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Saturday, Sept. 23, 1944 Our 17th Year—No. 33
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Support
United War
and
Community Fund
Campaign Goal
Is $994,290
Omaha's United War and Comm
unity Fund Drive will have a camp
aign gcal of $994,290 when it starts
October 9, general chairman of the
drive, Linn P. Campbell, announced.
"It is the largest single-fund rais
ing job Omahans ahve ever been call
ed upon to undertake, but the need,
both at home and abroad, is greater
than e\er before,” Campbell said in
announcing the goal.
Most of the increase, about 25 j
thousand dollars over last year's quo
ta of 968,388, will go to strengthen
welfare and health programs of Com
munity Chest agencies, it was indic
ated. Such problems are expected to
shoot upward in number as the war
ends ar.d veterans return to the com
munity, the drive leader said.
He termed the job of raising the j
drive quota a real one, but said the j
combined efforts of all Omaha to
put it across assures its success. A
decrease in the number of contribut
ors can be expected this year, Camp
bell said, because moje of our jnc}}
arc in service than ever before, and .
it will take more money from more '
people to make up this deficit.
Home front} allied front and war |
front agencies derive their support
from the single drive. There are 52
in all. Slogan for the drive, “Com
pare Your Giving to Theirs”, refers
to the blue-starred service flag which
is the 1945 campaign esmblem, to be
used in a city-wide display acquaint
ing Omahans with the drive.
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Leaders Say We MUST
Have BIG Registration
No Discrimination
Order Back-Fires
(by Arthur B. McCaw)
NEW YORK—Last minute, frant
ic attempts by the Democratic Adm
inistration through Commander-in
Chief of the Armed Forces Frank
lin D. Roosevelt to do something
concrete about mistreatment of Ne
groes in the armed services backfired
last week, when, despite a July 8th
order banning discrimination on army
posts, the army itself set up a separ
ate and segregated redistribution sta
tion at the Pershing Hotel in Chic
ago for Negro officers and enlisted
men of the Army ground forces who
have returned from overseas duty.
The Pershing Hotel is in the middle
of Chicago’s slum area. Overseas
veterans will now come back from
the war for freedom abroad to find
"for white only" signs on swank re
sort hotels in California and Florida.
Reports also indicate that the army
plans to take over hotels in New
York, Detroit and elsewhere in col
ored communities to house the return.
mg Ncgrovet erans and to avoid race |
mixing in hotels taken over in white
neighborhoods. The Army is persist I
ing. in this violation of Adjutant Gen i
eral Ulio’s anti-discrimination mem- |
orandum of July 8th, although spok- I
csmgn for bjggro groups hgd remind- j
ed the Army that it was discrimin- ,
ation itself in denying Negro veter- i
ans from overseas combat zones ad
mission to the already established
rest and recreational facilities which
are scattered throughout the country.
These redistribution centers where
tired combat soldiers undergo a per
iod of relaxation an rehabilitation be
fore they are reassigned for duty,
had teen closed to Negro soldiers ev
en at the time when the War Depart
ment acting on last minute political
pressure from the White House, sent
out an order to Army posts, mostly
in the South, to stop discrimination
against Negroes. The all-Negro re
distribution center at Chicago’s Per
shing Hotel is to be one of several
which will be scatered over the coun
try.
The Chicago Defender complained
loudlv in an editorial last week about
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Attend Skeegej Forcian Tilt_
Pretty Mary Ann Hall, the dau
ghter of Mr and Mrs. Erskine Tate,
6121 Calumet Ave., was made the
official booster of the Tuskegee and
Wilber force game last week, by Dan
iel J. Faulkner Chicago Tuskegee
Club President and 'classic publist.
The game will he held Friday night
Oct. 13, 1944 at Comiskey Park ac
cording to announcements made by
Captain R. S. Darnabv and Prot. j.
S. Lane of Tuskegee and Wilber
force respectively.
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FIGHTS ARMY "INVASION”
Osborne T. Shelton, a former Pit
tsburgh Courier representative, head
ed the Pershing Hotel Guests’ pro
test meeting, Monday night, against
the army taking over the Windy City
hostelry for officers quarters. The
meeting was held in the lobby of the
hotel and was well attended. Mr.
Skelton’s contention was that with
the already housing shortage in the
Negro district and with the army
taking osecr the hotel it would be
come more acute. He also sent pro
grams to Mayor Kelly, Senators
Brooks and Lucas, and Congressman
Dawson and Royan, branding the
army with rank discrimination, in
view cf the fact that it already has
numerous hotels available for hous
ing, but because of the locations and
so called “white districts, Negro sol
diers are not permitted to live.”
Shelton said that when one of the
army officials were asked as to
where the Pershing Hotel tenants
would live, if the army took Over, the
official is said to have answered,
“the niggers can sleep in tents.”
the selection of the Pershing Hotel
for a redistribution center, declaring,
"Evidently the War Department now
is detei mined to appease Dixie once
more and show it will uphold the doc
trine; of ‘white supremacy’ to the bit
ter end of the war.” The Defender
points out that the location of the ho
tel will find the Negro overseas vet
eran coming home from “the muck
and slime” of battle to an area where
kitchenette hovels abound on all sides
while the white soldier, “according
to Army placements,” will come home
to hotels in Miami, Lake Placid, San
ta Barbara, California and Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
URBAN LEAGUE
CONFERENCE
TO OPEN SEPT. 28th
IN COLUMBUS, OHIO
TO FEATURE SECOND
VICTORY THROUGH
UNITY WEEK.
New York—The National Urban
League, interracial agency for social
service among Negroes, announced
its second "Victory Through Unity
Week.” to be observed during the
period September 24—October 1.
This week signalizes the League's
annual conference, which opens in
Columbus, Ohio on September 28,
and calls the attention of American
citizens of all races to hte great need
for unified thought and action as we
approach the day of victory.
Lester B. Granger, Executive Sec
retary of the National Urban League
said i.i announcing this second cele
bration “We are fully aware of the
fact .bat many of the racial tens ons
which existed in 1043 still exist. All
of :be efforts of our wisest leader
ship an still needed in order to elim
inate completely the possibi'itv of
racial conflict both now and after the
war.”
Last year, nine governors and mav
i ors in many cities throughout the
So That Our Vote Can
Help Shape Our Future
NEW YORK—(CF.)—Negro cit
izens are urged to register and vote
in the November 7 election by out
standing leaders in education, labor,
businest:, social welfare and the arts,
who this week issued a joint state
ment.
The appeal, signed by Mrs. Mary
McLeod Bethune, Judge William H.
HastiWillard Townsend, Langston
Hughes and others, does not urge
the election of any particular candi
date, but stresses the importance of
full participation in this election
which “will profoundly affect the
futur-1, not only of all American cit
izens, but also of men and women of
all races and creeds throughout the
world.”
“In many of the more important
industrial states,” the appeal points
out, “the votes of Negro citizens may
decide who is to lead our nation out
of war into the peace. Thousands of
Negro migrants, denied the free ex
ercise of the ballot in their former
homes, will have their first opport
unity to participate in the election of
their Fresient, members of Congress,
state and local officials. In casting
their first ballot, they will be taking
an important forward step towards
full and equal citizenship.”
Signing the appeal were supporters
of both political parties. They in
clude P. B. Young, editor and pub
lisher of the Norfolk Journal and
Guide; Boyd L. Wilson, member of
the General Executive Board of the
United Steelworkers of America,
CIO; Elias F. E. Williams, New
York businessman; Robert C. Weav
er, Director, Mayor's Committee on
Race Relations, Chicago; Noah C.
A. Walter, New York State Indust
rial Commissioner; and Julian D.
Steele, President, Boston Branch of
-the NAACP.
Also suport:ng the appeal are Ira
D. A. Re 4. Professor of Sociology
Atlanta Uniersity; Mrs. Anne Arn
old Hedgeinan, Exetive Secretary,
National Council for a Permanent
FEPC: Alert Black, International
Representative, Marine and Ship
builders Un on, CIO ; Ferdinand C.
Smith, Secretary, National Maritime
Union, CIO; Jades E. Mason, Or
gan zer, United Steelworkers of A
merica; Shelton Tappes, Recording
Secretary, Ford local 600, UAW
CIO Langston Hughes, poet and nov
elist, columnist with the Chicago De- :
fender; Wesley Thompson, President
Douglass-Washington Institute, Chi- 1
cago; Leon E. Bates, Organizer, U
AW-CIO; and Willard Townsend,
Presient, United Transport Service 1
Employees of America.
Further supporters are Canada Lee
stage, screen and radio actor; Wal
ter Hardin, UAW-CIO: Judge Wil
liam H. Hastie, Dean, Howard Uni
versity Law School; Lester B. Gran
ger, Egecutive Director, National
Urban League; E. Franklin Frazier.
Professor of Sociology, Howard Uni
versity ; Roscoe Dunjee, publisher of
The Black-Dispatch; Rev. Sylvester
L. Corrothers, President, Non-Part- .
isan Negro Ministerial and Pastoral 1
Asosciation of USA.; Mrs. Mary
McLeod Bethune, President, Nation
al Council of Negro Women; James :
H. Culver, President, Local 98, Uni
ted Rubber Workers, Warren, Ohio;
George L-P Weaver, Secretary, CIO :
Committee to Abolish Racial Dis
crimination; and Dr. Charles S.
Jon son, Director, Department of Soc
ial Sciences, Fisk University and Di
rector, Race Relations Division, of
Julius Rosenwald Fund.
country issued proclamations setting
aside “Victory Through Unity Week”
as a special observance. Replies al
ready received from two widely sep
arated states suggest even more gen
eral participation in 1944. Governor
Darden of Virginia has released a
statement indicating that a proclam
ation would be issued. Governor |
Baldwin of Connecticut, in a recent !
press release commending the observ
, ance or “Victory Through Unity
Week'' said: "This is a timely action,
since it will call the attention of all
Americans to the need for working
unitedly in order to achieve speedy
and lasting peace Now that vic
i tory is drawing ever closer, we must
I strive to see that this unity is in no
I way cisrupted, so that victory will
i not b: delayed and so that we all may
! enjoy the benefits and opportunities
j which the days of peace will bring.”
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MRS. EARNEST1NE SPEESE
BEQUEATHED SI0,000 BY
THE LATE MRS. RUSHTON
Mrs. Earnestine Speese of 2019
Lake Street, a maid for 20 years in
the home of the late Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Rushton, knows now that con
scientious and faithfulness on a job
pays oft in the end when on Tuesday
the will of Mrs. Rushton who died
last week, was filed in probate court,
leaving her the sum of $10,000.
Asked what she plans to do with
the money, Mrs. Speese said:
“I just don’t know. I’ll pay my
debts and buy some war bonds. And
the rest of it—well, I'll take care of
it, that sure.”
Mr. Rushton, who died in 1940 was
a vice president of the Fairmont
Creamery.
Mrs. Speese is the wife of Harry
Speese, City fireman and they have
one son, John, 8.
NAACP To
Hold A
Membership
Meeting
SEPT. 2!,TH AT CLEAVES
TEMPLE CME. CHURCH
The public is cordially invited to
attend a meeting of the NAACP
Sunday afternoon at Cleaves Temple
25th and Decatur streets at 4 oclock.
A fine program has been arrang
ed. Come and hear what the Assoc
iation has done and is doing in Om
aha.
You cannot afford to miss this op
portunity of knowing what is going
on :n Omaha, which affects everyone
in our community.
We are counting on your support
and certainly we feel you are inter
ested in the welfare of our children.
The place—Cleaves Temple—
The hour—4 pm.—
When! Sunday, Spe.t 24th, 1944.
“SAUL of TARSUS”
DRAMA.
TO BE PRESENTED, FRIDAY
EVE, SEPT. 2!)TH
AT HILLSIDE PRESBYTER
IAN CHURCH—8 O’clock
The Drama, "Saul of Tarsus” a
beautiful play will be staged at the
Hillside Presbyterian Church on Fri
day) night. Sept. 29th, 1944 at 8 o’
clock b\ a group of ladies from Pleas
snt Green Baptist Church.
This play is sponsored by the Mis
sionary Society of Hillside, their ef
fort towards the "Rally.” All sis
ter churches, organizations and aux
iliaries are invited to attend This fine
play and to share the Singspiration
and fellowship which awaits them.
We are looking for you!
Evening Adult Education
Class to Begin at Tech
TO START SEPT. 25TH
The, Evening Adult Education Com
nercial classes, sponsored by the
Boaid of Education, will begin Sept
:mber 25, 1944 at Technical High
school.
The following classes will be offer
:d:
Monday and Wednesdays
Comptometer 6:30 to 9:30.
Tuesday and Thursdays
Comptometer 6:30 to 9 :30
Bookkeeping 6:30 to 9:30
Beginning Typewriting 6 :30 to 8 :00
Beginning shorthand 8 :00 to 9 :30
Advanced shorthand 6 :30 to 8 :00
Advanced typewriting 8 to 9:30
Registration— Technical High
school, Room 377 any class evening.
\ small fee is charged to cover cost
>f instruction.
Fo- additional information call Mr
N. C. Cumming. during the day AT
1140: evenings HA-3710.
4GRICULTUR.4L WORKER
RETIRES.
Upon his retirement from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture last week
after completing 38 years in the lab
oratories of the Bureau of Animal
Industry as a subprofessional work
er, Richard T. Epps, 70. was warmly
commended for his years of service
to the department by Dr. H. W.
Schoening, chief of the Pathological
Division, and by Secretary Wickard.
Dr. Schoening left, is shown shak
ing hands with the veteran laboratory
worker
Fr. f lanagan
to Speak at
G. E. Biven’s
1 abernacle
On Saturday, Sept. 23 1944 at 4 p.
m. to 6 pm. the G. E. Biven s Tab
ernacle. 2711 North 24th street, will
sponsor a program as follows
Master of ceremonies, Mr. Henry
Washington.
“God Bless America", song.
Scripture and Prayer.
Solo: Mrs. Brooks, accompanied by
Mrs. Madison.
A stirring address by Father Flan
agan, founder of Boys’ Town.
Solo: Miss Gladlys Henderson
from Chickasha, Oklahoma.
Response: Sgt. Bivens, Tabernacle
founder. Refreshments served.
A Juvenile delinquency picture will
be shown.
All boys from 8 to 12 years are el
igible to join a new Scout troop. The
younger boys may come in as Cub
Scouts.
Biven’s Tabernacle is a big success
Come and bring your boys—it’s a
wonderful thing.
Soldiers Blast
Prohibition
Servicemen overseas are wor
ried and angry over the activity of
prohibitionists w-ho are taking ad
vantage of the men’s absence to
dry up their home towns, accord
ing to today’s most famous war
writer, Ernie Pyle. In his best
seller book, “Here Is Our War,”
Pyle writes on page 300 :
"There is a great deal more
talk along the line of, “Those
bluenoses back home better not try
to put prohibition over on us
while we’re away this time,” than
you hear about bills and resolu
tions looking toward the postwar
world.”.
UNFORTUNATELY....
.... in the opinion of this col
umn, the voters of Nebraska are
going to vote on the wet and dry
issue this fall. We say, "unfor
tunately” because that is just the
way we feel about it. In the
first place we feel that the very
idea of prohibition is a snare and
a delusion and in the second place
we think is entirelyout -of-order
to vote on such an important mat
ter when over one hundred thou
sand of the cream of our popula
tion are in the armed forces, fight
ing our battle.. They are fighting
this war and offering their lives
to pi eserve the ideals of this na-.
tion—and the right to speak and
publish what we think, eat, drink
and wear what we please is, in our
opinion among those ideals. These
fighting men and women are sac
rificing everything to protect
these ideals. Who are we to say
we shall pass on any of them
while they are offering their liv
es for us?
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NEBRASKA HOME
BUILDING LAGS
Postwar Prospects
Are Bright
01.7% OF DWELLING UNITS
STANDING H YEARS OR
MORE.
VALUE AND VOLUME
DECLINE.
Minneapolis, September:— Home
building in two Nebraska cities, Lin
coln and Omaha, last year reached
the third lowest level in 14 years in
point of volume, D. E. Rvan, vice
president of Investors Syndicate, re
vealed here.
There were 94,409 dwelling units
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I MYSTERY SPAR FOUND
New York—“Mystery Girl'’ of last
week was this spar whose picture was
taken over a month agio by an Acme
Newspictures photographer as she
held little James Jefferson, Jr.,
while his foot was freed from a sub
way turnstiie in New "York City.
Numerous requests for her name
had tome from readers who observ
ed her picture in a National Weekly
Magazine and the Coast Guard wish
cd to give her an Official Citation.
The mystery Spar Helen J. Merrill
radioman cd i lass, was found in San
Francisco. She is from Portland.
Oregon and ivas on .'rave ;i New
Yori: City from training at Atlantic
City. N. J.. when the ineidei: occur
red.
The above picture was ‘ V 'arise of
the nation-wide search for h •r.
. (Continental).
Novelist Eye Her
WFA BEGINS USING KERFORD
QUARRY; STORES IS CAR
LOADS OF DRIED EGGS
Te world’s largest natural cold
storage unit went into service Satur
day, September 2, wen 13 carloads of
dried eggs, representing more than a
million dozen shell eggs, were un
loaded and stored in the limestone
caverns of the Kerford Quarry at
Atchison, Kansas, by the War Food
Administration.
Owners and operators of the giant
limestone quarry, a part of which
has been leased to the Government,
are two colored businessmen of At
chison, Lloyd Kerford and his neph
ew, George Kerford.
Valida Snow, New York trumpest
and one of the best known actresses
, of America, was lauded bv Air lane
l
Commentarcrs lajt week for the re
lentless fight she made to free her
self from Nazi concentration camp
in 1942. The Commentators refus
ed to divulge the name of one of A
merica’s best novelist who, after
hearmg Valida’s story during a war
bond rally agreed to write a book on
her life with Hitler. Miss Snow
was held by the Germans for several
months in a concentration ci—’n. af
ter they had bayoneted her. a:rl rob
bed her of expensive furs and jew
elry, she is now on a theatrical tour
in the south.”
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