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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-21
Star OF Bethlehem Will
Shine Again At Bethlehem


Ten miles of colored lights, dim
med since Pearl Harbor, already
have been lighted in this city,
founded in 1741 by Moravians.
There will be candles, fragrant
with beeswax formed in 200-year
moulds at the csndlelight Love
Feast traditional Yuletide cere-
mony.
Citizens and their children, gath
cred before their firesides, will eat
the star-shaped "Mandel Spitzen'
and Christmas cookies and will see
the star which synbolizes the birth
of the Christ-child.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-21
west COAST PORTS
ARRANCEPARTlES

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2o-tR-
West coast port cities were plan
ming Christmas parties today with
more than 100000 service men
from the Pacific as guests because
they can't get home.
Nearly 10000 soldiers, sailors
and Marines are looking for rides
rom the western ports, and the
NeChristmas rush is bringing
them in by ship at an average OF
about $1,000 day.
Hopes of moving $4,000 by rail
and few thousand more by air,
Gus and automobiles daily were
oampened by these developments:
Severe cold and snowstorms east
Of the Rocky Mountains have
slowed the train schedules, and de-
iayed airplane flights.
Snortage OF railway cars con-
anues to be critical because of a
DELAY in construction of 1900 gov
eminent troop sleepers, expected
" De ready by Dec. l. C. E. Peter
son. vice president in charge OF
southern Pacific passenger traf-
NC, said strike conditions were
nodlng Up delivery of the cars.
however, Peterson said the
southern Pacific had cancelled
.Oden space on eastbound trains
UT all civilian except members
VI SerVlemen's fam; lies.
Foft officers in San Francisco
seFahged Christmas parties with
.eu cross bags of gifts for strand
"a Service men. ..
LOS Angeles officers planned tt
"ohtlnued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-21
OPTIMISM PAYS OFF

FORT WARREN, Wyo.. Dec, 20
serving overseas for
two wears, a CT, who had been sta
toned here, came back recently
to the No. tailor shop in the
basement of the main PIX. He
wanted to pick up some clothes ne
had left there to be cleaned two
wears ago. Sure enough, his clothes
were ready and waiting. The clerk
recognized him, too.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-21
WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

Eastern Standard Time)
NJ. tby L. s. Weather Bureau)
,ndie.'eoroioglcal data for the "a hours
s 80 pm. yesterday.
IN, Temperatures
Van 3'v am. 80; 1880 am. %; 1870 pm. 80;
No s-sxmum SO, Minimum 27; Mean 80;
,.,o Humidity
,. a,'v am. 70; 7:3O am. 6e; 1:3o pm. 43;
10Y pm,
nat. Precipitation
- - inches. e ''
ls u' ina. since the first of the month =
rF,, Tides For Today
s. Gun ;oln the Tide Tables published by y.
asI and Geodetic Survey
Niln;nu. High Low
sIoh ---- 11:43 am. 6:07 am.
Masonic. pm. 6:51 pm.
-'oro Inlet 1923 am. 2:57 am.
A saarise ia am; sunset sol pm;
Rive s' 600 pm; Moonset GAL am.
I'm Th stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 9
sdav Doc 20. 11.a feat
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-21
FORECAST

wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
I'D little warmer today. Low tempera-
arrf tonight 1898. High temperature
s ,t 40. Saturday considerable cloudi-
1ess and not much change in tempera-
ture.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Ickes to Remdin
In Truman Cabinet

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
The long speculation on whether
Secretary of Interior Ickes would
be replaced in the Truman Cabinet
came to an end last week when the
President told his press conference
that Ickes will continue in his posi-
ton. He said the Secretary's SER
vices were contingent only on his
own decision as to how long he
wants to stay.
The decision has particular sig
nifcance to Negroes. Ickes has
been a champion of equality of OPP
portunity. He was the first depart
ment head to abolish discrimination
and jimcrow in government cafe
terias located in his building. 1t
was he who arranged for Marian
Anderson to sing before $4,000 per-
sons in an Easter-Sunday concert
on the steps of the Lincoln Me-
mortal a few years ago after the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton had refused to let her sing in
their tax-exempt Constitution Hall
because she is a Negro.
Now, Ickes is involved in the
jimcrow recreation picture in the
nations capital. Because of his
adamant stand against segregation,
his removal from the cabinet has
been sought by reactionary forces,
led by Sen. Theodore Bilbo of
Mississippi. He defed a recent rul-
ing of the D. C. Recreation Board
that all public recreation facilities
here be rigidly separate according
to race. No segregation is permit
ted in recreation areas under juris-
diction of the National Parks divi-
sion of the Department of Interior,
though the areas are used by the
D. C. Recreation Board.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
28 Heroes Get
Medal of Honor;
None Negroes
(Read McAlpin's UncOvering
Washington column

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
-Twenty-eight outstanding heroes
of World War II were personally
presented the Congressional Medal
of Honor by President Truman at
the White House last week. No
Negroes were included among the
honorees.
The presentation of the medals,
scheduled for the South Lawn of
the White House, was held in the
East Room when inclement weather
made the outside ceremony i'm
practical. It was the first mass
presentation of it's kind in Army
history.
The incident recalled the fact
that no Negro has been awarded
the top military honor of this coun-
try in this war nor since 1898,
Since that time-the Spanish
American War-this country has
engaged in the Phihppine-Ameri-
can War, World War I and World
War II. A total of 1876 Congress
sional Medals of Honor have been
awarded to Army personnel since
the beginning of World War IL
Over $500 such medals have been
awarded in the history of the coun-
try. Negroes have received the
award 81 times, between 1862 and
1898.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Postal Alliance
Elects ChicagOan
Natl President

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
-Ashby Carter, former president
of District 7 of the National AL
lance of Postal Employees in Chi,
cago, last week was elected ma,
tional president of the organiza.
ton, according to an announce
ment of the NAPE executive com.
mittee meeting here. Mr.. Garter
succeeds Lafayette F. Ford of ST.
Louis, president for the past eight
years.
The Executive Committee, dur
ing it's meetings, appropriated $500
to the National Council for a
Permanent FEPC.
Other officers elected included
Harold L. Pilgrim, Philadelphia,
vice president; Thomas P. Bomar
of Washington, secretary; Phillip
w. Holland, Birmingham, treas
urer; Snow F. Grigsby, Detroit,
editor.
Ballots were mailed from various
branches of the Alliance to the Post
Office Department. They were tab
ulated by a committee headed by
Thomas C. Hall, assistant solicitor
of the Department.
An educational campaign in
unionization of workers and union
methods will be conducted by the
organization through a special ap-
preparation.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Mrs. Muttie Benson
Resident for so
Years Is Dead

Mrs. Matte Benson, So, died at
State hospital, Wednesday morn
ing, at 7:15 a. m. She was born
in Como, Mississippi, and had been
a resident of st. Paul for fifty
years.
Her surviving relatives include:
nieces, Mary Flores, of Chicago,
ILL.,; Mrs. Homer Anderson, of st.
Paul; Hazel Beasley, and Grace
Mason, of Minneapolis; a nephew,
Turner o. Starks; brother-in-law,
Turner J. Starks, of st. Paul and
the Fox family in California.
Funeral services will be Satur-
day, September 1, at Brooks chapel,
200 p. M, with Rev. B. N. Moore
officiating. Interment, Oakland
cemetery.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Capital Airport Continues
JimcrO Practices; NAACP
Lodges Strong Protest

WASHINGTON ID. q. (NNPA)
In the face of protests and COM
plants from the CLIO and other or
CARNATIONS, the National Airport
just outside of Washington has ex-
tended it's jimcro cafeteria prac-
tees by adding insult to injury.
The latest move of the Airport
officials has been the total exclu-
sion of all Negro employees from
its employee cafeteria. Previously,
separate cafeterias were main
tanned for white and colored en-
ployees. Recently, however, new
cafeteria for employees has been
built and the old ones discarded.
The new one is for ''white en-
ployees only" A sign has been
posted for the Negro employees
informing them they may be
served in the hangar cafeteria,
which is a quarter-mile from the
main building, or at the outside
refreshment stand.
The Airport is under the Civil
Aeronautics Board, which is part
of the Department of Commerce.
The local branch of the NAACP is
protesting the discrimination to the
Board and to Secretary of Com
merce Henry A. Wallace.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Truman COnfers
With Committee
And FEPC staff
Star Journal Photo

WASHIN GTON, D. G..
{ N N P A )-Committee and
staff members of the FEPC
conferred with President
Truman last week on the i'm
mediate future of the agency
which has been rendered impotent
by the sudden end of the war and
the absence of Congressional au-
thority as proposed in pending bills
to make the agency permanent.
According to Chairman NAL
colin Ross, the President ''fully
understood the problem" He de-
clined to state, however, just how
the President expects to handle
the problem of job discrimination
over the next few months when it
is likely to be intensified. He and
other members of the group, how
ever, were optimistic.
There is some doubt being ex-
pressed whether the President can
and will exercise his war powers
to assure fair employment practices
to minorities. Some hope came from
the Presidents statement in his
press conference last week that his
VI day proclamation will not end
either "hostilities" or "the state of
emergency"
Boris Shiskin of the AFL, a
committee member of the FEPC,
said: ''The President said ex-
plicitly that he will proceed with
the measures necessary to allevi-
ate racial and religious employ
ment bias during the recOnver-
sion period"
Others in the group which saw
the President at the White House
were Atty. Charles H. Houston,
John Prophy of the CLIO, both COM
mittee members, and George john
son, deputy chairman of the FEPC.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31

however, Marshall Stain is
aware of the travesties on
democracy practiced in this
country and is likely to give an
embarrassing chuckle to such
an theological note coming
from South Cardinals Byrnes.
The incident is one. of the first
tangible instances of America
meeting face to face in its foreign
and diplomatic relations the fruits
of it's failure to clean its own house.
It points up wildly the truth Of
the claim of the advocates of aboli-
ton of the poll tax, necessity for
a permanent FEPC, and those who
seek full citizenship rights for ALL
Americans, that these are not Sec
tional problems but American
problems.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
MURDER
Girl Admits SldYing:
F0tdl Gun Missing
Police Investigate

Jeanette Faltico, 10, of 2507
Blaisdell Avenue, admitted to police
Wednesday, the fatal shooting of
Marvin Lewis, 81, 715 Olson boule-
ward, at what was described by
police as can entertainment place."
located at $50 Eighth Avenue No.
According to the statement the
Faltico girl made, she shot Lewis
after he had struck Betty McMath,
10, of SAT Mill Street, Columbia
Heights. Angered at the pushing
around her friend was getting, Miss
Faltico is supposed to have grabbed
a gun that allegedly belonged to
one of the men in the party, and
shot Lewis in the right chest.
Although the scuffle leading to
the shooting was said to have taken
place in a bedroom of the house,
and a bloodstained blanket was
found, there were no other clues
to give evidence of struggle, and
the gun had not been found We'd
nesday night.
Held along with Miss Faltico and
the McMath girl, were Betty
Manion, %, Dean Officer, 81,
Richard Carr, 10, residents of the
building; Joseph Johnson, &c, 566
Seventh Avenue North, and Everett
Rhodes, %, of $50 Eighth Avenue
North.
According to police, the slain
man had a police record dating as
far back as 1886. He received a
sentence to st. Cloud reformatory
in 1888 for second degree grand
larceny, was picked up in 1941 and
again in 1913.
The Woodland Funeral home is in
charge of funeral arrangements
which have not yet been completed.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31

most encouraging signs that the
people of the south are becoming
increasingly aware of the danger
Gus and unfounded sentiments of
such men as Senators Eastland and
Bilbo, and Congressman John Ran
kin. For the first time we have
documentary evidence that these
demagogues belong to a dead order,
and represent no one but them
selves, and a handful of reaction
aries who feed on their patronage"
The Southern Conference, whose
national office is in Nashville, Ten
nessee, supported their contention
by reminding that less than 1870
of the adult population of Missis-
sippi voted in the last presidential
election and that Congressman
Rankin was elected by only $50 of
the votes of his district.
"Such polls as these prove
cOnclusively that the southern
representation in Congress-, in
reality, represents only an in
finitesimal fraction of the
south's population. The Opin-
ions of these editors indicates
further a growing realization
of the vast economic and social
problems that face the south in
the reconversiOn period. These
problems can be solved only
when these representatives d.
rect their attention to specific
issues instead of creating
racial friction in order to main
tain their political power.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31

PnylllS WneaCley SeCClemenC house
in Minneapolis.
The Civil Air Patrol is an auxil-
larry of the Army Air Forces, and
although it is geared to military
discipline and wants as recruits in
telligent, high types of youngsters,
members are allowed to resign if
they get into the Patrol and find
they don't want to stay.
Included in the courses Of
fered in pre-flight aerOnautics,
are theory of flight, aircraft
construction, power plants, in
struments, maps and aerial
photograph reading, air navi-
cation, meteOrOlOgy, civil air
regulations, control tower pro-
cedure, observation and recon-
aissance.
Although the CAP gives no
flight instruction, it covers a great
deal of the ground schooling re-
quired for a pilots license, and
puts the student in contact with
many persons who can help him
should he wish to undertake flight
instruction.
In the senior patrol group for
persons over IS years of age, rudi-
ments will also be studied, but the
seniors will help provide super
visory personnel. Courses will be
given one night a week at the CAP
school on Lake Street and Nicollet
Avenue. Both men and women are
asked to join, but boys between the
ages of Is and 10 are especially
asked to register.
The only large expense en-
tailed in membership, is an
outlay of $500 to cover the
cost of the CAP uniforms. In
case instruction involves going
up in planes, minors under 1S
years of age, will have to Sc
cure fight waivers from their
parents.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Byrnes Wants Democratic
Elections in Bulgaria;
But Not So. Carolina

WASHIN TON, D. C.
(NNPA)-Secretary of State
James Byrnes has gone on
record insisting on elections "under
conditions which will allow and in
sure the participation therein, free
from fear of force and intimida-
ton, of all democratic elements"
He was talking about elections in
Bulgaria, however, not in his own
state of South Carolina where poll
taxes, grandfather clauses, and
other registration requirements
deny the vote to the majority of
South Cardinals citizens.
Mr.. Byrnes' note to the Bull
gars was intended as much for
Russia, to satisfy whom the
Bulgars had set up a prOvi-
siOnal government. Tragically,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31

of the boys want to get home to
their mothers, wives and sweet
hearts.
Living conditions, considering
the heat and rain, weren't too bad.
Neither was the food. We had a
movie every night, and USO shows
once or twice a week. The day
after left, the first Negro USO
show played there. The Jack Benny
and Bob Hope shows were excel
lent, and all of the men enjoyed
them. Quite a few of the fellows
had autographed pictures of Bob.
All in all, considering the handi-
caps which Negro troops have had
to suffer, they've done a good job,
Harris believes, and could have done
the best job of any American
soldiers in this war, if they'd all
been given the chance denied them
by brass hat discrimination.
The next step for the sergeant
is to catch up in the romance de-
partment. His marriage to the
little lady who has been waiting
for him, will take place soon in
Topeka, Kansas, where he will visit
his father prior to the ceremony.
She'll fly from Los Angeles to meet
him in Kansas City on September 6.
Although the last solicitors meet
ing will be August 81, memberships
will be accepted up to the Septem-
Der 16 general meeting.
Next weeks paper will carry
names of members enrolled since
first group of names were pub
lished.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31

Lieutenant Lieut.. George Hoage
Hoage was riding the motor vehicle
in downtown Los Angeles when it
was hit by a truck, and the officer
was thrown against the curb, suf-
fering injuries to his ankle, hip,
shoulder and head. He was kept in
a hospital 48 hours for observation,
and then released. On Tuesday, he
complained of a headache, and was
rushed to an Army hospital in
Pasadena, where physicians found
him to be suffering from a fractured
skull, and ordered him to be oper-
ated on Immediately. The opera
ton revealed a splinter had pierced
Lieutenant Hoage's skull. He died
without regaining consciousness.
On Special Duty
Lieutenant Hoage was attached
to the Adjutant Generals office of
the U. S. Army on special assign
ment. He had been a member of
the armed forces about three years.
His parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
George L. Hoage, ST., of 500
Charles Street.
The body was accompanied to
st. Paul from California by Mrs.
Byron Rife. Mrs. Hoage, the former
Aleplia Annette, was indiposed and
could not make the trip.
Funeral services were held under
the Masonic Jurisdiction, Auspices
of the st. Paul Chapter No. L. o.
E. S., Perfect Ashlar Lodge No. 4,
AT. and Am. Lieutenant Hoage
was a past grand master of the
Masons. The Rev. Edward R.
Thomas officiated at the rites.
Burial was in the family lot in Oak
land cemetery.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Empire Builder
Wditer Improving
At His Home

C. D. Jones, waiter on the Sec
ond section of the Empire Builder
which crashed into the first section
near Michigan, North Dakota, on
August 9, killing "a people, is re-
ported improving at his home, 1473
Charles Avenue, st. Paul.
Jones who was confined to St.
Joseph's hospital in Minot, North
Dakota, until recently, suffered in
ternal injuries, the extent of which
still haven't been fully determined.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Funeral Rites Are Held
For Mrs. Edna Boswell

Mrs. Edna Boswell, 1886 Clinton
Avenue, died Monday, August 81,
at Fairview hospital after suffer
ing a cerebral hemorrhage, Fri
day, August "a. She passed away
without regaining consciousness.
Mrs. Boswell was the wife of the
late Charles Boswell, well known
in the Twin Cities.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, August %, at 10 a. M,
at st. Leonard's church, with
Father Leonard Herman officiating.
Interment was at Lakewood ceme-
terry.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
Lawrence E. Turver
Succeeds George Hodge
As Head of Musons

Lawrence E. Tarver, SOB St. An
thony, was elected Grand Master of
the Masons, succeeding George
Hoage, ST., at the meeting held
August 81 and %, at Perfect ASHER
Hall, 744 st. Anthony.
Other new officers are James L.
Mckinney, Deputy Grand master;
H. L. Williams, ST., warden; Eu-
gene Tucker, Jr., warden; A. E.
Williams, Treasurer; B. F. Hender-
son, Secretary, and John H. Hick-
man, Grand Lecturer.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31
John La Coste

John La Coste of Gashland, Mo-,
former resident for many years
of St. Paul, is visiting the Twin
Cities for the first time in four
years.
Mr.. La Coste was one of the most
active men in this area during his
long residence in st. Paul. He at
tended st. Paul public schools with
some of the men now most prom
inent in the business world of the
Sanity city.
A wide traveller, he is known all
over the country. During his stay
here he is stopping with Mr.. and
Mrs. Cleat Oliver, 943 Iglehart. !.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-31

In releasing the results of the
survey, DR.. Clark Foreman, Presi-
dent of the Southern Conference
for Human Welfare, at it's New
York headquarters opined that the
poll would be one of the most
forceful arguments when propon-
ents of a permanent Fair Employ
ment Practices Committee and
anti-poll tax legislation press for
Congressional action after Con-
gress reconvenes.
The poll centering around
the statement of U. S. Senator
James Eastland (D.-Miss.)
that ''The Negro soldier was
an utter and abysmal failure
in combat in Europe. He has
disgraced the flag of his cOun-
try" revealed that 75K% of
southern editors believe this
view did not reflect the "pre-
vailing opinion of southern
people," Only 1870 voted yes
on this question, 14K% unde-
cid Eighty-three per cent
scored Senator Eastland's
statement as "a hazard to the
nations war effort" Only so
supported his views.
According to DR.. Foreman the
poll also indicated the growing OPP
position of southern publications to
the anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti
Catholic statements made by Sena-
tors Bilbo and Eastland during the
Congressional debate on extending
wartime FEPC. DIR. Foreman said,
Gin my opinion this is one of the