davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
St. Paul NAACP Is
Checking Story Of
Reverse Freedom Rider

Bradford Benner, second vice.
president of the NAACP, 61S Car
roll was contacted by the office of
Mayor George Vavoulis this week
regarding a man who stated he
was sent to st. Paul by the White
Citizens Council Of Macon.
Georgia.
The Mayors office had paid the
expenses of the man at the Union
Gospel Mission. AS Wacouta since
his arrival in the city on June 20,
but Informed Benner that further
funds were not available.
The man was interviewed at the
courthouse and it was learned that
his name was Clayton Holmes, As,
of 1735 Fourth Av., Pleasant Hill,
Macon, Georgia. He is married and
has four children. Holmes stated
he lost his job with the Middle
Georgia Hospital, private hos
pital, where he was employed as
a hospital orderly and since losing
his job decided he would try to
get to Minnesota and look for
work and then send for his family.
Holmes contacted a lawyer, John
S. Warchak, 275 Broadway, Macon,
Georgia telling him he wanted to
leave Macon and go to Minnesota
and the attorney, in turn, called
a Bob Podgett, Box 800, Macon,
Georgia-allegedly an officer with
the White Citizens Council.
Podgett came to the residence
of Holmes and took him to the
depot where he gave him one way
fare to st. Paul and five dollars.
At that time he told Holmes some
one would meet him in st. Paul
and give him a job.
Holmes was taken to the Mis-
sion where lodging and meals were
paid by the st. Paul NAACP
branch for two days while his
story is being checked and further
action by the branch decided.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Their Motto: Safety First

Milwaukee (ANP) - Frank J.
Jazdzewsli, 81, veteran member
OF the Milwaukee County Safety
commission, was fined $10O re-
Gently for reckless driving while
returning home from a party for
another safety commission offic-
ial.
The Judge who imposed the fine
also attended the party.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

McDonald, State Commission
Against Discrimination Director,
st. Paul, was the only governor Of
the 80 in the nation to have a
Negro on his staff at the confer
ence.
Tuesday, the Minnesotan joined
with such Republicans as New
York's Nelson Rockefeller and
Oregon's Mark Hatfield in an ef-
fort to tack an amendment spell
ing out civil rights responsibilities
to a proposed resolution written
largely in generalities.
Andersen huddled with Rookie
feller and Hatfield late Monday
when it became clear that south
ern governors would be aided by
the reluctance of such northern
liberal stalwarts as David L.
Lawrence (Dem., PENN, Michael
v. Disable (Dem., Ohio) and Ed
mund G. Brown (Dem., California;
to endorse any civil rights position
at the conference.
Andersen, Rockefeller and Hat
field agreed to take the floor
Continued on Page A.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
DRY-POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

spend summertime Saturday afternoons
odashioned heir spends
his weex-ends trying get the power
On
fight
the welfare state the fare
state
suggested that the English language be promoted
the worldwide language understanding
we 60 which English
language: Oxford Manchester Dublin Melbourne Brooklyn New
Orleans Samuel Goldwyn Associated Press?
Washington depletion gold by bal
payments Aside from the with dental cavity
gold chiefly useful to governments that haven't any
doctors have nexed their political muscles
vetong parliament they might well apply
their technique establishing historically system
ment to be mediocracy.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Sunday, July 8:
Calvin Walton.
Mems Day Speaker
PILGRIM BupfiSf

Sunday, July 8, at 10 am. the
men of Pilgrim Baptist Church,
w. Central at Grotto, st. Paul,
Minnesota, will present their an
nual Mems Day Service.
The speaker will be Calvin Wal
ton, Executive Director, Cover
nor's Commission on Human
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

ment following editorials in these
newspapers charging that highway
planning in the cities was going
forward in total disregard for the
need for mass transportation.
The Spokesman and Recorder
has learned that members of the
committee are J. E. P. Darrell, of
the st. Paul Streets and highways
department, Russ Sprungman, of
the Minneapolis city engineers Of
flee, Ralph Dale, of the us. Pub
lie Roads, A. L. Mckay, of the
Hennepin County engineers Of
flee, Eugene Avery and William
Chenoweth, of the Ramsey County
engineers office, and Lynn Gerber
and Ralph James, of the Twin City
Rapid Transit company.
Johan Nygaard, of the Mime
sofa Highway department, plan
ming department told these news
papers that no public hearings
were held solely on the matter of
public transportation.
IF any of the elected bodies -
the city councils and the county
boards of the two cities, was con-
suited or received an official re-
port from a member of the COM
mittee, we have not been able to
find a record of it.
Elected officials whom we have
been able to contact say they
have never heard of the commit
tee.
The highway department state
ment follows. Our comments will
be found on the editorial page.
(Report to Governor Elmer
Andersen)
A recent editorial in the st. Paul
Recorder and Minneapolis Spokes-
man comments on metropolitan
transit problems. Three major
points are discussed. First, the
editorial discusses use Of freeway
facilities by buses and, in effect,
accuses the Minnesota Highway
Department and other agencies of
total disregard" of this consider
alton. Second, the editorial COM
ments upon the decline Of mass
transit, and third, strongly sup
ports the formation Of a Metropol-
itan Transit Authority. This men,
orandum discusses the three points
In the above order.
Early in 1858 the Mid organ
lied the Minnesota subcommittee
ON Transportation and Traffic,
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

gressmen mindful of the school
decision of 1854 seized upon the
prayer edict to further their at
tacks upon the high tribunal.
Rep. George Andrews d., Ala }
said, They put the Negroes in the
schools and now they've driven
God out of them"
Rep. Dale Afford d., Ark.), a
candidate for governor of Arkan-
sas, recalled the 1854 decision by
the Supreme Court outlawing rae
ial segregation in the public
schools. "Once again." he declared,
a.. The Supreme Court of the
United States has torn to shreds
the Constitution of the United
States while feigning an attempt
to protect it."
In Chicago, clerymen took vary
ing views on the high courts ac-
ton, which specifically outlawed a
22-word prayer in New York
states public schools.
Rev. ]. c. Austin of Pilgrim
Baptist church here summed up
his feelings in these words:
This nation should always be
on speaking terms with God. l
strongly feel that above all else,
our school should start its day
with the recognition of a Divine
presence and a confession of graf
itude for Gods eternal care"
Hugh Chance, secretary Of the
BahaI Faith in Winnetka, Ill, be-
lieves that prayer is a very per-
sonal thing and should be kept
that way.
The Rev. Niketas Kessess, of the
Greek Orthodox Cathedral here,
feels that ones own beliefs should
be taught, and recognition of a
Supreme Being expressed. How
ever, he adds, laws are made to be
kept.
Rabbi Rosenbahm, executive
vice president Of the Jewish faith
in Chicago quotes his personal
feelings as those of President Ken
nedy, whom he feels summed up
his ideas exactly.
Father S. ]. Martin, Of st. Ed
munds Episcopal church, has
mixed emotions in regards to the
question. While he favors the daily
prayers, he believes that the
church and the state should be
kept separate. He was extremely
pleased with the opinion of Justice
Hugo Black.
Pastor E. w. Moore, of the
Hyde Park Seventh Day Advent
list church in Chicago, is Of the
opinion that there should be no
legislation of religion in any form
in America. Our country was
founded on the basis Of religious
freedom and this right should not
be subjected in our public schools.
The home should be the basis in
Christian education.
Dean M. Kelley Of New York,
director of the National Council
of Churches department of relig-
ious liberty, said in Chicago that
many Christians will welcome
this decision"
The National Association Of
Evangelicals here in Chicago
called the ruling "regrettable."
Francis Cardinal Spellman, the
Roman Catholic Archbishop Of
New York, said he was Shocked
and frightened" at the ruling.
Said Spellman.
"The decision strikes at the Very
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

heart of the godly tradition in
which Americas children have for
SO long been raised"
Leo Pfeffer, general counsel Of
the American Jewish Congress,
hailed the decision in New York.
He said it makes clear that fed
eral funds may not be used to
finance parochial school educa-
ton"
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr., coIIapses In Pulpit

New York (ANP) - Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was
back in Washington to resume his
congressional duties after collaps-
ing in the pulpit of his Abyssinian
Baptist church here.
Powell was taken to his New
York home on orders of his ply
sicians, Doctors Aaron Well and
Theodore Bullard. The doctors said
his collapse was due to over-ex-
haustion.
However, after a short rest, the
New York Democrat was able to
return to Washington.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Mrs. Harris RefireS
From Powers After
Over 40 Years

Mrs. Lucy Harris retired from
Powers Department Store on Fri
day, June 30, after 40 years and
two months. Mrs. Harris started
working for Powers in April of
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

Existence of fishing village of
10000 persons in Eastern Nigeria,
heretofore unknown, was uncov-
cred when Nigeria embarked upon
its national census taking project
recently.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

See you at Annual Upper Mid
west Bronze Golf Tournament
Saturday and Sunday, July & 8,
Theodore Wirth Golf Course
Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Minnesota Governors Takes The Lead:
Minnesota Governors Takes The Lead:
Andersen Again Seeks
Strong Rights Support
From Governors COnfab

Hershey Penn-DIinneSota Governor Elmer L. Andersen
has his fight the national Governors Conference
record for human rights with resolution urging protection
urging protection for all citizens against discrimination in
ng employment public accommodations education and voting
basis of color creed religion national origin
anderson working closely the resolution with James C.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Decision Against Mass Transit Revealed:
Decision Against Mass Transit Revealed:
Highway Dept. Retort
To Editorial States
Study Was Made

The decision not to the Twin Cities freeways for
(bus transportation taken in 1868 and 1859 by eight
committee made up of Hennepn Ramsey county, Min
neapos and st. Paul city and U.S. Public Roads employees
and officials of the Twin City Rapid Transit company according
report by the Minnesota Highway department Governor
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Dixieerufs Get Another Excuse:
DixieerGfs Get Another Excuse:
Clergy Split On
Supreme Court Ruling
On School Prayers

Chicago (ANP) Reaction last weeks ruling by the
Supreme Court declaring payerreadng in public schools
fcts with the First Amendment the of mixed feel
ing the part of cergmen racial Sur from Dixie legs
latOrS
Religious leaders and congressman generally critical
of the high tribunals action but southern segregaOnist
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

Rights. He will
speak from the
topic: "a Chal-
lenge From Our
Women.
Mr.. Walton, an
able S pc a k er,
holds a BIS. De-
gree from Tenn
essee State and
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06
Foreign Mission RUmm1se
Sole lulX 6 & Z

S IVY -
The Senior Mission of the Sab
athani Baptist Church will spon-
sor a foreign Mission Rummage
Sale Friday, and Saturday, July
8 and 7, 7 am.-umtil, at TIT
Tenth Av. s. Henrietta Loud,
president and Beatrice Young
chairman.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

Ancker Hospital.
Bell, at press time, was in fair
condition.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-07-06

Francis Cardinal Spellman, the
Roman Catholic Archbishop Of
New York, said he was shocked
and frightened" at the ruling.
Said Spellman.
THE decision strikes at the very
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Po|iceman's Talk Distracts
Boy, 9, in Threat to Jump

the door," the policeman
pleaded.
"Why can't she come to see
me?" the boy responded in
tears.
Because she's SICK" the po-
liceman answered. I'VE have a
car downstairs and if you'll just
open the door :"
The bolt slowly clicked.
The door eased open a few
inches, but was still held by a
chain. Then the boy saw the
uniforms.
He screamed.
"Now!" yelled Pvt. Mower,
and the policemen hit the door,
forcing it open.
Pvt. Mower was the first to
dive over furniture piled be-
hind the door and grab the
boy as he headed for the win
dows. The youngster struggled,
but his fears we're soon Gained
by sympathetic policemen.
Later he was taken to a hos
pital for mental observation.
The firemen removed their
rescue net and ladders and Pvt.
Mower went back to the 10th
precinct - to make another
routine" report, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Holiday Causes Chaos
On ConnecticutAvenue

extra men out to the intersec-
tons along Connecticut from
Cathedral avenue to Nebraska
avenue. They succeeded not
so much in bringing order out
of chaos as in preventing chaos
from disintegrating into dis
aster.
I'VE can't do a thing" O
police official said. ITO some
people it's a holiday. but to
others it isn't"
A similar problem occurred
! during rush hour this morning
when motorists inbound on
Rock Greek parkway cut across
the foot of Constitution avenue
and found a new detour lead
ing off toward independence
avenue. The alert ones found
the detour. The others ran ur
against a blockade a short dis
lance away and we're forced to
turn around and fight theil
way back upstream to the
proper entrance to the detour
Police. almost afraid to look
reported that, somehow Wash
ington drivers had survived the
hazards of the holiday and the
detour without major damage
except to nerves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
2 YOUTHS HELD
IN ARLINGTON
THEFT OF SAFE

Two 18-year-old Airing
ton youths were surprised
by police early today as the
pair pried open "a safe in
a wooded section of an
Arlington residential area,
county police reported.
Police said patrolling Of
ficers saw light in the
woods at the dead end of
Seventh road and found
the two youths working on
the safe, which had been
taken from the Highs store
at 252 North Glebe road.
One youth was caught at
the scene. The other fled
and was picked up later,
police said. The youths, both
charged with burglary, were
identified as Robert Steven
Cain, 903 South Frederick
street, and John E. White,
818 South Arlington Mill
drive.
A Highs store represent
alive said the safe, which
weighed about 100 pounds,
had contained $3.50 and
that the money was re-
covered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
spurns WssC Plans

1.-The boy locked me out a
few minutes ago then he
threatened to jump from a
window" the aunt said. What
will / tell his mother?"
Pvt. Mower Gained the aunt,
then drew the boy into a con-
versation through the bolted
door while his partner, Pvt.
Edward G. Geiger, 30. called
for additional help.
II don't think he'll actually
jump" Pvt. Mower, whispered,
but we can't take a chance. F"
An attempt by Pvt. Geiger to
reach the bathroom window
from an adjacent window
failed.
Within minutes, a crew of
District firemen from truck
company No. 9 appeared in the
darkness four flights below and
set up ladders and a rescue net.
"We'll try to catch him in
the net if he jumps before we
get the ladders up" said Fifth
Battalion Fire Chief Harry M.
Carver.
AS the firemen worked with
silent speed, Pvt. Mower kept
up his conversation.
Were going to take you to
your mother If you'll just open
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

The partial Veterans Day
holiday tangled traffic all over
the Washington area yesterday
afternoon. 1t turned Connecti-
cut avenue, for example, into
a giant game of chicken" for
several narrowing hours.
On a normal non-holiday
afternoon, parking is banned
on the six-lane street. North
bound traffic uses four lanes
and southbound traffic gets the
other two.
But since yesterday was, at
least technically, a holiday,
cars were parked on both sides
of Connecticut. Theoretically,
northbound traffic had two
lanes and so did southbound.
Many homeward-b bound mo-
florists, noting the un-holiday-
ish glut of traffic, began to
use the extra lane that really
belonged to inbound autos. The
result was a battle of racing
engines and screaming tires as
motorists found themselves on
collision course and tried to
swerve off into the crowded
lanes on either side.
The police department sent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Negro Majority
To Represent
Baltimore 4th

BALTIMORE, Nov. IS (AP)
For the first time in Mary
land history, a delegation with
a majority of Negroes will &c
to the General Assembly in
Annapolis next January.
The delegation will represent
Baltimore's 4th legislative dis
trict, which elected a Negro
State Senator, three Negro Del
egates and three white Dele
gates last Tuesday.
The Negro members are State
Senator-elect Verda F. We'll
come, and Delegates-elect Irma
G. Dixon, Ernest D. Young and
Clarence M. Mitchell III, all
Democrats.
The white members are Dele
gates-elect Murray Abramson
Harvey A. Epstein and Joseph
Abramson. They also are Dem
ocratS.
MY one desire is that we
work together as a whole dele
CATION" Mrs. Welcome said
This desire may not be realized
but not because of racial fric-
ton.
The delegation is split or
political allegiance-four men,
bers aligned with Democratic
Leader James H. (Jack) Pol
lack and three with Mrs. We'll
comes faction.
Mr.. Mitchell, who belongs to
the Welcome group, is the sor
of an attorney for the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
Mrs. Juanita Jackson Mitchell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

bundled UP to the eyes, the trio
went out to do some window
shopping.
Galina Ulanova, the world
renowned former prima bal
lerina, now acting as a coach
and adviser, and her husband
Designer Vadim Rindin. set off
down Fourteenth street toward
Loew's Capitol to inspect the
stage and lighting for tonight's
opening.
Hungry American
Most of the other members OF
the troupe, unidentifiable as
Russians in the American
clothes they have acquired
spent their free time behaving
just like tourists anywhere
window shopping and swapping
lPlOOulCo
There is one American In
the Bolshoi. Anastasia Stevens,
daughter of a Moscow cor
respondent. She caused a mild
Juror on arrival when she in
formed the press, We're all
starving; we haven't had a
thing to eat since yesterday
noon"
Reporters Immediately
Queried an agent of Sol Hurok,
the promoter of the Bolshoi
tour. Was il true that the
Russians were being shunted
around the country without
food? In sealed boxcars? What
about it?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
BY WALTER GOLD
Star Staff Writer

Hes barricaded himself in
side a fourth-floor apartment
and he says he'll jump
from a window if we try to
break down the door,"
This report to District police
last night described the plight
of a 9-year-old boy who had
bolted himself inside an apart
ment in the 1900 block OF
Clydesdale place NV.
Key to the boys eventual
rescue was the patient and
persuasive talk of the father
of two children-Pvt. Frederick
E. Mower, Is, one of the first
10th precinct policemen to
reach the apartment house.
Shortly before IL pm, the
boys aunt called police to re-
port that her nephew had be
come emotionally upset over
his mothers disqualification
and was threatening to jump
out the window"
1--WE been looking after him
while his mother is in the hos
pital," she told Pvt. Mower as
he and his partDA. arrived al
the barricaded apartment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Glad Lame Ducks Shun
Montgomery Problems

This is something the new
council should get," she said,
After the meeting she confided
that she felt wonderfully free"
after worrying about sewers,
water mains and coming prob
lens for more than a decade.
Council President David L.
Calhoon, who was defeated in
a bid for the House of Dele
gates, said the five Republican
victors had accepted his offer
that they meet with the in
cumbents to assure an orderly
transition of government.
To Meet Monday
He said county staff mem
bers will be available to help
the Republicans before they
take office and that a meeting
between the present and new
councilmen had been scheduled
for Monday night.
Attending today's session
were Republican councilmen-
elect Miss Kathryn E. Diggs
and John H. HiSer. Mr.. Hiser
defeated Mrs. Werner in last
weeks Republican landslide
victory. The only Democrat
present today who will remain
on the council was Jerry T
Williams of the LIST district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Jail Population
Sets D. c. Record

Prisoners at the District Jail
reached an all-time high yes
terday with a total of 1,406.
This exceeded by 81 the pre-
vious high of 1885 on Octo-
Der %.
The ideal" capacity is $50.
Assistant Director Thomas R.
Sard of the Department of Cor
rections said the holiday week
end, an unusually high number
of DRINKS and persons awaiting
habeas corpus proceedings con-
tributed to the unusual number
of prisoners. Also, buses do
not transfer prisoners to Deco
guam on week ends or holidays.
Mr.. Sard said five buses were
to be sent to the Work House
at Occoquan today with about
ITS prisoners. More will follow
during the week,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
BY WILLIAM DUKE
Star Staff Writer

Montgomery County's lame
duck Democratic councilmen,
trying unsuccessfully to sup
press grins of relief, were busy
today ordering a handful OF
coming cases and sewer prob
lens held over for the Repub-
Iican-controlled council which
will take office next month.
AS two of the Republicans
sat and listened, the Democrats
heard a request for a road
through Garrett Park and de-
cided to let the Republicans
tackle this one. Garrett Park,
with its own town government,
has blocked-with one excep-
tion-all county attempts to
build new roads or even allow
extensions of existing roads
across town boundaries.
Spurns WssC Plans
Mrs. Stella Werner, a council
member for IL years, seemed
relieved when she told Council
Clerk Howard Cook that she
didn't want the amended copy
of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commissions five
year sewer program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
AMERICAN HORSES hac

AMERICAN HORSES had
won the last three races, five
out of 10 in the history of the
race. Despite the speed of
jet transportation, it was be-
coming doubtful that a horse
could cross the Atlantic and
do as we'll on the other side.
AS for the race, cit was
the seventh on the card)
You know the rest from the
charts you have read. At the
halfway mark the three
American horses were in the
lead. Match II, a French
horse, was fourth
With only so yards to go,
the French horse took the
lead and was well ahead at
the wire.
The band played that
stirring national anthem,
the Marseillaise and the
crowd which had lost its
money on the three Amer
lean horses came through
with a resounding cheer.