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Ask Pastor to
Quit; He Will
Lock Church Door

Chattanooga, Tenn, March %
Pastor James R. Grady of the
Union Grove Missionary church
went to court Friday in what be-
came known as a Church lockout
case, when II of his members, said
to represent a majority Of the
board Of deacons, the board of trus-
tees and the general membership,
charged him with having locked
them out Of church and thus COM
PEELED them to ask for his resigna-
ton in a pouring rain.
The II members claimed that the
Rev. Grady chad threatened to have
the door locked and a new lock put
on the door," They adopted a reso-
luton asking for the resignation
Of the pastor while two deacons,
Charles Millner and Rudolph Nor
ris, were acquitted on disturbance
charges, but Millner was bound
over under $3.50 by Judge Frank
Chamlee for a1legedly having
drawn a hammer" on Rev. Grady.
The members further asserted
that the pastor "now proposes to
prevent US from having any sort
of meeting in the church or from
carrying on the business Of the
church and will not let us have
choir practice"
'Tn the Baptist church." they
said, "the preacher cannot arbitrar-
lily turn anybody out or have them
turned out without giving them no
tice Of the charge against them, a
right to have counsel to represent
them the same as a man is repre-
sented in a court. Such con-
duct on the part of a preacher shows
that he is unfit for the position
and the quicker the church gets
rid of him the better for the cause
of Christianity"
Pastor and members compro-
missed in chancery court Thursday,
when Chancellor ]. Lon Foust sign
ed an order stating that Grady
had resigned as pastor and direct
ed that the church keys be turned
over to Attorney George W. Cham
lee, who represented the two deac-
ons and nine other members who
brought charges to court.
According to Atty. F. L. Dixon,
counsel for Grady. 'The pastor re-
signed on consideration that the
other side dismiss the bill and pay
the costs, and in addition to that,
pay his back salary-they owed
him a balance of &c."
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Ethel Ash,
Mill City
Native, Dies

Ethel Granger Ash, 979 Aldrich
Ave. No., born July 6, 1895, in Min
neapolis, died March 20 at Mime
apolis General hospital after a seri-
Gus illness lasting several months.
Surviving Mrs. Ash, who had
lived in Minneapolis all Of her life,
are her husband, Blaine, ST., nine
children, one granddaughter, and
one brother, Gordon Granger, 1924
Fourth Ave. So. One son, Corporal
Gordon Ash, is in active duty over
seas. Other children are Mrs. Mel
rose Green, and Blaine, Jr., Ethel,
Odessa, James, Alice, Rosalie and
George.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, April 1, at Border Meth
odist church. Rev. Robert Kelly,
pastor there, officiated.
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st. Paul Churches
Hold Good Friday
Services at st. James

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. E. Ware, pastor; Mt. Olivet
Baptist, Rev. C. B. Wheeler, pastor;
Camphor Memorial Methodist, Rev.
G. T. R. Nelson, pastor.
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Elks Rest Open
In St. Paul
Features Sunday Dinners

NoHNoy OAAAACAo
Gopher Lodge No. 105, I. B. P.
o. E. of w., wishes to announce to
the public of the Twin Cities that
they have just recently purchased
the property located at 588 Rondo
avenue and are open for business
daily from 10 a. m. until closing.
For a quiet place to enjoy your
Sunday dinner, come, bring your
family, and eat with your friends.
Sandwiches, beer and soft drinks
served daily. Party service is our
speciality and the price is extremely
reasonable.
We are now established to serve
the public. For reservations, call
The Elks Rest, Dale 1851, or Elk.
1924 (residence) .-Advt.
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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 a
movie and give a lecture to boys
over II years of age in the Halle
Q. Brown auditorium.
This meeting will be a part of
the National Negro Health Week
program, April 4 through April II.
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Negro Women
to Be Peace
League Guests

Representatives from many col
ored organizations and churches
will be the guests of the Mime
apois branch of the Women's Inter
national League for Peace and
Freedom at a meeting to be held
at Phyllis Wheatley House on Tues
day, April 6, at 2 p. m. Mr.. C. M.
Tobin will speak on "The Factor of
Race in the Problem of Peace"
Music will be provided by the
Inter-racial Singers, directed by
Mrs. Harriet Hall. Singers include
Mrs. Ermine Allen, Mrs. Corabelle
Banke, Mrs. Anna A. Berggreen,
Mrs. Josephine Mccoy, Mrs. Olive
Meili, Mrs. Medora Petersen, Mrs.
Jean Wilcox, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Williams.
Mrs. Medora Petersen, member
of the Minneapolis Board, will pre-
Sloe. she Will give a resume of the
activities of the League for the
year.
Guests, besides the st. Paul board
Of the W. I. L., include members
of the Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary,
Halle Q. Brown auxiliary, St. Paul,
Urban League Auxiliary, women of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the
Interracial group of the Y. W. C.
A, and women from nine colored
churches.
After the talk, tea will be served.
Mrs. Harriet Hall and Mrs. s. A.
Stockwell will pour.
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crowded into the House judiciary
committee room to attend a public
hearing on two anti-discrimination
bills wore stunned and disappointed
when a motion by Representative
Gordon C. Peterson Of Columbia
Heights to get favorable action
was blocked by Representative
Luke Burns of Virginia.
One bill, known as the equal
rights" bill, would broaden the pres
ent law prohibiting discrimination
because Of race or color to include
religion and national origin"
while the other is aimed at pre-
venting the distribution of anony-
nous literature to incite racial and
religious prejudices.
Those speaking for the passage
of the bills were Jesse B. Calmen-
son Of st. Paul, former president
of the American Jewish Congress;
Amos Deinard, Minneapolis attor-
ney; Leonard Lageman, state di-
rector Of the CLIO; Maceo v. Little
john, secretary Of Dining Car
Cooks and Walters Union, Local
SIG, ALL, Judge E. E. Waite, re-
tired Minneapolis jurist; Judge
Gustavus Loevinger Of Ramsey
County District Court and Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, president of
the st. Paul Branch of the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Other community leaders who
were present in support of the bills
included Rabbi Albert Minda, Min
neapolis; Rabbi Harry Margolis,
st. Paul; Rev. B. N. Moore, pastor
of the st. James A.M.E. Church,
st. Paul; Rev. Wallace Robbins,
president of the board of directors
Of the st. Paul Urban league and
pastor Of the First Unitarian
Church, st. Paul; Miss I. Myrtle
Garden, director of the Halle @.
Brown Community House, St. Paul;
Samuel Schiener, secretary Of the
Minnesota Jewish Council.
When arguments during the pub
lie hearing ended with an explain
alton Of the equal rights" bill, by
its author, Senator B. G. Novak
Of st. Paul, Representative Peter
son moved to take the bills from
the table for consideration"
The chairman of the committee,
Rep. F. P. Memmer of st. Paul, did
not put the motion but he quickly
recognized Representative Burns,
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Pioneer Press
Urges Vote on
Equal Rights Bill

Joining the growing public de-
mand for a vote on the equal
rights" measure which has been
"buried" in the Minnesota House
Judiciary committee, the St. Paul
Pioneer Press said Wednesday:
at will be a blot on the record
of the session if the State Legis-
lature comes to a close without a
vote having been taken in the House
on the equal rights" bills.
"These bills were passed by over
whelming vote in the Senate. In
fact, when a question like this is
raised in a democracy, there is only
one answer possible.
In the House there seems to be
a disposition to avoid making any
answer. This disposition certainly
does not reflect the wish of the
members as a whole. The House
judiciary committee has twice
evaded action on the merits of the
bills. First, under the anonymity
of voice vote, the bills were tabled.
Monday, a motion to take the bills
up for consideration was short
circuited by a motion and vote to
adjourn.
Members of the committee have
acted as though they think the bills
unwise. If so, they should give
their reasons, so that the question
can be considered. The committee
should either take the responsibility
of killing the measures or report
them out so that the House as a
whole can pass on them.one way or
the other"
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Oliver D. Lewis Promoted
to First I.ieIIfennnf

Oliver D. Lewis of the United
States Army has just recently been
promoted to First Lieutenant. Sgt.
Lewis is stationed in Africa near
Casablanca. He is the son of Mrs.
Robert Lewis, 759 Rondo avenue.
1t. Lewis is married and his wife is
living with her parents in Pensa-
cola, Florida.
1t. Lewis writes from Africa that
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OPayee,
NOPaper!

Like the Chinese laundryman
who says, "no tickee, no laundry
the publishers of this paper have
gone on a wartime basis which die
tates, mo payee, no paper"
Delinquent subscribers who can
not find time to mail their subscrip-
ton will find themselves without
the paper when the mailman comes
around on Friday morning.
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Compact
Concise
Readable.

Was how Lieut.. John F. Thomas
described the opinion Of this paper
as expressed by fellow soldiers at
Fort Benning, Ca, 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.
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admitted assets total $36, 447 ,561
liabilities $26,79O,96O; capital ST.
Ito; surplus reserved for gen.
eral contingencies $685., 222; pre-
MUM or assessment income from
policyholders and members $22,214,-
318; total income including accruals
from deposits and investments $685.
338,459; total disbursements $780,
129,802; total amount of insurance
in force on the lives of policyhold-
ers $471, 328,921; statutory reserves
required by law to assure payment
of all future policy benefits, total
$20,216,335, and claims paid policy
holders and beneficiaries $7,294,241.
Significant among their activities
is the national campaign for the
sale of U. S. War Bonds and
Stamps sponsored by the National
Negro Insurance Association. Ac-
cording to partial report from DR..
William Pickens, Chief, Interracial
Section, War Savings Staff, U. S.
Treasury, 81 companies have pur-
chased War Bonds and Stamps in
the sum of $2,OS1,375. The interest
manifested by the remaining asso-
Citations with reference to the Ma
tons war financing campaign, is
gratifying to U. S. Treasury Off
Gals.
LEGAL RESERVE LIFE AND
ASSESSMENT COMPANIES
Reports of 81 Legal Reserve Life
and Assessment companies doing
business in 10 States, list total as
sets of $26,447,774; liabilities $780,
1873; capital $1,687,542; surplus
1921, 161; premium income $780,
093,712; total income $19,066,597;
total disbursements $14,436,994;
total insurance in force $344,332,-
1856; statutory policy reserves $751;
465,109; and claims paid $5,303, 592.
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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 it's
shock at the language reported to
have been used by Magistrate Solo
mon when Joseph Williams, 26,
3O2 West 114th Street, was brought
before him as a holdup suspect.
The brother of the defendant, Leroy
Williams, had been killed by 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
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 Socialist and
a 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 myth
cal crime wave which exists only
in the minds of headline writer's;
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.
1--WE 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"
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Mary Keesee,
Resident for IS
Years, Dead

Mary Keesee, a resident of Min
neapolis for IS 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.
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Porters' Group
Holds Confab on
Wage Increase

Wage Increase
New York City, March 30
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 10 cents per hour for non-oper-
ating employees and 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.
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Mrs. A. N. Satterlee
to Speak to Lawns

ana Idf0en NlQD
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.
1923, or the Urban League office.
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Credjufown Club to
Sponsor Forum

The Credjafawn Social club will
sponsor the Halle Q. Brown Sun
day Forum, Sunday, April II, at
4 p. m. Mr.. E. T. Randall of
WCCO, Director of the radio pro-
gram, Country Church of the Air.
on WLOL, will be the speaker.
A splendid musical program has
been arranged.
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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.
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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.
Berdes Food Market, Boyd's Ser
vice Station, Commerce Liquor
Store, Dunbar Cafe, Gardeners DIX
Service Station, Jim's Place, Kol-R,
N. W. Bell Telephone Co., Rite
Liquor Store, Maurice L. Roths-
childs, B. E. Scott Insurance, Sci
Dale Cut Rate Drug, Sweeney's
Cleaners, Unidale Liquor Store,
Weyand's Furniture Co., and Zins-
master Baking Co., bakers Of Mas
ter Bread.
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But as the story goes Robson
had just turned away from law
school and was rehearsing the title
role in Eugene O'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 mperor 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,
a very good whistle. So Robson
sang the measures of a fearful
Negro hymn. It 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 unaccompanied.
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 a brilliant triumph
revealing the thrilling vocal ar
tistry of a figure already we'll
known as an athlete and an actor.
It 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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International FavOrite Began
Career of Song Because He
Couldn't Whistle: So Thew Say

The legend that Paul Robson the great American baritone
singer because he couldn't whistle There written tes
to this effect and it will probably with Mr. Robson
the truth when he Northop Friday
Orchestra.
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Minnesota House Allows
Equal Rights Bill to Be
Buried in Committee
Prominent Citizens Protest Tabling of Bill
By Staff Writer

The old discrimination, alias
known "Jm Crow old of democracy aided
abeted in its fight democracy the home
by judiciary Legislature
Monday March 29).
More than fifty Negro citizens
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LIEUT.. RICHARD STOKES IS
DENIED DIVORCE FROM WIFE

three day divorce trial Ramsey County district
victory for Mrs Kathleen Stokes Washington c. whose
band Lieut. Richard Stokes denied divorce by Judge
G. Brill in findings announced March &c.
Lieut. Stokes, member of prominent st. family came
St. Paul from Camp Leonard Wood testify in which
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Edward Shepard Is Dead

Edward Shepard, ACT W. Central
avenue, died Monday, March %, 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.
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Negro Owned Insurance
Companies Have Assets
of Over sc Millions
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF INSURANCE COMPANIES
OWNED AND OPERATED BY NEGROES

Washington D. CThe first annual report of Insurance Companies
owned and operated by Negroes made public today
States Department of Commerce This
Martin Lancaster Special Adviser Secretary
Negro Affairs contains detailed financial
operating "a states and the District of Columbia aggregate
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- 10k or INcoMG
IS Our QUOTA
N u MR BOWS

Insure getting the local news
weekly BY Uncle Sans pOstmaA.
Call Midway SS40-advt.
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he sees Sgt. Sam Reed from st.
Paul quite often.
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Phone your news items In early.
Call Midway SS4O.-advt.
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CARRYING THEIR PART

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.
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The chairman of the committee,
Rep. F. P. Memmer of st. Paul, did
not put the motion but he quickly
recognized Representative Burns,