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THE FORCES . .
The Forces that have moved women into
their present position are only too plain.
The years of the Depression played their
part in it. for countless women saw their
husbands broken and their homes taken
away from them unless they were able to
bring money into the household. The war
brought full employment and put addition
al millions of women into factories and
offices and the armed services.—Saturday
Evening Review of Literature
EIGHTEENTH YEAR, NO. 51
National Convention Choirs
& Choruses Meet Here
August Third To Eighth
The 20th annual national meeting of the National Con
vention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc. will bring an esti
mated 1,000 singers, delegates and friends to St. Paul.
Convention hosts, the Twin City Choral Union is headed by
Mrs. Viola Cassell, president. Other officers are Jennie Gris
sarn. vice-president, Harry Ballard, financial secretary Clara
Smith, recording secretary; Grant
Bell, treasurer; Dessie Gresham,
directress, Silas M. Smith, assis
tant director, Ralph Prim, pianist
and Rev. J. J. Claybum, spiritual
advisor. Mr. Ballard also serves as
union chaplain.
Members of the choral union
have been working for the past
nine weeks in preparation for the
meeting.
Jimmy Griffin
Files For Minnesota
State Legislature
James S. (Jimmy) Griffin has
filed for State Representative in
the 38th District South. Griffin
lost out in a close race in the last
■fl
JIMMY GRIFFIN
election and asks the public’s
continued support in the coming
election.
Griffin was bom in St. Paul 35
years ago. He is married to the
former Edna Smoot of Charleston,
West Virginia and is the father of
three daughters. Vianne, Linda
and Helen.
Griffin attended McKinley and
Cathedral grade schools, John
Marshall Jr. High and graduated
from St. Paul Central high, and
also attended W. Va. State Col
lege. He has been a member of the
St. Paul Police Dept, for the past
11 years. The St. Paul Urban
League cited Griffin for outstand
ing polioe work.
He is a member of the St. Paul
Officials Association, the St. Paul
Council of Human Relations, the
St. Paul Urban League, St. Paul
Police Union. Local 985. Central
Police and Peace Officers Asso
ciation. the Sterling Club. Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity, NAACP,
St. Philip's Men's Club. Member
of the Board of Trustees of the St.
Paul Police Mutual Association.
American Legion, Maxfield PTA,
Sports writer for the St. Paul Re
corder and Minneapolis Spokes
man. Minnesota Police and Peace
Officers Ass n, and the Hallie Q
Brown Community Center
Griffin opposes:
A Minnesota sales tax law. The
present old age lien law.
Griffin will support: Higher
iron ore tax: An adequate juvenile
delinquency program: A greater
share of state taxes returned to
St. Paul: More state aid for edu
cational purposes; A state FEPC.
His suporters pointed out this
week that now is the time to reg
ister to vote to be able to parti
cipate in the coming fall election.
Let every person exercise his
right as a citizen by casting his
vote to this election.
NEPHEW OF LOCAL
WOMAN LOSES LIFE
IN ELEVATOR ACCIDENT
Colorado Springs. (ANPI
Funeral services for Theodore
Wilson, local 13 year old youth
who lost his life in a freight ele
vator accident at the Acacia
hotel here recently were held at
the S. C. Hunter mortuary Thurs
day. at 2:30 p. m.. the Rev. J. E.
Eatmon Friendship Baptist
church, officiating.
Besides his grandmother, Mrs.
Lula Davis and his aunt. Mrs.
Helen Davis. 646 E Maple, he is
survived by his father, Henry
Davis, an uncle, Roland Davis.
Son Francisco, Calif., and an aunt
Mrs Evelyn McClinton. Minne
apolis. Minn.
Burial was at the local Ever
green cemetery.
LOOSE WHITE NOW
ASSOCIATED WITH
HIGGINS BEAUTY SHOP
Louise White. 313 15th Ave
So. is now associated with Hig
gins Beauty Shop at 528 Emer
son Ave. No.
Miss White came to Minneapo
lis from New York where she was
in the hair dressing business.
She received her beauty train
ing at the Madam C J. Walker
School of Beauty Culture, in St
Louis
You may arrange for an ap
pointment with Miss White by
calling Atlantic 4991
Midway 8340
Mrs. Verda Williams has been
serving as chairman of the hous
ing committee.
Other national officers are: Arte
lia W. Hutchins, first vice-presi
dent; J. B. Harris second vice-pre
sident; Mary Gardner, third vice
president; Rev. Carrie Bell Pries
ter, fourth vice-president; Fannie
Foster fifth vice-president; Ruby
King, historian; Viola Nash Cas
sell, statistician; Sallie Martin,
organizer; Clarence Hatcher and
A. B. Windon, accomanists; Anna
Jones and Virginia Brazil, chap
lains and Julia Smith, stenogra
peh.
Other national officers are Mar
ian Paris, financial and corres
ponding secretary; Grace L. Bon
ner, ass’t financial secretary;
Myrtle Crump, recording secre
tary; Clara Williams, recording
secretary; Theodore Frye, treas
urer; H. J. Carruthers, treasurer
building fund, Rev. D. M. Byrd,
chairman trustees, A. J. Twiggs,
secretary trustees, Lucile Ellis
Jones, treasurer scholarships;
Samuel Maxwell, treasurer Wil
liam Lillard Fund; Dorothy Thor
ington, president youth depart
ment; Beatrice Brown, suprevi
sor youth department and Willie
Mae Smith Soloist Bureau.
The full program of the conven
tion will appear in the August 1.
edition of this paper.
Alexander Issues
Special Statement
Favors Equality
Former Congressman John G.
Alexander, who is a candidate for
that office from the third district,
has issued this special statement
to the Minneapolis Spokesman.
You may tell your readers to
count on me to support every
single civil rights gain they have
made in Minnesota. Furthermore
I am going to do everything in
my power in Washington to
spread those rights over the en
tire nation.
"But that Isn’t enough. The
people of America have been the
victims of a political party which
gives civil rights with one hand
and takes them away with the
other.
"Equality must go deeper than
the mere right to vote. It must in
clude equality in the armed forces
draft, for instance. Men of every
color must stand shoulder to
shoulder if our country is en
dangered. And no one color must
give more of its sons than an
other.
"Equality means to me that
there must be no government
money spent on schools which dis-
Talent Contest By
OES Scheduled For
criminate between students on the Friday, September 5
basis of color. Th( . annua i Twin City
‘lt means that every child Talent Contest, sponsored bv the
shall have the same opportunity waya and means commit tee of
to grow up in peace. It means the OES grand chapt ,. r 1100
that every child shall be allowed in prlz „ wlll h(dd Frlday
to enter any profession, business night SeptPmb er satßp. m.
or line of work and receive equal This years affair will be held
pay for equal work, and an equal at Hallie Q. Brown House. 553
chance to get a job on the basis Aurora Ave gt Paul
of his natural ability. | Tw , n Citians posspssing ulpnt
■1 am in favor of FEPC. of ! for entertainment are invited to
course. But I want to go beyond pnter thp contPßt . Th P following
a mere law. and do what I can to wjn accppt pntry )n the
see that FEPC is lived up to." contest
PRINCE HAM. MASONS TO 445 Kpnt st DA|p M
H ° LD 739 Rondo Ave.
INTER-Cm PICNIC ELkhurst 5022
The third annual picnic of In MinnPapoUß . M „ Mae
Maons and their families will be stewart 1407 Spvpnth Avp No
held Saturday afternoon. August CHfrry 7g46 and Mrs wlU(am
2at 1 pm. at Como Park. St Hplrn p ifth Avp g IZ) .
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The affair open to members of
the Prince Hall Masons and their
families is sponsored by the Past
Masters Council and Past and
Present Matrons and Patrons of
the OES
There will be an attendance
prize and refreshments.
The announcements said friends
are invited.
On Wednesday, Mrs. O C. Hall.
727 St Anthony entertained some
of the neighborhood children at a
picnic at Como Park
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Barbara Wheeler
Wins B'nai B'rith
Scholarship Award
Robert A. Dworsky, president.
North Star Lodge B'nai B'rith
Scholarship Fund recently an
nounced the award of the first
scholarship to be granted to Miss
Barbara Jean Wheeler. 677 Ron
do Ave., St. Paul 4, Minn.
Miss Wheeler recently graduat
jj. from John
Marshall High
schoo 1 S h e
ranked third
highest in her
class. She has
i—» . also been a
member of th e
president
the Girls Ath
1e 11 c Associa
tion, recipient
Miss Wheeler
of the Marshall “M" and All City
award, member of the Marshall
Student Council, assistant editor
in-chief of the “Magistrate" and
holder of the “Quill and Scroll"
award.
Miss Wheeler intends to matri
culate at Macalester College in
St. Paul and plans to be an ele
mentary school teacher. Miss
Wheeler plays piano, cello and
mandolin. She is an active mem
ber of the Christ Temple church.
Chatsworth and Rondo, and is the
assistant secretary and pianist for
the Sunday School.
The North Star Lodge B'nai
B'rith Scholarship Award is
based on meritorious scholastic
record, community service, and
financial need. The award is made
without regard to sex. race,
creed or religious affiliation. The
award presented to Miss Wheeler
will be for approximately $250,
and will be for the 1952-53 schol
astic year.
The North Star Lodge is affilia
ted with the nation-wide Jewish
Fraternal Order of B'nai B'rith
which is devoted to philanthropic
and community service projects.
Dr. Harry L. Plotke is presi
dent of North Star Lodge and ex
officia member of the North Star
Lodge B'nai B'rith Scholarship
Fund. The North Star Lodge
B’nai B'rith Scholarship Fund was
organized by members of the
North Star Lodge to give finan
cial assistance to persons about
to enter institutions of higher
education, who have shown schol
astic promise, capabilities for
community leadership and need
financial assistance. Officers of
the North Star B’nai B'rith
Scholarship Fund are Robert A.
Dworsky. president. Donald M
Wolkoff. secretary. Maurice B
Langman, treasurer, and Benja
min Lasoff, executive director.
W. G. RENFRO VISITS HERE
W. G. Renfro, former Minne
apolitan. now of Salina, Kans.,
was in the Twin Cities this week
on a visit. He was enroute home
after a visit in the East. He paid
visits to a niece and nephew in
Washington D. C., a daughter in
New Yory and a niece in Chicago.
Mr. Renfro, during his long
residence in Minneapolis was
prominent in the affairs of
Bethesda Baptist church where
he served as an officer for many
years.
He said his copy of the paper
which he receives by mail each
week down in Kansas is “like a
welcome letter from home.”
DOI.LIEMAE KENDRICK
WEDS JOSEPH BAKER
Joseph Baker, 1329 Washing
ton Ave. So., and Dolliemae Ken
drick, 1714 Fourth Ave. No., both
of Minneapolis, were married
Wednesday, July 16. by Rev. L.
C. Harris, pastor of Bethesda
Baptist church.
The couple were wed at the par
sonage. 2737 11th Ave. So
Every advertiser in this paper
appreciates your patronage.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1952
Barbara Fields Engagement Announced
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This week Mr. and Mrs. La-
Fayette Fields, 803 St. Anthony,
St. Paul, announced the engage
ment of their daughter, Barbara
Adelle to John Thomas Young,
son of Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Young of East St. Louis, Illinois.
Miss Fields attends Howard
University in Washington. D. C.
and will graduate in the June
Class of 1953.
Leaders Of 39 Minnesota
Groups Ask Democrats
For Strong Rights Plank
In a telegram sent this w
tion in Chicago, Thirty-nine <
cratic Party organizations of
rights plank in the platform
Their key request was for
Rules so that a filibuster can I
vote.
Other items requested included
enactment of effective fair em-
ployment practice legislation, ar
ti-segregation action in all anas
of federal competence, effective
anti-lynch law. abolition of poll
tax. strengthened civil right
tion of Justice Department, estab
lishment of permanent civil right-
commission, immediate statehood
for Alaska and Hawaii, and im-
mediate home rule for the I)
trict of Columbia
These are the items requested
by the Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights which was participat
ed in by fifty-one national organ-
izations in Washington. I) C..
last February. The Chairman of
the Conference, Walter White of
the NAACP. and other liberal
leaders testified before both the
Republican and the Democrat
Platform Committees urging tt
inclusion of these items in the civ
rights plank of both party pla
forms.
Senator Hubert H. Humphre;
of Minnesota is the leader of thi
fight in the current Democrat!
Convention, as he was in the con
vetion In 1948.
The following individuals signed
the telegram on behailf of their
organizations:—Carl Rolvag. Chair
man, Democratic-Farm' r Labor
Party: Mrs. Anne Vetter. Chair
woman. Hennepin County DFL;
Gerald J O'Donnell. Chairman,
Ramsey County DFL: Al Paone.
Chairman. Minn. AFL, Committee
on Civil Rights; Rev. Denzil A
Carty. Chairman, Minn Confer
ence of the Nat’l. Ass n for the
Advancement of Colored I
Michael Finkelstein. Business Mgr ,
Twin Cities Joint Board ILGU;
William Cratic. Jr. Pres . Minne
apolis Branch NAACP: Hubert
Schon. Director. United Labor
Committee of Minn for Human
Rights; Frank M Smith Pres,
St. Paul-NAACP; Joseph Burd-
man. Secretary. Jewish Libor
Committee; George W. Dozier
Pres. Duluth Branch-NAACP;
Hector P. Vassar. General Chair
man. Local 516 Dining Car Em
ployees Union; Sheldon Karlins,
Chairman. American Veterans
Committee: Mrs. Charles Rogers,
Pres.. Alpha Kappa Alpha Soror-
ity: Mrs. Allan Meinecke. Chair
man. Ramsey County Chapter,
American for Democratic Action;
R. C. Jacobson. Secretary. Minn.
CIO Council; Harriet Lane Field
Rep , Minneapolis Committee on
Racial Equality: Robert Hess Gas,
Coke 4 Chemical Workers CIO
and Pres CIO State Council: Jon-
Mr. Young was a graduate of
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.,
class of ’49. with a B.A. degree,
Magna Cum Laude. At present he
is a senior in Medicine at How
ard university, Washington, D. C.
where he will receive his Doctor
of Medicine Degree in the June
Class of 1953.
He is a member of Alpha Phi Al
pha Fraternity.
eek to the Democratic Con ven
civic, labor, church and Demo-
Minnesota urged a strong civil
• a pled#
>e stopped by a simple majority
the Senate
is G. Schwartz, Treas., Minn
Council for Fair Employment
York Langton. Chair
man, Minn. UN Ass'n, Edward I.
Boyd, Exalted Ruler. Ames Lodge
106 IBBPOE; Irwin Lee Glatsteir
Minnesota Jewish Council;
Charles Doty. Grand Master
f Minn Kr Juriadic-
Prince
tions Mas
Hall Affiliation: Alex Kanter
Commander, Minn Dept. Jewish
War Vetrans; Jesse W Miller
ic Fraternit
Secretary Gamma XI
Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Frater
Consultant. ADL: Margaret Wat
son. Secreatry, Tx>cal No. 10.
American Federation of State
Municipal Employees;
American Jewish
County
Louis Shores
Congress: William F Whiteside.
Temporary Polemarch, Twin City
Alumni Chapter Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity: Louis Gross, American
Jewish Committee; Wilfred C. Le-
Land, Jr. Chairman. Sponsoring
Committee Encampmmt for Citti-
Zenship, Frank Boyd. Sec Treas ;
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por
ters. AFT. Curtis Chivers. Sec.
Frontiers Club; Clark Kennedy.
Editor, Labor World. Duluth; E. L.
Slaughter, Nat'l V. P. Longshore
man's Union. AFL. Duluth; Mrs.
H B. Evans Sec. Board Unitarian
Church, Duluth: Al Oevton, Steel
workers. CIO Duluth; Ida B.
Davis, ADA, Duluth: Mrs Charles
Green. Council of Jewish Women.
Duluth
PENCE BUILDING IS NOW
NORTHWESTERN FEDERAI
The Pence Building at the cor
ner of Eighth St., and Hennepin
Ave. Minneapolis has been re
named the Northwestern Federal
Building
The building houses the Min
neapolis Urban League and such
well known individuals as George
Robitshek, philanthropist and civ-
vic leader and Jonas G. Schwartz
attorney and civic leader
SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
TO SPEAK ON KSTP-TV
Farrell Dobbs, candidate for
President on the Socialist Workers
Party ticket will speak on. "A
Program for Negro Equality"
over KSTP TV channel 5 Sunday
afternoon July 27, at 2:45 p m.
WANTED ROOM OR ROOMS
For 3 days July 25, 26 and 27,
Contact Cassuis Club Cafe At
lantic 9492 Headquarters Minn.
Negro Open Golf Tournament.
CEclar 0922
Ed Sullivan In
High Praise Of
Rowan's Book
Ed Sullivan. N. Y. DAILY
NEWS columnist gave Minneso
tan Carl Rowan's book. "South of
Freedom" a big boost in a recent
column in that paper.
Sullivan wrote in the paper
that has the largest circulation in
the U. S.:
With the Democrats moving in
to Chicago fearfully handling the
fair employment issue, which the
GOP also handled gingerly, Al
fred A. Knopf's release of Carl T.
Rowan's book. "South of Free
dom," has a particularly timely
appeal. Rowan, young Negro star
reporter of the Minneapolis Trib
une. traveled through the South to
experience Jim Crow laws, and to
get first-hand reaction to them
from Southern Negroes. It is a
fine job of reporting and all who
are interested in civil rights, and
the dignity of human beings
should add it to their bookshelves
when it comes off the Knopf
presses at the end of this month.
On the hopeful side of the
ledger, Rowan quotes this from
the Jackson, Miss., Daily News:
"There is a new Negro in our
land, and the Southern lawmaker
or citizen who fails to realize that
fact is being stupid at his own
cost. The new Negro has more ed
ucation. He has better health. He
has better clothes. He reads more
newspapers. He is adopting the
white man's customs, speech,
standards and shibboleths. Now it
doesn't make sense to assume
that this new Negro is going to
be content in the cabin of his
slave grandfather. And it doesn't
make sense to pretend that is
where he ought to be. His eyes
are on better things, materially
considered. He is going to have a
car and drive it. He is going to
buy a home and live in it. He is
going to step into citizenship and
exercise its rights and demand its
privileges. The new Negro is not
a man of tomorrow. He is a man
of today.”
Mail orders for autographed
copies of the Rowan book are be
ing taken by Power's department
store.
In St. Paul the book will be on
sale at Schuneman’s where a win
dow display will be on the
Wabasha Street side.
Floyd Bannarn Found
Dead In Bed
Mr. Floyd Bannarn died Satur
day, July 19 of a heart attack in
his home. 701 Bradford Ave. No.
Mr Bannarn was born July 16,
1908 in Ardmore. Okla., the son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Bannarn.
Survivors are his mother. Mrs.
Leia Bannarn, a son. Robert Floyd,
and his sister, Clara Carver of
Golden Valley.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, July 22 at Border M
E. Church Rev C. M. Sexton, of
ficiating Interment in Crystal
Lake cemetery Woodard Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
She Won Contest
Smiling little Cynthia Renee
Westbrooks, daughter of Mr and
Mrs William J. Westbrooks re
centy won the 1952 baby contest
of the Senior Choir of Zion Bap
tist church.
Cynthia won a $25 cash prize
by securing sll6 worth of votes.
Mrs Lucy Harris was chairman
of the contest, the net proceeds
of which went to the church
building fund.
DENZIL CARTYS VISITED
BY OLD DR. STORK
For the third time Ole Doc
Stork visited Rev. and Mrs. Den
zil Carty leaving them a bouncing
baby girl born Tuesday. July 22.
This is the third child of the
couple. All are girls. Rev. Carty,
the popular pastor of St Phil
ips Episcopal church seemed
mightily pleased with Doc
Stork's present to Mrs. Carty and
him when contacted by this
newspaper. Both mother and
babe are doing fine.
ree een Agers Indicted
For Murder; Two Enter
Not Guilty Pleas
Three Minneapolis teen-age youths were indicted on third
degree murder charges Monday by the Hennepin county
grand jury for the slugging-robbery of a 70 year old man on
July 2.
The boys were accused o
Hendricks, 2017 Aldrich Ave.
on the sidewalk on the Northside.
Four other boys were indicted
for robbery —two of them are al
so teen-agers.
On Tuesday. July 22, two of
the youths charged with murder
were arraigned before district
Judge W. C. Larson and pleas of
innocence were entered for them
by their attorneys.
The two were: Madison F. Nor
wood Jr., 15, 1415 So. Seventh St.,
and Ernest Armstrong. 17, 5015
Humboldt Ave. No.
The other youth, 15 year old
Frank Frazier of 1115 Lyndale
Ave. No. had not been arraigned
at press time because of the an
nounced absence from the city of
his attorney.
Bail for the two boys arraigned
was set at $5,000 each.
Youths charged with robbery
are Charles Green. 20, who is said
to be in the workhouse in Omaha,
Neb., Harold Webster, 17, 512
Colfax Ave. No.; Jerry Bailey, 20,
821 Fremont Ave. No., and John
Robert Smiley, 18, 816 Bryant
Ave. No.
Bail for Webster and Bailey
was set at $5,000 each. The two
other boys had not been arraigned
as late as Wednesday.
Police uncovered a loosely or
ganized gang of juveniles, many
of them teen-agers, when question
ing of one boy led to his confes
sion that at least three gangs of
Minneapolis youths had been en
gaged in slugging!, robberies and
holdups for amounts ranging
from a few cents to SSO.
The boys operated in groups of
three or four using a motor car
to cruise and spot victims. In
most instances they did not use
weapons but simply slugged vic
tims with their fists.
A total of 24 youths were ques
tioned by police in attempting to
round up those Implicated in the
July 2 incident.
Arrest of eight boys for ques
tioning who were members of the
Ames Lodge of Elks sponsored
drum and bugle corps, upon its
return from Tulsa, Okla., Elks
convention caused a stir in the
community.
One of the youths is alleged to
have told detectives that he en
gaged in the slugging to get
“spending money” for the conven
tion in Oklahoma.
Elks officials said that all es
sential expenses of the drum and
bugle corps to Tulsa and return
were borne by the lodge.
Meantime the community has
been In a ferment because It was
revealed that a number of teen
age girls had been involved in
shoplifting in downtown Minne
apolis stores. These girls ap
peared in juvenile court last
week. Most were placed on proba
tion.
Henry Thomas, head resident of
Phyllis Wheatley House. July 15,
called together a number of per
sons active and prominent in the
community and parents of the
section of the city from where
most of the youths reside.
The group, serving as a tem
porary committee organized to at
tempt the solution of the problem
ofjuvenile delinquency which has
hit over SO Mill city families.
Thursday a sub-committe met
with Mayor Eric Hoyer,
Superintendent of Police, Tom
Jones, county and city probation
officials and others to submit a
tenative plan for stricted law en
forcement and cooperation by
parents with law enforcement of
ficers.
Another committee planned to
hold meetings with parents of the
juveniles involved and later meet
ing with parents of Minneapolis
of all sections of the city who are
interested in the problems now
presented.
A letter in this paper last week
from Charles L. Horn. Minneapo
lis industrialist and employer of a
large number of Negroes at the
Twin Cities Arsenal was highly
praised by a number of citizens.
Hom said he felt that the prob
lem precipitated by the arrest of
the youths involved In the slug
ging murder, was one which de
manded action by the Negro com
munity as a whole. He suggested
that the churches, the lodges and
the community social agencies
should set up some type of or
ganization to cope with the prob
lems peculiar to the Negro com
munity. He blamed both the par
ents and a society for conditions
which contribute to such a large
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ication an intellectual capt
remain valid for the rest of
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knowledge expand today and
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new ideas that a man’s
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his first class reunion.
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the fatal slugging of Albert
No., whose body was found
number of youngsters being in
volved in serious trouble.
Several years ago Hom sug
gested that the Negroes should
form an organization similar to
the Minneapolis Jewish Federa
tion which plays such a tremen
dous part in the life of the Jew
ish community and the city at
large.
Shelton Granger of the Min
neapolis Urban League has sug
gested that case studies be made
of the various juveniles involved
and that efforts be made in social
scientific matter to help cure any
bad situation found.
Parents of the boys and girls
involved in the recent juvenile
situation met Tuesday night ft
Phyllis Wheatley at the call of
Gloria Williams chairman of a
tentlve sub committee of the citi
zens group.
Suggestions made by parents
included:
1. More cooperation between
parents of the community
2. Organize parents groups.
3. Appointed committee to con
fer with Ames Lodge con
cert ng drum and bugle
corps
4. More family religious wor
ship and more church at
tendance by parents with
children
5. Parents should show more
interest in youth of the
community as well as their
own individual families.
Mrs. Velma Williams acted as
chairman of the meeting which
was attended by 20 parents.
The meeting was tremendously
interesting and productive Mias
Glora Williams said. Most parents
joined in the discussion which
lasted three and one-half hours.
Zion Church Has
Two Boys Groups
Under Rev. Hodge
Rev. James C. Hodge, member
church, this week pointed out the
fact that despite the members of
the Harry T. Moore Boy's club
and the HTM. Troopers at the
church come from similiar cul
tural and enviromental backg
rounds, none of the members of the
club have been involved in any of
the recent Incidents of juvenile de
liquency.
The two groups a club and a
troopers group was organized at
the church last January because
the need to do more for the youth
was recorgnlzed by the church.
The aim of the club and the
troop Is to create In the youth of
the community a greater civic
awareness and responsibility to
the community.
The group was named after the
late Harry T. Moore. NAACP or
ganizer for the state of Florida,
who was killed this papt Christ
mas because fo his role in the
struggle for equality in the state.
Membership in the HTM. troop
ers is open to all boys between the
age of 11 to 17 and Rev. Hodges
is the club adviser.
Qualification for a Tl/c (Troop
er Ist class)
1. Obedience
2. Courteousness
3. Truthfulness
4. Helpfulness
5. Regularity and Promptness
6. Bravery
7. Reverence
Mill Citian Places
Second In Central
States Golf Meet
Des Moines. Ta.—Ernie Harris
who two weeks ago copped the
Sterling Club 1952 golf crown
was only one stroke behind Robert
Terrel 1948 Central States Golf
champ for the present year cham l
pionship at Waveland Course here
in Des Moines.
With Terrell winning the men's
event with a 78. Fleming Cody of
St. Louis defending champion tied
with Lonnie Thomas of Omaha for
third. Many of the golfers here
will play in the Minnesota Negro
Open at Theodore Wirth course
Saturday and Sunday.
In the Upper Midwest ONI.T In
the SPOKESMAN and RECOR
DER paper will readers find a
full page of pictures of the latest
news events in Aframerica.

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