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AFTER JURY FREES
LYNCHERS OF SOLDIER
FEAR OUTBREAK AT CAMP
ELLIS; NAACP. OTHERS
PROTEST TO WASHINGTON
LEWISTON ILL, Nov. 18 iANP
While law enforcement officers ex
pressed fear of a racial outbreak
here resulting from the lynching
of a Negro soldier here last week
by a mob of white farmers from
n-arby Ipava, the Chicago Branch
NAACP and other militant groups
were protesting to Sec. of War
Henry L. Stimson and local auth
orities the whitewash of the mur
derers by an all-white coroner's
jury.
The soldier. 19 year old Pvt
Willie Hollis of Chicago stationed
at Camp Ellis was slain by a vol
ley of bullets on a farm ast Sunday
after rumors had circuated that a
Negro soldier allegedly raped a
white farm woman, and another
had telephoned several others mak
ing improper proposals. Killers of
the U. S. Army private were John
W. Lane, W. H. Hamm and Ralph
and Carroll Pharr, brothers, all of
whom were freed at an inquest
conducted by Fulton County Coro
ner Mark S. Nelson.. An all white
Jury’s verdict read “justifiable hom
icide."
There were no NegTo witnesses
at the hearing from among the
city’s Negro population of 2,000
and charges are rife here that the
hearing was conducted in a farc
ical manner with the decision
handed down a foregone conclus
ion before testimony got underway
Only the four white men who
formed the posses that killed Hol
lis. and four women testified at
the hearing. All agreed that the
soldier was unarmed, and alleged
• that he made improper advances
over the rural party line that per
mits several people t° listen to a
conversation at the asme time and
that he was shot after he threw a
club at members of the lawless
mob. The women witnesses were
Irma and Wilma Hamm, daughters
of one of the killers, and their
mothers. Mrs. Charlotte Hamm ard
Mrs. Thelma Lane, wife of the con
fessed slayer who fired the fatal
shots.
Military authorities were report
ed to be concerned lest the semb
lance of harmony existing between
40.000 Negro and 60,000 white sol
diers at Camp Ellis result m a com
plete breakdown. Gov. Dwight H.
Green's chairman of the state In
terracial Committee, Dr. Mark
Bickman. has been rushed here in
dicating the seriousness of the sit
uation.
Another soldier. Pvt. Morris Nic
hols of Philadelphia, also stationed
at Camp Ellis, is being held by lo
cal police on charges of having at
tacked Mrs. George Quigley, white,
on her farm. Mrs. Quigley was not
called to testify at the Hollis ‘n
quest. it being explained she would
save her statement for the trial o*
Nichols. Pvt. Nichols has denied
the rape charge, after police offic
ials said he had confessed. Mean
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THANKSGIVING NOV. 25, 1943
PRODUCE
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BY JULIUS E. HILL
THIS THANKSGIVING most of
u's should have more to be thank
ful for than we have had for a long
time. The majority of us have
better jobs than we have been ac
customed to having, which should
lessen greatly the stringency of
our economic life.—lift us out of
the ranks of those in want.
But while we are enjoying tasty
Thanksgiving dinners and rejoic
ing in our good fortune, let us not
forg'et t<> give thought to the many
men. also women who will not be
home to rejoice with us because of
the job they are doing to make it
possible for us to have someth rg
for whch to be thankful.
For it seems the rule of the
SISTER ROSETTA
SPINITUAL SINGING and guitar pickin’ as
only beloved Sister Rosetta can sing and play them,
were heard by an overflowing audience at the Mt.
Calvary Community Spiritual Church, 25th and
Grant Sts., last Sunday night,
The Reverend Johnson, pastor of this House of
God’s, delivered a very inspiring sermon and with
the help of his splendid choir, rendered a very col
orful and religious double-header program.
world that "One Man’s Meat Must
Be Another Man's Poison—That
we proift by the mistakes of oth
ers.” And the Japs truly made a
mistake when they struck at Pearl
Harbor. The moment they did ,'t
caused a demand on fighting and
labor,_.. manpower greater than
has ever been necessary before to
safeguard this country.
So while we OVER HERE, en
joy the fruits of our labor, it would
be well if we paused long enough
to pray for those OVER THERE.
.... Who with the tools which our
labor has produced, go bravely in
to battle against the common en
emy, t° insure there being in the
years to come—other Thanksgiv
ings—when the lights are on again
all over the world and the oppres
sors are no more.
Dramatic tour t \
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Omaha. Nebraska, Nov. 13’, IMS—
During a trial of a colored man
in District Court here for a crim
inal offense, his attorney, a white
man. in making his plea to the
jury, referred to the children of
the defendant as “those It tie
“N_. .R” children. This term
was repeated over and over again
Neither the judge who was presid
ing nor the public prosecutor ~e
u- sted the defense attorney to stop
using that insulting term. But a
ra e attorney who was in the court
room jumped to his feet and pro
tested to the judge and requested
that the lawyer be ordered to cease
using the derisive term. For a
moment all court proceedings were
stayed. The offending defease at
torney then sought to have the
race attorney punished for con
tempt of court, but the judge de
clined to acceded to this demand.
The whole matter has been re
ported to the local Branch of the
NAACP, which was amazed to
learn that a court in a Northern
community like Omaha, would per
mit a member of the bar to use
the term "N_. .R” without re
quiring the attorney to desist from
using the term and reprimanding
him for having used it aJl. The
public prosecutor J.kewise is bei lg
called into question for failing to
object to the use of the term.
One wonders what might nave
happened had such a terf of de
rision been used toward Jews, It
alians and Bohemians. You know,
don’t you? Yes the judge would
hare denounced the term then and
there and the prosecutor would
have torn his ha:r in protest. Oh,
well! both the judge and the pros
ecutor will have to be elected one
of these days. And then.
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7 AMENDMENTS
TO TAX BILL
URGED BY UNITED GROUP
OF 8 ORGANIZ \TIONS
Washington, Nov. 15 (ANP) In a
message to each member of con
gress. the coalition of eight nation
al organizations, which has united
on a common federal tax progrim.
embracing the Congress of Indust
rial Organizations, National Farm
ers Union, Brotherhood of Railrrad
Trainmen, National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, National Women's Trade Union
league of America, League of Wo- .
men Shoppers. Consumers union \
and National Lawyers guild, called I
for drastic revision of the tax bill *
reported by the ways and means
committee "so as to meet the basic
requirements of a wartime revenue
measure”, and proposed seven a
mendments to achieve this object
ive. The joint statement was sign
ed by Philip Murray. James G.
Patto,n A. F. Whitney, William
H. Hastie, Elisabeth Christnuin,
Katherine Armatage. Arthur Kal
let, and Robert W. Kenny, for their
respective organizations.
tax bill "does not tax adequately
high personal incomes, the Unpar
alleled corporate profits, and the
large inheritances. wfrHe continu
ing disproportionately heavy bur
dens on the common man with raea
ger income”. It pointed out that
the new tax bill "would perpetuate
the oppressive burden of the vic
tory tax on nine million hard
pressed families, although the vic
tory tax as such would be techni
cally repealed”, and fails “to pro
vide adequate income tax exemp
tions. retaining the present suli
rtandard levels of $500, $1200, and
$350, in the face of the steep rise
in living costs.” The joint state
ment observed that the ways and
means committee had “refused tc
adopt the wartime principle that
for the duration no American cit
izen ought to have a net income,
after he has paid his taxes, of
more than $25,000 a year", but had
eliminated "the earned income
credit which favors those who toil
rather than those who hold invest
ments.”
After calling attention to the
committee's rejection of the treas
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!***#) NEGRO 4-H CLUBBERS
GET “FEED-A.FTGHTER”
AWARDS
Twenty thousand Negro farm
youths received “Feed-A-Fighter”
awards last week in connection
with the annual observance of Na
tional 4-H Achievement Week Nov
ember 6-14 the U. S. Department
of Agriculture has announced.
While receiving the awards high
lighted the observance, 4-H club
bers used their occasion principally
for reviewing the year’s accomp
lishments. reorganizing their clubs,
launching a membership drive and
laying plans for further increased
production in 1944.
ST. LOOS PHYSICIAN REMOVES
WIRE FROM PATIENT’S
THROAT
BY HOWARD WOODS
St. Louis. Nov. 14 (ANP) Dr. W.
D. Morman, eye, ear, nose and
throat specialist of this city, is be
ing congratulated by his friends
in the medical world and receiving
the appreciation of a grateful pa
tient.
Dr. Morman. with the aid of an
instrument, removed without ser
ious injury a wire which had lodg
ed crosswise in the throat of a man
who was rushed to him after drink
ing milk from a corner grocery.
Dr. Morman is a past president
of the Mound City Medical forum
and is active in several other med
ical organizations. He is a visit
ing physician at both Homer Phil
lips and St. Mary's hospitals.
ury’s proposal to raise $1,190,600,W)
in new revenues by increasing the
corporate tax rate from 40 to 5'.'
percent, the joint statement said:
"Although voting to increase the
excess-profits tax rate from 90 to
95 percent, and to reduce the cred
it for invested capital, the comm
ittee has left unchanged the choice
to compute excess profits on the
average-earnings method, so that
corporations with large pre-war
earnings will continue to escape
their fair share of excess-profits
taxation. Thus, while corporate
profits, after existing taxes, will be
approximately $8,400,000,000 in 1943
as compared to $3,300,000,000 in the
last prewar year in 1939. the com
mittee's proposal would recapture
only $600,000,000 thereof.”
Warning against any form of
•gag” rule the coalition demanded |
a rule which would permit full a
mendment on the floor of the
house, and urged the adoption uf
seven amendment calling for:
1. The elimination of the in
come-tax levies on low incomes
which were substituted for the re
pealed “Victory tax”.
2. Restoration of personal ex
emptions to $750 for single persj is
*1,500 for married couples, and
*400 for each dependent.
3. Increased personal taxes on
incomes above $3,000 a year, along
with a $25,000 ceiling cn net incom
es. after taxes.
4. An increase in the corporate
tax rate from 40 percent to at
least 50 percent.
5. Elimination of the option to
compute excess profits on the av
erage-earnings method.
6. Elim.nation of special privil
eges so as to provide for mandatory
joint returns the taxation of gov
ern m net securities and the elimin
ation of percentage-depletic allow
ances for 0.1 and mining prooerties.
7. Increased tax rates and low
ered exemptions for estates and
gifts.
Reiterating its position that ‘•ad
ditional revenue should come n^t
from a sales tax which burdens the
poor, but from increased tax it >n
of comfortable and large inermes
unprecedented corporate profits
and large estates”, the coalition
emphasized that the adoption of
the seven amendments would
“raise substantial revenues, aid in
siphoning off the most dangerously
inflationary incomes and avoid cats
into the necessary subsistence of
those who fight the battle of pro
duction on the farms and in the
factories.”
Nov. 25th
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“A Voice which is heard
Once in a 100 years”....
MARIAN ANDERSON
Greatest of
Contraltos to Sing
at City Auditorium
Thanksgiving Eve.
Marian Anderson, who is considered by many
critics as the vtorld’s greatest living singer, will ap
pear in concert at the Omaha Auditorium on Thanks
giving night, Thursday, November 25th- Miss An
derson is being brought to Omaha by the local unit of
the American Women’s Voluntary Services. This
win dc ner omy appearance m
this territory during the current
season, and probably for several
years.
Tickets for the concert are on
sale at the Omaha Currency Ex
change, 305 South Sixteenth street,
and are going fast. Ant one who
desires to honor Miss Anderson by
being present is Urged to get tick
ets without delay as it appears the
event will be a sellout. Prices, in
cluding tax. are *2.75, *2.20, *i.«ri
and *1.10.
Marian Anderson, who sang at
the White House for the King and
Queen of England, was born and
reared with her two sisters in Phil
adelphia's Negro quarter. Her fa
ther sold ice and coal. Mrs An
derson, ex-achool-mistress from
Lynchburg. Virginia. h-lpcd by
taking in washing.
Marian at six appeared pdblicly
in a duet with another little girl
in the Union Baptist ChuTch on
Twelfth and Fitzwater Streets,
singing. "The Lord is My Suep
herd--” At eight Marian was
announced as "the baby contralto”;
earned her first fee ‘"fifty cents";
graduated from the Junior to the,
"grown-up” choir, sometimes sub
stituting for an absent soprano,
tenor or bass. To this she attri
butes the range and timbre of h-r
phenomenal voice.
When her father died, twelve
year old Marian was forced to seek
engagements, mostly as "assisting
artist" to visiting performers. But
audiences came to listen to HEi;.
After Marian completed her high
school course, the people of her
church collected nickels end dimes
nto a fu"nd for "Marian Anderson s
future.” A scholarship was given
her by Mrs. Mary Saunders Pat
terson with whom she studied for
nearly a year. Then, under the
auspices of the Philadelphia Chor
al Society the young singer gave a
solo concert which obta-red for her
two years of study with Miss Agnes
Iteifsneider of Philadephia. At the
conclusion of this course, well
wishers raised a fund for h r to
study with the late Giuseppe Bog
hetti, well-known voice-teach
who groomed her for a competition
which she won. Her priae-Winr
:ng appearance at Lewisohm Stad
ium with the New York Philhar
monic Orchestra led to an enpig
ment by the Philadephia Orches
tra. Then all was quiet- The An
derson future was becalmed. That
was 1926. She spent a year being
coached by Frank La Forge.
In the next four years, young
Marian crossed and recrossed the
Atlantic, sang at Carnegie Hall and
won a Julius Rosenwald scholar
f-—_
ahip. For three more years she
steamed back and forth, America
hesitant to acknowledge her. the
Continent unprepared to accept
her.
Came 1933. Miss Andorson em
barking on a three month’s 'our of
Europe did not catch her breath
until August 1935 when she eapp d
a sensational two-year circuit of
Europe at the Mozarteum in Salz
burg. "A voice like yours is hea'd
only once in a hundred years,’’ said
Arturo Toscanini when he heard
her.
The cables sizzled to Ameri a
and Mahan’s native land prepar-d
to welcome back its daughter.
Misfortune literally dogged Miss
Anderson’s heel. The last night a
board ship she tripped on a steel
staircase and fractured her foot.
But the curtain rose on the Town
Hall platform promptly at 8:45 p.
m. on December 30th, 1935, disclos
ed a statuesque singer standing in
the curve of the grand piano. The
flowing folds of her gleaming
white gown hid her cast-encased
foot. None kne wuntil at intermis
sion the unusual rais.ng and low
ering of the curtain was explained.
The popular demand concert on
January 30tfc at Carneg-.: Hall
jammed the staid precincts, critic
Ol.n Downes prophesying: “The
public will look to her for a great
deal. ”
On March 9th a third New York
concert: and by the end of the
month, her foot mending »he sail
ed for another Continental tour
She planned one month for the
Soviet Union; was held for thr-e.
i Europe. Africa, South America all
saw that rare spectacle—a box
off.ee avalanche. Had »ae attempt
-ed to fill requ-sts irom only th©
soviet Union and iFniar.d she
would have had to sing twenty-six
concerts each month.
Miss Anderson recurved the
G-and Prix du Chant for th ■ best
recorded voice on the Con t. non t.
it 1938 ^ftss Anderson gave sev
enty recitals in the Unit 'd States,
tha longest, most intensive tour in
concert history for any singer. Sh<
also made her initial tour of the
southern states On June 10th.
Howard University n Washington
conferred upon her a.i Honorary
Doctorate of MuSic.
Aside from notching the ail-timo
record up to seventy-five concerts
in more than sixty cities in one
season, and receiving the Spingarn
Medal in 1939, M133 Anderson L -
came a national issue when Con
Btiraton Hall was demed her by
the Daughters of the American
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