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the Pos- Office Omaha. Nebraska, Business Phone: HA-0800. HA-080:DeC. 25, 1943 OUE lbth YEAR—BO. _PRICE FIVE CENTS
Mrs. Hutten, Pioneer Omaha Social, Civic Woman Dies
Was Prominent in
City’s Welfare Work
was former teacher
at San Juan, Puerto
Rico
After a brief illness, Mrs. Grace
Hutten, former teacher in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, ar.d long a
worker in Family Welfare Asso
ciation, pa:-:sed to her reward.
Bom in Osceola, Iowa, her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. David Morris,
came to Omaha where the children
were all educated. She taught
awhil in western Iowa and Ne
braska; also a commissioner in the
Colored Commercial Club; ar.d a
pioneer in Boy Scouting.
She was also a member of the
American Association of Social
Worker.-. Nebraska Welfare Asso
ciation, Youth Guidance Council,
and active in establishing social re
lations work in the Nebraska Dio
cese of the Episcopal church. She
was a member of St. Phillip’s
Church.
She was married to Dr. Jesse
H. Hutten and to this union was
born one son, Jess, now in the
l'. S. Army. Other relatives are
Mrs. Myrtle Goodlow, Omaha, El
mer Morris of St. Paul, Minn., Dr.
Craig Morris, Omaha., and 2nd Li.
Jess Huttens.
Services will b Thursday at 10
a. m. at St. Phillip.; Church, Canon
George St. George Tyner officiat
ing.
Burial will be in Forest Lawn.
Lewis Mortuary in charge.
‘Yank’ Army Weekly
Plasts White Rule
Washington, (ANP)—“Yank.”
the army weekly publication,
thinks it “folly” that Negroes
should be “governed by whites
when Negroes in the army and
navy are fighting for our country’s
rights.
This is the publication’s printed
word as contained in the Decem
ber 17th issue, and directed at a
Sgt. Nolan and Cpl. Hitner whose
letter to the editor sought editor
ial opinion on “the race problem
after the war.”
“Negroes will think they are
equal to the whites because they
have fought in this war, and some
white people will feel the same
way about it,” wrote Nolan and
Hitner. “It is our opinion that
they should not be given equality,
but should be rewarded, perhaps
with some portion of some country
for their own use, where they will
be governed by white people, in
order that they will be taken care
of and still have a chance to make
a good living.”
The editors of Yank had this
answer:
”Yaftk takes its views on the
TO JOIN ‘GUIDE’
STAFF
J. E. HILL
Beginning January First, Julius
E. Hill will become a regular mem- ;
ber of THE OMAHA GUIDE staff,
as a Special reporter. He will al
so be in charge of circulation.
29 years ago Hill had his first ex
perience in the newspaper busin
ess. which he began by writing
rhythms that were printed in the
Hastings Daily Republican news
paper at Hastings, Nebr. He itas
written and sold quite a number of
short stories and has been editor
of two small weekly newspapers.
He received his training in the
schools and colleges of Nebraska,
but studied journalism in Minne
apolis. Minn. He is a veteran of
World War No. 1—is a member of
Roosevelt Post No. 30, the Ameri
can Legion and is its present pub
licity Officer.
Tell it to Hill and lie
will tell it to the public.
post-war ’race* problem from the
founders of the United States who
believed that all men were created
equal. No man should talk about
‘giving’ any American that which
he already has by inalienable
right. On Aug. 31st, there were
74,013 Negroes serving in the navy
ar.d 582,861 in the army, of whom
153,900 were overseas. There is
a Negro General in the U. S. army.
The navy recently named an air
field after a Negro who gave his
life for the service.
“Yank believes it is folly to
propose that Negroes be governed
by whites when Negroes in the
army and navy are fighting for
our country’s rights, when Negroes
in our state and national legisla
tures are helping make our
country’s laws and when there
are Negroes in our courts interp
reting our laws.”
Ask Roosevelt to Act
in Three FEPC Cases
As Fight Against
Agency Spreads
By Ernest E. Johnson
Washington, (AN’P)—Upon his
return to the capital last week,
President Roosevelt found him
self confronted with requests to
settle three cases arising out of
the efforts of the Fair Employ
ment Practice committee to com
bat discrimination.
These involve the disputes with
the railroads, the boilermakers’
union on the west coast, and the
Capital Transit company situa
tion. In all of these cases there
has been sufficient evidence pro-'
duced to conclude that impasses
have been reached.
The unsettled question in the!
minds of many observers, however, j
is whether or not FEPC will show
the “courage and directness” ex
emplified by the National Wai
Labor board in its handling of the
Point Breeze, Md., case centering
around the demand by Western
Electric company employes for
separate t o il e t facilities for
Negroes.
While the railroades cited in the
September hearings have until De
cember 23rd officially to comply
with the committee’s directives,
they filed their response on De
cember 13th and left no doubt in
anybody’s mind as to what they
planned to do within the next 10
days. “Impracticable,” “unreal
istic” “lacking in jurisdiction” are
some of the things the response
said about the committee and its
directive.
The liutative now rests with FEPC
The boilermakers’ union has un
til January 23rd to act upon di
rectives against them to break up
the jim-crow auxiliaries, and to
the five shipbuilding companies to
rehire the Negroes they fired in
accordance with a closed shop
agreement. The union claims no
jurisdiction. Injunction proceed
ings instituted by fired employes
are now in the federal district
court in California, and the judge
has taken the matter under ad
visement before rendering his de
cision.
Irrespective of what the courts
decide, the committee will still
have to secure enforcement of its
directives, or at least that portion
of them which may not fall within
the purview of the court’s ruling.
There is within FEPC a determ
ination on the part of some to see
the Capital Transit dispute, dang
ling since December, 1942, settled
by the end of the year or soon af
ter. There is hardly anything -now
to be disclosed about the case which
is not already known, and yet Paul
Lunt, a sociologist hired by the
labor-management committee for
the company, is making a survey
of how best Negroes can be up
graded and hired into platform
jobs.
In this case, however, there are
several measures which the com
mittee can employ to effect en
forcement before proceeding di
rectly to the President. There
would, of course, hav^ to be a dis
position on the part of the various
other governmental agencies to go
along on FEPC recommendations
for enforcement. Initiative is still
with the committee.
The only time FEPC has appeal
ed a case to the President was in
1941 when the International As
sociation of Machinists (AFL) re
fused to give Charles Sullivan
a Los Angeles Negro, a card so
that he could work in a shipyard.
The case came before the first
hearing of the original committee.
The President called in William
Green, AFL president, Green call
ed in the IAM president, and he
the president of the local. Sullivan
got his card shortly after.
In view of the President’s fol
low-up on the ruling of Comptrol
ler-General Lindsay Warren, which
practically took the props fronr
under FEPC had it remained, it is
doubted here that the President
would hesitate to maintain con
sistency with an election coming
up next year.
One wag hero has said that “F
EPC may be the President’s baby, i
but it dosn’t proelude his calling
for a blood test,” which may or
may not make sence.
defiance of fepc by railroads.j
is called sabotage of war effort...
Washington, D. C.—The defiance
of 16 southern railroads on the di
rective of the FEPC that discrimi
nation in the employment of Ne
groes must be ended was termed
“sabotage of the war effort little
short of treason,” by the NAACP
in a letter to President Roosevelt.
;The NAACP pointed out that there
were in the letter of the railroads
to the FEPC “two thinly-veiled
threats of mob violence” to thwart
the provisions of Executive Order
9346 prohibiting discrimination in
war industries and agencies on ac
count, of race, creed, color, or na
tional origin.
The letter asserted that the rail
roads had the “temerity” to at
tempt to blame violence which they
are attempting to stir up upon the
President.
Asserting that the inaccuracies
in the document, drafted by ex
perienced lawyers, “cannot be ac
cidental” the NAACP points out
that the Southeastern Carriers
agreement was a joint contract and
that the FEPC hearings in Sep
tember “virtually established a con
spiracy by railway companies and
vigorously and unequivocally “this
impudent challenge of your author
ity as President and as Command
er-in-Chief of the Army and Navy”
unions against the employment of
Negroes.”
Blasting the statement of the
companies that “conditions of
chaos” will result if Negroes are
employed, the letter states that
this idea is being planted deliber
ately in the minds of the traveling
public “for sinister and undemo
cratic purposes.”
The President is urged to meet
with the prediction that the over
whelming majority of the American
people will give him unqualified
support.
Believe 93d realy to Go
Into Action
Los Angeles, (ANP)—The be
lief grew in some quarters here
that the 93rd division’s departure
for overseas duty may not be too
far off after all.
Brig. Gen. Benjamin 0. Davis,
Sr., passed through the city last
week enroute to Camp Clipper
where the division is based. It is
understood he was going there
to make an inspection. The gen
eral, however, would make no com
ment on the purpose of his visit, i
preferring to maintain the silence
to which he has traditionally ad
hered.
Divisional inspection is a normal
procedure before a unit is about
to embark for a theater of opera
tion, although imminent departure
need not be contingent upon in
spection.
However, there has been an un
relenting clamor among Negroes
for their men to see combat duty
and not be relegated to the labor |
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A front view of The Omaha Outfitting Co.
Two large store rooms of Merchandise
North 24th at Burdette, that awaits you for
inspection and where you can pay all your
utility bills and also send your telegrams.
Announce
Union
Service
The annual Union Services of
the churches will begin with the
First Sunday night of the New
Year, January 2, 1944, according
to the agreement of the partici
pating ministers and announced by
Rev. Clarence C. Reynolds. The
Services Sunday night, Jan. 2nd,
will be held at St. John A. M. E.
Church with the sermon by Rev.
F. S. Goodlett and music by the
Pilger church choir.
The Ministers are hoping that
these Sunday night services shall
be largely attended, and that each
church shall send representatives
each Sunday night from their
Prayer Bands to participate in
the 7:30 Devotional Services. We
are urgently pleading this year for
a true spirit of Evangelism
through out all of the services,
so that our loved one and friends
may be saved in Christ and for
His kingdom. The services will
begin each Sunday night with de-1
votions at 7:30 and the sermon at
8 o’clock.
...
work that is, of course, a normal
part of army life.
The 93rd has been at Camp
Clipper since early April immedi
ately after spending two weeks
on maneuvers in Louisiana. It
was activated at Fort Huachuen
on May 15, 1942, as first all-Negro
division of World War 2nd.
Its cadres were obtained from
the 25th infantry and the 368th in
fantry. The division has been com
manded by Maj. Gen. Fred W.
Miller since October, 1942.
GOP CHAIRMAN SAYS
PARTY WILL AID
NEGRO “After New
Deal Defeat in ’44”
New York, N. Y.—“The Repub
lican Party will again undertake
its historic task of working for
the betterment of the Negro people”
after the defeat of the New Deal
in 1944, is the opinion of Harrison
E. Spangler, chairman of the Re
publican National Committee.
This statement, contained in a
letter to Walter White, NAACP
secretary, was sharply challenged
by Whites who pointed out that the
present record of the Republicans
in Congress has caused “thought
ful Negroes of the United States
to entertain very real doubts” of
such action. WThite emphasized
that the Hoover administration par
ticularly, as well as the adminis
trations of Harding and Coolidge
convinced Negroes that the GOP
was not “working for the better
ment of the Negro people.”
The continued alliance in the [
present and recent Congresses of
conservative northern Republicans
and southern Democrats “has done
and is doing infinite harm to the 1
Negro,” the NAACP secretary de
clared. The Soldier Vote Bill was
cited as an example of the opera
tion of this coalition by White who j
asserted, “the shameless betrayal
of nearly 11,000,000 members of
the armed services, at least 10 per
cent of them Negro, would never
have been put over had not 18 Re
publican senators joined with 24
Democrats to pass the Eastland
McKellar-McClellan substitute.”
Also set forth in the NAACP let
ter were the filibusters against the
anti-lynching bill and the anti-poll
tax bill. White charged that the
Republicans in the Senate refused
to vote for cloture which could have
broken the filibuster on both bills
and permitted them to come to a
vote.
Congressman John Taber (Rep.
N. Y.) was singled out by White
for his anti-Negro speeches and
activities in connection with the
OWI pamphlet, “Negroes and the
War.”
Referring to the appearance be
fore the National Republican Club
in New York City on December 11
of Senator WT. Lee (Pass the Bis
cuits Pappy) O’Daniel, of Texas,
White declared:
“The taking to the bosom of an
important unit of the Republican
party of an individual like Senator
O’Daniel certainly is not reassur
ing to us that ‘the Republican Party
will again undertake its historic
task of working for the betterment
of the Negro people’.”
In acknowledging the receipt of
“A Declaration of Negro Voters,”
Chairman Spangler wrote:
“I am firmly convinced that when
the people have completed in 1944
their plainly indicated plan of re
moving the New Deal from our na
tional life, the Republican Party
will again undertake its historic
task of working for the betterment
; of the Negro people as well as all
others.”
WOWS HUACHUCAIANS!
Mrs. Favard Nicholas
The fighting men of Huachuca prouly present one
of the most pleasant personalities to have visited
thte Fort for scores of moons. She is the wife of
Cpl. Fayard Nicholas (of the famous dancing Nich
olas Brothers) who is one of the top-noting features
in the 92nd Infantry Special Service Division. The
former Geraldine (“Gerry”) Pate spent several
weeks here with her popular husband and is now
spending the holidays with her parents in the east.
She is expected to return to her Los Angeles home
where she will head a national magajine in that area
until her “real thing” comes home. (PPS) ..
DON’T REST ON YOUR HOE
IN 44 LET’S DIG FOR FREEDOM
By J. P. Davis
little Rock, Ark. (ANP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt in a recent address
said, “In the last war American
farmers fed four million people in
uniform. In the present world wai
we are feeding 11,000,000 who are
scattered in all parts of the world.”
Secretary of Argiculture Claude
R. Wickard said, “There were 20,
000,000 Victory gardens in 1943,”
and is asking for 22,000,000 or 10
per cent increase.
The secretary also said that a
recent survey showed approxi
mately 90 per cent of those who
started gardens last spring were
still working away at them and
now have excellent plantings.
Judge Marvin Jones, war food
administrator, is asking for an in
crease over 1943 production in the
following truck crops for veg
etables.
Lima beans, snap beans, cab
bage, carrots, sweet corn, onions,
green peas, tomatoes. (Special
stress placed on a heavy increase
in the production of green and
leafy vegetables.
In our southern region states we
have 546,625 Negro farm opera
tors as follows:
Alabama, 73,354; Arkansas, 57,
j 025; Florida, 9,758; Georgia, 59,
I 132; Louisiana, 59,584; Mississippi,
j 159.540; South Carlonia, 61,307;
I Texas, 52,753.
I Let us go on war-time schedule.
If each of our farmers will give
the customary half holiday on
Saturdays during the year 1944
and apply this two days per month
to their year-round garden, it will
be a contribution to the war effort
far greater than we can imagine,
as it will mean 13,104,600 extra
days in the production of food for
our own families and all of our
boys at the front.
Remember, there was no hunger
in America this year!
DORIE MILLER MISSING
IN ACTION
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race to be so honored in this war. He then read the cita
tion which said:
“While at the side of his Captain on the bridge,
Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the
face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who
had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety,
and later manned and operated a machine gun directed
et.emy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave
the bridge.”
Later, in January 1943, while visiting the U. S. Naval
Training Station at Great Lakes, 111., Bluejacket Miller
explained that the Pearl Harbor incident marked his first
experience with a machine gun. Addressing hundreds of
Negro Bluejackets who are now being taught at Great
Lakes to handle such weapons, Miller said:
“It wasn’t hard. I just pulled the trigger and she
worked fine. I had watched the others with these guns.
I guess I fired her for about fifteen minutes at those Jap
planes. They were diving pretty close to us.”
Miller who was born October 12, 1919, left his father’s
small Waco, Texas, farm or September 16, 1939, to en
list in the Navy as a Mess Attendant, Third Class, at
Dallas, Texas. He was sent to the Naval Training Station
at Norfolk, Va., and then was assigned to the U. S. Ari
zona on which he served until the morning of the Japanese
on Pear! Harbor.
Official reports reveal that he arose at 6:00 a. m. on
the morning of December 7th, and was collecting laundry
when the alarm for General Quarters sounded. He head
ed for his battle station—the anti-aircraft battery mag
azine amidships—only to discover that torpedo damage
already had rendered it untenable. So he went on deck
where because of his powerful size—he was immediately
assigned to the task of carrying wounded to places of
greater safety. An officer ordered him to the bridge to
aid the mortally wounded captain. Miller helped remove the
dying officer, and then returned to the machine gun. Since
Pearl Harbor, Miller has been assingned to various other
naval vessels. Shortly before he was reported missing in
action, he was serving aboard the Aircraf: earlier Lis
come Bay which was sunk by enemy ac ion i the* S uth
west Pacific on November 24 1943.
Miller’s parents live at Route 1. Eox 161, Waco.
Texas. The missing hero has three brothers, one a pri
vate in the U. S. Army.