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Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
THE MESS LINE

Renaissance over the MASSIVE par
ade in New York, makes us wonder ii
it really was the most notable of all.
We recall the convention in Kansas
City, when most of the leading figures
of the world war were still alive. AS
we remember it Marshal Foch, Gener-
al Pershing, General Pulsudski, and
many more attended
That parade was heralded as the
greatest one of all time. How much
of this is true, might be a matter OF
opinion.
The American public will probably
never be able to see the figures involv-
ed as the highlights of that convention,
for some are dead, the others are en-
feebled by age.
With the passing of those who LED
us in those other years, naturally our
bid for greatness, must be in the point
of numbers, or some new and unusual
trick in conventioning which will have
d popular appear.
1t is interesting to note the progress
of the Negro in the American Legion
for in the beginning Negroes were no'
always welcomed with open arms.
In my home town, St. Joseph, Mis-
souri,, a few, whose military records
could not be denied, were invited into
the incipient white posts, but for the
that the proper course was to organize
Negro Posts throughout the country
and where such organizations were not
permitted, to fight for the ban to be
lifted, through the national committee
and at the National conventions.
This policy was followed, and strange
as it seems, Minneapolis became the
most part Negroes were not wanted.
With the perfection of the organiza-
those of our group who attended felt
ton at the meeting held in St. Louis,
first battle ground for these rights.
From the standpoint of our interest
it was queer assemblage of Negro
delegates. Those from the northern
states, including Missouri and Tenne-
see, had full recognition. Those from
the solid south had no credentials and
could not be officially recognized. So
there were two conventions in one.
We of the delegation who had a
right to seats in the convention attend
ed the sessions regularly, then we rush.
ed down to the hotel which was oper-
ated at the time by Ed Stewart, and
held colored convention or caucus, or
what have you, with the unadmitted
delegates.
Sometimes some of the leading fig
ures of the convention came down to
help us with our plans to break down
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
SCOTTSBORO BOYS
CONDITION CRITICAL

New York, Oct. - (CNA) = Ozzie
Powell. one of the still imprisoned FIVE
Scottsboro boys, is in a cricital condi-
ton at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Ala,
according to Joseph Geldes, Southern
representative of the National Com
mittee for Defense of Political Prison.
ers.
Geldes arrived in this city this week
to attend conference on the defense
of the boys. He reported he visited the
boys in Kilby Prison shortly before
coming here and found Powell "a
shadow of his former self" Powell
was wasting away, he said. under the
rigorous prison regime at Kilby. The
condition of the other boys is also SER
ious, he declared
Following Geldes' report, Richard B.
Moore, of the international Labor De-
Tense, proposed emergency measures
to intensity the mass and legal fight for
the freedom of the FIVE boys, and for
their transfer, meantime to the Bir-
mingham County Jail.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
Elks Plan Christmas
Benefit Sh0U

For the benefit of the poor of the
city, Ames Lodge, 100, /. B. P. o. E.
plan an unusual performance to be CIV
en- at the Lyceum Theatre, Dec. p.
With the curtailing of relief, and not
iceable lack of increase in employment,
Ames Lodge hopes to be able to meet
the Christmas situation by the proceeds
of this entertainment, which bids fair
neapolis. This paper had wondered
about Christmas, where Christmas
might have been just another day to SO
many. after a conversation regarding
neighborhood conditions with John
Thomas, director of boys activities at
Phylliss Wheatley.
For an hour he RECALLED me with tales
of the struggle to keep boys who felt
the sting of poverty in attendance at
school,
He told tales of parents who fighting
what at best was losing fight to keep
the kids in the straight and narrow,
could never plan the pleasures of
normal home, of children who were
constantly trying to compromise their
youthful pride with almost sordid eco
nonlical conditions
1t was late this summer that this con-
versation occurred, and even then we
wondered about what the winter should
bring.
1t is said that the Lord tempers the
wind for the shorn lamb, so come the
Elks, of Ames Lodge, putting emphasis
on the benevolence in their title.
They have already under way the
script for this minstrel, which is ex-
pected to make history in entertain
ment
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
PROTEST HOLLYWOOD
NEGRO STEREOTYPES

Philadelphia, Oct. - (CNA) - Inc
grotesque portrayal of Negroes OF the
screen and radio was vigorously assail-
ed in a sub-session devoted to "Cul-
ture' at the Second National Negro
Congress held in this city last week.
Under the craftsmanship of Sterling
Brown, Negro poet, the session heard
number of speakers, including Alan
Loche. Loren Miller, Rex Ingram,
Charles Alexander, and Gwendo1yn
Bennett, discuss the role of Negro Gull
ture in American life and the cultural
achievements of the race in the arts
and letters and denounce screen and
radio Negro stereotypes.
1--WE mist insist upon true portray
al of the Negro people on the screen as
welt as on the radio. The present por-
trayais In which the Negro is depicted
either as ineniaf, or a slow, lazy un-
ambitious individual Is not only dis
gustiRg, but constitutes SANDER of
the race declared Alexander, delegate
from the American Writers Union.
Ingram dealt with the difficulties fac
ing the Negro actor, and related some
of his own experiences. Speaking OF
the film version of Green Pastures,
in which he appeared in four different
roles, he asserted that had a white ac-
tor achieved such an accomplishment
he would have easily ranked as lead
ing figure in American theatrical cir
cles. and that his economic security
would have been assured.
Pointing out the precarious position
of the Negro artist, Miss Bennett urged
the delegates to work for the passage
of bill now in Congress, which aims
to establish Permanent Bureau OF
Fine Arts supported by the Federal
Government. She asserted that such a
bureau would result in several advan-
tages for Negro artists.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
ETHIOPIA ISSUE IN
RENO DIVORCE CASE

Reno, New, Oct. - (CNA) - The
Marchiohess Natalia Fisher Catalanu
uzaga, 3S-year-old California heir
css, charged this week that her hus-
band, Marquis Clemento Catalano
Coinage of Florence, Italy, threw a
finger bowl and two plates at her
mother, Mrs. Henry Fisher, when she
expressed sympathy for Ethiopia.
The fascist marquis who considered
it quite proper and right for his gov
eminent to despoil the Ethiopia people
also continually took money from the
children's banks, his wife charged.
District Judge B. F. Curler granted
the marcl,ioness a divorce on her
charge of cruelty and nonsupport and
granted her custody of the children,
Henry, Is, and Louigo, ten.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
STANDING COMMITTEE
Minneapolis Urban League

INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE
w. M. Smith, Chairman.
Warren Wells Fisk.
George B. Leonard.
Talmage B. Carey.
SOCIAL WELFARE COMMIT
TEE.
Howard r. Hush, Chairman.
c. M. Way.
Leo Bohanon.
EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Miss Katherine NJ. Kohler, Chairman
Miss L. o. Smith.
Rev. Philip E. Gregory.
Lloyd P. Johnson.
INTER-RACIAL COMMITTEE.
Rabbi Albert G. Minda, Chairman.
Rev. Carlyle F. Stewart.
Miss w. Gertrude Brown.
Mrs. James Paige.
COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
Rabbi Albert G. Minda, Chairman.
Miss Katherine M. Kohler.
Talmage B. Carey.
w. NJ Smith.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
MINNESOTA AND IOWA
CLUB HOLD PARTY

The Minnesota and Iowa Club held
forth at Norway Hall, twenty ninth
and Chicago Ave-. Monday night, Oct.
Is.
The entertainment was especially
good, the two Pettiford children bring
ing down the house with their unique
act. Bruce Patterson and his banjo
proved why they are in demand as
radio entertainers.
The motion pictures were fair, not
quite as good as those of the previous
year. The program was followed by
dancing, about three hundred and fifty
persons being in attendance.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
MINNEAPOLIS LABOR
SCHOOL HOLDS FORUM
October u, 1887

October u, 1887
The end of w. P. A., and the crea-
ton of permanent national program
of Work Relief was forcscen by Karl
Lundberg, Acting State Relief Admin
Turn to page two
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30
LABOR SCHOOL
ENROLLMENTS TO
CLOSE

Registrations for classes in the Min
neapolis Labor School close Monday,
November 8. Enroll now! The Min
neapolis Labor School is located at
243 Transportation Building Annex, 4th
Street and Second Ave. So.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-30

Teigen are holding Open House at s0s
Sc 9th Street, Minneapolis, from so
p. M. to midnight, Wednesday, Novem-
Der 3. All their friends and co-workers
are cordially invited.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
AMATEUR CRIMINOLOGIST HELD
IN SLAYING OF SCHOOL Girl

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Oct q U.D
DIR. Douglas W. owen, psychia-
trist, amateur criminologist, and
brilliant scholar, was questioned in
jail today about an almost perfect"
crime-the killing of a schoolgirl.
He was held on an "open" charge
without specific accusation.
DR.. owen, SO, was schooled in
Vienna in intricacies of the human
mind, and operates a sanitarium
for mental patients. He is strik-
ing man, six feet, three inches tall,
weighing $50 pounds. He wears
neatly trimmed Van Dyke beard.
He is a Boy Scout leader and a
highly respected member Of South
Bend society.
Sheriff william Hosinski hesitat-
ed even to detain him for question
ing until he had questioned all Of
his business associates.
In his home, officers said, Dr.
owen has a miniature laboratory
where he makes gun barrels and
instruments used in scientific crime
detection.
He was arrested last night as
Sheriff William Hosinsh pursued
a theory that the Staying of Melba
Moore, 16, on a lonely country road
a week ago tonight not only was
without motive, but was upintsn-
tional. The slayer. Hosinskl be-
leyed, meant TO kill Miss Moore's
sweetheart, Adolph Stopper, 20, and
her friend, Charles Walton, 16, both
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

the Officers nave sponsored since
the association was formed.
All arrangements are in charge
of Chief Of Police Lon Cromer Of
Brawley, general chairman. Two
dozen committees are working un-
der his supervision TO make the
event a success.
Fifteen horse owners already have
entered ther ponies IN the races. No
entry fee win be charged for par
tieipation in the races. AT the races
Cromer viii officiate as starter with
Clarke and Dick Bates to serve as
Judges. Judge E. A. Freeman OF
Yuma. Judge John E. Simpson of
FL Centro and District Attorney
Elmer Heald will officiate at the
roundup. western Hi-jinks. Sheriff
Robert w. Ware and Chief OF Po-
lice J. Sterling Oswalt of FL Centre
will take turns at announcing.
Music will be provided by the
Imperial Valley Boys band. The FL
Centro Junior police corps will as
sist their senior officers in policing
the grounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Fishermen Sought
By Guard Planes

, SAN DIEGO, Oct 81 U.P)-Coast-
guard airplanes today were search
ing for the fishing boat Angelus,
with 3 men aboard, reported over
due on trip from the Coronado
islands.
Search for the Angelus, under
command of Capt. Herbert Samp-
son, with two unidentified crew
members, was started after fear for
the safety of the fishing boat June,
with Glenn johnson and James
McCully aboard, had been relieved
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
EIGHT RACE EVENTS
On BARBECUE SLATE

Eighteen racing events and a good
old fashioned barbecue dinner viii
be on the program at the Imperial
Yuma Valleys Peace Officers asso-'
citation show al Brawley airport at
] pm. Sunday
Six beeves viii be barbecued for
"a hours under the supervision OF
Captain T. L. Smith, Charles T.
Birchfield. and Undersheriff Rod
ney Clarke. Twenty officers from
the various departments in the or
ganization viii serve the beans, beef
bread and coffee.
Preliminary ticket sales indicate
that hundreds of residents of In
perial and Yuma Valleys will at
tend the first annual western show
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

OF whom were with her at the time.
The sheriff admitted he had no
clues. Stopper and Walton had only
brief glimpse, in the dark, of the
slayer, and they fled as soon as
he started shooting. Apparently the
Stopper-Moore courtship was free
of serious jealousy.
The youths were held in Jail,
without charge, for several days.
They were given lie detector test,
then freed.
DR.. Hosinski's arrest came sud-
denly. Hosinski said he talked with
nurses and other staff members of
owens sanitarium. before acting.
What he asked owen, the sheriff
refused to disclose.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
INSECT PESTS
TAKE CRACK
AT HARVESTS

The principal insect crop pests
Thursday were winding up an un-
usually active season by severely
damaging many late crops and
building UP their numbers for next
year, according to the current issue
of the Insect Fest Survey Bulletin
of the u. S. Department of Agri-
culture.
Grasshoppers continue destruc-
tive from Illinois to southern Min
nesota and southward to Missouri
and Oklahoma and also in the
Great Basin. Hopper egg laying has
been under way for several weeks.
Scattering wireworm damage is re-
ported from Pennsylvania, North
Dakota and Washington. The gar
den webworm, breaking out in
Indiana and Michigan, has been
particularly injurious to alfalfa.
The Hessian fly, which has been
at a low ebb. is making its come
back on volunteer wheat in parts of
Ohio Wisconhin, North Dakota,
and eastern Missouri. Another i'm
portant grain pest, the European
corn borer, was reported to be heav-
lily infesting corn in northwestern
Pennsylvania. The borer was found
to be still present in 10 counties in
southeastern Wisconsin this sum-
mer. Says stinkbug recently injured
small grain and alfalfa in Utah and
Arizona.
The codling moth-a pest which
suffered from the cold last winter
is ending its season with large
numbers from northern Ohio to
northeastern Kansas. The flathead-
ed apple borer has proved destruc-
tive to apple trees from Indiana
and Nebraska southwark to Okla
homa and Missouri.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

age with the means at her disposal,
public health nurses declared.
Grima appeared before the county
board of supervisors recently with
his small son acting as interpreter
and requested aid for his children.
The aid was not forthcoming be-
cause Grima was an alien. The chill
dren, however, are American born
and since the father is unable to
support them, they must be cared
for.
He was removed from the home
SO the remainder of the family could
not contract the disease.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

lIIUIIs
Plans for having the Spaniard
accept voluntary deportation were
initiated because he appealed to
the county welfare department for
aid for his wife, their children and
the woman's children by former
marriage.
Grima now is IN the county hos
pital suffering from an incurable
ailment while relief authorities are
doing what they can for the family.
They live in tiny house in the
Seeley area. They keep the house
clean and the children are cared
for the best the mother can man
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Priest Captured
Tn China Rescued

los ANGELES, OCT. 70. U.HJ-
A report Of the rescue Of the Rev.
Gerard w. Donovan, missionary
priest. from Chinese bandits in
Manchuria, was received today by
the Rev. Hugh Lavery of Maryknoll
Mission.
The Rev. Lavery said the rescue
was described in a radio message
from the Orient which was relayed
TO him. japanese soldiers, the re-
port said, rescued the missionary
priest near Antung The Rev. La
very said ne learned no further
details.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
VAR FORCES SEELEY
MAN TO STAY IN U.S..

Gines Grima of Seeey man without country
Thursday all because there's war in Spain .
ARRANGEMENTS for deportng Grima to SPAN his native
were abandoned recently when authorities discovered
If could not be done because of the civil war in progress
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
FLORIDA TRIP
4 ENDS FOR BOY
4 IN IRON LUNG

MIAMI, Fla, Oct 2l U.P)-
Fred B. Sniic, jr.. completed an
ether long Journey today in the
iron lung without which he can
not live. He was brought here
from his home in Chicago to
avoid the cold NOR hern winter.
He arrived at : am. at Miami
aboard a special car of the Dixie
FLYER. concluding safely l,5OO-
mile rail Journey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-21
Supreme Court Showdown

As the zero hour for the Senate vote on the New Deals substitute judiciary bill approaches the final showdown in the Presidents fight for an enlarged Supreme Court is practically at hand. With both sides claiming victory it's as the old sports slogan goes anybody'S game = but in the case of victory for the court expan- sioniSts, we are afraid, John o. Public'S loss.
 No lesser parsonage, close friend, ardent supporter and admirer of President Roosevelt, Governor Herbert H. Lehman, in letter to Senator Wagner of New York, ernestly urged him to vote against the bill, saying, T believe the orderly and deliberate processes of government should not be sacrificed merely to meet an in1- mediate situation.
 This we think has gradually come to be more and more the sentiment of most of the opponents of the Presidents plan. We know both Connecticut sen- ators, Augustine Lonergan and Francis T. Maloney, as we'll as Congressman J. Joseph Smith have been guided by Simi- lar feeling and acted accordingly in lin- ing up with the opposition.
 However, what the result will be and whether the President still retains his former power of persuasion remains to be seen. A few hours will tell the story. In either event, win or lose, while President Roosevelt will still continue outstanding in the New Deal administration, we think he has sacrificed much of his prestige by forcing the affair, especially as there seems no great need for any such change now, into a knockdown fight on the floor of the United States Senate. He in the little M to satisfaetion I @ S: Is U # worth sr ~ it9 Time will tell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-21
Local C. O. P. Up a Tree

The nearer the approaching mayoralty campaign here in Waterbury gets, the more and more the republican side of the electorate find themselves in quandary as to who's who and what's what in the good old ranks of the local g.o.p. To- nights primaries may clarify the fog, then again it may not. That remains to be seen what new bag of tricks Boss Chairman Warren J. Upson has up his sleeve.
 From all accounts if they are any more startling than those he has already d. vulged, good old-line republicans will be running around in circles long before election day rolls around. Or perhaps, better still for want of any coherent plan of campaign upon the part of those self appointed leaders in their party they will throw up the ghost and vote for some thing at least tangible, the return to office of the Hayes administration.
 It must be a sorry day for good old staunch republicans when they conterl- plate such men as alderman George Kingston being read out of his party by bunch of interloperS; it also must be a sorry day for Italian republicans when they likewise see such long-standing party workers as Attorney Frederick Pa lomba and Alderman Perriello forced to walk the plank. And likewise many others too numerous to mention.
 The old-line republican party in Wa terbury is practically thing of the past And what for? F or the satisfaction of few little, self-appointed leaders to vent their spleen on the outstanding record of Mayor Hayes and his administration. It might be summed up in just three words thirst for power-and at any cost or sacrifice of lifelong workers and princi- pies.
 However, we sincerely doubt if the rank and file of honest republicans are going to stand for any such hocus pokus at this or any other election. If they can't win fairly and squarely we doubt if they will be part and parcel to the unheard con- templated subterfuge. And we still doubt further if the outside alliances, presumably the Culhane faction or the Independent Democrats will have any part of the proposed setup. They too at least want fair fight, not such back alley shin-dig as this little group of self imposed republican leaders, the steering committee" proposes. In any event it will be an interesting spectacle and good trick if MT. Upson does it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-21
John Lewis and Pie

John Lewis is bold man. He defied William Green and set off to paddle his own c. l. O. canoe He defied General Motors and Chrysler, and U. s. Steel and all the Little Steels But now he defies a still more deeply-entrenched foe. It is the pie-counter.
 His newest venture is a plan to compete with the A. F. of L. in organizing state, county, and municipal workers.
 Single-handed, and voluntarily relin- gushing the weapons of strike and pie ket-line, he goes forth to battle the pie counter. That is the counter where the jobs are laid out at the turn of every ad- miniStration. That is where every new mayor and governor and board of county commissioners ladies out the juicy slices to faithful political followers.
 Unionization of such employees would put nasty kink into the arms of the boys who wield the pie-knives They won't like it. Lewis now summons a foeman worthy of his steel, more stub- born than Sloan, more touchy than Tay- Tor, more glowering than Girdler. Or maybe Lewis wants just little slice of the pie himself
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-21
A Book a Day
On the "Under Side" in American Society
BY BRUCE CATION

That murky, dog-eat-dog half world with John Mcintyre portray ed so effectively in Steps Going Down" comes unde rthe microscope once more in a new novel by the same author - "Ferment" (Farrar and Rinehart: $2.5O.
 The scene of the story is Phila- delphia; under-the-surface Phila- delphia, so to speak, in a queer realm of labor spies, chiselers, f1xers, union leaders and garment workers. The narrative has to do with two brothers, one an honest, hard-working taxi-driver, the other mean, wise-guy cheater and buffer. The brothers love the same girl, and the novel tells how the second brother loses her to the first.
 But the book is a great deal more than a mere recital of love affair. It is a picture, as its title suggests, of a world in ferment--a strange, murky world where honest men are confused and misguided, where the SchemerS and the tricksters are al- V0yo OAAS dAACdO Ol DdCk, and where the seamy underside og great events is unmistakably dis played.
 So we see the beginnings of an authenic, 100 per cent American Fascist movement here, with pro fessional strike-breaking agencies and labor spies stumbling over each other trying to get in on the ground floor. We find honest union men foreseeing what is com ing and trying blindly to head it of. And we are shown the ordinary toiling masses, ignorant and con- fused, knowing nothing of it, seek ing only to extract, little happiness from a Setup which seems to be stacked against them.
 All in all, "Ferment" is a fine book; a bitter, sardonic book, occa- sionally lighted by human tender ness and honesty, and presenting a dismaying but recognizable picture Of the under side of American so- ciety.