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St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

ment OF troops from the European
and Pacific areas is 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
"We 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
tion of the decision of the United
States Supreme Court, December
18, 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, 1943, and the SUBJ
St. Paul recorder., 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 to
carry out adequately the response
bilities given it by Executive Order
of the President, is bringing over
into the new fiscal year $500 un-
finished cases. 1t 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.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Railroad Picture
Not Any Better
In Twin Cities

While the Army announced this
week that the railroad help short
age has slowed down movement of
troop and hospital trains so badly,
planes will be used to speed the re-
deployment of soldiers and wound
ed, no national mention or move
has been made to aid the recruiting
of workers to the nations railroads
by using Negro manpower.
The picture is not any better in
the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. In
a talk with William Seabron, in
dustrial secretary of the Mime
apolis Urban League, this week an
official of the U. S. Railroad Retire
ment Board employment service at
25S Marquette Avenue, said un-
skilled railroad jobs were being
rapidly filled" with a quota of Ne
gro workers. Some had been sent
to the Milwaukee Road in unskilled
capacities, but the call here has
been mostly for skilled workers for
West Coast jobs as boilermakers,
machinists, carpenters, the official
said.
Admits Resistance
He admitted there is resistance
to the hiring of Negroes by some
local yards, but according to him,
the resistance comes not from the
employers or unions but from the
employees themselves.
In the report, "the Negro Work
er in Minnesota" prepared by Gov
ernor Edward j. Thye's interracial
commission, the fact is brought out
that while the Northern Pacific,
the Great Northern, the Milwaukee
and the Northwestern gave employ
ment to about 500 Negroes even as
far back as 1884, they worked only
as dining car walters, Pullman port
ers, red caps, car cleaners, and with
the exception of few walters pro-
NOTED to inspectors during the war
period, and a few porters appoint
ed to supervisory work, there has
been little or no upgrading.
S. Vincent Owens, executive Sec
retary of the St. Paul Urban
League, said Tuesday, "The dis
elimination pattern still exists"
Stalled by Red Tape
The present critical shortage can
be laid in a great measure to the
failure of certain of the railroad
unions, such as the conductors, to
upgrade qualified Negro workers,
and to the outright, violent op-
position of others to even hiring
them. For the past three years
Washington red tape and anti-Ne-
gro interests have kept action on
the matter at a standstill.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Detroit Circuit Court
Upholds Jimcro Low
in House Project

DETROIT, Mich. - Following a
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-
tions Adviser to the NPHA Com.
missioner, said:
''If this decision stands, the Mis-
sissippi pattern will cover the en-
tire country"
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
St. Paul Coop
Gets $4,000 Gosh

At the Coop meeting held Tues
day, July 81, at the Halle Q.
Brown, it was reported that ST.
200 in cash, $500 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 II at the Halle @.
Brown house.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Mpls. Quortet Wins
In Aqudtennidl
B0rbershop 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 26, 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 fours selected for
the finals.
Members of the Concord quartet
include: Paul Curry, 3115 Colum-
bus Ave., Edward johnson, 576
Fremont Ave. No., Edward Hayes,
22O6 Elliot Ave-, and Oliver ].
Thornton, 26O9 Fourth Ave. So.
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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
St. Paul recorder., 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
9 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.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
92nd Division Gives
Negro College Fund
More Than $4,000

NEW YORK gift of $12,-
95O.86 to the United Negro College
Fund was made by the members of
the 92nd 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,
938.55 to the college fund.
St. Paul recorder., 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
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

The three WACs are charged
with disorderly conduct-probably
a violation of the 96th Article Of
War. One of their group, after the
serious beating by the police, was
dragged to the city Jail. They were
later taken into 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 uniforms 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
St. Paul recorder., 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. 1, held at the
North Commons Park.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Cpl. Wilburn Discharged

Cpl. Leandrew Wilburn, 111S
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
St. Paul recorder., 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.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

that ambition realized when Chief
Edward Ryan selected Policeman
Luther M. johnson to attend the
work shop on intercultural educa-
tion 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 un-
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" 3"
St. Paul recorder., 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 c. W.
Washington, then Minneapolis
Urban league secretary; Leo Boh-
annon now of UNRRA and at that
time Mpls. Relief Dept. official, and
Cecil Newman.
St. Paul recorder., 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.
St. Paul recorder., 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
war economists and labor leaders will have to face frankly
according to Theodore Brame associate professor of
philosophy of education at University of Minnesota at the
opening of the intercultura education workshop at the
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
NAACP Asks Truman
Junk Stalling 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
taon 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
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Minneapolis Policemen
to Attend School on
Race Relations

Last week Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey, in interview
in the papers, told of his ambition to
have the Minneapolis police force lead the nation in bringing
about goodwill between the men who patrol the
beats and the people of the community.
This week the first step had been ACCOMPLISHED in having
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

Lnelr own 1urLner McAhF lin
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
pelling 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, menial, 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 humiliated by being
called "highly 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 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, 1855 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 S157 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.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

Gloria Hooks, 76O st. Anthony,
and Phil John Lewis, 455 st. An
thony, St. Paul, have applied for
license to wed.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Lieut.. Ming to Defend
Three WACs Beaten
by Dixie Policemen

WASHINGTON D, C. QNNP:A)-TIhe three e, Negro WACs
who were brutay beaten by city police of Ezabehtown
KY for sitting in the white waiting ROOM at bus station
last week. will be defended in their trial by 1t
W. Robert Ming base legal office at Goldman Field under COL
n Tr
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

Visitors to the st. Paul office this
week: George w. Brooks, Sr., j.
Louis Erwin, Alice Jackson, Jim
Williams.
St. Paul recorder., 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
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

pldySN ny Tic GU
listed men of the
armed forces.
This mass wave
of concern is not
restricted to self,
either. 1t is true
that a large num-
Der of the men
have expressed
themselves as be-
ing interested in
St. Paul recorder., 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 it's staff last week from
the $250O00 appropriated by Congress- Last years opera
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

Meanwhile on Wednesday only
so per cent of the workers needed
had been found to meet the short
age.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
United Presbyterians Vote
To Stay in Church Council

| From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
! By the Associated Press.
MONMOUTH, H.. June 4.-The
87th General Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church adjourned to-
day after voting to continue its
membership In the Federal Council
of Churches of Christ in America,
despite a request from the Phila-
delphia Presbytery that only partial
cooperation with that organization
be maintained.
The report of the Committee on
Reform. as finally adopted by the
assembly, opposed compulsory mill
tary training after the war. CON
demned the action Of the Once of
Defense Transportation in forbid
ding many religious gatherings, al
though permitting the operation of
horse races, dog races, ETC.; in
dorsed the work of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, the
Anti-Saloon League and other tenn
perance organizations and protested
against ''the increased use OF tobacco
and the liberal allowance of sugar
and grain for the manufacture of
intoxicating liquors while the gen.
eral public was denied the sugar so
greatly needed"
The assembly voted to meet next
year at Tarkio College. Tarkio, Mo.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Socialists Defeated
5oundIy in Ontario
BY the Associated Fress.


TORONTO, June 5.-Canada'.
Socialistic third party. the CCT
rocked today under its greatest de.
feat, administered by old-line Pro.
gressive Conservatives yesterday ir
an Ontario provincial election, pre-.
ceding by one week dominion wide
voting for new Parliament.
The fortunes of CCF, which
scared year ago with winning o1
the government of Saskatchewan
Province, took a spectacular dive al
the Ontario electorate reduced it.
membership in the legislature from
"a to six.
The Progressive Conservative VIC
tors, under Premier George A
Drew, won 66 of the legislatures 9(
seats, and the Liberals won II
Minor parties took the remainder
The government won 20 seats
from the CCF cooperative Com
monwealth Federation) and from
the Liberals, amassing a powerful
majority after having ruled as q
minority group, with only SO seats
since its first election in August
1943. The Liberals had IS seats In
the last legislature.
The heavy swing of Ontario's
voters from the CCF to the Con-
servatives is being studied closely
for its implications in next Mon
days general election, in which the
Liberal government of Prime Min
lister w. L. Mackenzie King will be
fighting to remain in power.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
House Unit Favors
Nays Plan 10 Buy
s.. John COLLEGE

From Yesterdays Last Edition.
BY the Associated Press.
The House Naval Affairs Com
mittee today tentatively approved
acquisition of St. Johns College at
Annapolis, Md, by the Naval Acad-
emy.
The 10 committee members pres
ent unanimously approved the plan
after representatives Of the Navy
Department and the academy de-
clared that purchase of the historic
college campus is essential to eff
cheney Of the Navy school.
Vice Admiral Ben Moreell, chief OF
the Bureau of Yards and Docks, told
the committee the Navy felt the
property could be purchased for
$3.50, 900 or less.
Chairman Vinson said the COM
mittee would officially approve the
proposed purchase within a week
probably after committee members
have inspected the st. Johns
campus
Mr.. Vinson said the Board OF
Visitors and Governors of st. Johns
recently expressed a willingness" tc
sell the property If the Navy feels
its acquisition is necessary to the
academy's future plans
He declared that Congress will
soon be called on to consider a pro-
posal to increase the size of the
corps OF midshipmen from 3,400 te
approximately 5000.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Haakon Quits London
For Norway 10 End
5 Years Of Exile
BY the Associated Pres.


LONDON, June 5.-King Haakon
left London for Norway last night,
ending five years of rule in exile
after German occupation OF his
kingdom.
The King will arrive in Oslo
aboard British warship Thursday
which is the fifth anniversary of his
departure for Britain and the 4Oth
anniversary of Norway's complete
break from Sweden.
Accompanying King Haakon are
his daughter-in-law. the Crown
Princess Martha, and her children
the Princesses Ragnhild and Astrid
and Prince Harald.
The Crown Princess and her chill
dren lived at Bethesda, Md, during
the war. They arrived in London
three weeks ago. King Haakon s
wartime residence, secret until now
was an estate near Windsor Castle
in an area to which a number of
German buzz bombs penetrated.
King Kaakon, born Prince Carl of
Denmark and chosen in 1905 by the
Norwegian people in plebiscite to
be their monarch, escaped to Eng
land after constant German at
tempts to kill him by bombing.
The first bombing attempt on his
life followed his scornful rejection
of Quisling representatives entrea-
ties that he return to Oslo. The
Germans leveled the village Of N.Y.
bergsund, but the King and his gov
ernment escaped.
Nazi bombers followed him con-
stantly all the way to Tromso in the
far north.