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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
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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.
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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
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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.