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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Medical Colleges
Guilty of Race,
Religious Bias

New York-Systematic discrimi-
nation, on racial and religious
grounds, is being enforced by viz
tually every medical school in the
United States, DR.. Frank Kingdom,
former president of the University
of Newark and author of many
books on religious, educational and
social affairs, charged here last
week.
In an article, Discrimination in
Medical Colleges" based on the find
ings of survey of the medical col
leges in this country and Canada
just completed, which appears in
the October American Mercury, DR..
Kingdom points out that the princi-
pal victims happen to be Jews, but
the undemocratic system also
strikes at other minority groups,
particularly Catholics, Italians and
Negroes.
Evidence of anti-Jewish discrim-
nation is overwhelming, writes DR..
Kingdom, and he reports the follow
ing facts revealed by the survey:
o The number of Jewish students in
medical schools has been reduced
by roughly so per cent in the last
twenty years, although annual ap-
plications for entry by Jewish
Americans have not declined.
0 Of total of $500 students en-
rolled annually in medical schools,
only between 500 and 900 are now
Jews.
. Every year the medical colleges
receive between $4,000 and 10000
applications from about $4,000 in
dividual students. Medical officials
estimate that from 35 to so per
cent of the appicants-that is, from
5000 to 7,0O0-are Jewish. Of the
non-Jewish students, some 5000 are
admitted; of the Jewish applicants,
only about 500 get in.
Q Practically every medical college
asks the applicant for his race or
religion or both.
DR.. Kingdom charges that the fol-
lowing medical schools have a rigid
quota system denied in words but
applied in fact:
Yale University School of Medi-
cine
Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine
Harvard University Medical
School
Dartmouth College Medical
School
Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons
Cornell University Medical Col
lege
University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry
Duke University School of Medi-
cine
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
of Wake Forest College, N. C.
University of Virginia Depart
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Journul of Nursing
Reviews Progress
Of Negro Nurses

NEW YORK - Undoubtedly
many more Negro nurses are now
being employed in both public and
private hospitals and agencies than
before the war;" declares an article,
"The Negro Nurse Looks Toward
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Richard Wright
Scheduled for ~"
COnyOcatiOn Dec.

Richard Wright, noted author,
will be the University of Minnesota
convocation speaker on Thursday,
Dec. 8.
His subject will be The Ameri-
can Negro Discovers Himself. y
Wright is author of the two best
sellers: Native Son" and BLACK
Boy"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Discharged Men
Are Given Wurning
Against Fleecers

Discharged servicemen with large
bankrolls passing through the Twin
Cities were warned by Army and
Navy officials this week against
carrying excess funds on them in
stead of mailing the money home.
The warning came after police
arrested two men and two women,
Tuesday, on complaint of two SOL
diers who charged the women took
$14 and watch from them at
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Jerry Davis Gets
Federal Prison Term

Gerald Jerry" Davis, so, 622
Girard Ave. No, Minneapolis, Tues
day was sentenced to five years in
Leavenworth prison after a jury
found him guilty Of transporting
his wife, Dolores, 25, interstate for
prostitution.
During the trial, the jury Of II
men and one woman heard two
other girls, IT and 10, testify he
seduced them.
The jury deliberated less than one
hour before returning a guilty YER
dict.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Curtis Williams Suffers
Injury in Hunting MiShap

Curtis Williams, who lives at It's
Olson Blvd, was accidentally shot
last week by Jimmie Wilson, while
on a hunting trip in Holston, No.
Dakota. Reece Martin and Ben
Wilson were also on the trip.
One of the daily papers reported
that Jimmie and Ben were brothers.
They are not related.
Curtis got about 90 buck shots.
He was taken to Dr. ". D. Brown
for treatment
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Duluth
News
By Frances E. Watts
pinch Hitting for
Zillah NJ. Waters)

Mrs. George DOzier entertained
a few friends in honor of Mr..
Dozier's Homecoming from Waters
meet, Michigan. He is employed
by the D. NJ. I. and R. railroad.
DR.. and Mrs. George Mosby of
Columbus, Ohio, were also guests
of honor. They have been visiting
the Doziers for the past month.
The couple left Duluth last Mon
day.
Mrs. SidOnia Black has just re-
turned from a visit to the East.
She visited her daughters, Vivian
Black of Kansas City, Kan, and
Merle Belle of Washington, D. C.
Louis Sykes was injured while
working at the Globe shipyard in
Superior, Wis, where he is an en-
ployee. Sykes, who sustained an
injury to his vertebrae, is recover
ing at his home.
Mr.. J. Brown, an employee of
Snyder's drugstore, is at home re-
covering from an injury sustained
while on the job.
Mrs. Zillah Waters, the regular
writer of this column, will be back
next week. She has just returned
home from a visit to Chicago.
The Rev. C. T. R. and Mrs. Mel
son of st. Paul, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Adams, lis
East Fifth St., last week. Rev.
Nelson is pastor of Camphor
Methodist church in st. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cox enter
tanned at a farewell party for Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Lindsey, recently.
The Lindseys have been residents
of Duluth for the past year and a
half while Mr.. Lindsey was an en-
ployee at the United States Steel
Corp.
Guests included Mr.. and Mrs. j.
D. Cox, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lind
sey, Mrs. Belle Hyatt, Mrs. Leona
Kelley, Oscar Cox, Miss Mary KEEL
ley, and Miss Frances Watts.
Mrs. Mildred Hayes of Piney
Woods, Miss, has been visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Inez Lindsey, for the
past month. She will leave Sunday
for her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Brown, ST., H.
Brown, Jr., and Mr.. andI Mrs.
Moore, motored to Duluth, Sunday,
to spend the day. Mrs. H. Brown,
Jr., accompanied them back to St.
Paul.
Sgt. Robert Simmons, Jr., has
left for Camp Mccoy, Wis, to re-
ceive his honorable discharge from
the U. S. Army.
Mrs. Marie Glenn has returned
home from Miller Hospital.
Willis Light has been discharged
from the Army, and is with his
family in Lutsen, Mimi.
Oscar Cox of Florence, Miss, has
returned to Duluth to reside.
Miss Marjorie Kelley, who re-
Gently underwent a tonsillectomy,
has recovered. She is a cadet nurse
at st. Mary's hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rieley an
nounce the birth of a son at st.
Luke's hospital. Both mother and
baby are doing fine.
Sgt. Marion McClinton has ar
rived home on furlough from over
seas. He is the brother Of Mrs.
Lee Wiley.
Gossip: We all talk, and that
would be o. k. if we knew when to
stop! My friends, none Of US is
perfect, so let US Judge not lest
we be judged" Let's think it over
the next time we get ready to
oossip.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Mary Jefferson Dies
AT General Hosp.
Wus FL Years Old

Mary Jefferson, 1913 Franklin
Ave-, died Monday, October 8, at
General hospital. She was 81 years
old.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jeffer-
son will be held Monday, October
Is, at 2 p. M, at Pilgrim Rest Bap-
fist church. The Rev. J. J. Clay
burn will officiate. Interment will
be at Crystal Lake cemetery.
She was born in Terrell, Texas.
She is survived by her husband,
three brothers, Charles Pier
son and Willie Pearson of Mime
apOlis, and Sgt. Augustus, overseas;
two sisters, Pearline Richman of
Minnewell, Texas, and Corrine Ec-
tor, Cleveland, Ohio, and her father,
Wilson Erwin of Terrell, Texas.
Woodland Funeral Home will be in
charge of arrangements.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
OBSERVATIONS
IN DULUTH
Continued from Page One)

NSOnLlnueQ 1rOm rage OneI
when Mrs. Nichols told US that my
report on the trip to Washington
last month, which appeared in these
newspapers Sept. %, in Harry Nc
Alpin's column, "Uncovering Wash
ington," had been read at the Y. W.
C. A. workshop and members urged
to subscribe for the Recorder and
the Spokesman.
We did have very pleasant time
and got much needed rest while
in Duluth and only mention the
following incident, because it gives
me the opportunity to mention the
good work of some other friends in
Duluth. In spite of our precaution
and great desire to steer clear of
any incident of race discrimination
on this trip, we found ourselves
faced with old James Crow DIETER
known as Jim Crow') in ten min
utes after we had arrived in Duluth.
To make a long story short, the
owner of the first hotel we stayed
at, did let US take the room he had
told me that he had, when l called
from the station, but he didn't
have it" five minutes later, when we
appeared at the hotel for the room.
Our vacation did get off to bad
start, because no one wants to battle
on a vacation. l called my friend,
DR.. Roy Burt, who was associate
pastor at the Wesley Church, Min
neapolis, three years ago and is now
pastor of a church in Duluth and he
came down to the hotel fighting
mad. On the second day we moved
from the first hotel to the Mckay
hotel, which is operated by John
Mcdonald, a truly fine Christian
gentleman. Everybody around this
hotel was simply lovely and We felt
under no strain at all there. !
should mention the fact that the
owner of the first hotel seemed to
regret his first reaction to US and
invited US to come to his hotel any
time and he assured me that Ne
groes would have no difficulty Sc
curing accommodations in his hotel
in the future.
DIR. Burt, who is the chairman of
the new Inter-racial Council of Du-
luth, is planning to put the full
force of his organization behind
the fight to break down the practice
of discrimination in the hotels in
Duluth. He told me that he called
another hotel, when he was trying
to find a place for US and that he
had been given a reservation for
US, only to have it cancelled when
the management learned that we
were not white. mot only did the
hotel man cancel the reservation
when 1 told them that you were
Negroes, but he became insolent,"
DR.. Burt declared.
I came away from Duluth more
determined than ever to do every
thing possible to break down the
iniquitous practice of refusing to
give accommodations to Negroes
that is so very prevalent in many
hotels in Minnesota, most especially
in, Duluth, Rochester, Minneapolis
and st. Paul. l propose to present
a plan for an al-out fight in the
matter to the next meeting Of the
Executive Committee of the st. Paul
Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People. Negroes are far from being
free from the unfairness of discrim-
nation in Bilbo's Mississippi and in
our ouyn atafa of MinnasotaI
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12

north side apartment, after the ser
vicemen had picked them up in a
downtown hamburger shop.
Mary Higgins, 81, of 511 Seventh
Ave. No, and Elizabeth Pettiford,
%, of 6O4 Eighth Ave. No, were
the women.
Army officials at Fort Smelling
and Void Chamberlain Field also
warned discharged servicemen
against picking up strangers, par
ticularly women, in bars and night
spots.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12
Harvey Mess Under Knife

Harvey Moss, 1904 46th Ave. So,
who underwent an operation re-
Gently at Fairview Hospital for the
removal of a cataract from his
eye, is now csnvalescing at his
home.
Mr.. Moss is U. S. postoffice en-
ployee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-10-12

Mr.. R. B. Lynch recently visited
his wife, who is now making her
home in New York.
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National Fire Prevention Week,
October z to 10. Join with Junior
Association of Commerce save
lives and property keep down
fires.
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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
WOUNDED IN ACTION

Pvt. Francis O. Barkdoll, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman d. Barkdoll
Hagerstown, Route 3, was wounded
in action in Belgium on January 7.
Pfc. Russell L. Cottrill, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Cottrill, Williams
port, was slightly wounded in action
in Belgium and is now in an English
hospital.
Pfc John T. Forney, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas D. Forney, 12e
High street, was wounded in action
in Germany on January TO-
Pfc. Joseph R. Wood, husband OF
Mrs. June Wood, Ais Linganore
avenue, was slightly wounded in act
ion in France on December "a, 1914
Pfc Allen W. Myers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Myers, Sharpsburg
has been wounded in action in the
European Theater of Operations and
is now in an English hospital.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
MISSING IN ACTION

Pfc. Clifford NJ Haynes, son of
Mrs. Dora Haynes, Rohrersville, has
been reported missing in action in
Belgium since January 5. A mem
Der of General Patton's 3rd Army,
he has been overseas since June
1914.
Cpl. James w. Powell, son of Mrs.
Matilda Blickenstaff, 815 West Irwin
avenue, has been reported missing
in action in France since January 6.
He is a member of the And Rain
bow Division and has been over
seas since December 3, 1914.
Pfc. Blain Racey, whose sister,
Mrs. Sarah Props, lives at GA West
Washington street, has been reported
missing in action in the European
Theater of Operations since Deem
Der %, 1914. He is a member of the
famous 82nd Airborne Division. Pfc.
Racey has two brothers in the u.
S. Navy.
Pvt. John w. Sanbower, Jr., whose
wife, Mrs. Carmen Las Sanbower,
and three children live on Route 2,
Smithsburg, has been reported miss
ing in action in France since Janu-
airy 8.
Pfc. Fred H. Wishard, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Wishard, 419 Claren-
don avenue, has been reported miss
ing in action in Belgium since Jan
uary 7.
Pfc. Wishard, a paratrooper with
the 18th Airborne Division, has been
overseas since September 1914 A
former student at Clear Spring High
School, he was employed at Fair
child's before entering the Service
in April 1913.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01


Pvt. Jessie D. Habercom (above),
Hagerstown's only WAC grand
mother, is now stationed in New
Guinea
Private Habercom joined the
Woman's Army Corps on November
81, 1943-two days before Thanks
giving took her basic training
at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Her next
move was to the Finance School at
Fort Benjamin Harrison. On gradu
-ating from the school she was as
signed for duty at the finance office
at Camp Atterbury
Shortly after her fourth grand
child was born, Private Habercom
applied for overseas service and, af-
ter completing the overseas training
course, was sent to a post in New
Guinea, where she is attached to an
Army finance Office.
Both of Private Hebercom's sons are
also in the Service. One is a lieu
tenant in the combat engineers and
is stationed somewhere in France,
the other is a seaman first class in
the U. S. Navy, at present stationed
iii Washington.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
County Museum To
Sponsor Art Class

The Washington County Museum
of Fine Arts will sponsor the second
term of the Museum Art Glass,
which begins on February 4 and
terminates on June 1.
Under the direction of Walter
Tony Carnelli, resident instructor,
the class is composed of amateurs,
professionals and beginners. Meet
ings are held twice a week in the
auditorium of the Museum: on Sun
day afternoons from 3 to o'clock
and on Tuesday evenings from 8
to 10 o'clock. With the coming of
favorable weather in the spring, the
class will hold it's Sunday sessions
out-of-doors.
Any desired medium may be
studied: oils, watercolor, tempera,
wash drawings, or sculpture. The
class offers an excellent opportu-
nifty to the art minded to explore
this means of expression.
|, Mr.. Carnelli, the instructor, is
eminently suited for his position
as director of the class. Adept in
all media and a sensitive craftsman,
his work has received favorable at
tention in both European and Amer
lean art circles. He is also represent
ed locally by his mural in the Luth-
eran Church of Leitersburg and by
several revealing portraits.
Persons desiring to enter the class
for the second term may obtain
more detailed information by calling
the Director of the Museum, DR.,
John Richard Craft, whose phone
number is 2918.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
u. S. S. Antietam Commissioned Sunday
To Launch Hagerstown Victory Feb. Z

The U. S. S. Anteitam, the $4,000
ton Aircraft Carrier of the Essex
class, named for Washington Coun-
TVS Battle of Antietam, was COM
missioned on Sunday at simple, but
impressive ceremonies on the hangar
deck of the big fiattop, in the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard.
Representing the Washington
County Historical Society which
sponsored the naming of carrier
for one of the bloodiest battles of
the Civil War, Park w. T. 10y,
vice-president of the society, pre-
sented the ships official Stand of
Colors, donated by the school child
rem of Washington County, and an
historical data plate, presented by
the society.
In addition to Mr.. 10y, honor
guests at the commissioning includ-
ed: Geneva Butts, 13-year-old eighth
grade student at the Sharpsburg ele-
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
Upton Close Draws
A Gloomy Picture

Before an assembled audience of
over six hundred people, gathered
for the twenty-fifth annual ban
quet of the Hagerstown Chamber
of Commerce on Tuesday evening
in Franklin Court Auditorium. Up
ton Close, internationally known
radio commentator and authority
on the Far East, warned his hear
ers of the possibility Of revolu-
ton in the United States after the
war.
In an address that bristled with
denunciations of President Roose-
welt, the New Deal, England and
Russia, Mr. Close, who was intro
duced by H. L. Mills, president of
the Chamber, told his hearers that
he was in Russia in the dying days
of the regime of the Car, but that
no one in that country believed
that the Russian Revolution was at
hand; that he was in Germany in
the years 1881 to 1888 and that no
one there could be made to believe
that Hitler and Nazism was so soon
to take over the German nation.
He wound up this phase of his adj
dress by pointing out that if the
day ever comes when Americans
started fighting each other in the
streets Of American cities, that
they would put up a bloodier battle
than any.
Mr.. Close, speaking of the war
with Japan, bluntly intimated that
only Russia could bring that war
to speedy conclusion. 'If'' said
Mr.. Close, stain were to say to
Japan, I will intercede with Amer
lea for you and try to save some
thing for you out of the war; ia
pan would probably be ready to
come to some sort of a surrender
But, unless Stain intercedes, Japan
will go on fighting till the last
three people in Japan are killed,
even if those three people are an
old woman and two children"
Space will not permit a detailed
report of the more than hour-long
talk. Suffice it to say that Mr..
Close fatty predicted trouble piled
on trouble, between the big
Three" of the Allied Nations, The
United States, Great Britain and
Russia, with the further prediction
that this trouble would have its be-
ginning with the fall of Berlin.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
Council Plans For
Crusade For Christ

The recently appointed st, Paups
Methodist Church Council for the
Crusade for Christ campaign, held
an organization dinner meeting at
the Hamilton Hotel Monday night
The Rev. Harry c. Marsh, pastor
of the church, briefly outlined the
five main divisions of the campaign,
after which the lay leader of the
Methodist Church in Martinsburg,
w. Va, and Mr.. John j. Porter, adj
dressed the gathering
The council will be divided into
five committees, to better handle the
five divisions of the crusade.
At Monday nights meeting, only
the Rehabilitation committee was
named, with A. H. Warne as o!,eir-
man.
1t will be the job of this committee
to arrange for the raising of $4,000.
ST. PauIs percentage of the $25,000.-
coo that is to be raised in the United
States by the Methodist Church, for
the rehabilitation of Methodist mis-
sions and people in the war-torn
countries of the world.
The plan for raising the fund will
be fully explained to the member
ship of the church at church sup
per to be held later in the month and
it is interesting to note that $500
was pledged at Monday nights
meeting
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01

mentary school, and her chaperon,
Miss Butts, the daughter of Pfc. Wal
ter H. Butts, now with the U. S.
Army in Belgium, an outstanding
student of history at the Sharpsburg
school, represented the 10000 stu
dents of Washington County schools,
whose penny donations purchased
the Stand of Colors.
The newly commissioned carrier
is commanded by Capt. James r.
Tague, of Flemingsburg, KY.
Another ship in which Hagers-
town takes particular pride, is the
S. S. Hagerstown Victory, the
launching of which is tentatively set
for Wednesday, February 7.
The new ship will be christened
by Miss Josephine Sweeney, sister
Of Mayor H. Sweeney, and a repre-
sentative group of Hagerstonians
headed by City and Chamber of
Commerce officials will be guests
at the ceremony.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
Museum Announces
Photographic Salon

A regional Photographic salon will
be held under the auspices of the
Washington County Museum of Fine
Arts, from Sunday, March 4, through
Sunday, April l, DR.. John Richard
Craft, director of the museum an
nounced today.
The exhibition, which vii show Sc
lected prints of photographers re
siding in the territory known as the
Cumberland Valley, vii be open
from 10 a. m. to p. M, Tuesdays
through Saturdays, and from l p. m.
until 6 p. m. on Sundays (the mus
cum is not open on Mondays.
Entries viii be received up to and
including Monday, February 10, and
photographers, who have not al
ready been mailed entry blanks, may
obtain full details by contracting
the museum authorities.
All entries will be given careful
and impartial consideration by a
competent jury.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
Interesting News Items Of The Week
Pangborn Proft-sharing Plan

Thomas w. Pangborn, president
of the Pangborn Corporation, last
week mailed letter to all en-
ployees Of the corporation, advising
them that the Employees Profit
Sharing Trust has received govern
ment approval
Under the terms of the trust each
employee with five years or more
continuous service, and all other
present or future employees who
will achieve five years continuous
service before or on the 31st day
of December in any subsequent
year, will have a sum of money
deposited in trust to his or her ac-
count equivalent to a certain per-
centage of the annual base pay of
participating individuals as will be
determined by the Corporations
net earnings in that year.