OCD N E-W-S TAKES MUCH NEEDED REST "When Forrest N. Croxson retired from the insurance business 13 months ago he looked forward to plenty of free time for rest and re creation. Then came the organ ia King Yuen Caie CHOP SITEY 2010/2 N. 24th St. JAckson 8576 • Open from 2 p. m. Until 3 a. m American & Chinese Dishes McGILL’S — BAR & BLUE ROOM E. McGill, Prop 2423-25 NORTH 24th St. WINE, LIQUORS, and CIGARS Blue Room Open 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. Open for Private Parties from 2 to 7 p. m. —No Charges— WE SPECIALIZE IN MIXED DRINKS. Free Delivery from 8 a. aa~ to 1 a. m. JA. 9411 WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF BONDED LIQUORS ation of Omaha’s civilian defense corps, and he was drafted by its Commander, J. E. Davidson, to the post of chief air raid warden. In the past year Croxson has had plenty of recreation. He has been busier than before he retired from business .spending up to 18 hours a day on the job of organizing the city’s air raid warden service, at tending hundreds of training class es, and supervising activities of the air raid wardens. Croxson is now taking time out for rest. He has gone to Lake Ok oboji, Iowa, for several weeks vac ation. During his absence, Roll and F. Wellman, division warden of Region 2, will be acting chief warden. Wellman was a member of the first air raid warden train ing class formed in April last year at Beals school. Looking back on the year since the air raid warden service was or ganized and its 3,200 members trained, Croxson admitted it has in volved plenty of work, but also plenty of fun. “Most of the credit is due to t.hs generous response of the thous ands of Omaha men and women volunteers in the organization,” Croxscin said, “Without that, we could not boast; as we have the j right to do, that Omaha has one ot the finest volunteer air raid pro tection service corps in the coun try.” Croxson paid special compliments i tc Mrs. H. E. Egan, air raid ward- I ens’ office manager, and Mrs. Jam- ! es Moore, his assistant ,who have given almost full time to the mass 'of detail work required during the organization and training period. He also paid tribute to other mem bers of his staff, including W. C. Rathke, director of instructors; Hr. Wilfred Payne, chief of instructors on programs; Mrs. George Baker, first aid instructors: Robert Paige In charge of pictures, and Wilbur Wolfe, who arranges for the use of schools for air raid warden meet ings, the 12 division wardens and 64 senior wardens. “Without their loyal .unflagging interest and help, this big job could not have been done," he said. ”It has been done so well that I now feel I can take this vacation, cer tain that the organization will iun along as smoothly as if I were or. the job. Direction of its activities has been decentralized so that the big load is taken off the shoulder: of the chief air raid warden and his staff. GAS PLANT EMPLOYES COMPLETE 383 DAYS WITH OUT AN ACCIDENT Employees of the Metropolitan Utilities gas plant, who have com pleted 383 days of work without an accident up to May 24, heard them eelves praised by Lt. Col. Mayo A., Darling, civil internal security div ision, Seventh Service Command; the Utilities District Board and General Manager Walter S. Byrne at a meeting of the district’s safe ty council. Lt. Col. Darling stressed the im portance of safety in the home front, and especially in essential industries and public utilities serv ing war plants. The resolution passed by the board of directors congratulated the foremen and employees of the gas plant for achieving a safety record that is “more than ordinar ily outstanding.” General Manag er Byrne declared each of the gas plant’s 100 employees is to be com mended because “safety is a pers onal matter and only the efforts cf each individual made this splendid record possible.” I An intensive safety program is being conducted throughout all Ut I ilities District departments by a safety council directed by Earl Frederickson, safety engineer. Sug gestions from employees are dis cussed at the council’s monthly meetings. Since January, 1941, Firederckson reported, 765 safety recommendations have been receiv ed and 615 accepted and complet ed. The remainder were rejected or held in abeyance as impractical bcause of security of materials or [for other reasons. OCD MAN PUMPED SUNDAY Responding to the request >£ Mayor Wilson E. Mabry of Carter Lake village, 18 members of the OCD fire and rescue corps and a crew of residents of that area, manned three OCD pumping units Sunday and cleared basements of 29 homes of flood water. Although it had previously been announced that no pumping would be done for two weeks, or until possibility of basements refilling from seepage had passed the homes pumped out Sunday, had been sel ected by Mayor Mabry in an effort to speed up their rehabilitation by the Red Cross. The pumping crews worked from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. Homes in the Carter Lake area still needing basements pumped out will be served later by the fire department when it is believed they will not refill. Fire Chief Dan iel A. O’Connor said Monday. Calls will be handled at the fire depart ment office, Harney 3727, as rapid ly as possible, he said. Fire and rescue corps volunteers have disbanded further week end _ in m, « m ir i r - • - » I ) PEPSi-COLA COMPANY LONG ISLAND CITY NEW YORK, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend THE U. S. SECRET SERVICE DISPLAY "The Silent Saboteur” TO JUNE 14 AT 415419 SO. 16th ST. —Brought to Omaha by— The First National Bank of Omaha and Orchard & Wilhelm Company ITS A MILLION DOLLAR EDIT ATONAL SHOW THAT BRINGS TO YOU IN GRAPHIC FORM THE MANY DEVICES EMPLOYED BY COUNTERFEITERS. FORG ERS AND OTHERS WHO WOULD SABOTAGE OUR ECONOMIC STRUCTURE. EVERYONE IN OMAHA SHOULD LEARN TO PROTECT HIMSELF AGAINST LOSS FROM SPURIOUS MONEY. FREE TO THE PUBLIC “HIS MASTER’S VOICE” CHICAGO, (Press Photo Service, Inc.) Labelled as leading air craftsman, youthful Gordon Dove, is shown in the above picture beside a radio in the Servicemen’s Center No. 3 here getting an earful of his Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s eloquent speech which was broad cast from Washington, D. C. on May 19. London born, the Royal Air Force student returned to Canada Monday of this week to his training camp from where he will soon be “turned loose” on the tracks of “Hell ish Adolph . His stay in Chicago was under the sponsorship of the Ser vicemen s Center No. 3. A graduate of Wicliffe College, Gloucestershire, England, the 22 year old flier was obsessed by Chicago’s hospitality. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Frederic William Dove, prominent British West Africans. TAX GROUP IN ACCORD ON PAY-GO PLAN CANCELLATION OF LEVIES (, UNDER $50 PLANNED; BILL GOES TO HOUSE Breaking a five-day deadlock, senate and house conferees late Tuesday agreed on a compromise pay-as-you-go income tax collect ion plan which would cancel a full year’s taxes for persons owing $50 or less, and 75 percent of one year’s taxes for others. To put taxpayers on a current basis, a 20 percent withholding levy above basic exemptions would be installed against wages and salar ies, effective July 1. The residual 25 percent of one year’s tax—1942 or 1943, which ever is the lesser—would be pay able over a two year period, 1944 and 1945. SPECIAL ‘NOTCH’ PROVISION A special “notch” provision will be written to equalize the amount of forgiveness for a person just Un der the $50 figure and those slight ly above. The terms of that pro vision have not yet been decided. Persons with incomes other than wages and salaries, including those receiving income from business, professions, rents and royalties, in terest and dividends .would be re quired to file an estimate by March 15 on the current taxable year’s in • come and they would pay their tax es in four equal installments. PAYMENTS COUNTED Since most taxpayers have filed their 1942 returns or. March 15 their payments on March 15 and June 15, 1943, will be treated as payments on current tax liabilities. The decision of the committee, appointed to adjust senate and house versions of the long contro verted legislation ,was reached by a vote of 11 to 3. The compromise goes first to the house for approval, then to the senate. Chairman Doughton (dem„ N .C.) of the house conferees said he hoped to call it up late this week and was hopeful of approval of both houses. Doughton estimated the bill would abate about six billion dol lars of one year’s tax liability, or about 64 percent of the total taxes for a year. % The agreement broke a stubborn deadlock between the tax experts of the two houses of congress. Doughton would make no guess as to what effect final approval of the bill might have on the presid ent’s request for an additional 16 billion dollars this year in taxes and savings. He said he hoped the president would approve the com promise. pumping and the six army trucks Used to transport the pumps have been released back to the army, Floyd S. Reep, chief training offic er of the corps, announced. Four pumps are still being op : erated day and night by county crews to drain the area, Fifth to Ninth avenues, Fort to Browne Streets, North Omaha. The r'ain Sunday night delayed completion of this drainage work and water is a gain 18 inches deep and 16 homes are still surrounded with water in the basements of 40 homes. Drainage of the area and cleav ing of the basements is expected to be completed by Saturday night, Earl Whittaker .maintenance en gineer of the county highway de partment, said Monday. Real Shoe Man FONTENELEE SHOE REPAIR Cash and Carry rr e writ 1U0 North 24th St. r*>RL CKIVEft,, Plain Talk.. ELMER A. CARTER We dare not permit ourselves to be isolated for then it would be ri diculously easy to be culturally, * economically and socially hemmed in. A\'e w*_uld he nkfc a city be if-ged. AVe would be subject 10 the whim or cam ice *‘f whatever group rappened to hold power and it would be easy to pick out the Negro group for repressive action. That is the real reason why we ob ject to seggeration—not that we ob ject to association with our own but because segregation invariably and inevitably uts us “’out on a limb.” It’s terrible consequences are so clear that failure to compre hend its dangers amount almost to stupidity. For instance, if colored people were permitted to live where ever they could pay the rent, and white and colored lived in the same neighborhoods, the residents would receive equal treatment. They could not pave the streets in front of the houses just occupied by wiiite folks. They could not col lect the garbage for white families every day and that of the colored families once a month. They could i not single ouj the neighborhood as a Negro crime center, and if the neighborhood was improved by mo dern lighting, sewage and fire pro tection it would have to be done for the colored residents as well as the white. The same is true of color when colored men and women be long to the same labor unions as white men and women. oYou can not make one scale of wages for the j white members and another for the colored. But when they must he organized in separate unions of the same craft or trade, it is not un commun in some sections of the country for the wage scale for col ored workers to be lower than that of white workers. In other words, the Negro can be isolated and therefore singled out for special treatment, Usually especially bad treatment. If this is true in labor and in community living, it is no less true •f business enterprise. Negro bus iness as such has made a fairly good record, but it still has a long way to go. We as business men lack capital, lack knowledge of business practices which you can't learn in school, lack contact with sources of informtaion as to vhat is going on in the business world. > We have to learn by trial ami er ror, the hard way. When we read of this or that in the daily papers, whether it is an issue of new stocks or bonds, whether it is new sourc es of supplies or new substitutes for building materials, or the devel opment of new neighborhoods, or subdivision of real estate, it is too late. When it gets in the papers you can be sure that everything has been cut and dried. We nev er get in on the ground floor. The reason is we are isolated in our business efforts. We on the out side. Well, what’s the answer? The answer is that we must cease to think in terms of Negro business If interracial cooperation is neces sary in other fields, then it is nec essary in business enterprise. We must join together with white men and women to expand our business efforts to secure fresh capital, to gain the benefits of association with those who have access to the traditions of a thousand years in commerce and trade. It is a very strange and some times disheartening phenomenon that white and colored people in this country have rarely joined to gether in business enterprise ex cept on the level of the underwoi'd. i There is no valid reason why the * efforts of Negro businessmen should be confined to Negro areas no more than that Italian or Jew ish business men shoUil be confin ed to Italian or Jewish neighbor hoods. A nigh grade Negro chef could be a partner in a restaurant downtown as well as in the Negro section. I kn otv of a highly suc cessful printing firm in New York City situated downtown where one partner is colored, the other white. Strange to wju’-* it is the covered member who makes the contacts and executes the contracts There is no field where colored men and wum-n i?t uoev. sfully engaged in business that there could not nave been even greater success if the enterprise had been conducted by the ned capital, management and labor of both groups. j But where are we to get white people who would be interested?— is a legitimate question. We;!, people both white and black go in to business for one primary reason ....and that is to make money. There are some of us who say that they go into business in order to help the race but if the business doesn’t make money the race will be in a tough spot. In my exper ience I have learned this, that if you can show how money can be made you won’t have much trouble interesting some white folks. (NAACP WELCOMES BELATED [SELECTION OF FEPC HEAD New York, N. Y.—The NAACP. expressed gratification this week at the long awaited report of the selection of a chairman for the Fair Employment Practice Committee. The new chairman, Monsignor Francis J. Haas, dean of social sciences at Catholic university and a veteran laor conciliator who suc ceeds Malcolm MacLean who res igned last January will resume the work of the committee which has-, been practically at a standstill I since that time. Haas has a reputation as a liber a land a record as being opposed to labor unions that discriminate on the basis of race. The NAACP pointed out that of importance equal to the choice of an FEPC chairman is the text of the new executive order not re leased at the time of going to press. The NAACP. reiterated that un less FEPC is provided with inde pendent status, adequate funds and staff and adequate sanctions to er. | force its findings no committee can function. 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Galloway. — Sec’v and Treas jjuj 2-5452, Ray Jick. Manager. NYA TRAINING THROUGH [ Production ^ C. B. Lund, Regional Admniistra tion announced that for the first half-year of operation of this fis cal year, the NYA has assisted, through its war program and stu dent work program, In the State of Nebraska, a total of 8,128 young people. The young men and women as signed to the war training pro jects in the five states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota during the first six months of this fiscal year produced a total of 2,963,315 items of value in the war activity. The estimated market value of the it ems produced total in excess of three-million dollars. The production work is an inte gral part of the training philosophy of the NYA program. While in training, the youth produced actual 'job orders comparable to those found in war industry. 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