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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-08
IN MEMORTAM

In loving memory of Mother Minnie
Wright who passed away one year ago,
Dec. 8, 1913.
Since you, dear mother, passed away
Our hearts have been sad every day.
The flowers we place upon your grave
May wither and decay,
But that love in our hearts for you
Will never fade away.
How we miss your words of cheer
When trials and troubles fingered near.
Your noble race on earth was run,
So we humbly say,
Gods will be done.
Sadly missed by Nina v. johnson, daugh-
ter, Minneapolis; Byron S. Holder, son,
Los Angeles Edward W. johnson, son-in-
law, Minneapolis
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-08
I'VE Buy But
We Don't Sell"

This is a dissertation on Negro
economics in which l would like to
show a major reason for the low
status we hold on the economic
ladder and why there is little pros
pect of our improving upon that
status despite all the proposals for
legislative remedies and the high
sounding talk deploring our posi-
ion one hears on every side.
The Negroes problem and the
solution lies in the simple observa-
ion made many years ago by one
If our famous commentators: THE
Negro buys but doesn't SELL" In
hose six words is one of the great
est sermons we could listen to out
ide Of Jesus Sermon on the Mount.
In fact the lessons contained in
he statement might readily be the
formula for gaining our release
rom the chains that bind US and
)lace US ahead many years.
Of course, the statement that
"the Negro buys but doesn't sell
isn't a facetious one or one without
acquaintanceship with the actual
facts. There. are Negro businesses
scores of them, hundreds of them
scattered throughout the country
n our race-conscious communities
like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland,
and some of the larger cities in the
South. In these communities can
De found all manner of business en-
terprises, including drug stores,
grocery stores, restaurants, shirt
manufacturers, barber shops, pool
rooms, hauling businesses, coal
companies, dress makers, sausage
makers and, in extreme cases, para
CnuIS hdAcIS anu upIlOlSbCLC CT D.
which latter is not an extreme of
one that could be included in the
general picture. Side by side with
these business enterprises, in which
marketing is the prime factor, goes
the more expensive type of bust
nesses, such as, banks, insurance
companies, real estate agencies, etc.
Some Promise Is Seen
Our observation on this rapid
growth of business among Negroes
is that it is healthy and gives some
promise in easing the terrible pres
sure under which we labor twenty
four hours a day and which other
races, living in America and enjoy
ing citizenship status in this great
country, are not afflicted with.
However, the fact that we buy
more than we sell remains the
heart of our problem. The millions
of dollars that Negroes spend for
every commodity on the market,
from peanuts to railroad ties, from
root beer to champagne, from hob
nailed boots to $18.75 dress shoes,
show an alarming situation which
has yet to be handled practically
and thoroughly.
If the tremendous buying power
Of the Negro public was turned
back into the pockets of Negro
business men, whom turn-in-
vested a proportionate amount of
such earnings into community
betterment and racial enterprises
along with the education of the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-08
Hancock Compares Two
Negro COngressmen
Bv GORDON HANCOCK

When Oscar DePest the political
the political fortunes of
deterioration The Negro afraid party
traditional and the Republican party gone ywte
the Negro thus politically orphaned Politically Negro had
nowhere lay his head With the
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04
NAACP Files Suit In
Federal Housing Case

with more lhau lioNo families
IN Nerro war Workers still uuallc
20 set Adequate lNusiar lawyers
tor The l'eiroit Branch 81 ma
Nun0nM As,peiaiinn for me Ad-
yanccmen' ~ oloed People filed
suit 80 the tuiica states District
conri Mendsy Fch. eS against
rio diserlniua'ory policies of lhe
FrlA
Howard Flowers VAT worker
employed az The Willow Run
Bomber plant Who has been un-
able 70 sccuree adequate housing
Tor his family after hcins re-
fused admriance 20 ono - the
700 vacant homes 10 Willow Run
Village Is suing The National
Housing agency, nc Federal Pub
nc Housing authority and Snef-
wood I, Reeder Detroit Director
~ the Federal Public Housing
authority ATTORNEYS GOT the plain
uff are Thurgood Marshall
Special Council for MACE VII
lis NJ. Graves. chairman OF NAAcP
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04
Westsider Sentenced
For MansIaughter

Charles MASSEY ioi a defense
worker who pied guilty 20 charges
OF mauslaurhicr on Feb q 'hl'e
his trial was IN proercss. was sen.
fenced 10 torn Of from four TO -
years In Jackson prison Tuesday.
Massey was charged Niih k'llln'
Leroy Curry on june g 1913 durin-
A neht IN a bar Al Bangor and Nc
Craw street
The sentence was pronounced by
by Judge John V Brennan In Re
corder's court
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04
I'D SWAN
|HEADS LOCAL
|FEPC WORK


Committee on
W rtae,lce through
>HIe'H r,sioncl di-
states % Michigan,
erty announced The
N offices AZ lsl6 Te-
netro,t- FOR the
rAH'i that nc in
atcr ~ complaints
,d has necfssiiai-
e~Nns h,irr ap-
staff aua thc acqni
oflrc spa,c nuf-
rolhs ihai the com
fu9i,d under region
mlituis haze been
Mlf ~ al minority
aiIne seventh Day Al
aW1hs Witnesses. Ne
daNAnfsc Americans.
u.s. wcll ns alien Cana
Maas and Italians
u Swan, formerly re-
'f. yfseniaiise OF Negro AZ
Na''onal Youth Adminlstra-
Hamlntrin-charge aud
prs principal assistant Dr.
''s N'.iz examiner
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04

losai R,are-s ronuHroc
j Evans sscr,taiN 81 NAt
Irwin T. Davenport prpsii
Molysiiue bar asso,.atIaH
faneis ~ Bent
ThHcouplalnf states That lNf
rfs is ouploycd in 40 css,ail
war industry and is ln
Lccd 20 a home AHhWeA ~
meets ail lawful requirement. r
adnussicn lie had been d0Nea
admission solely becausf % s
rec or color
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04
Seek To Return Tennessee

John Ice Anderson q vear c'i
Knoxville Tom fue.nve ~rieel
eNtradinon 20 Tennessee before
Judge " Nrkay St3man 'a"
rhursda,
Lee is wanted hy Knox coan'f
authorities on robbery a-niei
charges The selth was taken To-
TO custody last week
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04
Jumps From Second
Floor To Rid Self
OF Drinking Spouse

a mnp from tIc SECOND story
porch saved I.eola Nmhnmgh -.
of 80 chone street. from ne
abuses ~ hor husDsni ui'ef' sN'
told police last Friday
Mrs Kmhrourh said inai MI
Kmhrmeh had been drinking ah'
chased der 10 me r,ar door nom
whore SHE jumped. she is ID 'h,
hospital suffering q compound
fracture Of the right log.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04
NEWS DAY PROGRAM

4 Mems Day proeram 0ii. oe
held March 70 az 3 80 pm a. 'ae
Community Baptist church 1850
Klnrer street between Jerome and
Ninresoia streets Giostef trr
rent. executive secretary ~ iN' Pcs
irou NAACp viii BE- rues' speak
or.
The REV. p. G. Melvin is pastor
r. c Kngors. trustee.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04
IHiR GIfsT SpTAkrR

.-a a Guest famed radio and
raler poet and philosopher.
70 fhe NMcA Forum speaker
4 Antoine Branch Sunday.
5at4pm
W sunday Judge wendell p.
o' ne Chicago Municipal
"' WI ts presented by the Kap-
Alpha Psi fraternity.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-04

4cl on pagc~'
Evening star., 1944-05-05

do legal work" He claimed to have
a wide acquaintance among men,
bers of Congress and, after his
death was discovered Mrs. Henry
telephoned Representative Rees,
Republican, of Kansas.
Mr.. Rees visited the rooming
house and Mrs. Henry said he told
her he knew the elderly editor.
Garner had frequently called at his
ofrice for information, MIR. Rees de-
clared.
Mrs. Henry said Garner twas a
nice man" with a pleasing person.
ality. She declared he received a
large amount of mail daily and had
told her after returning from a
breakfast at a nearby restaurant
that he was going to answer some
of the letters Received in the morn
ing mail.
Garner had been suffering from
a bad cough for several days, ac-
cording to Mrs. Henry.
Mrs. Henry said Garner told her
he had wife and a married son
living in Kansas.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
Garner Died in Rooming House
S Hours Before Body Was Found
Had Not Complained
Of III Health During
Sedition Trial

Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
Murphy will perform an autopsy
today to determine the cause OF
death Of Elmer j. Garner. S0-year-
old defendant in the sedition trial
now being heard In District Court,
who was found dead at $3.50 pm.
yesterday in his rooming house In
the 200 block Of First street Sc.
Garner. who lived in Wichita,
Kans., had been dead In his bed
for approximately five hours, DR..
Murphy said yesterday. The body
was discovered by . resident Of the
building who climbed in q window
after the landlady, Mrs. Martha
Henry, had been unable to rouse
him.
The elderly defendant had not
complained Of Ill health since he
came here to stand trial, Mrs. Henry
said.
Mr.. Garner claimed to be q cousin
Of former Vice President Garner.
He was charged with seditious con-
duct, 1t has been alleged at the trial,
for articles he wrote while serving
as editor of weekly publication,
Publicity, formerly published at
Wichita.
He was alleged to have waged a
fight against aid to England and,
late in 1941, to have called the
Pearl Harbor attack probably pro-
voked." He also was credited by
the prosecution with coming the
word "Jewocratic" in describing enc
mics of American democracy.
Mrs. Henry said Garner implied
that he had at one time been q
minister" when he rented the room
two weeks ago.
She expressed surprise yesterday
when police who took charge of the
body informed her he was one of
the 80 persons being tried on sedi-
ton charges. He had not mentioned
his connection with the case to
other roomers, Mrs. Henry declared
Mrs. Henry said Garner an
nounced he was in WASHINGTON ito
Evening star., 1944-05-05
insufficient PeniciIIin Found
To Build Up Immune Germs

ana this continued IN transfer after
transfer.
But there was one startling ex-
ception. One of the original rabbits
had only a mild case Of syphilis. His
germs thereafter resisted cure by
penicillin when they were given to
other rabbits.
The scientists concluded that civ
ing insufficient penicillin had pro-
duced germ able to resist this drug.
They said this emphasized the
necessity for adequate treatment
when penicillin is given to humans.
The inference is that without ade-
quate penicillin, the sick persons
garms may change into the kind
pencillin cannot attack.
Animal experiments indicating
that relapsing fever, a human dis
ease whose treatment is often diff
cult, and for which arsenic has been
the remedy, may yield to penicillin
were reported by Harry Eagle and
Harold j. Magnuson, Public Health
Service, Baltimore.
But they predicted that human
beings probably would need 10000
600 units Of penicillin, figure at
present probably prohibitive for
civilians.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
Taxi Driver Shot
After 4 Rob Him

Charles H. McCrimmons, 80, COL
ored, 1120 Eighth street NV, q
taxicab driver, Is in a critical condi-
ton in Gallinger Hospital today
suffering from gunshot wounds in
the abdomen, inflicted, according to
police, by one Of four colored youth
who held him up early today.
The taxi driver told police he
picked up the quartet when they
hailed his cab near Nineteenth
street and Benning road NE. In the
400 block Of Jay street NE, he told
police. one of the men drew a pistol
and demanded his money
After surrendering SO to the
holdup men, the taxi driver said
the pistol-wielding bandit thrust
the weapon In his abdomen and
pulled the trigger. A passing mo-
torist discovered Mr.. McCrimmons
wounded in his cab and took him to
Gallinger Hospital, police said.
Two colored men, one Of them
armed with a pistol, robbed Burk
Lehman, As, of 417h Eleventh
street NV, taxi driver, of IS
while he was driving them In the
first block Of H street S.W., police
reported. Mr.. Lehman had picked
them up at Thirteenth and M streets
early this morning, he told police.
After relieving him of his money,
Lehman said, the two men left the
cab and, standing on the curb,
threatened him with the gun and
ordered him to drive away.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
Wright Banked Funds B. & 0. Holds Tests
Above Pay, Jury Told OF Radio on Trains
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 5.-The Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad is conducting
experiments on the use Of radio in
communications between railroad
stations and trains, among members
OF train crews and in yard opera
tions.
A. s. Hunt, general superintendent
of communications, said the Federal
Communications Commission has is
sued experimental permits to. the
railroad in connection with an FEC
investigation Of the use of radio for
railroads, undertaken as a result Of
recent accidents.
p The tests are being carried on by
the B. & o. in cooperation with
the radio division of Bendix Avi-
alton Corp.
Mr.. Hunt said the experimental
work was with very high frequency
radio, similar to that used in some
types of airplanes. E ~
Declaring no drastic changes in
railroad communications are ex-
pected at present, Mr.. Hunt said the
knowledge gained through the tests
Is to be put to use after the war.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
Body Of Hospital Patient
Found HANGING IN Areawav

The body Of a 31-year-old patient
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital was found
hanging in an areaway on the
grounds this morning by employees
OF the institution, DR.. Winfred Over
holser, superintendent, reported.
The patient was Paul Mcdowell. 81
who had been at st. Elizabeth's for
the past two years. During the past
year, DR.. Overholser said, Mcdowell
had enjoyed full ground privileges
and was frequently allowed to make
visits away from the hospital. He
said Mcdowell was mot acutely i'll"
and conducted himself normally"
The coroner's Office, the police
and DR.. Overholser were conducting
an investigation.
The body was found hanging from
railing which ran around the
areaway near the kitchen.
McDowell's home was in Wash
1ngton, DR.. Overholser said.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
Hearings Next Week
On Pay Gornishment Bill

A Senate Judiciary subcommittee
will start hearings at 1920 am.
Thursday, May IL. on the bill al
ready passed by the House making
Government salaries subject to
garnishment proceedings under the
same conditions applying to wages
due from private employers in any
part of the country. The bill also
applys to employees of the District
government.
The subcommittee in charge OF
the bill is composed of Senators
Hatch OF New Mexico, Wheeler of
Montana and Andrews of Florida,
Democrats, and LANCER OF North
Dakota and Wherry of Nebraska,
Republicans. The bill would not ap-
ply to debts incurred prior to its
passage.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, May 5.-Discovery
that use of little peniciilin may
build up race Of disease germs
immune to this powerful new drug
was reported to the Society of
American Psychologists yesterday.
The report is one of the first
proofs Of something which has been
worrying medical men. This trick
of becoming resistant to a medicinal
drug has been shown by many
disease germs. But it had been
hoped that penicillin's superior
potency would be more nearly i'm
mune.
At New Brunswick, N. j., in the
Squibb Institute for Medical Re-
search, Wolcott B. Durham, Dorothy
M. Hambre and Geoffrey Rake ex-
perimented with syphilitic rabbits.
They gave the animals penicillin,
which cured the disease.
But before full cure, some of the
germs were transferred from the
penicillin-treated animals to other
rabbits. The second batch got
syphilis, and penicillin cured them,
Evening star., 1944-05-05
National Guard Asks
Peaceiime Role as
Army Training Agency
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 5.-The Ma
tional Guard and the Adjutants-
General Associations Of the. United
States recommended today post
war program for the Nations armed
forces which would make the guard
the chief peacetime training agency
If universal training system were
adopted.
Maj. Gen. E. A. Walsh, adjutant
general of Minnesota and president
of both organizations, announced
the recommendations, adopted yes
terday in closed sessions.
The groups said that making the
Guard the principal training agency
would eliminate the "extravagant
and time-wasting replacement train
ing centers that have been char
acteristic Of this war"
Proper provision should be made.
the recommendations said, for en-
rollment Of selective service person.
mel In the National Guard.
The association also recon-.
mended that the National Guard
shall be the active reserve compo-
nent OF the Army Of the United
States - which shall not only be
represented on the planning staff
OF the War Department general
stan, but shall be represented on all
sections thereof" and have q voice
IN determining military policies.
They also recommended that the
Guard be organized. equipped and
trained in the same manner as the
Regular Army.
Evening star., 1944-05-05

group of Latin American Ambassa-
dors. Formerly, Michels had a rival
for that eminence in the person of
Argentine Ambassador Espil, who
was recalled last October.
The reason for his success as
diplomat is that he is not a career
diplomat He Is a business man,
with mining interests in Chile. He
Is man of long political experience.
He has the daring which makes true
diplomacy, but which is usually
killed by the career"
That quality is illustrated by the
position he took in regard to Chile's
break of relations with the Axis. The
foreign minister at that time was
Barros Jarpa, who opposed the
break. Michels finally told Presi-
dent Rios that he must choose be-
tween them-Jarpa and Michels.
The president chose Michels, broke
relations and fired Jarpa. Michels
won his gamble. But If he had lost
he would have been recalled in dis
grace.
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Evening star., 1944-05-05
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 5.-A Federal
Bureau OF Investigation agent test1-
fed yesterday that Frederick Heizer
Wright, a newspaperman charged
with serving as an unregistered
japanese agent prior to Pearl Har-
Dor, made monthly bank deposits
ranging as high as $500 In excess OF
his newspaper earnings.
The agent, Charles F. de Long
told a Federal Court jury the de-
posits were made in the National
Bank Of Liberty, Liberty, N. j., over
nine-month period in 1910 and
1941.
During that period, Mr.. de Long
said, Wright deposited about $4,000
more than he was paid by the New
York Daily News, which employed
him as copy editor. The newspaper
is not involved in the indictment
against Wright. TT.
Preceding Mr.. De Long on the
witness stand, Eliji Ishii, an Ameri-
can-born former clerk in the Japa-
nese consulate, said he had over
heard Japanese officials discuss pay
ment Of funds to Wright. -
Were you working there so that
you could act as spy in the jap
anese consulate from 1899 to 1912"
asked Defense Counsel James D. C..
Murray.
Il never was spy" Ishii replied.
1shii said he now was employed by
the Spanish consulate which, he
added, is charged with protection
Of Japanese interests in this coun-
try.
Then you are still living off
Japanese funds?" asked Murray.
1T is Spanish money" replied
the witness. "The Japanese may
compensate the Spanish govern
ment after the war, but as far as I
am concerned it Is Spanish money"
Evening star., 1944-05-05
BadogIio Government
To- lake Over Wheat Crop
By the Associated Press,

6y tne ASSOCIATED Press.4t
AT THE SEAT OF THE ITALIAN
GOVERNMENT, May 5.-Premier
Badoglio's new government turned
to system Of state control Of wheat
today In an attenapt to solve Italys
most vital internal problem feed
ing the people.
The program, under which farm.
ers viii turn over ali wheat to the
government at fixed price, Is Ia
general 3 continuation Of The
"amasstng" sSi6tem OF. Fascism. but
Premier Radoglio promised today Id
appealing for its support that it will
be administered honestly and fairly,
The Communist party, Of which
Agriculture Minister Fausto GuIlo
is a member, is expected to play an
part in winning over sup
port of the peasants, who were
suspicious of the Fascist program
and withheld much of their grain
for sale through private channels.
Allied authorities, who have been.
about 100000 tons of
wheat monthly to feed Southern
Italy, have told the government
these imports will cease when the
Italian crop is harvested.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
Russia Doubles Amount
SOUGHT in War Loan Drive
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. May 5.-The Soviet
government yesterday issued its
third war loan offering OF 25,0OO,-
100000 rubles in bonds and lottery
tickets, more than doubling the
amount sought in its last loan drive.
(The nominal value of the
ruble is 10 cents, but accurate
conversion into American money
figures is impossible because of
the lack of an open market.)
Subscribers were offered two
choices: A lottery ticket costing Is
to 500 rubles, with the chance of
winning 200 to'50 900 rubles in semi
annual drawings starting next year,
or two 20-year bonds costing 100 to
1000 rubles paying per cent
interest
Russias first national war loan,
set at 10,O00,000,O rubles, drew
13,186, 100000, while the second, fixed
at 10000 100000, brought in 2O,323,-
100000 rubles in a week.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
Japan Permits
4-Word Letters
Prisoners
BY the Associated Press.

BOSTON, May Letters to
American prisoners of war in Japan
must not exceed "a words in the
body of the letter-between the sal
utation and the closing.
This was announced yesterday by
postal officials, who added that the
Japanese government, requires that
such letters be typed or hand print
ed in capital letters.
Germany places no limit on the
length of letters war prisoners may
receive, said postal authorities, who
remarked that short letters, typed
or hand printed in block letters, fa-
cilitate censorship.
Other reminders issued by the
Post Office Department about let
ters to war prisoners
Letters may pertain only to per-
sonal or family affairs.
Unmounted photographs and
snapshots may be included, provided
the subject matter is personal and
the background unrevealing, but
with no writing thereon, and pro-
vided they fit into ordinary en-
velopes.
Evening star., 1944-05-05
81 Reported Killed in Raid
On Art Gallery in HAGUE
, the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 5.-The house In
The Hague destroyed by Mosquito
bombers in a brilliant low-level
bombing announced Wednesday was
the former Kleykamp Art Gallery,
the official Netherlands news agency
Aneta said today. The British Air
Ministry said the house contained
documents OF extraordinary value to
the Germans.
A German controlled Netherlands
newspaper received here today said
81 persons were killed in the bomb
ing and that 1t took place April II.
The Kleykamp Gallery was one of
the most famous private art galleries
in Holland.