The Omaha Guide if A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ^ Published Every Saturday at 0,20 Grant Street OMAHA, NEBRASKA—PHONE HA. 0800 Entered as Second Class Matter March 15, 1927 at the Post Office at Ctaaaha. Nebraska, under Act of Congress of Mardl 3, 1879. C- €• Galloway. Publisher and Acting Editor All News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be m our office not later than 1 :00 p. m. Monday for current issue All Advertising Copy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday noon, prececding date of issue, to insure public ation. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA ONE YEAR. $:i.00 SIX MONTHS $1.75 THREE MONTHS $125 SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OP TOWN ONE YEAR. $1150 SIX MONTHS. $200 National Advertising Representatives— INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, Inc 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Fbone:— MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peck, Manager 'PREPARE FOR VICTORY GARDENING NOW Present City Commissioners Lead Field In Primaries TOW I. TOP* 1.1*1' Till-: WIMEM* 1 Roy X 12,755 2. Marry Trust In 11,359 3. Marry Kliudscn 11,355 t. Ban K Ruler 10.737 ». Water K«n»kj< . JO.tS! I John Krml 10,55*5 7. Richard W Jeiwtn 10,200 *. Joe Bulan 7,302 * William (Rill) Oreen 5,224 10 Oharlc* W Lee man 4.791 II Bert A Thorpe 4 6S2 12, Arthur J W.aier 4,192 13 t'arl W JellHeii 4,053 14 E E Harrinaton 3,974 The seven present City Commiss ioners Tuesday led a parade of 14 candidates Into the City Election • ampaign which w ill close when vot ers again go to the polls May 15 Park Commissioner Koy N. Towl lopped the list in Tuesday’s City Primary voting, as he did three years ago Mr Towl polled 12,755 votes Tuesday as against 13,9X2 in 1942 The total vote Tuesday was a lit tle larger than anticipated, the un official tally showing 25,0X5 with one precinct missing The missing precinct was the girst Wards Second, 3X26 North 16th street Judges in that district turned in their balots to Electiou Commissioner Joseph A Vojir's of fices, but failed to turn in an unof ficial return Figures for that pre cinct will not be available until the official canvass is made next week Joe Dolan topped the list of seven candidates who w ill fight it out with the present Commissioners between now and Election Day Mr Dolan is one of five candidates endorsed by the "Omaha Voters” League.” Three others of the five survived the primary. They are Charles W. Lee man, Arthur J Weaver and Carl W Jensen The fif'h member of the slate. Tom H Adams, ran ir fif teenth place, 149 votes behind E E Harrington, the street railway car and bus operator, who polled 3.794 votes The remanider of the "«ec ond seven” are Wiliam (BID Green j former < ounty surveyor and former member of the Metropolitan l tilit ies District, and Bert A Thorpe, | former policeman Votes received by the also ran*: Tom H AdanM v.# l,S2tj Carl A Johnson . „ 2.647 i’harles Karl Burns 2,570 Joseph I'hop Cap. Jr. 2.462 M J Tlmmina 2,3i3. James UaHood 2,341 Fred A Hamilton 1,914 Helen Holm Jensen 1 S.>2 Albert Swanson 1,766 Joe R Kafka l.fi9T A C Anderson 1.66'> Alfred P Smith M47 Roth Jane I-ake 1,427 . R A MacPherson 1.426 John Dos# 1133 Plold J Wilson l.130 Samuel S Jensen 1.117 Frank Hausniek 1,003 Vern A Bartel# _ 933 L S l.o k I'ornett 778 Warren C J*easlnK l.ouis I Pentxien *35 Samukl Fowler flreen 624 James Vaailoff 456 Kuaene T Boyee — 443 Tom Vlahos 43! Peder A BjuKan 38* Stadium OK’d Mviti.iN miiiih rm\ l»\E CAKIUKS K\ KKl PltBflM’T Omaha ns Tuesday left no doubt hat thev want a Municipal Stadium. The proposal authorizing the City ’ouncil to authorize 480 thousand lollars worth of bonds to construct * Municipal Stadium at Thirteenth Street and Deer Park Boulevard carried by more than three to one. The unofficial vote from 178 of the City’s 170 precincts (one precinct failing to report an unofficial re turn) was; 18.180 ' <> 5*789 The proposition was given a good majority in every precinct. Even on the far North Side the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the stadium plan. Sixty-six organizations had baek the proposal, the groundwork for which had been done by the Muni cipal Sports Stadium Committee of which Jonny Rosenblatt is chairman Plans call for a stadium with per manent seats for 15 thousand and moveable stands to accomodate 15 thousand more. It will be designed for every sport use, including football and baseball The City Council will have charge of leasing it to various organizat ions and revenue from such contract will go to retire the bonds. The vote by wards; Yes Xu Flift 1,168 779 Seeond 979 316 Third 939 389 Fourth 550 104 Fifth 1.808 305 Si \t h 1,090 413 Seventh 1,041 017 KIgth 3,105 017 Xinth 3.380 080 Tenth 1.91« 010 Fleventh 1,895 815 Twelfth 1.040 490, EXPERT CRANE OPERATORS Negro and white soldiers have become experts in the operation of crawler cranes at ports all over the world. This training and experience should establish them in profitable civilian careers. These photos, taken at an English coast port where extensive petrol loadings have been carried on since before D-Day in Normandy, shew Ser geant Jacob S. Turner, Washington, D. C., above, and Private First Class Arol M. Murff, Greenwood, S. C., below. (U. S. Army Signal Corps photos from BPR.) I Taps for Roosevelt at Memorial Services TAPS I’OH I’DH. at Omaha’v Menioria services were sounded by Major R W Edwards of the Sal vation Army and American Region A _A_A_A_ band. World Herald photographer, Earle Bunker, caught the bugler in this silhouetted pose against a 1 lighted American flag ^ " * x ir MERCHANT SEAMEN PAY TRIBUTE TO LATE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT U U LJ U U U U u U U U L. 5 THE LIVING \ SOUTH • Q (HY HAROLD PREECE) Q (Copyright, 1945, by New South Features) m MR. HAROLD PREECE DIXIE SAW THE WHEEL. The wheels keep on turning and the people keep on working, down here in Dixie. For Dixie, like Ezekiel, saw the wheel the wheel of the factory and the wheel of the tractor which have meant more jobs and better times for the people of Dixie. Lord, keep that wheel turning so we can keep working. This is our prayer as the states men of the United Nations gather at San Francisco to lay the plans for world peace and prosperity, based upon mutual defense and mutual ex change of goods between all the peoples of the earth. We pray that the Lord's guidance will be upon the statesmen of the United Nations so that they wrill an swer for the peoples of the earth that question asked by Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?” For here in Dixie where so many black men have been slain 1 y their white bro thers we are learning that every man must be his brother's keeper if any man is to have a roof for his head or schooling for his kids. WHEELS MAKE BROTHERS The wheel has taught us the les } .\ew York. April 13. i»4a ] 000 merchant seamen, veterans of hundreds of voyages into ever war theater, bowed their heads ii I prayer today at a memorial meet ' ing held at National Maritime Union headquarters here to pay tribute to the late President Roosevelt and to dedicate themselves anew to whole 1 haerted support of President Harry . S. Truman. NMU Vice-President Fredrick N Myers conducted the memorial ser vice following a two-minute period of silence. He hailed President Truman's splendid record during President Roosevelt's Administrat ion and voiced complete confidence in his determination to carry on the policies and program of the late President. Myers read the following messags addressed to President Truman: We have gathered to mourn the loss of a great man, a wise leader and a courageous fighter. We have gathered to pay tribute to his great work for victory and lasting peace. He would not have us pause in this work. He never did. We must pick up where Franklin Delano Roosevelt left off. Like him we must dedicate ourselves anew, and even more staunchly, to the tasks o wfinning the war and build ing the peace. To you. President Truman, we turn with faith and confidence that the sacred trust you now hold will be faithfully discharged. Together with Churchill and Stalin, and our allies throughout the world you. President Truman, will bring into being the principles of world unity and peace security and freedom for which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his life. The mantle of leadership has fall en on your sholders. President Tru man, in the most critical days of our country's history. Your heavy re sponsibilities are ours. To you, we pledge our wholehearted support. With you, we will fulfill the her itage of our dear friend and brave comrade in arms. son of brotherhood. The people are working turning the wheel to pro duce airplanes and synthetic rubber and just about everything else to supply our brothers who suffer and die in the battlefield to bring us the Lord's blessing of peace. It's a proud thing for a man to feel the wheel under his hand after that hand has been blistered by Old Massa's rusty hoe in season after season of cotton-chopping. — It's a proud thing for a man to step up to a window', come Saturday night and collect dollars for work done with the wheel instead of fatback for drudgery done in the killing Dixie heat with the hoe. It's a proud thing for white bro Mrs. Geraldyne Dismond Holland, noted social worker, presented Ted Yates, Editor-in-Chief of the Independent Press Service and N. Y. Cor respondent of the Afro-American Newspapers, with the 1941 Adam Hat "Tolerance” Award. The presentation of the plaque was part of a gala all-star radio show dedicated to Mr. Yates’ outstanding achievement of promoting inter-racial good will. Mr. Julius A. Thomas, National Urban League Director, Department of Industrial Relations, was on hand to congratulate Adam Hats for their recognition of Mr. Yates' constructive efforts. Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, April 21, 1945__i>;4,e 5 I KV A HORVK (New York (CNS)- , Lovely Lena Horne who last week closed a month's engagement at Broadway's Capitol Theatre, went .. - ■ ■ ■■ - through 4 shows a day and a hec tic schedule Lucioux Lena, feat ured in Newspic’s April issue, is heading now for a short theatvi tour on her way hack to tie ■ ast t omake another MUM movie The center pic Is a shot from her ' test film, not yet released. "ZieRfelt’ Fol lies." SPEARHEAD MeHARRY DRIVE q—SPEARHEADING MEHARBY DlAIVE—Dr S W. ffaiith. nat- j ional chairman of the student-al umni $200,000 building fund camp aign announced last week that $40 000 has been raised during the first three months of *he drive Shown here with the chairman (center) whose personal rontribution to date is $515.00 are four of his class mates who were graduated in 1514 They are I> to R: Joshua M Brown. II 1> , class historian $100; J II Pratt. M D , *200; ’ Dr Smith, Class chaplain; J E King. M I) $50: and John W Burrell, II D class president Other members of the 1914 classes who already have aided in raising a total of $1,615.00 | are: V M Marshall, DPS of Gary, I..U, $100; A H Lota! D. I) S of Chattanooga, Tenn. >150; J W Buford, D I) S , P- ’ idel phia, Pa , $100; and J L l.tai h, of Detroit, Mich $500; the alumni are staging a heated contest among themselves led hy class pro.' .its. (Atlas Newsphoto) NAACP ASKS RELEASE OF eslie Per ry NAACP administrative assist ant of the Washington Bureau it , being sent to investigate conditions j at Freeman Field REMOVAL OF COLON El. CRANDALL IN WACS CASE DEMANDED The Lynn Committee to Abolish | Segregation in the Armed Forces ! joins with those organizations and individuals who have asked for ai investigation of Colonel Walter S! Crandall, in connection with the ! case of the four Negro Wacs, and calls for the removal of Col Crand all, Commandant of Lovell General j Hospital "Although the four Wacs have , been restored to duty and their sen fence of a year at hard labor has , been reversed Col Crandall has : ben permitted to remain on his pos* —the same Col Crandall who had these girls courtmartialed for re fusing to be the ‘black Wacs' who have to do ‘all the dirty work ’ ” said Wilfred H Kerr, Co-Chairman of the Lynn Committee, in a state ment issued at its headquarters, 101 West 46th Street, New York City “Are these charges of the Wacs true? And if they are, what is the War Department doing about it?” The statement pointed out that only one day before the rove, sal of the Wavs' sentence, the sentence of 14 Nijro Scabees were reversed from “undesirable” to "honorable discharges, as a result of a bearing demanded by the Lynn Con ’’ittee last December before the Naval Review Board. "This action of the y r'Depart ment coming so dose upon the ac tion of the Navy Department may herald a new approach to Negro troops on the part of our high com mand But this approach will re main ineffective if it does not in clude a change In the basic mil iary policy of segregaton The military authorities cannot be depended up on to aboli-h segregation; these come s ons that they are making only indicate that they are not a bove public opinion It is us r task to continue the *>Kht against segre gation in the armed forces.” con cluded the statement IIBONZE STAR MEDALIST FIRST SGT JAMES E BRANCH, of Company E 368th Infantry "as one of the several veteran: of the 25th Infantry to receive decorations for bravery in the Southwest Pac ific Sgt. Branch is a regular army man of 25 years’ service and he re ceived the Bronze Star for meritor ious service in direct support of op erations against the enemy For News, Read The Guide—10c and Worth It!