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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
DRIVE TO REGISTER VOTERS
CONTINUES IN BALTIMORE

Baltimore, Md.-Under the slo-
gan "a Voteless People is a Hope
less People," the Baltimore NAACP
Branch continues its campaign to
persuade Negro citizens to declare
their intention to vote.
Every Tuesday between LOO and
200 pm, the NAACP committee
can be seen escorting people to the
court house to Room 302 where
they declare their intentions and
then to Room % where they regis
ter and become eligible to vote.
Meetings are held in churches
throughout the city during which
NAACP speakers urge the congre-
cation to supply them with names
of persons who have not registered.
Committees have been formed who
turn these lists over to the NAACP
which sees that each citizen gets to
the court house.
Randall Tyus, executive secre-
tary of the Baltimore NAACP, re-
ports that the plan has met I'M
usual cooperation and states that
his branch is determined that
Negroes here become more power
full citizens through a fuller ex-
ercise of the franchise.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Zion Baptist's
WOmen's Day on
Sunday, Aug. Is

Women's Day at Zion Baptist
church will be observed this year
on August Is, all day. The women
say that all of their interest, am
bition, inspiration and aspiration
will be combined in the presentation
of three great programs.
Speaking and singing will be in
cluded in the morning worship
service. Outstanding talent of the
Twin Cities and out Of town will be
presented in the afternoon. A
candlehght service viii be held in
the evening at which time every
one present will be asked to con-
secrate his or her life to the great
duty OF Christians which the wom-
en- of the church believe to be so
imperative in this present day
crisis.
Mrs. VIM. H. Crump, chairman
of Women's Day, believes that any
person missing any portion of this
days program will regret it,
always.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
st. Paul NAACP !
Drive Reports
Tuesday Night

Final reports in the drive for one
thousand members Of the st. Paul
Branch Of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People will be given at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Branch, Tuesday night, August II,
at the Halle Q. Brown Community
House at 8 p. m. "Some Observa-
tons on the Aftermath Of the De-
troit Riot" will be given by the
president, Rev. Clarence T. r. Mel
son, who has recently returned from
Detroit.
All persons who have not re-
newed their memberships or taken
out new memberships this year
should do so by Tuesday, by report
ing to John M. Culver, chairman of
the Membership committee; Mrs.
Beatrice Boyd, Mrs. Gertrude VIII
lis, Mrs. Jetta McPheeters, captains
of the three teams in the member
ship drive or any other member of
the membership committee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Phillip Ware,
Former Cafe
Operator, Dead

Phil Ware, well known Mime
apolis figure and former operator
of night clubs for many years, died
Monday, August 9, after several
months illness. Mr.. Ware came to
Minnesota from Kansas City where
he was also well known.
Mr.. Ware was "a years old. He
died at his home, 1929 Clinton Ave.
His wife was at his bedside.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, Aug. IL at 2 pm. at the
Ames Lodge Elks Rest. Rev. c.
Clayburn officiated and the Elks
service was held.
Interment was at Crystal Lake
Cemetery. His survivors in addi-
ton to his wife, Willie, are a sister,
Mrs. Effie Griffey, a niece, Mrs.
Jessie Dean, both of Kansas City,
Kansas, and other relatives.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Corporal jones Murray
In Army Variety Show

When the Sioux City, Iowa, air
base musical variety show was pre-
sented Monday, August 2, in the
Orpheum Theater in Sioux City, a
former Hollywood stage manager
and baritone, already well known
in st. Paul for his many musical
presentations, and in Sioux City,
for his many guest appearances in
churches, found a ready outlet for
their talents.
Sergeant Howard Kearns, who
has managed several Hollywood
stage companies in legitimate thea
ter productions, served as stage
manager for Monday nights show.
Corporal James Murray, former
st. Paul baritone, was in the cast
as a soloist. Corporal Murray has
also sung in many churches in the
midwest and especially in Sioux
City and Omaha.
Sgt. Kearns' experience has stood
him in good stead many times be-
fore in the army. He helped to
install modern facilities for legiti-
mate stage productions in the air
base theater.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
JAMES ENGLAND DIES
AFTEP LONG HJNE

NV AN@NO ANAAN@AOAO
James England, APO Carroll, died
Wednesday, August A, at Ancker
Hospital, after being in ill health
for eight months.
Born in Dallas, Texas, April 2,
1910, he had been a resident of
the city for more than fifteen years.
He is survived by a wife, Louise
Starkey England, and two children,
James, Jr., and Gertrude, mother,
Mrs. Gertrude Williams, and two
aunts, Mrs. Lucy Taylor and Lor-
raine Saunders.
Funeral services were held, Sat-
urday, August 7, 2 PM, at Brooks
Funeral Home, 697 Rondo avenue,
with Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson,
pastor of Camphor M. E. Church,
assisted by Rev. C. B. Wheeler,
pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist
Church. Interment was in Elm
hurst cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
MARCELLANE THOMAS DIES

MARCELLANE THOMAS DIES
Marcellaine Thomas, IA years
old, 453 w. Central, died Wednes-
day, August A, at St. Joseph's Hos
pital where she was taken the Mon
day previous.
Born in st. Paul, Marcellaine was
a student at Mckinley School at
the time of her death. She was
member of CamphOr M. E. Sunday
School, active in the activities of
Welcome Hall Community Center,
and a member of the Girl Reserves.
Survivors include her parents,
Pvt. James Thomas of Jefferson
Barracks, Missouri, and Mrs. James
Thomas of St. Paul, brother, James
Thomas, Jr., grandfather, Cast
vile Billiard of Tooele, Utah, aunts,
Mrs. Arlee Blakey and Mrs. Addie
Armstrong of st. Paul, Mrs. Lille
Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, Mrs.
Edith Allen Of Galveston, Texas,
Misses Coree and Marilee Thomas
and Mrs. Clara Jones of St. Paul,
uncles, William Billiard, Howard,
Casiwell, Jr., and Bonnie Billiard,
all of st. Paul.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday, August z, at II a.m- at
Camphor NJ. E. Church with Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, officiating,
assisted by Rev. C. B. Wheeler and
Peter McFarlane. Dorothy Monson
and Nadine Davis sang a duet,
Somebody Cares" Interment was
in Elmhurst cemetery.
Pallbearers were the Misses
Frances Morris, Betty ferris,
Virginia Robinson, Lois Milsap,
Lorraine White, Gloria Parker,
Colestine Price, Messrs. Edward
Morris, Philip Archer, Betty Ar
cher, Leon Combs, Wardell Warren,
Ernie Johnson, Jr., and Louis
Zachery.
Pvt. James Thomas came to the
city for the funeral services.
PVT. JOHN A. WHITAKER
HERE ON FURLOUGH
Pvt. John A. Whitaker of Camp
Swift, Texas, is in the city on fur
Tough. Pvt. Whitaker is an in
structor of illiterates at Camp
Swift. He has been accorded many
social courtesies since being in the
Twin Cities among which was q
dinner party on Monday, August
9, at the home Of Miss Leah Mae
Minor, 1888 N Dale street.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Newcomers to
City Welcomed
By Auxiliary

The Women's auxiliary of the
Minneapolis Urban League enter
tanned the newcomers to the city
and parents of the babies who par
ticipated in the baby contest, re-
Gently, at Sumner Field recreation
room, August 8. The welcome ad-
dress was given by Mrs. Wallace
Chambers, president. Mrs. E. L.
Sims, first president of the auxil-
larry, outlined the work of the or
ganiZation.
c. W. Washington, executive Sec
rotary of the Urban League, talked
on employment and the finding of
homes for the newcomers. Mrs.
W. Phelan, representative to the
Minneapolis Council of Church
Women, pointed out churches of va
rious denominations and location.
Other brief talks were made by Ike
Moore, William Smith, Mrs. Mollie
Cheek and Mrs. Ethel Lynch, gen.
eral chairman of the newcomers in
tegrating committee of the auxil-
larry.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
KinShip

The Negro in the United
States, in common with a very
large world of colOred people
outside the United States, is
acutely conscious of the kinship
of American Racism and the
Racist doctrine of Hitler. Any
literate Negro can easily see for
himself that the doctrine which
is used to justify the persecu,
ton of Jews and the Poles in
Europe is the same as that
which is used here at home to
justify injustice or violence
against his own racial group
John La Fargo.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

The spark which touched off the
Harlem riot and looting spree was
a report that a Negro soldier had
been shot and killed by a white
policeman. The report was not true
because the soldier was only slight
ly wounded, but the mere report,
with the background of mistreat-
ment of Negro soldiers elsewhere
in the country, was sufficient to
touch off the destructive rampage
which did five million dollars
worth of damage. The NAACP
letter said:
at was the fury born Of re-
peated, unchecked, unpublished, and
often unrebuked shooting, manning,
and insulting of Negro troops,
particularly in the southern states"
which started the disorders.
The NAACP letter, signed by
Walter White, cited the incident of
the 369th Coast Artillery men who
were returned to the United States
from Hawaii to assist in training
other units in Camp Stewart, Ga.
The letter outlined the indignities
heaped upon these men and the
subsequent reports by them to the
home folks.
The letter also cited the killing
of Private Raymond Carr at Alex
andria, Louisiana, in November,
1912 by civilian policeman. Carr
was a military policeman with the
full rights and privileges of his
rank. Failure of the Department of
Justice to act in this matter, despite
the pleas of the War department
were cited by Mr.. White in his
letter on the Harlem riot. The let
ter continued:
"Mr. Secretary, we fear, and we
are not alone in that fear, that I'M
less the War and Justice Depart
ments muster courage enough to
handle this situation without
gloves, other trouble may ensue
born of the sense of Illustration and
resentment bordering on despair
among Negroes. We, therefore,
take the liberty of asking and urg-
ing you and the Attorney General,
both of whom we know to be
shocked by the cold-blooded mis-
treatment of Negro soldiers, to
confer Immediately and to work out
an affirmative and uncompromising
program of action"
The NAACP suggested to Secre-
tary Stimson, "that any and every
criminal act, large or small, against
Negro soldier be acted upon i'm
mediately and without compro-
mise"
The second suggestion of the
NAACP was that the War depart
ment authorize a mixed division of
white and colored troops, saying,
call of the evils to which we have
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
F.E.P.C. to Open
Regional Office
i'm Mill CITY

Advice from Washington, D. c.,
states that Father Francis Haas,
chairman of the Presidents Fair
Employment Practices Committee,
has announced one of the twelve
regional offices of the committee
will be opened in Minneapolis.
Directors for the regional offices
are said to have been already Sc
lected by the committee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

referred grow out of the segrega-
ton policy of the United States
government"
The letter asserted that many
white Americans, including south
ern whites, have expressed their
desire to serve in such a division.
The letter concluded by citing the
success of the Officers Candidate
Schools where Negroes and whites
were trained without discrimina-
ton or segregation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Mems Day at
st. Peter A.M.E.
Sunday, Aug. 29

A committee headed by James R.
Aubrey announced this week that
it was again time for the men of
st. Peter A.M.E. church to sponsor
their annual Mems Day program
on August 20. They aspire to make
this the greatest "day" of them all.
At 10:45, the regular worship
hour, a sermon will be preached.
At 4 pm. they will sponsor a
Brotherhood Hour" The public is
welcome to attend these services
and help these men make this their
banner day. Speakers will be an
nounced later.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Spokesman Office in New
Location September LIST
at 314 Third Ave. So.

in circulation, influence and service,
in the community, caused it to out
grow its present office facilities
long ago. The new offices will be
open just two weeks after the
papers observance of their nine
years of continuous publication.
Readers and advertisers are invit-
ed to come in and see US at our new
address. The telephone numbers
will be the same, Bridgeport 1896
or Midway 8340.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

The office of the Minneapolis
Spokesman and the general offices
Of the Spokesman & Recorder Pub
fishing Co., publishers of the Min
neapolis Spokesman and the St.
Paul Recorder, will be moved on
September 1, to larger quarters at
314 Third Ave. So, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
This newspaper has been in the
same block for the nine years Of
its existence. Growth of the paper
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Clarence Volts
Arrested

Clarence B. Watts, 81 years old,
573 Carroll avenue, was arrested
Monday, August 8, at 2:45 p. m.
at Rice and Iglehart for driving
after his license had been re-
vOked. He was hailed into Mu-
nicipsl Court Tuesday, August
10, and received a jail sentence
of ten days or $50 fine.
Watts lost his drivers license
in December of last year after
being convicted on a drunken
driving charge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
News at a
Glance

The old color line cost st. Louis
the annual convention of the power
full CLIO United Auto Workers.
Scheduled for the Missouri city on
September %, the meeting was
moved to Buffalo, N. Y, where the
leading hotels will accept Negro
delegates as guests. st. LOOey hos
teIries wouldn't bulge from the Jim
Crow practice of barring Americans
Of color.
Thomas Dewey, governor of the
State of New York, named a 25
member state war council on dis
elimination. Among the Negro
members are C. B. Powell, Pub
Usher of the N. Y. Amsterdam
News, Lester Granger, National
Urban League, Charming Tobias,
and others. The New York Post
claims Attorney General Francis
Biddle has recommended to F. D. R.
that southern Negro labor be kept
in the south and not allowed to come
north to work in war plants. Mean
while northern and southern farm
owners import black Jamaicans to
harvest important crops!
Bishop J. A. Gregg, who made
a morale building tour" to the
South Pacific, is expected back in
America in ten days. .. The mayor
of Louisville, Kentucky, startled
citizens of that community by ap-
pointing a Negro, Atwood Wilson,
a member of the city library board
last week. AS expected, Rev.
Adam Clayton Powell, New York
City Councilman, will seek a seat
in Congress in the next elections.
The War Department has an
nounced that it is planned to place
a number of Negro attorneys as
Judge advocates in the army. Negro
papers roundly berated Harlem
Negro hoodlums who looted and
disgraced the community last week.
The Negro Press: ROi Ottley in
Common Ground, Spring edition,
gave a good definition of this press.
Beyond its editorial harangues,"
Ottley said, "the Negro press is of
solid Importance to the Negro.
While he reads the white press for
daily spot news, he goes to the
weekly cOlOred papers for an inter-
probation of these world events as
they affect him. The press provides
a vast platform for Negro lead
ers; it serves as the cO-OrdinatOr of
any mass action the race is impelled
to take; and edited by ordinary men
and women who articulate the as
piratiOns (and complaints) of the
black rank and file, it is an impOr-
tant instrument of general educa-
ton. 1t keeps the Negro public ex-
ceedingly well informed of day-tO-
day happenings of particular inter-
est to the race, and its cOlumnists
discuss a wide sweep of events in
terms of their meaning to the Ne
gro. In short, the press is a house
organ for the Negro community.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
PVT. EBERT COTTON VISITS
HERE

Pvt. Ebert Cotton of Camp Ellis,
Illinois, was in the city over the
July 31st weekend on a three-day
leave to visit his brother, Pvt. John
Cotton, who has so recently been
indicted into the army.
Pvt. John Cotton signed up with
the Paratroopers and left the city
on August 9th.
Both boys are the sons of Mrs.
Pleasetta Cotton, 760 Rondo Ave.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

Of the new Executive Order 9436,
complaint was filed late last week
with the Fair Employment Practice
Committee In Washington on be-
half of the Portland Branch
NAACP and the Negro Shipyard
Organization for Victory. Appear
ing in person before the FEPC to
file the complaint was Frank D.
Reeves, member of the NAACP
legal staff.
The NAACP legal committee
described the case as "a major as
sault on practices of discrimination
in labor union membership which
are seriously impeding the war
effort by restricting the use of
thousands of needed Negro work
men"
The discriminatory dodge" was
worked by the simple expedient of
denying Negroes membership in
the local lodges of the Boiler
makers and Shipbuilders Union
which have a closed shop agree
ment with the Kaiser Company and
facing them with the alternative
of joining a Jim Crow Auxiliary
Lodge" which has no real status in
the Brotherhood or with discharge
from their jobs, according to the
complaint. The Auxiliary Lodge"
is alleged to have been chartered in
December, 1912, although up to
the date of the complaint no Of
ficers or trustees have been elected,
no meetings have been held, no
charter has been issued and the
auxiliary, "in fact and in law" has
remained wholly without organiza-
ton. The complaint asserts further
that the entire auxiliary lodge
scheme is designed ito deprive
Negro workmen of economic Sc
curity, equal participation in col
lective bargaining, and the sew
eral rights, privileges and benefits
which are incident of membership"
in the lodges holding contract with
the Kaiser company, and therefore
is an untenable arrangement to the
Negro employees. Membership in
the so-called Auxiliary Lodge" is
limited to "colored male persons"
Specifically named in the COM
plant as having been discharged
because they would not comply
with the joint dictum Of the Kaiser
company and the International
Brotherhood lodges were Claude E.
johnson, Jr., and Lee Anderson.
Named also were Sidney Wolfe and
Fred Perry, who, the complaint
states, are now being employed in
jobs beneath their skills.
Rev. ]. ]. Glow, president of
the Portland NAACP branch and
Julius Rodriques, President of the
Negro Shipyard Organization for
Victory, came East to Washington
and New York and presented the
matter orally to the FEPC, and
later enlisted the assistance of the
national legal department of the
and the Negro Labor Vic
tory Committee to prepare a for
NAL complaint for presentation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
EDWARD BYRON DoTY HERE

EDWARD BYRON D0TY HERE
Edward Byron Doty, wing chief
in the U. S. Census Bureau of
Washington, D. c., arrived in the
city, Tuesday evening, August 10,
to attend the funeral services for
his sister, Miss Carrie Margery
Doty, who died Sunday, August 8,
in Minneapolis. Mr.. Doty will re-
main in the city over the weekend.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
StimsOn Told Harlem
Riot Showed Resentment
to Negro Soldier Treatment

New York, N. Y.-The widespread resentment among all
classes of Negro citizens to the treatment their
been receiving in the Army of the principal
butng factors to the disorders in Harlem the night of
August l. according to Walter White NAACP. secretary,
in letter to Henry L. Simpson. Secretary of War
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Boiler Makers Union Is
Charged With Race Bar
At Kaiser Ship Yards

Washington d. C.-Chargng the Kaiser Shpbuilding
Company Portland Oregon and two lodges of the nterna-
tona Brotherhood of Boemakers Iron Shpbuiders and
Helpers of America, A. F. of L. with collaboration in the
wrongful dismissal of than 300 Negro workers the
Kaiser yards and at Portland Oregon in deliberate violation
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
St. Paul Red Caps Win
Court Victory; Negro r. r.
Workers Will Be Helped
Especial to spokesman-R Recorder Newspapers) :.

Washington, D. Cone of the most significant and
history making decisions affecting the whole welpanned
structure of collision between railroad and rail-
road broherhoods in denying Negroes their rights under the
Railway Labor Act made this week by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in case involving the United
Evening star., 1943-08-19

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat, none; corn. sample srade
yellow. l.o4; oats, No. mixed. 1874
No. 2. 737: No, $ white, 72h-73h
sample srade. white. 6e-70ta; barley
Malting. l.17-I.25 nominal: feed. 100.
] .0S nominal soybeans. none.
Evening star., 1943-08-19
Business Briefs

Bank Clearings in % leading cities
totaled 1886 .082 900 in the week
ended Wednesday, compared with
$7,8l1 1850 in the preceding week
and 1882 above 1921 ,737 900 a
year ago, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, re-
ported. Important city gains over
a year ago: Atlanta, 45.4oe; Mime
apolis, $780,; Omaha, 27.2%; New
Orleans, 26.2%o: Chicago, 24.1%; Dali
las. 19.4%; San Francisco, 1917.
Freight Loadings in the week
ended last Saturday totaled 887 ,165
cars, a gain of 1.7% over the preced-
ing week and an increase Of 2.1%
over the corresponding 1912 period,
the Association of American Rail-
roads disclosed.
Gasoline Stocks on August IA to-
tailed 72,505,0 barrels, compared
with 73,368 600 week earlier and
79,1s0,000 a year ago, the American
Petroleum Institute announced. The
index Of civilian gasoline and fuel
oil supplies on the Eastern Seaboard
stood at 34.5o Of normal on August
IA, compared with 34.7% a week
earlier. Heavy fuel oil stocks de-
clined 266, 900 barrels in the latest
week to 66,448 900, while light fuel
oil supplies increased 230, 900 barrels
to 36,574, 900.
A Decentralization Policy has been
adopted by the Smaller War
Plants Corp, a division of WPB. In
establishing what amounts to au-
tonomous regions. Brig. Gen. Robert
w. johnson, SWPB chairman, de-
clared, I'VE have found that the best
results come from men acquainted
with the regions"
Secondary Offering of 34,100 COM
mon shares of Pacific American
Fisheries at 11A a share was made
by Blyth g. Co. A discount OF so
cents share was allowed to dealers.
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad re-
ported July gross revenues of more
than $50 ,000, 900 compared with $28,-
295,733 In June and SIC, ,936 ,294 in
July last year. The months gain
was attributed mainly to resumption
of coal mining. Business SO far in
August was reported running close
to July levels.
Hudson Motor Car Co. earned
$541 ,807 or "a cents a share In the
June quarter. compared with $573,-
101 or 36tcents share year ago.
General Gas e. Electric Corp.
asked the SEC for authorization to
pay, out of capital stock or unearned
surplus, $4,000 dividend on its IS
preferred no par value stock for the
quarter ended September IS, 1912.
Evening star., 1943-08-19
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