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Evening star., 1945-10-16
Honor Medal Given GI
WHO Died fore Comrade

An Army sergeant, who died trying
to rescue a comrade after demoliSh-
ing three German macfinegun nests,
has been awarded the Congressional
Medal Of Honor, the War Depart
ment announced today
He was Staff Sergt. George Peter
son, SO, of Brooklyn, N. Y, who was
killed last March 80 near Eisern,
Germany, while on his mercy errand.
A veteran of the 1st Infantry Divi-
sion In Africa, Sicily and France, he
enlisted in the Regular Army in 1888
Sergt. Peterson's platoon was di-
rected to make a flank attack on
enemy positions near Eisern, while
other elements of the 18th Regi-
rnent rushed the German strong
hold. Three machine guns guarded
the enemy flank. He crawled for
ward until he was close enough to
knock out the first gun with a
grenade,
As he moved toward the second
gun it turned on him, but he sue
ceeded in silencing that, one also,
killing four Germans. A sniper shot
him through the arm as he turned
on the third gun, but he managed
to rout Its crew, killing three more.
While Sergt. Peterson was being
treated by medical attendant he
saw one of his outpost men seriously
wounded by mortar burst. He
wrenched himself from the hands
OF the aid man and crawled for
ward to assist his comrade. He
had almost reached the man when
he was fatally wounded by an
enemy bullet.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Wirephoto Radioed Prom Paris.
|Wife Co||apses Twice
Jas She Goes on Trial =
In Husband S Staying
BY the Associated Press.


HARRISONBURG, Va, Oct. 49,
Proceedings will resume today in
Rockingham Circuit Court in the
trial of Mrs. Grace M. Smith,
charged with the murder February
20 of her husband. Frank Smith.
Mrs. Smith broke down twice at
the opening Of the trial yesterday,
once in the morning when the jury
was impaneled and again in the
afternoon when the first witness for
the prosecution was called and pho
tographs of the bungalow, scene OF
the alleged crime, were displayed.
Her husband, a 38-year-old war
veteran, was found dead in the cell
lar, seated on a stool with a rope
around his neck. The defense con-
tends, death resulted from suicide
while the prosecution charges he was
slain on the first floor of the home
and carried to the cellar.
Before the opening of the after
noon session, jurors were taken to
the home. In the courtroom after
ward Commonwealth Attorney
Lawrence H. Hoover called the first
witness to the stand, Walter Nor
cell, Petersburg politician.
He testified that he discovered
pools of blood on the first floor
when he responded to Mrs. Smiths
call. The prosecution contends
that blow on the head was the
fatal injury.
Ralph N. Garner, who was indict-
ed along with Mrs. Smith, chose to
STAN, a separate trial and will be
brought before the court at an un-
announced date.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Queen Mary 10 Lead
10 Ships Home Today
with $1,000 Aboard

BY the Associated Press.
Led by the British liner Queen
Mary, 10 ships are due in the United
States today, returning more than
1900 servicemen from Europe and
the Pacific.
Ships and Army units arriving:
At New York-(Aboard Queen
Nary, 1923 troops, including
Headquarters OF the 20th, 56th, 18th
Fighter Groups; 61st, 62d, SD. seth,
77th 10th, 82d, 83d, 84th Fighter
Squadrons; Headquarters and Base
Service Squadrons; 440th, 443d
446th Air Service Groups; 8l9th,
822d, 866th Air Engineering Squad
rons; 643d. 646th, 690th Air Materiel
Squadrons: 22d General Hospital; !;
several thousand miscellaneous
troops, 900 WACS and naval person.
mel.
-tAboard Smith thompson, 60s
troops, undesignated units. (Aboard
Hospital Ship Huddleston), 572 SOL
dier-patients. (Aboard Themist-
ocles), a miscellaneous troops.
NaAt Boston taboard Howard Vic
toryo-l .s69 troops, including the
43lst Antiaircraft Artillery Bat
TALON, 455th AAA Battalion. 99Sth
Engineering Treadway Bridge Com
psny, 1,6S2d Engineer Survey Liaison
Team and isigh-score personnel.
(Aboard Exchequer) 1901 troops,
including the 505th Fighter Squad
ron, 440th Ordnance Heavy Auto
motive Maintenance Company, 46Sth
Ordnance Evacuation Company and
miscellaneous personnel.
(Aboard Thorstein Veblen and
James Harland) 73 miscellaneous
troops
At Newport News (aboard Royal
8. Copeland 20 miscellaneous per-
sonnel.
At San Diego, Calif.-The baby
carrier White Plains with 794 pas
sengers, mostly Navy veterans. from
the Pacific.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Strikes
Bargaining Decision Due Soon.
tCoptinued From First Page.)

settlement Of strikes, was to confer
with Federal conciliator today
Scattered fighting was reported yes.
terday between pickets and non.
strikers as Mr.. Johnston met with
officials Of major studios.
Gas Strike Averted. -.
A threatened strike of 1900 AFL
gas workers, which would have left
more than a million consumers in
the Chicago metropolitan area With
out service, was averted after union
leaders and officials of the Peoples
Gas Light 81 Coke Co. reached an
agreement early today over wage
increases. r
In a joint statement, they said a
15 per cent wage rate boost had
been granted the workers. The
union had asked a 20 per cent in
crease from present wages which
range from 83 cents to s108 an hour.
In New York City, Mayor La
Guardia was to meet with a Joint
committee OF two AFL unions today
to seek some means Of hating a
threatened milk delivery strike
which would affect 8,000,00 resi-
dents OF New York City, Long Is
land and Westchester County. A
committee spokesman said it would
try ito formulate plans for further
ing the Mayors attempt to peace
fully adjust this dispute"
The Mayors appointment OF Ar.
thus S. Meyer as arbitrator has no,
been accepted yet by the two AFI
unions, whose members voted 28T
to 10 in favor of a strike, but left
final action in the hands of the
committee. The unions, operating
engineers and firemen and oilers
demand 40-hour, five-day week a,
the same pay they now receive for
a 48-hour, six-day week.
A general strike of 1900 CIO
members in New Castle County, DEL
was threatened as an outgrowth of
the f1ve-week strike at the National
Vulcanized Fiber Co.
The county's Industrial Union
Council was empowered by a vote
to call the general strike if peaceful
means of settling the strike failed
A general strike would halt produc-
ton at shipyards, aircraft plants,
steel companies, leather factories
and other plants would affect 1885,
900 Wilmington and other neigh
boring residents.
Capt. Harry Martin, president oi
Local 88, National Organization o1
Masters, Mates and Pilots (AFL)
said in New York that a possible
strike of 100000 ships officers
throughout the country had beer
postponed at least 10 days.
Mr.. Martin said the War Labo,
Board had agreed to conduct an
other hearing October 26 in the
unions protest against q decision
granting officers $45 monthly tc
compensate for reduced peacetime
earnings. In some cases from 81 ,O0C
to $415 a month,
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Sd Billions in Worthless Notes
Reported Used in Chino by JuDs

| 100000 ven, or nearly 20 times thu
wartime homeland note output od
the Bank Of Japan, which con-
tributed much to imitation in Japan
The current rate is is yen to j
American dollar.
American authorities, studying
the records Of the Central Reserve
Bank OF China and other Japanese
institutions used to exploit the en-
pire'S conquests, have refused to an
nounce figures until their survey il
completed.
Asahi's report was made in q
story outlining some Of the financial
problems facing the government.
In each newly conquered area the
value Of existing currency auto
|matically was halved when the
militarists' notes began circulating.
The Japanese printed the occupa-
ton money before Landings, and en-
forced their circulation with the
threat of arms.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Labor
Continued From First Page. }

nent machinery at the November
labor management conference.
The commission suggested by
WLB, it was understood, would be a
Itri-partite affair with representa-
tives of the public, labor and indus
try. 1t would amount to war labor
board under another name.
Problem Remains Unsolved.
The conference left the whole
matter of Federal dispute machinery
''up in the air"
The House Military Affairs Com
mittee decided today to open hear.
ings tomorrow on legislation to re-
peal the War Labor Disputes
(Smith-C Connally) Act.
The act sets up machinery for
strike votes after 30 days notice OF
dispute.
Mr.. Lewis told reporters following
collapse of the coal conference that
in view of the obstinate" refusal OF
operators to accept any proposal for
settlement Of the foremen's dispute
he considered that his miners were
locked OUT by management rather
than on strike.
The mine leader held to his con-
tention that he was without author
ity to order striking supervisors
members of the United Mine Work
ers District so, back to work. He
said statement issued by the oper-
ators was prepared in advance
therefore 1t was obvious they had
no intent to agree to q settlement
Of the issue.
This statement read:
"A growing paralysis of industrial
operations and employment, curtail-
ment OF railroad transportation and
Improperly heated homes, schools
churches and hospitals, are among
the major problems facing this Ma
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Fire Chief Dies

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16 o.
John NJ. Evans, n, chief of the New
Orleans Fire Department for nearly
q quarter of century. died yester-
day after an illness of several years.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
1erauchi Freed Of Blame
In Indo-China Uprisings
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. 49,
SAIGON, Indo-C China, Oct. I6.--
A British authority said today Field
Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi was
not to blame for native anti-im-
perialist rebellions in Indo-China
and the Netherlands Indies, and
that his one guiding principle was
Ito get the Japanese home"
1t was denied also that Terauchi,
commander in chief of Japanese
southern armies which have con-
tanned many troublesome elements,
had never been under house arrest.
The British authority said that his
recent removal to new quarters was
ito make him more accessible to
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's s
Allied Control Commission.
The count will be required to be
the last Of his forces to 60 home,
it was announced. and before he de-
parts he will have to meet Lord
Mounbatten. probably at Singapore,
for the final seal on the surrender
originally signed by subordinate
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Two Unions 10 Take
Strike Votes Here
In Next Two Days

Strike votes will be taken tomor-
row and Thursday by two Washing
ton labor unions and more than
1900 men will be affected by the
outcomes.
One organization is the Interna-
tional Union OF Operating Engi-
neers, and II they strike more than
100 building projects will be affect
ed, as well as an unestimated num-
ber Of workers in the construction
industry employed on them. The
other Is the AFL Teamsters' Inter-
national, and q strike by their men,
bers would hamper seriously the
movement Of freight into and
through the Capital.
Members Of Local n OF the Op.
Grating Engineers meet Thursday
night at the Pythian Temple, 10l1
Ninth street NV, to vote whether
they win strike to enforce their de-
mands for a is per cent wage in
crease. James c. Turner. business
agent Of the local. said If. a strike
is voted by the members it prob
ably would be called next week.
No Raise Since 1886.
Mr.. Turner said negotiations have
been in progress for six months
There has been no pay raise since
1885, he said, and the cutback to the
40-hour week has meant a serious
reduction in the take-home pay oi
the workers.
The union members voted on Sep.
tember 20 to strike unless the pay
increase was granted. Mr.. Turner
said union representatives are meet.
ing today with the Wage Adjust.
ment, Board and employers repre-.
sentatives are expected to be pres.
ent.
He said 1000 union members are
employed in the metropolitan area
operating the mechanically pow.
cred equipment used in the con-
struction industry. They are en-.
gagged on between 100 and 125 prof.
ects, Mr.. Turner said. However, al
of these would not be affected by
strike, he said, because "a nice
percentage" of employers, not mem.
bers of the Master Builders Asso-
citation, have indicated they woule
sign contracts for the pay in.
creases.
Teamsters Vote Tomorrow.
Members of Local 500 of tht
teamsters' union will vote from 4
to pm. tomorrow on a strike. Tht
balloting, under the direction of tn,
National Labor Relations Board, viii
be held at the NLRB hearing room
BIS Connecticut avenue NV. About
500 men, employed by 16 companies
will be affected. They handle
freight from rail and other termi.
mails, and their number also include.
warehouse men and platform men
They are asking for pay increase,
ranging from to 9h cents an hour
| The teamsters voted last week K
strike, but tomorrow's vote was di
rected by the NLRB, which ad
vanced the date of an official strik,
election originally set for Novem.
Der /.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
British Offer No Solution
For Stranded GI Wives
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 16.-The problem
OF the $4,000 GI wives who want to
be sent to the United States bobbed
up in Parliament yesterday, but
government spokesmen spiked any
hope that the British might offer a
solution.
A. j. Barnes, Minister Of War
Transport, said a vast majority OF
the wives of British Tommies had
not seen their husbands for years
and I'VE must first carry out our
own program Of getting our men
back"
At the same time Hector Mcneil
undersecretary of foreign affairs
disclosed that the British had made
representations" to American au-
thorities on behalf of the unhappy
brides.
He said he could add nothing te
earlier statements that the question
'fs continuously occupying the at
tention Of competent American au-
thorities, with whom the responsi.
bility rests and who are fully aliv,
to the hardships involved.
Evening star., 1945-10-16

ton today because John L. Lewis in
sists that coal operators comply
with his demand for the unioniza-
ton of the mine management per-
sonnel of the coal industry"
Evening star., 1945-10-16
By the Associated Press,

~ tAkU hceUGlhtSu ETGSH.
TOKYO, Oct. 16-Printing presses
backed by Japanese bayonets de-
luged China with now-worthless
currency adding up to about
81, ,00o, 600 900 American dollars in
face value, the Tokyo newspaper
Asahi said today.
The figure was the first to be
published indicating the degree OF
financial plundering Of Japanese
occupied territories by Japanese
mihtarists. It was disclosed by the
newspaper in its demands on the
imperial government to curb infia-
ton.
Notes totaling 1000, 900 900 900
yuan were issued by the Central
Reserve Bank Of China, financial
agency backed by the japanese
militarists. the newspaper said.
This sum, at the official rate of
5 yuan 70 | yen. equalled 10000
Evening star., 1945-10-16
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Evening star., 1945-10-16
Last V-MoH Letter
From New York Sent
To Gen. Eisenhower
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-The
last V-mail letter to be mailed
from the New York port OF En-
barkation-No. 338. .S24, ,08l-was
sent yesterday to Gen. Eisen-
hover by Maj. Gen. Clarence H.
Kells, commanding officer of
the port.
In the letter, Gen. Kells no
titled Gen. Eisenhower of the
termination of V-mail service
from New York and said V-mail
had made singular contribu-
ton toward winning the battle
of supply"
Evening star., 1945-10-16

SlStS that coal operators comply
with his demand for the unioniza-
ton of the mine management per-
sonnel Of the coal industry"
Bargaining Decision Due Soon.
The National Labor Relations
Board is expected to hand down a
decision within 10 days as to whether
MIR. Lewis supervisory union is an
appropriate unit for collective bar
gaining purposes. But both sides
have indicated intention of carry
ing the issue to court If the decision
Is unfavorable.
NLRB said q hearing on the
supervisors demand for recognition
would be held here October %. The
test case involves mines owned by
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. Testi-
mony on the issue was concluded
last week in Pittsburgh.
Operators revealed a split in their
own ranks as to whether any nego-
tiation with the supervisory union
constituted recognition of that
group. Representatives of Illinois
and Indiana mine interests wanted
to settle with Mr.. Lewis, but they
were overruled by the other op-
eratbrs.
George F.. Campbell, representing
Illinois interests, led the fight among
the operators for acceptance of
strike-settlement proposals. Ed
ward r. Burke, president OF the
Southern Coal Producers Associa-
tion, said, however, that his side
would not enter into any negotiation
OF the foremen's issue until forced"
by the Government.
ALI of the operators remained in
the city and scheduled q meeting
for later today.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-02
Navy Claims
There Is No
Nurse Bar

Rear Admiral William J. C..
Agnew, Acting Chief of the Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery, United
States Navy Medical Corps, issued
the following statement Saturday,
January 27, 1915.
"There is no policy in the Navy
prohibiting the appointment of Ne
gro women in the Navy Nurse
Corps or in the Navy Nurse Corps
Reserve. Every application reach
ing the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery for appointment in the
Navy Nurse Corps or the Navy
Nurse Corps Reserve is given full
consideration, provided the appli-
cant meets the physical, profession
al, military fitness and other re-
quirements for appointment"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-02
Life Sentence
of John Everett
Is COMMITTED

The Minnesota State Board of
Pardons, several days ago, COM
muted the life sentence of John
(the barber) Everett, former Min
neapolis business man, to 20 years.
By this communication Everett be-
comes Immediately eligible for pa
role. Even if he is not paroled, his
sentence will now end in 1913.
Everett was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment Ia years ago in connec-
ton with the fatal shooting of John
W. "Smithy" Smith on Nov. 3, 1928.
Everett was found guilty of first
degree murder in January, 1929,
and sentenced to life Imprisonment.
He was married and has two sons
who still live in Minneapolis.
Lewis Ewing of Minneapolis
made the most recent plea to the
pardon board for communication of
Everett's sentence.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-02
McWilliurns Defends
Civil RIGHTS Lows

WASHINGTON, D. G. (NNPA)
The arguments against civil
rights legislation as a weapon
against jimcrow are largely clouded
by a confusion between two terms
prejudice and discrimination -
says Carey McWilliams, author of
Brothers Under the Skin, in an arti-
Gle in the current issue of Science
and Society.
Prejudice, says McWilliams, is an
emotional factor. You can't pass
laws against it. But discrimina-
tion is a positive act striking at
racial, religious or national minori-
ties.
He points to the decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court in 1896, which
condoned discriminatory race laws,
saying that social prejudice" could
not be overcome by legislation. The
fallacy of this argument, according
to McWilliams, rests in the fact
that the Civil War Amendments
granting equal citizenship rights to
Negroes were not designed to overz
come prejudice but to prevent dis
elimination.
U. S. Supreme Court Justice John
Marshall Harlan, in a dissenting
opinion to the decision of 1896, de-
clared that its effect would be ITO
permit the seeds of race hate to be
planted under the sanction of law"
Legal discrimination, such as
now exists in many jimcrow and
segregation laws, North and South,
Justice Harlan observed, "keep
alive a conflict of races, the con-
tinuance of which must do harm to
all concerned"
The federal collective-bargaining
laws during the Roosevelt Admin
istration, declares McWilliams, did
not outlaw prejudice against or
ganized labor on the part of en-
ployers. It did bar anti-union dis
elimination. If the federal govern
ment can bar discrimination against
any group of wPrkingmen, why not
against any racial group, he asks.
Laws sanctioning segregation
and other jimcrow practices have
no place on the statute books of
Democratic states, he says. They
violate the plain meaning of the
Constitution, which Judge Harlan
said sis color blind, and neither
knows nor tolerates classes among
citizens"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-02
One Woman Refuses
Jim Crow

that there is no chance of the labor
movement being united without the
Negro, and pointed out that the
Negro must become active in the
labor unions if he is to hold on to
his job, as there will be terrific
competition in the labor market
after the war.
Favorable Contact Important
Mrs. Halter said that the gains
that have already been made must
be conserved. She declared that
contact, favorable contact, is better
than books or sermons on race re-
lations in securing gains that al
ready have been made. She told of
how some conditions have been
changed in Albany, Ca, since July
last year.
Mrs. Alverta Coram spoke of the
need of true leadership and of a
leadership "chosen by Negroes"
She gave as the best example of
such leadership, A. Philip Randolph,
of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, who brought to maturity
the nebulous dreams of down.
trodden, exploited group.
Moore and Heron Clash
Rev. B. N. Moore, pastor of the
st. James A. M. E. church, took
issue with the statement that the
salvation of the Negro is in labor
union or in any other secular or
ganization per Sc. He scored the
CONTINUED on Page -
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-02

Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week.
DR.. Title, who is pastor of the
First Methodist Church of Evan
ston, ILL.,, and one of the outstand-
ing proponents of social justice
among the American clergy, was
outspoken as he scored the Chris
tan Church in America for its
continued refusal to remove dis
elimination barriers toward the Ne
groes.
Declaring that the church must
lead in the ministry of reconcilia-
ton by first repenting of many sins
including class bias and racial
prejudice, DR.. Title declared that
Christian ministers had failed to
preach and to teach Christian race
relations to their congregations.
The church must be different
from the world and unite in the
various communities to do some
things to help all the people.
DR.. Title asserted in this connec-
ton he suggested that community
action of churches of various de-
nominations could help to abolish
"ghettos for Negroes"
Scores Armed Forces Jim Crow
The discriminatory practices of
the Federal Government especially
in the armed forces were denounced
by DR.. Title. He mentioned that in
Continued on Page ~
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-02
William Sanders
Funeral Today

Funeral services for William
Sanders, 244 E. Fillmore, who died
after a brief illness at his home
Sunday, Jan. %, will be held Fri
day, Feb. 2 (today), at the Brooks
Funeral Home, at 2 p. m. Rev. C.
T. r. Nelson will officiate.
Mr.. Sanders was &c years of age
at the time of his death. He was
born in Vicksburgh, Miss, and had
been a resident of st. Paul for ten
years.
Surviving him are his wife,
Anna; two sisters, Mrs. Mary B.
Mitchell, of Chicago, and Mrs. Dora
Slater, Vaudeville, S. c., and other
relatives.
His sister, Mrs. Mitchell, and a
niece, Mrs. Larner Morton of Sagi-
nav, Mich, are in the city to at
tend his funeral.