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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Everybody in the Dark
as Mayor Asks Light
on Local Night Life

In his letter to the grand jury
asking for an investigation of
liquor traffic and other under
at least dozen Minneapolis tav-
ems and night clubs. The most in
formation the local press has been
able to get out of Brother Banks
so far is that he didn't want to
have his picture taken because he
forgot to wear" his toupee.
On Tuesday, at approximately
the time Banks was supposed to
have walked into police headquart-
ers to give himself up after playing
hide-and-seek for a few days, this
reporter managed to corral a
photographer from one of the
dailies who had had a sneak-pre-
view of Mr.. Banks earlier in the
day.
docs he look tough ?" 1 asked.
NAV, clean-cut looking guy"
the lensman muttered.
1t is Banks alleged monopoly on
the liquor business that set the ball
world" conditions, Mayor Hum
phrey stated:
THE newspapers of this city are
openly declaring that if current re-
ports are true, almost a score of
night spots serving liquor are con-
trolled by one man. This cOndi-
ton, if true, is obviously in viola
ton Of state laws and city ordin-
ances, which expressly forbid the
issuance of more than one retailers
license, directly or indirectly to
any one person.
The reported circumstances sur
rounding the murder you are now
investigating lend credence to these
rumOrs. :"
Meanwhile, Alderman Harold
Kauth, chairman of the city council
health and hospital committee
which handles liquor licensing,
couldn't contribute anything more
concrete to the proceedings than:
"the committee grants licenses on
the recommendation of the police
department which makes the in
vestigations. Nell Dodson Rus
sell
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Detroit Circuit Court
Upholds Jimcro Low
in House Project

DETROIT, Mich. - Following
decision by Circuit Judge Thomas
F. Maher of the Circuit Court up
holding segregation in the Ham
tramck housing project in the case
of Leroy G. White, NAACP at
torneys announced their intention
of further study of the case for
purposes of appeal. In comment
ing on the decision of Judge Maher,
DR.. Frank S. Horne, Racial Rela-
lions Adviser to the NPHA Com.
missioner, said:
"If this decision stands, the Mis-
sissippi pattern will cover the en-
tire country"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Mpls. Quartet Wins
In Aquotenniol
Borbershop Contest

The Concord quartet of Mime
apolis won the eighth prize of $780,
90 in the Barbershop Quartet con-
test of the Aquatennial celebration,
Thursday evening, July &c, at the
Lyceum theatre.
Successfully coming through the
stiff try-outs which lasted Sunday,
Mondy, and Tuesday, the local men
were selected among the top-rank-
ing nine singing tours selected for
the finals.
Members of the Concord quartet
include: Paul Curry, BIS Column
bus Ave-, Edward johnson, SIG
Fremont Ave. No., Edward Hayes,
22O6 Elliot Ave, and Oliver J..
Thornton, 26O9 Fourth Ave. So.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
St. Paul Coop
Gets $1,000 Gosh

At the Coop meeting held Tues
day, July 81, at the Halle @.
Brown, it was reported that ST.
200 in cash, 5000 in pledges had
been turned in and $1,000 in out
standing pledges were yet to be
picked up bringing the goal closer
to the $4,000, which will need to
be completed by Aug. Is. Negotia-
tions were started for the purchase
of the grocery store. One person
at the meeting purchased the full
amount of shares.
A good attendance of substantial
citizens were present Tuesday night
and the next meeting of the Coop
will be August IL at the Halle @.
Brown house.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Battalion Commanded
BY Mpls. Colonel
Gets High Award

An Associated Press release re-
vealed Wednesday, that the 969th
Field artillery battalion, composed
of Negro enlisted men and white
officers, and commanded by Colonel
Hubert D. Barnes of Minneapolis,
has been awarded a Presidential
citation for its nine-day stand at
Bastogne, last December, while at
tached to the 1O1st Airborne Divi-
sion.
Colonel Barnes is now in the
United States.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

ment of troops from the European
and Pacific areas is a direct result
of the committees refusal to make
recommendations as directed after
its creation in January, 1914, fol-
lowing an FEPC report on dis
criminatory practices of Ia rail-
roads and 7 unions.
Calling attention to the fact that
the ODT has recently suggested the
granting of furloughs to 10000
members of the Armed Forces to
alleviate the increasing severity of
the transportation tangle, NAACP
Secretary Walter White said in his
wire:
JimcrO Causes Shortage
eve wish to call your attention
to the fact that there are thousands
of qualified Negro rail workers and
others who could be trained and
used in a short period for service
except for the continuation of dis
criminatory hiring and upgrading
practices by the railroad industry
and railroad labor unions, such dis
elimination being in direct viola
ton of the decision of the United
States Supreme Court, December
10, 1914, in Tunstall VS.. Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen ct al"
White. cited rampant jimcro
practices despite the imperative
VINO appeal for $4,000 essential
workers in June, 1913, and the sub
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

The three WACs are charged
with disorderly conduct-probably
a violation of the Goth Article of
War. One of their group, after the
serious beating by the police, was
dragged to the city Jail. They were
later taken jntc custody by the mill
tary authorities, and repeatedly
reprimanded by their commanding
officer for failing to observe jimcro
laws and patterns of the COM
munity.
Didn't Move Fast
The only offense reported as COM
mitted by the girls was failure to
"move fast enough" when ordered
out of the white waiting room.
They sought to explain that the
"colored waiting room" was crowd
ed with men and the lights in there
were out. One witness reported
that a policeman began beating the
girls in uniform with his night
stick and yelling when we tell
niggers to move we mean for them
to git" During the melee, another
white officer arrived and assisted
in dragging one of the WACs to
Jail.
All three of the girls are sta
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

toned at Fort Knox, KY, adjoin-
ing Goldman Field. They are re-
ported to have excellent service
records. One of them, Pfc. Helen
H. Smith of Syracuse, N. Y, who
April.
was dragged to Jail, is the mother
of a grown daughter. The other
two are Pfc. Georgia Bosom Of
Texas, and Pvt. Tommie Smith.
The girls requested that 1t. Ming
be assigned to defend them. He
was the law officer of the court
martial trial at which the three
officers of the 477th Composite
Group were freed of charges of dis
obeying an order when they at
tempted to enter a white officers
club at Freeman Field, Ind, last
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
92nd Division Gives
Negro College Fund
More Than $4,000

NEW YORK A gift of $12,-
95O.S6 to the United Negro College
Fund was made by the members of
the END Division, it was announced
last week. The gift is the largest
single contribution by a Negro unit
of the armed services, which during
the past year have contributed $780,
1885 to the college fund.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

Hardest hit were the region
al offices of the agency, which
were reduced in number from
Is to 10. In all but 3 of those
retained, the regional stats
will be reduced to a director
and a secretary. The offices
in New York, Chicago and st.
Louis will carry one field ex-
aminer in addition. The offices
in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pitts
burgh and New Orleans will be
closed. Besides New York,
Chicago and st. Louis, Offices
will be retained in Philadel-
phia, Washington, Detroit, At
lanta, Dallas, San Francisco,
and Los Angeles.
The agency, which has never had
a sufficiently large appropriation tc
carry out adequately the response
bilities given it by Executive Order
of the President, is bringing ovel
into the new fiscal year $500 un'
finished cases. It faces the pros
pect of an increased number of dis
complaints as recon
version and cutbacks in industry
progress. This it must do on hall
as much money and less than hall
the staff it had last year.
Other cuts involve reduction
of the staff at the national Of
fee. The information division
has been abolished and merged
into a. staff reduced review and
analysis division. The informa-
ton director, st. Clair Bourne
already had resigned to accept
a position with the New York
State Department of Labor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

The boys in the back room got it
straight from the top man, Wednes-
day, when Mayor Hubert H. Hum
phrey put his John Henry on a
letter to the Hennepin County
Grand Jury asking for a probe of
some of the queer goings-on that
have been revealed since the fatal
shooting of Union 544 organizer
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

Field Operations Division was
cut from 9 persons to A. Other
staff cuts were made in the divi-
sions of budget and administration,
mail and files, and the office of the
chairman. The legal division, with
8 persons, 6 of whom are attorneys,
will remain intact until September
80 to clear up its backlog of active
cases. 1t will then be reduced to 5
persons, retaining only 8 attorneys.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

Center OF continuation STUDY at the
University, Monday.
DR.. Brameld stated that only
full-scale unemployment follow
ing the war will eliminate the
danger of national race riots that
are bound to come unless federal,
state and city officials throughout
the country take immediate steps
to offset the unemployment that is
bound to follow the close of the
war with Japan.
Riots Will Be Worse
If the riots do come, DR.. Brameld
said, they will be far worse than
those after World War I, because
of the large southern migration
into northern states.
The intercultural workshop will
extend over a period of five weeks,
and will include a study of the
problems and needs of both racial
and religious minorities. Youth
group leaders, representatives of
three different religious faiths,
social workers, teachers, and a
Minneapolis patrolman are included
among the students.
DR.. Brameld explained that I'M
less the public is told frankly of the
inter-racial problems it must face
in postwar period, it will not be
prepared to face the crisis, and will
rely on the old adage something
will turn up" to solve the situation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
American Dilemma
Author Gets High
Swedish Position

Stockholm, Sweden-Dr. Gunnar
Myrdal, the new Swedish Minister
of Trade, is we'll known in the U.
S. as author of "The American
Dilemma" a study of Negro
white relationships in America.
DR.. Myrdal has visited in the
Twin Cities several times. In 1889
he conferred locally with G. w.
Washington, then Minneapolis
Urban league secretary; Leo Bob
annon now of UNRRA and at that
time Mpls. Relief Dept. official, and
Cecil Newman.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
.oAIpTN

Lnelr own IurLner mcALIlN
education. One of the most used
features of the CT Bill of Rights,
undoubtedly, will be the educational
provisions.
This very fact is a most COM
polling challenge to our education
al institutions. Antebellum curri-
cula, status quo procedures, and
antiquated methods need to be
cleaned up and cleaned out of many
institutions. The "boys" who left
here to go to war will return with
maturity that has leaped over time
in strides of years for every month
they've been away. No longer can
they be treated as children, expect
ed to bring teacher an apple.
But their concern is not for
their own educational fate
alone. They have seen them
selves as a race railrOaded to
the harder, mental, distasteful
tasks of war over statistical
tracks which are supposed to
prove that 80 per cent of them
fall in the lower educational
groups by Army test. They
have been Inundated by being
called 'shighly illiterate." They
have been Ostracized, segregat-
ed and Disseminated against.
They want to see this picture
changed. They want the young
Negro of today to have a bet
ter chance and a better fate
than they had.
Undoubtedly that is what in
spired the group of sailors at sea
in the Pacific on one of this coun-
try's vessels of war to send a check
for $3.50 to Mrs. Mary Mcleod
Bethune with the request that it
be put to use as a beginning of a
scholarship fund for some deserv-
ing, leadership material taken from
the masses. They want to see an
idea built around their concern for
the educational future of their race.
But even more significant and
dramatic is the gift of $12,950.86
which came in last week to the
United Negro College Fund from
the men of the 92nd Division still
in Italy. The money had been col
lected in a voluntary campaign
conducted by the division chaplains
with the blessings and cooperation
of Maj. General E. M. Almond,
division commander.
While the 92nd's contribution
was by far the largest of any other
single unit, a total of $29, 1856 has
been received from Army and
Marine units scattered throughout
the world-in Europe, the Far East
and the Pacific. The oath Infantry
in the Pacific has sent $4,523.13 to
the fund.
This is the soldiers mandate,
their challenge, their ultimatum.
Between the lines can be read the
welcome truth that they no longer
will be satisfied with seeing Mis-
sissippi spend only $500 year on
the education of a Negro child, and
$50 a year on each white child
while New York spends $157 a year
on each pupil, white or cOlOred. This
current "pocketbOOk" interest in
higher education is bound to seep
down into the basic foundations,
resulting in an irresistible in
sistence that the various backward
governmental subdivisions equit-
ably assume their responsibilities.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Win North Commons
Picnic Prizes

David Allen, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
D. L. Allen, 97S Bryant Ave. No.,
won first prize in a 95-yard dash
race and Connie Austin, son of Mr..
Alec Austin, 9s6 Bryant Ave. No,
won second at the Northside picnic,
Wednesday, Aug. l, held at the
North Commons Park.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
H. G. RICHARDSON DEAD

Henry G. Richardson, we'll
known pioneer club headwaiter,
died Thursday morning, Aug. 2, at
Fairview hospital. The Neal Funer-
al Home is in charge of remains.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Cpl. Wilburn Discharged

Cpl. Leandrew Wilburn, 1118
Emerson Ave. No., who has been
in the army for the past three
years, is back home with an honor
able discharge. He was stationed
at Oakland, Calf. He is wearing
a good conduct medal and a rife
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Jobs After the
War? Read ..

"The Negro Woman Wage
Garner" in this issue. This is
the second of series of articles
by Ethel Maxwell Williams on
"Getting and Holding Your job"
appearing in this paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

that ambition realized when Chief
Edward Ryan selected Policeman
Luther M. johnson to attend the
work shop on intercultural educa-
ton now being held at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota. johnson will, at
the end of the course, conduct a
course in inter-racial and inter
cultural relations for the Mime
apolis police force.
Minneapolis Okay
apparently Minneapolis is in
good shape as compared with other
cities where riots have actually
broken out" Johnson told the so
social workers, teachers, and stu
dents attending the class.
Agreeing that widespread I'M
employment could cause race ten
sions and conflicts, he said, "The
police department wants to be pre-
pared for any disturbances result
ing from racial prejudices, instead
of waiting for them to occur be-
fore we make a study of them. "
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Southern Influx Creates
Postwar Problem Nation
Must Face Frankly

The large influx of southern Negroes into the Industries
of the North the has created problem that post
economists and labor leaders will have to face frankly
according to Theodore Bramed associate professor of
philosophy education at University of Minnesota at the
openng of the ntercutura education workshop at the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

Gloria Hooks, 760 St. Anthony,
and Phil John Lewis, ASS st. An
thony, st. Paul, have applied for
license to wed.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
NAACP Asks Truman
Junk Sailing Committee
on Railroad JimcrO

NEW YORK-Failure to employ Negroes in the face of
urgent demand from the War Manpower Commission for
railway workers held chiefly responsible for the transpor
aton crisis by the NAACP in letter last week to President
Truman demanding dismissal of the Stacey Committee The
NAACP pointed out that the critical situation in the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Minneapolis Policemen
to Attend School on
Race Relations

Last week Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey in interview
the SpokesmanRecorder papers, told of his ambition to
have the Minneapolis police force lead the nation bringing
about nterraca goodwill between the who patrol the
beats and the people of the community
This week the first step had been ACCOMPLISHED in having
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

Visitors to the st. Paul office this
week: George W. Brooks, Sr., J..
Louis Erwin, Alice Jackson, Jim
Williams.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

playSu ny LHS eli
listed men of the
armed forces.
This mass wave
of concern is not
restricted to self,
either. It is true
that a large num-
Der Of the men
have expressed
themselves as be-
ing interested in
Al ,G..LI
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
With $500 Unfinished Cases:
FEPC Slashes Staff
to 81 Persons; Closes
Four Region Offices

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA) = The appropriation
crippled FEPC made ready to slash its staff last week from
III to 81 in the first step of its effort to operate with
in the appropriated by Congress Last years opera
reoured
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Lieut.. Ming to Defend
Three WACs Beaten
by Dixie Policemen

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)-The three Negro WACs
KY for sitting in the white waiting ROOM at bus station
last week. will be defended in their courmara trial by 1t
W. Robert Ming base legal office at Goldman Field under Col
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

Meanwhile on Wednesday only
so per cent of the workers needed
had been found to meet the short
ana
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
UncOvering
Washington
By Hurry S. McAlpin

One of the most encouraging
signs to come out of the present
war is the interest in education dis
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
Detroit tx Hits
New Nov. Peak

Shares traded on the Detroit
Stock Exchange curing Noycm-
bcr again reached a ncw hICh IN
volume with a total of S61Ol4
This compares with 6iq9}l shares
IN the preceding month and 4Oi,-
517 shares IN Novcmbcr. 1914
The months total Is the largest
since February 1896. Whcn 9f9,-
1lS shares were traded Activity
was we'll distributed throughout
the lffN'ftti COMMENCING on NO
vember =. with IS H. shares and
ending No,cmber 80. with $3.50
shares
It is anticipated that the trad
inc pace IN Decembcr VIII he
maintained If tho results OF the
FIRST day are any indication, ac-
cording 10 John O. MacFarlanc.
executive VICE president The
tWo-hour Saturday session was
one OF the busiest m recent years
with 4l.S27 shares changing
hands, he said.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
Has Responsibility

General Motors il, OF course.
entitled 10 Set it, own sales
policy anytime IL wants, but l
regret the statement OF a diNi-
A.on sales head that not only
was n OPA that was holding up
the distribution 81 their cars
bat the latter individual went
still further and told me that
the cars would not be released
until Congress woke up and
forced the OPA To release their
1856 prices
serr.a Motors wartime rec
ofa ra. been ,uprrIat.c and j.
s. bard l1r uo 10 believe that
'hr-, practices mentioned hy
E.a5.rt are c9ndoncG by top
management
sB.r fts fact remains that
management must assume Ic-
sp.r-iD.ty for the acts Of us
repre- -ortafircs specially with
those vro goa. with Tho public.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
AViafiOIIS
Advance

NEW YORK, Dec. : GNS)-
AWationS advanced hgt other
stock market groups wcre irregu-
lar today when prices met addi-
tional selling after the recent ad-
vance. Volume faltcred i'm early
trading
-4-ft'rd H71TCTdTT Spurted nearly
a point 10 new high of SO >,
Republic Aviation sold ~ ia,
piercing rs old top Douglas Air
craft SCARED -
pivotal stocks were low or.
Chrysler reacted q point Be'hlc-
HON steel and l. s steel Jagged
Rails faded fractonally.
Warner Bros. continued strong
Communications. COppCrs and ran
equipments werc mixed. Utilities
were firm 10 higher
Big board bonds were quiet and
firm.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
Blame Agency

Every one knows, Of course,
that the present strike which
has completely tied up General
Motors has been threatened for
some time and IL was. therefore,
but logical for General Motors
60 make every possible effort Ia
get saleSroOm ears in the hands
OF their dealers before the
strike set in.
I'm order to move these cars
of the end OF the production
line and into the SalcSroomS,
the OPA-at the written re-
quest of General MotorS-is-
sued what they call an open
billing order or an adjustable
pricing order by the terms OF
which these cars could he de-
liyered To the dealers subject to
later price adjustment. Gen
eral Motors, theu--or At least
one branch Of il, the Buick
Motor Co.-forCed their dis
tributorS and their dealers IN
Sign a written agreement that
they would not deliver these
cars TO the buying public until
permitted 10 do 80 by the fac
tory which. In turn, would he
done only after OPA had issued
the new prices.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
Iron. Steel
Low

NEW YORK, Dec. 5-The iron
and steel scrap situation is tight
ening. The supply is smaller than
in recent weeks, rejecting the re-
duction in industrial scrap coming
inln-the- markets. -reSuIt-a
strikes and closings in plants OF
General Motors Corp. and other
companies.
Steel firms have been Increasing
their buying efforts in an attempt
to accumulate tonnages for the
winter months when tranSporta-
ton and other facilities might
lower the available supply stu
further.
Thus far, however. the stocks
in consumers plants have not m
creased. In fact. some have been
reducing inventories 10 keep up
their comparatively good rate OF
ingot production.