St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-03-04
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and LOwdOwn"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

r. Lu"dTu IltDtEN va Ld-J IdlA
out on a nationwide radio debate
with Walter White The John
Russwurm Negro Pubhsher's)
awards go to Pres. Truman, Sena-
tor Hubert Humphrey and the
NAACP DIR. Ralph Bunche,
who has been suggested for the
Nobel Peace Prize is the brother
in-law of former Minneapolis at
torney Gale P. Hilyer Judge
Hasties tour of the south is de-
signed. Columnists say, to make
him friends down in Dixie in anti
cipation of a Federal judgeship-
some say Supreme court post
for which the president may NOM
mate him.
A proposal to insert a civil
rights clause in the new labor
legislation has been offered by
lobbyists Edgar G. Brown and
Elmer Henderson and is causing
some alarm among supporters of
Taft-Hartley repeal Chan
ming Tobias, Phelps-Stokes fund
director, was a White House call
err Feb. % Ma" Bethune last
week became the first Negro wom-
an to have an honorary degree
bestowed upon her by a southern
white college.
Southern white members of Am
orleans for Democratic Action
held an off the record" confer
ence in Atlanta, Ga, 10 days ago
to map overall policy for southern
liberals on domestic and interna-
tional policy.
MORE NATIONAL SCENE;
The Regional Conference of mid.
west chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha
will hold forth in Minneapolis and
st. Paul, Minnesota, April 20, &c
and 81 The number of Ne
gro women gainfully employed in
creased from 100000 in 1910 tc
2,25O,OO in 1947 Freida Miller OF
the Department of Labor told
AKA sorority members recently
RETORT PERFECT: S. c. Uni.
vcrsity students who heCkled KlaT
Dragon Green while he was ad,
dressing the state Legislature got
the usual Would you want your
sister to marry a Negro from the
exasperated xxx leader. Non.
plussed the students Chorused
"She can always say no." Tt
that Dentist Green had no reply!!
The Catholic Church is quietly
putting the ak to segregation ir
Washington. The new Archbishop
is avowed foe of raCism and has
passed the word on down the line
according to Joe Albright, Min
nesotan who is VA official.
TWIN CITIES INSIDE DOPE
The most recent meeting of the
Governors IntcrraCial Commission
was heated over a recent cditOria
in this sheet. Former high prais,
of this paper for fortnight editor
ial position in the Commission
THE Negro Worker In MinnesO
Ia" will probably be delctcd from
revised publication which is in tn,
making Claim is constantly
being made that some Twin Cit,
undertakers use uncthical tactic!
to obtain business" Such claim!
have been heard for years.
Seven persons out of ten inter
viewed following a recent St. Pau
church affair were for government
medical insurance.
BRICK BATS: that labor uniol
lady who religiously follows tn
Communist party line" took I
verbal poke at a Twin Cit,
figure at the Central Labor Cniol
political endorsing session, where
in John Simmons, civil rights stal
wart, was endorsed for Mil Cit,
mayor The lady's oratorica
smack puzzled the Gu, for tn
gentlemen she criticised had moth
ing to do with Gu action, or wit
the Simmons campaign for the en-
dorsement. Michael FinkIestein o
the Garment Workers challenge
the remarkably untrue statement
Of the lady, that Simmons was no
a true friend of all of the peopl,
including the Negro. However. i
is said that you can't convince
party-hner Of anything much.
The struggle within the NAACI
of st. Paul will reach its china
Friday when Earl b. Dickersor
Chicago attorney, and nations
figure will come here to conduc
an official election of officer!
The election Of two months az
was ordered voided by the nation
al office upon request of a tactic
led by John Culver, city firema
and active civic worker.
PREDICTION: J. Nathani,
Smith. veteran NAACP officia
will be elected CreelectedD pres
dent It's no secret to peopl
who are alert, that the Civ
Rights Congress is a front Of III
Communist party. That party out
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