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M U.18 NERVINE] FOR relief from Functional Ner * vous Disturbances such as Sleep lessness, Crankiness, Excitability, Nervous Headache and Nervous In k digestion. Tablets 35$ and 75$, Liquid 25$ and $1.00. Read direc 1 tions and use only as directed. I or Functional Monthly Pains —25 for 25#. 125 > for$1.09. Get them at your / 1 drug store. Read directions U L and use only aa directed, f BRONCHIAL COUGHS! Due To Colds or Pronchial Irritation Stop today at any good drug store and ask for a bottle of Buckley's CANADIOL Mixture (triple acting). Take a couple of sips at bedtime. Feel its instant powerful effective action spread thru throat, head and bronchial tubes. It starts at ; once to loosen up thick, choking phlegm, soothe raw membranes and make breathing easier. • Don’t wait—get Buckley’s Canadiol today. You get relief instantly. Only 45c—all druggists. Did You Place Your FALSE TEETH In a Glass Last Night? Thousands do and wonder why the;r den tures remain dull and stained — why they suffer with offending denture breath. They fail to realize that water alone is not a cleans ing agent - but now. there s a great formula perfected by a dentist, called Stera-Kleen that thoroughly cleans false teeth like magic no brushing! Simply put a little Stera-Kleen Powder in a glass of water—soak , your teeth - now they sparkle. I are really clean and look iUce the day you/ dentist said, “Don’t they fobk natural?” Try Stera-Kleen - lasts long - costs only 30*. At all druggists._ Old Fa rmer's Recipe: Mix Allenru and Lemon Juice to get quick relief from pains of rheumatics and neuralgia Druggists have Allenru — grocers have lemons. DO YOU Have trouble with your feet? Do they perspire too freely and crack the skin between the toes? Do they ache and burn? Are you troubled with painful corns, oak louses or Athlete's Foot? Then try I.D.I—an amazing near formula guaranteed to bring w lief —or double your money backd EAST TO USE—easy to buy; got IS) If ^1111 FRED WALKER, AGENT PHONE ATLANTIC 1689— 984 N. 25th ST. READ The ];){,' Gross JEWELRY & LOAN CO. phone JA-4635 formerly at 24th and Erskine St. NEW LOCATION— SI 4 N. 16th ST. cUu WAITERS’ COLUMN (BY H. W. SMITH) WE. 6458 The Fontenelle Waiters are all serving with a smile, and we notice one of the famous roast beef knights at morning services at the Clair Chapel on Sunday, May 2nd. Sunday, May 9th is Mothers’ Day and we should all do our very best to honor them as no one can take the place of Mother. As we remember back of the fine motto: “God Bless our home—In God we1 trust—Kind words and a welcome to all—Love one another—What is home without a Mother?—They are the mottos which were so beauti fully framed upon the wall.” The RR boys are very much o’lt in front in service to the travelling public. The Omaha Club waiters are *>n bowelUluggish? • Feeling like you lost your best friend headachy—dull—all because of sluggish bow els? Why put up with constipation misery? Chew modem FEEN-A-MINT, the pleasant tasting chewing-gum laxative. Chew FEEN A-MINT tonight at bedtime, taking only in accordance with package directions. Next morning—thorough, gentle relief, helping you feel swell again. Millions rely on FEEN-A MINT. Chew like your favorite Jum. Tastes good. Try FEEN-A-MINT—a whole family supply costs only If You Had MYJOB Keeping house, helping take care of the family—you ■would realize that business girls are not the only ones who some times get Headache and Tired Aching Muscles. We home girls often work just as hard and have just as many Headaches, just as many Stomach Upsets and get just as Tired. About a year ago, I first used ALKA-SELTZER j I find that it eases my Aching j Head, takes the kinks out of Tired,1 Aching Muscles and brings relief ! when I have Acid Indigestion. The family says I am a lot easier to live with since I have known about Alka-Seltzer. 'Have you tried ALKA-SELT ZER? If not, why don’t you get a package today ? Large package , 60*, Small package 30*, also by : the glass at Soda Fountains. I ! ■ Free Booklet Tells Of Thrilling Discovery; New Hope For Millions One of the most sensational scientific dis- j coveries of modem times is an anti-graj ; hair vitamin that re stores natural, nor mal color to gray half in nature's own way. Scientific investigation has revealed that gray hair, in many cases, may be due to a vitamin deficiency Scientists have also discovered the particular vi tamin that is necessary to restore col or to the hair in such cases. Reports ol tests made indicate remarkable results. Not a dye—not a tint—not a drug—not a medicine! It is a valuable food sup plement. If you are among the millions ot people who find themselves handi capped, in business or socially, because of gray hair, mail coupon below (or write) for free booklet about this marvelous new vitamin discovery. There is no cost or obligation, so send today. United Vitamin Products, 9 W. Washington St Chicago. 111., Dept. 5 Send me FREE BOOKLET about the new ANTI-GRAY HAIR VITAMIN. Name..._ Add-ess . ■.. -i—. — City ..7*-i :v. — State -.—r. “Peoples’ Musician” Award To Duke Ellington -------—- — ——* — DuSABLE LOUNGE OWNERS GIVE CAKE AND PUNCH TO SERVICE MEN’S CENTER Chicago, (PPS., Inc.)—In an out standing and extravagant war time gesture, Messrs. Charles Cole, Har ry Fields and John Simmons, own ers of the popular DuSable Lounge of this# city, made a thousand sold iers, and marines happy at one of their weekly parties on Saturday night, May 1st. These gentlemen, who have already bought thous ands of dollars worth of Defense iCiiCtilicciiCCii Bonds, gave many gallons of spec ially prepared delicious punch and hundreds of fine crunchy cakes- to the Servicemen’s Center, No. 3, lo cated at Wabash Ave., and 49th streets. The above photo shows, left to right, Yeoman 3rd clas3 Petty Officer Moses H. Edwards, Miss Ramona Erwin, hostess, Har ry Fields, Private Chas. P. Warren Aviation Cadet, Lt. Ruth L. Free rt ^ ^ ^ _ man, WAAC recruiting Officer, Sgt. Robert Gaston of the 54th Coast Artillery, Mrs. Marie Trotter Moore one of the Center's officers; and Charles Coles. They were a mong the hundreds "'ho attended the frolic. The servicemen’s Cen ter staff was loud in its praise to the DuSable Lounge owners for the treat to the Center Servicemen and Hostesses. the Up and go from the time they hit the job until they go home and Capt. Earl Jones has one more year to his age. He enjoyed a very lovely birthday. Capt Langley and Mr. George Brown are topnotch men at the Regis and the White Horse Ian, waiters still are tops on service. The Race Horse headwaiter and the very active members of his crew at the Paxton hotel are very much onto their jobs. Notice that Theodore Thomas of the Cocktail Lounge has a new side walk in front and leading to his beautiful, well-kept home. THE WEEK— Taxi cab plan in Chi, is approved, by Director Joseph B. Eastman. Those cowboys can’t get ahead of each other now! U. S. Senator James M. Mead of NT. tells the Senate what Negro es are doing to help win the war. Federal Jury in Miss, acquits 3 in lynching trial. President Roosevelt asked to step in and clear up the policies of the War Manpower Commission. —Affecting the use of Negro labor in America’s war effort. Florida Legislature kills bill ad mitting women to serve on juries. NAACP asks war parley—Seeks L. L. Morrow SCULPTURE WORK Tombstones made to Order and and Ornaments of All Kinds SAMPLES FOR YOUR INSPECTION at 2925 Grant St. or -CALL WE-0416 solution to complaints in Detroit, Michigan. Andy Kirk and his orchestra in Omaha. Many victory gardens in the mak ing. President Roosevelt on the air on May 2nd at 9 pm. Programs for school closing in the making. Roosevelt Post American Legion sponsored a very fine opening of their newly decorated location on May 3rd and it was a riot of pleas ure for everyone that attended. There wasn’t even standing room left in the hall or on the stairway. Executive Board of the NAACP had a very fine meeting. Glover Scott one of Omaha’s outstanding young men in the U. S. army in the city on a furlough. Omaha and Council Bluffs to have dikes on the river edge. Congressman Buffett of the 2nd District in Omaha. Rochester’s streamliner race horse, was in the rear end of the Kentucky Derby. • Dr. Wesley Jones on 15th and Douglas Street with a new hat. Capt. Burns and the musician headwaiter and Bill Roundtree on a 24th and Kansas trolley car. Johnnie Flemmings on 24th and Lake St. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Shobe on 15th and Douglas St., on a shopp ing tour. Read the Omaha Guide and keep up with the news. — Pullman black mart to be inves tigated. O. R. Seagraves one time multi millionaire freed on bond. Wm. Allen White, Emporia Kun Thomas Kilpatrick & Co.; / Plan a Cool, Dainty Summer Ahead with New Fresh, Crisp Printed DIMITIES 39%, Lovely new patterns for these flattering sum mer dresses that keep you as cool as you look in them. Dainty field flower prints and conventional patterns. Washable fast colors. Kilpatrick's Fabric Section—Third Floor gas editor and his wife in a hospit al on their 50th wedding annivers ary. 50,000 coal miners go back to work on May 4th. Lt. Wm. Peebles of Car-] „iof;. S. C. and his wife Lt. Jacqueline Peebles, WAAC of Ft. Desmoines, were the week end guest of their parents Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Peebl es and they all enjoyed a very lovely family get-to-gether. GIRLS ; ON THE STREFTS ARE YOU in the army? Is some one deer to you there? Have you felt a touch..__of this war? (Besid es the shoe deal). Just grazing along the stroll and buzzin’ the Cats and Chics it’s plain Iy noticeable-Everyone has felt a blow! (Of this war!) The Avenue is always full of cats and some are in uniforms_but those in uniforms are strangers to Bronzeville. (In a way eh KC.) We’ve missed talking “parrot talk” to you the past couple weeks .do you know why? We hr.d to stop and get acquainted with some of the new Cats and “to-do es”. Let’s talk a little old business over do you mind? Remember when the first Cats were drafted_Charles Buckley - Donald Stewart—Bobby Blair—and all that gang. We missed them be cause we wrote about those popu lar guys all the time....Then came another list—Charlie Williams Spencer Jacobs—Willie McClarity— Floyd Young — and then dozens. . and as time marched on—Uncle Sam had taken most every moth er’s son and every chic’s playboy and left the score... .three to ev ery-one.... so you can see why we j are kinda slow about buzzin’ ya, j (Mighty mess up.) That seems to be “Simmon’s” trouble—Dorothy Bryant has seem ingly made him almost forget that there was a R. Thomas. And itwoul d only cause blood shed to mention how hard Martha Wells has been playing nights she gets off from work. Of course her string has Edgar Tripplet for lead man. Herbert Cole has a wide choice to be with.._It took all this to fin ally wake him up to the fact that not only if they’re white they’re all New York City, PPS., Inc.) —On the heels of his triumph at Carne gie Hall, where he and his band re cently appeared in concert, Duke Ellington, was recipient of the New York Newspaper Guild's 1943 award for “Great American Musician of the People”, Friday, April 30. The Guild’s spokesman eulogized the master musician at Hotel Astor, Where the newspapermen's annual ball was in progress, over a nation wide hookup. Among the many things said were “Duke’s music was as American as the Liberty Bell”. Maestro Ellington was then introduced and after graciously av cpeting the medal and thanking the Guild’s representatives, he and his band played his most popular song, “Sophisticated Lady.” -I right-but if they’re Brown stick around! He (Eh L. T.) Before we forget—thee old say ing is—Names make news so .... We will always unless we is forc ed not to_use the creature’s full name, enny objections? Small mistakes make great error's don’t they Willard Morgan. May be he learned that with some of his “seven come eleven, mates” in the Victory. -Ah—ah-ah, don’t stop reading now cause you’re bored. Let us waste some jive on you. That fine band wall be at the Dreamland Ball room the 13th of May—Hoy and you—if anyways you call yo’seif hep—you is forced to be laying down some leather there. Because that “flicker’’ should be great! ANDY KIRK! The Grand opening of The Am erican Legion was a grand one. Cats—Chics—Hens and all packed 'IT PAYS TO LOOK WILL MAYO’S BARBER SHOP Ladies and Children’s M orh A Specialty 2422 LAKE ST. RABE’S BUFFET for Popular Brands of BEER and LIQUORS 2229 Lake Street —Always a place to park— I iOHNSON DRUG CO.| NEW LOCATION 2306 North 241 h 1 |We. 0998 Free Deliver; NORTH 24th st SHOE REPAIR 1807 N. 24th St. WE. 424U —POPULAR PRICES— LOOK AT YOUR SHOES Other People Do. Our Half Solelng Method leaves No Repair Look on your shoe& We Use the BEST Material. NATURAL PAGE BOY ATTACHMENTS YOU CAN HAVE YOUR HAIR PERFECTLY MATCHED FOR ,; Latest Creations \ Easily Attached f Human Hair All Shades """ SEN® NO MONEY J Just tend temple of your hair or stale color \a PAT POSTMAN S3 SO plus postage # on delivery R PUFFS. WICS AND BRAIDS SATISFACTION OR MONTY IfFUNOfD (50c extra for Gray Hair) SEND YOUR ORDER TORAY JESSIE RARE BEAUTY PRODUCTS COMPANY $07 FIFTH AVENUE (Rook VOS) NEW YORK CITY the club. Cabs all over the globe were ozzing up and studds fell out in their drape suits. ...with tlie stuffed cuffs—on their drapped shapes—with the reet pleets—and their zute hats. They were sharp as the club—Chics ffell out in *or mals and fox furs and three piece suits. Among the finest outfits was Mrs. Frances Fontane. She fell out in a aqua three piece suit with iuggage accessories. Please be lieve me when I say Miss Dorothy Beck looked exotic in her low cut Canary formal and there were many a hen that looked fine as wine. The Legion is really a classic night club. It adds to BronzeviPe. The Crooner, Vercie Lee Norval who has only been in the army a short while was spotted in a fine khaki uniform sporting bars on each shoulder. He’s a Lieuten ant! Let me present to some and introduce to others, Lieutenant Vercie Lee Norval!!! \ Alphonso Davis is also sporting bars—Lieuteonant A1 Davis . while here this week he spoke Dutch to Lois Turner. Alice Simmons and Norris Pres ton will soon be married. Nice couple, .congratulations. Elliot earner seems to fell for a Chic like a ton of bricks, but he dropped her like two tons. Won der what happened to that rom ance? The Chic is looking for him to come on once more. He left her stranded—That’s tuff. Again the Martineers are asking Jimmy to have a dance on Satur day night. Those workers said if he’d only get a big band here on Saturday night—They’d all have a chance to get groovey like a fifty cent movie. Hoy!!! Buddy Kellogg and Dorothy Urell seems to be stickin’ like white on rice. Wonder can we rely upon this romance? I IF IT WON'T HELP WIN THE WAR... smr/p/r/ ASK FOR A FRIENDLY MELLOW: B7frmT»Trar Metz Brewing Co. OMAHA, NEBRASKA “SINCE 1864” Stanley Edmonson went some where and got hep. He was sport ing’ a drapped suit—drooped on a drop—The Lick! Curtis Woods has been seen a gain in Bronzeville. Cool it ted! You are really coming on strong. Good while it lasts! THAT'S ALL this week— —Girls On the Streets. MORRIS E. JACOBS APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF PUBLIC RELA TIONS AND EDUCATION COMM. J. E. Davidson, executive direc tor of the Omaha Civilian Defense Council, announced the appoint ment of Morris E. Jacobs of B izell and Jacobs advertising agency as chairman of the Council's public re lations and education committ e. Under Jacob’s direction, inf >rm ation on the activities of all the volunteer groups comprising the Omaha Civilian Defense Corps will be disseminated to the people of the city. “There is a great deal of this ac tivity being carried on by citizens of Omaha as a service to the com munity,” Jacobs said in confirming his acceptance to the chairmanship of the committee. “It also is im portant that the people of Omaha should know of these activities which are for the protection and welfare of our community.” this Min •niy WMk Tha great* ft star ef ttia tctaanl "Assignment in Brittany”is an amazing forecast of the coming invasion—a pic ture as full of danger and suspense as a commando raid on the gun-bristling French Coast! ★ ★ ★ ★ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has taken ths action-crowded pages of the novel and put every throbbing second down for you to see and enjoy! Imagine the thrill of dropping into enemy territory by parachute— and alone! ★ ★ ★ ★ ^ Imagine the dangers of masquerading as another man—even to his mother even to his sweetheart! ★ ★ ★ ★ Imagine what it means to know that one false step will be your last step—as you get the low-down on the French “Underground.” ★ ★ ★ ★ “Assignment in Brittany” is definitely DYNAMITE-DRAMA. With some TNT romance, too—as Pierre Aumont, great French star in his first Hollywood role, shows how he can be as dangerous in love as he is in battle 1 ★ ★ ★ ★ Lovely Susan Peters plays a leading, utterly feminine role—as the enchant ing heroine. ★ ★ ★ ★ Leo suggests that for an exciting assign ment—see “Assignment in Brittany”! Z'-V And assign a part of what you planned to spend— to War Bond Purchases. —A* Costs only 3C per day x Pays up to $325 per year Accidents and Sickness strike quickly and Hospitals demand Cask. 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