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Evening star., 1941-01-20

kjustnaents in the construction OF
|einq Plant at Seattle, Wash, aOhere
ktl4 being rushed to completion for
A P. Photo.
rope other millions are under the iron yoke
! of dictatorship, their every possession, ma
tefial and spiritual, taken from them as they
are forced to labor under the heel of con-
queror, all hope gone. These people did not
want war; their very unpreparedness was
proof enough of their desire for peace.
The handwriting on their walls serves to
spur us all to greater effort, not only to help
them, but to save ourselves from a similar
fate. The American people have met and
conquered adversely before Many of us in
our times participated in previous attempt
of an aggressor war lord to rule the world
Today we know there are ideals worth liv-
ing for, dying for, if need be. The Navy is
prepared to defend any inroad on these price
less possessions. 1t will meet force with
force, if that must be its lot, and the result
will be what it always has been in our history
as a Nation-the still unbroken tradition OF
Vlctesy..l '...-t tri. ILtI -! i's
Evening star., 1941-01-20

Continued on Page 10)
Evening star., 1941-01-20
By Henry L. Stimson,

Secretary Of War.
. HE UNITED STATES ARMY Is In tt
midst of the greatest expansion whic
has ever taken place in time of peat
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Roosevelt Raps Industry's
Discrimination Against
Negro in Defense Work
F. D. RS Statement

Washington, C-Presiden Rooseves office released
Sunday morning firm statement deyng discrimination against
the Negro in defense industry
Complaints have repeatedly been brought attention that
available barred defense
production solely because of religion national origin is
said that when labor sngences appearing
fully qualified being turned gates
industry specifications entirely unrelated to efficiency and produ
ty Also that against Negro workers has nation
WIDE and other minority racial national and religious
it's effects many localities This situation matter
national immediate be taken to deal with
it effectively
No nation combating increasing threat of oaaranm
afford arbitrarily exclude large of its population from
defense industries it strengthen
unity and by rung at home the theories which
fighting abroad. =
Our Government cannot continued discrimination
American citizens defense production Industry take
initiative opening of all
qualified workers regardless national origin religion color
workers. both unorganzd be
the muhneeded of fellow
of all racial nationality defense industries
the imperative that deal effectively
speedily with this problem shall the Office of Production
Management take immediate steps facilitate the full utilization
productive power
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
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Mrs. A. Goldman,
Beloved Mill City
Woman, Buried

Mrs. Ada Goldman, age 62, 8Oi
Aldrich avenue north, died at Dea.
coness Hospital on Wednesday Of
last week. Mrs. Goldman was vel
known and highly respected.
Funeral services were held al
Zion Baptist Church on Saturday
June ID, at two o'clock with Rev
H. W. Bolts officiating, assisted by
Rev. S. A. Douglass. Mrs. Goldman
was a member of Zion Baptist
Church for many years.
She is survived by her husband
Melvin, two sons, Barnett and Mel
vim, two daughters, Thelma Brown
and Zelma Yancy, three sisters
Mrs. Della Houston of Minneapolis
Mrs. Lulu Johnson and Carrie Fike
of Hannibal, Mo-, a brother, Milton
Wilburn of Cleveland, Ohio, who
came for the funeral, three grand
children and other relatives.
Interment was made in Crystal
Lake Cemetery with Woodland Fun
eral Home in charge of burial ar
rangements. -,
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Nellie DOdsOn,
Former Mpls.
Writer, Married

Nellie Dodson, New York news
paper woman, former Spokesman
& Recorder staff member, married
William Russell, West Virginia
gu" graduate.
Shortly afterward Russell had to
answer the draft call of Uncle Sam.
Nell Dodson is now New York
correspondent for the Associated
Negro Press.
Russell was a tester for a bak-
ing powder concern.
Her father, Walter Dodson, a
Northland Greyhound bus caller,
lives at 1920 Smelling.
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ChicagOan browns at.
Lake Phalen Beach

Littlejohn, Fred Potter, Lyman
(Red) Myers and Alfred Williams,
None of the four were near Vasso
at the time he went down.
According to Coroner Ingerson's
office, Vasso was in 300 feet of wa
ter and apparently was stricken
with cramps.
In Chicago Mr.. Vasso lives with
his aunt, Mrs. Emily Bryant, 4331
Indiana avenue, with whom Mr.. Lit
tlejohn was making contact at press
time. Mr.. Vasso has been employed
by the Northern Pacific Railroad
for two summers.
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ELECTION

Johnnie Baker Post, American
Legion Auxiliary, will hold it's an
nau election of officers Wednesday,
June rs, at Phyllis Wheatley House
at 8 p. m.
CASSIUS ILL
Brutus Cassius, labor leader and
business man, is i'll at his home,
1925 Clinton avenue, Minneapolis.
ST. JOHNS DAY SERVICES
SUNDAY
The annual st. Johns Day serv-
ice of the following Twin City Ma
sonic Lodges will be held Sunday
at 3 p. m. at Camphor M. E.
Church, St. Paul: Pioneer, Perfect
Ashlar, Eureka, Palestine and
Anchor Hilyard. Members of Doric
Lodge of Duluth may be in attend
ance. The sermon will be delivered
by Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson, pas
tor of the Camphor Church and a
member of Pioneer Lodge.
TO ATTEND CONVENTION
Mrs. J. II. Burrell and Mrs. L. D.
Rogers, both Of Minneapolis, are
delegates to the United Spanish
War Veterans Auxiliary depart
ment convention at Virginia, Mimi,
June %, % and "a. They will rep
resent the Charles Young Women's
Auxiliary No. IL.
The Charles Young Camp No. 20
and it's women's auxiliary served
$50 banquet guests at Veterans
Hall, st. Paul auditorium, on June
IA.
Cecil Newman, newspaper editor,
addressed the Minnesota Jubilee
Chorus of the WPA music section,
Monday morning, at Phyllis Wheat
ley House. His subject was "The
American Negro Press and It's
Gradual Public Acceptance"
The Executive Board of the St.
Paul Branch of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People met at the home of the
president, Mr.. Nathaniel A. Evans,
387 north St. Adams street, We'd
nesday evening, June II. The regu-
lar meeting of the branch was held
Wednesday, June 18, at the Halle
@. Brown Community House.
JOAN WASHINGTON BREAKS
ARM IN FALL
Joan Frances Washington, four
and one-half-year-old daughter of
the Charles w. Washingtons, 1920
Twentieth avenue south, fell and
broke her arm Saturday, June Is,
while playing with some children
on Fifth avenue south. She was
taken to Fairview Hospital where
her arm was set and then removed
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Program June 20

The st. Paul Branch of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People will spon-
sor an All-American Program to
be given Friday night, June 20, at
8 p. m. at Halle @. Brown House.
The proceeds are to be used to
help finance delegates to the 32nd
annual convention of the NAACP
which will be held in Houston,
Texas, June oath to 29th inclusive.
Come out and help a worthy cause
the committee urges. Admission
zoe, children under IL, 10 cents.
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Diamond Iron
Works Practices
NaH Tactics

Typical of the industrial concerns
which President Roosevelt raped
June IL for practicing race discrim-
nation in the selection of defense
workers is a Minneapolis concern,
the Diamond Iron Works, 18th Ave.
N. and Second st.
This firm by it's eve don't hire
Negroes" policy gives aid and en-
couragement to the Nazis who de-
light in pointing out that America
is. "refuting at home the very the
cries which we are fighting abroad"
The plant superintendent, Fred
A. Frogh, very bluntly told C. W.
Washington of the Minneapolis
Urban League, three weeks ago:
eve don't hire Negroes"
Harry Thompson, HOG Emerson
Ave. No., went to the plant several
days ago and he was refused an ap-
plication blank and told that the
firm did not hire colored people.
Henry French, 10 Hyland Ave.
No., was told the same thing when
he went to the plant.
At another plant which manufac-
lures clothing and whose president
is active in speeding up defense in
dustry applications of Negroes
have been accepted but allegedly
thrown in the waste basket after
the applicant leaves the employ
ment personnel desk.
Only one company holding de-
tense contracts, the D. N. Oman &
Sons Co., 43 Royalston Ave-, has
employed colored men since defense
work began. This firm did so with
out request, as a matter of right,
evidently feeling that all Ameri-
cans should share in the work of
producing materials for the defense
of the country.
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Solicitors Report
Next Monday

The last report of the solicitors
in the membership campaign of
the NAACP will be made on Mon
day, May %, at the home of Leo
Bohanon, 1886 Fifth avenue south.
All memberships taken to that date
will be counted in the contest for
the prizes, and winners will be de-
termined according to the amount
of money brought in. Prizes will
be awarded at a later date which
will be set by the Executive Board
of the NAACP.
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Advance Picnic
Tickets on Sale

Advance tickets for the big
Fourth of July Picnic at Bass Lake
are on sale.
In st. Paul at Jim's Place, Kent
and st. Anthony; Little Nifty Cafe,
and Plantation Barbecue.
In Minneapolis at Dreamland
Cafe, 3755 4th Ave. &c., Yancey's
Tavern, on Franklin Ave., and the
Wunder Vue Cafe, 1907 Olson blvd.
For other information or tickets
call Bridgeport 8014.
Advance tickets are 35c. Admis-
sion at grounds will be &c.. Ad-
vance sale buyers will save 15c on
each admission.-Advt.
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to her home. She Is progressing
favorably.
INTERNATIONAL CHINESE
FIGURE TO SPEAK
Liu Laaing, national student sec
rotary of the Chinese Y. M. C. A.,
will speak at Pilgrim Baptist
Church June 25 at z p. m. His adj
dress will be under the auspices of
the st. Paul unit of the National
Negro Congress.
ANDERSON'S TWO SONS
CHRISTENED
Marvin Roger and Lucius Archi-
bald, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Archie
Anderson, IT'S Iglehart avenue,
were christened in st. James A.
M. E. Church Sunday, June Is, at
the II a. m. service by the Rev.
Benjamin N. Moore, pastor.
Mr.. M. A. Finney and Mrs. AL
bert Allen are the godparents of
Marvin Roger and Mrs. Louise
Brown is the godmother for Lucius
Archibald. Mrs. Naomi Thomas, a
friend of the family, stood with
the parents and sponsors.
TAKES POSITION AT WINSTON
SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA
Mrs. Emma Lou Coleman Jones,
GIL west Central avenue, has ac-
cepted a position as a medical
technician in the Kate Biting Rey-
nolds Memorial Hospital in Wins
ton-Salem, North Carolina. Mrs.
Jones left the city Tuesday, June
II, to take up her duties.
Mrs. Jones was graduated this
month from the Northwest Insti-
tute of Medical Technology in Min
neapolis, and is a former student
of the University of Minnesota. She
is a member of Sigma Mu Tau and
Alpha Kappa Alpha sororities and
of the Credjafawn Social Club. She
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Le-
Roy Coleman, GIL west Central av-
enue.
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Testimonial For
Pilgrim Baptist
Retiring Officers

A testimonial for Mrs. Birdie
High, church clerk, and A. V. Hall
choir director, both retiring officers
of Pilgrim Baptist church, St. Paul,
will be held at the church Sunday
evening, June 20, at 8 p. m. M. A.
Boiling, superintendent of tn e
church for more than 20 years and
still holding that office, will also
be honored at this testimonial.
B. F.. Edwards is general chairman.
Elease Collins, June graduate
and Pilgrim news writer, has been
busy graduating but will be back
with her column next week.
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CHICAGO RESIDENT BROWNS
AT LAKE PHELAN

Edward Vasso, a resident of Chi
cago, who was in st. Paul for the
summer months, was drowned at
4:45 p. m. Wednesday, June IS, in
Lake Phalen while swimming to
escape Wednesdays heat.
Vasso, who makes his home while
in st. Paul at the M. V. Littlejohn's,
698 Rondo avenue, was a member
of a party of five who went to Lake
Phelan about 8 p. m. Wednesday
afternoon. In the party were Mitzi
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Geo. Johnson
Dropped Dead

George Johnson, age 80, of 1914
18th avenue south, died enroute to
the Minneapolis General Hospital
on Tuesday, June II.
Funeral services were held Thurs
day at two o'clock at the st. James
A. M. E. Church with Rev. Boyd
Patrick officiating.
Surviving Mr.. johnson is his
wife, Charity, brother, John, a
stepson, Elmer Houston and other
relatives.
Interment in Crystal Lake Gene
terry with Woodland Funeral Home
in charge Of burial arrangements,
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mocracy's test case, the Council
urges action 'from the top and
from the ground up"
"From the top such effort must
take the form of control by the ma
ton, through it's command of the
defense forces and of those agen-
cies controlling the production of
defense material. Surely the Army
and the Navy, in the forefront of
defense for democracy, should give
an example of the democratic
spirit they are to defend"
For such action, however, the
government must have the backing
of well-informed public opinion,
the Council points out. It urges
community action by small local
groups to break down discrimina-
ton against the Negro. Local en-
ployment surveys to determine
where unemployment of Negroes
exists, surveys of Negro health
and housing, letters to the editor,
appeals by radio and discussion
groups are advocated.
"What is at stake" the Council
warns, "is not the status of a
race but the political, economic,
and social status of the individual
in a democracy"
when a nation enters the stress
of preparation for war and perhaps
war itself, then embittered and dis
illusioned people, beyond being a
burden, become a danger. Con-
vince any large group in the popu-
lation that their citizenship is only
second class that they are ex-
cluded from the benefits of the So
cial order they are expected to give
their lives to defend, and they be-
come fertile ground for subversive
propaganda, for agitation and I'M
rest"
Declaring that the relationship
of the Negro to national defense is
not only a problem but challenge
and opportunity as well, the Coun-
ell adds, Democracy will never
survive the present crisis as froz-
en- concept; the struggle to pre-
serve it must on all fronts be linked
with the struggle to extend it."
This new memorandum is the
third in the Democracy in Action"
series published by the Council For
Democracy. These discussions of
vital issues are prepared by men,
bers of panel of more than three
hundred Of the country's outstand-
ing authorities in the social
sciences, working in cooperation
with the Councils Committee of
Correspondence, Of which Profess
sor Carl J. Friedrich of Harvard is
chairman.
Copies of "The Negro and De-
tense" may be secured for 10c a
copy from the Council For De-
mocracy, 285 Madison Avenue,
New York, N. Y.
The Council, headed by Raymond
Gram Swing, radio commentator,
is a national organization dedicated
to the propagation of an American
faith in democracy.
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Mass Meeting

A mass meeting, sponsored by
the st. Paul Negro-on-to-W Washing
ton Committee, will be held Satur-
day, June 81, at the Halle @.
Brown Community House. All cit
liens interested in Negroes secur-
ing jobs in the Defense industries,
are urged to attend this meeting.
Frank Boyd is chairman of the COM
mittee.
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Wayman Choir
To Be Presented
Thurs. June &c

According to Mrs. E. ]. Drake,
who is sponsoring a musical by the
Wayman A. M. E. Church choir
Thursday, June 26, at 8 p. M, the
public will enjoy special treat.
The musical will take place at
627 Sixth avenue north at the
Church of God in Christ for whose
benefit the program is being given.
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DEFENSE COMMITTEE
BROADCAST OVER
WCCO SAT. MITE

Frank L. Alsup, chairman Of
the Minnesota Negro Defense
Committee, will speak over
WCCO Saturday evening, June
81, from 1000 to 1915 P. M.
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"Watch Your Dates"
Rasnhalll

The Kansas City Monarchs will
play the Ethiopian Clowns Friday,
June 81, at 8 p. M, at Lexington
Baseball Park.-Advt.
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Crowd Enjoys Defense
Meeting as Speakers
Hold Verbal Battle

More than hundred white Negro citizens
attended the meeting sponsored by the Minnesota
Committee in the Halle O. Brown Community House Sunday
the the
held with Citans his Capitol
June 7h
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Twin City News Briefs

to her home. She is progressing
favorahlv-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-14
in
ecuodor Stomp Honors
California Missions
$3.50 81. - -

THE Missions OF California. rep
resenting one OF the greatest
missionary achievements in Amer
ics. are remembered in Ecuador's
stamp above, issued in honor OF
the 1899 Golden Gate Interna-
tional Exposition. The Mission
Dolores, also known as the Mis-
sion San Francisco de Asis, is
pictured.
The first Of the 81 missions was
established by Fra Junipero Sierra
at San Diego in 1869. Fra Sierra
also founded nine others OF the
chain which extended at intervals
OF 80 miles along Fl Canine Real
The Kings Highwsy"-frorn
San Diego 70 San Francisco.
The Missions strengthened
SPANS claim upon Upper Cali
fornia, and az their peak shell
tered, clothed, civilized some So
600 Indians. When Mexico threw
of allegiance to Spain, the Mis-
Sons were seculsrized. property
oonhscsted in 1923. The Indians
returned 10 barbariSm.
Today. the Missions are one Of
CALIFORNIA; greatest tourist at
fractions. Several are well-pre-
served. Mission style architecture
and furniture also are reminders
Of Fra Serrss work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-14
Up From the Ruins

The name of Coventry has already become synonym
for the terrible destructveness of Coventry got
air bombing at its worst.
And what happening in Coventry, that the worst
has and gone? There there planning its
building. Some of them saying that the destruction
horrible thought it yet have some good results
Many of the buildings destroyed according to the Man.
chester Guardian Undersigned, i-paced and
crowded" So they planning new Coventry now,
which shall be zoned and planned that out of the old
time in the future.
Thus already with that dies work to
wrest from misfortune itself the design of good
They all lose.-Senator Henrik Shipstead, asked who
will win the war.
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The mail protest against the
measure from western states
amounts to at least 90 per cent
an estimate based on a per-
sonal study and sampling of the
letters from this region. Even
New England. which stands to
benefit from war orders, lines
up about 20 per cent against the
bill. according to the able Sem
ator John Danaher of Conneeti-
cut. Although he camouflages
his hostility for political rea-
sons, Senator David 1gnatius
Walsh OF Massachusetts Is "a
botaging the bill privately. He
is egging on other members of
congress to express views which
he dare not svow himself.
The bill probably will pass
with slight notifications. Not
withstanding administration pro-
tests. it means eventual Amer-
can participation in the Euro
pean war. But, despite the over
whelmiug opposition TO the meas
ure, ii will be whooped through
a congress scared OF Hitlers
shadow.
Col. Charles Lindbergh has
been branded as a fifth column
ist" and an "sppesser' because
of the testimony he has given
before the house and senate
com m ittees considering the
'lease-lend" bill. But TO old
friends of his deceased father, a
member Of congress from Mimi
esots. the son is only revertins
to paternal type.
Lindbergh's "old man" WAS
Capitol Hills first radical or boil
shevik. He sponsored the reso-
luton which provoked the FIRST
investigation Of the House OF
Morgan-the famous Pujo in
quiry. Lindbergh pere intro
duced the resolution. but Mr..
Pujo. as chairman OF the inves-
tigsting committee. grabbed the
credit. Representative Lind
bergh showed up at his Capitol
Hill office at 5 o'clock each
morning. and he used 10 bring
young Charlie" with him.
But when the colonel returned
in aerial triumph from Europe.
he seemed TO flout and repudi-
ate everything his father had
stood for. Frank b. kellogg de-
fested the senior Llndbergh in
the 1922 Minnesota senatorial
primary. In that contest kel-
logs publicity mantle late
George Akersor 49, wrote stuff
that broke Pere Lindberghis
heart He died within q few
months after the primary. But
the first hand Lindbergh shook.
after he had debarked from the
Memphis that brought him home
from Europe. was Mr.. kelloggs
And then. the son OF the con-
gresham who hated and sus-
pected the House Of Morgan.
married Anne MORROW. BY the
friends Of his liberal father the
colonel was east into the dog
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-14
BOOST FOR TOWNSEND
OLD AGE PENSIONS

Editor. The Times: An old
Alaska miner told me this story:
Il owned and worked a small
claim on the creek. and | used
to come to town for supplies and
entertainment. When | would
stock up my larder or grub stake
for several weeks. then l would
stake or throw the remainder
upon the roulette wheel. If sue
cexsful I lived lsvishly. II not,
and lost. | went back TO the
creek for to dig out another
stake. This I repeated until the
paw streak ran out-then l quit
mining"
I philosophical, how typical is
this of the American people, who
have built new homes and ex-
plotted the wealth OF the nat
ural resources. thrusting their
surplus on TO the roulette wheels
of speculation-the so-called so
families. Wall street. until their
paw streak, too. has played out.
Well. what about it, What
can we do? Or. Townsend says
that the country did 1900 billion
dollars in transactions during
1929. and that two per cent
transactions tax during 1929, or
a two per cent tax upon the in
comes of those receiving three
thousand dollars or more per
year. would pay a pension Of
one hundred dollars or more 10
all our elder citizens over go
who would retire from gainful
occupations. This would. in turn
make room for millions of the
unemployed. while the increased
speed Of the wheels of Industry
would care for the remainder.
This would eliminate the expen-
sive WPA. the poor houses and
other charitable agencies
All this is only the beginning.
as the bill would be further
amended 10 give pensions even
down to so years Of age. until
the unemployment gap would be
completely closed: the crime bill
OF y TO Is billions would be cut
TO four or five billions Who
would desire 10 steal when they
could all work
Two employees left our mill
because they would not Join the
union-both too old for ordinary
work: what will become of
them What will become Of you
should that seniority right Job
of yours. your pay streak, play
out? What have you 20 lose.
You must pay taxes 10 support
the old people anyway. Why not
give the entire pension to them
unless YOU want TO contribute
about two-thirts Of II TO the
administrators as you are doing
at present. CHAS. KASTLE.
LUeerns Apts.