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an aid to those who will file pro-
tests. The joint committee also ad-
vised that all letter writer's incor-
porate a demand that our boys en-
tering the armed services who are
being sent to southern camps, be
protected against the discrimina-
ton and intimidation perpetrated
upon them by prejudiced southern
whites.
A committee of women has been
formed in both Minneapolis and St.
Paul, the members of which will
stimulate the filing of protests by
local citizens by contracting the par
ents of service men and other civic
minded individuals.
Clarence W. Wigington, Chair
man of the Twin Cities Service
Mems Council, forwarded a vigor-
GUS protest to President Roosevelt,
copies of which were sent to the
Secretary of War and Minnesota
Congressman. Ex-service mems or
CARNATIONS in the two cities and
other groups are uniting with the
joint committee in the all out effort
to organize this mass protest move
ment. Reverend Benjamin Moore.
president of the St. Paul branch OF
the NAACP is chairman.
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Union, an organization of Negro
and white sharecroppers in the
South. AS national president Of
that organization from 1885 to
1912, he was leader in the strug-
gle for the rights of sharecroppers
against planters law and in the
fight against job and vote discrim-
nation against the Negroes.
Besides supporting the Pepper
Geyer anti-pol tax bill, Mr.. Butler
is in favor of more funds for the
Presidents Committee on Fair En-
ployment Practice to fight discrim-
nation against all minorities, and
a program of settling manpower
shortages by ending discrimination.
Mr.. Butler will address the Com
mittee on Civil Rights at the Uni
versity of Minnesota Friday after
noon. At 8 p. m. Friday night he
will address a home meeting at
1886 France Ave. &c., Minneapolis.
sergeants in the service with an
excellent rating as he has. He is
stationed with the 923rd Engineer
Regiment.
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Florida Sheriff Indicted
By U. S. Grand Jury for
Working Negro Prisoners

Washington, D. c., Nov. II
Attorney General Francis
Biddle announces that a Fed
eral Grand Jury, sitting in
the Southern District of Flori-
da, at Tampa, today returned
an Indictment on two counts
charging jeff Virgins, Sher-
iff of Glades County, with
working county prisoners on
his own farm in violation of
the Federal Civil Rights and
Anti-Slavery statutes.
Count One of the Indictment
charges that Virgins removed in
mates from the Glades County Jail
and forced them to work without
pay on his farm. The indictment
charges that this involuntary servi-
tude was in violation of Section 81,
Title 10, U. S. Code (civil rights
statute).
Count Two charges a violation
of the Anti-Slavery Statute (Sec-
ton 443, Title 10, U. S. Code).
Maximum penalties on the first
count are Imprisonment for one
year or $1,000 fine, or both; under
the second count, Imprisonment for
five years or a $4,000 fine, or both.
The Grand Jury investigation,
requested by Assistant Attorney
General Wendell Berge, in charge
of the Criminal Division, was han
died for the Department by United
States Attorney Herbert S. Phillips.
Sugar Firm Also Indicted
Attorney General Francis Biddle
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the strengthening Negro seaman
inched his way shoreward.
The mess attendant was known
to Adrian only as French" Adrian
was Immediately hospitalized on
reaching safety, and never was able
to get the hero's full name.
With Adrian and his companion
clinging to it's sides, the raft started
drifting seaward. It was then that
the messman stripped off his clothes
and tied a line about his waist.
When Adrian warned him against
CHANGING the shark-infested wa
ters, the Negro responded, "I'm
gonna tow this old crate in"
Six hours later a barge sighted
the raft near shore, and the seamen
were taken off.
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Marian Anderson
Concert Here on
24th of November

Marian Anderson, acclaimed as
the greatest living singer, now on
her seventh annual tour of the
United States, will include Mime
apolis in her schedule, on Tuesday,
November "a, when she will be
presented in recital at the Mime
apolis auditorium concert bowl.
The phenomenal contralto took
her first vacation in six years,
spending July and August on her
110-acre Connecticut farm, raising
prize vegetables and flowers which
she entered in the famous Danbury
Fair in October.
The remainder of her time was
spent in her studio preparing new
songs for her current repertory
with her accompanist, Franz Rupp.
This work room, incidentally, is
furnished with grass mats and bam-
boo furniture which Miss Anderson
shipped from Honolulu last sum-
mer, prior to outbreak of the Pacific
war when she paid her first visit
to Hawaii to sing six concerts in
nine days.
Except for a brief visit to her
recording studios to make a new
album of discs for release this fall,
Miss Anderson continued to rest
until midi October when she started
her present tour, during which she
will give 80 concerts.
Miss Anderson's recital here will
mark her sixth consecutive appear
ance. The famous singers program
will include English folk tunes,
German ieder and other songs, as
well as Negro spirituals. Among
her selections will be several new
compositions.
The Minneapolis auditorium con-
cert bowl in which Miss Anderson
will be presented is the horseshoe
end of the huge hall, and will rep
resent half the capacity of the audi
torium, thus bringing the audience
closer to the artist.
Tickets went on sale this week at
the Downtown Ticket Office, North
western National Bank building,
Minneapolis.
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NEGRO SAILOR HERO; TOWS RAFT
FILLED WITH WOUNDED MATES
THRU SHARK INFESTED WATERS

Los Angeles, California, Nov. IL.
The above cartoon is timely be-
cause it emphasizes the part the
Negro sailor is playing in the war
on the seas. Today here in this
city a young naval ensign related
Wednesday night how a powerful
Negro mess attendant swan six
hours through shark-invested wa
tiers, towing to safety a raft load
of wounded seamen from the U. S.
Destroyer Gregory, sunk by the
Japanese off the Solomons.
The ensign was Robert N. Adrian,
Ontario, Ore. He was wounded in
the engagement, he said in an NBC
radio broadcast, but despite his in
juries he was able to cling to the
side of the overloaded raft while
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Big OratOrical Treat, St.
Peter A.M.E., November 20

An evening of superb entertain
ment of something different" is
promised by the committee in
charge of this program. Besides the
unique contest between well known
Twin City readers, some of the
best musical talent in the two cities
will appear on the program.
Prizes will be awarded to winners
selected by five outstanding citi-
zens of both cities. I. Myrtle Car
den, director of Halle Q. Brown
House, st. Paul, Henry Thomas,
head resident of Phyllis Wheatley
House, Minneapolis and three
others to be named later, will serve
as judges.
The st. Paul choir invites the
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W. II. Mcclellan,
WenKnOwn Mpls.
Man, Dead at 68

William H. Mcclellan, age 60,
3644 Smelling avenue south, died
on Monday, November 9, after a
fe wmonths illness.
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday, November II, at 2:S0
p. m. at the St. Peters A. M. E,
Church with Rev. A. ]. Irvine off
ciating. Anchor Hilyard Masonic
Lodge held their usual ritual for
deceased members.
Mr.. Mcclellan is an old pioneer
of Minneapolis and for the past
twenty years was employed at the
Florshiem Shoe Co.
He is survived by a wife, Laura,
a brother Calvin, and other rela-
tives and friends.
Woodland Funeral Home was in
charge of burial arrangements with
interment in Crystal Lake cemetery.
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and civilians in the South particu-
larly, continuation of Jim Crowism
in the armed forces and war efforts
generally, transfer of the Fair En-
ployment Practice Committee from
its independent status under the
President to the War Manpower
Commission and other evils made
Negroes sore enough to shift their
political affiliations. Mr.. White
stated:
cit is true that much of this is
due to the attitude of voters gen.
orally to throw the rascals out
when things do not go well. But it
would be serious mistake for the
Republicans to believe that they
now have re-captured the Negroes
vote and will continue to hold it no
matter what they do. On too many
fundamental issues, economic, mill
tary, and social, there has been an
unholy alliance in Congress be-
tween Negotiating Southern
Democrats and reactionary Republi-
cans who think of the Negro only
when they are forced to around
election time.
GAS the Norfolk journal and
Guide stated editorially on Novem-
Der z regarding the Republican
Party's oversight in adopting a ten
point declaration of policies and
principles, Republican House lead
ership missed the bus when it in
sisted that capable and trained
leaders be used in the war effort
regardless of party, group, class,
or section but did not include re-
CARELESS of race, creed, or color
Negroes are learning the lesson
of the shifting national and inter-
national forces and utilize their
strategically located political
strength wisely, unselfshly, and
with complete independence. Only
by so doing can he cause the po-
litical leadership of all parties to
know that the Negro voter is alert,
intelligent, and is watching critical
ly every word and deed Of the vari-
Gus political parties.
"Test Of the administration will
be particularly severe in that con-
gressmen from the poll tax states
were able to return to the House
and inasmuch as the Democrats
are still the majority party their
power has increased"
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Urban League
Aux. Sells SLIGO
Worth of Bonds

The Women's Auxiliary of the
Minneapolis League added another
to its growing number of success
full cultural and civic undertakings
Tuesday, November 10, when the
organization sold upwards of ST.
10000 worth Of war bonds, over a
radio broadcast carried by Station
WCCO. Mrs. E. L. Sims, former
president of the organization, gave
the history of the organization and
commented upon the war activities
in which the Auxiliary has engaged.
Some of the persons purchasing
bonds during this sale were DR..
W. D. Brown, ]. P. Hansen, Mrs.
James Paige, Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence R. Clancy, Miss Essie R. Ma
son, Mrs. DeVelma Newman, Miss
Katherine M. Kohler, Louis B. Bort
nick, Mrs. E. L. Sims, Mrs. Eliza
beth Ewing, Mrs. Chas. W. Wash
ington, Mrs. Ethel Lynch, the Min
nehaha Temple, Daughter Elks, and
the Urban League Auxiliary.
The Auxiliary is sponsoring a
Bond Rally Day on November %
at Phyllis Wheatley House at A
p. m. The film Cocoa Cola" will
be shown at this time. Persons who
were unable to arrange for pur-
chases of bonds Tuesday will have
an opportunity to buy them for the
Sunday rally. War Savings Stamps
will also be on sale at this Rally.
The Auxiliary is especially anxious
that a large group Of people be
present to view the film, cocoa
Cola" which is a stirring war
drama, guaranteed to bring tears
to the eyes Of the most hardened.
The Bond Rally Day as well as
the Radio Bond Sale is being ham
died by the Bond Committee of
which Mrs. E. L. Sims and Mrs.
N. J. Hunter are co-chairmen. Mrs.
Wendell Jones of the War Savings
Committee is assisting.
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also announced that a Federal
Grand Jury, sitting in the Southern
District of Florida, at Tampa, to-
day returned an Indictment on two
counts charging the United States
Sugar Corporation, its personnel
manager, and three of it's camp
superintendent with conspiracy to
hold Negro sugar cane workers in
condition of peonage, in violation
of the Federal Civil Rights and
Anti Peonage statutes.
Named as defendants were:
United States Sugar Corporation;
M. E. Won Mach, personnel man.
ager, Clewiston, Florida; Evan
Ward Mcleod, superintendent, Bare
Beach Plantation; Oliver II. Shop
pard, superintendent, South Shore
Plantation; and a Mr.. Neal, super
intendent, Miami Lochs Plantation.
Count One of the indictment
charges that the defendants Gin
jured, oppressed, threatened and
intimidated" Negro field workers
in the free exercise of their rights
under the Thirteenth Amendment
of the Constitution by holding them
in Involuntary servitude. Count
Two charges conspiracy to violate
the Federal Anti-Peonage statute.
Maximum penalty under the first
count (Section 81, Title 10, U. S.
Code) is Imprisonment for ten
years and fine of $4,000. Convic-
ton on the second count (Sections
88 and 444, Title 10, U. S. Code)
carries a maximum penalty of two
years and fine of $4,000.
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o. E. S. Council
First to Buy
Christmas Ad.

The Past Matrons' and Patrons
Council of the Order of Eastern
Star was the first organization to
order and pay for greeting space in
the annual Spokesman and Recor-
der newspapers Christmas edition
which will be printed this year on
December %.
The insertion order came even
before the solicitation for this spe-
cial issue was begun. Ninety-fve
per cent of Twin City clubs, lodges
and organizations extend holiday
greetings to the general public
through the annual Christmas edi-
ton.
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Opponent OF Poll
Tax Speaks Here
Friday Night

John Russell Butler, national field
secretary of the Workers Defense
League and former president of the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union,
is in Minneapolis this week speak
ing before various groups in sup
port of the Pepper-Geyer anti-poll
tax bill and legislation to end dis
elimination against Negroes.
Born in Pangborn, Arkansas, of
tenant farmer stock in 1893, Mr..
Butler started picking cotton at the
age of four. He has been farmer,
soldier, teacher, and union organ
izer and was one of the founders
of the Southern Tenant Farmers
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The group of inductees involved
in this situation left St. Paul on
October % en- route for Jackson,
Mississippi, by way of Chicago and
Memphis, Tennessee. Their army
transportation papers included
Pullman accommodations between
Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson,
Mississippi, but as Private Rowland
states, and as others of this group
have stated in letters to relatives
of the Twin Cities, the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad refused to accommo-
date these men in keeping with the
provisions made by the army.
The Twin Cities Service Mems
Council and the Minneapolis and St.
Paul branches of the NAACP have
formed a joint committee for the
purpose of arousing every red
blooded citizen in Minnesota to
write President Roosevelt, the Sec
rotary Of War, and all Minnesota
Congressman protesting this dis
elimination and urging that the
Committee on Military Affairs of
the House and Senate make a spe-
cial investigation of the matter.
Circulars containing essential in
formation regarding this situation
were passed out at Twin City
churches Sunday, November 8, as
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St. Paul NAACP
To Elect New
Officers Nov. II

The election of officers will be
held at the regular monthly meet
ing of the st. Paul Branch of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People at the
Halle @. Brown Community House,
553 Aurora Avenue, Tuesday, No
vember IT., at 8 p. m. All mem
bers of the branch and non-mem-
bers are urged to attend this very
important meeting. Reports of
various committees will precede
the election, which will be by bal
lot.
The nominations, with one excep-
ton, were made at the regular
meeting of the Branch last month
from the floor.
The following nominations were
made: President, Rev. Clarence
Nelson (by petition); first vice
president, Richard L. Stokes, ST.,
and Mrs. Ethel Maxwell Williams;
second vice president, Frank Boyd;
secretary, Mrs. Alverta Coram; as
sistant secretary, Cyrus L. Lewis;
treasurer, W. B. Walker. Nomina-
lions for the Executive Board are
as follows: j. E. johnson, Rev.
C. T. R. Nelson, C. S. Anderson,
DR.. Grace Carlson, Mrs. Henrietta
Capesius, Miss I. Myrtle Garden,
Maceo Littlejohn, ]. N. Smith, S. v.
Owens, John Culver, Mrs. Ethel
Maxwell Williams, Henry Cotton,
William Heron, Mrs. Matte Cyrus,
Rev. S. E. Ware, Mrs. Villa Wilson,
Louis E. Lerman, Rev. Albert E.
Tuck, Judge John Fineout, Mrs.
Ora Reed, Rev. C. B. Wheeler, Levi
Garrett, Mrs. Dora Mcclure, Mrs.
Mabel Brown, Mrs. Dorothy
Schultz, Frank L. Alsup, Mrs. Rose
Tillotson, A. v. Hall, and Samuel
Ransom.
A petition for the nomination Of
Rev. Clarence Nelson for president
of the st. Paul branch was pre-
scented in the meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee at the Halle @.
Brown House last Saturday evening.
Those signing the petition were
Richard L. Stokes, ST., Mrs. Ethel
Maxwell Williams, Frank Boyd,
Frank Alsup, Mrs. Alverta Coram,
William Heron and Rev. Benjamin
N. Moore, the president of the
Branch.
Circulars urging people to write
letters of protest against the mis-
treatment and discrimination
against Negro soldiers, particularly
in the South, to President Roose-
welt, Senator Henrik Shipstead,
Senator Joseph d. Ball and Repre-
sentative Mas, were given out at
the meeting of the Executive Board.
Letters were read from Senator
Ball and Representative Mas to
Mr.. J. L. Rowland, promising an
investigation of the discrimination
against Private Harold Rowland,
the son of Mr.. Rowland, and other
Negro soldiers who are stationed
in Camp Shelby, Miss. Ministers
in at least two churches in St. Paul
on last Sunday urged the members
of their congregations to write let
tiers of protest against the I'M
democratic treatment of Negro SOL
diers to the President and elected
representatives from the State of
Minnesota in Washington.
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Rally Day Service at
Fourth St. Church

All Twin City Churches of God
in Christ will hold a special Rally
Day Service at the Fourth Street
Church Of God in Christ, Mime
apolis, on Sunday, November Is, at
8 p. m.
Rev. A. J. Irvine and the st.
Peters Church Choir are guests for
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Refusal of Pullman Accommodations
to Minnesota Negro Soldiers
Is Attacked by Local Committee

The refusal of the Illinois Central Railroad to
Pullman accommodations for group of Minnesota boys
route to Camp Shelby Jackson Mississippi being protested
by the Minneapolis and St. Paul branches of the NAACP and
the Twin Cities Service Mems Council The following letter
from young who Acting Corporal of the group,
to his mother dscoses the important facts surrounding the
It also makes reference to the preudiced surroundings
in which these Southern army camps are located.
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the special service.
Laura Mae Smith, Pilgrim Bap-
fist Church, st. Paul; Dessa Gresh-
am and Thelma Massengill, Be-
thesda Baptist Church, Minneapolis,
and Avis Ware, st. Peter A.M.E.
Church, Minneapolis, will all be
presented in a Twin City dramatic
contest sponsored by the st. Peter
A.M.E. choir on November 20 at
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100 Women
Wanted Now!

A Twin City war plant needs
100 women 40 to 30 years of age
for sweeping, cleaning work,
good wages. Everybody must
have a job during our national
emergency. Make application at
your local Urban League office.
Applicants must be in good
health.
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PROGRESSING IN THE ARMY

PROGRESSING IN THE ARMY
Master Sergeant Roger U. john
son, Elgin Field, Florida, received
his newest promotion on Wednes-
day, November 4. Sgt. johnson
has been in the armed forces since
February %, 1912. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry. G. Johnson,
795 Edmund street, and the hus-
band of Mrs. Elaine Escue john
son, who resides in Minneapolis
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
L. Escue, 1924 Fourth avenue south.
Sgt. johnson has the distinction of
being one Of the youngest master
sergeant.
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Concord Male Group
Concert November %

The Concord Male Quartette will
be presented in a concert of spir-
ituals, gospel songs and hymns at
Bethesda Baptist church on Sun
day, November %, at 7:30 p. m.
This program closes the Anniver-
sary Week of the church.
Members of the quartette are
Thomas Tollerson, Paul Curry,
Oliver Thorton and Edward Hayes.
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Northern Negroes Protest
Vote Against SOuth's Hold
on Democratic Party Felt

NEGRO VOTES ROLE ELECTION UNDERRATED BY WHITE
PRESS, WALTER WHITE SAYS
New York. YDeclaring that the Negro vote played larger
the 1912 elections than recognized by the white daies Wal
White Executive Secretary of the National Association for the
Advancement Of Coored People, this week statement the
shift number Of Congressional districts Of Negro
Democratic the Republican side is large
against the domination of national policy the
Negro by the reaonary Negro soldiers
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public to spend very pleasant eve
ming for only % cents.
8 p. M, at the church.
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Gay Ninety Revue, Saturday,
December IL, directed by Gladys
Harris.-Advt. .... ...
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MARRIAGES AND TIRES

To ask whether war marriages will
work is somewhat like asking if re-
dreaded tires will work. Obviously,
such tires won't work as well as new
ones. But until the return of peace,
it's either retreaded tires or no tires.
Lewis Browne.
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WORST MISTAKE

The men who made the peace
treaties of 1918 made the worst pos
sible mistake. They tried to control
the banks and the munitions factories
in the defeated countries, but they left
the schools alone. They would have
done much better to concentrate on
the schOols.-Sylvia F. Porter.
Evening star., 1942-06-18

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