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Mr., and Mra. P. C. Simmon*, of 6757 Hartford avanua. announcad
lh* engagement of their daughter. Murial, ia*t weak to William
Purnell Shelton. The wadding will taka place the fifth of April
it Plymouth Congregational Church. Mi** Simmon*, a member
o< the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and a graduate of Talladega
College, is leaching in the Detroit public *chool system. Mr. Shel
ton ton of the late Dr. W. P. Shelton, attended lowa State College
and Morehouse and ia affiliated with the Veterans' Administration.
(Photo by Fowler)
(ILL ONE, HURT THREE IN
KYSTERIOUS LOCAL CRIMES
I lim xplained crimes of violence this week topped the
I m i t* nows ns authorities smiKht the persons who murder- 1
Id a man and injured another two men and a woman.
1: Twelve persons are being held and three are being j
I nht ;is a result of the killing of Frank Davy, 10, 978 1
1h.v.0 -i. ,nd the cutting of
Irn Hush. 37. of 26709 W. War-
K* Tin two men were attacked
la nr. well party late Thursday
■jht for Anna Mac WoAdson, 32,
115521 Log Cabin at 8600 Cam-
In.
fttk ThrM
IPolice are seeking thraa other
Irsonv who are baliaved to Hava
Km connected with the crime*.
Id who are reported to have as
ftptd in a 1942 Chevrolet sedan.
■ Woodson was leaving for
■ .lie on the 3 10 a.in. train
I, ;av. Police held up the de
ft 'tire of the train while Detec
ft.s La: i ’ Bleach and Fred
Ii ker \yi nt through the train
ft p A 1 >1 her up.
ftot In Hip
ft-\ young * omaii. Miss Cath
ftr 8011. 26. of 14238 Goddard,
ft- shot mvsteriously in the right
ft 1. visiting the home of a
ft -'i lon Friday evening. Police
ft " 'lding two men. and seeking
By e. win. is accused of having
1 i llit* -hot.
shooting took place at
H r) M one, while Miss Ball was
B it: on a bed repairing her
Bkr-up Men held are Arthur
Bat! ..no Cornell Thomas, both
Bti'.r Maine street address.
Bunded By Thugs
BYandermg around with a bad-
B lacerated eye and a possible
B«iure of the skull. Malree
B»n. 48. of 694 Alfred, is be-
to have been attacked by
B~i who sought in vain to rob
B Michigan Scrap Metal Cos.
early Monday morning
B«rs Brown works.
ft'"’*'n was rohbed of 539 The
ransacked the scrap
ofTire but failed to open
B safe.
KND negro
iOOPS TO
■OSTILE AREA
DC (NNPAI
inductees and en
i according to an order
*' v Gen. Dwight D Fisen
procedure is in direct con
ftE h the Gillem report, un-
the army's handing of
troc P* is supposed to be
{■•'Jrted The report requites
B‘ <7 11 troops be quartried in
U* vhfre rommumy attitudes
n *t favorable.
** rtoops are trained in
places ln the N or rh, and
|H| r beatment could hr giv.'n
troops, if the Armv ao
H, 'observers say.
|B •*' kson is near Sumpter,
H. '!* frequently complain'd
l,, ing the war, becaure of
H ,n the ca rp
|B ,n ‘he community.
Geoigia Muddle
Continues With
No End in Sight
ATLANTA. Ga. _ Georgia's
: tangled gubernatorial battle
brought forth the suggestion
Tuesday from Herman Talmadbe
that a special election he held
to seleet a governor for the
state.
White Supremacy
ln a message to the legisla
ture which bristled with the
white supremacy talk he inher
ited from his father. Talmadge
said he would step down and
submit to a vote* of the people
f Ll. Governor M. E. Thomp
son resigned, too
Talmadge called upon the
"white people" of the state to
march on the capital to de
monstrate their support for
him. while 2000 college stu
dents massed lor a protest
march on the capital in sup
port of former governor, Ellis
Arnall and Thompson.
Talmadge denied that he had
'seized the governorship by force,
lie used the accents and ges
tures made infamous by his late
father.
lie dedai ed that Negroes
should have equal protection of
the laws and should be allowed
to vote if they were qualified,
hut not in the Democratic pri
mary.
Negro “Babe Ruth
Diet After Stroke
PITTSBURGH Josh Gibson,
one of baseball’* greatest Negro
home run kings, died of a stroke
at his mother’s home Tuesday.
Gibson was the top hitter <>f
the Negio National League Ho
was often called "the Babe Ruth
of Negro Baseball His batting
with 3SO for 33 games
BILL WATSON RETURNS
TO POLICE DEPARTMENT
The return of Bill Watson,
former U. of M Olympic star,
to the Detroit Police department
was announced Monday by Supt.
of Police Edwin Morgan
Watson took a leave of ab
sence from the police force last
summer to work w’lth a co ™*
mercial recreation project At
that time he was assigned to
the police juvenile detail and
worked with the 13th precinct
crime prevention bureau.
nft—frTE API N O PAN fhAO
VOL. XXV—NO'
DitAG RIVER
FOR MISSING
WIFE’S BODY
Seek Body of
Estranged Wife
The bodv of a woman who
in believed to have been
I drowned in the Detroit River
is beinjf sought bv police.
They art drajrjrintr for
Mrs. Smith, 25. of 923 Plum, es
tranged wife of Daniel Smith. 33.
of 3840 Dubois. Smith is in cus
tody for questioning after an
i anonymous phone call linked him
| to the disappearance of his wife.
Mrs. Smith was reported miss
i mg on Dec. 7. Smith is said to
have told police that the two of
them quarrelled at the river bank
at the foot of Riopelle and that
she tried to push him into the
| water while he was trying to re
vive her.
He said that she then fell in.
He charged that the fight started
when she attempted to stab him.
SHERRILL CONFINED
TO KIEFER HOSPITAL
William L. Sherrill, Sr., civic
leader and political figure, is
I confined to the Herman Kiefer
' hospital, and expects to be there
I for "many weeks more.”
Sherrill is an employee of
the Circuit Court Commissioners
office. He was a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
State Senator and has sought
other political offices.
He is well known as a na
tional leader of the L T mted
Negro Improvement Associa
tion.
PLEADS FOR UNITY OF
ECORSE REPUBLICANS
A plea for Republican unity
in Kcorse was issued this week
by Golden Allen, newly selected
precinct captain for the 12th
election district.
Allen announced that he had
heard that small groups were
meeting, purporting to he for
the Republican party, without
inviting the proper party offi
cials
He declared that the party
had already secured two jobs
in Ecorse and that a good show
ing in the Spring election
would bring more
"Get readv and come hack
home to Ihc Republican party
where you belong so Ihat we
ran get rid of all groups of the
Bilbo type.” Allen concluded.
Dr. A. Toodle Hits Robeson for Politics
Paul Robeson was criticized
this week by .1 local civic lead
er. Dr. Aaron Toodle. for his re
marks at his Masonic Temple
concert attacking Senator Ar
thur H. Vandenbcrg.
Robeson made his statement
at the conclusion of his con
cert. He said that Vandenbcrg
was "going the wrong way *.
Toodle said that Robeson’s
remarks were “completely out
of place. "We went there'
hear a great artist, and not to
listen to a political speech." he
added.
Toodle’s statement continues:
"No Negro in America appre- 1
ciates more than I. the struggle
and accomplishments of Robeson
as an artist. As an artist he has
won a place of honor that all
DETROIT 1, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1947
HERMAN TALMADGE A STOOGE
OF INTERESTS, AUTHOR SAYS
Herman Talmadge, who claims to he governor of Geor
gia, is .1 tool of batiks, a power company, anti a maker of
soft drinks, according to Stetson Ke inedy. author of
‘•Southern Exposure,’’ writing in Sunday s P.M.
Kennedy says that Herman has admitted that thi* is
the case. He savs that Herman was on!, nominally his
father's campaign manager, and ]
that the real brains behind the
campaign and behind Herman is
Roy Harris.
WAS SPEAKER
Harris was speaker of the Geor- ]
gia House of Representatives dur- j
mg the last session, but was re
pudiated by the voters in the last
election. He is a wily plotter, j
who has worked out a strategy to
keep Negroes fiorn voting in the
Democratic primaries.
The strategy involve* passage
of a law to place the primaries in
tin* private hands of th< T'eivmc
vratio party, which wtll then rule
that no Negroes may be members.
If the US Supreme Court should
rule that this is a violation of the
15th amendment, he has a cute
little device up his sleeve to per
petuate the practice.
RE-ENACT THE LAW
Harris proposes to re-enact the
law, with just a feu changes in
the placement of commas, each
time it is declared unconstitution
al and to go ahead each election
under the Jintcrow rules.
This is the kind of backing that
(( eat lulled on I' lire 2)
TANN COES TO TRIAL
BEFORE JUDCE SCALLEN
Dr. H. E. Tann. of 223 Horton,
who is free on a 525.000 bond and
facing three charges growing out
of alleged abortions, was sched
uled to go on trial before Judge
John P. Scallen in Recorder's
Court. Wednesday.
He is being represented by Ed
ward Barnard.
Italy Loses
All Colonies
WASHINGTON. DC (NNPA)
—Loss of her colonics to the Big
Four powers is among the penal- i
ties imposed upon Italy in the
peace treaty just announced.
Britain will maintain military 1
control over them for one year, j
and if they have not yet been
disposed of. the United Nations'
Assembly will decide their.fate,
after prior concurrancc by the Big
Four. t
Colonies involved are Ligya,
Eritrea, and Italian Somaliland.'
Under the treaty Italy states its |
acceptance of the sovereignty and
independence of Ethiopia.
must recognize. He is ,ilno justly
entitled to his opinion and free
speech.
"Those who know Senator
Vandcnbctgs record on minori
ty group arc also entitled to
their opinion and fice speech
"Here is a part of Senator
Vandenberg's recojd on minori
ty groups. President Hoover
nominated Judge John J. Park
er of North Carolina to be .As
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court. The NAACP and all oth
er Negro groups opposed the
nomination and Senator Van
denberg cast the deciding vote
against Judge Parker. In the
Committee, on Insular affairs
Senator Vandenberg voted for
Judge Hastie's confirmation He
has opposed Southern filibusters
Praises Alger
For Aid lo FEPC
High praise for Secretary of
State Fred M Alger. Ji . was
i enunciated t! s week by Robe, t
'Ward, cha.r' «n *.f the Progres
! sivc Pg jf ,•>. .» 'yjf f'jt.ii'.i. tim Os
jDt Lou. rii'rtU. e A.gcr made it
! possible for the FEPC initiative
j petitions to be accepted by the
| state government.
"If Alger had not been will
ing to ask for anew ruling on
the petitions." Ward said.
: "We'd still be lighting in the
courts, and the Spring election
might have gone by without
any decision."
The outgoing attorney-general,
j Foss Eld red. had ruled that the
i 160.000 signature filed were un
' acceptable because the petition
contained no titie for the propos
ed FEPC law.
When the new Sigler adminis
tration took office, Alger moved
, quicklv to quash the objections.
He requested a luling of the new
! attorney-general. Eugene Black,
i who decided that no state official
had am light to pass on the val-
I iditv of the petitions.
Black then appeared and ask
tor the dismissal of the ease.
• Our new unbossed administra
tion really means business in the
defense of our rights," Ward com
mented.
TALK FILIBUSTER TO
KILL CLOTURE RULE
WASHINGTON DC (NNPA)
—A filibuster against anew anti
filibuster rule is being threatened
in the Senate as various moves to
curb the privilege of endless talk
are being discussed.
It appears that the Senate
Committee on Rules and Admin- |
istration w ill bring in a reeom-j
mendation for a cloture rule that 1
will require the signatures of onlv j
a majority of the Senators to end
a filibuster.
every step from start to finish
and supported the KKPC upon
every test vote On M: rch 24.
1344 he voted to provide funds
for the FEPC. On June 20. 1044,
he voted "Nay" on the Russell
amendment which sought to
strike out an appropriation of
$500.00000 for FEPC.
"On June 30. 1345, he voted
Yes’ on the Barkley amend
amendment which sought to
appropriate $250,000 for FEPC.
When the final show-down on
FKPC came in January and
February 1348. the Senator was
in London, but wired instruc
tions to he paired in favor of
FEPC. and in fovar of cloture.
‘He has supported Anti Poll
tax legislation upon every Sen
ate tent Senator Vandenberg al
PRICE TEN CENTf
Set Hearing On
State FEPC Bill
.
A healing on tlie proposed
tale FEPC law will be held bv
the state Senate Labor Commit
tee on Wednesday, January 29.
at 7 p ni. in Lansing, it was
announced Tuesdav by Edward
M. Swan, executive secretin v of
the Detroit branrh of the
NAAUP.
"Emergency action will have
lo be taken," Swan said, "to
! arrange for the best possible
presentation of our case. We
I are confident that even in the
I short time of a week we can
show overwhelming evidence
in favor of the law."
| The legislation comes auto
n.Hticallv before the Senate and
1 House by virtue of the • ccep
j tance of the petitions filed m
behalf of the proposed law. The
legislature is required to con
sider the proposal and then sub
mit its action to the people bv
a referendum vote in the Spring
election in April.
poweluniTdawson
GET ASSIGNMENTS
WASHINGTON D.C —(NNP\
—The two Negro members of
Congress received tnen commit
tee assignments t' ;s week.
Adam Clayton Powell. Jr . was
placed on the House Committee
on Labor and Education H< is
from New York City and is a
! Democrat.
! William L Dawson. Chicago
j Democrat, was placed on the
Committee on Expenditure* in
I the Executive Department.
BTH ARMY COMMANDER
PRAISES NEGRO
TROOPS IN JAPAN
GIFU Japan—The first Negro
regimental combat team in the
new postwar Army were praised
by Lt. Gen. Eichelberger, com
mander of the Bth Army, when
they took over three Jan districts
"He told them that he saw no
reason why >ou should not be the
snappiest outfits in Japan’"
The new combat team will take
over Gifu. Shizuoka and Aiehi
prefectures now policed by the
27th Infantry.
The 24th was the fu«t sizeable
Negro unit to see combat in the
w ar.
m i \otcd cloture on this bill
The Yandenbcrg record on An
ti Lynching legislation is just
ns brilliant and fair. He has
consistently and , continuously
supported all legislation in
which colored citizens have a
> pecial concern. His battling av
erage for us has been mighty
close to 100 per cent
"So Negroes can justly be
proud of Michigan's great Sena
tor for his matchless contribu
tion to world peace and his
fearless brilliant record of just
ice for Negroes in the V’nited
States Senate. If honor Is given
to whom honor is due. even
! friends and enemies can join in
the giving
(signed)
"A. C. Toodla"
RUMOR BUDDY YOUNG SIGNED
TO YANKEE FOOTBALL TEAM
Buddy Young, spectacular young football star of the
lit 17 Rom* Bowl game, appeared to have turned pro this
week, when it was simultaneously reported that he would
appear iin a football game in Los Angeles, sponsored by
Joe Louis and John R. Williams, and that he had failed to
Detroiter Shot
To Death in Bed
By Thelma Brown*
Shot m the alvlor n *-y her
broth* in-la*.'.. a Detroit wunun
rlierl Sundav in Hrnde on. K* n
lucky. Th* kith •.«,.» is in
sx-rinus condition v* th bullet i
wound® in the hie^t
Aurelia M Conlev *■ th* d* ad
woman She was shot enlv
Sunday morning while m bed
with her sister-in-law* h\ Wil
liam Borum, th** other v,*<>man
husband The -hots wor fired
through the window of the nod
room
Born in CV'vin;’t n Kent ucky,
is»; f'onlrv g r \e up and at
t* ndod school m Detioit She
was 29 years old and is sur
i vived hy her mothe r . Mrs
Arlee Hawkins and her broth
o'. Leonard Con lev. of 2829
Monroe
Borum admitted the shooting,
hut told police that was "a
personal matte?" which thev
wouldn't understand
The fune’nl w M he held on
Mondav t C'.ilva v B iptist
* hut eh in Detr< t.
JOE ON LIST
OF TEN BEST
YOUNG MEN
Joe Louis heavvw ric h t
champ, was one of ten chosen hv
the U. S. Jtinio- Chamber of
Commt ce as the nation s out
standing youuc men of 194 H
The list. «u prismgly liberal
in view of the oiganization that
selected it. includes:
DAN DUKE. so-Tie: assistant
Mto-oev g* n* al of Georgia
who played a ni.uo; o!e in the
eifort to clean up Georgia's
hate numbers.
CHAPLES (1 BOLTF pi ev
ident of the American Veterans
j C.tfnitiittro. Jibe al veterans or
gai.i/’at’o'i.
, BILL MAUDLIN ex-tll <ar-
I toon is t. wTiose syndicated pan
ic! s attacking racial prejudice
won him wide acclaim
ARTHUR SCULFSINGFR. J:
' Harvard"profess*' 1- w-ho i- among
' the most profit* vc *f mod
ern historians.
JOSEPH BEIRNE. pmgiessive
president of the Nat ’ fed
eration <»f Telephony V.’m krr*.
| Al -* dr.e I t wet • Ha; t v
W;«mo? ‘■ports* aMei Johi? I*.
Kenned', Boston • nge-vian
John A Patton. engineer, and
Di Phillip Mormon, atomic
SCient'lt.
OPERATE ON
BILBO MOUTH
NFW ORLEANS La— Senalo -
elect Thcxio c Bibo wa* under
the sUt fieon's knit- *r?'' c than
two hours Moiid; v in Touro In
fi* nmrv here ;*s D’ \• >n o**t ;
ner operated on his cancerous
mouth
Hosp ta! attendant* a - e s.- Ito
hare reported that the hate-:? n
ger's condition was very satis*
fact*: v "
PUBLISHERS MEET
1 . I
The Detroit Tnbune. the Michigan Chronicle end the Pittsburg*
Courier played hosts to the Regional conference of the National
Negro Newspaper Publishers Association in Detroit lest weekend.
The sessions were held in the pent house on top the Gotham Hotel.
Here is shown a Friday session presided over by BUI Nunn of the
Courier main office staff. It was at this meeting the Editorial So
ciety of the Negro Newspaper Publishers was formed, to help raise
the standard of journalism. Russ Cowans of Detroit was elected to
the executive board. Attending the conference were Charles Wart*
men. H. H. Murphy. Frank H. Grey. President Stanley o# the
NNPA: J. H. Hall. Grayee Sadler. A1 Dinmore. N. A. Sweet.
Charles P. Browning. H. L. Wilcox, Chet. Leob. Wm. O. Nunn, W.
E. Barnett. Irving A. Williamson. J. Orvell Mitchell. U. W. Boykin.
L. M. Quinn. Russ Cowant and Louis E. Martin. John Schensteck.
The newspaper representatives were also entertained by the Motor
City Press Club at a luncheon in the Century Room of the Club
1 Three Sixee last Saturday noon.—(Phote by Alexander)
return to h:s studies at tnr* I ni
or«:ty of Illinois
Newspaper rumojs reporting
that hr had signed with the Yon*
k< r team of the American Foot
ball Association could n*>t be con
firmed as w» wont to press. ?»ut
John R Williams, formet Det o t
pi orr.ot* r, told Tut TANARUS; ihun*- in ,*(V
exclusive tfdephone u.tervn .v
that Buddy had sign'd eith the
Yankees
Will Play Sunday
Young w ill appeal n . fiaii.e at
Gilmore SladiUJ? h;i *d as 'All
star < ' '■ \ . , I'. ■*
f* -sionals' on Sunday, Jan 28.
Originally schedule*! as a March
of Dimes benefit, the game a*
been changed to a straight ta >*
r non sin< *• “IBuddv turned pro,
Williams srttrl.
The game will also fw featur'd
by the appeal an* *■ b< t >nn th*
halves of Joe Louis who will cj
from L*>s Angeles to Mexico C tv,
and continue on to Smith Ar >e. i*
, ca ori a boxing exhibition tour.
Fast Player
Yount: is among the Li.-tett
football plnv* ; s m the nation A
track star a- well a a football
player, he »ecei * and much pi blip*
:ty while in the service, and hi*
decision to stay with Illino - w •*
much commented up- n f»-ii«*wing
nis discharge.
His spectacular playing in Ilia
Rosa Bowl game on New Year *
Day contributed in larqe meas
ure to the surprise victory of
Illinois over a UCLA team that
was considered certain to pila
up a massive victory.
Buddy has doubtle * *i> w!. •>
cash in on h;s fame while th»
memory of his exploits is -nil
ft e®h.
TAFT PLEDGES
AID TO SLUM
CLEARANCE
WASHINGTON. P C. . A
pledge to lead tile t'ongi oasional
| : sht for a fa 1 icaching federal
! housing and slum clearance lfov
was made this week by Repub
lican Senate Leader Robert A.
Taft of Ohio.
Taft who joined in the last
session of Congress in the spon*
* rship of the Wagner-Ellender-
Taft bill, told the U.S. con
ference of mayors that fee cn
t • prise had failed to meet tha
housing pi 'blcm pnd that fed*
.oral subs-die« wero needed for
' ’ow-cost homes.
LIMITS PROGRAM
He tWieves tha f the govern
ment prc'gram should be limit
ed to *>ne tenth of the total
, number of homes needed.
It is probable that the batila
i over housing legislation u\H
completely transcend pa tvLnc*,
with conservative Deni ncr u 1 *
and Republicans lined up
against progressives of both
parties
BILL BLOCKED
P <safi. if trip W.iCtV ! Ellen
der-T.iit h J ;•? th«- 1 t *ei in
was Wo <> H lw a* * n : -•
*>f po. eiful Republ .-an rr'o(TV
l-iers of the Hoijve CuMcn-w and
Banking Committe*
Taft s proposals . e ,*v' >r v
opposed hv the c H 'nscr\rit i a
Idoc in Congress, which ran
them "sonalisrp''.