Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-10-03
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patton of Louis losing his crown
may now be put in the files, for a
year at least. According to Con-
gresham Richard Gales Capital
Comments" column gossip has it
that Price Administrator Leon
Henderson may be on the way
out" Did you notice the pleasing
cover photo of a Negro on the Sat-
urday Evening Post of two weeks
ago? AND Joe Louis on TIME
Magazines cover of last week?
st. Paul did not have a traffic ia
tally in August and Minneapolis
had only one. Fine work! Keep it
up! On this same subject the State
Department of Highways has an
nOunced that it has 100000 copies
of the revised edition Of Minnesota
traffic laws which will be given
free to any individuals, clubs,
safety groups which request them.
The Rural Editors Exchange"
which distributes news releases
which indicate it is designed pri-
marily to further the political fu-
ture of Governor Harold Stassen,
has release this week which gives
the State Board of Education's
version of its reasons for ousting
John G., Rockwell as state COM
missioner of education. 1t reads
weak. A. Phillip Randolph is on
the West Coast (Seattle) to attend
the A. F. of L. national convention.
Hope he comes through here en-
route back East. Randolph more
than any other man was respon-
sible for the Presidents executive
order banning discrimination in the
defense industries. He conceived
the march On Washington" idea.
1t is interesting to note that funds
to carry on the march campaign
came from varied sources. The
largest individual contributor was
Joe Louis who gave $50. The
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers donated the largest amount,
$957.89, and the N. A. A. C. P.
came next with $543.
A new daily paper for morning
readers of Chicago may be a break
for Windy City Negroes. Marshall
Field Ill will angel the sheet. If
it follows to any extent the pattern
of Fields New York daily p. M,
Negroes will be news. White
sOutherners usually want to impose
their OutmOded customs ON the
north but will boiler long and loud
if a nOrtherner seeks to do like
wise down south.
One by one the gains made by
the st. Paul Urban League under
Clarence Mitchell, Jr., fade away.
1t seems that the National Urban
League should have on its staff /,
trained secretaries, who can fill in
the interim between the resigna-
ton of a secretary and the selec-
ton of a successor.
Negro defense workers in the
South civilian and military will
have twelve new Defense Public
Works Projects to provide COM
munity facilities and services cost
ing $6S1,242 distributed over nine
states, according to John F. Car
mody, Federal Works Administra-
tor.
It's costing a steamship company
$4,000 per day because of a Negro
cook assigned to the ship by the
Marine Cooks and Stewards
Union. The Marine Firemen's
Union, a lily-white outfit, refuses
to allow the ship to sail with Pat
tersOn aboard. The Cooks and
Stewards say if the ship sails, Pat
tersOn will sail. In the meantime
the owners of the good ship Bar
anOff would like to get their ship
of to Alaska.
Sentiment grows for the sugges-
ton that Uncle Sam allow his chill
dren to pay their income taxes
monthly. The future of Scotch
whiskey, says the estimable trade
publication American Wine and
Liquor Journal, will be worse be-
fore it gets better. Which is bad
news for those who like the Scotch
and soda. The British government
has decreed that the distillers of
Scotch may only produce 33b per
cent of their pre-war output. On
the other side of the case is the
protest by temperance organiza-
tions that the advertising of the
American distillers which stresses
moderation" in drink is mislead-
ing. The drys claim that the use
Of liquor in moderation leads al
ways to excess use Of spiritsl
It may work but we doubt it.
We speak of Hormels canned ham,
burgers called Wimpys. We have