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Saturday, June 17, 1944 OUR 17th"YEAR No. 19
Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oftice. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of
March 8. 18T4. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha. Xebr.
Hillside Presbyterian Church ^$4,000,000 In War Bonds to be Purchased
To Hold Fathers* Day Services J By Negro Insurance Men In Annual Meet
representatives of the
AMERICAN LEGION POST
NO. SO AND OTHER
SPEAKERS WILL APPEAR
ON PROGRAM
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
Father's Day Service and several
-speakers will join hi a dedicatory
service program in recognition of the
Fathers. Songs, old and new will be
sang by the choir. Responses and
sermon by the pastor. Rev. J. E.
Blackmore.
A warm welcome awaits you. Make
it a glorious day. We assure you
that you will have ample time to go
where you desire after a visit to Hill
side, 30th and Ohio Street.
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j World ;
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(BY JOHN' PITTMAN)
WHAT THE INVASION OF
EUROPE MEANS TO
NEGRO-A if ERICA
Hard, bitter fighting awaits our
European invasion armes. Negro
■combat and service troops will share
in the physical destruction of the
-world fountain-head of oppression
and hatred, the “apostles of greed
and racial arrogancies.” as President
Roosevelt labelled the forces of H.l
lerism. Thus every Negro-American j
has a direct stake in the outcome of j
the second front, in which the lives j
of half a million of our boys are in
volved.
Indirectly, also, the second front
will speed many processes that bear
on our present and future status.
SMALL NATIONS FATE
In World Affairs— The second
front increases the need for the or
ganization of postwar inter-national j
security, will spotlight coming Big I
Four parley recently forecast by Sec- !
retary Cordell Hull. Involved here
is future security of small nations, i. j
e„ Liberia. Ethiopia. Cuba. Haiti.
Critics of Roosevele.Hull policies
profess alarm over prospect of four
big powers forming alliance to keep
the peace. Their Spokesmen, such a?
former Undersecretary of State Sum
ner Welles, say such an alliance may
deteriorate into an international grap
bing compact, with the Big Four di
viding the world into spheres of in
fluence and control.
On the other hand, proponents of
Roosevelt-Hhll policies say the alter
native to world organization based on
"Big Four would be precisely what
critics fear—rivalry and competition
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HONOR STUDENT TO
WEST POINT
Chicago. June 14 (PPXS) Con-,
gressman \Ym. L. Dawson of the
First Illinois Congressional District
sent his first appointee to West
Point. He is Frank Alvin Titus, the
17 year old son of Dr. and Mrs. J.
Kenneth Titus of this city. Young
Titus who was a top ranking student
at Herzel Junior College will report
at the academy on July 1, 1944. Hi.'
appointment was upon the recommend
ation of the committee for Congress
man Dawson’s District, headed by
Dr. Metz T. P. Lochard.
CAPITOL PRESS CLUB TO
HEAR FIELD. HASTIE
Washington. June la (PPXS) —
Marshall Field, millionaire owner
and publisher of Chicago Sun and the
newspaper PM of New York and
Judge William Hastie. Dean of the
Ooward University Law School, will
be the principal speakers at the an
nual dinner of the Capitol Press club
here June 21.
PRESIDENT GULF STATE
DENTAL ASSOCIATION
DR. R. H. WARD of Houston,
president of the Gulf State Dental
association, which is meeting in San
Antonio this week from Tune 13
through June 16. Sessions will be
confined to ways and means of meet
ing the increased demands made up
on Negro dentists by the war emer
gency. Dr. Ward stated. (ANP)
Charles Davis Chosen King Borealis of Coronation Ball
ELKS TO'Turnout'SUN.*!
Dry Defects Noted
by S a n d a 11
LINCOLN—Allied Dry Forces
have an initiative petition proposal by
which they seek enactment of a state
wide prohibition law—a law for the
violation of which no penalties are
provided—and the same bill asks re
peal of all Nebraska liquor control
laws now in the statutes, it is noted
by Charles E. Sandall, state director
of the Nebraska Committee, Brew
ing Industry Foundation.
The proposed legislation, if adopt
ed. would result in ‘utter confusion”
in the matter of liquor control, says
Mr. Sandall. He says that in let
ters to Harold D. Wilson, executive
director of the Allied Dry Forces, he
asks two questions:
“Why, after tiling with the secre
tary of state a proposed bill contain
ing a penalty clause, did you later di
rect the secretary of state to omit
the penalty clause?
“Having eliminated the penalty
section, why did you not omit from
the repealing section of ybur bill the
penalty sections contained in the pres
ent liquor control statute—sections
such as the ones providing for search
and seizure, for punishment for in
toxication, sections prohibiting sales
to minors, the consumption of intox
icating liquors on public streets and
highways or in public buildings or in
side vehicles while on public streets,
and highways, and many others?”
Mr. Sandall points out that “If the
proposed law' as amended should be
put on the November ballot and bv a
majority vote be adopted into law, it
would produce a chaotic condition.
It would create in Nebraska a boot
legger’s paradise such as no person
should wish to inflict upon an un
suspecting public."
You Can Save FEPC!
Dear Friend—
The President's Fair Employment
Practice Committee is in a life and
death struggle!
FEPC. was saved two weeks ago
from death in the House of Represen
tatives by only FOUR votes after
actually losing by THIRTY-EIGHT
votes on the first test of strength.
The FEPC. has been to many min
orities a major symbol of democracy
at hove. The attack on it become'
more than the effort to eliminate this
agency: it becomes to these minorities
! a blow at the tangible sign of a more
'■ democratic way of life for them.
Write your senators NOW!
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Denied Admission
r ~ ■ tmcmar-rim ^ i
EARL B. DICKERSON 1
CHICAGO BAR ASSN.
REJECTS NEGROES
REFUSES TO CHANGE ‘ JC°
ATTITUDE DESPITE SHED
DING OF NEGRO BLOOD
FOR DEMOCRACY.
by Don Sckuster
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Chicago. June 13, (PPNS) Thous
ands of Negro troops giving their
lives and blood on the fields of Nor
mandy, for the Four Freedoms will
wonder if the sacrifice is in vain
when they hear of the news from
home concerning the rejection of the
membership of four prominent Negro
attorneys by the Chicago Bar Assoc
iation.
No reasons were given by the com
mittee handling the applications for
denying membership, though the as
! sociation's lily-white attitude is well
known. The applicants, Earl B.
Dickerson, former Alderman, and
Assistant State's Attorney, a veteran
of World War I. and one time mem
| ber of the FEPC: Archibald C. Car
I ey, Jr, apstor of Woodlawn AME.
I Church and the son of the late Bish
op A. Carey; Rufus Sylvester White
Jr., formerly an assistant U. S. At
torney but now an ensign in the
Navy : and Rufus Sampson, an emir,
ent member of the Chicago Bar.
Considerably stirred up over the
un-American action of the Bar as
! sociation committee a number of
j prominent members of the Bar As
! sociation have urged that the mat
ASS UAL SERMON TO EE
HEARD AT ST. JOHNS
Officers and members of Iroquois
Lodge No. 92, IBPOE. of W. and
the Cherokee Temple No. 223 Aux
iliary, will hold their Annual Serm
on and Parade Sunday, June 25 at
St. John's A ME. Church. 22nd and
Willis Avenue.
PARADE AT 2 P. M.
All the members will assemble at
the Elks’ Hall at t :00 p m. prop
erly regaled for assignment to their
respective positions in the line of
march to the church.
The “turnout" or parade will move
promptly at 2:00 p.m.
Charles F. Davis, is Grand Exalt
ed Ruler of this lodge. Dr. Price Ter
refl, Secretary.
Eisenhower has well trained
Aegro Invasion Combatants
THE COAST GUARD LANDS
EM IN FRANCE
Coast Guardsmen, manning assault
transports and landing craft, were
“up front” on the Day when the
vast Allied liberation armada swept
across the English Channel to France.
Typical of these Coast Guardsmen is
this gun crew aboard a Coast Guard
manned assault transport in Europ
ean invasion waters. Left to right;,
Coast Guard Uses
Negroes in Invasion
WASHINGTON, June 14 (. A£P> j
When D-Day came, Wasnington was '
on tip toe for several hours. Inter- I
est among colored people was princ- j
ipally to determine the extent to I
which Negro units known to have
been based in Great Britain were be- j
ing used in the assault on coastal j
France.
The Coast guard was the first to |
confirm that Negroes are serving a
board various type craft being used
in the invasion operations. The
coast guard has been uniformly lib- |
eral in its training, in its advance- I
ment and now veidentfy in its assign-:
meat*.
A wire-photo received here showed j
Ferrell Browening of Dallas, a shell
man. maiming a five inch naval gun.
The coast guard also confirmed
that Robert Reed. Steward's Mate
2nd class, 4035 Woodlawn avenue,
Cleveland, is the only Negro mem
ber of a five man gun crew aboard
another craft participating in the ac
tion.
ter be reconsidered. A letter de
manding reconsideration was signed
by Herbert. Beeb. Mitchell Dawson.
Frank VY. McCulloch and Judge John
P. McGoorty of the Superior Court.
Another attorney, Charles Lieberman
1 has tiled for a written mandamus to
j force the Chicago Bar Association
| Committee to open its records in the
case so that those responsible for the
rejection of the applicants will be
known and steps taken to clear up
the situation.
In the meantime. Russell Whitman,
a former president of the Association
has vigorously protested, he stated.
“This white supremacy stuff is ex
actly the kind of thing we are fight
ing against in Germany,” Whitman
declared, “I've been fighting racial
discrimination for 50 years and I'm
going to keep everlastingly at it. I
never get mad because it doesn't do
any good but this matter should be
inquired into and the admissions com
mittee should be made to explain why
it rejected these attorneys.”
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FEPC. Fund ‘Pittance’
Out of 98 Billions
Southerners Oppose Appropriation
But Goodly Number Favor
Agency. With Many “On Fence”
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NAAC
P. Bureau)—Pointing out that the
S585.000 appropriation asked for the
FEPC represents onhr 1 196 of one
percent ot the nearly ninety-eight bil
lion dollars the Congress will this
year vote for the war and operation j
of the government, the NAACP vig
orously urged the Senate Appropriat
ions Committee to vote favorably on
the FEPC item in the National War ■
Agencies Appropriation B*T! for 1945.
"Surely the most intransigent Ne
grophobe cannot begrudge this pitt
ance for maintenance of an agency to
make industrial democracy slightly
! more of a reality," the NAACP stat
ed to the Senate. Were Congress to
devote “its full time and talents to
devising the most effective means of
still further lowering (the) morale
of a tenth of the population it could
not find any better method than des
troying the FEPC” which is "almost
alone in giving hope to minor
ities, particularly the Negro, of as
sistance in obtaining employment in
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Robert Reed. Steward’s mate second
class, (4035 Wood lawn Ave.), Cleve
land. Ohio’; Edward Carlson, seaman
second class, (8109 Larke Ave.).
Cleveland. Ohio; Vincent Burkhart,
seaman second calss, (1627 Orchard
Grove Ave.) Lakewood. Ohio: and
Stanley Barnes. Jr., seaman second
class, (Y793 \Y. South Street) of
Cleveland, Ohio. (Official Coast
Guard Photo released by PPNS)
NAHCP ask
Review of
Soldier’s
death p’nalty
NEW YORK—In a cable to Gen- J
eral Eisenhower on June 3, the NA- '
ACP requested a stay of execution i
to review the courts-martial record j
in the case of an American soldier j
sentenced to death in England on a j
charge of rape.
The case has attracted unusual at-!
tention in England and the London j
Daily Mirror on June 2 carried an i
article stating that it had received a i
number of letters on that case which \
“reveal a widespread feeling of un
easiness at this man having to pay
the extreme penalty. Popular senti
ment could be much appeased if jus
tice would, in suitable cases, be tem
pered w'ith mercy, and not least in
cases where colored men are the of
fenders. ”
According to the story of the case,
the colored soldier knocked on the
ioor of a cottage late one night and
i woman leaned out a window and
exchanged a few words with him.
fn a few moments she came out with
i coat over her nightgown and walk
ed down the road with him. Later
when he was tried, her story was
that he asked directions to another
town ond that she came out and walk
ed down the road with him in order
to show him the way. Then, accord
ing to her, he drew a knife and forc
ibly raped her.
His story is that he knew her very
well, that he had been with her twice
before and on each occasion had paid
her a pound ($4.00). and that he had
a date with her for that particular
night. At the time he knocked on
the door and she came out to meet
him, her husband was in the cottage.
The case has created a sensation in
England and although the English
have been told that this kind of a
case is handled in a special way in
America, they are revolted by the
death penalty in the face of such a
"reasonable doubt" as to the actual
crime of rape. One reader of the
London Daily Mirror wrote “It he
is good enough to fight for us. then
he is good enough for a square
deal”
An English war veteran wrote: “Is
this England? Do we English read
that a Negro soldier is sentenced to
death for raping a woman who asked
for it, and do we English sit back
and do nothing?"
SUBSCRIBE
NOW?
EUROPEAN THEATER OF
OPERATIONS. June 14 (ANP>—
When the invasion blast hit the wall
of Hitler’s fortress Europe last Tues
day, combat Negro soldiers stood
ready to do their share in ridding the
continent of Nazism. No official
information has been revealed, how
ever, as to how many are in action
in France.
Highly trained to handle many
kinds of complicated weapons of mo
dern warfare, thousands of Negro
combat troops went through rigorous
training in the downs and hills of
Britain, hardening themselves to the
assault
These colored troops man anti-air
craft batteries of Bofors and aati
strafing machine guns, lay smoke
screen to cover the advancing fight
ers, and lay field wire under enemy
shelling in order to get the message
through.
Heavy artillery guns manned by
Negroes stood ready to pound the
enemy, softening up the forward
fortified zones, lessening the hazards
for the infantry foot soldiers and the j
tank busters, and the thousands of |
other troops that swarm against the
foe.
Many invasion troops were trans
ported to the beach heads in landing j
craft assembled in British ports by
colored port battalions.
One Negro unit that .has been un
dergoing highly skilled training for
months. both in England and the
United States, was prepared for a
painful thrust when the Nazi show
themselves on the continent.
First U. S. Anti-Aircraft Units to
Fire at Germans
One colored anti-aircraft battalion
made up of four hatteries took ex-j
tensive instruction at a British school j
to learn the latest methods used by- J
the British gunners to shoot down
the German raiders over Britain. One
phase of this training included what
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MISS BETTY J.
THOMAS REIGNS
AS “Queen Aurora”
•
On last Monday night, June 12.— j
at Dreamland Hall, surrounded by
the beautj’ and dignity of their affairs
and with a goodly crowd in attend,
ance. the St. Philip's Episcopal
Church of which the Rev. Dr. San
chez is Rector, presented their 14th
Annual Coronation Ball at which
they annually crown King Borealis,
and his Queen, Aurora.
Charles F. Davis, Grand Exalted
Ruler of the Elks, was chosen as j
King Borealis of 1944.
As his Queen was the charming.
Miss Betty J. Thomas, Queen Aur- ;
ora of 1944.
Attorney Ray F. Williams, Labor
Inspector of the State of Nebraska,!
was the Grand Potentate.
The Courtly Ring bearers were: —
Margaret Lennox and Michael
Thomas.
Crown bearers were Edwin Riggs,
and Margaret King. Trumpeter: —
Von Richard Trimble. Paiges: —
Maurice Lambert, Nathaniel Gosden.
Sanford McConnell.
Princesses: Clara Dudley, Virginia i
McRaven, Jesse Turner, Betty Davis,
Anna Lee Upcher. Katie Billingsley,
Ovlene Grice, Charlotte Green, Ev
lvn Butler, Jean Goods. Duchesses:
Agnes Montgomery. Gloria Morrow.
Tessie Edwards. Mattie Daly, Mar
gery Aomon. Matha Childs. Charlotte
Preston, Alberta Booth, Inez Brown.
Flower Girls: Nancy Reeds. Jean
Parker, Jeanette Parker, Carolyn
Owen.
15,000 Defense Workers
Strike as Negro Workers
Are Ordered to “Move
Production’ in Shops
UNION DEMANDS RETURN l
CINCINNATI, June 12 (ANP)—
Angered because of the transfer of j
seven Negroes to lathe operating jobs
which previously employed white at;
the Wright Aeronautical Corp., 15,- j
000 white employes Monday, went on j
strike. The strike was unauthoriz
ed^ said a United Auto Workers Un
ion local (CIO) and unless thes*
workers resume work wnthin three
days they will face disciplinary charg !
es. j
The strikers were from the first i
and second shifts and quit after the
Negro employes were assigned to j
"move production’’ in machine shops, j
According to Robert Spitzmiller,
president of the local, organization ;
heads are doing their best to get the
employes to return to theTr jobs.
A iwre to LAW officials, locals
647, from George W. Taylor, acting
War Labor board chairman, stated: 1
KlLriMUrsu, V a., June 14 (ANr
The purchase of $4,000,000 worth of
war bonds is expected to highlight the
public meeting of the 24th annual
convention of the National Negro
Insurance association, June 20-23.
The sale will mark the first time in
history that Negroes have actually
bought such a huge sum of bonds at
one time.
An address by Aaron Day on "The
Chalienege to Management during
these Changing Times," and the ap
pearance of George W. Reed of the
Supreme Liberty Life insurance Co..
Chicago, the first Negro in America
to win the coveted degree of charted
Lite Underwriter, will constitute lead
ing features on the program.
The keynote address will be deliv
ered by E. M. Martin, secretary of
the Atlanta Life Insurance Co. His
subject will be ‘‘Strengtliening Nat
ional Unity Through Life Insurance.'
Other pertinent topics such as pub
lic relations program, meeting social
trends. Government Relations, Sup
ervision of Agency Personnel under
war time conditions, and Life Insur
ance as a Career, will be discussed.
Other speakers will include Mrs.
Marie B. Schanks of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America,
Inc., Julius A. Thomas of the Nat
ional Urban league and Mrs. Jean
nette Welch Brown of the Hold
Your Job Committee.
S. W. Whitley, head of the local
committee is making elaborate prep
arations for the convention which is
expected to be the best attended in
the history of the association.
Randolph, Webster To
Speak at Blackstone
Hotel Luncheon Saturday
Arthur J. Lelyveld, Chairman of
The Omaha and Council Bhiffs FE
PC., announced early this week that
he would like and urged all Council
members to attend a luncheon spon
sored by the Interracial Committee
Welfare Council at the Blackstone
Hotel Saturday, June 17, at 12:30
noon.
Guest speakers will be Mr. A. Phi*
ip Randolph, President of the Broth
erhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and
Mr. Milton S. Webster, member of
the President's Fair Employment
Practice Committee. The speakers
will discuss the work of the Presid
ent's Committee and the Dawson -
Scan Ion-LaFollette Bill to make tnc
FEPC. permanent.
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"At this critical moment in the file
nf the nation no group of worker can
be permitted to place their grievanc
es above the immediate needs of the
armed forces.”
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Completes 8 week business trip—
Meets and visits many interesting people
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Mr. Davis to Have A Grand Opening of
Enterainment at Dreamland June 22,23
PROMISES O MAH ASS MANY i
BIG NAME BANDS SOON
—
Mr. Wm. H. Davis, proprietor of |
The Omaha Outiting Co., returned
home from an eight week business j
trip through St. Louis, Kansas City
Ho* Springs, Tennessee and many
parts of Texas.
While on his trip he met many
well known band leaders, such as
Count Basie, Earl Hines. Erskine
Hawkins, Lil Green. Lyonell Hamp
ton. George Hudson and Ida Cox
Mr. Davis expects to have these
ban,!; here during the year, for many
big dances.
While in St. Louis. Mr. Davis
stopped at the Delux Hotel. He was
the guest of Mr. S. W. Davis, a "ea!
estate dealer and Mr. Pelham RoVr
son, proprietor of The Owl Drug
Store. Both very prominent has -
ness men. He was also guest of Mr.
George Hudson, leading band leadei
of St. Louis. He visited the night
spots of the city, such as the Wait
ers’ Club, Rumboogie and the Elks'
Club Room, and enjoyed a delightful
time at each place.
Mr. Davis will have a Grand Open
ing N'ight of his Dreamland Dance
Hall—‘GRAND OPENING" June
Zi and 23, with the music of Chaun
cry Downs of Kansas City.
Every Thursday night the 60-10
Cluh for adults. Cabaret Style, so
come out and enjoy yourself.
While Mr. Davis was visiting in
Texas, he was the guest of an old
pal, Mr. Fate Lester and he enjoyed
m?ny entertainments given for him.
He also spent a restful, short vaca
tion with his brother on his farm and
ranch in Grand Prairie. Texas, with
plenty of country mild, ham and
'ggs.
Mr. Davis wants everyone to watch
this paper for the announcements of
many great events, he will have to
offer his people throughout the year.