St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-03-11
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and LOwdOwn"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

NATIONAL SCENE: The most
formidable block to passage Of
Humans Civil Rights program is
not the southern Democrats but
Scott Lucas, Democratic Senator
from Illinois. He has always been
a staller and evader on civil rights.
It's a wonder Illinois Negroes and
others do not gang up on him and
remove him from the political
scene by an avalanche of ballots.
o.. To celebrate Brotherhood Week
five Columbus, Georgia, hoodlums
shanghaied three Negro teen
ayers at point of gun, brutally
beating them into Inconsistencies
ThurgOOd Marshall of the NAA
CP charges the FILA with secret
and vague memorandum in con-
neCtion with discriminatory prac-
tees in that U. S. agency The
NAACP national office has asked
its branches to mobilize grass
roots" support for limitation of
debate in Congress and for civil
rights action. Such pressure should
the NAACP be placed on the ma
Jority party. Roy Wilkins, act
ing NAACP secretary, is on a west
coast tour.
Lee Baker, st. Louis civic hero
who helped authorities catch the
Mound Citys No. l Public Enemy,
was killed in a fight with another
man over so cent debt. Baker
assisted in the capture and iden-
tificatiOn of Isadore Londe who
headed a gang which terrorized
st. Louis with bombings for sew
eral years.
THE MARINE CORPS was too
tough for 1t. John Scudder, its
only commissioned officer. He fl
nally resigned last week. Marine
officers joined in isolating him,
and Scudder just couldn't take it.
. Hazel Scott, concert pianist
and wife of New York Congress
man A. Clayton Powell, was re-
fused service in a PaSco Washing
ton, restaurant Feb. IA. Hum
phrey spoke at the Charter Day
program at Howard University
last Wednesday, March 2. The
Senator said, mo, a minority of
men in the Senate cannot Illustrate
a nation. A nation is awakening
Communities are alive. A ground
swell is developing. Brotherhood
is on the march. People are begin
ming again to feel democracy. In
their communities they are talk
ing and acting for democracy"
Clarence VI. Mitchell, labor sec
rotary for the NAACP, struck out
at the Senate Labor Committee
for allOtting only IS minutes for
members of Negro organizations
to be heard, on the new proposed
labor law, last week in the nation
capital. . Sixty per cent of pos
tai employees charged with dlsloy-
atty are Negroes. Due to the
loosely drawn order under which
the employees are charged. any
Negro who is courageous enough
TO protest the discrimination ram.
pant in most government agep.
cIes, may have to face "dlsloyalty
charges"
Frat Drops Color Line: At Ohio
State University the Bucket and
Dlpper an Ohio State honorary
fraternity, Monday changed its ad
mlttanCe clause to read all male
students instead OF white male
students.
Go LEADS ABC FIGHT: The
battle to get the American Bow,
ling Congress to abandon its Ole
law which prohibits non-white
bowlers from participating IN tour
namcnt play is being lead by tn,
Go In Atlantic City Tuesday be
fore the board of directors of the
ABC spokesman after spokesman
appeared to ask the board to droI
IT'S ruling which bars thousands O
Americans from bowling in ABC
sponsored Journeys the nation over
TIE NEGRO PRESS lambastec
vigorously "ParsOn" J. W. Holley
founder Of the Albany State Col
lege in Georgia, for an "Uncl,
Tom speech before a Kiwani.
club. The good parson was agir
the ROsenwaId fund which bull
1000 schools in the south for Ne
gro children and the NAACP
which has fought for the rights o,
colored citizens for 40 years. o.
him the Louisville Defender says
Rev. J. w. Hollcy may hi!
tribe decrease. The top featur,
If the New Orleans Mardi Ora!
vas the appearance in his HON,
city Of Louis Armstrong. who tool
the part Of King of Zulus
LOCAL SCENE: metropolitan
arr gnplng about a survey" belRg
made by U" students sponsorcc
by Minneapolis Urban League
Trouble seems to be with type o.
questions, and the fact that com
munity was not properly prepared
for VISIT OF lntervlcwers Mary
Kyle, columnist in local contempt
rary, the Twin City Observer. gave
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