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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Lincoln Day
Luncheon Hear
POrgy Stars

Ninety persons, the majority of
whom were white, attended the
Lincoln Day luncheon in the Good
will Industries building, 10th and
Sibley Streets, st. Paul, last Fri
day, given by the Woman's Society
of Christian Service of the Cam
phor Memorial Methodist Church.
Guests Of honor at the luncheon
were Ruby Ely, a star Of "Porgy
and Bess," and June Hawkins, for
mer Hamline University coed,
from Minneapolis, who is the I'M
derstudy Of Eta Moten, as "Bess"
in this stage play and opera, which
was presented in the Twin Cities
last week.
Miss Ely sang two solos and
spoke about Rust College, a Meth
odist College in Holly Springs,
Miss. It was while a student at
this Mississippi school that Miss
Ely was discovered" by a pro-
fessor of Ohio State University and
given a scholarship to that school
to further her musical education.
Her mother is the president Of the
Woman's Society of Christian Serv-
ice Of the Mississippi Conference
of the Methodist Church.
Miss Hawkins sang two solos,
one "The Lords Prayer" by re-
quest, to the delight of all who
heard her.
The luncheon was prepared and
served by o committee including
Mrs. Josie Williams, Mrs. Anna
belle Rideaux, Mrs. Ella Archer,
Mrs. Alice Williams, Mrs. Gather
inc Neal, Mrs. Villa Mae Peoples,
Mrs. Lillian Burrus, Mrs. Jack
Donley, Mrs. Catherine Humburd,
Mrs. Lottie Milton, Mrs. Essie
Stewart, Mrs. Lorraine Tabor, Mrs.
Tessie Sonion, Mrs. Sarah John
son and Dorothy Monson. Mrs.
Clarence T. r. Nelson is the presi-
dent of the Camphor Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
st. James Members
Lincoln Club
Guests Friday

Rev. B. N. Moore, Charles H.
Miller, and the Matrons of. Note,
composed of Mines. Cora Moore,
Viola Alsup and Allie Ballenger
and Bertha King, accompanist,
were guests at the 49th annual ban
quet of the Lincoln Club held at the
st. Paul Hotel on last Friday night.
The Matrons of Note and Charles
Miller rendered musical selections
for the 500 guests present. 1t. Gov
ernor Ed Thye and Col. Harry Kee-
ley, commanding officer Of Fort
Smelling, were speakers for the eve
ming and were presented to the
guests by julius Schmahl, state
treasurer, and president Of the Lin
coin Club.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Net Game and
Dance Tonight
at P.W. House

Attention of Mill City basketball
fans is being focused on the sea-
sons headliner, Phyllis Wheatley
VS.. Milwaukee Urban League
cagers, Friday (tonight) at Phyllis
Wheatley House at 8:15 p. m. The
preliminary game, Halle @. Brown
Midgets vs.. Wheatley Gophers, will
be played at 7:30.
An 11-piece band will play for
dancing after the game, which viii
be the last game for Clifford Moore,
Corny Ellis and Carl Patterson
who will be indicted into the armed
services on Saturday, February 20.
An admission fee of so cents will
be charged at the door for the game
and dancing. Advance sale tickets
may be purchased from members
of the team at Phyllis Wheatley
House and the Minneapolis Spokes-
man office for 80 cents.
Patrons for this game are C. W.
Washington, Rev. R. Kelly, DR.. and
Mrs. W. D. Brown, Mrs. Cecil E.
Newman, Mr.. and Mrs. Pat Patton,
Mrs. Marguerite Combs, Mrs. For
est Mckinney, Miss Eunice Brown,
Talmadge Carey, Sterling Savoy,
Mrs. Beryle Cockrell, Mrs. Clifford
Rucker, Miss G. Walker, Miss Z.
White, N. Y. c., a friend, and Hol-
sum Bread,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Dorsey & Walker
To Be Heard
Over WTCN

On Friday afternoon at 4:15 p. m.
over WTCN, Jeanette Dorsey,
Music Director of Phyllis Wheatley
House, and Grace Walker, Director
of Girls Activities at the same
Settlement House, will appear on
a program dedicated to Interracial
Week. The program will include
music and poetry from the art con-
tributions of the American Negro.
Highlights of the broadcast will
be the great Negro music composer,
Nathaniel R. Dett's CUBA Dance"
played by Miss Dorsey, and the
well known poem by the famed
Langston Hughes, "The Negro
Speakes Of Rivers" which will be
read by Miss Walker.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Mpls. NAACP
Meets Sunday

The Minneapolis Branch of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People will
hold it's regular monthly forum on
Sunday, February 81, at A o'clock
at the Phyllis Wheatley House.
The program will be in observ-
ance of the Seventh Annual Ma
tional Sharecroppers Week Febru-
airy 20 to February 81. Participat-
ing on the program will be Rev.
Robert W. Kelly, pastor of Border
Methodist Church, Maceo v. Little
john, labor leader, and Arthur
Sternberg, attorney and active in
the Workers Defense League. The
public is urged to attend.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Dining = Car Workers
Vote for UTSEA

Chicago-The United Transport
Service Employees of America
(UTSEA) CLIO, gained another lap
in its expansion program Tuesday
when IS per cent Of the dining
car employees of the 10000 mile
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad voted in favor Of the CLIO
union in a labor election conducted
by the National Mediation Board
here.
The workers were formerly af-
filiated with Local 351, ALL Din
ing Car Employees, with all white
union officials.
UTSEA President Townsend an
nouncing the election RESULTS, also
revealed that plans to move in on
the Santa Fe and Rock Island lines
are now being made.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
INTERRACIAL WEEK WIDELY
OBSERVED BY CIVIC AND
RELIGIOUS GROUPS

Race Relations Week in Mime
apolis is being more widely OBJ
served by civic and religious groups
than at any time in the history of
the program in Minneapolis, ac-
cording to Chas. W. Washington,
executive secretary, Minneapolis
Urban league.
On the opening date Sunday, Feb
ruary IA, numerous church s
throughout the city conducted pro-
grams in observance of interracial
brotherhood. There were several ex-
changes Of pulpits between Negro
and white ministers and members
of the Interracial Week Speakers
Bureau addressed a number of
young peoples religious societies.
Monday evening C. A. Hughes
addressed a large group at the
Southeast branch of the Y.M.C.A.
and Charles W. Washington spoke
to similar group at the Roosevelt
branch of the Y.M.C.A.
Rev. A. J. Irvine, pastor, St.
Peter A.M.E. Church, shared speak
ing honors with Mr.. Howard Hsu,
Chinese student, University of Min
nesota, before the weekly meeting
of the Lions Club at the Radisson
Hotel. Both speakers emphasized
the interracial implications of the
race question in America and point
ed out that discrimination, segre-
cation and disfranchisement can
not be eradicated by ignoring or
evading the situation. 'What we
need today" Rev. Irvine stated, "is
for more and more people to rec
ognize the existence of these evils,
and in the light of Christian and
democratic principles, make up
their minds to do something about
them"
Mr.. Hsu stated that upon arriv-
ing in America he was shocked to
find that Negroes, Jews and Orien-
tails were more or less restricted
to segregated residential areas and
Disseminated against in industry.
what America does about these
problems" said Mr.. Hsu, twill have
great deal to do with the amount
Of influence this country will have
at the peace table at the close Of
this war"
The Optimists Club with a men,
bership of more than 200 was ad-
dressed by Henry Thomas, head
resident, Phyllis Wheatley House.
''In this present world conflict"
said Mr.. Thomas, "the Negro is
fighting on two fronts. In the first
place he is giving all that he has
to defeat Hitlerism abroad and at
the same time he is striving to
eradicate the discrimination and in
justices existing within our own
country"
Many groups are planning inter
racial programs for Sunday, Feb
ruary 81, and others win conduct
such programs later on in the
month.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Man WhoShot . st.
Wife Charged

A charge of assault in the first
degree was placed against Hard
Dixon, 80, 407 W. Central, St. Paul,
when he appeared in Municipal
Court Feb. 16 for shooting his wife,
Bertha, 447 st. Anthony Ave-, on
Feb. z, following birthday cele-
bration.
Dixon is expected to be bound
over to district court late this week.
Mrs. Dixon has been released
from Ancker hospital in custody
of her attorney.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
WOR, New York Mutual
Outlet, Refuses to
Carry Negro Program

New York-WOR, key station of
the Mutual Broadcasting System,
and its only New York outlet, had
refused (up to February 12) to
carry the new OWL program deal
ing with Negroes, entitled "My
People" The program was in
augurated Saturday, February IS,
over 211 stations of the Mutual
System.
One excuse offered by Mutual is
that it has a commercial program
occupying Is minutes of the time
required by the new program. An
other report is that some official
with authority over WOR pro-
grams is from Georgia and refuses
to make any arrangements to car
ry the new feature. WOR fire.
quently records programs which it
cannot carry at the moment and
re-broadcasts them at other hours.
No such arrangement is being
made for "My People," it is re-
ported.
The inaugural program will
have Mrs. Roosevelt, President
Mordecai johnson, of Howard Uni
versity, President Frank P. Ora
ham of the University of North
Carolina, and President Frederick
D. Patterson, of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, as speakers. Roland Hayes
will sing, his part being picked up
from Los Angeles. G. Lake lines
conceived the series of programs
and will direct them.
Protest against the refusal of
the program was filed with Alfred
J. McCosker, president of WOR, by
Walter White of the NAACP, who
urged the decision be rescinded
and the program carried.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Minnesota Senate Votes to
Strengthen Law to Halt Cafe,
Hotel Race Discrimination

of Jewish extraction stationed at
Fort Smelling last summer.
The present law, introduced
years ago by Frank Wheaton, only
Negro to ever serve in the Mime
sofa legislature, has been on the
statute book for years. In st. Paul
and Ramsey county the statute is
usually enforced. The Ramsey
county attorneys office will pun
ish cafes which refuse to serve Ne
groes or others when complaints
are lodged.
In Minneapolis since Floyd Oh
sons time, the county attorneys
office has passed the buck to the
grand jury when the question Of
enforcing the law comes up.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Y. M. Official,
Former Local
Woman, Here

Helen Jackson Wilkins, secretary
of the National Y. W. G. A. Boards
committee on interracial education,
was in Minneapolis this week to
meet with local Y. W. C. A. depart
ment heads and committee chair
men.
Mrs. Wilkins and DR.. Juliette
Bell, white, also member of the
National Board, are on tour max
ing a survey of Y. W. C. A. inter-
racial activities throughout the
country. Minneapolis is one of
several cities in which studies will
be made, selected as typical of their
respective sections.
The two women met with the
local branch interracial committee
Monday afternoon and on Monday
evening met with Mines. Harold
C.. Combs, W. D. Brown and M. L.
Bohannon, Negro members of the
committee.
Methods of improving the inter-
racial program and more effective
approach to better race relations
were discussed and outlined for
further use in meeting the need in
this section.
Mrs. Wilkins and her husband,
the late Earl Wilkins, formerly
lived in the Twin Cities. Both at
tended the University of Minnesota.
She was an outstanding honor stu
dent while on the campus and was
employed in the registrars office.
A member Of the Alpha Kappa
Alpha sorority, she holds a Phi
Beta Kappa key.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
In War Times It
Pays to

Spend your money with firms
which WANT and appreciate your
patronage. The firms listed below
spend a portion Of their advertis-
ing budget with this paper to in
vite the attention Of our readers to
their services and to also indicate
their willingness to be Of service
to readers Of this paper.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
G. & G. Cafe, Beer
Permit Revoked

The st. Paul city council revoked
the restaurant, beer and other
licenses Of Moses Gardner and Mrs.
Leona Goodman, doing business at
31s Rondo Avenue, Monday morn
ing, Feb. Is. Revocation was be-
cause Of the arrest and guilty plea
of Gardner to possession Of liquor
on the premises without q license.
The tavern enjoyed good bust
ness and was not known as a place
where hard liquor could be OBJ
tanned.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Curry
Reelected Y. P.
Girl Reserves

On February 4, Lorraine Curry
was reelected city-wide vice-presi-
dent of the Y. W. C. A. girl re-
serves. Her second term will ex-
pire in June upon graduation.
Miss Curry, a member of the
National Scholastic Honor Society
and the National Literary Honor
Society, is feature editor of the Gen.
tralian, Central High annual, for
the 1942-43 school year.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Father of Nine
Children Dead

Theodore T. Yates, 38-year-old
father Of nine children, died Sun
day, Feb. IA, at his home, $500
Oakland Ave.
One child, a son, was unable to
attend the funeral held Feb. II at
Woodland Funeral Home chapel, be-
cause of an attack Of pneumonia
suffered after the fathers death.
Other survivors are his wife,
Eva; Mr.. and Mrs. John Yates, 725
Bradford Ave-, parents; three sis
tiers and one brother. Rev. A. F.
Martin officiated.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
C.. L. Horn to Speak in
st. Paul

Charles L. Horn, president Of
Federal Cartridge Corp, largest
employer Of Negro labor in Mime
sofa, will speak at the Halle Q.
Brown Community House Sunday
afternoon, February %, at a p. m.
Miss I. Myrtle Garden, head res
ident of the House, said she had
invited Mr.. Horn to come and make
an informal talk and get acquaint-
ed with the people of the commu-
nity.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Twin City Lines Has
First Negro MOtOrman
In Two Cities History

Sylvester Carter, Minneapolis
man, is now serving as student
motorman on the Nicollet Avenue
line of the Twin City Lines. Carter
is the first Negro to serve in such
capacity in the history of the
Twin Cities.
Carter has been in the employ
of the Twin City Lines for sew
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Mrs. Eva Abbey's
Aunt Buried

Mrs. Susie Monroe, aunt Of Mrs.
Eva Abbey, ala e. 25th st., Min
neapolis, died February 4 in Quincy,
III. -.
Mrs. Monroe came to Mime
apOlis to live with her niece some
time ago, but left for home just
before Christmas because Of poor
health.
Mrs. Abbey left last Friday to
attend the funeral in Quincy.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Courier Carries
Photos of Negro
Ordnance Workers

The current issue of the PITTS
BURGH COURIER carries a half
page picture layout showing vari-
Gus Negro employees at the Twin
Cities Ordnance Plant, New Brigh-
ton, operated by the Federal Cart
ridge Corp.
Negroes, over 700 of them, resi-
dentially almost equally divided
between St. Paul and Minneapolis,
are working in 20 different jobs
at New Brighton.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Ruth Riley Buried

Ruth Riley, age 40, 1919 Wash
ington Ave. &c., suffered a stroke
on Feb. 10 and died from the eff
feets. Funeral services were held
Feb. Is at 2 p. m. at Woodland Flu
neral Home chapel. Rev. II. w.
Bolts conducted the services. She
is survived by her husband, Arthur,
and her mother in Columbus, Wis.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Odd Fellows Order
Elects Officers

The Grand United Order of Odd
Fellows, St. Anthony Lodge No.
2877, have elected the following
officers for 1913: George Jordan,
N. F.; C. C. Woodson, N. G.; Theo-
dore Woodland, v. G.; Leon T. Lew
is, P. S.; W. M. Martin, W. T.;
Harry D. Pettiford, Jr., E. S.;
E. Carr, Warden.
The next meeting will be held
Sunday, Feb. 81, at 2:30 p. m. at
1103 Lyndale Ave. No.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Rev. II. C. Boyd
Attends Collins,
StOvan Funerals

Rev. q. c. Boyd, former Mime
apolis pastor, now pastoring at st.
Paul A. M. z. church, Des Moines,
Iowa, came to Minneapolis to at
tend the funerals of Mother" Col
Inns and Harry Stovall, both held
recently, at st. Peter church, his
former charge.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
v DON'T REPEAT ILL., LOOSE TALK COSTS LNtSM"
Nineteenth Annual Meeting
of Phyllis Wheatley House
Thursday NIGHT, February 25

and Its Social Obligation" A pro-
gram, under the direction of Miss
Jeanette Dorsey, music director,
and Miss Grace Walker, girls
work director, will be presented.
The public is invited. Admission
is free.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

The nineteenth annual meeting
of Phyllis Wheatley House, spon-
sored by the Phyllis Wheatley Aux
iliary, will be held Thursday, Feb.
25th, 1913, at 800 p. m.
Rev. M. R. Hogarth will speak
on the subject, "The Community
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Democracy for
Some go.

The prize winning grafton Of
jeanette Mcdonald, Hamline Uni
versity student, a powerful indict-
ment Of Americas treatment Of its
Negro citizens, is reprinted in this
issue. Miss Mcdonald, a young
white woman, is the daughter Of
. U. s. army colonel
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

eral years as a car cleaner. He re-
ceived his first job with the street
railway through the efforts of Lew
is Ewing and Rev. C. F. Stewart,
former pastor of st. Peter church.
Several eastern cities are using
both Negro men and women on the
street cars as motermen and con-
ductors.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Bells Want to
Sell Cafe;. In.
Business 80, Years

Bells Cafe and RECREATION Par
Tor at 2o7 South Third St., Mime
.apolis, was offered. for. sale last
week after 80 years of successful
operation by Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence w. Bell.
Mr., Bell told a reporter of this
newspaper that the offer Of sale
was due to his poor health.
He and his wife started out in
business in very small quarters on
Third Ave. near Third st. Increase
in business forced them to larger
and more modern quarters and they
moved to the present address sew
eral years ago.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Jewel Sears Nutionol
Honor Society Student

Jewel Il. Sears, 919 Margaret
St., was among the students in the
first mid-year graduation class Of
Harding high school, st. Paul,
Feb. 8.
Miss Sears, a member Of the Ma
tional Honorary society, also won
an art award.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Willia1n Seymour
Buried

William Seymour, SO, 204 No.
Second St., was buried at Crystal
Lake cemetery Wednesday, Feb. 10,
at II a. m. He is survived by his
wife, Maud. Woodland Funeral
Home was in charge.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
DR.. Lillian Lewis
Back on Job Again

DR.. Lillian Lewis, chiropodist,
CTS Iglehart Ave-, st. Paul, is back
in the city and has resumed her
work at her home. She may be
reached by patients, former or new,
needing her services, by calling
Dale 2n27
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Readers of
This Paper

Generally patronize advertisers
in this paper. Merchants prepar-
ing 1913 budgets will do well to
consider the local Negro market.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
To Pay Your
Income Taxes

Consult loan company advertis-
ers in this paper. You will find cour-
teous, reliable service and atten-
ton.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Ransom Speaks
Tonight at Beth Ell
Synagogue

Beth Ell Synagogue, Penn and
18th Ave. No., will have as their
guest speaker for one Of their
brotherhood Week" meetings,
Major Samuel E. Ransom. The
meeting is tonight friday at 8
o'clock. Major Ransom will speak
on "What We Fight For" Rabbi
David Aronson invites the public
RI attand
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

You can sell, buy or rent
through our classified ad
column. Cheap, too! Call
Midway $40.
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Perry Carter Rites
Held

Funeral services for Perry Car
ter, 49, Of 1908 Eighth Ave. NO.,
were held Feb. IL at Woodland
Funeral Home chapel. Rev. II. W.
Bolts officiated. Mr.. Carter died
Feb. 8 at Minneapolis General hos
pital. He is survived by his wife,
Pauline; five sisters and four
brothers. Interment Crystal Lake.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
Phyllis Wheatley
Bowling Club
Date Changed

The meeting day and place Of
the Phyllis Wheatley Bowling club
has been changed to Monday from
8 p. m. to midnight at the Polar
Bowling Alleys, 2004 Plymouth
Ave, No,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

Buy War BOnds-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

j; 4. DON'T THINK 80.
-. that the Axis powers lose one
single opportunity to use and
magnify the slightest actions of
race discrimination practiced in
this country. "FOr many months
japanese radio propaganda
aimed at the Americas has cap
italized the Negro and the tough
deal he gets in the U. S.-Wm.
Sheriff..
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
SINCERE FOLLOWERS

SINCERE FOLLOWERS
Those who believe in white
racial superiority have no right
to criticize Hitler's Aryan myth;
they are his sincere followers.
And those who set up doubts in
our minds about fighting for en-
pire are punching holes in the
democratic armOr and weaken
ing our mOrale.-Lin Yutang.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
By UNITED PRESS

The nation neared Fourth OF
july safety record Monday as holi-
day travellers jammed railroad sta
tions and bus terminals instead Of
the highways.
Only "a traffic fatalities were re-
ported throughout the country as
the third day of the weekend holi-
day began. Last year more than 100
were killed on the highways during
the first two days of the holiday.
RATIONING HALTS TRAVEL
Gasoline rationing reduced auto
mobile traffic to a minimum, and
the 35 mile per hour speed limit cur
tailed the number of accidents.
Another wartime factor. the alb
sence of fireworks, kept the acci-
dental death toll abnormally low.
Usually, firecrackers take a heavy
toll of lives during the Independence
Day observance.
Railroads and bus lines reported
the heaviest holiday travel since
Pearl HarhQr, but for the most part
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Mexican Dies in
Truck Accident

Prudenziano Cruz. Mexican. died
in the county hospital Sunday night
from injuries sustained when he
was hit by U. S. Army truck in
Brawley Sunday afternoon.
Following the accident Cruz was
taken to the county hospital where
treatment was administered. He
died late at night.
Little information concerning the
man was available from records in
Ell Centre although he had in his
possession a border crossing card,
indicating his home was in or near
Mexicali. The body is at the Lem