St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-03-24
BRIEF
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

charging gross neglect has ousted
the board of directors and officers
of the Pine Bluff, Ark, branch.
Hobson Reynolds, PhiIly mortician
and former magistrate has receiv-
ed a $500 per annum POLITICAL
plum. Gov. James H. Duff ap-
pointed him a 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 Chicagoans
have been granted permission by
the Home Loan Bank to form a
federal Building and Loan Assn.
A Norfolk, Va, doctor, Charles
Eugene Sumner has been charged
with a $4,000 tax evasion by the
U. s. Internal Revenue.
Virginia Negroes Joined
whites In mourning the death Of
Pulitzer prize winner, Louis l.
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
All chance of the repeal of Vir-
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 to
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. 1t is
understood police have been train
ed to halt trouble if it starts.
The Mississippi legislature vot-
ed AZ 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 letter
to a weekly paper. His letter
said: II extend to you loyal men,
bers of the hooded brotherhood
my humble apologies for being
such a poor shot with a 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 l edition. The company
opened for business Oct. %, 1898
Now has lilo employees, $40, 00C
policy holders with 146 million
dollars worth of insurance in force
Its assets are currently listed al
$26, 100000.
Portland, Oregon's city coun-
Gil urged on by the city's woman
mayor, Dorothy Mccullough
has voted to set up q permanent
Commission on Inter Group Re
lations.
Roy Wilkins, Minnesota educat
ed NAACP acting secretary wa:
on the receiving end of brickbat'
from Judge Jean Bolin and Ros
coe Dungee, militant editor of thu
Oklahoma BLACK DISPATCH
Judge Bolin resigned from thu
Hce-presidency of the NAACP re
cause she said she was not allowed
to vote.
The AFRO-AMERICAN crit
cized the NAACP high com
mand" for screening those who at
tended the recent Civil Right
mobilization in Washington. Tn
NAACP allegedly used thi
method to keep Communist part.
members out of the conference
The AFRO editorial called Willarc
Townsend and his side-kick
George Weaver little more thai
glorified office boys carrying on
the work of the real CLIO brazil
trusters."
A pittsburgh Negro physician
DR.. John William Brown CAV
$4,000 last week towards tn
building of a hospital at Noun,
Bayou, Miss DIR. Percy Julian
Chicago director of research 70
the Glidden Co, hospitalized o.
account of over work, has bee
returned home.
Negro members of the CathCli
church in the U. S. increased 16
per cent from 1900 to 1850 as Tn
total Negro population increase
20 percent. Albert Burton who dc
manded and received a $500 fe
for finding an apartment for
tenant with an IS month lease wa
assessed triple damages by Judg
Michael Igoe here in Chicago las
week. The Judge termed Burton