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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.