St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-09-30

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solicitor who vociferously opposed
the building of new Maxfield
School, pressured the dedication
program committee into includ-
ing his name as one of the hon
ored guests Some members
threatened to call police when a
st. Paul church official board
meeting became almost riotous
Monday night.
SiNty-five per cent of the
rumors which reach Bailee are
false and not based on facts, is
per cent are so hot they need
cooling, 10 per cent would do
too much harm TO families and
individuals with no good pur-
pose, and ten per cent are
worth printing and gossip-news-
worthy.
They are still talking about the
fine manner in which Mrs. Lillian
Balenger presided over the bust
ness and social sessions of the
National Council of Urban League
Guilds at Milwaukee. The Mime
sofa woman handled herself with
perfect poise despite the pot-shots
Of some OF the eastern women who
don't like the idea of the grass
roots ladies occupying the top
jobs in the growing league guild.
Mink coats were dime a
dozen at the Urban League
meeting. they tell Bailee. As
usual the hucksters for distillers
and tobacco firms, soft drinks
etc. were on hand TO court the
Urban Leaguers, most OF whom
are powers in their local COM
munities, exerting some influ-
ence even In the direction of
brand preferences.
The Minneapolis NAACP
went broke helping provide trans
portation money for the Indiana
couple who came TO the state TO
sue a preiudiced resort owner. The
couple had made one other trip at
their own expense before and
NAACP officials tat least the
Minneapolis branch) considered
the case so important and far
reaching that II practically
emptied its treasury to pay the
two couples transportation here.
With all of the crashing OF
teeth and talk among Aframeri-
cans about the Emmett Till muir
der case, the mother Mrs. Mary
Bradley has received only $4,000
TO defray expenses incidental TO
going to Mississippi and other
places in the interest Of the pro-
secution of her sons murderers.
Put Your Money Where Yo'
Mouth Is: A staff member on this
paper is a good NAACP booster.
Every time he goes in cafe or
bar and somebody gets emotional
about the situation in Mississippi
and the Till murder. said staffer
asks the conversationalist II he or
she is a NAACP member! Usually
there is an embarrassed pause ---
said staffer pulls out a member
ship receipt.
Our man got four memberships
in one day in one Minneapolis bar.
Talk is fine but those old green
backs talk like nobody's business,
in this civil rights business, or
anything else, for that matter.
a letter writer who, of course,
wants TO remain anonymous wants
the two chicks who are chasing
him all over the Twin Cities TO
know the truth: He DID NOT in
herit the $50. 900 they think he has
in Richard Lilly's First National
Bank. He believes IL Bailee puts
that notice in this space the two
women viii stop Fostering him.
Anyhow, he says he's in love with
a girl down in Iowa who has been
liking him without benefit Of an
alleged inheritance.
Mrs, Edith Moulden sent our
Head-Man on this sheet some fine
home grown tomatoes out of her !
garden as she does every year.
Those are one bunch Of tomatoes
he likes 10 receive.
Somebody has been busy
spreading a tall tale that a 81.
Paul inmate Of a state institu-
ton had killed another inmate.
Nothing but unfound.d gossip