Edward Matthews, singing "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing” as the Porgv and Bess company entertained
high Army officers and civilian officials at Army Day dinner, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, April 6. Led
by Todd Duncan and Ann Brown, at left in front row, the company volunteered its services as a tribute to
the American Citizen Soldier
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GALLOWAY
(Continued from pace 1)
C. In the morning I went to the
St. John’s AME. Church, 22nd and
Willis. Quite a crowd there, too in
cluding the soldier boys from Fort
Riley. The Pastor, Rev. E. F. Rat
ley, who introduced Chaplain John
company will extend this time, at
tempting to answer calls, received
up to noon one day, some time dur
ing the day following. Calls receiv
ed after noon will be serviced the
second day following.
This system will perpiit the Neb
raska Power Company to combine
calls of various localities, and will
materially help cut down mileage
an dwpar on tires. It will also he'.p
make it possible for the company to
continue good service to all elect-ic
customers during the war. The ne«
time allocation will apply to:
1. Service calls of all kinds.
2. Connect orders.
o. Disconnect orders.
4. Special delivery orders (if any)
In making this announcement ^lr
Page said that while some custom
ers might forget to call at first un
til they needed service, the company
felt the public would appreciate the
necessity for this step and make ev
ery effort to cooperate. “The im
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tinue complete service in spite of
the war. This plan will greatly help
make that possible.”
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Clarke Griffin of the 10th Cavalry,
Fort Riley, who delivered a sermon
on “All-Out for God.” Chaplain
Griffin is from Washington, D. C.
you know.
By the way, C. C. what happened
to the upper part of the church
building? It reminded me of many
of the churches and other buildings
I used to see down in the West In
dies after a tropical hurricane. I
enjoyed the choir music so well that
when the announcement was made
about the Good Will Singers in the
City Audtorium I determined to
spend the afternoon there.
—CCM—
I don't have ti tell you about the
Good Will Singers program at the
City Audtorium, C. C. for surely you
were there. At least several thous
and other Omahans, and many
other out-of-town visitors. were
there. I guess every choral group
in Omaha was represented weren t
they? All under the immediate dir
ection of Booker T. Washington. 1
believe. :(By the way I rrjpt Mr.
Washington later in the evening.)
And wasn’t the miltary touch add
ed by the Firt Riley soldiers “step
py?” Their songs went over, too.
What was the hostess' name that
directed the soldiers? She’s from
Omaha. Wasn’t it Mrs. Mabel A
vant? If it was her she certainly
introduced Chaplain Griffin whole
heartedly, didn’t she? I understand
that these Good Will Singers have
a yearly mass program and that
Sunday’s was the eighth. The
Spring Musieale is the big name for
it, isn’t it?
—CCM—
I met the presdent of the Omalia
Chapter of the the NAACP. Ar
thur B. McCaw. Also, his wife,
Valarie McCaw, who seems all ex
cited about her new house, or at
least the remodeling she is doing.
Isn’t she the same one whose pi*
[ ture I once saw in the GUIDE who
was (and possibly is) such a good Il
lustrator and cartoonist? She took
up painting in a serious way, didn't
she? I believe she said she is hav
ing a studio built in her home.
—CCM—
Oh. say C. C. I almost forgot to
tell you that a Mrs. Jones of 2i«(5
Grant Stleet, phoned up and sail
that last week you had it in the
GUIDE that she is the proud moth
er of a baby girl. She phoned to
say that not only was that statemert
premature but actually there is not
even a basis or suspicion, of fact to
the statement. What are you try
ing to do. C. C.? Maybe you direct
ed the stork to the wrong place.
—CCM—
Perhaps, you can tell me some
thing about some of these people I
met, C. C? “Judge” H. J. Pinkett;
(All I can hear him talk about is
something down at the City Coun
cil and some Sgt. Graham and a
Mrs. Eldridge, I believe. What’s it
all about C. C?)
Met a Rev. C. C. Petties. of 1411
North 25th street. He says he’s
been here twenty years. Was for
merly pastor of the Salem Baptist
Church, but now has a pastorate at
Clarinda, Iowa. Apparently, he h!!s
some very decided opinions about
journals, and journalists.
Apparently, quite a few of the
boys have some nice jobs in the var
inus government offices here. Of
course I’ve only met a few but I
did meet J. Dillard Crawford, of the
County Clerk’s office, and also Jesse
Duke, of the 7th Corps Engineering
Department.
Dr. Leonard E. Britt is up and a
round after a long siege of sickness.
I was interested in talking to him
of southern Califirnia.
This message, C. C. wouldn’t be
complete without just a wee bit of
romance in it. No .not mine.. .I
haven’t any, but from what I have
observed of J. Westbrook McPherson
and Marcella Jo Wright, I’ve been
getting youngish ideas in my head.
Perhaps I shouldn't go automobile
riding with young folks?
Oh, yes, I met your competitor..
S. Edward Gilbert, of the STAR
Almost forgot, C. C.. Elder X’. J.
Allen of the Church of God in Christ
wants us to attend the 9th Annual
Elders’ and Workers State Meeting,
the week of May 11th at 2319 North
26th Street.
Since you said you wanted this
message by Monday morning, C. C.
I'll have to tell you the very latest
next week as I have to run along
now and find a registration place—
Uncle Sam is calling—so you can
tell from that I am aging rapidly.
Look for my message next week.
-CCM
EDITORIALS
(continued from page 1)
when this was said the soldiers at
the front were using molasses for
sweetening coffee, the sugar having
disappeared somewhere between the
people and the soldiers.
In order to win the war, officials
must be honest with the public.
They give out long statements about
price control: that they are going to
do this and that about rising prices,
but prices continue to rise. Indeed,
they have been rising in this area
ever since our allies entered the
war. And when the United States
was attacked by Japan, impetus
was given to the rising trend. And
thus far the public has had
“FLOODS OF OFFICIAL TALK A
BOUT PRICE CONTROL, but no
PRICE CONTROL.
i We must make a united effort
I
| and all artificial hindrances must be
swept away. STARK REALISM
must prevail, if we mean to beat
Germany and Japan.
They must be beaten. Therefore
let us proceed to win the war in
1942.
THE ELDRIDGE CASE
The more we probe this Eldridge
case, the more we are convinced
that Mrs. Eldridge has been greatly
wronged in the recent case, but was
grievously wronged in another ease,
about which the city Prosecutor
threatened to expose her during the '
trial involving Sergeant Graham.
The story about that complaint is
interesting. One of the detectives
of the Omaha Police Department,
without a warrant, illegally arrest
ed Mrs. Ruby Eldridge on or about
the 15th day of July, 1941. On ;he
following day an illegal complaint
was filed by the City Prosecutor.
The case apparently was continued
to August 1, 1941. The records
show that on August 1, 1941, some
kind of proceeding was had on the
void complaint. Judge Dennis E.
O’Brien fined Mrs. Eldridge $50.00
and costs on the void and that he
had no legal right to find Mrs. Eld
ridge guilty thereon and impose a
fine.
In connection with this case at
the Police Station Mrs. Eldridge
was finger printed and photograpn
ed and copies of these records pre
sumably sent to the Federal Bur
eau of Investigation in Washington
D. C.
Mrs. Eldridge was without couns
el in the case in the Police Court,
however, she appealed her case afte ■
being fined $50.00 by Judge O’Brien
and she was found not guilty in the
District Court by Judge Frank M.
Dineen. Nevertheless, the rogues
gallery at the Police Station is still
contains the photographs of Mrs.
Eldridge and her finger prints, also
All this is illegal and this whole
case should be laid before the Pity
Council. And after the Graham
case is disposed of, Mrs. Eldridge
should bring a MANDAMUS ACT
ION to compel the Police depart
ment to surrender to her the photo-l
graphs and negatives and all fin
ger prints. The record referred to
here is open to the public. The case
in the District Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska, was entitled The
State of Nebraska, vs Ruby Eldridge
Docket 44, Page 425.
THE OMAHA GUIDE, now as
down through the years, reminds
you that “ETERNAL VIGILANCE
IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY".
We expect to see right triumph
over wrong in the case of Mrs. Eld
ridge and Mr. Eldridge before the
Omaha City Council.
We expect to see the City Council
by its action in the present case,
make it clear, once and for all, that
police officers must themselves obey
the law.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
waged its fights all over the nation
within the law. It has insisted that
all men and all races and colors and
creeds must observe the laws of the
land. It is insisting now that the
public servants of the police depart
ment observe them. It is the res
ponsibility of the City Council to
see that is done.
- We shall watch the City Council
in the Graham case and learn whe
ther or not German Gestapo meth
ods shall be tolerated in the Police
force of Omaha, Nebraska.
BURMA, THE ROAD TO INDIA
Burma, part of ancient India, is
rapidly being taken over by the
Japanese, the natives of Burma aid
ing Japan against the British, writ
ing in this way another chapter of
the failure of British Colonical Pol
icy in the Far East.
The white Europeans have been
in India for four hundred years.
During all these years they sowed
DRAGON’S TEETH; now they are
reaping the WHIRLWIND of de
feat and disaster. And thus the
curtain is being rung down on the
centuries’ old drama in which a
handful of white men ruled and ex
ploited and degraded hundreds of
millions of dark men, women and
children that they and their famil
ies might live in comfort; many of
them in luxury.
Civilized men everywhere regret
that this question had to be sub
mitted to the arbitrament of war for
settlement. BUT ’’THE JUDGE
MENTS OF THE LORD ARE
TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ALTO
GETHER”.
The people of the United States
need to re-examine their actions to
ward the American Negro in the
light*1 of their professions. They
need to re-read a few of the sayings
of Thomas Jefferson. One applies
here:—During his public life, the
Armenians were persecuting the
Greeks, and a neighbor said to Jef
ferson, “How I pity the poor Greeks”
Jefferson turned and looked at sev
eral of his colored slaves and said:
‘‘We have ‘Greeks’ at our own door”
The morale is obvious.
Let’s Get
OrgVized
On Thursday, April 16, three Ne
gro girls went to work at Swift end
Company’s packing plant located
here in Omaha. Two of these girls
are working in the pork trim depart
ment and one in the dressing de
partment.
The girls are Pauline Cochrane,
Mary Jones and Laura Averett—the
first Negro women to be hired at
this plant in the 54 years it has
been operating here.
A great deal of credit for break
ing down this barrier must be given
to a young Negro led, one J. C. Har
is, who is carrying on a very mil
itant struggle for his people in the
packing workers" union at the Swift
plant. Mr. Harris, a memebr of the
Swfit local executive board, intro
duced the resolution on the floor of
his union that was responsible for
the change in policy of the company.
He was also a member of the comm
ittee that took the resolution to the
management, and he kept the com
mittee functioning until the manage
ment gave an answer.
While a great deal of credit goes
to Brother Harris, we cannot over
look the position of Local No. 47
and its very progressive stand on
this question of such vital import
ance to the Negro people.
‘Im sorry to say that only a small
percentage of the Negro men em
ployed at Swift and Company ore
members of the Union, but I sinc
erely hope that they will immediate
ly join their union and help Brother
Harris carry on this fight, for this
battle has just started. I also hope
the girls who went to work at Swifts
will not only join the union, but
will become members of the Girls
Home Defense Club, which is the or
ganization that launched this cam
paign to get jobs for Negro women
in the Packing House industry.
The following is the resolution in
troduced by Brother Harris:
WHERAS, We the Members of
Local No. 47. CIO, in conformity
with its Constitution .believe in E
qual Opportunity for all Workers,
regardless of Race, Creed, Color or
Religion and
WHEREAS, The President of
these United States, thru Executive
Order of recent date, decreed, that
no discrimination shall be practiced
in Defense Industry against any
Worker, because of Race, Creed, Col
or or Religion, and
WHEREAS the Nebraska Legisla
ture 1940 Session did pass a Bill
which was approved bv his Honor
Dwight Griswold, Governor of the
State, and said bill did become a law
of said State, and
WHEREAS, said Bill did decree
that there shall be no discriminat
ion in Defense Industry of said
State practiced against any Work
er, because of Race, Creed, Color
and Religion, and
WHEREAS, the Swift and Comp
any is a corporation and has stated,
“That no change in its employment,
at its Plant located at 27 and Q St.,
Omaha, Nebraska, would be made
at this time which would permit the
employment of Negro Female Wor
kers within Said plant”, and
WHEREAS, we the Members of
Local No. 47, CIO, feel because of
the National Emergency existing in
America, a change in its Employ
ment should be made immediately to
the extent that Negro Female Wor
kers be given an equal opportunity
to make application and be hired, at
its plant located at 27th and Q St.,
Omaha, Nebraska.
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED
by the Members of Local No. 47,
CIO, that it respectively request
said Swift and Co., a corporation,
to change its Employment policy
immediately at its Plant at 27th and
Q Street, Omaha, Nebraska to the
extent that Negro Female Worker*
be given an equal opportunity to
make application and be hired with
in its plant at Omaha, Nebraska.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED
THIS 14th DAY OF March, 1942, by
Local No. 47, CIO. I close by say
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SWING MUSIC TAUGHT
AT PINEY WOODS SCHOOL
The Symphonic Swing Band of
the Pinev Woods School, Piney
Woods, Mississippi, that was re
hearsing for the beginning of a new
season in June has temporarily been
divided into two groups because of
the wide spread demand for the
Piney Woods School girl band.
The Senior group under the direc
tion of the Misses Myrtle Polite and
Thelma Perkins are travelling m
Georgia while the Junior Rays —
the other half of the Symphonic
Swingsters are filling dates in Tex
as and La.
The Junior group played for “The
Delta Jaberock” in Jackson, Miss
issippi last Friday night and in New
Orleans and Baton Rouge for the
first after Easter dances and have
created almost a great a demand for
their services as the original Rays
of Rhythm. They are under the di
rection of the Graham twins and
Miss Yvonne Plummer formerly of
London England, who created quite
a sensation not long ago on the
Major Bowes Hour and later travel
led with one of his units.
The Piney Woods School has gain
ed such a wide spread reputation for
the teaching of Swing music not
only for girls but boys as well that
it has caused the teaching of swing
music to be changed from a Depart
ment to a Division of the Institu
tion.
Students are writing in from all
over the country.
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