Nebraska Newspapers

    Saturday, August 5, 1944 Our 17th YEAR—No. 26
Entered as 2nd class matter at Post- oftice, Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of
March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr.
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Truman Against Poll Tax Says AKA Sorority Council
Supreme Court Winner
Leads Negro Texas Voting
Whites Cooperate;
Friction Absent....
(BY DON DAVIS)
HOUSTON, August l (.ANP) —
Minus any form of violence, Texas
Negroes voted in the State Democrat
ic primary Saturday. Among the
first to cast their votes at Precinct
48, located near Phillis Wheatley
High School, were Dr. Lonnie E.
Smith, plaintiff in the case that re
sulted in the supreme court granting
to Texas Negroes the right to vote
in the primaries, and his wife.
Dr. and Mrs. Smith arrived at the
polls shortly after seven o’clock and
according to James Luizza, election
judge, they were the first to cast vot
es. However, when reporters arriv
ed at the booth as Dr. Smith was
gettiny out of his car, a line of ap
proximately 2’ Negroes was formed.
As. Dr. Smith received his ballot
cameras went into action and bulbs
flashed on him until he had cast his
vote and left the scene.
Judge Luizza and his assistants
were exceptionally courteous to Dr.
Smith and the other colored Americ
ans who were casting their first vot
es in the primary. All assistance
asked was given and within a few
minutes more than 50 votes were in
the ballot box.
A check of precincts throughout the
Houston area showed that only one
judge defied the supreme court’s de
cision that Negroes were eligible to
participate in the Democratic prim
ary. Judge C. L. Anderson, Precinct
328, located in Belaire, a satelite town
south of the Houston city limits, ad
mitted to Houston Informer Publish
er Carter W. Wesley and members of
his staff that several Negroes pres
ented themselves at the poll over
which he presided and he refused to
permit them to vote.
H. O. Cosby,, judge of Precinct 82,
located in a section where Negroes
live in small numbers, after having
declared earlier in the week that he
would refuse Negroes the right to
vote, changed his mind after County
Chairman M. L. O. Andrews warned
him that refusal to^ permit qualified
Negroes to vote might inhalidate the
entire vote at his box.
Accompanied by a Life photograph
er, Veyorters intervitefred Mr. Cosby
early Saturday evening and after he
had given assurance that Negroes
would be permitted to vote at his
both, he readily consented to the
photographer’s request that he pose
for a picture with the colored news
people.
Mr. Cosby was very cordial in re
ceiving the reporters.
A highlight of the historical ocas
ion was organization of Precinct 25
by Negroes and the election of a
white woman. Miss Lottie Wallis, an
election judge, to cast the precinct’s
one vote at the Democratic conven
tion this Saturday.
The precinct convention, after elec
ting E. H. Harrison, labor lea’der, as
temporary chairman, passed a resolu
tion demanding that the state Demo
cratic convention select others who
will support the Democratic party’s
nominees.
The one incident witnessed by re
porters that marred the perfectly
peaceful atmosphere that prevailed at
all booths was when officials at Pre
cinct 24 resented the taking of pic
tures of Negro voters by Life’s white
photographer.
They insisted that the photograph
er was trying to stir up strife and
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Columnist
Denies he
Said Split in
Naacp Ranks
is Imminent
Washington, DC.,—Horace Cay- i
ton, columnist for the Pittsburgh |
Courier, has denied that his column I
of July 22 predicted a split in the
ranks of the NAACP was immin
ent.
The denial was contained in a tele
gram addressed to Leslie Perry, ad
ministrative assistant in the Wash
ington Bureau of the NAACP. Per
ry wired Cayton because of an anon
ymous news release, sent to most
newspapers from Chicago, but bear
ing a New York dateline. The an
onymous release stated:
“The inevitable split in the ranks
of the NAACP over the association's
new policy as projected by its execu
| tive secretary, Walter White, was
predicted last week by Horace Cay
ton, social worker and newspaper
columnist.”
Cayton declared in his telegraphed
reply:
“My column appearing July 22 was
not intended as an attack upon the
NAACP. I tried to show association
must be interested in the platforms
of political parties dealing with soc
ial and economic questions and can
and should point their applications to
its membership. Further tr’ied to in
dicate gradual growth of its philoso
phy to include the common man of
the world and its closer assciation
with labor. I did not indicate there
would be a split in the association
but tried to envey my feelings that
there were certain differences of
opinion incident to the widening of
the association's philosophy and mem
bership. It is my belief that the as
sociation will continue to grow and
more and more express the view
point of the common man. This
will disturb both white and Negro
arch conservatives.”
%i commenting upon the anony
mous attack, Walter White, NAACP
secretary, said:
The person who sent out this re
lease is trying to create a division
where none exists. Mr. Cayton’s
column in the Courier is in plain
language. The NAACP is growing,
as he has noted. Its philosophy is
growing along with its much broader
membership. It never intended to be
a narrow civil 'rights organization,
but tor many years it has done its
most spectacular work in the civil
rights field. Today, fortunately, it
has more members and more resourc- '
es and is thus able to broaden its ac
tivities. In truth the NAACP has
always fought for the common man
and his basic rights. VVe shall con
tinue to do so more vigorously and
in coperation with all other groups
with the same objective. It is a
strange thing to be criticized for
championnig the cause of the com
mon man. VVe are not ashamed of
this, nor will be be intimidated by
news releases from persons or organ
izations afraid to sign their nan-,) to
such charges.
“This news release says this policy
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TAN TOPICS By CHARLES AUEM
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“IF YOU THINK WE RE GOING TO REJECT YOU, YOU'RE
CRAZY”.
Shalimar Country Club To Open
Formally Saturday, August 12th
TO BE SHOW PLACE
FOR OMAHANS....
At last Omaha Colored citizens are
going to have a institution which is
much needed by them—a place to go
and enjoy themselves amidst the beau
tiful surroundings of mother nature—
The Shalimar Country Club will hold
their formal opening Saturday, Aug
ust 12, according to Mrs. Otto Will
iams, wife of the vice president of
the club, who was interviewed by a
Guide reporter.
The clubs purpose is to provide Si
social and recreational center for the
colored people of this community.
The club, which now has over 200
hundred members will limit their
membership to 500.
The Shalimar Country Club build
ing located on highway 73 (north out
of Florence on north 30th street) is
being completely modernized, and re
decorated inside and outside and fur
nished in an attractive manner, to
make it a show place, said Clarence
Davis, well known city fireman and
president of the organization’s board
of directors.
The club will have a dining room,
cocktail lounge, riding academy, ten
nis courts, and facilities for other j
athletic games. The club has bought
up an option on a tract of land across
the road and will install a nine hole
golf course there.
Officers of the club are Otto Wil
liams, vice president; John Morris,
secretary-treasurer.
This will be the first country club
ever established by our race in this
part of the west.
Waiters’ Club Stages
Formal Opening... r
The Waiters’ Club at 2409 Burdette
Street held a very fine program at
their formal opening Tuesday evening
August 1st. The club members were
in a vrey welcoming mood and the
guest caught up the spirit and the af
fair was a real riot of pleasure.
Mr. Willis Porter was master of
ceremonies for the evening. Mr. R.
C. Long, general chair of the Protec
tive Order of Dining Car Waiters
in a short address, made some very
interesting and timely remarks.
Attorney Ray William in his usual
fine way, introduced the visitors.
ACCUSED OF MURDER OF
THOMAS DOUGLAS, ENTERS
PLEA OF INNOCENCE.
LeRoy Smith, Dermott, Ark., last
Tuesday entered a plea of innocence
before District Judge Henry Beal
when he was arraigned on a first de
gree murder charge.
He is accused in the death of
Thomas Douglas, 55, who was found
biugeoned in his watch repair shop
at 1843 North 24th street, Feb. 12.
Smith, a former Omahan, has been
in jail since early spring when he was
brought back from Dermott, where
he said he was visiting relatives.
When Judge Beal asked if he had an
attorney. Smith said he expected mem
bers of his family to come here and
hire an attorney to defend him.
MAN FOUND STABBED.
Lewis Bullock, 28, of 2906 North
24th street, was found in his room
last Saturday night with stab wounds
in his left shoulder and in his back.
He was treated at Doctor’s hospital
and released.
Police booked Bullock and two
woman at that address for investiga
! tion.
Liberian Missionary To
Lecture Here August 13th
Mrs. Willie Curtis Ragland
Mrs. Willie Curtis Ragland has
served in Liberia as a Missionary for
seven years. During that time many
interesting experiences have been wit
nessed by her.
On Sunday, August 13 at 3 o’clock
p. m. A Special lecture will be given
FOR WOMEN ONLY at the
Church of God in Christ, 2318 North
26th street, Elder V. M. Barker, pas
tor.
3 Major Companies
Push Negro Nurse
Recruiting
The makers of PEPSI-COLA sev
eral months ago, started running a
series of advertisements in the Negro
press urgtTrg Negro women who qual
fy, to join the Cadet Nurse Corps, to
relieve other qualified Negro nurse*
for military service.
So encouraging were the results
from this campaign that the War
Advertising Council, working with
Interstate United Newspapers, Pub
lishers’ Representative ofr most of
the Negro newspapers in America,
succeeded in interesting other manu
facturers in endorsing this patriotic
intensive campaign from the SCHEN
LEY DISTILLERS CORPORA
TION—Drug Division which runs
through the end of August, then to
be expanded if the need still exists
on an even larger scale.
All women of the city and Mission
Auxiliaries are cordially invited to
hear Mrs. Ragland.
Sunday night services will also be
given to a demonstration of Lantern
slides of pictures taken among those
with whom she has labored in jungle
life.
A free contribution will be accept
ed. While in the city she is residing
at 2864 Corby St., AT. 7504.
yroducts, this week starts an intens
ive drive for Negro Nurse Recruit
ments in those markets which have
the largest hosfitals devoted to the
training of Negro nurses. This
Company expects to expand its act
ivity in the Negro field as quickly
as other hospitals are aple to train
more Negro Nurses. This is the
first time that the makers of
KOTEX have used the Negro press.
Needless to say, Interstate United
Iewspapers is proud to have played a
major part in securing the aid of the
Above three mentioned major com
panies in this patriotic drive.
Tegro nurse recruits are pouring in
now as never before.
ALL COPY ILLUSTRATED...
All of the Advertisements being
carried by each of the companies are
illustrated with Negro subjects,
stressing the postwar advantages of
the training to be secured, the snap
piness of the uniform and the dignity
of the nursing profession.
FEPC To Hold Hearings
In L.A. on Colored Bus,
i Trollev Operators_
1 The President's Committee on Fair
Discuss Virgin Isles Postwar Program
Seeking establishment of a pro
gram of post-war works and vocat
ional training designed to prevent
mass unemployment in the Virgin Is
I lands after the war, an official dele
gation from ffie Virgin Island Muni
cipal Council is now in Washington,
DC., for conferences with Govern
mnet officials. Valdemar A. Hill,
chairman of the delegation is shown |
in the center, with, members Omai
Brown, left aiti' Roy P. Gordon
right. (PPNS).
WILL ANALYZE ADMINIS
TRATION OF BRICKER
Vice Presidential nominee Harry
S. Truman's voting record during
the last sessions of Congress indic
ates that he favored passage of the
anti-poll tax bill and was for the un
restricted right of soldiers to vote
in the Presidential election, according
to an analysis made by the National
Non-Partisan Council on Public Af
fairs of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sor
ority.
Senator Truman, who is chairman
of the Senate Committee to investi
gate the national defense program,
twice voted for cloture on fillibust
ers against the anti-poll tax bill—
once on November 23, 1942 and 11
gain on May 15, 1944.
He voted for the original soldier
vote bill and opposed the Eastland a
mendment which emasculated the bill
by putting the distribution of soldiers
ballots in the hands of the states. In
addition, Senator Truman supported
the unsuccessful Barkley amendment
to the soldiers vote bill which would
have made it possible for servicemen
and women to receive Federal elect
ion ballots after taking an oath that
they had applied to their states but
had received no ballot, and would
have given the vote to civilian person
-nel located in war theatres. Prev
iously Senator Truman had voted to
support the anti-lynching bills.
The AKA Council announced that
it would soon reveal the results ot
itsits analysis of the administration
of the Republican Vice Presidential
nominee, Governor John Bricker of
Ohio.
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ALBERT GREENE 2ND
COLORED LAD TO
DROWN IN CARTER
LAKE.
The second drowning fatality of
drowning in Carter lake was recorded
last Thursday afternoon when Albert
Green, 13, of 3510 Blondo street,
was drowned in the lake when he
stepped into a 10 foot hole while wad
ing with two otherlads.
The lad, unable to swim, disappear
ed immediately. A companion, Sylv
ester Beasley, 14, of 3501 Burdette
street, tried vainly to reach him. The
third member of the trio, boating and
playing in the water, was Eugene Me
Carthy, 16, of 2521 Binney street.
City Firemen and the First Aid
squad recovered the body an hour an
a half later.
Albert is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Grant reene, three sis
ters, Mrs. Sallie Henderson, Mrs.,
Mary Parks, Miss Harriette Greene,'
all ot Omaha, brother, Grant Greene,
I Jr.. United States Army. Boise, Idaho
uncle, Mr. Albert Greene, Omaha,
'hree aunts, Mrs. Albert Greene, Om
aha, Mrs. Evasne Saxton and other
relatives.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon from Zion Baptist church,
with Rev. F. C. Williams officiating,
with burial at Forest Lawn cemetery.
Arrangements by The Thomas
Mortuary.
Robert Faulkner, 11, of 2711 Maple
street was drowned in the lake about
one month ago.
LEGION AUXILIARY
ELECT DELEGATES
The Theodore Roosevelt American
j Legion Auxiliary elected its delegates
to the Nebraska State Conventn.i
which will be held August 2t-22 in
Omaha. The delegates elected at e:
Madames odie Gardner, Pearl
Brummell, Anna Peirson. Florence
Garland; Unit President, Mrs E.a
Milsap. Alternates, Mrs. Letha Brad
ley, Mrs. Pearl Thomas, Mrs. V’r-I
ginia London, Mrs. Bessie Wilhan1
The Omaha Unit No. 30 received a
card of thanks fro.n Mrs. Geme Me
Glosson for th<> IS bed pan covers,
and 8 dresser scarfs, sent to the Vet
erans’ hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska
Mrs. Eva Milsap, Prts., Mrs Pearl
Thomas, Reporter.
Employment Practice will hold pub
lic hearings in Los Angeles, Calif.,
on August 8 and 9 on complaints that
the Los Angeles Railway Corporation
has refused, because of their race, to
hire qualified Negro workers as bus
and trolley car operators, Malcolm
Ross, FEPC Chairman, announced.
OPEN NEW HOUSING
UNIT FOR NEGROES
Washington, DC., July 29 (PPNS
When Negro war workers move into
18,000 homes now being built, more
than 1’0,000 publicly financed dwell
ings will be occupied by Negro ten
ants, Philip M. Klutznick, Commis
sioner of the Federal Public Housing
Authority of the National Housing
Agency, announced.
The peacetime, low rent program
carried out principally by local hous
ing authorities under the United Stat
es Housing Act has supplied 46,000
permanently built dwellings to meet
the recognized need of Negroes for
safe, decent housing. Of the G5.000
war dwellings for essential Negro
war workers, 24,000 are of perman
ent construction. This brings to 70,
000 the number of permanent dwell
- ings available to Negro families.
The remaining 41,000 war housing
units for Negro occupancy are tem
porary structures, demountable dwell
Engineering Beauty...
Miss Norma Ann Amato, charming
caughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Amato of Los Angeles. Miss Amato
a Junior Engineer with the Californ
ia State Division of Highways, still
finds time to display her lovely so
prano voice as soloist at the Rev.
George Garner's Fellowship church.
She has received considerable praise
from music critics including Roland
Hayes and urged to continue her stud
ies in voice culture. (PPNS).
S S Edward Savoy
Launched in BaltimVe
The thirteenth Liberty Ship to be
named for an American Negro the
SS EDWARD A. SAVOY, was
launched on July 19, at the Bethle
hem-Fairchild Shipyard, Baltimore,
Md., Mrs. Edith Savoy Morgan of
A A
Washington, DC., daughter of the
late Mr. Savoy, was the sponsor and
is shown as she was about to christen
the vessel. Assisting her (on the
left) is G. J. Me Vicar, General Sup
erintendent of the yard. (PPNS).
LAUNCH ANOTHER SHIP
HONORING NEGRO
GOV’T SERVANT.
Washington, DC., July 31 (PPNS
The 361st Liberty Ship to be launch
ed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Ship
yard in Baltimore, Md., was the SS.
EWARD A. SAVOY, named for tre
Negro who spent 64 years in govern
ment service, and was chief messen
ger to 22 Secretaries of State. The
launching took place on July 19, the
Maritime Commission announced
this week.
Mrs. Edward Savoy Morgan, dau
ghter of the man for whom the ship
■•vas named, was the sponsor. She
resides at 503—24th Street, Wash
ington, DC.
Prior to the launching, a delightful
luncheon was given the sponsoring
ings, conversions, trailers and other
stop-gap housing. The scarcity of
critical materials, which necessitated
the suspension of the low-rent pro
gram early in the war, has required
the use of temporary construction in
most publicly financed war housing
built during the last two years.
“The expansion of our program of
providing housing for the growing
numbers of Negro war workers has
been achieved in the face of material
shortages and site selection difficult
ies,” the commissioner said.
Negro tenants are already living in
some 400 public housing_projects in
2225 localities of 40 states and the
District of Columbia.
“We are endeavoring to see to it
that every American on the produc
tion line is as adequately housed as
our limited materials will permit.
Good housing means heightened mor
ale and increased war production,”
Mr. Klutznick said.
CHURCH GROUP ASKS THAT
NEGRO FILL VACANCY ON
ST. LOUIS BOARD OF
EDUCATION.
St. Louis, Aug. 1 (ANP)-The
Metropolitan Church federation last
week urged the appointment of a
Negro to fill a vacancy on the "board
of education, the Rev. Clark Walker
Cummings, executive secretary,
farty and friends at the York Hotel
in Baltimore. D. B. Purnell, leader
in the Labor Department of the ship
yard, acted as host for the Bethlehem
Fairchild Company. At the luncheon
messages in praise for the useful
career of the late Mr. Savoy were
read and his life extolled by relatives
and friends.
He was born in Washington and
attended Howard University. In
18B9 he became page boy to Secretary
of State Hamilton Fish, starting a
career of serivce which extended ov
er a period of 64 years. President
Woodrow Wilson, on recommenda
tion of Williams Jenning Bryan, ele
vated Savoy to the rank and salary
of clerk. His work was largely con
fidential and he numbered among his
contacts.many distinguished and fam
cus personages. When he retired in
1933, he was carried to the White
Hmise by President Roosevelt and
thanked for “'faithful and unique
service to the Government and people
of the United States.”
Following the launching, Mrs, Mor
gan was pdesented with a diamond
acd ruby-studded wrist watch on be
half of the shipyard as a memento
cf the occasion.
Among members of the Savoy fam
ily tc witness the launching were.—
Mrs. Edith Savo/ Morgan, Mr r.n i
Mrs. Robert W. Morgan, Dr. ami
Mrs. Sevellon D. Savoy, Miss Ruth
Edwina Savoy, Mrs Rachel S. Wines
Lieut. A. Lawrence Savoy, Mrs. Ed
na R. Rogers, Miss Gail Rogers, Mrs
Nettie D. Wave, Miss Yvonne Boy
den, Mr. and Mrs. James O. Holmes,
Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Issac Edwards, Mr
and Mrs. Samuel Jackson, Mrs. Mar
ie E. Pevova, Mrs. Ida S. Taylor, A.
Keiger Savoy, and Mr. and Mrs. D.
I B. Purnell.
Other liberty ships named for dis
tinguished Negro Americans have
been the SS Booker T. Washintgon,
George Washington Carver, John
Merrick, Robert L. Vann, Paul Lau
rence Dunbar. James Weldon John
son, John Hope, Jonh H. Murphy,
iToussaint L’Ouverture, Frederick
I Douglass, Robeft S. Abbott, Harriet
•Tubman and Bert Williams.
CELLUCOTTON COMPANY
JOINS CAMPAIGN ...
The International Cellucotton Com
pany, makers of feminine hygiene