davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1946-10-27

tain problems. Once, during the war.
Jealous American postal officials i'm
mersed a box of jumping beans in
water for three hours. They thought
the clicking package contained a
bomb. Wed forgotten to mark the
contents on the outside" Hernandez
told the red-faced officials.
Dark-haired, aggressive Hernandez
is very fond of jumping beans and
proud of the distinction that they
have gained him. But he'd be prouder
still if he could figure out a way to use
jumping beans in industry. IAN that
energy" he sighs. 1T should be put
to work." - lanes L TUCK
Evening star., 1946-10-27
JUMPING BEANS

MONOPOLY. Joaquin Hernandez at
81 is the worlds Jumping Bean King.
When IL years old, he eornered the
market of dusty, sleepy Alamos.
Mexico. the only known habitat of
the Ieaping legume, and since then
has shipped millions of jumping beans
to nearly every country of the world.
His modern Office resounds like a
testing chamber for machine guns.
Tiers of perforated cans - filled with
thousands of hopping, leaping beans,
eager to be off to carnivals, fairs and
boardwalks - line the walls.
Hernandez explains their brisk be-
havior: Growing on bush, only few
beans develop acrobatic ability. In
side each hopper, furnishing the mo-
tive power, is small white grub with
l6 gripping feet.
When it jumps, the grub grips the
bean wall, raises its body, then brings
its entire weight down in a sharp.
slapping blow causing the bean to
leap or roll. Kept in temperate spot
they'll do these calisthenics for six
months, sometimes jumping as high
as seven inches.
ANOTHER KuGo. Hernandez will
ship 1000 beans for So to any point
in the United States, but he prefers
selling them in 25,OO0 lots. A recent
order was for 10000 beans from a
Coney Island concessionaire.
His favorite prewar customer was
the King of the Hungarian Gypsies,
whose orders totaled half a million
beans annually. The King sold
them to the other gypsies who used
the beans in fortune telling"
Shipping the leapers presents GER
Evening star., 1946-10-27

Names and deseriptasas Of an characters IN
Aetioa seoriss and ss.a- -Actiea articles h this
vhSeA hapSsns 10 b. the sane n dat q any
Dssssa. living q dead. u satirsiy ooineidsatal.
Evening star., 1946-10-27
You mustn't rob q rocket

IOU mUSm ROD q rocket
with foresight on one score: A new
law has been enacted making it a
federal offense to rob passengers of a
rocket ship.
CYMIC. A California movie house
features a wishing well in its lobby.
Mostly it's children and young couples
who use the well, tossing in penny
and making a sentimental wish. A
THIS WEEK reader, however, reports
that she noticed one elderly man
march glumly past, drop in a penny
and mutter:
Il wish hadn' t seen that picturep
SIGN sighted in a small Midwest
town: SLOW DOWN BEFORE YOU BE-
COME A STATISTIC!
Evening star., 1946-10-27
This Week Magazine

WnllA1 l. NICHOLS, Editor
U4EY LIVE ~ A MAGk CITY. ...... 4
bv kiekssd O. Etsisekss
IttE GIRL HE ADORED. 6
kv Csssvvds Sekwssfrss
NORTHERN RAkPART. 7
BY Cs~sssi Cosi Ssoosx
sesosII NEW WORLD. .
BY Msvisi r. Rostsss
THOSE ARE THE STARS. ......... 10
BY ksspk Crsss
NOOeO 10 DeAIH. .............. 10
by Bssfes 1rsisy
LET ElECTRONS DO H............... n
BY vsrsea 0kiak
CHILDREN AND GUESTS. ...........2 -
BY Emily Post
Cover by istsssotisssi
Evening star., 1946-10-27
JNn;kMM;Hc

ACID TEST. Overheard conversa-
ton between two young urchins on
street in Manhattan:
Hey kid, what school do you
60 to-"
'P.S. l83."
Yeah? l 60 to P.S. l83, too"
''Betcha don't"
''Betcha million bucks l do"
Yeah, wise guy? Then what's the
name of the truant officer?"
STITCH m TINE. Those who feel
that our legislators are always behind
in their duties will have to credit them
Evening star., 1946-10-27

TW-le-1-~
Evening star., 1946-10-27

VVMTEs Aldous Huxley, author of Brace Ness
World: "This one brief sentence sums up tn.
fundamental problem of politics and economic.
in OUR time. 1t is simply this: How are we te
avoid the concentration and consequent abuse o.
power? The trainers of the American Constitu
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27

The committee win continue 10
meet and give direct consideration
to veterans problems, but it has
not been decided by the group as
yet just what action will be taken
toward affiliating itself with any
other chartered veterans organi-
cation in the city. That decision
will be made within the next few
days.
The statement Of the committee
is as follows:
1--WE, the undersigned officers and
members of DOrie Miller Post 544
Of the American Legion, do hereby
make the following statement in
permanently severing our relation
ship with said post:
"Since its inception our post has
been plagued by internal friction
and disharmony. This friction and
disharmony, we are convinced, is
the result of the presence and ac-
tiVity Of a siZeable bloc Of Com
munists and Communist sympa-
thizers who, we feel, have from the
outset zealously placed their politi-
cal interests and detectives above
the interest Of the post and its
membership.
Because of this zealousness,
Communists have FLASHED with nom
Communists and fractional strife
has advanced to its present stage
where the general membership has
become Disguised and progressive
action by the post on vital issues
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Police Get Threots
OF New Violence
In Venice. Colt.

VENICE, CALF. Pacific Press
Svndicate)-Police 1t. Howard l..
Hentershee, in charge Of the VEN
ice sub-station, this week, cancelled
All vacations and days of for po-
lice under his jurisdiction after re-
reiying a series of mysterious tele-
uhone calls threatening to clean
out" the Negro community Of VEN
ice. -. -
While Hentershee and his men
stood on guard against a possible
outbreak of violence, four white
men were arrested and charged
with Kidnapping in connection with
the attack on several Negro chill
dren and parents here the night
Three Of these, 17-year-old boys,
have been placed under $500 bail
each and their trial set for Oct. T.
while the fourth, Richard Shep-
pard, an adult, was called up pc
fore the municipal court IN west
Los Angeles to answer charges
According to reports, Chiffon
Alexander, IS, was thrown into an
auto, beaten by the mob on sept
z; that Eddie Muldrow, ID, was
chased into his house by q man
who kicked down the door, strobe
In and retreated only when the
boy and his mother confronted him.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27

halted because Of continual hieker-
ing and name-callinR.
ut is now our considered opinion
that the primary detectives Of the
Communist bloc in Dorie Miller
Post are to propagandize and con-
vert Negro veterans TO the Com
munist philosophy, TO induce the
post to follow the Communist party
line in its deliberations and deci-
sions, and TO prevent the post from
taking any action in variance with
the said line
while we grant to all men the
right to choose their political alli-
ances, we view with strong disfavor
attempts by any political bloc to
impose its will on q non-politieal
organization, or TO use such orgAni-
cation as a front for political &C.
tiyity and a field for political con-
version.
1--WE have tried repeatedly to
adjust amieably the apparent Diff
ferenees we hold with Communists
and Communist sympathizers; but
1t is now evident that these differ
ences are deep-seated and irrecon-
cilable, and that the post, its mem
bership, and the community will
suffer irreparable damage as long
as the present conflict continues.
This unfortunate condition leaves
no other alternative but TO with
draw from the post and make a
new beginning free from political
pressure"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27

state and nation" have taken 8
much precedence over all other
business that it is impossible for
the organization to function as a
post of the American Legion.
All nine veterans who signed
their names to the statement are
prominent in the st. Paul commu-
nifty. They include Orrington C..
Hail., Jr., registration officer for
the Veterans Administration at
Fort Smelling, and Dorie Miller
post finance officer; Andrew A..
Hartshorn, post vice commander;
Kenneth Wilson, athletic director
Of Halle Q. Brown Community
House, post publicity man; Stephen
A. Maxwell, U. s. Department of
Internal Revenue, and post parlia-
mentarian; Ben Peery, U. S. rail-
way postal clerk and post child
welfare chairman; Samuel A. Reed,
law student and post adjutanti
Alvin ]. Harmon, Jr., post chap
lain, and post members George
Mann, Board Of Public Welfare,
and Charles Blackburn.
In a strongly worded statement
protesting the use Of the post to
promote the Communist party line,
it was pointed out by the nine with
drawing members that problems Of
housing, jobs and other matters Of
pressing Importance to ex-service-
men are no nearer solution today
than they were when mass dis
charge Of war veterans was TAX
ing place.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Democracy Must Work in u. S.
Before It Can Work in Japan
Says Young Local Clergyman
BY Rev. Daisuke Kitagawa


Dasuks week. Il srnymA
the EpheepalAn church
msas dayo
Hubert Council Relations. eav his
General Theological Seminary n w 81
the American Government Occupation
eredtabe job Of dmocrang that
be little doubt Comparing the Of affairs
be led to think that everything h beyond criticism IN
insofar Its ultimate aim b characterization and nothing
paradox.
Democracy matter q political philosophy system is not
by alien the intelligent
attempt them o several decade preceding
ntarst regime TO their country democracay
have failed their effort There number Of for this
failure not all Of which their fault
ing the United States Of
respects Now what neither
principles the abolish her old traditional
demonstration by Of actual that democracy
Education p way q example exactly n harmony with de-
the purpose Of influencing others In other words democracy
In the minds Of oentas there question al United
States Of America the greatest in the world
definitely identified with democracy Americans
simple fact for to forget loss Of opportunity
responsibility.
As long there
in the life within the United States herself matter
eminent Of Occupation does japan anywhere else in the world II
will characterization"
mocracy for example the United States will have TO do something
about the Oriental Exclusion Act
and practices which from Or again.
problem Of minority does inevitably dscred
States Government Occupation preach
nations Even from this standpoint alone the
United States has significance than domestic
group problemi
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Rev. Clarence Nelson
Gets Autograph Copies
From Attorney General

Rev. Clarence T. r. Nelson, pas
tor of Camphor Memorial Metho-
dist church and president Of the
st. Paul branch of the NAACP,
last week received autographed
copies Of the description Of two
pictures in the office of Attorney
General Tom c. Clark, in the De-
partment of Justice, Washington,
d. c. The pictures by the artist
Knoll are Justice Defeated" and
Justice Triumphant"
Speaking in the Camphor church
last Sunday, Rev. Nelson called the
attention of his congregation to
"a Word of Praise for United
States Attorney General Tom c.
Clark" printed in the church's bull
letin for Sept. % and written by
Nelson.
The st. Paul Ministers Associa-
ton, in its meeting on Monday,
adopted a resolution presented by
the Camphor pastor, asking Presi-
dent Truman to grant amnesty i'm
mediately to "all imprisoned con-
scientious directors, including Je-
hovah's Witnesses, and to those
others who, though they have COM
pleted their sentences, continue to
suffer for their fidelity to con-
science by loss of civil rights" The
St. Paul Ministers Association is
composed Of most Of the Protestant
ministers Of st. Paul.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Antler Guords
Are Commissioned
By ElIcs LODGE

A branch Of the military divialon
Of the IBPoEW, known as tie
Antler Guards, was recently set
up by Brigadier General Willie
Burrell, commissioned by com
mander-in-ehief and Grand Exalted
Ruler J. Finley Wilson.
Officers commissioned were:
Colonel Edward Hayes, chief Of
staff; Colonel Leon 4. Lewis, Off
Ger Of the day; Quartermaster Rou-
ben Warren, treasurer; Adiutant
Cecil Taylor, Sr., secretary; Major
Pascal Todd, plsna and training
officer; Colonel Edward Green, Jr.,
chaplain; Assistant Adiutant James
Hudson, Junior vice commander;
Colonel Carl Ampey, assistant
plans and training officer. Also IN
the organization are: Captains
Arthur Briggs and Carlos Men
doza, and Sgt. Arthur Lyons.
Brigadier General Burrell and
the staff are in charge Of all mill
tary units Of the Elks lodges d
Minnesota and Iowa.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Grid Open House
Stdrts Sept. %
AT 20-Lirnited

The first football open house will
be held Saturday, September %,
at the Twenty Limited club, Hum
boldt Ave. No. and Olson High
way, when the Minnesota Golden
Gophers begin their 1916 grid sea-
son against the Nebraska Corn
huskers. Starting at p. m, the
club will be open for those who
wish to listen TO the radio broad
cast Of the game, and will be open
all afternoon for football fans who
want to come there after the game.
The Sunday matinee soirees at
the club will begin the first Sun
day in October, it was announced
this week. On Sunday afternoon,
September 20, the Twenty Limited
Club and the Limiteers will hold
a closed party for members and
invited guests.
The steering committee Of the
Limiteers includes Sidney Williams,
Richard Mann, Donald Brady, Jr,
Mrs. Paul Smith, James Carter
and Gwen Crenshaw.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Short Views
of the
NEWS
Army Sued by Father
On Recruitment Ban

WASHINGTON, ID. C. (NNPA)
The Army's ban on voluntary en-
listments of Negro men and the
cancellation Of their induction under
the draft law were attacked in a
suit filed in the United States Dis
trict Court here last Wednesday.
The court was asked to declare
illegal the regulations and orders
issued by Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson and General Lewis B.
Hershey, director Of the Selective
Service System, barring the vol
untary enlistment of cOlored men
into the Army as well as their in
duction into the military service
under the selective service law.
Robert B. Kelly, a minor, through
his father, Robert R. Kelly, 8 A
street northeast, asks the court
to enjOin Secretary Patterson and
General Hershey from enforcing
any regulation barring or limiting
the voluntary enlistment Of quail
fed colored persons in the Army
while white persons are permitted
to enlist. He also asked the court
to enjoin Mr.. Patterson from con-
Quoting any Army recruiting cam
paign so long as the Army con-
tinues its suspension of voluntary
enlistments Of colored men.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
U. s. Foreign Policy
To Be Communist
Moss RdllY Topic

Communist leaders will outline
their views on the new levels Of
the struggle for peace at mass
rally to observe the 9th ami
yersary Of the Communist Party,
Sunday evening, Sept. 20, at 8 pm,
at the CLIO auditorium, 724 Fourth
Ave. So.
Betty Gannett, a national or
ganizational secretary Of the Com
munist Party, and Robert J. Kelly,
candidate for the state senate from
the 31st legislative district, viii
be the speakers. The speakers, 1t
Is announced, viii present "the
full position Of the party on for
eign policy and its relation 10 the
issues at home, housing, jobs and
security"
Meridel LeSueur, WelI-knoWn To-
cal author and speaker, will be pre-
sent A question period will be
part Of the program.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27

ing counselinR concerning Voca-
tional training and educational op-
portunities.
Social Welfare committee Is re-
sponsible for providing services
upon request from individuals or
other agencies, the need for which
arises out Of inadequate resources
or a requirement for a specialized
skill.
Does InterraeiaI Work
The interracial committee main
tains a study Of the factors which
indicate the existence Of racial ten
sion In the community and strives
toward the elimination Of the same.
Il promotes special projects Of an
interracial nature such as the OBJ
servance Of Race Relations Week.
Responsible for the development
Of "self-improvement" resources
within the Negro community and
for promoting cooperation with
other agencies toward the broad
detectives Of the Urban League
movement Is the eo-ordinating com
mittee.
Geraldine Lawhorn, bIind-deaf
artist, here Nov. Is. Auspices
Credjafawn Credit Uni0n -AdVt-
Announcing recital October 4, AZ
Pilgrim Baptist Church, stirring
Mr.. l. w. Harris. bass-haritOne.
--Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
ST. Paul Women
To Open Council
On September 80

The cabinet of the st. Paul WOm-
ems Council met Friday, September
20, at Halle Q. Brown house in or
der to plan the opening meeting of
the council which will be held Mon
day, September 80, at 900 p. M, as
4 "Koffee Klotch."
Every woman in st. Paul is ELI
gible for membership in the eoun-
ell. Women who are new in the COM
munity are urged to become men,
bers and participate in its program.
The program committee is plan
ming the schedule for the year, and
it will be presented at the opening
meeting Of the council. The purpose
and detectives for the year l946-47
will be outlined.
Cabinet members present were:
Mrs. Justine jackson, president;
the Mines. Jean Rife, Idell Patton,
Ruth Grice, Blanche Dawkins,
Hazel Butler and Myrtle Garden.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
st. Paul Judge ''Errs'';
Refuses Peery New Trial
After Reversing Self

released at that time and has been
free since.
John Mcneil, assistant city cor
poration counsel, objected to the
judges ruling granting a new trial.
Mcneil commended that Judge
Rounds action in letting the de-
PENDANT out on bail and granting
him a new trial, was not valid be-
cause it was not accompanied by
the required memorandum from the
judge stating the grounds for the
order.
Apparently it was upon this tech
nicality that Judge Rounds reversed
himself, thereby denying Peery
"his day in court"
Smith commended that the city
corporation counsePs office had pro-
ceeded under the state statute,
rather than local ordinance. The
statute requires a jury trial and the
city ordinance violation is tried by
a municipal judge alone. Smith had
originally asked for a jury for the
re-trial.
Judge Rounds in n memorandum
said that II has long been the prae-
tiee in municipal court that a ~tab"
charge alleges violation Of . city
ordinance unless specifically in
dicated that the complaint Is made
under state statute. In this case,
he said, neither on the tab nor dur
ing the trial was the state statute
referred 20. The court likewise be-
lieyes, Judge Rounds said, that the
defendant Is guilty Of . violation
Of the ordinance covering indecent
exposure"
Observers are saying that Peery,
who IL a World War II veteran
with more than two years overseas
service, and no previous police rec
ord, has for some reason become the
~perseeuted, rather than the prose-
euted In this case where the com
planning witnesses were In reality
~trespaaaing" ~ well ~ window
peeping."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Nv JOHN J. PARKSDALE


Judge John L. Rounds reversed
himself when he held that he erred
in granting a new trial TO Nelson
D. Peery, 1929 Fourth avenue s.,
Minneapolis, who was arrested in
August on a charge of indecent
exposure. By the order granted
the st. Paul judge grants the mo-
ton by the city corporation coun-
sells office to reconsider, and two
other motions, one to vacate the
order for a new trial and another
to vacate the bail release order. 1t
denies the defendants motion for a
Jury trial and remands the defend
ant TO the St. Paul workhouse to
complete a sentence Of 80 days i'm
posed by Judge Rounds, who origi-
nally found him guilty.
Last Saturday, Frances NJ.
Smith, attorney for Peery, filed an
appeal to the state supreme court.
Smith also asked that the $4,000
bail for Peery be reinstated while
the case Is pending before the su-
preme court. Judge Rounds, after
comforting with Ira Karon Of the
city attorneys Office, deferred the
bail ruling for further study.
Judge Rounds found Peery guilty
after five young women testified
that they had seen him nude on
three different days when they
looked through his bedroom window
at Coneordia College where he was
living temporarily as a member Of
an inter-raeial student industrial
study group.
After several human interest and
civic groups became interested in
the case. and secured counsel for
Peery, Judge Rounds heard the mo-
ton by Smith, early this month, for
a new trial The Judge then de-
eided, after taking the matter un-
der adVisement for several days,
and in spite Of the plea made By
the city attorneys Office against
the motion, that Peery @substan-
tally had not had his day in court. |"
and granted . new trial PeeFy was
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Attempt to Lower Negro
HliteracY in Experiment

HAMPTON, Va. (NNPA)-The
second phase Of a five-phase edu-
cational project to lower the rate
of functional illiteracy among adult
Negroes ended here last Saturday
after demonstrating in a two-day
institute the effectiveness for civil
ian use of certain teaching tech
niques developed by the army.
Veterans who took part in the
Army's wartime program for elimi-
mating illiteracy joined with edu-
Gators, social workers, and college
administrators in preparing a
course to "teach teachers" how to
teach adult illiterates.
The project is being sponsored
by the United States Office Of Edu-
cation in cooperation with the
American Association for Adult
Education and through a $23, 900
grant Of the Carnegie Corporation.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Improve Health Conditions
To Fight Racial TensioH

WASHINGTON, d. c. (NNPA)
AT the first meeting Of the Fed
eral Hospital Council and its adj
visory committee, Mrs, Agnes =.
Meyer, q member Of the advisory
committee, said that II am firmly
convinced that more can Be done %
ease the racial tensions throughout
the South by improving sanitation,
health, medical and educational
facilities for Negroes and for TIE
poor white population than BY any
other means"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Southern Pacific Road
Nav Reverse JimcrO Rule

LOS ANGELES-Oficials of the
Southern Pacific railroad, who have
been under fire ever since news
leaked out about the company's
policy Of segregating Negro pas
sengers leaving here for the South,
have promised Negro leaders here
that they will consider a reversal
Of the policy shortly.
Despite protestations on the part
Of company officials that their only
wish was to make travelling as
convenient and comfortable as pos
sible for Negro passengers, the citi-
zens of Los Angeles have made 1t
clear that they are determined to
put an end to the discrimination.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Palestine Lodge
TO Confer Degree
AT Wheusley House

Palestine Lodge No. q, r. and
A. NJ, Primes Hall aAllintion, win
confer the NJ. NJ. degree Saturday
evening nt 3 p. N. a phyliis Wheat
Icy house. twenty-five men hava
Voluntarily submitted their peti-
tions 10 Palestine Lodge during the
past year, 10 add "a Ia growing
membership, VinitinR brothers are
welcome. Rafronhmnnts viii Be-
served. A. h. Wright "a Worship
full Master; 0uartermnn h
Senior Warden, and G. Smith Il
Junior Warden.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-27
Negro Soldier" Film
Of World Wor II
To Be Shown Here

The much-talked about docu-
mentary film made by the War De-
partment, "The Negro Soldier" will
be shown Wednesday evening, 0c-
tobeT 2, at 8 p. m, at Phyllis
Wheatley House.
A donation of twenty-five cents
which viii go to the church build
ing fund of Glendale Seventh Ad-
ventist church now being built at
Glenwood and Fremont AYES. No.,
will be accepted.
THE Negro Soldier" is q film
showing the contribution made by
the Negro servicemen during
World War ii.