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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
HOusemaid Slayer Receives
Fourth Stay of Execution

HARRISBURG, Pa. (NNPAl.-
Corrine Sykes, 22-year-old Phila-
delphia housemaid who was SEIZED
uled to die in the electric chair
this week for the murder Of Mrs.
Freda Wodlinger, won her fourth
reprieve last Friday.
Governor Edward Martin stayed
her electrocution to the week OF
October ID.
The postponement was granted
he said, "for the purpose Of further
study by the State Board of Par
dons of the report Of psychiatrists
and for the purpose Of considering
alleged after-discovered evidence.
He disclosed for the first time
the names of three psychiatrists
who examined the convicted muir.
deress. They are: DR.. Arthur p
Noyes, superintendent of Norris
town State Hospital; DR.. John l,
Wiseman, superintendent of the
Torrance State Hospital, and DR.,
Hiding Beings, director of the State
Bureau of Mental Health.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04

CORONADO, Calf. (NNPA) ~
A second effort to assure Negro
lawyers of the privilege of mem
bership in bar associations in Cali
fornia failed at the annual con-
vention of the State Bar of Cah-
fornia last Wednesday.
A resolution sponsored by the
San Francisco chapter of the Ma
tional Lawyers Guild providing
that the convention should not seat
bar groups denying membership
to legally recognized Negro attor-
neys was defeated on a voice vote.
The resolution was aimed par
ticularly at the Los Angeles Bar
Association, whose 1900 members
have been eontesting the issue, on
which opponents Of admission Of
Negro lawyers have prevailed.
A. l.. Wirin, Los Angeles coun-
sci of the Civil Liberties Union,
declared that the granting of fun
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04

Park Board, the Extension Division
Of the University of Minnesota, the
Minneapolis Public Library, the
Community Councils, the Bryant
Junior Parent Teachers Association,
the Council of Parent Teachers
Associations and the Junior Asso-
citation Of Commerce.
Included in the schedule Of ac-
tiyities 20 per cent Of the adults
in the district wish to take part in
are: home planning and landscap-
ing, interior decorating, sewing,
Spanish, nursing and millinery;
shops and laboratories which offer
art metal and plastics, gardening,
knitting, photography, and short
hand; forum discussion groups on
current events, foreign and do
nestle relations and intercultural
relations; informal community
groups in community orchestra,
folk and old time dancing, modern
dancing and radio broadcasting;
athletics and sports, including
archery, basketball, boxing, swim
ming and table games.
Youngsters have specified they
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Alabama NAACP Branches
To Fight for Vote Rights

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, (NNPA).
In an emergency conference held
at the Fourth Avenue USO Sun.
day, the Alabama Conference Of
Branches of the National Associ-
alton for the Advancement Of Col
ored People adopted a resolution
pledging to fight the "insidious and
undemocratic Boswell amendment"
which is designed to circumyent
the decision Of the United States
Supreme Court outlawing the
white primary"
Under the Boswell amendment,
registrators would have the sole
power to pass the ability Of an
elector to understand and explain
the United States Constitution, his
knowledge of the duties and resPon-
sibilities Of good citizenship under
a republican form Of government;
and his good character, which would
be made requisites to voting.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Criminal Charges
Filed Against
Vet Binder

WASHINGTON, d. C. (NNPA).
Attorney General Tom C. Clark
announced last Thursday that Grim
inal charges have been filed against
Police Chief Lynwood Lanier Shull
of Batesburg, South Carolina.
Shull is accused of having beat
en- and tortured Isaac Woodland, JT.,
veteran, of the Bronx, New York,
February IL, in violation Of fed
eral civil rights statute which pro-
hibits police and other public Off
Gals from depriving anyone Of
rights secured by the Constitu-
ton and the laws Of the United
States"
Federal Judge George Bell Tim
norman last Friday signed an order
for a bench warrant against Police
Chief LynwoOd L. Shull Of Bates
burg, who had been charged by the
Justice Department with binding
Isaac Woodland, a veteran.
Shull was expected to come here
from Batesburg voluntarily and
post a $4,000 bond. Batesburg is
only thiTty-two miles from here.
Woodland is permanently blind as
a result Of the alleged beating. The
mistreatment is said to have Oc-
CURED after Shull had arrested
Woodland in the South Carolina
town for allegedly creating a dis
turbance on a bus on which the
latter was returning home after
his discharge from the Army at
Camp Gordon, Georgia, earlier
that day.
Chief Shull, the Justice Depart
ment said, is charged with the ViO-
latiOn Of WOOdard's right TO be
secure in his person and immune
from legal assault and battery and
the right and privilege not to be
beaten and tortured by persons eX-
ercising the authority to arrest"
The information containing the
charges was filed by United States
Attorney Claud N. Sapp in the
federal court at Columbia.
Woodland, a veteran Of fifteen
months service with the 429th Port
Battalion in the Philippines and
other units in New Guinea, lives
with his parents at 100 Franklin
avenue, the Bronx, New York.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04

in Minneapolis on Monday, Oct Z,
to take part as discussion leader Of
the three-day YWCA Leadership
Institute to be held at the Mime
apolis YWCA Oct. 8 to IL, for
training volunteer and staff work
eFs of the Association.
Miss Height, secretary for inter
racial education for the national
board, was for three years director
of Emma Ransom House in New
York City and for five years ex-
ecutive secretary of the Phyllis
Wheatley branch of the Washing
ton, d. c., YWCA. She joined the
national staff in 1944. Since then
she has been working on the ma
tional boards study of interracial
practices within Community WV
CAS-, which were presented and
endorsed by an overwhelming ma
jority at the 18th national conven-
ton in Atlantic City on March 6.
Graduate of New York Univer-
sity, New York City, where she got
her masters degree, Miss Height
has also studied at the New York
School of Social Work.
The Institute will be attended
by volunteer and professional work
ers from Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, Iowa and Wiscon-
sin.
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Police Rights
Is Town Hall
Topic Oct.

The first Minneapolis Town
Meeting" of the year will be held
Monday evening, Oct. 7, at 8 p m
in Benton hall of the YWCA, with
the topic: as Our Local Govern
ment Adequately Protecting the
Rights of Minority Groups?"
Speakers will include: Wilfred
Leland, Jr., executive secretary OF
Mayor Hubert Humphreys Coun.
Gil on Race Relations; Mayor HUI.
bert Humphrey; Michael Dillon
Hennepin County Attorney, and
James T. Wardlaw, executive sec
rotary Of the Minneapolis Urban
League.
Admission for adults will be by
membership card or by paid fee OF
25 cents, while students will be ad-
mitted for a 10-cent fee.
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Riot Leader Testifies
He Saw Mob Gathering

LUXEMBOURG, Tenn. INN
PA)-Julius Blair, 76-year-old po-
litical leader and one Of 20 men
charged with taking part in a race
riot in Columbia, Tenn, Feb. 20,
testified last Friday that he had
seen an armed white mob on the
public square prior to the disturb
ance.
Charged with being an accessory
to the shooting of Policeman Will
Wilsford, Blair said he and other
persons decided Feb. 25 to escort
James Stephenson, a war veteran
out of town. Stephenson, with his
mother, Mrs. Gladys Stephenson,
had been arrested after an alterca-
ton with a white radio repairman
and released on bail on a charge Of
attacking the white man.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Four Peace Officers Under
$4,000 Bond for PeOnagG

DALLAS, Tex. (NNPA) - Five
men, four of them peace officers,
were under $4,000 bonds last Mon
day following Federal grand jury
indictments on charges Of peOnage.
Named in the indictments were
Sheriff W. J. Price and former
Sheriff Jack Pullen of Rockwell
county; Luther Hunter, jailer, OF
Rockwall; Constable William Fra
zier of Kaufman county and Norris
Pierce, Rockwell county farmer.
One indictment alleged the de-
PENDANTS conspired to force a col
ored man to work out a SIS debt
owed to Pullen.
After confinement and beatings,
the worker was removed to a farm
where he was forced to work, under
guard. to pay the debt, the indict-
ment charged.
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Film Organization Plans
Third Annual Award Dinner

HOLLYWOOD, (PPS).-The In
ternational Film and Radio Guild,
a fact-finding organization "de-
signed to help protect the interests
of minorities in the entertainment
world" will sponsor its third an
nual Unity Awards banquet in
Hollywood this fall, according to
Superior Judge Stanley Mosk, pres
ident of the organization and chair
man Of the 1916 awards committee.
Once each year the IFRG be-
slows honors on those Sc. who
have made outstanding contribu-
tons to interracial understanding
and universal unity via the media
of films and radio"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Lee w. Harris, Jr.,
Starred in Recital

One Of the grandest events Of the
season Is Lee w. Harris Jr. being
featured in recital He Is mAtrieu-
lating at the MacPhail School Of
Music, the top musical eonserva-
tory Of the Northwest.
Hear this distinctive singer in
recital on Friday, Oct. 4, at Sis
pm. at the Pilgrim Baptist Church.
The Gospel Chorus Is sponsoring
this talented star. Adv.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04

THE comparatively few South
erners who have Jared well under
forced servitude do not want
changes in the colonial pattern"
Mr.. Ray said. "They are either
long -entrenched landlords or good
servants to their absentee masters.
They best get along with cheap la
Dor, white or colored. They can
hold on longer when they can hold
back education, stir class against
class, race against race" Continu-
ing, he said:
They are subtle, these enemies
of the South within its borders.
They influence political stOOges
to pirate about white supremacy,
to throw bugabOOs about job
security and to stir passions.
You know these men-the BilbOs.
the Rankins, the Talmadges, the
hooded towards Of the Ku Klux
Khan. And unfortunately in too
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
A. c. Hill Decries
DOrie Miller Ruckus

An open letter from A. C. Hill
416 st. Anthony, on the Dorie Mil.
Ter Post situation, said:
"Red batting today is very un.
popular and when II occurs in one
Of the most democratic Of all in.
situations it is considered as trea.
son and a long stride toward de.
struction. In the Dorie Miller Post
Of the American Legion, the only
one of It's kind in America, destruc.
tive forces have resorted 10 Red
batting to break up the organiza.
ton"
Hill said his letter was in the
public interest. He is veteran but
says he is not a member Of Dorit
Miller Post.
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ScOttsbOrO Youth ParOled
After Serving Nine Years

MONTGOMERY. Ala. (NNPAD,
Clarence Norris, one Of nine
youths involved in the so-called
"Scottsboro case" of fifteen years
ago, has been paroled from prison,
the State Pardon-Parole Board an
nounced last Thursday.
Charged along with the others
with raping two white women on
a freight train, Norris received a
life sentence in 1887 and was parol-
ed after serving nine years.
L. B. Stephens, secretary Of the
board, said the parole left only one
Of the defendants in prison, Hay
wood Patterson.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Ex-DOrie Miller
Post Veterans
Plan Future

The group Of nine members who
withdrew their membership from
Dorie Miller Post 544 last week,
charging Communist domination Of
the group, have drawn up a Ave-
point program, neglect Of which
caused their action against the
Post, it was revealed this week by
Ben F. Peery, ST., press represen-
tative for the group.
Job problems are receiving first
consideration, followed by n pro-
gram Of definite activity in COM
munity affairs and civil rights.
This includes a speeding-up Of the
cooperative endeavor TO secure an
adequate playground in the lower
Rondo district, as well as a direct
approach 10 the problems Of
juvenile delinquency.
A long range planning program
to meet the emergency due to be
created when the new proposed
highway causes eviction Of a large
number Of residents along the pro-
posed route, Is included on the
aRenda. An educational program
to eliminate the misunderstandings
and prejudices which are now en-
barrassing both community and
national unity, and close coopera-
ton with st. Paul civic groups in
terested in education, such rs the
Parent Teachers Association and
groups affiliated with Halle Q.
Brown Community House, is also
being drawn up.
Meanwhile, members Of the
group have met In the past week
with Representatives Of other vet
Grams groups which have extended
invitations 10 them TO join.
Dorie Miller members who
turned in their designations In
clude: 0rrie Hall, Jr., post finance
officer; Andrew A. Hartshorn, post
vice commander; Alvin Harmon,
post chaplain; Kenneth Wilson,
post publicity director; Stephen A.
Maxwell, post parliamentarian;
Ben Peery, ST., post child welfare
chairman; Samuel A. Reed, post
adjutant, and post members George
Mann and Charles Blackburn.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Mill City MatrOn
Breaks Foot In Fall

On Tuesday, one day after re-
turning from a two-week vacation
in Chicago, Mrs. Pearl Mckinney,
1923 Fremont Ave. NJ, slipped and
broke her right foot. While on
her way home from a visit she
slipped off a curb and twisted her
ankle. Upon examination Il was
found that she had broken a bone
on each side of her foot and that
she would be confined for a month
10 her home.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Board Refuses to
Accept Resignation
OF Doctor Brown

At its recent meeting the board
Of directors Of the Phyllis Wheatley
House refused to accept the resig-
nation of DR.. w. d. Brown.
The Minneapolis physician said
he submitted his resignation be-
cause his pressing duties do not
permit him to attend meetings reg
ularly.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
G.I.'s Occupy DOrmitOries
Formerly for Ladies'

Wake Residence Hall, one of
three temporary structures the
Public Buildings Administration
erected in Northeast Washington,
d. c., to house Negro women
Government workers, Is being oc-
cupied by 800 CT Negro male
students at Howard University and
the Miner Teachers College.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04

are interested in archery, checkers,
chess, dancing, dramaties, nature
clubs, photography, science, tum-
bling, wrestling and model air
planes.
Adult activities will start at
p. m. and youth activities at 4 p. m.
Anyone in south, east, west OF
north Minneapolis Is welcome.
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Edward Johnson
Severely Burned

Edward johnson, SIC Fremont
Ave-, was severely burned Wednes-
day at his place Of employment.
He was given emergency treat
ment by DR.. W. ID. Brown for burns
on one arm and both hands.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Louis Mason Of
Pittsburgh Urban
League Visits Here

Louis Mason, assistant industrial
secretary Of the Pittsburgh Urban
League, is visiting the Twin Cities
briefly.
Mr.. Mason is a former resident
Of both Minneapolis and st. Paul.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
c. J. Smith Returns
From Aunt's Funeral

Charles J. Smith, Minneapolis
business man and commander Of
Johnny Baker Post of the Ameri-
can Legion, returned Wednesday
from st. Joseph, Mo-, where he
went Sept. 20 to attend the funeral
of his aunt, Mrs. Minnie Payne.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
No Sioux Falls
News This Week

Sioux Falls, S. d. - Mrs. Oscar
Bridgewater, Sioux Falls corre-
spondent for the Spokesman and
Recorder newspapers, was called to
Omaha, Neb., Saturday because Of
the serious illness of her father.
Therefore there is no Sioux Falls
news in this edition.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Registration Heavy In Pittsbur

Registration Heavy in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH - "More Negroes
registered in this industrial center
than in any previous off-year Con-
gTessional election" Elmer ]. HOl-
land, CLIO Political Action Commit
tee representative in Pennsylvania,
declared this week, in reporting a
record-breaking registration. Hol-
land pointed to the cooperation be-
tween PAC and minority groups in
working for a huge vote turnout.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
New Community Center
At Bryant Junior High
Opens On October Z

The community center at Bryant Junior high school,
Third Ave So and 38h St. sponsored by the Board of Edu
cation will open Monday evening, October 7, offering
varied schedule of activities for young people and adults
The Board of Education has cooperating with it in plan
ming programs for the center the YMCA the Minneapolis
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Wm Department Moy Rescind Order:
Capital Youth Continues
His Fight to Make Army
Drop white Only Rule

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)-Charles H. Houston
and Joseph c. Waddy counsel for Robert Kelly 19yearod
Armstrong High School graduate turned down compromise
proposal for settlement of Key suit to enion the Army and
the Army
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
New Yorker Here
For Three-Day
YWCA Meet

Miss Dorothy Height, staff mem
Der Of the national board Of the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, New York City, will arrive
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Pacific Commanders
Understand Troop
Indignation Report

WASHINGTON, ID. &. (NNFA)
General Douglas Macarthur, Su-
preme Commander of Allied-occn-
pied Japan, Lieut.. General John +.
Hull, commanding in the Mid-Pa-
cific, and Major General James u.
Christensen, deputy commander IN
the West Pacific, are familiar with
and completely understand the
Gillem Boards report on the eff
fective utilization Of colored per
sonnet in the Army, Marcus ID.
Ray, civilian aide to the Secretary
of War, reported on his return here
recently from a tour of Army IN
stallauons in the Pacific. .
an few isolated cases l found
Junior officers serving with Negro
troops who were not familiar with
this War Department policy" Mr.
Raw informed Secretary Of War
Robert P. Patterson. Immediately
upon bringing these cases to the
attention Of the commanders con-
cerned." he said, corrective action
was taken"
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Mrs. Beatrice Cassius
UndergOes Operation

Mrs. Beatrice Cassius, proprietor
Of the Cassius Beauty Salon, 500
Fourth Ave. s., Minneapolis, under
went an operation at FairView hos
pital, Tuesday, Oct. 1. Her physi-
clan, DR.. w. ID. Brown, reports her
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Tumpu Dolly Times Editor Speaks at Urban League Session:
Florida Editor Flags Greedy Few in South
Who Stir Race Hate To Keep Cheap Labor


its
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Dorothy Dennis
Awarded Divorce

Dorothy Dennis was awarded a
divorce from Luther Dennis in
Hennepin county district court last
week.
. H,.. ,Eg.
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Short Views
of the
NEWS
JimcrO Ordered Abolished
In d. c. Employment Office

WASHINGTON, ID. G. (NNPA)
Segregation of colored and white
job seekers in the District of Co
lumbia office Of the United States
Employment Service was ordered
abolished, effective last Monday, by
Secretary Of Labor Lewis B.
Schwellenbach.
His action in ending segregation
in the local USES office was dim
med by his restatement on the same
day Of a meaningless policy to be
followed by the public employment
offices after their return to the
states November Is. Under this
policy, the public employment Of
fees will continue to fill discrimina-
tory hiring acquisitions.
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Democrats Adopt Resolution
Landing Own Race Policies

WASHINGTON, ID. Z. (NNPA)
The executive committee Of the
Democratic national committee at
a meeting here last Thursday
adopted a resolution and policy
statement in which it was asserted
that Democratic administrations
since 1888 have done more to Sc
cure equal rights for every race
creed and color than was accom-
plished by all preceding Republican
administrations combined.
Without enumeratirg any Of the
problems Of race discrimination or
the corrective actions for which the
Democratic party was responsible,
the resolution declared that THE
sympathetic attitude of the Roose-
Welt and Truman administrations
to these problems stands in sharp
contrast to the unperformed prom
ises Of Republican politicians"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Recent Visitors To
NeWspaDer Office

Visitors to the ST. Paul Office: ].
w. Strong, Spokane, Washington;
Mrs. G. c. Hamlet, Cleveland,
Ohio; Mrs. NJ. @. Altman, Louis
vile, Kentucky, and Mrs. A. w.
Frazier, St. Paul.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04
Railway Carmen Drop
white" From Constitution

CHICAGO (NNPA) - Delegates
to the convention of the Brother
hood Of Railway Carmen, an amin.
ate of the American Federation OF
Labor, in the hotel Morrison last last
Thursday voted to delete the word
white from the unions constitution,
and thereby granted full member
ship to colored car cleaners, Felix
NJ. Knight, president Of the broth
erhood, announced. ,-
Nearly 1000 colored car cleaners
in the brotherhood have been mem
beers of auxiliary locals, which were
barred from sending delegates to
conventions. Knight said these To-
calls hencefOrth have regular status
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04

Geraldine LawhOrn, blind-deaf
artist, here Nov. Is. Auspices
CrediafaWn Credit UniOn.-AdVt
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DOrie Miller Commander
Says Post Has Record
OF Civic Service
Dors Miller American Legion 54a
To Whom n Man Coneern:
Dorie Miller American Legion ga
ST. Paul, Minnesota
September so, 1876

absence Of commander from the city certain eie
within Doe Miller Post attempted TO disrupt and destroy
the only braeia in nation knowing that their actions would
be unsuccessful and would be epudated by the the
the eummunty they have attempted by their we'll
pubezed SANDERS call in aid Of andeocrac force
in the country.
Doe Miethat Of effectively fighting for democracy Neither
local southern BbOsm block the growth Of democratic
ideals and liberties
Since its founding ago, post has made valuable
contribution the community II has introduced and supported
the proposed St. Paul Fair Employment Practices Ordinance
actively worked for veteran housing and employment
II has supported minimum and full employment legislation
supplied entertainment for hosptaed veterans l
supplied blood blood bank u has carried
active fight against discriminatory voting restrictions Il has
preserved through appropriate services the memory 81
those who their lives In TO defend democracy
has initiated and carried community Of athletics
recreation and social welfare is engaged In the Community
Chest fund raising campaign.
On this excellent record past achievement the Post win
continue to the welfare Of the veteran and community
Byron s. Rife,
Post Commander,
Dorie Miller Post S4A