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Demand Ouster Os Balch School Head
IN MICHIGAN
7 CINTS Elsewhere
VOL XVI NO. 5
FIREMEN APPOINTED
MAYOR ORDERS
TEN ELH2BLES
BE APPOINTED
—o
Men Have Received
Wires To Report
Immediately
o—
Tin’ 1 in« struggle on the part of
loml colored citiEen* to secure
position* for member* of the race
ill the Detroit Fire Department
bur. tangible fruitage Wednesday
afternoon, when Mayor Richard W
Heading issued a definite order to
the Civil Service Commission to
appu.ip r 0 the Fire department the
ten men whose names stand at the
top of rhe list of eligible appli
cants >
Seveial eligible colored appli
cants are included on the list, and
it is reported that three are includ
ed among the first ten.
Mayor Reading's order carries
with It the demand that the ap
pointments be made by the Civil
Service Commission at once, as the
present eligible list will become
invalidated In June, after which
new examinations will be given
applicant* seeking jobs in the
►ire Department and anew list of
eligible tiled
Ten Colored Eligible*
Am.mix the colored applicants
on the present eligible Hat aro the
following: Robert Riwmer. Mar
rena W Taylor. John W. Burton,
Richard Carter. Clinton M Guff.
Randall Hall. William C. Hague,
James King. Franklin Lett. Lloyd
E Mason. Fred B Thompson. Mar
vin White.
Information reached the Tribune
office Thursday morning, to the
effect that Marcena Taylor re
ceived a telegram from an official
of the Kite Department. Instruct
ing him to report Immediately for
a ''hyskal examination
Th» Tribune was unable to get
in touch with other eligible ap
plicants. nut it is believed likely
that they also received similar
• Continued on Page 4)
NEW CURVE IN
DISPLAY ADS
The first of a aorles of advert lse
m*-nts entitled “PFEIFFER PRE-
of History and
<lviUzation” appears in this itaue
of the Detroit Tribune. Thla is a
most unusual and Interest
ing series of advertisements. Our
readers should watch carefully for
these advertisements, one of which
alii appear each week la the
Tribune.
Thl PFEIFFER campaign will
feature famous Negroes who have
contributed so much to Americai
history and to civilization. Among
those who will be covered In com
ing advertisements are FRED
ERICK DOL'D LASB. probably the
greatest Negro statesman; SO
JOURNER TRUTH, who did no
much to bring about the abolition
of slavery; Harriet Tubman, who
conducted hundreds of slaves t>
freedom via the underground rail
*ay; BOOKER T WASHINGTON
(Coatinnod n Page it)
American Woodmen Praised
By Annual Banquet Speakers
weather did not dam- j
D*n the enthusiasm of the Ameri-
**Q Woodmen and their friends
*■ r idajr night, as they turned out
“ ,ar *s numbers In attendance at (
,f "’ Woodmen's annual banquet.'
* a , held In the former din- 1
ln * room of flt Antoine Y. M C.|
A i
Th * affair opened with the
nierican Woodmen's song. aftsr
* hk>h the Rev WH. Peek, pas
*of Bethel A. M «. Church.
'
menu was then nerved,
fhrltoo W. Uataes presided and
n * lollowing program was ren
rib tme
LEADING NEG fk O WEEKLY OF MICHI PAN
Police Solve Mysterious Ice Pick Slaying Os Porter
* \ t- dii
<>r V (mb "
Hr ■mflf'-
The above I* the playroom of
the IVter Fan Surserj for pre
PEACE MAKER
SHOT IN ROW
0
Contractor Tries
To Pacify Roomer
o
Because he attempted the role of
peace maker between one of hie
employes and 'he latter's landlady.
William Thames. 44. 4237 Brush
street, lies In a critical condition
In Receiving Hospital a* the re
sult of gunshot wounds In the ab
domen and neck
James Beasley. 4250 Brush street
Is being nought by police as the
assailant of Thames
Thames who is a plastering
contractor, told police that he had
gone to Beasley’s home Saturday
evening to pay Beasley his wage
He said when he arrived he found
Beasley pointing a gun at Mrs
Artie and demanding her to
pack his grip as he was going to
leave for Jackson. Miss
Thames shouted. “lames. why
don't you put that gun away?
Beasley said. "You pay me what
you owe me “
Thames said that he then told
j Beasley to come to his home and
he would pay. As he started toward
I the door Beasley fired four shots.
I two of them hitting Thames
The wounded man made his way
home, and was taken to the hoapi
tal by friends. He said that he
thought Beasley was drunk.
dered
MVs Mabel Prince, vocal solo;
Mrs. Ernestine Todd, "History of
the American Woodmen; Attorney
William T Patrick, Br. remarks
" Why One flhould Become A Wood
man"; Mrs A C. Toodle. an
nouncement of Noonday Luncheon
fluh'ii liny colMt for local hlan
school seniors, subject. "Why The
B T Washington Trade Assocla
tion should Be Supported;" Mrs
Dunbar, reading
Council President Bdwsrd Jef
fries. Jr. who was scheduled to
deliver the Pencil*! w “
not preaont. and the R*r W.
Peck spoke hs his stead
Where Little Folk Come To Play Under Supervision
school children, hi 11 Tau ( onrt
uh iilie. In the rear arc hr.
Voters Spurred To
Action By Speakers
By Ku»«* 4- I owan*
That the colored voter is tired
of molding in his own futility, as
he has been doing In the past
years, was evidenced ala mass
meeting held in Ebentzer A M. E
Church Sunday afternoon.
Expressions of dissatisfaction •
with the failure of the colored vot-j
ers to mass the potential voting.
strength Into a solid unit to pro-j
cure what they have not received,
was voiced by the sundry speakers j
The meeting was held under the*
auwplces of ihe Committee On Ne- 1
gro Registration And Voting, a
group of men and women of vari-1
ous political faiths who have
welded themselves into a solid
unit for a common pjrpote—point
ing out to the Negro voters the
necessity of exercising their right,
to vote.
cosing An Opportunity
It was the concenus of the dlf* I
iferent speakers that II the oppor-1
tunity Is not grasped now. It will)
damage the voters forever, denying I
[them ihe right to obtain what they!
| have requested through the years
i Joseph A. Craigen. chairman of!
(Continued on Psgs 4) i
The speaker eulogised the two
founders of the American Wood
men. In person* of Messrs. White
and Ligbtner. and stated that he
had known Mr While personally
Continuing, the Rev Mr. Peck
said:
"The American Woodmen la a
good Investment, In which you ac
cumulate equity. One may pay
dues for a certain number of
years, then become Impotent to
maka ippyrntfit*. but he Ip still
elegfble to receive Insurance. This
organisation bensflls Negroes In
many ways. Home years ago. whan
many members of the race wero
(Continued on Pngs 4)
DETROIT, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1936
Dr. McNeil Gets
Oakland County
Board Position
Pontiac —In It* first se-sun
after Its annual reo; ganiratit:i
the Pontiac City Commission,
i Monday night appointed I):
j Howard H McNeil to the
i County Board of Supervisors
His appointment marks the
first time that a colored man
ha* held a public office in Oak
land County.
Dr McNeil, and four other*
appointed at that time, will
j serve with the City Attorney
the City Finance Director and
the city assessor, as repre
sentatives of Pontiac on the
rounty governing board
Dr. McNeil, a tesiden' of
| Pontiac for nine years, is a
I graduate of the University ol
Pennsylvania and tbe medical
school of Howard University
a
sclplo Morphy. nursery phjs|.
cinti. and Mrs. lonise Hn-su.
Rally Speaker
taster liraurr, of
(he Wtrlfn Bamii of IV >«•
tloaal (rWa ban*. «fc<>
•peak at IV bum meeting •*
Brrartfr OiHr, April ft TV
aui« meeting I* via* VM U
fwala aarr tetonal la tV
Wagaer-Vaa-Nay* A all-Lynch
ML
founder and director >ee
sf« rj »»n jtnrc five.
Photo M Thetis
GIRL AWARDED
YALE HONORS
lowan Given $1,200
Fellowship Award
——O-
Miss Lucille Sarah Baker, of
Des Moines. lowa, has been award
ed a $1,200 fellowship in the grad
uate school of Yale University in
the division of general studies
Miss Baker, a resident of Des
IS
Moines since
1»32 is said to
be the first color
ed person ever
to receive a fel
lowship in the di
vision of gener
al studies a t
Yale. She will
take up her stu
dies there next
fall She is now
a teacher in A-M
AN tCollege. Pine
Bluff. Ark
She is a IM7 graduate ot the
rniveraity of lows, and 1* a mem
ber of Beta Gamma Chapter of Al
pha Kappa Alpha Borcritjr.
Trade Association
Will Sponsor Their
Bth Annual Exhibit
o
The eighth annual exhibit of the
Booker T. Washington Trade As
sociation will be held May I to 12
at Forest Club, at Hastings and E
Forest streets
The eatire exhibit, sponsors an
nounce. will consist of sixty booths
and an automobile display Ap
proximately m.flOd square feet of
floor apace will be required for
the exhibition
Prises and premiums will be dis
tributed by tV carious exhibitors.
The members of the Boosters*
ibaaittM. who will be la char* i
at handling reaerraitems for th.
booths, consist of A. X Lake. Fred
Allen and WHlta* H Porter
PROTEST LACK
OF ELEVATION
FOR TEACHERS
Petitioners Request
Hiring Os Teachers
In High Schools
A petition of the Detroit < iv.r
Rights Committee for “the pionio
tion of Negro tench' rC and the
eradicatkn of alleged raiia! dis
criminaticn within ’he education
system. was referred to Superin
tendent Frank Cody by the Board
of Kduc ati'rft Tuesday afternoon
Before a crowd that parked every
inch of space in ’he board room
and over flowed into the hail. Dr
A C Williams, pastor of Metro
politan Baptist Church, presented
the case for the !>«’roU Civic
Rights Committee Dr Williams
was introduced by Snow F Grigs
by. chairman of the I»etrolt Civic
Rights Committee
Dr. Williams read a. long per'
lion which was signed by the
memoers of the Detroit Civic Rights
■ Uwswinw The petition asked
that the b-rat'd “regard the f%< .%
presented as being Information o*
value to you in your effort to deal
Justly and serve the best interest
[of all groups of citizens that make
(up the population of the rtty f
Deti lit "
Hit Kalch Principal
Th*- petition indicated 'ha' tn-r>
are u ",11 regular employe* •» ...
emergency employees <n
payroll Within ».hit< total numb*.
IS.MJ.’h*-e are than I*'. .s
in -i employed This :« all -r. :j
propont >n to what it should ‘ - a
you w ill a -knowledge
In referring to the Bakh S< . oi
the pe-titfon said The *;• a’
the Balch .School <- »e* mmg an
important i»-ue wlih 'he Negro
'Vmmunity It is evident that the
principal of the Bakh School. M’-*
ittontinued on Page 4>
Kstriiniialion Case Adjourned
By Judge Cutter Until Friday
The case of Leon Reed proprie
tor of the Reed Coffee Shop, in ’he
Transportation Building, and Miss
Charlotte tloulter. waitress in *he
shop, who are charged with viola
tion of the Civil Rights Bill was
adjourned for a week Friday by
Judge Thomas M Cotter, of Re
corders Court.
Joseph a Craigen deputy labor
commission, is the complainant in
the case Mr Craigen charge, that
Mias Coulter refused to serve him
when he ordered a cup of coffee
lin the shop
| Craigen. in rls testimony, charg
ied that be went Into the restaurant
I and ordered a tup of coffee He
Predicts Re-employment Os
Colored To Save Family Life
Erie. Pa -Speaking before the
Golden Rule Club here this week. I
Jane Hunter, executive aecrtary ofi
the Phyllis Wheatley Association
of Cleveland, predicted. "that
American family heads of today |
shall toon again turn to the Ne
gro for their helpers in their
homes as being necessary for the
rebuilding of a better American
life "
Dee taring that in recent years
America has come U a point of
| lncreasing rejection of the Negro
as a helper In the American home.’
Mias Hunter charged that this has
reacted most unfavorably upon
American family life. Statistical,
studies show that where once tW
Negro furnished upwards of ninety
|*r cent of those encaged in domes
tic service. V is being rapidly dis
placed by others until he now fur
Keen Mind
■
4Hr * &§J§|g§
.Miss Alice Mnnton. winner of
the Hoard ot Edacntlon
wch*dar'Mp in IW7 h ..nc oi
the twenty-fonr students who
nil t*» in her *ludk*
during the semester .Inst ended.
Mis« winnton is a sophomore
at Wajne t nhersity.
STAGE LYNCH
BILL MEETING
Rally Scheduled For|
Brewster Center
4k |
Ar,.. -- in*-'-*in* - -• 1 5* iiioi i
lav : -h> •' the
N- Arr !.y !.<•!, Bill
Will Irr hrM .& \'i- .• ivll* rlum tis
the Br- *‘> c .-y Or. -r
g.;7 Br«vi «•» K :tU> even
ing A[ 1. -j * i*- m'-*t i«
scheduled • • :.*'» .i' »i*h? .»1 !•><*(
1>- »i» <lr.»r.. • . New York
• e*a ry .1 •: - W« *• r- Bureau ,{
the National I r -ar; L-'asu* and
H • :; * •
(Continued on Bat*- !«• *
said that Mls« Coulter was and rwt*
ly .n front of him at the tlm* bur
said that be woald hatr* to wait
Ho*<-v»r sh* **rv*d two whits
attorney* who w»-re sitting with
Cralge.n
Told TANARUS« Walt
Crm+t-Ti said h»- protested to
R»-*-d but the pr-dJri ’or «aid that
he would hav*- to wait. Later. the
dishwasher was sent to take
Crawrei. » order the witness de
clared He then call*d poire
Reed took the stand after Cralg
en He stated that h* had told the
officer *hat he was willing to serre
Ctaigeo.
it\>ntlnaed on P»g« <)
nishes about forty per cent, a re
duct ion of more than one-ha It the
amount formerly supplied.” she
told her audlenc'
"There was a time ”, stated Mist
Hunter, "when almost every Ameri
can home had Negro sc- rants fre
quent reference was then made to
the soul qualities and the ardent
devotion of the Negrc servant It
was not unuaual for the Negro ser
vant to have complete charge of
the management of the home in
cluding the care of the children
In those days never a word was
heard of kidnapping by a Negro
servant, or evidence of any crimi
nal designs Upon the (He and pro
perty of the home owners, sack ns
the present day American family
Heater declar-
SHULL-4f NEWS
TEN PAGES
S CENTS A COPT
WIFE REVEALS
THREATS MADE
BY MAN HELD
——o
Dead Man Beaten By
Accused Ten Days
Before Death
A murder. interwoven wit a n>ys
:*-ry began to unravel with rh*-
arrest of Will ('pshaw 45
\Sats<#n by T'i*-««1ay.
I'pshaw *a, held at pr,lj e head
quarter* for investigation of the
murder of Roosevelt Mom, 37, 447
W inder street I-pshaw was arres*-
ed at ’he Rowena Hub 1444 Hast
ing? street
Moss body was found Monday
in the rear of 75 Winder street
IHe bad been stabbed with an lee
' pick one of the stabs puncturinr
his heart. He also had wounds or,
the neck and side
Wife Identifier K<mJi
HU h-dv wa- emored to the
County Hurrw where i* was later
ide'nufied *, y hi* wife m-s A»tr,-
da Moss Ur* Vfo*<* raid that her
husband who was enipioyeq at a
| theatre <■ w..»a»« r (t %▼*.«..1 u.«
I Met*; boto st reet. had left home at
• five Monday it .rr.inr -f r
ihis place of enrp!oymer,t
It was heciuee of her r» rela
tion* tha* ’he" police arrested XTp
[ shas Mrs M< «« charged that lp
«haw had sererly beaarn her hua
b*nd eh • I<* days before and
had
Mos« had b-«R ernp!oyed u’ • •
th*-atr* for wore th.tn a •,
The;#. ,#re r;i children
Wiiejj arres’ed i-a d*n *u
W r.„ Moss
Robeson Players To
Hold Culture Week
{p~ —— -
The l*au! Robeson Plover- w. 1
sponsor a Negro Literature Mu*.
,and Drama Week startlnr Sunder
April 24. it was annunc-d ’his
week.
The purpose of the week is r o
assist la the stimulation of great*'
interest in the atudy of N**'<
literature, music and drama
A series of programs will be pre
sented by the Paul Robeson
era and the Imperial Choral So
«iety during the week of April 24 ;
The first will be held Sunday af
ternoon. April 24. at Bethel A. V
E churrh. and under the auspices
•>f Bethel senior choir. The pro
gram is scheduled to *tart at three
shirty
Among those scheduled to p*r*i
npate are Theresa Bailey sopra
no. Fanny Blalock, pianist; Krms
' Morris. "The Negro in Mu*i<
choral selections by Bethel senior
(choir. Robert Hayden "The Negro
’ in Drama, and others
The second program will be pr*.
' «ented Monday April 25. under :b*
auspices of the Christian Wenter *
i‘Continued on Page 4»
Veteran Editor
Finishes Story
Wll liam J as»c« IsblsMS.
teierna newspaper maa, died
early Thursday warning at
Bribe*da Hospital. He was
born la WRHotau. Lf.S years
age. TV let. WSMam H- Peck
nBl es delate at the f sacra I
Saturday
After pabtHhlag a paper la
Montgomery. Aim, Mr. Robte
•on caaae to Detroit aad found
ed tV Detroit Independent la
IMS. He was strtrfcea with
Hr la oanlvad bp Mi daagß-
WMUia, K C.