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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Consumers Worker
To Speak at
Halle Forum

Mrs. Dorothy Houston Jacobson,
consumer education consultant,
W. P. A., will speak at the Halle
@. Brown Forum on Sunday, Janu-
ary 25, at 4 p. m. Her subject will
be "Your Dollar and You"
It is in recognition of this need
that the Consumer Committee of
the St. Paul Women's Council
brings to the Forum person who
is well informed on all matters of
Consumer Interest. Following Mrs.
Jacobson's talk there will be a
question and answer period which
will enable anyone present to ask
questions closest to their own prob
lem.
The Halle Q. Brown Concert
Group will render musical selec-
tons. The Consumer Committee
members are: Mrs. Alice Onque,
chairman, Mrs. Ethel Maxwell,
Mrs. Alverta Corum, Mrs. S. Vim
cent Owens and Miss Rachel James.
The public is invited.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
SOutherners Endorse
Volunteer NegrO-White
Army Division for US.

ers like me, would be more enthusi-
astic toward the war effort if there
were no discrimination on account
of race, creed or color"
Frank P. Graham stated that a
volunteer division of the Army
open to all men without regard for
race, creed or color would be Gin
keeping with our best traditions of
freedom. 1t would also be a direct
answer to the propaganda against
America carried on by the Japa-
nese and Nazi propaganda bureaus,
The fact that the decision to enter
such a division is left to free and
volunteer choice would meet the OBJ
jections of some who have grown
up in the midst of historic segre-
cations"
Mr.. Ethridge said: "I think your
idea about a special volunteer divi-
sion is swell"
Another Southerner who gave
his wholehearted support to the
idea is Howard Kester, general
secretary of the Fellowship Of
Southern Churchmen, with head
quarters in Black Mountain, North
Carolina, the N. A. A. C. P. said.
Mr.. Kester states, GAS a white
Southerner, 1 am positive that you
are correct in saying that such a
move would be warmly received by
many Southerners. Furthermore
it is my judgment that such a move
would greatly strengthen the posi-
ton of the democratic forces
among the colored peoples of the
entire world, who, if my reading
of current news is correct, enter
tain grave doubts and misgivings
about our sincerity to square our
conduct with our professions pre-
cisely at the point of racial toler-
ance and good will"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Five More
Guards at
New Brighton
Two Men Enrolled In Training
School. Six to Follow

Two Men Enrolled In Training
School, Six to Follow
Democracy works at the New
Brighton Twin City Ordnance
plant under the direction of the
Federal Cartridge Co. of Minneapo-
lis. Five more Twin City Negroes
have gone or will go to work as
guards to protect Uncle Sans gil
gantic arms plant, by this week
end.
These men will join nine other
Negro Americans who, with about
275 Americans of other national
origins, make up one of the crack
plant guard forces in America.
The force is commanded by Capt.
M. A. Faber.
Two Negroes, Melvin Stone and
Thomas Graham, entered the arms
production training school last
week for instructions in making
bullets for American guns. The
president of Federal Cartridge
Co., Charles L. Horn, Tuesday or
dered the placement of six more
men Of the race with mechanical
training or aptitudes in the school.
The janitorial force at the plant
under the supervision of a Negro
now has a staff of 35 persons. Be-
fore the week is over six Negro
women are expected to be en-
ployed as matrons.
The New Brighton plant has the
countrywide distinction of being
the only plant with Negroes en-
ployed in the guard force and the
only plant where a Negro has an
administrative post.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

nesota Defense Force and he must
serve in a separate or Jim Grow
unit if he is admitted.
"The Negro is utterly confused
and disheartened when he hears
and reads that men, as we'll as
women, are needed in various
phases of the defense program
and yet he is not accepted in many
places in the defense program"
The Camphor pastor declared
that he was making a plea not just
for the Negro, but more for all
Americans in the name of de-
mocracy. "The case is hopeless
unless Christian ministers and
members of the Christian church
speak out and act against the dis
elimination and segregation of the
American Negro" Mr.. Nelson con-
cluded.
DR.. Charles F. Boss, Jr. (white) ,
of Chicago, outstanding leader of
the Methodist Peace Commission,
was the principal speaker for the
meeting. In the course of his ad-
dress on "The Status of the Con-
scientious Director in the United
States" DR.. Boss said, 1--WE of white
skin simply can not appreciate the
difficulties which the Negro meets
in every social situation. It
might be an irony of fate that
American Negro soldiers may be
sent to Africa to uphold the white
mans imperialism over the African
natives, while here in America the
Negro suffers from all kinds of dis
ordinations and problems"
Several of the ministers thanked
Mr.. Nelson for bringing the matter
to their attention Gin such a force
full manner" The matter of the
appointment of the committee was
referred to the Executive Commit
tee for further study and report to
the meeting next month.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Brown Elected
President Council
Negro Groups

The Minneapolis Council of Ne
gro Organizations elected DR.. w.
D. Brown, Minneapolis physician
and mayor of Bonneville" its
president for 1912 at it's annual
meeting held Sunday at Phyllis
Wheatley House. Brown succeeds
Cecil E. Newman, first president
of the council, who declined re-
nomination.
Delegates representing most of
the 20 heard the reports of the
council organizations and the pres
ident's annual message and recon-
mendations.
Others who will serve as officers
during the ensuing year are Henry
Thomas, first vice-president; Mar
garet Combs, second vice president;
C. W. Washington, secretary;
Martin Brown, assistant secretary;
W. C. Jones, treasurer.
Elected to the executive board,
which includes the officers and
three delegate members, were Cecil
Newman, Mae Marshall and M. Leo
Bohannon.
The retiring president urged the
Council to:
Take out membership to Min
neapOlis Civic Council.
Study plan to conduct all N.
A. A. C. P, Urban League and
Wheatley membership drives
jointly.
Honor yearly individual who
has contributed most to cOmmu-
nifty service and accomplishment.
The new president, DR.. Brown,
is known to most Twin Citians and
though a young man has a long
time record of civic usefulness. He
headed the committee from the
Minneapolis Business and Profess
sional Association which with the
cooperation of other organizations
launched the council.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

This newspaper gets scores of
phone calls, inquiries requesting In
formation regarding everything
from the capitol of Malaga to the
address of the Majestic Drug store,
Naturally, we are glad to be Of
service to the public. The increas-
ing number of such requests ind-
Gates the extent to which the people
depend on the newspaper which
serves its community well.
Our phone number is Midway
S340. Call us and we'll do our best
to serve you.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
ATTENTION, GOVERNOR STAS-
SEN AND MINNESOTA HOME
DEFENSE FORCE OFFICERS

New York-Gerald White, young
white New Yorker indicted last
Thursday into the United States
Marine Corps, has requested that
he be put into the proposed volun-
teer division of the Army which
would include men of any race, col
or, creed or nationality, the N. A.
A. C. P. announced this week.
In addition, it was learned that
Frank P. Graham, president of the
University of North Carolina and
newly-appointed to the War Labor
Board, and Mark Ethridge, editor
of the Louisville, KY, Courier
Journal, and chairman of the Com
mittee on Fair Employment Prac-
tice, have enthusiastically endorsed
the idea.
Gerald Whites request went
Wednesday, January IA, to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson and Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox. The re-
quest is short and to the point. 1t
was made after White noted stories
about the proposed volunteer divi-
sion in the daily papers.
He said, Tomorrow, January Is,
I am to be indicted into the U. S.
M. C. which, I learned after I had
enlisted, restricts it's membership
to members of the white race. This
does not satisfy me as being a
bright, shining example of the de-
mocracy for which we are alleged
ly fighting.
Therefore, in the event such a
volunteer body is created, l should
like to be transferred to that body.
May I further say that I, and 9TH
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
State Bapfsts
Meet Thursday
AtZiOn Church

The second quarterly board meet
meeting of the Minnesota Baptist
Association will be held Thursday,
January 20, at Zion Baptist
Church, Minneapolis. The theme of
the meeting will be "The Ever
lasting Arms"
The program, full of interest,
inspiration and education, promised
by the program committee, will be-
gin at 10 a. m. and continue
through the afternoon and evening,
with moderator Rev. H. w. Bolts,
Mrs. Mayme Burrell, women's aux
iliary president, and Miss Evelyn
Kelly of the Young Peoples con-
vention presiding at their respec-
tive hours.
Devotional will be led by Mrs. A.
3. Lewis and Mrs. S. E. Ware will
arrange the music. Other numbers
on the program include sermons
by Rev. Bolts, Rev. S. E. Ware and
Rev. A. F. Martin, an address on
Conservation" by Mrs. S. U.
Owens, wife of the St. Paul Urban
League executive secretary. The
Red Circle Girls and Mrs. Rosa
lind Glanton, representing the B.
T. u, will also appear on the pro-
gram.
The Layman's Council will con-
clude the evening program.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Rev. Nelson Attacks US.
Treatment of Negroes at
Meeting of Fifty Ministers

More than fifty white ministers
heard an impassiOned plea for ga
Qualification of the status of the
Negro in this sO-called American
democracy" by the Rev. Clarence
T. R. Nelson, pastor of the Cam
phOr Memorial Methodist Church
at the monthly meeting of the St.
Paul Ministers Association in the
St. Paul Y. M. C. A., Tuesday. The
CamphOr pastor made his plea in
the business session of the meet
ing when he suggested that the
St. Paul Ministers Association,
which is composed of the PrOtes-
tant ministers, have as one of its
standing committees a race rela-
tiOns committee "that will work all
the time for the bringing about of
better race relations for the sake
Of democracy"
In the course of his remarks Mr..
Nelson said that "Joe Louis who
fought for the Navy Relief Fund
could only be a fiunky in the Navy
and that he could not join the
Marine Corps and a Negro (Lee K.
Turpin) had to sue the Governor
and his military aides, of the state
of Minnesota, before Negroes
would be permitted to join the Min
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Canadian Youth, Nephew of Local
People, Wins HOnOrs in Air School

Harold E. Pitts RCAF air frame mechanic won top honOrs in
Canadian youths when he graduated from
ST. Thomas Ontario, B. C., two weeks
nephew Charles Noble of Minneapolis and cousin of
the only Negro youth the school,
other youths in his class being white Canadians
choice schools for advanced force
of bombing McDOn
Manitoba The photo Pitts first appeared in the WINI
PEG this through the
tesy of that paper.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
DEPEND ON UNCLE SANS
POSTWAR

to bring you your weekly copy of
this paper. Others may fail, but
Uncle Sans postman always is on
the job. That's the reason why
many people take this paper year
ly, for delivery by mail.
Mail your check or money order
for 81 now to this paper at 3O6
Third st. So, Minneapolis, Mimi,
and you will receive 81 issues of
the ivelest weekly paper in the
country.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

pointed out that President Roose-
welt, by executive order, directed
that Negroes be received according
to their training in defense indus
try. The Presidents order was
transmitted as statement of poll
cy in some plants, but too often
employers give only lip service to
this policy of equality. In some
plants Negroes are hired only for
mental jobs. In discussing the eco
nomic consequences in denying GER
tain groups their rights to free
competition in the labor markets is
destroying for Negro youths their
democratic faith in America.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

But the Army's Jim Crow policy
bars hundreds of qualified nurses,
ready and eager to serve, from
ministering to sick and wounded
soldiers. Large numbers of the
nations 5000 Negro graduate
nurses wishing to get into the
Army Nurses Corps have been told
that the Army will take only Sc
of them, and no more.
Moreover, Surgeon General
James C. Magee of the U. S. Army
has laid down the policy that 'Ne-
gro nurses would only be called to
service in hospitals or wards de-
voted exclusively to the treatment
of Negro soldiers" That's not all.
All the Sc colored nurses taken into
the army are being consigned to
only two camps, both located in the
South-Ft. Bragg, N. c., and Camp
Livingston, La. No colored nurses
have been allotted to treat the
many Negro troops in northern
camps.
When a group of leading Negro
professionals protested against the
quota and segregation policy in the
Army Nurses Corps, Surgeon Cen
eral Magee told them fatty that
he doesn't want to impose Negro
nurses on white soldiers. It did
no good to remind him that Negro
nurses attend patients in many
northern hospitals regardless of
race and without protest from
white patients.
We wonder if wounded soldiers
would die gladly for want of nurs-
ing in the knowledge that the Sur
geon General has protected them
from treatment by dark-skinned
nurses. What about the countless
Southern gentlemen who have
boosted of being nursed by colored
"mammies"?
It should be pointed out, in fair
ness, that the American Red Cross
has no part in this policy of racial
discrimination in nursing. Jim
Crow is not recognized by the Red
Cross when it comes to recruiting
nurses for it's own ranks.
Some people feel that it does no
good in this time of crisis to point
out areas of racial discrimination.
They think it only intensifies exist
ing conflicts and hence breeds dis
unity. But these people must I'M
derstand that disunity is bred not
by those who wish to end preju-
dices that weaken our war effort,
but by those who seek to perpetu-
ate them. Their willingness to toll
crate Jim Crow for the duration
isn't shared by our 100000 black
fellow citizens. Only last week a
conference of Negro leaders
adopted this resolution: eve be-
lieve that the Negro is not whole
heartedly and unreservedly all out
in support of the present war eff
fort"
That fact may be deplored; it
can't be ignored.
In the case of the Negro nurses,
we submit that the preservation
of the lives of American soldiers
is more important than the preser-
walton of Jim Crows rule.
Buy Defense Bonds
MI ~
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

Negro graduate of the Dunwoody
institutional trade course in the rs
years since the famous Minneapo-
lis school was first endowed as a
vocational trade center. He has
been forced to accept employment
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

Mr.. Owens stated that the defense
boom and war efforts had at
first looked like there would be
various opportunities afforded Ne
groes to participate as wage earn
ers. Attention was called to the
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as janitor at International Har-
vester because he cannot receive
employment as an electrician, when
the United States needs electri-
clans.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Jim Crow Is Fifth
Columns First Aid In
Gripping Negro War Effort
ARMY NEEDS NURSES; WILL
ACCEPT ONLY Sc NEGRO WOMEN
Army Nurses Needed, and Badly; But Hundreds
Qualified Negroes Are Turned Down
Albert Deutsch and Tom 0COnnOr in the
NeWSDaDer PM

YORK, any list of fifth columnss still at work
A. Jim would have to be placed pretty the
Anybody anything that amstrng the participation of
tenth people work deserves the utmost gratitude Of the
Axis That's what Jim Crow is doing.
nursing the General of the Army
Public Health Service united plea for $4,000
nursing schools order themselves for
military Right the Army alone badly needs 10000
in addition the 1000 it has.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

American tradesmen to work in de-
tense jobs and factories.
Negro graduates of trade and
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Many Skilled Negroes Are
Barred from Defense Work
By Color Bias of Contractors

An appeal for greater recogni-
ton for skilled and semi-skilled
Negro workers in the national de-
tense program was made recently
by S. Vincent Owens, executive Sec
rotary of the St. Paul Urban
League in St. Paul Pioneer Press.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Roy Wilkins
Raps American
Red Cross

Read article by Roy Wilkins, edi-
tor of the Crisis, on page two.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

Some the trained young said Mr. Vincent
Owens director the Urban be handicapped by their color
in seeking work. pictured here.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

establishment that Negro work
ers receive in replying to radio an
nouncements, newspaper stories
and bulletins in employment offices
reporting the need for patriotic
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

Mr.. Owens mentioned that other
young Negroes, all capable and
we'll trained, remain jobless. He
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

technical schools report to employ
ment offices in answer to these ap-
peals and learn that there are few
if any jobs for even the best trades
men of their race.
Mr.. Owens cited the story of
Leroy Coleman as a typical ex-
ample. Mr.. Coleman was the first
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23

The merchants who adver-
tise their products and serv-
ices in this newspaper are do
ing their part in advancing the
righteous cause of the Negro
American, by patronage of the
Negro Press, it's voice.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-01-23
Each Day

Defense Bonds
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
Utica Red Cross
REPORTS Activities

UTICA-Bruce Collins, chair
man of the Utica Branch of the
American Red Cross, presented
the following report of the
work accomplished in Utica
Curing 1912:
Production: 1. Knitting under
Mrs. Sidney Odgers, 4 pair nit
tens, l toddlers pack, S pair
socks, pair gloves, 20 pair
wristlets 81 mufflers, 33 chill
dren's sweaters, 81 mems sweat
ers.
2. Sewing under Mrs. Donald
Michael, assisted by Mrs. Sam
Beauchamp and Mrs. Earl Nc
Clellan. Since taking office
Oct. Is, 1912, have put in to-
tai of 252 hours, Is minutes and
have completed II gowns.
3. Surgical Dressing under
Mrs. Earl Sipperley, assisted by
Mrs. Harry Russell, Mrs. Jack
Russell, Mrs. George Remer
and Mrs. Russell German,
2098 hours, As minutes.
4. First Aid: DR.. d. B. Wiley.
Standard course "a, End class
%, total 81. Advanced course
25, Instructors course S.
5. First Aid: Mrs. Harold
Engel. Standard course 13, Jun
ior class Boy Scouts II.
6. Loan Closet: Mrs. George
Remer, Mrs. Guy Cummings.
$500 raised by public card
party to purchase material and
articles for closet. Closet is To-
Gated in Lutheran Parish Hall
on Van Dyke avenue and we ex-
pect to have it entirely COM
pleted soon.
7. Nurses Aids: Two COM
pleted course, Mrs. Spencer,
Mrs. Sawicki. Hours completed
359l7. Ready for new course
Mrs. Koch, Mrs. Loewen.
8. Soldiers Kits: $50 kits be-
ing completed by Utica people.
Cookies have been delivered
TO u. S. O. at Mt. Clemens by
ladies Of the Methodist, Luth-
eran and st. Lawrence churches.
Blood donors from this chap
ter that we know of, IS.
Officers and heads of depart
ments in addition to those pub
lished last week: Home Service,
Mrs. William Erwin; Disaster
Preparedness, ward A.
Schwarzkoff; Home Nursing,
Mrs. Peterson; Health Chair
man, Mrs. Sam Beauchamp;
First Aid, Mrs. Harold Engel;
Junior Red Cross, Mrs. Lloyd
r. Hirth, Mrs. Ray Norman,
assistant; Administration. Mrs
Earl Sipperley, Staff assistants,
Mrs. Vernon Smith, Mrs. Rus
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
Utica MaSOnS
Name Officers

UTICA-Utica Lodge No. rs
F. & A. M. held t. annual cleo
ton of officers at Masonic Hall
on Monday evening. The fol-
lowing men will fill the chairs
for the coming year w. M
James Fletcher; S. w., Harold
Ash; j. w., Elmer Huelskemper;
Sec'y, Samuel Beaucham; Treas
urer, William Rossow, Sr.; S. D.,
Jacob Getz; j. D., William
Dempsey; Chaplain, Adelbert B.
Laid: Marshal, Maurice Riggs;
Stewards, Thomas S var t,
James Merritt, Jr.; Tyler, Sam
uel McLain.
A. B. Laid was chosen as al
ternate to the Gran Lodge.
Public i .stallation will be
held on Monday evening, Dec.
81, at 800 o'clock. Albert Mar
latt, of Mt. Clemens, district
deputy instructor and Past Mas
ter of the Mt. Clemens lodge
will act as installing officer.
He will bring with him several
other Past Masters from Mt.
Clemens who will assist in the
work.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
Utica


Pupils of the grade school are
preparing an operetta fo- their
Christmas program entitled Hi
Ho, It's Christmas" More than
so will participate in the cast
which is under the direction of
Oscar Hughby, music teacher. It
will probably be given on
Wednesday afternoon, December
% and will consist of special
acts, singing, recitations, etc.
The high school will have
treat when the picture "A Savior
is Born" will be shown in nat
ural colors in the high school
auditorium. 1t is picture of I'M
usual m crit, Superintendent
William R. Davis announces. The
public may attend the showing.
Principal Clarence Walsh of
the grade schools reports $15.44
received from the sale of Michi-
gan tuberculosis c hr S m S
seals. The third grade under
Rose Kidd, topped the list with
SO received. Other rooms func-
toned as follows, kindergarten,
81 cents; 1st grade, So; End
grade, So; 4th grade So, 5th, 9th,
Gle; 7th and 9th, $1.56. The bal
ance were sold out &C the grade
school office.