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t 5c worth - LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEW SPA PEE" WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF 1KANSAS CITY_ Entered as Second-Class Matter at The Poet Office, Omaha, Nebraska CITY EDITION Under Act of Maxch I, 1174— Business Phone: HA-0800. Saturday, December 25, 1943. OUR 16tb YEAR—No. 46 —five cents copy— Our 16th Consecutive Year IIFDBV VUIQ To ot Saying... IVIlIiIiI AHiHu You! Christmas 1943... By Rev. T. J. Douglass This Christmas is very much unlike the first Christ mas which came nearly two thousand years ago. The first Chirstmas found this world at peace. The blood thirsty nations had been conqured. the countries had been united for the coming of Jesus Christ. Thus He came to a peaceful world. This Christmas finds the world in a terrible war. Kings have been dethroned, empires are crashing, cities are bombed, ships are sunk at sea, and thousands have lost their lives on the battle fronts of the world. This Christmas finds the world passing through a terrible crisis. On account of the enemy, our country is sending her sons to the front to preserve the freedom won for us by our fathers. This Christmas our prayers are offered for these sons wherever they may be. This Christmas, God bless America. God bless her sons at war, and the rest of the nations who are fighting with her for the free dom of mankind. We pray. These times are trying the souls of men but we must not forget. ’Tis Christmas! The meaning of it has not changed. It has the same glory as it had when the angel said unto them, “Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. For un to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” Christmas still means peace and good will tqward all people. Color, creed, and con dition have nothing to do with the meaning of this glori ous day. All peoples can share and share alike in this com mon joy that Christmas brings to the world. Our Saviour came to the world to bring peace. We seem to be far from it today, yet we may be nearer to it than we think. This Christmas the nations of the world are giving and receiving blows in this conflict, but down in the trust ing hearts of some of the people of these nations, Chirst mas still means. PEACE AND GOOD WILL toward all people. The first Christmas the Heavenly chorus sung: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men. This Christmas we can sing! Joy to the world the Lord is come. Let earth receive her King, Let every heart prepare Him room. And heaven and nature sing. 0§3jB|nb lo, tfje star, tobicfj tfjep sato in |fll tbe east, toent before tfjem, till it spl came anb stoob ober tobere tfje pourn^ PSE toas- w^m tfr? **to tiff star, tfjep rejoiceb toitfj exceebing great jop. &nb. tofjen tfjep toere come into tbe bouse, tbep sato tfje pouug cbtlb toitb ftlarp, JHs Jiflotber, anb fell boton, atb toorsbippeb ff)im; anb toben tbep fjab openeb tbeir treasures,,tbep presenteb unto Ijttn gifts; golb, frankincense anb mprrb. €t)r Gospel according to &t. jflattfttto Dorie Miller “Missing in Action** " ■smmi Dorie Miller shown above at ceremonies where he received the Navy Cross for gal lantry in action at Pearl Harbor. Ad miral C. W. Nimitz is shown pinning the award on Dorie. (Cleared and Issued Through Facilities of the Office of War Information) Washington, D. C. (Press Photo Service). The Navy Department this week confirmed reports that Dorie Miller, first Negro Blue jacket hero in this war, is “missing in action” in the Southwest Pacific. His next of kin, Mr. and Mrs. Conery Miller, Waco, Texas, have been notified. Miller, a strapping, 200 pound former fullback from Waco’s Moore High School, was awarded the Navy Cross by President Roosevelt for “distinguished devotion l£> duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on De cember 7, 1941.” At the same time, Miller received a letter of com mendation from the Secretary of the Navy and was ad vanced in rating from Mess Attendant, Third Class, to Mess Attendant, First Class. In addition, Bluejacket Miller has received the American Defense Service Medal, the Fleet Clasp and the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, personally presented the Navy Cross to Miller in ceremonies aboard a United States warship in the Pacific on May 27, 1942. Pinning the bit of ribbon and cross of bronze on the sailor’s breast he described his act of heriosm on the U. S. S. Arizona during the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base, and com plimented Miller on being the first representative of his .. (Continued on page two)