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Newsboys Celebrate Launching Os ‘New’ Chronicle
SALES CONTEST
TO TOTAL $250
IN CASH PRIZES
Contest Was Opened On
June b. Closes On
August 22
Approximately 300 newsboys and,
the r mothers were on hand la*? |
Wednesday afternoon at Brewster
Cente r t hear drtai.s concerning ,
the 1942 Newsies’ Sales contest be
ing launched by thi "Bigger and |
Better" Michigan Chronicle.
S?SO In Cash Prires
To Be Given Winner*
Two hundred and fifty dollars
Ir. cash prizes w-;:i be d.stributed j
which began official'y. June 6. The !
* ent v ... be conc.-.ded An? • j
12
Cash grand prizes w.’.l be award* ;
Westepn and Eastern du-tr cts ar.d
the tnree top sellers of each agent |
lion prizes w;i, be awarded otner
Increase In Sale*
Basis of Points
During tne first week of the
Contest each newsie w..l be given:
three points for each paper so.d |
Suosequent week will feature t r.e j
awarding of points only in cases
where an increase in sales has been
made.
Newsies are urged to register
Immediately fur the contest with
the agent from whom they secure
their papers. Districts are as fol
lows:
Lower East Side
Miss Mamie Duke. 1470 East Fort
street; Mr Hayes. 2385 E. Fort j
free--’ Mrs Hutchins. 2240 Antie- ,
tarn street: Mr Peoples. 1341 Chene \
g‘reet: and Mrs Hawks. 2139 Mad- |
Is in avenue
Central District: James Colvard. ,
Held m.'tribuior: Michigan Chron- 1
icie office. 268 Eliot street.
Uptown District: Mrs Warren,
6836 Hastings street: James Col
vard, 680 East Ferry street; Mr.
Fort. 4715 Hastings street; Mrs.
Da via. 1138 Harper a venue
North End: Miss Seaton, 958 Eu-
'./; fs, .[ , ' r -. ",y,' m
Pictured above is a section of the Knife and Fork
restaurant. A clean, modern, home like citing place
for the Westsider This restaurant is located at 4208
West Warren. Why not stop in sometime and try
jing the Correct Value Upon Small
Things."
The party was under the dree*.
:i,»n of Viss Grace R Huggins of
the Michigan Chron.cle staff who!
presided .n the aoseuce of James
Colvard. c.rculation manager and !
arranged the program
A ga.a "ice cream ar.d cookie" j
session followed the program.
Army Accepting
Parachutists Now
The Army will now accept appli
cations from TnfanTry, Cavalry anJ
Field Artillery nff.cer* for assign
ment to tne Airborne Command for
parachute training, the War De
partment announced today.
The qualificat on? required of
both officers and enlisted men for
duty in the Airborne Command are
rig.d. The Army will accept f.ir
such duty only alert, ae ve. supple
men. capable of development in:o
aggressive individual fighters. Noj
majors over 40 years of age. or
captains and lieutenants aver 32
may qualify Enlisted men must be
between the ages of 18 and 32.
Applicants may not be more than
72 inches tall, nor weigh more than
185 pounds. A thorough medical and
physical exam.nation is given ail
applicant*. No man will be quali
fied unless his distant vision is
20*40, uncorrected, or better. Those
with flat feet also will b- rejected,
and all will be disqualified who
lack normal mobility in every joint,
have poor or unequally developed
musculature or who have poor co
ordination. A systolic blood pres
sure above 140 or diastolic blood
p. _>ssure above 90 disqualifies an
applicant.
elid avenue; Jordans Confection
ary. 9314 Cameron.
Hamtramck: Mrs. Hall, 3905 Eva
line street.
Conant Gardena: Mrs. Wallace.
18675 Klinger avenue; Mrs. L*la
Hendricks. 18774 Gallagher avenue.
Elrht Mile Road: William Patton.
10761 Woodside.
West Side: John Logan. 6074
Woodrow avenue; Mrs. Bonner,
6523 Firwood avenue; Mrs. Bette
Ellington, 5242 Vinewood avenue;
Mrs. Rumford. 5392 Scotten ave
nue; Mrs. Timmie Fant, 5692. 24th
Newsies Feted With Party
In addition to hearing details of
the cont-st, the newsies were also
guests at their annual monthly
Chronicle party. Entertaining them
were Miss Dorothy who
played for their group ringing and
afterwards sang and whistled two
aongs for them herself; Mrs. Mablc
lent of the American
Bea Social and Ar• club who
•ang two solos for the group and
Samuel G.bbnns of the Cut Rate
Department store, who
the boys from the subject "Plac-
NAACP To Hold
Victory Night
Friday. June 12. is Victory Night j
in the N A.A.C.P. campaign which
clones with a mammoth report
meeting at the St. Antoine Y.M.C.A.
As the moit successful campaign
in the thirty-one years of the De-1
troit Association draws to a close. |
Daisy E. Lampkin, campaign dsec
tor. indicated that the goal of ten
thousand members will be reached.
With ermpetition remaining keen
between division leaders Mildred
Cross. army, Rev, Charles A. Hill,
navy. Prince Clark, labor, and
Gloster B Current, air corps, en
inary reports have indicated that !
the association can look forward to
the largest membership in the
m 35.
STOLE AUTO. HELD
Twenv-nine-year-old Charles
Reese of 3901 Nevada avenue was
arrested in Pontiac, Mich., and re
turned to Detroit to face a charge
of using and driving away an auto
belonging to William Bruton of
13529 Riopelle street, according to
police records.
The Buick was stolen at Leland
and Hastings street and recovered
in Pontiac, so police say.
Miteage of the world's highways has
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$2,700
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WEST SIDE DINING PLACE
the real home cooked meals. Mr. Searight, the
proprietor, is seen standing in the background with
his wife—Photo by Dickson.
Army Bride
M
MISS NAN M. GUISER. R.N.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
D. Guiser of Brookhaven, Miss.,
was married to Ist Lt. Harry L.
Riggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Riggs of Detroit, Mich.,
Saturday. June 6. at Tucson, Ari
zona. Lieut. Riggs graduated
from Wayne university in 1936
and the Howard university med
ical school in 1940. Then in
terned at Homer G. Phillips hos
pital for a year and v/a« serving
as resident physician there when
he received his army call. Prior
to going to Ft. Huachuca, where
he has been assigned, he took the
special officers course at the
U.S. Army medical school at
Carlisle Barracks, Pa. The Riggs
will be at home at Ft. Huachucn.
Mrs. Riggs graduated from Alex
ander high school in Brookhaven
She is the niece of Miss ..Cora F.
Wilkerson, 1157 Aubert avenue.
St. Louis, with whom she lived
| while serving on the nursing staff
at Isolation hospital until her de
parture for Arizona Inst week.
Two Features On
BTWA Program
I F::ial program presentation of the
Educat.anal project of the North
west branch of the Booker T. Wash
ington Trade association will be
made Sunday. June 14 at St. Cy
prian church, corner Twenty-eighth
and Milford street*
The event will feature two ses
•ons. At 11 a m. Father Malcolm G.
Dade, pastor of St. Cyprian Episco
pal church, will be guest speaker, at
■ .vner of the Supreme Linen agjd
Laundry will address the body.
Appeal To Business Persons
To Attend
A special appeal i.s being made to
business persons throughout the
city to attend this meeting by the
committee on arrangements. An
nual reports will be made covering
the past three years of activity of
:be organization. Fred W. Long of
Scotten avenue is chairman of the i
publicity committee of the Trade
Group branch
'i
DENIAL MADEBY
DEFENDANT IN
SNEAK SLAYING
Returned Here From
Cleveland; Face
Charge
John Coieitian, returned from
Cleveland last March to face a first
degree murder charge as the re
sult of the fatal shooting of David
Kennedy. 37. 455 Benton street, de
nied the charges whjle testifying
at his trial Tuesday. A jury of nine
women and three men heard the
trial in the court room of Record
ers Judge Joseph A. Gillis.
Coleman, on direct examination
by his attorney, Charles A. Rox
borough, said he had told detec
tivea in Cleveland that he did not
know anything about the shooting
of Kennedy. He also said that he
had left Detroit last September be
cause he had heard police were
searching for him because he had
Coleman was shot last August 30
as he sat by a window in the house
at 1503 Orleans street. He d.ed
t days later in Receiving hos
pital.
The state contended that Cole
man shot Kennedy following a
fight in front of a beer tavern
at Monroe and Orleans street a
short time before Kennedy was
slain. Shortly after midnight Cole
man had hit Miss Erma Mac At
kins, 974 Superior, a friend of Ken-
Wi’nesses testified that Kennedy,
on learning that Coleman had hi*.
Miss Atkins, knocking her out. had
sought her assailant, and on find
ing him, had started a fight, Cole
man fleeing. He is alleged to have
remarked: “I’ll be back and see
Witnesses also testified that they
saw Coleman getting in an auto
mobile across the street from the
house at 1503 immediately aficr the
fatal shot was fired through the
Mrs. Eva Jackson. 1942 Madison,
who was with Coleman when he
was arrested in Cleveland last
March 13, said she had received
a letter from him last December
20, and later went to Cleveland
to live. The couple was arrested
when they lodged a complaint with
police about the loss of $75.
Assistant Prosecutor Charles W.
Jones attempted to break down
Coleman's denial of the charge, but
the defendant remained steadfast
in his assertion that he was not
the man who fired the shot.
Omaha Labor
Institute Is
A Success
The Omaha Labor institute held
at the University of Omaha on May
23 and 24 has now become a matter
of history.
The primary function of the In
stitute was to deal with the Negro
and his problems. Especially those
problems which involve the partici
pation of the Negro and the white
race in working together to accom
plish common aims and objectives.
The participation of a mixed group
of lead.ng representatives of both
races in the panel discussion Sun
ample that much of racial discrimi
nation now being practiced is due,
not to the inability of the races to
cooperate, but to the fact that
prejudices based on ignorance have
been allowed to exist so long.
Milton Webster, first vice presi
dent. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, gave great strength to the
program of Saturday by filling in
for two of our speakers who at the
last moment were prevented from
coming by developments in Wash
ington. His striking indictment of
our democracy, in fighting a war
for freedom against the racial dis
crimination shown by the Axis
powers when we at home practice
a brand of democracy which dis
criminates against the Negro in our
midst, shocked his hearers into the
realization that it is time that we
arc doing something about this and
not. as Mr. Webster so aptly put It,
j "engaging in a foreign war for de
! mocracy while we at home practice
a brand of democracy with our
fingers crossed." More power to
| Milton Webster We need more pub
lic leader' like him with the cour
lage to publicly denounce in no un
certain terms this "brand of de
mocracy" of racial discrimination
which only the governments of a
j Hirohito. a Mussolini, or a Hitler
can foster, but which has no place
in the United States of America.
Local Girl Is
Honor Student
Geraldine Turner Mitchell of De
troit. was among the 100 graduates
of West Virginia State college last
Thursday. Miss Mitchell graduated
with honors. The commencement
exerci.-es were held at the college
with Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune,
president of Bethune-Cookman col
lege. located at Daytona Beach. Fla.
as speaker,
Mrs. Bethune pointed out in her
address the challenge of these war
times to the college bred.
ROBBED BY FRIEND
A "friend" robbed him of S4O is
the story Eugene Brown, 40. of 307
Hendrie street, apartment eight,
told police this week.
Brown told police that he had
been drinking when the money was
Hanson Appointed
Rent Inspector
Julius Hanson was appointed last
week as a rent inspector by the lo
cal rent control board of OPA He
will work as an assistant to rent
Czar McNamara, with offices at 764
..Penobscot building.
Hanson is a former investator for
the Michigan Corporation and Se
curities Commission from 1937 to
1939 He is the first Negro rent in
spector appointed in this area.
HELD FOR NON SUPPORT |
Aficr John T.
Austin. 26. of 1672 Kendall avenue,
was released to Boston detectives
where he is wanted for a reported
charge of non support by the au
thorities. it was disclosed this week.
BIG
Victory Picnic
AT
New Forest Park
DEQUINDER AT 11 Vi MILE ROAD
AUSPICES OF
Boone Love Post 911
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Saturday and Sunday
June 13th and 14th
2 DAYS OF FUN AND RECREATION
> BAR-B-Q Games
Refreshments
RESERVATION FOR BOOTHS
Call C. E. THOMPSON
Clifford 1996 - 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
MADAM LEO’S
SPIRITUAL STUDIO
Spiritual advice given dally-Cnn
snlMtlnn as low as $.*.00 Yoii have
hours from 10 am. to to pm. Ap
pointment bv phone.
9179 Cameron Avenue
TO. 6 4096
MRS. R. GRAGG
DENIES STORY
IN CHRONICLE
Explains Conditions Os
Race Troops
Statements made in the Michigan
Chronicle relative to the condi
tions existent among troops sta
tioned at (he Soo were refuted and
branded as misquotes by Mrs. Rosa
Gragg, representative of the State
Office for Civilian Defense.
Mrs. Gragg stated that she did
not aay that “conditions at the
camp were deporable" as the
Chronicle reporter quoted, but that
her explanation of the situation
had been mis-interpreted to the
extent that a wrong impression had
been conveyed through the article
to the reading public.
The state representative explain
ed that all of the cooperation which
could be expected was being ex
tended by authorities and civilians
m the Soo area to alleviate the
problem of housing for families and
guests of the troops and the pro
vision of recreational facilities for
both.
New Situation
Mrs. Gragg explained further
that willful discrimination and neg
lect did not enter the Soo picture
but that the situation was anew
one, inasmuch as the troops have
been stationed at the apot for only
three months and prior to their
arrival there had been only one
Negro family in the area.
The Chronicle reporter appreci
ates this explanation by Mrs. Gragg
and aUn the fact taht some readers
may have been misguided by tne
previous report.
Two Youths Jailed
For Stealing Bikes
Two 17 year old youths were
held for investigation of stealing
bicycles this week according to
police.
John Lindsey of 1014 Illinois
street art William Butler of 1345
Leland street were held pending
a complete investigation by police.
Chile, which his an incalculable
number of eucalpytua trees, has bagun
the manufacture of oil from thorn.
Secretary
9
VA
MISS DOROTHY QUAKER
A student at Detroit Inatitute of
Commerce, who is employed at
Great Lakes Mutual Insurance
company as secretary to the Sec
retary-General Manager, Mr. L.
C. Blount.
U. S. Rubber
Workers Hit
Race Bias
Members of the Inter-racial In
vestigation Committee of Local 101
are reviewing cases of alleged dis
crimination presented to them by
Negro workers at U. S. Rubber
plant located at 6600 East Jefferson
Cases of department transfer re
fusal are among those most in evi
dence in the plant set-up. It Is
said that in Department 38. the
new Defense Tank building unit,
no Negroes are employed, in ask
ing for transfers from their depart
ments to this department, Negro
employes report that they have
either been flatly denied or given
To Hire 500 Men
In Next Few Weeks
One employe averred that he had
interviewed one Monty Clark, In
dustrial Relations manager for the
plant and asked to be transferred
to Department 38. Clark is re
ported to have told him that "he
was the second fellow who had
been to him with such a request
and that the firm was going to hire
about 500 persons within the next
four or five weeks but that he was
not going to get himself in a crack
talking with him (the employe)
about it.” %
r - • "'JI
It has been discovered that hun
dreds of employes are now employ
ed in the Tank Building department
who have had no experience in a
rubber factory and are not in any
way as qualified for the jobs which
they hold as the Negroes who have
applied for transfers.
The majority of Negroes employ
ed at U. S. Rubber work in the
Mill Press, cleaning r*>bber. or
lamp black loading departments.
These are all common labor sec-
In a statement relative to the
situation, a U. S. Rubber employe
'Nobody wants all of the hard
worl£ If we do most of the hard
work, we do want some of the
skilled or iechnical..positions/’.
Committee Will Review
Women's Question
According to reports throughout
the plant notices have been posted
to the effect that women are being
hired in some positions in the in
dustry. There are at present ap
proximately 1500 women in the
company’s employ, none of whom
are Negroes.
One Taste
tells
the
whole
story
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1942
Baker, Car
In Active
Week - End
After having his car stolen Satur
day by a chauffeur and messenger
whom he hired Friday. Edward A.
Baker, well known president of the
Baker Advertising Agency went
through much trouble in reporting
he etent to police wno told him
that he must wait until Monday be
fore issuing a warrant which would
authorize them to take action in
the matter
Meantime Mr. Baker reported the
event to two friends of his, Offi
cers Blocker and Kill, who, while
patrolling their Bel.e Isle beat Sun
day. noticed a car which answered
the description of Mr. Baker's. Up
on investigation this proved to have
been right. The car was being
driven by Arthur Jenkins, alias
Spaden Jones, alias Joe Byrd. Two
other boys were riding with him.
H.s car returned, the Bond Rally
at Olympia over. (Mr. Baker was
chairman of publicity for the event)
Mr. Baker, weary, was on his way
home when the car. driven by a
friend, was suddenly hit by another
vehicle, ran into a fire plug, result
ing n dental injuries.
We think Mr. Baker has a ear
for sale.
Guatemala has required applicant*
being licensed to drive motor vehicles.
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