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“Headlines” **-- ... . Preliminary rehearsals for “Headlines,” modernistic musical revue to be staged at Tech High auditorium April 25 to 27 for the benefit of the Elks Crippled Child rens’ Fund, began this week. Above, William Raterman of New York City, director of the production, puts a dance chorus through one of the intricate rou tines. The girls, left to right, are Cora Sledge, Eleanor Dimitroff, Helen Veylupke, Alberta Hender son, Anita Gorton and Marjorie Jesse’s Cafe A New, Clean Place to EAT GOOD MEALS 15c & up Give Ua A Try 1426 North 24th Street BUY YOUR— POULTRY AT THE NEBRASKA PRODUCE Get the Best in Quality at the Lowest Price NEBRASKA PRODUCE 2204-6 NORTH 24th ST. 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Last year they staged over one thousand such stage shows throughout America. “Headlines,” the same show that was such a “hit" recently in New York City, Chicago, and Washing ton, will be presented here by a cast of 160 of the mid-west’s top flight talent, and state and local political, civic and business leaders. Elaborate stage settings and scen ery, hundreds of costumes and in tricate lighting effects will be shipped here especially from New York City for the Omaha produc tion. This brilliant novelty revue is based on happenings in a newspa per office, portraying the news that makes tho headlines of today. Among the outstanding scenes are “The Magazine Section,” where beautiful girls pose as covers of popular magazines; “Hospital News,” a comedy skit; “New York Day by Day," with the audience taken on a trip to the lower East side; “More Sinned Against Than Unusual," an abridged “melodram mer” of 50 years ago; “Foreign New3 Section” portraying a scene in a French cafe; the “Lovelorn column, “Want Ads” and “Society Section.” Rapid-fire flashes and “blackouts” keep the newspaper pace throughout. The first act finale is an especially well-written episode called “Mechanics” in which Mechanical Robots, Futuris troeraties and the like stage a most Dolgoff Hardware PAINT, GLASS & VARNISH BRING IN YOUR BROKEN WINDOW AND WE’LL GLAZE THEM FREE! WE HAVE A FULL LINE OF CHICKEN & FENCE WIRE OUR STOVE, FURNACE, PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. 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All of the proceeds from the show will be used to carry on the Elks wide spread charitable work for crippled children in Omaha and throughout the state. Visiting delegations from Elks lodges as far away as North Platte are expected to come to Omaha for the production. StiO.OOO BUILDING DEDICATED AT TUSKEGEE Tuskegee, April 11 (A N P).A new $00,000 building, housing Fed eral Extension Services extending into nine states of the deep South, was dedicated here Saturday in impressive ceremonies prefacing the joint Founder’s Day activities and first day sale of the Booker T. Washington stamp. After a welcome address by T. M. Campbell, district extension service agent brief remarks were made by Dr. George W. Carver, Col. W. G. Henderson, Dr. L. N. Duncan, J. A. Evans, J. B. Pierce and Dr. N. N. Baker. Addresses by Reuben Brigham, representing Secretary of Agricul ture Wallace and P. O. Davis, di rector of Alabama Extension Sor rector proceded unveiling of a por trait of Booker T. Washington and a plaque, honoring C. W. Greene by Nettie Washington, grand daughter of the revered educator. Dr. Frederick D. Patterson and Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, chair man of Tuskegee’s Trustee board, welcomed visitors to an inspection of the new building after dedica tion ceremonies were completed. FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINIS TRATOR MCNUTT DISCUSSES NEGRO CIVIL SERVICE EM PLOYEES WITHIN SOCIAL SECURITY HOARD Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt said today the de velopment of the Social 'Security Board’s program is bring to Negro office workers permanent jobs of an administrative, supervisory, and technical grade, on a large scale. The Administrator emphasized that this was particularly true as it related to executive positions ar»d to the recognition accorder trained Negro women. Of the 40 male Negro technical employees, 10 are college gradu ates, Charles F. Franklin and George L. Cohron, two of the Ne gro men who are employed in ad ministrative positions by the Social Security Board, hold doctor’s de grees from Columbia and American Universities, and James E. Stamps did graduate work at Northwestern University. Dr. Franklin is a social science analyst for the Social Security Board. Dr. Cohron is manager of the Harlem Field Office of the Social Security Board in New York *t*MS*+a*i*t*MH*t* i MAPLE STREET J HARDWARE f 24th % Maple Make this your first Step for ' ' Carden Seed* — City, and Mr. Stamps is manager of the 47th Street Field Office of the Social Security Board on the south side of Chicago. William C. Kelley and Austin H. Scott are the assistant managers of these two field offices. An entire Negro staff completes the personnel of these branch offices in New York and Chicago, and all employees are appointees from the Federal civil-service registers. The Administrator said that, in conformity with the stipulations of the Social Security Act, the Social Security Board has taken all its employees, regardless of race, from the registers of the Civil Ser vice Commission, and it is the un questioned claim of the Board that all appointments are based on the applicant’s record. He emphasized that the reason the number of Ne gro workers employed is not even greater is due largely to the com parative scanty of Negroes with civil-service ratings. “The granting of promotions,” Mr. McNutt explained, “is sur rounded by rules and regulations, merit ratings, and budget limita tions, but, during the past 3 years, the Negro men and women in the Board’s Accounting Operations Di vision in Baltimore have received 110 administrative promoti on s within their grade and 54 promo tions of a full grade. “In addition to promoting cleri cal people and machine operators to higher grade positions, the per sonnel policy of the Board has lent itself to the promotion of custo dial workers to clerical vacancies wherever the custodial group have the proper qualifications, and, at the present time, nine Negro cus todial workers are being changed over to clerical positions. “The average age of those en gaged in clerical work is 32, where as the average age of the custodial workers is 34 years for men and 37 years for the women. However, the number of dependents seems to be the same for both groups, the men averaging 2 dependents each and the women 1 dependent each. While the average number of dependents seems to be low, there are many cases where the number is well above the average,” “I’VE GOT INJUN IN ME” Every now and then we may hear some colored man and broth er, or some woman and sister boast, “Ive got Injun in me.” If Barne’s brief history is to be be lieved, first families of Virginia won’t boast to of the blood of Po cahontac coursing through their veins. Such in infusion or trans fusion is nothing to be anshamed of, but perfectly ridiculous to wear on the sleeve. The Europeans found the Ameri can in a state of savagery lower than the African natives. Contrary to popular belief the Indian was not killed off in wars. His casual ties in 300 years of war were less than 1500 men and women they were facing extinction through in ter tribal wars before Columbus came. Whole tribes could be bought for a handful of beads. The white man had as allies rot-gut and veneral disease. Three years be fore the Mayflower docked at Ply mouth Rock, one half the Indians from Maine to Rhode Island were swept away by a plague. The fight they put up for their wigwam was the poorest ever staged before the galleries of history. Only 2 scraps deserve the name of battle, “Tal ledega” and “Horseshoe Bend.” The Creeks against “Old Hickory”. The Creeks were a group of sem inoles and runaway slaves. Their manly qualities were due to In dianism Negrofied. _ , < l ii i rjvery coiuiru iii»h suuuiu uc proud of his race for its many sterling qualities. Says Dubois, B out of 6 slaves died on the mid dle voyage. The 6th man must have had one helluva constitution. We are his descendants. Fifty per cent of the white peo ple you meet on main street come from ancestors who had taskmas ters infinitely worse than Simon Legree. I understand their preju dice and find it pityful when not amusing. Once upon a time England’s upper classes confiscated the farm of the plebian landholders for use as playgrounds. An act of Par liament proscribed that if one so dispossed were offered work and refused same on reporting to prop er authority would be sold in sla very, and fed crusts of bread and scraps of meat (here pluck or hesslich and chitterlings were in vited) the master deemed proper. Compelled to stay at home of nights, of absent without leave, for first offense, 20 lashes on the bare back. For the second of fense repeat the dose, and for the third, said slave man be lashed until death ensued. In those days • '"men with “blue eyes like fairy flax, and cheeks like the dawn Francis E. Rivers (left) and James M. Yeargin, Assistant Dis trict Attorneys on the staff of Thomas E. Dewey, District Attorney of New York County anti leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President. New York City—James Yeargin, assistant to District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and third major colored appointee on the New York District Attor ney’s staff, prosecuted his first felony case in Part 4 of General Sessions Court last week. Mr. Yeargin suc cessfully prosecuted Joseph Dombroski, alleged fourth offender, convicting him of burglary in the third degree. This was a day after Francis E. Rivers of Mr. Dewey’s staff had finished prosecution of Mrs. Irene Louis Huff, defendant in a second degree murder trial. At the same time Mr. Dewey’s third aide, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter was preparing a series of other cases for presentation in Special Sessions Court. Assistant District Attorney Yeargin, named to Mr. Dewey’s staff in February of 1938, is now a full fledged trial prosecutor. During the last two years he has aided in preparation of a number of homicide cases, chief of which was that of Demetrius Gula and Joseph Saccoda. They have since been electrocuted as slayers of the White Plains (N. Y.) contractor, Arthur Fried, who was kidnapped then burned to death. Mr. Yeargin was born in Raleigh, N. C., attended Shaw University and St. Johns University in Brook lyn. His rise has been rapid. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1936, he practiced as a private lawyer a year before he was named to the District Attorney's staff as a member of the Homicide Bureau. He pre pared many murder cases during the last two years and prosecuted misdeameanor cases in Homicide Court. In school he starred in athletics as a basketball and tennis player. He married last September and he and Mrs. Yeargin live at 246 West 150th Street. Never,, beore Mr. Dewey was elected District Attorney, did colored aides in the District Attorney’s office actually prosecute cases. Neither are his three colored appointees limited to colored cases. In no city in the United States can this triple recognition of Ne groes on the basis of ability along and not color, be found. of day” were hitched to coal-carts and drew them like oxen. Readers this is not fiction. It is English history. The marks of these mis eries packed in chromosomes are hurlting across time to them and through them, tells a clear clean cut story of Negrophobia. Homer A. McCraney, Sr. Note:—Roast bo-shote was the ambrosia of English nobility and it persist until this day. The “ruf fles” livers and lights were dis carded. The vassals or villians beat the British bull-dogs to it. They brought that menu to America where our old folks caught the refuse coming out of the kitchen window, and in due course of time made an institution of the chitter lings. Homer A. 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