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
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ident. Radio Corporation of Amer
ica; Earl B. Dickerson, Chicago,
and Philip Murray, President, Con
gress of Industrial Organizations.,
The preparations for the hear
ings are being made by represent
atives of the Committee, of the
Negro employment and Training
Branch of OPM, and the Minority1
Groups Branch, OPM. 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.
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Practically any drug dealer will.,
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the gentle, satisfying way it us
ually relieves constipation’s bad
breath, coated tongue and loginesa
when simple directions are follow
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The prinicipal reason for this is:
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lazy intestinal muscles. It is easy |
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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