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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20


The unsavory speech by Senator
Eastland in attacking viciously the
American Negro soldier in the
U. S. Senate was, and still is, the
most dangerous indication of the
reactionary forecast of the post
war era that has thus far come to
light. Together with Bilbo, East
land has challenged and questioned
the record of achievements made
by the American Negro since
Emancipation and the flaming,
vicious and foul challenge hurled
by these two ignorant dyed-in-the-
wool Southerners seems a crudely
conceived effort to stir the threat
of physical violence to American
Negro citizens by white soldiers
returning to the States after the
war.
Of course, the filibuster against
continuation of the Fair Employ
ment Practice Committee was in
cidental to the main purpose of
Bilbo and Eastland. The fact that
Negroes were demanding, with the
support of hberal-minded whites
and labor, a fair deal in assuring
them the right to work without re-
gard to discrimination because of
race, creed, color, or religion is just
the means to an end in a depraved,
foully conceived plan on the part
of these two torch-bearers of
American fascism and reaction.
Of course, no thinking person,
white or black, would accept the
insinuated insult 'the Negro soldier
has been an utter and abysmal
failure" as charged by Eastland
and the allusion to an unnamed
High ranking general in Paris"
IlldL IhC COlluuSG VI ILC ANGSIO SUI
der in Normandy as we'll as all over
Europe was disgraceful and that
Negro soldiers have disgraced the
flag of their country"
They constitute Negro SOL
diers) roughly one-twelfth of the
American Army, yet they are gull
ty of more than half of the crime
of the Army" said Eastland. The
Mississippian also rounded out his
diatribe against colored people
with the fat statement that 5000
good Christian" German women
were rounded in a Stuttgart sub
way in Germany and raped by
French Senegalese and Berber
troops, wearing American lend
lease uniforms.
Need immigration Office in d. C.
1t would be a wise thing if the
State Department or somebody in
authority in Washington set up an
immigration office to bar from the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
New York BEGINS Its FEPc Experiment

Of all the this nation New York alone has had the
pass bill Bearing of the IvesQunn Act,
legislature guidance of Governor Thomas
Dewey decided something about eliminating discrimination
employment something improving rea
tionships
The FEPC bill into effect Monday, July The commits
experience knowledge of
racial problems and urban trends 1t will maintain offices in New York
City, Albany and Buffalo
We New York credit for having enlightened egsa-
had the tackle modern problem with
and intelligence congratulate Governor Dewey for his
leadership which small helped this legislation
regrettabe the character take such
forward Ohio especially stands condemned backward state
the acted it's FEPC
law-Cleveland Cal-Post.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20


The million members are scattered
over every state in the country and
many foreign lands.
They are the laymen who weekly
go to the stone churches in the
cities and the wooden frame
churches in the country to hear
brown-skinned theologians preach
the gospel the Methodist way.
The laymen are the ones who
contribute to the collection and
build the church into a sturdy or
ganization.
But strangely, these laymen have
no voice in the workings and oper-
alton of the church. They are only
the flock.
The integrated network of AME
church organization empowers the
final and sole strength in the
bishops.
Naturally, you would expect to
see some of the wisest, the most
thinking ministers at the helm of
the great church.
You would expect to see men ap-
pointed to the bishopric because of
their sterling character and their
leadership.
You would expect to see one of
the most intelligent church boards
in the country.
But on the other hand, you're
terribly disappointed.
You see a mediocre lot. One
bishop cannot say sentence with
out splitting three words.
Another shows how much pub
lie taste he has by walking around
the host church with a dirty hand
kerchief sprawling over his head.
Another wears a vestment that
is pockmarked with chicken gravy
stains.
Another is tickle" with women.
Another is faced with "two fraud
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
Go Slow on Property

this called attention the prevan
market the real business We cautioned Negoe
acuey housing shortage the eXorban
being charged Twin Cities In al
u) number of Harpers titled Don't Get Stuc
House points the dangers of buying hous
at this time
The Harpers article says in opening paragraph:
the few years many unwary home-buyers, IN
GLIDING many returning going ndange their
financial bought haste will provide unhappy
places which leisure; the buyer Will
He will discount the gaudy claims that
home ownership sure-fre good housing at
He will consider only the needs OF his
probable needs. He will appraise the
buying the hectic market He Will
after he has considered all the
by which his housing problem be met
which homeseven in this abnor
peday purchased reasonable figure There ndl
vidua building and the FLA who interested
other than nfaOnary profits
Prospective should slow however and heet
warning Don't Get Stuck with House"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
Lest We FORGET


July IT will be anniversary explosion
Port Chicago, California Over 800 American sailors blown
bits that explosion The CHASTITY job of cleaning the bits of
human flesh strewn the countryside grim reminder the
Negro sailors who fortunate enough survive this disaster of the
horrors of
Few without battle experience been called upon
endure such experience Fifty the
men who survived this disaster charged with mu by the Navy
Over half of them were under 81 years of age.
The segregated policy of the Navy preyed heavily upon
during all the of their service They constantly
these quesOns Why only Negroes
Why were the white Port Chicago other
was it almost impossible for Negro promotion? Why
most the at Port Chicago still samen though
lot of them had been there
ratings? Why were there few Negro petty
The muny charge against these rightly
and unfair 1t came about from Navy officer bungng
thing e Once they had their foot it, these
with almost reckless abandon.
The trial against these so lasted only
sentenced to Is prison. years.
years; and to years.
Their is being reviewed by Judge General
the United States Navy which will later Secretary
the Navy.
In view of the facts in this justice boost
all of these freed The Navy policy undergone
big change from the early days of this to admit
first charging these mutiny
hitting their trial under conditions acknowledgements
Cal-POst
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

take in that, because all one has
to do is to talk with war CORES
pondents who have been with Ne
gro troops and who associated,
slept, and ate with them. In the
first place, the army itself has so
many penalties and so many safe
guards against an occasional Negro
CT going astray that it is next to
impossible for him to get away
with anything or commit any sort
of crime of the nature referred to
by Eastland. On the other hand, it
is far easier for a white soldier to
run riot in satisfying his desires
because a white face is less subject
to question, both by the civilian
population and the army authori-
ties than one that is black.
Like Eastland and a
COlOred Woman
1t stands to reason that a Negro
accosting a white civilian woman in
France, Germany, or anywhere for
that matter, would attract as much
attention as Eastland consorting
with one of his colored female con-
stituents from his political BALI
wick on the corner of a main street
in Jackson, Mississippi.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

north and some other communities
that are enlightened such benight-
ed, vicious, evil-minded un-Chris-
tan crackers" as Eastland and
Bilbo. They should be stopped at
the border and told to go back
home, back to the tobacco fields,
cotton plantations, bayous and
swamps where they belong, togeth-
er with the dogs and field rats who
should be accorded a higher dis
tinction than their human counter
parts, the Eastlands and the Bilbos.
The charge that Eastland made
that one-twelfth of the army is
made up of Negroes who are guilty
of more than half of the crime of
the army is as wild and irrespon-
slble a statement as to be made
even by DR.. Goebbels when Hitler
was in his prime. All Eastland has
to do is to look at the record of
the white soldiers among colored
people and then go and hang his
head in shame.
Moment of Love with Black Women
IF the Senegalese DID commit
the crime as charged by Eastland,
that is only one step toward aveng-
ing the millions of cases of rape,
assault and murder carried on by
the so-called master white race on
the bodies of black women in
Africa, the South Pacific, in India,
Burma, and Egypt and, most nota-
bly,, in Senator Eastland's own
native Mississippi where the white
man has run completely riot with
his uncomfortable sexual pas
sion for women not of his own race
or color.
Somewhere down the line it
might conceivably be found that
Eastland, himself, might have a
little tint of the 'tarbrush" in him,
who knows. Strange things have
happened before in Mississippi
where people of apparent white
descent have been known to show
up several generations later with
a Negro in the closet. If it is true
that Senator Eastland might have
a few drops of Negro blood as the
result of some fnagling on the part
Of his paternal sires, it probably
would be bit amusing to see what
he would do when confronted with
such evidence while he is prepar-
ing to launch an onslaught on the
morals and virtues on the so-called
subject people of the world.
1t goes without saying that the
American Negro, in his conduct
and department on foreign soil,
ranks higher than that of any other
racial group and there is no mis-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
Nothing In Charter to Protect Colonials

section which safeguard Jewish rights
nothing commend and much to depore the
colonial peoples The trueeshp idea
fraud standard imperial
hardly the just aspirations for
eue and seeveOpment of OOOOOO colonial and cooed peo-
whatever colonial territories of the Axis
they feel their security this takes of our Pacific
Whether territory existing mandate is placed
under the usteesh council will depend entirely the
mandatory There provision for native representa-
the council right appeal for the right Of
dependent investigation of their The
principal dependent peoples concerned is that
fory colonial and to levy
their population and for the defense of the empire which
could do this under the League
that is they could do legally they did do coverty
Hardly a historic reform.-New Republic.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

Birthday greetings in Minneapolis: July
22-Mrs. J. R. Collins, 1920 Fourth Ave.
July 2S-E. L. Escue, 1924 Fourth Ave.
So; Beulah Green, 1O291s Olson Highway:
July 24-Cecil Adair, iiO8 AIdric6 Ave
No.; Russell Underwood, 1920 Fourth Ave
So; Patricia Dawson, 3715 Fourth Ave
So. July 25-Cecil E. Newman, 1900
portland Ave-; Earnestine Young. el2
Fltth Ave; No: July 26-Mrs. E. V. Mar
snail 1859 Elliot Ave. July 27-AIice
swain Young, 524 Emerson Ave. No. ; july
ES-Clltton H. Hoard, 1916 Fifth Ave. So,
July 29-Mrs. G. McRutledge, 2lIO I6tb
ave ave. So; Mrs. Burie Carmichael, ST., 242I
E GDa NJ Ave; So; BSnistelle, 428 Colfax
Fourth Ave. So; Mrs. Clarence Under
wood, 1912 Fourth Ave. So; July 3ONMrs
Nell Dodson Russell, 1920 Smelling: + w
walls S5S2 Fourth Ave. So. Elsie Smith
SSo4 Clinton Ave. July 81-Mrs. Ben
fI HS9 P S6z9 Columbus; Lucille Shaw,
,Belated greetings: Clyde Hatcher 2e17
Eleventh Ave. So, July 10; Mrs. BLANCHE
Brlsco' 1881 Bryant Ave. No, july 8,
Leroy Martin, Jr., 1928 Fifth Ave So.
July l6-Mrs. Maude S. Watkins, 1924 18Th
Ave. So. yves Ao'n
Out-of-town greetings: July 24-Pfc.
Leon Biles. U. S. Army; July 25-Sgt.
Charles McCadden, U. S. Army; and July
SO-Cpl: Gardner Springfield, u. S. Army.
Birthday greetings in St. Paul: July 22
Arthur Hill, Jr., $50 Iglehart; Louise
Brown, 2S7 N. St. Adams July 2S-Faus-
tina Robinson, 100 St. Anthony; Mrs.
Courtney Hilyard, 1872 St. Anthony; July
thony; July 25-James Williams, 1926
Rondo; Eugene Preston HILL $50 Iglehart
July ga. R. North, 4S5 Rondo; Mr..
L. K. Seaton, 686 Carroll Ivan Duane Per-
teet, Sl7 W. Central; July 27-Ermon Jean
Owens, 403 N. Western; Earl Weber, Jr.,
ITO Carroll.
Out-of-town greetings to Mary S. Cook,
83S Carroll Ave-, July 26.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
Jos. d. Bib in the
Pittsburgh Courier

CONDITIONS created by the
war years opened strange, new and
almost undreamed of positions. In
Philadelphia, Chicago and New
York, colored Americans won jobs
as motormen, conductors and bus
drivers. A few milk routes have
been captured. We are now oper-
ating intricate machines in war
plants. We have become welders,
molders and machinists. The
knowledge that we have acquired
cannot be taken away by the solid
Southern bloc, even though it has
enough power to indenture us as
being unqualified to vote below the
Mason-Dixon line.
We have sailed on the seven
oceans of the earth, we have float
ed in the azure blue in air planes.
We have met the strange and pc
cullar people OF many nations and
none can deny that we have profit
ed by our experiences.
We no longer see through the
glass of life so darkly, because we
have a faint glimmer of what is
going on in the world. Our plight
and our cause have been heralded
to the Zone World" that we live in.
We have marched many para
sangs with union labor. We have
become so strongly entrenched in
the CLIO that wise men like Con-
gresham Patrick of Alabama sees
the futility Of the poll tax. We
should be "up and at 'em" on this
issue because as sure as night fol-
lows day, we will eventually out
law this practice.
WE HAVE MADE surprising
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

suits" which he consistently refuses
to talk about.
Only one or two seem to have
the courage and foresight to be on
such a powerful board but the
environment has warped their
spirit.
1t doesn't take much concentra-
ton of thought to realize the COM
plete lack of responsibility in these
elected" officials. 1t is easily I'M
derstandable why money would
play such a vital role in both the
election and continuance of a
Bishop.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
A Slap ct Biqotry

With budget $446OOO year the employment practices
able should done
that members of minority deal in hiring
and firing
With budget of s25OOOO for the coming year FEPC obviously
will be able to do less
Negrohatng Jewhatng anhatng members of
their best put altogether Their
prolonged and INSCRIPTIONS opposition nearly succeeded bong
FEPC More enlightened congress- with administration
and great deal of public behind them Thursday
succeeded getting both houses appropriation of
$25OOOO
FEPC and will it's special
charges.
thanks and congratulations go responsible
nconerabe accomplishment enrenched bgoy
Minneapolis Morning Tribune.
The of business depends extent the
offers for sale and the willingness the public
product trial With which public
Institutions their depends the further fact that
support given by the people they spells the difference between
and
penalties who attempt them-Iowa Bystander.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
CARD OF THANKS

What a grand surprise to receive the
flowers and cards during my illness. They
were all lovely. A very special thanks goes
70 every one of you because of your Thought
fulness and gracious kindness. May this
little message help express in part, the
warm and heart felt gratitude that words
Just can't convey. Thank you all.-Emma
Carmichael, 2421 Fourth Ave. s., Mime
aDOlis
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

l asked a conference goer, as
there not a single crusader among
the bishops ?"
He answered, "None dare speak.
If one challenges misconduct, he
will receive the wrath of the others
and soon be transferred to some
poor, unfruitful conference or
foreign land"
$50 the Bishops have to let cor
ruption go?" 1 queried.
eyes, my FRIEND" he said. cts
politics all the way through"
each Bishop is cunning for
more lucrative conferences" he
continued, land he wants to remain
popular with the majority"
After you get closeup view of
the Bishops, you wonder whether
a million members of the AME
Church really know the inside
story.
You wonder whether the laymen
actually know the truth about the
workings of their own church?
Evidently, many of them don't.
It's about time some of the reli-
gious brothers and sisters stop
falling over broken down chairs
and begin wondering where their
money is going-begin asking ques-
tons about financial Irregularities
and practice What You Preach"
sermons.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
In MemOriam

In Memoriam of devoted father and
husband, Mr.. j. E. Jackson, who passed
away, one year ago, July 1S, 1914.
We cannot say and will not saw that he
il dead he is just away
With a smiling face and shake of the hand
he has entered into an unknown land
And left US dreaming. How very dearl
It needs must be since he fingers there
And we, oh, we whose widest yearn
For the old time step and the glad return.
Think of him faring on SO dear
In the love of there as the love of here;
Think of him as again we say,
He is not dead, he is just away.
Daughter, Mrs. J. T. Harris, Jr., and
mother, Mrs. Ella Alice jackson.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
Cleveland Writer Disappointed
In A.M.E. Church Bishops
By Simeon Booker, Jr., in Cleveland Call Post

sixteen of the topght African Methodist Episcopal
Bishops Cleveland their annual council meeting
Bishops ruling heads church organization with
million members thousand churches and estimated financial
worth of million dollars.
be
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20
Have Eastland and
BilbO Negro Blood?
By Dan Gardner

Insult offered American Negroes in Congress by Senators
Theodore Bbo and James Easand both Mississippi Demo-
deserves further attention The implication so deep
and farreaching that to allow such statements hang
the balance without complete and adequate refuaton
Sitl1nti nnn Of much
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

1t seems that the FEPC has too
many friends and not enough sup
porters.-W. o. Walker.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

Too many people in this country
are beating their breasts about the
Russian menace.-Earl Brown.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

In 1913, the 10 million Negroes
deposited in savings banks $812,-
100000 which "ain't hay"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

There is no better gauge of
mans social sympathies and his
unspoken premises than the stand
he takes on the Negroes fight for
freedom.-P, M,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

Regularly scheduled advertising
in this paper acquaints a friendly
product and frm.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

Omaha, Nebraska, Negroes spent
81 ,400 per capita in the year of
1913.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

Railroads and other forms of
transportation received 432 million
dollars from American Negroes in
1913.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-07-20

The Negro population spent All
million dollars for alcoholic bever-
ages in 1913.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-04
468 High School
Students Answer
Recreation Quiz

In a recent quiz conducted in
Pascagoula, 46S high school stu
dents were queried as to how
they spend their leisure time and
other types of recreation, besides
those now available in which they
would like TO participate. Con-
Quoted by Thomas R. Wells, SUI
perintendent of schools, the quiz
was sponsored by the Pascagoula
Recreation Commission.
Answers to the quiz revealed
that l89 senior high school boys
participate in athletics including
football, basketball, track and
tennis with football leading as to
the number of boys who take
part regularly in the sport.
From this number of boys, 70
reported that they attended Sun
day school regularly and four
sometimes. AS to joining Boy
Scout troops, Is stated their de.
sire to become Scouts and fifty
that they were members of
Scout troops.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-04
Misses Hinkle And
Strength Enlist In
WAC Medical Corps

Among the latest to enlist in
the service of their country are
Misses Agnes Hinkel of East Side
and Loyce Strength of Moss Point
who were sworn in the WAC
medical corps April Is at Jack
son by 1t. Margaret Lenzer. They
departed May l for Fl. becomes
where they will undergo their
basic training.
At the end of six weeks they
will be sent to some medical
school for three months more of
training.
Miss Hinkel, who is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. Hinkel
of East Side, is the third member
of the family to enter the service
as she has two brothers who are
members of the US Armed For
ces.
Miss Strength is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Strength.
AS a student of the Moss Point
High school of which she is a
graduate she held the high Jump
championship of the Gulf Coast
High schools. She was later en-
ployed by the Pascagoula-Moss
Point Chamber of Commerce.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-04

ular Sunday school attendance
and 80 sometimes. Five of the
girls stated that they were MEM
bers of Scout troops and 81 ex-
pressed a desire to become
Scouts.
With l89 indications, the Beach
Park led in places where the girls
recreation programs, the uSO
would best like to take part in
next with III, and the Spanish
Fort third with 81 indications.
A general playground program
led the list of recreational facili-
ties they would take part in with
l76 indications, bowling next
with l66 and 1874 reported a de-
sire to learn dancing.
As to movie attendance, quiz
answers revealed that AZ 60 TO
the movies once a week, 40 GO
three times a week, % go to the
movies four times a week, 10 go
TO five movies a week and two
90 seven times a week.
Skating Kinks and swimming
pools led the list of suggested adj
ditional recreational facilities for
both the boys and girls.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-04
Silver Stur Award
Posthun,ousI To
RoyfordJ J. Brock

Further information on the
courageousnes SIS with which
Pfc. Rayford ]. Brock met death
in the fulfilment of his duty is
contained in the citation accom-
panying the recent posthumous
award of the Silver Star medal.
The citations which was read
before the First Cavalry division
on Luzon, of which Pfc. Brock
was a member reads in part:
pvt. Brock, as a member of
the First Cavalry Divisions Fly
ing Squadron on its drive toward
Manila exhibited extraordinary
heroism and devotion to duty.
Reconnoitering unfamiliar and
enemy territory, the vehicles
were suddenly fired upon. Pvt.
Brock Immediately returned the
enemy fire. The impact of an en-
envy bullet striking him, knocked
him to the ground. Despite his
wounds he crawled back into the
vehicle and once more COM
menced to fire, thoroughly real
izing that he would be subjected
to enemy fire. Again he was
struck by a bullet. This time the
wound proved fatal.
Pfc. Brock was the son of Mrs.
Henry Becker, Ri. /, Pascagoula.
The Purple Heart, which had
also been posthumously awarded
Pfc. Brock, has been received by
Mrs. Becker.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-04

u. S. newspapers use nearly
100000 tons of paper a year.