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Saturday, April 22, 1944 Our 17th YEAR—No. 11
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MISS. EDITOR DEFIES HIGH
COURT ON PRIMARY
New York—Regardless of the U.
S. Supreme Court, Negroes will not
vote in Mississippi declared Frederick
Sullens, fiery editor of the Jackson,
Miss., Daily News, in the following
sharp editorial appearing April 4:
NOT IN THIS STATE
“The United States Supreme Court
rules that Negroes can vote in party
primaries—including Democratic par
ty primaries.
"They can't in Mississippi.
"The supreme Court may think so,
but it is quite wrong, insofar as De
mocratic primary elections in Miss
issippi are concerned.
"If anybody doubts that, let ’em
try.’'
Woman Driver Hits Girl
while Driving Through
Amber Light; No Driver’s
License; Freed by Judge
Lil'r Cunningham was crossing
I'aftta,r Street from the South to the
north or the west crosswalk at 16ih
Street and was struck by a Pontiac
Sedan License 1-81378 Nebraska, be
ing driven east on Farnam street
through an amber light that zvas turn
ing red by Mrs. Simon Corelick, 609
North 39th St. Lillie zvas carried on
Case Reports
Thu tcay, April vz, vtdd
Central Police Station
To 7 he Chief of Police, Auto
Pedes'-ian Acc.
Sir: I respectfully report the fol
lowing case of occuring in this city.
Date, April 13th, 1944.
Tline f :00 pm.
Name of person: Lillie Cunningham.
Age ; 6. Occupation: Elevator Op
erator. Sex : Female. Color : Col
ored.
Residence address: 2421 Caldwell
St.
vVheie and How: 16th and Far.i
am St., struck by automobile.
By whom found and residing. Of
ficei Charles Ward, Police ofiic:*.
Nature of Accident or Injury: —
Piuised right sides, bruises and
abrasions both knees.
How disposed of : To Drs. Hospn
al by Barger and Wilhelm, atten led
b- Dr Doyle, Interne and released
Property found on body and remarks.
3.000 NEGROES. WHITES
MEET TO OUST BILBO
WASHINGTON, April 21 (ANP
Three thousand Negroes and whites,
one of the largest mixed audiences of
its kind ever seen in the nation’s cap
itol. joined in a protest meeting and
called for the immediate resignation
or removal of Sen. Theodore Bilbo
as chairman of the senate district
committee last Wednesday night.
They filled the main auditorium
and large basement room of the As
burv ME. Church pastured, by the
militant Dr. Robert Moten Williams
Held under the auspices of the
Sponsoring Committee to Oust Sen
Bilbo, the meeting unanimously ad
opted a resolution calling for his re
moval ‘because of his undemocraC
cpF< -it ion to *h:se iderds for witch
"" are lighting and because of his
dem nstrated mobility to act for ' i
on behalf of the voteless citizens of
the nation’s capital."
A rough $357 was collected to com
pietc the job.
Charles H. Houston, recently ap
the front of the car for J.> ft. after
the impact. Lillie zoos cared for as
stated above and Mrs. Corclick was
arrested, charged with ‘Reckless
Driving’* and “No Driver’s License”
Reported by Officers Ward, Clapp,
Wilson, C. B. and Chlcborad.
L. C. Hcidcman, Deck.
BOMBER PLANT VICE PRES.
TO SPEAK AT BETHEL AME.
SUNDAY. APRIL 23RD
Everyone is invited to hear Mr.
Guy T. Wiley, vice president and
general manager of the Glenn L.
Martin, Nebraska Company, speak at
Bethel AME Church 24th and Fran
klin streets, next Sunday eve., April
23, 1044, at 8 pm. sharp.
Rev. B. E. Jones, pastor. Every
one welcome,
iiiiiiiiiiimmmmisMiiiimiimiiJsimi
pointed to the FEPC, urged that the
fight against undemocratic elements
be carried on with vigor. “There is!
no compromise,” he declared. “You
have just got to stand up and slug it
out. You either win or lose.’ ’
He said the trouble is not entirely
with the south but rather with those
persons who “say they represent the
south but in fact are misrepresenting*
the south by not representing all of
that area.”
Houston praised Russia for its
lack of color discrimination and at
tiibuted that policy as the reason for
the victories the red army is scoring
or. the eastern front.
Dorothy Strange, secretary of the
Oust Bilbo group, described the Mis
sissippi senate as the “shame of a na
t on” and asserted that Washington
ian* have made up their minds that
“Bilbo must go.”
WAR DEPARTMENT PROBING
AUSTRALIAN RAPE CASE
New York—In response to a tele
gram by the NAACP to President
Roosevelt, the Judge Advocate Gen
erals office of the War Department
has announced that it is requesting a
report of the facts in the case of the
conviction and death sentences of
four American Negro soldiers and
one American Negro merchant sea
man on a charge of rape in Towns
ville, Australia.
Senator White Says He “Thinks”
Most Republicans Will Favor
Cloture; Eleven Definite Promises
Made.
Washington, DC.,—With the ar.ti
poll tax bill scheduled to come up in
the Senate sometime during the week
of April 24, the stage is set for a bit
ter debate in which race hatred speech
es are almost certain to be featured.
The Southern Senators from poll
tax states announced many months a
go, after the bill passed the House,
that they would filibuster against it.
Loudest among them is Senator Bil
bo of Mississippi, who at first prom
ised to talk “for 30 days,’’ but on
March 21 before the Mississippi legis
lature revised his pledge to “18 mon
ths.”
The only way a filibuster can be
broken effectively is through the vot
ing ot cloture (limitation of debate)
and in order to do this a two thirds
vote of senators present is necessary.
There has been some indication that
the Senate may vote cloture. Sen
ator Wallace H. White, Jr., of Maine
generally regarded as Minority Lea
der followinb the death of Senator
Charles McNary, announced recently
that he “thought” most of the Repub
licans would vote for cloture.
Most Senators are very cagey about
making a positive pledge on cloture,
but in answer to a letter from the
NAACP last winter, the following
Senators definitely promised to vote
cloture; Barkley (D. Ky.) ; Capper
(R. Kans.); Gillette, (D. Iowa);
Johnson, (D. Colo.) ; Wagner, (D.
N. Y.) ; Walsh (D. Mass.) ; Taft,
(R. Ohio) ; Lucas (D. 111.) ; Reed,
(R. Kans.) ; Vandenberg (R. Mich.)
and Ball (R. Minn.).
Although Senator Gillette of Iowa
promised to vote for cloture because
he does not believe in a filibuster, he
announced that he is not in favor of
the anti-poll tax bill. He only be
lieves it should have a free and fair
debate.
Among the Senators who voted for
cloture when the anti-poll tax bill
was up in 1942 are: Barkley, Bone,
(paired for), Brewster, Capper,
Green Thomas of Utah, Truman, Da
vis, Johnson of Colorado, Mead,
Thomas of Oklahoma, Wagner, Wal
sh, Taft, Danaher, Mhrray (paired
for), Reed, Tunnell, Vandenberg, Wi
ley and Ball.
Sensing the possibility that cloture
will be voted and the filibuster thus
killed, the southern Senators have
perfected a new plan to delay a vote
on H. R. 7 indefinitely. They a^e;
said to have drawn up about 1,000 a
mendments and every amendment is
debatable, even under the limitation
of cloture.
NAACP branches in 34 states have
writetn their Senators urging support
of the bill, after receiving a letter of
advice from the Washington Bureau
of the NAACP here.
The national office of the NAACP
speaking for local chapters through
out the nation wired Senator James
M. Mead, of New York, as follows:
“National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People with
570 local chapters throughout the na
tion on eve of debate on anti-poll tax
bill remains confident you will carry
out pledge to lead proponetns of meas
ure and stand firm against all pro
cedures which would prevent fair de
bate and free vote on this legislation.
With filibuster announced in advance
invocation of cloture absolutely nec
essary to insure vote.”
12TH LIBERTY SHIP IISS JOHN H. MURPHY
Here is a close up of the 10,000 ton
Liberty ship named in honor of John
H. Murphy, founder of the Afro-A
merican newspapers. This was the
SS Robt S. Abbott1
Launched At Rich
mond Shipyard
Amid the shrill blasts of horns and
the cheers of hundreds of shipyard
workers and visiting dignitaries, the
SS Robert S. Abbott, third Liberty j
12th Liberty ship named in honor of
a Negro.
(ANP Photo)
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^Ship named for an outstanding Negro
publisher was launched at the Perm
anente Metals Corporations shipyard
No. 2 at Richmond Calif., Thursday
afternoon, April 13.
Sliding down the way into San
Francisco Bay just nine days after
another Liberty Ship was launched
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Editorial Comment
ANTI-POLL TAX SHOW DOWN ISSUE, ONE
OF MOST IMPORTANT BEFORE THE SENATE
Washington, April 21—With Congress resuming
work after its Easter vacation, one of the most im
portant issues before ihe Senate will be the anti-poll
tax show-down, with both sides girding for an all
out fight. Already the sout' eVn block has aimoure
od its intern ions to filibusi 1 dn bill to death in the
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NEED CONTENTION TO GET BILL OUT. “Al
though tremendous support has been rallied behind
the major issue, voters must not be complacent a
bout its passage”, Mrs. Thomasina Walker Johnson
Legislative Representative of the AKA Non-Partis
an Council, warned in a release sent throughout the
country this week. “We must not put too much de
pendcnce in the effectiveness of cloture”, she warn
ed and urged thousands of members of her sorority
and the voters of the nation to back the bill by tak
ing the following actions:
1. Write your Senators to be present at any and
all sessions.
2. To vote for cloture as often as a cloture vote is
brought up.
3. To sign the petition for cloture as often as nee
essary.
4. To vote against any motion to table oi recom
mit the bill.
5. To vote against any motion to postpone action
6. To vote against adjoumament and to vote for
a recess until the bill is voted on.
7. TO VOTE FOR THE BILL.
S. To insist on a roll call on eveT,y vote.
9. 7'o enter into no “gentlemen's agreement” to
postpone or help to defeat the bill.
IP. To accept ni amendments or substLutes for
the L 9.
••Toe whole ease , sb * invited, “must be vigilant
TRIES TO KILL SELF
OVER ARMY JIM-CR’W
Former Howard Student Entered
Suicide Pact with Two Others;
Wanted to be Civilian Pilot
Instructor.
(by ERNEST E. JOHNSON)
WASHINGTON, April 20 (ANP
A suicide pac was entered into two
years ago by three students at How
ard university as a protest to what
they considered the unfair treatment
of Negroes in the armed forces, and
the treatment generally accorded Ne
groes in the United States. The act
was to be perpetrated on the steps of
the Capitol.
Three weeks ago one of them, Pvt.
Norman W. Spaulding of Chicago,
slashed his wrist four times with a
razor blade in an attempt to live up
the agreement he and his classmates
had solemnly entered into. Today he
is confined to a “restraint ward” at
Walter Reed hospital.
That is the dramatic sequel to the
story which was told exclusively to
the Associated Negro Press on Tues
day by the Rev. Dr. Robert Moton
Williams, chairman of the Commit
tee. cf One Hundred of the Fraternal
Council of Negro chrches, and pas
tor of Asbury ME. church here.
The matter has been brought to the
attention of the council by Spauld
ing’s parents in Chicago through the
Rev. J. H. Horace of that city, a rep
resentative of the organization.
Adding to the drama, the ANP.
learned that the young wife of the 22
year old soldier who wanted more
than anything to be a civilian pilot
instructor, pregnant for three months
has been seriously ill here since the
incident occurred.
Meanwhile the Rev. William H.
Jernagin, director of the Washington
liams are discussing possible steps
bureau of the council, and Dr. Wil
which the group might take regarding
the mater, it is understood.
The other two men involved in the
pact are both in the armed forces.
Their identities were not revealed but
it is learned that one of them is with
a fighter group in the Mediterranean
Theater of Operations and the other
is a member of the coast guard. Only
recently, one of the two correspond
ed with Spaulding and brought up the
subject of their pact.
This is substantially the story as
the ANP learned it from Dr. Wil
liams :
Young Spaulding had left Howard
in June. 1943, and returned to Chic
ago where he entered the Coffey
School of Aeronautics to receive train
ing as a civilian pilot. His courses
started in July, and in the same mon
th he became a member of the army
air corps reserve. This training con
tinued until September, 1943, when
the AAF took over the entire civilian
pilot training program.
On Sept. 14, he was sent to Fort
Custer, Mic., for induction and re
classification. Nine days later he
was sent down to Kessler "field near
Biloxi, Miss., There he received
physical and mental examinations to
qualify him for further training. In
the meanwhile the name of the pro
gram was changed to war training
service.
Spaulding laid around awaiting an
assignment to additional courses. This
did not come until in December when
he was sent to the airfield at Tuske
gee Alabama. Early in January an
ord r was issued by the war depart
Local USO Directr
Gets Promotion
John R. Butler, who has served as
Director of the USO club since Dec
ember, received word last week of
his being transferred and promoted to
the directorship of the Douglas USO
Club in Lawton, Oklahoma, effective
May 1st. This club which serves
the men at Fort Sill, is the only fed
erally constructed building in this re
gion and has an attendance of approx
imately 30,000 per month, with 12
employees serving the group. Many
improvements have been made at the
USO Club here since last December
and through the help of the volunteers
an outstanding program has been car
ried out.
Atty. Ralph Adams, chairman of
the Committee of Management has
announced that a new director will be
on the scene around the first week in
May.
Kearney Trip Postponed
Due to the road conditions the trip
to Kearney, Nebraska which was
scheduled for last Tuesday, had to
be postponed until Tuesday, April 25.
Trips for that week include the Kear
ney trip on the 25th, Fort Crook on
the 26th, and Grand Island on the 27.
IVE DO APPRECIATE
YOUR BUSINESS
The Marcus Loan and Jewelry Co.,
320 North 16th Street, wishes to ex
tend his appreciation to his old cus
tomers and does hereby invite read
ers of The Omaha Guide to come in
and look his fine line of watches,
wedding rings, and dining room sli
ver over. He carries a complete line
of gents’ wearing apparel of the best
quality at popular prices. Do drop
in and give us the once over when
shopping.
Marcus Loan and Jewelry Co.,
320 North 16th Street.
4-H CLUB GIRL’S STEER WINS
FIRST PRIZE AT STOCK SHOW
Florence, S. C. April 10 (ANP) —
Placing their animali in competition
with the finest array of livestock ev
er exhibited at the South Carolina
fat stcok show, Miss Lena Mae Fore
and Alfred Graves, 4-H clubbers of
Marion county, took first and second
awards last week for their grand
champion and reserve champion Here
ford steers.
Nearly 1,000 4-H clubbers, rural
and urban people were in attenlance
to witness the exhibition of 70 steers
anr shorthorn heifers at the seventh
annual fat stock show. Miss Fore’s
grand champion weighed 860 pounds
and the reserve champion weighed 850
pounds. She received a prize of $84
and 4-H Clubber Graves received a
prize of $59.
Other winners were Benjamin Stev
enson Jr., third; Wesley Adamson,
fourth; Huyh T. Conner, fifth; C.
E. Tomas, sixth; and William Gam
ble, seventh. Within two years Har
ry E. Daniels, Negro district a^ent
for the states, has developed the col
ored 4-H stock exhibit into one of the
outstanding features of the entire
show. Prizes were provided by
friends of the 4-H club work, and by
local business houses.
Wins High Salaried Post
MRS. BERTHA J. DIGGS of State Department of Labor by Gov
Buffalo, N. Y., who has just been ap- Dewey at a salary of $5,000 per year
pointed secretary of the New York —(ANP Photo)
77Miss March**
Hazel (the great) Scott was sel
ected a pin-up queen for the month
of March by a terrific majority vote
compiled by PPNS through contact
with our boys at USOs, Service Cen
ters and the many fighting fronts. ,
Miss Scott won the Queen of March
title because of the many courtesies
shown men and women in service dur
ing the past month, coupled with so
the many photographs similar to the
above, distributed throughout the
camps.
Lena Horn ExpectedTo Appear
On Program At ‘44 American
Negro Music Festival
ment discontinuing the WTS program
on the grounds that there was a suf
ficient supply of instructors avail
able.
Toward the end of January, Spauld
ing was shipped to Greensboro, NC.,
for reclassification in the army air
force. After mental, physical and
psychological examinations, he was
finally qualified as an army aviation
cadet. In March he was given a 14
day furlough and he came to Wash
ington to visit his wife.
It was on the evening of the last
day of his furlough, March 28, that
he committed the act.
From this point on his wife, whose
full name and address are being with
held, told this story to the ANP:
“We sat here most of the evening
and Norman wras talking about com
mitting suicide, but I didn’t think he
w'as serious. He always talked about
the problems, of the race and how
badly Negroes are treated. He want
ed to do something about it but some
how felt helpless.
“I went out of the room for a mo
ment and when I returned I could see
blood spurting from his arm. I was
dazed and for several moments I did
not know just what to do. Finally I
got myself together and tried to ap
ply a tourniquet. I used a pretty lace
handkerchief which his mother had
given me as a present, and for which
I fel very proud.
“Then I called the hospital. We
didn’t have any money since it was
just near the end of the month. That
is why I didn’t call Freedman’s. I
called Walter Reed and they came
i down and took up there immediately.
ACTIVITIES TO BE HELD IN
THREE CITIES; ENDORSED
BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
CHICAGO, April 20 (ANP) -
Lena Horne, Dorothy Maynor, Duke
Ellingon, the Southernaires, Ethel
Waters and Hazel Scott are among
the stars of stage and screen expected
to attend and participate in the fifth
annual American Negro Music festi
val to be held in Chicago July 8; St.
Louis, July 10; and Detroit July 12.
The search for Talent Contest, con
ducted in Michigan, Missouri, Ken
tucky, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio will
constitute a unique phase of this
year’s program.
The proceeds of he festival will go
to the Army and Navy Relief fund.
The American Negro Music festi
val was conceived in 1940, before the
country entered World War II, with
the following objectives:
Mrs. Spaulding was in bed when
she told her part of the incident, hav
ing been under the care of a physic
ian from Walter Reed since the in
cident occurred. Even then she had
been waiting for a bed there which
had been promised her.
While at Howard, Pvt. Spaulding
sonality. In the spring of 1942 ne
won the tennis singles championship
in the CIAA, but lost the doubles. He
was also a member of the men's dor
mitory council. He is a fraternity
was considered a popular campus per
brother in Kappa Alpha Psi.
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1. To bring togeher an array of
internationally gnown artists.
2. To make a tangible contribution
to recognized war relief agencies.
To discover new talent and give
it a chance to make a contribution.
t. To establish interracial good
will and to bring about a better and
m< ic human understanding between
all.
The annual festivals have featured
such stars as Roland Hayes, tenor;
Ann Brown and Todd Duncan, stars
e>f "Porgy and Bess”; the Southern
naires, Wings Over Jordan, choral
gi .ips under Directors J. Wesley
Jcres and Thomas A. Dorsey; Eddie
South, “the Dark Angel of the Viol
in’’; Canada Lee, Lajulia Rhea,
grand opera singer, Louise Burge,
contralto from Washington, DC.,
Miriam Rahn, soprano from New
York and Frankie Fambro, dramatic
soprano of Chicago.
The proceeds from the festivals
have gone to such organizations as
the American Red Cross, the USO,
and the Chicago Service Men's cen
ter, and out of the benefits from last
year's festival more than 500,000 cig
arettes were sent to our fighting
forces abroad.
In former years the festival has
limited its activities to Chicago but
because of a popular demand, the
fifth annual affair will be held in
three leading cities. W. Louis Davis
president-director, recently announced
that negotiations have been completed
for the use of Briggs stadium, De
troit ; Sportsman's park, home of the
St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis and
White Sox Ball park, Chicago, for
festival activities.
RioPV^tf Ami KIRK & his Clouds of Joy at the City Auditorium April 22
1J1$J I caiurcb. jjmmy Lunceford at the Dreamland April 28th.
Come on girls and help us entertain the Soldiers from Fort Crook and the Sailors from Hastings