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Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23
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May 20, 1743 - Francois Dom.
Unique Tourrsaint L'Ouverture
Haitian iberator, general patriot
and statesman, was born.
May 20, 1927 - Charles A
Lndbergh left New York in q
single-engine plane on his epic non.
stop flight to Paris.
May 21, 1888 - oberlin college
(ohio) announces acceptance Of
Negroes as students.
May "A, 1854 - Lincoln Univ.
ersity (Pa.) was established t.
educate Negroes by the Presby.
terrain church in Pennsylvania
May IS, 1878 - Bill :Bojangles
Robinson, famous Negro dancer
entertainer and first Of his ract
to be starred In motion pictures
was born In Richmond, Va.
May 26, 1896 - John Quincy
Adams begins fight for right t.
petition.
| May %, 1851 - Sojournel
Truth attends women's Right:
Convention.
May 26, 1857 - Dred Scott, cen.
trail figure in a fugitive slave case
and his family were liberated by
Taylor Blow, Massachusetts, Con.
gresham who had inherited them
May II, 1852 - Maj. Gen. David
Hunter issued q proclamation al
Hills Head, SC, freeing all slaves
In South Carolina, Florida and
Georgia.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23
Anti-Racial Epithets
Should Not Be
Used By Officers

Minneapolis police officer was shot early
Sunday morning after he called a man he was ar
resting nigger" This ant-racial epithet has cost
the lives Of hundreds Of foolish white people through
the years. One would think that police officers of all
people, sworn to keep the peace and uphold the law
would have learned by this time that calling a
Negro-American 'tngger' is the worst insult pos
sible. We certainly don't think people ought to 20
around shooting those persons who call them despic-
able names, but we do know that a certain way to
trouble is for individuals to engage in the use of
such terms
The average Negro sees red when the epithet Is
used by white person, for he all Of the years
of oppression, mstreatment and exploitation tied I'D
in the single word. His resentment is understand
ably strong against those who resort to the use of
the word
The incident of Sunday night again demon
strates that the human relations program, (how to
get along with various racial and religious elements
Of the common population) ought to be one Of the
most important courses In any metropolitan or even
rural law enforcement officers school
Police officers, private citizens who persist
in showing the racial prejudice by going around call
ing Negro-Amercans racial epithets looking and
begging for trouble, and apt to get it. Other
nationality groups also resent nonmembers Of their
group using racial epthets and have shown that re-
sentiment through the years
Every ethnic group resents racial epithets. If
you want to get in trouble, Just try calling an Ita-
an, "dago," or Jew "sheenie," which are despic-
able dirty terms when used by non-members Of the
respective groups.
Because southern Negroes for many years have
had to take such terms from boorsh whites of that
section there are many persons who think the
epithet is acceptable After dark many Dixie white
has lost his life by using that word at time when
the odds even.
There are still boorish buns like the mayor of
Greenwood, Miss, who NBC To-day" recently
used the distasteful term, indicating his blatant
ignorance and the lengths to which some whites
will go in publicly insulting entire group Of
American citizens.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23
DRY POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

The psychiatrist who recon-
mends dunlxing a patient In a toilet
bowl as good therapy" again
raises the ancient question Of who's
crazier, the keeper or the kept?
The Communist world Is going
through a tearing controversy
over the meaning Of its prophets
dognas. In this world Of fast time,
vast space and little substance,
even so eternal a verify as the
Gospel according to Marx seems
to explode into clouds Of hot air.
Harold Stassen, who has an
nounced that In response to public
demand he win allow his name to
appear In the presidential prim-
aries, has at least a couple Of the
indispensable qualities Of the true
statesman: a ready hat and fine
ly attuned ear.
Four ages of Twentieth Century
Man: Early TCM, completely de-
feated by the complexities Of the
internal combustion engine (Model
T). Early Middle TCM, thoroughly
mystified by radio. Late Middle
TCM, appalled, and frightened by
electronic thinking machine. Late
TCM, Junior Grade. completely de-
feated by the complexities Of the
internal combustion engine (lswn
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23

for us to become complacent.
There is a little bit of Birmingham,
Alabama, in every city and town
throughout America.
Great Moral Issue
The principles Of civil liberty,
equal opportunity and equal pro-
lection are inherent in our nation
al heritage. Putting these princi-
pies into practice has been a con-
tinuous challenge to all levels Of
government and to society. This
challenge, I am sorry to say, con-
tinues to be unmet and may well
be the most critical social and
moral issue of our time. Two CEN
turies after the Declaration of In
dependence, the American dream
of equality of opportunity remains,
for many, an illusion.
Complex Problem
Racial and religious discrimina-
ton is the central civil rights prob
lem. It sometimes results in a dem
ial of constitutional rights. On
other occasions, it manifests itself
in a basic disregard for human
decency and dignity. A variety Of
social problems results from racial
and religious discrimination. Dis
elimination in education produces
inequality in job opportunities;
denial Of job opportunity destroys
motivation to fully develop indi-
vidual capacities. Racial housing
restrictions result in segregated
neighborhoods and schools. Segre-
gated neighborhoods tend to be-
come slums, and slums produce
increased crime rates among min
ority groups - thereby inflaming
racial prejudice among those who
confuse (or choose to confuse)
cause and effect.
Efforts Being Made
Some efforts or gestures toward
resolving the problem Of civil
rights have been made in Mime
sofa. Minneapolis was the first
city in the nation to establish a
fair employment ordinance. In 1855
our legislature recognized that dis
elimination in employment was a
problem that required action and
it established fair employment
practices commission, now known
as the State Commission Against
Discrimination (sCAD). BY educa-
ton, persuasion, and conciliation,
some employment opportunities
previously closed to minority
groups have been opened. But 1t
would be less than candid to say
that equal opportunity for en-
ployment exists today in Mime
sofa.
Discrimination in housing is not
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23
For Shame
Pioneer Press

jenlin Lloyd Jones, southern newspaper editor
who garnishes a weekly column in the Pioneer Press
with anti-Negro prejudice commented on May 10 on
the court order opening airline pilot jobs to quail
flied Negro pilots:
"A court has ordered Continental Airlines to
hire a Negro pilot. Hooray There isn't any reason
why Negro shouldn't fly transport plane. But II
he shows up at operations disheveed and hungover
he'll betray his people :. no one will want to fly
with bad pilot who is in the cockpit by court order
merely because his skin Is black"
This Is an outrageously false and an irresponsible
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23

that the Negroes grievances will
be redressed by the lame-duck ad-
ministration now clinging to power
in Birmingham. But the city's
people, white and Negro, already
have registered at the polls their
Reputation of that administration.
Mayor-elect Boutwell, is confident
that the right to office Of the new
municipal authorities will be af-
firmed soon after hearing in the
Alabama Supreme Court next
week. A lower court already has
ruled in their favor"
(The News and Courier,
Charleston, S.C.)
Martin Luther King pleads to
be arrested, and when police some
where finally comply with the de-
mand, a great chorus Is set up over
the injustice of it. Much as we de-
plore the Observation-Disclosures
they picket, parade, sing or as
sumo the posture of prayer - we
believe that so long as they do not
create public disorder they might
as well be left alone. AS South
erners of both races get used to
these antics by the agitators, we
hope they will learn to laugh them
off and thus break the tension"
(The American, Chicago)
THE massive protest demonstra-
tons in Birmingham, Ala, in
which thousands of Negroes are
demanding civic action to end seq
regation in stores, has gone far be-
yond the stage Of slSirmish and
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23
Birmingham Reaction
(The Times, New YorIx)

The only hope Of averting civil
war on the streets Of Birmingham
appears to lie in the truce efforts
repeatedly being pressed by high
officials Of the Justice Depart.
ment. The excesses OF those who
have so long deprived Birmingham
Negroes Of their rights have Great
ed situation in which the danger
of mass casualties grows with each
new protest demonstration.
There is no realistic possibility
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23
FRANKLY SPEAKING
By Everett Luoma

With unemployment averaging
81 throughout the country (and
about 20% for Negroes), the econ
omy is finding itself increasingly
incapable Of solving the economic
and human problems created by
automation.
The nations major answers so
far to this problem have been
feather-bedding and a madly zoom-
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23

Everett LuomA automation for
the soft-coal industry has been to
lower the number Of men employed
from 100000 in 1850 to only 1885,
900 in 1862.
The desperate plight Of the
country's coal miners is highlighted
by the continued strike of 10000
Kentucky miners. They dramatize
the inability of the arms economy
to provide any real remedies. The
immediate issues of this seven
months old strike are: y the fail
ure Of the coal operators to pay 40
cents a ton into the union welfare
fund, as provided in the contract;
p the practice Of the coal COM
panies Of closing union mines and
leasing them to non-union oper-
ators, who have proceeded to beat
wages down from the union scale
Of $24.45 per day to a scale rang
ing from $40 to as low as So per
day.
One journalist writes Of teen
age boys working barefoot in the
winter for 10 cents an hour. An
other tells of a miner who was
killed in an accident and was found
to have nothing but potato peels
in his bag for lunch" Children
were not permitted to go outside
last winter because there was in
adequate clothes. The attempt is
apparently to starve the miners
until they leave Hazard, KY, and
fill the roles of unemployed some
where else.
AS an example Of the leadership
of the modern trade unions, the
United Mine Workers deserted
these miners by calling off the
strike officially last Dec. 5th be-
cause the operators had succeeded
in opening many of the mines after
securing an injunction under the
Taft-Hartley law. These miners
showed some of the spirit Of old,
however, by continuing their
strike. why starve inside when
you can starve outsider" was the
question they asked themselves.
On March 1, the Teamsters Un-
ion did send 1000 lbs. Of food and
clothing into Hazard, KY. They
found the mine country around
Hazard, KY. an armed camp; they
saw native-born Americans liter
ally starving and huddled in win
dowless and heatless shacks as
they struggled to stay alive un-
der conditions reminiscent Of the
1905.
Said one Teamster, IT just
couldn't believe this was the
U.S.A.! The kids looked like every
picture I've ever seen Of starving
war orphans in Korea or Algeria
or anyplace else but here"
Hunger and privation Is only one
problem they have. The other is
terror and violence, as company
goons and company-controlled po-
lice attempt brutality to break the
strike and to force them to accept
the low wages and unsafe work.
ing conditions.
In contrast to the conditions Of
the miners, Sheriff Coombs Of
Perry County admitted in court
that he had cleared 100000 in 80
days from the operation Of a leased
mine, and 1t is estimated that the
parent companies, which lease the
mines and process the coal, profit
on an even grander scale.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23

ing arms budget,
both Of which
add a number Of
unproductive jobs
to the economy
but can hardly be
claimed to i'm
part dignity to
the workers life.
The e fife ct of
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-05-23
Letters To The Editor
The World Is Wufchinq Our Efforts

Editor In weeks the attention Of the whole world
has been focused the United States and attitudes toward
racial mnores There doubt that civil liberties and
efforts (or lack of hem provide them for all citizens holds
the attention of people all the world And just because
Minnesota have vicious dogs upon small children who
peacefully seeking grow up strong and Free
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Miss Fontonini,
Teacher 80 Years
District Schools

Miss Marie Eugene Fonta.
mini, So, a Washington junior
high school teacher for more
than 80 years, died of a heart
attack Tuesday at her home
1929 Perry street N. E.
Miss Fontanini began hel
career at the old Columbia
Junior High School in 1926
and later taught at Elliott
Eastern, Cramer and Hart
Junior High Schools.
A teacher of French, Latin
Spanish and English, she was
a co-author Of a text, "Espanol
Primer Libro."
A native Of Rutland, VT, Miss
Fontanini taught at st. Pau
(Minn.) schools before moving
here. She was graduated from
st. GATHERINGS College at st
Paul and attended Catholic
University's graduate school.
She was a member of the
Modern Language Association
and the Sodality of st. An
thongs Church.
She leaves her mother. Mrs
Emilio Fontanini, a sister, Miss
Clare Fontanini, professor and
Catholic University, both OF
the home address, and a BROTH
er, Carl, of 1000 Quincy street
NE.
Services will be at 10 am
tomorrow at st. Anthony's
Church, Twelfth and MonrcN
streets N. E., with burial in
st. Paul's Cemetary.
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Maj. Edward T.Whitine, 90,
Red Cross Stuff Physician

Maj. Edward Tiffany Whit
ing, SO, USA (retired), a for
mer staff physician with the
blood donor program of the
Washington Red Cross, died of
lung cancer Tuesday at Walter
Reed Hospital. He was SO.
A native of Jersey City, Mai.
Whiting enlisted in the Army
in 1917, a year before he re-
ceived a bachelors degree in
chemistry from Cornell Univer-
sity. Upon his graduation, he
was commissioned as q second
lieutenant In the Sanitary
Corps.
Discharged in 1919, he
worked as a laboratory assist
ant at Wichita Falls, Tex, UNI
til 1922, when he set up his
own clinical laboratory there.
In 1885 he was graduated
from Baylor University Medical
School and spent six years as
a staff physician at the Abb
lene (Tex.) State Hospital.
Recalled to active duty in
1912, Mai. Whiting served at
Gulfport, Miss; Pratt, Kans.;
Walter Reed Hospital and as
chief of laboratory service at
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Arthur May, 70, Dies;
GSA Appraisal Head

arthur A. May, 20, former
director Of the Real Estate
Appraisal Division of the Gen.
eral Services Administration,
. died Tuesday at his home at
47Ol Kenmore avenue, Alex
andria.
Born in Detroit, Mr.. May
had worked as an appraiser Of
the Home Owners Loan Corp.
in Detroit from 1884 until 1913,
when he moved to New York
City with the United Nations
d Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration.
In 1914 he came to WASH
ington as an administrative
officer Of the Office of War
Information.
He worked briefly for the
Federal Public Housing Au-
thority before joining the War
Assets Administration in l947
as director of the Industrial
Real Estate Division. When the
General Services Administra-
ton was set up in 1949, Mr..
May was appointed director of
the Real Estate Appraisal Di-
vision, a post which he held
until retirement in 1857. He
was considered an expert in
the evaluation Of Government
owned property and property
to be acquired by the Govern
ment.
Mr.. May was an honorary
life member of the American
Institute Of Real Estate APP
praiSers, a member of the Ma
tional Association of Real Es-
tate Boards Economic Council,
as well as the Washington
Board Of Realtors. He was a
past international governor of
the Society Of Residential APP
praisers and a member of the
editorial board of the Appraisal
journal.
Mr.. May received an honor
airy MS. degree from the De-
troit Institute Of Technology
in 1899.
He had lectured on Land
Economies at American Uni
versity from 1853 to 1856, and
at various other schools, in
Guiding Stanford University. He
was dean Of the American In
stitute Of Real Estate Apprais-
ers' case study courses in Real
Estate Valuation. He was also
the author of Valuation Of
Residential Real Estate"
He was an active member of
st, Clements Episcopal Church,
Alexandria, Va.
Besides his wife, Ora Owen,
Of the home address, he leaves
two daughters, Mrs. Ralph
Sharkey Of Birmingham, Mich.
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Flora Forrest, IS.
OF Old Family

Miss Flora c. Forrest, IS, q
former Washington resident
and q descendant of one Of
Americas first settlers, died
Saturday at a Baltimore rest
home, where she had been liv-
ing for is years.
A native of st. Marys County
she was descended from Sir
Thomas Forrest, who came to
America with Capt. John Smith
In 1903. Her family had lived
IN what is now st. Marys since
1910.
Miss Forrest worked for the
Southern Railroad in the 1906
and l940s.
She leaves no immediate
survivors.
Services and burial were held
Tuesday at Morganza, Md.
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Louis Cremonu,
Father of Pastor

Louis Cremona, "a, the father
Of the pastor of Our Lady
Queen Of Peace Catholic
Church, died of cancer yester-
day at Baltimore.
His son, the Rev. Charles
Cremona, has been pastor of
the church for three years. Mr.
Cremona's wife also survives.
Services will be at 10 am
Saturday in Baltimore, with
burial there.
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Fort Richardson, Alaska, until
1913.
He joined the Red Cross
here, retiring in 1860.
Maj. Whiting leaves his wife
Mary Lou, of ALL Chevy Chase
boulevard, the home address,
a daughter, Mrs. Schmitt Of
Boston Lake, N. Y; a brother,
DR.. Walter B. Whiting of Wich-
ita Falls; two sisters. Mr.. Helen
Rankin and Mrs. Mildren Pres
ton, both of Newark. Del, and
three grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 pm
tomorrow at Fort Myer Chapel
with burial in Arlington Gene
terry.
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and Mrs. David Maume of Nor
folk, Va, and four grandchil-
dren.
A memorial funeral service
will be held at the st. Glenn
ent's Episcopal Church, 1701
North Quaker lane, Alexandria,
Va, at 4 pm. Sunday. Burial
will be private.
The family requests that ex-
pressions of sympathy be in
the form Of contributions to
the Heart Fund.
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Garn nf Thanka

BESSIE r. The family
Of BESSIE r. FLEISHMAN sincerely
extends our appreciation and thanks
TO relatives and friends for their
expressions Of sympathy ct the loss
q II ssf T5is c ins IHESshi E rErsH.
MAN, AND DAUGHTER, HELEN
M. O'BRIEN.
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y T. WEINTT MINI
Executive director.
DIR. SEYMOUR 4 AL1fEFFETs.' 'd'n''
Qenernl Chairman.

KAY, ABRAHAM 3. The Jewish
Community Council OF Greater
washington mourns the untimeiy
passing OF ABRAHAM s., KAY, OUT
standing community leader, benevo-
lent phiianthropist and former
committss. ana eStsnds ~ A1 Sssrts
felt sympathy 10 his wife, daugh-
TER and son and TO all who were
the beneflclaries OF his generosity.
RICHARD X, LYON, President.
ISAAC FRANcK. Executive Director.
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ADAMS, CHARLES N. Suddenly, on
c MHfSSRRfIses'M N. ADAMS d o4sO1 l@S ss.
sachusetts ave. NV, husband OF
Ruth r.. Adams, stepfather Of Vance
e. Smith, brother OF Mrs. Kathryn
~ Fitzpatrick Of washington, ID. c.;
Mss. Emma Irwin. Mrs. Margaret
wilkins, Joseph and William Adams,
call at Gawler's Chapel, Wisconsin,
ave, at Harrison st. NV. (parking
on premtses), where services will be
held on Thursday. July IL, at
pm. Interment New Castle, Pa.
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DfatHa

WILSON, MARGIE L. Officers and
49, pie, No. 4S2, /. B. P. q. z;
X Of W., are hereby notified
tW1l OF the death Of paughter
MI MARGIE L. WILSON. Elk
services will be held 81 3
80 pm. Thursday, July IL,
i063, at the L. e. Murray Funeral
Home. 1887 10th st. nv.
ELSIE L. DANDRIDGR
Daughter Ruler.
BLoNoE W. HAWKINS. Fin. seey.
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With Regard TO q
Card Of Thanks

Very oissM q eaFd Of shsNIs
IN The StaT meets O need
which cen hardly be solved In
onY other waY. kOb1 only is
II q gFasisUs expression. Of
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the. msny 70 whom a psFssHol
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addresses Gro net known.
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CEMETERY LOTS

NATIONAL MEMORIAL PARK-Best
location IN DEVELOPMENT known a.
Living Gross; Mausoleum No. i,
balance In payments leaving area,
Bs4-55o2. b.6,Tf2,T3,il
PARkLAWN CEMETERY. sites.
Value ~ 800, now si,1bO. or
sites. Sbg5. Call GA. $4,000.
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Crenatnrium

Crematorium
]. William Lees Sons Co.
a., =, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Rinaldi Funeral Home
7410 GEORGIA AVE. NV, RA, S-7Aii
2 Blks, North OF Walter Reed Hospital
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ms, CHARLES M. A special com.
"a inunication Of Naval Ledge
IN No, a, +. A. A. M, Ia
. called at 7:30 pm. Thurs.
NC day. July IL, 1868. for the
Ny purpose Of performing TIE
~ Masonic funeral service fol
" our late brother. CHARLES
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cox, CORA. on Tuesday, July 2,
1858, at Freedmen's Hospital, MRS
CORA cox OF li09 o s.; NV" wife
mother Of Olive Belle Cox. Mrs.
Dollie Ridley, Matte Harris and
Eldridge Cox. She also is sur
yiyed BY two sisters, Mrs. Leila
5impsop and Mrs. Irene Fitzgerald;
five brothers. Ambrose, Enas,
Phelm Broadway, Aron Broadway
81 Rros Charlotte IM.,,.c:' and Ernest
child, host Of other relatives
and friends. Friends may call at
the MONTGOMERY Bros. Funeral
Home. 9l3 Florida ave. NV, on
Friday, July IL, from to 10
pm. Funeral services on satur:
day, July 10. at 12 noon, at the
Corinthian Baptist Church, 500 Eye
st. nv. the Rev. r. P. Gainey
mortal CemeterV 40
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COX, MARY Z. (nee GardinerD. Sud
denly. on. Tuesday. July o. 1858. at
Hollywood. Md. MARY Z. cox (nee
Gardiner. beloved wife OF John Z.
Cox and mother Of William b, Aeker-
He.en A. Woods rnd Marguerite ID.
Simmons of Jacksonville, Fla. and
Bernard l.. Gardner. Funeral serv-
Ices at the Taltavuil Funeral Home,
SSO3 l+th 50. NV on Friday, July
Diva ci 10 am f Intsr%ent Mount unit
from 2 TO y pm. Thursday, Free
parking at ESQ station, 3540 18th
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General Chairman.
HERBERT a: FRIEDMAN:

Fund notes with deep regrst The
passing Of our devoted friend, Mr..
A. 8. KAY. To his beloved family
We extend our sincere sympathy
r. B. TOURKIN. Director.