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_LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Xebrasl" SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1942 OUR 15th YEAR^NoT24 CitTEditTon, 5c Copy Negroes Protest Lynchines, Poll Tax Georgia Police Beat, Jail Roland Hayes LATER RELEASED AS TOWN SEEKS TO Ht’SH CASE: WIFE OBJECTED TO TREAT MENT IN SHOE STORE (BY CLIFF MACKAY) (Managing Editor. Atlanta Daily World) ROME Ga.. July 22 (ANP)— Tne bruised and battered victim of an unprovoked attack at the iiands of three husky city police here. Ro land Hayes. 58 year old internation ally famous concert artist, was slowly recuperating at Angelno, his native 600 acre estate at nearby CurTyviile. Tuesday. The story of the brutal assault on the famous tenor, whose voice has been enthusiastically received by European royalty and common mu sic lovers alike over a period of three decades, reads like some Of the tales smuggled Out of the con quered countries of Europe. It all began Saturday morning when Mr. Hayes, accompanied by his wife and nine year old daughter, Marie, drove the 14 miles from their farm to this city to purchase their week end supplies. Mrs. Hayes and the daughter en tered the Higgins Shoe Store where they had been trading for the oast three summers, to buy some shoes for the little girl. They walked to the rear, in line with southern tut tom. but apparently had not gone back far enough The young, red faced clerk, it was reported, insisted that they move further back before he would serve them. Mrs. Hayes explained that she was satisfied with her seat contending that it was cooler, and adding that if it were necessary for her to move, she would go elsewhere to make the purchase. Just as she was getting up to leave, it was diclosed, M rs. Hayes, directing her remarks to the back of the retreating clerk en route to get the manager, asserted: "This sort of thing is Out of place at a time like this. You ought to go over there with old Hitler.’ The clerk whirled, closely follow ed by the manger, and grabbed Mrs. Hayes by the arm. The manager, a steel shoe form in his hand, directed it like a pistol at her back. "Take your hands off me.” Mrs. Hayes ordered. The clerk released her. and the angry manager asserted. "You'll have to get out of this store.’ ‘•I'm o nmy way now." she replied clutching her daughter by the hand. The clerk, just as she reached the door was overheard to remark. "I m going to call the police. As his wife and daughter reached (Continued cn vasrelSgr’2) URBAN L’GUE MATCH CAMPAIGN SEEK JOBS FOR AMER’-NEGROES The Omaha Urban League Com-I munity Center "STRIKE A MATCH FOR VICTORY” Campaign to se cure employment for trained Negia men and women in industrial plants in and around Omaha, Nebraska, continued this week as many prom inent white and Negro citizens pur chased match packets and rallied to support the League's fight to end discrimination against Negro work ers in war industry. The match campaign which is des ignated to make America conscious of the Negro and his right to employ ment through the distribution of "sloganized" match packets which carry the slogan— “DEFENSE AND DEMOCRACY DEPEND ON YOl—1-10 OF AMERICA’S CITIZENS ARE NEGROES—TRAIN THEM— HIRE THEM ”. have been circulated in strate gic areas through the coperation of Nebraska Federation of Labor, Ho*l Car riers and Building Laborers Lo cal No. 1140, Omaha Central Labor Union, Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters. Local No. 32, Protective Order of Dining Car Waiters Local No. 485. Hotel and Restaurant Em ployees Local No. 732. Rotary Club of Omaha. Omaha Chamber of Com merce, Mr. Frank Fogarty. Rabbi j Arthur J. Lelyveld, Miss Margaret ! Wigton. Mr Gordon C. Preble, Mr. i Russell Reese. Mr. Raymond R. Brown, in com- j menting on the conduction of the job drive said: “The matches now in circulation have aided us in plae ing several skilled and semi-skilled Negro men and women in war in dustries and we are terribly grat?- j ful to the individuals who have i made the match distribution possible 1 Yet we cannot ease our efforts ' while there are still unfilled wa -1 jobs in plants and until all trained | and avaiable Negroes are particip- j ating in the all-out effort.” Matches ca nbe secured at th" OMAHA URBAN LEAGUE COM MUNITY CENTER. 2213 Lake St . Omaha, Nebraska. THREE TEXAS BROTHERS Bl Y $60,000 WAR BONDS THEIR PURCHASE EXCEEDS QUOTA OF COUNTY BY *31,000 Anahuae, Texas, July 23 (AXP)— The three Jackson brothers of Chambers County—Osie R., Arthur R., and Felix—all wealthy ranch men and rice planters, have won wide commendation for their patri ; otic purchase of *60.000 of wax bonds during the June sales drive in their county. Each brother bought *20. 000 of the bonds. The June quota foi Chambers county had been set at *29.000. chus the Jackson brothers’ single purch ase exceeded the county quota ty $31,000. Total war bond sales for the county for June was *68,000. For boosting the county quota, War bond sales Chairman R. F. Riley received a telegram of congratula tions from Sec. of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The Jackson brothers are extens ive land owners and engaged in ranching and rice growing on a large scale. They also o^n several, Oil wells, drilled on their private property when oil was discovered in Chambers county. URGES OPENING OF SECOND FRONT IN WAR Los Angeles. Calif... Addressing the N'AACP conference her July 15, Mrs. Charlotta A. Bass, editor and publisher of the California Eag!\ urged an immediate opening up of a second front by the United Nations to relieve pressure on Russia. “Youth Night” at the conference had E. Frederoc MorOw. assistant national field secretary, and the Rev. James H. Robinson, minister of the church Of the Master. New' York City, as speakers. Prizes were awarded to winners in the NAACP youth essay contest. KELLY MILLER DENIES JAIL TERM Washington. July 22 (ANP) —Vis iting Washington. Dr. Kelly Miller Jr., denied the earlier story of his sentence on a narcotic charge. In stead. his sentence is reported to be HOSTS TO DENTAL MEET Members of the Capitol City Den tal society. Nashville, composed of faculty members of Meharrv Medic al college and practicing dentists in the Tennessee city, who will be hosts to the annual convention of the National Dental associali' n meeting here Aug. 10-14. Shown in the picture are. left to right, first row: Drs. R. F. Sandford: S. P. H i - ris; D. H. Turpin; N. R. Roberts: E. B. Jefferson and C. B. Steele. STANDING, left to right are Drs. J. B. Singrieton. W. H. Watson: D. P. Smith, E. B. Cole: B. Held. B. Jefferson and J. F. Perkins. (ANP Photo) ANNOUNCEMENTS! 1 IMPORTANTS We, the Omaha Guide wish to an nounce to our subscribers and read ers that Mr. Clifford C. Mitchell, is no longer employed by the Omaha Guide and has no authority what soever to represent our firm in ant form. In the event, he should call on you, we would deem it a special fa vor if you will entertain the gentle man for a few minutes until some one gives us a ring on the phone. We are anxious to get in touca with him. Telephone. WEbster 1517 Signed. C. C. Galloway. Mgr. three yars on probation plus a fine. He was not sentenced to a prison, term. Meanwhile, his license to practice has been suspended. FIGHT FOR RIGHTS TO CONTINUE NAACP DELEGATES TOLD KEYNOTE ADDR..SS AT L. A. REPUDIATES "Wait Until After The War” PHILIOSOPHY AND PLEDGES DOUBLE EFFORT FOR VICTORY AT HOME AND ABROAD. Los Angeles. Calif....So far as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is concerned, the fight for full .±ad equal citizenship rights for colored people will continue without let-up durng the war This sentiment i nthe keynote ad- ’ dress to the 33rd annual NAACP. conference here July 14 was greeted with prolonged cheers and applause 1 by 3.200 persons packed into Second Baptist Church- The speaker. Roy : Wilkins, assistant national secret-1 ary. striking out at those who would have the Negro be content with fais j lot and put aside protest until after | the war. declared: ‘ The reason why the NAACP was bom in 1909. the reason it has liv^-i for 33 years, the reason why these edlegates are here tonight from nearly thirty states is because we are determined to be forever through with the status quo." Wilkins quoted the now famous statement of Mark F. Etheridge former chairman of the FEPC. to the effect that no power in the world, "not even all the mechanized armies of the earth” can force the southern white people to abandon social segregation, and contrasted it with the statement of the late Wiliam Walling in 1908, calling for treatment of the Negro "on a plane of absolute political and social e quality.” “These two white Kentuckians, one a founder of the NAACP. have t Continued on page 2) RUMOR ‘ABSOLUTELY FALSE” OF RIOT AT FORT BRAGG Washington. D. C. .. A rumor which was circulated recently about a supposedly vicious ‘race riot” at Fort Bragg, X. C.„ was found to have no basis in truth, after the War Department had thoroughly checked on it at the request of the NAACP. The rumor was spread that white and Negro soldiers at Bragg began fighting because some white sold iers thought Negroes were slow in getting out of the swimming pool on the post. The white soldiers were supposed to have overpowered an officer, seized a machine gun and returned to the pool firing on the Negroes. Several Negroes were said to have been killed. There is absolutely no truth in the story, the NAACP learned. Wil liam H. Hastie. Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War. in a letter to the Association last week, said: “There has been no trouble, no riot, no shooting and no incident in any way resembling the one described." The NAACP pointed out that ru mors of this nature, where the-: is no basis in fact, can be extremely damaging, bot hin the resulting re action of public authorities who might discredit more substantial complaints, and in injuring the morale of the Negro public. Ru mors should be very carefully check ed. before they are reported to au thorities. the Association said. ; PLANT HUGE DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORK JT'LY 25 NEW YORK—The execution of Odell Waller on July 2nd, described as a ‘ legal lynching” by irate Ne groes. followed closely by the mob lynching of Willie Vinson on July 16 in Texarkana., Texas, the shoot ing of Private Jessie Smith by a posse in Flagstaff. Arizona and the beating of the noted Negro tenor. Roland Hayes and his wife in Rome Georgia, have brought a country wide storm of protest from Negroes. New York Negroes under the di rection of the local division of the March on Washington Movement plan a silent parade to the beat of muffled drums, Saturday, July 25 at 2:30 to protest this wave of killings. Mr. A. Philip Randolph, national director of the March on Washing ton Movement, in a vigorous letter of protest to President Roosevelt declared. “Waller’s electrouction has intensified a wave of deteorminat ion for a showdown On the question of total democracy for the Negro which cannot long be held back bv leaders who use the bargain and compromise method. It was the signal for the barbarous forces in this country to renew the unleash ing of their venom of hatred upon the Negro people. “With the world in the agony of a war for the survival of sheer hu man decency, the race issue in Am erica is crucial to the whole strug gle- These fascist-like brutalities in the United States are grist for the propaganda mill of the Axis powers and undoubtably will be used to des stroy the faith of the allied nations in the honesty and integrity of Am erican democracy, and hasten the deterioration of the morale of the enslaved peoples of the world whicn hangs precariously on this hope," Mr. Randolph continued. "If the Negro is not given his full rights now. then the battle for Democracy is lost.’’ In announcing plans for the par ade, Dr. Lawrence Ervin, president of the New York Division, March on Washington Movement said “We want the world to know, and par ticularly our Government, how the Negroes in Harlem feel about the electrocution of Waller, the lynch ings of Willie Vinson and Private Smith in Texas and Arizona, and the brutal beating and jailing of Roland Hayes. There will be more Wallers and Vinsons and Smiths if we let these things go unchallenged. No Negro is safe anywhere." “The March on Washington Move ment. Dr. Ervin continued, ‘‘is dedi cated to fighting all forms of nat ional oppression perpetuated a gainst the Negro. We intend mil itantly to show to white America that the evil of the poll tax system which fosters these Iynchings all 1 beatings shall be buried in the same grave with Odell Waller.” Wearing black mourning arm bands and carrying signs of pro test against lynching. Waller's elec trocution and the poll tax. the ma: - ehers will assemble at 58th Street, and 8th Avenue, march south to 14th Street, east on 14th to Union ■quare where the paraders will be greeted by music and speakers. The speakers at Union Square will be Golden Brown. Chairman and member of the March on Wash ington Movement; William Agar. Educational Director. Freedom House. Frank R. Crosswaith. direc tor, Negro Labor Committee and member New York Housing Author ity: John F. Pinerty, counsel fur Workers Defense Leagtie who handled the Waller case: Dr. Law rence Ervin. President, New Y-y'k Division. March on Washington Movement: Dr. Channing Tobias. National Council. YiICA: Layle Lane, Vice President. American Fed eration of Teachers, and Anna Arn old Hedgeman. Negro Women. In corporated. and Ashley L. Totten. International Secretary-Treasurer of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por ters. The program at Union Square will begin at 4:00 p. m. The loc-il division of the March on Washing ton Movement has issued 100,000 leaflets and 1.000 posters in Harlem and Brooklyn during the past week A city wide conference at the YM CA, on Friday. July 17th. attended by representatives of 50 organiz ations set in motion plans for the parade under the chairmanship of As your Legislative Representative....5th District Vote For C. C. Galloway For STATE SENATOR C. C. GALLOWAY ENDORSES GALLOWAY FOR REPRESENTATIVE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM Chicago. Illinois. C. C. Galloway. 2420 Grant St.. Omaha. Nebr., I endorse you as a most worthy candidate for State Senator in the Nebraska State Legislative election s I don't believe there is a man in the ’ great State of Nebraska, who is more familiar with the problems of | all the people in the State than you. I know what you stand for Fair Play for all the people in all walks of life. IRVING W. GRAY. Hotel DelpradO, Chicago. III. Robert Early. Organizations rep resented at the conference included Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port ers, International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Joint Board of Laundry Workers Union. Building Service Employees Union. United Transport Service Employees Of V merica, Frederick Douglas Society Modern Trend Youth Club. Negr > Women, Incorporated and Workers Defense league. "We are asking all Negroes in New York to join us at Fifty-sixth! Street and 8th avenue on Saturday 1 to show our silent determination that democracy shall be won at home as well as abroad. We mil upon Negroes throughout the coun-’ try and those in New York who ear. not march with us t oobserve fiT-“ minutes of silence wherever the.-' are on Saturday. July 25th. at -;3‘* p. m.” PROMINENT BAPTIST WOMAN MOTHER OF WILEY DEAN, DIED Chicago, July 22 (ANP>—Funeral services were held Monday at Olivet Baptist Church for Mrs. Jackson Davis Smith. prominent Baptist leader and mother of William Hen” • Smith- dean of music at Wiley col lege. Marshall. Texas. Mrs. Smith, who died last Wed nesday at People hospital, was born in Springfield, Mass., and worked in the Third Baptist Church befo-e coming to Chicago Since 1926 at Olivet Baptist she has engaged in many financial and other activities and at the time of her passing was a member of the senior choir, fin ancial secretary of the Queen Esth r circle secretary of the Minister!' and Deacons Wives, member of tn Olivet Herald and Senior Mission ary society, president of the Green lawn Neighborhood Improvement club and a TMCA. worker. She had recently returned from Marshall. Texas, where with her GRAND MASTER A. F, & A, M. P. H. JENKINS JENKINS TO HEAD NEBRASKA MASONS On Wednesday, July 15, 1942 the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge A r\ 4AM., Prince Hall Affiliation, com pleted their 24th annual Grand Lodge Session and elected the fol lowing Grand Officers for the year: Grand Master. P. H. Jenkins; Deputy Grand Master, J. T. Scott: Grand Senior Warden. Clayton Lew is: Grand Junior Warden, P. L. Ath ens: Grand Treasurer. J. W. Drums Grand Sec’y. Robert Harris. The Grand Relief Com. is A. R. Oood lett and R. C. Stewart. husband she witnessed the graduat ion o fher daughter. Adelaide Boat ner. who received her A. B. degree from Wiley and went almost immed iately into government service in Washington Other survivors, in addition to Mrs Boatner and Dean Smith, aiv her husband, a daughter, Lucille Marie Smith- Of the Chicago Medic al Review uint: Jackson Davis Smith Jr., of the Ford Motor chorus. De troit. and two grandchildren. Adel aide )3oatner II and Clifford LeRoy Boatner. ELECTED PTOLIC RELATION'S DIRECTOR FOR BAPTISTS Kansas City. Kans.. July 22 (A.VP Rev. Samuel T. McKibben. assistant to the Rev. R. H. Dixon Sr., pastor at Park Avenue Baptist Church, on the Missouri side, was elected dir ector of the Kansas City, Kansas. Baptist Ministers union bureau of public relations monday morning when the body convened at the Met C. C. GALLOWAY IS NOT A CHAIR WARM ER-BUT IS A WORKER ... If I am elected, I wjll serve first, my flag: second, my voters in the Fifth District: third, my City and Country: and fourth, my State. In fact. I will be the representa tive of the people of the Fifth Dis trict in the Legislature at ALL TIMES. I have served this district for THIRTY SEVEN YEARS. I KNOW HOW TO SERVE YOU. A vote for C. C. Galloway, is a vote for REAL representation Of your wants and needs, and an opportun ity to improve your citizenship. Give me one term in the Senate and I WILL give you something to han* on the walls of memory, that von will be proud of. REMEMBER, I AM ONE U: YOU. I AM NOT A CHAIR-WARM ER ... I AM A WORKER. I know the needs of a working man and woman. I know your heart-felt di sires for improvement of your every day citizenship, for you and your children, and if you will let me. I will go after it in a big way. In reality. A VOTE FOR_ C. C. GALLOWAY, IS A VOTE FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY .. I am not asking honors. I sm asking opportunity to serve tlie needs of my people. When you go to the polls on AUGUST 11_DON'T STOP until you come to the name of C. GALLOWAY and put your cross a*, his name. I will give you som - thing to be proud of as your Rep”' - sentative in the Senate, if I am Elected. ropolitan Baptist Church Named to work with the aggress ive young minister, who is employ ed by the Kansas City Call as spor ? editor and photographer, were th E.ev. C. A. Washington. Strange-? Rest Baptist Church; W. M. Thom as, King Solomon: and W. E. Burns, Gray Stone Heights. Monday, the young Rev. McKio 1 ben was elected director of the Kan sas City. Mo.. Baptist Ministers unions bureau of public relations, and it is thought that a merger will be affected. The organization will then be known as the Greater Kan sas Baptist Ministers union bureau of public relations. Rev. D. A. Hol mes. Paseo Baptist Church, and Rev. R. J. Jordan, St. Stephens are on the executive committee of th? Missouri side bureau.
