Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 13]

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THE. FLINT SPOKESMAN

ycetuecatcy Vial ANP~Tha
diffielties: a Negro business facesr ~when. commodities are
_ Scatte were revealed here last

week with reference to the experience of Red Circles stores,
Inc., 4. Negro consumer cooperativé business, which now. operates
thrée grocery stores. During the
worst war years when commodities were scarce, wholesalers gave
first and most consideration - to
their ~white clients and if anything was left, Red Circles stores
got something.

Other Negro businéss. concerns
hz idice:similar experience difring
the-war. Some of the difficulty |~

-wasrdue to lack: of -manpower
among, wholesalers necessitating
_@ drastic cut in delivery service.
However, other Negro: business

con~erns: here report that~ they!

difficulty, securing

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had special
certain~ scarce commodities.

While white businesses: were
were..able to buy. some bacany
chewing gum, sugar, chops, andi
other searce meats, Sore: ~of the
Negro grocery stores~ could geti
only,.a small. amdunt ~of such
scarce commodfties occasionally.
The problem: emphasizes. the: necessity, for, Negroes entering the
production. andi distribution: field
and preferably on the cooperative.
basis for~the greatest returns:

Red Circle stores did survive
the- war crisis; but one store. had
to be closed: The first: Red Circle " Was Se uaiew on Oct.:11, 1938.
28, 1941, the third. April 3, 1942
and~ the fourth on June 11, 1942.
One of these stores had to close
due.to the difficulties: in securing,
Corpnodstins for -business.

The three stores did~a gross business about $150,000 last year, and
it i expected that the. gross earning this year ~will. be ~ close to
$200,000. The gross earnings for
the first years were small due to
the experimental period ~ of ~the
business which had:to sell~ itself
to the public; w ithstand white |:
competition and ~build- up stock
and services. i

With. these odds agaihst a new
venture the gross earnings for the
firgt year wete ~only $4,742.49;
second year, -6,463.90:; third year,
$14,922.59; fourth year, $15,897.4;

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workmanship at lower prices.

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Stores Surviye 4
and Prejudice

$13;968:29, seventh year, $12,241.47, and eighth year, $25,518.67.

for the sixth and seventh. years
was due largely to the difficulty
of security commodities those
years. Officers of Red Circle Cooperative association and directcrs of the stores say it was fortunate that the business was be
business had established
~well enough among consumers to
make them remain on as customers though they were unable to
secure all the things offered~ at
zome of the white stores,

~The Association, which was organized. sbcut:a year before the
first~ store ~,was opened, has a
ahembership of 1,300: These members; from,the backbone of the.
Jsusiness. Many of: them are custo- '
mers,of the three stores. They.

operative movement: and its- value
to. low income: groups,

E. R, Storrs, a: leter carrier and
~prominent civic and: religious
leader here played the leading
~role: im: forming: the association
and: guiding the fortunes of the
~stores: for about five years and is
still: active in the work. Wiley. A\
~Hall, executive secretary of the

ers have supported the movement, Mr. Hall was elected to
head the association when Mr.
Storrs had: to resign due to overwork, ean

The stores have 12 fill time employes and five. on part-time. The
association ofice is located in the
St. Luke building where the records. of. the stores are kept, and:
clerical work is done for the, association, Alfred O. Horsley, a
graduate of Virginia State college, Petersburg, Va., is general
supervisor of the stores. Officials
say he is doins an excellent job.

The association stores lest. year

| declared.a three per cent ~Ividend

om. money invested in tie busi.

ness and a one per cent commodity dividend on busines done
rat the stores, Though preinaturely, the stores declared.dividends

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of your own hair.

dias~ the order is received.

Please send me the following: bage they,
); Cluster Curls, $5.00 (
be ara y ene consist
after the third year in business.

fifth year, $17,675.01; sixth ~year,

The decrease in gross earnings

'gun in 1938 because by the time.
the war made goods scarce the }
itself |, airport,

When in New York Don~t,
Act in Seattle Style

NEW YORK.~Mrs. Pearl Jensen, thinking to save her husband
from being ~murdered by a pair
of alleged thieves on the edge of
| Ghinatown, -pulled. a-fire--alarm,
just as she had been jar ie to do
~back- home in-Seattie;- Wash:

The thieves ~were caught, the

husband = saved. But justice
proved swifter for Mrs. Jensen
than the thieves. She was. fined
| $50 for turning in a false alarm.
|The thieves were being held*in
$2,000 bond on felony. charges.
|The fine later was remitted.
~ Mrs.. Jensen, 39, told Magis- |
trate Joseph Levine that she and
her husband, William, 42, were
strangers in town. -

Shannon: Airport In lreland
Is. Now: Free of Customs:
LIMERICK, EIRE:~The Shannon
t, stopping point~ for many
~ transatlantic planes, has. become the~world~s first customs-free landing~
field..Goods Golning into, the 800-acre~
airport zone were freed of customs~
duties unless the merchandise is in-i
tended for sale in Eire. The new.

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~ system, ~inaugurated at: a ceremony

pd monthly meetings and occas- _
/jionally. hear addresses on: the co
Richmond Urban league, and oth- |.

presided. over by Trade Minister,
Sean Lemass, will permit American
and European. manufacturers. to
place their goods in display warehouses at Shannon, making it a
~world store window for buyers.~
Officials said they hoped to interest: manufacturers in building factories within the zone for processIng: raw material, imported duty!
free by air, into- finished goods for
customs-free. aerial export,

Television: to Revolutionize |

Political Campaign Technique,
NEW YORK. ~ Television will
revolutionize the technique of political: campaigning in 1948 just as the!
radip did in. 1924, is the opinion of;
Brig.. Gen. David Sarnoff, president,
of Radio. Corporation of America.

Sarnoff thinks 1947 can be tele-.
~ yision~s first major year if the flow
of materials for the manufacture of
television. sets is. increased.

By 1948 several thousand homes,
possibly. as many as 50,000, will!
have television sets, the RCA head~
believes,

Truck Owner Didn~t Know,
But Neither Did the Judge

MILWAUKEE.~He didn~t know it
was illegal to put a ~~~for sale~ sign
in the window of: his truck parked
on @ city street, Carl Deuster told
District Judge Harvey L. Neelen.

~Well,"~ answered.the judge, ~I~ve
been up here eight years and I
didn~t know it either. Sentence suspended.'~

~Small Concerns Fail
The war forced 500,000~ sriall* cone;
-cerhs out of businéss; says a Twen
~téth. Century. Fund report:

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~Exploit An Opportunities to
Serve,~ A. and I, Graduates Told -

NASHVILLE ~ ANP ~ ~Every member of this graduating
class has a solemn. responsibility
to. exploit each opportunity. for.
-gelf-rzalization through sérvice to
| His, commiui~y, his state, and his

| nation, ~ déclared Dr. P. P. Clax- |.

ton, president emeritus of Austin:
-\Peap State college ~here early last
week:

commencement address before
ceiving degre:s ~from Tennessee

A. and I. State/college..

$Opportrhity and Rsponsibilitv,~ he traced* the d2velopment
of A and 1 State college from its
founding in 1912, and~ pointed
out that: it has played ~an outstanding part in combatting the
evils of ill health, poverty. and
ignorance among the people that
it served.~ He challenged the'

Dr. Claxton was delivering the

172 young mer and women re

Speaking under the subject of}

school itself: as well as its. Pa |
dents and graduates, to continue
efforts to. ~turn out men. and wo- |
men. who. will ~make this section}:

and work.~

~Not the least of its tasks will
be to-contine to mould sound)
public opinion. without which: demoeracy cold not flourish,~
asseried.
~Degrees were conferred upon

graduates by A and I~s president
Dr. W. S. Davis. Commissioner. B.

department of education, presented the _ diplomas, Other speakers

-er, state department. of education;
|

| anounced: the names~ of winners
of prizes. and scholarships which

phad been: presented on. Senior).

Class day.

Confer on Legality

COLUMBIA, S. C. ~ANP ~
The local NAACP branch and
managers of Ward 9 and the Richland county executive committee
'of the Democratic party got their
heads together here last week in. \.
~la pre-trial conference to discuss

the legality of the ban against
Negro voting in the Democratic
primaries in South Carolina.

The conference preceded: the
trial in federal court here Tuesday of a suit brought by George
A. Elmore: against the ward man
~l}agers and the county Democratic

~committee, asking $5.000 damagas becasue he was. restrained:}from voting in the primary. The

suit seeks a court order forbidding the Democratic party from
barring Negro voters in the primary elections; The NAACP is
siding, with Elmore.

The meeting between the two

factions was called for the purpose of taking pre-trial testimony
before a notary public: However
no testimony was taken, but both
sides agreed fo work on a StipuIztion of -fatts.~

Party leaders advanced the
contention that the party is. free
from court intervention because
no state laws exist on primaries.
South Carilina repealed its laws
having to do with primary elections in 1944.;

Presiding Trial Judge J. Waring
of Charleston told the two sides
that ~~if the Democratic party can
prove it is a private organization
with no statutes regulating it,
then it_is outside the jurisdiction
of this or any other court. If how
NAACP, Domestic WardHeads

of Race Vote Ban

Grand Treasurer

Of Elks Dies

WASHINGTON.~ ANP ~
Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland of |
Camden, N. J., the grand.treas
after~ belt: i ~for se
montis: ore

Dr: Wheatiands, ares for: rttony:
years was tie grand. esteemed:
loyali Ikmight, ~Was elected: grand)
treasurer last Asgust at the:
Buffalo: convention:

Funeral services. were to: be:

Northern Virginia,: Floor -Colorings.,Solid color..floor...~. strong basic colors. tere
emphasize the floor, say so F

rators. The white shag rugs recen~ |

ly introduced; while colorless, tend~ |~
to make. the floor. ronspievous

cratic party is a state-controlled~
organization, then the Negroes_
win the case.

He said he would try the equity
angle first.

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on the program were W. E. 'Turn-|.

and Registrar E. L. Sasser, who}

urer of the: Elks. died Satay

held at the Kant Ave. Baptist |
church: on, Wednesday, June~ 11)
for the deceased: and intern-/
ment: services. will be held at)
the Columbia ~Eodge of Elks, |

rangementa: for. the: ~Washington.
services: ane~ being made by On-| nite:
ton. Lipyd; district deputy of}

| the District of Columbia and}

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liv in deep.

to the sand.

the surface.~~

Bik amend

[fees ~African Workers
New Oil Oil Pools
Caclogists al Nectieestarn!:

University Probe for Old |
Beach Locations.

CHICAGO.~New ~methods of ex-:
petroleum,.

urgently to help replenish this na-;
tion~s dwindling supply; are being! |

The. ~work requires applicatiq
the gedldgic history of a region
dreds of millions of years ago. a)

thatiknowledge:

croseopic examination: of reck sam-_

ples ~taken. from. the earth's. surface.
eect its: fee aes

where and when thede: seas, existed!
will obtain their~ strotig-+
est clews-to the Lice bivaew: ~of?

potentiation ok Vue sGsaitend. ot
ttiese- prehistoric: beaches concern! |
fhe: Northwestesn researchers. By:
deilling, samples of rocks. will: be:
takén from the various levels, then~
| emamiined in: the~ laboratory to. de-}
a | Sones Caprica history ofthe~ area!. pen~ epost ti. ie a) MS

eae as to. whether, a. ~rook Re
@ given depth.~ ~wag near a ~pre-)

coarseness ~of thecanfnersl grains,

variety of fossils-and: density of
organic: matter, Coarse grains are
found~, on a sea ee a to
~shor a whereas: wave ~current

weters,
shore; Organic deposits usually are:
found further offshore but adjasent:

Tracing these subsurface,
historic shore lines ig complicated.
bythe presence of bays, bars, spits.
and other shore features, Krumbein
said. ~A farther difficulty is ~flies
cost: of.drilling which ranges from,
$100,000 to a million dollars for sink-;
ing an oil well,~~ he said. ~~Becatise

cs cael ~ ~ thi ~Grilling, it is/ad-,
' J vantageous ent the data,
~dbtained By with data on.

Son es ee a PRINT *F

mort "abundant sources of tthar~

ts: gerierating~ more
electricity than it can use, and soon~

pape reco

Act to aiprove'.;
| Work Conditions

ACCRA; ~GOLD COAST, 'W.
AFRICA ~ ANP ~ Three labor
i] developments ~here indicate: that: African workers ére determined
to improve their: own ~Wérk: cohditions... * # 64:0 3T ART OT

On May12, nedly 300~ African
tworkers df the Overseas Brewer-:
ies Ltd., a Swiss-ownéd company,
~| laid~ down their: tools~ and: walked | <
out; Among them: wers ~mechaniés, carpenteérs, masons, packers.
bottlers; boilér attendants~~ dna
drivers. ines? i? + Fa

They demanded (1), reasonable
wage increases: (2) free hospital,

+e ees ee Saas at lt

needed:

now: in:
ot:

- through -mi-|; flying: splinters. during, bottling
operations; we re-instatement of
/jone African employe, dismissed
siifor trade union activity; (4) sick
foe! | lésve with full tpalt (5) edrhpere
- Msation for setiotd ~irijisied* atid
pe) estra-pay-for overtime ~work.
~The leeal~ makager, who speaks
al Tike ~a ~German; ~was ~most ~hdstile
"| to the~ strike ~demands, but~ the
(| @ompany~s diréctor~in ~Gwitzerg' | land concedéd ~the ~workers~ tlaim
41 anid~ peacefully settled: the strike:
forty strike breakers, émploved
t/ By the hostile manager, were dis* | whissed. The strikers received Puiba ~lie support. Afri~an women gave
4 faites ahd one Africatr worhan donated ~large sum~of money. ~~'
Afriéan - hospital~ workers, ~:| eluding~: nurses, midwives,

~in~ais
~| pensing' chemist!" ~cooks, ' ~medical

years: <It usually. in: gand-:
| Seite whic it seeps from th r. attendants, washertheri, child wel: (~\6
tae ~porous rocks. ~ *-+1|'fare workers and maternity wel: |,
Sandstone is formed: from beachel~ fare~ workers,'marched en~ riage |
af prehistoric seas... By lea recently to the~ diectdt~~ of medi- |

~Cal ~services and placed.~ ~their
grievances~ before him: He~ ~prom:
ised an, ~immediate ~government
investigation. *~

Following this, Aftitan mental
nurses of the~ local mental hospital demonstrated~ ~to ~~air their
grievances ~against~ unsitistactory
working conditions. ~ ~

Se

Back TEPC or
Fedéral Jobe;
UPW C10" Told

| NEW YORK ~~ ANP: enn

\ by ~the:

others

near~ | URW
cooperate fully ~with internation+
al's~ Anti-Discrimination. commis~
pre-;| of a fair employment practices
commission, for: fovernment ~
here, recently.

The request came féotd International President Abram.Flaxer,
wha pointed out thet the proposal,for, the FEPC..in: government
iobs,, originally, outlined by
UPW~s Anti-Discrimination com:

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| Sanizations. e~ ~Janet ~

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Lomas aes

pO agencies of the federal govern
pate The evidence collected was, Submitted ~Girectly to President

begs and*at ~hearing? before: tl silat ll om,
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end executive incitcir: 08; le
-CIO | Incals were! iitysdy ito i

iom to secure; the establishment ~

mission, was receiving. widespread!)
ee support frqm;-many nenpentet ~ores
Je lamer noni |:
ee wid, a butte shal of te tn uP took the fead ~ in, present-.
h int éonerete evidence of a pattern.
~of job ~discrimination, against race}
ial and religious, minor ity. groups::

Jauiched:. -2.. renewed. Adorned.
to... win. equality im govern: } colored. | Plaxer,, ia. his; Jetter sto socal}.

jest De Hi canateer
|Negr ser Oni" wt
gi Soe ANP = ~Authiorscientist Julian Lewis: oe

July issue~ of Negro Digest~ ~that
~Contrary to the~ medical!
eldiming~ disétige~ is~ no~'1
~Of tace, siekles cant ghee wile
affects anyone who is not of ARE
can ~descent eae nats

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A very, serious: malady,ot, which
there is no, discovered cure, sickle
cell anemia is also, the,,.only
known disease which. is, complete;
ly confined, to a-single races dv

A, relatively. new.. disease;,continues: Dr, Lewis, whovis a contri
huting editer of Negro; 4
whole. families..may, be, affected
by, the illness; Aceording,to Men+
del~s law of heredity, itis inherit:
ed..as.a dominant,.physical trait,

Discovered: in Chicago~s Central
Exee, dispensary, about; 26, wears
ago by. Dr. James Heorloheritek
disease distorts the, shape of;red
blood.conpuseles... into: a-~. sickle
shape. It.is from, this trait; that
the disease. was;,named,,.., s+)

~There. is no. cure: for sickle: eek

| anemia at. present,~ the, Negro
Digest. article states. fHoweyen,

blood. transfusions prove of, yalue

ut improyement-is transitory,and
treatment, has, to be repeated,-;.;',

~This dogs inot: mean that-ture

-is impossible, + for.. seiéntists. are
~ already at work developing pron+

ising ideas which, if successful,

will mean~ the saivihig~ bf

ands ~6f lives~ AL 4A ch iit
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~Long: Bes, Gini: Dare sien
4 long, busi that:can. ~turn.vshont:
corners has been. patented by a Cal-.

ut, Fa eee ate

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sige. The aa iby feting
the ~enter = rae er vd) rasli~c
system controlled pt the steering
wheel = OE =

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