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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-11-30
Finns' Diplomacy Is Work of Arf; proeope
 Masier of Situations

acy of Procope that not only has there been no outright severance of diplomatic relations between this country and Finland but that he and his attractive wife, British born Margaret Shaw, have continued tc be two of the most socially popular members of the diplomatic set.
 Procope is 54, but in spite of graying hair, looks as if he were in his early forties. He is tall straight, slim and handsome. If he could be compared to any one on the international scene, it would be Anthony Eden, for he was the boy wonder" in Finland's foreign affairs. He entered the Finnish parliament in 1918 and two years later, when he was only 31, was named Minister of Commerce and Industry. He served a stint at the League of Nations and by 1928 was convinced that the League as then constituted was a failure.
 He came to the United States as minister in 1888 and was imme- diately one of the most popular of the diplomatic set. In 1889, he
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-11-30
First SeatiIe Woman Mayor
 Dies in East
Bertha K. Landes, Chief Ex. eeutiye of CifY0ne Term,
 Had Stormy Career

SEATTLE, Nov. 30--Mrs Bertha
 K, Landes. former Mayor of Se- attle, died yesterday at the home
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
Halle Better
Parent Week to
Begin Oct. Is

Better parenthood week, spon-
sored by Halle @. Brown House,
will begin Monday, Oct. 25. On
Monday, a parent clinic will be held
with a choral group of parents fur
nishing the music. A speaker to
discuss delinquency will be pre-
scented on Tuesday, Oct. 26, and a
social on Wednesday, the closing
night, will be open to parents only.
The detectives of the planning
committee, headed by Janabelle
Murphy and G. L. Porter, are to
organize families of the community
for a more cooperative program for
children; to make parents more
aware of the Importance Of family
relationships for morale purposes;
to encourage the use Of the nursery
school and day care center for
children with working mothers and
for after school supervision; to
prevent wartime increase in delin-
quency by urging children to use
the recreational facilities. I. Myrtle
Garden, Mrs. Stanley Tabor, John
Culver and Arthur McWatt are as
sisting Miss Murphy and Mr..
Porter.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
Ship Named
For Editor
Launched Oct. 10

PORTLAND, Me. The fifth
Liberty Ship to be named for an
outstanding Negro American, the
S. S. ROBERT L. VANN, was
launched Sunday, October 10, at the
South Portland (Me.) Yard of the
New England Shipbuilding Com
pany. Mrs. Jessie M. Vann, widow
of the publisher and editor of the
Pittsburgh Courier for whom the
ship was named, was sponsor of the
vessel.
Scores of friends and associates
of the late Mr.. Vann came from
Pittsburgh, New York, Philadel-
phia, Washington, D. c., Detroit
and Chicago to witness the exer-
cises. The ship was built in a dry
dock which could not be flooded for
the actual launching until high tide
late Sunday evening.
1--WE are honoring ourselves and
the Negro race in paying tribute to
Robert L. Vann today" said C. C.
Spaulding, President of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company Of Durham, who was the
principal speaker at the brief ex-
ercises which were climaxed by the
traditional breaking of a bottle of
champagne across the bow of the
ship. Mr.. Spaulding characterized
Mr.. Vann as a Statesman, organ
izer and great citizen"
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Waiter Slayer
Found Guilty

DES MOINES.-Dove Smith, 81
year old Kansas City waiter who
cut a cook on the Rocket fast Rock
Island train to death last May 9,
was found guilty here Tuesday.
Smith was employed as a waiter
on the train and in a fight practi-
cally severed the cooks neck from
his body. The first trial resulted
in hang jury.
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Mrs. Lulu ShrOut and her daugh-
ter Margaret Elizabeth of Des
Moines, Iowa, were guests for two
weeks at the home of Mrs. Alice
Mother" Carver, near Golden VAL
ley, MINI. Mrs. Shrout came to
Minneapolis to see her invalid hus-
band, William Shrout, who is a pa
tient of Mrs. Upergrove's Rest
Home on Fourth Ave. S.
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Visitors To
Office

Visitors at the new Minneapolis
office of the Minneapolis Spokes-
man and st. Paul Recorder News
paper are: Messrs. willard Will
liams, Excelsior, Mimi; Kenneth
Edwards, Fred Sims, L. L. Sanches,
Don Lafayette, Ben Daniels, c. W.
Oliver, Charles Mccoy, A. s. Bar
nett, F. W. Poole, Elmer Draper,
Harlon T. Russell, Minneapolis;
H. o. Newman, Kansas City, Mo-;
Joe Stewart, W. H. Butler, William
Brown, w. Jenkins, Mines. Sylvia
Miller, Rose Booker, Minneapolis;
Cora Newman, Kansas City, Mo-;
Ruth Judy, Beaulah Cohron, Marie
Green, Ella Mae Mccoy, Effie
Posey, Leroy Howard, Jennie Girls
sam, Rev. B. N. Moore, and Sgt.
Joseph Albright, st. Paul; Miss
Gloria Gates, Minneapolis.
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Halle Midgets
Tangle Saturday
With Wheatley

The Halle @. Brown House Mid
gets will play the Phyllis Wheatley
House Midgets Saturday, Oct. 16,
at 3 p. m, at Dunning Field, st.
Paul, at the end of the Rondo car
line.
Playing in the backfield for
Halle will be Reggie Combs, Jack
Hi White, Leo Lewis and Eugene
White. C. Mccoy, Horace Collins,
Donald Hall, Dick Smith, Dick
Singewald, Joe Ray and Harvey
Sanders will be on the line.
Stafford Lott, Wheatley coach,
states that his team is in fine shape
for this game and that he will bring
some fiashy backs from the Mill
City.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
". H. Bolts Will
Observe Ia Years
Service to Zion

Zion Baptist church will enter
into the celebration of the 14th an
niversary of Rev. H. W. Bolts as
pastor of the church on Monday,
October 10. A program for the en-
tire week through October rs.
Ministers of various Twin City
churches and their congregations
will participate. Some will bring
their choirs.
Rev. B. N. Moore of st. James,
st. Paul, will deliver the ami
versary sermon on Sunday, Oc-
tober "a. Outstanding speakers
will be at the reception on October
rs. Ministers and their wives will
be guests. Mrs. Leota Perkins is
chairman.
O.. IN 81.
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Wheatley House
Fall Opening
Friday, Oct. Is

The fall opening of Phyllis
Wheatley House on Friday, Oct.
Is, at 7:30 p. m, is open to the
public. DIR. W. D. Brown will talk
briefly on the program and objec-
tives for the 1894 season. Tours
of the House will be made from
1870 to $3.50.
Each individual in the community
is urged to come out to this meet
ing, meet the staff and select &C
tivities in which they would like to
participate. Refreshments will be
served.
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Support War Chest Drive
Lost Week to Give Your
Gift Subscriptions to
Oversees Men

Gift subscriptions to men and
women in the Army who are serv-
ing overseas may be sent to them
until October Is without Army per-
mission.
Publishers must receive such or
ders before midnight Oct. Is.
There is no gift more enjoyable
to service people abroad than the
home town paper.
Phone or bring your order to our
Minneapolis office today. Orders
for overseas personnel in other
branches of the service will be ac-
copied until Nov. 1.
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Mrs. James ID.
Curry Survived
Children

Mrs. James D. Curry, 1905 Port
land Avenue South, died October
l at Fairview hospital. Mrs. Curry
was 80 years old. Funeral SER
vices were held at St. Peters church
on October 5, at 1890 a. m. Burial
services were at l p. m. at Hast
ings, Mimi, where Mrs. Curry had
resided for fifty years prior to 1888.
Reverend J. Irvine officiated.
Mrs. Curry is survived by eight
children, Mrs. w. Collins of Sioux
City, Iowa; Mines. J. R. Collins, T..
B. Stovall Jr. and E. Thompson of
Minneapolis, daughters; Gilbert,
Charles and Paul Curry of Mime
apolis and Private William Curry
of Fort Huachuca, sons. Twenty
two grandchildren, and five great
grandchildren also survive.
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Greater New York Industrial Coun-
Gil, Committee of Industrial Or
CARNATIONS, were other speakers.
WARNS ON RACE RIOTS
Unless racial discrimination is
eliminated there is an immediate
danger Of race riots, James Water
man Wise, research director Of the
Council Against Intolerance in
America, declared yesterday at an
inter-racial conference attended by
500 persons at the Hotel Edison,
228 West Porty-seventh Street
Chairmen from five discussion
groups made recommendations for
the easing of tensions and the
elimination of race prejudice and
segregation.
The armed forces group under
the leadership of Anna Arnold
Hedgeman, regional director Of
Race Relations, Office of Civilian
Defense, recommended that Presi-
dent Roosevelt issue an executive
order abolishing Immediately dis
elimination and segregation with
in the armed forces and their aux
ihary forces.
The group also voted to petition
the President, his Cabinet and
executives of the Red Cross to
abolish Immediately the segrega-
ton of blood in blood banks.
The housing group under the
leadership of City Councilman
Stanley Isaacs declared that the
ghetto was a medieval institution,
to be outlawed in democratic So
ciety, and that sound race rela-
tons were achieved only when
segregation was broken down and
those living in a community
learned to understand each through
direct contact.
The press group, led by John
P. Lewis, managing editor of PM,
discussed minority groups in The
news. Adam Clayton Powell, chair
man of the Peoples Committee,
recommended employment of Ne
groes by all papers on a basis of
merit and that Negro newspapers
should not print news exclusively
about Negroes but should recog-
nize other minority groups. He
recommended that the committee
work for the marriage" of the
white and Negro press by having
mixed stats and the printing of
unbiased news and that there be
no labelling of Negroes.
Mrs. Johanna M. Lindlof, former
member of the Board Of Education,
in reporting on the group for edu-
cation and recreation, recon-
mended that the superintendent of
schools be asked in the circular
what each school is doing on the
question of inter-racial relation
ships.
The youthbuilders, led by Mrs.
Sabra Holbrook, director of a
group of high school boys and
girls, discussed Young People
Speak Up for Equality" and de-
cided that fear is the basis of
prejudice and discrimination" and
that differences could only be
eliminated through education,
which should be carried on in
schools and churches.
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DIR. Isaac Fisher
Speaker for st.
Paul Ministers

DIR. Isaac Fisher will be the
speaker at the first meeting of the
st. Paul Interdenominational Min
isterial Alliance, for the fall sea-
son, on Wednesday, October 20, at
the ODER Boys Club, Western and
St. Anthony. DIR. Fisher will speak
on the subject "The Mission Rede-
fined" and all ministers are invited
to hear this outstanding scholar
and minister. The meeting will be-
gin promptly at 1890 a. M, with
devotions led by the president, Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson.
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Pilgrim Church
WOmen's Day Is
on October "a

At II a. m. Sunday, October "a,
Mrs. S. E. Ware will touch off the
Women's Day activities with an
address "Great Women to the
Rescue" Mrs. Samuel Ransome,
general chairman, expects this
Women's Day to be one of the out
standing highlights in the annals
of Pilgrim church.
Mrs. T. M. Mears will speak at
5 p. m. Her subject will be "Our
Field Is the World" Music, care
fully selected for this day, will be
an added feature.
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TrOubadOrs i'm
Twilight Musical
Sunday, Oct. II

Jean De Louis Brown, pianist,
will be guest artist on the Hunter
Troubadors' Twilight Musical pro-
gram, Sunday, Oct. II, at 5 p. m,
at Bethesda Baptist church, 111S
Eighth st. S. Florence Hibbs,
whistler, will also appear.
The Jolly 16 club of st. Peter
AME church and the sem and A
club, Minneapolis youth group, will
be the guest ushers.
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come into war centers in response
to the call Of the nation.
6. The spread of racial segrega-
ton must be vigorously opposed by
responsible community leadership.
Z. Negro leadership must take
the lead in developing higher type
of social education among the
members Of their race. The Negro
population must accept self-dis-
cipline as one of the means of fit
ting Negroes more effectively into
the life of their modern urban en-
vironment.
8. Social agencies are called upon
to re-examine their present pro-
grams in the light of their original
philosophy and detectives. They
must recognize their responsibility
for serving all people without dis
elimination because of race.
Assails Police
8. Police departments in cities
throughout the country have an
opportunity and duty to reorgan-
ize their policies and practices in
accordance with the requirements
of democratic government.
10. Programs for consumer edu-
cation and protection must be de-
veloped among the Negro popula-
ton.
II. Medical and health services
to the Negro population must be
strengthened now as a wartime
health need of Negroes and also as
a protection against the further de-
terioration of these services during
the postwar period.
IL. Industrial management, or
ganized labor, and government
share a common responsibility for
protecting Negro workers against
undue hardship in the release of
workers from their present war
time jobs. Without waiting for the
end of the war, leadership in each
of these fields should begin i'm
mediately and in cooperation with
Negro leaders, to discuss ques-
tions of job security, transfer of
workers in plant conversion, re-
training of workers for peace-time
jobs and elimination of the remain
ing restrictions against Negro
membership in trade unions.
Housing Ills Considered
IL. A watchful eye must be kept
on the public services and social
gains already achieved as a part
of our wartime planning if the
United States Employment serv-
ices should be returned to the
states.
10. Provisions for war housing,
health and child care made pos
sible under the Lanham act must
be carried over by proper legisla-
ton into the postwar period with
effective precautions to insure the
extension of those benefits to Ne
gro citizens.
IA. We urge that all media of
public education - pulpit, press,
radio, schools-should accept the
democratic responsibility which is
theirs for creating the proper racial
attitudes and understanding by
presenting all matters pertaining
to the education of the public in an
unbiased and constructive manner.
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Resolutions Urge Changes

A series of resolutions, drafted
as a result of the panel discus
sions, and advocating steps to end
discrimination against Negroes in
housing, municipal affairs, health
education and the armed forces
were adopted by the conference,
on their presentation by DR.. Max
Yergan, president Of the National
Negro Congress.
Newbold Morris, President of the
City Council, the principal speaker
at the evening session, urged that
the State Legislature provide funds
for extensive rebuilding in Harlem
after the war. The city, he said,
lacks the money and the facilities
to carry on this work without State
aid. Councilman A. Clayton Powell
Jr. and Saul Mills, secretary of the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15

a recital at the church Thursday,
Oct. 81, at 8:15 p. m, with T. Theo-
dore Taylor accompanist.
Mr.. Wilburn, by special request,
was guest soloist on the annual
Women's Day program at st. James
this year. He and Mr.. Taylor are
well known in Chicago, ILL.,, music
circles and come to the Twin Cities
highly recommended.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
Rust College
Quartette at
Border Church

The Rust College quartette, tour
ing the Minnesota Conferences of
Methodism, will sing at Border
Methodist Church, Minneapolis, on
Oct. 10 at 8 p. m.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
Solving of Race Problem
Up to Both Groups, Urban
League Told By Speakers
Both Races Appealed to as IA Points Are Stressed

Chicago, ILL., SpeciaD- Appeals to both to prepare
themselves for the task of giving ebood to the our free
doms hghghted the closing session of the National Urban
League convention at Orchestra Hail. Sunday Oct. 10.
5 Ca s wesley, Preseent OF Wnper1orce university
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
O. E. S. Past
MatrOns-PatrOns
Meet Sunday

The Past Matrons and Patrons
Council of the o. E. S. of the Min
nesota jurisdiction will hold their
regular meeting, Sunday, Oct. II,
at 2:30 p. m. at the Rawjess club.
Mrs. Fannie Lynn is president of
the Council.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15


mulate a program for interracial
unity through the elimination of
racial determinations.
The Mayor warned the audience
of 400:
"The problem is not new or easy
to solve. We must have no iIlu-
sions. Rip-roaring speeches don't
get you anywhere. There are those
who seek to exploit the situation,
those who want something for
themselves or for a group"
The Mayor asserted that the
problem Of racial discrimination
against the Negro was a national
one, and that it could not be ITO
tally solved locally"
Educational Need Stressed
Unless there is an understand
ing of the problem or a desire to
solve it all over the country" he
added, "the efforts of an under
standing community are made so
much more difficult, and we have
suffered a great deal for just that
reason.
"The uplift must be all over the
country. Occasionally we receive
a setback and when we do, it re-
tards local efforts and hampers
the welfare of Negroes all over the
country.
There are sections of the coun-
try where educational opportuni-
ties are lacking or woefully made
quate. This makes extremely diff
cult the task of communities that
recognize the obligation of equal
opportunities for schools and makes
unfortunate people victims of ex-
ploitation and economic condi-
TONS"
The Mayor said he had abolished
all determinations against Negroes
in the city government, and that
there were more Negroes in the
municipal service in New York
City now than at any time in the
past.
Jean Muir, actress, presented to
the Mayor a pledge of unity with
$4,000 signatures.
White Says Hatred Is Spread
The keynote speech of the con-
ference was delivered by Walter
White, executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, who
told of attacks on Negro soldiers
in various parts of the country.
He asserted that hatred of the
Negro was being disseminated
throughout the world by American
soldiers from southern States and
that such anti-Negro sentiment,
expressed by such soldiers in con-
versations on foreign soil, had been
reported to him.
Here. in New York Civ" Mr.
White said, "a deliberate campaign
is being conducted, not only
against the Negroes, but against
another minority group-the Jews.
A deliberate campaign is being
conducted asking: Where is the
Jew in this war Now, you and /
know that all we need to do is to
look at the casualty lists and see
the number of Bernsteins and
Cohens and Greenbaums which
seem all too prominent on these
casualty lists from all sections of
the battlefront.
The conference, which brought
together representatives of church,
education, civil, labor, economic
and fraternal groups, divided into
five panel discussions on the spe-
cial problems of minority groups.
The discussions covered discrimi-
nation in the fields of employment
and wages, consumer and housing,
educational and community facili-
ties and the armed forces. The ac-
tivities and support of organiza-
tons and publications spreading
racial antagonism also were dis
cussed.
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Conf. on Interracial Unity
Hears Walter White Charge
Soldiers on Spreading Hate
(From N. Y. Times)

New York-Declaring that prejudice against Negroes
less evident in New York City than in any other large city
in the country, Mayor Fioreo H La Guarda opened the
Citizens Emergency Conference for Inteacal Unity held
yesterday in the Hunter College Assembly Hail. Park Avenue
and Street The conference endeavored to
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Bond Sale SS,371'

The Minneapolis Women's Urban
League auxiliary reports that the
total bond and stamp sale up to
date in the third war loan drive is
1891.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
Chicago Tenor
i'm Recital at
St. James Oct. q

The Missionary Society of St.
James AME church, st. Paul, will
present Ollie S. Wilburn, tenor, in
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CORRECTION

The name of Mrs. Margaret
Combs, member of the YWCA
board of directors, was inadvertent-
ly omitted from the names of those
at the speakers table at the New
man testimonial. Also omitted by
mistake from the reception COM
mittee were jamie Belle Murphy,
Junauld and Harriet Brown.
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Private Wallace
Misses lis!

Pvt. Moses Wallace of Fort Knox,
KY, former student University of
Minnesota, who left Aug. 2 for the
armed services, writes his mother,
Mrs. Josephine Wallace, SAT West
Central Avenue, that next to the
folks at home he misses this paper
most. His mother, Mrs. Wallace,
took the hintl
Moses receives the first copy of
his new subscription this week.
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IBID NOT WITHDRAW FROM
LEVY CASE" SAYS NAACP

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
NAACP refuted this week the As
ISOLATED Negro Press release which
stated that the NAACP had with
drawn from the case of Sergeant
Alton Levy.
"This is incorrect in two re-
spects," the NAACP wire to all
Negro weeklies read. "The NAACP
has never formally entered the case
and could not therefore have with
drawn. In fact the NAACP still
has the case of Sgt. Levy under in
vestigation."
Levy, a white soldier, court mar
tailed and serving four months,
said in letters to friends that he
was being penalized because he pro-
tested the treatment of Negro SOL
diers at a camp near Lincoln, Neb.
For rent, 6 room house, 1143 Emer-
son Ave. N, and room house, 400
Lyndale Ave. N. &c. 1874. VIM.
Jones.
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Soldiers Photos
Are Printed %.

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Wife of Rev. BeosleY Ill
in Hospitul

Mrs. D. E. Beasley, wife of Rev.
Beasley, veteran Baptist clergy
man, 9O5 Marion Street, is serious
ly ill at Ancker hospital where she
was taken on Saturday.
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St. Paul NAACP Meets
Tuesday, Night

The st. Paul branch Of the
NAACP will meet Tuesday night,
October 10, at Halle Q. Brown
House. Mrs. Nellie Stone of Res
taurant Workers Union No. 665
AFL will be the principal speaker.
Nomination of officers for the
ensuing year will be held.
At the executive board meeting
of the branch on Tuesday, Oct. 10,
the board voted to send President
Roosevelt a telegram requesting
clemency for three Negro soldiers
who are under death sentence.
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