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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Urban League
Auxiliary to Sell
Bonds & STAMPS

The Minneapolis Urban League
auxiliary is ready to take an active
part in the fourth War Bond Rally
which starts Jan. 10.
Mrs. Josephine Chambers, presi-
dent of the auxiliary, and a men,
Der of the Hennepin County Wom-
ems Division of War Finance Com
mittee, has received an award of
a double "V" pin for her outstand-
ing work. Mrs. Chambers will sell
bonds and stamps. Mrs. Ann Smith
of the Urban League office, Mrs.
E. l. Sims, Pleasant 1886, and Miss
Villa Booker, Atlantic 0027, will
also sell stamps and bonds.
The Minneapolis Urban League
auxiliary has been put on the honor
roll because ninety per cent of the
members buy war stamps and bonds
regularly. Other clubs and organi-
cations interested in winning bond
sales awards may get in touch with
Mrs. Chambers at Regent $3.50.
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Rev. Francis J.
Gilligan Credit
Union Speaker

Francis J. Gilligan, of the st.
Paul seminary, will deliver the prin-
cipal address at the seventh an
nual meeting of the Associated Ne
gro Credit Union, a Twin City
organization, at Phyllis Wheatley
House, Minneapolis, Monday, Jan.
10 at 8 p. m.
Arthur Burris, Jr. will speak on
youth In The Post War World"
The meeting will be open to the
public.
William B. Walker, president,
urges that all members be present
to hear of the progress of the or
ganization and to learn of changes
to be made due to State legislation
which should be of interest to mem
bers and any others interested in
the organization.
With resources on the incline,
officers of this credit union believe
it can be developed into an organi-
zation Of unlimited wealth which
could provide the financial support
for the development Of almost any
undertaking by the citizens of this
community.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Soldiers Vote
Rally Tonight
in MINNEAPOLIS

Soldiers Vote Rally will be
held Friday evening, Jan. z, at 8
o'clock at the Unitarian Center,
1926 Harmon Place. The meeting
is sponsored by the Minneapolis
Chapter of American Youth for De-
mocracy.
The rally will be mobilization
of citizens of Minneapolis in favor
of immediate passage by Congress
of effective soldier vote legislation
as embodied in the Green-Lucas
Bill.
Congressman Gale and Judd have
been invited to speak and express
their views on this crucial issue. A
number of other speakers, repre-
senting youth, labor, church and
other civic groups, will also speak.
This meeting is a follow-up of
the poll Of servicemen conducted
by American Youth for Democracy
in 16 major cities throughout the
country on Dec. %.
The balloting was on the speci-
fic question of whether the service
men favor immediate passage of
the Green-Lucas Bill.
7,454 of the 1893 servicemen
polled in the 16 cities favored the
provisions of the original Green
Lucas Bill while only 244 were OPP
posed.
625 servicemen were polled in
Minneapolis in 5 different places,
of whom $50 were for the Green
Lucas Bill and Is opposed.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Seeger Company
EMPLOYS Negroes

The st. Paul Urban League an
nounced early this week that the
Seeger Refrigerator Co. is now
employing Negroes. Referrals will
be made through the U. S. EN-
ployment Service with the Urban
League as an active participant.
S. Vincent Owens, executive Sec
rotary of the League, said that
this new policy of the company
marked the first time Negroes have
ever been employed by this old es-
tablished concern.
Many other st. Paul companies
are employing Negroes on larger
scale than ever before. One of the
outstanding firms is the Griggs
Cooper Co., now employing more
than 35 and according to Benjamin
G. Griggs, executive vice president,
they are giving excellent service.
Mr.. Owens said that jobs are avail
able for anyone who wants to work
and that those looking for employ
ment should make application at
the Urban League office.
Another firm t h a is following
the non-discriminatory policy of
employment as suggested by the
st. Paul Urban League is the
Brown and Bigelow Co.
In the event anyone in st. Paul
is refused employment on the basis
of race, Mr.. Owens asks that they
call the Urban League office i'm
mediately. The phone number is
Cedar 2430.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Goldman Pleads
Guilty, Sentenced
tOState Prison

Burnett Goldman, SO years old, Of
81 Hoag Ave. No., Minneapolis,
was sentenced to a term Of "a to
14O years in prison Monday by
Judge Arthur Selover in Henne-
pin County district court for rape
and burglary.
Heavily guarded, Goldman ap-
peared unexpectedly Monday,
changed his previous plea of mot
guilty" to one Of guilty.
Goldman on the stand for the
usual questioning by the court adj
mitted he committed the crime for
which he was arrested and indicted.
Goldman was apprehended Dec.
% as the attacker of Mrs. Els
worth Nelson of Brooklyn Center,
Minneapolis suburb.
He was charged with forcing his
way into the Nelson home at the
point of a gun, binding Ellsworth
Nelson, the husband, and assaulting
the woman. Two small children
were in the house.
Goldman allegedly fed the house
after the bound man freed himself,
leaped through a window and ran
for assistance.
Goldman was captured as a sus-
pect by a tip furnished the
sheriff's deputies by Leonard Coils
ton, only Negro member Of the
Minneapolis police department de-
tective bureau.
He was taken Immediately to
Saltwater State Prison.
Rumors spread in the Negro
community that the indicted man
was friendly with the Nelson's were
found by reporters of this paper
to be without foundation. Reports
that Goldman was mistreated by
police or deputy sheriffs were also
proven false.
The convicted man previously
served nine years in st. Cloud for
a similar offense.
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St. Paul Ministers
Hold Meeting

The regular bi-monthly meeting
of the st. Paul INSTRUMENTATION
al Alliance was held on Wednes-
day at the Ober Boys Club, with
the president, Rev. S. E. Ware, pre-
siding. Plans for a union revival
were discussed and the matter will
be referred to the members of the
various churches through the use
of a QUESTIONABLE. The segre-
gated Red Cross Blood bank was
discussed and letter of protest
was ordered sent to the local, as
we'll as the National Headquarters
of the Red Cross, on the matter.
Sunday, January %, has been
designated as "Good Conduct Day."
at which time each minister will
preach a sermon on the need and
value of good conduct and manners.
Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson was
elected secretary of the Alliance.
Other officers of the Alliance in
clude Rev. B. N. Moore, vice presi-
dent, and Rev. C. B. Wheeler,
treasurer.
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Biddle Forces
Lawyers Hand
on Negro Ban
AttOrneY General IhreafenS

AASOOAN any OSAANA Oh AUA CoCCAAS
to Quit Bar Association
By Elizabeth Donahue in PM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 49,
A threat by Attorney General
Francis Biddle to resign from
the Federal Bar Assn. has
forced the organization of
Government lawyers to take
up the issue of admitting Negro
members.
The decision of the Associations
Executive Council to meet in Feb
ruary to consider the applications
of two Negroes climaxes a long
delay during which the discrimina-
ton issue has been carefully side
tracked.
Up to now the Association has
resisted efforts by it's Bill of Rights
Committee to give consideration to
Negro applicants. Eventually the
Bill of Rights Committee itself
was virtually abolished, repeatedly
to save the Association embarrass-
ment.
The Associations Executiv e
Council has never formally rejected
the applications. It has simply re-
fused to consider them.
Biddle's Threat
Finally the Attorney Genera
threatened unofficially to resign
unless some action was taken.
Faced with such a possible blow to
its prestige, the Council will now
look into the applications of Louis
Mehlinger, Negro attorney for the
Claims Division of the Dept. of
Justice, and Frank Crockett, Ne
gro attorney attached to the FEPC
IF r Employment Practice Com
mittee).
Mehlinger's application has been
pending for nearly a year. He has
been an attorney with the Dept. of
Justice for % years since his
graduation, magma cum laude, from
Howard University in 1921. He is
member of the District of Column
bia Bar Assn, the Bar. of the Court
of Claims and the Supreme Court.
ABA Action
Since the American Bar Associ-
alton has recently agreed to admit
qualified Negroes, Biddle pointed
out recently in Baltimore that at
was to be regretted" that the as
ISOLATION of Government attorneys
persisted in it's discriminatory
practices.
Subsequently Biddle stated that
he would soon offer his resignation
from the Federal Bar Assn. Spokes-
men for the Attorney General re-
ported today that his pending res
ignation twas no idle threat"
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Jewel Alexander
Sues Pharmacy
for Discrimination

The Powderhorn Pharmacy, $500
Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, owned
by Samuel Crouch, is being sued for
$500 damages under the civil Min
nesota rights law for refusing to
serve refreshments to Mrs. Jewel
Mann Alexander, wife of a U. s..
Army Air Corps Cadet.
She was told by the management
of the store that eve don't serve
colored people"
Mrs. Alexander was accompanied
by her sister, Mrs. Pearl Schofeld.
These two young women are the
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin
Mason, who have lived in the
stores neighborhood for % years.
Harry L. Scott is attorney for
Mrs. Alexander. Samuel G. Smilov
with offices at 525 Plymouth Bldg,
represents Crouch, proprietor of the
pharmacy.
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Edith Stephens
Dies After Six
Years. Illness

Mrs. Edith L. Stephens, .1714
Fourth Ave. N, "a, died Thursday,
Dec. 80, at her home after an i'll
ness lasting over a period of six
years. Born in Bloomfield, Ia, she
had been a resident of Minneapolis
for thirty years.
A son, Private William Stephens,
stationed at Camp Stewart, Ga, ar
rived for the funeral held January
8 at Bethesda Baptist church at 2
p. m, with Rev. A. F. Martin off
ciating. Mr.. Leon Stephens, her
husband, and Mrs. Ida M. Lewis
Tyree, her cousin, Of Chicago, also
survive. Mrs. Tyree, formerly of
Minneapolis, had been at her
cousins bedside since last Novem-
Der.
Woodland Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements. Inter
ment, Crystal Lake cemetery.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
News at a
Glance

Though Negro basketball play
ers are barred from Big Ten Col
legiate by some sort of unwritten
understanding they often are stars
of prep school teams which feed
the Big Ten schools. =. Kenneth
"Puzzy" Wallace is co-captain OF
Minneapolis CentraPs cage team.
.. A New York man, Herbert T.
Miller, is the first Negro to be
named grand jury foreman in Kings
county. Army Air Force head
quarters Tuesday in North Africa
praised the goth Fighter Squadron,
only Negro airmen in combat duty.
The group has flown 1,156 sorties
with loss of four pilots in combat.
The unit ground forces hold plane
maintenance records.
Eleanor Roosevelt attacked OPP
pOnents of housing for Negroes in
her Wednesday syndicated column.
. The Presidents wife said in
part: q have a number of letters
asking me why l am so interested in
Negro housing in Washington when
white people find it so difficult to
get decent housing, not only in
Washington, but in many other
places in the United States. The
answer is that there are more peO-
pie to speak for white tenants than
there are for cOlOred tenants" The
newest Urban League branch is the
Harrisburg, Pa, which was char
tered last week. Announcement
said: "This marks the launching of
a program of interracial cOOpera-
ton to better the conditions under
which Negroes live, to further their
participation in all phases of the
war effort, and to eliminate the
sources of racial tension in that
city"
Helen Peasants writing in Pm.
says: "Anti-Semitism, evidencing
itself for the most part in hood
lumism and attempts to vandalize
synagogue properties, has broken
out like a rash over New York's
five boroughs." Assaults are
usually made on Jewish children.
In Chicago Anti-Semitism is mani
Tested by the gun-shot blasting of
tombstones in Jewish cemeteries.
Mexicans and Italians in Chicago
attacked Jews! Charges that Mrs.
Roosevelt was booed by Marines in
the South Pacific were false it has
been revealed. The first Ne
gro Parachute unit will be organ
lied this month the War Dept. an
nounced Jan. 8. e.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Churches Observe
January Is as
War Drive Day

In connection with the Fourtk
War Loan which opens January 18
churches of all denominations in
the state will observe Sunday
January 16, as "Church at War
Day." it was announced today by
the Minnesota War Finance Com
mittee.
"'Church at War Day will be
dedicated to Army and Navy Chap
lains and men and women of local
congregations who are in service"
o. ]. Arnold, Chairman, Minnesota
War Finance Committee, stated.
'Too few people appreciate fully
the sacrifice men and women in
service are making in our behalf.
Too few realize what Chaplains
mean to our boys, that they are
their connecting link with home. ]
hope every church in the state will
pay tribute on January &c."
Churches are now formulating
plans and state heads of hurc h
groups are communicating with all
their clergy. The day will be OBJ
served with special sermons and
announcements. Church programs
and publications will print lists of
men and women in service and in
many churches Gold Star Mothers
will be especially honored. Children
will be asked to convert their
stamp books into Bonds. Congrega-
tons will be told the Importance of
buying Bonds to the limit of their
ability and they will be encouraged
to buy War Bonds in the name of
the church to pay off debts and pro-
vide for missions.
Raising Minnesota's $2OO,OOO,0OO
Fourth War Loan quota is consid-
cred the biggest Bond job to date
because the states individual pur-
chase sub-quota for the Four h
Loan is $8,OOO,OOO greater than that
of any previous drive. This means
that more people will have to buy
Bonds than in any previous drive il
this goal is to be attained.
Faiths which do not observe Sun
day will have their Church at
War Day" on Saturday, January
Is.
hospital.
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Wife Survives
Bishop FLOYD

Mrs. Ethel Floyd, who has been
i'll for some time in a State hospital,
survives Bishop Floyd, Red Cap for
16 years at the Union depot in st.
Paul, who died Christmas day at
Ancker h ospital. Aubrey Floyd
and Mrs. Laura O'Dood, brother
and sister, of Chicago, and Mrs.
Florence (Peaches) BufOrd, sister,
st. Paul, also survive.
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Mrs. John C. Tyree to
Leave MINNEAPOLIS

Mrs. John G. Tyree, known to
Minneapolitans as Ida Lewis, will
return to her home in Chicago soon.
Last November she came to the
bedside of her cousin, Mrs. Edith
L. Stephens, who died last week.
The two had been very devoted.
Mrs. Tyree is active in church,
fraternal and club work, having
served as worthy matron in her
Eastern Star chapter in Illinois.
She has headed a number of other
fraternal organizations and served
as precinct captain of an election
board there.
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Soldier Buys
$500 Worth of
War Bonds

Cpl. Rudolph Young, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Young, GOT Olson
Blvd, bought $500 War bond re-
Gently at Camp Guernsey, Wyo. At
that time he was given $50 tickets
to a Jack Dempsey bout there. He
distributed the tickets to the boys
in the camp.
Cpl. Young spent New Years
day visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Young, GOT Olson
Blvd. He was recently transferred
from Camp Ellis, Ill.
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Thelma Dorsey
inSOng Recital
Sunday, Jan. 9

Thelma Dorsey, youthful st. Paul
soprano, will be guest artist Jan
uary 9, at 8 p. m. at the first of a
series of Sunday night musicals to
be presented by Club 553 in the
music room at Halle @. Brown
House. Following the recital, those
present may enjoy visit with their
friends and have refreshments at
he Coke Bar in the Club 553 lounge.
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Visitors TOThe
Office...

Visitors to the office this week
were Harold o. Booker, Blaine T.
Ash, Jr., Wanda Piper Owens, Mae
johnson, James McCombs, Worthy
Turner, Richey H. Adams, Mime
apolis and st. Paul, Leon Abbey,
New York, Sgt. Nelson Peery, Cali
fornia, Alvin M. Peery, A. R. North,
Mrs. E. L. Sims, Mrs. S. E. Oliver,
Mrs. Engla Schey, Mrs. L. B.
Vaughn, Mrs. Hazel Pullins, H.
Neal and A. J. Clark, Minneapolis,
and Rev. E. G. Harris, Canada.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Negro Sorority
Ranks First in
Scholastic List

The Eta Chapter Of Alpha Kap-
pa Alpha, composed of Negro wom-
en-, ranked first among twenty-one
sororities with an average of 1903
in the annual scholastic comparison
for the academic year of 1942-43
of the Greek letter organizations at
the University of Minnesota.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Dads Night at
Halle Jan. Is,
Mayor Speaks

Mayor John McDonough will
speak briefly at Halle @. Brown
House Jan. Is, especially honoring
Dads having sons or daughters in
the armed forces. The occasion is
'Dad's Night"
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Mrs. Hazel Mae Smith, 20, 585
W. Central Ave-, died Sunday, Jan.
2, at Bethesda hospital.
Surviving are her husband, AL
bert Smith, and Mrs. Spencer
Smith, daughter.
Funeral services were held FRI
day today at 2 p. m. at Neal Flu
neral Home. Rev. B. N. Moore Of
ficiated. The Princess 0'Ziel chap
ter, o. E. S., of which Mrs. Smith
was a member, directed the serv-
ice. Interment was in Oakland
cemetery.
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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

Birthday greetings to Irving
Blumberg, 1925 Irving Ave. &c.,
Jan. 16; Mrs. Fern Helm, 9S5 Al
drich Ave. No., Jan. II; Wilmoth
Bowen, 1851 Bryant Ave. No., Jan.
Is, and Blaine T. Ash, Jr., 979 Al
drich Ave. No., Jan. 10.
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Musical at
Zion Sunday

The Volunteer Club Of Zion Bap-
fist Church will present the COM
bined Senior and Junior choirs in
a musical Sunday, Jan. 9, at 8
p. m. Mrs. E. M. Gates is chairman
of the program committee.
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Elks Continue
Open Houses

James Sisson, chairman of the
Ames Lodge of Elks house COM
mittee, announced Monday night
that the Lodge would continue its
nightly open houses as usual until
further notice.
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Bob" MOulden
Has Pneumonia

Robert "Bob" Moulden, 1880 4th
Ave-, veteran railroad man and
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers member, is seriously ill with
pneumonia at Minneapolis General
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John GlantOn
Gone Overseas

Word has been received by Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Glanton, 2429
Fourth Ave. S., that their son, Pri-
vate John Glanton, is now serving
overseas.
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through the years in the ultimate
triumph of justice and fair play,
faith in the charter that gave
America her freedom, namely, that
all men are created free and
equal" Rabbi Minda said.
The task of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People was declared to be
two-fold by the speaker. First, to
join with all people to see that the
Emancipation Proclamation is for
all people, in all phases of life
social, economic, intellectual a n d
spiritual. The problem of human
freedom is more than a Negro
problem it is human problem.
Second, auto-emancipation-
is, self-emancipation or freedom.
No one can give US freedom unless
we make ourselves free. Democracy
cannot be real until people free
themselves by self-discipline, self
development, and bring about full
filment to all we have.
= In closing, Rabbi Minda said
that there is a great struggle for
emancipation going on all over the
world today. Emancipation will
not come without struggle with
dignity and pride. "Let US all
pray that emancipation will come
to all the people in the world"
The speaker was given great ap-
plause at the close of his address.
A very interesting historical
resume of the twenty-nine years
of the organization of the st. Paul
Branch of the NAACP was given by
J. E. johnson, chairman of the
History Committee of the Branch,
and four members of the Commit
tee.
According to the prepared state
ment given by Mr.. johnson, "the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People is the
outgrowth of the Niagara Move
ment, led by that militant leader,
Monroe Trotter, editor and pub
Usher of The Boston Guardian, W.
E. B. Dubois, and Fred L. McGhee,
the fiery attorney of st. Paul.
These men felt that a more militant
attitude should be shown in order
that some legislation be enacted
to adjust conditions that would be
of benefit to the cause of the
Negro
"In view of this fact, DR.. Waldo
Turner, George W. James, o. C.
Hall, s. E. Hall, W. T. Francis,
Mrs. Birdie High, Harry Howard
and others, including myself, made
an effort to organize a local
branch
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Paper Shortage

Makes it necessary for this paper to limit it's press
order by MALL order in advance from your newsstand
from your carrier Your dealer your newsboy
future order only the number of copies for which they
have regular customers
Don't get caught shorof your favorite weekly-rnake
arrangements to get your copy each week
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Organized in 1914

"The local branch was organized
in 1914 in the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church on the corner of Hol-
ly and Mackubin Streets. The con-
stitution and bylaws were adopted
in st. Paul on Dec. 16, 1914, and
approved by the parent body on
Dec. 18th the same year.
CONTINUED on Page Four)
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Audrey Doughty
Appointed Putrolmun

Audrey Doughty, 511 Emerson
Avenue North, was appointed to
the Minneapolis police force FRI
day.
He will serve as a probationer
for six months. If his services are
satisfactory, he will receive per-