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FEPClY. Hearing To Be Held February 16th and 17th The President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice today opened a branch office in New York to begin preparations for a public hearing on February 16 and 17 on the employment practices of defense industries and government agencies in the New York area. The New York offices are locat ed at Suite 723 Chanin Building, 122 East 42nd Street. The prelim inary studies and the hearing are part of the government’s program to eliminate discrimination against qualified and needed workers be cause of their “race, creed, color or national origin,” in keeping with an executive order issued by President Roosevelt od June 25. 1941. In that order the President de clared that "the democratic way of life within the Nation can be defended successfully only with the help and support of all groups within its borders,” and he called on employers and labor unions “to provide for the full and equitable participation of all workers in de fense industries.” The President also created the Committee on Fair Employment Practice and named Mark Eth ridge, Louisville Publisher as chairman. Other members of the Committee: William Green, Presi dent of the American Federation . 1 THOMAS FUNERAL HOME 2022 Lake St. WE, 2022 NORTH*24™ST SHOE REPAIR 1807 N. 24th St. WE. 4240 —POPULAR PRICES — YOU CANT TELL THEY ARE REPAIRED— BECAUSE OUR INVISIBLES HALF S0LEIN6 METHOD “Leaves No Repair Look" ON YOUR SHOES. THB NEW SOLE WITH AN INVIS IBLE JOINT. 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The Presi dent’s executive order directed the Committee: 1. To “receive and investigate complaints of discrimination be cause of race, creed, color or nat ional origin” in violation of the ex ecutive order. 2. To take “appropriate steps to redress grievances which it finds to be valid.” 3. To “recommend to the sev eral departments and agencies of the Government of the United States and to the President all measures which may be deemed by it necessary or proper” to car-, ry out the provisions of the order. NAVY MAY CITE HEROIC NEGRO MESS ATTENDANT New York. . . .The heroic Negro mess attendant who distinguished himself at Pearl Harbor, Decem ber 7, may get official recognition, for his valor from the U. S. Navy the NAACP announced this weak. December 31, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox answered the NAACP request of December 26, that the mess attendant be given the distinguished service cross, saying: “Please be assured that an investigation wll be made rela tive to the reported heroic action of the Negro mess attendant. The Navy Department will certainly recommend proper recognition for any such heroic action.” A similar reply was received by the NAACP from Lieutenant Com mander Paul C. Smith, press re lations officer for the Navy Dep artment, to whom President Roos evelt referred the Association’s re quest to him for recognition of the Negro hero. BIRMINGHAM TO ERECT MEMORIAL IN HONOR OF NEGRO, FIRST REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION Birmingham, Jan. 12 (ANP) — Announcement was made here last Wednesday by Ralph Parker, as sistant city attorney, that a mem orial table would be erected to Ju lius Ellsberry, 20 year sailor re ported killed at the outbreak of hotsilities in the American Jap anese war. Ellsberry is the first in the county reported killed in ac - tion. The announcement was made Jar Ing services held for the deceased at sixteenth street Baptist church, where the Rev. R. M. Whitts’s sec ond sermon preached for the war dead, the first delivered in Perry county in the first World war. Said Grace Knox of the Citizens Committee of Army welfare “There is no black and white in this war. We are all Americans.” Surviving Ellsberry were his parents, J. W. Ellsberry and wife. VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD GIVES IN ON EQUAL PAY ISSUE Richmond, Va.After the ac tion of the Richmond School board to adopt a five year plan for the gradual equalization of white and Negro teachers salaries, Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the i NAACP, met with the teachers and their local attorney, Oliver W. Hill, Friday, January 9, to de termine how the school board's action will affect their suit filed December 24, in the Federal Dis trict court here. The adoption of the five year plan, by a margin of only one vote is a reversal of the attitude which the school board had maintained consistently up to the filing of the suit. Prior to that time they had refused to consider any plan for equalizaion in less than 12 years. What Makes This Laxative So Popular? Practically any drug dealer will., tell you this laxative has been a ( standby in thousands of American i homes for years and years! BLACK-DRAUGHTs long rec ord of popularity has been won by the gentle, satisfying way it us ually relieves constipation’s bad breath, coated tongue and loginesa when simple directions are follow ed. The prinicipal reason for this is: BLACK-DRAUGHT contains a tonic-laxative that helps to tone lazy intestinal muscles. It is easy | to take, and you get 25 to 40 dos es for only 25c. So look for the familiar yellow box and get the genuine BLACK-DRAUGHT! j TODAY’S WAR IN PACIFIC Pixpage—The numbers on th map are: (1) Timor (2) SarawaK (3) Penang (4) Manila, (5) Hong Kong, (6) Manchukuo. These arc the important places of the war in the Pacific at the time of going tc press. REDS TURN TABLES . *77-r Pixpage—Red pincers turn tab les on Germans in Russia. Both Nazi arms to encircle Moscow — the north arm had reached past Rogachev, the south past Venev — have been beaten back. Arrows denote Russian attacks. The hig German army is threatened with destruction or a disastrous retreat. In addition to adopting the live year plan the board removed from its salary schedule that clausq which allowed it to grant increas es at its discretion after ten years of service, and made the annual increase automatic up to fifteen years for all teachers. PRESSURE MAY KEEP CRAMER AT FEPC Washington, Jan. 12 (ANP) .. Rumors are rife that pressure brought to bear has almost caus ed Lawrence Cramer, executive secretary of the FEPC, to recon sider and withdraw his contemp lated resignation despite the offer received from Harvard university ' to teach at that school. No comment was made on the matter by those close to Mr. Cra mer, but there are those who say the possibility of a post in the state department would be more to Mr. Cramer’s fancy than the teaching post at Harvard. While the whole thing is still ir the air, the executive secretary is carrying out the functions of his office capably and, as he explained to the group of Negro editors who were assembled in his office on Dec. 9, with a view of establish ing a long range program for the bettering of conditions for Negro es generally throughout the indus trial areas of the United States. MANY THOUSANDS MORE NEEDED FOR CIVILIAN DEFENSE HERE IN OMAHA Hundreds of Omaha Citizens have registered for volunteer work with the Civilian Defense Volun teer Office, 620 World Herald Bldg., but many thousands more are needed, according to Mrs. W. J. McMartin, Chairman in charge of the office. The Volunteer Office is part of Mayor Butler’s Omaha Civic De fense Council which was establish ed recently to prepare men, wom en and children to be ready to de fend their community and to bet ter the health and economic sec urity of Omaha as part of a Na tional Civilian Defense program. All persons who will participate in the Civilian Defence program must register at the Volunteer Of fice. Persons registering will be classified in accordance with the knowledge and availability or de sire for training in connection1 with the following: Foreign languages, Home Econ omics, Mass Feeding, Clerica1 Work, Group Leadership, Hospit al Oid, Personalized Service, Re search, Motor Corp., Education Negro Educator Joins U. S. Defense Savings Staff JESSE O. THOMAS, noted Negro educator, former field secretary of fuskegee Institute, and founder of the Atlanta, Go., School of Social jWotk, being sworn in as a member of the Defense Savings Staff, United States Treasury Department. He will help promote the sale pf Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps amqng American Negroes in 1fjif National Defens^ Savings Program*“““ ^ I DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS BANK WITH YOUR COUNTRY is the theme of this effective Defense Savings poster now seen in store windows and in the lobbies of buildings all over the country. Drawn by artist Henry Billings, of Rhinebeck, N. Y., the poster portrays the spirit of patriotism by investing in the United States Government through the purchase of Defense Bonds and Stamps. Stamps are priced from 10 cents to $5; Bonds from $18.75 to $10,000. Public Relations, Emergency Ser vices. Applicant will also report mil itary records and type of blood if known. For those interested in special training programs, volunteers will be informed of courses now avail able. These include home econ omics, leadership training, hospit al aid, emergency service, moto • coiT. work. TAKE 1 ilC/r*ER SAFETY MEASURES WHILE DRIVING Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 10 —Sleet and ice conditions now prevailing may bring a traffic death or ser ious injury to some member of your community unless every dri ver takes proper precautions, Cap' |C. J. Sanders of the state saiet patrol warned today. "Any owner who knows that hi' car is not fully prepared to meet winter hazards should have the good sense not to drive wail street and road conditions are ex tremely slippery,” he said. “Any car owner who is not surr his brakes are equalized should have them tested immediately and put on his tire chains while skid ding is such a hazard. “Headlights, windshield wipers and defrosters should be tested and weak or defective ones re placed. There is no excuse for cars with one dead headlight on inadequate windshield vision These hazards are always danger ous but more so now when the ic condition of streets makes it c’i" ficult to turn cut to avoid hit*:'r what looks like a motorcycle tv is actually a car. "Ore of the best times to avoid a winter driving accident,” Con ain Sanders concluded, "is before you step on the starter.” THANKS The Nebraska Tuberculosi- ■ sociation takes this opportunity to thank The Omaha Guide fo- * fine assistance given the thirty fifth annua: Christmas Seal Sal u"t co'c’uued. We also express our doen r orecintion for the sr>lend:d v~r' don* in your community by Co r ty Superintendent H. M. Eaton, who sponhored the sale through the rural schools. This school program enlists the pupils in the fight to eradicate tuberculosis, which directly concerns them, and makes them realize their respon sibility in our year round health campaign. We are also indebted to J. Fran cis McDermott, of Omaha. Mrs. Roy Denker, Valley, Mrs. Et. Rob inson, Waterloo, who had charge of the Christmas Seal sale in their *\espective communities. Without these good friends, we could not carry on the important work of fighting tuberculosis in Nebraska Nebraska Tuberculosis Assn. WIFE BEATS UP WHITE RIVAL, CAUGHT WITH HER HUSBAND IN LOVE NEST Los Angeles, Jan. 12 (ANP;. Separate maintenance, custody ot two children and $60 per month was the speedy court award given an attractive housewife this week, following her discovery of a honey moon cottage occupied by her mate and his red headed white girl friend, early last Monday morn ing. Accompanied by a police offic er the atractive housewife, Mrs. Beulah Jones, assertedly surpris ed her husband, Eddie, city em ploye, in the embrace of the woim an in a house allegedly occupied by Jones as a rendezvous. Mrs. Jones was represented by Atty Crispus Wright. Mrs. Jones admitted to the ANP reporter that she beat up her white rival before allowing her to leave the “love nest.” TRY HARRIS’ GROCERY 1 WR SPECIALIZE in meats VEGETABLES. HARDING'S ICE CREAM —OPEN SUNDAYS 6 A. M. TO 10:30 P. M 5302 SO. 30th ST. M \-07tl 1 THE OMAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WEbster 1517 tntered as Second Class Matter Manch 15. 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. *1. J. Ford, — — — Pre«. Mrs. Flurna Coope’’, — — Vice Pies C. Gailoway, — Publisher and Acting Editor Boyd V. Galloway, •- Sec’v and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA One Year — — — _ $2 C< Six Months — — _ $1.25 Three Months — — .75 One Month — — — ,j>5 SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN One Year — — — — $2 50 Six Months — — — — 81.50 Three Months — — _ $1.00 One Month — — — — .40, All New’s Copy of Churches and all organizat~ ions must be in our office not later than 1:00 p. m* Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, pre ceeding date of issue, to insure publication. - — = REPORTS STRAUS RESIGNATION Washington, Jan. ii (ANP) . . The resignation of Nathan Straus, administrator of the Federal Hous ing administration, has been re ported written and forwarded to the President. Pressure of south ern congressmen, who voiced their disapproval of the administrator’^' policies is believed responsible for the resignaton. At one time, some $300,000 voted by congress, for the erection of emergency housing was dicerted from the capable staff built by Straus to another agency, but with the re ported resignation of Straus, this money was again promised to the USHA. WAR. DEPT ADDS STENOGRAPHERS Washington, Jan. 14 (ANP) . . A new increment of stenographers was reported to be assigned to the “pool” in one of the temporary buildings of the war department last week, of which three fourths, were colored. The pool numbered about 150. The new number of Negroes thus employed bears out ) 5 If You Need COAL Call Us First for Quality and Services LION COAL CO. WE'2605 2124 Nicholas St. Free Delivery from 8 a. m. to 1 a. m. 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