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^ "Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC• ^ ""Cv ^ ^ Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oftice. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of on iqak. r\„ inir. ko .March », 187, Publishing office, at 2430 Grant Street, Omaha. N.b, Saturday, January 20,1945 Our 17th Year-No, 50 r--—-Y Dynamite.. by GEO. H. DAVEXPORT ‘“Isolationists’”. During the Presidential campaign 3 everybody spoke of America first, ■who darned our diplomats about the mtr trri u>c A f foP* e i g n countries friend or fot, were branded iso lationists ; the so - called isolationists were beaten and scared until a real American had to admit that he m, longer believed in the principles laid (down by George Washington, ‘keep away from foreign entanglements, or be branded by the tin-cup leaders of the new deal, both white ana black as un-American crackpots. Be fore going too deep on this foreign matter, this writer has been warnea that he is sticking his neck out and ’ had better write about local affairs, things he and his readers could un <lerstand- There was a time when you could talk about Europe and it was far away- Europe was foreign then, but now with radio, airplan es. and radar, Europe is our next ■door neighbor. China. India and Japan live in the next block. The real reason the reader was worried was because he knew my mental cap acity far dealing in foreign affairs was nil- Knowing this is true, and after reviewing the actions of oils top liplomats, who in Novemliei, campaigned on the Atlantic Charter; who later denied such a thing exist ed and onlv last week in a messaga ' to Congress, remarked that the polic ies of the Atlantic Charter were to 0 be carried through, we arrived at ths conclusion that if high officials ot the government were so ignorant as to what is going on. or if they are getting their programs over because of the rank ignorance of the public at large, then we too, as laymen, can afford to get out on a limb. We still believe Washington was right. We still believe we should be isola tionists as far as trying to solve Eur ope’s problems- We still believe that this country erred in allowing Ger many to rearm after the last war We still believe that what affects Europe, Asia, or Africa, affects Ne groes- We still believe that Negroes should fight for the salvation of the world, and we are a part of the world. We do not bcleive the resi dents of this country should be den ied the luxuries of life at the expense of war-torn Europe. We do believe however, that we should share our wealth with the poor asd needy in Europe, as v. e do the poor and needy of this country; and that is. the rich help the poor here, but do they go to extremes. Do the rich go with out sugar, butter, coffee or other necessities of life to feed the poor and needy of this country? Charity yes. hut not as a detriment to oursel ves- This writer is for whipping Germany and then clear out. Lionel Hampton To Coach Giants New York (CNS) Ace bandleadei Lionel Hampton, has been hired to coach the New York Giants- It seems that the technique Hampton employs as vibraharpist is very help @ ful to a ball player. -__ SOMETHING NEW. by William Henry Huff We need something that is new Something different from the past. Something noble, good and true, Something that will soothe and last We are sick of what is old, Insults heaped upon our brow; Not one tenth has yet been told. Something new we must have now To Renew your 1945 Subscription,. CUI' HA-0800 ' Lena Horne is a WOW With Fort Knox GI’S x- 1 ! Following her performance last month at the field house- Fort Knox, Kentucky, Miss Lena Horne, tatned MGM tnovie actress- was swamped with GI’s who sought her autograph. Miss Horne, who starred in the film “As Thousands Cheer”, spent three days at Fort Knox and Godman Field entertaining troops. U- S- Signal Corps Photo front the Bureau of Public Relations• N.A.A.C.P. Protests Treatment of .—- - - —-—; """" *' - — ■ • — ■" ~1 ' 1 NEGRO ARMY NURSES IN WAR PRISON CAMP —————— ■■■ ■ ....— ■ | i — NAACP REELECTS BLACKMORE AS PRESIDENT At the Annual Meeting for the yearly election of officers of the local branch, NAACP, held last Sunday afternoon. January 15. at Zion Baptist Church, The Rev. J. E- Blackmore, was reelected President. Other offic ers are: 1st vice Pres-, Eduard Crooms; 2nd vice Pres., Rev- C. C- Adams; Secy, Mrs- John Albert Williams; Assist Secy, Mrs- -Aneta -Blackburn; Corres. Secy.. Mrs- Lucy Mae Britt; Treas.. W. L. Myers ESTABLISH TWO FRIEND’S AWARDS POWELL GIVES RANKIN VERBAL LASHING Washington (PPNS) The trad-( itional hatred smoldering in the hearts of Dixie Jim Crow advocates flared into flame in the House ot Representatives this week when Rep. John Rankin, Mississippi, race baitei Rep- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. newly-elected Congressman front New York, bitterly clashed over per sonal race issues- The dispute arose over alleged remarks Rankin that he found it extremely to his dislike ing to be seated by Powell in the House and that Powell’s election was. injurious to the cause of the Negro people-; The young liberalist and minister met the Rankin assertion with a par sionate and scorching reply. Sait? Powell: "As far as democracy is concerned. Rankin is a political de generate- He is the leader of Ain erican Fascism. His presence in the House of Representatives is the most serious obstacle to America in winn ing a people s war or establishing n people’s peace. He does not repres ent the best or the majority even In his own Congressional district. Out of over 300,000 citizens in that dis trict, not as many are allowed to vote as there are members of my church. Two hundred ninety thousand black and white Americans are politically disinherited by American Fascism in Rankin’s own district ” ‘‘I am happy that Rankin will not. sit by me because that makes it mu tual. The only people with whom ht is qualified to sit are Hitler anc? Mussolini. It is too bad that the Southern Republicans have deserted their party and become followers of a Southern Fascist rhe recent Committee on unAm erican Activities should investigate Rankin first, for he and his minoritv lead America in illiteracy and mass murder-lynching; and that's un-Am erican. If Rankin is not afraid of me- I dare him to suggest my nams INFANTILE PARALYSIS Knows no Lines Qm 1fie min 1-m • . : •T C • • Housing Shortage Survey IS BEING MADE We are all interested in this survey because it wll help present the true housing shortage condition that exists in this area. If you are in need of a home it will be necessary for you to register and make application which would enable you to qualify far the renting or the buying of a new house in Bedford Park on Wirt St. and Spencer St., between 27th and 30th streets. There is absolutely no obligation on your part in making the application. A survey of conditions is vitally important and we ask you all to cooperate in helping get the housing survey completed this week. Register and make your application at the office of Hiriam D. Dee and the Realty Improvement 342 Electric Bldg., or The Omaha Guide office, 24i:u Grant St.,—Day or evening (8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. to 10:00 p. m.) from Sat., Jan. 20th to Jan. 27th, 1945. Phone JA-7718 or HA-0800 for further inform ation. for membership on this witch-hunt ing committee-" Park & Tilford Gives NAACP $1,000 Donation On January 4th- 1945, the Park ft Tilford Import Corporation deliver ed to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund- Inc-, its check for one thousand dollars ($1,000), through its representative. Mr. Char les Reiner- This check is a gift to the Association to assist in carrying on it legal work against discrimin ation. By its action. Park & Tilford has endorsed the work of our Legal Com mittee- which has over a period oi years won 19 victories in the Supreme Court of the United States in cases involving "confession by torture . exclusion from jury service, and those cases establishing the right to vote without reference to race, creed or color. The Park & Tilford Company manufactures the famous Park ft Tillcrd Brands of whiskey and the famous Park & Tilford toiletries. The NAACP- Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., is a charit able corporation to which tax ex empt donations may be made Omaha WAC Wins Good Conduct Medal San Antonio Army Service Force> Depot, San Antonio, Texas—Private First Class Wavie W- Carter, WAC daughter of Mrs. Izene Carter, 2-t r Ohio St.. Omaha- has been awarded the Good Conduct Medal at the San Antonio Army Service Forces Depot, it has. been announced by Brig- Gen. J- A. Porter. Depot Commanding General. Pfc- Carter was a stenographer be fore entering the WAC in November 1943. She serves as a messenger at f the huge Texas supply center. Suggests Commissioning Top Negro Band for War Bond Drives New York—As a signficant step in boosting public morale, particularly in connection with war fund drives, Eugene Kinckle Jones, General Sec retary of the National Urban Lcagut has requested the War Department to consider commissioning the best Ne gro band in the Army to serve in somewhat the same capacity as Jim Europe's famous fifteenth band in World War I. This band- which accompanied the 369th Infantry overseas and of w'hicti Noble Sissle was a member, became widely known as the organization's "that introduced France to Ragtime’ It led the parade of the 369th up 3th Avenue at the colse of the war, ano was greeted uproariously by throngs in New York City. General Pershing regarded Lieutenant Europe’s banc as an important factor in keeping uj the morale of our troops overseas and at one time borrowed its service; ; to piay at AEF headquarters for at j entire month. The suggestion, which was sent :• FOR HONORING OUTSTANDING TEAMWORK BETWEEN WHITES AND NEGROES _ WILLIAM H- BALDWIN, president of the National Urban League, compares Richmond Barthe's design for the Two Friends Award with the profiles of L. Hollingsworth Wood and Eugene Kinckle Jones in whose honor the League is establishing the medal for annual award to whites and Negroes who make outstanding contributions to interracial accord- For For upwards of 30 years. Wood, as chairman, and Jones- as secretary, have worked together as a white*Negro team in developing the organization from a single office in New York to one with affiliated offices in 50 cities throughout the nation. Photo shows Baldwin, seated, and, standing (1 to r.) Barthe, Wood and Jones 1 XT TT < T - T“* - x v/i rv j auuai _v iu-^ i ment of the Two Friends Award for honoring outstanding teamwork be tween whites and Negroes in the ad vancement of interracial accord was announced today by William H. Baldwin, president of the National Urban League The Award gets its name from the thirty years of teamwork between L Hollingsworth and Eugene Kinckle Jones in building the National Urb an League from a single office in New York to an organization with affiliated groups and programs in 56 cities throughout the United States It will take the form of medals struck from a master design by Richmond Barthe, Negro sculptor, who has featured the profiles of these two men on the obverse of the medal- Awards will be made by vote of the National Urban League’s Brigadier General Benjamin O- Dav is, ranking Negro in the United Stat es Army, proposed the selection m that band- “which would represent the very best medium of musical ex pression of the martial spirit-" Tru man K- Gibson, Jr-, Civilian Aide t< the Secretary of War- has transmit ted the request for consideration by the appropriate division of the War ! Department. JORDAN TEAMS WITH RING New York (PENS) I^ouis Jordan exponent of a most unique form of boogie-woogie music, has been team ed by Decca with Bing Crosby on two recordings— “My Baby Said Yes" and "Your Socks Don’t Match" executive board to white and Negn. individuals whose collaboration outstanding. "When wartime tensions are cn phasizing the critical need for under standing and good will between th> two races, it is timely-” Mr- Baldwin said- “to focus public attention o;: the forces which are maging for in terracial accord; and it is appropr iate that the long record of devoted friendship and effective teamwork between Messrs. Wood and Jones bi made the symbol for honoring other of like spirit and achievement.’’ Mr. Wood became treasurer of the National Urban League when it was founded in 1910, and secretary m 1912- He served as president from 1915 to 1942 and is now chairman or the League’s national committee. Mr- Jones started as the field secre tary, becoming executive secretary :n 1919 and general secretary in 1942 Lloyd K. arrison, a public member of the War Labor Board and a for mer treasurer of the National Urb an League- is chairman of a commit tee which has been formed to raise money for endowing the Two Friends Award- A ceiling of $25 has been fixed as the maximum contribution which will be accepted from any one individual, and any income in excess of the cost of providing medals for future awards will be applied to the League’s fellowship program under which 101 young colored men anc women selected from the colleges ol the country have already been helper to obtain post-graduate training it social service. Major Simpson Orders Them To Eat In Separate Dining Rooms Omaha Girl G Arrives in India L. BERNICE GRICE, daughter of Mr- and Mrs. Paul Grice. 1516 N. 28th street, has arrived in India to serve th.e armed forces as aju. Americ an Red Cross staff assistant. She is one of 200 Negro personnel now scrv ing overseas with the Red Cross Before her Red Cross appointment, Miss Grice was employed in the War Department, Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, DC., She is i graduate of Technical High School and of the University of Omaha NEW YORK—Humiliation of Negro army nurses in the presence of Germas prisoners, as a result of discriminatory orders issued by an officer in the Prisoner of War Camp hospital in Florence, Arizona, was brought to the attention of the War Department by the NAACP in a letter to Assistant Secretary of War, John J- McCloy. The letter read: "We have receiv ed information from Florence, Ariz ona, that American Army nurses have been ordered by a Major Simp son to eat in a separate dining room. “These nurses, we understand, are in a hospital at the Prisoner of War Camp at Florence- They feel espec ially humiliated and degraded be cause, even though in the uniform of the United States Army, they wer» set apart under the very noses ot German war prisoners who serve a.» cooks, and waiters in the Hospital Officers’ Mess “The nurses felt their humiliation so keenly that on the first day the order was supposed to take effect they seated themselves in their old stations in the dining room whereuc on Major Simcson called the chiet nurse and publicly told her that the separate arrangehent had been insti tuted because it was the way he want ed it and the nurses must obey be cause they fere In the Army and hart sworn to obey orders of their super ior officers. “The German prisoners, of course looked on this scene with great glee, and the Negro nurses went to their, jim crow dining room boiling mad. “We understand from announce ments from Major General Norman T. Kirk. Surgeon General. United States Ormy, that the Army is not anxious to increase the number of Negro nurses, but if incidents like the foregoing illustrate Army policy, I am sure you can understand that Negro nurses in their turn are noi anxious to serve in the Army." Announced Engagement of Popular Radio Minister to Widow of McKissack Jones, Shocks Chicagoans BRIDE TO BE Chicago (PPNS) Jean Starr Jon es, widow of the late McKissaek Jones, whose engagement to the pop ular radio minister Rev■ Clarence Cobbs ivas announced recently in the home of Mrs. Marva Louis• News of the forthcoming wedding made headlines in the Chicago daily papers by Jimmy Gentry Chicago (PPNS) Grotesque fig ures descending from Wars couldn't have had a greater shocking effect tc the “Windy City” elite than the re cent revelation that Mrs. Jean Starr Jones, widow of the late McKissack Jones, and Rev. Clarence Cobbs, one of Chicago’s most popular ministers have decided to tread the middle aisle to the altar at an early date According to reports, Songressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., militan* Harlem minister, will be best man at the nuptial ceremonies- Powell re cently made the headlines when his domestic rifts flared into the open, and it was widely rumored that his next wife would he the celebrated pianist, Hazel Scott. Friends of the two principals, as tounded by the news, were divided on the question as to whether the marriage would actually take place The odds seem to be positive, how ever, for at a party given in the home of Mrs. Marva Louis last Wed nesday night, the “bride-to-be” dis played a dazzling 5-karat solitaire given her by the popular, young ra dio minister, and announced her en gagement National Leaders Appeal For Support Of March Of Dimes Seventeen national leadrs in busi ness and finance, government and pol itics, education, religion, law- jour nalism and social welfare, appeal for support of the March of Dimes. In statements released to the press in Maryland, 'VJrgjjn^, Connecticut Pennsylvania, New Jersey- North Carolina, Illinois, Oklahoma- Ken tucky, Ohio, Georgia California. Michigan and the District of Colum bia, these national leaders endorsed and commended the work of The Na tional Foundation for Infantile Par alysis and its County Chapters. The important leaders include: Dr. D- O- W. Holmes. President, Mor gan State College, Baltimore. Md-, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Pres ident and Founder Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N. C-; Hon. C.C Spaulding. President, North Carol ina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Durham. NC-: Dr- W. R. Valentine, Principal. State of New Jersey Man ual Training School, Bordentown, N. J.; Hon- Homer S. Brown, mem ber House of Representatives. Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, Pitts burgh, Pa-; Hon. P- B- Young, Pres ident and Publisher, The Journal and Guide, Norfolk. Ba.; Bishop W- J. Walls. Chicago, 111.; President R- b Atwood, Kentucky State College, i Frankfort, Kv.: Hoi. Augustus F. Hawkins. member of Assemblj, California Legislature, Los Angeles. Calif.; Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, President, National Council of Ne gro Women, Washington, DC-; Mrs Sadie T. M. Alexander, member Raymond Pace Alexander law firm Philadelphia, Pa.; Hon. John W. Lancaster Jr., President, Bridgeport Branch, NAACP-; Hon- William O. Walker, Editor. Cleveland. Ohio Call and Post; Dr. enjamin E. Mays President, Morehouse College, At lanta, Ga., and Vice President of the Federal Council of Churches: Hon. Charles C- Diggs, member Senate State pf Michigan; Hon. Roscoe Dunjee, President, National Negro, usiness League, Oklahoma City, Ok lahoma; Hon- Albert W- Dent, President. Dillard University. New Drleans, La. Millions of dimes and dollars, con tributed to the March of Dimes ap peal in Celebration of the President's irthday, are at work all over the country, upholding the pledge of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that no victim of infantile paralysis, regardless of age, race, creed or color, shall go without care for lack of funds
