The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, November 11, 1944, Image 1
E /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TOTHE LINE \ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 <y ^ + ",Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC• ^ ^ , ..- . ■''" -— ... ■" * ..- :;■!, =s^===^===^^s„ , .. Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oftice. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of j_ nr 11 ie\AA n.. -.rr.i T7 >T .n March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebt Saturday, NOV. 11, 1944 Our 17th Year No. 40 Dewey Concedes Defeat by Roosevelt; l\ebr. foi Dewey\ KATHERINE DUNHAM PROTEST *JC’ POLICY Shocks White Audience of 2000 with Unexpected Talk / -,5 9£JrJ — T” by MARViN SMITH Louisville, Ky., (PPNS) Kather ine Dunham, renown interpretative dancer attained the ranks of other race champions this week when she protested before an audience of more than a,000 the racial segregation en dorsed by the Memorial auditorium where she and her troupe appeared last Thursday. Miss Dunham's stand is deservant of much praise, and her remarks ad dressed to the audience after the per formance from the auditorium stage must have caused considerable shock among some of the white Kentuck ians. When Miss Dunham returned to the stage and uttered her first sentence, a complete silence settled over the crowd, who had a moment a go loudly applauded the staging of her “Tropical Revue-" Said Miss Dunham in a very clear and strong voice: “This is the last time I am coming to Louisville because the man agement refuses to let my people sit with your people. Maybe after the war we will have democracy and I can return.” Other race performers who refused to make appearances in jim crow theatres are Paul Robeson, current star of the much acclaimed stage play Othello, and Lena Horne, who snubbed an appearance at one of the large theatres recently in Washington because of the jim crow policy ad hered to by the management. (Photo shows Miss Dunham and one of her dancing partners in one of her feat ured acts.) ARMISTICE DAY 1944... BY RUTH TAYLOR "Here lie zi'e dead because we did not choose, To shame the land from which we sprung Life is perhaps no great thing to lose, But young men think it is, And zve are young-” We, who remember the casualty lists of the last war, walk with ghosts today. Besides the soldiers on our streets, we see those other lads whose lives were far too short, who loved life too greatly to be miserly with it when their country called. In the Armistice Day pause this year, there will be new heroes to re member. All over the globe there are places halowed by those who could say as did A. E- Housman in the “Epitaph for the Fallen”. “Here lie we dead because we did not choose to shame the lang from which we sprung.” They have given their all and it was so much! Who knows that grea* things they might have accomplished what great good might have come to the world if they had been allow ed to live, what things they might have created, discovered, invented, taught! We have to face the fact that be fore this war is ever, thousands up on thousands of these, our finest, will have died- They will be Americans, maybe rich or poor, maybe Black or White, maybe Protestant, Catholic or Jew; but NOT German-American, RAissian-American, Itaian-American not a “son of the American Revolu tion”, not an immigrant—but just citizens of the UNITED States—A mericans who loved their country and its ideals of freedom and equality e nough to offer their lives that these ideals of justice and democracy might not perish. We, too, though we cannot fight, must not “shame the land from which we sprung.” We have a duty as binding upon us as that of any sold ier as long as this war lasts. After wards we have another duty, too that of seeing to it that they did not die in vain, that the promises made in edthe Four Freedoms are at last ful filled for all the peoples of all the earth, and that those who come after may ive as free men, unafraid in a free world. Biven’s Tabernacle To Hold Armistice Day Program Sun. A Christian and Armistice Day program will be held at 2711 North 24th Street, the home of the George E- Biven’s Tabernacle next Sunday, November 12, 1944 at 3 :30 pm. The Mistress of Ceremonies for the program will be Mrs. Mosley. • The program is as follows: 1. Selection by the choir. 2- Scripture Reading, Minister. 3. “The War—1918” Rev. Doug lass of Cleaves Temple, 15 minutes 4. A solo by Mrs- Mosley. 5. An address by representative of American Legion, Post No- 30—5 minutes. 0- Selection by the choir. 7. Principal Speaker—Mr- Will iam Parkinson, Area Director War Manpower Commission, 20 minutes. 8. An address by Iozgy White, In fantry, Illinois- 10 minutes. Offering. Announcements by Sgt- Bivens, 5 minutes The National Anthem. ARMISTICE DAY 1944-By collier l 1918 1944 ri i LA80 ft- _> MAMA6EMEKT 1 Fighting Negro Sea bees Return Home UNIT CITATION FOR TWENTY MONTHS OF JUNGLE WARFARE AND BUILDING UNDER GREAT DIFFICULTIES..... Veterans of 20 months of jungle warfare in the South Pacific, and bearing a unit citation for many out standing feats of construction com pleted under great difficulties, the first battalion of Negro Seabees to go overseas has returned to this coun try, the Navy Department announced this week. The unit, the 34th Constriction Bat talion, indoctrinated at Camp Allen in Virginia, sailed outside the conten ental limits of the United St£|es on January 7, 1942, and arrived in Nou mea, New Caledonia, nineteen days later. Since that date, the unit has suffered casualties of five men kill ed in action and 33 wounded. The first big job tackled by the unit was the construction of the Hal avo Seaplane Base at Halavo in the Florida Islands. Brigaded there with the Acorn (Red) Four, an air unit, the 34th Battalion helped carve its camp out of a deep jungle. Dur ing February and March 1943, the two outfits experienced two direct enemy bombings and were under al most nightly enemy air raids in the area for a period of five months Casualties from these raids resulted in two killed and 28 wounded. A detachment of approximately 350 men were transferred on March 19, 1943, to Guadalcanal to assist other battalions in constructing fuel and gas storage facilities. This detach ment remained on Guadalcanal until November 1643, constructing all typ es of airfield facilities and housing. They were under frequent enemy air raids for the first six months of their duty there and then less fre quent raids, the last of which occur red in October 1943. No casualties resulted. On April 20, 1943, another detach ment of approximately 200 men with 75 percent of the Battalion’s heavy equipment was transferred by LCT’s to Russell Island where they laid out and constructed, together with the 35th Construction Battalion, the sec ond fighter strip north of Renard Sound on Banika Island. This de tachment wras a part of what was es sentially a regimental command con sisting of the entire 47th Battalion and one-half of the 20th battalion. It was assigned to the task of con structing a 6,000-foot bomber strip, and a ,500 foot fighter strip on the Russells in time for the New Geor gia campaign. These Seabee units completed their assigned task on time and the first three units later enlarg ed the bomber facilities south of (Continued page 3) A Lesson in Democracy ___ __ .. ■■... .ill.. Naples, (PPI S) Major General j Arthur R. Wilson tries his hand at game of pool with a colored GI and at the same time gives a lesson in real, Ameriacn democracy that will behoove jim crow members on the home-front to observe and follow :uit. The picture was taken during a recent visit by the general to the Liberty Club, A Red Cross .recrea tion. center for service men here. The mural in the background were painted by two colored GI’s—Pvt Roy D- Harris of Brooklyn and a corporal from St. Louis. j Youth Addresser i Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. New York City NAACP Youth Conference■ CONGRESSMAN ADAM POWELL, JR., AMONG NAACP YOUTH SPEAKERS VIRIGINIA UNION NOV. 11-1 it New York—The NAACP Youth Conference which will be„ held at Virginia Union University, Richmond Va., November . 7-19, 1944, promis es to be the largest in the history of the Association. Seriously interested in the theme, "Building for Total Democracy”, delegates have already registered fror states aj far distant as Michigan, Massachusetts, Ala j bama and Georgia- Since the NA I ACP Couth membership has more than doubled in the past year, it is' expected that the number of delegates will be far in excess of the 200 at tending last year's conference. Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., New Cork’s first Negro Congress man and pastor of the world’s largest Protestant Church, Abyssinian Bap tist, wlil deliver the keynote address at the opening mass meeting, on Fri day night, November 17. Response will be made by Mrs- Ruby Hurley, magnetic young youth secretary. Ella J- Baker, Director of Branch es, wlil open the discussions on Sat urday morning, the topic being, “Re cruiting for the NAACP, A Mass Organization”. She will outline re cruiting and sustaining Association programs. Gloster Current, former president of the Detroit Youth Council, now Executive Secretary of that Branch will outline "Protest and Pressure Techniques for a Mass Organization' for the second discussion of the day. Emphasizing the conditions under which other minorities live, Rabbi Edward Klein of the Free Synagogue School, New York City and another sjK-aker to be named, will lead the discussion ‘.Negro Youth Relation ships to National and International Minority Problems.” Rev. James H. Robinson, dynamic \outh leader and pastor of the Church of the Master, New York City, will summarize conference find ings. Judge William H. Hastie, Dean of Howard Law' School and Edward R- Dudley, Assistant NAACP Coun sel will provide information. Miss Marjorie Penny, Executive Director, of Fellowship House, Philadelphia, Pa., will speak for the Sunday morning Chapel Services and the closing meeting of the conferenc es. Highlighting social features of the conference will be a reception for deelgates by Dr. J. M. Ellison, pres ident of Virginia-Union University rnd the host chapter of which Mar shall Shepard. Jr., is president will give a dance for the visitors JOE LOUIS TO APPEAR IX BOXING EXHIBITIONS Chicago, (PPNS) It is expected that fight fans of the Windy City will soon liave the keen pleasure of witnessing the Brown Bomber in ac tion after a lull of more than two years- Sgt. Joe Louis, king of the heavyweight division, who is now en joying a 21 day furlough, began his l exhibition tour at Detrot's Olympia To Guide Us On Through President Franklin D• Roosevelt, who was chosen over the Republican Presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, for a fourth term as Presi dent of these United States in last Tuesday's election• Seek Advice’ Melford State Health Officer R- E- Melford URGES THOSE SUFFERING FROM VENEREAL DISEASE TO SEEK ADVICE Ryland E. Mleford, Nebraska State Health Department, urges all persons suffering from venereal diseases and those interested in the treatment of the diseases to obtain information from their private physicians how best they can be cured or have their cases arrested. The use of the new drug “Penicillin has proved very efficient in the treat ment of early infectious syphillis and gonorrhea- Foi those person inter ested n the clinical and hospital ser vices of the State Health Depart ment and the United States Public Health Service information may be secured through your private physic ian or either of the above named a gencies Mr- Melford, of the Nebraska State Health Department, is Assist ant Director of Venereal Disease Control Education and is the only Negro Health Officer in this area. All persons wishing private consulta tion with Mr. Melford, may make ar rangcments by calling the Omaha Ur ban League. November 3, with Johnny Denson as his target in three rounds of exhib ition box>ng. Louis is scheduled to appear in sev eral cities during his tour- None of the exhibition bouts are to exceed 3 rounds. SIXTH WAR LOAN TO START NOVEMBER 20 ...... How they Voted in the 2d, 3d Wards WARDS 2nd 3rd 4 5 6 7 Dewey 121 108 109 147 Roosevelt 428 316 333 389 Griswold 296 211 225 280 * Olsen 296 159 156 201 Buffett .192 133 142 200 Gillespie .370 214 202 251 Adams .273 246 226 265 Foster .224 79 108 163 Slavik .212 176 165 235 Dineen ....... 311 144 167 211 Morcdcik ....... 120 101 90 145 O’Connor .397 121 240 281 Post .. 354 187 208 234 Renstrom .152 125 106 178 Bergman 179 145 134 193 Cronin . 335 173 183 213 8 9 10 11 12 13 111 140 102 260 126 150 241 09 325 360 211 232 215 262 218 411 212 239 107 151 154 190 102 88 177 211 144 296 160 181 130 182 202 266 129 148 267 251 288 194 280 275 38 124 48 302 16 35 201 245 184 330 143 206 81 132 127 212 63 75 104 159 100 227 80 114 161 214 200 302 123 152 131 170 77 269 93 114 128 187 114 248 92 145 152 190 148 250 111 172 109 168 148 265 75 92 The After Election BY EDGAR G. BROWN Washington, DC-, (PPNS) —The voters at the height of World War II, have gone peacefully to the ballot box and help reelect Pres. Roosevelt, President of the United States for the next four years. During this next administration the country must still be made conscious that the 13,000,000 coolred Americ ans expect a radically better deal in the future, on the home front and a broad, especially for our million ser vice men and women in the Army and Navy. If we can whip the Nazis and I he Japs', we must strke down Jim Crow here to make the victory a real ily to colored people. It is an all out, uncompromising militant fight on all fronts for equal rights and justice under the constitution, North and South. The President, the Con gress, the press and the radio must be even more articulate on these prop ositions of decency and the dignity of human personality. Full citizen ship must be gained by unceasing mass pressure upon Congress, the White House and at Albany, Spring field, Jefferson City, Harrisburg, Annapolis, Richmond, Indianapolis, Montgomery, Austin, Sacramento and every one of the forty state capitals of the nations capital at Washington A UNITED STATES TEN POINT FRONT. A united racial front for all hu manity and unlimited security must be the order of the day in the Unit ed States. 1. Mass action without regard to race, creed or color in an all inclusive program of integration. 2- Broadening and deepening of sen. ial security and national welafr laws. 3. Reconversion of industry and full employment in private and public work. 4. Universal compulsory mil itary training on an unsegregated basis and no Jim Crow. 5. Federal statute nullifying all Jim Crow State laws- 6. Federal statute authoriz— ing punishment and heavy fines for any form of public discrimination and such abuses in civil and military affairs. 7. Use of the armed serv ices to prohibit mob rule, riots and disfranchisement. 8. Absolute pol itical independence and action. 9. Opposition to foreign ideologies and narrow nationalism. 10. War on government, management and labor organizations practicing unholy and unconstitutional racial discrimiation. CAMPAIGN MUST GO ON The Republicans, Democratic and PAC orators and strategists won’t get ten dollars daily expense allow ance and one hundred dollars per speech, now that the partisan political campaign is ended. It is only a ques tion of who is elected to state nation al offices but also equally pertinent j is the question whether all these good | speakers and race champions will hi ; bernate for another four years after election or stay on the firing line a gainst the common enemy. The na tional Negro Council calls upon all to lraly to the uncompleted task of de manding that President Roosevelt as Commander-in-Chief, now as before Nov. 7th to court martial Lt. Gener al Brchon Somervell for the reported slur of returning coolred veterans as first published by Harry McAlpin, White House press Correspondent in the leading colored weekly newspap ers. The great dailies, the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times Herald were the first newspapers to publish the protest resolution sent by the National Negro Council to the President calling for positive action in this matter before election day to discipline this prejudiced officer Now the election is over, let us all unite to back up this demand to re move Lt. General Somervell from command of the U. S. Army Services as No. 1 on the Race’s must program for the alleged statement ‘I would like to throw all the coons in the mid dle of the desert.” Pullman Porter, 60 Dies Aboard Train Sam Foster, of 2867 Cass Street, second oldest Pullman porter in the Omaha district in point of service, died of a heart attack while on the Burlin^ton-Omaha-Casp* r run fast Thursday night near Ravenna, Nebr. He was employed by the Pullman Company since March 12, 1911 and ahd been on the above run for 10 years. He left Omaha on the Burl ington train Thursday afternoon Oct. 26, 1944. The body was taken off the train at Ravenna, Nebraska. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mattie Foster, a sister Mrs. Blanche Coens of Denver, Colorado. The funeral was held from the Myers Funeral Home October 31st, 1944. Burial in Forest Lawn Ceme tery. EX-BLUFFS RESIDENT IS APPARENT WINNER Mar.son C. James, 42, Negro candi date for Polk County Representative at DesMoines, who apparently was assured of election Wednesday, is a former Council Bluffs resident. He served several years as custod ian of the Council Bluffs City Hall, leaving in 1933 to take a state Civil Service appointment as a mail handl er at the State House. READ The fZUIDP Orient Negro Nurses in England CONGRESSWOMAN FRANCES B. BOLTON of the 22d Ohio dis trict, Cleveland, on her recent trip to American Army hospitals in France, soent some time with the Negro Nursing unit which is doing its orien tation training at the 168th Station hosptial in England. Mrs. Bolton was enthusiatic in her praise oi the fortitude, ability and spirit of the colored nurses, the first to be prepar ed for' ibe battle front- (AN'P)