LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office, Omaha. Nebraska, _ __ _CITY EDITION_ Under Act of March 8. 1874— Business Phone: HA-0800 HA-OsO' Saturday. XOV. 27, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR-Xo. 42 PRICE FIVE (ENT' Pilgrim Baptist To Burn Church's Mortgage ** The Pilgrim Baptist Church at 25th and Hamil ton streets, have planned to burn the mortgage on their church home, Sunday Dec. 12, 1943. . - 1 ■ 1 -!!- 1 ' ■ ■■ Ir===.S The services begining at 2:30 PM presenting a very historic program, will be carried out under the leadership of Rev. F. S. Goodlett, Officers and the members. The congregation has rallied toward put-' ting this effort over the top in a fine way. worth of Good Reading. Spirit of the Season... ' IT ' FOR THE SOLDIERS.** “It’s for the soldiers." says tittle 6 year old Cather .ne Brosra of Priar* George county. Md.. as sti fondles or-- of her neighbor's tur keys she has helped to feed. Mil lion- of turkeys, like this one. have h--ei shipped to OU" armed 'orres in North Africa. Italy, the Soutn Par f r- in the United States and in other areas. Wherever our iiitiiiiiititiiiuiiimiimiiimiitiiuimii f fighting men are stationed, they will hare turkey for the holiday • season. The War Food Adiuims j tration has assured 1 Imiltion lbs. f>.r or- raeas troops and befww a £9 and -=> million pounds for troops statmed here at home. It is esti mated that more than 40*) million pounds of turkey will be on hand far c viiians this year. US DA photo by Cooper— Orson Welles Slaps Native^Foreisn Fascist SPEAKS IN CHICAGO Chicago—General Mary McLeod Bethune sponsor of the Women'* Army fro National Defense, the— WANT'S' add-essed a huge gath ering here this week at the Park way Cc mm unity Center Highlight of the affair was when General Bethdne promoted twelve officers to the rank of Major. They were Mesdames Mamie B. Henmngan, G-a-* Stevens .Wills Alston. LHUc Mae Kennedy. Dr L Eudora Ash b’jrte, Jennet Harmon, Mabel :,ei i- Iren- Sillier. Cephronia Hollo way, Mam- Mason Higgins. Hei-n Wirsoc and Rebecca Stiles T-yior. A cross section of the city’s citiz ens attended. TO DIE FOE ACCIDENT Atlanta, Nov. 33 tAXPi —The Georgia Sop rem Court Monday affirmed the murder conviction of James Joaey. who was sentenced to the electric chair for running over and killing J. D Bridges, white, a state guardsman last February. o . Th- accident occurred at the be ginning of the Geo-g. . gub*.mat erial campaign. when fa-rrtr Gov. Tiiaiacg- had eattn-efi to be ssu • *. th- a rt to a state guardsmen t b- prepared for a “Negro Up rl*>ag ’ Tre automobil • victim and other members of the guard w-r dr .. ng on the ma a street of Dawson, a. in response to this a .- rt wnec he was struck by Jos -y s ear. T n 'to 13 othir guardsmen were knocked down, according to leatimony. J «- 7- Whose appeal from coa v ction was based largely on the ententin that the verdict was con trary to the weight of evid-nee, was accused of driving the car that struck the guardsmen and of being under the influence of whis ker at the time. PLEADS FOR EXTENSION OF DEMOCRACY iby George Coleman Moore) Chicago. Nov. 21 lAXP) Lashing j out at fascists at home and abroad Orson Welles, celebrated a.ar of screen, stage and radio, last week told an audience of 2.»)*H) mixed ! students and faculty members at i Central TMCA. college here, that I democratic government was the on- | ly hope of a free, peaceful pen war world. Speaking under ausp.Ces of the Free World association at a special j assembly presided over by Dr. Ed- , ward J Sparing, college president j Welles declared that the benefits \ ■:C American democracy must be i extended to all citizens, and added ! that the f. S. can enjoy no free- | until all the occupied countr ies of Europe are liberated. He urged, however, that race hate be j abandoned to accomplish these de- j m oc rat ic ideals. v\ c rr.ay an hate tae German p-op'e not because they are Ger mans bat because of what they have don-',” he warned. ‘The Ger mans have engaged in a terrible v -Id aggression and are guilty of incihllistic anarchy, bat let's hale th-m because they are fascists. n coming in every day and as I pass my newspaper straight along J to the Club I shall, sooner or later, meet someone from Omaha. i The boys seem to Ilk England, and in particular London. 1 They go anywhere they like and mostly people make a great fuss I o fthem. Their manner sand general behavior are abeolutly nr.- ’ peccable. They make a good impression everywhere they go. < Thank you again for sending this paper, and if you1 have ■ any other newspapers or data to spare perhaps you wou.d for- < ward it along to me. as all papers coming from America are just * snapped up quickly. | Sincerely yours, MISS JOAN LONG. onism. Welles explained: ' That ' Yankee’ gives you away I'm not indicting file south. I am ‘by by family a southerner, suh: My mother and father and grandpar ents are from Texas, but then. are i serious wrongs committed down there that we must correct- We j are not going to send antagonist ic Yankees’ down there to do the job- We are going to send sou therners there for that work. “I want to say in all seriousness that you as a white person, enjoy ing the privileges of the majority that your white skin alone affords have no moral right to be satisfied while your brothers and sisters of darker hue are exploited and op prssed. It is your moral obligar.on to extend the benefits of democ racy to all American Citizens, ev erywhere.” Weiles was accompanied by his glamorous movie actress wife Rita Hayworth, whom he married sev eral weeks ago. SOLDIER BUMPS INTO DIXIE COP: BEATEN Jackson. Miss., (AXP) Sgt. El wood Cook of Company 3075. Flora Ordnance plant. Sunday evening j found that apoIog-.es are useless in dealing with civilian police. All ■ he got after making his most humble apology for accidentally , bumping into a city policeman were several knots on his head, in flicted by the enraged patrolman, who later placed the soldier under arrest. Sgt. Cook told military officials later that he was walking down the sidewalk in the •'Cmpar.y of a young woman when he accident ally brushed against the policeman. The beating folloed after his apol ogies went for nought. he said. His release was obtained several hours later by military authorit ies. FIND BEATING COPS GUILTY Louisville. Nov. 19 (AXP'i —Al though their victim had been found guilty of ‘ disorderly conduc- and fined S', the two white officers who unmercifully beat Mrs Julia May Woods Tuesday were found guilty of misconduct and given a -ientenc-. of ft' days’ pay. The sentence was imposed follow .r„g a day long hearing before Col. Joseph F. Donaldson, d rector ol safety, and paves the way for grand jury act'On and the filing of a id% ag-iinat the men. Mrs. Woods, who testified at the hearing, accused Patrolmen A. L. Seville and A. M. Melchor of beat ing her without excuse or raason. Ptactically the same test mcr.y wfc -_h resulted in punishment for the polic-men was given two weeks before in police court where Srs. Woods was fined So. REGIONAL DIRECTOR FEPC ADDRESSES LOCAL GROLT Mr. Henderson. District Regional Director of the FEPC with office? in Chicago, addressed the Omaha- i Council Bluffs Industrial Area j Fair Employment Practice Counti 1 at the Central YWCA., Wednesday | of last week, at S o'clock. Novem- | ber 17th. Rabbi Arthur J. Lely- , veld. Chairman of the local FEPC. j Executive Committee vis in charge ' of the program arrangements. While in Omaha Mr. Henderson j visited the offices of the Omatia Guide, and issued a bulletin which he says explains fully his job and why he is touring his district. The Bulletin says: UNFAIR PRACTICES CAUSE WASTAGE OF MANPOWER Bulletin issued by Chicago Re g.onal Offices explains its work and steps to be taken in cases of any discriminatory practices in this territory: The Regional Office of the Pres ident's Committee on aFir E:m>! >y men; Practice for eight midwe-itern states is open in Ch-cugo. T~e office is located in the National War Agenc.es Building. 22S d'«t Jickson Boulevard. Room COi. and will cover the states of Illinois. In diana and Wisconsin comprising FEPC Region VI. and Mnnesola. Iowa, Nebraska. North Dakota a^d South Dakota comprising the a gency’s Region VIII. Elmer W. Headers-,-r. formerly Chief of the Committees Government Section in Washington. D. C. has been ap pointed Regional Director by the Chairman. Other members of the regional staff will be named shorn ir The President's Committee, con. monly called the •■FEPC.” was first established in June 1941 under Ex- : ecutive Order 8S02 wh.ch set forth the policy of the United Stater j Government that there shall be no i discrimination in employment ;n Government and war industries b cause of race, creed, color or no- ' tional origin. The Committee at that time was placed in the Ofiic' | for Production Management Gate- I she War Production Board). was j transferred to the War Manpower Commission in July 196, and was J made an independent agency und'r the President with the issuance of a new executive order in May of this year. Chairman of the FEPC is Mal colm Ross. Other members- repre senting labor are: John Brophy, Director of Industrial Union Coun —I advise you that you may expect instruct ions and the call to march on Washington perhaps next spring.’ was the final message of A. Phil ip Randolph, president of the In ternational Brotherhood of Sleep ing Car Porters and organizer and national director of the March on Washington in three appearances in Denver last Sunday and Mon day. Sunday night he told an over flowing crowd at Scott Methodist church that the government is much more likely to move in the direction of its pressure than a worthy cause, and that Negroes like labor, capital, the south and other groups must develop press ure if they would have their prob lem solved as only the federal gov ernment and the President can solve them. Monday afternoon Mr. Randolph went into details concerning his direct non-violet, goodwill action technique before a youth session at New Hope Baptist church where he also heard a clear statement of discrimination as Its' affects youth from the youths themselves. Monday night New Hope was a gain crowded when he declared that the Civil War was ' an uiicom- ; pleted bourgeois revolutin'’ which must be completed by the Negro, labor and liberal element in the nation if indeed its purpose of free ing and giving status to the Negro t Jontinaed on page 2) = 4 Negro Becomes 7One-Man Gun Crew* in Furious Battle with Sub ANOTHER DORIE MILLER Dorie Miller, famed Negro Blue jacket hero of the Pearl Harbor attack, had a new rival this week. He is Christopher ColUrubos Sheppard, cook, first class, T'SN., and a “one man gun crew” on the Destroyer Borie. This destroyer was part of a Naval force recently awarded the Presidential Unit Cit ation for having sunk “more sub marines than any team in Naval history.” Sheppard’s exploits, and these of another Negro member of the Bor ie crew. Ernest Gardner, stewards mate second class. USSNR. were revealed by their commander Li^ttt Charles K. Hutchins of Terre Haute Ind during a press confer-nc at the Navy Department on Novem ber 10. According to Lieutenant Hu ..ch ins. Sheppard had a battle station as “first loader.” on a 4-inch gun when the Borie, fighting alone many miles from her group, was engaged in a knock-down, drag oat battle with two U-boats—one of which was described by the Borie commander as “the biggest one we’d ever seen.” While fighting the Latter sub at ranges of 10 to 4‘> feet, th- gun •tew at Sheppard's station t-*car; blmded by smoke. The “first l>a der” immediately seized the g-ir and started firing away at the sub Gardner rushed from anoth-r .-*a tion and started passing the am munition , After a few minutes however, Sheppard waved h - as sistant aside and became a "one man gun crew”, getting his own ammunition, loading the gun and fring at the badly crippled sub marine. The Borie was part of the CSS Cord anti-submarine group which consisted of the aircraft carrier USS Card, the Destroyers Bone Barry and Goff, and the Carl’s av iation Units. Composite Squad-ons 1 and S. In receiving the Presid ential Unit Citation, this anti-sub marine team was otfically credited with being “largely responsible foe the complete withdrawal of hoscil - U-boats” from the United States North Africa convoy route. The story of the d^ath battle of th eBorie against a pack of sub til marines and her fight for survival while wallowing in heavy seas in a badly damaged condition has been : termed by the Navy Department as "an outstanding example of vai ; or and seamanship." typical of "the teamwork of the unsung es cort vessels that help make possible the more colorful exploits of the death-dealing, carrier-based planes* which are carrying the fight to the CIO LEADER GREETS NEW WAR RELIEF HEAD WXLLABD TOWNSEND, outstanding CIO leader and president at the CIO * United Transport Service Employes, takes «i«« oil from his work ax the CIO convention at Philadelphia to congratulate Lea Perils, new national director at the Natl CIO War Belief Committee, on his appointment. Perils be comes head of a CIO organization that K-» already raised more than C2.Me.MM for war relief purposes the CIO’s ~i MO tOO members. Mr. Townsend is a member at the CIO's executive board. Tbs war relief funds raised by the Natfl CIO War Belief Committee, cooperating with the Nafl War Fund, go to the workers, soldiers end civilian populations of ear United Jts&aus allies without regard t» rott glows at racial Unco. Pass the Ammunition... “PASSING THE AJOTTNITION” Somewhere in the Pacific (Sp** iaif—Aboard a I" S. Navy tYar-i • p in the Pacific, here you see a Com mander inspecting a group cf fight ing Negroes just before the tattle begun. In the lower photo, Mrr - roe J. Johnson. Jr.. MA. 2c fie';) uf Jonesboro Tennessee and Le-~l’ Wilson Stewart 3c of Elgin, T=xas are “passing the ammunition ' in an effort to stop Hitler and Hi■ o hito. The picture is proof in' Negroes are serving in this capac ity, despite the rumors to th<* c-»n trary. Press Photo Service. * CALIF. BEAUTY CAMP HOOD'S PIN I P GIRL Camp Hood, Texas_Gorgwou. Wlnme Jefferies was uoan.m Btisly sectored by a group at Camp Hood Texas as their ‘ p.n-up giri-* with .st Sgt- Carl Bramiette heading the cemduttee. Winnie" is the p.pifLt wife of Herb Jefferies, famed s:'. g : r and owner of the Bine a Flamingo Club in Los Ang eles, California. She is pic.erred above in a costume which she wore recently in the #th Annual Artists and Mod-.* Ball. At present, h .c nie is in the Windy City, pursuing a course of photography, at th? studios of ClymeL, McNeil and Myles. PLEADS Not •Guilty” To Manslaughter Charge Fred Bradley Wednes day in Municipal Court Judge Battin presiding pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and waiv ed to district court. Bond was set at $l,50u. Detective Inspector Fred Fran ’■ -* Sunday said Fred Bradley, 31. tu* changed his story regarding- the fatal shooting loot Saturday of bi* wife. Bertha, 36 at their home ie"' Grant stre-t and that charges v. Is be filed against him. Bradley, a p Oilman porter, first said his wife shot herself after threatening him with a r volv- r following an argument- Invent - gallon showed the bullet had goo through her right forearm and in to the abdomen. Bradley admitted Sunday that she was shot as they struggled, Frank said BCKGLAK8 TAKE $169 IN CASH FROM JOHNSON DEI G kTORF Burglars who Sunday broke in the Johnson Drtsg store, 2366 North 2-tth Street, took $163 in currency it was reported to police by Pro ju nctor Milton Johnson. ^*rrf rfff>|-$f jjj C-boats in the mid-Atlantic ** Describing the battle with the second sub, Lieutenant Hutch.n - said: “We tried to ram the sub but :t submerged, and we dropped all the depth charges in the racks. W«. i Continued on