Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-09
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BALEE THOMAS

N
Pittsburgh COURIER sales may
drop In many areas because of
George schuyler's attack on Joe
Baker and defense Of Waiter Win.
chell 49,. JET Magazine offers
considerable competition to ma.
tional Negro weeklies because OF
the growing number OF people who
do not find time 10 wade through
the larger papers e, II this Il
true. Negro progress viii suffer.
for the larger papers carry the
burden OF militant editorial fight
for equality for the Negro.
doe Albright, who parleyrd an
active brain and gift Of GAb In
10 the No. post held by o Ne.
gro In the Veterans Administra-
ton has resigned 90 20 into pub
lie relations work In Chicago.
according 90 the Associated Ne
gro Press. doe IN n Minnesota
product and was here In 81 Paul
at the recent Urban League
convention. His No. 2 assistant
In the VA. In u 81 Paul boy,
George Holland.
Jimmy Griffin Spokesman and
Recorder sports scribe Is pictured
in a two column photo ON the
Pittsburgh COURIER's sport
page in the Nov. 10 edition. Jim
my and Jimmy Lee are the only
two Negro whistle blowers
among the 1000 registered foot.
ball. baseball and basketball Off
Gals In the Gopher state,
Out West, where for years the
Negro and white musicians have
had separate unions. the Negro
union has voted to merge with
Local ~, the white local The
bulk OF those Confederate flags
that are showing up all over Dixie
and in many points In the north.
are manufactured In Ohio. New
York and Pennsylvania The
Christian Science Monitor quotes
a Dallas, Texas merchant who
sells the flags who says they are
a protest against "some OF the
things Truman and the bureau.
Gratis are doing" In other words,
the South. or q portion Of II.
doesn't like Il because Truman
and the bureAucratA won't make
the Dixie brand Of Jim Crowl
democracy lawful and the South u
angry about II.
Cecil Newman. Spokesman and
Recorder editor. stopped In the c.
and @. Recreation at Western and
ST Anthony In 81. Paul last week
for a sandwich.
A young man approached
greeting him effuGively, saying. Il
saw you the other day when you
were looking over Little Harlem
up at the place" Newman was
puzzled. Finally. after questioning
the fine looking young fellow ne
learned that he had just been re-
leased from 81. Cloud
II then dawned on the newsman
that the former inmate had con-
fused him with Clifford Rucker. Of
the Governors Interracial Com
mission. who had visited the st
Cloud reformAtoTy with Henry
Thomas 10 investigate the ssgre-
cation Of Negro inmates. Negroes
were all confined together In Q
section Of the prison deFiSively
called Little Harlem" by other
prisoners and prison guards and
officials.
RuckeF In often mistaken for
Newman and visa versa. The dis
charged prisoner said the Negro
prisoners thought that II was
Newman doing the investigating,
along with Henry Thomas.
Pithy WOrdage: DemaKogues
Who shout the I1udest and who
smear anyone who disaErees with
them by calling them Communists
are the foremost disciples Of the
top technique Of communism the
big lie. They are even more dan.
gerUus 10 your country and my
country In that they are not 10
easily exposed or directed. -
Senator Margaret Chase. Smith
REP. MAineD.
Newer RealdeBts; The furore
over increased Negro population
in the Twin Cities CAUSES much
speculation. An answer % the
rImOr that most Of the nsw.
corners since the war have been