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t_5c worth" LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY Entered as Second-Class Matter at The Post Office, Omaha, Nebraska CIT’V EDITION under Act of March s. J87+— Business phone ha-0800 Saturday, November 13, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR—No. 40 —FIVE CENTS COPY— VIVACIOUS- VERY VOOM-VOOM! 5 Strictly voom-voom (having puli-lenty oomph) that’s Judy Carol, the new singing star with Lucky Millinder's Orchestra. Miss Carol—that last name is spelled with one “r" and one “1”, If you please— Is a product of Los Angeles, California Our readers nominate her as the Pin-Up Girl for 1943 or the Army. Navy. Marines and Air Force. The Mlllinder band really is “in there” and “solid” with dance lovers now Interviewed by an IPS re porter Miss Carol hinted that for the present her career comes first. And why not give the nation a good look-see. Miss Vivacious? COMMISSIONED ?NT> I.T. H. W. JOHNSON. .IK Tuskegee ArmvAir Field, Second Lieutenant Horace W. lohnson ir.,son of Rev. and Mrs. B. H. Moore of 2801 Hamilton, Omaha. Nebraska, was recently assigned to the Tuskegee Army Air Field where he will take up Liason Pilot Training. He was com missioned from the Field Art iller\ Officers' Candidate School. Fort Sill. Okla., on Nov ember 1° 1942. Lt. lohnson attended the niversitv North Dakota from 1935 to 1939. WHITE PEOPLE BUY OUT PROPERTY TO PREVENT ESTABLISHING OF NEGRO RESORT Mr. Frank Peeples of Minneap ol s. Minn., is the brother of Mr. A. F. Peoples, 3011 Pinkney St., and of Mr. Larry Peoples. 243:1 Caldwell st.. both well known Omaha Decorating Contractois. The battle of Long Lake in Minn., ended last week, when wealthy neighbors purchased the Frank Peoples’ resort site, at what is estimated as an ap proximately $6,000 profit for the man who had hoped to es tablish a colored resort in the heart of the well-to-do farm I section in Minn. It is a crazily twisted story [of a white man’s friendship, a colored man’s desire to crash the barriers of segregation and the stern rebuff of those who backed by wealth and power could work their will. John Parrish, white, was a bailiff. He was a good friend of the late John Allison. He had also become friendly with attorney Harry Scott, Art Stew art, and Talmage Cary. Par rish purchased a small farm on Lone Lake. Years later, the neighborhood developed into a colony of gentlemen farm —.... ~ ~~== lers. Meanwhile Parrish had I died. Well-to-do neighbors snubbed the widow, and as a result she had led a rather lonely existence. Years later she had apparently remember ed her husband's statements, i that his colored friends had ! been his best ones,— had 1 stuck to him. When Mrs. Parrish decided to move from the location, she ; said that she was o-oing to re member the people who had i befriended her husband, so she | sold the property at a surpris I ingly low figure with a re quest that some arrangements be made that all colored peo ple might enjoy it. Frank Peoples, well known contractor and real estate deal- ! er, purchased the property. Plan to Subdivide Fails He attempted a subdivision of the property, in order to sell lots to colored persons who were looking for summer hom es on a lake near the citv. This plan was not very sue cessful. for faced with prospect of a group of colored neigh bors. residents phenagled a court action to attempt to cloud People’s right to the property at all. The fight was carried to the State Supreme Court. There (Continued on page tSF” 2) BOND RALLY NETS $15,000 AT MASONIC CONVENTION A War Bond rally which netted 815.000 highlighted the 19th Tri ennial Session of the United Su preme Council of Ancient and Ac cepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction held in Washington. D. C.. October 17-19. James L. Houghteling. National Or ganizations Division of the Treasury Department. was the principal speaker. Mr. Houghteling is shown standing between Willard W. Allen. Sovereign Grand Commander, and Dr. William J. Tompkins. Recorder of Deeds (in center of photo) Among others in the photo are Dr. J. E. W alker, National Negro Busi ness League: J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler of the Inde pendent Benevolent Protective Or der of Elks of the World: Dr. 1 Sumner A. Furaiss. Sovereign Grand Commander. Northern Jurisdiction; Dr. Conwell Banton, Secretary-Gen eral. Northern Jurisdiction; Dr. Charles Wesley, President of Wil berforce University: Bishop M. H. Davis, of the A. M. E. Church; Con gressman William L. Dawson, of .Illinois; James T. Reason, Secretary General, Southern Jurisdiction: and William Pickens, of the Treasury’* War Bond sales staff; Dr. George Singleton, of Philadelphia; Mr. William Carter, of New York; Mr. J. E. Dickson, of South Carolina; I Cicero A. Lee. of Washington. D. C.; John L. Webb, of Mississippi; John W. Dobbs, of Atlanta, Ga.; T. L. Brewster, of Tennessee; Allen C. I Griffin, of District of Columbia; E. T. Belsaw, of Mobile, Ala.; and Charles D. Freeman, of Washing Yon. D. C. DELIVERS IMPRESSIVE FIRST SERMON REV. T. J. DOUGLAS NEW PASTOR OF CLEAVES TEMPLE Displaying unusual oratorical „ bility and in a voice perfectly a clapted to his forceful, but not bombastic style of delivery,, Rev erend T. J. Douglas delivered a timely and impressive sermon to the m-mbers of Cleaves Temple CME. Church, Sunday morning, November 7th, in his initial ap pearance as their pastor. And it is regrettable that the inclement weather prevented there not being more present to hear him. Reverend Douglas taught school for ten years pr.or to entering the ministry 32 years ago In his 32 years, he has served some of tha most outstanding churches in Ten nessee and South Carolina. Those in Tennessee are: Saint Paul's Jackson, Collin's Chapel, Memphis, Greenwood’s. Memphis and Wi mack Temple, Dyers burg, Tennes see. In South Carolina, tiie His toric Sidney Park, Columbia and Israel Chapel, Greenville, For e leven years he served as Presiding Elder. He came to this city from Cap er’s Chapel in Nash-iHc, Tennes see. where he pastored for four years, 1940, 43. It is the oldest Church in the CME Connection, having been founded one hundred and eleven years ago by Bishop Capers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Reverend T. J. Douglas was born in Fayette County, Somerville, Tennessee, Decern t* r 19, 1883. He received hie training in the public schools of Fayette County and Lane College in Jackson, Tenn. He holds to degrees from Lane College, A. B. and D.D. He marr ied Miss Nettie Ellington of Dyer, Tennessee and is the father of five thildrec by this union. NEW, SIMPLIFIED ONE SHEET DEPENDENCY CERTIFICATE HELPS SPEED SOLDIER S FAMILY ALLOWANCES A MI ST READ FOR SOLDIER’S DEPENDENTS A new. simplified one sh- te de pendency certificate will help speed the conversion of soldiers’ family allowances as authorized by an a mendment to the Servicemen's De pendents Allowance Act of 1942. Use of the new certfiicate (\VD AGO Form 620) was announced by Brig. Gen. H, N. Gilbert, USA, Di rector of the War Department Of fice of Dependency Benefits, an ac tivity of the Army Service Forces. The form is used to establish the eligibility of soldiers’ dependents in Class B and Class B-l. These iprimarily parents and minor bro there and sisters) may receive a' iowances only if they can prove noth relationship and dependency. “All such dependents now g it .ng family allowances are b.ing sent copies of this form to be fid el out and witn-ssed.’’ General Gil bert said. “II:' form requests la formation needed ;-i order io co vert our accounts to the new rates provied by the amended a-t. It is required by the DB in addition to any dependency affidavits which may already have been submitted. "Dependents should fill out and return these forms as soon as prac ioable to the ODB, m order to a void a possible discontinuance of their family allowances,' the ODB Director explained. “These certi ficates will be regarded by the. OD B as evidence of dependency. They will also provide the necessary.- in formation for authorization of in creases to which any such depend ents may be entitled under th» law as amended. A parent, for ex tern tinued on pa?*t5®“2) Brown Asks Ouster ot White (Special to Press Photo Service) Some months ago you dismissed from all further connection with the NAACP., Dean William Pickens, after some 20 odd years of service with the Association, even though he was on leave of ab sence at the time, selling war bonds for the U. S. Treasury in Washington. The circum stances closed the door of any appeal from his public and personal indorsement of the se gregated Air Corps training center of the U. S. army at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Dean Pickens was denounced for this act of here sy and held up to the entire Race, in the same category of a traitor to his country. In view of this forthright, prompt and emphatic repudiation of a former faithful employe, it ap pears all the more imperative that the NAACP. board must extricate itself from the un tenable, reprehensible and compromising dilemma, in which position it now finds it self, as a result of the tele gram sent by Walter White to Senator William Langer. (Rep.) North Dakota, sponsor of the anti-discrimination a mendment of the $300,000,000 federal aid to public education bill. He urged Senator Lan ger, during the course of the I debate on the U. S. Senate | floor, to withdraw this equal I rights proposal and let the Southern Senators and south ern state educational directors continue spending the federal funds as they do the present state funds, namely, S5 for the education of a colored child in Alabama and $35 for a white "hild. Senator Hill (Dem.) Alabama, chief sponsor of the bill so advocated and immed atelv voted to kill the whole I 'egislation, when the Langer anti- discriminattion amend ment was voted in by the Sen ne. 4u to 6i. univ wauer White’s speedy and dishonor able dismissal by the NAACP. board is my judgement and whatever other amends are vet possible can wipe out this mor ‘ifving blow dealt bv him in fhe telegram read before the Senate to kill the just and per sistent fight of 13,000.000 pa triotic and loval colored Am ericans for their constitutional rights and equal education op portunities at home, with a million of their sons giving their last full measure of de votion, abroad for democracy. All +his Uncle Tom and ap peasement business, presents a sorry spectacle right at the height of the Race’s all out militanT mobilization program to stop |im Crow and to speed up the demands for justice, NOW, as Dr. Mordecai lohn son. president of Howard Uni versity. so eloquently and cour ageouslv declared before the National Baptist Convention in Chicago. It takes on the pro portions of a major scandal, wen coupled with the story go ing the rounds of Washington alleging that Walter White is interested only in making his peace at any costs with the Southern Senators and Demo cratic administration leaders, headed by iimmie Bvrnes of South Carolina, the No. 1 ad visor of the President, * with offices in the White House. It is said to be the only wav he could get the clearance from the War Department to visit the battle fronts around the globe in an Army bomber, just like Mrs. Roosevelt, Bishop Gregg and the late Dr. Moten, in World War I. Has the N AACP board approved of Wal ter White capitalizing on the organization’s 33 year fight for full constitutional rights to become a special writer for a national publication, which up to this time has been on the fence. Are they going to countenance this subversive ef fort to sell out the cause and cocver up bv showing pictures of colored soldiers, who are de -nied almost entirely combat I service as everyone knows, without Mr. White going on a paid out of colored people’s | money, contributed to the NA ! ACP and as reported in the i rumored story to be paid a o-ain on return bv the bio mag azine for the scoop. What is this? Mr. White can read the colored newspapers each week and learn what the job is a head as far as colored soldiers sailors, nurses and WAVES be -ing barred by the Army and (Continued on pajte 3) 24 Hr. Police Cordon Guards Home of Detroit Mich. Negro !’iiiimiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit{ To Honor Handy HANDY MEN: The Vagabonds, Negro novelty quartet, will be featured guests during an observance of the birthday of W. C. Handy, father of the “blues.” during Roy Shield and Company, Tuesday. November 16. at 11:05 p. m. CWT. All musical numbers on the broadcast will be compositions of Handy. W. C. HANDY TO BE HONORED IN NBC MUSICAL SALUTE (by Harold Jovien) Chicago, Nov. 8 (ANP) On the occasion of his 70th birth day aniiversary, special trib ute will be paid W. C. Handy, composer of “St. Louis Blues’’ and many other famous blues, when an all-Handy repertoire with dramatice highlights of his life will be presented on the second half of the Roy Shield and Company radio show ov»r th* National Broadcasting Company network Tuesday, November 1C form 11:30 to 11:53 pm. CWT. With the belief that Handy's great music can best be interpreted by members of his own race, the Vag abonds, well known Negro song and instrumental quartet will make a guest appearance on the program to do uuj ^>t the tunes which made the composer famous, “Beale Street Blues,” The Handy compositions will be woven into a dramatic script, telling how the tunes were written, by . Nelson Olmsted. NBC story teller. Dr. Shield, music director for the I NBC Central Division. lauded Handy for his contributions to mu sical Americans in a pre-broadcast statement. “Beyond doubt. Handy is the greatest composer of blues I the world has ever known,” the | musical director declared. "We feel that by dedicating this program to the father of the blues on his birthday, we will, in some small measure, be giving him ad ditional recognition which he so justly deserves. Not only is Handy a credit to his race but all Americ ans have cause to be grateful to him. His music will live because it is part of America’s folk music” Dr. Shield said. Handy, in turn, many times has expressed his debt to radio. He once declared that if by no other medium, his works will live be cause of radio. In addition to "St. Lou.s Blu~s." the emoposer has scored many other all-time hits. In 1909, at trie peak of a hot political campaign, the tunesmith sat down anil wrote a piece he called "Mr. Grump." Few know the selection by that name, but countless thousands have hummed the plaintive strains of that same melody, under the title, •if "Memphis Blues." Of almost equal fame is Handy’s "Beale St. Blues" and on another occasion lie wrote that song masterpiece, ’I.ov< less Love.” Handy was born in Florence, Al abama, on November 1C. 1«7:!. Few educational opportunities were i vallable but he did attend several terms at the district school of his home town. His own insatiable curiosity carried on where his for mal schooling left off. In later years, when he wasn't pursuing his many interests allied with *1 e musical world, he read widely on other subjects. | Pioneer ; Omaha Woman Dies Mrs. Margaret M. Bryant of 2.873 1 I Wirt St., died at a local hospital Friday eve., Nov. 5 at 5:30. Mrs. Bryant has lived in Omaha s.nce 1800 coming here from Denver, Colo., which was her home. Airs. Bryant was an active fember of St. Benedict Catholic church. The funeral was at St. Benedict Tues day, Nov. 9 at 9:30 am. She was survived by her husband l^r. Geo. W. Bryant, noted band leader and musician. Father Joseph Moylan officiated with burial at Holy Sepulchre ^cemetery. _ THE WHY OK IT BY JULIUS E. HILL (In reply to a reader’s questioa as to why he didn’t nave a poem in hist week’s edition of The Omaha Guide)— My friend you shouldn’t bawl me out because within thes? pages. You didn't find a poem by me;— I don’t live among the sages. ' I mean by that: there oft arc times My feeble mind gi ows worse. Then I can’t think of anything To say to folks in verse. I'm quite amazed, friend, at vour ire. Because in one edition I had no poem. Most folks I know were Very happy over this ommission' What I call verse they say is not. They class it worse than hash While others more vehemently. Speak of it as trash. The stuff I write they just can -. stand,:— In no way do they love it. That's why they have quit read ing it; They feel themselves above it! But ’would be’ poetry I’ll stiii write— And if you care to seek. Through these pag-s. you will find A poem by me this week: NOTICE—HOLLYWOOD WANTS 1,000 WOMEN TO TRY MME. LAWSON’S NEW DISCOVERY •UV.'ay Pair and Scalp Rejuven itor. SEE ADVERTISEMENT ON I PAGE (3) THREE. „ AGAINST HOSTILE WHITES DETROIT, Nov. 8 (ANP) In the wake of the bitterest political campaign in the city’s history that saw the area flooded with racial propagan da of a highly inciting nature, the old bugaboo of mixed housing broke out anew. The -“incident” centers around a I house occupied by a Negro family just one mile from the scene of the Sojourner Truth housing project riots of last February, 1942. Charley Reynolds, a public school teacher, his wife, an .OP A employe, and their 6 year old son face court action insti gated by hostil whites seeking their eviction because of an alleged clause in the deed pro hibiting anyone of the “Afric an race” from occupying the premises. A 24-hour police cordon has been thrown ar ound the two story brick struc ture to protect the Negro oc cupants. Reynolds, quiet, cultured, graduate of Lincoln and Col umbia universities, purchased the building recently and mov ed in. The upstairs apart ment is rented by Clemus Pap arelli, 27, white, who works as a lathe-hand for the Chrysler Motor Co., and is a member of the UAW-CTO: The night the Reynolds family moved in a committee of neighborhood whites called upon him and de manded that he move. Rey nolds refused and announced he would resist all efforts to dislodge him. Police arrested the ring leader and he was fined S25 in court as a result A huge masi meeting of irate tenants and property owners was called last week and |esse Drake, an attorney, told the audience of more than 300 per sons that he had be^n author ized by the Courtvi e District Improvement Assn, tj file com plaint against Reynolds and seek a mandatory injunction to prevent his tenancy. Drake said that a clause in the deed prevents lease or occupancy of buildings in the area by per sons of “the African race.” MayoT Edward |. Jeffries just prior to his victory in the recent mayoralty campaign on a platform of rae« hate and prejudice addressed the mob and said that “the most un fortunate thing has happened has been the injection of race into the campaign.” He af acked Negroes who he said were allies of the CIO “in this campaign who w'ere imported here as strike breakers for the Ford Co., during the drive to organize.” jenries assured his listeners that “as long as I am mayor of Detroit, the Housing commis sion will do nothing to change any neighborhood.” He was roundly applauded, the racial characteristics of During the question and ans wer period a riot was barely a verted when a young white girl who refused to give her name but said she was a soc ial worker stood up and stat ed: “Americans of all national ities are bleeding all over the world. What you’re doing here in un-American. You ought to be ashamed of your selves.” The angry mob howled her down amid jeers, boos and cries of “tell her she can live with them if she wants to”, ask her if she'd *rather live mLth”a S'te man or a black ™an\ uThe most violent shouts heaved fro.m the throats of women. Speaker after speaker arose to denounce the Reynolds as intruders”, “invaders” and worse One man near the front of the hall was rewarded with long applause and shouts of approval when he (Continued page 3)