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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22

sight on the tar McALPlN
get. You can't afford to miss the
bulls eye too much. People lose
confidence in you when you do so
too often.
But who can criticize one for be-
coming sentimental about Christ
mas, particularly in this year when
the world is torn by chaos, intrigue,
slaughter. exploitation, discrimina-
ton, and just plain cussedness? A
little bit of concentration on the ex-
ample of Christ, whose birthday we
celebrate on Christmas Day, is not
amiss.
There are a lot of other things
I could write about this week. For
example, could tell you the in
side story of letter written by the
Department of Justice to Rep. Mary
Norton, chairman of the House La
Dor Committee, back in July con-
corning some of the legal and con-
stitutional technicalities in the
pending bills for a permanent
FEPC. 1 could tell you about the
part Chairman Malcolm Ross OF
the present FEPC played in having
that letter sent to Mrs. Norton,
and then trying to convince us
newsmen that his only interest in
the legislation for a permanent
agency was limited to the need
for such legislation" And l could
include how Mrs. Norton hid the
letter even from her Labor Commit
tee members until recently.
Or, l could tell you the story of
a high ranking Army officer who
went to high ranking Negro gov
eminent official-a friend of his
seeking information to settle a bet
on whether Negroes in Chicago OBJ
served a monthly push 'em" day
when all Negroes pushed white peo-
pie off the sidewalk just for pure
meanness. The officer was betting
on the right side-he bet nothing
of the kind happens. The high
ranking Negro government official
is getting affidavits from prominent
ChicagOans to help him prove this
point.
Or, l could tell the story of a
former cabinet member who threw
up his hands in frustrated amaze
ment at suggestion that employ
ers be required to make use of all
available labor, including Negroes,
as a means of avoiding the neces-
sity of a National Service Act that
would tear people from their fami-
lies and homes in order to meet the
manpower requirements of war pro-
duction several months ago. He
couldn't conceive of forcing an en-
ployer to hire Negroes whether he
wanted to or not-yet he was will
ing to have workers moved about
against their wills.
Maybe I'll tell the whole story of
these things in later columns. But
this week, so near to Christmas,
choose rather to let the "dirt"
stay covered, and uncover only
my sentimentalism.
May peace come on earth, and
goodwill into the hearts of all men.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22
st. Peter Senior
Choir To Sing
Messiah" Dec. "a

The Senior Choir Of st. Peters
A. NJ. E. Church will present the
anthem, Messiah" by Handel, at
their music recital Sunday evening,
Dec. "a, at 7:30 p. m. in the Church
auditorium. Mrs. Emma Simms is
director of the choir.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22
Twin City Churches
Plan Special Services
Sunday, Christmas Eve

There will be special music programs and sermons at
many of the Twin City churches Christmas Eve Sunday
December "a.
Sunday morning, Dec a. the eleven o'clock service at
Pilgrim Baptist Church. St. Paul. chdrens Christmas stories
told by Rev FloYd Massey Jr will nrecede the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22
Christmas Carol
Concert Dec. "a

A City wide Christmas Carol
Concert will be the feature of the
evening at the Halle Q. Brown
Salon, Sunday, Dec. "a, at 8:15 pm.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22
Negro Flyer Unit Is
Facing Collapse From
Lack of Requirements
Fails to Get Adequate Requirements for Casualties
Dy 1EU1 OUI1Gy
Stdff CORRESPONDENT of p M

o P. M.
Rome Dec 13Th aNegro fighter group Force
commanded by Col O. Davis of Brig Gen. Benjamin
highest Negro officer in the u Army
possible collapse Is a unit.
The offered by members group
sufficient have depleted their ranks
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22

a newspaper cor
respondent and
columnist because
there's too fine a
line between SEN
timentalism and
emotiona l s m .
And when one be-
comes emotional
in this business,
he often loses his
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22
Play At Halle O

"Susanna's Christmas Auction"
a play, will be given at the Halle
Q. Brown House, Sunday evening
at a pm. The players are children
between the ages of five and IL.
To Close Estate: Large stucco du-
pick with extra large corner lot.
Will sell cheap.-704 N. 7th st. For
appointment call Cherry 7155
after 6.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22
Supreme Court Says R. R.
Unions & Companies Can't
Make Race-Bar Contracts
(Special)

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)-In a far-reaching
decision important economically Negroes the Texas
White Primary decision politically the Supreme Court
today decided unanimously that the Railway Labor Act i'm
poses union representative of craft the obligation
represent the interests of all it's members mparay and
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22

Do your Christmas Shopping
with friendly firms whose ads are
usually found in this paper.-adv.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-22
UncOvering
Washington
By Harry S. McAlpin

Every now and then l get senti-
mental. It's a great temptation to
give in to the feeling. But it's not
q good trait for
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Yonks Showed No Fear as They Boarded Invasion Craft

hicles scheduled today to move up
the beachhead into France.
Over us scared scores of small
barrage balloons, tethered to the
rails of so many ships packed so
closely in the little English river you
wondered there weren't serious COL
lisions.
We had been packed since just
after dawn yesterday with men and
vehicles. On the docks other land
ing craft were being loaded. All
types Of weapons were moving onto
many kinds of craft some of them
new to the war. They are the wea =
pons that today are cracking the
European west wall.
Primarily was interested in see
ing whether the men and their
officers were excited or worried
Night before last we bivouaced
in a country lane, where we re-
ceived Anal loading instructions
from an ofiicer before we bedded
down IN trucks and motor buses for
Evening star., 1944-06-06

the final ride to our landing craft.
The men talked of everything but
the coming battle.
A few of them burned letters. To-
day they needed no urging from
their sergeants to clean and polish
their equipment. Probably no rifles
ever went into action cleaner than
those on this ship.
The men slept in their vehicles
under improvised blanket shelters
as warm English sun beat down.
They played cards with French
money issued before they left their
home areas. Each soldier had been
given the French equivalent of 81
for spending cash. Some of them
won't have much to spend when it
has gone the inevitable soldier route
by cards or craps
The foreign money startled the
men on the ship. They asked ques-
tions which no one answered. This
ship has been through the mill In
tsicily and Salerno, but she Is lucky.
Evening star., 1944-06-06

Shells made in Germany fell all
around her at both places, and
Jerry bombed her, but she wasn't t
hit. She's big, but not too sturdy,
and they say the German E-boats
will be thick in the Channel, and
they're rough and tough. Well
know about that later.
On the we'll deck and on the
lower deck, the GIs, most of them
untried in battle, show no sign of
combat nerves. They know they
are going into the toughest job any
army has tackled, that they'll be a
part of the greatest military show
in history, and that some of them
won't come back. But with the
fatalism Of the soldier, they don't
think in terms of individual death.
No soldier believes bullet carries
his number. Perhaps II he did there
wouldn't be wars.
The officers sit In the wardroom
fraternizing with the Navy men,
{see McCALLUM, Page A-73
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Nazi Resistance Weak
As 5th Army Drives
Steadily Beyond Rome
Enemy Divisions Still
In FIotlonds Below City
In Desperate Struits
By fine As,ociated press

By the Associated Press. ..
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
piles, June 6.-Fifth Army forces
drove steadily beyond liberated
Rome today, some units plunging
as much as S miles out from the
historic. Tiber River against what
was officially termed only weak
resistance"
THE battle to destroy the enemy
continues without pause" said a
communique.
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's troops
have crossed or reached the Tiber
all the way from Rome to the sea
and enemy divisions still in the
fiatlands below the city are in des-
perate straits.
Armored Forces Fam Out. =
In the coastal area alone well
over 2,o0o Germans apparently will
be unable to scramble out of the
Allied net because all Tiber bridges
from Rome to the sea either have
been blown up or captured.
In still-jubilant Rome, however
IL crossings remained intact and
the 5th Army poured across in q
constant stream to chase the Ger
mans fleeing nOrthward in disorder
Allied armored forces famed out
over a wide area. Infantry also has
crossed the river in force and was
reported driving due west of Vat
ican City. The only resistance any
(See ITALY, Page A-7)
Evening star., 1944-06-06
1900 Allied Planes
Aid Invasion Despite
Thick, Rolling Clouds
Absence Of Germon
Resistance Stands Out
In Aerial Operations
BY the Associated Press.

oS tkH ASSOCIATED HfeSS.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXP PEDITIONAR Y
FORCE, June 6.-Through roll
ing ocean Of clouds 5000 feet
thick, Allied air forces threw
1900 aircraft of almost every
type into the grand invasion OF
Europe today, bombing and
strafing miles of Normandy S
beaches and flying inland to
break the enemy's communica-
tions. ..
Two things stood out in the all
operations launched in support OF
the landings in Northern France
The first was the mass of airplanes
the Allies were able to put into the
sky in weather described as lust
fair"
The other was the absence OF
German resistance.
In a blasting herald to the in
vssion, the British bomber COM
mand sent more than 1900 OF its
biggest ships roaring across the
Channel last night and early today
IN the heaviest aerial attack ever
aimed at German batteries alone
the French coast.
len attacks were executed be-
tween 1870 pm. and sunrise, each
With 100 or more bombers,
Other British aircraft attacked
the Northwestern German railroad
city OF Osnabruck without loss.
The stunning aerial bombardment
fell on the Normandy landing
beaches as the first phases of the
| lco-ordinated assault began.
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Nazi Economic Chief Taken
Back 10 Reich by Jap Sub
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 6.-Dr. Hell
muth Wohlthat, chairman of a Nazi
economic mission to Tokyo, has re-
turned to Germany aboard a Japa-
nese submarine with reports OF
events that "unfavorably Influenced
relations between Japan and Ger
many" the Stockholm newspaper
Aftontidningen said In an article
reported to the Once of War In
formation last night.
The article, quoting a Zurich cor
respondent; said that while Wohl-
that was in Japan the Japanese had
closed Offices of the German chem
ical concern, I. G. Farbenindustrie
and that $50 German businessmen
lost their trading licenses"
The Nazis were displeased also
over Japan's continued supply OF
wolfram to Russia despite German
protests and held that the Japa-
nese did nothing" to stop the
nearly 100000 tons of shipping
that reached Vladivostok during re-
cent months" the newspaper said.
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Prayer Services

Prayers for the success of the
invasion are being said at
special services in a number of
churches throughout the day
and evening. Most churches
will remain open until 10 pm.
In four churches, the WASH
ington Federation of Churches
is sponsoring special services,
open to all, at 3 pm. Details
of church announcements on
Page B-1.
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Petain Urges Frenchmen
To Iqnore Outside Voices
By the Associated Press.

6S tne ASbOClabS0 frSsS.
LONDON, June 6.-The Paris
radio today broadcast an appeal by
Marshal Petain to Frenchmen to re-
frain from actions which would call
down upon you tragic reprisals."
France has become q battlefield, -
said the aged Vichy chief. "The
circumstances of battle may compel
the German Army to take special
measures In the battle area. Accept
this necessity"
He called on officials, railwaymen
and workers to remain at their posts
where they would serve the Ger
man military machine-"in order to
keep the life of the nation and in
order to carry out your tasks"
do not listen to outside voices
calling on you not to listen to our
DEGREES, he said.
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Russians Understood
To Be Preparing Blow
Al Reich From East
News Of Lone-Awoited
Second Front Invasion
Greeted With Glee
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, June 6.-Russian
armies were understood today to
be massing and preparing to per-
form their part OF the joint Al
lied task of crushing Germany
with : blow from the east, com :
bined with Gen. Esenhower's
invasion from the west and Gen.
Alexander's thrust up the Italian
Peninsula.
The invasion of Northwest Frames
was the .second front" for which
the Russians had called for three
anxious years. But the second
front" already had ceased to BE 1
political issue here before Gen.
Eisenhower struck.
The controversy amounted virtu-
ally to a crisis in 1912 when Premier
Stain called for front in Western
Europe Of "first-rate Importance"
and urged the United States and
Great Britain to fulfill their obliga-
tions fully and on time" The
second front" talk died down after
the Teheran agreement on the
scope and timing" of blows from
the east and west.
Russians who learned of the in
vasion today literally danced with
glee
Peter Smollett, head Of the Rus
sian department of the British Min
istry of Information, walked into
the press department of the Foreign
Commissarait at 1880 pm, holding
up his thumb, and announced: :
They're on" Then we went to
notify Soviet officials.
Maj. Gen. John r. Deane, chief
of the United States Military Mis-
sion, and 1t. Gen. Broacas Burrows,
British Military Mission head, pre-
pared joint statement for the
Soviet press.
Evening star., 1944-06-06

told reporters that Mr.. Roosevelt hat
expressed confidence that the in.
vasion was going well and according
to plans.
Meanwhile, 1t was announced thai
the President, working during the
night in the silence of his bedroom
wrote a prayer for victory in which
he will lead the American people
over the radio at 10 O'Clock. tonight
1t was written as he received the
first dramatic communicates on the
opening of the Allied campaign OF
liberation.
Lead them straight and true: give
strength to their arms, stoutness te
their hearts. steadfastness to theil
faith the President will ask In hi
supplication to the Almighty.
House Prays for Success.
The House opened its session to-
day with prayer by the Rev. James
Shera Montgomery, its chaplain, in
which he also invoked Divine aiG
for Allied troops. Thousands OF
Washingtonians went to churches
throughout the city to implore God !.
blessing on Americas greatest mill
tary effort.
Late news Of the invasion may be
available to the press at 4 pm. when
the Chief Executive-despite the
heavy pressure on him today-wil
hold his usual Tuesday news con-
ference.
Alert and eager, but with calm
confidence in victory, the Capita
received the ng-awaited news that
the hour Of liberation had come
Comment made to The Star TO-DAY
by high officials as we'll as the
man in the street" indicated pent-
up relief that the great hour hac
arrived. The Red Cross blood donor
center reported a flood of calls
tSee CAPITAL. Page A-71
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Warning of Storm
Caused 24-Hour
Delay in Invasion
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
UPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, June 6. - The Allied
landings in France were post
poned "a hours due to bad
weather, it was learned today.
They were originally scheduled
for yesterday morning.
AS time for the original
D-day approached there was a
clear sky, but the weatherman
warned a storm was coming
and Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover postponed the opera
tions "a hours.
Although the weather still
looked bad when the invasion
finally was ordered, the pre-
dictions were for clearing skies
and the expedition moved out.
Evening star., 1944-06-06
j. ). War Chieftains
Call al White House
With Latest News
MorsholI, King, Arnold
Report to President;
Broadcast Set Tonight
(Tert OF Presidents Prayer
on Page BID

Latest reports on the progress
OF the invasion were given
President Roosevelt at the White
House today by the chiefs OF the
three armed service s-Qen.
George c. Marshall, Admiral
Ernest ]. King and Gen. Henry
II. Arnold.
House Speaker Rayburn of Texas
also called at the White House and
Evening star., 1944-06-06

I stood on the
deck of a land
ing craft the
night b e t or e
t h o u S a n DIS of
young Americans
moved onto a
beachhead in
E u r pc a n d
watched t h e m
and their Of
fcers and their
enotionS-or as
much as they
showed. Packed
b u m er t o
bumper on the
eNeAAsAAd AAAk
Evening star., 1944-06-06
BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Star War Correspondent.

WITH THE INVASION D-DAY
TASK FORCE, June 6.-Excitement,
anxiety, fear-the American soldier
knows none of these on the eve of
Evening star., 1944-06-06

tured strategic bridges France before they
could be blown up and that there is fighting pro-
ceeding in the town of Caen"
Prime Minister Churchill said effective landings
had been made a broad 'front.'
By tn. Associated Press
LONDON June 6.-Prme Minister Churchill said to-
night Allied troops had penetrated in several
miles inland after effective landings the French coast
broad front.
The Prime Minister said he had visited the various
centers where latest information received and could
state that "ths operation is proceeding in thoroughly
satisfactory manner"
MANY dangers and difficulties which appeared at this
time last night extremely formidable behind u.s. the
leader reported
Passage of the has been made with far less loss than
bombing the the superior bombardment OF
ships quickly reduced their to dimensions which did not
Paratroopers Feat Called Outstanding.
Mr. the houss Of asT visit
King George described the landing Of abone troops the
han sngns there s SO far the
landings took place with extremely little loss and great
Earlier cheering iberating assault
proceeding according to plan-and what plan
that the Allied forces had been
the Channel the shores of France by IAN immense
1000 ships with several thousand smaller a-prooao
already surprise at
tanned" furnish the with
surprises during the of the fighting
Landings Beaches Are Proceeding.
The will constantly scale
and intensity and shall attempt to
speculate its
landings at various points
Churchill said.
free shoreba largely queled"
which constructed in the have
not proved so difficult apprehended"
said the AmericanBrith Allies sustained
which needed
said the commanders who engaged report that
everything is proceeding according to plan"
"And what plan!" he declared
Most Complicated Operation Attempted.
Churchill the operation undoubtedly the most
phcated Al difficult which occurred"
of the liberation of Rome" he added
Allied been
with joy by the population
liberation that shall
hostile attacks and deliver from the famine
which threatened"
tribute both Gen Harold Alex
Clark said: Complete unity
Allied confidence
of expeditonary Montgomery
Hopes for Further Captures in Italy
discussing Italian said Allied
with the driving ahead nohward in relen
10000 already taken would followed by further
Commons that certainly in the
battle would endeavor the House fully
informed.
indulgence press upor
them before tonight" he added
Lost at Anzio.
grim well good in MI Churchns address
discussing beachhead which
established
said the Allies lost
But the Anzo landing the end fruit forcing
he add
Evening star., 1944-06-06

LONDON P.-Transocean in Berlin broadcast
today said the Allies had established 15ile front
from mile to 4 half mile deep between VilIers-Sur
Mer and Irouville This area is about miles south
Of the port Of Le Hawe
Evening star., 1944-06-06
Weather Forecast

moderate temperature tonigh
Slightly cooler tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-06-06

(See INVASION. Page As.
Evening star., 1944-06-06

tSee CAPITAL, Page AT
Evening star., 1944-06-06

Temperatures today-Highest, 81, at
80 pm; lowest, So, at 4:55 am. Yes
terday-Highest, 70, at 5:55 pm; low
est, So, at 4:40 am.
Evening star., 1944-06-06
lnvosion's Progress
Satisfies Churchill:
Porotroopers Hailed
Tells Commons Liberation Is
Going According to Plan
And What d PIun!
B ULL E T IN

LONDON (P.-Prime Minister Churchill
nounced today that Allied airborne troops had cap
tured several strategic bridges in France before they
could be blown up and that there is fighting pro-
ceeding in the town of Caen'
Prime Minister Churchill said effective landings
had been made on a broad front.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-24
Pure Bloods of Guam
Soon May Be Extinct

that about 1000 died or were killed
directly as a result of japanese
policies. Another 1000 died from
various causes-lack of medical
care, the American pre-invaslon
bombings, unavoidably when they
were caught by strafing planes as
they worked with the japanese.
Financially most of the natives
are ruined. A good house in Agana
sold for 81 500 before the war. Now
it is worthless.
When the Japanese forced them
to leave the towns, the natives
left behind the bulk of their valu-
ables. Few were able even to take
their cattle with them. (The Jap
anese killed some cattle for food
and the natives say they never
were paid an Indemnify These
and other livestock range through
out the island.
The natives are grateful chiefly
for the end of the Japanese threat
and a state of semi-enslavement.
The best men of the Chamorro
community are attaching them
selves to the government in one
manner or another, as before the
war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-24
By KENNETH L. DIXON

WITH. THE AEF IN SOUTH
ERN FRANCE, Aug. 15-De-
layeO-(R)ERight now it looks
as if the Germans were caught
by surprise in this operation.
If so, it only proves the old
security saying that you
can't keep the enemy from
knowing when and where -
Waiting around the airbase
from which we flew over with
the first glider wave, the
bunch of reporters started
talking about security. 1t was
the same as before the Anzio
operation. N b ody thought
there was the least hope of
taking the Germans by sur
prise. And there was plenty Of
reason for that feeling-inci-
IDENTIFY, very unpleasant
feeling on D-Day eve.
Speculation over when we
were going to invade southern
France long since had reached
the status of common CONVEX
sation around the Mediter-
ranean. Divisions which were
going to participate had been
training for weeks and weeks.
It is impossible to hide such
training operations when they
involve thousands of men, air
planes, elders, parachutes,
ships, jeeps, trucks, tanks and
other implements of war.
In addition, there's the
necessary waterproofing OF
vehicles whether it is. on the
streets of Rome, Naples, Bari,
Palmero or Algiers. Every
enemy spy in the Medeter-'
ranean knew the invasion was
due soon. The clinching point
was the German broadcast
propaganda which kept telling
the doughboys In this theater'
I'VE know you're coming to
southern France. We'll be
waiting fo- you there"
Even though you know 1t is
mostly just feeling for informa-
ton, still it gives you queasy
feeling in the pit of the stom-
ach to hear enemy broad
cast like that.
All those, plus many other
things, strengthened our con-
viction that we were not
exactly staging a surprise
party in southern France.
And we weren't. but still, the
Germans didn't know exactly