LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OP CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS S A^t^chT 1874—-Basinet Phone^we. m?*’ Nebrask* Saturday, Nov. 21, 1942 Our 15th Year, No. 41 City Edition, 5c Copy j I j Provost Guard j ! Ft. Huachuca J j I I i i! I LET US OBSERVE... { i THANKSGIVING DAY 1942 \ throughout Our [Station, as A Day of PRAYER | The crack Provost Guord unit pic turpd above contains many experts with Automatic Pistols. Sub Mach ine and Riot Guns. The Unit is at present under the command of Lt. Richard T. Green, of Philadel phia. (Second from the left). The precision drilling of the unit is due in no small measure to the in tens ; ive efforts of the Drill Master, j Technical Sergeant Charles G. Bat- j ties, of Chicago (third from the left) j ■3pt. Battles is also unu for the Public Schools of Fort Hu j achuca .Arizona. Negro Cuts Final Link in Alaska Highway wmtehorse. Yukon Territory -. In the spruce forest of Yukon Ter ritory this week the final link in the Alaskan Highway was complet ed with dramatic suddeness when Corporal Refines Sims, Jr., Negro of Philadelphia, driving a bulldozer from the north, saw trees starting to fall toward him. As he quickly backed his big machine awy, a bull dozer driven by Private Alfred Jaf luka white, of Kennedy, Texas, broke through the underbrush, - Working from the north and the south, the clews on the highwa> at last bad met. Corpora.', Sims leat-d "c:n tis bul!i> ?r in i \>a m l- shook Jafluka’s h-ird It was the 1 Jiia TeT-itory vt.-c.on cf the driving of the golden spike. Three men were nearby when tne historic moment occurred Lieuten ELKS TO Bl'RN MORTGAGE J. FINLEY WILSON TO BE IN CITY NOV. 30 HERE FOR MORTGAGE BIKMVG On Tuesday November 30th the Iriqllois Lodge Number 92. IBP'*K. of tv. will have a mortgage burn ing closing their debt against their home building at 2420 Lake St. Present during these ceremonies will be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Colored Elks of the World, J. Fin ley Wilson, who will be one of the prinicpal speakers during this lug event in Elkdom and our commun ity. Charles Davis is exalted ruler of the local Elks Lodge. 1 J. FINLET WILSON standing on bum the mortgage the rostrum, from where he will A TTY CHAS. F. DAVIS, Exalted Ruler, IBPOE. of W. Xo. 92 Lodge, i to whose leadership and guiding j hand, must go tile majority of the j redit for the paying off of the io debtness on the Elks' Hall. Hats Off to you. Mr. Davis. COFFEE RATIONING TO BEGIN NOV. 29th Starting November 29, the Uni ted States, the world's greatest coffee drinking country, will ration its coffee so that no one may buy more than a pound of the beverage during the first five weeks of the rationing period. The coffee to be rationed includes roasted coffee.. _. whether ground .in the bean, or decaffeinated.... and commercially sold mixtures of substitutes. Consumers are not coffee with chicory, cereal, or other permitted to buy green, (Unroasted) offee for home roasting. ' Instant coffee”, soluble coffee, liquid cof - fee concentrates, coffee extracts and 1 other beverages used instead of cof fee are not rationed. Restaurant coffee supplies have also been cut and will sell proper Attention! All Future WAACs, -1= .. . .==3 FLORIDA SCHOOL BOARD BATTLE TO JUSTIFY NEGRO TEACHERS PAY INEQUALITIES HAVE YOU WRITTEN rorirsEXATOR" STOP FILIBUSTER IX CONGRESS ON ANTI-POLL TAX BILL Well, it looks like winning the democratic right to vote for Door people, and especially for Negroes, faces tough sledding That's all the more reason why it is essential that every reader of this newspaper acts now to get rid Of it: Write your Senators insisting they return quickly to Washington and support the bill. Tell them to vote for a ‘‘cloture rule" if a filibuster is at tempted. tionately less coffee than they nor mally have. During the week November 22n1 through November 28. retail coffee sales will be frozen for the purpose of enabling storekeepers to stock their shelves for the beginning of ration sales. On November 29 the rationing begins. War Ration Book Number One., the "Sugar Book".... will then be used for buying coffee- The stamps in the book numbered 28 and down to 20 are the coffe€ stamps The first ration stamp is numbered 27 the second will number 28. This apparently disconnected sequence is used because of the physical ar rangement of stamps in the ration book. Only those wnose ration books show their age to be 15 years old Or older may purchase a pound of coffee for each coffee stamp. The reason for this age limitation is to allow larger rations for the adult population. The first ration period runs for five weeks from Novmber 29 thru January 3. 1943. Other ration per iods will be announced later by the OP A Those who have no ration books or ha\> lost them should apply im mediately at their local War Price and Rationing Board. If lack of transportation facilities makes buy ing coffee in the specified quantit ies a hardship, the consumer may apply at his Rationing Board for a certificate to buy up to 5 pounds at a time. In that case, a sufficient number of stamps will be removed by the Board to cover the ' advance’' ration. DEMANDS STOP TO ANTI NEGRO RADIO SU ES Labeling a recent CBS radio ?or ; trayal of a Xegro messman as a stupid tightened clown, a vicious I Nazi propaganda and as a valuable contribution to the anti-war forces of Senator Rankin and the League for White Supremacy the XAACP demanded an apology and the bar ring of such treasonous propagan j Dade County. Fla.Apparent ly copying the -rocedure fallowed in other »a*i*nda teachers’ ! salary cases, the defendant school board j in Dade county, filed this week ad ditional defenses to the bill of com plaint making the excuse that sal aries paid to both Negro and white, teachers and principals have be-m based upon and determined by the respective economic requirements of these teachers and principals, ac cording to the NAACP whose Spec ial counsel is fighting for the equal ization of teachers' pay. The school board relied upon the following ridiculous arguments in : their effort to deny to the Negro teachers their constitutional rights: The defensep leaded that the pay ment of higher salaries to whit • teachers and principals than hav ■ been paid Negro principals and tea chers has been based upon the fa-V that the cost of living of the white teachers and principals is greater than that of the Negroes and that it is necesary to pay white teachers and principals more money than Negro teachers and principals be cause such practice is necessary in order that white teach-rs can main tain their standing as respectaoie citizens in the community. In addition to these arguments j the school boards here say that the white teachers possess greater teaching qualifications generally than do the Negro teachers. Anoth er defense is that Negro teachers are in the highest income brackets in the Negro population while on the other hand in Dade County. Fla. white teachers are in the lowest income brackets. Furthermore says the board. Negro teachers ca.i be hired easier because there aie more Negro teachers competing for the jobs and that in order to lti-y white teachers the school board must compete with industries that pay higher salaries than the school system is aide to pay. , —-I da from the air. William Kobesm. | of WABC said that he realized too j ;ate that the skit would be offens ive to Negro listeners and prOnus : ed that their would be no recur ! renee of such offense. In sharp contrast to the actions of Pearl Harbor's hero Dorie Miller Ronald McDougal. writer of the so called documentary' drama ‘The Man Behind the Gun”, has a terror stric ken Negro messman faint in the face of danger, RACE GIRL WINS AWARD FOR LABOR ART New York (C). .With Mayor La Guardia as guest of honor, sweet Lucille Lane won honorable men tion for her labor art which is be ing exhibited at the Feragil Galler ies on New York’s famous 57th St.. > MEET LT. MAY AT THE URBAN L’GE OR ROOM 228 POST OFFICE BUILDING The idea behind the Women's Auxiliary Corp is to train women to do Army Jobs in an Army way. It wil] mean that as each one is train ed ond is ready for active work she can and will release an able-bodied soldier for combat duty. If you are between the ages of 21 an 45. and can pass the Army mental and physical tests you are 42,000,000 WOMEN WANTED! Your Uncle Sammie wants 42,000 000 women to help win this war. Do Your Part. MEET LT. MAY FViday November 20th from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. and from 6 p. m. t® 8 p. m, at the Urban League, 2213 Lake St. Lt. May will tell you how to get in the army. Did viu know 42,000 tOO women are going to have some thing to say about past war con ditions. You should be one of them so that you can speak for yourself ..JOIN THE ARMY NOW! M 1 eligible for enrollment in America'3 new army for women. Neither a college degree nor a high school diploma is a requisite- Every mem ber of the corp will wear the ap propriaoe uniforms, insignia and ac cessories supplied by the govern ment. Comfortable and congenial living quarters, especially planned for women are provided... .and all meals are furnished. Salaries paid to members are th*' same as those paid to men in the army of the United States of com parable grade- All enrollees are -ent to Fort DesMoines. Iowa fur Jieir training in such basic types of Army Organization, as. Military Customs, allp Reading. Property Accounting. Company Administra tion and Military Sanitation and First Aid. The Negro women in the WAAC have the same trainng. opportunit ies for advancement and use of e luipment as the white women. We are trained for the purpose of help ing our own Negro soldiers win this war. America's Negro women have a job to do.a big one_and the Women s Army Auxiliary Corp go es you the opportunity to help. Women are manning the jeeps . the light trucks.they.re taking over in the offices. There s work for receptionists. .. .typists and work in 20 other lines. For furth er information Call AT-8212, Ex tension 41; RoOm 228, Post Office Building, 16th Dodge. Omaha. Ne braska. Lt. Charline Jane May has been j assigned for duty as the Negro WAAC Recruiting Officer for the Seventh Service Command. This command consists of the following states; North and South Dakota Iowa. Minnesota, Nebraska. Kansas Missouri. Colorado and Wyoming. She will be in Omaha uni til Nor. 25th office in Room 228 Post Of fice Building. >>ants Ralph W. Hunt and G. H. Jon es and Harold W. Richardson of Chicago. Western editor of the En gineering New Record. ‘‘I never saw anything so exciting and filled with history." Richardson said. Immediately after the Negro cor poral and the white soldier clasped hands they turned their buldozera around and began to widen the trail they had opened. In fact Jafluka had been forcing his machine thru the forest so fast that his face was bloody from branch Scratches. Not far from the point at which the meeting occurred officials of Canada and the United States will formally dedicate the Alcan High way on November 20. with many dignitaries in both civilian and mil itary life attending. FEDERAL COURT TESTS NEGROES’ RIGHT TO VOTE Fort Worth. Texas— National Spotlight fell this week on the age old controversy of the Negro’s right to vote when NACP Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall appealed to the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court to reverse the lower court's decision in the case of Lonnie E. Smith, Negro, a gainst S. E. Allwright, election judge and James J. Liuzza associate election judge. 48th Precinct of Har ris County. A large crowd, mostly Negroes, was present to hear the arguments of Marshall and the counter argu ments of Glenn A. Perry of Hous ton. attorney for the Democratic party. Marshall charged the Democratic Party with a "loose jointed organiz j ation with no constitution or by laws “the only resolution we’ve Deen able to find that they've ever ous j ed.” he said, “is this one against the Negro." Marshall said the Democrats let every white citizen vote in the Democratic primaries, whether Dem ocrat. Republican. Socialist or Com munist "By refusing to let the Negro vote in the primary ” he said '‘the Democrats cut the Negro out of voting entirely because the primary is tantamount to election.” Filed originally in Houston on April 25, 1942, the Negro charged, the election judges with unlawfully i denying him and other uuaHfi*! Negro voters the right to vote ;n the Democratic primary- election in Texas on July 27, 1940 and August 24. 1940. solely because of roce and color.” The Negro sought $5000 damages and declarator}- judgement permit ting him and other Negroes to par ticipate in future Democratic prim ary elections in Harris County. A brief of amicus curiae (friend of court) introduced by attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, argues that “any arbitrary and discriminatory restriction on the use of the ballot particularly where it is based on race, creed or color,” is viewed as an impediment to the democratic process, and asks that the Circuit Court reverse tha decision of the lower court. Asking the same from the Circuit Court in today's hearing was the National Lawyers' Guild, which en tered the case also as a friend of the court. — NAACP QUESTION’S CHURCHILL ON RUMOR OF BRITISH MOVE BARRING NEGRO TROOPS New York. N. Y. . .To determine the truth of a rumor that because of the existing friction between Ne gro and southern white soldiers in the American Expeditionary Forces in England no more Negro troops would land in England the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week cabled Winston Churchill: “We are informed that British Government has requested United States Government to send no | more Negro soldiers to England because of complications created by prejudice of certain American j troops fromsou them states. Will you advise if such request has been made? We trust it has not as capitaluation to race prejudice by Great Britain or United States ; can only injure morale of ColOrel peoples throughout the world." OPEN FINEST ENLISTED MEN'S CLUB IN SOUTHWEST The finest Negro Enlisted Men . Club in the Southwest was opene recently at Kelly Field. Texas wit" a gala celebration which follow > sincere dedication ceremonies. The club has a long bar whi. i serves beer, soft drinks and co. plete fountain aecessiries Table will seat three hundred soldiers and guests. The dance floor is spac ious and the appointments are ir the tradition of the Army Air Fore ’ Announce Betrothal Miss Betty Davis Mrs Charles F. Davis entertain ed at a twilight party Sunday even ing for Mrs. Wright of Los Angel es. California, who was visiting her daughter. Miss Jeanne Wright. Gir] Reserve Secretary of the Northside TWCA. The surprise of the evening was the formal announcement of the en- j gagement of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Davis' daughter Elizabeth. Ana, j to Dr. Arthur Pittman Of Kans s j City. Missouri and Prairie View. Texas. The announcement was : made by a record of White Christ mas " as her daughter’s recorded j voice gave the wedding date as | Christmas day. Miss Davis attended the Univers ity of Nebraska and the University of Omaha Law School. She was a warded the Regent's Scholarship by the University of Nebraska. She was the tenth queen of St- Philip s Episcopal Church’s Annual Coron ation Ball. She is now employed by the Government as Assistant Clerk of the Selective Service Board. Dr. Pittman received his D. V. M. Degree from the Iowa State Col lege of Agriculture. He is now teaching and practicing in Prairie View. Texas in the Department of Veterinary Medicine. He is a mem ber of the Alpha Fraternity. wmmwmwmww Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe to THE OMAHA GUIDE and learn what the dark-; I !er one tenth of the American population is think-:; ing and doing. SHIPBUILDING COMPANY, UNIONS ORDERED TO CEASE DISCRIMINATION The President's Committee on Pair Employment Practice has ord ered the Delta Shipbuilding Corpor ation. New Orleans. La . and L'»‘al Number 37 of the International Boilermakers. Shipbuilders. Weld ers and Helpers of America. AF. of L., to "cease and desist” from dis criminating against Negroes in the employment of skilled shipya d workers. The order and findings of the President s Committee were based on the record of a public hearin? held in Birmingham. AJa., on June 20. 1942. R. B. Ackerman. Vice President of Delta, represented the corporation at the hearing, and James B. McCollum. International , Representative appeared for the | union. The formal complaint alleged hit investigation by the Commit»'s field representative disclosed that out of a total employment of 7.00® at the Delta Shipbuilding Corpor ation. there were only a few hund red Negroes: that all Negroes were employed as common laborer or in menial capacities: that the Co rca. 27 of the Auxiliary Boilermakers • continued on paget^p*2) NURSES’ AIDES AT FLINT-GOODRIDGE Much of the nursing work .un~ n our hospitals since wartime is in the hands of Red Cross trained vol unteers. known as Nurse Aides, who are heroically filling gaps left in civilian ranks by military incur sions. At Flint GoOdridge Hospital Mew Orleans, three such volunteer?, 'aught in a moment of relaxation, ire. above, left to right. MRS. P. WHEELER. MRS. A. V. .GERMAN ind MRS MANUEI. E SMITH, nil if New Orleans. HELP KEEP THE COAST CLEAK Enlist in the Coart Guard, now. 317 P. 0. Building, Omaha.