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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
TOUGH ON CUFFS

Barton MacLane showed up at RKO wearing war-style cuffless pants. He likes 'ern. Yeah, but wait," jeered Lucille Ball, until you're ordered into trouserless cuffs"
 Tn Sweet Or Hot, she's pair ed with that big, beautiful hunk of man," Victor Mature. who sings I've Found A Great Big Hunk Of Love-. Longest song title is the Andrews Sisters "Mad-About- Him. Sad Without Him Can I : Be Glad Without Him Blues"
 After living in different rented house each year since she came to America, Greta Garbo has bought a Santa Monica estate. Marlene Dietrich's daughter has changed her
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26

character. Of course, he dances with his usual antic touch, but 1t is pleasant to see his development as an all-round comedian who need not depend on his feet to get across.
 Strong But Yellow
 Ronald Graham, who is practi- cally everyone's favorite musical comedy leading man, and Benay Ve- nuta, who is excellent as Hippolyta in her most important Broadway role, help affairs considerably, and special mention also is earned by Bertha Belmcre, who has the role of Pomposia, Sapiens' mother.
 The dancing Hightowers, Robert and Lewis, excel in several special ties with such feminine partners as Flower Hujer and Vera-Ellen, who is cute trick indeed. Ralph Durnke is quite comic Hercules, who has muscles of steel and streak of yell low.
 The top tunes seem to be Jupiter Forbid" "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me-" "Ev'rything I've Got" and Careless Rhapsody"
 Joshua Logan staged the whole show, Robert Alton did the dances Jo Mielziner the settings and Irene Sharaff the fascinating costumes. THERoN BAMBERGER, who runs II the Bucks County Playhouse al New Hope, Pa, each summer, isn't going to let the gasoline rationing and lack of tires put his country theater out of business. He has just arranged to move into town, in this case Philadelphia, and take over the ballroom of the Bellevue -Stratford Hotel.
 A season of 10 weeks is planned, to open about June 26. A new play will be presented each week, with six evening and two matinee per- formances. The price scale will be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
LENsMAN GOES WESTERN

Hollywood. = Cameraman Milton Krasner, who specialized in the par- Tor, bedroom and bath flicker, is now the outdoor boy of Universal Studios. Having lined up the cam- era for "The Lady From Chey- enne," "The Vigilantes," and "The Spoilers" he is now peeking through the machine on Deep in the Heart of Texas" the Universal opus star ring Robert Stack Brod Crawford and Jackie Cooper, with Anne Gwynne, Ralph Bellanay, Jane, Dar- well and Leo Carrillo sharing fea- tured honorS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26

want business? Then l sahll give them the business. People of Ger many, I exhort you to be calm. I will win the war this fall if 1t takes 10 years. People of Germany, have ] ever broken a promise? Answer that - if you dare :"
 Joan Bennett has been getting indignant letters from animal lovers because she called a NaN officer a dog in "The Wife Takes A Flyer" And Joan Crawford has embroider- ed q Am An American" on a sweater for her daschshund.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
DIME GIFTS FOR BLow-UPs

Hollywood. Henry Roster, pro~ ducer-director on Universal'S "What Happened, Caroline" has installed q supply of gag gifts garnered from the five-and- dime stores on the set, passing 'ern out as rewards" to players who blow their lines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
VERONICA IN NEW HAIRDO

For the first time since her spec kacular film career began, Veronica Lake tried out a hairdo different from her famous curl-over- one -eye hairdress, in param0unt's "The Glass Key" at the suggestion of studio executives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
BY PAUL HARRISON
"A Service Stan Correspondent

NEA SeFVICe SLaM COfFeSpOhuehL
 Hollywood - Behind the screen: Joe E. Brown give an imitation of Hitler in Lazy Bones," and pre- view audiences are bowling at his harangue, which begins: Mem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
Up And Down Broadway
BY JACK GAvER United Press Drama Editor

NEW YORK; (UrThe always effective combination of 1V uneful musical which the title of Jupiter" among
 
 belt Diana Hippoya the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
DOUBLES IN BRASS

Hugh Herbert wrote the dialogue for one of his own scenes in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26
TOP VICTORY GARDEN

Richard Arlen, starring in "Wrecking Crew" for Paramount, planted 8 Victory Garden on the roof of his penthouse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26

the same as prevailed in the coun-
 try. The. ballroom, incidentally, will be air. conditioned.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Mass Meeting
Being Planned

A deliberative mass meeting to
discuss the Negroes status in this
world confusion is being planned
for February 15 at Phyllis Wheat
ley House.
This meeting will be sponsored
by DR.. W. D. Brown, mayor of
Bonneville" with the assistance
of the Associated Negro credit
union and the Working Girls Coun-
Gil. The Community Council of St.
Paul and the Council of Negro Or
ganizations of Minneapolis will
also be asked to participate.
It is hoped by the sponsors that
this meeting will lead to unified
action toward the destruction of
all problems preventing sole par
ticipation of Negroes in the
American way of life"
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Mill City
Woman Falls
Dead on Street

Theresa Minneweather, age As,
of 1116 Fremont Ave. No., died
suddenly while on her way to work
Monday morning. She collapsed a
few blocks from her place of en-
L-oy.--S4It.
Awaiting the arrival of relatives
from Kansas City, funeral services
will be held today (Friday) at the
Zion Baptist Church with Rev. II.
W. Bolts officiating. Mrs. Mime
weather was a member of the Min
nehaha Temple, Daughter Elks,
and they will hold their special
organizational services also.
She is survived by a husband, 81.
A. Minneweather, mother,
Francis Harris and other relatives
of Kansas City.
Interment in Crystal Lake Gene
terry with Woodland Funeral Home
in charge of burial arrangements.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Gambling Raid
By st. Paul
Police Gets Il
WELL-KNOWN ST. PAULITES
IN GAMBLING RAID

st. Paul police officers staged
raid on a dice game Friday, jan
uary %, at 316 Rondo Ave. on the
second floor where twelve patrons
and the proprietor, German Sper-
ling, were arrested. On the table
was fourteen dollars and sixty
cents which nobody came to claim
on Saturday morning, January "a,
when the case was called in Mu-
nicipal Court. The offenders were
arrested Friday and released on
bail, totaling 1920. None appeared
in court Saturday morning. when
the case was called.
German Sperling was charged
with operating gambling house
and posted bail of 800 which he
forfeited. The others who forfeited
$40 each were: Roy Russell, 451
Charles ave., Fleetwood Smith, 397
st. Anthony ave., Archie Walton,
$50 Iglehart ave., Orrie Flood, 375
Gaultier street, James Bruce, 339
Rondo ave., George Fentress, S45
Harrington st., Raymond Kennedy,
416 Rondo ave., William Shropshire,
461 Rondo ave., Henry MCGOWAN,
280 W. Central ave., Cecil Robin
son, $50 Arundel st., Morris Kea-
ton, 532 st. Anthony ave., Booker
Allen, $40 Fuller ave.
Russell, Smith and Flood were
charged with visiting a gambling
house and the rest were charged
with gambling.
Judge John L. Rounds ordered
the $14.60 turned over to the Po-
lice Benevolent Association.
1t is rumored that the place was
tipped off to police by one of the
wives of a patron.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
BRANCH PRESIDENT FORCES
CAFE OWNER TO REMOVE
OBJECTIONABLE

The "all out fight against dis
elimination" launched by the new
administration of the St. Paul
Branch of the N.A.A.C.P., scored
it's first victory Monday, when the
aggressive president, Rev. B. N.
Moore, and the publicity chairman,
Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson, made
a two-man attack on the Uncle
Toms Hamburger Shop, at 259
University, and forced the man
ager, Mr.. Becker, to remove a sign
with the following quotation: EX-
IRA CHARGE TO COLORED
TRADE, from the counter.
The ministers were returning
home from a meeting of the st.
Paul Methodist Ministers Asso-
citation, where Rev. Moore had
made a protest against the use of
the expression "a niger in the
woodpile" made by the pastor of
one of the leading white Methodist
churches at a luncheon of clergy
men and labor leaders in the Hotel
Lowry few weeks ago, when they
went into the Hamburger Shop to
investigate a report of discrimina-
tion made by Jack Payne last week.
Rev. Moore and Rev. Nelson
walked into the eating place and
sat at the counter. The waitress
set service of water before them,
while waiting for the ministers to
place their orders. Mr.. Nelson
asked the waitress what was the
meaning of the sign, 1--WE reserve
the right to refuse service to any
one." While the waitress was Civ
ing some kind of a vague answer,
the ministers observed the sign on
the counter, EXTRA CHARGE TO
COLORED TRADE.
The ministers asked to see the
manager and he was pointed out
as the big man at the slot machine.
Rev. Moore made a vigorous and
outspoken protest to the manager,
in which he declared that the sign
was discriminatory, and undemo-
cratic" Mr.. Becker, in defense Of
the sign, said in brief that they
had had some trouble with a col
lored woman, who was evidently
intoxicated. He declared that he
had nothing against colored people
and that he had never been in the
South. Rev. Moore told him that
whether he had been in the South
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
MRS. BRADFORD BURIED

Mary Ellen Bradford, 500 Ere
mont Ave. NJ, died Monday at Cen
eral Hospital where she has been
confined for the past month.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday, Jan. %, at 2:3O p. m. at
Wayman A. M. z. Church with
Rev. W. M. Reddick officiating, as
sisted by Father H. Thomas.
Surviving Mrs. Bradford are
four children, Loree Lawrence of
Minneapolis; Leona Ewing, Mason
City, and Estella Dixon of Mil
waukee; Clifford Bradford, st,
Paul; two brothers, William and
Sol Carter of Minneapolis; nieces,
nephews and grandchildren.
Burial was made in Crystal Lake
cemetery with Neal Funeral Home
in charge of funeral arrangements.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Petition to LegaIize Residential
Segregation Squashed as City
Planning Commission Raps Plan

in the cases of Harmon v. Tyler, 273 u. s.
66S, and Richmond v. Deans, 281 u. s.
704. See, also, 4th Ed, DecenniAl Digest,
Constitutional Law, Sections 215 and 27s
U.
It therefore seems quite clear that any
attempt by the city to restrict the uses of
property in the manner requested by these
petitions would be a violation of the Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution Of
the United States.
Such restriction by deed is generally
held not to be violation of the federal
constitution; see 4th Ed, Decennial Di-
l am returning your communication, with
the petitions attached
Yours very truly,
R. S. WIGGR,
City Attorney.
The Petition bore approximately
one hundred and fifty names,
headed by one Harry Martin, 5444
9th Ave. So., Minneapolis.
When presented to the City Plan
ming Commission at it's regular
meeting, Chairman Ray Ewald
registered disgust that such a pro-
ceeding should ever come before
the body, saying in part, "People
should learn that there are only
two groups that merit considera-
ton, Americans, and their enemies.
Will someone please move immedi-
ately to dispose of this thing?"
Representation of the Negro
group was small at the hearing, in
cluding C. W. Washington, execu-
tive secretary of the Urban
League; Talmage B. Carey, official
of the Associated Negro Credit
Union, N.A.A.C.P. and Urban
League.
Among the white friends of
justice who were in evidence were
Robert Wishart, Sam A. Swanson,
H. R. Muellar and Donald Wick
burg, all CLIO. officials.
May Be Disunity Move
There is speculation in some
quarters as to whether or not the
action of the white southside resi-
dents was not the beginning of a
series of efforts to promote a pro-
gram of disunity, claimed to be a
part of the activities of subversive
groups.
When commended for his atti-
tude, Mr.. Ewald said that it was
high time someone called attention
publicly to the hazardous policy of
indulging in anything that smacked
of unAmericanism.
Comment by other officials in
volved were much of the same
tenor.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30

City political supporter OF the
Governors.
The chairman of the meeting
and the president of the Alliance,
the Rev. Il. W. Bolts, pastor of the
Zion Baptist Church, had barely
completed putting the matter be-
fore the meeting before a St. Paul
Baptist minister took the floor to
oppose the suggestion.
This st. Paul pastor said that
he could see no reason for US see
ing the Governor since he had
ignored Negroes all along.
A st. Paul Methodist pastor
pointed out that it was not the
usual custom for the Governor to
seek an audience with Negroes
"and his offer to see US at this
time is not in good faith"
A Minneapolis minister said
that "to be sure we ought to be
on speaking terms with the Gov
ernor, but with all the injustices
being heaped upon my people, even
a lynching last Sunday in Mis-
souri,, am in no mood to see the
Governor. He might have me
put in Jail if I said to him what l
think" this minister concluded.
"I am against this suggestion
with all of my 22O pounds" an
other Minneapolis minister de-
clared. "If we have something
that we want to present to the
Governor or demand of him, l
would be willing to go and the
president of our organization
rather than some one else should
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Petition to Legalize Segregation
MN--I D. L. AL:II CH.L--

HeLlLlOn 10 LeSanZe SegregalOn
Turned Down by Mill City Body
By Ben Peery
Efforts to make Southeast Min
neapolis lily white met with scant
consideration before the City
Planning Commission Friday.
Presented to Herman Olson, City
Engineer, about three weeks ago,
petition was referred to City At
torney Wiggin for comment.
The following was Mr.. Wiggin's
reply:
January 6, 1912.
Mr.. Herman z. Olson, .-r,r1a
City Planning Engineer,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Dear Sir:
We have at hand your communication of
recent date enclosing petitions by property
owners that the Planning Commission re-
strict the use of property in certain dis.
trict 80 that no person or persons of
other than the Caucasian Race may be per-
mitted to occupy the (same)," and TO fur
ther restrict the use of property in said
district for a period of twenty years from
October /, 1941, to October /, 1861. Your
letter asks for our advice "as TO what &C
ton the City Planning Commission should
take with respect to it." We beg to ad-
wise as follows:
The petitions ask for action by the Plan
ming Commission 30 that no person or per-
sons of other than the Caucasian Race may
be permitted to occupy property in a GER
tain district We believe 1t is generally
assumed that the Caucasian Race original
ly inhabited certain areas in Europe, North
Africa and Southwestern Asia, so that SIM
pie reference to the Caucasian Race might
be confusing. We assume, however, that
the purpose of these petitions Is to exclude
from the area persons other than the white
race and that the petitioners desire local
coming legislation to accomplish this pur-
pose.
In the case of Buchanan v. Warley, 245
u. s. go, the Supreme Court Of the United
States held that an ordinance Of the City
of Louisville, Kentucky, with similar pur-
pose, was invalid. The syllabus of this
case sufficiently expresses the courts hold
ing:
"a city ordinance forbidding colored
persons from occupying houses as resi-
dences, or places Of abode or public
assembly, on blocks where the majority
Of the houses are occupied by white
persons for those purposes, and in like
manner forbidding white persons when
the conditions as to occupancy are re-
NGTbeuB WHICH DtlStS bnG lnDeTulC-
ton upon color and nothing more,
passes the legitimate bounds of police
power and invades the civil right TO
acquire, enjoy and use property, which
is guaranteed in equal measure to all
citizens, white or eolored, by the Four
teenth Amendment.
Such a prohibition cannot be sus-
tanned upon the grounds that, through
race segregation. It serves to diminish
miscegenation and promotes the pub
lie peace by averting race hostility and
conflict, or that 1t prevents deteriora-
tion in value of property owned and
occupied by white people; nor does the
fact that upon its face 1t applies i'm
partially to both races relieve it from
the vice Of discrimination or obviate
the objection that It deprives of prop
erty without due process of law. Pies
sy v. Ferguson, 1853 u. s. 5S7, and
Berea College Case, 211 u. s. 45, dis
tinguished."
The decision in this case was followed
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
St. Paul NAACP Launches
About War on All Types
OF Race Discrimination

or not that he was using methods
that one would expect to be used
only in the deep South and not in
Minnesota. Rev. Nelson called Mr..
Becker's attention to the fact that
he (Becker) was wearing a pin
with the phrase TO HE'LL WITH
HITLER on it, and at the same
time using Hitler tactics on fellow
American citizens.
Becker said that his attorney had
advised him to put up the sign and
thereby keep within the law and
yet discourage Negro patronage.
Mr.. Nelson told the manager that
he did not know who his lawyer
was, but that he needed to learn
more about the Civil Rights law of
the State of Minnesota. Rev. Moore
told Mr.. Becker that Legal Re-
dress Committee of the st. Paul
Branch of the N.A.A.C.P. would
bring legal actions against him if
discrimination continued to be
practiced in the place. 1--WE are
working for a united front here in
America against our common foes
and we are not here to make
trouble for you," Mr.. Becker was
told by Rev. Nelson.
After more than thirty min
utes of talking with Mr.. Becker he
ordered the waitress to take the
sign down, which she did.
The ministers thanked Mr.. Beck
er, who had been very courteous
throughout the conversation, and
left the place without drinking the
water, smiling as they said, eve
might be charged for it."
The Legal Redress Committee,
of which Attorney Maceo Little
john is the chairman, are working
on several cases of alleged dis
elimination, including the case of
Mrs. Dorothy Blair against a down.
town eating place and the refusal
of the board of directors of the
Eagles Hall at Virginia and Uni
versity to permit the sponsors of a
farewell party for Reginald Harris,
who will answer the call to the
Army, because "white and colored
people will be attending the party"
This refusal for the use Of the
hall was made after the sponsors
for the party had been given per-
mission to use the hall. The MEM
bership committee, under the lead
ership of John Culver, has reported
thirty new memberships in the last
thirty days.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
WIGINGTON KNIGHTED

When the Fire King and his Co
horts visited the Council Chamber,
Chas. Wigington, chief designer of
the ice palace and the throne of
the Fire King, along with various
city officials and other officials of
the Winter Carnival, was knighted.
Mr.. Wigington holds position Of
Chief designer in the office of
Charles Bassford, city architect of
St. Paul, and each year designs
the Ice Palace and the throne of
the Fire King, picturesque features
of the st. Paul Winter Carnival.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30

make the contact for the appoint
ment," he said.
Another st. Paul Baptist min
lister said 'Now / see through the
thing this is election year."
A pastor of a Methodist Church
in st. Paul called attention to the
fact that for several months, from
December until June 7th, last
year, the Governor had failed to
give an audience to the Minnesota
Negro Defense Committee, which
is composed of a cross section Of
representatives of Twin City
Negro organizations. This min
lister declared that he was against
the idea of going to see the Gov
ernor just to express our loyalty.
"That is not being questioned
but if we will take the oppor-
tunity of seeing the Governor
even at the suggestion and through
the contact of his political sup
porter, to make a ringing protest
against the discriminatory treat
ment of Negroes in many phases
of the state and national defense
program, 1 will be in favor of see
ing Governor Stassen," he con-
cluded.
Other members present joined in
the debate and these Negro min
listers of various denominations
from Episcopal to Holiness, includ-
ing Methodist and Baptist, agreed
that they would not be used "to
pull chestnuts out of anybody's
political fire"
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Each Day

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 indi-
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.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30

Mimi, is one of the states out
standing women.
Minnesotans, both white and
black, are proud that a Minnesota
boy took the courageous stand that
there should be no Jim Crow in an
Army dedicated to the task Of i'm
parting democracy to the total.
tartan aggressors.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
WOMEN SHOPPERS OFFICIALS

Mrs. Norma Olson and Mrs.
Marian Spiegel of the National
League of Women Shoppers will
address the next meeting of the
Phyllis Wheatley Consumers
Forum, Monday night, February 2,
at 500 p. m.
The subject of the address will be
Listening Your Way Into Better
Buymanship." Refreshments will
be served. Admission is free and
the public is invited.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
KOGER SURVIVORS

Not mentioned in the list of
survivors of Mrs. Jennie Roger
who died January II are Mrs. Rob-
ert Alexander of Minneapolis,
niece, and other nieces and
nephews of Chicago and Evansville,
Indiana.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30

It was learned through Mrs.
Paul Curry, a Minneapolis social
worker, Friday, that Gerald White
is a native of Minnesota, being a
member of one of Minnesota's old
est and most highly respected
pioneer families.
His father, the late Harry White,
was one of the most prominent at
torneys in the state. His mother,
Mrs. Sophie White, Of Hutchinson,
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
BASKETBALL GAME-DANCE
Credjafawn vs. Wheatley
Saturday, February 7th
at Wheatley-Advt.

is to safeguard the democratic way
Of life.
The kids and grownups at Phyl-
lis Wheatley House bought $40
worth Of defense stamps last week.
Keep it upl-Cecil Newman.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
ALFRED C. SMITH DEAD

Alfred C. Smith, age az, 321
Washington Ave. So., died at Min
neapohs General Hospital, Monday,
January 26.
Funeral services were held
Thursday at 2 p. m. at the Wood
ard Funeral home with Rev. S. A,
Douglass officiating.
He is survived by a wife, other
relatives and friends. Interment In
Crystal Lake Cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
To Reopen
Beauty Shop

Kathyrn Digit, we'll known
beautician, will reopen her beauty
shop at 119 ROyalston Ave. No.,
on Saturday, January 81.
Miss Digit has been in beauty
work for ten years and has a wide
experience along this line. The
telephone numbers are Pleasant
1925 or Bridgeport 1917.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Gerald White, Marine Who
Wants to Serve in Mixed
Division, Is from Minnesota

The name Of Gerald White address New York. flashed
the front pages OF countless white who while
joining the Marines the President Secretary Smson
and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox requesting placed
the proposed volunteer division which
creed nationality.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1942-01-30
Minnesota Negro Ministers
Refuse Offer of Go Between
For Audience with Stassen

Without dissenting in the regular monthly meeting of the
Twin City Ministerial Alliance last Tuesday the Zion
Minneapolis of eleven Twin City churches
church. cold shoulder the suggestion that the ministers
Governor Harold Sassen his office Capitol HILL through
a