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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Frank Frisco"
Cross Dead

Frank Cross, cook, known as
Frisco of 75h Hoag Ave. No.,
Minneapolis, died Monday, Feb. IA,
at Minneapolis General Hospital.
Funeral services were Wednesday
at the Woodland Funeral Home
Chapel with Rev. A. F. Martin of
floating. Interment at Crystal
Lake. He is survived by his wife,
Rita and other relatives.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Negro History
Program Feb. 20

Grace Walker, director of girls
and women's activities at Phyllis
Wheatley House, will speak on the
Negro History Week observance
program at Camphor Methodist
church, st. Paul, Sunday, Feb. 20,
at $3.50 p. M, sponsored by Welcome
Hall and ODER Boys Club.
Miss Walker, a graduate of
Emerson College of Dramatic Art,
has studied at the Royal Academy
in London and in Geneva. She re-
Gently appeared on the "World We
Want" series over radio station
WLB. The Halle @. Brown House
choral group and the Wares Treble
Clef singers of Pilgrim Baptist
church will sing.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
st. Paul YMCA
Welcomes Negro
Membership

At the January meeting of the
Board of Directors of the st. Paul
Y.M.C.A. the members agreed to
see that the Christian principles
upon which the organization was
founded were adhered to by well
coming Negro citizens as members
to the st. Paul branch of the "Y."
1t is reported that some Negro
citizens of st. Paul were surprised
and pleased to hear of the change
in policy as they had contributed
to the building fund of the present
Y.M.C.A. over 35 years ago but had
been denied the use of its facilities
during these years. This change
was brought about through the eff
forts and interest of the st. Paul
Urban League.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
WAITE AND BOHANON SPEAK

In observance of Interracial week,
Leo Bohanon and Judge E. F.
Waite spoke at the Ba Hal Center,
Feb. Is.
Judge Waite in giving an example
of the progress Negroes have made,
used the employment set up of the
Federal cartridge plant. He stated
that there were Negroes working
as executives, secretaries, book
keepers, machine operators and all
other phases of the work in this
particular plant.
Mr.. Bohanon suggested that lib
eral whites take literature on Ne
groes, such as newspapers, books,
magazines and carelessly lay them
about and in the course of reading
they will be picked up and read
thus acquainting their readers with
some of the things Negroes are
doing.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18

Jhat the test OF democracy Is us
treatment of minorities." The daily
papers gave excellent support to
the undertaking.
DR.. Theodore Leonard, pastor of
the First Methodist Church, pre-
sided as moderator. After the in
vocation by Rev. B. N. Moore, pas
tor of st. James A.M.E. church, the
Temple Aaron choir, directed by
Borif Ostrowski and assisted by
the Cantor, Ben G. Nosowsky, sang
three numbers.
The first speaker in the panel,
Robert Johnson, teacher at Union
College, Richmond, Va, and a can
didate for his Pho. at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, stated that a
practical means of improving con-
ditions of the Negro group would
be change in the presentation of
the Negro in press, the radio and
on the screen, as none of the old
stereotype of Negro still exist and
people are prevented from taking
the Negro seriously. He deplored
the fact that many white people
formed the opinion of the Negro
from the least advanced of the
group.
He declared that it is a response
bility of minority groups to keep
insisting that we live up to a pro-
testation of democracy that no
member be condemned to the status
of second class citizens.
J. B. Colva, Mexican vice-Consul
from Mexico to the Twin Cities,
presented the case of three million
citizens of Mexican origin, who are
assimilated to our economic and So
cial lives, who suffer great injus-
tees. Most of them have been
citizens for many generations ever
since the United States in 1S47
forcibly took their land.
Mrs. Minoli Mukeda from Los
Angeles, associate director of the
Twin City Lutheran hostels for
Japanese Americans, stated that
she sees the possibility that good
may come for them in spite of the
hardships of evacuation and re-
settlement and the bitter hatred and
persecution they have experienced
on the West coast. She expressed
the hope that they will be assimi-
lated more naturally when not so
concentrated in one area since the
federal government is now assum-
ing some responsibility for their
welfare.
Since cultural and religious min
critics are subjects of prejudices as
we'll as racial groups the next two
speakers represented two great
religious faiths. Miss Mary E.
McGough, principal of jefferson
school, gave the Catholic belief in
brotherhood of all men. Averill
Berman, radio news commentator
from Minneapolis, speaking for the
Jewish group, brought out the fact
that all prejudices were illogical,
irrational and based on ignorance.
Thursday evening before the
meeting DIR. and Mrs. Woodland Col
by entertained at a fireside dinner
for the members of the round table.
The twenty-four guests enjoyed a
stimulating discussion and the con-
tact made among members Of the
four different cultural groups.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18

Wheatley Male Quartette appeared
at this time. Judge E. F. Waite,
Chairman of the Interracial Com
mittee, was interviewed by Cedric
Adams over WCCO. A panel dis
cussion on Race Relations was
broadcast over KSTP Tuesday eve
ming. The participants on this panel
were DR.. Myron Morrill,, Cecil E.
Newman, Rev. Robert w. Kelley
and DIR. Samuel M. Strong.
Miss Grace Walker, Girls Worker,
Phyllis Wheatley House, was in
terviewed by Darrah Aldrich,
WCCO during the week.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Six Hundred
Hear Rev. E.
Stanley Jones

Racial equality was advocated by
two speakers at the Minnesota Pas
tors Conference in the Tuesday
session in the Westminster Presby-
terrain Church, Minneapolis. Speak
ing before more than six hundred
white ministers representing most.
of the Protestant denominations in
the state, DR.. E. Stanley Jones,
famous Methodist missionary to
India, gave as one of the marks
of the true Christian church, "the
spirit of the equality of the races"
DR.. Jones declared that in the
early Christian church at Antioch
there was no racial distinction.
"The place of men of color in the
early Christian church was that of
equality Paul and Barnabas
were ordained by the hands Of
black man as they went forth to
preach the Gospel But the
Gospel succumbed to the racialism
of the West" DR.. Jones asserted.
He told his audience about the Eel
lowship Church that has been or
ganized in Pasadena, California,
composed of people of many races
and denominations. He was in
vited to make the opening address
of this inter-racial church, which
meets once a month. He quoted
himself as saying on that occasion
that "this is both a triumph and a
tragedy-A triumph in that you
have come to the true basis of
Christianity by recognizing the
equality of all races in this fellow
ship; a tragedy that we have been
nearly two thousand years coming
to this recognition"
DR.. Jones then related a story
about meeting of a church council
in a hotel in a border city. On the
day of the banquet for the meeting
the management of the hotel want
ed to call of the banquet because
two hundred of the five hundred
tickets had been purchased by Ne
groes. The council refused to call
the banquet of. The hotel man
agement then proposed that the
Negro delegates use the freight
elevator. The council would not
accept that suggestion. Then the
hotel management suggested that
the entire delegation, both white
and Negro, use the freight eleva-
tor and the banquet was held. DR..
Jones declared that there should
be at least one Negro member in
good standing in every white church
and that there should be at least
one white member in good standing
in every Negro church.
In the afternoon session DR.. Hugo
Thompson, professor of Philosophy
and Religion at Manchester College,
st. Paul, led the discussion on 1.-THE
Church in the Postwar World"
"The church must have the redemp-
tive spirit of love and there needs
to the honest requirement of racial
equality" DR.. Thompson asserted.
He then referred to the fact that
all of the trace problem was not
in Alabama" for there are many
restaurants in Minnesota, North
and South Dakota that would not
serve Negroes. He declared that
the church must be a fellowship of
action as well as Of worship and
service.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Negro Students
Responsible for
Campus Jim Crow?
SPEAKER BLAMES gu"
STUDENTS THEMSELVES

Negro students who have
attended and who are now en-
rolled at the University of
Minnesota were blamed for
the continued practice of Jim
Crowism on the campus, by
Miss Natalie Norman, of Wash
ington, D. c., in an address at the
regular monthly meeting of the St.
Paul Branch of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, at the Halle Q. Brown
Community Hause, Tuesday night.
Miss Norman, student in the
School of Nursing at the Univer-
sity, told the meeting of an Incl
dent of attempted discrimination
against her in a beauty shop on
the campus. According to Miss
Norman, the girl at the desk in
the beauty parlor took her name
and was about to give her a time
for an appointment, when the girl
was called by one of the operators.
The girl then denied Miss Moor
man an appointment and admitted
it was on account Of Miss Moor
mans race or color. Miss Norman
then took the matter up with the
dean of women of the University,
Anne Blitz, and had her to read the
text of the equal rights law Of the
state.
Gets Service Now
Miss Norman says she now gets
the best of service in the beauty
shop. She declared that the reason
that Negro students do not get their
full and equal rights on the uni
versity campus is because they
do not demand them.
Miss Norman is said to be the
first Negro girl student to live in
the cooperative dormitory on the
campus. She charged that Negro
students segregated themselves in
the cafeteria and other places on
the campus.
Miss Norman pointed out to her
enthusiastic audience that policy
concerning Negroes and other min
ority groups is not made in inter-
racial conferences and the like, but
in contact. She decried the fact
that she saw so few Negroes down.
town in Minneapolis taking advan-
tage of the equal rights statute of
the state. She said that you can
not work and live with people in
harmony unless you know them.
Praises March on Washington
She praised the March-on-W Wash
ington movement initiated by A..
Philip Randolph and asked the ques-
ton, eff pressure will get US what
else will, why don't we use
it more?"
Praises White People
She paid a tribute to white people
who take up the cause of the Ne
gro and asserted that it cost them
much to do so. In the discussion
period that followed her address,
Miss Norman, in answer to the
"What can we do as Ne
groes to get our full rights? 2" out
lined a four-point program. ~ We
must go to the one place that we
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Minneapolis Observes Race
Relations Week; Meetings
and Breakfasts Presented

Familiarity does not breed con-
tempt" said DR.. Samuel M. Strong,
Department of Sociology, Macal-
ester College, Sunday night at the
Race Relations meeting, Benton
Hall, YWCA.
The stressing of similarities
rather than differences in our ed
ucational approach is necessary to
change false conceptions about
American culture and the various
races and nationalities. DIR. Strong
addressed a large audience which
listened attentively to his stirring
words denouncing bigotry and "a
cial intolerance.
Helen Parker Mudgett, History
Instructor at the University of
Minnesota, called attention to the
need for manliness and vision in the
solution of Americas race problems.
The impressive play pageant, eve,
The People," was presented by the
Phyllis Wheatley Drama Society
under the able direction of Miss
Grace Walker.
The meeting was sponsored by
the Minneapolis Interracial Com
mittee under the direction of the
Interracial Committee of the Min
neapolis Urban League, a War
Chest Agency. Interracial Week is
being observed in Minneapolis dur
ing the week of February 10 to 10.
The keynote address was broad
cast by Leo Bohanon over Who'll,
Saturday morning, February IL.
Among other features of the OBJ
servance was a radio broadcast on
Saturday evening over WLOL.
Henry Thomas and the Phyllis
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
California Business
Woman Attends
Brothers Rites

Mrs. Lottie Pearce, 556 W. Cen
trail Ave-, returned to Long Beach,
Calf, with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Florence Blake, who was here to
attend the funeral of her brother,
E. o. Pearce, who died last week.
Mrs. Blake is proprietor of a
restaurant at Long Beach and has
been in business for 20 years.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Owens Says
Hayes Case
Not Closed

S. Vincent Owens, executive sec
rotary of the st. Paul Urban
League, told a reporter for the St.
Paul Recorder and Minneapolis
Spokesman that work is being done
on the Roland Hayes-St. Paul hotel
situation and that an announcement
Of public interest will be made in
a few days.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
TCOP Cagers
Play Wheatley
Return Game

A return game between T. c..
o. P. mems basketball team and
the Phyllis Wheatley team will be
played on Feb. 10 at $3.50 p. m. at
Wheatley to give fans a chance to
see the T. C. o. P. formidable squad
in action against the Whiz Kids.
The opening game will be played
at 7:45 p. m. between the T. C. o. P.
girls undefeated team, and the
Wheatley girls, who are out to up
set the favorite T. C. o. P. squad.
Dancing will follow the games.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18

have security-the law; (2) We
must use the ballot here in the
North, for we must do what we can
to win for the Negro in the South;
(3) Negroes must learn techniques
of action and use them intelligently;
az We must quit begging and pay
our way. If every adult Negro
would pay as much as one dollar
a year to some fund to advance his
cause we could secure many more
of our rights.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Man Held On
Girls Charge

Charles C. Anderson, 2l years old. 557
Rondo Ave, must face a charge of carnal
knowledge of a l6 year old girl.
Police claim Anderson, father Of two
children has admitted having had illicit rela-
tons with the girl on several occasions and
that he was aware of her age.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Human Relations Stressed
In St. Paul Observance
of Race Amity Week

Race relations week took new meaning for the
people of St. Paul this year, when became human rela
lions day. The committee who planned the observance held
Halle Brown House Sunday, Feb 49, decided to broad
the field and include all minority groups in their publicity
and the slogan Get Together Americans with the idea
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Mrs. Wells Sells
$4,000 Worth of
War Bonds

Mrs. Olin P. Wells, 3641 4th Ave.
So, a Victory Aide, sold $3,525
worth of War Bonds in the Fourth
War Loan drive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
Bloomfield
Gay Dances
Greet Ye ar
BLOOMFIELD HILLS

ORCHARD LAKE COUNTRY
~ CLUB and Bloomfield open
Hunt were gay with dancrs
New Years Eve At the Hunt
Club a large group Of young
married couples had a sub~cup-
ton dance with several dinners
and cocktail psTfIcS preceding
one Of The largest parties was
gwen by Mr. and Mrs John r
Cole Jr AZ their home m Hem
rietta street and guests In-
Cluded were
MEsSEs AND MFsDAMFs
Reed Alexander rer
Robert J NlnfDr stuart 'ufu
Frederick 4 smart wa ace I'Fr
Jr 81 r. Hrve
Thomas II. Wsg- John l. scoa-o
A. Bloomfield Hills Country
Cub open house was held all
dav Saturday with George T
Trumbull and C. J OCounor
heading the entertainment com
mIttce
At Bloomfield open Hunt
Sunday morning -seEeiI- lLA41L
members held q horSeShoW with
Betty COuIcnS lending her able
assistance 10 the young NOM
lGr-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
By THE CHAPERoN

THE FINAL weekend Of tho
i holiday season brings with D.
still more parties and the glad
tld.ngs that quite number OF
house guests have elected 20 cX-
tend ttcir visits a bit longer It's
the time toe. when the college
gocrs are reluctantly gathering
up their luggage and school
bnoky 10 head back IN time Tor
Inc. FIRST claS>eslof The new year
The Julian ! ChcVronS OF
BaImoral drive were so delighted
Zoo have with them their son-iu-
law and daughter Staff SGT and
Nh, r. j Waller here from
Cahlorna for tho holidays SGT
Waller who rs stationed az
camp Cook. had to return Co.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02

and So have Mr.. and Nr.
Joseph 3 lodI.
quite q good dcal of cm0g
and coming CoUdr and Mrs
.f-7H I5'r1UE TrC Hrrr r. ttTrE
oB wills l> spending lcaHc
viii his muthcr-1lrs & Harold
Wills. and brought his fellow
officer n Hcgcmdn. from
Dayton
Capt William Gregory Butler
horne until after tins week.
and II and Mrs Mcpherson
Eddy Browning are expected
this next week Pvt Robert
pctz viii arrive this week from
the East for 10 days and Capt
Grant Eddy Armstrong who has
been the guest OF ms uncle
Henry I Armstrong Jr has left
for his station.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
Mary FIT Engaged

Mary Fits engagement 10 Gerald Nc
Carthy, yeoman first class L. s. y. R.. is
announced by her parents the Rev and Mrs.
Frank Fit Of University Place Crosse Pointe.
Mary is an instructor in economies al Vassar.
Alfred Ford who is in the army air corps,
stationed at Mission Tex, will get his wings
Jana, Z. His parents, the Frederick Clifford
Fords expect him home on leave Jan. 9.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
Back in Wartime Stride

And this week social Detroit
Is settling hack into its war
time stride hard AZ work again
with the firm resolution that
tht laborS WIN not CEASE until
NA-e lAbors are no lorecr nee
cNSary
1t seemed good 10 doG those
uniforms for a day or so. but
This morning We saw them M
ml evidence again and passed
Mrs & Wallace Tolcs Mrs
Laura = IIiCbic Mrs Howard
Bennett. Mrs Cortlandt Larncd
Mrs Cecil Hobbs, Mrs Bcrc,-
ford Palmer an IN working
crh again and looking ~ CAR
most and efficient as 10 no inter
rupll0n had occurred.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
His First in Months

The furlouch was Sat NaI'rr
FIRST m nearly year. and Mrs
Waller hadn't been home since
juno when She Jeff for Cali
tQrn.a 10 stay with her husband
so the visit was very gay one
Mr. and Nr, WNhC " Car
hartt Of Crosse Ponic boulevard
have ~ their house guests Mrs
Carhartt> parent, MIR and SIR.
Robert Summond> of knoxville
Tenn The visitor, arrived before
-he holidays. and are p.amh-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
Finkenstaedts to-Fe+e Son

Preparations are being made in the
Harry S Finkcnstaedt household Crosse
Pointe. 10 welcome Harry s lr who will
arrive tomorrow from the University u
Wyoming where he is in the. ASTP program.
he hasn't been home since March and 10
coming between forms He has leave
again on Saturday.
Continued on Page Two)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
Ye0r-End Guests ProIon8 Visits;
College Folk Prepare School Return

10 stay on here for awhile be-
fore returning home
Miss Gretchen Carhartt rs also
home with her parents but VIII
return fa Roger, Hall M Lowell
~ Fga7Jey 70 resume classes
Nrrrf. NJ
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
Miss Craig Hostess

Shirley Craig was hostess 20
= group Of friends an tea Tues
dan afternoon al her parents
home IN Orchard Ridge road
She ieff- on f-4zteiay-te-fei-fttt
10 the University Of Arizona,
where she Is a student
Beta Beta Gamma Sorority
gave an alumnae luncheon Mon
dav afternoon ~ WALDORF tea
room with Carol Smith Martha
Eby and The pledges IN charge
Mrs James Vernon and Mrs
Harry s. Lee Of Plymouth spent
ontinued on Page seven
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
Rao,Jh, through myh~
Arthur -Gatdnets Back in Washington
Take Over Mrs.. V0nder0its House
Times Photo

Washington Frazer, president of WHY'S Over
land
Typical of these wartimes was the supper
party given the other night by Cynthia Dean,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Dean
Jr., for Peggy Tenny, who, with her mother,
Mrs. Charles NJ. Tenny, came from Spring
field, Mass, to spend the holidays with her
grandfather George o. Begg of Crosse
Pointe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02

his post "Wednesday after spend
InC a tVo-week Through here
bur Mrs Waller VIII stay on for
while before joining her bt,s-
band
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-02
An Al-Feminine Party

II was an all-feminine party as every
single boy who would have been invited is
in the services. This is the year Cynthia,
Ann Grouse and Mary Tiedeman would have
come out if there had been a debutante season.
The snow clad hills Of New England are
attracting several Crosse Pointe girls VINO
like 10 ski
Isabel and Edith Seyhurn have left for
stowe, VI, where there is some OF the best
skiing in the country.
Jean Prebe. home from Wellesley leaves
on Thursday to join some of her classmates
for skiing in New Hampshire
They will report at Wellesley Jan 10
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-27
Kitchen Stoves

CLEANING YOUR kitchen
stove need not be a drudge II
you take the necessary precau-
tons. Leave the oven open
after baking. This allows the
moisture to escape and prevents
the oven from rusting. II your
oven has already rusted, wiring
a cloth out of cold water, then
saturate IL with household am
monia: Leave the cloth in the
oven overnight with the door
shut. In the morning rust and
other stains can be removed
very easily.
A paste of turpentine and
cleanser cleans an enamel stove
quickly. Make certain the stove
is cold and that no flame is
lighted before spreading the
paste over the stove. Let II re-
main on the surface about 10
minutes. Then wash with soapy
water.
Every week rub lnseed oil on
a steel stove and pipes. This
gives a gloss and protects them
from rust, or rub the top of the
stove with a little vaseline on a
cloth while the stove is still
warm. This. too, will keep the
stove shiny.