Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 2]

~ W e T ell the Truth~

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FLINT PSELIS Li

APR 4 - 1947

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FLINT, MICHIGAN, ~SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1947

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CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Testimony before the U. S. grand
_ jury last week linked public of ficials to the huge $1,000,000 sugfar: black market racket, which. BETROTHAL ANNOUNCEMENT
~Mrs. Christine Smith of Industrial Avenue announces the en_gagement of her daughter cored

ucille.to Edward. N. Jackson,
of Mr. and~ Mrs. Scroggins: |
449 Grant St.; also of Flint. The
ride elect is a graduate of Norf thern High School. Mr, Jackson
~server 3 years in the U. S. Army,
f 2 years being spent in the Euro~ pedn Theatre. The wedding will
|. be an event of early fall.

~McCombs to

Headline Sh

The long-due opportunity to
f earn his spurs has finally ari~rived for Benny.McCombs. Due
to his last 2. first-round knockouts, Benny- has been rewarded
f with a 10-round main event.
Promoter Tommy Cussan recent-ly revealed that McCombs will

| meet Bobby Barry of Cleveland,
~April 8 at IMA Auditorium.

At the same time, Murray an~ nounced that he and Jake LaMotta, top-ranking ~middleweight
teontender, had dissolved their
= partnership and that he intend~ed to devote full attention to
McCombs in handling Benny~s
F preparations for the IMA show.
This is a two-fold break for
~Benny and he should go places.

Coat Lost

A ~dark blue coat was lost Sunday at Canaan. Bapt. Church
~which belonged i. Mr. Cleveland.
rratt, of 4305 Maines St. Blue top
sat left by mistake with white
carf with initials H. R. Contact
fr. Cleveland Pratt or one of
aan~s Deacons for further ination.

_protection to the men assigned to

-be indicted on a charge of sell
T. Woods, assigned to Warren

-jillegal sales of the stamps.

PUBLIC OFFICIALS
LINKED TO BLACK
| MARKET SUGAR RING

has already brought about the
indictment cf 54 persons and now
threatens to involve policemen,
precinct captains, ward committesmen, aldermen and even congressmen.

How the sugar racketeers bribed public officials was revealed

~lby Joseph Sharp, a 30-year-old

former temporary policeman, who
attributes the loss of his police| man~s job to the black market
~sugar racket, He testified that
he was ~~framed~ ~on a charge of
robbing the apartment of Mrs.
Broadway Arrington, whose husband is the alleged leader of the
stolen sugar stamp gang, of $39,000 because he knew too much
about Arrington~s sugar stamp
racket.

Sharp, a college graduate and
champion track star, was cleared
of the robbery charges by Judge
Joseph B. Hermes in Felony
lcourt when he told of the plot to
discredit him. But the policeman

is to clear his name and regain
his job, he told the grand jury.

Sharp is reported to have nameda number of high officials who,
accepted. bribes ~as payment for
allowing Arrington to operate
openly both in the theft of the
stamps from the government
warehouse here and in their sale
covered policemen, precinct captains, ward committeemen, alderto sugar users. His revelations
men and congressmen.

Det. Raymond Miller, who previously admitted lending his automobile to the men who drove
from here two weeks ago to torture Arrington~s father in Grand

lost his job. His main ambition.

instructor~

Rapids, Michigan, in order to
compel him to reveal the hiding
place of a tool chest containing
$38,000 and jewels, reappeared
before the grand jury,

Miller, assigned to the police

confidence detail, is also accused
of providing transportation and

steal stamps from the OPA warehous. He is charged with driving
the thieves in his car to pick up
the stamps thrown from the ware

house. If. stopped, he was prepared to show his police badge.

A white policeman may also

ing 100 sugar stamps to Angelo

Terovolas, a 16-year-old tavern

keeper, for $80. Patrolman John

Avenue station, refused to testify before the grand jury on the
basis of ~his constitutional~

rights. -Terovolas has already

sentenced to a year in prison for

E District Until

a: Circuit court of appeals
es third circuit granted
S. L. Greene Monday the
re) preside | over his AME
~pending final hearing on
eal of an injunction filed
op David H. Sims, ousted
the district, on April 7.
Greene was ordered to

o~

*. Court Grants Bishop Greene
igh pits Preside Over His

LADELPHIA ~ (ANP)~ Pennsylvania

Sims, district. Bishop Sims was
not only removed from his dis
the AME church.
behalf is handled through the

law offices of Raymond Pace Alexander.,

Court Hearing

upheld. Bishop
Sims~ petition for a preliminary
injunction, which prohibited

Bishop Greene from taking over

trict, but was also unfrocked. by

Legal action in Bishop Greene's

oa

VAD. ~DELTA P PLAY
aimie Smith Carey, an

at - ~Dunbar Junior
school - of ~San Antonio, ~Texas:
played ' the role~ of ~ Anhabelle
West" ~in: ~The Cat and~ the Can
any" Wednesday. ~at San ~Antonio's
Library auditorium. The three.
act play ~was ~presented~ to~ a~capacity crowd by ~Psi Simma chapter ~of Delta _~ Theta sorora ~~ ANP. mg:

Plans Made by For
Of National Negro

the Observance

Health Week

March 30th to April 6th, 1947

The Workshop will start their
Health and Sanitation drive Mar.
30. The Workshop, which is composed of various organizations,

Clubs and Official~ Departments~

of the city, held. their first meeting, January $1, 1947, at the F. I.
C.C. This: meeting was called to
make plans. for he. observance of
National Negro
March 30 to-April 6..

Since then, it was decided that
this program would be extended |
to carry through the~entire year.
The. kick-off will be Sunday,
March 30. Professional men will
speak in the various churches on
the subject of ~~Health.~

The theme will be ~Community Wide Cooperation for Better
Health and Sanitation.

The Twelve Veterans (Com-'
mandos) Club, which is a member. of the Steering Committee,
will make a- survey preceding |
this drive and will cover the.area
from Garfield to Campau. It is

hoped.that this survey will pring!

about. better chousing conditions

Health Week, |

in Flint.

The first week~s program~ is as
follows: -

~ Tuesday, April 1-FICC: Mr. L.
Thompson, of the Genesee County. Tuberculosis Association; will
~deliver: an address~ at~ 7:30, followed~ by movies.

Wednesday, April 2 ~ Clifford Street Center: Movies.

Thursday, April 3 ~ St. John
Street ~Center: Movies. |

The titles of these movies are

~A Message from Dorothy May~nor,~ assisted by the Hall John~son Choir; *~Let My People~ Live,~
~and~ a_ Cartoon,

It is urged that:all citizens of

| this community | attend one of

these programs. Your cooperation

lj is needed to make this a success
| fut campaign. Let us. all pitch in

to help make this a_ banner
~ year~ in Health and Sanitation.

~

Board of Eduécation..

Prejudice Has No Place in

U.S. Way of Life, Says Utah Senator

WASHINGTON, ~ (ANP) ~,

~There ~is no place. for interracial or inter-denominational
prejudice~ in our way of. life,~
Utah), told an inter-church FelSenator Elbert D. Thomas (D.
lowship meeting last week at
Reformation Lutheran church on
Capitol hill.

**Having. broad theories will
not. overcome. various prejudices,~ he said. ~This was shown
so'much in America~s hatred of

the Japanese in the last war. We

bay

assumed that anyone who was a
Japanese was an enemy regardless of that person~s acts, feel
ings or experiences.

~It has never dawned upon the.
~American: people that if we had
tried to cover up all of the Germans and all of the Italians in
America, as we ~did all of the
Japanese, and to make them live
in camps, we would have had the
equivalent of a ig ~war on our
hands.~

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In one of the most eventual
and ~momentous elections ever

Messrs. Nathaniel Turner and
Roger Townsend, were elected. to
the top bargaining committee of
the local. The _ Rank and. File

the entire administration out of
office. Mr. Turner is ~the member

nate,

ter charges. Some of a vicious
nature. There was one that ceased quite a stir among colored people. This was tothe effect that
a prominent colored man was
moved off a job and some one
elsé substituted in his place. This

~was supposed to have been done

by the Rank and File.. We have
not been able to substantuate
this charge. As far as we have
been able to find out these statements were made. in the heat. of
a campaign and were not true. In
fact this incident happened back
in October, and was injected into the campaign solely to implement the opposition in their desperation..

We feel that the local, has made

held -by Buick Local No. 599,

Slate, was successful in sweeping |

and. Mr. Townsend is the alter-"

- There were charges: and coun-.

Rank and File Slate Successful in
Sweeping Entire Administration
Out; Many Charges Were Made

the best choice possible. The
men elected are _ qualified in
every way. to fulfill every possible obligation that goes wth
their. offices, Mr. Turner is a

had two years in drafting and
college. He has worked consistently in-the Union ever since he
has been eligible for membership. Mr. Townsend, is a graduate of the Arkansas State College.
He has been active in. union affairs ever since he has been in
the shops.
These men are going in with
aivery fine slate. It is reasonable
to believe ~that they will do all
in ~their power for good unionism. We must consider the odds
that ate against them. Whenever
they meet Management, they
will meet men who have spent
a lifetime in management, These
men have all of the answers and
it will naturally be difficult to
deal with them. For. the Top
Committee to succeed it will take
patience, consideration and the
abiding faith of the Local.

~Mr. Jacob Waldo, was~ the

aba; me. Baie.

jseeking information

ROTH FOR ~GRCUT "JUDCE

In response to' the many calls
concerning
the election of Circuit Judge; The
Elint: Spokesman, has. checked
the- qualifications. of the. various
candidates, and has picked Mr.

Stephan J.. Roth as our Candidate
for Circuit Court Judge.

Mr. Roth is a former resident
of the ~North End, living on the
corner of Leith.and St. -John
Streets for 25 years, where he at
\tended Fairview and Flint High

School. He formerly worked for
the old First National and Union-Industrial Banks, He _ also.worked for Buick, Chevrolet, and

Fisher Body.

After receiving his PhD degree in 1931,.from the University
of Notre Dame, he attended Law
School at the University. of Mich
it,

~igani, gfaduating with a LLB degree in 1935. He has practiced
law in-Flint,-continuously, with
the exeeption of his service in.
the Army..He was assistant prosecuting.atterney for two years
under Joseph R. Joseph, and was
prosecuting attorney for the 1941 -~42 term.;

As.a.veteran of World War II,
he served twenty months overseas with the Criminal Investi
gating Department receiving various decorations for his brilliant
cases.. =

We feel that his special interest in the problem of the Nofth
End community and _ his avail
ability in hélping with the problems of thé needy and the unfortunates; warranted the full: meas
ure of our sppport.

Vote for E. A. Cummings for}

LOS ANGELES~(ANP)~California~s first. slavery case since i
reconstruction days went another step ahead her last Wedues
day when the federal grand jury
rélurned a true bill against Alfred Wesley Ingalls and his wife,
Elizabeth, on charges. of holding Miss Dora L. Jones in a condition of involuntary servitude

~LIONEL HAMPTON

MID-NIGHT DANCE
la. m. to 5a. m.
12TH OF APRIL
I. M. A, ~Auditorium, Flint

Grand Jury Returns Slavery
Indictments Against White
Massachusetts Couple

1Castendyk ~ of

|for 40 years.

The indictment was returned
on evidence submitted by Assistant U.S. Attorney~ Ernest A. Tolin that Miss Jones, now -57, ~had |
been kept ' in slavery Since she
was 17 years old,,under threats
of criminal ~prosecution for an
undisclosed.incident, This incilent was. said-to have happened
during the time Mrs. Ingalls was
married to her first husband,
Walter Harmon. - Ingalls, a for-||mer. membér of ~the Massachusetts legislature and retired Boston lawyer, married his wife 30
years ago.

The couple is at liberty under
$2,500 bond each on a commissioner~s complaint filed in San
Diego. Mrs. Helen Roberts, wife
of a chemical research engineer
of Berkeley; Cal., and Mrs. Ruth
Chicago, both
daughters of the accused, were

A maximum penalty of five
years~ imprisonment and a. fine
of $5,000 go with a conviction
of the charge,

Vote for E. A. Cummings for

graduate of Flint Northern and _

movixig spirit~. ey the Rank.

pwitnesses before the grand jury.}
| NATHANIEL TURNER
Member Top Bargaining Comm.

ee

ROGER TOWNSEND
Alternate of Top Bargaining.
Committee

Kimp in

Double Recital

Mrs. Rosa L. Kimp, nationally
acclaimed dramatist, will present.a recital at the Hartford
Aveue Baptist Church, located
on the corner of Hartford and
Melford Sts., in Detroit, Mich.,
Friday night, March 28, 1947.
She will also present a recital
at the Carver High School on
Sunday, March 30th, in Inkster,
Mich..All friends -are -invited to
attend the recital-to hear our
own local dramatist deliver her
mene? of erin Guidance.

| ~ PREEASTER

MATINEE

Given by the

7:30 SOCIAL and
ARTS.. CLUB.

~4 P.M. UNTIL 9 P. M.

Sunday, March: 30

~~AT~

Bobby Sox Grill

2718 St. John St.

~..MUSIC BY

All Star: Quartet
Jimmy Parker
Eddie Woods
Tom Drake

Lutellus Penton

PRIZES GIVEN TO BEST
DRESSED MAN AND @ADY!

Admission 55c

Public Invited

Board of Education.

& Oe, %, & 2.
JoeSo-eZo-cSe-<So-sSo-sSo-eoe-sce ~$e 450-4504,

1 ' nominational Ministers

Holds Pre-Easter

S ~
- A pre-Easter Worship Service
is planned by the Flint Interde
for Thursday -Evening, April 3,
1947. The service will be held in
the auditorium of the Mt. Cal
i Avenue, and McClellan St. The

_Revereni H. H. Coleman, pastor

of Macedonia Baptist Church will.
preach, -Music will be furnished
by representatives from the several choirs of the churches cooperating and will be under the direction of Mrs. Charles H. Nicks.
Churches and ministers indicating their support to this s2rvice
are::

Antioch Baptist Church ~ J.-S.
Arnold. }

Bethel Methodist Church ~ Av
W. Davis.

Blackwell African Methodist
Episcopal Zion ~ D. Baldwin.

Golden Leaf Baptist ~ W. A.
Vaughn.

James Chapel Colored Methodist. Episcopal ~ J. J. Moore,

Metropolitan Baptist ~ E. -J.

Timmons.
2 _ Mount calvary Baptist ~ ~C oe:

Mount ~Olive Baptist ~ R. R.
Turpin

New Zion
White.:

the
Ministers Alliances,

Board of Education.

Negro Probable
For Ga. White
Primary Bill

ATLANTA ~ (ANP) ~ With
the declaration by the Georgia
~iSupreme conurt that M. E,
Thompson is the legal governor
of Georgia, the general assemblypassed white primary bill may go
the way of all flesh.

Two days before the ruling,
two new election bills were introduced that seemed designed to
get the acting governor to veto
the Roy Harrison-written measuré. One of the bills would reenact the. constitutional requirements ~for registering as voters
and the' other requiring segregation of the races at voting places
in both primary and general elections.

The measures were sponsored
by Senators Everett Millican of
Atlanta, who was in the forefront of the opposition to the
white. primary bill; J. P. Hogg,
of Beuna~ Vista, and E. F. Griffith, of Eatonton, all strong supporters of Governor Thompson.
The measures were seen aS an
exeuse for the acting governor
to veto the Harris bill if the suorem? court upheld his claim to
the governorship and all bills
passed, by the legislature had to
be resubmitted to him for his approval or rejection, The Georgia
attorney general, Eugene Cook,
ruled that the bills must be resubmitted to Thompson and a
veto was in order.:

Vote for Stephen Roth for

Circuit Court Juslge,

Alliance -

vary Baptist Church at Industrial -

Baptist ~ L.- C.

Quinn Chapel African Metho-*
dist Episcopal ~ W. A. Crider, *
Vernon Chapel African Meth-*
odist Episcopal ~ J. W. Walker..Reverends C. H. Nicks; L, C.~
White and A. W. Davis are the:
program committee, The Rever-_
end R. R. Turpin is president of.
Flint Interdenominational -

Vote for E. A. Cummings for

Ministers Alliance ~