FINDS WHITE MILITARY POLICE READY TO USE ‘45’ AUTHORITY AT ‘DROP OF HAT’
NEJQRO SOLDIER IS VICTIM OF BEATING AT
FORT BRAGG; DIES TO SAVE BUDDY
NAACP. Investigator Says Attitude of Officers For
Colored Women, Shows Little Respect For Race
Fodt Bragg, N. Y. (C’—Despite
the rumors that Pvt. Allen Tur
man of Lerida, Fla., was killed
drunk and disorderly, for shooting
a white military policeman in the
heart, it was learned today that
there is another side to the tale.
AND THIS IS IT—
Negro soldiers were returning
to Foht Bragg, N. C., from Fayet
teville in an all colored coach,
when one of the soldiers, a young
ster, was unruly and when the dri
ver couldn’t queit him, he stopped
the bus and wouldn’t move it until
the boy was put off or shut up.
He hailed 2 white military offic
ers passing by and asked their aid.
One of them, a youth from Texas,
goit on the bus and went up to the
drunken fellow and smashed him
across the head with a club. He
kept beating him until it looked
as if the whole side of his head
was smashed in. A friend of the
victim, Pvt. Allen Turman, demand
ed that the poor fellow be taken
to the hospital and given medical
treatment. To (this suggestion,
the officers sneered ading an un
necessary blow, thinking of taking
the intoxicated soldier to jail. At
this, Turman kicked the officer in
the shins, knocked him off balance
grabbed the guy’s gun and shot
him straight through the heart.
Then he turned on the other piece
of white trash in the bus who had
beaten him to the gun. The duel
ended with a hero, dead and gone,
three other Negroes shot and the
white trash bleeding from a hole
in his neck, shoulder and hands.
The courageous soldier who died
Ito help his friend, who was being
slowly beaten to death, has cer
tainly started a lot of trouble at
Fort Bragg for both the white and
colored soldiers.
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RAILROAD- TRUCK
ACCIDENT
VICTIM DIES
On August 14 ,1941, at 12:04 a.
m.— A 1939 Chevrolet tractor
truck, loaded with 21 head of cat
tle, travelling east on Center St.,
struck a Union Pacific freight
train that was stopped across the
highway. The train was made up
of flat cars loaded with steel rails.
The tracttor and trailer was des
troyed by fire caused from the im
pact, and the two persons riding
in the cab of the truck were ser
iously injured. The driver, Mr.
Jack Bowen, who lived in Grand
Island and Mrs. Wilma Howard of
2820 Blondo St. The injured were
taken to St. Joseph Hospital.
Six head of cattle were destroy
ed also.
Mr. Jack Bowen died at the
St. Joseph Hospital August 16th
1941, two days after the accident.
Mrs. Wilma Howard’s condition
at present is reported fair.
Sheriff W. H. Dorrance’s radio
patrol car was on the scene of the
accident seven minutes after it
happened. First aid was adminis
tered by deputies Hearty and Pe
chota.
Funeral services wete held for
Mr. Bowen, Tuesday in Grand Is
land.
DEAN PICKENS ON “WINGS
OVER jordan;”^famous
ORATOR AND U. S. TREASURY
ATTACHE TO SPEAK AUG- 31.
Cleveland, O. Aug. 18 (ANP) —
Dean William Pickens, special as
sistant to the Secretary of the U.
S. Treasury and for many years
field secretary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, is to be the speak
er on ‘‘Wings Over Jordan”, over
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem, Sunday morning, Aug. 31,
Rev. Glenn T. Settle, director of
the famous radio program ann
ounced here this Week.
Dean Pickens, regarded as one
of the foremost thinkers and most
effective orators in current Negi*o
life, is also perhaps one of the
best known men in America. His
entire life since graduation from
Yale university has been spent in
the fields of education and in the
struggle for civil rights for his
group and better living conditions
for humanity. World traveler and
as nearly as anyone within the
race, an international figure, MT.
Picken’s appearance on the pro
gram which brings to the air the
cream of Negro thought and opin
ion is centain to be a popular oc
casion with the millions of listen
ers on the coast to coasft broad
j cast.
HOUSTON PRESIDENT OF
SQUARE DEAL STORES
The Square Deal Stores assoc
iation held their annual meeting
Sunday at 8 p. m. and elected L.
B. Houston, Pres., and J. C. Car
ey, Sec’y.
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Fayettesville, N. C_Compelting
his investigation of the shooting
of Private Allen Turman and a
white military policeman near
Fort Bragg, Curtiss Todd, of the
NAACP. legal staff, reported that
it is not definitely established who
fired (the first shot, “but the fact
remains that the white military
police had the guns.”
Reports of the fighting and sub
sequent shooting vary in detail,
but most are agreed that the
trouble started among the soldiers
on the segregated bus, White
military police were called to quell
the disorder. The white MPs pro
ceeded to beat the Negroes with
clubs. Turman grabbed a gun,
fired, killing Sergeant Elwyn L!
Hargrlave and wounding several
others and was in turn shot and
killed by Sergeant Russell Owen.
Mr. Todd reported (that Major
DeHaven Hinkson of the medical
corps of the 76th (Negro) regi
ment was of the opinion that the
MP entered the bus shooting and
that Turman was shot while he
was on the floor by someone onl
the outside of the bus, or by some
one above mm.
The NAACP atitrney reported,
‘there is a definite racial element
in this affair.”
Commenting on his findings,
Mr. Todd said. ‘‘The young, inex
perienced white military police are
bubbling over with ‘45’ authority,
just waiting for an opportunity to
use it. Every Negro, it appears
is subject for abuse on the slight
est provocation.” ,
“There are no provisions at the
post for recreation for Negroes
in which women may participate.”
He also said that hie learned
from one of the interviewees for
a hostess job at Fort Bragg that
the women were ‘‘without except
ion called by their first names by
Captain Dennis H. Holliday, mor
ale officer, and that this inform
ation shows the attitude of some
of the oficers toward Negroes.
OLIVET CALLS REV. J. H.
JACKSON
Chicago, Aug. 19 (ANP) Olivet j
Baptist Church of Chicago, one of
the largest pnotestant congregat
ions in the world has elected as its
pastor to succeed the late Dr. L.
K. Williams, (the Rev. J. H. Jack
son, D. D. of Philadelphia. Dr.
Jackson at present is secretary of
the Foreign Mission board of the
National Baptist Convention and
Pastor of Monumental Baptist
Church in the Quaker City.
Dr. Jackson will arrive in Chi
cago Saturday to preach the “en
trance sermon” as /the Olivet con
gregation returns triumphantly to
its chuch home in the first serv
ice to be held there since the fire
which almost destroyed the struc
ture last November during the fun
eral of Dr. Williams.
Dr. Jackson has not announced
his accepitance of invitation ex
tended by Olivet church, Stephin
A. Griffin, chairman of the deac-«
on and trustee boards, said. Mr.
Griffin said hie did not know
whether Jackson would make such
an announcement before the Nat
ional Baptist convention meeting
in Cleveland, It is also not knowm
whether Jalckson will keep
his post as secretary of the foreign
mission board but close friend say
he will give the post up.
The Rev. Joseph H. Branham,
for 23 years associate pastor at
Olivet, promised the enthusiastic
church meeting at Olivet last Tues
day night that he would remain in j
the same capacity with Dr. Jack-*|
son if the latter desired. Other
assistants are the Rev. Cato Sims
and the Rev. C. H. Milton.
FIRST USO WORKER NAMED
Washington, Aug. 18 (ANP)—
Ernest A. Dawson, known to his
intimates as ‘‘Jack”, has been
I named to the USO department for
soldiers and sailors recreation and
assigned to the Annapolis area,
one of the more important areas.
Dawson, a graduate of Spring
field college, 1933, has for the past
five years been executive secret
ary of th Plainfild YMCA. His
new assignment, where he is on
loan from the YMCA., will draw
men from Fort Meade and from
the naval stations in and around ’
Annapolis.
Working in a building known as
the Anchor house in Annapolis.
Dawson, plans to bring all types
of entertainment of the highest
type to the men in his leave area
and hopes to have the cooperation
of the outsiders in putting this
over. He is the first colored work
er to be named.
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Heavy Pressue Outside OPM.
Slowly Changing Joh Policy At Brewster Firm
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LO!\ME THOMAS W//VS FOR OMAHA LORhHUSKERS CLUB
CHIEF OF STAFF
DR. HOMER V. WILBURN
New Chief of staff at Provident
hospital, Chicago and recognized
as one of the nation's foremost
authorities in the field of internal
medicine. Bori^ at Springfield,
Mo., 52 years ago, Dr. Wilburn'
finished Lincoln University, Mo.,
in 1905 and received an A. B, from
Kansas university in 1910, also
taking his first two years of med
icine there, as w’ell as taking post
graduate work in histology and an
atomy. After teaching “biology in
the Muskogee, Okla., high school
and becoming principal of an ele
mentary school in Kansas City,
Kansas., he attended Illinois Uni
versity where he obtained his M.
D. degree in 1920, later taking
postgraduate work at the' Univer
sity of Illinois. College of Medic
ine and a physician in the division
of communcable diseases of the
Chicago Health department. Since
1921 he has been connected with
Provident. ' (ANP)
Georgia Regents End
Session In Row
Holley Heard, Reiterates
Race Separation Ideas
Tifton, Ga., Aug. 23 (ANP) —
Because of a motion made by Re
cent James S. Peters at the state
board meeting held here Monday
that J. W. Holley, president of
Georgia Normal at Albany, be paid
$500 traveling expenses to tour
the state defending the position of
the majority of the state board of
iegenjts on Negro education, the
meeting ended in a row.
Holley, whose “black is black,
and white is white, and ne’er the
twain shall meet” position of edu
cational matters has been accepted
in toto by Gov. Eugene Talmadge,
addressed the board in a speech
similar to that quoted in Gover
nor Talmadge’s radio talk defend
ing the ousting of Dean Walter
D. Cocking and Marvin S. Pitts
man from the university system
of Georgia because of alleged
sponsorship of racial equality
ideas, and approved its stand on/
education of Negroes. Citing a
move by colored Atlantans to se-'
cure equal salaries for teachers,
he praised the Talmadge-controlled
board’s program for Negro colleg
es in the state. He stated that
other southern states ought to fol
low the example set by the board,
and advocated separate boards of
trustees for Negro institutions and
the conducting of their work sep
arate from the university system.
On the heels of Holley’s dis
course, Regent Peters offered his
proposal, which was for the pur
pose, he said, of informing color
ed people that the board was not
lessening its interest in education
and service for them. Chairman
Beavers objected to the resolution
but Governor Talmadge insisted
that he put it through. Whereup
on Mrs. Susie T. Moore moved the
meeting to adjourn for lunch. Gov.
Taimadge rose again to declare
that the motion to adjourn was out
of order, only to be ruled against
by Chairman Beavers that a mot
ion was always in order Beavers
promised to appoint a committee
to recommend a plan by which the
board would consider the educat
ion of Negroes, after which the
adjournment motion was carried.
Previously the board had author
ized the appointment of a comm
ittee to study the needs of Negro
schools, upon recommendation
from DeLacey Allen, Holley, in
praising its authorization, insisted
that it should convince critics that
the governor and the regents were
not endeavoring to deprive Ne -
groes of education and training.
Offering opposition to Peters’
recommendation, Regent George
C. Woodruff, Coiuml|us, warned
that it was a serious step and
should not be considered on snap
judgement. Hp also asked that
the matter be deferred and placed
into the hands of a special comm
itee. Voicing similar opinions
were regents Scott Candler, Deca
tur and L. W. (Chip) Roberts, At
lanta, who requested more time
for study on the situation.
It was suggested that Holley
confer with heads of other state
institutions at Savannah and Fort
Valley on such a campaign, but
Gov. Taimadge objected declaring
“’Holley is the only one who stands
for seperation—the Rosenwald
fund is in those other schools.”
When Chairman Beaver request
ed Peters to withdraw his resolu
tion and submit to the appoint
ment of a committee, the Man
chester banker balked, but finally*
agreed when he learned thait he1
would be appointed chairman.
Then Beaver announced the meet
ing was adjourned and that there
would be no afternoon session al
though Chancellor S. V. Sanford
contended that business had not
been completed.
AF. OF L. DINING CAR
EMPLOYEES
CONT’MPLATE
STRIKE FOR
WAGE
INCREASE
Chicago, Aug. 18 (ANP)—Dis
tribution of official strike ballots
among membership of the 13 af
filiated locals of the Joint Coun
cil of Dining Car Employees and
Hotel and Resitaurant Employes’
International alliance and Barten
ders’ International league of Am
erica was begun Aug. 5, the exe
cution of which will decide if the
majority of the members desire
to strike for a w’hge increase of
30 cents per hour.
Besides seeking an hourly in
crease of 30 cents, the circular ac
companying the ballot states that
the council desires to effect a 70
cent per hour minimum to each
employe and national handling of
conferences and proposal of cert
ain carriers for revision of rules.
The ballots are to be returned to
the Joint council of Dining Car
Employes’ headquarters in Chicago1,
not later (than Sept. 5.
For two years, dining car work
ers have petitioned railroads for a
reduction of hours worked per
month, thus raising the hourly
rate now being paid. There has
been no request, however, for ai
change in the monthly pay rate,
but in all cases, carriers have per
sistentiy reiused to grant any con
cession that would increase car
workers’ salaries. Negotiations
ltL.ve been delayed or stymied in
mediation because of wage in
crease demands of other railroad
labor organizations.
Notice was served some dining
car locals on June 9 by carriers
of a desired to revise rules in ex
isting agreements. On June 10,
the affiliated locals asked for the
raise, advising the railroads that
if local unions were unable to
reach a satisfastory settlement,
the matter could be handled on a
joint national basis. Because of
their inability to obtain the desir
ed adjustment, and after having
all requests refused, the entire din
ing car membership determined to
take action by voting (their views
on the strike ballot. It is propos
ed that the disputes be handled in
accordance with the Railway Lab"
or act.
•>S. L. “SPECK” HOWARD
ELECTED PRES- OF
CSGA—
Next Meet To Be Held In
DesMoines, Iowa
Lonnie Thomas, a ten year
member of the Omaha Cornhusker
Golf Club, wfon fir^t place in the
Central States Championship
flight at the Elmwood Links on
Sunday August 17th with a 36 hole
total of 148. Thomas who is a
resident of Lincoln and a graduate
of Nebraska University, is the
first Nebraskan to win the champ
ionship flight of the CSGA. dur
ing its eleven years of competi
tion.
Sam Shepard of St. Louis and
former champion, ->T'as runner- up
with a score of 148. DeAnthony
Gray of Kansas City ,the defend
ing champion, found the going a
little rough and finished quite a
ways down the list.
S. L. “Speck” Howard of Des
Moines, Iowa, was elected Presi
dent of the CSGA. for the ensuing
year.
The following list shows how
they finished:
The winners in CSGA. meet at
Elmwood Park.
CSGA. Championship Flight, 1st
—Lonnie Thomas of Omaha Corn
husker Club; Runnerup, Sam Shep
ard, St. Louis.
CSGA. First Flight—1st H. Al
len, Minneapolis; Runnerup, Boyd
Galloway, Omaha, A. Smith, Kan-'
sas City.
CSGA. 2nd Flight—1st, A. Wil
son, St. Louis; Runnerup, Billy
Davis, Omaha.
Cornhusker’s Invitational at
Fontenelle, lsit Flight—Herbe
Toole and John Simms. Second
Flight,, A. Wilson and Wm. Davis.
CSGA. Consolation at Dodge
Park:—Bolding, Kansas City 1st;
Caldwell, Omaha, 2nd; Penny Mur
ray, Omaha; Brent, St. Louis*
"Champ” Gray, Kansas City and
H. Nailing, St. Louis.
Ladies Tournament at Miller
Park: 1st, Mrs. James Murray of
Minneapolis; 2nd, Mrs. H. J. Nail
ing, St. Louis.
Number entered in tournaments
Miller Park 8; Fontenelle 44;
Elmwood 77; Dodge Park 28.
OMAHA BUSINESS MAN HAS
ACCIDENT
Mr. Wm. Davis .proprietor of the
Omaha Outfitting Co., on 24th and
Burdette St., while starting on his
vacation trip, fractured his elbow
in an accident.
He is getting along fine at his
home.
DEFENSE SAVING STAMPS
WILL SOON GO ON SALE IN
RETAIL STORES THROUGH
OUT THE COUNTRY
IOPBEFENSE I
«,■ :r
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
riONDS
D STAMPS
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WASHINGTON, D, C.—Defense
Savings Stamps will soon be on
sale in retail stores throughout
the country.
Secretary Morgenthau announc
ed the extension of Defense Sav-'
ings Stamps sales to retail outlets
everywhere after a meeting at the
Treasury Department today,
when executives of associations
representing more than a million
stores pledged immediate partic
ipation of their members in the
Defense Savings Program, Stamps
will go on sale very shortly in de
partment stores, grocery, variety
furniture, hardware and all other
types of retail outlets.
At the meeting the retailers en
dorsed full participation in “Re
tailers for Defense Week, Sept
ember 1 to 20, when the stores of
every state will concentrate their
efforts to enlist customers to buy
Defense Savings Stamps. Before
that time, most stores from coast
to coast are expected to have De
fense Stamps for sale.
The leaders of the retailers’ as
sociations met with Secretary
Morgenthau and Treasury offic
ials to project the plan for initiat
ing the nation wide store effort.
The Secretary expressed his ap
preciation of the cooperation ex
tended by the retail organizations,
(Continued on pagej^=>2)
) New York—Heavy pressure
from sources outside the Office of
■Production Management, notably
criticism by the NAACP and oth
er New ork City groups, is hav
ing an effect on the employment
policy of the Brewster airplane
company, it was announced here
this week by the NAACP.
On August 13, for the first timej
in its history, Brewster took on a
Negro employe in the regular
course of hiring, without any
special request.
However, contrary to reports
from the office of Dr. Robert C.
Weaver of OPM, the NAACP as
serts that Edmond Van Osten, 31,
a Negro with nine years of ex
perience as a tinsmith, not only4
was turned down the first time by
Brewster, but was called back and
told blunltly that they “never”
would give him a job.
At the same time Van Osten
was being refused, white men with
two years of experience as tin
smiths were being employed. The1
company excuse that tinsmithing
‘‘is an allied occupation and not
the most desirable type of exper
ience for aluminum sheet metal
work in aircraft manufacture”
falls flat because employment re
cords show that aircraft compan
ies are begging for men with tin
smith experience. Brewster is
gobbling up all it can get with
two years of tinsmithing exper
ience.
“It stands to ordinary reason,”
said an NAACP. statement “that
With aircraft companies doubling
and tripling their employes in the
tremendous expansion of the na
tional defense program, there
would not be enough purely alum
inum sheet metal workers. Every
company has had to /take on men
in what Dr. Weaver’s office calls
'allied occupations’ and train them*
to handle aluminum. Our point is
the Brewster company turned
down a Negro with nine years of
experience and hired whites with
two.”
A responsible official of the
New York State Employment Ser
vice in answer to a question from
the NAACP on Van Osten’s qual
ifications stated:
“There will always be room for
some differences of opinion as to
just when a man is qualified or
not, but in the Van Osten case
there can be no room for doubt.”
In the exchange of charges and
counter charges between the NA
ACP and Dr. Weaver’s office, the
NAACP. this week stated that
four of the eleven Negroes men
tioned in Dr. Weaver's release
were employed by Brewster after
the NAACP charges were made in
the press.
John J. Woods, a Negro riveter
who was refused employment by
Brewster, was called back to the
plant after the NAACP charges
were mate and employed, not as a
rivelter, but as a sheet metal help
er.
The NAACP believes the Brew
ster company furnishes an ex
ample of the necessity of constant
vigilance by organizations outside
of OPM and the need for close ex
amination of all the ‘‘smooth ex
cuses” of companies seeking to
dodge the employment of Negroes
by one pretense or another.
The NAACP declared it felt
that OPM representatives shot in
to a local situation for a day or
two of interviews might easily be
misled by employers and person
nel representatives.
A&P TOPS STOCKING
OFFENSIVE POLISH
New York,—In a leltter from the
vice president J. Andrews, the
Atlantic a°d Pacific stores in
formed the NAACP . last week
that the Association’s request had
been heeded and the offensive
“Nigger Head Stove Polish” had
been taken off the stores’ purch
asing list.
The supervisor of the A&P mar
kejt in Jamaica, N. Y., where the
polish was bought has been in
structed to remove the merchand
EXTRA!
IMPORTANT
NOTICE TO
THE 1941
GRADE AND HIGH
SCHOOL
JUNE GRADS
Three days set aside especially;
for you. All June grade and high
school graduates are especially
invited to pay The Omaha Guide
Publishing Co.’s sixty thousand
dollar printing plant investment a
; visit. We want you to inspect our
No. 9 and 26 linotype machines
which do everything for a newspa
per but talk, and also our 26 thous
and pound printing newspaper
press that will turn out 2,100 pa
pers per hour.
Remember every June grade and
high school graduate is welcome to
this party. REFREHMENTS
WILL BE SERVED.
September 1, 2, 3, Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday from 2 p. m.
' to 6 p. m. Miss Ora Lee Britt, Miss
Edna Mae Taylor and Mrs. Marie
Parker will be on hand to see that
your visit will be a pleasant one.
Oh YES! Miss Ora Lee Britt
will want to see each of you in
her private office before you leave
-She has something of import
ance to talk over with you.
ise from the Ctore.
STIMON “RECORDS” NAACP.
PROTEST
Washington, D. C.—Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson replied In
six lines to the NAACP’s letter
of August 6 in which the Assoc
iation submitted to him an editor
ial ‘‘Don’t Shake a Nigger’s
Hand,” reporting conditions at
Camp Upton, N. Y. The NAACP
asked that officers at the Camp
advising draftees not to mingle
with Negroes when they went
South be identified and proper ac
tion taken.
The Secretary of War answer
ed, “Your comments have been
noted in the Department and the
correspondence has been made a
matter of record for such consid
eration as circumstances may war
rant.
“Your interest in national de
fense is appreciated.”
JOE LOUIS ELIMINATED
FROM HIS OWN TOURNA
MENT
Detroit, Aug. 19 (ANP» In his
own golf tournament, the Joe Lou
is open, Joe was eliminated Tues
day in the first round over the
Rockham course. A better- (than
average golfer, Louis’ score for
the round was 44-44-88. Howev
er, his personal instructor, Clyde
Martin, took the lead with a 37
35-72, one over par, and two strok
es ahead of Calvin Searles, Atlan
ta.
Three other pros, Howard Whee
ler, three time national open cham
pion, San Diego, Ca.; Pat Goodwin.
Washington, and Joe Roach, New
York City, tied wijth a score of 76.
Setting the pace for the amat
eurs, De Roy Smith, 19 year old
Norfolk, Va., florist took the round
with a 37-35-72 victory, leading
Lincoln Tondee, Chicago, and
Jerry Hood. Detroit, by one stroke.
EVANS MOVED TO NYA
IN DENVER
Washington, Aug. 18 (ANP) —
Joseph H. B. Evans, formerly i
dentified with the department of
agriculture, and more recently all
ied with the NYA under Mrs. Mary
McLeod Bethune, has been trans
ferred from the Washington office
,where he had formerly worked, to
a permanent station with the NYA
in Area five, Denver.
ALL JUNE GRADE AND HIGH
SCHOOL GRADUATES ARE IN
VITED TO THE OMAHA GUIDE
INSPECTION PARTY, SEPT. 1,
2, 3 FROM 2 PM. TO 6 PM. RE
FRESHMENTS SERVED FREE!