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Mr. Harry Swain the veteran of dining car service, carries a trav eler’s look on his face. _ Roy Glenn and Johnnie Flem mings of the Paxton hotel are good time makers at all times. < Capt. Burns and Henry Moore are quick thinkers. Capt. Earl Jones is a very good entertainer. Capt. Langley and Geo. Brown are a very good team. Earl Copeland always takes the negative of all subjects. i John Evans always wears a dif ferent suit of clothes on Sunday. I - All hotels g.nd clubs should keep the first aid kit in a special place. Read NEGRO DIGEST A Magazine of Negro Comment Current Issue Features— . IS KING COTTON HITLER’S ALLY? by Harold Preece IS THE SOLID SOUTH CRACKING? by John Temple Graves WAR COMES TO LIBERIA Condensed from Travel by Henry S. Villard CASUALTY ON THE COLOR LINE by Joseph P. Donnel.v ROUND TABLE: “Will Negro Achievement Curb Race Discrimination? YES.C. C. Spaulding NO ......E. Washington Rhodes Many other stories and features. The best articles and comments on the Negro. 25c a copy—$3.00 a year. On sale at all newsstands. Sub scribe Today. NEGRO DIGEST 3507 South Parkway, Chicago, IE. COUGHS Due To Colds or Bronchial Irritation Here’s flood news for the people of the U. S. A Canada’s greatest cough medicine is now being made and sold right here, and if you have any doubt about what to take this winter for the com mon cough or bronchial irritation get a bottle of Buckley’s CANADIOl Mixture. You won’t be disap pointed—it’s different from anything else you ever used—one little sip and you get instant action. Only 45c— all druggists. Satisfaction or money back. THE WEEK— Basie Givens orchestra in Omaha. Cu‘e little Beulah Simpson a fav orite in the baby contest on June 18th. Little miss Mercedes Moore a very good chaperone for a beauti ful baby on 24th and Erskine St., Sunday afternoon. We all extend sympathy to the |_»AVJi you tried Aika-Selt zer for Gaa on Stomach, Soar Stomach, “Mornin? 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It's no surprise either, for Allenru Is a U year old formula to relieve rheumatic ache* and pain* In fact—If It does not help e—your money back. What could be fairer? (t Allenru today at any live druggist. Onto eenta—Do U Now. ** Queens of last Week CHICAGO, (PPS., Inc.) Above reading left to right are: Miss Iris Gwendolyn Bell of Atlanta, Ga„; Miss Vera Russell, Chicago, 111., and Miss Elizabeth Wilson of Ashe ville, N. C., the three Servicemen s Photo Queens selected this week. In the succeeding eight editions of two Comance brothers in the loss of their dear mother. Mr. Andrews and Mr. Jones on 15th and Farnam St. Cornelius Bennett and John Cole man on North 24th St., on Sunday afternoon. Charles W. Porter of 2217 Ohio St., moved to Leavenworth, Kan sas. Gordon, Nebraska had a cloud burst Saturday, May 29. St. Johns AME. church building going up. Perry Taylor the barber on N. 24th St. R. C. Price back in Omaha after a much needed rest! Welcome to your home town! Rev. Chas. Favors preached at Clair Chapel Sunday morning and new hope Baptist church in the afternoon and Bethel AME. church in the evening. Rev. C. C. Reynolds preached in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sunday. Rev. F. C, Williams enjoyes cn ice cream soda in Johnson's drug store. Brother Harris and Allen of the Cleaves Temple very active church officers. Bishop Hamlett in Omaha on Sunday, June 6th. Lee Wong Gem an Omaha born Chinese is a distinguished aviator. Executive Board of National Lav'yers of N.Y. ask probe of axis atrocities. Holiday accidents lowest in years. FLASH! All colored citizens should send letters to Senator But ler and Wherry asking them to give good support to the anti-poll tax measure. A destructive hotel fire roared through three war industry plants in Seattle, Washington. Read the Omaha Guide and get the very latest news. Former II. S. Senator Norris said in a memorial day speech at McCook, Nebraska, that the United Nations must maintain an armed guard over their defeated enemies. Roosevelt Post American Legion staged a wery beautiful paradj, Sunday morning as the musician headwaiter and his quick stepping band, played the rapid-step music, “Over There”. -- Beaver Creek at Sparta, Wiscon sin smashed through the business district, causing heavy damage. Two civil war vets, Karl Barothy 98, and Erastus Page 97, attended the Memorial service at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Safecrackers get $500 at Cross RABE’S BUFFET for Popular Brands of BEER and LIQUORS 2229 Lake Street —Always a place to park— - - - . K ISM FT LETTER KLUB Est. 1935. Me-nbership only $1.00. Soldiers, men. women, all ages. A dime brings info. P. O. Box 602, Los Angeles, California - PPS | this paper will appear more Queens selected by the Servicemen. The three selected each week will be awarded 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 Sav ings Stamps by the Press Photo Service, Inc., Girls, clip and fill ino the Entry Form below. Paste it on the back of your photograph and mail it to “Our Boys in Service Photo Queen Contest Editor’’, 6201 South Park Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Girls send in Your Photo! ^CONTESTANT’S QUALIFICATIONS The contestants must be Unmarried and between the 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 to the follow ing specifications: The minimum size is 3x/£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 thes 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. _ 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 (Please print or type information below) Name — Address_ City AgeClub_ State Name of this Newspaper Ci*r_State_ Clip, paste on back of photograph and mail same to OUR BOYS IN SERVICE PHOTO QUEEN CONTEST EDITOR, • Press Photo Service, Inc., 6201 South Park Ave., Chicago CHICAGO, (Press Photo Service, Inc.,) ’‘They also serve who only stand and wait”...._For the women on our home front guard and pro tect the homes of the men the Service Flags in their windows represent, for those who await the return of their loved ones, carrying on their lives a step at a time, day by day, until the day when all the unsheathed swords of the world are beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks; for the less fortunate women who know that he won’t come home, to all these. I wish to dedicate this week’s column. We all know the sweil job that our WAAC is doing, but what of our “Other Women In Service , those who wear no snappy uniform and who !iav(> no special skill but who contribute theirg share .oftimes more, by doing the little tasks that sometimes seem drudgery, by writing that soldier and omitting the details that might cast a gloom on his spirits and which he is powerless to remedy; the women who turn a screw, drill a hole or whatever the case may be in some defense victory. You’re familiar with them. You’ve seen them on the street car stealing a nap after completing an arduous night shift job. Time was when the same girls and women were stealing naps because they bad ■ danced until the playing of “Home Sweet Home’ on the night before. You never thought that Mary or Dorothy or Jane would be good for much except to decorate '.he season's most gala social affair, did you? Along with “The Oid Gray Mare”, the girl ain’t what she used to be. The charm brac elets, the feathered toques, the de collete dress designed to have tne effect of an incendiary bomb on the masculine eye are sinking further into the background every day in favor of the bandana, the slacks, and the goggles we see on “Mary, 1943, Central War Time.” We mustn’t forget Jenny of the Motor Corps, Nurses’ Aide, First Aid or bandage rolling group. Jenny’s learning to knit, a little bulky in places perhaps, but then who ever thought she’d bother to learn? She’s still a sweater girl, but of a different variety now. Pvt. or Sgt Smith wears it and she knits it. town roller rink, 812 South 24th st. Miss Addie Reynolds was elected for the 53 rd term as president of the Ladies Aid Society of the Meth odist Church at Greehamville, NY. Army fighting plane crashed into Long Island Sound—pilot was kill ed. j _ Negro marines made such an ex cellent record new plans to enroll 20,000 more in the next year. The 55th assembly of the Pres byterian Church of the U. S. sug gests a program that will elimin ate political dealing with colored people. Are you a member of the NAA CP? Then, too, there’s Mabel who went to Washington. Yes, Mabel was going to see the world and she probably felt pretty badly about the whole thing when she saw that the world, at least the Washington one, was just full of ‘‘No vacancy” signs. I’ll bet she got homesick and on many a cold morning she felt that it wasn’t what it was cracked up to be and operating that key punch machine or that typewriter wasn’t anywhere near the glamour she was going to find when she went out to seek her for tune. At the last report, she was still sticking it out. There’s mom isn’t there? I can’t tell you much about her because you are ahead "Bataan” Negro Star Skyrockets To Fame SINGER HIGHLY PRAISED ON OLD COAST (by Verna Arvey, Mrs. William Grant Still) Hollywood, Calif. (CNS) ..Once described as the "Mile high singer ir.g public appearances, for even in school they would snathe him from his classrooms to sing in assembl ies. Other honors came to him. then around 1931 he went to Ran Francisco with a quartet that sang ; in nightclubs. with the mile deep voice” Kenneth Spencer, famed Negro bass, has had a career that may be described only as an ever growing crescendo of achievement. He earned so little then that he ; Used to stay in bed during the days so he wouldn’t have to eat. He us ed to practice at the Community Center .where he met Dorothy Fisher, the charming girl who later ■ became Mrs. Kenneth Spencer. It was she who suggested that he ! sing for Noel Sullivan, himself a | fine musician and long known as a | staunch friend of Negro artists. One day he just rang Mr. Sullivans ■ doorbell and asked to sing for him. | Mr. Sullivan heard him, then let ; him go away wthout comment- La ,ter he wired him to return to sing 'for Roland Hayes, who was then a guest in his home. Between them they decided that Kenneth Spencer had ability. So Mr. Sullivan under wrote his expenses for a yea,-. Lawrence Ti'obett is another who has given high praise to his voice. After that die did a great deal of studying, part of it at the Eastman School. Highlights in his career were his contract with NBC; liis own radio programs; his leading roles in the West Coast and St. Louis productions of “Show Boat’’ ; and in elie Hollywood Bowl produc- , tion of the Opera “Gettysburg"; concert tours in Canada and the United States; many appearances ^ at the Hollywood Canteen and the Stage Door Canteen and elsewhere for the soldiers; and his solo an- ! pearance in Handel’s “Messiah" (the only colored singer) when it was presented in 1924 by the Paa dena Civic Music Association un der the baton of Richard Lert. lie returned to Cafe Society when he arrived in New York sifter his film work was over. MGM. officials selected this out standing colored American for the Latest public ac- Spencer claim has come from his work in the film “Cabin in the Sky” and it is safe to assume that when the film “Bataan” is released there will be more enthusiastic praise, for in it he plays the part of a Negro sol dier, an engineer... .the only col ored person in the cast—who dies in a blaze of glory. Robert Tayior is starred in the picture. During the time that film was in the making, Kenneth appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Phil harmonic Orchestra under the ba ton of the noted conductor, Jose Iturbi. The next day the critics wrote “a quiet and beautiful mom ent was introduced when Kenneth Spencer sang..’’..and “he made an immediately favorably reception and won prolonged piaudits”. They also described him as being poised dignified, restrained but authorit ative and the possessor of that very rare voice, a real bass. Perhaps, even as this is written, the singer may be called into our armed forces, for he is very young to have accomplished so much. On April 25th of this year he became 32 years old. As a matter of fact, in one of his youthful appearances at the Hollywood Bowl (he spent liis boyhood in Los Angeles) he was advertised as “Kenneth Spencer, the basso boy-wonder”. Almost all of his boyhood was spent in mak of me there. You've noticed how she beams when she gets that let ter from “junior” and he tells her how good that cake she sent last week made him feel. , You’ve seen her put this or that bit of change aside to buy a War Stamp or two. You know how she kept smiling thru when she didn’t hear from Pvt. or Lt. James or John or Joe. Then she only broke down and cried after getting that letter from “somewhere in the Southern Pac ific”. Women are funny. She was crying because she was so happy. Girls, I think we are due a pat on the back, the whole darn ed bunch of us We’re “Miss and Mrs. America for the Duration”.. .... To get down to cases now. ened Non-Commissioned Officers Club which is nicely constr icted for relaxation, having refreshment facilities, dance room, lounging room and private sitting room. - ***** Third Officer Anne Clark return ed to Fort DesMoines after flying to Cincinnati, Ohio especially to witness the Delta Jaoberwock. While there, she was the ree piont of many social courtesies. ***** Miss Juanita B. Jones of Pitts burgh, Pa., has forsaken h;r posi tion in the Dept, of Public Assist ance of Pennsylvania to join tlie > WAAC. She left Sunday, May 23, for the WAAC Training Center at Fort Devens, Mass. ***** Mrs. Alma Triplett, 2711 Wirt St., visited with her niece, Miss Vivian Standifer, aux-WAAC of Fort Des moines, Iowa, last week end. She was thrilled with the activities of the WAACs and enjoyed her brief visit with her niece who she had only seen for the first time. Miss Standifer is now attending Offic ers’ Training School and expects to graduate this Friday. She conies from Crowder, Texas. ***** \Lt. Sarah E Murphy of Atlanta, Ga., is the Commanding officer of a company of WAAC who have lust arrived at Camp Atterbury, Tnd., Lt. Murphy was a member of the first Officer's Training Class Fort DesMoines, Iowa in July 1942. With her are about three hundred of the WAAC. ***** Lt. Geneva Ferguson is the com manding officer of a group of ap proximately three hundred of the WAAC who have just arrived at Fort Clark, Texas. The company will take over jobs that soldiers now have and release those sold iers for combat duty. ***** There must be a lot of us smil ing faces fliting around Fort Des Moines, owa over the recently on The first class of Volunte r Nurs es’ Aides was graduated from West Virginia State College on Wed. May ^ 19. The instructor was Mrs. Jur heta N. Coleman, R. N. The grad uates were Mildred Alexander, Thelma Dudley, Joanna Gatewood, Myrtle Goodins, Alliene Jordan, Ernestine Sawyers, Anna Thomp son, Francis Watson, and Viola ■Watson. ***** Tyler, Texas is proud of Aux. Maggielean Williams who has just completed her basic training at Fort DesMoines, Iowa. She is the daughter of Mrs. Mary English o: N. Tenneham St., Tyler, Texas. ***** Receiving their commissions as Second Lieutenants in the Worn n'a Auxiliary Army Corps on May 17 were Ei-rnice Gaines Henderson, | Xenia, Ohio; Evelyn Martha Ed wards, TUscaloisa, Ala.; Connie Sinclair, Chicago ;Mu riel K. Faw cett, Lynchburg, Va.; Alma Lee Sims, New York, N. Y.; Lucille Young Mayo, New York, N. Y.; Frances E. Flats, New York, N. Y. Catherine G. Landry, New Orleans, La.; Minnie Pearl Patterson, Phila delphia, Pa., and Zelda Marie Wei>e Baltimore, Md. SEE! “Crash Dive” at the Orpheum Echoing the drama in today’s ^ headlines comes C6ASHP/VC starring TYRONE POWER! It’, the first big | Story of our submarine heroes! In Technicolorl I _ \A l1 f BETTY GRABLE, GEORGE MONT- I j COMERY and CESAR ROMERO roU out I ^ a barrel of fun and rhythm in 20th’» great big M y Technicolor musicalulu CO/V£/ /SCAWD ^ ^ ^ J. fe: LENA HORNE tings! BILL ROBINSON taps! CAB CALLOWAY and bis BAND swing! in star-packed STORMY WEATHER ”ith Katherine Dunham and her Troupe, Fats Waller, Nicholas Bros., Ada Brown and Dooley Wilson! _ important role in “Bataan" not only because of bis ability 13 an actor and singer but also because of his winning personality. 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