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Hackley Exhibit
Of Collections
At Main Library
The E. Azalia Hackley Memorial
Collection of Music i* on exhibition
ot the Mam Librsry In the second
floor music and drama department
corridor. Mis* H. Dorothy Tflly
Chief of the music and drama de
partment, >n ill speak fiver Station
WJBK at 11:30 am. Friday, con
cern.ng the collection.
The Annual Musk In-titute of th<
Detroit Musician* Association will
open Monday. October 30 at St
Paul AME Zion church S2l F
Palmer Music climes will be di
rected by leading rrusina: ' of both
faces Two concerts will be gi\en
at 7 SO pm and ft 30 p m that e\ r
nine.
Clinic directors will be pian"
Clinic. Josephine Harrold •l. 'vt:
voice clinic Celeste Cole materials
conference Lorenetta I>eßen chor*
•1 conducting, Kenneth Jewell, con
ducting conference, D: Nell.e R
Huger Director of the organ con
ference will be announced later
Registrations will be taken at the
church at 930 am Luncheon wll
be served at noon
Brokers Elect
Officers For
Ensuing Year
The Detroit Real Estate Brokers
Aaaociation held its annual elec
tion of officers on Friday at the
Lucy Thurman YWCA President
C. W. White gave a very inspiring
annual report of the activities for
the past year.
Officers elected were- M Crutch
er. president; W D Monson. vice
president, A S Wright, secretary;
Carrie L Priest assistant secre
tary; Carleton W Gaines, treas
urer. The president-elect made a
•hort talk of appreciation to the
• association for their vote of con
fidence and pledged to fulfill to
Ihe best of his ability the prin
ciples upon which the orgamza- ,
tion was founded.
The organization had its begin
ning twelve years ago under the
founder. C. W. White, one of De
troit's leading real estate brokers, \
The members of the association
•re real estate brokers of high
Standards who are well known
for their square dealings. They
have been instrumental In many
ways in securing better housing
facilities for Negroes Its mem
bers have been on various housing
committees and thair knowledge
•f real estate values and housing
accommodations is highly rospet
ed by people throughout the city.
Scout Organizers
Take Instruction
In Procedures
The Organization and Extension
Committee of tfec E. Woodward
Community under the chairman
ship of Atty. Wyn Garvin, met at
the Franklin Settlement on Char
levoix Sunday, Oct. 22 for an in
struction course.
Walter McKenna, assistant scout
executive: John Lee, assistant dis
trict executive; Joseph J. Gross,
field secretary, and Norm Reck
ling. district training chairman.
re • Instruction to the group of
men.
The course of instruction cov
ered the methods of organizing
Scout troop*. The group passed a
resolution to organize 30 scout
troops for boys of all races and
creeds in the East Woodward com
munity by April. 1045. This will
make it possible for approximately
1.000 boys to participate in scout
ing The committee is bi-racmk
Joseph J. Cross announced that
training programs for all men in
terested in becoming scoutmasters
or troop committeemen were now
in progress at Northeastern high
School. Forty-seven men are now
registered in this course which
includes six weeks of training.
Gro‘s announced further that the
men in the course would spend
Thanksgiving at Camp Howel,
Mich.
Edward Wilson, scoutmaster at
St Peter Ciaver and member of
the Scout Training faculty, is con
ducting the course.
Compositions
Contest Opens
The annual contest for original
Compositions, held by the Tuesday
Musicale of Detroit, is open to men
and women who wish to submit
manuscripts between November 19
and December 1 Prizes of war
bonds will be given to winners in
the vocal solo enremble and instru
mental solo divisions.
For contest rules address Helen
Burr-Brand chairman. 602 Gleynn
Court, Detroit 2, Mich., enclosing
a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
Judges for the contest are Charles
Frederic Morse, chairman Mrs.
Frost, Mis* Margaret Man
f>H>ach t Graham T. Overgard,
Jascha Schwarlzmann.
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Member* of tho Phi Dolta Kappa sorority at
their recent Founders' Day banquet at tha
Twelve Horseman's Civic center, pause for a
moment for the cameraman. In the pictura
are: Mrs. Ruth Penn. Mrs. Saide Ransom*,
Courier —
( ontinurd from rage li
in support of Frderal anti-lynching
legislation when that subject was
up for drhate in the Senate.
Till: AR>II. I> FORC ES. The
Courier verms to think, and would
hair us believe, that whoever bears
thr title of Commander in Chief
of the Army and the Navy la, by
\irtue of that title alone, permitted
to conduct our armed conflict in a
vacuum, totally unmindful of any
other considerations which may
demand his attention as President.
Thus, the Courier would ignore the
fact, peculiar to our American Con
stitutional set-up, that the Com
mander In Chief is essentially the
civilian head of our armed force*—
not the military head; and that
while his derision on question* of
military expediency ia Anal, never
theless. he would be a poor Com
mandrr indeed if he actively sought
out point of violent disagreement
with those whom he haa appointed
and the Congress has confirmed as
the active prosecutors of the War.
We all agreed, I believe, that
winning the war comes first. And
we know. too. that the initial re
sponsibility for this rests with the
Secretaries of the War and Navy
Departments who are responsible
to the President for the action or
the inaetlon of the respective mili
tary and naval personnel in their
departments.
The Selective Service Act. which
incidentally was paased by a Dem
ocratic Congreaa. over the vocifer
ous protests of Mr. Dewey's fol
lowers. prohibited racial discrim
ination in the selection and train
ing of our armed forces. The ulti
mate responsibility for carrying out
this prohibition rest with President;
but the Initial responsibility—the
promulgation of appropriate orders
and directives to Army and Navy
commanders belonged to Secre
tary of War Stimson, a Republican,
to General Marshal, Army Chief of
Staff, a Republican, and to the late
Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox,
a Republican, and the Navy’s top
officer, Admiral King, a Republican.
The really important fact to be
borne in mind then, when reading
the Courier’s tirade against Roose
velt for not ending discrimination
in the armed services by a single
stroke of the pen. is that the Presi
dent has never expressed his ap
proval of a single discriminatory
order or art of the War and Navy
Departments, nor has he ever with
held hjs approval of a single anti
discriminatory order or act by those
Departments. , ..
THE FEPC. The Courier’s editor
ial of Oct. 14 In which it blames the
present Administration for last
year’s Detroit riot and all other
riots and implied that President
Roosevelt was not sincere in his
support of his own Fair Employ
ment Practice Committee is a splen
did illustration that paper's policy
of stating malicious half truths. The
Detroit riot (and 1 suspect each of
the other riots mentioned by the
Courier) was essentially a local
affair, strmming from unresolved
local racial issues and fanned to
red heat by local demagogues. Re
garding the President’s Committee
on Fair Employment Practices, ad
mittedly. the present FEPC is not
and cannot be very effective so
long as it has no power to enforce
its conclusions. But what the Cour
ier does not point out is the Con
stitutional inability of the Presi
dent to confer such power on the
FEPC and the initial reluctance
on the part of sincere friends of
that agency to have the President
cast that New Deal agenev to the
Congressional Wolves in other than
an election year.
The Courier would have us be
lieve that Mr. Roosevelt was intent
an destroying FEPC when,' in 1943,
he placed it under the general
supervision of the War Manpower
Commission. The logic of the Presi
dent action, however, is rlearly
understandable. Congress had ap
propriated (and rould be expected
to appropriate again) money to en
able the War Manpower Commis-
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Congress had never appropriated
(and In 1943 a non-election year,
rould hardly be expected to ap
propriate) money to compel dis
criminating employers and unions
to assent to the employment of
Negroes. Moreover, the War Man
power Commission’s functions and
the duties of FEPC were and are
basically the same, namely, to
bring about the full utilisation of
the Nation's manpower. Hence, the
President’s action In attempting to
correlate these two Federal man
power agencies was directly In line
with the Courier's candidate, Mr.
Dewey, Is now accusing the Presi
dent of not doing!
Finally, as one who for eight
months shared the responsibility of
enforcing the President’! fair prac
tices order. I can truthfully state
that the White House never hesi
tated to move on a single case re
ferred to it by FEPC.
THE POLL TAX ISSUE. The
Courier's tongue-in-cheek attempt
to place the blame upon President
Roosevelt for the Senate’s failure
to concur with thr House on Fed
eral anti-poll tax legislation fools
no one. It is a safe bet that had
Governor Dewey given his unre
served approval (as the late Wen
dell Willkie did) to the NAACP'a
fight to have the Senate invoke Its
cloture rule, the anti-poll tax bill
would have passed the Senate and
become a law. All of us have pain
ful memories of Mr. Dewey’s weasel
words on that occasion.
The Administration, through Its
leaders in the Senate did all that
it could to obtain a vote and pas
sage of the bill short of fatally de
laying vital war legislation; and
no sensible person is misled by
the Republican's facetious argu
ment that the magic of the Roose
velt voice could have converted
that illegitimate marriage of re
actionary Republican and poll-tax
Senators into a vocal unit intent on
passing Federal anti-poll tax legis
lation and thus cutting their own
throats. The voice those Senators
wanted to hear was the voice of
Dewey and, as usual, that voice
was quiet in the fare of a positive
duty to speak!
And now, as a Anal Insult to Ne
gro's legitimate asperations that the
day will come in our country when
poor people, white and black, no
longer will be denied their chief
attribute of citizenship because they
are poor, the Republican platform,
Mr. Dewey and presumably his
lackey, the Courier, hands us the
sop of a Constitutional amendment
outlawing forever the despicable
poll tax as a qualification for Fed
eral voting! No addsl comment on
this Republican hoax is needed; tho
sheer hypocrisy of those who thus
adopt the strategy of the Southern
poll tax Senators has been pointed
out quite caustically by the late
Mr. Willkie In his recent article In
Collier’s magazine.
And so the Pittsburgh Courier,
long mistakenly accepted by many
well-meaning white people as a
truthful exponent of the thinking
of Negroes on national issues, not
only has itself reached a new low;
its cunning conduct in this all
important election haa provided
added reason for the growing criti
cism of the Negro press generally.
Very truly yours. Geo. W. Crock
ett Jr.. Executive Director, UAW
CIO Fair Practices Committee.
Explosion—
Continued From Page 1)
took a toll of 94 lives. Injured 175.
and reportedly, has yet to account
for almost 150 persons. including
many gas plant employees. So far
the total damage has been un
officially set between three and five
million dollars and over 10.000 per
sons have been left homeless.
Eight hours after the explosion,
members of the all-Negro first bat
talion of the Ohio State Guard
were ordered to mobilize and are
now alternating four hour shifts
guarding the restricted site of the
blaze The 73-man unit commanded
by Major Charles Gardner Jr.,
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Mrs. Beatrice Fairfax. Miss Mat Bunch, Miss
Margarat Rowe, Mrs. Grace Williams, Mrs.
Dorothy Cunningham, and othars. Members
of lho sorority art teachers in the Detroit
Public School system.—Photo by Brown.
Addes —
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policy of refusing to serve Negro
patrons in your Coffee Shop. We.
understand, further, that several
days ago two staff members of our
International Union, Mrs. Hawes
and Mr Crockett, experienced con
siderable difficulty and no small
embarrassment before they finally
obtained service.
Your notel is located in close
proximity to the Maccabees Build
ing, where several departments of
our International Union are housed,
For this reason our employees in
that building, several of whom are
colored, litid it convenient to pa
tronize your Coffee Shop during
their lunch hour.
We had supposed, heretofore,
that racial discrimination was not
a practice at your hotel. And, be
cause of this, our International
Union and many of our locals here
in Detroit area have favored you
with their parties and banquets.
Just two months ago our organi
zation engaged your services for a
banqupt in honor of Major Roberts
a colored hero of this war. Since
all UAW affairs are enjoyed equal
ly by your white and colored mem
bers alike, the inference must be
that you are prepared to alter your
practices whenever it is financially
advisable.
Our Fair Practices Committee re
quests that you advise us that in
the future your hotel and its ac
commodations will be available to
all patrons alike; otherwise, we
shall be compelled to request all
CIO locals and councils in this area
to refrain from all further use of
your facilities.
We sincerely hope you will not
make it necessary for us to use this,
and such ether means as may be
open to us, to insure compliance on
your part with the laws of this
State.
Very truly yours.
GKO. F. ADDES (Signed)
George F. Addes
International Secretary-Treasurer
aided by Captain Roger S. Johnson,
is stationed at the local armory
while on leave hours of directing
operations in the stricken terri
tory with rifles and guns.
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at East Forest Avenue, November 1, 1944. Resident
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Smith used when hired by the
King*, told her that her mother
was French and her father Jewish.
First Witness
Clarence King, first witness, told
how they advertised in a daily
paper for a high school girl to taka
care of the baby and do light house
work. He said Mrs. Smith, in an
swering the advertising, told Mrs.
King that she was a student at
Northern high school, and in the
12A. She said she could come to
work at 2 pm. after her school
hours were over.
The witness testified that Mrs.
Smith, who had told Mrs. King that
her father was a draftsman at Ford
Motor company, started work Sep
tember 25. She stayed at the King
home until 7:30 or 8 p m. each eve
ning.
Mrs. King substantiated the tes
timony of her husband when aha
took the witness chair.
Recognized Baby
In cross examining Mr. King,
Attorney Lewis asked the witness:
’’Did you recognize Bobby at that
time (The day he went to the
Smith home)?”
’ Yes, I was positive of his fea
tures.” answered King.
Mrs. King said that they went
out to dinner and the theatre on
September 30 in celebration of Mr.
King's birthday. Mrs. Smith was
the only one at home for dinner.
Emory, 17-year-old son of the
Kings, went out with some of his
friends about 8 p m.
The Kings, who left the house
between 8:15 and 8:30, left the
porch light on as Mrs Smith had
told them a girl friend was coming
by and they would work on a jig
saw puzzle.
The Kings returned home at
1 a m., and found Mrs. Smith and
the baby gone. Mrs. King went to a
neighbor’s home to see if Mrs.
Smith had left the baby with her.
Prosecutor William E. Dowling
asked Mrs. King: “Did you ever
give ‘Helen’ permission to take
Bobby to her home?”
"No,” answered Mrs. King.
Introduced Exhibits
Dowling then introduced the
baby buggy, baby nightclothes, bot
tles of prepared formula with spe
cial nipple, and Bobby, as exhibits
of the state.
In cross examining Mrs. King.
Attorney Brown asked: ‘Did she
(Helen Rosman) perform her work
well?”
“Yes,’’ answered the witness.
“Did she take good care of
Bolfjy.”
"Yes, extremely so.”
“Did you have any apprehension
about his health during this
period?”
“I knew that if he was with
Helen, she would take good care of
him.”
Mrs. King revealed in her testi
mony that she had taken Bobby to
the doctor immediately after his re
covery. and the doctor had declared
him in good health, but said that
he had gained too much weight.
On direct examination of Mrs.
King. Dowling asked: "Did she tell
you about her nationality?”
“She said she was half Jewish
and half French, that her mother
was French and her father Jewish.”
It was at this point of the testi
mony that Mrs. Smith smiled.
"Did the doctor tell you any
thing about the baby’s race?” asked
Dowling of the witness.
“He said that he didn't look like
a colored baby.”
Cruzet —
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had been involved in a number of
colliaioni recently, and at on*
time had been sent back to the
school of instructions.
He waa born in Detroit in 1911,
the son of Andrew (Bob) and
Mrs. Cruzet. The senior Cruzet
was one of the leading musicians
during the early part of the cen
tury. and Robert followed in his
footsteps, organizing a band dur
ing the early 1930'5. He was at
one time a member of the St. Mat
thews and Brewster Recreation
Center basketball teams
Roosevelt —
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resa where Sgt. Joe Louis and vis
iting notables from all over the
country peered from vantage
points in the hotel.
The trip through Harlem was
part of a four-hour tour through
New York’s Borough which marked
the first public visit of the Presi
dent to his hometown since the
war began.
Coming to address the Foreign
Policy Association at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel Saturday evening,
the President arrived at the New
York. Port of Embarkation in
Brooklyn early Saturday morning.
Greeted By Gls
Three companies of Negro sol
diers and E Company of Negro
Wacs were on hand at his arrival.
Several thousand Negro workers
greeted him later as he inspected
the Brooklyn Navy Yard while still
others cheered him as he made a
short speech at a rally for his
friend. Senator Wagner, at Ebbett's
Field
Following a tour of the Bronx
and and a brief stop at the Waves
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