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Large numbers of waiters on 24th
and Kansas street cars early Sun
day morning. May 16th.
Regis hotel and White Horse Inn
waiters going good.
Brother John Evans of the Rome
hotel on North 24th St. Sunday
May 16th.
Our old comrade and fellow cit
izen Jefferis passed to the great be
yond.
The RR boys are on the job in
giving fine service.
The Fontenelle hotel waiters are
jtops at all times.
FLASH! Read the Omaha Guide
and be up with the times all the
while.
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Omaha Club waiters are on the
up and go at all times.
Race horse head waiter and the
very fine crew of the Paxton hotel
are going over the top at all times.
Fellow waiters don’t you think
we should invest our money in a
paying business of some kind as
we never know what we can do un
less we create and develope an en
terprise of some kind. Omaha is
very much in need of a hotel on X.
24th St. What do you think about
H?
Read the Memorial write up in
the next issue.
THE WEEK—
“Cabin in the Sky” at the Para
mount theatre made a big hit.
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Ned Moore and Bro. Farr of N.
27th St., and Bro. Snglish and a
fine group of Pullman porters in
Omaha Saturday May 15th and we
wondered where Bro. Jake Todd
was as he is a very prominent fig
ure on North 24th St.
Attorney Bryant and H. "W. Smith
exchanged a few words on 24th &
Lake Streets.
Co-ordinating Council had a very
fine meeting at Zion Baptist
Church.
Mr. Earl Jones entertained some
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Marlin Threatens to Pull
BEHIND THE PLAY <
BY DON DeLEIGHBl'R
NEW YORK—The public wants
to know: When are they going to
play ball? The question is more
serious than it appears in print.
The Negro baseball club owners
smoked big fat and black sigars all
winter around their various hang
outs throughout the country and
selpt their chance to make an ef
fective beef about how they were
going to transport their players and
clubs about in 1943 to make league
schedules. They came in the barn
after the horse had been stolen—
after the major leagues had gotten,
their side of the matter straighten
ed out—and now the season offic
ially opened as of May 16, the big
gest news is a lot of wrangling and
twisting between the Negro Amci
ican League and theNegr o Nation
al League over who stole who.
J. B. Martin, president of the A
merican League in the West, is
levelling his guns on Tom Wilson
of the National loop in the East
accusing member clubs of the sea
board circuit of swiping a few
guys from certain American Lea
gue teams. Martin is hollering
loudly about player Bell of the Mem
phis Red Sox (owned by his bro
ther, B. B. Martin) and player
Shields of the Chicago American
Giants and the K. C .Monarchs ap
pearing in the lineup of the Home
stead Grays, Cum Posey's and Son
ny Man Jackson’s outfit. Also in
.
line for a slap in the mug is the
Philadelphia Stars club of the N
NL which is said by Martin to have
yanked some players from the West
All this yelping and hollering and
beating of the breasts amounts to
nothing insofar as the actual pro
gress of Negro baseball is concern
ed. What the wTangling owners
an dleagues should be concerned
with i sthe alarming inclination of
big name players to quit the game
altogether and get a good paying
job in a defense factory or even
join the army where they can at
least eat three square meals a day
and have a chance to advance in
the ranks. A point few have mule
mention of is the fact that few J e
gro ball players come out of the
game with anything. More Negro
stars are found hustling quarters,
hartending, acting as bouncers in
night clubs and dance halls, driv
ing taxicabs, or still trying to play
ball after they’ve reached the ripe
young age of 50 than in any other
sport.
To begin with, Negro ball play
ers are in a poor paying racket.
| The owners get the big cars, oun
friends at a northside business
house!
Read the Omaha Guide.
The Arkansas river overflowing.
Above high water marks.
American Day celebrated very
extensively in all cities’ of the U.5.
Credit Union of the 4C Club go
ing good.
Streamlined stenographer at the
Urban League going good.
Brother Kennedy one of the old
school of the Roast Beef knights
on 24th and Erskine St.
Ladies Auxiliary of the Postal
Alliance very much out in front.
Mr. Eugene Pierre passed on
May 9th. He was one of the oid
school of roast beef knights and
we all extend our sympathy to the
family.
Goodwill Spring Musical had a
large crowd and it is a lovely idea
to bring about a goodwill fellow
ship.
This writer had the pleasure of
joining a very select party of fine
friends Mrs. Mollie Dennis and
Mrs. Vivian Johnson, two of Om
aha’s very friendly ladies and it
was a beautiful fellowship as the
gentlemen -were all smiles.
C. B. Wilkes and Mr. Oscar Bas
set on Ohio St., Sunday afternoon.
Memorial Day May the 30th and
we all should pay our very best
respects to our loved ones who have
passed on.
Brotherhood Club of Clair Chap
el has a program in the making.
Mrs. Ethel Kirtley looks over the
magazines at Duffy's drug store.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rube of
Sidney, Nebr., were week end
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Reno Sib
! ilia of 714 South 38th Ave. and
they enjoyed every minute of their
vdsit in Omaha and they are vel
come as the flowers in May.
Are you a member of the local
NAACP? If not, why not?
•>
; try homes, own the night clubs,
speakeasies and ride the Century
or the Broadway Limited back and
forth. The players, who on the av
erage earn about $75 a week and
in many cases, far less than that,
are in a different category. That’s
why the average colored ball play
er is so ready to jump at a mom
ent’s notice and why the Cubans
and the Mexicans and Puerto Ric
ans can come to the states md
pick up anybody they want, m
! eluding Jos Gibson, Satchel Paige,
j Terris MacDuffie, Willie Wells
I and others.
The money is what counts. The
; Senors from down Mellico Way of
fered the batch of players in the
. Mexican National League $400 a
month on an average, with expens
es including transportation. Some
of the big name players got more
than that,
J. B. Martin has indicated that
he’ll call off the annual East West
Classic at. Comiskey Park in Chic
ago if the Eastern magnates won’t
“act right” and return the players
they allegedly stole from the West.
This is the crowning bit of pun
ishing action the former Memphis
drugstore operator can conceive of
in his program of dominance. On
the other hand, the Eastern crowd
has the dough. Save for J. W.
Wilkerson, owner of the Kansas
City Monarchs, there appears to be
no Big Money Man who is spending
it on the Western fringe.
The East has yet to see its share
of the annual East-West Game as
in the major league’s annual AII
Star Game which moves about the
cities in the two circuits. It has
been All-West so far.
It comes to mind that W. P. H.
Harrison, manager of the Grand
Hotel in Chicago, put up most of
the money to finance the classic
for two years following the fall of
the originator of the game, Gus
Greenlee of Pittsburgh. Harrison,
thus far, is inclined to string along
with those who want to keep the
classic going and in this instance,
it seems to be the Big Money Men
of the East who haven’t threaten
ed as yet to pull out of the game
as has Martin for the West.
An analysis of all the current
squabbling and beating up of the
gums by the East and West lea
gues over players amounts to a
serious crimp in the amount of in
terest and confidence the fans 1 - e
in the whole business.
It is not too much of an effort
of the real baseball enthusiast to
forget the whole business and buy
his bleacher seat for the Cardinal
-Giants game, the Yankee-Indian
tilt, or even buy a box seat for a
game between the Pirates and the
Phillieg Baseball has no color
line in the customer side of the e
quation. Despite contrary agita
tion, Negro fans make up a big
part of the take at various major
league parks
Notice how they jam in Griffith
Stadium in Washington and at the
Polo Grounds in New York? Well,
these fans aren’t too much inter
ested in the spade version tf the
rust'mrc to batiri with if they \c
c."> to listen an re id -ot of . )>
pycock and be blinded by a smoke
screen that hides an appalling con
dition that obtains in the midst cf
a supposedly well established bus
iness proposition such as Negro
Baseball is believed to be today.
BUSINESS SCHOOL
EXPANDS AGAIN
The Combination Business schiwl
well known for its modern progres
siveness. has again chalked up an
other favorable score—this time bv
the announcement that it has add
ed to its busy program of Civil Ser
vice Training a Department for
Adult Education and Study Hall.
In this School persons of all ages
who have neglected their Academ
ic Education and students who
would like to improve their schol
astic knowledge may attend this
institution any day during the week
from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m., and on
Saturdays and Sundays from 1 p.
m. to 5 pm.
OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMME
Elementary Grades, Grammar
School Work, High School subjects
College Preparation, Languages,
and Vocational subjects such as:—
Fingerprinting, Music, Magics,
Photography, Printing, Multigraph
ing, Secretarial Training, Book
keeping. Accountancy, Business
Law, Economics, AddressograpU.
Calculator, Comptometry, Indexing
and Filing, and the History of the
Black Man
Under the indomitable leader
ship of our Community's most ver
satile citizen, Prof. Norris F.
Roach, Soldier-Actor-Educator, the
Combination business school
squeezed through the bars of the
depression with its Relief, WP.-,„
XTA., and CCC. educational pro
grams to push its head way above
the surface and to offer Harlem in
War time the best, the most mod
? B ASEB ALL CHIEF
J. B. MARTIN
■
Kansas City. Mo., (PPS, Inc.) —
Dr. J. B. Martin, President of the
National American League Base
ball club, “sounded the gave!” for
the opening game Sunday, May 16,
between the crack Ch'cago Amer
ican Giants and the Kansas City
Monarchs. Leroy Patton pitched
the tig opener against the famous
Satchel Paige. Dr. Martin, in a
statement to reporters stud that
the Off:, c of liefer.se Transport-*
ti • he-I mod the vi.h.U: Negro;
Ball Clubs their usual traveling
[busses: however, he is urging base
ball fans and the general publ ic
throughout the country to write a
letter to ODT. in Washington. D.
C., protesting this ban on trans
i portation. Dr. Martin left Kansas
City late Sunday night for his As
sociation Offices at 412 E. 47th St.,
Chicago, to resume the fight. Other
league games opening last Sunday
were Cleveland Buckeyes vs Mem
phis Red Sox. at Memphis: Birm
ingham Black Barons vs. Cincinnati
Clowns.
ern, and most progressive Private
Business School this Community
has ever boasted.
Prof. Roach wishes to tell his
[friends and others that it is not
1 true that back behind the scenes
of this educational institution are
the brains and money of persons
other than the ColoredRa ce.
The Study Hall and the Depart
ment of Adult Education will be
formally dedicated Sunday After
noon, May 16,1 943, at 4 o’clock in
the Civil Service Training Audit
orium of the school, 139 West 125th.
street, New York, N. Y.
MUSICIAN KILLED
Memphis. Tenn., <PPS, Inc.) Et.
Eddie Tompkins, a former member
of Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra,
was killed, according- to a War De
partment dispatch received here
this week. The former ace tram
-peter met death during maneuv
ers somewhere in Tennessee short
ily aftr being commissioned to a
lieutenancy. Dance hall fans will
remember Lt. Tompkins as one of
the singing members of Luncefords
East- West Baseball Game
Hollywood in Bronze
by RUBY BERKLEY GOODWIN THIS IS MY WORLD
BOBBY BROOKS
The story of Bobby Brooks is one
j of those success stories that makes
Hollywood an easy place to write
about. Two year ago Bobby ,vus
sent by Edward Bailey, president
of the Musicians Union out to 'War
ner Brothers to do a bit in Bette
Davis’ picture “The Great Lie".
The director wanted children witn
fairly good voices. So outstanding
was Bobby’s voice during reharsal
that he was given a featured spue
in the picture and sang the lead in
the theme song of the show “Slum
ber. My Darling.”
Today Bobby is at Universal stud
ios under long term contract. His
voice is creating a sensation out at
the Universal City lot. But moth
ers .before you grab Little Johnnie
or Willie by the hand and do a wild
dash for Hollywood, I’d have you
consider for a moment longer, not
Bobby’s latest* success but his years
of work. Bobby, who has been
singing almost ever since he could
walk ,has been before tne public al
most that long. For years he has
been child soloist at various churcn
es in Los Angeles.
In 1940 he appeared at Treasu-e
Islond as guest soloist with Alma
Hightower and her Melodic Dots.
He won instant favor with :l.e
World Fair audiences. In 1941 he
appeared at Soldiers Field in Chi
cago as guest artist for the 2nd An
nual Spiritual Song Festival. Since
that time he has been singing with
a Youth Group under the direction
of Ben Carter.
Bobby, who is now fifteen, lives
with his mother, Mrs. Jane Brooks,
who is a cosmetologist and a uo
eiised real estate broker. His sis
ter Janice is a student at L. A. City
College where she is majoring in
public health nursing. Janice is
also a fine pianist and sometimes
acts as accompanist for her broth
original trio composed of Cy Oliv
er, Billie Smith and Tompkins.
HER HEART BELONGS TO
92D INFANTRY DIVISION
.. Fort Huachnoa
Ariz.. — Lena
Horne, currently
starring with
Bill (Bojangles)
Robinson in the
movie “Stormy
Weather”, has
announced that
her heart belongs to the 92d Infan
try Division.
Lena, who was recently awarded
a medal by the Newspaper Guild
of America as the outstanding en
tertainer of the year, is the niece
of Sgt. John B. Home of Head
quarters Company, 92d Infantry
Division.
Sgt. Home is one of those rare
persons, a native New Yorker. He
j expects to go to Officer Candidate
School in the near future,
er.
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Betty Grable plus George Montgomery
and Cesar Romero star in CONEY
ISLAND, a merry’ merry-go-round of
music and fun...in Technicolor!
★ ★ ★
“Tyrone Power’s swell...a great film!”
says Daily Mirror of CRASH DIVE, the
submarine action story in Technicolor!
★ ★ ★
Look for Lena Home, Bill Robinson and
CabCalloway andHisBand inSTORMY
WEATHER, a solid smash of a musical
with Katherine Dunham and Troupe,
Fats Waller, Nicholas Bros., Ada Brown.
j Hattie McDaniel, who leaves the
I coast next week on a bond selling
tour foi the Treasury Department
had this to say about sponsoring
Deaderick Jenkins' sensation. U
novel “This Is—“It Was Not My
World”. “In the first place,”
Hattie states, “I never met tbe
young man nor did I contribute
anything toward publishing of the
book. Since the book has been
published I saw a copy of it but
since I have not read it I would <
cent inly not endorse anything I j
had not read. I do not agree with ;
the author when she states “It j
Was Not My World”. This is cur
world. I am doing all I can—r;ct
blind to many of its prevailing
faults but I realize it's up to Us to
work together for a better world.
I am doing all I can along this line.
That’s why I am always ready to
go on a bond selling tour or go to
a camp show.” Hattie, Ernest
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of desk telephones—1 -A telephones whose places have
been taken in recent years by hand telephones.
It’s like this:
Manufacture of telephones for civilian use was stopped after
Pearl Harbor to save vital niter it Is for war use.
Greatly increased demands for telephones have used up the
supply of hand telephones—but we have United reserves of
desk and wall telephones, saved for emergency use.
So if you need a telephone installed—and are in a loca
tion where lines and central office equipment are
available —we may have to furnish you a desk or wall
telephone instead of a hand telephone. Also, if a hand
telephone should become unserviceable, we may have
to replace it with another type of telephone. The re
serves are coming back into action,
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Whitman and Lottie Anderson went
up to Camp M inter last week and
put on a show for the hoys Up
there. This Sunday she heads a
large troupe who will entertain the
10th Cavalry at Camp Lockett.
TO PROUD TO WORK
No one can say that o* our actors
and actresses out here. Archie
Savage divides his time between
teaching, concert work and the
graveyard shift at Lockheed. Rita,
Christini works on the assembly
line on the swing shift- Les Hite
and Monte Hawley are postal clerks
af'.er midnight.
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America will never forget Bataan.
' ★ ★ ★ *
Nor the motion picture which is a trib
ute to the heroism of the boys who gave
their lives to upset the Japanese time
table.
★ ★ ★ ★
“Bataan” will kindle the emotions of
pride and anger within you.
★ ★ ★ ★
Men of the news services who have
been in Bataan, say that M-G-M’s film
“Bataan” is the McCoy.
★ ★ * ★
Seeing “Bataan"...you are in Bataan.
In fox-holes, in trees, in the shadow of
a rock, guarding your water, your am
munition, your cigarettes—as you guard
your life!
W hen spirit counts all men are proven
brothers.
★ *
You’ll be proud that America had such
martyrs of all races, creeds and color
ready to fight to the bitter end against
the treacherous sons of Toky*.
★ ★ ★ ★
Old men will want to enlist, mother*
will want to grab a gun, when they see
the stark staring story that is real as
the Jap bullets, the gnawing hunger
and thirst our men had to endure.
★ ★ * ★
Robert Taylor as Sergeant Bill Dane,
battle-scarred and unshaven, gives a
triumphant performance.
★ * ★ ★
George Murphy. Thomas Mitchell,
Lloyd Nolan. Lee Bowman, Desi Amaz
and Robert Walker are others.
★ * * ★
Tay Garnett has directed this original
screen play by Robert D. Andrews in a
manner that is both inspirational and
uncompromising.
★ * * *
In a picture like “Bataan”, the films
prove their inestimable value to the
times.
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Mighty events make mighty narratives.
—Lea