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THL OalAHA GUIDE A U EEKL'T newspaper Puh!i.«’.e< Eve Saturday at 2418 20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA THOME WEbster 1517 tutered as Seccn?. Class Matter Maich -•!. 1927, at the ?nst Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of EcngTess 5i March 3. 1879. H. J. Ford, — — — Pres. Mrs. Flurna Cooper, — — Tice Pres. C. C. Galloway, — Pub.isher and Acting Editor Boyd V. lalloway. — Sec’y and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA One Year — — — — Six Months — — — — %\2l Three Months — — - Jit One Month — — — - 28 ‘.'UBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF iOWN One Year — — — — J2 54 Six Month® — — — 51.54 Three Months — — — 41.04 One Month — — — - - .40 All New's Copy of Churches and all organizat ions must be in our office not later than 1:00 p. m Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy 07 Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, pre ceeding date of issue, to insure publication. National Advertising: Representative: INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS. INC., 545 Fifth Avenue. New York City. Phone MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray -J2ck, Manager. week’s Editorial Review EMBATTLED RUSSIA Russia is taking it on the “beez er'\ They cry for a western front' when there is no ‘Western Front." We wish we could render an im mediate service to Russia. Recent information shows th&i Russia advised the Government of the United States and the Govern ment of Great Britain that Russia was prepared to fight Germany for a long time. This she has donj. And contrary to many reports. Rus sia ‘Laid Her Cards oh the Table ' When Russia was first attacked we thought and -uid she could not stand up against German Mechaniz ed Might. We had seen France Fall, and Poland. We saw this the "British Bulldog” hold on and fight back and save the little is land. And to our dismay, we saw Stalin sign a Non-Aggression Pact with Germany. And we saw Germany turn upon her-aliy. Russia, and drive straight toward her heart. Russia held. She yielded territory is still yielding it, but her armies remain intact. She fights those rear guard actions, the most difficult of all military enter prises. and maintains her lines Temoshenko. the great Military Leader of World War Two. comm ands this front. His generalship is magnificent. and just as fine is the staff work of the Russian High. Command, without which no Field Marshall, however brilliant, could go on. We hope relief will soon come to Russia. Her contribution in the fight to save civilization has been in estimaMe THE INDIAN QUESTION The Indian Question will not down. And the spokesmen for Great Britain still talk about “Free dom for India After the 'War”. The Indian leaders reply: “Freedom Now”. with the pledge that upon such a declaration by the British Government, India will join in an all-oi t effort to help the allied na tions win the war The reasonableness of this atti tude on the part of the Indian lead ers, at this distance, seems alike wise and fair. SOUTH AFRICA SPEAKS Recently the Trades Unions of the South African Republic unani mously demanded equality for “Na tive Labor” in the labor market, and that the Natives be armed and add ed to the fighting services on the> side of the United Nations. And why not? African natives have made a con siderable contribution to civilisat ion in all its walks and ways. In fact, all the early contributions to mankind in his weary climb upward from a lowly beginning, were made by the African Natives. And. of course, they were Negroes and Ne groids. When the sceptre of power pass ed from them to the lighter races of the earth they had borne tile torch for many thousands of years. ! They. too. had wars. And they tau#» cne lighter races the "Kill ing Art". One thing we can say for the lighter races is. they have im proved that art. Things will be better bye and bye, even for dark men in the United S'- Ues. to say nothing of South Af rica. THE HEALTH CAMPAIGN A campaign is now under way to j banish Syphilis from our land. According to recent statistics fur nished to us the disease is 13 times as prevalent among Negroes as a mong whites. And this, notwith standing the fact that when the an cestors of the present day Negroes | were first brought to America from j Africa, Syphilis and Tuberculosis - were unknown to them. These, dread diseases were the first so'll id ( physical gifts of the white man to the blacks. Now. this gift is rising up to plague him. 1 We should and must get rid of i Syphilis, no: merely by a temporary ] expedient. We must go far beyond I that and remove the causes, which are economic and social. Indeed, a study of the disease of : Syphilis and its prevalence among Negroes, reveals that the ratio of cases in the Negro to the whites is about the same as the disadvant ages of the Negro economically and socially are to the whites. In other words, where we find that Syphilis ! in the Negro is thirteen times that in the whites: we also find that the economic and social advantage of the whites are about thirteen times as gifeat as those of the Negro. It will be seen, therefore, that in order to remove this social danger permanently, other dangers must b« also removed. A specialist in this field has rc j centlv been sent to Omaha by The I Social Security Agency to aid in an educational program in this field. | His name is John M. Ragland. For ! i many years was engaged in Ur- j > ban League work in various com I m unities. He has had wide exper ! ience in the Social Field. What Mr. Rag'and has to say de serves your careful attention a tv. study. He has a wealth of facts as | to how the problem of cure has i been handled in other sections »,f the country and we are sure n>s ' stay heie will be helpful. While we are not Sociologists r round this sanctum, we know that j the " Social Diseases" have increas FRANK L. Burbridge Republican for COUNTY ATTORNEY (Political advertisement) (Political advertisement) ] —ELECT— f Lanra M. Johnson j TO THE 0 BOARD OF EDUCATION Q Non-Partisan > ^ our Support Is Appreciated 0 tPolitical advertisement) (Political advertisement) ed among Negroes hereabouts since the last World War. The why.? of j the increase we leave to experts like Mr. Ragland. And we hope that a plain old citizen like the acting edi tor sees clearly what it is all about. We know it cannot be cured by the "Shalt Not" route. Its cure must be effected by the Public. We. therefore, must banish ig- i norance; we must banish poverty, i and in order to do both, we must banish COLOR PREJUDICE. CIVILIAN DEFENSE EDITION OMAHA WORLD-HERALD Thursday last the Omaha World-: Herald published a Civilian Defers,* Edition. It contained much vaTi; able information relating to Civil ian Defense. The advertisements j in the Edition were excellent and the householder should keep it for future reference. Out here in the middle west we are not ‘War Minded". It will doubtless take a bombing to "Wake Us Up”. It has taken it all over the world. Many countries did not awaken until it was “too late”. We hope we will become fully aware of the things that face us before it is "Too late" here. Thanks for the Edition; we will put it in our handy reference file KENNETH WHERRY FOR SENATOR All Republicans and ail independ ests and wise democrats should be for Kenneth Wherry for United States Senator. He is just about the finest all-round man we have ever met anywhere in the world. He is well educated. He is a success ful lawyer, is the owner of fine farms and other businesses. He is a fine husband and an equally fine father He loves his fellow man and all his life has served him, hon orably and helpfully. He has had long experience in public life, as mayor of his home city, in the Ne braska State Senate, as chairman of various committees, including the Republican State Central Commit tee. and now as Director of Republi can Party matters in 22 midwest etn states. He has always been the friend ind champion of farmers and workers, and he has held his course through! good and evil report, in defeat and victory. In 1940 he led the campaign for the Republicans in Nebraska, and the State went Republican from top to bottom. Wendell Willkie led Franklin D. Roosevelt: Senator Hugh Butler was elected, as were all candidates on the State ticket. A few of the candidates after Wherry had put them in. felt they had done it themselves, but the pub lic knows Wherry put them across. He will be valuable in the United States Senate. He is a worker for all fel.ow men. We deem it a high privilege to say what we have said about him, anj we urge all men and women who love their country and their coun trymen to vote for Kenneth Wherry August llth In this you cannot be wrong. H. J. PINKETT. —Contributing Editor HIGGINS PAY TO NEGROES TOO HIGH? Washington, July 31 iA'vP) Rev erberations of the employment sit cations whereby Negroes would have benefited under the proposed erection of the enlarged Higgins plant at New Orleans are believed to have played a large part in tae cancellation of the contracts which made this shipyard of necessity plan expansion. Fear that Negroes would have po sitions which would give them higu er rates of pay than they had form erly received and to which they were not accustomed, is given i s one of the causes for protests a gainst Higgins, now going into a formal Congressional investigation. Negroes have b^»n paid the same salary rate as whites in this area and have been denied the same type Of work. And under the former ar rangements. they would have receiv ed the same pay and work as whit es were getting Fully 50 percent of the Higgins employes were Negro -ea. SUBSCRIBE I NOW! INEGRO EDITORS SPEAK... (Editor's Note: Author of this arti- ie jn the special series, Negro Editors Speak, is C. C. Dejoie Jr., editor an 1 manager of the Louisiana Weekly, New Orleans Mr. Dejoie attended high school in Chicago and studied at Southern and Talladega universit ies, receiving his A. B. from the lat ter, followed by a master s degree j in journalism from the University j of Michigan in 1939. He is a mem ber of the Kappa Tau Alpha honor ary journalistic society and is also on the New Orleans hoards of the Urban League and NAACP Rec ently he was elected western vie* president of the Negro Newspaper Publishers association ) The South Can Lose the War i /Ki- r* n rvn ,rr r —--—^————...... . er of the Louisiana Weekly for ASP) Without a doubt this country has to utilize all of its manpower and womanpower if it is going to defeat the axis. However, it seems that some people within this country are not of the same opinion, for wo incidents occurred here recently which have had a weakening effect on the morale of Negroes anxious to engage in the war effort, born civilian and military. The first incident is of the several *'egro postal employes who volun teered their services in answer to the navy's call for specialized men in that particular branch Of the ser vice. Upon presenting themselves they were told that Negroes were not wanted and that there was no place for them. The second incident occurred when a young ]ady of fair complex ion had completed all the require ments necessary for a job as a sten ographer in the navy department when it was discovered that she was colored. Immediately she was ’o'*! that the job was filled and the of ficer so informing her aplogeticaily said "remember this is the south." President Roosevelt has indicated by his Order 8802 that ALL tn« manpower in this country has to be utilized regardless to race, creed, color, or national origin. The ex act words of his order are herein stated. ‘I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in the employment of the workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or na tional origin, and I do hereby dc Clare that it is the duty of employ ers and of labor organizations in furtherance Of said policy and of this order, to provide for the full and equitable participation of all workers in defense industries, with out discrimination because of race, creed, color or national origin._’’ With the recent report of the Nazis' successes in Russia a pertin ent question arises ‘ does the south know they can lose the war by turning down good, loyal prospect ive Negro citizens in both military and civilian phases of the war effort because they are black and must be •kept in their place?* It is a fore gone conclusion that the southern clique which runs the army and navy and influences war industries can’t go on hampering the war ef fort with their prejudices in this way if the axis is to be defeated. For whether the south knows it or not. many of the united nations al lies happen to be dark skinned races and view with particular concern the treatment of the Negro in the south. Our dark skinned allies not that there is a strange similarity be tween the south’s treatment of Ne gro citizens and the way Hitler writes he will treat them if he ever wins. In other words, the south comes altogether too close to prac ticing what Hitler has preached in his book "Mein Kampf.-' Does the south realize with its lynchings. pol ice brutality. "For White Only’ signs, poll tax laws, unequal school systems and white primaries that it compares favorably with Hitler’s in famous theory? Does the south know that the United States is a member of the united nations and has as its allies China- Africa. India Russia and numerous South and La tin American countries among which there are many dark skinned people who believe that they are fighting the people’s revolution to end the exploitation of the MANY by the FEW? Does the south real ize that a continuance of the inhum an treatment of Negroes doesn’t do anything to strengthen the ties be tween our allies and the United States? Is the south aware of the fact that India’s great leader. Ma hatma Ghandi. knows of the United States’ hypocrisy in the treatment of the Negro ° Does the south know that all talk of democracy, the fight for freedom, and the like suffer greatly when the dark skinned all ies read of such incidents. Dude Cochran, a white man. shooting a Negro fatally in the courtroom and being freed almost immediately, civ ilian police brutalizing Negro sold iers. separate Negro divisions in the army and navy and the barring of Negroes from important defense jobs? Does the south know- all those various injustices make our dark skinned allies susceptible to the smooth propaganda of the Japs? Does the south remember what hap pened in Burma, Malaya, Singapore, and Java? If the south doesn't know these things they should be making some t attempts to find out and seek a f change of attitude. For it is going to take the strength, courage, man power and fighting of all our people to win the war and defeat the sup erior minded Aryans and Japs. They are not going to fight for a new brand of white superiority, ex ploitation, and imperialism. The: will figfat for the four freedoms, a democracy of the people, a people s world^ but that alone. We nave made up our mind what we want to fight for. . . .let’s fight for it. HERE ARE 4# NEGRO WAACS AT DES MOINES WASHINGTON, July 31 (ANPi— —Releasing the entire roster of the colored candidates for the WAAC commissions at Des Moines, the war department is high in its praise of the successful women. 40 in num ber. Their names and locations: I FIRST CORPS AREA—Miss Mary Frances Kearney, 4t><5 New Field, Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Mildred Carter Davenport, 522 Columbus Av enue. Boston; Miss Ruth Alice Lucas i 2 Ferris Avenue. Stanford, Conn. SECOND CORPS AREA— Mrs. Yeolis Lewis Lynch. 77 Leiferts place. Brooklyn: Mrs Jessie Ward. 2198 Eightth avenue. New Yorit City; Miss Glendora Moore, 2818 Eighth avenue. New York City; Miss Vernea] May Austin. 272 West 115th Street. New York City: Mrs. Vera | G. Campbell. 219 West 139th Stre** . New York City; Mrs. Natalie Donald son. 2301 Seventh Avenue, New York City. THIRD CORPS AREA. Mrs. Mich- j ael West. 924 M St.. X W. Wash ington; Mis Evelyn Foster Greene, 1320 Morris road, S. E. Washington; Miss Dover May Johnson. 502 S. Harrison Street, Richmond, Va. FOURTH CORPS AREA—Miss Abbie Campbell, Tuskegee institute; Miss Alice Jones. 40S Eighth avenue Nashville: Miss Corrie Sinclair Sherard. 195 Merritts avenue, N. E. Atlanta: Mrs. May Lewis. 914 Liv ingstone avenue, Orlando. Fla.: Miss Cleopatra Daniels, 103 Fourth Sr.. N. Birmingham: Miss Sarah Murs phy. 749Fa ir Street. Atlanta. [ FIFTH CORPS AREA—Miss Mary Bordeaux. 1848 W. Madison Street, Louisville Miss Carity Adams, 2113 Lady Street, Columbia. S. C.; Miss Geneva Ferguson, Camp Road, Camp Dennison, O.: Miss Donis Me Donald Merrell. 530 N. Senate Ava., Indianapolis: Miss Frances Alexan der, 1125 City Park Ave., Toledo: Miss Mercedes Hopkins, 2909 Gil bert Avenue. Cincinnati: Miss Vera Anne Harrison, Wilberforce, O. SIXTH CORPS AREA—Mrs. Irma Jackson Cayton. 5120 South Park way, Chicago: Mrs. Mildred Lavinia Osby. 6246 South Parkway, Chicago: Mrs. Violet Ward Askins, 306 E. 59th Street. Chicago; Miss Sarah E. Emmert. 6100 South State Street, Chicago. SEVENTH CORPS AREA—Miss Charline Jane May, 4717 Baldwin avenue. Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. Ger trude J. Peebles. 2906 North 23th St.. Omaha, Nebr.; Mrs. Ina Mae McFadden. 4236 Enright Ave.. St. 1 Louis; Miss Myrtle EsteUa Ander son. 1830 Forrest Ave-, Kansas City, Mo EIGHTH CORPS AREA—Miss iRuth Loretta Freeman. Liberty, [Texas: Miss Annie Lois Brown. 32«>6 Truxville, Houston; Miss Mary Lou ise Miller. 1610 Cleveland Ave-, New [Orleans: Miss Geraldine Gwendolm Walker. Pittsburgh. Texas; Mjss Bessie Mae Jarrett, 302 Augustine Street. Las Cruces, N. M.: Miss Eliz abeth Charlotte Hampton. 2029 West 29th St.. Los Angeles: Mrs. Harri ette Beecher White. 715 East 56 ch Street, Los Angeles. The successful candidates passjd j all the preliminary mental, physical and alertness tests given. They were all present when the official opening of the camp on July 21 took place- Final advice on the selections was given the benefit <Tf ____ PURCHASE W ATER SYSTEM At the request of the City of Plattsmouth the Supreme Court has appointed a Condemnation Court to hear testimony and fix the value of property of the Plattsmouth Water Corporation, which the City seeks to acquire by condemnation. On June 18th the Condemnation Court met at Plattsmouth and or ganized with District Judge Arthur C. Thomsen of Omaha as Presiding Judge, and District Judges John L. I Polk of Lincoln and Cloyde B. El I lis of Beatrice as the other member .thereof. E. Glenn Woodbury of Ne braska City, Official Reporter of the Second Judicial District, as re porter for the Court. Dates for ap pearances of the parties were fixed ; and an early trial is expected. counsel by Mrs. Mary McLeod Betfe une who said; '•Tl*e Women's Army Auxiliary — corps gives all P women a new op § portunitv for lea M dership, serving m . . P their country dur Iing this crisis. The Negro wom an citizen has ><: come forward eag erly to share in ft this leadership (Director Oveta Culp Hobby said: "Back of each "' one ot these 40 |A-SJP. women, each al MAA't m. bethuke ready an outstand ing figure in her community, will he the hope and faith and pride of the five million Negro women of the Cnited States. As I studied their applications. I was impressed by the integrity of their devotion to theu eountrv and I was moved by the in tensity of their desire to serve that country.” Many of the candidates axe grad uates of Tuskegee, Wilberfor-e. Prairie View. Spelman, Howard and Fisk. White colleges represented are Simmons college. Boston: NYU and Hunter college. New York City; Chicago, university; Kansas State | Agricultural college: Nebraska Wes leyan. Ohio State university and, University of Southern California. Seventy-five percent of the suc cessriil applicants have collegiate training and the majority of them have received degrees. They are from 31 accredited universities and colleges. —~~—i FEPC ACHIEVEMENTS ARE CALLED EXTRAORDINARY” Los Angeles. Calif....The achieve ments »>f the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice were declared to be “extraordinary.” by Chairman Malcolm S. MacLean in an address July 15 before the 33rd annual conference Of the NAACP, here. MacLean said his estimate was made "without romancing, without rosy optimism, and without expectation of dispute.” The gains of the committee "lie far beyond what might have been properly expected by a people who know the realities of discriminat ion,” the speaker said. Dr. MacLean paid tribute to the members of the committee and to the staff. He said the committee had called before its public hear ings four labor unions. 31 employers in war industries, and number of defense trainng agencies. In addi tion. three executive hearings have been held on govrnmnt departments. No company has refused to at tend a hearing and none has refus ed to bring its employment policy into line with the Committee’s dir ection and the Executive Order, the speaker asserted. He cited the fact that the mach n ists' union now admits Negroes to membership as one example of tue committee's work. Discriminations against Jews. Catholics and others have been attacked by the commit tee. Dr. Mac Lean told of one em ployer who had refused to hire Jew ish women on machines because ' be thought their arms were shorter than arms of other people ” The quota system was illustrat -d. he said by one factory where *'i white Catholic had a 40 percent chance of employment, a Jew a 15 percent chance, and a Negro ho chance at all.” California plants have shown a noticeable increase in Negro em ployment since FEPC held its first hearing in this city last fall, sail Dr. Mac-Lean, and Negro women are being employed also The FEPC chairman revealed that the War Department is the greatest employer of Negroes of any federal department in Washington, with more than 2,600 on the payroll FEPC. he said, has agreed that wne of its most important functions, is. by every good means, to persuade and induce other federal agencies, as rapidly as it can be done, to en force the Order.” VICTORY THEME STRESSED BY NAACP SPEAKERS Los Angeles, Calif..—In an audit orium decorated with American flags and bunting, with a bank of flags of the United Nations just off the platform, and with huge, en larged photomurals of Doric Miller and Joe Louis on display, speake-s here at the 33rd annual conference of the NAACP stressed the "‘Victory a home as well as abroad ’ them In all principal speeches and in re marks from the floor. ■'Nothing is going to keep me from fighting for my country" sa.d Dr. J. J. McClendon Of Detroit. Mich-, ‘ but nothing is going to keep me from fighting to enjoy all that my country offers to every other citizen." "As long as I have two arms." said C. L. Dell urns of Oakland. Cal ifornia., “I will use one to fight for my country and the other to fight few my race.” “Victory is Vital to Minorities” was the official theme of the con ference. NO SUCCESSFUL PLAN YET FOR BIRMINGHAM BALLOT (by EMORY O. JACKSON) BIRMINGHAM. July 20 (ANP) — A review of the 10 year "planned” j fight for the ballot in Birmingham reveals that every device used to in crease Negro suffrage has been re- I strictive in nature and results. Nearly every organization of any strength since 1932 has tried one plan or another to make it so Negro citizens could register to vote tlje same as any other person with bas ically the same qualifications. Tho plans that have worked could n>t achieve the hope because of inherit limitations in all of them. Six of those plans have been (1) j the quota system; (2) prune off plan (3) the get-w-white-man to vouch for you strategy; (4) trickling; (5) going back and going back: (6) and cou-t j action. The “quota system" is a plan by which only a certain number of ap- i plicants will be registered to vote no mater how many with qualific ations apply for their vote certif icates. This has been a yardstick used by every board of registrars: that has held that position in th past 12 years. Once registered in Alabama, and after one has paid his poll tax for 25 years, his name automatically re mains on the vote list unless he is reported dead, or orders it transfer red. Knowing this, an extra-off: > ] ial proposition was suggested that for every Negro's name pruned from the list another’s would be placed on. That plan made no headway. The “vouch plan’ is where one would get an influential white per son to o. k. him and whisper a r - kind words in his behalf to some ; one who stood in with the board, or members Of the board itself. “Trickling" is somewhat of sneak system by which applicants would quietly go one by one and according to a schedule. This came about when some organizat ion had advocated a mass rush on the office of registration. Some have felt that it was best to go back and go back until the board was worried down. Net ef fect of this was that a young man say 21. going to the board would be refused registration five time.--. By now his poll tax would have ac cumulated to $4.50 or more. Prlc - ox voting now was so costly as to discourage him. Yet some paid ns; high as $37.50, which is the lifetime poll tax. More recently the NAACP ha sought to break down all vote bar riers through" court action. Th plan has succeeded in getting hut few qualified to vote- and at pro hibitive costs. The Birmingham branch Of the XAACP under J. J. Green has map ped out a three point vote campaign in which it will solicit the support of the total Negro leadership in Birmingham. They plan to center a fight for the battle, first in con ference: secondly through an ap peal to public opinion and thirdly through legal action in the state and in the federal court. BIRMINGHAM CITIZENS ASK COURT AID IN FIGHT FOR AMERICAN LEGION POST Birmingham, July 21 (AXP> Press ing their fight to establish a Negro American legion post here, a grOu>> Of 15 prominent citizens last week sought court aid in obtaining a post charter. Representing the group. Atty. Horace Alford wiled a mandamus petition in circuit court demanding that the American legion grant a charter for the post. Atty Alford said that residents here have bee trying to organize a post for six years but they have been unable to get a charter from the state legion. Alford said the body told the col ored group it would be necessary to wait a while to ‘work things Out,’ but this, the attorney said, was pure “stalling” for ‘discriminatory pur poses." The circuit court petition was £i’ ed against John T. Batten, com mander of the Alabama department. American legion, and D. Trotusr Jones, adjutant and agent- Judge Walt Windham set Oct. 15 as «be date for the hearing. Among the lacol leaders present ing the demand for a post charter are SColto Gray, Mose B. Chapman. Robert Sprinfield. A. G. Gaston. W. E. ShortFidgre, Prof. W. B Jofenao-i and Dr. Edward H. Ballard. UNIT RESPONSIBLE FOR Git ING CORRECT INFORMATION IN DISASTER ZONES Each of the eight disaster 20nee set up in Omaha by the Civilian De fense Council now has a unit re s pons: hi- for the giving of cor reef information to relatives and friend about any victims foiowing dtsns ter, it was announced today by Mrs R. N. Gould, chairman of the reg istration and information sub-coni tnktee of the Red Cross disaster pr' paredness plan. Each of the women in the zone listed will be trained in the system already worked out by which every victim of disaster will be registered and his condition and place of faoe pitalization recorded. When anx ious families inquire, these units will be able to give correct inform ation about the victims. They will also give victims and their families information about what help and re lief is available to them. Mrs. Gould's committee members include: Chairman; Mrs. Ralph N. Gould. Assistant Chairmen: Mrs. Lecta Swanson. Mrs. Fred Preston, Miss Agnes Emgies, Mrs. Grace Hutton. Telephone Committee- Mrs. H. T Jones, Mrs. P. S. Carter, Mrs. Char les Davis. Zone Committees: Zone 1—Cent -r to Harrison Sta., 24th St. east to Missouri River Chairman: Mrs. A. A. Fenger. Assistant Chairmen: Mrs. G. A. Janssen. Mrs. Glen Ash ley. Mrs. Amine Trenary. Mrs, Rud olph Anderson. Mrs T. J. Jailing, Mrs. George Menshik. Mrs. T. J. Mnuck. Zone 2—Center to Ames Ave . St., east to Missouri River. Cbaii man: Mrs. J. W. '.leister Assistant Chairmen: Mrs. G. N. Simpson, Mrs R. H. Pangle. Mrs. C. W Clegborne Mrs Pat Miller. Mrs. Ben Somber?. Mrs. Fred Christiansen. Mrs. C. J. Prachensky. Zone 3—Ames Ave.. to Read St. 24th St to &th St. Chairman: Mrs. L. O. Taylor. Assistant Chairmen: Miss Elizabeth Barnes. Mrs. L. W. Lindberg, Mrs. J. W. Wickersham. Mrs. Alice Hawkes, Mrs. J. A. Sav age. Mrs. John * Kennebech, Mrs. Fred L. Will rod t. Zone 4—Ames Ave. thru Florenc* 24th St. to 48th St. Chairman: Mrsa. Homer Davis. Assistant Chairmen: Mrs. W. F. Wendt. Mrs. Leroy Tho mas. Mrs. O. H. Hrrbrt, Mm L a Honke.Mrs. J. Z. Longley. Mrs. C. O. Purdy. Mrs. H. H. Grau. Zone a—Ames Ave. to Military and Lake, 24th St., to 72nd Si. Chairman: Mrs Charles Frandsen. Assistant Chairmen: Mrs. Frank Rojeski. Mrs N. W Charlesworth. Mrs T. J. Draper. Mrs. W E. Hag gins. Mrs. Carl M Mueller. Mrs. J. Francis Seharvrtz. Mrs. E. J. Wehr er. Zone S—Military and Lake to Center, 24th St., to <2nd St. Chairman: Mrs. A. C. Roberts. Assistant Chai-.-men: Mrs. C. N. Hoff man. Mrs. James Eselin, Miss Cok inne Armstrong. Mrs Raymond C~ Crosby. Mrs. Lawrence Roberts. Mra Warren Sondstrom, Mrs. E. E. Tro,*. lflen. Zone 7—Center St. to Harrison, 24th St. to 42nd St. Chairman: Mrs. Byros Demorest Assistant Chairmen: Mrs. George Jensen, Mrs. Robert Bernhard. Mrs. Ralph Brag onier. Mrs W S. Bunch. Mrs. Vwn J. Holmes. Mrs. James A. Ritchey, Mrs. Keith Spratt. Zone §—Military and Lake Sts. to Spring St.. 42nd St. to 72nd St. Chairmen: Mrs. H. Lar.dwehrfcamp. Assistant Chairmen: Mrs. Guy Syd pw, Mrs. David Noble. Mrs. Tandy Peck Mrs Waiter S. Johnson. Mrs. Thor Andresen. Mrs. D. E. Ff'ick. Mrs Hayden Ahmanson. Mrs. A. W. Knudsen. YOUTHS WIN DEFENSE BONDS IN NAACP ESSAY CONTEST New York.. ..Six young winners from six different states were pres ented with their prizes for writing the best essays on ‘What Democ racy Means tp Me," in the second annual NAACP essay contest. Th’nrs day night at the association’s 33rd annual conference in LOs Angeles. Winners received *100. *50. and *23 defense bonds. In the college division prizes went to J- Don Jack son. Wiley College. Marshall. Texas: second prize Ellouise Tmeiia Mitch ell. Florida Normal and Industrial •Institute third prize, Hugh Norman Hill. Talladega college. Ala. High school winners are, first prize. Horace Greely Dawson. Hain es Institute. Augusta. Ga.; second prize, Alice R. Davis. Booker T. Washington high school, Norfolk. Va.; third prize. Gwendolyn Hum ford. Southern university (high school department) Scotland vffie. La. READ The QJJJpg