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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-06-13
June Graduates
By MORRIS GIBBS, sr.

Every year at June
Large classes of young Americans
Graduate from institutions of
learning
Seeking positions in the
hinterlands.
Our group in recent years
Has been educationally minded,
The younger generation is wide
awake
Against prejudices that would
keep them blinded.
Today the trained youth
Is the one most likely,
To get a government job
If he knows his fundamentals
correctly.
Education is stressed so much
That domestics nowadays,
Have to have a fair education
Or else be eliminated in carrying
trays.
Our group with it's advanced
education
What can it do?
We're barred from every
defense project
And this is a democracy too.
Looks like we have an eternal
struggle
We're common people tits true,
But on the pages of history
We've proven true Americans
thru and thru.
Congratulations graduates
For you have opened the way,
And shown America you have the
intelligence
If given the chance and the day.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-06-13
FORMER ST. PAUL RESIDENT
DIES

Mrs. Mary (Jones) Wigington, a
resident of st. Paul for a number
of years, died in Mason City, Iowa,
Saturday, June z, at A a. m, at
local hospital. She had been in i'll
health for about a year and had
been in the hospital for week.
Mrs. Wigington moved to Mason
City, Iowa, in 1941, and was en-
ployed as junior matron in the
Junior College in Mason City.
Survivors include her husband,
one daughter, and a sister, Mrs. M.
V. Littlejohn, 698 Rondo avenue.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, June 10, at 10 a. M, in the
Patterson Funeral Home in Mason
City with Sherman Yelland, read
er in the Christian Science Church,
officiating. Burial was in Elmwood
cemetery.
MRS. LUCY BRADLEY IS DEAD
Mrs. Lucy Bradley, 80 st. An
thony avenue, died Tuesday, June
10, at her home. She was 76 years
old, and was born in Holly Springs,
Mississippi. She came to st. Paul
nineteen years ago to make her
home with her son, Benjamin Brad
ley, who survives her.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, June IL, at 2 p. m. from
the Apostolic Faith Mission, Rondo
and Chatsworth Streets, with Elder
Lawrence officiating.
Tnterment at Elmhurst cemetery.
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Deaths and
Funerals
HARRY WOODS BURIED

Funeral services were held for
Harry Woods, age 81, or 52S Emer-
son Ave. No., on Monday, June 9,
at 2 o'clock at the Woodland Flu
neral Chapel. Rev. Mrs. C. E.
Parker read the burial service.
Mr.. Woods, who died at the Min
neapois General Hospital on June
5, is survived by two nieces of
Guthrie, Oklahoma, and a nephew
of Topeka, Kansas.
Interment in Crystal Lake ceme-
terry.
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BEAUTY IS EARTHS IMMORTAL
CARELESSNESS

By Anderson M. Scruggs in Harpers
Beauty is earth's immortal carelessness:
There is order in a grassy field
Cleft by a stream whose casual waters press
The random rocks of years. The hands that WELD
The patterns of a wood careless hands:
A log is flung a stream, vine
Stretches at above leaf cluttered lands
Where warm confusion is the design.
But man, who owes his accident of birth
To laundering cells that meet in blind collision,
Chafes to conform the softness of the earth
To the sharp pattern of his minds precision,
Needless that in the end he shall be
With times amorphous dust he treads upon.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-06-13

Collins is the prayer leader for this
month. We are urging the entire
membership to spend one hour with
US in prayer each Wednesday eve
ming. We invite you to worship
with us on Sunday.
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FLOssIE SLAUGHTER BURIED

FLOSSIE SLAUGHTER BURIED
Flossie Slaughter, age A, of
1920 9th st. S., died at Minneapolis
General hospital on June 9. Flu
neral services were held Thursday,
June IL, at two o'clock at Woodland
Funeral Chapel with Rev. H. W.
Bolts officiating.
She is survived by a husband,
Lloyd, and a mother, Mrs. Anna
Green of Washington, D. c., who
came for the funeral, and other rel
atives.
Interment at Crystal Lake GENE
terry.
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with half success, but keeps calling
to them calling at them to
go on ~. on /: on to success.


go on on on to success.
'They Conquer who believe they
can" If we, the Negro, will only
believe we can do the job .. what
ever it happens to be :. we can
do it, provided we put all we have
into the doing of it :. Our future
as race is in our hands. Much
that we fail to get economically
and politically is because of our
own unbelief and Indifference. If a
great business venture is proposed,
we are quick to say it can't be
done. Before we start, we give up.
We have little representation and
voice in city, county, state, and ma
tional government because we
don't believe we can elect our own.
We don't believe we have brains
enough to plan and maneuver so as
to use our force and other forces to
aid us in the attainment of our
goals. We fail to remember that
others apparently weak and out
numbered have faced gigantic and
seemingly impossible tasks with
little or no equipment =. and won.
Conscious of Our Possibilities as
a people, we the Negro must make
a new allegiance with infinity for
the successful attainment of our
goals. We must decide to take God
at his word, and step out with our
fate in our own hands. We must
cease to depend upon the tutelage
of the other fellow and build
for ourselves such monuments to
Negro activities in every field
of human endeavor that the world
about US will stand aghast. We
must lay aside our swaddling
clothes burst the bands of
timidity that keep us shrinking and
hiding from the shadows of passing
events and resolve to form for our
selves the course which we will
henceforth take, to gain for our
selves everything we as group,
feel we are entitled to.
We must refuse to listen to the
cry of weaklings among US :. or
the selfish within our ranks who
would deter US from our detectives.
We realize that there is no easy
road between US and that which we
desire to attain; we are fully cog
infant of the fact that much work
and money will be necessary before
we reach our goal; yet we must go
forward if we are to become a part
of all about US. If we are deter
mined, we shall not fail what
ever we attempt, for there is no
such word as impossible" no
such word as "can't" in the Ian
guage of a people that have sworn
to attain a particular goal.
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What Are You Going to Do About It?

We might a well face the facts.
Negro people sold this They
fighting sold going Army
paying higher doing anything else the
To hem the democracies the "democraces-wh
implicit the marks They don't like Hitler
like Fascism.
But they "why should fight? Things couldn't be
ilxl
And why do they this feel this within themselves?
made feel given
small share of democracy the mokery.
have beaten he crushed their laughed
their hurts bgory
Now time of national crisis do recognize
try them?
We don't. We haven't We the Negro people
few alfheaedy; nothing still build
aipanes won't them share the the
BOOM We still won't let them into Annapolis into the Navy
all menials We with
the Army training strictly segregated
units the of which insult to the Negro
Will all this the fight against Will it
of democracy to isolate tenth of the nation much Hitler
has isolated the Jews?
What do about it?-Tom Daily
paper PM IN. "
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Pilgrim Baptist Church
(The Homelike church,

Rev. S. e. Ware, Pastor
M. A. Boiling, Supt.
SUNDAY, JUNE 15-FATHER'S DAY
9:30-Sunday School.
9:30-Adult Bible Class. Everyone is in
vited to attend. Won't you come
out and bring your Bibles with you?
IL :00-Service Subject '"The Jealous God"
The first commandments Il and q.
Thou shalt have no other God
before me.
8:30-Sr. Choir and Congregation will
meet at Mount Olivet Church.
6:30--B. Y. P. U.
s:00-Evening Service: A SPECIAL
MESSAGE ON THE EAGLE
STIRS HER NEST"
The White Rose Club is giving a penny
carnival Tuesday night, June II, at the
Welcome Hall. Mrs. S. E. Ware, Asso-
ciate; Mrs. lucia Taylor, President.
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Numbered Among Our Subscribers

its sister publication the other Twin
City completed weekly several
into each of the other At states and
into several foreign countries
Enjoying calculations before known by local publications
published the the Negro community both
tinung growth readers and wider
probation of the job each tries to do for its respective community
Numbered subscribers of the leading
the white communities They leaders business educa
tion politics, the professions and the labor movement.
subscription lists they seldom their suscrp
TONS Sometimes of them disagree with policies but
have ventured change them by reasoning
We those white subscribers because they much
than thousands of their white brethren nothing
people this population except what
buresque perhaps the hear the radio
BOLD FACED
Some bold faced falsfer spreading the ridiculous tale that
member the who conference with Governor Harold
Sssen last Saturday told the that the Negro didn't
jobs in the defense industry
Such propaganda naturally be traced either to wfu gno
trying somebody's bungng
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Final Symphony Drive
Results Due Today

Final results of the National Sym
phony Orchestra's campaign for a
sl07, 500 sustaining fund were to be
announced today at luncheon of
volunteer workers at the Carlton
Hotel.
At the last report luncheon $50
900 still was needed to insure the
orchestras operation next season.
A final appeal to the 800 volun-
teer solicitors was voiced by Walter
Bruce Howe, campaign chairman,
in letters mailed last night. Mr.
Howe called attention to the spec
tacular achievements Of the orches-
ira in the 10 years of its existence,
and added:
When I think of these accom-
plishments and. most particularly,
when I think of the thousands in
Washington who have applauded
this orchestra. it seems incredible
that now. at the very apex OF its
career, it should disintegrate because
of lack of support. I can't believe
that the thousands who have loved
and VINO nave gwen so muCn 10 tlllS
magnificent organization will let it
down"
He concluded by saying he had
written the letter to you who have
volunteered to bear the greatest bur-
dens of the campaign in the hope
that it may be of some help to you
In the few hours remaining to us
to save the National Symphony
Orchestra"
Evening star., 1941-02-20
New Ambassador
OF Poland d-in-ExiIe
Assumes Post Here
U. S. Protocol OfficioI
Meets Ciechunowski
And Wife at Station

Jan Ciechanowski, new Ambas-
sador of Poland, representing the
Polish government-in- n-exile In Lon
don, today began his new duties. He
arrived here yesterday afternoon to
assume the post left vacant by the
resignation of Count jerry Potocki.
The acceptance by this Govern
ment of Mr.. Ciechanowski's appoint
ment marks the first instance where
the administration has accorded a
government sent into exile by this
war the right to appoint and recall
foreign ENJOYS.
The new Ambassador was Minister
here from 1925 to 1928. He has been
Undersecretary of State of the gov
ernment in London. In 1919 he was
secretary to former Premier Pad
erewski at the Versailles Peace Con-
ference.
Stanley Woodward, Assistant Chief
of Protocol met the new Ambassador
at Union Station yesterday for this
Government. Representatives of
Czecho- -Slovakia, also a victim of
Germany, greeted Mr.. Ciechanowski
DIR. Karel Cervenka, First Secre-
tary, and DR.. Vladimir Palic, Attache,
at the Czech Legation.
The Ambassador was accompanied
by his wife and two sons.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
House Votes Carderock
Funds; Tunnel Included

BY an overwhelming voice vote
the House yesterday approved ex-
pansion of the ship-model basin at
Carderock, Md, at a cost of S500,000
to equip it with wind tunnel and
accessory buildings for research in
aircraft as well as warships. This
item was included in a naval public
works authorization bill.
Representative Thorn, Democrat,
of Ohio. proposed an amendment
to strike out the wind tunnel item
claiming it would be unnecessary
duplication" of aircraft research
facilities at Langley Field, Va, and
Sunnydale, Calf. He said the Ap-
propriations Committee had re-
jected similar proposal to make
Carderock a naval research center
three years ago. Chairman Vinson
of the Naval Affairs Committee said
"such false economy has crippled
the national defense-if we had pro-
vided this wind tunnel in 1887 we'd
have better airplanes today"
The House promptly passed the
naval public works bill with the
wind tunnel included, and it has
been sent to the Senate. House
leaders plan to bring out an emer-
gency appropriation bill to cover
these construction projects without
waiting for formal action by the
Senate,
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Wilmington Firm Wins
14-MiIIion Defense Award

The War Department today
awarded a s14,394 900 contract to
the Brecon Loading Co.. Whining
ton. Del, a wholly subsidiary
of the Coca-Col Co. of Atlanta. for
equipping and operating an artillery
ammunition bag-loading plant at
Childersburg, Ala.
This new defense plant, on a 20
000-acre site, is to operate in con-
junction with the smokeless powder
plant located at Childersburg
Undersecretary of War Patterson
said the award is "an example of
the Governments policy to use in
national defense the managerial
ability of successful industrial or
CARNATIONS.
Negotiations for construction OF
the bag-loading plant are now in
progress.
OF the total award, 81 ,091 900 rep
resents the cost of equipment. leav-
ing s13, ,3o3 ,001 for operation of the
plant on a cost plus fixed fee basis.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Clothes Ration
By Nozis Fails
To Worry French
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS (via Berlin), Feb. Is De-
layed Drastic clothes rationing
restrictions on the German model
went into effect in Paris today but
met somewhat incredulous recep-
ton from the French, whose atti-
tude toward regulations is well
known.
Clothing cards cover such articles
as stockings, dresses, overcoats and
suits. Only one card is to be issued
to a person for the year. 1t permits
purchase of clothing totaling $50
points, and a woman's wool gar
ment would take about so points.
Thirty-five of the leading French
designers were exempt from the
regulations, however, so Paris can
still qualify as fashion center.
AS a result the wealthy woman
can pay her 1000 francs for as many
high-couture models as she wants,
but a woman in the middle class
will be strictly rationed when it
comes to purchasing a 100 Of 200
franc frock.
A reporter who went the rounds,
however, discovered the idea had
not penetrated deeply into the
consciousness of either storekeeper
or customers.
Some stores were shut tight for
inventory, but others were selling
freely of everything from suits to
handkerchiefs.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

An 82-year-old woman, Mrs.
Berth Budin, fed from her home in
her nightclothes in freezing weather
shortly before 7 o'clock this morning
after her hair had been singed by
fire that badly damaged the lower
floor of two-story five-room build
ing at 1921 Tenth street NV.
Engine Companies 2, and 16
answered the alarm and brought the
blaze under control Ice formed on
the engines, hose and sidewalks as
the firemen worked.
Mrs. Budin, lace cleaner living
alone, said she was in bed and was
aroused by smoke rising from the
kitchen below. Her hair was singed
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Store Bandits Get $50
After Tongue Lashing
From Owners Wife
Proprietor Hurt Trying
To Wrest Robbers Gun;
Woman Bests Footpods

Two white holdup men, both
armed with revolvers, took $50 from
a variety store in the 1900 block OF
Fourteenth street NV. at 9 o'clock
last night ana escaped after they
had been given a tongue flashing by
the wife of proprietor Anthony Gilfo.
The Gilfos told police they were
waiting on customers when the men
entered and stood back to wait until
the buyers had gone. Then they
produced guns and announced it
was holdup, directing the remark
at Mrs. Gilfo.
The proprietor. standing with his
back to the men, Whirled and
grabbed one of the guns, he said,
and received a cut on the hand in
tussle with the bandit. After Mr..
Gilfo had been subdued, his wife
gave the robbers lecture on crime
life and told them TO get the money
and get out. They made their es-
cape in an automobile parked in
front of the store after telling the
Gilfos to remain quiet for minutes
after their departure.
FOotpads Meet Match in Woman.
Two footpads met their match just
after midnight when they attempted
to snatch the purse of Mrs. Virginia
Glass, 40, former probation of1cer
in a nearby city and now employed
in the Justice Department. In the
tug-of-War that followed near her
home at 1924 Highland place NV.
the men finally released their hold
on the purse and fed.
The paper bag bandit who has
confined his holdups to Highs Ice
cream stores returned to the crime
field last night and robbed Miss
Mildred Wehausen, %, Of 1921
street NE, clerk in the store in
the 300 block of Tenth street Sc.
Miss Wehausen told police the man
held her up with gun and carried
away Sc in his customary paper bag.
She said she believed he was the
same bandit who held her up at the
store q short time ago.
Jack Berges, 1920 Monroe street
NV, reported that he was robbed
of billfold containing $55 by col
ored man, who confronted him as
he stepped from the basement of the
apartment building in which he
lives. He said the bandit held his
hand in his coat pocket as If finger
ing gun.
Manager Robbed Of $50.
Ivan Dougherty, 10, of 1929 M
street NV, night manager for the
Globe Service Center at 1929
Twenty eighth street NV, told po-
lice he was held up by white man
and robbed of his change carrier
and bills amounting TO 500. The
bandit was about Is years old, had
slim face with a narrow pointed
nose and narrow chin, he said.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

when she attempted to throw a
bucket of water on the flames be-
fore running into the street. The
alarm was turned in by a neighbor.
She said she believed the fire had
been started by cat knocking a box
of matches from the mantel to the
stove, One of five cats she owned
was found dead by firemen after the
blaze had been extinguished.
Except for slight smoke damage,
the fire was confined to the small
frame structure sandwiched in be-
tween two taller buildings. Mrs.
Budin, French woman, has lived
here for nearly so years and at one
time was in the lace-cleaning busi-
ness here with sister.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
R. A. F. Planes Raid
Brest Naval Base
And Calais Docks
Swansea, South Wales,
And London Torgets
For Luftwoffe
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 20.-The naval
base at Brest and docks at Calais,
both in German occupied France,
were attacked last night by British
aircraft, the Air Ministry announced
today.
The Air Ministry's communique
said:
Last night coastal command air.
craft attacked the enemy naval base
ut Brest and the docks at Calais.
None OF our aircraft is missing from
these operations.
Earlier, informed sources had re-
ported that bad weather had kept
the r. A. r. from making any major
sortie against Germany.
Swansea and London Targets.
The Germans raided England last
night, too. The industrial port of
Swansea, in South Wales, and Lon
don, where bombs wrecked one block
of a large municipal hospital, killing
several patients and a nurse, bore the
brunt of the assaults by the Ger
man air force.
The government said bomberS
raked Swansea with high explosives,
damaging "a considerable number
of houses and business premises"
A direct hit was scored on the
London hospital, demolishing a part
of it and killing several patients in
their beds. One nurses body was
found under the wreckage.
Other patients were buried in de-
bris. Rescue squads, doctors and
nurses worked by the rays of fash
lights through the night to release
them.
Delayed Action Bomb Found.
Rescue work was halted when a
delayed action bomb was discovered
near another wing OF the hospital.
The patients were quickly removed.
All trapped survivors had been
extricated by dawn.
A children's hospital in another
part of London was damaged. but
there were no casualties.
An elderly woman was killed when
seven high explosive bombs rained
down in one London district, two
pedestrians died under the wreckage
of an apartment block, and two chill
dren were killed when light stand
ard crashed through the roof and
struck the bed In which they were
sleeping.
Air activity ceased for the night
shortly after midnight, but shortly
before noon today sirens sounded
an alarm in London. The all-clear
sounded in less than an hour. No
air activity was reported.
Casualties in Swansea included a
number Of persons killed. the Air
and Home Security Ministries an
nounced.
Besides London one point in East
Scotland also was attacked. but the
reported number of casualties was
small.
Southwark Cathedral at the south
end of London Bridge. was damaged
in a recent air raid on London.
British authorities permitted it to be
reported.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

ess, Miss Peggy Herrick, said he
travelled better than most adults.
The plane sometimes climbed to
5000 feet to make the baby more
comfortable in the smoother upper
air.
Young Charles is the grandson
of the late Admiral William A.
Moffett, former chief of the Bureau
of Naval Aeronautics, who lost his
life in the crash of the dirigible
Akron of Barnegat Lightship. Two
of the baby's uncles, George Moffett
and William A Moffett, jr., are
Navy flyers, and a third uncle,
Charles Moffett. just won his wings
at Pensacola, Fla.
The baby will visit his grand
mother. Mrs. William A. Moffett, at
2019 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

Flying runs in his family so Is
month-old Charles Moffett Mohan
thought nothing of travelling by
plane unescorted from Knoxville,
Tenn, to Washington yesterday.
Youngest passenger ever flying to
Washington alone, according TO the
records here, the baby greeted his
exploit with a yawn and promptly
went to sleep on the shoulder of his
aunt, Mrs. Janet Moore of Alexan-
dria, who met him at the airport.
Usually babies must travel with
a governess or an extra airline host
esS must be provided, but Charles
was an exception since his father
is district traffic manager for Penn
Sylvania Central AirlineS at Knox
vile.
Despite rough weather, the host
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Algeria Governor Orders
Sofety for Truce Group
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs.
TANGIER, Feb. 20.-The Gov
ernor-General of Algeria has
warned the population against rep
etition Of attacks on the members
of the Armistice Control Commits
sion in that French territory, dis
patches received here reported yes
terday.
The Governor General said the
attacks were committed by persons
unknown to the authorities. The
number and seriousness of the at
tacks were not stated, but the Gov
ernor said the most severe meas
ures would be taken in the future
against them.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

1888 National Open, won by Ralph
Guldahl.
Mr.. Walsh said the selection of
the Denver course was the result of
a poll by the associations Execu-
tive Committee.
Byron Nelson of Toledo, Ohio, the
defending P. C. A. champion, won
the title last year at Hershey, Pa,
by defeating Sam Snead of Hot
Springs, Va, in the finals.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Denver Course Picked
For P. g. A. Tourney
,r the AksnciAthd Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20.-Tom Walsh,
president of the Professional Golf
ers' Association, announced today
that the ls41 P. G. A. champion
ship tournament would be played
July 7-l3 over the Cherry Hills
course, in Denver. Colo.
Cherry Hills was the scene OF the
Evening star., 1941-02-20
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