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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
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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
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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
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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*!
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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