St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-11-17
BRIEF
SCENE
High and LOwdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

ELECTIONS: With the election
Of Henry C. Ferguson, Chicago
now has three judges of Negro
descent. Only by the strong sup
port of Chicago Negroes were the
Democrats able to keep the prin-
cipal offices in Chicago and Cook
county. Strangest phenomenon
though was the large vote which
Chicago Negroes dumbly gave to
Alderman John Duffy who helped
defeat a city council ordinance
outlawing jim-crow in Chicago
public housing. William Dawson,
Democratic congressman handily
defeated ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cOe Archibald Carey for election
to Congress from the First Dis
trict.
In St Louis Negroes failed in
their attempt to send Sidney Red
mond to Congress In a predomin-
antly oolored district. However,
they also helped tie the can to
Sen. Forpest C. Donnell. Republic
can who has been no friend of
civil rights.
All Negro candidates lost In
Baltimore, Md. The AMP said
that there was n large amount
Of apathy among Negro 'intel-
lectuals" In the Maryland
metropolis. Three splendid Ne
gro candidates lost In FREEDOM
inantly Negro districts to sec
ond-rate white candidates.
Down in South Carolina the
citizens voted 4 to l to repeal the
poll tax. Only the states of Ala
bamA, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Texas and Virginia
still have poll taxes. Out in Colo
RADIO where only a few Negroes
live two Negroes were elected to
the state legislature. One was
Elvin Caldwell, Democrat and the
other was Earl Mann, Republican
who was elected to his fourth
term in the Colorado state assem-
bly,
A single Negro out of three
who ran was elected to the Mas
Sachusetts legislature. He was
elected from Middlesex where the
population is mostly Caucasian.
In Detroit Charles c. Diggs,
former state senator who Just was
released from prison six months
ago was elected by 29,748 votes to
mis- opponents 5.494. Three men
and one woman were elected to
Michigan's state lawmaking body.
Down in Louisiana the first Ne
gro to run for office since Recon-
struction days. Earl J. Amede, at
torney, ran fifth in a field of sew
en- candidates. First three vote
winners were elected. He was a
candidate for the Orleans Parish
school board Amede ran for Of
flee despite the plea of conserva-
tive Negroes that the time wasn't
ripe. He polled many votes in the
all-white wards.
In Georgia, the Gov. Hum
mon" Talmadge faction lost their
attempt to put the general cleo
tons on a county unit system.
This is the system where counties
with small population have more
elective power than cities with
huge voting population. Talmadge
blamed northern white radicals"
and the Negro bloc" for the de-
feat of the amendment.
In New York, former Minneso-
10 resident Elmer Carter, Repub-
lican, made weak showing
against Adam Clayton Powell for
Congress from Harlem.
Way out in Arizona, with small
Negro population, two Negroes
won election to the state legisla-
ture- The state voted against the
repeal of the laws requiring seq
regated schools for Negroes. Not
only are Negroes required to at
tend segregated schools but in
some cities, Spanish-Americans
are also made to attend seperate
schools.
THE PRESS: Stanley Ross,
white, former war correspondent
and recent editor-publisher of
the Wilmington, DELI SUNDAY
STAR has been named managing
editor of the Negro New York
Amsterdam NEWS. Anothed pale
faced staff addition Is Robert l.
Elmer, former New York Post as
Sistant circulation managed who
viii head the Amsterdam NEWS
circulation department
Gerald l. Porter, former st.
Paul EXPRESS publisher is re-
ported working on a Des Moines
weekly. His last known connec-
ton was with the Kansas PLAIN
DEALER in Kansas City, Kans.
Alphonzo Horton, former ad man
on the St Paul RECORDER, has
gone TO Gary. Ind. for a post with
the Gary AMERICAN. Milton
CGus) Williams, Minneapolis pub
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