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- VOLUME Il~-NUMBER 12

FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947

PRICE 10 CENTS

Movement Sponsored to Aid in

Securing City-Wide Support
For Park Plan Project

FLINT, Mich. ~ June, 1947~~

The Oregon Lake Park Association is mailing to all of.the

~ lubs of the city a brief out
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line of its efforts in an endeavor
to establish for the citizens of
this area a lakeside resort and
recreation park. The clubs will
be notified at a, later date, the
time when a monster mass rally
of all clubs will be held. It is
the- hope of the sponsors that all
es will be repr reeen by mem
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By MEL BANNER

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George Marshall

Dear George:
Do you know where you are
going? Have you shoulders

broad to stand what is bound to
fall upon you as you deal with
other lands.: BANNER.

Ever since you came back to
America, you jhave been talking:
about many nations, especially
the Russians. You also have 4
items in the congressional bill
hopper you would like to see
passed, they are: (1) U.S. Participation in the International
Refugee Organization; (2) Voice
of America radio program; (3)
Countries ~ requesting military
missions to receive them by request and authorization; (4) Amendment of the Neutrality Act
o permit the sale of arms to
friendly ~nations.

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Your first item I think George,
many of us can understand, as
the refugee problem is well unThe newsreels and
newspapers acquainted us with
them. But your next three items
~to most of us average people
are a> bit hazy. Are you going to
tell some other country about
the blessings of the American
way of life? Or will certain particular phases be handled. You
know in Willkie~s book, One
World, page 79; he was:told by
Simonév, a Russian playwright
that we should send ~Good Men
to understand Russia, not musicians; then frankly, do you sincerely believe Radio will spread
Democracy to anyone who is: hungry? Why not send them

some grapefruit and potatoes we
throw away annually? This
might make them a little more
receptive to your program. However, George, I realize your desire to combat the rising tide of
Communism, yet there. are sit_Uations that have happened here
at home which might make you
adopt a mask of Janus, you re_member, South Carolina? Your
ideas of sending arms to friendly countries, and also military
missions on request leaves me
with the thought that perhaps all
- is not so well with my country, and perhaps things are going on which you know and I
do not know, not having aceess to teletype, trans-Atlantic
Radio, Archives and money, especially money.

Lastly George, I love my

country, and so do you. I love)

peace too, but I am a bit afraid
you and I do not see alike on
the methods of obtaining it: We
both agree, I know, that war
begins in minds of men. We
a ~would like.to change

nen~s minds, I am _ sure,
~would rattle the scabbard, I
Would raise the Cross a little
I would sow seeds of
p backed by right. Net

yet! organization work at your job.

ers who will be empowered to
pledge the moral as well as the..nancial support of the club for
the park.

Should any club fail to get the
outline the association will cheerfully furnish it on request.

Dear Fellow Members:

We feel that since you are a
civic minded body that you have
heard about the Oregon.Lake
Park movement. In event that
you haven~t heard, will you
permit me to present you with
these facts?

The Oregon Lake Park movement is a new move on the part
of a group of civic-minded citizens to provide a lakeside recreation park where all citizens
can enjoy its facilities at all
times. This movement grew out
of the experiences had by us in

E RALLY OF

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HOWARD GRADUATE~Avwilda Metcalfe, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Raphael Metcalfe,
Wilmington st., received her
diploma as an accountant from
Howard U., in Washington,
D. C, Friday. The commencement exercises were attended
by her sister, Bernice, formerly
of Flint, whom is now making
her home in Cleveland, Ohio.....

the past when it was the cus-!
tom to have us as a people to
leave the only park of this na-ure available to us at 6 o~clock.
There will always be Negroes
with courage and determination

@nough ~to try to'remcdy a con
dition of this nature especially
when it only affects our group.

Under our {rst leader, ~the
Rev. T. L. Ballou, we secured a
tract of land, forty-five acres in
all for the purpose of developing a park. This land was platted in 18 plots, but there was
stipulation in every) contract
that every person buying one of
these plots would be compelled

park. All of the plots have been
sold and the donations of the
one-half acre has been made.
There is an area including the
lake of ~around seven and onehalf acres that is set aside for
no other purpose than a park.
To give you an idea-of the size,
suffice it to say that the area
is larger than thirty: city lots.

This property is a scenic wonderland. There are two lakes,
rolling hills and meadows, beautiful woodlands, with towering
virin timber, a natural bridal
path together with lands that
have the ~physical attraction to
be easily converted into tennis
courts, archery range, croquet

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Elks Elect
Delegates to State
Ass'n Confab

Vehicle City Lodge No. 1036
held their bi-monthly meeting
Sunday at which time the delegates were elected to attend the
State Association Convention
convening in Detroit June 12
through June 15th. Those elected were Bros. Rufus Palmer, Andrew Buchanan, William Frazier,
L. F. Heller and James Wilson.

to donate one-half acre for. this |

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| FISK GRADUATE;
dean Mills, lovely daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Albert Mills, Alabama Street, received her diploma from Fisk University at
Nashville, Tenn., the Commencement exercises were attended
by her mother, Mrs. Mills and
Mrs. James Elders of Alabama
Street.

Rosary-Alter
Society to
Give Party

The Rosuary-Aiter Society of
Christ*the King Church will
give a card party in the Parrish Hall, 13th and Clifford Sts.
Saturday, June id, 1947 at &:00
P.M. Beautitul gifts and refreshments. Come one and all,
and enjoy the evening.

Attention Mothers

Baby Contest Poll. Michael
Pea, Luetla ~Bell, Leola May
Kilgo, Gilda Stalvorth, Gowendlyn Mass3, Billy Ra Blair, Raymond M. Robinson. This is the

last week to enter your baby.
~Hurry, Hurry!~ Enter your
baby now.:

~When you are better organized, prepare to speak, and to
speak loud, your piece for your
homes, schgols, amd. your health
department services and then
whatever needs to be done, do
it.~. Those of you forming this

People will join when they find
you are really doing things.

So spoke Dr. George Hays, City

Business And Professional
League Drives Huge Success

Health Officer of the City of

Flint before a crowd of about 100
members and guests of the Business and Professional League.
The dinner meeting was held in
the Elks. Rest, 2901 St. John St.
I. D, Shook opened the meeting.

Rev. Arnold led the invocation. After which he introduced
R. C. Chandler, who in turn, introduced Mr. Kowolk, assistant
to Dr. Hays in the Health Department. Mr. Chandler is treasurer of the league.

WASHINGTON ~(ANP) ~
No violation of federal law was
involved in the kidnapping of
Godwin (Buddy) Bush from the

Northampton County jail in
Jackson, N. C., according to J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the

Federal Bureau of investigation.

Bush, who was being held in
custcdy as a suspect in the alleged attempted rape of a white
woman was taken from the jail
by a mob of. white men who
forced their way in, seized the
prisoner and carried him to a
waiting automobile. Bush took
the chance of breaking away
from the mob, and fleeing into
the darkness. The shot fired at
him by one of the members of the
mob missed and the fleeing
prisoner hid in a woodland for 48
hours before placing himself in
the protective care of FBI agents,
through contact with a minister.

The FBI obtained confession
from one of the members of the
mob which implicated seven

| white persons.

Hoover said the evidence in the

case was examined by the department of justice which held that
no violation of federal law was
involved. Thus the evidence was
turned over to State Solicitor Ernest B. Tyler, of Jackson.
Almost simultaneously with |
the FBI announcement that the,
federal law did not cover the

case, an anti-lynching bill was in-}

troduced in the senate by Wagner
of New York and Morse of Oregon.!
This bill provided heavy fines
for persons found guilty of mob
violence or aiding lynch mobs.
{t also provides for payment to
mob victims or their families by
the state or political subdivis:ons
in which*the crime occurred.
Under the -bill maximum penadties of $10,000 fine and 20 years
imprisonment could be imposed
on persons who in any way incite or aid a mob or join one in

a act of violence.

This bill is almost identical
with the bill introducd in the
house a few weeks ago by Rep.
Case.

John Russell Attends the Great

Lakes Regional of A

Galists Hon all over the United |

John Russell attended the
~Great Lakes Regional of the
American Youth Hostels at South

| Lyons, Mich. There were eight
' delegates from Flint. Mr. Russell

was the only race man present.
Ihe object of the meeting was to
select leaders for the area. Mr.
Russell was assigned a week~s bicycle tour out of the Detroit of-: fice. Mr, Russell was also invited

by the Chicago office to lead one
of the two tours throughout the
New England States. Many spec
States gave much valuable information on ~cycling, camping,
horseback riding and canoing..
FICC will organize a Bicycle
Club. next week for the purpose
of taking week-end trips to Hostels in Michigan. All people -in
terested in hosteling between the
ages of 4 to 94, call the FICC,
4.9351. Hostels is one way of
getting the youngsters back to
nature and will help in combat
ting juvenile delinquency.

FBI FILES CHARGES OF
KIDNAP AGAINST 7 IN N. C.

By Special Correspondent
Kidnap charges were hile

on May 27, against 7 white
men, members:.of the. band
which took a Negro from the
county jail in Jackson Nm C.
Now mobsters in Rich Square
and Jackson N. Carolina are
demonstrat~ng their opposition ot jurisdictional rights of
the Federal Kidnapping Law.
News reporters were forced
to stay away from tke southern area'near Rich Square or
be killed, as residents of the
town do not want the imprisonment of seven white men,! who kidnapped Godwin Bush

from jail.

The aroused proples resent the outside intcrferen e

of the U. S. law in their lo
cality. Antagonim is being
worked up agaiast the FBI
which obtained confessions
from. the kidnappe:s. Jos

Cunningham, assistant manager of Rich Square's thea're
identified his six fellow kidnappers.. J. Edgar Hoover,
director of FBI in Washirgton, claimed the confes:icn
involved eight- men.

Sentiment was that the F.
B. I. ~didn~t have any kusi
ness coming dcwn here ani
sticking their noze in it:~

Mayor Charles E. Myers,
of Rich Square and s-hool
superintendent N. L. Turner
were among fifteen men who
posted $2,000 each for the
mob kidnappers. -

Godwin Bush, a young Negro in his early twenties, had
been placed in jail for an alleged attempted attack on a
white girl. He was kidnapped
shorily after his imprison
ment. Three white men wearing masks of red and white

handkerchiefs entered the jail
and told the Negro citizen to
put on his clothes and go
with them. Outside the jail
a-band of whites with pistols
placed him in a four door sedan. He was placed on the
back seat and managed to escape from the other side of
the automobile and ran. One
or more shots were fired as
he ran away. In the escape,
he climbed two or three fences and disappeared into the
woods.

Two days later
himself -up to the
protection.

Push is imprisoned in Central Prison in Raleigh. Governor Gregg. Cherry, is opposed to bond for Godwin Bush,
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he gave

FBI for

BETROTHAL ANNOUNCED ~
Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Turner of
1246 Everett Street, Flint, Mich.
announces the engagement of
their danghter, Ruby Maxine to
Mr. Robert M. Noble of Philadelphia, Pa., formerly of Pontiac, Michigan. The wedding
will take place in early Fall.

NEW MANAGER OF ART
CLEANERS STORE NO. 2 ~
Mrs. Virginia Ward, newly appointed Manager of The Art
Cleaners Store No. 2 located at
1801 Clifford Street has pledged her intentions of making the
Art Cleaners Store No. 2 the
most outstanding in the Southend. The Store has_ recently
been completely remodeled and
equipped to give you first class
service and Quality workmanship on all- your garments. The
Store No. 2 features 2 Day Services and specials if requested.
Take your cleaning to The Art
Cleaners Store No. 2: Cash and
Carry and save the difference,
The -Art Cleaners ad can be
found in your Flint Spokesman
every week.

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Remnant Buys

When shopping for dress-making
fabrics, don~t overlook the remnant
tables. Short lengths of expensive
fabrics make collars and cuffs for a
dress of less expensive black fabric.
Under-suit blouses are made from
short lengths of fabric and some
remnants contain sufficient material to line jackets or children~s
coats.

Marcus Ray, Aid To Secretary
~Of War, Expected To 7 il

By Conrad Clark

WASHINGTON~ ANP ~ Marcus Ray, civilian aide to Secretary of War Robert Patterson,
may resign soon from his office
to return to the army as a special
advisor on the staff of Gen. Lucious D. Clay, chief of the European Occupation forces in Germany.

Although.Mr. Ray would not
commit himself, it was definitely
learned ~that the matter was taken up with him sometime ago,
and is now - ~under consideration
by him.!

When the question was asked,
of Ray he said, ~I am thinking
of the idea of returning to military duty in the near future,~ but
he would not state in what capacity, or the nature of his new

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Sometime ago it was learned

that this job was being sought;

by Col. Campbell Johnson, former assistant to the head of selective service, and who has beén
mentioned as the successor to the
Rev. Dr. Marshall Sheppard present recorder of deeds.

Mr. Ray, a former commanding
officer of the 600th artillery battalion of the 92nd Inf. (~Buffalo~) division, was apopinted to
his present position on Jan.. 2.
1946, succzeding Truman K. Gibson Jr., another Chicagoan who
resigned Nov. 19, 1945.

He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, and his previoius
civilian job, before entering the
army, was that of director of the
South Central Clinical laboratory,
Chicago.

\Fiery Cross

Burns On

Medic~s Lawn

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ~ANP~

'A 15-foot fiery cross was discover

ed on the lawn of the recently
purchased home of Dr. E. F. Lennon here early last week. The

~house, located in the 1800 biock

on Dandridge Pike, is in a predominantly white neighborhood.

Dr. Lennon, who, has practiced
medicine locally for the last 30
yzars, purchased the 13 room
building at the institution ~of a
white man. While having some
extensive alterations made to the
house, the doctor received several anonymous warnings not to
attempt to occupy the property.:

About 9:30 p.m. Sunday a large

crowd of spectators was attracted |.

to the home by the sudden bursting into flames of a 15-foot cross
on the lawn. However, they were
warned to stand back, and just at
that time, an earth-jarring ex:
plosion followed that was felt in
the radius of one mile.

Reward of $1,500

~In Union Slaying

WASHINGTON~(ANP) ~The'.
reward for the arrest_and conwicr
~tion of, the. slayer of James E.|.
~Harris, union official, who was

slain in his home on April 28, has
been raised to $1,500.

Tom O~Donnell, owner of the
O~Donnel] restaurant and cafeteria workers on the night he
was killed, offered a $500 reward
immediately after the incident.

An additional $1,000 newarq

~was offered Tuesday night at a

memorial mass meeting on behalf of local No. 471, United
Cafeteria workers, CIO.

Richard Bancroft,. president of
the local of which Harris was a
member, urged police to assign
more men to the case and to
work day and night until the
murderer is caught.

Henry Beitscher, president of
the Washington Industrial Union
council, CIO, Robert Weinstein,
national director of the organization of the United Public
workers, CIO; Charles Hill, business agent of Local 80, AFL; and
the -Rev. E. L. Harrison, pastor
of Shiloh Baptist church, where
the meeting was held paid tribute to Harris.

HOME FROM COLLEGE

Miss Marian Wright, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Karo Wright
of Mt. Morris Road has returned home for the summer yacation. Miss Wright having met
all qualifications for entrance,
was recently admitted to the
Greek Letter Kingdom on the
campus of Tennessee State College. She is a member of the
Alpha Si Chapter of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, also a
member of the pledge club of
Laicos S. Ronab The Honorary
Society for Sociology -Majors,
and Vice President of the Los
Buenos Vivinos Sponiskey Club.

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ROSE ALICE TERRY

Rose Alice Terry.

Today our hats are off to a
very brilliant young Socialite

of Flint. This person is Miss
Rose Alice Terry, Daughter of ~
Mr. and Mrs. John Lee Terry
of 2508 St. John St. Going back
to the year 1933, at which time
Rose was a very small girl, in
September of the same year she
came down with a serious illness that caused her to be totally blind. She was taken from
Hurley Hospital to Ann -Arbor
and from there to the State
Sanatorium where she remained for five years,.after which
she was: pronounced. cured, and,
returned home here in Flint.
After being home for a few
weeks she began to worry about
getting out into the world and
try to make~ a place for herself.
So she entered the Michigan
School for the Blind. And in
the year 1943 she graduated
with top honors and a scholar=ship to Michigan State College:
She also won 50 Silver Dollars
for her efforts for a higher eds
ucation. Rose suffered many
hardships in her efforts to gain
her goal, being in college there

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ORCHESTRA =
featuring
Alonza Johnson
Tenor
Herman Twines
Trumpet
Direct From
INDIANAPOLIS, -
INDIANA
at the

Royal Gardens:
Midnight Dance ~
from one until ~
Saturday Night |
After Sportsman *

Formal 7
and Sunday From ~
7 to 12

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