The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, April 14, 1945, Page 8, Image 8
Negro Veterans Policy Making Positions in Veterans’ Bureau The following letter went out this week from the office of B. H. Mul drew, 2325 Park Ave., Kansas City 1 Mo., national Commander of the Council of Negro Veterans Inc., to Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Washing 25 D. C. Brigadier General Frank T. Hines. Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Washington, 25 D. C„ Keep Good Economical Government • REELECT DAN B. BUTLER HARRY KNUDSEN RICHARD W. JEPSEN ROY N. TOWL WALTER KORISKO JOHN KRESL HARRY TRUSTIN • Your Present City Commissioners • Tried, # 31 Proven, Qualified. III-: Ml UK TO VOTE TUESDAY (Political Advertisement) Dear Sir: Since our conference several months ago on the subject of recog nizing this organization in present ation of veterans claims before the Bureau, the (J. I. Bill of Rights has become a law. The administration of this law like that of all other laws effecting veterans, w'ill be left in the hands of boards, committees and offinials appointed by you. In order that every veteran may feel that he has equal opportunity ir. securing the many benefits provided for him and that Negro veterans may not be forced, as in the past, in many in stances, to apply to boards commit tees and officials unsympathetic to their cause, this organization is re questing that Negro veterans be ap pointed to policy making positions in the Veteran^ Bureau, in its nat ional and various state set-up. In view of your broad understand ing of the problems that have in the past confronted Negro Veterans in certain sections, your sympathetic attitude and your expressed dfesire that all veterans be cared for alike, we feel that you could conscient iously make the appointments with out fear or favor. Trusting that you will take under consideration re commendations made by this organ ization, I remain. Sincerely Yours, B. H. Muldrew. National Commander. PATROL LEIJ BV PITTSBl RGH OFFICER KILLS THREE NAZIS IN ITALY ' With the Fifth Army. Italy—With out suffering a casualty, a 10 man patrol from the 92nd “Buffalo” In fantry, led by Lieutenant Benjam in W. Hohmann of Pittsburgh. Pen. n.sylvania^ Recently killed three Germans on the Fifth Army front in nortrern Italy. Holding key positions in the group were Corporal Leon D. Straus burger of Craig, Colorado; Privates First Class Leo Johnson, Route 1, Beresford. South Dakota, and Rudy J O. Melquist of Gibbon, Minnesota. Their mission was to seek out a detachment of 15 or more Jerries reported occupying positions in a shell-poked village. After making a throrough search of the hamlet and finding nothing, the Yanks mov ed fartrer into enemy territory and investigated four empty bunkers which showed signs of recent oc cupancy. 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Consult your local newspaper for the time and station 7HC MO CM SSI VC UNION PACIFIC railroad VTViI'TtV YjTHlilT Anna Mae Winbum at Chi’s Rhumboogie _I DYNAMIC^ BATON TWIRLER( — ANNA MAE WINBURN, former O maha girl, who now leads the In ternational Sweethearts of Rhythm all Star Girl’s band and cimrentlv now playing at Charlie Glenn’s Rhumboogie Nite Spott in Chicago. ing. Their persistence was rewarded, however, when Johnson spotted a fifth bunker. Half the men began a routine investigation of the posi tion and the other half stood guard. As Strausborger and four cornrad es moved toward the emplacement, a Jerry stuck his head over the sanbags and fired two bursts from hiK machinegun. The German than made a motion as if to indicate he was surrendering. Hohmann sign aled his men to hold their fire, but it developed the German was calling his comrades for help, i Two more Krauts appeared and the Yanks opened up with Tommy guns, automatic rifles and Garands. The firefight lasted about five min utes and, although the Germans had I the advantage of a sheltered posi tion, the Americans killed all three. Shortly after the Yanks moved back to their own lines and the Nazis covered the bunker positions with mortar fire. NAACP ASKS HEALTH HIM, AMENDMENT TO AID NEGRO Washington, D C —In testimony March 23 supporting the principle of hte bill (S. 191) to amend the public Health Service Act, Dr. Louis T. Wright, NAACP Board member told the Senate Education & Labor Committee that because of the in equitable manner in which certain states allocate their own general funds under the resent system, clin ical and hospital care for Negroes is practically non-existent. In support of his stand for an a mendment to insure medical assist ance to Negro patients and protect Negro members of the Medical pro fession, Dr. Wright declared that a white erson who is ill has 14 times a better chance of recovering than a Negro. He said that the Ne gro suffers more from all sorts of diseases than whites as a direct re sult of wide differentials between ahounts spent by the states on pub lic health, Current figures, he ointed out, ‘‘show that infant mor tality is 69 ^ higher than for whit es: that a Negro child has an av erage life expectancy of only 53 years in contrast to a white child who can look forward to 65." BLAMES DISCRIMINATION Dr. Wright exlained, from a med ical standpoint, these differentials had nothing to do with the Negro’s susceptibility to disease, ’’but rath er shows the combined impact of discrimination in economic life and in obtaining medical assistance.” He used as example. Mississippi i where despite a Negro population of 1,07 4,579 tnere were only 0.7 beds pd thousand for Negroes in 1938 and as few as 75 set aside for over a million Negroes in 1940-42. STATUS OF PROFESSION The status of Negro physicians, technicians and nurses was also at tached. In 1914, Wright charged there were 3,500 physicians in priv ate practice and 7,500 nurses. Be cause of race discrimination a qual ified Negro physician is denied staff and in-patient privileges in practic ally every non-Negro hospital in the United States. In southern areas, Wright declar milLMt il Ullllll 11*1 L* I L* I L*l I Mil-Ill King Yuen Cafe • CHOP SUEY— ^OU)X^ N. 24th St. JAckson 8576 i i[)en from 2 p. m. until 3 a.m. American & Chinese Dishes GOOD OPPORTUNITY TWO lot*, corner anil adjoining^ on Month west corner -1M anti Grace. Extensive frontage on both 121st and Grace. Ideal for 12 or more homes, or especially .suited 21s Church grounds, Wake reasonable offer IMMEDIATELY. Address BOX A330 j or Call HA-0800. NOW, more than ever, you want •to stay on the job and do your full share of the work which must be done. Headache, Muscular Pains, Simple Neuralgia, Func tional Monthly Pams, slow you down, interfere with your work, spoil your fun. Have ycu ever tried DR. MILES Anti-Pain Pills when any of these common pains have made you miserable? Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills are pleasant to take, and prompt in action. They do not upset the stomach or make you constipated. A single tablet usually brings relief. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills are compounded under the super vision of competent chemists. •Cet Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills at your drug store. Regular pack age 25*, Economy package $1.00. Read directions and take only as directed. ed the result of such prejudices is | an indifference bordering on crim inal neglect in the altitude of White physicians toward Negro pa tients. The amendment to the hill proposed to relieve racial inequali ties in medical assistance. Honor Man of His Class GREAT LAKES, ILL., April 4 Wesley Sohonyers, 2l9 Eeast Fed eral Street, Burlington N. J. was selected the honor man of his class at the Camp Robert Smalls Radio man Service School last week when he graduated with an average of 84. He was advanced in rate from sea man second to seaman, first class. In Radioman School, Sohonyers was instructed in how to make minor repairs on radio equipment, transmit and receive radio messages between one ship and another or be tween a ship and shore activity, and to use the typewriter. Sohonyers entered the Navy last June after graduating from the Wilbur Watts High School in his home town. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sohonyers, live at the above address. Are Race Relations’ Advisors Helping or Hindering Negro’s Advancement (Continued from page 1) on Negro affairs,” etc., has come in to, what appears to be, permanent existence. In a survey carried on among the “race consultants.” the “advisors on Negro affairs,” etc., themselves I asked: "If it had not been for these race specialists jobs, would you or could you have directed your training and talents to the expansion of Negro insurance companies, the develop ment of Negro banks, Negro chain stores and cooperatives, to bringing modern techniques of news gather ing and reporting into Negro pub lishing, to Negro education. to politics?” The answer was yes, almost un animously. SPECIALISTS BEING USED AS BUFFERS 1 hese men and women have been used by Washington as a buffer be tween government and the American Negro, and since they have been on the scene, no independent Negro or ganization has arisen to define and to advance the Negro's social, polit ical and economic position—that is, none that has attained the desired Ntatus of effectiveness enjoyed by the NAACP and the Urban League, which themselves, are interrecial with the white vewpoint frequently finding expression in matters that should be purely Negro. Other questions I asked were: “Are you being held responsible for the false optimisim heightened in the Negro people by your presence in important government bureaus, ap pointees without any direct respons ibility to the Negro electorate nor to any organized body in Negro life? In your opinion, did you make a valid contribution to the integrat on of Negroes into Amerilan life?” The answer varied. All were a greed, however, that their years of government job holding had not in tegrated Negroes into American life Who are these men and women? Here are some thumbnail descript ions : WEAVER-DEAN OF BLACK CABINET Dr Robert Weaver, considered dean of the "Black Cabinet.” He en tered the Housing Division of PWA under Harold Ickes, moved to the U. S. Housnig Authority under Nathan Straus; met a complete dead lock in the War Manpower Commiss ion, quit for a race relation job with Mayor Ed Kelley's Chicago Commis sion on Race Relatons, then left that for the recently organized American Council on Race Relations. (A con sultant body which advises munici pal and state committees as to what to do when Negroes get too insistent about their rights.) William Trent with the Federal Works Administration until it was killed. He was a former special as sistant to the president of Bennett College. He has returned to the feild of edueation via the United College Fund. Dr. Mary McCleod Bethune, pres ident of the National Council of Negro Women; onetime president of i - ■ the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. She resigned the presidency of Bethune-Cookman College which she founded, to give all her tme to the NYA. She now has neither post, portfolio or college. Alfred Edgar Smith, who took over the place vacated by Forrest er B. Washington in the early days of the New Deal, and continued with the WPA until it was scuttled. LANCASTER GIVES VIEWS OF JOB Emmer Martin Lancaster, Special Assistant on Negro Affairs to the Secretary of Commerce; a practicing attorney in Akron, Ohio, for 15 years before he took the spot vacated by Eugene Kinckle Jones in 1940. He came to Washington from an independent professional practice and not from an institutional job. He considers his and that of all race advisors frankly political. Edgar G. Brown, onetime tennic champion, who was a hi,- factor in the old Civilian Conservaton Camps (CCC). Former Federal Judge William Hastie, who went to the War Depart ment as Civilian-Aide-on Negro af fairs to the Secretary of 'War. He later resigned and the statement he released created a national flurry. Truman K Gibson, Jr., his assist ant, took over. Gibson is a young Chicago lawyer. Theodore R. (Ted) Poston, form er New York newspaperman, who was given a job in the Office of War Information (OWI). MOON, JOHNSON HILL. AND JONES Henry Lee Moon, who has a long career in public relations and journ alism, 'came to Washington to be Dr Weaver's press relations expert. Clarence Johnson from the West Coast and former organizer for the Dining Car Employees Union, went from housing to WMC and is now back in housing. Of the staff of race relations advisors, Eugene Kinckle Jones was the first appoint ee. T. Arnold Hill, Mrs. Bethune’s assistant in NYA, who later worked as a special OPA advisor, were the only ones in the group whose prev ious careers were devoted entire ly to race relations as a full time profession. Jones had been general secretary of the National Urban Lea ,-gue for 35 years; Hill was with that organization for 25 years. Frank Horne, former dean at Fort Valley Normal, Georgia, took Wea ver's place in the Federal Public Housing Authority where he still is. Representing no organized group in Negro life, responsble to no or ganized group, without defined au thority or official status, these “fed eral advsors” crystalized, it seems into an artificial hierarchy of petty government officials divorced from the economic and social forces of Negro life and on the periphery of the technical stream of government administration. (T he Continued next week) j FAITHFUL TO THE TRUST It won't be long now. Omaha's city primary election will be held on Tuesday, April 17th. The final eleet ino will be held may 15th. That means that it is time, once again, for all Omahans to carefully evalu ate the candidates, and decide who shall represent us on the City Council for the next three important years It should not be a very difficult choice for most folks to make. The present adminstration, headed by Mayor Butler, has been n office, except for minor changes, since 1933. During the past twelve years, they have worked together as an intelli gent and efficient team, with only one goal in mind: the common good of Omaha and its citizens, including you and your family. Let's consider the RECORD for these twelve years: Omaha's bonded debt has been re duced from 15 million dollars to 4 million dollars—the lowest bonded debt Omaha has had in more than thirty years. Despite manpower shortages, Omaha's police department ha" never been more efficient. Old links between the police department and the underworld are but unpleasant memory. In the face of riseing living costs Omaha property taxes have actually been reduced. The fire department has been modernized, and a fire prevention program instituted which has saved much property and probably many lives. These are only a few of the out standing facts brought out by the record. It is a record that calls for the re-election of these men. Dan B. Butler, Harry Knudsen, Richard W. Jepsen. Roy N. Towl Walter Korisko, John Kresel and Harry Trustin. Omaha is going to need steady, experienced hands at the wheel dur ing the next three years. Our pre Bargains In Unredeemed • Diamonds, • Watches and • Jewelry. Special 8950 BRIDAL SET 2495 MARCUS Loan & Jewelry Co. 320 North 16th Street ■ “See Marcus for Bargains” j Elect E. E. Harrington CITY COMMISSIONER % • Efficient and Honest, • Will Devote Full Time to Dutv. -' - '» (Political Advertisement) sent city commissioners are the men for the job. They have been faithfull to the trust you have placed in them. A vote for these men is a vote to con tinue good, economical government in Omaha. ....(Pol. Adv. paid for by Friends) Newsletter “What’s Happening in Washington... <Continued from pnge 7) goods may also be included. At war's end. an estimate of 15 million veterans become potentially eligable forflf loans. With private capital matching every government guaranteed dollar, here's one of to morrow's biggest sales oppor tunities. Yandenbrrg will offer two propos als at San Francisco. Ultimate Sen ate ratification of the New United Nations Charter may depend upon their acceptance. He will.ask: (1) Provision for amending the Charter by something less than un animous agreement probably by three-fourths of all member nations whichu must include four of the Big Five. The Unifed Nations Char ter, like our American Constitution, must be able to adapt itself to in evitable change. (2) Provision to permit change of membership of the Big Five Se curity Council by something less than .unanimous consent—perhaps by reconsideration of its member ship every 10 years. Original Coun ci! will consist of the United States, Great Britain, Russia, China and France. Vandenberg will point out that the four largest states in 1790 were Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Car olina. and Massachusetts. Within 30 years New York outstripped all four. Virginia, first in 1790, has dropped to 20th. Today, Illinois, Ohio, California, Texas and Michi gan .none of which were even stat es in 1790, outrank all but New York and Pennsylvania of the orig inal 13 states. Many Senator* believe that if un animous consent of the Big Five is require". It will be almost imposs ible ever to dilute the veto power of any of itN members on aggression or on amendment or on changed representation on the Security Coun eil. Organization would be brittle nnd eventually crack up. •IOII\ 1/s N00,000—Perhaps Soon a Million: Few people realize that in addition to 600,000 miners, John L. Lewis now has 200,000 members in other industries under his control. They are members of iDstrict 50— his catch-all union, sniffed at only two years ago. 75,000 are in the chemistry industry. He controls one of the big rubber locals in Ak ron—ostensibly a CIO union. He has substantial representation in commercial aircraft ground crews, zinc plants, smelting companies, gas utility corporations, celanese. factor ies, asphalt works, and shoe firms. Lewis has cashed in on spectacular publicity about his ability to get big wage-raises, even against FDRs opposition. District 50's 200.000 have been ob tained at the expense largely of CIO but partly from AFL, Hence, a stumbling block to re-admissiori to AFL. If he wins the present mine-wage battle, his membership will quickly pass a million. 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