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GOOD \ reading! OMAHA 6UIDE at your , Driffstore largest accredited negro newspaper west of Chicago and north of Kansas city —member of the associated negro press STh&ZZ. Omaha. Nebraska, Saturday, MarcTn. 1942 OUR 14TH YEAR. No. 52 City Edition, 5c Cop7 Front row, reading left to right: Bishop H. Y. Toukes, Bishop Noah Williams, Bishop W. R. Wright, Jr. Second Row: Miss Pauline Redmond, co-director of the Youth Division. Standing: Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset, Chief of the Racial Relations Division of the Office of Civilian Defense. Mrs. Fauset is explaining to the members of the closed session at the Bishops’ Council Thursday, February 19, some of the objectives of her division and how the Negro may participate in the Civilian Defense program. AMES PLEDGE ONE HUNDRED’ ENT COOPERATION IN CIVILIAN DEFENSE The 840.000 members of the Af rican Methodist Episcopal Church represented by their 15 bishops at the Bishops’ Connectia! Council, led by Bishop R. C. Ranhome, pledged their 100 percent cooper ation to the Office of Civilian De fense and to Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset, Chief of the Race Relat ions Division, who appeared as their guest speaker, at the Bish ops' Council closed sesion. Thurs day, February 19. Mrs. Fauset said she knew that the leaders and members of the churches throughout the country could always be depended upon to carry out the activities of the Civ ilian Defense program in the wsr emergency. Following Mrs. Fauset's address Bishop Ransome announced that 100 percent cooperation from the Bishops and members of their con gregations could be depended upon to carry the program into the var ious local communities. The Bis hop also stated that the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first and largest Negro denom ination in America, having been organized since 1778. The ministers representing th? various districts of the African Methodist Episcopal Church ap peared at the joint meeting of the four day conference- Plans and rseolutions also were adopted by this group pledging cooperation to the Civilian Defense program. Mrs. Fauset was accompanied by three members of her staff, Miss Pauline Redmond, co-director of Youth Activities, Youth Divis ion, William D. Alexander, Inform aton Specialist of the Race Rela tions Division and Furman B. Templeton, Race F.elation s Advis or of Ftegion Thret. ' APPOINTED The Rev. William C. Williams of this city and Buffalo, New York has been appointed to the Home Mission Board of the National Baptist Conference under the Rev. T. Theodore Lopelace Correspond ing Secretary to assist in promot ing financial campaigns through out the United States and Candad and the Bahamas and will be in Omaha sometime soon. TO APPEAR IN CONCERT The Deep River Singers are to appear in Concert at Zion Baptist Church Sunday afternoon March 15. at 3 o’clock. The Deep River Singers are well known radio artists, the group is composed of Albert Page, Barit one: Albert Yarborough, Tenor; Merton Smith, Tenor; Mary L. Robinson, Pianist and Accompan ist. This group of singers is being’ sponsored by the Reubenetts Club and Zion Imperial Choir. FIRST NEGRO U. S. OFFICERS COMMISSIONED IN AIR FORCE Tuskegee. March 10 (by B. B. Walcott for ANP)—An event long desired by Negroes throughout the country became a reality on Sat urday, March 7, when commiss j ions as Second lieutenants in the LT. S Army Air Corps were award ed to a group of Negro pilots at the post theatre of the air corps p.dvanced flying school. Among those to receive commissions were Capt. B. O. Davis Jr.; Cadet Mac Ross and George Spencer Roberts, both of West Virginia: Cadet Lem uel R. Custis, Hartford, Conn.: Ca det Charles Henry DeBow. Indiana polis and Hampton Institute. Capt. Davis is the son of Brig. Gen. Davis. He is a graduate of West Point Military Academy. His first assignment was to Fort Ben ning, Ga. After about one year he was transferred to Tuskegee in stitute as professor of military science and tactics. The spring of 1941 he was sent to- Fort Riley, Kansas, as aide to Gen- Davis, j Early in the summer, Capt. Davis returned to Tuskegee to begin pi lot training in the air coyis de tachment primary flying sciio<.l. Cadet Roberts received advanced flying training in the civilian pilot trainng course at Tuskegee before entering air corps primary train ing. Col. Frederick V. H. Kimble, commanding officer o fthe ACAFS could not be reached for confirm ation of the rumor that the new ly commissioned officers would be assigned to duty at the Tuskegee field. The inaugural ceremony initial - ig the training of Negroes as mil itary aviators for the Unted Stat es Army Air corps was held July 19. at the Booker T. Washington monument, Tuskegee. The prin-1 cipal address On that occasion was made by Major General Walter Ft. theast air corps training center, j Weaver, commanding officer, sou- { Here follows an excerpt of the challenge General Weaver gave 1o the cadts that day. “The success of this venture de pends upon you. You have the re sponsibility of laying the founda tion. Therefore, I can not impress j upon you too much how important it is for you to make a wonderful | record. I believe you will. I un j derstand you have been hand pick ] ed. You have an excellent educa ! tional background. You have splendid officers. You will lave fine mechanics. These are the tools necessary to do your work. You have the best. In addition, you have an even greater respons ; ibility. The responsibility of train | ing for the defense of the United i States. I canot impress too em i phatically ho w import ant is this phase of national defense.... this phase of military aviation-this that you have elected to do. Thi3 task is work. It is a difficult task. It will call for everything11 \ you have got in you. It is no bed of roses. It will mean morning work and night study. It will mean keeping yourself fit at all times. If you succeed you will have the satisfaction and the pride that comes to the men on the com pletion of their course pass down the line and receive their wings. “Tour officers will be ever ready to help you, but it depends upon you as individuals whether this success shall be yours. “Let no task be too small to re ceive your utmost careful atten tion. If you do that, you should be successful, and I believe you will. “What Booker T. Washington stood for... .the principle of work attention to duty, loyalty to cause -these especially, with these in front of you, you cadets can but be inspired.” T. B. SABOTAGE IN THE NORTHSIDE OF OMAHA Tuberculosis deaths in Omaha have dropped sharply for the city at large in 1941, this unfortunate ly was not true for deaths from tuberculosis among the Negro peo pie. The Negro deaths from tub erculosis in Omaha have gone up 40 ptrcent in 1941. The Cty Health Department has recognized the great need for tuberculosis control in the North Side. A tuberculosis clinic was opened in the newly established health center". It is open Wed nesday nights for the examination of all individuals for tuberculosis who cannot afford the services of their family doctor. A physical examination, skin test, and if nec essary. an x-ray arranged for all cases applying to the Clinic. Ev ery contact of each case of tuber culosis should be exaimned care fully. It is too late if examinat ion is done after the symptoms have already developed. The x ray is the great detector long be fore any symptoms have appear ed. Tuberculosis is a real saboteur in this defense program: it sab otages our civilian as well as mil itary life. The clinic is open ev ery Wednesday evening at the Le gion Building! 24th and Burdette at 7:00 o’clock P. M. No case of tuberculosis must go undiagnos ed—if detected earlier, it can be cured. Tuebcnlosis must go! This new North Side Health Unit, organized b ythe City Health Department with the cooperation of the American Legion Post No. 30 is also open Monday and Thurs day evening at 7:00 o’clock P. M as well as Tuesday and Friday af ternoons at 1:00 o’clock for diag nosis and treatment of venereal diseases. Immunizations and vac cinations are done on Saturdays at 3:00 P. M. DETROIT HOUSING RIOT SHOWS NEGROES “FED UP” WITH OMAHA COLORED NYA YOUTH EMPLOYED IN SHIPYARDS Herbert Lewis White. 20, of 2530 Charles Street, has received work in the Puget Sound Navy Yards at Bremerton, Washington as a ship fitters’ helper at a sal ary of 75 cents per hour, accord ing to information received by his mother, Mrs. Lillian White. White received all of his work experience in the new NYA work shop located at 30th and Burt Sis He also finished a course in sheet metal at Technical High school, sponsored by the Omaha Vocation al Education Department- He war an outstanding NYA worker, and was known for his ability *o do forge work as well as sheet metal. According to white those work ers who qualify are hired, regard less of race, creed or color. FRED WALKER INNOCENT Fred Walker, well known Real Estate Broker, who was involved in a cutting affray with one, Joe Hill, was found not guilty of as sault and battery last Tuesday morning in police court. There was no testimony by Joe Hill, complaining witness, about a woman being involved, as stat ed in last week’s Guide. Hill com planed that Walker ha dtalked a bout him unkindly to Hill’s girl friend. The Judge, after hearing Hill testify and a waitress in the place did not require Mr. Walker to test ify, but dismissed the case, the prosecutor remarking that Hill was “looking for trouble and got what he was looking for”. NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR BLOCK CHAIRMEN The following patriotic colored women are serving as precinct chairmen in the second ward m Omaha's city-wide Red Cross pre paradness organization. They need volunteers to become block chairmen in some of the blocks in their precincts. Being a Red Cross block chairman is one of the if nest servic-s a citizen can ren der ,and it is hoped that this call for volunteers will complete the Red Cross set up i nthes- precints Fifth precinct. Mrs. R. C. Price 2411 North 22nd St.. WE. 165S. Sixth precinct, Mrs. Grace Brad ford, 2519 Maple St.. WE. 2181 Seventh precinct, Mrs. John Alb ert Williams, 2418 Maple, WE. 6243. Eighth precinct. Mds. J. D. Thornton, 2311 North 27th Ave, WE. 5525. Ninth precinct, Mrs. H. K. Holliday, 3014 North 28th St., WE. 0169. Tenth precinct, Mrs. Ollie Lewis, 2415 Blondo. AT. 5404. Twelfth precinct, Mrs. Ruth Payne 2572 North 25th St., WE. 5525. Thirteenth precinct. Mrs. Julia Galloway, 2814 North 28th SL If you wish to volunteer and do not know which precinct you live in, phone the ward chairman Mrs. ; Leigh Watson, WE. 3133. Mrs. Watson is also looking for a chair man for the 4th precinct which ex tends from Charles t° Grace Sts between 18th and 24th. Block chairmen will be needed in this precinct also. Mrs. Watson wrill explain the work of these Red Cross chairmen in detail to anyone who calls her at WE. 3133. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GETS AVIATION CADET Chicago, March 9 (ANF> When the new aviation course in met e orology opens next week at the University of Chicago, Paul Fran cis Byrd will be a student. He has j duly qualified and been accepted i for admission. Byrd will be one ■ of the first groups of stuents ad ; mitted to the university school which is just being organized. The course will require nine mon | tfas. Upon its completion, its grad ■ nates will be commissoned as avia i tion office! s. DEMGC’Y TALK Detroit, Mich.“One of the striking revelations resulting xrorn the riots here. February 28, over the occupancy of the Sojourner1 Truth housing project is that the American Negro is just about ‘fed up’ with talk of democracy acid now demands some action.” This was the observation of Roy Wilkins, assitant secretary of the NAACP who came here March 4. to consult with an pledge coop eration to the Citizens’ Committee carrying o the housing fight. “In eleven years of travelling for the NAACP and in twenty years of newspaper work, I have never found such bitterness on such a wide scale as I have found in Detroit,” said Wilkins. The cooler heads among our people are trying desperately to hold the sit uation in hand. They know that when there is violence between Negroes and whites. Negroes al ways lose because the police and the soldiers always join the whit es against the Negroes. That is what happened in Detroit. Al though whites started the riot and were armed with every kind of weapon, the police arrested 109 persons 2 whites and 107 Ne groes. “Despite this, the rank and file of Negroes want to fight. They are tired of talking. They are rapidly coming to the point where they do not believe or trust any j white person or any government ( institution. TORE UP DRAFT CARDS "The Sojourner Truth riot came In the midst of war. The disgrace ful action of the Detroit police de partment has made this housing project fight not only a national but an international incident. Young Negroes here tore up their draft cards last Saturday- in public. One man got up in a puO lic meeting and said he was of draft age and would probably be called to fight in Asia or Europe, ‘but I will take my fighting and dying, if necessary, right here on the streets of Detroit for some de mocracy for my own people.” "Another man camt up before Judge George Murphy on a dis orderly conduct charge in connect ion with the fighting at the pro ject. He said to the judge: ‘I hav? two boys in the U. S. Army fight ing for these people (the whites) ad you can sentence me to any j years you want, but when I get out I am going to start fighting ; again just where I left off.” The charge was dismissed for lack of evidence COPS AIDED WHITES “One hour of good police work Saturday morning. February 29, would have prevented the riot, it is agreed here. The cops let the whites form a mob, erect barricad es across the street, stop moving vans containing furniture of Negro families seeking to move in and beat and stone Negroes. But when Negroes attempted to pro tect themselves and break through the barricades, the cops went into action against them.” Protests and demands for action are pouring in upon Detroit and Washington officials from hund reds of individuals and groups ov er the country. The national of fice of the NAACP wired Attorney General Francis Biddle the day of the riot asking the Department of Justice to act. President Roose velt has received many calls for firm action by federal authorities. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries of De • troit was snowed under with pro j tests. | Here in Detroit a Citizens' Com ! mittee headed by the Rev. Charles \ Hill is meeting every’ day at noon i at the Lucy Thurman YWCA for ; luncheon and pep and strategy talks. The daily attendance av erages more than 100. Sub com mittee reports on picketing, pub (Continued on page £55= 2) DEAN PICKENS WON’T REPLY TO NAACP SMEAR REPORT DEAN WILL DEMAND SHOW DOWN BY BOARD Washington, March 10 (ANP) Although pressed from all sides to make a statement in defense of his position. Dean William Pick ens, for the past 30 years an of ficer of the NAACP, persistently refuses to take up the cudgels in his own behalf. Refusing to be interviewed on the matter in his office here in the treasury depart ment, where he is now assigned as a promotion specialist, Mr. Pick ens says that in April when the board meets everybody will know his stand. Accused by the secretary of the NAACP of making statements approving Segregation, the same being published in the Amsterdam News Star of New York City, Mr. Pickens is confident that when the show-down comes, he will be vin dicated and it will be proven that his article was not printed as it was released through the Assoc iated Negro Press. For a number of years, Mr. Pickens has been a valuable contributor to that organ ization and his feature articles have had wide spreae. circulation. In an original copy of his story discussing the situation under the caption “Fort Huachuca and the 99th Pursuit Squadron”, It is in dicated that his words were “the army is planing to win a war, in spite of segregation or of those who oppose segregation ” The printed story left out the words “in spite of segregation” which made it appear that Mr. Pickers was striking at the anti-segregat ionists. The original intent of the NA ACP, it is reported, was to sum marily dismiss Mr. Pickens, but after considering the matter, it was decided to act differently. The board of directors, before which the dean is scheduled to ap pear at the April meeting is com prise of 48 members from all parts of the country. Because of the difficulties in assembling this en tire group, the rules set a quorum at six and this gives the board an opportunity to pass resolutions an adopt measures with only a maj ority voting—four votes being the majority in the six member meet ing. By virtue of this, many things are accomplished. However at the last meeting, ont of the larg est held, 14 members of the board were present, evidently to hear the Pickns case. However, it has been learned that each member of the board has received a letter from Dean Pickens in which he insists that the members "have been imposed upon—by whom I don not knov/.” “But not until today did I rec eive and read the mimeographed matter called “Pursuit Squadron, by William Pickens” and compar ed it with what I wrote under “Fort Huachuca and 99th Pursuit Squadron”, his letter said. “The matter mimeographed,” the letter continues, “and sent to you is not my article. Somebody imposed upon the mimeographers. Compare it with my article; It is lifted out of the first two-thirds of my article-when the last one third is the most important. And some little phrases are left out of the two-thirds from which the mimeograph of the NAACP was made. “I know this unethicalness if not of our NAACP, for the assoc iation does not do that. “And I a mnot trying to change your mind about anything, but only aiming to get the truth be fore you. If the truth makes any change, that is as it should be.” When Dean Pickens was first mentioned as a possibility for his present post with the Treasury (Continued on page SPREAD OF FIFTH COLUMNIST PROPAGANDA AMONG SAINT LOUIS MISSOURI NEGROES TRACED to JAPS ♦ 60,000 NEGRO BOYS Negro Scouting Grows Membership in the Boy Scouts of America is available to all boys, regardless of race, color or creed. Negro boys and leaders in many states are enjoying their Scouting experiences. There are now near 60,000 Boy Scouts among the Ne groes in the U nited States, IS YOUR BOY ONE OF THIS NUMBER?—IF NOT WHY NOT? HAVE HIM JOIN TODAY! Membership in the Boy Scouts of America is available to any boy, regardless of race, color or creed, no matter where he lives. Negro boys are taking to Scout ing in greater numbers than ever before. There are now over 60 000 Negro boys who are scouts in the United States with New York Chicago ,Baltimore, Detroit and Louisville each having more than 1,000 enrolled. Scouting among Negroes has had its greatest gains in 1941 when there was an increase of almost twenty percent. In Region Six, comprising North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, there was a 58 percent gain, bring ing the membership <n those .stat es nearly to 9.000. Last year more Boy Scout coun cils provided adequate camp sites for their Negro boys, inspired oy the fine Scout camps for Negroes at Atlanta and Louisville. For its Negro boys the St. Louis Bov Scout Council now has one of the finest Camp properties in the coun try consisting of 400 acres of woodland with a fine stream of water and plenty of rolling hills. The Piedmont Council with head-* quarters at Gastonia, N. C„ has recently obtained a splendid new Scout camp site for Negro boys near famous Kings mountain. Six prominent Negroes are mem bers of the Section on Negro work of the Intedracial Committee of the National Council. Boy Scouts of America. They are Dr. Robert P. Daniel. President of Shaw Uni versity, at Raleigh. N. C.; Bishop R. E. Jones of the Methodist Church. New Orleans, La.; A. L. Jackson, President of the Provid ent Hospital Association, Chicago; Dr. J, R. E, Lee, President of the Florida A and M College, Talla hassee. Fla.; Dr. E. P. Robert, prominent physician in Harlem cf * New York City and John Webb of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of the Mississippi Diocese. Joe Louis, heavyweight champ ion boxer of the world, is defin itely interested in the work of the Boy Scouts. He is a member of the Troop Committee of a Detroit Troop and has helped to raise funds to bring Scouting to more; Negro boys. Fifty-three Negro men, all of i whom were formed Scout Leaders are Serving professionally in the Boy Scouts of America as Field Executives in centers where there are large groups of Negroes. One. \ of them. A. J. Taylor has for many years, been Assistant to the Na tional Director of the Interracial Service of the Boy Scouts of A merica The General Education Board in 1941, in order to aid the promot ion of Scouting among more Ne gro boys granted 517,500 toward the employment of qualified Ne gro leaders to serve as full time Field Scout Executives. A boy must be 12 years of age ; before he can become a Scout. He may become a Cub at 9 and at 12 “graduate” into a Boy Scout Troop. Cubbing *is a neighbor hood-centered program for boys 9, 10. and 11 years of age. It is j different from Scouting in unif orm and program but has many interesting activities, skills, stunts and games for younged boys. |HUNT TWO JAP SPONSORS OF TEN YEAR OLD FRATERNAL ORDER— • •• ST. LOUIS. March 8 (ANP) — Federal agents seeking the source of pro-jJapanese propaganda spread among Negroes since the attack on Pearl Harbor have un covered the fact that the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, a 10-year old organization, is sponsored by Japanese agents as a “fifti} column" organization to spread confusion and dissension and disrupt America’s war effort. Sponsors of the movement hero were Dr. Ashima Takis and his superior from Chicago, M. Liang, who are being sought by federal agents, but are nowhere to be found. Those Negroes who lead the movement here view it now as a perfectly proper fratrnal organ ization with no subversive tend encies, but the doctrine preached by its Japanese sponsors has been revived with new intensity lately and responsible Negro leaders are alarmed at its spread among the race. The doctrine preaches that Ne groes have no stake in America, ‘where they are segregated and discriminated against, where tney arg lynched and barred from labor Unions and institutions of higher education,” and that they would be “better off if Japan won the war," because the Japanese too are a dark people, oppressed by the white race. Several thousand St. Louisians joined the movement and tens of thousands elsewhere. Many were attractd to it as just another frat ernal organization, others wer3 won to it by glittering promises of a world in which Negroes would be “truly emancipated.” Recent evidence indicates that the Japanese sponsors found oth ers in the movement who could be useful in fifth column activity. St. Louis members, who are still act - ive, have “gone underground" in the accepted fashion of subversive elements. Former laders, disclaim any present connection with the supposedly fraternal order, but re ports of secret meetings here and elsewhere have seepd out. One report says that a group meets in East St- Louis, and other states that secret meetings are held in St. Louis. In Cairo, HI., Charleston, Mo., and in other communities in South east Missouri’s “bootheel” country there have been reports of large secret meetings. Burt F. Cornish, elevator oper ator for a shoe company, at wnos* home Takis resided during his stay in St. Louis, told of the origin of the movement and activities of its Japanese sponsors. Cornish is ac tive in many fraternal organizat ions and became an officer of the Peace Movement. According to Cornish, Takis. then about 30 years old, came to his home in 1932, acompanied by Liang ,who represented himself as an importer in Chicago, and gave the impression he was associared with the Japanese consulate. La ing was said to be tall and tbiu, immaculately garbed .and was at tended by a huge Negro valet. Tak is was short, rather solidly built land well dressed with, as Cornish ; said, “a suit for every day in the I week.” Liang returned to Chicago, leav ing Takis in charge. A scrap book of clippings for the Pacific movement, chiefly by Takis and later by Cornish, shows pictures of airplanes, submarines, torpedoes, bombs, United States naval vessels on war maneuvers, stories about injustices toward Ne groes, one about the wedding of a ! Japanese woman and an Abyssin 1 ian prince, and a picture of the ; Japanese Supreme War council cf 1934. Cornish said that Takis i claimed one of the council mem bers pictured was his father. Dr. Takis, alias M. Yamanoto, I alias Satohata Takahasi, and var ious other aliases, is now under indictment here On charges of forg ing a money order, and a circular distributed by the post office in spector requesting his arrest stat es that he is known also as Dr. , Koo ,Mimo De Guzman, or Mimo | Guzman. AIR CORPS MEDICAL UNIT ALMOST READY Tuskegee, March 11 (ANP> _ The medical unit of the Air Corps Advanced Flying school is fast reaching completion and will soon be ready to receive patients. This unit is the first U. S. army hos pital to be completely staffed by Negro physicians and nurses. Ma jor DeHaven Hinkson is command ing officer.
