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A<RSA No l s. American Legion, are
AzSNA hereby notified of the death of
E1REG Comrade WILLIAM j. GOD
&RTHW DARD of 537 9th st. Sc, in
ftE Petersburg, Va, on August II,
1914. Legion services at w. w.
Chambers funeral home, l4oo Chaplin
Arlington National Cemetery, Monday,
VERNON DALEY. Commander,
WILLIAM S. HARRINGTON. Adjt
GORDON, CoRPL. WILLIAM, U. S. A.
Killed in line of duty, on August 5, 1914,
at Fort Jackson, S. C., Corpl. WILLIAM
GORDON; United States Army. 1917 Eutaw
ander and stowey Gordon. Funeral from
William J. Tickner Sons, North and
chapel of the First Presbyterian Church,
Park ave. and Madison st, at 3 pm In
terment Loudon Park Cemetery. Baltimore.
GRAY; MARIA. On Tuesday, August
Arthur blvd. Md. MARIA GRAY, beloved
mother Of Edward, Lawrence and Daniel
leaves a number of srandehiidren. ne great eato
grandchildren and other relatives and
friends. Friends may call at the W. Ernest
Dumbarton ave. NV. after 10 am. Sat-
urday, August 10. Funeral Sunday, Au-
gant,s. gust 60 & At 2 pm from the Rock Greek
and friends invited Interment Lincoln
Memorial cemetery on Monday, August 2l.
JOHNSON, MARY GRACE. On Friday,
August 49, 1914. MARY GRACE JOHN
and sister Of william A: wise. Funeral
9TH st s.w. Requiem mass at St Joseph's
Church on Monday, August 81, at $40
am Relatives and friends invited. In
terment Mount Olivet Cemetery. 90
MCLAUGHLIN, WILLIAM d. Suddenly.
on Friday, August Is, 1914. at George
town University Hospital, WILLIAM D.
McLAUGHL1N, beloved husband of Mary
keane Mclaughlin ard father of Mrs. Will
liam G Roberts and Pvt. John w. Nc
Laughlin, A. A. G. Remains resting at
Chambers, funeral h home. 400 chapin St
REQUIEM mass at St. Paul's Church, 18th
snd stS: nv, at 10 am. 1nterment
sister, Mrs. w. Stafford. 1l04 Peachtree
blvd, Richmond. Va, CLINTON E. MEEKS
1nterment Saturday, August 10, at staun-
ton, va. 10
MoLINEUX, FANNIE LEoNA. On Fri
DAY, August is, 1914, at her residence,
,2Is Abingdon St. ,Arlineton, Va FAN
EIE oHsd LEoSA E{}s a. 1911 NEE Jordan be
and mother of George Mays Molineux
Remains resting at her. late residence,
say services a will be hsld Mon
Arlington National Cemetery. 20
MOTEN, JOHN. On Friday, August IS,
1874, JOHN TOTEN of 1921 H St ne
Remains resting at Frazier's funeral home
8S9 r. L ave. NV. Notice of funeral later
SPINKS, WILLIAM HAROLD, NJ. D.
On Saturday, August 10, 1914, WILLIAM
HAROLD SP1NKS, NJ. D., husband of
Marsaret McC. Scott Spinks. Notice of
funeral later.
MURPHY, JAMES A. On Friday. August
1S, 1914. JAMES A MURPHY, beloved son
OF james l.. and Anna Murphy (nee Rose),
grandson OF Mrs. George Rose, nephew of
MIS- Robert FLETCHER, Mrs. Arthur Six, Mrs
Ella Creech and Mrs. Betty Wine Services
at Chambers funeral home, 517 IIth ST
Sc, on Monday, August 81. at 2:3O pm
1nterment Cedar Hill Cemetery. 90
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FUNERAL DESIGNS.
CEMETERY LOTS.

FORT LINCOLN, choice lot, four sites, sell
Tor cost, settle estate. MRS. BARLEY. AT.
ob62.
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j. DtTS OF lNe POCOmdc Post, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, viii
~ meet at St. Martins Church
IN N. Capitol st. near r. 1. ave.
" at 9 am. Monday. August 2l
1874, to attend the funeral o,
y our late comTade, WILLIAM
8 WINTER Sr
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Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital tcurrent month to date):

AUTOMOBILE 1ights must be- turned on
one-han hour after sunset.
Preeipit alton.
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EUDDARD, WILLIAM J. The members
hh of the Vincent B. Costello Post
AIRSA No. Is, American Legion, are
GEaSMA hereby notified of the death oi
BBslVE83 Comrade WILLIAM J. GOD
SyEHp DARD of 537 9th st. Sc, ir
YS8H Petersburg, Va, on August II
1914. Legion services at w w
Chambers funeral home 400 Chaplin
St. Nv, Sunday evening at S pm. Burial
Arlington National Cemetery, Monday
AupNSt 10
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til June "a, 1869, when publication was
suspended. Alexander Delmar thought
he could revive it by giving it longer
name, and so, under the name of the
Daily National Intelligencer and WASH
lngton Express, he transferred the es-
tabllshment again to Pennsylvania ave-
nue., this time on the south side between
Ninth and Tenth streets. But Delmar
was not so successful as his immediate
predecessors, and the last issue of this
valuable naper is dated January 10. 1870.
Some OF the employees in the Intelli-
gencer composing room prior to 1920 in
cluded Simon Cameron, who later served
IN the United States Senate upon several
occasions, was President LincoIns Sec
retary of War from March, 1861, to 1862,
and was later sent as Minister to Russia.
Others were Francis Coyle, Andres Tate.
John H. Wade, John Erskine. Thomas
G Foster, Judah Delano, Thomas Lar
ner, John S. Gallagher, Michael Cation,
George Cochran. James Wilson, w. Kerr.
Joseph F. Reed, John Brandon. Patrick
Crowley, Martin King, Joseph Balm and
James A. Kennedy.
Between 1920 and 1880 the following
were compositors: Luther Severance,
Lambert Tree, James O'Bryon, James
Clephane, Thomas Herty, w. Faithful.
John Stockwell, Andre Rothwell Jehiel
Crossfield, John Frank, James King.
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George M. Dallas and Daniel Webster
had this to say:
The occasion is quite new one. A
famine, bringing want and distress on
a great portion of whole people is
unprecedented in christendom in this
age. The calamities of Ireland have
been heard and read throughout the
country and have touched all American
hearts. New improvements In commu-
nication have brought nations into
nearer neighborhood with each other,
and We hear the cries of suffering
Ireland almost as fresh and as strong
as If they had come from a part of our
own country. In this land of abundance
We know nothing by our own experience
OF famine and can hardly conceive of
people dying, in families and by groups,
through mere want of food
No heart can be so hard as not to
melt at the details. apparently authen-
tic, OF the shocking distress existing in
some parts of Ireland 1t Is fit time
for the activity and exertion OF a ma
tional charity, and the flying moment
should not be lost While the minis
trat1ons OF mercy are as benefcent as
those of angels, let us render them. as
far as we can. as swift also in carving
relief and consolation. Our subject is
not ostentation Or parade. 1t is not to
utter the sounds of empty brass or
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tinkling cymbals, but to do a deed OF
effectual charity. and do 1t promptly,
that the objects Of our compassion may
bear tidings of kindness and of relief
from across the ocean before death shall
terminate their sufferings."
Though Gales and Seaton entered
into partnership in 1912 in publishing
the National Intelligencer, the paper
was actually first published In October,
1900, by Samuel Harrison Smith, who
transplanted the paper from Philadel-
phia to this city; by Joseph Gales, jr.,
along from 1909 to 1912, when, as stated
before, it became the property of Gales
and Seaton. From the beginning the
paper was printed in one of a row of
houses known as the Ten Buildings,
located on New Jersey avenue between
and E streets Sc, erected by Thomas
Law.
In 1901 new quarters were found for
the paper on the south side of PENN
sylvania avenue between Sixth and Sew
enth streets NV, in one of a row of
three houses erected about that time.
This site is now occupied by the Apex
Building. From this location the In
telligencer moved, in 1918, to the north
west corner of Seventh and D streets.
In 1865 the paper was sold to Chauncey
H. Snow and John F. Coyle. who moved
the editorial Office and the equipment
to the Polkinhorn Building, on the
south side of D street near Seventh
street tstill standing. Under this new
the paper carried on un-
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Christening Of the S. S. Seaton

the enemy as 1t was to the American
Army, for 1t was less than a year before
that Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry had
oeclsiVely whipped the British on Lake
Erie, and in recognition of his achieve
ment, was banqueted in Washington at
iomlnson's Hotel on Capitol Hill. which
was put to the torch by Admiral Cock
burn the following summer,
Mayors of Washington
Both of the noted editors of the In.
telilgencer became Mayors of Washing
ton. Mr.. Gales served from 1897 tn
1929 and Col. Seaton from 184O to 1s4e
ondobtedly both men were popular
and surely Col. Seaton was also svm-
pathetic for during the potato famine
In Ireland in 1845 to 1S46, when thou
sands died from starvation and hun
areas OF thousands emigrated to Amer
lea, and at other times when Erin was
is distress. he always had a kind word
for the little nation, whose people rem
dered such valuable service In orr
own American Revolution and in all our
other wars as we'll.
AT this time meetings were being
heid all over the country to provide
food for stricken Ireland. and one was
held at the old Odd Fellows Hall on
Seventh street. where stands the present
building of that order, on February g.
l847. Col. Seaton was then Mayor of
washington, and not only gave the
meeting publicity in his paper, but took
an active part in it as well. The meet
ing was presided over by Vice President
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BILE demands upon every element of a
nations economy and presents dificult
problems in all directions. It is true,
however, that shipping stood at the
front Of difficulties encountered in
preparing the United States for global
warfare.
Shipping Bottlenecks
We entered the war with a most
serious shipping shortage for the tre-
mendous tasks at hand. We had not
made sufficient additions to our dwin-
ding tonnage in peacetime, and the
merchant fleets of our Allies had been
all but decimated by more than two
years of submarine and aerial warfare.
How the shipping bottleneck was
overcome; how the scale of carpoes
destined for overseas finally tipped to
the Allies advantage, and how the
Axis submarines were sunk and dis
persed provides one of the most dra-
matte stories of the war. Without these
significant successes we would not now
be well advanced on the road to victory.
Worlds Largest Fleet
Created on July 81, 1912, in further
ance of unified control of transporta-
ton, Gen. Gross corps is one of the
youngest in the Army Service Forces.
1t is the largest transportation agency
in the world, operating the worlds
largest feet of cargo ships and super
v1sing the military operations of the
worlds largest railroad system. It
operates the great ports of embarka-
ton on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts;
1t even now provides ready-made har-
bors for great invasions.
A thumbnail statistical sketch of its
operations make the transportation
problems of World War I appear small
and simple in comparison, as indeed
they were.
Since Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1e41.
the movement of men and materiel to
all fields of operations overseas have
reached totals of more than 100000
Army troops and more than 10000, 900
ship tons OF equipment and supplies.
During the same period more than
23,0o0,O00 men and nearly 200 100000
tons of freight were moved by domes-
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more than 5000 900 ship tons OF cargo
or more than twice the $500 900 tons
sent to the A. E. r. In all OF World
War I. The continuing flow Of supplies
to maintain each soldier overseas is
ship ton month. So, in preparation
Tor the onensives which have speeded
Allied armies toward final victory, the
volume of supplies sent to all thea
ters during the preceding year in
cluded this more than / ton per month
Tor each man already overseas in addi-
ton to 7ia tons of ship space for every
added soldier going to the theaters of
operation.
During the first 109 days after D day
the Allies put ashore in France nearly
2.oO0OOO troops, more than half a mill
lion vehicles and some 100000 tons
OF munitions and supplies. It was
this staggering volume of manpower
and materiel that threw the Germans
back at the outset and kept pushing
them back to their own borders before
they could get set for major counter
offensive.
Floating Harbors
One Of the really secret weapons OF
this war was unveiled In the Normandy
invasion, In connection with the move
ment OF men and cargoes across the
English Channel. This was the float
Ing harbor-models of which were
shown recently at the White House.
Unable to gain immediate use Of ports
and restricted to beaches as the ter
m1nals OF our transportation lines, these
ready-made, floating harbors were de-
signed and developed by the British.
Navy and Army engineers, In co-opera-
ton with other branches of the Allied
forces.
These improvised ports upset all Naz
calculations because they made 1t DOS
sible to bypass the great shipping ports
30 heavlly guarded. The floating har-
oors were designed to accommodate 20
600 tons OF shipping a day.
Supplies to Russia
Transportation cofpsmen have carried
to Russia over the Trans -Iranian Rail-
road. the single-track wonder OF thu
world, most Of the millions Of tons of
supplies discharged at Persian Gulf
ports since October, 1912. They have
carried thousands OF tons of supple,
to Ledo, near the Burma border In In
Ola. Soldier railroaders in Italy were
awarded The 5th Army Plaque and Clasp
because time and again crucial mate
rails and reinforcements could not have
been brought into action except for the
outstanding performance OF the Military
Railway Service" The corps also oper-
ates railroads in North Africa, England.
France, Alaska. Canada and New Gale
donia
The Transportation Corps also oper-
ates the Army's hospital ships, of which
81 are now at sea.
In this country the overall lob by
domestic carriers is worthy of longer
mention than space affords. OF the
Is, 100000 troops transported on organ
zed movements by domestic carriers in
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tninu is

the United States from December 1s41.
through June. 1914, all but 500. 900 were
carried by rail.
Troop Movements
These troop movements involved the
use of 10000 coaches, $4,000 sleeping
cars. 100000 baggage and kitchen cars
and 14S,0oo refrigerators, box, gondola
and fiat cars. An average of "a cars
was required for each 1000 men.
More than 172,8oO,O 900 tons of War
Department freight and 600,o tons OF
express were moved by the railroads in
this 31-month period. Highway carriers
moved 100000 men and I4,700, 900 tons
for the Army.
Consideration of these figures should
make one wonder that, thus overtaxed
by war cargo, American railroads have
managed, nevertheless, to maintain
civilian traffic even through the peak
months Of Army traffic. There has been
little or no curtatlment of prewar sched-
uleS.
Merchant Mariners
The Transportation Corps has a total
military and civilian personnel Of more
than $4,000, many Of whom are spe-
cialists In various fields More than
l7,ooo Of Its civilian employees are over
seas or are crew members of Army trans.
ports hospital ships or small boat com.
panies.
Thirty thousand mechant mariners
are In its huge fleet, which averages
more than 1000 vessels and II 900 small ],
craft In coastwise and interisland oper. !,
attons In the Pacific. Europe and tho
Near East. manned by &c. o. sailors"
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BY Nelson M. Shepard.

by NELSON M. Snepar0.
Operating on the seven seas" and
the continents OF North America, Eur
ope, Africa, Asia and Australia, Mai.
Gen. G. P. Gross, chief Of the Trans
portation Corps OF the Army Service
Forces, has one of the toughest as
signments of the war. His Is the re-
sponsibility of getting millions of men
overseas and keeping them supplied
with the means to fight and work.
Back of every military operation is
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of men, of mu-
nitions and Of supplies Fluidity is the
chief characteristic of modern war, for
totality has made movement the base
upon which all strategy rests. Trans
portation lines, therefore, are the ar
teries through which courses the life
blood of nations capacity to wage
war.
This war was referred to in its earliest
stages as the battle of shipping"
Such generalization, emphasizing a
single factor, cannot detract from the
fact that modern war makes insatia-
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ported overseas exceeds total number
under arms in World War I and is
more than double the number In the
former A. E. F. Yet our limitations in
this war have not yet been reached.
100000 Tons of Cargo
The Army has dispatched to the
European theater of operations alone
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How y. S. Army Transportation Corps
Swimming the battle of Shipping"

This Is. the seuenth OF series Of
articles dealing ,Dith the Army Serp-
ice Forces and the all-encompassing
role 1t is playing in the logistics OF
total 1DGr.)
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-09-22
ROLE OF NEGRO IN BUILDING
ALCAN HIGHWAY DRAM
ATIZED ON RADIO

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
The contribution of American Ne
groes to the winning of the war
was dramatized over a national
hookup of NBC last Saturday eve
ming, in a program "They Call Me
joe" ..-.,-.. p.
Central theme of the story was
developed around the work of the
famed 9th Engineers, who built "a
read through continent of forest. "
One of these engineers, Sgt. Jack
son, was driver of a bulldozer, and
after many months working in
freezing weather and nearly i'm
passable forests and deep mud,
finally made contact, with a white
regiment coming from the other
direction to complete the Alcan
Highway.
The script, however, heaped
praise on Negro units fighting all
over the world. 1t cited the 93rd
Infantry Division at Bougainville,
the goth Fighter Squadron at Anzio,
and many other fighting units in
which Negroes have played an i'm
portant part.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-09-22
Britain Urged to
Clarity Stond on Indiu
WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA


Qualification of it's stand on India
independence as a means of saving
thousands of American lives was
urged upon Britain last week in the
House of Representatives by Rep.
Calvin Johnson (R. of nl.).
"If the lives of these American
soldiers were not involved" John
son said, "ths Indian question would
not directly concern the United
States. But with Britain and the
United States pledged to crush
Japan together, the issue becomes
more than a dispute between India
and Britain"
The Congressman urged prompt
consideration by the House Foreign
Affairs Committee of his recent
resolution to declare persona non
grata" two diplomatic ministers
representing Britain and India in
Washington for alleged efforts to
mold American public opinion with
regard to the Indian question. The
ministers are Girja Shankar Bal
pal, minister for India, and Ronald
Campbell, minister extraordinary
and envoy plenipotentiary for Great
Britain.
Thousands of Negro troops, most
ly in service forces, are stationed
in India.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-09-22
National Music
Assn. Elects
New Officers

Mrs. Luella B. Taylor was elected
president of the J. Wesley Jones
Branch of the National Association
of Negro Musicians at a meeting
held Sept. 10, at the home of Mrs.
W. H. Taylor, 756 st. Anthony Ave
nue.. Other officers elected were
o. ]. Thornton, vice-president; Mrs.
Effie Larkins, recording secretary;
Mrs. Thelma Wade, assistant secre-
tary; Miss Arlee Harris, CORE
spending secretary, and Mrs. Eva
Taylor, treasurer.
Reports on the twenty-second an
nual convention of the National As
ISOLATION of Negro Musicians which
was held in Cleveland, Ohio, August
1924 were given by the two dele
gates in attendance, Mrs. Louella
B. Taylor and Mrs. Louise Wood
Hargrave.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-09-22
WOULDN'T GIVE DROP OF
BLOOD TO J. c. RED CROSS
FATHER MILLS

Baltimore.-"I wouldn't give a
drop of blood to the Red Cross so
long as it maintains its un-Chris-
tian policy of segregating blood of
colored and white DONORS" Father
Cedric E. Mills, rector of st. James
Pc Church, told his congregation,
Sunday morning.
Father Mills said that while con-
tributing to the Red Cross was a
personal matter that everyone had
to decide for himself, it was impos-
sible for him to bow to the undemo-
cratic and un-Christian policies OF
the so-called welfare organization
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-09-22
County Attorney Warns
Hotels, Restaurants, Taverns
Against Race Discrimination
Hennepin Co. Attorney
Michdel Dillon Writes
Associations

Cognizant of the increased
violation of the Minnesota
Civil Rights statute, Michael
J. Dillon, Hennepin County At
torney, issued a warning last
Thursday, September ID, to
Minneapolis hotel, restaurant and
tavern owners in a letter pointing
out that violators are subject to
prosecution.
In his communication to the Min
neapolis Restaurant Association,
the Minneapolis Liquor Dealers
Association and the Minneapolis
Hotel Association, Mr.. Dillon wrote:
wish TO draw your atten-
ton to section 1921, chapter
579, Of the Laws of Minnesota
for the year 1913, which states
as follows:
No person shall be excluded, on account
Of race, color, national origin or religion,
from full and equal enjoyment Of any ae-
eommOdation, advantage, or privilege fur
nished by public conveyance, theaters. or
other public places Of amusement, or by ho-
tells, barber shops, saloons. restaurants,
or other places of refreshment, entertain
ment, or accommodation. Every person
who violates any provision Of this section,
or aids or incites another 10 do so, shall be
guilty Of a gross misdemeanOr and in addi-
ton 70 the penalty therefor, shall be liable
in q civil action 70 the person aRgrieved
for damages not exceeding $500"
Complaints have come to this
office from time to time stating
that discrimination has been prac-
ticed by certain restaurants and
hotels, especially where colored
people are concerned. Naturally,
the colored people feel quite ag-
grieved about this discrimination
as do the big majority of the white
people. The law is very clear on
the subject and l feel it proper to
tell you that any operator vio-
lating this statute is subject to
prosecution.
l, personally, should be very glad
to feel that 1 will have the cooper
alton of the Minneapolis Associa-
tons in the enforcement of this
law. 1t is for this reason that
am writing this letter so that a
copy of this law may be sent to
every member of your Association
to the end that they may be proper
ly advised of its existence and its
contents so that violations may not
occur through ignorance or mad
vertence.
1t might be well for members of
the Association to instruct their
employees that colored people
should not be refused accommoda-
tons or service solely because of
the fact that they are colored. /
know that your Association is in
terested in good business practices
carried on according to law and in
a spirit of tolerance and good will.
Yours very truly,
MICHAEL D. DILLON,
County Attorney,
County of Hennepin,
400 Court House,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.