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Cleaves 7 emple to Sponsor largest Accredited_Xegro hkwspapjrWestofChicago and North of KC Saturday, Sept. 9,1944- OUR 17thYEAR. No. 31 Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oftice. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act nf March 8, iS^Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha. Nebt Dubbed Nation’s Most Popular Miss Page One Speaks On Post War Star of “Anna Lacasta” Cap! Ruth Loretta Freeman, one of the nations leading WAC Recruit ing Officers, is successfully filling her quota at her new streamlined headquarters located in the Common wealth Edison Building on East 47th St., -n Chicago. Captain Freeman is a native of Texas, as she received her academic training and holds the dis tinction of being labelled as Ameri ca’s most popular Wac. She is a j good pal of Sgt. Joe Louis, headed a I Wac unit which made Duke Ellington their pin up boy of 1943 and has ap peared on more bond rallies, social civic and religious programs than any other WAC member of her race. A score of Gobs from Great Lakes Training station recently gathered at Servicemen’s Center No. 3 and made her their “Chin-Up" girl for the dur ation, (PPNS).__ Lovely Dorothy Philpot was chos en Miss Page One and appeared as cover girl on the Bronzeville Maga zine after Miss Bronze Beauty Con test judges made her third prize win ner of the 1944 City wide tilt. Miss Philpot resies at 5150 South Park, is 21 an was bom in Columbus, Georgia She 13 the daughter of Mrs. Edna • | Lockhart who brought little Dorothy to Pittsburgh when she was a baby. She graduated from David B. Oliver High school, took post graduate work at William H. High in Columbus and attended Tuskegee Institute. She is at present a war worker and employ ed at the Teletpye Corp. Also a Pe ters night school student. (PPNS). • I Chicago's famous fight promoter i Eddy Plicque and Marva Louis, wife I 01 Sgt. Joe Louis, both were loud in 1 their praise for Brown invaders of Paris. Mr. Plique, who is a match maker and fight announcer at the Savoy fight arena, told a huge aud ience al the Pershing Ballroom in Chicago that the several hundred sol dier boy fighters of outstanding tech nique will be ring masters of tomor row. Mrs. Louis asserted that young women whose husbands, brothers and sweethearts who are now in service, shouid grasp opportunity to join the WACs and learn a post war trade and at te same time it is the humanly thing to do, while “He” is awav. (PPNS). kirk HILDA Simms, who plays the title role in the all Negro play “Anna Lu~ casia currently playing Broadway, • --- -- has been acclaimed by leading news pape' critics as a coming talented young actress. (See story on page S). George Edward Johnson, Omaha Boy, Killed In Pacific War Theatre Operations . Horp. Ueorge Howard Johnson, the youngest son of Mrs. Agnes Hawkins 2412 Decatur Street was killed while driving an amunition truck some where in the South Pacific. He would have been in the army two years the first of November. The notice of his death was received from the War Department at 7:30 Tuesday morn mg. Jack A. Johnson his brother who has been home visiting his mo ter returned to Camp Monday morn ing without knowing of his brother's death. Mrs. Agnes Hawkins is a prominent member of Pleasant Green Baptist Church. Getting Potential Negro Vote Registered is Job For Both NAACP and Urban League Cite Danger of Negro Not Voting The coming Presidential election. Nov. 7 is the most important of all to the American Negro it. the history of his stay in this country. His fu ture is directly tied up with the man who occupies the White House for the next four years starting in 1945. Issues of tremendous importance to oar well-being are jnrofved. Into fhe lap of the next President of the Uni ted States will be laid the fate of 20,000,000 persons of African des cent living in this nation. The Ne gro’s vote—a potential 3,000,000 is ilated to play an important, if not deciding role iti whether Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New 'York is chosen as the nation’s chief executive or whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt remains at the helm. The right to vote is no more im portant than the duty to vote. This shouid be the theme song from here on m our two leading organizations— The NAACP and the Urban League “Even’ Negro Must Register; Every Negro Must Vote!’ The well-organ i . j ized tacilities of these organizations I must be put to work at once to get i every potentail Negro voter register | ed. The politicians are still as wise as of yore. They are onw making prom ises on a basis of potential Negro vote of 3,000,000. If this figure falls below 2,000,000 in registration, they will know exactly where we stand; how much power we can muster to control our own ballot; they will know exactly how to act on the prom ises they are making. Therein lies our danger. OUTLINES DANGER OF NOT VOTING. If the Negro vote falls shy of its threatened strength, the poll tax will remain, for hard-headed politicians will truthfully say: “If they don't vote in the North where they have the ballot, why should we give them the right to vote down South?” The effort to register every Negro in positoin to exercise his franchise should stem from 69 Fifth Avenue in New York City, headquarters of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People; and from 1133 Broadway, also in New York City, headquarters of the Na tional Urban League. The hundreds of NAACP branch es throughout the natoin should be given plans for a house to house can vass as well as a detailed campaign of doorbell ringing to acquaint our people with the seriousness of the sit uation Correspondingly, the nearly 100 lo cal Urban League offices should be the centers for this all important drive. By centering the campaign from the main offices of the two or ganizations, the situation can be j more highly dramatized and wilfc | more satisfying results than scatter I ed attempts to do rightly our most (Continued on Page S^"4) Voting Tvpcs m4° must g/ * ACSRec&ioe tfore*/_ s-'.W/ Must Ai an RE am AGG«eSSioE' _ £m te&CT«AMT / *802ED s/OTEft.*- WAS. NOT ' vroc &o«eo to seGisTE^/ U \*BEPuSLlCA»r . ‘democ^t* _ _„p uCE TUJEOvJlMG D*-G&t*A .- VOX 00*4T BBC^. -■•+* : f * ‘ *WOAAMVOTf.<?* xye vCT* _ it cue i?r*.cTFCS. * Rev. E. T. Streeter at Clair Chapel Sunday CHILD CARE CENTER PLANS PROGRAM Entertainment for_ Parents and Friends, Sunday, Sept. 10, 4 pm. The children and staff of the How ard Kennedy Child Care Center tend the following invitation to the general public : If you will be our guest, W'c will truly do our best, To show you how we learn and play While our parents are at work each day— Place—Howard Kennedy Child Care Center, 30th and Binney Streets North Entrance of the School. Time—t p. m., Sunday. Sept. 10th. They have planned a short enter tainment to familiarize the commun ity with their weekly program. Re freshments will be served. Lucille Gray Clay, Supervisor. NO WAVES FOR STATIONS HOUSING NEGRO SAILORS New York-No WAVES will be assigned to Naval Stations housing large numbers of Negro sailors, ac cording to a directive just uncovered by the National Assocaition for the Advancement of Colored People. The directive in the form of a mem orandum under date of March 6, .1944 and signed by Lt. W. M. Wilson. U. S. Naval Air Station, Vhidbv Island Washington reads as follows: SLBJ: Correspondence involving \\ AVES-official paragraph to be us ed. '1. Following is a sample para graph to be used in official correspon dence whenever it is necessary to dis cuss the possibility of bringing \\ A\ E personnel aboard. However, it is not now considered practicable to assign WAVES to this isolated station, for the following rea sons: (1) There are approximately four hundred (400) general service and rated Negro personnel aboard the station, and the nearest Negro com munity is ninety (’901 miles distant: QiTOQrjURP I "nw lo-—o—_o | The Rev. E. T. Streeter, pastor of Quayle Methodist Church, Salina, Kansas will be guest preacher at Clair Chapel Methodfst Church next Sunday, Sept 10th. Rev. Streeter is one of the able, gospel preachers of Methodism. He was one of the few ministers chosen to preach at the recent session of the Topeka District Conference held in Wichita, Kansas last month. You will enjoy hearing this fine gospel preacher. While in the city, Rev. Streeter is the house guest of his sister Mrs. Eva Rone. (2) There are no living quarters a vailable for WAVES: (3) There are not recreational facilities suitable for WAVES.” “2. This memorandum is to be kept in vour files. It is not to be bullentined or even left lying around” In a letter to James V. Forrestall. Secretary of the Navy. Walter White, NAACP secretary said “This Assocaition wishes to inquire wheth er the above memorandum was based upon the individual jugement of Lt. Wilson or whether it represents the Policy of the Navy.” fellowship Program, Sunday, Sept. 17th PROHIBITION I is Not the Answer AS THE NOVEMBER election approaches, so the discussion on Ne braska prohibition will increase. Most people of our state are well aware now that the prohibition ques tion will be on the ballot this fall. That election will be held because of the presentation of a egal petition to the Secretary of State's office with more than the required number of signatures. The Nebraska Allied Dry Forces, under the leadership of Har old “Three Gun" Wilson of Lincoln, was ihc agent instrumental in circul ating and filing of the petition. Opposition to the move toward Ne braska prohibition stems from two principal thought patterns, namely: that prohibition will not work, and that it is unfair to Nebraska men and women in the service of their cuontry and out of the state on de fense jobs to vote on the issue at this time. This newspaper believes that prohib ition will not work. It believes that most ether people believe this, but that prohibition may carry the state because those who are in favor of it will all vote while of the majority opposed to it many thousands will not vote. Especially undesirable we be lieve is a prohibition that is not na tionwide but which isolates a state here or there and marks it “dry” w'itfc “wet” states all around. Consider Kansas. Hardly a day passes that one cannot read in the daily press of the bootlegging activities rampant in an effort to supply thirsty Kansans with beer and liquor. And one may well believe that probably somewhat less than one bootlegging case in a thousand finds its way into the col timns of the papers. The serving and consumption of beer and liquor cer tainly does not make for a condition that is ideal. There are evils attach ed. Proper supervision, such as we in Nebraska now have, coupled with understanding of the problem by liq uor and beer dealers, can reduce these evils to a minimum—certainly far be low the minimum of evil that accom panied the former period of illegal liquor sales misnamed "prohibtion.” Occasionally trouble crops out ev en yet: yes, serious trouble. To deny that would be to deny the facts. Con ditions are not perfect nor will they ever he made perfect insofar as the sale and consumption of liquor is con cemed. Education, public and priv ate, will help. Conscientiousness on the part of retailers will be a great help. Prohibition will not. This newspaper believes that it is unfair to submit the proposition to a i vote while thousands of our residents I are away defending the right to main tain the free way of life (which might include postponement of de cision on controversial issues at home until they return home is such post ponement is at all possible.) from Osmond Republican, Aug. 16th HE4kST NEWSPAPERS TO SPONSOR RETURN OF RAY ROBINSON New York City (C) The Hearst newspapers are sponsoring the come back of Ray Robinson, recently a medical discharge from the army. Ray is to do his stuff in six cities— Jersey City, New York. Buffalo, Chi cago and Boston between September 27th and December 1st. In return for To End Annual Conference Year The Cleaves Temple CME. Church, 25th at Decatur streets will hold a Fellowship Program Sunday, Septem her 17th, 1944, closing their Annual Conference Year. Ail Churches and their choirs are cor hilly invited and the public in general. The following programs will be rendered: MORNING SERVICES 6:00 a. m. Sunrise Prayer meeting J :30 Church School Program . Mrs, Sarah Stamps, President of Board of Education; H. L. Cribbs, General Supt.; Mrs. Estella Butler, Mrs. Thomas C. Oliver,; Mrs. Ef fie Moore, Departmental Superin tendents, and E. L. President. 11:00 Closing Sermon. Rev. T. J. Douglass, Pastor Offering and Remarks—Members of Official Board. Benediction. AFTERNOON SERVICES 4:00 A short program Stewardess Board and Clubs Program.. Dr. C. C. Reynolds, Presiding Ministers of the City. A Love Offering from the Church es of the City. Rev. T. J. Douglass, Pastor, Mr. Robert Harris, Secretary. the newspaper king’s support, it is ru mored that the ex-corporal will yield 20 percent of his purse to the Hears! Disabled Veteran’s fund. LILLIAN SMITH PENS NEW WORKS New York, (C) Race-fighter Lil lian Smith is hard at work on a non fiction book on the race problem plus a novel in which she has several of the characters of “Strange Fruit" fanr*. Labor Leaders, Gen. Davis Meet at War-front 1 LABOR LEADERS MEET BRIG. GEN. BENJ. 0. DAVIS IN FRANCE I During his tour of Army installa tions on the continent. Brigadier Gen eral Eenjamin O. Davis posed with labor leaders touring the European fronts. They are, left to right: Dav id J. McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Steel Workers; Sherm an H. Dairytnple, President United Rubber Workers; R. J. Thomas, Pres idem United Auto Workers, CIO; General Davis, Frank P. Finton, Dir ector AFL; Eric Peterson, Executive Vice President of the International Assocaition of Machinist (AFL) and Albert L. Wegener, Inter-National Brotherhood Electrical workers.
