Nebraska Newspapers

    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.