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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Mill City
Branch N.A.A.C.P.
Begin Drive

The Membership Committee of
the Minneapolis branch of the
NAACP will hold a meeting for
workers in the membership drive on
Monday, May 5, at 8 o'clock, at the
Catholic Parish House, 3615 4th
Avenue South.
Miss L. o. Smith, attorney, a
member of the Legal Redress Com
mittee, will speak on the achieve
ments of the NAACP both national
and local. Workers will be given
the necessary equipment for solicit
tation of members and rules and
regulations of the contest made
known.
Anyone who is interested in
working in the drive for new men,
bers in 1941, all present members
of the NAACP and members of the
Executive Committee are urged and
invited to come to this meeting and
get with the gang to start the
meeting off with bang"
From all indications competition
will be keen for the prizes of $1,000,
first, $500, second, and $3.50, third,
plus weekly awards which will be
given contestants. The latter prizes
will be announced later. with the
general increased information and
knowledge of the HAACP and its
work and with the accomplishments
of the local branch of the NAACP,
it will be easier to get member
ships this year," one of the work
ers of last year said and she in
tends to work again this year.
The NAACP will sponsor the
Phyllis Wheatley Sunday Forum on
May Is. The Education Commit
tee, chairmaned by Cecil Newman,
will have charge. 1t will serve also
as pep meeting for friends, work
ers and members and some of the
first members of 1941 will be hon.
ored by receiving their membership
cards at this meeting.
Leo Bohanan is chairman of the
membership campaign for 1941.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Peter Phillips
Dead at 90

Peter Hayes Phillips, $40 Colfax
Ave. No., died at the age of 60 at
the Rochester State Hospital Sat
urday, April &c.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, April 20, at two o'clock p. m,
at Zion Baptist Church with Rev.
H. W. Bolts officiating.
Mr.. Phillips is survived by his
wife, Ethel, a daughter, Cecile
Taylor, and two sons, William and
Harry, all three of Milwaukee, who
came for the funeral services.
Interment in Crystal Lake ceme-
terry with burial arrangements in
charge of the Woodland Funeral
Home.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
OVERFLOW CROWD
ATTENDS TESTIMONIAL
FOR c. M. MTTCHELLS
HUNDREDS ATTEND TESTI-
MONIAL FOR MITCHELL

HUNDREDS Al cIND AEAo H.
MONIAL FOR MITCHELL
Over seven hundred Twin City
people thronged to the Halle Q.
Brown Community House Thurs
day, April "a, to pay tribute to
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., st. Paul
Urban League Executive Secretary
for three years, who left Saturday,
April &c, for Washington, D. c., to
accept a position with the United
States Government as assistant to
DR.. Robert Weaver.
Heading the speakers on the pro-
gram was Rev. Wallace w. Rob-
bins, president of the Board of
Directors of the st. Paul Urban
League. He was introduced by
Mrs. Mary D. Mcfarland of the
Urban League Auxiliary. Other
speakers included DR.. ]. Walton
Crump, president of the Board of
the Halle @. Brown Community
House, Clarence W. Wigington,
chief architect of the City of st.
Paul, and Rev. Charles J. Keefe,
rector of st. Peter Claver church.
Musical selections included con-
tralto solo by Miss June Hawkins
and two selections by the Halle Q.
Brown Glee Club.
Palms, cut flowers in large
wicker baskets and tall vases, cibo-
tium ferns and tall cathedral
candles formed the setting and
background for the affair. In the
receiving line were Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Mrs,
Mary D. Mcfarland, Charles W.
Washington, executive secretary of
the Minneapolis Urban League, and
his wife, Mrs. Washington, Cecil
E. Newman, publisher of the st.
Paul Recorder, and his wife, Mrs.
Newman, Miss I. Myrtle Garden,
director of the Halle @. Brown
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Artistic Cleaners
Has Three i'm
REGULAR Employ

Artistic Cleaners, 800 9th Ave.
&c., one of the city's most popular
dry cleaning, dyeing and furriers,
have three colored workers regular
ly employed.
M. ]. Lichterman, proprietor,
gave the names of the employees
last week as John Armstrong, Fred
Atkins and David Faison. -
1t has always been a policy of
Artistic Cleaners to give every
group opportunity for employment,
the firm also added.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
This World
Cotton" Ed Smith
Fathers Day
Harvard Announced
T. Arnold Hill Said

Senator Ellison ID. Cotton ED
Smith of South Carolina wants
other mems sons to serve their
country in the draft army but
sought exemption for his own. So
far the draft authorities have re-
fused to give in to pressure by the
South Carolina sOlOn. Readers will
rem Der Cotton Ed" who
stalked out of the Philadelphia
convention of the Democratic party
in 1886 when a Negro minister,
member of the Pennsylvania legis-
lature, got up to pray. Cotton
Ed also has been one of the chief
opponents of the perennial anti
lyrching bin. Smith halls from a
poll tax state. No state where
every citizen may vote would send
such a representative to Washing
tOn-at least not more than once!
Retailers plan to pep up the adj
vertising campaigns designed to
make America father conscious.
Mems clothes manufacturers are
contracting for much space in the
smooth paper magazines to tell the
country how to honor father by
buying him something for his
wardrobe!
Harvard University has an
nounced that its athletic depart
ment will not again schedule games
with any school which expects it to
discriminate against any team
member on account of race. An
napOlis Naval Academy, the tax
supported citadel of snobbery, re-
Gently requested and Harvard ac-
ceded to the dropping of one of its
players because he was cOlOred.
T. Arnold Hill said something
significant in his recent speech in
Minneapolis. We think it worth
passing on to our readers. His
words were these:
"The problems of the crisis (the
WARP go far beyond the surface
frOth to the very kernel of what
we mean by democracy and life it.
self. l said in the last war that
after the war we will get work, we
will be given democracy, but we
didn't. l am trying to make my
self think so this time, but / can't
do it. l don't think things are any
better for the great masses of peO-
pie now than they were then, in
the last war. The general pattern
of government is the same as be-
fore. If ever there was a time to
face the problems of democracy in
a crisis, now is the time. And the
only way to face that crisis is to
organize and demand, to open the
peoples eyes, to make the processes
of democracy function"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Mrs. Faegre Speaker
At Mothers Day
Program May s

The Mothers Day program at
ODER Hall on May 8 will be ad-
dressed by Mrs. Marion Faegre,
assistant professor, Institute of
Child Welfare.
A fine program has been ar
ranged to make this an outstanding
event, according to the committee
in charge. The program will be-
gin at 8 p. m. The affair is dedi-
Gated to the mothers of ODER and
Welcome Hall.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Keep the Soldier
BOYS Happy!!!

Many soldier boys who are serv-
ing in the draft army, now receive
this paper each week. You can
help keep them happy by seeing
that they get their hometown pa
per each week.
Call Miss Brown, of our Circu-
lation Department, Midway 8S4O,
and she will take your order for a
paper, from the hometown, for
the boys who are serving in Uncle
Sans defense forces.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
U.S.SUJPREsME COURT FlITSR.R JIM CROW
Washington Appointed to
N. Y. "A. Committee

Charles w. Washington, execu-
tive secretary of the Minneapolis
Urban League, has been appointed
to the State Advisory Committee Of
the National Youth Administration.
AS a member of this committee
Mr.. Washington fills the vacancy
created by the resignation of Clar-
ence M. Mitchell, Jr., former execu-
tive secretary of the st. Paul Ur-
ban League.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Twin City News Briefs

The annual Hostess dinner was
held at Zion Baptist Church on
Thursday evening, April "a. Two
hundred guests were in attendance.
An interesting program was rem
dered while dinner was in progress.
The affair was sponsored by Mrs.
U. E. Bolts.
1t was announced this week that
Marian Anderson, famous contral-
to, will appear here next season
with the Minneapolis Symphony
-Qrchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos,
conducting.
Warren GrissOn will be the prin-
cipal speaker at a Conservation
program sponsored by the st.
James AME Church, st. Paul, Uni
versity of Life group at that
church Sunday night at s p. m.
The Mckinley School P. 7. A.
will meet in the school hall Tues
day, May 6, at one o'clock p. m.
There will be cooking demonstra-
ton by the Dispatch Fruit Co. and
a short talk by Mrs. Irving Dunn
of the St. Paul Women's Institute.
George w. Hall, Hennepin cOun-
ty road employee, was elected to the
trustee board of the county en-
ployes' union last week.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Thomas Taylor Buried

Funeral services were held Tues
day, April 20, at 10 a. m. at the
Woodland Funeral Chapel for Thorn
as Taylor, GOT 9th Ave. NJ, with
Rev. H. w. Bolts officiating. In
torment in Crystal Lake Cemetery.
Mr.. Taylor is survived by a sister,
Anna Hayes, of Chicago.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Ankle
Proves to Be
Something Else

On March IL Mrs. Anna Ora
ham, 2905 Fifth Ave. So, slipped
and suffered what she thought was
a sprained ankle.
Two weeks later when the in
jured ankle did not respond to
treatment examination by a physi-
clan found the ankle to be broken!
Mrs. Graham is now undergoing
her seventh week of remaining in
the house and for an active person
such as she is it has been very
bothersome,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Odd Fellows and
Household In
Annual Sermon
ANNUAL SERMON OF ODD
FELLOWS AND HOUSE
HOLDS SUNDAY


Mothers Day, Sunday, May IL,
at 10:45 a. m, is the day selected
by all branches of the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows for its annu-
al thanksgiving sermon. The COM
mittee met Sunday, April 20, at the
home of Mrs. Alice Franklin, 486
st. Anthony Ave-, to make ar
rangements.
The services will be held at st.
James A. M. E. Church, Dale and
W. Central, with Rev. B. N. Moore
reading the service. An interesting
program has been prepared. E. A.
Hatton is chairman and Mrs. Mat
tie Haskins is the secretary.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
GRANT CURTIS

Grant Curtis, 637k Olson Blvd,
died Tuesday, April 20. At press
time arrangements for funeral
services had not been completed.
The remains are at the Woodland
funeral home.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
ROLLER SKATING PARTY

Fun for all. Roller Skating
Party, Monday, May 5, at the Ok
ford Roller Rink, sponsored by the
Pilgrim Baptist Training Union.
Admission 3Oc. Time, 1880 to 1890.
-Adyt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02

excellent financier, a possessor of
a rare organizing ability. Since he
came to Pilgrim February %, the
membership and finance have made
phenomenal increases.
Rev. Ware is a native of Ala
bama, a graduate of Payne The
illogical Seminary. He matricu-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Baptist Church to
Formally Install Rev. Ware
In Two Weeks Observance

Sunday, May will mark the beginning of installation services
Smith Edward Ware the minister of Pilgrim Baptist
Church. St. Paul These will continue through May 49,
Members Pilgrim Church. according the publicity committee
being able Rev. Ware They believe him to
and spiritual leader who recommended
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02

GET READY FOR THE CIR
GUS THAT is COMING TO
TOWN LIVE ANIMALS {.
Clowns E. BAREBACK RIDERS
. Tasty Eats A GRAND
GALA PARADE TAKING IN ALL
THE PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGH
BORHOOD f. Given by Halle @.
Brown Staff.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02

Summarize your car at Browns
Service Station. 80 years expert
ence. l1O1 Second Avenue South.
-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
TO BROADCAST MAY 7

The Music Department of Phyllis
Wheatley, under the direction of
Miss Jeanette Dorsey, will present
the Phyllis Wheatley Sextette in a
fifteen-minute program over
WDGY Wednesday, May 7, at 7:45
p. m.
The Sextette is composed of
Fred Adkins, Gordon Ash, Audrey
Doughty, Dennis Faison, Mark
Gibbs and Cornelius Troupe. Ches-
ter johnson and Louis Greer will
also take part in the program.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02

Second Annual Duke Duchess
might in Harlem" Wheatley, May
9.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02

Watch for Battle of Swing. "Er'
Herbert VS.. Walter Lear.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
There Is No Substitute
For This
Paper!

The Fishermen's Club of Wei
come Hall will hold their first Sun
day services at Welcome Hall
Chapel, May 4, at three o'clock
p. m. Rev. Joseph Jackson will
deliver the address.
GUEST SPEAKER AT CAMPHOR
SUNDAY
DIR. Frank Cone, president of the
Goodwill Industries of st. Paul and
a former District Superintendent
of the st. Paul District, will be
the guest minister at the Camphor
Memorial Methodist Church, at IL
a. M, Sunday. The officers of the
church will conduct a Seth Parker
hour service at 8 p. m.
The St. Paul Women's Council
which was organized to improve
civic, social, and educational condi-
lions of the community met Thurs
day, May /, at 2 p. m. at Halle
@. Brown House. Mrs. Nathaniel
Evans is chairman of the council.
All women of the community are
invited to attend this meeting.
The Dad-SOn Banquet, sponsored
by the Mems council and the II"
Club, at Halle Q. Brown COmmu-
nifty House on April Is was a very
successful affair.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
Supreme Court Decides
Jim Grow Accommodations
OnR. r. s Must Be Equal
States Which Have Jim Crow Rules
EQUAL Accommodation

WASHINGTON C-Amercans of Negro ancestry travelling
furnished good accommodations by railroads
the u Supreme Court ruled today by unanimous opinion
ruling filed by Congressman Arthur Mitchell
Illinois, only Negro member of Congress- after he forced from
Pullman sleeper and forced ride Jim
day coach during trip from Chicago to Arkansas.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02

The garment trade has just dis
covered that the average American
woman spends 20 to 80 per cent
more for undergarments and hos
fery than for dresses. The ads have
convinced her the less she wears,
the better she looks.-Advertising
Are.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

apartment houses don't have to ring doorbes One
them fitted the jewelry store" He denied any other
burglaries.
But when O'Neill and Jackson went to his home they
found the expensive accordion ypewers cameras vases
paintings, jewelry-strewn about the boys The
stolen microscope on his desk.
Aghast, Mrs Richards insisted her not the
Phantom, until Bob finally admitted it was true.
Sure I'm the Phantom" he told the officers. I'm
professional burglar and you've have caught
if hadn't taken fool kid with that school job He
suggested eating pies and marking the teachers desk
II had keys to every big apartment house in Richmond
Nobody suspected the kid who left papers The cops
would right by without looking at me-"
In addition to these burgaries he admitted robbng be-
tween 500 and 1000 parked He had disposed of his
loot to kids at school, relatives in the country
He went out with girls and didn't drink gamble
But he wanted good clothes and money to pay for his
dearest possessona big photograph He had pulled
many job just to buy records The young burglar
pleaded guilty to robbery and assault.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Jackson asked
ONel. cts not like grown burglar to stop and gobble
pie and pudding"
And" ONell nodded that desk- looks like the work
of a kid with grudge against the teacher.
Maybe the Phantom himself is school kid and all
the time we've been looking for older burglar"
So they questioned the principal and the teacher who
used the desk and secured list Of boys who had been
PEELED disciplined in recent months.
They started talking to these boys and their parents
eliminating possible suspects questioning kids on the street.
picking up schoolboy gossip and checking aibs with
frightened parents.
One of the last their list 16yearold Robert Rich
ards gangling blond youth They accosted him on his
way to school He sullen and unfriendly but they
questioned him patiently AS they talked ONeil suddenly
leaned and plucked shiny fountain pen from
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

- ECENTLY San Francisco police up against
burglary that defied all the known rules of police
and finally cracked it open only after the cmi
nal departed from his usual methods.
months Franciscos wealthy Richmond District.
the Preside and the plagued by in
creasng number of burglares and automobile lootngs
and homes entered and cash paint
ings ornaments and musical instruments stolen.
Parked automobiles even in home drveways broken
into packages guns and radios taken.
The thefts mounted into the thousands. Police
patrols increased but still the crimes went almost
nightly under the very noses of the officers.
The looted apartments bore marks Of forced entry
And the automobile thefts the handles had been
forced with lever. The mysterious marauder came
and went like a shadow.
The police lists of all stolen articles and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23


About month later, Walter H. Downing, middeaged
business executive held he parked his in his
garage late at night
Downing obedenty reached his wallet, but the
hodup apparently thought he reaching for
gum for he shot him. Downing wounded in the abdomen,
pursued the fleeing for half block before he col
lapsed. He is the road to recovery
The police carried feverish manunt but turned
nothing They thought it likely that the gunman-described
by Downing only young and hard-lookng-was the
Phantom But all their frantic activity to naught.
The burglaries continued
Then morning the police got an excited call from
Principal Harry c. Hanse of the big Preside Junior High
School Thirteenth Avenue The school had been burglar
lied the weekend and than 1000 worth of loot
carted off. Among the missing articles $500
cordonthe personal property of the Of police officer
- set of drums and brand new microscope. The
detectives too that the teachers desk in class
had been defaced, though nothing stolen And
they found the school cafeteria had been entered and pies
and buildings eaten.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

RECEPTACLES for the storage of
mems souls" are now on exhibition
~ at the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago.
These spirit receptacles' are used
by tribes in the New Hebrides group
of islands in the South Pacific. An
article in the Field Museum News.
based on notes of the late DR.. Albert
b. Lewis, who as curator of Melanesian
ethnology spent several years in the
South Seas on expeditions for the
museum. describes them as follows:
THE idea of the spirit or soul leav-
ing the dying or dead body of human
being is very old and widespread, and
Characteristic of most religions, past
and present. including Christianity.
Conceptions of the occurrence of this
event are usually expressed in the
vaguest Of terms however.
Seeming tangibility is lent TO the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

the boys pocket
He recalled that
several such pens
had been stolen
from the jeweiry
store.
Questioned, Rich
ards gave them the
name of a boy
from whom he
said he bought the
pen. The detec-
tives gave back
the pen and let
him go on to
school. They found
the boy Richards
named and learned
he had never sold
such a pen. Rich
ards mother told
them that Bob was
a hard working
boy who carried
both day and night
paper routes. He
was out at all
hours OF the night,
and she admitted
she had little con-
troll over him. The
Richards home
was just around
the corner from
t h 9 burglarized
jewelry store.
The inspectors
arrested young
Richards. He fin
ally admitted the
Kallerup burglary.
"All right, I stole
the stuff" he adj
mitted. II have q
lot Of keys that I
get on my paper
route-keys to the
front doors of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

idea among the tribes Of Maleka in the New Hebrides
Islands of the South Pacific by their production and
OF spirit recepaces These hollow wooden which
the spirit of the deceased supposed to enter at the time
of death
When is dying among these people. one of
these cones, very carefully wrapped that
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

see 1t, Is placed near or over the mouth
of the expiring man. BY this means 1t
is believed that his spirit leaves his
body and Is received within the cone.
When death has taken place, the cone
containing the captured spirit Is taken
into a special house used only for the
purpose. There 1t Is placed on a plat
form with other similar cones. No I'M
initiated person is permitted to enter
this house.
THE spirits of the deceased are thus
believed to remain present in this
house, and the priesthood Of the tribe
Is not above practising a little decep-
ton to bolster the faith of the fol-
lowers, however sincere the leaders
may be in the belief themselves; for on
certain ceremonial occasions they cause
the voices of the imprisoned spirits to
come forth to gatherings Of the be-
levers The voices of the spirits are
nan who talks through bamboo tube
It peculiar muffled sound is produced
from ordinary tribesmen.
Id Museums exhibit is a spirit talker,'
oh was half filled with water. The eerie
ID by talking through a short bamboo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

pawnshops up ana
down the Pacific
Coast were checked
and re C h e C X e d
without results. In
spectors j a m e s
O'Neill and jack
son, assigned to
the case, pored
thrcu & h police
files. They ques-
toned dozens of
suspects. tr a C e d
men recently re-
leased from prison,
and ran down all
suspicious charac-
tiers.
But still the bur-
glaries continued
and what puzzled
the officers was
that the Phantom
often left beautiful
n e C X Ia C e 8 u n
touched while he
stole only a few
small rings and
watches.
At length he
grew more ambi-
tious. He entered
the jewelry store
of E. c. Kallerup
on Clement Street
and departed with
more than $1,000
worth of watches,
pins, Gig are t t e
lighters, fountain
pens and pipes.
The police re-
doubled their eff
forts because the
Phantom was now
going big-time. But
there was no trace
20 Asx.
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