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SPO. ESMAN

~ We T ell the Truth~

VOLUME I~NUMBER 51

FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1947

ls Today ~ y oe

oe em eee See

ared To Face Tomorrow's I

0 Push Red
Cross Drive

Well, the annual Red Cross
Drive has gotten underway and
will run for the month of
March. Genessee County~s quota

ROCHESTER POI

TERRO

BUFFALO, N:~ Y.~(APNS)~

Rochester police are framing a
~Negro crime wave~~ in Buffalo~s
neighboring city, and are shoot
ing down Negroes on suspicion.

of robbery, it has been reported,
James Young, a Negro recently

~The TWELVE VETERANS |
(COMMANDOS) CLUB has vol-|
unteered to solicit funds with a}
to house canvass. Their arza
covers the entire district from
Garfield to Keenly Avenue, bordered by Michigan Avenue, St.
John Street and _ Boulevard
Drive. Miss Vivian Dent, of the
Debutante Club. has also volun
Saturday morning was the
jumping-off time for most of
the boys who are working in
-teams of twos. Joseph Hogan
and Calvin Reaves has the area
between Garfield and _ Leith;
Floyd Fielder and Archie Bibbs,
from Leith to Everett; Cornelius Neal and Joseph Hartfield,
Massachusetts to Alabama; Geo.
Milis and Ernest Woods, Alabama to Stewart between St.
John. and Hewalt; Karl Dent

on:
Sa ete

and. Raym On }~Pez and aig McMillan are
canvassing ~between Stewart and
Keenly Avenue. Most of them
are canvassing their own resi
be familiar.

This is the first time for these
young men and they have reported numerous incidents which

the most touuching was handled
by George Itsom. While on Mississippi Avenue, George knocked on the door and a little gir]
~ppeared. He stated his business
hd asked to see her parents.
ae told him her parents were
gt at home but she had two
ynies in her piggy bank she'd
toi to contribute. George thankHener and issued her a conhottor's button and window

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howédénts such as this, give
0 ys the incentive to go on.

this little girl did should
to people that, first of all,
ez, little bit helps, and secty, it is nice to give until it
ts. Just remember that when
solicitor comes around, give
something. You can rest asNI ~A it will be appreciated.

ans.

Y quested to send their contributions for this drive to the Flint
Spokesman or phone in and a

to pick it up.

Restaurant to
Have Grand

Opening

Grand opening of Mildreds
and Packard Restaurant at 921
E. Jamieson. St., on Friday. We
will be open all night. This
promises to be one of Flint~s
leading restaurants. Will serve
Bar-B-Q and home-coéked meals.

from the South, now lies in the
hospital suffering bullet wounds
inflicted by police. He is charged with vagrancy, although police claimed they shot him in a
robbery attempt.

The terrorization is. aimed
chiefly at Negroes who migrated
from the South last summer. The
editor of ~~We,~ a- local newsmagazine, charges that ~ a crime
wave has been launched by itinerant Southern Negroes.~ Police

records show no marked increase '

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in > beirglaties: and pagel;
~ The edito, John G. Corey, shg
gests that the. Negroes be rhn out

of town, adding ~The ~police are

willing; either that or use them |.;

as first-class targets for ~ pistol
shooting.~ ~So. far Editor Corey
says, police bullets: ~have been
directed chiefly at the fleeing
man's legs, but as one police official said, ~~I think ~the best
method is to place a bullet in his
heal~. E

James White, a: white man,
ralled for polire action against
two Negroes whom he accused of
robbing him of $40, but. later
admitted that he lost the money
gambling,

Rochester Negroes are expecting more trouble.

Business and Professional Women~s

Ass~n Meets; Plans

Not only will there be changes
made in the weather here. in
Flint. The Business and Professional Women~s Association decided at the last meeting that
some very necessary | changes
would be. _made seoncersine. ~ the

New members are contituously coming into the organization,
all with the same determination
to do everything in their power
to make Flint grow | in better

pate heavt and wie

New Changes

business relations, education, and
to present openings of more jobs
for our youth.

' Mrs. Gurthea Waterford, president ef the organization, has
ihe interest of the Association

the ~Association ~wilt do.

March 12,-8 p.m. at the FICC
on - St. John Street.

Much enthusiasm is being manifested in the forthcoming midnight show that is being sponsored by the Industrial Avenue. Neighborhood Improvement
League, for the purpose of liquidating the balance of the expense upon the Neighborhood
War Service Honor Roll, that
the league is-establishing on the
Industrial Avenue side of the

track. Tickets are on sale at,

Much Enthusiasm Being Shown
In Coming Midnight Show. |

Clack~s, - Mack~s. - Barbershop,
Picketts, Doll~s. Beauty~ Salon.
Deluxe Gift and Record Shop,
Eldérs Grocery, M & B Confectionery; Sunny~s Bar and Tay:
lor~s Grocery. A very fine show
is being provided. _ At the time
of going to press we do not have
the titles of the plays. Your
patronage is especially urged. The
League
the Urban League of Flint.

Ladies: Spend
Time at the Y. W. C

Recently one simple problem
seems to be bothering young
women. The proverbial question
which one hears daily is ~What
can we do in our leisure time?~

During the war years. there
were the U.S.O. canteens, Bond
Drives, Red.Cross and hospital]
work. Every free moment we
had an activity planned. It was
really wonderful being a part
of one big effort. Now that the
war~ is over one feels sort of
lost; there: just doesn~t seem to
be. anything to do.

Why not drop down to the
Y.W.C.A. on Thursday evening
at. 7:30. Ride up to the second
floor and visit the Industrial
Club? The Industrial Girls are
factory and domestic workers,
clerks and elevator operators.
They too shared in the war effort, on the production line, as
well as in the canteens and hospitals. The Industrial Club, they
have found, is providing -just
the type of entertainment they

have wished for to replace the

registration..
City Clerk, 2nd floor, City Hali,|

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vacant spot left by the closing
of service jobs during the war.

They dance, play basketball,
ping pong, and badminton in.the
~yin, swim in the Y pool and
spend week-ends at Camp Tyrone. Some evenings they have
eating. meetings; this is really

fun. It means cooking their fav- |

orite dishes and having a light
dinner followed up with an old
time discussion. The discussions
are really good.- They range
from problems on ~the job to
planning for marfiage. In these
heart to heart conversations we
discover through the exchange
of thoughts that girls are basically the same. The girls decide
what they want to do and the
Y staff members help them carry out their ideas.

For a few weeks.the Indus
trial Girls brushed up om their
bridge, and.in January they

jaunted off to Grand Rapids to:

the State Industrial Conference.
From all reports this was really
a grand experience. Young workers from all over the state were
present, and in bétween the conference workshops on _ unions,
cooperatives, and health insurance,, the girls enjoyed the
smaller personal ae Ree a |

See~Ladies~Page 5

Register Now! _

March 18 is the last day for/

is being sponsored by}

hvee Sales
Representative

ZELMA GRANT -

Mrs. ~ Zelirna ~ Grant, |
~Stewart? ~Avenue,~ is a Tepresentative of ~Avon Products, one of
the outstdnding~ ~firms - in the
United, States. Mrs. Grant ~is a
representative ' ~in: the ~Stewart '
Avenue: District. ~She is a mem-: ber of the Elks ~Genessee: Temae 550. -Phone_

| Mrs."L. R~ Ewing, 1213 Caimpau
The bis ~meeting ~ will. Se held:

St. Phone 9- 2944. She has the
St. John~ ~St. ~District. ~Mrs,~ Grénola Smith ~of:.1692~ Liberty St.
Phone 2-4529, a Di bien~ the~
Southside.~ ig

Charter Clubs.
Under Fire

~From: a ~Yeliable yee, it ~is
revealed that many of the Charter~ Clubs who have been operating under Club Charters, using them tw hide their illegal
operations, will be revoked. This
will be a result of ~the recent
raids that have. taken place in
the past few months. All clubs
who have been raided for gamb.
ling or loitering in a booze joint
in which the persons arrested
pleaded guilty will have their
charters taken.

The operators are responsible
for the persons pleading gulity
whether or not they are guilty
of the charge placed against
them. The Spokesman welcomes
this action against illegal joints
that plague our- community, and
looks upon this action by: the
Police Department, as a step in
the right direction for a better
community in which legitimate
business can survive, and improve the business standards of
our community.

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~Letters to
The Editor

Pfc. Lendy Reaves, A.S.N.
46062870

3714 TC Truck Company

APO 455 c-o Postmaster

San Francisco, California
Sand Island (Kapalama Basin)
Honolulu, Hawaii
February 22, 1947

Mr. Thomas Terry:

True, I have addressed this
letter to you, but indirectly it
is focused on ~your entire staff
of very capable employees.
Please consider it.a small token
o{ my gratitude to all of you for
instigating and producing such
an interesting and unbiased|
newspaper. Not only do I enjoy
reading it but innumerable oth-.
ers here also.

You ~and your staff are to be
commended on your constant
vigil. and continued harrassing
of those wha would subject
members of our minority to agonizing atrocities and unjusti~fied persecutions. | Let us hope
that in your attempt. to maxe
Flint a peer: peeling Dlaee for

| positions~ that some of our Flint
youths~ have striven for ~and obfained is obvious ~ verification
that through patience and perseverance the generally thought}

rest of us the incentive to go oni|'
and eventually be suecessful:

~I believe that I am corréct
in assuming~that one of the pfrimary purposes of your paper is
to try to keep the youths of
Flint informed so that they will
be aware of their opportunities.
and take advantage of them. If
my presumptions have any bearting on actualities, I am indebted
to you because I happen to be
one of the many who are constantly on the watch for bigger
and better things.

The sniall price that Mrs. ~Lendy Reaves has paid to your
concern so that I could receive
your paper is by no means any
price you could have asked for.

We are denied many of the
rights of the constitution but

Press is no longer a myth but a
reality.
Respectfully,
Lendy Deaves.

Mr. Thomas Terry

Fiint Spokes..an

Flint, Michigan

Dear Mr. Terry:

The Flint Association of Colored Women's Clubs take this
means of expressing to you and
to all the readers of the Flint

j Spokesman our sincere thanks

for the cooperation shown us in
our recent effort~the presentation of Asadata Dafora aridehis
dancers. We are indeed grateful
to the people for their kindness
and we pledge to bring to them
worthwhile programs.

Again we wish to thank you,
Yours truly,

(Mrs.) Annie McFadden, Pres.
(Mrs.) Edith B. Robinson, Publicity.

used for jewelry, are equally tarnish resistant. Both surpass the socalled ~white golds~ in retaining
their white ~

impossible can be done. In do- | #4
ing this, they have. given the|

~round semi-final match.

thanks to you; Freedom of the|

NEGRO CUSTOMS JUDGE

$4,000,000 LIVER

PORTLAND, Ore, ~ANP ~
Judge Irvin C. Mollison, the nation~s first Negro custom judge,
heard last. week the $4,000,000
liver oil case, which the government claims is an advanced drug
ang should ~be subjected to a 10
per cent ad valoren tax.

A- $4,000,000 tax refund paid
on the oil, imported from Canada, Argentina and Mexico, is
being sought by George S. Bush
and, company, Seattle; ~ Wilbur

OIL CASE

Ellis and company, San Francisco
and the Eastman Kodak company, Rochester, N. Y. The three
companies claim the oil is a crude
drug and duty free.

Appointed to. the custom court
in 1945, Judge Mollison practiced
law in Chicago, where he was a
member of the board of education
and a director of the city~s public
library. He is now on a coastwide
tour acein testimony. on the
ease,

North Side Theatre Becoming
Mecca for Younger Set oe Ny

~ The Richard- Theatre, one of
the older playhouses on the
Northside ~ is fastly becoming a
Mecca for the younger set of
Flint. Many factors are -responsible for this being true. In the
first place there is always a
good. show and under the new
management of Mr. Don McKenzie many new inovations
have been employed to make
the. show.moré and more atthaétive, Me McKenzie has em
colored people of the commun
Rosetta Howard, Maggie James.
Lorenzia Thurmond and Selidious Watts.

No plans are being spared -in
cringing the theatre up to the
standard of the best in the city.
Real carpeting has been put on
the floor, an air conditioning
plant will be installed ~as soon
as materials can be had and to
top this all off there will be
talent shows on the stage when
opportunity for such ie it
this end promises better and
better shows for the many pa
ity~; ~The. staff includes, Misses

trons of the Richard Theatre.

McCombs and Garland on

LAr Flint Negro battlers~
Benny McéCombs and Eddie Gar
land~will- have important posi-|
-tions off ~Promoter Tommy Cus- r

sans~ fight card Friday night,
March 14, at the I.M.A. Auditorium.

McCombs, one of the most

promising middleweights in the
midwest, will clash with Horace
Wilkins of Chicago, in the sixWilkins, a rugged battler, should
give Benny a busy evening.
_Next Friday~s battle will be
McCombs~ second in the Flint
ring~ in recent weeks. He proved
something of a sensation in his
last appearance when he knocked out Eddie Green of Detroit
in the first round.
In ~that fight, McCombs who
is. a terrific puncher, virtually
lifted his opponent off the floor
with a punch that put him out
cold.

Jim Murray, one of the smartest of fight managers, who handles the affairs of Jake La Motta, léading middleweight challenger, has: great faith in McCombs~ future. If Benny can
continue the pace he set for
himself in his January appearance, it is almost certain Murray will take him to the East
for still more fights.

McCombs is already in excellent condition according to Promoter Cussans who has_ been
watching him closely.

Next Friday~s show will make
a step up to the six round class
for Garland, cracker jack lightweight who faces Mickey Traverse, classy Detroiter. Eddie
has been coming up rapidly in
the last three months and Cussans feels he is entitled to move
on up to faster company in view
of his splendid record.

After a slow start last year
in which he suffered a broken
jaw, Garland has come alonz
to prove his record in war camps
was no fluke. The nifty boxer
has been winning with regularity, not only in Flint, but Detroit, Toledo and Saginaw.

As his top attraction next Fri
| day, Promoter Cussans has lined

up Tony Costa, ranking feather
weight out of Boston, to meet

yk Card Friday Night, 14th

Jock Leslie, Flint~s own Blonde~
Bomber.

Costa, who has fought and
beat several of the world~s ranking bantam and featherweights,
is expected to give Jock more
than usual trouble. Word from
the East has it that he is one
of the ring~s cleverest boxers.
~We make them miss and then

we knock their heads off,~
writes Costas~ manager from
Boston.:

Jock, who knocked Benny
May out in the second round,
the last time he appeared in
Flint, may find Costa tough, but
his terrific punching power still
gives him a slight advantage in
the betting.

In a letter to Promoter Cus
sans, Les Krell, Jock~s manager,
said ~It is true Costa is a tough
customer, but that is what we
want for Jock. He can beat the
best featherweight in the world

today, so we are willing to take
on the toughest.~?

Tickets for next Friday~s show
are now on sale at St. John
Street Pharmacy, the I)M.A.
Auditorium box office, Crawford.and Zimmermans~, Joe
Burke~s Bar, The Stein and
Flips.~

Albuquerque Named for Duke

Albuquerque, largest city in New
Mexico, was originzlly spelled Alburquerque by the Svanish. It was
named after the Duke of AlburQuerque, Viceroy of Mexico, in the
early 1700s.

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To Hear Topic * =i
Discussed Sunday

~How is Today~s Youth Being
Prepared to Face Tomorrow~s Issues? This will be the subject
of discussion that Miss Marie
Prahl, Dean of Women at Flint
Junior College; Miss BlaricHe
Wells, Activity Director of Y.
W. C._ A. and Rev. Arthur Davis, Minister of Bethel Methodist Church will speak on in a
public forum to be held Sunday,
March 9, 1947 at 4 p.m. in room.
218, at the. ~.W.C.A.

All interested persons are in
vited to attend. The forum is ~being sponsored: by an _ interested
group of young persons. An op:
en discussions and questions period will follow the macys
talks.;

Cala Musical ~~

At Macedonia --

Eastern Stars Chrystanthum
Chapter presented a Gala Must.
cal. at ~Macedonia Church. The
Highlight Chosus oe snare Bright
Stars.

f spectato
hand fo enjoy this musical treat,
The ~ommittee responsiblé~ ~for -
this success: was
Nicholson, as chairman; Catrie
~Packard, and = Mrs. Bla
Brown, as Worthy a

R.T.M.U. Presents
~Musical Variety
Show~

The Ritzy Teens Marching
Unit sponsured a Musical Show
at the YWCA. Mrs. Edward H.
Talbert was the announcer; Miss
Barbara Roberts was the pianist.
Mrs. W. W. Burton designed, and
made the costumes; and Leon
Travis was the curtain boy. The
show was opened -with the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner. ~There were 17 musical
skits. Mrs. Edward H. Talbert

Marching Unit and is to be comiplimented on the work she was
done with the girls.

Huge Basketball Doubleheader ~
Harlem Globetrotters vs. House of David 4:
Kansas City Stars vs, Flint All-Stars. a

LM. A. Auditorium Sunday, 8:00 p.m,

Mrs. Ethel ~

is the director of the Ritzy Teen

a