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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
Biddle Circle
Installs Officers

Biddle Circle No. 3s, Ladies Of
the Grand Army of the Republic,
held its annual installation of Off
GERS, Tuesday, February 10, at
Welcome Hall with Mrs. Wynetta
Searles, department president Of
Minnesota, conducting the installa-
ton. Officers installed were: Lola
Edwards, president; Efie Wills,
senior vice-president; Carrie Lind
say, junior vice-president; Emma
Mosely, shaplain; Anna Blair,
patriotic instructor; Rebecca God
cite, guard; Anna Belle Hunt, as
sistant guard; Katie Myers, con-
ductor; Mrs. Willie Black, assist
ant conductor; Nora McCracken,
secretary and musician. In addi-
ton to the members of Biddle
Circle, guests from other circles
and friends of Biddle Circle at
tended the installation. A social
hour followed.
On Saturday evening, February
z, Biddle Circle held a Chill supper
at the home of Mrs. Carrie Lind
sey, 426 Rondo avenue. Pokeno
comprised the evenings entertain
ment with first prize going to Mrs.
Frances West, second to Mrs. Nora
McCracken, third to Mrs. George
Mundell, fourth to Mrs. Mabel Hat
ton and the door prize to Mrs. Re-
becca Godette.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
Dance Group
Recital Feb. 20

Features of the Modern Dance
Concert to be presented by the
Modern Dance Center on Friday,
Feb. 20, at 8:15 p. M, in Benton
Hall, Y. W. C. A, Minneapolis,
will include suite of dances chore-
ographed to Carl Sandburg's
poems, a group of dances for chill
dren, and a suite which uses the
present war as its subject matter.
The concert will be under the di-
rection of Gertrude L. Lippincott
and the accompanist is Florence
Goodman Kelly.
Accompanying much of the
choreography by Gertrude Lippin-
colt, Bernice Brown, Tony Char
moli and Meryl Stritman will be
original musical compositions by
Marion Roberts, the Groups for
mer musical director, John Cage,
California composer, and Florence
G. Kelly. Percussion and vocal
accompaniment will be used in ad-
dition to the piano.
Reid Erickson of the University
of Minnesota Theatre will read the
script of the Sandburg poems, and
the dancers will be Bernice Brown,
Eunice Brown, Tony Charmoi,
Beryle Cockrell, Ruth Gerschow,
Jean Goldbarg, Jean Goodman,
Gertrude Eppincott, Margaret Os-
borne, Meryl Stritman, and Cath
crime Tetlaff.
This year marks the fifth per-
forming year of the Modern Dance
Center, an organization which is
the only one of its kind in the Twin
Cities. It is organized to promote
interest in modern dance through
concerts, demonstrations and lee
lures.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
Mckinley P.T.A. SPONSORS
SHOW

The Parent Teacher Association
at Mckinley School sponsored the
show at the Beaux Arts Theater,
Selby and Western avenues, on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings
of this week.
The Adelphai Club met Tuesday,
February 10, at the home of Mrs.
Walter Mcfarland, 1915 Rondo
avenue. The next regular meeting
will be Tuesday, February "a, at
the home of Mrs. M. X. Mcknight,
$50 Fuller Ave. A social hour fol-
lowed the business meeting.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
THIS
WORLD
A. Clayton Powell
Snipings At F. d. RS
Wage Food Hikes

A few weeks ago New Workers.,
white and black, mostly black,
elected to the city council young
militant, well trained Rev. Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr. In addition to
being the first Negro elected to the
Board of Aldermen as it is now
constituted, Powell has led success
full civic battles to obtain employ
ment for Negroes in public utili-
ties. In between doing a job for
his people he finds time to conduct
the affairs of Abyssinian Baptist
church, said to have $4,000 dues
paying members, and reputedly the
largest Protestant church in
America.
Councilman-Rev. Powell won his
first victory for right and justice
when the New York body author
lied the rules committee of that
body to quiz the presidents of the
four municipal colleges as to why
only one Negro teacher was regu-
Iarly employed on the faculties Of
these four tax supported institu-
tions.
Two weeks ago New York got its
first GLIMPSE of Negro bus opera
tors. This, too, was the result of
the campaign of several organiza-
tions spanked by this dynamic pas
tor who seems to have interests of
the whole people at heart. Next
week according to daily newspaper
PM, Powell as editor will begin
with several others the publication
of a weekly tabloid "The Peoples
Voice."
Powell said the paper will have
a three-fOld purpose. He said, eve
shall be a Voice, a Town Hall, and
a Participant. Wen picket, sup
port unions, fight against discrimi-
nation against Negroes, Jews and
other minOrities, and will aid ev-
cry progressive force in the COM
munity."
That is a broad and useful pro-
gram and we hope the new paper
will have much success.
The sniping continually going on
against President Roosevelt and
Mrs. Roosevelt is rather disgust
ing. Suppose couple of actors or
dancers received important Civilian
Defense posts? Actors and dane
ers are people and for keeping up
civilian and military morale one
actor or dancer is worth ten news
paper editors and two dozen Con-
gressmen and Senators!!!
The labor department announces
that wages have hiked 33H per
cent in three years. Daily news
papers headlined the wage increase
but barely mentioned the added i'm
pOrtant fact that retail food prices
have advanced from an index of
S6.5 per cent in 1882 to 1871 per
cent in December 1941.
Cecil E. Newman.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
Riley Proves
He Likes Paper

]. E. Riley, Pullman employee,
1914 18th Ave. S., Minneapolis,
when paying his yearly subscrip-
ton Wednesday was asked if he
liked the paper, replied, give been
paying for this paper for five
years. If I didn't like it 1 wouldn't
pay for it."
Mr.. Riley briefly and to the
point illustrates the thinking of
several thousand people who sub
scribe to this paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
SPORTSMEN MEET

The Twin City Sportsmen Club
will meet on Friday night Ito
night at $3.50 at the Citizens
Headquarters, 345 East 38th st.
Games will be played, such as bin
go, whist, bridge, chinese check
ers, and prizes will be awarded the
winners.
Officers were elected for the
Sportsmen's Club on last Saturday
at the meeting which the commit
tee boasts was well attended.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
GEORGIA M. CONN

Georgia M. Conn, age 46, died in
Chicago on February 8.
Remains were shipped to Mime
apolis on Saturday, February 2, for
funeral services and burial. Rev.
A. ]. Graham read the funeral
rites, assisted by Father Clancy.
Surviving Mrs. Conn is her hus-
band, julius, of Minneapolis; two
brothers, Jesse and Ollie Thomas;
a sister, Idella Alternately; three
cousins and other relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Conn is a former resident
of Minneapolis and has visited in
the city several times since she
went to Chicago to live.
Woodland Funeral Home was in
charge of burial arrangements with
interment in Crystal Lake Gene
terry.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
LincOln-DOuglass
Celebration Feb. y

A Lincoln-Frederick Douglass
Washington Celebration and Vic
tory Rally on Washington's Birth
day, Feb. %, 8 p. M, at 1T s. E.
4th St., Minneapolis, will be adj
dressed by VIM. 2. Foster, nation
ally known organizer of Steel and
Packing struggles of 1919 and
1920, and National Chairman of the
Communist Party. His subject
will be Labor and the War;" Lee
W. Harris, popular st. Paul Negro
baritone, will sing.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
Big Twin City Mass
Meeting Sunday Afternoon

Is, at the Phyllis Wheatley House,
under the auspices Of the st. Paul
Community Council, the Working
Girls Council, the Minneapolis
Council of Negro Organizations,
the Associated Negro Credit Union
and the mayor Of Bonneville, DR..
w. D. Brown. Time 3 p. m.
Every individual is urged to
come to the meeting and partici-
pate.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

"This World" wrote last week
that DR.. W. D. Brown had startled
the Twin Cities by suggesting that
Twin City Negroes raise a fund of
100000 from their own pocket
books to be used for the progress
and betterment of the Negroes of
these two communities.
And how this is to be done is to
be discussed at the Twin City
Thought and Action Mobilization
mass meeting held on Sunday, Feb.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

cease in the defense program and
that the government was hard at
work combating discrimination.
The C. 1. o. Council passed five
different resolutions against race
and religious determinations in in
dustries and unions.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
HENRY RICE

Henry Spurgeon Rice, World
War veteran, sol Concord St., died
at Ancker Hospital on Wednesday,
February a.
Military funeral services were
held at the Neal-McGavock Funer-
al Home, with burial in the Nation
al Cemetery.
He is survived by a wife, Isa-
dore T. Rice, two children and 9TH
er relatives.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
ARMY BOYS PHOTOS

Photos and sketches about three
local boys serving in Uncle Sans
army will appear in next weeks
paper.
Send US the photo of your SOL
der or sailor boy.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
Investigate Theater
Discrimination

A report that a downtown Min
neapolis theater was practicing
race discrimination was investi-
gated by R. A. Skinner, attorney
and president of the NAACP Min
neapolis branch.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

Church and Curtis Chivers will ad-
dress a group at the Robbinsdale
Congregational Church. Many
other speaking engagements are
being arranged.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13
CITY OFFICIAL AIDS HITLER
Mill City Health Head
Causes Dismissal Of Negro
Women Who DEFY Jim Grow

Three Minneapolis WPA workers discharged from
Lymanhurst Clinic a city they refused
accommodations which they ordered
to use by MRS. Mitchell manager of the Clinic
Sybn Bell 1886 Fourth Ave
Clinic cook; Mrs.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

Mitchell could be reached Wednes-
day night before press time for a
statement.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

Basketball Game Dance at
WheatIey Saturday evening, Feb.
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

The appeasers of our c0un-
try are taking their cue
from Hitler. To prevent the
unity of all of our people
against the Fascist menace,
they turn race against race,
nationality against nation
ality-Irene Paul.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-02-13

God does not require us to
give up anything that is
for our best interest to re-
tain. In all that He does,
He has the well-being of
His children in view.-Mrs.
B. G. White.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Sugar Stamps Sc
Good For 2 Lbs. Each
%. P. A. Office Announced
Change In Values On
Wednesday Evening

The Office of Price Administra-
ton announced Wednesday night
that the value of sugar ration
stamps 5 and 6 had been increased
to two pounds each-but that each
stamp would cover a period of a
month instead of two weeks. con-
tinuing the weekly ration to each
consumer at half pound.
OPA explained that stamp No. 4,
now valid for the purchase Of a
pound of sugar, would expire at
midnight June 27. The next stamp.
good for two pounds. may be used
at any time thereafter until mid
night, July 25, whereupon stamp
No. 6 will become valid until Au-
gust %.
Some time before August %.
OPA will announce the period of
time to be covered by other stamps
in the ration books.
The ration stamps numbered
from / to 4 each permitted pur-
chase of one pound of sugar and
covered a two-week period. OPA
offered no official explanation of
the extension to a month, but it was
evident that the move to make a
stamp last longer would reduce the
number of stamps which grocers
would have to handle.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Scrap Rubber
Drive Here is
Huge Success
From The Start
Chairman H. R. Phillips
Reports That $500
Pounds OF Precious
Scrap Was Collected
The First Day.

Herman r. Phillips, chairman oi
Milford's scrap rubber salvage
drive reported Tuesday evening
that the first day of the drive which
began here on Tuesday, netted the
cause of national defense $500
pounds of rubber.
This was rubber secured by SER
vice station operators and dealers,
who have been paying one cent a
pound for old tires.
Mr.. Phillips also announced that
the old automobile tires will be pill
ed in the Plaza Square-the pile
will be surmounted by a banner
bearing the slogan Watch the Pile
Grow"
The chairman also announced
that a house-to-house canvas will
be made in this city to collect all
scrap rubber and city residents are
requested to search every nook and
corner in their homes in an effort
to locate all of the rubber that can
be used to create the machines.
ETC., that will lead this nation to
ultimate victory over the Axis. :
Sussex County Coordinator Ed
ward C. Evans states that at a re-
cent. meeting the service station.
operators throughout the entire
county pledged 1000 cooperation
in this drive. IT,
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
kent-Sussex
Counties In
DimOut Area
Extension Of Zone Is Or
dered After Confer
ence With Governor.
Bacon On Wednesday.

Z. All of Kent and Sussex counties
must dimout, it was ruled Wednes-
day at a. conference Of state de-
Tense officials and representatives
Of the Second Regional Defense
Area in Governor Bacon's Dover
office. - .v.>'
Heretofore the dimout has ex-
tended inland Is miles and north
as far as Deepwater, Point.
The state capital, included in the
original regulations, will now be
Joined in the dimout by Seaford,
Laurel, BridgeviIle. Greenwood and
Smyrna. =,
The Dover dimout has reduced
electric, current output so per cent,
the eonfefenee disclosed.
Attending were Governor Bacon,
Eieut.-Col. Edward B. Towns and
Mai. Myron X. Barrett, represent
ing the regional headquarters Col.
John p. LeFevre; state dimout di-
rector, and : Capt. H. H. Hanson,
executive officer, Dover Civilian
Defense Council
Maj.-Gen. Thomas A. Terry, COM
manding the Second Corps Area,
night asked the Cover
nors of Delaware. New York and
New Jersey, states comprising the
area, to enlist the aid of state and
local highway commissioners in
posting streets and other locations
On which headlights of automobiles
would be normally visible at sea.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Will Again Obtain
Tomato Records
Cost Sheets VIII Be Kept Under
Direction OF Kent County Agent

Records of cost of producing to-
matoes will be obtained again this
year on a number of farms in Kent
county under the direction of Coun-
ty Agent Russell e. Wilson lin CO.
operation with E, P. Brasher, ex-
tension specialist in truck crops,
of the University of Delaware, and
local canning factories including
the Wyoming and Houston plants of
Libby, McNeill and Libby and the
cannery of w. L. Wheatley and Son
at Clayton.
For the purpose of obtaining
field data on this crop these farms
are visited at least twice during
the season, and the results are tab
ulated in a countrywide report, but
no individual records are revealed
except by key numbers. By this
method the cooperating farmer in
this project may compare the re-
suits on their farms with those on
the other farms and the average for
the county.
In previous years this project in
cluded also the comparisons in
yield and quality OF tomatoes as
the result of an additional applica-
tion of muriate of potash, and since
these results have been so conclu-
sive showing the value of this fer
tilizer in increasing the yield per
acre it was not considered neces-
sary to continue this phase of the
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Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Sussex Homemakers
Attend Short Course
Group OF Seven From This Com
munlty Attended Session

Forty-six Sussex county home
makers attended the seventh annual
rural women's Short Course held at
the University of Delaware from
Sunday until Wednesday Of this
week. The Short Course is planned
annually by the Extension Service
in order to give rural women an
opportunity to enjoy some of the
advantages that the University has
to offer.
Highlights of the full three-day
program were talk by Mrs. Dor
othy. Waldo Phillips, lecturer from
Lansdowne, Pa; a short course in
public speaking by Francis x. Gal
lagher, director of Dramatics Will
mington High School; demonstra-
tions, on sugar saving cookery and
food conservation; a discussion of
ration plans; lessons in clothing
and home management, and lots of
singing led bysMrs. Chester Stroup
and Mrs. Ralph Baker of George
town. .S.f.
The session opened with a pro-
gram in the Mitchell Hall auditor
ium on Sunday evening during
which the group was greeted by
University officials and entertain
ed by an organ recital and talk on
Life in Syria, by Mrs. Stanley E.
Kerr of Newark.
The following persons from Sus-
sex county registered for the Short
Course: Miss Clara Ellis, Mrs. Paul
Kenney, Mrs. Victor Beach, Mrs.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Stores vii Close
Wednesdays lP NJ.
Many Local Merchants Plan Early Closing, Start
ing With Next Wednesday,, June "a, Will Not
Close Wednesday, July T.; TO Continue Through
Months Of July And August.

Following a custom of the past
several years, many Of the Milford
merchants have agreed to close
their stores Wednesday afternoons,
beginning with next Wednesday,
June "a. The stores will close
promptly at one o'clock, and this
summer closing schedule will con-
tinue during the months of July
and August.
They will not. however, close
Wednesday, July /, due to the fact
that the majority of them will be
closed all day Saturday. July 4.
Those who have signified their
intentions of closing follow:
]. c. Penney Company, depart
ment store.
Derrickson's Clothing Store.
W. T. Grant Co., variety store.
Alfred H. Nutter, wallpaper.
]. H. Humes & Son. hardware.
James Store, ladies' furnishings.
Fisher Appliances, electrical
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19

goodE.
Economy Auto Supply.
John Handges, shoe repair.
Warren G. Gibson, furniture.
Garrett L. Grier, clothing and
shoes.
Thos. c. Davis Dept. Store.
Ben Franklin, five-and-ten.
Pierce Hardware Co.
J. B. Poore & Son, electrical ap-
pliances.
Peterman's. radio and electric.
e. G. Stidham, ladies' shop.
d. Coopersmith, ladies' and chill
dren's wear.
Bata Shoe Store.
Fox's sc to 81 Store.
The Coffman-Fisher Co., depart
ment store.
The barber shops of the city have
been closing on Wednesday after
moons for long while and will
keep on with the early closing for
the summer months.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Liquor Board Names,
A. d. Smith Secretary
Former U. S. Marshal APP
pointed To Fill Vacancy
Caused By Death

Appointment of former u. S.
Marshal Austin D. Smith of Dover
as executive secretary of the Della
ware Liquor Commission, was an
nounced by, Willard Springer, Jr.,
commissioner for Delaware.
Mr.. Smith will continue to hold
the position as inspector for the
Liquor Commission in Kent county
but will receive the salary Of the
executive secretary, only, Mr..
Springer said.
Succeeds r. 7. Cam
Mr.. Smith is a well-known Kent
county Democrat, former sheriff of
Kent county in 1930.si, and was
U. s. marshal for Delaware, from
1884 to 1887, inclusive.
He accepted the position as exec
utiye secretary to .fili the unexpired
term of the late Richard T. Cam,
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Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Supreme Court Salvage Tires
Gives Opinion l,rl For Free Movie
OnSoldierVote Tickets Here
Highest Tribunal In The
State Says Court Can
: Pass On Vote OF Men
In Armed Forces.

The State Supreme Court ruled
this week, that it has the jurisdicA
ton to issue a writ of mandamus
directing the State Superior Court,
as a board of canvass to recount
the results of an, election. ~
The ruling was given in tho
soldiers vote case, sternming out
OF the 1910 general election after
which Frank P. Walker, Republi-
can candidate for Kent county
comptroller sought to have the vote
cast by members of the 198th Regi-
ment at Camp Upton, N. Y, exclud-
ed from the totals.
The court, however, did not rule
as to the constitutionality of the
vote and issuance of a writ will de-
pend on the future decision of this
angle, the next step. 81,
Walkers opponents for the coun-
ty comptroller's office was Elijah S.
Hughes, Democrat, who had a ma
jority vote, with the soldiers bal
lots counted.
The writ of mandamus was
sought by P. Warren Green and Col.
William j. Storey, counsel for Mr..
Walker. They want the soldier vote
excluded on the grounds that the
men were not qualified to
ballot because of non-residency.
.ChancellorrW. w. Harrington and
Judge Charles l.. Terry, Jr.s were
named as respondents in the man
damus action. They contended that
the authority of mandamus as given
the Supreme Court in the constitu-
ton did not apply to them as a
board of canvass.
The opinion was concurred in
by Chief Justice Daniel ]. Layton,
Judge Charles S. Richards and
Judge Frank L. Speakman.
Judge Richard S. Rodney, the
lone dissenter, in a minority opin-
ion. upheld the contentious of the
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-19
Driyers With 800"
Tags Due For nsp.
Renewed edRegistration
Commissioner George S.
Williams Announces
That Inspection And
R. e r e g is tr a tiOn
OF Aforementioned We
hicles Must Be Com
pleted By June 80.

Motorists whose license tags are
dated $780, are due for a trip to
the state inspection lanes to have
their automobiles checked and reg
istrations renewed-but this year
they won't receive postcards from
the State Highway Department to
tell them about it.
, Inspection and re-registration Of
these cars must be completed be-
fore the end of this month, Motor
Vehicle Commissioner George s.
Williams announced on Monday.
The Highway Department is ef-
fecting a saving of several thou.
sand dollars through eliminating
the customary postcards notifying
drivers their registration must be
renewed, Mr.. Williams san
Motorists Responsibility
I'VE are turning that RESPONSE
bility over to the motorist, and saw
ing the state that money" Mr.. VIII
liams said. . e ,.
tits perfectly easy for driver
to tell whether or not his registra-
tion expires this quarter. His regis
tration card is marked with the ex-
piration date, and the tags on each
automobile hold little inserts, bear
ing the date of expiration" he
stated. -. .s ~.
According to. Highway Depart
ment figufes, there are 1855 New
Castle county registrations which
expire June 80; 1.14S in Kent
county, and 724 in Sussex.
, There are relatively few expira-
tons this quarter" Mr. Williams
"and if people will start
coming in for inspections right
away they. will find waiting at the
lanes is not necessary"
He urged, however, that persons
whose registrations expire Septem~
Der 80 attend 10 the Reorganization
and Inspection early In the quar-
ter, which begins July 1.
Three Month Periods
A new group of licenses expires
1t the end of each March, June,
and December, Mr.. Will
Iiams explained, and persons re-
luired to re-register may do so any
time in the three months preceding
The expiration date.
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