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The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
Rules


/. Each contestant must be single,
between the ages of sixteen and TWEEN
ty-five inclusive and must have finish
ed the eleventh grade and is not be-
yond her sophomore year in college.
2. Each contestant m u t send a
recent bust size 5 in. by z in. photo
graph (no frame required) Of her
self; statement of her age, weight
and height and affidavit signed by her
school principal and her church min
lister attesting to her educational and
moral qualities.
3. The winner will receive $500 in
cash to further her education and will
be known as "Miss 21st Special".
A. The judges will be the members
of the battalion.
(a) All photographs become the
property of the contest committee.
(b) The decision of the judges will
be final.
(c) Entries postmarked later than
March Is, 1915 will not be accepted.
5. Members of the contest com
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
NOTICE TO PRESIDENTS

When you mail important letters to
the office such as policies for deceased
members, quarterly reports and other
valuables, we want to suggest that
you send them by registered mail. We
are failing to receive too many impor-
tant letters.
No doubt the great war rush and
the lack of man power has something
to do with it.
Secretary
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
21st SPECIAL NAVAL CONSTRUC-
TION BATTALION
January 10, 1945


To whom it may concern:
The members of the 21st Special
Battalion are interested in selecting
a sweetheart or pin up girl for its or
ganization. We have chosen the med
ium of a contest for her selection. En-
closed is the history of the battalion
since its formation and listed below
are the rules to govern the contest.
We are asking the help of your or
ganization in getting this information
to as many eligible young ladies as
might be interested The prize money
is already in hand and will be paid
the winner as soon as the final selec-
ton is made.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
WHITE REPORTED
KILLED IN ACTION

Y3/c Olin Hughes White, 20,
son of Mrs. J. P. White of 1920
Carolina avenue, has been reported
killed in action on May % when
his ship, the U.S.S. Drexler, a de-
stroyer, was sunk by Jap suicide
planes west of Ok'nawa.
After entering the Navy in Nov
ember, 1913, Yeoman White was
sent to cambridge. Md, for his
boot training and was later Sc
lected for Yeoman's school at
cambridge, from which he gradual
ed with honors in June, 1914.
He LETT the states in January of
this year and saw action in the
Southwest and south Pacific.
A graduate of the 1913 class of
New Hanover High school, Yeo-
man White was a member of the
R.O.TC there, and worked as a
paper carrier for the Star-News.
Before entering the Navy, he was
member Of the staff of the local
Y.M.C.A. during the spring and
summer of 1913.
He is survived by his mother;
Four sisters, Mrs. T. T. Roper,
Mrs. ]. N Manship, Jr., Mrs.
Douglas Baldwin and Miss Betty
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
ARMY AIR FORCE
TO HAVE LEAGUE

CHICAGO, Aug. II. -lR-The
Army Air Force will have its own
football league this autumn.
Officials of the seven team
league, which met yesterday to
lay out schedules, also announced
that the AAF Pesonnel Distribu-
ton Command, stationed at Louis
vile, KY, willmeet Army at West
Point, N. Y, Sept. %.
The new seven-leam league will
comprise the First, Second, Third
and Fourth Air Forces, the Train
ing Command and the Air Trans
port Command, in addition to the
Personnel Distribution Command.
The Army-PDC game was ar
ranged after communications be-
tween Capt. Ted Shirley and Col.
Lawrence (Biff) jones, manager OF
athletics at West Point. Shipkey, a
former star end at Stanford Univer-
sity, represented the Pdc at to-
days meeting.
Other developments at the meet.
ing today, in addition to drawing
up of four schedules, included ap
pointment of Maj. Jess Marlborough
former MMiami (Fla.) High schoo
coach, as head coach ofsthe FRS
Air Force with headquarters a
Mitchell Field, N. Y; transfer 0.
Fourth Sir Force Training camp
from MERGED to Ontario, Calf, anc
transfer of the Pdc training camp
from Camp Davis to Greensboro
N. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
BATON ROUGE MAN
CONFESSES MURDER

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. H.
R)-A charge Of murder was lodg-
ed today against Granville Yaun,
21-year-old son of prominent
Baton Rouge family, whose con-
science caused him to confess a
sex staying that had baffled auth
critics for more than two months.
Sheriff Newman H. Debretton
said Yaun had been charged with
the Staying Of Mrs. Ruth Galloway
Bi1lingsley, 10, whose body was
found in a weed-choked ditch
across the Mississippi river from
here on June $.
Yaun, the sheriff said, was pick
ed up this week in connectios with
forgery investigation. While in
jail he unfolded his story to the
sheriff and his deputies, a story Of
murder and a conscience that
wouldn't let him rest.
Yaun told Debretton that he
killed Mrs. Billingsley near a night
spot known as club II, in West Ba.
ton Rouge parish.
After drinking session in the
club, Yaun related that he ant
Mrs. Billingsley walked down Z
lonely road near the night club
and seated themselves.
According to Debretton, Yaul
said he started making advances
and Mrs. Billingsley resisted. Thu
Sheriff said Yaun told him tina
he placed a hand over her moutl
and with the other choked tn
young woman until she wen
limp
Officers said Yaun admitted as
saulting the girl. Afterward h
went back to the club and dral
for half an hour and then returned
to the scene to find Mrs. Billingsle
still unconscious.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
NAKAMA DEFENDS
400 METER CROWN

AKRON, O., Aug. II - Up -
Coming from behind in the last
Is meters, Keo Nakama of Ohio
State University, today win the 400
meter national AAU. swimming
championship for the S o n d
straight year.
1t was Nakama's second champ
ionship in the 1915 national meet
at the Cuyahoga Falls Municipal
swimming pool. He trailed Ross
Bean of the Oaklane Swimming As
ISOLATION for approximately 375
meters before turning loose a ter
rflc burst of speed and pulling
away to win by almost five feet.
Last night Nakama won the ZOO
meter free style and tomorrow
mel bid for a triple in the 300
meter.
i, Nakama's victory at 5:O5.7 in
Inc 4M-meter boosted Ohio state
out In front for the team champ
lohShlp at the end of the first five
events. The Bucks had II points
10 10 for Michigan state.
1hlrd place in the 4O0-meter
vent to steve Wozniak of Buffalo
a. Z. who also put on a blistering
nnlsh to overhaul George Hogger.
nyoe Of the Grand Rapids, Mich,
a. T. Wozniak had the fastest time
m me qualifying heats earlier in
we afternoon - Sis.
Although Michigan State was in
second place in the team standings
a. me end of five final events the
~ upallans materially strengthened
.nelF title chances in the qualify.
ing trials for the 10O-meter back
stroke
lave y, Seibold of Michigan State
mac, mao the fastest qualifying time Of
200 in the breast stroke and the
s ,1me OF 1:l3,0 turned in by the
s .paf'ans' Howard Patterson was
sec o. to Robert Cowe1l of the U
W. y, naval Academy. Cowell's tim.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
Secretary Ickes Okehs
Statehood For Alaska

WASHINGTON, Aug. II. -(P)-
Secretary Harold L. Ickes has ap-
proved statehood for Alaska as
part of the interior departments
territorial policy, acting secretary
Abe Fortas announced today.
1.-The Department of the Interior
favos statehood for Alaska" and
statement of the department poll
cy formulated for transmission tc
Ernest H. Gruening, governor Of
Alaska, by Secretary Ickes follow.
ing lengthy discussions with Off.
Gals of the division of territories
and island possessions.
ut is self evident that all Am
orleans have the right of self-gov
eminent, and it is clear that state
hood is the only form of self
government appropriate to the cir
cumstances of Alaska"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
Vaccination Of School
Children Required By
North Carolina Lnw

DR.. A. H. Elliot, city-county
health officer, reminded parents
yesterday that under the state
school laws all children are re-
quired to be immunized against
smallpox, diphtheria and whooping
cough before entering public, pri-
vate or parochial school, and that
only three weeks remain before
the opening of school in which to
secure the necessary certificates.
Schick test clinics will be con-
Quoted at the Nurses offie of the
Health department Friday after.
noon, August "a, at 8 o'clock and
again on Friday afternoon, August
81 at the same time.
These clinics are offered for
children entering school who have
already been immunized against
diphtheria, but who have not beer
able to secure their certificate Of
immunization. A negative Schick
test will admit them to school.
Children entering school for the
first time must have an easily
visible smallpox vaccination scar
DR.. Elliot said, and a certificate
Of immunization against diphtheris
and whooping cough.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
FANS START RIOT
AT SUFFOLK DOWNS

BOSTON, Aug. II. -lR- Angry
spectators rushed the stewards
stand, smashed equipment and
set fire to a police motorcycle late
today during a fracas at Suffolk
Downs rae etrack over the dis
qualification of a horse.
The crowd was out of hand for
more than an hour before police
reserves and a detail of Navy
Shore patrolmen cleared the
track.
During the disorders all Of the
class in the Stewards stand was
broken by flying bottles as tow Of
the four officials covered on the
floor, holding chairs above their
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
Russians informed
Of Reply To Offer

NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-R-The
Moscow radio informed the Rus.
sian people tonight, without COM
ment, Of the reply to the Japanese
governments surrender offer sent
by the United States on behalf OF
all the big four nations. The broad
cast, recorded by the FEC, attri-
buted its summary Of the Allied
reply to a broadcast by the British
radio.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
1IBAN SOUTHPAW
WINS FOR GIANTS

.u vROK, Aug. II. IT,
~ ~, zabala, Cuban Southpaw,
'"' successful major league
' '.t with the New York Giants
'' ~. nv holding the St. Louis Card
p' ~. N six hits and winning his
', Giants salvaged the finale
inc torr game series with the
d ,s;rds BY ranking five hurlers
'eov " hits, including a home run
s W. Billy urges c
, ID was relieved after two innings
'na w." the Giants converted three
Eas s,.s and two walks for three
'lns'' Glen Gardner, Al Jirisich,
tuIs u, crouch and Tex Creel took
!' .a. on the mound. the Giants
' '..sino each pitcher for runs ex-
'o ... the latter. who hurled the
' EVERY batter in the Giants line
=. Xiii Mt safely with Dan Gardella
Y =. most productive, his two sin
u, ,lss driving in three runs. Mike
s ss' like Zabala, recently
s s., I'D from Jersey City, con-
a,"sS his lusty hitting, with two
"a. a \ raise his total to nine IN
.ur games. doteated the cardi-
liz Rochester farmhands six
f lsse in the International League
,,.'.' wear showed the same mas
. ~ over the parent team. St.
Ia a',is' only run came in the third
IN ~ nel Yolng's double and Debs
earns single.
The, Box. - a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
American Legion Jrs.
To Begin Tournament

SUMTER. S. c.. Aug. 11.-R-
The ninth Regional American Ls'
sion Junior Baseball Tournament
gets under way here Tuesday, with
champions from Shelby, N. c.,
Woodruff, S. c.. Memphis, Tenn.s
and Norfolk, Va, competing.
A double-elimination affair, the
three-day meet will offer ole after.
noon and one night game daily.
Pairings will be made Monday mig
at a banquet for the clubs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
Fsrris Island Nine
Defeats I.e;eune, FL

:, CAMP LEJEUNE. N. c., Aug.
hor Camp Lejeune Marines
1--WE H"eo 10 the Paris Island Marine
hu., To-Day, 81. George Sabine
s;,,! Tor the Paris Island club,
s st.n4 up five hits. Lefty Fincher
~ ,'!,eo Tor Leieune but gave way
t i, .ne third to Dick Lynch who
Ailshed the game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
MIDDLING COTTON

rh nhM ORLEANS, Aug. 11.-R)-
1s. e average price of middling 49,
,su u. men cotton today at ten de-
w., sndted southern spot markets
ee as ~ cents bale lower at 22.37
ns W. ~ a pound; average for the
dr. din. ~ market days 22.57; mid
ils 10 inch average 2o.95.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

Error 7abala. Runs batted IN: Car
della 3. Schemer, Hausmann. CAIRNS,
Jurres 2. Kluttz 2, Kerr. Two base hits:
Young, Schemer. Home run: Jurges.
Double plays: Jurges, Hausmann and
scremer Left on bases: St: Louis s,
New York 10. Bases on balls. off Bver-
" 2, Gardner 4, Zabala 2. Jurisich 1,
3. Gardner /. Jurisich 2, Crouch l. Hits.
t:f Byerly in innings: Gardner 3
Crouch 2. Strikeouts: Byerly l, Zabala
in none out in fourth: Jurisich in
= Crouch in 2: Creel in l. Hit by
pitcher: Crouch (Gardellal. Wild pitch:
Bycrlv. -ssed ball: Kluttz. Losing pitch
err Bverly Umpires: Dunn, Sears and
Barr. Time: 2:25. Attendance: 1853 paid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

heads to protect them form flyng
glass.
The Jockeys weighing-in scale
was smashed and a police motor
cycle and side car was set afire.
Attempts to overturn the tractors
used on the track harrows and to
set fire to an awning opposite the
finish wirewas nipped in item.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

After the British seized New Am
sterdam it was named New York
for its new master, the Duke Of
York. brother Of the Brit sh king.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12
SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. II. -(P)-
Spot cotton closed steady unchang-
ed; sales 576; low middling 1880;
middling 22.35; good middling g.
IS receipts $685. stock 1913, 40
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

In 1896 New York City made its
first appropriation GO pounds) for
street cleaning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

In World War /, u. S. industrial
production rose Is per cent, and
trial goods prices rose SO per
cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

VHKe; and five brothers, Emory
", u. Cecil, Clyde NJ, Louis j.,
md Lloyd G.. White.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-12

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-19
Trunsit Union Elects
Anti-Negro Presiden

Washington, D. C. (NNPA).-
Almost on the eve of the scheduled
FEPC hearings on discrimination
against Negroes by the Capital
Transit Company of this city, Di-
vision 689 of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Street, Electric Rail-
way and Motor Coach Employees of
America, AFL, holding a union con-
tract with the company, elected a
new president who campaigned on
an anti-Negro platform.
The new president, W. S. Sims,
will take office on Jan. 6. The FEPC
hearings are scheduled to begin on
Jan. Is.
The position of the local presi-
dent is directly opposite of the
stated position of the international
union of AASERMCEA. In a let
ter written two years ago by W. D.
Mahon, international president, to
the then president of the local
union, the position of the interna-
tional body was declared to be
mot to discriminate against a fell
low worker on account of creed,
color or nationality" He urged that
this policy be kept in mind when
dealing with the Capital Transit
matter.
Sims received 1924 votes of
the total of 2,527 cast in the cleo
ton. ]. G. Bigelow, retiring presi-
dent, received 1923. G. Rembolt re-
ceived $50. There are $40 Negroes
employed by the Capital Transit
Company as mechanics and track
laborers. Most of them are MEM
bers of the union. No record of how
they voted was available.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-19
Credjafawn Credit
Union Holds 9Th
Annual Meeting

The eighth annual meeting of the
Credjafawn Credit Union was held
Monday, Jan. Is, at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Lawrence,
947 Iglehart, st. Paul.
Officers elected at this meeting
for 1915 were: Mr.. Lawrence, Pres;
Victor Galloway, Vice Pres; Cora
Belle Banks, Sec'y; Huron ]. Shell
ton Jr., Treas; Estelle Luckie, Asst
Treas. Mrs. Estelle Luckie was
elected to the board of directors
for a three year term. Elected to
the Supervisory Committee were
Theresa Herring, Frances Moore
and Dorothy Payne. Elected to the
Loan Committee were Bella Shell
ton, Nilee Nyan Lewis and John L.
Banks Jr.
The assets of the Credjafawn
Credit Union, which is operated by
and for members of the Credja-
fawn Social Club only, are, 1892.
Their War Bonds are valued at
$4,000. A two per cent dividend
was paid to members for 1914.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-19
Como Temple Lodge
Officers Installed

The officers of Como Temple
No. 1913, l. B. P. o. of W., were in
stalled Thursday, Jan. II. District
Deputy Daughter, Suzanne Tudos
presided.
Officers are Jean Waters, daugh-
ter ruler; Edith Pearmon, vice
daughter ruler; Tillie Daniels, as
sistant daughter ruler; Susie Gay
lod, chaplain; Geraldine Scroggins,
financial secretary; recording sec
rotary, Edith Williams; treasurer,
Dorothy James; escort, Leazar
Howard; oganist, Villa Mae Bar
Der; Mary Hickey, doorkeeper;
Mary Moss, gate-keeper; Berlinda
Washington, Corrine E. Few and
Mable Harris, trustees; Daisy Lu-
cas-, senior mother; Agnes Wilson,
sunshine chairman.
Mrs. Waters has held the office
of daughter ruler for two years.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-19
London Envoy
Says Russ to
Fight Racism
New Stain Decree to Army
Rips All Discrimination

defender London Correspondent
London-Russia will demand
racial equality at the peace table,
Soviet representative in London
revealed this week.
A clause pledging racial equal
ity not only for Jews, but all the
non-European races of Asia, At
RIGA and other continents and coun-
tries inhabited by colored peoples
will be sought by members of the
Russian peace delegation, he said.
A significant New Year state
ment issued here this week, reveals
that Marshal Stain, Georgian-born
leader of the Soviet Union, has in
structed military commanders of
the Red army to ruthlessly stamp
out all forms of racial discrimina-
ton and jim crow laws in coun-
tries occupied by Soviet forces.
Cites Stains Warning
According to Professor Komarov,
president of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences, Stains warning should
be needed by all malicious spread
ers of racial hatred and racial
practices. The professor explained
that according to the laws of the
Soviet Union active fascists and
anti-Semites are punished by death.
Now the Soviet Union will put
that idea into practice in Poland,
Rumania and Hungary, hotbeds of
anti-Semitism long before Hitler
became a menace to Europe.
"In' the future" said Professor
Komarov, eve shall not turn our
backs on racial practices until we
have stamped them out, pulled
them up by the roots and taken
every measure against their re-
currence.
"When any country gives shelter
to the Hitlerites or their ideas in
the form of discriminatory legisla-
ton, racist organizations or a racist
press, it is no longer an internal af-
fair of that country.
eff your neighbor opens in his
backyard a container of poison gas
which threatens to spread over the
town." continued Professor Kom-
arrow, "you do not waste time by
asking permission to enter his
premises to prevent the death of
thousands of people.
"Racist ideas are more dangerous
than any poison gas. 1t is our
solemn duty to future generations,
to civilization and humanity, not
only to put out the present bonfire
of Nazi-Fascism in Europe, and
elsewhere, but to discover and
extinguish every one of its sparks
and smouldering embers, wherever
they may be found"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-19
Mary Burton Dead

A heart attack proved fatal to
Mary Burton, 754 st. Anthony, St.
Paul, aged "a. She died at Ancker
hospital Monday, Jan. Is. She had
lived in st. Paul SO years.
Funeral services for Mrs. Burton
were held Jan. 10, at II a. M, at her
home. Rev. L. E. Williams, pastor
of st. Philips Episcopal church, of
which Mrs. Burton was a member,
officiated.
W. S. Butler, st. Paul real estate
man, is a son of the deceased. An
other son, DR.. Walter E. Burton,
a Merchant Marine, survives and
also a granddaughter, Miss Jaun-
nice Burton of Seattle, Washington,
who attended the funeral.
Neal Funeral Home was in
charge. Interment, Forest ceme-
terry.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-19

Board of Regents, for establishment
of the fund.
Judge Waite, whose special inter
est as a member of the bench was
juvenile delinquency, is nationally
known for his interest both in that
field and in work for the betterment
of race relations.
President Coffey said the fund
will be used to promote better un-
Outstanding in the field of race re-
lations, broadly conceived. 1t
might, for example, enable publica-
ton of scientific discovery or body
of knowledge pertinent to race rela-
tons, such as anthropology. In
come from the fund may also be
used to bring to the campus a lee
turer of national standing, he said,
with subsequent publication. The
fund will be discussed on recon-
mendation of the University of
Minnesota Press. This is the first
grant of k-..II the Press has
ever received.