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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Quinn Chapel
Claims Minister
Not Guilty
Say Church
Funds Were Not
Incorporated

At recent meeting OF the
official board and members Of
Quinn Chapel AME church. Lynn
and Cameron streets. resolutions
were adopted and released to the
press, endorsing the progressive
work OF their pastor. the Rev.
Samuel Davis. and pledging him
continued loyal support. The res
olutions also branded as false the
charges made against the minis
ter by a faction OF the member
ship. in which he was accused OF
handling church affairs in an al
legged arbitrary manner. In an
article submitted TO this paper
by the group accusing the pas
tor. II was claimed that rent coll
lected from a garage on the prop
erty lately purchased by the church
had not been reported to the
trustees. also that in negotiating
the purchase OF the church prop
erty. down. payment OF only
$3.50 was made.
In a statement to the Tribune
Monday OF this week, the Rev.
Mr.. Davis and group OF his
church officials emphatically de-
MED these allegations and said
that the rent from the garage was
collected by the Watson Loan
company. ard that the down-pay-
ment on the church was not $780,
but almost $4,000.
The Tribune is glad to pub
lish these corrections and regrets
that this information was not
provided, when the Rev. Mr..
Davis was interviewed prior to
the publication of the previous
article.
In a resolution adopted In the
Quarterly conference by members
OF Quinn Chapel AME church.
corner OF Lynn and Cameron, de-
nying the statement made by B.
Confined on page ~
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Thugs Burn Feet OF
Restaurant Owner

Three men pleaded innocent
Wednesday on a charge OF rob-
hing and terrorizing a restaurant
keeper, his cashier and his por-
ter, when arraigned before Re-
corders Judge Arthur f. Cor
don. They were held under
$4,000 bond each for examina-
ton Oct. 9.
They were: Charles +. clark
10 years old. % s549 Oakland
Howard f. Martin. Is, OF 1925
ST. Antoine. and William Davis
a. 1851 LABEL
The arrest OF TIE three men
was brought about by excellent
detective work OF Laurence Bleach
OF the 18th precinct. after they
held up Willard Demarais. 1851
Woodingham; Mrs. Hazel Ewing
%. 3747 Scoval: and Robert Mil
Ter, aged 40. 939 Brewster. in
Demarais' restaurant at 93S w.
McNichols Rd. Sept %.
The thugs tieG the porter and
cashier in separate rooms and
forced Demarias TO remove his
shoes. They lighted a candle to
his feet and held il there until
he told TEN were he had hid his
money. Eight hundred and forty
two dollars and seventy-five cents
i cash, $466.22 in checks and a $50
watOn were taken.
The boys escaped in Demarias'
car. Later they abandoned IL
leaving s4O2.75.
On a description Of the hold-up
men one OF the trio was later
arrested by Laurence Bleach and
his partner Jesse Stewart. The
other two were picked up on in
formation given by the first man.
All three were identified as the
bandits.
William Davis. one OF the de-
PENDANTS. worked as a dish wash
er at the restaurant six weeks
ago. He was paroled in June
from Ionia for purse snatching.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Ward Says
Plant VIII Hire
Negro Women
Tolan Objects
To Vote At
Luncheon

Two famous ath efes OF the race
held the spotlight at tie MONDAY
Luncheon OF the Booker 7. Wash
ington Trade association Wednes-
day noon. at the local Lucy Thur
man YwCA One OF the stars waa
willis Ward. former L. Of NJ ath-
lete, who is now connected with the
Personnel department OF the Ford
Motor company. He was speaker Of
the occasion and made an impress
sive talk on 1.-The Relationship of
Labor and Industry 70 the Negro"
In which he discussed the issue Of
Negro women obtaining employ
ment at the Ford plant
Says Note One.Sided
The other athlete who stood out
at the luncheon meeting was Eddie
Tolan, a former Olympic track WIZ
ner. now holding a position in the
office OF the WayLe County Record
or OF Deeds. Tolan rose to the
floor and emphatioally opposed a
motion by Mrs Josephine Belford
ter Wards address. Ehst the or
ganization 90 on record AS gis-
ing the Ford Motor company q
vote OF confidence for what MIR.
Ford has already done for colored
people.
NO" shouted Toian. ''you have
heard only one side of the question.
We are living in the futurue. not in
the past There are thirteen thou
sand white women employed at the
Ford Bomber plant. while only sew
eral colored women have been en-
ployed at the Ypsilanti Generator
plant. only Ford's side OF the pic
ture has been presented TO you.
therefore You should hear the side
OF labor. before voting on this mo-
ton to give Ford a vote of conf
dence and thanks for what he has
done for Negroes.
President Carlton W. Gaines, who
presided. put the motion TO a vote
after Tolan's talk, and the vote was
unanimously carried. Approx
mately two hundred persons at
tended the luncheon.
In his fprceful and Illuminating
address. Mr.. Ward spoke in part
as follows
There has been a great change
al Ford's since labor has been or
ganized there and We have a closed
shop. Labor has realized its re-
sponsibility and there has been
team work. The union has select
ed new types OF committeeman who
are far better than the first ones
and now Negroes are getting breaks
at Fofds in places where they have
never been able 10 get because OF
the aid Of these committeeman.
THE union has helped 10 a
great extent.
Il am concerned with the ques-
ton OF whether colored women Will
be assimilated into Ford's the same
as Negro men.
"As lot OF the out-of-town
workers employed At the new
Bomber plant have been a number
OF southerners I feel that this in
tegration will work faster at Rouge
plant.
THE only way that Negroes can
be assured fair employment on Jobs
In industry a Negro must be on
hand in the personnel department
Continued on page y
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Pupils, Post
Knocked Down
BY Truck

Two s-year-old pupils OF the
local Columbian school, OF West
Warren and Mckinley. were in
jured. one OF them perhaps crit
ically. when they were struck by
a truck while they were crossing
the street on their way TO school.
Tuesday morning. The accident
occurred whei. the driver OF the
vehicle apparently lost control.
causing the truck 10 swerve sud
denly toward the curb. striking
the two little girls and knocking
down lamp pos.
One OF the injured children Is
Eleanor Moore, OF 1907 Twenty
fifth street.. colored. whose in
juries are reported to be painful
but not serious. The other child
white. Is Muriel Manderyille. OF
45O1 Twenty street She is
believed seriously injured, with
q possible skull fracture Both
children were rushed 10 Receiv-
ing hospital In a police ambu-
lance. Immediately following the
accident.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Milton Awaits
Court Decision
In Custer Case

Testimony OF witnesses in the
case OF the Woodmere Realestate
company versus DR.. and Mrs. Sam
uel b. Milton. OF River Rouge,
ended wednesday morning in Judge
Guy A. Miller's circuit court, and
the decision in the case scheduled
TO be handed down Thursday morn
ing.
A petition was filed by the plain
tins shortly after the Millions pur-
chased and occupied properly, Sep
temher, 1941, described as Lots rs
and 80 OF the Woodmere realestate
plot. lying north of Visger road in
River Rouge. In the petition. the
plaintiffs contended that the prop
erty described is located in a re-
stricted residential neighborhood.
and that the restrictions were
placed on the property in May,
1921 to bar the property from being
sold to or occupied by any persons
other than Caucasians. On these
grounds, the plaintiffs seek to GUST
DR.. and Mrs. Milton from the So
called restricted neighborhood.
Eight witnesses testified for the
Woodmere Realestate company
against the Millions and all OF them
admitted in court under cross ex-
animation that they we're preju-
diced against colored people. Some
OF the witnesses are not even
American citizens. The attorneys Of
the defendants successfully refuted
the charge made by the plaintiffs
that the Woodmere plot Is an all
white neighborhood and that no
Negroes live there.
DR.. Milton Is one OF River Rouge's
outstanding physicians and is own
er OF the Sumby Memorial hospital
In that city. He and his wife are
represented in the case by Attor-
neys II h Taliaferro and Edward
M. Turner.
In answering the plaintiffs
Continued on page p
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10

white recruits were aboard the
same ship and that colored troops
enjoyed every privilege granted 10
the whites.
The key to the interview was
supplied by Sergeant Daniels when
he was asked II he liked the part
OF the world in which he wac locat-
ed.
He was drawing quietly on his
pipe. but all the while he was con-
sidering the question--much in the
manner OF man examining an APP
pie for bad spots-when he finally
shifted his pipe and said: Being
here has made me appreciate 6eor-
gia."
Sergeant Daniels is from Talbot
ton, Ga.
Another soldier met was Pvt.
Lawrence II. Theus. unnamed hero
OF Westbrook Pegler's remarkable
article. published in the Scripps-
Howard papers on July 1s.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Board OF Health Cracks Down On Lax Landlords
Meets Soldiers
In Egypt y: It. Land

CAIRO. Egypt-(Passed by US.
Censor)--First Sgt. Henry Daniels,
OF Talbotton, Ga, is the first Negro
soldier to set foot in the Middle
East / left Cairo ten days ago 10
hunt down Sergeant Daniels and
after many days OF travel | finally
found him. lie Is a soldier with a
long and exemplary record In the
Regular Army.
The men OF his outft-those not
on duty elsewhere--greeted me like
long-lost city cousin. They cele-
brated my visit by staying up after
hours, sitting around me like a
human horseshoe--a good humored.
smart-looking bunch OF fellows. /
was asked so many questions I
thought for while was facing a
battery OF reporters. but finally II
was my turn. | learned that the
OUTFIT arrived some months ago at
Middle East port.
The men told me that colored and
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
DE nav TITXr
|NuE TAI HlNE
|OR SANITARY
|MPLOYEES

as newly formed Citizens Com
ss Tor War Employment at a
btag held Friady. Oct. 2 at the
| "a passed a resolution calling
me Common Council to raise the
sss Of the sanitary workers. The
. VT. Hill is chairman of the
s lex Of the resolution:
"nefeas, the sanitary workers
petltloned your honorable body
Ialse in wages, In line with
oyees, 0 wy ~
~ "'as I' in the performance OF
uu1ies OF garbage collection
IA men are subject to infections
M harmful diseases, and,
s,usFeas, DR.. Bruce II. Douglas,
s's Detroit Board OF Health.
~ ,.u out In a hearing held in the
-oh Council chambers that the
|,Asre SUSCEPTIBLE to rates. that
se collection is hazardous.
|-s.men are subject 10 hernia.
s . In the back and sacroli-
s sSu. and otherwise in danger
, sas,eas. there has been a sub
al increase In the cost OF lIv-
,aicn Affects all workers
~ RESOLVED That we urge
sSmmon Council OF the City OF
H." % act In the interest Of
!. - , ana in order that there will
y unerentials in the treatment
d., cl'y employee grant the
IA increase now demanded by
sanitary workers.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
CLAIM DRAFT
DELINQUENCY
ON INCREASE

The number OF draft delin>
ouents seem 20 be on the In
crease Is the opinion OF veteran
Detective Lieut.. Wallace s. Will
liams. who has been assigned 70
cid the FBI n rounding up boys
who have failed 20 respond TO
draft notices.
Tuesday Lieutenant Williams
revealed the names Of ten men
wanted bv the FBI They are:
Claude billiard. 62s Farnsworth;
Lawrence Allen. 1891 Tlene;
Luther Walton. sac Illinois; Lee
roy Gardner. 40 r. warrena
Andrew Dorsey. ss73 Russell;
william Geo. Carroll. 200 Alfred;
Cleveland Downing. alias Donney.
1850 Brush: Earl Lee, 3 Nile
RoEd William Raiiey. 198 r.
crpheld Roby Alexander Har-
msr. SOS Hartford.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
CLIO Members
Prot e st Ca fe


front Union Discrimination.
In spite OF all the talk about
ceasing discrimination against
Negroes, many local white cafe
owners continue TO refuse TO
serve Negroes because OF their
color. Two cases have been re-
ported within the last ten days.
One case was reported by Shell
ton Tapes, recording secretary
of Ford Local 500 UAW-CIO, the
largest CLIO Local. Tapes states
that he, his secretary, Miss
Florie washh gton. J. Grant H.
nancial secretary OF the local;
Martin Gensen. president OF the
building: Eddie Petroff and Ed
gar Waldron, al white except
him and his secretary were re-
fused service by Frank Casader,
400 s. Fort street last Tuesday.
Casader said that he would
serve tho whites but not the Me-
Rroes. But when the white mem
bers OF the committee refused to
eat unless Tapes and his sec
rotary were served. they too were
refused service.
A warrant for the restaurant
proprietor's arrest for violation
OF the Digs Civil Rights Law
VAS sought II was signed by
Recorders Court Judge John
scaiien. Casader was arrested and
his case set for Thursday. Oct. :.
The other case also involved
raw workers at the Bohm Alum
mum plant The spokesman 10,
the group. Walter Black ana
BurnciI Tsrlton. with several
others we're refused service ?,
the Miami Lunch. 1858 MACK
fContinued on page ~
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Vernliin
|fst Home
\ North End
|Owner Fined
Gross


H. drive to bring to justice land
who refuse to TX up their
{rsr,y and comply with requests
|ss BOARD OF Health and the De-
rment of Building and Safety
sIneering. which was Started by
|Tc and Ordinance Judge Thorn
Maher. continues under the d.
IN OF Referee Courtney Fitz-
mons
81 Friday the referee fined
ri Gonte. 1O4 Marston 500 for
[,re 10 comply with a request TO
IN eight-family apartment at
! Cameron
ke eight family apartment
IN Is occupied by colored ten
4 had dirty walls, broken plas-
4 detective floors. unsanitary
.hens. broken doors. defective
nbinr and broken down toilets.
As also infested with vermin.
buie was told last November by
nk skolnick. board of health
hector, 10 get the building into
hilton. He failed to comply with
request and was brought into
\ on April 5. lie asked that he
ryen time TO comply and the
was held up pending compile
II the work. One hundred and
ky.hve days later the landlord
done nothing about the prop
rieree Fitzsimmons visited the
,ment building and made a
onal tour Of inspection. He said
Conte was absolutely one OF
worst landlords that he had
seen.
knie appealed to Judge Murphy
the Judge upheld the 500 fine.
addition TO failing TO fix up his
kerty Gonte sent notices to his
nts that beginning Oct l their
would be raised IS and $40.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
|raham Quits
Jerk Position
|or Law Work

graham resigns :. =. front
pm X. Graham. well-known
folt attorney and fraternal
er' deputy clerk in the Re-
ers Court, surprised the pop
e when he resigned from the
II post last Tuesday.
aham who served four years
s's'ant prosecute, Ul W1,ne
~ went to the court two
aso as a legal aid and
y clerk, was very active in
election campaign OF the
orders Court judges.
urlng the recent investigation
prosecutor Bowling into Wayne
y latest auditors scandal the
ads post was abolished
fnds OF Graham said that this
zone because Graham was ac-
IN the campaign OF one OF
Eecutor Dowling's opponents
pam stayed on as DEPUTY
Fk In charge Of the court H.
rs letter Of resignation in
\ follows.
\ herewith tender my resIg-
Pon as deputy clerk of the
Fcrters Court, effective as OF
3, 1912.
Ply associations with the court
|e afforded me with rare and
Iemely beneficial experience.
Fever II is nv firm conviction
oy continuing as a deputy
~ tnat same would amount to
|tn' IN advancement to me or
Race. am sure that | can
~ my people best, which was
foremost purpose in studying
I oy entering into private
|ctce.'
'a''orney oraham said that his
Fnor.
u Graham is regional director
me Elks department of Civil
'erlies. IBPOEW.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
Rat Bites 4-Year-Old
Child While Sleeping

Because Of the acute housing
shortage and restrictions people
who are forced TO live in rat,
yermin infested houses are in
fear for the safety Of their
youngsters. Such was the ex-
perience Of Mrs Mamie Noble.
97s Theodore street The young
mother was Mortified Sunday aft
ernoon when she discovered that
her four-year-old daughter Mar
garet had been bitten on both
knees and toes by rats while she
was asleep In her crib.
The child was taken TO the
Children's hospital for treatment.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-10
DIR. COOPER GIVES FENCE
TO SCRAP DRIVE

wAsHINGTON-(ANP) - An
swering the call to patriotism. DR.
Anna j. Cooper. president emer.
titus OF Frelinghuysen university
has donated an $40 foot orna-
mental iron fence TO the salvage
scrap drive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-20
March Of Events i So~"sS.S %s
by BENJAMIN DeCasseres-

7 LIKE Alfred Noyes' eloquent
L plea for individualism in The
Edge of thSNAbyss" (Dutton)-
If he had only stopped there. But
he dodders into some form OF
mystical incoming. 1 fear that
the application of some of Noyes'
so-called religious dogmas would
bring about that very form OF
totalitarianism that he hates so
heartily.
II you want a treasury OF all
the stupendous idiocies uttered
by the Nazi leaders on all sorts
of topics / urge you TO send for
copy of "Nazi Guide TO
Nazism." edited by Rolf Tell
american Council of Public Az
fairs, Washington, d. c.
This is veritable reference
book on lies, sadism, bombsst,
taking and speciousness. To be-
come a bitter enemy OF the Ber-
lin gang all you you've got TO do
is TO read what they have said.
In these days everybody is
taking a new bath OF history, as
IL were. China and the Chinese.
for instance, are very much to
the fore. Violet Cressy- Marcks
packs her book. Journey Into
China" tDutton), with vivid de-
scriptions OF the people of Con-
fucius and CHARACTERISTICS,
There are battle-zone scenes,
snapshots OF the Red strongholds
in the north and much about the
cultural activities OF these
strange. ancient and apparently
indestructible people.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-20

THE revelations concerning the war
i in the Pacific by Representative Mel
vim J. Mas who recently returned from
active duty in the Solomons with the Marine
Corps, are accomplishing twofold pur-
pose.
The major purpose is, of course, TO
persuade or compel American authorities
TO fight the war in the Pacific with an
adequate force, and thus to win it.
And the latest account of the fighting
there, reporting the sinking or damaging
of upwards of 80 Japanese war vessels,
suggests an effective, if belated, attain
ment of that objective.
But it is still essential TO this purpose
to convince American authorities that it
is not sideshow to the main war which
is raging in the Pacific, but the MAIN war
accompanied by the greatest DANGER
to the United States. -
II is in the latter endeavor that
Representative Mas is having his greatest
difficulty, but is fortunately making
progress.
II has been disclosed that before
making PUBLIC report of his experience
and observations, Mr.. Mas properly
sought to make personal report to Prcsi
dent Roosevelt.
THE Congress has been informed that
i he waited two weeks WITHOUT
REPLY to his request for an appointment
with the President
Whereupon, Representative Lyndon
Johnson, of Texas, who had been impressed
by Mr.. Mas report and who has the con-
idence of the President, interceded and
obtained a fve-mnute audience with Mr.
Roosevelt and ADVISED AGAINST AC-
CEPTANCE on the grounds that the time
was insufficient
Then, and ONLY then, Mr.. Mas saw
the President.
And as columnist Drew Pearson wrote:
THE President got an earful. II he
acts on Mas report, which seems likely
a LOT of admirals will he shifted -. Word
trickled up to Capitol Hill that certain
naval advisers close 10 the White House
didn't want Mas 10 see the President.
That was why he got, the run-ar0und."
Apparently however, Mr.. Mas did not
get faction" from the President. and,
therefore took recourse to public dis.
closure.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-20
TwofoId Purpose in Mas Report

Representative Sol Bloom of New
York later made direct and sharp refer
ence to the difficulty Mr.. Mas is en-
countering.
THE East is becoming alert to the
danger" said Mr.. Bloom, "a danger that
the West has understood for some time.
But If the East is forgetting that
danger 1T SHOULD BE MADE AWARE
OF IT"
1t is eastern" apathy toward the
danger in the Pacific, if not indeed
abysmal IGNORANCE of that danger,
which is at the bottom of our initial set
backs in the war in the Pacific.
A CLUE to this fact is found in the
"A Joseph E. Davies book, Mission to
Moscow"
Mr.. Davies, a former American am
bassador to Soviet Russia and an Inner
circle" New Dealer, thus reported con-
,versation he had with Maxim Litvinov in
1887:
a.. We were fortunate in the fact
that Japan and all of our neighbors knew
that we had no desire for anything they
possessed and that the Pacific Ocean
and the Rocky Mountains and our own
strength were such as to cause us to
believe that relations would continue to be
friendly"
There are the roots of our present in
adequacy in the Pacific war.
The eastern" elements in American
politics and statecraft have never
considered the American West Coast
threatened by Japan.
They have not conducted the present
war with recognition that threat exists.
They are still thinking sof the Pacific
Ocean and THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
as dependable barriers against japanese
aggression and invasion.
The eastern clements have always
dominated American domestic affairs,
often to their detriment-as the lack of
western representation on the Supreme
Court and the failure to establish mill
tary and naval academies on the West
Coast attest
They must not conduct this war to
our detriment. The American govern
ment must recognize that our main war is
being fought in the Pacific and can be lost
there and MUST BE WON there.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-20

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