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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Halle & Wheatley
Midgets Play at
Sumner Field Nov. !

The Halle Q. Brown Midget foot,
ball team and the Phyllis Wheatley
Midget football team will play Sun,
day, Nov. 5, at Sumner Field, al
8 p. m.
Halle Q's team lineup is as fol,
lows: Craige Williams, quarter.
back; Donald Hall, fullback; Lee
Lewis, left half; Donald Smith
right half; Richard Busch, end
Horace Collins, left tackle; Sterling
Owens, left guard; Bruce Williams
center; Reginald Combs, right
guard; Joseph Ray, left tackle, anC
Sheen White, right end.
Phyllis Wheatley's line up: Fred
die Dillon, quarterback; Ronald
Aaron, left half; Kenneth Robinson
right half; "Bubba" Pope, full
back; Carroll Robinson, left end
George Ash, left tackle; Vincent
Westbury, left guard; "Cobbie'
Threat, center; John Beasley, right
guard; Richard Hammonds, right
tackle; Billie Dawson, right end
Substitutes, Ken Mckinney, Leon
ard Minis, Charlie Ellis, Donald
Napue, John Randall and Warner
Wright.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Carey Predicts
Dewey Victory

In an interview with Talmage B,
Carey, in charge of the Republican
Campaign in Hennepin County, he
predicted Governor Dewey will be
elected president on November 7th'
"The American electorate" says
Carey, "has found in the pronounce
ment of Governor Dewey, a heart
ening trend for the future of our
nation. His honest conviction on
the issues of the hour backed by a
splendid record of achievements
rings true to the American way of
life.
"Mr. Dewey's pledge on matters
directly affecting the future of Ne
groes is fortnight and honest.
Most Negroes are not willing to
trust their future to a political ma
chine where control is in the hands
of the Connelly's, Rankins, and
Billbos.
GAS the campaign goes down the
last stretch, it is very obvious that
the voters are analysing the pledges
of the party platforms and the
fortnight Interpretation of the re-
spective candidates.
"The trend toward Governor
Dewey is gathering momentum,
and with his election the future of
the American way of life is as
sured," Carey declared.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

MAXWELL LEO BOHANON
1t was announced last week that
Maxwell Leo Bohanon, director of
Social Service of the Minneapolis
Department of Public Relief, has
been appointed to the overseas
staff of the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration
as an administrative assistant at
$4,000 per year.
Bohanon's Minneapolis position
was the only one of it's kind held by
a Negro in the United States. A
native of Indiana, his early educa-
ton was in that state. He came to
Minneapolis in 1927 serving for
several years on the Phyllis Wheat
ley Settlement House staff as boys
worker. He graduated from the
University of Minnesota in 1884,
and in that same year joined the
Minneapolis Relief department
staff, working his way up the lad
der to his present position.
At the peak of the relief load,
Bohanon supervised the work of
$50 persons, a group which included
only three Negroes.
Six Negroes have now been ap-
pointed to the overseas staff of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration, at salaries
of $1,000 each, according to a re-
cent announcement of the agency
naming three additional admins
trative assistants.
The last appointees are A. L.
Kidd, of Tallahassee, Fla, former
registrar at Florida A. & M. Col
lege; julius Jerome Robinson, until
recently the race relations adviser
of the Farm Security Administra-
ton, and Mr.. Bohanon.
Previous appointments included
Malcolm Jackson, former member
of the council in the Virgin Islands;
]. P. Bond, a Red Cross club di-
rector in Australia, and Earl Pruitt,
who was manager of Louisville's
largest public housing project for
Negroes.
All of these appointees receive
orientation training at the Univer-
sity of Maryland, and are expected
to sail for their overseas assign
ments within about eight weeks.
They will be engaged in various OPP
irrational and organizational jobs
with no connection with minority
race problems.
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Clifton McLaren,
Soldier, Formerly
of Duluth, Dead

Clifton McLaren of Piney Woods,
Miss, who had made his home in
Duluth, Mimi, for five years prior
to induction into the armed serv-
ice at Fl. Smelling, died last week
in base hospital in Mexico. He
made his home in Duluth with his
cousin, George Cox, Ais E. 9Th st.
McLaren had served overseas and
had been returned to a hospital in
Mexico. His remains were shipped
to Mississippi from Mexico &C
companied by 20 soldiers, a chap
lain and his mother, Mrs. Jenny
McLaren who was at his bedside.
Three sisters, five brothers and a
number of aunts and cousins also
survive.
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Fletcher Henderson and His
Band Play Fer Monday
Night Dance at Auditorium

All roads for dance and music
lovers will lead Monday night,
November 6, toward Stem Hall in
the St. Paul Auditorium where the
famed Fletcher Henderson and his
orchestra will hold forth at the first
big-time public dance of the fall
and winter season.
1t is understood that Fletcher is
bringing one of the best and most
versatile bands of his long career
to the Twin Cities for the edifca-
ton and pleasure of lovers of swing
and popular dance tunes.
Fletcher Henderson is the clad
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Voter Recommendations

Voter Recommendation
For President: Vote for Frank.
lin ID. Roosevelt.
For Governor: Vote for Byron
Allen, Democratic-F-L. candidate,
true liberal and friendly to the in
terests of the Negro people. Ed
ward ]. Thye, the Republican in
cumbent has, however, made a step
in the right direction by naming an
Interracial Commission.
For eut.-Governor: No choice.
Take your pick.
For Secretary of State: Vote for
Mike Holm, an old line Republican
who thinks in terms of Negroes ow-
ing something to the present Re-
publican party. However, he has
always had Negro representation in
his office, and we recommend him
to the voters. His opponent is
Emily Kneubuhl, a liberal.
For State Treasurer: Vote for
]. A. A. Burnquist, a former presi-
dent of the St. Paul branch of the
NAACP.
For Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioner Qong term): Vote
for Vienna Johnson, a fine woman
who hates race prejudice. She
worked hard to rally Minnesota's
interest in anti-poll tax legislation.
She deserves election as she will
make an excellent commissioner.
She is the Democratic-F armer-La-
Dor candidate.
For Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioner (short term): No
choice.
For State Supreme Court: Vote
for Charles LOring, Harry Peterson
Clifford Enger and Leroy MatsOn.
For Congress, Third District:
Vote for Richard (Dick) Gale. He
has voted right on all measures af-
fecting Negro Americans.
For Congress, Fourth District:
Vote for Frank Starkey. The pres
ent Congressman, Melvin Mas, is
too inaccessible to Negro commit
tees. The St. Paul NAACP tried
hard to get to talk with him but to
no avail.
For State Legislature (37th dis
trict)-Vote for George L. Jackson.
For State Legislature (38th dis
trict)-Vote for Anthony (AD
Podgorski.
For Legislature (42nd district
south)-Vote for FRED B. BLUM.
His opponent, Roy Hilton, has had
long years of support from Negro
voters but he exhibited little inter
est in the auto insurance anti-racial
discrimination bill and the amended
Civil rights law which vitality af-
fected the Negro citizens of his
district.
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Kelly Attacks
Judd's Reference
to Negro Slaves
CHALLENGES CONGRESS-
MANS REFERENCE TO
TREATMENT OF
SLAVES

Congressman Walter Judd's
statement that the American Ne
gro, when he was a slave, enjoyed
freedom from want and freedom
from fear" drew a sharp reply
Wednesday from the Rev. Robert
W. Kelley, pastor of the Border
Methodist church and chairman of
the Minnesota Negro All-Party
club for Roosevelt.
In a radio address Oct. 81 Con-
gresham Walter Judd said:
"Most of the slaves in the old
south were free from want and
fear: They were not generally
ill-treated, and they were assur-
ed of food and shelter. Yet we
fought for four years in order
that they might be truly free
be on their own, with all the OPP
portunities-and risks-which real
freedom involves"
Rev. Kelley said that it is his
torical fact that most Negroes
were restless in bondage. More
than 100000 slaves, he said, bought
their freedom or escaped from
their owners. The slave owners
demanded and got the Fugitive
Slave act passed to compel the
return of runaway slaves.
SIS DR.. Judd trying to say that
the system of slavery was an eco
nomic good for the slaves?" the
pastor demanded. "Look at the
record. The system kept the slaves
in penury. 1t was destroying A.
100000 poor whites and it was pre-
venting the growth of living
wage structure anywhere in Ameri-
ca. 1t was sitting the growth of
the cotton industry in the North
because of the southern aristocrat's
preference for the British market"
According to Rev. Kelley, the
average slave received the equiva-
lent of $50 year in food and cloth
ing from his master.
''The slaves food was conditioned
upon the masters subsistence
level" Mr.. Kelley said. 'This sub
sistence level vanished when poor
crops, low market prices and finan-
cial losses were incurred by the
master. The master still ate but the
Negro starved"
Says Judd COntradicted Self
The Fifth district congressman,
according to the pastor, contra
dicted himself by defining freedom
from fear as political security"
Mr.. Kelley added:
eff DIR. Judd will review his
history of the slave system, he win
Continued on Page 81
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Bertha and Edward
Williams Remains
Here for Burial

The bodies of Bertha Williams,
who died in Philadelphia, Oct. 25,
and her father, Edward ]. Williams,
who died about 10 years ago in
Philadelphia, were brought to St.
Paul, this week, for burial at Oak
land cemetery, Wednesday, Oct. 81.
Brief services were held at the
graveside with Rev. B. N. Moore,
pastor of st. James A. M. E.
Church, officiating. ]. E. Johnson,
526 St. Anthony, an old friend of
the Williams family, was notified to
take care of arrangements in St.
Paul.
Miss Williams. and her father
were we'll known to old settlers in
St. Paul. For a number of years
Mr.. Williams was a Pullman porter,
running from St. Paul to Canada
and is thought by some to have been
at one time engaged in the real es-
tate business. Another daughter,
Anna, was brought here and buried
several years ago. They had pur-
chased a family lot at Oakland dur
ing their residence here.
Former friends of the family who
attended the services Wednesday
morning were Mr.: and Mrs. ]. E.
johnson, Mrs. Andrew Bell, Mrs.
Grace Ferguson, Mrs. John Kelly
and Mrs. Thomas Neal. No known
living relatives survive.
Brooks Funeral Home was in
charge.
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Pvt. Edgar PettifOrd
Married in Gary, Ind.

Private Edgar Pettiford of Min
neapolis whose picture appeared in
this newspaper recently with fam
lily group of five men, all serving
in the armed forces, was married
Sunday, Oct. 29, to Miss Mildred
Carter of Gary, Ind. The wedding
took place in the Israel C. M. E,
church there.
Pvt. Pettiford was in three major
battles during his two years and ten
months spent overseas. He has
several sisters and brothers and a
large group of other relatives living
in the Twin Cities.
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Truman Says
'Tain't So!
democratic Press Bureau

\DemOCTdLlC FIeSS buEedul
New York.-Blasting the desper-
ate, eleventh-hour attempt of Re-
publicans to connect him with the
Ku Klux Klan, Senator Harry S.
Truman declared Thursday, "The
Hearst charge is made up out of
the whole cloth. 1t was a lie that
was charged and nailed-way back
in 1922 in Missouri. There is not
a shred of truth in it."
1t was disclosed that Humans
chief accuser, Harry Hoffman, was
defeated by Senator Truman in
1922 when Hoffman was a candi-
date for Jackson County marshal.
Hoffman, who is now living in Ohio,
also refused to confirm or deny that
he had signed the affidavit used
by the Hearst scandal sheets.
1t was revealed also that Profess
sor Bruce Trimble of Kansas City,
another Hearst stooge, who was
used to smear Truman is leading
American Firster and a pronounced
pro-fascist.
Truman Called Jew
Another indication of the depths
to which the Republican mud-sling-
ers have descended is the follow
ing statement published in a Dewey
paper in California, "The Date
Palm" "The President is a very
sick man. Should he be reelected
and die in office what of 'Pender-
CAST Truman? Truman would be-
come President, thus to be the first
Jew, if all underground reports are
true-to occupy that office"
Challenge Republicans
Robert E. flanagan, Chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, demanded at his press con-
ference Thursday that Governor
Dewey "repudiate these tactics de-
signed to arouse racial and relig-
ious prejudices." Mr.. flanagan
stated: "The Republican party has
resorted to the lowest and most
despicable campaign in the history
of this republic"
Mailing the Khan lie on Truman,
Mr.. Hannegan declared: Senator
Truman has denounced this lie as
lie. He has stated that he never
belonged to the Klan at any time.
The facts are that he was opposed
by the Khan when he was a candi-
date for the County Judgeship in
Jackson County, Missouri, and the
man signing the alleged affidavit
published by Hearst was backing
Klansman who was Humans OPP
ponent."
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Minnie Alice
Blackman, 20,
Died Monday

Minnie Alice Blackman, 1906
Washington Ave. &c., age 20, died
Friday, Oct. 81, at the Glen Lake
Sanitorium. Funeral services were
held at the Neal Funeral Home
Chapel Monday, Oct. 80, at 10 a. M,
with Rev. H. C. Boyd officiating.
Interment was at National GENE
terry, Fl. Smelling.
Mrs. Blackman was born at
Maceo, Texas, and had been a resi-
dent of this city for the last eight
years. She is survived by her hus-
band, Dayton; her mother, Mrs
Mary Davis; brother and sister-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Davis
of Wichita Falls, Tex; brother-in-
law and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs,
Olson Blackman; mother-in-law,
Mrs. B. V. Blackman; niece, Miss
Nathan Blackman, Chicago, and
Mrs. Cleo Blackman, a sister-in-
law, Minneapolis.
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Bruce Lucas
Poems Read at
Poets Meet

Geraldine Westaby, Edna school
teacher, introduced and read poems
written by Bruce Lucas, Wayzata,
Mimi, at meeting of the Mime
sofa Federation of Chaparral Poets,
held at the Plaza hotel, Saturday,
Oct. %.
Margaret Ball Dickson, regional
director of the Federation, is Poet
Laureate of Minnesota. Brenda Uh-
land, columnist and feature writer,
was the guest speaker, at the eve
ming meeting.
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BrOWnen Raps
Trunan's OK. of
Former KluXer
Republican Press Bureau)

In a statement issued Monday
Herbert Brownell, Jr., chairman OF
the Republican National committee
said:
"The New Deals dependence or
the support of Communists, corrupt
bosses and even elements as I'm.
American as the Ku Klux Khan has
finally been emphasized in all its
ugliness by Senator Harry S. Tru.
man, New Deal candidate for Vice
President.
"The last pretense of the political
sanctimony voiced so unctiously by
Mr.. Roosevelt in his belated and
unconvincing 'disavowaP of Com.
munist support was stripped away
by Truman, the man who could be
President, in Los Angeles, Oct. 16
"There and then Mr.. Truman
gave his blessing to Hal Styles
Democratic candidate for Congress
whose admission that he was for,
merly leader of the Ku Klux Klar
has been printed extensively in Cali
fornia newspapers.
"The Los Angeles Examiner Of
Sept. % reports Styles admission
of his activities within the Ku Klu2
Khan after earlier identifying Style:
as a Kleagle of the white-robeC
Khan in Jamaica, N. Y, in 1927 anC
1928.
"After a political conference with
Styles, Truman told Los Angelo:
newspaper reporters:
"'I know nothing about his Kr
Klux Khan or any other connection
but if he is one of ours / am fol
him.
"In this, Truman, whose owl
nomination was cleared with Sid
ney' at Chicago, was, by his yer!
language-'if he is one of ours
being true to the political tenets b!
which he rose through the malodor
Gus ranks of the notorious Fender
CAST machine in Kansas City.
ats oft-professed solicitude fol
minorities has been a main stock
in-trade of the New Deal and Com
munists. But here we have the re
volving spectacle of Mr.. Truman
the man who could be President
under New Deal-Communist spon
sorship- embracing figuratively {
former member of the Ku Klu1
Khan. And the Klan, Throughout
it's history, has vented its bigoteC
spleen and inflicted physical VIC
lence on all minority groups"
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dy" of the Negro orchestra con-
ductors and is considered the top
arranger of dance music in the
music game. His orchestras have
always rated high.
A large crowd is predicted to
hear him and dance to his Hender-
son tunes.
Advance sale tickets at $1.0O each
are on sale at Majestic Drug, Dale
& Rondo, st. Paul, and Elks Rest,
148 Hyland Ave-, Minneapolis. Ad-
mission at door $1.20. Both include
tax.
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St. Paul Civic
Opera Tenor on
Halle Salon

Clifford Mottoz, tenor soloist fol-
the Westminster church, Minneapo-
lis, and member of the st. Paul
Civic Opera Company, will appear
in recital at Halle @. Brown House
on Sunday, Nov. 5, at S:15. This will
be the first in a series of 80 re-
citals open to the public.
This is one of Americas
great cities = boost it every
day.
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st. Paul Urban
League Elects
New Officers

Officers elected at the October
meeting of the Board of Directors
of the st. Paul Urban League were
Clarence w. Wigington, Pres; Rev.
Francis ]. GiIligan, LIST Vice Pres;
Irving Levy, End Vice Pres; Rev.
B. N. Moore, Sec.; William N.
Godette. Treas.
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feeble voice to McALPIN
the blackjack and clamor of the
politicians and urge every citizen,
who is eligible, to go to the polls
and vote.
Most people by this time have
decided how they are going to mark
their ballots. Out of the confusion
of charges and countercharges,
promises and pledges, they believe
they have made a wise decision.
Whether their belief is in tune with
that of the majority of Americans
will be known sometime during the
night of November 7 or during the
day of November 8.
Despite the Importance each side
attaches to the election of the can
didate of its choice, it is far more
important that each eligible citizen
participate in the election by cast
ing his vote for the leadership he
feels should head up this country
during the next four years.
America is a democracy-an i'm
perfect one, true! But we who bear
the brunt of its imperfections can
not afford, ourselves, to be imper-
feet citizens. Voting is a sacred
duty. 1t matters not whether your
side wins or loses so far as your
responsibility of participation is
concerned. The ballot is the Ameri-
can substitute for bullets. In in
verse ratio, as the eligibility of Ne
groes throughout the country to
vote increases and is taken advan-
tage of-the imperfections of our
democracy will decrease. Those who
now have that eligibility MUST
use it.
Voting should not be an incident
al task on election day. 1t should
take precedence over all other du-
ties and obligations-most of which
can be done some other time, but
one can vote only on election day.
I'm reminded of a story told me
by the wife of former minister
to an African Republic. She said
certain of the natives were eligible
to vote there provided they wore
pants to the polling places. On one
election day, she saw a long line
of natives standing in a queue on
the outskirts of town in their ma
tive, half-naked garb. On inquiry,
she discovered they were waiting
their chance to vote. The group of
several hundred owned only ten
pairs of pants between them, and
the first ten in line would don the
pants, run to the polls, vote, and
then scurry back to shed the pants
and let the next ten vote.
1t is amusing, yes. 1t lends it.
self to political corruption, true,
because the plantation owner with
the largest number of pants could
influence the voting. But the per-
sistence of those natives, in spite
of handicaps, in exercising the
right of suffrage is a lesson from
which we all could learn.
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Elk Leader to Speak

DIR. G. B. Key, st. Louis, Mo-, Elks
regional education director, speaks
at Elks Joint Educational Banquet
at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Satur.
day, November II, at 1880 p. m
81 per plate. For reservations call
Elkhurst 6SO6.-Advt.
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DREsToN CoMMINGS, of the
L general service department of the
Standard Oil Company Of Louisiana,
who recently retired at age IS from
the Baton Rouge Refinery Of the
Company after So years Of service.
Born at Bayou Sara in September
1879, Mr.. Commings Joined the COM
pany and this refinery, now one of
the nations vital war plants. when
1t was Just a field full of stumps
and bushes. He served his years
with the company without q single
days work lost by illness. One of
his daughters now works in the
Baton Rouge Reffnery's synthetic
rubber plant He is a deacon Of a
Baptist Church, in Baton Rouge.
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William e. Commodore seaman
second class was at home this week
visiting his mother, Mrs. Aletha
Commodore, $40 E. Lake St. Sea-
man Commodore is stationed at
Great Lakes, Ill.
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Visitors to the office this week were.
Mrs. Viva Jean Vaughn, Mrs. Nina Will
liams, Mrs. Della Guilty and Miss Margie
Banks, Minneapolis; Mrs. William Bray
boy, st. Paul; Miss Josephine Pearson,
Chicago, ILL.,, Ali Lon Clancy Aubrey,
Boston, Mass, and Melvin Boyd, Kansas
City, Mo.
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Please keep of Nov. q. Credia-
fawns will present the Melody
Maids at Pilgrim Baptist Church.
ADV.
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OCuulOuSly, II mas
tried to avoid any
political imphca-
tions during the
campaign. n a t
role, it is continu-
ing, even this
week.
But certainly it
would be Sinking
a responsibility
did it not lend its
feeble voice tc
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Ihrarian
Minn HiEhuziinaa Suristx
limit 4
UncOvering
Washington
By Harry S. McAlpin

This is the last of these columns
which will appear before the presi-
Dental election on November z.
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PATRONIZE
YOUR PAPERS
ADVERTISERS

This is one of Americas
great cities = boost it every
day.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

This is one of Americas
great cities = boost it every
day.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

Keep off date - Wands Motor
Division Banquet, Lowry, Nov. Is.
-Advt.