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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
MOuItrie Junior
interviewer With
i. S. Employment

John Moultrie, 813 Emerson Ave.
No., well known Minneapolitan, has
as a result of a successful civil
service competition been recently
appointed Junior interviewer with
the Minneapolis Branch of the
United States Employment Service.
Moultrie is the third Negro to be
employed as interviewer by this
agency. John F. Thomas and Earl
Shamwell held such positions prior
to the passage of the Civil Service
law.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25

impossible to find employment for
them.
1t was then pointed out to Mr..
Urbanski that colored people are
told by the employers that they can
not be hired because they do not
have training and when they desire
to take training they are denied
this opportunity because it is al
legged that the employers will not
hire them. DR.. Carlson pointed out
the "vicious circle" that had been
created and that the NAACP in
tended to break into this circle by
placing eligible colored people in
the Governments defense training
classes. To this Mr.. Urbanski re-
piled that he felt that colored peo-
pie were entitled to the training
and that the WPA had fought
against the policy of the instruc-
tors at the Vocational School of
discriminating against colored ap-
plicants for the training.
Mr.. Urbanski very readily fol-
lowed Mr.. Lewis suggestion to in
clude at least three colored girls in
the next requisition for ten
trainees. Mrs. Boyer promised that
the colored girls who had passed
the test long time ago would be
given first consideration in the next
assignment.
On September 1, a sub-commit-
tee of Mr.. Smith, Williams and DR..
Carlson had an interview with AL
len Taylor, Coordinator of Defense
Training Projects in the st. Paul
Vocational School. Mr.. Taylor
claimed that the defense training
program was being operated ac-
cording to the Fair Employment
Practices Committee regulations,
copies of which he said had been
given to all the instructors on the
program. The committee members
pointed out to Mr.. Taylor, however,
that a subtle type of discrimina-
ton may have been utilized by the
instructors in opposing the requisi-
tioning of colored girls for defense
classes. Mr.. Taylor was asked to
impress upon his teachers the fact
that their refusal to accept any
students because of race, creed or
color was a serious violation Of the
basic policy of the whole defense
training program and could not be
tolerated. Mrs. Williams insisted
that the NAACP intended to seek
out every type of discrimination,
open or secret, and prosecute the
individual. Mr.. Taylor agreed to
carry out the proposal of the COM
mittee to impress upon the teach
ers of the Vocational School that
there must be no discrimination.
Continued on Page A.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
Write F. d. R.!

Washington, D. C.-Every or
ganization, labor union, frater-
nal and religious group and
every branch of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People and in
terested individual is urged by
the NAACP national Office to
send kilograms or to write
strong letters appealing for the
restoration of the Committee on
Fair Employment Practice to
completely independent status
with an increase in staff. The
letters or kilograms should be
addressed to President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, The White House,
Washington, ID. C. The NAACP
states that the FEPC cannot be
effective under the control of
the War ManpOwer Commission.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
Miss Latimer
To England
For Red Cross

Newspaper dispatches announced
Wednesday the arrival in England
of Miss Magnolia M. Latimer and
four other Negro women Red Cross
workers. The group was sent
abroad to serve in the Red Cross
servicemen's clubs.
Miss Latimer is the recently re-
signed head resident of Phyllis
Wheatley Community House in
Minneapolis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
Soldiers from
Camp Ripley to
Be Entertained

The first of what is hoped to be
series of entertainments for World
War II service men in the Twin
Cities and surrounding area will be
a dancing party Saturday, Septem-
Der &c, beginning at 9 p. m. at
Phyllis Wheatley House, Mime
apolis, and a tea on Sunday after
noon from two to five at the House.
Both are being given by the Twin
City Service Mems Council and the
cooperating organizations. All in
ductees, their wives, sweethearts
and friends and the public are in
vited to be guests Saturday and
Sunday.
Thirty service men visiting from
Camp Ripley, Minnesota, are to be
guests of the University of Mime
sofa at the Pittsburgh
football game Saturday afternoon
and guests of ODER Boys Club, st.
Paul, at dinner to be served after
the game.
Arrangements have also been
made for these men to visit the
Service Centers in both st. Paul
and Minneapolis.
This Council is making every
effort to fill in some of the lonely
gaps in these service mems lives
and seek the cooperation Of the
public in making their endeavor a
successful one.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
YOU ARE INVITED

The pastor and members of Beac-
on Light Seven Day Adventist
church, GIG Lyndale Ave. No., ex-
tend an invitation to you to attend
the ninth anniversary of their
church organization on Wednesday,
September 80 at 8 p. m.
A birthday cake will be served
and a musical program will be pre-
scented for your enjoyment. Mrs.
Della Burns is chairman.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
Mary E.. Love Was Her
Mother, Woman Claims,
Files to Contest Will
Mrs. Jessie Collins Says Prominent
st. Paul Fraternal Figure
Was Her Mother


A bombshell dropped in st. Paul
probate court Tuesday when Mrs.
Jessie Collins, 713 Olson Blvd,
Minneapolis, who alleges she is the
natural daughter of the late Mary
E. Love, filed an action through
Harry L. Scott, attorney, to set
aside the deceased woman's will
and declare Jessie Collins the sole
heir.
Mrs. Love died December "a,
1871. Under the will Mrs. Loves
sister was to receive life interest in
the homestead. Mrs. Collins claims
she is Mrs. Loves daughter born to
her and Gideon Malone, Oct. 10,
1887 at Maconda, Ill.
Mrs. Collins was not named in
the will. The case is being heard
by Judge M. F. Kinkead.
Mrs. Mary Love was prominent
in lodge circles in st. Paul.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
Golden Anniversary Of
ST Peter Cldver'S

st. Peter Claver Catholic church,
long a vital force in the Catholic
life of St. Paul, will celebrate its
fiftieth anniversary beginning Oc-
tober Is with a sacred concert by
the Choir, under the direction of
John L. Whitaker. On the program
for October 10 is a Pontifical Mass,
with Archbishop John Gregory
Murray, the celebrant. After the
Mass, dinner will be served in the
sub auditorium of the church. Rev.
Jerome Luger is the pastor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
BYRD DOUGLAS
ARRESTED FOR
DRUNKEN DRIVING

Byrd Douglas, Al, 454 Rondo
avenue, was given 500 fine or
ten days in the workhouse on a
drunken driving charge in
Municipal Court Friday, Sep
TENDER 10. He was arrested
Thursday, September II, on the
Kellogg boulevard overpass aft
er driving on the wrong side of
the street and hitting another
car.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
Northwest A.M.E.' s
Raise Over $4,000,
Conference Claims


of the recent Northwestern Annual Con-
ference which arrived last week too late
for publication
By Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson
More than a hundred ministers
and laymen were in attendance at
the twenty-second session of the
Northwestern Annual Conference
of the African Methodist Episco-
pal Church, which met in the St.
James M. E. Church, st. Paul, Sep
TENDER 9-13, with the Right Rev.
erend John A. Gregg of Kansas
City, as the presiding bishop.
Wesley Speaks
One of the great addresses of
the conference was the one deliv-
cred on Friday evening by the
scholarly president of Wilberforce
University, DIR. Charles Wesley,
who is an outstanding candidate
for the highest honor of the denom-
nation at the next General Con-
ference. A very successful educa-
tional rally was held in spite of the
heavy downpour of rain. On Fri
day afternoon two stimulating re-
ports were read to the conference.
The report on the State of the Ma
ton was read by Rev. B. N. Moore,
the pastor of the st. James Church.
In this report discrimination was
condemned and the peoples of the
nation urged to give the Negro his
full rights in a so-called democ-
racy. In the report on the state
of the Church, read by DR.. Boyd,
of Des Moines, the Church was de-
clared to be the greatest institu-
ton and organization in the world
and that the Negro will do well to
stand by the Church.
The Memorial services for the
deceased members of the confer
ence and for Mrs. Cecilia Gregg,
the late devoted wife of the pre-
siding officer of the conference,
were held on Saturday.
Sunday was a busy and inspiring
day as the conference came to this
closing day. The auditorium of the
St. James Church, which has been
so beautifully decorated for this
conference, was filed. Bishop
Frank Madison Reed of st. Louis
preached the ordination sermon and
assisted Bishop Gregg and other
elders in the ordination service
after the sermon.
A festival of choirs was held in
the auditorium Of the Central High
School Sunday afternoon. This ser
vice was followed by a meeting of
the conference Christian Endeavor.
DR.. E. Hatcher, editor of the
Southern Recorder, was the preach
er for the final service Of the con-
ference in the Central auditorium
on Sunday night. Following the
sermon by DR.. Hatcher, Charles
Miller, veteran clerk of the st.
James Church and an outstanding
layman of the denomination, read
the resolutions on courtesy, writ
ten and read in a style that has
Continued on Page d
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25

Henrietta Capeslus, Dr. Grace
Carlson and J. Nathaniel Smith
and was appointed at the August
meeting, after a protest had been
made about the discrimination by
Mrs. Charlotte Nash and others.
Meet Officials
A subcommittee composed of
Mr.. Lewis, Mrs. Capesius, and DR..
Carlson met with the WPA officials
in charge of assigning workers to
the defense training program on
August 81. Chester Swanson, the
supervisor of the Vocational Test
ing program, was the first inter-
viewed by the subcommittee. Mr..
Swanson explained the general pro-
cedure used in calling workers
from the WPA projects and in as
signing them to the defense train
ing classes. All of those now en-
ployed on WPA are to be given
vocational tests, Mr.. Swanson
stated, and those individuals who
pass the tests will be assigned to
the classes, as there are openings.
The test reports of five or six col
ored girls who were known to have
taken the tests but never have been
placed in defense, training classes
were obtained from Mr.. Swanson.
An examination of their tests re-
suits showed that these girls were
eligible for training, with one or
two exceptions. Some of the test
scores were considerably above the
average. Mr.. Swanson was asked
why these girls had not been placed
in defense training. Mr.. Swanson
replied that he would prefer to
have explanations of WPA policy
given by his superior, Mr.. ]. A.
Urbansli. The committee next inter-
viewed Mr.. Urbansl1i, the director
of defense training for WPA, and
Mrs. Boyer, the supervisor of wom-
en- trainees. Mr.. Urbanski was
anxious to have the committee be-
lieve that there had been no dis
elimination against colored people.
When Mr.. Lewis reported that there
were only two colored girls who
had ever been sent by the WPA to
take defense training courses, Mrs.
Boyer answered that the other
colored girls had not obtained sat
isfactory vocational scores. The
records of the half dozen colored
girls which had been obtained from
Mr.. Swanson were then brought
forth to prove that some eligible
colored girls had not been given
the opportunity for training. 1t was
then that Mr.. Urbanski admitted
that the instructors at the Voca-
tional School had been reluctant to
take colored girls into their classes
on the grounds that it would be
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25

Leroy Allen, "a, of 3517 Fourth
Ave. &c., one of the country's
grandfathers joined the navy this
week.
Allen shown in the above Star
Journal photo is the father of Mrs.
o. D. Carlyle, who, like her father,
married at 16 years old. His grand
child is the fifth generation of the
Allen family.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
NEW CAFE OPEN

Robert Taylor will open a rest
aurant at 300 Fourth Ave. So.
Sunday, September 81. A special
chicken dinner will be served from
IL noon on, for 45 cents.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25

Thomas A. Dorsey, Americas
foremost Gospel song writer, in
concert. Pilgrim Baptist church.
Tuesday, October 6, 8 p. m.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25
N.A.A.C.P. UncOvers Discriminatory
Practices in W.P "A. Training Set-Up
Officials Agree to Halt Practices
By Reverend C. T. R Nelson, Publicit
st. Paul Branch NAACP

st. Paul Branch NAACP
Discrimination in the defense training in ST. Paul
report by special committee the monthly
meeting the St. National Association for the Ad
People, Tuesday evening" the Halle O. Brown
Community The special committee making the report
chairman Ethel Maxwell Williams Mrs.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-09-25

Henrietta Capesius, DR.. Grace
Carlson and J. Nathaniel Smith
and was appointed at the August
meeting, after protest had been
made about the discrimination by
Mrs. Charlotte Nash and others.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
Trap Draws Closer Around.
100000 Germans Re-
naming in Crimea
RUSSIAN TANKS
ATTACK TAGANR0G
SimferopoI, Capita and
Railroad City, Threaten
ed by Soviet Armies
tBY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Masses of Russian tanks today
are reported asSaulting the gates OF
German-held Taganrog, SO miles
west of Rostov, as Marshal limo
shenkos Red armies pressed a gen.
eral q counter offensive throughout
the Ukraine and frightened a trap
on 100000 Germans in the Crimea.
Soviet forces now are battering
fiercely at the gates Of Taganrog,"
British radio broadcast said.
Russian troops were reported
fighting the invaders few miles
from Simferopol, the Crimean cap
ital 40 miles north of Sebastopol on
the railroad to the Russian main
land. The direction of the Soviet
thrust against Simferopol was not
given.
However, whether the thrust was
executed by troops driving west
ward across the peninsula from
Kerch and Feodosiay, from beach
heads at Evpatoriya on the west
coast or from SebaStopol Itself, IN
any case the threat against the
main north-south rail line from
Simferopol sharply endangered the
Germans chances of escaping.
On the basis of previous Soviet
reports, the German forces at Tag
anrog long since have been isolated
by Russian columns which bypassed
the city in pursuit of the main
Axis armies retreating along the
Sea of Azov toward Mariupol.
Soviet dispatches today chron-
icled unbroken series of Russian
triumphs along the entire 1900
mile battleline from Leningrad to
the Black Sea.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
FIVE ENEMY
vE55EL5ARE
SENT DOWN
Three Japanese Transports
and Two Large Cargo
Boats Sunk by Navy

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 Tho
Asiatic Fleet has sunk three enemy
transports and two large Japanese
cargo vessels in the Far East.
The sinkings were officially an
nounced by the Navy Department
this afternoon.
The sinkings have brought to q
total of "a the number OF Japanese
warships and noncombatant vessels
the United States Navy and Marine
forces sent down since the Battle
of the Pacific started.
The Navy gave no names nor
identifications Of the five addi-
tional japanese ships sent to the
bottom,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
5th CoIumnists" Upset
Capital City Moves
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. = The
early efforts at organization OF
civilian defense against air raids
on the nations capital have been
an awful bust--and mostly because
of the activities of fifth column
ists.'
1 put that fifth columnists in
quotation marks because there is
no evidence yet that it was an or
ganized effort inspired by any con-
tact with the enemy Police. civil
ian defense and government Off
Gals consider it more likely that
they. are cranks pranksters, and
ignorant or misinformed individu-
ais. But in any event, their contri-
button to the fifth column has
been so serious here that officials
have asked the FBI to investigate.
For example, all those tuned in
on the District of Columbia police
radio the other night were set
back on their heels to hear the
words: Air raid alarm--air raid
alarm" come blaring out of the
ether. The dispatcher was probably
more stunned than any one else.
According to the local Office
the first time such things have
happened The times police,
OCD, and newspaper telephone
switchboards have been jammed
by queries on rum0rs already
are so numerous that I've lost
count of them. These rumOrs
act like incendiary bombs
tossed into the haystack of
capital humanity. They seem to
come from nowhere and set
4 whole sections on fire all at
once.
Some of them are SO ridiculous
that they could only come from
practical jokers with a misguided
sense of humor; others are SO sub
tie that they must be considered
the work of persons seeking 10
spread alarm and confusion and
delay the effective organization OF
civilian defense. That, at any race,
is how the FBI classifies them and
it's on that basis that they are
making their Investigations.
The fact that some persons are
set up to break into the capitals
radio broadcasts, commercial as
well as police, is considered a
pretty serious matter.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
Deadlock
Hits Work
On Prices
Joint Congressional Com.
mittee al Loggerhedds-
Compromise Awaited

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16-Mem-
bcrs of the joint Congressional
committee on price control today
announced they were deadlocked
over controversial provisions OF
price legislation and could not
hope to effect a compromise be-
fore next week.
However, a wartime ceiling on
rents in defense areas was agreed
upon, the ceiling to apply to the
District of Columbia and any other
designated areas where defense
activities have resulted in or
threaten to result in an increase
in rents for housing accommodate
tions which are inconsistent with
the purpose OF this act"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
DUTCH BASES
ATTACKED BY
JApB0MBER5
Two Enemy DesfroYers Are
Sunk Before Tardkdn
Captured

BATAVIA, Jan. 16 - japanese
bombers today attacked Medan
military airbase at Sumatra again
and bombed Amboina naval air
base in raids near the extremities
of the far flung Netherlands East
Indies chain of islands.
The raids were announced by
Aneta, Dutch news service, which
also reported Dutch coastal bat
teries sank two enemy destroyecs
during the battle of Tarakan
which ended Monday in japanese
occupation of the oil rich island
off Northeast Borneo.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
Hungry, JungIe-wise Aus
traIian Fighters Thrown
Into New Offensive
INVADERS SMASHED
BY LAND, ALSO AIR
Reserve Units Revive
HOPES that Most Effect
i've Thrust Expected

SINGAPORE, Jan. 16-Rallying
around a fresh force of battle
hungry, jungle-wise Australians, the
British Imperial defenders of Sin
gapore appear to have checked the
Japanese in their offensive toward
this great base.
Two japanese armored units are
reported to have been shattered.
The defense lines have been
stiffened all along the shortened
front in lower Malaga and with
considerable aerial support, defense
is most pronounced.
The Air Force has smashed jap
anese concentrations near Tampin.
100 miles northwest of Singapore.
Truck units are among those said
to have been smashed.
British Imperials are now report
Continued on Page Two
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
N ais Order
CurfaiInlent
On Railroads
Announcement May Indi-
cate German Movement
Of Troops Sunday

LONDON, Jan. 16 Exchange
Telegraph today heard Berlin
radio announcement that further
curtailment of railroad passenger
traffic has been ordered, starting
Sunday night, because "of an in
crease in important traffic"
In the past, one of the indicators
of pending important German ac-
ton has been the suspension or
abbreviation of rail traffic to clear
the roads for military purposes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
DUKE C0NNAUGHT
PASSES AWAY In
HIS LONDON HOME

LONDON, Jan. 16-The Duke OF
Connaught, 81, last surviving son OF
Queen Victoria, died today after
an illness of several months.
The Dukes death left the Primo
ess Beatrice, "a, the last survivor
of the Queens nine children,
The title of Duke OF Connaught
will now pass to Earl MacDuff, 81,
grandson and officer of a famous
scottish Regiment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
REMEMBER PEARL HARBoR

Within two weeks of the attack
on Pearl Harbor, emblem pins came
out with the slogan Remember
Pearl Harbor." in one copyrighted
design the slogan is surrounded
by American flags. The pin is made
in combination of gold-tone
metal and red, white and blue
enamel
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
COSTA RIGA
GETS FUNDS
FOR TROOPS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 Costa
Rica, now building its first army,
today was allotted $4,000 in Lend
Lease funds to buy arms.
The Public Works Administration
also approved a $20,000,0o0 loan to
Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala,
Ell Salvador and Costa Rica to help
build the vital Pan American high
way.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
BOMBER
CRASHES
IN IDAHO

SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 1.-two
officers and seven enlisted men
were killed in the crash of an Army
bomber near Boise, Idaho, at 2:20
pm. yesterday afternoon.
The dead include Second Lieut..
Elmer Mum, junior pilot, and
Second Lieut.. Darrell Wing, CO.
pilot.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16

Almost twice as many people die
who are not insured compared with
those who are, Census figures dis
close,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16

Washington ranks first. and
New York second, among the states
in apple production,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16

Some of the hats now being
manufactured are rs per cent
SKINNED milk.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
BERLIN,s VERSION

BERLIN, Jan. 16-Part of the
United States forces defending
Batan Peninsula in the Philippine
Islands have apparently fled to the
Gibraltar like Corregidor Island in
Manila Bay, the German radio
asserted this afternoon.
Since the broadcast did not an
nounce the authority for the report,
presumably it emanated from I'M
official japanese sources.
The broadcast said the rear
guards are left behind in dis
guise, supposedly to check the Jap
anese advances but the occupation
of the Batan peninsula is proceed
ing swiftly.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow
Jones averages: industrials 1l1.25
down 1.34; rails 27.99, down 10
utilities 1852, down 06.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-16
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. 16 = Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2k, American Can
64B, Anaconda 27A, Bethlehem
Steel SO, Commonwealth and
Southern $3.50, Curtiss Wright 81,
International Harvester 40, Ken
necott SO, New York Central 9ls,
Northern Pacific 5s, United States
Steel 539s, Pound S4.04.