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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

The 1915 Mayor of Bonneville
contest went into the final stretch
this week with Edward E. Harris,
manager of the St. Paul Elks Rest,
retaining a 1000 vote lead over
Jimmie Slemmons of Minneapolis,
in a touch-and-go battle that may
provide some surprising upsets be-
fore the final tally on December 6.
All other candidates were within
a few hundred votes of each other
in a contest that has put most of
the fireworks at the top of the list
between Harris and Slemmons.
Harris, with $4,000 votes, had his
5000 vote lead of last week clipped
down when the Minneapolis returns
came in Tuesday night, and Slem-
mons accounted for a strong 46,200.
Both men have quite a large num-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Claude Burt Home
After 26 Months
In Armed Service

tvs Claude Burt, 2201 Fifth Ave.
S., was discharged from the army
at Camp Mccoy on November 10,
after twenty-six months service,
four of which he spent in the
Asiatic- Pacific theatre.
Burt served with the 1868th avia-
ton engineers on Guam, Saipan
and Tennanan. It was the job of
his outfit to dynamite and make
way for airbases.
He said the Japanese prisoners
he saw didn't seem to resent their
Imprisonment, but on the contrary
laughed and joked among them
selves. They were QUILTED in
American clothes, and were served
the same diet as American troops,
only the food was rationed as
prison fare.
His wife is Mrs. Tessie Burt of
the Fifth Avenue address.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

Attorney Augustus G. Parker,
above, who was recently reelected
member of the Cleveland City
Council, last week issued the official
call for the S5th Grand Chapter
meeting of Kappa Alpha Psi fra
ternity, being held in Columbus,
Ohio, December 81 to 20. Parker
is grand polemarch of the fraten-
ity, which will hold the conclave
at Masonic Temple. Jere B. Stan
field is chairman of the general ar
rangements committee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Red Cross Worker Saw
Rajah's Home AS Stage
While in India Service

Miss Revoida Wright is in st.
Paul, visiting her aunt and uncle,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Smith, 1858 st.
Anthony Avenue, while she awaits
reassignment. Miss Wright spent
most of her ten months service in
recreation work with the American
Red Cross in Calcutta, India, where
she worked with the veterans of the
Lido and Burma roads.
The recreation work was on the
order of USO club activities, but
more extensive. There were out
door club programs consisting of
sightseeing trips, swimming and
bicycle riding. The boys had a
choice of what they wanted to do.
The evening program was planned
so that veterans endowed with
talent, such as singers, dancers, or
character actors, could furnish the
entertainment. The birthday par
ties were given every month, and
each month one of the men was
given the opportunity of being guest
of honor, depending upon the month
in which his birthday fell. The eve
nings were enjoyable occasions,
with birthday cakes, tokens pre-
scented to the honoree, and dancing
to the music of an orchestra.
The lawn parties were given at
former Rajah's home, with the
porch serving as a stage. The car
nival offered much in the line of
entertainment, and featured an In
dian magician, bingo, and a lady
fortune-teller.
Miss Wright says the work was
interesting, and just as enjoyable
to her as to the veterans. She plans
to study on the side, resuming her
music and language wherever and
when she is replaced.-E. C.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

hanging in his cell, Tuesday, No
vember 20, after police informed
him the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation has him listed as an
escaped North Carolina convict,
Bryant was cut down still alive. He
had used his knotted undershirt as
a rope.
The prisoner, who gave his name
as Leroy Bush, was arrested with
another man November 10 for in
vestigation of car theft and on bur-
glary charges. Police, after send
ing his fingerprints to the FBI in
Washington, received a report that
Horace E. Bryant was wanted for
escaping from the North Carolina
State prison at Raleigh, where he
was serving a term for assault, on
October 5, 1914.
When informed of this report,
Bryant wept and said, "I'd rather
commit suicide than go back to
North Cardinal" He said two per-
sons were shot in scuffle for which
he was serving a sentence. Bry-
ants body contains scars of four
bullets and he told officers that at
least one of the bullets still is in
his flesh. He also expressed fear
that he will get the electric chair,
if returned to Carolina. North
Carolina officials were notified.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Thelmu Dale to Pdris
For World Women Meet

NEW YORK-The only Negro
woman in executive leadership of
a national organization other than
the women's organizations, Thelma
M. Dale will attend the Interna-
tional Women's Conference which
began in Paris November &c as a
representative of her organization.
Miss Dale is the executive secre-
tary of the National Negro Con-
gress.
The International Women's Con-
ference plans to seat 300 women
delegates from 80 countries of the
United Nations, who will center
their attention on the role of wom-
en- in the final defeat of fascism on
a world scale.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Harris, SlemmOns Fight
For Bonneville Lead
AS Contest Nears End

Der of ballots still unaccounted for.
All votes must be in by 1000
p. m. on December 6. The Inaugural
ton dance at which the final re-
suits will be announced will be held
on Friday evening, December 7, at
Norway Hall, 29th Street and Chi
cago Avenue in Minneapolis, with
Howard Browns band furnishing
the music. Door prizes of 500 and
$40 will be awarded during the
evening, and the three first place
candidates will be awarded cash
prizes of $25, SIS, and $40. The
Mayor" will receive in addition to
first prize cash award, the gold
trophy statue emblematic of vic
tory.
The contest is sponsored by the
Associated Negro Credit Union.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

been bodily thrown out Of the camp
cafeteria" and that in the soda
shop they may only purchase ice
cream cones to take out. Other
charges are:
Negro soldiers are discouraged
from using the main post theater
which is a modern, unconditional
building seating 1900 persons; a
small 400 seat auditorium on a
segregated basis is the only place
they can use for viewing motion
pictures; theater No. 8 which seats
nearly LOO persons is entirely
closed to them.
The only service club available to
the 5000 Negro troops is small
building inconveniently located in
the woods. After a two-year delay
cafeteria facilities were finally OBJ
tanned last year. These facilities
were in operation for one month
when the PIX which obtained con-
troll of service club sales on food
and drinks closed it. As the PIX
does not serve Negro soldiers,
soft drinks have been available to
these men only through machines.
Negro soldiers are not allowed
to ride in the camps all-white bus
system, and Negro officers have
been forcibly elected from them.
The bus system set up for Negroes
uses a different route from the reg
ular bus line, and, while white
buses run every twenty minutes,
Negro buses are not able to keep
even an hourly schedule. They
may not use the main bus station.
In post headquarters there are
separate sanitary facilities for Ne
groes and whites.
The NAACP requested an i'm
mediate investigation and a cor
rection Of the conditions.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

Cooper of the Southern Negro
Youth Congress. Other United
States Council members are Elsa
Graves, National Industrial Coun-
ell, YWCA; Thomas Neill, United
Electrical, Radio, and Machine
Workers, CLIO; Frances Damon,
American Youth for a Free World;
Russell Jones, National Intercol-
legiate Christian Council; Naomi
Chertoff, Junior Hadassah; and
Alice Horton, United States Stu
dent Assembly.
Current told reporters that
there was a division of opinion
among the twenty delegates from
America, and that practically all
the decisions were by majority
vote rather than the unanimous
vote which has been asserted.
He said a minority of the U. S.
delegation had agreed on the fol-
lowing recommendations to their
organizations back home:
1--WE recommend that affilia-
ton with the World Federation
of Democratic Youth be withheld
until there is established in the
United States a broadly repre-
sentative cO-ordinating commit
tee for youth organization in the
young adult age group.
Further, we advise that no
meeting be held to consider such
an organization until the entire
American delegation returns to
the United States"
Current, who is the executive sec
rotary of the Detroit branch of the
NAACP, sailed November % on the
Liberty ship Stephen Smith and is
due in New York about December
5.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
One Bed i'm 1877
For Dixie Vets
In Hospitals

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
One hospital bed is available for
every 1877 colored veterans in the
south, the Veterans Administra-
ton disclosed Wednesday.
The rate of beds available to
white veterans in the same area is
one for every 1877, it was revealed,
The figures were the result of a
survey conducted by the Veterans
Administration to deter n e
whether adequate facilities were
available for the disqualification of
both races in areas where colored
veterans and white veterans are
hospitalized separately.
The Veterans Administration de-
clined to release the report for pub
LEGATION, but said that it showed a
shortage of facilities in certain
areas.
The survey was conducted in the
states of Alabama, Arkansas, Flori-
da, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri,
New Mexico, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vir-
GINA and West Virginia.
The Mount Alto veterans hospi-
tai in the District of Columbia was
not included in the survey. That
hospital has over 800 beds for vet
Grams, with SO being allotted for
colored veterans on segregated
wards of the hospital.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Sumner Coop
Joins With
st. Paul Group

Sumner Coop. Store, located in
the Sumner Field Housing Project
in Minneapolis, began operation as
Store No. a of Co-ops., Inc, of
St. Paul on Nov. 26th under a man.
agement agreement entered into by
the two cooperatives.
The Sumner Coop. will retain its
identity but both Co-ops. will have
the advantage of increased buying
power and centralized accounting
and management. Lewis Barry is
manager of Store No. 4, which
serves the All families living in
the project.
Manager Lawrence Jensen of Co
ops, Inc, says that with the addi-
ton of their new unit the total
sales of the four stores will be
considerably over $4,000 a week.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

G. James Fleming, above, is now
on the executive staff of the Amer
lean Friends Service Committee,
as national secretary of their race
relations program. Fleming, a
former regional director of the
Presidents Committee on Fair En-
ployment Practice, will have his
headquarters in Philadelphia where
he lives, and where he is active in
such organizations as the City
Policy Committee, the Fellowship
Commission, the NAACP, and as
editor of the Kappa Alpha Psi
Journal.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Georgia Citizens Ask
Pussoqe Of FEPC Bill

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - Pas
sage of a bill to establish a perma-
nent FEPC was demanded in a
resolution adopted here, November
10, by "a delegates representing
Is branches of the NAACP in
Georgia. The resolution also called
for legislation on full employment,
health, housing and other matters
before Congress in Washington.
The State Conference agreed to
appoint a special committee to han
die the appeal of Reverend Primus
King in his suit to be permitted
to vote in the Democratic primary.
The conference voted to concen-
trate on primary cases and on a
program to get Negro Georgians
registered by a house-to-house
canvass.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Raymond Common
To Attend Session
Of BUr Association

Attorney Raymond W. Cannon
of Minneapolis, left Tuesday to at
tend the annual convention of the
National Bar Association in Cleve-
land, Ohio. Mr.. Cannon is Deputy
Regional Director of Region 10.
The convention will be called the
MIA Post War Planning Confer
ence because the legal problems
confronting our race during this
period will receive very thorough
consideration and study.
Indications are that the at
tendance will be the largest in the
history of the association.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

Lotus Grace Peterson, daughter
of Mrs. o. N. Peterson of Duluth,
Mimi, and a freshman student at
the University of Minnesota where
she is taking photography and writ
ing, was a winner of a teen-age
contest sponsored by "Miss Amer
lea" magazine because her ideas of
''Tomorrow's World" were so good.
Miss Peterson said she favored
world free trade, understanding
and cooperation between nations,
regardless of race, creed or color,
and world legislation to enact laws
to adjust relationships between
peoples and nations. A member of
the Bahai faith, she will go to
South America next year as a
Bahai pioneer, and to study
photography and writing.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Ask Removal from
Schools Of Little
Crv,,oho" Rooke

NEW YORK - The featured
appearance in a New York news
paper of a photograph showing a
child in a New York City Public
School, in a predominantly Chinese
neighborhood, reading Little
Black Sambo" to classmates and
visitors, has renewed the campaign
for an investigation and correction
of New York City's text books.
The National Negro Congress, in
a letter to Mrs. Mary Dillon, presi-
dent of the Board of Education, re-
quests assurance that "the offensive
book" and others which it typifies
Twill be removed from our schools,
SO that the situation depicted in
the photograph mentioned will not
be repeated"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

ington bureau of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People, appeared in behalf
of Hardy and urged that his dis
charge be changed to honorable"
Hardy, who served in the Navy
for a year and a half, was requested
by his commanding officer, Leuten-
ant Clancy, to offer suggestions
for the betterment Of the men in
his outfit. He suggested the elm
nation Of discriminatory practices
against colored seamen stationed at
Vallejo, California.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
URGE Veto Of Return
OF lob Control to Stutes

WASHINGTON, D. C,-Presi-
dent Truman has been urged by
the NAACP to veto the legislation
passed by Congress directing the
return of the United States EN-
ployment Service (USES) to the
states.
The NAACP wire asserted that
under state control Negroes and
other minority groups all over the
country were denied employment
and training opportunities" The
complete telegram:
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Short Views
of the
News
Sergeant Flies to Bedside
OF Desperately III Mother


NEW YoRK-Staff Sgt. Lowell
A. Maxwell is being flown back to
the United States to be at the bed
side Of his desperately i'll mother,
Mrs. o. Clay Maxwell, wife Of the
pastor of one of Harlem's largest
churches, Mt. Olivet Baptist. DR..
Maxwell, nationally known in Bap-
fist circles, enlisted the aid Of the
NAACP in the request Of the War
department that Sgt. Maxwell be
flown home from overseas. Sgt.
Maxwell is the youngest Of the
Maxwell children and his mother
called for him constantly in her
serious illness. The war depart
ment wire to the NAACP was
signed by Edward F. Witsell, act
ing Adjutant General, and stated:
81 am pleased to advise you that
Sergeant Maxwell will be returned"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
NAACP Youth Session
At Wilberforce University

NEW YORK - The 7th Annual
Youth Conference of the National
Association for the Advancement
Of Colored People will convene at
Wilberforce University, Wilber-
force, Ohio, December 27-30, 1915.
Representatives from many of
the Associations 2S8 youth groups
are expected to participate in the
consideration of the problems of
youth and the Atomic Age"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

While at liberty in Vallejo the
next day, Hardy was summoned
back to camp and thrown into the
brig and summarily dismissed from
the service as undesirable" on the
ground that his attitude was threat
ening to his immediate superior
officers and that he was a bad in
fluence on the morale of his associ-
ates because Of his actions, the
spreading of propaganda prejudi-
cial to the naval service and his
stirring up of racial prejudices.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Fort Benning Ignores Army
Orders; JimcrO Rules Camp
Officers Elected from Buses

Washington-In violation of War Department order No.
9 the commanding officer at Fort Bennng Georgia has al
lowed rigid Jim practices against Negro soldiers
charged here last week by the NAACP letter to Secre-
tary of War Robert P Patterson.
The NAACP letter charged that Negro soldiers "have
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
CLIO to Oppose
Any Bill Evdding
Endowment Issue

NEW YORK-The CLIO Twill Wig
orously oppose any bill which
evades the issue of government re-
sponsibility for full employment
and does not provide machinery for
carrying out that responsibility if
private enterprise cannot fulfill its
obligations" Congressman were
told last week in letter comment
ing on a pending report of the
House Expenditures Committee on
HR2202, the full employment bill.
The letter was sent by CLIO Legis-
lative Director Nathan Cowan.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Morgan College
Gets More Instructors
And Assistants

ANNAPOLIS, MD.-(NNPA)-
Governor Herbert R. O'Connor ap-
proved on Thanksgiving Day a
transfer of $3O,790 in Morgan State
College assets to provide for the
employment of eight additional in
structors and additional student
assistants. The Governor said that
increased enrolment was the rea-
son for increasing the faculty.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Beacon Congregation
To Meet at Border

The Beacon Light Seventh Day
Adventist Church property was
sold last week. The congregation
will hold its services at Border
Methodist church, 4th and Aldrich
AYES. NJ, during the winter.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
FOur-Year Sentence
For Livingston Simu

Livingston "Pigmeat" Simms was
sentenced to four years in prison
Monday afternoon, November &c,
for the violation of the Mann act,
in trial held in United States dis
trict court two weeks ago.
Simms, So years old, residing at
81 Tilton Street, was a waiter on a
Great Northern train, and allegedly
transported a woman to st. Paul
for immoral purposes, from Seattle,
Washington. He contended the
woman had paid her own fare to St.
Paul, and denied the charge in
court.
HELEN JACKSON
CRITICALLY ILL
Mrs. Helen Jackson, 1886 Saith
Ave. So, Minneapolis, widely
known fraternal woman, is criti-
cally i'll at her home.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Two Negro Delegates
Named on World Youth
Council i'm London

London-Two Negro delegates from the United States
among the eight from America placed upon the Council
of the newlyorganized World Federation of Democratic
Youth formed here at the close of the 12day meeting of
youth delegates from 60 nations.
The two Goster Current of the NAACP and Esther
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

by Postmaster
John r. Coan. Mr..
Logan's appoint
ment dates from
November /, 1916.
Logan, a Twin
City resident for
IS years, and a
resident Of st.
Paul for 10, will
have the respon-
sibility of keep
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
HELEN JACKSON
Navy Man Asked for Suggestions,
Recommends Bias Elimination
DISCHARGED AS Undesirable

WASHINGTON. D. C.-(NNPA)-A hearing before the
Secretary of the Navys Discharge Review Board given
last Wednesday, to Daniel Joseph Hardy of Brooklyn, for
first Glass; who discharged from the Navy
undesirable on February 9, 1914
Jesse O. Dedmon secretary of veterans affairs, WASH
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Claude Mason on Job
AS Streetcar Operator
From East Side Barns

The East Side Station of the Minneapolis Street Rail
putting democracy to work successfully and proving
it be done Claude Mason 1924 Fifth Avenue &c. is now
working out of the barns streecar conductor Having
passed his conductors operationa probation period
fully he will next turn to motormans duties in order to
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Mill City Postmaster Makes it Three:
James Logan Appointed
Chief of Records Auto
Vehicle Division

James T. Logan, 1926 St. Anthony Ave-, ST. Paul. has had
his appointment Chief of Records of the Motor Vehicle
division of Minneapolis confirmed it was announced this week
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Tries Suicide
To Avoid Return
To North Carolina

Horace E. Bryant, 81 years old,
of 391 st. Anthony Avenue, a pris-
oner in the city jail, was found
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Mrs. H. C. Boyd
Is in Hospital

Is III IIOSpILdI
After Operation
Mrs. H. C. Boyd, wife of the
pastor of st. Peter AME church,
Minneapolis, is in Fairview hos
pital. She underwent an opera
ton on Tuesday morning.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30
Speaking of
Sports

Jimmy Lee reports and COM
ments each week in this paper
on the latest dope on the local
sports front. Boxing, football,
hockey, basketball-Jim knows
them all. Make his "Sportlight"
column a reading habit.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

Keep OF the date. Christmas Eve
Dance, Clio Hall, Dee. 24.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-30

Mayor of Bonneville Der of ballots still unaccouned
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

Tarakan.
japanese defenses on oil-rich
Tarakan were shattered by a con-
tinuous four-day naval lombard
ment and the Australians met only
light resistance as they advanced
up to two miles a few hours after
landing on the island Tuesday.
After securing the beachhead,
the Australians split into two forces.
Cne unit speared due east to the
approaches of the islands airfield,
with 4800-foot runway. The other
struck more than two miles north
ward to the edge of Tarakan town,
where bomb-blasted oil storage
tanks were burning furiously.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Tired Kidneys
Often Bring
SleepIess Nights

Doctors say your kidneys contain Is miles
q tiny tubes or filters which help to purify the
blood and keep you healthy. When they get
tlred and don't work right in the daytime.
many people have to get up nights. Frequent
or scanty passages with smarting and burning
sometimes shows there is something wrong
N. Win your kidneys or bladder. Don't neglect
When disorder of kidney function permits
poisonous matter to remain in your blood. it
nay also cause nagging backache, rheumatic
pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy,
and dizziness.
Don't waitl Ask your druggist for Doan's
flils, used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will helm
the 10 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison
Gus waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.