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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
Gardner Pays $50
Fine

Moses Gardner, 60 years old, paid
a fine of $50 in Municipal court
after Judge John W. Finehout
found him guilty of permitting con-
sumption of liquor in a 80 estab-
lishment. Gardner tried to explain
to the Judge that he kept the whis-
key for his own use and was not
selling it and that he drank a pint
of whiskey every night in a shed
outside of the tavern because he
was nervous.
Gardner was arrested after police
asserted that they found two full
pints of whiskey and several
empties in his 3.2 beer tavern at
318 Rondo where he was co-pro-
prietor with Mrs. Leona Goodman.
Later the licenses of the two were
revoked by the City Council.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
HAMMONDS AND
McMOORE TO
FINALS

Chicago.-Matt Hammonds and
Bill McMoore, Mill City students in
the Golden Gloves contest in Chi
cago, Wednesday night won their
second bouts and advanced to the
finals.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
MISS BLACKBURN
NOT MARRIED

Some female with a perverted
sense of humOr or with despicable,
venOmous, malicious nature who
evidently had base motives called
this newspaper Office near press
time last week posing as Miss
Barbara Blackburn of $40 w. Gen.
trail Ave-, st. Paul.
Said individual reported that she
(Miss Blackburn) would be married
to Mr.. Robert Lamb on Sunday
Feb. q. A short account was
printed by this paper in good faith.
Because it was near press time the
item was not checked back by phone
as is usually the case.
Friday morning we learned that
the caller was not Miss Blackburn
but someone who evidently wanted
to embarrass her.
We apologize to Miss Blackburn
and her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. G. Blackburn, and we are going
to turn the name of the persons
suspected Of perpetrating the hoax
to the authorities.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
Charles L. Horn
Speaks in Saint
Paul Sunday
States Largest Employer To ~Meet"
Community at Halle q"

The st. Paul community will
have its opportunity to get &C
quainted with one of the outstand-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26

One hundred and sixteen years of
sacrifice and service is the Negro
Press record. Subscribe to some
paper tOdayI
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
National Negro Newspaper
Week To Be Observed
February 28 to March 6

of Atlanta, director of the observ-
ance; Juan Hernandez, radio and
stage star, as narrator and an
nouncer; Truman Gibson, Jr., act
ing civilian aide to the Secretary
of War; and several representa-
tives Of the participating news
papers.
BROADCAST COMMITTEE
This broadcast has been worked
out with CHS by a NNPA commit
tee consisting Of P. Bernard
Young, Jr., managing editor Of the
Journal and Guide, chairman:
Ralph Matthews, editor, Washing
ton Afro-American; and St. Clair
Bourne, managing editor, Peoples
Voice, in conjunction with Mr.. Ken
dirk.
Mr.. Young and Mr.. Hendrix con-
ferred recently in New York with
Tom Slater, special events director
for Mutual Broadcasting System,
regarding the broadcast for that
network, which will be aired pro-
viding necessary authority is Sc
cured from military officials.
DELTA PHI DELTA HELPS
Delta Phi Delta Journalists As
ISOLATION is cooperating with the
NNPA in the observance of Ma
tional Negro Newspaper Week, and
the association has invited the ac-
tive cooperation and participation
of colleges. YMCAs, YWCAs, MA
ACP and Urban League chapters
and branches, churches, fraternal,
welfare, and civic organizations,
and the more than $50 Negro news
papers and periodicals.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
Readers of
This Paper

Generally patroniEe advertisers
in this paper. Merchants prepar-
ing 1913 budgets will do well to
consider the local Negro market.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
BEST METHOD

Negro buying power in the
Twin Cities has increased great
ly. Alert merchants are MAX
ing good peace-time friends of
this market during the war
times. This paper is the best
method of reaching these thrifty,
yet spending people. Write for
rate card.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26

commemoration.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
D. G. Army Chaplain Revealed
Japanese Prisoner of War
1t. Col. Oliver
Was Serving
In Philippines

1t. Col. Alfred c. Oliver, jr.,
Methodist Army chaplain who in
recent years served as national
chaplain of both the National So
journers and the Veterans of For
eign Wars, is being held by the
Japanese, new War Department
list of American prisoners of war
disclosed today.
The colonel made his home at
1920 Floral street NV. with his wife,
Mrs. Dell Lake Oliver, and their
22-year-old daughter, Jean.
Mrs. Oliver and her daughter are
in Washington now, having returned
here in the fall of 1941, shorty after
they were evacuated from the
Philippines with families of other
army men.
For them, the department an
nouncement today was confirmation
of word they received privately a
month ago. They had heard moth
ing of COL Oliver since the fall of
Bataan until an Army nurse who
escaped to Australia relayed a mes
sage from him.
Miss divers fiance, Capt. Bert
H. Backstrom, of the Coast Artillery,
also is in Japanese prison camp.
He was captured in the fall of Cor
regidor, and was listed as a pris-
oner by the War Department last
December.
Miss Oliver is employed in the ac-
partment. Her mother has engaged
in Red Cross service and is an &C
tive member of the American
Womans Voluntary Services. To-
gether, they are tending a Victory
garden.
Col. Oliver, So, has been in the
army since the beginning of the
World War, when he entered the
chaplain corps as a first lieutenant.
He was stationed here, attached to
Walter Reed Hospital, from 1926 to
1880 and again from 1896 to 1910.
A native of Atlantic Highlands,
N. j., Col. Oliver was graduated
from Princeton University. He was
a preacher in the New Jersey Meth
odist conference before he entered
the army. He served in France II
months in the World War.
At Fort Harrison. Ind, in addi-
ton to his work as chaplain, he was
in charge of the educational and re-
Evening star., 1943-04-07
D. {. Measles Cases
Up 50 Pct, With S46
Cases Reported
Virginia Also Shows
Jump, While Maryland
Registers Sharp Drop

A minor epidemic of regular and
German measles exists in Washing
ton and four East Central States,
while in Maryland the prevalence of
measles has dropped to one-sixth
of last years figures, health statis-
tics show.
A total Of 846 cases of regular and
German measles have been reported
so far this year to the District
Health Department, compared with
518 cases during the comparable
period last year, or an increase of 60
per cent, DR.. James j. Cumming
chief of the Bureau of Preventable
Disease, said.
United States Public Health Serv-
ice figures show these high increases
in measles for the first IL weeks of
1943 as compared with figures for
the same period last year: Virginia,
692 cases this year against 298 last
year: Pennsylvania, 1852 against
1906; New Jersey, 1926 against 672,
and New York, 2,413 against 563.
Maryland reports show a total of 81
cases this year against 632 for the
same period in 1912.
While epidemics come and go in
various sections of the country, the
national incidence of measles re-
mains practically the same from
year to year. There were 184,225
cases of measles reported for the
Nation up to March II this year, as
compared with 183,023 during the
same period in 1882
The current epidemic is extremely
mild compared with those of earlier
years, DR.. Cumming points out.
Twenty years ago, when Washing
tons population was approximately
400 1000, he said the city would have
from 1000 to 5, 1000 cases of measles
year.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Nozis Reported Using
Fast Interceptor Subs
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 1.-THE Daily
Mails naval correspondent reported
today that Admiral Karl Doenitz's
U-boat feet is using 21-knot inter-
ceptor submarines in the Atlantic
to overtake and shadow conveys and
guide lurking packs of subs in to
the attack.
The iriterceptors were described as
operating like scout planes, with
their job being to find the target and
mark it for the main attack force
They themselves attack only when
there is little chance Of arranging
a pack rendezvous.
The Mail also reported that the in
terceptors were using "a new under
water communication system" to
contact the packs.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
War Workers Apply
For Purt-Time Jobs
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April THE war
worker isn't overworked, he's looking
for more to do.
This conclusion was adopted by the
Baltimore Transit Co. when it found
Is out of 18 applicants for part-time
jobs plotting buses and streetcars
were war workers.
Surprised at the tenor of the re-
sponse-the appeal had been aimed
at professional people-a company
official said war workers would be
used only with their employers con-
sent.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
'Chutist Fails
To Upset Men
Busy Hoeinq
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AT A U. S. BOMBER STATION
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, April
lit. Robert G. Ralston of Mont
morenci, Ind, parachuted from the
flaming Fortress Southern Comfort
over England, but what impressed
him almost as much as his narrow
escape was the rugged individual lism
of the Essex farmers he encoun-
tered on the ground. \
Five Of them were hoeing in a
strawberry patch as he plummeted
into nearby tree and hung with
his toes barely touching the ground.
Usually parachutists-like Rudolf
Evening star., 1943-04-07

Hess-are escorted to custody at the
point of a pitchfork. But the Essex
men had different technique.
Before they would release Ralston
from the tree they examined him at
hotpoint. Finally they helped him
down and went directly back to hoe
ing, letting him walk down the road
to town by himself. They were sat
isfled he was all right and so far
as they were concerned that ended
the episode.
1t was disclosed last Friday that
the Southern Comfort crashed
March 81 and burned on English soil
on the way back from a raid on
Rotterdam, but the crew parachuted
to the ground and all but one landed
safely.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Bingo Playing Ruled
No Ground for Divorce
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAZLETON, Pa, April 7.-Alfred
John Schwartz, who sued his wife
for divorce because "she spent too
much time playing bingo," is still a
married man.
"Bingo, as such, is not a ground
for divorce in Pennsylvania" ruled
Judge j. Harold Flannery in Lu-
zerne County Court, nor can 1t be
construed as such in case like this
where the libellant, on occasions,
ioined his wife in play. " ="
Evening star., 1943-04-07

ligious program in CCC camps in
Indiana. He wrote book, This
New America" about the CCC pro-
gram.
Col. Oliver was sent to the
Philippines in 1910. His daughter
met her iance on the boat on the
trip to Manila.
Col. and Mrs. Oliver have three
married sons. John, of 5O23 Forty
seventh avenue, Hyattsville, and Al
fred III and David r., of Indianapo-
lis, Ind.
Evening star., 1943-04-07

Don't fire till you see the whites
Of their eyes. But you may buy War
bonds now.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
ADVERTISEMENT,
TASTY, N0.SUGAR
ALL-BRAn MuFFlNS
ARE EASILY MADE!.

Serve your family these delicious
mullins soon! Their tempting texture
and flavor come from crisp, delicious
KELLoGG'S ALL-BRAN. Here's the recipe
in wartime version, using no sugar.
Try ALL-BRAN Mullins for breakfast
tomorrow!
Evening star., 1943-04-07
kellogg's AlI-Bran Mullins

z tablespoons y cup milk
shortening cup -four
"a cup corn syrup "a teaspoon salt
! egg 21a teaspoons
cup Kellogg's baking powder
/ All-Bran
Cream shortening and corn syrup
thoroughly: add egg and beat we'll.
Stir in All-Bran and milk, let soak
until most of moisture is taken up.
J Sift -four with salt and baking pow
der; add to first mixture and stir only
until -four disappears. Fill creased
muffin pans two-thirds full and bake
in moderately hot oven (400' F.
about 80 minutes. Yield: large muf-
fins, 3 inches in diameter, or IL small
mullins, 214 inches in diameter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
Aussie,s Cut Off
Fleeing laps in
Guinea JungIes
American Beaehhead
On BoueainviIIe Isle
Grows TO 8 Square Miles

ALLIED HDQS., SW. Pacific.
Nov. 2S Sunday tINS-Japa-
nese forces retreating from Satel-
berg have been cut off from es-
cape 10 Wareo by Australian
troops pushing into the mountains
GUS Jungle sector TO miles north-
west of Finschhafen on New Guin@
cas- Huon Peninsula.
The Aussies severed the Bong
alvarez trail above newly cap
tured Satelbcrg and seized another
enemy hill position as Mitchell
bombers struck the nearby Jap
barge base at Nambariwa on the
coast. The MitchellS poured 40
tons of explosives on Nambariwa
supply dumps, kindling large fires.
In the Solomons American
ground forces extended their posi-
tons on BouCainvillc Island. The
American hold on the Empress
Augusta Bay sector, already ap-
proXimatcly six miles square, was
extended in the northeast.
Tho enemys Buka airdrome
north Of Bougalnvillc was heavily
bombed by Admiral William Hal
Soy's four-cngined LiberatorS.
Thirty-four tons of bombs were
Embossed on the airdrome at en-
envy Installations at Chabai.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
Urges Germany
Pay War Relief

ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. q
(INS) 49, Norwegian Ambassador
Wilhelm Morgenstierne said to-
day that Germany should be made
TO rebuild merchant ships sunk
by U-boats as partial payment for
destruction wrought on freedom
loving peoples everywhere"
Norway'S envoy said the thing
he feared most was repetition
of the feeling after the last war
which Vas vas strangely enough that
Germany had been made to pay
too much. He said the question
of PREPARATIONS was not a matter
of revenge.
"If we start TO regard what
Hitler has done to millions upon
millions of innocent persons In
devastated areas
With a shrug, he left the sem
tenCe unfinished.
Morgenstierne expressed his
views at a news conference in
which he explained his support
for an unqualified declaration by
the United Nations 10 make Ger
many pay for every cent of relief
after the war
His demands for stern justice,
the most outspoken of the current
UNRRA council, were echoed
shortly afterward by a formal
statement from all nine occupied
countries in Europe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28

the scene of the Bridgeport crime
and made tests. Under the same
conditions of light and darkness
described by the two men wit
nesseS. he could not identify his
own assistant. At the waffle shop
he could not see out because of
the bright light reflected in the
window.
Other ballistics experts said the
defendants guns had not fired the
fatal shots. The defendant repudi-
ated his confession as made under
duress. The case fell apart and
Mr.. Cummings asked that the man
he was supposed 10 prosecute be
released. He was.
The case against De Marigny
was not even as strong.
Godfrey Higgs, chief defense
counsel, accompanied me and We
went into conference with Mr..
Cummings.
1 came way from that meeting
convinced that De Marigny could
not possibly have murdered Sir
Harry Cakes.
From the numerous clues avail
able. / reconstructed the murder
of Sir. Harry Cakes. In the follow
ing installments, l am going 10
tell you how l believe it was done.
CONTINUED tomorrow1
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
Colombia President
Arrives in New York

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 (UP)-
Alfonzo Lopez, president of Co
t0mbia, which today declared II
state of belligerency with Ger
many, arrived at La Guardia Field
tonight on an Eastern Airlines
plane from Miami, Fla.
Lopez said his country's decla-
ration against Germany was
very much in line with interna-
tional policy of Colombia so far"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28

special significance in his trip at
this particular time?
Checking -urther into Sir
Harry's movements just before
his murder, l discovered that Eng
lish wartime regulations had de-
layed his transfer of the fortune
here.
NEW EXIT PERMIT
Exactly three days before he
was slain. Sir Harry visited Of
fetal headquarters and obtained
his exit permit, l learned. When
l examined his passport, later, l
found that he had obtained ViSaS
allowing him TO enter eight South
American countries.
can now reveal the help l re-
ceived in this case from Homer y.
Cummings former attorney gen.
eral of the Unit 4 States, who is
now in private practice in Wash
ington. d. c.
AS / investigated the Cakes
case-especially from the angle OF
De Marigny's guilt or innocence
l was reminded OF the famous
Israel murder case in Bridgeport
Conn, of some years ago wher
Mr.. Cummings was prosecutor
there.
A man was arrested for muir.
der. Two men witnesses said they
saw this man near the scene of Z
fatal shooting. A third witness. g
girl. said she saw the defendant
pass the window of a Bridgeport
waffle shop headed in the direc
ton of the murder spot.
Police found gun on the sHs-
pect. They made ballistics test:
and stated that the markings or
bullets fired from that CUR
matched markings on bullets taker
from the victims body. After
several days of intensive grilling
the suspect confessed the murder
Mr.. Cummings, as prosecutor
was handed what appeared to bt
an open and shut case. But wher
ne appeared in court. he dropped
bombshell. His action is still
famous in crime annals.
PROTECTS INNOCENT
"As prosecutor" Cummings
began, at is my duty to protect
the innocent as well as TO prose-
cute the guilty" He then re-
vealed the results of his per-
Sonal investigation of the evil
dence in the Israel case.
Cummings said he had gone Z
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
Gas Warfare Called
Nazi Secret WeaDon

NEW YORK. Nov. 81 (UP)-
The Ankara radio said Saturday
that gas warfare was believed 10
be the secret weapon" which
Germany has threatened TO use in
reprisal for Allied air raids. ac-
cording TO new agency reports
from Budapest.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
Seizure of Gilberts
First Step to okyo
Bv HENRY KEYS
london Bsry ENrrrss Wsr CorresPonhtni
ntstrieuted b. international News Service

Pearl. HARBOR, Nov. % (delayedl tlNSl-Ameri,
can seizure of the Gilbert Islands is blueprint OF the ROAD
TO Tokyo. :, 49,. ..
The battle for Beto boodest have seen IN TWO years
of Pacific war showed how costly that road VIII be-
For the battle the United States concentrates u,e
GREATEST naval and air strength brought together IN
the history of the world without which victory would
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
BY RAYMOND c. SCHNEIDER
As Told In Fred Dickinson

World
NEW YORK. Nov. 27-ST Harry Cakes planning to move
tremendous the time of his murder
He also making arrangements for mysterious trip and
had obtained his exit permit from Nassau
What connection any, Sir Harrys violent
death there anything
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
30 Ptt. Increase
In Gas Rate Seen
By Utility Tax
Edison, Gas Company
Chiefs Protest Action
by Detroit Council

Detroit natural gas users face a
80 per cent increase in rates If an
excess tax on utilities is adopted
hy the common council, William
c. Voolfolk. president of the
Michigan Consolidated Gas Cos
said Saturday
Protesting against the proposed
tax. Voolfolk warned that his
company would be compelled TO
ask the state public service com
mission for a rate schedule IN
creasing the domestic rate S5,000,-
600 a year.
Alfred {. Marshall, president Of
the Detroit Edison Co. in a sim
liar statement earlier asserted his
company would also he forced TO
ask for rate increases up to %
per cent If the tax is imposed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
McNary Under Knife

WASHINGTON, Nov. u CUP)
Senator McNary of Oregon,
Republican leader Of the Senate,
has undergone a successful OPP
Grafton for removal of brain tu-
NOR. il was disclosed today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
PROPOSAL AIRED MONDAY

The proposal will be heard pub
licly by the council at 1890 a. m
Monday.
Richard A. Sullivan, public
utilities consultant for the city
and author of the tax plan, de
clared the public had no need tc
fear rate increases as a result OF
the tax.
"Under this program the city
will gather in IL million dollars
for Its postwar fund. of which
there is no possibility Of rate
payers having To supply any
portion" Sullivan said.
Voolfolk said:
ut would appear that In
order Ia meet the demands OF
the proposed ordinance and pro-
vide the $4,000. 900 TO $4,000
600 the city says II needs an
nually for postwar work, the do
nestle users of gas and cleo
tricity I'm Detroit would be
called on to produce approx
mately $17,700,000 year I'm
order To provide the city with
$4,000, 900 TO Sl2,000,000.
whatever the amount this
ordinance should cost the COM
pany must be paid by the do
nestle gas consumer.
eff taxes 60 up, rates go up.
Industrial users can bear none
OF this burden, since the rates
TO them are strictly competitive
with oil and other fuels.
MAKING NO WAR PROFITS
In letter to the council, Wool
folk said
"Our company Is made 10 APP
pear to he getting excessive
profits because of the arbitrary
formula set up i'm the federal in
come tax law which really bears
ma relation 10 the normal return
permitted by law.
at Is a technical bookkeeping
formula which in m any cases
may. and in our case does. give
entirely ERRONEOUS impress
sion of a corporations true
profits.
michigan Consolidated has
made and is making no profits
out of this war. Indeed II Is
substantially worse of today
than II was before the war
started.
COSTS EAT GAINS
I'VE are not n rich concern.
We have no postwar reserves.
Our gross revenues have In
creased since Pearl Harbor, but
not one dollar OF this has re-
manned I'm our cash drawer. In
creased costs and taxes have alb
sorbed II all and more. How
ever, und Ter the term excess
profits tax we still pay taxes TO
the federal government under
the orders of Congress.
Had the Congress not so in
tended, presumably there orders
would not have been issued and
our customers not so burdened.
Therefore, We treat with reser-
walton Mr.. krause's. corpora
ton counseD Interpretation of
the treasury's March 4 letter, as
being In any way an approval or
invitation for the 'chanpeling
Off or appropriations. oS MONEY
needed for wacing war"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
Cakes Slain on Eue
Of Leaving Nassau

EDITORS NOTE-This is the eighth IN a series
of IL articles by Mr. SCHNEIDER, famous private deec
tve detailing the inside story of his Investigation into
the Sir Harry Cakes murder
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-28
ACTION UNPRECEDENTED
COULDN'T 10 1T ALONE

There was nothing in military
history to 60 upon except discour-
agement. All previous lombard
ments had been disappointments,
failing TO achieve their detectives.
The main reason for this was con-
sidered 10 be the fact that hills
and valleys prevented the shells
from finding their mark.