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r gjmwgM-p • ' V -,.v v /WME/MWIir TOTHEUNE LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY' ===-—— ■ — --. .-- ========s=±ssx,-"ij Entered as Second-Class Matter at Under Act of March 8. T87-1- rkTUD ic+u VpA1) Ter An —CITY EDITION— the Post Office, Omaha, Nebraska, Business Phone: HA-0800. HA-0801 Saturday, Jail. 1, 1U44 UUK lOtn YLAR-HO. 47 PRICE FIY'E CENTS Elk’s - Legion Bars Ordered To Close At 1 a. m. Sharp The Bars at the Elk’s Club rooms and the Roosevelt Post No. 30, American Legion, have been ordered to close down at 1 a.m. sharp each night Well! What will this do? Watch next week’s Greater Guide Paper for what we think it will do! stgtgrg-grcsg}ngc.gigrgsr0?0*0-g*.0\rJWO*^:<Wt Buy More War Bonds & Stamps! AT FORT HUACHUCA From the happy smile on the face of S-Sgt. Marguerite J. Wal lace, mess sergeant of the WAC Section. SCTJ 1922, Fort Huachuea Arizona, it appears that chowtime is over and all that's cooking is fun. Sgt. Wallace whose home is in Monmouth III., is a graduate c* Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Pe oria. 111. Inducted into the WAAC August 27, 1942, she was the 21st auxiliary to be so inducted. Left handed, but capable, and glamorous —enough to grace any mess hall— Sgt. Wallace is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Wallace, of Monmouth. (Photo by Cpl. Earl Morse.) Howdy folks: vmfETms THE OMAHA GUIDE CALL HA-0800 TO RENEW TOUR 1944 SUBSCRIPTION SELASSIE’S MINISTER Washington, DC.,..The Americ an people have been greatly im pressed with the courage, fortitude and love of freedom of the Ethio pian people, President Roosevelt assured Blatta Ephrem Tewelde Medhen, (shown above) Ethiopian Minister to the United States, Mon day, Dec. 20, 1943 on the occasion of that dignitaries’ official visit to .‘he White House. Blatta Ephrem called on President Roosevelt to present his letters of credence as the first Ethiopian Minister to this WHAT, FT. HUACHUCA CHEER LEADERS A recent addition to the Ft. Huachuca football team’s ■cheering section was this group of lovely little lassies, from the Col. Young school. Left to right they are: Joyce Franklin, Theodore Chambers, Consuela McKnight and Gladys Gathings. Games at which these cheer leaders ap pear are played in Fort Hu achuca’s new Sgt. Wells Mem orial Stadium. (U. S. Signal Corps Photo.) Dr. L. E. B. Rosser to Conduct ‘watch night’, Sunday Cleaves Services Reverend T. J. Douglass, pastor of Cleaves Temple announced his departure for his home in Nash ville. Tcnn., to spent the "Holi days” with his family in that city. He also announced that he had se cured the services of Dr. L. E. B. Rosser, the presiding cider, to come from Kansas City to fill the1 pulpit at Cleaves Temple or. ‘Walehi J Night” and the following Sunday, j Dr. Rosser is well known in Ora iaba He will deliver ths sermon and administer the Communion on the first Sunday in January. The ■ Cleaves Temple congregation will | join the Union Services for the | first Sunday night. All of the members of Cleaves Temple are urged to attend these services thus closing the “ole year” wiih great splendor and gLory. Dr. Rosser will arrive in Omliaa Fri day morning and will stop at the country and to bring personal greetings from His Imperial Maj esty, Haile Selassie, Emperor cf Ethiopia. (Press Photo Service). OMAHA GIRL RECEIVES POSITION AT BENNETT COLLEGE Miss Velma Leigh Thomas, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thomas of 3022 Corby street, has received a teaching and secretarial position at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a graduate from the Univers-, tty of Omaha in May, 1943, where she received her Bachelor of Sci ence deg-ree in Business Adminis tration with a minor in Commer-i cial Education. She received, some experience as a practical tea cher at Howard Kennedy school. Miss Thomas recently held a pos ition with the Selective Service! Board No. 2. She is very active in DR. L. E B. ROSSER parsonage. civic and social affairs. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Al pha Sorority and has shown her ability as a promising young Ne gro by her participation in various activites. Miss Thomas served as a co-sponsor of the Semper Fidel- | is at the Northside YWCA., and sponsor of the Princess Club until recently resigning. She held the position as president of the CYA. i organization of Pilgrim Baptist | Church where she is a member. I Miss Thomas was also a volunteer | leader for the Brownie Group of the Girls Scouits at the Urban ! League Community Center. Her many friends wish her much success and happiness in the years to come. MR. CHARLES SCOTT DIES Mr. Charles Scott, age 64, 2S1S | Seward street, Spanish American Wra veteran, died Monday, Dec. HIGHEST RANKING NEGRO IN NAVY Lieut. (J G i Clarence Samuels of the United States Coast Guard, new ihe highest ranking Negro in the Navy. A native of Panama, Lt. Samuels has spent 23 years in the Coast Guiard, dur‘ng which ti'-ie he has served in charge of a cutter in Savannah, Georgia har bor- in charge of the Coast Guard unit ft Pea Island, n ar Manteo Koanoke, NC.. and at .he U. S. Coast Guard Training Station. Man -hattan Beach, NY. He is known throughout the service for his ex cellence as a signalman and marks man. His ribbons indicate Pre Pearl Harbor Service, Pearl Har bor action, American Theatre of War action, Afican mideastern cam paign, expert pistol shot and his good conduct ribbon has four bars. (Press Photo Service). WAR DEPT. AIDE Arthur W. Mitchell, former con gressman from Chicago's 1st Dis trict now on the West Coast as a special consultant to Secretary of War Stimson. Assigned to t’nei joint Army and Navy Committee1 on Welfare and recreatim, Mitch ell volunteered his services to make a study of facilities available for Negro soldiers in civilian com munties. His travels will take him to Arizona, Texas, Louisiana Mississippi and Georgia. 27th. Mr. Scott is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gladys Erickson, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mrs. Thelma Washington, Huntsville, Missouri, son, Mr. Hubert Scott of Moberly, Missouri, two sisters Mrs. Margaret Lane, Omaha. Mrs. Anna Carrey, Chicago, Illinois. Funeral services were held Thursday af ternoon from Thomas Funeral Home with Captain Allensworth Camp No. 25 in charge of Military services, burial Prospect Hill Cem etery. * PAPER PACKS A PUNCI’.~SAVE IT!!! " Juke Box Queen ——tm JMiiiiliPiri i -- ' KMmpggg .New York City—Bea Booze, this ”CC Rider” torch singer has been acclaimed the ”43 Blues Queen of the Platters” by a recent Decca “Juke Box poll throughout the south. Miss Booze is traveling with Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and his band tour ing the Middle West. Bea hails from Baltimorde. (Press Photo Service) Wac’s Pinup Boy Duke Ellington, the world’s greatest com poser of jazz, semi-classics and symphonic-swing arrangements was selected to the position of “pin-up biy” of the yar by the WACs of Fort Desmoines, ac coring to Captain Loretta Freeman, who recently left the aobve camp for dutis as recruiting officer in Chicago. Captain Freeman said that pin-up judges which included Lt. Catherine Godfrey of the WACs at Desmoines said that it was high time a pin up biy was selected from their quarters and that Duke was chosen by a 20 to 1 vote. Mr. Ellington and band played a concert engagement on Sunday, Dec. 18, at the Civic Opera House in the Windy City. WACs as well as ither women from miles a round crowded out many male fans. d (Press Photo Service) Servicemen’s "Holiday Honey” Charming and curvacious Frances Eas'e”, a St. Louis lassie, was immediately selected “Holiday Honey” by a huge group of soldiers and sailors at a servicemen’s center in Newd York this week accord ing to Pfc Josh Wimbish and Sgt Steve Jcnes. Miss Easter is spending the holidays in Harlem wilh rel atives and friends.
