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INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
OF B. S. C. P. AUXILIARY

TO SPEAK SUNDAY, MAY q
The st. Paul Ladies' Auxiliary of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters is holding it's annual ban
quet Sunday, May 81, at $50 p. m.
at Ober Boys Club.
Dinner will be rs cents per plate.
Mrs. Helena Wilson of Chicago, in
ternational president of the Aux
iliarY. will sneak.
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the Dillon family. Clarence Max
we'll will be at the piano.
The ticket committee headed by
Mrs. Mae Clark advises immediate
purchase of tickets for the affair as
the advance sale has been brisk.
Tickets may be secured from par
Elephants in the show or Como Tenn
pie members or at the Catholic
Youth Center.
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Puid Is BucksI

Orville Drake, 2209 Elliot Ave-,
paid a st. Louis Park Justice of
Peace Court $25 for driving through
a stop sign. Mr.. Drake told the
court that he did not see the sign.
In the auto with Drake was H. E.
London, 2425 Fourth Ave. So.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-05-19
Annual Baby
Contest Began
on May Is

The annual baby contest spon-
sored by the Minneapolis Urban
League Auxiliary, began Tuesday,
May 16. The names of the contest
ants will be published at a later
date.
Interest in the contest is great.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-05-19
Clark of Missouri Reads
Requiem" of Poll Tax Bill
After Cloture Loses
By Harry McAIpin

Washington, D. C. (NNPA)
In a setting of farcical in
sincerity-with but few ex-
ceptions - the Senate again
buried the anti-poll tax bill by
an adverse cloture vote of
44-36. Only 10 Republicans, 1 Pro-
gressive, and II Democrats voted
for cloture. Against it were IL Re-
publicans, and 80 Democrats.
Immediately after defeat Of the
cloture motion, without real fill
buster ever having developed, Sen.
Clark ID. of Mo- read the requiem
and last rites of the poll tax bill
by offering a motion for consider
alton of a bill for furnishing arti-
fetal limbs to returning veterans.
1t was really a motion to shut off
further debate on the poll tax bill
but shrewdly couched in the chal-
longing dress of a veterans
measure.
Sen. Pepper ID. of Fla.) made a
brave effort to get a direct vote on
tabling or further considering the
poll tax bill, but the opponents OF
the measure won the parliament
airy skirmish which ensued.
Sen. Clark's motion, ruled as be-
ing in order, was passed Abs, and
the poll tax bill ceased to be the
pending business before the Sen
ate.
Clark Sounds Insincere
Clark sounded very insincere in
his argument that he wanted to get
on with the important business be-
fore the Senate. His attention was
called to the fact that his bill could
be considered by unanimous consent
during the continuance of the poll
tax debate, and not take more than
Is minutes. He was also reminded
that the Senate had had innumer-
able recesses prior to consideration
of the poll tax bill and that more
recesses were scheduled for the
future. He remained adamant, and
refused to withhold his motion in
favor of a more direct test on the
poll tax by allowing a motion to
table HR z.
During the debate, Sen. Clark an
nounced that whereas he had voted
for cIoture, he intended to vote
against the poll tax bill if it ever
reached a vote on its merits.
Dear AIben" Votes With Clark
Sen. Barley ID. of Ky.), major
ity leader of the Senate, who made
the motion for cloture last week,
while voting for cloture after max
ing a speech in it's behalf, voted for
Sen. Clark's motion to take up an
other bill and thus kill off further
consideration of the poll tax meas
ure. This gave credence to the re-
ports that the Southern bloc had
been given an understanding that
the measure would be shelved
should the cloture vote fail.
Voting for cloture were: DEM
ocrats: Barley (Ky.), Clark (MoO,
Downey (Cal.), Green (R. L., Cuff
fey (Pa.), Jackson (Ind.), Kilgore
wv. va.), Lucas (m.), Maloney
Conn.,, Mead IN. ", Murdoch
(Utah), Pepper (Fla.), Thomas
(Utah), Tunnel (Del.), Wagner
IN. ", and Walsh (Mass.). Repub-
licans: Ball (Minn.), Brooks, (IlL),
Burton (Ohio), Capper (Kans.),
Danaher Comm, Davis (Pa.), Fer
guson (Mich.), Quincy Is. d.,
Gordon (Ore.), LANCER IN. d.,
Reed (Kans.) Revercomb wv. Va.),
Taft (Ohio), vandenberg (Mich.),
Wherry (Neb.), Weeks (Mass.),
Wiley wis.,, and Wilson (Iowa).
Remember These Men
VotinO AGAINST clotI1ra were: :
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Resident for 20
Years Dies at IS

Andrew Lacey, IS years old, of
1859 Collins st., st. Paul, died at
Ancker Hospital, May 10. Mr..
Lacey a native of Kentucky, had
been a resident of St. Paul for %
years.
Funeral rites were held Thursday
afternoon at the Neal Funera l
Home in st. Paul with Rev. John
Nelson officiating.
Interment was at E m h urst .
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Puttons Attend
Funeral In Chicago

Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Patton,
954 st. Anthony, are attending the
funeral of Mrs. Patton's aunt, Mrs.
w. M. Winston, in Chicago. Mrs.
Winston died Monday, May Is,
after a long illness.
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Robert (Bob) Moulden
to UNDERGO Operation

Robert Moulden, 3848 Fourth
Ave. So, has entered Minneapolis
General Hospital for the removal of
a cataract from one eye.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-05-19

Among the visitors at the office
this week were, Mrs. A. 81. Lyons,
Mrs. Genevieve Cooper, James Sis
son, James Ellis and Jack Posten.
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Star Journal
.. Editor Addresses
- NAACP Sunday

Gideon Seymour, executive-edi
of the Minneapolis Star Journal, will
speak on ~ Am An American" at
the NAACP monthly meeting to be
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-05-19
LUCILLE JORDAN
GRANTED DIVORCE

Mrs. Lucille Jordan, 11OS Aldrich Ave.
No., was granted a divorce from Leroy
Jordan, Wednesday, May 8, by Judge W.
W. Bardwell. Harry L. Scott was the at
torney for Mrs. Jordan.
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CHANGE MEETING
DATE TO MAY %

The Minneapolis Urban League
Auxiliary will hold its re gular
monthly meeting, Tuesday, May %,
instead of Tuesday, May 80.
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fought. He is willing, head bowed,
to walk with the rope around his
neck and the white mobster's gun
at his head to his place under the
tall pine tree to be lynched rather
than avoid such ignominy by TAX
ing at least one swing at his
captors.
It is generally known that SO
per cent of the white workers didn't
know why they were called out on
strike. Those in the know will tell
you that the company failed to win
the workers support in their recent
election tussle with the CLIO. But
they did not give up. They knew
there was one issue that 60 per
cent of the white people could unite
upon. So they trotted out the buga-
boo-the Negro who won't fight
Loo1>
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The Negro and the North
,he American Mercury

the American Mercury
in power and the party seeking
power.
A third force is vague but power
full: a recognition of the new status
of "colored" peoples throughout
the world. This war covers the
whole earth. Among the United
Nations who will control the new
world are men of every race and
creed and color. The Allies number
some $50, 600, 900 white men of the
Western nations" the United
States and the British Common
wealth. But there are also 49,
100000 yellow Chinese; $4,000, 900
brown men of India; 5000, 900
dark Malayan peoples of southeast
Asia, the East Indies, Philippines,
and other Pacific islands; 100000
900 Latin Americans, many of
whom are proud of their Indian
and Negro ancestry as well as of
their European blood; such millions
from Africa and the Near East as
can free themselves for the
struggle; and 190,0OO,OOO Soviet
Russians who are devoted not only
to economic equality but to equality
of all races and cultures.
Most of us have not let ourselves
think of a world order in which
these people will hold the power,
not only of numbers, but of their
rapidly developing industry and
arms. But most of us know in our
inner hearts that the heyday of the
mastery of the earth by the "whitc
man of Northern Europe and North
America" is gone.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-18

marvel is not that thousands of
Negroes are turning back to Re-
publicanism; the marvel is that so
many are still clinging to FDR
and the truly progressive ideals
which the Democratic Party, de-
spite it's fouled anchor to south
ward, still stands for.
What's happened in the last four
years has not been a flood to the
Republican ranks; it has been an
ebb, slow but calculable, from the
Democratic ranks.
With the help of the Southern
Tories, why haven't the Republi-
cans been able to do better?
Part of the answer lies with the
Republicans themselves.
Other than Wendell Willkie
whom they have disowned, the Re,
publicans have produced no Ameri,
can who crusaded for democracy
and equality.
No leading Republican has eve1
gotten up in Congress to answer
Rankin as he should have been an.
swered.
No Republican has ever gotter
up in Congress to answer Rankin
as he should have been answered
No Republican in Congress has
been able to force his colleagues
to support, en- masse, the anti-lyncl
and anti-poll tax bills.
No Republican in Congress has
forcefully and openly fought clio.
ture-the secret weapon with which
the old guard COP has come to the
aid of the Bourbons in defeating
such bills.
No Republican, in short, has been
American enough, in the biggest
and broadest and best sense of the
word, to capture the imagination
and the faith of the Negro.
This is part of the answer.
The rest of the answer lies in
FDR and Wallace and their support
by the progressive elements of the
country.
Millions of Negroes still recog,
nize, through all their pain and
humiliation, the majestic force Of
the progressive movement in
America-a movement which, in
the space of IL years, has in many
ways revolutionized the life of the
American worker.
And millions of Negroes still
cling to FDR as the symbol anG
guiding spirit of that liberalism.
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Negro Leadership Hit in
Inside Philadelphia Story
By Dan Gardner

PHILADELPHIA What Great
ed the conditions out of which
grew the recent Philadelphia
Transit Co. race strike is also re-
sponsible for the line of thought
that made 60 per cent of the white
persons asked in a recent public
opinion poll reply that they be-
ieved Negroes were treated fairly.
There is no doubt that the strike
here was instigated by a small
clique. A small clique in Germany
instigated worldwide terror. A
small clique in Washington sets the
pattern by which an entire section
of the nation, the South, treats
the minority Negro group. But
cliques such as these draw much of
their power for evil-doing from the
fact that they have access to, and
the active support of the avenues
of information to spread their
theories of racial discord. Without
the complete job of conditioning
the mind of the American public
against the Negro done so expertly
over the years and today by the
daily newspapers, the movies, the
radio and the stage, the great
masses of the whites could hardly
tolerate such insults to their in
telligence as a complete stoppage
of transportation in a large and
complex city as Philadelphia just
because a handful of selfish men
hate Negroes.
It all reverts to the theory /
advanced several columns ago that
the Negro must learn that to get
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BY Edwin R. Embree j

Continued from August II ISSUE
The single city of New York
shows, in the 1910 Census, nearly
500, 900 Negroes, equal to the total
colored population of such typically
Southern states as Arkansas and
Tennessee. Chicago's 100000 Ne
groes exceed the colored popula-
ton of the whole states of Ken
lucky or Missouri. The last census
lists eleven cities throughout the
country with over 100000 Negroes.
Los Angeles reported $4,000 in
1910 and is estimated to have
doubled that number during the
last three years of war industry.
San Francisco, which never had
more than small colored colony
of two or three thousand, suddenly
finds twenty-five to thirty thousand
Negroes teeming about its war
plants.
A second reason for shift in
attitude is that Negroes in the
North have the vote and are using
it. They hold the balance of power
in many states and in just those
states-New York, Pennsylvania,
and the Middle which in
turn hold the balance in national
elections. Hard-headed politicians
know what this means-as is amply
proved by the frantic wooing of
Negro favor by both parties. AS
Negroes learn to use their political
power more skillfully, there is al
most nothing that they cannot de-
mand and get. both from the nartv
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War Bonds Defeat Poverty!

War Bonds Are Assets!
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IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of our dear husband
and father, Daniel Perry, who departed
this life one year ago, August 16, 1943.
In our hearts your memory fingers,
Sweetly, tender, kind and true.
There is not day, dear father,
That we do not think of you.
But again we hope to meet you,
When the days of life have fed:
There in heaven with joy greet you
Where no farewell tears are shed.
Miss Martina Perry, daughter Mrs. Alex
inc Perry, wife and Mrs. Florence Rodg-
ers, sister.
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Editors Notice

Under such circumstances, the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-18

They just don't care" How many times have you heard
that? One hear anything Desires but should this
type of chapeau really be public? This very bad
taste to say the least
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vote" There should be no more e.
Irish vote, or a Protestant vote.
But the fact is that we ourselves
have created a Negro vote by hav-
ing deliberately set the Negro
apart, creating issues and interests
which have come to be regarded as
especially his own.
So what l have said about the
Negro vote in November represents
realities now facing campaign
managers-realities which can be
lodged neither by the Southern
Tories who want a Democratic VIC
tory without democracy, or by the
COP old guard whose elephant
speaks with a Southern bray.
But the realities speak with
greatest portent for the Southern
Tories, who created them.
The Voices Rise
In 1882 and again in 1886 the
Negro vote went so overwhelming
ly for FDR that the Lincoln legend,
which for 60 years had kept the
Negro rigidly Republican, seemed
all but wiped out.
By 1910 the voices of the South
ern Tories were beginning to speak
stridently again in the counsel
chambers of the Democratic Party,
and through the party to the coun-
try-and the tide began to change.
Not even a Roosevelt, not even
the great social gains registered
by his Administration in the course
of eight years, could keep all the
Negroes loyal to a party irr which
the Talmadges, the Rankins, the
"Pap" O'Daniels were threatening
to become the Voice of the Future.
In 1910 the Pittsburgh Courier,
with 100000 circulation, and the
Afro-American chain, with total
circulation of 2O7,000-two of the
"big three" in the American Negro
press-turned from support of
FDR in 1886 to support of Willkie.
And a large number of Negroes
not by any means a majority, but
a large number nevertheless-fol-
lowed these papers back into the
Republican ranks.
Swing Accelerated
In the last four years this swing
back has been accelerated as the
Rankins and the O'Daniels used the
floors of Congress and State capt.
tolls as pulpits for the expounding
of their doctrines of race hate and
white supremacy.
The Republicans were not Turing
the Negroes into the Republican
Party; the Southern Democrats
were chasing the Negroes out of
the Democratic Party. Bourbon
smashing of the anti-lynch bills,
anti-poll tax bills; Bourbon bludg-
coming of FEPC, Federal education,
FSA-these, and the shameful and
humiliating oratory of the Rankins
have one by one been severing
the bonds which should perma-
nently have bound the Negro, as
a worker, to the party of the New
Deal.
And through these last four
years the fate of the Negro soldier,
Jim Crowed and beaten and hu-
inflated and sometimes murdered
in an Army at least partly domi-
mated by Bourbon tradition, has
been filling the heart of Negroes
everywhere with growing pain and
anger.
And the nadir of the Negroes
faith in the Democratic Party was
reached last month in Chicago,
when the Southern reactionaries
teamed with the Northern bosses
to write a platform weaker on the
Negro issue than the Republican
and to throw out Wallace, who
alone of the candidates at the
Democratic Convention spoke up
unequivocally, forcefully, drama
tically, for Americanism and
equality.
Under such circumstances, the
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Strange HunOr

Humor often makes strange choices,
I've been in Cadillacs and Royces,
And had some guy in Model T,
Come along and laugh at me-
Few on this earth appear more dumb,
Than he who simply can't pour from
A boot, but takes great glee
In jokes on some dark Phi D.
1t matters not how we'll Pm dressed.
Shoes shined and trousers pressed,
Somewhere some clown in boorish raiment
Is bound to think me entertainment.
moron puts his greatest zest,
In sounding off his coarsest Jest.
Although merit his respect,
By telling it in dialect.
Laughter gives refreshing pause,
To all who learn to laugh with cause:
Who wounds by laughter in lifes arena
Lacks but the cage to rate hyena.
James T. Logan.
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The Negro In November
(By Victor Bernstein in PM

IN
The Negro states can swing the
November election.
These with needed to win
And the Negro vote in these 10 bag
1t is evil thing that there should be thing egro
There should
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-18

The signed articles which appear on
these pages are the opinions of the in
dividuals of the writers and do not
necessarily reflect the editorial policies
or views of this newspaper.
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-06
WABEEK STATE BANK
OF DETROIT
s,o,emer' oi Condition ot

dittor of Close of business, December 1I,~I9f7
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-06
Worker Guilty
In Row Death

Rudolph Vincent IS. m 274 Ade-
laide TO-DAY awaited IN the county
iail his sentence next Tuesday on
a manslaughier charge after Re-
cordcrs Judge John ! Nsher
found him guilty of fatally iniur-
nG Felix Bucko of 1885 HaSSe.
IN fight last May T.
Bucko who was q punch press
operator AZ the Chevrolet Gear
and Axle plant whore Vincent also
WORKED. allcecdly dropped a steel
plate on NinccntS foot testimony
~ the trial disclosed. When Vim
cent struck him Bucko fcll and
fractured his skull dying soon
aftcrward
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-06
Auto Production
Due 10 Resume
BY End Of t944

Drless there ls great change
TX tHr vsT strategy ny spring,
automobile production may he re-
sIred before the end of 1914.
according 70 The head Of one Of
fi---7rs fi---7rs large Detroit auto plants
The 90 ahead signal may
0ash by March I. he predicted.
bat. because Of the operations of
the controlled materials plan,
wHIC1 requires rdFTTHE SIX
-H4aHi iAS-a4e-+a5- aetna production
may be held up until late fan.
Basis for the prediction is the
deteriorating motor tranSporta-
non of tho nation 1t is estimated
that 1900 cars a day arc going
off the road and the rate Is rising.
The BrookngS Institute report
set 10000 900 cars as the mini
mum on which the nation could
operate. Present car population IS
aid n he between 2l000 600 and
g3C 900.
materials and manpoweT
are easing and, even before VIC
tory in Europe. The nd may be
lifted soon. the auto executive
stated WPB has admitted that
materials arc available andhave
been for some time.
The same official estimate.
that cars manufactured nov
would cost Al least n per cont
more than their 1912 prototypes
lie based this on present costs Of
materials and labor Spare parts
being manufactured now cost ~
nor cent rNcrc 100 -hn-GA-A----
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-06
Bar Denies Drink w AG'S I'm England
To New Guinea
Vet Of $ Raids

NFv GUfrrrH - ,t1rt
ism so bad
Al least so vows Mai Jack
Pelander who came home 10 De-
troit after II months of plotting
LiheratorS there, only 10 be re-
fused a drink in 2 downtown bar
because he looked too young .
Actually 26 the youthful APP
pearing major is 4 real veteran
OF the Southwest Pacific He saw
his first action n the Buna cam
pagn flew 53 combat missions in
all the flfty-fr>i of which VAS
the recent great attack on
Wewak
He VAS the pilot of 20 or 30"
bomherS in The II months
In the Wewak raid, the Iihora-
tor he piloted shot down eight
Zeros and got two more proha-
bleS. was itself shot mp and two
Of the crew were wounded
During the u months.
never got scratch, MAJ
pelandcr said n flew 80 com
hat hours. Malaria and the
other Jungle bugs missed me.
Nou know, when cot hack Ia
the states, few DAYS ago.
had funny fccling-I actually
ielt homeSiCk for New Guinea. q"
PILOTS FEAR WEATHER
lie pointed ont II was tho men
7rT rtT7 CT0UTT-, rTC mon WHO iT5C
10 fight the Jungle and The JapS
ON foot f0r whom The Southwest
Pacific vas the opposite of
Heaven
But Most of the class
of nyIng cadets I trained with
+I4+4--,r----ti---- -ll--A-----
Violent tropical weather 30
said. is feared more than Jap,
by the American Pilots
u went over" he said when
wp had very little and the Japs
were riding high. Now. we're
really getting the equipment IN
and we're beating their ears
down"
Holder of The Distinguished
FLYING Cross the Suvrr star and
the Air Medal Mai pc'andcr s
visiting his wife and his 7-mopths-
old son Jack Jr at the homo ~
his wifc> parents Nh and Mrs
Leo QulgleN l4643 Santa Rosa
Asked what had happcned 20
the 20 or 3O" bombcrS he flow
during the u months the major
shrugged and said
They fit in some ~ the
stories I'm saving up for after
the war"
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-06
DIRECTORS

". Nj. Cornelius Frank Couzers
Allen B. Grow Henry T. EWald
Leonsrd L. Healy Clarence ]. Huddlcstor
Geo. B. hudson Clarence Z Wilcox
William 2 IsW
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30
Explains Services

Since so many of the child
care services offered in Detroit
are unknown 10 the very par
ents who are in need Of such
information, this comprehensive
exhibition has been designed to
explain their functions.
1t will be carried on starting
Monday and continuing through
Sunday. To make il even more
interesting, there will be daily
entertainment. Hours will be
from | to 9 p. m.
Other events in connection
with Child Care Week include
a trailer equipped as a nursery
school. The trailer will be In
Grand Circus Park on Monday
afternoon and evening.