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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
FIVE STAR FIRMS

This newspaper considers its ad-
vertisers five star firms which ap-
preciate and solicit the patronage
and support of readers of this
paper.
Advertisers this week include:
Andrews Mems Shop, Ames
Lodge, DR.. Banks, Barney's Cafe,
DR.. Barr, w. Sidney Beane, Bells
Cafe, Boutelrs Furniture Co,
Brown Clothing Co, Commonwealth
Loan Co., Family Loan, Great
Northern Market Hussey's Hat
Shop, J. & H. Laundry, Jim and
Doyle's, Al KEatsen Butcher Shop.
Kol-R Co, Liberty Cleaners, Lie
mandt's, Metropolitan Florists,
Minneapolis Artificial Limb Co,
Minneapolis Brewing Co, Mime
apOlis Savings and Loan, National
Beauty, Neven's Cleaners, New
England Furniture Co, New Haven
Mems Shop, NicOllet Cleaners, N.
w. National Bank, Perry's Watch
Shop, Plymouth Liquor, Prosperity
Cleaners, Purity Drug, Maurice l.
Rothschild's, Scandal Coal, Serville
Hotel, South of the Border, 10th
Century, Zinsmaster Baking Co.,
bakers of Master Bread.
You can be sure that you are
spending your money with friends
when you spend it with advertisers
in this paper.
L. saos CT conn Pad from Ct
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Mary Keesee,
Resident for IS
Years, Dead

Mary Keesee, a resident of Min
neapolis for 80 years, was buried
Saturday, March 81, at Crystal
Lake cemetery. Funeral was held at
st. Peters church of which she had
been an active member for a num-
Der Of years. Mrs. Keesee died of
a heart ailment at the General hos
pital.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
st. Paul Churches
Hold Good Friday
Services at st. James

OC1 NkNOS at OOs - CSAAANG
The Good Friday Union Service,
sponsored by the st. Paul Inter
UNCONVENTIONAL Ministerial ALI
ance, will be held April %, from
IL noon until three p. m, at st,
James A. M. E. church, Dale and
W. Central.
Churches participating include
the Apostolic Faith Assembly Mis-
sion, Elder John A. Nelson, pastor;
st. James A. M. E., Rev. B. N.
Moore, pastor; Pilgrim Baptist,
Rev. s. z. Ware, pastor; Mt. Olivet
Baptist, Rev. C. B. Wheeler, pastor;
Camphor Memorial Methodist, Rev.
C. 7. r. Nelson, pastor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
DIR. Pierce to
Lecture Halle
@. Brown Boys

On Tuesday night, April 6, at
8 p. m, DR.. N. o. Pierce, medical
educational advisor for the state
department of health, will show
movie and give a lecture to boys
over ID years of age in the Halle
Q. Brown auditorium.
This meeting will be q part Of
the National Negro Health Week
program, April I through April IL.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Porters' Group
Holds Confab on
Waco Tncrea

age increase
New York City, March 3d.
Twenty or more railroads, includ-
ing the Pullman company, have
been conferred with by representa-
tives Of the Brotherhood of Sleep
ing Car Porters in the last 80 days
in the interest of a 20 cents per
hour wage increase or a minimum
of 70 cents per hour for non-oper-
ating employees and a 80 per cent
increase for the operating en-
ployees who are covered by agree
ments negotiated by the Brother.
hood, stated A. Philip Randolph
international president.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Ministers Adopt
New Constitution

A new constitution was adopted
at the regular monthly meeting of
the Twin City Ministerial Alliance
held at the Phyllis Wheatley House,
Minneapolis, Tuesday. Members of
the Committee on Constitution were
as follows: Rev. B. N. Moore, Rev.
S. E. Ware, Rev. Robert W. Kelly.
The Alliance will meet monthly,
alternating from St. Paul to Mime
apolis. The meetings in Mime
apolis will be held at the st. Thomas
Episcopal Church and in st. Paul
in the Pilgrim Baptist church. The
next meeting will be held on April
81 in st. Paul. Rev. C. B. Wheeler
is the president of the Alliance.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Mrs. A. N. SatterIee
to Speak to Lawns
~

ain NuIAGAl NLuD
The Minneapolis Lawns and Gar
den club will meet Wednesday,
April z, to revive the organization
which was not active last year and
to establish a working relationship
with the local Victory Garden COM
mittee.
Mrs. A. N. Satterlee, chairman
of the Consumer Interest Division
of the Minneapolis Civilian Defense
Committee, of which the garden
committee is a subcommittee, will
speak.
Notices will be sent out this
week to members announcing the
place of the meeting. Anyone else
who is not a member but interested
in the garden program is requested
to call Mrs. Leo M. Bohanon, CO
742S, or the Urban League office.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02

But as the story goes Robson
had just turned away from law
school and was rehearsing the title
role in Eugene 0'Neill's mighty
drama Emperor Jones" in New
York. O'Neill himself was sitting
in on the practice and it was pretty
exciting. All went well until Robe
son came to the part where the
fear-stricken Emperor Jones,
trapped in the Caribbean jungle,
tries to bolster up his courage by
whistling. The result, while it was
whistle, was not, as all agreed,
very good whistle. So Robson
sang the measures of a fearful
Negro hymn. 1t proved an arrest
ing substitute. The low beauty of
the voice flooded the rehearsal hall
and attracted the attention of one
particular but anonymous auditor.
After the rehearsal he talked to
Robson and urged him to sing and
develop his natural gifts.
With the opening of Emperor
Jones" at the old Provincetown
Playhouse in lower New York, Paul
Robson began to try out his voice
seriously. He started by entertain
ing studio gatherings in Greenwich
Village with the spirituals he knew
so well. This was the shining era
Of Greenwich Village and his audi
ences frequently included such we'll
known figures in arts and letters
as Carl Van Vechten, Robert Ed
mond Jones, Lawrence Langner,
Susan Glaspell, Eugene O'Neill,
John Sloan and Konrad Bercovici.
He knew these spirituals from hav-
ing heard them in his fathers
church and sang the rich, moving
music unaccompaned.
His friends urged him to give a
concert and in 1925 he gave his first
formal recital in the Greenwich
Village Theatre with the accom-
paniment of Lawrence Brown, Ne
gro pianist, who is still his concert
associate. Word of Robeson's sing
ing had spread beyond the Village,
and there was a considerable de-
mand for seats for his debut. The
theatre was sold out ahead of time
and on the day of the concert one
man paid $25 for a pair of seats.
The concert was brilliant triumph
revealing the thrilling vocal ar
tistry of a figure already we'll
known as an athlete and an actor.
1t was successfully repeated. Soon
after, Robson went abroad and
sensational news drifted back of
his concert triumphs in Paris, Ber-
lin, Vienna, Prague and Budapest.
Paul Robson might have been a
brilliant lawyer or an actor. Ger
tainly he has given unforgettable
performances on the dramatic
stage. But it is as a singer, as
interpreter of that Negro contribu-
ton to the song literature of the
world, the spiritual" that Paul
Robson is most himself and most
his race. Probably the secret of
it all is the, reverence with which
he holds this music close to his
heart-this wealth Of folk songs
which Paul Robson will sing in
his concerts here.
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Compact
Concise
Readable

Was how Lieut.. John F. Thomas
described the opinion Of this paper
as expressed by fellow soldiers at
Fort Benning, Ga, to this paper.
Lieut.. Thomas, here on leave,
said that while the larger papers
with their features, columnists,
were popular, he was agreeably
surprised how much reader interest
was manifested in this paper.
He attributed it to the compact
ness, conciseness and general read
ability" Of the paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
REV. A. BOYD DEAD

Rev. Augustus Boyd, age 81, of
Is Second st. So, died March 20
at Glen Lake Sanatorium.
Funeral services were held Thurs
day at 2 p. m. at a local chapel. Rev.
A. F. Martin, assisted by Rev. J. c.
Claybourne, officiated. Interment,
Crystal Lake.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
NAACP Raps
N. Y. Magistrate
For Remarks

New York, N. Y.-For his Negro
batting, lynch melting remarks in
the Felony Court an apology was
demanded of Magistrate Charles
Solomon this week by the N. A.
A. c. P.
The Association expressed its
shock at the language reported to
have been used by Magistrate Solo
mon when Joseph Williams, 26,
302 West Hath Street, was brought
before him as a holdup suspect.
The brother of the defendant, Leroy
Williams, had been killed by a po-
liceman at the time of the de-
PENDANTS arrest. In the New York
Times, March %, Magistrate Solo
mon is quoted as saying: "It's too
bad you are not with your brother"
"This language, coming from a
magistrate on the bench, to a de-
PENDANT whom the police charac-
terize not as murderer, nor as one
guilty of a capital offense, but as
holdup suspect" said the N. A. A.
C. p, causes this Association to
wonder if in addition to nervous
rookie policemen and wholly indie
feasible headlines and news color
ing in the daily press, the Negro
citizens of New York are to be
faced with lynching language from
the benches of our courts.
prior to this incident" the N.
A. A. C. P. continues, "you are
reported in the daily press as hav-
ing had one Norman Smith brought
before you, suspected of attempted
assault upon and robbery of a
nightclub singer in West 159th st.
The papers report you as saying in
effect:
"'What are you (the prosecutor)
waiting for? Didn't this woman
identify this Negro?'
"The prosecutor explained that
his office was awaiting the out
come of certain tests to make a
stronger case, but apparently you
were not pleased with this care in
safeguarding the rights of an ac-
cused person. A white woman had
identified a Negro and for you, that
was enough.
"The Negro citizens of New
York." the N. A. A. C. P. declared,
"do not expect and will not tolerate
this type of conduct from you on
the bench. You are a Socialist and
member of the Jewish faith and
this should make you, of all magis-
trates, appreciative of the necessity
of safeguarding the rights of minor
ity peoples and of abstaining from
any remarks or conduct calculated
to stir racial or religious prejudices.
The obligation to maintain this con-
duct does not conflict with carrying
out your oath to administer justice
without fear or favor.
"This Association does not con-
done crime by Negroes or by any
one else. We want muggers, hold
up men and other criminals appre-
hended and punished-but accord
ing to law. We do not want citizens
branded and terrorized by a myth
cal crime wave which exists only
in the minds of headline writers;
and we do not want that when citi-
zens come to the bar Of justice, they
shall be met from the bench with
racial slurs and language suggest
ing lynching or wholesale killing.
eve think you owe the Negro
citizens of New York, Of whom hun
dreds of thousands are decent law
abiding persons, an apology for
your recent remarks in court, which
can be matched only in some sec
tons of the Deep South, and in
Hitler's Germany"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
SINGING AT PARAMOUNT
METHODIST CHURCH

Mrs. Cora E. Moore, chorister at
st. James Church, st. Paul, is SOLO
list at the Paramount Methodist
Church during Lent. She also as
sists with hymns at the evening
services.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Edward Shepard Is Dead

Edward Shepard, 467 ". Central
avenue, died Monday, March 20, at
his home after being in i'll health
for more than a year. Born in War
rensburg, Missouri, he had been
a resident of the city for forty-two
years.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
International FavOrite Began
Career of Song Because He
Couldn't Whistle: So Thew Saw

The legend that Paul Robson the baritone
because he couldn't whistle There
this effect and it will probably with
the truth when he Norhrop Friday
and Saturday nights for his
Orchestra.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
LIEUT.. RICHARD STOKES is
DENIED DIVORCE FROM WIFE

three day divorce trial in Ramsey County district
in victory for Mrs Kathleen Stokes Washington whose
band Lieut. Richard Stokes, denied divorce Judge
G. Brill in findings announced March
Lieut. Stokes o. a family
St. Paul from Camp Wood NO. testify in his suit in which
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Negro Owned Insurance
Companies Have Assets
of Over Sc Millions
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF INSURANCE COMPANIES
OWNED AND OPERATED BY NEGROES

Washington CTh first annual report Companies
owned and operated by Negroes made public today by the United
States Department of Commerce This by
Martin Lancaster Special Adviser the Secretary
Negro Affairs contains detailed financial statements
operating in "a the aggregate
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02
Minnesota House Allows
Equal Rights Bill to Be
Buried in Committee

By staff Writer

The old discrimination, alias
known Jim Crow" old of democracy
abeed its fight against democracy
by judiciary Legislature
Monday March 29).
More than fifty white Negro
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02

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Paul quite often.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02

Negro Americans are carrying their
part of the load at home and on the
fighting front. Many of them are look
ing toward the future. The social and
economic advantages which we of the
demOcracies are fighting to defend,
and to further, will not be lost in the
readjustment of the postwar period
Franklin DelanO Roosevelt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-02

The chairman of the committee,
Rep. F. P. Memmer of St. Paul, did
not put the motion but he quickly
recognized Representative Burns,
Evening star., 1943-05-04

spite batting only .255 and .261. re-
spectively. johnson has poked home
nine mates while Vernon has batted
in eight runs.
That trio of Spence, johnson and
Vernon has accounted for 20 of the
Mats So runs batted in, which would
indicate satisfactory swatting de-
spite their averages. They haven't
been coming through often with hits,
but they've been tough with mates
on base.
The Mats have been doing all
right in stealing bases, too. Nine
times they've attempted to steal,
and on six occasions they were sue
cessful. George Case has stolen
twice in two attempts, and Ellis
Clark stole the only time he tried
Vernon has been successful in two
of three attempts and Johnson in
one of two. Gerald Priddy tried once
and was tossed out.
Hope to Fatten on AS.
Case not only has proved to be
the best stealer in the majors but
also the most discreet. Last season.
when he attempted so steals and
made good in A of them, he COM
piled better percentage of sue
cess than Ty Cobb ever achieved.
Only game out of first place, the
third-place Mats hoped to fatten up
on the Athletics, starting today in
the opener of three-game series.
Washington had captured five of
six games from the AS entering to-
days tiff and won two of six with
the Yankees.
Washington has a good chance of
improving its position before head
ing West next week, for following
the Philadelphia series the Mats
will return to the Capital for a
four-game series with the Red Sox,
who amt what they used to be.
Dutch Leonard was expected to
pursue his third victory of the year
today.
Evening star., 1943-05-04

can't see what's going on. and it's
practically a "toughness" pro-
gram all by itself. Only drawback
is that 1t might not leave the
boys in shape for flying. The
Scribes rated track the No. 2
sport with boxing and swimming
tied for third.
Birds of feather Jimmy
Johnston, reporting on his new
bantamweight fighter, Ham Will
oby, modestly claims the boy has
possibilities of becoming q great
er fighter than three great little
men who performed under the
Johnston banner, Jim Driscoll,
Owen Moran and Johnny Dundee
tthey're not in position to talk
back. "You know" Jimmy
confesses, 1--WE never seen Wiloby
hght-but what the hell, Shake
speare never saw all the things
he wrote about either"
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Linkswomen Aid WaI
To Extent Of Men,
Patty Berg Says
Ace Players in Service
With Many Thousands
Helping in Some Way
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 4.-Patty Berg,
freckle-faced miss who wouldn't
concede a thing to the men on
golf course, agrees that war con-
tributions of the male club swingers
may be bit more spectacular but
insists that the efforts of the pow
der-puff brigade is every bit as
great.
Here on a combined business and
pleasure trip from her Minneapolis
home, Patty ratified of names of
three WAVES, one SPAR, one ferry
pilot, one ambulance driver, one
nurse and at least two defense work.
ers as former links queens.
And, taking Patty's word for it,
there are thousands of her goling
sisters who have temporarily for
saken the links for Victory gardens
and Red Cross work.
Beth Mackemer of Peoria, Ill:
Margaret Barry of Milwaukee, and
Deborah Very of Worcester, Mass,
are the WAVES and Phyllis Bu-
chanan OF Denver, the SPAR on
the Berg honor roll.
Helen Dettweiler Of Washington,
D. c., soon expects to be ferrying
planes to the fighting forces, and
Dorothy Traung Of California al
ready is busy driving Red Cross
ambulance. Mr.. Opal S. Hill of
Kansas City has resumed her work
as registered nurse, and Mrs. Lu-
cile Mann of Omaha and Mrs. Bea-
trice Ottmyer of Minneapolis are
defense workers.
Pam Barton, British golfer and
winner of the United States women's
national in 1886, probably was the
first holder OF an American title to
be killed in the present war. Al
though her death never has been
officially verified, she was reported
killed while serving as nurse
with British forces at Dunkerque.
Enid Wilson, another British golf
er widely known in the United
States, lost an eye during a Ger
man air raid over England.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
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Evening star., 1943-05-04
Two-Game Plan Seen
As Saving Smaller
College Football
Sport, Not Gate Receipts,
Their Big Object, Says
Humpden-Syd Coach
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va, May 4.
-Hampden-Sydney's Athletic Di-
rector Frank Summers said today
that football in the smaller colleges
of America could survive the war
by going back to the "old custom of
doubling up-playing each rival two
games in one season on the home
and-home basis"
The dean of Virginia college
coaches declared that football in
the Nations little schools" can
continue Gin spite of curbed trans
portation, limited material and other
handicaps-if they stick together"
Don't Depend on RECEIPTS.
Summers said that the small COL
leges have more or less always
played for the fun and sport of it,"
and added that they have never
been greatly dependent on gate re-
ceipts for financing their football
programs.
Teams next fall undoubtedly will
be inferior in quality, but we can
keep them going nevertheless"
Summers asserted. "Continuation of
football in colleges needs no justi-
fication. Statements from high
ranking service officials and the
splendid service records of our
athletes have justified it already.
1--WE will have football at Hamp-
den-Sydney as long as the school
continues to operate
Intramurals Provide Talent.
Summers declared that one of the
best aides for continued intercol-
legiate competition is an active
intramural program, which, he said
provided spring varsity sports here
with a much needed shot in the
arm.
THE other day I counted 143 boys
out of possible 100 left In the
Hampden-Sydney student body on
the athletic field participating in
some intramural sport" Summers
pointed out. without them I don't
know how I would have filled my
line-ups on the varsity teams"
Asked about the coaching situa-
ton, Summers merely smiled Since
midseason in football last autumn
Summers has been grid coach, base
ball, basket ball, track coach, ath-
letic director all rolled into one-a
one-man coaching staff.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Versatility Now
Main Requisite
In Big Leagues
PhiIs, Bucs Are Not
Helped by Doubling
Positions for Men
BY JUDSON BAILEY,


The most valuable player compe-
tition in the major leagues this year
could very well be styled the most
versatile player awards.
Wartime manpower shortages are
causing managers to transplant
their players from one position to
another faster than most people can
get the onion sets started in their
Victory gardens and if the spring
shutting is only the beginning a
fan must wonder how his favorite
pitcher will do at shortstop in the
fall.
The Phillies, with a pathetically
small roster, are doing the most
shifting of jobs and doubling up at
two or more positions. Last week
they brought Outfielder Jim Wasdell
from Pittsburgh and made him their
regular first baseman, moving Babe
Dahlgren from that spot to Short
stop. They have Schoolboy Rowe
pinch-hitting in almost every game
in which he isn't pitching and they
frequently have had three or four
players swap positions during the
course of ball game.
Other clubs are doing it. too. The
New York Yankees moved Pitcher
Johnny Lindell to first base and
then to the outfleld in spring train
ing and the Brooklyn Dodgers
switched Billy Herman from Sec
ond to third.
Shifts No Help to Bucs.
But one of the prize swaps of the
season was made yesterday by that
indefatigable inventor, Frank Edison
F'risch, who installed Catcher AL
Lopez at third base for the Pitts
burgh Pirates.
Lopez has been one of the best
backstops in the National League
for many years, but his previous
experience at the hot corner was
limited to about five games in an
emergency with the Dodgers a
decade ago. A few fans still re-
member him stopping balls with his
chest, la Pepper Martin.
BY putting Lopez on third Frisch
was able to give try at shortstop to
Bob Elliott, who only year before
last was an outfelder. The result of
the newest experiment was that both
Lopez and Elliott made an error yes
terday and Cincinnati copied the
major leagues first morning game.
rs.
A crowd of 1888 was on hand for
the contest at l:30 m. in Crosley
Field and the Reds general manger.
Warren Giles, called his experiment.
success. The fans thought so, too,
for they saw the usually weak
hitting Reds make II safeties off
four Pirate pitchers.
= Reds in First Night Tilt.
Having lnaugurated morning games
The Reds now are ready to lift the
lid on night baseball for the season,
TOO, with a f1oodlighted fray carded
against the Pirates tomorrow night.
Only one other game was plaved
IN the majors yesterday and in this
the Dodgers downed the Phillies
again, 5-3. Kirby Higbe made his
second start and first finish of the
year while holding the tailenders to
seven hits. Brooklyn made a dozen,
three by Dolph Camilli and two. a
double and triple for two runs, by
Alex Kampouris.