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Evening star., 1946-02-11

The Chief Executive and Mrs
Truman were the honor guests at a
reception yesterday afternoon at the
Congressional Club. The hours
were from until o'clock and they
arrived promptly and stayed until
shortly before the closing hour.
When you are invited to a party
at the Congressional-don't miss it.
You will find the top hospitality of
every State in the Union thrown
together to assure you pleasant
time. The members-wives of men,
bers of the Senate and Lower House
take great pride in their clubhouse
and justly so. Parties there are
not just another club event. Each
and every member does her share to
make the guests feel at home.
Yesterdays reception was real
family affair. The guests were lin
tied to members and their husbands
with no substitutions for hus-
bands. Mrs. Truman has been q
member of the club for some time
dates back to the time when her
husband first took his place in the
Senate.
Yesterday, like all the other men,
bers, she particularly was calling to
attention the newly decorated room
on the lower floor of the building
The clubhouse has been redecorated
throughout, but this room is some
thing very special. Inspired by Mrs
Joseph R. Harrington, wife of the
delegate from Hawaii, it is to be
known as the Hawaiian room. The
furniture has not arrived, but the
setting is perfection itself. Soft
green rugs pick up the color of the
green design in the draperies and
great Monstera Delicos grow in at
tractive urns. The drapery design
was taken from these unusual plants
from Hawaii.
President Truman seemed as in
terested in the room as his wife for
when he was leaving he stopped
with her to add his praise to Mrs
Harold H. Burton, president of the
club and wife of Associate Justice
Burton.
The Marine Band Orchestra played
Hail to the Chief" when the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Truman arrived in
the drawing room of the club.
Mrs. Burton headed the receiving
line and presented the guests to the
honor guests. She was wearing a
f1oor-length white crepe gown with
gold trim. Mrs. Truman also was in
a f1oor-length gown. Her dress was
of black crepe, two-piece model,
the short jacket trimmed with gold
nail heads, and she wore cluster of
stephanotis, gift of the club.
Standing next to the president was
Associate Justice Burton and also
receiving were the officers of the
club and their husbands, including
Representative and Mrs. Emmett
O'Neal of Kentucky, Representative
and Mrs. w. Sterling Cole of New
York, Representative and Mrs. ].
Buell. Snyder, the Secretary of Ag-
riculture and Mrs. Clinton P. An
derson of New Mexico, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Frank A. Barrett
of Wyoming and Representative
and Mrs. Thomas E. Martin of
Iowa. Mrs. Robert L. Skies OF
Florida, who is recording secretary
and Mrs. Everett M. Dirksen of
Illinois, the treasurer, were express
ing their regret that their husbands
were unable to be with them to help
welcome the company.
The receiving line made an attrac-
tive picture with the ladies all
wearing afternoon gowns that
Evening star., 1946-02-11
Returns fOCifv

Senor Rafael A. Espaillat, who
served as Minister Counselor at the
Dominican Embassy here in 1943
and 1914, has returned to Washing
ton in the same post. Sonora de
Espaillat IS expected to join him
soon.
Evening star., 1946-02-11
H0usekeebers to Meei

The National Executive House.
keepers Association will meet to-
morrow evening at the Statler Hotel.
Mrs. Catherine Witherill, execu-
tive housekeeper of the Mayf1ower
Hotel and president of the District
chapter, will preside.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

venile court
Those persons who were asked b
participate In the meeting at Phyla
lie Wheatley included:
Mrs. Cornelia Burns, president
Of American Legion Auxiliary
Percy Hughes, commandment, AM
erican Legion, Johnnie Baker pont1
Cecil Taylor, exalted ruler, Aman
Lodge No. LOG, IBp.o.E. 81 W.,
w. B. Walker, president, Associat.
cd Negro Credit Union; Albert
Allen, Jr., Minneapolis branch, Nss
tional Association FOR Advance
ment Of Colored Persons; J n.
Wardlaw, executive secretary, Min
neapolis Urban society Mrs. Helom
Smith, vice president, Minneapolis
Urban League auxiliary; Theodore
Woodland, Phyllis Wheakley auxiii-
aryI the Rev. H. G. Boyd, pastor,
st. Peter A. ~. II. church; the Rev.
L. r. Ashford, pastor, Waynnan
A. M. e. church, and che Rev.
Henry Botts, pastor, Zion Baptist
church.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Hotel st. Paul
On Trial for
Alleged Bias

Two st. Paul hotel employees
who testified that Elijah Downing,
student at Lincoln University, JEFF
ferson City, NO., and Ernest Potts,
Jr., 619 st, Anthony Ave-, st. Paul,
were intoxicated on the night Of
July Is when they yere allegedly
refused admission to the grill Of
the hotel grill, couldn't give any
proof Of their charge In Ramsey
County district court Tuesday, ex-
cept that the young men in their
opinion appeared" to be 50.
Testifying before a jury In Potts
discrimination suit against the ST.
Paul hotel were: Roland Sheadle,
managing director Of the hotel;
Frank BelliEEi, resident manager;
Floyd Carey, house officer, and
Gustav Venaas, assistant manager
Of the hotel grin from which Potts
and Downing were allegedly barred
from entering after being told by
Cerey they were not wanted.
Sheadle and Bellizzi both said
they were not present at the time
the incident occurred, but Sheadlc
said Il was not the policy Of the
Hotel st. Paul TO discriminate
against any patron or guest.
The other two hotel employees,
after testifying that Potts ant
Downing looked intoxicated, when
eross-examined by Attorney How
ard Hanson, and asked to give "ae.
tons or indications" could not pro-
duce evidence TO back up their
statements. They denied telling the
men they were not wanted.
A rebuttal witness, Edward Car
acof, bartender at the Lowry hotel
where Potts and Downing had been
served before going 10 the st. Paul
grill, testified that both men were
sober and behaved properly in the
IS minutes they spent at the Lowry
bar. The case was heard before
Judge John Boerner.
Concluding arguments in the
case were heard on Thursday, but
the verdict was expected TO come
after press deadline for the Spokes-
man-Recorder papers.
Downing, who returned here from
Lincoln University for the trial,
will 60 back to school Immediately
following the verdict
The Hotel st. Paul has been &C.
cused Of discrimination by Negro
citizens for years. This case is the
first time the hostelry has faced
charges.
County Attorney James Lynch
took prompt action In the present
case when the NAACP and the st,
Paul Council on Human Relations
notified him Of the alleged dis.
elimination.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

court action growing out Of the in
famous so-called Columbia ''riot"
If last February 25th.
DR.. Leon Ransom, former Dean
Of the Howard University Law
School, discussing further NAA-
CP plans in connection with in
dictments still pending against
the Negro defendants stated,
am q bit concerned over ex-
pEessiOns Of iubilatiOn over the
Lawreneeburg verdict. I'm afraid
that many people are Of the Opin-
ion that this case Is finished and
nothing could be farther from the
truth. There are still two Negro
defendants TO be tried under the
same indictment. They are Will
liam Pillow and Lloyd Kennedy
and they're charged with attempt
to commit murder in the first de-
gree. They were separated from
the main body of defendants
through q teehnieality. In addi-
ton to this pending action all Of
the men acquitted in Lawrence
burg must stand trial again on
other indictments, one Of them
being assault with attempt to kill.
The penalty for this Is exactly
the same as on the first indict-
ment. We also intend to appeal
the convictions of Gentry and Me-
Ribbon, the two youths, both vet
Grams, who were found guilty in
Lawrenceburg."
Oliver Harrington, NAACP
public relations counsel, who sat
as an observer during the major
portion of the trial In Lawrence
burg, speaking in New York, ex-
pressed concern over some public
and press reaction to the Lawr-
enceburg decision. although the
decision acquitting % Of the IS
innocent Negroes was a moment
Gus one there is no cause for re-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18


In an address on veterans service
day at the Shiloh Baptist Church,
Mr.. Ray advocated "selective utili-
cation" Of colored men.
Under present War Department
policy, which, by orders of the Sec
rotary Of War, must have been
submitted to him for his concur
renee or comment, the Army will
accept for voluntary enlistments
only colored men who possess high
school diplomas while 1t accepts
white men with less education.
"a high school education is the
equivalent Of a score Of ninety
nine on an Army General Classifi-
cation test. White men are accepted
with a minimum score Of seventy
Mr.. Ray said race relations
advisers In government not only
have lacked . universal popular.
ity but they have been targets
for salvOS fred both from within
and without their departments"
He said they are criticized within
the agency where they are en-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Attorney General Urges
Lawyers to End Violence

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA).
Attorney General Tom C. Clark
has urged the lawyers of the coun-
try to do all within their power
to suppress mob violence and bring
the perpetrators to justice.
In a letter to the presidents Of
the American Bar Association, the
National Lawyers Guild and State
bar associations, made public by
the Justice Department last Friday,
Mr.. Clark said that lawyers "can
do much to bring to an end these
cancerous outbreaks" and that by
doing so they will render a price
less service. .-.
Mr.. Clark disclosed that he plans
to ask the next Congress TO revise
the civil rights statutes to give the
federal government power to deal
with mob violence. He considers
the present civil rights laws in
adequate.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Mixed Racial Delegation
OF Southern Vets Surprises

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA).
The novelty of mixed delegation
from the deep South in the interest
of veterans housing amazed govern
ment officials with whom they con-
ferred last Wednesday and Thurs
day.
The delegation, which came from
Miami, Florida, consisted Of DR.. Ira
P. Davis, commander Of the elev-
enth district, American Legion, de-
partment of Florida; L. G. Blackus,
assistant state service officer; Max
Newman, chairman of the associ-
ated veterans organizations; Sam
DeVinson, the state adjutant Of the
American Veterans Of World War
II; ]. X. williams, judge advocate,
American Legion, Department Of
Florida; Nathan Liss, chairman Of
the materials and salvage COM
mittee of the Harvey Seeds Post,
American Legion and Allen Sim
mon, executive secretary Of the
Mayors Committee on Veterans
Housing. All of the delegation, ex-
cept the first two named, were
white.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

plOyed because they are critical
Of the performaney Of the agency,
and are criticized on the outside
because Of unsatisfactory opera.
tions in the racial held.
Despite his convictions that racial
quotas are discriminatory and basil
cally unsound as to efficient man.
power utilization, Mr.. Ray said he
was faced with the acceptance Of
certain facts and no amount Of
wishful thinking will make them
other than true" He added that
there are certain racial theories to
which a majority Of white Ameri-
cans subscribe.
Assuming that the racial quota
Of 10 per cent imposed as q ceiling
on colored personnel II irrevocable.
he said he thought that colored
people "are obligated by racial in
terest to insure to the Army Negro
representation which can be fitted
into the mission Of the postwar e.
Enlistment"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
GALLUP POLL AND POLITICAL
ADVICE TO NEGROES
Charley Cherokee in The Chicago Defender

Charley Cherokee in The Chicago Defender
The Gallup Poll November Congressional
Elections Russia prices strikes housing, shortages
and veterans Now chum hate to keep reminding brother
Gallup about and that he ougha poll few Negroes We
merely remind him that The Wall
in for
Negroes elected Roosevelt and the Dems in 1914
Negroes amt half dumb they try look when they
wait on white folks They those front headinesU
U. Fascsm Increase" they what happened Hal
ckes and Hank Wallace when they put seespct above
party They the Northern pledged party
the Southern DEEMS pledged prejudice and COPS
pledged to reaction
They know votes Of the Veterans of Jews and of Negroes
than pull with butcher. They know that
little mans hope to elect decent liberal regardless
of their party ticket.
And what remind them Of here is- the wrong
it won't be because the reaconares
win be because the lazy Indifferent liberals stayed home and
didn't vote. Now get the hell out and get busy.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Mrs. Mary Clement,
Mother of 1916"
TOSpeak Here

The social action COMMITTEES Of
Pilgrim Baptist church Ia bringing
to 81. Paul on December ~, Mrs.
Mary Clement, Of Louisville, KY.
the "American Mother for 1896" Il
was announced this week.
The committee met Sunday, Octo-
Der Is, at 8 pm, at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. 4. ID. Moore, go
IRlehart Ave-, TO make plans for
Mrs. Clements appearance here,
the first Of q series Of outstanding
speaking engagements planned by
the group.
Samuel L. Ransom Is chairman
Of the social action committee.
Those present at the meeting were:
the Rev. Floyd Massey, Jr.; Mr..
and Mrs. 8. L. Ransom; the Mes
danes George Wills, Hattie Hall,
Theresa Herring, Leila Jaekons,
Luella Brown and James Murray;
Benjamin Taylor, and Mrs. N. J..
Hunter.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Aoron Pryor. Cleored
In Jackson Stubbinq
BY Jury Verdict

Exonerated by q Ramsey County
Grand Jury Of the staying Of Morris
jackson, "a years old, August 10,
ut the home Of Mrs. Theresa Her.
ring, 76S Carroll Ave-, Aaron Pryor,
"a, 1856 81. Anthony Ave-, was q
free man this week.
Pryor, who claimed he stabbed
Jackson In self defense altar an
argument over Mrs. HerFing's az
fections, heard the jury return q
no bill In the case.
Meanwhile, Il was learned that
Mrs. Herring and her husband,
Arthur Herring, had received Anal
divorce papara.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

nineteen hospitals since the last
survey, some Of which were turned
over to the VA by the Army and
Navy.
While the present report does
not indicate either an extension or
a lessening Of segregation in VA
installations, actually the VA has
extended segregation in som Q
places. ----s---s
In Army and Navy hospitals
servieemen are not segregated by
race, but when the VA takes
over such q facility from the
Army II Immediately organizes
the hospital according to the
pattern Of the community"
The servicemen in the hospitals
are discharged and become veterans
under a blanket order. Negro vet
Grams are Immediately moved to fin
Gro wards II the hospital Is located
in the south. This had happened in
more than one instance.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

IL leading north side groups.
Seeking TO increase Negro mem.
bership, the council Ia building its
membership 10 pursue It's three
main detectives:
sSponsor and expand the Jor-
dan junior high school community
center.
. Fight Eumors with a council
committee that win investigate all
reports Of race and religious ten
sion, and bring participants to-
gether to effect n peaceful settle
ment.
Promote enthusiasm and sup
port for Mayor Hubert Humphreys
self-survey committee.
In the past, the council has sup
ported the extension Of the park
boards north side activities; Joined
with other north aide agencies IN
fighting the installation Of liquor
stores In the community; worked
for o wider use Of school buildings
and Fairgrounds &C night and dur
ing holidays, and assisted In estab-
fishing q parent education course
under the supervision Of the ju-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

Friday.
OF the 4,S79 veterans hospital.
lied under jim Gro conditions in
twenty-one VA hospitals located IN
sixteen states and the District Of
Columbia, 2,040 were being treated
at the all-colored hospital at Tua-
kegee, Alabama, the report dis
closed.
The twelve VA hospitals known
70 refuse admittance to Negro
veterans except In emergencies
are located at Legion. Texas; Out
wood, Kentucky; Augusta, GeOr-
gia, GRlfpOFt, Mississippi; Lex
ingt0n, Kentucky; Tuscaloosa,
Alabama; Amarillo, Texas; BIZ
lOxi, Mississippi; Fayetteville,
Arkansas; Montgomery, Ala
hama; Reno, Nevada, and ATTAIN
In, Georgia.
Although the twenty-one h0spi-
tails admitting eolored veterans un-
der segregated conditions provide
facilities for veterans in sixteen
states and the District Of Columbia,
at present only S04 beds are un-
occupied and available to additional
colored veterans seeking hospitali-
cation In those states. Two hundred
sixteen Of these unoecupied beds
are at Tuskegee.
Under present VA policies
when q Negro veteran applies at
q hospital having segregated fs-
eilities and no bed Ii available
on the segregated ward he In
placed on q waiting list" and
hoSpitaliEed only when q bed be-
comes vacant on that ward.
Last year a similar study Of nine
ty-seven VA hospitals showed that
twenty-fouF VA hospitals placed
Negro veterans on separate wards,
while fifteen denied them admission
entirely except in cases Of emery
ency. The VA has added q total Of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Attorneys Say They VIII
Continue Recruitment Fight

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA).
Charles II. Houston and Joseph
c. Waddy. attorneys, who forced
the War Department to modify its
suspension Of voluntary enlistments
Of colored men, declared last Satur-
day that they will continue their
fight to get colored men the right
to enlist in the Army on the same
basis as white men.
ut is our information that the
War Department does not require
a high school education or its equiv
alent for white recruits" they
said. Therefore, the fight to get
Negroes the right to enlist on the
same basis as white men goes on.
Likewise the fight to remove racial
quotas under Selective Service
calls"
They said they also intend to
fight for Indignation Of Negroes in
the National Guard in all states.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Five Men are Indicted
For Death of Farmer

LEXINGTON, Miss. (NNPA)-
Five white men have been indicted
for manslaughter in connection with
the fogging death last July of Leon
McAttee, IS years old, q tenant
former whose body was found in
a bayou.
Their indictments by q Holmes
County grand jury were revealed
last Wednesday as Sheriff W. l..
Murtagh stated that manslaughter
warrants had been sworn out for
their arrest.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Secretary Of Commerce
To Address Business Meet

WASHINGTON, D. G. (NNPA).
Secretary Of Commerce W. Aver
ell Hartman will address the mass
meeting in the Departmental Audi
torium opening the second annual
conference on the Negro in buSi-
ness, the Commerce Department an
nounced last Friday.
At the same time, Emmer Martin
Lancaster, special adviser 10 the
Secretary Of Commerce, said that
Morgan, West Virginia and Vir-
ginia State Colleges and Lincoln
University (PsnnsylvaniR) would
send the entire faculties and stu
dent bodies Of their business schools
TO participate in the conference
which will continue through Satur-
day,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Two Injured In
Auto Collision
With Street Car

A street car collision with an
auto driven by Mrs. Yvonne Jones,
1888 Hiawatha Ave-, caused In
juries to Mrs. Jones and her passen-
ger Mrs. Leila Thomas, 29eO Port
land Ave.
Mrs. Jones suffered injuries TO
her shoulder and Mrs. Thomas o
sprained ankle and bruises.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
AL. Convention
Defeats Attempt
To Suspend RSCP

ChicaG0---An aetaEnpG 70 neMM1e
pede the AFL convention into naa@
pending the strong Brotherhood az
sleeping Car pcrterR from thu
AL failed hare Oct. IL on the Bi1th
day Of the convention.
Tbs fight on the BSCP was le8
BY AL railway employees wh0
claimed che poFters have been CO.
ganiEing Pullman yard and terRMAs
nal employees.
A. Philip Randolph, portaEs pr@sls
dent, excoriated the COMMITTEES pre-
posal for suspension ns q strange
proceeding" charging the eoEnmlts
tee chairman, Felix Knight, wikA
having been Chairman, Judge ard
prosecutor
Knight q an AL vice preuldsas
of the Brothsrhocd Of Railway CaE~
men, one Of the unions In diEpmtB
with the porters.
John p. Burke, delegate from tha
Pulp, Sulphita and Paper min work
0rs, led the fight against tia eoHAp
mittee report.
1--WE suspended the bfewaE1
workers, and where are thay o.
day" he demanded. ''They are m
the CI0,S he said. Lets not foFs
get another powerful organiGmtie1
Is waiting 70 take In any Of onF
unions"
Burke also asserted suspsnaiom
Of the porters would be "a FnoTnaA
for the Communist press" and
claimed "damnable propaganda 10
being spread among colored work
ers by Communism 10 the effect
the AL Is anti-Negro, resulting
In loss by the ALL Of many bar
gaining elections In the south.
The convention also voted for In
creased Unemployment compensa-
ton payments, the 66-cent MINI
mum wage, abolition Of the south
ern poll tax and Of enactment al
an anti-lynching law.
Chicago.--A group Of pullmmn
porters have organized q CLIO com
mittee. The group claims 70 have
enrolled l,200 members who arc
dissatisfied with the present Inter-
national Brotherhood Of Sleeping
Car Portsrs.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
HASTE Asks Government
To Operate Two Hotels

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA).
- Governor William H. HASTE,
through the Interior Department,
has asked Government Services,
Inc, to take over and operate two
hotels in the Virgin Islands, it was
learned last Thursday.
Government Services, Inc, is q
non-profit corporation which oper-
ates most Of the cafeterias and
other installations in government
buildings here. A spokesman for
the firm admitted last Thursday
that such a request had been made
but said no decision had yet been
reached In the matter.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

jOicing over a new and Demo-
cratic South" declared MIR. Har.
ringtOn. Editorials In many
fairly liberal newspapers express
complete satisfaction over the
trial and the decision. They even
imply that the south can handle
its own problems If left alone.
Nothing Is farther from the
truth. These innocent men were
acquitted after the southern court
discovered that Americans in
other parts of the country simply
demanded justice. The appear
ance Of a host of correspondents
from both the Negro and white
press In the court room drove this
fact home to the court. Further
more, If the Columbia defendants
were innocent Of the states
charges then the state IL guilty
Of having allowed Lynn BOmar's
troopers to beat and even kin
innocent citizens thus depriving
them of their civil rights. There
has been no mention made Of
this fact in the editorials I've
read"
C.B. Baldwin, executive vice chair.
man Of CIo-PAC in a letter to
the New York Times stated: -.
Those of US who have studied the
race tensions in the South realize
that yaal dannoFrnnv will mot cnVna
to that section of the country over
night. Yet this does not mean that
we can let up one whit in our eff
forts to hasten that day, or in the
condone decisions such
as this one and praise approx
mate justice Does Southern
justice meet its test when it places
on trial-the victims-the Negroes
and is unwilling to place in sim
liar jeopardy the aggressors-in
this case members Of the white
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Boxers Back
On Page 6 With
Her Weekly Chnt

Each columnist of this
paper (the boss says we
have too many of them) has
a large following. Villa
Booker, the Minnesota girl
from Paola, Kansas, is back
in her accustomed place on
page 6 this week.
Fans of This Is It" will
no doubt be glad to welcome
Booker back home to Min
nesota.