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_largest accredited negro newspaper west qf Chicago and north of K ansas citt —mrmwf.r of the associated negro press _j5rfd^3A?tSrfMarchaIs 1874—:Bnli^s Phon^wE. m?*1*’ Nebrask* Saturday, June 19, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR—No. 19 City Edition, 5c Copy --■ ~ ■ 1,1 —-™—' ■ ■ '* | 1 ■ |. ■ • — 1 '■ ■ TIME TO KH THE BRIDE RELAX - ENJOY | worth of Good Reading. Subscribe Today! Masonic Lodges to Honor St. John’s Day Sun., 2:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend the United Masonic Lodges of Om aha's (Prince Hall Affiliation) cele bration of St. John’s Day at the eneeeeeesesMwmMiwwwMMi Masonic Temple at 26th and Blondo Sts. The program to be held Sun day, June 20. 1043, will begin at 2:30 pm. Dean Wm. Pickens at St. John’s Ame.-4pm. Under the auspices of the Omaha Community Clearing Council of which Rev. L. A. Story, is Prea., and Raymond R. Brown, Secy. Dean William Pickens of the Tfeas ary Department, will be guest speaker at their Annual Meeting. Sunday, June 20, at 4 pm. at the St. John's AilE. Church 22nd and Willia Avenue. TRIPLE CEREMONY MAY BE START OF EPIDEMIC Fort Huachuca, Ariz.—With the' approval and blessing of Colonel Edwin X. Hardy, Post Commander, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, a triple wedding in which three members of the Detachment Corps of Milit ary Police and three members <*f the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps were united in Holy Matrimony. The impressive ceremony was performed on the steps of the Post Military Police Detachment at a:00 O’clock Saturday morning June 5 in a triple ceremony of what prom ises to become an epidemic of mil itary weddings at historic fort Huachuca. The brides, all of whom wore khaki class “A’’ uniforms, wert:— Auxiliaries Mattie Elliott and Irene Stewart of the 32nd WAAC Com pany stationed at Fort Huachuca, and Auxiliary Etta Mae PtlllUm of the 33rd WAAC Company. Aux. Elliott .daughter of Mr. Ross Eiliott of Chattanooga. Tenn.. be came the bride of Cpl. Willie D. Thompson of Dallas, Texas: Aux. Stewart .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Stewart, Shreveport. La., was wed to Pfc. Allen A. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Harris, Hous ton. Texas: and Aux. PullUm. dau ghter of Mrs. Sonora Scott, Goliad, Texas .became the bride of Pvt. Earlie Gales, of Houston. Texas. The triple marriage ceremony wa.-, read by Chaplain James A. Waccor. During the ceremony music was furnished by the Post Orchestra which played Lohengrin's “Wed ding March” for the processional and Mendelssohn’s “Wedding Mar ch” for the recessional of the triple wedding party. The brides were given in marr iage by their company command ers, Captains Frances Alexander and Xatalie Donaldson, respective ly. Other VTA AC officers present included Lt. Violet Askins and Lt. Irma Cayton of the 32nd Com pat;--, j Lt. Evelyn Smith of the 33rd com pany. Officers present included Captain Homer B. Roberts, Com manding the 41. P. Detachment, Captain David A. Lane. Education Officer, Post Special Service Offic er .and Lt. Richard T. Greene. As- ! sistant Commander of the Military ! Police Detachment. Immediately following the triple wedding, members of the bridal party were served breakfast in the dining hall of the Military Police Detachment. For the nuptial breakfast the table was attractive ly decorated with multi-colored oleander blossoms and three wedd ing cakes, tech of which was top ped with a miniature bride »nd groom. During the breakfast the wedd ing participants received felicita FDR Asked to Receive Com’ittee Presenting State ment to the Nation Washington. DC..-In a tele gram to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter White. NAACP. secretary, requested this week that a committee be received to present th Statement to the Nation adopt ed by the Emergency Conference t> nthe Status of the Negro in the War for Freedom called by the As sociation at Detroit, June 3-6. The Statement, a powerful docu ment which calls upon the Presi dent. as Commander in Chief with full power to end discrimination and segregation in the armed forc es, to ‘"use that power now” and which states that by the continued exploitation of racial concepts and degrading of the Negro ‘ democ racy remains a wordy fiction rath er than a working fact”, was ad opted by vote of NAACP delegates from 39 states in the final session of the Conference Saturday after noon, June 5. Church of Christ Holiness to Hold Midwestern Conference, June 22 We are announcing the nearness of the Midwest District Convention of the Church of Christ Holiness which will begin Tuesday, June 22, 1943 and close Sunday, June 27, 1943. As an opening feature there will be a Pre-Ci. nvention Musical Pro gram given on Monday evening, June 21, 1943 8:15 P.M. Mr. Raymond R. Brown, execut ive Secretary of the Urban League will deliver the Welcome Address at this service. There will also be guest artsits from many of the leading churches of the city, ap pearing on this program. Each morning at 10 A. M. there will be a Bible lesson taught by Bishop Wm. A. Washington. The afternoon sessions will be business and each evening at S:30 P.M. the message will be brought to Us by Bishop Washington. The choir will sing each evening. There will be morning and ev ening service on Sunday which will bring the Convention to its climax. We are expecting a great Conven tion. Come one and all and enjoy these special services. Remember the place—Christ Temple Church, Rev. I. A. Asker-' neese. Pastor. 26th and Burdette j St. tions from the officers present and each couple was presented an elal> orate .leather-grained week-end case with the compliments of the Military Police Detachment. Special guests at the wedding breakfast were these attendants of the bridal couples: WAAC Sergeant Julia Jackson. Cpl. Ulese Tomlin. WAAC Cpl. Irene Beaty, Sgt. Rod gers E. Garrett, Auxiliary Mildred Dunlap, and Pfc. Samuel E. Pres ton. »» •••••• » » » • - ■ » - ■ ■ m Appoint Negro Naval Ensign To II.S. Coast Guard A 1st Negro Ensign on Active Dutv BOSTON. June 15 <ANP) Ensign Joseph C. Jenkins of Detroit has the distinction of being the first colored naval officer to be assigned to active duty. He is attached to the coast guard shore patrol of the 1st Naval district with headquar ters at the former exclusive Hotel Brunswick and has under his com mand a mixed personnel of white and colored seamen. He was inducted as a chief petty officer on presenting his qualific ations about a year ago and after attending the coast guard academy at Netv London, Conn., was comm issioned an ensign on April 19. He is a graduate of the Univers ity of Michigan with a Bachelor of civil engineering degree, class of 1937, and from that time up to the time of his enlistment was connect ed with the Michigan State hign way. Ensign Jenkins, who is light brown-skinned chap, stated that r.e has been treated fairly and square ly and believes there is an ever widening oportunity for colored boys in the coast guard. Incident ally his friends in Detroit scoffed at his move in leaving the Michi gan state highway saying, “It couldn’t be done.” Ensign “Whit” Robinson, the only other colored naval ensign, is still on inactive status awaiting the completion of his medical studies at Harvard University in 1944. Rumor Spaulding to Re place Dickerson in FEPC. Washington, June 14 (AXP) Cur rent rumors about the FEPC board around in the capital have it that the present membership will be re tained with the exception of Earl Dickerson, the stormy petrol of the old group. In his place, it is re ported. the name of C. C. Spauld ing of Xorth Carolina has been pro posed to the President and is re and in line with the new policy garded as being highly acceptable \ to be adopted by the committee. The discussants of the problem declare that Father Haas has a long record as a concilliator in la bor disputes and that this win be the general tone of the FEPC und er his direction. The elimination of Earl Dickerson therefore would be necessary to continue along this line, if the various stories floating around the capital may be relied, upon. This leaves Boris Shiskin of the AFT.: John Brophy of the CIO and Webster of the Pullman Porters a* the nucleus of the new committee. To these, three more members wiT b named to complete the six man committee. Chief interest has been centered in the Xegro members of the group with the suggestion that Mr. Spaulding be named as the second Xegro in the party, specul ation is rife as to how the group will function. Mr. Spaulding’s previous efforts have not been in the field of labor, although he has served on some in ter-racial groups and has had con siderabie success in his chosen ; field of Insurance. No indication of the identity of the two white members remaining to be appointed has been forth coming. RANDOLPH FIGHTS CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD FOR UNION RECOGNITION New York City. June IS—A bat tle royal is bein gwaged by A. Phil ip Randolph, International Presi dent of the Brotherhood of Sleep ing Car Porters with the Canadian j Pacific Railway whose headquar- I ters are in Montreal. Canda. to win union recognition and free collec tive bargaining rights for the Bro therhood of Sleeping Car Porters as the organization designated and selected by the Canadian Pacific Railway porters to represent them in the negotiation of agreements concerning rates of pay and rules governing working conditions. Mr. Randolph and Mr. Bennie Smiti. 2nd International Vice Pres ident. just returned from Ottawa. Canada, where they consulted with the Ministry of Labor concerning th equestion of the Brotherhood's program to wrin union recognition, said Mr. Randolph at the head quarters of the Brotherhood in New York City. The CPR porters have been un der the control of a company union welfare plan, but 95 percent have joined the Brotherhood and repud iated the company union, observed Local Nursery Centers Offer Child’s Care for busy Mama The Nursery schools and day ramps are offering working moth ers opportunity for professional rare for their children. Never in the history of Omaha have oppor tunities such as the Centers offer been afforded the children of all races. Trained supervisors direct the activities. a full meal is served at noon. Rest periods, handicraft an supervised play fill in the rest of the day. There is a Center locate at Howar Kennedy School, one at Long school will al so be available soon. The fee is S3 per week. For further inform ation call Mrs. Robbie T. Davi3, WE. 2S64. Action Now!! Pass the Anti-Poll Tax Bill HR. 7 in the Senate The House of Representatives once again expressing the will of the American people passed HR. 7' by an overwhelming vote of 265 to 110 on May 25th. The House vote represents the most significant tri umph for democracy in Congress this year. You citizens and your organizat ions—local union, church groups, civic clubs,—can claim full credit for the record breaking campaign to secure the necessary 218 signa tures to the Discharge Petition and the successful vote on the hill in less than two months. We now begin the campaign in the Senate. Every effort will be made by the poll taxers to kill the anti-poll tax bill. We must prepare NOW to counteract every tricky and delaying manoeuvering. Only tremendous pressure and united action can ensure the passage in the Senate of this win-the-war measure. We cannot afford to forget that the Senate shamefully killed this legislation last year. Only vigor ous action by all of the supporting individuals and organizations can. pass HE. 7 this year. We request every individual and organization to act immediately —Write or tele graph KENNETH S. WHERRY, your Senator from Nebraska who is a member of this Senate. HO IT NOW—Write E. S. Sen ator Kenneth S. Wherry of Nebras ka at Washington, H. C. asking him to support this bill and to fight any attempt to kill it. Mr. R.andolph. Muriel Rahn to Sing with Symphony Xew York, June 16 (AXP) Muriel Rahn, Sensational young Xew York soprano will appear as soloist with the Xational Symphony orchestra of Washington this Friday evening. She will sing at the capital city’s famous Watergate Barge, in the Shadow of historic Lincoln Mem orial monument, in a program ded icated to the late George Gershwin composer of the folk opera “Porgy and Beas.” Though Miss Rahn has never ap peared in “Porgy and Bess”, it was Alexander Smallens, “Porgy" conductor, who recommended her for the assignment and under whose baton she will sing at Wat ergate. Following her appearance r'rith the Xational Symphony, Miss Rahn will be heard in recital at the Uni versity of Wisconsin in Madis-.n Purrue university in Lafayette, lad., and Illinois State Xonnal at Bk omington, HI. ANNOUNCES HIS OWN DEATH WHEN HE WALKS INTO HOSPITAL; DIES 15 MINUTES LATER Wilmington, June 15 (ANP) —“I know I’m going to die." Johnny Walker, 39. told a nurse when he walk d into the James Walker Memorial hospital here last week. ; 15 minutes later he was actually dead, apparently a victim of a hsart attack. Beauty Queen Back Home Clemontegn Wilkins'is back home in Chicago after spending her Ord semester at Allen University '-n Columbia. S. C. A devout golfer ess .Clemonteen is shown above cn her way to Jackson Park Course. 3 ha won the title of “Miss Bronze Chicago of 1942” and was officially crowned by Mayor Edward J. Kelly. She resides with her mother. Mrs. Alethia Wilkins at 3841 South ! Parkway and wil 1 return to school j September 15. (PPS., Inc.) fifteen Soldiers Jailed; Two Shot in Latest Race Skirmish On Mississippi Front Sentence Sermon BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY FOR ANP Faith is that great power every father should possess that, day by day his family can see what makes toward last success. A ltruism. courage, amiability Hand religion are the four ever lasting posts a father must set up for his home foundation. Truth, the father must always -■mbrace, or his household can not flourish with dignity end grace. Heavenly mansions are now be ing prepared for fathers and mothers whose children are properly reared. Endurance .patience and courage as a good soldier brings future happiness and peace to every Christian father. Respect and sympathy for the j “fatherless and widows in their affliction” crowns the uncon- j scious heads of a father's child j ren with God’s richest bene diction. Sincerity is that priceless virtue I so very rare in the world to-1 day that, any father who wil! | pay the price to practice it will never go without a full day’s pay. \ D ear the cost may be of all ! things worthwhile, no real fa- ] ther takes a chance when he thinks of his child. All he wants to knowr is what the future will bring, in terms of prosperity, to his offspring. Yielded in spirit, though mighty and strong, a true father, for his God, humanity, home and country .works all the day long _ i THE OMAHA CODE IS YOOl PAPER— READ IT WEEKLY. { | COLLINS. MISS.. June 14 (ANP) Latest communique from the Miss issippi sector of the race-baiting Dixie front shows 15 Negro soldiers Jailed and two shot as the after math of a clash Sunday between members of a Camp Shelby base bail team and a state highway pa trolman. C. T. Simmons. This latest racial trouble follow ed by a few days the slaying of a Negro soldier by a sheriff else where in this state and the request to move an entire Negro regiment, recently sent here from the west, out of Mississippi to a northrn lo cation. Sunday’s clash started when Sim mons flagged down a truck con taining the soldiers as it passed through Mt. Olive .near here. Throwing a gun on the soldiers he ordered them out of the vehicle. One soldier, resenting the officer's attitude, rushed Simmons and knocked the gun out of his hand. The patrolman went back to his cor after another weapon just as a Tri-State bus passed the scene and stopped, the driver and a white soldier getting out to help the officer. In the ensuing melee, shots were fired by Simmons an dthe soldier who took his gun. with the white soldier grabbing a fire axe from the bus and joining in the affray, clubbing one colored soldier un conscious. The others broke and ran for the nearby woods, with the ?r~gro soldier joining them when the gun he had taken became empty. Believed to have been badly wounded, he Is still missing. Simmons radioed for help end other highway patrolmen, civilians and MPs responded. A posse was formed and after firing into tne woods, the soldiers were rounded up and placed in the Covington county jail here temporarily ,la*er being moved to Camp Shelby by MBs. Feeling continued through Sun day night when an unidentified Negro soldier refuged to heed the command of an armed white civ ilian to stop and was shot through the leg. Liberia, U.S. Sign Lease-Lease Agreement Washington, June 14 (AXP) The state department announced the signing in New York Tuesday of a lend-lease agreement between the United States and ‘he Republica of Liberia. The agreement on “the principles applying to mutual aid in their common defense’- was signed by Henry S. Villard, special rep res entative of the United States and Walter F. Walker. Liberian consul general in New York in the pres ence of President Barclay and President Elect Wm. S. Tubman of Liberia. An exchange of notes which ac companied the agreement confirm ed the understanding of the two governments that the agreement carries out general principles con cerning defense areas in Liberia on which the government agreed at Monrovia on March 31. 1942. Lend-lease means that Liberia now participates in the group re ceiving aid. military and otherwise, food and machinery and equipment, as outlined in the agreements be tween this nation and others of the united nations. No money is involved as actual cash loans, but foodstuffs, arms, weapons and mil itary material as well as material for civilian use is included. CAMP STEWART OUTBREAK NO SURPRISE SAYS N.A.A.CP. Camp Stewart .Ga„—The killing^ of a white MP on June 9 at Camp Stewart. Georgia, and the wounding of four others by bullets allegedly fired by Negro troops was seen this week by the NAACP as the cul mination of unsatisfactory condi tions which have existed at the camp for months. J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler of the Elks recently asked t.-c. President for a full investigation in to conditions at Camp Stewart. The IIP who was killed wag Pri vate First Class Ronie E. Lindsey, of Valdosta. Ga. The wounded men were Staff Sergeant John L. Mc Eacher, Homestead, Montana: Ser geant Charles W. Almand, Atlan ta. Ga; Sergeant William V. Brown New York City and Private Mer lin B. Hotchkill, Perry. N. Y. The NAACP. has submitted to the : Department of J ustice the report of an investigator immediately dis patched to the scene. The NAACP report revealed these findings: The transportation situation is, and for long has been, a rasping issue. Separate buses are operat ed for white and Negro soldiers, in the ratio of about one for Negroes, sis for whites and this despite the | fact Negro Soldiers are approxim ately 40 percent of the camp per jsonnel. The taxicabs in HinesvOle (nearest town to Camp Stewart) re fuse to ride Negro soldiers. There is high resentment among ;>Negro soldiers of the Nazi-racial : attitude of the white officers in command. Interviewed Negro of ficers and enlisted men all insist ed that the situation could not be remedied so long as they remained under command of Colonies Gross and Ochs, both of German extrac tion and General Spiller, who was characterized as being “definitely in sympathy with the whole policy of discrimination.” Negro MP’s are without author, ity. Negro soldiers and civilians resent this, and resent that all MP’s stationed in Savannah are white, even those designtated to patrol the most thickly settled Ne gro areas. I«.«e-eational facilities for Negro soli-ers are glar'ingly inadequate. There are no ’-.rov isions mah at ah for the recce it ton of Negro of ficers. Fifty persons crowd out the Negro USO. The Negro serv ice club has a total floor space coverage of 100x200 feet. Contrast ingly white officers have a service club; tht white USO is a spacious two-story building: white enlisted men have a service club with floor space measuring 350x500 feet. Meagre facilities are provided ■ for treatmen of Negro soldiers af | flicted with venereal diseases. White civilias nurses in the camp hospital have refused to handle Negro patients, and in Savannah there is only one prophylactic sta tion for colored soldiers. In two known instances, Negro soldiers have been kicked by white officers. On one occasion the f ficer was not identified; on the other ,the officer’s punishment was to be transferred to another Post. Contributing also to the tension which resulted in the violent out break of Thursday, the investigat or pointed out, were numerous oth er factors. Relations of Negro sol diers with local law enforcement officers have been generally bad. Racial segregation signs were post ed on toilets at the prison stock ade (a Negro officer reports he was brusquely asked “Can't you read r* when he Used a toilet marked tor “White Only”). Negro offic-.-s generaPy are subjected to unnec essarily humiliating treatment. WHITE PASSENGER SLAPS N’GRO WOMAN WHO REPAYS WITH 16 CUTS ON HIS BODY Chattanooga. Tenn., June 16 <A\ P)... K'H-r, Marion L. Cooper. ‘ white, a TV A worker and passeng er on an outbound Fort Oglethorpe bus Monday slapped a Negro wom an for stepping on his foot, the woman followed him to the front of the bus where she proceeded to even things up with 16 cuts all over his body. Like a flash the woman disappeared. 27 Negro pas sengers were arrested in connect ion with the case but were released after their names and addr-sses ___ were recorded. Officers arrested Ear! T. Will iams as an accessory to the as sault- Cooper was taken to ;he Newell sanitarium where his wounds were reported to be super fciiai. Police, however saj* that the man was cut all over his body. His assailant, who was headed to ward the Negro section of the bos, fell over Cooper's feet and then a pologized. She was described es weighing around 200 pounds, she is still at large. Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe to THE OMAHA GUIDE and learn what the dark er one tenth of the American population is think ing and doing.