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out is why the "Negro Press" stirs
up trouble. He simply tells his
readers that the child won't keep
still, keeps crying, disturbing the
neighbors and the peace of the
community - but he fails to en-
Tighten them concerning this OBJ
vious fact: that the child, mean
while, is being mercilessly logged
by mean overseer.
Pegler must know - and if he
doesn't, any reporter or editorial
writer on a 'NegrO newspaper"
will tell him-that it gals them
to be forced to keep harping week
after week on discrimination and
Jim crOwism. But, they have no
choice. Pegler must also know
that there would be no need for
the existence of the sO-called "Ne-
gro Press" if Americans and the
full American Press would treat
Negroes as first-class citizens and
not as secOnd-class citizens and
serfs.
Pegler's ignorance of, or intent
to mislead his readers concerning
the Negro Press" and Negroes
was evident in this statement:
These frictiOneers are attached or
devoted to the New Deal Party"
Even the casual reader or now
and-then brOwser of the contents
of the Negro Press" knows that
the cOlumnist does not know Cor
express) the trends of the Negroes
political sentiments. By the
way, what did the Arabian prOverb
say about the fellow who knows
not and knows not what he knows
not? But, this does not apply here,
because Pegler knows better-in
fact, there seems to be a yelled
meaning in his approach.
This interesting statement was
recorded by Pegler: "These pub
locations Negro newspapers) have
a large circulation and they con-
stantly remind the Negro that he
is a Negro while calling on the
white press to forego all such dis
tinctions."
Lest Ye Forget the Negro
neither wants to forget he is Ne
gro, nor does he want anyone else
to forget that. Likewise, he doesn't
want anyone to build him up as an
inferior human being and then
point to him as someone unskilled,
inexperienced, unsOphisticated and,
therefore, someone to be looked
down upon.
Westbrook Pegler is a brilliant
mana splendid writer, and too,
something of a philosopher. He
knows the score in America as it
affects the races-but, according
to all indications, his job does not
call for his going all the way to
point it out, fully and accurately.
For this reason, someone should be
assigned to keep him "on the beam"
and in the alley of truthfulness.
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Negro Vote Remains
Loyal To Roosevelt
In Pivotal States

New YorkNegro voters in the pivotal Illinois, Indiana
Kentucky Maryland Michigan, Missouri Jersey, York.
Ohio and Pennsylvania remained in the Roosevelt Tuesdays
elections despite the terrific campaign
Dewey to capture that vote.
Roosevelt only six of the ten states but Negro
vote put him
Chicago Negroes F. D. R. to lead in Negro
Harlem N Y, Indianapolis Negroes
R. but the state went for Dewey In Louisville Philadelphia
Jersey City, Detroit and St. Louis Negroes joined with labor unns
TO pile up big Roosevelt
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Five Port Chicago
Explosion Heroes
By Harry McAlpin

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA).
"A week after convicting so of
the survivors of the Port Chicago
ammunition ship explosion in Cali
fornia of mutiny and disobedience
of orders, the Navy announced last
week the decoration of five of the
heroes of that explosion. The men
were given Navy and Marine Corps
medals "for heroic conduct in fight
ing fires on burning ammunition
cars after the explosion" on July
II.
The men, who were further COM
mended because "by unselfsh devo-
ton to duty they averted furthek.
explosions and possible loss of
life," were:
John Andrews Haskins, Jr.,
pharmacist mate 3rd class, who
lives at 1922 Hopkins Court, Alex
andrla, Va;
William Edward Anderson, sea-
man first class, of 500 Bridge St.,
Murphysboro, Illinois;
James A. Camper, Jr., seaman
first class, of 112 Main St., South
Port Norris, New Jersey;
Richard L. McTere, seaman first
class, of 425 E. Hancock St., De-
troit, Mich;
Effus S. Allen, seaman second
class, of 1885 Cameron St., Detroit,
Mich.
The medals were presented by
Rear Admiral Carleton II. Wright,
commandant of the Twelfth Naval
District, in a ceremony at Port
Chicago, Cal.
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YOlande COrum
Joins WAVES

p Yolande Coram, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. U. G. Coram, 495 st. An
thohy Ave., was sworn in Monday,
Nov. 6, as a WAVE in the U. s.
Navy. She will report at Hunter
College, New York City; December
%. She is now employed at the
Northwest Airlines as a stock con-
troll clerk.
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Charles Young
Auditory No. IL
BRINGS Yule Cheer

The Charles Young Auxiliary No.
IL, USWV, held call meeting last
Monday at the home of Mrs. Min
ME CASTOR, 1872 Eaton, St. Paul, to
plan for sending Christmas boxes
to the boys and girls abroad.
Members of the hospital commit
tee, under the craftsmanship of Mrs.
M. Wimberly, are making utility
bags and other hospital supplies to
be distributed to those confined in
hospitals. Plans are also included
to remember service people in the
home field.
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Mrs. Bertha Diggs
Visits MINNEAPOLIS

Bertha Diggs, New York State
Secretary of Labor, was in Mime
apolis Nov. 2 to deliver a political
address.
Mrs. Diggs, a comedy young
woman, whose political career reads
like success story, told reporter
for this paper that she felt that
the Negro must continue to move
ahead.
Mrs. Diggs holds the same job
formerly held by the U. S. Secre-
tary of Labor Frances Perkins.
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Two Men Held
for Gasoline
Black Market

Alonzo Cunningham, 26, of ALP
Rondo Ave-, was one of two men az
rested Nov. s for having illegal
possession Of gasoline ration cou-
pons.
Cunningham had one T coupon
in his possession. The other man,
Francis Hannah, AZ, 1881 Thomas
Ave., a truck driver, had 1913
coupons on his person.
The two men were bound over to
U. s. district court under $500 bail.
st. Paul police say they are out
to break up gasoline black market
operating in the Rondo and st. An
thony district.
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feet of Negro occupancy upon
property values as shown by the
experience of recent years in hous-
ing financed by the Government.
4. "The use of racial relations
techniques which have been found
effective for public housing and
other governmental programs to
~ implement sound racial policy,
(2) assist>in the gathering of data,
81 interpret needs of Negroes to
the agency and az to promote the
FILA program among Negroes"
Effect on Negro CT
The lessening of guarantees to
the Negro soldier if such policies
persist was also indicated in Mr..
Whites closing remarks to the
President. "Not only are we con-
cerned," he said, "over the dire
effect that current FILA practices
will have on postwar housing for
Negroes generally, but we fear
that these operations will virtually
nullify the rights guaranteed re-
turning Negro veterans under ap-
propriate provisions of Public Law
346, popularity known as the G. I.
Bill of Rights, relating to the pur-
chase and construction of homes.
We, therefore, place this matter
before you now in order that you
may remove at once the source
of one of the most severe indict-
ments of Negro citizens against
your administration"
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SUSIE GAYLORD.
ELLA GOLDEN IN
DULUTH SUNDAY

Mrs. Susie Gaylord and Mrs.
Ella Golden of st. Paul will appear
twice at Calvary Baptist church,
Duluth, Mimi, Sunday, Nov. IL, in
the interest of Home Missionary
work. Mrs. Gaylord will speak and
sing accompanied by Mrs. Golden
at the piano.
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Katie COquire
Service Held

Mrs. Katie M. Coquire, 26O St.
Anthony, age SO, died Saturday,
Nov. 4, at her home. Funeral serv-
ices were held Tuesday, Nov. Z, at
the Neal Funeral Home Chapel
with Rev. C. T. R. Nelson, officiat-
ing. Interment was at Oakland
cemetery. She had been a resident
of st. Paul for the past eighteen
years. A sister, Belle Staples, and
a brother, Louis S. Myers, survive.
Mrs. Coquire was the widow of
the late John F. Coquire, active
leader in st. Paul fraternaldom for
years.
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Brother Pegler and
the Negro Press
By S. W. DARLINGTON


WestbrOOk Pegler is not to be
ignored. When he writes people
read. While there are thousands
who hate him, they continue to
read him-and like it or nOt-are
affected by what he writes.
1t is regrettable that there isn't
some one who would assume the
task of keeping the public straight
on what Pegler writes. Certainly,
American journalism would be
poorer without his output - for
he is both vigorous and stimulat-
ing, yet because of his style and
point of view, he should not be
permitted to get away with much
of his stuff ex parte.
Pegler, a consistent critic of the
Negro Press, has spread more mis-
information concerning this seq
ment of our general press than
any other two individuals and or
institutions. Each such comment
Cor attack was a skillful cOnglom-
Grafton of truths, half-truths and
m-truths, thereby giving Johnny
@. Public a distorted impression
of an institution which has been
misunderstood or overlooked since
its birth in 1927. An analysis of
any one of his comments will bear
out this fact.
Sources of disunity in America
are the Communists, the Negro
Press and Marshall Field publish
er of the Newspaper PM and the
Chicago Sum, states Pegler in his
Scripps-Howard syndicated COL
umn, "Fair Enough" for Novem-
Der Is, 1913. PM and the Worker
have presented the case of two of
the so-called "frictioneers," so
let's consider the "Negro Press" in
relation to racial disunity and pref
udice.
Staff Writer julius ]. Adams has
given what l consider the best in
depreciation to date on the ques-
ton of the NEGRO Press" Writ
ing in the 7-1O-43 issue of the New
York Amsterdam-News under the
title of Design for Freedom" he
said in part:
There is a misnOmer that
ought to be disOwned and elm
mated. 1t is the Negro Press
From my knowledge of the Ameri-
can Press, there is no such thing
as the Negro Press For one thing
a large number of weekly news
papers are owned, edited and pub
lished almost exclusively by Ne
grOes. These newspapers are lin
tied in the scope of their news COW
erage, but so is the newspaper PM.
Yet, PM is thought of as a part of
the American Press.
The only difference between the
newspapers owned by Negroes and
those owned by whites is that those
owned by Negroes endeavOr to
print views about one group of
Americans which the newspapers
owned by whites either ignore or
give only passing notice. So, il
seems to me we ought to quit talk
ing about the Negro Press
Guilty, Not Guilty
Regarding Pegler's charge that
the segment of the American Press
which he chooses to call the "Ne-
gro Press" is responsible for STIR
ring up trouble, the so-called me
gro Press" will have to plead
guilty. Incidentally, UNCLE
TOMS CABIN stirred up some
trouble years ago. Remember?
What Pegler neglects to point
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SALON AT HALLE

The st. Paul Public Library will
be in charge of the program at the
Sunday evening Salon at Halle Q.
Brown House. These meetings are
open to the public. They begin at
8:15.
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and Betty Hutton, McALPIN
entertained the idea of breaking her
contract at the Howard Theatre
here because she felt she had been
given a dirty deal. But she's real
trouper and she's smart-so she
didn't do it.
1t all came about over a hike"
in the admission prices for the week
of her appearances. The usual price
is "A cents for matinees and 60
cents for night. The straight price
from opening to closing for Lena's
shows was $1.00.
But Lena knew nothing about the
new scale put into effect just for
the week she was here. She didn't
come to Washington solely for the
money angle. She requested it be
added to her personal appearance
tour for sentimental reasons since
she got her start here with Noble
Sissle in 1885. She even told her
booking agent that the "take" was
no consideration, just get her
booked" into Washington.
But like any good booking agent,
this one didn't suggest that Lena
would come here for less than the
$4,000 she had received for each of
the preceding 10 weeks of her tour.
Instead, when the question of
money was reached, a suggestion
entered the discussion that slight
raise in prices for the evening per-
formances might be made if neces-
sary.
But no such raise was necessary.
The Howard already had "take" of
$4,000 for one week at regular
prices as part of its record. With
Lena breaking records all over the
country, it was logical to assume
she would break Towards record,
too.
And that's where Washington's
jimcrow pattern came in for its part
in the plot. Knowing Negroes de-
pended absolutely upon the four up
town theatres run by Abe Lichtman
for their stage and cinema enter
tainment, someone got the bright
idea that sizeable raise of price
with an irresistible attraction like
Lena as the bait would bring a
financial killing" The "slight
raise" for evening performances
was discarded, and the "big bite"
was put on for the whole day.
Somehow, the amount being paid
Lena for her appearance was per-
mitted to 1eak" out, so the public
could believe if it wanted to, that
she was responsible for the "rob-
berry," (Of course, Lena's appear
ance is worth a $1.00 to see-but
at amt what you do, it's the way
that you do it." No white theatre
in which she had appeared had
raised the prices.)
The people, droves of them, re-
scented being "stuck up" without a
gun. AS result, there were not
the expected and predicted long
lines waiting to buy tickets. Lena
said she could have thrown a brick
out in the audience and not hit 2
soul 9 out of 10 times. 1t wasn't
that bad, however, because the first
day brought the management over
$4,000. 1 doubt whether any day
of the seven fell below that.
But you can imagine how Lena
felt, after playing to capacity
houses every place else, at seeing
empty seats on her first appear
ance before her own people. And
added to that was the intimation
that she was responsible for it by
the price she set for the weeks
engagement. She was pretty hot
about it, and rightfully so. And
take it from me, she's even more
beautiful when she's mad saw
her,
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Anna Ward, Georgia BraybOy,
Alverta COrum, Matilda Young,
Viola Culver, Eva Bell and Matte
Ellis. The club will form a party
to attend in a group the Alyce
Stewart recital at CamphOr Church
soon.
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Full Pages of
Photos of Men
in War Zones

Page feur Of this issue is al
most q full page showing valiant
Negro soldiers receiving decOra-
lions for bravery in war zones.
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Nephew Of Mrs.
Chivers Killed
Tn FYrnra

Mrs. Curtis C. Chivers, 4017
Clinton Ave-, Minneapolis, re-
ceived word last Saturday that
her nephew, Claude Baker of De-
troit; Mich, serving with the U.
S. Army, had been killed in &C
ton in France.
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Granger Speaks
ut U Convocution

Lester Granger of New York
City, executive secretary of the Ma
tional Urban League, was student
convocation speaker at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota Thursday.
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Crispus Attacks
Annual Meeting
Next Thursday

The annual meeting of Crispus
Attacks Home, st. Paul, will be held
at the Home Thursday, Nov. 16, at
8 p. m.
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Librarian
Mimi Historical Society
Unit 1
+. UncOvering
Washington
By Harry s. McAlpin

Now that the election is over,
things not so political get their
chance for a bit of un-covering in
Washington, a nd
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Read

Mary Lewis sparkling "This Is
It" each week in your favorite
weekly paper.
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Percy Villa 80.

Widely known newspaper column
mist tells of his interview with Hilda
Simms in New York in this issue.
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here's a honey.
Lena Horne, the
darling of tn e
CTS, one of the
three leading box
office attractions
on personal ap-
pearances (take
that any way you
like) ranking with
Frank Sinatra
and Roffu Hutton
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Stay OF Date! Nov. q. Daugh.
ter Eaks' Dance, Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis Licenses
Lloyd Slaughter, legal, 425 Lyndale av. N. !;
Christina Underlan, legal, 301 Aldrich
aV. N.
Evening star., 1944-06-08

VICTORY GARDENERS!
Tune in Station WRC Tomorrow at 1:3OP.M.
Mr.. Beottie will discuss THE CARE OF FRUIT and
ORNAMENTAL PLANTS and how to prune CLIMB
ING ROSES.
Hear "Gordenine For Victory" every Sunday at e:l5
am. and Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at
l:3O pm.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-02
Weather In Germany

As the fighting goes on along the Rhine
battlefront, it is apparent that increasing rain.
mud and cold mean greater handicaps for our
troops and mechanical equipment.
Already issuance of long underwear. over.
coats and blankets hints OF new difficulties
ahead. Bad weather binders ground and air
operations and can disrupt military schedules.
Allied forces have this advantage: that
whereas they can be QUILTED for winter. the
Germans are running cut of clothing, as well
rs supplies, and must face greater physical
suffering and heavier drains upon their en-.
durance.
On the side Of the Allies is the important
fact that much Of Germany's weather is not
"made in Germany" In large part it is rul-
ed by the winds blowing westward over tn.
Atlantic. and 1t can be known before it reaches
the Reich. Weather stations in the United
States and in Greenland and Iceland keen the
Allies informed OF what's brewing in thu
weather eauldron; the Germans have had n
look to their dwindlins number Of submarine,
for reports.
AS autumn merges into winter occasion.,
chill winds from Russia dispute the sway q,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-02

the mild sea breezes, bringing cold and snow
and shivers. From IN average OF about %
degrees for September and 50 degrees for
October the temperature moves downward to
around IS degrees in January-a fall OF 81
degrees from the July mean. In winter the
Rhine usually freezes over. At Cologne 1t IS
ice-bound for II days or SO.
Rainfall over western Germany attains its
second maximum Of the year in October.
The risors Of rain and mud. bane Of troops
sloggins over sodden fields and washed.out
side roads, may be eased in part by German
engineering. As the Allies knife deeper into
Germany they will have increasing access to
built to be independent in all
seasons of the iron whims of weather. Where
these highways have not been blown up by
the retreating Nazis they will speed up the
Of the invaders.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-02
BY JOHN SELBY
1.-THE World Of Washington Irving
by Van Wyck Brooks. (Dutton;

line W0fld OF washington Irving
by Van Wyck Brooks. (Dutton;
$3.75.)
If a book is important" it is
all the more useful to understand
what its author is about. Van
Wyck Brooks 1.-THE World OF
Washington Irving" is the third
volume of his literary history; it
Is the current choice of the Book
of-the-Month Club, and it is an al
most incredibly rich book. But ii
is not intended to be a biography
Of Irving in the usual sense, nor is
it history of his world in the U.s.
ual sense.
Mr.. Brooks has strung his erudi.
ton on the long cord of Irving S
life, and even that has been loose
ly done. A great many other fig
ures out of the first 40 years of the
last century emerge quite as
clearly from MIR. Brooks pages
Poe is particularly good exam
PIE. Cooper (the novelist, not Pc
teri as another, and certainly Au-
dubon must be mentioned. There
also are dozens of minor people
who stand out suddenly as if a
door had opened abruptly for an
unexpected guest. One of these is
Lorenzo da Ponte, one of Mozart g
librettists. Another is William Cob.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-02
Employment For Veterans

Employment for returning war veterans in.
wolves graver problem than merely finding
Jobs for them. # that were all there Is to !.
road construction and other public works prof.
ects could easily take care of men whose
former jobs are no longer available tor ons
good reason or another. But the fact is that
this is only lesser factor in the equation.
Veterans in large numbers not otherwise pro.
vided for will not be content to rnassa "a
pick and shovel handles or trowels or tools
or even to clerk In stores or add figures in
bookkeeping departments.
The armed services have offered men Cd.
portunities to learn new means of usefulnesy
and develop latent aptitudes. Tens of thousand.
OF soldiers marines and naval personnel hava
been trained for highly skilled work and have
become expert therein. They will come back
Prepared to fill positions requiring execution.
al ability with credit.
1t is these men, who may have entered thu
services all but illiterate and lacking special.
lied skill and will come back ready to tax.
their places In the scientific, engineering and
professional world, who challenge the n..
tons preparedness to place them where th.y
belong.
II our government is determined to continue
Its paternalistie role, 1t will have to broaden
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-02
The Literary Guidepost

bett, the pamphleteer. There. is
also mention of an extremely i'm.
portant person who has been al
most wholly ignored in Americana
Of this sort, to wit, Maria Felici-
ia Malibran, the very great sing.
err, whose second name Mr.
Brooks insists on spelling with q
final Sc"
And the reason "The World oil
Washington Irving" is not history
in the accepted sense is because
Mr.. Brooks has explored the minds
of his people rather than their &C.
tons, and has chosen his princi
pals from the literati rather thar
from the field at large. Actually
the division is deeper. He has ex.
plored the writing of writer's,
which does not necessarily reflect
their compulsions and their minds
accurately, any more than their
written opinion of the world is ne
cessarily accurate.
But within the chosen frame,
what performance this is! The
book is like prewar fruit cake
There is more information in the
footnotes than many a book has in
the text proper, and the sugges.
tons for individual exploration op.
ened up are so numerous as to
seem confusing at first glance
Mr.. Brooks diligence is as remark.
able as his aesthetic sensitiveness.