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Chicago Tribune Says
Dixie's Representation In
Congress Should Be Cut

quiet fears on this score, for the
area has long specialized in cleo
ing blatherskites and scoundrels. A
degradation below the Claghorn
level is not likely. More particular
ly, the enforcement Of the amend
ments does not require the enfran-
chisement Of anybody. 1t merely
invites each Of the states concerned
to choose between Negroes voting
and a reduction in representation.
The choice will be theirs to make"
II one assumes, as is true, that
nearly all the Negroes in the South
ern states mapped above did not
vote in the primaries, then the re-
duction in state representations in
Congress would be roughly as
shown in the map-a loss Of 10 Of
the present 80 representatives.
These 10 would be apportioned
among the other states, because
the size Of the House is fixed at
435. Actually, the Southern ste es'
delegations might be reduced even
more, because in Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Texas the poll tax
disenfranchises many whites, too.
Title 2, Chapter /, Section 8 of
the U. s. Code Of Laws, and the
Constitution, say that the number
Of representatives shall be reduced
in the proportion in which male
citizens shall have to the whole
number of male citizen Fl years
and over"
Mississippi, with 90 Of the males
who are 81 or over being Negro,
has the highest percentage Of Ne
gro population Of any Southern
state. Texas, with IS per cent Ne
gro, is the lowest.
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National Veteran
Session Ignores
Minority Vets

WASHINGTON ID. G. (NNPA)
Negroes were conspicuously abb
sent here last Wednesday as the
National Conference on Veterans
Affairs convened in the Statler
hotel at the call Of the National
Social Welfare Assembly.
Although several Negro organi-
cations were invited to attend the
conference no Negro representative
was listed to take part on the two
day program and no portion Of the
program was set aside for a dis
cussion Of the problems Of minority
group veterans.
Following the conference q rep.
resentative Of the National COun-
ell Of Negro Women who had at
tended the sessions stated that
her organization was very much
disturbed" over the way minor
ity groups had been ignored
throughout the conference.
After Il became apparent that
minority groups were not being
given an opportunity to partici-
pate in the program, Leroy JEFF
ries, representing the National
Urban League, requested and was
given permission to address the
conference.
Mr.. Jeffries directed attention
to the lack Of consideration being
given minority problems but no
pertinent discussion followed his
remarks.
The program boosted such speak
ers as Secretary Of War Robert
P. Patterson, Major General Graves
B. Erskine, director Of the Refrain
ing and Unemployment Service;
Representative Edith Nourse Rog-
ers, Republican, of Massachusetts,,
and DIR. William H. Stead, vice
president Of the Federal Reserve
Bank Of st. Louis.
Among the few Negro organiza-
tons represented were the Nation
al Council Of Negro Women, by
Mrs. Edmonia Grant; the National
Urban League by Mr.. Jeffries;
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People, by
Leslie Perry; the American Coun-
Gil on Race Relations, by Robert
Weaver; and the Virginia Spellman
White Republican club, by Mrs.
Mary Church Terrell.
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y. w. WlglngCOn, Oh 6C.
architect for the city Of St. Paul,
in a letter to Urlin L. Clark, chair
man Of the float committee, wrote:
ut has been my intention re-
Gently to mention TO you my real
pleasure at seeing the sketch Of
the proposed winter carnival Scat,
as published in the 81. Paul Re-
cOrder. The artist, Mr.. (NOah)
Smith is 70 be commended for
the theme Of this float and the
impressive manner In which he
has developed II.
kindly accept my enclosed check
as a small contribution 10 this fine
example of civic interest displayed
by the colored citizens Of the Twin
Cities"
Brown Pledges Support
Harry s. Brown, president and
acting general chairman Of Dining
Car Employees Union, Local SIG
said Of the float drive:
"As citizens and members Of the
Negro communities, 1t Is our right,
full duty TO participate in such q
noteworthy effort. We need the COM
plete support Of every citizen who
should make himself a part Of this
project.
The Bonneville Float in the
Aquatennial was a success. We
should make the st. Paul winter
carnival float a success also, and
let others know that we can keep
pace with them. Our eOntribu-
lions should be made today.
"As president and acting general
chairman Of Dining Car Employees
Union, Local SIG, I intellectually
endorse this project and will render
100 per cent support to it."
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NEW YORK-The Chicago Trib-
une, Of which the extreme right
wing Republican, Col. Robert r.
Mccormick, is publisher, carried an
editorial on Wednesday called
Remedy for Bilboism." The sug-
gestion in the editorial was the in
spiration for the map above.
The Tribune said:
"The second section of the l4th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitu-
ton says, in effect, that any state
which denies Negroes the right to
vote shall have its representation
in Congress reduced in proportion
TO the number suffering the dis
elimination. This section has not
been enforced. II the BiIbo hear
ing discloses that by one means or
another the unqualified right Of
Mississippi Negroes to vote was in
fringed, Mississippi's representa-
ton in the House should be cut
from nine to perhaps four or FIVE,
and the states strength in the cleo
tOral college must be reduced in
consequence. The penalty is not at
all unreasonable. Where Negroes
are deprived of the right to vote
they are, in fact, unrepresented,
There numbers have been counted,
however, TO obtain seats in Con-
gress for men who, more often than
not, believe in discrimination In
this sense the Negroes are not only
unrepresented, but misrepresented,
There will be those, of course,
who will say that to enfranchise the
Negroes Of the agricultural South
will lower the quality of the House
and Senate. A candid examination
of the Congressional delegations
concerned will go a long way to
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Lieut.. Clifford Hawkins
Returns From Overseas

Lieut.. Clifford Hawkins, Jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Hawkins,
Sr., is home to stay after four and
one-half years in the Army. All
his over seas duty was spent in
the European area. A former
member of the Both division, First
Lieutenant Hawkins returned home
from Paris, France, on Saturday,
Dec. 7. He was first shipped to
England and from there went
through the continent during which
time he saw only two Minnesotans,
Phillip Blackwell and UNRRA Of
fcer Leo Bohanon. 1t. Hawkins
is now with his family at 419 Col
fax Ave. N.
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Elmer Childress
Wins Promotion
At N. w. Bell

Elmer Lee Childress, 987 Aldrich
Ave. N, has received a promotion
after FIVE years service with the
Minneapolis Northwestern Bell Tel
ephone Co., excluding two and one
half years in the Army. Childress
was first employed as an auto mes
senger (being the first Negro to
hold this position) and was recent
ly made a shipping clerk in the
accounting department (also
first for Negroes). After his serv-
ice in the Armed Forces, Childress
was heartily welcomed back to the
Telephone company.
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members Of the Ave-man commit
tee, in recommending that he be
denied the oath of office for a third
term beginning Jan. 8. They were
instructed to submit recommended
tons to the Republican conference
called for Dec. 80.
A preliminary committee report
is expected to be ready by Dec.
16 and the final report in time for
the converting Of Congress.
Meanwhile, another hearing by
the Senate war investigating COM
mittee was scheduled to begin in
Washington Dec. IL into charges
that Bilbo accepted gratuities from
Mississippi war contractors. The
outcome Of these hearings also is
expected to have a bearing on his
fitness to sit in the Senate as a
member Of the Eightieth Congress.
During the four-day hearing the
committee heard more than fifty
witnesses testify that they were
prevented from registering or vot-
ing either by force, intimidation
or persuasion, or had been afraid
to attempt to register or vote.
The hearings ended last Thurs
day with Bilbo vigorously denying
he melted violence or intimidation,
but admitting that he did not be-
lieve that colored people generally
were qualified to vote in the Mis-
sissippi Democratic primary.
In his statement to the commit
tee Bilbo said:
BilbO Makes Statement
please let me call your atten-
ton to the fact that this is the
first Democratic primary held in
Mississippi in Sc years where the
Negro citizens Of the state have
offered or attempted to vote, and
you can readily appreciate the keen
interest that was aroused through
out the State among the white
Democratic voters as well as the
great opposition such attempt
Continued on page p
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Christrnus Tide
Contdto Pageant
ST. Peters, Dec. Is

A beautiful cantata pageant will
be presented at st. Peter A.M.E.
church, 22nd St. and Elliot Ave.
s., on Sunday, Dec. Is, at 5:45
p. m. Dolores Beasley and Mar
lene Allen will portray Christmas
Tide and Doris Escue the Star.
There will be cast Of 40, assisted
by the Musicale Notes, jolly Six
teen club, Junior Usher club and
Vesper Voice choir.
The public is cordially invited.
Dorthy Sims will be the accom-
PIANIST with Halle Ewing conduct
ing. The cantata will be under the
auspices of the senior usher
board: Thelma Wade, chairman, and
Rev. H. C. Boyd, pastor.
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Gospel Choirs Group
Executive Meeting
Held in Mill City

The Twin City union gospel
choirs and choruses held an ex-
ecutive meeting Sunday, Dec. 8,
at the home of Mrs. Laura Calwell,
1919 Lyndale Ave. N.
Viola Nash, president; Mrs. RUDE
Grant, advisor; Mrs. Villa Mae
Barber, recording secretary; Mrs.
Minnie Fog, president of Zion Bap-
fist choir; Mrs. Viola Munson,
president of Camphor Memorial
choir, and Mr.. Edward Johnson,
director of Zion Baptist choir.
All choirs of the Twin Cities are
welcome to join the organization.
Plans are being made to sponsor
a miscellaneous musical program
in the near future.
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Senator ElIender Attempts
To Whitewash BilbO In
Hearing Before Senators

JACKSON, Miss. (NNPA) -
Chairman Allen J. Ellender of the
Senate campaign investigating
committee at the close of hearings
here last Thursday wished for a
unanimous report absolving Senator
Theodore G. (The MANI Bilbo Of
responsibility for denial to colored
people of the right to vote in the
July 2 Mississippi Democratic
primary.
Ellender, who halls from the
neighboring state of Louisiana
where methods similar to those
used in Mississippi are employed to
suppress the colored vote appar-
emily is not likely to get his wish.
Guilt Established
Bilbo's guilt appears to be suf-
ficiently established by the evil
dence given the committee to war
rant Senators Styles Bridges, Of
New Hampshire, and Bourke B.
Hickenlooper, of Iowa, Republican
publican ticket in the general cleo
ton. There has been in practically
every general election throughout
this long period Republican candi-
dates, sometimes Socialists, on the
ballot to be voted in the general
election"
After calling the attention of the
committee to the "fact that this is
the first Democratic primary in
Mississippi since carpet-bagging
days in which niggers tried to
vote" Bilbo declared:
"If am to be censured and con-
demned and denied a seat in the
u. s. Senate because of my views
and convictions honestly enter
tanned, l do not hesitate to say that
every Senator, Congressman, Gov
ernor and State official in Missis-
sippi for Sc years must likewise
be censured and condemned" All,
he asserted, have entertained the
same views on the exercise of the
franchise by colored people.
Ignoring so-called Senatorial
courtesy, Senator Hickenlooper
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Former Minneapolis
Girl and Husband
Paw Brief Visit

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Nc
gladden. Marianne Carter) Of
Tuskegee, Ala, have been visiting
Mrs. Nc Cadden's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. L. Cooke, 1900 18th Ave
So. Mr.. Nc Gladden. is a Refrain
ing Officer with the Medical Re.
Mobilization section of the Veterans
Administration.
During the war he served as a
classification specialist with the
477th Army Air Corps composite
group at Camp Goldman, Ky. Mrs
Nc Gladden. worked for the govern
ment in Washington, D. c., during
the war. She was a staff member
Of the Spokesman & Recorder news.
papers during her high school days
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The report, based on a six-month
nationwide survey Of veterans re-
adjustment made by the grandson
of John D. Rockefeller, founder
Of the oil dynasty, at the direction
OF Secretary Of War Robert P. Pat
terson, discloses that the Job of
assisting the veteran in his read
justment has been inadequateIy and
haphazardly undertaken.
Rockefeller, who enlisted in the
Army as a private and rose TO the
rank Of lieutenant Colonel, divides
the responsibility for this situation
between the federal government,
which has no overall plan for the
refrigeration Of the veteran into
civilian life, and the community
which has failed to acquaint itself
with the basic problems Of read.
justment.
FIN ing that establishment
among veterans is rampant, and
that unemployment and under-em.
ployment have reached distressing
proportions, Mr.. Rockefeller
recommended:
That on the top governmental
level provisions be made to secure
the proper coordination of the
fifteen federal agencies dealing
with veterans problems.
That steps be taken to amend
the administrative legislation Of
certain portions of the CT. Bill OF
Rights which currently does not
provide for effective or efficient
operation.
That on the community level the
public be made to understand its
failure and wherein its duty lies
to rectify the situation.
That the armed forces, which
have no legal responsibility for
the readjustment of veterans, &C.
cept the moral responsibility and
use their influence to see that the
job is carried through to its sue
cessful conclusion.
With respect to the colored vet.
erap the report states:
mo report dealing with the re-
adjustment Of veterans would be
complete without special mention
of the plight of the Negro.
MANY of the Negroes indicted
into the service, through their pay
and allowances, have had for them.
selves and families a greater in.
come than they had ever enjoyed
previously.
"In the second place, a large
majority have had travel ex-
perienee both within and outside
Of the United States which sur
passes the realm Of imagination.
During their military tour Of
duty a great proportion of them
have, at one time or another,
found themselves in an environ
ment for the first time in their
lives where racial prejudice and
discrimination was at a mini
mum or nonresident.
ION their return to civil life
the Negro has found that many,
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and some rather drastic, changes
have occurred on the home front
the most spectacular Of which
are the tremendous population
shifts from rural 70 urban life,
from the south TO the north and
west, and the nostalgia resulting
from the peak Of industrial job
opportunity which existed dur
ing the latter part Of the war.
Because of the fact that this
Continued on page p
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twenty-five Dollar
Winter Float Check
Heads Weeks List

Contributors to the fund for the
St. Paul winter carnival float this
week are:
Associated Negro Credit Union,
S25; Sterling club, $40; C. W. Wig
ington, SO; Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
James, 81; Artie Boyd, 81.
Contributing 81 to the drive fund
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius
Scates, Willie Harris, H. Jordan,
Felix H. Payne, Mrs. Pearl Nc
Kinney, Forrest Mckinney, Ken
meth Mckinney, William Hudleyr
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Minister'S Wife
Gets New Post
In Sioux Falls

SIOUX FALLS, S. D. - Mrs,
L. c. Harris, wife of the Rev. L. C,
Harris Of St. Johns Baptist church
here, formerly a teacher at Phyllis
Wheatley settlement house in Min
neapOlis, has accepted a position as
a teacher in the Volunteers Of
America nursery home.
Working mothers Of the city
leave their children at the home
during the day. Mrs. Harris has
had special training in child well
fare.
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Minneapolis NAACP
Annual Election
Sunday. Dec. IS

The Minneapolis NAACP will
hold its regular membership meet
ing on Dec. Is at p. M, at the
Phyllis Wheatley House. The an
nual election Of officers and mem
bers of the executive board will
take place.
A nominating committee elected
at the membership meeting Of
Nov. "a, consisting of Wendell
Jones, Henry Thomas, Enrol Fas-
sett, Irving BIumberg, Nellie Stone
William Cratic, and Martin Brown,
has proposed the following slate:
For president, Albert Allen, Jr.;
vice president, Nellie Stone; sec
rotary, Mrs. Annie E. Smith;
treasurer, Irving Blumberg; assist
ant secretary, Mrs. Albert Allen,
Jr. For the executive board: Mrs.
VIM. Andberg Of Anoka, Mrs. Irv-
ing Blumberg, Martin Brown,
Charles Carlson, Curtis Chivers,
Harold Combs, Sam Davis, Garnet
Davis, William Cratic, Ashby U.
Gaskins, Laura G. Gaskins, Miss
Allie Glenn, Tom Galbraith, Wen
dell Jones, Mrs. Mae Marshall,
Enrol Fassett, Cecil E. Newman,
James Perlman, Mrs. G. Patterson,
Clifford Rucker. Jonas Schwartz,
VIM. Seabron, R. A. Skinner, Henry
Thomas, and J. T. Wardlaw.
Members Of the NAACP attend
ing this meeting have the right Of
nominating any member Of the
branch from the floor for any posi-
ton as officer or board member.
Ballots will be furnished and re-
suits will be tabulated at the meet
ing.
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Como Temple Plons
Indoor Fuir

The Social session committee Of
Como Temple No. 1873, I.B.P.o.E.W.,
is sponsoring an Indoor Fair, Fri
day, Dec. 10, at Elks Rest, 588
Rondo, beginning at 7 p. m.
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Army viii Continue
Voluntary Enlistments

WASHINGTON, d. c. (NNPA)
The Army will continue to meet
it's manpower needs through the
month of January through vOlun-
tary enlistments, the War Depart
ment announced last Thursday.
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Mrs. Joseph Tresvan
Dies Suddenly

Mrs. Jos. A. Tresvan, 1888 West
Central, St. Paul, died Wednesday
night at 10 pm. at Ancker Hospi-
tai.
Funeral Saturday at pm. at
Pilgrim Baptist Church. Brooks
Funeral Home in charge.
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Gloria Green, James Hudson, AIDE
line schiaiIke, Fred Lewis, Mar
garet Lewis, Harold Walker, Annie.
Walker, Isaac Morris, D. Mcclure,
B. strawder, and Lucia Mcclure.
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Negro Veterans Color
Nullifies War Record
Rockefeller Asserts

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)-In his efforts to read
just himself civilian life the Negro veteran finds that the
fermentation of his skin utilities the fact that he is veteran
Winthrop Rockefeller declares in report the Secretary
of War veterans readusment made public by the War
nenaVtment last Thursdav NIGHT
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MARTHA BOYD DEAD

Martha Boyd, 7O8 9Th Ave. No.,
Minneapolis, died at General hospi-
tai Wednesday. Funeral services
Saturday at Woodland Chapel.
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InterraciaI Boycott Against Theatre
Ban Proves Effective; Alabama Born
Tallulah Bankhead Attacks Bar

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)-The economic boycott
of the National Theater intended by the Committee for Racial
Democracy compel the playhouse to drop its color bar
wind up the courts the result of by the heater
to break the boycott
As a means of ending the practice of people who buy
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Home, Sunday,
Dec. 8, from 1 to
10 p. m. Mr.. Cot
ton, IS years old,
died Friday morn
ing, 7 a. m, at
Ancker hospital
after q short ILL
ness. He was born
in Chicago, ILL.,,
and had resided
in the city Of St,
~ -
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Crowd Attends
Herman Cotton
Funeral Rites

Several hundred people viewed
the remains of Herman Roy Cot
ton, whose body was in state AT
nwool,. E,,nn-oI
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WigingtOn, Brown Back
Winter Carnival Float;
Support Gains Impetus

The fund drive for the St. Paul winter carnival float took
up impetus this week leading citizens pledged their
support the drive and the $400 down payment the float
presented to the Vaughn Displays lnc of Minneapolis
who will construct the float.
G. w Wgington 679 St Anthony Ave. chief designing
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Big Open House at Elks Rest,
Minneapolis, Christmas Eve and
Christmas Night.-AdVt.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-10-25
LET
FRANK J. ROSNER:

kych Sc nachazel drive a snaz1
Sc doc1liti met, ably vytvoTil
stat, ktery Dude hospodafsky,
socialne a politely pevnym
celkem uprostTed zm1taj1c1ho
Sc more. Jiz Sc pocfnaji jeviti
vysledky 1sil1 a vsechno ma
znacuje tomu, re Sc zeme opet
stava vzorem spoTadanosti a
vyznacuje Sc stabilitou, nejen
pro nejblizsi sousedy ale i pro
cely svet.
Chovame pevnou v1ru v ces-
koslovensky lid a name dive
ru V ceskoslovenskou vladu a
Narodn1 shromazden1, ktere
jest t6lesem opravdu lidovym,
nebot Stroke vrstvy lidu = bez
iakychkoliv pTekazek 81 zvoli-
ly zastupce pro usporadan1 a
r1zenf domac1ch pomerG a "a
iist6ni vseho echo jest zapotfe-
b1 pro klidny prGbeh statn1
spravy a dspesne budoucnosti
Ceskoslovenskeho statu.
Mezinarodne orientovan1
statnfci, pov6Teni vedenfm ces-
koslovenskych vec1, S drem.
Benesem a Janem Masarykem
v cele, jsou zarukou demokra-
tickemu svetu, re Ceskosloven-
sko jest ma spravne ceste. A
Klement Gottwald, pfedseda
vlady jest vybornym a osved-
cenym pracovnlkem, ktery do
vede udrzovati rovnovahu me
ri r6znymi protichudnymi SINE
ry a jest stastne zvolenym "a
stupcem vseho lidu.
LET neni
Size dlouha doba v zivote nor
malnfho jednotlivce, ale "a tu-
to dobu jsme prozili udalosti
ktere jindy trvaly cele veky.
My, americt1 krajan6, ktef:
isme hrd1 ma svGj ceskosloven.
sky puvod a ma svoje pfedky
coz dokazujeme upr1mnou sna.
hou udrzeti sebe i nas1 mladez
pr tonic vedom1, spojujeme
Sc s nasimi bratry a sestram
tam donna v duchu S upf1mnyn
pTanim, ably CeskoslovenskC
vzkvetaIo a vzmahalo Sc, ably
sflilO a m6lO moznost z1ti svOr
ne a v mlru Sc vsemi okoln1m
sousedy a ably jeho budoucnos'
byla opravdu konstruktivnl
dynamickou. Jakozto jeden
vddc1ch stat6 slovanskeho bio
ku ma velikou dlohu pred Sc
bou a veT1me, re jeho posice
ma poll mezinarodn1 politiky
spoluprace a hospodafskeht
souzitl stane Sc pevnym a uce
ilenVm utVarem.