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Where Dillards’ S udeit Nurses Will Live, Learn
Students taking the new five- ’
■year nursing course leading to a
college degree as well as a diplo
ma in nursing that Dillard Univer
sity of New Orleans is offering
this year will live and study in
the building shown above. In the
upper left hand comer is Flint
Goodridge Hospital, a unit of Dil
lard University, and beside it Char- j
ity Hospital, a magnificient insti
tution that takes rank with the
best in the country, where clinical
instruction and experience will be I
given student nurses after their
initial two years of pre-nursing
academic instruction received in
Dillard University's Library and
Academic Building below. Lower
left is show the entrance to the
■nurse’s borne on the grounds of
Flint-Goodridge Hospital, where
student nurses will live their last
three years of the course. Opposite
is the Women’s Dormitory of Dil
lard. where they will live during
the first two years of their college
life.
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WAITERS’
COLUMN
(BY H. W. SMITH)
WE. 6458
By H. W. Smith
THE WEEK
By H. W. Smith
Webster 6458
Bill Peebles is in Officers' Train
ing camp .-st Fort Benning, Ga.
Supt., Ear! Jones of the Omaha
Club is on vacation and visiting
his mother in Missouri.
Andy Kirksbund in Omaha.
R. C. Pi-ice is improving in
health.
Bill J nes is on his vacation.
4C. Club had a very interesting
meeting.
Omaha Guide tops in the News
of the World.
Many Soldiers on the streets and
they all have a real nice appear
ance.
F our colored baseball players
to be given a try-out in the major
league next season.
Credit Union should have more
share holders.
Brother Porter, had a fine bout
ride on Carter Lake.
Mr. Ed Fletcher all ready to go
fishing again.
School vacations are almost
over. Labor Day picnics and out
ings are in the making.
The group photo of the young
ladies working is the Membership
1 es, even the new Army piolts
being turned out at the Tuskegee
Army Flying School fall in love
and get married!
Second Lieutenant Charles H.
DeBow. 25, who was one of the
first class to get wings at this
school, was married one day this
week to Miss Gertrude Carter of
Tuskegee. DeBow’s home prior
to his entrance into the Army was
at 2843 Boulevard Place. Indiana
polis, Indiana.
The ceremony was performed by
Post Chaplain Douglass T. D. Rob
inson, in the chapel in the pres
ence of a few close friends. A
classmate and fellow officer, Lieu
tenant Mac Ross, was best man,
while Mrs. Fay Robinson was
bridesmaid.
The new bridegroom will con
tinue on his duties as an instruct
or in flying at the air base.
Drive is admired by everyone.
The Advisory Board of the 4C
Club had a very interesting meet
ing.
Musician head waiter, very
much out in front at the door ut
Dreamland hall.
Miss Jones, the outstanding
school teacher of Dallas, Texas,
back home to resume her duties.
Mrs. J. D. Lewis keeps the flow
ers and grass in front of her place
of business looking vert- beautiful.'
Attorney James B. Cashin is now
a member of the Chicago School
Board.
Mr. James Cole motored to Lin
coln to visit his brother. Mr. Terrv
Cole at the Government Hospital,
also Mr. Jasper Cole the Stream
lined fireman, can be seen on the
Harlem comer, 24th and Lake St.
James Allen, a high powered\
salesman at one of the No. 24th
St., business houses.
John C. Holmes, colored busi
ness man of Joliet, HI., foreman of
the jury that acquitted the Chi
cago Tribune of the Federal charge.
United Electric and radio mach
ine workers of Ameriea, meeting
in Cleveland in the making.
American teachers association
j meeting in Louisville. Kentucky.
General Marshall tells Senator,
Bankhead troops will remain as
they are.
Lmted Army Show, goes over
the top.
T our.g lady of our race, has
charge of one of the Western Un
ion Telegraph Offices in New York.;
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Reese leaves
Omaha for A. and M. College, at
Huntsville, Alabama.
Rev. Pegues delivered a very
fine sermon at Clair Chapel.
Stanley Goosby has another
fishing trip in the making.
The Waiters’ Column by H. W.
Smith—The R. R. boys are very
much out in front, we had the
pleasure of meeting Mr. Buster;
Philips on Sunday evening, and
he was all smiles seated in his
high-powered car; and Mr. Lind
wood Hall is top man playing
pool; and Mr. Harry Swain, Mr.
Hopkins. Mr. McCalister and Mr.
Rodney Williams are giving mod
ern service in a very fine way.
We are hoping to receive post I
cards from the Race Horse head
waiter of the Paxton Hotel, when
he takes the aeroplane trip to N.
Y., Boston, and Chicago.
BELIEVE HIM:
By L. Barnard Whitney
At least F. D. R. knows how we
felt about it putting the Fair Em
ployment Practice Committee un
der the Man Power Board, headed
by Paul V. McNutt, who is in our
corner. It is a very good sign of
our influence when the President
makes a public explanation of his
acts to Negro population when he
had done something important re
lating to their interests.
And I think we ought to accept
his explanation, which said he did
it to strengthen the Committee’s
power to get jobs for us, instead
of otherwise as we believed. F. D.
R. on the record has proven to be
the best and most influential
friend of the Negro in America
in modern times. Both he and his
wonderful wife are at bat for us,
helping us to win our second
emancipation.
By all means, BELIEVE HIM!
All the summer clubs closeing
| are in the making.
We got a slight, quick look at
| Mr. Redd Sunday morning, Aug.,
23rd about 2:30 when we were
enroute home. We could only say:
Hello.
The Omaha Guide is improving
all the time, subscribe and read
the Guide.
The Athletic Club, is on the
improve at all time. Two very fine
young ladies of our race are em
ployed as page girls, and here’s
hoping they make good. Let’s
all give them a hand. Miss’cs
Mercedes Moore, and Helen Long.
The White Horse Inn is out in
front at all times and Mr. Brunnch,
Mr. Dave Russ, Mr. Isiah Jones
are tops at all times, on modern
service.
Flash—When are the waiters
going to form a Stock Co., and!
build a hotel on North 24th St."
The credit union of the 4C Club
is very much in need of share
holders.
This writer is working on a
very vital subject, viz. knowing
how to talk! "When to talk! and;
what to talk about.
Are you a member of the NA
ACP ? If not take out a member
ship and be a good spoke in the
wheel.
Oh! say, boys, we are looking
for you to tell something about
your vacations, and we shall be
pleased to learn something new.
FATHER DIVINE IS FACING
JAIL
There is trouble in paradise this
week, at least in that portion
which Father Divine has set aside
as his own particular heaven. Jus
tice Botein of Supreme Court ruled
that he is in contempt of court for
failure to pay $100 to his former
angel, Verinda Brown who has a
suit against him for $5,949.57.
BEAD The GUIDE
SIKESTON MOB CHASES
MINISTER TO TRAIN AFTER
HE HITS LYNCHING
Sikeston, Mo.—One lynching vic
tim this year has not quenched
the blood-thirsty mob in this town.
Because the Reverend J. B. Ross of j
St. Louis preached against the
lynching of Cleo Wright which took
place here in January, he was
hounded to the Frisco railroad
station, and saved from the mob
only because the conductor locked
him in the men’s washroom of the
train.
Reverend Ross, a clergyman of
the CME church and president of
the NAACP branch organized here
immediately after the lynching last
January 25, came here Tuesday,
August 18th, and preached a ser- j
mon denouncing the lynching.
Early Wednesday the mob, learn-'
ing that he had “dared” to speak i
out, chased him to the station. He
narrowly missed sharing the fate !
of Cleo Wright by boarding the
train just ahead of the pack. Mem-!
bers of the mob followed him into
the train and pounded on the door
of the washroom until the conduc
tor persuaded them to leave.
The St. Louis NAACP has called
upon Governor Forrest Donnell of
Missouri to take immediate action.
Recently a federal grand jury in
vestigating Cleo Wright’s lynch
ing issued a statement in which
they deplored the crime, but found
no basis for federal prosecution,
and returned no indictments, al
though members of that lynching
gang were walking the streets
every day and are known to the
entire populace.
NAACP FEARS FEPC UNDER
McNutts direction
New York—“It is fantastic to
have two agencies under one di
rector, one of which permits and
almost invites discrimination while
the other is charged with the duty
of opposing discrimination the
NAACP wrote to President Roose
velt August 19th. when it again
asked him to restore the FEPC to
independent statusr
The Association questioned the
“friendly supervision” of WMC
chairman Paul V. McNutt.
“We note that no refernece was
made by you to the recent direc
tive issued „by the United States
Employment Service which ga^e
permission to state and local of
fices of the USES to fill orders
specifying race, creed, color or na
tional origin unless local state laws
prohibit filling discriminatory or
ders.
“In as much as the USES is un
der the direction of Mr. McNutt,”
the NAACP said, “the issuance of
such a directive does not bode well
for the success of the Fair Employ
ment Practice Committee under
Mr. McNutt.
“In the light of these facts, we
are unable to feel assured that the
transfer of the Fair Employment
Practice Committee to the War
Manpower Commission will bring
about the strengthening of the
Committee.”
The XAACP said it was grati
fied to note that the President had
stated the Committee was not to
be submerged, nor Executive
Order 8802 repealed, but “you did
not comment upon the very dis
turbing circumstances that as a
subsidiary of the War Manpower
Commission, the Fair Employment
Practice Committee will have to
get its funds in the future from
Congress.” The XAACP again
pointed out that the bitter attacks
on the Committee by southern
congressmen and Governors Dix
on of Alabama and Talmadge of
Georgia, following he Birmingham
hearings, “are an ominous porten*
of the treatment which will be ac
corded to a budget for the work of
the FEPC.”
August 22, 1942
C. C. Galloway,
2420 Grant St.,
Omaha, Nebr.
This is to certify that at the
Primary Election held August 11,
1942, you were elected a Delegate
to the Douglas County Republican
Convention from the 2nd Ward
12th District.
The Douglas County Republican
Convention will be held in the
Council Chamber of the City Hall,
18th and Farnam Streets, Omaha.
Nebraska, on Thursday, August 27,
1942. at 2 o’clock p. m.
This certificate will be your cre
dential to the Convention and must
be presented by yon personally, to
the proper officers of the Conven
tion. The authority reposed in you
by reason of your election is per
sonal in its nature and yon cannot
authorize any other person to ap
pear or act in your behalf at said
convention.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I
have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of my office the
day and date last aforesaid.
JOSEPH A. VOJIR.
Election Commissioner,
Douglas County,
Nebraska.
MEMORANDUM TO THE
EDITOR:
Here is proof that Harlam fam-'
ilies are victims of exploitation ’
through the prices they pay for
food.
This comparative study of retail
food prices made by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People during the
month of July, shows that the
Harlem housewife spends on food
six cents more for every dollar
than does a housewife in any other
section where the income level is
comparable.
We believe that these conditions
are no* unique to Harlem, but exist
in almost ever> urban community,
and that local citizens can remedy
them by decisive action.
For example: The survey shows ]
that a housewife in Halem, shop
ping for the bare essentials in J
food items, would have to spend
from FOUR to SEX PER CENT
MORE to get these items than if j
she lived in any of the other eco
nomically comparable areas:
Greenwich Village. Chelsea-Hell’s
Kitchen, E«ower East Side, Green
point, or Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Differentials in chain store prices
are even higher. Here the prices
range from FIVE to TWELVE
PER CENT MORE in Harlem than
in the other sections.
In addition it was found that
price ceilings set by the Office of
Price Administrations are being ig
nored or evaded in a great many
cases.
All this means that there is sys
tematic cheating among Harlem
retailers who not only overcharge
customers for essential food items,
but also, as the survey shows, give
them inferior products for the high
prices exacted.
We recommend to your careful
consideration this pamphlet and
suggest that the findings set forth
in it might well furnish material
for an editorial. This is a matter
of the utmost importance, not only
to Harlem and New York City, but
to the entire nation.
The Association has reiterated
its recommendation to Leon Hen
derson, director of the Office <5f
Price Administration, that prices
in areas such as Harlem rolled
back to an equitable level. In ad
dition it has sent instructions to
its branches throughout the coun
try to make similar surveys and to
present the results with reecm-,
mendations for roll-backs to local
OPA offices.
Charlotte B. C:ump,
Publicity and Promotion.
CHATTANOOGAN. 58 YEARS A
CITY EMPLOYEE. RETIRES
By Katie M. Smith
Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 27th
(A NP)—City employees here, of
both races, joined this week in
honoring Frank Cowan, who was
placed on the retired list after serv
ing the city water company for
58 years.
Veteran Cowan joined the com
pany in 1884, at the age of 15,
nis first job being at Citico pump
ing station, where he worked under
George Hancock, chief engineer.
After 16 years at the pumping sta
tion, Cowan served for 20 years in
the meter department; 10 years in
the street department on a leak
truck and a service truck, and for
the past 12 years has been em
ployed in the filter plant.
In tribute to the white-thatched,
white-mustachioed veteran, A. F.
Porzolius, city water company man
ager, said:
“We cannot praise Cowan too
highly for his faithful service. A
willing worker whenever he was
called upon—regardless of the kind
of work to be done, either night
or day—Cowan will be missed by
the company and by his fellow
workers. We wish him the best of
luck throughout his remaining
years.”
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO
ENTER TEXAS VOTE-DENIAL
CASE
Houston, Texas—The written
statement of a Harris county cle-k
that “since voor poll tax shows
that yon are colored, you are not
eligible to vote in this election,”
will be presented in evidence when
the next grand jury meeting here
will investigate the denial of an:
absentee ballot to Dr. J. E. Gath- j
ings of this city, temporarily re
siding in New York City, the N
AACP said this week.
Dr. Gathings properly returned
the necessary form requesting co
vote in the primary election, held
in Texas the fourth Saturday in
July. The clerk, W. D. Miller!
promptly returned the poll tax
receipt with the statement that j
Dr. Gathings’ color prevented him
from voting.
Part of the NAACP campaign
to break down the Democratic
white primary system in southern
poll tax states, the presentation of
Dr. Gathings’ case to the Depart
ment of Justice is expected to re-!
suit in prosecution of the county,
clerk or election officials.
MAC ROSS GETS SPECIAL
ASSIGNMENT BRANCH
Now that he has lea-ned to fly
pursuit ships, Second Lieutenant
Mac Ross takes up another ph*se
af Army life. He is now commansJ
tng officer for one of the new pur
suit squadrons at the Tuskegee
Army Flying School.
Although he is only 25, tins
officer, l'k3 other‘graduate pitots cf
he Army Air Forces, learns tbwe
are other duties besides flying P
40’s. So this graduate of the West
Virginia State College has been as
signed his new job ‘*in addition to
other duties.” That last phrase
means that he still flies so many
hours every day, instructing cadets
in the basic stage.
Yes, Tnskegee Army Flying
School not only trains them how
to fly but also is training these
same young pilots how to handle
squadrons of men—all a part of
the rigid training which is fast
whipping them into combat units.
Lt. Ross calls Dayton, Ohio his
home town. His residence is at
955 Card Avenue.
NEGROES ABROAD
It should be put on the record
that to date not a single Negro
soldier serving with our troops in
various foreign countries has done
anything to bring shame or dis
honor to either his race or his coun
try. We are sorry, as patriotic citi
zens, that such is not true of the
white soldier. In Australia, a cfcar
American trooper raped and tilled
three white women, while in Eng
land one of our white boys was re
cently tried for murder, the first
case of its kind in World War IL
The white press, of course, car
ried both stories, but not without
a justified reluctance clearly seen
in the manner in which they play
ed up the defense, Naturally, no
mention was indicated of what
modern or ancestral racial stock
these unfortunate fellows came
from. But had either of them
been colored Americans the white
press would have, as usual, found
them “guilty” at first mention cT
their ancient fallacy, to wit, if the
accused is colored, he must be
guilty.
Our colored boys have been wel
comed everywhere abroad, and
often accorded treatment better
than they received at home. We
are confident that our colored
troops will sustain their good rec
ord of behavior, even in the face
of painful restrictions and provo
cations on the part of many
their white comarades-in-arms.
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