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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30

ner, 1910 graduate of Manchester
College, St. Paul, Mimi, was recent
ly promoted to his present rank at
the Tuskegee Army Air Field. He
also attended the University of
Minnesota and is member of the
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
AS officer in charge of the Post
Theatre, he has selected the best of
Hollywood's productions for the
morale of troops here. He is a
former track, football and basket
ball star, and recently helped the
Tuskegee "Warhawks" football
team battle through a successful
season as a charging center. His
parents are Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Gardner of st. Paul.
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San Quentin
Inmates in

San Quentin, Calif.-One convict
was stabbed in the neck with fork
and three others received cuts on
the head from broken crockery
when $500 San Quentin prison con-
victs rioted at mess last week. The
demonstration was ascribed by
Warden Clinton Duffy to initiation
of a plan to permit Negroes and
Caucasians to inter1ningle at meals.
Six guards overseeing the meal
fired over the milling convicts'
heads to bring the riot to an end.
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, away unQer nEe, McALE4N
some of our own papers have de-
manded Gibson's removal from the
office of Civilian Aide to the Secre-
tary of War. Some of our leaders
have made similar demands.
It is all an unfortunate incident.
It puts Gibson, our papers, and the
Negro in general in an awkward
position.
Far be it from me to attempt to
defend or justify Gibson in this
fight. know only what white cor
respondents in Rome have reported
him as saying. The War Depart
ment has no actual record of the
interview. I do know how such
interviews have been angled and
partially quoted by correspondents
in the past.
Gibson has had that experience
before, himself. He has a weak
defense, therefore, should he claim
now that he was misquoted, or only
partially quoted.
Without knowing all the facts,
1 believe it is safe to say Gibson
was injudicious in opening his
mouth at all about so controversial
and sensitive a subject in a press
conference. Whatever he said,
actually, or whatever were his in
tentions, it has been used to SANDER
the Negro fighting man in a unit
where the killed and wounded have
paid for a better fate. Here I re-
call the reports of the heroic ex-
ploits of my own dear friend, Capt.
Charles Gandy-killed in action!
But it seems to me, also, that our
papers and our leaders are being
injudicious, too, in the way they
have become emotional and person
al about what Gibson is reported
to have said. Their intentions, too,
are being open to misinterpretation
by the way they are only partially
speaking their pieces.
Many white persons, as most of
US know, are prone to generalize
about all Negroes on the basis of
one or just few incidents. There
are many, undoubtedly, who will
accept the reports of the Gibson
interview as gospel truth and con-
clude that all Negroes "melt away"
in the face of combat fire.
Believing this to be true, these
same persons will generalize about
all Negroes on the basis of the
stories our papers have run, and
say that all Negroes resent the
truth about themselves; that the
Negro press and Negro leaders can
not be depended upon for the truth.
These people know none of the
background.
The stories have seen have all
blasted Gibson for what he said.
In none of them have I seen any
recital of the mass of material that
would tend to show the heroic side
of the 92nd in contrast to the re-
ported Gibson charges.
In none of them have l seen a
comparison of the news stories on
the 92nd retreat and the retreat of
the white Americans and Canadians
before Won Rundstedt during the
"battle of the bulge"
No one has questioned why the
individual soldier is "put on the
pan" when Negro troops are in
volved, but only commanding offic-
ers are held accountable when
whites are involved.
Maybe Gibson should go! But he
should have lots of company-the
top white commanding officers of
the 92nd. In the Army, it's the
commanding officers responsibility
whatever his men do, and charges
of illiteracy or even Jim crow will
not transfer that responsibility to
the shoulder of the fighting CT.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
SIG Election Begins

On April LIST
The election of general officers
of Local SIG, Dining car employees
union, for the bi-annual term, viii
begin April 1, and continue tn
April 80. Ballots must be returned
and counted by April go.
Members who will be given bal
lots must be financial in both dues
and assessments. They are urged
to come up financially.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
CIO-PAC TO MEET
IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
The CLIO Political Action Com
mittee will meet here on April 5 to
plan its future program, it was an
nounced last week.
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Ann Hedgeman
Principal Speaker
Halle @. Monday

The sixteenth year of Halle Q.
Brown Community House, 553 Au-
rora Ave-, st. Paul, will be apprO-
priately observed Monday night,
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Hear dynamic Ann Arnold
Hedgeman Monday night, April 2,
at Halle Q. Brown House Annual
meeting, 8:15 p.m.-Adv.
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49, ~
ported by the wal
correspondents of
some of the Me-
tropolitan dailies,
For his report
ed inference that
units of the 92nG
all Negro Divi.
sion but all.
W hi t e top com.
mand "melt
awaV" under fire
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Aio,SatIan
0'''' iA''''ris., s..,.,
UncOvering
Washington
By Harry S. McAlpin

The hottest subject in Washing
ton this week and last has been
Truman Gibson's press conference
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Robert Gardner
Promoted To
lsf Lieutenant

Tuskegee Army Air Field, Ala
First Lieutenant Robert N. Gard
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Lillian Austin
Buried Monday

O01 kCu ukOAAu0y
Funeral services for Mrs. Lillian
Austin, age 40, 9s6 Bryant Ave.
No., Minneapolis, who died at Glen
Lake Sanitarium, Thursday, March
%, were held at Border church at
2 p. m. Rev. Robert Kelley Of
ficiated. Interment was at Crystal
Lake cemetery.
Mrs. Austin had lived in Mime
apolis over thirty years prior to
her death. She was a member of
Border Methodist church and was
active in the club groups of that
church. She was also a member Of
the COOPERATIVE Grocery Plan at
Sumner Field Project.
Surviving are her husband, Roy,
and three children, Roy, Jr., who
is in the navy, Connie and Phyllis
Austin. Two brothers, Samuel
Lott, somewhere in Italy, and Stat
ford Lott, Of Minneapolis. Woodland
Funeral Home was in charge Of
funeral services.
Roy, Jr., was three miles out to
sea when notified of his mothers
death, but managed to be flown
here for her funeral,
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Negro Troops
Land Artillery
on Two Jima

(By Tech. Sgt Larry Schylenburg,
a Marine Corps combat CORE
spOndent, formerly of the st. Louis
Globe emOcrat)
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Baltimore in 1882. In this connection,
1t would seem that Uncle Sam" should
60 very slow about ceding away any
more of the Districts land, for the
time is not far distant when he will
need every foot he can get, and may
even be forced to take back that part
retroceded to Virginia in 1846.
So much filing in has been going on
for years on the south side Of the river
that the present generation cannot pic
ture Holmes Island, of the extent of
about 500 acres, ever having existed
there, and yet that is reported as having
been the extent Of its area in ls47 This
Is only one Of the factors to be con-
sidered in settling forever the District
Virginia boundary line.
The placing or laying OF the founda-
ton stone Of jackson City was a notable
event in local history. The population
Of the District at that time was around
10000 and Of the City OF Washington
about 10000, and, judging by the reports,
nearly everybody turned out to witness
the parade and the ensuing exercises,
in which the idol of the people, for
whom the city was named, was q con-
spicuous part.
Few Of the newspapers here or else
where looked upon the project seriously,
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"March 2 has been cele-
brdted at Terds University
eDer since"
open mind instead Of an open
mouth ="
Senatorial laughter drowned out the
rest Of the sentence.
Foreign Relations Chairman
The Texan moved from the House to
the Senate side of the Capitol in 1s2s,
the only new Democrat to enter the
Upper Chamber in that year of the
Republican party's landslide in the
smith-Hoover campaign. He became
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee in 1941.
Key Pittman, chairman for eight
years, died late in 1910. Senator George,
Democrat, of Georgia succeeded him by
right of seniority. Several months
later, however, when the chairmanship
Of the Finance Committee, on which
he was the senior Democratic member,
became vacant. Senator George decided
he would prefer that post and Senator
Connally moved into the foreign re-
lations chair.
Since taking this key position, Sen.
ator Connally has been q loyal admin.
istration man, lighting stoutly for Presi-
dent Roosevelt's foreign policies. He
supported, even earlier, the Presidents
futile efforts in the summer Of 1899 to
obtain repeal Of the Neutrality Act.
He has supported the destroyer for
naval bases" deal, lease-lend aid to
Britain and Russia, arming Of American
naval vessels. American participation
in the United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration II In fact
every major administration bill In the
fleld Of foreign policy.
Made Peace With White House
But the Texans relations with tas
White House have not always been
friendly. He was one Of the most bitter
Senate opponents Of Mr.. Roosevelt's
effort In 1887 to pack" the United
States Supreme Court, and his battle
against that measure resulted In year
or two of distinct coolness between him
and the President. He has opposed the
President on other domestic legislation.
But all that is forgotten now. From
the beginning Of the war danger, the
Texas Senator saw eye to eye with the
President on the necessity rapidly Of
building . giant Army and Navy and
Continued on Page C-5)
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0fSS' hC~fS . AZ NY UfI SOsf1S Wv "
that the southern portion had been set
afire by the American forces
Dolly Madison's Crossing
1t was the intention of Dolly Madison
to have made her return to Washington
by this bridge, after having had to leave
so abruptly on August "a, 1914, when the
British captured Washington, but find
ing the bridge not usable, she was forced
to cross the stream in an Army boat used
in transporting munitions Of war over
the Potomac. At first, Col. Fenwick, who
was in charge of the boat, peremptorily
refused to let her return In this way,
but Dolly made herself known, and it is
said she was driven in her carriage into
the frail boat, which bore her home
ward"
One hundred and nine years ago, an
event took place just to the south of the
Long Bridge, when 1t was planned to
found a city to be named after the
President, Andrew jackson. the spot
appearing to be an ideal townsite loca-
ton, being close to the bridge and with
in mile of Washington. But, alas!
the best laid plans of mice and men do
not always turn out as intended, and
jackson City practically died in its in
ception
However, January II, 1896, was great
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nearly all Of them taking the whole
matter as a huge joke. A Georgetown
paper, a little bit more rabid than the
rest, had this to say:
THE public has from time to time
heard something of these movements.
1t was known that a fair city was al
ready spread out on this happy spot-on
the map; but until the late publication
in the Globe of a correspondence be-
tween the committee Of this association
and the President of the United States
few believed in the serious reality of 30
chimerical project. On the style of
the letter Of the committee, inviting the
President to lay the cornerstone, we do
not care to speak. Whether or not the
term OF fulsome in It's adulation would
be justly applicable to it, each taste must
Judge for itself. In q thousand cases the
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'nHl1ttee.
Harris Il Ewing.

boiled white shirts with gold studs, black
bow tie and flowing gray locks always
attract the attention of the visitors
gallery.
who is that Senator down there
who really looks like Senator7" visitors
ask
Secondly, Tom Connally is known as
one of the Senate's most fluent speakers,
dangerous antagonist in debate whose
tongue can dispense vitrol or soothing
sirup with equal facility. Generally the
Texas Senator is one of the best
humored of men. But when aroused his
tongue becomes lash.
Senator Nye, Republican Senator
from North Dakota for many years be-
fore his defeat in that last election,
learned that one day. He had charged
that Woodrow Wilson falsified World
War records The Texan, an ardent
disciple of Wilson, was on his feet
immediately
When the history of this Republic
shall be written" he told Senator Nye,
woodrow Wilson's titanic. figure will
tower above the puny pignies wins now
bark at his memory as Pixies Peak towers
above the fog of an Arkansas swamp.
IF the Senator from North Dakota,
this White Knight Of Peaee-if he wants
to make charges like this, why doesn't
he single out some double listed kniEht
who is still alive?"
Not always Is Senator Connallys At
tack so bludgeoning. He delights IN
raillery, too. In q. debate with Senator
Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire,
he observed:
IF the Senator from New HAMPSHIRE
would approach these matters with an
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ator's ONCE gallery Of photographs
shows tall, thin man grasping the
lanyard Of brass cannon in front of
the university's administration build
ing.
In the Army
During the 18 years between Senator
Connally's graduation from Texas Law
School and his arrival in Washington
as House member on the very eve Of
the World War there was nothing
markedly unusual about his career.
With the aid of a doctor he had
Known back in Eddy, he fenagled his way
into the Army that was going to Cuba
to night the Spaniards, after having once
been turned down by another Army
physician as too puny for his height.
He served under his old cadet corps in
structor at Baylor, who later achieved
fame in the World War as Mai. Gen.
Beaumont Buck But he got no farther
than Jacksonville, Fla. Illness kept him
out of the fight.
(He had much the same experience.
incidentally, in the World War when he
resigned . House seat to become q cap
tain IN the 22d Infantry Brigade of the
18th Division and was taken Ill just as
his unit was preparing to sail for France.
He has been known to remark with caus-
tic humor that he has been in more
warn and done less fighting than any
other American.)
The war over, the young attorney
moved to Marlin, Tex. There he sue
cessively practiced law, represented Falls
County three years In the Texas Legis-
lature, became prosecuting attorney OF
the county, practiced law again more
remuneratively than before and in
1916, was first elected to the national
House of Representatives.
In 1904 he took another step which,
his friends say, had decisive influence
on his career. He married Miss Louise
Clarkson, daughter of a wealthy and
prominent Marlin family, whose original
objection to her match with the strug-
Cling young attorney fired him with an
ambition to show them"-as he did. The
first Mrs. Connally died here in 1885.
They had one son, Ben Clarkson Con-
nally, an attorney Of Houston, Tex, now
q major In the Army.
Whenever the Senator's friends feel
that his reputation for oratory has
grown too fat. they tell story from his
Marlin era. He has even been known
to repeat 1t himself.
Arrived Here at Critical Time
In 1916 the young lawyer Had built
up his political fences sufficiently to
stand for the national house. He ar
rived in Washington at a critical time
woodrow Wilson called the newly
elected Congress, which normally would
not have sat until the following fall,
into special session early in April to act
on his declaration Of war on Germany.
Down in the Texas Legislature, SEN
ator Connally had formed firm friend
ship with John N. Garner. later to be
Vice President during the first Roose-
velt administration. Mr.. Garner,
weishty in Democratic House councils,
had the neophyte Texas member as
signed to the important Foreign Affairs
Committee, before which the war reso-
luton came. So, before he had been
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". he had a hdnkering
to be q netDSpdpern,Gn."


that made him yield at last to his
fathers long-expressed wish that he
become lawyer. Tom, himself, in his
unregenerate days had a hankering to
be q newspaperman-as he occasionally
recalls on blue Mondays-and indeed he
did put in q stint OF six months back in
1896 on the old Waco Evening Telephone
after he had finished his undergraduate
work Ut Baylor University. But his
father persuaded him to forsake news
print for the Texas University Law
School, and ~ q result he now sits on
the Senate door instead Of in the press
gallery. .....
Along with his easy now Of language
q piquant connection Of classical allu-
sions and Texas idiom) Tom Connally
had another characteristic which aided
In lifting him from Eddys Main Street
to the ornate chamber OF the Foreign
Relations Committee. That was an in
dependent turn of mind linked up with
hard-crusted determination to see his
decisions through.
The Cannon Incident
His cronies at Texas Law School (who
included, incidentally, Morris Shep-
pard, longtime Senator from Texas,
whose widow Senator Connally married
In ls42), tell this story about the future
Senator:
In 1897 he and some fellow law stu
dents decided it was . blot on the
escutcheon Of the university that no
holiday marked Texas indepedence
day, which falls on March 2. They
took their plant to DR.. George T.
Winston, president of the university
and North Carolinian, who told them
that July was independence day
enough and to forget their idea.
They didn't. Somewhere they got an
old brass cannon and determined to
boom out the glories Of San Jacinto
and the Alamo. Dr.. Winstons spies
reported, and the cannon was mys-
teriously spiked on the night Of March
l. But Tom and his pals unspiked it.
''Prexy" appeared and threatened legal
action If they fred the gun on univer-
sity property. They promptly moved 1t
across the street to . privately owned
football field A
With Tom twho had received artillery
training in the Baylor Cadet Corps) at
the lanyard, they doomed away. In the
classrooms across the street study was
disrupted as excited "undergrads"
rushed to the windows, wondering Just
what army was moving on Austin.
An hour or 50 of this pandemonium
convinced DR.. Winston that Tom and
his command Of embryo lawyers were
pretty serious about independence day,
after all. He invited them to bring the
cannon back to the campus and de-
clared holiday. The boy from Eddy
delivered m oration on the glories of
the Lone Star State-and every one was
happy.
March has bsen celebrated 1t Texas
University ever since.
Today = cherished picture Ia the Sen
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He Has Major Role in Shaping
The Structure Of the New World
BY Joseph H. Baird

As American troops advance daily
nearer to victory In both Europe and
the Far East, another fight impends
just over the horizon Of time. That
will be battle for the peace" recalling
the one which this country 20 tragically
lost In 1918-1920.
1t Is truism Of history now that
the, root cause Of that lost nsht was
Woodrow wilson's deadlock with the
Senate and particularly with the erudite
and caustic Republican chairman OF
that body's potent Foreign Relations
Committee, Henry Cabot Lodge. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt is fortunate not only
in having substantial Democratic
majority in the upper chamber, but In
having in Lodges place . tall, unruly-
haired, plain-spoken Texan who goes
straight down the line with administra-
ton foreign policy.
That gentleman, Of whom the world
probably will hear . great deal in the
next few decisive year1 was christened
Thomas Terry ConnalH. But 1t Is
doubtful If any one outside his family
and the compilers OF biographical die
tionaries knows his full name. He lists
himself In the Congressional Directory
simply as Tom Connally"-and so he is
known to his Washington colleagues
and the thousands of Texas voters who,
for nearly three decades, have been
sending him cup to the Capital, from
1917 to 1928 as a member Of the House
and since then as a Senator.
An International Personality
But Tom Connally has ceased to be
simply q Texas or even a national
political figure. His elevation in 1941
to the chairmanship of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, combined
with world war, have joined to make
him an international personality.
In the natural course of events, his
role Is destined to grow in import. He
left this week for Mexico City where he
will act as q congressional observer at
the Pan American conference. In April
he is slated to attend the United Nations
security conference In San Francisco
as a member of the United State delega-
tion. The lanky Texan is now on the
big-time circuit of international diplo-
macy Next to President Roosevelt
and Secretary of State Stettinius he
will have more to do than any other
American with shaping the structure
of the new world.
Has "Silvery Tongue"
Those who knew young Tom Connally
down in Eddy, Tex. where he was born
August 10, 1877, could hardly have fore
seen for him such = portentious role in
history. His father was \ fairly success
full but not wealthy farmer. Tom wasn't
born in q log cabin dong the claimed
birthright Of many American politicians
but he knew what 1t meant to slop the
hogs and drive the cattle to water. He
was q tall, gangling youth, his con-
temporaries recall, but was blessed with
what purists call a "silvery tongue
The Texans of his day said, more pro-
safely. = gift for CAB"
It was this facility Of speech, perhaps,
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day in Washington. for this was the
day the cornerstone of the new city was
laid. And it was not only to eclipse the
Federal Capital, but was also to be a
great manufacturing city, on Holmes or
Alexanders Island, now almost, If not
entirely obliterated. But as shown on
the Ellicott map of 1892, it was much
larger than Analostan Island, just
little farther up the river, now known as
Theodore Roosevelt Island.
District Boundaries
Incidentally, this Is a good map to
scan, If one Is interested in the conten-
ton as to how much land is q part of
the District of Columbia on the south
side Of the river, or just where high
water mark was located when the chart
er for Maryland was granted to Lord
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here long enough to hnd his way
around the Capitol Building. he was
called on to recommend to the House
whether America should enter its first
European war.
Senator Connally says he is not a very
pious man, but he prayed over that
vote. Then he cast an Affirmative ballot
for entering the war.
In Typical Attire
/ During his nearly THREE decades on
Capitol Hill, Tom Connally has been
known for two widely varying charac-
teristics He Is the sole remaining
Senate member Of the old school Of
statesmen who Affected . typical attire.
Today his dark, loosely-cut clothes,