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English, USA., Chief of Staff of the Seventh Service Comamnd, will present the National Security Award of the Unit ed States Office of Civilian Defense to the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company at ceremonies t obe held in i the Central High School auditorium in Omaha starting at 7:45 pm. April 21. The ceremonies will be attended by telephone men and women, their families and escorts, representatives of OCD., the Army and the Navy and state, county and city officials. Ad mittance will be by ticket. Frank Fogarty, General Manager of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce will be the master of ceremonies. R. J. Hopley, President of the Nor thwestern Bell Telephone Company, will accept the award on behalf of the Company. Butons sybolizing the award will be pesented by Colonel Joe W. Lee dom. Acting Regional Director of the Seventh Civilian Defense Region, to F;td R. Kappel, Vice President of the Company, on behalf of the men and women responsible for the man agement of the Company throughout its territory; Ray L. Rogers o; Des Moires, Iowa, General President of the Northwestern Union of Tele phone Workers, will accept the hut | tons on i>' df of the Vrion'- net b :$ and Tim D. Berrv, Chain--n I of the Omaha Inter-den i.-tnenta! ! Plant Protection Committee, will ac cept the buttons on behalf of the plant protection forces. Other speakers on the program in clude Major General C. H. Danielson USA., Commanding General, Seven *h Service Command; Brigadier Geu l eral Guy N. Henningor, Adjutant General of Nebraska, and Dan B. Butler, Mayor of Omaha. W. R. Johnson, Vice President and General Manager for the Northwest ern Bell Telephone Company for Ne braska and South Dakota, will wel come the guests. The invocation will be offered by Chaplain (Col.) Earl D. Weed of the Seventh Service Command. 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Robert Smith, for PPNS) As a result of his usual appeasement method in mat ters pertaining to the Army and the Negro, Brig Gen. Benjamin O. Davis turned out to be an unwelcome guest of his people in this city because the hightst ranking Negro Army officer is quoted as saying, “He personally knows of no discrimination against Negroes in the Army” In an inter view with members of the daliy press Thursday, Gen. Davis, who is attach ed to the Inspector General's office in Washington, also told newsmen “that whenever charges of discrimin ation are called to the attention of the War Department, an immediate investigation is launched and remed ial action taken, if necessary. In his press conference the General further said, "To the best of my knowledge, Negro troops are serving in all thea tres of war, and the are acquitting themselves in an exemplary fashion.” The guest speaker efore the local chapter of the American Legion, the same night. General Davis told his audience that the Negro is disgruntl ed for two reasons. One, because he is not being inducted speedily enough into the Army, and secondly, when inducted, he is not given the opport unity to do more fighting. The sit uation here has vividly brought back to the minds of local leaders the white-washing done by General Davis when he was assigned to England to investigate the alleged mal-treatment of Negro soldiers there. The Gen eral, w'ho is accompanied by Truman K. Gibson, civilian aide to the Secre tary of War is ehre making a tour of local military facilities, sent the colors. A chorus of about 80 telephone men and women, conducted by Martin Watten, will sing four songs—"The ?tar Spangled Banner”, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save,” "Rise, Men Courageous,” and "God Bless Am erica" The National Security Award will be presented to the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in recognition . •' superi. r standards of protection and scour '.v established for the safety of its personnel, service and plant facil ities in the 63.'! cities and towns ii serves as well as its network of long distance ilnes throughout Iow-a, Minne sota, Nebraska and North and South Dakota. The superior measures for which the award has been granted in clude protection against sabotage, air raids, fire, accidents, and other haz — - — artls which would interfere with the successful prosecution of the war. Each of the employees of the Nor th wes tm Bell Telephone Comp^iiv will leceive on April 21 one of the buttons symbolizing the award, which they will be entitled to wear anytime after the presentation ceremonies here. The Company has more thin 14.000 employees in the five states where it operates. NEGRO GUNNER OF FLYING FORTRESS RECEIVES AIR MEDAL, CLUSTER POST HUMOUSLY A Negro flying sergeant, killed in action over Italy, was honored post humously April 2, 1944, by the Army Air Forces at a ceremony held in the St. James Presbyterian Church at Greensboro, North Carolina, when Mrs. Louise Mears, mother of Tech nical Sergeant William G. Mears, re ceived the Air Medal with the Oak Leaf Cluster, the War Department reported. Sergeant Mears had completed five missions as an aerial gunner on a tlying fortress and had an #aemy Messerschmitt 110 to his credit before his plane was shot down in the Med iterranean Theater of Operations Apr il 2(5, 11943. The 31 year old serg eant entered the service from Buffalo New York, though his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Mears, live in Gteensboro. Captain George H. Fitch .represent ing Colonel Victor R. Woodruff, Com manding Officer of the AAF Tech nical Trainng Command’s Basic 7. raining Center No. 10 .Greensboro, made the presentation to Mrs. Mears. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ENDORSES UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND DRIVE LAUDING SCHOOLS FOR WAR EFFORT New York—President Franklin D. Roosevelt this week endorsed the $1, 500.000 drive of the United Negro College Fund by predicting that “men of good will everywhere” would sup port the campaign, and praising the schools for their contributions in the war effort. In a letter to Walter Hoving, nat ional chairman of the Fund, at the office, 38 East 57th Street, the Pres ident expressed his familiarity with the work of many of he twenty-sev en participating colleges anl declared that these schools have contributed to the war effort, not only in the field of Negro leadership, but also in prac tical training of skilled and technical workers. His complete statement follows: “Thank you for your letter telling me of the cooperative action under taken by twenty-seven accredited pri vate Negro colleges as a means of meeting he Negro’s need for higher education and the nation’s need for increased unity. ”I have long been familiar with the work of many of these Negro col leges and have made personal visits to a number of their campuses in re cent years. Despite their limited re sources, these schools have made manifold contributions to our war ef fort, not oniy in the fiell of Negro leadership, but also in the practical training of skilled and technical work ers for the arsenal of the Democrac ies. “These institutions have still a greater contribution to make in the period which will follow our assured Are It OU Listening To This New Radio Prog ram? “Starring Youth in Person” Described as one of the most significant radio events to be inaugurated here in a long time, a series of programs by the Omaha public schools titled. “We March with Faith, ’ will start over KOWH Wednesday, March 15th, at 6:30 p. m. It will be continued each week until May 31st, end of the school term. The World-Herald and KOWH are assigning the time to the schools as a public service. I he program will turn the spotlight on the various activities designed to build character and provide citizen ship training, said Superintendent of Schools H. M. Corning. "Fverything in the program bears on these two objectives, and we feel that KOWH and The World Herald are giving us a grand opportunity to increase interest in them, both on the part of students, and the public.” The programs will be under supervision of the school board, principals and teachers. (Reprint from the Omaha World-Herald Sunday, March 12, 19)U) _ ... ---—---.-j JUDGE TROYER VOTE HIGH Robert Troyer An interesting sidelight on Tues day’s primary election was the large vote piled up by ..Judge Robert R. Troyer over his lone opponent. On the basis of unofficial returns Judge Troyer has a lead of nearly 4 to 1. Old timers are discussing this remarkable showing by Judge Troyer in view of the fact that he has held office only a few weeks more than a year. It is believed that in no other con tested election in Douglas County has there been such an overwhelming vote of confidence as that given to Judge Troyer on April 11th. /-“- - victory. 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