davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1949-10-09

show visitors is a squat. palm
like plant which he says Is
the oldest Of all living plant
life. Such plant life, he says.
pervaded the earth In the
Paleozoic Age, millions of
years ago.
The Botanic Garden was
founded in 1920 under the
auspices of the Columbia In
stitute for the Promotion of
Arts and Sciences and func-
toned until 1887, when the
institute ceased to exist.
In 1912 the garden was
started up again when it be-
came necessary for the Gov
ernment to. house the botan-
ical collections brought here
from the South Seas by an
expedition headed by one
Capt. Charles Wilkes. Since
then the garden. in one place
or another, has existed and
given esthetic delight to mil
lions Of visitors and afforded
opportunity for study to
botanical students from all
parts of the world.
The great expanse of glass
in the conservatory and hot
houses gives rise to one of
Mr.. Frederick's greatest head
aches. The glass Is a great
temptation to small boys with
rocks. II it isn't young van
dals it's hailstones, and If it
isn't hailstones it's the i'm
perceptible settling of the
buildings that cracks rigid
glass panes. One of his en-
ployes Is a man who does
nothing but replace broken
glass.
Another annoyance Is the
souvenir hunters and mis-
creants who take away the
name plates from the plants.
This requires MIR. Frederick's
stan to go to all the trouble
OF ascertaining again the
exact technical name for the
plant and making another
nameplate. And when It's q
name like Encephalartos Al
tensteinii Cycadacae, it's no
laughing matter.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

he oversees operations in the
domed, glass-sheathed con-
servatory and adjacent struc-
lures which house palms,
cycades, ferns. cacti. bromelia
and miscellaneous tropical
plants, including one of the
richest collections of orchids
In the United States.
Unobtrusively situated on
Independence avenue at the
foot of Capitol Hill. the
Botanic Garden Is like a Sec
ton of the Malayan jungle
transplanted to the heart of
the Nations Capital. Here
giant and dwarf palm trees
dwell beside aloes with their
sinister entanglements of
thorns, delicate Frangipani
blossoms drop down along
side coffee plants, while the
aerial roots of Brazilian rub
ber trees salaam to neighbor-
ing citrus trees and huge
banana leaves provide a para
sol against the MONDAY sun.
A brook musically trickles
through the main part Of the,
garden, and when the sum-
mer thermometer heads for
the stratosphere this is one
OF the coolest spots in town
sans artificial air conditioning.
why not?" asks MIR. Fred
erick. Its like stepping into
the shade of a dense forest"
MIR. Frederick, who has been
connected with the Botanic
Garden for l6 years, has an
easy familiarity with most of
his plants, but some Of them
give him q particular pride.
One. for instance. Is a
royal palm which scars 80
feet straight up to the high
domed ceiling.
People don't believe me
when tell them this big fel-
low Is only about % years
old" he says. I'VE got it when
1t was only a sapling in a H.
inch flower pot. Look at it
now" he adds, looking pride
fully up toward It's lofty
umbrella.
Another plant he likes to
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Social Gains for Farmer
Urged by Mrs. Douglas

The Importance of giving social
security, minimum wage and labor
relations protection to farmers,
particularly migrant workers, was
stressed last night by Representa-
tive Helen Gahagan Douglas,
Democrat. Of California.
Mrs. Douglas was among speak
ers at the presentation Of the
seventh annual Workers Defense
League Clendenin Award at the
Institute Of Contemporary Arts,
1922 New York avenue NV. Re-
cipient Of the bronze plaque was
II. L. Mitchell, president Of the
National Farm Labor Union. AFL.
Mrs. Douglas said that next
week she will introduce a resolu-
ton urging that House and Sem
ate committees be set up to in
vestisate the matter of improving
the lot Of farm workers. She said
they face another threat to their
standards in the influx of foreign
workers into the country and
their subsequent employment as
farm laborers.
Secretary Of Agriculture Bran
nan, Senator Paul II. Douglas,
Democrat. of Illinois. and DR..
Mordecai johnson. president of
Howard University, also spoke.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Emergency Ohio Bill
Drafted 10 Cope With
Mounting Relief Costs
Nv ths Assoeicsed Press

COLUMBUS. Ohio, June O.
Emergency legislation reminiscent
ef depression days was drafted to-
Aay to help counties meet mount
0g relief costs, termed by Gov.
Frank j. Lausche the States No. /
crisis.
Hamilton County Senators Will
1am II. Deddens, Republican, and
Maurice A. Niehaus. Democrat,
said they win introduce a bill SIM
tlar to the Carey Act of depression
days. The measure would permit
county commissioners to issue
bonds to pay relief costs.
The step was decided on after
o Hamilton County delegation
Tuesday told Gov. Lausche the
county lacked money to pay July
felief checks About $4,000. 900
gill be needed there for relief of
The poor this year. said Harold
NJ. Baron. chairman of the
Hamilton County Emergency Re
lief Committee.
The Governor told the group,
"Relief is the most critical prob
lem facing me-"
He said local relief officials also
were In financial difficulties in
Cleveland, Franklin and Stark
Counties as well as other places.
State Welfare Director John H.
Lamneck reported that the State
on July / will be $4,000, 900 behind
In its $3.50 matching Of local
relief funds for the poor.
Utilities excise tax revenues are
given to local Government for
relief on the basis Of population,
need and the tax duplicate. The
State then dips into Its general
revenue funds to match local ex-
penditures up to so per cent.
Mr.. Lausche estimated they
might be $25. .000. 900 in 1949 on
the basis Of expenditures for the
first four months.
II total relief costs hit $25, ,000.-
900 this year. it would be the
highest since the years 1939-40
when they were just under that
sum. In 1914 and 1945 total local
State relief cost $5,400.000 each
year.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
District Girl Student
Wins w. & IA. Honors

Miss Nancy Noble, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John z. Noble. 1914
Twenty-fifth street Sc. viii
graduate with honors Sunday
from William and Mary College,
Williamsburg. Va.
Elected TO Phi Beta Kappa hon.
orary fraternity last fall. she
majored in Jurisprudence and will
graduate with q Bachelor of
Science degree. She was awarded
the Graves scholarship in her
junior year for scholastic excel
lence. She Is a graduate of Ana
costa High Schol and was a
member of Phi Mu Sorority.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
Four Negroes On
SsGFe Social Work
Meeting PFoqFuna

-Four Minnesota Negroes are
scheduled to take part IN Discus
sions Of the Minnesota State Con-
ference Of Social Work which
meets in Minneapolis at the Hotel
Nleollet, Minneapolis. May 2 10 ..
Ruby Perneli Of the University
Of Minnesota department. Of 90
ciology, win speak Nay . At Io;1S
on Personnel Practices IN Group
Work" Dolly Peery Of the RAM
sey County old age aasistanco 80
ton win participate IN q panel
Monday, May 2, at $50 p. m
Also on Monday a. $50 ?. n.
s. v. Owens Of the st. Paul Urban
League win chair . panel discus.
sion on @civil Rights Practices n
Minnesota" On which cliffoEd
Rucker Of the Governors Inter.
racial commlasion win PARTED
pate. Others on this panel are IA.
Rogers, famous indian attorney
and University o. nnnnerotn foot.
BAN star John slmmonA cbais.
man Of the Minnesota Comcl for
EEpC and Mike Mnunoha az tho
Japanese AEnsEican citinenn
Leagua.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
Wisconsin Teachers
College Choir Sings
0biecFionGI Song

Listeners over station KSTP
last Saturday afternoon were
startled to hear q choir sing the
Questionable song novelty 'eeny
meeny, niney mo, catch q n-r
by his toe" The singers were the
River Falls Cwis.) Teachers Col
lege a cappella choir who were
giving an air concert. Radio pro-
gram directors and station work
ers were shocked almost speech
less.
Telephone protests began to
pour into the station Immediately
after the song. The choir direc-
tor. one C. B. King, couldn't UNI
derstand what the fuss was ali
about. He told KsTP officials
that Negroes in the south didn't
object to hearing the objection
able and vulgar epithet over the
radio.
KSTP officials were disturbed
by the incident but said that
while the lyrics had been casually
checked, no one caught the offend
ing song. One station executive
said the station was sorry for the
slip and assured the public it
would not happen again, II hui
manly possible to prevent 1t.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
Charles EIin Enters
Not Guilty Pleu To
Robbery Of Sfdfen

Charles Hill. an unemployed
Minneapolis dining car waiter,
pleaded not guilty to robbery In
Hennepin county district court
this week. Hill Is being held I'M
der 5000 bail in the county jail.
Hill, police say, robbed Reuben
Staten, Minneapolis Pullman en-
ploye, at the point Of q gun April
16 and took $3.50 form him.
Staten reported the robbery to
police and Hill was picked up q
few hours later.
The two men had both been
playing "a friendly" game Of po-
ker at a Clinton Ave. So. resi-
dence. Staten won most Of the
money and left for his home early
in the morning. At the corner of
an alley he claims he was accost-
ed by Hill, who put a gun on him
and demanded all Of his money.
Staten told police he thought
Hill was joking at first and Of
fered to loan him some money,
but that Hill said he wasn't jok-
ing, he wanted all Of the money.
Staten also claims Hin told him
that II he reported the holdup he
would kill him.
Tentative trial date for Hill is
set for May 8.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
cHIoDo EXPECTED
TO GIVE HAROLD
KAUTH TOUGH RACE

Joe R. Chiodo, 1925 IA st.
N. E., candidate for alderman of
the third ward, Is expected to win
the nomination May o and oppose
Harold R Kauth, incumbent.
Chiodo has the endorsement of
the third ward DFL club, Broth
erhood of Railway Clerks 200 and
the Highwew Park Improvement
Association.
Mr.. Chiodo Is q native Of Wis
consin, but q resident Of Mime
apohs for 40 years. He Is married
and the father Of five boys.
Two well-lmown third ward res
idents who are supporters Of Mr..
Chiodo are Mrs. Weller White and
William Westbery.
He serves on the board of direc-
tors Of the Minnesota League Of
Credit Unions. Mr.. Chiodo Is q
firm believer In President Tru-
mans Civil Rights program and
the human relations movement.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
FARMERS q MECHANICS
BANK WILL BE OPEN
SATURDAY MORNINGS

Contrary to many reports, the
Farmers and Mechanics Savings
Bank Of Minneapolis, and at least
one other bank In this city, Is not
going to discontinue Saturday
business at the present time, &C
cording to a recent announcement
made by John DeLaittre, vice
president Of Farmers and Mech
anics Bank.
Until June 10 there will be no
change in banking hours at the
Farmers and Mechanics" he said.
The bank plans to stay open, he
further stated, for the next seven
Saturdays in order to serve the
thousands of people who use the
bank on Saturday morning.
This includes the children and
teachers who use the School Saw
ings department and whose only
convenient opportunity to come to
this bank during the school year
Is on Saturday mornings.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29

C. Brown and was Immediately
assigned to the Municipal court
section Of the Hall of Justice.
Poole was born in Pittsburgh,
graduated from the University Of
Michigan in 1895, and from the
Michigan Law School in 1888. He
then attended Harvard University
Law School, and in 1889 was
awarded his Master of Laws.
He practiced law in Pittsburgh
for three years and was also Spe-
cial Assistant to the General
Counsel of the Pittsburgh Au-
thority as well as legal adviser to
the Selective Service Board. In
1912 he became a member of the
legal staff of the National Labor
Relations Board in Washington,
d. c.
World War II veteran, his serv-
ice included three and one-half
years as Legal Officer and Trial
Judge Advocate at Tuskegee Air
Field.
Following honorable discharge,
Poole came to San Francisco
where he was made a Special APP
peIlate Attorney and chief Of the
Briefing and Appellate Unit Of the
San Francisco Regional oPA.
President of the San Francisco
Urban League and of the Council
for Civic Unity, he Is also chair
man of the Legal Redress Com
mittee Of the local chapter of the
NAACP. He is a member of Alpha
Phi Alpha, and was elected to the
National Honor Society of Phi
Kappa Phi.
Poole's wife Is the former Char
lotte Crump of st. Paul, Mime
sofa, and a graduate of the UNI
versity of Minnesota. They have
one child.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
TEN YOUNG WOMEN ENTER
CONTEST 70 SOLICIT NAAcP
MEMBERS AND CALIFORNIA TRIP

As announced last week, ten
young ladies. each sponsored by q
church or organization, have en-
tered the NAACP Membership
Contest to compete for the honor
Of being named NAACP Queen.
The grand prize is q trip TO the
National Convention Of NAACP
to be held in Los Angeles in June.
Nine contestants were named
last week. The tenth contestant Is
Miss Myrrhene Allen. The church
es and organizations sponsoring
the contestants are as follows:
Emily Clark, st. James Meth
odist Church; Omar Fswcett, st.
Philips Episcopal Church and
Auxiliary Of Local SIC; Ventress
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
PUBIC NETTING SUNDAY
AT $40 p. IA,

AZ $50 p. m. a public meet
ing win be held IN Pilgrim
Baptist Church IN 81. Paul.
Gov Luther Youngdahl and
Mayor Edward Delaney Of &C.
Paul have been invited 70 par
tielpats. Hon. Bedford v. Law
son. Ir., Of Washington, d. G.,
general president Of Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, INC, viii de-
liver the principal address.
This Il the nrat time Mr..
Lawson has appeared IN Nm
nesota. He has appeared before
the United States Supreme
Court IN recent years IN cases
involving discrimination and
Gbrsdgment Of the Negroes civil
rights.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
MILL CITY WOMAN
AWARDED TEMPORARY
ALIMoNY BY COURT

Judge Paul Carroll granted
Mrs. Jeraldean D. Cornelious tenn
porary alimony from William Cor
nelious, 624 18th Ave. So, Mime
apoHs, Monday morning in Hen
nepin county district court.
The alimony and order restrain
ing the defendant CornelIous from
molesting his wife or removing or
selling certain household furnish
ings was granted upon motion Of
Raymond w. Cannon, attorney
for Mrs. Cornelious.
The plaintiffs suit for divorce
filed last week alleges cruel and
inhunan treatment.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29

Organization composed Of Negro
men Of college grade "A the word.
II was founded IN 1909 BY seven
Negro studeats then enrolled az
Cornell University IN ithaca. New
York. They were Mensrs, George
3. Kelley, Harry Arthur caliia.
Robert II. ogIe. vsrtner W. Tan
az, Charles II Chapman. James
n. Morton and Nathaniel A. Mur-
ray.
These men felt the need Of
banding themselves together Tor
mutual aid and assistance ana n
order that they might be bsttnr
able 10 insist upon the personal
progrena Of each other. The idea
rapidly spread and becano a6sy
rooted among Negro studsnta a
higher institutions Of learning
throughout the country.
Alpha Phi Alpha Il ne first
Greek Letter society among
Negroes to become intsr-rnclal.
and II now numbers among lts
membership those Of other races.
Today there are approximately
200 chapters Of the fraternity,
both Undergraduate and graduate
located at most Of the leading
colleges and universities Of stand
ing In the United States and IN
most Of the large centsrs. Its
total membership IL about 1900.
During and n the wake Of
World War ], the great industries
IN the northern states drew
heavily upon Negro labor from the
Southland causing q general NH
grafton Of Negroes from the
Southern states. The result was
that nearly every large city n me
northern part OF the country had
large Negro populations. ina ma
jority Of these migrants coming
from rural communities and
farms had never experienced ur-
ban life. The various social agan-
cies and welfare organizations
were taxed TO their limits to
handle the many problems sud
denly arising. II was imperative
that other organizations give help.
In the 1919 general convention
of Alpha Phi Alpha held IN the
city Of Chicago. Illinois, q report
Of an investigation was submitted
with respect 70 the education Of
our youth. One outstanding ex-
ample was the city Of Cleveland.
Ohio, which then had a Negro
(Continued on page %
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
st. Paul Girls Husband Named
Assistant US. District Attorney

SAN FRANCISCO - Cecil +.
Poole, local attorney and husband
of Charlotte Crump Poole, st. Paul
native, was appointed assistant
district attorney assistant coun-
ty attorney last week.
Mr.. Poole was sworn in April
IS by district attorney Edmund
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
cHIVERS ATTENDS
A. M.E. MEETINO
AT CEDAR RAPIDS

Curtis G, Chivors, advertising
manager, Minneapolis sPoKEs-
MAN and president Of the lay
mems League of the st. Paul Dis
trict Of the Northwest AlEE con-
ference, win return today from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
ChiverB left the city Wednes-
day, April "a, for Cedar Rapids
to attend the District conference
of the Laymen's League held
there. He spoke at the convention
Thursday evening.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29

jackson, Pilgrim Baptist Church;
Dorothy Monson, Camphor Meth
odist Church; Charlotte Perfect,
Credjafawn Club; Cretamas Ran
son, Mount olivet Baptist Church;
Maybelle Stephens, Pragmateia
Sorority, and Betty Roberts, Jim's
Place.
The paper has been unable to
contact Miss Beverly Carroll and
Miss Myrrhene Allen. The names
Of their respective sponsors win,
therefore, be published next week.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Meets Here In Regional
COnfab April % to May /

The l949 Midwestern Regional Convention Of Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity win be held Ia the Twin Cities April 90 80
and May list The undergraduate Mu Chapter located at the
University Of Minnesota and the Graduate Chapter Gamma M
Lambda in the Twin Cities hosts 70 this meeting
Alpha Phi Alpha is the Oldest undergraduate Greek Letter
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
CLARENCE HUGHES NAMED
TO COMMUNITY CHEST
PLANNING COMMITTEE

Among the nine members at
large named to the Minneapolis
Community Chest planning group
Is Clarence Hughes, sS52 Fourth
Ave. So, active civic worker.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29
KANSAS CITY DETECTIVES
COME FOR PRISONER

Two Negro detectives, members
Of the Kansas City, Mo. police
force, Clifford Warren and Albert
Warren, came TO Minneapolis last
week to take q prisoner back to
the Missouri city.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29

CLUB UNo SCORE TALENT
SHOW Needs Contestants, 10
years or under. CALL REGENT
7A08 or HYLAND Al08.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-29

CLUB UNO SCORE TALENT
SHOW Needs Contestants, 18
years or under. CALL REGENT
74Bs or HYLAND 4IOS.
Evening star., 1949-12-30

casual visitor to the Orient hears
this, together with the informa-
tion that Chiang's people are be-
having there with the same arro-
gance and corruption that lost
them their own country.
Tide of Self Determination.
That Formosans should not be
immune to the tide Of self
determination that is sweeping all
the, Orient should not surprise
anyone. The peoples of the East
mean to be free; they are done
with colonialism. 1t is hard luck
in a way for the United States
as it enters its world power era,
but 1t is going to have to put up
with unstable. restless govern
ments that are only learning how
to practice democracy.
Formosa can. Of course, be held
militarily If the United States
wills it and in any fashion to
which the United States chooses
to contribute its support. But this
country will be judged then by
the way in which its acts COM
pare to those protestations Of de-
mocracy with which it is seek
ing to rally the n-Communist
world.
Any mission to Formosa that
does not undertake to protect the
Formosans from Chiang's Chinese
as well as from the Chinese Reds
will constitute a propaganda de-
feat for America.
It has long been remarked
abroad how rarely the President
uses Fair Dealers to represent his
Fair Deal administration in other
countries. One of the few excep-
tions, Averell Hartman. rowing
ECA Ambassador, has noted it and
Evening star., 1949-12-30

Mid Westerners in Congress, a
noisy but ineffective minority thus
far. The objective appears to be
a retreat from commitments in
Europe and elsewhere which have
been approved overwhelmingly by
Congress.
The possible eventual threat in
this new isolationism is that it
uses the spending issue as front.
That is seductively persuasive, for
our international cooperative
ventures are expensive. With q
deficit and continuance Of high
taxes. there is an appeal in the
cry Of letting Europe and the rest
Of the world look out for them
selves.
Criticism justified.
There is, however, justifiable
criticism of the bipartisan policy
as it has worked out. It has
created sort of closed corpora
ton that keeps our foreign policy
aloof and almost sacrosanct. This
tends to discourage curiosity and
inquiry and, in campaign years,
the free and open discussion Of
foreign policy that is essential IN
a democracy.
When free inquiry and debate is
stided the result is to encourage
those who are charged with direc-
ton of policy to tell less about its
why's and wherefores, to consider
it sort of special preserve. In
this connection it is useful to re-
call the recent criticism OF the
Committee for Economic Develop
ment that our people are getting
too little information now about
our foreign policy.
It would be well in the coming
session of Congress to have dis
cussion and airing of some phases
of our policy. An example is Ger
many where the dominant mflu-