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1 t1 City • Edition ~ 1 ■ • 1 1 ■ .... 1 ■ WEATHER ♦ .... ._ j [ Wentheroutlook for th*j; WORLD WIDE j period June 19 to 24. Up-j -per Miss, and lower Mo. i NEWS SERVICE I valleys, generally fair! FREE PUBLICATION j HEW TO THiTLINEY. J )F ALL LOCAL NEWS , al, except frequent show MATTBR I ers and seasonable temp FLASH PHOTO —^ _ I eratures northern portion r_J_^!!!.V1CE ♦_ LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF TH1CAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY_| Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, QatiirHilV .Tunp 24 1Q‘tQ Number 12— Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874.__aamrqay, cn, ltWf ^________ AMERICAN LEGION FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS SHOW With an aerial circus added to a greatly enlarged fireworks display Omaha Post, American Legion, anticipates a crowd of upwards of 80,000 persons will gather in Crei ghton Stadium in Omaha, for the Pest’s third annual community, Fourth of July Celebration. The Flying Covets, an ace aer ial acrobatic troupe who were fea tured by Ringling Brothers, Bar num & Bailey’s circus, will give a thrilling entertainment in mid field preceding the fireworks dis njay. Morris E. Jacobs, chairman of the legion post’s finance commit tee, wlhich sponsors these Fourth of July celebrations for the bene fit of the post’s relief activities’ fund, announced that this years fireworks show will combine many new novelties. Fifty aerial displays and sets to be fired electrically with no delays between numbers to provide continuous entertain ment from the first (to the last. Tht,arle-Duffield company, the lar gest concern in this business, and designers of the firewoi-ks displays at the Chicago world’s fair, has been given a contract for this part of the entertainment. “These fireworks celebrations sponsored by the Omaha for the benefit for its welfare activities, have now become established as the feature holiday attraction for eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa,” Bert C. Grasgorg, post commander, said. “Last years sh„w was attended by about 10,000 persons, and with the bigger pro gram we are offering this year, wo expect to fill Creighton Uni versity stadium this year.” Members of Omaha post have tickets for sale, or they may be obtained by writing to George Gil lan, post adjutant, City Hall, Oma ha. General admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for child ren with more than 10,000 good seats available at no extra cost. Reserved seats are 25 cents addi tional to the general admission price. <9-« JUST AS SOON | AS HE CAN Louis In Rare Form As Galento Fight Nears Fompton Lakes, N. J., June 24— (ANP)—Manager Joe Jacobs may have made it a bit tougher for his meal ticket, Two-Ton Tony Gal ento, by charging that Joe Louis “used a gimmick” in his sensat ional one round knockout of Max Stfuneling a year ago. The cham pion, already a bit burned up over the rotund one’s persistency in speaking of him as "dat bum, Louis” is in the peak of his fight ing career for his 1 round engage ment—or less—with the ambulat ory Jersey beer barrel at Yankee stadium, June 28. Observors unanimously declare that Joe is faster and boxing bet ter than at any previous time in his career. Of course his punch ing 'has always been tops. But against his sparring partners — and they’re all better than aver age—he has shown speed, science and footwork far superior to his previous best efforts. Joe, who not long ago said Ga kn.to would be a softer touch than Bob Roper, his recent Cali fornia victim, now declares the ro tund one is “plenty touch,” can hit like Bab? Ruth” and will put up “an awfully close fight.” But the champion, nevertheless, said ho was going right to work from the opening gvng and planned to end the little party just as soon as he could. Last week Nat Fleishcher, edi tor of “The Ring,” Iboxing maga zine, gave Louis a medal for turn ing in the best exhibition of 1938, the one round kayo of Schmeling. Fleischer also gave two belts to Henry Armstrong, who was there with his wife and daughter. One belt was for winning the welter weight Championship a year ago from Barney Ross and the other was for holding three titles at once. A. F. °f L. ADVISES TRAIN PORTERS TO JDIN BROTHERHOOD New Pork City, June 17—Be cause of some misunderstanding among some of the train porters, resulting largely from false pro paganda as to whether they should pay their per capita t,ax to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car por ters, in acordance with the grant ing of jurisdiction over train por ters by the Executive Council of the American Federation of La bor to the Brotherhood, the fol lowing letter was written on this question by Frank Morrison, Sec retary-Treasurer of the A. F. of L., to A. Phillip Randolph, Inter national President, and to one of the interested ti^ain porters. June 9, 1939 Mr. A. Philip Randolph, Inter. Pres Brotherh’d of Sleeping Car Porters 217 W. 125th St., Room 301, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir and Brother: I wish to acknowledge your letter of June 8th, enclosing cop ies of a leeter sent by this office on May 10 to Marcelus Cain, Fin ancial Secretary of Trainmen, Brakemen and Portors Union No. 21458. I note the use to which he has put this communication, and I wish to express regret that the letter w,as sent to the union. It was, of course a mistake, but it was dictated by a correspon dent who overlooked, in some way, the action by the Executive Coun cial concerning the jurisdiction of your organization over this and si milar unions. We are complying with your request that a letter ibe sent the union, setting them right on this matter, and directing them to pay their per capit^a tax t» your office. Expressing regret for the jnistake and the inconvenience it r has caused, I am Yours fraternally, Signed: Frank Morrison Secretary-Treasurer American Federation of Labor.” Acaordtng to Mr. Randolph, the train porters, porter brakemen and chair car porters are rapidly joining the Brotherhood. ———0O0 Ask Negro Federal Judge For Islands New York, June 22 (CNA)— Representatives of Virgin Island organization in this city met this week to initiate a campaign for the appointment of another Negro Federal Judge for the Virgin Is lands, to succeed William H. Has tie who has resigned the post to become Dean of Howard Univer sity. Ashley L. Hotten, labor leader, who was elected chairman of the Publicity Committee, announced that Virgin Islanders in this country were determined to prose cute a vigorous program of action to keep the Federal post in the hands of the race and will back the youjiig and brilliant District Attorney in the Islands, James A. Bough, for the post. - — ooO— SENTENCED TO FIVE DAYS Albert O’Dell, 21 of 2623 Frank lin street was arrested after cut ing Fred McGruder in the face and bads in a cafe on Lake St. O’Dell npv; sentenced to five days ia the ceenty jail for disorderly conduct. RICHMOND READY FOR 30TH ANNUAL NAACP CONFERENCE __ • Major Problems Confronting Race To Be Discussed Mrs. Roosevelt To Speak and Present Medal To Marian Anderson « ———- . . - ..—-- .. . Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Richmond. Va., June 22—Every thing is in readiness for the en | tertainment of the 30th annual conference of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People here June 27— July 2, inclusive. I The meeting of the race’s fore most civil rights organization bids fair to eclipse any similar ga thering in the past ten years. This will be the third time in thp his tory of the NAACP that the an nual conference has gone below the Mason and Dixon line. The first trip was in 1920 to Atlanta, Ga. The second in 1934 to Oklai hama City, Okla., and the thin! this year in Richmond. B*rom the opening meeting Tues day night, June 27, in Richmond’s huge mosque to the closing meet ing Sunday afternoon, July 2, also in the Mosque, the sessions will be packed with discussions of the major problems affecting race re lations in Ameriqa. Headquarters or the conference will be the Fifth Street Baptist Church, N. Fifth and E. Jackson streets. The opening night speakers will be Judge William H. Hastie, who recently resigned his post on the federal bench in the Virgin Islands and Samuel B. Solomon of Miami, Fla., who organized and led the Negro voters of his city to the polls May 2 in defiance of threats made by the Ku KIux Klan. Judge Hastie will sound the keynote of the conference and will review briefly the major achievements of the association during the past three decades. Mr. ^.Solomon will tell the inside story, of the organi zation of Negro Voters in |the South and i9 expected to point opt that colored citizens in Dixie are cietermined to exercise their citi zenship rights. Among the speakers and dis cussion leaders on Wednesday, June 28, will be S. H. Dytostra of the staff of the wages and hours act administrator; Dr. Charles S. Johnson of Fisk university; Les ter B. Granger and Howard Keg ter. They will discuss low wages )and low income farming. Edward S. Lewis of Baltimore will preside June 28 in a panel discussion on economic security and other speakers will tell of the work of the New Negro Alliance in Wash ington and of the organization of tobacco workers in Richmond. Health and housing problems will bo considered at the general session Thursday, June 29, with Dr. John B. West, of New York, and Harold Lett, of Newark, N. J., as the discussion leaders. One of the most interesting of the group discussions is expect ed to occur Thursday afternoon, June 29, when Thurgood Mar shall, T. G. Nutter, Enolia Mc Millan and Lester B. Granger will speak on the general subject of education. Friday afternoon, June 30. the whole subject of civil rights will be discussed by Hubert T. Delany James M. Nabrit, Leon A. Ransom and Mrs. Grace Towns Hamilton. This session will be presided over by P. B. Young, Sr., of Norfolk, V On Friday morning, William Pickens, director of branenes of the NAACP will ^preside at a ses sion in which the problems of branch organization will be gone into. The Saturday morning session, July 1, will be the business meet ing at which resolutions will be adopted and the time and place of the 1940 conference conference determined. The Wednesday night mass meeting June 28 will be a panel discussion on economic oppor tunity in which one of the leading participants will be Elmer Ander son Carter, one of the three mem bers of the appeals board of the New York State Unemployment Fund. Dr. Louis T. Wright, chairman of the association’s board of di rectors, will speak on the national public health program Thursday night, June 29; and Charles H. staff, will discuss the implica Houston, of the association’s legal (continued on page 2) Omaha Medical Society Hold.Annual Meeting The Omaha Medical Society held their annual meeting at the office of Dr. S. B. Northcroas. The con stitution was revised by the addi tion of a new Public Relations Committee to facilitate coopera tions. Dr. Wesley Jones lead a paper on Sulfanilamide after which the society discussed the new drug. This being the annual meeting, tho following officers were elected: President, Dr. Craig Morris; vice president, Dr S. B. Northcross; Secretary, Dr. Price Terrell, treas uror, Dr. Herbert Wiggins, Assis tant secretary, Dr. Stanley Madi son. ARRESTED AFTER DISPUTE ON WHICH DAY IS SUNDAY Robert Washington, 35 of 2701 Corby street was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace. Washington was clipping his hedge last Sunday, when Mr. and Mrs. Robert McField, 2706 Corby protested that it wrong to work on a Sunday. But Washington did not recog nizo Sunday at the Sabbath and the argument resulted in Wash ington arrest. -■—oOo—— - CHEROKEE TEMPLE ELECTS OFFICERS The follow ing officers j were elected | by the Chero ' kee Temple Lodge. Mrs. Jos ephine Pierrit Dtr. Ruler; Mrs. Ethel Marie Price, Vice Dtr. Rul er; Mrs. Sadie Richardson , Ass’t. Dtr. Ruler; Mrs. Merta Will mms, Sfec’y;, Mrs. Josephine Mrs. Fannie Merritt Williams, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Eva Mortimer, Assistant, secretary; Mrs. Ben Etta Cleve land, treasurer; Mrs. Gertrude Shropshire, Outer -door -keeper, Mrs. Ida Green, Inside-door keeper. -—0O0——— LABOR FIGHTS FOR MISS OURI NEW DEAL St. Louis, June 22 (CNA)—Mo. Negroes are watching with keen interest and rising hopes the movement initiated by Labor’s Non-Partisan League of St. Loala to ‘(bring the New Deal to Mis souri.” The League’s objective was an nounced at its recent convention attended by more than 50 dele gates from unions and other or ganizations having a total mem bership of 10,000. The parley hailed the conviction of local Boss T m Pendergast and adopted a resolution pledging support to President Roosevelt and Governor Stark “to clean up the state of Missouri and make it a New Deal state.” -oOo REPORT ON BIAS SPURS N J. LEGISLATIVE FIGHT Newark, N. J. June 22 (CNA ) — A determined campaign by t)he New Jersey Association for Ne gro Welfare'to bring the findings of the state Temporary Commis son for the Study of the Condition of the Urbpn Colored Population to the public in printed form has finally resulted in the publishing of the report, after three months of attempted suggression. The report brings to light many revealing facts regarding racial discrimination in the State of New Jersey, Large corporations in the state, for example, practically bar the employment of Negroes except for the most meni,al work. In the field of education, the re port disclosed not only discrimin ation but a pronounced lack of facilities for Negro children. The report cites a one room school house in South Jersey where Ne gro children go from the first to the eigbh grade in the same room under the tutorage of one incom petent and extremely underpaid teacher. Aimong other things, the report shows discriminatory rates to the race for insurance, and dis crimination in public places. Three bills, Assembly 479,480 and 481 have been introduced to the state legislature as a result of the report. A—479 provides for the contin uation of the Temporary Commis sion. It is felt tihat the Commis sion, so far, hasv but scratched the surface of the actual condition of New Jersey’s 260,000 Negroes citi zens. A—480 provides for an amend ment. to the much abused New Jersey Civil Liberties Bill which would make the fine collected from a public establishment found guilty of discrimination payable 1} the individual bringing suit rgainst the establishment. Here tofore the money has gone .to the state. This bill is being vigorous y opposed by the New Jersey Hotel and Restaurant Proprietors Association. A—481 prohibits discriminatory rates for Negroe„ wishing to ob tain insurance. The New Jersey Association for Vegro Welfare recently held a conference to qally support for the bills, with representatives pre sent from the Urban league, the NAAOP the National Negro Congress, the New Jersey Civil Liberties League, the Elks, the In ternational Workers Order, the Greater Newark Industrial Coun cil of the CIO and numerous church organizations. On a decision of the conference a delegation was sent this week to Trenton to contact members of the state legislature. --—oOo You can’t afford to miss Omaha’s latest entertain I nent, What? Elks on )ress Parade. Fri., June 0, & Sat., July 1, 8 30 pm. WM. GRANT STILL ‘BILLIE 6ETS GUGGENHEIM AWARO New York City—M VS}—. Wil liam Gran* Still, fomharly known at '•Bini*1’' was one of I’.tty scho lars to be awarded i' -* Guggen heim f*Howship ncre thi'- week. 'Billie’’ a very modes* though likable i How is a mus e a., of abi Hty • o much pro mac. He was born in Woodville, Mississippi; raised ir. Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended school at Wilberforc* University, Wilberforce, Ohio; and Oberline Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio. Most of his work was done under the private tutorage of Monsieur Edgar Varese, a French man of much renoun in the musi !cal field. Mr. Still resides with his wife and children in a modest apart ment on Manhattan Avenue, New York city. He is scheduled to de part in May for California, ac companied fby his family where | he will begin work under the foundation. Mr. Still made a coast to coast concert tour with Paul Whiteman (1930-31) as special arranger; was conductor for The Willard Robison Hour, a Symphony program pre sented several times weekly, for the past two years, over the Na tional and Columbia Broadcasting Systems. In this capacity Mr. Still is the only colored conductor di recting not only a white orches tra, hut an orchestra composed 'of Symphony artists. In addition to conducting the orchestra, Mr. I Still assembles the musical num | l*ers, arranges the program and makes individual orchestral ar rangements for eadh broadcast. Foremost among Mr. Stills com positions are, “Africa” a tone poem for orchestra, presented in 1930 by Rochester Symphony Or chestra, presented also in Paris and Bad Homburg, Germany. Re peated by popular request three times in Germany. “Afro-Ameri can Symphony,’’ completed in 1930 presented in 1931 by the Roches ter Symphony Orchestra, present ed in Berlin, Leipsig, and Stud •igart, Germany. “Barrere”—Lit tle Symphony, presented by New York Symphony Orchestra. “La Guiablesse” (Ballet) presented by Rochester Symphony Orchestra ia 1933, presented twice June 1933 at Auditorium Theatre by Chicago J Symphony Orchestra. “ A Desert ed Plantation” (Suite) presented by Paul Whiteman, Metropolitan Opera House December 1933, pre sented by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra M,arch 1934. Mr. Still received the Harmon Award in music several years ago. Man, Wife, 9 Children Evicted WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE APTS.; NO NOT FOR THE RICH BUT LORD HELP THE POOR Mr. and Mrs. Theofflus Moore, and their nine children, the oldest ono nine years and the youngest one seven months were set out on the street at 3113 R St., Monday a. m. They were told if they did not move, the house would be torn down on them. Tried all north and south Oma ha with the assistance of every welfare agency in both ends of Omaha ami they are yet practical ly in the street No house can be found and no big real estate man with a 100 apartment or no school board office. Not even Mr. Al wine with his able co-workers are doing -one thing al>out it. These defenseless children ean stay to night o,ut in the street and your uncle samuel better not even offer to build them a home. See Yourself in Motion Pictures at Elks Rainbow Hall, 2420 Lake Street* 4