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Bradley beam., 1945-02-24
(Camp Newspaper Service)

New York. - The New York branch of the OWI received from it's Paris office an unusual request: 100 pounds of diapers. The owl, diaperless, turned the request over to American Relief for France, Inc, which promised action forthwith.
 St. John, N. B.-Mrs. Murray B. Waddell gave birth to a baby girl in a snowbank in front of her home while awaiting a sleigh which was to take her to New Brunswick hospital. Then baby and mother went home instead of to the hos pital. Both are doing well.
 Detroit-Firemen at local hook and ladder station were caught with their pants down when fire broke out in their frehouse recent ly. Short on equipment, they had to telephone for aid. And they had to borrow neighbours telephone to do it.
 Brazil, Ind.-Judge Robert B.. Stewart blinked when he saw this case listed on the divorce docket: George Washington vs. Martha Washington" The folks involved are local couple.
 Warsaw, N. Y-The snow is so deep in this upstate town that farmer John Bauer had to dig 49- foot tunnel through a 20-foot deep snowdrift in order to get to his barn.
 Londonderry, Vt.-A local pri- mary school has had 8 new teach CTS since last Thanksgiving. Four of the teachers quit to go into de- fense work, 2 got married and one became principal of another school. Lincoln, Neb.-Nicknamed "the Tree Planter State" since pioneer
Bradley beam., 1945-02-24

Two pretty gals were walking down a crowded street. Two sol- diers passed and whistled.
 "The nerve of them," said one of the girls, "whistling at us-two days before pay day"
Bradley beam., 1945-02-24
Is Y0ur Home TOqvn Listed?

days, the state of Nebraska here after will be known as "the Corn husker State,'' the State Legisla-- ture has decreed.
 Laredo, Tex.-Rancher Sy Sibert came home and placed his gun on the table. Sy Junior, 3, picked up the rod. "Go ahead" said his father jovially, "plug your Daddy" Junior then shot his parent in the stomach. Both now are recovering, Daddy from a stomach wound, Junior from a spanking.
 New York.-A 14-year-old local nature lover has been arrested for stealing 6 birds, including saw whet owl and 3 sparrow hawks, from the aviary of the New York Zoo. "They looked sick" he ex- plained. "I just wanted to feed them some mice.''
 Chattanooga, Tenn. -"I hate mustard" explained Roland Roy ale as he smeared quantity of that commodity over the face of waitress in local restaurant. Arrested, he told the court that he became irked when the waitress "insisted on serving me mustard"
Bradley beam., 1945-02-24

The strip teaser had no flying time but she certainly knew how to take of
Bradley beam., 1945-02-24
Unusual Chow

Continued from Page One).
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
Phyllis Wheatley
Officers Elected

At the January meeting of the
board of directors of Phyllis Wheat
ley Settlement House, the follow
ing officers were elected for 1915:
Mrs. Alex Helmick, president; Mrs.
Robert Charlton, first vice presi-
dent; DR.. w. D. Brown, second
vice president; Wendell C. Jones,
recording secretary; Raymond W.
Cannon, corresponding secretary;
J. E. Stoddard, treasurer; Charles
D. Fist, assistant treasurer.
New members elected to the
board are: Rev. Julian J. Keiser,
Mrs. Chauncey Chase, Mrs. John
K. Mortland, Theodore E. Woodland,
Benedict Deinard, Mrs. E. v.
Marshall, Rev. A. F. Martin.
Other members of the board are
James A. Davis, Mrs. Hugh Nc
Donald, Mrs. E. S. Mooers, Lorin
Hord, Mrs. James A. Paige, Mrs.
John Mathys, Mrs. John Bridge,
Rev. M. R. Hogarth, Cecil Newman,
Esther Sherwood, DIR. George H.
Tolley.
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What the Negro
Wants Subject of
NAACP Forum


Robert Johnson, a graduate stu
dent at the University of Mimi, will
be the moderator of the panel dis
cussion sponsored by the St. Paul
NAACP on the subject "What the
Negro Wants" at the forum in
the Halle Q. Brown House, 553
Aurora Avenue, Sunday, Jan. %,
at $3.50 p. m. Mr.. Johnson, who is
studying for his Ph.D., is to be
the teacher of a course in Negro
history at the University beginning
Feb. 6. Members of the panel will
include Mrs. Sue Williams, Mrs.
Val Dora Frazier, Louis Mason
and Lathrop Rogers. Music for the
program will be furnished by the
Melody Maids. John Whitaker and
Olga Anderson will play a piano
duet.
A brief business session of the
local branch will be held before the
formal program, which is scheduled
to begin a half hour earlier than
usual Sunday forums.
The program has been planned by
the Education Committee of the
st. Paul Branch, of which Miss
Elizabeth Moore is the chairman.
The public is invited.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
Marie Kirby
Awarded SIS
for Torn Coat

Judge VIM. C. Larson awarded
Marie Kirby, 522 Aldrich Avenue
No., SIS, Jan. 10, in judgment for
a tear in her coat received at Ben
Rackner's Grocery Store, 729 Olson
Blvd, three weeks ago.
Mrs. Kirby who had traded with
Rackner for the last twenty years,
asked the proprietor to have her
coat mended which she tore on a
box in his store. He refused. She
then hired Harry Scott, attorney,
as her counsel. In court last Thurs
day, she asked for $35 for damages
and was awarded SIS.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
Warren Grisson
Gets Urbdn League
Post in Toledo

Warren C. Grissam, formerly of
st. Paul, and a social worker in the
Welfare Department of Ramsey
County, has recently been appoint
ed Industrial Secretary of the
Urban League at the Frederick
Douglass Community Center at
Toledo, Ohio.
Mr.. Grissam enlisted in the armed
services in 1912, was injured and
received a medical discharge. At
ter recovery he joined the Merchant
Marines and second injury caused
him to leave the Marines.
Before going to Toledo he spent
two weeks in the National Urban
League Office in New York getting
acquainted with the work.
Mr.. Grissam's aunt, Mrs. S. E.
Hall, lives at 996 Iglehart Ave.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
FEPC TO HOLD HEARING
ON WESTERN
CARTRIDGE COMPANY


A formal hearing on complaints
of racial discrimination against the
Western Cartridge Company Of
East Alton, Illinois, will be held by
the Presidents Committee on Fair
Employment Practice on January
81, it was announced today by Ell
mer w. Henderson, Regional Direc-
tor in Chicago.
"Our Committee has received a
number of complaints that this COM
pany refuses to employ qualified
Negroes at it's great ammunition
plant and we have attempted to
negotiate a change of policy with
out successful results" Henderson
said.
The War Manpower Commission
has also attempted to change this
company's practices but was unable
to and certified the case to FEPC
in November, 1913. At this time the
company made a public statement
that it could not comply due to the
prevailing community pattern in
East Alton. This city has no Negro
residents and there is an alleged
sentiment among white citizens
against them.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
Doing Their Part

Shown above are two more Min
nesOta boys who are doing their
part in the Armed Services, Royal
A. Crawford, Seaman First Class,
and Private First Class Harold d.
Kay.
Seaman Crawford is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd Crawford, ST.,
1902 E. 18th st. He has a brother,
Boyd, in the Army at Los Angeles.
Seaman Crawford is stationed at
Earle, New Jersey.
Pfc. Kay, stationed somewhere
in France, has been overseas nine
months. He has been in the army
three years. His wife, Mary, who
is employed at the Twin Cities Ord
nance Plant, at New Brighton, lives
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Kay, 374S Fourth Ave. S.
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Ida Moe Mills
Buried Monddv

Ida Mae Mills, "a, 481 Thomas,
a resident of St. Paul for the past
27 years, succumbed at Bethesda
Hospital, Jan. 10, where she had
been confined for the last ten days.
Funeral services were held at
st. James A. M. E. Church, Mon
day, Jan. %, at p. m. Rev. B. N.
Moore, assisted by Rev. H. C. Boyd,
of Minneapolis, officiated. Inter-
ment was at Oakland Cemetery.
Survivors include her husband,
William, and a son, Woodrow of
st. Paul, three sisters, Mines. Eve
Ign Holland, Boston, Mass, Can
lille Baker, Minneapolis, and
Frances Murray, Duluth, two broth
ers, John W. Harper, Minneapolis,
and Zeke Harper of Los Angeles.
The Neal Funeral Home was in
charge of funeral arrangements.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
Men from Over
Seas at Home
nFurlOugh

A number of men in the armed
forces from various war theaters
are visiting in Minneapolis this
week. TVS James Lee Ward from
the Southwest Pacific and Asiatic
Theater of War arrived in Mime
apolis Wednesday, Jan. II, to visit
his father, James Ward, ST., 3737
Fourth Ave. So. He was wounded
in action in the Philippines and was
in the Mcclure General Hospital
at Richmond, Va, before coming
home. He plans to leave here some
time in February.
Roy Austin, Storekeeper BIC U. S.
Navy, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alec
Austin, 986 Bryant Ave. No., is at
home on a thirty-day leave. He has
been in action in the South Pacific
and has been in the Navy two years,
overseas twenty months.
Leroy thurman, a Coxswaip in
the Navy from the South Pacific,
arrived in the city Monday morn
ing, Jan. %, to visit his mother,
Mrs. Emma Turman, 2721 Portland
Ave. He will be in the city for
thirty days.
Cpl. Carl Wade, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Wade, ST., 2819
Elliot Ave-, is a visitor at his par
ents' home. He arrived last week
from Italy. He has been overseas
for thirty-one months and plans to
be in the city for thirty days.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
White Officer
From Mississippi
COnfOunds BilbO

WAOE11NG1ON,D -. y. (NNFA)
The attitude of at least one Mis-
sissippi Army officer toward Negro
soldiers was revealed in the column
washington Merry Go Round" by
Drew Pearson last week. The &C
count of a meeting of the Missis-
sippi delegation in Congress to well
come one of their States heroes
was reported as follows:
Members of the Mississippi Con-
gressional delegation met last
week to welcome one of their
States war heroes-Lieut. Van T.
Barfoot of Carthage, Miss, who
has been awarded the Medal of
Honor, the Silver Star, the Bronze
Star and the Purple Heart. A soft
spoken lad who had never been out
of Mississippi before entering the
Army, 1t. Barefoot fought with dis
tinctfon in Africa, Sicily, and Italy.
"a little embarrassed at being
surrounded by Congressman, Bar
foot told some of his experiences in
combat and tried to answer ques-
tons. One of them finally came
from Senator Theodore (The MANI
Bilbo on his favorite subject.
Lieutenant Bilbo asked, did
you have much trouble with Ne
groes over there?'
"Bilbo was set back on his heels
when the lieutenant drawled:
"'Mr. Senator, / found out after
l did some fightin' in this war the
colored boys fight just as good as
the white boys. have changed my
ideas a lot about colored people
since I got into this war, and so
have lot of other boys from the
South. We've found the colored
boys all right
Then Lieutenant Barefoot quiet
ly volunteered this information:
Coming up to Washington on
the train I went into the diner and
found it full. The waiter told me
I'd have to wait, but I could see,
behind a little curtain, a colored
Army captain sitting at table by
himself. I said, whats wrong
with that table ?" The steward told
me he didn't think I'd want to sit
with colored man, and said:
"'Why not? I've fought with
colored men-why shouldn't I eat
with 'em. I sat with that colored
captain and we had a fine chat
Senator Bilbo then launched
into long peroration about what
a great friend of the Negro race he
is, telling among other things how
he proposed transplanting Ameri-
can Negroes to Liberia.
"Not present at the Mississippi
meeting was Congressman John
Rankin"
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Boys Overseas
Praise Service
Club Here

CIuD here
The Halle @. Brown Service Club
received a letter from Cpl. Arthur
White, in the Southwest Pacific re-
Gently, stating that he would like
to hear from the following people:
Hascel Clemmons, Alone Cunning
ham and wife, Betty, Jesse Gardner
and "Joker" Jones. His address is,
Cpl. Arthur White, 372S3189, Hq.
Btry., TAI, A. A. A. CIR. Bn., APO
928, in care of postmaster, San
Francisco, Calf.
The club has heard from the fol-
lowing boys who have commended
them for the job they are doing
back home, Sgt. Cleat Oliver, Pfc.
Bill Cox, Sgt. Albert Gotten, Cpl.
Charles Bradley, Cpl. Dewey Hill,
S/Sgt. Phil Porter, Cpl. Harold
Rowland, Pvt. Norman Davis, 1t.
Reginald Harris, list Sgt. Chester
Oden, Pvt. John Lowe, Pvt. Charles
Latimer, M/Sgt. Noel Harris, T/5
Joseph Harris, 1t. Andrew Hawt-
shorne, Cpl. Middlecough, Cpl.
Frank M. Harris and M/Sgt. Lee
Harris.
They also received letters from
boys from other cities who have
kept up with their activities
through this newspaper. They are
S/Sgt. Howard Adkins, Pfc. Willie
Burson and M/Sgt. A. w. Price.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
G.L.POrter
Accepts Urban
League Post

According to reports received
here this week, G. L. Porter, a for
mer worker in the Athletic Depart
ment of Halle Q. Brown, now Ex-
ecutive Director of the Home Serv-
ice Association in Toronto, Canada,
has accepted a position as Urban
League executive secretary at Mas
silon, Ohio, and will report there
about February Is.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26
Herbert Foster
to Gruduute =
from Cretir1

Herbert Foster, GIG st. Anthony
Ave-, will graduate from Cretin
Military Academy Friday night at
8:15, Jan. 26.
While at the Academy, he held
the rank of Staff Sergeant. Dur
ing his freshman year there, he was
vice president of his class and was
president of his class in his junior
year.
Herbert is member of the Ma
tional Rifle Association. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Foster,
Sr,
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Pilgrim Homecoming
Friday, February %

The Social Action Committee of
Pilgrim Baptist church, St. Paul,
requests the presence of all faith
ers and sons, mothers and daugh-
tiers, at Pilgrim Homecoming Fri
day, Feb. %, at $3.50 p. m. at the
church, to enjoy a bean feed and
song fest. Movies, "The Boys in
Action" will be shown.
Major Samuel L. Ransome is
chairman; Pauline Martin, co-chair-
man; Rev. Floyd Massey, Jr., pas
tor.
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GLAD TO HAVE YOU!

Visitors to the office this week
included: Robert Webb, Void
Chamberlain, Cpl. Carl Wade,
Magnolia Sartin, Essie Mae Sartin,
Carl Green and Matthew Evans,
Minneapolis; Pvt. Mary Cook,
Fl. Lewis, Wash; Ella Workout,
Spokane, Wash; Il. S. Mefile and
Isaac Harper, Kansas City, Mo-,
and James Cook, st. Paul.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-26

100 iberal-minded congressman
and in aiding to defeat some of the
arch reactionaries such as Dies,
Starnes, Costello and company.
These persons have failed to take
into consideration the fact that the
vote of 2O7-1S6 by which the Ran
kin amendment was passed showed
the largest vote ever polled against
the Dies committee. 1t also marked
a significant splitting of the So
called Southern bloc. There were AZ
Southern Democrats who voted
against the Rankin proposal.
But all those facts are statistical
and hard to comprehend. Last week,
one of the real, tangible results of
the PAC activity was evidenced in
an Appropriations Subcommittee
hearing on the Independent Offices
Appropriations Bill.
Every year for the past eight or
ten, when the Federal Public Hous-
ing Authority (once called the
United States Housing Authority
came up for appropriations hear
ings, Rep. Joe Starnes (D) of Ala
bama would attack the race rela-
lions set-up in the FPHA. He had
staunch support on at least two
occasions from Rep. Richard B.
Wigglesworth (R) of Massachu-
sets.
Each year Negroes had to sit on
the anxious-seat waiting the out
come of Starnes' outbursts. 1t just
happens that the race-relations
office in FPHA has been one of the
most effective of these advisory
offices in the government. Though
the program has not been perfect
and has had few dark spots, the
high ratio of participation of Ne
groes in both occupancy and con-
struction has been due to the efforts
of that office first under DR.. Rob-
ert C. Weaver and for the past sew
eral years under DR.. Frank Horne.
Last week, the Appropriations
Subcommittee again was holding
hearings on FPHA. Philip M. Klutz-
nick, administrator of the FPHA
was called in to testify. In the
course of his remarks he indicated,
as a matter of course, that the ad
ministrative appropriation for the
executive offices included a certain
amount for an office of an admins
trative assistant in charge of race
relations.
Chairman Clifton A. Woodrum
(D) of Virginia put the next pro-
ceedings "off the record" They will
not appear in the printed report of
the hearings.
SIN view of the absence of our
former colleague, Mr.. Starnes, does
anyone want to raise any question
about this racial business?" he
asked.
There was a heavy silence.
Turning toward the Republican
members of the subcommittee,
among whom was Rep. Wiggles-
worth-a former teammate of
Starnes' on the issue-Woodrum
asked if any of them wished to
raise the question.
"No," was the answer.
Then Rep. Joe Hendricks CD of
Florida spoke up and said: "This
question has been raised every year
and you gentlemen have done moth
ing about it, so why bring it up 2"
And therein lies the story of a
PAC victory. No Starnes-no
storm. Wigglesworth, but no wor-
ry.
Definitely, this is a better Con-
gress. More power to it and to the
PAC.
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Ann Albright Speaks
to Duluth Teachers

Duluth, Minn.-Ann Colby AL
bright spoke to fifty teachers and
principals of Duluth public schools
last week on "The Negroes Contri-
button to American Culture"
The meeting was held at the Chill
dren's Museum there, which is
featuring Negro art from Jan. 10
through Jan. Fl.
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Annual
Meeting in Mpls.
Tuesday. Jan. 30

Lilace Reid Barnes, president Of
the Chicago Y. W. C. A. and mem
Der of the national board, will speak
at the annual meeting of the Min
neapolis Y. w. C. A. on Tuesday,
Jan. 80, at the Y. w. C. A. in
Benton Hall. A humorous skit de-
picting activities in the Y. W. G. A.
lobby, during the supper hour rush,
will be presented. Reservations for
dinner to be served at 6:15 must
be made by noon on Monday, Jan.
20.
A feature of the annual meeting
each year is the announcement of
the names of women elected to the
board of directors and nominating
committee. Mrs. W. D. Brown has
been reelected to the board to serve
until 1947. Her name appears on
the ballot for ratification. Mrs.
Cornelia Burns is candidate for
the nominating committee.
=
1t is expected that local Negro
women will assume a keener inter-
est in Y. w. C. A. activities since
the announcement recently of the
dropping of all racial bars prevent
ing full participation in Y. W. c. A.
activities.
This step was clearly explained
by the board to include use of the
swimming pool and admission to
swimming classes organized at the
Y. w. C. A. This has been a sore
spot with Negroes for some time
and Mrs. Brown, with the aid Of
other women, Negro and white, has
fought consistently for equal par
ticipation, particularly in the
swimming classes. Mrs. Brown
served for several years on the in
terracial committee before being
elected to the board, first to fill the
unexpired term of Mrs. Leo M. Bo-
hanon who resigned some time ago.
She has now been elected for full
term.
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Randolph Bldsts
NEGRO Anti-SemitisIn

NEW LUNA 1uS C1lChAAC0 Va
the Jews are the enemies of the
Negro" declared A. Philip Ran
dolph this week as he warned Ne
groes not to become "tools of anti
Semitism."
Commenting on an article called
"The Indigestible Jew" which ap-
peared in a Memphis, Tenn, Negro
publication, the president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers directed a scathing attack on
this brand of hate propaganda.
"Of all people, Negroes should
be the last to cast any aspersions
on another minority group, which
more often than not is the target
of the poison arrows aimed at US
as we'll. 1t is this consideration
which prompts me to write the fol-
lowing lines.
Anti-Semitism Enemy of
Democracy
Instead of the Negro becoming
a tool of anti-Semitism, he should
be the uncompromising foe of this
dread anti-social pestilence. be-
cause anti-Semitism is not only di-
rected against the Jews but it is
the enemy of democracy, liberalism,
and freedom which are the hope
of the Negro and all of the minori-
ties. -
eve must never forget the old
adage that, You'll reap what You
SOW Randolph warned. eff you
sow the wind you will reap the
whirlwind. If you sow the seeds of
hate propaganda against the Jews,
you will reap the hurricane of racial
discrimination. Moreover, Negroes
who are themselves the victims of
racial discrimination and prejudice,
as shown by lynch and mob law to
which we are subjected, should be
the last people on earth to be party
to any scheme to visit racial and
discrimination upon any other
people"
Randolph reminded the editors
of the anti-Semitic articles that the
establishment of rural schools for
Negroes throughout the South has
been carried on for years by the
foundation set up by julius Rosen-
valid.
julius ROsenwald Lauded
"Who was Mr.. Rosenwald? He
was Jew who believed in the pos
sibilities of growth and develop
ment of the Negro people. This
same Mr.. Rosenwald perhaps has
done more toward the establish
ment of Y.M.C.A.'s among Negroes
in this country than any other
American citizen. I am sure we
would not want to insult and hu-
initiate the group to which such a
man belongs.
"But even if there wasn't single
Jew who contributed one dime for
the education and advancement of
the Negro people," Randolph added,
PARTICLES such as the one in ques-
ton, which infame the populace
against our Jewish citizens, would
be Objectionable. I am sure every
enlightened Negro citizen will
agree with me in this position.
eve who are insisting that the
rights of the Negroes should be
respected in fact as well as in law
have a contribution to make to the
development of sound, constructive,
and just relationships among the
various groups comprising our ma
ton"