LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO I*RES« ~Epi£?.^m£ST ffSlghSi pSifjfl. tS$“- N,brasl“ Saturday, Dec. 57^942 Our 15th Year, No. 43 City Edition. 5c Copy “Remember Pearl harborf . . IA/ORK ■ FIGHT SACRIFICE Buying P ower of Negroes Is Ten -billion Dollars NEGRO RACE BRAND CONSCIOUS The buying power of the N«ro population of this country amounts to J7.0SO.O0O.OOO to JIO.OOO.OOO - OOO annually, it was reported at a panel discussion on the Negro mar ket sponsored by the American Mar keting Association at the Hotel Com modore. The marketing mer. were told that a new racial loyalty is de veloping steadily among the Negro people which therefore makes it advisable for manufacturers to em ploy Negro salesmen when seeking to tap the Negro market. Among the other facts about the Negro market brought out in the course of the discussion were these Negroes are very brand conscious: 68 per cent in the New York mar ket listen to the radio; total circu lation of the 400 Negro papers a mounts to about 2,500,000: Negro papers give more detailed and com prehensive merchandising assist ance to manufacturers than do oth er papers: 17 percent of the nation's drug store business is done with Negroes despite the tact that they account for only 10 percent of the population. 10-cent size packages are very important ip drug stores with some distributors} repacking expen sive cosmetic lines for example, in these sizes for the Negro trade. The speakers were David J. Sul livan. former advertising manager. New York Amsterdam Star News: Mrs. Sullivan: William G. Black. Sales manager. Interstate United Newspapers: Joseph Christian. ior mer advertising manger. The Peo — pl'-‘ ' -nrp; Joseph Woeton. inter state United Newspapers, and Hazel Sharper WILBERFORCE ACCELERATES ITS EDI CATIONAL PROGRAM Wijberforce, Ohio:—As a part of the general program to help the government in its all-out war ef forts. the members of the Wilber force University faculty voted un animously to return to the Quarter System beginning with the next ac ademic year. The special commit tee recommending this change also urged the administration to instit ute an accelerated program of stud ies by introducing a full quarter of summer school- This would divide the year into four quarters and en able a. student to graduate in three years. THE MOST DISGRACEFUL SPECT ACLE OF DEMOCRACY IN ACTION Says A. Philip Randolph . ......... .in mr hthf "•iminnur" ;Tr'iiim.mminmniriii n imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiMi TO RENEW FIGHT FOR PASSAGE OF ANTI POLL TAX BILL BILL TO BE REINTRODUCED TO 7STH CONGRESS TN JAN ■Washington, D. C, — Pec'ciring that the NAACP is "not in the least deterred" by the temporal set liacli experienced in the passage of anti poll tax legislation which occurred when a bourbon senate majority killed the bill on Noremb»r 23, Wal ter white, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People an nounced this week in a statement to the press that the NAACP, work ing in cooperation with ether agenc ies. will renew the poll taa fight with the very first day of t^e 78th Congress convening on January 3, 1943. Stating that it is the conviction of the NAACP that ‘‘the repetition of filibusters which tie up the coun try's business during war time will (Continued on page 3) Returned to Leadership CHARLES F. DAVIS. Exalted Ruler of the Colored Elks of Omaha who Wednesday nig’ht. was returned to office at an election of officer^. Washington. D .C.-A. Philip Ran dolph. national director of the March-on- Washington Movement and international president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por ters. issued this statement on the victory of the poll tax filibuster in the Senate: “The most disgraceful spectacle of democracy in action witnessed in America in contemporay times was the bi-partisan conspiracy of Repub -licans and Democrats to defeat the anti-poll tax bill. A small band of willful Southern politicians seized the reigns of democratic procedure tn the Senate and blackjacked this entire institution into abject sub mission to its present policy Tt served definitely to dis-fllusion the Negro masses. North. South, East and West with respect to the Rep ublican Party constituting the ship for their salvation, or the Demo cratic Party representing any hope whatsoever. ‘‘It also served to make* Negroes completely aware of the fact that the New Deal, even under Presi dent Roosevelt’s leadership, is abso lutely bankrupt so far as providing any fundamental answer to the problem of the Negro masses is con cerned. In the highways and the byways, in the factories and on the farms, on the railroads, and the steamships, in the hotels and lom estic kitchens, the Negro will have one thought and that is that “The President let us down at a crucial hour in our history.” “The final speech of Senator Bark ley on the poll tax sounded passion ate- However his willingness to make the deal indicates that he was meticulously following the cue of the President in his speeches last Tuesday in which he said. while long range social and econo mic problems are by no means for gotten. they are a little like books which for the moment we have laid aside in order that we might get out the old atlas to study the geo 'Cont-nued on page 25P4) NEGROES GET SQUARE DEAL IN THE ARMED SERVICES ' - -L— COLiUri £S£.*-Ut£,.ttC> OI the >s€*gro reg meat at hoi Huachuca, Ariz :na, prepare to march in review. The men, left to right, are: 1st Class Pvt Robert Rose Staff Sgt Peter Hardly Jr., Sgt Isaac McWane and Pvt Robert Levis. Advancement Based Solely on Ability 'This is the fourth of a series of articles or the important part be ing p1ay=d by the .Negro in the na tion's war effort in the factories and in the Armies of the United ^ates. Taken from the Chicasr Sun.) BY FOWLER B. HARPER Chairman Joint Army and N'avy Committee on Welfare and Re creation. and Deputy Chairman T7ar Manpower Commission. “I've rot the best Uncle in the 3N THE MARCH are Negro troops from the Re placement Center of Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Ya. They are seen as they parade past the Commerce Building in Washington, D, C, The occasion was Memorial Day. — whole world Yes. sir' He's my Uncle Sam". Wg were visiting the Negro rec reation center at Fort Benning. (Ja. on our recent nation-wide Joint Committee survey tour of Army and Navy posts , A group of Negro soldiers were conversing—about the war in gen eral the Army in particular. Grad ually the talk swung around to their own specific part in the war The boy who spoke—a lad in his middle twenties—had been in the Army but a few weeks. Yet he had been a part of the forces long enough to find out that his ‘J"ncle Sam" was giving him a square deal, was sincerely interested in his wel fare. was going to see to it that he had all the advantages available to white soldiers. Negroes are in every branch of the service today. They are in the Air Corps, the Cavalry. Infantry, Corps of Engineers, Field Artillery. Signal Corps. Chemical Warfare Service. Medical. Ordnance. Milit ary Police. Finance. Quartermaster Corps. They are bound only by personal limitations of ability and ' -ontintsed on page 2) I To Serve Again By Hama of Punuc Halation*. U S W«r Dept.. Wufa.. D. C. OSCAR C. FISHER, Greensboro, S. C., s former commanding of ficer of Post 133, American Legion, swarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm, is back in tha Army “to do all I can to prevent sabotage and stop the insidious propaganda aimed at my people by the Axis leaders.’ j __ ELKS TG HOLD ANNUAL CHARITY BALL DEC. 7TH The Elks Annual Charity Ball, will be held Monday. December 7, 1942 at the Elks hall. San Diego Plant i Upgrades Skilled Negro Workers .Vin Diego Calif . .In : n TUcr !'ew .'ill Roy Wilkin n, '-sis-axt er :«c s .' ary of tile XA A T J. H. Waterbary, personnel manag er of Consolidated Aircraft here which in the employment of Xegr> es still lags behind the Douglas and I Lockheed plants stated this week ' that Xegro workers at Consolidate ! are being upgraded slowly and that some machinists were being employ ed but were being treated as indiv idual cases. Waterbury admitted that ;,:s plant has been ‘ cautious” and slow in employing Xegroes in skilled work but stated that the process of upgrading workers already was functioning smoothly. The Consol idated plant now employs about 150 N'egro women. FIGHT BIRMINGHAM BAN ON DEFENSE TRAINEES Birmingham. Ala..—Reports that Alabama Training Authorities have closed war courses to Negroes earned this week protests from the local branch and the National Of fice of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. The move was reported to George M. Johnson at the Presid ent's Committee on Fair Employ ment Practice who acknowledged | an awareness of the seriousness of the situation and stated that im mediate action would be taken to correct it. The Birmingham NAACP Branch further urged that the appropriate officials within the War Manpower Commission give their consideration to the matter. jHKi'OO S>0'>6 >CHj U1 V SgQOOOOOfr. I EDITORIAL !0F THE WEEK (from the Des Moines Register. November 14) RACE FACTS. NOT FICTIONS Many of us have smiled over the ahsumption of some persons in for eign countries that w-e all live in multi-roomed mansions and drive, 16 cylinder cars because that is What Americans seem to do in the motion pictures we send them. Yet a good many white Americans have absorbed just as crazy slants about the Negro. said Walter White, executive secretary of the NaaCP during his recent visit here White told of a Wisconsin wom an who asserted she didn't liky Ne groes.” She assured White that he was an exception, and it then de veloped that she knew none of the few Negroes in her town. But sail she knew she din t like Negroes be cause they “are lazy and shiftless.” She knew this, she added, be-a use she had seen them in the movies' HWWpnjTnrpTr n. .T.^i ■■ • li-gwr ™r-«rwrr^rniMnHni-jnWi' a "WE'LL REMEMBER—AND YOU WON'T BE ALLOWED TO FORGET!! ONE YEAR AT WAR This year December 7th is a significant date—the anniversary of the black day when the war lords of Japan cast the die for international treachery and the United States was precipitated from neutrality into war. Throughout the nation, and far beyond our srorer wherever our fighting forces may be, the people of the United States will mark this day. Bitterness |at the memory of the treacherous character of the attack will exist, of course, |but [t seems certain that the true temper of the day will be akin to the solemn temper of the first Thanksgiving Day. There are striking parallels between the two days, j_That first Thanksgiving, people thanked God they wTere alive and had ! ► Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe: j to THE OMAHA GUIDE and learn what the dark-; er one tenth of the American population is think-: ling and doing. ; ^ * * *—*—*—*—-— * — ^ ^ ^ ... ENRAGED SOLDIERS ROUT ANTI NEGRO CAFE OWNER ( Ogden. Utan... .When confronted by a refusal of a cafe proprietor this week to serve them because of their race it is alleged that a group of N'e^ro soldiers stationed here re taliated by chasing the proprietor across the street and into the shel ter of an undertaking establishment ■—-— Later it was reported that the col onel of the regiment told the town auhorities that all public places here would have to serve Negroes in uniform. This is now being done but it is rumored that Negro serv ice men are being overcharged "by white establishments. TWO TEXANS INDICTED ONPEONAGECHARGE ELKS BURN MORTGAGE In a very eolorful manner, befit- 1 ting them, along with an enjoyable well planned program, presided over by C. C. Galloway, Editor of the Omaha Guide. Hie Colored Flkff ib. P.O-E. of W burned the mortgage on their home building at 2420 Lake St.. Monday evening. 0r shall we say the actually burning took place in the early hours of Tuesday morn ing. December 1. 1942. It was a gala occasion, not only j for the Elks, but for the various ' organizations, choir, soloists and friends, who gathered to witness the ceremony. J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks, highlighted the evening as honorary speaker ani burner of the mortgage. CHAMPION TYPIST GIVES I NCITE SAM HIS MACHINES Another world's champion went to bat for the Army and the Xavy this week. Cortez W. Peters, holder of sev eral world s records in typewriting and present world's champion port able typist, has turned over ten of his latest model standard size type writers to the Government to assist the current drive for 600.000 mach ines for the Army and Navy. The machines, taken from three Negro business schools operated by Mr. Peters in Washington. D. C.. Baltimore. Md_. and Chicago. TP were purchased by the Government through the Washington office of the Royal Typewriter Co. Illllllllllllllllllllllll ..■Mil I The Department of Justice ann ounced this week that pleas of not guilty were entered by Aits, sko tart zj k and his daughter, Susie, of Bos ville, Texas. Mond if when w we arraigned at Co>n.:s Christie Texas, on charges of violating thr - edciai anti-peonage statutes. Vne Skrobarczyks xer. indi^td bl a Cederal Grand Ju-v at ijirelo, Texas, on November 9, 1942. on charges of holding a Negro. Alfred Irving, in a condition of peonage and slavery for a period of four years to work out a pretended debt. According to the indictment, the Skrobarczyks paid Irving *4.65 mon thly in addition to *12.50 for food and clothing during the four year period. At the time of defendants’ arrest Irv mg- was found in a badly iirujg. * nourished condition, bleeding at the mouth, and with his body, face ana arms covered with fresh cuts as well as old scars. He testified that on various ocasions he had been beaten with a “whip, rope, chain, and plank." Twice when he ran a way from the Skrobarczyks farm, Irving claimed, he was returned by the defendants to involuntary serv itude The Skrobarczyks were indicted under Section 443 and 444. Title is, IT. S. Code, both of which carry a maximum penalty of 5 years im prisonment. or a *5000 fine, or both. The Grand Jury investigation, re quested by Assistant Attorney Gen eral Wendell Berge, in charge of the Criminal Division, following the return of a no-bill by a State giani Jury, was directed by V. S. Attor ney Douglas McGregor. A step to eliminate one cause of •udi attitudes was made during the summer by White and Wend oil Wil lie. in conference with picture pro ducers in Hollywood. All the producers, recording to Wnite. pledged to portray Negroes ■ ■ mu i in i mum 11 mm ii ii mi mini ic the future not merely a* comic? hot a? normal human ceings -'•a' urally, the screen version the Negro is not going to revolut :onize overnight- But several pic tures Li ve already be»n it* ye.1. "survived the cataclysmic dangers of the months past. They took stock of the issues for which they had fought and suffered, of what they had and of what they had to do. They looked ahead to a hard win ter and knew things would be worse before they would be better. But they knew they were right, that what they fought for was worth the hardships and sacrifices involved, and they faced the future with a calm trust in God and a grim determination to do what had to be The same situation exists today. And unmistakably there are indic ations that our people feel tha same high-minded resolve; to work, to sacrifice to fight for the right . . .for their freedom' An army of free men and women on the march, they look to their leaders for guid ance' AN ANNIVERSARY WITH A PURPOSE For those who mold public opin i ion and give voice to the temper or | the people, this situation presents a great opportunity-an oPpOrtUn | tty to emphasize the deep signific ance of December 7, 1342 .rather than any smaller, more melodramat ic concept of vindicative revenege Rather than merely challenging the people of the United states to "Remember Pearl Harbor”, let the theme be— REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR.. WORK—FIGHT—SACRIFICE! This keeps December 7th what it logically should oe_a day for every American to ask himself v.hat a year of war has. meant, what he is fighting for, what he has to face and how he can face ani must face it. A day when he hon ors the heroic sacrifice of those who have died and prepa. rs himself to ijin vith his 'ellow citVze is in i . ic ing c-.mmon hardships—in terms ot