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THE CHRONICLE
Saturday, October 19, 1946
-mew MAWEW-
JAMES
(MRS. ESTELLB ANDREWS
Judo-ine from her last New Ha
en visit when she appeared at the
Varick AME Zion Church with the
Tinemnn Sinsrers those who hear
Mrs. Estelle Andrew and the De
troit Motor Ensemble at Varick
on Sunday. October 27 are in for a
treat. IFor on that occasion with
artistic poise, voice control andl a
fetching delivery, she seemed quite
capable (as we wrote at the time)
of commanding' the. interest of an
appreciative audience.
The lady is capital "G-o-o-d
Don't say we didn't warn you.
IMMANUEL BAPTIST TO
CELEBRATE
The Immanuel Baptist Church at
Day and Chapel Streets will ob
serve its 101 st anniversairy with
ceremonies which will begin on the
23rd and continue through the 27th
At press time the celebration pro
gram had not tbeen fully complet
ed. However, many in the city
will remember that the Rev. Adam
Clayton Powell, Sr., was once pas
tor of the churcb. Others will un
doubtedly recall the Rev. Pharr,
who this writer discovered
through library research was pas
tor of the Immanuer Church for
27 years.
Churches
VARICK A. M. E. ZION
Dixwell Ave. and Charles Street
ftev, Richard A. G. Foster, SOidster
. Sunday School 9:30 A.M. '
' Morning Worship 10:45 AJaV
'- Evening Worship 8:00 PJi.
VIXWELL AVENUE
CONGREGATIONAL. CHURCH
100 XKxwell Avenue '
, Bev. Henry C MePewell. Miaister
Sunday School :30 A2L
. Morning Worship 10:45 AM.
Weekly Prayer Meeting . Tuts.
1:00 PJf.
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL.
CHURCH
Whalley Avenue
rather Donald O. Wilson, Vicar
Morning Service 10:46 Daring
Bummer
BEULAH HEIGHTS
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
12 Admiral Street
Eider L. R. Tolbert, Minister
Sunday School 9:45 AM.
Devotional Services 1:30 AM.
Y. P. U. 6:00 PJM.
Evening Service 8:00 PJI.
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
270 Ashmund Street
Rev. W. T. Teagne, Pastor
Sunday School 10:45 AM.
Preaching: at 12:00 Noon
Y. P. W. W. at 6:30 TM.
Evening- Service 8:00 PJL
ST. PAUL'S U. A. M. E.
94 Webster Street
Rev. James K Henry, Minister
IMorning service 11 a.m.
Sunday School 1 p.m.
Spencer's League 6:30-7:30 p.m
Evening service 8 p.m.
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New Yerlc Shoe Repair Serrioe
Tinney and Foster, Owners
C. Foster, Mgr.
220 Dixwell Avenue
New Haren. Cans.
UAC'S SMOKE SHOP and
SHOE SHINE PARLOR
All Types of Papers and
Magazines 'Here
256 Dixwell Ave. Tel. 6-9764
- New Haven, Conn.
McMillan, Prop.
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E. SHANKEL, Editor
NEWS NOTES
By Harriet J. Davis
St. Paul's UAME Church were
hosts to Bethesda Baptist Church
of Portehester, New York on Sun
day, October 6, two ibus loads of
followers came. The church has
just received their newly appointed
pastor in the (person of Rev. Har
mon who is matriculating at Col
umbia Uniwesity with expectation
of coming to Yale in a few months
for his Masters degree in Theo
logy. A very inspiring sermon
was delivered.
Rev. Harmon came to St. Paul's
under the auspices of the Rally
Committee. A sum of $877.76
was raised witn tne nopes oi
still more to ibe turned in.
On Thursday evening St. Paul's
presented Rev. Mclves of Orange,
N. J., and his Gospel Choir of 40
voices and another bus load of well
wishers and friends from Orange
Rev. Mclves is humorous and wit
ty and1 everyone enjoyed his ser
mon.
The official program for the 33rd
Quadrennial Session of the Gener
al Conference of the Union Amer
ican M. E. Church has fbeen an
nounced. Beginning Tuesday, Oo
tober 15, the Conference will con
vene at St. Paul's with the Presid
ing Bishops, Rt. Rev. B. M. Fer-
nan-dors, Rt. Rev. J. P. Predow
Rt. Rev. O. W. Forward and Rev
J. E. Henry, pastor.'
Thursday, October 24, St. Paul's
will present the J. E. H. Chorus in
a "(Musical Extravaganza" under
the direction of Sgt. Gideon San
titers of Old Farms ' Convalescent
Home, Avon, Conn., and accompa
nied by Miss Sara Gibson. Gabriel
Jordan and Charles Whittabe will
be featured as soloists assisted by
guest organist, also from Avon,
Cpl. C. Chester Marshall. Miss
Madeline Gaylord of Boston, Mass.
wilL be guest speaker of the even
ingr-
The public is cordially invited to
attend, free of charge.
Mr. Hardy Belle of New York
recently spent a short visit here
with his son and daughter-in-law.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Belle, Sr., of
jvagewooa Ave., grand, g:
grand 'and great great grand chil
dren, j v.
K; '
(Friends of Juanita Hilton ' will
honor her with' a Miscellaneous
shower next Friday in the home of
Janice iNorcott of Orchard Street.
On Thanksgiving Day. Juanita'wii
become the bride of Stanley Rob
inson, lso of .New Haven.
Miss Sara I Gibson of North
Haven is now the hoMer of a dip
loma from the College of Massage
in Bridgeport. Miss Gibson was
among 19 graduating on Sunday,
October 6. -
Greetings!! That was the word
received by Sam. -Dixon, drummer.
firom Uncle Sain this .bast week.
Havent heard! the exact date but
we know there will be a big send
off if he goes.
ROLAND HAYES who Is now en
joying his greatest popularity, is
maKing jug only Boston appearance
at Symphony ' Hall, on Sunday
evening, October 27.
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BUM UN TAILORS
W Have Two Modern
Shop J,
91 and 85 Dixwell Aye.
New Haven, Conn.
24 . Hours Tailoring and
Dry Cleaning Service
Walt
r L. Hyder, Prop.
MiiiniimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiir
Dixwell
Wallpaper & Paint Store
Baystate Paiata
Wallpaper
109 DIXWELL AVE.
TeL 6-2944
New Havea, Conn.
Bouzuocos Brother
fTisggaajay-
Ice Cream
CeafecHoaery am Fruit
139 DIXWELL AVE.
New Haven, Cobb.
It's Like This ..
By MARTY RICHARDSON
Unless death or some other
unforeseen circumstance arises
President Harry Truman on Mon
day night elected Henry Wallace
to the presidency of the United
States. Of course, it is just
barely possible
that by the time
late 1947 rolls
around Henry
Wallace may
not want the po
sition. Should
this be the case
you can still be
sure of one
thing: Harry
T r u m a n e-l
lected Somebo
dy to the job
for the next
. i . A'
coming aamimsiruLUMi,
wasn't himself that he elected.
it
Cowardly, Senseless, Disastrous
For, in, his Monday night radio
address. President Truman an
nounced to the United States and
to the world the most cowardly,
the most senseless and the most
disastrous decision any president
of this country , has made since
the dark, silly days of Herbert
Hoover. Retreating in wild
flight before the powerful lobby
of the meat packers and the food
peddlers, and with his back
turned broadly in the face of. the
hungry babies, the foodlessi
housewives and the . nose-grinding
laborers of the country, the
harassed, frightened little Mis
sourian took the controls off
meat, sounded the death knell as
this country has never witnessed.
I only hope that the ashes of
his late, great predecessor in the
presidency can ret well after
Monday night j goodness knows
Truman gave 'him reason - or
many turns in his grave,
Now Comes The Drama
This is not the first instance of
the Truman administration ut
ter disregard of everything con
cerned with the rights and wel
fare of the American people. It
is just that this one is perhaps
the most dramatic. Some indica
tion of the type of administra
tion it would become was made
pretty clear . when the President
and probably his iil-advisors be
gan a methodical Icicking out of
every last vestige., of ..the; ' New
Deal "Whichp ha given . Truman,
himself faykpreside-ncy. This
purge came to its dreadful climax
with the ousting" of ; the strongest
remaining New pealer and the
man who , wiH" sing Tmman's swan
song in 1947 Henry Wallace.
The ' Admiiiistratioii's - puerility
had been evidenced even earlier,
when the cabinet began filling- up
with open admirers of fascists in
the vital State iDepartment, when
a emall-statored Carolina cotton
planter was made head of this de
partment, to carry out into the
world a democracy he didn't
practice at home in South Caro
lina. It reached a high point
daring the railway strike, . when
Strong-Man Harry told - labor
where to go while he servilely
jumped to do the bidding of the
railroads and, the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers.
He Had Three "Outs"
Mr. Truman may be able to
say, with some truth, that never
in ' his misbegotten - administra
tion has he " been " subjected to
more pressure than he . was m
this instance. This js doubtless
true; but it is tike wise true that
seldom has he had at least Three
alternatives as clear as he had-
In. the nrst place; "Mr." Truman 1
could have done ,': what a;- presi
dent of real' courage -would do;
he could have let the price ceil-
mgs remain Exactly a they
were and aa the . People bare
In the October issue of the Hart
ford CHRONICLE in mentioning
of members from the local NNC
visiting Washington with the
American Crusaders against lynch
ing, we used the name "Sammy"
Green, when what should have
been said was Mrs. Fanny Oreen
of 41 Admiral Street. Mrs. Green
who is a member of the popular ;
Rock-Hontas Chorus (reviewed by
thi3 reporter Monday, October 7,)
graciously corrected the error and
we promised to print her name cor
rectly. Rock-Hontas Chorus inci
dentally is on the air at 10:30 p.
m, every Monday night.
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James D, Curry, President of the
Veterans Civic Organization, ' and
who 5s a candy ' maker by trade.
was wed recently to Miss Mary
Elizabeth Beasley of thi$ city.1
Elm Haven Market
P. R. Lev. Prop.
Qaalitr Qtaick Frosen Foods
103 DIXWELL AVE.
Phone 6-7927
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ihown they wanted them tne
packers would have ceased their
waiting game and resumed the
sale of meat (and their flow of '
profits). Alternative two would
have been, to simply, quietly and j
quickly permit the flow of Ar- j
gentine and Mexican beef into
the United States. This would
have been the simple solution.
The third would have been to put
the Army and the Navy in the j
oackinsr-houses cutting and de-l
livering meat, as he so readily
threatened to do in the coal ;
mires, and on the railroads. Mr. j
Truman did not do these things;
he isn't the kind of president !
who would. He'll have a lot of
time to wish he had been.
Don't Let It Happen To Me
I wouldn't wish off onto a dog
the political future that I can en
vision tor narry lTuman irom
this point on. In my wildest
fights of fancy I have never ima
gined myself pitted against 40
million mad housewives of the
nation. I wouldn't swap places
with Mr. Truman for the presi
dency itself. These women and !
the men whosu pport them are j
not going to forget Mr. Truman's i
radio talk. ' They are going to re-'
mind him of it to his final
breath. There will be no place
in the entire country well-enough
secreted for him not tohear it. He
has acted out, the first step in ca
taclysm; not even the well-oiled
machinery of publicity," the best
that an 'in1' group of politicians
can muster," will he able to stamp
out this act. Every mother who
looks at an under-nourished child
in the future is going to remem
ber President Truman and his be
trayal of the American people to
the Chicago meat packers. And
even the industrialists, merchants
and bankers themselves, always
happy to have a weak-sister to do
their bidding ummestioningly,
wilt turn on him in their bitterest
underhanded opposition when
they are faced with the demands
of labor "that wages be increased
to meet the soaring inflation spi
ral. All things considered, Harry
Tmman is the most unfortunate
man in America today, and from
this point on, bids, very, fair, to
Alwaya be. : I only pray , : that
what is going to happen to t him
never happens to me. -j .
BRIDGEPORT
By CarJ Vhite - . -
iMr. and Mrs. Henry Farmelee
of Marina apartments nave been
blessed with a bouncing 4a,Ty girl,
Alice Louise. ;
f :
Cpl. Julius Leroy'West, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Bush of Ma
rina Apartments, surprised his pa
rents recently with a furlough vis
it. Cpl. West served two and one
half years in a medical unit in the
European Theatre and plans to re-
enlist in the Army.
That active group, known as the
Park City Tennis Cliib, meets Sun
day afternoons in the Ships Cabin
at the YMCA: They began bowling
at the Newfield Alleys , Saturday.
The tennis team lost to a strong
Waterbury tea at Laurel Courts,
the last Sunday in September.
Mr. Clarence Mebane of Mebane,
N. C, was married .Saturday after
noon to Miss. Perlee Young of New
Rochelle, New York, by the Rev.
Wainwright of Bridgeport.
THE EMMANUEL CHURCH OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
35 Union Square, Bridgeport, Conn.
Elder L. J. Clifford, Pastor
Services
Tuesday- evening 8 p.m.
Friday evening 8 p.m.
Sunday 'School 10 a.m.
Sunday services 11:30 a.m. and
8 p.m.
Young People 6:30 p.m.
All are welcome.
Church Is Asked
To Fight Bias
' New York City Dr. George
' Edmund Haynes, Executive se
cretary of the Deparrtment of
Race Relations of the Federal
Council of Churches in America
presented a six point program to
destroy racial .bias to the Ann
ual Forum of the Christ Metho
dist Church in New York City
Dr. Haynes, program covers
the following features. To end
segregation in the churches. To
support legislation for the pre
vention of discrimination in edu
cational opportunities. To have
the Government guarantee civil
rights to Negroes, Indians and
'LISTEN, MY CHILDREN, AND YOU
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Moppets listen attentively in the
Harrison Gains
New Support
More than a 3ozen house parties
and three large meetings in Rox
bury halls characterized the in
crease in tempo this weekof the
campaign of William E. Harrison,
CHRONICLE 'associate editor, to
place a Negro in an elective office
in this state for the first time in
more than 30 years.
Harrison, who spoke at most of
the meetings, was also busy this
week receiving the endorsements
of some of the outstanding colored
and white, leaders in the city and
surrounding areas.
, Basing his entire campaign on
an interracial, generally progres
sive- program, the young writer
participated in several activities
during the week connected with the
Current campaign of Jewish 'wel
fare. ', '
Unique among the endorsements
which have been given to him by
members of all political parties
was the folder in preparation and
signed by twenty ' Roxbury , and
South End ministers, labor leadters,
businessmen aiidv others who have
been associated with Harrison
over the past twenty "years. These
endorsements, 'accompanied , by pic
tures of the endorsers and state
ments "of their own, tell of Harri
son's leadership ' in many fields
other than his chosen profession
of journalism. ? . r
. It is expected to be. ready for
distribution early next week.
Scores Boston
For Failure
To Laud Hero
Boston,the city in which the
great fighter lived, is severely
criticized for its failure to esta
blish a suitable memorial to the
greatest Negro citizen in her his
tory, in the profile of "William
Monroe Trotter-JTighter" appear
ing in the current issue of "IPhy-
lon" the Atlanta University re -
view of race and culture.
The writer, . William Harrison,
associate editor of the Boston
Chronicle, points out that al
though Trotter's name lingers on
the masthead of " the newspaper
"The Boston Guardian," which
eh founded in 1901, and a court
in the Lenox Street Housing Pro
ject also perpetuates his name,
no public institution bears his
rame and no -bronze or marble
monument exists to ensure the
survival of his memory.
Famed as a fighter for equal
rights, Trotter was the first mem
ber of his race to be graduate
from Harvard College Phi Beta
Kappa. He waged a constant
crusade against lynching, disen
franchisement, peonage, public se
gregation, injustice, and a denial
of service in public places on the
basis of color.
persons of Japanese ancestry in
America. To put pressure on
the Departrment of Justice to
hunt down lynchers and punish
them. To support Anti-lynch le
gislation. To endorse the pas
sage by Congress of a Federal
fair employment practice law.
In his talk Dr. Haynes pointed
out the dire effects the unjust
Poll Taxes have in the South up
on many more whites than Ne
groes. That many thousands of
these people represent the church
constituency of that- section of
America.
Send Your News
Story Hour Class at the Cambridge
CANDID
CORNER
A RED HOT ISSUE OF THE
BOYS; MAURICE AND BOB
By Maurice L. Smith
Now is the time, the "Corner"
says, for all courageous Governors
to abolish Jim ; Crow Units from
our National Guards. These sep
arate companies, battalions, and
regiments are demoralizing in time
of war, un-American in time of
peace, unnecessary and foolish at
all times.
But before 'I get too far into my
song and dance, I pause to slap
that COURIER columnist, George
S. Schuyler, in the kisser. He stat
ed last week .. that the first shot
against Jim Crow Guard. Units
had been fired by; some columnist
5n New York. Mr. Schuyler he's
Symphony piano-pounding Philip
pa's papa , evidently does not
read1 that outstanding' Negro jour
nal, the Boston CHRONICLE.
Many weeks ago I called to the
attention of pur Good Governor (I
will save the Republican exception)
the preeminence of Massachusetts
in this, disgraceful practice of mil
itary discrimination. In America
every minority, 5 even Nazis, can
join our first string -army, except
Negroes. . The - army went tfo far
as to refuse enlistment to sorely
needed Negro technicians unless
there were Jim Crow Units to at
tach them to. -iMany Negroes vital
ly, essential to the- war effort had
first to" make oath that they were
something else' before they were
permitted to do their bit for the
country. One boy they desperately
needed was not permitted' to join
up until he turned' up the fact that
while being carried his mother had
been chased by an Indian. So they
let him enlist as a Redskin and he
war effort got going again.
I say the time to stamp these
Units out is now. Massachusetts
can make a start breaking up this
foolishness by doing away with
her separate Unit. This military
bigotry got started in Massachu
setts away back in Revolution
ary days. General George Wash-
J ington, , yes, boys, our good
old
American pappy, wanted to kick
Peter Salem, Salem Poor, Barzillai
Lew and others out of his raggedy
THAT LL (JplJ
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WILL HEAR...."
Community Center Nursery School
Continental Army, when he spot
ted them while they passed in re
view under the Washington Elm.
This was just after they had dug
their hearts out erecting the Bun
ker Hill breastworks, and als
firei their share of the shots that
were heard around the world.
Every time this country goes ta
war, Jim Crow Combat units in
handed priority on expendabifi
ty. -
For example, the reason the
'Old Flag Never Touched the
Ground' was because a wounded
black soldier crawling on his hands
and knees kept it out of the mud.
The reason he had to do it was
because his outfit had' been throws
into a thoughtless .hopeless, sense
less, and fruitless engagement.
The same thing happened to the
92nd Division Jn World War Two.
The ' general practice is to send
these troops into battle poorly
equipped and low in fighting
equipment. There seems tx be no
need in wasting npunitions and
fclack men, too. j
Abolishing the Jim Crow Nation
al Guard Units hv Massachusetts
is a bit of governing that ahouli
be token care Of nqj. Maur
ice, 'can do It at :-ofS6T T
will hav to-wait dantx-. s
rest of the uaemoyedV
It , will take , a carload!
age to take thiir importaW.
America. I, hope, yon boys have it.
J9fn't make. ,ihe ojistake ofjjuddng'.
the members of 'our esteemed JJa-
tional 3-nard .Uni$ about ifr Moet
of them "will be too fearful f lov
ing their Jim Crow Commissions
to give anything but a backward1
answer. Even now as I understaai
it, a not too bright organization
calling itself The Bucks of Amer
ica is petitioning Governor Tofc
in for some kind of special Jiaa
Crow Outfit. Bucks' they are i
name and rear rank bucks they
will ever remain, (both ' mentally
and martially. .
I must warn you, boys, that tk
trouble with this issue is that it
is barren of votes. If either of
you make this history making step
you will be praised and damned, cm
a 50-50 basis. Your reward will
come from history and or Heav
en, according to which one yo
make, if either.
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