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Eu;ed^Phle^wl.KebnAm Saturday, July 31, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR-No. 25 City Edition, 5c Copy
| Pictorially Speaking |
Sach is Bigamist says wife
Pictured above shows Satchel Paige, noted baseball star and his
alleged wife, Lucy, to whom his wife, Mrs. ajr.er.te Howard Paige
Claims he married in 1939. The photograph was made at a Kansas City j
Monarch game in “K-C." inl941. Judge Prystaleki continued the case
to August 2nd. The Mrs. Paige No. 1, who resides at 4106 South Park
Avenue. Chicago, summoned “sach” to Judge John Prystalski Circuit
Court last week to answer a divorce petition. In her bill complaint
Mns. aPige. (No. 1> accuses the ball player of a bigamist marriage to
wife No. 2. Many other charges were related by her referring to photo
graphs and love nest of Paige and his alleged wife No. 2, in Kansas
City, claiming that the American No. 1 pitcher earned more than $4".
OO’i Annually and owns a $25,000 apartment in Kansas City which hous
es a 130.000*ort collection. Mrs. Paige asks $400.00 alimony and a law
yer's fee. (Press Photo Service.)
Joe Tees off ...Loses
GOLFERS DEFEAT “CHAMP JOE"
CHICAGO, (Press Photo Service) Sgt. Joe Louis, in the role of
the golfer, was eliminated with seven other Negro players at the Tam 1
O'Shanter Country Club's All-American Amateur Golf Tournament last
Tuesday n Chicago. Louis played a threesome which included the six
teen year old son of the club’s president, and shot a 44 out and a 13 in
Monday for an ST. The champ shot a 41 out on Tuesday, claiming he
had a bad start when hisfir&t shot off the tee in front of the Clubhouse
was blown out of control by the wind. He finally dropped the ball in
the cup for a total cf 62 over par. His total was 85 for Tuesday and
a grand total of 172.
Enters Her Photo...
i AT HA KNOX. 204 W. Summit Street. Ann Arbor. Michi^in.
r.:.> entered the above photograph in the National Our Boys in Service
Ph to Contest. (Pres*^ Photo Release Service.)
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Fletcher, Seals, Given Grand Master’s Medals
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Give/i Awards for Loyalty and Outstanding
Accomplishments in Ways of Masonry
The Most Wos hipful Grand
Lodge of Nebraska and its Mason
ic Jurisdiction, Prince Hall Affil
iation closed its 25th Annual Ses
sion with the election of the tol
lowing officers: Grand Lodge Offic
ers for 1944—M. IV. G. Master, P.
H. Jenkins reelected: Rt. W. D. G.
M. Clayton Lewis of Lincoln. Ne
braska; R. W. S. W. G. W. P. L.
Adkins; R- W. J. G. W. Leon Bur
ton; R. W. G. Secy, Robert Harris,
reelected: R. W. G. Treas. J, W,
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Worth :
I: of Good Readin \
Dacus, reelected: R. W. G. Lectur- i
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er, C. C. Dudley; Relief Board R. :
C, Stewart and Jarrett T. Scott; j
Grand Tyler, Richard Turner; Ap- ^
pointed to G. Trustee Board, Dr. !
D. W. Gooden and A. R. Goodlett.
The Grand Lodge with very ini
pressive ceremonies, presented to
Past Masters Edward R. Fletcher,
and Walter Seals, A Past Grand
Master’s Medal. The Award of
these beautiful medals were given
for outstanding loyalty and accom
plishments in Masonry of the two
Grand Masters and their constant
and effectual enforcement of the
Tenets and laws of Masonry.
The 26th Grand Lodge Session
will be held in Omaha July 1944.
Maynard L. Wilson. Grand Lodge
Reporter.
Curfew Whistle May help Solve
City’s Incorrigible Youth Problem
EFFECTIVE AT 10 PM.
FOR CHILDREN I
With the new 10 pm. curfew law
becoming effective in Omaha Wed
nesday midnight for all children
under 16, Police Commissioner
Richard Jepsen announced Tues
day it will- be administered “so
persons on peaceful pursuits will I
not be molested or inconvenienced.
A whistle of the Union Pacific
shops will blow for one-half min
ute each night at 10 pm. to signal
the curfew.
I
“We intend to enforce the cur
few just as it reads.” Jepsen said.
“This means the only children who
will be picked up after curfew
hour are those loitering, disturb
ing the peace, illegally driving
automobiles or otherwise acting as
incorrigibles. Thus, we have a
way to deal with juvenile vandals
and incorrigibles—over whom pol
ice have had no authority hereto
fore.”
The new law provides that child
f ren violating the curfew shall be
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taken before their parents. If
parents accept responsibility for
them, then parents will be prose
cuted with fines up to one hund
red dollars. If parents admit in
ability to control children they will
be turned over to juvenile court as
incorrigibles.
First Warship Named for A Negro
The First United States warship named in honor of a Negro, the
Destroyer Escort HARMON, was launched Sunday, July 25, from the
Fore River yard of the Bethlehem Steel Company at Quincy, Maas. The
SS HARMON, a 300 foot vessel, was named for the late Leonard Roy
Harmcn. Mess Attendant, First Class, USX., who was awarded the Navy
Cross posthumously for “extrairdinary heroism’’ while aboard the USS
SAN FRANCISCO, during action against enemy Japanese forces in the
Battle of Guaducanal. November 12 and 13, 1942. Mrs. NaUnita Harmon
Carroll of Cureo, Texas, mother of the Negro hero, was sponsor for the
new vessel.
CIO Exec, to Speak at Sokol Auditorium
Dedicate New Ft. FFuachuca
Ball Field to Rube Foster
MRS. FOSTER ACKNOWLEDGE S THE HONOR BESTOWED UPO N HER LATE HUSBAND
WIDOW OF RUBE FOSTER
CHARMS FT. HUACHUCA
AUTHORITIES WITH HER
GRACIOUSNESS AND AP
PRECIATION
fby Thelma Thurston Gorham)
Fort Huaehuca, Arizona. .. .Sev
eral months ago when plans for
the construction of a new baseball
field on the New Cantonment area
at Fort Huaehuca were getting un
der way the question of a name for
the new field came up. After
much discussion and quite a bit of
research it was deeded to call it
the Rube Foster Field. Date for
the dedication of the field was set
for Sunday, July 18, 1943.
A few days before the dedication
date it was decided that the widow
of Rube Foster ought to be pres
ent at the dedication program. A
long-distance call was made from
Fort Huaehuca to Chicago to noti
fy Mrs. Foster of the proposed de
dication by the Post Commander
Colonel Edwin N. Hardy.
“And the beautiful part of it all”
Mrs. Foster declared the day after
the program, “was that 1 didn't
know a thing about it until the
Wednesday morning before at 11
O’clock.”
She admitted that about two
months ago she had receiv-i a
call from the Chicago Defender for
pictures and some biographical in
formation on her late husband.
“But you know, you always ex
pect that sort of thing around the
beginning of the baseball sea3on“
she said.
“I simply had no idea what it
would lead to," she ended, referr
ing to the impressive dedication
ceremony in which 15.000 Sold ers
and civilians paid tribute to her
husband’s prowess as a great base
ball pitcher and hs foresight and
faith as the organizer of the Nat
ional Negro Baseball League and
tiis courage in always demanding
clean playing and strict adherence
to the rules of the came, as man
ager of the Chicago Giants.
"Mv son. Earl, (familiar to hta
associates as ‘Rube ’) said he would
take care of the expenses of the
trip if I wanted to come out here
to Fort Huachuca," She went on,
explaining that although her hus
band had left her an apartment
building home at 41st and Michi
gan. Chicago, most of her money
during the last 16 years had been
used for the upkeep of the build
ing.
When Andrew Rube Foster d.ed
16 years ago afteor suffering a
nervous breakdown due to tne
strain of his work with the Giants
and the Negro Baseball league
which he had organized, his wid
ow had a son and sister in law to
"finish putting through school”.
Thus, she was all the more agree
ably surprised when Colonel Hardy
fCont-nued on pagf 33^*4)
Dr. Craig Morris will also
Speak Next Mon. Night
Leader Buried
Harry H. Pace. President of the
Supreme Liberty iLfe Insurance
Company and pioneer Negro busi
ness leader, died in Chicago, July
19th. He was 59 years old. Mr.
Pace was one of the founders of
the first Old Line Legal Reserve
Insurance Company. Mr. Pace
was a graduate of Atlanta Univer
sity and the Chicago School of law.
During his long and varied career,
he worked as lawyer, insurance
executive, author and banker. He
was also a composer, having helped
j W. C. Handy to write the St. Louis
: Blues. He helped many young
people to gain national recognition.
Among those who worked with kun
I at various times were Paul Robe
son, Walter White. Fletcher Hen
derson. Daniel Haynes and Ethel
Waters. Press Photo Service).
WHAT THREE THINGS DO
NEGROES NEED MOST?
Interrogating several outstand
ing figures of the theatrical and
business worlds. I asked Ed Bail
ey, long time president of the mod
el Musicians Local 767, what in
his opinion are the three things
the Negro needs most. Without
hesitation he coined this weighty
epigram: “The three things a Ne
gro needs most are the help of
God, the help of his government
and membership in the NAACP.’’
By way of further enlightenmeut
9 Mr. Michael J. Quill, Internation
al President of the Transport work
ers Union of America and Execut
ive Board Member of the National
CIO., will address a mass rally of
all CIO. members and friends of
organized laboft in the Omaha ar.d
Council Bluff.' area on Monday
night. August 2, 1943 at 8 pm in
the Sokol Auditorium. 13th and
Martha streets in Omaha.
Mr. Quill is well known through
out the country as a fluent speak
er and an authority on labor mat
ters. In his address he will deal
specifically with such problems of
national importance as the attitude 1
of Congress towards labor as evi- |
denCed by its actions while in ses
sion. labor’s place in the war ef
fort, strikes in war time, racial
discrimination and its effect on
the war effort and labor’s pro
gram for the future.
State Senator George I. Craven
from Lincoln, Nebraska, will also
address the meeting. Senator
Craven's fearless opposition in the
unicameral to any legislation that
would adversely effect the workers
and his championing of all legis
lation that would bring benefits to
the common people have won the
admiration of all liberals in the
state. As he is an expert on polit
ical matters his address is being
looked forward to with keen in
terest.
Dr. Craig Morris, well known
Negro civic and Community leader,
will also speak. Dr. Morris, who is
President of the Nebraska Negro
Medical Society and Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the'
Community Clearing Council, is
highly respected by all shades of
opinion and is a qualified and in
teresting speaker.
Time and circumstances permit
| ting. Mayor Dan B. Butler will be
i present. At least 1500 organized
workers and their friends are ex
pected to attend.
on his choices, he explained tnat
the first two may be secured by
persistent petitioning: the third
bj- paid for memberships into the
association. What is your opinio-i?
Write in or call in to your editor
after reading this!
' Many Children Sleep
in Cars While Dads,
and Mothers WTork
In Wrar P/a/its
Says Report
(Series of articles taken from
the report of the Care of
Children in Wartime Confer
ence Held at the University
of Chicago July 5-101
-.
It has been reported that in cer
tain metropolitan areas infants are
left in parked cars while their
mothers and fathers are at work in
war plants. Older children in many
cities sit in the movies, seeing the
same film over and over again un
til mother comes off the evening
hwing shift and picks them up.
Some children of working parents
are locked in their homes, others
are locked out.
Social minded people throng lout
the country are turning their at
tention to the plights of the child
ren who find it necessary to be a
way from home during the day or
night.
Let us first turn our thoughts
to the agencies and institu ons
who are lending a hand in this
preservation of posterity. In
many communities tile Federal
Government has made funds avail
able through the I^tnham Act, for
care of children ages of from 2 to
6 in day nurseries and from ages
6 to twelve in day camps. These
are generally called Child Care
Centers.
The Lar ham Funds are supple
mented by a fee from the individ
ual family and in some cases cy a
community fund. There ara Pine
of thOje Child Car- Centers located
in our own city of Omaha. Tn se
serving cur immediate ne'ghbor
hoods are the Howard Kennedy
Child Care Center, 30th and Bin
ney and the Lothrop Center at
24th and Lothrop. Others are lo
cated at Central Grade school.
School, West side. Central High.
School, Mason, Monroe and South
Lincoln Schools.
In many communities Foster
Homes for Children are solving
the problem of care for children
while mother is working in a war
plant. We have just this week
been reading about the need that
is arising in our own community
for such. Foster-Home Care will
be the subject of a later discourse,
.Consult" ion service for war
rangled brains of soldier brides
and widows, for mothers working
in war plants, for new coiners to
the community and for high school
youth at the crossroads of work jr
go to school and others who need
some one to share their problems
or assist in formulating a decision,
are being established in many com
munities.
We will be writing more about
what is being done to care for
these children in subsequent issu
es. Questions that are puzzling lo
mothers may be sent to Mrs. Rob
bie Turner Davis. Child Care Cen
ter, Howard Kennedy School.
NEED FOR OPEN IN G OF I INI
HOMES TO FOSTER CARE
OF CHILDREN
On behalf of five child care agen
cies, the Community Welfare Coun
cil is appealing to people of Omaha
and nearby communities to open
100 family homes for the tempori
ary foster care of children.
The participating agencies are:
Nebraska Children's Home Society,
Child Welfare Association, Catholic
Committee on Child Welfare, Doug
las County Assistance Bureau, and
the Juvenile Court.
Walter F. Cozad. president of
the Council, and Mrs. D. W. Camp
bell .chairman of its family and
child care division, in announcing
the 10 day campaign which closes
next Saturday. July 31 .emphasize
fhat wartime conditions have great
-ly increased the number of Omaha
children who need temporary, em
ergency help. These same war
time Conditions iuttve greatly dim
mished the number of boarding
homes available.
To help interested persons a
"Home Finding Bureau" has been
opened in Council headquarters, at
736 World Herald buliding, tele
phone JAckson 8232. Names will
be referred to the appropriate a
gency which will make further
contact.
Government Denies Plan for
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Super-Board on
Negro;
Washington. D C.—A spokes
man for Attorney General Franc s
Biddle denied here July 22 that
the government plans to Create a
••super-board” to handle all Xegrc
problems.
Information that such a board
would be created by Presidential
directive has been current here
for some time. An article in the
newspaper PM asserted that the
board would be composed of wmte
persons only, representatives of
(the FEPC. War Manpower Comm
ission. National Housing Agency.
Maritime Commission. Office of
War Information, Army. Nary and
the civil rights section of the de
partment of Justice.
Immediately protests were lodg
ed with officials, with the NAACF
j wiring President Roosevelt: “A
\ Negro bureau would merely diver
attention from and confuse the
[ government and the public with
reference to the basic fact that
only the several departments and
independent establishments, each
working within its respective fie:d
can effectively deal with particul
ar issues involving race relations
which are. and must continue to
be. their several responsibilities."
The XAACP branded the plan as
a •■catch-all" for Negro problems,
said it appeared to be devised by
a group of minor functionaries.
Sible Negro leadership and appar
ently with intention that Negroe.
be members of the board."
The spokesman for Mr. Biddl»,
in denying the scheme, said no
bureau would be created, but an
“informal” committee would meet,
“primarily for consultative pur
poses and for th£ Correlation of
information.” on the race prob
lem. He said Negroes would be
on the informal Committee which
would be without authority, and
would not in any sense be a board
empowered to act.
The whole matter had been “mis
construed by protsting organiza
tions. he asserted.
Nevertheless .reports persist
that a directive has been prepared
creating the new board and that it
now lies on Mr. Roosevelt's d-*sk
awaiting his signature. Oppon
ents of the plan assert they are
puzzled as to the necessity for a
Presidential directive for an “in- -
formal’’ committee without auth
ority.
Walter White. NAACP executive
issued a statement from the Wash
ington office of th^ association, de
claring that the NAACP “is not as
yet satisfied” with the arrange
mem and ‘still believes that the ef
feet of even this Committee may
be to relieve individual government
departments of their responsibil
ity for dealing with Negroes as
citizens having business with those
departments/’
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