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Duluth News
By ZnLAH WATERS
7ls 9th Ave.

Mr.. David McHenry has been re-
leased from the hospital and re-
turned to his home.
Mrs. SidOnia Black is back on her
job after having been confined to
her home for a few days.
The Goodwill Club of the Friday
night Bible study class of Calvary
Baptist church, sponsored a pro-
gram directed by Major Walter
Miller of the Salvation Army at
Calvary Baptist church, Feb. 81.
The proceeds of the program were
placed in the club treasury.
William Rodney, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. o. Rodney, sent his parents
a sterling silver model submarine,
a citation he had received-just
what for cannot be revealed until
after the war. The news came as
the first word Mr.. and Mrs. Rod
ney have received from their son,
now stationed in the South Pacific,
since Christmas.
Billy Maupins: Word has just
been received from Billy Maupins,
son of Mr.. W. T. Maupins. He is
somewhere in the Philippines. Billy
has been ill with a fever but ex-
poets to report back to duty soon.
Mrs. Raymond Harris ST., upon
leaving Duluth for her home in
Chicago, came to Minneapolis and
travelled the rest of the way by
plane.
Mr.. and Mrs. George DOzier en-
tertained Rev. W. E. Guy, presid-
ing elder, Rev. Boyd M. Patrick
and Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Harris at
turkey dinner Sunday, Feb. Is.
Mr.. Dozier returned Sunday from
Washington where he went to the
bedside of his sick mother.
Mrs. Marie TOwles entertained
Mrs. Lewis Sykes and Mrs. Anna
Lee Johnson at dinner a few days
ago.
Married: From an indirect source
comes the word that Lucille mick
ey) Beasley has embarked upon
the sea of matrimony. All sim
cerely hope she has smooth sail
ing. Mickey and her aunt, Mrs.
Maceola Maupins, left Duluth in
November last year to make their
home in Los Angeles. Since leaving
here, very little is heard from them.
Mrs. Rosa Page Welch, one of the
Mission speakers and an authority
on race relations, was brought here
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Aubrey Williams
Gauge of
COP Attitude

Washington, D. c. (NNPA)-
The fight for confirmation of
Aubrey Williams as administrator
of the Rural Electrifcation Admin
istration is good gauge of the sin
cerity of Republican Senators on
the race issue.
Aubrey Williams is former ad-
mlnistrator of the National Youth
Administration. As head of that
agency, he was responsible for the
policies which gave to Negro youth
IN many parts of the country their
first chance for real industrial edu-
cation which has fitted them to take
role in the war effort of their
country in positions other than
mental or unskilled.
As a progressive, liberal South
erner, Aubrey Williams wrote two
books. One was lambast of
Southern Tories in Congress. The
other was a prediction of "a new
awakening in the South where the
Negro has been pilloried for profit. I"
These two books are being used
as weapons against Williams by
Southern Senators who oppose his
confirmation to the job for which
he has been nominated by President
Roosevelt.
In addition, he is being attacked
for his favorable attitude toward a
permanent FEPC with enforcement
powers and for his fortnight stand
against policies and practices of
segregation and discrimination.
Backing up the Southern reac-
tionaries in the fight against Will
hams are Republican Senators Taft
(Ohio), Bushfield $50. Dak.) and
Butler (Nebraska).
Other Republicans in the Senate
are inclined to follow the lead of
these men. Taft is chairman of the
Senate Republican Steering Com
mittee. They are attempting to
camouhage the fight against Will
iams in a cloak of opposition to his
New Deal theories.
There can be no mistaking the
fact, however, that the opposition to
Williams is based on his liberal
views concerning race. The Re.
publicans who oppose him, there
fore, place themselves and their
party in the same position as the
Southern element which has taken
exception to Williams because OF
his racial liberalism.
Still carried in the doubtful,
column on Williams confirmation
are Republican Senators Vanden,
berg and Ferguson of Michigan
Burton of Ohio, Austin of Vermont
and Tobey of New Hampshire.
Voting against Williams con
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Rankin and Taft
Linked AS Chief
Foes of FEPC

Washington, D. C. - Following
fisticuffs last week in which Con-
gresham Frank Hook of Michigan
was struck in the face for his
espousal of FEPC, the NAACP
warned branches in a letter from
the Washington Bureau, that ''the
welfare and security of the Negro
and the common man in postwar
America is being seriously menaced
by the reactionary group in Con-
gress led by Rankin, Bilbo, Taft
and Co."
Not only were branches directed
to prepare now for the defeat of
every member of the House and
Senate following the Rankin-Bilbo-
Taft line, but to let respective Rep
resentatives and Senators know
that such an affront as occurred on
the House floor is under severe
scrutiny. This cowardly attack"
wrote Leslie Perry, NAACP as
sistant, clearly indicates the
length to which these reactionaries
will go to intimidate Congressman
working for the passage of progress
sive legislation. Rankin made this
attack only because he knew that
he had the support of a large bloc
of Republicans and Democrats of
which he is the titular head.
while there have been no fsti-
cuffs in the Senate" the letter con-
tinued, Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio is working overtime to confuse
the issues there. In the hope of
divoreing any lukewarm supporter
of the FEPC bill in the Senate, Taft
has introduced a phony FEPC bill
Of his own which would reduce
FEPC to a mere study commission
without powers of enforcement.
Taft now is reported to be prepar-
ing a trick Federal Aid to Educa-
ton bill"
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Wallace, 573 Olson Blvd; Harry
Massengill, 3617 Chicago Ave
March 17-John H. Steratton, 246h
Fourth Avenue So.
Out of town greetings to Pvt
Orlando Wilson, U. S. Army, over,
seas, March 10; Harry W. Ham.
mitt, Spokane, Wash, March IA.
Belated Greetings to Mrs. B. A
Buffkins, 1918 Fourth st. &c., Min
neapolis, March 4; A. ]. Clark, Jr.
1904 Fifth Ave. &c., Minneapolis
March 6.
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Emma COble
Buried March l

Emma Coble, rs, 34S 10th St., St.
Paul, died Thursday, March 1st, at
St. Peter State hospital.
Mrs. Coble, a native of Missouri,
was a member of Princess Oziel
chapter No. 10, o. E. S., and a
member of St. James A. M. E.
church.
Funeral services were held at
$3.50, Wednesday morning, at
Brooks Funeral Home. Rev. B. N.
Moore officiated. Interment, Fort
Smelling National cemetery.
Survivors include her husband,
Andrew ]. Coble, and a cousin,
Jessie E. Walker of Des Moines.
Miss Walker attended the funeral.
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Negro Fighter Pilots Play Large
Role

Washington, D. C. (NNPA)-The
part played by Negro fighter pilots
attached to the 18th Air Force in
the massive blows against German
rail traffic was revealed here this
week.
A Negro squadron, led by Capt.
Edward C. Glead of Lawrence,
Kansas, shot up 10 locomotives
and destroyed a power station in
the heavy action of last Sunday.
Sundays attack brought the 18th
Air Force Fighter Commands total
of locomotives this year to 1873 de-
stroyed and 140 damaged.
Girl Scout Tea: The Girl Scout
Troop of Phyllis Wheatley House
entertained their mothers at a tea
Sunday evening, March A, from 4
to 6. The girls entertained their
mothers with songs and readings
after which they were served tea
and other refreshments. Miss
Martha Kay, troop committee men,
Der, poured tea. The girls who
participated on the program were:
Juan Witherspoon, Velma Williams,
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from Chicago by the Duluth Coun-
Gil of Churches for the week Of
Feb. 25. Mrs. WEIGH was well ac-
cepted by the people of Duluth and
practically stole the show at the
seminars. She was much con-
cerned about the local situation
and gave suggestions on how it
could be remedied. Mrs. WEIGH
possesses a lovely soprano voice,
which is filed with beauty and
melody. She sang several numbers
while here. During the women's
meeting at the YWCA on Tuesday
of last week, Mrs. WEIGH sang ''The
Lords Prayer" 81 Want to Walk
Where Jesus Walked" and Little
Boy Jesus" Her songs brought
tears to the eyes Of many in the
audience.
Mrs. WEIGH and Mrs. C. Now, a
missionary to India for IA years,
were extended many courtesies.
Among them were tea in the First
Methodist church parlor on We'd
nesday. Centerpiece on the hand
made table cloth was of pink
candles in crystal holders and sweet
peas. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Nichols
entertained at dinner Tuesday. Mrs.
w. o. Rodney was also a guest.
Mrs. WEIGH was also entertained in
the home of I. K. Lewis, author and
world traveller. There she was pre-
sented with a beautiful corsage.
Tea: Mrs. VIM. o. Ecklor, wife of
the pastor of Endion Methodist
church, was hostess to the inter-
racial committee in the club room
of the YWCA on Tuesday. Mines.
George Adams, George Dozier, W.
o. Rodney and Edward Nichols
were among those who assisted.
Mrs. ]. E. Danielson, new president
of the YWCA, was guest of honor.
Mrs. Nichols has been appointed
chairman of the interracial COM
mittee and Mrs. George Adams as
vice chairman for the ensuing year.
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CALCIUM
The Greet Hurnun
Need

People of all ages need calcium
and few today get a sufficient
amount of it for the greatest Of
most abundant health.
The best and the cheapest source
Of calcium is in dairy products.
The lower the income for. food
the greater the need for more of
dairy products in the regular every
day diet Of all Of US.
Fresh fluid pasteurized milk daily
in some form should be used, either
as a beverage or in cooked food.
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and in two years, with the assist
ance of Minnesota Methodists and
the Board of Missions and Church
Extension, the church was freed of
all Indebtedness.
Over $4,000 was raised Sunday
for the Crusade for Christ. The
Camphor Church raised twice the
amount asked for in the S25, 100000
campaign launched by the Method
lists of the nation last December.
The Camphor Church has a mem
bership of more than 200 and has
had ten pastors in its twenty-five
years history. The present pastor
completes his seventh year next
month.
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Friday, March 9, 1945.

firmation in the Agriculture Com
mittee were Republican Senators
Capper of Kansas, Shipstead of
Minnesota, Bushfeld of South Da-
kota, Butler of Nebraska, Wilson of
Iowa, Gordon of Oregon, and Willis
of Indiana.
The vote on Williams is scheduled
to follow Immediately after DISPOSE
ton of manpower legislation in the
Senate.
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Birthday greetings in st. Paul:
March 11-Clara E. Bowers, 739
st. Anthony; Marion Adkins, 935
Iglehart. March 12-Willie Brooks,
397 Rondo Ave; o. C. Hall, ST.,
727 st. Anthony Ave. March IA
Mrs. Amanda Bell, 531 st. Anthony
Ave. March 15-Mary Alice Carter,
658 W. Central; Mrs. George Stone,
S75 st. Anthony Ave-; Marie Wood
ard, $40 N. Avon. March 16-Mrs.
John T. Claibourne, 721 st. An
thony Ave; Shadrick Smith, CAT
St. Anthony Ave; John VIM.
Twiggs, $50 st. Anthony Ave.
March 17-Mrs. R. L. Allen, TOT
Iglehart Ave.
Birthday Greetings in Minneapo-
lis: March 11-Sam Arnold, 2104
E. 18th st. March 12-Mrs. Eliza
beth Rodgers, 34O9 Cedar Ave. &c.;
Mrs. Edna M. Edwards, 22O6 Elliot.
March 13-Mrs. W. E. Stovall, 1915
Fifth Ave. &c.; Connie B. Landers,
1851 Bryant Ave. N; Mrs. Wreatha
G. Maxwell, 1920 goth Ave. So;
Rev. ]. W. Graham, 429 Colfax Ave.
No. March 14-Mrs. VIM. Madison,
2300 Portland Ave. March Is
Walter Lowe, 1921 Fourth Ave. So. ;
Mildred Rice, 616 Seventh st. No.;
Mrs. Helen Grever, 3548 Smelling
Ave. So; William Reddick, 1901
Portland; Voneida Rooney, 11O7
Emerson. March 16-Robert C.
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Poll Tax Petition Getting
Signatures

Washington, D. c. (NNPA)-The
petition for discharge of the COM
mittee in order to bring the anti
poll tax bill before the House of
Representatives for a vote got off
to a good start this week. Eighty
two signatures had been attached to
the petition by the end of the week.
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Christopher and
Vaughn at Great
Lakes, Illinois

Fred ]. Vaughn, Is, 1874 18th Ave.
S, Minneapolis, and Chester L.
Christopher, II, 551 W. Central, St.
Paul, have begun training at the
U. S. Naval Training Center at
Great Lakes, Illinois.
The recruit training period in
cludes fundamentals of Naval pro-
cedure, military drill, seamanship,
and the physical hardening pro-
gram.
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Sues for Divorce

Rose Booker, GAL Aldrich Ave. No., was
scheduled to appear in Judge Vince A.
Days court, Thursday, March 8. to testify
in divorce proceedings brought by her
against Harold 'Popeye" Booker of the
same address.
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e. Joe Knows Where Your Red Cross Money Goes

The American Red Cross is making the most important
and urgent appeal for funds in their history. After
three years of war; the work of this organization is
greater than ever for it must serve millions of our
fighting men abroad . . lonely men, homesick men
wounded men as well our prisoners of war; Stress
the need for additional advertising when you talk owe
this campaign with your accounts
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Shall We Let Japan off Easy?
(BrenertOn Sum

(Bremerton Sum
 We are hearing occasionally that the word 'un- conditional" should be stricken out of the term un- conditional surrender" as applied to Japan.
 Those who make this suggestion argue that Japan should not be reduced to total defeat, because then should lose valuable bulwark against a growing China and an ambitious Russia
 Why should fear strong and prosperous China is hard to understand On the contrary, our dreams of -four hundred million customers, cannot come true until Chinas standard of living has been raised. A developed, industralized China may well prove the worlds greatest market place, contributing to the well-being of all other nations
 As for Russia do not know that she will ever bother us. Japan has done We should be making poor gamble in exchanging possible aggressor for certain
 Russia has no creed 2,OO0 years old demanding that she conquer the earth. Japan has.
 Russia has plenty of elbow room Japan has not
 Russia has no bone to pick with the west. Japan after defeat will be inflamed with an abiding re- sentiment. Her statesmen and writers are already propagandizing hundred years war"
 To rely upon sworn enemy to help curb a present and probably friend of the three chief pillars of world security, would seem to be the last word in folly
 But" say our businessmen who used to trade with the Orient we want Japan after the war to be able to buy from If you destroy Japan we will have no business"
 How about business with the rest of the Orient? We must in the long run choose between business with Japan and business with Asia.
 This is true because an unchecked Japan would certainly her program of monopolizing Asiatc trade. American business rapidly being squeezed out before the There could be no objection to this if it based upon fair competition But Japan used slavery, government subsidy and military force to achieve her ends.
 To let Japan off easy would be to perpetuate this system. Japan should have fair chance to make a decent ving-but there is road to this goal except by way complete defeat and international control maintained long enough to teach her how to live and let live.
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that they cannot endure living in communities in which they frightfully abused The murderers may be dead, in prison in hiding, but the people who merely tolerated murder shut their eyes to it are necessarily still at large With what strange and horrible embarrassment must they face their few surviving Jewish neghbors!
 genuinely re-civilized Europe would solve this problem of religious discrimination It has to be solved if Europe is to be democratized. But long years of education the passing of generation made evil by Nazism, may be required. In the meantime the fate of 1,250000 innocent and deserving people, among them representatives of Europes highest cul tural ideals, needs consideration. We have to hope that it will receive consideration, in the thoughts of all civilized and women and in the kind of final settlement that was carried forward at Potsdam.
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McCormicks Governor zig h t Green of Illinois will be put up as counter candidate. Mccormick s Friday, Werner Schroeder, is due to stalk the hustings soon for Green. Congressman John J. O'Connor, victim of the Roosevelt purge and who has never forgotten it, is among those backstaging the Christian Front campaign against Gen. William O'Dwyer. Another in- stigator is Father Edward Curran O'Dwyer fought the Christian Front when he was Brooklyn prose- cutor. .. Though one unfortunate incident occurred at the Lee She raton Hotel regarding the treat ment of a returned veteran, it is only fair to say Army Billeting Headquarters gives the hotel an Al record in general treatment of veterans in Washington. Walter Winchell, now on vacation, is spending it, as usual, at the Stork Club.
 tCopyright. 1915. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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JEWISH PROBLEM

If Adolf Hitler could know what is going on in Europe today he might take satanic comfort in the thought that amidst the wreckage of his great con- spracy hideous achievement still stands. Accord ing to the estimate of the American Jewish Committee there 8939608 persons of Jewish faith in Europe in 1889 There remain in Europe, outside of Russia about 250000 We do not know how many Jews in Russian territory few thousand escaped to this hemisphere to Palestine. With these exceptions the difference between the two stated figures be accounted for in just way; cold blooded scientific murder. Hitler hoped to be remembered a thousand years. Even if there were no other reasons for bearing him in mind an eternaly loathsome symbol of mans inhumanity to man, this one reason would be sufficient.
 One might believe that true repentance on the part of the Germans and all others who gave Hitler aid and comfort would lead them to take special to restore, and than restore, the pre- Nazi status of the survivors This does not to be happening. Dr. L. Altman may be making a special plea head of the New Zionist organization in Palestine, when he says that 80 or 90 per cent of Europe's Jews, outside of Russia, want to leave Europe and will do so, either legally or Illegally
 Yet the feeling must be widespread among them
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20 YEARS AGO {yfm {fME EMPIRE
AUGUST Il, 1925

AUGUST
 this the A. B Hall, the Princess which expected invited
 Stabler Assistant Attorney had just returned to his Juneau E. of Holy Trinity Cathedral left the Jefferson for Skagway church business
 Harold Smith Juneau visit of added the Tongass National
 collector his headquarters the South trip
 A a business left to his Ketchikan headquarters
 paint being applied to the building housing the Power Company. Weather: Maximum, 6s; minimum 59
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The W ashington Merry -Go- Round
(Continued from Page OneJ

can and British troops from Italy during the coming winter.
 Incidentally, most Of the Potsdam agreement was settled while Win ston Churchill was still Prime Min ister Of England. For better or worse, it stands as a monument to him. By the time new Prime Min ister Attlee arrived, most of the job was finished, and, inasmuch as he had sat in on the preceding talks, he OK'd all that Churchill had done with one exception Spain. Attlee caused the declara- tion against Franco to be streng- thened.
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BALKAN PICKERING

Pickering over the Balkans also ended in a stalemate. The Big Three" could get nowhere regarding the Axis satellites, except on the non- Balkan country of Finland.
 In describing the problems con- fronting the Big Three, this column reported on July 20 1945, that Stalin last May proposed Allied recognition of Hungary, Bull garia, Rumania and Finland, but that Truman then was only will ling to recognize Finland.
 The column also reported that the American Minister in Bulgaria had been held almost a prisoner in his own legation by Soviet troops.
 At Potsdam, therefore, Truman proposed that they review the situation in Finland, Bulgaria, Ru- mania, ct al, and took up Finland first. It was agreed that the Fin nish situation was satisfactory, that a stable government had been formed, and Truman promised to renew diplomatic relations with Finland soon
 Then came the question of Bull garia. Stalin said that democratic government had been set up, and that democratic elections were to be held in Bulgaria
 At this point, Truman pulled a letter from his pocket and said, in effect, "Oh Yeah?" The letter was from an Agrarian Peasant Party member of the Bulgarian Cabinet, stating that there could be no free elections under the present set-up and no democratic system in Bull garia. The letter was addressed to the Bulgarian Prime Minister, the American Minister in Bulgaria, and the Allied Control Commission. It proved a bombshell.
 Stalin, taken aback, said no more about Bulgaria. Next day, the Agrarian Cabinet member was dropped from the Bulgarian Cabi- net and the question of holding free elections in Bulgaria went over to the meeting of Foreign Ministers to be held in London before Sep tember l.
 However, it became absolutely clear from the Potsdam talks that at their meeting, the Foreign Min isters will have little chance ot getting peace treaties fer most of
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occupied Europe. Progress will be made on Finland and possibly Hun gary, but not on the others-unless new Prime Minister Attlee wants to change Churchill's policy and withdraw from Greece.
 Only occupied country which came out of the Potsdam Confer enee with any real gain was Italy. She is first on the agenda for the Foreign Ministers talks in London, and all agreed at PotSdam that final peace treaty should be signed soon with Italy.
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LIFE BEGINS

MANILA-A Japanese corporal surrendered meekly to Forty-First Division patrol in the zamboanga campaign.
 After four years in the Im- perial Army, I decided there was no future for me-" he explained. And the land looked so good, I thought I'd surrender and settle down on one of these farms"
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Daily Lessons in English v L. GORDON

WORDS All that is hearay" All that is CONJECTURE" s preferable.
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Natatorial Pronounce tato rial A in third syllable
 MISSPEILED Cayenne (pepper).
 crowd, host
 a three it is yours" Let us mastering word each day Toay word: exceptional; irregular He athlete of strength"
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AUTOMOBILE

OMAHA, Nebr A police court judge told Michael Urkovich, Is, that his automobile didn't do so well when it came to passing testing sta- ton requirements.
 When the right front door was opened, it fell off; the car had no windshield, no muffler, improper lights, faulty steering apparatus, three brakes lacked power, and the fourth stopped the car violently.
 The youth was charged with hav- ing no drivers license.