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The Communist bloc ... Is now in the
midst of a slow-moving but great historical
crisis, the deep dispute between Moscow and
Peking . . . which has engaged, in one way
or another, Communist parties thruout the
world. What lies behind this dispute, among
other factors, is the rise of nationalism as a
living and growing force within the Com
munist bloc. It is a force within Russia it
self; and it is a growing force as well in
other regions where Communist regimes are
in power.—W. Rostow.
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TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 44
Metropolitan Opera Star Conaratulnt«*d
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George Shirley, Metropolitan Opera tenor and first American
Negro to sing a romantic lead with the famed opera company is shown
at right being congratulated by Cecil Newman, Twin City publisher,
at left, following an open air Opera prevue of the First National Bank
Plaza in Minneapolis May 28.
Tenor Shirley sang two numbers despite a heavy wind which swept
across the plaza. The crowd seated and standing gave him an ovation.
The affair was the second of such affairs sponsored by the First
National Bank of Minneapolis.
L.A. Coroner’s Jury
Finds Muslim’s Death
A ‘Justifiable Homicide’
Los Angeles (ANP) —An all-white coroner’s jury last week
returned a verdict of “justifiable homicide in the performance
of duty” in the police shooting April 27, of Muslim Ronald T.
Stokes, 29.
The jury of four men and
cleared white police officer Dor
it was he who shot and killed S
of the Muslim temple. Weese also
said he shot ‘‘three or four” of
the six Muslims wounded in the
riot.
It took the jury 23 minutes to
reach its decision. One of them
told reporters the decision on the
death of the Black Muslim was
unanimous and without disagree
ment.
Muslims Decline To Testify
Eight policemen involved in the
melee testified at the inquest,
along with one special officer who
was at the scene.
Nine of the Muslim defendants
subpoenaed to the inquest declined
to testify on the advice of their
attorney, Earl C. Broady.
Broady said he was “shocked"
to learn from Weese’s testimony
that Weese knew Stokes had no
weapon when he shot him.
Malcolm X, New York Muslim
leader, expressed his indignation
over the verdict.
"I sat and listened to officers
describe how they shot down un
armed men in cold blood," he said.
“I listened to a man who admitted
he murdered a man in cold blood.”
"If the coroner’s jury calls that
justifiable homicide, as a religious
leader. I can only say that I am
thankful there is a God in Heaven
to give real justice when neces
sary."
"Since we did not get justice, we
will go into our temple and pray
to our God, who will give jus
tice.” In a final warning, the Mus
lim spokesman said that disasters
would fall upon the guilty that
justice will come from God.
The Grand Jury began a com
prehensive inquiry into the riot on
the day following the verdict. Pro-
Southern U.S. Senators Called
'Defenders Of Slavery System Of
Congressional Representation* By Wilkins
Nashville, Tenn. NAACP Ex
ecutive Secretary Roy Wilkins this
week called the Southern Senators
who blocked the Administration’s
literacy test bill "defenders of the
’3/5 slave system” of Congression
al representation."
Addressing the Freedom Fund
dinner of the Association’s chapter
here, Mr. Wilkins reviewed the his
torical background of the three
week Senate debate.
During the slave period, he said,
the South determined that al
though a slave could not vote, he
could be counted as 3/5 a person,
thus swelling Southern representa
tion in Congress.
Returning to the current scene,
Secretary Wilkins said that "in
Nationalism In Communist Bloc
Calls Killing ‘Cold Blooded’
Launch Inquiry
three women by their verdict
iald L. Weese who testified that
Itokes during the melee in front
ceedings were being conducted be
hind closed doors.
Deputy District Attorney Fred
Henderson said more than 50 wit
nesses will appear, including 30
police officers. He said the in
quiry might be continued this week
if testimony could not be com
pleted.
The County Commission on Hu
man Relations expressed “hope”
that the grand jury will investi
gate charges of police brutality as
well as facets of te Black Muslim
movement.
Says Trouble Heightens
Controversy following the April
27 clash between Muslims and po
lice officers “has served to height
en rather than decrease tension in
certain quarters," the commission
said in a statement released by its
chairman, Hunt Lewis.
Charges by Negro leaders of po
lice brutality together with the
police department publicizing its
"virtual doubling” of the police
force in certain Negro districts
“may together produce a regret
table effect,” the statement said.
"If Negro citizens begin to ‘ex
pect’ brutality in contacts with
the police, and if the police officer
begins to ‘expect’ resistance by
any Negro he approaches in the
line of duty, a psychological situa
tion can result in which both bru
tality and resistance may occur
simply because both parties expect
it to occur.”
While the Negro leadership may
deplore the goals of the Muslim
movement, the leaders may never
theless be concerned "lest certain
segments of our officialdom count
er the Muslim position with what
would appear to this leadership as
a threat to the entire Negro com
munity,” the statement said.
the South as a whole, the level of
registration and voting for white
people is far below the national
average.”
He pointed out that only 105,000
Mississippians re-elected Senator
James O. Eastland in 1954 al
though there is a voting age pop
ulation of more than two million
in that state.
:"The story is plain,” he con
cluded, "white southerners are be
ing disfranchised along with Ne
groes.”
Graham Temple Sunday School
Twin City Bus Tour, May SO, 12
o’clock-S:SO p.m. Children 50c,
Adults $2. Reservations by Tues
day, FR. 4-1172 or JA. 2-0780.
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TA. 7-4021
Notice Of Advanced
Deadlines On Account
Of Memorial Holiday
Because Memorial Day, May
30, a legal holiday falls this
year on Wednesday our normal
go-to-press day, all advertising
and news copy deadlines for the
June 1 edition must be ad
vanced.
The paper will actually be
printed on Tuesday, May 29.
Therefore correspondents, ad
vertisers and others who have
copy for the June 1 edition
should have it in our Minne
apolis office and plant no later
than Tuesday, May 29, at noon.
Material from columnists or
any available copy should reach
us Saturday, May 26.
Bailie Thomas
Notebook
Fraternal old-timers may be
pleased to know that Major Cul
berson, former Minnesota Elks
lodge leader is coming back to
Minnesota for the Shriners nation
al convention in August.
‘‘Cubby’’ as he was known dur
ing his long Minnesota residence
has been living in Washington,
D.C., for the past 15 years.
Last week’s NEWSWEEK story
on the Billie Sol Estes mess, used
the names of a number of Con
gressmen. It identified all of the
Democrats by party but conveni
ently forgot to include the party
affiliation of Congressman H. Carl
Andersen of Minnesota who hap
pens to be a Republican.
Congressman Andersen who has
always voted with the Dixiecrats
in Congressional "civil rights
shows” sold Estes $4,000 worth of
mining stock. It is alleged a De
partment of Agriculture employe
told Estes, the Minnesota Congress-
man was a good man to get ac
quainted with.
Andersen who has announced
his intention to run for reelection
in the revamped Minnesota Sixth
district has denied he did any fav
ors for the Estes, the bible quot
ing Texas Ponzi.
Minnesota political dopesters
feel public relations conscious
Congressman Clark McGregor
wants to win reelection in the
Third District handsomely be
cause he has higher ambitions
politically.
"Negroes buy what they want
and beg what they need,” is a
charge often substantiated by the
manner in which Negro commun
ities thruout the land act during
the yearly NAACP membership
campaigns.
In St. Paul for the past four
weeks solicitors have been canvass
ing the Negro community seeking
NAACP memberships. In view of
the ills of race discrimination
viewed upon the average American
Negro during his lifetime, it could
be supposed that when an NAACP
campaign begins, there would be a
great rush to sign up.
That this is not so is one of
the paradoxes of the long fight
to secure first class citizenship
for a people who often are not
willing to pay the price by a
measly $2 per year membership
in the NAACP.
After four weeks, the over
10,000 St. Paul Negroes have taken
out exactly 815 memberships in
the NAACP! Some of those 815
memberships were as hard to get
as "pulling hen’s teeth,” Bailie is
told.
That this is a disgraceful ex
ample of the Negro’s willingness
“To buy what he wants and beg
what he needs,” is too obvious for
comfort.
P.S. Minneapolis is beginning
its NAACP drive now. Hope it
moves faster but Bailie expects
the same situation met by St
Paul membership solicitors. Hope
results prove him wrong!
Snubbed Club: According to
Newsweek for May 21, Defense
Secretary has refused to accept
recent election to the Cosmos Club,
the all white club composed of
"scholars” which turned down Carl
T. Rowan of the State Department
for membership because he is an
American Negro. Said McNamara
in refusing the membership: I have
been on the Cosmos waiting list
for 15 months but I don’t believe
in segregated clubs and until they
desegregate I won’t be in.”
The South Side Athletic Club is
planning a big day from 2 to 5
p.m. at Nicollet Field, Minneapolis,
Sunday afternoon for kids of all
ages and grownups too.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1962
Runner-Ups and Winners of "Miss NAACP Contest"
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Shown above are the runner-tips and the winners in the Twin City NAACP branches search
for Miss NAACP which culminated at the recent ball of the NAACP Regional Leadership Con
ference at the Curtis Hotel, May 5. Reading left to right in the above photo is Sandra Johnson,
Laverne Napue, Bonnie Rhodes, Deborah Gilbreath, winner of the Miss St. Paul NAACP crown;
Dorothy Faison who won the title of Miss Minneapolis NAACP.
Luther Prince Is
Named V.P.-Gen. Mgr.
Electronics Firm
Ault Magnetics, Inc. with offices
in Brooklyn Center have appointed
Luther T. Prince, Jr., 4441 Fifth
Av. S., Minneapolis, executive
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vice president and general man
ager of its firm.
Prince, presently employed with
Minneapolis Honeywell as a super
visor in the Advanced Flight Sys
tem department of the Firm’s
Aeronautical division, will assume
his new position June 4.
A graduate of Massachuetts In
stitute of Technology with B. S.
and M. S. degrees in Electrical
Engineering, Prince leaves Honey
well May 31 after B'/ 2 years em
ploy. During that time he worked
for the Research department for
the first three years and was an
Aero supervisor for the remaining
5% years.
Ault Magnetics, a relatively new
company is engaged in the manu
facture of electronic components.
The firm started in November,
1959 in Minneapolis and is now
located at 3501 48th Av. N., Brook
lyn Center.
Since its Incorporation to the
present time, the company has en-
Jack and Jills Buy NAACP Life Membership
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The Rev. Edwin Odom, of New York Church, Secretary of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People at left is shown receiving a Life Membership payment from
Albreta Murray, midwestern regional director and President of the Twin City Chapter of Jack
and Jill of America, at a tea given in his honor on Tuesday, May 15 by the St. Paul Branch
of the NAACP at Pilgrim Baptist Church.
Others shown in the picture with Rev. Odom are Jack and Jill members Josie Johnson,
general chairman of the recent Region IV Leadership Training Conference of NAACP and Jun
auld Braddock, who is co-chairman of the Jack and Jill Convention which will be held at the
Radisson Hotel, July 19th thru 22nd.
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U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION
APPOINTS FOUR NEW MEMBERS TO
MINNESOTA STATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Washington, D.C. —The I’.S. Commission on Civil Rights
has appointed four new members to the Minnesota State Advis
ory Committee, it was announeed this week in Washington by
Commission Staff Director Berl I. Bernhard. The Committee is
chaired by Stephen 11. Eligelman of Hopkins. The new members
are Bernard Casserly of St. Paul, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Ileffelfinger
of Wayzata, John j. Neumaier of Moorehead, and Carl Winn
of St. Paul.
Hold over members of the ad
visory committee are vice-chair
man Cecil Newman of Minneapolis,
and the Reverend George A. Smith
of Cass Lake.
Advisory Committees to the
Commislon on Civil Rights were
M.atuo.ized by Congress under the I
Civil Rights Act of 1957 and have
been in existence throughout the
Nation since 1950. The Minnesota
Committee, headed by Fligelman,
filed its most recent report with
the Commission in 1961. This re
port dealt with deprivations of
equal rights under law in the fields
of housing and employment.
The primary purpose of the Ad
visory Committees is to make
available to the Commission the
informed opinion of leading citi
zens in all parts of the United
States. The Commission draws in
the information provided by its 51*
Advisory Committees in preparing
its statutory reports to the Presi
dent and Congress.
(•50 States and the District of
Columbia).
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and production of three compon
ents parts for digital computers;
pulse transformers, oscilator coils j
and power supplies.
Pulse transformers are used by ]
power supply manufacturers as the
trigger element of controlled recti
fiers. Oscilator coils are used by I
computer manufacturers in tran- I
sitortized oscilator circuits to gen
erate clock pulses.
The United States commission on i
civil rights was created by the civil
rights act of 1957.
TA. 7-4022
St. Paul NAACP
Member Drive Is
Still Trailing
The membership drive for the
St. Paul Branch NAACP continues
; to move slow but steady as mem
berships reached 815 at the last
report meeting 1 . Division No. 1
headed by Mrs. Nathaniel Gallo
way, continues to maintain her
lead over Mrs. Raymond Williams,
Division Leader No. 2, 507 to 308,
although Division No. I’s lead is
being reduced.
Mrs. Sallie Fletcher continues to
be the leading captain reporting
219 memberships to Charles S. An
derson’s 175.
Mrs. Cordelia Young sprang a
surprise when she took over the
captain's leadership in Division No.
2 by reporting 71 memberships to
Mrs. Rebecca Toussaint’s 54.
Leading workers for the week
were Richard Travis and Mrs. Cora
Belle Banks, who will each receive
a gold NAACP lapel pin.
Thp Membership Campaign has
two weeks to run and an all out
effort will have to be made if the
branch quota is to be obtained.
Every Captain and worker has
been instructed to make every con
tact possible securing delinquent
memberships.
The next report meeting will be |
held on Monday, May 28, at Local
516 at 7:30 p.m.
Keep Off The Date of Annual
Upper-Midwest Bronze Golf Tour
nament, July 7 and 8 at Theodore
Wirth Golf Course, Minneapolis.—
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Americans have long believed that this
country was never a ‘colonial’ power. This
is true in the strictest sense of the word.
Moreover the crasser aspects of colonialism
do not show through the mores of race rela
tions; as a nation we can boast of rich Ne
groes in Georgia and rich Indians in Okla
homa. But from the nationalist viewpoint,
the nature of economic, cultural and politi
cal exploitation common to Negro experi
ence in the U.S. differs from pure colonial
ism only that the Negro maintains a formal
kind of halfway citizenship.—H. Cruse.
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Precedent Making Decision:
Mass. Supreme Court
Bans Private Housing
Bias; Ruling Resounds
Boston
11l a precedent-setting decision of national signif
icance, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld
the 195!* state law which bans discrimination in privately fi
nanced multiple-dwelling apartment units and housing develop
ments.
Its 6-to-1 majority opinion orders the owner and rental
agent of the (ilenmeadow Apartments in Waltham, Mass., to
New Survey
Measures Negro
Buying Power
The Minneapolis Spokesman and
St. Paul Recorder this week pub
lished a questionnaire on income,
buying habits, and long-range buy
ing plans of members of the Negro
community in the Twin Cities.
This is the first phase of a study
aimed at learning more about the '
score and nature of the Negro '
market in this area.
Readers are asked to fill out and
return the questionnaire, which '
will be found on page 5. 1
All responses should be anony
mous.
These newspapers do not want
the personal data asked for in the
questionnaire to be identified as to ,
the families and individuals they r
apply to, and will discard at once ,
any identification accompanying ,
the responses.
The information provided will be
used in connection with Spokes
man and Recorder advertising pro
grams, and will be made available
to organizations concerned with
fair employment, race relations,
etc.
Negro buying power is a fact
which has become of increasing
interest to the business community.
Judicious use of this buying power
has already been a tremendous
factor in the campaign for equali
ty of treatment and especially of
job opportunity for Negroes.
The questionnaire is being em
ployed in preference to a poll-type
survey or a door-to-door canvass
because of the desire to respect
the privacy of those surveyed, as
well as for reasons of economy. It
is expected that the response will
be general enough to produce re- ,
suits as reliable as the other types
of survey.
Omaha Pastor To
Conduct Revival
At Mt. Olivet
The Rev. J. C. Wade, D.D., pas
tor of the Great Salem Baptist
Church Omaha. Nebraska will con
duct a Soul Saving Campaign at
the Mount Olivet Baptist Church,
West Central at Mackubin St., for
K.
REV. J. C. WADE
I ten Days starting Monday, May
28. <
Rev. Wade is a graduate of Bis- 1
hop College, Marshall, Texas and i
did post-graduate work at the i
University of Nebraska. i
He has pastored the Great i
Salem Baptist Church for more
than 20 years Dr. Wade is a Gos- i
pel preacher, a fine lecturer and <
one of the outstanding evangelists t
of the Middle West. I
Services will begin each evening j
at 7:45 beginning Monday, May (
28.
You are invited to join us in this ]
great soul saving Campaign.
Rev. Wade has a message for (
the people of St. Paul, come and
hear him. If you are hungry for ]
an old fashion revival service then ,
let us make our way to Mount
Olivet for the next two weeks.—
Advt.
CALICO TEA AT ZION
SUNDAY, MAY 27
The Young Women’s Auxiliary
of Zion Baptist Church, 1023 Lyn
dale Av. N.. is having a “Calico,
Tea”, Sunday, May 27, 4 to 8 p.m.
Everyone Is welcome.—Advt.
U.S. Negroes Colonials?
make accommodations available to
Maurice Fowler, a Negro employed
as a contract negotiator at the Air
Force at Hanscom Field, Bedford.
Since Massachusetts is one of
18 states with similar anti-discrim
ination statutes, civil rights groups
are hailing the decision as a major
victory.
Order Called Epochal
Alan Gartner, Boston chairman
of CORE the Congress of Racial
Equality said. “This is the first
time any state court has explicitly
declared illegal racial discrimina
tion in entirely privately developed
housing."
Earlier decisions have banned
discrimination in public housing
and federally aided housing.
Massachusetts Attorney General
Edward J. McCormack Jr., des
cribed the decision as "epochal,”
praising its "clarity and scope.”
His office presented the state’s
case in court, which was brought
[by the Commission Against Dis
crimination. The commission had
ordered A. J. Colangelo, owner of
the 120-unit apartment building,
and John Nahigian, its rental
agent, to provide accommodations
to Mr. Fowler.
Mr. Colangelo contended the
order amounted to an unconstitu
tional taking of private property.
Mr. Nahigian maintained that
Mr. Fowler had been refused an
apartment solely because he is a
bachelor.
One Justice Dissented
The lone dissenter on the high
court bench was Associate Justice
Paul G. Kirk, who took sharp ex
ception to the majority ruling.
He called the decision “a fragile
platform for this great leap for
ward."
Ending discrimination, he said,
is “a wholly desirable and social
objective.”
But he strongly objected to the
1959 amendment to the law, which
extends antidiscrimination prac
tices to include purely private
property.
Changing the law, he said, has
caused "a deprivation of one of
the essential attributes of owner
ship and an invasion of a con
stitutionally protected Interest to
an extent which has never before
been attempted in this Common
wealth."
Coercion Charged
He accused the Commission
Against Discrimination of resort
ing to what he termed coercive
measures, "which I think are per
se both alien and inimical to the
letter, spirit, and the principles of
the Constitutions of our Common
wealth and our country.”
Siding with the majority was
Associate Justice Jacob J. Spiegel,
who said in a separate opinion that
on the contrary the Supreme Court
had not gone far enough.
He urged that the court uphold
all phases of the commission’s
order, including provisions for an
injunction to prohibit discrimina
tion.
He said he readily concedes
"that legislation, in and of itself,
cannot eradicate bias and preju
dice from the minds of men.”
Perhaps the choice of tenants
by a landlord, he said, does not
constitute a personal bias. But, he
continued, "discrimination based on
the hope of monetary gain and not
upon a personal prejudice is even
more reprehensible. In either
event,” he wrote, "I find no ration
al excuse for such behavior.”
In view of the fact that the
respondent Colangelo has question
ed the constitutionality of the com
mission’s order, the issue might
be considered appropriate for ap
peal to the United States Supreme
Court.
Mr. Fowler, who is presently
renting an apartment in Cambridge
has indicated that he will not de
cide immediately whether to ac
cept the Waltham apartment now.
He said he intends to await advice
and to see whether Mr. Colangelo
will appeal the case to the federal
courts.
FRANCES H. TRAVIS
SEEKS DIVORCE
Frances H. Travis, 4240 Third
Av. S., Minneapolis has filed a
.divorce action against Richard A.
Travis, in Hennepin county district
1 court.