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5c AT TOUR DRUG STORE E HEW TO THE LINE I ARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CTO —MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS N<’trask‘~ Saturday, Jan. 2,1943 Our 15th Year^No. 47 City Edition, 5c Copy We have done our best to serve you in 1942. And we promise to do our best to serve you * even better in 1943. May the next twelve months bring you blessings beyond your most hopeful expectations. First to Land in Africa 1_ U. s. ARMY MEETS LIBERIA—Napoleon Edward Taylor, privat« jfirst class of Baltimore, Maryland, first U. S. Engineer to land 01 African soil in Liberia, meets admiring native Liberians. NAACP HAS BANNER YEAR WUM1NA11S 1313 itUAKl) MEMBERS New York, N. Y._ _. .Announcing Its 35th Annual meeting to be held at 2 o'clock January 4th, at the N AACP national office at 69 Fifth Avenue, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stated this week that the record shows 1942 to have been the year of greatest activity, in the as sociatitfh's history. Organized in 1909 the Asosciatipn is one of the country’s most powerful civil rights organizations and has a paid Up na tion wide membership of 160,000 citizens, Negro and white. There are throughout the country 603 branches and youth councils and more than ninety percent of the NA ACP’s financial support comes from Negroes themselves. Among its major 1942 accomplish ments the NAACP lists the setting up of its Washington Bureau in the nation’s capital to serve as a “watch-dog” of the interest of Ne (Continued on pagejg^=4) John Bowman Omaha Boy in Clerk School mi—in——— hi Tin hi 11 > mni n ' ——B—1^———— fe,. vc . ^ -KH-X - • — Cl ERRS’ SCHOOL IN ARMY PROCEDURE—Members of an Engineer battalion in training al Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Seated around the table from left to right are: Corp. James Hicks, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Sgt. Edward Bell, Chicago; Pfc. John Bowen, Omaha, Neb.; Pvt. Robert Cross, Louis ville Kv.‘ Pfc. Criswell Hardy, Waco, Tex.; Corp. John Bennett, St. Louis, Mo.; Sgt. Alvin Rountree, East St Louis, 111.; Corp. Jesse Taylor, Jr., Little Rock, Ark.; Lt. W. H. Schermer, St. Louis, Mo.; Pfc. Charles Muse, Danville, Va.; Tech. Sgt. James Barker, Lovejoy, I1L_ TUSKEGEE REPORTS 5 LYNCHINGS Iiiiiiiiiiciiiiiiiii£i2iiii3iii9iiit:iiiiiirii>r■uirriHaninmimn.itun ■■rausMaimKim .. _nj_. WAR DEPT. OUERIED ON NEGRO POLICY IN V-l SETUP New York, N. Y... Will the Ar-< my and Navy impose upon north ern and border state colleges to be used in the recently announced pro gram for the training army and navy men its traditional limitations based on skin color, the NAACP ask ed this week. Reminding the War Department that to date the Navy has refused to permit Negro students to partic ipate in the V-l program the NA ACP in a wire to Henry Stimson Secretary of War and Frank Knox. Secretary of the Navy, said: “Grave questions of policy at fecitng educational systems of col leges .universities, professional and technical schools in northern and border states are raised bv plan of Army and Navy to train teen age draftees in. medicine, en gineering and related sciences as well as older members of armed services in these schools. We ask War and Navy Departments to for mulate and make public what they propose to do with respect to trainng of Negroes. Will Navy continue to exclude Negro stud ents from V-l program in north ern universities attended by both white and Negro students? What practices will be required by arm ed services with respect to train ing of Negroes in pubilc and priv ate schools selected in southern states which now exclude Negro es? What plans do Army and Navy have for utilizing and com missioning Negro educators in implementation of training pro gram? In asking these questions we d0 not suggest establishment of Jim Crow units. Instead we I - -.. ..1—— NAACP COUNSEL TO ARGUE SCHOOL EQUALIZATION CASE Louisville ,Ky...The motion to dismiss the action taken by the NAACP against the University of Kentucky in behalf of Charles La mont Eubanks here will be argued, January 23, 1943, it was announced this week by ThurgOod Marshall and Prentice Thomas, NAACP Spec ial Counsel. This case filed in the Federal Court at Lexington is one of the Several in which the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People has taken part in a natempt to equalize educational facilities throughout the country. Eul>anks. an honor graduate of Central High school, Louisville, Ken tucky, is asking damages of lhe registrar of the University of Ken tucky for refusal to permit him to register for courses leading to a de gree in Civil Engineering. The suit included a prayer for de claratory judgement and permanent injunction against the policies and parctices of the University in re fusing to permit qualified Negroes to courses not offered to them else! where in the state. Since the filing of the case num erous pleading have been entered, one of which was a recent motion ] for judgement on behalf of the plaintiff. The defendants answer has been continuously delayed pend ing the adjustment of certain legal technicalities as to proper parties. | -1 ask regarding the utilization of members of the armed forces and civilian instructors on the basis of | their training, experience and character. There are many Ne groes who have qualifications e qual to and, in some instances, superior, to Americans of other races already invited to serve. Finally we register most emphat ic protest against introduction of pattern of segregation and dis crimination of deep south into northern and border states where up to this time there has been no j such segregation or discriminat ion.” MeMJTT STAND ON CAPITAL TRANSIT WINS APPROVAL Washington, D. C.Learning Paul V. McNutt, chairman of War Manpower Commission had person ally addressed a meeting of the Capital Transit workers in an ef fort to balk any conflicts stemming from feeling against the employ ment of Negro street car and bu» drivers as ordered in the recent I'EPC directive the NAACP sent this week the following wire to Me Nutt: “Our congratulations on your reepnt address to members of the Amalgamated Association of St. Railway and Motor Coach Unions With the President the NAACP lakes the stand that all available manpower must be utilized <o make real the winning of '.he peace and toward this accomp lishment. discrimination and se gregation must be absolutely I send you the following inform ation concerning lynehings for the | year 1942. I find, according to the information compiled in the De partment of Records and Research, there were 5 persons lynched in 1942. This is 1 more than the num ber 4 for the year 1941, the same as the number 5 for the ear 1940, 2 more than the number 3 for the year 1939, and 1 less than the num ber 6 for the year 1938. One of the Persons lynched was dragged thru the streets behind an automobile and body burned. Another body was dragged through the streets be hind a speeding automobile to the edge of town and hanged from a cotton gin winch. In one case, the person was taken from the jail and hanged. There were 15 reports of instanc es in which officers of the law pre vented lynchings. one of the re ported instances was in a western state and 14 of the reported instanc es were in southern staees. In 13 instances, persons were removed or guards augmented or other pre cautions taken. In 1 case, a lynch ing was restrained by wives of the [ would-be lynchers. In another case the sheriff dissuaded the mob. A total number of 17 persons—4 wnue men and 13 Negro men—were thus saved from the hands of mobs. All persons lynched were Negro es. The offenses charged were' At tempted criminal assault, 1; sus pected attempted rape, 3; received life sentence when jury failed to agree upon the punishment on a murder charge, 1. The states in which lynchings oc curred and the number in each state are as follows: Mississippi, 3; Missouri, 1; Texas, 1. Very truly yours, F. D. Patterson, President. crushed.” Both w. D. Mahon, president of the AFL Amalgamated Association of Street Railway and Motor Coach Unions and J. G. Bigelow, presid ent of the Unions’ Washington local appealed to white workers to ac cept Negroes in their ranks. NEGRO TEAMSTER’S SENTENCE COMMUTED BY GOV. POLETTI Governor Charles Poletti of New York has commuted the five to ten year sentence of Carl Gilmore, Ne gro teamster of Binghamton, New York, to the two years he has serv ed on a charge of assault. The Governor’s action was warmly ap plauded by Rev. Laurence T. Hosie, chairman of the Workers Defense League, which handled the pardon campaign. Gilmore, a member of local 693 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was jailed in August, 1940. charged with assaulting a strikebreaker. He was charged with assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor, and released on $200 bail, but when the indictment was drawn, it was for assualt in the Sec o.'id degree, a felc-ny, which is .'ar more serious. Convicted, Mr. Gilm ,re was fined $1,00 and sentenced to an indeterm ined term Of nine to ten yea^s jn jail. On appeal ’he Appellate Div ision of the Supreme Court of (Continued on page 3) )A RESOLUTION FOR THE NEW YEAR— (by RUTH TAYLOR) “Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live.” Such a resolution is worthy of the keeping, for it calls for the best that each and everyone of us lias to give. Philip Brooks once wrote "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle.” That is what we need to do this comnig year—to rise to the demands that will be made upon us—not to translate those demands into what we want to do. Most of us can do a lot mroe than we are doing— most of us can give a lot more than we are giving—in our homes, our unions ,our communities, our nat ion. We must live with all our might today when the fight for right is at our very doorsteps. Overseas the helpless people of the conquered and subjugated na tions are forced into acts utterly foreign to their own religious and national ideals, while in the totalit arian countries .the souls as well as the bodies of men are regiment ed. They hate and worship at thej nod of a power-drunk dictator. But here we are still free to think. No one can make us do anything we do not want to do. No one can make us lie, or cheat .or steal, or be cruel, or intolerant, or bear false witness against our neighbor. We are free to make our own decisions and we are free to do right. We ca nmake a resolve—and we can Keep it It isn’t particularly important what happens to us as individuals if we stand firm ready to fight or to die for those things which we know to be just and right. But it is important what we ourselves are If we shirk on the job, if we fail to cooperate ,if we grouse hard ships, or if we don’t lift our end of the load, we are not only hurt ing others, we are hurting oursel ves—and we are not living with all our might. We aren’t doing the best of which we are capable. Let's make a now resolve this New Year. Let's make this world a better place just because we are in it. Let’s work to the best of our ability and then do a lot more. This is our world—and it will be just what we—you and I and our neigh bors. rich or poor, Black or White, Protestant, Catholic or Jew, in shop Dr office or home—make of it. Let’s LIVE with all our might, carefully distinguishing the false issues from the real, while we strive with every effort to do and preserve what we know to be the right. CONTINUES ATTACK ON JIM CROW RED CROSS New York, N .Y.Voicing vig orous opposition'to-the Red Cross' plan to continue with the introduc tion and extension of segregation in England and other places by labell-1 ig certain Red Cross clubs as "ex clusively for Negroes in the Europ ean theatre Of Operations". The NAACP this week stated in a let ter to Mr. Norman H. Davis, Presi dent of the American Red Cross;— ‘‘It is our information that prior to the above action Negro soldiers have eaten, used the recreation! rooms, lounges and shower rooms and all other facilities of non-seg regated American Red Cross Clubs without difficulty of any sort with but a very few exceptions. This makes all the more indefensible and inexplicable the attitude of the A merican Red Cross- Insistence up on it of Jim Crowism not only is a needless irritation to Negro sold iers and officers who are, presum ably, in the American Theatre of, Operations to fight for democracy but it will inevitably accentuate prejudice or ignorance on the part of some American white soldiers so far as Negroes are concerned. And I need only mention here the wide spread and growing resentment of English people at the fostering of American racial segregation pat terns on Englishmen and English territory. We further understand there are a considerable number 0f white Red Cross workers wh0 are bitterly opposed to this introduct ion of segregation which more ac curately fits a Hitlerian than a de mocratic way of life.” MARIAN ANDERSON TO SING AT A SPECIAL CEREMONY IN WASHINGTON, I). C. Marian Anderson, noted Negro contralto, will sing at a special ceremony at the Department of the Interior on January 6, it was an nounced by Secretary of the Inter ior Ha'-old L. IckeS Miss Anderson will appear in file auditorium of the Department or the Interior building for a cerem ony to be attended by a group of prominent Federal officials, mem bers of the diplomatic corps, civic leaders, outstanding Negro repres entatives .and other prominent per sons. The occasion will be the for mal presentation to the Federal Government of a mural painting representing Miss Anderson’s first concert in Washington when she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 193J. While all details of the program for January 6 have not been com pleted .Secretary Ickes said that Mias Anderson would sing several Selections. The program will be conducted in recognition of the great contributions made by Miss Anderson Secretary Ickes said. The mural to be presented was ararnged for by the Marian Ander son Mural Committee, under the chairmanship of Edward Bruce. It depicts the scene at the Lincoln Memorial at Easter, 1939, when Miss Anderson sang an outdoor concert to a crowd of 75,000 persons gath ered before the Lincoln Memorial. Use of the Memorial was granted by Secretary Ickes at that time fol lowing refusal of the use of Con stitution Hall for a concert by the Negro singer. To memorajize that event, the Marian Anderson Mural Committee was formed. Funds tq finance a painting were raised by thousands of contributions from school child ren and others throughout the na tion interested in the strengthening of racial relations. Mitchell Jam ieson was chosen to paint the mural after a national competition. The mural has been installed in the De partment of the Interior building, and will be formally presented to the Government on behalf of thq Mural Committee. It will be ac cepted for the Government by Sec etary Ickes. Complete details of the program will be announced later, Secretary Ickes, said. In addition to partic ipation of Negro leaedrs in the e vent, plans are being made for the attendance of a representative group of Negro school children who will appear on behalf of the many children who made small contribu tions to the fund which financed the painting of the mural. Miss Anderson’s appearance at the Department of the Interior aud itorium will precede her initial ap pearance in Constitution Hall when, she sings there on the following night, Thursday, January 7, on be half of the United China Relief. JERSEY “WITNESSES” FACE INDICTMENT Bayonne, N. J.Following ar raignment on charges of disorderly conduct and prostitution subsequent to their dismissal from Hudson County jail, five of the ten Negro women who had been held incom municado for six months as "wit nesses” to the operation of local vice establishments were released, into the custody of Wiliam George, Hudson county prosecuting attor ney, who appeared in their defense here and who is responsible for the original Hudson County jailing of the women, Donald Crichfon, XAA CP counsel announced this wee*. Growing out of the Donovan. Hague fe'ud ,the Bayonne arrestn of the women were based on then own forced testimnoy given at the Jersey City trial of tavern owners on vice charge. George, the prose cuting attorney, who held the wom en in the Hudson County jail has been their only adviser since la^i June and has repeatedly told them they did not need a lawyer, Crich ton reported. Subscribe Now! TO THE OMAHA GUIDE Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe:1 to THE OMAHA GUIDE and learn what the dark-'! er one tenth of the American population is think-:' Ing and doing. ;! A 4 * A A A * * - * ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . . - - - The Omaha Guide, A Paper with A Purpose, hounded on the Principles of Service to Our Race, to Our City, v, our State, and to Our % I THE LEAST WE CAN DO FQtLVICTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR /bonds f AND ^STAMPS VbS 6MB v. S. Treasury Department >>> * SNUB MOSLEY “The Man with the Funny Horn” SNUB MOSLEY, will be at th* Dreamland Hall with ^his funny horn, January 3. 1943. Yes: Yes: Hot stuff boys and girls: Come on out and hear him and his Dtcca Re Cording ojohestra. A big evening and plenty of fun: A F OF L. TO INVESTIGATE WEST COAST RACIAL BIGOT New York, N. Y.Acknowledg ing receipt of a telgram from Will iam Green, President of American Federation of Labor, in which Green promised that an inquiry would be made this week into the segregated uinon proposal of Tom Ray of Lo cal 72, Boilermakers Cnion at the Kaiser shipyard, the NAACP ex pressed surprise at learning that the NAACP was the first to inform Green of Ray's proposal. The NAACP pointed out that dis crimination in the Portland ship yard had been widely publicise, <1 in the press for the past two mouths and that the AP of L. represented by John Frey .the AF. of L. had Participated at a November confer ence in Portland at which repres entatives of the War Manpower Commission, the War Production Board, and the Maritime Commis sion met to take action on the sit uation. Green’s telegram to the NAACP stated: “Your telegram conveys to me first information I have recei* ed regarding race discrimination at Portland .Oregon. Iwiil inquire into matter immediately becau-,e it is the purpose and policy of the A merican Federation of Cabor to 1> e vent race discrimination and n stead to establish and maintain ('.» exercise of all rights of workers i r gardless of race .creed or national ity.” If they are indicted oa the d $>r dgrl> conduct and prostitu! 10.1 charges .they will be tried by G 'a rge .the prosecuting attorney, che same person who ''advised” them, kept them in jail six months anl into whose custody they have now been released. lynching poll tax spur NAACP SEAL SALE New York. .. .Prodded by 1912 s six lynchings. and increase of 0n.» over 1941 and the falure of ar.ti POll legislation. Negroes and pro gressive white throughout the coun try made their profits known this .'■ear in a iecord pin chase of 117 ■ 00 NAACP Christmas seals, -he National Association for the \dv aucement of Colored p*,ple an» ounced this week. P.oc eds from toe sale of these stamps each y?ai int° the NAACP genra! fundi to help in the fight for wiping out <1 *. -a rual inequalities, the W:.t- i-r’ina*ies and 'or the pi d-nir °f anti-lynching. anti-po]l tjx and ott.er remedial legislation. Larg est sale of seals according to the reports reaching the national ofricj so far was made by the San p.-an cisco, California branch.