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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-13
BIRTHDAY
SURPRISE TO
SEC'Y. REED

ACTING GOVERNOR HORACE T.
CAHILL AND THE MEMBERS OF
THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PAY TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM l..
REED
On Friday morning, April 5, in
recognition of the birthday anniver-
sity of Mr.. Reed who has now a record
of forty years service in the Legisla-
ture and the Executive Department
combined, the Acting Governor ar
ranged pleasant surprise. The entire
membership of the Department quietly
assembled in the Council Chamber and
when Mr.. Reed, whose presence had
been requested, appeared, he was
genuinely surprised. His Honor the
Acting Governor felicitated Mr.. Reed
wishing his years of continued health
and service to the Commonwealth and
presented him with bouquet of beau
tiful flowers. A large box of candy
was sent to Mrs. Reed.
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ON DEWEYS STAFF
AIDES NOT FICUREHEADS

NEW YORK CITY-James Year
gin, assistant to District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey and third major
colored appointee on the New York
District Attorneys staff, prosecuted
his first felony case in Part A of Gen
eral Sessions Court last week. Mr..
Yeargin successfully prosecuted
Joseph Dombroski, alleged fourth
offender, convicting him of burglary
in the third degree.
This was a day after Francis E..
Rivers of Mr.. Dewey's staff had
finished his prosecution of Mrs. Irene
Louis Huff, defendant in a second
degree murder trial. At the same time
Mr.. Dewey's third aide, Mrs. Eunice
Hunton Carter was preparing series
of other cases for presentation in
Special Sessions Court
Assistant District Attorney Year
gin, named to Mr.. Dewey's staff in
February of 1888, is now a full
fledged trial prosecutor. During the
last two years he has aided in pre-
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Calling for a revival of the "Abo-
litionist spirit" during the present
period when "minorities, not only in
America but all over the world, are
facing the effects of an almost total
blackout of civil liberties" the Rev.
James H. Robinson told group here
Monday evening that the Colored
Americans struggle for full citizen
ship rights must be carried on now
more vigorously than ever.
The Rev. Mr.. Robinson, pastor of
the Church of The Master, Presbyteri-
an, in New York's Harlem, was adj
dressing a meeting at the Columbus
Avenue AME Zion Church that
launched the annual membership
drive of the Boston branch of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
"For thirty-one years." he said,
"this organization has been fighting
for the full rights of the race, and out
of this fight has come the realization
that it is the full fruition of the in
herent qualities of greatness in this
people that forms the real basis for
the life of this association"
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WORLD FACES BLACKOUT OF LIBERTY
New York Pastor Warns Struggle for
Democracy Must Be Intensified

Urging Colored Americans to be-
come more fully aware of the struggle
now going on to preserve and enlarge
the ideal of democracy, the New York
minister said: eff you want to get
equal rights anywhere, you must get
over the mental handicap of believing
that there is no more hope"
DR.. John B. Hall, chairman of the
NAACP campaign to recruit $500
members within the next two weeks,
announced at the meeting that more
than 5000 had been raised on the open
ing of the drive.
Others heard on the program in
cluded Rev. William D. Battle, pastor
of the church; Ray Guild, president of
the Boston NAACP branch; George B.
Murphy Jr., of the Associations
national office, who is directing the
drive; Louis E. Pasco, treasurer of
the organization; Irwin Dorch, former
president of the branch; Rev. W. L.
Clayton, pastor, Union Baptist
Church.; Rev. M. J. Minor, pastor,
Metropolitan Baptist Church, and
Rev. S. L. Laviscount, pastor of St.
Marks Congregational Church. Musi-
cal numbers were furnished by the T.
Henry johnson Choral Group.
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paration of a number of homicide
cases, chief OF which was that OF
Demetrius Gula and Joseph Saccoda
They have since been electrocuted as
slayers of the White Plains IN. W
contractor, Arthur Fried, who was
kidnapped then burned to death.
Never before Mr.. Dewey was elected
District Attorney have colored aides
in the District Attorneys office actu-
ally prosecuted cases. Nor are his
three colored appointees limited to col
ored cases. In no other city in the
United States can be found similar
recognition on the basis of ability and
not of color.
In a recent interview the New York
District Attorney stated. "When
took Office as special prosecutor Gin
New York; colored people had beer
appointed from time to time, but haC
been called deputy assistants. But
found no reason to use these petty
subterfuges as long as they could dc
the work"
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-13
Annual Meeting of
St. Mark Brotherhood

st. Mark Brotherhood has scored an
other triumph in securing DR.. James
E. Shapard, President of North Caro-
lima State College, Durham, N. c., for
its annual meeting at St. Mark Con-
gregational Church, Roxbury, Sunday
evening, April 81.
DR.. Shepard, leading educator and
gifted orator, is convincing speaker
with pleasing personality. Because
of his varied interracial activities he
comes to the Boston audience splen-
didly equipped to speak on "Our Past,
Present and Future"
"The success of past annual meet
ings must be attributed to the hearty
support of our many patrons; and the
patronage of a generous public" a
committee member said; "for this rea-
son extreme care is exercised in the
selection of guest speaker. On this
Continued on Page 81
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new ENGLAND RACE CONGRESS
LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL MEET

The campaign of the Eastern New
England Congress for Equal Oppor-
tunities to secure funds for its dele
cation to the Third National Race
Congress, Washington, April &c, 27.
and %, got fully underway this week
when the announcement was made
that Miss Laura Duncan of New York
City, brilliant concert artist, will give
q, concert under Congress auspices at
the Repertory Theatre, Huntington
ave. at Gainsborough St., Sunday af
ternoon, April 81 at $3.50.
Hundreds have already applied for
tickets to hear the young singer. who
will repeat, by special request, the
numbers which she sang to an audi
e4ce of $4,000 at Boston Arena, on
March 81. These include the spiritual.
r;Mo.t,h.erless Child" and "Strange
FRUIT" forceful anti-lynch song. She
will be accompanied by Albert Moss.
pianist-composer.
scheduled to speak is John P. Davis,
dynamic national secretary of the Ma
uonal Race Congress. Chairman of the
meeting will be Attorney John S. R,
branch. '-io 00iis COB
Friday, April 10, at 1:45 Mr.. Bourne
Will broadcast from Station WMEX
On the forthcoming National Conven-
.lon Oh The National Race Congress.
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NAACP TO ENROLL ONE II EVERY 10
Hub Plans Big Delegation TO Race Cong
RFu. e. ORnrBR DtnnlR 34aHarH

The Oldest minister in the A.M.E.
Zion Connection (the Rev. Eli George
Biddle, DID, passed away at half
past one o'clock on Monday, April s.,
1910, at his late residence, % Yelling
ton Street, Boston. The funeral ser
vice was conducted by Rev William d.
Battle, DID,, pastor at Columbus Ave,
A.M.E. Zion Church at ten o'clock
Thursday, April II. Clergymen lead
ing the funeral cortege were Rev. vii
liam D. Battle, Right Rev. William J..
Walls Bishop, Rev. billiard R.
Jackson presiding Elder, Rev. Jacob
W. Powell, Rev. Charles H. Foggie,
Rev. A. Marshall, Jr., Rev. r. B. Hurt
Gall members of the New England Con-
ference) Rev. D. L. Ferguson, Rev.
r. NJ. Owens, Rev. J. NJ. Minor, Rev.
E. f. Thompson, Rev. Eugene B.
Smith, Rev, S. NJ. Riley, Jr., Rev.
James L. Jackson and others.
Providentially, Bishop William J.
Walls remained in Boston after his
annual sermon on Sunday. His eulogy
Of DR.. Biddle was a masterpiece, ora
torically and sympathetically. He
traced DR.. Biddle's career from birth
in Pennsylvania in 1854, as a Civil
War Veteran with Col. Robert Gould
Shaw's 54th Mass. Regiment (1863-
1869, as a civilian, and especially as
Continued on Page 81
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PROTEST CLAN
VIOLENCE

WASHINGTON - A delegation
visited Assistant ey-General o.
John Rogge last week to demand i'm
mediate action by the Department of
Justice against the Ku Klux Klan and
against white plantation owners in
the South who hold colored farm work
ers as poems. They were the following
leaders: William L. Patterson, vice
president of the International Labor
Defense; Charles H. Houston, special
counsel of the NAACP; J. Finley Will
son, Grand Exalted Ruler, Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks of the World; John P Davis,
national secretary of the National
Race Congress; and Louis Colman,
assistant secretary of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
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No. Camb. Comm.
Church Organizes

On Sunday, Mar. 81, the No. Cam
bridge Community Church, henceforth
known as the No. ambridge Commu-
nifty Church of the New Jerusalem
completed it's reorganization plans
with the signing of the new constitu-
ton by regular and associate mem
bers.
The confirmation of new members
will be on Sunday, April Ia at 400
pm. and the public is cordially invited
The Peoples Forum usually held at
this time, has suspended its meeting
for this date.
for this date. The church has become
part of the strongest, most friendly
and liberal benefactor, the State and
National Church of the New Jerusa-
lem of the United States and Canada.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-13
.Lynching Defeats
Good Neighbor Policy
By Crew Walter d. McClane

In recent years much has been done
in our country to develop good neigh
Dor policy with the people of South
America. This is the proper course
for our country to take in the interest
of solidarity and good will.
A positive handicap to our efforts
in seeking to promote better under
standing Of the United States and its
motives toward South America is the
fact of lynching in the United States
For example, take Brazil. There are
many colored people there. They en-
joy every right granted to the citizens
of Brazil. 1t is natural for Brazil and
Brazilians to regard with suspicion
the offered friendly hand of the United
States when that friendly hand is
stained with the blood Of colored
Americans in the United States.
The United States Senate has a fine
the sincerity and democracy of this
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Former BOstOnian
Gets High Honor

ALBANY, N. Y.-Last week the
State Senate here confirmed Cover
nor Herbert Lehman's appointment of
Atty. Thomas Benjamin Dyet, former
Boston resident, as member of the
State Correction Commission. This is
the first time colored man has ever
been appointed to this unpaid, though
greatly responsible, post. Mr.. Dyett
who was born in Montserrat, B.WI., is
a graduate of Howard University and
Blu. Law School and has practiced
law in New York since 1922. From
1927 to 1887 he was an Assistant Dis
trict Attorney of New York County
in 1888 he was member of the Con-
stitutional Convention.
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MASS MEETING
ASSAILS DIES

A mass protest meeting at the Old
South Meeting House, Washington and
Milk Streets, assailed the un-Constitu-
tional activities of the Dies Committee
Friday evening. Chairman of the
meeting was Miss Florence H. LUIS
comb, prominent champion of civil
liberties. Speakers were Orville M.
Poland, chairman of the Massachusetts
Civil Liberties Committee; Llewellyn
Jones, editor Of the Christian Register,
Unitarian paper; Philip Frankfeld, one
Of the three Bostonians subpoenaed by
the Dies Committee; and Mrs. Maude
Trotter Steward, editor of The
Guardian.
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ANN BURLAK
ANSWERS DIES

Miss Ann Burlak, administrative Sec
IeIa[y OF the Communist party in New
England, arrived home Friday of last
W. Week. after stormy session before the
9 5 Committee in Washington, Thurs
IN. MSS SIS Bqrlak, sometimes termed Bos-
IONS Red Flame" told Guardian re-
porter that she did not say all she
stopped her. -''i- man DieS
. IL was disclosed that Miss BurIak
arrested with George Powers and 2 col
Continued on Page 81
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&thltral 0ptra

LII, IN Brown Hall, New England Con-
TTg5F!,V,astory of Music, Boston. Mass
willie william Rhodes Opera Society will
sree t acts and scenes from the Worlds
bo J%Cgss Biblical opera Samson and
TT eh4 by Saint-Saens. Other high
h hgnts OF the program will be the "Bo-
"%e 0hlIan Girl" act III-and scenes from
;Uoeron". A cast of fifty prominent
Ssiig 81 8 Will be heard. Reserved seats
9I.IO-$l.65. Rush seats IS cents.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
Pumpkin Fails, But
Poison Gets Muskrat-

Warroad-For some time Mrs. F.
Smith suffered raids in her base
ment by some animal which ate
her potatoes. One day recently
while in her basement Mrs. Smith
saw a monster rat coming across
the floor directly towards her. She
grabbed a handy pumpkin and
threw it at the animal, but missed.
However Mr.. Smith set some poison
for the rat, and the next morning
found the thief, a full grown musk
rat, dead. Such animals are more
dangerous than ordinary rats.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
Looking Back
Through Time
Excerpts From The Herald of
Thursday, February 10, 1920
Items of Twenty Years Ago

E. j. Alberts has disposed of his
four acre truck farm, located a
mile northeast of this city, to VIM.
Botz, who will take possession on
March 1st.
The Misses Myra and Helen
Bowman, of Westport, spent the
weekend in Sauk Centre with
friends.
w. L. Smith closed a deal this
week whereby he becomes the own
er of the residence of John Hanson,
known as the MCGUIRE property.
Miss Nellie Pangburn has pur-
chased from F. M. Connolly the
house at the corner of Birch and
Fourth Streets. She will take pos
session about March Goth.
Mrs. John Houghton this week
sold her residence property in
Brooklyn to N. c. Norgarden. Mrs.
Houghton bought the Myott cottage
south of the Great Northern tracks.
Dean Brown left today, Thurs
day, for his home in Havre, Mon
tana, after spending the winter
with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
The COmmOn-tater
-By Chuck Rattle
Curbside Student

CurIside Student
In the south and east hunting the fox-or as
they say, riding to the hounds-is one of the more
elegant social graces. That is there is a bit Of ele
gance in the relocated habits in being able to sit
a horse properly But out here the boys do it
just for fun. 1t bears stigma of social worlds,
lying conquered Lately I've been studying fox hunt
ing as practiced in this locality I've adopted only
the students interest in the sport, which is lazy
one The student you know, learns while shining
the seat of his trousers indoors but the instructor
in natural phenomena gets the experience first hand
Fox hunting has become one of those in-between
gap filters in the regular hunting spot
heretofore occupied only by chasing bounding rab-
bits across the prairie. freeing few squirrels.
But in the last three years the hunters have turned
to chasing the fox, and for real workout they say
1t can't be beat Some like Gus Otto and Dwight
Carpenter have equipped themselves with born and
bred fox hounds. of whom it is said, they would
rather chase fox than cat. These hounds
have been imported from the south, presumably
Kentucky, are smooth-hared animals who go whsk-
ing out of the brush at such breakneck speed
in pursuit Of the fox that walking to the hounds
II something Of chore. In fact it's downright tr
ing What started me on this Is that out at Car
penters last week the boys bagged three of the sly
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
Thursday, February %, 1910
8. Kinsella be appointed adminis.

c. Kinsella be appointed adminis-
traitor;
thereof be had on Friday, March 9Th,
1910, at Q o'clock, A. M, before this
Court in the probate court room in
the court house in the City Of st.
Cloud, Minnesota, that the. time
within which creditors of said de-
cedent may file their claims be linn
tied to four months from the date
hereof. and that the claims so filed
be heard on Friday. the 14th day Of
June. 1910, at o'clock, A. M. be-
fore this Court in the probate court
room in the court house In the City
of st. Cloud, Minnesota, and that
notice hereof be given by publica-
tion Of this order in the Sauk Gen.
tre Herald. legal newspaper. and
by mailed notice as provided by law.
Dated February 18th, 1910.
COURT SEAL) Paul Ahles,
PProbate Judge.
Conklin & Shively,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Pub. Feb. 1929. 1910.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22

Steve Kinsella.
Miss Genevieve Beck arrived
Monday from Hewitt, where she
is teaching school, for visit with
friends in this city, her school be-
ing closed because of influenza.
Attendance records in the local
school have been much improved
during the past week. More than
hundred students were absent
from school one day last week ow-
ing to illness.
The yard men of the Borgerding
Lumber Co. are holding their an
nual convention in Sauk Centre to-
day, with sessions in the city hall
this morning and afternoon.
Herbert Claude entered the first
grade of the public school Monday
and Harold Claude entered the kim
dergarten. Paul Forsberg entered
the Commercial department Mon
day.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
Had Hair Tonic, But
Didn't Use His Head

Red Wing-A transient, wanting
to apply hair tonic to the roots of
his hair, figured that the best way
to get at the roots would be to
apply the concoction internally.
That's what he did, and as result
became intoxicated. The police
picked him up, gave him chance
to sober up, and then provided a
police escort out Of town.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
Black Birds, Robins
Seen Near Staples

Staples-We are just wondering
how far away spring really is?
A flock of about forty blackbirds
were seen flying south of Staples
along the Long Prairie road. A.
c. Hoenig saw two robins near his
home. There have been reports of
robins wintering in Minnesota this
year, but blackbirds are seldom
seen at the time.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22

deer watched the cars go by, grad
ually working their way down to
the intersections of highway II and
212, just a half mile west Of Gran
ite Falls.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22

Order for Hearing on Petition for
Administration, Limiting Time to
File Claims and for Hearing
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Stearns, IS.
In Probate Court
File No. 1880
IN RE. ESTATE OF Edward F.
Minette, Deceased
Paul e. Minette having filed here
in a petition for general admins
tration stating that said decedent
died intestate and praying that j..
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
Leaves Car; Returns
To Find Bicycle

Sleepy Eye-Martin Herman, of
Luverne, left his car on a Luverne
street one night recently and when
he returned to get it found the
machine gone. However, the per-
son who took the car did not leave
Martin without means of transpor-
tation. There in the Ford's stead
was bicycle. County Sheriff Rob
erts located the car, and in the
meantime has the bicycle in his
possession and is awaiting arrival
of the owner.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22

1t is said that the first official
intercollegiate sporting event in
the United States was a boat race
between Yale and Harvard in 1852.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
I'm Not Listening

Trashy triangle love stories the radio have
become so disgusting that the Women's Club of New
Rochelle, NJ Y, has started I'm Not Listening
movement, which is said to be spreading rapidly
through the country.
These programs usually deal with the domestic
strife, desertons, divorce, and they drawn out
daily with the accompanying waing, weeping and
gnashing of teeth of the victimized The
writer sat and listened to of these programs and
became 80 disgusted that we felt like breaking the
radio.
There is enough trouble in the world today
without magnifying the ills of family life through
playlets over the radio Listening to them everyday
we believe, would bring a morbid feeling over the
listeners, and would almost spoil their entire day.
There is a wide opportunity for improvement
in radio programs, especially during the daytime
broadcasts Instead of the depressing variety
thing of uplifting nature could be presented to
the housewife such as the story of happy and
cessful married existence Life can be beautiful
under such circumstances. We do not blame those
New York women for writing: I'm not listening to
your program"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
A Sane, Common Sense Program

Republican leaders planning a program to
offer to the people of the nation in the coming
presidential campaign and their efforts to meet the
conditions confronting the nation indicate a sane
approach and common theory. Here is sum-
mary of major principles suggested by the Repubi-
can program committee:
1. United States should keep out Of war.
?. Defense forces should be strengthened to pro-
tect the western hemisphere.
g. Trade agreements should be subject to ap-
proval by congress-
4. National labor relations act should be amend
ed and the labor board overhauled.
5. Farm program should be aimed at assur-
ing the farmer prices related to those he pays
that interchange of goods between farm and city
will be increased.
6. Government regulation of business should be
protective" not restrictive"
7. Government expenditures should be cut 2O&.
8. Higher surtax rates on individuals should be
reduced; certain business leves should be repealed;
government and state bond issues should be taxed.
9. Emergency presidential monetary powers
should be repealed
10. Adequate relief should be provided for all in
need but the administration entrusted to local gov
ernments.
IL. Social security legislation should be studied
with view to improvement and expansion.
Practically all of the principles above were out
lined by Senator Vandenberg in his recent talk
before the Lincoln Club in st. Paul, and they were
heartily approved by Republicans of the state in
general
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
Washington's Critics

In celebrating the 2OSth anniversary of George
Washington's birthday this month probably few
called, if they knew, that during his lifetime
he often subjected to the most bitter and violent
attacks by both military and civil opponents
Yet such the Perhaps worthy
man in the history of country was ever more
vciously assailed than Washington, both during
the Revolutionary War and throughout his subse-
quent President
The famous and infamous Conway cabal," COM
posed of dsgrntled officers of the Continental Army
sought to have Washington removed from his posi-
tion Of commandernchief in favor of General Gates
The plan failed, but the intrigues of his enemies
made Washingtons difficult task much harder at a
critical period of the war.
Even when he had finished his public life after
serving eight years President; in fact, upon the
very day of his leaving that high office editoriil
appeared in Philadelphia newspaper containing the
following:
This ought to be day of jubilee in the United
States. If a nation debauched by man,
the American nation has been debauched by Wash
ington. Let his conduct be example to future
struct mankind that the mask of patriotism may
be to conceal the foulest designs against the
liberties of the people"
Washington's conduct has been indeed IAN ex-
ample to future ages but not the horrible example
which the Philadelphia scribbler had in mind. In
spite of all criticism and abuse, the name and fame
of George Washington have come down to us as
imperishable national heritage
He human-he was not saint-but what
he accomplished far outweighs any minor short
comings that his grateful countrymen have written
his faults upon the sand and his virtues upon their
hearts.