n ■Ji" 5 c AT ¥OUE DRUG STORE LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER VEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS EuXd “«Nebra3i“ Saturday, July 24 1943 OUR i6th YEAR-Xo. 24 City Edition, 5c Copy \ Pictorially Speaking Princess of Fistiana... JACQUELINE LOUIS BARROWS Sgt. Joe Louis and his pretty wife, Marva had a busy week with little Jacqueline shown above. The Sergeant has been home on a fur lough since July 13th, and spent most of his time with his daught er. The five and one half month old ‘ princess” has been acclaimed by press and the public as being America’s Number One Infant as far as popularity is concerned. Papa Joe was left all alone with Jacqueline last Tuesday wrhie Mrs. Louis busied herself with her char itable work. Pin-Up Girl.. FORT SILL CROWNS A QUEEN Miss Jean Rawles was Crowned Queen at Fert Sills. Oklahoma sev eral days ago And received the grand prize of $7500, Miss Laura Sales took second prize honors and was awarded $50.00. while Miss jewell King of Dallas, Texas was the runnerup. The affair was well attended by dignitaries from both the army and civilian life. Colonel I Boggs. Major H Shefliy, Mrs. RosCoe Dunjee and Lt. Forreet S. Hill were among the judges. Mas ter Sgt. J_ Butler was Contest manager and is said tp have won commendation for his success in sponsoring the event. Handy Shows ’em How.. Hemp. NT.—Trumpet player, W C. Hrndy. author of the song “St. Louis Blues' • gives men in uni form and their junior hostess dat es, a tr“*at during intermission time at the TrSO Club on Nichols Caurt in this town. James C. Thomas, director of the Cub. ad justs the microphone. A waltz contest was one of the highlights of the evening. fPPS., Inc-) GRAND ISLAND. NEBR. BOY PROMOTED Fort Clark, Texas—It has been announced to the press of the pro motion of S-Sgt. Warren T. Gunn to the grade of 1st Sgt. 1st Sergeant Gunn, is the son nf Mrs. Elizabeth J Gunn of lSi.3 V. 10th St, Grand Island. Nebraska. A LETTER TO OUR READERS.. | (from The Omaha Sun, David Blacker, Publisher) As operators of a privately own ed enterprise, this newspaper im glad that the Nebraska Power Company does not have to be sold. We believe, on the basis of the sentiments expressed by people to whom we have spoken, that most ,f the citizens of Omaha want the Nebraska Power Company to re main as it is today. We believe that today, more than ever before, the American citizen, whether he be a farmer, industrial worker, or a mmber of the Nebras ka legislature, firmly holds to ih© principles of private ownership and individual initiative—principl es that made tihs country the great and mighty democracy it is today. Now we are told that unless we set up a Commission for the pur pose of purchasing the Nebraska Power Company the people of Om aha would be breaking faith with the legislature and that Omaha will be in difficult position to ask the legislature for favors in the future. These are arguments we can’t quite understand. It was and still is our firm conviction that legis lative bodies get their power from the people and pass legislation and laws for the ebnefit of the people. We believe that the Nebraska legislature passed L. B. 204 to pro tect Omaha against the possibility of outside interests purchasing the Nebraska Power Company and to set up machinery that would enable Omaha to purchase the Nebraska Power Company if and when it be came necessary. Now that we find the Nebraska Power Company does NOT have to be sold, we fail to understand why the impression is being created that the people of Omaha would be “Double-crossing” the legislature. Especially is this true when we know that the citizens of Omaha are happy with their electric ser if m ] Sc | ; WorfA : \ot GoodReadin \ ice and wish to see the Nebraska Power Company remain as it is. For ourselves, we feei that the Nebraska oPwer Company has been a good neighbor, a good ser vant, a large tax payer, and a busi ness institution of which most of the people in Omaha are very proud. (Read More on page 2) Rev. J. S. Williams to Bring Singers Here Aug4S Big N.A.A.C.P. Mass Meeting Sunday Afternoon Cleaves Temple To 1 Sponsor Forty Voice Song Musical Rev. J. S. Williams, former pas tor of Hillside Presbyterian church will present an Ensemble Recital Sunday August 15th at 3:30 pm_ at the Pilgrim Baptist Church. About forty singers will accompany Rev. Williams. Cleaves Temple is the sponsor. Keep that date open for Sunday August 15th at 3:30 pm. “Cleaves Temple the Church with A Friendly Handshake." CLEAVES TEMPLE NOW PART OF UNION SERVICES Cleaves Temple is now a part of the Union Services being conduct ed each Sunday night and one of the Three churches. Morning Star Baptist, Betel A ME. and Cleaves Temple. Rev. B. E. Jonles and the Bethel choir furnished the services last Sunday night with a large audience present. Services will be eld this Sunday night at Bethel with Rev. I. W. Anderson preaching and the Morn ing Star choir singing. Regular serivces will be held at Cleaves Temple Sunday morning with the pastor. Rev. L_ A_ Story, bringing the message. Big Chicago CIO Local Pledges Action Against Race Baiters Chicago. July 19 (AN'P) A pledge that anyone who attempts to split or disrupt the unity of the Mc Cormick workers through provok ing race hatred or calling for jim crowism in any form, shall meet with swift, official action and shall be liable to trial by membership’’ was contained in strong resolutions passed Sunday by McCormcik local 108 of the United Farm Equipment and Metal workers of America, CIO, one of the city’s strongect unions. The resolutions .pointing to the necessity for complete unity in order to win the war, asserted there was a deoliberate plot on the part of the KU Klux Klan and “other vicious Quisling element^” to split that uinty by instigating race hatred and minority discrim natons and thus sabotage the war effort. The local also Said that it would fulfill, without any reservations, the national CIO policy of no dis crimination for any cause. — MRS. BETHINK AT HOME Washington. July 18 (AXPi Airs. Alary McLeod Bethune left the cap ital last Wednesday for a visit to Daytona Beach. Fla., where she will attend to business matters and enjoy a brief rest. Missi ppi Stirred by Race Issue % -— . - ■- = ■< WILL TEACH ART OF GOSPEL SINGING HERE I THELMA S. POLK DIRECTOR ZION BAPTIST CHURCH GOSPEL CHORUS Thelma S. Polk, teacher of Gospel Music, has been choMU PtSTiiM Director for the Gospel Chorus at' Zion Baptist Church. Mrs. Polk, a native of Chicago, comee to Omaha very much pre pared in this line of work having served in Union Baptist and a number of other prominent church es in her home town. I On July , Rev. S. K. Nichols, Uncle of this fine young woman, will open for her a studio at 2424 Erskine Street. where she will teach Gospel Singing exclusively. For information Call JA-3229. ATHLETICS DISCONTINUED AT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY Jefferson City, Mo, —Colleges haivng athletic contracts with L:n coln University of Missour were advised this week by Mr. Raymond H. Kemp. iDrector of Athletics, that the school authorities have a greed to discontinue indeifinitely the formal program of inter-colleg iate activities at the state school. The war time conditions under lying this decision were listed by Mr. Kemp as being: 1) Transporta tion facilities: 2 Inadequate supply of athletic equipment; 3 Decrease in student enrollment: 4 Probable loss of coacihng personnel: 5 De cided decrease in player personnel. ) - Gubernatorial Candidate Winning Support on “White Supremacy” Platform; Indust rialist Would Force Negro to Work Full Time or Go To Jail - •.. JACKSON, LMsS.. July 19 (AN?)—g Karo feeling in Mississippi is be ng heightened by the stump speak ing of Mike Conner, who is rally ing statewide support to his cam paign for governor by his white supremacy and anti-Negro plat form and by the failure of many Negroes, now getting the highest wages in their lives, to work any more days weekly than is necess ary for them to earn enough mon ey to live on. Seme whites, who believe that the army does not want more Ne gro soldiers and that the whites are being inducted in greater num bers to fill the state’s quota, have voiced fears for the “canctity of white womanhood” if Negroes re main at home and at the same time refused to work full time. Efforts have been made to enforce a state wide anti-vagrancy law and have the governor issue a “work or fight’ ’proclamation forcing every body to work full time or go to jail. ' The campaign of Conner, an tx Governor. has won the support of many newspapers. Describing his contemplated program .the Wayne County News said in a recent ed itorial: ‘He stands squarely for *6.ts st premacy at the polls and - ■ where else, and for the pro’ ■ • on ery drop of his blood. He opposes cooperating with the federal courts in cases properly belonging to state court*.'' A recent editorial in the Jack- I son Daily News Jambasting Con- : ner's chief opponent, asserted: “One major problem we have in j Mississippi today is more indust rial and racial, althoUgth, it cun- I tans elements of both. ‘It is going to take brains- cour age and intelligence to deal with the problem. It cannot be suc cessfully haondled by hlantant demagogues—especially a dema gogue of the type who is now go ing over the state- bragging muchly about how, when he happened to be serving as governor, he called out troops to prevent the threaten ed lynching of a black friend in human form who had brutally ra Refuse to Join Jinvcrow Union; 80 Fired at Kaiser’s Portland. Oregon_.. Unwilling ness to join a Jim crow auxiliary union resulted in he dismissal of SO Negro workers from the Kaiser Shipyard on July 11. 1,000 more workers are threatened with the loss of their jobs here for the same reason, the NAACP revealed this week. Edgar J. Kaiser has been asked by the NAACP to coop 3rate in ef forts to return the SO workers to their jobs and the intervention of the Fair Employment Practice Committee and the Meta! Trades Department. AF of L. has been sought. In a telegram to the XAACP s'gied by Julius Rodnqoey. presi dent of the Shipyard Organization for Victory, the Xegro workers stored that they were willing to join a bona fide union. Following the refusal of Tom Ray of the Boilermakers Union local No. 72 to accept Negroes as mem bers a separate auxiliary union was set up. Negro workers have con sistently refused to join the union protesting that auxiliary union pay dues to the locals to which they are related but have no voice in their management or policies. Moreover they are not recognized by the International body. vished and then deliberately mur dered two white women at a dairy farm on the southwestern out skirts of Jackson. “®ov. Johnson, it is stated, is a very sick man, unaoie to attend the duties of his office, and it is sincerely to be hoped that if Miss issippi is destined to have an in dustrial upheaval or any sort ■ f trouble with the race question it will not develop until he has been restored to health or is out of of fice and the reins of state govern ment are in the hands of a strong and capable man like Mike Conn , er.” I i Dr, Hawkins Urges Everyone To Come To Mass Meeting On Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p_ m. the NAACP. headed by Dr. A. L. Hawkins, its President wiU hold a Big Mass Meeting at the Zion Baptist Church. 22nd and Grant Streets. All members and friends and the entire community is urged to attend. Matters of the greatest importance are to be dis cussed. A letter sent to Governor John son's office from a leading indust rialist in Grenada, who asked that his name not be publicly revealed, has attracted wide attention throu ghout the state. The letter says: “Unless something can be done about it, in my humble opinion, we are headed for serious racial trou bles in Mississippi. ‘To begn with, the foundation has been laid for this trouble by, “1. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. “2. New Deal Communists and Socialists. “3. Labor unions program _ of ! social equality, especially the CIO. 1 “4. High wages being paid by • government agencies and contrac tors with government contracts, ; APPOINTED LABOR INSPECTOR State Dept, of Labor i m ATTY. RAY L. WILLIAMS Gov. Griswold Gives Legion Executive Officer Position Attorney Ray Lawrence Williams whose office is located in Tuehman Bldg., 24th and Lake 3t„ was ap pointed by Governor Griswold as Inspector, Department of Labor, State of Nebraska. Williams’ duties will be the in spection of Employment Regulat ions. Child Labor. Health and Safe ty Regulations, Building Construc tion and violations of Safety Codes. Matters pertaining to wage disput es will also be handled by Williams. The Governor is to be commend ed on this appointment of this fine, hard working, civic minded citizen, who is an active member of Roosevelt Post No. 30, American Legion in which he is an executive •fficer. outbidding local business, etc. ‘‘In Grenada ,we have Negroes walking the streets .who will work a few days per week to ge enough to live on the balance of the week. Men have women working at de fense jobs who keep them Up, and women have men working at de fense jobs, keeping thm, and con sequently none are interested in work. "There is hardly an industry working Negro labor in Grenada that is able to tin more than five days per week, due to the fact that they have enough money to live on. and are not interested in working more than enough to sus tain them. They are not interest ed in the war effort, or anything else, except the three things that interest a Negro most: th*e things yon are a war of. “The industrial jpiants of Gren ada have appealed to our City au thorities and the city attorney tells us that in his opinion, the city and state vagrancy laws will not stand up in courts. “The matter will become worse, and we have had several rumors from the Negroes .that they are (continued on page?^°21 Lena Horne, Bill Robinson in “Stormy Weather ” at Paramount Theatre NOW! One of the grandest shows of the season, packed with stars and rhythm, is “Stormy Weather", the gay new 20th Century-Fox musical slated for a week at the Paramount Theatre starting Thursday, July 22. It's the story of swing, and features Lena Horne, Bill Robin son and Cab Calloway and his band Here the artist has captured the spirit of the carefree film, which is said to present a world of grand entertainment. I