The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-12
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Ed Simmons is to be congratu-
lated. we think, for getting out of
the Councilmanic race. We have no
reason not TO do our damndest in
the election now!
Henrietta Buckmaster. intense
eyed author of Deep River"
speaking for the Peoples Insti-
tute of Applied Religion Dinner
honoring claude Williams,
stressed the fact. not known by
all, that many Negroes came to
America as indentured servants
like the whites; and they Wig
orously protested the establish
ment Of slavery. Miss Buckmas-
ter believes America has q long.
militant tradition and urges US
all to remember II and to live up
to II.
President Truman came through
we'll in a test with the House on a
veto: the opposition failed by over
so votes to override it. He was
rightly praised by Mrs. Roosevelt
for re-appointing David Lilienthal
as head OF the iva. Have you
noticed how her columns are get
ting down to cases recently?
shelton Tapes chaired the
Claude williams dinner and did
q nice job. Rev. Williams said
once that Rev. Owen Whitfield
from Missouri may eventually
Join Adam Powell In Congress
for us folks. Some people don't
seem TO know about Congress
man Bill Dawson.
We're inclined to agree with the
union speaker out at Willow Run
in his pessmism concerning WIZ,
even though the Free-Press re-
ported that the workers didn't APP
plaud him but cheered Ford who
gave out some CHEEKY words on re-
conversion. Meanwhile they cut
down 10 a 407br week out there.
Why don't the industry-labor- gov
eminent councils here work out
reconverSion program if Congress
is going too slowly on 1t?
Rep. Mary T. Norton who has
been kicked in the teeth by GER
tain segments Of the Negro press
at times, gave them the lie by
her aggressive action on FEPC
the last few weeks. BY the time
YOU read this we hope her dis
charge petition has the 2lS sig
natures IL needs. II II doesn't,
write - wire your Congressman.
Mrs. Norton also told on the
Southern dominated Rules Com
mittee about the Fill.
Colonel Selway who is as close
10 being a totslitarian militarist as
we want to get. still is in charge OF
the 477th al his writing. what the
heck are you keeping quiet for?
Yell like hell and get him out OF
there, The address OF the War De-
partment is the Pentagon Building.
Washington, d: c.
Miss Hazel Scott Is one OF eight
including the Congressman. close
TO his late mother MRS. A. c.
PowelD who will n'ace a bronze
commemorative tablet In Abys-
sinian Baptist church for her.
There's hope for the baseball
diamond il BIB Commish Happy"
Chandler makes action out OF the
favorable words he's been saying
about Negroes in the major leagues.
|. The editor OF the Journal and
Guide got a little provoked in
San Franc about some OF his
colleagues and not only wrote
hot .2-coiumn story on them but
took Mrs. Bethune to task for not
being female Anthony Eden.
Personally were hind of elad she
went 10 represent us. cause while
Dubois is being informative
about colonies. etc, she can but
tonhole the delegates and give
them the human touch that even
scholar sometimes lacks. Be-
sides she's nobody's fool. and most
Of us identify ourselves with her
faster than with any OF our So
called intellertuals.
Mussolini and maybe Hitler are
washed up for good. But the Rus
SLAMS have had to protest the way
the Allies are treating Russians
they have freed-they put them in
camps, TOO. Over here PM pub
fishes pictures Of sleek Nazi pris-
oners at Fort Dix. while Yank
prisoners in Germany were mere