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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Charles Young Post
Elects New Officers

The Col. Charles Young Camp,
No. 29, U. S. W. ", department
of Minnesota, held election of off
GERS, Saturday, December 8, at the
Ober Boys Club in St. Paul.
James L. Mckinney was elected
commander; Empie A. Durant,
senior vice commander; George
Mundin, junior vice commander;
Robert Meade and Lawson Smith,
trustees; Thomas Neal, quarter
master, Calvin Parker, chaplain,
and A. J. Todd, adjutant.
Comrade Smith, the past depart
ment commander, conducted the
meeting.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Lieut.. Davenport
Gets ARMY Upgrade

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA).
The Senate last Wednesday con-
firmed the promotion of Second
Lieutenant Clarence M. Davenport,
Jr., to be a first lieutenant with
rank from January 10, next. He
holds the temporary rank of major
in the Coast Artillery Corps. Major
Davenport graduated from West
Point in 1913.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Young Congressman Who Pleaded
Case of Negro GL's Recently
Farmer-LabOr Speaker. Dec. 16

ian from Washington state,
speaker at the Sunday morn
Minnesota Farmer-Labor state
cember Is and 16 in the CLIO
'urth Ave. So.
ne most active of the liberal
and Domestic Policies" will be a
"The Crisis in American Foreign
roll call of groups which will be
united for action in the 1916 cam
paign, including the DFL party,
veterans, farmers, labor, co-ops,
women, youth, and minority
groups.
Other speakers will be Yorke
Langton of the Minnesota United
Nations Committee, on "The
Atomic Bomb and the UNO," and
Professor Theodore Jorgenson of
st. Olaf College on Danger of Re-
action in the United States, both
Saturday morning; in the evening,
Byron Allen, the 1914 candidate for
governor in the DFL party, will
preside over a symposium.
Keep of the date. Christmas Eve
Dance, CLIO Hall, Dec. 2A-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
4 the church code in every sense
of the word, Ashford charged.
Didn't Request Money


Didn't Request Money
81 have been accused of dis
missing the choir because it re-
fused to turn over the proceeds of
the radio program to me personal
w." Rev. Ashford said. 81 never
did receive or ask, nor did I ex-
pect to receive one dime from their
broadcasts. They claimed they
were working for the Trustees but
If l am not mistaken, out of the
approximately 300 dollars they
made while singing in the church's
name, they turned over to the
church $84.5O."
GAS far as me making any de-
rogatory statements about church
members is concerned" Ashford
said, 81 think the people of the
vicinity and the fair-minded people
Of the church realize they are &C
c1sing me of doing to them exactly
what they are doing to me. They
have been using these tactics for
years."
Ashford concluded by charging
that the "brain" behind the re-
curing attacks is a member of the
congregation who will not put his
name on any of the signed state
ments against the pastor, but who
is willing to let the other members
Of the clique "stick their necks
out"
Glad It's Out
They're simple enough to do it,"
Ashford said, while he makes sure
he doesn't involve himself or get
into any trouble. Pm glad all of
this was brought out into the OPEN"
According to Langums, there is
a petition against Ashford con-
tanning the names of 35 members
Of the congregation; the document
brought to the newspaper office
contained four. 1t included the
following statement:
'The buck-passing in this
matter has already begun with
the Bishop Rev. John A. Gregg,
referring the entire matter to the
Presiding Elder, the Rev. w. E.
Guy, who was supposed to inter-
cede and hear the grievances of
the membership. A meeting was
called for this purpose by the
Rev. Guy at which time the
charges preferred against Rev.
Ashford were to have been dis
cussed in his presence. The
Presiding Elder had the informa-
ton in hand, but failed to carry
out the purpose of the meeting.
This meeting turned out to be
such a farce that the members
are contemplating the possibil-
ity of resOrting to legal action
for the removal of the pastor"
Meanwhile Ashford, in a five
page printed statement, answered
in detail the charges against him,
and said,. Wednesday, "There's
more where that comes from.
They've started this thing against
me, and I intend to make them
finish it." (NDR)
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Brazil Gambler Angles
For LOuiS-COnn Fight

RIO DE JANERIO (NNPA).-
Joaquin Rolla, multi-millionaire
gambling "king" of Brazil, con-
firmed last Wednesday that he and
his associates were offering Mike
Jacobs, New York promoter, a
guarantee of 100000 to stage
the Joe Louis-Billy Conn fight at
the Quitandinha resort, in July.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
No Congress Medals
For Negro G.I.'S

NEW Notwithstanding that
President Truman has awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor
literally in patches" to white
heroes of the war, The Crisis maya
zine remarks editorially that it
seems strange to Negro Ameri-
cans" that not one out of nearly a
million of their men in the services
should have won the nations high
est honor. The editorial is in the
December issue.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Brands Truman Reply
To Houston "Quibbling"

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA).
DIR. Emmett ]. Scott, an indus
trial relations consultant to the
Sun Shipbuilding Company, Ches-
ter, Pennsylvania, last Saturday
branded President Truman's reply
to Charles H. Houston's letter of
resignation as a member of the
Fair Employment Practice Com
mittee as "casuistry at its worst"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Short Views
of the
News
Fifteen Army Nurses
Back to Civilian Life

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
-Brigadier General James S. Sim
mons, acting surgeon general of the
Army, has informed Representative
Adam C. Powell, Jr., Democrat, of
New York, that fifteen Negro
nurses who were stationed at Win
ter General Hospital, Topeka, Kan
sas, have been released from the
service under existing criteria. He
said thirty white nurses also sta
toned at that hospital have been
declared surplus.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Ashford the check.
Denies Charges

Rev. Ashford said, "There is no
foundation for any of this. deny
it, and am not afraid to go before
the public with my denial. AS long
run me, too. 1 put them out of
office. It wasn't a pleasant thing
to do, but if I find more in the
church l will do the same thing.
Il have as good members in
Wayman as in any church in the
world. They are lovely to work
with, and are good, Christian peo-
pie. They are putting over a
great program in the church, and
have done everything in their
power to cooperate with me and
help me in my work. was sent
here by the African Methodist
Church to do a job, and 1 will
fight those who are trying to
stop me, clear to the Pacific
Coast and back"
Of the other charges against him,
Ashford answered them as follows:
The church has done better finan-
cially since the dismissal from office
OF those bringing charges against
him, than it has ever done. He
brought the congregation from a
building with seating capacity of
IS, with floor on the ground, and
oil-stove heating, to a new site with
a center-lot location, a seating
capacity of $50, all hardwood floors,
a full-length cement basement with
stone wall, two boilers and every
thing working in tip-top shape. In
addition, there are now six large,
modern rooms for the accommoda-
ton of the pastor and his family.
Membership is incre asing
rather than decreasing, Ashford
stated, and as for his dismissal
from office of "uncOOperative"
members, he said: eyes, dis
missed some of these people from
the Stewards Board and Trustee
Board because 1 got sick and
tired of their high-handed tact
les.
For twenty-six years this
church has been receiving min
listers from the Annual Confer
ence, and of the many men the
Conference has to select to send
here, this clique has marked them
all, and yet the very men that
have been so marked, have gone
out into the world and made
great progress. Those who stayed
more than one year did so on
their own hardness, and not be-
cause of any good treatment and
fair play received from the
writer's of these accusations. It
has become sort of occupation
with them to mark one preacher
a year, 1 guess"
Ashford said he dismissed the
former choir en- masse for eds
obedience to the discipline of the
church" After he had secured a
place for the choir on a radio pro-
gram sponsored by the Fingerhut
company, the pastor stated he was
barred from the business of the
choir, and was not allowed to ask it
about any of its business. If he
asked for an extra service of any
kind, Ashford said, he would be
fatty refused; if he asked for an
extra song during church service,
regardless of how familiar the
song may have been to the group,
he would be told by the chorister
the choir would have "to have time"
to prepare the song.
They went to the management
of the radio concern and told him
they were changing their name
from the Wayman choir to the Cos
pei Singers. This was a violation
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14

"A o0-year-Old COngreSSI
Hugh DeLacy, will be the mai
ing business session of the
convention in Minneapolis, De
building, Eighth Street and F
DeLacy, who is one of
groups in the House of Represen-
tatives, made a fortnight defense
of Negroes in the armed forces in
a speech on the floor of the House
Tuesday, December 4.
Said DeLacy: There are those
within this country, and occasional
ly those within this Congress who
have SO buried their powers of
observation and assimilation of
fact beneath their prejudices, that
they have ventured from time to
time to attack the courageous
record of Negroes in this war. :"
He went on to give facts and fig
ures to support the contributions
made by the Negro soldier in
World War II.
Also included in the Sunday
morning session at which the sub
ject of DeLacy's address viii be,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Lucinda Austin

D1GS OF 70
Lucinda Austin, age 76, 997 AL
drich Ave. N, died Saturday, Dec.
8, at her home after a long illness.
Funeral services were held at
Bethesda Baptist Church, Tuesday,
Dec. II, with Rev. A. F. Martin.
Interment was at Crystal Lake
Cemetery. Her son, James, is her
survivor. The Household of Ruth
assisted the pastor.
She was a native of Lexington,
Mo. Her husband preceded her in
death in 1893.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Keep 'EmSegregated Instead Of Sailing:
Navy Bars 1913 Veterans
From HOmebOund Ship
Over Army Protest

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)-As avalanche Of pro-
tests rolled ill., the Navy Department declined last Wednesday
comment the action of the commander of the aircraft
carrier CrOatan in barring 1923 Negro combat soldiers from
sailing aboard the vessel.
AS the result of the action of Captain Charles D. Griffin
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Christmus Edition
Next Week

The annual Christmas edition of
this paper will be its Dec. 81
edition. There is still time for you,
your club, lodge, church or organ
ization to be represented in it.
Phone Midway 8340 if you have
advertising or material for that
edition.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Veterans to Be
HOnOred at St.
James Sunday

st. James AME church, St. Paul,
is sponsoring reception for re-
turned members of the armed SER
vices Sunday night, Dec. 16, at
8 p. m. at the church.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Zion Senior Choir
To Present Christmas
Play on Dec. e

The Zion Baptist Church Senior
Choir will present Christmas play,
'The Little Shepherd" at the 7:45
services, Dec. %, at the church.
Mrs. Lucy Harris is the director
of the play and D. ]. Wade, in
charge of music.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Drama Debut of Son in Role
OfLittle SambO No Drama Prize
To Mrs. Jones Who's Agin /

The Little Black Sambo" book, which only few weeks
figured in controversy in New York City, after
published picture of little Chinese boy reading
copy before group of Children onto the scene this
week in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Yvonne Jones. 1921 10th Ave So Mill CITY
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
$4,000 Fire Drives Family
To Street In NightclOthes
Destroys All Belongings

An early morning fire originating in bedroom clothes
closet caused damage estimated at $4,000 and drove the
William Gardner family 1854 Fourth Ave- &c. from their
home in night clothing, last Thursday.
Mrs Lucille Gardner awakened at to find flames
burning furniture at the foot of the bed where she and her
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
NAACP to
Elect Board
December 18th

DOOONIUCI 1VGIL
The NAACP will nominate and
elect the members of the board of
directors at the meeting Sunday,
Dec. 16, at a p. m. There are rs
to be elected.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14

candidate, entered the race near the
close of the entry period. He start
ed out leading the vote tally during
the first two weeks. Slemmons, who
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
Yes, Dismissed Then!" Minneapolis Pustor Says:
Rev. Z. P. Ashford Answers Charges
Against Him By Church Member

L.
mani
Wednesday, first preacher that has
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14
James SlemmOns Elected
1915 Bonneville Mayor
In Spirited Election
Over Eugene Hurris
1910 Winner Victorious

James w. Jimmie) Slemmons who the first Twin
City Mayor of Bonneville grabbed the honor for second
time last Friday night at Norway Hail. when he the 1915
race over Edward Gene" Harris by vote of 5000 to
75,20O after touch-andgo fight right to the finish.
The campaign a hectic Harris, dark horse
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14

Wait for Nat Towles at st. Paul
Auditorium. Jan. 2.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14

Wait for Nat Towles at St Pay
Auditorium Ton. 2.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14

are living until their home can be
repaired.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
\X$;':i \X$:;;' I; e. s.
"
BARGE TRIPS.

BARGE TRIPS.
National Capital Parks o. b o.
canal trips, leave Georgetown Lock
8, Thirtieth street south Of M NV,
2 pm. tomorrow, or Lock 8, Brook
mont, Md, 4:30 pm. tomorrow.
EXHIBITS.
Iithographs and drawings by John
Steuart Curry, division Of graphic
arts, National Museum, Smithsonian
Institution, 8 am. to 4:30 pm. daily
through September.
Bonnard paintings, Picssso musical
instruments, Daumier Autographs,
Phillips Memorial Gallery, II am.
to 10 pm. Mondays; II am. to IN.
Tuesdays through Saturdays, and 8
to pm. Sundays, through Septem-
Der.
Arts Club members paintings. 20l7
street NV, II am. to 6 pm. week.
days through September.
Howard Conant and William
Whitney drawings and paintings,
Public Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, 8 am. to 9 pm. weekdays,
except Saturdays, 8 am. to 6 pm,
through September.
Franz Werfels original man.
uscripts, Library of Congress, am
to 10 pm. Mondays through Fridays;
9 am. to pm. Saturdays, and
1870 am. to 10 pm. Sundays,
through October 7.
Encyclopaedia Britannica collection
OF contemporary American paintings
through Ocotber IA, and postwar
plans for Washington through Octo-
Der 81, Corcoran Art Gallery, noon
to 4:30 pm. Mondays; 9 am. to 4:30
pm. Tuesdays through Saturdays,
and to pm. Sundays.
New acquisitions in Rosenwald
Acollection, National Gallery Of Art,
10 am. to 6 pm. weekdays and to
10 pm. Sundays, through October 81.
japanese and German surrender
documents, war documents, papers
and museum pieces of late President
\ Roosevelt and Admiral Perry papers,
National Archives, S:45 am. to Sis
pm. weekdays, and 1:30 to S pm.
sundays, LHrOusH NOFeIlDeI.
FOR SERVICEMEN.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco The
ater, tonight: Sidney Beschet and
his New Orleans Feet Warmers and
Military District of Washington
dance band.
Film: Hail the Conquering Hero"
with Eddie Bracken, USO Club,
Eighth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV, $50 o'clock tonight.
OFFICERS.
Dance, Officers Club of YMCA,
1875 G street NV, $50 o'clock to-
night.
aance, Scots Hotel, $3.50 o'clock
tonight.
Army and Navy daughters dance,
Officers Service Club of United
Nations, $50 o'clock tonight.
Service personnel may obtain more
information by calling the United
Nations Center, National 5000, or
any of the following USOs: Republic
1927, National 3431, National O614
or Executive 0428 Colored person.
mel may call USO. Decatur 1854, or
War Hospitality, Decatur 7768.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
| NyIon Definition
| Is as Difficult
| As Finding Hose

Men, your Christmas shopping
problem for the wife or girl friend
Is solved.
Just go to the nearest ladies' store
and ask for pair of long chain
synthetic polymeric amides with re-
curing amide groups in the main
polymer chain. In other words,
nylon stockings.
The store won't sell them to you,
but you know what to ask for.
The aforementioned definition
has been adopted officially by the
Du Pont Co. because it explains
nylon more clearly and precisely"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

request for detailed reports on
the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administra n
an dother world economic plans.
1.-THE people and the Congress
must know within the next six
months what il any part the
United States will take in the
reconstruction and rehabilitation
of Europe" said Rep. Vorys (R-
Ohio), a member of the commit
tee.
81 want to know whether
Lend-Lease will be a part OF
that program" Vorys said. "The
President has said it will not be
but we have these programs:
Immediate relief and civil sup
port for liberated areas, provid-
ed by the military, relief and re-
Mobilization work after the mill
tary steps out, permanent recon-
struction as contemplated in the
Breton Woods agreements.
= "We can't divide these things
into water-tight compartments,
he told a reporter. eve have to
have the whole picture in order
to legislate intelligently on the
future of Lend-Lease."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
SchooIboy Vet
Gives Talk at
Rotary Luncheon

UTICA-A young discharged
veteran of World War II was
the speaker at the Utica Rotary
Club Tuesday night, William
Froberg, 10, of Mount Clemens,
told his listeners in the Ian
guage of CT Joe. his experience
while fighting in the European
theater of War, particularly in
Italy.
Froberg was accompanied by
draft board and himself vet
drfat board and himself vet
eran of World War l. Kroner
wears the Distinguished Service
Cross and the French decoration
of the Croix de Guerre. To dis
pei the nervousness of the
young soldier. KRONER acted as
questioner, bringing out inter-
esting remarks from the speak
err.
The talk was of particular in
terest to several members of
the Utica club who are veterans
of World War / and knew we'll
the country of which the young
man spoke and could attest to
the truthfulness of what he said.
Leo Kolowich was program
chairman for the evening.
Visitors were George Simons,
John Muldoon, Carl Faupel, of
Center Line, Phil. Whiting,
James Cook, Hugo Walter Of
Mount Clemens.
Froberg was drafted at the
age of ID while a Junior in the
Mount Clemens high school. He
entered service in September
1943, and received medical
discharge in October 1914, hav-
ing been wounded in action in
Italy. He is back at Mount Glenn
ems High School and later will
obtain a college education.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
SCHANHER,S
SM1e-

Trodtonel candy Valentine gifts mighty this
yeer suggest gift Of Perfumes Toilet Waters,
good Book thot will 90 right TO her heart!
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

9ZO bills. Five hundred
bucks blowing around in the
snow!
Just as they got the money
counted and folded, with plans
to turn it over to police :.
along came a little old lady so
nervous she could hardly talk.
She explained she had just
drawn the cash from the bank
and in leaving had thought she
slipped it into a trick pocket"
in her coat but apparently
missed the pocket. AS she walk
ed down the street the $40 bills
had slipped to the sidewalk one
by one. Needless to say, her
thanks and JOY at recovering the
money were boundless.
After she had left Mrs.
Ormsby looked at Mrs. Young
and said "Well, 1t was a
nice dream, wasn't It"
PFC. IRVING REDFIELD, Jr.,
age 20, writes to his parents
from a hospital in France, where
he is convalescing from illness,
to report that an "angel Of mer-
cy" in the person of Katherine
Raemon, of the Red Cross, (for-
mer Mount Clemens school
teacher) appeared at his bedside
and cheered him up with a
hometown talk recently. :.
He also notes that Dick Eschen-
burg, Bob Devices and Frank
Copeland, of Mount Clemens are
fighting in that particular Sec
tor.
A Mac0mb School teacher
urges parents to warn their
children against hitching on
the backs of cars and trucks
before a serious accident hap
pens. Lots Of them are doing
it so talk to your child
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
HaryHeilmann
Speaks to
Kiwanis Club

Harry Heilmann, ex-Tiger
baseball great and currently
one of the nations leading
sports announcers, was the
speaker at the weekly luncheon
meeting of the Kiwanis Club at
the Medea Hotel club room, yes
terday.
Heilmann has just returned
from a 100000 mile trip through
the Persian, African and mid
dle-eastern theater of war with
four other baseball notables and
he told his audience of many in
teresting experiences encoun-
tered on the trip. Others in the
party were Carl Hubbell, Giant
pitcher, Roy Fitzsimmons, Phil
lie manager, Bill S u m m S,
American League umpire and
John Carmichael, sports editor
of the Chicago Daily News.
The program was climaxed
with the showing of a 28-minute
movie of all of the highlights OF
the 1914 World Series between
the two st. Louis ball teams, the
Cardinals and Browns. This was
the same movie that was shown
|. to service groups all over the
world by five groups of baseball
men similar to Heilmann's
group.
Archie Polnte was in
charge of the program and in
troduced the speaker. Kiwanis'
Michigan 1t. Governor Vern
Pelton presented ex-President
Otto Nickel with a certificate
from the international office
for his services in leading the
club last year. President Joe
Cody presided.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
& Mn til. DAY ~
By D. A.

While Mrs. Frank Ornnsby and Mrs. g. A. (0oy) Young
we're chatting the First National Bank the other doy
Mrs Ormsby suddenly let out bit Of ond grabbed
Mrs. Young's
Tell me. quick am ! seeing things is thot
money!
wos money! folding money the real nozuma! 1t lay
oil around them the snowy sidewalk. and when the
excited Iodes bod finished picking they counted IS