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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

- L . II 3 hAoASN
Service Cross for Corp. Waverly
Woodson, Jr., for his service per-
formed over and beyond the call
of duty on D-Day. WoOdson's feat
was very similar to that of Pvt.
Carlton W. Barrett (white) whose
Congressional Medal of Honor was
presented by 1t. Gen. John c. H.
Lee early in December in Paris.
1t was similar, too, to the feats of
Sefanaia Sukanaivalu of the Fiji
Infantry Regiment, who became the
first non-European soldier in this
war and the first non-white colonial
to be awarded the Victoria Cross
by the British.
Considering the fact that no Ne
gro has been awarded the Congress
sional Medal of Honor in 80 years,
it seems a shame for someone in
the War Department to sit on the
recommendation concerning Corp.
Woodson. The White House is
willing to act.
2. I'd be very much pleased and
no little relieved to have the Presi-
dents Committee on Fair Employ
ment Practice resolve to reconsider
its decision to hold hearings against
the Capital Transit Company for
discriminating against Negroes,
and postpone the hearings to a
more propitious time. Maybe I'm
thin-skinned-maybe Pm just plain
dubious of the underlying motive
of some of the people concerned
maybe l would like to put first
things first. However you want to
put it, I'd rather see the excellent
chance of Congressionally author
lied permanent FEPC becoming
reality in the near future without
having to run the gauntlet of a
hearing that is still not fully plan
ned and on which preparations were
stepped up only after severe criti-
cism was made in this column and
by other writer's.
3. I'd think it worthy of real
celebration if the incoming 18th
Congress-the Senate specifically
would resolve to take lesson from
Sen. Tom Connally who expressed
determination to break any threat
ened filibuster on the Presidents
State Department nominations by
calling members back to the city,
holding night sessions, etc. This
so-called "more liberal" Senate
coming in might well apply that
lesson to any threatened or real
filibuster which Connally will assist
in leading against a Permanent
FEPC, the Anti-Poll Tax bill, and
Anti-Lynching legislation. The
President, too, can help on these
measures by the same fortnight
action he took on his nominations.
Look where American Democracy
could move in the eyes of a search
ing world.
have a lot more resolutions I'd
like to see made and kept! But !
don't have the space to list them.
These three are perhaps the most
important, anyway.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Sgt. James B.
Carter Wins
Bronze Star

NJ. Sgt. James B. Carter, for
merly of Minneapolis, has been
awarded the Bronze Star Medal by
the Commanding General of the
93rd Division for meritorious serv-
ice in support of military opera
tons against the enemy while serv-
ing on Green Island and the Solo
mon Islands in the South Pacific.
Sgt. Carter, whose wife and
daughter, Gloria, live at 507 Girard
No, has been transferred and is
now somewhere in New Guinea. He
has been in service since June 2,
1912, and has been overseas since
January, 1914.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Washington Brown
Rites Dec. 80

Funeral services for Washington
Brown who died Wednesday morn
ing, Dec. 27, at the Uptegrove Rest
Home, 1913 Fourth Ave. &c., Min
neapolis, will be held Saturday,
Dec. 80, at the Neal Funeral Home
Chapel at 10 a. m. Interment will
be at Crystal Lake cemetery. Rev.
H. C. Boyd will officiate. His son,
Frank, SCI Eighth Ave. No, Min
neapolis, and brother, French, of
Des Moines, and other relatives
survive him.
Mr.. Brown was born in Stockton,
Va, but had made his home at
Abba, Iowa, until a year ago when
he came to Minneapolis to live. He
was SS years old.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Mendosd Elected
Head of Odd
Fellows LODGE

The St. Anthony Lodge No. 2s77
held election of officers for the first
quarter of 1945 at their regular
meeting date, Wednesday, Dec. 20.
Those officers are, Noble Grand,
Carlos Mendoza; Vice Grand,
George Jordan; Noble Father,
Theodore Woodland; Elective Sec
rotary, Charles C. Woodson;
Worthy Chaplain, F. W. Samuel;
Inner Guardian, Fred Sims. The
two year term officers were
Worthy Treasurer, VIM. H. Martin
and permanent secretary, Leon
Lewis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Eulo Belle Moore
in John Golden
Stuqe Production

Eula Belle Moore, sister of Mrs.
Lucille Williams, 597 Rondo, St.
Paul, is a member of the cast of the
comedy "Three Is a Family" now
playing at the St. Paul Auditorium.
Miss Moore, a graduate of
Mechanic Arts High School, was a
scholarship student at Hamline
University before going to a New
York school. She has appeared in
several other stage productions.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Credit Union
Christmas Club
Deposits Doubled

Early in December the Associated
Negro Credit Union mailed out
checks totalling $2,303.25 to mem
bers of its Christmas Savings Club.
The 1914 checks were an increase
of more than $1,000 over those re-
ceived by "43" depositors.
The Associated Credit Unions
Christmas Savings committee in an
announcement Monday urged old
depositors and new ones to begin
their 1915 savings Immediately.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
BIRTHDAYS

Birthday greetings in st. Paul: Jan. l.
Mrs. Annie Mae Brown, 656 w. Central
Ave. Jan. 2-Mrs. H. R. Coins.
In Minneapolis: Jan. Rev. ]. j.
Clayburne, 3S43 Smelling Ave. So. Mrs.
Josephine Pullens, 1906 18th Ave. So. /;
A. J. johnson, 1882 Clinton Ave. So. /;
Mrs. Pearl Brown. $500 Portland Ave. ;
Mrs. Marcus Jackson. 1887 Z. Franklin
Ave. Jan. 2-L. L. Sanehes, 2l4 w. 3lst
Ave. So. Mrs. Burie Carmichael, Jr., 3744
9Th Ave. So. Jan. ALVIN Peery. 8729
9TH Ave. SO. Jan. 6-Mrs. Barbara Walls.
S72O 6th Ave. Sol Bessie Lee Laws. $40
18th Ave. So; Mary Lewis, 2Sl7 Elliot
Ave. So.
Out Of town: Jan. S-Frank MeClain,
Cincinnati Ohio. Jan. 4 - Lieut.. Clifford
Hawkins, U. s. Army. Jan. s-Mrs. Viola
Hall. Des Moines, Ia.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Jennie LETTERS,
Crispus Attacks
Resident, Dead

Jennie LETTERS, IS, resident of
Crispus Attacks Home, st. Paul,
died Saturday, Dec. %, at Ancker
hospital.
Funeral arrangements cannot be
made before the arrival of her
son, Clifton Ingram, formerly of
st. Paul, who now resides in San
Francisco.
Neal Funeral Home is in charge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
VISITORS

Visitors to this newspaper office
this week included: Mrs. M. H.
Jackson, Leon DeBoze, H. K. An
derson, Edward Barker, and Nor
val Barksdale, Void Chamberlain
Air Base; and Pfc. Leon Biles, Vet
Grams Hospital, Hines, Ill.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

Mrs. Margaret Jewett and Mrs.
E. Carter of Des Moines and John
Ampey of Omaha, Neb., were in
the city last week to be at the bed
side of Carl Duffy Ampey, who
is i'll at Minneapolis General hos
pital. While in the city they were
the guests of Mrs. Carl Ampey at
SO Royalston and Oliver Ampey,
215 First st. N.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
To SEATTLE

Mrs. Thelma Warren, 1915 Wash
ington Ave. S., left Christmas day
for Seattle, Wash, where she will
be employed in the Bremerton
Navy Yards.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

Pfc. Bernice Huggar of Camp
Breckenridge, KY, left Thursday,
Dec. %, after spending part of her
furlough visiting her family, Mar
garet and Harry Pauley and Mrs.
Marguerite Buckner, sisters and
brother, at 1924 N. Washington
Ave.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Seventy-five up. Dining
Car Walters Arraigned
In Los Angeles Court
By EDDIE BURBRIDGE

LOS ANGELES.-Charged with conspiracy to commit
theft in interstate Is walters and stewards of
the Union Pacific Railroad arragned before Federal
Judge Ben Harrison Room the second floor of the Fed
eral Building at II Monday morning Attorney Walter
l. Gordon Jr brilliant attorney represented approx
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
UncOvering
Washington
BY Harry s. McAIpin

AS the new year of 1945 APP
proaches, there are a lot of New
Year Resolutions I'd like to see
mazda and kant
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Pittsburgh School
Named for Vann

Pittsburgh.-One of the largest
public schools in Pittsburgh, Pa,
was rededicated as the Robert Lee
Vann School in honor of the late
founder and publisher of the Pitts
burgh Courier. Ira F. Lewis, presi-
dent of the Courier, reviewed his
life and Mrs. Vann presented a
portrait of Mr.. Vann to the school.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

This newspaper has been q reli-
able public servant for over 10
years.-adv.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
Doniel M. Wagner,
Greet Northern r. r.
Employee, Succumbs

Daniel M. Wagner, Sc, $50 St,
Anthony, st. Paul, died Monday,
Dec. rs, at Ancker hospital.
Mr.. Wagner was employed as a
train porter on the Great Northern
R. R. at the time of his death. He
was born in st. Louis, Mo.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day, Dec. 20, at one p. m. at Neal
Funeral Home chapel. Rev. Floyd
Massey, Jr., will officiate.
Survivors include a son, Pfc
Leon Wagner and two daughters
Esterlynne and Frances Wagner Of
st. Paul.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

hAAeANO @AAA A~PSs
Here are a few:
/. I'd like to
see the War De-.
partment resolve.
to get up off.
that recommen-.
dation which has
come from over
seas for a Con-
gressional Medal
of H nor or
Distin G uished
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

This newspaper has been a reli-
able public servant for over 10
years.-adv.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Curry,
1880 Fifth Ave. s., received word
that their son, Charles, was mar
ried recently at San Francisco,
Calf. The Currys are eagerly
awaiting more information.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

Bureau of the NAACP, 100 Massa-
chusetts Ave. N. W. Captain Ded-
mon will begin his duties January
/, 1945.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
YANkS PL UNGE DEEP into NAz| WEST wall
f. T.. Students
Cavort in
Big Serpentine
Traditional Ceremony
For Football Game
Attracts Large Crowd

Coronation of Queen Mary Lou
Pascal attended by Betty Flo
Slade and Etelka Kneitz, highlight-
ed Central Union High Schools
Serpentine-traditional preliminary
to the Ell -BraWley big
Game"-twisting through city
streets from Fourth and Main
Thursday evening.
Led by peppery cheer leaders,
Helen Dawson, Rocello Ritter, Win
ME Enloe and Miss Slade, the
writhing Serpentine, composed of
$50 students. paused at Fifth and
Main for the croWning, and then
wound toward the west end Of the
high schools gridiron, location for
a giant bonfire. Cheers accompanied
the parade from its starting point
to the field. The parade was led
by the school band, under the dir
ection of George w. Burt.
During the festivities at the field
freshmen were given a coating OF
lipstick.
A dance on the schools tennis
courts followed the bonfire.
Elinor Doyle, instructor, was fete
advisor Chaperones were Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Chestnut, Miss Barbara
DoSs, Miss Jean Stangle and A. j.
Hinshaw, vice principal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03

tailed or shut down COM
pletely as the workers obeyed an
order by Matthew Smith, national
MESA secretary, to walk out at 10
am. CEWT) but 1900 MESA men,
iberS at the Eureka Vacuum Co..
where contract would be nullified
by a strike, remained on the job.
The Walkouts came despite last
minute appeals from the army and
navy procurement agencies and re-
moved key tool and die workers, as
we'll as production employees, from
plants manufacturing top-priority
war materials.
First plant to feel the walkout
orGer was Nash -Kelvinator Corp.
where $500 employees uit their jobs
promptly at 10 o'clock. They were
followed uickly by TOO workers at
the Detroit Tap and Tool Co. and
200 employees at the Parker-Wolv-
ering Co.
Production of propeller control
governors and rocket motors was
halted at Nash by the Walkut.
The strike, which threatened to
close 66 plants in Detroit, Cleve-
land and Toledo. was called to force
action by the War Labor Boaro of
MESAs dispute with the CIO United
Automobile Workers at the Auto
Lite company in Toledo.
MESA claimed that six of its
members were discharged by Auto
Lite because they failed to maintain
JAW memberships according to q
CIO maintenance clause Matthew
Smith, national secretary of MESA
said the strike would spread to al
MESA members in the three cities
unless the WIB clarifies why the
discharged employees cannot be re-
hired for the Auto-Lite divisions
where MESA has a membership
majority.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
Westmor|and Goa!
Reached in
War Chest Drive

WeStmorland is the first city in
Imperial county to go over the top
in the War Chest trive. Friday
that city turned in $4,000. The quota
was S3276.
Fl Centro's collections took a squirt
Friday to reach a grand total of
$25,58O.
Brawiey's total Friday was ST.
500.
Meanwhile the Women's club of
inland took over the drive for that
city. The women, embarrassed be-
cause Niland's total was only $12,
tuckled on their civic pride anc be-
gan collecting, War Chest head
quarters was informed.
I'VE congratulate Westmorland,"
Warren Currier, chairman of the
county War Chest organization, said
She has accomplished something
to be proud of and established a
recorC.
Il feel certain we can finish up
this week or early next week SO that
residents of the county may get
busy with other business on the.
home front. Imperial county and
each of the cities will make their
quotas and more l feel certain of
that"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
{. {. Navy Man
Held MissinQ

Missing in action in the Pacific
area
James Jonothan Nanomantube,
%, son of Mrs. Sarah Ellen Nano-
mantube of 435 South Fifth, FL
Centre, is missing in the Pacific
afea where he was serving with the
navy as a machinists mate yhird
class, his mother was informed by
Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief
of navy personnel.
Nanomantube entered the service
in March of 1943 and went overseas
in September that year.
He was graduated from Imperial
Union High school in 1910 in the
same class with the late Sergeant
Jedry Murphy
The Nanomantube boy has a q
year-old son, Jimmy Lee; his moth
er. four sisters and a brother. His
brother, Syl, lives in Ell Centre. Sis
ters include Mrs. Opal Saxton and
Mrs. Harry M. Laney, both of Kan
sas; Mrs. c. H. Mapledoram of Ell
Centre and Mrs. Roy Conner of I'M
perial.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
Bullet Pierces
Room Wall
Near Macarthur
General Digs Missile
From Woodwork, and
Quoth He, "NOt Yet"

MacARTHU'S HEADQUARTERS,
Leyte, Nov. 3. CUP)-General Doug
las Macarthur had a narrow escape
from death during a recent air at
tack when a .50-caliber bullet from
Jap strafing plane m h {
through the window of a room in
which he was working and buried
itself in the wall about a foct flor
his head.
AS aides rushed into the roor
they found Macarthur already dig
ging out the imbedded bullet. I
smiled at them and said:
mot yet"
1t was the second narrow escape
the general has had since the
Leyte landing. On a previous occa-
sion a sniper's bullet whistled over
his head as he made an inspection
tour of beachhead barrier.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
Bricker SIashes
AT New Deal on
Business Control

WILMINGTON. Del, Nov. 3. OUP)
Governor John w. Bricker of Ohio
brought his campaign into Delaware
Friday after accusing President
Roosevelt Thursday night at Pater-
son, New Jersey, of silence on what
he termed the big question" of the
day: When is Washington going
to get out of businesS?"
To-day, the vast network of gcv-
ernment-oWned war plants consti-
tutes the nucleus of state socialism. :"
Bricker said The big question is {:
When is Washington going to get
out of business after the war? Mr.
Roosevelt said nothing about that
in Chicago"
The President, Br C ker added,
was "simpiy employing a familiar
campaign device" through his "ex-
preston of good will toward busi-
ness"
Bricker quoted Mr. Roosevelt as
saying at Chicago that he saw IAN
expansion of our peacetime produc-
tive capacity and recalled that in
1882, the President had said that
our industrial plant is built +.
our last frontier has long since
been reached
His present statement" Bricker
said, ''is at best an admission that
the New Deal economic policies
during these last II years have been
dead wrong"
Bricker termed as news" Mr,
Roosevelt's Saturday statement that
his administration had been mind
ful from its earliest days . of
the problems of small business"
The truth is" Bricker said, that
for IL years, small business has been
stunted in growth by arbitrary and
restrictive New Deal policies.p
The Republican party under Gov
erncr Thomas E. Dewey, Bricker
said, presents a practical and con-
Structive program to strengthen
business and provide jobs"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
Dewey Assured
OF Victory
In Pennsylvania

ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN
RAIN, Nov. 3. CUP)-Governor
Thomas E. Dewey headed home
ward Friday frcm his third cam
paign swing into Pennsylvania car
rying the personal pledge of Cover
nor Edward Martin that the states
35 electoral votes will be 'over-
whelmingly" his in next Tuesdays
presidential election.
Pennsylvania will be overwhelm-
ingly Republican on November T."
Martin promised.
1t was with those words that he
introduced the Republican preSiden-
tial candidate last night to COP
rallies at Wilkes Barre and Scran-
tcn-climaxing the most vigorous
day of campaigning Dewey has en-
gagged in since he formally opened
his bid for the White House two
months ago.
Returning to his executive man.
sion before noon, Dewey was ex-
pected to spend most of today put
ting the finishing touches on the
speech he has scheduled Saturday
night for the traditional campaign
windup at Madison Square Garden
in New York City.
There is a possibility, if he fol-
lows the pattern of the last month,
that he may reply then to President
Roosevelt's speech over the radio
Thursday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
Truman Charges
COP Opposed
Social Reforms

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 3. CUP)-
Senator Harry S. Truman headed
foc- home Friday after an 80OO-mile
campaign tour urging that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's experienced leader
ship was needed to win the war and
the peace.
He made the final speech of his
swing around the country Thursday
night, bidding for the labor vote in
industrial Pittsburgh, which gave
him one of the most enthusiastic
receptions of his trip.
A crowd of 5000 heard him assert
that labor would be foolish" to ac-
cept Republican promises to pro,
tect administration social reforms.
Although nearly all of those re-
forms were bitterly opposed by tho
Republicans in Congress- he said,
the Republican candidate for pres
ident now tells you that he not
cnly is in favor of them but that
he will carry them further if elected.
The Republican party is desperate
" Will LlIIo CltCllOll anu ITO
date is promising all things to all
people
He said labor should ask itself
what reason it had "to trust the re-
publican party which hated these
reforms and sought to block them
in Congressy
Stop and think for a minute
about the men ytu know arc reac-
tionaries opposed to and progressive
movement and enemies of labor"
Truman said. Whom do they want
to see elected, the President or Mr..
Dewey? You know that to a man
they are hoping and praying that
somehow they can defeat the Presi-
dent
You are foolish indeed if you be-
liove that the leopard can change
his spots overnight. Do not hope
for a miracle"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
British warships
Send Three of
Enemy Craft Down

ROME, Nov. 3. fUP)-Two British
destroyers sank three enemy de-
stroyers Wednesday in two separate
naval battlrs in the upper Adriatic,
it was announced Friday.
The British destroyers Wheatland
and Avondale were sailing along
the Adriatic islands west of Pag, of
the Croatian coast, when they en-
countercd and engaged two enemy
destroyers Both were sunk.
About an hour and a half later
third DESTROYER was found in the
same area and sent to the bottom.
"Some survivors were rescued and
made prisoners" an Allied naval
communique said in announcing the
action. Our forces suffered no
casualties. although the Avondale
had superficial damage
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
Roosevelt Says
COP Resorts
To Wicked Ways

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. up
President Roosevelt moved down the
home stretch of his fourth-term
campaign today after charging that
"trumpedup" accusations or pur-
pcrtedly "So nsatiCnal development"
may come in the next few days in
an attempt to panic" voters into
the Republican camp.
Accusing the opposition and some
newspapers of campaigning with
whisperings, rumorings and wicked
charges Mr.. Roosevelt said in a
radio address Thursday night that
he did not propose to answer in
kind" and expressed confidence
that the people would pay them
little attention" when they go to
the polls next Tuesday.
This election will not be decided
on basis of malignant murmurings
Or shouts he said. 1T will be set
tied on the basis Of the record"
But as election day nears, Mr.
oSevelt said, more wicked
charges may be made with the hope
that someone or somebody will gain
momentary advantage" These, he
asserted, may take the form of "hys-
terical, last-minute accusations or
sensational revelations trumped
up in an attempt to panic the people
on election day.
But the American people are not
panicked easily" he said.
Mr.. Roosevelt's address came on
the eve of his departure for New
England, where he makes stops Sat-
urday at Bridgeport and Hartford,
Connecticut, and Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, before proceeding to
Boston for another major address at
8 p. m. (CWTo Saturday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03
S. p. TRANSFERS FREIGHT
AGENT FROM RIVERSIDE

John M. Gable is now travelling
freight and passenger agent fer the
Southern Pacific railroad in the I'M
perial Valley division, it was an
nounced Friday
He assumed his new duties No
vember l. Cable has been with the
company 10 years and was trans
ferred to the valley from Riverside
where he held a similar situation Is
months.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-03

reported that panic was spreading
through the city.
The German Hungarian force was
said to have lost almost half its
motor transport in the disastrous
re treat across Hungary.
PIG NEWS HINTED
There was no news on Russian
progress on other fronts but usual
rumors we're circulating in Moscow
that announcements of important
victories were being withheld for
the November 7 celebration OF the
9th anniversary of the Russian
revolution.
To the north military operations
were being affected increasingly by
the descent of early winter.
Cold and heavy snow now is gen.
eral from the Ukraine northWard.
Pravc as military correspondent
reported that the first snoWfalls al
ready have blanketed East Prussia