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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Spread of Infant Epidemic
RrinRs ID. e.. Emergency Act

WASHINGTON, ID. G. (NNPA)
Federal, municipal and private
hospital experts, called into confer
ence by the District Of Columbia
Health Department TO fight spread
of a diarrhea epidemic which hit
newborn infants at Freedmen's
Hospital last Friday, agreed that
all local hospitals handling ma
ternity cases must reduce the
period Of disqualification for normal
mothers and babies.
The emergency" measures were
agreed 10 after II was made clear
at the conference that maternity
wards throughout the city are over
crowded and short-handed, accord
ing TO Assistant Health Officer
Daniel Seekinger.
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North Carolina Bar Group
Hears Lynch Action Plea

WIN STO Ms a l. T. III, ~. y.
CNNPA) - Federal legislation TO
curb mob violence was advocated
by Assistant Attorney General
Theron Larma Caudle in an address
last Friday before the North Caro-
lima Bar Association.
Fan right-thinCing Americans
have felt shame at q series Of at
tacks and brutal occurrences di.
rected ut various persons reported
from certain troubled areas Of our
country" Mr.. Caulde said.
He gave no detailed discussions
Of recent Iynchings because he did
not want 10 ieopardize the success
of current Investigations, but he
stated:
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Nell Russell's
Worth Reudinq

Admittedly one Of the top
women columnists in America,
Nell DodSon Russell each week
gives readers Of this paper the
dope as she sees and believes.
Nell pulls no punches, protects
no sacred cows, and when she
winds up with her typewriter
she's bound TO write something
that'll cause comment.
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and HRllAn arrested him.
The following Monday In
municipal court, Ben peery, father
Of the boys, presented Carol 70
the court, and requested that both
boys be tried together. Carol
was permitted TO sit with his
mother during proceedings prior to
calling Of the case,
The senior Peery charges that
PatrOlmaR Baufleld saw Carol,
rushed back To where he was
sitting with his mother, and with
out any explanation took him 10
Jail where the boy was sent 10
the bull pen. PeeFy requested
that his son be released Into his
custody during the trial. and the
court granted the request.
After the stay Of sentence,
Howard Englund, attorney for the
brothers, asked q stay OF one week
In order 10 perfect an appeal he
thought advisable. II iR thought
an appeal will be made to n higher
court.
Douglas Hall, attorney. and
member Of Mayor Humphrey
Council on Human Relations, asked
permission 10 intervene as n friend
Of the court, and attempted TO show
that the brothers were not guilty
Of disorderly conduct, and Jonas
Schwartz, attorney, Of the board Of
the Minneapolis branch NAACP.
who asked 10 be allowed to make
a few remarks, stated that the boys
were arrested on the basis Of color
rather than for diSorderly conduct.
The court, in passing sentence,
ruled that Il was felt the brothers
resisted lawful authority, however
slight the resistance may have been,
and that such resistance could not
he tolerated.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06

Shifts Personnel
After notifying Mr.. Weaver 0i
the termination ~ his services, Mr.
Shepard dictated several orders
shifting personnel who had worked
In the office Of the first deputy re-
cOrder 10 other work In the re-
corder's office.
whether the dismissal Of MIR.
Weaver was an OutRTowth Of the
investigate into the office Of the
Recorder Of Deeds by the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation could NOT
be learned. The FIJI completed their
investigation In the Recorders Of.
Zee on August is, but continued
10 interview former employees.
As far as can be learned. II has
not been disclosed at whose instance
Attorney General Tom &. Clark
ordered the investigation covering
the conduct Of the office and OF
some employees. The office was
said 10 be about $4,000 papers In
arrears In recordings. When II was
turned over 20 Mr.. shepard tWa
years ago, II was said TO be less
than 500 papers behind.
Mr.. Weaver has been an en-
pl0yee Of the Recorders office for
eleven years. lie has worked In
various capacities from messenger
10 first deputy recorder. On DC.
tober 81, last, Mr.. Shepard gave
Mr.. Weaver n one grade promotion
for TnsTitOrOuS services, increasing
his salary from $3.50 10 1890.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
MAYOR FitEhugh Elected
Convention Comm. Chairman

WASHINGTON, d. c. (NNPA)
H. Naylor FitzhuRh, head Of the
Howard University School Of Com
merce, was elected temporary
chairman Of q citizens committee
which organized last Friday at the
Commerce Department 10 plan for
the entertainment Of persons At,
tending the national Negro bust.
ness conference 10 be held here
Oct. 1913.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Pre-Fdll Gospel
Recital MonduY
September 18th

Mollie Mae Gates, contrAlto Of
Chicago, H.. will be presented In
a pre-FaIl gospel recital, Monday
evening, Sept. 10, 8:l6 p. M, at
Camphor Memorial Methodist
church. Guest artists are Mae Edne
Cole, soprano, with Dorothy Green
at the piano. Don't miss this. Car
RE Spillman, sponsor; Rev. c. T. r.
Nelson, pastor.
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Free Tickets
For Mecklenburg
Address Available

Rev. George Meeklenburg, who
has lust made an extensive tour
Of Russia, England, France, Ger
many and other foreign countries,
win deliver q series Of three lee
lures on what he saw and heard
on his trip.
Admission 10 the lectures, which
win be given Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, IL free, but by ticket
Admission tickets can be secured
By readers Of this paper By calling
at this Newspaper Office, S14 Third
Ave. g., Minneapolis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Ninety.Year.OId Woman Dies

Jewell Walker, 90, died on Wed
nesday, Sept. I, at the UptegrovC
rest home, 1913 Fourth Ave. SO
Services were held at the Woodart
Funeral Home Chapel on Saturday
Sept. z, with Rev. II. p. Hawkins
officiating. lnterment was In
Crystal Lake cemetery.
She is survived by three nieces
Margery Hayes, Pauline johnson OF
Chicago. Marion Jeffreys Of Chi.
cago and Star Shepherd, great.
niece, and Edward +. johnson,
nephew.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06

progress, and the bill will be passed
IN another session Of Congress, )"
Mr., StRrkey declared.
Starkey. representative from the
fourth Congressional district Of
Minnesota, spoke on "The Church
and Labor" lie praised the social
creed Of the Methodist church for
lis liberal pronouncements on and
for labor.
Congressman Starkey was intro
duced by Frank Boyd, n presiden.
tial slector Of the Democratic
Farmer Labor party In l044. Mr..
Boyd lauded Starkey'a support Of
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Scholarship Winner
At Kenny Institute
Studies New Therapy

Marjorie Watkins McClRne Of
Boston. Mass, is now studying at
Kenny Institute in Minneapolis,
under u two.year scholarship in
demo-neuro muscular therapy.
A graduate Of Boston City hos
pital training school and Simmons
College Of Public Health In Bos-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Georgia Farmer Arrested
BY FBI on PeOnage Charge

ATLANTA (NNPAl -- Roswell
7. Biggers, stocky Go. year-old
farmer who once before was &C.
cuscd Of peOnAge, was arrested by
the FIJI, last Tuesday. on the same
charges.
II was alleged that he secured
the release Of Ave Negro laborers
from the Conyers (Georgia) jail
and held them a. poems on his
| ,00O-Rcre farm twenty miles east
Of here.
BlgHers was released under
$4,000 bond late last Tuesday, after
he waived n hearing before United
States Commissioner David J,
MeyerSArdt
Nelson PccFy Plea
For Another Trial
In Granted by Rounds
Nelson Peery, ST29 Fourth Ave.
So, was granted a new trial by
Judge John l.. Rounds In 81, Paul
municipal court after the Judge
took plea Of Peery's lawyer, Fran
els NJ, Smith, under advIAement,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06

Year ballet n yOWE weapon 70
Sight fer the rights u an the people
Ualeas yea vote y0a are not delnG
yOur part 20 sBeet people 70 0afbee
Who win project the Interests 81
the peopAe. Yea mnst regiIasR 10
vaas n you are . rssidsat whO has
movea nEn<s yes veas4 last - n
yea are q new resident 81 this city
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06

CaIIIot CONTINUE 10 nOIu DaCk
FEPC and other progressive legis-
lation In his iirEt term In Congress.
Boyd also praised Rev. Clarence
Nelson's work an secretary Of the
Minnesota Council for a Permanent
FEPC, which has sent several d.
gatlona TO Washington.
Herbert II. Ferguson, president
OF Local 1905, United Transport
Workers Of America, presided, and
the Camphor choir, directed by Y.
II, Monson, assistant director, sang.
The Rev. J. 3. Junnell gave the
prayer, and the bcnediction was by
the Rev. u, NJ. Moore.
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vIaITORs

Visitors In the Minneapolis Spokesman
office iRsiudsd Kathryn Mitchell DstT0it,
Mich, John Cannon, Montgomery, Ais.
TTaVia Wilson. $50 Fremont Ave, ~. Rev.
and AFs. w. v. Fisher ~ Evanston, ~.
Nrs. Minnie Lyis, Evanston. IN. and Mr.,
and hFa L. 7. Hunter ~ Boston. MSS,
Visitors n the ~. Paul offlssi Mar.
RusFtts Williams. gs7 W, Central Ave
Mrs. GsFtrUds Boldly. s57 ~, Anthony Ave.
PionssY Press Photo
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Marshall Shepard Firing
OF Weaver May Cause
Washington BOmbshell

WASHINGTON, ID. c. (NNPA).-The Rev, Marshall L.
Shepard Recorder of Deeds of the District Of Columbia last
Friday dismissed hisahrs deputy recorder Frederick
Weaver.
The dismissal effective at the close Of business August
IN ia likely In have repercussions Whether Mr. Weaver will
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06

II you are n new resident you
must register TO be able to vote
II you have moved since you last
voted you must register your new
address. Your ballot Ia one Of your
best weapons for full democracy,
Don't neglect II,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Charge Policeman Spoke
OF Georgia Background
On Arresting Brothers

Alvin and Carol Peery brothers, who live at 1929 Fourth
Ave So Minneapolis ordered to pay $1,000 fine or
spend endays the wOkhOuse and then had sentence for
dsorder conduct charges stayed for year by Judge Paul
J Iaroscak in municipal court Saturday, August 81
The Peery brothers were arrested on August l6 in
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
OKLAHOMA RITES HELD
FOR HOOKER JACKSON

Booker Jackson. 635 81. Anthony
Ave, died August 30. He was the
husband Of Mrs. Ora Jackson.
Services were Thursday, September
5, ut Cutherie, Okla. Brooks
funeral home was In charge Of ar
ranRements.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06

u. 8. lead mining produced 447,-
056 tons In 1912, 3S6,56l In l94b.
Storage batteries use the most, pig
ments and other chemicals are sec
ond. Type metal takes FIT per
cent Of the total.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
Tops With
CT Joes

The top column devoted 70
veterans and thsir problems APP
pearing In the American Negro
press today IL written by former
". 8. Army Captain James L.
Hicks.
Il appears regularly each week
on the editorial page Of this
newspaper. It's just one Of the
features that makes this paper
o weekly MUST.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-06
FEPC Bill Would Have
Passed IL It Had Been
Put to Vote Starkev Said

The bill for permanent FEPC would have passed the
House of Representatives the 10th of Congress had
II been put to vote asserted Congressman Frank Sary In
an address ut Camphor Memorial Methodist church. Sunday
evening. ' '
"a handful Of wfu men cannot continue 10 hnlh hark
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8. Ed Hail Back
At Business

s. Ed Hall, Sc. Paul businessman,
who spent . few days in 81.
JOseph's hospital recently. IL back
at his place Of business for half
days
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16
Community Chest Drive

The Community Chest has been so
widely publicized by the press and radio
that the people of this community are
familiar with the reasons for and OBJ
jectives of the campaign. It remains
only to add that any failure to meet
the goal inevitably must mean that one
or another of the institutions that look
to the Chest for operating expenses
would have either to suspend activities
or greatly curtail them. Either way,
Wilmington would fail to meet a definite
obligation.
The amount of money set up as need
ed was determined only after close ex-
animation of the essential budget of
each organization in the Chest circle.
Because there are no flexible margins
for any, each appropriation is figured
on known requirements, there can be
no reductions without imposing heavy
h%andlcaps. 1t is essential that subscrip-
lions shall total $106,204.
Wilmingtonians have v failed to
support the Community Chest literally.
They certainly will not fail to do so this
year, as literally as in the past.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16
Public Support Not Restraint Will
Determine Responsibility OF Press

BOSTON,, Oct. 15-U.H-Arthur
Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the
New York Times, said Monday
that public support and not re-
straints must determine whether
newspapers accept their response
bilities under press freedom.
Sulzberger told the Boston con-
ference of distribution that laws
which would deprive one news
paper of the chance to be foolish
would deprive others of the chance
10 be wise"
= He said that faith in the dis
ciplines of our free enterprise
SYSTEM rather than punitive
measures, was the remedy against
irresponsible newspapers if a
free press is to be maintained
unimpaired
He emphasized that when a nat
ions press falls it is too late for
democracy to escape" adding
that through a free press can IAN
entire community be made aware
of the abuses imposed on parts
of it."
Sulzberger said that critics of
the press who AROSE to denounce
American journalism during the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16
STAR Dust
Long End Joe

80
Joseph Jefferson, distinguished
alike for acting and for squeezing
the last possible penny from a
theatrical venture, was regarded
with respect and awe by all Of his
co-workers except a certain plain
spoken, irascible property man
named Bagley. In all the thirty
years Bagley worked for the cele-
brated actor he never called him
anything but Joey" He wouldn't
bow to his boss.
One day, on the eve of an i'm
portant opening, Jefferson lost his
patience and fired the man. Bag
lev got gloriously, drunk, and the
following night paid his way to,
the gallery to e his former en-
ployer present RIP Wan Winkle."
The angry frau had just driven
poor, destitute Rip from the cot
tage when Rip turns and, with a
world of pathos, asks, Den haf l
no interest in dis house," The
theatre was deathly still, the audi
ence half in tears, when out of the
upper darkness the j%eering voice
of Bagley replied: "Only eighty
per cent, Joey-only eighty per
cent?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16

purpose of the late President
Roosevelt nor was it the objective
Of (former) secretary Ickes," he
said.
1 am persuaded, however,
that whatever the conscious motive
involved, whether an earnest de-
sire to dicipline the press into
more adequate discharge of its
responsibilities, or a strictly po-
litical impulse to diminish the eff
fectiveness of the opposition, these
attacks collectively and in total
constituted a serious threat to
press freedom in this country"
He said the persistent under
mining of public confidence in a
privately owned press ultimately
would only inspire efforts at
restricting the real or imagined
abuses through restraining laws
or through alternative forms of
ownership jeopardizing free ex-
preston"
He cited the suspensions of press
freedom in Fascist Italy, Spain,
Russia and Nazi Germany as
examples of the expiration of other
freedoms with the elimination of
freedom of expression.
The last vestges of press free
dom in Germany were extinguish-
ed in 1885, he recalled, and with the
free press out of the way 1.-The
Nazis removed the last obstacle
to a complete subjugation of the
people and eliminating of all free
doms." 4t
Sulzberger described irresponsi-
BILE newspapers as 'hitch-hikers Or
free fares who refuse to discharge
their burden of the debt a re-
sponsible press assumes 'for the
rights it is given"
THE people have the power
under u system to perpetuate
the papers of their choice" he
said. Theirs is the chance to
decide into what publishing hands
they will put the agency of their
press freedom. They can give and
they can take away"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16
Doctor Says
GUARD AGAINST
MENINGITIS NOV
BY WILLIAM A. O'BRIFN NJ

ny WILLIAM "A. o'BRIEN, Mn
Communities which experier..I
outbreaks Of meningococcic men''
gifts inflammation of brain coraa
ings) in the late winter and sn,i"
may have a flareup this fal, 49,.
complete freedom from the di,a.s
during the summer.
Meningococcic meningitis a.,
to develop in young men dn.iN'
wartime. Since fewer men ara
in service, health authorizes Nv.
6ict that the outbreaks will b. ~
frequent this year.
Meningococcic meningitis ,,-i,.
suddenly, severe headache. ,ja''
stomach, fever, and stiff neck W" ~
ing the first symptoms. In sevas'
cases, the bacteria may pet inv
the blood and cause r,.'
@: small hemorrhages in the skin
Although meningococcic rs,
nights may occur in isolated ca,s.
it is customary for the disease :,
develop in epidemics.
The incubation period for ma,
ingococcic meningitis is about M,
week.
The disease is spread by health,
"carriers'' who harbor the uer..
in their throat. When such person.
come into direct contact with sn,,
ceptible individuals, thew ca,
spread the infection through ta
air in the form CT a droplet sursv
Attendants Of persons sick with
this disease often contract it,
The diagnosis OF meningococci,
meningitis is made from symptom,
and signs of infection and from
the presence of an epidemic
1t is fortunate that the majority
of people are resistant to the men.
ingococcus which causes this sps.
cial form of meningitis, for the d.
sease is highly fatal when ntrest.
ed. In reported outbreaks in the
past, from 20 TO 10 per cent o. The
victims have died from the intec.
ton.
The first Improvement in the
outlook for patients with meningo.
coccic meningitis came with The
development of a serum to conba.
the infection.
Later, it was found that III.
sulfa drugs were ideal in treating
this condition, and Thousands Of
lives have been saved by this
treatment. Furthermore, the suHa
drugs have proven Of value in
eradicating germs from carriers.
thus preventing the spread Of in.
lection to others.
Penicillin is also used in this
disease, with good results.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY

/ One of these days when hote.
space is a little o plentiful,
it is quite likely that national
championship tournament will be
Mark, a membr Of the executive
held in Columbus, O. DR.. Louis
committee of the American Con-
tract Bridge League, who has long
: been associated with bridge activi-
ties in Columbus, has extended an
invitation to the national tourna-
ment year after year in behalf OF
the Columbu; unit of the League.
Dr. Mark plays in the world
championship. Masters Individual
tournament every year and usu-
ally wins first or second in at
least one of the Sc 5sions. He felt
pretty good when he made three
no-trump doubled on today's hand,
and it does look as if South should
beat the contract.
When the dummy went down
Doc" decided that South did not
have four spades, or he would
have opened the bidding with a
spade rather than a heart. He also
thought that South propably hac
all of the mi ssing high cards in
order to double.
He won the opening spade lead
with the ace, cashed the ace of
clubs and led the small club which
South Won with the king, return
ing the jack of spades, which was
allowed to win. The ten of spade
was won in dummy and now DR..
Mark cashed all of dummy's clubs,
discarding two hearts ard two dia-
monds from his own hand.
South barred down to the king
queen of hearts and ace-queen of
diamonds so Doc" cashed the
ace of hearts and threw South the
lead with another heart. South
cashed the ace of diamonds but
his queen fell to the king.
DOS" thought he might have
made four-odd if he had won the
second spade trick, but he was
playing a doubled contract which
was bound to give him a good
score if made. To take the
chance that South might have a
small spade could easily prove
disastrous.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16

Itention toward wage, price and material
control.
Labor, management and the public
might bring the best will in the world
to the problem of ending the OF
strikes, getting production going and
hating the inflationary spiral. But they
could not hope for much success without
at least a general idea of what and how
much the government plans to do, and
when.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-16
Meat Control Off

Federal control of meat prices is a
thing of the past. But to find butcher
shops with ample supplies of choice cuts
now or in the zeal future would be a
miracle. The meat industry has been
too greatly disturbed since the OPA
was revived to resume normal opera
ton overnight. Furthermore, while
there is plenty of beef and pork on the
hoof, the great majority of available
steers and hogs are underweight.
But it is something that private en-
terprise is to take wei where the gov
eminent has failed and through the
workings of the reliable law of supply
and demand, will ultimately fill refrig-
orator rooms and display cases in
butcher shops with meat at fair prices.
It is to be expected that prices will re-
main high, even go higher, for a time.
but in the end strike a level without
excessive profits such as black market
dealers have been making.
Mr.. Truman's proposal to open the
Mexican frontier for importation of cat
tie might be helpful, provided there is
a large supply of cattle south of the
border now ready for slaughtering.
Mexico produces millions of steers but
for the most part they are scrawny ami
mails with little meat on their ribs.
There is another phase of the meat
situation directly connected with the
forthcoming congressional elections.
Naturally the republicans are making
the most of the presidential removal
of price controls. In Washington they
are saying Mr.. Truman waited to close
the price control barn door until the
horse had been sent to the butcher. They
claim the Chief Executives action is
proof of the administrations ineffici-
ency, that the meat shortage is direct
ly chargeable to it's bungling-that if
they had been in power the problem
of providing meat for the American
population would have been solved long
ago. On the other hand the democrats
are equally positive that if the opposi-
ton had not set itself to wrecking the
administrations control program but
had c%ooperated instead there would have
been no problem at all, but plenty of
meat for everybody all the time.
The two parties are poles apart on
IOPA and price controls. The decision
at the polls in November will not deter
mine which is correct. But it will show
which has the greater influence in the
country at large.