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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
THOMAS WILLIAMS PAYS
500 FOR BOOTLEGGING

Thomas Williams, 500 Rondo
Av., st. Paul paid a 500 fine
Sept. /. on a charge of selling
liquor without a license.
Officers who searched Williams
who had been under surveillance
found a half pint of Martins VVo
whiskey.
Search of the premises at 566
Rondo revealed five half pints Of
Fleischman's gin and six half pints
Of Old Crow bourbon.
The liquor was confiscated.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04

ana, North Carolina, Virginia.
Other states are considering it.
What few seem to be considering
is the consequences.
Last week the first sober study
Of consequences was published by
the hardheaded Southern Regional
Council. The authors: Education
Professors Donald Ross Green and
Warren E. Gauerke Of Atlanta's
Emory University. In an objective,
40-page pamphlet (If the Schools
Are Closed } they dismantle
the private school plan completely.
What the scheme amounts to, they
prove, is something akin to am
putating a broken leg and giving
the patient a matchstick, to hobble
on.
\ Paws in the TIL. For Georgia
alone, Green and Gauerke report,
the dollar costs would be astrono-
mical - at least double or triple
present budgets. Georgia now
spends only $685. a year per public
school pupil GUS. median: 1892 .
But it still provides all the serv-
ices typical of a public system
free books and transportation, lib
rary supervision, an expanding
guidance and testing program,
adult and vocational education,
special teachers for handicapped
children. In contrast to Atlanta s
private schools, which spend an
average 1925 per pupil land in
some cases charge extra for books,
food, buses), the public schools
cost less because they get federal
money 1928 million in 1889, buy
supplies on a statewide basis, get
cost-cutting help from state ex-
perts all down the line.
Under the private school plan,
all this would end abruptly crit
ical loss of social services through
out Georgia. The private system"
would be strictly on its own, with
only tuition grants for support. 1t
could not possibly take over the
public systems job. 1t could not
buy enough school buildings from
the state, because of reversion
clauses specified by the original
land donors; 1t could not begin to
pay for new buildings. 1t could not
keep teachers in the state during
the changeover, or raise salaries
high enough to attract new ones,
or curb grafters with paws in the
poorly policed tuition-grant till.
What Little Rock also proved last
year is that new industries shun
a community that closes public
schools; not a single one set up
shop; only six firms (including
two moving companies reported
higher earnings.
Crackpots in the Classroom.
Money is "only the beginning of
the tale" Academic standards
would fall. Tuition-grant schools
could not hope to offer quality
or variety Of courses. Example
Little Rocks recently closed priv
Continued on Page ~
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04

an auto struck him as he was dir
Getting traffic.
The injured man is Donald r.
Bantam, 80, of 1853 Fifth Av. S.
first Negro officer to join the
~" police staff.
Bantam was directing traffic
around a stalled tractor-trailer
which was parked near the east
end of the viaduct and 9th st.
The impact of the auto threw Ban
ham 30 feet. -s.--. - ... a. --
Driver of the car which struck
Bantam was Isaac Hayes, AZ, 2101
Fourth Av. S.
The injured police officer suf-
fered leg injuries and underwent
surgery Wednesday morning at
University hospital.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
LEROY PATTON CHARGED
WITH ASSAULT & BATTERY

Leroy Patton, address unknown
is being held in st. Paul Jail await
ing a court appearance September
4, on a charge of assault and bat
terry. Patton is charged with at
lacking two men in the Tap-A-
Keg beer parlor Fairfield and
State SITS. and attempting to cut
Clifford Lucio, Jr., with a razor.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
Chicago Singers At
A. New Hope On
Sunday, Sept. 4

The Male Chorus of Mt. Olivet
Baptist Church is presenting the
famous Prof. Ajax Bradford and
his Singers of Chicago, Ill, at 8
pm. Sunday, September 8, at New
Hope Baptist Church, 321 Edmund,
st. Paul.
At s:15 pm. the group viii be
presented at Phyllis Wheatley
House, 800 Aldrich Av. NJ, Min
neapolis.
Tickets are advance SIPS. At
door $3.50.
Mr.. silas Smith is president Of
Chorus. Rev. B. H. Hunter is pas
tor.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
Blind Pigs, Money Ruisins Parties:
Detroit Job Lack
Causes Increase In
illegal Activity There
BY ISAAC JONES

Detroit ANP)-Bind pigs and money raising parties
the increase Detroit the economic grips the
financially status of many unemployed workers.
Many operators of blind pigs and noisy house parties learn
the hard Recorders following their arrests
liquors be sold in homes without without violating
the state liquor laws
On the other hand many operators of blind pigs where
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
PAYS TRAFFIC FINES

Benny Fred Williams, address
unknown paid two fines of $25
and $40 respectively for driving
a motor vehicle without a license
and violation of stop sign regul-
alton. Williams was arrested Aug
ust 81 as he was riding a motor
cycle belonging to George Cox.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
Sabathuni Baptist
Pastor Receives
Minnesota Decree

Rev. Stanley r. King, 1905 18th
Av. N, received his bachelor of
arts degree from the University of
Minnesota at the institutions sec
ond summer session commence
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
EIks Met In N.Y.:
Red Carpet Treatment
Given EIkS In Atlantic
City; HueSton Honored
BY Albert Anderson

Atlantic Cty-ThiS famous Seaside Resort rolled the
Carpet extend welcome the Eks the world they
arrived regal spenOr attend their Grand Lodge convention
which continued until Saturday, Aug. %.
Headed by Robert H. johnson, grand exalted ruler and
Judge William c. HuestOn grand secretary the Elk herd
boring than 10000 cenered activities the following
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04

moonshine whiskey is sold, find
themselves in the grip of both city
police and federal authorities.
MOonshine Popular
Moonshine whiskey plays a big
role in the various types of in
toxicating liquors seized by police
during raids.
When blind pigs and noisy house
parties are knocked off by police
men who often pose as customers,
the officers are working on tips
supplied by unidentified citizens
About 80 percent of house party
raids are during late hours of the
night, and early in the morning
and are caused because persons
attending the parties become too
noisy and disturb the neighbor-
hoods with their loud talking, sing
ing and jazz and Bebop music from
juke boxes.
Shots of liquor at house parties
usually range from so cents to rs
cents, while cold bottles of beer
cost 35 to so cents a bottle.
Moonshine retails from SIPS to
S2.25 per pint.
Recently in testimony given in
Recorders court by a man who
pleaded guilty to operating a blind
pig, indicated that he paid 81 per
gallon at wholesale prices for the
moonshine he retailed his custom
ers for S225 a pint.
While all bootleggers refused to
reveal the source of their supply,
the defendant in this case said
he bought his moonshine from a
man whom he knew only as Sun
shine" who apparently produced
moonshine-the Intoxicating liquid
kind.
Most raids of noisy house parties
and bootleggers are carried out be-
tween midnight and am.
Records have indicated that po-
lice make more raids between 2
am. and $3.50 am. than any other
hours of the morning.
Weekend Parties The Targets
Friday night, early Saturday |
and Sunday mornings are the days
Of the week for the raid targets.
Sometimes police nets caught as
many as so to rs persons in a
single raid.
The hosts, persons selling drugs,
cutting card games, dick games,
and doormen, are usually hooked
by police as the engagers. Others
nabbed in the raids are classified
as loiters.
Fines in Recorders court for en-
gagers range from $25 to 500 or
5000 days in the House of Cor
rection. Loiters with police records
are often fined $3.50 each or 10
80 days. However, in most cases,
loiters are found guilty and given
suspended sentences.
Plainclothes policemen often par
ticipate in gambling games, and
sometimes lose 81 to $40 before
the raids are pulled.
Women Big Offenders
Recorders Judge John P. Seal
len always has the same advise to
operators Of house parties: Keep
your window blinds down and don't
admit strangers"
Many of the bootleggers of
moonshine whiskey are women,
some Of them widows, and others
whose husbands are unemployed
and apparently they are attempt
ing to do their share to make both
ends meet on the economic hori-
ION.
Many of the party-givers are I'M
aware Of the fact that it violates
the law to sell whiskey, beer or to
accept a donation for a bottle of
beer, shot of whiskey or whatnot.
because the money is placed in
their hands by a smiling stranger
who may turn out to be a police
man-disguised as a private citi-
zen.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
Study Indicates Private
School Plan Evading
Indignation Impractical
Reprinted From August "a TIME)

Truth Consequences: One of the South ntegratOn
schemes the pvate school plan The idea close all the
public schools thus dvertng the US Supreme Courts de-
segregation order The step setting private schools by
giving state tuition grants to all Sabotage children Though
necessarily Negroes Already the plan has been made possible
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT
AND BATTERY, AUG. q

George Shelton, 46, 273 Kent
was arrested August 20, on a war
rant sworn out by Mrs. Mildred
Smith of the same address. Mrs.
Smith charges Shelton with beat
ing her.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
TRAFFIC COURT FOR
NO DRIVERS LICENSE

Richard Ellis, 81, 1872 Iglehart
was given a five day workhouse
sentence Sept. 1, for driving with
out a license. He also paid a SIS
fine for an improper left turn.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
ARREsTED ON WARRANTS

Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Perry, 958
Carroll were arrested August ~,
on warrants charging them with
destruction of property.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
HIT AND RUN DAMAGES
MANS AUTO

The 1855 Oldsmobile of Robert
e. Creighton 1872 Iglehart was
damaged to the extent of 5000 by
a hit and run driver August 20
as the car was parked near Rondo
and Victoria.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
u" Police Officer
Donald r. Bdnhom
Struck By Aufo

A University of Minnesota po-
lice officer was seriously injured
Monday night about II pm. when
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
SoVfh's Decline In Politics

The South's influence in the Democratic
Convention has been dwindling in recent
years in direct proportion to the adamance
Of the South's leaders-and has reached the
point now where a substantial segment Of
the national party leadership now has no
fear of Southern bolt but would like to
encourage it. Harry Truman, after all, not
only won in 1913 despite the five-state
Dixiecrat detection but may well have been
strengthened in key Northern states by the
fact of Southern opposition. - Arkansas
GAZETTE.
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-09-04
Religions Effect On Living

BY and with religion the living together
Of men was made not merely possible, but
also desirable Religion clothed and adorned
the cold nakedness of the primitive ex-
istence with shreds and patches of beauty
All that grace and color which transmutes
mere existence into life-in a word, all art
may truly be said to have arisen out Of
religion. Sculpture had its origin in idol
making, architecture in temple building,
poetry in prayer writing drama in legend
telling and dancing in the seasonal worship
of the gods.-Lewis Browne In This Be
Beving World"
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VOL. lis SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1859 NO. 2
, 1959-01-03

ment would not then be faced with so serious a problem
of water for public use.
THERE ARE PROJECTS going up, and other to be
renovated and improved. With those already in the
making the plans might be too far along to justify
change. However, the future is something else, and
there is our opportunity to see that the necessary i'm
p%rovements are Incorporated in any plans to meet all
the demands.
HOUSING BEING what it is, the end result will
longer to accomplish. But il is good that the Gov
ernor has included it in his plans, and we look forward
to steady progress in this direction.
, 1959-01-03
Editorial
MORE AND BETTER HOUSING
COMMENT HAS already seen made 81

COMMENT HAS already been made on three of
the six major points in the Governors program for the,
Virgin Islands. These were: Adequate water supply,
Airport and harbor improvements, and Modern commu-
nication system. Today we comment upon the fourth
better and more adequate housing for lower and middle
income groups especially.
n OF THE principal criteria Of the living stand
ards Of a nation is the adequacy Of its housing. People
must live, and their health and frame Of mind is in turn
determined by their housing. This has become a techni-
cal and exact science 50 that every city government has
its housing division where building codes are strictly en-
forced, and standards suggested.
TO-DAY, THE HOUSING for a family is based
upon the size, and the needs Of the family. The supply
Of fresh, running water should be ample, ventilation, so
essential to health. must be provided, and after a GER
tain age, each child in the family should have his own
room. In the name Of good health, there should be no
sleeping in kitchens. Of cooking where there is to be
sleeping.
WE HAVE building code which should be strict
ly enforced, and the appropriate department Or division
will see to it that this code is followed OF course, the
weather being what it is out here, heating will pose no
problem, and ventilation can be approached from an
entirely different point. In place Of this problem, the
need to build 50 as to safeguard against hurricanes is the
prime consideration.
THEN THERE'S also one more factor-that of
providing for an adequate water supply. Since water is
such a problem with us, the commission responsible
for maintaining building standards should make a care
full study and come up with the type Of requirement
with respect to water supply for the individual dwelling
which would reduce the overall problem. Perhaps the
answer lies in cisterns large enough to store water for
the dryer seasons. This would mean that the Govern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12

It's unlikely, but the normal
ly-dulcet voice of Mrs. Pat
Sawyer might rise in anger to
male scorn of the woman
driver.
Mrs. Sawyer, of Hemet, CAL,
wife of a United Air Lines cap
tain and mother of three chill
dren, was in town over the
week end, making an all
woman motor trip to within 10
miles of the Arctic Circle sound
like a breeze. Cold breeze, no
doubt, but a breeze nonethe-
less.
ANY good woman driver
could do it without any trouble
at ALL" said this blithe Barney
Oldfield of the barrenS.
At this point, it's time for
the commercial:
Mrs. Sawyer's trip was to
prove several things-that
Alaska is well worth visiting;
that the Du Point COmpany's
Zefex won't freeze; that (even)
a woman would have no trouble
in making the trip and that
the new Dodge Dart is a fine
machine.
Leaving the balmy air of the
Palm Springs area on Septem-
Der 10, Mrs. Sawyer and Nata-
lie Best, of San Diego, drove
out of Seattle and on for the
3,OOO-mile round trip to Circle
City, 10 miles from the Arctic
Circle.
Over a perfectly good I'll
the cars in good Shape) two
lane, sometimes washboardJ
road" the two women Every
seldom passed another car;
passed trucks about every three
hours.
You go miles and mile.
with nothing to see but beauti.
full scenery"
They averaged about 40 to Al
miles an hour; got 10 miles tt
the gallon with the va engine
and were the last ones out o.
Circle, City before the road wa
closed for the winter, leaving
four white persons and 70 In
dams.
GaStronomical after-thought
EN- route, some food items arr
a little high-milk so cents {
glass: orange juice rs cents.
Mrs. Sawyer was selected b.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
Railroads Considering
Atomic Locomotives


The possibilities of atomic
energy as a source of locomo-
tive power is being given care
full thought by the Association
of American Railroads, which
has headquarters here and is
celebrating its 25th anniver-
sary today.
Although the association has
It's headquarters in the Trans
portation Building, Seventeenth
and H streets NV, and is con-
cerned with making trains run
more smoothly at less expense,
It does not operate a single
train itself.
But the association and its
predecessor groups can look
back over a host of achieve
ments, officials said today. In
cluded are the standard rail-
road gauge which permits inter-
change of cars between rail-
roads all over the Nation,
standardized signals and stand
ard equipment. such as cou-
piers. The organization keeps
tab on new inventions.
Its 181 members account for
almost SO per cent of railroad
mileage. Its membership en-
braces IA line-haul railroads,
"a switching and terminal
companies, one electric rail-
road and one leased line. all
In the United States and five
Canadian railroads and six
Mexican railroads. Railroads
in many foreign lands are as
sociate members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
,lo2o-Io5o,-N

Even If you recall the cata-
clysm In Wall Street 80 years
ago this month and the ma
tional degradation and despair
to which II led, surely you find
1t hard to believe now how wild
and unrestricted manipulation
in the stock market was then.
There were simply no rules
to guide or protect the public.
The few requirements the
New York Stock Exchange had
were so lax, so indifferently adj
ministered. they were worse
than nothing.
Pools Of operators could land
did send the price Of a stock
skyrocketing by selling shares
to each other. When they had
their millions In paper profits.
they would unload on the guilt
BILE.
Promoters could (and did
brazenly tout stock tips by
every means Of communica-
ton. When they had put UP
the price of a stock enough to
make a fortune for themselves,
they would let the greedy pub
lie in.
Trusted tycoons could (and
did intensity the chaos of
october, 1929, by selling stock
they didn't own in the plung-
ing markets so they could buy
back the stock at lower prices,
cover their sales and walk away
with fantastic profits.
Albert H. Wiggin, chairman
of the Chase Bank and a key
member of the bankers
group" formed to stabilize the
stock market in 1929. actually
made 81 million in that period
selling short the stock Of his
own bank!
Utterly INSCRIPTIONS bust
nessmen could land did issue
new stock to the public . y
lie in their teeth without fear
about what the stocks were
worth. There was no law fore
ing them to tell the truth.
Famous corporations could
land did refuse to tell re-
porters or stockholders an iota
about their affairs. There was
no law saying they had to give
out any information.
Each illustration is more
hair than the next. and
I submit them with pertinent
reason. For, while the stock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
WINGS & WHEELS
BY CHARLES YARDRouGH

| du Point from 10000 home
makers to make the trip and
had the full APPROVAL of Capt.
Sawyer who flew over the
over the area with the Air
Transport Command during the
war and thought it was beauti-
full.
1T was and we're going
back"
American AirlineS' passenger
traffic Zoomed to an all-time
September peak, with major
credit going to the BOeing TOTS
and LOckheed Electras.
American set a new, all-time
monthly record for domestic
airlines in August with 578 mil
lion revenue passenger miles.
The September record was
made with 100000 passengers
flying over $50 million revenue
passengers miles-a rs per cent
increase over September OF last
year.
Boeing has announced the
7n7s operating for American
and other lines, will reach the
million-passenger mark some
time this week, less than year
after their introduction by Pan
American. The load factor has
been running above 80 per cent,
compared to Sc per cent as the
highest of any, scheduled air
lime last year.
National Airport's Air Traffic
Control Tower facility and one
of the controllers, Joseph J.
Moraski, received Awards Of
Merit during last weeks All
Traffic Control Association
meeting in Oklahoma City.
In a letter of recommends
ton to the ATCA, L. w. Bur-
ton, acting director of the
Bureau of National Capital Air
ports, cited Outstanding per-
Torrance" of men in the Ma
J tional tower.
Mr.. Moraski's recognition
was made on the basis of "out'
standing contributions" to the
Journal of Air Traffic Control
!, Two of his articles have beer
/ widely reprinted.
High praise for the control
: lers came from Stuart G. Tip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12

1929 caused 50 much "distresI
and tragedy"
Now pool operations and bear
raids on stocks by ruthless short
selling have been outlawed.
Now corporations are COM
PEELED to reveal all key facts
when they issue new securities
and to publish regularly ade-
quate financial statements Ger.
titled by independent account.
ants.
Also as a. direct result Of the
1929 crash, the securities in
dustry is policing itself as never
before. In many ways, the New
York Stock Exchanges rules or
disclosure Of vital information
and on regular reports by listed
companies are far more severe
than the SECS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
~ SYLVIA PORTER

market collapse Of Black octo-
Der 1929 reflected the funda-
mental rot in our economy
there is no doubt the almost
unbelievable thievery in Wall
Street then aggravated and
prolonged the disaster. :
Today? Today. q significant
distinction between the mar
kets of 1859 and 1929 is that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12

No honest observer would
even pretend that the crooks
have been banished. or that the
protective laws and rules are
yet adequate. Stock swindles
egain are on a deeply disturbing
scale, and tomorrow III report
on proposals being made TO
tighten control and policing.
Nevertheless, o vital safe
guard for Wall Street and for
us in 1859 lies In the laws.
rules and machinery We have
created since 1929 to control
manipulation and : prevent
fraud. ~
Tomorrow, Another Distinc-
tiOn: Awareness There Was .
1929.
Distributed 1859 BY The nan syndi-
cate, Inc. All Rishts Reserved