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Evening star., 1954-10-27
ID. c. Man Gets 30 Years
In Loudoun Staying
sy The Associsssd Press

LEESBURG. Va. Oct. 27.-A
Loudoun County Circuit Court
jury yesterday found a 29-year-
old Washington man guilty of
first degree murder in the May
20 death Of George Washington
Reid. 38. of Middleburg.
Alfonso g. Berry. colored, was
sentenced to 80 years in prison.
He was charged with the fatal
shooting Of Mr.. Reid. also
colored.
"A. r. Anderson, attorney for
Berry. entered q motion to set
aside the verdict. Berry will be
held in Fairfax Jail pending
arguments on the motion.
Reid, a groom on a farm near
Middleburg, was shot through
the chest with a .32-caliber pistol
following a dice game argument.
He died en- route to a Loudoun
hospital.
Berry, at the time Of his arrest
In Washington two days after
the shooting, gave his address as
the 1400 block of Corcoran
street NV. He said he was
scared" of the other man and
shot him in seif-defense.
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Judge cockriIl to Speak

District Juvenile Court Judge
Edith Cockrill will address the
George Washington University
Law School student bar associa-
ton meeting In the Lisner Audi
torium lounge, Twenty-first and
H streets NV. at 8 pm. to-
morrow.
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
Thomos Nomed
To Free x-Roy
Steering Group

Henry r. Thomas OF Phyllis
wheatley House. has been named
to steering committee for a
communicative free chest x-ray
survey which will begin in May
in Hawthorne. Blaine. Harrison
and Grant school districts.
The Christmas Seal mobile unit
of the Hennepin County Tibercu-
losis association win tour the
North Side districts offering free
X-rays to all presons is years of
age or over,
The committee viii select chair
men for the survey and set an OPP
ening date. They also will plan a
"iyick-ofr' meeting of all volun-
teer workers, to be held lated this
month.
When the chairmen are named
they win organize block workers,
according to the school districts,
who win call ON every home, reg
istering adults for N-rays. This
survey will be done at the re-
quest OF the North High Area
Health Council.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02

Ia in cooperation with other or
CARNATIONS and individuals who
believe in complete and equal en-
pioymcnt for all Americans. to
secure passage OF state FEPC
law in the 1855 session Of the
legislature.
Tho Rev. Denztl A. Carly. chair
man OF the meeting and state
president OF NAACP said when he
gave tho reasons for calling the
meeting:
I'VE are not begging nor are
we apologizing We believe
that II IL our right and part OF our
constitutional guarantees not to
be denied job because Of race,
creed or color"
l.. Howard Bennett, chairman OF
the state conference legal redress
committee stated: THAT In order
to get piece of legislation
passed. II first becomes necessary
for the citizenry to want and de-
mand H."
A question was raised as to
whether or not this proposed
campaign was planning to sup
plant the Minnesota Council for
Employment on Merit.
After u lengthy discussion by
most parties present It was gen.
orally agreed that they did not
want to take over the job Of the
council but they felt that the
council had always started too late
TO campaign for FEPC.
There was also criticism Of how
the previous campaigns for FEPc
had been conducted.
Chief criticisms were:
The actual planning for the
bill has always been conducted
on too narrow n base. and that
Continued on page -
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characterization. Not only does
this situation exist in public hous-
ing, private housing is equally as
bad.
The case of Jackie Robinson in
Westchester and the more recent
case in Long Island highlight the
enmity felt toward Negro neigh
bors Out at Levitown, a settle
ment built in its entirety by a
Jewish firm, Negroes are denied
homes, either by rentals or by
purchase. AS much prejudice ex-
lists in New York's housing as
does in deepest Georgia. Public
officials shut their eyes TO these
cases. although they are now re-
curing with more frequency.
In spite of the protests register
ed against the Castle Hill pro-
ject, Commissioner Stichman ap-
proved the state loan along with
state financing for another public
housing project in the Borough Of
Manhattan. However, rentals in
some of the projects being built in
Stun areas win be so high il will
be impossible for the present ten
ants to move into he new pro-
jects
The same situation exists all
over New York where private
housing Is erected. the first in
stance being reported by DR.. Alb
ram Goldfeld over 20 years ago in
a study Of 500 families who lived
on the present site Of exclusive
Knickerbocker Village in Man
hattan's lower East Side. Not one
Of the families living on the site
moved into the apartments be-
cause the rentals were beyond
their reach. Many moved TO even
meaner quarters than they pre-
y1ously occupied. creating new
Stun areas in far off parts Of the
city.
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and the Urban League, Granger
remarked.
Horn and Newman, Granger
said, were the pioneers in this
area in securing the right OF min
ority people to work at the high
est job level.
Preceding Lester Granger to
the speakers rostrum was his
nephew, Shelton Granger, execu-
tive secretary of the Minneapolis
Urban League.
Young Granger emphasized the
big job that lies ahead Of us If
the problems are to be correctly
solved.
He cited the job that has to be
done in housing and pointed out
that in the last 20 years no new
housing has been made accessible
to minority groups in any appre-
ciable numbers.
In employment, he cited the ex-
ample of the taxi cabs where in
Baltimore, Md, a southern city,
Negro cab drivers are hired on an
integrated basis, whereas in Min
neapolis there are no Negro cab
drivers.
Carl T. Rowan, president of the
Urban league board presided and
Prof John Kidneigh, head Of the
department of sociology at the
University of Minnesota introduc-
ed the principal speaker.
Governor c. Elmer Anderson,
greeted the Urban League and
stated, that as long as anyone
is Disseminated against in the
state it is not as good a place to
live in as it should be-"
Judge Edward F. Waite was
given a certificate commencing
him for his long and tireless fight
for the rights of all people.
Cab Galloway, Irene Williams
and Leslie Scott, stars of "Porgy
and Bess" were introduced TO the
crowd and Cab expressed his
thanks for himself and other
members of the cast to the League
for inviting them to the meeting.
Following the meeting there
was a reception that the cast of
the play attended.
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ey lost out 10 John Daubney be-
cause OF his support OF public
housing.
At the present time the legal
redress committee Of the st. Paul
NAACP is drafting an FEPC ord
nance and II il expected to be In
troduced In the city council either
just before the election or shortly
after.
II Is interesting to note that
when the candidates were screen
ed by the st. Paul AT OF l. and
clio for endorsement, the candi-
dates were not asked their stand
on FEPC.
However, member Of the clio
screening committee said this
week that he was certain that 1t
was an oversight and since 1t
was brought 10 his attention there
was a good chance they would be
re-screened on FEPC.
In the mayorality race, John
Dillon. labor endorsed. ran 246
votes ahead Of the incumbent.
John Daubney in the six precincts
with large Negro vote. Observers
say this Is not a true picture of
the sentiments Of the area.
Milton Rosen's candidacy for
mayor Is given as the reason for
the close primary vote between
Daubney and Dillon. Rosen has
always enjoyed a certain amount
Of popularity in the section. I'm
doubleday he drew votes from each
candidate.
Both mayorality candidates
endorse public housing on a nom
segregated basis and favor the
Mt. Ayre or Eastside site for the
100 units OF housing that have
been allocated to st. Paul by the
public housing administration.
They have almost Identical rea-
sons for desiring the Mt. Ayre
site The westside site was killed
after bitter fight.
The real fight. however, was
centered about the non-discrim-
inatory policy Of public housing
and a rumor compaign was started
that the neighborhood would BE-
overrun with Negoes. Jews and
other minorities.
The candidates said that ths
Continued ON page ~
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Housing Chairman
Appeals To Thye
On Ike's Bill

The Minneapolis Mayors Ad-
visory Committee on Housing
through it's chairman, Frank Ad-
ans Tuesday appealed to Sena-
tor Edward Thye TO help restore
the 100000 public housing units
which President Eisenhower had
requested and which had been
eliminated by a committee In the
House.
Adams wrote:
Dear Senator Thye:
The need for public housing is
still vital for the City Of Mime
apolis. With the pending Glen
wood redevelopment program,
Minneapolis needs additional low
rent public housing units.
"The Presidents Advisory Com
mittee after extended study called
public housing an essential part
Of program for low-income
families" The President indicated
that public housing Is one phase
of that dynamic legislative pro-
gram on which the President has
said his administration should be
judged.
"As Chairman Of Mayor Hoyer's
Advisory Committee on Housing
strongly urge the Senate TO re-
store the 100000 public housing
units that the President had re-
commended so that Minneapolis
may share in this program"
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which will prevent segregation in
housing that is financed in whole
or part by federal funds" Mr..
Mitchell told the committee that
legislation is needed because the
federal agencies have never had
the courage to exercise this auth
GRITTY"
The NAACP spokesman cited
instances or racial discrimination
in federally-aided developments in
Savannah, Baltimore. in Metro
pohtan Washington. However,
he charged, the most colossal Of
FILA discriminatory policies may
be found at Levittown, Pa. where
CONTINUED on page ~
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Ticket Sole For
Carey Testimonial
Brisk, cussius Says

Anthony b. Cassius, Minneapo-
lis business man and general
chairman of the Talmage b. Car
ey Testimonial said Tuesday that
the ticket sale for the dinner had
been brisk and that he expects
sale of all available tickets by
April 10. which is ten days before
the banquet. Only 300 persons
may be Accommodated.
The affair is scheduled for the
Dyckman Hotel in Minneapolis
Monday night, April 26. William
Seabron, former Minneapolis Ur-
ban League staff member and now
Detroit League executive viii be
the principal speaker.
A general committee OF IS
Twin Citians and a number OF
Twin City organizations are asso-
ciate sponsors of the affair with
the Associated Negro Credit
Union OF which Mr.. Carey has
been secretary treasurer for II
years.
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Mitchell Tesfifies:
Mitchell Tesfifies;
NAACP Asks Congress
To Ban Jim Crow In
All Government Housing

Washington, ID. CA recon-
mendation to ban racial discrimin-
alton in all govenment-aided
housing has been placed before the
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee. which this week held
hearings on housing legislation.
The anu-bias proposal was
made by Clarence Mitchell. direc-
tor of the Washington Bureau of
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People,
who testified before the committee
on March "a.
Despite the conviction that the
housing agencies now have full
authority 10 issue regulations
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02

In the first four precincts OF the
twelfth ward 2,10I voters went &c
the polls out OF n potential OF g.,
9i7.
City-wide, the turnout for IN,
election was not quite forty pei
cent Of the voters and in the sir
primarily Negro precincts the TO.
tai number OF citizens voting wa
a fraction over forty-one per cent
1t is pretty well conceded that
the turnout for primary elections
Is usually Light The reasons are
twofold:
I. There Ii almost always n
large number OF candidates and
endorsements by the major fac
tions are not made until after
the primaries.
2. The issues involved before
the primary are often cloudy or
not too clearly defined.
All Of the candidates before anc
after the primary seem at first
glance 10 be spending a dispropor'
Tomato amount Of time campaign.
ing in the district,
However the reason Is shown BY
a check at the election bureau and
with political experts reveal that
this district in past elections has
had a much higher percentage OF
voters than other sections OF the
city.
This IL probably due 10 the fact
that such organizations as the
NAAcP, Urban League, commun-
ity newspaper and other groups
conduct practically a year round
campaign Of urging citizens to
register.
The two issues that the voters of
the area are most concerned about
is whether or not the candidates
for the various offices favor an
FEPC ordinance with enforcement
powers and how they stand on
public housing
The voting records show that
this section Of the city has al
WAYS voted overwhelmingly for
liberal candidates and for such
progressive and constructive
things as bond issues. street Inn
provements and other measures
for city Improvement.
Public housing was a major is
sue in the last municipal election
and former mayor Edward Deian-
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Saturday that the number one
reason for the failure to get an
FEpC law in the past has been
that the organizations and people
favoring such a law got started
too late with too little"
Saturdays meeting marks the
first time the campaign for F'EPC
has got started this early be-
fore the start of the legislature.
II was also the first time that
the campaign has taken on the
aspects OF growing into large
mass movement.
Previous years most of the eff
forts for the bill were not started
until either after the legislature
had convened or shortly before II
met.
Also In tho past campaigns had
been limited more or less to Min
neapolis and ST. Paul.
One OF the reasons given why
the campaign should get under
way as soon az possible IL that
heretofore most OF the opposition
10 E'EPC has come from primarily
the rural area OF the state,
In this campaign time IL In the
hope OF those attending the meet
ing to try and reach as far out
into the state al they can.
Saturdays meeting was called
by the state NAACP after a res
olution was passed at the last
state conference last November
in Minneapolis that resolved the
organization TO start work for
the passage OF FEPC as soon as
possible.
Part OF the resolution said:
THE Minnesota state confer.
ence OF NAACP gives active ans
dynamic leadership In working
Throughout the State OF Minneso
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02

Percy And Bess: Reaction 10
the revived 'Porgy and Bcss'
stage show in the community was
mixed. Most theatre-goers were
pleased by the music, staging and
acting, but there was wide express
sion that the continued presenta
ton OF the production In Europe
would be harmful both to the U. s..
and the American Negro.
The presentation OF a play pre-.
senting the alley life Of poor
American Negroes with the pro-
verbal crap shooting. loose morals
and dope addiction TO European
audiences. where public exposure
TO the normal American OF Negro
ancestry is bound TO be limited.
was criticised as bad public re-
ratlons for the ". s. and certainly
for the American Negro.
One prominent Minneapolis
white woman said she did not see
how President Eisenhower could
Continued on page 81
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into the life of the community.
Granger, executive director of
the national Urban League said
that despite the fact that these
new arrivals are shunted off into
ghettos and other indignities heap
ed upon them, life in Mississippi
is hell" and nothing in the north
can approximate conditions
there"
While the Negro population of
Minneapolis has doubled, Granger
said, they still are only small
percentage of the population.
And because of that, when COM
pared with the progress in human
relations. really doesn't mean
where the minority population is
much greater, the award Mime
apolis received a few years ago
for the progress 1t made in race
relations, it really doesn't mean
too much, the speaker said.
AS a matter of fact, there are
a lot of other cities, in my opin-
ion who are more deserving of
such an award more than Min
neapolis," Granger declared.
He then referred TO the progress
that San Francisco has made.
In San Francisco, he related,
the Negro population has risen
almost 500 per cent, and they are
consciously attempting to inte-
CRATE the new arrivals from the
south into the community.
Granger wasn't entirely critical
of Minneapolis and praised Mime
apolis for the progress in human
relations that it has made.
He stated that when he was in
Minneapolis in 1871, "the only
plant that was utilizing all of the
available manpower. was the Fed
eral Cartridge Corp. operated
Twin City Ordnance plant"
Credit for the non-discrimina.
tory hiring policies at the Twin
Cities Ordnance plant back in
1942 which changed local employ
ment patterns and attracted ma.
tion-wide attention belong to the
combination of Charles L. Horn
Federal Cartridge Corp, president;
Cecil E. Newman, editor-pubhsher
spokesman and Recorder papers)
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to all citizens of New York.
Biggest example of opposition
to public housing was unleashed
by Thomas ]. Canning, executive
secretary of the Bronx Real Estate
Board at a hearing before the city
Planning Commission on the pro-
posed Castle Hill Housing project
in that section, expecting to cost
$40. 10000 Shouting to the COM
mittee, Canning yelled:
we are opposed to all public
housing. Keep 1t out of the
Bronx. Keep 1t out Of New York
City,
Two clergymen at the same
hearing favored the Castle Hill
project and declared objections to
il were based on racial prejudice
only. All neighborhoods in this and
similar sections selected for pub
lie housing, have been flooded with
vicious circulars which say that
the intent is TO make Harlenns out
Of other sections OF New York.
the same sort Of opposition has
kept public housing out of Queens
(Jamaical although IT Is as much
there as anywhere else
This kind Of propaganda full
fills the prophecy Of racial hous-
ing experts advising the govern
ment as far back as Is years ago.
At that time they said they feared
the plan was TO rebuild Harlem,
making il a ghetto Of new houses
replacing the old worn out tene-
ments that characterized the area.
Thus far. that prophecy has
been almost fulfilled Taking a
look around Harlem, seeing the
demolition Of old houses and the
erection OF new houses on the
same areas filled with the same
people makes il appear that this
is Just the intent Of builders,
Right now. II is up 10 the elect
ed officials representing Harlem
to ferret out the opponents Of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
~PoRGY a. BEssv PLAYS
To CAPACITY CROWDS

"Porgy & Bess" has been play
ing TO capacity crowds every night
since 1t opened at the Min City
Lyeeum Theatre last Wednesday.
Seldom has a road show coming
10 Minneapolis enjoyed the pop
ularity that this favorite folk
folk musical has received. After
tonight's performance and the
two tomorrow Saturday the
company leaves for Toronto. Ont.
for an engagement.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
On ~ Monday

Arlee II. Hallowell and Harriet
b, Smith win appear on WcCo-
TV Monday, April 5 Mt 3 p. m. on
Around the Town" with Arlec
advertise the two piano recital on
Haeberle. This appearance is 10
April at Pilgrim Baptist at 8
p. m.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

STILL ANOTHER: II has not
been formally announced yet, but
Carl T. Rowan. Minneapolis
TRIBUNE staffer has been named
TO receive the award for the best
general reporting by Sigma Delta
Chi, national professional journals
istic fraternity.
The award Ia being given Rowan
for the recent series OF articles In
the TRIBUNE on reaction of the
states affected by the school
segregation cases before the u. s.
Supreme Court to the possible
end of school segregation by the
court ruling.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
~ Pct. Voted In Primaries
st. Paul Mayor Candidates
State Views on FEPC
& Public Housing Issues

The six precincts in St Paul that have the largest Negro
vote reflected the apathy that the rest OF the city showed
in the municipal primary election on March 10.
The records the election bureau show that in the second
and fourth precincts Of the eighth ward only 7SS votes
Of a possible total Of 23S0 registered voters
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Get Reody:
Granger Says Migration
To North To Continue;
Urges Planning For 1t

Lester B. Granger told the overflow crowd of diner attend
ing the Minneapolis Urban Leagues 2Sh annual meeting Fri
day evening at the Radson hotel that the migration of Ne
groes from the rural south to northern urban going
continue probably greater numbers and that cities
Minneapolis should take the lead in assimating
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
Keep In Harlem:
Keep In Harlem:
Attempt To Kill Public
Housing In NY. To Keep
Negroes In Ghettoes
BY Al Qhite

New -(ANP)-Who is behind the evil plan to re-
strict housing for Negroes to Hamf In bitter ouburst State
Housing Commissioner Schman inmated that sinister in
fuences working against additional construction of pub
lie housing in other parts of the city because under the regu
tons governing the erection of these houses
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
Grass Roots Moves
Grass Roots Movss
Fifty Organizations Endorse
Movement To Get FEPC
Passed at Next Session

Social clubs lodges labor unions and civic organizations
So of hemrespondcd to the Minnesota NAACP state con-
ference appeal immediately the ball rolling for the pas
sage of FEPC law the session of the Legislature
that convenes January, 1855.
II the unanimous opinion OF the group that met last
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02
LUCILLE WEBSTER
DIES SUDDENLY

Mrs. Lucille Webster, III Roy
slston Az. ~, died Wednesday
morning. March 81 at Mt. Sinai
hospital.
Mrs Webster suffered a stroke
AZ 7.30 p m Tuesday and was
rushed 10 the hospital where she
never regsined consciousness.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed at press time.
For further details. contact Neal
Funeral Home. Geneva 1916
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-04-02

Remember st. Phillips Annual
Palm sunday Tea. April llth. at
the Sterling Club. 4 to ! p. m. -
Adyt.
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