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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Local Soldiers Arrive
Home from Overseas
Five Days Apart

Pfc. John C. Williamson and
his nephew, Pfc. Theodore Garrett,
arrived in Minneapolis five days
apart from overseas to spend their
furlough visiting their sister and
Mrs. Claudia Garrett, 912
Fifth Ave. No.
Pvt. Williamson came here from
Penistone, England. He has been
overseas for two years and eleven
months.
John was guard of the camp with
the 1912th Ord. Company. He will
leave for San Antonio, Tex, Aug.
27. He was with William L. Scott
and James W. Jones.
Pvt. Carnett has been overseas
one year and has been stationed in
France with the 659th Ord. Am
munition Company. He was an Of
flee worker and checked ammuni-
ton. He says, "after I learned how
to dance like they do, had a good
time" He will go to Fl. Benning,
Ga. He was with Murl Young of
st. Paul, and Donald Allen, Min
neapolis. He has two battle stars
and a campaign ribbon.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Rev. B. c. Whitlock
Arrives to Assume
St. Thomas Duties

The Rev. Bernard G. Whitlock
of Kansas City, Mo-, will arrive in
Minneapolis Saturday to assume
his duties as priest-in-charge of ST..
Thomas Episcopal church, Lake
Street and Fifth Avenue So.
On Saturday evening in the I'M
dercroft of the church, there will
be an informal get-acquainted
meeting at 8 p. M, and at II a. m.
Sunday morning Rev. Whitlock will
take over the services at st.
Thomas. Holy Communion will be
celebrated.
Monday, Rev. Whitlock will con-
fer with Bishop Stephen D. Keller.
He is among the few now being
considered to take over the perma-
nent duties of priest-in-charge at
the church.
Born in Lynchburg, Va, Rev.
Whitlock is a graduate of Virginia
Seminary, and for the past Is years
has been in charge of historic St.
Augustine's church in Kansas City,
Mo.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Blunche Patterson
st. Peter Women's
Day Speaker Aug. S

"Women's Day in Latin America"
will be the topic of Blanche L.
Patterson, Spanish teacher at Sum-
ner High school, st. Louis, when
she appears as principal speaker
at the annual Women's Day SER
vice at st. Peter AME church, Min
neapolis, Sunday, August 5, at
10:45 a. m.
Last year, Miss Patterson was in
class of 100, chosen to study at
the University of Mexico, in the
first Spanish language institute,
sponsored by the U. S. government.
A native of Minneapolis, Miss Pat
terson is well known in the Twin
Cities, especially in fraternal cir
cles. For four years, she was
regional director of the Central
region of the Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority. She is now a member
of the sorority's speakers bureau
of the Non-Partisan Council of
Public Affairs, for which the soror-
ity maintains offices in Washing
ton, D. C.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
New York Soprano
on Concert Tour
of Cubu. Mexico

NEW YORK - llabelle Davis,
soprano, who scored such a success
in her debut appearances at Town
Hall, and as soloist with the New
York Philharmonic, left here re-
Gently to fill her first concert en-
gagement outside the United
States.
Miss Davis gave one concert in
Havana, Cuba, on July 25, and then
took plane for Mexico City where
she is scheduled to make five ap-
pearances during August, two as
soloist with the Orquesta Filhar-
monica, and three in solo recital at
the Palace of Fine Arts.
She will return to the United
States early in September for a
cross-country tour.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Cell Division

Phosphorus is necessary for plant
cell division, and it is especially es-
sential for fir it and seed produc-
ton, says culturistS. 1t sometimes
stimulates the formation and growth
of roots, gives start to plants, and
hastens maturity. Superphosphate
is needed in the production of snap
and lima beans, corn, peas, peppers,
tomatoes, okra, squash, cucumbers,
cantaloupes, cabbage, Collards and
eggplant.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Pittsburgh Crdwfords
PldY New Orledns
Here AUG. 6 und 7

Two more of Negro basebalPs
time-honored major clubs are
scheduled for an appearance here
when the Pittsburgh Crawfords, for
a number of years holder of the
colored worlds championship, and
the New Orleans Crescent stars,
famous southern team, meet in a
night game at Nicollet Park, Min
neapolis, on Monday, August 6,
starting at $3.50 o'clock, and again
the following night at $50 at Lex
ington Park, St. Paul.
To close followers of Negro base
ball, the pairing conjures up mem
cries of epic periods in the history
of sepia diamond activities. Over
a long period, the Crawfords domi-
mated all Negro baseball in a
fashion comparable to the New
York Yankees reign in the white
major leagues. The Crawfords won
one Negro world title after another.
They spawned such greats as
Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and
other Negro playing immortals. In
fact, the great battery of Paige
and Gibson attained it's greatest
heights in the Crawford days.
Owned by Gus Greenlee, who
managed John Henry Lewis to the
worlds light-heavyweight boxing
championship, the Crawfords for
two seasons now have given every
indication of recapturing their
former glory. 1t is a crack ball
club and strong in every depart
ment. The team uses Forbes Field
in Pittsburgh as it's home grounds
when the Pirates are on tour.
New Orleans history parallels
that of the Crawfords in many
ways. The Crescent Stars are an
old organization and have captured
many honors, besides starting out,
and now possessing, a number of
playing and managerial luminaries.
The southerners are making their
first northern tour in more than a
decade because of their vast pride
in their talented ensemble.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Model Pldne Club
Hos Three Winners
at Parade Grounds

Robert Greene of BOT Dupont
Ave. No., was second prize winner
in the model airplane contest held
at the Parade Grounds as part of
the Minneapolis Aquatennial on
Sunday, July 29. Stanley Stone,
815 Bryant Ave. No., walked off
with a third prize, and his father,
Melvin Stone, advisor for the model
airplane club of which the boys are
members, was a fourth prize
winner.
The model planes have an aver
age speed of from 10 to 80 miles
an hour and are expertly construct
ed mechanically. The club has
been invited to participate in a
model plane contest to be held at
Monticello, Minnesota, on Aug. 10.
Earl C.-Van Dusen, manager of
the Sumner Field housing project,
has given the club a hobby room in
the project.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

American ideal Of democracy and
brotherhood into practical working
relationships and will contribute
materially to the economic welfare
of the South and the nation.
eve join with President Truman
in calling upon the Congress to full
fill the pledges of the Democratic
and Republican parties by restor-
ing the FEPC appropriation and
by enacting S. 101-HR 2203, set
ting up a permanent FEPC to pre-
vent economic discrimination based
on race, creed, national origin or
ancestry"
The signatures, says Clark Fore
man, Conference president, were
collected by wire in less than 48
hours after an emergency appeal
was mailed to a small group of
selected leaders in each state.
Among those who signed were
white and Negro ministers, educa-
tors, journalists, industrialists,
trade unionists, and persons repre-
sentative of every phase of South
ern life.
Twelve Southern States were rep
resented on the petition: Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennes-
see, Texas and Virginia.
Among the outstanding Southern
leaders whose signatures appeared
were:
DR.. Frank P. Graham, pres. I'm.
of N. c., Chapel Hill; II. Counsel
Trenholm, ex. secy. of the American
Teachers Assn, Montgomery;
Chas. w. Edwards, Secy. Alabama
Policy Comm. and Prof. at Auburn,
Ala; Royal Wilbur France, Prof.
of economics, Rollins College, Win
ter Park; Homer Dunn, IBPOEW,
Meridian, Miss; Rev. William Mar
mion, pastor of st. Mary's Episco-
pal Church, Birmingham; H. E. S.
Reeves, editor, Miami Times,
Miami; Jennings Perry, editor, the
Tennessean, Nashville, Tenn; Kath-
ryn Winston, editor, Tenn. CLIO
News; Nick Comfort, Dean of the
I'm. of Okla, Norman, Okla; Lon
nell Williams Post, American Le-
gion, GAINESVILLE, Tenn; Mortimer
May, Prominent businessman, Secy.
of May Hosiery Mills, Nashville,
Tenn; Lillian Hunt, Elk. Secy., Y.
W. C. A., Columbia, S. c.; R. B.
Atwood, Pres, Kentucky State Col
lege, Frankfort; Frances Thomp-
son, Pres, Consumers League of
Kentucky, Louisville, KY; Orville
Mastin, Farmers Union, Birming-
ham, Ala; Howard Mooney, Secy.
of the Alabama PAC; Leonard T.
Beecher, Tennessee Coal & Iron Co.,
Rep. in Birmingham, Ala.
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St. Paul NAACP
Hears Littlejohn
and ]. L. HoWlund

The st. Paul branch of the
NAACP held its monthly meeting
at Halle Q. Brown House Sunday.
Maceo V. Littlejohn of the legal
redress committee reported on a
job discrimination charge involv-
ing a downtown store and his re-
cent attendance at a Chicago meet
ing of the National Legal Redress
Committee of the NAACP.
James L. Rowland, active Am
erican Legionnaire, delivered the
principal address. He scored attacks
on the Negro soldiers made in the
U. S. Senate by Senator Eastland.
He cited the long history of heroic
exploits by Negro soldiers and
sailors,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Clean Pastures

Use Of pasture is paying hog pro-
ducers. One reports half Of his herd
raised under the old system aver
aged 6 pigs to the litter while the
rest Of the herd raised under clean
pasture conditions averaged nearly
8 pigs. Still another says he used
to lose as many as half Of his pigs
but under the sanitation system he
has raised more than / 200 pigs with
a loss under per cent.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

AfrO-American, and Cecil Newman,
Minneapolis SpOkesman-St. Paul
Recorder.
Industrialist Speaks
Principal speaker at the dinner
on Friday evening was Samuel j.
Novick, president of Electronic
Corporation of America. Messages
were sent to the conference by
President Harry Truman and Gov
ernor Thomas E. Dewey. The Ma
tional Urban League and the
NAACP entertained the delegates
on Friday and Saturday nights, re-
spectively, with a dinner at the
Hotel McAlpin and a reception at
Downtown Cafe Society.
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and gospel singer, who was an
actress of fame before she entered
the ministry.
Miss Coffee has a large following
in the Twin Cities. Her messages
are appealing!
Rev. Reddick, known and loved
in these parts, recently fulfilled his
life's desire by opening a Christian
Church for all peoples and all
creeds, the Community Temple, at
43O No. Fremont, a church of Christ
for the people. Services will be
held every day except Monday and
Saturday.
Beginning at 7:45 p. m. Sunday,
August 5, services will run for two
weeks. LORRAINE Ellis Chivers
will be soloist for Sunday services.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Group Garden

Small-growing crops such as car
rots, beets, lettuce and radishes
should be grouped on one side of
the garden away from the large
growing crops such as cabbage, corn
and tomatoes. Perennial crops such
as asparagus, rhubarb and berries
should be at one side of the ground
also, where they will not be dis
turbed by blowing.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
NATIONAL NEGRO SPORTS
WEEK

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
to raise the moral level
among teen-age Negro boys and
girls, and to make certain there
will be no let-down in the Negroes
interest in sports activity during
the postwar period, National
Sports Foundation, Inc, Washing
ton, D. c., is sponsoring National
Negro Sports Week, August 5-11.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Milkweed Prospects

The potential uses Of milkweed
reach into the scores. The fiber from
the stems contains quantities Of Gel
lulose which can be used in paper
making, in the manufacture Of wall
board, rayon and even in explosives.
The seeds which accumulate at the
rate Of two pounds for every pound
Of floss, contain a relatively high
percer tage Of oil which can be used
as drying agent in paints and var.
niSheS,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

Problems that have arisen as the
result of the war were discussed
in detail, and it was agreed that a
permanent FEPC, the abolition of
restricting poll-tax laws, and the
support of the World Charter, are
necessary.
One of the major goals of the
conference was the working out of
an improved system of national
news coverage. A new national
news service modelled along the
lines of the Associated Press was
approved and offices in New York
City and Chicago will be estab-
lished.
Officers elected for the coming
year include: president, Frank L.
Stanley, Louisville Defender; secre-
tary-treasurer, Howard Murphy,
AfrO-American; eastern vice presi-
dent, Ludlow W. Werner, New York
Age; southern vice president, c. A.
Scott, Atlanta Daily World; central
vice president, Dowdal H. Davis,
Kansas City Call; western vice
president, A. G. Shields, Arkansas
World, and far western vice presi-
dent, Leon H. Washington, Los
Angeles Sentinel.
Newman Reelected
Members of the executive COM
mittee are: John H. Sengstacke,
Chicago Defender; Ira Lewis, Pitts
burgh Courier; Olive Diggs, Chi
cago Bee, and Cecil E. Newman,
Minneapolis SpOkesman-St. Paul
Recorder papers, who was the only
member of the outgoing board re-
elected.
Editor and Publisher magazine
was host to nine representatives of
the NNPA, July %, at the Victoria
Hotel, during which the slant of
news in both Negro and white pub
locations was sharply criticized. 1t
was agreed faults existed on both
sides. Negro delegates urged that
white dailies put an end to group
ing of Negro news or designating
race when it is not essential.
Robert N. Brown is editor of
Editor and Publisher, and Frank L.
Stanley headed the NNPA repre-
sentatives who included: P. L. Pratt
tbs, Pittsburgh Courier; Louis Mar
tin, Michigan Chronicle; Thomas
W. Young, Norfolk Journal and
Guide; C. A. Scott, Atlanta Daily
World; Ralph Matthews, Washing
ton Afro-American; Roy Garvin,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
RenIace Valves

When an air valve fails it should
be replaced not only because the
radiator heats slowly or remains
cold, regardless of boiler pressure,
but also because the defective valve
may permit the escape of live steam
into room. In either case, there is
a hazard to health and comfort as
well as a waste of fuel.
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Sleeping Cor Aux. to
Heor Report. Talk on
Worker Problems

The ladies' auxiliary Of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port
ers will hear a report from Mrs.
Harriet C. Jones, at a meeting at
1924 Clinton Ave-, Tuesday after
noon, August IA, at 100 p. m. Mrs.
Jones recently attended the school
for workers at University of Wis
consin.
Trade unionism, labor legislation,
current labor issues and postwar
problems will be discussed at the
meeting.
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South Petitions
Congress to Keep
FEPC Agency

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - (NNPA)
Following closely on the heels Of the
petition of Georgians, white and
colored, urging Congress to enact a
permanent FEPC bill, the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare cir
culated last week to every Repre-
sentative and Senator petition
containing the names of 1,64O
Southern leaders seeking the re-
storation of the appropriation for
the temporary FEPC and for the
establishment of a permanent
FEPC.
The strong text of the petition
declared:
"In the conflict between Fascism
and Democracy, in which over one
million of the finest flower of
American youth are now casualties,
a central issue is the contradiction
between the Nazi doctrine of racism
and the democratic conception of
equality of opportunity to all men
regardless of race, creed or national
origin.
Discrimination has no place in
American life: by its very nature
it is fascistic. Yet such discrimina-
ton exists in our country and mocks
our words before the world. It has
handicapped US in making maxi
mum use of our manpower for war
production. 1t has been used effec-
lively in the propaganda of our
enemies. If continued, it will weak
en- our leadership in the council of
Nations: it will lessen the chances
of a durable peace.
"Here in the South we have ex-
perienced the unwholesome conse-
quences of discrimination in en-
ployment. Twenty-Five per cent of
our people held at a low wage level
has depressed the income Of all and
has stunted the progress of the
region.
Future prosperity and health of
the South depends upon raising the
living standards of all Southerners
to the national average. If the
average income of the Negro fam
lily in the South were raised to that
of the white Southern family, it
would add a billion and one quarter
dollars to the income of the South.
If the income of the average South
ern family were raised to the ma
tional level, it would add over ten
billion dollars to the national in
come.
''The Fair Employment Practice
Commission established by Execu-
tive Order of President Roosevelt
proposing to eliminate discrimina-
ton in employment is an important
step forward in translating the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03

With her southern border touch
ing only areas populated by colored
races, Mr.. Brandt pointed out, Rus
STA is in a position that requires
special consideration for the non
white races. The United States,
however, has its own problem with
it's 100000 Negroes, whose treat
ment is watched closely by other
racial groups of color throughout
the world,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-03
Asian Empires
of the Future
i. Problem

Unless the United States "speaks
up firmly now for the right of the
colored peoples of the world to
reach the dignity of independence
as they emerge from the obscurity
of the past" the peace of the future
may well be lost in wars with en-
pires of races that have been kept
under the yoke of white SOW
ereignty," Joseph A. Brandt, direc-
tor of the University of Chicago
Press, told University of Minnesota
summer term graduates last week.
Mr.. Brandt developed the theme
that races we call colored are so
overwhelmingly predominant in
Asia and so much more numerous
in the world as a whole, that fu-
ture peace may rightly be thought
to depend on a better understand
ing of them and more intelligent
relations between them and our
selves.
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Local SIG Hos
New Office Secv,

Mrs. Mary Wolfe, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Vassar, 491
st. Anthony, and who, since 1927
had made her home in Chicago, ILL.,,
is the new office secretary at the
Dining Car Employees Union,
Local SIG, st. Paul. Mrs. Wolfe
was employed in the Social Serv-
ice department of the Provident
hospital but is now back home to
stay.
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Newspaper Publishers
Meet in New York
at Annual Convene

NEW YORK-The Limited Wartime Conference of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers Association held July 27
through July 49, in the International Ladies' Garment Work
Union building ITO Broadway with delegates and alter
mates in attendance representing So throughout
+boT limited
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Races Receive Freedom

Pointing to Russia, which, he
said, must be viewed as a friend,
he declared that her isolation from
western democracies following the
revolution led to her internal de-
velopment under a system wherein
the many races of her republics
received equal freedom.
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Bl(iOus) bO Plans
JimcrO Seating
in War Memorial

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
for segregating Negroes
in the proposed War Memorial
Stadium for the nations capitol
where the Army-Navy football
games of the future may be played,
are rumored to be included and
shown on the preliminary archi-
tectural drawings prepared by a
Texas architect under Sen. Theo-
dore Bilbo's direction. BiIbo, as
chairman of the Senate District
Committee, is virtually mayor of
the District of Columbia.
Reports, as yet unconfrmed, say
the drawings show separate box of
fees where whites and Negroes are
to purchase tickets. A staircase
leading to the peanut roost" Sec
ton reserved for Negroes is also
indicated on the drawings, it is
said.
JimcrO Improbable
Except for the Uline Arena, there
has been no segregation in Wash
ington for public sport events.
While the Uline Arena excludes
Negroes from ice hockey games,
the ice-capades, rodeos, and similar
events held there, solicits Negro
patronage to boxing matches and
seats them Unfortunately. A boy
colt of the boxing matches, spon-
sored by the Washington Tribune,
has made boxing promotions there
improbable, however.
In Griffith Stadium, where the
Washington Senators play big
league baseball and the Washing
ton Red Skins play professional
football, there is no segregation
practiced or attempted. Boxing
matches held at the stadium draw
large crowds of Negroes as well as
whites.
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Evangelist to
Appeur Here

Rev. H. Reddick has invited again
to the Twin Cities, Evangelist
Pauline ]. Coffee, noted speaker
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PERCY HINES POSTAL
ALLIANCE LEADER DEAF

Chicago-Percy R. Hines, leader
in the National Alliance of Postal
Employees and the Tuskegee Gen.
eral Alumni association, died at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Joseph II.
Branham, Bis South Parkway,
Saturday, July 81, after a long
illness. He had collapsed 10 weeks
ago and had received numerous
blood transfusions.
Funeral services were held at
Olivet Baptist church Thursday,
July 26.
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Mrs. Mary C. Collier Dies

Mrs. Mary C. Collier died Satur-
day, July %, at the home of her
niece, Mrs. Clarence H. Roper, 982
Fuller Avenue, with whom she
had lived for the past thirteen
years, since the death of her hus-
band. Mrs. Roper was born in
Noblesville, Indiana, January Z,
1859, and after her marriage to
Charles Collier, January, 1885,
moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan,
where she lived for forty years.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, July 81, at 1890 a. M, at the
Brooks Chapel with the Rev. Floyd
Massey, Jr., officiating. Interment
was in the family lot at Oakland
cemetery.