„« St AbWb« Btrwt Comer Columbl. _ Clifford KU

DEATH TAKESFAMOUS atty.QrW t Raconteur To

B« Mi»»ed By AHRnU J. C*W»W

n. death last Friday of Attor-nfthsrt J. WUM«. Br- termlnat-

ITinrttr that was probably wtth-2, „„•! in ‘h* h,Mor y of De,rf'tbark ovar 76 yaara. tha5,. ”| Mr. Willis pinrod »n import-

1‘ sod influential part in tha da-"lL.n, or Detroit.'"aU hough close friends of thejJibla ln»pnr H.lm. that he

.. born Dec. «. Mr. Willis«ont to tell friends that he

! born on a skiff In the middlepetrolt River as hia mother

....fleeing from her master, ap-

”.,mat*ly 16 or 5" years beforeST Civil War. Bark In 1960 the'

legislature set Feb. 12. 1829

| t hf birthday of Mr. Willis. mak-

ing him 9« at his death(.rent M«rj Teller

principally Mr. Willis will be

f ,«embered as « lawyer of «reatsbllity. hut to many of hla friends. ,111 be remembered as the

irM t raconteur. the purveyor of[one of the best stories ever told.Hi. been mind was fertile foi

•lories and they were many and.furious types

yr Willis 'Onid let his mind go

skipping nimbly back over the

vurs to tell one how he had been

iuln UP In the aims of John Brown

when the great Abolitionist visited

Mrolt just prior to his embrogllo

with the Federal troops at Harper’sPtrry, and how he later marchedoff toWar w Ith the Michigan troops

marshalled to shudue the seers-rrs homes

And most every one remembers<»me of his court tricks. When de-eding a client Mr. Willis wouldclaim tn have known the defendantJlur* his client was a child. Infiet, he would tell the court thedefendant had often rollickediraund on hi* lap. If the defenantwsi horn in Georgia, so was Mr.Willi* If he first saw the light of

day In Florida, Mississippi. Illinoisnr California, that um (be stalefrom whence came the grand OldHoman

Fought For KayHut ihere was the serious and

lighting side of R J. He demon-strated this in hi* fight to havecolored men placed a* motormenon the street cars of Detroit Thishappened back In IM»9 lie showedthat same fight to saw Tom Hay

from a Georgia mob, fighting similebanded in biS effort* to thwart theattempts of the Georgia officials toextradite Hay on a serious charge

1 wonder If Tom Ray was at thefuneral Tuesday of his great bene-factor?

WE HAVEthe LargestNumber ofSATISFIEDCOLOREDCUSTOMERS

OF ANY OTHER USEDCAR DEALER IN DETROIT

WHY?We Sell Good Cart Our Price* are Lower

No Red TapeTake Home One of These Bargains

1934 Ford Tudor, Sedan, good tires, A-l $210.001934 Ford Fordor, Sedan. Radio, Low Mil. 212.001934 Dodge—2 door-Touring Sedan . .

1935 Ford Tudor - Trunk Sedan 257.001935 Ford Fordor - Trunk Sedan 298.001934 Chevrolet - Sport Coupe; radio .... 295.001936 Pontiac-2 door - Trunk Sedan 498.001936 Dodge • 4 door • Trunk Sedan ....

1936 Ford Tudor - Trunk Sedan 389.001936 Olds Fordor - Trunk Sedan1937 Chevrolet • Tudor Mastor • Trunk ....

1937 Plymouth • 4 door • Trunk Sedan . . 5 8.001937 Packard-4 door - Trunk Sedan; “a beauty

1936 Chevrolet • 4 door - Trunk Sedan • • 456.00

LOW DOWN PAYMENTSLONG EASY TERMS

Open Every Night Until 12Closed SundaysTRY US FIRST

BERT BAKER. INC.“THE BIG LOT”

9800 Grand River, Corner Livernois

And then there were thestories about his wandering!around the world, how he foughtbattles in vsrloua countries, alwaysmining out victorious over theenemy.

It was just e short time agoDiet It. J. gave the boys on tit. An-toine street a real laughter On ahot day Mr. Willis came trumpingalong the avenue clad in a heavyovercoat and a straw hat on hishead. Just another instance of hissense of humor.

And now we will miss this manwho had so many interesting andfunny stories to tell, a man whoknow the hietoYy ofs Detroit betterMinn any one it haa been our goodfortune to meet.

In his long years of life he hadbeen married four times and wasthe father of 11 children, three ofthem living. He was the first color-ed man to graduate from the Uni-versity of Michigan College of Law,coming out In 1835. He had been aschool teacher in Tesas. He was amember of Second Bapilat Church,Detroit for more than 50 yeara. Hisfather Elijah Willis, was on* of thefounders of the church. We willmiss Roh Willis.

BETTER RACERELATIONS(Continued from Pigs 1)

tee brought police brutality to theattention <f the Mayor and PollctCommissioner, particularly in thecase of a Negro brutally assault-ed by a patrolman for alleged

drunkenness. and a 13-yearold Ne-gro boy shot b.v an officer w- hoclaimed lie thought the boy was sfleeing thief.

llesding the “Machinery of Re-pression" Hated by the Union in Itsreport is this statement: “AgainstNegroes—the most numerous vic-tims of the denial of rights guaran-teed by the Constitution—discrimi-nation by Jim Crow statutes, deny-ing the right to vote, to get equaleducational facilities and equaltransportation."

Funeral Rites HeldFor Mrs. M. McCall

Funeral rites for the late MrsMary A. McCall were held at 2:30p nt Saturday, July 10, from thafamily residence at 4880 Parkeravenue. Rev. Horace A. White,pastor of Plymouth Congregation-.s| Church, officiated at the simple

hut impressive ceremonies.The deceased, who was a native

of Montgomery. Ala., had resided inDetroit for lh* past seventeenvrars. Bh* passed away at 7:40Thursday morning, after having

been confined to her bed for sever-al weeks.

Burial was In Memorial ParkCemetery. The funeral arrange-

ments were in charge of the DiggsFuneral Home.

The Detroit Tribune ha* a com-

plete coverage of Greater Detroit,nd adjacent trad* area*, making

it the beet available mediumthrough which advertlaera <*an

reach the colored market in Mich-igan

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Studying Nacirema Week Plan*

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arts for the entertainment of visitor* to Nacirema Week. August 1 to 8. erafast shaping up as can be attested by the four young man in tha pietura who havebeen laboring hard during the past four or five weak*. Reading from left to rightare Jonathan Stone, Jesse Kimbrough, Clarence Hunter, and Clifton Russian,members of the committee of entertainment of Nacirema Club.

TRUTHFULNESSOF PRICE GIRLFLAYED BY TWO

(Continued from pnge 1 )

defendants, the attorney asked thewitness If she bad not mads thecharges against the defendants to"cover her own violation of the lewIn going to Chattanooga with a manfor immoral purposes.” The witnessanswered that the statement wasnot true.

Question? 1 About MoneyLelbowlta also questioned the

witness regarding the amount ofmoney she possessed at the time ofthe alleged offense. She said shehad 50 cents when she was on thegondola. The attorney then readfrom the tranacrlpt. of the testi-mony given In the original trialsIn Scottshoro, in 1981, which quot-ed her as saying aha had a dollarand a half.”

In those earlier trials death sen-tence imposed by Alabama juriestwice were reversed by the UnitedStates Supreme Court. HeywoodPatterson, one of the defendants,received a 75-year sentence at thelast trial, held here last year.

Norris has been sentenced twiceto death. Charlie Weems, the otherdefendant who is scheduled to go totrial Immediately at the completionof the Norris trial, haa not been be-fore an Alabama Jury since hisconviction at Scottshoro In 19,11. Atthat time he was sentenced todeath and was saved by the firstSupreme Court ruling In the case.

The second ruling of the highcourt reversed sentence imposedon Norris and Patterson, nfter thedefense contended s fair trial hadhesn prevented by the exclusion ofthe names of colored prospective!Jurors from the Jury list from 'which the talesmen to try the de-jfendants were drawn.

LOUIS WRIGHTHITS DOCTORSmen and women to ponder unwnr-rentable homicide of Wad oplewith official sanction.

"Again, we look and ace that theReceiving Hospital, the municipalhospital of this great municipality,haa a capacity of 700 beds, affordstraining to 32 Internes, and In 22years of |t« existence has onlytrained one Negro interne.

Strike* Herman Kiefer“This hospital comes under the

direct Jurisdiction of the Mayorthrough the Welfare Commission.It employs 700 Individuals In dif-ferent capacities and only four ofthese are Negroes, and not a singlenurse. This Is equally appalling.

"The Herman Kiefer Hospital ofthis city has a capacity of 1,400beds, employ* 727 people, andcomes under the Jurisdiction of theHoard of Health Commission, whichIs appointed by the Mayor of thiscity, and it employs only one Ne-gro.”

THE

Negro Labor ForumTHE NfcGRO LAftAH FOR I’M

By Paul KirkTo ths workers of Dodge* Pept. «2 ,

I want to congratulate yon forhaving placed a Negro on one ofthe highest paid Jobs In Depart*ment *2. This further verifies thecorrectness of the policy of the C.I. O. to unite the ranks of theworkers and eliminate economic In-equality.

The workers have learnedthrough practical experience that \they can share In the enormouswealth that they produce only bycementing their ranks that havefor many years been divided by theemployer. Thus, the ground hasbeen layed for the withering awayof the old Ideology that haa beeninstigated and perpetuated by theemployer and has resulted Into dif-ferent nationalities of workersfighting amongst themselves. Thuswe recall the point made by Abra-'ham Lincoln in 1858 In his famousdebate with Frederick Douglass.jHe said. “A house divided againstItself cannot stand.” The workersof Dodges are evidently beginning 1to realise this—both Negro andwhite.

It was In 1932 when this veryNegro applied for the same Job but |was refused because of race superl-1ority which was so prevalent In the jmind of many white workers. They |refused to work with the Negro,not because they had anything Inparticular against him, but becausetheir minds had been poisoned bythe employers who have for manyyears practiced giving the Negroesthe hardest, the dirtiest, the worstjobs with the lowest pay. there-fore the results were the bolster-ing up of the racial superioritytheory.

I want to appeal to all fellowunionists to devote more of theirtime to solidifying the ranks ofboth Negro and white workers.Only when 'he Negro worker hasbeen guaranteed the right to per-form any Job for which he Is quali-fied, will we he able to march for-ward as one united body. Thiswould mean the diminishing ofracial harriers and the strengthen-ing of the l’nlon and all the em-ployers together cannot tear downour Union.

The historic Conference of theN. A. A. r. P. Just two week* ago

I adopted a resolution urging theNegro to "study the Union." HereIs a practical solution of the prob-lem Ihht does not require an ex-treme •'study ” The question Is notone of studying from one confer-ence to another on whether we

DOCK WORKERSSTAGE STRIKE

should Join 'he Union or not. rs’heiwe should Join the Union, gtudvwhat methods we mutt use to fightfor our rights Intlde the UnlouOne cannot study a book If he doesnot open 1* and look Inside. S'udyIs a good thing, our rae» needs todo more of It. but without practiceIt Just doesn't make sense Whenwe go to school we learn arithmeticfrom a hook, but we also hart towork out problems on the blackboard. 6o today we must set tosolve the practical problems facingthe Negro workingman. Thus Itwill be the realisation that the Ne-gro worker has fought for formany years.

We appeal to all sincere peoplewho favor progress to take advan-tage of the New toduatrlal oppor-tunity open to the Negro worker.

Signed.Paul Kirk

GIVE 01 R YOITH A IT TI REWith the coming of (he modern

machines, conveyor lines, apeed-up.etc., only the youth who are re-servoirs of strength and energy areable for a few years to keep pacewith the terrific speed and strainof our present day Industry. Today!the youth and especially the Negro |are the main targets for exploita-tion and profit by the auto manu-facturers.

Ford and other auto corporationswill not hire men over 40 because'the speed up is so great. That iswhy the auto Industry Is known aaa young man's Industry.

The rigid and thorough physicalexamination that one la forced toundergo In applying for work at,Fords ia an Indication of the kind |of young bodies Ford needs for htsspeed tip system.

Negro youth In any appreciablenumber are practically deprived ofan opportunity to learn skilledtrades. This Is due primarily tothe policy of the employers whohave always prevented our youthfrom learning skill trades. Thispolicy was profitable to them Itkept alive the racial superiorityamong the white workers and pre-vented any sort of unity. Thru thisthe employer was able to keep thewages of both white and coloredworkers at starvation levels.

A few of our youth despite althandicaps and at the cost of greatsuffering and sacrifices were suc-cessful In mastering certain skill-ed trades. With all thtifNfgtU the

1 manufacturers with the help of theI leadership of the old craft uniondidn't allow them to have thesejobs, therefore our youth are giv-en the hardest, dirtiest Jobs, with

i the least pay in the Industry today.The chances of their living shealthy, happy life snd attaining aripe old age is very slim. Discrlml-

j nation, Industrial disease, such nstuberculosis, silicosis, etc stalk

|them on every hand.At lasi with the coming of the

|c. I. 0. a dim light can be seen on: the horizon that points to a greaterj future for our youth in industry.

We, the Negro youth, are livingin a very interesting period where

1 great changes are taking place In.this troubled world. <!reat respon-sibility for shaping the future des-tiny of our group rests upon our

(shoulders. We are duty bound In; the interest of the race to follow

| the path forged by nur great Negro! leaders, such as Nat Turner andFrederick Douglas, who champion-

led the cause of freedom and pro-gress. w# have nothing to lose and

(all t< .in. Let us march forwardbehind the banner of the C I. 0 inthe pursuit of a future life of

! liberty, opportunity, and happiness.Signed, 1

L Williams f

Form Picket Lines OnDocks In Memphis

Memphis (A N Pi—Claiming'company officials ordered them tocense union activities, approximate-ly 100 colored freight handlers ofthe Federal flarge line Thursdaystaged a walkout nnd announcedgeneral picketing of the terminalwith 10 men assigned to each entrance and possible picketing of theMemphis Public Employment cen-

! ter to discourage men from apply-ing there for the vacated Jobs.

The strikers contend that John\V. Lynch, white, general foremanof the Georgia Street terminal,warned them that “any person tak-ing part In union activities or for-mation of a union could not workon the Job.”

According to P. H. Patton, white,terminal superintendent, he was“standing right there when theleader was told he was shooting offhis mouth too much and got fired.The other's followed him offthe place.’ He also declared “thewalkout came as a complete sur-prise to us. We pay our men 3(1

cents an hour which Is tops inMemphis for this kind of labor.They work 40 to go hours a week.

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Dave Clark AProud Father

Dive Clark hard-hitting lightheavyweight fighter and pal ofJoe Louis. Is the proud father ofa five and one-half pound babygIH. The baby was bron in thenew Edyth K. Thomas MemorialHospital on July 9, 1037. Mr. Clarkwas formerly Miss Mayola Burn-ett. Dr. 8. W. Jenkins reports thatboth Mother and child are doing !fine. This Is the first child to beborn to the Clarks

NFW FRA «Trr»T CUBBecause of the rain Sunday July

11 member* of the New Era Studyf’luh had breakfast In the spacioushome of Mrs. B M Norrla of Jos-ephlne avenue lnnead of at RelleI*le where the breakfast had beenpreviously planned.

Members and friends who en-joyed the crisp bacon and other

'delicious foods which constitute atasty breakfast were; Mrs FloraOsborne. Mrs. Ann Rradly, MissRetty Cain. Beulah Cain, Fannie R

, Ross. Portia Bethel, Miss AshleyCain. Mr and Mrs Prentiss A

| Walker, Robert Rurren. Mr and: Mrs Fdw. Caines. Mr. and Mrs..1. Campbell, Miss Jane Carson,Mr and Mrs. R C McMahan. Dr.and Mrs. J. H. Sparks Mr andMra R. C I.ewla. Mr. and MrsHerbert V. White. Mr and MrsWnddv Grimes, R M Ralwin, MissVirginia Rurgen. Mr. and Mrs Al-onso Pettlford, Mr and Mrs. WmI’ickens.

POSTAL KFBFH\LFTTFSA delightful evening was enjoy-

ed by all members of the PostalFederaleltcs who attended themeeting held Tuesday, June 22, atthe home of Miss Rose High, at

Vernor Highway and Jos CampauMember* of the club are grat|-i

led lo learn that Mrs. Clara Amos

HONOR GUEST AT PICNIC

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SENATOR CHARLES C. DIGGS, DetroitThe first annuel Emancipation picnic and dance

will be given by the Michigan Federated DemocraticClubs, in honor of Senator Charlea C. Digga, Sunday,Auguat 1, from 9 a. m. to 1 a. m., at Belvidere Park,located at 16 Mile Road and Van Dyke avenue.

The affair will be elaborate, as the picnic anddance are sponsored in recognition of the fine servicerendered the race by Senator Diggs, during the recentsession of the Michigan Legislature, at which thaDiggs-Hailwood Civil Rights Bill and other prsfrst*sive legislation was enacted into law.

The public is invited to attend the otstksg.

is having a pleasant vaetHaa laNew York. She la the guest of L.Love and Is tha rtrlpicat of assaysocial courtesies

Mrs. Amos plana to return lathe near future Mrs. MoarosSmith, acting preelden', la presid-ing over the meetings of tha flubduring Mrs Amos’ absence.

Josephine Try, Reporter

BATTLE CREEK(Bt ROONF.VFLT FTANRI

Delegates from the Second Bap-tist Church left Wednesday even-ing to attend the Ninety-FourthAnnual Session of the Chain LakeMtaalonary Raptlat Associationwhich will convene with the SecondRaptts' Church. Rev 1 m. Carring-ton, paator, of Jackson continuingthru to July IS Delegates fromRattle Creek are Ruby Cherry,Evelyn Fullerton Annie M. Berry-man. FranceeMer Hanley, TheresaMorrla, Adel Braxton WilliamEason and Rev. K L. Todd whoIs Moderator of the association

The Rattle t’rcek Reld-Allen baseball club beat Norge Refrigeratorsin Allegan last Sunday, JO-3, pound-ing Juan Padron for 11 hits, Includ-ing a homer by Zack Redden and atriple by Milton Childs Lee Gatlingand Harry Walston divided thahurling for Reld-Allen.

Marriage license was appliedfor at the county clerk s efflea las*Monday hy Adalbert Lucas, 64. con-tractor. and Emma Rmlth of 72Walters

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H what MAVt LIGHT BULBS TO DO WITH MR? I■Nothing —except that oee electric bulb looks ■

much lib* another You can't judge their SPm[ quality fust by appearance, but one will I

hHV give far more light hours than all »he rest BDifferent broods of beer loob a lot alike, B

jjSBaS Ji too But flavor and quality diffet and de- BP*od en how the beer in the bottle it mad*. BA,,#> 11 brewed to the rec l(>e Bof Louis W Schimmel. That give- you a die- M

■Br* 1•'• - tinctive beer of exceptional qualify and B

different from ordinary brews. That's why f|MTI Altes Lager can never be successfully /'JK

"' * \ Imitated The only thing like It is anotherbottle of Altes Loger /

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MORTGAGE LOANSIst and 2nd Mortgage Loan*

—from—-sl,ooo to $40,000 Dollars

made on high class real estateCONSTRUCTION LOANS ALSO MADE

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WATTEDMXC.EF ROOM In t nice refined

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THE DETROIT TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1937

Dine and A If [)

Dance at AcC"Hyß DarFINEST ASSORTMENT OF WHISKEYS

AND MIXED DRINKS

AltoHigh Clast Foods and Tatty Sandwiches, Steaks

Chops and Chinese FoodEverything Served at Reasonable Prices

FLOOR SHOWS NIGHTLY3667*91 Hastings Telephone Ter, 2-9166

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