St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-09
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High and Lowdown"
BY BAuEE THOMAS

PlttSDurSn COUHlER sales may
drop in many areas because of
George Schuyler's attack on Joe
Baker and defense of Walter Win
chel =. JET Magazine offers
considerable competition to ma
tional Negro weeklies because of
the growing number of people who
do not find time to wade through
the larger papers If this is
true, Negro progress will suffer,
for the larger papers carry the
burden Of militant editorial fight
for equality for the Negro.
Joe Albright, who parleyed an
active brain and gift Of CAB in
to the No. post held by a Ne
gro in the Veterans Administra-
ton has resigned to go into pub
lie relations work in Chicago,
according to the Associated Ne
gro Press. Joe Is Minnesota
product and was here in st. Paul
at the recent Urban League
convention. His No. 2 assistant
in the VA, Is a st. 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 At, 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
Dallas, Texas merchant who
sells the flags who says they are
protest against "some of the
things Truman and the bureau
Gratis are doing" In other words,
the South, or a portion of 1t,
doesn't like it because Truman
and the bureaucrats won't make
the Dixie brand of (Jim Crow
democracy lawful and the South Is
angry about 1t.
Cecil Newman, Spokesman and
Recorder editor, stopped in the c.
and G. Recreation at Western and
st. Anthony in st. Paul last week
for a sandwich.
A young man approached.
greeting him effusively, saying, II
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 he
learned that he had just been re-
leased from st. 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 reformatory with Henry
Thomas to investigate the segre-
cation Of Negro inmates. Negroes
were all confined together in a
section of the prison derisively
called Little Harlem" by other
prisoners and prison guards and
officials.
Rucker is often mistaken for
Newman and visa versa. The dis
charged prisoner said the Negro
prisoners thought that il was
Newman doing the investigating.
along with Henry Thomas.
Pithy WOrdage: Demagogues
who shout the loudest and who
smear anyone who disagrees with
them by calling them Communists
are the foremost disciples Of the
top technique of communicative
big lie. They are even more dan
gerous to your country and my
country in that they are not so
easily exposed or detected
Senator Margaret Chase Smith
(Rep. Malne).
Newer Residents: The furore
over increased Negro population
in the Twin Cities causes much
speculation, An answer to the
rumor that most of the new
Corners since the war have been
unframed people, marginal work.
ers, was answered Tuesday when
three men came in the Spokesman
and Recorder office in Minneapo-
lis.
The three men were all union
carpenters. Ten years ago there
was only one skilled Negro car
penter in each city. The three men
who have come to the Twin
Towns since the war are employ
ed as skilled tradesmen are Otis
Spencer. 1904 Bryant Ave. No;
Cartren Cooper. 34o9 Cedar Ave,
and Quentin Mcmillan. 1912 Gin
| ton Ave All three wera fine