I
Natl Negro Health. Week April 1 -8
(By Hyland B. Melford, Sr.,)
Anat. Director of V D Education
State Health Department
The birth of the National Negro
Health Week was the timely fruit
cation of Booker T. Washington’s
practicable philosophy of “head,
heart hand and health” education
for effective service and wholesome
living. Controversy on the adjust
ment of the Colored man to his new
environment had ranged around the
social hypothesis, "Can the Amer
ican Negro Survive?” In 1915, Dr.
Robert R. Moton, of Tuskegee In
stitute guided the National Negro
Health Week movement toward its
destined objectives in his articlei
I “Organized Negro Effort for Racial
I Progress”, which briefly defined the
origin of the Health Week as an
observance in which persons of all
races cooperate and the object, of
course, to improve the health of
Negroes and the conditions under
which they live. Today the Nation
al Negro Health Week movement
has grown to proportions undream
ed of. As outlined by the present
National Negro Health Week Move
ment, under Dr. Roscoe C. Brown,
Health Education Specialist, for the
U. S Public Health Service, Wash
ington, DC. two definite objectives
are outlined (1) to stimulate the
people as a whole to cooperative
endeavor in clean-up-educational,
and specific hygiene and clinical
services for general sanitary im
provement of the community and
for better health of the individual,
(Continued on page 5)
Saturday, March 31, 1945 Our 18th Year, No. 8 ★ 10c Per Copy ★
W rite Your Senators to Support RR-lb9b
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RACE NO FACTOR
IN FIGHTING ABILITY’
| ...Says General Mac Arthur
REP. POWERS HITS VIOLENCE £
AGAINST SOLDIERS IN SPEECH
FOR ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
WASHINGTON, DC —The first
move toward getting a federal anti
lynching hill before Congress this
session was made March 21 when
Discharged Petition No. 3 on HR
1698 was submitted to the House by
Congressman D. Lane Powers
(R-NJ ) who is sponsoring the NA
ACP measure. The petition requir
es 218 signatures in order to get the
bill out of Committee where it is
how bottled up. Every supporter
of anti-lynching legislation is there
fore being urged to write his Con
gressman to sign the Discharge pet
ition.
In outlining ihe re..sons why the
79th Congress should outlaw the
crime of lynching without further
delay Congressman Powers declar
ed that 5,144 persons in the United
States met death at the hands of
lynch mobs from 18S9 through 1944
He asid 3.688 of the victims have
been Negroes and in the overwhelm
ing majority of cases> they were
lynched by native white Americans
Placing stress particularly on civ
ilian police brutality against Negro
servicemen following World 'War I
and the increasing gravity of sim
ilar incidents in the present period,
Powers cited the lynching of sold
iers who were slain “simply be
cause they had tasted a little free
dom, a little travel and had a little
pride in the part they played in the
army that fought for democracy.”
He pointed to the April 3, 1941 lynch
slaying of Private Felix Hall, found
hanging from a tree in Ft. Benning
Ga., and to the recent beating (Mar
13, 1945) of Negro overseas veter
ans by Jackson. Mississippi civilian
police> because they were fratern
izing with some white soldiers
whom they met in the railroad sta
tion at Jackson. —
In quoting from a newspaper ar
ticle describing the incident Repre
sentative Powers, read "The police,
seeking to preserve southern cus
toms informd the men that they
could not mingle together in Miss
issippi. When they did not immed
iately break up the conversation
the story continued, civilian police,
nftned with sawed off shotguns and
tommy guns, beat the Negro sold
iers about the head with blackjacks
and forced them to immediately
board their train enroute to Camp
Shelby."
Concluding that such instances
are only a foretaste of what is to
come, Powers declared, “I am con
cerned about the violence that has
been, and is being, perpetuated upon
the Negro soldier and the Negro
veteran. There is no room in Am
erica for lynchings; there is no
room in America for race riots.
This must apply particularly to the
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Attend Church
Services (See Church
Directory, page 3)
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Executive Secy. FEPC.
Committee Here April 8
Mrs. Ann Arnold Hedgman, Exe
cutive Secretary of the Committee
for a Permanent FEPC. will be in
Omaha, Sunday, April 8. to stimul.
ate efforts for the Drive to make
the Fair Employment Practie.e Com
mitt<* a permanent Institut on.
postwar period. Wo, as a nation,
are reparing to take our rightful
place of leadership in world democ
racy.
"That democracy for which men
fought and died is not, and must
not ibe a democracy labeled “for
white Europeans and white North
Americans—only.” It must be a
democracy for all of the nations and
all of the peoples of the world. We
w'ill assume world leadership in the
post-war era because we have won
it. I a*k this House then to make
this democracy a real and meaning
ful thing to the millions of Negro
servicemen and their families who
have helped to make victory and
leadership possible. I ask that this'
House take immediate steps to out- j
law lynching by adopting HR 1608
so that when these boys come home,
black and white alike, they will
know that they have truly fought
for—and won—a better America
and a better world.”
Leslie Perry of the NAACP Wash
ington Bureau said that “any Con
gressman who is in the leastwise
concerned about the postwar Am
erica wdll lose no time in signing
Discharge Petition No. 3 on the
Anti-Lynching bill and letting vot
ers in his district know that lie has
done so.”
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Girl Alleges Father
Inflicted Back Hurt
Yvonne Ellis, 11, of 2530 Maple
Street, told police she was beaten
by her father, Edward Ellis, 36, at
her home early Sunday.
She said he hit her when she re
fused to tell him the whereabouts
of her mother, from whom he is
estranged. She was taken to Doctor's
Hospital with a back injury and a j
broken tooth.
Due to space we will run
the Kate Smith Article
next week._
5 INDIGNANT OVER RT MORS Md
DIVISION FAILED: ARTILLERY
BATTALION GETS HIGH PRAISE
FOR WORK
Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea —,—
“Itace has nothing whatsoever to do
with a man’s ability to fight,” Gen
eral MacArthur told Walter White
1 when he conferred recently with the
New York Post war correspondent
in the Phillipines. "Any man who
says that another man's fighting a
bility can be measured by color is
wrong. I learned that,” declared
the General obviously provoked at
the persistent rumors discrediting
combat performance of the 93rd
Infantry Division, "in serving as a
junior officer with the famous 25th
Regiment. One of the greatest
armies I have ever commanded was l
a Filipinio one.” I
Mr. White in his report stated
that recent developments in the at
tempt on the part of certain pers
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Nat Towles’ Home
Burglarized
On March 26th between 7:30 and 9
o'clock, burglars broke into the
home of Mr Nat Towles, 2626 North
24th street. Every lock in the lock
in the house had been tampered
with and every room ransacked. If
it had not been for the return of
Mrs. A. Miles, the loot would have
been much larger. From all ap
earances of the condition of the
house, there must have been two or
three burglars working together. J
All the closets, trunks, dressers and
chiffoners’ drawers were emptied
out. Choice select items had been
stacked on the bed ready to lift, but
seemly time was too short when
they heard Mrs. Miles enter—for
Them to make their get away with
the planned haul. The following
items have been missed by Mrs.
Towles so far. She is investigat
ing trying to determine just what is
missing- camera, carton of cigar
ettes, two dinner rings, two bill
folds, one with Mrs. Towles’ name
engraved, three pints of whiskey,
(Old Thompson), and a quart, box
of nuts shipped from Florida to Mrs.
Towles from Mr. Towles, and a bank
t with approximately $12 in nickels
and dimes, $250 in war bonds with
either Ruth or Nat Towles name on
them and Mrs. Miles lost a cigar
ette case and a clock. Mrs. Towles
is very much upset over the loss of
her two valuable dinner rings and a
camera that was presented to her by
her husband on her last birthday.
Mrs. Nat Towles is offering a lib
eral reward for the return of the
camera. Mrs. Towles will apprec
iate of being notified by anyone
to whom the above items might be
offered for sale. Just call JA-5255
and you’ll be amply paid for your
trouble.
A Much Needed, Long ‘ Dreamed of Negro Institution Finally becomes Reality
PROGRESSIVE MEN LAUNCH COMMUNITY BANKING ENTERPRISE
To the side is the Home of Th«(
Carver Savings and Doan Associat
ion. This building has been pur
I chased by this Institution. It is
not the largest building in the city
of Omaha in stature, but it repre,
sents a firm foundation of the larg
est financial institutions in the
State of Nebraska to the Mid-City
section. It is a partial fulfillment
of the dream of the founders of the
Omaha Guide which was decorated
in the Guide platform 18 years ago.
The idea of this Association was
conceived and planned and worked
to its present perfection by one of
Omaha's keenest legal minds, Atty.
Charles F. Davis, assisted by a
group of men who he has been work
ing with in Iroquois Dodge No. 92
and of which he is Exalted Ruler.
Atty. Davis' strict business admin
istration, in the Ellcsfi dodge and
his ability of working out a solu
tion of the problems which com
fronted him, with the assistance of
his able Secretary, Dr Price Terrell,
placed in the men who he was tvork
ing wth, a confidence that was un
shakeable.
When Atty. Davis was elected as
Exalted Ruler of the Elk’s Dodge
he set as his goal a permanent home
for this organization. He found a
frail structure to begin with and a
group of men divided betweet.
themselves—destroying the very
things which they were organized
to perfect. With the rental agree
ment on a building which was prac
tically worthless due to the lapse
of time, it was no small job for him
to weed out the selfish interests
which was in the hearts of a few
of its members. With his eye on
the beam, he pisked his co-workers
to perfect an organization that
would do the job and during the
time he was working out these
problems, he established such a
permanent confidence in his closest
associates until they observed in
him a man who was giving unsting
iously every ounce of his energy in
the interest of building a firm or
ganization in the interest of its
members and not for no one indiv
idual.
When Atty. Davis took charge of
the administration of this Lodge
they had no home, no money in the
treasury, no credit, and practically
no respect in the community tn
which it existed. Today, they own
the building which cost $64,000.00
to build and which at one time
was purchased by C. C. Galloway for
the sum of $40,000.00 With the in
crease of property value at this date
we would say this building today is
well worth $60,000.00 and could not
be reproduced for $85,000.00 cash
for the same. They are now carry
ing an average balance in the bank
of from 12 to 15 thousand dollars—
with a good credit rating and sev
eral thousand dollars worth of U S
War bonds to their credit and thi.
Lodge has been instrumental in this
community in contributing to many
| charitable institutions and individ
uals and above all this organizat
ion now has a group of men who
have ■implicit confidence in Atty
Davis' firm business administration
in the interest of humanity to such
an extent that he was able to pick
out a few men of this organization
and organize the Carver Savings
and Loan Association. There isn't
any doubt in any of the incorpor
ator’s minds, as to the future suc
cess of this financial institution.
The Negroes of Omaha alone, have
deposits in the downtown financial
institutions of $18«,000.00 and are
paying interest on capital stock
controlled where they cannot get !
but a meagre financial considerat
ion and where they are given em
ployment to 49 employees.
Why not transfer this in the
whole to where it will give your
boy or your girl who is coming out
of High school every year, some
thing in the line for which they are |
trained for.
The Carver Savings and Loan At I
sociation not only deserves a 10091
cooperation of the Negro in thi.
community, but it also deserves and I
will expect the full cooperation of
every business that is operated it
this section of the city of Omaha
The Omaha Guide firmly believe,
that when the fundamental princ:
pie of this organization and tin
worth of it to this community i
properly unfolded to the business
firms of this section, that they vvii
rally to the strengthening of thi?
structure, for the business firms o
this section, heretofore have alsi
felt the sting of refused consider
ation from a financial point of viev
by the downtown financial institu
tions, due to the fact that their bus
nesses were located in this area.
So, we The Omaha Guide, suggest
to the official family of the Carve
Savings and Loan Association, to b«
gin to-day to build that confidence j
up in the business men of this sec- !
tion -—that confidence which is
(Continued on page Si
IROQUOIS LODGE No. 92 No. 4056
i. a. p. a. e. or w.
Dollars
- UfoauOtB « ri
SITED STATE $—£h
j\aiional BAN R 0/ OmaUm
_tfthratkm
CHECK: Iroquois Lodge No. 92, first with active group support as evidenced by their check for One
thousand Dollars ($1,000.00). j , !
BUILDING: Purchased for the future home for The Carver Savings and Loan Association. Occu
pancy planned within sixty days. Watch for opening date!
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• Members of The Carver Savings & Loan Association
DR. CRYIG MORRIS, President —Board Member
CHARLIES F. DAVIS, Secretary -Trenailrer— Hoard Member an<! I«i
Corporator
HERBERT RICHARDSON,
Member—Incorporator
Board MILTON E. JOHNSON, Board Mem
ber
ELMER CiAXT. Board Member and JOHN DAVIS, Hoard Member, In
Incorporator corporator
CHARLES mm** Incorporator LEON ARD NORRIS, Incorporator ..... , tlj ... . .. „ . „ .
MAJOR INDERWOOD. Board Mem *_N\ ILLIS A\. GRAN, Board Member
her Incorporator _HU. W. W. SOI.OMOV Board Mcn.-bcr, whose picture cnn.c too Intc for publication.
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