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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

would be the tenth anniversary o
Phyllis Wheatley House.
Paper Defended Negro Lodges
Editorialiy the paper took up
the cudgels for Negro lodges
saying editorially:
That there are meetings Of
Grand Lodges at this time Of
the year leads TO an appraisal
OF Negro lodges. The truth is
that the lodge taught something
to a new people just emerging
from slavery, something the
missionary school teachers, car
pet bag politician and preacher
did not have in the curricula.
The brotherhood, the power
TO manage affairs, the power 70
think for and express for ones
self was provided by the lodge
The sancity of the brothers
home was at least taught, even
If often violated.
The part played by the Ma
sonic lodge in the workings Of
the Underground Railroad has
not yet been told. The big lodge
man and the preached perform
ed the service for the race now
taken over by the welfare work
ers and the NAACP. In small
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

treatment Of its Jews The
Minneapolis Truck Drivers Strike
had paralyzed business A
complaint Of mental incompetence
against a well known Minneapolis
man was dismissed when the court
commissioner discovered the COM
plant was the result Of domestic
squabble.
Names in the news included
'Lawney" Thompson, Bud Benner,
Leon Abbey was over in Paris,
France where he had been the or
chestra leader rage for years .
Mrs. Charlie Force, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Benner, Jacob and Jacob
Jr. Collins who made a motor trip
10 Cedar Rapids Mines. john
NJ. Patton and d. NJ. johnson who
entertained in honor Of Miss Vir-
ginia Berry Of Mobile, Ala, and
other out-of-towners vacadoned
in the Twin Cities Miss Bea-
trice Vassar entertained a group
at a pop corn and fudge party
Miss Thelma Murdoch Of Chicago
was in st. Paul on account Of the
illness Of her sister. Mrs. Lucille
Presley Estyr L. Bradley, 934
st. Anthony. Dale s225, was the
st. Paul social correspondent for
this paper Peggy Turpin,
daughter of Mrs. Bessie Turpin
was a nursing school student at
Provident hospital. Baltimore,
Md. .. Leo Bohanon wrote a
good sports column TN the Sport
light" for US William Cratic,
Sr, was injured in a fall w.
Gertrude Brown urged the public
not 20 forget October II, 1884
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

la Baptist pulpit for two Sun
days in the absence Of Rev. /. H.
Fisher. The Usher Board Of Zion
Baptist church staged a hobo
party" At Zion Baptist the ushers
sold the paper to help 1t work up
its circulation.
Amusements: Frank Hines, the
pianist was chief attraction at
Mother Caryers out beyond the
Min city limits and Tommy Lewis
was Grooming. The Dunbar in st.
Paul was a popular place and Of
course Jln's was the place where
almost everybody looking for a
good time went at some time or
other. Amateur Man About Two
Towns" was the first gossip col
Umn retailing all Of the dirt"
without names-of course.
Ads in the first edition in
cluded one lone classified ad in
which Mrs. s. w. Oliver offered to
rent hotel and restaurant.
Early professional cards" were
those Of Miss Lena o. Smith, at
torney and Drs. M. J. Richardson
and Earl s. Weber. DR.. w. d.
Brown, physician and surgeon
who contributed a weekly health
column for several years, had a
card" in the first edition. as he
does now, 20 years later.
There were also ads from Bob s
Cafe, Combs Bros, c. w. Bells
Recreation, McDuff Woodards
Our Economy Market, Neal
Funeral Home and d. C. Dowdy,
funeral director.
The balance OF the 1884 edi-
tons told of the 10th Prince Hall
Masonic Grand Lodge meeting
with grand master Chester John
son presiding. The story reminisc-
ed about some of the past great
Of the order, including Thomas II.
Lyles, II. B. Houston, Rev. w. d.
Carter, George L. Hoage Sr.,
Frank d. Simpson, II. B. Howard,
William II. Morris, John DilIing-
ham. Rufus De Leo and other
Masonic leaders in Minnesota liv-
ing and dead.
World Baptists meeting in Ber-
lin, Germany. dared to condemn
race prejudice and Germany's
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

secure effective communication
between advertisers and Americas
Negro consumers is that industry
and commerce are interested in
learning about moIvations Of Ne
gro consumers and the increase in
employment Of Negro sales pro-
motions, sales representatives and
public relations people.
Negro personnel constitute
some liason for those advertisers
who are seriously seeking more eff
ficient ways to communicate with
Negro consumers. and, certainly,
the potential presented by fifteen
million consumers In an induce
ment.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

communities, the lodge nan and
the preacher are stin function
ing. Lodges, right or wrong, are
an asset, the more the better"
Early letters Of encouragement
came from Charles l. Horn,
president OF Federal Cartridge
Corp. who was the papers first
paid mail subscriber. Others were
from Regina Johnson, hospital pa
tent, Rev. Carlyle Fielding Stew
art, pastor of st. James AME
st. Paul, and o. c. Hail.
who also contributed articles and
editorials containing the st. Paul
viewpoint on men and measures.
Continued on page BIB
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

Gray Otis Woodland, Clifford Il.
Rucker, Freddie and Jimmie
slemmons, Kermit Kitchen. Leo
Crump. Earl onque. Stafford Lott,
Cornelius Mobiley, Adolp h
Thomas, Don strawder, Earl
Breedlove, and Leroy Riess were
among those found in tennis stor-
les.
ElLs PicnIcs
The Elks Of st. Paul and Min
neapolis aided by their Daughter
Elks temples were putting on big
Joint plcnics. Leaders in such af-
fairs included J. w. Pate, SUI
zanne Tudos, A. J. Lewis, John
w. Walton, A. J. Todd, Helen
Jackson, Corrine Few, Celeste
Phelps, J. w. Hutchcraft, and
many others.
Harriet Island was the scene Of
most large picnics and the organt-
cations usually made a nice pro-
fit on their affairs. Melvin
Mas was 4th District Congress
man. Theodore Allen was st.
Paul NAACP branch president.
Editorials in the first edition
concerned the NAACP, a trip
made by Roy wilkins and George
s. Schuyler down south and Marie
Dresslers leaving $4,000 to her
two Negro servants upon her
death.
Nell Dodson's column featured
an item about Rock CAM and his
orchestra which was playing at
the Eel Patio. Other names in her
column were Ollie Grantham, Al
leen Gordon. Johnny Armistead,
Sue Ellis and Annette Williams.
w. NJ. Smith, associate editor
in his column, Here and There"
discussed the valiant fight of the
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Por-
ters. led by A. Phillip Randolph
for bargaining recognition which
had Just come because Of the
Wagner Act.
On the Socials and Personals
front-Mrs. T.. l.. Escue was sur
prised by 1870 friends at a sur
prise party on her birthday g.
Mrs. w. l.. Turner OF 1928 Gin
ton went on a vacation trip q.
Mr.. M. G. Williams left for Chica-
90 where he had accepted a posi-
ton "a Pie Strut" was held
at the home OF Mrs. II. L. Pitt
man by the Mpls. Assn. OF Colored
Women Kenneth Brown at
tended the Worlds Fair in Chi
cago Mrs. Lionel Allen had as
house guests from Seattle, Mrs,
James A. Turner and the Misses
Alice and Eugia Wilson. A baby
girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs,
Robert Jones OF 702 Carroll E.
The Gloom Chasers gave a cab
aret ball at the X. p. Hall featur-
ing Babe Salters and his Creol-
ians
Churches: Rev. A. Gaynes
Thompson of the Beacon Light
SDA church occupied the Bethes-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

Can YOU imagine farmer who no longer makes his own
decisions ettng the moist, spring-warmed earth fall
through his fingers? Can you picture State-eonolcd
farmer rubbing out kernels Of wheat in the palm of his
hand blowing away the chat and Sampng the grain?
Can you see party farmer teTacng his land seeding
waterways, or walking through the south so with his
sons? Can YOU picture such farmer buying Modem
Machines 70 boost his production and better his lot or
a faun-eQuipuent dealer playing prominent part in
community affairs, taking real interest in modern
agriculture?
Hardly
II takes free men 10 work the SOIL
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06
What Went On
20 Years Ago
From Our Files

Continued from pg. 1. End sect
part in the everyday life accord
ing to their desires or the limita-
tons which age places on US all.
1854 Was The Year
That first edition OF the paper
indicated tennis was still a pop
ular sport among Twin Citians.
The names Of Albert Allen, BIZ
Penn, M. Leo Bohanon. Freddie
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06
Business Leorning
Negro Publications
voIue In Murkefinq

CONTINUED from pg. /, End sect
Negro market.
In stimulating the Negro emo
tons to bring about the DESTROYS
buying action, more than just adj
vertLsing must be done; 1t must
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-08-06

Behind the iron curtain today lot Of commiSSars are
saying 9T0 Il0C.1ElHqq kAlLlq!" We would
SAY, That's the last straw
You sec il has bccn the eonmiSSarS JOB to coectze'
the farmers 10 put the state between the and the
land But reports tell US the eollecNizng JOB going
badly The muIhikS Chule famerS) and the kulaks (bg
famerS are just not falling in line,
Even in curtain countries, folks who live By the land
have inherited the freedom Of the soil The knowledge
that man should he free 10 make his decisions
TO rise from the burrows 10 make its indeble mark
Throughout history, Serfdom has never produced good
farmers, That's easy enough 10 understand 80.
Evening star., 1954-01-13
Cole Hopes Congress
Approves Plan for
Sharing A-Weapons
BY me Assoeiotsd Press

Representative Cole. Repub-
lican, of New York. today voiced
hope for prompt approval by
Congress of President Eisen-
hower's proposal to share some
atomic weapons information with
American allies.
Mr.. Cole said he planned to
make hearings on the proposal
the first major legislative busi-
ness of 1854 of the Senate House
Atomic Energy Committee, which
he heads. He unreservedly sup
ports the Presidents plan, Mr..
Cole said. and he added he knows
of no opposition in Congress.
However. Senator Hickenlooper
Republican, of Iowa, vice chair
man of the committee. said in
separate interview he is re-
serving decision until specific
proposals have been sent to Con-
greSS.
Senator Hickenlooper recalled
he always has opposed any ex-
change of information on weap-
ons manufacture and design. But
he said some sharing of data on
tactical use of weapons might
be all right If sufficient safe
guards were put in the legis-
lation.
Evening star., 1954-01-13
Reds Will Have Power
To Destroy, Dean Warns

CHICAGO. Jan. l3 R.-The
former chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission said today
that Americas future is a task
for the statesmen of the free
world because within one to two
years Russia will have the
capability to virtually destroy us
if she moves first"
Gordon Dean. former Acc
head, was one Of q group Of
atomic scientists and other
atomic experts who discussed the
position of the United States "in
the Year One of the H-bomb."
Writing in the bulletin of the
atomic scientists, Mr.. Dean said:
Can we as a Nation and can
the new free world permit the
Soviet to reach this position of
power? For reach it she will:
and all the fervent hopes OF
free people everywhere will not
deny her this terrible capability
unless those hopes are reduced
to action Of some sort which
forces open the Iron Curtain and
brings a halt to her enormous
weapons program"
Evening star., 1954-01-13
Citizen Councils
Closed Meetings
Protested by Case

The decision by the Commis-
sioners' Citizens Advisory Coun-
Gil to keep some Of its meeting
closed to the public brought a
protest yesterday from Chairman
Case Of the Senate District Com
mittee.
In a letter to Chairman Will
liam E. Leahy, Senator Case said
the council decision has raised
some disturbing questions" in
his mind.
Fuller citizen participation. u
Senator Case said. sis much to
be desired.
II believe your council has the
means at hand to take q step
in this direction by opening as
many of its meetings to the
public, including those meetings
at which the council discusses
and votes on its recommends
tions, as is legally possible"
The council considered the is
sues at a meeting last Friday
when it listened to the views OF
two newspaper executives. James
Russell Virgins, managing edi-
tor of the Washington Post, ar.
Evening star., 1954-01-13

Moon was in arrears Of his sup
port payments.
Mr.. Kornreich gave this de-
scription:
"I saw Moon open his coat
and caught a glimpse of holster.
I knew right then what was
coming.
st started to run out Of the
courtroom to call the police and
Moon fired at me. ! kept going.
AS I was going down the steps
to the first floor, / heard four
or five more shots.
Getting to my Office, I tele-
phoned the State police and
borough police. When I got
back upstairs I knew the judge
had been hit. He was either
dead or dying"
Judge Wade, 81, was elected
president judge in 1941 and re-
elected in 1851. He was grad
uated from Pennsylvania State
College. He also attended the
University of Southern Cali
fornia. the University of Buffalo
and the University of Virginia.
Evening star., 1954-01-13

gued for open sessions except on
rare occasions. B. M. McKelway,
editor of The Star, favored open
meetings for the good of the
council and the public but sug-
gested that personnel, budgetary
and deliberative sessions were in
tended to be closed.
Some Relaxation Decided.
The council decided to relax
its general policy of holding
closed meetings, going into exec
utive sessions only when dis
cussing Government personnel
and budgetary matters and
when 1t actually deliberates on
a question.
Senator Case added that he is
disappointed on these grounds:
THAT the council on its part
has not seen fit to bring the
general public into more active
participation in its work through
opening it's meetings to them.
THAT the Commissioners for
their part have not seen fit to
follow the suggestion I made
during the 1852 hearings Con the
District Government reorganiza-
ton plan) that they empower
the advisory council to offer rec
concentrations on it's own on any
problem which they may see fit
to investigate without having
been specifically referred to them
by the Commissioners"
Evening star., 1954-01-13
Pennsylvania Kills
Judge in Courtroom
Then Shoots Himself
BY the Associated Press

WARREN, Pa, Jan. 13.-Presi-
dent Judge Allison D. Wade of
Warren County was shot to death
while presiding in his courtroom
today by a man cited for non
support payments to his wife.
The man, identified as Norman
Moon of Connellsville, Pa, later
shot himself 6 miles west of
Warren after a bullet from a
State policeman's gun halted his
car. He is reported in critical
condition at Warren Hospital.
District Attorney Myer Korn-
reich said the shooting occurred
just as Judge Wade called Moon
to the bench to explain why
Evening star., 1954-01-13
Jury Ignores Sex Charge
AGAINST NAVY Officer

A District grand jury has ig-
nored Miller Act charge against
Herman L. Swami, jr., So. of the
400 block Xenia street Sc, q
Navy chief warrant officer.
The Naval Ordnance School
electronics instructor was ar
rested on october 81 on a charge
of molesting several small girls
who were playing in Fort Greb-
BILE Park.
| Under provisions of the Miller
Act. those convicted can be
placed in st. Elizabeths Hospital
as sexual psychopaths until
! cured.
Evening star., 1954-01-13
Socialist Elected Head
OF French Assembly
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARIS. Jan. l3.-Socialist
Andre lie Troquer. one-armed
Paris lawyer. last night was
elected president of the French
National Assembly on the third
round of balloting.
Earlier in the day, the advisors
upper house. the Council of the
Republic. reelected CASTOR
Monneryille as its president on
the first ballot. MIR. Monner-
vile is a Negro. born in French
Guiana. now representing a dis
trict of metropolitan France.
Mr.. LIE Troquer. 70, got 300
votes on the decisive third round
to 251 for Pierre Pfiimlin Of the
Popular Republican Movement.
None OF the candidates could get
the required majority on the
first two ballots. On the third.
under the rules. only a plurality
was needed.
Evening star., 1954-01-13
Five Senator's Sponsor Bill
To Bar Non Support Flight

Five Senators are sponsoring a
bin to provide criminal penalties
for fathers who cross State lines
to dodge orders for the support
of their wives or children.
The District is included in the
bill which was drafted as a result
of hearings by the Senate Juve-
nile Delinquency subcommittee.
The measure was introduced
by Chairman LANCER of the Sem
ate Judiciary Committee and
three members of the delin-
quency subcommittee; Senators
Hendrickson, Republican. of New
Jersey, head of the delinquency
subcommittee, and Kefauver of
Tennessee and Hennings of Mis-
souri,, Democrats.
1t was cosponsored also by
Senator Flanders, Republican, Of
Vermont, who had introduced
similar legislation at earlier ses-
SionS.
The measure provides for fines
up to $4,000 or imprisonment up
to three years. or both.
Evening star., 1954-01-13

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Evening star., 1954-01-13
Greek RoyuIty in Jupun

NAGOYA, Japan. Jan. 13 (P).
Prince Peter and Princess
Irene of Greece today toured
this historic city en- route from
Tokyo to Kyoto.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-09-15


whipsawin' like to fling him off like a
stone in a slingshot. So swallered my
pride and asked the boys down at
Phoenix Hook and Ladder to help me
out, which they tried to and drank up
a gallon of good cider whilst trying,
but their longest ladder didn't go up
halfway.
GONE OF THE BOYS who tried to
Shiny up till the tree bent come down
and said, Funniest thing I ever saw,
but that trees got mice
"'Mice?" says I. What do you
mean?"
"'Just what I said says he. Bet six
of 'em passed me up there
"Passed you?' says I. I reckon you
had too much cider"
" Might be- he says, so the fire lad
dies finished the rest of the jug and
drive off, leaving me sitting there won
dering what to do. All of sudden
there's the dangedest commotion in
that tree-top. I backs off to look and
there's Astrofy cutting up like crazy.
He's hanging on that spindly branch
with one hind foot and one front foot
and waving the other legs in the air
| like a circus acrobat. Then I seen him
do handstand, and try headstand,
4 H,,A ,Ir Aoo I.a
grabs it with his forepaws and chins
hisself couple of times, all the while
he's singing to himself something that
sounds like Sweet Adeline. And then I
saw something I hadn't noticed but
couldn't scarcely believe, 'cept /
smelled it, too. There was mice climb
ing that tree and each one had in his
little mouth sprig of catnip from that
patch behind the springhouse.
''THAT WILLIE MOUSE had organ
lied a rescue team to pay for having
his life saved! seen them mice climb
right up to Astrofy's face and stick
their catnip under his nose. did
Pretty soon AStrOty is feeling so
happy and devil-may-care he come
spiraling down that tree trunk like a
squirrel, singing and whooping Joyous
like every step of the way When he
hits the ground he tries to jump on my
shoulder but misses by good two foot,
and falls asleep where he flang hisself
purring to the tune of Glorious, Glorious.
And all the mice come scrambling down
and heads for the corncrib. But didn't
care, l was that glad to have Astrofy
back.
$50 you see, even the meanest, low
downeSt critter can be powerful useful.
well, it looks to me like the soft
shell potato bugs have purely won,
haven't they? We must of picked a
quart of them. And they learned you
they had some use after all, giving you
young 'uns something to do, and Mister
Hoskins gets to sell two extry plates OF
ice cream. Experience is the best
learnin', always say.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

HOWARD c. SULLIVAN
Ill still wonders whether
he should not have gone on
the stage. following his father,
who did tap dances and clogs
with the Dixie Minstrels and
other troupes around the
turn Of the century.
Instead, Mr.. Sullivan be-
came an architect and a
distinguished one, When he
retired from the Navy Bureau
of Yards and Docks last year,
after more than 40 years
service, he was head architect
of the bureau. Now he is a
farmer.
He is one Of the pioneers
of modern functional archi-
lecture. Architectural maya
zines have devoted pages to
buildings designed by him and
his group. He has been pres
ident Of the Association of
Federal Architects. Four times
his Office won first prize in the
associations annual competi-
tons. He holds the Meritori-
Gus Civilian Service Award.
He also is a city planner.
Designing a big naval base or
an air station is much like
designing an industrial city.
He has made a notable con-
tribution to aviation. New
airports have adopted the sys-
tenn of offset" runways he
designed in 1941 for the Cherry
Point IN. c. Marine AirbaSe.
Flights start and end at the
central control tower with a
minimum of taxing on the
ground and no crossing of a
runway.
Born in Pittsburgh SO years
ago, Mr.. Sullivan was 4 when
his parents moved to Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
MAN WITH DESIGNS
By Francis P. Douglas

ington. His father was born
in Ireland; his mother was a
member Of the noted Black
istone family of st. Marys
County, Md. When young
Howard was graduated from
Mckinley High School. his
father was i'll and he had to
get a job. He found one with
the Bureau Of Yards and
Docks. He had studied draft
ing at Mckinley. He con-
tinued at George Washington
University, studying design,
construction and other archi-
tectural subjects at night.
The bureaus architects de-
sign Just about any kind of
building you can name
shops. warehouses. hospitals,
foundries. chapels, Office
buildings. barracks and sin
GLE family residences. OF
shore to the east, 1t has de-
signed bases from Argentia.
Newfoundland, to Trinidad.
On the Pacific side, they ex-
tend from Kodiak, Alaska, to
Guam.
In 1914 Mr.. Sullivan had a
hurry call to England. While
buzz bombs were falling, his
job was to prepare plans for
docks and other facilities
along the invasion coast of
France.
Under the demands of war
the office expanded until it
included 1872 architects. Prob
ably the finest group ever
assembled in one office" Mr..
Sullivan recalls.
OF the drawing boards in
Mr.. Sullivan's office came the
layoutS and sketches for the
cambridge Md Naval Train
ing Station. It was, first of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

all. a city-planning job; then
more than TOO buildings were
erected. Provision had to be
made for the training work to
be done. for housing. recrea-
ton. supply and transporta-
ton by water and land. When
it was built, Mr.. Sullivan says.
it was three times the size of
Annapolis in population.
Other installations in this
area include the Quantico
Marine Base. the Patuxent
Naval Air Test Center. Ana
costa Naval Air Station, the
Bethesda Medical Center and
the building the bureau occu-
pies near the Virginia end of
Memorial Bridge. That last
is a temporary structure, built
during wartime shortages, but
maintenance costs have been
low and the simple design has
style.
Mr.. Sullivan and a colleague;
the late Samuel A. Lefferts.
worked together and won a
competition among the bu-
reau'S architects for the
Bethesda Hospital. President
Roosevelt judged the designs,
made the award and then
sketched out a design of his
own. This was followed.
One of Mr.. Sullivan's life
long ambitions has been to
have a farm. About II years
ago, he bought 124 acres near
Davidsonville, Md.
Wartime and postwar short
ages prevented building.
Then. about three years ago,
things loosened up. Architect
Sullivan, reSourceful from his
Navy experiences, built a
house on a hilltop for Farmer
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