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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1910
We're Not Doing So Bad

which of speakers when
the Twin Cities various amusing they
around couple days they begin tell all about the things
this much local
residing here deat
complex regarding Twin Cities. Many them don't for the
visitors pull their hammers but furnish them for them
Schuyler travels widely throughout the
Paul Minneapolis much different from similar
elsewhere belief conviction that Twin City Negroes
other communities
perhaps ndivduac but this handicap
northern communities.
Whenever hear either visitor local der bemoanng the
lack of certain things the Twin Cities tempted inquire
why complaining and resident remains here why
visitor always ready show faults which of know
by heart.
Negro going just
remain backward socially economically cuturay,
allow them to be.
Those of who grown
valuable bemoanng this
effort which they pessimisc pictures utilized
interest of better communities would work wonders.
What could Minneapolis
muies The somebody dering either
cities ask them where they why they
away long
These cities offer citizens opportunities which
take advantage Of Until make chance
condition blaming the other fellow Pitching
the community job putting time and those things that
will help and community singing of praise hope faith
and optimism will bring all those things should
meantime be thankful and apprecave of what
the dickens to get all that's coming to
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16

from master and mistress was kind
but they having met with financial
reverses, it was decided to sell
Eliza, and she, learning of this and
the probable separation of herself
and child, determined to escape.
That night, with her child in her
arms, she started on foot for the
Ohio river. She reached the river
near daybreak, and instead of find
ing it frozen over, it was filed
with large blocks of floating ice.
Thinking it impossible to cross, she
ventured to seek shelter in house
near by, where she was kindly re-
ceived.
She hoped to find some way of
crossing the next night, but dur
ing the day the ice become more
broken and dangerous, making the
river seemingly impossible. The
evening came on, when her pur-
suers were seen approaching the
house. Made desperate through
fear, she seized her infant in her
arms, darted out the back door and
ran toward the river, followed by
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
Can't Garner Talk!

AS the boom into full swing, pecu-
liar being made to win the support coored
Paid Negro henhmen talking and sending releases about
Gamers hitherto unknown endness cOoed folk declar-
that he has become friendly that
ani-lynching law.
This all be very and would like believe
but why doesn't Vice President Garner something hmsef
Mr. Garner has been the public payroll all his life
half his life has been spent in Congress.
He MUST know how talk, and
the nice things about Negroes that his paid Negro
says?
However, Mr. a politician a canny
me
Like Mr. Roosevelt he be depended nothing
specific Negroes soaring support
cheaper Negroes glad
tidings
Incidentally how Negroes in Mr.
Pittsburgh
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
Listen to
This
By Hobart T. Mitchell
ELIZA HARRIS ESCAPE

Eliza Harris, of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" the slave woman who
crossed the Ohio river on the drift
ing ice, with her child in her arms,
was sheltered for several days and
aided to escape by Levi Coffin ire
puted president of the Under
ground Railroad who conducted a
way station on the secret road to
Canada), he then residing at New
port, Indiana.
Harriet Beecher Stoves graphic
description of this woman's expe-
rience is almost identical with the
real facts in the case.
The originals of Simeon and Ra-
chel Halliday, the Quaker couple
alluded to in her remarkable work,
were Levi and Catharine Coffin.
Eliza Harris master lived few
miles back from the Ohio river be-
low Ripley, Ohio. Her treatment
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
Good Argument

good for the of the AnLynch bill by the
Senate furnished by the Maryland this The
which took child from police officers that
evidences that the lynch spirit still with and will probably
the until the government
hand.
Criminals whether they be ynchers gangsters, actually
only the u law enforcement "Une Whskers the
applied Federal crime agencies usually their whether
they Voatos postal bandits corrupt politicians
Federal law will such dsgaced both
land and the country this week Southern ought
aside their sectional peudces and strike the nchng evil
ing the Anti Lynch bill
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
Death Notices
Jennie Davis
morning.

Mrs. Jennie Davis, 1917 5th S
&c., Minneapolis, died Feb. 10 at
the Minneapolis General hospita
She was born 81 years ago at New
London, Mo.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at the Neal Funeral
Home chapel with Rev. W f. Wad-
iington, pastor of Bethe da Dap
fist church, officiating. Intermen
was in Crystal Lake cemetery.
She is survived by a divorced
husband, Eddie Davis, two sons
Obie and Walter Lear, a daughter
Nellie Lear; two sisters, Mrs. Lii
lian Lewis, Chicago, and Mrs. Susie
Washington of Cincinnati.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
The Blues

The Blues
Individuals have many for getting the blues
Think that life hasn't given them their just dues,
And consequently their scheme of progress falls Short
And the blues supersedes reason a last resort.
II wished l hadn't taken that trip,
Felt the urge, you know it gets a grip,
Bought a car, cashed my insurance in
To bolster my bank roll that had grown thin"
These few of the pghts we encounter
When something unexpected causes to founder
We always think of the money spent,
If available now-Oh, how would be content.
We do things and are fully aware,
That conditions may change and we should be fair,
With ourselves and all who concerned
For pleasure takes its toll until we've sufficiently learned
IF only had the money used to make"
Is a tune hear after eating their cake
People just love to live in the past,
Sort of makes them feel the depression won't last.
Live in the present and stop moaning
For wishes to hear continual groaning,
Your present condition will be easier to take,
If you'll keep your mind on what's at stake
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
VICTIM OF GAS BURIED

Mrs. Mayme Overton, 119 Sher-
burne avenue, who died from the
effects of gas which escaped from
a faulty flue in her home, was
buried on Feb. 5.
Mrs. Overton was a native of
Chicago and was born there AZ
years ago. Funeral services with
Rev. Clarence T. Nelson of Cam
phor M. E. church officiating were
held at the Neal st. Paul chapel.
Interment was at Forest ceme-
terry. She is survived by her hus-
band William Overton.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
PERSONS WHO HAVE ACCOM-
MODATIONS FOR TOURISTS

Should call Spokesman or Re-
corder offices, BR. 1896, or Midway
8S40 to list such accommodations.
These newspapers are cooperating
with a national organization which
yearly lists such accommodations
in a publication distributed nation
ally.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
her pursuers.

her pursuerS.
Fearing death less than separa-
ton from her babe, she clasped il
to her bosom and sprang on the
first cake of ice, and from that to
another, and then to another, and
so on. Sometimes the ice would
sink beneath her; then she would
slide her child on to the next cake,
and pull herself on with her
hands. Wet to the waist, her hands
benumbed with cold, she APP
preached the Ohio shore nearly ex-
hausted. A man who had been
standing on the bank watching her
in amazement, assisted her to the
shore. After recovering her
strength, she was directed to a
house on hill in the outskirts of
Ripley. Here she was cared for
and after being provided with food
and dry clothing, was forwarded
from station to station on the I'm
foreground Railroad until she
reached the home of Levi Coffin.
Here she remained several days
until she and her child, with other
fugitives, were forwarded via the
Greenville branch of the Under
ground Railroad to Sandusky, and
from thence to Chatham, Canada.
West, where she finally settled and
where years after Mr.. Coffin met
her.
(The above from "Cincinnati's
COlored Citizens" PIP. GIGS, by
Wendell P. Dabney, former Head
Paymaster of the Treasury of the
City of Cincinnati and at the pres
ent editor of the Cincinnati Union.
Read next weeks column on
short story of his life.)
EQUALITY OF RIGHT
In the case of Murphy VS.. West
ern and Atlantic R. R., % Federal
Reporter 639, Hon. D. M. Key, Fed
eral District Judge E. and NJ. D.
Tennessee, spoke Tin party to the
jury thusly: My observation has
convinced me that those who are
most sensitive as to contact with
colored people, and whose nerves
are most shocked by their presence,
have little to be proud of in the
way of birth, lineage, or achieve
ment.
The money of one has the same
value as that of the other, and
should purchase equal accommoda-
tions.
There is no equality of right,
when the money of the white man
purchases luxurious accommoda-
tons amid elegant company, and
the same amount of money pur-
chases for the black men inferior
quarters in a smoking car.
LISTEN TO THIS
The people of the United States
that exhibit the highest patriotism
are those that obey the laws of
their country.
Any information regarding the
above write in care of this paper
or Hobart T. Mitchell, 1912 Elliot
Ave-, Minneapolis, MINI.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
Warren Breeding
Killed in Oregon
Auto Accident

Warren Breeding, well known in
Minneapolis, was killed Sunday in
an automobile accident in Oregon,
Breeding is the brother of Ace
of Spades" and Deuce of Spades,
two well known local boxers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL TO
SPEAK AT WELCOME HALL

The Young Peoples Department
of Welcome Hall will present Mr..
Ardath Burks, assistant director of
the International Relations Bureau
of the University of Minnesota,
Sunday afternoon, Feb. Is, at 3
o'clock, in the Welcome Hall Chap
ell. Mr.. Burks, a social worker in
the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, is at
present doing graduate work at
the University of Minnesota.
Joseph Baily, another graduate
student at the university, will sing.
The Boys Department and the
Cosmopolitan Girls Club of the
Hall are cooperating to bring this
program to the public.
STEWART AND HAYDEN GO
TO ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Rev. C.. F. Stewart and Gerald
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16

Hayden, local ministers, left early
this week for Atlanta, Ca, to at
tend an A. M. f. Bishops Council
meeting.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16

mOny.
Walter White and Arthur Spin
garn, conferred with the President
at the White House on Thursday
morning
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
Poetic Thoughts
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.

my heart will keep the courage of the guest
will lose hfe's zest
hope last will be the besHenry Van Dyke
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THE ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
Continued from Page y

the Dallas, Texas, courthouse in
1888 by mob after he had insisted
on his constitutional right of serv-
ing on a jury. The crowded caucus
room applauded the college presi-
dents answer. DIR. Porter was the
last witness to be heard on Tues
day.
Baptist Pastor Tells Experiences
The Rev. E. C. Estell, pastor of
st. Johns Baptist Church in Dali
las, Texas, was the first witness
to take the stand on Wednesday.
He told, from actual experience, of
lynchings which he himself had
witnessed.
A heated exchange of woodstock
place between Senator Connally
and r. B. Grovey, the next wit
ness, on the question of disfran-
chisement, when the Texas senator
challenged Grovey with the state
ment that "You can vote in Texas
in general elections, can't your"
Admitting this to be true, the
witness pointed out, however, that
"the white democratic primary,
which practically constitutes an
election, and, from which l am ex-
Guided, is in Texas"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16

Silver Tea, Minneapolis Urban
League Auxiliary, Feb. rs, 29OO
Portland, 2 to 6 p. m.-adv.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-16
COnnally VS.. White

Reading a prepared statement in
which he included devastating re-
port on a lynching ssurvey con-
Quoted by the white Southern
Methodist university, of Dallas,
Texas, and a record of lynchings
in the United States for 1887
through 1889, Walter White, ex-
ecutive secretary of the N. A. A.
C. p, locked horns with Senator
Connally almost as soon as White
took the stand.
In an attempt to discredit these
lynching records, Connally de-
manded to go over them before
having the committee pass upon
their inclusion in the record.
The Texas senator defended the
lynching records put out by Tus-
kegee Institute, in Alabama, as
more reliable than those of the
N. A. A. C. P. White replied that
the Associations investigators,
branches, and contacts with news
papermen all over the country en-
abled the organization to get at the
facts of unreported lynchings as
we'll as publicized lynchings in a
manner which Tuskegee Institute
was unable to do.
The N. A. A. C. P. Secretary ac-
cused opponents of the bill of be-
ing motiYated by political consid-
Evening star., 1940-01-21

1t really was, Isabelle thought. and cleared
her throat to break the sudden silence
well :. " she began brightly and her
voice trailed off. Gracious, she didn't have
anything to say! So she said, Il think III
have chocolate malt" when all she wanted
was a coke. This so surprised her that she
remembered she did have something to say.
There was matter of utmost importance de-
manding immediate attention, and she set
about attending to it with murmured: Il
think it would be sort of fun to go formal to
the Lake."
That joint" Kay howled. That dump
where they think they're swell because they
make the guys wear neckties?"
Isabelle and Susie ignored her. At times like
these Kay was always little slow to catch
on. Susie said: Formal at the Lake -
intriguing idea. Let's do it.
oh" Kay exclaimed on rising note of
comprehension, now l catch! Sure, let's!"
She giggled. II don't look my worst in a
formal, myself"
Must you be so naive, dear?" asked Susie.
Isabelle made no comment. The matter
was settled. With the three of them in evening
clothes, the rest of the crowd would fall in
line. She felt suddenly exhilarated with the
desperation of one who has burned her bridges
behind her. Now she simply had to get that
new dress.
She started after it few hours later at
dinner. Slowly she led up to the subject by
enlightening her parents as to the high quality
Evening star., 1940-01-21

other girl in the younger set watched with
expressions saying more plainly than any
words, However in the world does Isabelle do
it!' Except for the expressions of these young
ladies, everything was pretty hazy. Hazy but
utterly divine and not the least divine item
was her appearance. Feeling that evening
clothes had been more or less created to
enhance her blond beauty, she saw herself in
an evening dress "a new one.
An evening dress cost money, and she had
no money. Nevertheless, by the time she
reached the drugstore it had become unthink-
able that she should not be wearing new
dress when she met Tip though wheedling the
price of dress from the parental purse didn't
seem exactly - WELL tfinkable; not when she
remembered the extra-allowance funds she
had been receiving lately. Still, such mere
defeatist attitude would get person no
where, she told herself as she pushed open
Kittredge's screen door; somehow she would
persuade her parents.
In booth at the back of the store she was
pleased to discover Susan Clayton and Kay
Oliver, her two dearest friends and rivals in
popularity. She lost no time in carrying to
them the great news of Tip Harmon.
BLOW me down" Kay exploded. While
Susie, always outwardly calm, said, How
divine!" and their eyes went out of focus with
the same dreams whirling in Isabelle's pretty
head. With elaborate casualness each of the
three avoided looking at the other, for each
knew what was in the others mind. Each
knew so we'll that it was a trifle embarrassing
Evening star., 1940-01-21

OF Tips Harmoneers, their popularity, and the
excitement over their forthcoming appearance
ITS practically like widfire all over town."
she summed up as Mamie, the cook. brought
in the roast leg of lamb Then, no longer able
to bear the suspense of her own careful
approach, she blurted out, Can have new
formal? Please'"
As if he could not believe his ears, Mr..
Cummings stared at her. Mrs Cummings,
keeper of the budget answered for both of
them: Darling! This is the third time in one
month"
Exactly" Spencer Cummings was vehe-
ment. And it's one time too many"
But this is different. This is Important"
With this usual impassioned preamble Isabelle
plunged into her argument. She was still
arguing when Mamie brought in the dessert
Mamie, brown eyes anxious in her brown face,
had expressed her sympathy for Isabelles
cause by loading Isabelle plate with ''baby's'
favorite date pudding. Then suddenly the
cause seemed doomed as Spencer Cummings
broke in on Isabelle to say No! And that's
final"
dress at the Lake Pavilion!' protested Rosalie,
his wife. And you want new evening dress
just because this small-t time band ="
We'll, really, Mamma, elleinterrupted,
fighting wildly to the last ditch. Even Benny
Goodman didn't burst full blown on national
radio hookup and the Empire Room of the
Waldorf Astoria. After aH even Shakespeare
had to start someWhere, you know.
Il suppose so," Rosale agreed. looking at
her husband and trying not to smile. He was
in no mood to be amused
Whats Shakespeare got to do with it," he
demanded and did not wait for an answer. "All
this hullaballoo about the Lake! Nothing but
a cheap dance hall. You shouldn't be going
there in the first place."
"Oh, my good heavens!" Isabelle jumped
up from the table, abandoning the date pud-
ding 1t was time to leave - and in hurry
if Father was going to toy with the idea of
forbidding the Pavilion She cast about fo1
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue
4
Coming to the Lake Pavilion
- for one night only
TIP HARMON
and his
HarmOneers

hood Drugstore, Isabelle cummings
~ stopped to stare bedazzled while a
man plastered the sign on billboard in a
vacant lot. Tip Harmon and his band! She
couldn't have been as excited if the blue and
red letters had announced the imminent
arrival of Paul Whteman, Benny Goodman.
or some other nationally known maestro of
swing. Those gentlemen were too exalted for
her dreams of actual conquest, but Tip
Harmon was different.
Tip-full name, George Tippecanoe Harmon
" was one of her own kind. A junior at the
state university, he had organized in his
freshman year an orchestra of his fellow
students, which, through radio and summer
tours. had become sensation among the
young people of three states. Tip and his
Harmoneers belonged to the young people.
Tip was their own homegrown celebrity.
Isabelle had never met Tip, but she had
heard him often on the radio. She had seen
his photograph: the angular features, the
lifted right eyebrow, the twisted smile. His
face had the same laughing, impudent quality
as his music; quality that Isabelle, and
legions like her, considered pulse -palpitating
to point just this side of suffocation.
Now Isabelle was actually going 70 see Tip
- in the flesh She sighed - her pulse already
doing things to her breathing - and turned
away from the sign to walk on toward
kittredge's drugstore. On her fingers she
counted the days to be lived through before
he arrived. There were seven. That gave her
time to figure out some way to meet Tip; for
meet him she must, and meet him Importantly,
not just as another girl in a crowd.
Before she had walked block she was
enacting, in her mind, drama wherein she
swept Tip Harmon off his feet while every
Evening star., 1940-01-21

Look" he .oid. as guy, not q. band
leader, do you think I'm I'm pos.obIe? ?"
Evening star., 1940-01-21

II seemed the world was conspiring TO
keep Isabelle from meeting Tip Harmon
so Isabelle used her ingenuity
bY Patterson Dial
Mvarofsd BY MikoeI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-28
Is Finland a Good Risk?

There seems to be some difference of opinion as to how good loan risk Fin land is at the moment. Practically everyone comedies that any money lent to the stalwart little republic will be re- paid-if Finland wins it's war with Rus sia. If it doesn't, there won't be any Fin land, and Russia is not likely to assume any obligations undertaken by the Films. So the question the United States gov ernment and private bankers are trying to answer now is, simply, "Will Finland win the war?"
 Jesse H. Jones, federal loan admins trator, believes Finland is good risk, but even he is willing to concede that the question must be re-appraised from day to day. New York bankers, realists in the world of finance, declare flatly that not only would loan to Finland be very shaky venture, but that loans to any of the Scandinavian countries could scarce ly be considered in terms of sound banking investment under present cir cumStances.
 MT. Jones appeared before the House Banking and Currency committee re- gently to support the Finnish Aid bill, which would authorize extension of loans from $1OO,OOO,OOO to $2OO,OOO,0OO for the Export Import bank. Primary objective of the bill is to grant Finland an addi- tional loan of $20,000,000 with similar sum earmarked for China. A $10,000,O00 credit was advanced to Finland in De- cember. MT. Jones said he felt the Films would be victorious. He asked members O: the House committee to bear in mind that the Films had an almost unique reputation among nations of the world for paying their bill. He felt that Finland would be good risk "as long as she is still fighting in the field with a good chance to win"
 Later, he admitted that he could not say whether Finland would get an ad- ditional $20,000,000 if it is authorized, tecause, ito a substantial extent" the loan would depend on Finland's record in battle. New York bankers meanwhile turned thumbs down on any Scandi- navian loan. Informally, they have indi- cated they would not risk depositors' funds in defense undertaking as pre- cariouS as that which all of Scandinavia faces Financial help, they said, must come from the United States government and from private individuals sympathetic with the democratic cause.
 Bankers cannot be blamed for want
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-28

Improvement of the main route into Hartford from the south is under con- sideration by the State Highway Depart ment This study is in keeping with the departments plan to improve highway entrances and exits in all the principal cities of the state. Too often an impor- tant highway dwindles down to narrow street once the city limits are reached, causing traffic congestion that disrupts even flow through the city and causes many motorists to avoid the city in the future. The Hartford plan right now would call for new highway from Berlin to Hartford, connecting with the present Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield: Oddly enough Waterbury's best avenue of approach now is from the south. From Platts Mills to City Corners we have a fine wide avenue. Eventually the improvement will extend into the heart of the city, it is to be hoped.