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VOLUME NUMBER 19

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Vermont Christian

Church to

Present Rosa L. Kimp Sunday

Sunday, July 27, 1947, the Vermont Christiar~ Church under
the direction of the Rev. Thomas
W. Courts will preent another
great musical festival. Featired
in this great extravaganza _ is
Flint~s First Lady of Dramatic
Aris. Mrs. Rosa L. Kimp.

~ Mrs. Kimp i3 a former resident
of Detroit, Mich. In Detroit Mrs

ford Avenue Baptist Church
which has: the mil-tant leader
Charles A. Hill as pastor. In the
city of Detroit Mrs. Kimp beeame known, loved and respected ai a great dramatic connoisseur of fine poetic works. Those

and sce her will love the ~loftness of mind~ and greatness of
purpose that belongs to such a
talented individual.

~ Come one. tome all, come grat
~comer ~mall, come and let Mrs.
Rosa L. Kimp take vou upon the
awe jnspiring.. breathless insn~rational. ines of the poetic

_~dreams'of the masters put to
words.:

Also appearing on this program
will be such talerfied artists as
Harrison McGee the young teenage vertuoso of the piano. Mss
Margaret Smith an attractive soprano who, has a voice like a rare
nightingale. Tho-e of you who
heird Miss Smith in June will
agree that she has nece%sary
qualifications to make a really
great artist.

Mr. Rudolph Scott, Flint~; native son will alo be present, to
send you drifting in~o the ethér
with his marvelous rendition of
the classics. Mrs. Gwendylon

Glover of Blades St., whose music ~

*s something to hear, will also
appear.

There are other artists too numerous to list whovadd that extra something to any program.
This grand extravaganza of mucic is given under the auspic2s of
the Vermont
located at 2018 Dwight near Pingree, Sunday, July 27, 4-6 p. m.

The Rev. Thomas W. Courts
extends his welcome.

~ Inadequate iases, Main Worry

Among Los Angeles Negroes, Says
Atty. Miller, Blames FHA Policy

~LOS ANGELES ~ ANP ~ The
main worry confronting the city~s
160,000 Negro population ~is not
job - discrimination, ~but inadequate housing, according to Atty.
Loring Miller here last week.

He laid blame for the dearth
of dééent living places to realty
interésts arid the Federal Housing administration policies which
provoke irritation amd racial
outbreaks.;

(PHA has frequently broken its
promises to Negroes and other
minority groups in the interest of
the monied interests, he declared
in accusing the agency here and
elsewhere of fostering a jim crow
policy. ~

He pointeu out that the migration~ of Negroes to- Los Argeles,
boosting the group~s population

ent 150,000 was not the cause of
race friction here, but the denial
of the. right fo move out of tight
ghettoes alone.

The heavy concentration of Ne
advantages, such as the appointment of Negro police, firemert
and school teachers, he said. The
loss of community betterment,
however, outweighs the professional employment gained. He revealed that Negro firemen are all
in two separate-units and that
the police were not seen to operate outside the black belt.

A few persons who have acquired property in the Sugar
Hill area have not beer permitted to occupy it, he revedied,
pointing out that whites resisting the inroads of colored dwellers in their areas were ~mainly
speculators who wanted to make
this area into small apartments
and deluxe rooming houses, and
not the original owners arfd occu
* He gcotched the popular belief
that# the return of the Japanese
brought about undue friction between the two groups. Though
young hoodlums have to a degree annoyed some of the merchants in the one-time ~~Little
Tokyo~ area and marty Japanese
have ~hired private police to proteet their interests, he said this
was not of major importance.
~ -White real:estate firnis are
prone to exaggerate racial friction, either~ to carry on the ex-,ploitation in the ghetto, or to
create an unuasual demand for
old. houses on ~their hands.~
Atty. Miller, who is a board
~ member: of the American Civil
~Liberties union, came to Los An~ geles 15 years ago from Kansas.
Active-in~NAACP and Urban

_| Blaines

~ Jeague affairs, he said he was
once considered: ~pink in polities

jut is now considered by Communists as a traitor to the cause
of democratic imperialism and an
enemy of those who love Negroes
hysterically.~

He pointed out that Communists made friends through the
housing situation ~mainly because the good church people talk
a good t but rarely carry on
one with sincerity and.intelligence.~ The majority,6f Negroes
are not interested in good race
relations, chiefly because back in
the south they omly knew the
bad relations. He criticized many
leaders as race patriots who refuse to hold the broad view..,

Not only are whites engaged
in keeping the Negro. contingent
Subjugated but also some of the
younger Negroes, who, upon. returning home from war service,
have: bought. many shady _businesses. which are rolling im coin
and helping to exploit the whole
community.

NAACP Increases
Membership

The NAACP met. at the Mt.
Calvary Baptist Church, Sunday,
July 20, 1947. Mr. J. P. Bryant,
Attorney Elisha Scott, Jr., and
Mr. Harrison Johnson made won
derful reports covering the Nat- |.

ional ~Convention in Washington,
Dec.

The NAACP Membe. hip Drive
has beer strengthened by 113
members with Augusta Turnipseed leading the field with 56
new members, Mrs. J. Anderson
running second - with 18. The
drive will be ~ontinued until December, -and the person getting
the largest amount over fifty wil)
receive a trophy.

Raymond-Mitchell
Express Thanks

Mr. E. J. Raymond and Mr.
Jack Mitchell; promoters of the
Ballroor, Dance last
week wish to express their sincere thanks for all those attending and with their continued support they will Ary to give the
city of Flint, dances ~second to
none in Michigan at reasonable
prices. Their next attraction will
be_on the gnd of August from 9
til 1, Eddie Woods and his band
will furnish the miusic.. Plan
your party now and come out for
a big night of fun. Corttact Raymond or Mitchell for tickets.

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~ROSA L. KIMP FEATURED IN

FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947

MRS. ROSA L. KIMP

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British Imperialists Delaying India~s
Independence; ~Wall Street~ Barons
Inciting Disunity Between Grout

_., By.D. Ac Sx Chari.

NEW DELHI, India ~ ANP. ~
India~s independence, anrfounced
by the British Labor government
as beginning by June, 1948, will
have'trouble becoming a reality.
Blame for this lies at the door of
British commercial and financial
interests im this country, along
with reactionary civil service of
|ficials and officers of the Indian

army, who are doing their worst
to delay the realization of independence from the British empire.

From Peshawar on India~s extreme northwest border to Imphal on the farthest northeast,
British imperialists are trying to
disrupt Indians and destroy their
unity, and also to set her various
communities warring with each
other.

It was the British barons of
Calcutta~s * Olive Street ~ the
Indian equivalent of Wall street
~grown fat on the blood of poor,
exploited Indian jute and tea
growers, who encouraged the
Moslems to demand the division
of India into two religious states,
For the last 10 years, the British
have thrown their weight behind
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, president
of the All-India Moslem league,
who has been demanding that
India be divided into Pakistan,
where Moslems would rule, and
Hindustan,..a | Hindu-governed
state. British imperialists were
awaré that the separation would
not be feasible and that- its
achievement would greatly impoverish both groups, -but they
also were aware that Moslem agitation for theweaken India~s national demand
for freedom: +

That their plar is working oud
~s attested to by the fact that at
qa time when India stands on the
hreshold of freedom, the country~s 90 millién Moslems and 270
nillion Hindus are fighting each
other.:

In the wworthwest Frontier prosince, British. political agents aré
errcouraging the fanatic, lawless
tribesmen to prépare themselves
for a.mass invasion of India next
summer.. Already, this group has
Jaunched its ~British-inspired
work by carrying on mirior expeditions into Indian territory, looting, murdering and kidnaping
neaceful citizens living near the
border.~

Another

division ~ would:

~Hay Ride

al ye the; is. among |..
tthe: "562 ceniees ~who rule ~wih
unrestrained autdcracy better
than a quarter of the coun'ry~s
population. The strategy in this
section is to tell medieval maharajah amd nawabs that Britain
might not quit India by next
year, in an effort to keep them
from joining Jawaharlah Nehru
and the Indian National. congress.

It was at the bidding of British
political agents that Jam Sahew
of Nawanager.. one of_ India~s
worst tyrants, flew to London recently for a conference with Winston Churchill. Some of these
petty princes are now dreaming
of ruling over independent, sovereign states with the aid of
British imperialism

British reactionaries in Bengai, who control a strong bidck
in the provincial legislature, have
Supported the gule of a yery -nefficient government ~ a governmertt which has proved iiself
incapable of maintaining law and
order and preventing mass murders of innocent citizens. They
are also behind the~ move-to declare Bengal an independent state
next year, thus bringing about
additional barrier in India~s step
toward independence.

The selfi-same stoiy is being repeated in Sind, another Indian
province saddied by British reactionaries and having, perhaps, the
most currupt government in Asia,

So, despite British Socialists~
sincere efforts to transfer power
"to Indians, their moves are being
thwarted by the commercial artd
financial interests who realize
they cannot con tila e to exploit
Indians in a fre, fountry. They
also know tHat~ ultimately they
would have to quit the country.
Hence their determination to
leave India in chaos and disorder.

Barn Dance and

There will be a Barn Dance
and Hay Ride combined Saturday, August 2, 1947. Trucks.will
leave the Chew. & Chat at 7:30 p.
m. and will go out to Wright~s
Farm in Mt. Morris. Refre-hments will be served free, and

|Mmess of being alive, and a part,

|the next is endless night, hope
THE BANNER
LINE

By Mel Banner

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They do not think as they once

thought before,

Long ago

They do not gare for things they
used to do,

And know.

Aman is through when his
heart, that! something heart, no
longer feels the. ethereal happi
a vital: part of all that therein
be. A man is through when he no.
longer thrills to a loved ones
~mile, or.a baby~s kiss,

A man is. through wher he
cannot see the beautiful colora- |.
tions of a heralded dawn, the j.
elm of noond>* 1" 1e and: the}
deep. quiet, prirnlo of an evening
semen~. When he no long>*r scss
the trees in their green m2: ienty,
but only the endle-s; snares bitween the leaves that Icad nq-|
where.:

A man is through when he np
longer feels the need to do bet, |
ter tomorrow, than he is doing
today, and that he did yesterday.
A man is through when one |
day is the same as the next, and

lessly long
A-man is through when he no.
longer sees or. feels the need for
infinite mercy from or to his er
low man..

A man. is through when ll: he
is: and all he. ever. wanted to.be
Hes unheeded~ jnrthe chapy o of:
h's. mind. a

ot
coe all faith anc jt under--
standing have~been. deliberdtely
~washed away. by his own individual actions.

A man is though when: the.
last feeble sparks of Faith, Hope,
and Charity vanish vainly into a
never ending limbo, and he: himself does not wish to return.

A man is through then,

And not until then!

Baptism
Rites Held

Sunday, July 20th the Elm
Park Church of God in Christ
heid. baptism rites. for fourteerr
candidates at the foot of Dwight
Ave. and Thread Lake. A crowd
of three hundred or more attended the ceremonies with Eld. T.
R, Harris pastor} officiating. An
inspiring sermon. was rendered
by Rev. L.'H. Harlson,.entitled
~The Guide.~ Music was supplied
by the Peace Makers: Band of
Flint.

DEPENDABLE Experienced
women for housework. - Please
register your names and qualifications with the Flint Spokesman Office. Call 5-3338. State
whether or not you will live on
job.:

Woman Is Acquitted in
Bathtub Death in England

sina Ann Cornock, 34, an expectant
mother, was acquitted of a charge
of murdering her husband, Cecil;
found dead in a bathtub at théig
home,

The jury of 10 men and 2 womes
deliberated an hour and 18 mimutes
after three days of testimony. -

The prosecution charged that Mrs,
Cornock, in love with another man,!
bludgeoned her husband-to death
with a toy boat. ~ t

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Yank Soldier Finds His WAC

| Band Holds 1st
District Meeting

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BRISTOL, ENGLAND.~Mrs. Ro:| |

Unity Scsihing

"The District Unity Sunshine
Band will hold their first district
meeting at.the Church of God in
Christ on Selby St. Wednesday,
July 30 through August 2. Mrs.
Erma~ Harris, district president,
presiding. Eld. James Markam,
pastor.

Marry. outstanding speakers and
of town guests, will be ~presvent. -An: interesting program will
~be prevented each night and mu
junior! choirs. ~Everyone. is - cor~ pavited.

| Flintites Blevated; In Masonry ~

In. a ~fitt? rg. ceremony: held- by
Rose. of: Sharon Lodge. No. 4 Mr.
| Johnson. Buchanan, W. ~Dabney,
Thomas.. ~L. Lightfoot and Major
Brown was elevated in Masonry,
during the past -week.

~The Lodge was the host to the
Gtonii Lecturer, Illustrious Riley
Davis, of the most worshipful,
King of David. Grand Lotige. Past
Grand Lecturer, Arthur R. Mixén and ~Bro. C. Burns, of Detroit.
Mx, ~R. ~L. Rivers, ~Master of the

was assisted~ by past masgf E,: sand~ Lucius Fleming.

eg B ~Townsend '
Grand. Junior ~Doacor. Mr. R. L,
Rivers was made chairman of the
mene Board of Relief.

Louis e.

Acclaims Ten
Men of Song

The Ten Men of Song with
their, accompanist and director,
Mrs. G. Smith conquered new
fields wher~they sang to a packed house at the Quinn Chapel
AME Church in Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, July 20th. The
church reputably - Louisville:
largest colored church has a seating capacity of 1800 people.

Their interesting, varied, and
excellently rendered program
drew raves of applause from the
audience. Their popularity is attested too by the fact that they
are booked for a return engagement in the near future. The
group was accompanid by Mrs.
Thera-a Thomason.

ONE; YEAR OLD CELEBRATES
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Wife Shot to Death in Reich

Evelyn William Hickey, a WAC, was
was found shot-to death in her billet
here, military officials reported. The~
nature of the shooting was not dis- |
closed.~ Her body was found by
T/Sgt. Lawrence Hickey, to whom
she was married last October. She
was assigned to duty with the administrative division of the office of
chief of counsel for war crimes.
Army records listed her mother ay

no cars will be permitted on the
premises.

ie Reita ~_ of Owosso, Mich -

NUERNBERG; GERMANY.~T/4__

piste Elizabeth Wezley celebrated her first birthday Tuesday,
July 8 at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Metcalfe.
She is the timy daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Parker baci ds
2018 Seymour.

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~sic, will be supplied by the Peace.
Makers: Band and the:senior and | _

1S~ sopainied BF

41 Stuyvesant

MiSS SPOKESMAN OF THIS WEEK is beautiful Juanita Mills,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mills of 1221 Alabama St. Miss_

Mills is a graduate of Northern High School, class of ~47 and is.

an active member of the Debutante Club. Juanita likes to play
the | piano, dance, swim, and ice skating is her favorite. She
a Administration.

plans to. attend Michigan State Normal College to major in Busi
~Association for
Colored
People and the Americar Jewish

~The National
the. Advancement of

Congress announced yesterday

-| (Thursday) that a brief had been

filed with Supreme Court Justice
Felix C! Benvenga in New York
County asking that the Metropolitan~ Life Insurance Company
and Stuyvesant Town Corporation be enjoined from continuing
its discriminatory rental practices
in its tax-exempt Stuyvesant
Town development. The plaintiffs in the action are three Negro war veterans: Joceph Dorsey, Monroe Dowling, and Calvin
Harper, who alleged that they
had applied for apartments in
Stuyvesant Town but, in view of
the latter~s announced policy of
discrimination, would be rejected. Contending that public aid
had made the ninety million dollar project possible, the brief
argues ~that a constitutional obligation rests upon the defendants
to extend equal protection of the
law to all applicants.

Describing the cnafacter of
Town, the brief
pointed out its resemblance to a
principality rather than a housing development, masmuch as it
consists of 18 city blocks, covering more than two and half million square feet of land of which
750,000 square feet were original-.
ly public streets. The brief went
or to siate that these streets are
now enelosed and included by
contract with New York City as
an integral part of the site. The
project will house within the enclosure a population of 24,000
people in an area which will be
clearly marked as private. I~ is
in effect, the brief states, a ~sate
-llite~ city administered by a pri
vate government:
That there was damger of con
| tagion from the discrimination

practiced by a project the size
of Stuyvesant lown was outlined
in the brief with the statement
that, ~If the new neighborhood
patterns of New York State and

the Uni States aré to be based
on the ry of ségregation,
segregation im neighborhood

schools, in playgrounds; in shop
American Jewish Congres,

marked off into areas le sia his
clusive gad the excluded, the
involuntary ghetto will have be:
come an unalterable American
institution. For, once the racial
compos.tion of the new neighborhoods is. fixed, they cannot be
easily changed, particularly if
they are as rigidly controlled as
Stuyvesant Town would be with
all the freedom from public interference it asserts it has.~

The attorney for the plaintiffc
is Charlés Abrams, former coun<
se].for the New York City Housing Authority, and Will Masloy
and Thurgood Marshall as general counsel for the American
Jewish Congress and the N. A.

A. C. P.; respectively.

U.H.S. A.
Spiritualist
Church Presents.
Singers

On Sunday, July 27, 1947,.at
3:00 p. m., the U. H. S. A. Spiritualist Church, 3322 Blvd.. Dr.
will present af outstanding children~s quartet of today and other
quartets. Come one, come all to
hear Yhese great singers filym
Pontiac, Mich. as we are looking
forward to a great time. Rev. M.
Forde is the pa_tor.

Skating Trip
Planned ~

Have vou heard of the Chicago Skating Trip? Well, the -bus
will leave the Chew and Chat
Saturday morning, August IB,
1947 and will arrive im Chigago
at 4:00 p. m. The fimt stop will
be the Warshington Park wihre
the group will unload for @*bit
of swimming, boating, ~+orseback or bicycle riding and then
6n to the Regale Theatre or-Savoy Skating Rink.

If you are planning on attend>
ing, reservations must be made
by August 9th by phoning 4-1562

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ping centers, in other public fa- vs contacting Mavis Smith..Bus

cilities, will result. If the na-jwill not return until, gen

tions neighborhoods are to ove evening.

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