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"Entered as Second-class Matter at The Post omce, Omaha, Nebraska, OmaKa, Nebraska, Saturday, November 9, 1910 OUR 13th YEAR—Njo. 34—( ity Edition, Price Sets.
Coder Act of March 8, 1874—Business Phone: WE. 1517 _ ___
Registrants To Reinforce Veterans of '17 In Armistice Parade
Fire Interrupts Services For L. K. Williams
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Loves Church and Choir Work
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.ROBERT 4— NOLAN, Piat.fcit ..ml Accompanist
(Interview by Miiss Ruth Forrest of The Omaha Guide Staff)
This is the likeness of Robert L. Nolan, brilliant youm pianiRt
and accompanist, of the nationally renowned Eva Je3sye Choir. Mr
Nolan is a graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Music and Howard
University School of Music in Washington, D. C. He has done some
outstanding work as a concert pianist. Here, ‘he is shown with his
volume of Beethoven Sonatas, which he studies each day (mentally,
while riding through the country).
Miss Jessye and 'her twenty singers left New York City around
the first of October and they have been giving concerts in different
cities each night to large and appreciative audiences in some
vines, uiey nave ueen required r-uJ
do a matinee and evening perfor
mance. So it is no wonder, these
fine young artists need the two
day rest period) which they are
spending here in Omaha. From
here they will go to the state of
Kansas to appear in many dif
ferent cities there. The Eva Jes
sye Choir is under management of
the Outstanding Artists Bureau
of New York City.
The singers all live in different
parts of the country- Mr. Nolan
when not on tour with Miss Jes
sye, resides in Detroit, Michigan,
where he is director of music at
New Bethel Baptist Church and
Community center. Here he teach
es piano and conducts a chorus of
300 voices. The Rev. W. E. Ram
sey is pastor of this great church
in the motor city. Mr. Nolan
told the reporter “Along with my
concert work- I love and enjoy the
privileges of working in th's
church, where t can help and in
spire the plain people of the
Lora.
Mr. Nolan made a personal vis
it to the offices of the Omaha
Guide. While in t)he city Mr. No
lan was the house guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Willis W. Gray of 2124
Lake St. Mrs. Gray entertained
many guests in honor of Mr. Nol
an. The other members of the
choir were entertained at several
functions by various people of the
city.
Speaking for himself and the
rest of the choir, Mr. Nolan stat
ed that they appreciated to the ut
most the hospitality Qf the Otna
hans- Mr. Nolan said that he
was so impressed by Omaha that
he would like to make his home
ihere. If Mr. Nolan was to make
Omaha his place of residence, his
first desire would be to organize
a young people’s chorus.
Mr. Nolan also wishes to thank
Mrs. H. B. Lewis of 2025 Lake St.,
for her preparation of an old fash
ion tonic which is doing much to
abate the cold he contracted while
traveling from New York to Om
aha
Mr- Nolan has studied piano in
several cities under very compet
f
, Choir Leader
MHanSHHm
Eva Jessye, Director of the
famour choir, who stopped over
in Omaha for a two day rest.
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en. teachers.
The following are a few of the
prominent men with whom he has
studied: Mr. Beryl Rubenstein of
Cleveland’ Ohio; Mr. Cecil Cohen
of Howard University, Washing
ton, D. C; and Maurice Dumesmil,
of Detroit. Michigan.
Even though the choir was on a
tw'o-day rest period in Omaha,
nevertheless, they held two re
hearsals each day at the YWCA-,
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ASKEI) TO REPORT
FOR AIR CORPS
THEN BARRED
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 6 (ANP)—
Another case of gross discrimin
ation against Negroes by United
States army officials in connec
tion with the armed forces of the
countiy came to the fore here
when James H. Gray, Jr., was re
fused admittance to tfhie^ United
States Army Air corps after hav
ing received an order to report.
Youmj Gray, wrho had enlisted
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(Fire Damage Unestima
CHICAGO, —November. 6,
of water on a blaze which broke 01
Chicago's Southside, at 11 o’clock
services were being held for the pa
dent of the National Baptist Conver
plane crash during a fog last Tuesc
lotte, Michigan.
11 ' "T
MRS. ROOSEV’LT AND
MRS. WILLKIE UNITE
TO SPONSOR CONFER
ENCE AT HAMPTON
Hampton Institute, Vai,—Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie today
joined hands for a common cause.
An announcement by tlhe Board
of Trustees at Hampton Institute
today revealed that the two 'first
ladies” are members of the nat
ional committee sponsoring a two
day Conference, November 25 and
26th. on the Participation of the
Negro in National Defense. The
inauguration, on November 25, of
Malcolm S. MacLean as the sixth
president of Hampton will open
the Conference.
Prominent national figures
from 17 states are included in the
1st of 83 members of the joint
Inauguration and Defense Confer
ence Committee.
Along with Mrs. Roosevelt and
Mrs. Willkie, such outstanding
personalities as Mrs. Andrew Car
negie of New Yorkt President El
mer A. Carter of the Urban Lea
gue, Surgeon General Thomas W.
Parran, President Guy S. Fori of
the University of Minnesota, Gov
ernor J. II. Price ot Virginia, Win
.hi op Rockefeller, Dr. Anson
Phelps Stokes. Walter F. White,
Secretary of the National Assnc
iation for the Advancement of
Colored People, and Aubrey Wil
liams, Director of the National
Youth Administration have joined
ands in sponsoring this import
ant conference at Hampton.
at the federal building here as
soon as the bars were supposedly
let down to admit Niegroes. was
awaiting the call to enter the ser
vices of his country. On Oct. 24
he received that call( the order be
ing signed by Lieut. Col- -Joseph
L. Bachus, in charge of enlist
ments. Gray \^as to see service
with the Sixth U. S. Army Air
corps, to be taken to Jefferson,
Mo., for training along with 270
other Detroit boys. After train
ing at the camp at Jefferson City;
the entire group of 2,000 men from
the Sixth area was to leave for
Hawaii for duty their.
But on entering the recruiting
office, jubilant because he was en
tering his preferred branch of the
service, Mr. Gray was politely in
formed that the order meant only
white men and t'here "had been
some mistake”. They made the
Muff of trying to determine how
the gross mistake was made and
who made it.
Several months ago. Gray( 20, a
high school graduate, tried to en
list. and they gave him the run-a
round by referring him to the 26th
infantry, to which outfit he wrote
only to be informed by that outfit
that they were not taking recruits
at that time.
MAN CAN REMOVE
CHAINS SAYS WHITE
UNEMPLOYED MAN
WHO DONATES $5
New York,—-“The chains of hu
man bondage were made neither
by God nor by nature, but by man
himself, and by man they can be
removed.”
This was the moving sentiment
contained in a letter to the Nat
ional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People this week,
accompanying five dollars ior a
membership renewal. The letter
came from an unemployed white
:od As We Go To Press)
—Firemen poured a steady stream
it in the Olivet Baptist Church on1
Wednesday morning, while funeral
jrtor, Dr. L- K. Williams, 69, presi
tion, Inc.t who was killed in an air
ay evening. October 29, near Char
j) Dignitaries of both races thiu
out tho nation joined in simple
rites for the renbwned leader. His
body was viewed by many thous
ands as it lay in state from Mon
day evening until the services at
! Olivet at which Dr. A. L. Boone,
of Birmingham, host to the recent
national convention; the Rev. T.
S. Boone, of Forth Worth, conven
tion historian; the Rev. T. O. Ful
ler of Memphis and Dr R. C. Bar
bour of Nashville, editor of the Na
tional Baptist Voice> as well as
many others, took a prominent
part in the services.
Meanwhile the CAA has opened
•an investigation in the fatal crash
wlhiich snuffed oqt the lives of
three others in addition to the fa
mcug preacher. The Rev. William
M. Haynes, prominent pasitor of
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church; Ed
ward Whiting, the pilot, and Don
Schmitt, white, student flier and
an employe of the Chicago Daily
News, were the other fatalities.
, -A - •<!> *.
The party was on its way to
Flint, Michigan, where Dr. Wil
liams and Rev. Haynes were sche
duled to address a Republican Ral
ly. They had missed connections
on the regiular plane to Detroit
and chartered the private craft( a
five passenger Stinson cabin plane
owned by the Monarch Air Serv
ice. They were nearing their des
tination when they encountered
'heavy fog.
Farmers living near the Clash i
scene, about two miles from Char- |
lotte, said they heard the plane
circle two or three times as if seek
ing a landing place. The motor
apparently was in working order.
Landing flares were thrown out by
the pilot, but the craft neared
the ground the engine roared as
if an attempt was beintf made to
gain altitude. The machine crash
ed and burst into flames.
The pilot was burned beyond ie
cognition. The others were thrown
200 feet away
Dr. Williams, in addition to be
ing president of the National Bap
tist Convention, was for 12 years
vice president of the Baptist World
alliance, president of the Victory
Mutual Life Insurance Co., chair
man in 1936 of the Western Col
ored division of the Republican
National committee, a winner of
the Harmon award for distinguish
ed service, and a member of the
National Memorial association to
commemorate the deeds of Negro
es in various wars.
member of the association, living
in New York.
“I am out of work> at the pres
ent time,” the letter said, ‘‘so .hat
money is certainly not pleWful
with me. But I never think of
my dear colored brethern, without
the feeling that their need is so
much greater than mitf j. I have
never spent any mor.ey in the
world that gives me as much plea
sure as that which I am sending
vou. The chains of human bond
age were made neither by God or
by nature, but by man himself,
and by man they can be removed.
Let us persevere in the righteous
ness of our course.”
VICTOR METOYER
BREAKS COLLAR
BONE
While practicing football an the
St- Benedict’s lot( Victor Metoyer
son of Mrs. Victor Metoyer of
2316 Paul St., suffered a broken
collar bone. He received medical
treatment at St Joseph hospital.
Nebraska Goes Republican and Why
The HONORABLE SENATOR KENNETH S. WHERRY, _
Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, who did the one
job in the 48 states which brokw the Roosevelt landslide in Nebraska.
“THANKS-”
I wish to thank the Editor of
this paper and the people of this
district for the support they gave
me in my campaign for re-election
to the State Legislature. I ap
preciate the confidence the people
have shown in me by electing me
the fourth time and I will at all
limes try to merit this confidence.
Yours truly,
JOHN ADAMS
HIGH COURT REFUSE
TO REVIEW DECISION
UPHOLDING EQUAL
SALARY FOR NEGRO
TEACHERS
Washington D. C—In a decis
ion handed down Monday, October
28th, the United StatCR Supreme
Court refused to review a U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals decision
upholding the right of Negto tea
chers in Virginia to receive salar
ies equal to those of white teach
ers doing the same work.
The decision was rendered in
connection with a ease involving
Melvin Alston, Norfolk, Virginia,
school principal who seeks to force
the Norfolk schoolboard to pay
him and all other Negro teachers
a salary equai to that of white
teachers in the state who have
the same training and experience.
The case now goes back to the
Federal district court in Norfolk,
whose decision the Appeals Court
for the fourth district, sitting in
Asheville, North Carolina, revers
ed last June 18.
Although no date has been set,
Oliver W. Hill, resident counsel
for Mr. Alston has asked Federal
Judge Luther B. Way, for an early
“earing. Associated in the case
with Mr. Hill are Thurgood Mar
shall, special NAACP. counsel and
Dean William H. Hastie and Leon
A. Hansom of the association’s na
j tional legal committee. The case
: is being conducted under the dir
ection of the Ne>?ro teachers of
Virginia, in conjunction with the
NAAJCP.
The Omaha Guide thinks it was
due to the leadership of the Hon
orable Senator Kenneth S. Wherry
Chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee, and the close
cooperation he got from those who
had complicit confidence in his ab
ility to do the job and the ever
ready office crews who so willing
ly served him. It is true that Ne
braska voters are an independent
set of voters. They, as a rule,
pick the man they think can do
the job .they want done, and Sen
ator Kenneth Wherry is an adm
itted go-getter—a hard, honesty en
thusiastic worker. He put his can
didates on the political stump at
least six times during the camp
c.ign, and after he had given them
that red-hot introduction he let
them tell their own story in their
cwn way. Then he vikmld come
right to fche front with that enthu,s
iastic feeling “let’s give him a big
hand. I mean a great big hand’’,
and a hand they would get be
cause the public in general could
discern in Mr- Wherry’s heart
through the eye, that deep-seated
Republican democracy, and they
could tell from his talk there was
a bigger job than just electing an
other man to an office. He made
his audience feel that the only
way to preserve this great Amer
ican democracy wfas to elect the
man he had brought before them
and believe it or not. from the
looks of tbirv’ts the day after el
ection, the citizens of Nebraska
took his advice The Nebraska
candidates,' under the leadership
of Senator Wherry swept the
State House clean and gave the
Honorable Wendell L. Willkie the
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Republican candidate fofl Presid
ent. the largest vote in the his
tory of the State of Nebraska, im
mediately after a 12 year Dome
cratic regime. This victory can
not be. praised too highly and an
other thing that is important to
think of while we are talking a
bout t'hi8 election: Governor R. L,
Cochran has been in the public
eye in the State of Nebraska, as
p. public servant for 25 years, anc
ho is known to be a man that
would carry out the policies of the
Roosevelt administration if he was
When Oma'ha’s Armistice Day
Parade swings through the busin
ess district next Monday, veterans
of '17 will be reinforced by a large
contingent of selective service reg
istrants, acqordini^ to Mr. E. K.
McDermott, general chairman of
the celebration committee.
“This year’s program will be un
ique in that interest will focus as
much of the potential vetqrans to
be as one of the veterans themsel
ves said Mr. McDermott. “And the
theme will be peace through total
preparedness.”
Notices have been posted in the
offices of the ten local selective
service boards announcing to all
registrants that the veterans in
vite them to march as a body in
the armistice paiade and giving
detailed information as to assem
bly areas and line of march. In
order that the selective service
men may make a creditable show
ing in the parade, every effort to
organize them is under way, ac
cording to Lieutenant Colonel
Reuben Noel Perley, committee
member assigned to the selective
service mens' part of the observ
ance,
“A strictly civilian atmosphere
will prevail in the selective serv
ice mens group,” Colonel Perley
said. “It is expected that lead
ers, who have had a limited am
ount of military training, will be
selected from among them so that
their line of march will function
smoothly. The registrants will
march in high school class groups.
The assembly areas for the var
ious local board groups are. as
follow^: 7tih I/O cal Board Area,
28th Avenue, Farnam to Douglas,
10th Local Board Area, 28th Ave
nue, Dodge to Douglas; th Local
Board Area, 28th Street, Farnam
to6 Douglas; 8th Local Board Ar
ea, 28th Street. Dodge to Douglas;
5th Local Board Area, 2th Avenue,
Farnam to Douglas; 9th Local
Board Area, 26th Avenue, Dodge
to Douglas; 4th Local Board Area,
25th Avenue, Farnam to Douglas;
1st Local Board Area, 25th Ave
nue. Dodge to Douglas; 3rd Local
Board Area, 25th Street, Farnam
to Douglas. 2nd Local Board Area
25th Street, Dodge to Douglas.
elected to the Senate.
Senator Elect Hugh A. Butler’s
name h^s never appeared on the
ballot for the State of Nebraska
for a political position. Hugh But
ler is not a flowery orator. He is
a man who thinks before the peo
ple of the State of Nebraska as a
good, hard, Christian, honest busi
ness man who has come from the
bottom up, with this pioneer sod
houses of the western prairies to
a prosperous grain dealer.
This was no sanall jobt for the
State Chairman( believe it or not,
to take Mir. Butler, and beat Mr.
Cochran.
Governor Elect Dwirht Griswold
who has ran for governor twice
before this election, placed his all
in the hand^ of Senator Kenneth
S- Wherry and under his leader
ship today is one of the few Re
publics* Governors elected.
The thinking citizens of Neb
raska take their hats off to the
Honorable Senator Kenneth S.
Wherry, for the job he did in this
State wide campaign. We predict
the Hon. Kenneth S- Wherry is
headed for national fame as a lea
der who America can well afford
to push to the top of the ladder.
YOUNG OMAHAN ATTENDS
AMMUNITION SCHOOL
Private Clinton D. Lloyd, son
of Mr- and Mrs. Dock Lloyd of
2702 Miami Street, has recently
been transferred from the Ninth
Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Private Lloyd is at present attend
ing the 40th Ordnance Service
School at the Raritan Arsenal on
the coast of New Jersey. This
distinction was placed upon Priv
ate Lloyd as the results of an ex
amination. he being one of the 14
out of 50 who passed this examin
ation.
Along with a few other soldiers
stationed at Foil Riley, Private
Lloyd enrolled at this government
institution last Wednesday to re
ceive a classification as a gun ex
pert, the title awarded to all grad
uates of this arms and ammunit
ions School.
FREE IDENTICAL
TWIN ON FIGHTING
CHARGE
It was simply a casi of mistak
en identity, Ed and Fred Martin,
19, identical twins, of 2625 Wirt
streetf told Municipal Judge
Wheeler this morning.
Ed and Eugene Rice. 20, of 2617
Grant Street, were arrested Sun
day on charges of disturbing the
peace by fighting in the Ritz the
atre. Ed explained he v,as trying
to 'hold Fred back- The case was
dismissed.