The Michigan chronicle. [volume], October 31, 1942, Image 1

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VOLUME 7
UNREST MOUNTS AS NEGRO WORKERS
ARE DRIVEN FROM FACTORY GATES
HE’S A REAL ‘SCRAPPER’
»:r
Lincoln Conyers, student at Sampson school, typifies the spirit of
the scrap drive as he gives the famous “V”.for .Victory sign in
front of huge pile of scrap he and other students gathered. Much
of this miniature mountain of scrap was hauled to the curb on
broken down wagon which was later thrown into the heap.—Photo
White Answers
Senator Diggs
childish Everybody knows who
V
cover himself well enough. In ad
goes about bragging how he wrote
In the first pi;.c'\ the answer did
not deal with my ci.t.ii.-m of your
publ.c utterance- This is the ;>?uc
and not Horace White! You c .nnot
answer by dcai.ng :n personalities
I know you well enough. Senaior
Dicgr. to know that you novel do
ten" of it ter to *ay. ’ gnost
ridden.'' Y*>ir "ghost writer" did
the ' Mai ch On Washington Move
men- I prefer in think that he
d.d not read the statement You
, would have understood it if you
| My statement about the "defeat
Tcnerowicz” effort has to be prov
ed Everybody who knew anything
I about iknew Tencro% ■’/ would
jo voted agamst by Negroes The
effort to . defeat Tcnerow icz was
l.ke carry in: coals lo New Castle
We carr.od them, so that issue is
You kn.-w. Senator, -hn ugh
• your - ghost writer.' I might change
at any time. Especially is th.s true
.f me issues arc different Aie you
, not glad that I happen to possess a
mind that ran be d.sillusionc-d At
• least 1 am not obliv.ous. Certainly.
1 nave some knowledge of what
more illusions Uhat i am gradually
getting rid of I learn more. The
You must have some too Most peo
ple do. you know.
Y u arc r.ght. I have p.cked up
a lot ..f theories. I g,,t some of them
:n school You got 5 ...t.c from there
too. Maybe you did not go there to
thinking done by many pcopic. You
and I are not of the original think-
Enough of this I am sorry that
yuj a.d not answer the issues your
self since you felt that they de
served m answer Senator, write
.ng. When this .s your p-ocedurc
yod always come to the point. You
feel for the common people I bc
slip Up We ge: p nchob for r The
Liu on and wuik—critk-ism is in
too much! - Horace White."
Two Steal Coat
A charge of simple larceny was
stealing a coat from a large depart
ent ■ • •■ k' Hem
theft arc Perrv 23. -nf 2708
Bcaubicn *;ect and WiUle John-
The following article brings to a
Close the controversy between Sen
ator Diggs and the Reverend Hor
ace White which developed follow
ing the Keverepd White's criticism
of the Senator in a column in the
m . higan C nick the \< w oi
both men are important to the
communitv in that they both arc
active public figures and have ren
dered much public serv.ee I* should
be made clear that the senator
end the pastor are friends and that
the current articles have not al
tered this friendship.
The complete statement of Rev
White in answer to the article pub
lished last week is as follows
-DIGGS. DO NOT ALLOW
YOUR FRIENDS TO MAKE
YOU SEEM CHILDISH
You are not childish! When left
Fred Allen
Keeps Crown
In YM Drive
Fred Allen, commander of the
Ninety-third Division in the St
Antoine Y M C A membership
drive, retained his championship
when the campaign closed Monday
Commander Allen's division dc
fea'ed the Ninety-second Division,
tinder Commander Charles A Rox
borough. in a hard and close fight
to end one of the most successful
membership campaigns in the his
tory of the St. Antoine branch.
Woman Stabbed In
Back By Young Man
S'.iymg she was stabbed in the
ba,-k by Leroy Webb. Alice Dry
de v 38. of 237 East Hancock s'.ro<:
was taken to get aid from 1029
The >dorc avenue
Webb, of 320 Frederick street
was to be quest.oned bx pol ce The
nature of the altercation was not
disclosed th s weak
CHRONICLE PRAISED
In an arti< I.- entitled "Detroit
Strains At the I edrral Leash"
uiitlen by Matter Davenport
whhh apnea, ed in the current
issue of Colliers weekly maga
zine. the Mil higan Chronicle was
lauded foi its win-the-war ef
forts and its insistence on fair-
The Detroit Free Press and
other local institutions praised
Mr. Davenport's article as a fine
appraisal of the Detroit scene
which has been a subject of
heated controversy for many
months.
WEEKLY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1912
Weaver Let Out In Big Shake-Up
In Anniversary
POLICE SEIZE
$19,564 DOPE
| CACHE HEPF
Throe Arrested, Await
Prosecution; Had
Marihuana
I
Three vouns men were arrested I
this* week by officers of the nar
c< : • .-qpad wh.> confiscated ap
proximately $19.564 75 worth of)
-WHmtrwmTl the rant -
A 28-year-old man whom detec
tives stated had been in town only |
a few 'days prior to his arrest last 1
week, was one of three young men
turned over to Federal agents for ;
prosecution on charges ot violating
the U S. Marihuana Tax Act. ac
cording to Detective Raymond De
' Soto this week.
Dope Cache Found
It was disclosed that a landlady j
j at an Elizabeth street address went
into a room she had rented to Ker
mit Arnold to clean up the room, i
Beneath the bed she found a
newspaper on which weeds were
dr> .ng She also found more of
the weed drying in three drawers
in a chest of the room rented by
| Ar livid.—
i P l.ce were called and after an |
I examination of the weed d.sclosed i
| Later pol.ee orre-'ed Arnold He
told Detectives George Bunker i
. and Raymond De Suto that he had
iTcccrrTtyr arrived here from Chi-
In>l*l Pip
Art Bowman
Endorsed By
Committee
I Chester Smith, well known De
:i« civic Mure was admitted to
■he M.Chinan Bar ia>t week and
he . nnounced that he will open his
*..w office a- 911 Gratiot avenue
where he will be with
,V:y Fred or., k Ya'o
j Mr Smith is a gra.iuatc "f the
D.-tro.t College of Law and of
i Michigan State college at Lansing
He will b~ remembered for h.s ex
| -lie *,r« Necro lootball player 10
■ i new stadium it i... ■ inf
Although a na:.vo it Alabama.
Mr. Sm;:h has spent most of his
life >i Detroit.
Watchman Struck
On Hoad By Thug
Wh.le attempting to investigate
an iso com r c from a b .ler room i
of a company where he was em
ployed a* n.2ht wafehman. S:mon
Gool.-e-.. 48 r.f 1647 La Belle street.'
was set upon and beaten by uni
i Gol ev employed by Excello
Tool company. Woodrow ano Oak
man boulcva <l. suffered a lacern
! non over hi* lef: eye in a struggle'
j A th -me ;i.-prcttd of hav
me entered -he tool company bo ler J
He Takes Poison,
Reason Is Unknown
No motive was listed by police
a? the rcaron Le*-'.e Grady. 24. of
1429 Chase treet t<v-k iodine n
He a« repo-ted Ir a temporarily
i *
■L
iHS k &
REV. R. L. BRADBY
Whose thirty-second anniversary
as pastor of Second Baptist
church begins next week. See
story- on Religious page in this
issue of the Michigan Chronicle.
REFUSE JOB
TO TRAINED
WOMAN HERE
Mrs H ictvs Marie n cker of 27»
Fust Philadelphia. reported discrim
inatory refusal hv the Hudson Nava!
Arsenal last werl; M: Blocker.!
who ha« 120 hour; of riefen.-r tram
re wa? referred to the p!.. ;t bv
United Stall
•erviee AVer being accepted by the
pc .- nnel manger, the ph> -dan.
ph -.■ graphed, and ordered • work,
-he was turned down bera oe of
discovers- that ‘he was r<d r« I The
•excu.-e" given w.s that s.-.c- had
"Mr? Blocker reported to the N.A '
ACP that the rompary h «l ac
cepted her w/h a d-c.,.:.- nos
r : -./cn*hip affidavit and her mar
race license The N A AC!’ .• nt
protest! t • Secretary of x.v K. o*
and to Personnel Manager Bl.neh
ard J Lawrence Dttrc.m c.f the
Wa: Manpower coirn..?-,;,n prom
-ed action on the case
Trouble In Highland Park
The Inside Story of the Cause of Recent Race
Conflicts at llis-hland Park Schools
By JOHN WOOD
Hard-working, conscicntiou: Har
; .and Park high ‘chool. sat behind
: the second floor of the building!
1 th-ough whose doors hundreds o!
boys and girls were making their j
homes or nearby lunch cards It
was 12 o'clock Asa df‘k facing
he window that overlooked Glen- j
Whose fingers played bu ..y m the
i The smile that has m-omr J.n-k
--• son's .most elf relive ih-frwfneni m
•i.s dealings with unruly boys an.) j
|h,s face, replaced by creases above
: hi! brow that indicated that the j
' counselor was worried.
And Jackson WAS worried In •
two homes on La Belle avenue, two
boys 'white* had been kept from
school that day and would be ab- ,
sent "many more days. At the juve- j
n.lc dctcnfi'<n home p-bicc were
ri'ilditig two young Negro boys, ac
rcsultCd in near-serious injury to.
NEW CHANGES
IN MANPOWER
UNIT EFFECTED
j
CoFEP Named To Police
Executive Order 8802
Under Present Plan
WASHINGTON, D. (\
Or. Robert t\ Weaver, chief
of Negro War Manpower
erviee, and Dr Will w. Alex
in tier, chief of minorities
branch of the War Manpower
Commission, found themselves out
of a job Monday, following an of
ficial announcement designating
•he CoFEP as agency
■•vithin the WMC, to supervise en
actment of Executive Order No
8802.
Executive Order No 8802 forbids
discriminate n based on race, creed
or color, in the prosecution of all
Industrie! effecting the national de
tense programs.
The announcement dissolve* the
/offices of Dr. Weaver and Dr Alex
ander. Both men will probably be
ffered positions a STAY 111 n 1 >t ia 11 vc
a.-.- -tants to General McShcrry ot
the Operations Division of the War
Manpower Commission, it is be
lieved.
All the field personnel of the
War Manpower Co:iinn.»>ion deal
ng with problems of diScrim na
co.i.c a part nf the f.Sd. staff of
the KEPC Only one staff in Wash
! ington and in the field dealing wrh
problems of discrimination, under
WEAVER. I*agr 2
FEPC Hearing
Holding of a FF.PC liraring In
Detroit was predicted Tuesday
when it was learned two FFPC
investigators left Washington to
probe racial discrimination in
Detroit'industrial plants.
This followed close behind a
conference held by Hoi are Shef
field and Lawrence Cramer, who
made formal requests for the
hearing.
Miss Roslyn Ossman. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Ossman was
married to Lieut. Asa Gene Murray, nephew of Mrs. Ora Fern Bell,
it was disclosed this week by the bride’s mother. She is a member
of the Apollo players and a candidate for officer’s training school.
Lieutenant Murray will soon leave for an unknown destination. Mrs.
Murray is expecting to join him.
C. Smith Is
Successful
In Bar Exam
At the Monday noon meeting of
the Citizens’ Committee for Jobs:
in War Industries. Oct. 26. the can-1
didacy of Arthur Bowman for state j
representative was endorsed. The |
< nmittee {< and N votei 1
cons.dor Mr. Bowman favorably for!
election and to split their ballot
accordingly.
In introducing Mr Bowman. [
Gloster B Current, executive sec-'
retary of the NAA CP . pointed j
out the need for having a Negro;
in the lower Michigan house. Bow-,
man is a graduate of the Michigan
State university and an outstand
ing young man iff politics
that lie knew .» adv.-ooc of the
| football game that a gioup of young
Negroes, not directly connected
with either school whoso teams
were to play on Friday, p anned.
I cm l troy *!•
Jackson had tried to avert this
Jackson had another problem On
Oc'obei 3 ffudinli of Hi ghland
U it D
to have agitated among the young
people who could ‘ettle Their own
differences in a fist fight and for
get.thcm the next nwnutc. Jackson
contemplated further trouble.
Source Os Trouble Is
Srrious Problem
ll C tout ft , :,*
OT~Sr w TROUBLE, Page 3
football game on Friday of the
and the a .rest of the Negroes that
caused most of JacjPron s worry
What concerned "him most was
He Has A Problem
k
HARVEY JACKSON
Telephone TEm-le 1-8878
MARRIED HER SOLDIER
DRIVER FAILS
TO SEE TRAIN
AT CROSSING
——
bodies Os Occupants
Os bus Dragged
Half Mile
( F<uir Nrgroes were killed and
■ rune others injured in a crash be
■ tween a DSR bus and a Grand
Trunk passenger train Wednesday
morning at 9 o'clock, at the railroad
crossing ak Camff A total of 10
were killed.
The bus drifter, white, stopped
at the crossing for one train to pass,
but did not sec the oncoming train
approaching from the south as he
started across the tracks.
Hus Hit in Middle
The train hit the bn« In the middle
and scattered the bodies of the oc
cupants for half a rff.ffe down the
Most of the Negro wemen
who were killed or injured were on
thnr way t u work
The dead are:
F•• r Temp 36 18630 Klir.ccr
, mother of five children; Pearl Jr - es.
38 3892 Yeman* street: Corr.ne
Bankhead. 30 3911 Evalir.c ‘*rect.
and one ur.idcntif.cd.
The inj-red -
Mr E L Carmichael. 50 3493
Benton street: Juba Craig. 17 2616
Srr.th ‘treet; Ar.r.ie Winderglas*. 51
, :841P Norwood avenue: Arthur Bel
-7 my. ->6 18424 Klinger street:!
Lr.n: K -e' e 43 I2!».»2 Orleans]
: c.- V H-nt-r. 6.Y 3M4 Ye-!
man,- :«f Mi-- Ocie Buries. 33.
i 19;..: Mi i tF:'.i Reed. 55. 1958 I
i ir ■ • ■ • i 1 Id la 8 it, 40.
Man Stabbed By
His Sister-In-Law
Wiliam Belcher, 25. of 4928
Bangor avenue was ticated at Re-,
cciv ng hospital fo r a stab wound
to .the left neck and chest.
He told police he was injured
following a family argument And ;
accused h sister-in-law with stab-'
Blanche Dancaa.
24 Pages
A Better Newspaper
NUMBER 31
UNEMPLOYED
j RACE WOMEN
HUMILIATED
Government Agencies
Are Said To Be
Inadequate
The bottleneck in manpower
which is threatening vital indus
tries and which has created a fierce
controversy in Washington, appears
to be a false alarm to Negro De-
I troiters who are growing danger
ously revive under the tyranny of
adamant employers who have not
budged on their policy of outright
racial discrimination and vidou*
! segregation in employment.
Unrest among women and men
job-seekers who are being turned
down at the factory gates or humili
ated by various segregation propos
als is a climax which
if ignored any longer by govern
ment and industry will inevitably
lead to racial outbreaks and clash
es which will profit no one, least of
all the war effort.
The above observations are based
0,1 -the following developments re
ported to the Michigan Chronicle
this weFk:
L The .Murray Body and Briggs
corporation are reported to have
declared that they would hire Ne
gro women workers only if they
agreed lo use separate toilet facili
| ties and submit to blanket segre
-12. Tlie R. L. Polk company is be
ing charged with draw ing the color
line among Negroes and are said to
he integrating -light” colored girls
with fhel- white employees but not
■‘dark” girls.
3. Recently hired freight hand
lers at the Wabash railway terminal
were fired because they refused to
obey signs above the toilets desig-
I 4. No Negro women have been
hired at the Willow Run plant and
■ Negro men who were transferred
from the Rouge plant to Willow
Run are being fired on the least
pretext.
5. A number of employers hare
mr>rc UNREST- Page *
Citizens Urged
To Vote Nov. 3
In hi? statement to the members
regarding the election of November
3. Dr. J J McClendon stated it of
utmost importance that Negroes vote
I No” on -he Milk Marketing bill.
; If this bill passes it will allow the
Michigan Trust company to set
prices of marketing milk.
Small minority groups will not
be benefit ted and by force will have
’ > sell for same prices to trust com
panies. It is very important that
children have milk. We all should
urge a ‘‘No” vote on home rule.
detroTt)
j This Week!
•Wednesday—every week—Booker
T. Washington Trade luncheon—Y.
WC A . 12 o’clock.
Wednesday—every week—Young
Democra's meet, Plymouth church,
7:30 p.m.
Thursday Michigan Chronicle
Hobby club meet.:. clubhou«e. 2 to
4 p m.
Ei lay—Oct. 31—A K A mardl
gr.i-. Maccabee? building. 9 pm.
Sunday—Nov. I—Mammoth rally.
Second Bapti-t c.lurch, 3 n m.
Sunday -Nov 1 Dr Robert
Weaver. Plymouth church, 8:30 pm.
Monday—Nov 2—“ Wings Over
Jordan.” Ebci'.ezer church. 8 p m.
.Monday—Nov. 2—Berry J Well*
recital. St. Stevens church. 7:15 pm.
Thursday —Nov. s—Andy Kirk,
Mirror ballroom. 9 p.m. until
Friday—Nov —Fail dance. Mirror
ballroom. P p.m.
Monday—Nov 9—S A Fuller
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