Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 46]

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~ other outstanding students are

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NEW PASSIVE TECHNIQUE
CRACKS HOTEL JIM- CROW

St, PAUL,~ Minn. ~ANP ~

a enave of passive resis
was ~Successfully. applied

~ there last ~week to crack the jim

> erbw accommodation policy of
thé, Hamline hotel.

Bayard Rustin, ore of the outconscientious
objectors of the country and
secretary-treasurer of the Committee of Racial equality, found
that the management of the
Hamline hotel had changed their
minds. about a reservation he
hgad*made for a room upo:
learning he was qa Negro. Rus~tim, who came here from New
York for several speaking en~gegements, had arrived too late
-to have his reservation honored; a desk girl told him.

~issRustin cormtacted the Reverend

Clarence T. R. Nelson, pastor of
Camphor Memorial Methodist
church and president of the lo.
tac NAACP branch, and inform
ed him that he: planned to si
~it the: hotel lobby until he wa:
given a room. Rev, Nelson the
contacted Prof. Russell J, Com
pton, ~director of religious edu

PRINCETON, N. J.
young white ~southern iiberal
will graduate from Princeton
~umiversity here next June and
retuin to his native Georgia to
tefl ~how he lost his race prejUdice ~during the war, when
he saw white an dNegro Ameri
~~Allen F. Colley, a slim native
of Grantville, Ga, admits his
anti-Negro prejudice before he

readily as he says, ~I am a
liberal, I don~t have facial or
religious prejudices any more.~
In,.1942, he was one of thosea

Negroes to Princeton, although
Negroes were finally admitted

epposition from Colley today.
Two Negro students are mow
members of the executive Princéton clubs, which are considéréd'~ snobbish organizations by
- outsiders. During the war three
more Negro students were asked to join~ these exclusive Prin- |
cétoft ~clubs, of which Colley and

members..
~Colley was a fighter plane pi
cation at Hamline~ university,
and told him about Rustin~s experience.

Prof. Compton, who made ~the
hotel reservation for Rustin,
agreed to join th~ sitting party
with Rev. Nelson and Rustin,
because the visitor was a guest
of Hamline University. Before
hotel management found vacant
room for Rustin, a party of
four whites and one Negro
cleric had joined the protest sitting party in the hotel~s lobby.

Beside Prof. Compton, the
whites in the party were Arth1 Stornberg, St. Paul lawyer
nd chairman of the NAACP~s
~egal redress committee;! Dr. M.
A.~Merrill, dean of Hamline and
Mss Madelon Rusk. Rustin vaated his hotel room after the
first night to stay with friends.

During his visit here, he spcke
it Hamline university, Macalester college, the University of
Minnesota, Gustavus Adolphus
~olroge and other groups in the

~

Princeton University~s Leading
- Liberal IsA Young Georgian

lot.. during the. war. When he

Wi cities.

returned, he was elected president of the Whig-Clio, a. society
which sponsors all types of activities on Princeton's campus
James Madison had served as
president before he graduated
in 1771. The Whig-Clio was
formed in 1765,

Under ~Colley~s leadership,
speakers with divergent views
on social and political issues
were. invited to address the
group. He arramged to feature
Senator Claude Pepper, Emery |
Reeves, Sen! Saltonstall, Harold
Stassen, Communist Ribert Minor: Arthur, Krock, ex- Rep.
Slaughter, Harley Lutz and Dr.
Joseph Gilman. The young Georgiarr arranged to give his colleague the real picture. NAM
representatives debated with
CIO officials, the right arguéd
with.the left and _ Socialist
clashed with reactionaries,

Coliey joined Gov. Ellis last
fall and. dropped 100,000 proArnall. leaflets from a_ plane.
He plans.,~~eliminate the tenantfarmer. system and to advocate
profit-sharing and elimination of
the one-crop system~~ when he
returns to his farm after graduation.

Two Race Cops Catch
Desperado; Win Promotion

NEWYORK ~ ANP ~ Two
police, one rookie and
one~ provisioral, just out of the
army,~ distinguished. themselves
here last week when they captured a desperate jail breaker,
who had been sought all over the
city ~and incidentally won promotion.
wri.

~Anothony Abandola, 28 year

of the leaders in the wholesale
et 2 break.of nine tough
ho s from Brooklyn's Raymot Street jail was capttired

Monday night in an. apartment
~& ~colored meh in Brooklyn,

-wAbahdola.:: surfendered meet:

ly~ tthe police,2Oharles Pierson

Pe ~Gevtge Lewis; both of ~the
antic Avenue: station, who
a

th~it way into a ground
rear Apartment ~where
Aberidola éaid hé was visiiing
a ealo friend. a
~ Abarfdola. was carfying.a
blackjack, an automatic and a
kit of narcotics. After recovéering from his. surprise Abandola
efused to say anything.
Althuvgh Abandola did not

way out of the spot in which he
found himself. The officers ~after pushing past a man who
opéned- the @oo rwhen_ they
knocked, found Abandola in
the kitchen reading a newspaper.
He identified himself as Larry
Andrews of Coney island.

~I'm just here visiting with
these friends of mine,~ he
blustered, ~~~What do you want
with me?~

The officers asked for his
draft card, but Abondola didn~t
have ome. ~

Abendola was the object of an
intensive search in the Roxy
theater when a_ spurious tip
sent ~police on a wild goose
cHake upsetting the entire aud
Wir<tratoateetoatnatvaredtodivarodfpaiosieatntoeloeloetoezoetoe,
-PHONOGRAPH RECORDS! Abendola

so | lief of Edwin J. Duplan, gen
4512. Hastings St. i
__ Detroit 1, Michigan ~

ience. However, the hurfted man
and Mary Russo, | 28-year-old
red head, a girl he picked. up
at 60th and Broadway, were in
the crowd outside watching the
proceedings. Abendola said he
stayed in a lumber yard in far
out Brooklyn during the day,
but at night he came into town
to see. what was going on and
mingled with the crowds in
Times square,- where he was
safe from detection,

James Thornas, landlord of the
apartment where the culprit was
nabbed, had loaned Abendola
$10 to make a bus trip to Elktorr, Maryland to be married to
the pick-up. He said he fell in
love with her during his brief
period. of freedom,. They went to Elkton, but
while waiting for Abendola~s
return, the bride-to-be gave him
the slip and he journeyed back
to~ Thomas~ apartment afone.
is supposed to have
rented a room from the Thomas~
household head.

Pierson, one of the two police who made the arrest, is 27
and has been on the job five
months. Lewis, 30, has been on
the police force for 14 months.

Both were commended by
Police Commissiorer Wallender
who was informed.that- the im
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Entertainment, information <on
health, social and governmenta! services are: provided,
Trained Africans, recruited
from the local. technical sghool
run the station. with English
supervision, Uhder a new scholarship scheme. pupils from Gold
Coast are now being sent~ to
Loizdon for ther final training at
Queen Mary's college for teleccmmunication ahd at BBC, the

British Broadcasting corporation

DURHAM ~ ANP ~ North
Carolina Mutual Life

company now has insurance in

000, President C.
announced at:the 48th annual
policyholders meeting held here
last week. Seven seemed to be
a charmed number in the report
to whith: Mr. Spaulding. referred. ~~~Preliminary -calculations
indicate,~~ he said, ~~assets in excess of $17,000,000, income -for

ance in force over $117,000,000
and benefits paid in policy claims
and matured endowments~ of
more than $27,000 900,~~

The policyholders meeting of

North Carolina Mutual is also
the stockholders meeting inasmuch as there is no stock, it be
ing a mutual company, the only
really big Negro company so
constitued. Mr. Spaulding arnounced that dividend payments
to policyholders -would, be con
tinued as in previous years. A
pension plan for company employes was approved.

Office of N; C, Mutual were
ail reelected: They are: C. C.
Spaulding, president; W. J. Ken
nedy, Jr., vice president-secretary; E. R. Merrick, vice president-treasurer; Dr. Clyde Donnell, vice pesident-medical director; M. A. Goirs, assistant

secretary; J, W. Goodloe, aSsis
tant secretary; Aaron Day Jr.,
assistant secretary; G. W. Civ,
vice president-agency director;
D. C. Deans Jr,, associate agency

fotce to the amount of $117,000,- |
C. Spaulding |

the year, over $7,000,000 insur-:

portant arrest had been made
by two inexperienced officers.

tions.

Marriage Bans Blamed for High

Illigitim

NEW "YRK ~ ANP ~ ~The
rate of illegitimacy (in England)
was accelerated by the policy of
United States army officials who
discouraged and frequerrtly forbade marriages of Negro soldiers to English girls,~ is the be
eral secretary of the Liverpool,
England, Negro welfare center.

Duplan is now im te United
States seeking to aise funds for
the construction of-a center for
the care of these illegitimate
children, and to explore the

Négro
these

possibilities of having
families adopt some of
children.:;

He estimates that at least $100-,
00C will be required for the center,

According to Duplan, 80. per |:

cent of the approximately 1,700
illigitimate children resulted

from relationships between Ne--

gro soldiers'and women who already were married and whose
husbands were in the services
of the British government.

Insurance,
| tor;

He also announced the promo
ate Rate Among English Girls!

North Carolina Mutual Has
117 Millions of Insurance in Force

J. L. Wheeler,
assistant agency direcA T. Spauldimrg, actuary-2sSpvauld
director;
Martin,

sistant secreary;

ing Jr., assistant treasurer; Mrs.
Bessie A. J.. Whitted, cashier;
JT, S. Hughson, Mis. Viola G.
hae, assistants te treasurer,

A. Clement, ass diant to ~genev cCirector and Np F.,Bemrneti
assisiint actuary.

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Party Drops

Negro Organizer

For Loss

LOUISVILLE ~ ANP ~~The
the~
Negro section in the last ~three
elections shows that the system
'-stated John
new county o1:
ganization chairman, in explain
mg the removal of sohn Petrie;
Democrat i ~,
from the; chairmanship
cf the colored ciganizauun. Pepe replaced.

weak Democratic

wasn't working,~
W Crimmins,

long time
leader,

trio ~will not
the future,

in the Negro
hatdied > directly
neadqe. ters,

org

Negro |

wards

~ from par ea

vote in

anization
will

Py

She L.mocra'i2) per'y Iedders
were far from happy over the
inroads made by the Republicans

during recent elections.

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Set Union -

Election for

Howard Teachers
WASHINGTON ~ ANP
An agreement between Heward
university and Local 10 UPWCIO has been signed for the
~building of a collective bargaining. election among the teaching
staff of the university. The
election, to be conducted: by. the
Natiorral Labor -Relations board,
has been ~set for February 6.

Announcement of the election
was made by. UPW's regional
director, Daniel H. Schwrtz, who
said that Dr. Mordecai Johnson,
president of~ Howatd, had agreed
to. the electiorr bécause of~ thé
elecellent results ~the university
had achieved in- signing a*tontract. with UPW.: ~covering * the
non-teaching nc pe bees Be
lective bargaining ~ e n | stor
non-teaching bolo
in February, ~4946; an id
in a 203 to 0 vote Bis
CIO,: The:co i Ane for the:
téaching sta ae Sa last,

~la benefit for the- ~Fellowship

| February 21 on a motion to set

April. 5 2

Chairman ~of te
branch of Local 104s
gene Holmés assistant: ol
of philosophy. Acting in formnation of the unidri~at Howard~ was
Dr. Joseph L.~ Johnson, dean
of the medical school, and trustee of Local 10, Participating in
the organizating drive~ among
the Howard teacher was John
Killens, Negro ~business _ agent
of Local 10 and Pac?fic war veteran.

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No Jim Crow

As Mayrior Sings
InN, ~

~CHAPEL HILL, N. C. ~ANP
~The first nonm-segrégated audience in this college town heard
Dorothy Maynor sing here Sun\day night at Graham Mémorial
hall, University of North. Carolina. The performance sponsor- by the campus organization,

uncil for Religion in, Life, ~was
of
Southern churchmen, White and
colored young men. ushered the
séveral thousand Cafolitta mué
Bee eRe ese Ce Re ere

&

SATURDAY, FEMRUARY i, i

eee ee Nee

For Rape

bre Va. ~ANP
Two whit Richmord polic2men
weré found guilty of the rape
of a 32-yNr-old Negro mother
by an all white jury here last
week and their punishment vxed-at seven years in the state
penitentiary. The incident was
alleged to have occurred in the
officer~s patrol car wher they
offerid to sary. ~the victim
home.

Patrolman Carl R. Burléson
and Auxiliary Policeman ~ ~Leonard E. Davis, the two convicted
men, ars free on a bond of $3,000
each subject to a hearing on

el the. verdict. et

~Both - officers - ~avere charked
with the rape case by the compiginant who-has. two children,
after. she reported that they
had. ~placed her in their automobile, driven to the dead end

1, Pass FEPC

of a street | and: attacked her
in the early morning of wetpper
20.

~The defenuants denied ~ the
charges when they took the
witness stand. They claimed
that the accusor asked. them. to
take her home,.~ Before rendering their dedisjon, the jury deliberated more
than an hour Adjusting. wording. of the verdict delayed the
decision a few minutes.

While making her testimony~
against the officers on the witness stand, the complainant detlared that the two officers
found her and a male componion arguing. in a parked car on
Chamberlayne avenue when they
drov2 up. They had just retrned from a social function and
were discssuing an issue which
had arisen between them. She
said the officers sent the man
away and then told her they
would take her home.

Imsteed of carrying her home,
the officers drove in the opposite
direction. When she protested
that she did not live in that vicinity, they ignored her. and
and:drove out to the lonely spot
where she alleged they attacked
her.

| child khows what inferiority. is.

Beale iact

Gambling ~King~
Dies Broke
es Brok

MEMPHIS, Tenn..~ANP. ~
Mac Harris, the, Beale ~Street
gambling ~king~~ whose fortune
~was once estimated at $100,000
and who won~and lost~. $10.000 in a single night~s card session, died~ all alone here last
week at an estimated age of 92.
His former fortune was gone,
All. that could be found was a
few. hundred dollars, mostly ir
pennies.

~Qld habitues of the famous
Memphis street dug into their
memories and came forth with
retdllections of the time when
pe Harris wore a Van, Dyke

atid twirléd a cane, Ir the

of Recdfistruction, Harris
bee ry asthe -~~dictator~~ of
Beale street: In 1894, according
to ht. G, Ws-Lee, Beale Street
@r-aind historian; Har@asino Henry in a

2 faated three days uhel exhausted onto a

~flatris~ fame spread beyond

street and at one time. re
lates Nat, Williams, associate ed
itéry. of The. Memph~s World, he

wag the most picturesque gamb
ker ~en the river between New
Orleans and St, Louis.~

-Harris was horn of slave parents in Memphis and attended
schooi with the white children
in his mester~s family,

In recent years he has lived
on charity amd the proceeds
from salés of shoe laces and
razor blades on ihe street, thus
presenting a sharp contrast to
the days in which he ruled in
cutaway coat afd pin-stripped
trousers, ard woh and lost $10,C30 at PSs Wee's saloon in a
night~s play w-th ~Nine Tongue,~ a crosstye2 Now Orleans
gamb!i:r.

shaking it
mind that this is mersiy a tempo

ic lovers attending the concert,

~ery procedure.

ee:

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ An appeal to outlaw jub diSerimimation throughout the state came
lest week from Chicago's alderman in the forfi of a resolution
to the [Mlinois General ass~mbly
for the passage of a state fair
employment practice law, |

Measures. for such a daw were
introduced recently an the
ate and housé: by: ~State, Sen.
Christopher C. Wimbi sh (Dem)
and Rep. Charles J. Jenkins
(Rep.). both of Chicago, The.
alverma: s resoltion was~ sponsored by George D. Kells (28
ward) as.a step to; put.the city
council.on_ record, of deploring
alleged discrimination,.in.employment here. and, els2where in

Ren

Aldermen Ask State a Ze
Legislation ~

tward),

Practices act,
~charges were. ~unfair, |

he state because of race; color

~and creed. Kells clashed with ~
Ald. James B, Waller ~ (43rd |
a Republican, about a
}move to pigeonhole the resolufon by asking for ~~more time
to study it.~

*~Any mar who doesn't
whete he stands on~ this |
~Sa. mountebank, a faker, and
has."no right ain his~ sbuncil,.

Kells shot ~back, ae ar::
Ager Waller ie

now

~amd. that,

lution was adopted, urging); the
general assembly.to pass; thé
legislation, introduced by Wirmbish and Jenkins. A, text of the
resolution was sent ~to, Governo:
Dwight H. Green...

~

Do You Want Your
To Be Tolerant?

DES MOINES, Ta. ~' ANP
Nowhere, ~as school, church; ~and
home now exist in our avérage
communities, -can~ out ~children
learn tolerancé, chatgés Pearl
Buck, famous~ novelis: arf humanitarian.

Life in the community too often contradicts what the schhool
teachers, says Miss Buck. Writing. in the February Better
Homes and Gardens, she points
out, ~~All the. teaching the
school can give a child will not
teaeh him: tolerance if colored
children are not permitted to:
classrooms, All that a_ teacher can say will not sell him on
tolerance if that same teacher
will not invite Negroes to her.
home.

*~New ways of teaching tolerance must be found,~
ed Miss Buck, ~for today~s corr
munity pattermr encourage prejudiced behavior.~ First step,
she recommends, is for adults
of the community to come together and decide if they really
want their children to learn tolerance and to practice it.

Brightest hope for tolerarree,
according to Miss Buck, is that
children are born withopt prejudice. No white child dislikes
any colored child, and no colored

Natural. justices. of. the: child,
lets him accept all other, chil-:
dren, as brothers until projudices teachimg of his home change
his attitude.

First point in real tolerance,
she maintains, is to plant the
child firmly in his whole world.
He must see that he is not only
the dweller ina town, in a state,
in a nation, he lives also in the
world. If he is. white, he must
realize white people in the wordl
are a misority~and rather a
young one.

She further points out im the
magazine article that the world
is full mostly of colored people.
Yet, our western educational
emphasis has been placed upon
the relatively short life of Greece
and Rome2,whos2 peopl~és were,

white, rather than upon far nigres!

ancient, and in some ~Ways rfore~
important and valuable civilizations. of peoples~. who <~are
dark~and who stil] exist...

Children must be niade, to
understand that our 13 ~million
American Negroes are degeerid-3
ants of civilized people who.wete!
sold into slavery by our white
anestors..Dtity ~and~ privilege 6f |
white children is te compensate:
for this cruelty by present-day
justice.

Science must helg, the, child

to learn tolerance, ~claims: Miss { tho

Buck. It must teach him that
the humen brain is the same
brain, vary:ng only individuals.
~The Ne gro child. is ~jot. mentally inferior,~ ~she states. ~~He
merely lacks equal opporturity,
as injustice the white child can
help to mend.~ | ta
She -bel:evs,.. that. tolerance
must be taught through every
thing.a child ~earns. It tannst]"~

be taught.as rate... ~subject~ in a fiderton). & ft Mas: to
pervade the school,~ the church,
th2 home, the ~onimunity~~ an
attitude of eve. yone he sees,
Adults must have this éducation, too, Miss Buck maintains,

continu- |.

Ppp
ey

the ancient Chinese. alloy

Children -

&

between generations. Old indifference artd local absorptios can
not continue,or war. will inevitably come. Self ~protec

against this final war is to know
other people well enough. to see
justice in their. claims. as ~well
as in our own,.. to, understand
their convictions with tolerance
on both sides,

try Ras Dr |
$10,000 R

NEW YORK ~ _ ANP. ~ Seng
writer Walter Bishop: and Roger. Romirez are tharrking their
lucky setars that their fountain
pen ran out of ink as: that.in
i od

~| cident made~ them epee ingest

er today. ~<
It all dates~ back to 1943" when
} was sigrtd About

You~ in ses: Stable on 52nd
street and movie star-Lana Turner upor hearing, it promptly
offered them! $3,000 for outright
ownership.~ She fold them to
me2t her at LaGwardia airport
with -a contract and she would

give them the cash.

Much to their dismay and embarrassment at the airport, where
they arrived 15 minutes | late,
theip! ore fountain -pen was dry
of ink, nobody standing around
had one tand thes~pilot: refustd
to hold the plane any longer,
so the glamorous movie star left
without the dune, Returning to
their Broadway office mad as
blzzcs they put it in the bottom drawer of their files where
it gathetcd dust. 4

~Iwo months ago Singer War
ren Evans in, seatch for. a tu

to record for Decca invaded their
office and requested it. Now that
it~s.a jukebox favoite and with
record and sheet rotaitied~ due,
to return them - $10, 000, Bishop
and Ramirezz have sworn never
to~ fill their pens as they~ ~might
sign away the future number orre

hit. tune on their, ae arade,

i CTL &
Dinowsars Smart
Probably because _ #l
éraart enough~ to stay in~ the frag
when it wag hot a
sun ~when it ~Was~ ~cad Paytrees Reeames
ruled the~earth for 100 million years,
says.a pani 43 ithe mite 3 3 of

German dita say! i

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