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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-05-07
Jews In Sports
WALTER MILLER ONE
OF THE BEST
BY MORRIS WIENER


1t is generally known that the
jockey who established a record
for riding winners in a season,
which has never been remotely
approached, was a Jew. He was
Walter Miller, a Brooklyn lad, who
for two successful seasons was
the most brilliant rider who ever
booted a gee-gee down the stretch.
Earl Sande and Snapper Garrison
stand out in the record books as
crackerjacks with the whip and
the boot, but none of them was a
more astute judge of pace or was
able to control highly strung
thoroughbred better than Miller.
In 1904 he rode S88 winning
mounts and followed it up the next
year with 1874 winners. Today, if
a jockey has leg up on 200 first
place horses in a season, he is
acclaimed Superman. Miller'S
services were in such demand that
in 1906 he rode in 1884 races
another untouched record. The
legends have it that bettOrs threw
away their form charts and let
their money ride with the Jewish
lad. And small wonder. More
than half of Miller's mounts fin
ished in the money; twenty-eight
percent, still another record, were
under the wire first. He was still
the top rider of the turf when ex-
cess weight, the bugbear of all
jockeys forced him to climb down
from the saddle in 1908.
How Wally came by this mar
velous understanding Of horses
must forever remain a mystery.
Inherited? Hardly. The best guess
is an instructive understanding
and the story goes that it was a
thrill just to see the Jewish pint
sized kid perched high on a strain
ing neck and whisper into an at
tentive ear.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-05-07
DE VALERA REFUSES TO
ADMIT JEWISH REFUGEES

London (JPS)-It is reported
here that President canon de
Valera is strongly opposed to the
admission of Jewish refugees into
Fire and, in fact, is planning to
tighten immigration restrictions.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-05-07

Burton Bernard, 16-year old
member of the Granite City, ILL.,,
chapter of Aleph Zadik Aleph,
B'nai Birth youth organization,
who won first place and $4,000
scholarship in the national OratOry
contest of the American Legion.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Council Meets
Sunday, Mar. Ia,
Discuss Hotels

At the second quarterly meeting
of the Minneapolis Council of Ne
gro Organizations to be held Sum
day, March IA, ways and means
will be discussed to carry out their
proposal to do something about the
discriminatory practices of down
town hotels and restaurants.
Transient Negroes in Mime
apolis, especially actors and mu-
sicians, suffer a great deal of incon-
venience in regard to hotel and res
taurant accommodations and are
usually obliged to live in private
homes regardless of the distance
to be travelled each day to and from
work.
A recent example was when the
"Porgy and Bess" cast came to the
city and was forced to be housed
in homes spread all over the city.
The Council wishes to arrive at
an organi4 ID approach to the prob
lem which places Negro guests in
the city and also local people to a
great disadvantage. All member
organizations are urgently re-
quested to have delegates and their
organization heads present at this
meeting.
The meeting is being called for
4 p. m. at PHYLLIS WheatleY House.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Bond to Be
Given AWAY

A $25 United States War Bond
will be given away on Wednesday
night, March II, at the Dining Car
Walters headquarters, 4431a Rondo
avenue, st. Paul, by the Twin City
Co-ordinating committee of the
N. A. A. C. P.
This committee was appointed by
the Minneapolis and St. Paul
branches of the N. A. A. C. P. to
continue the fight for equal rights
for Negroes in the U. S. armed
forces which was instituted by Sgt.
Samuel Reed and ten other SER
geants at Camp Lee, Va. A sum-
mary of the activities of the COM
mittee, including a financial report
by the secretary-treasurer Irwin
Bloomberg, will be given.
Cyrus L. Lewis, co-chairman of
the Ways and Means committee, re-
quests that all pledges and receipts
from donation books be RENTED
on or before Wednesday night at
g p. M, March II. Refreshments
will be served.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Preferred
Merchants

Among the preferred merchants
advertising in this paper this week
are:
DR.. Banks, Barney's Cafe, DIR.
Barr, Sidney Beane, Bells Cafe,
Boutell's Furniture Co., Common
wealth Loan Co., Cooks Liquor
Store, Milk Dealers, Dreamland
Cafe, Family Loan, Gluek's Brew
ing Co., Great Northern Food Mar
ket, Hussey's Hat Cleaners, Jim &
Doyles, Kol-R-Vending Machines,
Karlsbrau Beer, Al Knutsen Meats,
Liemandt's, Lynch's Dry Cleaning,
Metropolitan Florists, Mill City
Laundry, Minneapolis Artificial
Limb, Minneapolis Brewing Co.,
National Beauty, Northern States
Power Co., Perry's Watch Shop,
Plymouth Liquor Store, Powers,
Purity Drug, Scandal Coal, Serville
Hotel, South of the Border, goth
Century, Woodland Funeral Home,
Zinsmaster Baking Co.
These merchants appreciate the
patronage Of the readers of this
paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
StrutWear Joins
Fair Employers
Who Hire Negroes

The Strutwear Knitting Company
is the latest Minneapolis firm to let
down the bars on Negro employ
ment. Last week Chas. w. Wash
ington, Executive Secretary of the
Minneapolis Urban League, was in
vited to meet with officials of the
company to discuss plans for in
tegrating Negro workers into va
rious jobs in the plant.
A limited number of jobs are
available for men, but to date there
is no ceiling on the number of wom-
en- to be employed. Women who
have had some training or expert
ence in the operation Of power ma
chimes are preferred, but others
with high degree of aptitude for
this type of work will be given a
try-out.
Those interested in this type of
employment are urged to contact
the office of the Minneapolis Urban
League, 240 South 4th street, Min
neapolis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Funeral Held For
BILLY" Graham
Veteran GIN Waiter

William H. Graham, 62, 1905
Fifth Ave. &c., died March at
Minneapolis hospital where he had
been taken for an emergency blood
TRANSMISSION.
Mr.. Graham, born in Cape
Girardeau, Mo-, has been ill sew
eral months. He spent several
weeks at Fairview hospital where
he was taken with pneumonia con-
tracted while on his job as waiter
on the Great Northern Railroad
where he had been employed for
26 years. He was later taken home
and believed to be improving ia
vorably until last Thursday when
he became suddenly ill and died a
few hours later.
Funeral services were held Mon
day, March 8, at st. Peter A.M.E.
Church, where Mr.. Graham was a
MEMBER. Kew. A. j. Irvine ottlcl-
ated, assisted by Rev. T. B. Stovall,
presiding elder. Rev. J. C. Clay
bourne was also present. Anchor
Hilyard Lodge, A. F. & A. NJ, con-
Quoted the Masonic service.
Survivors include Mrs. Anna
Graham, wife, Mrs. Cecil Lewis,
daughter, of St. Paul, two grand
children, two great-grandchildren,
Mrs. Susie Ellis, sister, of St. Paul,
brother in Los Angeles and a
brother in New York.
Interment was in Lakewood
cemetery. Woodland Funeral Home
was in charge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Virginia Lane
Joins WAAG

Miss Virginia M. Lane, young
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Lane, 722 Fremont Avenue North,
is now enrolled in the WAACS, and
is expecting to be called to Fort
Des Moines, Iowa, for basic train
ing soon. Miss Lane has been en-
ployed in Washington, D. c., along
with her two older sisters, Harriet
and Luvenia, for the last nine
months. She is a graduate of North
High and is known throughout the
Northwest for winning first place
Nm several Literature and Art Con-
tests. The Lane Sisters are also
well known for their singing trio.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12

and grows in an America in which
education is required by law. The
one had a precarious existence on
the support Of a people only 10
per cent literate. The other gathers
strength with the onward American
march of education to the point
when measured by national stand
ards-Negroes are only 10 per cent
illiterate, and when thousands of
open-minded white people are turn
ing to the Negro Press for infor-
nation they cannot obtain else
where.
The Negro Press may seem more
vocal today than usual. This is
because the times are more criti-
cal, and human freedom and the
natural rights of man are in
greater jeopardy than at any time
in our history. Our Press has
grown to maturity. It's voice is
deeper-and more resonant. To
those who have kept attuned over
the years to the devotion of the
Negro Press to freedom; to its
passion for justice; to it's trust in
democracy; to its faith in Ameri-
cas- purpose, this more audible
voice is not a sudden projection of
sound. It is a development that
has been proceeding for 116 years.
1t is the up-swelling crescendo,
reaching the climax that makes its
pleas for justice and democracy
heard around the world.
At the beginning of the 10Th CEN
fury an American newspaper car
ried at it's masthead these inspir-
ing lines:
Here shall the Press the peoples
rights maintain,
Unawed by influence and I'M
bribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious
precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty and
Law"
The Negro Press would wish to
amend only the last line. 1t would
have America know that it stands
now, as it has always stood,
pledged to God and Country to
Liberty and Law"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Rev. B. n. Moore
Elected to St. Paul
Ministers Assn.

Rev. B. N. Moore, pastor of St.
James A.M.E. church, st. Paul, has
been elected to the executive COM
mittee of the St. Paul Ministers
Association whose job it is to build
the yearly program for ministers
of protestant faith. The associa-
ton is connected with the Ramsey
County Sunday School Association.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
FL Secretary
inD.C. to Oppose
Poll Taxes

Washington, D. C.-Mrs. Vienna
Johnson, St. Paul executive secre-
tary of the Minnesota Farmer-La-
Dor Association, is in Washington
attending a meeting of the Ma
tional Committee for the Abolition
of the Poll Tax.
BING0 PARTY
The Altar Society Of st. Peter
Claver Church, Aurora and Far
ringtOn, will have a BingO Party
Wednesday, March II, at s p. m,
in the sub-auditOrium of the church.
Ora Anderson is chairman of the
arrangement committee.-advt.
ROLLER SKATING PARTY
The P. T. A. of Mckinley School
will sponsor a Roller Skating Party
at Oxford Roller Rink, 1851 Grand
avenue, st. Paul, Monday, March
Is, at 1880 p. m. Admission 33c.-
advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
ROscO Ailep Dies,
Veteran Waiter
VETERAN RAILROAD WAITER
DIES

DIES
Roscoe Ailep, TIT Rondo avenue,
waiter for the Northern Pacific
Railway for 33 years, died Sunday,
March 7, at the Northern Pacific
Hospital, after a long illness.
Born in Galena, Kansas, October
II, 1890, Mr.. Ailep had been resi-
dent of the city since 1910. He was
a member of Local SIC and of
Camphor M. E. Church.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday, March 10, at II a. m, with
the Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson,
pastor of Camphor, officiating. Two
beautiful solos were sung by Mrs.
Winona jenkins accompanied by
Mrs. Louella Taylor. Her numbers
were To-day" and "He Knows Just
How Much We Can Bear" PAIL
bearers were members of Local
516 and interment was in Elmhurst
cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Carrie
B. Ailep, mother, Mrs. Margaret
Ailep of Galena, Kansas, three sis
tiers, Mrs. Viola Owens and Mrs.
Daisy Clark, both of Kansas City,
Missouri, and Mrs. Pinkey Vernon
of Galena, Kansas, a brother, Pvt.
Richard Ailep of Camp Shelby,
Mississippi.
Mrs. Sylvia Delifus, sister-in-
law, South Bend, Indiana, came to
the city to attend the funeral serv-
ices.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Let's Not Forget

Senator S. A. Stockwell is con-
fined to Franklin Hospital, SOL W.
Franklin Ave-, Minneapolis. Most
Minnesotans know him as the
grand old man of liberal Minnesota
politics. Negroes know him as one
of the staunchest friends the Ne
gro people of this state ever had.
Senator Stockwell's condition is
fair. ..
We imagine the Senator would
like to receive mail from his friends
who are a legion.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
ASKS JIM CROW BAN IN
GUARDS

Albany, Mar. 5. Assemblyman
Andrew d., Manhattan) today in
troduced a bill to end discrimina-
ton in the State Guard. It was
directed against Jim Crow regi-
ments and would forbid formation
of any units within the Guard COM
posed of, or restricted to, members
of any particular race, creed or re-
ligion.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
First Federal
Judge Coming
Here March %

Citizens of Minneapolis and st.
Paul are looking forward enthusi-
astically to their first opportunity
to hear Judge William H. HASTE
who will be guest speaker at the
seventeenth annual meeting of the
Minneapolis Urban League. The
meeting will be held March q, 8
p. m, at the Minneapolis Y. W.
C. A., 1130 Nicollet avenue. The
Urban League announced that the
Twin Cities Ordnance Plant Chorus,
directed by Mr.. Clarence H. Russell,
will give several selections. This
chorus is made up of white and
Negro employees of the Twin Cities
Ordnance Plant.
Judge HASTE, Dean of the How
ard University Law School and for
mer Civilian Aide to the Secretary
of War, is one of the most out
standing of the Negro representa-
tives who have held a government
post. He was born in Knoxville,
Tennessee. A graduate of Dunbar
high school, Washington, D. c., he
received the A. B. Degree from Am
herst College, 1925, where he was
a ranking student. He was awarded
the NJ. A. Degree by Amherst in
1910 and serves as president of the
Amherst Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Judge HASTE received an LIB. De-
gree from Harvard University in
1880 and the SID. Degree in 1882.
When at Harvard he was a men,
Der of the Editorial Staff of the
Harvard Law Review. He began
his professional career in associa-
ton with Houston and Houston,
prominent law firm, Washington,
D. C. In 1933-37 he was the Assis-
tant Solicitor of the United States
Department of the Interior.
First Negro Federal Judge
In 1887 Judge HASTE was ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt as
Judge of the District Court of the
United States for the Virgin Is
lands, and was the first Negro ever
to be appointed to federal judge
ship. He became an instructor in
the Law School, Howard University,
in 1880, and in 1889 was appointed
Dean and Professor of Law at How
ard University. His appointment
as Civilian Aide to the Secretary
of War was made in 1910 which po-
sition he held until 1913, resigning
because of the refusal of the Army
Air Command to consider his rec
ommendation that Negroes be
trained on a large scale for all
branches of the air force.
Judge HASTE has been a member
of the District of Columbia Bar
since 1881. He is a vice president
of the National Lawyers Guild, the
National Bar Association of Wash
ington, member Omega Phi Psi fra
ternity, Director of the National
Board of the NAACP and a men,
Der of the A. M. E. Church.
On the basis of the interest
shown throughout the community
in Judge Hastie's appearance a
capacity audience is expected to
hear him on the 23rd. Chas. w,
Washington, Executive Secretary
of the Minneapolis Urban League
will review the major accomplish
ments of the organization during
the past year. Directors and Of.
ficers will be elected for 1913
Thomas Vennum, president Of the
organization, will preside.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Norfolk Publisher Traces
Part Negro Press Plays
In Life of Nation

New York. March SIN brilliant address the Columbia
Broadasng systems nationwide hooup, March p B. Young ST.
publisher of the Norfolk Va Journal and Guide traced the 16
years of growth of the Negro Press
Text of Address
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
PUTTING MONEY IN BANKl

Paying your income tax will
ingly and correctly is your way
of putting money in the "Allied
First international Victory
Bank" to insure your children's
future in a free, justice giving
world. It's a bank which pays
excellent interest rates.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
GO TO CHURCH

The private devotions and Sc
cret offices of religion are like
the refreshing of a garden with
the distilling and petty drops of
a waterproof; but addressed from
the temple they are like rain
from heaven.-Jeremy Taylor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-29
BY HELEN NJ. SCOTT
Hello Folks:

Just received an interesting let
ter from LIEUTENANT JAMES
BRADFORD, who is stationed in
the wilds of New Guinea. Jimmy
and his pal, SGT. MAJOR FOSTER
BROWN, are still stationed near
each other and getting along fine.
Our battling attorney to be"
Jimmy recently had a two week
furlough which he was allowed to
spend in Australia. He says he had
a grand time and met some lovely
"Aussie chicks" but he also said
they couldn't compare with the
adorable Twin City lassies. He
hopes the war ends soon so he can
come home again to all the beauty
he left behind.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-29

ments (about 1857. He had to
give this job up after few years,
as he developed a serious eye
strain.
He has written a number of popu-
lar songs, among them: "YOu
Taught Me To Love Again" For
two consecutive years he has been
awarded the Down Beat Trophy
for outstanding achievements in
the musical world.
His orchestra now consists of
fifteen men, including his we'll
known brother, Horace Henderson,
who recently received an honorable
discharge from the army. Follow
ing the trend of other big name
bands and because of the man
shortage, Henderson has two white
musicians playing in his band and
also has a white valet.
The subject of our interview says
he likes the Twin Cities very much,
having played at the Happy Hour
Club last year. Upon asking him
what he thought of our Twin City
ladies, he smiled and said, "they are
all lovely, but there are two kinds
of women in the world, my wife
(who is the sweetest) and all the
others who are Just ladies to me"
Upon ending the interview, the
well-known leader said his bands
next engagement is in Kentucky,
where they are playing a return
engagement at the swank Club Ma
drid.
Well, friends, until we meet
again, I am still
YOUR PAL,
SAL
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-29

L. NJ. P: My husband and l have
no children. We have been married
for twenty years. We have a COM
paratively large home for the two
of US and he wants to rent out some
of the rooms as we are in a section
where a place to live is hard to
find. am undecided as l feel that
it may break up our happy home.
What should l do?
Ans: Fix up your extra rooms
for renting and realize an income
from them. You may not enjoy the
privacy that you have been accus-
toned to these twenty years, but
rOOmers in the home should not
necessarily interfere with your pri-
vate life. Your husband is familiar
with the drastic shortages of living
quarters and feels that it is his
patriotic duty to give some Of the
workers a place to live.
D. c.: 1 am very unhappy and
unsuccessful as well. Will life al
ways be like this or will there be
a chance for me? feel so discour-
aged.
Ans: Why sour on the world
because you have had a ''let down"
-. this should give you spirit and
determination to seek something
better. A girl of 10, with your
qualifications shouldn't worry in
the least about another chance.
Sometimes it helps a person to be
discharged from a job, especially
when they weren't at all satisfied,
as it was in your case. Right now,
you can afford to be rather par
ticular in the job that you take . .
be sure that it's something that
you want to do.
B. B.: Pm in service and have
been here for several weeks. 1 met
a charming girl and I seem to have
fallen pretty hard for her, although
I don't know her very well. 1 have
a girl back home whom 1 had
planned to marry but since meet
ing the new one, l catch myself
realizing that maybe 1 was wrong.
Advise me along this line.
Ans: The new girl fascinates
you because she is entirely differ
ent from anyone you have ever
known She is a typical southern
girl and your friend back home rep
resents the true northern type. Be-
fore you left you were convinced
that you loved the girl in your
home town and you must not be-
come involved in another love affair
until you are absolutely sure that
the first love was a mistake. Know
more about the new girl before al
lowing yourself to form an opinion
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-29
File No. Clio
ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION FOR
ADMINISTRATION, LIMITING TINE
TO FILE CLAIMS AND FOR
HEARING THEREON

ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION FOR
ADMINISTRATION, LIMITING TINE
TO FILE CLAIMS AND FOR
HEARING THEREON
State Of Minnesota, County Of Hennepin.
In Probate Court.
In Re Estate Of Edgar Bennett, Decedent.
Order for Hearing Petition for Letters Of
Administration
II Is Ordered that all persons interested
show cause, II any they have, before this
Court on Monday, November %, 1913. at
10 o'clock A. M. in the Court House In
Minneapolis, Minnesota, why the petition
of Anthony Bennett, of East Point, GeOr-
gia, for the appointment Of Louie X. Per-
kins as administrator. herein hled, should
not be granted.
Order to File Claims and for Hearing
It Is Further Ordered that within four
months from the date hereof all creditors
of said Decedent Ale their claims In this
Court. Proofs will be heard and claims
examined and adjusted before this Court
on Monday, March 6, 1914, at 10 O'Clock
A. M. in the Court House In Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
These orders shall be published in the
Minneapolis Spokesman and copies mailed
according TO law.
COURT SEAL)
Witness the Hon. Manley L. Fosseen,
Judge of Probate Court, this 26th day Of
October, 1913.
ERNEST P. LoRENZ,
Clerk Of Probate Court.
HARRY L. SCOTT, Attorney.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-29

one way or the other. Bear in mind,
too, that you have much in COM
mon with the girl back home.
P. M: My wife and / can't get
along now that 1 am working out
of town. l come home on week
ends and there is a fuss from the
time reach here until leave. She
knows that l live with my mother
when am away and that shouldn't
be anything for her to worry about.
She is threatening to leave me if
1 don't get work here or where we
can be together. I need some pri-
vate help too. May I write you
soon?
Ans: Satisfy the wife if it means
moving her in the city where you
are employed Living alone as she
is having to do grows mighty
mOnOtOnOus and she won't ever be
satisfied under the present setup.
You may write me privately any
time that you wish. The new 1914
Readings are ready right now.
Send 25c, a self-addressed stamped
envelope, along with your prob
lens explained fully and you may
expect to hear from me by return
mail.
R. T.: There is a property settle
ment to be made in our family and
l feel that it was a little uncom-
mon for an in-law to be left the
privilege of being the executor of
the will. Do you think that we will
get our fair share and what should
we do?
Ans: The will has been read and
you will get that what was desig-
mated to you and the others will get
their fair share too. Your father
chose one of his sOns-in-law as
executor as he felt that he knew
more about handling a matter of
this kind than his own children,
who are all girls. He trusted him
unquestiOnably. The will must be
prObated before any settlement can
be made. 1t may take several more
weeks to get the matter settled al
tOgther.
KEEP POSTED. READ
YOUR LOCAL PAPER
WEEKLY.