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Entered as Second-class Matter at The Post office^ Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, May 3, 1941 OUR 14th YEAR Number 7, City Edition, 5c Copy
Under Act of March 8, 1874—Business Phone: WE. 1517___ ’ J w
J. ROSBNWALD FELLOWSHIPS AWARDS
Flies To Tuskegee
COL. JOHN C. ROBINSON,
Chicago aviation training direct
or, who flew to Tuskegee Sunday
is shown in the top picture stand
ing beside Chief Pilot C. A. Ander
son of Tuskegee, right. In the
background is Col- Robinson’s
plane, the Brown Condor. The
noted Chicago flyer, who attract
ed international attention as head
of the Ethiopian air forces in the
Italian inyasion, went to Tuskegee
to see the activities of the insti
tute’s aviation program and to
discuss with President F. D. Pat
terson and Coordinator G. L. Wash
ington plans for courses in aviat
ion mechanics. The bottom photo
graph shows Mr. Washington greet
ing Col. Robinson as he landed at
Tuskegee. (ANP)
HIT PARADE COMPOSER
Lovely Una Mae Carlisle, first
colored girl composer to write a
song selected for the Lucky Strike
Hit Parade, whose ‘‘Walkin’ By
Tht* River ’ has captivated devot
ees of popular music. She ap
peared on a recent broadcast of
the CBS. program, "We, the Peo
ple”, and told the story of how she
happened to write the song.
Born in Ohio, Miss Carlisle’s a
bility as a pianist has taken her to
Europe and featured her in mar.y
famous spots as an entertainer.
—(ANP)
PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS
On January 10, 1941, there was
introduced in the House of Repre
sentatives a Bill known as H. R.
1847, sponsored by the Hon. Je»n
ings Randolph of West Virginia
for the purpose of pensioning wid
ows of retired Civil Service em
ployees.
The enactment of this measure
will place the widows of our Civil
Service employees on a par with
the widows of soldiers and 3ailors
who have served in the army and
navy.
The enactment of this measure
into law is but another step in
the advancement of social justice,
characteristic of our times and our
country.
Write or telegraph your con
gressmen at once urging him to
support this measure with his vote
and voice to the end that the faith
ful wives of our large army of Civ
il Service workers may be brought
within the ever widening circle ©f
those who can look forward to eco
nomic security in their declining
years.
BOY TURNS SLEUTH;
RECOVERS HIS BICYCLE
THE SUBJECT
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EMPLOYMENT
ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
-by H. J. PINKETT
Last week employment figures
were given in relation to the Met
ropolitan Utilities District.
It is important for all of us to
know what this agency of govern
ment is. It is a corporation est
ablished by law for the manufact
ure of Gas and Ice and the distrib
ution of water for the citizens of
Omaha and its environs. IT IS
OWNED BY EACH AND EVERY
ONE OF US. The Colored Peo
pie in their collective capacity own
one-seventeenth of it, and they
should not only put their earnings
into it through the purchase of
water, Gas and Ice, but thpy
should in fact be a part of it pro
portionately, through employment.
Mr. Dana Van Dusen is in
charge of personal and Mr. Walter
T. Byrne is the General Manager.
The Directors, however ,have sole
power to put an end to “UNFAIR
PRACTICES” through denial of
employment to Colored men and
women in all but menial capacities
You will not get employment un
less you insist properly upon ob
taining it.
Directors of the Utilities Dist
rict, please take notice.
(Next week the other branches
of government.)
—H. J. Pinkett
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LOUIS TO DEFEND CROWN
AS DRAFTEE
Detroit, (NNS)—Joe Louis who
expects to be drafted by late Fall,
nro> ask for permission to defend
his ■'■itle eve.', while serving in the
army, his co-manager, John Rox
borough, this week disclosed fhat
“Louis wants to defeat all possible
challengers before he is called for
service. But there is a poss.bil
ity that he will be called before he
can complete his present program.
In that event he would be more
than anxious to obtain permission
to fight while serving his year as
a draftee.”
/, STOLEN BICYCLE RECOVER
ED 20 HOURS AFTER THEFT
When his bicycle was stolen
from 24th and Lake Street, on
Wednesday night at 10:30, Herman
Vernell, 2821 North 24th Street,
set out to recover it,—and did—
within 20 hours after he had re
ported the theft to police- The
I bicycle, a green one, with a large
basket, front wheel brakes, two
speed transmission, back wheel
with gear, was found, piece by
piece in various places.
After reporting the theft, Sher
lock Holmes Vernell, made an in
spection of all junk piles in the
city looking for the frame. He
knew that whoever had stolen it
would not have kept it as it was.
After searching all the junk piles
with no results he asked every
drugstore delivery boy to be on the
lookout for a bicycle or any parts
fitting the description. At 4:30
p. m. Thursday he got his first
clue, when Lee Burnell, who works
at the Northside Transfer, report
ed he had seen a green bike frame
of that description at 29th and
Yates Street on a junk pile. He
recovered it from there, but found
the following missing: front wheel
front wheel brakes, back wheel and
gear, so he began his search for a
bicycle with front wheel with a
new Goodyear tire and a bike
with front wheel brakes. After
stopping about 100 children on
bikes he spoted his front wheel on
a bicycle which a boy was riding.
He had rented the bicycle from
another boy. Herman asked him
to whom the wheel belonged and
also the names of some of the boys
he associated with. The boy gave
him the name and address of the
boy from whom he had rented the
bike and also the names of some
of the other boys.
Then Herman went to the boy’s
home and asked him about the
stolen bike. The boy denied it.
Herman then turned “Mr. District
Attorney” and told him the nam
es of some of the boys he went a
round with and accused him of
stealing the bicycle. Then the
boy started talking, admitted his
part in the theft. Still detecting,
Herman got the entire group of
boys together- He found pieces
of the bicycle at 29th and Burdecte
Street under a street light and the
VETERANS DUCK NAMING
NEGRO AS ATTENDANT IN
MINNEAPOLIS HOSPITAL
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Methodists Change
67 Ministers
Philadelphia, May 2 (ANP) —
When the Delaware conference
of the Methodist church convened
here last week, it made 67 changes
in ministerial assignments as an
nounced last Sunday by Bishop Al
exander P. Shaw.
Most important of the changes
were the following.
Rev. John T F'^cher, superin
tendent of the Phi.adelphia dist
rict, was transferred to the staff
of the finance and debt-raising of
the church extension department
of the board of home missions, his
place being taken by the Rev. J.
W .Jewett, transferred from the
superintendency of the Dover dis
trict.
Rev- L. H. McArthur, pastor of
Zoar, “the mother church” of the
conference was elevated to the su
perintendency of the Dover Dis
trict, and the Rev. Noah W. Moore
Jr., transferred from Camphor to
Zoar.
Rev. D. H. Hargis, pastor of
Ezion, Wilmington, Del., was made
superintendent of the Eastern dis
trict and the Rev. W. C. Thompson
pastor of St. John’s, Newark N.
J., was transferred*to the superin
tendency of the Wilmington dis
trict.
remainder of the missing parts
were found at three different
houses. By 6:30 that evening he
had located the entire bicycle. He
egreed not to turn the boys im
plicated over to the police after
their parents had agreed to have
the bicycle repaired.
FUNERAL IN WASHINGTON
FOR FOUNDER OF NAACP.
Washington—Funeral services
were held here Saturday April 26
for Charles Edward Russell, 80,
who was one of the three persons
most active in organizing the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. The
other two are William E. Walling
and Miss Mary White Ovington.
From 1909 to the time of his
death, Mr- Russell was cncom
promising in his stand that every
right to be granted to Negro cit
izens.
One of his chief interests was
the correction of false statements
appearing in text and other books
about the American Negro; his
contribiutions and his place in the
life of the country. It is chiefly
through his influence that the as
sociation has worked out a techn
ique or tracing and correcting
statements derogatory to the race.
Mr. Russell’s last published art
icle “A Call for Real Unitey” ap
peared in the April Crisis. It
contained a fiery and stirring ap
peal for “one tenth of the popu
lation—of all residents o the coun
try, the most distinguished for un
swerving and unselfish devotion
to it.”
Walter White, NAACP. secret
ary represented the organizati m. I
RACE PEOPLE APPOINTED
TO ASSESSING STAFF
County Assessor, Joe Stolinski, '•
announced the appointment of the
following named race people as
members of his assessing staff for
1941: Carrie Jewell, 2816 North
26th Street, Victoria Turner, 2^17
Miami Street, Eugenie Chue, 2804
North 25th Street, Cleota Reyn
olds, 2810 Grant Street, Eva Mae
Stewart, 2421 Decatur Street, An
na Logan, 2712 North 22nd Street
Maggie McGowan, 2211 North 26
Street, Ida Willis, 2025 Ohio St„
Adell Richards, 1510 North 22nd
Street, Mae Allen Rouhlac, 2705
Hamilton Street, Adverta Randall
2016 Willis Avenue.
' St. Paul, Minn.—Run around tac
tics have been used by Veterans
Administration in dealing with
racial discrimination in a civil ser
vce appointment involving Charl
es H. Hale of this city.
Mr. Hale, who took and passed
an examination for hospital at
tendant in the Minneapolis Veter
ans hospital, was certified three
times by the Civil Service Comm
ission. But after being interview
ed by the chief nurse and the Hos
pital superintendent, he was told
by the superintendent that he
could not be certified by the hos
pital because he is a Negro and
the white employees would resent
his living on the premises and eat
ing with them.
Mr. Hale referred his case to the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People for
possible action. According to a
letter receieved by the NAACP.
from Brigadier General Frank T
Hines, administrator of Veterans
Affairs, Mr. Hale recently receiv
ed an appointment in the hosp;tal
at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., far
from his home. This appointment
makes it impossible for him to get
the Minneapolis job.
DR. DUBOIS LECTURING
IN MIDWEST
.Atlanta, May 2 (ANP) Dr- W. E.
B- DuBois, head of the department
of sociology in Atlanta university,
dectured in the Middlewest during
April. He spoke at Macalester
college, Saint Paul, Minn., April
22; at the convocation at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, April 24;
and at the Saturday Lunch Club
of Minneapolis, April 26. He also
spoke before thesociology depart
ment at Northwestern university
and the Chicago City-Wide Forum
and at forums in Cleveland, Ohio
and Springfield, 111.
During May Dr. DuBois and
Sterling Brown will review the
literature of the American Negro
at the 75th anniversary of Fick
university.
HOUSTON MAY HAVE MORE
NEGRO POLICEMEN
Houston, May 2 (ANP) Chief of
Police Ray Ashworth, recent ap
pointee here, told members of an
interracial committe of the cham
ber of commerce this week that
the force of Negro policemen in
the city will likely be increased in
the future. The committee had
indicated at other meetings that
more were needed.
Appointments to the force, whe
ther white or black, will be made
from civil service lists, Chief Ash
worth stated. “I am confident
that no inquiry will show any item
of mistreatment of Negroes by me
or my department”, the chief stat
ed.
A recommendation was introd
uced by a subcommittee urging the
relief of overcrowding housing
conditions in Negro wards
COLLEGE ‘CLAMOUR’
GIRL SOUGHT
Washington, D. C- (NNS) Some
thing similar to a Red Hunt is cn
the way—the glamour girl of col
lege is being sought. It was an
nounced this week that Howard
University is now seeking the
most beautiful girl atending a Ne
gro college in the United States
to adorn her head with national
glory. Delta Phi Delta Journal
istic Society and Alpha Omega
and Alpha chapters of Omega Pci
Phi Fraternity are jointly sponsor
ing a contest to crown “Miss Ne
gro College,” a young lady to be
selected from among the college
beauties and queens of colored
schools throughout the country.
F. Simms Campbell, Esquire Mag
azine art editor, has been chosen
chairman of the judge’s board for
the contest.
• Chicago, May 2 (ANP) —The a
ward of 64 fellowships totalling
$100,000 w-as announced Wednes
day by Edwin R. Emb-ee, presid
ent of the Julius Rosenwald fund
The fellows include 40 Negroes
and 24 white southerners, select
ed for their scholarship and spct
if.l talent from over 600 applic
ants. The awards are made in
two categories: to Negroes in any
field from any part of the United
States, and to white Southerners
who wish to work on some prob
lem distinctive to the South, and
who expect to make th;ir careers
in that region. The fellowships
aveiage $1,600.
The Julius Rosenwald fund hus
be«n granting fellowships for 12
years. Among the many notable
fellows of earlier years are Mai
;an Anderson, contral.o, Xuthu
ine Dunham, William Grant fiii’l,
composer, Charles S- Johnson, so
cial scientist, E. E. Just, biologist,
Aaron Douglas, painter, Richmond
Barthe, and Augusta Savage scul
ptors, W. E- B. DuBois and Jhe
late James Weldon Johnson, writ
ers.
Under the present fellowship
program awards are made once
each year by a committee on fel
lowships consisting of Will Alex
ander, adviser to the Council on
National Defense, Charles S. John
son of Fisk University, Henry Al
len Moe, secretary of the John Si
mon Guggenheim Memorial found
ation; Raymond R. Paty, presid
ent of Birmingham-Southern col
lege; Robert C- Weaver, admin s
trative assistant, Office of Pro
duction Management; Edwin R.
Embree, president of the Juhus
Rosenwald Fund, and George M.
Reynolds, director for fellowships.
The 1941 fellows will work on
projects in a variety of fields,
ranging from southern agriciult-1
ure and South American forests
to a study of the Sponish-speak
ing settlements of Delacroix island
of Louisiana and the painting of
scenes of the Southwest- In ad
dition to fellowships in the acad
emic fields, three awards were
made in art, three in creative writ
ing, and one in music.
Negroes who received fellow
ships are: Charles Henry Alston,
New York City, for creative work
in painting and the graphic arts.
Reappointment.
Thomas Henry Bembry, head of
the department of chemistry, Liv
ingston college, N. C- for studies
in chemistry, at Columbia uni.
Cleo Walter Blackburn, super
intendent of Flanner house, India
nopolis, for studies in sociology,
at Indiana university.
David Harold Blackwell, Urbana
111., for studies in mathematics, at
the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, and the University of
Illinois.
Walter Monroe Booker, assoc
iate professor and head °f the de
partment of biology, Prairie View
State college, Texas, for studies in
physiology, at the University of
Chicago.
Herman Russell Branson, in
structor in physics and mathemat
ics, Dillard university, for research
in mathematical biophysics, at the
University of Chicago.
Jeremiah Certaine, Philadelphia,
for studies in mathematics at Har
vard university. Ra|appointment.
Mamie Katherine Clark, New
York City, for studies in child
psychology, at Columbia univers
ity. Reappointment.
William Montague Cobb, assoc
iate professor of anatomy, school
of medicine, Howard university,
for anatomical research directed to
ward the preparation of an atlas
covering the changes in the human
skeleton, at Western Reserve uni.
Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell,
Washington, for studies in sociol
ogy dealing with various activit
ies of the Negro woman, at the
University of Pennsylvania
Charles Twitchell Davis, Hamp
ton, for studies in American cul
ture, at the University of Chicago
with special reference to the lit
erature of the Negro renaissance.
(Continued on page 83^3)
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Labor Shortage
May Benefit Race
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-Ct)
New York—Acting on reports that Negroes are not
taking full advantage of free training courses offer
ed by the government to prepare for national def
ense work, the National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People is urging all men to regis
ter with their local National Youth Administrative
or State Employment Service offices or classes in
I skilled occupations.
The NAACP. emphasizes the
importance of the groups being
prepared to take advantage of
work opportunities should the
predicted labor shortage become
acute. It states that the reluct
ance of many men to spend time
training for jobs in defense indus
tries where flagrant discriminat
ion is practiced, is understandable.
But, it makes clear, the indust-'
rial speed-up, pressure on manu
facturers by the Associotion and
other organizations the increas
ing seriousness of the European
situation and the absorption of
more and more men into the army
make it possible that industrial
ists may be forced to seek Negro
labor in the very near future.
Many local branches of the as
sociation are already carrying on
campaigns to get men in their
communities into defense training
courses.
Even though there seems 3cant
hope at present that color bars
will be let down, NAACP. said,
Negroes in this country must be
ready to make good use of any
change in the course of events.
NEWLY APPOINTED
MILK MAN
Roscoe J. Vaughn, colored, 35,
of 2514 North 31st Street, Omaha,
Nebraska, is the newly appointed
milk salesman for the Alamito
Dairy Omaha, it is reported today.
Vaughn’s territory includes the
twenty-second at Cuming Street,
west to thirtieth at Cuming Street
and north to thirtieth at Wirt St.,
east to twenty-second street at
Wirt. This is the main Omaha
colored district- It has been work
ed by Negro salesmen prior to
Roscoe Vaughn’s taking the route.
They failed to make a record that
the Negro population of Omaha
was not ashamed of, it has been
said. ^
Raymond R. Brown, Executive
Secretary of the Omaha Urban
League has kept up a continuous
fight to convince the Alamito
Dairy officials that there are Ne
groes in Omaha who could do real
job in this district if one of this
group was appointed again, it is
said.
The Urban League executive
highly recommended Vaiughn to
the president of the Alamito Com
pany as the applicant for the pos
ition, and the Dairy Chief, Mr.
Joe Mueller, reported he was
pleased with the driver’s way of
taking the job in hand even be
fore he had finished his fifteen
day sales training course.
Roscoe Vaughn is married. He
has a wife and two children, Ros
coe Jr., 14 and Rose Marie 12.
Came to Omaha from Atchinson,
Kansas, where he finished high
school. While there he worked in
a shoe repair business. In Omaha,
he operated the New Deal Shoe
Repair Shop at 504 North Thirty
Third Street.
NEGRO STAR AT CARNEGIE
SWING CONCERT
New York (NNS)—The first
time that a jam session appeared
at dignified Carnegie Hall, was
this week when the night club,
Cafe Society, presented its Negro
performers in a benefit for the
Musicians’ Union. The entertain
ers ranged from the boogie-woog
ie pianists, Pete Johnson and Al
bert Ammons to Kenneth Spencer
basso, John Kirby’s orchestra,
Hazel Scott, swing pianist, Lena
Horne, vocalist and Count Basie's
seven piece band. It was big,
young and appreciative, and solid
on the mellow side- Hazel Scott
sent the audience with her rendit
ion of Debussey’s “Clair de Lune”
and Kirby’s “Drdla’s Souvenir.”
HAMPTON CO-EDS HOLD
SIXTH ANNUAL FETE
Ilamtpon Institute, Va.,—The
co-eds of Hampton Institute will
boid their sixth annual Women’s
Day Festival on Saturday, May 3,
Alyce Morris, president of the
Hampton Institute Women’s Sen
ate, has announced.
Climax of the yesr’3 activities
for Hampton Institute Women, the
annual Women’s Day will include
outdoor and indoor activities in
which every Hampton Woman will
participate.