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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
BON On Negro Mechanics
In Wosh., D. c. Laid 70
Bwildina Trodlos Union

D~hAA4a4aE NU3N00 ONllOIlD
Alton, III, Oct. 26.-The build
ing trades unions are directly re.
sponsible'' for exclusion Of Negro
mechanics from work on the ex-
tension Of the United States Cap
itol and the new House Office
Building in Washington, Herbert
Hill, NAACP labor secretary,
charges IN an address prepared
for delivery here today.
Speaking at q session Of the
annual meeting Of the Illinois State
Conference Of NAACP branches
Mr.. Hill called upon'the Presidents
Committee on Government Con-
tracts to invoke its "full authority
against the AFL-CIo building
trades unions in the District Of
Columbia and against the Nc,
Closkey Construction Company
which Is the contractor.
The construction company he
said. "as the prime contractor
cannot be given immunity from
the characterization provision
In the contract with the federal
government on the ground that II
has turned over control of the hir,
ing process to the building trades
unions."
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
NAAcP ASKS U.s.. DISTRICT
COURT TO VOID
LOUISIANA INJUNCTION

New York, Oct. 22.-Robert L.
Carter, general counsel Of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, today an
nounced two actions filed on Oct.
II in the United States District
Court in New Orleans designed to
lift the state-imposed ban on
NAACP activity in Louisiana.
In an effort to void the injunc-
ton handed down by a state court
on Oct. 9 banning NAACP meet
ings and other activities in the
state, the NAACP counsel filed a
petition seeking removal Of the
case to the federal court. The
petition cited action pending in
the federal court to invalidate the
1924 and-Ku Klux Khan statute
under which the NAACP was or
iginally banned in 1865.
As further grounds for removal
Of the case to the federal court,
the petition cited an Association
suit also pending in the federal
court challenging the constitution
atty of a 1868 state law requiring
local groups affiliated with ma
tional organizations to file af-
fidavits that none Of the officers
Of the parent organizations Is a
member of any society listed as
subversive by the House I'm
American Activities Committee.
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
SOCIALIST LEADER
NORMAN THOMAS
10 SPEAK HERE

Norman Thomas, former socialist
candidate for the office of presi-
dent of the United States, will be
speaker November 4, at $50 pm.
on the Grand Hall Of the Univ
ersity YMCA, located at the corner
Of 18th and University AYES. in
Minneapolis.
Mr.. Thomas topic will be. "A
Socialist Looks at the Cold War"
He is director emeritus Of the
American Civil Liberties Union and
one of its founders. He is a MEM
Der Of the national executive COM
mittee for a sane nuclear policy;
a director Of the Postwar World
Council and a member Of the
NAACP.
The public is invited. There is
no admission charge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
81. Paul NAACP
Launches Voter
Registration Drive

The st. Paul Branch NAACP
launched plans for a mammoth
registration and vote campaign
for the 1860 elections. Mrs. Jane
Preston, Robert M. Patterson and
Rabbi Gunther Plaut are co-chair-
men Of the Political Education
COMMITTEES.
A letter was sent out to all
local churches, organizations, offic-
ials and civic clubs calling for
an organiEational meeting on
Thursday, November s, 1859 at the
Halle Q. Brown House commenc-
ing at 7:30 pm.
Citizens interested in working on
this program should attend this
highly important meeting.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
Publisher Named 30 FEPC:
Peterson Appoints
Milton 9. WiIlidmS
To MpIS. FEPc

Following the resignation of
Raymond w. Cannon, attorney
from the Minneapolis FEPC COM
mission, the office Of Mayor p.
Kenneth Peterson announced Nil
ton @. (Gus) williams, SO, editor
and publisher of the Twin City
Observer and the st. Paul Sun.
Negro weekly tabloids viii be ap-
pointed to serve Cannon's unex-
pired term.
Williams first attracted atten-
ton in Minneapolis in 1928 when
he sold stock in the Wilbur B.
Foshay companies. Later he was
advertising manager for the Timely
DIGEST magazine, published In
193o-S1 by Cecil Newman. The
magazine operated only a year.
His work career included employ
ment as a dining car cook and
agent for loan firms.
In 1884 when the Minneapolis
SPOKESMAN and st. Paul RE-
CORDER was established he
worked for a while in the office
Of these papers.
During his stock selling days
over % years ago Mr.. Williams
attracted considerable attention by
hosting a banquet in honor of nli-
nois Congressman Oscar De Priest.
at the newly opened Foshay Tower
Cafe. An estimated zoo persons at
tended the affair for which either
the Foshay Co, or Williams picked
~ the check. -'... .a ..-a'' 10 a
For several years he worked in
some capacity in the Doyle wager
establishment on Hennepin Ave.
About 16 years ago he founded
the Twin City Observer newspaper
with the financial assistance &C.
cording to a Cedric Adams column
of Arthur J. Murray, secretary
treasurer of MurTay's Restaurant,
where he is still employed in the
mems rest room.
williams established the St. Paul
Sun, a few years after starting
the Observer. Williams has been
q staunch supporter Of the Re-
publican party most Of his news
paper career and served as a door
man at least one national con-
vention.
His appointment must be con-
firmed by the Minneapolis city
council.
Williams public service includes
work as chairman Of a Negro CON-
mittee for the Sister Kenny Fund
years ago and service on two &C.
casions on the Hennepin county
grand jury.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30

New York, Oct. 22.-The Board
Of Directors Of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of
Colored People has endorsed A.
Philip Randolph's Crusade to rid
the American labor movement Of
all vestiges Of racial discrimina-
ton and segregation"
A resolution adopted by the
Board at its regular monthly meet
ing here on Oct. 13 "reaffirms
complete confidence" In Mr.. Ran
dolph and assures him Of It's
full support"
The labor leader, the resolution
asserts, ''in calling for the elimina-
ton Of trade union Jim Crowism
at the San Francisco convention
Of the AFL-CIo voiced the
aspirations Of the overwhelming
majority Of Negroes both within
the labor movement and outside.
"As he continues his heroic
struggle for democratic, color-blind
trade unionism, we commend him
for his efforts, express to him our
gratitude and renew our pledge of
support and cooperation in a sus-
tanned attack upon the manifesto
tons of racial prejudice wherever
they occur In the labor movement,
in industry or in government"
Previously, on Sept. "a, DR..
Claiming H. Tobias, chairman Of
the Board, sent a telegram to
AFL-CIo President George Meany
asserting the Associations support
of Mr.. Randolph's demand for
positive action by the AFL-CIo
against racial discrimination and
segregation within its ranks as
elsewhere in American life"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
Man Who Wounded
Officer Indicted
On Murder Count

The Hennepin county grand jury
Tuesday indicated a transient from
Florida for first degree murder,
for a fatal shooting at the North
side Inn, Oct. 9, in which a by
stander was fatally shot and a
Minneapolis. police officer was crit
ically wounded.
The indicted man, Pam Ware,
%, Pensacola, Fla, Is still IN
critical condition at ,Minneapo-
lis General hospital The dead man
was Ruben Belser, 35, 819 FREE
mont Av., who was standing at
the bar when Ware engaged in a
gun fight with Officer Dale r.
Rolsing, who was called to the
tavern to deal with Ware who had
previously threatened a waitress.
Rolsing who was seriously
wounded by shots fired by Ware
has been released from the hospital.
The Northside Inn, scene Of hum
erous fights and trouble has been
operated by Jimmy Fuller, 40, 1882
9th Av. s. and Rodger H. Ben
ton, 80 Of 3S7 e. 3Sth st.
Fuller, CO proprietor Of the
Northside Inn was charged with
allowing spiking in a 81 beer par
Tor. The trial opened in Minneapolis
municipal court Monday.
Morals squad chief Russell Krue-
ger said his men had observed
patrons Of the tavern "spilSing
beer with liquor. Benton, co-owner
Of the tavern has not been charged
along with Fuller because he was
not present at the time Of the
fracas which took one mans life
and injured two others.
Action Of the request by the
mayors office and the police de-
partment on the revocation Of the
license for the tavern was post
poned by the city council license
committee to await the outcome
Of the case. Next meeting Of the
committee Is on Nov. 10.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
Court Tab In
SoinHIy Civ

Charles ID. Winston, So. 2s1
Arundel arrested October "a for
drunk appeared in court October
20 and received a sentence Of SIS.
or one day which he paid.
Jentrice o,Neal, 81, 500 Aurora
arrested as a result Of selling
liquor without a license on Sep
TENDER IS appeared in court oc-
tober 20 and pied guilty. He was
placed on $500 bail and case is set
up for q future date.
Columbus Perkins, So, 2s2 Cath
edral Place arrested as a result
Of selling liquor without a license
on September 70 appeared in court
October n and pied not guilty. He
was placed on $500 bail and the
case Is set for November 5.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30

determine rgidly the nature OF the
Negro potential, the numerous
fields in which it can best be en-
ployed, its distribution throughout
America, and a rigid system Of
priority to be sought.
To Build Strength Among Negroes
It would plan to build scientific,
chronological, agricultural and hu-
manistic strength among Negroes.
It would lead the way in obtaining
national support for the Federal
Aid to Education bill. And finally,
IL would help the Ii nillion Ne
groes on their overall major social
problems, foremost among which
revolves the great mass Of in
migrant Of Negroes from the
South to the densely-populated ur-
ban centers in the North, East,
Midwest and West.
The masses Of Negro migrants, |"
stated the Philadelphia jurist, ARE
unprepared and wholly incapable
for assuming the many civic duties
which become their responsibility
upon reaching their newly found
home"
As far as he knew, Judge Alex
ander observed, no organization
equipped to advise the Negroes
through their churches, their news
papers and the various social agen-
cies has done anything about 1t.
The various associations set up
for the purpose Of social and econ
omic advancement Of Negroes,
such as the Urban League, NAA-
CP, various fraternal organizations,
churches, and labor groups, cannot
be expected to give any crisp
summation of the very vague and
extreme varied racial detectives
facing the nation presently, he
concluded.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
Sf0fe Conferences
Saturday In MpIs.

The annual meeting Of the
Minnesota Conference Of NAA-
CP branches headed by the
Rev. Mr.. Denzil Carly meets
Saturday, Oct. 81 at Sc Peter
ANIE church in Minneapolis.
Roy wilkins, Of NY. City,
executive secretary Of the
NAACP Is expected 10 address
the conferences. Delegates and
state and local branch officers
Of the Duluth. Minneapolis and
sc. Paul win participate In the
annual state meeting.
Thomas jackson n chairman
Of the arrangements committee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
Milwaukee Publisher
Visits Twin Towns

Mary Ellen Shadd, publisher Of
the Milwaukee DEFENDER was q
visitor In st. Paul this week. Mrs
Shadd was house guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. H. Erwin of 1927 Cumber,
land Av., ST. Paul.
Mrs. Shadd inspected the new
plant and facilities Of the Spokes'
man and Recorder papers in Min
neapolis and spent some time with
her friend Mrs. Josephine oden Of
Dayton Av
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
c0SsiVs Employee Betty
Cooper Wins B0Tmuld
Title Fourth Time

Betty Cooper, $50 IgIehart, st.
Paul won first place in the annual
Bartenders and BarInaids contest
sponsored by the Regalettes. She
Is employed at the Cassius Cafe
and Bar in Minneapolis.
Delbert Crushshon Red Feather,
st. Paul, won second place and
Orville Garth of the Ellxs Rest in
Minneapolis came in third.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
81. PAUL NAAcP
YOUTH MEET ON
tuesday. NOV. Z

lOESObAbS WV -
The st. Paul Youth Chapter,
NAACP win hold it's regular
monthly meeting on Tuesday,
November s, 1859, at the Head
quarters Of Local SIC.
The report Of the Nominal
ing Committee win be submitted
at this meeting. All members
are urged TO attend.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
HOW ST. PAUL ARRESTS DROPPED .-
WITH SGT. JIMMY GRIFFIN ON THE JOB
BY STAFF WRITER

How the rate Of arrests by st. Paul police rapidly dropped
between the time of get tough" policy criminals
disordery persons graphically illustrated by the comparison
Of a six day period in Sept. 1859 and October 1869.
Credit for the reduction In given special police detail
headed by Sgt Jimmy Griffin
at the new low that Griffin has been returned regular
assignment desk sergeant at police headquarters remains
to be ..... s.l. ..~a.. H..f
Griffin given the special detail following
Aug. Is between spectators and police .....
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
NacireVnd To Give
Annual Halloween
Perry For Youngsters

Witches, hobgoblins and all, the
Halloween spirits will reign at the
annual Halloween party to be given
for youngsters from five to twelve
years Of age on Saturday evening,
October 81, by the Nacirema Club,
1929 Fourth Av. s., from 7 to o
pm.
Fun and free refreshments will
highlight the festive affair.
All youngsters in the above age
group are invited TO attend.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
KENNETH IVERSON NEW
OWNER OF $40 GROCERY

Kenneth Iverson Is new owner
of the Three Forty Grocery, SAC
East 4eth Street.
The store which has operated
for more than five years, carries
full line of groceries, beverages
and dairy products.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
Ldkers Face Sc.
LooeY hdWkS SundQN

The Minneapolis Lakers will face
the st. Louis Hawks in the second
home game Of the current pro-
fessional basketball League at the
Minneapolis Armory, Sunday, Nov.
1, at 1:15 pm.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30

Seek 70 Purge" Voters
STATE POLITICS BEHIND
NAACP COURT BAN IN
LA. LEADER CHARGES

New York, Oct 15--An injunction banning NAACP
vity State of Louisiana politically inspired Mrs
Doreha A. Combre president of the National Association for
Advancement of Coored People Louisiana charged this
week '-..-
Here attend the regular monthly meeting of the NAACP
Board Of Directors Of which she member Mrs COmbre told
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
CAREY HOLDS OWN

Talmadge B. Carey, 1904 Fifth
Av. g., Minneapolis continues in
critical condition at the University
hospital.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
P0ee Alexander Suggests:
Poee Alexander Suggests:
PhiIIy Judge Insists
u. S. Negroes Need A
Natl. Planning Unit
BY ALICE A. DUNNTGAN

Washington (ANP)-The need of biracia organza-
ton, known the National Planning Commission for Ne
suggested by Judge Raymond Pace Alexander in
keynote address before the third leadership workshop
of the American Council Human Rights held at Howard univ
ersity
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
URGED 70 SEEK MITIGATION

Tampa, Fla. lamp = Parents
In this area last week were urged
by an NAAcP official to enroll
their children in white schools UNI
der the states pupil assignment
law.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30

Opening SOOn-JOann's Salon Of
Beauty, 48O0 eth Ave. SO.--Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
The
HIGH
And Low
DOW
BY BAuK THOMAS

Say II Isn't So! In a large East
ern city a psychiatrist tackled the
job Of comparing 800 bad auto
mobile drivers with 800 criminals.
He found that more automobile
drivers than criminals were STU
pid, psychoneurotic, alcoholic, inn
mature, emotionally unstable, self
conferred"
It wasn't reported in Twin City
dailies which Baltic read, but NAH
ALA Jackson, was the favorite en-
tertainer who appeared at the
surprise birthday party given for
President Eisenhower at the Sher-
atom Park hotel in DC. Other
guests included the President of
neighboring Mexico.
The us. Food and Drug Admin
istration has seized 81 cases of
Instant-Pep, a Htamin mineral
supplement under charges Of mis-
branding under, the Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act.
The top national advertiser
among firms with headquarters in
the, Twin Towns last year was
General Mills with an expenditure
of 80 million, 206 thousands Of
dollars. Among all national adver-
Users General Mills was Is in ex-
penditures.
The only other Twin City firm
listed. among the top 100 spenders
was Hamm's Brewing which in
spending six and one-haf million
dollars rates 95th on the list.
General Motors, leading buyer
of advertising expended a total
Of $1S7, 500, 900 in 1858.
The colored folder sent out to
every travel agent in the world
extolling the all-Negro st. John
Resort Hotel in Miami, Florida has
a handsome photo Of Sugar Ray"
Robinson lolling in a beach chair
at the edge Of the large swim
ming pool. 1t also has a big gOof,
wherein the word Negro is printed
with a lower case en-" which II a
cardinal sin in printed material
today In Negro America.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-30
Comparative List Of Arrests

For comparative six days in Sept the month Of
dropped by 10 shown above
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On Nov. s.:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14
BY the Associated Press

Ranchers used to holler fol
the marshal when their cows
had been stolen.
Now they call also for the
Food and Drug Administration
the Department of Justice anc
Congress.
All have been asked to &C
after rustlers repeatedly armed
with tranquilizer guns, not six.
shooters.
Senator Murray, Democrat OF
Montana, said today the Food
and Drug Administration hac
agreed to send a sleuth to Mon.
tana.
And Senator Murray ha!
asked Omen to probe com.
plants that rubber-tired rus
tiers are using dope guns tt
keep cattle from bawling anc
mooing while they're being
loaded into trucks.
The Senator took actor
after getting this letter from
Art Watson of Great Falls
president of the Montana Cat.
tlemen's Association:
1.-THE guns-rifles and pistols
shoot, with scarcely any
noise, a pellet which contains
any tranquilizer or other drug
desired to be injected into an
animal.
"The gun is q boon to the
cattle industry when legiti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14
New-StyIe RustIers Use
Quietest Gun in Town

mately used. However, it also
is a boon to rustlers and, since
it can shoot any drug, might
be used by criminals in crimes
other than rustling livestock.
1--WE believe the guns already
have been used by rustlers in
Montana"
The association has called
upon Congress for a law re-
Stricting sale and use of tran
quilizer guns.
Food and Drug Commissioner
George P. Larrick, announcing
a man would be sent to Great
Falls, told Senator Murray that
tranquilizers, being drugs, gen.
orally may be used or pre-
Scribed only by animal doctors.
An Agriculture research man
reported tranquilizerS had been
used in tests for fattening
cattle.
He said that the department
had not used the dope gun but
its veterinarians had used drugs
on bulls, steers and boars being
shipped long distances.
Drugs are used commonly in
ZOOS while treating and ham
ding animals, the researchers
said. He added:
There have been movies
demonstrating the use of tran
quilizer guns, particularly in
catching wild animals such as
deer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14
Foubus Ready to Call
Troops if Need Arises

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Aug,
ia (AP).-Gov. Orval E. Fau-
bus said today he was ready to
call on the State police and
Arkansas National Guard In
the school indignation situa-
ton If necessary.
Gov. Faubus' announcement
came as three Negro students
entered Hall High School
peacefully for the third day of
token indignation in two Of
Little Rocks four public high
schools.
Gov. Faubus, at a hastily
called news conference, did
not say under what circum-
stances he would call on the
State police and National
Guard, nor how they would be
used.
Last night Gov. FaubuS was
accused by Mrs. Daisy Bates,
State president Of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, of US
ing the State police to try to
intimidate the NAACP.
Appeals to President
Mrs. Bates sent a telegram to
President Eisenhower saying
her pleas for protection had
been ignored by local authori-
ties and that friends who had
guarded her had been arrested.
The three Negro girls, Fife
Jones, Estella Thompson and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14

leased after treatment for a cut
on the left hand and a frac-
tured rib. The boys, described
as colored, escaped.
The policeman who was at
tackled, Pvt. William J. Magin-
mis-. q, of 1925 Quincy street
NV, is in Washington Hospital
Center with multiple bruises Of
the face and body. He Is in
fair condition.
Suffered Cut Foot
Pvt. Hugh McClelland, 81
the injured motorcycle police
man. suffered a cut foot and
bruises when the accident &C.
CURED in the 1000 block Of
Fourteenth street NV. Police
charged the driver of the cal
involved in the collision, AL.
phuS, c. Di Mesme, 35, of the
500 block of Thirty-fourth
street NE, with failing to yielc
the right of way.
When Pvt. Maginnis ordered
the five boys to disperse, police
officials said, one refused an6
the Scuffle started. During the
tumult one shot was fired but
it went wild.
A lookout was broadcast fol-
five colored youths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14
Lowmoker Sees 6 Boys
Attack Man on Street

Representative Diggs. Dem
ocrat of Michigan. told today
how he saw six youths attack
a man "like a pack Of wolves"
about midnight last night at
Logan circle NV
In another incident a short
time later, a policeman dis
patched to investigate a dis
orderly complaint was attacked
by five youths who beat him
with sticks, a wooden club and
his own night stick and robbed
him of his revolver in the 700
block of T street NV.
En- route to help the attacked
patrolman, a motorcycle po-
liceman was injured when his
cycle was struck by q car.
Witnessed Attack
Representative Digs, whose
district includes Detroit, said he
was on the west side of Logan
Circle, driving some friends to
National Airport, when he saw
the gang of youths attack Law
renee F. Radcliffe, 80, an I'M
employed kitchen worker, of
1923 Fifteenth street NV. Mr..
Radcliffe was grabbed from be-
hind and his wallet containing
$21 was taken, police said.
1--WE saw a man on the
ground being beaten and
kicked" Mr.. Digs said. "They
were right under a street light"
He said he stopped his car
and backed up. I'VE yelled at
them to stop it," he said. They
then ran across the street ours
ing U.S."
Then he said he drove
around the circle at Thirteenth
street; keeping the boys in
sight, watching as they divided
the money between them.
"Then a couple of them, one
with a knife, came toward, us
and we drove away to call po-
lice" the Congressman said.
Those boys were just like a
pack of wolves. You hear about
things like this, but you don't
really understand it until you
see it. I never saw anything
like that before"
Mr.. Radcliffe was taken to
Freedmen'S Hospital and re-