The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, March 13, 1943, City Edition, Image 1
LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS rrrv —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Entered as Second-Glass Matter at The Post Office, Omaha, Nebraska Saturday, March 13, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR—No. 5 City Edition, 5c Copy Under Act of March 8, 1874—Business Phone: ^ E. 1517_ ~I;_ One Hundred Servicemen On N. N. P. A. Broadcast Hampton Institute, Va..— Over 100 Negro service men from six branches of the armed forces were featured on the radio at Hampton institute last Thursday afternoon, in Fighting Men,” the nation wide victory broadcast sponsored by ihe Negro Newspaper Publishers As sociation, in observance of Nation al Negro Newspaper Week. Ogden Hall .scene of the broad cast was crowded with townspeo ple .students, staff members and servicemen in training at the col lege, as the colored soldiers, sail ors .seabees. coastguardsmen, a corporal from the marine corps, and an army air pilot from Tuske gee went on the air at 4:30 pm. Their half hour program was heard on a nation-wide hookup, broad cast over the 200 stations of the, Mutual Network. Dramatic highlight of the broad cast was the first hand description of the sea rescues in the present war by Chief Boatswain's mate Max>e Bern*, in charge at Pea Is land. N. C„ only all-Negro Coast Guard stationed in the country, and Boatswain's Mate John Mack ay, also of Pea Island. The only civilians appearing cn the program were Acting President R .O’Hara Lanier, who described the wartime activities of Hampton Institute and P. B. Young, Jr., manager-editor of the Norfolk jotimal and Guide, who interview ed pome of the “fighting men." Musicians’ Annual Ball KEVG COLE TRIO TO BE FEATURED AS GUEST ARTISTS On Monday eve., local 558 of the Musicians' Union will present for Omaha dance lovers the Musicians : Annual Ball- A battle of mus;c j between those ever popular bands, j McNutt Wants More Negroes Drafted! Voters Urged To Block So. Move to Kill Merit syst’m Washington, D. C—The NAACP uttered this week a strong warn ing against a bill known as S575 and introduced by Senator McKel ler of Tennessee. Th ebill which forces an outrageous patronage system on the American govern ment makes civil service worth less and supports the southern revolt against the administration. - Basie Givens' Bombardiers and the Lloyd Hunter aggregation. Guest artists will be the King Cole trio This fine evening of entertain ment will be held at the Dreamland Hall, Monday March 15, 1943 from 9 P. m. to 1 a. m. Admission is 55 cents tax includ ed. The effect of the bill's passage is the authorization of southern senators to block confirmation cf the employment of any Negro in any job over $4,500 a year, as of June 30, 1943 especially if he is one who is not an "uncle Tom." Such jobs could be held only after a political review of members of the senate from the state* con cerned. Negro voters throughout rhe country have been urged to take the short time necessary to call, i telegraph, or write and to mobil ize intelligent opinion locally through their affiliations and through the press, for this bill will j have sufficient support to pass j both houses unless real pressure is brought to bear. ==^=^^^=~= ■ ■ — CIO. Appoints Negro Director of Publicity MAN IS REARRESED FOR INJURY TO WOMAN James Tyron, 45, of- 1008 Xorth 24th street, was arrested last Fri day in connection with an injury to Mabel Bailey, 37, same address, who was taken to the hospital. On February 20. officers called to the address said they found the woman too drunk to be question ied. Tyron was arrested then, but the case was later dismissed in muny court for lack of prOsecut ‘ ion on her part. Friday, her doctor called County I Physician L. A. Delanney and re ported she was unconscious with ! a brain injury. ON LEAVE IN LONDON Staff Sgt. Ulysses Buckingham, of Mount CSlemon, Mich., is greet ed at the reception desk of the A merican Red Cross Duchess Club for servicemen on leave in London by Mias Martha Stafford of Indi anapolis, club staff member. z (AXP Photo) 0 WASHINGTON— The National j CIO Committee for American and | Allied War relief, through its chairman, Irving Abramson, thi<j week announced the appointment of Roi Ottley, New York journalist ROI OTTLEY as publicity director of the organ ization. The appointment is regarded here with great significance, as it brings Mr. Ottley into the Nation’s' expanding war relief councils. Today they are assuming vast im portance in the war as well as in the post war plans. The CIO man giver to Community War Chests and war relief, has raised more j than $10,000,00 from its member ship for United Nations relief, and has earmarked over $2,000,000 for special AFL-CIO labor projects in China. Russia and Britain. That the CIO should choose a Negro for this strategic position! i met with considerable favorable | j reaction here. Observors feel That j jit Points the progressive direction! ; of the CIO organisation, which, in j the past, has been willing to serve j | the interests of Negroes. 1 I j Mr. Ottley, author of “lns.de I Black America” which Houghton Mifflin is publishing this May, brings to his pohition long exper ience as a journalist. He was! formerly an editor and columnist with the New York Amsterdam News. contributor to national per; iodieals. and book reviewer for the I New York Times and Herald Tn- ! bune. He was educated at St- Bon aventure's College, University of Michigan and St. John's Law School. ' _ Suggests Abolishing Percentage' System WASHINGTON, March 8 (ANP) Draft more Negroes for the apnv. regardless of the past rulings and considerations of percentages, is the Plea of Paul V. McNutt, who sees in this step the elimination of the necessity for drafting whites |n other classifications. McNutt has Pointed out that the percent age system has kept more Negroes out of the army than any other method. By eliminating this meth od of calling draftees for the ar my and by taking Negroes in all branches of the services, arniv, navy, marine corps, without re gard for the percentage quota, an easement on the number of whites called will be effected J McNutt did not clarify his state ment or elaborate on it when made to his press conference Mon day, however, his statement was clear enough to be understood. Wap department officials had no j comment to make on the elimia-1 at ion of their percentage calling j system. While McNutt is willing to see that Negroes are called into the j army regardless of the number or percentage, he has done nothing about the FEPC in which Negroes temselves are intensely jntersted. Calling Negroes for the army by quota has left a large pool of Ne- j groes with 1-A classifications, Me j Nutt says. On the other hand, a j large number of whites have been called into the army exhausting completely the 1-A classification. Earlier in the war it was poss ible for whites to enlist in all j branches of the service. Negroes j were denied this privilege. As a j result white men were already draining their own monpower pool before Negroes were permitted to join up. In the first days of the selective service ^-stem. even when men were being called to the Colors, j they were slow in calling Negroes. j declaring there were no facilities for training them at that time. The recent statement of the war department that there are now 450. j 000 Negroes in the armed services I bears out the statement that there ! are slightly over 10 percent in the military service. McNutt's new suggestion will bring to the navy, marine corps and army an influx of men which they say they are not ready to ac- j cept Mr. McNutt has been advised to apply the same principles to the FEPC and the labor situation. The war and navy departments bluntly refused to accept McNutt s Proposal to droft Negroes without CONCERT SINGER TO TOl’R -mm MURIEL RAHN. brilliant young | concert singer and actress, now ap pearing in the Broadway success: “The Pirate’’, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. will give up her stellar role in the musical extravaganza on March 13th to embark upon a five thousand mile concert tour which will take her from New York to Texas and re turn. Local FEPC. Organized S. Towles, BSCP., Raymond R Brown. Urban League; Arthur B. McCaw. Exec. Comm. NAACP; C. C. Galloway, Omaha Guide: Dr. A. L. Hawkins. NAACP; Mrs. G. A, Blackburn. NOrthside YWCA; Mrs. Alice Wilson. Woodson Center; Larry Peoples. Painter; John Ad ams. Jr., Atty at law; W. S, Flet cher; Russell Reese. BSCP; Rev*. L. A. Story. Com. Clearing Union. Rev. E. F. Ridley. St. Johns AME. Church; S Edward Gilbert. Omaha Star: Rev. F. C. Williams. Negro Ministerial Alliance; Mrs. Ion Hanger, Glenn L. Martin Co.. Ralph Adams. OPA. Rent Office; Saybert C. Hanger, Pres. U. L. BJ Dirs.; were elected Colored mem bers of the Omaha and Coun il Bluffs industrial Area Fair Em pioyment Practices Council. The total committee which num bers about 80 members of whom are some of Omaha's outstanding industrial leaders, educators an l civic leaders, held their first or ganizing meeting last Thursday at the Fontenelle Hotel. The purpose of the Omaha-Coun cil Bluffs Industrial Area Council on Fair Employment Practice shall be to obtain a broadly repres ent! ve and democratic community approach to the problem erf dis crimination in war industry be cause of race, creed, color or na tional origin: and to coordinate ef forts to make effective in this community the letter and the spir it of Executive Order No. 8802 of the President of the United States. reference to the percentage’ quotas which they have followed in the past. Such action would upset all | of the departmental plans and ar rangements. RADIO PROGRAMS j TO HIGHLIGHT URBAN L’GE JOB CAMPAIGN NOTED ENTERTAINERS TO AID URBAN LEAGUE CAUSE Outstanding men and women of the entertainment world and pub lic life, both Negro and white, will appear on radio programs dining' the week of March 14-21 to aid the National Urban League's Job drive to sec mV- increased Employment opportunities for Negro workers This eleventh Vocational Oppor tunity Campaign of the League will direct public attention to the role of Brown American Woman power in helping to win the wax. and will seek opportunities for Ne gro workers to use their skills and abilities in the nation s all out victory effort. Included among the well-known persons who will lend their talents to this effort are PAUL MUNI, stage and screen actor; MISS FREDI WASHINGTON, star Of stage and screen; HERBERT A GAR, President of Freedom House; MISS MERCEDES GILBERT, ac tress; DEAN DIXON, composer and conductor; CANADA LEE .ra dio and Stage actor: MISS EDNA MAE HARRIS, actress of radio and screen; JUSTICE HUBERT T. DELANEY. JUSTICE JANE BOL IN; and the EVA JESSYE CHOIR. Radio programs on all of the leadng networks have been ar ranged through the cooperation of the broadcasting companies, the American Federation of Musicians and the American Federation of Radio Artists. In commenting on (Continued on pagel^=,4) DR. HARRISON LISTED IN WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA Langston. Okla.. March 8 (ANP) Dr. G. L. Harrison, president of Langston university, has recently been notified that his name win appear in the 1943 edition of the Biographical Encyclopedia of the World, compiled and published by the Institute fOj- Research in Bio graphy. According to information releas Phillip Murray Calls Upon C. I. O. To Help Red Cross N'AACP GETS NEW ASSISTANT FIELD SECRETARY New York. N\ Y—Donald Jones, until recency Publicity Director for Dillard University and sales director for group hospitalization, for Flint-Goodrich Hspital, a unit of Dillard has been appointed as sistant field secretary for the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People. Mr. Jon es, a native of Louisiana was for 16 years a postal employee. Fol lowing his resignation from the post office he was for two years managing editor of the New Or leans Sentinel. He was a leader in the fight for equalization of teachers salaries in New Orleans which was successfully concluded in 1942. GIRAUD BANS RACE BARRIERS IN AFRICA General Henri Honore Giraud. | French Commander in chief, last j week formally banned racial dis j crimination in French North Af rica. He took this action in ordering women and girls of Jewish faith not be barred from French govern • ment iobs. ed by tbe publishers, this encyclo pedia includes the names of per sons in each country whose achieve ments in their respective fields are worthy of recognition. It is advertised as “an authentic rec ord of notable living men and wo men in every country throughout the world.” } Terming the 1943 American Red Cross War Fund Campaign a vital part of the CIO War Effort. Pres ident Philip Murray last Thursday March 4th, called on over 5,0<>0, 00o members of the Congress of i Industrial Organizations to “take I up the job planned by the Nation- j al CIO Committee for American and Allied War Relief and drive it through to a smashing victory”. In a letter addressed to all In ternationals and Industrial Union Counclis affiliated with the CIO, Mr. Murray said, “With CIO mem bers today carry Demacracy’s cru sading banner all over the world, we have a special duty and res ponsibility to aid in the successful j promotion of the Red Cross cam paign. Only the Red Cross can j bring word from far off prison camps to anxious parents, only the I Red Cross can furnish food and medical supplies to these captured American boys, and only the Rod Cross can have life-saving blood plasma ready when they fall on the battlefields". Under the direction of the Nat j ional CIO War Relief Committee hundreds of Industrial Union Coun oils and Locals throughout the country will carry the story of the Red Cross to their members dur ing the months of March and April and will appeal for contributions representing labor's fair share of the local Red Cross goals. 3 FEPC. Members Hit McNutt In Strong Letter to the President NEGRO WILL NOT LET fl FEPC DIE WITHOUT HOLD ING WAKE THAT WILL RE. j SOUND TO THE VERY EDGES OF THE FOURTH TERM" SAID ONE SPEAKER. COMMITTEE DOOMED WASHINGTON*. March 8 (ANP) With the morale of the office force at a low state, and the mem bers of the committee itself per turbed over the present condition, the three members o fth FEPC ' who met on Monday addressed a 1 very strong letter to President Roosevelt, expressing entire dis satisfaction at the manenr in which Paul V. McNutt has handled the affairs of that organization ! recently. Present and presiding was Earl Dickerson: with him. John Brophy of the CIO and Morris Shiskin of the AFL were the other members, j Etheridge, the chairman was ab-! sent as was Milton Webster. Feeling that the President has I deserted the group in the crisis, there wag nothing for the mem bers to do but express their senti ! ment to the man who Originate! OWl, and Security Board Head Promises Bow To Jim-Crow in D. C. Employment Washington. D. C.—The promise j of A. J. Altemeyer an OWI execu tive director and Social Board j chairman that he “did not intend! to approve a plan that will result j in the supervision of the white personnel bv colored or will result ! in white persons being required or being askea to be interviewed by colored persons," was cited this week by the NAACP as another in dication of the South’s increasing dictatorship of federal policies. Altemeyer made his salute to jim-crow at a recent house hearing in answer to a demand by Geor gia's congressman Malcolm C. Tar ver. A verbatum account of the con versation between Tarver and Alt ! emeyer follows: Mr. Tarver: What about mixing [them (white and colored) all up in j the same work room? Mr. Altemeyer: so far as that is concerned. I win give you the assurance I gave you before that we will certainly work that out in accordance with the space lim itations sc that there will be no greater offense to social sensibil itise than exist at the present time. Mr. Traver What about this bus iness of having colored stenograph -ers called to attend to the steno graphic needs of white employees and conversely white stenograph ers being called to attend to the stenographic needs of colored em ployees? Mr- Altemeyer: We will not have that done. Now. you are asking two questions. I do not think there has ever been any question raised. Mr. Jones can correct me. on colored people serving the need of white persons or furnishing stenographic assistance. I think X you mean particularly the other situation. Mr. Tarver: I think both are ob jectionable. Mr. Altemeyer: If there is ob jection we will eliminate both.” the idea of the committee. With only routine work proceed ing in the office, no policies est ablished. no routines established whereby the committee will be able to see its way clear to do an ef fective job, there is little reason to expect anythin? except disgust and dissention. Some have said thsi will be the policy of the pow ers that be, to let the committee die a natural death unnoticed and unheeded. The recent meeting of “leaders” from all over the country is being considered more Or less a political gesture to soften the blow. It is felt in high places that nothing will come of this meeting, no mat ter what has been promised. A similar case is pointed out in Maryland, where about a year ago there was a “March on Annapolis” Two thousand Negroes laid their grievances on the governor’s door step. He promised to ‘‘look into all of the complaints.” Election time was drawing near and some excuse had to be made. Since then, there has been nothing heard of the committee appointed by the governor to investigate the charg es FEPC is in a similar spot. No one seems to know what to do. The original sponsors have des erted the group leaving the entire matter in the hands of underlings who are constantly under fire and taking a severe going over be cause of their failure to compre hend the situation or attempt to do anything about it. This FEPC is of vital interest to every member of a minority group in the United States and the man handling of that organization may be seen as the hand-writing on the wall as far as liberalism toward minority groups is concerned. The contents of the letter to the President were not revealed, but it is known, that a careful reading would show a complete dissatisfac tion with both Mr. McNutt and At torney General Biddle, the latter too strongly influenced by the pro fessional white solvers of Negro problems, who know only how to line their pockets off Negroes earnings or live off their misfor tunes “The Negro is determined nrt to let the FEPC die without hold ing a wake that will resound down to the very edges of the “fourth term”, said one speaker when ques tioned on the matter. “If Mr. Roosevelt has any ideas about a fourth term, he had better stop flirting with the unreconstructed south and stick with those who have carried him thus far. Surely the Negro had on important part in his successes.” No satisfactory word may be had from the FEPC representatives, none of whom seem to know what is going on nor how long they will be functioning. PASS VETERAN’S BIEL WOULD GIVE TRAINING TO DISABLED Washington, DC., March i—By a shouted vote, the senate last Fri-1 day passed a bill under which dis abled veterans of the present war would be trained for private job-, an dassisted in finding them. The measure, introduced by Sen ators Clark (demo. Mo.,) and Walsh (demo. Mass.) now goes to the house The Clark-Walsh bill, indorsed by the American Legion. Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars, places the train ing program under the veterans’ administration. Persons assigned ior training woulod receive pensions and allow ances totalling $80 a month lor single men and $90 for married men. with $5 additional for each child. As far as possible, the training would be given in estab lished facilites of the veterans' ad ministraton. UNITED CAB, AUTO COLLIDE; Evelyn Rush. 21 of 4523 South 22nd street, received slight injur | ies last Sunday night when the car in which she was riding collid ed with a United Cab at 25th and N streets. | The car in which she was riding was being driven by her brother. I Hush. Elmo Littlejohn, driv er of the United Cab. who resides JOHN HENRY, AIR RAID WARDEN, PROVES LOYALTY TO ZONE Red Springs, N. C„ March 8 (A NP) A year ogo when Red Springs began its systematic organization of defense work, John Henry Col lins, an employe of the Flora Mac Donald college, white was appoint ed air raid warden for a zone in one of the districts. A few months ago, he decided to move out on his farm two miles from town and devote all of his time toward raising cotton, corn, and a victory garden for his fam ily- He neglected, however, to not ify defense officials of his move. The first blackout for several months was staged on last Thurs day night- When the signal sound ed, John was undressed and in bed but in exactly 21 minutes from the first sound of the siren, he r e ported, panting and breathless, to his town district, having dressed and come to town on foot to take charge of his zone. at 2505 Maple St., was fined S10 by Judge Palmer for reckless driv ing. GIRL STRUCK BY A CTO WHILE CROSSING STREET While crossing 24th and Indian? hvenue last week. Mary Lee John son, 10, 2412 Indiana avenue, suf fered hip injuries when she was struck by an auto driven by Edw ard W. Clinton. 4917 Grand ave. Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Told Negroes Interested In China’s Problems New York-Mme Chiang Kai-shek | wife of the Chinese generalissimo, was assured here March 4, of the deep interest of Ngro Americans in the brave struggle of the Chin ese people and in more aid being supplied to them by the United States. The assurance was given by Wal ter white. XAACP Secretary in a brief chat with the famous visit or in her suite at the Waldorf-As toria a few minutes before the brilliant reception arranged by the Chinese consulate on another floor of the hotel. Mme Chiang Kaishek. in her gracious manner, thanked the NAACP official for the expression of interest in her country on the part of American Xegroes. Mr- White was one of several prominent colored persons invited to the reception.