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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
BilbO Declares He Will
Drive ID. c. Negroes Back
to Africa Via Farms
$1,7OO Toe!

ST. LOUIS A jury in Judge
Eugene Sartorius' Court returned
verdict last Saturday afternoon
in favor Of D. H. Hicks, tailor, To-
Gated at 116 n. jefferson Ave, in
the sum of $1,7OO, for injury to his
foot. The judgment was against
the De Luxe Cab, Incorporated, a
taxicab company managed by Jesse
]. Johnson, owner of the De Luxe
Cafe and other enterprises.
Mr.. Hicks was injured July 81,
1912, when cab No. 8 of the De
Luxe feet was backed over his foot.
The trial of the case required three
days time. Mr.. Hicks was repre-
scented by Attorney George l..
Vaughn, and the cab company was
represented by Attorney Albert L.
Schweitzer.
The verdict is considered a very
liberal one for the kind of injury
inflicted. 1t is understood to have
involved both wages paid out and
loss in business by the plaintiff.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
WALTER WHITE ARRIVES
IN NORTH AFRICA

New York, N. Y.-Walter White,
NAACP secretary on a tour of
military installations abroad OBJ
serving the situation of Negro
troops, arrived in Algiers on or
about March II, according to a
cablegram received at NAACP
headquarters here.
Mr.. White, who arrived in Eng
land January 8, spent about 9 weeks
on inspection of the European
Theatre of Operations (ETO) and
at the request of the War depart
ment submitted a comprehensive
report on his observations of the
treatment of Negro soldiers.
Unofficial and unconfrmed ad-
vices to this country indicate that
Mr.. White already has visited the
Italian battlefront. From Algiers
he is expected to go to Brazzaville,
French Equatorial Africa, where he
will confer with Governor General
Felix Eboue.
Wheatley Boxing Show, Mon
day, April 8, $3.50 p. m.
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Civilian Defense
Merit Award Given
Troop 152 Members

Members of Boy Scout Troop 152
who received a merit award, in the
form Of an insignia to be worn on
the sleeve of their uniform, for
their work in the recent scrap paper
drive are Hardy White, Donald
Gates, Wilbut Grissom, Clintell
Jackson, Albert Jones, Rudolph
Pope, Everett Law, Ronald Wes-
berry, Norlan Mccoy, Ollie Ray,
Robert Benford, Odell Benford,
Willis Wright and Wendell Helm.
The Hill Chorus, directed by Mrs.
Edna Ohdan, will sing at the Myers
Lodge Service Mems canteen, Sun
day, April 9, at s p. m. Mrs. Theo-
dore Allen will be the soloist.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Mass Meetings
Add rs Members
tOCredit Union

Mass meetings held at Pilgrim
Baptist church, st. Paul, Feb 20,
and at Zion Baptist chuch, Mime
apolis, March 10, netted 76 new
members for the Associated Negro
Credit union, a Twin City organiza-
ton. The st. Paul meeting topped
Minneapolis with 43 to 80 members.
Minneapolis took the lead in cash
deposits for shares with $197.75
against st. Paul's S136.75.
Leland Boiken, graduate student
at the University of Minnesota, was
the principal speaker at the Zion
church meeting, last Sunday. He
urged those present to build such
organizations as the credit union
because gin unity there is
strength" He cited the great need
for Negroes to become more
financially stable by pooling their
resources thereby preparing them
selves to move as one strong unit
rather than Is million weak in
dividuals.
Clerks who served at the meet
ing are Mines. John Shepard, John
Moultrie, Clarence Smith, Harold
Walker, Martin Brown, Talmadge
Carey. The Zion Baptist church
senior choir and lions Melotone
trio sang. Rev. B. N. Moore, pastor
of st. James A. NJ. E. church, St.
Paul, and chairman of the credit
union educational committee made
the appeal for memberships. Rev.
H. W. Bolts of Zion presided.
Other ministers participating were
Lewellyn Williams, St. Phillips
Episcopal, st. Paul; Henderson
Reddick, Wyman A. NJ. E., Mime
apolis, and NJ. R. Hogarth, St.
Thomas Episcopal, Minneapolis,
program chairman for the meeting.
Similar meetings will be held at
other churches during the next
few months.
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Indian Catholic,
Negro, Japanese
Panel Speakers

1t. Gerald Kobayashi, Japanese
American warrant officer, stationed
at Camp Savage; Father Philip
Gordon, the only Indian Catholic
priest in America, and Rev. Clar-
ence T. R. Nelson, pastor of the
Camphor NJ e moria al Methodist
church, st. Paul, were speakers on
panel at the monthly meeting of
the Columbia Heights forum last
Wednesday night. Mrs. Lourraine
Ellis Shivers, soprano, Minneapolis,
sang two Negro spirituals and her
daughter, Constance, played two
piano selections.
Rev. N. T. Buckley, pastor of the
Columbia Heights Methodist church
and a schoolmate of Rev. Nelson at
Garrett Biblical Institute, North
western University, was the chair
man of the meeting.
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William Gibson,
Thirty Year
Resident, Dies

William H. Gibson, SIG Colfax
Ave. N, resident of Minneapolis
for more than thirty years, died
Thursday, March 16, at II a. m. at
the Minneapolis General hospital.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, March Fl, at 2 p. m. at Border
Methodist church. Rev. E. A. Lon
don, former pastor of Wayman A.
M. E. church, and Rev. R. W. Kelley
of Border, officiated. Interment
was at Crystal Lake cemetery.
His wife, Sophia, a son, Reginald
and four daughters, Helen James,
Alice Moultrie, Dorothy Bonnell,
and Mary Gibson, survive.
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Brother Payne,
A. M. E. Layman,
Dies at Y

E. H. (Brother) Payne, age 72,
1888 Fourth Ave. S., well known
A. M. E. layman, died at Mime
apolis General hospital Tuesday,
March Fl.
Brother" Payne was a familiar
figure at st. Peter A. NJ. E. church,
serving that congregation for many
years on official boards.
He was easily one of the most
popular men in A. NJ. E. church,
civic and fraternal circles.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day (today), at 1870 p. m. at St.
Peter A. M. E. Church. Rev. A. j.
Irvine and Anchor Hilyard Masonic
Lodge will officiate. Interment
will be at Crystal Lake cemetery.
His wife, Della, and other rela-
tives survive.
Woodland Funeral Home is in
charge of funeral arrangements.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Daughter Elks'
Dance April1O
PlamOr Ballroom

Minnehaha Temple No. 129,
Daughter Elks of Minneapolis, is
sponsoring the first dance to be
given in ten years at the beauti-
full Plamor ballroom at 9Th st. and
Fourth Ave. So, Monday, April 10.
The public is cordially invited by
Maxine Jones, Beulah Coran and
their committee to dance to the
seductive" strains of Jimmie
Baker and his Gentlemen of
Rhythm" They promise an eve
ming of real pleasure from nine
p. m. until. Admission rs cents.
Tickets are on sale at Dreamland
Cafe and Phyllis Wheatley House,
Minneapolis; Fields Drug Store and
Halle Q. Brown, St. Paul.
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Churches, the NAACP and other
organizations.
He was asked whether these
presentations ever get up to him.
He replied that they do not-not
while he is in Washington.
On the same basis, it is presumed
that they do not reach the Presi-
dent, either.
Whereas most of the discussion
was devoted to the subject of the
armed forces, the Vice President
was also told of the attitude of
Negroes on the question of the Fair
Employment Practice Committee
end the anti-poll tax bill.
If the FEPC, which now has an
appropriation request pending be-
fore Congress, is killed, the Repub-
icans will not bear the response
bility for it, a correspondent stated.
That, he said, would be a difficult
and complex thing to try to explain
to the man in the street. The re-
sponsibility is on the administra-
ton.
The question was raised as to
why the anti-poll tax bill had not
been brought yet before the Senate.
Many persons, the Vice President
was informed, feel that the delay
is just a silent filibuster.
The Vice President, prior to the
discussion period, told the newsmen
of his acquaintance with DR.. George
Washington Carver when the latter
was a student at Ames college in
Iowa. He gives to DR.. Carver the
credit of creating in him his pres
ent interest in grasses, particularly
corn. He is recognized as the
father" of hybrid corn which has
proved so valuable in the corn belt.
at is proper, it seems to me-"
Mr.. Wallace said, chat George
Carver had something to do with
my interest in this work. AS a re-
suit of my work in genetics, l have
reached the conclusion that much
which is called heredity is not
heredity at all, but the effect of
childhood and opportunity"
He said he is convinced that the
Christian religion and all other re-
ligions worthy of the name have
as the very center of their being
the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man.
81 am convinced that this funda-
mental religious attitude works it
self out in the most fundamental
manner with nations. Any nation"
he declared, (Which century after
century has a disdainful attitude
toward people on the basis of race
is in for the most serious kind of
trouble. 1t is a law of God, I'M
hampered in the universe. Nature
and God will forgive for time, but
not indefinitely"
Mr.. Wallace was accompanied to
the luncheon meeting by his execu-
tive assistant Harold Young and by
the city editor of the Washington
Post, William Cloud.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Divorce Given
Wife, Husband
Runs Amuck

LOS ANGELES, Calf. Albert
Lawson of 1195 East Gath St., for
mer resident Of San Antonio, Texas.
and an employee of the Frederick
Cleaners on La Brea boulevard, Gre
ated quite a bit of excitement at
the home of his divorced wife, Mrs.
Thelma Lawson, 3745 Ruthellen St..
last Sunday night while she was
merrily entertaining friends on the
eve of her divorce.
Lawson entered the house, scat
tered the guests and broke dishes,
photograph records, cut travelling
bags, tore out radio wires and auto
mobile wires, and hurled bricks
through the window of his wife's
limousine and then announced that
he would be back later to do more
damage.
Makes Complaint
Early Monday, Feb. %, Mrs.
Lawson, accompanied by her at
torney, Walter L. Gordon, Jr.,
strobe into the city attorneys Of
fee and sought a complaint against
the irate husband charging him
with malicious mischief. Hearing
on the charges will be held.
Mrs. Lawson was granted her
divorce on Feb. % in the court of
Judge Charles S. Burnell after her
husband had signed a property set
Element agreement and had OBJ
tanned a sum of cash from the wom-
an for all his property interests.
He used the money for a trip to
San Antonio, visiting relatives and
said at the time of his departure
that he was perfectly satisfied with
the way things ended.
Divorce Case
Lawson, according to his wife, as
soon as he reached San Antonio,
however, began to call her on long
distance and told her that he didn't
mean to sign any papers and that
he was coming back home.
He did come back to Los Angeles
and has created disturbances con-
stantly since his return, according
to the woman.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
UncOVering
Washington
By Harry S. McAlpin
(White House Correspondent
NNPA)

The OCD was in a position to
give America a practical demon
stration of democracy-in-action.
With courage, it could have proved,
without stepping on anyone's
toes" that the conglomerate make
up of America could and should
work TOGETHER as one team.
And what more favorable cir
cumstance could one even invent
to top the natural setting OCD had
for doing such a job. Uncertainty,
possible disaster, singleness of pur-
pose-all these were part of OCD's
tools. With them it could have
fashioned the machinery of toler-
ance, understanding, cooperation,
brotherhood, among the races and
creeds of our land.
Crystal Byrd Faucet tried to
"sell' Lands on such a program
when she was with OCD-which
was before he saw the monumental
program he was trying to "pro-
tect" dwindle away to an ineffec-
tive "nothingness" and resigned to
go to Egypt, or some place. But
Lands was afraid. He pointed to
the criticisms heaped upon Mrs.
Roosevelt for introducing policies
and programs of iberaity into
OCD.
But Landis' precautions, his fail
ure to do what was right, did not
save OCD from oblivion. It slid
into the darkness because of its
very inactivity on the biggest job
that could have been performed in
the interest of American Democ-
racy.
Had he dared to be right, he
MAY have been criticized by the
bigoted demagogues; he MAY
have lost some of his appropriation;
some folk, even he, MAY have
had their 'heads chopped off,"
That's all supposition. The fact is,
Lands feared to venture-and he
gained nothing.
There's a moral in the story that
might be applied to the Negro vote
in 1914. Somebody ought to tell
both the Democrats and the Re-
publicans about it.
MORE about the WACs. Last
week we suggested that a Negro
woman, a member of the service,
should be placed in charge of Ne
gro WAC activities, even if she
had to be given the deserved rank
of a full colonel. We intimated that
a prospective, satisfactory assign
ment in the reorganization and in
tegration of the WAC into the
warp and wool of the Army was
in prospect for Major Harriet West,
one of the two highest ranking
Negroes in that service.
AS you were! The assignment
didn't come through. A white WAC
captain had been assigned already
to the unit involved, and to assign
Maj. West there too, would put
the higher ranking Negro over
the lower ranking white girl.
Howinell are we going to win
this war as soon as we should??
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
NAACP Hears
Brunch President

1T is just as wrong to uphold the
silly idea of race superiority and
its Siamese twin white supremacy
in South Carolina or anywhere else
in America, as it is in Hitler's Ger
many" asserted the Rev. Clarence
T. R. Nelson, pastor of the Cam
phor Memorial Methodist Church
and president of the st. Paul
Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, in an address on "Hitlerism
in America" Tuesday night in the
meeting of the Minneapolis Branch
in the Halle Q. Brown Community
House, 553 Aurora Avenue.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Exhibit of Service
Mems Souvenirs,
Halle i'm April

The Halle Q, Brown library sta
ton is planning an exhibit in April
of souvenirs that have been sent to
st. Paul mothers, wives, sweet
hearts and friends, by men over
seas.
If you have received Christmas
or other holiday greetings, pictures,
menus, as well as other souvenirs
which may be displayed, please call
Mrs. Frances Hughes, Ell. 24s4, or
call the house, Mondays between 1
and 5 p. m, and between 6 and
9 p. m. Thursdays, between 1 and
6 p. m.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Mrs. Amanda
Bell Celebrates
18th Birthday

Mrs. Amanda Bell celebrated her
18th birthday at her daughters
home, Mrs. Thomas Neal, 531 st.
Anthony Ave, Tuesday, March IA,
at birthday dinner. Guests were
Mines. Nettie Bell, Bertha Allen,
Mary England and Mamie Bland;
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Lucas and Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Johnson and son,
PDbbv
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
By Staff Correspondent
Three Local SIG Delegates

Delegates Miles L. Newlin, Hec-
tor P. Vassar, and Maceo V. Little
john of Local SIG, attended the 7th
Biennial Convention of the Joint
Council of Dining Car Employees
Union in Chicago, Illinois, March
18th, 10th and 18th, 1914, where
many problems confronting dining
car employees nationally were dis
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Horse Solves This
Gas Ration Problem

STERLING, HL.-Nsthan L.
McKanzie, 80. figures he can get
around without benefit Of gasoline
rationing cards.
Conditioned by a couple of
months spent on the Texas range
last year, he bought a horse al
nearby Walnut and set out for his
home in Crystal Lake. Ill. 100
miles away.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Richard Lurk's
Fdther Dies

Richard A. Lark, 627 Selby Ave,
received word Tuesday, March 81,
that his father, Monroe Lark, had
died at Rayville, La.
The late Mr.. Lark was a former
member of st. James A. M. E..
church, st. Paul.
Richard Lark left Tuesday for
Rayville for the funeral arrange
Tnents.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24

blgotry and prejudice, against lack
of understanding and lack of OPP
portunity."
He declared that "those who fight
for us in this war belong to many
parties, many creeds and many
races. This is a peoples war. The
peace must be a peoples peace
for all the peoples and races of
mankind"
The Vice-President participated
in a discussion with the newsmen
centering largely upon the situa-
ton of Negroes in the armed forces.
'"That such a discussion should
be necessary-and it is necessary
in the midst of a war to preserve
and extend democracy" he declared,
sis particularly unhappy common
tary upon the practice of democ-
racy in our own country"
at seems incredible that we
should have to say over and over
again to some of our people the
simple truths that Negroes also are
people, that the Negroes in Ameri-
ca are Americans, that they are
among the members of our oldest
families, that they have made vast
contributions in labor and loyalty
to America, and that they are en-
titled to all the rights and priv
ileges of other Americans.
ut is incredible that we must
say this, but say it we must"
In the discussion, he was told of
the widespread resentment on the
part of Negroes to the now in
famous Stimson-letter written to
Rep. Hamilton Fish, in which the
Secretary of War implied that Ne
groes are "too dumb to fight"
He was informed that many per-
sons feel that the administration
is lacking in moral fiber for per-
uniting situation to obtain in the
armed forces which gives young
white men the impression that the
colored soldier is either unwilling
or incapable of shouldering his full
load. The bitter resentment thus
engendered when whites go forth
to die while colored soldiers are
held back in service units and de-
MED the right to participate in &C
tual combat is planting the seeds
of hatred which will last for gen
erations, one correspondent said.
The Negro soldier is being made
to feel he is just a servant and a
stevedore, and his resentment and
that of his family may be evidenced
in great outburst at the polls this
fall, the Vice President was in
formed. 1t was pointed out to him
that over so Negro soldiers have
been killed by Americans-not the
enemy. One was lynched last week.
In response to question by the
Vice President whether all these
things had been presented in a calm
and orderly way to the persons at
the head of the services he was in
formed of the efforts of the Negro
Newspaper Publishers Association,
of the Fraternal Council of Negro
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
BIENNIAL CONVENTION DINING
CAR EMPLOYEES HELD LAST
WEEK IN WINDY CITY

cussed and analysis attempted.
At the same time this convention
was held, Chairman Scion C. Bell
of the Joint Council in collaboration
with Frances Williams of the Office
of Price Administration, called a
meeting of the various Auxiliaries
of our Dining Car Locals to con-
slider the problems confronting
American housewives in their COM
Continued on Page Four)
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Elks Give Red
Cross But Protest
Jim Crow Policy

Ames Lodge of Elks contributed
$25 to the Hennepin County Red
Cross campaign at its regular meet
ing Monday night.
With the check went a letter of
protest against "all Red Cross dis
eliminating policies"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Ruid Nets %
in Minneapolis

Early Sunday morning % per-
sons were arrested in a raid led by
Chief of Police Elmer Hillner and
Detective Harold Brakeman. Ed
ward "Big Boy" Summers, SIS, 927
Cedar, was charged with being
keeper of a gambling house.
Police claim they found poker
and dice games in progress.
Monday three st. Paulites plead
ed guilty to being found in a gamb-
ling place in Minneapolis Municipal
court and were fined $25 each.
Trials of the other 10 persons
arrested including that of Sum-
mers, are scheduled for Friday
morning, March "a.
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Senators Promise
Fair Hearing on
F.E.P.C. Budget
N. A. A. C.P. Nexn Bureau

N. A A. e. +. News Bureau
New York, N. Y.-Leading men,
bers of the Senate have promised
the NAACP to give fair and i'm
partial consideration to the appica-
ton of the Fair Employment Prac-
tice Committee for its $685., 900
budget.
Following the introduction of an
amendment to the Independent Of
fees Bill by Senator Russell of
Georgia, which he announced to the
press as an attempt to wipe out
the Fair Employment Practice
Committee" the NAACP wrote let
ters to every Senator asking his
views on the continuation of the
FEPC.
Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa
writes that while he is in full ac-
cord with the principle (of pro-
hibiting the transfer of funds ap-
propriated for one purpose to
another) 81 am strongly in favor
of the purpose and detectives of
the FEPC."
Senator Robert M. LaFollette,
Jr., of Wisconsin, writes, "if it be-
comes necessary for the FEPC to
come to Congress for an appropria-
ton, 1 would certainly be in favor
of granting the appropriations suf-
ficiently large for the committee to
carry on its good work."
Senator Francis Maloney of Con-
necticut pledges that when the
FEPC comes before the appropria-
lions committee "it will have my
careful attention and considera-
ton" Senator Harley M. Kilgore,
of West Virginia also pledges
careful consideration"
Senator James E. Murray of
Montana writes, 81 do not agree
with Senator Russell in his quoted
purpose of destroying the Fair En-
ployment Practice Committee"
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
of Michigan says, 81 favor a con-
tinuation of the Fair Employment
Practice Committee. I agree, how
ever that all of these instrumental
ties should be responsible to Con-
gress for the justification of their
appropriations"
Senator Robert F. Wagner of
New York writes, GAS you probably
know, I applauded the establish
ment of the Committee on Fair
Employment Practice and am thor
oughly in accord with its objec-
tives. To my mind, discrimina-
ton in employment because of race,
color or creed makes a mockery
of the ideals we are fighting to de-
fend. You may be assured that /
will not only vote for the continu-
ance of the work of the FEPC but
will do everything possible to
strengthen it in the performance
of it's important function"
Majority Leader Alban W. Bark
ley pleaded that he had not had an
opportunity to study the amend
ment of Senator Russell but de-
clared, "my own inclination is to
keep most, if not all, of these
agencies in existence, including the
one mentioned in your letter, and
l shall certainly give earnest con-
sideration to the recommendations
and suggestions concerning it."
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
Bethesda Church
Musical, Play
Sunday, Mar. 26

A musical program and a short
play "The Value of a Boy" will be
presented by the Missionary socie-
ties of Bethesda Baptist church,
Sunday, March &c, at A p. m.
The public is invited to attend.
Mrs. J. E. Brown is the chairman.
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Ellen Roach Dead at IA

Mrs. Ellen Roach, 942 Galtier,
age IA, died at her home, Wednes-
day, March %. Funeral arrange
ments were not complete at press
time.
Neal Funeral Home is in charge
of funeral arrangements.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-24
NEWMAN ILL

Cecil Newman is ill with in
fluenza. His illness will prevent at
tendance at a regional meeting Of
the F.E.P.C. in Chicago Saturday.