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aauli UiiiAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER EwWished Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WEbster 1517 Entered as Seccnd Class Matter Match *>. 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Eongres? of March 3, 1879. J. Ford, — — — Pres. tin. Flurna Coope% — — ; ice Pies. CL C. Galloway, — Publisher and Acting Editor Bnyd V. Galloway. - Sec’v and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATE LN OMAHA On* Year — — —» r—» |tM Six Months — — — — $1-2' Three Months — — - One Month _____ * H SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN One Yoar — — — — $2 5< Six Months — — — fl.5( Three Months — — _ 91.00 One Month — _ _ _ .46 All News Copy of Churches and all organizat ions must he in our office not later than 1:00 p. m Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy o Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, pre feeding date of issue, to insure publication. National Advertising Representative: INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, INC., 545 Fifth Avenu*. New York City, Phone MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Manager. TEACHERS, STUD NTS URGED TO SUPPORT CIVILIAN DEFENSE Imprtance of thorough cooperat ion in civilian defense activities by defense councils and the faculties and students of schools and colleges was emphasized in a statement is sfned here by Regional Director Jos eph D. Scholtz of the OCD. “To accomplish maximum results from the home front program in the war effort we need the help of ev ery teacher, every school administr i tor and every students in colleges and universities and down through the high schools and elementary grades,” he said. “Every teacher and administrator should be enroll ed in civilian defense and actively engaged in some branch of defense work. Beyond these individual act ivities, the educators can exert great influence in organizing students for most effective participation in home front effort. "Schools are opening throughout the Seventh Defense Region. Local Refense councils everywhere should f>e alert to the opportunities for en listing teachers and students for ac tive defense service and for making use of the technical guidance and assistance which may be provided by faculty members in many activ ities.” In the elementary schools, Diive ator Scholtz pointed out, it is plan ned tp enroll 30,000,000 boys and jOtIr in a Junior Salvage Corps, which is expected to add large quan ta JHE AND TIDE WAIT ON VO MAN—NOW IS THE TIME U# GET YOUR SHOES HE WUH T. Quality Material & Guaranteed Quality Work FREE DELIVERY Call AT. 7060 The LAKE SHOE SERVICE j S. L .TAYLOR, PROP. tities of salvage material to the na tional scran pile. Further activit. ies, he said, depend in large part on teacher initiative in emphasizing , health and nutrition and organizing t pupils for their own maximum pro tection in possible air raids. Commenting on opportunities for defense services by faculties and students of high schools and colleg I es, he quoted from remarks by Na tional OCD Director James M. Lan dis at the conference last week of the National Institute on Education and War as Washingon, D. C. Said Director Landis: I “It is the business of civilian de fense to help Americans take nec essary precautions to protect them selves as well and as quickly as possible against possible enemy at tack. .....It is the business of civil- \ j jan defense to help all Americans , to have mQre and better food, to im prove their health, to keep famiiy life intact, and so to speed produc tion in spite of the stresses and strains, the changes and dislocations , brought on by war. To accomplish this twofold task civilian defense needs the aid of every school and college president, administrator and teacher.” Continuing, Director Landis rec ommended that campus organizat ions should find every possible means of cooperating with local de fense councils. “Every school or colege should b? a reservoir of volunteer workers for civilian defense,” he said. URGE ALL NEGRO SEAMEN TO REGIST’R All Negro seamen holding Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigat ion papers were urged this week to register at local United States Em ployment offices in principal cities and towns for possible employment in the merchant marine. A national registration of former merchant marine seamen, from Sept 8 to Sept. 18, has been announced by Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. BASEMENT CORDS FOR BOYS 1 Corduroy ' Pants ! and Jumpers 2.98 Corduroy trousers have Miracle ex pansion band. Maroon, blue, brown, >»avy Sizes S to 12. Jannrpers 5n four colors. Sizes 4 to 8 I BASEMENT WHERE QUALITY IS LOW PRICED. I -* -———— We Offer for Your Approval A Complete Curtain Service and Another thing,— Have Your Dry Cleaning Done Now! _Cash and Carry Discounts— EDHOLM &SHERMAN 2401 North 24th Street WE. 6055 Admiral Emory S. Land, War Ship ping Administrator. The registra tion will determine how many men with previous sea experience are a vailable for sea duty. According to the War Shipping Administration, a total of 7,000 Ne gro seamen worked at least one salt water or Great Lake voyage be tween August, 1940 and August 1941. In addition, 13,480 Negroes holding Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation papers were not on sea duty at that time. This indicates a potential total of 20,840 Negroes ex perienced in merchan marine serv ice. Admiral Land explained that, due to the steady increase in the size Of the American Merchant Marine, there lies ahead the necessity to em ploy as many experienced seamen as possible to help man the ships carrying vital war Supplies. Over 100,000 seamen and officers will be needed to sail the 2,300 n^v ships that will be built by the end of next year. “There is no compulsion in this registration,” he said. “All that we ask of these men is that they let their country know who they are. where they are, and if they are will be called only as the need for the'r ing to return to the sea. They will particular skill becomes acute.” The War Shipping Administrate stressed the shortage of experienced men in specialized fields. “ Weare going to need masters, mates, engineers, radio operators, cooks and bakers and able bodied seamen,” he said. “America is well aware of the vital function of de livering our planes, tanks, guns ar.d ether war supplies to the many fighting fronts. “Our shipbuilding program is breaking records. The ships are be ing delivered.... we need men to man them, particularly men with the ‘know how’ of operating ocean going vessels. “Throughout the past years of these men have settle down to shore jobs. A good many are probably now in war industries. The need for the skill of these men is recogn ized and we are asking them to reg ister so that they may be called up on to serve their country where they are needed most.” Admiral Land said that living and working conditions in the American Merchant Marine are at their high est level. He said that wages and other financial benefits are the high est ever known for the industry. A widespread program under United Seamen's Service has been launched to provide housing medical care, information and recreation facilities for American seamen. New safety devices have been installed aboard our ships and protection against en emy action constantly increased. “The wartime American Merchant Marine is an outfit for which ant man can be proud to work,” he said. ATTENTION! HOTEL WORKERS Because there is a shortage of la bor, most workers feel they have job-security. Yet we still work long hours, our working conditions re main the same and our pay checks tell us our wages have not been in creased. Some have ventured int'i other jobs, thinking this will solve their problem. But there are res ponsibilities attached to every job, this made t0 order job that we have in mind, if it exists it was made possible through organization. So my friend, that which we*.are con stantly looking for ca nbe obtained in your present job. Let us take note of what other cities the size and about the population of Omaha are paying their hotel employees who are members of organized la bor. Syracuse, New York is a good example of what organization can do for the hotel wrkers.... their wage scale is as follows: Waiters ..$50 per month Cooks... .$30 per week 1 Elevator Operators ..$17 per week Maids .. . . ,....$17 per week Housemen.$20 per week Door men.$18 per week Kitchen workers ....$16 per week This of course, includes meals, uniforms furnished and laundered by the employer—one weeks vaca tion with pay and eight and half hours constitutes a day’s labor. All I__— ! West Virginia State Buys $93,000 In U. S. War Bonds j J COUNCIL DIRECTS CAMPAIGN: Through the energy of the Student Council of West Virginia State College at Institute, West Virginia, more than $93,000 worth of United States ^ ar Bonds and Stamps have been sold. Students, faculty members, and the school community all cooperated with the Student Council under the direction of Sherman Smith, president, and George H. Kydd, secretary. A ^ • W* • ^ Regular purchasing stands and booths are maintained by the Student Council, operated by various committees chosen by council members. West .Virginia State has an enrollment of more than 1,000 men and womens overtime must be paid for not in time off, but in cash Now let’s to our own city of Om aha:...._ Waiters ........ $10 per mo. the! highest $35. Cooks .$15 per week and lower. Elevator Operators .$10 per' • I week. Maids .$7 per week, the high-i est $12. Housemen .......... .$15 per week Doormen .$15 per week Kitchen workers.$10 per week Some receive vacations without pay, all furnish their uniforms, bring your lunch and work until you can hardly move than you are invited to be sure and come to work on time the next day. I doubt very much if you have ever thought of the time and labor you have been giving for nothing. The problem can be solved if the I workers will make the effort to do so. Come out to the unin meetings 1 held each Sunday at 3 p. m. at 242(i Lake Street.’there is no obligation except an effort On your part to bet ter your working conditions. Any question you may have in mind will be answered, any suggestin you have to offer will be so honored. A movement of this kind means that all hotel workers must take a part in order that they may enjoy the full benefits of organization. W. A. Davis, Bus. Agt. I SHARECROPPER GETS HEARING IN N. J. ON EXTRADITION CHARGES S. C. LANDLORD WITH PEONAGE \ (continued from page ]) is peonage.” Williams, arrested and imprison- . ed here recently on a warrant re- j quested by Young, escaped to New Jersey last April after 11 years of debt slavery on the Timmonsvjlle , plantation. If returned to South Carolina, he faces criminal prosecu tion, a lifetime of peonage, and pos sible death, the NFCL. declares. On Sept. 1, Williams, in an affl davitt filed with the department of justice, declared that he, his wife, and three children, worked six days a week for 11 years, were always in debt to Young, were prohibited from leaving the plantation, were ‘‘kept in slavery,” and talked night after night with others among the 150 sharecropper families on the plantation about possible escape. Those who attempted escape wtro put on th echain gang when they were found, he said. Gov. Jeffries, who agreed to the hearing in New Jersey declared that he agreed to such a hearing in or der that Wiliams’ case might be ‘‘fairly presented to the New Jersey governor.” eH added, however, that he felt that “any defense the pris oner may have to the charges i should be made in the South Caro lina courts.” Extradition papers in the pro ceedings say that Williams entered into a verbal contract with Young “which was witnessed by two disin- j terested parties” to “render person al service” to Young for one year “operating and assisting in Xhe op eration of a farm in Florence county on a share crop basis.” Along with the XFCL., the NAA CP., the National Negro Congress, the North Jersey Comittee against discrimination, and other organiz ations are asking Negroes through out the country to wire Gov. Edison urging him to prevent extradition: wire Gov. Jeffries, Columbia, S. C. asking him to withdraw his request for extradition: and write Atty Gen. Biddle and Victor Rotnem of the civil liberties unit, urging the de partment of justice to proceed with immediate prosecution of Cleo Young for peonage. Urban L’ge Leader Urges Cooperation In War Effort URBAN LEAGUE LEADER URGES RACIAL COOPERATION IN WAR EFFORT an enthusiastic and intensely in teresting welcming' meeting marked the opening of the Annual National Urban League Conference at beau tiful Camp James Weldon Johnson, at Florence, Pennsylvania. Friday. Over 200 delegates and visitors packed the rustic Camp Johnson, dining hall, where they heard Leg ter B. Granger, National Executive Secretary of the League give an in teresting report on the progress of the organization, after which he an nounced the war-titne policies for the coming year.| The dynamic executive cited the need for a more powerful concentra tion upon the integration of every available Negro into the defense) prgram, either military or indust rial. He stressed the importance of constructive publicity, with an un limited coverage, so that the entire nation can be informed and acquain ted with the qualifications and use fulness of brown Americans and urged the employment of them into every phase of the gigantic war time program. Mr. Granger stated further, that it is the duty of the League o continue its drive against discrimination in industry and de nounced the practice and claimed that it created a bitterness which must by all means be controlled, that bitterness and hatred is a dir ect road to utter destruction and defea. Concluding his talk, he said “Every Negro must realize his res ponsibility in the war efort and put forth his very best, financially, mor ally and physically to defeat the axis powers.” Other notables present at the meeting were: Attorney Eugene Dickerson of Chicago: member of the Fair Employment Practice Com mittee, Mrs. Robert L. Vann, pub lisher, Pittsburgh Courier, John T. Clark, Executive Secretary of the St. Louis Urban League, Spahr Hull Pittsburgh Urban League Board, Mrs. Daisy Lampkins, Field Repres entative NAACP., Clayborne George Cleveland Urban League, Mrs. Sadie Alter, former president, Pittsbuigh Urban League. Vister L. Lynch, president. Camp James Weldon Johnson, Wilbur Maxwell, Execut ive Secretary, Pittsburgh Commuii ity Fund, Dr. Carl Herman Voss, German Evangelical Church, Pitts burgh, George Mills; Allegheny De partment of Public Assistance and Dorothy Strauss, member of Nation al Board Urban League and many other civic leaders. The conference will be in session over Labor Day weekend. ORCHESTRAS, ODT. TO CONFER SEPT 12th ON BUSES IN SOUTH New York. .To ease restrictions on the use of buses for transporting Young lady, does an old TABOO prevent your knowing this help? In less enlightened days, women didn’t discuss these things. Now, it’s different. If a woman suffers from periodic cramp-like pain and other purely functional distresses, she tries to learn how to help herself. Thousands of women praise the 2-way help of Cardui. Taken as a tonic, it usually peps up the appe-, tite, stimulates the flow of gastric juices, thus aiding digestion and thereby helping build up energy and resistance. Started three days before the time, and taken as di rected, it should help relieve much purely functional, periodic pain. Try CARDUI. A 62 year record says it may help! Negro bands, especially in souther:, areas, a conference will be held September -12 here with represent atives of the Office Of Defense Transportation, Negro orchestra leaders, their managers and John Hammond, editor of Music and Rhythm and NAACP board member Judge Hubert T. Delany, of rhe Do mestic Relations court here, also a NAACP board member, and Walter White, NAACP executive secretary. The NAACP proposed on August 26, in a letter to the ODT, that that office issue special permits for the use of a specified number of char tered busses “of predetermined routes in the southern area." It j was also proposed that the determ ination Of the routes be left to a committee composed f rchestra lea ders and their managers, with Judge Delany and Mr. Hammnd as co chairmen. The NAACP first began work to lift restrictions on the use of buses for Negro orchestras sevra] months j ago. after band leaders and some cf their managers visited the New York headquarters of the Associat ion to ask for advice and a'd. Preceding the September 12 con ference was a conference with ODT officials, arranged by the NAACP. at which Walter White and Cab Cal loway discussed “almost insurmOv t able difficulties” which would be (imposed on Negro bands if they were no longer able to use buses for I travel. It was stated at this conference that unless buses were made avail able, almost all colored orchestras ' would be put out of business. In southern localities, the orchestra leaders state, it is often necessary to travel many miles from a “loca tion”, where the band is playing to find food and lodging. NEW ORLEANS NEGRO TEACHERS TO GET MORE MONEY THIS FALL New Orleans, La.Finally clos ing the fight of more than a year made by New Orleans Negro tea Ti ers for salaries equal to those paid white teachers, the decree was sign ed September 1, granting them half the difference between their pay and that of whites beginning this month, full equalization by 1943, the NAACP has announced. On behalf of Joseph McKelpin, named plaintiff in the suit, and for all the colored teachers and prineip McG ILL’S — BAR & BLUE ROOM E. McGill, Prop. 2423-23 NORTH 24th St WINE, LIQUORS, and CIGARS Blue Room Open 8 p. m. to 1 a. ni. 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