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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

ment in New York. I paid $65 a
month for it and felt it was quite
enough for an unmarried girl. 1t
was an old brownstone walk-up in
the East Forties. In Hollywood my
producers had an apartment already
leased for me. gasped at the rent
$3.50 a month. The rooms are
large and tastefully done in modern
manner. There is a lovely swim
ming pool just outside my living
room on the terrace. They had
car for me also. But I have no time
to idle by the pool I leave home
at 6 In the morning and often don't
get back there until after at night.
My part in the picture is long-it
was 140 lines in the theater and is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

conner he-men glamour boys to have
to face the question, why aren't
you in the Army7" when they've
tried to get in and can't. Next time
you see one in a movie give him a
break. Don't scoff. He feels Just
as badly about it as that healthy
looking young 4-F up the street
from you.
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He Provides the Atmosphere
By Jean Meeean
NEW YORK. Hughes Is

Hughes is fond of saying Isn't
this fun?" when he is showing of
any innovation, from his own desk
done in deep-green felt to his own
bathroom papered in fashioned
comic valentines. His dining room
table Is all glass. The whole apart
ment is on par with his profess
sional jobs.
Aside from that and the Bistros,
Hughes has been commissioned to
do murals by people who could az
ford to pay for them for their Long
Island estates. He had the job last
spring of doing" Madison Square
Garden so that it wouldn't look like
Madison Square Garden for the re-
ception in honor Of Nine. Chang
Kai-shek.
Unalterable Reputation.
At the moment he is having a
good laugh at Hollywood. Some one
suggested him as q possible scenic
designer. The person considering
me finally announced after consid-
cradle reflection: Well, I don't know
how much work there would be for
Franklin Hughes-we don't have
many night club interiors in pic
lures"
AS matter of fact, Hughes is
incurably stagestruck and would just
as soon advance his esthetic and
financial career by doing stage sets.
One thing he can't stand is to be
called an interior decorator; he
thinks it has a sissy connotation.
This boy who was born poor and in
the country is making an imperious
mark on the most sophisticated as
pect Of our times. He fixes up night
clubs as though he alone had to sit
in them, but he practically never
does. He likes cold glass of beer
and Tugs it from the corner bar in
a tin bucket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05
Crawford's First
To Be Original
HOLLYWOOD.

Edmund Goulding, noted for his
ability to direct "women's pictures,
has written an original idea for a
screen play which will serve as
Joan Crawford's first picture under
her new contract with Warner Bros.
The love story is titled Never
Good-by," and Goulding will direct
Miss Crawford when the production
gets under way early in the fall
The directors most recent assign
ment at Warner Bros was The
Constant Nymph." Jack L. Warner
has assigned the production to
Henry Blanke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

Claire anything but Miss" The
great actresses of the theater fill me
with awe. I can't get used to the
word star" as used in Hollywood.
When they say: You're the star of
Claudia" I'm frightened. To me,
a star Is some one who arrives at
honor and acclaim after years of
hard work and brilliant perform
ances; stars carry full responsibility
at the box -office. I feel I'm a be-
ginner in an art which takes a life
time to perfect.
When people say: "Why, Dor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

othy. you're just like Aice In Won.
deriand where Hollywood Is con-
cerned," think it very good com.
parison. After all, Alice slipped out
of little bottle with the label,
Drink nie" Then she changed: She
either grew very tall or very small.
In the interval she had frightened.
nervous feeling. That frightened,
nervous feeling is what waiting to
see the result of your first picture
is like.
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Holy Week
Services for
Abr. 13-14-15-16

The st. Paul INSTRUMENTATION
Ministerial Alliance will sponsor
union pre-Holy Week services four
nights next week. The first serv-
ice will be held Tuesday, April 10,
in the Apostolic Faith Mission, 18th
and Minnesota, with Rev. S. E.
Ware of the Pilgrim Baptist
Church, preaching. Wednesday the
service will be held in the St.
James A. M. E. Church, Dale and
Central, with Rev. John A. Nelson
of the Apostolic Faith Church,
preaching. Rev. B. N. Moore of
the St. James A. M. E. Church will
preach Thursday at the Camphor
Memorial Methodist Church, 585
Fuller Avenue. Friday night, April
16, the service will be held in the
Pilgrim Baptist Church, Grotto and
Central, with Rev. C. T. R. Nelson
of the Pilgrim Baptist Church,
preaching. These services will be-
gin with a praise and testimony
meeting at 7:30 p. m, each eve
ming.
The union three-hour Good Fri
day service, sponsored by the Ali
ance, will be held at the St. James
Church Friday, April %, from IL
until 8 p. m. The members of the
Alliance will cooperate in the Holy
Week services under the auspices
of the Mt. Oivet Baptist Church
in that church.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
Why Don't You Do Right?

people with the of other coored
people acting enough talk of organizing vgans
decency and duty into row careless heons
who give all darknned people bad Of they won't
bu unAmercan) practice but it's proof
they're pretty
True many white workers act the but that's not the
johnson sad compelled to
well anybody have to set precedent for
sedness and willingness that other workers find
hard impossible to excel We cannot yield temp
having good time with having good job We under
the necessity breaking down the old stereotype that workers
shfess unreliable and incapable In other words stick to
knittn ken-Charley Cherokee in the Chicago Defender
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Credjafawn to
Sponsor Forum
Meeting Apr. II

The regular bi-monthly forum of
the Halle Q. Brown House will be
presented by the Credjafawn So
cial Club, Inc, on Sunday after
noon, April II, at 4 o'clock.
The speaker will be Mr.. E. T..
Randall, pastor of the radio pro-
gram Country Church of the Air"
on WLOL every Sunday morning.
Mr.. Randall is also affiliated with
WCCO, as well as the pastor of a
church in Hopkins, Minnesota.
Other speakers will be Mrs.
Beatrice Coleman and Mr.. B. F.
Henderson, who will introduce the
principal speaker. Mr.. John Law
renee, program chairman, will pre-
side.
Plans have been made to have
very entertaining musical numbers
on the program. The Credjafawn
Service Flag dedicated recently at
the Annual Parents Banquet, will
be displayed to the public for the
first time.
Ushers for the meeting will in
clude the following members: Mes
danes Jane Lee, Ruth Benner, Eula
Taylor and Theresa Herring.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
St. Paul Elks Rest
Draws Big Crowds
ut SUNDAY Dinners

The St. Paul Elks' Rest, 588
Rondo avenue, which is now doing
business daily, were greeted last
Sunday with a large crowd Of din
ner patrons who apparently en-
joyed the deliciously cooked spe-
cial dinners.
Beginning Monday of next week,
the Rest will serve regular meals
daily. Another one of their new
features is the special Saturday
morning breakfast being served to
&c" shift workers, beginning at 8
a. m. on Saturday mornings.
The best cooks serving the best
fod obtainable is the aim of the
management. See their ad else
where in this issue.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
Halle @. Brown
Branch Library
Open to Public

Monday, April 5, marked the
opening of the Halle @. Brown cir
culating library station under the
of Mrs. Loehr, director
of the branch department of the
city library.
Books will be available for chill
dren and adults. Literature per-
tanning to various phases of Ne
gro life, others written by and
about Negroes, will be one of the
main features of the library. Books
for children ranging from simple
picture books to the more mature
solid reading of high school stu
dents will be found on the shelves.
Students will find variety of ref
erence works at their disposal. Re-
quests for books not yet on the
shelves will be filled from the main
library.
Holders Of city library cards may
use the same cards at the Halle
branch. Cards will be issued each
Monday from 1 to 8 p. m. and
Thursdays from 1 to s p. m. to
those without cards. A librarian
will be in attendance on those days
to take charge of the circulation of
books.
Misses Elizabeth McCracken and
Elizabeth Moore prepared the book
lists and set up the library with
the assistance of Mrs. Loehr and
Mrs. Frances Hughes who had
years Of experience with the Chi
cago, ILL.,, library system before
coming to st. Paul.
Individuals or clubs wishing to
make gifts of books, appropriate
for library use, may contact Mrs.
Hughes for gift suggestions. A
gift plate bearing the donors name
will be placed in each book given
to the station.
Open house, sponsored by the L.
brary committee, will be held April
16 when the library and its facili-
ties will be officially presented to
the public. A program is being
planned. Tea viii be served.
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sometimes fish, though fishing has
been restricted drastically by the
French Navy to prevent escapes
from the islands.
field School.
The U. S. food blockade - for
which, according to travellers, the
Negroes blame Adm. Robert, not
the Americans-is stimulating the
symptoms of rebellion. Seeing no
indication that Adm. Robert in
tends to give in to the State Dept,
the native blacks are said to be pre-
pairing an uprising designed to pro-
duce such widespread disorder that
U. S. forces will move in "to re-
store law and order"
Success of such revolt, it is said,
would be entirely dependent on the
quick arrival of American troops.
The Negroes are not armed well
enough to do the job alone.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
PREFERRED
MERCHANTS
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.
Abramovich Hardware, Apparel
Exchange, Berdes Food Mkt, Boyd
Service Station, Brooks Funeral
Home, Camphor M. E. Church,
Commerce Liquor, Diamond Groc-
cry, Dunbar Cafe, G. & G. Barbe-
cue, Gardeners D. K, Harry's Cash
Market, Jim's Place, Kol R. Co.,
Northern States Power Co., Pill
grim Baptist Church, Posey Shop,
Rite Liquor Store, Maurice L.
Rothschilds, St. James A. M. E.
Church, B. E. Scott Insurance, Sir
oft Center Pharmacy, Seldale
Cut Rate Drug, Summit Cleaners,
Sweeney's Cleaners, Unidale
Liquor, Walker Hotel, Welcome
Hall and Zinsmaster Baking.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
Mrs. Anna C. Comp
Found Dead In Bathroom

Mrs. Anna C. Camp, 6S2 Iglehart
avenue, was found dead in the
bathroom Of her home, Sunday,
April a, at 2:30 p. m. when police
broke into the house at the request
of neighbors. Apparently she died
Saturday evening while preparing
for bed.
Mrs. Harriet Smith, a neighbor,
was returning from church Sunday
and knocked at Mrs. Camps door.
Not being able to arouse anyone
and noticing that the shades were
down, she went over to the home
of Mrs. Josie Williams, CTS lyle
hart avenue, who called the police.
Mrs. Camp has been in ill health
for the past two years. She spent
the first part of the winter with
relatives in Des Moines, Iowa, re-
turning to her home here about the
first of December.
Born in Charlottesville, Virginia,
she moved to Muchakinock, Iowa,
with her parents while still small
child. She received her elementary
and high school education there
and moved to Des Mines, Iowa,
where she completed a course in
music at Drake University.
For several years she Travelled
with concert groups in this coun-
try and in Mexico and taught in
the public school system in Peoria,
Illinois. In Illinois, she met and
married the late Rev. George w.
Camp in 1912.
Mrs. Camp came to st. Paul as a
bride and for twenty-five years
with her husband worked in the
Presbyterian Church. They started
with a mission on Western and
Aurora avenues. From 1876
Zion Presbyterian Church on West
ern and St. Anthony avenues, the
parsonage next door, and Welcome
Hall were erected. Today Welcome
Hall community center is still
meeting real need in the commu-
nifty.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, April 8, at Campho1
M. E. Church, with Rev. Clarence
T. R. Nelson officiating, assisted by
the ministers of the st. Paul Pres
byteria. Mrs. C. B. Wheeler and
Mrs. Cora Esther Moore were the
soloists. Interment was in Oak
land cemetery.
Survivors include a brother, Ser
geant Jewett, Des Moines, Iowa
niece, Gertrude Brown, Des
Moines, Iowa, and other relatives.
Arrangements made by Brooks
Funeral Home, 697 Rondo avenue
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
More Local
Men Report to
Fort Smelling

Among the Twin City men who
will report to Fort Smelling Fri
day, April 9, for induction into the
United States Army, are: Mime
apolis, Scott Tyler, Ralph Barbee,
Carl Green, Charles Beasley, Joe
Lester, Ora Parks, Jacob Primm,
Wilbur Thompson, Lloyd Bryant,
Leon Brown, James Mady and Will
liam Joseph, Jr. St. Paul, James
Edwards, Lewis Mills, Ebert Cot
ton, Elmer Woods, Floyd Gamble,
Arnold Ingerson, Roy Coleman,
Lawrence James, Edward Whitak-
er, Orville Anderson, Rosco Hutch
inson, Robert Power and Franklin
Jones.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
Roy Dunn Denies
Statement in Paper

Representative Roy E. Dunn,
majority leader in the Minnesota
House of Representatives, denied
the statement in this paper on
April 2, which said, "Tt is report
ed that Representative Richard
(Jack) T. Hart, a Moose Lake re-
sort operator, secured the assist
ance of Roy Dunn, Republican ma
jority leader Of the House, and Rep
resentative Harry C. Nonnemacher
of st. Paul as well as the speaker
Of the House, Lawrence M. Hall, to
kill the equal rights BILL"
Representative Dunn told this
newspaper last Friday that he had
never discussed the bill with any
member Of the legislature.
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shunted from one committee to an
other in the House was finally re-
ported out by the judiciary COM
mittee on Tuesday with certain
amendments which literally took
the teeth out of the present Equal
Rights Statute. The bill was re-
ported out with the addition of the
words national origin or religion"
The words "no person shall be ex-
cluded on account of race or color"
were left in the bill but the
$500 civil damage clause was elimi-
mated. The amended bill also re-
duces any act of discrimination in
public place from a "gross dis
meanor to a misdemeanor." Public
opinion led by the daily and week
ly finally forced the committee to
take the bill off the table"
A coordinating committee COM
posed of representatives of many
community organizations in St.
Paul and bi-racial committees of
Minneapolis met in the Halle @.
Brown House, st. Paul, Thursday
to bring about favorable actions
on the original bill passed by the
Senate as s. F. 124.
The members of the St. Paul
Committee are: Rev. C. T. R. Mel
son, chairman; Frank Alsup, Clar-
ence Wiggington, James Hughes,
F. Vincent Owens, Frank Boyd, I.
Myrtle Garden, Rev. B. N. Moore,
Maceo Littlejohn. From Minneap-
oils, Irving Blumber, chairman,
Jonas Schwartz, Rev. Robert W.
Kelly, Mrs. J. E. Wilcox, Cecil E.
Newman, Mrs. J. Hawkins and Miss
Irma Clardy.
A mass meeting will be held at
the Halle Q. Brown House, Friday,
April 9, for the purpose of enlisting
the support of all liberal whites as
well as Negro groups and indi-
viduals in the fight to save the bill.
This meeting will be under the
auspices of the st. Paul NAACP
Branch.
The following committee had a
conference with Governor Stassen
on last Friday, urging his support
of the bill. Mr.. Milton Firestone,
Bnai Birth. Emmons Abelef, rep
resentative of Temple Israel
Minneapolis; Sam Scheiner, execu-
tive director of the Minnesota Jew
ish Council; jeff Calmenson, past
president of American Jewish Con-
gress; Rev. Howard Wiley, Mime
apolis Church Federation; Ben
Flesher, Catholic, participant, CO.
chairman National Council Of
Christians and Jews; Mrs. Jean
Wilcox, Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom;
Rev. C. T. R. Nelson, st. Paul
Branch NAACP. The Governor
stated he has been supporting the
bill all along.
Some observers declare that the
ton in crowded calendar of the
bill will not come up for considera-
House which ends on April 81.
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Howard Coleman Is Dead

Howard Coleman, 667 Rondo ave-
nue., 30 years old, died Friday,
April 2, at the U. S. Veterans Hos
pital where he had been i'll for sew
eral months.
Funeral services We're held We'd
nesday, April z, with Chaplain
Spry of Fl. Smelling and Rev. S. E.
Ware of Pilgrim Baptist Church.
He was member of the Amer
lean Legion, having served in the
first World War. Military rites at
Fl. Smelling completed the cere-
mony.
He is survived by a wife, Leona,
and several brothers and sisters.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09

at the behest of a prejudiced en-
ployer who refused to hire avail
able Negro labor could then order
10000 Negro workers to pick cot
ton though they possessed the
skills to work in industry.
"This bill gives an employer the
right to reject a batch of drafted
labor without assigning any reason
for doing so and then permits him
to call on the United States Gov
eminent to provide more patches
from which he can choose those he
wishes to employ. The worker
would not have even the protection
provided by the Civil Service where
the employer has to choose from
the top three on the list. In short,
omnipotent controls are placed in
his hands to compel servitude with
out the correlative obligation to
protect the servitor."
Asked at this point by Senator
Austin, Republican of Vermont, if
the insertion into the bill of a re-
quirement that workers would have
to be selected without regard to
race or color for assignment to war
industries, would meet Mr.. Whites
objections, White said that such an
inclusion would strengthen the bill.
White, citing the deplorable
treatment of Negro soldiers in the
South, argued, "even with ample
laws on the statute books, the fed
eral government has failed to pro-
tect the Negro from intimidation,
coercion and abuse while he is theo-
retically unfettered and free.
"What can be the prospect for
covered domestic, agricultural, in
dustrial, and defense workers living
in the South and faced with COM
pulsory service legislation which in
most instances will be nothing less
than government approved peon-
age?" White asked. "What chance
would qualified Negro machinist
living in Mississippi have if he ap-
pealed Nthe decision of his draft
board denying his application to
go to Detroit to work in an air
plane factory when such board had
previously classified him to work
as a common field hand? believe
the answer is obvious.
"The Association feels" White
concluded, chat compulsion will
not eliminate the confusion in the
manpower problem for it is but q
part Of a bigger problem which
constituted authority is unwilling
to tackle. Compulsory service
legislation as represented by the
Austin Wadsworth bill, would de-
stroy the foundation of freedom in
America and open the door to I'M
restrained intimidation, coercion
and abject subjugation of minority
groups in America. We are ire
vocably opposed to this legisla-
ton" .>..
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09

Mr.. Robson sang the prayer and
death scene from "Boris Godoun-
ow" by Moussorgsky.
The orchestra, under the baton
of Mitropoulos, played nineteen Sc
lections. The concert opened with
the "Star Spangled Banner"
In a short interview with Mr..
Robson back stage following the
performance, he said that he plan
ned to do several more concerts,
the next one being in Tacoma,
Washington. Then, he planned to
rest for a while and take fellow
ship in New York in the fall
E. B.
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Leroy A. Bell
Enters Cavalry
Officers School

Leroy A. Bell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur J. Bell, 1929 9Th St.
South, Minneapolis, Mimi, station
ed at Cavalry Replacement Train
ing Center, has recently been pro-
NOTED to corporal and selected to
attend Cavalry Officers Candidate
School at Fit. Riley.
Prior to his entry into the army
last June, Cpl. Bell was a doorman
at Young and Quinlan in Mime
apolis. He is a graduate of South
high.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09
Sergeant Barnett
Visits Home

Sergeant Leon Barnett, well
known Twin Citian, now stationed
at Keesler Field, Mississippi, with
the goth Aviation Squadron, was
home to visit family and friends
this week. He will leave April IL
for St. Louis to visit with his sister,
Miss Marie Barnett.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-04-09

Sorority and supplemented the tes-
timony of Mr.. White.
The bill provides that the Presi-
dent through the Chairman of War
White pointed out that the bill is
based on a false assumption, for
there still exists huge reservoir of
voluntary man and womanpower
which has not yet been utilized be-
cause of racial prejudice. He cited
the bills failure to compel employ
ers to accept all workers who vol
unteer or are drafted regardless of
the workers race or color as one of
it's most glaring faults. White add
ed that the bill contains no ade-
quate safeguards to protect work.
ers from arbitrary action by en-
ployers or local draft boards.
Charles H. Houston, attorney,
spoke for the National Non-Parti-
san Council of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Manpower Commission, may issue
a call for volunteers specifying the
number of persons required with
their qualifications and the places
where their work would be per-
formed. "But," said White, sit Gre
ates no obligation on the employer
to accept such volunteers.
"The underlying assumption of
$685." continued White, "is that
workers are not volunteering for
service in war industries and must
therefore be drafted. This assump-
ton is belied by the facts. There is
already a vast reservoir of Negro
man and womanpower today beg
ging for employment at their prop
er skills and levels, but to whom
the doors are tightly closed and
bolted.
"In a recent War Manpower
Commission estimate there are still
100000 Negroes who are outright
unemployed. There are 100000
farmhands working on cotton crops
when we have a two years supply
on hand. According to John Beech
er, former regional representative
of the F. E. P. c., there are g.
100000 seasonal farm workers
whose services could be entirely
utilized to meet manpower needs.
eve are also opposed to this leg
islation," White declared, because
it contains no safeguards to pro-
tect the worker against arbitrary
action on the part of employers or
local draft boards. This bill is
entirely silent on the obligation Of
an employer not to discriminate
on account of race, creed, or color,
to properly assign and upgrade en-
ployees, to use safety appliances,
and to establish reasonable wage,
hour and health regulations.
"The bill requires compulsory
service but does not guarantee en-
ployment. For example, under
S.666, 10000 white workers could
be drafted and transferred to a
southern community even though
there were already present there
10000 Negroes capable of filing
the job. A prejudiced draft board