Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 44]

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BELL MOUNTAIN'S

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-.. By Hildergrade Level
(Hildergard Level is a young
Hollywood writer whose articles appear in such magazines as
~ CORNET and READER~S
SCOPE..
Behind a lonely bell-shaped
mountain in the Mojave deser'
of California, a Negro settlemert has grown, and while de
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TO SING AT A. & T. COLLEGE

~Roland Hayes, International-ly- known simger, will sing to
students and friends of A. and
T. College, Greensboro, N. C.,
on January 30.

Mr. Hayes has the distinction
of performing ~ before King
George and Queer~ Mary of England

5 ~A~ Alabama
High Schools

BIRMINGHAM ~ ANP -
The Rosedale High school of
Homewood was given ~A~ rat
ing in a recent meeting of the
Southern Association of Celleges and Secendary_ schools,
thus bringing up to five the
number of ~A~ rated Negro
high - schools -in. Alabama. According to the 1945-46 release,
the other, ~A~ rated schools as
State Teachers College Laboratory High School, State A. &
M. High School department, Mobile County Training school,
Snow Hill institute, and Drewry
Practice High school of Talladega.

Commenting upon the artnouncement, Principal
Montgomery expressed the hope
that this added recognition will
be reflected in an improvement
of the instructioral services of
the.School, Already plans are
being made for extensive work
In audio-visual education, remedial reading, and health education.

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MAGIC FORMULA

veloping discovered the weight
and effect of unity.

The settlenvent, nested against
Bell Mountain, fies five miles
beyond Victorville, the post. village of San Bernardine. Each
family owns a piece of land ard
is in the process of building a
home. Some have erected just
one room. In there they sleep
end cook and eat and entertain.

structure and completed two
er three rooms inside. The womon kocn- house, tend the chieckens and the cattle. The men
work in town and do the build
ling at the end of the week. It~s

slow gning.

No one owns~ electric lights.
nor a sewcr system. There is
no water. The water must he
hauled from town. To dig a
well costs $1.000 or more. No one
eM afford that much. The struggle for the simplest needs is as
hard as that*of the old-time
pioneers,,

The settlers reach their homes
by a bumpy trail. In spite of individual pleading, the
would not build a road nor send
the school bus for the childrer.
The land around the settlement
is wild ard beautiful. It seems
untouched. Space stretches wide
and clean and. endless. Mountains loom purple in the distance.

One day,one of the settlers
had a bright idea. ~Why don~t
we form a club?~~ he said. ~~They
cant ignore us if we act together.~ The idea was quickly
taker up. The same night the
club was formed: and named
Bell Mountain District Improvement association.

The families met once a week
and each took turns at playing
host. The one and _ two-room
cabins bulged with people. They
sat on floors amd windows sills
én 1 crowded into narrow hallways. At first nobody knew
how properly to conduct a meet:
| ing. But on one was the) least
concerned By the light of a
fimsy coal oil lamp they sat
to work wth eagerness. A secretary. tock the minutes. The
chairmayy, silencéd the noise with
a hammer. Questions were raised and voied upon, suggestions
made and n otions pas.~ed. In thea
process of doing, they learned
fst.

A fuai was co:4ed. With
part of the money they bought
a well rig. Mutualiv owned, 11
goes from home io. heme, ant
soon eacr wil low:r his weit.

They pian to rent a tractor
next and plow a road across the
derest into Victorville. This wav
they aim to prove to the county their need for a road. And
they hope that the county svill
follow their lead by finishing
up the job with asphalt.

They have filed a petition, requesting rural electricity. It

beside proper lighting. the use
of.all electric tools, and, the
housewifes drudge-reliever, a
washing machine.; One of the women invited the

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DROPPED
FOR AID
TO BILBO

By Roscoe Dunjee

OKHAHOMA CITY ~ANP~
Oklahoma Negroes, who have
been supporting Senator Elmer
Thomas for~ years, are shocked
to know that the man who supported anti-lynching legislation
and FEPC would suddenly sink
in the gutter of reaction with
Bilbo. for this is precisely what
Senator Thomas did when he
joined the senate filibuster last
week.

I think I am safe in saying
thare- is not a black voter in
Oklahoma who would today
cast his vote for Senator Thomas. There is mothing in the political drug store that can ever
get the serfior Oklahoma senator
well with the Negroes in the
Sooner state. We know _ that
when Thomas supports Bilbo he
supports -murder, terrorism and
disfranchisement in its. vilest
form. We know that he condones a confessed bribe - taker,
whose hands are dripping with
guilt as were the harfds of Pontius Pilate with the blood of
Christ,

Frankly I do not think Thomas
plans to offe rhimself to the
voters.of Oklahima again. Thousands of liberal whites in this
state are enraged at his action,
and I personally know he was
smothered with telegrams from
members of both races, asking
him to take a stand for decent
government. We're: all wondering what there is in Mississippi
in which Senator Thomas finds
interest.

Wife of Ohio
Senator Dies

CLEVELAND ~ ANP ~ The
wife of Atty. Harry E. Davis,
elected last year as the first
Negro in the Ohio senate. for
55 years, died here last week
at Cleveland.clinic after a
year~s illness. ~Funeral services
were held last Thursday..

The former Louise Wormley.
she was a member of the family of Washington, D. C., which
operated the Wormley hotel.
After graduation from Howard
university, she taught school
before: her marriage to Atty.
Davis in 1917.

Mrs. Davis made large contributions in time and money to
the Cleveland Society for the
Blind and the NAACP. She was
reported completing payment on

-econd life membership in the
latter organizetion at. the time
of her death.

children of the community t6
spend their Saturday mornings
in her home. She teaches them
how to paint and draw and
make lampstands of discarded
kitchen jars. The children love
it.

A settler donated a piece of
his land on which to build a
community center. The people
gladly chip in with the labor
and money for the material.
They are looking forward to hav
ing a place where they carf comfortably hold their meetings and
celebrate weddings and _holidays. oe

The settlers beleaguered the
town again with pleas to send
the bus for their children. This
time, however, the pleas came
from the united families. One
morning, when the surf was still
behind Bell Mountain, the bus
drove up. A load of little children went to school. Their mothers smiled, contended. The magic
formula had worked.

~ure, Liberia made possible the

Cincinnati Citizens

Seek to

Oust Police Chief, In Effort to
Curb Brutality to Race

CINCINATTI ~ ANP~ Drazstic reforms in the local police|.
department have been proposed
to hait police brutality toward
Negroes. ~

Tracing the responsibility for
the anti-Negro attitude of white
police. officers here to Chief
of Police Eugene C. Wheatherly. whom Negroes regard ~as -an
erremy, citizens of both races are
seeking his ouster. The local
NAACP branch has proposed a
complete change of the police
trial board.

Under the present system, a
citizen has all odds against him
in appearing before the board
against a police officer because
high police officers serve as
judges at the secret hearings.
Civilians serve as judges, with
only one.police official included,
the NAACP recommended,

Another NAACP recommendation includes a course of in--
service training for all police
officers ir race relations and a

revised system of handling civil

rights complaints.

The case of Nathan Wright
Je, secretary of the West Cincinnati-St. Barnabas. -Church~s
Neighborhood house,
focus much unfavoravte attention om the police department.
Wright was picked up by two
detectives while carrying a typewriter from the church to the
Néighborhocd housa last Nov.
27. The detectives abused him
verbally, the NAACP reported.
2alling. him names~ and threatened to place the Rev. Maupriee
~or, under arrest for attempting

ntify Wright, i

City Marager Wilbur R. Kellogg~s report on Wright's case
was labeled a ~~whitewash~~ by
Jesse D. Locker, a councilman,
when it was submitted to the
city council. Upon a motion by
Locker, NAACP recommeénda
~tions to change police procedure
~was heard Monday, with plans
-to put into execution some

of
suggestions at an early date.

NCNW Office Workers Get Union
Representation; Hails Move

WASHINGTON ~ ANP ~Of.fice workers of the National
Council of Negro woman will
have union represenrtatisn from
now on, it was disclosed here
last Monday with the announcement that Mrs. Mary McLeon
Bethune in a spirit of readiness.
sented to recognize UOPWA as

official representative of council workers in contract negotiations.

Empioyes announced their ao
sire to form a union shop by
presenting Mrs. Bethune, in her
capacity as chairman of the ex:
ecutive cOmmittee, with a contract agreement shortly before
Christmas. Previously, there had
been reported hints gf friction
among the all-women orkers.
and later reports had it that|

all difficulties had been smooth
ed out.
Viewing this move as a step
forward, Mrs. Bethurre told of
~fice workers that this is an im
portant moment. I can see great
ly why you would want a un-|

ion in this office. It is in line
with what people are doing
everywhere, so you find Mrs.
Bethune n a spirit of réadirress.
Through the years, the council
has made attempts to set up a
personne] policy and establish a
businesslike relation here in our
office. Now with the union, we
are growing up. A union is just
commor sense,

Mrs. Mame Mason Higgins of
Chicago is executive secretary
and office. manager of. the
council.

Liberia Signs IRO Constitution;
~ioht Nations to Sign Agreement

LAKE SUCCESS, NY.
ANP ~ Liberia became the 8th
United Nations member
ify the constitution of the internatiorfal Refugee organization
last Thursday when Atty. Gen.
C. Abayomi Cassell ~appended
his signature in behalf of the
Liberian government on the document. In approving the meas
creation of IRO~s preparatory
commission. which will be charged mainly with effecting the establishment of the- permanent
body.

Originally, plans called for the
permanent group to take ovér
the function of UNRRA when
that organization ceases its welfare program rfext June _ 30.
However, it is not believed that
it will be ready to operate by
that time, because certain financial obligations have not been
assumed by member countries.

In the interim, the preparatory commission headed by Secretary-Genéral Trygve Lie of
Liberia, will confine itself to
formulating plans for IRO~s
first year of work, appointing
an executive secretary, and at
its discretion, take over essential programs dealing with refugees and displaced persons
from existing agencies.

Before the main body can actually take over, the constitutiory must be approved by 15 nations, whose combined contributions total 75 per cent of the or
to rat- |.

ganization~s operating costs, set

for the first year at sie 051,000.
The eight signers ~ United

States, Canada, France, Guatemala, Dominican Republic,
Philippine Republic, Honduras

and Liberia represent nations contributing less than. 54
per cent of the costs. United
States has a quota of 45.75;
Canada, 3.5; France 4.1; and
the. remainder. much smaller
shares.

One of the remairing seven
who have not yet signed ig the
United Kingdom, which has the
second largest quota, 14.75 per
cent, Britain~s failure to sign
was attributed largely to lastminute rushes to wind up the

seven-week session, The empire,

however, has repeatedly. indicated its willingness to sign up.
Other countries include China
with 2.5 per cent; Soviet Union
4.69; Sweden, 2.5; Belgium,
per cent;
spread between Brazil, Norway
and Ecuador.

Ex-GI ~Poor
Man~s Friend

MANILA, P. I. ~ANP ~ A
Negro ex-GI,who has become
a prospérous businessman since
his discharge from. the armed
forces, has won a ~warm spot in
the hearts of local. Filipinos:

Dr, Dunbar McLaurin, the exGI, is an executive of Oriental
pictures as well as -maraging
director of the McLaurin -enter
Tenth Person

-*rved to. McCrakin, St. Barnabas. pase,

t
and small amoynts.

~typical house. or apartment,

Poison. Whiskey

ATLANTA ANP ~ The
10th person who attended the
Christmas right drinking party
on Decatur street and drank a
concoction of wood alcohol,
and: corn whiskey died early this
week in Grady hospital.

The condition of Claude Mims.
alias Claude Nelms, was arrested-on a. charge of selling the
poison conesctior was described as ~fair~? at last reports. Physicians said he may recover,
having been administered injections of bicarbonate of soda soluction.

Condition! of three other victims of the poison drink corttinued ~satisfactory.

Charge Terror
Against CIO at
Smithfield Plant

SMITHFIELD, Va. ~ ANP~
The hearing of the National Labor Relations board of allegatioms that the election in the
Smithfield plant of the P. W.
Gwaltney Jr. Meat Packing Co.
last May 27 was preceded by a
campaign of terror and intimidation of the workers in the
plant in which the public and
the local newspaper padrticipated, has disclosed soine seemingly ugly testimonies.

Jesse Scott, local mewspaper publisher,, testified that the
public was not influenced one
way or the other. Not only certain leaders in the community
fought CIO~s efforts to win the
workers of the plant, but. the
citizens were organized to offer
opposition to the CIO.

From the first the CIO contended that the election, which
they lost, ~should be set aside
because the public exerted pressure against the workers and
that the election was held amidst a campaign of terror, coercion
and intimidation.

Scott admitted he had _ participated actively in the campaign to defeat the CIO, but
denied any intimidation or terroristic tactics. Miss Flossie Wilsor Jones, a Suffolk Negro employed at the plant, asserted
that she cancelled a speaking
engagement in the local CIO
rally after she heard a _ white
man in Smithfield sav there go

somé CIO tessa Het~s. get
rid of them. ~
Previously, the ia charged

that Negro leaders from Newport ~News and other nearby
cities assisted in the campaign
of terror and cocercion to prevent Negro workfrs from voting
CIO. Lloyd P. Vaughan, CIO
organizer, testified that mentior
of the Ku Klux Klan and other
anti-Negro. groups as in opposition to the CIO was sufficient
to strike terror into the hearts
of Negro workers.

At no time during the hearings Harold M. Wes.on, attorbie ar the Baltimore regional |

~ of the NLRB, ekplained
thet the. hearing was not one of
trial of guilt, but an investigation to support the findings of
he~ regional director, which held
that employes of the mzat packng plamt had been deprived of
the:r rights as citizens to chose
fresiv their bargaining agent.

prises, which dzals in army mo
tor vehicles, but he is affectionately

called ~Honest-Mac~the
poor man~s friend~ by Filipinos.

pre ~ Case

Watch Humidity
Several gations of water a day
can and should be evaporated in the
Extremely dry air is bad for any fur-: niture.

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~By JOHN RANCK |

Youruruc, IMPOVERISHED
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HANNIBAL, ~Mo., AT 10 MADE
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~| changes, such ag ending segre
WASHINGTON ~ ANP.
The Federation of Citizens association meeting ~here Saturday.| in a
night voted to accept a report.
hy a special five-man committee favoring separation of the
races ~as the most logical relationship (im Washington). at
the present time.~ This stand
was taken against a survey made
by the race relation committee
sponsored by the Council of
Social Agencies which was released in December.

The latter survey called ~for
immediate end to ~~arbitrary
segregation~ in the District of
Columbia. ~Our study,~* said the
council~s report. ~revealed
systematic pattern of gross de
nial: and deprivation to the Neero population of the District
of Columbia.~ '~fherefore, the
report called for ~~drastic~~

gation in health facilities, schocels
and playgrounds.

Clifford H. Newell, president
af the Federation of Citizens association, criticized the survey,
at a federation meeting the day
after it was released. He then
appointed the committee to investigate the report to determine if. it was ~~truly representative.~~.. After a month's investigation the committee compoSed.
of John H. Connaughton. Alfred
D. Calvert, A. B. McNerney, Wilter F. Wasson and A. H. L:1genbeel presented arf almost 3.000

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| fhe, present/

perience demonstrate that
changes~ are. féasabley née ~
the majorit# of the rb:
Teady to adopt? such * él
2. Favored | re i
nants, ~among - wh h
covenants sree. of, Jie
or, _ certairr tructure ar
against sale and Al sain
~Negroes~ of houses in. he
stricted by any, foveare ar
After some

federation wet eH Y neice

Newell charges il~s.

report ~on racial

much of the material in~ the*y
port had beef sup] fed~ ~by ~proby -Communists**' indicates~

mucr of the material i ame

the federation~s:

cil~s report and: would "be pré&

Sioners - artd the: ~hair ~the
- President~: Newell~ ~comma

that the federation iso not!~an
tagionistic toware | then Negtd ~

word report urging the adoption

mittee,

CAIRO, Egypt ~ ANP ~The
problem of self-determination
for the Sudanese is taking top
priority in the current negotiations for an Anglo-Egyptian
military alliance.

Last week Premier Mahmound
Fahmy Nokreshy Parsha_ returned the courtesy call: of: -Sir
Ronald Irar Campbell, British
ambassador, and discussed assurances given by the governor
egeneral of the Sudan, backed
by Prime Minister Attlee~s authorization, that the Sudanese
would be free to decide their
own future regardless of Egypt~s desire for unity of the two
~countries

Egypt~s interest ir Sudan is
opyused by Sudanese leaders,
Premier Pasha~s first question in
negotiating the Anglo-Egyptian
military alliance concerns the
nub of the controversy over the
Sudan which is under an Anglo
Egyptian conominium. Sudanese
oppose Ekyptian influence on
the ground that Egypt. wishes. to

grants.

Several weeks ago, Sudan's

Egypt and Britain Wrestle F
With Sudanese Problem..

flood their~ country with immi-'}

Moslem - leadér, kno
Black knight, flew;
to enlist Attlee~s aid: to pr
Sudan: from Egyptian dot
tion. A reported British: ~plan~ to
replace the: ~Egyptiatisy) {buts
interpreted as. one of the commitments the ~ black knig
~wrung from Attlee to ~ assure

Members of Pasha~s government are being terrorized here
in protest for ~the s}owness of
the negotiations, which will remove British dominatoin of Egypt but may mear Egyptian
domination ~of the "Bud@h. On
the other hand, Sudanese are
demanding that Britain, 18
in Egypt until they are ~assure

A Sudenase, grand cadi is interpreted as: fay t of Britain~s
plan for thé Sudahization of the
Sudanese government. Egyp~
tians have held the post of grand
cadi for decadgs, esent
f cadi- ewas appoin Bi | years
~ago, but his tenure will expire
in ~January.: Hospital Aid to Negr

CHARLOTTE, N. C. ~ eet
According to Year Book No. 14]
of the Duke endownment, a/
trust fund established Dec. 1i,

~to make provision in some
méasure for the needs of mankind along physical, mental and
spiritual lines, 180,930 days of
hospital care
Negroes ir 11 North Carolina
hospitals and 36,660 days in
five South Carolina hospitals.

The report discloses tnat assistan~e was given to 641 hospital beds available in the
North Carolina cities- of Ashville, Wilmington,
Charlotte; New Bern,
son, Durham, Wilson Greertsboro, Raleigh and Oxford, with
the numbers varying from 16
is Oxford to 100 in. Raleigh.

In South Carolina,

five cities of Greenwood, Columbia, Charleston, Union and
Greerrville, ~with Union having
18 beds and Columbia 70. All

longed to religious institutions.
admitted to these hospitals, 4,
525, or 6.32 per cent, died there,
half of them within 48 hours.

livered, 732~o0f whom were still

1924, by James Buchanan Duke~

were givén ~tof

Gastoni4.,.

166 beds}
were distributed between ~the |~~

~of the hospitals aided were] ~~
either publicly owned or~. he- ~

Of a total of 71,576 patients} -

Surgery was given in. 14,559) |
cases and 9,224 babies were de- | 4

Duke Endownment mgs on

ate
nikestenit

born, | ~ veo isneiissoV |. General hospital~ Béds for Negroes~ in the-two states,*the report: revealed;':~otaWed 2,820.
provirrg 1.6 beds per 1,000 Ne
687 Negro beds. he had - -

roes, In the
_awere_ 18 hos
for each 1,000...
two - states;
pitals caring
groes, with
white~ and ~Negro ~hosprtal
1,988 Negro beds. ih ors

<The, colored ~ orph
North Carolina i

of

501.77, and the Jenkins orphartage at ~Charleston, S. C., received $2,094.16.

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of two Yesolutions: a: mila TA ~
1, ~Wo. change, shozid be 3n2d8 9d
seperation pro- y:!
gram ~except, as.,time -ANdn 2% 50,

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with only two: ~ votes: ns

& ~A 10 noendol

Washington as being ~in aaiell<t x

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fessiorral pinks."~. He claims cht~

port had been -suppifed: By proze
fessiénal pinks!" ~He clai latina! thae!o>
- report)! showg?!3
~bias and trickery?~ int ~the oat ~

be

sented~ to the. district.~ ~cornsish~

house and ~district cémménities:l

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people.~ emphasizing that tothe ~$
stand was taken < against =the ne -

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Sudanese of self determination. *

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Egypt will not flood- their cour
try with immigrants. -y.sem Bess

groes; North -aCrplina;.wivpsr:
vatio~ol.y