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Post 30 Keeps
’em buzzin ’
LEGIONNAIRES TO PARADE SUNDAY MORN
BAND TO
PLAY
On Sunday, May 30th, Memorial
Day, the American Legion Roose
Post Xo. 30, will hold a Memorial
Day Parade in which soldiers of the
air base at Lincoln, Nebraska will
take part. The parade will form at
the Legion headquarters and pro
ceed to the Zion Baptist Church,
where the Reverend F. C. Williams
will preach a Memorial Day Sem
en. All those, along with members
! taking part in the parade are urg
-ed to meet at headquarters at 10
a. m. Sunday morning.
Our Boys in Service to Select their ‘Beauty Queens’
Girls send in Your Photo!
Servicemen’s First Queens of last Week
CHICAGO. (Press Photo Service, Inc.) Uncle Sam's soldiers, sail-(
ors and Marines sent in a lock of "Photo Beauties" as samples of the
type of "femmes" that they want to see in our weekly newsppaers. Ap
pearing in the picture abote are three selected from the group. They
are, reading left to right: Ila Jones, popular beautician of Now York
City, Marine Wilson, Chicane's 1942 second prize beauty contest winner
»nd Ann Elizabeth Kelly, Muskegon, Michigan business woman. In the
succeeding nine issues of tics paper will appear more Quees selected by
tie servicemen. Three will be selected each week. They will be award
ei prizes in the following denominations: 1st prize, $5.00: 2nd prize, $3.00;
and 3rd prize, $2.00. The awards will be paid in War Savings Stamps
firla, clip and fill in the En ry Form below in this paper, paste it on the
lack of your best photograph and mail same to “Our Boys in Service
Photo Queen Contest Editor'. 6201 South Park Ave„ Chicago.
CONTEST ANT'S Q l ALIFH VTIONS
The contestants must be unmarried and between tile ages of 16
and 35. It is not required that they be outstanding in any particular,
type or color.
PROCEDURE
The contestants must send a photograph complying tc the follow
ing specifications:
The minimum size is 3V&x6 inches.
The maximum size is 8x10 inches.
They must be in good shape, clear, glossy, sharp prints and
black. Brown tints and painted ones are not acceptable.
Photographs must, be accompanied by an entry form which will
have been filled out and clipped from this official contest publication,
THE OMAHA GUIDE, which Is participating in the contest.
The photos are to be mailed to Press Photo Service, Inc., 6201
South Park Ave., Chicago,, Illinois.
JUDGES .
These photographs will be hand picked by a committee of service
men weekly. Upon their judgement will rest the selection of the three
winners. The decision of the judges will be final.
AWARDS -
The newspapers from which the winning Queens detach their en
try blanks will be notified immediately and thet' awards will be sent to
the publications to be forwarded to the winners. "OUr Boys in Service"
winners photographs will appear in THE OMAHA GUIDE weekly. 1
ENTRY BLANK
Our Boys in Service
Photo Queen Contest
Contest began Saturday, May 22, 1943 and ends
Saturday, July 24, 1943.
Prizes: 1st, $5.00; 2nd, $3.00; 3rd, $2.00
All prizes will be paid in War Savings Stamps by
PRESS PHOTO SERVICE, Inc , CHICAGO
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Clip, paste on back of photograph and mail same to
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. Press Photo Service, Inc , 6201 South Park Ave., Chicago
Uni. of Kansas Bars
Discrimination at
Annual Prom
Lawrence, Kansas, May 28 (ANP)
As & result of a vote taken jointly
by the men’s student council and j
the women’s student government
association, Negro students may j
now attend the* junior prom.
The resolution, presented last j
week by Arthur Nelson at a meet- I
ing of the councils, was accepted
without one opposing vote and said j
“The -MHC and WSGA, in confer- i
ence with the new constitution of
the Associated students of the Uni- ’
i versity of Kansas, hereby guarant-!
l ee the right of this association, re
gardless of race, color, or creed (o
attend all universit dances.
The petition against racial dis
crimination was circulated over the
campus and read, “We, the under
signed. resolve that all students,
regardless of race, color or creed,
be included in all university activ
ities. and that this policy take ef
fect immediately in connection with
the junior prom.’’
In former years a specified gum
of money has been granted Negro
students for a separate varsity
Prom.
Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe
Ito THE OMAHA GUIDE and learn what the dark
er one tenth of the American population is think
■g and doing.
WALTER WHITE
Walter White, Executive Secret
ary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple who will preside at the Sunday
meeting of the June conference on
the status of the NEGRO IN THE
WAR FOR FREEDOM.
The conference will seek solutions
for the eradication of the hamper
ing restrictions which now dissip
ate American manpower and post
pone the coming of victory.
Among the topics to be discuss- 1
ed are “The Negro in the Armed
Forces”; “Manpower, the Right to
Work for Victory”; “The Press, the
Movies and the Radio”; “The
Church as a force for Victory”;
and the “Securing of Democracy at
Home.”
PHILIP MURRAY
Philip Murray, president of the
Congress of Industrial Or gani.-ra
tions, will address the delegates to
the emergency conference on the
Negro and the War for Freedom.
The labor leader will speak on the
integration of Negro workers into
organized labor. Murray in a state (
ment to the members of all CIO ;
unions said recently:
' Negroes and whites are today
fighting side by side shedding their
blood on distant battlefields for the
protection of those of us who re
main at home. Let us demonstrate
our American democracy and the
fraternal spirit of the CIO by ex
pending to Negro workers their full
rights in American industry.
The People will Speak
At Detroit Conference
Prominent
Figures In
Detroit Meet ’
on "The Negro and
the War"
JUDGE WILLIAM HASTIE
Judge William H. Hastie,
who as Civilian Aide to Sec
retary of "War Stimson refus
ed to temporize with racial
bigofry and discrimination
and resigned from his post in
protest is, this year, the 28th
winner of the Spingarn A
ward. Following his accept
ance of the medal which will
be presented to him on Sun
day after, June 6, at Olymp
ia Arena in Detroit, Judge
Hastie will speak on "The
Negro in the Armed Forces.”
He has made a brilliant rec
ord as a jurist. Serving in
the Virgin Islands, he wasi
the first Negro to serve as a
judge of a United States Dis
trict Court. He has been As
sistant Solicitor of the Depart
ment of- rnterlor.- Durhng -lrhr'
period as Dean of Howard
University Law School he es
tablished a high standard of
scholarship and of service to
mankind.
Will Rogers, Jr., United
StatesC ongressman from
California, who has been in
vited to present the Spin
garn Medal to Judge William
H. Hastie, this year's winner
of the award. Congressman
Rogers, the son of the late
Will Rogers, beloved home
spun philosopher and human
itarian, has made clear dur
ing his comparatively short
career his belief in democracy
As a student at Stanford bn
iversity he consistently re
fused to join fraternities
there because they excluded
Jews from membership.
Rogers was sent to the 78th
Congress ,this year by the
vote of low and middle close
wage earners.
WILL ROGERS, .JR.
DOROTHY MAYNOR
The famous soprano voice of Dorothy Maynor which filled the ro
tunda of the Library of Congress on the 75th Anniversary of the rati
fication of the 13th Amendment will be heard again for freedom when
Miss Maynor sings at the NAACP Emergency Conference on the Negro
iin the War for Freedom. In the singing of the natioal anthem, Miss
Maynor will lead the largest gathering of NAACP delegates ever to as
semble when she appears at, 2:30 P. M. at Olpmpia Arena in Detroit on
1 Sunday, June 6.
) Detroit, Michigan, —The Juno 3-6
emergency conference here on the
Negro in the War, although called
by the NAACP, is to be a confer
ence of all the people, Negro and
v.-hite, who intend to see that some
thing is done about the way in
which Negro Americans are being
treated.
The conference sessions will be
held at Second Baptist Church, 441
Monroe avenue, where Rev. R. L.
Bradby is pastor.
Among those who will lead dis
cussion groups in the daytime ses
sions of the conferences are: Judge
William H. Hastie, on the Negro
in the armed forces; Earl B. Dick
erson, on manpower and the right
to work; George S. Schuyler, on the
treatment of the Negro in the
press, radio and movies; Thurgood
Marshall, on securing democracy
^ at home; and Dr. Channing H. Tob
ias, on the church as a force for
democratic rights.
A statement to the nation from
the conference will be formulated
jby a committee elected from each
of the discussion groups and will
be adopted ^t the last business ses
sion Saturday afternoon, June 5.
Preparations are under way for
an anticipated overflow crowd at
the Sunday, June 6, meeting which
is to be held at Olympia Arena.
, Philip Murray will address a rec
| ord NAACP conference audience of
20,000. Dorothy Maynor .famous
soprano .will sing and the award
of the Spingarn Medal to Judge
Hastie will be made. Other speak
ers and Congressman Will Rogers,
Jr., and R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO.
I
EDWIN BARCLAY VISITS
IN UNITED STATES
|
j The Department of State ann
ounced Friday that His Excellency
Edwin Barclay, President of the Re
public of Liberia is visiting in the
United States as guest of the Gov
ernment on the invitation of Presi-1
dent Roosevelt, arriving in Wash
ington on Wednesday, May 26.
The President of Liberia will
spend one night at the White House
after which he will leave for Blair
House to remain for several days.
Opposed to 'Lena’ Kiss?
I RICHMOND, CALIF., (Press Photo Service, Inc.) The S. S. Geo
rge Washington Carver, second Liberty shd to be named for an outstand
ing Negro Americon was launched at the Richmond, Calif, shipyard No.
1 of the Kaiser Co., on May 7, 1943. Montrose Carrol, a chipper who
worked on the 10,500 ton Liberty ship, was the lucky man who received
a kiss from the lovely Lena Horne, snonsor, dn behalf of all the Rich
mond Shipyard workers. Can you imagine having to be coaxed to kiss
lovely Lena? Watch for Lena’s new picture “Stormy Weather 2Pti»
Century Fox Hit! OWI photo.
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House PutsO.K.
on Anti-Poll-tax
Bill; Boon to four
million Negroes
SAILOR PLAYS PART IN POLL TAX DEBATE; HECKLES FROM
GALLERY AS HOUSE UTS OKEH ON VOTING MEASURE
Heckled by a sailor who declared congress was still fighting the
civil war, the house voted Tuesday to let the citizens of seven southern
states ballot in national elections without payment of poll taxes.
The legislation .adopted 265 to 110 .goes to the senate, where fili
busters have killed similar measures in the past.
The 21 year old sailor demanded from the visitors’ gallery:
"Why does a man have to pay tribute for the right to vote?”
The second class naval signalman later described himself as Evan
Owen Jones, jr., Los Angeles, and said he had erved in the navy tw’o
years, having been in the battle of Singapore. He climbed to the railing
surrounding the gallery just as Rep. Whittington (dem., Miss ) rose to
oppose the bill. Ioh 1
INTERRUPTS SOI'THRNER
. o,, ?°U don 1 have to pay to fight, why should you have to pav to
vote? he shouted.
Taken to the capitol police room Jones said he came to Washing
ton on 4S-hour leave, “to see what makes the country click/*
And 1 m disgusted.” he told Kenneth Romney, sergeant at arms
Those people in there are fighting the civil w'ar all over again Thev
should spend their time fighting this war.”
Jones acknowledged he “spoke out of turn,” but observed the leg
islators were “just wasting their time anyhow ”
But Jones told Dr. George W. Calver, capitol physician, he believe,
. haYVthe bpSt government anywhere, and I’ve seen a lot of them ”
the worid andDb ,°therS ^ “fiKhting to k<*p the *est government in
the world and believe congress should do its part.”
Cl RTIS PLAN LOSES
The poll tax ban would apply to primaries as w-ell as general elec
Pep8'H^bsTn<,nrt / Hmit t0 thP *Cneral elections, *c8£a£
Rep. Hobbs dem.. Ala.,) was defeated on a standing vote of 85 to 75
10 mi^n o nt°ni0 (A‘1“ N’ Y )’ aUthor of the bUl- told the house,
thrm noW are prevented from exercising their right to vote
m,Zf.;.heNr"e,.U,n " P°" *“ la“" °f ioTr
^ar* ’T' Curtis (rep. Neb.) unsuccessfully urged the house to
than°Ihe hiifr0HOSed COn'stitUtional amendment to ban poll taxes rather
s tat/the right^to a/ertP!1 that the constitution specifically grants to
K /yment/f poU ^/ ® V°ter QUaUfk'ati(^ and said legislation to
unconstitutional. PS &S 3 prerequisite to the right to vote would be
NEGRO NEWSPAPER PUBLISH’
ASSOC. TO MEET IN KY.
The Annuel Convention of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers Asso
ciation will be held in Louisville,
Ky., Friday and Saturday, June 11
12.
The sessions will be held in the
Brock Building, 9th and Magazine
Sts. In charge of local details and
arrangements in Louisville, is
Frank L. Stanley, editor of The
Louisville Defender, 619 West Wal
nut St., telephone WA. 6061-2.
Matters of the greatest import
ance concerning government regul
ations, war news coverage and oili
er problems will be discussed
lest we forget
Memorial
Day Sun.,
May 30th
.-“MARCH ON WASHINGTON” NAT’L HEADS MEET IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, (Press Photo Service, Inc.) The planning committee
for the first National Conference of the “March On Washington” move
ment to be held dn Chicago from Wednesday, June 30 to Sunday, July 4.
convened Saturday, May 15 at its Chicago Headquarters, 4304 South
Parkway. A. Phillip Randolph, National Director, handled the gavel
and completed final plans for the conference which will be held at the
Metropoitan Community Church, 4100 South Parkway. Pictured above,
standing left to right are: Eugene OT. Shands, Miss Ethel Payne, mem
I bers of Chicago Executive Board; J. L. Williams, Boston, Treasurer: Al
drich Turner, New Yirk, National Treasurer; Atty. Charles W. Burton,
i Chicago Director; Rev. Paul Turner, membe of the National Conference
Planning Committee; C. Lawrence Dellums, California, Chairman of the
National Executive Committee and Mrs. Thelma B. Thomas, Chicago of
fice Secretary. Seated, left to right are; B. F. McLaUren, New York,
j National Secretary; A. Phillip Randolph and Mrs. E. Pauline Myers, Na
I tional Executive Secretary.