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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01

Hugh Cross.
Joliet, East St. Louis and Spring
field were mentioned as other To-
calities where the organization of
interracial groups would be under
taken.
The commission agreed that in
organizing local committees it
would cooperate with existing COM
munity agencies dealing with such
matters, or those that had been
established to do so.
To Study Race Riot History
The committee voted to engage
the services of the research staff
of the State administration at
Springfield "for the assembling of
as full information as can be OBJ
tanned concerning race disturb
ances," including the recent dis
turbances in Detroit, Los Angeles
and elsewhere, as well as the Chi
cago race riot of 1919 and the
earlier trouble at East St. Louis,
Ill.
Serving on the commission
named by Governor Green are the
Most Rev. Bernard ]. She'll, Aux
iliary Bishop of Chicago; DR.. Mar
tin ]. Bickham of the Chicago
Church Federation; Patrick F.
Buckley; Miss Amelia Sears and
Edward Foss Wilson of Chicago;
DIR. R. L. Campbell of East st.
Louis and W. S. Dewey of Cairo,
Ill.
The Negro members of the COM
mission are the Rev. Harold Kings
ley, pastor of the Good Shepherd
Congregational Church; the Rev.
Joseph M. Evans, president of the
United Church Federation; Milton
P. Webster, vice president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers; Ethel L. Payne and Fred
Lewing, all of Chicago; Major
r. A. Byrd of Springfield and DIR.
G. Cecil Lewis of Danville, Ill.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
st. Peter Claver
To Hold All
Day Social

On Sunday, Oct. 8, 1913, the Par
ish of St. Peters Claver Church,
Harrington and Aurora, will hold
an all day social in the church audi
forum. Booya will be served. The
public is invited to attend.
MRS. EDWARD YOUNG
IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Edward Young, 1902 Gin
ton avenue, is confined to the Gen.
eral Hospital where she recently
underwent an eye operation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
HOrriS
Joins Cadet
Nursing Corps

Miss Lorraine Horris, Federal
Cartridge Corp, T. C. o. P. en-
ploye, resigned Friday to join the
Cadet Nursing Corps.
Miss Horris left Saturday night
for New Orleans, where she will
enter training.
Miss Horris was a popular en-
ploye at T. C. o. P.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
On Broadcast

Charles A. Glenn, the son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Glenn, 1884 Smell
ling, will appear on the Rafert
Bakery Ask Junior program, Sat-
urday, Oct. 2, at 1890, over Sta
ton WDGY. Some time ago Kath-
crime Chivers, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Curtis Chivers, appeared on
the same program.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
TrOubadOurs i'm
Twilight Musical

Cordelia Kinney Hunter will pre-
sent a group of singers "The Smil-
ing Troubadours" along with her
pupils in a piano and voice recital,
Sunday, October II, at 5 p. m. at
Bethesda Baptist Church, 111S
Eighth St. S.
Jean De Louis Brown of the Mac
Phail School of Music will be guest
pianist. The public is invited to
attend this evening of music. Rev.
Frederick A. Martin is pastor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
Credjafawns Buy
$1,000 Bond

The Credjafawn Credit Union
purchased $1,000 war bond last
week. The Credjafawn Credit
Union now has a total of $2,275
worth of war bonds. As a service
to its members, the ecu has for
their protection a vault in which
they may put their bonds for safe
keeping. John Lawrence, Jr., CAT
Iglehart, is president of this or
ganization.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
Local SIG Gets
Vacation With Pay
For Omaha Men

FOR Umahd Men
On September %, 1913,
General Chairman Maceo v.
Littlejohn signed a contract
with the Omaha Railway
Company on behalf of en-
ployes represented by Local
SIG, for vacation of six (6) work
ing days with pay, and effective
January l, 1914. This proposal was
submitted to the Omaha Railway
Company by Local SIC, in conjunc-
ton with similar proposals to the
Northern Pacific Railway Company,
the 500 Line Railway Company and
the Great Northern Railway Com
pany, on May 4, 1913.
Under the provisions of the Rail-
way Labor Act and the existing
agreements between the Carriers
named and Local Sic the initial pro-
posals to amend agreements must
first be submitted to the superin-
tendent of dining car service and
progressed from that point to the
highest officer of the carrier desig-
mated for that purpose and thence
to the National Railway Adjust
ment Board.
Of the four (4) Carriers named,
the Omaha Railway Company alone,
stated that it would not agree to
granting the employees covered,
Vacations with Pay" thus COM
pelling the Unions resort to the
Mediation Board, where a satisfac-
tory settlement of the dispute was
concluded.
Conferences on this subject have
been proposed to the Great North
ern, 500 Line and Northern Pacific
Railway Companies, which will be
held with representatives of Local
SIC and the Carriers in the very
near future, and in view of the fact
that the 500 Line and Northern Pa
cific Railway Companies have Of
fered comter-proposal to the re-
quest of Local Sic along comparable
lines with the Omaha agreement it
is expected that negotiations on
vacations with pay will be concluded
on those lines very shortly. When
these negotiations have been con-
cluded they will constitute the first
agreements of such nature in the
Northwest territory.
While in Chicago, the General
Chairman took up the question with
the Chairman of the Joint Council,
Scion C. Bell, of the wage increase
agreed to by the Fifteen Co-operat-
ing Railway Labor Chiefs and the
Railroad Companies, and was in
formed that the matter is placed in
the hands of the Administrator for
approval, but stated that, in his
opinion the increase of eight ~
cents per hour would be granted,
and would become retroactive from
February 1, 1913.
The question of board and lodg-
ing deductions was raised, and plans
are being perfected at this time to
present meritorious cases to the Ad-
justment Board for consideration,
in which plans Local SIC will take
a part on behalf of employees in this
section who are subjected to such
deductions.
President Harry S. Brown, of
Local Sic, has requested from the
General President of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees International
Alliance, a dispensation for men,
bership, which has been granted
and in effect now, ending November
"a, 1943.
General Chairman Littlejohn will
leave st. Paul for Chicago on 0c-
tober 10th, returning on October
18th, and will proceed directly to
Seattle, Washington, where he will
confer with the officers and men,
bers of Local SIG in that District
on subjects vital to the program of
the Local Union.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
Sergeant WOOten
Gets Divorce

Sgt. Humphrey Alexander Woo
ten, son of Mrs. James w. Wooten,
457 st. Anthony, was granted a
divorce from his wife, Mrs. Lorene
Elizabeth Alexander Wooten, Tues
day, Sept. 81.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
Roosevelt Condemns Racial
Prejudice in Letter to Urban
League Annual Meeting

CHICAGO-President Roosevelt in a letter to the an
nua meeting of the National Urban League depored race
prejudice drawback to the democratic processes Men
of all and creeds must learn to live in this world to-
gether the civilization to continue the nations chief
executive wrote.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
Illinois Governor Names
Interracial Committee To
Study Race Relations

SPRINGFIELD ILL.,. Sept 30.-A commission of fourteen
members appointed recently by Gov Dwight H. Green pro-
mote better relations in this State has undertaken
survey of nterracia problems with the view to
definite recommendations Special attention will
be directed to problems of the postwar period.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01
Happy Birthday

Birthday greetings to Mrs. N. j..
Hunter, 3849 4th Ave. s., whose
birthdate is Thursday, Sept. 80.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-01

Advertisers Here Are Friends.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Save Lives Now

When three fires in places of public assembly
within few months result in death to nearly
thousand persons, something is lacking in
local fire prevention measures
The National Board of Fire Underwriters
in bulletin to fire department officials, EN-.
phaslzes that the first step toward controll-
ing fire in places of public assembly must be
the granting of full authority to someone to
inspect such places. The next step is to see
that unsatisfactory conditions are corrected.
The latter is the most difficult. Correction
of structural defects are too often delayed.
Common hazards can be reckoned with
promptly. Rules against overcrowding should
be stringently enforced. The installation of an
automatic sprinkler system is an ideal fire
preventative where structural conditions are
poor or fanmable decorations are used. Fire
extinguishers should be installed in ktchens
and storerooms. All employees should be re.
CURED to know the location of exits, aisles
and stairways, and how to operate anv ex-
tinguisher and hose line It should be the def;.
mite duty of someone to check all exits n
see that the door is not locked 4h,+ n.nio
LOCKS WILL work and that revolving doors can
be collapsed. Finally, there should he fro.
quent inspections. AS basis for s,,cb roo,,
lauons, the National Board has drawn I'm :.
model fire ordinance adaptable IN .nv ooro
l'ioii'y. copies can be obtained by address,
Ing IL at % John Street. New York City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
The Literary Guidepost

stands in our way, and he is speci
flc, fact brutal, about it. The
something is our stubborn adher.
ence to a type of bombing that he
says won't work over Germany. Am.
erlcans have, so far, stuck to the
formula of high level precision, day.
light bombing in spite of the fact
that this was tried and given up as
impractical by Britain and Germany
both. We go so far as to omit flare.
campers on our Fortresses, so that
When these huge contraptions are
flown at night their exhausts make
them duck soup for enemy gunners.
our author says some dishearten-
ing things about the quality OF
American planes as we'll.
But he maintains that in spite of
IL all we still can knock out the 80
German key cities this year, if we
Will at once give up our prejudices,
use British experience, cooperate
precisely, and hurry. While you read
The Air Offensive Against Germa.
ny You are persuaded, and when
you Put it down you wonder. You
wonder for one thing, how it hap
pens That with all the facts and fig.
ures readily available and thousands
to think about them, the Air Force
mas not arrived at Mr.. Michie's an.
swer. Or has it?
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Peanut Politics

Representative Kermon, Wilmington's out
standing artful dodger, doubles back on his
track again by getting his city government
bill out of the House Calendar committee and
into the House hopper for vote today. His
purpose apparently is to hold it over Sena-
tor Wade's head, and if MIR. Wade brings his
city extension bill to vote, to force the city
government bill through the House II he can
muster the necessary majority.
Never in the long history of Wilmington
has more baneful example of peanut poll
tics been displayed in the legislature.
Not even two unfavorable reports to the
Calendar committee can deter the represen-
tative in his determination to force this un-
welcome city goernment bill down the throats
of the people.
Is it possible that Mr. Kermon Is chiefly
interested in becoming city attorney?
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Rommel's New Thrust

The Rommel thrust at General Montgom.
ery's Eighth Army in the Mareth line area
closely resembles his attack on the Arneri.
can forces in central Tunisia where he fl.
nally suffered serious defeat. It is obvi.
ously the purpose Of this desert fighter to
strike where and when he can, not with much
hope of winning out but postponing the Allied
victory and making the task of invading Eu-
rope from Africa as difficult as possible, if
such an invasion is indeed on the Allied sched-
ule.
In thus crediting the Axis African strategy
and operations to Romn1el however, it is ac-
knowledged that he may have nothing to do
with them in person. 1t may be Won Arnim's S
job henceforth to fight the Battle of Africa
Rumors are current that Rommel has been
transferred to the Russian war arena, and
there have been signs of his tactics in THE
recent Nazi counter-thrusts in that region.
RommeFs policy is to strike and strike, hold
ing the initiative, avoiding the defensive,
keeping his enemies guessing and so harried
that they have little time for concentrating
the forces necessary to defeat him. This
was his practice in Libya and Egypt, and so
far as he could do so. in Tunisia as we'll
The pattern Of the fighting in southern Sec
tors of the Eastern front has been similar
of late, which may mean that Rommel is on
hand to direct it. Or, if not that, then the
Nazi high command has adopted it in Russia.
Immediate interest however, centers on
what is in progress around the Mareth line
Whether he or Won Arnim is directing the at
tack, the British Eighth Army, with Mont
gomery in command, is not liable to be out
witted outfought or sidetracked. Montgono-
cry is every bit as clever as Rommel. He
solved Rommeps puzzle in Egypt He main
tained his supplies throughout the greatest and
longest pursuit of all history His men are
veterans.
All that the Nazis can accomplish is tenn
porary delay in Allied plans through post
ponement of the final smash in Africa. The
Allied power is already squeezing the Axis
into narrower and narrower territory in Tu-
nisia. Total eradication from North Africa
cannot longer be put off. This spring and
summer will see vast change in the war
situation in Europe
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08

Johnny is dead, wounded, missing, or mercy
too busy and tired to write; maintain ciuos
in rest areas; produce surgical dressings;
gather blood for transfusions?
The Red Cross.
March is Red Cross month Faced Win 1ne
greatest challenge to mercifu duty IN 1ts
long history, the Red Cross this month IS ask
ing the American people for $125,OOo,ooo'
The Red Cross always has been deserving
Of more than its most generous friend has
done for it. This year, this very month, II
deserves even more than before to get
really big contribution from you.
You won't have done too much if you give
until it actually, physically hurts
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Butter Rationing

The OPA official most vitality interested has
said publicly that ''rationing of butter is in
evitable." adding that 1--WE ourselves don t
know when, however. OPA is now studying
methods of rationing butter"
Butter is going to be hard to control, be-
cause it does not necessarily flow through
any natural bottleneck where it can be held
up and apportioned. Anybody who has one
or more cows can make butter. Dairy regions
can make the enforcement of any rationing
plan difficult.
But this situation is not new. It has been
apparent for many months that butter would
have to be rationed, and all the inherent diff
ficultes were known. To an outsider, it
seems a biz late right now for the OPA to
be merely studying methods"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Cooperation Wins

After some four years of negotiations. the
states OF Kentucky and Indiana have settled
one OF the last lingering boundary disputes.
cooperation and mutual consideration ar.
comphshed what century of pickering and
litigation, including one Supreme Court de.
cision, did not achieve.
The trouble all began when the Ohio river
lnconsiderately shifted its channel, leaving
i've square miles of Kentucky territory strand
ed over in Indiana. The situation became com.
plicated when Evansville built waterworks
on the Kentucky soil, while Bluegrass off
GERS hesitated to police an area in which
Hoosier cops had no jurisdiction.
Now both legislatures have agreed upon q
friendly solution, which Congress can hardl,
fail to ratify.
How different than the way boundary dis
putes are settled in Europe!
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Red Cross Month

Some time between now and the end of 1943
an Army Of American soldiers will invade
the continent Of Europe in what we expect
will be the beginning Of the end.
Starting from North Africa or England or
the United States, or quite possibly from all
three, hundreds Of thousands of our men will
De ferried across waters in which the greatest
submarine fleet OF all time, now being readied,
will lurk. From the air they will be bombed
by the Luftwaffe-perhaps by those Nazi air
craft which have been so mysteriously MISSING
of late.
After they land they will seek to whip 2
mighty German Army which has had years
in which to prepare powerful Notifications
against the very invasion that now is in the
making.
We shall win, at a cost that is incomprehen.
sible to us now. Tens or scores of thousands
of men will be killed outright Other tens
or scores of thousands will be rnorta11v
wounded, and will have to be cared for so
long as they survive in misery. Even moro
will be wounded, but not fatally, and will
need loving care. Thousands, perhaps, will
be taken prisoners, even in an ultimately
victorious campaign.
Who is going to look after these men? The
Army-and the Red Cross.
Who is going to help them send reassuring
word to the folks at home? Who is going
to see to the welfare of prisoners? Who will
distribute cigarettes and candy in the very
fighting lines: search records to see whether
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, March BE
hind the recent bombing in Europe
is more than an attempt to panic
the Germans. 1t is more than an at.
tempt to smash the buildings along
the Unter den Linden, the Adlon
Hotel, the Brandenberg Gate, the
nearby chancellory and the foreign
office.
What we are trying to do is to
check the production of submarines
by bombing factories where engines
and parts are manufactured, and
to bomb the yards where the boats
are built and the berths where they
put in for overhaul.
The Nazis appear to be building
submarines faster than we are sink
ing them. This is the only field of
the war in which we are not gain
ing on the axis and it offers the
Nazis there one hope, their only
hops, of slowing down the allied
war.
1t is a race between the building
of ships by us and the Nazis at
tempt to sink them. Until last Au.
gust we were definitely losing that
race. But the miracle of American
shipbuilding has since then brought
construction up above sinkings. On
that margin, on the amount by
which we can add ships beyond
those sunk, will depend how fast we
can get on with the war.
The challenge lies in the fact that
the Germans are steadily increasing
the size of their submarine fleet
Also every time we send a soldier
abroad, we must set aside perhaps
ten tons of shipping to supply him.
Those are the facts that will whit
tie the 100000 tons of shipping
we expect to build this year.
The most Immediate Job We could
do on the submarine would be to
knock out the Atlantic ports on the
French coast, such as st. Nazaire,
Lorient and Brest. If those Atlantic
ports can be made unusable, and it
is probable that we are doing that
to some of them now, the German
submarines would be driven back
to North Sea bases. That would
force them to make long and dan
gerous journey around the North of
Scotland to get into the Atlantic.
Harassing tactics are the chief
means of combating the Sllhna
rine. Every means of interfering
with building and operation of sub.
marines is worth usine Eh1t thu
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Daily Prayer
FOR ENDURERS

We pray for our fighting forces,
o God of battles, that they may
have stout hearts to endure the
rigors of weather, and all the te-
dunn of waiting, and the fierce
pressure of battle. Preserve them
from the perils of idleness and
from all loss of confidence in us
and in Thee. Even while we now
pray, do Thou make them sensible
of our supplcations in their be-
half. BY the mysterious movings
of Thy Spirit, may strong con.
sciousness of our interest in them
sweep through their souls. May
they never for a minute think
themselves forgotten. Thou know.
est how dear to us are our men
in service. Bind our hearts to-
gether in a new unity of forti-
tude and faith until the day Of
victory shall bring the blessings
of peace to all the world. Then,
in glad reunion, we shall praise
Thee as the Preserver of our
Cause and the Author of our hap
piness. Amen.-W.T.E
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Raymond Clapper Says:
Bombing OfNazi Europe
More Than Terror Raids

most immediate profit probably is
in relentless bombing to knock out
the Atlantic submarine bases. That
calls for more planes. 1t calls for
more fuel, aid of which must be sent
to England from this side. A heavy
bomber will use 200 gallons of gas
oline an hour. A fighter will use at
least half that much.
1t is difficult to understand why
there should be any further ques
ton about having enough planes
Undersecretary of War Patterson
says we produced 5000 planes in
January of which IS per cent were
combat planes. In February produc-
ton was even better. If we are turn
ing out 5000 to $500 combat planes
month, they ought to begin show
ing up in large numbers abroad.
Up to now we have scattered our
to be done in the beginning when
we were on the defensive and were
trying to get something to block
every rat hole. But we are calling
the shots now and we can concen'
trate our muscle on the one or two
big blows we want to deliver.
Political pressure is the insidious
enemy of air concentration. Wher
somebody asks for some Planes, il
seems so simple to send a few. But
production can be frittered away in
little patches. And in the long run
you don't satisfy anybody. The peo
pie who get a few planes to keeI
them quiet don't stay 1uiet. They
begin clamoring for more. Aid t.
China will move faster as planes are
concentrated to finish the Tunisiar
job and thereby open the Mediter
ranean so that real operations car
be undertaken against Burma.
Inc winning of the war every.
Where is paced by the Atlantic
struggle against the submarine, be.
cause shipping sunk in the Atlantic
means less shipping for the Pacific
also. So, while we are waiting fo,
more escort vessels to be built. the
most helpful activity would be more
air attack against the Atlantic sub
marine lairs.
TO VISIT WASHINGTON
CHUNGK1NG, March 7.-R-
U. S. Ambassador Clarence E.
Gauss will leave for Washington
in few days for "consultation -
it was learned today. He will!
leave the embassy in charge OF
first secretary John Carter Vim.
cent of Fairfax. Va.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-08
Free Choice

basic principle of democracy is free
choice. Significantly, extremists who urge
adoption of broad compulsory health pro-
grams give scant attention to that basis prin-
ciple
Free choice guides every act in our daily
lives. We can 60 to the church we choose,
we can buy groceries from whom we please,
we can choose the car in which we ride, we
can say what we choose, we can choose the
schools we wish to attend.
Whenever we abandon the principle of free
choice, we hurt no one but ourselves. And
that goes for medical service Free choice OF
a doctor automatically encourages medical
competence. The most qualified are the most
patronized. AS a result, every doctor is spurred
on to achieve the reputation of being a good
doctor. This incentive, or whatever you wish
to call it, is the background of every doctor S
training. 1t enbodies more than mere finan-
cial success. Pride of accomplishment the
heart-warming feeling that people come to
him because they believe in him, these are
part of the incentive inspired by free choice
which governs the career of the average doc
tor. The same inspiration has been response
BILE for the miraculous scientific discoveries
that have come from research laboratories
of American medicine
If we abandon the principle of free choice
In the field of medicine, medical service will
decline