Largest Accredited Negro Netvspap er IVest of Chicago and North of KC
Saturday, August 12,1944 OUR 17th YEAR—No. 27
Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oft ice. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of
March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha. Nebr.
Mrs. Jeanette Rucker, of Chi-1 the wife of Sgt. Rucker, Post
cago, 111., is “Sweetheart” of the Headquarters Detachment and a
Negroes Establish Seaman Clubs In The South
THE WEEKLY
By H. W. Smith
Claude Chancey of Seldman,
Okla., was arrested in Louisville,
Ky., Thursday, August 3rd, for
brushing the red lights and making
a U turn. He told police he was
an auto thief and had purchased
lots of gasoline without coupons
and wanted to be arrested.
Capt. Harry Evans of a fishing
boat of Sanpeura, Calif., reported
Thursday night, August 3rd, a
foreign submarine was sighted off
the coast of California.
Bishop Vernon and wife died
two days apart in a Kansas City
hospital. He was one of the noted
leaders of the A. M. E. Church
and at the time was Recorder of
Deeds of the U. S. in Washington,
D. C.
More than a dozen firemen were
overcome by smoke from a fire that
destroyed three large buildings in
Akron, Ohio, Thursday night, Au
gust 3rd.
Mrs. Francis Andrews, a society
woman of California, was indicted
by the Grand Jury on Thursday,
August 3rd, for the murder of Jay
Lovett, a 19 year old farm hand.
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Norman D. Black, publisher of
the Fargo, North Dakota, Forum,
died Friday, August 4th, of a heart
attack.
Heat temperature in New York
Friday, August 4th, was 95, the
year’s high and all time record
for August 4tk.
Judy Barnhill of Baltimore, O.,
was hit twice by the same auto at
the same place Friday, August
4th.
Read the Omaha Guide.
The Capital Building is all
shined up for Victory Day. Mr.
David Lyon says we want to turn
the flood lights on a gleaming
building when victory comes.
Two trains collided on the Atlan
tic coast line near Stockton, Ga.,
Saturday morning, August 5. For
ty-seven persons were killed and
a number were wounded.
Democratic National leaders pre
dicted Saturday, August 5th, from
37 to 75 Electoral votes will be
swung from the Democratic Party
at the November election.
A five year old boy was killed
in Glenview, a suburb of Chicago,
Friday, Aug. 4th. He fell against
an electrified fence.
Two men were killed when a
truck they were driving collided
with a Chicago & Northwestern
freight train near Victor, Iowa.
At a meeting of the City Wide
Committee of Harlem, N. Y.,
Mayor La Guardia, U. S. Senator
Burton of Ohio, Congressman I
Dickstein of New York, joined in
appeal to ask that the FEPC be
retained Friday night August 4th.
The nude body of Ida Elizabeth
Sienna was found near old Lynn,
Conn., Friday, August 4th.
Goldie Davis and a beautiful
lady on 24th and Grant streets
both approaching a barber shop
and beauty parlor.
Read the Omaha Guide and keep
well posted.
Connie Mack, manager of the
Philadelphia Athletics in the
American League Base Ball Club
celebrates his 50th year in base
ball.
A large barn over 65 years old
near Malvern, Iowa, was struck
by lightning and destroyed during
a severe storm Friday evening. A
large lot of farm machinery and
farm implements also were lost.
Three soldiers were killed and !
two injured in a collision of an air I
field truck and a gas transport
near Ardmore, Okla., Thursday
night, August 3rd.
Two colored scientists are study
ing soil in Iowa. W. E. Simms of
Lanyston University, Lanyston,
Okla., and Ronald S. Byrd, Eastern I
branch of the University of Mary
land.
Methodist Institute of the Kear
ney, Nebr., district opened at Lex
ington, Nebr., Monday, August 7th.
Over two hundred ministers are
attending. Representatives from
China and India are attending.
Pennsylvania railroad to install
train telephone on the main line
between Harrisburg and Pitts
burgh, Pa.
RED CROSS WORKER
AT FT. HUACHUCA
Mrs. Marian Wethers has just
completed one year of service as
Executive Secretary at the Fort
Huachuca Post Chapter, American
Red Cross. Mrs. W'ethers for
merly did volunteer social work in
Passaic, N. J., and was a social
worker with the New York City
Department of Welfare for seven
years. The Red Cross program is !
an important part of the welfare >
conducted under Colonel Edwin N.
Hardy, post commander, for the
welfare of personnel located on
the Fort.
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Milwaukee railroad Olympian'
train was derailed near the sta
tion in Lake City, Minn., Monday,
August 7th. Twenty-six persons
were injured.
Mrs. Francis M. Erickson was
fatally stabbed in Washington, D.
C. She died in the arms of a
policeman early Sunday morning.
Are you a member of the N. A.
A. C. P.? Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has a wide awake branch.
Sometimes misunderstandings
are the cause of careful thinking
pn both sides and a reviewing of
the thoughts bring about new and
better ideas. “Political theories
are subject to change when we are
criticized” it should be a very
good lesson. And as one delegate
to a very important meeting was
asked what he thought of the pro
ceedings and his answer was
“much has boen said and nothing
has been done.” Now what the
Republican Party is demonstrating
is what is being said and doing
for the material good for the peo
ple of the United States and the
World at large. Now we should
all be prepared and ready to cast
a vote for the GOP in November.
N. A. A. C. P. ASKS
F. B. I. ACTION
IN PTC STRIKE
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New York—After a two-day per
sonal investigation of Transpor
tation strike hostilities in Phila
delphia, Assistant NAACP sec
retary, Roy Wilkins, wired Attor
ney General Francis Biddle: “I
wish to urge strongly that the
Department of Justice through the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
make a special examination into
the activities of James McMena
min, Don Lasher and Frank P.
Carney, who are leaders of the so
called committee representing the
strikers. Statements attributed to
Carney by Philadelphia papers of
August 1st and 2nd seem to be
clearly incitement to riot. Rumor I
has it that Carney and Lasher
were either given or took much
time off from work during past
three weeks devoting their efforts
to fomenting racial hatred and
stirring up employees to paralyze
Philadelphia with the surprise
stoppage. Statements attributed
to McMenamin in the New York
Herald Tribune of August 3rd
come within the category of in
citement to riot. Carney and Mc
Menamin have preached open de
fiance of federal government as
well as vilest and lowest forms of
racial hatred. My personal ob
servatiom among Negro population
of Philadelphia for 36 hours in
forms me that the statements of
these strike leaders have done more
to embitter Negro population and
lay basis for serious clashes than
any other aspect of tie-up. Pormpt
and effective action by FBI is
urged.”
LAW-ABIDING
FREEDOM
By Ruth Taylor
The impatient who want the end
before the beginning are leveling
criticism against our government,
decrying the fact that we deal with
established governments only, that
we do not deal with governments
set up by “liberals” if they do not
have the backing of the laws and
people of their own country. We
are called reactionary. We are
condemned for not standing for
“freedom” which they interpret to
mean the right to do as they please.
Freedom of itself is a beautiful
word—but freedom without law to
back it, is anarchy. Just as men
have freedom to think and speak
in order to progress and indeed
survive, so must they have self
made laws regulating that free
RED CROSS
DIRECTOR AT
FT. HUACHUCA
Mr. Everett W. Johnson, of Phil
adelphia, Pa., is the senior assist
ant filedr director, of Fort Hua
chuca’s Red Cross organization.
Mr. Johnson serves as liaison
worker between the many activi
ties of the Red Cross and the Per
sonal Affairs branch. Mr. John
son has had wide experience in
Red Cross field work, as well as
being a veteran of World War I;
having served as first lieutenant
of field artillery.
dom.
History has proven this again
and again. The Roman Empire
was great as long as it was com
posed of disciplined free men. To
be a Roman citizen then meant to
be a free man all over the known
world. The Romans conquered not
merely by force of arms, but by
force of concerted, intelligent ac
tion. But when liberty degenerated
info license, they fell a prey to
the barbaric Germanic invaders.
As the historian, James Truslow
Adams, wrote: “Without a vision
men shall die. It is no less true
that without hard practical sense,
they shall also die.” This has been
the secret back of our country’s
greatness. America started from
a vision of freedom for all man
kind, but it was backed up by laws
that insured the keeping of that
freedom. Freedom alone is not
enough. Nor will arbitrary laws
suffice. But freedom, backed by
laws, conceived and legislated by
those to whom they must apply, is
invincible.
We cannot safeguard the free
dom that is democracy by undemo
cratic means. Democracy, the rule
of the majority, implies an acqui
escence to self-government, a will
ing obedience to the laws of the
STAFF SERVING FT.
HUACHUCA THEATRE
Shown above is the operating
staff of Fort Huachuca’s War De
partment Theatre No. 4. Seated
in the picture is S/Sgt. James W.
Lawson, St. Paul, Minn; Standing,
left to right, front row: Sgt. Har
old Batiste, Chicago, 111.; Cpl.
Lloyd Baynard, ticket taker, Phil
adelphia, Pa.: Pvt. Vertie Nichol
son, usher, Dallas, Texas: Sgt.
Fred Hardy, chief projectionist,
Chicago, 111. Back row, Pvt. Her
bert Lyles, ticket taker, Houston,
Texas; and Sgt. Robert Bryers,
assistant projectionist, Cincinnati,
Ohio.—Photo by Mundy.
THE FUTURE’’
By Myrtle M. Goodlow
When the war is over
Our pathway will not be clover
Times will not be prosperous
And the going will be tough for
us
And some employers won't forget
The unfair treatment from their
help
At the time they needed them most
And were ever ready to boast
Jobs were waiting everywhere
Just fire them—they wouldn’t care
And walk out then and there
It’s a shame and disgrace
The way some of our race
Fail to make time day after day
And come in late wearing a big
broad grin
Often smelling of whiskey or gin
And expect a warm welcome
When their work is waiting to be
done
While others the whole work day
disrupt
When they fail to show up or call
up
Loud laughter and talk are both
taboo
And playing Topsy and Uncle Tom
too
Isn't any credit to those who do
For we are spotted first anywhere
And without and fanfare
Folks who always pass the buck
In the long run get messed up
For snitchers and trouble makers
have a day
When they receive their just pay
I No one should make it hard
For anyone—on any job
Please try to always do your best
For we are now passing a test
That will decide the future
And for many I hope insure
A job in the days tc come
When the war is done.
GOD’S PEOPLE MUST
BE CALLED
Facts That All Christians Should
Read and Know
Christians, I am asking, from
where did all this strife and di
vision come?
Chapter 1, II Peter will bring
to your mind what Christ said.
The well of truth has been stopped
up and the huge cistern broken; a
broken cistern will not hold water.
Read Chapter 1, II John.
I am calling all parents and
1 children. There will be a Bible
School at the G. E. Bivens Taber
nacle, 2711 North 24th.
God has Called Me to Teach the
Truth.
George E. Bivens.
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DISTINGUISHED
NEGROES WORK
WITH USS TO
ESTABLISH
SEAMEN’S CLUBS
IN SOUTH
The opening of a residence club
for Negro merchant seamen in
New Orleans, plans for converting
a Norfolk, Va., hotel into a similar
unit ar.d the contemplated erec
tion of a new building at Mobile,
Ala., for still a third unit are an
nounced by Douglas P. Falconer,
executive director of United Sea
men’s Service, a member agency of
the National War Fund, which
serves merchant seamen regardless
of race, color or religion on all six
continents of the world. Some
other agencies of the National War
Fund are the USO, War Prison
ers Aid, Russian War Relief. Theo
dore H. Smith, a special field rep
resnetative, is USS advisor on
services to Negro merchant sea
men.
The new USS New Orleans unit
is the George Washington Carver
Hotel at 837 Iberville Street, nam
ed in honor of the great Negro
scientist. The first Negro seaman
registered there on July 5th. It
has 27 rooms that will accomodate
more than 60 guests, is completely
staffed by Negroes and will have
one of the finest recreational set
ups of all USS clubs in the United.
States. Chairman of the USS Ad
visory Committee on Negro Affairs
in New Orleans, which is in pro
cess of formation, is F. L. Rous
seve, to whom much of the credit
for the unit is due.
The new Norfolk unit is the
Prince George Hotel, which will
accomodate about 50 Negro sea
men. Here, also, the manager,
recreational director and staff will
all be Negroes.
The USS Negro advisory com
mittee in Norfolk consists of Hor
ace G. Christopher, chairman, who
is also a member of the USS Port
Area Committee and USS Port
Executive Committee; David E.
Longley and W. T. Mason, also
members of the USS Port Area
Committee; J. Eugene Diggs, John
H. Ward, F. W. Lewis, the Rev.
W. L. Hamilton, P. B. Young, Sr.,
and David Alston.
Mobile plans call for the erec
tion and opening within five
months of a similar facility. Here
J. S. LeFlore is chairman of the
United Seamen’s Service Negro
Advisory committee and also a
member of the USS Port Area and
Executive Committees. Other mem
bers of the advisory committee
now being formed are Prof. B. F.
Baker and Prof. C. E. Powell, also
members of the Port Area Com
mittee.
Houston, Texas, has a USS Ne
gro advisory committee in full ope
ration. It consists of the Rev. J.
S. Scott, chairman and also a mem
ber of the USS Port Area Com
mittee; W. C. Cravor, F. L. Lane,
C. A. Shaw, C. W. Wesley, Dr. B.
J. Covington, Mrs. Theodore S.
Harris, the Rev. A. A. Lucas, L.
J. Jones, the Rev. L. H. Simpson,
Dr. C. W. Pemberton, R. L. Craw
ford, Freeman Everett, A. E. Nor
ton, Mrs. J. White, J. B. Ury and
C. L. Ransom.
Similar committees are in pro
cess of formation in Galveston,
Texas, where J. H. Clouser, a mem
ber of the USS Port Area Com
mittee is chairman, and in Port
Arthur, Texas, where Dr. J.
Blackburne Matthews is chairman.
majority, plus a realization by the
majority that minorities not only
have rights, too, but are entitled
to equal consideration and can
not be trammelled or imposed upon.
Rights which we demand for our
selves we must grant to others.
That is why free speech and free
dom of religion are basic to our
American democracy.
“Only freedom which is under J
strong law, only strong law to
which men consent because it pre
serves freedom, can endure,” Wal
ter Lippmann wrote recently. It
is up to each of us who desire free
dom, who believe in democracy,
who want to preserve our Amer
ican way of life, to obey our own
laws—whether or not we like them
—and to accord the same privileges
to others. That is the democratic
way. That is the way to successful
freedom.
SECRETARY AT
FT. HUACHUCA
Mrs. Mary DuConge, of New
Orleans, La.t> is now serving with
the American Red Cross at Fort
Huachuca, Arizona. Her official
position is that of secretary to the
assistant field director, Mr. Ever
ett W. Johnson. Mrs. DuConge
is the wife of S/Sgt. Oscar Du
Conge of the 92nd Division Fi
nance Section.—Photo by Mundy
& Burrill.
NEGROES MOVE INTO
FAMED 52nd STREET
AS OWNERS OF
NIGHTCLUB;
WHITES ATTEND
New Yoak — Blase Broadway
awakened the other day to find
that Negroes had moved into famed
52nd Street, swing alley of jazz
music, in the heart of the Gay
White Way. And the Negroes
that moved in weren’t musicians
nor entertainers working in one
of the countless bistros, cabarets,
nightclubs, cocktail lounges and
whatnot that line the thorough
fare from Seventh Avenue clear
over to Fifth.
Instead, the Negroes moved in
strictly on their own in the own
ership class. This unheralded,
though unprecedented venture of
Negroes operating a business in
direct competition with whites and
on the same scale is what has
Broadway talking. While there
are some die-hards among the con
versationalists who figure the
world is going to come to an end
| or some other dire thing come to
pass because Negroes are waking
up to the opportunities around
them, the prevailing opinion is
favorable to Tondelaya, one time
famous dancer, who has opened
her own night club, the Club Ton
delayos on the site of the national
ly known Club 18.
Club Will Follow Pattern
John Levy, former Chicagoan,
and a noted sportsman, is owner
of the club. He is the husband of
Tondelaya, who in real life is the,
former Whilhelmina Gray who
was the female half of the great
exotic dance team of Tondelaya
and Lopez. Levy told me the other
night that his club will follow the
established pattern of competing
clubs and cabarets in 52nd Street.
Said he: “We will cater to an
interracial clientele. Anyone not
liking our policy is definitely ask
ed to stay away. Another feature
—and somewhat a departure from
the usual standard—we want the
women of Harlem to know that
here is one place where they can
stop during their downtown tours
and have lunch or dinner. We
open at noon and remain open un
til 4 a. m. Our reputation is be
ing built on the good food we serve
—yep, the drinks will be okay, jtoo.”
The club itself is a dream, ac
tually a dream. No club in the
block comes near it for decorative
splendor. Subtle and in extreme'
good taste are the dark wine col
ored leather seats neatly tucked
beneath amber colored walls.
Chairs are done in egg shell
leather. There is an expansive
burgundy rug covering the entire
floor. The bar, located at the
front, has an awning of brightly
colored canvas. Colored murals
are hung on the walls and the
place is air-conditioned through
out.
Club Tondeloyas features a
southern cuisine, intimate lunch
eon and dinner piano music and
the opportunity to meet and rub
elbows with celebrities from all
levels of society, including radio,
stage, screen, nightclub, the lit
erary world as well as the politi
cal.
Errol Gardner New Find
Basil Spears, bewitching sor
ceress of the keyboard, shares the
piano detail with the sensational
Erroll Gardner of Pittsburgh.
Ray Sneed, Jr., dancing genius of
“Stormy Weather” is the emcee.
Gardner is a personal discovery of
Tondelaya who says she found him
playing in an Asbury Park, N. J.,
club. Right now he is the ^oast
of 52nd Street. Tondelaya will
also be remembered for her role in
“Stormy Weather.” She got that
name from the bewitching colored
girls in the play, “White Cargo.”
The only Negro in recent years
to be associated with a big time
52nd Street venture in the capac
ity of owner was Eddie Mallory
who in co-operation with several
whites, bought interests in a short
lived club where Lionel Hamp
ton’s band was featured.
The night I visited Club Tonde
loyas, the place was filled with
Negro and white cafe socialites.
Nan Wynn of the movies sang a
guest number because she liked
the way Gardner played the piano.
Several of the cast of “Carmen
Jones’’ turned out, and there were
authors, commissioned officers of
the army and navy, plus such mu
sicians as Coleman Hawkins, Pete
Brown, Hot Lips Page, Charlie
Shavers, Slam Stewart and others
The whites who came definitely
were pleased and Tondelaya told
me that most of them had returned
bringing new friends.
It is to be expected that other
Negroes with capital will further
explore and get in on the Broad
way Bandwagon as owners of not
only nightclubs, but restaurants
and other types of business. Noth
| ing bars you but your money.
Post Band SCU 1922, Fort Hua- native of Toronto, Canada,
chuca, Arizona. Mrs. Rucker is —
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That J. C. CAREY, J. W. DACUS,
Dr. A. L. Hawkins, Ollie Lewis,
R. C. Stewart, Andrew Williams,
Specer Edward, and P. L. Adkins
have associated themselves to
gether for the purpose of form
ing and becoming a body corpor
ate under the laws of the State of
Nebraska.
1. The name of the corporation
shall be “Citizen Investment Com
pany.”
2. Its objects shall be- to buy,
sell, lease, manage, encumber, rent,
improve and renovate real estate;
to deal in leaseholds; to furnish
apartments in real estate proper
ties, and to do any and all things
lawful for the carrying out of
such objects, it shall have the
power to establish branches in
various places in Nebraska and in
other communities of the United
States.
3. The Capital Stock of the cor
poration shall consist of Fifty
shares of common stock of the par
value of $100.00 each. All Stock
shall be fully paid for when issued.
No stock shall be offered or sold
to the public. Each share of stock
shall constitute one vote.
4. The indebtedness to which the
Company may at any one time sub
ject itself shall not exceed two
thirds of its capital stock.
5. It shall begin business on the
18th day of August, 1944, and
continue until March 18, 2043, un
less sooner terminated by act of
the stockholders or by operation of
law.
6. Its principal place of business
shall be Omaha, Douglas County,
| Nebraska.
7. The Officers and Directors
who are to serve until their suc
cessors are elected and qualified
shall be A. L. Hawkins, President,
OUie Lewis, Secretary, R. C. Stew
art, Treasurer, J. C. Carey, Vice
President, A. L. Hawkins, J. W.
Dacus, Ollie Lewis, R. C. Stewart,
Andrew Williams, S. Edward and I
P. L. Adkins. The officers of the
corporation shall manage its af
fairs.
8. The annual meeting of the
corporation shall be held at its
principal place of mpHness on or
before the 18th day of August of
each year, beginning in 1044.
RECEPTION
The evening of July 27th, an I
unusual and lovely reception was |
given at the Mount Moriah Bap
tist Church in honor of the pas
tor, Rev. David St. Clair, who has 1
been vacationing for three weeks
in the beautiful state of Califor- j
nia.
A program consisting of musi
cal numbers and talks by the chair
man of the deacon board, J. L.
Betts, Lawyer Fisher, visiting min
isters and other guests.
The unusual feature was when
the pastor was called to the front
seat and Lawyer Fisher presented
to him deeds, abstract and insur- '
ance papers to the parsonage. In
a surprise effort while the pastor
was away, $980 was raised and
the bill paid in full. He was very
surprised and happy over this for
he had gone away with the thought
in mind that special effort must
be put forth on his return to pay
this bill by October. Members and
friends all spent an enjoyable eve
ming at this affair.
CJ>MTineHTA.(
DO’S AND DON’TS—
Nothing is more nerve-racking than a radio going
| at full blast. Consider your neighbors and do turn
! it down.
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