the
_way that our sepia stars ranked
in the different fields of sporis:
For baseball~Jackie Robinson, Montreal Royals; basketball~Dolly King,. Rochester
| Royals; Negro. baseball~Monty irvin, Newark Eagles and, Negro Me 2tional. League~ batt'ng
chamfion. ~ College football~Levi Jackson;track~Herbert
McKinley; University of Illinois, Broke the 440-yard. record:
Boxing~ Joe Louis. _ Golf~Theodore Rhodes _ of Nashville,
Tenn! Tennis~Jimmy McDaniel of Los Angeles. And last,
but not léast. Jack Marsl4alj for bowling. Rot:, Bobby McQuillan

ten |
idlack | round decisions. here. ~They first

verdict. before |
11,500 fans... This was the larg-.

once again in his old er i

Hamp Starts
Talent Search

NEW YORK ANP ~ Stifl
maintaining the dynamic lead
in setting the trends in modern
music, Lionel Hampton, the
trail blazing band maestro whose
inféctuous swing has captivated
the ~nation, is launching a new
~search for musical talent among
coll<te students throughout
the country. Mr. Hampton announcéd last week that he imtends to give selected applicants
with a musical background~
preferably girls ~ an opportunity to. audition for ~the soloist
post. in his band.

Also, male musicians between
the ages of 18 and 25 are
sought by Hampton, violirtists
included. This move is part of
a long range program planned.
by the maestro to keep his aggregation in the lead as an all
around musical outfit, composed
of the best equipped instrumentalists and singers.

Mr, Hamptor is noted for his
attitude toward young musici.1s
and for his program featuring

nation-wide basis which has netted several youngsters opportunities to display their musical
wares before the public.

All applicants are réquested to
send photos, musical background
~information, etc.,. with their
applications to Lionel] Hampton,
4019 Vincennes Avenue, Chicago 15, 11.

MEDICAL DATA

By Dr. J. A. Thornton

YOUNG ON DRAFT LIST OF
LOS ANGELES DONS
Although Buddy Young,i
gible for.the draft since four ye
into college, the league regul
the~r intentions for Young,

18 still: a sophomore, he was eliars ave passed since his entrance
With the Dons declaring
it was ebvinds tHat the conference
24 Lea. At the beginning, of att pie Apes
intent; ~ons of granti ng tryouts to Negro players*in 1947 and th
interest. in [i inois~ Buddy Young was apparently indicative of
an attempt to carry out, this promise. The Los Angeles Rams
have~ two sepie stars, Kenny Washing: on and Woody Strode.
Young has tw more years. of.school to complete, and Has
made no declaration as to entering professional football. ~

One Jailed, Another Storstiened
Over Mock H tanging Incident,

aticn

Saturday ~igh om ~APL: 2 This writer is,- eager to say
an ra: ba pialy: te | | that y sinee (its is~ ~atl } ~Atnerican
oes nee aXD Cr~: ~pre "custom to express pub ic sen
and Mr. Gar- | | timent through various forms

aro ee ick yd up on the. pub-| of Public demonstrations, Jack

ic square 2 by. detectives who -al- | | Corkan is not ~ih violatio f the
legedly was tipped off: by. Cork- ppovtt
ran~s mother. _Corkran, oe rte mt vod 203 fe is oc clic
ried to headquarters inthe. wage |}
on, and Garner was asked also |
to go to: headquarters for questioning after Corkran was cayried to headqu 3.2 3
released thor Kae

while Corkran wast still, i
It appears SHAR? 2 a7 mais

He must be supported: by. the
NAACP, FOL,: and UCC.-- Not
merely -because these. are! Ne| Sro,. organizations,, but because:
young Corkran. has become,
single handed, the. champion -of |;
_ their cause. Sureiy, the mem-'
bers of these civic and racial or-~
Jack Corkran was incling o | ganizations~ are nor in love with
hang Bi sei: baal td i Bilbg
single-hande Is Mow +g es- |
tablished fact that. his -follow- |
~rs, or the members of the AYD

they are declgrion to., the
world. that they: are if they
are, the least. bit reluetant about
rushing to. the. assistartce. of
Jack Corkran: This, writer predicts that if they don't release
him by Monday, Jan. 6th, they
can expéct an effective redress.

cy) he has been elected to. lead,
gave him the run-out or some-:
thing of the ~sort: They did not
80 aS a unitéd body to -hang
Bilbo, and it is believed, by
this writer that thet were~ ~ittle concernsd.. with the affair.
Nevertheless, it must be adMitted that. Jack Corkan. Wes

There is one cOneern, ahd one
y-eoncetn ~only'.that ~might prevent these organizations from
taking any patt in trying: to

Son, the Dons declared their |}

| lated *over'~a period of eight to
ten days, and kept under OobSer- |
MUMPS

Mumps is-a specific virus: att
fection characterized by inflamation and swelling of the parotid and other salivary glands,
situated.near the ear. This dis-. easa is called a
childhood ~ dis~ease because -thea
majority of cases are between
the ages of 21
to fifteen, the
young adults: are
frequently in~ fected _ between
B th eages of 21
and 31,~ very
rare are the cas~Dr: Thornton es in older peoiple.

There has peeh a number of
cases in our vicinity in the past
three months, as in most diseases the complications are to
~be: looked into, this is true in
cases of.mumps infections.
Mumps is:.as ~prevalent among

girls as boys, one attack is sup- |:

posed to confer: immunity, but
there has been second and third
attacks reported
~patient.! This disease is~ spread
iby direct contact and is contagious before -the.symptoms | appear, the patient Should be isp
vation for at least thirty days
after the infections because of
the danger of complications.
Rest in bed during this time.
There is a rise in temperature,
the complications - are: great
prostration (exhaustion), ~ wild
delirium or a comatose state resembling uremia (toxic condition of the blood), otitis media
(infection of the middle ear(,

born with a spirit to lead, and
this writer; predicts that he will
grow,to, become: known. Jack
Corkran~: wes determined tc
hang, Bilbo:

One. thing is ~certain, and that

gain Young Corkran~s release,
and that is his mother.~ If she
does not wart h~m out of jail, |
these organizations cannot obtain his ert He is 2 juvenie,

would not have the operating
support of the UCC., FOL, arid
NAACP.: This he was told by the
executives of these organizations about three wéeks before
the ~Bilbo demonstration was
attempted to take place. How~ver,: Jack Corkan, believing in
he AYD treed, which in part
~ to fight all racial disad- |

vantages,decided that the time
Was ripe for the hanging of Ol
race.bating. Bilbo: ~He implied
Writer that he was going

BoNer Hearings

More than 30 million complete bab
and roller bearings were made each
month during the last two war years
ty the snti-friction bearing manvtacturers for U. S. military equip
ment. Approximately 190 million,
-ball and roller bearings of all types
were made during the last war Sear
~or U. ~Ss ymilitary afreraft atone

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Big Lifetnais

Each of the superliner Queen
~Elizabeth's lifeboats holds 145 pér- }
sons, more than the total passengers on the Brittania, first Cunard
steamer.:

~

1444 E. Ferry.

~ res

menigitis, pneumonia, and in
the older men there is danger
o, orchitis, where both testicles

the audition of new talent on a!

in the same}

- com any. Harry Wagstaff

~1. the lower left and lower right is

This is the new play all theatre-goers have been waiting to see;
~the play starring the radiant
Hilda Simms with Frederick |
O'Neal and Earl Hyman, all of |
the origina! ~~Anma_ Lucasta~~

Gribble is the author, the same
Mr. Gribble who directed the
New York company of ~ ~Anna ~
Lucasta~ for its two year run at.
the Mansfield Theatre. ~~~A Lady |
Passing Fair~ concerns a number of exciting, dramatic and
modern-day-adventures amiably
~concocted by Mr. Gribble with
the intent of capturing these unexcelled performers that their
eager public may see them in
their first new play since ~Anna
Lucasta~. After a brief -preBroadway tryout, ~A Lady Passing Fair~, under the production
banner of Henri Leiser, will arrive on a New York stage in
late January.

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In the upper left hand corner is to ~
be discovered that stirring little
actress, Hilda Simms, the girl about
whorti the dramatic critics could not
~find enough fine things to say when
~ she burst upon the theatrical horizon
~in ~Anna Lucasta~ two years ago.
She is now appearing in ~A Lady
Passing Fair~, co-starred with Frede. |
rick O'Neal, who is to be seen in
the upper right hand~ corner. Earl
Hyman, also of the original American Negro Theatre~s productiom of
~*Anna Lucasta~, is to-be found at

Richard Angarola, featured in ~A
Lady Passing Fair~ and a well--

nown - iciani,
known actor-musician ANP

ARTISTS

SIGN UP. WITH ABOLLO

"NEW: YORK, (iPS)~Mahalia Jackson. celebrated art'st + and. official ~soloist of the National Baptist convention and her manager. Johnny Meyers, are shown above ~
their contract with Apollo Records. Hy Siegel, President of Apollo Records is the suave
gentleman seated at the right.

oman ee |

i am in ae ind.
visiting my father and mother
in-law for the holidays and I

ar2 involved may cause sterility (inability~ to produce children), this happens in twenty five |
percent of the cases and is rare
before puberty.

This disease is difficult to
trace and eradicate, most cases
are in the sprivg and autumn.

MAN IN HOSPITAL HELD
BY POLICE

Earl Harris, alias Earl Harrison, was. stabbed irr the left
chest Jan. 6 by Eddie Clark at

He is ~héld as police prisoner
at the Receiving Hospital on the
charge of investigation as @
fugitive of the Kansas City, Mo.

might say that so far | have
had a dery enjoyable visit.

While _here_
in this - city I
am planning:
on doing some
investigating. I
was informed
by a colored
maa, who was
tefused me rchandise in a
business _ place.
He asked the
manager why
Le was refused

and the mana- ee Botnet
ger informed him that his face

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was the wrong color.

That:

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cuncreaetagesteneeeeneeeseneennineenTTUTTE spirit of intolerance is~ spread- kind and he really set us an ex
ing all over the United States.
it is indeed very sad.

If every citizen would stop
and study the birth of Jesus,
i|closely when the Angel sa.d,
~behcld for I bring you good
tidings, peace and good will on
earth toward all men.~ If we
would follow this quotation
how happy everyone would
be. in one of the scriptures in
the. Bible it reads where the
~ountries that didn't treat all
of its citizens right. according
to their civil rights, they soon
fell and great was the fall.
King Pkaroh practiced discrimination also with the = Is-,
raelites the sare as the white
people are now practicing it
with the Negro people. King

Pharoh was destroyed in th:
Red Sea.:

Christian people shouldn't
have hate in their hearts to
ward any. race of people, but
above all they should love all

races. Jesus taught his dis
ee

ameny.

ciples the brotherhood of man
RECORDS.

~inking~~

ample to follow in his footsteps. The only way to abate
Jim-Crowism is to pyactice
what we advocate in America,
DEMCCRACY or perhaps
should say equal rights to all
citizens.

ho

So many of our officials and |

ministers forget that God he!p;
ts to treat other people as we

| ZERO MOSTEL, AVON LONG, Mildred Smith, Jet Macdon
| words of these songs which combine to mike a musical mo3~ac:

| to take over where.the late MAJOR BOWES began.

aranessessunsnnenceeatananecesnneasoszueneenosaennecesnageeeemieinbetendieetinn T

Nite Life in New York
By ALVIN MOSES - | sa 3
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NEW YORK~(ANP)~Broadway ctitics Were lavig:i in
their praise of the DUKE ELLINGTON,,~ JOHN LATOUC HE
dréssed up BEGGAR'S HOLIDAY which ve its predate at
the Breadway Theater Thursday Det: 26. - / An unusually br'E
ljant musical in the American idiom presented by JCHN
SHEPPARD Jr., and PERRY WATKINS, it stars one of the
~Gay White Way's~ most gifted sirigers)s ALFRED DRAKE,

is

ald and sauce MARIE BRYANT.

that pert-laughmaker. who
gets in your blood. a

The all-important (box office matter of tempo and timing combine to make this musical the hest on New York's popular street of theaters and a musical that compares with the finest of the past quarter-century. The Ellington songs ar> the
liitting, movjng sort that keep you humming inside whils the
dance numbers sparked by incomparable Avon Long of ~~Paf- 5
gy end Bess~ fame, leaves absolutely nothing the be desi:ed in
thazt department.
sive R~alto where great singers are, in the vernacular, ~a rere
a dozen.~ He sings with enthusiasim and actually niake s you

-Alfred Drake is a name to conjure with along this expanremember the singer~as well as the lovely songs you ve. been
galed wih. John LaTouche has-woven a tapestry into the

that further adds to the imperishable fame of Latouche and
Kennedy, the fatter name, of course, being the Christian name
of Duke Ellingten. The lusty and falstaffian antics of ZERO
MOSTEL, leave said and blase Metropolian first nigh! -rs. of e
the theater breathless indeed. The musical year of 1947 hos

béen ushered in wit!: a smash hjt but~defin~tély.

DAWN PATROL NOTEBOOK: Muriel Gaines, cn oak
leaf browntowned vision of joveliness, appeared on the Ar hur
Godfrey zariy program one morning before 46 bowed c::t irt!o
the limbo that is forgotten years, There~ most of us Tearacd
that the current star of nitespot REUBEN BLEU, in m ~dtown
New, in an alumrius of the Godfrey radio offering whic~, tends

How my friend Murjel warbled that catchy ditty ~Tae
Lass with the Delicate Air,~~ was not only 4 caution to behold
but to listen to avidly as she sang the compléte score to thunderous applause.....Girls; dike,this splendid artist are no! found ~
each morning in. this work-a-day world, believe me reaczrs. __.

The New York Evening Journal has a story dh the mad=4p
of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley,~luscious EVA TANGUAY,
this writer would wager all he possesses that no mention will pe
made of her undying friendship and devotion for the dlayker~skinned member of that all-time musical comedy duo known as

WiLLIAMS AND WALKER.

Thanks; JIM McCARTHY, | press: -felatigntd> etcout~ ve, lex
the reléases sent me in re: Buddy Johnson's~ present: tion of
his FINE BROWN FRAME contest finals held Friday ni >, Dee.
27, at Golden Gate Ballroom, more than 150 striking jookiz=z
damsels competed in wkat promis+s to be an annual af air..~.
GEORGE'S BAR-B-Q staged a nice ~eabatet party at beutiful - _
CLUB SUDAN, three night before Néw Year whist cd in.
Some of the stars appearing on the bill we are able to | st fer
you: Madelyn and Winnie Brown of Lionel Hampto::~ s ork:
Dusty Fletcher; Deep River Boys, from.Cafe Zanzibar; the {amous Zanzibeauts,"~ one of the most discussed chorus lines on
Broadway; Claude Hopkins, noted bandsman who di a 9
of ennouncing also; Betty Mays, of Club 845. the girl y-jth ~~
swell gams: Ludie Vodery, the beauty from ~Pink Angel Cafe~ 2
Ida James, representing Henry Armstrong's ~ Melody I~ eae
and other cafe So~iety beadlinérs from Joe Wells; Ran dvips
Shalimar Musical Bar: Jock~s Melody Room; Diamond {B:
Rose) Hozechoe; end other niteries.
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE, sometimes called Ute: ver 4
pél-cabaret hybrid of song, came in for a spjel in. pv ~plisher. -
Powell's A! RDAM NEWS. a fortnight ago. Sugg> 3 that
you borrow your reishbor~s copy and run your orbs across the
chatter-platter;-;.. HENRIETTA LOVELACE. she of the
fetching smile, sweet voice and eye-filling coiffure, was heard in
a concert program at the SALCATION ARMY RED SHIELD.
NEIGHBORHOCD HOUSE Dec. 27, the first~ of a series ~of
cultural programs for this rehabilitation soul-foundry. We've
already te'd you at length about Miss Lovelace~s TOWN HALL
CONCERT come February. Try and be there for hers is truly
one of Americla~s great voices.

_ ROLE'N: SMITH, who sing ~The Last Time | Siw
Paris~ in better voice than any of the great baritones I've lie -

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tened to duting rast 20 years, ~and Dorothy (Dot) Johnson are
also membe: ~s of the cast of * ~Beggar s Holiday.~ =
Business Blossoms at White =~
Ballroom When Color Bars Drop: _LOS ANGELES ~ ANP ~ holds a 14 year lease o> Be

Business was pocr at the Avod- property.

wish to be treated. No one desirés to be mistreated. Don't
mistreat other people.

No person in business has
any legal right to refuse to sell
merchandise to any person on
account of their religious faith
er color.

| know of a company in the
State of Nebraska that wouldn't accept pennies. An FBI
agent tried and they refused to
accept therm. It cost this particular corasany $1,500 for refrsinz to accept American
If => had a comm'tise @-ch a- t's in every city to
take care.c; ~-ch cases, prosecute the said offenders,

/

this!

Only relief the Avodon proprietor experienced was the
prospect of selling the baliroom
to Eddie (Rochester) And2son
for a reported $400,000. Anderson evinced. interest by meking
several visits to the Avodori st
week to appraise the situation. ~
He is representing an all-Negro
syndicate, which plans to c9nvert the ballroom into a stra~ ght
policy Negro nitery.

on ballroom until r~cently when |
Count - Basie~s band moved ir
~and the management dropped
the color bars. The Avondon is
now enjoying the greatest pros| perity of all local dance spots.
| Jack Rogers, the owner, spent
an estimated $285,000 to decorate the Avodorr and up to the
arrival df Basie faced a $600,
weekly rental- with a handful
of white customers. Z Rogers

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colored race from thisir consti
tutional rights and make Amer
ica a real democracy. oan =us
advocate this doctrine in

tice not only in name.

netion wogs be much better
Off.

l am appealing té our min~sters to have a delegate from
every faith to file a_ protest
against the depriving of the: