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'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
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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 <!1
HELD FOR ENTERING WHITE
OFFICERS’ CL CP
New York—In a wire to the
White House, the NAACP urged
prompt revocation of the order, hai
ring Negro officers of the 477th
Bombardment Group from an Of
ficers’ Club set aside for white per
sonnel at Freeman Field, Indiana
Release of the 61 men arrested as
a result of their entering the Club
thers and black brothers to sit to
gether in the same union hall, talk
ing about pay envelopes and voting
and keeping the wheels turning so
that everybody can keep on work
ing after the war.
But there can be no brotherhood,
no voting, no good paying jobs in
Dixie or American unless those
wheels keep on turning when the
war is over. The wheels will stop in
Dixie as they will stop throughout
America unless the statesmen of the
United Nations set up a world secur
ity organization at San Francisco,
unless the senators of the United
States realize that everybody is his
brother's keeper and ratify the
agreement that will be made for the
security organization.
Suppose that the senators of the
United States fail the Lord and fail
the people of their country? What
will happen to the homing new in
dustries of Dixie and the new spirit
o fbrotherhood coming like the air
planes and the synthetic rubber
from the wheels of Dixie?
Suppose the whole world should
lapse into anarchy and confusion be- .
cause the poletax senators from
Dixie joined hands with certain
senators from the North to keep
America from doing its part in find
ing a lasting peace? Could the peo
ples of the earth, fighting each other
like packs of hungry wolves buy the
goods turned out on the wheels of
Dixie and the wheels running full
speed in the rest of America?
PROSPERITY I S. THE HOE
Prosperity in Dixie and America
means that our country must have
a peaceful world in which to pro
duce and exchange the goods that
Americans of all races and colors
will turn out on the wheel in the
years following the war.
If America's senators fail the
world, then the new democracy,
shaping up in the world, is fallen
and with it the coming new de
mocracy of Dixie.
If America's senators fail then
Dixie will be worse off than ever
before. For the men who own the
hoes will ride forth in floursacks
and nightgown and stop the wheels.
And. brothers, the hoe gets heavy
out there in the cotton patch.
was also requested. i
In pointing out violation of the
War Department’s directive issued j
a year ago prohibiting discrimin- j
ation at army posts and training
facilities, NAACP Secretary Walter
White said:
“Order abrring Negro officers
from club said to have been issued
by Colonel Robert Selway, Jr , who
issued and enforced similar order
at ’tSel.'f'ridg.f Field . ,’Michiga,n. in
1943, when some of the men now un
der arrest were completing then
flight training preparatory to en
tering combat service in the Med
iterranean We are sure we do not
need to stress the devastating ef
fect upon civilian and soldier mor
ale among Negro Americans of
these wholesale arrests Recent
occurrances in both Army and Navy
have demonstrated deep resentment
of colored personnel to humiliating
segregation and discrimination has
ed on color On the other hand of
ficial reports of successful intcgr
tion of Negro rifle units with wt i‘
comrades in battle of Germany on
order of General Eisenhower a no
Dee indicate that policy of non-seg
regation will work in battle and at <
the same time will improve morale j
of Negro and white soldiers "
The NAACP has been advised t
that 90 men have already signified
their willingness to resign comm
issions if separate officers’ clubs
are to be maintained I>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
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