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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
POST NO. 30
AMERICAN LEGION
Baptist Reelect Jemison
Chicago. Illinois—With thunderous
approval. Xir D. V. Jemison was
unanimously re-elected President
of the Naronal Baptist Convention
L’SA». Inc, Thursday. September
9th, at the parley's headquarters
in historic Sth Regiment Annory
her-1. Amid thousands of cheers,
yells and screaming, the Selma,
Alabama pastor and religious lead
er was heard to mumble in low
tones. "Praise the Lord. I thank
you." Opposition, if there were
any. was drowned by the continued
rounds of plaudits. The meeting
the First Church of Race foundi
ng arked the 170th Anniversary of
fng. The 6,000 delegates or more
who attended expressed satisfact
ion to the Rev. J. H. Horace, gen
eral chairman of the entertainment
committee for the comfortable
housing and pleasant programs.
Dr Jem iron is shown in the above
photograph with four members of
his executive staff. The photo
graph v-rts made immediately after
his reelection. Left to right are
Dr. E. W .Perry, 1st Regional Vice
President, President of Oklahoma
Baptist Convention. Oklahoma Orty
Okla.: Dr. J. M. Xabritt. Secretary
National Baptist Convention Nash
ville. Tenn., Dr. D. V. Jem is >n.
President National Baptist Conven
tion. Inc.: Dr. A- M. Tcwsend. See
r tary Sunday School Publishing
Board, National Baptist Convention
Inc., and Dr. A. L. Boone. 1st "> ice
President at large. National B&pt.tt
Convention Inc,. Cleveland. Ohio.
(Press Photo Service).
LEADER HITS CONDITION
IN CHURCH OF TODAY
(by GEORGE COLEMAN MOORE)
Chicago. Sept. 14 (AXP) In a pre
cedent shattering procedure the
63rd Annual National Baptist Con
vention. Inc., departed from ann
ounced scheduia and unanimously
reelected Dr. L. V. Jemison. pastor j
of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, j
Selma. Ala., president. The action |
took place in the main auditorium t
of the 3th regiment armory here j
during Thursday's mid morning as I
the high church officer mounted j
the platform to deliver his annual
address
The motion for Dl. Jemison’s re
election was placed by the Rev. C.
A. J. Maliory, pastor of Bethlehem
Baptist Mount Zion church. Glen
coe. Ala. and was seconded by the
Rev. Wendell Ross, pastor of Pleas
ant Hill Baptist Church. Los Ang
eles. More than 10,000 delegates
an dvisitors shouted and whistled
their approval and frequently in
terrupted the president's annual
message with applause and cheers.
The election marks the thud
time Dr. Jemison has been selected
forthis high office and the beginn
ing of his fourth year of tenure.
He was first elected at the special
board meeting in 1940 to fill the
unexpired term of the late Dr. L.
K. Williams of Chicago and has !
been reelected ever since. The I
Baptist convention representing 1
22.000 churches, from 48 states,
with 4 000,000 communicants is the
largest religious convention in the
world.
Dr. T. S. Harten. regional vice
president and pastor of Trinity
Baptist church. Brooklyn, as pres
'ing officer introduced Dr. Jami
son who declared that conditions
in the pcesent day church were de
plorable and that the only corre-v
tional measure for churchmen to
pursue was a reaffirmation of faith
(Continued on page 6)
Commander
J. C. Carey Voices
Words of Welcome
COMMANDER J. C. CARF*
Wc, the members and
officers o f Theodore
Roosevelt Post No. 30^ ex
tend a hearty and sincere
welcome to each delegate
and visitor attending the
Convention here in our fair city of
Omaha. We desire above all else
that nothing but goodwill and com
radeship will be your lot while
here. And because of It each of
you will forever cherish in your
hearts memories of the piee-ant
time you had while in Ontat!a at- I
tending the American Legion .Na
tional Convention in Omaha, the
twenty-first, twenty-second and
twenty-third of September in the
year of nineteen hundred and forty
three.
DIRECTOR COLORED
ACTIVITIES
National Convention,
INC.
Atty Ray L. Williams
Program
SEPT. 20—Pre-Conventio* Regis
tration of Members of Roosevelt
Post No. 30. Legion Club Rooms—
Open House.
SEPT. 21—Registration of Guests
and Assignment to Rooms.
Afternoon: Open House Roose
velt Post No. 30, Lounge Confer
ences.
Evening: Reception for Delegates
and Guest. Roosevelt Poet Lounge.
Public invited 9 pm. until?
SEPT. 22—Registration of Delegat
es and guests. Assignment to rooms
Afternoon: Open House, Roosevelt
Lounge Conferences.
Evening: Grand Legion Ball at
Dreamland Hall 9 pm. until?
After party Roosevelt Post No.
30, Lounge; Public invited.
SEPT 23—Conferences on Post-war
Activities of Legion Posts 9 a.m. to
12N. Afternoon: Open House at
Roosevelt Post Lounge. Evenutg
Farewell Smoker and party at tne
Roosevelt ost No. 30 Lounge.
Ray L. Williams, Director Color
ed Activities National Convention
Committee. Inc.
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Let’s Make
a Recor d
BUY WAR BON'D A STAMPS
BOOTHS READY ALL UP AND
DOWN 24th STREET
Some weeks ago Miss Nell Hun
ter. colored, was sent out of the j
Treasury Department’s Office in •
Washington. D. C. to organize the ,
Colored women together to sell inci ■
buy war stamps and bonds. The I
government knows that the Color
ed people as a whole are purchas
ing bonds and stamps in large a
niounts. But there is no record of
it. In order to give credit o *.ae
Colored people of Nebraska, we
are urging every man. woman and
child to buy stamps during this
drive which started Thursday,
Sept. 9th. There •will be stamp
booths all up and down 24th St.,
make an effort to stop in one and
purchase a stamp or more. The j
drive ends Sept. 3dth. Let us
make a record.
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500,000,000 Negroes in War Savings |Bond
Clubs, Goal of Inter-Racial Treasury Unit
Enlistment of at least 5.000.000m
Negroes in War Bond Savings
Clubs is the goal toward which the
Interracial Unit of the Treasury
War Finance Division is aiming
in the *15,000.000.000 Third War
Doan, the Treasury Department
■aid today.
The inter-Racial Unit, with Wil
lard W. Allen, Baltimore Business
leader, handling this phase of act
ivities, is at work on a program for
the organization of the clubs, with
100 members each, in Negro com
munities throughout the country.
The plan is for each club to make
regular monthly purchases of at
least one **5 War Bond.
Mr. Allen reported wide interest
in the plan has already been re
ivealed by letters of inquiry and
comment coming to his office from
all over the country. Several na
tionally-organized Xegro groups
...
have already gone on record in fa
vor of the plan and have announc
ed the adoption of it by their or
ganizations. The National Negrc
! r mess league. t*»“ Bishops’
Council cf the AME Churc.i. and
the National Negro Insurance .4 s
(Ccmtinue*! jn page 3)
^ar Teariio..
n“y
Newman. Ga.. Sept. 14 (ANP) —
White southerners under the exig
encies of war are learning more
clearly than ever before how much
they depend on colored folks to do
all the dirty, back-breaking work,
while they have relaxed under a
shade tree sipping mint juleps.
This was brought home forcibly
Wednesday when a call was sent
out by Coweta county farmers beg
ging city folks to rush to the fields
in an effort to save the bumper
crop of cotton. Though all the
stores were closed to permit work
ers to go to tb- fields, less than
of the white city folk showed tip
Booker T. Barber, one of two re
maining Negro field hands on ‘he
400 acre farm of John Me riweath
er near Newman, skeptically watch
ing some 20 city white folk attempt
ing to pick cotton, shook his head
and commented:
"White folks ain't gonna pick nc
cotton. They ain't used to doing
anything that makes their back
hurt. Truth is. I reckon it hurts
their feelings more than it does
their backs."
Cotton labor is not to found for
love or money in Coweta county.
The traditional plentiful supply cf
-Vegro seasonal workers has disap
peared, either to the army or to
urban centers where concerns with
war contracts are begging for work
I ers and forgetting to stipulate
what color. Meanwhile 249 farm
fields lie burgeoning with ripc
Stoneville 2-B cotton.
‘‘If we have a big rain," moaned
County Agent W. R. O'Dell, "our
farmers are sunk.”
WORLD FAMOUS NEGRO AVIATRIX
TO DE POST No. 30’s HONOR GUEST
Noted Woman
To Speak
At St.John’s
Lieut. Willa B. Brown, -disAng
Uished lady flyer will arrive in
Omaha. Nebraska .September 21st
is Honored Guest of Roosevelt
Post No. 30 for the National Con
vention.
Lieut. Brown has been respons
ible. more than any other one in
dividual, for the popularization of
aviation among the Negro masses.
As a result of her successful fight
for the inclusion of Negroes in the
Civilian Pilot Training Program,
eight colleges and two private fly
ing schools are today training hun
dreds of Negroes to fly at Govern
ment expense.
Because of the successful out
come of the experiment which she
conducted at the request of the
United States Army Air Corps, and
the Civil Aeronautics Administrat
ion the 99th Pursuit Squadron was
established in 1941.
She is still campaigning for the
complete integration of Negroes
into the U. S. Army Air Corps
without regards to race.
Lieut. Willa B. Brown is the
only Negro woman presently mak
ing a career of Aviation and as
director of the Coffey School of
Aeronautics is one of the Negro
Race’s outstanding business wmoea
administering federal contracts
valued at from $60,000 to $100,000
annually, thereby giving employ
ment in a new avenue of endeavor
to approximately thirty perse ns
who are skilled in aviation occupa
tions.
Lieut Brown holds a Master
Mechanic's Certificate, Private
Pilot’s Certificate, Limited Comm
ercial Pilot's Certificate, CAA
Sround School Instructor’s Rating
1940.
Lieut. Brown will speak at a
Public Meeting at St John AMR.
Church, Sept. 22. at 8:30 p. m.
Program sponsored by the Na
tional Convention Activities Com
mittee.
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THE PROGRAM
.Presentation of—
WILLA B. BROWN, WORLD
famous negro aviatrix,
and DISTINGUISHED GUEST
TO NATIONAL AMERICAN
LEGON CONVENTION.
At St John’s AME. Church
22nd and Willis Avenue
Wed.. Sept. 22, at 8:00 p. in.
Sponsored by Roosevelt Post
No. 30, American Legion
1 Invocation: by Post Chaplain
2. God Bless America: Congre
gati«n.
3. Introductory Remarks: Atty.
Ray L. Williams. Director of
National Convention Comm
ittee, Inc.
4. Solo: Com. H. L. Preston.
5. J. C. Carey, Commander Post
No. 30, Master of Ceremonies.
6. Music: Alestera A. Carey.
7. Introduction of Distinguished
Guest: Past Commander, Dr.
W. W. Peebles.
8. Solo: Mrs. Irene Cochran
Morton.
9. America.
10. Benediction: Rev. E. F.
Ridley, Pastor St. John .VUE.
Church.
National Convention Activities
Committee.
COSGRAVE TO
ADDRESS RAIL
ROAD EMPLOYEES
A meeting will be held at the
Swedish Auditorium, Sunday at
2:30 P. M. September 19th, 193.
Mr. James L. Cosgrove. Presid
ent of Railroad Employee's Nation
al Pension Assn. Incorporated*
Chicago, will address the group._
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LIEI*T. WILLA B. BROWN
_ _ .
Rev. L. A. Story
Closes 5Yr*s. Service
at Cleaves Temple
GOL. DAVIS
TO FORM
ALL-N E W
SQUADRON
Selfridge Field, Michigan— LL
Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the 30
year old Air hero, who recently led
into action in the Mediterranean
the first Race Unit in the Air
i force to seek combat. The 90 th
Fighter Squadron is back in Am
erica to prepare a larger unit for
battle. Lt, Col. Davis has been as
signed to the 332nd Fighter group
now stationed here. Davis and
several other members of the ori- :
ginal 99th squadron recently re
ceived the Air Medal with OAK
| LEAF CLUSTER. Davis relin- !
Iquished his command of the Squad
ron on September 2.
GOV. DEWEY’S LAST HIM TE
COMMUTATION CHANGES
DEATH SENTENCE OF THREE
TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Ossing, X. T. Sept. 14 (ASP)—A
last minute commutation to life
| imprisonment last week by Gov.
'Thomas E. Dewey, saved three
jyouths from death in the electric
chair. The men who were origin
ally scheduled to die at 11 o'clock
Thursday, were convicted of the
fatal stabbing of Stanley Kolburz,
white. 19 year old Holyoke, Mass.,
war worker, in July, 1942. They
aro William Brown, 17; Samuel 11a
dure, 20; and Frank Holmes, 22.
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THE OMAHA GUIDE IS TOUR
PAPER— READ IT WEEKLY.
I Sunday will bring to a close ftvj
years of service for Rev. L_ A.
Story at Cleaves Temple CME,
Church. The Storys came to Om
aha in 1938. at which time Cleaves
was struggling under a bonded
debt. In 1940 the mortgage was
burned and Cleaves was freed of
debt. Since that time several
hundred dollars have been spent
for renovation, rugs and a new
furnace, all of which have been
paid for in full. In these accom
plishments. Rev. Story was aided
by his splendid wife and a fine
group of officers, members and
friends. His farewell sermon will
be Sunday at 11 a m. to which all
members and friend.- are urged io
attend. The church is sponsoring
an “Appreciation Day” for Rev
and Mrs. Story as this is their last
Sunday at Cleaves. They will
leave for their conference at Col
umbia, Mo., Monday afternoon.
The service Sunday night wilt be
furnished by the Senior Choir and
remarks by the pastor. All mem
bers and friends are requeued to
ke present and witness the cervic
es all day. Rev. Reynolds and
members of Clair Chapel have
promised to be present at ttoe ev
ening services
1 3 RATION BOOKS \
\ WHEN TO*' SHOP • j
Book I for sugar
Book R for processed foods
(blue stamps)
Book HI (after Sept. 12) for
meats, fats and oik. and
ether foods previously
rationed by red stamps
in Book li
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