Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1942)
" 3' RW't Of 5c i " " AT TOUR ! ^ ^ j DRUG 0 STORE Tl E ^JUSiKE/ HEWTOTHEUNE LARGEST ACCREDlTEri NKGKo hkw.4EaEKR w KST t UK \u«> AND VQRTH OK - <TTT —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Entered as Second-Class Matter at The Post Office, Omaha, Nebraska jj.Vl’URDAY, AUGUST 22 OUR 15th YEAR- NO- 28 City Edition* 5C Copy .Under Act of March 8, 1874—Business Phone: WF. 1517 ___* ____ _ Bennett College sees the growing demand for professional training for young women. Here are shown, left, Dr. Muriel Petioni, examining a child , in the Bennett Summer Health Institute, with Mrs. Rosalee S. McConnell, Tuberculosis Field nurse. Greensboro, recording the findings Pearline McCulloch is in the foreground. At right, Dr. Alberta B. Turner, shown lecturing on Consumer Problems at the Institute. Dr. Petioni becomes Resident Physician at Bennett in the fall and Dr. Turner will be on leave. _ - There is a real opportunity this week for the discovery ot taieruea mus'cians living in Omaha and in neighboring communities. New members for Omaha’s Little Sym phony Orchestra will be chosen by audition this week before a com mittee headed by Musical Director Richard E. Duncan. Important is the fact that va cancies need to be filled in all sec tions, that is, in the string, per cussion, wood-wind, and brass sec tions. There will be a series of three concerts. November 16th, January 25th, and March 29th. Albert Spalding, violinist, will appear as guest artist at the November con cert. A greater variety of music than has ever been possible before will be presented this year. This will naturally give the member players an additional opportunity for developing their talents under the direction of Richard E. Dun can. Mr. Duncan is a protege of Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony. After all, the primary purpose of the Little Symphony Orchestra is to discover, develop and encourage talented musicians in this vicinity. These Popular high school students are assisting the Omaha branch N. A. A. C. P. in a drive for membership this month—The girls are very j enthusiastic and are looking for-1 ward to a . real response. They are divided into three j teams as follows: BEVERLY STAMS, Captain j Melba Faucett Millicent Kane Doris Pittman Florentine Goodlet PEGHE ANDERSON, Captain Harriette Greene Jeanne Rudd Maryland Fowler BETTY THOMAS, Captain Jewel! Miller Louise Miller Jeanne Good Ruth Forrest Alberta Evant They are being directed by E. W. McGowan, Chairman and Ar thur B. McCaw, President of the Omaha Branch. i BIG ARMY SHOW AUGUST 24th. 1942 • Rolling across country with the precision of a battle unit operating in a combat zone, the huge tank force for the Army War Show, “Here’s Your Army,” will “in vade” Omaha next week-end and dig in for a four-day campaign. The force of nearly 2,000 men, 40 horses and 400 vehicles will bivouac at Ak-Sar-Ben field and will go into action at Creighton stadium the evenings of August 24, 25, 20 and 27th. | musicians, in turn, bring enjoym-nt and relaxation to many local lis teners who otherwise would not have had access to such good en tertainment. Contrary to seme public opinion, the Omaha Little Symphony Or chestra is meant to belong enteirely to every man, woman, and child in this vicinity who is interested in music. It makes no difference who the players and listeners are, where they live, and how much income they have. If they like music, this orchestra is for them and for their families. This venture is com pletely civic. There are no chosen few, and no favoritism is allowed. Musicians are compensated for their services, as members of the Orchestra, on the scale accepted by C. J. Christman, president of the Musicians’ Association, Local No. 70. ***** Any person interested in receiv ing an audition are requested to make an appointment by telephon ing or otherwise getting in touch with the Omaha Civic Music Asso ciation office at the Joslyn Mem orial on Monday or Tuesday of this week. r Dramatizing a cross-section of the entire U. S. Army, “Here's j Your Army’’ will be presented in two parts—the show at Creighton stadium and an exhibit at Ak-Sar- , Ben field. At the stadium show, which is expected to attract a capa city crowd of 25,000 every night, spectators will have a chance to see the full miprht of the army— tanks, artillery, mechanized cav alry, jeeps, and anti-aircraft in ac-1 tion, and demonstrations of flame throwers and the signal corps’ walkie-talkie communications sys tem. An air force squadron will join in the show for tke spectacular battle which winds up each per formance. I I Army equipment and exhibits 1 showing how the Army lives, works and fights will be on display at the battle depot at Ak-Sar-Ben. Headquarters for the Army Show ticket sale are now open at 1522 Farnam street, Omaha. General admission to the stadium show is 55 cents, with reserved seats at 1 $1.10, and $1.65 and ringside seats at $2.20. Admission to the battle depot is 25 cents, but the charge is waived for persons who purchase war show tickets in advance. Pro ceeds frome the country-wide tour of the show will go to Army Emer gency Relief. Cn The Home Front ***** We are now on the offensive. For the first time in this war American forces have moved again st the enemy with the objective of expelling him. The theatre of action is the Solomons—a chain of islands and steaming jungle through which the Japanese line 'f communication flanks Australia. Australia is one of the many fronts on which American Negro troops are stationed. From its veiy start the first American offensive indicates the need for redoubling our production effort on the home front. There are, fortunately, indications that the home front offensive is being intensified. Increased activity on the part of some local officers of the United States Employment Service in seeking full utilization of our labor resources is one such indication. The USES in Illinois, for in stance, is now distributing a 514 by &'s inch replica of the Exec utive Order 8802 poster “Fair Fm ployment Practice in Defense In dustries,” in an effort to coirfbat restiictive hiring practices. The poster can be folded into a book let which states: “Your sons, brothers, fathers, husbands, sweethearts—battling ro preserve American liberty—will never ask the race, creed, color or national origin of those building the ships, planes, tanks, guns needed to win.” The second page of the poster booklet declares: “The man at the next bench may differ from you in race, color or rehgion .... but he’s workig for Victory just as you are .... to save the home that America has made for him. Remember: There are 5,000,000 Jews m America. :here are 5.000,00? aliens, there are 12.000.000 Negroes, there are 21. 500.000 Catholics, there are 36,000, 500 Protestants .... “When you bar one group from working you pave the way to bar ring all such groups from a pur suit—America can’t afford the loss af a single worker’s skill and wil lingness to help the country that has helped him . . . “A Nazi conquest means a land filled with hate . . . with intolerance and oppression . . . race a -'ainst race . . . religion against religion . . . color against color . . . the apposite of every American deal. Don’t let it happen!” i ***** Manpower is only one of the problems on the home front in our battle for production however. Last week, Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information called attention to the need for an in ereaee in the prod action of raw materials. He declared that we must develop new processes, em1 waste, and—something in which every American can heln—“or?s~ the full salvage by every citizen of the land.” j One of the great shortages, a J shortage which must be overcome; if we are to wrin this war, is a shortage of steel. This shortage j was cited in the closing of the Hig-' gins Shipbuilding Yard in New Orleans where several thousand Negro workers were to be "trained and employed in all skills. This shortage is already slowing pro duction in other factories in which Negro workers are now employed. It is indeed a shortage which every American must tackle. We must do a better job of collecting iron and steel scrap. Materials and more materials— that is the desperate need. This is a war in which tanks are destroyed by hundreds in a single action on a single sector of one front. And yet-into a tank of the General Grant type go 26 tons of steel, some six hundred pounds of cop per, more than five hundred pounds of chromium and more than six hundred pounds of manganese, aluminum, lead and zinc. The Office of Price Administra tion denies it plans to add new commodities to the rationing p o gram. The rumors arose frrm OPA’s plans to prepare a rationing book which, placed in the hands of every citizen in the country, could be used for the rationing of any commodity or article in which a shortage occurred . . . The U. S. A. and Mexico have concluded an ar rangement by which Mexican fa m workers may prfer th° TT ^ t-> help get in this year’s bumner rops . . . WPB has authorized 'Ten»-y J. Kaiser. West Coast ship builder, to submit flans for build ing five hundred Martin “Mars” V:ne heats for use as cargo car riers and has asked Kaiser to pro ceed with designs of a new t.;7pe two hundred ton flying boat . . . In July we spent $184,400,000 a day for war—a gain of 16 3 per cent over June . . . More than 2 - Negro recruits now are being trained at the Great Lakes Naval Trailing Station and 300 Negro Coast Guard recruits have been assigned to active duty . . . V u can’t buy railroad watches any more unless it is an a- my order or you work for tb° ra’lw-ad . Admiral William D Leahy, the President’s Chief cf Staff, in a radio speech: “This i^ ‘ h'- t;m to make our stand . . . We d^re be reckless with the fate o* rvr own country—we dare not throw away the fate of the world.” For yictory...\ Pledge UNITED STATES DEFENSE SAVLN BOM) The WAITERS’ co? umn fW7' (BY II. W. SMITH) WE. 6*58 By H. W. Smith The Cottonwood Room at the I Blackstone Hotel with the quick step c:ew of wai ers ar? taking" care of the serv'ce in a very fine way. Bro. John Evans looked in on the ball game in Council Bluffs last Sunday. The Omaha Club is on the good service move at all time and Mr. Blackwell and his Capt. Mr. Earl Jones and the quick stepping wait ers. Mr. Virgil Shobe, Mr. Frank Buford and Mr. Than Lusca are in the running at all times on good e»vice. Mr. Bill Sones of the Omaha Athletics Club left by airplane for XeW York and Boston! Oh, Yeah! Mr. Chausy McFarland is one cf he top m;n at the Omaha Athletic Club and we are not surprised as the boys from the Lone Star Stare always go over the top. The Omaha Guide will have a very tig surprise for the readers in the early fall edition and to mr-He sure of being safe, suberibe now. Mr. Johnie Maloy who is up from he Razor Back Hog S ate is a heavy stock holder in on of the downtown places! He holds a horse n front of the building. Mr. Jerry Simpson is one of the top men with the Pullman Co.. Are you a member of the N. A. A. C. P.? If not, why not? We often wonder if Mr. Walter Seuls and Mr. A1 Jones, Jr., can tell how many pounds of meat they have inspected. This writer talked with Mr. Davis who is up from the state of Geor gia and has the appearance of a Frenchman and were invited to smoke one of Killingworth’s and Price’s best Carbana Perfections and of cou se we are always ready i to join him in smoking and of course we are quite sure the Omaha Field Club is very much out in front with the golf playing head waiter and the two streamlined cooks, Dick and John, will al ways keep the club out in front with extra good food. ! We should all observe very closely the feature of being very careful about saving linen, keep a look out for soiled silver have nap kins on tables the right way, keep butter iced and only serve the amount of sugar that the govern ment allows and practice being , loyal to one another, and keep in ’ mind employees are always ex pected to be a good spoke in the wheels of business as cooperating with each other will bring good re ^ suits. Last but not least, don’t knock on your fellow brother as we expect the benefit of the doubt. Always let the employer use his ideas about making changes as we all have got to live in harmony to make success. -AA A A L.l> t OK.fc.MAN I OF JURY INVESTIGATING TRIBUNE Chicago, August 20, (ANP)— John 0. Hollmes of Joliet, 111., has been named foreman of the July grand ju y investigating charges ‘.hat the Chicago Tribune, a local daily, revealed information of value to the enemy in a news story printed June 7th. Holmes was appointed a federal venireman several wekes ago and is believed to be the first Negro on a federal jury in this district. 4 iUi'l v^SSES The meeting was held at the home of Tessie Edwards on Sat urday, August 15th. We had a scavenger hunt directed by Tessie Edwards. The members of the win ning team were Doris Pittman, Pauline Edwards, and Betty Thcmas, captain. We also discussed plans for a cake raffle to be held on August 29th, chances may be purchased from any member of the club. At the close of the meeting refreshments were served by our hostesses. The next meeting will be at the home of Miss Jeanne Godde on Charles Street. DORIS PITTMAN, President, BEVERLY ST AMS, Reporter. f Front row, reading left to rigkt: Bishop H. Y. TMke7BUho7N®ahWUlU«»^Uko^W^^ri*htW^ I S^cood Row: Miaa Paaliae Kedmoad, co-director of Ike Yootk Divtoles. 8 loading: Mra. Cryatoi Bird Faaaot. ) > CMcr * **• ***** Relation* Division d tko Ofke of CWOtoa Defense. Mra. Paaoot to oxjtoialng to Ik* White Charges South WithRebhellien St. Louis, Mo.—“Though even some of you may not realize it we j have open rebellion bordering on treason in the United States to day,” declared Walter White, ex ecutive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before the audi ence assembled at the Municipa auditorium here in a mass meeting sponsored by the March on Wash ington Movement, Friday night August 14th. “The rebels,” said White, “an Gene Talmadge of Georgia, Gov ernor Dixon of Alabama, Congress man Rankin of Mississippi, the Ki Klux Klan, the National Worker; League, and all those who share their views.” 1 Taking as his theme a sentence from a new be>ok by Ernest Bevin. British Minister of Labor, who said hat the issue at stake in this war is the matter of the denomination of one people by another, Mr. White declared: “We are here to let the world know that we Negroes are ired of being dominated and ex ploited and we want something lone about it.” In a sharp address in which he harged that “sinister forces are leliberately trying to foment race ots in various parts of the coun ry, particularly in the South,” Mr. ■Vhite said that the government nd the people of the United States nust decide; “Who is going to rule he United States—the government f all the people, or the reaction ry fascist South?" Unless this ecision is made, the speaker as »rted, trouble may follow which lay cause the United States and he United Nations to lose the war. The leader of the N. A. A. C. P. uoted Governor Dixon of Alabama hen he turned down a governmen' var contract because it contained i clause against discrimination on .ccount of race as saying: “I will not permit the state of Alabama to be subject to the whims of any Federal agency and will not permit the employees of the slate to be placed in a position where they must abandon the principle of seg regation or lose their jobs.” “The President of the United States issued Executive Order No. 8802 prohibiting discrimination on account of race, creed, color or na tional origin in government and war industries,” Mr. White said. “The challenge to the President and to the government of all the people of this country is unmistakable and cannot be evaded. “This is no longer a question at minorities nor of the wisdom or authority of the President in is suing Executive Order 8802,” be declared. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. Either Mr. Roosevelt is our President or he must abdicate and turn over his seat to Dixon. An evasion of that issue or any weakness on the part of the President will mean collapse of authority which can do nothing but bring chaos.” * USES MEMO PERMITS JOB JIM CROW, VIOLATES FDR ORDER, NAACP TELLS MCNUTT New York—Direct to Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Admin istrator and chairman of the War Manpower Commission, went a vigorous objection from the N. A. A. C. P. last week to Section 5 of United States Employment Serv-! ice Bulletin C-45 which would al low an employer to ask for “white have his request granted by the USES. The section which the N. A. A. C. P. called “plain instruction to state directors to ignore Executive Order 8802 and assist employers who seek to violate the order,” states: “If the employer refuses to el'minate discriminatory specifi cations, referral will be made on the basis of his order, providing the jobs to be filled are on essential in dustry.” The section makes an exception of states where legislation outlaws discrimination on in employment for war industry. ' There are only four states, the NAACP told McNutt, which have laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. They are New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsyl vania, and the laws in the latter two states are not strong. “This means in effect,” the As sociation said, “that Director John J. Corson’s memorandum of July 1, advises that the USES offices in 44 states are not bound by Ex ecutive Order 8802. If the memorandum is allowed to stand, it will mean Negroes will be back where they were before the President signed his execu tive order, the NAACP asserted. Since USES is now the princi pal avenue through which labor is furnished war industries, this order, if carried out, means that a federal aegncy will be aid ing employers in freezing Negroes out of jobs; the protest declared. Roy M. White, State Oil in spector, left Saturday for a ten days’ vacation in Oklahoma and Texas. While there, he will visit his brother, Private Oswald White, who is stationed at Camp Walters, Tex. He was accompanied by Mrs. E. Scroggins and daughter, Mary Sessions, who will visit relatives in Dallas. THE WEEK ***** By H. W. Smith St. Benedict opens new hall. Dr. Soloman quick stepping oa No. 24th St. Earl Hines in. Omaha this week. Mr. Preston tops at buss sing ing. Guy Robbins streamline real estate dealer. Carey’s Grocery tops at ice cream and watei melon. Sargeant Bivens rendered fine program. Attorney Ray Williams is Oma ha’s streamlined politician. Mr. Newly of Council Bluffs on No. 24.h St. Col. Henry Black champion pool player. Shirley Kennedy expert on auto tire saving. C. M. E. Annual Conference in the making. North Side Clinic doing much good. James Bell walks without a cane. Brother Porters fishing trip to Minnesota in the making. Perry Taylor, the barber, con ducts a very fine Sunday School class. Tom Jones the No. 24th St. busi ness man giving quick service. S; o. Mosley one of the best reg ular attenders at Zion Baptist Church. Lee Washington always produc ing new ideas. Mr. McKown the insurance man a high-powered salesman. Mr. James Jewell Jr., a very careful thinker, and don't talk much. Lewis the oil station man giving service with a smile. Richard McCain on the R. R. out west. Chicago Brown Bombers defeated Sioux City Red Birds at Legion Ball Park, 7 to 3, in Council Bluffs. American Legion picnic in the making. Many soldiers and visitors in the city. Sargeant Bivins rendered very fine patriotic program at the Clair Chapel. Mrs. Scoggins and daughter on a motor trip to their former home in Texas. Advisory board of the 4 C Club had a very interesting meeting. Harry Anderson of Louisville, Ky„ in Omaha. Jess Harding watching truck workers on Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Co. Shirley Kennedy on the east side of No. 24th St. near Lake St. early Monday morning. Mrs. Lena Powell of Independ ence, Mo., visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edna Williams and grandson, Leon Sawyer at 2217 Ohio St. Mr. Goldie Davis of the Ath letic Club on vacation. Roosevelt Post No. 30 American Legion emers a year of great ac tivity. Dr. W. W. * eebles ha* just closed a brilliant year of serv ice to the community as well aa to the Legionnaires. J. C. Carey, Commander elect has begun in a blaze of g'o-" He is sponsoring for the coming week, beginning Sund»” with a picnic at Benning ton, Nebr., featuiing a base ball eamo. sack races, a breakfast dance and 20 rounds of bc"i-~ I Then turning to Monday night is the Grand Ball and Installation at Dreamlr-* ’ Hall. All the state of ficers of the American Legion Con ! vention has been invited, including , the Governor and Hon. Kenneth ! Wherry, Republican Senatorial * nominee. I Come early because everybody . will be there. L_- :-i Big Army Show Aug. 24th