HEW Hi THEjlNE LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY Entered as Second-Cla* Ratter at Cnder Act of March 8. U7*~ lO 1QAA OTTR m VY&P Tffo 1 —CITY EDITION— the Post Office Omaha. Nebraska Business Phone: HA-0800. HA-0801 Saturday. XCD. JLZ, WUXI 11 til X Hi A It-WO. 1 PRICE FITE CENTS PULLMAN PORTERS TO HAVE MASS-MEETNG ! WEBSTER to Talk Zion Baptist Church Sun., Feb. 20, 3:30 pjn. The Bfyytherhood of 'keeping Car Porters are sponsoring a public Mass Meeting on Sunday. Febru ary 3flth -At 239 pm at the Zion Baptist (Qiurch. Mr A. Philip Randolph, an out standing National leader among hie people win be the principle speaker, and will be ably assisted by Mr. M P. Webster. another na tionally known speaker and the only member on the President s Far Employment Practice Comm ittee. Both speakers are nationally known and internationally honored for their outstanding activities in the interest of the Negro race and any wail thinking citizen. » . ■ himself an injustice to fail to hear them. There will be no admission to tfcja meeting nor a free-will offer ing taken Every is cordially invited. To Sing at Pleasant Green Baptist Church Mrs. Leona Mitchell, Gospel Sin ger will sing at Pleasant Green Baptist Church. February 14th un der the auspices of the Senior choir There will be a silver offering. Rev. J H. Reynolds, Pastor. Mrs. Marie Alford. President. Fighting 99th Bags 13th Nazi Plane Algiers —It's No- 13 for the 99th Fighter Squadron at the 12th C. S. Air Force composed of Negro pil ots flying War hawks. 2nd Lt. E road T Driver of Trenton. N. J., brought the squad - roll's bag of enemy planes to that number Saturday by shooting down a German Focke-Wulf as the squad ran protected trqOps on the Anziof beachhead. Champion Bond and War Stamp Salesman As far as can be learned Sgt Bivens is the Champion Siam p and Bond salesman among the colored people on the northside and even the entire city. There hasn't been a day. according to a statement he \ made before the members if the Roosevelt Post. No. 50. Am ricsn Legion at iast Thursday's minting, that he hasn't sold less than 9t33 wortrje>f b- nds and sttntps. And his efforts are greatly addr-g to the prestige at the northside cam- j paign. even though most of his sales are made to downtown buy ers. CIO ELECTION STILL IN DOUBT Reports show that the CIO union is favored by a majority of the Bomber plant workers although the AFL. won. some departments. 3ut the ieeue i» still in doubt because it isn’t yet certain whether the •workers really want a cnirn .as their bargaining agent. Many of thetm seem to favor dealing with the management on an individual basis- To find ouft definitely how the workers stand on the issue. ,-.f co: evtive barg-in ing there is to be a run-off ballot or election in a few da vs between the CIO. fun:On and the Martin Bomber Plant. So the public can not be informed as to the final re sults until this election is over. Subscribe Today! LSO ‘Navy Revue' to be Staged at St. Benedict's Saturday 8:30pm. NEGRO PRESS DELEGATES INTERVIEW PRES. Lav Twenty-one Point Statement and Post War Aspirations Before Chief Executive (Special to The Omaha Guide) — Washington, dc..—cm behalf of the millions of colored Amer icans patriotically supporting Am erica's war effort on the home and fighting fronts, the Negro Newspaper Publishers’ Association conferred wrth President Roose velt on Saturday. Feb. a. at the White House and laid before him a twenty-one point statement and postwar as pi rations. The occasion was truly historic It was the first time in this coun try's history that a President had formally received representatives of the Negro Press as an organiz ed group. FROM 9 STATES AND D. C. In the delegation acting on be half of the association and as spok esman for Negro Americans, and advocates of their fuller citizen ship, were 13 editors and publish ers from nine states and the Dis trict of Columbia. The President talked with an listened to the delegation for tmr- ] ty-five minutes in his executive j office at the White House. The remarks of the Chief Ez.ec- i utive were off the record, but the j statement of war arms was well received by the President, and he spoke frankly and at length about ch- matters presented to him. PERSONNEL OF DELEGATION Carter Wesley, editor. , Texas) Informer; William O. Wal ker. editor, Cleveland (Ohio CaTI I Post; Aexander Barnes, manager. Washington (DC.) Tribune; How ard H. Murphy, NXPA secretary, and business manager, Afro-Am erican, Baltimore. Mi; C. A Scott editor, Atlanta iGai Daily World; i P. Bernard Toons. Jr., editor and Thomas W Toung, business man ager. Journal and Guide. Norfolk. Va.: Dr. C. B. Powell, publisher, ■Amsterdam Star-News. New Turk. NT.: Ira Lewis .president and P. L .Prattis. executive editor. Pitts burgh (Pa.) Courier; Louis E. Mar tin. editor Michigan Chronicle, Detroit; John H. Sengestacke. ger . era.1 manager, and Charles P. Browning. national representative Chicago (111.) Defender; Also present was Ted Poston of -1 i the Office of War Information. • Mr. Sengestacke. president of the j TRIUMPHS! Marva Louis. “Fistiana’s Queen." swims’ out with “Shoo. Shoo. Baby" in the staid old Quaker City of Philadelphia at her premiere before 4,000 fans :asx Tuesday evening. Although billed as the • Sophisticated I ady of Song" the beauteous wife of the Worldd’s Heavyweight Champion, Sit. Joe Louis. immediately swung iu the groove when her “hep" audience yelled, “Solid!" Billed to open at New York's swanky Hurricane following Duke El lington's hand there, Marva’s itinerary practically covers the entire Southern and Midwestern states. ¥ Appointed Summer School Teacher REV MR. J. E BLACKMORE HONORED— The Bellevue Conference, a unit of the Board of Education and Social Action and Agency of th Presbyterian Church. USA., which meets every summer at Dana. Col- i lege. Blair. Xebr has appointed : the Rev. Mr. J. E. Biaekmore. pas- | tor of the Hillside Presbyterian Church. 2dih and Ohio streets, as ! Summer Teacher. Rev. Biaekmore will teach a course n. Modem Messages of the Ancient Prophets", beginning July 4th,—21st. The students who will take this course are high school and college groups ranging in ages from 13 h, 22. ReT Blackmpre .will apprec at seeing any cf his friends who may desire to sit in on the classes dur ing the semester ==-■--===== . publishers association introduced i the delegation and the President ! shook hands with each of the conferees, acknowledging the in- I dividual introductions with typ ical Roosevelt charm and cordial ity. PRESIDENT COMMENTS Then the Chief Executive spoke for about ten minutes before lis tening to the spokesmen of the group. Afterwards he commented at length upon the summation of aims and aspirations. The MNT.1 includes in its mam- 1 bership newspapers from twenty five states and the District of Col- j tfnxbia. The member papers rep resent 95 percent of the circulation af ali Negro secular publications. OTHER OFFICIALS SEEN The interview with Mr. Roose velt oilmans a aeries of conferenc es held by the publishers associa tion with high government .iffic- ! tais in the past several months. ! during which they have advocated ! greater justice for and utilisation ] of colored Americans in the war production program and in tne armed forces Previous Conferences were held I with Vice-President Henry A. Wal lace. Navy Secretary Frank Ka»jv. Attorney General Francis Biddle. Manpower Commissioner Paul V. ■ M.Xatt. Major Genera- Lewis Her- j - h- y of Selective Service, Assisi ant Secretary cf War John J. Ma (continued ■ . pag» 2) WE LOST A LOVELY NEIGHBOR On Wednesday evening. Febr uary 9th the sweetheart of the . neighborhood of 25th and Grant; level by everyone who knew her, ; and one who had contributed much to the religious, civic and frateyr t activities of this city for the past 30 years that she resided here The mother of four girLs and e;eht sons wh- had the struggle os a widow t t New Pres. Hampton Officially Installed Speaker J. W. Davis Invites Graduates to 'Live Dangerously or Die Willingly’.. •. Hampton nstitute. Va.,—Declar ing that the protection of the right* of Negroes and minorities a a na tion-wide issue and calls for nau.jn wide treatment and cure. President John W. Davis of West Virginia State College invited the midyear graduating class of Hampton Insti tute last Monday night to “inr* dangerously or die willingly" for a •■world of tree men and for a realistic democracy at home rhi**! will include all people freely * d equally.” Speaking specifically On “The i Right To Work ' - =.:••> that this right is ' •inseparably and irrevoc- ] ably connected with a man's free- 1 d,gn” and that “there must be no j end to the fight to keep the right j to work open factually and rightly for all of our people both in war and peace time." ASfltng that this is not in the in terest of Negoes only but to save democacy for America and peace for the world. Dr Devi* said: “The right of - . XegrOes in Am erica to work, to be upgraded ss workers, and to bargain Collective ly with other workers is being us- ; ed by sinister forces in this coun- j try to harm the total interests - £ America and the cause of derm. - racy wherever it exists in the world j “Negroes and their friends muss constantly fight to remove every j barrier and discrimination which would result in “freezing” Negroes in undesirable jobs. The fight must continue so as to bring about Complete equality among Negro and white workers in all phases and classes of organized Labor.” ntts. ■ *■ KW tiv (HARTER Dr. Davis was introduce! by Acting President H. O'Hara Lanier : of the college, who subsequently conferred the Bachelor of Selene, degree upon the IS members of the graduating class and then present ed the charter of Hamptg in-q.. ture to its new president. Ra pa P Bridgman, who officially becam ? head of the college. The transfer of authority was i followed by a pledge of lovait. tram the Hampton alumni by Dr. Albert O. Reid .president of the j alumni association. FORMER WORKERS HONORED The .graduation exercises con cluded a week end marked by oth er midyear commencement activ ities and the observance of Foun der's Day at Hampton Institute. Following a reception for the grad uating class on Friday evening, the Armstrong League of the college a id a memorial service Saturday night, in honor of three former workers at the Institute who pass ed away during recent month.-;. They were Dr. R. Nathaniel Deti. former head of the department ,.t music. Dr. Harry D. Howe, f'r many years college physician and William H. Scovilie. former coll ge -ecretary. DR. WRIGHT SPEAKS President Arthur D. Wright of the Southern Education Founda tion delivered the combined baC u aureate and Founder’s Day ud Ireis in Memorial Church Sunday morn lug, urging the granites to ievelop the tolerance and love for - .am.unity which characterized the personality of General Armstrong, who founded Hampton Institute in Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12th . ## For Your Sweetest’s VALENTINE, Feb. 14, Give A War Bond! MOG’s PROBED BY FBL The FBI. stepped in and arrest ed 10 heads cf the famous Military Order of Guards in Chicago last week. Above is shown Adjutant General Geary Bell who technical ly runs the organization. Charging them with wearing the Army uni form and insignia illegally. Rich ard G. Finn. Assistant XT. 3. J> torney is said to have charge 1 the Guards witn "petty rachkets” with in the- ranks. "However”, he said. 'There was nothing subversiv > in it.” Another U. S. Attorney. S. Albert WoII charged the Organiza tion with wearing of uniform, sim ulating regulation Army outfits and possessing Army insignias. TU ten men were taken to the r* s Marshall’s office and finger print ed. Among the men ’-"rested were General Stewart. 117 E. 34th St. CoL Eugene A. Harris. 747 X. Rush St.. Gen. Bell himself. SS akers at the dedication m •iu :■ d Dr. J. M. G. Ramsey, chair man of the alumni campaign «3m m tie -. Dr. Reid. J. Henry Scatter g XL chairman of the Humph>n institute board of trustees, Robert •gdeh Purves. former college treas icrer, Dr. Lanier. Mr. Bridgman and i others. The traditional senior Chap-i st'r vice was held Sunday night In Og ■den Halt when the staff of the college presented to Dean Lah t a solid gold Guen watch and a war bond for Mrs. Lanier as a *rtbate for his administration of the col lege during his year of service as acting president. 0 '"TURN' TO” a fast moving en- | tertalament of group singing, tap dancing, mimics, magic and barber shop harmonies, will be the fea ture on the Saturday night pro gram of the tTSO Club at St. Ben edict s Auditorium at 8JO pm. This variety show is being pro duced by the navy boys from Hast ing. Xn addition to military pop uiar renditions by over thirty blended voices, the show will fea- | tore solo singing by Thomas Cov- J mgton. colored gunners mate, 2d j class. Before entering the Nava' services. Covington was a popular siager Over Station WDNC, Dur ham. S. S. He has also sang be- j fore President Roosevelt ani the King and Queen cf England. Two marines and two coast - guardsmen, under the direction of John O. Halit will present several numbers in barbershop hannoni-rs Before entering the Coast Guard as a specialist in handling of pa trot dogs Hulit toured the coun try as the head of a quartet which, won high honors in 1942 at the an nual convention of barb irs hop . quartets. PROGRAM Group Singing- "The Marching Song"; 'Marine Hymn"; “Ship mates Forever": "Anchors A weigh." Tap dancing Trio-' Jesse Green Huey Porter and Carl Patton. Harmonica Solo. H. McLain Sol© Rendition. ...B--mard Most Golden Gate Quartette. . “Original Arrangements". Intermission Music by RSO. Orchestra Group Singing.. “I Got Plenty of Nothing"; "Steal Away”. Soto Rendition.. Thomas Corington Jitterbugging and Boogie tVfcogie- ■ J. E. Holmes and David Young E, F. Barry at the piano Piano solo.._. . . .Edward GrguCi j "Tom Cats"—Quintet. . Other.> Pet ty, David Young. J. E. Holmes, J. H. Robinson and Charles Mosley. FINALE. Dyp.it Hymn . . . Entire Cast The entire cast will enjoy a ban quet with th^ir friends at St. JGbr. A ME. church immediately follow ing the performance and wih be ' entertained at the USO Cluo oh Sunday afternoon at 3DO pm. The public in invited to witness the performance at St. Benedict’s- and- j itortum starting promptly at *:3 pm. N. Ham'in Ave. The Others seiz ed were "colonels, majors and cap tains.” They influde Edward L Rich-ter, 1351 Winn-enar A»t . a -awyer: Frank Don Iltua. 5413 N Winthrcp Ave.. Eugene A. Schaack j 5104 N. Menard Ave., MarceUu^ ; Charles Saxton. 5534 Drexel Blvd.. and John A. Seymour, Jr.. 4413 N Hoyne Ave. Governor will Address Negro History Meeting PUBLIC INVITED, EVEBYBODY WELCOME THE HONORABLE DWIGHT GRISWOLD,— Governor of the State of Nebraska, will be the prin ciple speaker at the ‘Negro History Meeting' spon sored by the American Legion Roosevelt Post No. 30, on Thursday. February 17th att 8 pm. at the Le gion Hall, 24th and Parker Streets. 0. C. GaFoway, editor of The Omaha Guide, will introduce the Governor at this meeting. Not Just An other Dance! The Valentin*? Dane • at Dream land Hall is not to be just another dance. but is being planned tc be one that will long be rcmemfcer«»d by pe* pie here in Omaha. To be sure there has been dances where two orchestras have battled ag ainst each other for musical sup remacy (probably with neither cur ing who won), but what is the in tentions of those in charge of this, lance is to have the two orri'es tras just play and playq. and send the dancers—wow them, make them have the best time of th**»r lives—knocking themselves out. having themselves a ball while the orchestras are battling away. Oh sure there wilt be ppi2 s en tered to thc*e best at Jitterbug ing waltzing or doing the New town S hotisoh. But who cares » bout a prize if there is a lot of fun attached to the contest’ Yes the intentions of the dance comm ittee is to arrange things >o that everybody will have a wonderful time, even if they do no more than look on. And the refreshments that w-U *e served are meant tc be refresh ing sure enough- Good order win. be maintained and each patron will be given the proper consider ation be he old or young. You •an"t mise on this dance. And the committee, which is compose*! of John Riley. Chairman. Richard Bryant. William Booker, and A Johnson, are putting forth every effort to see that dance lovers ion’t miss on the date either. So here it is in large type. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1th AT DREAMLAND FTAT.T. THE OMAHA GUIDE IS YOUR PAPER— READ IT WEEKLY. Negro History Week Proclamation' Where**, he Negro has place-* aa ! Important part in the history ef | Am-rica and has rendered vital service both in government and in civilian pursuits: and Whereas. Negr. e» are serving with distinction and with k-ya'ty cn the War efforts: and Whereas, the week of February 13-13 will be observed as the nine teenth annual celebration of N -gro History Week throughout the country and Whereas, this observance will Jo much to acquaint the general puto . lie with the- achievements of £h* i Negro Now. therefore, I. John w. Brisker. Governor of Ohio do> hereby proclaim the week of Feb ruary 13-19 as Negro History W>-ek > to Oltfc-an* “T urge in eitiaons t® cooperate in this observance t*» stimulate greater public study and understanding of Negr® life and history. In witness whereof. I have here unto s-t my hand and caifa .d the great seal r f Ohio to be affixed at Catena fans, this ind day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. Raph Underwood was fired ft.99 in police court Monday morning on the charge of keeping a disorderly house A henchman was fined $15. Herman Moiton, -.-har*ed with disturbing the peace, was fined $15 and coats. The case of F. L. Hogan was con tinued until February 19th. Presbyterian head visits Negro soldiers REV. DR. WILLIAM BARROW PCGH Executive head rf tile Presbvter ' '•hurch visits Negro troops in Burma, just on the edge of Chirr:* ' . prelate n -aised the spirit the manhood and the fortitude of the boys be visited and of the chap ; :aiBs. fjire of whorr. were *oU rc*l. | tAXPl l