St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-03-09
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

Hats OFF: To Phillip Gelb of |
University radio station KUOM !
who has done more than any
single individual in Minnesota to
help the Negroes of Montgomery,
Ala. in their fight against intoler-
able treatment on the city's bus
lines. His pleas for financial as
sistance has caused many Mime
sotans to send money down south.
Show Your Card: Tanner
Crockett has suggested a worthy
successor to Bailee's Put Your |
Money Where Your Mouth Is"
campaign. Tanner says that when
ever any of the brethren start a
talkfest about Autherine Lucy, |
Emmett Till or the Montgomery |
bus strike, he asks them to show
him their card. What card ?"
they usually ask him. Your
NAACP card" is his reply.
The number Of those brethren
who either change the subject or
shther away from further CONVEX
sation or foresenics is amazing,
he reports. Tanner suggests that
every NAACP member insist that
the brethren show their card II
they want to join In the current
debate on civil rightA
In other words, he wants some
Of the takers to Put Your Money
Where Your Mouth Is" Not very
grammatical, but II makes
strong point!
The U. s. Supreme Court ruled
Monday. that the contention of
southern state colleges and uni
versities that the May 1854 de-
cision did not affect them, was
without merit" The court took
only a few words to send the petit
tioning states packing.
CON DENTAL, Americas
favorite smear magazine does a
job on Father Divine in its May
edition. II also smears up Joan
Russell who II claims was turned
down for a date by a young West |
Indian Negro waiter in Paris. 1t
strikes at Lucky Strikes Dorothy
Collins and Raymond Scott The
magazine also replays the fact
that 14-year old Emmett THIS
father was hung for assault while :
serving in the U. s. Army in Italy
so were too many other u. s.
soldiers-but the idea is to show
some connection with young THIS
wolf whistle which cost him his
life and his father.
For The Record: There were IS
such soldier hangings in the Euro
pean Theatre. In that group were
eight Negroes, the rest were men,
bers Of the American majority
group.
Sepis lads again dominate the
LOOK All-America cage squad
Four Negro players led by Bill
Russell Of the San Francisco Dons
landed berths on the 10 man
team.
Others named were X. c.
Jones, San Francisco. Sihugo
Green. Duquesne: Villa Naulls,
UCLA. II was only few years
ago that college basketball
coaches did not want Negro Gag
ers to come out for the team.
Michigan was the first Big
Ten team TO have a Negro player.
Minnesota has never had a single
one. The old excuse was that bas-
ketball was a contact sport" and
as such white players objected TO
playing with Negroes. Today, If
some first class college coach
came up with a story like that,
he'd be laughed out Of basketball
Cozelle Breedlove would have
been a natural for the Minnesota
u" team but the 'unwritten law"
was stiI in effect when he enter
ed the ~" and he was not en-
eouraged TO participate.
POLITICS: Southern daily
newsmen have been riding herd on
Senator Estes Kefauver since the
swing Of Negro voters in the
north and south to his side.
Flying into race seething Ala
bana last week TIME Magazine
reports Estes was pounced on by