Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-03-24
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE

BY BAHEE THOMAS


Of the Pine Bluff. Ark. branch
HOhson Reynolds. PhiTy morticiau
and former magistrate has receiv.
ed . $500 per Annum POLITICAL
plum. Gov. James II. Duff Ap.
pointed him q referee for the
Workmen's Compensation board
-. The Chicago DEFENDER
staunch Newspaper supporter Of
Truman, ran q critical editorial
March Is on the Democratic party
suggesting that the party had in.
digestion from eating too high on
the hog" Restaurant and
tavern owners in Portland, Ore,
are working TO get 1922 sigma.
lures to force a referendum on a
city law which forbids discrimina-
ton in public places,
Fifteen well known Chicagoana
have been granted permission by
the Home Loan Bank TO form q
federal Building and Loan Assn.
A Norfolk. Va, doctor, Charles
Eugene Sumner has been charged
with a $4,000 tax evasion by the
U. 8. Internal Revenue.
Virginia Negroes Joined
whites I'm mourning the death Of
Pulitzer prize winner, Louis I.
JAffe. editor Of the daily morn
Ing Virginia. Pilot :. The Hen.
dersOn N. G. woman, who buried
her six week old daughter alive,
was given 10 years In prison.
AL chance Of the repeal Of Viz
ginia's poll tax law are lost for
two years. Virginia's poll tax law
was enacted in 1902 to limit the
Negro vote. Washington d. C.'s
public swimming pools opened 70
all last summer on a non-segre-
gated basis. and closed because OF
violence, will reopen this summer.
Secretary Of the Interior Oscar
Chapman says he hopes and be-
heves there will be no repetition
Of last years violence. It is
understood police have been train
ed to halt trouble II 1t starts.
The Mississippi legislature vot-
ed II million dollars TO begin the
eradication Of inferior" educa-
ton in that state. The first three
million will be used to equalize the
pay Of Negro teachers with that
of white instructors Ohio
Virgins, the white farmer who
fired on a mob Of hooded men, who
were attacking a Negro employee
"apologized" to the mob in a letter
to a weekly paper. His letter
said: Il extend to you loyal men,
bers of the hooded brotherhood
my humble apologies for being
such a poor shot with q rifle.
Hope TO see you soon"
Birmingham, Alabamians were
very active In this years Red
Cross drive The Investors
Journal, key mag for investors on
stock exchanges, praised the Ne
gro owned insurance company,
North Carolina Mutual in its
March edition. The company
opened for business Oct. Is, 1898.
Now has lilo employees. 620, 900
policy holders with 146 million
dollars worth Of insurance in force.
Its assets are currently listed at
see. ESQ, 900.
Portland, Oregon's city cOun-
ell urged on by the City's woman
mayor, Dorothy Mccullough
has voted to Get up . permanent
Commission on Inter Group Re-
IatiOnA.
Roy wilkins, Minnesota educat-
ed NAACP acting secretary was
on the receiving end Of brickbats
from Judge Jean Bolin and Ros-
coe Dungee, militant editor Of the
Oklahoma BLACK DISPATCH.
Judge Bolin resigned from the
uce-presidency Of the NAACP re-
cause she said she was not allowed
10 vote.
The AFRO-AMERICAN cr1ti-
ciEed the NAACP high COM
mand" for screening those who at
tended the recent Civil Rights
mobilization in Washington. The
NAACP allegedly used this
method to keep Communist party
members out Of the conference.
The AFRO editorial called Willard
Townsend and his ade-kick,
George Weaver little more than
gIorified office boys carrying out
the work Of the real CIo brain
trusters."
A Pittsburgh Negro physician,
DR.. John william Brown gave
$4,000 last week towards the
building Of q hospital at Mound
Bayou, Miss DR.. Percy Julian.
Chicago director Of research for
the Glidden Co, hospitAhzed on
account Of over work, has been
returned home.
Negro members Of the Catholic
church In the u. 8. increased 160
per cent from 1900 TO 1850 a. the
total Negro population increased
10 percent. Albert Burton who de-
manded and received . $500 fee
for finding an apartment for .
tenant with an 10 month lease was
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