St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-20
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and LOwdOwn"
BY BAILEE THOMAS
J. ALPHONZO HORTON
Guest COlumnist


Guest COlumnlst
INTERNATIONAL SCENE: The
Hon. C. d. B. King now sports a
new title-Ambassador Designate.
He was recognized as ambassador
designate from Liberia last week
by Secretary of State Dean C.
Acheson and presented his letters
of credence as ambassador to
President Truman last week. The
American legation in Monrovia,
Liberia, was elevated to Embassy
status last Friday when the Hon.
Edward R. Dudley presented his
letters of credence as ambassador
to President William v. s. Tub
man. A Russian plot to break
up the United States into q series
Of separate small nations of Ne
groes, Germans and other racial
entities was reported to a senate
judiciary subcommittee last week
by Gen. Isydor Rudolph Modelslxi,
a former Polish general and mill
tary attache at the Polish embas-
sy.
The strike Of Hawaiian steve
dores, all colored, brings to the
forefront resentment Of minority
groups against the million dollar
shipping industry to back down
from its colonial policy aimed at
the profitable exploitation of coll
ored labor in the Hawaiian is
lands. The strike started May 1,
as the result of the refusal of
shipping interests to raise the
wages of island stevedores to
within 10 cents an hour of West
Coast stevedore unions, which are
dominated by whites.
U. s. Attorney General Tom
Clark is about to face a suit for
adding the name Of the Hawaii
Civil Liberties committee to the
new list Of SO groups of subver-
sive organizations in America. i.
Slave trading has reappeared in
South Africa. Wandering natives
in the northern Transvaal sector
Of the country are seized and sold
as laborers to the highest bidders
by Highveld gangs, known as
''blackbirders." The gangs report
edly use such trickery as offers of
work at high wages; when these
fail they resort to brutality and
even murder. The slave traffic is
causing considerable terror de-
spite futile police efforts to quash
it. Native school children in
Johannesburg, South Africa were
recently denied four cents per day
per child for meals on grounds
that it Is too costly, while the
government allOts European chill
dren IL cents per child per day.
The government contends that re-
fusing such lunches to natives
teaches them self dependence
and gives them a better sense of
responsibility" while Europeans
need no such lesson.
NATIONAL SCENE: Out of
S,O16 persons applying for work
at the Urban League of Greater
New York last year, 1856 were
placed, according to Executive
Director Edward s. Lewis.
Racial discrimination in public
meeting places, restaurants and
other facilities Of Washington, D.
C. is on the downgrade, says Har-
ry s. Wender, chairman of the
d. c. recreation board, in a 1900
word report made by him as an
individual However: with few ex-
ceptions, no Negro is served in
downtown restaurants; downtown
night clubs generally follow seq
regation policies of restaurants;
no Negro street car or bus opera
tors are employed within the city.
Slick senators have seemingly
found a fool-proOf method of kill
ing the move to repeal taxes on
margarine - they threaten to
filibuster and to even attach q
civil rights bill to the measure. q.
United Negro College Fund off,
Gals are casting pleading eyes at
large corporations nowadays be-
cause the Julius Rosenwald fund
has been hquidated. Present tax
structures will prevent the ap-
pearance Of another Rosenwald or
Rockefeller, so large corporations
offer the only outlet in the way
OF large contributions.
Illinois is considering q bill to
legalize bOokies. Supporters Of
the measure say it would take
race betting from the control of
the underworld by barring gang
sters and ex-convicts from obtain
ing licenses. The states only Ne
gro senator, Christopher C. VIM
bish ID, Chicago introduced the
measure.
With an impressive war record
on its log book the aIl-Negro tao
teal 332nd Fighter Wing unit
awaits inActivAtion at Lockbourne
Its 1000 under Col Benjamin
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