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Evening star., 1945-08-25
Don Norman of Rodio Dies

CHICAGO, Aug. Is R.-Don
Norman. former master of cere-
monies on the Don Norman show"
Blue Network variety program,
and announcer for Station WGN,
died of heart disease today.
Evening star., 1945-08-25

nese National Defense Council and
the Central Executive Committee of
Kuomintang which approved the
Sino-Soviet pact and sent 1t to the
legislative yuan. The latter rati-
ned it today despite some bitter OBJ
jections.
Chang said Outer Mongolia had
been an Independent entity for
many years and in view Of this
should formally be granted inde-
pendence so that relations between
Outer Mongolia and Chinese might
become all the more cordial.
Regarding Tibet, Chang said:
Should I1betan people now make
known their aspiration for self-gov-
ernment, the Chinese government
will not hesitate to accord them full
autonomous status"
He said Burma, Thailand and
Indo-China should be given friend
ly help in attaining independence
in the letter and spirit of the Attain
tic Charter"
Meanwhile, the Chungking news
paper Ia Kung Pao demanded
that Portugal return to China the
Portuguese colony of Macao, IS miles
west Of Hong Kong.
Invitations Renewed.
Chang sent. third invitation
to Mao Tse-tung, civilian leader
Of the Chinese Communists Yenan
regime, to come to Chungking for
q discussion OF Communist Ma
tionalist differences which threaten
to erupt In civil war.
Mao had asked Chang to accept
Gen. Chou En-lai, his ranking as
sistant, but Chang replied today
that in view Of the urgency of the
situation he hoped Mao himself
would come $50 these problems may
be speedily resolved In the interest
Of the nation"
: Heightening tension between the
two factions was, seen In yester-
days reports that both Chiang's
troops and the Chinese Commu-
mist forces claimed the capture OF
Kweisui, capital OF Suiyuan Prov
ince. Earlier there had been re-
ports Of clashes between the two
groups In that area.
Evening star., 1945-08-25
A-lo THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. C.
SATURDAY. =
Garn nf UhankH

MASON, MARY AGNES. We wish to
express our deep appreciation and sincere
thanks to our dear friends and neighbors
Tor the beautiful flowers and many other
deeds OF kindness performed during the
passing Of our dear mother
THE FAMILY, MARIE HACKNY. 26s
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Report

District of Columbia and vicinity
Sunny and warmer this afternoon,
highest temperature in upper 70s;
some cloudiness tonight; lowest tenn
perature in middle Cos. Tomorrow
fair. with moderate temperature;
cooler by evening.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clea,
at Harpers Ferry
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Y. L. SPEARE co.

Neither successor to nor connected with
the original w. r. Speare establishment
1909 n ST. NV. N,t,ans1 ph1ne $500
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Tide Tables.

The Sun and Moon.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

First Lieut.. Oliver D. Lewis ar
rived in st. Paul Tuesday, April
"a, from Italy, on a forty-five day
leave. His wife, Mango, is max
ing her home for the duration with
Lieut.. Lewis mother, Mrs. Ruber-
ter Lewis, at 759 Rondo.
Lieut.. Lewis has been overseas
for thirty months, and at the ex-
piration of his leave will return to
his outfit in Italy. He went to
Officers Candidate school at Fort
Warren, Wyo., and is now a COM
pany executive officer in a PENN
sula Base section serving directly
behind the 92nd Infantry division.
While in Italy, he saw the follow
ing St. Paul boys: Sgt. Bert Shan
non, T/5 Sam Reed, First Lieut..
Harold Brown, Sgt. Lawrence
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
CINCINNATI NAACP GETS
$500 NEW MEMBERS

Cincinnati, Ohio.-In a member
ship campaign which closed Off
cially on April %, the Cincinnati
branch of the NAACP secured
$500 new members and a total of
$500. Many individual workers
brought in more than 100 members
each and the Union Baptist
churches reported the largest num-
Der Of recruits among the many
churches cooperating. The 1915 total
is more than double the 1914 men,
bership. Workers will continue
"mop up" efforts for two weeks
more in order to reach a total of
10000 members. Chairman of the
Cincinnati campaign was Miss
Sadie Samuels. Director of the sue
cessful campaign was Mrs. Daisy
E. Lampkin, national field secre-
tary. Theodore M. Berry is branch
president.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

Pruth McFarlin, tenor, whose
concert appearances throughout
the Northwest in the past three
weeks have attracted widespread
praise will appear in recital Sun
day night, May 6, at Zion Baptist
church, 18th and Lyndale Ave. No.,
Minneapolis.
The concert will begin at S:15
p. m. No admission will be charged.
Mr.. McFarlin's tour in this area
has been sponsored by the Kiwanis
Foundation, Minnesota-Dakota dis
trict. He sang at the Minneapolis
Auditorium last Saturday night.
Mr.. McFarlin has sung before
many university and civic groups in
the United States and Canada, and
is a constant feature over the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Only recently he completed a
tremendously well received tour of
the United States army camps en-
tertaining over 10000 people in our
armed forces. This tour was made
possible through free-will offer
ing concerts such as the one being
held in your city.
His unusual talent has come to
the attention of many prominent
musicians including the famous
operate tenor, James Melton, who
quoted in the New York World
Telegram "McFarlin has one of
the greatest voices I have ever
heard"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Robson Awarded
Spingarn Medal

New York.-Paul Robson, inter-
nationally famous actor, concert
artist, and athlete, has been award
ed the Both Spingarn Medal, it was
announced April 26 by DR.. John
Haynes Holmes, chairman of the
award committee.
Mr.. Robson received the award
for his outstanding achievements in
the theatre, on the concert, stage,
and in the general field of racial
welfare. The latest triumph in his
long public career is his appear
ance in Margaret Webster's pro-
duction of "Othello."
The Spingarn Medal was insti-
tuted by the late ]. E. Spingarn,
for many years president of the
NAACP, to go to the imam or
woman of African descent and
American citizenship, who shall
have made the highest achievement
during the preceding year or years
in any honorable field of human en-
deavor." The award to Mr.. Robe
son is considered the Spingarn
Medal for 1914. The award is GUS
tomarily presented at the annual
conference of the NAACP, but on
account of wartime restrictions the
conference has been cancelled this
year. In view of this circumstance
the medal will be formally present.
ed at date and place to be an
nounced later.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Locol SIG Officers
Elected in ApriI

Officers elected during the month
of April for Local SIC Dining Car
Employees of the st. Paul and
Seattle district are Harry S. Brown,
president; Cleat Oliver, vice presi-
dent; Henry C. Bell, vice president;
Samuel Johnson, secretary-treas-
urer; Clarence Mccullough, as
sistant secretary-treasurer; Lionel
Allen, recording secretary; Robert
L. Allen, chaplain; Samuel Ross,
inspector; Henry Maxwell, inside
guard; Julian Buford, outside
guard; Noah Spencer Smith, press
agent; Maceo v. Littlejohn, gener-
al chairman, and L. w. Stafford,
assistant general chairman. Elect
ed to the Board of Trustees are
Nathaniel Sayles, Robert Allen,
DIN P. Wells, Ralph Ward, Maceo
Moody, R. II. Arts and Clarence
A. Anderson.
Mr.. Littlejohn has expressed
hope that members of the Local
will in the future cooperate fully to
carry on the constructive program
planned as well as they carried out
the election.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

larger AS1uSs ne new JONES
spent 10 years in pastoring in
Pittsburgh, four years in. Cleve-
land and eleven years in Philadel-
phia at historic Bethel before re-
turning to st. Paul a few years
ago, due to poor health. He is said
to have given st. James church
some of its most successful years.
The deceased minister was also
known as a civic leader and Is
probably best remembered in st.
Paul civic affairs for fighting pro-
posed legislation to prevent racial
intermarriages. He was a mem
Der of Perfect Ashlar lodge, No. 1,
of the Masons and had been q resi-
dent Of st. Paul 35 years, keeping
his residence here while living IN
other cities.
Among the survivors are his
wife, a brother, Eugene Wayman
Jones Of MOundsville, W. Va, and
two nephews, Lawrence Neal and
Eugene Wayman Jones, Jr., both
serving in the armed forces.
The funeral was held at st. James
church, Thursday, May 8, at 1880
a. m. Rev. B. N. Moore officiated
with Twin City pastors assisting.
mterment at Elmhurst. Brooks
Funeral Home in charge.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
st. Louis Editor
Calls On Truman
At White House

Washington, D. C. (NNPA)-.
The first Negro to call on President
Truman and pay his respects was
]. E. Mitchell, editor and publisher
of the st. Louis Argus. He was at
the White House April 81.
On leaving the White House, Mr..
Mitchell told reporters that he had
extended his greetings to the Presi-
dent and congratulated him on his
statements to the press and in his
speech before Congress immediate
ly after assuming the Presidency.
Particularly, he said he told him,
were the people impressed with his
statement to newspaper men "Pray
for me-; and with that part of his
speech in which he said: "At this
moment I have in my heart a
prayer. AS l assume my heavy
duties, I humbly pray to Almighty
God, in the words of Solomon: Give
therefore Thy servant an under
standing heart to Judge this Thy
people, that I may discern between
good and bad; for who is able to
judge this Thy so great people p"
President Truman told Mr.. Nit
chell that the Negro has nothing to
fear so far as he is concerned in
the Presidency. The statement was
made when Mr.. Mitchell reminded
the President near close Of the in
terview that the Chief Executive
has an opportunity to do big things
for Negroes.
There was some exchange of con-
versation about matters back home
in Missouri, Mr.. Mitchell said. The
Argus was a staunch supporter of
the Roosevelt Truman ticket last
November.
The editor was in Washington
for a meeting of a committee of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers As
sociation. He had wired the White
House for an appointment with
President Truman and had been adj
vised by wire to contact the Presi-
dents secretary upon his arrival
in the city. His appointment was
arranged for 12:45 p. m. on Friday.
He was with the President between
2 and 10 minutes.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
FLASH
Ralph Watson
Well Known Mpls.
Resident Dies

Ralph Watson, II W. 29th St, 80
years old, a citizen of Minneapolis
for the past forty-fOur years, died
early Thursday morning, May 8,
at the Minneapolis General Hospi-
tai.
Tentative date for the funeral
services is Saturday, May s, at 2
p. m. at Zion Baptist Church with
Rev. H. W. Bolts, ST., officiating.
Interment will be at Crystal Lake
Cemetery.
Mr.. Watson, native of Virginia,
is survived by two nieces, Mrs.
Sallie B. Tree and Mrs. Virginia
Segar, both in Newport News, Va.
Woodland Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
RESOLUTION OFFERED
IN CONGRESS

Washington, D. C. (NNPA)-
While Sen. "Happy" Chandler, new
high commissioner of baseball, was
saying, 81 have no knowledge of
discrimination in fact" concerning
the exclusion of Negroes from the
big leagues, a resolution was being
introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives by Rep. Vito Marcan-
tonic to authorize the Secretary
of Commerce, Henry Wallace, to
make a thorough investigation of
big league hiring policies.
Chandler, Senator from Ken
lucky, was selected to fill the va
cancy created by the death several
months ago of Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands. His statement of
no knowledge of discrimination has
been taken by some to mean that he
will not use his office to correct
the jimcrow policies of the big
leagues.
Marcantonio's resolution reads:
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled that the Secretary of Com
merce be and is hereby directed and
authorized to investigate employ
ment policy and practices of base
ball clubs affiliated with the Ma
tional and American Leagues. The
purpose of this investigation shall
be to determine the extent of dis
elimination in employment of base
ball players because of race, color
oT creed"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

LIE Ontyne Traynham, girls
worker at Halle @. Brown House,
for the past year left this week
for a brief vacation in Chicago
after resigning her position at the
Community House.
Miss Traynham attended school
at st. Paul's Episcopalian College,
Lawrenceville, Va, Florida A. and
M. College, Tallahassee, Fla, and
Wherefore University from which
she received her B. S. degree. Last
fall she enrolled in the graduate
school at the University of Mime
sofa.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Sergeant Frunklin
Awarded Purple
Heurt Decoration

Mrs. Henry Franklin, 3617 Chi
cago Ave-, received word that her
son, S/Sgt. Henry Franklin, had re-
ceived the Purple Heart fol. wounds
received in Italy in September.
S/Sgt. Franklin, who is with the
370th Infantry in the 92nd Division,
has been in the army for two years
and overseas nine months. Before
leaving the states he was stationed
at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. He is
a graduate of Central High school
and a former student of the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
He has two sisters in the city,
Mrs. Spencer Shivers and Mrs.
Marion Miller.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

'tBubba" Brown, Cpl. "Bookie"
Bell, Warrant Officer Alfred Stew
art, and Sgt. Dwight Reed, who
played in the Spaghetti Bowl"
football game, in Florence, New
Years day.
Mrs. Mango Lewis is employed
at the Northwestern Bell Telephone
Company, and has taken leave to
be with her husband while he is
here. She has two brothers in the
service, Sgt. Robert T. O'Bannon,
in India, and Pvt. Wilbert W.
O'Bannon, stationed at Camp
Warren, Wyoming.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Lewis will leave
this week to visit relatives and
friends in Omaha, Cleveland and
Chicago. i
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Negro Republicans
Plan Action To
Pass FEPC Bill

Washington, D. C. (NNPA)-An
effort to get Senate and Congress
sional Republicans to take the
leadership in a sincere and con-
centrated campaign to put through
legislation for a permanent FEPC
with enforcement powers and to
pass the appropriation for the
present, wartime FEPC has been
launched by a group of influential
Negro Republicans called together
by Judge James A. Cobb Of this
city.
The group, which met at a
luncheon last week, plans to put its
proposal before the National Re-
publican Committee and the min
ority party leaders in both the
House and Senate. They are act
ing on a two-fold purpose-to OBJ
tain passage of the important
FEPC legislation, and to set the
stage for the Republican Party to
recapture the Negro vote held for
twelve years by Franklin RoOse-
welt.
In pursuit Of these detectives,
the group will seek a dissolution
of the Republican-Southern Dem
ocrat coalition which existed as an
anti Roosevelt weapon in Congress.
At the luncheon meeting, beside
Judge Cobb, were DR.. Emmett ].
Scott, DIR. John T. Fisher, DR.. Mil
ton Francis, DIR. Herbert Marshall,
Henry Lincoln johnson, Jesse Nit
chell, j. Franklin Wilson. Invited
and unable to attend but pledging
their 1000 cooperation were
Judge Francis Ellis Rivers of New
York, DR.. Gaylord Howell of New
Jersey, ]. Finley Wilson Of the
Elks, Perry W. Howard, Judge w.
C. Hueston, Hobson Reynolds, and
Thurman Dodson, DR.. C. B. Powell,
of New York, who served as Repub-
lican associate director of publicity
during the presidential campaign,
while regretting his inability to at
tend, was the only one who did not
commit himself to 1000 coopera-
ton.
This group, formed to take pre-
liminary steps, plans to call on
Republican leaders throughout the
country to cooperate and partici-
pate in the campaign.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
st. James Church in
Minneapolis Nearly

free VI mortgage
A drive has begun at st. James
A M E church, Minneapolis, in an
effort to free the church of debt.
After years of struggle the men,
bership and the pastor, Rev. E. R.
Thomas, believe with hard work
they may be able to very soon wipe
out their mortgage entirely. They
solicit the cooperation of other
Twin City churches.
During the last four years, under
Rev. Thomas, and the present Of
ficers, they have paid for new sid
ing, roofing and plumbing. The
drive will close July 1. Evangel-
lists of the Twin Cities and several
speakers are expected to be in
charge of a large meeting on that
date.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Wulter Dodson
Seriously III;
Duuuhter Here

Walter Dodson, 1920 Smelling
Ave-, who recently returned to the
city from New York, fell at his
home and received a head injury,
Wednesday, April 10. Monday,
April 20, he was taken to Fairview
hospital and his condition is re-
ported improved.
His daughter, Mrs. Nell Dodson
Russell, of New York, is in the city
to be with him. Mrs. Russell, now
nationally known as a newspaper
and radio writer, was one Of the
original staff of the Spokesman and
Recorder.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

San Francisco, May 1 (NNPA)-
Negro delegates at the World Sc
curity Conference include:
Empire of Ethiopia-Bitwodded
Makonnen Endalkatau, Prime Min
lister; Alto Akbilou Hoptewold,
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Ambai Void Marian, Vice Minister
of Justice; Blatta Ephrem Twelde
Medhen, Minister to the United
States; Emanuel Abraham, Direc-
tor General Ministry of Education;
Getahoun Tesemma, First Secre-
tary, Legation, Washington, and
Menasse Lemma, Director General
Ministry of Finance.
From Republic of Haiti-Gerard
Lescot, Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Vely Thebaud, Minister of Interior,
Justice and Defense; General Alfred
Nemours, President of the Senate,
and Andre Liataud, Ambassador to
the United States.
From Republic of Liberia-Clar-
ence Simpson; Vice President;
Gabriel L. Dennis, Secretary of
State; Lemuel Gibson, Chairman,
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee; Colonel Moses N. Grant, From
tier Forces, and Richard Henries,
Chairman, House of Representa-
tives, Foreign Relations Committee.
American Negroes in Attendance
at World Security Conference In
clude DR.. Mordecai Johnson, Presi-
dent of Howard University, Wash
ington, D. c.; DR.. Max Yergan, Ex-
ecutive Secretary, Council on Afri-
can Affairs, New York City; DIR.
Ralph Bunch, State Department
Attache, Washington, D. c.; DR.. w.
E. B. Dubois, Consultant, New
York City; Walter White, Consul
tant, New York City; DR.. Mary
Mcleod Bethune, Consultant,
Washington, D. c., and ]. Finley
Wilson, Elks, Washington, D. C.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Discharge Petition
Filed On FEPC;
Rankin Wrathy

washington, u. =. (NNPA)-A
petition to discharge the House
Rules Committee from further con-
sideration of the bill for a Perm
anent FEPC was laid on the Speak
er's table at noon last Friday by
Rep. Mary T. Norton ID. of N. J.).
The action followed another far
cical, filibustering session of the
Rules Committee which failed to
vote a favorable rule for consider
alton of the measure.
By two o'clock on Friday so
Representatives had approached
the Speakers desk and signed the
petition. Only twelve Republicans
were in the so. according to OBJ
servers in the House press gallery.
A total of 218 signatures are re-
quired to make the petition eff
fective.
Mrs. Norton made a short speech
on the floor of the House in sup
port Of FEPC and the petition.
She was followed by Rep. John
Rankin Of Mississippi who delivered
a verbal attack on the measure
and its purposes. Rankin was
answered by Rep. Vito Marcantonio
of New York. Further answers to
Rankin were stymied by failure on
the part Of Rep. Bradley of Penn
sylvania to gain unanimous con-
sent.
Rankin termed the legislation
"the most dangerous piece of
totalitarian, communistic nonsense
ever proposed in the United
States"
He said it would "stir race hatred
and prejudice and would destroy
free, constitutional government"
Marcantonio responded heatedly
that "the time has come to call a
spade a spade and no longer let
the hysterical screams and smoke
screens of the gentleman from
Mississippi block this action"
He declared white men fighting
shoulder to shoulder with Negroes
aren't going to object to working
shoulder to shoulder with them e.
and nothing is more subversive or
un-American than to deprive a man
of equality of opportunity for
job"
A favorable vote on the FEPC
measure was expected in the Rules
Committee on Friday. The inten-
ton of taking a vote had been an
nounced the day before by the COM
mittee chairman, Rep. Adolph Sab
bath Cd. of Ill.,. He retracted
however, when he was reminded by
Rep. E. E. Cox ID. Of Ga.) that
there was an agreement no vote
would be taken on FEPC unless all
the Southerners were present. Rep.
Roger C. Slaughter of Missouri and
Rep. ]. Bayard Clark of North
Carolina were absent. Sabbath re-
piled that if such an agreement
existed he did not want to violate
it.
Several days, perhaps weeks, will
be required to obtain the 21S sigma
lures on the discharge petition.
The Rules Committee, however,
despite the filing of the petition,
still can act on a favorable rule.
Whether it will do so depends on
Chairman Sabbath.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Word of Missing
st. Paul Soldier
Muy Be Had

Mrs. Henry Bowers, 445 St. An
thony, st. Paul, has been advised
by the Red Cross to write to the
Adjutant General in Washington,
D. c., and that she may get some
word Of her son, Pvt. Philip ].
Lewis, 20, who has been reported
missing in action in Germany, since
January 80.
Another son, Sgt. Vernard R.
Lewis, is stationed in the Neither
land East Indies, and another,
Horace D. Lewis, Merchant Marine,
has made three trips to the war
zone in futile efforts to find some
information regarding his brothers
whereabouts.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
Mrs. Clarence r.
Cheney on Ndt1
Y.W.C.A. Bourd

The Minneapolis Y.W.C.A. has
been notified that Mrs. Clarence R.
CLANCY, member of the Y.W.C.A.
board of trustees and former presi-
dent of the board of directors, has
been elected to the national board
of the Y.W.C.A.
The national board has 120 men,
bers. Sixty are residents of the
New York area where the national
Y.W.C.A. offices are located, and
sixty are chosen from the other
parts of the country.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

Eastern Visitors Return: Mrs.
Frank Terry and her daughter,
Mary Ann, 1912 Fourth Ave. &c.,
returned Saturday, April %, from a
three weeks visit, which they spent
in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh
and Washington, D. C. Mrs. Terry
saw Mr.. C. W. Washington and
Louie Mason, and Miss Adelaide
Carter, all former Twin Citians,
while on her trip.