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N A A C P MASS MEETING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
Salem Starts Revival, Sunday Night * CME.’s IN 5-DAY CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK
SPECIAL REVIVAL (
The Salem Baptist Church will be
gin its City Wide Revival starting
Monday Sept 21st. 7:30 p. m. Each
evening and continuing through un
til? These series of services will
conducted by the Rev. W. H
Woods Of Tulsa, Okla. We do carl
upon every Church and Christian to
attend and participate in making
thsi one of the greatest Soul Savina
Campaigns ever attempted here
The Revival will get underway cn
Sunday night with an all request
Musical Program sponsored by th**
Senior Choir. Follow the crowd to
the little white church on the hill
28th and Decatur St. Mrs. F. B
Moorer. Clerk, Rev. W. E. Fort,
Minister.
BETWEEN THE
LINES
(BY DEAN GORDON B.
HANCOCK FOR ANP)
WANTED: A Till HI) FRONT
Impatiently is the wo; Id waiting
for the opening of a second front.
Like the old proverb about the wea
ther, must is said about it but noth
ing done- From the historians of
the future Russia is going to wring
paens of wondrous praise for the
noble stand she is making. Already
her endurance and valor have amaz
d *■ world. Honest men who h*>n
estly spurn Russia’s polit.cat iu, .
ccv must admire her heroic defense
against the finest war machine the
world has ever known. To date the
fighting laurels of World War II
go to Red Russia. - •
This matter of opening a Second
front is becoming grave indeed, fo.
Russia cannot win this war by her
self, however valorous her armies
may prove in mortal combat. There
crimes times when human nature
can do no more; and should this
time come upon the Russians before
the opening of a second front, it
will mark a tragic development in
the cause of the united nations. It
makes one sick at heart to contem
plate the concentration of Germ.tr
controlled Europe on Great Britain,
for the conquest of Russia will put.'
at Germany’s disposal vast stores
of mateorials that would prove tre
mendously powerful in "pulverizing j
the British Isles. .
But our great concern here is not
-q much the first front on which
Russia and Germany are locked in
mortal combat this very hour, nor
in the one we hope will be establish
ed soon, however important these
two fronts may be. We are prim
arily interested in opening a morel
front whereby the victorius nations
may prove themselves worthy oi
victory. The question of the hearts
of the victors is even more import
ant than victory itself; for unless
the warring nations undergo a
change of heart victory is going to
be but an empty episode of battl»
AA'e are fighting today because the
hearts of the victors of World War
I wer not right; and unless the
hearts of the current victors are
right our peace will prove but a nra
lude to a AV'orld War III that will
be even more devastating than the
war that is upon us. Life is not a
matter of the head but of the heart.
Our of the heart are he issues of
life and this is as true of nations as
of individuals.
This article is inspired by what is
transpiring in India. In the hen
Of-its greatest peril. Great Britain
seems bent on defeating the aspir
ations of the Indians to be free. The
Continued on page 2)
VV A A CS in Uniform
Left to right, Miss Vera Harris
on, of Hamilton, Ohio, and Mr3.
Mary A. Bordeaux, of Louisville,
Kentucky, strolling down the Com
party Street after drill. Both are
Officer candidates in Company 1,
First Regiment Women's Auxiliary
Corps.
SOLDIER ACCUSED OF MURD‘R
TO BE DEFENDED
BY NAACP.
Macon, Ga.,. .Captured after the
biggest manhunt in years here, last
ing 27 hours, Private Edmond Reel
charged with the murder of a local
policeman, will be defended when he
goes on trial soon, by the Macon
branch and the national office of
the National Association for th“
Advancement of Colored People.
Colonel A. T. Walden, member of
the NAACP national legal commit
tee. will handle the Negro soldier's
defense.
Private Reed, in the army for five
years, was arrested hei'e August 20
by a military policeman. Sgt. M. TV
Whitmire, on suspicion .of being
AWOL. While waiting for the pol
ice patrol wagon to come it is claim
ed that the MP hit the soldier with
his fist. Reed is said to have
thrown up his hands to protect his
head.
At this point a city policeman
standing nearby stated: “Turn him
over to me.’’
A crowd began* to gather threat
ening the soldier. He w-as Struck
a severe blow at the back of the
head, leaving a deep gash. He then
is said to have grabbed the pistol
of the MP and to have shot the city
officer, who died, and the MP, who
suffered wounds. Reed then ran
away from the crowd which was
said to have be?n beating him.
The NAACP stated that there i ■
evidence that O'her Negro soldiers
had been beaten before the attack
on Reed.
White citizens of Macon, joined
by Mayor Charles L. Bowden, form
ed a mob numbering hundreds which
scoured the countryside in search
of the soldier.
When Reed was captured, after
a 27 hour pursuit, h? had a bullet
wound in his right leg, which mem
bers of the posse refused to explain,
and was bleeding from a gash in his
head. He was dragged from a
small lake near the Southern rail
road switchyards.
Reed's cas was scheduled to go
to trial about September 15. .
NEGRO VOLUNTEERS
NURSE SHIP SURVI
VORS
Southport, N. C., Sept. 15 (AXF)
With no fuss and feather—no fan
fare—a group of Negro Red Cross
volunteer nurse's aides have worked
long hours in a local hospital, dav
Name Negro Minister
To Oppose Rankin
IN MISS. ELECTION <
Chicago, Sept. 14 (ANP>—Delegat
es to the National Baptist conven
tion. unincorporated. in sessions
here at Ebenezer Baptist Church
last week endorsed the movement
lead by Edgar G Brown, director
of the National Negro council, to
elect a Negro to the congressional
seat of Hep. John E. Rankin, (D-*n.
Miss.) outstanding foe of the anti
poll tax amendment to the soldier's
vote bill.
Named as candidate for the office
|s the Rev. James Arthur Parsons
Df Tupelo, pastor of four churches
in Rankin’s home district. That
chances to defeat Rankin are excel
lent was indicated by figures pres
enter! by Brown in an address to
the convention. He said Rankin
was recently renominated by a total
vote of only 6,000. The 12.000 votes
of Negroes now serving in the arm
ed forces would be sufficient to ac
complish his political death, he add.
(Continued on page£ggf,4)
Demand Action in Beating
of Two Baptist Ministers i
New York...... “Federal action is
imperative”, to redress the beati’i
of Baptist ministers Dr. J. C. Jack
son, 76, Hartford, Conn., president,
of the New England Baptist Confer
ence and Reverend S. A. Young,
Washington, D. C., on September S.
the NAACP told President Roose
velt. The NAACP has offered legal
assistance to the ministers.
The NAACP wire, ..old h0w Dr.
Jackson, a pasenger on a Memphis
bound train,,was struck in the face,
breaking his eye-glasses and cutting
his eyes and lips, because a white
passenger objected to the minister’s
passing through the white coach on
the way from the dining car to his
Seat. Reverend Young was also
struck and his eye glasses broken
for the same reason.
Pointed out to the President was
a similar attack on Professor Hugh
M. GJoster of Morehouse college,
who was thrown off a train at Tu
pleo, Miss.,-on Sept. 2 by policemen
and a conductor, beaten, imprison
ed and fined, because he requested
that Negroes standing in the iim
crow car be permitted to sit in an
empty white car adjoining.
“This Association has presented
to the U. S. Attorney General and
the Office of Defense Transporta
tion the facts in other brutal as
saults on Negro soldiers in trains,
buses and other -.public carriers in
the South,” the wire stated. “This
Association has done all within its '
limited ^ower to secure redress. Bet
there is a limit to human endurance
jit is apparent that subversive forc
es in the South are deliberately pro
[ voking some of these attacks, hop
j ing that riots and other clashes
I may occur,” the NAACP statement
continued.
“Those responsible for such at
tacks are destroying at a terrible
j rate the already low morale of 13
, million American Negroes. In do
p rag so they injure America’s war
effort and effectively aid the cause
of the Axis. V,’e submit that the
situation is so grave that federal
action is imperative.”
0 C D. DOESN’T
WANT NEGROES
or Liberals?; DANIELS RESIGNS
DIVISION H- UNITED WAR & COMMUNITY
FUND CAMPAIGN TO BE DIRECTED BY
MRS. WALTER IRVIN; SPONSORED BY
URBAN LEAGUE, AND N, SIDE YWCA.
DANCING DINAH REVUE
RETURNS TO OMAHA AFTER
WEEK’S ENGAGEMENT
IN LINCOLN
The Dancing Dinah Revue, heart
ed by Eddie Le Monte (Lemons) ace
comedian, has Just returned to Om
aha after a successful engagement,
with Nat Towles and His Orchestra |
at the King's Ballroom in Lincoln,)
Nebraska By popular demand Mr,
I LeMonte will present his versatile j
cast in another superb midnight ^
i show, Saturday night. Featured in
i the show will be Peg-leg Jefferson,'
the sensational acrobatic dance and
Mary, Queen Of the Jitterbugs. Oth- j
ers in the cast include Chick and
Chiikie, Herbert Underdew, and Ed
monia Collins), Dancing Demons,
Dennis Stewart, "Boy with the In
sane Feet” who is equally as good
in his Spoon Dance, Eddie LeMonte ^
(Hisself) and Mrs. Jean Montgom-1
ery, the very capable manager.
and night, helping with the surviv- j
ors of torpedoed ships.
On four different occasions when j
the men were brought into the hos- j
pital covered with oil. their job was j
to cleanse them and make the pat-j
ients more comfortable before act
ual treatment could be given.
“We are going to have to depend
upon these women more and mo“e
later on,” said the volunteer nurse’s
aide chairman, Mrs. Mary Fergus,
“so far they have been a godsend
to the hospital.... untiring in their
efforts and most anxious to serve,
whenever they are needed”
Approximately 26 Negro aides
were graduated in three classes.
Another class is now being organ
ized.
' One of the important leaders in
the United War and Community
Fund campaign to raise $800,000 in
Omaha October 19 to 29 will be Mrs.
I Walter Irvin. She will direct the
volunteer women’s corps compris
ing Division H. The work of this
division is sponsored jointly by the
Urban League and the Northside
YWCA., both of which will benefit
from the fund.
Territory for these workers will
be eastward from 30th Str et be
tween Cuming and Pinkney streets.
Welfare and relief activities ser
*ng armed forces of the United Stat
es and warshocked civilians of our
allied nations have been Allocated a
substantial share of OmaHc/s quota
The largest part of the fund will be
spent in fortifying the home front
through the 30 welfare and relief
agencies of the Community Chest.
“If you can’t go. .GIVE!” is the
slogan adopted for the campaign.
And in giving Omahans’ w'ill at one
time discharge their obligation for
an entire year toward supporting
the following agencies serving or
the national overseas fronts:
USO. (United Service Organizat
ions which include the YMCA., YW
CA., Jewish Welfare Board, Nation
al Catholic Community Service, Na
tional Travelers Aid Associat on.
an dthe Salvation Army) Polish-A
rnerican Council. Greek War Relief
cy.oen Wilhelmina Fund, Russ'an
War Relief, United China Relief.
British War Relief Society, War
| Prisoners Aid, American Field Serv
fice. Navy Relief Society, U. S. Com
mittee for the Care of Europeac
Children.
A'l of th.se agencies, Chairman
Dale Clark emphasizes, have been
indorsed and their budgets sifted S
times: by a committee appointed b> ,
President Roosevelt, by the Nation
al Budget Committee for War Ap
peals, and by Omaha Defense Funds
Inc., Applications of several other
agencies for participation in the O
maha Campaign are now pending
before the Omaha sifting group.
To present the facts of the drive
to the public, a speakers burequ has
been formed. Organizations- seek
ing a speaker to explain the drive
are asked to phone AT. 2994.
i _
CAA NOW ACCEPTING
PILOT S AP’LICATIONS
Washington, Sept. 14 (ANP)— As
revealed exclusively through ANP
several weeks ago, the Civil Aero
nautics administration has received
authorzation from the army to train ;
Negroes in its new program of prc-'
parng noncombat pilots for the air 1
forces and is now accepting appli- I
cations.
The bulk of the Negro trainees
are destined for service as instruct- l
j ors in line, with S c. Stimson’s re
! cent statement that “final approved 1
has been given to a plan which calls
for the pilot training of a, further
limited number of Negroes.”
All applications for CAA training
under the army plan must be from
18 to 3G years of age inclusive and
if under 27, must be decjred inelig- ‘
I ible for training as combat pilots by ]
| an aviation cadet selection board of
| the army. They must, however, be
able to pass the CAA physical and
I mental examinations.
Courses lasting aproximately 36
j weeks will be given at Tuskegee In
stitute and Coffey school of aero
nautics, Chicago.
Room and board, health and acci
dent insurance, will be provided for
I BY AT \riN E. WHITE
W ASHINGTON, D. C , SEPT. 15—
(ANP)—That all is not well with the
Office of Civilian Defense is indic
ated through the resignation of Jon
athan Daniels. North Carolina lib
eral, who has often been referred u
as a champion of the rights of mitf
ority groups.
Mr. Daniels suddenly tendered big
resignation to Dean Landis, direc
tor of OCD, under circumstances
which have not been fully explain
ed.
It was reported last week that
Mr. Daniels contemplated resigning
He submitted his resignation to hi
superior last Monday. It is report
ed further that Mr. Daniels could
not get results and was stripped 03
most of his authority several week;
ago. However, the White House i;
said to have offered Daniels an im
portant post On the President’s staff
On the other hand, all is not well
with the colored personnel at OCD.
Apparently, Negroes were neve
wanted in the setup, for most of
those who were there during the
Roosevelt-LaGuardia reg me are as
signed to other agencies and are
not on the OCD payroll. First of
these was Will Alexander who was
shunted to OFF and later to the
Office of War Information. Then
Miss Thelma Tabb was knocked out
and sent to the personnel division,
Office of Emergency Management.
Now there is talk that there is a
wide difference of opinion between
ilrs. Crystal Byrd Fauset, a com pet
ent administrator, and the powers
that be. It is kno\vn that Mrs. Fan
set is seldom in her office in the
building which houses OCD, al
though her secretary makes an
pointments there for her.
AVhat has transpired, no om
knows, for all concerned are stranjf
ly silent on the matter.
There has been talk that Lt. Col
Howard McQueen, a Wa hingtonja
now assigned to the 368th infantry
in Massachusetts, is to be brought
into the Office of Civilian Defpns
in some capacity. Mrs. Fauset is
.’acial relations adviser and has hel-’
this post for sometime. Her relat
ions with Mr. Daniels and others
who have left the OCD were mo
cordial. ,
On th? other hand, there is ;
strong report current t0 the effect
that OCD is planning a system o;
education for certain persons select
ed in various cities to do civilian
defense work exclusvely. Federal
funds are to be provided for this in
struction which take place at four
colleges. Tuskegee has been men
tioned as one of the four and the
jonly Negro Institution.
The courses are to be conducted
by military officers under irrtmed- i
iate supervision of the war depart*
ment. This would lend some cred- I
trainees, but they will receive ■•o
salary until they go on active duty
with the army. During the CAA
training period, they will be on in
active status in the enlisted reserve
of the army air forces.
TEXAS CAPITAL BLOC
STRONGEST?
Washington, Sept. 15 (ANP) That^
the south is in the saddle in the gov
ernment is a well known fact, but
the most influential group of sou
therners operating in the capital js
the Texas delegation, which never
fails to get what it wants.
In the matter of war industries,
Texas is reported to have more than
any other state in the union anl it
is the general belief that the power
ful influence of. the Texas delegat
ion caused the present postpone
ment if not the complete abandon
ment of the FEPC’s contemplated
El Paso hearings.
Dr. Mae McCarroll, Acting Medical
Consultant to the Diviaion of Negro
Service of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.
ASKED TO
INVESTIGATE
terror:
CAMPAIGN
BY GA. WARDEN
New York-Information th<i
neoahero Of the Georgia eUte high
way patrol have been instructed t
'stop and search every Negro w
’aw on the highway after 9 o'cloc
at night, use our blackjacks o
them, jerk them out Of cars an
search the cars. Run them off the
highways,” was transmitted by th<
NAACP Friday, September 11, tc
Wendell Berge, assistant U. S. At
torney General, asking an imrned
iate investigation of the state high
way patrol.
These instructions are attributed
to Commissioner John Goodwin or
he Georgia State Highway Patrol
Commission, and are quoted in a
affidavit signed by a district com
mander of the Georgia Highway
patrol, who was designig. The dis
trict commander also stated: ‘‘He
said we should tell all the troupers
'o do this to all Negroes.”
Goodwin’s instructions are a clear
• iolation of the civil rights statutes.
'ie NAACP told Mr. Berge, adding
that it is a type of terrorism which
also would hinder the war effort in
hindering Negroes in going to their
jobs in Georgia factories.
ence to the calling on of Lt. Col
McQueen, who is greatly admired
by Dean Landis.
Officials are loathe to discuss the
problems since OCD has been a sore
spot for a number of months with
no one to know just what is going
on as far as its program is concern
ed.
Negroes have not been wide a
wake to the possibilities of the O
CD and there has always been a col
or question raised whenever the
problems of war were discussed.
This has been the topic of many a
lissions by groups coming to Wash
ington, none of which ever received
iny satisfactory explanation of the
workings of the organization.
There is a general feeling that
OCD should stand a little investiga
tion as far as its treatment of Ne
groes is concerned and that the pub
lic is entitled to know sonfe of th<j
things it plans to do and how it
>lans to do them.
j? Rev. Leroy A. Story, Pastor of the
Cleaves Temple CME. Church Of ihu
city and his congregation, will he
host to the Kansas-Missouri, Denver
and Nebraska Annual CUB. Cgm
ference to be held here in Omaha at
the Cleaves Temple CME. Church.
25th and Decatur streets, startin'^
next Wed. morning, Sept. 25, 194S.
Discussions and meetings will bo
held daily and nightly until the con
ference ends, Sunday night Sept. XT.
Bishop Hamlett of Kansas City.
Kansas is presiding Bishop over thg
District.
The Church is expecting many
delegates from the surrounding ter*
ritories and are making preparation'*
to care for them when they arrivo*
Come out and enjoy a Conference
both educational, interesting .m-l
which will have many moments at
entertainment for you.
Meals will be served for visiting
delegates and guests from out of
town.
UNION HALTS
DISCHARGE
OF NEGRO WORKERS
BY MOBILE FIRM
Washington, D. C. Sept.. ISC—
AFL President William Green con
gratulated Harry Stevenson, pre-H
dent of the International MoUo-s
and Foundry Workers Union off
North America, for courageous ac
tion which prevented an employer
in Mobile, Ala., from getting nay
with a particularly vicious example
of racial discrimination against Ne
gro workers.
The'management of the Mobile
Pulley Works, Stevenson reported,
discharged a number of Negro work
ers and finally brought about a cris
is by firing the Negro financial sec
retary of the local union when he
took three days off because of a
death in the family.
The other Negro workers thers
quit their jobs. Stevenson, after
conferring with representatives off
the Navy Department, prevailed up
on them to go back to work with
the understanding that the case off
the financial secretary would be
taken up later. How ;ej\ the com
pany refused to take the Negroes
back.
Stevenson then notified Concilia
tion Director John Steelman that,
his organization would give the dis
charged Negro workers full financ
ial support. He also ordered tha
forty w'hite workers in the plant to»
quit the job.
Explaining why he acted in dlls
way, despite the AFL no-strike pol
icy, Stevenson said:
"I told the men that this comp
any had defied the President of th.3
United States who had asked that,
there should be no discrimination
toward colored workers in this coun
try.”
The company was finally forced to
take back all the men, including
the discharged Negroes.
In a letter to Stevenson, Presi
dent Green said:
• “The best interests of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor will he
served by accepting Negro workers
into membership in our unions and
by acording them an opportunity
to work in manufacturing plants
where AFL unions are certified xs
collective bargaining agents. I cam
see by this policy and that you ane
officially trying to carry it into ef
fect.” 1