The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, September 18, 1943, City Edition, Image 1
“Welcome’7 Delegates and Visitors LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST GF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PKEc Entered u Second-Class Matter at The Post Office, Omaha, Nebraska Saturday, Sept 18, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR—No. 32 City Edition lOc Copy Under Act of March 8, 18 <4—Business Phone: WE. 1517 _J r_\.. .— ~— =.rr-=rr=: L"- =-•" ' -- - ■■ - — ■' " —■ ■' .— .. | 10c f ! Worth| | of GoodReadin9 j SPECIAL 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. — 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. --■ __ 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. ***** 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._ ■——— 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. Hiiiiitmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiii 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 I