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SPIRITUAL PROGRAM
AT ZION CHURCH
A Spiritual program will be given
at Zion Baptist church Sunday, Jan.
20, at 3p. m. The Twin City choirs.
Gospel chorus and special soloist
will furnish the music. The Gospel
message will be brought by the
Rev. C. B. Wheeler of Olivet Bap
tist church. Mrs. H. W. Botts, Na
tional Field Representative of Na
tional Baptist Convention Foreign
Mission, Rev. H. W. Botts, pastor.
VOL. 11, NO. 24
RACE DISCRIMINATION CAN BE LICKED
Minnesota Navy Officer
Served On Booker T.
With Captain Mulzac
A blond young Minnesota ex-Navy Lieutenant came back
home this week to describe his service under Captain Hugh
Mulzac on the S. S. Booker T. Washington as one of his most
satisfactory experiences of the war.
The alert appearing young veteran of Scandinavian
descent is J. M. Youngdale of Benson, Minnesota, who
described in quiet though glowing
terms how he commanded for four
months the gun crew of 35 white
sailors who served on the Booker
T. Washington.
The Booker T. Washington was
the first ship named after an Amer
ican Negro and was commissioned
early in the war and had the dis
tinction of being the first ship of
consequence to be commanded by
a Negro captain.
Lieutenant Youngdale was as
signed to the ship in the summer
of 1944 serving aboard for four
months. His company of 35 sail
ors were all white lads from all
over the country. The ships crew
were both Negro and white, officers
and men.
Lieutenant Youngdale said that
during the trip overseas to North
Africa he watched closely how the
crew got along together. He said
there was never any incident of
racial differences the entire trip.
At the end of the trip, as evidence
of the fine spirit, he said that some
of the Navy crew, including some
of the southern white boys, volun
teered to stay on the Booker T.
Washington.
Nazis Amazed at Lack of Anti-
Semitism
On the return trip from Casa
blanca the ship carried German
prisoners of war. Several of the
Nazis spoke English and they were
amazed when American crew mem
bers, both white and black, rebuffed
their attempt to preach anti-Semi
tism. Youngdale said they appar
ently had no feeling against Ne
groes as such but many of the
more ardent Nazis derided the
Jews. He said they were very
uncomfortable when the Booker
T.’s men made it plain that in their
thinking there was no room for
anti-Semitism.
Lieutenant Youngdale said that
after his experience with the Nazis
he w’as dismayed to see the extent
to which some American demigods
are preaching anti-Semitism in this
country.
Race Discrimination Can Be Licked
In summing up his experience
on the Booker T. Washington,
Lieutenant Youngdale said, “The
experience of serving on a ship
commanded by a Negro captain
proved to me that race discrimina
tion can be licked.”
He said, “People in our country
who preach and practice race dis
crimination are doing democracy a
grave disservice by creating arti
ficial problems which may affect
our world leadership.”
Lieutenant Youngdale is a gradu
ate of Carleton College and at the
time of his enlistment was taking
post graduate work at the National
Institute of Public Affairs.
Singer Shown
Courtesy of City
Of St. Paul
Frances Walker Alexander, con
tralto and pianist, who appeared
in recital at the Hallie Q. Brown,
Sunday night, January 13, was
brought here through the activi
ties and contributions of the various
young people of the community,
under the sponsorship of the Sun
day evening Salon. The chairman
and co-chairman of the recital were
William Goins and Elmer Morris.
Upon the arrival of Mrs. Alex
ander, a former member of the fa
culty of Samuel Houston college,
Austin, Texas, she was met at the
depot by the two young men, taken
to the home of Dr. and Mrs. A. M.
Butler, 386 N. St. Albans, where
she remained as a guest, during
her stay in the city. After break
fast, a tour of the city had been
arranged for the singer, which in
cluded the Governor’s office, where
she met Governor Edward Thye;
then to the City Hall, where she
was given an introduction to Mayor
John McDonough.
After the recital, Sunday night,
a reception was given at the home
of Dr. and Mrs. Butler, with
Blanche Junauld and Phyllis Payne,
as hostesses.
This was a first attempt to in
troduce outside talent by the Sun
day Evening Salon, and their antici
pations are to bring in persons of
eminent ability once a year.
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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1946 $2.50 a Year—7 CenETßr«
Minneapolis Man
Attempts Suicide
Residents at 82 Hyland Ave. N.,
Minneapolis, were startled Tuesday
evening when Frank Richardson,
age 36, attempted to commit suicide
at 8:53 p. m., by slashing his left
wrist with a knife.
Richardson was found by Arthur
Frazier, landlord, in the bathroom
of the house.
An ambulance was called, and he
was immediately taken to General
Hospital. His condition is reported
as fair.
Frank Boyd
Elected Chairman
OPA Committee
Frank Boyd, 64, secretary-treas
urer Twin City Division BSCP, who
resides at 443 Mackubin, St. Paul,
was unanimously elected chairman
FRANK
of the Twin Cities District OPA
Labor Advisory Committee at a
meeting held on the 30th floor of
the First National Bank Building,
St. Paul, Monday afternoon, Jan.
14. His election fills a vacancy
caused by the resignation of Joe
Okoneski.
Boyd has been a member of the
OPA Labor Advisory Committee
since its organization two and one
half years ago and has the distinc
tion of not missing a meeting of the
organization.
N.A.A.C.P. Elects
Board Sunday
At Wheatley
The. Minneapolis NAACP will
hold a meeting, Sunday, Jan. 20
at 4 p. m., to complete the election
of officers. The executive commit
tee has not been elected. The of
ficers of the NAACP are urging the
members to be present and elect
your choice to office.
The names of those nominated
are: Martin Brown, W. D. Broum,
Mrs. Irving Blumberg, Harold
Combs, W. H. Crump, Mrs. Paul
S. Curry, Ashby V. Gaskin, Miss
Allie B. Glenn, Herbert Howell,
Mrs. B. Janosco. Edward Johnson,
W. C. Jones, Rev. R. W. Kelley,
R. B. Lynch, Rev. A. F. Martin,
Mrs. Beulah Mitchell, Cecil E. New
man, Clifford E. Rucker, Mrs. Mary
Jane Samples, Jonas G. Schwartz,
R. A. Skinner, Henry Thomas, J. T.
Wardlaw, Mrs. H. B. Wilcox and
Curtis C. Chivers.
Twenty out of this group will
be elected.
Albert Allen, president of the
branch, and Wendell C. Jones urged
the members to be present so that
the twice postponed election may
be held.
Dr. Charles Wesley
Speaks at St. James
On January 27th
Dr. Charles Wesley, president of
Wilberforce University, who will be
one of the guest speakers for the
State Pastor’s Conference which
convenes in Minneapolis, Jan. 28,
will be guest speaker at St. James
A.M.E. church Sunday, Jan. 27, for
the Educational Rally Day services,
both morning and evening. Dr.
Wesley is one of our most out
standing Negro educators and rep
resents the Alma Mater of many
of both cities. The public is in
vited to attend one or both of these
meetings.
FORT McCLELLAN, Alabama—Alertness and courage on the part of two Negro enlisted
men at this Fort won them unexpected cash awards and the gratitude of the citizens of the nearby
town of Anniston. The home front heroes, Private Booker T. Tribblett, Greenwood, Mississippi (left),
and Technician Fifth Grade Joe D. Benson, Water Valley, Mississippi, were responsible for saving the
lives of four children trapped in a flaming house. The gift of |IOO was made to the Gls by city em
ployees of Anniston and is being presented above by the Mayor of Anniston, J. F. King. (U. S. Signal
Corps photo from the Bureau of Public Relations.)
St. Paul NAACP Hears
Attack on U. S.-English
Policy on Indonesia
Branch to Launch Drive on Discrimination of St. Paul
Cafes, Bars and Hotels
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The struggle of the colonial peoples for national inde
pendence and the fight of the minorities in America for
their democratic rights are all a part of the battle for true
freedom being waged by people throughout the world, accord
ing to Mrs. Dorothy Schultz in an address on “Indonesians
Fight for Independence” at the regular monthly meeting of
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, in the
Hallie Q. Brown Community House,
553 Aurora Ave., Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Schultz, a member of the
executive committee of the branch,
gave several striking parallels in
the struggle of the Indonesians
for their national independence and
the fight of Negroes in America
for their constitutional rights.
Low wages, poor housing and a
two way application of the law
were mentioned by the speaker.
She scored severely the British
government for using its armed
forces to keep the Indonesians
under the rule of Dutch. Mrs.
Schultz declared that one of the
reasons why the British were fight
ing to keep the Indonesians from
gaining their national independence
is because it would not be good for
the continued British rule over
India to have colonial people so
close to gain their independence.
The speaker pointed out that the
United States had been anything
but favorable to the Indonesians
and that, in fact, the United States
had been assisting the British and
Dutch by furnishing arms to fight
the colonials. Mrs. Schultz referred
to a story that appeared in a well
known newspaper which stated
that a shipload of more than 300
American Gl’s were “bumped” from
a freighter en route to the United
States to take on a load of ammuni
tion to be used against the Indo-
A public installation of the newly elected officers of Ames lodge 106, IBPOEW, Minneapolis, was held Jan. 7.
Reading from left to right are James Hudson, esteemed lead-ing knight; Charles Wyatt, esteemed lecturing knight; J.
W. Pate, district deputy; Cecil G. Taylor, exalted ruler; R. B. Warren, treasurer and state deputy; Ben Fields, inner guard;
Charles Smith, recording secretary; William Burrell, trustee;Theodore Crockett, trustee: John Jackson, chairman trustee
board; Jid Crews, esteemed loyal knight; Arthur Lyons,tiler; and George Washington, esquire. A big crowd wit
nessed the installation of the newly elected officers of the lodge at the Norway hall January 7.
The meeting adopted a resolu
tion condeming the British govern
ment for fighting against the Indo
nesians. The resolution also urged
the United States to stop aiding
the British and Dutch against the
Indonesians.
A report of the first meeting of
eight cooperating organizations
with the local N.A.A.C.P. Branch
in an all out fight against dis
crimination in public places was
made to the meeting. Persons who
know of public places such as
restaurants, taverns, hotels, etc.,
that discriminate are urged to give
such information to the president
of the Branch or to Mrs. Walter
Ridley, 707 St. Anthony Ave., who
is the secretary of the subcommit
tee gathering facts about discrimi
nation in St. Paul.
Paul Robeson
To Sing Here
January 27
Paul Robeson, celebrated bass
baritone, will mark his return to
concert singing after more than
two years on the stage as the Moor
in Othello with a recital in Minne
apolis auditorium concert bowl
Sunday, Jan. 27.
Robeson, who made his name al-
most synonymous with such songs
as 01’ Man River and Ballad for
Americans, will be the fourth ar
tist to appear on Mrs. Carlyle
Scott’s Sunday afternoon series.
Mill City Elks Hold
Como Temple
Reelects Jean Waters
Daughter Ruler
Como Temple No. 128 officers for
the ensuing term are Mrs. Jean
Waters, unanimously elected
Daughter Rulev for her fourth term;
Mrs. Edith Pearmon, seventh term
as Vice Daughter Ruler. Other
officers elected were: Anna Scrog
gins, Assistant Daughter Ruler;
Susie Bow'jn, Chaplain; Bertha
Mae Harris, Escort; Buelah Mae
Jones, Financial Secretary; Flora
Garcia, Recording Secretary; Dor
othy James, Treasurer; Brittyear
W’right, Door Keeper; Tillie
Daniels, Gate Keeper; Geraldine
Scroggins, Organist; Roberta
Davis, Senior Mother; Trustees,
Flora Ferguson and Susie Gay
lord; Daughter Lezia Howard, Dis
trict Deputy presiding.
Co-ops Sponsor Play
leaders Training School
A Recreation Leader’s Training
School is being held Saturday, Jan.
19, at Franklin Cooperative Cream
ery Auditorium.
The one-day school offers group
leaders an opportunity to get train
ing in leading non-competitive
recreation. The course will offer
two phases: Social Recreation and
( ommunity.
Anyone may attend who takes
back the materials and training and
uses it with his or her respective
group. There will be a small regis
tration fee.
Plans Being Laid
For Interracial Meet
The Minneapolis Urban League
which sponsors the Mill City ob
servance of Interracial Week is
busy preparing for the annual week
of building intercultural relations.
Rev. Kyle Haselden is chairman
of the committee in charge of this
year’s celebration.
You can be sure that the ma
jority of the people of the Negro
community will see your advertis
ing in this paper.—advt.
Public Installation
Criticizes FEPC '
Invitation To
Harold Stassen
At least one invited guest to the
National F. E. P. C. Council dinner
at the Mayflower Hotel, Washing
ton, D. C., is “not interested” be
cause one of the principal speakers
is to be former Governor Harold
E. Stassen.
Cecil E. Newman, publisher of
the Spokesman and Recorder News
papers, * member of the Minne
sota FEPC Council and one of the
number of persons invited to at
tend an emergency dinner meeting
in the interest of permanent F. E.
P. C., roundly criticised the invita
tion extended Stassen to speak at
the dinner.
Newman said Stassen's record on
the Negro did not entitle him to
speak for FEPC and that he felt
that the FEPC movement should
not be used as a vehicle of political
convenience by a public figure who
has not previously evinced interest
in ending job discrimination
against Negroes.
It was Newman's contention that
some Republicans like Thomas
Dewey, Senator Wayne Morris or
Senator Joseph H. Ball should have
been invited to speak.
Former Governor Stassen and
Secretary of Labor Lewis B.
Schwellenbach will be the princi
pal speakers at the dinner in ques
tion.
Outstanding Negro leaders and
heads of various national industrial
associations and labor unions are
to attend the important dinner
which is scheduled for January 23,
in the nation’s capital.
Newman’s objection was voiced
in a telegram to Anna Arnold
Hedgeman, executive secretary of
the National FEPC Council in
Washington.
Editor's Protest
Newman’s telegram protesting
Stassen’s selection said:
“Regret National Council’s selec
tion of Harold E. Stassen as one of
speakers at Emergency dinner
meeting on Jan. 23.
"Stassen’s Record here in Minne
sota and his failure to previously
indicate interest in FEPC legis
lation does not entitle him to such
outstanding consideration as ap
pearance on program will give him.
“Familiarity with his record
leaves me with the feeling that his
appearance on your program will
serve no purpose except to
strengthen his political ambitions,
and will not help the FEPC move
ment.”
FEPC Council*
Schedules Two
Mass Meetings
Minnesota Council for permanent
FEPC will observe Race relations
and Brotherhood week, with two
large mass meetings. First meet
ing will be February 13, in the St.
Paul Auditorium Theater; second
is scheduled in Minneapolis Audi
torium, February 14. The prin
cipal speaker will be A. Philip Ran
dolph, secretary of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters and one of
the co-chairmen of the National
Council for Permanent FEPC.
Representatives of the Minnesota
Permanent Council FEPC said to
day that a second speaker would
l>e an outstanding Congressman.
Associated Negro Credit
Union Annual Meeting
Reveals $19,000 Assets
Reports of officers of the Associated Negro Credit Union
at the annual meeting Monday night at St. Peter church. Min
neapolis, revealed the union now has assets of over 119,000.
I The organization began nine years ago. Its first annual re
' port showed assets of SSB.
With the Duke
Oscar Pettiford
Nationally known bass player
“local boy who made good” will ba
with Duke Ellington and Orchestra
which will appear in concert at the
Minneapolis Auditorium Wednesday
night, Jan. 23. Pettiford, e Minne
apolis boy and member of the
locally famous musical family, left
Minneapolis three years ago with
the Charlie Barnett orchestra. In
New York his musical artistry be
came widely acclaimed resulting
in his winning the Esquire Mega
zine poll for being the best boss
man in American bands. Until
Joining Duke Ellington e few weeks
ago he had his own small band.
The Pettiford family lives at 804
Sth Ave. N., in Minneapolis.
Mrs. W.M. Ewing
Suffers Broken
Hip In Fall
Mrs. Wm. Ewing, who lives at
3020 20th Ave. S., U in Fairview
Hospital recovering from a fall in
which she received a broken hip.
She fell when she started down
her basement stain last Thursday,
Jan. 10.
Mrs. lane Banks Tyrrell. 995 Al
drich Ave. N., who has been con
fined to her home because of illness,
is reported improving.
Bessie Cotton
Dead at 35
Mrs. Bessie Cotton, age 35, 515
Bryant Ave. N., died Wednesday
morning, January 16, at 9:10 a. m.,
at General Hospital.
Funeral arrangements were not
complete at press time. Woodard
Funeral Home is in charge of ar
rangements.
Building Drive
Plans Completed
Wayman A. M. E. Church, 619
Fremont Ave. N., Minneapolis, of
which Rev. L. P. Ashford is pastor,
will launch their Building Fund
Drive Jan. 21. The drive will last
through Feb. 3.
Churches that will participate
in the program are, Monday, Janu
ary 21, at 8 p. m., Zion Baptist
Church, Rev. H. W. Botts, Sr., choir
and congregation; Tuesday, Jan. 22,
at 8 p. m., St. James A. M. E.
Church, Minneapolis, Rev. E. R.
Thomas; Wednesday, Jan. 23, at
8 p. m., Bethesda Baptist Church,
Rev. A. F. Martin; Thursday, Jan.
24, at 8 p. m., St. Peter A. M. E.
Church, Rev. H. C. Boyd; and Fri
day, Jan. 25, at 8 p. m., Border
Methodist Church, Rev. R. W. Kel
ley.
Al Banham and
Otto Hall to
Open Gas Station
Al Banham and Otto Hall of
St. Paul, former guards at New
Brighton, are planning to open, in
the very near future, a Standard
service oil station on the corner
of Arundel and Rondo.
They will carry a complete line
of lubricants, accessories, tires, bat
teries, etc., and will also specialize
in battery charging, tires, repair
ing, washing and greasing.
Banham and Hall hope to see
their old friends and make new
friends. They have chosen as their
slogan, “Service with a smile.”
Watch for the opening ad.
Council Meets
The Patrons and Matrons Coun
cil will meet at Ober Hall in St.
Paul, at 2 p. m. Jan. 20. The
president, Mrs. R. J. Willis, urges
all members to be present.
Chester Russell
On Concert Tour
Chester Russell, dramatic bari
tone, will leave St. Paul, Jan. 81,
for a concert tour. He will appear
in Ft Dodge and Des Moines, lowa,
and Chicago, 111.
Mr. Russell gave two concerts
in Chicago in December, 1945. His
wife, Evelyn, talented pianist, is
his accompanist They will appear
at Camphor Church, Feb. 11, in
their second annual recital.
and national president of the Amer
ican Teachers Association.
Mr. Ridley urged a more active
member drive by the union. Ha
urged Negroes to support leader
ship within the group.
An election of officers held
named to the board of directon W.
B. Walker, Dr. E. 8. Weber,
Talmage B. Cany, Foster Brown,
Jr., and Mn. Bessie Lewis.
Elected to the supervisory com
mittee wen: James Crowder, EH
Martin and J. T. Wardlaw. Credit
committee: Tom Carroll, 8. ▼.
Owens and Clifford Smith.
Officers reports wen highly
praised by memben. In 1945 the
Credit Union began a program of
mortgage loans.
Judge Waite Is
86 Years Young
Judge Edward F. Waite, retired
Hennepin county district court
jurist and friend of man, was M
JUDGE E. F. WAITE
years “young” Tuesday, January
15.
Retiring from the bench four
years ago, Judge Waite has con
tinued to work seven days a week
in the interests of many causes.
One among the various move
ments to which he gives his great
mind and seemingly tireless en
ergy is the cause of improved race
relations.
Working quietly usually, he will,
if necessary, speak out loudly as he
did in 1943 when the move to
strengthen the Minnesota Civil
Rights law was almost lost. Judge
Waite's radio advocacy and the
editorial support of the Star-Jour
nal Tribune and the St. Paul Pio
neer Press-Dispatch saved the day
for the amendments to increase the
effectiveness of the legislation.
Early last year George B. Leo
nard, noted Minneapolis attorney,
created the Edward F. Waite Fund
at the University of Minnesota by
a gift of 110,000 in recognition of
Judge Waite's work on the bench
and in the interests of human re
lations. The fund is being used to
promote greater understanding be
tween the races and religions
which make up our country's pop
ulation.
Judge Waite serves on the board
of directors of several organisa
tions, among which is the Minne
apolis Urban League.
Ashby Harris
St. Paul Business
Man Is Dead
Ashby Harris, business man and
resident of St. Paul for the past
25 years or more, died in Cleveland,
Tuesday. Jan. 15.
Mr. Harris had been in poor
health for about a month, but later
was confined to bed just a week
before his death. His sisters came
here Saturday, Jan. 12, and took
him back to Cleveland where he
entered a clinic.
He was the owner of the Broad
way Cafe in St. Paul. Mrs. Harris
left Tuesday for Cleveland, to at
tend the rites for her husband.
Aside from his three sisters and
his wife, he has a brother and three
foster sons. Albert of Memphis,
George of St. Paul and William of
Kansas City, Mo., surviving.
National Urban
League Official
To Visit Here
Guichard Parris, promotion sec
retary of the National Urban
League, will visit St. Paul during
the coming week. He will arrive
in St Paul on Monday, January
21, and will be his first visit to the
Northwest A graduate of Amherst
college, Mr. Parris will confer with
St Psul and Minneapolis league
officials.
Breaks Leg
In FaQ
Mrs. Juanita Sima, 854 Bryant
Ave. N., slipped on ice in front of
her home, Tuesday, Jan. 8, and
suffered a broken leg.
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