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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15
Room For More Carl Rowans

Readers Of this paper have perhaps noticed that its
columns have been used generously report recently
published book, South of Freedom written by Carl T. Row
Minnesota writer.
Those readers who know that Rowans first newspaper
writing In Minnesota, done this paper will
pardon our pride In his present achievement.
However, than expressing pardouabe pride in
Rowan have wanted that person this buy
read his book which book critics of the principal dacs
credit as being volume we'll worth reading
More than that and important has been our desire
TO show what American of Negro ancestry prepares
himself for his chosen work do Rowan is an amazing
example of the potential inherent many undiscovered Negro
boys and girls who perhaps need only helping hand reach
the great heights Of achievement and service.
This is the lesson hope bring home to fathers and
mothers and daughters in Minnesota and elsewhere II
youth only few years from small Tennessee can
achieve favorable nationwide aentionotherS right here in
Minnesota may do the OF requires basic
qualities among them ambition perseverance, the desire 10
learn and also the wish TO be useful family community
Carl Rowan has all of those qualities and many of
young and who have thcmnccinv only our
encouragement and faith in them to bring them forth
Buy Carl Rowans book Tell your children that here is
accomplishment made under terrific odds but Just the
same, and that there plenty of in this world and
America for more Carl Rowans
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15
Plan Will Curb Juvenile Drinking

special squad has been named by ST. Paul city law
heads check drinking in public bars and taVers
by juveniles This good plan to halt condition which often
encourages Juvenile delinquency
The police plan to bring charges against the Juveniles
we'll the bar that them In the
past the bar and operators often hampercd by the fact
that II not too easy in many instances TO tell the age OF
young person by their appearance have been the only
charged when minors discovered In their places.
Now the minors themselves will have to face the arrest
and punishment, when formerly they usually
turned loose coec only repeat the offense again
often q lark
The ST. Paul police department Is to be cOmplimented
facing the situation developed by Juvenile drinking In public
licensed places The program carried outlined Monday
reduce drinking by least In public estab
nahments
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15

Those folks who were spectacle of an Ameren
Many Of them depored the contentious between the
various FACTIONS in both conventions wonder what these fo
xected from 1900 delegates candidate campfonoerH
politicians not delegates plus the nous
ands OF visitor. to the for candidate
The nv screen revealed politics somewhat in the and
because OF us Americans JS
ace really Is
watching Tv willy Jim Farley moving around the con-
venon floor signalling forenger whispering 70
began roll worth the time
we spent looking at the convention.
During the Republican convention something
impending Ta forces by pctung the
Congressman Brown he struggled to put over
aboed before the credentials committee
We were well picture of the conventions
fights cOntentOnS-then yOu
convention not being held
In pubic view, n filled rooms far from Tv
course that the which finally brought
victory to Eisenhower at the COP convention
the convention floor There
take large portion Of is
final from smoke may
opened direction which will have
American voting habits and on the selection
Of party
The Lord forbid however that delegates
every participant begins taking Tv acting lessons dele
gates become so put
doing what comes naturally
in q political convention
Mrs Matte bearing who died Pennsylvania
for vacation called office day before she left to ask to
sending until she returned home Naturally ofc
shocked to hear of her demise.
Mrs bearing and husband Ernest who survives her long
subscribers time chatted with Mrs bearing
when spoke the ladies Of the Booker Washington Study club
which member She fine SOUL hv
ing a useful life and making many happy.
Another friends standing ceased
heavy many Penny"
Husband vacious Lillian Goodhue quietly
activity the
stage night proud every accomplish
William Penn the eight individuals
City
railroad he the Of a community
He put his of which
return-ye complain-because
enterprise Cities many present crop
writers.
William Penn died early this his sleep.
Time moves and OF friends into the Great
Unknown. often
word Of farewell
head and times. and not the heart.-Cecl Newman.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15

that the tenth annual Minnesota Golf
history. could should
that the organization be effective
relations field
sports
organization designated itself
special group plainly
the only has implied that
organization for special only However this not the
case q
Perhaps who statements the
but would be well this matter considered especially
RI ~ busy fighting better
the Cities might
making attempt to himself other
II tournaments
the time to organizations that
imply segregation golf
ganEaton carefully would
field acknowledges Boyd 22I
Elliot Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota August II, 1852
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15
Letters To The Editor
SUBSCRIPTION REVIVAL REMNDFUL o. YEARS

Newman:
/ m again a payment years
subscription period ending August 1853 statements
reminders afraid reminder
I little older than / was
has a pleasure associated you many
the which handled
provide employment for deserving colored people
also spprecave Of the which attacking
problem delinquency young and girls this
think that should be outstanding project this and
should challenge and the
Negro people In this city
that from viii be doing exactly the
thngsendng check subscription to
Spokesman Recorder papers
wishes. Sincerely, Charles l. Horn, Federal
Cartridge Corp, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15

Those Omaha people who tried to keep white family
from moving into their neghborhOOd because of their color
take the embroidered cake and the thunder
for misguided action How simple some people getf
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15

Its about time for we folks to start grmbms about
he hrcv 9
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15

Court OF world Opinion
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15
NEIrAER PARTY CAN ESCAPE

The dynamics ~ the struggle
dramatically told than the shifting OF the popuat
oppression opportunity
ment the struggle has been made into national
political solutions Neither political party escape
responsibility that developed upon
ksnII N Pittsburgh
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15
STATES RIGHTS
by ANDY RAZAF

There certain States. with their age-old hates
Yelling states RIGHTS" loud and long,
Which simply means they're asking for
The RIGHT OF States to do WRONG
on God! pray there Will come q day
In this Land Of ours when;
ALL States win night for = nobler right
Not Of STATES-but the RIGHTS OF MEN,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15

Its about time now for we folks to start rrmblnr about
the brevity of summer.
That Adai Stevenson acceptance speech still has the nd
ton talking three weeks after the Democratic convention
It's about time for Governor Elmer C. tell the folks
how he stands FEPC Most everybody knows how Orvle
Freeman stands the Until authority tells
different Sheriff Ed Ryan against i, and Staff King hasn't
been quzzed yet Speak up boys local state and
national issue and candidate office can hide from IT,
We'd rather cut the lawn than pay the fuel bills
The fellow watch in the Republican Congress in
the Third District is former Congressman John G. Alexander
Alexander is going out after the
All the people you hear talking about politics and cand
dates have not taken the time 10 their talk for
nauRht,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15

The independent vote is large nows not fashionable
polite TO casgate people who don't join the party
Preaching via the typewriter is the editors
cupatona hazard should say disease
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-15
SOUNDS KINDA FAMILIAR

South African editor (White) told Tuesday that the
whites numbering 100000 OF total population Of
100000 persons in that nation have front He
said three factions among the blacks spend most Of their
energies cutting guravely other up while the
enemy the MAan party by with murder Sounds kinda
familiar usl
Evening star., 1952-08-20

individual workers and send
their material and findings to
the Central Committee and the
directors Of the ministries are
appointed to the Central Com
mittee of the party. All the
Communists-Workers of the CEN
tral apparatus of the ministry
form part of a single all-min-
isterial party organization.
Party work in the Soviet
Army and Navy is directed by
the chief political administra-
tions of the Soviet Army and
Navy of the U. S. S. r., and in
transport by the political ad-
ministration of the Ministry of
Transport of the U. S. S. R.,
the Ministries of Merchant Ma
rine and River Fleet of the
U. S. S. r., functioning as de-
partments Of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union.
Party organizations IN the
Soviet Army. Navy and in
transport work on the basis of
special instructions confirmed
by the Central Committee.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Mccarthy
Continued From First Page)


charges against Gen. George c.
Marshall.
Paul G. Hoffman, president of
the Ford Foundation and high in
Gen. Eisenhower's political coun-
ellis, yesterday testified that Sem
ator Mccarthy gave false informa-
ton to the Senate about Gen.
Marshall and the European aid
program he planned.
Hoffman Testifies.
Mr.. Hoffman, who administered
the Marshall Plan in Europe for
two and a half years, teseif1ed
yesterday at a pre-trial hearing
in Senator McCarthy's suit against
Senator Benton.
Senator Benton had declared
Senator Mccarthy unfit to hold
his seat and cited his attack on
Gen. Marshall as one reason fol
his expulsion.
Today Senator Green, Democrat
of Rhode Island, declared Mr.
Hoffman's testimony is a develop
ment which reopens this subject
'Mr. Hoffman's testimony has
put an issue squarely before Gen
Eisenhower. and it's an issue toe
vital for him to ignore.
Eisenhower must state publicly
whether he agrees with what was
said by Mr.. Hoffman, his politica
adviser: or whether he believes the
things that Mccarthy alleged"
Senator Green added that Dem
ocratic campaign orators twill
raise the issue is Gen. Eisenhower
does not"
Evening star., 1952-08-20
10 Gambling Suspects
Held for Grand Jury Action

Ten gambling suspects appeared
before United States Commis-
sioner Cyril S. Lawrence today
on charges of operating a lottery
and possession of numbers slips
The decision was the same on
all-held for grand jury action
Three persons picked up in one
raid were Huey Massey, A.
colored, of the 2400 block of North
Carolina avenue ne, and Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Davis, colored
of the 400 block of Elm street
NV.
Another Of the 10 was Earl H
Mcdonald, 43. colored, of the
$500 block of Tenth street NV.
Mcdonald only two weeks age
had a tax lien totaling $4,000
filed against him by the Federal
Government alleging non-pay-
ment of taxes on gambling re-
ceipts. The other six gamblers
were all described as small fry
Indictments against Mcdonald
and the six are expected this
week.
Evening star., 1952-08-20

railroad men said, by a rising
grade through the woods along
Spout Run.
Workmen riding a handcal
Jumped for their lives as the heavy
lsteel gondola plunged towarC
them. The loaded car swept the
handcar before it as it clattereC
on toward Rosslyn.
Returning toward Lee highway
the car crossed Courthouse road
Troy street, Scott street and Quinn
street before crossing Lee highway
again on the bridge where the
painters were working. AS it clat.
tered toward the w. & 0. D. shops
along the highway at Rosslyn, Mrs
Louise Hawley, on her porch al
1902 Lee highway, turned away tt
avoid seeing the car crash into ar
auto parked on the edge of Mash
street. She said she did not know
the auto was empty.
Diverted From Shops.
The freight car turned away
from the shops on tracks curvins
along Nash street. There it over.
turned, smashing the auto into &
pile Of wreckage from / to 3 fee
high.
The driver of the car, who hat
left it a few minutes before, wa!
Billie Shelter, 80, of 1909 Eight
eenth street Sc, a carrier for tn,
Georgetown Branch Of the Wash
ington Post Office.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Prince Georges Home Rule
Bid Hanging in Bolonce

Validity of signatures on a
petition for a vote on a charter
form of government in Prince
Georges County has been ques-
toned by election officials.
The petitions, listing more than
10000 signatures, ask a vote on
the issue in November. The
County Election Board yesterday
decided to withhold a decision on
validity of the petitions until it
receives an opinion from its at
torney.
The board said that in many
instances in which the names of
married couples were shown
names of both husband and wife
appeared to have been written by
one person. Several pages were
found on which all Of some 80
names appeared to be in the
same handwriting.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Naval Officer Asks
Divorce, Says Wife
Tried TO KMHim
By the Assesiated Press

NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 20.-A
naval officer sued his wife for
divorce on charges that she has
threatened to kill him.
Mrs. Dora c. Jones received
notice of the divorce suit in the
Norfolk City jail, where she is
awaiting a hearing on a charge of
assault and attempt to kill. She
is charged with trying to run
down 1t. Comdr. Alva John Jones
with a car last Saturday at the
Hampton Roads Port of Embarka-
Ition.
The officer charged In his suit
for divorce that his wife has
abused him since their marriage
in 1947, that she has struck him
and that she once pointed a gun
at him and threatened to kill
him.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Partly
cloudy with high near IS this
afternoon. Some cloudiness to-
night, low near 68. Tomorrow
cloudy, warm, afternoon thunder
showers likely.
Maryland and Virginia-Some
eloudiness with scattered thunder
showers over southeast portion
this afternoon. Partly cloudy
Evening star., 1952-08-20

line of the party of essential
questions Of current policy.
CD Elects the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union and the
Central Auditing Commission.
The Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union organizes: To control
the work Of the Central Com
mittee between plenary sessions
"a praesidium; to control cur
rent work, mainly concerning
the organization of veriflcation
of the fulf1llment of the party's
decisions and the selection Of
cadres-a secretariat.
The Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union will organize a commit
tee of party control. which will.
(A) Verify the observance Of
party discipline by party mem
bers and candidates for member
ship, call to account Communists
charged with violating the pro-
gram and statute Of the party.
party and state discipline, as
well as those violating party
morals deception Of the party.
dishonesty and insincerity with
regard to the party. slander.
bureaucracy, etc..
(B) Examine appeals and de-
cisions OF the central committees
of Communist parties of union
republics.
The Central Committee Of the
Communist Party OF the Soviet
Union in the intervals between
congresses controls the whole
work Of the party.
80. With the aim OF strength
ening administrative and politi-
cal work, the Central Committee
of the party has the right to set
up political departments and
select party organizers Of the
Central Committee at given Sec
tors of socialist construction
which may assume a special
Importance for the national
economy in the country as a
whole; also. upon the fulfill
ment of their tasks by political
departments, to abolish or turn
them into ordinary party bodies
constructed on an industrial
territorial basis.
The political departments are
working on the basis of special
instructions, endorsed by the
Central Committee. The Cen
trail Committee of the Commu-
mist Party Of the Soviet Union
regularly informs the party Or
ganizations Of its work. The
Central Inspection Commission
inspects:
(a) The speed and accurac
of the passing Of the affairs
in the central organization of
the party and the organizational
aptitude Of the apparatus of the
secretariat Of the Central Com
mittee Of the party.
Party organization of
ministries which, in virtue of
special conditions of work in
Soviet Establishments, cannot ex-
ercise functions of control, are
obliged to notify of shortcom-
ings in work of the establish
ment, report on deficiencies in
the work of the ministry and it's
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Montgomery Dump Protested

A storm of protest against a
sanitary land fill established at
Fairland. off Columbia road in
Montgomery County, was ex-
pressed at yesterdays County
Council meeting.
About 80 members of the Co
lumbia Road Citizens Association
appeared before the Council, OBJ
jecting to the dump in our back
yards"
The Council assured the COM
plainants it wiltinvestigate. Mem
bers expressed doubt. however.
that the Council has authority
over the sanitary commission.
which recently established the fill.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
New ZeuIund Reminds
Truman He's Welcome
BY The Associated Press

WELLINGTON. New Zealand
Aug. 20.-Prime Minister Sidney
G. Holland has renewed his in.
vitation to President Truman tt
visit New Zealand when he leaves
the White House.
Mr.. Holland issued his original
Invitation when he visited Wash
ington last year.
Today he said: "The President
would be given a great reception
by the people of New Zealanc
who have come to regard him with
ever-increasing admiration"
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Auto Owners Ask Who'll Pay
For Damages by Freight Car

The owners Of four autos ano
two trucks hit by a runaway
freight car in Arlington were
wondering today who is responsible
for the damage.
The car, loaded with about Sc
tons Of crushed stone. yesterday
Traced down miles of Washington
&1 Old Dominion Railroad tracks
clipping five vehicles, before crush.
ling another unoccupied auto as il
Overturned in Rosslyn.
Neil S. Lantzy, general manager
Iof the railroad, said he would con.
Ifer with attorneys today. He sale
1.-THE freight car was not owned BY
Ithe railroad, the siding from which
the gondola escaped is not railroad
property, and the workmen WHIT
were unloading it were not rail.
road employees.
The car belonged to Lehigf
valley Railroad and the workmer
twere employed by Rhoads Paving
Co. of Arlington.
60 Miles an Hour.
The freight car hurtled un'
eventually through eight un'
guarded grade crossings. Police
, and railroad men said its speee
may have reached 60 miles al
hour during part of the journey
AS the car crossed Lee highwa!
= on a trestle near Oak street. foul
!, painters scattered. One of then
! was slightly injured by a hyinl
washer. He was Dolph N. Gun
ningham, 48. of Ashburn, Va
t the only casualty of the car
dash through a heavily travele,
and thickly populated area.
LOOsened Brake.
Before it took of, the car wa
4 being unloaded at a siding nea
! North Quincy street. within sigh
Of Westinghouse High Schoo
James Daniel Bell. 35, colored, o
g 1882 South Quincy street, Arling
ton, said he and other workers TO
! a paving company wanted to NOV
$ the car to continue unloading. H
said he loosened the brake, the
used jack to push the car for
ward, while truck driver. Egbe1
. Osborne Compton. 43, Of Centre
vile. prepared to apply the brake
The heavy Car got away, an
lMr. Compton told Policeman 10
lseph Kane that the brake wouldn
Tighten. After riding about 10
yards, he jumped. just as the ca
4 twas about to strike two truck
r belonging to N. w. Martin 1
S Bros, a roofing firm. The run
laway seriously damaged the aut
] Iof Clifford Perrin, 80. manage
E LOT the company.
s Rise Slows Speed.
Then the heavy freight car con
I !tinued to pick up speed as it role
lacross Lincoln street down
johnson street, then along Kirk
: wood road and across a Lee high
-Iway bridge. Still on a downhil
lgrade, the car crossed Kirkwoo,
Iroad and Spout Run parkway ap
5 s}proach. It's speed was slowed
Evening star., 1952-08-20

tonight with low between "a and
70. except in the extreme west,
where the low will be near 60.
Tomorrow cloudy, warm, with
scattered thundershowers.
District Medical Society rag
weed pollen count washed out by
rain.
River Report.
(From U. 8. Engineers.t
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great. Falls; Shenandoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
City Cost Cited

Arlington government will be
more costly If the county becomes
Ia city next January, State Senator
Charles r. Fenwick said yesterday
Senator Fenwick said he is not
opposed to incorporation and is
still studying the proposal but
ladded that before the November
Evening star., 1952-08-20
wife CHARGES Auto Attach.

BALTIMORE. Aug: 20 (P).-Mrs
Gurney Elwood Sprecher won a
divorce yesterday after testimony
her husband once tried to run over
her.
They were married in 1914 and
separated in 1850. Besides desert
ing her. Mrs. Sprecher said, hel
husband threatened her life and
ran his car up over a sidewalk
trying to hit her.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Mrs. SpicknoH Appointed

Mrs. H. Wilson Spicknall, IS. a
Republican, will succeed her late
husband as a Prince Georges
County commissioner.
She will take Office as the second
woman commissioner in the
county'S history.
The widow of the 72-year- old
commissioner, who died August 3.
was unanimously chosen last night
by the party's Central Committee.
All of the county commissioners
also agreed to her selection.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Humidity.

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 10l. on June 26.
Low. Is. on January 80.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, "a. at $40 pm.
Low "a, at 7:05 am.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
Maryland and Virginia
News in Brief

referendum on the question, he
will state his position.
Advantages of the plan appear
to be insufficient, he declared, to
offset loss of about 100000 a year
in State highway revenues.
Evening star., 1952-08-20
;. Tide Tables

Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in q
Evening star., 1952-05-30
S20.500

on Lorcom lane on lge. wooded lot
6-mo.-old brk. Dutch Colonial with
3 attrac. bedrms., many built-in
features. Call early as financing Is
very flexible.