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Saturday, April 15, 1944 OUR 17th YEAR-No. 10 I
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7 Omaha Legislators
All Top Favorites
All seven Omaha legislators were 1
top favorites in their districts in J
Tuesday's voting.
Twt were renominated without op- 1
position. They were Senators C'narl- -
es Tvrik, who received 2,906 votes in
26 precincts in the Seventh district, 1
and Cliff N. Ogden, who heceived 2,
842 votes in the 27 precincts of the '
Tenth district.
The two top men of each district r
will be on the ballot in the final elec- *
tion.
(
Here are the other local district
returns—complete but unofficial. 1
FOURTH DISTRICT
(23 precincts)
William J. Norman.2,452
William B. Olds 423
Leonard C. Stroup 321
FIFTH DISTRICT
(38 precincts)
Hrry A. Foster .1,409
John Adams 1,064
i lenn W. Olson 747
C. C. Galloway .540
SIXTH DISTRICT
(25 precincts)
Sam Klaver 1,354
Roger C. Andrews 383
Felix L. Gallagher 378
James LaHood .354
Maurice T. Hall 214
£ IGHTH ISTRICT
i.lGHTH DISTRICT
(30 precincts)
Peter P. G utoski 2,407
Robert C. Druesedow 825
James A. Ryan .758
John N. Powers 525
NINTH DISTRICT
(25 precincts of 28)
Sidney J. Cullingham 2,221
I noward L. Patterson .1,050
Grenville P. North 996
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VICE PRESIDENT OF MARTIN
BOMBER PLANT TO SPEAK
AT BETHEL AME CHURCH
Mr. Guy T. Wiley, the vice presid
ent of the Martin Bomber plant at
Fort Crook. Neraska, will deliver the
message at Bethel AME Church 2428
Franklin Street, Sunday, April 23rd.
at the evening services at 8 pm.
sharp. The public is invited. The
Pastor host is Rev. B. E. Jones.
Next Step Is Drive For Registra
tion Of Southern Voters
Young Tenor
Given Audi
tion by Mar’n
Anderson
JOHN ANGLIN, Negro Tenor
“Without question one of the great
vocal talents of the present time.”
Talented Boy to Sing in
Omaha, Tuesday Eve.,
April 25th....
At Pilgrim Baptist
MARIAN ANDERSON TELLS
YOUNG TENOR HE HAS
CAREER AHEAD
Marian Anderson, Negro contralto,
broke a rule Wednesday afternoon.
She granted an audition.
Miss Anderson heard John Anglin
502 N Bath, Oklahoma City, a 24
vear old Negro tenor, home from St.
Xavier’s college. New Orleans, for
a ..concert tour under the management
of Llsius Pryor, sing and told him at
the conclusion of the audition that
she saw no reason why he should not
have a great career ahead of him.
“Finish your school year,” she said.
John is a senior in college. “And
then go at your music seriously. How
are your languages?”
Anglin said he was studying both
French and German.
“Good. You'll need them.”
Anglin sang “Total Eclipse" Han
del and “Let All My Life Be Music,”
Spross.
He is product of the Oklahoma
City school system. When he was
in the grades. Mrs. Zelia Breaux, su
pervisor of music in the separate
schools, discovered his clear tenor
ringing out above the other children
in the school chorus. She gave him
bits in school productions and featur
ed him in his high schools days.
C. B. Macklin. late music critic for
the Oklahoman and Times, was en
thusiastic about his voice and was in
strumental in interesting Pryor who
after hearing him sing signed him up
for the concert tour which will start
April IT in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and
include eight mid-western states.
$97 RAISED IN BENEFIT
SHOW AT RITv THEATRE
$97 00 was raised by the Ritz Thea
tre a' 24th and Patrick Avenue, at
the matinee show for the benefit of
the Children's Hospital fund, stated
H. A. Taylor, manager and he wish
es to thank all those children of the
neighborhood who responded so gen
1 erously.
WASHINGTON, April 11 (ANP
In the wake of the supreme court de
cision of last week declaring that
Negroes may participate in Texas pri
-mary elections, at least two agencies
have gone to work on interpretations
and applications of the ruling, it is
learned this week.
Victor Rotnem, chief of the civil
rights section of the justice depart
ment, and Tom Clark, assistant attor
ney general, have been asked by Fran
cis Biddle, attorney general, to pre
pare a memorandum interpreting the
scope of the decision.
At the same time, through Leslie
Perry, administrative assistant tor
the NAACP, it is understood that
the legal committee of the associat
ion will “in all probability’’ take up
the matter before any formal state
ment is issued by the organization.
Dean William H. Hastie is chair
man of this committee, which is na
tion-wide in its representation, and
numbers about 30 legal lights. At
tempts to reach Dean Hastie at How
ard university were to no avail. There
fore it could not be determined just
what procedure would be followed.
A meeting of the full committee
might be called, or it may be con
fined to a few in this area. On the
other hand, views and interpretations
might be solicited by mail and later
collated.
Questions to be settled as a result
of the 8 to 1 decision entail applica
tion in particular, that is, whether the
ruling has validity in states other
than Texas. Also, the issue may a
rise as to whether the right to pay
poll taxes for participation in this
year’s elections may be extended. In
Texas the dealine was in January.
Already the decision has aroused a
welter of comment from the south.
Some have said point blank that oth
er ways and means will be found to
keep Negroes from voting in primar
ies. None took the position that it
could not be done.
NEGROES TO EAT IN ST.
LOUIS LUNCHROOMS
Measure Passed by Vote of L?-{
St. Louis, April 11 (ANP)— By a
vote of 22-4, the board of aldermen
last week passed a bill which permits
Negroes to eat in lunchrooms in city
hall and the municipal courts build
ing. The measure, sponsored by Aid
Jasper C. Caston of the Sixth ward
and lone Negro member of the board
became a law only after a heated ar
gument by the board.
The bill makes it a misdemeanor
|punishable by a fine $25 to $500
for concessionaires on city property
to refuse to serve customers because
of race, creed or color.
PREMIERE OF WAR DEPT.
FILM “THE NEGRO SOLDIER”
SET FOR APRIL 13TH
The premiere of the official War
Deparment film “The Negro Soldier”
depicting the role of the Negro fight
er in America from 1770 to 1941,
will be held at the Ambassador Hotel
Theatre, Los Angeles, California on
Thursday, April 13, 1944, the M ar
Department announced.
More than seventy top-flight per
formers of the stage and screen have
been extended invitations for the in
itial showing. Among those present
will be Brigadier General Benjamin
O. Davis of the Inspector General's
Department and Mr. Truman K. Gib
son, Jr., Civilian Aide to the Secret
ary of War.
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NEW YORK—Reports from many
centers throughout the South indicate
that the next step, following the
sweeping 8 to 1 decision of the Su-’
preme Court April 3, outlawing
white primaries in Texas, will be the
registration of qualified Negro vot
ers.
In some states of the Deep South
it will be difficult for many Negroes
to vote in the primaries this year ei
ther because registration periods have
closed or because the deadline for pay
meat of poll taxes is passed. IU
most states there will be another per
iol for the payment of poll taxes, but
that will come after the primaries and
before the general elections.
However, the NAACP announced
here this week that there is still time
to test the new ruling on a wldef
scale in Georgia and Louisiana.
In Georgia the last date for regis
tration of voters is May 7 and the
last date for the payment of poll ta-x
es is May 9. The poll tax is $1 per
year and is cumulative. That is, a
voter who is 30 years old and has
never voted will have to pay $9. The
date of the primary is July 4.
In Louisiana there is no poll tax\
the registration deadline is August 12
and the primaries will be held Sept
ember 12.
In Texas the primary will be held
July 22, but only those Negroes will
be able to vote in the primary who
paid their poll tax of $1.75 on or be
fore February 4.
;it South Carolina, the registration
deadline is July 29, but in certain
counties, with 50,000 population it is
August 15, the last date for the pay
ment of poll taesx was February 29
and the primaries are on August 29.
The poll tax is $1 and is not cumul
ative.
In Mississippi there does not ap
pear to be much chance since the date
for registration is said to have pass
ed, but the primary will not be^held
until July 11. The poll tax is $2—
highest in the South—and is cumul
ative for two years only.
In Arkansas there is no registra
tion date and no deadline for poll tax
es, which can be paid at any time.
These are $1 per year, are not caim-i
ulative, but a $1 fine is assessed for
lelinquent payment. The primary
will be held August 8.
In Alabama there seems to be less
chance than in any other state with
the exception of Mississippi. It
would appear that only those few
Negro voters who are now on the
list have paid their poll taxes will be
able to try to vote in the primary to
be held May 2. The poll tax is 1.50.
per year and is cumulative.
The NAACP announced that its
branches throughout Texas have re
ported a heavy increase in the pay
ment of poll taxes by Negroes in an
ticipation of a victory in the supreme
court
“We do not know exactly what
methods will be used by southern
states in their attempt to nullify the
supreme court decision," said Roy
Wilkins, acting secretary, “but judg
ing by the outcries of Southerners we
can be sure that many tricks will be.
employed such as fantastic education
al tests and even intimidation 'bv
force and threats of force.
“However, our people in the South
have shown a quiet deertmination to
exercise their rights now that the su
preme court has clarified the issue.
In Georgia, our people will present
themselves for registration and on
primary election day, It they are
refused an opportunity to participate
they expect to bring action immed
iately in the Federal courts. The
XAACP has been spear-heading the
legal battle on the white primary
since 1924 and we do not intend to a
bandon the fight until all qualified
voters exercise their rights in the pri
mary elections.”
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP spec
ial counsel issued a statement saying:
“We have made a thorough study of
the voting laws of the several states/
in the South. We have also made a
survey of the different practices
whereby Negroes are prevented from
registering and or voting in many of
the Southern states. We are making
every effort to see that the laws of
the United States, as interpreted by
he United States Supreme Court,
will be enforced this year.
“Earlier decisions in the Supreme
Court have outlawed discriminatory
registration practices. Today’s decis
ion by the Supreme Court re-estab
lishes the right of qualified Negro
electors to vote in primary elections.
This decision moves a long way to
ward giving meaning to the purposes
for which this war is being fought."
ENLARGED AAA STAFF TO
PUSH FOOD PRODUCTION
Four new Agricultral Adjustment
Agency cotact representatives have
bee appointed in four states to en
curage increased wartime farm pro
duction through soud soil conserva
tion practices. They are pictured a
bovc ith regional AAA field officers,
and other contact men who were ap
pointed last year. In the front row,
left o right, are J. O. Williams, new
j ly appointed contact representative
ifor Georgia; James P. Davis. Alboti
| L. Holsey, AAA regional field of
1 fiecers; second row, left to right are
A. H. Fhr. contact man for Oklaho
ma ; Wm. E. Ammons, contact man
for Mississppi; Joshua A. M. Lloyd,
Henry W. Espy, and Colquit D. Yan
cv, newly appointed contact represent
atives for Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas respectively.
(Continued on pagejcgr>4)
WALTER WHITE TO BRAZIL
New York—Waler White, NAAC
P secretary who has been overseas
since January 3, has cabled his office
from Algiers that he expects to go
from there to Cairo and from Cairo
to Rio de Janiero, Brazil. He ex
pects to b in Brazil until April 18, al
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the faces of all our soldiers and sailors overseas when they receive V-Mail from home.
Letters reach them quickly and sum'y when sent by V-Mail. Army and Navy Postal Serv
ices both emphasize that V-Mail ways gets there, so keep 'em smiling with V-Mail letters.
Probe Louis Arrest
The War department has launched
a thorough investigation of the charg
es of humiliation to S-Sgt. Joe Louis
and Sgt. Ray Robinson when they
paused in an Army Bus Depot wait
ing room at the Army Post at Camp
Sibert. Ala. According to informa
tion given by Louis and Robinson,
while they were in the segregated de
pot for a bus to Birmingham, the)
wait was so long that the Champ and
though schedules are not certain and I
will return to New York about May '
. -v ^ ^-i — —
Sgt. Ray went to the lilly-white bus
depot (a few feet away) to telephone
a taicabx when an MP. approached
them and made the arrest because
they were in “white folks territory”
and considered out of bounds. Photo
shows S-Sgt. Louis and Sgt. Robin
son discussing the incident after their
release and the Champ is said to have
asserted “The whole thing stinks!”
(Press Photo Service)
1 after stopding over at several
army outposts in the Caribbean.
Defiant Parson Tells
Crump He Takes
Orders from Christ
Not Him ...
MEMPHIS, April 12 (ANP
Bravely striking back at "Boss” E.
PI. Crump's public attack against him
the Rev. G. A. Long, pastor of the
First Baptist Church on Beale street,
where A. Philip Randolph spoke a
few nights ago, openly declared that
j Christ, and not Crump, is his boss.
"I do not believe there will be any
race trouble as the result of A. Phil
ip Randolph's address,” Rev. Long
said. "I do not believe E. H. Crump
believes there will be any trouble be
cause of this address. I have no hate
for the white group, not even Mr.
Crump, who persists in heaping un
true criticism upon me. I do not en
courage hate for the white group:
some of my best friends are white,
for whom I am ready to give my last
drop of blood. I wrould have Mr.
Crump to know I am an ambassador
of Jesus Christ and take orders only
from Christ.”
Tracing the result of his seven
years of citizenship in Memphis and
his contacts with members of both
races, Rev. Long pointed out that he
is an American citizen, born in Phil
lips county, Ark., He said he fully
recognizes what Crump means by "a
bidiug the consequences,” but declar
ed, "I have made up my mind.”
"Now as far as the town being bet
ter off without me," Rev. Long said,
"I aid not ask Mr. Crump could I
come to this town, and I am not go->
ing to ask him if I may stay. I have
heard rumors that I am to be hound
ed by police and the First Baptist
church on Beale would be condemn
ed because I allowed A. Philip Ran
lolph to speak at the church as one
>f the mediums of breaking me down
and running me out of town. I am!
not wealthy like Mr. Crump, I have
no bodyguards nor any police to car
(Continued on pa^e 4)
TO HOLD EXAMINATIONS
FOR U. S. COAST GUARD
A CADEM V CANDIDA TES
ON MAY 10TH AND 1ITH
Nation-wide examinations for can
didates applying for admission to thi
United States Coast Guard Acadcnn
will be held op May to arid 11, th«
commandant of the Coast Guard rear
Admiral Russell R. Waesche, ann
ounced.
“The need for officer material ot
highest calibre in the regular Coast
Guard service has not been diminish
ed with the prospect of Allied vic
tory,’ * Admiral Waesche explained.
“Now, more than ever, a cadetship in
the Coast Guard Academy offers an
opportunity for a career of disting
uished public service to young men
with sound bodies, stout hearts, alert
minds, and a li'ng for the sea and its
lore.” I
i he second Negro candidate. En
sign Harvey C. Russell, Jr., of Lou
isville, Ky., was graduated from the
Coast Guard Academy on February
23, 1944. The first was Ensign Jos
eph J. Jenins of Detroit, Mich. En
sign Jenkins and Lt. (j. g.) Clarence
Samuels of Brooklyn, another Coast
Guard officer, are now on active pa
trol duty in the North Atlantic.
Appointments to cadetships in the
Coast Guard Academy are made
through competitive examinations op
en to candidates who are not less
than 17 years of age nor more than
22 on May 1, 1944. They must have
fulfilled the requirements as to char
acter and standing in the community
be physically sound, and have an ed
ucational background that would jus
tify their designation for taking the
examnations.
Men m the armed services who ful
fill the conditions for application are
eligible to take examinations if they
are stationed in continetal United
States, Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Ri
co. Candidates who are successful in
obtaining an appointment to the Coast
Guard Academy may be aiscnargen
from the Army or Navy to accept the
appointment.
While the minimum educational re
quirement for a candidate is gradu
ation from high school, a good pro
porton of the annual applicants are
young men from preparatory schools
and colleges.
In determining the final mark of
candidates, three subjects are given
equal weight—mathematics, English
and General Adaptability.
The adaptability grade is made on
the basis of- a personal interview dur
ing which the examiier appraises the
candidates' general fitness and adapt
ability for the service, takin* into
consideration his previous school rec
ord in such matters as scholastic and
athletic attainments, leadership and
personality.
Winal standing on the list of pros
pective appointees is determined by
averaging the marks received in the
three subjects. Candidates are then
placed on an appointee list in the or
der of their grades and the top 150
are chosen for appointment. Each
newly appointed class reports at the
Academy in the latter part of July.
Those who satisfactorily complete
the full course of instruction on grad
uation are awarded the degree of
(Continued on page|5^r'4j
VOTING IS LIGHTEST
IN THIRTY YEARS
Judging by the returns in Tuesdays
primary it was the lightest vote in 30
years.
The vote was hair the normal vote
for a primary in a presidential year
and considerably less than hall the
vote cast in the 1940 primary.
If the present ratio is followed the
republican vote this year will total-a
bout 81 thousand: the dermatic vote,
about 45 thousand. This is a total
of 126 thousand.
Here is a tabulation of the Nebras
ka primary vote for presidential and
"off" years.—
Presidential Off
1916 192,000 1918 135.000
1920 192,000 1922 .230,000
1924 .218,000 1926 271,000
19928 238,200 1930 295,000
1932 284,000 1934 408,000
1936 294,000 1938 521,000
1910 341.000 1942 219,000