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Page st. Paul RECORDER
Friday, April %, 1947

burying tan Yanks in Jim Crow
graves drew such a blast that the
Pentagon brass hats rescinded the
information bulletin detailing how
the dead were to be segregated in
national cemeteries.
How bout that, Joe? Can you
imagine the boys in New Guinea
picking the spot to join their
maker according to the color of
their skin?
Maybe the Pentagon brass hats
don't know that in places like New
Guinea they bury them where they
fall.
Wonder what the brass hats
(who probably fought the war in
the Pentagon's chairborne infantry
would say if they knew ofthe mass
burials of Japs, tan Yanks, white
Yanks, and Australians in the same
grave at Milne Bay, New Guinea,
during the Jap invasion Of August,
1912.
For the discontinue Of the War
Departments high command, here
are few lurid details:
When the Japs charged Austral-
ian-American machine gun en-
placements at Milne Bay dead
Aussies, tan Yanks, white Yanks
and Japs all piled up around the
gun pits. When the battle was over
the dead were stacked high in a
heap and quickly began to decom-
pose and smell. The Quartermaster
Generals Graves Registration peo-
pie (who are supposed to bury the
dead) were either all shot full Of
holes like the rest of the American
Australian forces or just weren't
on that part of the island. Anyway,
no live person had any time to be
worrying about burying dead
people.
So the Japs and the black Yanks
and the white and the Aussies lay
on the beach in a heap and stank
and rotted until the base was made
secure. Then a bulldozer from the
engineers came along and dug a
big hole with one gouge of its blade,
raked the sinking bodies of the
Yanks and the Japs and the Aus
sizes into the hole with another
shovel Of its blade, and buried them
all in the same grave with the
third huge shovel of earth.
Some Of those bones lying out
there on top of one another in Gill
Gill cemetery must do a lot of shift
ing around in that hole when Jim
Crow policies like that of the non
fighting Quartermaster General are
announced in Washington.
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Legion Commander Says
People Don't Want Jim
Crow Guard Units

Editor: A news article in last
weeks St. Paul Recorder and Min
neapolis Spokesman announced the
formation of committee to dis
cuss with state military officials
the Indignation of Negroes in the
Minnesota National Guard.
PROFESSIONALLY the committee
will be guided in its deliberations
and discussions by the often-ex-
pressed desire of Negro Americans
to be admitted to such military or
CARNATIONS on the basis of uncon-
ditional equality. The committee
will also be mindful that the Ne
gro people Of Minnesota made it
Enthusiastically clear, when the Home
Guard question became an issue in
1904, that racially segregated
companies, platOOns, squads, and
the like with or without Negro
ofricersD suggest second-class cit
izenship and are therefore mex
cusable and unacceptable in any
state military organization.
The state Of New Hampshire,
with its unsegregated Guard, has
now set a national precedent. Any
group of citizens who seek to bring
Minnesota into line with New
Hampshire will find ready support
from all minded people in the
state.
o. c. Hall, Jr.
Commander, Attacks Brooks Post
No. COG, American Legion.
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Walter White, secretary Of the
NAACP, says that 1916 was one
Of the most grimful years in the
history Of the organization, but
that nevertheless it made these
long strides forward.
CLEARED "a Of the u de-
PENDANTS in the alleged riot in Co.
lumbia, Tenn, Of all charges; and
is now engaged in defending others.
ESTABLISHED the legal
principle that state segregation
laws do not apply to interstate
passengers by winning the Irene
Morgan VS.. Commonwealth Of Nir-
GINA case before the United States
Supreme court.
. STARTED litigation against
the states Of Oklahoma, Texas and
Louisiana, to compel admission Of
col0red students to state universe
ties.
REDUCED court martial
sentences against colored service
men totaling 2,lO0 years, and had
ten death sentences committed.
PUSHED successful fight for
state FEPC bills in many states;
worked, and is working still, for
federal fair employment legislation.
PROSECUTED election ohici-
ais in southern states barring col
ored people from voting in the
Democratic primary right won
for southern Negroes in the Ma
ACP's celebrated Texas white
primary" case in 1914. Cases won
in Florida and Georgia; pending in
Alabama and Louisiana.
. SECURED indictments Of six
mobsters in blowtorch and meat
cleaver lynching Of John Jones in
Minden, La.
DREW into a great hard driv-
ing organization Of l947 branches
of youth units in a states, the Dis
trict of Columbia and Hawaii, with
membership totaling $4,000.
In I9i7, the NAACP proposes
to top all these achievements, and
in memberships, IL has set out to
Make Il A Million! A million
members in l947-that's the goal.
A million voices blended into one
great voice demanding Freedom,
million hearts and heads dedi-
Gated to the unwavering prin-
cipIe of human dignity and hu-
man rights-that's the goal!
Each and every victory won by
the NAACP is victory not only for
justice to colored people, but to
common people everywhere. In pro-
portion to the NAACP's ability to
achieve justice for those it serves,
common people all over the world
are encouraged to fight the good
fight and keep the faith in the dark
est hour.
Enlightened men and women
everywhere should not only con
tribute to the success of the MA
ACP's drive for one million mem
beers in 1947, but to broaden the
basis Of information on the work
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Minneapolis City Council Liberals

The aldermen group in the Mime
apOs taking considerable heat recently
In refusing the Minneapolis
majority made mistake because this needs better
circumstances warrant.
The liberal majores in city have comparatively
records good those councils which
conservatives.
The joined by conservatives in their lack
Of cooperation with Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey may
been due piqu produced by Humphreys mayors
job from glOrihed community
ship The truth that the Rdermunc boys long the megh
found themselves pushed of the spotlight by
his job and the he really
tive Of a metropolitan city
of the Of
for well pleased Humphrey
went clean the What little cooperation mayor
public opinion.
Getting our original theme of the liberal aldermen we
reerate that the liberal
mistake that coumns Percy Villa thinks
it In the first place the Central Labor
responsible for the election of liberal
the people who complaining loudly about the liberals
to the request Of the labor for
certainly not responsible for the election these aldermen
the liberal aldermen made mistake the axicab
the beh Of the labor have the conservatives who have
fought such things public ownership the
Everybody Judgment they
entitled aldermen
all Of us going to keep making mistakes.
This remembers that the legislation
people originated from liberal
for Minneapolis FEPC made and by the liberal bloc
council assisted by only conservatives. We unwilling
allow unpopular
of proportion effort to defeat councmen who
members of the liberal Let's study
council on all important
With exception Minneapolis liberal good
and are liberal in words and action.
Halle women will come 10 St
community bearing name cele
birthday hearty welcome Miss played
valiant in the life Of her people.
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ployment, such as wages, hours
unionization, or betterment of
working conditions. and that the
trial court had jurisdiction to issue
the injunction.
With this conclusion the Supreme
court disagreed, holding that the
Act was intended to embrace con-
troversies other than those between
employers and employees, between
labor unions seeking to represent
employees and employers, and be.
tween persons seeking employment
and employers.
The language of the decision is
interesting. Said the Supreme
court:
THE Act does not concern it
self with background or motives of
the dispute. The desire for fair and
equitable conditions of employment
on the part of persons Of any race
or color, or persuasion, and the re.
moval Of determinations against
them by reason Of their race OF
religious beliefs is quite as i'm.
portant to those concerned as fair,
ness and equity in terms and con.
ditions Of employment can be tC
trade or craft unions or any form
Of labor organization or asSocia
ton.
Race discrimination by an en-
ployer may reasonably be deemed
more unfair and less eNcuSable
than discrimination against work
ers on the ground Of union af-
fliatiOn. There is no justification
in the apparent purposes or the
express terms Of the Act for
limiting its definition Of labor
disputes and cases arising there
from by excluding those which
arise with respect to discrimina-
ton in terms and conditions of
employers based upon differences
Of race or color"
Organizations fighting race dis
elimination had better find out be
fore the House bill becomes Law
whether its provisions will MULTI!
this decision and outlaw the typ,
of picketing the Supreme court up
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and program Of the NAACP TO
the end that four million potential
members may be reached because
in the days ahead, as we go for
ward to fight for participation in
the administration and making of
the laws and the government under
which we live, on all levels, and
to set ourselves free Of political
and economic slavery, we are going
to need the unity and backing Of
millions and millions Of freedom
loving people.
The NAACP, being an inter
racial organization should, of
course, remain so on all levels,
but it would be most encouraging
to nOn-white members and pO-
tential members Of the NAACP
if the cOlOred people in the United
States, in l9i7, rolled up their
sleeves and made the NAACP
membership one million.
This campaign should not be ter
minated until that goal is achieved.
The forces Of reaction are de
termined that segregation and dis
elimination shall not be done away
with. Represented in this force are
whites and blacks and others who
profit from this sort of thing. The
thing they fear most, as they fight
to preserve division and derail in
tegratiOn and advancement of col
ored people, is unity among col
ored people in such good old Ameri-
can organizations as the NAACP.
Your purchase Of a NAACP mem
bership is just as important TO the
preservation Of democracy as the
purchase Of War Bond during
the total, global and revolutionary
war through which we have just
come.
An army goes forward to vic
tory on its stomach. This means
that in all fights for right some
body has to feed the fighter while
he fights. No army can fight a
successful war and raise the neces-
sary funds to finance itself while
it fights. No individual or group
can fight the good fight unless it
is given the tools with which to
fight by those for whom it fights.
In the case Of the NAACP, in every
fight it has made, the fight has
been for you, you and you-all Of
us everywhere. We have no right
to enjoy the results Of its victories
unless we have contributed to max
ing the victories possible.
Tomorrow you may need the as
sistance of the NAACP individu-
ally. II may be your wife, child or
the weakest in your community,
Put something in the One Million
membership bank upon which you
and yours may draw in time of
direst need, if necessary. Appoint
yourself as committee of one TO
reach out through existing COM
munity organizations for at least
one NAACP membership in each
colOred family in America.
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Worthy Servants Get Recognition

When legislators dgntaries gathered
weeks ago honor William BILLY" Williams
Hoage governors office attaches glad for
tribute well deserved.
At that meeting one telegram was read which thought
about Mesrs Williams which this newspaper
several The telegram from former Elmer
Benson who said:
My very Billy williams George Hoage on
this occasion and always They real ability
standing II regetable that we live in world go narrow and
bgoted that abilities
Of these men and the men and women Of their
Elmer Benson
banquet expressed minds
of there and elsewhere who do have the
express it.
January years ago. paper edtoray:
Every and then worthy individual
to deserved tribute to the perennials BILLY" Williams
George Hoage who have the Minnesota
office for 20 Most Minnesotans quite familiar
with the well known virtues and abilities of these
We smile and with the merited praise, but a
SMILE sad because of knowledge that Minnesota could have
better abilities of Williams HOage
outstanding records confidential and receptonist
and later executive clerks have for them
tatiOns for efficiency, tact and good
Had the been white believe they would have been
elevated long important
Our deep regret that
waste the abilities of such good in minor capactiesus
they ancestry Thus
could have been utilized all these higher pponv
posts the greater benefit Of the have been lost
Surely the time when will stop robbing
public services by RELOCATING worthy capable insignificant
paesbeause Of the color of their skin their racial ancestry
What said in 1915 still We believe many people
have been thinking along similar lines Certainly the people who
initiated the audabe to give these fitting pensions
conscious Of what former Gov Benson his telegram the
testimonial dinner
II gratifying that the Senate sponsored bill Mr. Will
Hams Mr.. Hoage pensions
finally approved by the House and expected be signed Governor
Luther Youngdahl.
When the legislature passed this bill they possible
reasonable security for these good public
sponsored the bill publicly privately
demonstrated the latent strength play
in MnnesOans but which too seldom finds
INTERNATIONAL AMTTY NOTE
In many in North Dakota U. printed signs boldly
Beer For Only" Hope Aeman
doesn't go up o Dakota on his u s. goodwill tour.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to the faghted people who pos
sbe the Negro communty
a the St. Paul auditorium April "a 81.
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Dear Joe
WHATSA' MATTER MANI?
In LANES l. HlCKS


Hey, Joe, have you had a baby
since you've been back from over
seas? All right, all right, don't
be so technical You know what
| mean mean has your wife had
baby since you've been back?
Why hasn't she?
OK, you don't have to tell why
and nobody's trying to get into
your private affairs-but if yoU
are like a million other childles.
CTS running around the country
accusing your wife of being steril,
you'd better start checking up OF
yourself, Joe.
According to a recent survey
there are approximately one million
married veterans and non-veterans
in the United States, who, for {
variety Of reasons, can't be fathers
and it is estimated that this mum
Der is being increased by at leas,
one hundred thousand new barrier
marriages each year.
And here is the punch line: The
doctors are betting even money il
advance that it is you, and not yom
wife, who is unable to give the
IL | L
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LETTERS
Augie's Negro Employees
Say COlOred Patrons
Get Courteous Service

Editor: We as a group of en-
pIoyees at Augie's Bar wish to ex-
press our sincere feelings about
the service and treatment Of col
ored patrons at Augie's Bar. They
have been given the same courtesy
and respect any of the other Gus
toners receive. We find Augie a
considerable and fair employer.
Our intentions are of the best
and sincerely hope you will be-
lieve that we are only trying to
express true facts.
Signed: Rufus Watson, James
Nichols, George Johnson, Dixie
Fulson, Louis Head, and Char
lotte f. Rooney.
Minneapolis, MINI.
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Rev. Guy Praises Paper
For Aggressive Spirit
And Loyalty To Group

April %, l947
Editor: have regarded your
achievement in making your papers
the Voices Of the Northwest" as
an evidence Of unusual ability and
a reward for your aggressive spirit
and loyalty to the interest of our
group. May your tribe increase.
Rev. William f. Guy
Presiding Elder
St. Paul District AME Church
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Make 1t Million, Durr
Urges in Setting Forth
N.A.A.CP.'s Great Record
By ROBERT DURR

Make 1t a Million" is the heading in the title of curt
concise and brief report of the National Association for the
Advancement Of Coored People, just received The NAACPs
membership goal million in the current campaign 1t
wants this membership with which fight discrimination and
snnrnnatnn based ON race creed or color in 1917.
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PIIRIIsHER,S CnRNER

Space limitations eliminated the
Publishers Corner" this week. The
column win be back at its regular
spot next week on this page.
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BY LOUIS LAUTIER

One provision in the House labor
bill requires intensive study by
members of minority groups who
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Drying Trousers

Drying Of wash trousers " band.
top oVerRllS on metal trousers
stretchers saves ironing
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Miss Halle O. Brown Of women, St
April go to help the community house. bearing
birthday hearty welcome has played
a valiant in the life Of her people.
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Evening star., 1947-02-26
Taxpayers Sit in on Senote's
First Open Hearing on Funds

to know how big a part Of the popu-
lation is made up of veterans and
their families.
Veterans Administrator Bradley
said $4,000 900 men already had been
demobilized, 100000 more were
coming out of uniform, for a total OF
20, ,0O0, 900. Counting three members
in the family of the average veteran,
Gen. Bradley estimated the answer
to the Senator's question was Co.
100000.
Afterward, Senator Bridges said
the first open hearing had been
satisfactory. so far as the commit
tee was concerned.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Woodstock Chamber Elect.
Special Dispoteh to The siar

speeioI bispofeh to The Star
WOODSTOCK, Va, Feb. 26.-New
members of the Board of Directors
of the Woodstock Chamber Of Com
merce have elected Carroll Boyer
president: Edgar Newman, vice
president; George Latham, treas
urer, and william Dalke jr., secre-
tary.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Executed Mans
Eye Restores
Siqht of Priest
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

RENO, New, Feb. 26.-His full
vision restored, Father Edmund
Boyle today hailed as "a demon
stration of the progress of science
the operation involving the use OF
vitreous matter taken from the eye
of an executed murderer.
The 30-year -old priest, formerly
of Pawtucket, R. l., had been blind
in the right eye since childhood
He was willed an eye by Paul May
nard Skaug of Oshkosh, Wis, and
the operation was performed jan
uary II. the day after Skaug died
in the gas chamber.
Father Boyle's physician, who pre-
ferred that his name be withheld
said the priest had regained perfect
vision.
II am very happy" said Father
Boyle, priest at st. Thomas Aquinas
Cathedral here. "I have said many
masses of thanksgiving and thanked
those who prayed"
Skaug's other eye was used in ar
operation on Bert Deadly, a prison
guard, but the results have not beer
determined,
Evening star., 1947-02-26

/ History was made at the Capitol
yesterday, when American taxpay-
ers listened for the first time tc
a Senate Appropriations Subcom-
mittee hearing on how their money
Is to be spent.
Always before, such hearings had
been held behind heavy, guarded
doors. But the doors were opened
yesterday on orders Of Chairman
Bridges.
The public filed in, took all the
available seats. Most were men
with direct interest in the House
passed deficiency bill under con-
sideration. Several women came
some evidently out OF curiosity.
What did the public see and
hear2
They watched the subcommittee
members in action from their new
seats on the recently installed dais
raised above the floor. They saw
distinguished officials Of the Gov
ernment, whose names or pictures
appear daily in public print.
They heard the croSs-fire between
witnesses and members delving into
a mass of figures. The average Curl
osity-seeker couldn't understand
much Of it.
But they learned the. deficiency
bill carried extra money to run the
Government for the rest Of the fiscal
year ending June 30. They listened
with interest to testimony 'as to
when sugar rationing and rent con-
trolls might end.
Grey-haired, deep-voiced Maj
Gen. Philip B. Fleming, known as
the 'ttrouble-shooter" of the Exec
utive Branch of Government was
the first witness. He seemed to have
troubles of his own. He thought the
House appropriations bill would
liQuidate too quickly Government
agencies under his supervision as
head of the Office of Temporary
Controls. He said he favored liqui-
dation of war controls as soon as
possible under law. But he warned
if sugar controls were off, the price
might shoot up to 80 cents a pound.
Atomic energy was brought up by
Senator Hickenlooper, Republican,
of Iowa. He asked for appropria-
tions to support the Joint Congress
sional Committee on Atomic Energy.
Then Chairman Bridges wanted
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-17

EARLIER in the day, the for
mer vice-president told the press:
81 believe that the Senate vote
supporting the Truman Doctrine
is out of line with the sentiment
of the people of this country.
Our people are opposed TO
military loans without qualifi-
cation"
Asked about the possibilities of
third party in the U.S., Wallace
smiled and said, "It's too early
to say where the progressive vote
will 60 in 1948.D
He had already expressed an
indication that he would run for
president if such a candidacy
would "aid the cause of liberal
ism here" 49,
IS ~ =
SPEAKING on, anti-labor legis-
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the rent from $40 to $50 a month
and TO evict Crun1 on the ground
that the dwelling was os>sktore
and did not come under the
regulation of the OPA.
The Tenants League again
called in Mailman, who won the
case in court last week. Judge
Cecil c. Smith ruled that the
definition depended on the pur-
pose for which, the store was or
iginally rented.
THE MORAL. according to Mai
man, is the ease with which the
people can defend themselves
when their resources are mobil-
lied effectively.
Many landlords believe the
tenants can be taken advantage
of because of the highly technical
nature of many of the cases, and
do not expect the tenants to have
proper legal advice.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-17
10000 picket
ComeIs pIont

The old ad slogan about ED
walk mile for Camel" came
home to roost at the 70 gates of
the F. j. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
this week.
Ten thousand striking workers
at the Camel cigarette plant
walked, not a mile but thousands
of miles, on the picket lines. They
are members Of the Go Food,
Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied
Workers union of America.
White and Negro workers
marched side by side in that
Southern city after the COM
panY made its final offer"
of only 51a cents per hour
increase. The workers de-
manded the standard Is cent
wage increase and pointed
out that the company profits
for 1916 amounted to $4s.-
$4,000 before taxes.