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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-05-06
Youths Attend
State Meeting

Yvette Strader, 1912 E. oath St.,
and Mary Gilbert, 1884 E. 32nd ST.,
Minneapolis, were delegates to the
Eleventh Annual State Youth Con-
ference, sponsored by the Mime
sofa Religious Education Associa-
ton in Paramount, Mimi, April %,
20 and 80. Both were delegates
from st. Peter A. M. E. Church,
which was the only Negro church
represented at the conference.
Miss Strader was the only Negro
delegate to Mayor Leach's Build
Minneapolis Youth Conference held
April % at the Citizens Aid Bldg.
About 200 delegates, all under 81,
represented nearly every Youth
Agency in Minneapolis. The pur-
pose was to achieve unity among
city youth organizations.
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Alpha's Campaign
For Good Citizens
Begins May 9

Mu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
will observe the national frater-
nity's fifth annual campaign for
citizenship during the week of May
9th-15th with a series of radio pro-
grams, talks before young peoples
organizations, and a mass meeting
at st. James church in St. Paul on
Sunday, May 18th, at 8 p. M, to
which the public will be invited.
Since the last edition of this
paper when it was announced that
the mass meeting would be held at
Pilgrim, it was necessary to change
the place of the meeting due to an
other engagement at Pilgrim on
that date. The meeting is definite
ly scheduled for st. James on Sun
day, May 10Th, at 8 p. m.
Two radio broadcasts on the
theme of the campaign will be
heard over WLB on Monday, May
9th, at p, m, and over WMIN on
Wednesday, May II, at 2:15 p. m.
William R. Simms, vice-president
of Mu chapter and chairman of the
Educational committee, has been in
correspondence with Bernard E..
Squires, Omaha Urban League Sec
rotary and member of Alpha, with
an attempt to bring him here as
the principal speaker for the mass
meeting at st. James on May 18th.
"a Voteless People Is a Hopeless
People" is the slogan that charac-
terizes Alpha Phi Alpha's 1888
campaign for citizenship through
out the nation. This campaign is
only one of several phases in edu-
cational work of Alpha fraternity.
Members of Mu chapters Educa-
tional committee are William
Simms, Chairman, C. w. Washing
ton, Henry Thomas, and Elmer
Harris.
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DIR. w. D. Brown
Speaks at Halle
@. Brown Sunday

One of the outstanding features
of the st. Paul Better Health OBJ
servance will be the talk by DR.. w.
D. Brown of Minneapolis at the
Halle Q. Brown Forum, Sunday,
May 8, at 4 p. m. His topic for
the May 8 Forum will be Control
and Eradication of Venereal Dis
cases." ....
Awards in the Negro Health
Poster contest will be announced
at this meeting. There has been
keen competition. Under the chair
manship of Miss Bernettie Cason
the st. Paul contestants have
turned in many excellent posters.
These will be on exhibition at the
Forum.
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Red Perkins IA
Piece Orchestra
Here Monday
Will Play for Dance at St. Paul
Auditorium Monday
Night

Red Perkins and his famous IA.
piece band returning from Holly.
wood will stop off in the Twir
Cities to play for dance at Ram.
sey Hall, st. Paul Auditorium
Monday night, May 9.
The Perkins band featuring lit
tie Walter (Junior) Redd, young
est swing orchestra pianist in
! America, will play at a Minneap-
oils white dance hall Monday
broadcasting from that place over
WTCN that night.
Perkins is bringing, according to
the promoters, the greatest of his
great bands to the Twin Cities this
season. The band is uniformed in
white satin ttxedos and travels in
a streamline sleeper bus.
Headed by the genial maestro
"Red" himself, this band made a
sensational hit ON the Pacific coast.
His entire band are accomplished
soloists and entertainers. Admis-
sion to the Monday night affair
will be 60 cents.
The Perkins band viii be the
first out-of-town orchestra to play
for Twin City entertainment lovers
for several months.
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University Goods
Sue Bridgeman's
Ice Cream Store

Miss Nellie Dodson, 1920 Shell
ing Avenue, and Miss Thelma
Sayles, 1905 South Sixth Street,
have filed suit in Cancellation court
in Minneapolis against Bridge
mans, 621 Hennepin Avenue, re-
Gently opened downtown Mime
apolis ice cream company.
The two girls, University of Min
nesota co-eds, were refused service
at the ice cream concern fountain.
Miss Dodson, a writer, has an ar
ticle in the current issue of Ski
U-Mah, University of Minnesota
humorous monthly,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-05-06
Borg & Powers
Furniture Co.
Offers Bargains

A complete line of home furnish
ings at prices to fit all incomes is
offered at the spring clearance sale
of Borg and Powers Furniture Co.,
Eighth and Cedar Sts., st. Paul.
A free rug pad is offered with
the purchase of rug and liberal
allowances will be made for old gas
ranges on purchases of new table
top Florence ranges.
Anyone taking advantage of
these bargains viii be given free
parking space at the stores free
parking lot on Eighth Street.
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Utility Gives in
to Demand for
Jobs for Negroes

New York, May 4-(CNA)-A
vigorous fight by Harlem organiza-
tons against job discrimination, by
the big public utilities particular
ly, was crowned with tremendous
victory this week with the capitula-
ton of the powerful Consolidated
Edison Electric and Gas Company.
The concern agreed to hire Negro
cashiers and service men.
Announcement of the victory
was made at press conference in
the office of the Rev. A. Clayton
Powell, Jr., pastor of the Abyssin-
ian Baptist Church and chairman
of the Greater New York Co-Ordi-
mating Committee for Employment
of Negroes.
Capitulation of the company
came few hours prior to the ex-
piration of an ultimatum delivered
by a mass meeting attended by
5000 persons. Rev. Powell re-
lated that his committee was called
to conference with Colonel Viii
liam Stillwell, vice president of the
Consolidated Edison Electric and
Gas Company, at which they were
informed that the company was
ready to "employ Negroes in all
branches when the time came for
re-hiring." Meantime, as a pledge
of good faith, the company would
Immediately employ Negroes as
cashiers and service men in its two
Harlem offices, Colonel Stillwell
said. He promised that this would
be put into effect Immediately, with
a two-week training period for the
employees, beginning next Monday.
Rev. Powell said no response had
been received as yet from the New
York Telephone Company, which
was also sent an ultimatum that
it must discontinue its policy of
discrimination in employment
against Negroes or face struggle.
Picketing of the company will
start this week, Rev. Powell said,
if it continued to adhere to its jim
crow policy. A boycott would also
be instituted, with an appeal ito
all people, black and white" to
stop dialing numbers and instead
call the operator to get the num-
Der, thus forcing employment of
more people"
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Charter Feast Celebration at
Duffy's Hall, 498 Selby at cCubin,
Saturday, May 7th, at 8 p. m.
Auspices Local G. 1854, Workers
Alliance of America. Free cash
prizes given away.
First prize, $500. Second, $500,
and third $500.
Good program by Park Enter
tanners. Donation, 1Oc. Bill Her
ron, president; Jerry Caldwell,
secretary.
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Business Men
Hear Employment
Ills of Negro

As part OF its effort to tackle
the unemployment problem in st.
Paul the Urban League had meet
ing of business men in the Y. w.
C. A. on Friday at which time it
was pointed out that SO per cent of
st. Paul Negro families in the city
are either on WPA or direct relief.
In order to portray the ramifca-
tons of the problem of unemploy-
ment among colored people, A. A.
Hickman, General Secretary of
Family Service; DR.. ]. w. Crump,
member of the Urban League
Board; Pierce Atwater, Executive
Secretary of the Community Chest;
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Executive
Secretary of the St. Paul Urban
League; all gave statements on the
situation as they saw it. 80 .
Welsh Presides
M. A. Welsh, President of the
Urban League Board, presided at
the meeting and the following bust
ness men were present:
A. E. Giere, manager, First Ma
tional Bank Building; Floyd Rupp,
Director of Circulation, Webb Pub
fishing Co.; James MAXWELL, Pres
ident of the Standard Laundry
Company; Stuart Cameron, Presi-
dent Valley Iron Works; Clement
F. Scully, President of the Scully
Equipment Company; H. S. Som
ers, of G. Somers & Company;
S. E. Hall, First Vice President of
the Urban League Board; Walter
Mayo, President of Schuneman,
Manufacturers Company; James
Neiger, President of Husch Broth
ers Company, and H. E. Warren of
the Warren Pontiac Automobile
Company. Also present was John
J.. Doyle, Treasurer of the Urban
League Board. ~s..
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., esti-
mated that the cost of supporting
this group in round numbers is
about $39, 900 a month or $46S, 600
year.
Figures Observation-Disclosures
{. Mr.. Atwater pointed out that
these figures did not include the
single men and women or persons
receiving old age assistance. He
stated that the expenditures as
quoted and the number of persons
involved was conservative, but that
even as conservative as these fig
ures are, they are far too high.
Mr.. Hickman, talking on the So
cial implications of the data, point
ed out that if health costs were
added the figure would probably be
considerably higher. He added that
running hand in hand with the
problem of unemployment and re-
lief would be problems of child
neglect and other anti-social condi-
tions which would have a serious
effect on the city in years to come.
He stressed the fact that young
people in the Negro group are dis
couraged by the lack of openings
in private employment. Many Of
them, he said, find it better to leave
the city in search of new oppor-
tunities.
Crump Speaks
DR.. Crump, talking on the Negro
aspect of the situation, declared
that if this condition continued it
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Two Orchestras
To Play for
Walters Dance

Two big bands will play for
Walters Union No. GA cabaret
and breakfast dance at Eagles Hall,
lit S. E. Fourth Street, Mime
apolis, Saturday, May 81, until
early morning, May %.
This affair will be the first break
fast dance in over q year.
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RANDOLPH GOES SOUTH

Washington, D. CT Following
the signing of wage agreement
with the Pullman Company, last
August, Pullman porters in the
South are rapidly joining the
Brotherhood. AS a part of the or
ganization campaign, A. Philip
Randolph, International President,
and M. P. Webster, First Interna-
tional Vice President, will visit
Jacksonville, Tampa and New Or
leans, April, May and June.
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&c MEN MALONE
IN THEFT OF W P
A PAY CHECKS

Mrs. Maude Asbury North Minneapolis
arrested last week by Federal Agents. following investigation
of the disappearance of WPA checks mail
apois Northside.
She being held in St. Paul for the Federal Grand Jury
Asbury been cashing government
checks since December
She arrested after purchasing liquor
and paying for it with government WPA
stolen.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-05-06

Who gave cheerfully and sub
stantially to the $4,000 Meharry
Cancer Clinic fund raised among
graduates of Meharry Medical Col
lege, Nashville, Tenn, recently.
DIR. Slaughter, now a trustee of the
college, settled in Oklahoma in ter
ritorial days and now has extern
sive realty holdings in Oklahoma
City. Oil has also contributed to
his rise to affluence, and he has a
home that is noted throughout the
Southwest.-(Calvin Service.)
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Miss Minnesota to Be
Sought Among Twin
CITY Bathing Beauties

search the popular athing beauty
with several Of the fair from both St. Paul and
Minneapolis already in the
young who selected will be the title of Miss
Minnesota n addition a special prize. ...r r
This its kind sponsored by the
Twin City Triangle Club and will eliminate in big aday picnic
dance and athletic contests at Harriet Island St.
Paul, Monday, June 81
All women 10 years age may register this big
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Earl (Father) Hines and
His Orchestra to Play
For Dance Friday, May u

It Wednesday that ("Father) Hines and
Chicago will play
Coliseum Ballroom Friday night, May q.
great the drawing cards
bands the country will make its first the
Twin Cities to play for dance
Hines world Father is acknowledged of
worlds greatest noted Saving
The SOPHISTICATED
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Pioneer Woman
Makes Gallant
Fight for Life

Mrs. George James of TOT St.
Anthony Avenue is seriously i'll at
her home. Physicians despaired Of
her life. Mrs. Henrietta Bonaparte
Henderson of Cincinnati, Ohio,
granddaughter of Mrs, James, and
Mrs. Waldo Turner of Nashville,
Tennessee, arrived in the city this
week to be at her bedside.
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Removal Notice

The Minneapolis Urban League,
formerly located at 10 South Fourth
Street, has moved to 24O South
Fourth Street, Room C, on second
floor. Phone, Atlantic 6917.
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Revival Begins at
Pilgrim Baptist
Church Sunday
California Minister Coming to Con-
duct Great Revival

| st. Paul is preparing for a great
revival at Pilgrim Baptist Church,
West Central and Grotto, May 8
to 18, inclusive, when the congrega-
tion brings to Minneapolis the Rev.
DR.. ]. P. Hubbard of Oakland,
Calf.
| DR.. Hubbard, pastor of Beth
Eden Baptist Church in the Cali
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fornia city will arrive in st. Paul
Saturday and will preach his open
ing sermon in the two week cam
paign Sunday, May 8, at IL a. m.
The evangelist will preach each
night and at special services : on
Sunday. The Californian is an out
standing evangelist and large
crowds are expected to hear him.
Rev. L. W. Harris, pastor of Pill
grim, is confident that the revival
will be the greatest in St. Paul his
tory.
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MRS. ELIZABETH VAN HOOK
ILL

Mrs. Elizabeth Van Hook, Min
neapohs, formerly active in wom-
ems clubs, is confined to a hospital
suffering from trouble with her
eyes. Mrs. Van Hook lives at e612
Elliot Ave.
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Dance to the sophisticated
rhythm Of Earl Hines and his
Grand Terrace Orchestra. Friday
night, May 27.-Adv.
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You will find that it pays to
trade with YOUR newspapers adj
vertisers.-Advt.
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popularity contest by calling
Bridgeport 1896 or Dupont 1854 in
Minneapolis, or st. Paul, Elkhurst
271s.
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What the world needs is not
battleships, but friendships.
Lauder.
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Crump Speaks

DR.. Crump, talking on the Negro
aspect of the situation, declared
that if this condition continued it
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ALI that ] am, or hope to be,
/ owe my angel mother
Lincoln.
The Washington times., 1938-01-17
TRAILER GIRL
By Vera Broom

Hour after hour they fought Lynn, pleading, begging.
Chuck defiant Lynns strength ebbng She felt she
could not fight any She made coffee and this
time she drank it.
The Washington times., 1938-01-17
CHRISTMAS PARTY

That's probably the most food
that's ever been in this building at
one time" Lynn laughed as she
saw the huge box The cook had
put in cranberry sauce and bags
of fruit.
When Terry and Lynn came
back into the living room. he took
her hand:
"Can I give you your ring,
Lynn? For ChriStmaS?"
Her eyes were black as she
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
NUMBER FROM SMYRNA MOTOR
TO DENTON TO SEE PRESIDENT

Quite number from Smyrna
Clayton and vicinities motored over
to Denton, Md, on Labor Day to
see and hear President Roosevelt
and to join the crowd from all over
the Delmarva Peninsula who gath
cred there to hear him. The Presi-
dent was accompanied by Post
master-General Farley, Candidate
Lewis and others. In his speech
Mr.. Roosevelt adroitly denounced
Senator Tydings, by implications,
as a conservative and praised by
name his opponent in Maryland's
Democratic Senatorial primary
next Monday, Representative David
j. Lewis. AS leader of the Demo-
cratic party, he said, II propose to
try to keep it liberal" Tydings,
who has opposed some New Deal
legislation, recently was labeled by
the President as a "betrayer" of
the Administration. Lewis has
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
KENT POULTRY
TO BE IMPROVED
Operators and Owners Strive
to Stamp Out PullOrum
Disease i'm County
COOPERATION BY STATE

During the coming fall and win
ter months the extension service of
the University of Delaware in CO.
operation with the State Board of
Agriculture will continue the state
wide poultry improvement program
for the prevention and control of
pullorum disease among those
fiocks which are producing eggs
for Matching purposes. This pro-
gram in Kent county was start
ed in July with a most inter
esting and profitable meeting of
flock owners at the MacLucas
hatchery in Smyrna and another
meeting is being planned for the
evening of September 13 to discuss
the selection of breeding stock. In
the meantime the extension poul-
trymen and the county agent have
considered the possibilities of ex-
tending this poultry improvement
project to the other hatcheries and
flock owners throughout the coun-
ty. In conducting this pro-
gram the two state agricultur-
al departments have solicited
the cooperation of all hatch
cry operators and those flock own
Continued on Page Five)
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08

campaigned as a 100 per cent.
New Dealer" Lewis accompanied
the President on his automobile
tour of the Eastern Shore and
everywhere placards were display
ed showing the President was in a
Tydings stronghold. Mr.. Roosevelt
talked half an hour at Denton on
what he called American prin-
ciples of government" Not once
did he utter Tydings' name, but his
hearers could not fail to identify
the Senator as the target of sever
al verbal shafts. With emphasis of
voice and gesture, Mr.. Roosevelt
brought out that the Democratic
party must remain liberal to re-
main alive, and that liberalism in
the party serves the interests of all
Americans. That he has a right
to speak out for liberalism in any
community, county or State in the
CONTINUED on Page Five)
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
REFLECT
RAINY SPELL
All Truck Crops More OF Less
Seriously Injured by the
July Weather
July Rainy Spell

All truck crops in Delaware and
Maryland suffered more or less
seriously from excessive rains the
last half of July, when the ground
and plants were soaked continu-
ousIy and sunshine was far below
normal This statement was con
tanned in the recent Crop Report
for Maryland and Delaware, made
by the Office of the Federal Agri-
cultural Statistician for the two
states at College Park, Md. The
report points out that the lima
bean yield, as of August /. was not
expected to be as good as last year
and that the cantaloupe crop will
reflect the excessive moisture.
Snap beans for canning were ex-
ceeding the demand at the time of
the report. The tomato crop was
said to have been damaged by ex-
cess rainfall to greater extent
than any other of the truck crops,
although the cucumber crop was
cut short by the rains Watermel-
ons brought some light into the
gloom, however, with the largest
crop on record expected. Accord
ing to the report, Delaware and
Maryland producers may expect a
crop of approximately 1884 900
melons. Prospects for large ap-
pie crop are not SO good as last
year, when one of the largest crops
on record was harvested. For Del
aware, the crop is expected to total
approximately 1,635,000 bushels as
compared to last years 2,750,O00
bushels, while Maryland's 1888
crop expectations are likewise
smaller with an estimated yield
this year of 2,194,0OO bushels as
compared to 2,847,OOO bushels in
1887. The smaller crop this year
is expected to eliminate some of
the surplus experienced by apple
growers last year.
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
.POULTRYMEN
SEE BIG PLANTS
Get New Ideas on Egg Pro
ductiOn and Raising BrOil-
ers for Market
TAKE 135 MILE TOUR

New ideas for poultrymen few
thick and fast in Delaware last
week when approximately $50 egg
producers. farm flock owners. and
broilermen toured more than 135
miles visiting top notch poultry es-
Establishments in various parts Of
the state under the leadership of
H. L. Richardson, Extension PouI-
tryman at the University Of Della
ware. Starting Tuesday morning
at the H. S. Palmer farm. near
Glasgow, the group first saw 1900
New Hampshire Reds producing
cross-bred Matching eggs Mr.
Palmer, former Delaware Exten-
sion Poultryman. conducted the
group through MS establishment
and pointed out innovations while
answering questions raised by the
visiting pOultrymen. From the
Palmer farm, the group went to
the Leonard Fagerlund Breeder
Hatchery and Commercial White
Leghorn farm. near Newark. where
5000 layers We're on a production
basis. There they inspected a mod
ern egg cellar with special cooling
apparatus and the ranges for
young stock After a basket lunch
at the University Of Delaware and
a short inspection trip through the
University Poultry Plant, the tour
party proceeded to the Richardson
and Robbins Cannery. Dover, where
pproximately 10000 pounds Of
chicken are canned every day. The
last stop Tuesday was at the VII
liam Haas broiler farm, east of Dc
yer. At this farm the group saw
three brooding houses which had a
total capacity Of $4,000 birds and
fattening pens with a capacity of
"a 900 broilers. Wednesday morn
ing, the tour party assembled at
the Harold Short Commercial
White Egg Establishment near
Milford, where they inspected the
egg room and cooling equipment
L uc next sup w WCOuSSOdy WdS
made at the Henlopen Game
Farms, near Milton, where about
1000 pheasants and 5000 quail are
being raised to sell to State Game
Commissions and Game Preserva-
tion Organizations to be used as
breeders for propogating game A
basket lunch was scheduled at
Bethany Beach, from where the
group proceeded to Herman Longs
broiler plant near Ocean View At
this plant there were $4,000 broil-
ers. From the Long farm the
group went to the Eagle Poultry
Plant, Frankfort, where broilers
are dressed and packed for trans
portation to market. This plant
has capacity of $50 birds per
hour. The final stop was made at
the Norval Pepper Turkey Farm,
near Seaford, where there were l.
500 bronze turkeys being prepared
for the fall market.
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
CLUBS
WEEKLY MEET
E. r. Dick, President of Club
of 1S4th District Meet at
Camden, New Jersey
MEETING OF OFFICERS

Erwin r. Dick. president of the
Smyrna Rotary Club, gave a re
port on his attendance at the Pres
idents and Secretaries Assembly
of all the clubs in the 184th dis
trict in Camden, New Jersey. The
assembly is POSTGRADUATE
course for the new presidents and
secretaries and at this assembly a
resume of the International Con-
vention in San Francisco June 1-8
was given The various commit
tees which comprise the machin-
cry of a Rotary Club were set up
and the actual work was outlined
and described in order to have a
club function properly. Several
outstanding speakers were in at
tendance and addressed the assem-
bly,. The Rotary District Confer
ence will be held in Atlantic City
in April, 1889.