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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
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.
as 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 a 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 a 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:
"If DIR. Judd will review his
history of the slave system, he will
Continued on Page g.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

leeDle voice 10 McALPlN
the clack-clack 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 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 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 lesson from
which we all could learn.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Truman Says
'Tain't So!
democratic Press Bureau

New York.-Blasting the desper-
ate, eleventh-hour attempt of Re-
publicans to connect him with the
Ku Klux Khan, 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 Truman's
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 a 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. Hannegan, 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 preiudices." 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
a lie. He has stated that he never
belonged to the Khan 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 a
Klansman who was Humans OPP
ponent."
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Voter Recommendations

NOter Recommendation
For President: Vote for Frank
lin ID. Roosevelt.
For Governor: Vote for Byron
Allen, Democratic-F-L. candidate,
a true liberal and friendly to the in
terests of the Negro people. Ed
ward ]. Thye, the Republican in
cumbent has, however, made step
in the right direction by naming an
Interracial Commission.
For Lieut. 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
MS office, and we recommend him
70 the voters. His opponent is
Emily Kneubuhl, liberal.
For State Treasurer: Vote for
J. A. A. Burnquist, a former presi-
lent of the st. Paul branch of the
NAACP.
For Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioner Clong term): Vote
or 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 Observation-Disclosures
Dor candidate.
For Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioner (short term): No
,hoice.
For State Supreme Court: Vote
or Charles LOring, Harry Peterson
Clifford Enger and Leroy MatsOn.
For Congress, Third District:
Vote for Richard (Dick) Gale. He
las voted right on all measures af-
Getting Negro Americans.
For District Judges (vote for
ive): Vote for Vince Day, Levi
Hall, Arthur Selover, John Weeks
and Alfred Anderson.
For Congressman Fifth District.
No choice. Congressman Walter
Judd, Republican, has voted o. K.
IN all bills affecting Negroes. His
opponent, Edgar T. Buckley, Demo
cratic-F armer-Labor, is pledged to
do the same.
For Legislature, Thirtieth Dis
trict: Vote for Alfred Bergerud.
For Legislature, Thirty third
District: Vote for George French
and Chas. w. Root. 80 ~
For Legislature, Thirty-fifth Dis
trict: Vote for Robert Fitzsim-
mons and Carl Benson
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
BrOWnen Raps
Truman's OK. of
Former KIuXer
(Republican Press Bureau)

In a statement issued Monday
Herbert Brownell, Jr., chairman of
the Republican National committee,
said:
THE New Deals dependence on
the support of Communists, corrupt
bosses and even elements as un-
American as the Ku Klux Klan 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 Khan
has been printed extensively in Cali
fornia newspapers.
"The Los Angeles Examiner of
Sept. % reports Styles admission
of his activities within the Ku Klux
Khan after earlier identifying Styles
as a Kleagle of the white-robed
Khan in Jamaica, N. Y, in 1927 and
1928.
After a political conference with
Styles, Truman told Los Angeles
newspaper reporters:
az know nothing about his Ku
Klux Khan or any other connection
but if he is one of ours l am for
him.
I'm this, Truman, whose own
nomination was cleared with Sid
ney' at Chicago, was, by his very
language-'if he is one of ours
being true to the political tenets by
which he rose through the malodor-
Gus ranks of the notorious Fender
CAST machine in Kansas City.
ats oft-professed solicitude for
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 a
former member of the Ku KluX
Khan. And the Klan, throughout
its history, has vented its bigoted
spleen and inflicted physical vio-
lence on all minority groups"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
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 ceme-
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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Bruce Lucas
Poems Read at
Poets Meet

Geraldine Westaby, Edna school
teacher, introduced and read poems
written by Bruce Lucas, Wayzata,
Mimi, at a 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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Pvt. Edgar PettfOrd
Married i'm Gary, Ind.

Private Edgar Pettiford of Min
neapolis whose picture appeared in
this newspaper recently with a fam
lily group of five men, all serving
in the armed forces, was married
Sunday, Oct. 30, to Miss Mildred
Carter of Gary, Ind. The wedding
took place in the Israel C. NJ. 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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Fletcher Henderson and His
Band Play For 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 edifica-
ton and pleasure of lovers of swing
and popular dance tunes.
Fletcher Henderson is the dad
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

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.O0 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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
st. Paul Civic
Opera Tenor on
Halle Salon

Clifford Motion, tenor soloist for
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 series of 80 re-
citals open to the public.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
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 M.
Godette, Treas.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Elk Leader to Speak

DR.. G. B. Key, St. Louis, Mo-, Elks
regional education director, speaks
at Elks Joint Educational Banquet
at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Satur,
day, November IL, at 1880 p. m
81 per plate. For reservations cal
Elkhurst 68O6.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
William E COmmndor

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.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

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 lion Clancy Aubrey
Boston, Mass, and Melvin Boyd, Kansas
City. Mo.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

Mrs. Amelia Latimer, 479 Thorn
as Ave-, received a cablegram
from her son, Pvt. Charles, who is
somewhere in France, Monday, Oct,
20
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

Please keep off Nov. 81. Credja-
fawns will present the Melody
Maids at Pilgrim Baptist Church.
ADV.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

oCuulOuSly IL mas
tried to avoid any
political imphca-
tons during the
campaign. T h a t
role, it is continu-
ing, even thi s
week.
But certainly it
would be Sinking
a responsibility
did it not lend its
.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
UncOvering
Washington
BY Harry S. McAlpin

This is the last of these columns
which will appear before the presi-
Dental election on November Z.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
PATRONIZE
YOUR PAPERS
ADVERTISERS

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

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

DREsToN CoMMINGs, of the
Il general service department Of the
Standard Oil Company Of Louisiana,
who recently retired at age 65 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 single
days work lost by illness. One Of
his daughters now works in the
Baton Rouge Refinery's synthetic
rubber plant. He is a deacon Of a
Baptist Church, in Baton Rouge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03

Keep off date - Wands Motor
Division Banquet, Lowry, Nov. 10.
-Advt.
Evening star., 1944-05-16

London to buy Lord Roseberry's first
folio. 1t is regarded as one of the
most important items of Shake
speariana owned in this country.
The Hogan library also included
the original manuscript of Robert
Burns Aud Lang Syne," of Long
fellows "The Village Blacksmith
and of Eugene Fields "Jest Fore
Christmas" as well as DR.. Samuel
Johnson's dictionary and Black
stones Commentaries.
Several years ago Mr.. Hogan made
a valuable contribution to the Con-
gressional Library, including the
Field and Longfellow manuscripts
collection of rare New England
primers published around ITS ano
a 1899 edition of Webster's Die
tionary.
Mr.. Hogan was well known as an
after dinner speaker and a con-
vivial companion. For years his
annual dinners for the Gridiron
Club at his home have been a
regular feature of Washington
newspaper life. In addition to
the Metropolitan, Racquet, National
Press and Lawyers clubs here, he
was a member of the photographed
Society of London, the Blue Ridge
Rod and Gun Club, the Grolier
Club, the Zamorano (iterary) Club
San Francisco, the California Club
of Los Angeles and the Shakespeare
Association of America.
Mr.. Hogan is survived by his wife
and daughter, Mrs. Guider, and
three grandchildren, Dorothy Adair
Guider, Elizabeth Hogan Guider and
Frank Hogan Guider.
Evening star., 1944-05-16

picked up the 10 crew members.
Mr.. Woods sister in Sodus, Mich,
phoned him to tell of an Associated
Press dispatch which reported that
his son was one of the missing crew.
The War Department verified the
report, and yesterday notified. him
of the rescue.
1t. Wood, who was active In ath-
letics at Roosevelt High School,
worked at chemist at Eastman
Kodak Co. before enlisting soon
after Pearl Harbor. He left for
Italy Easter morning. His father,
an engineer at the Bureau of Stand
ards, served overseas with the Ma
rines during the World War. A sis
ter, Betty Lee, is sergeant in the
WACS at Camp Crowder, Md.
First 1t. Frederick A. Yochin.
husband of Mrs. Desiree e. Yochim,
6201 Wagner lane, Bethesda, Md,
also was listed as missing In the
European theater. His wife said the
P-47 Thunderbolt he was flying was
shot down Easter Sunday over Ger
many in dog-fght with two Ger
man ME 1905. A British pilot who
also participated in the raid wrote
Mrs. Yochim that a Thunderbolt
pilot, thought to be 1t. Yochinl,
bailed out of his crippled ship and
his parachute was seen to open
about 300 feet from the ground.
Mrs Yochim said she was confident
he will be reported a prisoner Of
war.
1t. Yochim is a native of Erie,
Pa, and enlisted in the Army five
years ago. He first trained as an
aerial photographer and was sta
toned at Boiling Field. He met Mrs.
Yochim while on duty here and tne
couple have made their home here
since. Mrs. Yochim is a secretary
at the David Taylor Model Basin,
Carderock, Md. 1t. Yochim trans
ferred from aerial photography to
flight cadet and won his wings at
Luke Field, Ariz. He has been over
seas with the 9th Air Force, based
in England, since April, 1943.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Clio Union al Wards
Submits Demands,
Including Closed Shop
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, May 16.-The Stew
ards Council Of CLIO union which
won a recent election at the Mont
gomery Ward g. Co. plant last night
announced its formal demands, in
Guiding closed shop and checkoff
system, which Sewell L. Avery
board chairman, previously had said
the company would not grant.
Demands were announced after a
night meeting at which the union
decided to ask John A. Barr, COM
pany labor relations manager, to
set date tomorrow for a. negotia-
tions meeting of company and un-
ion officials.
Mr.. Avery has said publicly that
Ward was "prounion and prolabor,"
but will not submit to a closed
shop or countenance checkoff sys-
tenn for the maintenance of union
membership"
Union Lists Demands.
Included among the demands,
drawn up by the Stewards Council
and announced by Leonard Levy,
executive vice president of the
United Mail Order, Warehouse and
Retail Employees Union, Local 20,
are:
A union shop, checkof system and
seniority clause; setting up of griev-
ance machinery and arbitration; a
10-cent per hour wage increase;
automatic wage increases based
upon seniority, and a 50-cent per
hour minimum in the plant.
Mr.. Levy said today he would like
to have Mr. Avery participate per-
sonally in contract negotiations be-
tween the union and the manage
ment. He stated he would ''like to
have Mr.. Avery personally attend
the sessions because of many state
ments he has made"
Mr.. Levy said Mr.. Barr always
had handled negotiations with the
union and that Mr.. Avery never had
attended a company-union contract
conference.
Contract Expired in December.
The company's refusal to extend
the unions old contract, which ex-
pired in December. precipitated
strike which, in turn, led to Govern
ment seizure of the plant and its
subsequent return to private opera
ton last week. The company had
contended previously it could not
extend the contract until an elec-
ton was held to determine whether
| the union still represented a ma
| jority of employees.
The union won the election, held
last week, and is awaiting official
certif1cation by the National Labor
Relations Board.
Among other demands announced
by the union council are: Formation
of joint labor management COM
mittee, a 40-hour, five-day week
with time-and-a-half after eight
hours; maternity leaves of absence
three weeks vacation after 10 years
service and four weeks after 20 years
James Carey. national .CIO secre-
tary, attended the meeting and
promised the union members "the
full support of the CIO."
Evening star., 1944-05-16
President Shows
No Anger Over
Oklahoma Votes

President Roosevelt was in
formed today that Oklahoma
Democrats yesterday had
pledged their % convention votes
for his denomination and "he
didn't seem to be angry about
it," Representative johnson,
Democrat. of Oklahoma said
after White House visit today.
Mr.. johnson called to intro
duce Representative Stigler, his
Democratic colleague. who was
recently elected to fill the va
cancy in the Oklahoma House
delegation created by the
resignation of Representative
Nichols.
Okl a h oma, traditionally
Democratic. has been viewed in
some quarters as doubtful
State this year, but Mr.. Stigler
said he didn't think there was
any question about the State
remaining in the Democratic
column, and that he didn't be-
lieve the presidential race there
would be close.