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directive forbids racial discrim1na-
ton on the job by any firm doing
business with the Government.
Warren's action, just revealed,
was to rule that contractors for war
materials and services are not obi
gated to observe the mo discrimi-
nation" clause ordered in Executive
Order 9346. The ruling came after
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company of Kansas City, Missouri,
refused to sign contract contain
ing the mo discrimination" clause.
Walter White, NAACP Executive
Secretary, pointed out that the as
ISOLATION had, between 1885 and
1910, protested five times against
Warren's appointment to his pres
ent post. During that period War
rem, both as a member of Congress
and as chairman of the House Com
mittee on Accounts, 'bluntly re-
fused and boasted Of refusing to
permit American citizens, because
Of their color, to patronize the pub
lie restaurant in the House of Rep
resentatives. The secretary Of
Oscar DePriest, representative from
Illinois, was among those barred
from the restaurant. Asserting
that this further manifestation Of
race prejudice by Mr.. Warren will
seriously impair the Fair Employ
ment Practice Committees power to
correct employment discrimination
in Government and War industries,
the NAACP telegram to the Presi-
dent declared: %We submit that
only fortnight action by you can
save the situation.
"We respectfully and vigorously
urge that you forthwith do what
ever is necessary to clarity your
intentions expressed in Executive
Order 9346." The NAACP tele-
gram further stated, Recent rul-
ing of Comptroller General Lindsay
Warren that your executive order
is not binding upon war contracts
because it is directive instead Of
an order virtually nullifies your ex-
ecutive order in which you used the
explicit statement that 1t is here
by ordered It would appear to Us
therefore that such action on the
part of a subordinate official is
proof of unfitness and prejudice
which should be rebuked."
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Funeral Services
for James Aubrey
Held i'm Topeka

Funeral services for James R.
Aubrey, 1903 18th Ave S., who died
in Minneapolis, Oct. 25, were held
Friday, Oct. 80, at the J. Newton
Bowser Mortuary in Topeka, Kans.,
the birthplace of his wife, Mrs.
Olivia Aubrey, now living in Min
neapolis. Rev. A. ]. Irvine, pastor
of st. Peter A. M. E. Church, of
which Mr.. Aubrey was a member,
went to Topeka with Mrs. Aubrey
to officiate at the funeral. Mrs.
Villa Carr, a friend, and Mrs. r.
vine also accompanied her.
Prayer and the reading of the
Scripture was by Rev. S. ]. Laws
of Topeka. "What a Friend We
Have In Jesus" "God Will Take
Care of YOU" "In the Sweet Bye
and Bye" and Hell Understand"
were sung. Thelma Hagan of To-
peka sang a solo, "Just a Closer
Walk with Thee"
Pallbearers were Fabian Cannon,
G. Holder, E. Natson and A. j.
Payne. Flowers from Minneapolis
individuals and organizations were
sent by Keller Drug Co. employees,
Electa Chapter No. 3, o. E. S., Local
No. 1146, C. 1. o., Mr.. and Mrs.
E. R. Carr and Mrs. Eben Mac
Kenzie. Those in Topeka who sent
lowers are Pastors Pride Board of
Lane Chapel Church, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. B. McGrath and family, Mrs.
Alex Parks, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Nor
gan, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Payne,
Miss Thelma Payne and Mrs. w. B.
Dawson of Kansas City, Kans. In
terment was in Mt. Hope cemetery,
Topeka,
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Three Important
Loop Stores .

Three of the most important
downtown stores have ads in this
edition of the SPOKESMAN. They
are Donaldson's, Powers and Mau-
rice L. Rothschild's. These firms
with quality merchandise to fit
every pocketbOok and budget ap-
preciate and solicit the patronage
of SPOKESMAN readers through
out the wear.
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News at a
Glance

Governor Thye's Interracial Com
mittee with the Negro members al
ready named will be announced next
week. All appointments look good
but one. The CLIO claims it has a
half million Negro members. Sew
enty-five Negroes were delegates to
the CLIO national convention at
Philadelphia. In contrast lie re-
cent AFL national confab had less
than ten delegates. William Green
blames the lack of Negro members
in the AFL on the Urban League,
NAACP, Negro preachers and lead
ers who he claims always favor the
Notwithstanding CLIO.
Francis Rivers, 30 year old Ne
gro attorney, whom the American
Bar Association refused to admit
to membership several months ago
was, Tuesday, elected to a $17,500
judgeship in New York. Appointed
by presidential aspirant Governor
Dewey, to fill an unexpired term,
Rivers was elected to a full term by
the combined help Of Negro Re-
publicans, Democrats, American
Laborites, etc. Negroes are learn
ing. In a dirty mudslinging cam
paign Mayor (Race Riot) Jeffries
of Detroit defeated Fitzgerald
backed by labor and the solid Negro
vote.
DR.. Charles W. Buggs Of billiard
University has been appointed a
professor in the College of Medi-
cine, Wayne University in Detroit.
DR.. Bugs is well known in Mime
apolis where he attended school at
the University of Minnesota. Pitts
burgh elected Homer s. Brown,
Negro attorney, to the city school
board. W. C. Handy of "St. Louis
Blues" suffered injuries in New
York in a subway fall. The Chicago
az" and surface lines plan to hire
Negroes as motormen and conduc-
tors. The Twin City Lines have
had a Negro motorman for months!
Fifteen Negro Seabees who pro-
tested discriminatory practices
were discharged from the Navy.
Minneapolis went over the top in
the War Chest Drive. st. Paul is
on the way!
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A Friend.
Birthday Best
Wishes to-.

Birthday greetings to Harold
Combs, 2435 4th Ave S., whose
birth date is Sunday, Nov. z; Miss
Violet Asbury, 3915 Clinton Ave. s.,
birth date Nov. IL, Minneapolis,
and Thomas R. c. Taylor, 4S6
Arundel St., st. Paul, whose birth
date is Nov. z. Mr.. Taylor will
celebrate his Saith birthday.
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Sterling Club
Ladies Elect
DIR. Lillian Lewis

Members of The Ladies Auxiliary
of the Sterling Club elected DR..
Lillian Lewis, president, and Miss
Bonita McHie, vice president. For
secretary they named Mrs. Clarence
Taylor, Mrs. Ralph Ward, assistant
secretary. Mrs. Leroy Coleman was
elected treasurer. DIR. Lewis ap-
pointed Mrs. John Banks, chairman
of the civic committee. Mrs. Ward,
co-chairman; Mrs. James Griffin,
chairman Of the sick committee;
Mrs. o. A. Gum and Mrs. Lafayette
Fields, chairman and co-chairman
of the entertainment committee.
Mrs. James Hughes chairman of the
program committee and Mines. Paul
Thomson, Florence Day and o. A.
Gum, members of the publicity
committee.
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CHICAGO DEFENDER
WRITER GIVES D. c.
VIEW OF SITUATION

defender Washington Bureau)

defender Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
FEPC hot potato was again back
in the lap of President Roosevelt
this week.
The m u h battered, much
maligned and much debated COM
mittee set up to crack down on job
discrimination was again in deep
water as a result of a concerted Of
fensive by willy Dixie politicians.
Through a slick maneuver by As
sistant President James F. Byrnes,
white hope" of the South for the
Presidency, the Fair Employment
Practice Committee was clipped of
all power through a ruling by an
obscure Carolina ex-congressman,
now comptroller general.
He is Lindsay Warren, who on
the request of Byrnes ruled that
the Presidents Executive Order
9346 formerly 8802) is directive
only and not mandatory. In effect
the ruling accuses the President of
not meaning what he said when he
created the FEPC.
Wide Protest
The dictatorial effort Of the Bour-
bon bloc to upset the Presidents
order brought a widespread move
ment of protest from minority
groups and it is believed that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will step in to get
Attorney General Francis Biddle
to countermand Comptroller Gen.
eral Warren's edict by issuing a
ruling of his own upholding the
FEPC powers.
Opening the way for such step
was the immediate request by
FEPC Chairman Malcolm Ross to
Biddle to explain "the scope and
meaning of the executive order"
The ruling, handed down by War
rem, goes into lengthy detail to
prove that when the President used
such language as at is hereby or
dered," he did not mean it. And
when he said "all contracting agen-
cies of the government Of the
United States SHALL INCLUDE
IN ALL CONTRACTS -. pro-
vision obligating the contractor not
to discriminate because of race,
creed, color or national origin ."
he was only playing with words.
Appeasement Move
In effect, Warren has ruled that
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Esther Roach

Esther Roach will present her
pupils in a piano recital at
Schmidt's Music Center, SO S. 10th
st. at Nicollet on Sunday, Nov. 81,
at 4 p. m.
Avis Ware Carter, Lorraine l..
Chivers and Bertha johnson will
appear as guest artists.
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Allen Chapel
Benefit Rally at
St. Peter Nov. Z

The four leading A. M. E.
churches of the Twin Cities will
jointly sponsor a public benefit rally
for Allen Chapel, Minneapolis, the
baby A. M. E. church of the Twin
Cities, at st. Peter church, Mime
apolis, Sunday, Nov. z, at 3 p. m.
Six Twin City speakers will talk
on various topics centering around
'The Post War Church Program"
the theme of the discussion.
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Son of Wilbur
Williams Now
Second Lieut..

It was announced in a recent issue
of an eastern paper that Sergeant
Howard Kenneth Williams, son of
Wilbur A. Williams, Of st. Paul,
was commissioned second lieutenant
on Sept. %.
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st. Paul NAACP
Did Not Attack
Mrs. Roosevelt

Reports in the st. Paul PIONEER
PRESS of several days ago that
the st. Paul branch of the NAACP
had attacked Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt for her attitude as expressed
in an article "If 1 Were a Negro" in
Negro Digest for November were
denied this week by members of the
branch who were present at the
October 10 meeting Of the associa-
ton.
The news story in the PRESS
was followed by an editorial in the
same paper which questioned the
wisdom of Negroes criticizing Mrs.
Roosevelt for a single phrase in an
article.
In summary of the annual men,
bership campaign of the branch of
which formally closed Oct. 10, it has
been revealed that 226 renewals and
new memberships are needed to
bring the membership to the 1000
mark.
According to John M. Culver,
chairman of the membership COM
mittee, 1913 memberships have re-
Gently become delinquent. The
Membership Committee is working
hard to secure additional member
ships needed by the time of the next
regular meeting on Nov. 16, at
which time the annual election of
officers will be held.
In the membership campaign
team number one, led by Mrs. Cert
rude Willis, led with 205 member
ships and team number three, with
Mrs. Beatrice Boyd and Mrs. Ora
Reed as leader and co-leader, was
second with 1853 memberships. Team
number two, with Mrs. Jetta Nc
Pheeters as the leader, was third
with 155 memberships reported.
The "Big Ten" in the membership
campaign were as follows: Mrs.
Gertrude Willis reported SO men,
berships; Mrs. Ora Reed, sc; Mr..
John M. Culver, SO; Mrs. Jetta
McPheeters, 46; Mrs. Mabel Brown,
43; Mrs. Beatrice Boyd, SO; Mr..
Fred Schuck, 80; Mrs. Inez 0'Neal,
30; Rev. C. T. R. Nelson, 20; Miss
Pearl Martin, "a; Mrs. Della Hol-
somback, Mrs. Carrie Robertson.
Other workers in the campaign
included Mrs. Roberta Tyler, Mrs.
Mabel Harris, Mrs. Ida Hanna, Mrs.
Dorothy Dobbins, Mrs. Josie Will
liams, Mrs. Minnie CASTOR, Mrs.
Henrietta Capecius, Mr.. Charles
Anderson, Mr.. William Ridley, Mrs.
Lillian Burris, Mrs. Mamie Frazier,
Mrs. R. F. Wilson and, Miss Eide
Crump. A total Of TIA member
ships were reported for the year.
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Naval Station
Dance Band at
Wheatley Nov. 6

The Void Chamberlain Naval
Orchestra will play for a dance at
Phyllis Wheatley House Saturday,
Nov. 6, from 9 to IL p. m. Admis-
sion is free.
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Comptroller General Warren
Scored for Ruling on Race
Discrimination i'm Contracts

Former North Carolina Congressman Rules mo Dscrmna
ton" Clause Not Binding, Thus Stacking FEPC
Washington, D. C.-Comptroler General Lindsay War
ren former North Carolina Congressman, called unfit
and preudiced this week by the National Association for
the Advancement of Coored People The charge which
made in telegram to President Roosevelt followed War
rens overriding of Executive Order 9346 The Presidents
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In modern times the Negro
press has become perhaps the
most potent force in rejecting
and arousing opinion and in ex-
erting pressure. Over 200 week
lies feed the special interests of
Negroes and shape the thinking
and sharpen the demands of the
group.-Edwin Embree.
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TESTING THE CHURCH

Color is testing the church,
now, today. The church cannot
evade the test any longer. She
must practice brotherhood in
restaurants and housing and
schools and jobs or 80" pack up
it's Bibles and call it a day
James NJ. Yard.
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year to the gala affair.
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WAAC' S Home
Saved by Writ

The FIRST temporary restraining
order hating foreclosure proceed
lngs against = woman member Of
the armed forces was issued today
by Federal Judge futile
Judge Tuttle ordered the five
defendants TO show cause why
the order should not be made
permanent by July , as Mrs. Mary
Shaw, a private stationed at
WAAC-camp IN Georgia, filed slit
under the provisions of the Sol
dlers and Sailors Relief Act.
The defendants, Lulu NJ. Craw-
ford Mary A. Harmon, attorney
Sweetman G.. Smith. a John Doe
and Mary Doe, planned 10 dis
pose of her tWo-acre homestead
in Now Township at an. auction
sale June % in Pontiac. Mrs.
Shaw charged. Mrs. Shaws hus-
band is dead
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-05-27
ATTU:
Second Step in Aleutians

Firmly established on Attu, west
ernmost of the Aleutian islands in
Japanese hands, strong American
forces pushed forward against bit
ter opposition by the enemy.
First to admit the American land
ings, the Japs also yer first to con-
Tess that heavy U. S. aerial and naval
bombardments provided an irresist-
ible cover for a continuing stream
Of reinforcements.
Presaging their defeat on Attu, the
Japs made much Of the claim that
their troops were fighting numerical
ly superior forces.
In Washington, Col. r. Ernest Du-
puy declared that the attack on Attu
was the second step in the drive to
GUST the Japs from the Aleutians.
The first, he said, was the American
occupation Of Amchitka and Adak
to establish bases from which to
strike not only Attn but also Kiska,
172 miles to the east.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-05-27
RUML PLAN:
In Again, Out Again

Passed by the senate, the Ruml
plan was rejected by the house for
the third time. in the wake Of an
open letter from President Roose-
welt indicating he would veto such a
bill.
AS a result of the action, some
form Of pay-as-you-go legislation
was put squarely up to a confer
ence committee of the house and
senate.
The committee had two bills as a
basis on which to map pay-as-you-
60. One was the senate measure
modelled after the Ruml plan, for
giving all of either the 1912 or 1913
income tax, whichever is lower, and
only assessing incomes In excess Of
normal. The other was the house
bill, only wiping out the regular 6
per cent tax plus the first surtax
rate Of 10 per cent on 1912 income.
In both cases, a 20 per cent with
holding tax would be taken out Of all
weekly or monthly wages after de-
auctions of lawful exemptions to ap-
ply on the 1913 tax. Farmers and
professional people would pay on
their estimated tax in quarterly in
sta1lments, making a final settle
ment on March Is Of the following
year,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-05-27
| ITALY,:
| No Setup

After a sudden weller of rumor,
it appeared as though the Allies
would have to take Italy the hard
way. The Italians and Nazis gave
nc sign of handing it over on a silver
platter.
King Victor Emmanuel answered
wild rumors originated by the Free
French that he was about to abdi-
cate by appearing at an art exhibit
ton in Rome to receive the ap-
plause of his subjects.
Talk rlat Hitler was preparing to
abandon Italy to its fate and draw
all Nazi forces into the Bremen pass
were Immediately counteracted by
plentiful assurances in the German
press that Der Fuehrer had no such
idea.
Allied airmen apparently YER the
first to take these rumors with a
grain Of salt. Even as the abdica-
ton talk, etc., intrigued the arm
chair s%trategists. bombers were
plastering the seaplane base Of Lido
di Roma, Is miles from the Italian
capital. Hangers, moorings and
planes were the targets.
Rome admitted damage in the
vicinity, but claimed Axis planes
had bombed Algerian harbors with
good results"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-05-27
FOOD CONFERENCE
Post.War Agriculture

Reconstruction Of agriculture In
Europe after the war was the prin-
cipal subject Of discussion among
the representatives attending the
United Nations food conference in
Hot Springs, Va.
According to Marvin H. Jones.
chairman of the parley and head
Of the U. S. delegation, c%onferees
are chiefly concerned with getting
the farmlands Of reclaimed coun-
tries back into production.
Problems connected with such an
effort, such as adequate distribu-
ton of supplies and materials, and
the planning for the production of
crops which would furnish local pop
ulations with nutritional diets, were
brought into study.
The conference, in the nature of
4 discussion, brings no binding
agreements among the nations,
Jones said. Representatives will
present conclusions of the confer
ence to their respective govern
ments for further action.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-05-27
Most Envied Man
Butter Detective
Expert Grader Can Judge
Feed Cows Have Eaten.

It may be news to even the farm
folks that the conditions under which
they milk their cows and the care they
give the resulting product a be told
Immediately by an individual when he
samples a portion of butter churned
from the cream produced.
Where the milk or cream has been
stored and what the cows have been
eating are but a few of the odd bits Of
information that R. E. Eldred, rated
as one of the country's best butter
graders, can usually detect by putting
a pat of butter into his mouth.
Mr.. Eldred is chief butter inspector
for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea COM
pany's Chicago warehouse. Actually,
he doesn't sample each pound-nor
does he swallow any of the butter he
is inspecting. A three-ounce sample,
taken by a metal trier from a fiber
box or wooden tub with weights rang
ing from 81 to GA pounds, is sufficient.
An inspector can, in most instances,
tell by tasting and smelling a sample
of butter under what conditions the
cream was produced and handled.
Quality of the finished product Il
largely determined by the perfection
of the raw material and ARE given
the processing operations.
So acute is a graders sense of taste
and aroma that he can, with fairly
consistent degree of accuracy, deter
mine by the feed flavors the territory
or origin of the butter. Skunkweed in
Oklahoma, sageweed in the Dakotas,
peppergrass in Nebraska, onion or gar
lie in Missouri, and the heavy feeding
of alfalfa to cattle on the west coast
each imparts its own distinctive char
acteristics, although they are usually
too faint to anyone but an expert.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-05-27
WHEAT:
May Increase Acreage

With some officials claiming cur
rent consumption of wheat will run
500 million bushels over the 1943
crop Of $50, 0OO, 900 bushels, the War
Food administration has been de-
batting about the possibility of in
creasing acreage allotment next
year by 20 or Is per cent.
If the VIA has hesitated in de-
Gliding on an increase, it has been
for fear that production Of other i'm
portant staples like corn, faxseed,
soybeans and peas would drop. The
problem centers around boosting
wheat output without sacrificing 9TH
er yields.
This year, IS million acres Of
wheat were seeded, and intended in
creases would add II million acres.
At a normal yield Of II bushels to
the acre, the VIA estimates the
extra paintings would produce a
crop of 1872 million bushels.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-05-27
British Bombs to Carry
Air Mali to the Reich

LONDON.-Air mail service for pri-
vate messages from the British people
to the Germans will be established
this summer, but the messages will
not be very readable on arrival. They
will be pasted on the sides of 1000
heavy bombs.
The wings for Victory committee
directing the ~war-savings drive an
nounced that persons buying war
stamps would have an opportunity to
paste them on bombs, cancelling the
stamps with their names or a short
message. They will be unloaded on
Germany after the drive ends in June.
The stamp purchasers will realize
no return beyond the satisfaction of
their messages.