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March S, 1874. Publishing offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr. Saturday, November 25,1944 & H ji Our 17th Year—No. 42
Columnist, Geo. H. Davenport Cites Danger of Post-war Negro Unemployment
Says ‘Absenteeism Among Race Workers Is Outrageous*
Says Big Industrial Firms Now Making A List of Negro
Personnel’s 'Worthlessness as Workes’ in 'Little Black Book’
As Argument For Firing and Against Hiring in Future...
Lloyds of London Insure Duke’s Hands for 1 Million Dollars
The Maestro at the Ivories
DUKE ELLINGTON INSURES
TANDS WITH LLOYDS OF
LONDON FOR MILLION
DOLLARS
by Jimmy Gentry
Chicago, 111-, (PPNS) The magic
al hands of the master maestro, Duke
Ellington whose very name is syn
omous to perfection in music, have
been insured gy the renown firm of
Lloyds of London for the staggering
sum of $1,000,000. Tdward S- Har
ris, resident of Chicago issued the
policy that has attached a fortune to
the hands from which such master
pieces of song have come, such as
“Sophisticated Lady," “In My Soli
tude,” “Caravan” and many others
that strike an immediate response in
the hearts of music lovers.
The Duke recently headed a caval
cade of bands that appeared at the
huge Coliseum in Chicago for three
straight days; and for three straight
days this large hall was packed and
jammed with dance fans from all
sections of the city and outlying sub
urbs that craved to hear and dance
by the inimitable . llington tunes.
After his smash appearance in the
Windy City, the Duke and his sensa
tional band invaded Baltimore for a
Week’s engagement at the Royale
Theatre to be folowed by an engage
ment at New York’s Apollo Theatre,
November 24, also for a week- The
advance sale of tickets for his mus
ical concert to be given at Carnegie
Hall December 19, indicates that this
annual affair will be a complete sell
I out.
Northside Health Committee
Plan Educational Program
FIRST NEGRO WAVE
TAKES OATH. . .
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Massachusetts (PPNS) The first
woman to be sworn into the Women’s
Reserve under the Navy Department
plan approved by the President, for
the acceptance of Negro women in
to the WAVES, teas Miss Jean A.
Freeman, bb, of vfd Walnut Avenue,
oxbury, Mass• She was sworn in
to the sendees as an enlisted WAVE
at r a• m. Monday, Noz’ember vc, by
Captain L• D. Caursey, USN retired
Director of the Office of Naval Of
STILL OUR FAVORITE BIRD!
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ficer ProcuremerU at Boston, Mass.
“MA” SENT TURKEY
New York City, (PPNS) U. S.
Coast Guardsman Walter W- Davis
returned here from a 21 day furlough
at his home in; Chicago, jolly, joyous
and jumping and raring to get back
in the attack! Much to his surprise
a huge turkey from his mother ar
rived in due time for his Thanksgiv
ing dinner. The youthful 2\c Mach
inists Mate spent 15 months in heavy
active service with his unit on the
Carribbean seas, receiving only minor
COORDINATING COMMITTEE
ON NEGRO HEALTH CALLS
MEETING WEDNESDAY
Dr. Craig Morris, Chairman of the
Negro Health Coordinating Commit
tee called a meeting at the Urban
League Community Center, Wednes
day, evening at 7 :30 pm.
The committee has been called up
on to help with important health ed
| ucation programs and activities in
! this community
Mr. Ryland E. Melford, recent ap
pointee to the position of Assistant
Director of Venereal Disease Con
trol Education, presented some im
portant matters to the committee.
The committee issued the follow
ing statement concerning their work
by saying: South Omaha has a well
formed committee actively engaged
in meeting the health problems in
that neighborhood. It is desirable
that we become informed as to the
changes in the health situation in
this area and plan an active pro
gram to meet the needs of the ap
proximately 12,000 Negroes located
in North Omaha.
Raymond R. Brown, is secretary
of this committee.
i
Garner Heads So. Omaha
Organization.
The Woodson Center Health Com j
mittee under the direction of Mr. H.
C- Garner, Chairman, is completing
plans for an extensive neighborhood
Health program," including lectures,
1 moving pictures, neaith classes, pan
j el discussions, dramas, library of
j health literature, latest health bullet
ins, and geenral physical examinat
i ions in cooperating wtih the Nebr
aska Negro Medical Society, the
j State Health Department, and the
, Uiited States Public. Health Service
The first of these projcets will be
the physical examinations to be held
on December 11. Everyone is wel
come. For more detailed infromat
ion please contact the Woodson Cen
ter 2009 R Street, MArket 2860.
injuries. His mother, Mrs. Margar
et Williams of 4547 Vincennes, is a
war worker.
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Seals•
CHRISTMAS TREES
Christmas trees on December mar
kets should be enough to supply de
mands, the Forest Service of the
US DA estimates from reports sent in
from all Christmas-tree producing
areas. There will be no need for
many transient vendors to enter the
Christmas trade, as they did last
year. This caused an over-supply
and wasted great numbers of trees
Labor shortage is not expected to
hamper the harvesting of trees much
this year.
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GEO. H. DAVENPORTS
Dynamite
A few weeks a
go this writer and
Lucius Harper of
the Chicago De
fender, were in
vited by Mr. Jam
es of the YMCA.
to address a group
. workers on how
to hold their jobs
after the war. As
usual, only a lew
were present and
these didn’t show
Geo• H• Davenport much concern.
Bo;h the writer, and Mr. Harper
pointed out the importance of effic
iency, promptness and cleanliness on
and off the job—loud talking in pub
lic and on the job was also discourag
ed. Since making this talk, we have
been told by heads of large war
plants, Negro personnel managers
and common laborers that absentee
ism among Negroes is outrageous. A
manager of one of the largest air
plane factories, stationd in Chicago,
told this writer that Negroes get
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“HELP THE WAR EFFORT BY
STAYING ON THE JOB"
I want to go out with my head
erect,
I want to deserve all men's respect
But here in the struggle for fame
and self,
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and
and know—
That I'm bluster and bluff and
empty shoiv.
I never can hide myself from me,
I see what others may never see,
I know what others may never
know—
I never can fool myself—and so
Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free
—Sgt- G. E- Bivens.
A Prayer
of Gratitude
BY RUTH TAYLOR
With humble and contrite heaAt,
we gather together, this Thanksgiv
ing Day, 1944, to give praise unto
Thee, most bountiful Giver of Gifts.
The shadows of war have darken
ed our lives- We have been menac
ed by the enemy from without- From
within we are still hampered by our
own self-will and personal ambit
ions. Our nearest and dearest are
being sent into danger all over the
world. The even tenor of our or
dered lives has been shattered.
Yet we give thanks to Thee, O
God, and bless Thy name for Thy
manifold mercies vouchsafed unto
US.
We thank Thee for this land of
ours, its fertility, its resources, its
homes, its people who are still free
to fight and work and strive for
freedom for all the world.
We thank Thee that we are Amer
icans ; that the days of prosperity
and peace did not sap the spirit
which was our heritage from those
who came to this land seeking free
dom to worship Thee accordjjig to
their own conscience; that as Amer
icans, regardless of class, creed or
color, we can stand firm, shoulder to
shoulder in the struggle for the
rights of all mankind.
We thank Thee that we are a Uni
ted States; ^hat we can differ in de
tails of theology, of economics, of
politics and still be united in demand
ing for and in granting to all others ;
the same freedom we claim for our
selves
We thank Thee for the victories
granted us, not merely over our en
emies on land, sea and in the air, but
on that battleground within ourselv
es for the day by day clash between
the forces of prejudice and ill will
and the forces of neighborliness and
fair play.
We thank Thee for Thy purpose
in our lives as peoples and as a na
tion ; that we may in Thy good time
establish more firmly the democracy
whose command is Thine—“Love
thy neighbor as thyself,” and brjng
Thy kingdom to reign on earth from
now until everlasting.
AMEN.
Wilberforce Beauty
Wilberforce, Ohio, aPPNS‘ Miss
Hazel Hunter student at Wilberforce
University, Sr., Commerce, is tru\
one of the loveliest examples of our
modern American youth that we have
to offer■ Miss Hunter's scholastic
ratings arc on par with her looks,
which is a subtle way of saying she
has beauty plus brains. Her winning
personality has made her a popular
figure on the campus with students
and faculty heads, who declare her
to be one of the school's most bril
liant students■ Miss Hunter is a na
tive of Lackland, Ohio.
M a r v a Stricken
Rushed to Hospital
Chicago (PPNS) Marva Louis, i
lovely wife of Sgt. Joe Louis, heavy I
weight boxing champion, has been j
entered in Provident TWp*tal--«tter
suffering a collapse Monday morn
inv upon her arrival in this city.
Declaring Mrs. Louis to be in need
of complete rest, physicians have
barred all visitors; however, report
ers were informed Thursday that her
condition was improved.
Dr. William Gibbs, her personal
physician, attributed the sudden at
tack to over taxation caused by Mrs
Louis' intense devotion to her thea
trical work. Launching her career
as a singer a year ago, Mrs- Louis
has appeared in a number of the
country's swankiest niteries- During
her short meteoric rise to fame and
popularity, she has acquired thous
and.-. of admiring fai.r, - *hu hawr
thrilled to the sound of her charming
voice and magnetic personality.
Mrs. Louis recently appeared at
famous Three Sixes Club in Detroit
where she caused sensation among
critics and night lifers. The consen
sus of critics is that Marva has hitch
ed her career to a star. Her manag
er, William Graham, recently ann
ounced that the star’s next engage
ment would be the Trocadcro Club
in Hc’lywood, from which many her
alded entertainers have catapulted to
stardom on the silver screen.
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