St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-25

critics, she sweetly uses the silent
treatment-which is quite effective.
Pinchhitting as we are for your
Gal Sal" we didn't mean to use
up the space telling you what nice
person she is-but our typewriter
got started on Sal and it didn't stop
until this.
Faces and Facts about Town:
Frank Boyd, labor leader and piO-
neer Farmer-Laborite, was that
brown face among the many promi-
nent bigwigs sitting in a place of
honor on the platform at the Wal
lace meeting at the Minneapolis
Armory Earlier Boyd had at
tended a private dinner for Wallace
at the Hotel Dyckman. Another
gentleman of color noted at the
Dyckman dinner was Cecil New
man of this sheet who was among
the few editors invited While
on the subject of the Dyckman,
it is understood that the manage
ment seeks Negro help in all
branches of its service. Because
it is an employment break which
could be an economic pillar in
peacetimes, several of the first Ma
gro employees are anxious that
good class of sober Industrious
family men obtain jobs there and
make good. w. B. American
Farmers Insurance" Walker went
to town last year selling all kinds
Of insurance. Mrs. Jean Wilcox,
one of the prime movers in the Mill
City Town Hall, was quite happy
at the large crowd at Mondays
meeting at the Y.W.C.A. Earl
VanDusen, Judge Vince Day and
S. Vincent Owens, went to town"
as speakers on the panel.
This Leroy Hardeman lad is tops
as basketball player. Ditto
"Puzzy" Wallace. How come
Halle and Wheatley have severed
athletic relations? Looks silly to
us! !! ! October issues of this sheet
have just caught up with B. F.
Peery's son, Staff Sergeant Ben
jamin Peery, Jr., who is "Some-
where in Italy," Young Peery is
following in the footsteps of his
dad who spent IL months with the
37Oth Infantry eighth Illinois) in
France in World War I. The
front page of the Apache Sentinel,
official camp paper of the 93rd
Division, bears the smiling like
ness of Staff Sergeant James (Jim-
my BelD Lawson shown aiding in
the Fourth War Loan Drive. t..
James clearinghouse" Cunning
ham gets mellow with age. He is
still as sprightly as he was 10 years
ago. That brown skinned man
waiting on customers at Snyder's
7th Street Mill City Store is Geo.
Hall, the Elks biggie. The Ole
Boss Man got considerable applause
or his brief radio talk on Tuesday
last. He roundly condemned dis
elimination against the Negro by
employers and unions. Harry
L. Scott, the lawyer, is a one man
civil liberties commission. .
Chester Adams is known as one Of
the better plant guards at T.C.O.P.
:. The rumor that Robert Mallory
had a brush with the minnions of
the law is all poppycock. The Mill
City police department hopes NAL
lory will be able to get help to
keep his place open for the Mpls.
Southside kids, who have no place
to go for observation-disclosures to
the blindness of some people. .
Brenda Iceland has praise for the
verse of James T. Logan, whom
Twin Citians will awake soon to
find is one of the country's better
writers of prose and verse.
On the Street: Nat Ross, who
has returned after four years in
Russia. Stanley Hawks of the
Star Journal striding along. .
Saw Edward Schwartz of the same
paper for first time in months. &.
Milton FirestOne, Ramsey County
Welfare board member, telling a
friend the facts. Morris Love,
the tailor. Ted Steichen, the
grocer, telling people Uncle Sam