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Entered as Second Class Matter Ma-xrh .*3. 1927, at
the post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of
BongreSs -vt March 34 i«79.
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photographers, Vincent _ C. Hascall
said, the Red Cross will sponsor a
na ior.al Photographic competition
w'th war sabings bonds having mat
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vided by the Photographic Society
Of America and other friends of the
Red Cross.
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Freedom of Speech!
(One of the Essentials of a Democracy)
Freedom of speech is but One of the
many important rights America is fight*
ing for today!
Our free speech is as American as Valley;
Forge. Fostered by our Pilgrim Fathers,
it was protected by the life-blood of the
Colonials and finally written into the
Bill of Rights as a sacred, inalienable
right of the American people.
Lose it now? Never! To us freedom of
speech is still worth fighting for. Like
individual initiative, free speech has
helped make America the greatest nation
in the world. It took courage, foresight,
and hard work to build the great private
business enterprises that have made
America’s standard of living the highest
in the world. And those same qualities—
personal sacrifice, hard work, individual
initiative—will again make America vic
torious in this fight for freedom!
NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY
TRUCK DRIYR
INJURED; DIES
ON ROAD
WHEN WHITES
REFUSE AID
Chicago, Sept. 14 (ANP) An Invest
igation into the death of a truck
driver on a road near Memphis was
reported to be underway l / an in
surance company with which the de
ceased was insured.
According to statements by Mrs
Lucille Lindsay, her son in law,
Leopold Andrews, 40. was left Cn
the roadside to dL after an automo
bile accident because unfriendly
wh'tes refused to give him first aid.
The incident occurred, she said
when Andrews who was forced off
the road because of motor trouble
while driving for a concern handl
ing defense orders. With him v.a .
his wife, Moda, and a helper.
As Andrews bent over the hood
of the vehicle, continued Mrs. Lind
say, a passenger car approaching j
from the rear crashed into the park- j
e(l truck. The impact knocked An
drews down and forced the truck ov-1
er him.
Mrs. Andrews sought aid from a
nearby farmhouse, Mrs. Lindsay
stated, but was abruptly told by the
tenants that they could do nothing.
“The neighbors would ostracize us
if we acted nice to Negroes.” sho
was informed. “They however did
sell the injured man wife’s a jelly
glass for 10 cents and directed her
to a drain where rain wateg could
be obtained.
The helper was sent to a gas sta
tion to telephone for an ambulance.
During his conversation to an un
identified white. he was heard by
attendants to remark. ‘Yes’ and No'
Mrs. Lindsay said th attendants
beat the man insensible and told
him, “We’il teach you how to talk
to white folk!”
Meantime the ambulance arrived
but interns refused to help the ser
iously wounded Andrews because hi*
was a Negro. Several hours late -
ano'her ambulance unit was pre
vailed upon to help, but by the time |
they responded Andrews had died.
-Mrs. Andrews resides here with
her seven year old daughter, Patsy
Lee.
ASK PRESIDENT FOR
NEGRO WAVE
OFFICERS
TRAINING
Washington, Sept. 14 (ANP) When
the navy department press relations
representatives, Lt. Allen, coull
give no satisfactory answers con
cerning the WAVES, the AKA Nan
Partisan lobby through its repres
entative, Thomasina Walker John
son, immediately addressed a let
ter to the President, calling upon
him to end the farce of organizing
at taxpayer’s expense a battalion
of women to train as officers for
this group excluding Negro women.
Mrs. Johnson, in the name of the
AKA, called Lt. Allen, and discuss
ed the matter of using Negro wom
en in this branch of the navy.
She was informed that the probab
ility of using Negro women had
been discussed, and that a study
was being made on the subject. Lt.
Allen indicated no Negroes were as
sisting in making this study and
further said he had no idea how
long the study would take before
completion, when its recommendat
ions would be known.
Hs referred Mrs. Johnson to Dr.
Will W. Alexander, who is in charge
of minority group problems in the
War Manpower eommssion, and in
no way connected with the navy de
partment.
The letter to the President says
in part:
“It is a traversity on American de
Madam, here’s one TABOO you
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You can thank your lucky stars
that women are no longer squeam
ish about discussing their troubles.
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“NEXT DOOR” BY TED SHEARER
I continental
“GOSH!!—I WISH MOM WOULD STEP AWAY FROM THAT
TRUANT OFFICER”
US. WAR EXPENDITURES - Daily Rate
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mocracy when we are compelled tc.
ask that you use your office to s. e
that N gro women are equally train
ed and equitably participate in the
WAVES along with aU other Amer
ican women. The fact that we are
entirely out of this vital phase of
the war program is detrimental to
the morale of ail N'e-gro.s. We can
not win this war unless we have the
wholehearted support cf all Ameri
cans, not aU white Americans.
“Mr. President, this is our coun
try. This is our war. We cannot
sit by and see the land we love lose
this war because of the prejudice
and bigotry of some Americans. We
cannot win this war without all of
us. AS commander in chief of thq
army and navy, may we urge that
you use your office to see that Ne
gro women are immediately accept
ed for training at Smith college, in
any and all other trainng programs
for WAVES and that they are equit
ably participate in all WAVE act- j
’vities.”
New offices of the lobby are loc
ated at 961 Florida avenue, N. W.,
and in charge of Mrs. Johnson. wh<l
held the post formerly but was forc
ed to resign because of illness in
her family. She plans a construc
tive program to urge the inclusion
of Negroes in all phases of govern
mental activities and will be on the
alert to do whatever can be done to
brng the case of the Negro before
legislative bodies and officials of
the government.
B’HAM CONTEST OPEN
TO NEGROES
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 17 (ANP
The Birmingham News Age Herald
announced Sunday that it would
broaden its annual oratorical con
test, heretofore opened Only to
white students, to include Negro
high school students in Birmingham
and Jefferson county.
For the whites, the contest is op
en all over the state.
White and colored contestants
will use the same subject, “Educa
tion For Democracy.”
A segregated division is being set
up for the Negro students with Su
pervisor Carol W. Hayes of the Bir
mingham Public School system and
Prof. Paul L. Ware, principal of
Warrior High school of the Jeffer
son County school system, heading
it.
It will be directed by Atemus Cal
loway, of the News Age Herald
staff, who is over the entire project.
$158,600,000 A DAY.....ThaYs
what the war effort, cost the Amer
ican people in June- It seems like
a staggering sum. but f ee men do
not measure their liberty in terms
of dollars and cents. Everyth ng
that democracy has won thru cen
turies of struggle. sacrifice and
bloodshed is now in the balance - ■ . .
as is, indeed, civilization itself. In
the months to ceme all of us will
pay more, pull in our belts a bit
tighter. But no price is too great
to save us from tragic fate that o. -
ertook the now-enslaved worker?
of Germany, Austria, Czechoslovak
ia and 12 other European nations.
The daily expenditure of $158,600
000 fee June, illustia es in the chart
above, compares with an average
daily rate of $149,200,000 in May...
a gain of 6.3 percent.... indicating
a slowing down in the rate of in
crease. The percentage of gain i>
May ober the previous month wav
10.7 percent, in april 12 percent and
20 percent in March.
NEGRO PILOTS
NOT TO FIGHT
AND FLY ‘TIL
JUNE 1943
STIMSON.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 15
Negro pilots in training at the Tu'
kegee air base will not be fighting
and flying for their country before
June 30, 1943, according to Hen.-.'
L. Stimson, secretary of war.
This information was contained
in a letter from the Secretary to the
NAACP under date of September 1.
Said Secretary Stimson:
“At Tuskegee, Alabama, the Army
Air Forces have a school engaged
in training fighter pilots from the
graduates Of which a complete
fighter group is in the process of
formation. This school is being ex
panded and additional schools fcr
the training of technicians are be
ing established so that not later
than June 30, 1943, a complete fight
er group with all necessary crew
and base services will be ready for j
combat. As soon as this group is
thoroughly trained and prepared for j
combat, it will be committed.”
Mr. Stimson said also that by the
end of 1942 there would be 100,000
Negroes in the Army Air Forces.
This total, however, will include
technical specialists, administrative
personnel, airdrome defense battal
ions, aviation squadrons for general
work on air bases, quartermaster
truck companies, medical detach
ments, etc.
No figures are given on the actual
number of pilots, but on August 15,
Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief
of the Army Air Forces released an
official statement saying 34 NegTO
pilots had been trained and commis
sioned at Tuskegee. This was r
year’s production, since the actual
pilot trainng at Tuskegee did not
begin until August, 1941.
In its letter to the War Depart
ment the NAACP had asked for a
MU. WILLIAM PERKY
Mr. William Perry, former Oma
han, who hns made Los Angeles,
California, his home for the past 9
years, was recently inducted in'.o
th° Army and is now stationed at
Rosewell, New Mexico in the Avia
tion School. Mr. Perry is the so'
of Mrs. Estelle Gray, 2110 Lake St.
Omaha.
G. N. T, GRAY ADDED
TO WEAVER STAFF
Washington, Sept. 15 (ANP) G. N.
T. Gray, former welfare officer for
the National Postal Alliance and at
one time affiliated with Edgar G.
Brown in the National Negro coun
cil and the United Government cm
ployes, is the latest addition to tha
staff of Dr. Robert C. Weaver. Mr.
Gray’s post is that of senior emnloy
ment specialist and he will have to
do with liason work among Negro
groups not reached by other mem
bers of Dr. Weaver’s regular staff.
For a long time a resident of In
dianapolis, Mr. Gray, a native of
Texas, was retired from the postal ,
service prior to taking up the work 1
as welfare officer for the alliance
[Tr> h°ld that post f tr about four or
five years, being removed from of
fice at the Baltimore convention, j
He assumed duties with the man- J
power commission Sept. 2. >
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■ ■ "■ . ' ——♦ •mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
lif ting of the quota system on Negro
air cadets and their admission to
a’.l air training bases, pointing out
t’tat many young colored men were
anxous to serve, but could not got
in because of the quota.
Secretary Stimson wrote that t’le
War department is now limiting
both white and Negro air cadet ap
licants to one year's supply and that
all above this numbrr would be
subject to Selective Service- He
pointed out. also, that Negroes are ;
new being accepted and trained in j
the field artillery as liaison pilots, i
for duty with Negro field artillery j
units, observing and spotting field
gunfire. These men will fly small
unarmored and unarmed planes
with a speed of about 80 miles per
hour.
Although the NAACP letter ask-1
ed for the training of Negroes as j
bomber pilots on multi-engined air- i
craft, as bombardiers, and navigat-1
ors, no reference to this type of
training was made by Secretary’
Stimson in his reply. So far as is
known, Negroes at present are be- 1
ing trained only as pilots of {ast, |
single seated fighter planes.
OPA WILL ACT i
TO CURB JIM
CROW PRICES
OPA WILL ACT TO CCRB
JIM CROW PRICES
Washington, D. C...Under
questioning from Congressman Lou- j
is Ludlow of Indiana, Price Admin- •
istrator Leon Henderson stated that
the Office of Price Administration j
“will undertake to eliminate” dis-'
crimination against Negroes in !
higher prices charged for food when
the OPA has evidence of such prac
tices, it was revealed last week.
Congressman Ludlow stated on
the floor of the House of Represent
atives, September 7, that he had
questioned the OPA director as ear
ly as June 12, when he appeared be
"TkTOKIO bomber n
PIXPAGE—Fighters on two fronts
compare notes. Lt. Thomas C. Grif
fin, navigator of one of the bomb
ers that raided" Tokyo, and Walter
C. Hasselhorn, company president,
inspect work of a woman war work
er at Cook Electric Company, Chi
cago war production plant. Lt
Griffin is the youngest recipient of
the Distinguished Service Cross.
fore the sub committee on defic
iencies.
Stating that Negro leaders hid
told him that Negroes pay 15 per
cent more in some chain stores than
do whites, Congressman Ludlow
asked Henderson what the OPA
would do about it. Henderson’s an
swer was that his agency had non
at that date had such complaints but
“if there is any such cas? we will
take appropriate action.”
Basis for Ludlow’s September 7
speech was the recently published
NAACP pamphlet “Food Costs
More in Harlem”, a comparatively
Study of retail food prices in Ha-1
em and other New York areas, show
ing that food prices in the Negro
section are consistently higher than,
these in other economically compar
able sections.
‘‘The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People is
to be complimented on making thi~
very thorough survey of comparat
ive food p-ices, which is well docu
mented with detailed statistical tab!
es,” Mr. Ludlow stated. “It is to b •
hoped on the basis of this irrefut
able evidence Price Administrator
Henderson will be able to do some
thing about it."
BETWEEN THE LINES
(Continued from page 1)
excuse Britain is giving for continu- 1
ing her rule could be maintained for
another 500 years. With Hindu and
Moslem arrayed against each other,
we have a division that could ha
maintained by an unscrupulous dip
lomacy for 1000 years. It seems Of
the same pattern as Irish Free State
and Ulster where the hand Of Irish
man has been turned against bis
brother for 700 years. The British
policy in Ireland is costing the Br t
ish empire dearly. When English
miltary base would be of such im
mense advantage to warring Brit
ain. Irish Free State bitterly oppos
es these bases on her coast. The
enmity that England has begotten
through hundreds of years is bear
ing a bitter fruit.
But the situation in India is close
ly akin to the situation in Ireland.
Indians are threatening to rush in
to the wicked arms of Japan rather
than cooperate with the British in,
her fight. There’s “bad blood” a
gainst the British in India and there
is “bad blood” against her in Ire
land. Quite as badly as we need a
second front to relieve the pressure
on Russia, we need a "third front”
to cleanse the heart of warring n*
tions. We need a moral front.
Here is these United States racial
cleaverages are being cultivated by
certain elements who are more de
termined that Negroes shall be kept
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Private Peacock Otto (loft) holds
the longest pair of Army trousers
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they’re the property of Priv re
James Mitchell (right) who delicate
ly displays a pair of Otto’s cotton
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Public Relations Office, Camp Whee
let', Georgia.
down than they are that Germany
and Japan may be defeated. This
represents a state of heart that w,If
no only unfit this nation to win the
war but will unfit it to win the vic
tory and the ptace- The dangerous
attempt to throw aga'n the color
question into the politics of thy
south represents a form of moral
sabotage that is quite as dangerous
and as deadly as anything the hench
men of Japan and Germany may qo>
through our fifth columns.
The League to Preserve White
Supremacy represents a weakness
that is appalling. With all the mil
itary and financial strength and
with a numerical superiority that is
overwhelming, the white man who
wants a league to preserve "white
supremacy” is a moral weakling.
This nefa-ious league will go the
way of the KuKluxKkan. Fortun
ately it is not as easy to stampede
the south as formerly and herein/
lies thr hope. We need a third '
front—a moral front whereon the
hearts of the nations may be purg
ed.
TUSKEGEE ARMY FLYING
SCHOOL GRADUATES
6TH CLASS
Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. 15 (ANP)—
On Saturday morning at 10:00 a. m.
another page in the annuals of A
merican aviation was written when
the sixth class of aviation cadets re
ceived their wings at the Tuskegee
Army Flying School.
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