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HmMmKhMII* WAITERS’ COLUMN mm tom/ By H. W. Smith WE. 6458 Earl Copeland on his vacation. Mr. Donawa in the cocktail lounge at the OAC. Mr. and Mrs. Branch visiting Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Thomas. Mr. Branch of the White Horse Inn ano Mr. Thomas is of the Hotel Paxton. Isaiah Tones and H. W. Smith on 24th and Lake Street. Goldie Davis attended the funeral King Yuen Cafe • CHOP SUEY— 2010'/2 N. 24th St. 4 Ackson 8576 .Open from 2 p. m. Until S ai m. • American & Chinese Dishes ij Meet Your Friends at MYRT1S’ TAVERN - 2229 LAKE— : formerly Rabes Buffett :• : BEER & LIQUORS |j i “Always A Place to of Mr. Weed the very friendly second cook at the OAC. Musician headwaiter on the job and going good. Paxton headwaiter back on the job. Are you a member of the Omaha branch NAACP? Waiters at the Hill hotel are still in there serving with a smile. Mr. Kennedy at the Legion club at the Rome Hotel. Mr. Redd of the Black Mirro^ room at the Fontenelle hotel a regul ar attendant at Clair chapel on Sun day mornings. Omaha Club waiters on the quick step with their service. •. Blackstone hotel waiters on the up and go at all times. Regis hotel and White Horse Inn waiters very much on the job! THE WEEK. 152 people killed in a fire of a cir cus tent at Hartford, Conn., on last Thursday night, July 6th. 40,000 tons of fruit was damaged by a hail storm in Calif. A news reporter standing on a cor ner in Oklahoma City says soldiers, and sailors are more in line to whistle at women with stockings on. Gen. John J. Pershing said he be lieves the war is nearing an end in Washington, DC., recently. The army’s Mayo general hospital was opened in Galesburg, 111., Mon day, July 10th. ..1 James Robinson the streamlined lunch car man of the U. P. on North 24th street with his little daughter. Mrs. Isabelle B. Stoll of Sumner, 111., is coroner of Lawrence County, 111., as her husband Capt. C. G. Stoll is in the army. VICTORY Bowlj! 2410 LAKE STREET JA-9175 Hours from 12 P. M. to 12 A. M. Friday only 12 P. M. to 5 P. M. Start 12 Midnight each Friday till 4 A. M. Saturday morning “Bowl for Health” Flyers, $1,000 a Plate Dinner Feature Bond Drive Chicago’s LaSalle Hotel was recent scene of a $1,000 a plate War Bond dinner, guests purchasing War Bonds with face value of $1,000 or more as cover charge. Sponsored by Negro and white businessmen of Chicago’s Southside, the dinner swelled Treasury Department’s war coffers by more than $1,000,000. Other features of the Windy City’s Fifth War Loan drive included "induction” of a corps of "Minute Men” of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company for house to house canvassing, a recital by the Negro octet from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, and talks by two Negro flyers, Capt. Rodney L. Custis and Capt. Charles B. Hall, who have seen action in the Mediterranean Theatre M members of the famous 99th Pursuit Squadrom^ -- A stranger in Denver, Colo., struck Mrs. Martha Martin in the face. He thought she was his mother-in-law. Two Pullman cars of a L & NRR passenger train fell into a river near Jellico, Tenn, Thursday night, July 6. Mr. Charles J. Coleman the high powered city employee, was elected Commander of Roosevelt Post No. 30, American Legion last Thursday night, July 6th. Read The Omaha Guide for all the news and take a membership in the local branch NAACP today! Virginia joins other states in a re ■ ■' ———ii^—— ---1 There is No Substitute for Just as many of the bears In captivity today have lost their initiative because they have been fed and protected by government so long, so human beings, if they are similarly "fed and protected" will lose their ambition and initiative. America is a great nation because Americans have enjoyed the right to shape their own destinies ... because Free Enterprise has been the American Way! If America is to continue as the greatest nation in the world, Americans must remain individuals . . . must retain their right to "get ahead on their own." There is no substitute for FREE ENTERPRISE! NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY CoBirlght, 19U, BomU * Jacobs volt against the new deal. Gov. Dewey speaks to neighbors at Rawling, New York telling them the November election will decide it all. U. S. army major found guilty of flogging prisoners at Camp Van Dorn, Miss. U. S. income increases 12 percent in five months total over sixty two billion. % Rumor has it that U. S. Senator Barkley will nominate President F. D. Roosevelt at the Democratic Con vention in Chicago. Cruiser officers chased and run down three young boys. They admit ted theft of autos. The Mortgage Bankers Associat ion at their meeting in New York, stated the U. S. has very few mort gages. U. S. Senator Bilbo of Mississippi bolts the democratic party if the anti-poll tax bills passed. Two teen-age girls kidnapped a two month’s old baby in Chicago. Prunes Prudie is the champion coal miner of west Virginia. He has worked in the coal mines for 60 yrs. 1500 colored employes working in an airplane engine plant in Kansas City, Mo., walked out when they were jim-crowed in a cafeteria. Read the Omaha Guide and get all the news! I We very often read items of news referring to the southern phrase, — “Keep the Negro in his place’’ Now what we would like to know—where is his place. Our group has contacts with the banks and business houses, and we pay the price if it is any item of merchandise or postage stamps. We ride the street cars and taxi cabs also make trpis on the RR’s. Now what we are very anxious to know and we would like to find out, where is the Negro’s place? JUSTICE DEPT. MUST ENFORCE ELECTION LAWS LAACP TELLS BIDDLE. (Continued from page 1) only of the election officials in Gcor gin, but also those m Alabama and 11,.] ida, who have deliberately flaunt ed the Constitution rnd laws o* the Un ted States, even a fter the npimon of the United Srit.-.s Sapreme Court. Marshall rem.uieJ the At' r ,e General that the NAACP sent to the Department of Justice some w?'‘ks a go affidavits on the refusal to per mit Negroes to vote in the primary elections in Alahama and Florida, and stated: “We have not as yet been advised as to what, if any, act’on has been taken on these cases other th m the notice that they sre being inves‘igat Victotof, QatoleneM.: Can All Surplus Vegetables on Your GAS Range— It’s Easy! e4." Under date of June ?9, Attorney General Biddle wro'e rh°. NAACP — “I assure you that the Department is giving very serious consideration to the problems resulting from the clecis ion of the Supreme Court in Smith vs. Allwright, and expects to investi gate promptly all alleged violations and to prosecute in appropriate cases” DEMOCRATS END PRE CONVENTION CONFAB. Chicago, Illinois, July 13 (PPNb; On a call issued a few days ago by Willaim J. Thompkins, Director of the National Colored Democratic Assn., a representative group of Ne gro Democratic leaders is meeting in Chicago immedaitely preceding tnt Democratic National National Con vention which opens July 19th . Mr. Thompkins who is recorder of deeds in Fashington, D. C., is unable to attend, due to illness. However, the members of the Association are meeting in the offices of Congress man William L. Dawson of the 1st Illinois Congressional District. Th» leaders will prepare and adopt reso lutions on the main issues of the rampaign affecting the Negro for presentation to the National Conven tion. • DEMOS URGED TO BACK PERMANENT FEPC. Washington, D. C., July 13 (PPN S)—Senator Dennis Chavez (D., New Mexico,) has announced he will ask the Resolutions Committee of the Democratic Convention to include a plank pledging a permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee in the Democratic Platform. Senator Chavez has pending a bill for a permanent FEPC. He stated: “The Republicans beat us to the punch. I think the Republicans have some strong minortiy planks. I hope the Democrats have some just as strong, or stronger.” READ The^UIDE IIIIIIillliliiuiKiltUlllllllliillUiilllTmi GIEEI HITES! 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