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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Club Enlisted

Zonta enlisted az club TO
assist IN the selective draft reg
istration in February.
Some of its members are blood
donors.
Soroptimist president Edna
May Sarnes, in the preparation
Of report to he read at the
spring conference of Soroptimist
Mid-Western region. April 26
and u. AT Mansfield. o. has
been collecting statistics on the
clubs participation IN war work
Bushes and professional
womens contribution to the war
effort will be the theme of this
conference.
Miss Sarnes' survey revealed
some interesting and unusual
phases Of war work done by her
chlh .,,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Auxiliary Sets Up
Room at Custer

Raglan LIDE AUXILIARY o.
the American Legion has given
a check TO the Army and Navy
Recreation League to furnish a
day room at Camp Custer.
This group, composed of wives.
mothers and sisters of American
the First World War and to
Legion members, was organized
10 assist disabled veterans of
contribute 10 the maintenance
Of the children's billet at Otter
Lake
To raise funds for ITS patriotic
projects. the Raglan Lide gives
an annual poppy tea IN May.
Plans for this gala will he made
at a meeting on Monday after
noon IN the home NJ the presi-
dent. Mrs Donald Melville.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

and others are in the Red Cross
motor transport.
The club made quite contri-
button. through Miss Grace Eng
land, one of its members who
served on the library committee,
to the Victory Book drive for
army camps.
II is one of the sponsoring or
CARNATIONS back Of the victory
aides which Miss Louise Grace,
a former president Of Zonta.
helped TO organize.
Miss Grace is on Mrs. Paul
Jaqkson's committee for USO
and represents the club on Mrs.
T w. Palmer LIvlngston's work
opportunities committee.
The latter Is divided into two
sections, one to find more prof.
ects for individuals TO do and the
other TO find projects for organi-
cations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Take All Courses

Sacrificing their leisure and
recreation these busy women
have taken all the courses TO
equip themselves 10 be Of serv.
ice IN the event Of an air raid
or other disaster.
They are serving as hostesses
In the evenings and on Sundays
ar the USO centers and as
volunteers IN the OCn The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
CROSSE LIE. April Is.


CIVILIAN defense meetings
~ and duties have taken
precedence over all activities on
Crosse lie. A few Of the meet
ings taking place in the Crosse
. lie School class rooms are a
first aid course under Mr..
Lively Sunday night; canteen
under Miss Bess McWilliams. an
advanced first aid course under
Mrs. M. Scribner Harlan, an
other first aid course under Mr..
Kline. and the messenger unit
under Leslie Weston Monday
nights; the air raid wardens
under w. Gil Owen. and the first
aid. motor corps and nurses
field unit under Mrs. Harlan
every Tuesday night; Wednes-
day the civilian defense council
under the co-ordinator. the Rev
Rollin j. Fairbanks. and a first
aid course under Mr.. Lively,
A committee for publicity and
membership for the Womans
Field Army. American Society
for the Control of Cancer. under
the Craftsmanship Of Mrs. John
Maggie has been chosen. They
are Mrs. M. Scribner Harlan,
Mrs. Lewis <, Hooper. Mrs.
Wayne Jewell. Mrs. Frank
Jewell, Mrs. II. c. L. jackson,
Mrs. Z. p. West. Mrs. Glenn
Coan, Mrs. Randolph Guest and
Mrs. Leander Knight.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

TIVE truth 81 The remark often
n made in clubs that 70 IS The
busiest women who car be de-
pended upon IN an emergency 70
undertake a Job and sec ~
through was borne out ln chats
with leaders OF several business
and professional women groups
Getting information from them
regarding their clubs war work
we learned that tho contribution
OF the Zonta and Soroptlmlst
Clubs and the Detroit Business
and Professional Women. club
10 the victory effort Is ire
mendouS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Business, Professional
Groups Contribution
To War Effort Great
nv MINNIE CAGE

clubs. as units have contributed
generously 10 the Red Cross and
10 China and Russian Relief
And they have been helpful
r many other ways
Zouta club, headed by Miss
Trma 2lnger. presented a check
for S275 10 the Army and Navy
Recreation League 10 furnish a
day room at Comp Custer.
Sacrifice Dinner
A sacrifice dinner was
gwen IN lieu of the clubs
monthly feast Homemade
sandwiches were eaten and the
price Of the dinner donated to
the day camp fund.
CONTAINS have become pro-
ficlent in sandwich making as
the club furnishes hundreds Of
sandwiches once a month 10 the
USO center IN the Hammond
Building where the members
serve as hostesses.
About IS members have taken
the first aid course; some have
qualified as canteen workers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Unanimous Vote

The minute I showed the
members of the club the replica
Of the furnished room and
told them the need for II they
voted the money unanimously"
Individually. the members Of
this club have registered with
The Red Cross for various
classes. A first aid class is be-
ing taught by Or. Fannie Ken
yon, a club member.
Other m 9 m b ers have com
pleted the instructors course IN
first aid and are ready To teach.
The Detroit Business and Pro-
fesslonal Women's Club has
ioined four other business and
professional women's groups i'm
forming a teach hers training
class IN civilian protection under
the A. w. V. S.
One member is giving full
time, as a volunteer, TO L VIII
Do My Best.
The club has bought 500
worth of defense bonds and con-
trihuted generously TO China,
Russian and British relief.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

nlsh . day room at Camp
Custer" said Miss Venba Dun
lap, defense chairman of the
Detroit Business and Profes-
sional Women's Club.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Concordia Ladies
Plan Gard Party

.CONCORDTA LADIES' card
party and luncheon will he held
Thursday az | p m. in Concordia
Hall
Plans are under the super
vision ~
NEEDAMEs
Vsnry ssmsiroth Ernest BslrnFfs'h
ksthsrirs Anehorn Frsd BuFch
Hans Aus John DARBY
George Bna' Emmy estisinslsr
Miss Trudv Carduck
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Leave for ST. Louis

Mrs. Rice G. Fitzpatrick and
small daughter. Jenny. left Sat-
urday to spend several days in
st. Louis, Mo-. with her brother
in-law and sister. Mr.. and Mrs.
j. j. Griswold. From there she
will 60 to Helena, Ark, where
she will spend several weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. w. Denison.
Mrs. Yellott r. Hardcastle left
this weekend for her home in
Broornall, Pa, after spending 10
days with her son and daughter
in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Y. Fitz-
hugh Hardcastle Jr.
II. L. Olmsted of Buffalo.
n. Y, is visiting his son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Roderick.
Connie Lee Stanton, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Z. n. Stanton,
is in Bryn Mawr, Pa, for a few
weeks doing some postgraduate
work.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Students as Guests

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Burr
Robertson had as their guests
in Jacksonville. Fla, their
daughter, Evelyn. Margaret
Posi- of Winona. Mimi. Mar
garet Woodhan Of Fort Wayne,
Ind, and Elmira Koski Of Ash
tabula, O.. all students at
Western College, Oxford. o.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Sweater, Skirt Dance

The members of the seventh
and eighth grades gave an in
formal sweater and skirt dance
in the school gymnasium Friday
night.
The members of the Berea
Club met for luncheon Monday
and an afternoon Of Red Cross
sewing at the home of Mrs.
BENJAMIN F. Welton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
Membership Drive
By Marine Auxiliary

A MEMBERSHIP drive is be-
ing held by. Unit 1 of the Ma
rine Corps League Auxiliary,
which is taking in mothers OF
boys in service
The organization has formed
a Red Cross unit and. as soon as
its membership is built up, II
will take on other war work.
Many of its members. as indi-
viduals are doing their bit.
A meeting is scheduled for
Thursday at 7.30 p. m, in the
Veterans Building.
Expect Mrs. Ford Home
MRS. FREDERICK S. FORD
Is expected home from Tryon,
~. G.. in a day or two.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
1lbmm in la, 1l5A-Ch,' Activities o.v Busiest Gs, on fob
Defense Gets Priority
Among Folk on Island

Mr.. and Mrs. Robertson are re-
turning to the Island this week
end from Pointe vedra Beach
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Edward
Walker returned Sunday from a
Today trip in the south
The Rev. Rollin j. Fairbanks
and the Rev. George w. Pare
discussed religious education In
the public schools at the
Teacher meeting Tues
day night. The second grade
Home Room mothers were
hostesses for the evening with
Mrs. Edwin L. Henry and Mrs.
John Beyster in charge. Miss
Margery McBain, second grade
teacher. and Mrs. Don Smith
poured.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

PART 3, PAGE 6
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

Detroit Sunday Times, April 10, 1s42
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

an aid to those who will file pro-
tests. The joint committee also ad-
vised that all letter writers 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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Crispus Attacks
Assn Election of
Officers Nov. II
ans

The annual meeting and election
of officers of the Crispus Attacks
Home Association will be held at
the Halle Q. Brown Community
House on Tuesday, November II,
at 8 p. m. All members who are in
terested in the welfare of Crispus
Attacks Home are urged to be pres
ent to help elect and be elected to
the various offices.
The following organizations hav-
ing active membership, paid for
this year, are urged to see that
their representatives attend this
meeting: Credjafawn Social Club
Criterion Art Club, Postal Alliance
Women's Auxiliary to the Postal
Alliance, Saint Paul Chapter No
l, o. E. S., Self Culture Club, We'd
nesday Study Club.
Memberships reported in the last
association meeting were for Mines.
Naomi Thomas, Aldonia Anderson,
Mable Brown, Grace Ferguson, Ad-
die Jackson, James G. Kirk, Mary
Burton, Myrtle Harris, Carrie Rob
inson, Stella Harper, Mable Milan;
Messrs. James Mckinney, Nath-
aniel Evans, julius McNeal, Nath-
aniel Smith, Simmon Harris, Zeke
Harper, Ellis Manning; Miss Edith
Gillard and the Postal Alliance
Women's Auxiliary.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
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
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

Union, an organization of Negro
and white sharecroppers in the
South. AS national president of
that organization from 1895 to
1912, he was a 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-pon 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 manpoweI
shortages by ending discrimination,
Mr.. Butler will address the Com
mittee on Civil Rights at the Uni
versity of Minnesota Friday after
noon. At s p. m. Friday night he
will address a home meeting at
4536 France Ave. &c., Minneapolis,
sergeants in the service with an
excellent rating as he has. He is
stationed with the 923rd Engineer
Regiment.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
w. HI. Mcclellan,
Well Known Mpls.
Man, Dead at 68

William H. Mcclellan, age 60,
1914 Smelling avenue south, died
on Monday, November 8, after a
fe wmonths illness.
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday, November IL, at 2:3O
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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Urban League
Aux. Sells $1,1OO
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
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 4
p. m. The film Coca 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 we'll as
the Radio Bond Sale is being ham
died by the Bond Committee of
which Mrs. E. L. Sims and Mrs.
N. ]. Hunter are co-chairmen. Mrs.
Wendell Jones of the War Savings
Committee is assisting.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

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
it's 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:
at 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 a serious mistake for the
Republicans to believe that they
now have re-captured the Negroes
vote and will continue to hold it no
natter what they do. On too many
fundamental issues, economic, mill
c., 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.
"As 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"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

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 its sides, the raft started
drifting seaward. 1t >5as 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
tiers, 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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Florida Sheriff Indicted
By U. S. Grand Jury for
Working Negro Prisoners

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 its 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 H. Shop
pard, superintendent, South Shore
Plantation; and Mr.. Neal super
intendent, Miami Lochs Plantation.
Count One of the indictment
charges that the defendants Gin
jured, oppressed, threatened and
ntimidated" 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 a 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 a fine of $4,000. Convic-
ton on the second count (Sections
S8 and 444, Title 1S, U. S. Code)
carries a maximum penalty of two
years and a fine of $4,000.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
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 a 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
forum, 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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

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
SIdCuCeJ.
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 a $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 Riddle
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
O. E. S. Council
First to Buy
Christmas AID.

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-five
per cent of Twin City clubs, lodges
and organizations extend holiday
greetings to the general public
through the annual Christmas edi-
ton.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
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. l. 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