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‘Negroes Face A Brighter Future—C. C. Spaulding
SAYS DETROIT
LEADS IN RACE
BUSINESSES
Was Speaker At Twelfth
Annual B.T.W.T.A. j
Banquet
•No brighter future wa* ever
faced by the Negro than the future
he faces today, and never was there
a greater need for s.ncere leader
ah p than at present." Thu- spoke
C. C. Spauld.ng. head of the Nbrth !
Carolina Mutual Insurance com- j
pany at the twelfth annual ban- i
quet of the Booker T. Washington |
Trade Association at the Luc.v
Thurman branch Y.W.C A. Thurs
day night.
The pioneer business man. under
million dollars in Nfrgro bu.-mes.- :
told his audience That "Negroes
have made remarkable progress ;n
the years since the emancipation I
proclamation :n sp.te of a few
white people who have tried to
keep them down. However, he
declared. "Negroes must get off
in their own way."
Spaulding lauded the Booker T
Washington Trade association,
which was founded here by the
Rev. William H. Peck 12 years
ago, and paid Tribute to Carlton
• Gaines, president of the associa
t on and his co-workers whose in
terest in stimulating enterprise has
resulted in one of the strongest
Negro business organizations in tne
country. "The Booker T Wash
ington Trade Association is a grea
organization," Spaulding declared
••and I am glad to find such fine
spirit among the business people
affiliated with an organization that J
bears the name of such a great
Pays Tribute To Detroit
The speaker said that he had vis-J
ited a number of Negro business
places in the city and had found
that Detroit” has the best and most
efficiently operated Negro business
have more diversified business in
tn s city than in any city in the
country, and you need to build
more, for only through ownership i
of business own ran they
become economically independent."
One of the deterrents to ]ni:r eco
nomic security. Spaulding averred.]
is our lack of leadership. However
he said we must learn to follow
for good leaders are developed from
good followers. He also warned j
business men not to "over-organize"
stating that to place too many en
terprises of the same kind too close I
together does not make gopjl busi
many gains in the business field,
but he said they should have more
groes could borrow legal rate
from under The pressure of the
loan sharks." he declared, "we must ■
establish our own loan compai e-
In fact, we must make it possible
for Negroes to transact every kind
We have wonted toge'he' on ..the:
in establishing loan companies. j
In his opinion, a good business
man !s one who has wnat the cus- j
tomer wants at the right price,
keeps his merchandise in a clean 1
store and is courteous at all times
"Detroit must build more and more ,
business. There is t> enty of money :
in Detroit and Negroes have an I
opportunity to ge’ some of it. Get !
all of i* vou can end buy all the
you will be ready for whatever fol-
Georgia, was toastmaster and L.
C Blount, oi the Great i.akes In
surance company, introduced the
speaker to the 252 guests Four '
hundred tickets *ve:e sold for the
* ,b * nwum ' i
Asks Help Here,
Seeks Relatives
A man who has been ill in a
Vi « Y h ;
j.« anxious for Chronicle readers
to help him locate several of his
Anyone knowing the whereabout*
of Ardcll Burnon who formerly
lived at 301 Theodore and 995 Illi
nois street addresses or . know
■wnere Mis* Lctty Jean Gordon ca
be located arc a-. Led to Contact
Lieut. Earl Anderson of the Miss
inz Persons Bureau, 1300 Beaubicr,
Kato Burnon is ill in a 'Nc|v
York hospital and may be contacted
a: 126 Pratt street. Buffalo. New
York.
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Every committee needs money to carry on its
activities, and no one realizes it more than Shelton
Tappes i left), recording secretary of Ford Local
600. UAW-CIO. In the above picture Tappes is
presenting a check for S2OO to the Rev. Charles
Dixie Senators Try Tricks To
Defeat The Anti-Poll Tax Bill
Aids Church
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f ' r '
"f ; if* j/
Pvt. Caudle R. Bradford, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cunning
ham of 632 Woodland avenue,
who is stationed at Camp San
Luis Obispo. Calif.. 54th C.A.,
Bat. A. medical detachment.
Caudle, with the aid of his bud
dies. sent a substantial sum of
money to his church, as his con
tribution to the rally recently
held. He is a member of the
Peace Baptist church of 13450
Goddard. The Rev. L. T. Clay
is the pastor.
A mold Hill
OP A Official
To Visit City
I T. Arnold Hill, formerly an ex
ecutive of the National Urban
league an£i now- an official of the
j Office of Price Administration, will
visit Detroit this week, it was. dis
-1 closed Saturday.
Mr. Hill is the only representa
tive of the Negro people who has
an executive position with the re
cently created OFA. He is well
known for his pioneering efforts in
the economic struggles of the race.
While in Detroit, he will confer
with Pat McNamara, local chief of
the Off ce of Price Administration
JOHN K. GRAHAM
Former assistant prosecuting attorney. Wayne Coun
ty; assistant special prosecutor for Wayne County
Craft Grand Jury; deputy clerk Recorders Court, and
legal aid for Recorders judges
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A. Hill, chairman of the Citizens committee which
is leading the fight for jobs for Negroes in in
dustry. Looking at the proceedings is Raymond
Hatcher. Detroit Urban by Sonny
Edwards.
j WASHINGTON (ANP) Out-1
maneouvering Senator Albon Bark
ley of Kentucky, a group of recal- ]
, citrant southerners under the
guidance of Sen. Tom Connally of
Texas is putting up a battle of
"parliamentary procedure” in an
effort to prevent the introduction
of the anti-poll tax bill before this
session of the senate.
Using new tactics unthought of ]
! before, this group headed on the
j fldor by Sen Russell of Georgia is
| using every method possible to
1 consume the • morning hour” of the ,
] session, thereby preventing the in- j
troduction of the bill on the calen
dar for the day.
Split Threaten
’of wnat to expect when Sen Bilbo)
1 started his filibuster last week, the
entire body has settled down to a
controversial fight which tjhreat- ]
ened the split the ranks of the
I Democratic party itself.
Internal fighting is apparent
from the manner in which the fight
is being conducted. Senators who
have heretofore stood side by side
are now bitterly denouncing each
other on the floor and personalities
j arc being injected into the fight to
[ prevent the introduction of the
A 30-vear friendship was almost
tossed to the winds when MeKellar
of Tennessee bitterly assailed
Barkley who occupies the seat next
For two hours, the
Tenrics-SL'.ih-. b'.-i aTPTT "Bark ley —for
causing h.s "arrest" to attend a
. senate session bii Saturday. Me-1
; Kellar read into the record a letter
: he'• recently w rote to President
Roosevelt r-ecommending JBark ley
' ■ , n-i the supreme court
vacated by Justice Byrnes. All of
this is past, from what MeKellar
, inferred from the floor.
Cnnally Leads t ight
1 Conally, long an ardent sup
porter of all meosiTres originating
* on the floor, took the lead in this 4
fight against the anti-poll tax and I
surrounded himself with a select j
I 3 His first, Russell of Georgia. :
started by making the demand for |
; an untold number of roll-calls at
Monday's session. On Tuesday, he j
1 surpassed this by demanding the j
I reading of Journal on the pre
, vious day. It Is customary In sen-
I rr:r\ omit the reading
of tXg jopffial and by unanimous
I consent, agree to its proper revi
i Then Russell told the senate the
hlJtory of the poll-tax in his state,
declaring tha‘ a constitution con-
I vention composed of “Negroes, car
| pet-baggers and scalawags” had
passed the poll-tax measure as part
i of the state constitution.
He used this to point out that
, Negroes themselves had a part in
A RELIABLE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY
SENATE BARS
DE PRIEST AT
WASHINGTON
Former Congressman
j Was There To Lobby
! For Poll Tax
WASHINGTON. D. C—<ANP)
Oscar DePriest. former congress
man from Chicago was denied per
•nssion to enter the senate cham
ber Wednesday niorn.ng under a
ruling b'" ved hastily made to fit
| Mr. DePriest has been sent to ]
, Washington by a group of Chica- ;
■ 40ans expressly to lobby for the
pussage of the anti-poll tax bill. I
! panied by Edgar G. Brown, the j
j former congee-sman visited several
senators’ ce seeking their sup- j
port effort to invoke the rule '
i of cloture on senators debating the
: bill.
! Visited were Sens Charles Mc-
Xary of Oregon; C. Wayland Brook.-
j of Illinois; Warren Barbour of New
| Jersey; Robert A. Taft and Harolc
H. Burton of An attemp
was made to contact Senator Van
denburg of Michigan, but the seiV
j a tor was absent from his office a'
I Senators Austin and Danahor
; both Republicans from Verm' l :
and Connecticut, respectively, r •
: fused to commit themselves on the
j matter of cloture. The former con
■ gressman then visited the senate
'chamber w* ere ‘' ■» sergeant-at
arms. Chesley W. Jurney. refuser
j DePriest premission to visit with
i the senators on the floor. |
; The "ruling” as stated was tha' 1
former ators, present member
jof the house, icial guests of the
senate and members-elect to the
senate were riven the courtesy of
I visiting the floor, but no former
congressmen.
. Disagreeing with the sergean?-at
arrns. Mr. Brown took the matter
directly to Senator Barbour who
j went to the front Tor Mr. UePri’es:
with little s—cess.
! The Chinese government after exten
and asphalt as a binder in macadam
setting up the present day j
MeKellar surprised all by com
ing out.against the passage of the
bill since his own state, Tennessee,
voted to outlaw the poll tax on 1
Jan 1, 1943
MeKellar called It an “iniquitous
bill" and said it was an infringe
ment on states' rights.
Chief objection to the bill Is that
the federal government is behind 1
it and southerners feel that they
are being forced to do something
through outside interference.
Russell went so far as to say that
the south will rid itself of this
type of legislation if let alone,
pointing out North Carolina, and
Florida and Louisiana as examples
Members of the senate were re
cipients of a letter from Phillip
Murray, president of the CIO, say
ing that i ? nation "stands aghast 1
and enraged at the tactics of a
small bloc . . . which is seeking .
to frustrate majority rule in this
nation.” He called for speedy en
actment of the anti-poll tax legis
lation declaring:
"In this period of national crisis,
the opening of our polling places
to every qualified citizen in the
nation by the elimination of poll
tax restrictions which disenfran
chise large numbers of American
citizens Is a measure essential to
our war effort.”
ENDORSED FOR BISHOPRIC
LITTLE ROC*', "Ark —(ANP)— *
Dr. G. Wayman Blakely outstand
ing clergyman of this section, was !
honored recently when he was
given the endorsement of the j
Arkansas and West-Arkansas can- .
forence at the A M E. church for |
the bishopric in 1944. The Rev.
Blakely is pastor of Big Bethel
A M E. church.
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Members of “The Fai Korns" celebrated their
first anniversary with a party held at the Club
666. lart Friday night. They were hostesses to
over 200 guests. Among those seen in the picture
Annual Bazaar To
Open At Plymouth
i will give their annual party, Sat
urday, December 5. This has al
ways attracted the young people
of Detroit. Patricia Whitby is the
chairman.
Mrs. Lenr Johnson and Mrs.
Ethel Ellis have charge of the
snack bar.
ENTERTAIN AT DINNER
Mr and Mrs. Jesse Duncan o' 331
Owen avenue entertained with a
dinner party Sunday evening in
honor of Mrs. Evelyn Copeland of
Chattanooga, Tenn. Guests present
were Mr and Mrs. Adams, Mr and
Mrs. Edger. Mrs. E. Spruell and
Mrs. Berthel Crawford.
Members and friends of Plymouth l
Congregational church are anxious
ly awaiting the annurl bazaar to
Pc held Friday, Dec. 4 and Saturday
Dec. 5 in the social rooms ol the
Mrs. Sarah H Clark, general
.ia are the other various chairmen
l ot booths.
Mrs. Ida Shelton, who has charge
of the annual Thanksgiving dinner,
one of the highlights of the bazaar
reports that the serving will start ;
promptly at 12 noon. Friday, De
cember 4.
I Mrs. Geneva Smith is much elat
ed over the successful collection
of beautiful aprons for ner Aprop,
Booth, sponsored by the Crusaders.
The booth will have smocks, aprons
and house dresses for sale.
The amusement booth is in charge
of -Mexandcr H. Roberts. This
booth will furnish the fun and
gaiety tha* Is a much needed di- 1
. varsity.
The Go-Getters’ Plant booth will ]
be as delightful as ever.
Christmas cards and wrappings (
will be sponsored by the Lecture
committee, Mrs. Beulah Whitby
chairman.
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