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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
Search for St.
Paul'sMOstP Popular
Girl Now On
WINNER TO BE NAMED
MISS HALLE Q. BROWN

A Popularity Contest will be
sponsored by st. Paul Women's
Council and Twentieth Century
Maids and Matrons. The winner
will be announced at the 18th An
nual Meeting of the Halle @.
Brown Community House January
27 at 8 p. m. Mrs. Idelle Patton is
contest chairman. Votes will be
five cents each, every vote counting
100. Each contestant will be given
a 100 count handicap. The prize
award will be a silver loving cup
with the name of the winner en-
graved and a personal letter of
commentator from Miss Halle @.
Brown, who still lives in her Home
Wood Cottage on the campus of
Wherefore University in Xenia,
Ohio.
The letter can be kept among
the winners priced possessions and
will be a cherished possession in
years to follow.
Who will win these two very spe-
cial awards and have the distinc-
ton of being the most popular girl
in st. Paul?
Sign up at Halle Q. Brown or
the St. Paul Recorder office. Every
one will get started at the same
time. The contest will begin Dec.
3. All people registered by that
time will have a lead on those reg
istering after them.
SIGN UP AT ONCE. CALL
HALLE Q. BROWN, DA. 927s.
ST. PAUL RECORDER, MI. SS4O.
Lucius Hendrix
In North Africa
M. P. Lucius Hendrix, we'll known
former Minneapolis man, brother
of Governor Cook of Minneapolis,
is now stationed in North Africa.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
Meeting on Levy
Case at Wheatley
Sunday Afternoon

Reverend C. T. R. Nelson, pastor
of the Camphor Memorial Church,
st. Paul, will speak on the ques-
ton of Racial and Religious Dis
elimination" at an open meeting at
the Phyllis Wheatley House, 800
Aldrich Ave. North, Minneapolis,
$3.50 P. NJ, Sunday, November
2Sth.
Irving Blumberg will give re-
port on the developments in the
Alton Levy case. Levy has just
been released from the military
stockade at the Lincoln, Nebraska
air base, where he served a term
at hard labor. He was court
martialed and denoted for pro-
testing against discrimination in
the armed forces.
His case aroused nationwide in
terest. The fight to restore Private
Alton Levy to his original rank Of
staff sergeant will be continued on
his behalf by the Workers Defense
League, under whose auspices the
meeting is being held.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26

the Vocational Guidance Associa-
ton.
His presence on the Recreation
committee of the Minneapolis De-
tense Council was largely respon-
sible for hating a planned Jim
Crow service mems center. His
activity on the state committee on
War Production Training enabled
him to be of service to Minnesota
Negroes.
Washington told reporters Mon
day that he sincerely regretted leav-
ing Minnesota but that the chal-
lenge of the larger field in Pennsyl-
vania was too great to ignore. Pitts
burgh has over 100000 Negroes.
Plans are being made to hold a
public farewell reception for Mr..
and Mrs. Washington in December.
Announcements will be made in the
press.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
Marian Anderson
To Appear Twice
With Symphony

Marian Anderson, world-famous
American singer, has begun her
eighth American tour which will
bring her to Minneapolis for two
concerts with the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri
Mitropoulos conducting, at North
rop Auditorium December 8 and A..
The first concert will be the reg
ular Friday night event of the or
chestra's subscription series. The
second is in tribute to Miss Ander-
sons tremendous local popularity
and will enable patrons to hear her
who probably will not be able to
procure tickets for Friday night.
Since last May, when she concluded
her previous seasons activities,
Miss Anderson has led a varied and
active life. Her singing assign
ments consisted of three appear
ances for the Treasury Department
in Chicago, Detroit and New York
for the purpose of selling bonds.
1t was in Chicago that the keynote
was struck when the singer ap-
peared on the platform wearing
corsage of defense stamps. Two
weeks before Miss Anderson ap-
peared on the ~ Am an American
Day" program in New York's Cen
trail Park before more than a mil
lion people.
Two other engagements were the
concerts given at Ocean Grove on
the Jersey coast and an appearance
with the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra at Lewisohn Stadium be-
fore a record crowd.
The remainder of the summer
was spent in study, preparing her
new program of songs for the con-
cert platform and an album of her
favorites for a forthcoming publ
cation. There will be more news
concerning this book when it as
sumes definite shape in the fall.
To cap it all, Miss Anderson was
married to Orpheus H. Fisher, Ne
gro architect, last July. She had
known Mr.. Fisher for IL years.
They retired to the singers farm
home near Danville, Conn.,, for their
honeymoon and for well-earned rest
by Miss Anderson before starting
this seasons activities.
For relaxation Miss Anderson
busted herself in her Victory gar
den, in which all the vegetables
which appear on her dining table
are grown. There is no stock in
the form of cows, hogs or sheep.
81 guess I am just a real dirt
farmer" is the way Miss Anderson
looks at it.
For her Friday night program
Miss Anderson will sing four
"Songs of a Wayfarer" by Mailer
and the aria: "More regal in his
low estate" from Gounod's "The
Queen of Sheba." The orchestra will
play two Beethoven works, the
overture "Leonore" and the first
symphony in C major, an overture
by Charles Johnson and symphonic
fragment from the ballet Spiders
Banquet" by Roussell.
Saturday night will find Miss An
derson singing the aria: Almighty
Power" from Wagner's "Rienzi"
and group of Schubert's songs
with the orchestra playing Bach's
overture from Suite No. 8 in D
major, the Brahms second SYM
phony in D major and Ravels GAL
borada del Gracioso."
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26

CHAS. W. WASHINGTON
turned down several offers of i'm
portant posts in other parts of the
country.
Well qualified for his assignment
by his Is years of work in the
Urban League field, Washington is
A years old and was born in Odessa,
Mo. Educated in the public schools
of that city and at Western Univer-
sity, Quindaro, Kans., he received
his degree from the University of
Mir nsota. Prior to 1928 when he
received his first appointment he
worked with Abram L. Harris on his
survey of the Negro in Minneapolis.
He was acting executive secre-
tary of the Twin City minneapolis
and St. Paul) Urban League from
August, 1928, to January, 1929.
From January, 1929, to June, 1929,
he was industrial secretary when he
was called to fill the industrial
secretaryship of the Atlanta Urban
League. After a year in that post
he was named executive secretary
of the Atlanta League.
In 1882 he returned to the Twin
Cities as executive secretary of the
Twin City League, serving in that
capacity until 1886, when the
leagues of Minneapolis and St. Paul
decided to discontinue joint opera
ton. Mr.. Washington then came
to Minneapolis as secretary of the
program in this city.
An active worker, Mr.. Washing
ton did much to develop public I'M
Outstanding for the Urban League
movement. Among the accomplish
ments during his tenure as secre-
tary were:
Development of membership
plan; interracial relations improved
by active committees and annual
observance of interracial weeks;
presentation of leading national
Negro leaders; cordial relations
with trade unions; active interest in
housing program in state and city;
fought barring of Negro students
from trade schools; assisted in
peaceful settlement of interracial
disputes; developed working agree
ment with U. S. Employment Ser
vice; initiated approach to such
plants as International Harvester
Co., Minneapolis Honeywell and
Munsing-Wear in the interest of
Negro employment; served as re-
source agency in stating and integ-
ration of Negro workers into Fed
eral Cartridge operated Twin Cities
Ordnance Plant attracting nation
wide attention; addressed hundreds
of white groups in the N. W. on
the problems of the Negro; served
on numerous committees appointed
by governors and mayors.
The Minneapolis Urban League
under Mr.. Washington has the repu-
tation of holding the largest annual
meeting of any league in the coun-
try. The March 1912 meeting at
which Lester Granger, national
secretary, spoke, held at Coffman
Memorial Union, University of Min
nesota, gained that record for Min
neapolis.
Mr.. Washington is married and
has one child, Joan Frances, and has
resided for some years at 1920 goth
Ave. S., Minneapolis.
In addition to belonging to sew
eral social workers organizations,
he is secretary of the Minneapolis
Council of Negro Organizations,
member of the NAACP, TSTC Club,
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
We Looking
For Tom Payne!

If Tom Payne or anyone knowing
his whereabouts, please call our Of
flee, Bridgeport 1896 or Midway
S34O. Or anyone knowing Cecil,
Lucinda, Hugh M. Oracle or Lymus
L. Payne, please call.
on a speakers platform! Now if we
are not able to chew gum without
detection by the better half we re-
move it before entering meetings.
Mrs. JohnsOn's admOnitiOn did
some gOOd!-C.E.N.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
Lewis Ewing
Spreads More
Thanks Cheer

For the sixth consecutive year,
Lewis Ewing, local civic worker,
has distributed Thanksgiving din
ners to Minneapolis families.
On Wednesday morning he per-
sonally delivered 25 baskets to
needy families, this year including
two blind persons. In the baskets
were an assortment of holiday
goodies, fowl, pancake flour, cof-
fee and butter.
The dinners were donated by a
number of city officials and bust
ness men, solicited by Mr.. Ewing.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26

In it's leading editorial,
tion," Mr.. Dabney declares:
"The time has come to do some
thing about the well-nigh intoler-
able interracial friction on the
streetcars and buses of the state.
This friction stems largely from the
laws which compel the segregation
of white and colored passengers.
Repeal of the State law which
requires segregation of the races on
streetcars and buses, and of local
ordinances which embody the same
requirement, would solve the diff
Guilty. In Richmond, there is no
ordinance which Council would have
to repeal, but the General Assembly
would have to repeal Section 1878
of the Virginia Code, covering
streetcars, and Section 4097z, cover
ing buses"
The editorial makes the point
that under present conditions, with
all transport vehicles crowded, these
segregation laws not only fail to
keep the races apart, but actually
increase friction and irritation. Mr..
Dabney declares:
Actually, under existing condi-
tions, they have the opposite effect,
and they are a constant irritant.
Hundreds, if not thousands; of times
day, these regulations serve to
throw the races into closer contact
than ever, and at the same time to
wound the feelings of the Negroes.
"The laws result in closer, inter-
racial contact than would otherwise
be the case because whereas white
and colored passengers usually sit
in separate seats, the invariably
crowded condition in the aisles of
streetcars and buses at rush hours
throws the races together as never
before. Colored passengers who get
on crowded cars or buses have to
push their way to the rear through
a dense mass of white people, and
in the case of one-man cars they
must force their way back to the
front again. 1t would be preferable
if the Negroes were allowed to
stand or sit in the car or bus wher-
ever they could find room, thus
avoiding the push through the
packed aisles.
at is this push which causes most
of the trouble"
Finally, the Times-Dispatch edi-
torial makes the point that of late
years segregation is not strictly en-
forced on railway trains and cross
country buses, saying:
segregation of the races on rail-
way trains and cross-country bus
lines has been abandoned to a con-
siderable degree, both in Virginia
and other Southern States, and it
seems definitely on the way out.
We have heard of no unfortunate
results. Why, then, should not the
segregation laws for cross-town
trolleys and buses be eliminated :?
The fact is that they should be, and
without delay"
1t is believed that this editorial is
an historic pronouncement, since it
is the first time in the modern South
that an influential daily paper has
demanded the repeal of any type of
segregation law.
Discussion of the editorial in the
letter column Of the Times-Dispatch
got off to a lively start Tuesday,
November 16, when, out of five let
tiers published, four favored repeal
of the jim-crow laws. The reaction
of Virginians to Editor Dabney's
editorial will be watched with keen
interest by Negroes and white peo-
pie throughout the nation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
George w. Harvey
Will Conduct
Pilgrim Revival

DR.. George W. Harvey, pastor of
New Hope Baptist Church, Brod-
dock, Pa, will conduct a ten day
evangelistic campaign at Pilgrim
Baptist Church from December 6
through December Is.
DR.. Harvey is one of the religious
editors of the Pittsburgh Courier,
vice president of the Pennsylvania
State Baptist convention and a
transcontinental lecturer and Bible
teacher.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26

Vennum said in his statement to the
press. Washington will assume his
new position on January l. The
Pittsburgh Urban League is one of
the strongest and most influential
in the country. In the
past two years Mr.. Washington has
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
BROTHER OF MINNEAPOLI-
TANS SERIOUSLY ILL IN MISS.

Garrett Davis and his sisters,
Mrs. Ruby Craig and Mrs. Blanche
Turner, all of Minneapolis, received
word Friday of the critical illness
of their brother, George Davis of
Greenville, Miss.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
MRS. BLANCHE TURNER
UNDERGOES OPERATION

Mrs. Blanche Turner, 1916 18th
Ave. &c., underwent an operation
Nov. IL, at Fairview Hospital.
Mrs. Turner was returned home
Tuesday. She is a Federal Car
tridge-T.C.O.P. employee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
Elsie Adams

Elsie Adams, last known to live
in North Minneapolis, is requested
to call this newspaper office,
Bridgeport 1896 or Midway 8S40.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
CIV. WASHINGTON RESIGNS
C. w. Washington Resigns
Minneapolis Urban League
TOTake POstin Pittsburgh

The resignation of Charles w. Washington as executive
secretary of the Minneapolis Urban League announced
Monday by Thomas Vennum president of the League Mr.
resigned to accept the of director of Indus
trial Relations of the Pittsburgh Urban League.
The board accepted his resignation with regret" Mr.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
Southern Daily Urges
End to Trolley and Bus
Segregation in Virginia

Richmond Va-Segregation of the races IN public Trans
poraon particularly trolley and Buses should be wiped
by repeating the state segregation laws it declared
November Is by the Times Dispatch influential morning
paper edited by Virgnius Dabney
In its leading editorial entitled "To Lessen Race Eric
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
ON THE JOB!

~ want to repeat to all Ameri-
cans. Do not take Germany lightly.
Act as though the war is only one
day old. Work, work, work. You
have a strongly entrenched enemy
and he is resourceful. The only way
to whip Hitler and his minions is
to be on the job "a hours day.
G. R. Treviranus.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-26
NO SUBSTITUTE!

Those who know what it's all about
realize there is no local or national
substitute for this paper. This is not
braggadocio, just plain facts. Depend
able, on time, every week presentation
of the local scene in news, comment
and pictures is the service offered by
this newspaper. Reading this paper is
the weekly habit of many.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Walter WincIaeII
 In Ne1e, York

of them in Q lifetime The gigolos have another edge on his racket, too. They don't have to stay sober while they're enjoying the takings Follow Carlson's report afe from cover to cover, and you will learn that the scrubby under ground didn't have @ single idea of It's own. All were strictly from "Mein Kampf" never tells the truth, not even to the membership.
 Again disagreeing with Carlson, they blundered themselves right inc to the hands of the law. It's true they reached some powerful people with votes as bribes - but their stink was too bad for the majority. They smelled up everything they touched America First had some well-meaning members, but when the BundistS and the Policy, Hudson, Broenstrupp, (Spirdovich) fingers got on 1t, 1t was covered with dirty marks. Tn the end that was good the best was to dis credit a movement. The bowlers could never get a first-rate man to head their miserable parade. All their leaders looked foolish. Some crossed the gullibles, and others made the public laugh Every time one of them would get upped he'd get that dictator glint in his eye and start ranting like a Bowery Smollie. Even those at the cross roads, with two of three followers, had superman hallucinations. Some were mean, some looney, and some saps Read Under Cover" and enjoy the way they are stripped naked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

lines and inadequate shipping: dis persal of defensive naval and air forces over too wide an area.
 Tn the first instance, Japanese shipping is being dealt almost a paralyzing blow by American of- fensive action. One of the most significant developments of the Pa cific war was the announcement of Secretary of Navy Knox that more than. one-third of Japanese pre- war tonnage and tonnage acquired through seizure of new construction had been sunk by American sub marines, surface craft and air. planes.
 Battle In Reverse
 It means that this is the battle of the Atlantic in reverse. If Allied tonnage had been cut to that ex- tent in the Atlantic and the Medi- terranean, it is possible that we would have not lost only the battle of the Atlantic but the war itself. It was not sufficient for the Allies merely to maintain their level of shipping; it was necessary to far exceed the rate of losses.
 Japan has failed signally to meet the same problem.
 In consequence, two conclusions may be drawn regarding the status in the Pacific. One is that the Jap anese have lost the power of offen- sive expansion and there is no log ical reason to believe that they can regain it. It is quite a different picture from the day when they seriously hoped for invasion of Australia, Hawaii and Alaska.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Munich Gets Terrific
 Fasting From Flyers
(U. s. Navy Photo From NEA)
Continued from Page 1.)

Naval aircraft bombed light enemy naval craft near the French chan mel coast.
 The Munich raid came on the eve of the third anniversary of the start of the German blitz on London. German planes dropped 7,500 tons of bombs on London in a little more than nine months in 1940-4l, but the RAF dropped an even greater tonnage of explosives on Hamburg in eight days month ago.
 A feeble reminder of the blitz was provided by the sounding of an air raid alert in the British capital early today. An enemy plane was heard in one suburb, but no bombs were dropped and the all-clear fol- lowed soon afterward.
 Bombs On Britain
 Bombs were dropped, however on two country districts in East Anglia and two places on the English southeast coast. Only slight dam age and no casualties were report ed Two raiders were shot down.
 The assault on Munich climaxed one of the heaviest series of day. light raids ever made on Hitler's European fortress.
 American flying fortresses paced the attacks with the raids on Stuttgart, Germany, and airfields at Orleans and Conchess, northwest France, while American and Brit ish medium and light bombers joined in with raids on railway yards at Rouen, Abbeville, Ser queuX, and Amiens, and docks at Boulogne, also all in France.
 The fortresses alone shot down 70 enemy fighters which sought to halt the increasing penetration of Hitler's domain, while l2 others were shot down by American and British fighters escorting and cov- ering the medium bomber raids. Thirty-five American planes and four British Spitfires were lost.
 The vast Armada of fortresses which attacked Stuttgart probably was largest ever sent out from British bases. Poor visibility hamp- cred the bombers, but cornmun- ique reported that huge fires were left burning.
 American Marauders also left large fires blazing at Arniens air- field British Mitchell and Ventu- "a bombers wrecked an enemy tor pedo boat shelter at Boulogne.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

landing point. Then three blocks of transports swept in almost before the snokescreen touched the ground.
 Jumping from an extremely low altitude. the paratroops swung in their harness only three times be- fore landing and not a single one hit more than a few yards from where 1t was supposed to.
 Flip Of A Coin
 A flip of a coin gave me the lucky spot in a Flying Fortress, represent ing all news agencies. Lawrie's plane acted about like an advanced command post.
 Everything went down with the paratroopers, from Bibles to barb ed wire. Lawrie and his assistant, Major J. w. Imhof of Onoonta, N. J.. read the ground signals through out as we cut lazy figure eights in the area. Two hours after the at- tack began, we received, there's no opposition" signals.
 While the paratroops had worse time, ours wasn't easy-they re- rorted us as missing twice, crashing into the sea or into moun- tains.
 MacArthur, accompanied by Col onel L. A. Diner of Syracuse, N. Y.. and Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Morhouse of Ticonderoga. N. Y, the latter his personal physician, flew in a plane piloted by Lieutenant Col onel Harry Hawthorn of San An- tonic. Tex, Brigadier General Roger Rance, Denton, Tex. commander of the 5th Bomber Command, flew as co-pilot.
 Corporal Joseph II. Winzak of Everson, Pa. collected over $2.000 for today's jump as winner of an en- listed mems pool in which the win- ne- took all plus the right to jump first and months leave at Sydney. But he lost the first jump assign ment because of a shift in planes.
 A unit commanding ofiicer. Col oneI Kenneth H. Kinzler 4i, of Davenport. Ia.. was the first man down. Captain Harris T. Mitchell. sVs VI &4b@ANofAAsNt RA9'e NAAAsNt VI aAs officers pool with the same rights as Winzak, was second.
 Among those on the long lines of red. white, blue, orange, and khaki paraehutes were two chaplains. each making their sand jump. They were Captain John .. Powers. 32. Oneon. ia, Y. F., . Catholic, and First Lieutenant Robert Herb. 32. Of Luz. creme. Pa. an Epike0palian. They carried medical equipment. testaS menis and prayeTbookS -- Powers even had a tiny layout for Mass with q single reversible veStment.
 Gen. Douglas MaeArthuTs sue. cess in cutting off force Of nearly 9n.O00 Japanese in northeastern New Guinea is . further indication of JapanaGe inability 10 hold the outer peFimeteT of their vast ARG Of domination ln the Pacific.
 The enemy'B weakness is that re- apeet already has been demonsirais ed in the Aleuiians and the central aelonaens. Tt ig due to two pTlia. exE aanses- -ovoT-eEianaea e,lpDly