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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
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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
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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.
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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.
The NAACP. said this week thac
it wished again to express its strong
conviction that the members of the
committee should be retained be
cause of their experience and long
association with FEPC problem*.
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[ 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. In addition
to the war production program, t' e
War Manpower Commsision, thru
the National Youth Administration,
has established a number of Farm
Shops throughout the Region
where young people receive train
ing in the repair and maintenance
of farm machinery. Training op
portunities are available for young
women and men between the ages
of 16 and 25. Youth are in train
ing for 160 hours per month during
which time they earn a wage of $40
per monht to cover items of trans
portation. board and room, and the
training tools which are necessary.
The Omaha Shop offers employ -
ment and training in arc welding,
machine shop, and also sheetmet'il
operations. Interested persons
may obtain further information by
writing any of the following pro
jects:
NYA Master Project, 115 South
10th, Lincoln; NYA Workshop, 801
North 30th, Omaha, NYA Resident
Center, Bellevue; NYA Residei t
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