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/JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEWTOTHEImX EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 •jf ^ ■£■ “Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC• ^ o Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oftice, Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of SpfnrHav Wnv 4 1Q44 Hut* 17+1. v«o*. XT/% OQ March 8, 1874. Publish^ Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr ^tUraaV. *<>*■ % _OUf 17th YeET—NO. 39 -. .—... "=== -— ■ '■■■■= - :- ==^—-===== When you're sleepy what do you do? ' / ^ rp* ^ np 11 T30T ¥ & Go to bed don’t you? Rights and Priv- * * * ^ ileges to Thinking, Progressive people A Al A IV A ^P A are just as important as rest. You Ml II ^M^AA A Ml Should and MUST exercise them ■ ■ ■ mm IA m3 w I Li / Negroes Enter Commercial Aviation Field The first company c perated by Negroes to engage in commercial aviation is THE UNION AIR LINES, with general offices in Washington, DC- The comp any has on file with the CAB, an application (. 112? '• for a certificate of convenience and necessity, and plans to begin charter operations at once, with regular com mercial operation right after the war, employing mem bers of the 99th and 3.'!2nd Squadrons, All-Negro units . in the AAF, who have done such a wonderful job of j knocking out Jerrys in this war- The above photo i shows the Flagship Mary Eethune, which will l>c j christened by Mrs. Bethune cm Nov- 12th at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC. President and General Manager William H- Hawkins (center( with A. and E mechanic and pilot Johnny Green (eft) and E and A mechanic Harold K- Stevens of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama- (Photo by Scott). Killers Indicted In Simmon’s Murder Defendants Granted Separate Trial to Start Next Week Liberty, Miss.—The Amite Coun ty Grand Jury, breaking with Southern tradition, has indicted six white men for the murder of a Negro. The Grand Jury, which had been expected to close the case with a whitewash, apparently yielded to the indirect pressure of Attorney General Francis Biddle who had denounced the slaying of Isaac Simmons, 66 year old preacher, as a “particularly revolting crime.” Murder indictments against Har per Dawson and his two sons, Roger and Mann Dawson; Noble and Nor- : ville Ryder, brothers, and John Brown, a friend of the Dawsons and the Ryders, were handed up Wednesday after a week’s investi gation. The men were arraigned yesterday, pleaded not guilty. $3,000 Bail Judge R. E. Bennett accepted §3,000 bail for each man, then granted severances permitting each of the six men to be tried sep arately, placing the case on the trial docket for next Monday. Brown explained that under Mis sissippi law severances are manda tory when asked for, and that mur der is not measured by degree, but the punishment, life imprisonment or death, is fixed by the jury if it is unanimous in its verdict of guilty. Witnesses Disappear Early last week, when the Grand Jury took up the Simmons case, it appeared that the inquiry would collapse because four key witnesses were missing, including Eldridge , Simmons, son of the aged victim, who had signed an affidavit des cribing the murder of his father and naming four of the accused men. Sheriff Wiley Smith explained at the time that the missing Ne groes' had vanished from the com munity for some reason he was at a loss to explain. He said the case might be shelved for lack of evi dence, but Attorney General Bid dle at Washington announced that a report on an FBI investigation of the crime was being given to the Amilite County prosecutor with a request that it be placed before the Grand Jury. Biddle disclosed that he ordered the FBI probe in August when he ’earned that, although the murder occurred in March 26, no action had been taken by Mississippi au thorities. “Our investigation shows that a particularly revolting crime has been committed,’’ said Biddie, Go, Buddy Go Cli. .Ti; . re, ill., (PPN.S) -"t o School in Chicago, who was in ‘he Buddy, Co!” These were the words -- f’nc section for Illinois warriors of lovely Francis Cotton, former of the gridiron when they held their schoolmate of Claud- “Buddy” j ti:t with Notre Dame Saturday. ^ oung at Wendell Phillips high ■ pointing out that the evidence ob tained by the FEi. mer. j •,< ed the case outside Federal jurisdiction. Prosecutor Brown e‘?id lact. ti5i*M he had received the FBI report and disclosed that FBI Agents came to Liberty during the week and went before the jury. Received Report . Brown also revealed that the “missing witnesses” weren’t really missing at all. Afraid to sta;> in .a Southern community where they h?i accused white men of murder, Eldridge Simmons, his two sisters and his brotner-in-law had moved variously to Memphis. New Or leans and “somewhere down in Louisiana,” The only thing that detained them last week, Brown explained, was lack of money, for railroad tickets, a situation which Brown corrected by drawing on State funds to provide the necessary transportation. He also arranged for official cars to meet the trains and carry the fear-ridden Negroes o the County Court House where the Grand T»;ry ,> as sitting. Accord e to the evidence de ve’oped by the FBI, corroborating E’dridge Simmons’ affidavit, Isaac Simmon-; was murdered because he consulted a lawyer after Nob’.e Ryder o’-'tained title to the Sim mons farm by buying it at a tax sale which had been denounced a'; illegal. The six accused men, according Gets Big Job ! -r*-'-..«■■ I'niiriuiimm'.Mm——n— John P. Bond, was appointed this week to the administrative staff of the United Nations Relief and Re habilitation Administration. He is tow in training as a field welfare of ficer for the European mission. Be fore joining the staff r-f UNRRA. Bond served tor 16 months as a club program director for the American Red C’ross in Australia- He is mar 'ed and the father of two children. His family resides in Washington, D OR. DuBOIS TO LOSE POST AS 01 RECTOR OF SOCIAL STUDIES PROJECT Atlanta, Georgia, (PPNS) Dr. W. lY- DuBois, retired professor of Soc ology at Atlanta University, has been removed frc>m his position as director A the Social Studies Project (to whicn he was assigned three years a go) and reportedly will be replaced by Dr- E. Franklin Frazier of How ard University. 'This action came aftet balloting on the motion by col lege heads during the 22nd annua conference of residents of Negro Land Grant colleges last Thursday ■ The voting to determine whether or not Dr- DuBois’ services would be ] retained ended in a 5 to 5 tie, which necessitated Dr. F. D. Patterson, Tus kegee president, to cast the deciding vote. -:-;_ j to this evidence, appeared at the Simmons farm in an automobile, j took father and son to a wooded . ooad, where they forced the young j er Simmons to watch as his father i was killed deliberately with a shot j *'tn and his tongue cut out. □□□l^=lBBBBBBinnnr=1nnr DID YOU KNOW IN 1916 392 VOTES ELECTED A PRESIDENT? Those who remember the 1916 election will recall even extra newspapers was on : the streets announcing that Charles Evans Hughes elec ted President of the United States but when Minnesota by a majority of 392 votes and California by a majority of 3,806 votes was counted there was a re-announce ment, Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the Unit ed States. If Hughes had carried Minnesota by 392 votes he would have been elected President of the United States. This should be proof to the Negro as to the value of his vote Tues day, November 7th, 1944. eDgt==iBBBBt=iBBnnr=—innn Negro Home Front Leadership Must Answer To Gl.’s RETURNING HOME AFTER WAR TO UNEMPLOYMENT DOLES,.'. The thought persists that there are going to be a lot of disappoint ed Negro GI’s returning to a post war America in which home front Negro leadership has produced little if anything in the line of jobs in postwar industry. Men who have been in uniform, in foxholes, on the battlefields and on the seven seas for the last four, dreary years, aren’t going to feel good about it at all when they come home to find that most of the “big name” Negro leaders who have been consistently in the head lines of the Negro newspapers shipped overseas and elsewhere for soldier consumption, have fail ed so woefully to produce a sound economic program for the Negro apart from that of the general American scheme that might act as a bulwark for the period of un employment that the experts are sure will take place shortly after the government starts retrieving contracts from war plants and the manufacture of war materials come to an end. Leaders Hogged Headlines The Negro leadership that has hogged headlines with “pronounce ments,” and “viewpoints,” and “forthright statements” for tHe last four years, hasn’t persuaded Negroes who are and have been earning more money than ever be fore to invest in Negro-owned fac tories. It hasn’t developed Negro (continued on page *^5) Nebraska’s Finest Administration m... "-■,!— The Honorable Dwight Griswold From 1867 to June 30, 1944 The Honorable Dwight Gris wold has given Nebraska one of the finest business administrations the State has ever had. The fol lowing is the proof of one of the many things he has done to pie serve that tax dollar that the cit izens pay i; to the treasury and to straighten out an entanglement of the Permanent School Fund. When he started his investigatioi and request for Legislative Acts giving him legal authority the rec ords showed this School Fund own ed only 772,954.06 acres of school land. Under the direction of this authorized board, an audit ard in vestigation proved that the lam grabbers most certainly had beer, busy. The Public power and irri gation districts, railroad companies highways and many others had taken this Permanent School Fund land without any compensation what-so-ever to the Permanent School Fund from its inception in 1867 to June 30, 1944. The rec ords now show the School Fund now owns 1,636,307.29 more or less acres with an increase earning of $49,992.24 annually. Read the fol lowing for yourself it will show you what he had to go through to do this job and I’m sure you will agree with me that he has given Nebraska one of the best business administrations in the history of the State and that he fully de serves your consideration at the ballot box Tuesday, November 7th. See page 8 for Facts and Figures AKA’S Make Appeal To Qualified Women To Join WAVES, SPARS Washington, D. C. Oct. 27.—The National Non-Partisan Council on Public Affairs of Alpha Kappa Al pha Sorority, this week, made a special appeal that all qualified Negro women interested in joining the Women’s Reserve Corps of the Nave—WAVES or SPARS—make application immediately to their nearest recruiting station in order that a backlog of recruits be es tablished for induction after Jan uary 1st in accordance with the recently announced plan of the Navy. Making the appeal for the AKA Council, Norma E. Boyd, national chairman, urges that women take advantage of the hard-won gain to serve their country and help them selves personally. Speaking of the Navy’s new policy to accept Negro women, Miss Boyd said, “We have only gotten over the first hurdle, and that was an important one, but our larger responsibility is that of following-through to see that Negro women take this advantage to forge ahead to greater oppor tunity for themselves and to help bring about the ultimate defeat of the enemy.” She added, “It is a misconception to think that the war is nearly over and there is, therefore, no need for the service Negro women can render at this stage of the game. As much as we wish the peace, we know the war is finished when the last shot is fired and who can say when that will come. Besides, the need for the services of the women’s corps will go far beyond the period when hostilities cease.” “Benefits which accrue to women veterans when they are discharged are the same as those which men receive,” Miss Boyd said. “These include the provisions of the pop ularly known “G. I. Bill of Rights” which offers, (1) free education up to four years for those under 25 years of age at the time of induc tion and whose education was in terrupted; (2) base unemployment compensation at $20.00 a week for a maximum of 52 weeks during the first two years after discharge; (3) Government guarantee of 50 per cent on loans up to $2,000 to establish homes or businesses; (4) Veterans placement services to as sist in obtaining civilian jobs; and (5) a five-man Army-Navy Board to hear complaints and rule on ap peal of discharged veterans seek ing additional compensation on numerous grounds.” All applicants for the WAVES or SPARS, whether for officers training or enlisted personnel must be citizens of the United States, in sound physical condition, not less (Continued nage 3) Oldest Methodist Church Prepares To Celebrate Birth Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 21.—The great A. M. E. Zion Church which was bcrri or.e hundred forty-eight years ago in New York City in what is now the Mother Zion Church plans to celebrate its one hundred fiftieth anniversary in the summer of 1946. The bishops, general officers and representatives from the fifty odd conferences of the denomination met in a four day conclave in this city to prepare for this monstrous celebration. The movement was launched in a blaze of glory with the church being crowded each day and evening to hear the notables of this, one of the oldest organiza (Continued on Page 7) Special Services at Cleaves CME Church PROGRAM SUNDAY AT 3:30 NOVEMBER 5, 19U . The following program will be ren dered next Sunday, Nov- 5, at 3 :30 p m. at Cleaves Temple CME- Church, of which Rev. T. J- Douglass is the pastor. Processional .- Senior Choir Selection ‘‘America .Choir and Congregation. Invocation. Selection ..-..“God Bless America” Introductory Remarks -The Pastor Address.Sgt. G- E. Bivens, Dir Joe Silent on Divorce Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis who recently returned to the states from an over seas entertainment tour that covered three-fourths of Euj ope, icfuseri to discuss the rumors of divorce circulat ing that is gaining moment um daily. Marva also was reticent or this issue, and said she would not make a statement concerning divorce proceedings until she had “talked with Joe.” Joe wir ed Marva from New York where he is staying at the Hotel Theresa and express ed regret for not being abie to atterd her r.pen'ng at the 086 Club in Detroit, but would probably arrive soon to see her and little Jacquel ine, his daughter (PPNS) ector G. E- Biven's Tabernacle , Selection... . Senior Choir Address Hon. Robert Smith, Dis trict Court Clerk. Remarks . • Hon. John Slavik, County Clerk- c Remarks Commander C. J- Cole man, American I-egion Post No '!0 Offering, Announcements and Benediction. Church and civic leaders are cord ially invited. T. J- Douglass, Minister, Robert Harris, Secretary. DELIGHTS DETROITERS m .——.m. Detroit, (PPNS) Beautiiui ami radian .'.far.n Louis, stMlnr attrart tion at the Three Sixes Club of this city,'r*a>atcd a s-nsat n among first nighters when she held her premiers ?a t Mit'H nW, t th:s '-npul.tr nitery. Declared to be the greatest C-.' • * o .run card in ‘he Motor f ’tv, Marva is packing them in night *3T Vote for George W. Pratt for District Judge Nov. 7th