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i LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITT —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Saturday, Dec. 12, 1942 Our 15th Year:No/44 CitTEdition, 5c Copy Omaha Branch NAACP to hold Election Sunday Dec. 13 330 pm. ~ ~~ .~ " ..... " ■ — (Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe {■■ g g 1 1 / l l /> m srr^=-“i;“rs! tluachuca Surrenders;WAACsTakeover ine and doin?. 1! 7 ® CALL MEETING FOR ZION BAPTIST CHURCH aii memners or tne jvaacp are ' urged to be present at the election ; Pf Officers. Sunday, December 13tb, jlH*j Reports of the year's work will be read and other interesting sub jects. Come and bring your neigh bor. «j) FORT HUACHUCA, Arizona j Not since the days of Caesar whe 1 he conquered Rome, was there a more trimphant entrance made than "’hen the WAACS conquered Fort Huachuca, the largest Negro Milit ary Command in the World. Newsreel cameras clicking, bands playing, soldiers shouting with the distant hills resounding, caused a riot of merriment as the train roll ed into Fort Huachuca from Fort DesMoines, bringing two full comp anies of these soldiers. Qualities of leadership, a requis llontinued on page 2) NEW FLYERS COMMISSIONED AT TUSKAGEE-The young officers pictured above recently received their wings at Tuskegee Army Flying School. They are left to right: Nathaniel M. Hill, son of Mr. •nd Mrs Josiah Hill, Washington, D. C.; William T. Mattison, son of Ux. and Mrs. Willie Mattison, of Conway, Arkansas; Dean B. Mohr, whose wife is the former Miss Louise Leonard, of Detroit, Michigan, and Melvin Thomas Jackson, of Warrentnn Virtrini* Aegroes Receive More than $1,500,000 In Construction W'ork In Vital War Areas Negro workers have received more than 11,500.000 in the construe tion of schools, hospitals, recreation buildings and other community fac ilities in vitai war areas, according to a recent report to Major General Philip B. Fleming. Federal Works Administrator, by Wljliam J. Trent Jr.. Racial Relations Officer. Thi' amount represents payments to skill ed and unskilled Negro labor em ployed on war public works during the first ten months of 1942. More than half of the total pay rolls on projects in North and south Carolina was earned by- Negro lab or more t- a third in Alabama. Arkansas. Georgia. Kentucky, Lou isiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia In south Carolina Negro workers earned 23 percent of the skilled pay-roll: in Kentucky, 22 per cent and in North Carolina 16 per cent. Under contractual provisions, war public works contractors are re quired t° employ Negroes in pro portion to their availability in the communities in which the projects are located. Before construction begin on a given job, the contractor is informed as to the approximate percentage of Negroes in the local supply of construction labor, skilled as well as unskilled, and these per centages are expected to be reflect ed in racial employment on the pro ject. Census occupational data, field renorts and other relevant sources are used i ndetermining ap propriate percentages to bf used. The experience of Negroes on W PW projects has been very- favor able. Of the total wage pay-ment.s since the start of the program last fall. Negroes have recieved more than 18 percent. When this is com pared with the proportion of Ne groes in the total building construe tion labor force as reported by the Social Security Board, it indicates the effectiveness of the FWA prima facie non-discrimination procedure in improving the position of Negro workers in the building industry. DEMAND FULL USE OF NEGRO MANPOWER — “HE'S WILLING,HE'S CAPABLE,AND WE NEED HIM -— USE HIM!!' 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ii iiliiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiimiiimiii iiiiiin min mu in n i ii 11 n min i in nun 11 ii i ii 11 ii is LACK OF FUNDS FORCES CLOSING OF ALA. TRAINING CLASSES FOR NEGROES Birmingham, Ala., (C)—Though Skilled workers, approximately 20 the war industries of Alabama and of the State's 30 training classes all over the South are hungry for for Negro war workers are to be ,18 AND 19 YEAR OLDS SWORN INTO ARMY NEW YORK—Beating the draft law, which embraces youths of their age class, here is a group of boys all from 18 to 20 years of age, being sworn into the United States Army by Captain Emil Fichter. The scene is Grand Central Palace, now the country’s largest induction center. All the boys came armed with parents’ consents for the enlistment. /- —— ESTIMATE 5,000 18 YR. OLD NEBRASKANS WILL ANSWER CALL An estimated 5000 young Nebras ka men who have reached their 18 btrthdays since June 30, 1942 will re-i-rer with Selea.yi -i- *» cu., ing the period beginning Friday, December 11th and ending Thurs day. December 31st- Major H. K. Turner, state registration officer, announced. * Local selective service boards, the major said, will receive the leg islations in Nebraska on week days between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. The registration will be tak en by three age groups as follows: First. Men who reached their 18th birthdays in July or August, 1942, are to register during the week be ginning Friday, December 11th and ending Thursday, December 17th. Second, Men who reached their eighteenth birthdays in September or October 1942 are to register dur ing the week beginning Friday, December 18 and ending Thursday. December 34. Third. Men who reached their eightepnth birthdays in November or December. 194. will register dur ing the period beginning Saturday. December 2t>th and ending, Decem ber 31st “Local board staffs will be able to handle theregistration? in most counties without the aid of volun teer helpers provided all the new registrant-s don't try to register on the first or second day of their reg istration period," Major Turner said: “Young men subject to the registration should bear in mind an avoid wholesale rushes to the reg istration offices ' Beginning January 1, 1943 all I youths are required to register with their local boards on their eighteenth birthdays, the major ex plained. If a young man's birth- I day falls on Sunday or a legal holi day when the local board office is closed, he is to register the follow ing day. This automatic system will make the fixring of further reg istration periods unnecessary Youths away from home who are subject to the December or subse quent registration orders may reg ister wherever they are by report ing to the local board office having Jurisdiction over the area where they are located. Such registrants, however, should be sure to give their correct HOME ADDRESS to the registrar. Enlisted reservists ar<d advanced ROTC. students under government al contract are not required to reg ister. DOca] boards will add the nam es of December registrants to their records in order of age (oldest man first) immediately following the files of 18 and 19 year olds who reg istered in Jun, -. Order numbers for the new registrants will be as signed by age and therefore no na tional selective service lottery will be necessary for the December or subsequent registrations. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY! closed between now and January 15 because their graduates can’t c^ash the South’s discrimfnation policy to obtain jobs. In Alabama now. 6,000 whites are being trained and only 600o Negro es. but with the closing down of two-thirds of the units, only 200 will continue to get training. Cen ters to be discontinued will include! Dothan. Opelika, Selma. Mobile. | Tuskegee. Huntsville. Fairfield and j other cities in the state. “In view of the fact that trainees are not being placed from some of , our Negro classes ’ stated Director ■* E. R. Plowden. state Supervisor of vocational training, “these classes wil] not be renewed upon termin ation of the period. “To do so would be a waste ot public funds as well as time and ef fort. and would lead the trainees themselves to disappointment. The State Department of Education, however, wishes it distinctly under stood that classes will be organized for Negroes at any time and at any place when it is reasonably clear that the product of such classes will be utilized in the war effort." Negroes in the other classes, to be continued in the state, are being placed, according to Plowden. in lo cal industries, in the Navy Seabees, division, in aero-mechanic work at Tuskegee and in othes war occupa tions. No white classes are being closed at this time, Plowden said, as there is a constant demand from Mobile for trained, white workers. New training classes are organiz ed, either for Negroes or whites whenever the U. S. Employment Sen-ice certifies a need for workers: in nearby industries, according to Director Plowden. This is his state ment: “The State Department of Educa tion has exerted every effort over the years to promote vocational training for Negroes ,but arbitar ily to set up training of Negroes or whites or anyone, without regard for placement possibilities of such persons, would be to ignore the primary purpose of vocational edu- \ cation, which is to enable an ir.ci cidual to get and hold a specific job.’’ More than 100 Negroes, trained in j Birmingham during the summer, in p "Washington, D. C.—Declaring l that ‘‘the Negro views the immin ence of compulsory service with real alarm because it threatens to freeze him at his present employ- ' ment level, which is substantially below his ability”, Leslie Perry, ad | mimstrative assistant of the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People, submitted thi i week a statement to the Pepper Sub ! Committee on Senate Resolution 291 providing for a full imvestigat- ' ion of the man power resources of the nation and their most advant ageous use in the war effort. The NAACP expressed "deep and, (Continued on pagejgg?^) - I New York, N. Y.—Three hours after the NAACP had thrown a picket line around the 55th Street Playhouse on December 2nd, the infamous motion picture “Birth of a Nation" which was being shown at the Theatre was withdrawn from the screen and posters advertising “Abraham Lincoln" as the Thea tres next attraction went up The NAACP was first informed of the revival of the ancient motion picture by one of a group of white army officers who telephoned pro tests against the pictures on behalf of the group who had wandered in to the theatre without realizing what was being shown. The action of the NAACP was taken after a representative of the management failed to discontinue &_ SCORE LUCKY STRIKE MAKERS FOR RACE SLUR SEEK REDRESS FOR SENATE INSULT TO CLERGMEN Washington. D. C.—Seeking re dress for discourtesies to A. Philip Randolph and several other New York Ministers bv capitol police on the day of the cloture vote on the anti-Poll tax bill, the Washington Bureau of the NAACP immediately requested that the victims issue af fidavits so that charges might be filed and trial be had of the offend ing officers with adequate punish ment for the guilty. The NAACP brought the case to the attention of Philip Levy. Secretary to Senator Robert Wagner of New YOTk. v ie has also called on Col. Chesley W. Jurney, Sergeant at Arms of the Senate for a full statement of the facts as a basis for subsequent ac tion. The NAACP emphasized that the persons attacked are highly res pected citizens, that many of the police in Washington got their jobs as patronage from southern senat ors and that they need to be taught that Negroes have as much right to the Senate galleries and other plac es in Washington as any other A merican citizens and must be pr o tected in those rights. At the present time control of the Capitol police is in the hands cf the Senate Rules Committee of which Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia is chairman. Many mem bers of the Committee were filibus tered against the anti-poll tax bill including Senators Kenneth McKel lar of Tenn.; Charles O. Andrews of Florida; John H. Bankhead. 2nd of Alabama; Lloyd Spencer of Ail:., and Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina. Other members of the Committee are Senators Guy M. Gillette of Iowa; Arthur H. Vande’i berg of Michigan; Warren W. Bar bour of New Jersey; and Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire. It is possible that even wor3e treatment is in prospect for Ne groes in the next session of Con gress since according to Drew Pear son's Washington Merry-Go-Round the Democratic Caucus is going to elect Senator Wall Doxey, lame duck senator from Miss., and one of the most vicious filibustered a gainst the anti-poll tax bill, as the new Sergeant at Arms. Doxey tri ed to out-Bilbo Bilbo in his tirades against the Negro. answer to requests from Mobile ship yards, were not placed there. Vern on J. Douglas, local director of vo cational education, reported. Steel Shipyard heads said that an expect ed supply of steel did not arrive, therefore additional workers were not needed, and that Mobile hous ing facilities could not take care of an increased number of Negro workers. SUBSCRIBE Mi MHM New York_.. Discontinuance of the sale of a pipe tobacco obnox iously labelled “Nigger Head To bacco” was insisted on this week by the NAACP. A formal protest was made to George Washington Hill, president of the American To bacco Company, ill Fifth Avenue. The American Tobacco Company whteh. distributed the pipe tobacco in a number of Northwestern Stat-: es including Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin is also the distrib utor of Lucky Strike Cigarettes. The sections in which the pipe to- j bacco is sold are areas only sparse-1 ly populated by Negroes. Declaring that it was needless to point out the fact that such a name for a product is repulsive to all Ne groes including smokers of Lucky Strike cigarettes the statement con cluded that the NAACP “is confid ent that the American Tobacco Co., will immediately discontinue this method of holding up the Negro race to ridicule and insulting the many Negro smokers of Luckv Strike Cigarettes.” BRITISH MAGAZINES URGE TOLERANCE New York, N. Y.—To the atten tion of the NAACP was brought this week several fall issues of Brit ish periodicals featuring articles, on I he treatment Of Negro troops sta tic ned in England. one of the publications “New Heview, the first British News Mag aziue.” English counterpart of Time sirtes. “American *NegrceB ar the instigation of American military authorities have had a ban put up to them in certain dance halls and oilier places of entertainment. For tunatc.lv most British people resent rue:al intolerance and point out ir etances in which the British have endeavored to show friendship to the Negro and have come Upon the disfat or of prejudiced American, of ficers. War Commentary, another publication carries ar article Down With Color Bar and the News Lea dor carries comment on tvs article a?d a friendly interview with a pair ol' Negro s ldiers. f the film alter making such a com-( I mittment and announced that the j picture would be shown "indefinit | ely". 1 Originally produced in 1915 "Birth Of a Nation" which appeals to pre judice and glorifies the KuKluxKlan as a "saviour of white women” has been banned from 18 states because of its vicious racial slander. Recent announcement in the Hol lywood Reporter stating that the film was to be remade into a talkie led the NAACP to communicate with Nelson Pointer of the Holly wood Bureau of Motion Pictures of the Office of War Information, urging that no re-make of the pic ture be permitted. The NAACP was advised by Mr. Pointer that all plans for a talking picture version of “Birth of a Nation” had been a bandoned by United Artists. The NAACP has since requested that steps be taken to prevent the show ing of the original silent produc tion. "This film", said the NAACP in a corespondf-nce to Lowell Meilett. chief of Bureau of Motion Pictures, Office of War Information, "harm ful and dangerous in peace times is in war time a menace to national morale and unity.” WHITES FINED FOR DINING IN NEGRO CAFE WHITE TALLEDEGA PROF. AND WIFE FINED S25 T COLORED PROPRIETOR ALSO FINED Birmingham. Ala. (C) Youthful Sociology Professor, Donald Ras mussen^ 25, white of Talledega Col lege and his wife. Lore, 22, were fined $25.00 a piece because they dined with Louis Burham, colored.1 In the Nancy Cafe, one of the nice st eating places in Birmingham, Burham, 27, as well as Nancy Wil liams. proprietor of the cafe, were fined $25.00 each too and were charg ed with violation of Sections 4927 and 5288 of the city code, which provides for segregation of the rac es in public places. All paid fines. Professor Rasmussen said on the witness stand that he knew ‘‘in a general way” of the feeling in the South concerning the segregation of races but did not know that there was any law against him and h> wife dining in a Negro cafe. Burn ham testified that Prof. Rasmussen had sent a message to him request ing a conference and later in the evening when Rasmussen and h>? wife met Burham. it was suggested *>y the Professor that they go to Nancy’s andv “eat while we talk." Miss Williams testified that when the trio came to her. she didn't even notice that Burham was accompan ied by a white couple. City Rec prder Henry- Martin, who hand d down the decision, told the defend ants that since it was not shown by the evidence that the couple and Burham or Miss Williams were chal lenging the segregation laws of the city and state, he was assessing only a nominal penalty; otherwise the penalty would have been more se vere. GOV’T OF LIBERIA GIVES U. S, RIGHTS IN NEGRO REPUBLIC (Photo by George S. Schuyler) HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT EDWIN BARCLAY. Former Secretary of State and son of former President Robert Barclay, this little brown man rules with an iron hand the destinies of the greaS Negro Republic. ^ Negro Troops Doing Superman Job There The Government of Libenif'^a" granted to the United States for the duration of the war the right to construct, control, operate and de fend airports in Liberia and to as sist also in the protection and de fense of any part of the Republic which might be liable to attack dur ing the present emergency, it was announced by the Department of State. An agreement was signed at -Mon rovia on March 31, 1942 by the Lib erian Secretary of State and Lieut. Colonel Harry A. McBride, special representative of the President of the United States, under the terms of which the United States was granted exclusive jurisdiction over airports fortifications and such oth er defense areas as may be mutual ly considered necessary'. The Re public of Liberia retains sovereign ty over all such airports and de fense areas, while the United stat (continued on PageSW^°21 SLIGHTLY INJURED Mrs. Marjorie Thompson, 2918 R street .and Mrs. Anna Ray, 2906 R street, were injured slightly when, s. car driven by Mrs. Thompson col lided at 25th and Erskine streets with the auto of James Eddens of 1701 North 24th St. VIOLATES GAS ORDINANCE; FINED $25.04) A $25 fine for storing gasoline .n violation of a city ordinance wa. imposed upon Joe Allen, of 2409 Hamilton St., by Municipal Judge Perry Wheeler. Allen, in whose possession police found a drum containing 15 gal lons of the fuel, was charged under the law which as a fire safety mea - ure, forhids storage of more than one gallon. His case was the first such in Omaha since rationing be gan. SOME PLAIN TALK ABOUT COLOR . . . (from Collier's Magazine. Nov. 28. 1942) The Negro Question, solemnly so called, is adding to some Americans, worries about the war. Lynchings are on the upcurve. There are dis putes and near riots here and there about colored people moving into public housing developments Now and then, a Jap agent is caught try ing to make medicine among our Negroes according to the “Why fight the white man's war?" form ula. All these things stir up ano lent hates, fears and prejudices, and a serious blowup conceivably could result sometimes. Here is what we think about it. We expect extremists of all sorts to damn us for these remarks, but we're used to that and we're disap pointed when, as sometimes hap pens. our expectations don’t pan out. We think, for one thing, that all sensible Americans should set their faces sternly against the aforesaid extremists. We refer mainly to (1) the domestic Comunists who, while claiming to be all out for an Allied victory-, are not above making some home-grown hay for themselves by spreading discontent among all the Negroes they can get at; and (2) the old fashioned white Negro hat ers in both North and South. Neither of these extremist groups has the workable answer to the col ored question. What both Americ an whites and American Negroes need are those sometimes dreary, (Continued on page 3)
