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SMITH) WE. 6458 —Wtf—* *t*w**t*t*t*i*m Mr. James Richardson looks the picture of health at all times. The R Rboys are on the up and go on good service. Mr. Luther Johnson likes to be called ‘Daddy”. Mr. Buster Phillips a very active member of the union. Mr. Roy McAlister is strictly businesh 24 hours a day. Felix Metoyer always cool on hot days. Louie Aitison a good billiard shot. Read the Omaha Guide and you can always know what the boys [are doing. _ John Evans on the job at the Rome Hotel. i Capt. Burns ver ymuch out in front at the Regis and Capt. Lang ley a streamlined waiter all the time. The waiters at the White Horse Inn are going places and doing things. All waiters should read the menu and make a practice of being a good explainer and answer all questions quickly and to the point, j as we ai e all expected to keep our- j selves in that attitude when we are j on the job and help build up more business. THE WEEK— Lucky Millinder and his orches tra in Omaha. Bill Robinson’s wife granted a divorce at Reno. Nevada. FBI investigates not in Beau mont, Texas. E xu erne hot weather causes many people to Lounge in the city park'. Mr. Goldie Davis entertains some friends in a northside business es tablishment. Mr. Ed Lee enjoys a much need ed vacation and visits relatives. Ed Craig enjoys fishing last Sunday and returned home all worn out and sleepy. The second group of Colored sailors were in Omaha Saturday and Sunday. Attorney Bryant on 24th and Lake Street. President Roosevelt vetoes the strike bill. The recent flood damage is esti mated at 26 million dollars. Grand Junction, Colo., was rock ed by an explosion of two car loads jof munitions. _ Mayor LaGuardia advises all cit izens not to stir up race riots. Tuskega? Institute will receive one hundred thousand dollars a year from the State of Alabama. Read the Omaha Guide and get all the news at all times. Nationwide investigation of growing race trouble in this coun try was made known by Congress —- M j Tel. WE. 2022 j ? Considerate, Dependable, Dig | nif ied Service. It is for the < family to decide what the funeral i cost shall be. \ Thomas S FUNERAL HOME | 2020 LAKE ST. Omaha, Nebr. 1 Queens of last Week Girls send in Your Photo! In the above picture is this week’s Photo Queen Winners sel ected by “Our Boys in Service ’ Committee- Martha Weaver. 2404 Belle Glade St., of St. Louis, Mo., representing the St. Louis Argus of that city is first prize winner, miimiiiiimmiiiimiimiimiimimi s man Dies. Attorney James B. M. MacN’ally was appointed U. S District attor ney for Southern New York. | We are very glad to see the | sailors in large numbers in Omaha ' on Saturday and they are a well i behaved and very ref'ned and we welcome them here at any time. — fcFt. J >e Louis visits Chicago plays golf and is interviewed by news reporters. Feeds the b >ttle t_. his baby daughter ind says he v.nuld like to see if he can fight ytf. Clair Chapel sponsored a very beautiful service Sunday morning. June 27th arranged by the Trust eed and Rev. C. C. Reynolds. So all of the members cc t.il witness the paying off o fthe lociu mort gage. The President of the Trust ee Board .Brother C. R. Trimble, presented the check to Mr. Zink who turned over the papers and also a receipt for $715.00 and all the captains were presented to the congregation in a very fine Christ ian complimentary talk by the pas tor Rev C. C. Reynolds. The Men’s club of Pilgrim Bap tist Church sponsored a lovely pro gram on Sunday afternoon June 27. Mt. Calvary Community church 25th and Grant Sts., celebrated the 10th Anniversary' Week June 21st to 27th- A very beautiful service and program was rendered each evening with a streamlined parade on Friday evening. — Among the notable visitors Rev. Johnnie Mucklin, Rev. C. Renfro, Rev. Mother Josephine Breeding. Mrs. Adam Lee and Mrs. Harold Carr entertained the following lad ies from KC. and Denver: Misses Ida May Smith, Beatrice Pellon, Emma Logan, Lillian Johnson, Ethel Johnson, Donna Joan John son. Florence McCoy, Beulah Jon es, Beatrice Payne, Tessie Coy, Margarette Fitzpatrick, Juanita Johnson. This vriter had the pleaau’'? -ii mc,'iuig ill the above named ladies cad gentlemen and it was an ex trennlv tioe group .cWiconre to our city at all times. _ New dear readers let ali of our yroU;> tike time cut and nelp the NAACP by taking out a member fxT, oru all form t members ™. T ,v j 'cry kindly re lew a^d he a t d s','‘ke in the «htc:i of race pri‘e and progress. INVESTIGATION OF DETROIT POLICE DEMANDED; (Continued from page 1) Among the other immediate and long range issues discussed with the Governor were the wanton shooting by State Policeman Ted Anders of Julian Witherspoon, £6 year old medical student in the St. Antoine YMCA., June 22, the alleg ed looting of homeh and apartment of Negroes by state policemen, the critical food situation in the Negro areas on the east and north side, the wholly disproportionate arrests and convictions of alleged Negro rioters i ncontrast with white riot ers, and the failure to use Negro soldiers, state troopers aiid city police. Specific methods of attack on each of these problems were worked out by the conferees. The NAACP has announced that the Detroit Branch legal staff and Thurgood Marshall will defend Negroes who were arrested during the riot who are without funds if their ser vices are requested. Judge Ira W. Jayne, presiding justice of the Wayne County Cir Second prize winner, representing the Los Angeles Sentinel of Los Angeles, is Frances L. Harper, no W. Mountain St., of Pasadena. Cal. The Black Dispatch Newspaper representative is Esther A. Gil more, 621 North Fifth St., of Mus kogee, Okla., Third prize winner. The Press Photo Sendee will give $5.00 to the first prize winner, $.1.00 to the second prize winner and $2 to the third prize winner. All prizes will be paid in War Savings Stamps. (Press Photo Sendee, Inc. 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 3%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 Phcto Service, Inc., 6261 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 the 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. Prises: 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 - - . ■ _ - . . • - ±... AddressCity AgeClub State Name ot this Newspaper CityState Clip, paste on back of photograph and mail same to 0UB BOYS IN SERVICE PHOTO OUEEN CONTEST EDITOR, • Press Photo Service, lac, 5201 South Park Ave., Chicofe cuit Court and NAACP. vice presi dent. had arranged a previous con ference for himself and Walter White .NAACP executit^e secret ary, with the Governor. At their ' suggestion, a representative group of Detroit Negroes were invited to I the conference held June 23. They were Dr. James J. McClendon and Gloster Current .president and sec retary respectively of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP; Rev. Char Ieh Hill, chairman of the Citizens Committee: Mrs. Beulah Whitby of | the Detroit OCD. and national pres ident of the AKA; Charles Mahoney member of the State Labor com mission; Senator Charles Diggs, Louis E. aMrtin of the Michigan Chronicle: Mrs. J. E. McCall of the Detroit Tribune; and John R. Wil liams of the Pittsburgh Courier. MAYOR DOES NOTHING Invehtigation by the Federal . government of the ••rcn-feasance. ' misfeasance and mal-feasance” of the Detroit police and Mayor Jef fries was asked by the NAACP. , "The riot could have been stopped Scnday night with the firm Use of force including a few fire hoses had the police of Detroit wanted it htopped.” the Association declared. Instead there is photographic and other evidence which is irre futable that the police not only eld running wild but actually held Ne- , nothing to prevent white rioters ] gro victims while white hoodlums beat them. Mayor Jeffries has been implored by white and Negro groups for more than a year to do hih duty and check the vicious’ forces which infest Detroit but he has done sothing. The Fifth Col umn In Detroit has its headquar 1 ters in City Hall and Police Head ! quarters because it is weakness I and prejudice there which has cost thirty one lives, the destruction of property, tragic stoppage of the | production of war supplies our fighting men overseas desperately need,” the NAACP charged. WHITE AND MARSHALL ON THE SCENE . Walter White, arrived here oy plane during the height of the riot ing June 21 when asked by the De troit Branch to assist in meeting -he grave situation. Thurgood. Marhhall .special counsel, reached here June 23 from Washington chere he conferred 'Wedr, -- fay vith Attorney General Frar.cis Biddle and other government offic als regarding the riots in Detroit ind other cities. Attorney General Biddle assured Marshall that he eras “seriously concerned’ ’about he Detroit riots and was “carefully catching the situation.’’ He also issured Marshall that any evidence )f the commission of federal crim « would be promptly investigate! is soon as referred to him. Mr. Marshall will assist in gathering evidence .providing counsel and .aking such other steps as are i leemed necessary to prevent in justices and victimization of the :orely tried Negroes of Detroit. A pathetic and unending stream of riot victims have thronged the Detroit XAACP Branch office here overflowing frequently into the hallway and onto the steps. Affi davits and statements have been taken ,the facts checked and steps taken to help bring peace back to the city. XAACP lawyers under the chairmanship o f Willis M. Graves have appeared daily in cocrt to defend victims of the riot ing. The Association has repeat edly and sharply criticized the un seemingly speed of arrests, trials and convictions of Negroes who were certainly not the originators or aggressors in the riots. Though the colored population is only a bout one tenth of Detroit’s popul ace, 85 percent of the more than 1300 arrested are Negroes and all of the 34 found guilty on Tuesday and the overwhelming majority of those on succeeding days were Ne groes. Throughout the week calls have poured into the NAACP office here of attacks upon the persons and cars of Negroes in isolated white neighborhoods. These have bee* especially noticeable in cases of Negro workers at the Fori River Rouge plant and other war indus tries when Negroes attempted to return to work. Prompt action in each case led to a steady decline cf such attacks as well as protect ion of colored men and women. As it laored to insure justice to innocent victims of the worst race riot in the history of many years, the NAACP was at the same time • '■ ’-=—■. ansaring in its condemnation of the vandalism of a lawless minority of Negroes who took advantage of the situation to loot and wreck stores owned by white merchants in the Negro sections. As its in vestigations proceeded the Associat ion also increasingly discounted the charges that Axis agents were re sponsible for the riot. The NAACP is conducting an in vestigation of the rioting by its own agents. “At least one and possibly one or two others of the anti-Negro, anti-labor. anti-Semitic outfits here were financed in part by Nazi Bund and Silver Shirt money,” White declared. "But the partic ipants in and instigators of this terrible thing are native born A merican spreaders of racial hatred and discord, predominantly south ern white crackers who have pour ed into Detroit for the past twenty five years and particularly during the past fifteen months. Not all the southemerh are of this type. Some of the most courageous friends of the Negro I have ever known are southerners in the UA W-CIO., churches and other move ments here. But unbelievably bad housing and overcrowding of all Detroiters but particularly of Ne- j groeh, job discrimination upon which a small but viciously active Ku Kiux Klan and similar lunatic -'ringe grouph have capitalized, the spinelessness of Mayor Jeffries 1 And the Detroit police department, ‘ -l dthe indifference of Detroit’s ' industrialists who were and are in terested only in the size of the ' •var profits they make, caused this aorrible conflict. ' “The bright spots of the sorry picture here are, first, that there has been not one case of friction in plants due to the attitude of R. J. Thomas and other leaders of the t-'AW-CIO. whose eight-point pro gram for correction of the evils from which the riot grew; second, the magnificent courage and fair ness of the Detroit Free Press fol lowed to a lesser degree by the Nws; the courage of Colonel Geo rge E. Strong of the Army Aircraft Procurement Division and of Gen eral Guthner and Colonel Krech who have restored order with im partiality; the activity of the De troit Council of Churches under the leadership of Dr. Benjamin Bush; and above all these, the fortitude of the Negro community in the face of the most murderous assault any people have ever known in the Uni ted States. Even as the riot went on the people of Detroit continued their annual membership campaign of the NAACP to reach to date more than 17,000 members and cash of more than $20,000 to show then realization of the need of a perm anent organization to tackle these conditions.” Commenting on the Dies Comm ittee's propohed investigation of pro-Japanese activity in connection with the riot here, White said the Dies committee’s search for Japan ese sympathizers would be funny, if its sinihter result is not to ab solve the klan. White and Marshall announced also that they will remain in De troit as long as their services are needed. l\Su NEGRO FIGHTER PILOTS WEATHER FIRST TEST AGAINST GERMAN FLYERS (continued from page 1) tohey began a wide circle with us after them. Then they broke off and climbed above us and stayed there waiting for aonther chance to dive on us. We stayed around until the controller ordered Us home.” I Second Lieutenant Willie Ashley, ! Jr., of 212 West Bartlett St., Stun- i ter, South Carolina said his gas needle pointed to empty when he! finally landed. The other planes , were all low on gas also. I Lieutenant Rayford said his plane was hit while he was firing on two FW 190’s. “While I was af ter the two,” he said, “a third one got on my tail. Thats the first time I’ve ever been shot at.” The Americans were too busy to get a close shot at the bombers al though Lieutenant Dryden fired one fleeting burst at one of them. They were unable to state whether the bombers had reached their ob jectives but Lieutenant Rayford said he saw at least four bombs strike the water without doing any damage. Besides Lieutenants Dry den. Rayford, Ashley and Brooks, pilots participating in the engage . ment were Second Lieutenant Spann Wtason of 122 J. St, Hack ensack, New Jersey and Second Lieutenant Leon C. Roberts of Murphy and McGee Streets, Prich ard, Alabama. An advantage that the squadron has over many others is that near ly all its personnel, commissioned and enlisted, has worked together since the outfit was formed in 1941 The pilots are enthusiastic in their praise of their P-40's, said Lieutenant Dry Sen “I ran hon estly say I’d rather fly the War ! hawk than any other ship I know DETROIT DELTAS GIVE BOOKS TO SERVICEMEN Detroit's Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's Victory Book Drive ior Servicemen has met with the whole hearted approval a ad g.watu of the Negro Servicemen and the public at large. Vi win; tv mi’ ;.ic ent display of over 200 books of all fields of current literature a:- 'rirsj two flyers from Selfridge Field, Michigan and Miss Victoria M 'all. Grand Journalist of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Th? fliers left, Sgt. James Dunlap of Paducah, Ky., and Lt. Kenneth M. Phipps t ;ht) of New York City. (Press Photo Service, Inc.) of,” he said. Most of the pilots are college trained. while i great many of the 1 enlisted ground clew had civilian training in flying and aircraft m°chanics. The Knowledge thus Rained has in most rases been pol ished at air corps technical schools in the TTnited State,;. In addition to those mentioned iKive, the following are the pil ites of the first aqur.dron of its kind to see actijn: Captain George S. Roberts. 317 Quarry Avenue, Fairmont, West Virginia; Captain Lemuel R, Curtis, 67 Pliney Street, artford, Connecti cut; First Lieutenant Herbert E. Carter, Amary, Mississippi; First , Lieutenant Erwn B. Lawrence, 2068 East 90th Street, Cleveland, Ohio; Frst Lieutenant Herbert V. ! Clark, 810 East 67th Street, Pine | | Bluff, Arkansas; First Lieutenant l Allen Giane, 205 Cherry Street, Demopolis, Alabama; First Lieut enant James T. Wiley, 705 Woods Run Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl vania: First Lieutenant Clarence C. Jamison, 2252 East 85th Street, Cleveland, Ohio; First Lieutenant Sidney P. Brooks, 3709 East 142nd Street, Cleveland, Ohio; First Lieut enant Charles B. Hall, 1034 East Hendrix Street, Brazil, Indiana; First Lieutenaont William A. Camp bell, Tuskegee, Alabama; First Lieu tenant James B. Knighten, 1130 Mt. Greenwood Street. Tulsa, Oklahoma Secind Lieutenant Willie H. Fuller Tarboro, North Carolina; Second Lieutenant Graham Smith. Ahoskie North Carolina; Second Lieutenant Paul G. Mitchell, 908 Howard Road , S. E. Washington, DC.; Second | Lieutenant Louis R. Purnell, West Weaver Street. Germantown, Pen nsylvania: Second Lieutenant Jo'nn W. Rogers. 1552 Lins Street, Cin cinnati, Ohio; Second Lieutenant Samuel M. Bruce, 319—12th Ave nue, Seattle, Washington; Second Lieutenant James L. McCuUtn, ! 3901 Esright Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri; Second Lieutenant Geor ge R. Rolling, 24 Cummings Ave nue, Phoebuh, Virginia; Second Lieutenant Walter I. Lawhon, New ton, Virginia. iAYS TEACHER WHO WON’T ^HT NOT FIT TO TEACH Atlanta, July 2 (ANP) "Teachers cho don’t have enough manhood or vomanhood to stand up for their constitutional rights are not fit to each our children" blunt spoken lard hitting Thurgood Marshall, ! special counsel for the NAACF told several thousand Atlantans who iamemd Wheat Street Baptist Church here Friday night. The The statement drew rounds of ap plause. He revealed that procedure had been mapped to counteract action taken by the Atlanta Board of Ed ucation and that a preliminary hearing In the teachers’ equal pay case now pending in federal court wou’d be held June 30. Ar, is the policy of the NAACF, At.ty. Marshal! flayed the war de partment oth *r government a ge t'es for failing to prelect col cicd solrier? 'n the south and Tor In all brance cf the armed force, alfwing dlB.'hdnr'.in to c<niiEi9 in all branches of the armed forces. 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