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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-11

Bonds to national corporations with
business interests In the District
and will urge these corporations to
allocate portions OF band purchases
to the District drive.
Mr.. La Motto Is q member Of the
Board Of Directors Of the District
Red Cross, q director Of the District
Council Of the Navy League, q direc-
tor Of the local Opera Guild, treas
urer of the Potomac Hunt Club and
member Of the University Club and
French Veterans Association.
Meanwhile, at the monthly meet
ing Of the District Bar Association
at the Mayfiower Hotel last night,
Mr.. Waller presented Treasury cita-
tons to 20 association members for
meritorious services during the Fifth
War Loan drive, when they served
on the Speakers Bureau.
The attorneys receiving Treasury
citations include:
suTtoa csms9on wMs eeahsay James Ros. +
Ganfield, Austin r. ".
Fitxserald, John Dill Mickler 8. Albert
lon Nswmyer. Alvin L..
Fowler. Walter L. Nicholson. Soterios
Galiher. Richard W. Repaid, Billy
Hart David Aiken Quinn. Henry l.
HAYDEN James J. Siddons, Frederick
Jane. sPD s.eE sse %a.m
Lane, M. J. Walsh. Thomas q.
Lss1msr wiu Austin wn heat H. Wine
Lindas, Ben
Mr.. Kirkland served As chairman
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Prince Georges Schools
Report Gain in Enrolment

Enrolment in Prince Georges
County schools has increased 1913
over a year ago, Superintendent
Gardner Shugart said today.
Mr.. Shugart said enrolment in
white elementary schools increased
372, and in white hgih schools the
increase is $50 students. Colored
elementary school students were up
1879 and colored high schools showed
an increase of two, Mr.. Shugart said.
The superintendent said eight
elementary school teachers are still
needed. In addition, he said, a
physical education teacher is needed
at Bladensburg, social science
teacher at Laurel and a science
teacher at Eyattsville.
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Court May Decide
Today in Sedition
Case MisfriaI Motions
Dozen Defense Steps
To Prove President
Prejudieed Jury Studied
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

0y CAhIEh 0NOOhE JONESsa
Chief Justice Edward c. Eicher
may decide some time today whether
President Roosevelt so prejudiced
the jury in the sedition case with q
scathing reference to an organiGa-
ton at issue in the trial that q
mistrial should be granted.
The judge had under consider
alton dozen defense motions for
n nistrial and another demand for
the case to be'postponed until after
the election. The motions were fol-
lowed by two petitions for the jurors
to be polled to determine how many
Of them, II any, heard or read the
Presidents speech Thursday, and
whether they discussed it among
themselves. THESE requests were
intended to disclose the likelihood
Of prejudice.
Deadline At Noon.
The court gave all interested de-
Tense attorneys until noon today to
file written arguments and cite
authorities, but did not promise to
hear further oral arguments, des
ferring that matter until this after
noon. Nor did Justice Eicher say
when he would rule. though there
was possibility that he would dis
pose of the matter before adjourn
ment at pm.
The demands to end the 6-month-
old trial or stop it during the polit-
ical campaign came as result OF
the Presidents comment on the
Silver Shirts, mentioned in the in
dictment and the Governments bill
OF particulars as one of the organi-
cations through which the 26 de-
PENDANTS carried on an alleged con-
spiracy to undermine the loyalty of
the armed forces.
william Dudley Policy, de-
PENDANT. organized and led the
Silver Shirts. Mr.. Roosevelt linked
the group land others on the luna
tic fringe" with Mussolini's Black
Shirts and Hitler's Brown Shirts,
just as the prosecution Is seeking
to do.
Poll Called Necessary.
In one of the motions to poll the
jury, E. Hilton jackson and John A.
Jackson, attorneys for Gerald B.
Winrod, said such.a move was neces-
sary to avoid a miscarriage of JUS
tice, pointing out that the presump-
ton of prejudice will persist unless
questioning the jury dispels it.
These counsel pointed to ''the char
acter Of the utterance, its bearing
upon the orderly conduct of this
trial and the exalted character of
thu author"
In arguments supporting mistrial
motions, other attorneys commended
that, while the jury was under strict
instruction to read or listen to moth
ing concerning the case, the mem
beers could not be expected to antici-
pate the President, in an address
broadcast to the Nation, would in
tect denunciation of an organiza-
tion tied closely into the Govern
mer1t's case. 1t was likely, they said,
that all or most of the Jurors heard
the speech or later read 1t.
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Lotvion Minister Will Speok

DR.. Alfred Bilmanis, the Latvian
Minister, win speak at 8 o'clock
tonight at . parish meeting Of
Episcopal Church of the Ascension,
Sligo avenue and Carroll lane, in
Silver Spring. He. viii discuss the
international situation as 1t affects
the Baltic states.
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115PhysieaIIy Fit Men
Under 80 Granted
Continued Deferment
~ Naval Employees
Win Droft Appeals;
z Policemen Win DeIuy

The District Board Of Appeal ap-
proved the continued deferment of
II Navy employees in its latest re-
view Of deferments granted by
boards in other areas to men work.
ing here.
Reporting for the week ending
September %, the appeal board also
granted appeals from Ia to three
other Navy employees. Naval estab-
hshments affected were the Navy
Yard, Naval Research Laboratory
and several bureaus of the Navy
Department.
4 Lose Deferments.
Four men lost their deferments on
review by the appeal board. They
included 24-year-old physicist at
the National Bureau of Standards;
a 29-year-old bus operator; a o.
year-old streetcar operator, and a
26-year-old Washington Terminal
gang leader.
In all. the board permitted
the continued deferment of lis
physically fit men in the under-30-
age group, including the II Navy
employees; "a men already rejected
for physical reasons and $50 men
80 years and older.
In appeals from la classical
tons, the board granted deferments
to the assistant manager of a gas
station, Is; q dairy route delivery
man, %; a butcher, 80; a Washing
ton Terminal Co. yard brakeman,
%, and two police privates, aged Is
and %. Six other men were de-
ferred for direct war production
including the three naval employees
and one who had already been ply
sically rejected was granted an &C.
cupationAl deferment. StS
Director Loses.
An 18-year-old shipping clerk ap-
pealed successfully as a Conscientious
objector while Budget Bureau ad-
ministrative analyst, who sought
classification in 4-E as a conscien-
tious objector, was put in LAO for
noncombatant Army duty.
Seven men were denied deferment
on appeal. They included a 81
year-old manufacturers representa-
tive; 29-year-old fuel Oil truck
driver; 2S-year-old baked goods dis
trlbutor; 18-year -old American Uni
verslty student; 27-year -old grocery
store meat manager, and two auto
repairmen, aged 26 and "a.
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Mrs. Walter c. PIoeser
To Christen Submarine
~ the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, Oct. 11.-Mrs.
Walter G. Ploeser. 270S Central ave-
nue., Alexandria, has been desig-
mated by the Secretary Of the Navy
as sponsor Of the submarine Conger,
scheduled to be launched Tuesday
at the Portsmouth IN. H) Navy
Yard, the 5th Naval District an
nounced today. It viii be the first
vessel so named.
Mrs. Ploeser is the wife Of Repre-
sentative Ploeser, Republican, OF
Missouri.
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Boord Candidates to Speak

The two opposing candidates for
the Arlington County Board, Leo
G. Lloyd and Z. g. Mcpherson, will
speak at meeting Of Fort Myer
Heights Citizsns' Association ct 3
pm. Friday = ths woodrow VII
lSon school,
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Byrds Son Receivers

WINCHESTER, Va. Oct. II tP.
Senator Byrd said today his son.
Beverley Byrd, = paratrooper, has
recovered from wounds received in
the invasion Of Normandy and Il
now In France. Another son.
Richard =. Byrd. . sergeant Ia the
armored infantry. also Is IN France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-11

poratiOns Divi-
sion Of the Dis
trict War . FL
nance Commit
tee, viii err j.
Waller, c n a ir-
man of the Dis
trict commit
tee, announced
today.
During the
fort h c ON / ng
Sixth War Loan
drive, Mr.. La
Motto will head
the group which
will promote the
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Prince Georges Board
Calls 81 for Induction

Prince Georges County Selective
Service Board No. at Upper MARI
.boro has announced that 81 white
selectees have been ordered to re-
port for Induction Ocfnl,er 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-11
L. H. LaMoite Heads
WAR Loan National
Corporations Division

L. Howard La Motto, vice presi-
dent Of the International Business
Machines Corp, has accepted the
Craftsmanship of the National Cor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-11

POLO PLAYER TRIES NEW MOUNT IN NDIA-Maj. Eric
Pedey of Pasadena, Can former member the United
States international polo team tries out
Army Air Forces base in India Mai Pedley member of
the polo team which defeated England eadowrook
Island in 1880 and again at birmingham England
duty with the ~USAAF under Maj George E.
Stratemeyer in the China India theater
Forces Photo
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Bertha Seames
Buried Tuesday

Bertha Seames, 62, 1913 Fourth
Ave. &c., died at Minneapolis Gen.
eral hospital, Nov. IL. Funeral
services were held at st. Peter
A M E church, Tuesday, Nov. IA,
with Rev. H. C. Boyd officiating
and Rev. L. P. Ashford assisting.
Both the Household of Ruth lodge
of which Mrs. Seames had been q
member 80 years and the S. M. T.
lodge to which she had belonged 26
years had a part in the services.
Mrs. Seames and her husband
Charles, lived at 1928 Fifth Ave
&c., the greater part of the IS
years Mrs. Seames was a resident
here. A few months ago, due to
poor health, the Seames gave up
living in their home because the
responsibilities had become toe
great for them and both moved to
a rest home.
Besides Mr.. Seames, a niece
Odessa Gothin, Pine Bluff, Mo.
and sister-in-law, Mary Williams
of Chicago, who both attended the
funeral, and other relatives survive
Mrs. Williams, formerly of Mime.
apolis, was very devoted to Mrs
Seames and spent much time here
during the past few years assisting
at the Seames home.
Interment, Crystal Lake. Wood.
ard Funeral Home in charge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Victory Aides
Being Called in
War Loan Drive

Ardelia Allen, 658 w. Central,
Lieutenant Of the Victory Aide d.
vision which embraces the south
half of ward IL, precinct one, st.
Paul, has sent out a call to all
Aides under her supervision to be
ready for the sixth War Loan
Drive, beginning Nov. 20.
Material has been delivered to
Sergeants which is to be distributed
to members of their groups. Mem
bers Of the three groups in this
division are Sgt. T. J. Jackson,
67s St. Anthony, Clara Allen, Effie
Larkins, Eva Taylor, Claretta Jack
son, Sgt. Cora Moore, 662 W. Gen.
trail, Bette Lewis, Hazel Allen,
Corene Cox, Villa Mae Brown;
Sgt. Marguerite Davis, 666 Rondo;
Patricia Cartwright, Sarah Hill,
Marguerite Davis, Dolores Brown.
The deadline for Sergeant re-
ports to Captain C. Irving Dunn,
area supervisor, is Dec. l. All
Aides are requested to contact
their Sergeants.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Wife of Elder
John Nelson
Dies Suddenly

Matte Nelson, SO, 301 st. An
thony Ave, a resident of st. Paul
for the past "a years, died at
Ancker hospital, Wednesday morn
ing, Nov. Is. She had been in i'll
health. for six years but became
seriously i'll at church Sunday,
Nov. 5, and was rushed to the
hospital.
Mrs. Nelson, together with her
husband, Rev. John Nelson, pastor
of the Apostolic Faith Assembly,
founded a number of churches of
Apostolic faith in the Twin Cities.
Mrs. Nelson, who was born at
Clinton, Iowa, had been married to
Rev. Nelson for thirty-four years.
Funeral services will be held
Monday, Nov. 20, at 2 p. m. at the
Apostolic Faith Assembly at Min
nesota Ave. and 18th St., with Rev.
J. S. Holly, of Chicago, officiating.
Surviving are her husband, Rev.
Nelson, four sons, Alphonso, Phil
lip and James of st. Paul and Pvt.
John Nelson, Jr., in France; five
daughters, Ruth, Villaa, Mrs. Emma
Simmons and Mrs. Lillian Danes,
st. Paul, and Estella Nelson, Cleve-
land, Ohio; two brothers, Henry
Clay, Kansas City, Mo-, and Harri-
son Clay, Chicago; a sister, Mrs.
Nellie Johnson, Clinton, Iowa and
five grandchildren.
Mrs. Simmons who was in Cleve-
land visiting and her sister Estella,
Mrs. Nelson's two brothers and her
sister are all in the city to attend
the funeral. Neal Funeral Home is
in charge of arrangements. Some
of Rev. Nelson's relatives are ex-
pected in the city to attend the
funeral.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
WAND Chapter
Organized in
Minneapolis

The LoYonia H. Brown chapter
Of the WANDs, national organiza-
ton, was organized in Minneapolis,
Sunday, Nov. IL, at a meeting con-
Quoted by Vida Seaton, St. Paul,
a colonel in the WANDs and state
organizer, at S45 E. SSth St.
Officers elected were: Grace
Bryant, captain; Flossie Harris,
first lieut.; Mary Turner, second
lieut.; Lucille McAdams, chaplain;
Ruth Judy, master sergeant; Helen
Phillips, tech. sgt; Helen Smith,
first sgt; Inez Clark, staff sgt.
Pauline Hinton, first cpl. Dorothy
Thomas is in charge of publicity.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
st. Paul Boys
Turn Firemen,
Put Out Blaze

A three boy volunteer fire
brigade put out fire at 4O1 Rondo
Ave-, st. Paul, Tuesday and per-
haps saved from injury or worse
a six year old boy.
The young heroes who were
Melvin Goss, IA, SIT Aurora Ave-,
Gene Thompson, 10, of 515 West
Central and Raymond Presley, dis
covered smoke pouring from the
Rondo st. house.
They rushed inside, grabbed
some pans, filled them with water
and doused the flames before the
fire department got there.
The six-year-old boy Eddie Lee
Mum was in the house alone at the
time of the blaze and apparently
had been playing with matches.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Negro Ordnance
Troops Clean
Up On Nazis

New Brighton, MINI. - At the
end of a furious scrap in a little
French town near the Belgian
border, an Army Ordnance Negro
ammunition units 62-man "clean-
up" squad had slain 35 Nazi SIS
troops and wounded three more
while cleaning out an isolated
pocket of German resistance, ac-
cording to a battlefront report re-
ceived today by Lieutenant Colonel
E. E. Gialdini, Commanding Officer
of the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant.
The scrap occurred as the unit
was preparing to move its am
munition depot into position to
supply units of 1t. Gen. Courtney
Hodges First Army, hammering
against the Siegfried Line.
The Germans had "dug in" at a
barn in the village, members of the
French Forces of the Interior re-
ported. The Ordnancemen were
armed only with carbines and rifles,
and a few incendiary hand gre
nades, but they moved in on the
Germans who were equipped with
automatic machine pistols, in ad-
dition to their other weapons.
Asked to surrender, the Germans
replied with volleys from machine
pistols. An incendiary grenade
then fired the building and the Ger
mans came out fighting. The
Ordnance soldiers opened fire and
cleaned out the enemy pocket.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Mill City
NAACP Election
Sunday at 4

The Minneapolis branch, NAACP,
will hold its annual election of Of
fcers at the regular meeting, SUM-
day, Nov. 10, at a p. m. at Phyllis
Wheatley House. The nominating
committee is composed of Jonas
Schwartz, chairman, Allie Glenn
Beulah Mitchell, Mae Marshall
Curtis Chivers, Talmadge B. Carey
and Robert W. Kelley.
Wendell C. Jones, president, will
give a report of the years activi-
ties. Rev. A. Frederick Martin,
will give the invocation.
The new officers will be installed
at the next regular meeting, SUM-
day, Dec. II.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Rosetta Johnson
in Recital Sunday

Rosetta REM johnson, contralto,
will be presented in recital at the
Sunday evening, Nov. 10, Salon at
Halle Q. Brown House, at S:15
p. m.
Mrs. Johnson has been active in
music circles of st. Paul. She is
now a student of Florence Loften.
The public is invited.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17

party anu Cdhul- McALflN
date choices-which is a healthy
sign, avoiding any semblance of
belief that any one party or candi-
date can ever count them as Sin
the bag"-there was an amazing
unanimity as to what the Negro
wants and expects from his own
country which processes to be the
leader of democracy in the world.
That unanimity must continue
The bitter charges and counter
charges, the hurting of epithets
and denunciations, the accusations
and defilements must be buried
with the past. There is only one
direction for Negroes to pull
forward and togetherl
All Of Republicans
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS want
elimination of jimcrow, discrimina-
ton and abuse in the armed
forces; we want jobs, at equal
wages, at our highest skills and
abilities; we want the right to
vote without restrictions of poll
taxes, grandfather clauses, or lily
white primaries; we want equal
educational opportunities below and
above the Mason-Dixon line; we
want the right to choose our own
friends and to spend our money
wherever the public" is invited;
we want the right to bargain col
lectively as a part of American
labor, not apart from it; we want
our equitable share of public bene-
fits whether administered by state
or federal government; we want
equal justice before the law and
law enforcement officers. In short,
we want to be Americans without
qualification or modification, with
the inalienable rights by which
the Declaration of Independence
says all men are endowed.
No man, no people, no nation was
ever given freedom. Freedom
must be won, must be earned. The
Negro is no exception. Dewey
could not have given. it to us.
Roosevelt cannot give it to US. And
we can't win it for ourselves by
fighting among ourselves or
against those whose cooperation
we need to make the fight sue
cessful.
Roosevelt is again our President.
Whether we voted for or against
him - whether we praised or
damned him-we must now get be-
hind him to push when shove is
needed, to yell when a protest is
warranted, to criticize construc-
lively, to petition, to interpret, to
cooperate.
Let's lick our wounds, smile, lock
arms and move forward. How else
can we be the full-status Ameri-
cans we are fighting to be?
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Annual Football
Classic Sunday at
Central Stadium
Chartered Car Transports
Fans from MINNEAPOLIS

On Sunday, Nov. 10, at 8 p. m.
Phyllis ,Wheatley will challenge
Halle Q. Brown at the annual foot
ball classic which has been staged
between the two Twin City COM
munity houses since 1885.
Jimmie Lees Spotlight, on page
a of this issue, gives some interest
ing data on the two teams.
For the convenience of Mime
apolis fans who want to attend this
game, a chartered street car will
leave Phyllis Wheatley House at 2
p. m. No tokens will be accepted.
Fare is 20 cents each way. The
Wheatley team will ride over and
back with the fans. Anyone wish
ing to go along, should be at Wheat
ley House by 2 p. m. sharp.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Wisconsin Elects
Negro to Assembly;
1st Since 1906

Milwaukee - Special - Leroy
Simmons seemed sure of becoming
the first Negro since 1906 to win
a seat in the State assembly Wed
nesday, as tabulation of the great
est vote in 9Th ward history neared
completion.
If the Simmons trend holds, he
will unseat Ray Marley, Republi-
can incumbent, by an overwhelm-
ing majority. The last Negro in
the assembly was Lucian Talmer,
a Republican, who won a seat in
1906.
Simmons election is attributed
to his liberal program and the
strength of President Roosevelt in
the 9Th ward. In his platform he
pledged to fight for slum clear
ance, low cost housing and against
restrictive covenants. The ward
voted overwhelmingly for the
President, tabulations show.
At present Simmons is doing war
work at the A. o. Smith company,
At various times he worked as an
insurance salesman and postal
clerk. He is a member of the
Y. M. @. A., the N. A. A. C. p. and
a former member of the Negro
Businessmen's League.
Born and reared in Milwaukee,
Simmons attended Lincoln and
West high schools, and studied law
for one year with Attorney G. R
Brawley.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
SERVICE CLUB VIEWS WAR
THEATER SOUVENIRS

The Halle Q. Brown Service
Club, was called together for a
short business meeting, Friday,
Nov. 10, at the home of the presi-
dent, Mrs. Esther Brown, 4o5 st.
Anthony Ave. After the meeting,
the members were shown some of
the souvenirs brought from several
war theaters, by Mrs. Browns son,
Harold, who is a merchant marine.
Among them were a German he'll
met, a German bayonet, a belt from
a German officers suit, gas mask,
an Arabian fezz and many other
items of interest.
The Service Club is seeking the
names of local men and women in
the hospitals in the States or over
seas.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Robert L. Cox,
Stricken on Job,
Arrives Home

Robert L. Cox, 500 Iglehart Ave-,
Northern Pacific railroad employee,
who was stricken with pneumonia
while enroute to Seattle, Wash,
arrived at his home Tuesday, Nov.
IA, His condition is reported fair.
He was confined at the hospital at
Billings, Montana, until he was
able to travel.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
Thanksgiving
Day Services
In Minneapolis

North Minneapolis churches will
hold a joint Thanksgiving Day
service, Thursday morning, Nov.
%, at IL a. m. at Border Metho-
dist church, Rev. Robert W. Kelley
is pastor. Rev. L. P. Ashford, new
minister of Wayman A. NJ. E.
church, will preach.
Other churches participating will
be Pilgrim Rest Baptist church,
Rev. ]. J. Clayburn, pastor, and
Zion Baptist, Rev. H. W. Bolts, ST.,
pastor.