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AaSof°Ma'rchaH8m 4—Busings\“hone,nwE.Nebra8ka’ Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, February 28, 1942 OUR 14th YEAR—No. 50 City Edition, 5c Copy
HENRY WALLACE TO SPEAK
IN OMAHA MARCH 17
The nation’s attention will cen
ter pn Omaha March 14, when
Vice President Henry Wallace ad
dresses a public mass meeting at
the city auditorium. The Omaha
adress, his first since Pearl Har
bor, will be particularly signific
ant, since Wallace plays a major
role in the nation's program of eco
-nomic warfare. The mass meet
ing, which is expected to attract
residents from the entire Nebraska
Iowa area, will probably be broad
cast on a coast to coast hookup
and possibly to the entire world by
short wave.
Vice President Wallace, who is
making the trip at the invitation
of the Omaha Chamber of Comm-,
erce, will also be honored by the
Chamber at a public affairs lun
cheon.
Wallace is scheduled to arrive
the morning of March 14 and will
spend the morning and afternoon
in conference with business and
farm leaders and public officials.
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Pictures of the WORLD today!
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Milwaukee, Pixpage—This 240
millimeter howitzer, one of the ar
my’s most powerful mobile weap
one, left the factory enroute east
for tests. Two 10 ton prime mov
ers pulled the huge barrel and car
riage, and soldiers with loaded rifl
es guarded the gun.
MANILA’S GIBRALTAR- LIKE ISLAND CORREGIDOR
Pixpage—This is a photograph
of the rocky island of Corregidor,
which stands in the center of the
narrow mouth of Manila Bay on
Luzon Island. The island’s guns,
! manned by U. S. forces, are hold
i ing out against the firce attacks
| of Japanese bombers.
5,000 BOAT OWNERS READY FOR CIVILIAN DEFENSE
Pixpage—Pictures shows man
euvers of Wilmette Flotilla, TJ. S.
Coast Guard Auxiliary, which is a
group of civilians owning small
surface craft. These men and
their oats wil be ready on a mo
ments notice—to do harbor patrol
work, help with some of the norm
al functions of the Coast Guard,
and assist with life protection on
our shores. There are over 50Q
member boats on the shores of
Lake Michigan alone. Any young
man interested in joining the
Coast Guard ca nget full informa
tion frim his regular Coast Guard
station, from local Auxiliary Flo
tilla member, LieutenantC omm
ander N. S. Fulford, Customs
House, Chicago, or from Captain
Sam Clark of the second Flotilla,
Wilmette, Illinois.
BERSHIRES IN BALLET ROLE -
State College ,Pa.—Pixpage —These little piggies are pure bred
“FULFILLED
PROPHESY”
by Myrtle M. Goodlow
(Dedicated to Mr. C. C. Galloway,
Editor of the Omaha Guide, who
more than twelve years ago pre
dicted the world wide racial prob
lems of today. The following lin
es are based upon the platform of
The Omaha Guide, which was
written by Mr. Galloway.)
No thinking person will dispute
The fact that the welfare of our
group,
Should always be considered
and remembered,
For the service we have rend
ered,
To our country, to our flag, and
to our city,
For our race is one of the few
Proven loyal and true blue.
If hatred and prejudice are not
overcome,
Darker days are yet to come
Fo rthe seeds are now being
sown—
For one of the bloodiest bat
tlefields,
This world has ever known
For the darker races will not
continue,
To be crushed by the money
mad few,
Who have chosen themselves to
be,
The leaders of mankind—
When they themselves are color
blind.
With only three tenths of the
worlds
population,
Its high time for the so-called
white race,
To cease being color blind
And preaching white suprem
acy,
And racial superiority.
For what a bitter harvest we
now reap—
Because the Japanese were
classed as cheap,
And considered just a worthless
tool,
By those who rule.
Leaders have failed to practice
what.they teach,
For justice and liberty are mere
words in a speech,
Eut they must cast aside all
pretense,
OR reap God’s vengeance.
For be ye, not deceived,
God is not mocked
He judges the deeds—condemns
idle talk,
For there is no halfway with
God—
But all the way every step, we
trod!
The Fatherhood of Man must
prevail,
OR man’s plans will always fail
For only standing on the prin
ciples of Christ—
Can we see the wrong from tne
right.
And this world surely needs .
A better understanding of the
Christian creed.
That all men axe brothers,
And when we oppress our fel
lowmen,
We are condemned by the
Creator of all men.
THORPE TO QUIT FORCE;
IN COMMISSION RACE
Sgt. Bert Thorpe, Omaha police
department member 32 years, will
apply for a pension, Wednesday,
he said Monday. Thorpe is 54.
Thorpe said he is retiring, effec
tive March 1, to file for city com
missioner. This will be his second
race for that position. Six year3
ago, he was fifteenth in the prim
aries. Thorpe became a police
man January 18, 1910. He once
held captain and inspector posts.
Berkshires, the same that swept
honors over all breeds at the In
ternational Livestock show. Am
erica is the only country export
ing pork, which is not controlled
by the Axis. Pork is important
because its production can be ex
panded most rapidly, and because
it can be cured and shipped with
a minimum of refrigeration.
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM
SPONSORED BY AMERICAN
LEGION SUNDAY
The American Legion Roosevelt
Post No. 30, stage one of its ever
I COMPLETES HER FIRST LAP
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Miss Jean Terrell
Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Terrell, completed her first
milestone in her journey to becoming a graduate
nurse, when she received her nurses cap, last Tues
day evening, February 24, 1942 at 8:15 from the Gen
eral Hospital at Kansas City, Missouri, where she
is attending.
j
increasing community benefit pro
grams last Sunday when led by
their Commander Dr. Peebles, they
showed motion pictures and gave
their audience a bang up floor
show.
FIRED CAB DRIVER’S
REVENGE SMASHES TWO
COMPANY CARS
A believer in direct action is
Philip Love, 23 of 1610 North 28th
Street. As a result the United
Cab Company is out two cabs of
its four cab fleet.
Up to Sunday morning Love
was employed by the United as a
2712 Erskine street, who owns the
company, bounced him.
Love and Miss Johnson spent
most of the day arguing about
whether he had $4.95 coming. In
the afternoon Love finally lost pa
tience, dashed out of the place,
drove one of the cabs to 30th and
Bristol streets, where he told po
lice, he lay in wait.
After a while along came an
other United cab driven by Marcy
Bryant, 37, 2702 1-2 Lake street.
Love, in his cab, ambushed the
Bryant cab, police said. There
was a terrific collision, and both
cabs were damaged badly. Neither
Love nor Bryant was hurt.
Love was arrested on a charge
of auto theft. He told Capt. P„c
bert Heller he had intended to
wreck only the cab he was driv
ing, and that it was a “coinci
dence” that the other cab also hap
pened to be a United cab.
“I don’t know what got into me”
he said. “I guess I just went
crazy.”
MEDICAL UNITS BEING
ORGANIZED FOR OMAHA
WAR EMERGENCIES
Omaha’s preparations for or
ganized medical aid in possible
war emergency situations are rap
idly being completed, reports Dr.
C. M. Wilbelmj, chairman of the
Civilian Defense Committee of the
Omaha-Douglas County Medical
Society.
He announced this week that
approximately one hundred phys
icians in hospital staffs have ber-n
organized into first aid emergency
squads and that rescue squads,
to move injured persons to first
aid stations, are being trained.
The rescue squads are being re
cruited from Red Cross volunteers
i Omaha has been divided into
! eight zones for medical aid activ
; ities. Immanuel Hospital has been
designated as headquarters for ac
tivities for the area siuth of Dodge
street. Dr. Herbert Davis heads
the first aid squads of physicians
ready to go into action from Im
manuel Hospital and Dr. W. L.
Sucha is director of emergency ac
tivities from St. Joseph hospital.
Dr. Wilhelmj has notified hos
pitals of the Allowing plan of ac
tion for mobilizing medical aid in
case of air bombings or other war
emergencies:
“When a hospital is notified that
emergency aid is needed in its
zone, the first step will be the im
mediate sending of a squad of in
ternes and nurses, and all first aid
equipment, to the site of the dis
aster. Then members of its first
aid emergency squad of physicians
will be notified to report to the
site. When the teams of physic
ians reach the site, it has been
suggested that the internes might
be asked to return to the hospital.
After this procedure has been car
ried out, the hospital will call cer
tain members of its attending
staff (who are not on emergency
squads) and ask them to repo; t
to the hospital to care for the in
jured who may be sent to that hos
pital.”
The Red Cross has made ar
rangements A have ready approx
imately 65 trucks, station wagons
and ambulances to transport in
jured persons, supplies and nurses
as needed.
The medical aid units will op
erate as part of the Citizens De
fense Corps, the Volunteer com
munity defense organizations.
VERIFIED AFFIDAVITS OF
RED CROSS GARMENT
PURCHASERS SOUGHT
The local Red Cross is issuing
a call for verified affidavits signed
by any person who has purchased
garments made by the Red Cross
volunteers and dispensed by trie
Red Cross.
A number of people have recent
ly reported to Chapter headquar
ters that rumors are widely circu
lated to the effect that men in
the armed forces have purchased
sweaters and knitted garments
issued by the Red Cross or bear
ing tags denoting that the garm
ents were made by Red Cross vol
unteers.
Such rumors have been heard
from time to time since the first
World War and now are growing
in intensity. For twenty-five years
the National Red Cross has made
an exhaustive effort to secure af
fidavits from persons who were
said to have purchased garments
or articles dispensed by the Red
Cross and to date have been un
able to find a single person who
I NO ACCOMMO
DATIONS FOR
NEGROES IN
ALLIANCE
Negro Citizens Hit
At Discrimination
Alliance, Nebraska, Feb. 23
Six Negro women appeared before
the city council here as represent
atives of the Negro population to
protest against alleged "discrim
ination” and “segregation”.
Mildred Sanders, spokeswoman,
declared that since closing of the
only Negro eating and lodging
house this winter, there has been
no place where visiting Negro men
and vtfomen could buy a meal.
She said 15 members of a Negro
dance band were unable to purch
ase a meal and went without food
from noon until 2 a- m. the next
day before local Negro families
took them into their homes.
In another instance, she charged
a visiting Negro soldier in uniform
was refused the right to purchase
a meal in local restaurants.
City Counsellor W. R. Metz ex
plained that it was not within the
legal power of the city to take ac
tion in case of any abuse of civil
rights, but was up to the individ
ual citizen to seek redress.
ever made such a purchase. The
rumors have always been to the
effect that the person circulating
the story had heard it from some
one else who in turn had it from a
very reliable source. Thousands
of these rumors have been investi
gated and not one name of a pur
chaser has ever been discovered.
Vincent C. Hascall, Chairman of
the Diuglas County Red Cross,
states that in the making and dis
pensing of garments, the National
Red Cross first ascertains the need
then purchases the materials and
sends them out to the various
Chapters. The Chapter volunteers
make the sewed and knitted gar
ments and must account to the Na
tional organization for all material
received. Mr. Hascall says that
the finished garments are return
ed to the National Red Cross and
sent by them to Red Cross work
ers in the areas, where the need
has beenestablishedand given out
by them. •
Any person, Red Cross or other,
who sild these supplies would be
held to acount to the National
Red Cross.
Persons who circulated rumors
concerning the alleged defections
of an organization dedicated to
humanitarian service, without first
establishing the truth if such alle
gations, are lending themselves to
subversive activity because it is
just such internal disunity that is
an opening wedge for the national
disharmony that is so pleasing to
the aggressor nations.
Mr. Hascall says that anyone
who can supply the local Red Cros
with the names and addresses of
persons who are alleged to have
purchased Red Criss garments, or
the names and addresses of those
who are circulating such rumors,
will do a favor to the organizat
ion
Long School Students
Enjoy A Tour Of
Municipal University
On last Friday two Omaha St
Railway Buses deposited over a
hundred enthusiastic children at
the steps of Municipal University
of Omaha for a tour of this mod
ern educational center and an in
troduction to its program.
Group one accompanied by Mrs.
Nellie Williams, the principal and
Mrs. Saybert Hanger of the Long
School Parent Teachers Associat
ion first visited the defense class
es when young Negro and white
students are studying the funda
mentals of air craft, sheet metal
and basic engineering training.
Some of the students were awed
by the blow torches belching flam
es on the shining metal. Group
two accompanied by Mr. Eugeni
Skinner, physical education teach
er and Mrs. Robbie Davis, special
teacher, treked to the fourth floor
and listened excitedly to the ex
planations of the guide who by the
way was the president of the Stu
f MR. AND MRS. GROVER C. WALKER
CROWNED—
‘Mr., Mrs. St. John*
IN COLORFUL CEREMONY
Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Walker
NEGRO
PRESS
WEEK
MARCH 1-7
Prattis, Barnett To Be
Heard Over Radio Waves
Atlanta, Feb. 23—Final plana
were released here this week for
the fourth annual National Negro
Newspaper Week and the obsei v
ance of the 150th anniversary of
the American Negro press to be
held March 1-7.
On Sunday, March 1, P. L. Prat
tis, executive editor of the Pitts
burgh Courier will appear as guest
speaker on “Wings Over Jordan.”
Mr. Pratti3 will develop the sub
ject "The Negro Press and Amer
ica’s War Effort.” “Wings Over
Jordan” is a regular weekly fea
ture of the Columbia Broadcast
ing System.
“Victory Pledges of the Negro
Press” will be the title of a broad
cast to originate from Chicago
through the facilities of CBS Sat
urday evening, March 7. The prin
cipal speaker for this broadcast}
will be C. A. Barnett, director cf
the Associated Negro Press.
MR. ADOLPH D. HICKS
PASSES
Mr. Adolph D. Hicks, age !■?,
2422 Erskine Street, died Wednes
day, February 18th. Mr. Hicks
had been in poor health some
time, having been a patient at the
Veteran’s Hospital in Lincoln the
early part of the year.
He was a World war veteran, |
and had been employed in recent
years at the City jail as custod
ian- He had been a resident of
Omaha for 29 years.
He is survived by his faithful
wife, Mrs. Esther Spearman Hicks
and foster son, Dr. Charles Ennis
of Los Angeles, California.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon from Thomas
Mortuary with Rev. S. K. Nichols
officiating and Theodore Roose
velt Post No. 30 American Legion
were in charge of military service.
Burial was in Soldiers Circle, For
est Lawn Cemetery.
dent Council of the University.
An artist illustrated a new form
of painting, a teacher of botany
delved into the recesses of his clos
(Continued on pagegggp4)
Highlight of the Omaha winter
season was the Crowning of Mr.
and Mrs. St. John on Monday ev
ening February 16, under the spon
sorsbip of the Progressive 24 of
St. John AME. Church.
A “Musique Soiree” was the
climax of a popularity contest be
tween the clubs of the church,
with the usher board candidates
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Walker the
winning couple.
During a beautiful coronation
ceremony Mr and Mrs. Walker
were appropriately crowned and
presented with sterling silver pins
by Mr. and Mrs. St. John of 1941.
—Mr. and Mrs, C, B, Mayo.
The participating clubs and
their candidates were Usher
Board, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Walker;
Choir, Mr. and Mrs, Bruce Napier
and Mrs Winifred White; Progres
sive 24, Mr. and Mrs. Alton B.
Goode; Cheerful Builders, Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Walker; Sunshine Char
ity, Mr. and Mrs. Miles; Happy
Thought, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bur-,
rell; Willing Workers, Mr. and
Mrs. George Washington; the L. E.
W. Board and Junior Matrons as
sisted.
The Soiree consisted of the fol
lowing numbers:
1. Selections, St. John J. Choir
2. Solo,.Mr. Rufus Long
3 Piano Solo Miss Geraldine Me
Klm _.
4. Duet, Miss Ruth Forrest and
Hiram Webb.
5. Solo, Miss Illena Bradley ac
companied by Minor Williams
6. Piano Solo, Miss Ernestine Mq
Kim.
7. Selection. The Gospelteers
8. Solo.Mr. Douglas Corbitt
9. Selections St John Sr. Choir
10. Solo.Mr. Wm. Kyles
11. Solo.... Mrs. Blanche Moore
Mrs. R. C, Gaskin was mistress
of ceremonies.
In memory of the late W. C.
Ray, chairman of the 1942 con
toest, Mrs. Blanch Moore sang,—
“Remember Me".
Officers of the Progressive 24
are: President Mrs. R. C. Gaskin;
Vice President, Mrs. Gladys Erv
in; 2nd Vice President, Mr. John
Fields; Secretary, Mrs. Alton B.
Goode; Assistant Secretary, Mrs.
George Camper; Treasurer, Mr.
W. P. Ervin; Chaplain Mr. J. D,
Lewis. Mrs. W. C. Ray served as
acting chairman of the event,
Rev. E. T. Ridley is pastor of
the church.
The Clubs are happy to ann
ounce that $500 was raised in this
effort.
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