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tees. On the one hand there was
the generally accepted idea that
little or no race prejudice existed
in the locality; while on the other,
rank discrimination against the
employment Of Negroes was flag
rantly practiced.
Protests were made by the local
Negro press. The Urban League
worked hard to get industry to
consider Negro applicants for the
large number of available jobs.
Plant owners and operators dis
played the Presidential Order, but
its content and dEectives were
outrageously ignored.
Charles L. Horn Opens Door
This was before Iowa-born,
Minnesota-educated Charles Lilley
Horn, president of the Federal
Cartridge Corporation, obtained a
contract to build and operate the
Twin Cities Ordnance Plant.
Horn, a nationally known con-
servationist, was the first paid
subscriber of the ten-year-old Ne
gro weekly newspaper, the Mime
apolis Spokesman. He had long
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Sfdfe's EoriY
Negroes Subject
OF Press Comment

An old landmark Of two years
standing in St Anthony-the old
Baptist church-was torn down
yesterday, preparatory to removal
to st. Paul, where 1t win be re-
built as a church for the colored
Baptist society Of that city. II
was built in 1850, the second
church in the State. -.
The colored people Of the city
have made application to the Good
Templar to rent their Lodge room
In Concert Hall In order to hold
religious services once or twice a
week, etc. -.
st. Paul Daily Press,
Nov. =, 1883
wanted-to find homes for a
few colored children who are or
phans whose ages are from 8 to
IA, both boys and girls. Any per-
son wanting one or more Of said
children can learn full particulars
by inquiring of the Boarding
House and Employment Commit
tee Of the Y.MC.A. of Minneapolis.
Tribune, Feb. 16, 1868
A petition is being circulated
about the streets praying the leg
islature to pass an act submitting
to the people an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the
immigration of Negroes into the
State.
st. Paul Daily Press,
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FIRST JUROR

The st. Paul papers chronicle
the first enpanelment OF Negro
juniors in Minnesota. On Friday
in the court Of common pleas Of
Ramsey County Willis A. Harris.
a colored man, was brought to
trial for burglary, and Of the II
jurors who sat on the case five
were colored. Their names are:
r. J. Stockton. M. Jernegan.
Henry Moffit, Thos. A. jackson.
and Robert Hickman
Tribune, March rs, 1859
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NO HELP NEEDED IN Isssf

The house has passed bill to
continue the Freedmen's Bureau
another year. The Bureau may be
necessary to protect the blacks,
but stin. it seems that they ought
by this time, with the assistance
of the military. to be able to take
care Of themselves.
Tribune, March 81, 1e6S
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HAVE RARTiC1PiTED IN
THREE WARS

Veterans Of three wars are
found among the Minneapolis Me-
gro population. This does not In
clude three veterans who saw
service In the Indian campaigns.
Civil War. Spanish-American and
World War vets who live here.
have played prominent parts I'm
the city's history.
st. Paul Daily Press,
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An Experiment In Industrial Democracy
Nv CECIL E NEWMAN
" SsSt6 Gs Ns"HsHAN
(From April-Jme 1914 Opportunity Magazne)

From ApriI-June 1914 Opportunity Magazne)
Even at this late date the American industrial
which believes in and practices full democracy in the selection
of its personnel is both exceptional and unique This especial
y true when that democracy actually encompasses Negro
workers Long before other defense contractors gave Negro
labor consideration the Federal Cartridge Corporation of
Minneapolis which operates the gigantic small plant
Twin Cities Ordance at New Brighton Minnesota of
those exceptions which hired and upgaded Negro workers
the basis of their ability contribute services and s
This firm known nationally in quiet unpublished way
other plant operators the which has
done unusual job in nerraal cooperation Establishment
of this reputation required courage foresight planning and
hard work Its history worth retng for the precedents
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lndustriaIist Charles Horn
Changed Employment Patterns
Here By Job Democracy

Observers in agreement that World a
turning point the pattern
workers In Minnesota this definitely
trend Charles Horn the Federal Cartridge Corporation
whose operation Of the Cities
Of Negro workers set pattern which by
OF Minnesota industry since the end Of the article
appeared in OPPORTUNITY
Urban by Newman editor
of the SPOKESMAN and RECORDER papers.
It's inclusion special historic
change employment trends which place
which affected by experience acceptance ua
ton of Negro workers at the ordnance plant
An Experiment In industrial Democracy
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Ballad Of The Seven,
Songs Traces History
Of Americas Negroes
BY LANGsToN HUGHES


BY LANGsToN HUGHES
Seven letters, seven songs
The letters F r e d o M
The seven songs segments Of its history
In terms of Black America
Seven Songs.
Seven names:
Cudjoe
sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
Booker T. Washington
DIR. Carver
Ralph Bunche
Seven men and women
From unrecorded slavery to recorded free:
For Emancipation Day seven songs
For Negro History Week, names
For all time seven letters
That spell Freedom
1t was an easy name to give a slave
So they called him Cudjoe
There four million Cudjoes
Before Emancipation came
What did 1t mean to be q slave?
That you could not choose your sons name,
Nor your sons father mother,
Nor you sons home work, way Of life,
(Nor indeed could you choose your own
Nor choose to have not have a
No part of life self belonged to Cudjoe-save.
To CudJoe- save-ony a dream belonged.
Seven letters spelled the dream!
r d o NJ.
But in the fields in the rice fields,
In the bondage of the cotton,
In the deep dark of the captive heart,
Sometimes Freedom seemed far away
Farther away than the farthermost star
So far far that only Jordan
Was there dream called Freedom
Cudjoe's song was
Deep River,
My home is Jordan.
Deep river, Lord,
want to into camp ground.
Death was a deep river
And only Jordan, Freedom.
Oh, night! Oh, moon! Oh, stars!
Star! Star! Star! North Star! Freedom Star!
Where is the road that leads to that star?
Patrolers guard that road,
Boodhounds with dripping muzzles guard that road!
Cum LASH and moose guard that road!
Freedom not a word then
Freedom was the dark swamp crossed,
And death defed, fear laid aside
And a song that whispered, crooned,
And while it whispered cried:
Oh Freedom!
Freedom me-
Before I'd a slave,
I'd be buried In my grave
And 60 home to my Lord
And be freeI
Harriet Tubman- slave-wanted to be free
Shed heard that word with letters.
She could not read that word,
Nor spell that word
But she smeled the word, tasted the word,
On the North wind heard the word,
And she 1t in a star
Before I'd be a slave,
I'd be buried In my grave
And 60 home to my Lord
And be free!
Her Sojourner Truth-save
She wanted to be free.
Her and daughters sold away
Still she wanted TO be free
She said:
look up at de stars,
My chIIlm look up Mt de stars.
They don't know where be
And don't know where they be-
So God said soJOurner, 60 free!
Through swamp and brier. field and hiIl
By dark Of night prayer-guided star guided,
Guided by that human win that makes men love
A word called Freedom
And the deep river not Jordan, but the Ohio
Home was not heaven, but the North
Frederick Douglas called his paper The North Star
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Woodfn Edward Lewis shown at his desk at Minneapolis
Honeywell Regulator Company where he employed research
physicist doing work odance and the radosoope
abraoy He holds A degree from Fisk University and NJ
degree from Howard University and has done his doctors
State College Following his graduation Howard
1913 employed for time by the Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Aberdeen Maryland acting chairman the
department Institute Hampton Va Honey
well in 1852
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

and their daughter, Mrs. Harmon
son Weir have opened their nome
''Greybox'' after spending the sum-
mer at Rehoboth Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Deakyne will
also return to their home on Main
Street after having occupied their
cottage at Rehoboth Beach during
the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gee have
had as their recent guest Mr.. Gees
sister, Mrs. Lois Moylan, who has
returned to her home in Redlands,
California.
DR.. and Mrs. Robert Sarde and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Schafer and
children are spending this week at
Rehoboth Beach.
Miss Anne Egan, daughter of
Capt. and Mrs. William R. Egan,
of Lewes, and granddaughter of
DIR. and Mrs. Ernest P. Collins, of
Smyrna will enter the Grier School
at Tyrone, Pa, today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm farrell
and daughter, Ellen, Mr.. Sarl Pret-
lyman, of Kenton, and Miss Dor
othy Minner, of Wilmington, have
returned from a nine-thousand
mile motor trip to the west coast.
They were gone month. While
in California they visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Edwards at Pomona,
Cal. Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards lived
in Smyrna during World War II
when he was stationed at Dover
Air Base. She is well-known as a
writer of short stories for national
magazines, and expects to have
her first book published this month
by McGraw-Hill.
Mrs. G. Harvey Wright has re-
turned home after spending two
weeks in Atlantic City and Long
Port, New Jersey. On her way
home she spent several days with
her sister-in-law, Mrs. w. T. Bryan
and daughter, Miss Sarah E.
Wright at the hardwood Apart
ments, Germantown, Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
This Weeks
Social and
Personal
Events

Acting Mayor George E. Luff
and Mrs. Luff were in Atlantic
City last week and while there
saw the parade of the contestants
in the Miss America contest.
Mrs. Cummins E. Speakman, ST.,
has returned to Belmont Hall after
spending a week at Southampton,
Long Island. Returning with her
last week were her daughter, Mrs.
Daniel Holder, Miss Marty Holder,
and Danny Holder. Mrs. Holder
has served on the staff at Boys
Harbor, the Duke camp for chfl-
dren at Easthampton, L. 1. and had
her son, Danny, with her there.
Miss Marty Holder was the guest
during the summer of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. P. Collins and daughter, Miss
Patty Collins, at Southampton.
Miss Anne Holder has spent the
summer with her grandmother at
Belmont Hall. Mrs. Holder and
her family will remain here until
Sept. 25 when she returns to West
Palm Beach, Florida where she is
a member of the staff at private
school.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson was the
recent guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Clifford at their home near
Freehold, N. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold j. Carrow,
Sr., had as recent guests their sons,
MIR. Robert Carrow, New York
City, and Mr.. B. Stimson Carrow,
who has gone to Philadelphia to
fill the position as head of the
theory department, Department of
Music Education at Temple Uni
versity.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Miles, Jr., will
attend the dinner to be given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Irenee dupont on Fri
day evening to celebrate the ami
versary of fifty pears of service by
Mr.. Henry Davis, of Wilmington.
1t will be held at the DUPONT Coun-
try Club. Mr.. Davis is the uncle
of Mrs. Niles.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Harmonson
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
Farmers Supply Co.
Smyrna 6081
Curtiss Candy
Farms Improved
Stud Service

In order to make available to
better telephone service for our
400 farmer-breeders in this area
we list the following numbers;
Upper New Castle County: Hoo
kessin 232, New Castle 4571; Mid
dletown Area: Middletown 2068
Milford Area: Milford 4158; Smyr-
na-Dover Area: Middletown 2360
Dover 9918; Chestertown, Md
Area: Chestertown 484W or 624J
David D. Pierson, Distributor.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

HOUSE FOR SALE 8 rooms.
bath, entrance hall, full attic and
basement. Q porches. G.E. oil burn
er, steam heat. gas. lovely shade
and lockwood, lot IS x 200 and
barn, excellent location near both
schools. Quick possession. Call
1912 after A pm. 2O5 South st.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
Cla sified A d S
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-10 Registered Aber-
deem Angus, yearling heifers, and
one bull, also 9 Angus steers. Her
man Wollaston, AZ E. Park Place,
Newark, Delaware, Phone New
ark 2313.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

FOR SALE-All metal circular
corn cribs with roof. 400 basket
capacity S275.00 1850 basket,
$335.00. See one on display at our
stores. Free literature on request
Milford Tractor Company, Inc. AL
lis Chalmers, New Idea. Milford
1872, Sclhyville 1881.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

FOR SALE-New Massey-Harris
20 spout combination grain and
fertilizer Disc Drill. Ralph G..
FAIRIES & Son, Townsend, Delaware
Phone: Middletown 2041.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
New Books at Library

Blind Journey by Bruce Lancaster
In Miss Armstrong; Room,
by Elizabeth Corbett
The Sounding Brass,
by Edythe Latham
The Unconquered,
by Ben Ames Williams
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

HOUSE FOR SALE - Edge OF
Smyrna, 6 rooms, modern bath,
heater, electric, town water, "
acre ground, chicken house. Phone
Smyrna 6216.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

FORsSALE-Dining room suite,
2 baby cribs, 2 9x12 rugs, refrig-
orator. Nellie Garner, Phone
Smyrna 1896.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

FOR SALE = State tested rye
barley and wheat seed. Apply ]. E
Churchman & Son, Clayton, Del.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
BARGAINS IN
FARM
MACHINERY

PROV New Idea Corn Pickers.
l1-2-Row John Deere Corn Picker.
1-1-Row Semi Mounted John
Deere Corn Picker.
PROV Allis Chalmers Corn
Pickers.
Above pickers as low as $3.50.
John Deere A Tractor, Mower
and Plows, like new.
|1-Farmall H Tractor, like new.
Ferguson Tractor, Mower and
Plows.
|1-Farmall F20 Tractor, Guilt
vator and Manure Loader.
1-R Minneapolis Tractor, Guilt
vator and Corn Planter.
|2-WC Allis Chalmers Tractor
with Starter and Lights, excel
lent condition.
2-WC Allis Chalmers Tractors
without starter and lights.
1-WC Allis-Chalmers Tractor.
John Deere A Tractor.
1-WC ALI s. Chalmers Tractor
Model C.
2-Used Elevators, David Bradley
and Ruth.
1-Papeck Forage Harvester.
Case Forage Harvester.
John Deere Forage Blower.
Also numerous other used equip
ment.
We have New Mounted Allis-
Chalmers Picker and 1-Row and q
Row New Idea Pickers.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

MCCULLOUGH Chain Saws,
S225.00. The saw to see in '53.
Percy Roberts, Blackbird, Del. Call
Middletown 2719 for an eye-open-
ing demonstration.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
SATURDAY, Sept. 26, 1858
at 1o:So A. NJ, Rain or Shine
20 MILK COWS and Heifers
t. B. Accredited and vaccinated for Bangs,

4. u. Accredited ana Vacclnated Tor Bangs.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS
New Ford Tractor and two bottom 12-
inch plows, one very good VIC Allis-
Chalmers Tractor, 7-ft. double disc harrow.
Nc -Cormick-D Deering eft. cultipacker, new
last season: /: one-row Oliver corn picker,
Chalmers 5-ft. combine, set John
Deere 12-inch bottom plows on rubber.
practically new; 16-tine Oliver grain drill
on rubber, John Deere corn planter with
fertilizer attachments, two rubber tire
wagons, one new good Papec silo filler,
3-section spring-tooth harrow, New Idea
tractor mower, 7-ft. cut; McCormick-Deer-
ing bottom plowpacker, David Bradley
tractor manure spreader, one-horse dump
corn cutter, 2-horse sulky cultivator, 1858
half-ton Chevrolet Pickup, one-hole corn
shelter, Fodder Sled. Vogel Hydrant, bat
ltery fence charger, used less than 30 days ;
electric fence posts, Z it, iron posts, farm
wagon on rubber. compressor and tank for
David Bradley garden tractor. truck chains
for $50 or 100 tires. 2 head halters, one
horse plow, drag harrow, cultivating har-
row, harness.
DAIRY EQUIPMENT
4-can Wilson milk cooler. Surge mixers,
2 units, motor and pipe; 15-gal. Sears
electric water heater, milk cans, buckets
and strainer can rubber-tire milk cart,
Pathfinder lawn mower, and many other
things too numerous to mention.
LUNCH will be served by the Downs
Chapel Ladies Aid.
MARVEL EVERETT
y. G. Walker, Auctioneer
Robt. and Ruth Schreiner. Clerks.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
Classified Rates
Payment in Advance

Minimum. SOC per inser-
ton, GO words or less). Ad-
ditional words, &c. Set in
blackface, 75c. Set in black
face all capitals, double rate.
Blind or keyed ads, 25c ex-
IRA. CLASSIFIED Display Ads.
75c per col. inch.
Cards of Thanks, 75c. In
Memoriam notices, 10c per
line. Legal notices, 10c per
line. Public Sales, S1.00 per
col. inch.
CREDIT SERVICE
A bookkeeping charge of
25c will be made for all Clas-
sified Ads not paid in ad-
vance and an additional
charge of Csc for each 80
days bill remains unpaid.
RATES ARE NET.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
RUMMAGE SALE

Will Take Care of CHILDREN
at my home and will call for them
if desired. Call Smyrna 3041.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

FOR SALE - Groom house on
Main St., Clayton, 2 porches, back
yard and garden just newly fenced,
oil forced hot air heat, 8 bedrooms
and bath up, living room, dining
room and kitchen down, carpet on
hall and stairway and venetian
blinds included. Reduced from
$4,000 to $500. If interested call
Smyrna 1863 after 6 pm.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17

BUY FURNITURE WISELY
For the best in prices and quality
see our complete display of more
than one-third acre of furniture.
Mundy Brothers, Furniture. Car
pets, Bedding. 812-14-16 King st.,
Wilmington, Phone 5-3376.
Smyrna times., 1953-09-17
PUBLIC SALE

Having decided to discontinue farming
because of the help shortage, l will sell
at my farm miles West of Kenton, on
Route 800. on
Evening star., 1953-08-31
not decided it AFT an /"

not decided 1t at ALL"
Thus. Inspector Bullock did
not take the stand and passed
up his last opportunity to ex-
plain his conduct, or to present
any witnesses in his defense.
Whether he ever had a defense
must be left to conjecture.
Suffice to state that his actions
before the Senate and chief of
police have earned his own
condemnation.
In conclusion and in con-
nection with Inspector Bull
locks refusal to answer the
questions propounded by the
chief of police, partially upon
the ground that he would be
required to testify against
himself, the United States
Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia Circuit had
the following to say in Ru-
dolph v. Creamer, supra:
THAT member of the po-
lice force, upon being dis
covered by a superior officer
in a position apparently incon-
sistent with the proper per-
formance of his duties. may,
while insisting that he was act
ing properly, decline to give
any further information to his
superior officer, upon the
ground that to give such in
formation he would in effect
be testifying against himself,
is a contention to which we
cannot lend out assent. Such
a practice, if approved by us.
would, we are convinced, be so
Subversive of discipline as to
greatly impair the efficiency of
the police force"
With the above statement
the board is in entire agree
ment.
Nowhere in the record of
this case, from beginning to
end, can there be found any
indication of an honest or sin
cere effort on the part of In
spector Bullock to cooperate
with those to whom he was ac-
countable He could not re-
member" did not know"
subsequently followed by open
defiance to the chief of police)
of matters concerning cash
transactions in amounts suf-
f1cient to create an indelible
picture in the mind of a per-
son of ordinary intelligence,
although for a period of 80
years or more covering his
service and promotion from
private to inspector. his mem
Evening star., 1953-08-31

ory was remarkably clear. In
vain has the record been
searched for any extenuating
circumstances in regard to his
conduct.
Upon consideration, there
fore. of all the evidence, the
trial board finds Inspector AL
bert I. Bullock guilty of each
and every one of the charges
preferred against him, to-
gether with their respective
specifications, and recon-
mends his dishonorable dis
charge and dismissal forth
with from the Metropolitan
Police Department Of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Section 6 of Chapter IS of
the Manual of the Metropoli-
tan Police Department pro-
videS that a trial board shall
forward to the major and
superintendent its findings and
recommendations. together
with the papers in each case,
and at the same time shall
\ notify the accused of its find
ings. and the fact that such
notification has been sent shall
be included in the report of
the board. Accordingly, with
the foregoing findings and rec
concentrations there is trans
mitted to the chief of police
of the Metropolitan Police De-
partment of the District Of
Columbia. the transcript of
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Trial Boards Summary of Findings Inquiry on Buocks Finances

The summary OF the Police
Trial Board findings in the
case of Inspector /. Bullock in
Which board members explain
their position follotDs:
In summation, the board is
of the opinion that Inspector
Bullock is guilty, beyond
doubt. of all three charges and
their respective specifications
presented by the chief Of po-
lice against him. It appears
from the evidence that Inspec-
tor Bullock, who was repre-
sented by counsel from the
outset of his difficulties, had
ample opportunity to answer
and explain the actions by
him complained of before the
Senate subcommittee, before
the chief of police and before
this board.
He gave such on-commit-
tai answers to the Senate Sub
committee as to make his tes-
timony evaSively worthless;
his stalling and delaying ac-
tions lasting almost a year in
evading the lawful requests
and demands of his immedi-
ate superior, the chief of po-
lice. eventually ending in an
absolute refusal to answer his
questions; his conSummate ar
rogance toward him, and fin
ally his actions before the
board in failing or refusing to
present a defense to the seri-
Gus charges presented, place
him in a position where the
testimony and evidence is
overwhelmingly against him.
This is not to state that his
counsel did not ably represent
Mr.. Bullock before the board
but the issues were beclouded
at many stages of the proceed
ings by objections, interpola-
tions. and lengthy speeches.
Counsel for Inspector Bullock
objected and requested the
board to disqualify itself be-
cause during a colloquy with
the chairman about Senator
Nicely. chairman of the Senate
Subcommittee who was on the
stand, the chairman referred
to him as an outstanding
Senator of the United States
Senate ctr. 374): he further
objected because Senator
Nicely, at the conclusion of his
testimony, extended his hand
in greeting to the chairman of
the board. whom he knew. and
to others, and finally, in a
further colloquy with the
chairman of the board. Mr..
Ford. counsel for Mr.. Bullock,
challenged the board (Tr. 465)
because of a statement made
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Mysterious Chicago Blast
Kills Man, Wrecks Theater
BY the Associo,ed Press

CHICAGO. Aug. 31-An ex-
plosion rocked West Side
neighborhood early today, kill
ing one man and demolishing
l,000-seat movie theater.
The dead man was identified
as Joseph Lochansky. the owner
of a shoe shop adjoining the
Oakley Theater.
Cause of the blast was not
known.
Sections of several buildings on
both sides of the theater were
blown apart. At least nine cars
parked in garages and the alley
behind the theater were DAM
aged.