The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, May 02, 1942, City Edition, Image 1
GOOD READING 1 The ■ A OMAHA «■■■# G“ HEW TO THE LINE \ 5c ^ rcit " °U1 LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Drugstore_ — Entered as secomTciass Matter at The Post office, om=ha, Nebraaka, q aha Nebraska, Saturday, May 2,1942 OUR loth YEAR—No. 12 City Edition, 5c Copy Under Act of March 8, 1874—Business Phone: WE. 1517 ’ ’ J.7 * _ —- - ■■ — NEGROES MOVE BN UNDER GUARD OCCUPY DETROIT HOMES AFTER GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER ISSUE Detroit, April 29—Under a guard of more than 1,500 state troops and city and state police, Negro famil ies began moving this morning Into the Sojourner Truth housing proj ect, scene of rioting two months ago between , Negroes and residents cf the sourrouncfing predominantly white neighborhood. State troops guarded the immed iate vicinity of the two hundred unit housing project, challenging all who tried to enter. Outside their lines were city and state police, pa trolling streets to prevent any for mation of large group of protesting white residents. Mounted policemen were held in reserve. The city pol ice on duty included both white and Negro patrolmen. Seven Negroes and eight white persons, including six policemen were injured in the first outbreak of violence at the project February 28, when 24 Negro families sought to move into the homes. As a result of the rioting Parker Sage and Garland L. Aledrman, of ficers of the National Workers lea gue. and Virgil Chandler, president of an organization of property own ers in the neighborhood of the pro ject were Indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of seditious conspir acy and violating the civil rights of American citizens. This week’s Editorial Review ■_ • •• THE CITY ELECTION For awhile it appeared that the ■City Campaign would be a dull one. Signs, however, are multiplying that between now and Mav 12th, things will be quite lively. And while no one expects a major turnover, “po litical wise men” predict that at least two of the “outs” will beat two of the “ins”. Anything may happen in polities. Watch out. BE SI RE TO REGISTER FOR YOUR RATION OF SUGAR Be sure to register for your ra tion of sugar. Each person may nurch: -e 8 ounces ]>er week: rather the head of the family will be able to do so. On this basis, a family of three will be entitled to 78 pounds of sugar per year, exclusive of that required in the canning season. For this purpose a few pounds addition al will be allowed. In the long run, this may be a good thing for the oldsters. Many chemists .however, regard sugar in reasonable quantities as essential for growing children. And we hope that a deficiency in this food will not result in an injury to our pub lic health We presume the U. S. Public Health Service has thought this through and so advised Leon Hend erson. LET'S WIN THE WAR IN 1942 Let's win the war in 1942. Let us mobilize all men and women, not some men and some women because of color and caste. Let us make an all out effort with our resources. Let us make sure that no group of men shall use the war filch from the people the things which are their due. Let us make sure that when foods are being rationed to the many that a few insiders may not profit from the sacrifices of the many. During the First World War, sol diers on the front lines in France were told that the American people were doing without sugar that they might have it at the front. Often (Continued on page^^°2) 2,000 See Maryland Gov nor on Brutality Baltimore, Md.,....To ask Gover nor Herbert O’Conor of Maryland to appoint a special blue ribbon jury to investigate the wave of police brur ality here, an estimated 1500 to 2000 persons marched on Annapolis, Fri day, April 24. The killing of Private Thomas Broadus by policeman Edward Ben der on January 31 ,and the subse quent refusal of the grand jury lo indict the policeman, touched off the growing indignation of Baltimore’s colored citizens. The Citizens Committee for Just ice, headed by Carl Murphy editor of teh Afro-American will aslo a*! I Governor O’Conor for more co'ored policemen in uniform, a colored po lice magistrate, an additional col ored policewoman, a representative on the state’s board of Henryt.on and Crownsville sanitariums, and a colored state representative on the state beauticians board. The Citizens Committee is com posed of representatives of 125 or ganizations in Baltimore, organized by the Baltimore NAACP of which Mrs], Lillie 11. Jackson is President. 1 —_ _ ■■■■—-^= National hegro Insurance Week FDR Gets Protest on Jim I Crow Labor Leader SLATED FOR FEDERAL JOB New York... .Because he is an of ficiaJ in two labor organizations whjch have refused membership to Negroes, the proposed appointment of Joseph Kennan of Chicago as dir ector of Labor Production in the War Production Board, was oppos ed by the NAACP in a telegram to President Roosevelt, Thursday April 23. The telegram stated that Keenan is secretary of the Chicago local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers which bars Ne groes from membership and refuses to give work permits to Negroes ex cept on houses owned and tenanted fliiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiMiiMtitiiiittiiitiiiiuiiiimiiir.iBimiiiuiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii by Negroes. Keenan is also secr tary of the Chicago Building Trades Council which has been cited by the mittee for refusing membership to Negroes and for permitting Negro steam fitters and plumbers to sec ure work permits only on houses owned and tenanted by Negroes. In vigorously urging the Presid ent not to make the appointment, the NAACP said: “We submit that no person who has been guilty of such practices should occupy as strategic and important a post as di- j rector of the Labor Production Div- j ision of the War Production Board or any other post i nthe federal gov ernment.” ■ ... i I WHITE TEACHERS DROP | ATTEMPTS TO STOP EQUAL PAY SUITS New Orleans, La.Chalking up another significant victory in the campaign for equal salaries to Ne gro teachers in the public schools of the dep south, the NAACP announc ed this week that the Florida Educ ation Association, composed of white teachers, has dropped its at temps to intervene in four suits a gainst county school boards in Flor ida. The motion to dismiss an op Ipeal to stay procedure was heard in j the U. S. circuit court of appeals | here Monday, April 27. The white teachers had maintain ed that the action for equalization of salaries would in effect lower their own pay and based their peti tions to intervene and motions to stay the proceedings in the lowtr court upon that ground. The peti tion to intervene was denied in the lower courts, and their motions to stay the proceedings were denied by Judge Louie W. Strum of the TL S. district court at Jacksonville, Flor ida, March 26. An appe&I from this denial was then filed in the circuit court of ap peals. In a preliminary hearing on the appeal, Judge Rufus E. Foster of the circuit court, denied all the J motions of the attorneys for the . . May 4-9 ) Association Officials Reveal Total of 360 Million Dollars of Life In surance in Force on Colored Am ericans .... Big Campaign Will Seek to Better this Mark and Git 35 Millions in New Business Asa T. Spaulding, President, to Deliver KeyNote Address ATLANTA, April 27 (ANP) - Sponsored by the National Negro Insurance association Asa T. Spauld ing. president and participate* in by member companies throughout the country, observance of National Ne gro Insurance Week wil lbe held this year from May 4-9 inclusive. The date was announced in a joint statement issued this week by Cyrus J. Campfield, assistant agency dir ector Atlanta Life Insurance comp any and chairman of the 1942 insur ance week committee, and J. T. Botch, secretary of the committee and agency officer of the Afro-Amer ican Life Insurance Company. The project developed around a single week's intensive promotion, each year, is the high point of many activities conducted under the spon sorship of the National Negro In surance association. This organiz ation is composed of 41 member companies owned, and operated by colred penple, together with 11 re- ; gional associations in 10 states. Asa T. Spaulding of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and president of the as sociation .will give the keynote ad dress in behalf of Negro Insurance week when he speaks Sunday morn ing, May 3, on the “Wings Over Florida Education Association. This led to their filing the motion for dismissal. S. D. McGill of Jack sonville, Fla., and Thurgood Marsh all, NAACP special counsel, are act ing for the Negro teachers. Equal pay suits affected are those pend ing in Hillsborough, Duval, Marion and Palm Beach counties, Fla. SKILLED FINGERS SPEED UNCLE SAM’S NEW PLANES— Jordan” network broadcast. A recent survey of the work be ing accomplished by member com panies of the Association reveals that more than $360,000,000 of life insurance in force is being carried by them on the lives of colored A mericans, and that admitted assets are in excess of $34,000,000. Legal reserves for the specific protection of policyholders are more than 23,* 500.000. 00. To members of the race over S6. 000,000 has been loaned to alleviate the financial distress of the living and each year many more millions are paid out in the form of death, and disability claims. In support of national economic life, member companies of the association have made investments of more than $8, 500.000. 00 in United States govern ment state, municipal and public utilities bonds. The production goal of insurance week, has been set at $35,000,000 m paid for new business applications ■ncluding both industrial and ordin ary forms. The sates slogan adopt ed for this year’s program is “Start ’em end Keep ’em Selling”. Officials state that member com panies l ave pledged greater results than tiu anonunced goal and have t'.ilf confidence in an over the top success. Let Your Me mbersnip Help Tie N.A.A.C.P. PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS!! The case of Mr. and Mrs. William Eldridge and the XAACP against Sgt. Graham of the Omaha Police Department, has been postponed un til May 8 pending an investigation into the disappearance of the two material witnesses. The case will be heard at 10 a. m, on the morning of the 8th of May in the Chambers of the City Counsel on the 3rd floor of the City Hall. Some of the Memberships for the month of April are as follows: Cola Pierson, George W. Althonae Cecelia W. Jewell, Leonard Norris, Roy White, U. S. Watts, Ernest Richie, C. S. Marshall. Charles IT. Davis, Lucille Skaggs Edwards. W. M. Maupin. Lloyd Newman. Mary Brown. Madeline Harrold. Mrs. Mary Cooter, Mrs. Y. W. Logan, Curley Huffman. Rev. F. S. Goodlett, How ard T. Swain, Rev. A. Wagner. Pres ton Hieronynious, Anna Moore, M. E. Johnson. Logan Goodlow, .'. Duke, Edward Collins, William Co wan Hall Jr., Daniel H. Bell, John A. Gardner, Rowena Sudduth, R. Moore, Harry Leland, D. J. Parker, J .Speese, R. C. Price, Mrs. Sarah B. Canty. Charles Turner, V. L. Bur rough, William Young, Bert Tate, Martin Mitchell, Wiliiam H. Moore, R. B. Clark, Charles Hatcher, Her bert Mayberry, Alex Hilton, Mrs. Maceo Farrell, Mrs. H. Biddiex, Hezzy Hicks, Mrs. Katie Eddens, Edgar Hayden, Mrs. J. J. Jones, Dr. J. J. Jones, Jos. H. Jones, J. R. Hibbs, Ellis Stuedinant, Samuel El lis, Y. W. Logan, Charles Trimble, I Cirgil Shobe, Lovetta Busch. Mrs. Anna Hatcher, Grant Donaldson, Mrs. Daisy Martin, James Crumbley — - i Mrs. J. A. Crumbley, C. Burnett, Solomon Woods, Harrison Brown, E. F. Ridley, Charles J. Hill, f. Duffey, Josephine Bell, Coleman Davis. Andrew Ousley, Mrs. Mabel Washington. Victor Metoyer, F. C. Barnet. DOES YOFR NAME APPEAR HERE? IF NOT, WHY NOT? An Army official recently said that America has the most skillful aircraft workers in the world. Here two Negro youths are learning air mechanics at the resident NY A cen ter at South Charleston, West Vir ginia. The entire NYA program is today geared to war. Skilled jobs are waiting for these youths as soon as their training is completed. Throughout the country more jobs are being opened to Negro war wor kers. One large aircraft plant which last fall had no Negro workers on the payroll, now employes 350, mostly in skilled jobs. In all sec tions of America production goals are bieng met by an increased ut ilization of the Nation's total labor supply. And the country's largest racial minority—its 5,000,000 Negro workers—constitutes an important segment of our total labor resources. The increased use of skilled and semiskilled Negro workers in all branches of armament production was noted recently by Sidney Hill man, Labor Director( War Product ion Board, in reports from Dr. Rob ert C. Weaver, Chief of the Negro Employment and Training Branch VACATION TRAVELERS WELCOME ON NAACP TRAIN TO LOS ANGELES New York... .Vacation travelers to California are welcome to make reservations on the NAACP special train going to Los Angeles in mid July for the 33rd annual conference of the NAACP. The conference op ens Tuesday night. July 14. The special train will leave St. Louis Mo. Friday afternoon July 10. arriving Los Angeles Monday morning. July 13. The route will be through the magnificent Colorado Rockies to Salt Lake City and down to Los Angeles. Information on fares ?->n be secured from the national office of the NAACP, 69th Fifth avenue. New York City. NAACP SENDS GREETINGS TO ALL-INDIA CONGRESS New York... .‘‘Let us face the fu tore, not the past, in the struggle towards freedom for all races with o'jr. which wars can never be won" the NAACP said in a cabled greet ing. April 16, to the All-India Nat j ional Congress at New Delhi, India. The NAACP also said that proo Icms arising from prejudice based on skin color face peoples through out the world and must be solved in order that the greed of exploiters be ended permanently. tmmmmmmmfmmmmmmmmfmminnv 0 m READ THIS TIMELY, UP-TO THE-MINUTE NEWSY COLUMN EACH AND EVERY WEEK IN THE OMAHA GUIDE. Well, C. C. you can thank, it thanks prove merited, or damn if damning ih preferable, your old friend, and an old Omahan, Cob Robinson, now of Detroit, and one of the right hand men around the camp of Joe Louis and Johnnie Rox borough, for my being In Omaha. You know, while I was in Michigan, he recommended you most highly, and because of your invitation to come to Omaha, as an old GUIDE writer, of years ago, exerything else considered, well here I am. —CCM— Y'ou know, C; C. back in Michigan I served as chairman of a patriotic radio program, entitled, “We’re All Americans.” That letter which ar ■ived almost simultaneously with myself was from the other execut ve committee members. Observe he sentiment expressed, particular y when you learn that they are all white: “Dear Cliff: We send you, this parting mes sage with intermingled feelings; those of happiness over your new opportunity and those of regret on our loss which comes about with your departure. We will not forget the valued, sincere, and honest con tributions which you so freely gave to “Our Program”. Please believe us, our envy of your new status is more than compenhated for in the knowledge that you will do a great work wherever you are. It has been an honor, ond a pleasure, to have had the privilege of working with you. Your patience, sincerity and directness of purpose are only a few of the many reasons why we can sincerely say Au Revoir with such mingled feelings of regret and pleasure. WE RE ALL AMERICANS, W. R. Armstrong, Howard J. Prine, J. D. Medley, J. F. McAllister, Robert E. Stetekluh” —CCM— | Already, C. C. I’ve begun to get around, and to get acquointed, in O maha. Of course I met your nep hew, Boyd V. Galloway, first, as you and he met me at the station. Then at your plant I met your old friend Dudley Wright, who hah been asso ciated with you all the fifteen years of the GUIDE’S existence. Also, your foreman and linotyper, Paul Barnett. (And, later, his charming and beautiful young wife.) What was that other linotyper’s name? James Seay, wasn’t it? Then there was the Parkers. .Marie and Bill, I believe. —CCM— I really got acquainted up and down the “avenue” the first night I was in town. Your 24th Street resembles, in minature form, 47th Street in Chicago; Seventh Avenue in New York; South Street in Phila delphia; Central Avenue in Los An geles; Market Street in St. Louis; Beale Street in Memphis; Rampart Street in New Orleans; 18th Street in Birmingham; Second Avenue in Miami, or any of the score or more of typical colored “avenues” I a n acquointed with in every part of A merica. —CCM— Hats off to your Eugene McGill however as he was the only busin ess proprietor who spotted a stran ger within the gates and took the trouble and time to personally en tertain him. And what recollec tions a talk with him brought. We both knew the same old timers in all parts of the country, particular ly in the West. —CCM— I also explored your Elk’s Hall and the American Legion, the same night: endihg up with a good c’d southern-style fried chicken supper at Mary’s Chicken Hut, I believe tlv name of it is, somewhere out on '30th Street, past Lake Street. The best friend chicken I’ve had since the nights spent at Ernie Hender son's place on Indiana Avenue, in Chicago. You remember him? He's the fellow that really started, in a big way, the "chicken shack” idea, that now flourishes all over the country. He was going big during the World’s Fair in Chicago. Made so much money that he dabbled in about everything and later became known as the best-dresed man in A merica, with two hundred suits of clothes, and with a valet to costume him half a dozen times during the day and night. He died just a year or so ago, you know. —CCM— I explored your down-town sec tion on Saturday. An engine house with all-colored personel attracted my attention at 1001 North 16th St. Naturally, I stopped and got ac quainted. Of course, you know them all? Alonzo Jackson is the Captain. Winefred Freeman the Junior Captain’. Jasper Cole, Man uel Cook, Harry Speed, and Kittle Hudson, privates. And Robert Green and Clarence Davis, chauf feurs. Say, C. C. isn't there some kind of a local election on the 12th of May? With one of the issues being the Restoration of Pay to these firemen, as well as to the pol ice? fc hope they get it, don’t you? —CCM— Strolling by the Court House, I believe it was, I was attracted to a crowd watching some jumping acro bats, but became still more interest ed when I saw a colored band in attendance. I met the director, ore George Bryant, and learned, what you already know', that the sixteen bandmembers were but part of the Federal Projects Band and that they play quite frequently on all public occasions. They rehearse in the Urban League Building at 2213 Lake Street, I believe. —CCM— Met a chap, Leroy Gude, he said h<s name was, and learned that for nineteen years he has been on one job-butcher _at the Swiit Packng Company, I don’t imagine that’s news to you however for dur ing your forty-two years in Omaha you must have become acquainted with men who have been on one Job longer than that. But to a rolling stone, like myself, nineteen years in one spot is quite a record. I’ve been all over the Western Hemis phere in that time and imagine that the only time I’ll be nineteen years in one place will be when a tomb stone is holding me down. —CCM— Say, C. C. I can’t begin to remem ber all the people I’ve met. One of the moet intereting however, was J. Westbrook McPherson. I believe he is a clerk in one of the County Judge’s office but in his talk with me he seems very much stimulated in his NAACP. work. I think he said he is chairman of the Educat ional Committee and he is greatly enthused because he believes that his committee was at least instrum ental in helping to place the first regular colored school teacher in the system here. The lucky teacher be ing Eugene Skinner. Physical In stuctor at Long School. I under stand that heretofore colored teach ers were only in the substitute grade. McPherson believes that a great many other qualified teachers will now be placed. He also says he is working on a plan leading up *o the placement of a number of reg ular teachers to continue the work now being done by the WPA. night schools. I wish him and his com mittee luck, don’t you C. C? —CCM — By the way C. C. a real live journ alist was in town. He is Ray L. Gillespie of Columbus, Ohio. I've read his stuff for years. And v/e know hundreds of newspaper work ers back east. We spent an hour or two recalling old acquaintances. I’m not sure what brought him to Omaha but I think he was after something in the Wor Department. He stopped with McPherson, writ ten of above, while here. ( —CCM— Speaking of jobs, C. C. what is that stenographer’s name that has the wire from Washington? When is she going? Do you know'? And then there’s Estelle Ratliff, of 2622 1-2 Erskine St., who has been in Brook lyn and who is now in Omaha to take up a good job at the old Omaha University. Did you know that C. C? —CCM— Among the visitors in town whom I met, C. C. are: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Swayne, of Oakland, California. Are you acquainted in Oakland C. C? Years ago, while living in Wes tern Conada, I used to spend the winters in Oakland. Oh yes, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Hopkins are in town, too. from Oakland, Cal ifornia. Dorothy Boswell, recently of Sal inas, Kansas, is being introduced by her charming friend Ethel Davis. And the soldier boys up from Fort Riley, Kansas, were seen every where. An excited bunch of young girls passed me Saturday night, all agog, over the entertainment they had planned at the dance that night for the soldier boys. —CCM— Sunday, I met people all day, C. (Continued on page 2)