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Man ton 9, aUUrU aI S
Everyone deep in his heart wants to see , .
a new, decent world. Every man longs to “® n * 1
give his life for something great It will
take courage. It will take sacrifice. We in
this House < Congress; have the unique
privilege and responsibility to turn the
Ude of history in America and in the
world. It takes a decision of the will in
your heart and mind to put our lives under
the direcUon of God and live the answer to
division, confusion and disunity—Vale
dictory of Cong. Charles B. Deane, N. C-,
July 23, 1956.
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 4
ft Tu Brutus:
Republicans Bow To Dixie
Approve “Weak” Rights
Plank At San Francisco
By Staff Correspondent
San Francisco, Calif.— The Republicans are expected to
approve a civil rights platform plank which Roy Wilkins of the
NAACP says is a “shade” stronger than the Democrats plank
of last week.
A plan to write a real strong plank was knocked in the
head by pressure from President Eisenhower's White House
aides after protest by some of the
southern delegations to the con
vention.
No floor fights such as the
Democrats had in Chicago are ex
pected.
Minnesota Interest in the con
vention centers around the effort
of former Gov. Harold Stassen to
dump Vice-President Richard Nix
on as ‘'lke's" 1956 running mate.
Observers here say Stassen is
the most unpopular man at the
convention although few delegates
or leaders seem willing to tell him
to his face.
Wherever he goes he is greet
ed guardedly, though cordially,
with most people shaking hands
with him.
Negroes have tradiUonally been
present at GOP meeUngs as dele
gates and visitors. The Perry
Howard Mississippi delegation,
composed of both Negroes and
whites, was awarded half of the
seats in the convenUon with the
credential committee giving the
other eight seats to a lily-white
delegaUon which has been in
power in state Republican circles.
Mrs. Elizabeth Heffelfinger of
Wayzata, national committeewo
man from Minnesota, is one of
Cratic & Granger:
Attempt To Have Letter
Carriers Support South’s
Attack On Court, Fails
A move led by the South Carolina delegation to the Na
tional Association of Letter Carriers meeting in annual sessions
in Minneapolis this week to attack the U. 8. Supreme Court
decision against race segregation and the AFL-CIO was halted
in its tracks on the convention floor Tuesday by the alertness
of two Minneapolis leaders, Shelton Granger and William
Cratic.
It was a double pronged attack
at the U. S Supreme court and
the AFL-CIO ando called the
court ruling on school segregation
an Invasion of state* rights and
un-constitutional.
The South Carolina resolution
attacked both the members of the
U. S. Supreme Court and the AFL
CIO’s president George Meany for
support of desegregation.
The resolution asked the letter
carriers organization to drop its
affiliation with the AFL-CIO if
the organization continued to sup
port the Supreme court and the
battle to end race segregation in
the U. S.
The resolution, reading like the
usual White Citizens Council pro
paganda said that "God never in
tended that the different races
work, live, or attend school to
gether.”
When the resolution was pre
sented to the committee dealing
with such matters Monday, a
northern delegate and a southern
delegate, both whites, leaked its
content to Shelton Granger of the
Minneapolis Urban League.
Granger and William Gratic,
League President went to the con
vention and apprised several lead
ing Negro delegates of the resolu
tion.
Investigation revealed the com
mittee which had considered the
matter voted to refer the South
Carolina proposals to the execu
tive committee of the association
for disposition.
In a conference in which the two
Minneapolis men took part with
letter carrier delegates Harry Mc-
Carthy of Cleveland, Walter
Smith and Edward Fulford of
Chicago, arranged strategy to
fight the resolution.
The three delegates got together
with New York City and Detroit.
Michigan leaders and the resolu
tion was voted down when it
reached the floor.
A popular unit in the letter car
riers organization is the all-Negro
75 piece Memphis band It had
two cute drum majorettes who
showed excellent training, knew
how to prance gracefully, instead
of the bebopping and shuffling a
long the Twin City bronze drum |
majorettes affect.
Negro musicians were members
of a number of bands from a dozen
cities.
Southern Negro delegates par
aded with their state units but .
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the most popular convention fig
ures.
John M. Culver of St. Paul is
an aaslMant door-keeper at the
convention as Is M. G. Williams
of Mlnneapolla
Mary Kyle of Minneapolis is
an alternate delegate substituting
for Congressman Walter Judd
when he is not present in the Min
nesota delegation. Mrs Kyle
thinks the civil rights plank is
O.K. but “too wordy."
• • •
National Committeeman George
Etzell of Clarissa. Minnesota, is
on the job making friends and in
fluencing people.
• • •
The Associated Negro Press
has several correspondents on
hand to gather news for the top
Negro papers of the country.
• • •
JET Magazine’s Simeon Booker,
Washington bureau chief and poli
tical analyist is out here looking
for the low-down on issues and
candidates.
• • •
Clarence Mitchell, who worked
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not a single one of them were uni
formed as their white fellow
members.
In const rast many of the north
ern state units had a good sprink
ling of Negroes scattered through
their ranks and all of them wore
the same regalia and uniforms
that their fellow mail men wore.
Negro delegates to the conven
tion were loud in their praise of
the hospitality of Minneapolis.
"We have been treated royally
wherever we've gone in your city,”
a delegate told a reporter for this
paper.
SERVICES FOR PANSY
DODO HELD TODAY;
RESIDENT 30 YEARS
Funeral services for Mrs Pansy
Dodd, 701 Carroll Av., who died
Tuesday. August 21. in Miller hos
pital. will be held at 2 p. m. Fri
day (today! at Mt. Olivet Baptist
church with Rev. B. H. Hunter of
ficiating.
Mrs. Dodd had been ill for the
past three months and hospitalized
three weeks before her death.
She was born in Bloomfield. la.,
and had resided in St. Paul for 30
years. She was a member of Mt
Olivet Baptist church.
Surviving are one slater. Mrs.
Letitia Parrish of New York City:
foster son, Robert Dodd of St.
PauL Nephew, Gerald Bryson of
Dea Moines; uncle. John Battles.
Kansas City, Mo.; cousins. Izetta
Battle Greer. Kansas City Mo..
Ruth Doyle and Lucille Smith of
Des Moines and other relatives
and a host of friends.
Burial win be in Elmhurst ceme-
tery
Mrs. Parish, a sister, had been
with Mrs Dodd for the past three
months during her illness. Her
nephew. Gerold Bryson, uncle.
John Battle and cousins. Izetta
Greer. Ruth Doyle and Lucille
Smith, all came to the city to at
tend funeral services.
CANDIDATES FOR
PUBLIC OFFICE . . .
Usually address their bids for
voters’ support at the polls
through the advertising col
umns of this newspaper. Be
tween now and the primary
elections on September 11. var
ious candidate will submit their
platforms tn brief to readers of
this paper.
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LETTER CARRIERS DELEGATES AND NATIONAL PRESIDENT
The National Association of Letter Carriers meeting this wick in national convention in
Minneapolis practically took over the town Shown above are some of the leading delegates
with association president Win. C Doherty Reading I. to r is William Carter. Chicago; Ho
mer Taylor. Columbus. O.; President Doherty; Artis C. Grant. Los Angeles and Osberry S.
Scott, also of Los Angeles Delegates were present from every state in the union (Story else
where) .
Service* Held For
Rebecca Tyrrell
Thursday, Aug. 23
Services for Mrs. Rebecca Tyr
rell. a patient in the Cornelius
Nursing Home, who died Sunday
afternoon. August 19. in Minne
aplis General hospital, after a
lingering illness, were held Thurs
day. August 23 at 2 p. m. at Bor
der Methodist church Rev.
Charles M. Sexton officiated
Mrs. Tyrell suffered a stroke
August 10 and was taken fo Gen
eral hospital where she succumb
ed
She was bom in St. Paul and
came to Minneapolis to make her
home in 1923. She was a member
of Border Bethodist church and
Minnehaha Temple No 129, IBPE
OW. The Temple was in charge at
the funeral.
She is survived by one son.
George Tyrrell of San Francisco,
Calif.; four sisters, Mrs. Bridie
Beade, Loa Angeles. Calif.; Mrs.
Carrie McWatt, St. Paul; Mias
Bessie Jackson and Mrs Ethel
Landers of Minneapolis; one
brother. Arthur Lowe of Los An
geles; a host of nieces and ne
phews and other relatives.
Burial was in Elmhurst ceme
tery, St? Paul.
Coming!! Jay McShann and his
orchestra. Featuring Priscilla
Rowman. Saturday. September H.
Mpls. I,atr>r Temple.
ONE OF THESE ATTRACTIVE WOMEN
WILL BE DAUGHTERS OF ISIS QUEEN
Puturol above are the four contestants in the Daughter* of Isis
Queen Contest sponsored by Frzzaa Coart as a part of the two-state
Gala Days celebration of Shrtners and Daughters of Isis in Minor
spoils Sept 1, 2. and S.
Miss Donna Carter hi shown at top left and Mrs. Christine Pierre
Is at right Bottom row: MrhrUe Davison at left and Mr*. Terry
Qualls at right
The Queen will be crowned at tbe annual Oriental tea Sunday,
Sept, t at the Nacirema Club. SMS Fourth Av. ».. during the hours of
4 to 1 p. m.
ST, PAUL, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24. 1956
Dixin And Thn NAACP:
Ruby Hurley NAACP
Worker In Deep South
‘Courage’ Speaker Aug. 28
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, who wacribes herself as displaced, will
be the guest speaker representing the NAACP (National As
sociation for the Advancement of Colored People) when the
“Campaign for Courage” presents awards to citizens of cour
age of South Carolina August 28th.
The awards will be preMUted during a banquet at 6:30 p.
m at the Nicollet Hotel in Min«; - - • - -
neapolis to Charles E. Davis, for
mer school principal of the Elloree
S. C. Training school. Davis will
represent the 24 teachers who, a
long with himself, lost their jobs
because they refused to sign affi
davit* inquiring as to their mem
berships in the NAACP.
Mrs Hurley is a native of Wash
ington, D. C.. and a product of
public schools there Including
Miner Teachers College and the
Robert H. Terrell Law school She
was employed in the Industrial
Bank of Washington and later in
the Federal Government.
Her activities with the Wash
ington youth council brought rec
ogntion from the national office
and resulted In her appointment as
NAACP youth secretary In 1943
While youth secretary, Mrs. Hur
ley served on the executive com
mittee of the National Commission
of Children and Youth, on ths
Board of directors of the Encamp
ment for Citizenship and the Cal
lege Summer Service Group, as a
members of the National Commit
tee on the Mid-century White
House Conference and on the Sub
commission of Juvenile Delin
quency of UNESCO.
In 1951 she was sent to Birm
Ingham on a temporary assign
ment to coordinate NAACP mem
bership campaigns for the
branches in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia. Mississippi and Tennes
see Subsequently the Southeast
Region was established with of
fices in Birmingham and she was
named the regional secretary. The
region was extended to Include
North and South Carolina and em
braces more than 300 branches. In
North and South Carolina and em
thls capacity her work included in
vestigation in such as the Emmet
Till case
Mrs Hurley is a member of the
Southern Regional Council. South
east regional chairman of the
National Association of Inter
group Relation* Officials, the
YWCA. YMCA, and sponsor of
the Encampment for Citizenship.
She is an active member of the
St. Paul Methodist church in
Birmingham and president of its
Wesleyan Service Guild.
She explains that her job 1*
actually "displaced" now that the
NAACP has been banned In so
much of the south She guaran
tees. however, that the work of
the organisation will continue in
spite of political pressure.
Meany Blasts
Both Parties
On Civil Rights
Neither the Democrats nor the
Republicans had the courage to
squarely face the civil rights is
sue. George Meany, president of
th* AFL-CIO told the National
Association of Letter Carrier*
(onvention in Minneapolis Tues-
The labor leader had attended
both political party conventions
where he gave each platform com
mittee labors view* on the plat
form and urg’d no backdown on
civil right*.
He said the question of the
United States supreme court de
ciston making school intergatlon
I-ompulsory was "too touchy" for
either major political party to
handle.
Neither political party doe* it
self any great honor by evading
this issue and failing to meet It
head on. Meany said during tumul
tuous cheers from the approxi
mately 2.500 delegate*.
Mpls. High
Open Grid Season
Friday Sept. 7
The Minneapolis high school*
will open t he 19M season under
the lights in the Parade Stadium
with the Sixth Annual Football
Preview on September 7.
Eleven school bands will play
in a massed band to open the
show at 7:30 p in. Game time is
7:50 p. m. There will be six periods
of football with an opportunity to
see every school perform in one
evening.
Play for each half will be con
tinuous with the ball being taken
over wherever it happens to be at
the end of the quarter. A kick-off
will start the North-Central quar
ter. A ten-minute Intermission will
allow a marching band to perform
between pei'iixla three and four.
The time schedule for Friday
night which we plan t o follow will
be:
7:30 Banda from all schools
7:45 Greetings from Mayor Eric
Hoyer and Frank Adams, presi
dent Minneapolis School Board.
Presentation of Outstanding
Player Award. Thomas Komens,
Chairman of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce Preview Com
mittee.
7:50 Henry vs. Edison
8 05 Henry vs. Roosevelt
8:20 Southwest vs. West
8:35 Intermission. Bands 10 mln.
8 45 North vs. Central
9:00 Marshall vs Vocational
9:15 South vs Washbum
The Minneapolis Junior Cham
ber of Commerce Is assisting In
this event. All seats are reserved
Student tickets are 50 cents. Adult
tickets are *125 Adult tickets
may he purchased at the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, 711-2nd
Ave. 8. or nt the Downtown Ticket
Office, 188 Northwestern Hank
Bldg . *<inneapolla.
Completes Studies:
To Be Mill
City Substitute
School Teacher
Mrs. Celestin H Fraction, 3841
Clinton Av . has completed the re
quirements for a bachelor of
science degree In elementary edu
cation at the close of the second
CEIJWHA H. FRACTION
summer session at the University
of Minnesota. Mrs Fraction will
be a substitute teacher in the Min
neapolis school system.
Mrs. Fraction is a native of
Kansas City. Kans., where she
graduated from the Sumner High
School in 1937 and studied for two
years at Sumner Junior college
She enrolled at Minnesota Univer
sity In the fall of 1953
She came to Minneapolis In 1941
and was married to Carl Fraction
September 4. 1948 She has one
daughter Annharad, by a previous
marriage. Since her arrival In Min
neapolis, she has been active In
church work
Bhe Is an active member of Zion
Baptist church. Is president of
the Minnesota-South Dakota
State Baptist Women's Work, a
post she has held for three con
secutive terms; she Is a member
and secretary of the board of di
rectors of the William Axiing
Christian Center. She servos on
this board as a representative of
the Twin City Baptist Union
She is a member of the Sllhou
ette Club, an auxiliary to Kappi
Alpha Psi fraternity; is a mem be i
of Bryant Junior I TA. and ii
secretary of the Uno-Score social
club.
ANNIVERSARY EDITION
NEXT WEEK . . .
The Auguat 31 edition of thia
newspaper will be it*. 22nd an
niversary edition. Combined
with thia edition will be a re
port on the Shriner’a Gaia Daya
celebration which will bring
mrmbn of that order from
lowa. Minnesota and other
■tatea to the Twin Cltlea for a
big three day celebration, Sept.
1. 2 and 3.
No Businass Mon Or . . .
How valuable is newspaper advertising
to local business and professional people?
American Banker’s Magamne says, "No
business mam or woman in any town
should allow a newspaper to go to press
without his or her name and busmens be
ing mentioned tn its columns. This does
not mean you should have a whole, half, or
even a quarter page advertisement in each
issue of the paper, but you name and ad
dress should be mentioned if you do not
use more than a one-inch space.
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Chicago Convention:
Minnesota In Spotlight
As Democrats Nominate
Stevenson and Kefauver
By Staff Correspondent *
Chicago.—The Chicago 1956 national convention of the
Democratic party which nominated as standard bearers Adlai
Stevenson of Illinois for President and Senator Estea Kefauver
of Tennessee for Vice-President is now history.
The state of Minnesota delegation remained in the spot-
light throughout the convent io
The convention upset many pre
cedents and one of the breaks with
tradition resulted in one of the
moat thrilling races for the vice
party's history.
When Adlai Stevenson. after his
nomination on Thursday suggested
that the convention itself select
the nominee without any sugges
tion from him as to his choice of a
running mate, he precipitated the
wildest delegate vote hunt In re
cent political convention history.
The Minnesota delegation. 28
votes of which were pledged to
Kefauver for President was the
center of convention attention as
It struggled over the problem pre
sented by Kefauver giving up the
Presidential race on July 31 and
the entrance of Senator Hum
phrey of Minnesota as an avowed
candidate for the Vice-Presidency.
The delegation was spilt on
whether to support Kefauver
whose campaign in the Minne
sota primaries was responsible for
most of the delegates being at the
convention and Its loyalty to Sena
tor Hubert H. Humphrey, who is
credited with being the chief force
In the rebuilding of the DFL in
Minnesota.
The dally press, radio and TV
have already told several days
before this story appears how
the Minnesotans resolved their
tough decisions.
Additional on-the-scene side
lights on the convention which
has already been well covered by
the other courcea of communica
tion are given In this edition of
this paper to round up Its conven
tion coverage of the Democratic
National Convention.
CONVENTION
SIDELIGHTS
It Gov. Marv. Griffin of Georgia
had been allowed to make the
speech Wednesday night he made
Thursday morning on the civil
lights Issue In which he attacked
the U. S. Supreme Court, the civil
rights minority report would have
won even by voice vote.
Northerners booed him lustily,
csualng Sam Rayburn to complain
that taxiing was not in good taste.
However, "Old Sam" didn't say a
blooming word about the booing
which some southern states gave
civil rights advocates the night
before.
As dictatorial as Speaker and
Convention chairman Sam Ray
burn was the delegates got a big
kick out of his running the meet
ings without regard to standard,
accepted parliamentary proceed
ings. His allowing Former Presi
dent Truman to Illegally obtrude
himself into a matter on the civil
rights battle before the conven
tion was unfair and without pre-
cedent. Still the convention dele
gates developed a fondness for
"Old Bam" which he used to pound
through the measures that those
in the convention drivers' seat
wanted.
John Bystrom, Stevenson dele
gate swears tecll Newman was
so excited that he voted against
the civil rights minority report.
Vunwi has not forcefully de.
nled Bystrom’s allegation yet.
The so-called civil rights states
showed a remarkable disinclina
tion of northern states to force a
roll-call vote on the civil rights
minority report. Those delega
tions who supported a roll-call
voted were either Insincere or were
out-maneuvered by the forces who
did not want a real showdown on
the minority report which favored
a stronger plank.
A total of 15 states were sup
posed to be lined up for demand
of a roll call vote. The first indi
cation that something was wrong
came when Gev. Mennen Williams
telephoned the Minnesota delega-
I tion from the platform where he
I had spoken for the minority re
port. that there would be no fight
for a roll-call. Samuel Bellman,
Minneapolis attorney and strong
civil rights advocate went over to
the New York delegation and re
ported to Paul Sefton, floor leader
what Williams had said.
Sefton said It was not true,
and that New York was going
to insist on a roll-call Sefton,
Bellman and 4'ecll Newman
went to the Michigan delegaUon
and In the presence of delega
tion members ami members of
the press and nulln vigorously
questioned Gov. Williams who
was evasive and sold he was
merely passing Information on
when hr phoned the Minnesota
delegation.
Failure of at least eight states
to demand a roll-call spelled the
death knell of the 19M attempt to
have the Democrats take a really
positive stand on t he civil rights
issue.
A roll-call would have forced
those states who talk a lot about
civil rights to go on record with
their votes what some of them
mouth insincerely to catch minor
ity votes. Failure to press for a
roll call killed the minority report
because It gave insincere northern
party leaders a chance to get off
the hook.
s s s
Gov. Orville Freeman of Min
nesota worked all night Tuesday
and most of early Wednesday in
an effort to rally northern gover
nors and delegations to the civil
rights cause. His conduct was in
direct contrast to that of one
elected state official and one high
party functionary both of whom
actually tried to sabotage the civil
rights minority report even as it
placed before the con
vention.
Every morning at 7:30 a. m. the
Star and Tribune circulation de
partment deposited copies of the
day’s TRIBUNE before the hotel
door of each Minnesotan no mat
ter in what hotel he was register
ed. Copies of the St. Paul PIO
NEER-PRESS and the DIS
PATCH were also on hand at the
bell captains desk at the Congress
free for Minnesota delegatee.
The WCXM> staff covered
every phase of the activity of
the Gopher state delegation
from the cocktail [mrllrv to the
receptions ami the various cau
casea.
The 8. * T. men did the same
thing and Fred Neumler of the St
Paul dailies did a real hangup
factual job.
It was Carl Rowan’s special
task to cover the much exploited
civil rights program. His stories
gave Minnesota 8. 4k T. readers in
sights Into the maneuvering on
thia question that few cities or
states were able to obtain from
their daily journals.
Met 8. 4 T. publisher John
Cowles rushing Into the Shera
ton-Him kstone lobby. He wast
ed to know what this writer
thought was going to happen la
the Presidential nomination
race. We said Stevenson on the
first ballot, the first political
prognostication we ever mads
that came true.
ess
Congresswoman Coya Knutson
was easily the pride and joy of the
Minnesota delegation.
Representative Peter Popovich,
as secretary of the delegation
worked hard and maintained a
calm and helpful influence on the
group He remained firm for Ke
fauver.
Rep Don Woaniak joined the
Humphrey forces after a battle
with his conscience, as did Rail
road and Warehouse Commis
sioner and former Minnesota Gov.
Hjalmer Petersen. The principal
Kefauver leaders In the April pri
maries split two to two on the
vice-presidential nominees. Ro
bert Short and Popovich going for
Estes and Wozniak and Petersen
plumping for Humphrey.
The singular thing about tbs
division was that there were no
recriminations, no individual was
criticised or condemned for his
choice, which is something new
and adult in political conventions.
The decisions were hard to ar
rive at but there was no discern
able bitterness in evidence as they
were made.
e e e
Delegates were incensed at some
of the news stories which said the
Minnesota delegation was confus
ed and leaderlees and claimed
a revolt against Its elected
officers was imminent Most of ths
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