Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1944)
if rpi| -jnv 1 j I'T/J* D^y Worthing Williams \ lS(1CsOtnin i Dies in Baltimore! rBF £R/C tf/MSJ SOW OF THE LATE REV. | Editor of The Weekly People JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, The New York Times, in an unc- AND HIS MOTHER, MRS. tuous editorial inspired by the War WILLIAMS.. J/JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEWTOTHE UNE\ oT1TJZZlm actly the same opportunities, given CQ| |A| OPPORTUNITY DHAMC UA AQAA commumty, died at Baltimore, the same talents and character as his “V vJrAL. V/flWtvIUIill I ruUnt tlA • O U land, Wednesady, December 27 at, 2 white fellow-citizens.'” The Times CTCAJ a- m. hopes for the best, though, and asks ^ ^ ^ o ^ "Largest Accredited Negro Nevis paper W ^ ^ His mother and sister, arrived in^ _ that the NeSro’s achievements '%■ , . — ■■ _ ' ' . ' ' ~ ." ' "II I at 6 a- m. Dec- 27 after re-^ jtf rem-"ml>ered 111 his tavor whelEntered as 2nd class matter at Post-oftice. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of o f j Derfirihpr Tf) 1 044 ~ n,.r i 7,1, V0„_Kin 47ceiving word that he was seriously ill A Rafter saving democracy abroad, wjjjarch 8 1874 Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr. Saturday, U ember J U, ly44 Our 17th Year INO. 4/ W ■ begin again the long task of perfect- ’ ======= .. — -- - -.., „ .L. '■. ■...""""". =s As we go to press funeral arrange* r (continued on page W5) meals had not been completed. I To Minnesota Uni. Nursing School j^MISS JEAN TERRELL, the Wovcly daughter of Dr. and Mrs. PtSerrel!, who recently graduated as a jSjKurse from Number 2, General Hos * pital of Kansas City, Missouri, will leave on anuary 1, to take up Post graduate Public Health Nursing at l the University of Minnesota. • f We Want 6Jhe Guide9 We want the Omaha Guide!—that use to be the nation’s call; Today it ^is the call of the world. Last week (a letter from the South Pacific, in suirir.g “How can we get The Omaha Guide?" Week before last a letter Irom India “Enclose please find my subscription for The Omaha Guide". Today—a letter from Spain,— “We want the agency for your paper What is the rates? Let us know Pmmediately.” So it is a call for the Guide World • wide. And strange thing about it— L it is not ex-Omahans and for the most / part not even Americans. We, the P Omaha Guide are glad to serve. The , following is a letter from British r West India that we received today: A. Harper, Baratarian San Juan— Trinidad, British West India• Nov- 2, 1944 I Omaha Guide, Omaha, Nebraska, Dear Sirs: It is my desire to get into business connection with your esteemed coh pany subscribing to your publication. “The Omaha Guide-” I ah asking you therefore to for ward me free sample copy and your rate of subshription per year. Please fordard free sample copies to the folloling names and addresses. Miss Irene Price—Barataria, San Juan, Trinidad, British West India; Mr. Edward Price—Barataria, San Juan, Trinidad, British West India. Alfaiting your prompt reply. very truly yours, A. Harper. ^Neighborhood Stores Appreciate . Community Support t Shapiro Grocery', 3502 North 30th treet, has recently employed Mrs P^Oiristine Phillips, 3036 Emmet St., • as a clerk. Mr. Shapiro, proprietor »|f the store, said to an Omaha Guide eporter “Bar none since the 30 »years that he has been in business"— He is happy to say Mrs. Phillips is _me best clerk he has ever employed »d her interest in her work is 100 “cent- She knows how to meet his stomers and knows how to serve She arranges the shelves to l^^obk neat. One essential quality of |k0e gi ocery store is the appearano. Shapiro said that Mrs. Phillips esecpiallv good in re arranging the [ stock and giving the s'ore a neat ap pearance- He wants the community to know that he is really proud of his new employee. Mrs. Phillips said Mr- Shapiro is a fine man to work for. He outlined her duties for her when she first went to work for him and she supposed that he is satisfied gecause he iever bothers her about her work. Mr. Shapiro says if his business increases and he can find another Mrs. Phillips, he will certainly give her a job- Mr. Shapiro store is known as Shapiro's Grocery and i«- located at 3503 North 30th Street and is one of the best stocked stores and clean in appearance. We say to the community in this neigh borhood. “The place to go. you ought *o knew when in want for groceries and nic-at^ is Shapiro’s Grocery.” m TIME TO RENEW YOTTE^TJ^nKIPTION^ ^^OR^94^^us^PHONE^HA^80O^_^^ Negro Workers Are Urgently Needed Negro workers are urgently need ed to man critical war plants produc ing “must” war materials for the armed forces, according to Benjamin F. Wilson, Chief of the Minority Groups Service of the War Man power Commission. Mr. Wilson has recently returned from c field trip that took him into three WMC regions covering the Stat es of New York, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois and In diana. During his trip he discussed with regional and State WMC offic ials ways and means of intensifying WMC efforts to recruit and place Negro workers in vital war plants in those important war industry centers. Stepped-jip military developments in Europe and the Pacific have rc (Continued on page 5) NINETEEN FORTY-FIVE \l^e^©^Yeari5youisigmake what you will of it. It opens up to you new^esportsihilities, newoppoxtunities^and perhaps new sorrows. \ To him' who possesses vision, 1945 comes~OnrThe^highest, the \mightiestNticfe' that has ever^come flowing into our portofTnope, There, are tl^ose who will look mournfully into the face of the New Year. There are those .who will say thatthe world is still in the rAidst of a terrifying dream. But they'ar^ the unfortunates without vision. XT \ in our own hearts, each of us knows that the world could and should be a better place in which td ljve. We know that war has no place in a gpod worla>But we know^too, that tyranny, injustice and'hatred always lead to'war. It is partx of our job to see that those forces of evil are forever'stamped out. America is a mighty nation, and-America is no more than a mul tiplication of our own community. Each of us must have the vision to live'pnderstandingljr with our neighbors. We must not only be neighbors, we must be'good neighbors. Then the insidious forces which lead to violence have no soil in which to grow. They are as seed cast upon the rock. Our own community is proud of its past achievements. The past three years have taught us that we can do what we will in our own minds. The job we have done in the past gives us the courage and fortitude to face the future unafraid. We know that no problem is without a solution. So it is with a spirit ol genuine hope, a feeling of humility and a prayer of thanks that this newspaper wishes each Of you * A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! SET UP ANNUAL NEGRO JOURNALISTIC AWARDS In Honor of the late j Wendell L. Wife | Tribute of An Aivard in Honor oC the Late Wendell L• Willkie. The Richmond News Leader Richmond, Virginia Office of the Editor December 22, 1944 Omaha Guide, 2420 Grant St., Omaha, Nebraska. Gentlemen: Two nation-wide committees of distinguished citizens and leaders of the press have organized The Wen dell L. Willkie Awards, a first prize of five hundred dollars and a second prize of two hundred and fifty dol lars, to be presented annually, for outstanding articles on any question of general public interest published in the Negro press. These prizes are being given in addition to such other awards, as the Pulitzer Prize, to' which all Negroes are eligible, with j the purpose of giving wider attention to the achievements of Negro authors and journalists and to the contribu tions to which they are making, not only to the question of race relations but especially to national and interna tional problems which now challenge the best thought of our country. Not only articles in daily and weekly newspapers but those in mon thly and quarterly magazines will be eligible. The awards will be made during October at a public meeting or dinner. Associated with the undersigned on the Honorary Committee are: Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Director of The In stitute For Advanced Study of Prince ton University, Dr- W. E- B. Du Bois, the eminent anthropologist now Director of Special Research of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, Dr. Robert G. Sproul, President of the Univers ity of California, Mr- Channing H Tobias of The National Council of > — ... tion, Mr. Carl Van Dorn, the a^ and Mrs- Eugene Meyer of the V ington Post, who secretary-treas of the committee. Mr. Mark F- Ethridge has ac? ed the chairmanship of the journ, tic committee with regional repr4 tation throughout the country. T committees have not yet been f oragnized but the chairmen are I Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland 1 Dealer, Mr. Marquis Childs, com ist, Washington, DC., Mr. Viral Dabney of the Richmond Times^j patch, Mr. Marshall Field of I Chicago Sun, Mr. George Corni* the Newr York Herald T ribunCV^ Palmer Hoyt of the Portland, ( gonian, Mr. Louis M- Lyons of Boston Globe, Mr. Ralph McGil tre Atlanta Constitution, Mr. t L. Walters of the Detroit Free P and Mr. Harrington Wimberly of AL'us (Oklahoma) Times-Demrx We very much hope that yourf submit any articles published ini newspaper to the regional coma of which, in your area, Mr. Map Field, is chairman. When the members of Mr. a ridges' committee have sifted A what they consider the most r!| orious articles, they will submit t to our committee for the final sel ions. The organization of these aw! was begun by Mr. Wendell L. Wij shortly before his death and tM wards *’-ave been named after p with Mis. Willkie's permission,^ trib’-re to his outstanding acl™ men:, in the betterment of interra relations. We hope that our objectives J nr ?t v. i.h your approval and thiU shall have your cooperation in mJ them a success. ^ Ynurs sincerely, D. S- Freeman, ChairirA