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WINS HONOR Council Bluffs, Iowa., July 8th . Miss Cloo Wrigh, pianist rec*»jv e-' the second highest rating at the Iowa tate Women’s Federation held in Sioux City, Iowa, last week Miss Wright is a pupil at the Institute of Mu^ic, where she studies piano with Booker T. Washington. She played the tax ing Polonaise in A flat by Chopin. Miss Wright resides in Council Bluffs. Iowa. LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY &4.“phSon.onwEtai“7"‘tt,r*Po“ OHiee’ £>m‘h*’ N,br 1 Act °‘ ““ch 81 1874 Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, July 20, 1940 ()l1R 13th YEAR Number 18 BRIDE OF CALIFORNIAN MRS. EDWIN JACOBS Miss Betty Jean James, former ly of this oity, who now resides in E^erekley, Calif., was married to Mr. Edwin Jacobs of that city on July 13. Saturday. Miss James will be remembered mostly by her scholastic standing while attending Central High school. Sh,e is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. James, also of Berekley, Calif. BILLIONS BILLIONS BILLIONS! CONGRESS APPROPRIATING < $12 BILLIONS FOR ARMA MENTS— Washington, D. C. (FR)—In its survey of recent legislation, Farm I^esearcli finds that armaments bills totaling $12 billions have al* ready been passed or approved by Congressional committees since fcfye President made his original request iim January for $1,832,000 000 for national defense. The next request on May 17 in which the President issued his call for 50,000 airplanes asked for an appropriation of $1,182,000,000. He also asked for $272,000,000 to be added to this year’s budget. This brought the total to $3,280. 000,000, but before Congress got through these appropriations had been raised to $3,569,000,000. To mechanize the Army, the President called for another $750 000,000 on May 29, but the veiy next day he increased this to $1. 000,000,000 Congress raised the amount to $1,706,000,000. Th,en the Senate passed a measure amount ing to $50,000,000 for war relief and the House approved. Thus th,e total already approved by both Houses of Congress am ounts to $5,316,000,000. Another seven billions have already been approved by apropriate committees and have been marked for rush passage. Chairman Vinson of the House Committee on Naval Affairs intro duced a bill calling for 84 new warships at a cost of $1,000,000, 000. The President raised this to $4,000,000,000 and the Committee approved. On June 20 the Army put in its request for $3,000,000, 000. Despite the staggering size of these appropriations, no provision has yet been made for the 50,000 airplanes or for the compulsory training of the 2,000,000 young people which the President had asked for. Though it was com monly assumed that these 50,000 planes would be paid for out of the $1,182,000,000) defense bill, it ac tually appropriated only a small part of this sum for airplanes, leaving the item for latter action. Food Stamp Users As sured of Plenty of Fresh Vegetables A new and continued local des ignation of surplus vegetables for the period July 22 through August 11, together with nationally des ignated surplus foods will supply needed fresh vegetables for Doug las County, Nebraska and Potta wattamie County, Iowa, families taking part in the Food Stamp Plan. Fresh cabbage, fresh tomatoes, fresh snap beans, fresh corn and frerh beets are the vegetables which have been added to or con tinued on the list of surplus foods obtaii/nable for blue stamp purch ases in local stores for the July 22 through August 11 period, accord ing to Mr. Philip B. Lush, Local Representative for the Food Stamp Program. Similar designations are being made in other food stamp plan areas and will be con tinued through the summer as sur pluses are indicated, uranges have been added to your list of na tionally designated foods for the July 22 through the August 11 per iod. The complete! list of blue stamp foods for the two areas during the three week period be ginning Monday include butter, raisins, rice, pork, lard, pork (pork shall include all cuts, fresh, inciud ing chilled or frozen, pickled, salt ed, cured, smok,ed or tenderized but not cooked cr packed in metal or glass containers) corn meal, shell eggs, dried prunes, hominy, grits, wheat flour and whole graham flour, dried edible beans, fresh cab IJage, fresh tomatoes, fresh snap beans and fiesh corn, fresh ho its, and fresh oranges. Stamps redeemed at Joe’s Food Market, See ad in side. Has A Reccrd of 50 Yrs. Without Missing: A Day George Ellis Rat s, veteran Ne gro employee in the G.eneral Man ager’- office at Pennsylvania sta tion, New York, received a gold 50-year service button from M. W. Clement, president pf the Pennsyl Roosevelt A c c e p t s Nomination Willkie Names 2 Negroes To Advisory Board WASHINGTON, July 18 (ANP> Preparing far a strenuous camii aign and one ijn which Negro vot ers will figure prominently, Wen dell Wilfkje, Republican nominee for the presidency, last week nam ed two colored members to his cam paign advisory commitee in the persons of Thomas G. Nutter of Charleston, W. Va„ and William E. King, of Chicago. Both men had figured promin ently in pre-convention campaigns with Nutter a member of the Glenn Frank Program committee, and Mr- King a seconder of the Dewey nomination in Philadelphia. The selection of Mr. King is re garded as a strong move to solid ify the Dewey forces behind Mr. Willkie and gives the party a strong man in the Middle West which in recent years has turned into a Democratic stronghold. leaving thus far completed his campaign organization, Mr. Wilb kiie, who had visited Washington for this purpose, boarded a plan.e for a much needed rest in Color ado. This does not settle the question a3 to who will head up the two divisions in the campaign, the Eastern and Western, althojgh there is a mad scramble going a head for these important assign ments, with an added entry in the field hn the person of Ellis Rivers. Mr. Rivers is pushing his own c->.se strongly and hopes for the backing of several who were prom inent in the convention conferenc es to put him over in his effort to head the Eastern division for the third time. The problem of the publicity de partment at the national headquar ers also arises with Mr. Willkie paid to be favoring the retention of the present staff, although this is still an open question. ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT APPRAISING REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Washington, D. C.—T. G- Nut ter of Charleston, West Virginia, and William E. King of Chicago, Illinois, in Washington for the first meeting of the Republican Campaign Advisory Committee Thursday July 11, called at Repub lican National Committee Head quarters during their visit and is* sued the following joint statement respecting the GOP Nominee, and the part Colored Americans are called upon to play in the coming Presidential Campaign. “We are gr.eatly honored m be ing appointed members of the Campaign Advisory Committee of the Republican Party. W'e shnll put forth every effort possible in supporting Wendell L. Willkies aggiessive crusade against New DealiLsm. The streamlined and po tent campaign which is contem plated by the Presidential Nomin ee and Joseph W. Martin, Jr., new Chairman of the Republican Nat ional Committee and Campaign Manager, wdl/1 have our most ar dent and unselfish support. “We are all the more disposed to work whole-heartedly with Mr. Willkiie because he is on record as being opposed to race hatred and bigotry and because he believes in liberty, equality and brothrly love as declared by him in a recent in terview. Our candidate has caught Dlillllllllllllll!llll!ll!l!!ll[!lllll|l!!ll||||||!ll!l||!lll|||!llll!ll|l||l!!||||||||||!ll!l!ll)|ll||;i|||||||| vania Railroad upon his complet ion of half a century’s employment without mis.sing a single day of work. Th,e ceremony took place! in the Board of Directors’ Room at Pennsylvania Station. Mr. Bat es has known Mr. Clement for al most 39 years, having issued rail road passes to him When he was first starting to work for the rail road in the Engineering Depart ment BOY FALLS 5 STORIES _LIVES New York, July 18 (ANP) —A 6 year old boy, Aubrey Smickle, receive only a slight bruise on the left leg last week when he fell *o the ground from the fire escape outside the window of his parents’ 5th floor apartment in the Bronx The boy, playing on the fire es cape during his parent’s absence from home, landed on a coal pile in the courtyard after hurtling through the air. An ambulance surgeon treated the abrasion on hi3 leg. the imagination of the American pjoople and, as Mir. Martin haa said he has color and personality, in ad dition to the sound judgement and experience demand,ed of a Presi dent of the United States. “It is evident that under Mr. Willkie’s leadership greaer consid eration is being given by the Rep ublican Party to the Welfare of Colored citizens than at any time during ttye lapt 40 years. ‘‘We agree with Mr. Willkie that the jsaue in thw campaign is the New Deal Domestic conditions rrth,er than Foregin Affairs will engage the attention of the Amer ican people. Particularly is this true of the Negro group which has suffered so greatly under the dis criminations and injustices of New Deal administration. “Poilitics. under the New Deal, has been played wi|th relief and human misery systematically and ruthlessly, and to such an extent (specially among our people, that they have, in large measure, lost tlhe spirit of independence which maizes for free men and free wom en. ‘‘Mr. Willkie believes in a Gov ernment of competence and effic iency—a thing We have not had during the past seven years. If unity is to be brought about in A merica it must include the Colored people, who are the chief victims of the DemocratScj oligarchies in the South, where the votes pf our people are suppressed by the most brutal mthods. equal only to those employed by the Total itanian Gov ernments of Europe. He has taken a stand no other Presidential Nominee has taken with regard to discriminations a gainst Colored citizens in th,e Arm ed Services of the Government, — including the Army, Navy, and Air Corps, and with respect to the employment of Colored persons in Government services generally. “We believe with Mr. Willkie that wjt must have a Government which regards itself as the serv ant of the people, and not its mas ter; a Government without preju dices, and a Government under which we can move forward again as a united nation made up of men and women of confidence and good wail. “The Colored people haye. un der the New Deal, been consistent ly eliminated from the productive life of the nation and have been shunted to relief as a substitute for regular jobs. ‘‘What the Negro people of the United States desire more than anything else, aside from spiritual rejuvenation, is relief from econ omic suffering. They wish jobs provided that they may work out their own deystiny, and these jobs cannot be provided until the brak es are taken off industry, and un til present hostilities against Am erican business are ahandoned. “Un(ler a Republican Adminis tration and only under a Republic an Administration, is a just solu tion of the problems confronting our people to be expected.’’ ANNUAL OLD FOLKS PICNIC TO BE HELD NEXT FRIDAY The old Folks Picnic given each year by the Urban League Comm unity Center will be held this year on Friday, July 26. All elderly people are invited, whether tlicjy revive a postcard or not. Naturally, with people continually lwaiving and entering the city and changing? their ad dresses, we don't have an accurate list of all the people in Omaha and send cards only to the ones in our files. Our failure to send you a card does not mean that you are not invited nor is the postcard to bo used as a ticket. It is merely a means of advertising and ann ouncing. AJ1 those wishing to go on the picnic are asked to meet at the Urban Ixsague at 12 o’clock noon. Please don't bring children unless you positively cannot get along without them. If you are physic ally finable to whlk to the League* or if you cannot provide other transportation, call We. 5020 be foie Friday and give us your name and address. Please call before Friday, July 26, if you want us to send a car for you because if you wait until the day of the picnic to call, there is apt to be quite a bit of confusion and you stand a chance of being left. The Neighboring Department of the Urban Ixjague and the Picnic Committee are planning a very enjoyable afternoon and nre ex pecting) (Jlniaha's older people <t© turn out in large numbers. Don't forget the date or the time—Fri day, July 26, at 12 o’clock. 2ND BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLARINDA, IOWA TO BUILD A CORNERSTONE Next Sunday, July 21 th,e Sec ond Baptist Church members and friends will er.ect a cornerstone in the Church. An inspiring sermon program will be had. Rev. C. Ad am of Omaha will preach. Rev. J. H. Reynolds the State Secret ary, Rev. Goldsmith the Chairman of the District Assistant and the M|nyor oif Olarinda will be some of the outstanding persons who will appear on this program. Your presence wili toe appreciated at this meeting. Visitors are always welcome. Last Sunday’g Services were in a high spirit all day with a fine attendance and the Church is put ting on new life. We were pleas ed to have Mr. and Mrs. Stitt and family of Orgin, Mo., as visitors for the day. COLORED CATHOLICS HOLD ORDINATION SERVICE New York, July 18, (ANP) The Reformed American Catholic church here, only all-Negro Catho lie church in the world, held an ordination service recently for Milss Florence Helnry, who was raised to the degree of Reverend Sister Deaconess in the church. The ordination, celebrated at a Pontiifical High Mass said by the Archbishop C. Gordon Wolcott was held in the Little Church of the Black Virgin in the center of Har lem. Tl\e Reformed American Catho lic church, just one year old, is the first attempt by black Americans to form a Catholic church free of wihitd domination or jurisdiction. It is the only Negro church of its type headed by a Negro Archbish op. I>R. WEAVER TO DEFENSE COM’ISSION Washington, July 18 (ANP) — The appointment of Dr. Robert C Weaver as administrative assist ant to the advisory commission on national defense to work in con junction with Sidney Hallman) in the preparation of a program to integratd Negroes in thg indust rial division of the defense pro gram was announced last week. Dr. Weaver, Who left the U. S. Housing authority to assume his new duties on July 1, will be as sociated directly with Floyd Reev es. The division will take care of the labor supply program of the de fense program with offices in the CHICAGO ATTORNEY REPORTS ‘Vicious’ STATEMENT OF CHURCH BROTHER TO CONFERENCE Chicago, July 18, (ANP) —Pro testing a statement allegedly made by A. S- Jackson, financial secre tary of tl\e A ME. church, as gross ly unfair, E. P. Rlakemore, Chic ago attorney, who recently aided Ira T. Bryant in his fight for re instatement as secretary and t.reas urer of the AME. Sunday School Union, last week, reported the statement to the General Confer ence in an o<pen letter “Blakemore, I shall do all with in my power from now on to kill you in the Church,’’ the attorney says Jackson told him- Presenting the question as to what a man’s professional duties have to do with hi8 church affiliations, Blake more declared he was defending Bryant as a lawyer and not as a churchman. He ha<s been a mem ber of the General Conference of the Church since 1920. Munitions building of the war de partment. Dr. Weaver’s old posit ion as adviser on Negro affairs in the housing authority has not yet been filled, and at present, Dr. Frank Horne is acting head of the division. --1—■ COST $15,000 TO KILL A MAN IN BATTLE DURING LAST WORLD WAR Washington, D. C. (FR> It is estimated that in the last world War the cost of killing a man in battle amounted to the staggering sum of $15,000. When asked to chock this figure, General Percin who was in the French army at the time of the last war, found that, if anything, the figure was too low. Farm Research points out that less than one-half of one percent of the families in the United Stat es receive an income of $15,000. In fact, one-third of the families in the country were found to be living on !ess than $750 a year, ac cordiiing to the recent study made by the National Desources Board. If the $15,00 were applied to peace-time uses, it woujd sufficient be to convert three farm tenants families to full owner status. It would wipe off th,e mortgage debt from an average of five farms. It is equivalent to the average value of 17 farm homes in this country. Can’t Ignore Call To Duty Party Is Told • •• Strong Opposition Td Naming Secretary Shown During the Night • •• CHICAGO STADIUM, JULY 19 —President Roosevelt informed an intently listening democratic con vention last night that he accep ted its tradition-shattering third term nomination and assorted that in the face at “grave public dang er" his conscience would not let him ignore “a call to service." But that, Mr Roosevelt said rested not with the party, but with the people as a whole and was sub ject to the national election in November which will have him pitted against Wendell L. Willkie, the republican noiixinee ‘‘If such a draft should be made upon me," i^e said4 (refeflring )Lo the election, “I say in the utmost simplicity, I will, with God’s help, continue to serve with the best of my ability and with the fullness of my strength," * Convention Adjourns The convention, which had just nominated Secretary Henry A. Wallace, the president’s choice, for the vice-presidenoy over the op position of an antagonistic, booing and derisive minority, listened ab sorbed and silent. It had been warned by the con vention chairman, Senator Alben Wj .Barkley, against applause, be cause the president, speaking by radio from the White house, could not hear it and 30 could not sus pend for it. But, Barkley had ad ded, Mir. Roosevelt would be able to hear the crowd's response at the conclusion of his speech. And, when the address was done, the bift crowd broke into another of tho turbulent Roosevelt demonstia tiions which had come so frequently throughout the week. The convention then adjourned at 12:05 (central standard time* this morning. Wallace did not make a scheduled acceptance speech. Little Campaigning As had Mrs. Roosevelt, address ing the convention personally an hour or so earlier, the president made it clear that the duties of his office would not permit much campaigning and, with the contin uance of the crisis abroad, would keep him close to the White house. Vigorously he defended his rec ord on foreign affairs against the attacks of those who, he said, had called hiim a “war monger” and pledged himself to make his for eign policy of the past months the foreign policy of the future. He would “submit to the people”, he said, the question of all he had done to maintain the nation’s peace and to prepare it for whatever the future may hold. Wallace, an Iowan, secretary of agriculture, since the new deal started and an uncompromising new dealer, was nominated on the first ballot. WAR DECLARED!!! (Editor’s Note)*—. From now until November 4, 1940 by and between the two ma jor political parties, (makes no dif ference .which party wins)—if England can hold off until Nov ember 30, 1940, there will be some thing doing on this side of the water. England will then have all the help needed to win this war.
