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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
Raj Speed Champion
Reported Holding
To Old World Marx

CRAWFORD, England, June IA.
-U.D-American pilots repeatedly
preparing tor an attack on the
worlds plane speed record of 606
miles an hour, were told today that
Group Capt. H. j. Wilson who set
the mark last November was de-
.liberately holding his plane down
to that mark.
II could have done Gil certain
ly, perhaps even more said the
British test pilot. But the Gloster
Meteor jet people were afraid
something might happen to the
plane at that speed"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16

More than 200, 900 adobe bricks
were used in the construction OF
a building near Santa Fee, N. M.
which houses the offices of Region
III of the National Park Service.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
Representution in Aquutenniul Parude

Through the interest Of approximately 1000 people, the majority
Minnesota Negroes will the
neapois Aquaennial Parade on Saturday July 20.
handsome float the $4,000
Negroes Of the will be display In the previous Aquatennia
Negro community has been represented only by the Min
neapos Es and the Phyllis Wheay Drum and Buge Corps plus
spnng Of Negro members Of other units This the float
viii provide larger visual picture Of the fact that the Negro citizen
float beautiful sight designed by Negro artist
Noah Smith, and selected by committee Of citizens who
Slemmon mayor Of Bonneville spakpug and
originator Of the float idea
the Saturday will view the cumulative
efforts Of 1000 those who secured the small
from individuals build the float and those who planned and executed
the project
To this the fact that participated
is the significant thing There many who for various
would participate However the float will excellent
public relations for all Minnesota Negoeshose who unsesy
and those who took the weknown negative attitude.
will be another Of the
theory people will community task
do It.
St. Paul Negroes participated widely the fund raising and
money raised for Aquatenna participation
will be used g provide representation in the 81 Paul Winter Carnival
Parade In this Mr. Semmons and his committee
ng the Negro communities with thousands Of dollars worth
Of much needed goodwill advertising that will excellent dividends
to ourp In his
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

Minneapolis birthday EreetinEs: July 30
Mrs. LeOla Carey, S704 Fifth Ave. s. {: Mrs..
ThelmA Gray. 420 Z. S7th st, Mrs. Earllne
Donaldson. $685. Fourth Ave. s.: Mr.. Mary
Collins. $500 Fourth Ave. 8. July 81
Elmer Bridges. 6s6 James Ave. N: James
7. Crockett. 626 Glrard Ave. N; Harold L.
Simpson, 6l27 James Ave. N. July "a
Mrs. J. R. Collins. $500 Fourth Ave. q.
July 2S-Ray Walls, S745 Fourth Ave. 8. ;
Buelah Green. lO2sh Olson Blvd. Frances
Adair. HOS Aldrieh Ave. N; Russell Under
wood, $3.50 Fourth Ave. g.. Mrs. Patricia
Davidson; ,,5 SIS s,i Fourth Ave; Ell, s. 4 eStS
E. Newman. 1900 Portland Ave. s.; Walter
Beasley. 2746 Clinton Ave. 8. (; Mrs. Z. V.
Marshall. $3.50 Elliot Ave.
Out-of-town greetings; July 2I-JAck
| Floyd. Kansas City, Mo- Betty Ann Car
michael Anderson, Los Angeles. Calf. July
23-Marie A. Hawkins. Sumter, 8. c. July
24-Mrs. Helen Kitchen, Des Moines, Iowa.
Ky.
Birthday EreetinEs in St; Paul' July 22-
Ralph s. Ward. yr.. 1885 Sherburne; Arthur
Hill. Jr.. $50 IRlehart Ave. Louise Brown.
2s7 N. ST. Adams ST.: Tbelma Alyce
Thomas. 3S4 N. Dale St. July 28-FGustinA
Robinson. 100 St. Anthony Ave. Mrs.
Courtney Hilyard. 7s2 st. Anthony Ave.
July 24-Rev. Floyd Massey. Jr.. 7l9 St.
Anthony Ave. July 25-JAmes Williams.
500 RondO Ave. Eugene Preston Hill. $50
Iglehart. July ga. r. North. ass ROnd0
Ave Mr.. L. r. SeAton, 1920 Cumberland :
Ivan Duane Pertest. SIT W. Central Ave.
July 27-Ermon Jean Owens. sSs ROndO
| Ave.
Out-of-Town greetings TO Pvt Mary s.
Cook, July rs, Army Earl Weber. Jr.. July
a. Army.
VISITORS TO ST. PAUL OFFICE
| Visitors to the st. Paul office Gordon W.
Kirk, 97l IElehArt Ave. Rev. c. B. Wheeler.
522 W. Central Ave. Richard d. Hall. Jr.,
937 St. Anthony Ave. Rev. John r.
BroOkes. ST. Harrington ST.. Mrs. Esther
| Brown, 406 St. Anthony Ave. Frank N.
Harris, 4O6 St. Anthony Ave.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
The Ruilroud Brotherhoods

Except for A. Philip Randolph and one 2 two Others practically
policy tTP Ss1 strike
e. nSS sS Hs which
on o S 3 t. sI s SI NJ more T.aaSs 5 % they
sSs 9S freely @H Sm TS6sd sd
%PrOnOtabe men, aeeordns contract meant white
most SR s me engines Snd
with automatic stOESEs In many instances their seniority rights are
"'S' ssS Ta's :g sHdoph
By broSerhoeds Negroes
SHR Ra s & Ssas aSs act
front end br9kemen out Of work ,,,,, A.,
are Ea In Negro & the N S "f"ss &c "d 5Si
mn So d ey Manipulated
from tanks their engines These murders remain mystery the
brotherhood did nothing of down the killers of its
support public NssTS
q the steel packing house electrical and tobacco workers
workers the brotSehood the few dark members are treated
Mr. his aS FsmSay STt that does at
we hold with the ywhte brotherhood poecsis Magazine
, 5ss mot va what he breaches not
cai and POST W" "' say however, ''0p
With all Of its weknOwn weaknesses human nature
r sS1S emory
Fortune Magazine.
The avoEte foreigners" Negroes
people o OF foreign birth 10 mon N million
Americans Of Jewish extraction and 20 million Americans who profess
of total popuaoLabor Lewis B. Schweenbach
Negroes citizens are deprived
Of the educational which rghtu
racy This part general
groups within society But probably the greatest factor in the
limitation Of educational opportunities absurd
education local state basis Federal aid is long overdue and
Il the only practical solution prohlemDean
0. Meby, School of Education, New York University.
OF the after
the Christian religion should
conditions degrading anything the
pagansm Christianity born; bre
trial the conclusion that they further
Lord Halifax
Churches f all denomnatons) cannot be absolved from blame TO
the fact that social injustice racial and economic inequality still
entrenhed obstacles the complete development of the American
ceedBhop Bernard j. She'll of Chicago the speakers
recent conference restrictive covenants.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

, them may claim TO be, they harbOr
the conviction that there must be old
and young mammies to nurse their
children and TO wait on them. To
make sure that there will always
be plenty Of mammies who will feel
forced to seek mental employment
from white Southerners, this bust
ness Of colored and white jobs is
maintained and fair employment Is
fought to the streets, and get in
vOlved in lawsuits which net the
white mans court officers millions
Of dollars each day.
In other sections Of the country
there are other things upon which
TO feed. The people make things
and render services the world needs
and is willing to pay for. In the
South the whole economy is built
on the backs Of black men and
women: The South is not the Ne
gro's friend in any sense. The
Negro under present conditions can
not make any real progress in the
South because his leadership for
the most part has been contami-
mated by a most deadly disease-the
lack Of faith in the possibility Of
building a rich and full life for all
the peoples Of the South. Both
white and black leaders, especially
in the fields Of business, the church
and white mans schools for Ne
groes, have adopted the benighted
white SOuth's way Of exploiting the
people lowest down.
The South today is a land for
missionaries and merchants only.
Unless one falls into one Of these
cateRories, he is a fool to lead
people with their lives before them
to believe that there is anything in
the deep South to be won and held,
which One-tenth Of the energy ex-
pended elsewhere would not yield a
hundredfold.
agree with that school of
thought which holds that at least
FIVE million colored people should
leave the South as quickly as pos
sible and migrate into other sec
tons Of the United States. Another
three million ought to desert the
cities and buy farms in rural areas
outside the South, and under the
leadership Of the Agriculture De-
partment. Extension and Home
Demonstration leaders learn to pro-
duce prohtably some Of the vital
foods, dairy and beef products the
world needs and is willing to pay
for.
The Negro in the South must de-
stroy the traditional Negro jobs.
Colored men, IL they mean what
they say about wanting equality,
must pay a price for it. They must
emancipate their women from the
white mans kitchen, nurseries and
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

boudoirs and what have you. And
colored women must be willing to
suffer, il need be, for a world where
In she will not perform any services
for white people that white people
will not, because Of race, perform
for colored people on the same eco
nOmic level.
The Negro in the South must
liberate himself. And he must or
ganize to do this. He must follow
consecrated leadership. He must
make that leadership independent.
He must improve upon underground
methods Of violentlessly battling
for liberation.
In this fight for full emancipa-
ton, the day must come, if full
emancipation is to come, when
some leader somewhere will pass
the word down the grapevine to
colored people to refuse to buy
from establishments which accept
their money but deny them employ
ment on the basis Of their ratio to
the total population in the eommu-
mites in which they live. During
these days Of passive resistance, the
cooks, maids, servants and what
have you must in the John Lewis
miner-fashion go fishing"
This is the daring proposal, but
a way must be found to support and
cooperate with our friends indeed,
be they white or black. We must
support the colored people in the
South when they move to refuse
to be slaves Of the BilbOites Of the
South.
Today, there should be a council
Of leaders mapping plans to assist
millions more Of colored people to
migrate out Of the South and to
settle in other sections of the couh-
try in such a manner as not to
create problems in the sections into
which they move. There should be
a well-worked-out plan for such
migration and that plan should be
followed.
And finally, the South is in great
need of consecFated missionary
leaders supported by people who
realize the Importance Of full lib
Grafton, development and integra-
ton Of colored people on an indi-
vidual merit basis into all that has
to do with his welfare. Leadership
which must depend upon support
received in the South fails because
the South fails that leadership. The
unholy alliance between black and
white exploiters Of the lowly has q
vested interest in keeping the yoke
Of ignorance, superstitution, and
slavery fastened around the neck Of
the masses in the deep South.
Don't let anyone kid you-BilbO
is the unvarnished representative
Of the white South as q whole.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

most encouragingJOHN LEE
report Of Negro progress Of the
last century. Unusual in that 1t
does not concern itself with laws
and statutes forbidding this, or
granting that, the report is a strong
argument in favor Of free enter
prise and fair play in the matter
Of wages and employment.
Comprising One-tenth OF the
city's population, the forty thou
sand Negroes Of Columbus are an
integral part Of the community.
In the words Of A. p. Bentley, vice
president and general manager OF
the Fireside Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Negroes In this city are
the best employed, most substan-
tial 'mid-class' element In the
state"
Free enterprise is an Over-wOrk-
ed Americanism. II Is indisputably
desirable ideal, but because il
has too long been associated with
big and sometimes mOnOpolistic
business combines, it has been
looked upon with suspicion by the
masses Of the American people.
As a substitute, they have accepted
the nostrums and catchy cure-alls
offered by the political philoso-
pliers. In most American communi-
ties, Negro Americans are thwart-
ed by prejudice, discrimination, the
force Of numbers and a child-like
belief in what the other fellow will
do for them.
Consequently, most communities
are seething beds Of agitation and
activities designed to bring to re-
aliZation the Utopian dream of So
| cial and economic equality. There
can be no quarrel with any attempt
to build a community free Of de-
structive racial animosities so long
as that attempt is not being made
solely to create and keep dissension
alive, but it has been proven time
and again that the better way tC
improve the status Of a race is to
improve the status Of the members
who comprise that race.
Primarily, the individual is Of
far greater consequence than the
race he represents. For instance
in Columbus, Il is more important
to know that Harry Alexander Il
the personal secretary Of R. H
Jeffrey, white chairman Of thu
board Of the Jeffrey Manufactur
ing Co, than it is to know tina
unhappy events often occur in thu
city's Burma Road" slum areas
Likewise, c. W. Bryant, head Of I
firm that moves buildings and heav!
industry, and a recognized leade
in this field, is a stronger symbo
Of hope than are the "zoot-suiters'
who exhibit their way through life
Most Of the heavy industry o
Columbus offers employment Il
Negroes. Columbus hotels empl0!
Negroes in large numbers. Negroes
are employed in the six major tTunl
lines that serve the area, and sal
AIRY levels are at the prevailing
rate. The telephone company an
the gas company hire 4 few Ne
grOes in the labor classification, an,
department stores diseriminAt
completely.
! In many respects, Columbus |
! no different from many communi
1 ties in the deep south. There ar
elements, such as streetcar discrim
) ination and racial prejudice tina
!, might well have served to discouT
} age and devitalize the Negroes o
Columbus, but they elected to whin
y less and work a lot, They weren'
: handed anything on q silver plat
: ter. They have achieved withou
4 benefit Of tub-thumping by Labo
groups and liberal reformers.
: Llewellyn A. Coles, editor an
publisher of the Ohio State New
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
Better Housing Up To Legislature

Another question which Minnesota Negro candidates
the legislature how they stand public housing Mime
public housing the Federal Government the
matter Of providing low cost housing for families
The few legislatures controlled by the conservatives have
fused Federal Housing Enabling Act which would have made
possible the building Of housing units and the clearance Of urban ms
Conservative elements In this state seldom interested in good
housing for the lower income people Real estate whose first
Federal Housing the state This
all from their standpoint but IL the problem
the Stun provide housing fellow citizens
small incomes
Most small and those who housing
not apt get unless this state has housing enabling act Each
candidate for the legislature should therefore be asked give his
her stand housing enabling act before election day.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
HEAR ME- RROTHERI

HEAR ME, BROTHER!
Hear me, white brother
Black brother, hear me
/ have seen the hand
Holding the blOwtOTeh
To the dark, anguish-twisted
body
/ have seen the hand
Giving the high sign
To fire on the white pickets-
And it was the same hand;
Brothers, listen to me
II was the same hand.
Hear me, black brother
White brother, hear me
/ have heard the words
They set like barbed-wire
fences
To divide us
/ have heard the words
DIRTY niger" poor white
trash"
C"Kike," 'bureaucrat,"
"greaser," "cOnchieD,
And the same voice spoke
them;
Brother, listen well to me,
The same voice spoke them.
Robert Hayden
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Robert Durr Advises Negroes
To Leave South; Says BilbO
Represents Southern Majority
By ROBERT DURR

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. II have
lived in the deep South for the
most Of my life. l, therefore, make
bold to say that l know the South.
Bilbo Is 4 true, unvarnished picture
Of the majority Of white people in
the South.
The soul Of the white South, for
the most part, Is a carry over Of
the philosophy back Of the England
81 which Winston Churchill Is SYM
bolic. He does not want the British
Empire liquidated because II Is a
nation Of tea-drinking parasites
who feed upon the blood, sweat
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
Free Enterprise and Good Wages
Will Increase Negro Achievement
Is Opinion of John Lee

says: "All has not been rosy for
the Negro in the laboring field. 1t
is on the lower levels that the
Negro recently arrived here finds
his troubles. Negroes are not en-
ployed by the Columbus and South
ern Ohio Electric Company to OPP
crate trolley cars and buses. Dur
ing the war there was a lot Of
buck passing between company and
union. The CLIO union has made a
little Roadway here, but so far they
have lodged the issue Of Negro
employment.
There is nothing perfect in the
report of the Negro in Columbus,
Ohio, but it does go a long way to
prove a point. Despite prejudice
and discrimination, the Negro can
go farther under a system Of free
enterprise. Some Of the ingredients
Of free enterprise are our daily
personal habits, pride and respect
for ourselves and others, respect
for the rights of others, and an
answering determination to work
hard for everything we get.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

toll and tears Of subjugated colonial
peoples under the heels Of old John
Bull and upon which for years and
years the sun has never dawned in
more ways than one.
There is a philosophy which says
there can be no up without down,
no east without west, and no north
without south. That Is the basis Of
the thinking Of Bilboites, and they
are legion in the South. Preserva-
ton Of whites TO them means en-
slavement and suppression Of
blacks.
No matter how poor a peeker-
wood may be or how religious one Of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
CARD OF THANKS

viii all Of my dear friends please accept
my gratitude and appreciation. deep from
my heart, for the kindness and devotion
shown to me during the seven weeks / was
confined at the hospital and also for the
lovely flowers which helped so much In rails
ing my spirits.
! am very grateful for the manner In
which my friends. under the direction of
Mr.. Ed Moore. made arrangements for the
funeral Of my husband, Jay P. Williams.
which was not permitted to attend. due TO
my illness. Special thanks 70 Mr.. Moore.
Rev. John Brooks, who offieiAted. In the
absence Of Rev. C. T. R. Nelson, and to
Mrs. BerdellR Moore and Mrs. H. Irving
who furnished the music.
Mrs. Josie Williams
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
RETURN FROM
RELATIVES FUNERAL
VAI nWGnN WI

Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer Shivers
1921 Fourth Ave. s., and Mrs
Esther Brown, 1928 Fifth Ave. S
have returned from Madison, Wis.
where they went to attend the flu,
neral Of a brother, Claude Shivers
Mr.. Shivers, Sc, who was a veter.
an Of the first World War, was borr
at La Crosse, Wis, and had lived
in Madison for the better part Of
his life.
Mrs. Brown visited friends anC
relatives in La Crosse for Severa
days before returning home.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

=. By Louis Lautier
a former Washingtonian, will go
to the altar as soon as he gets his
final papers. . When Marva Louis
moves out of Joe Louis New York
apartment, Vunice Barrow, his sis
ter, will move in for the summer.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
IN MEMORIAM

In RhectionAte memory Of our dear father.
Mr.. J. Z. Jackson. who departed this life
July IS, 1914.
As you rest In the grave. dear father.
Your smiles are with US yet:
Our memory Is as fresh as ever
Because we cannot forget.
Daughter and sOn-in-lAW
Mr.. and Mrs. J. TedfoFd HArris. JT.
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ment, desire TO
show that the Ne
gro has come a
long way, they
will not probe the
teeming masses
Of New York and
Chicago, but they
will select instead
one Of the smaller
American com.
munities like Co.
lumbus, o hio
From Columbu,
has come thu
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
/. G. Scott Thanks
Voters Of Fourth


In u public letter to the citizens
of the Fourth District Of Hennepin
County, present County Commits
sioner |. G. Scott said:
II am deeply grateful for the
wonderful support the citizens OF
my district gave me at the primary
polls on July 8. Your vote indicated
that my services to the district and
the county have met your approval
| hope that may continue to serve
as your Commissioner after the
elections in September"
I.G. SCOTT,
County Commissioner
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19
By JOHN M. LEE

In the future, when those tire
less statisticians who measure
everything pertaining to human
life and adyanca-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

Dorothy Donergan, the boogie.
woOgie pianist, and Freddie Fields
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-08-09

full.
Perhaps the most frequent and the least appreci-
ated type is the Il just thought drop-in" variety
who arriving in city makes for the nearest abode
Of anybody he happened TO be noddng acquaintance
with in the hometown elsewhere. He always ap-
pears on the scene unannounced and just when the
old man has that moth eaten undershrt on, or
Juniors diapers hanging in the bathroom TO dry
He also has peculiar knack for showing up when
the family budget is in the red lie announces grin
ming from to II just dropped in for a minute :"
and then stays until time to put the cat and the milk
bottle out He is usually the seea tell-al type who
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