I ^ I • Worth ; of GoodReadin OPEN LETTER ON RACE PROBLEM My Dear Mr. Gai.oway: In response to your recent appeal for funds I offer this contribution. When w-fii the people of th'S good nation learn the "Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of Goi.. — . We could all be so happy. Sincerely. Dr. I. J. VonDruska. Kan.-Nebr. AME Conference Here July 14-15 2 OMAHA GIRLS JOIN WAGS Fort Desmoines, la., Jane 28 — Two Auxiliaries from Omaha are included in the group of Negro women who have started training in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps at First WAAC Training Center Fort Desmoines, la. Their Auxiliary rating: is the vs aac e qulvalent of Private In the Army. The new WAACS are: Auxiliaries Bernice Donaldson, 2616 Corby St., and Katie C. Beasley, 3501 Burd ette at. 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. I J.C. Carey Reelected Post Commander On Thursday evening, July 1st, Jake C. Carey, was reelected com mander of Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 30 of the American Legion by Unanimous vote of the hundred and seventy-eight members present. A standing vote was taken and they rose to their feet as one man. cheering and applauding when his name was called. The entire exe cutive committee and all officers who have been serving with him, were reelected along with Com mander Carey. In a short talk Commander Car ey told the members that he in tended to carry on as before, but too strive harder, and with the as sistance of the other officers and their (the members’) support, he hoped to show even better results the coming year. Jeffries9 “ White Paper99 Scored NAAC’P PI SHES FOR FEDERAL ACTION AGAINST RACE OUTBREAKS DETROIT, Mich._ .. Coupled with voicing condemnation of the Detroit mayor’s "white paper” ab solving the police force, the NA ACP this week renewed its effort to get federal action taken against | rioting. In a memorandum to the White House on June 29, concerning the epidemic of riots throughout the nation the Association tersiev out lined the causes and results of these outbreaks and made 13 rec ommendations for the alleviation of racial strife in the 17 or more fever spots in the United St-Ues where rioting is likely to break ut at any moment. 1. The urging by the NA The suggestions .which were spec ific respect to the Detroit situation were also applicable to the country at large, the NAACP said. They Included: 1. The urging by the NAACF once again at it has repeatedly urg ed for the past two years of a fire side chat appealing to the People of the country to refrain from riot ing. pointing out the global nature of the problem of race and the util ization by our enemies of reports fCont*nued on page 35^*41 BEAUTICIANS TO MEET IN ST LOOS The Twenty-third Annual Con vention of the National Beauty Cultujrsts League will be held in St. Louis, Missouri. August JO-13, 1SW3. rians have teen completed lor taking care of the many delegates and friends exptCted and a full and complete program, literally studded v ith educational features is await ing them. Rev. Ridley Pastor-host j The District Conference which will convene at St. John’s AME. Church, 22nd and ‘Willis ave.. will have the Welcome program of the Conference the first night, Wedccs day, July 14 at 3 pm. The Conference is a two day af fair, July 14 and loth. The first meeting wfll be the Sunday School and ACE. League Convention together with the Dis trict Conference. This is the ICnsi sas-Xebraska Annual Confer me--. There will be seventeen AME. Churches represented Dr. John Adams, presiding E'.dei will preside. Rev. S. H. Lewis, Pastor of the First AME. Church of Kansas City I Kansas will be the special speak- j er during the session The theme j of the Conference will be the Post ! War Problems and Conditions. There will be visitors from other j states attending. We are inviting ( | all members and friends to come out all day each day. Various clubs of the church will serve on a different day as host. Sunday night, July 11 there will be a special feature by the Mary E Lee Circle of the Missionary, sponsored by Mrs. Gladys Ervin. The rest of the program will in clude the promotion of the young people from various departments of the Missionary. Mississippi Miss Miss Mary Kelly who holds a ' Bachelors degree from Spei'n m College in Atlanta arrived in Chi cago a few days ago from Vicks burg. Miss. She is now the guest of her sister and brother in law. Mr. and Mrs. Bowen Heffner, 5025 St. Lawrence Ave., M!ss Kelly is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J, Kelly of the Mississippi city and until recently managed the family grocery business there. She will reside here premanently. (PPS.) Movie Star Sponsors bnily Pledge in N. Y. TO BROADC AST RADIO (3 PROGRAM SATURDAY 7:30 TO 8.-00 P. M. New York. NY.—Citizens of New York's five boroughs are being ask ed to sign the following pledge of unity: “We the citizens of New York say it can’t happen here, but we want to make sure: moved by a deep sense of anguish and horror that in the midst of a war being fought for democracy there could be manifestations of racial hatred and violence against Americans of | -any race, color or creed, we ptedget: 1. That we shall not be moved to mob action against any fellow citizen or group of fellow citizens. 2. That we shall not listen to, nor repeat, any rumors designed to divide us among ourselves. 3. That we shall .at all times. I lice up to the spirit of our Amen- ■ can citizenship and do what is in ; our power to forward mutual un- | derstanding and friendliness among j all the various groups which make | up our city and our America. The pledge was conceived by Jean Muii. popular movie star, who this week called a meeting of some forty national organizations at her home to make plans for a program of racial unity. The pledge hag already been signed by Mayor LaGuardia who along with Miss Muir and Walter White of the NAACP addressed the group at Miss Muir’s home. Active in circulating the pledge are labor un ions, church and civic groups and members of the theatre profession. Other members of the theatre. ME. COMMISSION ON AGENDA AND EXPENSES The commission on agenda and expenses of the Central Jurisdic tional conference of the ME, church which met recently at Gammon Theological Seminary. Atlanta, shown after selecting Greensboro, N. C„ for the 1944 quadrennial con ference. In the picture, left to right- first row: Bishop L. H. King, Bishop A. P. Shaw and Bishop R. E. Jones. Middle row: Dr. J. W. Golden. Dr, M. S. Davage. Dr. Edgar A. T-ove. and Dr. Dennis A. Bethea: back row. Dr. Willis J. King. Dr. A. P. Randolph. Dr. David D. Jones and Dr. A. R. Howard. (ANP) Jewish Rabbis Denounce Race-riots In U. S. A. REBIRTH OF KL KLUX KLAN DESCRIBED AS “DANGER TO BE RECKONED WITH" NT WYORK. July 5 fAXT"" A roused by the recent disturbances in Beaumont. Texas. Los Angeles, and Detroit, rabbis here, in their ' Sunday sermons, denounced race riots as a menace to the war effort Rabbi Israel Goldstein in Temple B’nai Joshurun .declared that the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan “is a danger to be reckoned with.” In radio and screen shocked by the brutality of the recent riots have also made known their plan to wor ktoward greater racial harm ony. Some of the best known stars of the entertainment world include Laurence Tibbett, George Heller, Jane Cowl, Ralph Bellamy, Tallu lah Bankhead. Max Gordon, Paul Robeson. Maxwell Anderson, Serge Koussevitsky. and James Cagney, have agreed to sponsor a coast to Coast broadcast with Wendei! Will kie dramatizing the Detroit ri«t. on July 10 from 7:30 to 8 o'clock. William Robinson will produce the skit with Paul Muni as one of the stars. urging that congress direct its at-€ tention to race riots, he declared that “no single act of domestic pol icy will so resound to the moral credit of the United States abroad, especially in Asia as the righting of the wrongs which we have per petrated upon our Negro feliow citizens. “If our federal .state and muni cipal authorities address themselv es with the sam eenergy to thus problem on the home front as they have manifested in the provision of manpower .money and imple ments for overseas wa meeds,” he said, “our domestic troubles can be solved.” Another rabbi. Hyman J. Schach tel. in West End synagogue, des cribed the Detroit race as a “nat ional problem” and said: ‘The Am erican people who believe in one God as the father of all mankind must not rest until the basic econ omic and social problems which lie at the root of these race riots are known and solved. “While our boys are fighting this kind of evil abroad ,we who are Civilians at home must overcome this adversary within our own. backyards.” “The lawlessness that is so ram pant in certain sections of this country,” said Rabbi Joseph ?Jcit-, lin in Temple Ansche Chosed, .... “must be regarded as the germs of a disease that seeks to destroy [ the fruits and blessings of our ; -Teat government. ‘‘For whenever a minority is op pressed and its rights are denied no other mnoritv group is safe, and what is mroe. ultimately the entire population stands in the shadow of oppressions and bloodshed. May those who seek to undermine our country be prevented from realiz ing their malicious machinations." ‘‘There are too many xew York ers,’’ said Rabbi William Rosen blum in Temple Israel , ‘who fail to see that what has been happen ing in Beaumont. Texas. In Los An geles. and in Detroit, is part of some national disturbance which is being fomented for their own par ticular interests by certain subver 3ive groups. "These groups have their repre sentatives and veotees in our city as well. It must be an immediate task in which city officials, lead ers of the civic and neighborhood organizations and ministers of the various churches should have a share to bring to bear upon the problem of Xegro lining in this great city the best vision which white and Xegro men and women alike can muster.’ Governor Called Me A “Tar Babv” Milton P. Webster .of the Broth-! erhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, and a member of the President’s Fair Employment Practice Comm ittee. was one o fthe speakers at “We Are Americans. Too" Confer ence which closed its four day ses sion here Sunday at DuSable Aud itorium. Mr. Webster said, among many other things, “the blame for the loss of this committee and the benefits that could have been de rived from it should be placed with nobody but the Negro people, themselves. Our people are whol ly responsible for what happened. When the committee was first transfererd to the War Manpower Commission was the time for Negro -es to cry out against it. They. by their indolence, are to oe held re sponsible for what happened—no one else. “Frankly. I cannot see that the chairman of the committee make* much difference." Webster con tinued. “He is just one man. There are seven perosns on the committee. He has but one vote. Therefore. it> matters not- to my way of thinking whether the FEPC chairman be a Catholic. Jew. Ne gro or a member of any other race or nationality. “To give you an example of the indolence of our people, I refer you to the hearings we had. under the old committee setup, in Birm ingham. Ala. We met there and held hearings But the only thing the Negro people were interested in as a result of those hearings was that Governor Talmadge called m a “tar baby’ ’and Dickerson a “Chocolate drop" and that Mark Etheridge made a speech in which he said that “all the Axis power in the world would never be able to breaok up separation". (Press Photo Service. Inc.) Omaha Boy Re ceives Commission Lt. SHtJLAE A. BARKSDALE. Omaha boy, of 1419 X. 23rd Plaaa. received his 0[uartermaster officet” commission at Camp Lee, Ya., on July 2, 1943. lip was one of a evoUp of 24 cff cers receiving their f cmmissions. Colored Soldiers to Remain at Van Dorn; To HIM V 111 v Stay Armed CENTERVILLE, Miss.. July 6th (ANP).Not only •will Negro soldiers now stationed at Camp Van Dorn remain there, but they will not be disarmed, it was learned from reliable sources this week. Following an outbreak here be tween Negro soldiers and white Civilians Mississippi’s governor Paul B. Johnston had sent an ur gent wire to Sec. of War Stimson calling for the removal of the Ne gro soldiers from this community. In 'the interest of racial harmonv.” Later representation was made to Camp Van Dorn’s commanding officer by local officials that Negro Soldiers stationed there be com pletely disarmed. Taking a firm stand, the commanding officer was reported to refuse this request on the grounds that “to disarm troop? who are being trained for combat duty would be a. disgrace to the United States.” A Negro soldier, whose name his not been divulged, was shot and killed by the sheriff here during the recent outbreak. In a letter sent to Sec. Stimson by Turman K. Gibson. Negro civilian aide to Stim son. it was pointed out that an in vestigation of the disturbance re vealed the death of only one sold ier, instead of three as had been announced in one Negro newspa per. Conditions here have returned to normal and no further incidents or trouble is expected. The town of Centerville has been placed out of bounds for Negro soldiers at Camp Van Dorn, and as a result many shops and places of amusement have been forced to close. Negro soldiers are now going to nearoy Glouster and Natchez for amuse ment and recreation. GLAD NEBRASKA POWER i DOES‘NT HAVE TO BE SOLD Frank Heinisoh. chairman of the Omaha On Guard Committee com menting on the disbanding of th Mayor’s business men's panel created a oear ago to study the lo cal electric power situation, said. "Now that we all know t Power Company doesn't have to bo sold and that we have L. B. 204 to ktep Consumers cut. N-jbraaka I iwer Company tv< uld b“ left as t if. ‘ That Nebraska Bower C tnpany ■•oesn'i have 1a be toid was cl-a.-.v brought out in a telegram sent by the Securities and Exchange Com ‘W000000909900Q9M»taafl( mission, in which it said there has been NO order issued tor the sale of Nebraska Power .and Omaha is not obligated to purchase the elec-1 trie company even if such an or-' der had been issued. “tVe want the Nebraska Power Company to continue as a good tax payer and Civic-minded citizen of Omaha. “That seems to be the sentiment of the people of Omaha. All of us were glad to hear that Nebraska Power Company doesn’t have to be sold.” CONGRESSMEN REVEAL STAND ON ANTI-LYNCH BILL IN ANSWER TO N.AACP REQUEST Washington. DC..In answer to letters sent to approximately 380 congressmen by the NAACP ask ing them to sign Discharge Petition No. 5, on the Gavagan Anti-Lynch ing Bill. HR. 51 if they have not already done so 57 replies kav been received. Of the 57 congress men 33 have signed the petition 3 state they are going to sign. '■ are giving it their serious considerat ion. 4 will not sign the petition be cause they oppose this method of “nterfering” with legislative proce dure and 12 were out of town or for other reasons the request whs acknowledge by their secretaries P. B. Dickerson *>r pv EarlB. DicUe'son H New F. £• v (by ERNEST E. JOHXSON) 0 WASHINGTON, July 12 (AXP>— President Roosevelt at long last has rounded out bis Fair Employ ment Practice Committee, and on Thursday noon he announced the names of the six persons who will work with Fr. J. Haas, chairman to enforce the amended executive order No. 8802. The new members, all represent ing industry, are aiiss Sara South all. supervisor of employment and ) service for the International Har-g vester Company. Chicago: I*. B. Youn. veteran publisher of the Nor folk (Ya.) Journal and Guide, chair man of the Southern (Durham). Con ference on Race Relations, and chairman of the board. Howard uni versity; and Samuel Zemurray. president of the United Fruit com pany, New Orleans. The members of the old commit tee who were held over, all repres enting labor, are John Brophy. Congress of Industrial Organisation Hilton P. Webster, international Vice president .Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters. Chicago: and Boris Shiskin. American Federation of Labor. Earl B. Dickerson. Chicago law yer and militant member of the. original committee, was not among those reappointed. For sometime there had been some apprehension that he might he dropped. No statement from the President accompanied the announcement of the names. There is a possibility that an official swearing in of the committee members might be held. Ft. Haas was in Detroit at the time of the White House release and could not be reached for comment or for a statement as to when he would call the initial meeting of the new committee. Meanwhile some effort has been made to determine what the adm inistrative organization of FEPC. might be like. Malcolm Ross, for six yearh director of information for the National Labor Relations board, will be executive director, it is understood. He takes the spot left vacant by Lawrence W. Cram er. who left two weeks ago prepar atory to entering the army. Prof. George M. Johnson will continue as assistant o rsecond in command to Ross. It is expected that Fr. Haas will have a more detailed statement to make on his organization sometime after he has held the first meeting of the committee. CHARGES FDR. WITH “SELLOFT” METHODS Former Alderman Earl B. Dick erson. who was a member of the President’s Fair Employment Prac tice Committee until last week, tnaes many startling charges a gainst President Roosevelt and the Msgr. Frances Haas, new FEPC'. head. Dickerson charged that under the new order, which permits the chairman to select his own person nel and administer the distribution of the *10,000 appropriation to the committee. Msgr. Haas is given to conclude that he exercises th± au thority of the whole committee. The action of Msgr. Haas in the Mobile affair in which “he certain ly did not consult with me and. I am Informed, did not confer with Mr. ‘Webster.’’ indicates that he understands the order to mean that he is the committee. Continuing. Dickerson said, “this action by the President in destroy ing a committee which was movi|g toward the realization of its an nounced purpose is nothing more or less than a sellout to the react ionary elements of this country. (Press Photo Service Inc.) BAPTIST TO CHICAGO IN SEPTEMBER The 20,000 delegates who attend ed the National Baptist Sunday j School Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22-27, will long remem ber the stirring remarks of the five distinguished characters pic tured above. They are, reading, left to right: the Rev. George W. Robinson. Des Moines. Iowa, chair man of the National Baptist Con vention Home Mission Board: the i Re v.Thomos H. Harten. Pastor of Holy Trinity Baptist Church of Brooklyn: Dr. H. H. Rushbrooke, I London, England, President of the j Baptist World Alliance: the Rev W H. Jernagin. Washington. DC.. President of the Baptist Sunday School Congress and B. T. U. and Dr. David V Jem iso n of Selma, Al abama, President of the National Baptist Convention. This religious gathering, so far. has been the brightest spot in 1943 in the midst of a war torn world and civilization crossroads. The National Baptist Convention. USA, Inc., will hold its 1943 Annual Session in Chicago early in September, according to an announcement made by its president. Dr. Jemison. fPPS lac