LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF K ANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS EuK*iKt rfltotr SlgwS Saturday, May 1, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR-No. 12 City Edition. 5c Copy Congress Hears Negro Air "^[uadron Leaves for Combat du % Sc Worth of GoodReadin Nat 1 Negro Health Week National Negro Health Week will be observed this year by Omahane May 2-9, 1943. The special object ive of tliis year's program will be HEALTH ON THE HOME FRONT -VICTORY ON THE WAR FRONT. Watch for announcements of the week’s activities. NEGRO AND W HITE DEFENSE WORKERS HOLD MASS MEET AGAINST RACE DISCRIMIN ATION LOS ANGELES April 28 IANP) Using interracial unity, most pow erful of weapons against discrim ination. a large number of colored and wMite aircraft- shipbuilding and other trade unionists gat hared in a mass meet at Phillips temple last Sunday. Drawing up pointed resolutions, they took steps to demand the im mediate dropping of the Jim-crow policies of tiie International Asso ciation of Machinists. This union, affiliated with the AFL., bars Ne gro workers from full fledged par ticipation, Besides it has persist ently refused to upgrade compet ent and ambitious Negroes, ignor ing all pleas and protests made on this subject. As a result of the mass meet, steps are to be taken to reveal that this policy is blocking the in crease production of planes, so badly needed by the government, and is keeping the war department from utilizing the abilities of thou sands of loyal, Negro citizens. The determined fighters against this jim-crow. know that it will con tinue in post-war business, and that the Negro may be back where he started from "unless he and his white friends get action now.” Immediate results are expected to take Place following this mass meet, which will be but the first of a series if nothing satisfactory is done, say the participants. - I SI PREME COURT STAYS ROBINSON, DANIELS EXECTTION ■VVshington. D. C.—A stay of ex ecution has bee ngranted by the U. S. Supreme Court to Curtis Rob inson and Henry Deniels. Jr., con victed and sentenced to death in Mobile, Alabama. Motion for the stay of execution was presented by Dr. Leon A. Ransom, member of the NAACP legal staff. Charged with arpihg a white wo man in August. 1941. Robinson and Daniels were indicted by a Mobile grand jury. They were convicted and sentenced to death by the cir cuit court of Mobile, Alabama. Daniels and Robinosr, were con victed as a result of confessions made by them. The record shows that the confessions were secured by violence on the part of police Ojfficers. T!»e stay of execution was granted so that attorneys for the defense may have time to Pre pare a wait of certiorari. I WASHINGTON, April 28 (ANP)— First public statement that a Ne gro air squadron had left lor com bat duty was made by Congressman. Frances P. Bolton of Ohio on the floor of the House Thursday ,Apr;I 15, when, speaking about Tuskegee institute of which she Is now a trustee, she said: "The first squadron of colored flyers has left for combat duty tak ing the hearts of Tuskegee with them. I am sure the entire mem bership o fthis house wishes them well and hopes for them a high record of honor and of glory.” Although Mrs. Bolton's speech is found in its entirety in the Con ! gressional Record for April 15, thousands of copies of which have been printed and distributed thru out the nation to read by any in terested person, the war depart ment has sought t° prevent its publication in newspapers, stating that no mention of this squadron's’ departure, should be made until official sanction is given by war department officials. However, the Office of Censor ship has given permission for the Associated Negro Press to repro- j duee Mrs. Bolton’s statement ex actly' a it appeared in the Record. 2 NONCOMMISSIONED NEGRO SOLDIERS AMONG GROUP FROM CAMP ATTERBIRY TO INSPECT DETROIT M AR PLANTS DETROIT. April 28 ^egrro Civil Service Employees in United Stax- j es Navy Yards. Edgar G. Brown, President of the National Civil 1 Service Employes organization and Director of the National Negro Council, made the following as sertions about Senator Lucas: “No man can remain in public office and use the power granted to him j to deny 13,000,000 colored Ame,--, icans their constitutional rights: this means the right to vote, to hold positions of public trust in Federal services, professional and technical .such as the Navy and arsenals. Without discrimination. The 450.000 colored Service men. and women now fighting, bleeding and dying for democracy, abroad, must not be sold down the river for the four freedoms at home.” “The State of Lincoln, Grant and Logan ihust finish the job in 1943, that the citizenship begun in 18*>I for one tenth of the total popula- i propriated $377,500 for the work of the fund during the coming year 5n its three programs: the develop ment of rural education, both white and Negro, in the south: the grant ing of fellowships to Negroes and white southerners: and the devel opment of democratic practices in race relations. Serving with Bishop Sheil on the I board of trustees are Lessing J. Rosenwald, chairman, Philadelpnia Wtill W. Alexander. Washington, Edwin R. Embree .Chicago: Mark ' May 10*22 Set for Third Scrap Drive Indict 3 in Alabama for Biutality loPrisoneis Job Segregation Held Discrimatory THUS WITHIN SCOPE OF FEPC. Ne wYork—Although Exgfbutive Order 8802 is not specifically dir ected against segregation, it is a fact that in most cases, segregation of workers on account of race re sults in discrimination and denial of equality of opportunity, and where” this is true the President’s committee on Fair Employment Practice has the right to act. This was the theme of a speech here April 21 by George M. John son, assistant executive secretary of FEPC .before the New Yotk chapter of the National Lawyers Guild at the Park Central Hotel. The speech was regarded as an answer to the extremist critics who have maintained that FEPC must not and may not, under Its executive order, attack segregat ion in any form. Explaining that Executive Order 8802 prohibits “discrimination in the employment of workers __ because of race, creed, color o* na tion. We propose to launch a fin ancial campaign to raise $100,000 to support this type of a program in Washington, D. C„ before the Congress and Executives deep in Federal Government. The one hundred Billion annual Federal Government Budget should be chan neled more definitely and benefic ially to the loyal and patriotic col i ored American citizens.” Ethridge. Louisville; A. Richard Frank, Chicago: Charles S. John son. Nashville; Adele R. Levy, New York: Franklin C. McLean. Chicago Howard YT. Odum, Chap Hill, N. C. Leonard M. Reiser. Chicago; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Washington. D. C.; and Edgar B. Stern. New Or leans. Use The Omaha Guide As A— Medium of Advertising Texas Primary Case to Supreme Court Washington. D. C.—On April 21, for the fourth time, the question of th e 'white primary" in the South was taken before the United Stat es Supreme Court by legal counsel of the NAACP. | The decision of this case will de j termine the fate of the ’‘white pri | mary" not only in Texas but in the | other states of the deep South I where the “white Primary" is now I exclucfcng all Negro voters. The present case arose when^ Lonnie E. Smith of Houston. Tex as, was denied to vote in the 1940 primaries. Suit was filed against the election judges of Harris coun ty. The complaint held that the Chicago Defenders* Executors In Court Lady made to Chicago. Below is John H. Sengestacke, Abbott’s nep hew. now President of the Robert S. Abbott Publishing Company. Mrs. Edna R. Abbott, comely widow of the late Robert S. Abbott j founder of the Chicago Defender, mbade a trtp to the Circuit Court on Monday. April 12th where she filed a motion to dismiss the suit brought by John H. Sengestacke to obtain 2.497 shares of stock in the newspaper. Sengestacke is said to have filed a sdit whereby he claims that his uncle gave him the shar es .par value $100, in 1935. and in 1937. the deceased editor obtaimd their temporary return for use r»s collateral on a loan. Mr. Abbott died in 1940 without returning the -hares. Sengestacke alleged a r.d ; the stock went into the estate. MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND MRS. EDNA R. ABBOTT CHICAGO. April 28 (PPS. Inc., ) Pictured at top .left to right are: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President, and Mrs. Edna R. : Abbott. **ife of the late Robert S. Abbott: the photo was made on one of the visits the Nationa's First t JOHN H. SENGESTACKE Recently, the suit was withdrawn from Probate Court and transferr ed to Circuit Court. SengestacK.j Mrs. Abbott and A tty. James B. Cashin. a member of the Chicago Civil Service Commission, are exe cutors of the estate. plaintiff had been deprived of rights secured by the 14. 15. 17th amendments of the United States Constitution. In many southern states the poor Negroes and whites are excluded by the poll tax but in Texas .Ala bama. Oklahoma. Louisiana. South Carolina and parts of North Caro lina Negroes have been effectively disfranchised by means of dis criminatory registration tactics. "The program of the XAACP.". said Thurgood Marshall. NAACP Special counsel who has filed a petition for writ of certiorari whi.'ll raise the following question: ‘ Does the Constitution of the Uitited States prohibit the ex clusion of qualified Negro el ectors from voting in primary election which are an integral part of the election machinery of the State and whftch are determinitive of the choice of federal officers?” Several test cases have been f fl ed against discriminatory registr-i •on practices culminating with that of Lane vs. Wilson from Ok lahoma .whereby the united Stat es Supreme Court in 1939 struck down tbe practice in Oklahoma of preventing certain Negroes from registering. t'onai origin" and makes it the duty of employers and labor organ izations “to provide for the full and equitable participation of a’l workers... .without discrimination, fir. Johnson posed the question of whether, in the operation of the policy of segregation, workers were denied full and equitable particip ation without discrimination. He pointed out that many em ployers. both in government and private indusrty, have a segrega tton policy on the job." which may place a particular race on a parnc ular sh ft. or limit that race to cer tain types of work, or place them in certain buildings, shops, or sec tions tv themselves. ‘ Basic to the rtght to equality | oi opportunity for employment is I the right 10 be considered for em ployment for any position on the same terms as other persons." Johnson sa;d, “Equally ba3ic *s the right to be considered for motions and upgrading to better paying and supervisory positions. “Where the policy of segregation obtains in any of the forms men tioned aiove, there will be a Jen j ial of employment opportunity if and when an available and quali fied worker is refused considerat ion for a position because it is in a skill from which members of hij group are excluded, or because it is in a building' from which thev a.e excluded. “It is indeed difficult to imagine a situation.” the speaker declared, “where a worker is segregated oe cause of his race and yet is not restricted in his employment op portunities because of that segrega tion. Equality of employment op portunity involves something more tllan equality in hours of work, rates of pay .tools, machines, work snops. and types of work, all of which are susceptible of control. Itinvolves intangibles which by their nature may not he subject to the control necessary to assure e quality.” Johnson safid the FEPC recogn ized that its jurisdiction was limit ed to discrimination .but he reiter ated his main theme that where se gregated produced discrimination violative of Executive Order 8802, the FEPC was obligated to act. He declared that where housing was segregated and such segrega tion operated to limit equal job op portunities for workers on account of race, it was a violation of 8802. Striking at separate jim crow local unions, set up as auxiliaries of established unions. Johnson said that “to the extent that the min ority group deals only through the regular union of which it is simply a part..-it seems clear that the unions' policy of racial separation has violated 8802. Declaring that the elimination pt racial and religious prejudices should be the concern of all. John son said: “It is true, that racial, religious and national prejudices are deep seated. charged with emotion, st lb born and irrational. Nevertheless it remjans important to encourage clear thinking in this difficult field of human relationships, and to discourage reconciliation to a state of affairs which is morally untenable. If this nation is to as sume leadership as a democracy in fact as well as lin theory, the elim ination of policies and practices which reduce large segments of our population to the status of sec ond and third class citizens must be sanely, sincerely and effective ly undertaken.” ) Th Deprtment of Justice ann ounced Friday, April 23. 1943 that a eFderal Grand Jury at Mont gomery. Ala., had returned thre; indictments charging Sheriff Ed win Eugene Evans and Deputy Sheriff Henry Franklin Faucett of Macon County, Ala., wfith acts of brutality toward prisoners over a period of three years. The case was developed as a result of an F. BI investigation requested by As sistant Attorney General ‘Wendell Berge. The three indictments charge, on fifteen counts, that the sheiliff and his deputy whipped, beat and abus ed prisoners to extort confessions from them, in violation of the Fed eral Civil lights Statute. Section 62, Title 18, U. S. Code. The max imum penalty under this statute is imprisonment for one year and a fine of *1,000 on each count. According to the Indictments, the brutality of the defendants extend ed to both white and Negro prison ers, including Walter Gunn, a Ne- ! gro, who was shot and killed by Sherff Evans whle attemptng to arrest him. The indictments al lege that the beatings were admin istered with a walking stick, a blackjack, a rubber hose and other weapons. Among prisoners thus mistreat-1 (continued t> sible, on the status of your county •wW be greatly -«ppi eetmtetl JOE W. SEACBBKT. Chairman State Salvage Committee. Gov't Clears Two in Lynching Case SHERIFF IDENTIFIES TWO; CONFESSION TO FBI MEN INTRODUCED IN MISSIS SIPPI CASE HATTIESBURG. Miss.. April 29 (ANP)—With two men freed Wed nesday by the government, th.y trial of three others charged with violation of federal civil rights statutes in the lynching last year of Howard Wash continued to cn> ate one of the biggest sensations ever witnessed in the south. This is the first time since 1903 that the j federal government has sought to j convict mobbists. The two men set free on directed j verdicts by U. S. District Judge | Sidney Mize on motion by the gov- with the crime were William Or ernment that it had failed to pro- car Johnson, farmer and N'atlia.i duce any evidence connecting them (continued on DageiT^~J2) GETS JAIL TERM Chicago. PPS., IE!:..) Charles Newby, 353 East 51st Street, presi dent of the Colored American Na tional Organization, which is ag ainst the U. S. A. and believes that “Hitler and Tojo are the lights of the world" .was found guilty of se 1 dition and sentenced to three years ; j in the penitentiary on Monday, | April 19, by Judge Michael IgOe in j the United States Distinct Court. I W. Sylvester White, colored assist- i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiii ant IT. S. district attorney here for the past five years, prosecuted tn_ case and won the conviction. MUD Inaugurates New Service THE METROPOLITAN UTILIT. IES HAS INSTITUTED A NEW SERVICE This picture shows the Metrop olitan Utilities District Home Ser vice Operators, so that you may recognize them when they call at your home. From left to right, they are Mrs. Ruth Stacey, Mrs. Lillian Dlouhy, Miss Laura Tondreau, Mrs. Queen ie Predmore. Mrs. Bernice Lane. Mrs. Elizabeth Ingersoll, Mrs. Car jal Graham and Mrs. Ocie Parsell. These home service operators un der the management of Joseph E. Walsh, will call at your home in their attractive uniforms, in ans wer to your telephone sendee calls. They w*i]l make adjustments on 1 your kitchen range or automatic hot water heater, and demonstrate to the house wife how easy with a few simple household tools, they can make their own adjustments. This new service which will con tinue for the duration, has met ■ with a most enthusiastic reception from Omaha housewives. They Seem to take a more personal in terest in their gas appliances, now that they- see how easy they' etc. make their own adjustments. The Home Sendee Department to further increase their service to the community are having Mrs. Alta Weymuller every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 2 to 4 give not only free canning dem onstrations. but also a lecture on how to obtain well balanced me.;!s for the fewest possible ration points. Invest the Fruits of Your Labor for A Rainy Day— bay Mere War Bonds & Stamps! “Style Queen”