The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-12-19

are thinking OF telephoning the
governor elect, don't waste your
nickel-he's laying low and the in
side dope is that he is being crowd
ed with party supporters who want
Jobs in reurn for their efforts in
the recent campaign And
speaking OF the new governor
there won't be a Negro secretary
in his office, according to present
plans.
ARCHIE VANN and Richard
Carmichle tell the story of a man
named Ben jarrett, a garbage plant
foreman who collects Sunday
school dues" from all garbage
workers and brings them a receipt
from the church every Monday
morning. That's all of he story
And speaking OF stories, Horace
Sheffield says there's nothing TO
the one going around that all Ne.
gro women have been discharged
from the Ford generator plant in
Ypsi But you can check the
rumor that some Of our girls are
lighting on the job and are legged"
on by white women. Subtle. isn't
1t? And speaking of Jobs iboy
am speakingD there are plenty
to be had in the Wyandott area
and all you have to do tc get one
is apply a, ll2 East jefferson =,
Watch for announcement of en-
ployment of Negro girls by Bell
Telephone NAACP-salary-fo
secretary dispute is being renewed
and will make news again soon.
IT HAPPENED at one OF the de-
partment stores downtown. A wom-
an twhite) passenger in an elevator,
noticing the perfect hair-do Of the
colored operator said to her your
man must be treating you all right,
| see you have a permanent wave"
The operator, who is not suppos-
ed to hold personal conversations
with the passengers. simply ignor-
ed the remarks.
But the woman was not TO be
outdone. Sensing that she could irk
the operator, she repeated the re-
mark.
The operator turned to her an
tagonizer and answered your man
must not be treating you so good
from the way your hair and every
thing else about you looks"
The passenger reported the oper-
ator to the floor-walker who, upon
finding that the passenger was the
first 70 start the verbal battle, told
her that she had no Business even
talking with elevator operators ana
refused to chastise the colored girl
And the woman was Just TOO
outdone when she was told that the
coiored girls hair had a natural
wave and does nos even require
the services Of a beautician.
x X y
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: Ma
jor William E. Bowers OF the 366th
lunching at the -'.WCA. with his
attractive wife Sgt George
Williams on leave from Camp Hood
proudly displaying sweater his
wife, Thelma. knitted but refusing
to tell how long it took her to do IL
X X x
BUREAU OF KISSING PER-
SONS: 70 years young is the age OF
Ollie McCary who took out a Ii.
cense to wed Carrie Booker. 81
Matte Twiggs. daughter Of the
Samuel Twiggs' OF the Westside is
now Mrs. Frank Smith Young
est couple-to-wed recorded during
week of December z, is held Jointly
by Munsie L Ross, IS and Glenna
Biggers, 16. with Edward Mullen
and Shirley Brown, who are also
ID and is respectively And
speaking Of marriage (Which Jean.
META WEIGH is doing pretty often
these days., the marriage license
bureau reports an Increase in
grooms lS and 10 years old.
X X \.
IF YOU INVITE a soldier to
Christmas dinner and h. refuses
your invitation. don't blame the
serviceman. Three hundred of them
got gyped on Thanksgiving by a
well known man who invited them
10 a turkey dinner, bu, served
meat balls and spaghetti The
boys said the meatballs were fine
except they didn't have any meat
in them. and they squawked slenty
because they could have had tur-
key for dinner II they had remain
ed in camp =. Shame on people
who pull tricks like that. especially
newspapermen.