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tion B of Iho Clril Air Patrol* has addod an
•ihor flyar of national famo to its list of boost*
on. Jimmy Luncoford, nationally known'or*
choatra loador. spont several hours with mam
bars of tho CAP on a flight training mission
at City Airport, whilo in Dotroit last wash.
Miss Earsly Taylor, aoction loador of iho Civil
Air Patrol squadron, statod in an intarviaw that
this group of IVogro aviation onthusiasts of Do
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SPOT NEWS
BULLETINS
brazil bars negroes
American Negroes seeking refuge
from race hate may have to cancel
Brazil from their list New immi
gration law proposed last week bars
Japs and Negroes although a few
Chinese would be admitted. Race
relations in Brazil are said to be
the best in the Western Hemisphere
BAN HATE MAIL
Defamatory literature against ra
cial or religious group* will be
banned from the mails if the House
resolution introduced by Reprc
aentative Walter Lynch of New
York is adopted Labor and Minor
ity group* are pressing for legisla
tion although Postmaster Walker
voices opposition.
WALTER RELTHER
A plan for full employment in
the post-war has been advanced
by Walter Reuther. UAW vice pres
ident. He advocates a Peace Pro
duction Board which would func
tion in peace time as the War Pro
duction Board does in wartime. The
PPB would have broad powers over
materials, manpower and would
plan public works, etc.
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BROOKLYN SEETHES
A Grand Jury report on crime in
the "little Harlem" section of Brook
lyn has become a hot New York
controversy. Negro leaders say re
port is vicious and anti-Negro. They
Insist that nothing is wrong that a
little democracy would not cure.
Mayor LaGuardia has ordered police
to clean up area
SOLDIER VOTE
If the soldiers vote in 1944 a
great many Negro servicemen from
Southern states will cast their bal
lots for the first time in their lives
Dixie Senators are aware of this
•nd would like to scuttle the bill
but they arc afraid of being called
unpatriotic according to the Wash
ington grapevine.
HENRY A. WALLACE
The Vice-President spoke at the
Herald-Tribune Forum presided
ever by Republican plutocrat Mrs.
Ogden Reid last week and made
many big shots uncomfortable by
•tating that “free enterprise** was
made for man and not man for "free
enterprise.” Mr. Wallace insists
that the Common Man wants a real
•take in the new world
SOCIALISTS
The Socialist Party wants labor*
to atop kidding themselves about
Democrats and Republican* and
suggests that the 'several million
dollars that CIO Sidney Hillman is
raising to campaign for a lost cause
can be much better used if it it the
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ANOTHER BOOSTER ADDED
BUSINESS MAN
FOUND GUILTY
OF RIOT DEATH
Awaits Sentence Here
On December 2nd
By Gillis
Fort y-three-year-old Napoleon
Frank Manning, grocery store own
er, was convicted last week of man
slaughter by Recorder's Judge Jo
seph A. Gillis in the fatal shooting
last June of Mrs. Sally Grabowski.
53-year-old white woman.
The trial was heard without a
jury, at which time the accused was
identified by several white wit
nesses as the armed man who left
his store, came out into the street
and fired several shots in the di
rection of Mrs Grabowski.
Among those identifying Manning
as the gunman was Frank Warren,
of 2130 Theodore avenue who said
he was on his front porch on June
21 and saw Manning shoot the aged
white woman. Another eyewitness
was Mrs. Victoria Kuratowski of
5100 St Aubjn, a roomer of the
deceased woman, and who report
edly saw the alleged murder Com
mitted. However, she testified that
two car loads of white youths had
alighted near the comer of St.
Aubin and Theodore, some of which
had entered Manning's store and
were chased outside.
Manning was represented by at
torney Joseph A. Brown and is on
a SI,OOO bond pending sentence by
Recorder's Judge Gillis on Decem
ber 2.
Negroes Upgrade
To Inspectors
Another major victory has been
won at the Packard Motor company
thia week when flve colored men
were up-graded to the rank of in
spectors.
Much'credit is due to the un
ceasing effort of Da\ id Jones, chief
steward in DDE department, who
has worked on this issue ever since
he was elected chief steward last
March. Also much credit is due to
Mr Jones for placing six colored
men in the polishihg room last
week, which caused a four-hour
strike among the white polishers
working in thia department
This is the greatest victory that
has been made among our group at
this plant since the all-out strike
against the management for their
gross neglect in the vpgrading of
Negro workers. ,
troit ara making graat stridas in complating
thair basic training prep&xatory to final axam
ination for officar training, Tho Civil Air Pa
trol, an auxiliary of tho Army Air Forcos, is
tho only civilian organisation which oporatm
undar tho dir act Jurisdiction of tho Unitaa
Statos Army. In tha pictura. from last to right,
ara: Calion Maxwell, Erlain Bishop, Earslay
Taylor. Luncaford. Neal Loving, Loonard
Proctor. Macao Flatchar. and Talford Duncan.
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*Scottsboro Boy’
Is Freed From
Alabama Prison
MONTGOMERY. Ala.-The State
Board of Pardons and Parole late
last week freed Charlie Weems, 31-
year-old principal in the celebrated
Scottsboro case.
Weems was paroled from Kilby
prison where he has just completed
six years of a 75-year sentence, im
posed following "onviction on a
charge of raping two white girls,
12 years ago. He is the first of five
youths sent to prison at the same
time. The youth is to be employed
by a laundry at Atlanta. Ga. his
home town, prisop officials an
nounced.
The assault charge was lodged
against Weems and other,col
ored boys following their arrest in
1931. Tbe lads were accused **v
Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, two
white girls, of attacking them while
they were riding in a freight train
between Chattanooga, Tcnn., »nd
Huntsville, Ala.
Several trials were held, with the
supreme court stepping in to reverse
the previous decisions. The final of
these hearings was held in 1937. at
which time four of the defendants
were released During the proces
sion of trials. Miss Bates changed
her story and actually went to
Washington to lobby for liberation
of the defendants.
Mrs. Roosvelt Clears
Position In Magazine
ST. PAUL—(ANP) —"If I were a
Negr0....1 would not do too much
demanding," a statement bv Mrs
Eleanor Roosevelt in an article
titled "Freedom: Promise or Fact,"
in the October is*ue of the Negro
Digest, was contested by the Rev.
Clarence T. Nelson, pastor of the
Camphor’ Memorial M E. church
and president of the St. Paul branch
of the NAACP. Mrs. Roosevelt last
week. In reply to a letter from
the minister, attempted to make
clear that statement and another
one which he termed "objection
able ” The statement, said Nelson,
negated the entire article. The letter
from Mrs Roosevelt was as follows:
“In the sentence, T would not do
too much demanding.' perhaps I did
not make it clear that I thought
colored people were quite right in
stating the things they wanted and
lo ask for them then but that when
it came to the work of really fight
ing for them, they would probably
get further if the white people who
believe as they do were urged to
Ido the most of the fighting And
I demanding. U it ii possible, in the
Wo Are
Americans Too
VOLUME 8
CRASH KILLS PILOT
Home Found For Mother As
Priest Stirs City Officials
MOB FUGITIVE
FIGHTS RETURN
TO ALABAMA
Had To Flee To Escape
Angry Mob After
Disarming Men
Direct appeals from thousands of
citizens to Governor Kelley at
Lansing to prevent the extradition
of Huddie Allen, to Town Creek,
Alabama, where he escaped a mob.
were asked this week by the Civil
Rights Federation through its Exec
utive Secretary. Jack Raskin. Allen,
a 3d-year-old farmer, was forced
to flee his home, his wife and two
children when a mob formed be
tween him and the sheriffs office to
which be attempted to report what
he bfHaatd wu an attempted hold
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%wiam oTiiimah. Ctott Righto to»
entlon lawyer, have appealed the
extradition warrant to the State
Supreme Court because of a defect
in the extradition papers. It was
understood that the Governor has
agreed to review his decision, but
only after the Supreme Court has
decided his appeal.
Wires Flood Lansing
Raskin said this week that hun
dreds of wires and telephone calls
had influenced the governor to
agree to review his decision, but
pointed out that still more public
pressure is needed to save Allen
from ao Alabama lynch mob. Allen
is now held in Wayne County jail,
pending a decision of the extra
dition proceedings
Allen is said to hare disarmed
two white men who stopped him
in the middle of the road near
Town Creek. When he attempted to
report the incident to the sheriff, a
mob is said to have formed between
him and the sheriff*s office- Allen
escaped into the woods and his
brother, a soldier on furlough, who
sought to find him and escort him to
the SherffT. was tctld by the mob
"we don’t give a d m if you are
in uniform. You'd better not get
caught out after sundown "
After being trailed for three days
and nights, and suffering wounds
Irt the head. Allen made his way
to Detroit Alabama officials traced
him to a war plant here and Gov
ernor Kelley granted the extra
dition warrant. The Civil Rights
Federation entered the case and
assigned Simmons and Goodman to
direct efforts to save Allen from
extradition to Alabama.
The Civil Rights Federation urged
immediate action by citizens who
are asked to make appeals to Gov
ernor Kelley to review his earlier
decision.
South it should always be done by
southerners themselves because
they take it so much better than
they do from a northerner. Dr Will
Alexander, for instance, can do
twice as much with a ,*outhem
audience as I.”
The other "objectionable" state
ment concerned the President's
Executive Order No. 8808 in dela
tion to the army concerning which
Mrs. Roosevelt replied that no ex
ecutive order issued to the nrrmy
would stop discrimination "This
change." she said, "has to come
slowly from the human heart and
it takes a long while to bring about
great changes"
In comment on the second state
ment Rev. Nelson said that the First
t,ady overlooked the fact that there
is a difference in an executive order
, by the President to a group of In
dustrialists who are private citizens
and an order from the President as
• commander-in-chief to the arnty
: and navy. Such an order, he said,
would have to be obeyed because
in the military forces, "orders are
1 orders.''
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1943
28 Boys Held In
Draft Fraud For
False Registering
Twnety-one of the 32 IS-to-18-
ycar-old boys held for obtaining
draft registration cards through tic
titious names and faked ages, are
colored. The boy* were arrested by
FBI agents last week on warrants
charging them with obtaining the
card* unlawfully.
Twenty-nine of the boys appeared
before United States Commissioner
J. Stanley Hurd, Friday, who dis
missed the charges against one. a
white boy. The others were sub
jected to a severe reprimand. Hurd
entered pleas of innocent for 28
boys and set examination for No
vember 29.
Three boys were released on per
sonal recognizance when their
parents came to court Bonds of 9100
each was set for the others.
BYARMYCOURT
Florida Private Disobeys
Commissioned Officer,
Faces Court Martial
By HOWARD WOODS
ST. LOUIS. Mo.—A 19-
year-old Jeffersdn Barracks
soldier, Pvt. Edward Hope,
this week faced a death sen
tence because he disobeyed
an officer.
Despite the fact that the army has
ordered a retrial, widespread reper
cussions were being heard this week
over the extreme severity of the
sentence imposed on the soldier
following s recent court-martial.
Pvt Hope was sentenced to die
as a result of his conviction on
charges of “wilful disobedience of
orders of a commissioned officer."
Announcement of the new trial
for the youth was made Saturday.
Within a short time, army public
relations officers sought to explain
the severe penalty.
Hope, they stated, was found
guilty of showing d.srespect toward
the officer of the day. striking a
sergeant on the head with a knife
and robbing another soldier at the
point of a knife. Military law. ap
plicable in time of war. army
spokesmen declared, provides for
the death penalty in cases of dis
obedience to orders of officers.
The conviction of Hope, who is
a native of Jacksonville. Fla., fol
lowed a general court-martial at the (
Jefferson Barracks headquarters.
Immediately thereafter the War
Department was besieged with pro- '
testa against the sentence.
Two Women Argue
Over Man, 1 Hurt
An argument between two women
over the estranged husband of one
of them resulted this week in the
ice pick stabbing of Gertrude
Bailey. 47. of 29<l Edmund Place,
treated for her injuries at Receiv
ing hospital. •
Police learned that Mrs. Bailey
and Lucille Anderson. 30. of 2027
St. Antoine street had an argument
over Mrs. Ba.ley's husband, from
whom she had been separated for
a short time.
During the altercation Mrs Bailey
was stabbed behind the left rhmslder
with an ice pick Miss Anderson
was held for questioning by police
assigned to the case this \seek.
GOING OVIISEAS^V
Misa Geneva Marcormrs, 5141
Milford, left Sunday for Washing
ton to be assigned to a Red Cross
poet overseas. Miss Marcormes. a
social worker with the Welfare
deportment. Joined the Red Crow
a month ago and has been in train
ing since. She received notice last
Friday to report at once in Wash
ington.
TO MOVE INTO!
NEW HOUSING
PROJECT SOON
Catholic Priest Leads
Campaign To Obtain
Home For Family
By JOHN WOOD
Influenced by Father H. Thomas
J. Clones of Sacred Heart Catholic
church. Joseph Starrs, supervisor of
Tenant Selections and Home Regis
trations of the Detroit Housing
Commission made arrangements
this week for the removal of the
family of H. C. Washington from a
coal bin in which they have been
living since lest July to e family
unit in a was housing project at
[sight Mile Bond end'Wyoming ave
fdiate occupancy.
Stirred by a story In lest week's
I Issue of the Michigan Chronicle
a story which told of an expectant
mother with her family of five liv
ing in almost primitive surround
ings Father Clynes spent the
greater part of last week in con
ferences with Starrs who had
earlier intimated that Anding a
home for Mrs. Washington, her two
children, husband and mother was
an impossibility because of the
acute housing shortage.
Shura assured Father Clynes
Monday that the family would be
moved into the project early this
week. Occupation of the project be
gan last Saturday, and although
Mrs. Washington, whose husband is
engaged in defense work as a DSR
mechanic, had made frequent pleas
for a home her name was not in
cluded on the list of first tenants.
She signed a lease for a unit in the
project Saturday but was told that
she would have to wait three more
weeks before the unit would be
ready.
It was after another conference
between Starrs and Father Clynes
Monday morning that orders were
given to accept the Washington
family as the next tenants of the
project
Aroused by the picture and story
of the family’s conditions, several
Detroiters, already overcrowded, in
dicated that they were willing to
make room for the expectant mo
ther. Although many offers of
apartments and rooms were made,
none were immediately available.
Among those who offered shelter
were Mrs. Mattie Clowney of 1908
Winter. Mrs. C. Harris of 5330 24th.
Henry Hare of 1726 Orleans. Joseph
Forest of 29968 Culver. Inkster, and
several persons who asked that their
names not be mentioned.
Dr. Selling Discloses
Plans To Block Riots
A nrofrtm designed to ease ra
cial tensions and forestall a recur
rence of the June race riot which
was formulated by Dr. Lowell S.
Selling, director of the Recorders
Court psychopathic clinic, after s
five-months' study was released to
the public this week.
The program deals primarily with
the social and economic factors of
Negro life in Detroit and proposes
that a bureau be created in the city
to deal specifically with*interracial
relationships. Analyzing the factors
in the June riot Dr. Selling stated:
During the preliminary period
when tension was brewing, the most
important factors seem to have been
a lack of territory into which Ne
groes could spread to secure ade
quate housing economic conflict
and insecurity, inadequate outlook
for recreation and social achieve
ment and the presence of strong
anti-Negro prejudice in the com
munity."
I Dr. hailing placed the emphasis
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Richard Darrell Trent, eon of
Mrs. Blanche Trent, Mil East
Willis avenue, was appointed
cadet colonel oarly this month,
becoming the only Negro in Re
serve Officers Training Corps in
mixed units to be commissioned
a full officer. Treat is a student
at Caas Technical high school.
M POTATO’
Measure Can't Find
Sponsor Despite
Committee Okeh
WASHINGTON—The antl
poil tax bill is proving itself
to be a “hot potato."
Nobody wants to handle it
in the Senate. As a result. It
is dangling in mid sir without a
sponsor, much ,to the glee and sat
isfaction of the southern bloc and
a lot of others who would rather
talk about their interest than to
demonstrate it in action.
An apparent effort is being made
to duck the responsibility for bring,
ing the bill up in the Senate to face
the inevitable filibuster of the poll
taxers
Chiarman Frederick Van Nuys
(D.. Ind) is reported reluctant to
sponsor the bill on the floor and
lead the fight for its enactment. As
chairman of the Judiciary commit
tee, he generally handles the legis
lation coming from his committee
Sen. James Mead <D. of N Y.) is
reported to have declined to move
for consideration of the bill, which
is already on the Senate calendar.
He is said to have expressed the
belief that the job should be done
by the committee chairman. Mead
is not a member of the Judiciary
committee.
In the meantime, the southern
OV~See POLL TAX. rage 4
on the living conditions of the Ne
gro and dismissed the well worn
theory that hoodlums were respon
sible for the riot. His findings were
, the result of detailed examination
; of 100 persons who were arrested
* for serious crimes during the not.
j Ninety-five of the group were Ne
groes and flve were white The doc-
I tor indicated that had the police
1 arrested more whites it might have
been possible to make a more scien
tific study of the riot causes.
BllCAll
The Bureau proposed by Dr Sell
ing would investigate cases of dis
crimination and “the essential pur
pose of the bureau would be to
remain constantly on the alert to
detect thase frictions and interracial
tensions that spell trouble for the
entire community "
| One of the big factors in tha un
rest cited by Dr. Sailing was the
influx of rural people who become
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NUMBER 35
3RD SELFRIDGE
FLYER TO DIE
IN SIX WEEKS;
Fighter Plane Crashed
Five Miles From
Air Base
SELFRIDGI FOLD. Mich.-Sec
ond Lt Leon Purchase. Air Corps,
was killed Friday, Nov. 19. whan
the fighter plaat in which he was
flying crashed about five miles
northwest 'f Selfridge Field.
The plane wad cat a training mis
sion from this air bass The enuh
occurred at 11:20 am,
Lt Purchase's permanent boms
address was 164 W. 141st street. New
York City, I’. Y., where his mother,
Mrs. Ophelia Hughes, resides. His
father is deceased.
Born Oct t. 1917, in Savannah,
Ga., he was educated in New York,
St Francia college in Brooklyn,
N. Y.. San Mateo (CaL) Junior col
lege and the University of California
at Los Angeles.
Lt Purchase was inducted into
the army Oct. 14. 1941, and served
as an enlisted man until Dec. 17,
1942. when he became an aviation
cadat Ha was graduated from Tus
kegee Army Alt Corps Flying
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RichardD. Trent
Appointed Cadet
Colonel At Cass
Richard Darrell Trent 18-year
old senior of Cass Technical high
school, was given his second pro
motion within nine months when
he was elevated to ccadet colonel in
the Cass unit of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps, the highest rank
ever attained by a Negro In Reserve
Officers Training Corps in Michigan.
Last April Cadet Colonel Trent
was promoted to second lientenant
by Major A. R. Pfannenschmidt,
assistant professor of military
science and tactics at Casa.
In his new position Trent is com
manding officer of the First Regi
ment
Of the 1225 cadets in the unit,
only 18 are colored. There are no
colored officers in the unit Under
his command are ROTC units from
Cass. Denby, Southeastern, and
Eastern high schools. He led his
regiment in the Armistice Day pa
rade.
Trent is also president of the NCO
club, vice-president of the ROTC
Officers club, and commander of
the Officers Training school, ROTC,
at Casa. He has acquired six ser
vice ribbons and two medals for
markmanship. including a William
Randolph Hearst Trophy Medal. He
is a member of the First Chemical
company. Michigan State Troope,
under command of Capt Roy Mor
ton.
In his freshman year at Cass he
j participated in sports, especially
* boxtng. swimming and basketball.
Query Stimson
On Rumor 93rd
Division Split
NEW YORK -Secretary of fa
Henry L Stimson has been aekeg
, to issue a statement on the wido
spread report that the all-Negn
93rd division has been brokea us
1 and its separate units assigned la
guard duty along the Pacific coaat
In a letter to Stimson. the NAACP
declared:
“Inasmuch as the 93rd was the
first Negro combat division to be
activated in this war. and inae
much as Negro Americana had en
tertained high hopes of tha con
, tnbutions these men would make
, in combat areas, you can appreciate,
wa are sure, the effect of tha re
ported action upon tha Negro civil
ian population.
"Within the limits prescribed by
military security, this association
would appreciate an authoritative
j «tate no eat from the War Department
on this persistent rumor ragpedhad
the 93rd division "
' The 93rd was activated ftp fkp
spring of 1943 and took part la Held
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