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Labor Commissioner Feted By Detroit Friends Thursday
CHAS. MAHONEY
HONORED HERE
BY CLUB THORS.
Labor Commissioner
Feted By Friends;
Many Present
Charles Mahoney, prominent at
torney and president of Great
Lakes Insurance company, who
recently re-appointed as com
missioner of department of Labor
End Industry was honored with a
testimonial dinner last Thnr*day by
12 Horsemen elub at 323 Erskine
Street
Following a glowing tribute paid
to him by those present and in
remarks 'made by Mis. Robertha
Barrow. Commissioner Mahoney,
said among other things:
*Td like very much for you as
tabor men to know that you ha\e
a board (department of labor and
industry) which is friendly to la
bo? . . . The world is moving to
wards a univeisal brotherhood of
man in which each man is finding
out that the other is a human being
like you "
Speaking of racial relation*. Ma
honey said. "When people berome
sufficiently acquainted it makes
no difference In what color of skin
honesty comes wrapped up in. and
that goes for alMhe other attributes
of mankind "
Miss Erma Henderson, on behalf
Of the 12 Horsemen club presented
the honoree with an apphopriatc
gift-
Among those present were Mr
end Mrs Charles Mahoney Jr. Dr
Aaron Toodlrs. Mr and Mrs Ons
low Pariah. Art Bowman. Louis C
Blount Shelton Tappes. Charles
Beeves. Miss Virginia Thomas and
Mow Walker.
Atty. Phil Weiss. Governor’s rep
resentative; Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Allie (Betty Allie. Commissioner of
Labor); Mrs. Agnes Bristol. L. C
Blount Julian Holder. Henry Hol
comb. A 1 Hargraves. Mr. and Mrs.
William Blackburn. Irnary Ulatow
aki. Mrs. Robertha L. Barrow. Mrs
Mamie Vaney. Mrs. Fedora John
•on. Mrs. Archie E. Reynolds. Miss
Annie Mae Hill. (Star of Major
Bowles hour); Mrs. Stella Mae
Stokes. Larry Chism. 'Michigan
Chronicle); John Williams. (Pitts
burgh Courier): Mr and Mrs Lang
ford P. James. Charles Haslett.
James Davenport and Charles H.
Reeves.
Denver Gets 4th
Negro Captain Of
Fire Department
DENVER. Announcement was
made recently of the promotional
appointment of Lieut Nathan J.
Biffle to the rank of Captain at
Firehouse Company No. 3. where
he has served since 1925. Biffle is
a native of Pueblo. Col. Among
the first to congratulate the new
captain were the mayor of Denver
and other ranking city officials.
Captain Biffle's promotion marks
the fourth such appointment of a
Negro fireman to this rank since
the inauguration of Company No. 3.
50 years ago Biffle is a former stu
dent of the University of Denver
He holds an unusual record with
the department for safety driving
•nd during the long period as en
gine driver, never had an accident
Passes Exam
B '*2
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Eddie Warren Evans. 20 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Evans.
2241 Dubois street, recently
passed the Michigan Slate
Board pharmacist's examina
tion. Mr. Evans, senior student
in the college of pharmacy a!
Detroit Institute of Technology,
will gradual* in May.
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P'JBf Arinc JELLY
Nolan Choir Auditions
Tha tuul tpring ludiMona f®r new members are now being held by th*
Robert Natan (heir «n' Monday, Wednesday ©r Saturday Evening* at
Ml East Warren Avenue. Anjone desiring to join may come or phono
Mr. Nolan at Temple t-ira or Temple I-aril. All auditions will bs
private. Date *f the anniversary concert will be announced later.
GERTRUDE WILSON. President
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The above group are some of the
customers taking advantage of the
b.g Eister Sale nov on at the old
reliable ZEIDMAN S LOAN
OFFICE, located at 709 Gratiot
Avenue . . . Sam and Ben of Zr:d
man s have been putting out de
pend. iblo merchandise for the last
twenty years, and they have been
rendering a valuabl. service to the
community by way of substantial
loans on articles of value Zeldman’s
nut bers among its patrons, thous
Wm. Hastie Scores, Dems, GOP On
Anti-Negro Stand At League Dinner
GIVING OUT THE NEWS
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Mrs. Archie Reynolds (nee Evelyn Smith) telling Annabell Hill,
Detroit singer who recently returned home, that the Twelve Hone
men club has received a charter in Elkdom and that the charter
will be granted at tfie inauguration ball Easter Monday.
Reid Rebukes Republican
Politicians; Shames Kelly
Lloyd B Reid, present highway
commissioner, running for re-elec
tion Monday. April 5. in an attack
on the out and out political legisla
tion passed by Republican legisla
tors against the warning of the
people d.dn't stop .with just a ver
bal attack. He mustered petitions
from the people throughout the
st.r.e, sent them-to the governor's
office with a small slogan all his
own attached to the top which tells
.n a few words the simple every
d. % p;. lo'iopny of one of M.chiganV
c;eat bu.lder of roads. "We've got
good road?— let's keep them ”
Th.< f:ank. sudden and surprise
attack based purely on truth caught
Kelly off guard who Sunday killed
the bill but previously had been
n n-comm.ttal The argument aris
ing out of the legislation came
wr.cn the Republicans ha'ing failed
to abolish the highway depart
ment resorted to policies to destroy
its effe. tivencs* by taking mad re
pa r out of the state's .hands and
placing, it in the hands of incom
petent political m.nded Republicans
bent on destroying the functioning
of State C.\.l Service which pro
tects apr roximaJcly twenty-five
Negroes making better than s.'>o 000
a year income. The b.ll openly
fougnt by Reid until Kelly was
shamed into vetoing it has Tong
(THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE - r ' r V” X RELIABLE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY
AT ZEIDMAN’S EASTER SALE
ands and thousands of satisfied cus
tomers.
At their big Easter Sale. Zeld
man’s has laid out over 1000 prac
tically new out of pawn men's suits
top coats and beautiful ladies fur
coats ranging from $3 9 f and up.
The customers are saying this is
really a savings of a life time; also
being displayed is a group of lug
gage of every description; watches,
diamonds, jewelry and many other
articles too numerous to mention
The ZEIDMAN S LOAN OFFICE
been a plum sought by our county
Republicans vs ho arc desirous of
using road repair funds to gain po
litical favor with the community.
The present administration has a
field representative in the person
of Robert Walker, a full Negro
Survey Party, headed by Maurice
Arrington with offices on Milford
avenue. These people would also
be let out along with the colored
stenographers and typists in the
Detroit and Lansing office Reid is
an eng.ncer of long experience,
knows Michigan roads and has bten
one of its chief engineers for the
past ten years. Under his direction
riur.ng past administrations, as«o*
ciated w th Murray D Van Wag
oner and Don Kennedy, he has
been .nstrumcntal in seeing that
the Negro survey party did active
work on major trunk lines. Today,
he is fighting to protect the good
name of Michigan roads, "the finest
in the country,and he is fighting
to protect the workers under Civil
Service, which includes a very
representative group of Negroes, in
h.« s.mple ph.losophy of a man on
tne job doing the job Reid say?.
• We've got good roads; lets keep
’em.’*
He has boon endorsed by the
Michigan Federated Democratic
club. Senator Charles C. Diggs.
Tory Vance and William Sherrill,
Michigan Chronicle columnists;
Emmett S Cunningham, president
»•’ the M.chigan Federated Demo
cratic clubs; Luther Keith. McKin
ley Carey. Eva Campbell, Women's
Clubs of River Rouge ants Ham
tramck; W T. Johnson, Louis R.
Taylor. Attorney Edward Simmon?,
Attorney Fred Yates, Mrs. Richard
son and many other businessmen,
civic and fraternal organizations.
Senator Diggs says, "There isn't a
better qualified man for the position
of highway commissioner in Michi
gan than Lloyd B Reid. A vote
for him is a vote for good road?.
Ix»t'* keep him on the Job. ’ VOTE
MONDAY, APRIL s.—Adv.*
sponsors ‘‘News Broadcasts" every
night at 11 pm over Station WJLB.
and the Inter-Racial Good-Will
Hour. The News program is very
Informative, and brings to the De
troit public the latest news of the
day. The public is urged to tune
in at 10:30 over Station WJLB and
listen to ZEIDMANS special bar
gains nightly and to his "News
Broadcasts" at 11 pm.
Sam and Ben want the public to
knowrrhat they still loan the Most
on al* articles of value.
MINNEAPOLIS. (ANP) Judge
William H. Hastie, dean, Howard
University school, former civilian
aide to the secretary of war, de
livered the principal address at the
17th annual meeting of the Minne
apolis Urban league held at the
Minneapolis YWCA. Tuesday.
Speaking on the subject. "Factors
In National Unity." before an audi
ence of 600 people, Hastie scored
members of the Democratic and Re
publican parties forming what he
termed as anti-Negro bloc in con
gress.
Both parties, he said, are equal
ly to blame for the pressure exerted
against liberal administrators of
government agencies who seek to
conduct their programs with fair
ness to Negroes as w r ell as to other
people. He pointed out that there
are different forms of national uni
ty Both Germany and Japan are
unified nations, but their forms of
unity are inconsistent with the prin
ciples and ideals inherent within
the political and social Ife of Amer
ica. Therefore this country, in its
effort to establish national unity,
must decide on what basis this uni
ty is to be achieved.
Referring to the bloc In congress,
Hastie said the Democrats wish to
keep the southern bloc in line and
the Republicans want to use the
southern bloc for their own political
purposes. Hastie was emphatic in
stating that in order to achieve na
tional unity based on democratic
Griffiths Wants To
Create Night Court
Large groups of citizens are push
ing the campaign to elect Phillip
Griffiths, judge of Common Pleas
court. Griffiths is an able lawyer
and a foreign war veteran, having
served the country honorably on
foreign soil. He has very definite
and deep-seated convictions con
cerning the qualifications and duties
of the judge of Common Pleas court
Among other things. Mr Griffiths
is determined te see to it that a
night court is established in Com
mon Pleas court, whether he is
elected or not. This would elimi
nate loss of wages by working men.
who. in order to obtain justice, must
lay off work, causing a loss of
thousand? of man hours to our war
production, under the present sys
tem.
"One. to become a good judge of
the Common Pleas court, in addi
tion to having a fine legal training
must possess sympathetic under
standing of the problems and needs
of the men and women who are
summoned in that court,'J said Grif
fiths.
Griffiths was raised in an orphan
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12 HORSEMEN
CLUB GRANTED
ELK CHARTER
Revival Of The Former
Cadillac Lodge Of
Hamtraiqck
Grand Exalted Ruler, J. Finley
Wilson. I 8.P.0 E. has announced
the revival of the o’.d Cadillac
L-odge of Hamtramck by Detroit’s
popular Twelve Horsemen’s Club,
but the name will no longer be
Cadillac Lodge. It will be the
Twelve Horsemen's Lodge and the
Auxiliary will be known as the
Lady Camille Temple.
On Easter Monday evening. April
26. the Grand Exalted Ruler and
other Grand Lodge officers will
come here for the purpose of mak
ing the reinstatement and on that
evening the event will be celebrated
with an "Inaugural’’ Ball at the
Mirror Ballroom, 2940 Woodward
avenue Needless to say. the "Inaug
ural” Ball will be attended not
only by Elks but by Motor City
pleasure-seekers generally. Friends
and visitors from ill parts of the
state will be <n attendance and it's
logical to suppose that this social
and fraternal event will surpass
anything of its kind ever held in
the Motor City.
Pleasure-seekers recall the splen
did dance given by other local
lodges at the same place on George
Washington’s Birthday, which al
most everyone w’ho attended con
sidered one of the finest dancing
parties to be held here in the last
decade.
Music then was 'urnished by the
chestra, which also will fyrnish
music for the "Inaugural” Ball.
Easter Monday night, which of
course will be informal. It has been
many moons since Detroiters have
shown quite the interest in a social
or fraternal event as is being shown
in the inauguration of the Twelve
Horsemen Club into Elkdom.
principles, it is necessary that Ne
groes and members of other minori
ty groups must be given complete
opportunity to serve in nil branch
es of the armed forces and to share
equally in the job that must he
done on the industrial front and in
the civilian defense program. Ne
groes who have been privileged to
do so have distinguished themselves
in battle and throughout the coun
try, members of the race have
gained equal distinction on the pro
duction line wherever they have
been given a chance. He praised the
job being done by the Minneapolis
Urban league in Integrating Ne
groes into Minneapolis industries
Judge Hastie was introduced by
Judge Luther W Youngdahl, asso
ciate justice, Minnesota Supreme
court. The Twin Cities Ordnance
Plant chorus, an interracial group
under direction of Clarence H. Rus
sell. rendered several selections in
cluding numbers from Porgy and
Boss. The league’s activities report
was made by Charles W. Washing
ton, executive secretary. One of the
many highlights of Mr. Washington's
report was the fact that although
Minneapolis is not considered a crit
ical manpower area, many of the
leading industries which have never
before employed Negroes are pro
ceeding rapidly on a planned basis
to integrate Negroes into their
plants. Mr. Washington also re
ferred to the increased number of
activities in which Negroes and
white people are working together
home and worked his way through
school and college. He understands
all of the problems affecting the
Negro, having associated with them
all his life, and having represented
many of them in legal matters. He
i? sympathetic, kind and under
standing. and will make a good
judge of the Common Pleas court,
if elected. So go to the polls and
vote for him, Monday. April 5.
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Joseph Mitchell, first class sea
man of the U. S. Navy, left De
troit this week following a brief
visit in Detroit with his fiancee.
Miss Shirley Jett, end her
mother. Mrs. Josephine Jett,
9635 Delmar street*. The fur
lough was Mitchell's first since
returning to the Slates in May.
1942. from China. During the
trip Mitchell was one of the
many sailors to witness the bat
tle of the Coral Sea.
Negro, White
Leaders Ask
FEPC Action
NEW YORK CITY—The March
On Washington Movement recog
nizing the great danger attending
the delayed action of the railroad
hearings and FEPC. sent the follow
ing telegram signed by representa
tives of leading organizations to
President Roosevelt:
Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of U.S A.
White House
Washington. D. C.
Received telegram March 18 from
Fowler W. Harper, deputy chair
man, War Manpower Commission,
stating: ‘President Roosevelt has
referred your telegram of March 8
to Mr. McNutt Wc are doing every
thing possible to arrive at a satis
factory solution of the problem with
which we are all concerned. Wc
hope that within a matter of days,
an announcement will be made
which will be satisfactory to all
concerned. It will deal with the
committee and with the hearings."
Because it has been one month and
four daya since conference was
called by Mr. McNutt and Attor
ney Francis Biddle under your order
for organizations Interested In
FEPC to express their views on its
work and future, the undersigned
are greatly disturbed lest those
forces that practice discriminations
on account of race, color, religion or
national origin become more em
boldened and aggressive in treating
your Executive Order 8802 as the
proverbial scrap of paper, which
will endanger national unity, and
play into the hands of the Axis
powers. Since the minority groups
affected by discriminations have
not had the honor and opportunity
to discuss the status of FEPC with
you face tc face, the undersigned
in the various branches of the Ci
vilian Defense program.
The following officer.* of the Ur
ban league we e elected: Thomas
Vennum, president; Talmadge B
Carey, vice president; Lloyd P
Johnson, treasurer; Mrs. Mabcth H
Paige, secretary.
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Trade Group To
Launch Campaign
The Booker T. Washington Trade
association will conduct its annual
membership campaign beginning on
April 7, and continuing through
April 28. Mrs. Gonzella Porter is
again the chairman of this enroll
ment effort and has associated with
her approximately 50 determined
workers. .The goal this year is
five hundred members, and every
owner of a business enterprise, all
persons employed in Negro busi
ness and every professional man
or woman are eligible to enroll.
Louis C. Blount is the president
of the Booker T. Washington Trade
association and his first two months
leadership assures all Detroit that
wish herewith to request a confer
ence with you at the earliest pos
sible date lo advise you of the new
danger that threatens FEPC which
has done constructive work for
manpower mobilization and better
race relations. We hope we may
have the privilege of presenting to
you a report on industrial and man
power conditions affecting minority
groups w hich may be helpful in your
selection of personnel. An immediate
reply would be greatly appreciated.
Signed:
Walter White, secretary, National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People
Channing H. Tobias, National Coun
cil of Y.M.C.A.’s
Lester Granger, executive secretary,
National Urban League
Frank R. Crosswaith, chairman, Ne
gro Labor Committee
Morris Milgram, executive secre
tary. Workers Defense League
Dr. Sidney Goldstein, Commission
On Justice and Peace, Central
Conference of American Rabbis
Dr. Max Ycrgan. president, National
Negro Congress
Ann Arnold Hedgeman, member,
Brooklyn Branch, N.A.A.C.P.
A. Philip Randolph, national direc
tor, March On Washington Move
ment
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the association will have an aggres
sive program, and all that Is neces
sary to make the organization ful
fill its obligations to the Negro
business people of Detroit is a sub
stantial cooperative membership.
The committee has set as its goal
for the campaign opening date the
enrollment of a minimum of 100
members. This will require a little
special effort on the part of the
dependable members to renew their
memberships on or before that
date.
The testimony of the mayor of
Detroit, the superintendent of
schools, the national president of
the Negro Business league, and
scores of other people is to the
effect that Detroit’s Booker T.
Washington Trade association is the
most effective organization of its
kind in the country. A successful
campaign is necessary to maintain
such a record.
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