The Michigan chronicle. [volume], July 22, 1939, CITY EDITION, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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North Enders Protest Poor Service On Oakland Lines
OAKLAND CAR
SERVICE HIT
BY CITIZENS
Cut In Runs Protested;
Committee Threatens
Boycott
Citizen* of Detroit's North-End |
»re protesting against the alleged
tao run cut ir< the Oakland avenue
street car run. Alleging that al
ready service oil t he Oakland line
i« inadequate, a committee met last
veek r.t the home of Ralph Chris
topher to discuss means of protest-
Ing the situation.
A five minute wait between cars
Is. it has been reported, the Oak- |
land avenue schedule, with the j
cutting of any more cars this wait j
will be increased to eight or ten j
Cars Overcrowded
In addition to longer waits, in
Comparison to other lines in the 1
city the group pointed out that
the Oakland was overcrowded! Al-;
losing that in spite of the fact that
the average capacity of the Peter ;
DeWitt car now in use by the DSR
is approximately 144 persons, it is
trore per?nr:s herded irttn nc v«r •
during rush hours and more passed t
up at stops because there is abso- I
Jutely no room for them in the j
In view of this fact the citizenry
of the North-End Oakland avenue
area are a bit ruffled at the two
run cut aready in effect on the
—The must comfort able cars avail- -
able are on the Woodward. Grand
River. Jefferson and other lines
catering largely to white patronage, |
-The least we can expect is reason- j
ably prompt service.”
Threaten Boycott
If the Oakland avenue a .com*
modations are r.ot in some way m- ,
proved. following an invest gut.o.t
the committee has announced its
2 Policy Men
Given Freedom
William Cook. 444 Brush street
and Floyd McKiver, 1995 Chestnut
street were given a suspended sen
tence for possession of gaming ap
paratus before Recorder's Judge
Thomas M. Cotter, Tuesday morn
ing.
Both men had been arrested at
IMS St Antoine street, September
19. 1938. Cook admitted that the
police officer bad reached into his
hip pocket and found a policy bet
ting book. While McKiver admitted
he dropped a book behir.d a par
tition on the appearance of police.
The judge asked for and was
given an explanation of what was
meant by the term a "personal
book” by the defense attorney
After commending the defendants
on their honesty and seemingly good
character. Judge Cotter suspended
their sentence
Sergeant Walker was the officer
in the case. Cecil Rowlette of th*;
Lewis. Rowlette firm represented
the defendants.
Sift Drowning Os
Alabama Woman
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. July 21 -
Authorities here are holding two
men in connection with the drown
ing of Mrs. Ida Patterson who was
given a death-ducking in Little Ca
haba river last week during a
swimming party.
It is alleged that Calvin Reed and
Clifford Downey deliberately held
Mrs. Patterson under the water un
til she had almost drowned. When
she came up struggling and an
other swimmer attempted to save
her. the men prevented it.
It is rumored that one of the men
had had an affair with the victim
end a short rime before the drown
ing her husband. Dan Patterson,
had had words with him.
Property Pioneer
Ik
CHARLES T. JONES
Is a pioneer in the field of real
estate for Negroes in Northern
Michigan, lie has recently pur
chased a hotel in Mackinaw and
transformed it into one of the
finest in that territory Situated
on Carp Lake, one of the most
exclusive in me country. Mr.
Jones is also the owner of aporox
imaieiy seven mooern collages
all furnished and ready for oecu-
Lodge In
Its Annual
Observation
The Lodges courts and Eastern
Star chapters of Detroit, working
under the Pride of the East Grand
lodges. Free and Accepted Ancient
York Masions will sponsor July 23
at New Bethel Baptist church their
annual St John's Day observation
program. The event will take place j
a*. 3 p. m.. New Bethel is located at
the corner of Hastings at Willis
streets.
At 1 pm. a monster parade will
leave the Eastern Market, proceed
north on Rivard to Willis, west on |
Willis to Hastings, to the church
where the program will be held.
At the conclusion of the program
the line of march will continue west
on Willis to St. Antoine, south on
St. Antoine to Adams, east on Ad- :
arm to Hastings and thence north
to the lodge's headquarters at 2026
Hastings where a banquet will be
William J. Fitzpatrick la state
grand master.
2 Citizens Serve
On Texas Juries
AUSTIN. Texas. July 21—Two
citizens of Travis county, Andrew
Anderson and Eugene Johnson, are
among the first members of the
Race to serve on a trial jury in this
county since Reconstruction days
llt is eujtnmary sot the Race to
excused from jury service by agree
ment of attorneys, but these two
were permitted to serve by attor
neys who used the scratch method
of selecting the juror. They served
as jurors in a damage suit brought
by an Austin nurseryman against
Detroit Methodists
End Annual Meet
j DETROIT. Mich. July 21. The
Detroit District C ME. conference
I closed its nineteenth annual session
here last week, following reports
; and discussions of church activ
ities for the past year.
{ Bishop James A. Bray, presided
i over the conference. He stated that
i the theme. "The Place of the Chris- j
| tian Church in Modern Life." was
I well 'Covered by numerous church- j
men from all parts of the state,
i among whom were Rev. WM.
; Crain. Rev J. A. Gallimore. Rev. 1
, Mrs P Irvin, and Rev. Mrs. Susie j
Wisdom.
RACE TOUT HELD
I On the lookout for persons touting
| James Lester. 34. of 651 E. Adams
street for touting. They accused him
I o? touting races at the State Fa r I
Grounds, it was reported this week
Guild To Take 70
Children To Fair
NEW YORK, July 21—Selection
of 70 children, sons and daughters
of performers was being completed i
this week by a committee from the j
Negro Actors Guild of America
Inc., who will play host to the
youngsters on a full-day trip to the
World's Fair. The excursion, slated
for July 26 was made possible
through a patron of the guild who
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TERMS TO SUIT
EDWARD DAVIS. Ctntril Manage, |AMES WEATHERS. Salat Manage,
Prominent Arkansan
Dies From Heat Stroke
MARKED TREE. Ark,, July 21.-
Funeral services were held for
Mrs. Cora Lee Rodgers, prominent
dress designer of this city, at the
St. Stephen Baptist church here
early this week She died sud
denly last week when the intense
he*t proved too much for her heart.
Surviving are her widower, a
daughter, a s.s'.cr. two grandchil
dren. several other relatives and a
host of friends.
Interment was in the family plot
here.
Automobiles built at an Italian
plan* are tested on a race track con
structed ».n the roof of two factory
building s.
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N.Y. Priest
Opens Job
Bureau
I Because the Rev Michael F Mul
j voy. C.S.Sp.. pastor of St. Mark's
j church in Harlem believe# that
I highly skilled colored workers and
l professional men have a rignt to
the kind of work ther are fitted
for he started a job bureau which
has been very successful.
In the first three months of its
operation Fathei Mulvoy has found
•vork for 71 persons. To have ob
tained work for 50 during the first
3ear. because of the many diffi
culties and condtions. would have
been a good start. On very short
notice Father Mulvoy can supply
teachers. nurses. stenograhers.
typists, social workers, carpenters,
painters. electricians. salesgirls,
draughtsmen, printers, auto me
chanics masseurs, and other skill
ed workers He has never yet fail
ed to fill the oill when he learned
of an opening for a Negro, and the
best- applicant gets the job. what
ever his religion or politics may be.
Some of the applicants have A B.
nr M A degrees .and half of them
have from two to three years col«
:lege training.
t Jobs already found mean an add
‘ ed income of $75,000 a year for Her
i lem and in Harlem, where more
h*lf~of- the people are on re
j Her. $75,000.00 is a lot of money.
Pa. Student Wins
Scholastic Award
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. July 21.
John Powell Trent. 18. was award
ed a $1,600 Simon Muhr scholarship
last Monday, marking the first time
in the history of the trust, a Race
member has received the award.
Young Trent, an honor student
at the Benjamin Franklin high
school, was the only Race valedic
torian in the city for 1939, and the
first one in over a decade. He plans
to enter the University of Pennsyl
vania Law school.
of the North Detroit Council at a
first annual breakfast on Belle Isle
Sunday morning.
Youth Groups
Plan Fall
Activities
With a successful year's program |
completed, leaders from the* six :
councils constituting the Detroit ,
Multiple NAA C P Youth Council
Antoine Y.M.C A to plan and pre
pare a better program for the fu-
Prior to planning the future years'
programs. Nesbit Patton and Glos
ter Current reviewed briefly the
proceedings of the 30:h annual N.
AAC.P. conference Mr Current
related the praise lauded upon the
Detroit Youth Councils and senior
branches at the conference, but he
cautioned the youth councils that
their real work yet. for the mo.st
art. lies ahead of them
Vacation Club
1 Miss Frances Leonard submitted
| a final report of the vacation club
The report disclosed that the Vaca
tion club was successful, enabling
some 30 youths to attend the
N A A C.P. conference at a very low
j Subscriptions for the trip,to the
1940 NAA C P conference, to be
| held in Philadelphia, Pa., will be
I taken in September.
The concluding rep & Jtf<rd w.<~
' that relative to thop'c.t.wwl# debate
i tournament held on socializod^medi-1
1 oine. The repertr-made hy Leonard :
H resigning program
I chairman, was accepted with com- 1
mendation.
Youth Training Institute
Asa first item on this conference
year’s program, the youth councils
I are calling a city-wide youth lead
ers!!.p training conference to be
' held at the Great Lakes Country
, dub. A"ir.iU lft. IQ, and 20th. More
information regarding the institute
will be released at a later date.
The job campaign which has
netted over 50 jobs to Negro youth
will be continued with renewed
vigor and intensity.
October will remain an open
month for individual council acti
vities. Plans further call for more
j extensive work in the field of edu
cation, establishment of city-wide
forums, a greater membership
drive, a greater Christmas seal drive
1 and more anti-lynching agitation.
The Youth Councils were guests
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Fascists Aim New
Law At Africans
ROME. July 21—In addition to
1 the existing race “purity" laws, the
fascist government is preparing a
new law to punish Italians and na
tives in Italy's African colonies'
i for "crimes against the Italian race's
I prestige.'
One of the new laws decrees]
punishment for acts "committed by ;
a citizen who abuses his quality
il belonging to the Italian race or
;.alls short of the duties incumbent
upon him ir. the presence of natives,
thus diminishing in their minds the
moral figuie of the Italians.’
Natives who do anything to lower
the prestige of the Italian "race"
, will also be severely punished.
Italians arc forbidden to have so
cial relations with natives or to fre-
I quent places "reserved" for natives.
Floyd Turnham Scores
LOS ANGELES. Calif.. July 21-
Floyd Turnham's sensational band
is scoring a hit at the Paradise
chro Featured in band are Oscar
j Bradley, the drum wizard who con-
I stantly stops the show; Walter Wil-
I Lam*, trumpet, often called little
j Satchmo. for hitting high C'a;
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Harlem. Miss Champy is the
who the management
boasts knows her way about what
the best dressed men should wear,
tier taste at matching ensembles
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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1939
Ex-Slaves *
Head Asked
To Canada
Professor S. R William*, national
director of the Williams Ex-Slave
Bonus Plan Sponsoring committee,
is in the receipt of an invitation
from the British American Asso
ciation of Colored Brethren, of
Windsor, Canada, to be their Amer
ican representative at the 106th
Emancipation Celebration which
will be held on August 1.
The nighlight of the day will
be the presentation of a copy of
England* proclamation, emancipat
ing the slaves in the British Em
pire In 1833. The historic docu
ment will be presented to the asao
lation by the Post Master General
of Canada
Two Women Seek
Death And Fail
Two women attempted suiside last j
week-end for the same reason, only
they used different poisons in the.r |
I desire to end it all.
On Friday Leth:a Rankin. 28. of
141 Henrie street drank a half bottle
|of lysol when pressing family
trouble drove her to desponden’
i and morbid thoughts, she told
police.
A day later 25-year-old Gladys
McClain, age and address unknown
out married, became so depressed
-;he coated the tip of her tongue with
copper sulphate in her desperate
attempt to take her life, according
o hospital attaches
Both women are expected to re
cover after being treated at Receiv
ng hospital with an antidote to
counter-act the poison they had
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