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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Chicago Youth
Leader Here on
Friday, March 81

Miss Pauline Redmond, director
of youth activities Of the Chicago
Urban League and nationally
known youth leader, will be the fea-
tured speaker at the opening mass
meeting of the City-wide Youth
Conference on Job Opportunities,
Friday, March 81, at 8 pm. at Pill
grim Baptist church.
Speaking on "Negro Youth To-
day." Miss Redmond will discuss
the economic problems which Ne
gro young people face all over the
country and what they are doing
about them. A graduate Of the Uni
versity of Chicago, Miss Redmond
has also received her Masters de-
gree from the University of Pitts
burgh.
Samuel Reed, senior student at
the University Of Minnesota, will
also speak, giving a picture of the
problems which st. Paul youth face
and suggesting methods Of attack
ing them.
The Grace Notes will render spe-
cial music. Miss M. Odelle Harris,
chairman of the Youth Committee
of the st. Paul Urban League, will
preside.
Mrs. Henrietta Henderson, chair
man of the program committee of
the conference, announced this
week that on Saturday morning,
April 1, at $3.50 am, registration
of young people who will attend
the conference will take place at
the Halle Q. Brown Community
House, where the remaining ses-
sions of the conference will be held.
General assembly of all dele
gates, discussion group leaders and
resource persons will be held at 10
am. promptly. Discussion groups
will be held from 1880 am. to IL
noon, and from 2 to 4:S0 pm.
The Conference Vocational party
will commence at 5 PM, climaxed
by a Youth Fellowship dinner at
pm. The dinner tickets are %
cents, Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.,
executive secretary Of the st. Paul
Urban League, will be the featured
speaker at this closing meeting of
the conference.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
MpIs. N. A. A.C.P.
Member Drive
in Full Swing

At the first meeting of the cap
tains and workers in the N.A.A.C.P
membership drive being launched
in an effort to revive the Mime.
apolis branch, $15 was reported
after only three days work.
Captains in this campaign arr
Mrs. Tom Carroll, Mrs. w. D
Brown, Mrs. Margaret Combs, Mrs
Mary Short, Mrs. Nettie Shepard
Mrs. Mary Crump, Mrs. Mildred
Strader and Mrs. Bruce Lucas
Workers on the various teams are
Mrs. Joseph Levy, Mrs. B. S. Smith
Mrs. Ethel Evans, Mrs. G. W.
Granger, Mrs. Effie Posey, Mrs
Virgie Hughes, Mrs. Leola Cary
Mrs. Hazel Curry, Miss Mildred
Shull, Martin Brown, Mrs. De Vel.
ma Newman, Mrs. Jessie Sheppard
Major Culberson, Mrs. Edna Rus
sell, Mrs. John Burrell, Miss Har-
riet Lane, Mrs. Lucille Miller, Miss
Helen Waters, Mrs. Helen Jackson
Mrs. Anna Rice, Miss Allie Glenn
Mr.. Herbert Howell, Mrs. Glorine
Fassett, Mrs. Emma Smith, Mrs
Bertha Johnson, Mrs. H. w. Bolts
Adolphus ]. Alsbrook, Jr., Mrs
Helen Morris, Miss Ethel Saunders
Mrs. Bessie Harris, Mrs. Dorice
Ward, Roy Hatcher, Mrs. M. Polk
Tom Stovall, Mrs. Bura Hawkins,
Mrs. Josephine Chambers, r. A
Skinner, Mrs. Frances Curtis and
Mrs. Helen Smith.
To the captains reporting the
largest sum of money over $50 q
cash prize Of $40 will be awarded.
Second prize is S.. Prizes for work
ers bringing in the largest sum
over $40 is So first and $3.50 Sec
ond.
These enthusiastic workers and
captains have been inspired by the
fine response and cooperation Of
many interested citizens.
They are working hard to make
the goal, set at 200 memberships.
The next meeting for the reports
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
LABOR UNION OFFICIALS TO
SPEAK AT URBAN LEAGUE
VOCATIONAL MEETING

The closing meeting of the vo-
cational Opportunity Week Cam
paign, sponsored by the Urban
League, will be held Sunday, March
26, 4 p. m, Phyllis Wheatley
House. Prominent officials Of both
A. F. of L. and CLIO labor unions
will discuss the policies and prac-
tises Of their organizations toward
Negro membership.
Among those who have been in
vited to participate on the program
are Robert Kelley, Business Agent,
Miscellaneous Workers Union, A.
F. Of L.; Hilyard Smith, CLIO or
ganizer; Frank Alsop, Director Of
Packing House Workers Organic
ing Committee, and John Boscoe,
President, Central Labor Union,
Minneapolis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Finley Wilson Sees
Stassen as Presidential
Possibility in Year 1914

fraternal leader also paid his re-
spects to Mayor Geo. E. Leach of
Minneapolis.
At the celebration held last
Thursday night Wilson thrilled the
packed and jammed Elks Rest with
speech made in the characteristic
Finley Wilson style.
A committee named by Exalted
Ruler Major Culberson was COM
plimented on the excellent enter
tainment and handling of the grand
exalted rulers visit to Minnesota.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

This is the bill which will be vot-
ed upon in the Minnesota state SEN
ate in the next few days.
Friday a similar house bill will
be discussed before the insurance
committee of the house at 10 am
Senator B. G. Novak introduced the
bill which is known as Senate File
No. 843.
The house bill is known as File
1854.
Citizens are urged to attend the
house insurance committee public
hearing Friday and to write Their
legislators requesting support Of
the bill.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Death Takes
Mrs. Utley st.
Paul Pioneer
MEDORA UTLEY DIES

Mrs. Medora Utley, 795 Edmund
St., died Friday, March II, at Be-
thesda Hospital, after an illness
of about four days.
Born in Fayetteville, North Caro-
lima, Mrs. Utley came to St. Paul
in 1901. She was the wife of the
late w. ]. Utley, who was a bust
ness man in the st. Paul Loop for
a number of years. Mr.. Utley died
October 8, 1887. With her husband,
she was one of the founders OF
st. Philips Episcopal Church, Au-
rora and Mackubin Streets.
Survivors include two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Henry G. johnson and
Mrs. Lyell Lewis of st. Paul; elev-
en- grandchildren, and two great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Mon
day, March 20, at 2 p. m, from the
Neal Funeral Home, Inc, 525 Ron
do St., with the Rev. John Howard
Thompson, rector of st. Thomas
Episcopal Church in Minneapolis,
officiating. Musical selections were
rendered by St. Philips Episcopal
Church Choir.
Interment in Oakland Cemetery,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

Governor Harold Stassen, Mime
sota's young chief executive, is def
initely a presidential possibility,
J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted
ruler of the Elks, newspaper pub
Usher and staunch Republican lead
er, predicted last week.
Wilson, in the Twin Cities to par
ticipate in the burning of the Min
neapolis Elks mortgage, visited at
the state capitol with Governor
Stassen.
The distinguished Washington
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Easter buds i. =.

Most thrifty folks purchase their
spring "duds" (clOthes) during the
period from now until Saturday
before Easter Sunday. This week
and the weeks to come, merchants
will offer through the ad columns
Of this paper the very best values
in wearing apparel from shoes on
up to Easter bonnets and hats. See
those merchants who advertise in
your paper first. We know you will
be satisfied.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

liver the address. Meridel LeSuer,
acknowledgement writer, will ad-
dress the dinner audience at 6
o'clock. Dinner, only, will be soc.
Registration fees for delegates
from all clubs and organizations
will be 4Oc-this includes dinner.
The Council would like to have as
many delegates from your club as
possible to lend your support and
cooperation to help make this insti-
tute a bigger success than last
year.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Working Girls
Institute Next
Thursday, Mar. 30
FATHER GILLIGAN TO sPEAi

The Working Girls Council of
Phyllis Wheatley House will hold
its second annual Institute on
March 80 at Phyllis Wheatley
House. Registrations for delegates
and observers will begin at IL
o'clock noon, Thursday. The after
noon session will be spent in dis
cussion groups and seminars, on in
ternational affairs, labor, industry
and health, conducted by Leonard
Vogland, Minneapolis Labor School;
DR.. W. D. Brown, and John w.
Thomas.
At the 8 o'clock evening session
Father Francis Gilligan, professor
of the st. Paul Seminary, will de-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
WITH LUNT AND FoNTANNE

Travelling with Alfred Lunt and
Lynn Fontanne, the current attrac-
ton at the st. Paul Auditorium, is
Mrs. Alma Yuen Of New York City.
Mrs. Yuen resided at the Patter-
sons, s64 st. Anthony Ave., dur
ing her short stay.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
A Whirl at the
World

tional Hall for future lectures by
his group, was the announcement
of Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette as
his answer to the ban on Marian
Anderson by the Washington D,
A. r.
Two hundred fifty native Afri-
cans will be delegates to the 1910
Worlds Sunday School convention
to convene at Durham, South Afri-
ca. This is the first time native
Africans will be received as dele
gates to this assembly.
Jimcrowed while attending 9
meeting to promote goodwill
among the peoples of the world
Negro citizens of Louisville, KY.
protested this lack of consistency
Says P. o. Sweeny, president of the
Louisville Branch of the N.A.A.C.P.l
mo doubt Hitler would have fol-
lowed some such procedure as this,
and while we are protesting what
is happening in other parts of the
world, right here in our own city is
glazing evidence Of intolerance"
-
In a report to the Legislature of
the state of Oklahoma, a subcom-
mittee fiayed the conditions Of GER
tain school buildings set aside for
the use of Negro pupils. The COM
mittee said the girls dormitory was
not fitted to house "mules:"
Visitors from Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama,
and the District of Columbia were
guests of the Founders Day cere-
monies of the Southern University
of Louisiana.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife OF
the President Of the United States,
a special guest of honor, paid high
tribute to the initiative and accom-
plishments of the institution that
has within the short space Of 25
years increased its annual income
from $4,000 to more than a mil
lion dollars.
Southern University has an "A'
rating among the colleges of the
Association of Colleges and Second
airy Schools.
Among those who got their start
on Major Bowes' radio program
and are now making good are: DIR.
Savage and his Five Pork Chops,
Slim Gaylord and Leroy Stewart,
Clyde Barry, Helen Humes with
Count Basic and his Orchestra, Bob
Parish, Rhea Parada, Mary Perry,
James Ballentine Smith, a 10-year-
old youngster, and Edna Living
ston, who made a hit with her own
Interpretation of "Can't You, Won't
You Hurry Home 2"
Chicago flyers are forming an
organization among flying mer
here which they hope will become
the nucleus of National Associa.
ton. The new organization is
named the National Airmen's AS
ISOLATION and will hold its nrst ma.
tional meet in Chicago this coming
August.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
president for five years.

president for five years.
FATHER BRADY SPEAKS
Rev. William o. Brady, rector of
St. Paul Seminary, gave the prin-
cipal address to the annual banquet
gathering.
Chas. W. Washington, executive
secretary, gave a summary Of the
years work. Other officers elected
were W. M. Smith, vice-president;
Macbeth Hurd Paige, secretary, and
Lloyd p. Johnson, treasurer.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Maurice McGavOck
Weds Daughter of
Rich Californian

Word was received in st. Paul of
the marriage late last month in
Los Angeles Of Maurice McGavock,
former st. Paul youth, to Eloise
Nickerson. She is the daughter of
VIM. Nickerson, Jr., one of the
wealthiest citizens in Los Angeles
and president Of the Golden State
Mutual Insurance Co.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Lye Victims
Condition Is
Still Poor
FATS" DENTON is NOT I'M.
PROVED-WOMAN HELD

William (''Fats"O Denton, So
Minneapolis, who was severely
burned last week by I've thrown by
Mrs. Daisy White, is still in poor
condition.
General hospital attaches have
almost given up hope of saving his
eyesight.
Mrs. White is still being held by
police awaiting developments in the
stricken mans condition.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24


: Masons and chairman of the st.
Paul Citizens Committee. The Rev.
Father Gilligan declared that Min
nesota is a northern state in which
Negroes have the least of economic
opportunity, and depriving them of
liability insurance necessary for
their work in some cases is a fur
Their bar to their chances of earning
living.
Sustained hand clapping came
from the audience for Mr.. Ransom
when he stated that he was a war
veteran and seven years after re-
turning from the front persons
who had been sent to fight could
secure liability insurance while he
could not because he was a Negro.
Turner and Erwin Pointed Out
Hammond Turner and J. Louis
Erwin, attorneys, pointed out cases
in which Negroes had been denied
insurance for their cars for racial
company for nine years and that he
had been dropped although he
never had an accident.
o. C. Hall testified that, although
companies contend that the reason
they do not sell to Negroes is be-
cause members of this race cannot
get fair deal in courts when they
are involved in accidents, he knew
several judges who denied that this
allegation has any foundation in
fact.
Mrs. Rose L. Davis, 387 st. AL
bans street, stated that she carried
Insurance on her automobile since
1919 but lately she has been having
considerable trouble in getting COW
erage for racial reasons.
Mrs. Mitchell Speaks
Representing the st. Paul branch
of the N.A.A.C.P., Mrs. Juanita
Mitchell told the committee that
the denial of insurance to Negroes
was attracting national attention
and that justice required some rem
edy.
W. B. Baines, coal dealer, told of
how he is required to carry liability
insurance under a city council or
dinance in st. Paul, but the fact
that companies discriminate pre-
vents him from getting this insur-
ance.
Cecil E. Newman, editor of the
Minneapolis Spokesman and st.
Paul Recorder, testified that a
number of colored persons in the
trash-hauling business in the Mill
City have been arrested for not
having insurance as required. They
could not get this insurance, he
said, because of their race.
Clarence NJ. Mitchell, Jr., execu-
tive secretary of the st. Paul Ur-
ban League, pointed out that this
form of discrimination first came to
his attention when a truck owner
was about to lose a contract be-
cause he could not obtain insurance
required under the terms of his
agreement. The league secretary
submitted a memorandum on IL
cases of discrimination to the COM
mittee.
Insurance companies failed to
state any opposition to the bill al
though George Wells, life insur-
ance lawyer, told the committee
that he had heard of one man who
wanted to make a statement but
could not be present because of ILL
ness.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

PEPSI COLA SALES INCREASE
According to officials Of the
Pepsi Cola Co. in this trade, sales
of that popular beverage have in
creased by a large percentage over
1888.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
Help Pass This
Law!
A BILL

n DILL
FOR AN ACT TO PROHIBIT DIS
ELIMINATION BY INSUR-
ANCE COMPANIES AND PRO-
VIDING PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATION THEREOF.
BE 1T ENACTED BY THE LEG
STATURE OF THE STATE OF
MINNESOTA:
Section 1. No insurance company
or it's agent shall refuse to issue q
policy of insurance or make any
discrimination in the acceptance of
risks, in rates, premiums, dividends
or benefits of any kind, or by way
of rebate between persons of the
same class, nor on account of race,
and upon request of any person
whose application for insurance has
been rejected, the company shall
furnish him in writing the reasons
therefor and that such rejection
was not for any racial cause. Every
company or agent violating any of
the foregoing provisions shall be
fined not less than 500 nor more
than $500 and every officer, agent
or solicitor violating the same shall
be guilty of a gross misdemeanOr
and the commissioner of insurance
shall revoke the license of such
company and its agents for such
violation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

Of the Minneapolis group will be
held Friday (today) at the Mime
sota-Iowa Club at 8 pm.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

who will direct the new 50-voice
choir of st. Peters A.M.E. church
in a beautiful Easter cantata, ''The
Risen King" to be presented at the
church on Palm Sunday afternoon,
April 2, at pm.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
No Discrimination Law
Passage Recommended by
Insurance Committee
SENATORS HEAR CITIZENS TELL OF DISCRIMINATE
INSURANCE COMPANIES

With dissenting votes members
ee approved the proposed law end discrimination
Friday following testimony the Minnesota
which filled with two hundred interested persons
On motion by Senator Daniel Fed thirty
apOs secondng
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

Regular Features Are "Inquisitive
SAP and w. M. Smiths Here and
There
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

Chicken dinner SOC = Working
Girls Council Institute March 80 at
Wheatley HOuse.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

st. Thomas Easter Parade,
KnickerbOcker Hall, April TO-
Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24

Cooking SchOOl-DOOr prizes-2
o'clock. Working Girls Institute,
Phyllis Wheatley HOuse.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
INSURANCE BILL GETS COMMITTEE OK.

president.
Mr.. Harris succeeds Clarence r.
Clancy, banker, who has served as
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
TALKING

Those who have few affairs to
attend are great speakers. The less
men think, the more they talk
Montesquieu.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-24
TINE

The velocity with which time flies
is infinite, as is most apparent to
those who look back.-Seneca.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-13
Insurance Association
Begins Drive for
More Collections

NE WORLEANS, La. --(C)--.ol
October End the nearly 5000 EN-
ployees and officials of the forty
four member companies Of the Ma
tional Negro Insurance Association
began concerted drive to pile az
record in insurance collections
during the month of October which
the Association for the past three
years has observed as National Ne
gro Collection Month. AS usual the
National Negro Insurance Associa-
ton IS this year offering an engrav-
ed trophy to the company having the
highest percentage in Industrial
and Ordinary collections. The week
of October 23rd has been designated
at the Annual Message of Life IN
surance week. 1t will be abserved
by all of the insurance companies in
the United States.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-13

VIENNA, Ill.-The rise of RepuD-
ican sentiment throughout the
country will not be checked by the
war crisis, Senator Robert A. Taft
declared today before thousands at
fonr-state Republican rasy at
Cienna, Illinois, sponsored by Re-:
publican leaders Of Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri. and Kentucky.
'srhe peoIe of this country are
tremendously interested in the war
problems" the Ohio Senator said.
"but / do not think they are going
to let any war issues change their
fixed opinion that the New Deal do
mestic policies are failure. If eco-
nomic conditions are improved by
the artificial stimulus of war, It wi |
still be perfectly clear that they did
not improve through any New Deal
wisdom. War cannot conceal the
dangers and cdlapse Of New Deal
policies
1T is more important than ever
before for the Republicans to point
out the dangers Of New Deal falla-
cies and to offer their own construc-
tive alternative policies. While the
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-13

case of threatened war. We have
been warned by Mr.. Johnson, the
Assistant Secretary Of War, that
private business would be regulated
in every detail by the government.
Consumption Of wealth seems rea-
sonable accompaniment Of conscrip-
tisn of men, But il carried out in
| a New Deal spirit, it will result in
the complete sociatization Of all pro-
perty.
1--WE went far down that road in
the World War. BY an earnest eff
fort, normal conditions were restor-
ed after the war. But / doubt
whether. we would ever see again
reas local self government, in the
United States, or real operation Of
private enterprise. We might re-
tain forms Of democracy, but we will
be likely to find ourselves with an
absolutely arbitrary government in
Washington, and q plebiscite every
four years be determine who sha.l
control it.
II believe we will do the cause
Of democracy much more good if we
maintain our neutrality, and show
that great nation can get through
q crisis Of this kind without aband-
oning principles. We cannot inter-
fere with other forms Of govern
ment. We can only assist democra-
cy by showing the peoples Of the
Void that 1t is more likely to bring
peace and happiness to It's citizens
than any other form Of government,
In that manner it spread all over the
world in the nineteenth century and
will triumph again,
Senator Taft declared himself In
favor Of a strict cash and carry neu-
trality policy, applied to all ex-
ports, as more likely to keep us out
Of war than any other proposal which
has been made. 1--WE became in
volvcd in the World War;" he said,
because the American people were
outraged at the sinking of Ameri-
can ships and the drowning Of
American citizens The Senator
favors exclusion of all American
ships from the war zone, no matter
what they are carrying, and strict
ban on the issuance Of credit SO that
American citizens will not become A.
nancially interested in the outcome
Of the war.
II do not believe any position OF
the Republican Party should be die