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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-26
BACKBONE!!

The backbone of every
newspaper is it's readers and
advertisers. The following
merchants have advertise
ments soliciting your patron
age in this issue of the paper.
Your consideration for these
and other merchants who uti-
lie these columns from time
to time is requested.
Acme Appliance Co.. 72 E. Fifth st.
Alexander's Standard Station. Dale &
University
Berry's Fuel & Ice Co., 80 Rondo
Boyd Service Station. Dale & Central
Berdes Food Market. SSs Wabasha st.
Glover Meadow Stores, 225 Rondo St, sS4
Rice, 654 Selby Ave. and 939 Conway St
Capitol Auto Parts Co., 491 University Ave.
Commerce Liquor Store. 4th & wabssha
Crea Bros. 3O4 Rice St.
Economy Food Market. 364 N. Dale st.
Elite Valet Shop, 1854 N. Dale st.
Florsheim Shoe Co., Wabasha at 5th St.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Co.. 9Th Exchange.
Gardeners DIX Service Station, Western
and West Central
Grants Piston Rings. 1872 University Ave.
jain Cleaners. CAT University Ave.
Kings Valley Chicken Shack. at Riley
Lake.
Jim's Place. st: Anthony & Kent
Central Ave.
Kol-R Co., Dale 1892
Little Princess Beauty Salon. S64 N. Dale
st.
Majestic Drug Co.. $40 Rondo St.
Mt Olivet Baptist Church. w. Central &
Mackubbin st.
Minnesota Fence Works, 240 University
Ave.
Ben Myers. Tailor. S2s N. Dale st.
Owens Motor Co., TOO University Ave.
Park-Side Ice Cream, 585 University Ave.
Pepsi-C 80 N. Smelling Ave.
N. w. Fuel Co. Iron Fireman, 81 w. 9Th st.
Robinsons, 161 E. 7th St.
Unidale Liquor Store, 633 University Ave.
Jacob Schmidt's Brewing Co.
st. Paul Milk Dealers
Shoe Mart, 404-S Jackson St.
st. Paul Typewriter Exchange, 81 e. 9Th st.
St. Paul Bottling Co. (7-Up), $40 Payne
Ave.
Restaurant China Co., 219 E. 4th.
Tri-State Phone Co.
Tassie's Bakery. 1910 st. Clair
White Front Grocery. st. ANTHONY at Kent
Wormser Hat Stores
Zinsmaster Baking Co., Master Bread.
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Card of Thanks

We wish to extend our sincere
thanks and appreciation for the
acts of kindness and messages of
sympathy for the beautiful floral
offerings received from friends and
neighbors during the illness and
death of our beloved friend Sarah
Carey.
Our special thanks to Rev. H. W.
Bolts for his consoling words,
Thanks also to the Rev. W. E. Wad-
lington and J. C. Clayburne; the
choir for their comforting songs
and Mrs. R. B. Lynch for her vo-
cal solo so beautifully and tender
ly rendered and to all who in any
way expressed their sympathy.
Mrs. Sadie Teal and Mr.. and
Mrs. Felix Fogg.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-26
WELCOME HALL NOTES

The Cosmopolitan Girls had their
regular meeting Saturday, July Is,
at Welcome Hall. The group went
to Snail Lake Camp where they
heard Mr.. and Mrs. B. Street, re-
Gently returned Missionaries who
spent years in Africa. Both were
dressed in native costumes. Mr..
Street gave an interesting talk on
Africa and what the church mis-
sionaries are trying to do for the
natives on that continent. At the
camp a group of Jubilee singers
were also heard.
ATTENTION CHILDREN
All those going to Camp with us
come in and see Mrs. Strand be-
tween 2 and 4 p. m, about your
registration. You cannot go un-
less you register in time to gel
your Physical examination. Sc
hurry, please.
ORPHANS PICNIC
All orphan children please reg.
lister at Welcome Hall. The picnic
is Aug. l, will leave Welcome Hal
at 8 a. m.
STEWARDSHIP GROUP
Stewardship group are having
pew rally Sunday, July %. A
very interesting program is il
store for all. Mrs. Eta Graham will
be the principal speaker, Jubile,
Singers of Chicago, Gospel Singer
of Pilgrim Baptist Church, also tn,
independent gospel singers O
s. Minneapolis.
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l
born in Arkansas in 1891, the son
of share cropper. Bill is veteran
of the last World War, a member
Of the N. A. A. c. P, active in civil
and political life of his community,
Chairman of the Ramsey County
Committee of the Communist Par
ty. James Ford, a native of Ala
bama, is the son of a steel worker,
formerly postal employee, a vet
eran of the last World War and at
present member of the National
Committee of the Communist Par
ty. Ford is an outstanding leader
in the struggle for rights of work
ers.
The Communist Party is the
spokesman for civil rights, peace
and security of the masses, the
champion for Negro rights and en-
forcement of the 18th, 18th and
18th amendments to the Constitu-
ton. For passage of the anti-lynch
bill and the Geyer poll tax bill.
1t is not accidental that two
Negro World War veterans are in
the ranks of the Communist Party
today, fighting the real fifth col
umn, Wall St., war makers that
would destroy all Democratic
rights of the American people and
take America into a war that is
opposed by 95 per cent of the peo-
pie. This working class party is
the only political force seriously
undertaking to break the tradition
al chains of Chattel Slavery an
chored upon the Negro masses. We
ask your support for Communist
Party candidates, our program is
peoples solution to the many
problems confronting our Nation.
Minnesota State Campaign
Committee, Communist Party.
Sam Davis, Campaign Manager.
Editor: Minneapolis Spokesman.
I withheld public comment on the
fine editorial which appeared in the
June % issue of the Minneapolis
Spokesman, challenging the adult
groups to provide a substantial
scholarship to the Negro boy or
girl graduate who, during his or
her senior high school years, best
demonstrates in active participa-
ton the qualities of leadership.
This I did because I felt that there
would be an overwhelming re-
Spouse to your suggestion. Unfor-
tunately there was not.
However, l feel that the chal-
lenge is too important, too funda-
mental to be left unanswered. A
group of our citizens are now plan
ming a clinic for youth leaders in
order that certain community eco
nomic, educational, and social prob
lens can be attacked on a unified
front. More of this community
conscious work must be initiated.
I am willing to back up your
suggestion with a pledge of five
dollars. I am also interested
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Card of Thanks

We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks and appreciation for the
acts of kindness, messages of SYM
pathy and beautiful floral offer
ings received from our many
friends during the recent illness
and death of our beloved Relic
Benton.
Especially do we wish to thank
the Rev. Carlyle Fielding Stewart
for his consoling words and the
Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson for his
services.
Signed,
Mrs. Clora Vanzant, Mother.
Earl, Arkansas.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-26
COMMUNISTS CITE
ELECTION ISSUES

Editor: The State and National
elections this fall will take place in
the most critical period in the his
tory of our Country. Representa-
tives of big business through the
Republican and Democratic parties
are determined to draw America
into the present war for redivision
of the world, or conquests in Next
co and South America. The needs
of the people are forgotten in the
midst of war hysteria. Trade
Unions, the Communist Party and
Progressive people are attacked
with anti-American legislation and
vicious SANDER.
The working people want peace,
jobs and security at home. We do
not want war with death and de-
struction. The masters of industry
make millions out of war and suf-
fering of the common people. The
Communist Party will run candi-
dates for State and National offices
opposing the war parties. Nation
ally, Earl Browder will run for
President and James w. Ford for
Vice President. Browder will speak
in Minneapolis Sept. 10th. Ford
will be in st. Paul Sept. 18th.
For State offices Martin Maxi
for Governor, Bill Heron for 1t.
Gov, Clara Jorgeson for Secretary
OF State and Carl Winter for Sena-
tor. Bill Heron a resident of St.
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Elks Furnish Representation

of the Negro community in last Satur
days Minneapolis Aquannial parade the fine showing made by
Mnnehaha Temple
Marching Club.
official family have whipped together nice looking
Saturday and in the night parade Wednesday night
Negro participation would have
been completely negligible.
the National
including Minnesota
that the Guard will be
called something do with the wouldbe
Negro National Guarders found joy.
remembering those February days of
early 1910!
draft going make this business pick
up!
political boiling. Many candidates will be told by the
political the Negro around their
pockets!
of gentry have holes in their vest pocketsI
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enough to offer what little free
time I have to working with any
others in the raising of this Me-
mortal Fund scholarship.
John F. Thomas, Supervisor
of Negro Activities, N. Y. A.
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Listen to This
By Hobart T. Mitchell

AFRICA
There are $50 million Negroes in
Africa and but two million whites
QUINN CHAPEL
On July %, 1s47, Quinn Chapel
A. M. E. Church, Chicago, Illinois.
was organized.
SLAVERY IN NEW YORK
New York began the gradual
abolition of slavery in 1899 and
completed it on the 4th of July,
1927.
SEGREGATED DISTRICTS
Living in disease-breeding, seq
regated districts, Disseminated
against in the receipt of relief and
institutional care, extremely ex-
plotted, the Negroes of this coun-
try have higher disease and NOR
tally rates than other groups.
HOW TIMES CHANGE
If we drop back, say 81 years
ago, a southern white daily, the
Florida Times Union of March 20,
1883, supported the candidacy of a
Negro for assessor. They gave him
the title of Mr.. The following
words can be found in the paper
on the above date:
eve support Mr.. De Coursey for
Assessor because he is one of the
young colored men of the city who
stands highest for character and
ability. His opponent, Mr.. Town
send, is a retail liquor dealer. :"
THE COLOR LINE OF THE APP.
The following statement was
made to the Supreme Court, when
the Wagner Act was being tested,
by Morris Watson, national organ
izer of the American Newspaper
Guild and former employee of the
Associated Press:
When I was employed by the AS
sociated Press I learned that this
organization draws a color line to
please it's southern members. 4.
I insisted on using Mr.. and Mrs.
for Negroes as we'll as Whites. This
brought an indignant protest from
our Atlanta, Georgia, bureau,
which insisted that no Negro could
be so termed. When I refused to
change the Associated Press copy
on the Southern wire, an official of
the A. P. did so. This was one of
the many instances of the perver-
sion of news on the great A. P.
(IN FACT Vol. 1, No. 1. May
20, 1910, Long Island City, New
York;
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Mary Mcleod Bethune, born
July 10, 1875, Mayesville, South
Carolina. Parents - Samuel and
Patsy Mcleod. Married Albert L.
Bethune, May 2, 1899. Founder and
President of the Daytona- Goodman
Collegiate Institute, Daytona,
Florida.
She was born of slave parents
who were unable to give her an
education. In 1888, a school teach
er (white) gave her an opportunity
to enter Scotia College, where she
finished in 1895 and won a scholar
ship permitting her to study at
Moody Bible Institute. After teach
ing school for a while in South
Carolina, Haines Institute, Angus
ia, Georgia, and Palatka, Florida,
she came to Daytona in 1904 and
there started the Daytona School.
Her cash capital was $3.50 and five
pupils, and her school rented cot
tage.
Served as President of the
Southeastern Federation of Wom-
ans Clubs, and in 1924, at Chicago,
was unanimously elected President
of the National Association of Col
ored Women. At Oakland, Cal,
August, 1926, reelected to this
position and as President repre-
scented 100000 Negro women. At
the present time Mrs. Bethune is
associated with the National Youth
Administration.
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MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH
sos w. Central Ave-,
Rev. C. B. Wheeler, Pastor
By MaceO Simmons

By MaceO Simmons
The Union services on last Sun
day night at Mt. Olivet were well
attended. Rev. Nelson brought a
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The announced draft going to make this marriage busr
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Keep cool by remembering of those cool Februa
early 1910!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
CLEAN Up OF BEER
JOINTS IS URGED
Lennon Expresses Wish
That City Commission
ers Would Take Action

Following trial of three young
white girls yesterday in recorders
court on charges of vagrancy and
immoral conduct, Judge Alton A.
Lennon remarked from the bench, III
wish the city commissioners had
the CUTS to clean up some of these
beer joints in Wilmington.
IT suppose the polite words are
intestinal fortitude, but I repeat:
wish the city had the CUTS to clean
some of them up"
One one occasion in particular,
the recorder said, an operator of a
beer place was sent to the state
pe%nitentiary on a charge of high
way robbery, but the business is
still operating under another name
in his absence.
Judge Lennon mention the fact
that the beer establishments in Will
mington have developed into a strong
factor toward Turing young people,
particularly young girls, toward
leading IN immoral life.
"The young girls hang around
these places in the hope of meeting
men there" he said, "and the only
solution is to eliminate the meeting
places"
Judge Lennon brought out that
the court cannot revoke a beer Ii
cense unless the establishments
owner is found guilty of violating
the prohibition law. Only the city
Continued on Page Three; Col. 5,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
NLRB Upheld
In Decisions
By Tribunal
Is Given Freedom
To Order Elections And
Certify Unions
RULINGS GIVEN
Attack On Boards De-
cision In Longshoremen
Case Is Settled

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 Up -
Three unanimous decisions of the
supreme court today gave the labor
board a large measure of freedom
to order elections and certify unions
as collective bargaining agencies
without judicial interference.
Two decisions by Justice Stone
held that while the Wagner Act
gives "any person agsrieved by a
final osder of the board the right
to a review in a federal circuit
coort of appeals, this does not ap-
ply to orders for elections and ierti-
fiiation rolings because they are not
"final' orders.
Review Prohibited
The third, by Justise Black, also
held that circuit courts of appeal
could not review the boards cleo
ton orders and specifically upheld
the poard's authority to bar an al
legged company union from the bal
lot.
Justice Stones controlling decf-
sion was in a case brought by the
American Federation of Labor ano
affiliated longshoremen's union at
tacking the boards action in group
ing all Pacific coast longshoremen
into a single bargaining unit, fol
which a CIO union was certified as
the bargaining agency. The AL
contended that a majority OF long
shoremen in certain units along the
coast had voted for the federation
union.
The court agreed that "the effect
of the c~ertification, as the petition
err alleges, is that in the case
of some particular employers, their
workers who are not organized or
represented by the CLIO affiliate
have been deprived of an %opportun-
ity to secure bargaining representa-
tives of their own choice"
But the court held that those &C
lions Of the board which the Wag-
ner Act made subject to circuit
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
BUCHALTER GIVEN
YEAR SENTENCE
Industrial Racketeer Set
ties All His Old Accounts
With Government

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-0P-Louis
(Lepke) Buchalter, a thick-bodied
industrial racketeer whose career
had been surrounded by an aura OF
violence and sudden death, settled
all his old accounts with the federal
government today, and was SEN
fenced to IA years in prison.
Appearing for sentence upon a
conviction for conspiracy obtained
against him Dec. 20 as a key figure
in a 0,000, 900 international mar.
cotics smuggling syndicate, he I'M
expectedly wiped the slate clean.
His dead-black eyes still and his
heavy mouth drawn thin, he pleaded
guilty to nine additional narcotics
indictments and to a brace of in
dictments for violation of the anti
trust laws-specifically for racket
eering in the fur industry.
Judge John C. Knox, acting on
the recommendation of U. S. Attor-
ney John T. Cahill, thus imposed
sentence: IL years for narcotics vio-
lations; two years for racketeering;
an additional 10-year sentence, sus-
Continued on Page Three; CoI. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
DENIES ANY
WHITE HOUSE AIMS
Saws He Has No knowledge
F. R. Has Tapped Him
Party Nominee

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. - up -
Secretary of State Hull viwed to-
day that he had no presidential am
billions, and denied knowledge of re-
ports that President Roosevelt had
tapped hi mas the White House
choice for the democratic nominal
ton.
The .68-year-old cabinet member,
who is about to start the fight of
his life for. his reciprocal trade pro-
gram, took this stand on the presi-
Dental question at a press confer
ence, and a short time later an aide
reinforced the stand by declaring
that Hull was out of politics and
wanted no politics intermingled in
state department affairs.
However, some members of con
gress felt that the Hull name would
continue to bulk large in the great
guessing game about the next demo
cratic nominee. Chairman Bloom d.
N. W of the house foreign affairs
committee took the view that the
Hull statement did not eliminate the
secretary from the possibility of 60
ing to the White House.
tits one of the best statements
I've ever heard of by a prospective
candidate" said Bloom. at shows
that if he received the nomination
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
BRITISH BOMBERS
D0WNED IN BATTLE
Three Craft Engage IL
Speedy German Planes
Over Helgoland Blight

LONDON. Jan. 2 -Outnum-
hored four-to-one, British airmen in
three bombers fought a furious
bottle with a swarm Of II speedy
German planes over Helgoland
Rieht-the second encounter OF the
war between the big bombers and
+be nazfs Wanted warcraft.
When the fight was over, the
pr;t;sb air ministry said, one bonn
ho, was down, another was missing
and the third was safe, OF the
owen German planes, the air min
istr,, said one was "shot down in
s1a nos, and two others were 'likely
to have been LOST
DNB, German official news
ooencv. said in Berlin that three
British planes were shot down by
- German fighters after a short
,nt4,e ond that no German losses
reported.)
Nh Messerschmitt planes have a
u,ood advantage of 100 miles an
spe. ond mount two small cannon
~" vol as four machine guns.
vomiting only machine guns, the
uNn;aaton bombers Of the British.
CONTINUED OH Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
Disclose How
Cut To Pieces
Defenders Trapped Divis-
ion On Lake And Then
Broke Ice With Bombs
PLAN BIG PUSH
Large Areas OF Turku In
Smoking Ruins As Re-
suit Of Air Attacks

HELSINKI, Jan. s. (Wednes-
day)-R-The disclosure that Fin
nish planes dropped bombs to
smash the ice at Lake Kianta and
trap a whole Red Russian division
in what probably was the greatest
battle of the war was made by re-
liable sources early today as the
Firms mopped up in that sector
and converted other Soviet attacks
into Finnish victories.
The battle, fought on December
20 and 80 at the eastern edge of
narrow "waistline," re-
in the virtual humiliation
Of the Russian 163rd divisional
least 5000 strong.
First-hand reports Of the battle
began to trickle into the capital
today, although the victory itself
announced in a New Years
eve communicate.
Surround Russians
Today's reports told how the
Films first surrounded some 1000
Russians on the ice Of the lake
several days ago, killed more than
a thousand of them. and drew a
tight ring around the lake.
The ring was opened, however,
to permit Soviet reinforcements to
reach the lake. Then the Firms
surrounded the Reds again, and
set up machine guns on the shores.
In the dead of the night the
Firms began their attack and when
the Russias tried to retreat they
found the way cut off.
For two days Russian tanks cir
cled the lake, attempting to pro-
tect the troops marooned on the
ice with their full equipment
heavy guns, trucks and field
kitchens.
Send For Planes
Finally the Films sent for the
bombing planes. They blasted great
holes in the ice and Soviet trucks,
SoAAlIO1A o1lo 411S11 I0A1lC1Co LII l1lC
water.
In utter panic, the Survivors
sought to fight their way off the
broken ice. They refused to sur
render.
The Firms, however, we're re-
ported to have taken a great num-
Der of prisoners and large stores
of equipment, including " guns,
eleven tanks, two armored cars,
four anti-aircraft guns, hundreds
of trucks and horses, a dozen field
kitchens and much arms and mu-
nitions.
Today the Firms were following
up their victory while the Soviets
were believed to be preparing a
Continued On Page Three; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03

ISSUES SLATED
TO BE SEzi'TLHt
Roosevelt To Propose
Special Taxes To Care
For Defense Spending

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-R
An authoritative source said
tonight that President Roose-
welt would recommend, by impli-
cation, that congress vote spe-
cial taxes to take care of ap-
proximately $500, 600 900 of emer.
gency defense expenditures.
The informant asserted that
the chief executive planned to
put up to congress" tomorrow
the problem of meeting the
emergency war expenditures
without increasing the federal
debt, but would make no specific
recommendations as to the kind
of taxes to be levied.
The situation outlined as fol-
lows:
The President will recommend
a budget that will keep the
government within the %S45,OGO,-
OO0,O 00 debt limit, provided the
emergency expenditures are spe-
cially financed and new reve-
nues are found to pay for farm
benefit payments now financed
from general treasury funds.
The present debt is around Sl2,-
0OO, GOO, 900 and the indicated in
crease for the new fiscal year
starting July 1 is $4,000, 900, 600.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
COAST line GIVEN
TAX CASE SETBACK
Court Rules Against
Railroad Regarding
Debt Service Taxes

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Jan. 2.-P
The supreme court refused today
to subscribe to a theory that there
is a 1O-mill limit on taxes against
railroads for payment of school and
road bonds.
AS a result, the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad received a setback
in it's fight to prevent debt service
levies by special school and road
and bridge districts from piling up.
Justice Rivers Buford wrote the
opinion largely o%ver-rulnig Circuit
Judge E. C. Love of Quincy, who
held there is a rule of reason" linn
itation on taxes against railroads.
The action first involved At u
ties but settlements reduced the list
to Clay, Levy and Madison counties
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03

practices outlined above and to
express the hope that ii will re-
ceive early assurances that they
are being discontinued"
Thus far the assurances re-
quested have not arrived.
Making one distinction, the
protest said:
"This government readily adj
mits the right of the British
government to censor private
mails originating in Or destined
to the United Kingdom or pri-
vate mails which normally pass
through the. United Kingdom
for transmission to their final
destination"
The note began by saying:
'tThe United States department
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03

on the high seas nor can it adj
nit the right of the British gov
eminent to censor mail on ships
which have involuntarily enter
ed British ports"
The note termed particularly
Objectionable" the practice OF
taking mails from ships which
ply directly between American
and neutral European ports
land which through some form
or duress are induced to call at
designated British control bases"
Saying this was a "clear vio-
lation" of the Hague convention
of 1907, the note concluded:
'The United States govern
ment feels compelled to make a
vigorous protest against the