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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23

ODwyer says the gang, killed on a cOntractural basis for such crim- inal master minds as Lucky Luc- iano" imprisoned Manhattan vice king. and Lous Depke) Buchalter and Jacob CGurrah) Shapiro, racket overlordS.
 One of the syndicate's victims was shot to death by mistake" He was Irving Penn, 42-year-old music pub fishing executive. He lived in the same neighborhood with, and vague ly resembled, Philip Orlofsky, who
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23
RAINED OUT

PUEBLO, Col, April 23.-Fire- men called to rescue a monkey perched 65 feet high in a tree dis covered the available ladders wouldn't reach. So they dragged out their firehose and simulated rainstorm. Monkeys don't like rain and this one had sense enough to come in out of the storm. He climbed down into the arms of a waiting fire daddy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23
GILBERT lEASES pAF
 (ANNERY AT 0R(A

J. N. Gilbert, well-known Alaska canneryman, is passenger aboard the Alaska enroute to the West ward where he has leased the Pa cific American Fisheries cannery at Orca.
 In operating Orca this summer, Gilbert is returning 10 the can- nery where he spent his first six years in the salmon business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23
BARAN0F'S TRIP
 NOW SCHEDULED

The Baranof. scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow, will call at the following ports northbound, in order as listed:
 Ketchikan, Juneau, Shepard Point, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Port Gra- ham.
 Southbound, the steamer will re- turn direct from Port Graham to Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23

L. H. Williams was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital today and is receiving medical attention.
 Tom Sanford of Douglas was re- admitted to St. Anns Hospital last evening He is receiving medical care.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23

After receiving medical attention, Mrs c. Quinto was dismissed from St. Ann's Hospital today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23

Fred Brandes was a medical dis missal today from St. Anns Hos pital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23
HOSPITAL NOTES

Mrs. Malcolm Grainey was ad- mitted to St. Ann's Hospital this morning for medical care.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23

Henry Olson was dismissed to- day from medical care at St. Ann's Hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23
ATTENTION REBEKAHs,

Regular meeting. Wednesday April 4, pm. Past Noble Grand Night. Social.
 (Signed CATHERINE HALM. adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23

The worlds best Panama hats come from Ecuador, not Panama.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-23
JOHN MCCORMICK

For Representative-Democratic Ticket. Primary April 30, 1940. adv
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
Letters to the Editor :.

to meet THIS requirement, the term
inal companies devised the 10c per
bag system, thereby passing on to
the passengers the responsibility of
paying red-cap wages.
According to this system the
passenger is charged 10c for each
bag carried by a red-cap. This fee
is turned in to the company out of
which the red-cap is paid the re-
quired $2.40 per day. Any surplus
remaining after the red-cap's
wages are deducted is profit for the
company. The entire system is not
only an unfair imposition on the
travelling public but is also a posi-
tive nuisance to both passenger
and red-cap.
Needless to say the red-caps
welcomed the establishment of a
minimum wage under the Wages
and Hours law but it is apparent
that this new system will seriously
curtail the earning power of such
employees since it practically out
laws tips-upon which Tin spite Of
the guaranteed minimum wagel
the red-caps must depend in order
to earn a livelihood.
The case of Stopher VS.. Cincin-
natl Union Terminal Company,
Docket number 28495, will test the
legality of this 10c per bag system.
A protest against this system and
condemnation of it by the travel
ing public will have an immeasur-
able effect on the outcome. There
fore, we strongly urge all labor
minded organizations and individ-
uals to write the Interstate Com
merce Commission, Washington, D.
c., Immediately, protesting the I'M
fairness of this system. A victory
in this case is a victory for every
laboring man. We need your sup
port. When writing please specify
the case and the docket number.
I. M. DORSEY, President,
Local 1905, United Transport Serv.
ice Employees of America.
August 81, 1910
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
MT. OLIvET BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. C. B. Wheeler, Pastor

The Union services being held
with the Camphor M. E. and the
Mt. Olivet Baptist churches for the
past two months came to a close
last Sunday evening. The Rev. Mer-
rill Nelson, of Delaware, Ohio, de-
liyered the closing message. The
pastors of both churches voiced
their regret for having to close
these meetings. We feel that much
good has been done and much
more will be accomplished when
these services are resumed in the
coming year. The pastor, Rev.
Wheeler, urges all members to at
tend church meeting Friday night.
Pastor Wheeler will leave Monday
night for the National Baptist Con-
vention, Inc, which convenes in
Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept.
3rd. Miss Edith Massie, President
of the Red Circle Girls of the Four
States Convention, will give her
report during the B. T. U. hour
next Sunday, Sept. LIST. The ban
quet plans are all made for attend
ing to spend an enjoyable evening.
The committee believes and has
been working on the assumption
that action speaks louder than
words and this will be the time
for the membership to prove how
much they love the church. The
prices range from two dollars to
fifty cents per plate. The sacrifice
table will cost $500 and every Of
ficer of the church has been asked
to meet the pastor there. The Love
table calls for $1.OO and the reg
ular banquet price is so cents
Put on the finest you have, wom-
en-, and try for the prize as the
best dressed woman at the ban
quet And men, you put on your
best and come along with the wife
and children to this banquet. Re-
member it's Monday night at 8,
Sept. End, Mt. Olivet Baptist
Church.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30

Sherlock Holiness the fconal creation of Arthur Doyle
MORE persistent hunting down criminals than the Ae
Negro DEMOCRACY in the U. S. A.
Sherlock Holmes lost time locating the object of his search
black Sherlock patiently
of democracy for THREE CENTURIES
States and the Federal led the Negro believe that his
search for democracy would soon be REWARDED.
In pursuit of his QUARRY the modern Sherlock Holmes
searched the United States from Maine Puget Sound from Lake
Superior to the Gulf of Mexico without definite results.
Night and day. and he has his QUEST
regardless of weather, obstacles or distance
There were numerous Clues but none of them amounted to
much.
There REFERENCE to democracy in the school TEXT
BOOKS.
There much TALK of democracy the RADIO
Editorials in DAILY NEWSPAPERS extoled
talked of with familiarity that indicated knowledge
whereabouts.
Platform speakers lost occasion give their auditors
preston that democracy anywhere and EVERYWHERE
Countless books WRITTEN about giving
location but when arrived painting
the DEMOCRACY WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
On occasion this colored seu has
democracy was INVISIBLE to of his and therefore all
Negroes should be
white citizens seemed have difficulty finding democracy
Even when they democracy modern Sherlock
Holmes couldn't see it, even with magniying glass;
Once he heard that democracy POLITICS. but
hreeourths of his people told him wasn't
DOUBTFUL
Despang direction he turned to INDUS
TRY and ORGANIZED LABOR would be re-
warded.
The American set-up revealed FEW if any clues
Next he carefully American TRANSFORMATION vsten
and although ne found discrimination CROWs found
little trace of democracy
His search revealed
democracy but little else and they needed
Once there that since the demo-
craca and supported he MIGHT democracy
in them but his search there
In rapid succession modern Sherlock visited the
tauants hotels tourist
and other recreatonal and public Places hoping SLIP UP ON
MOCRACY and be able to sigh "At Last" was cold
Hearing of POSSIBILITY that democracy might be hiding in
the churches ne went to numerous religious edfe but usually
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
Measuring Lights Speed
Is Basic Scientific Study

Next to the final week of your va
cation the fastest moving thing in
the known universe is light, which
has velocity ir round numbers Of
1876, ZOO miles a second.
Scientists measured the speed Of
light about $50 years ago, but they
keep on measuring it even today be-
cause improvements in technique
keep on making it possible to do
more exacting job of measuring.
Science has good reasons for want
ing to know the speed of light within
the precision Of a gnat's eyebrow.
1t is the very cornerstone Of no end
Of basic, practical researches in 9TH
er branches of science.
The more precisely the scientists
refine their experimental determina-
tons Of the velocity of light the
more trouble they get themselves
into. For it begins to appear that
possibly light itself has no fixed We
locity.
The whole perplexing question has
been reviewed in Scientific Ameri-
can by Douglas w. F. Mayer, a
physicist. Twelve years ago a Lon
don scientist named Gheury de Bray
assembled all the results of all the
determinations Of lights velocity
previously made, and pointed out
that these indicated that every year
light seemed to move about three
miles second slower. When deal
ing with such small amounts as
only three miles in 10000 it is ex-
tremely difficult to make sure that
the changes noted were not due
merely to imperceptible variations
in the method of measurement.
Therefore, the question hangs fire
today-with the feeling among sci
entists that if future tests substan-
tate the suspicion that the speed Of
light, long supposed to be the most
fixed thing in the whole universe, is
not absolutely fixed, they will once
more have to start all over again
and revise a large part of science.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30

ating as a fleet, and every two
weeks one of the three vessels re-
turned to port bringing the COM
bined oyster haul. A different ves-
sci alternated each trip but the boy
was always put to work on one of
the other ships when it was the
Thomas w. Moore's turn to return
to port.
During the entire five months
period, the boys mother had no
knowledge of her sons where
abouts, and the frame of her mind
may be imagined. When he did re-
turn, he was so frost bitten and
sick that it required many months
of nursing to restore him to health.
When discharged, the boy was
given 1878 as the balance of his
earnings. He was supposed to re-
ceive salary Of $500 per month.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
Iroquois Indian Tribe
Used Commun: st Rule

The American Indian didn't have
the name for 1t, but he was a Com
munist just the same, it seems.
Moreover, even under administra-
ton Of the federal government, he
still is to q certain extent.
The Rev. DR.. Philip H. Riegel Of
Cazenovia Junior college, Buffalo.
N. Y, authority on Indian history
and customs, reveals that he has
found ample evidence that commu-
nism thrived on this continent long
before the Russians thought Of boil
shevism.
According to DR.. Riegel, the Iro-
quois tribes were operating their
communistic form Of government
successfully in what is now New
York state when whites reached
these shores.
''The Indians lands were held
in common" he said. when lands
were sold to whites each Indian re-
ceived his share Of the return"
This principle of common owner
ship continues today, with the fed
eral government distributing equal
ly among tribe members the profits
resulting from lease Of reservation
lands and operation of mines locat-
ed on them.
Describing other communistic as
poets of the Iroquois tribal govern
ment DR.. Riegel said:
Individual ownership was limit
ed entirely to clothing, hunting i'm
plements and ornaments. Aristocra-
cy was scrupulously avoided. A
chief had no benefits above other
members of a tribe. Material
awards did not attend his position.
He attained his place merely by
merit.
There was a head to this COM
munistic government He had q
cabinet Of five members and leg
islature. Although it was the wom-
ans lot to do mental labor she, new
ertheless, had a recognized place in
the councils Of the people. Her opin-
ions were sought and respected"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
RED CAPS ASK PUBLIC
SUPPORT

August II, 1910.
Editor: On September 9th the
case of Stopher VS.. the Cincinnati
Union Terminal Company will be
heard before the Interstate Com
merce Commission. To thousands
of red-caps throughout the nation
this case is Of tremendous impor-
lance. To all labor minded people
the successful outcome of this case
means that organized labor has
won another victory in it's fight to
establish just and adequate wage.
In brief the case is as follows:
In compliance with the provisions
of the Wages and Hours law, rail-
road terminals, which previously
had paid red-caps little or nothing
for services performed, were COM
PEELED to pay these employees the
minimum wage of $40 per day.
Rather than increase their payrolls
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
WHITE SHERIFF

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas,
Austin, June 10, 1913. The court in
delivering an opinion stated, eve
can see no reason why a sheriff
should feel Inundated by being
compelled to ride in the Negro
coach with his prisoner, when the
same was necessary in the dis
charge of his duties. There are
many disreputable places in which
a man who claims to be respect
able would feel mortified and hu-
inflated, if found therein, except in
the discharge of duty, and yet no
sheriff would hesitate to enter such
places when necessary to discharge
his duties" (15S s. w. 1O45.)-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
By Bill
HerrOn's Talk
st. Paul, Mimi,
149 Nina St.,

st. Paul, MIMI,
149 Nina St.,
Aug. Fl, 1910.
Editor: At the picnic of the
Communist Party in Minneapolis
last Sunday, I was greatly i'm
pressed by the talk given by a
Negro by the name of Bill Heron.
He is running for State Lieutenant
Governor on the Communist ticket.
He said in part, "My Country
IT'S of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty.
Whose country? If it's my country,
somebody else is using it for me.
President Roosevelt is not doing
anything to help the passing of the
Anti-Lynching Bill nor the Geyer
Poll Tax Bill"
He told about serving this coun-
try in the last World War, then
learning that he had no more right
to democracy after his service than
he had had before.
He ended by saying, "My people
and I will not fight for this coun-
try until the Anti-Lynching Bill
and the Geyer Poll Tax Bill have
been passed. We join the others in
saying, The Yanks are not Com
ing"
To think that such a thing as
lynching still exists in a country
supposed to be civilized, and a poll
tax preventing citizens from vot-
ing in a land advocating going to
war to preserve democracy is out
rageous. To preserve what democ-
racy, for whom?
(Mrs.) Henrietta Capesius.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
Listen to This
By Hobart T. Mitchell
NEGRO HISTORY

Atlanta, Georgia, August %,
1936-The National Association of
Teachers went on record as favor
ing Negro history in white schools,
in it's recent annual meeting, as
follows: We are convinced that one
item in this program should be the
inclusion of Negro history in the
curricula of both Negro and white
schools at all levels, for the de-
velopment of justifiable pride on
the part of the Negroes, and of
understanding and cooperation on
the part of both races.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
Poetic Thoughts
Happiness
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.

Everyone has a right to Happiness.
Look for it right where you are,
For everyone is always seeking
Good, which is never far.
Make your Heaven or He'll on
earth,
Time and place don't command
You to suffer on this plane,
When happiness is yours to de-
mand.
Tho the road be long and lonely,
You are not to doubt,
For God stands beside you
To always help you out.
Let your mind not wander
On things of no avail,
For time spent thuswise,
Is hard on those who are frail.
occupy, till I come" said He
Means work, to do the same,
If we want the promised reward,
We must revere His name.
Let Happiness be always your
treasure,
Disdain all thoughts otherwise,
Since there is no substitution,
Grasp it and express no surprise.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
BLACK BABIES

what the white Doctor of Med
icine believed about the Negro
child in 1850 Nickel in 1857 stated
as a fact that the color of the
Negro child, when first born is yell
low, which becomes a shiny black
in manhood, and this statement
was practically repeated in 1852 by
DR.. Cartwright of New Orleans,
who claimed as a fact that NEGRO
children and white children are
alike at birth in one particular
they are both born white, and so
much alike, as far as color is con-
cerned, as scarcely to be distin-
guished from each other"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
WEDNESDAY PRAYER
MEETING

The beginning of our Wednesday
night prayer meetings-A manu-
script preserved in the library of
the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety-Cotton Mather, in the year
1893, wrote as follows: Besides the
other pious meetings which I have
continued serving in our neighbor-
hood, a little after this period a
company of poor Negroes, of their
own accord, addressed me, for
countenance to a decision which
they had of erecting such a meet
ing for the welfare of their miser-
able nation, that were servants
among u.s."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
A BLACK LABOR AGENT

A Negro boy, Henry Johnson,
sixteen years of age, was held
aboard ship at sea for a period of
five months, during which time he
was not permitted to inform his
mother of his whereabouts.
The boy was a resident of Wash
ington, D. C. On September 26,
1879, he and several of his fellows
were induced by a colored man to
go with him to Baltimore where
the boys were signed aboard an
oyster schooner bound to sea, on
the representation that they were
20 years of age. Each was adj
vanced seven dollars from his pay,
which the colored man took.
The schooner, the Thomas W.
Moore, Captain Lewis in command,
was one of the three vessels oper-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30

Editor: Permit US to express the
appreciation of the Community
Service Committee of Phyllis
Wheatley House for the splendid
service given by your paper to-
ward publicizing the Youth Lead
ership Clinic held last week end. It
demonstrates once more your deep
appreciation Of community action.
M. LEO BOHANON,
Chairman.
JOHN F. THOMAS,
Clinic Director.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30

permitted his quest inside their portals
But this Sherlock PERSISTENT who refuses
defeat and steadily the job searching
of he u. s. A. for his elusive quarry.
he figures he'll LUCKY BREAK and at long last
democracy will hs-Pittsburgh Courier
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-30
Watch the legislative Candidates

elections days voters
look the candidates. While all Of the higher
very believe have stated before that the
should the candidates closest the man in the
street.-the legislative candidates.
that single vote cast by the coore people OF
the legislature who does not be-
and definitely record favorng full civil rights for all
ctizens-including Negroes.
the last session Of the legislature when attempt was
made brazen against Negro
companies licensed sell insurance in
the real Importance of fair legislators
vacaon legislators who before that time had posed
individuals without prejudice when they called
upon help obvious evil against minority
these legislators with large numbers Negro constituents
found to have fleet of clay"
expected need good solid representatives the state
who believe that all the citizens should have equal rights
and protection under the laws of the state.
When candidates for the legislature door, meet
asking ask them they would to outlaw
based wherever practced Minnesota ASK
youths should be allowed join the Mime
general find from them personally how
they stand all of those which affect the colored population
much about the things the candidates they
other The the bankers the railroads. the
all the other bocs and interests always taken
of but the Negro served eng promises and
which thing after the smoke of the passed
Editorial Notes
America ttery about Engands pedcamen the BitOns
themselves!
HHie England price go up
country!
just ridiculous about being black
about being w But George Schuyler would being
black is darned inconvenient at times!
many people drafting bak
dollars What's the trouble? You certainly can't shoot dollars
The the thing has besides its
and children had we'd prefer drafting dollars instead of
that would Since won't Congress ought to make
draft both whenever
As jolt State received
from the weather this week you'd think they would make
all people the fair welcome praccing
elimination against of them!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

The brink of Niagara Falls, N.
Y, is receding at the rate Of two
and one-half feet a year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

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