i6e /JUSTICE /EQ HEWTOTHE tlNE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 • ^UCjKANI ST •£> ^ •£. -Cy ■£■ "Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC• ★ ★ SS* “,S! ^b^oHS', £5 Saturday, April 28, 1945 ★ 10c Per Copy ★ Our 18th Year, No. 12 ROOSEVELT POST NO. 30, SELECTS RAY L. WILLIAMS JUDGE ADVOCATE SENATOR TRUMAN INVOKES i HIS SENATORIAL RECORD TO INDICATE HIS SUPPORT OF THE BILL At his first press conference Pres Idem Harry 8 Truman reassured supporters of the anti-poll tax bill that his Senatorial record would not be disowned The President was ashed to ex press his views on abolition of the poll tax anil other Issues The President replied, as he did to many similar questions intended to establish new Administration pol .icy, that the reporter should read the Senate reeord of Harry 8 Tru_ man That record shows that President Truman, as U S Senator from Missouri voted for closure (to in voke the rule of limitation of de bate) in 1942 and In 1941 when the anti-poll tax bill had been called up for consideration A vote for cloture was counted as a vote for the hill by supporters and oppon ents ' President Truman was a member of the informal Senate steering committee for HR 7, headed by Senator Mead, in the 78th Congress The President’s Senate record on the anti.poll tax bill accents the contention that pull tax repeal is a national franchise issue Payment of a pll tax as a condition of voting disfranchises 10 00O.O00 citizens in 7 Southern States, of whom 7,00.1,000 are white, and proportionately dis franchises free voters in the other 41 states 1 PttKMIDKST TRIMAN** FlltST \l>l>lc»:*H— - Washington, I> (' (Sound photo CPI)—In bin first ra dio address from the White House since taking the oath of offire. President Harry S Truman spoke to the armed fences, both at home and abroad, assuring them that he had stepped forward to fill the place of Mr ) Roosevelt in much the same manner as a fallen officer’s place is filled on the battle field Photo shows President Truman as he spoke over the radio ‘KC Call’ Editor O k e h s Truman C. t. FRANKI.IN say* N Ft. It OF.* MAYK NOTHIN*; TO FRAU FROM Till MAN In the passing of Franklin D Roosevelt, the world has lost its first citiaen To the question. “What about Trutnan from the Negro point of view?" my opinion based upon in timate knowledge of the man and his public record, is that Negroes need have no fear of him in the presidency." says C. A. Franklin, owner and publisher of the Kansas City Call Missouri is not a state with an advanced social program Public officials in Missouri have no* been called upon to take sides on the Negro question. But when is sues like lynching came up, Harry S Truman voluntarily took a posi , > ii.i n The (.’all commended the veteran publisher further said Franklin also added, "My further reason for thinking we may have all confidence in President Truman is that in his meteoric rise he has worked hard and qualified lor every ativaocement He will d*> just that I » lie presidency ’’ Two Detectives Slightly Injured in Shooting - Arresting Fracas Etrlj Monday at Doctor's hospit-£ a. I Detective Sgt C S Mathews, was treated for a fractured nose, finger and head bruises: Detective Sgt C C Dudley was treated for bruise* of his head and Ralph Hill IS. of 29tfi North 24th St., was treat ed for a bullet wound in his abdn men It all started when Mathews and Dudley, hearing th noting in the ll&M tavern. 1420 North 24th St. rushed in anil arrested Hill anil his two bruthers, Ronald and Richard After putting the three disturb ers in the police car, they started out for Central police jail, but as they neared 15th and Davenport St. one of the men slugged Mathews, grabbed his blackjack and oeat him with it Sgt Dudley who was driving was assa'led by the nthr two, Dudley going to the assist ance of Mathews, fired a shot which hit Ralp in the abdomen. Dudley and Mathew* succeeded In bringing the arrestees to jail and from there all went to the hospital for treat ment "LEAVE YOl'R CLOTHING BUNDLES ON YOUR FRONT TORCH SUNDAY” Plan House to House Canvass in National Clothing Drive / Walter Cozard, chairman of the United National Clothing Collection Drive, announced early this week that his committee was arranging a house_to-h«use pick up for Sunday, April 19. Mr. Cozard said that on Saturday the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Omaha will make a house to house drive to remind house, wives to get the clothing, which they are going to donate to the war-torn countries, selected and bundled. ready for the collection Sunday morning. Donald C. Hosford of the Junior Chamber of Commerce is in charge of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts solicitation Saturday. < ozard said the following items were badly needed: Infants' Garments, Women's and Girls Garments, Bedding, Blankets and Sheets. Usable Piece Goods, Wool, Cotton, Rayon at least one yard in length. Men's and Boy's Garments Caps and Knited Head wear, Shoes Sensible Not High Heels, Thread and Yarn. The man power for the Sunday clothing pickup will be furnished by the General Drivers and Helpers Union I-ocal Number 554. and the trucks will be donated by Omaha concerns. f £ WALTER WHITE REPORTS ON PACIFIC* TRIP TO I N HER S EC It FT A K % P A TTEIt S O N I* VTTKHNON G«t Report Washington,—In a two hour con ference April IS in the Pentagon. Walter White, NAACP secretary, re .ported on his fcur.month trip to t'ne Pacific war theatres to Under Secretarj of Wav Robert P Pattei ■on. in addition to a confidential memorandum sent directly to Wash ington from the Pacific, Mr White will file a formal written report w'ith the War Department With Judge Patterson he discus sed the ii.Sd Division and the use of Negro combat troops generally in the Pacific where the overwhelm ing majority of colored men are in service units The army promotion policy, which : ,i ."Sf . . .. - OF 8TH DISTRICT; TO £ DIRECT BUSINESS OF THE POST At a special meeting of the Exe cutive Committee of Roosevelt l'ost No 30, The American Legion Home, April 20th, 1945, the Committee un. animously appointed Ray L. Wil_ liams, Judge Advocate of the 8th District of the Legion to conduct the business of the Post. mlmediately upon taking over the affairs of the Post, the following members were appointed to com plete the organization of the Post: Charles Coleman, Commander: Olin R Prestidge, 1st Vice Commander; Fred Harris, 2nd Vice Commander; Roosevelt Covington, Sgt at arms; Edward R Turner, Adjutant: A K. Hines, Asst Adjutant; Rev S K Nicholas, Service Officer; Porter Johnson, Chaplian The following persons were named Members of the Executive Committee; Wendall Collins, Milton Stromler, Willis Por ter Terry Cole and John Gardner The following Members were ap pointed chairman of Committees; Olin C. Prestidge, Membership; Albert Wright, Milton Stromier and A K Hones, Finance Committee Publicity Committee: Olin C. Pres, tidge and Donald Coleman; Service Committee: Rev. S K Nicholas and Porter Johnson. Americanism Committee: Aaron Glass, chairman; Child Welfare Committee: Dr. W. W Peebles, Past Commander, chair man Welfare-Disaster Relief: Phillip Barge, chairman. Defense Committee: Rufus Long. Commun ity Co-ordinating &Legion’s Public Clinic: Dr. Westley Jones. A. C Wilson was appointed General Audi, tor of Post Funds The Post set.up a House Com mittee to operate the Legion Club Rooms with Atty. Ray L. \Villiams_ chairman. Members to serve as chairmen of the various sub-com mittees of the House Committee to be announced at the next regular meeting of the Post Clifton C Foster was appointed chairman in Charge of Bar Committee Atty. W B Bryant was apponted legal ad. vior to House Committee The Officers and Members were unanimous in their praise and ap. proval of the plans for the future conduct of the Post’s affairs and pledged their support to its pro gram . It was agreed, that the Post has a tremendous responsibility and should prepare for the Home Com ing of the Veterans of WWLL. They agreed to work and plan, that these Veterans shall not face the same problems and difficulities met by them when they returned home after the first World War iCfiarles Coleman,, Commander Edward R Turner, Adjutant Ray L Williams.J ndge Ad. vocate 8th Dst ! has given rise to many complaints from colored soldiers_ was another topic of the coooference as was the use of the courts-martial in Ne_ gro units White gave Judge Pat terson his views on the quality of white officers assigned to colored troops, and touched upon the man ner in which news of the achieve ments of these troops is handled Although Judge Patterson made the appointment to hear the Pacific report, the NAACP secretary pers_ onally presented a strong protest on the mass arrest of 101 Negro of f cers at Freeman field Seymour, Ind , because of their refusal to sign a statement that they would not enter a ‘‘white” officers' club TEACHERS SALARY CASE TO TRIAL APRIL 50 Birmingham. A'a—The suit of Wil liam J Bolden against the School Board of this city seeking equaliz ation of the salaries of Negro and j white teachers has been scheduled ; for trial April 26 The case was tiled March 1927. 1942. Attorneys ; for Bolden are Arthur D Shores of this cty and Thurgood Marshall. NAACP Special Counsel of New’ York This is one of a series of cases being handled by the NAACP in a number of states I. — .— Blackmore Resigns NAACP Presidency Goodwill Spring Musical Program at Tech High Aud. Sunday Afternoon The Omaha Goodwill Spring Mus ical Choirs of this city in their 11th Annual program of familiar hymns and spirituals will be held in the O maha Technical High School audit orium Sunday afternoon April 29th at 2 :45 pm. These massed coirs representing 12 Colored Churches of Omaha will be under the general direction of L. L. McVav, the founder of the or ganization, with Mr- E- L. Young, Musical director and Mrs- Margar et Dallas Moore, accompanist. The Rev. E, F. Ridley- Pastor of St. John AME. will give a brief address on "Goodwill r Miss Florentine Craw for of The Pinkston School of Music, will do a number from Chopin The Churches represented in this program are: Cleaves CME-, Bethel Baptist; St. John Baptist; Clair ME Salem Baptist; Pleasant Green Bap tist; St. John AME: New Hope Baptist; Freestone Primitive Bap tist; Bethel AME; Zion Imperial and Zion Senior Choirs, Host This program will be Free to the general public. □ □□□□□□□□□□□ • THE LIVING •” I SOUTH : 0 (BY HAROLD PREECE) O (Copyright, 1945, by New South Features) Harold Prcecc DIXIE S PEOPLE and DIXIE'S "LEADERS'". When you reao this, we'll be pack ing to leave my home state of Tex as for my wife's home state of Ten nessee Our hearts are heavy as we leave Texas, knowing how much we art going to miss Mr. anr Mrs. Carter Wesley, Dr- and Mrs. Karl Downs of Samuel Houston College, Mr- ant Mrs. Mac Strauss, who. are two of the finest white people we have ev er known in Dixie, and others with whom we rave broken bread in that new communion of the horning New South. But I know that we are going to a state which is doing its part in Dixie’s battle for democracy, a state whose will to freedom is shows by a recent editorial in the courageous Nashville Tennessean on the Souts and its people. One idea expressed in he editorial is that oui people “cannot and will not be for ever denied.” Aid I want to share that editorial with you. The editorial starts out by quoting a statement made by the South's outstasding spokesman. Gov ernor Ellis Arnall of Georgia: “I am convinced that the people of the South and Georgia in particular are much more liberal in their think ing than many of our leaders.” I hen it goes on to say: Governor Arnall's observation is a commonplace of history- Of course the people of the South would not have to be more than a little left of extreme right to be more liberal than the region's collection of Bourbon spokesmen from the Smith and Byrds of Virginia to the Pappy O'Danniels of Texas. The Governor's point of emphasas was that the peo ple are "much more” liberal than these men who are called Southern “representatives.” PROGRESS COMES FROM PEOPLE It is truism that political progress does not originate in legislative halls, courts, and councils. Their activities eventually respond and correspond to the preasure of soc REV. J. K. BLACKMORE SAYS ‘-FOR BEST INTEREST OF ASSOCIATION'’ It was with regret when we learned of the resignation of the Reverend J. E Blackmore. as the President of the local branch of the National Association for the Adv ancement of Cob red People When he was interviewed as to his reasons for resigning the only comment he made was that, he felt it was for the best interest of the I Association. ial and economic needs which large ] sections of people, convinced of the need for action forced upon the at tention of the leaders. Whore poltit cal leadership is largely divorced from the pressure of political ideals which are popular in origin through a strangulation of the suff. rage and bossism, liberalism is in- j articulate and politics stagnate. I Liberalism, the philosophy of pro- | gressive politics, is popular in ori_ gin and trend. And why? No one not even the most elert leders, knows how much the pin pricks as does the man who sits on it. Because of the finiteness of the single mind, democratic politics which is the art of giving legal body to the ideals of the general welfare as con ceived by the masses is superior to any oligarchy of intelligence, wealth education, or social caste. This is true even when the people are both poor and poorly educated PEOPLE VS: ‘LEADERS" Because America s politics have been basically popular, its history can be written in successive deal ing with crises originating from social needs forced upon a reluctant leadership. In the nineties it was the need for a more equitable dis tribution of the national wealth. In the next decade it was the need for more popular check reins on govern r i These 8 Pages are Jammed Full of Good Reading for Everyone! INfCflMATIVE— EDUGATSOKAL— ENTERTAINING 10c—and Worth It! Full Page Comics w---/ \AACP RADIO PROGRAM A TRIBUTE TO HOOSEVEI.T New York—Tribute to the late President Roosevelt was paid by the NAACP in a half hour radio pro. gram April 15 over station WN YP here Speakers were Arthur I! Spingarn, President, Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretary, and Herman Taylor of the legal staff Said Mr Spingarn: "The vast majority of colored people fet a personal close, nes.s to Mr Roosevelt asd they trusted him; they felt safe with him in the White House and though there was much still to be correct ed, they knew that under his admin istration the greatest advances for the race had been made. "If we are to have in this coun try anything bearing a resembl ance to that democracy which he so confidently hoped for and so pass, innately desired, the NAAPP work must go on with ever increasing strength. All of us know that de mocracy must be maintained asd bulwarked here—for if democracy fails in America, there is no hope for democracy anywhere in the world Nor is there any hope for peace in the world ” nient to prevent it from being sub. verted by plutocracy. In the Wilson ian era it was the need for a safe world order. After a decade of sup pression, farmer and laborer and white color worker forced consider ation of the need for the reording of our economy for abundance and security instead of scarcity and fear. Even now the ground swell of popular demand for a system of world cooperation for peace is so great that no politician dare ignore It. The only way these ground swells can be safely ignored for the time is to set up barriers against which they will beat ineffectually. This has been done in the South, with the I result that the people are more of ten misrepresented in legislatures ! and Congress. Convinced as we ar»* of the basic liberalism ‘nkett Negro insurance broker of Washington, DC , to the fmall Bu-ne-s Advisory Commit tee of the Department of Commerce The committee, which held its first meetings April 18.19, will •take suggestions to the Secretary on methods by which small busin ess lan do its full share in furn ishing maximum employment in the postwar period The new appointee, who is pres ident of the insurance firm of Jnhi R Pinkett, Inc is 56 years old, and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts He has two sons in the armed forces, Capt John R Pinkett, Jr., an Army Air Forces instructor at Tugkegee Airport and Corp. Clarence A Pinkett, now sta tioned in the South Pacific. I year old negro clerk HONORED BY STETTINH S JR A 72-ycar old Negro clerk who has served in the offices of nine Secretaries of State and has assist, ed at diplomatic affairs for six Presidents was personally honored by Edward R Ftettinius, Jr., Sec retary of State, Thursday, April 1? at ceremonies marking his retire ment after 42 years in Government service. People at het World Security Con.Q1 ference in San Francisco opening j April 25. | Dr. DuBoife and Mr White will be consultants to the American delegation at San Francisco, offic ially designated as such • by the State Deparimert. The NAAjCP is, one of 42 organizations, and the only Negro organization,, invited by the State Department In a statement issued before boarding a special trian in New - York April 19, Mr. White said: “It is our hope as consultants to the American delegation, to induce the San Francisco conference to face what is one of the most ser ious problems of the twentieth cen. tury—the question of race and col or We are particularly concerned with what is dore about colonial empires and the well-being of col onial peoples around the world Most of these colonial peoples are colored What happens to even the most exploited of these has direct bearing upon the future of Ne groes in the United States “It is disturbing to read on the Continued on page 3pgf°S) William Pickens Writes Us About Seventh War Loan Dear Friend; We and all of our fellow-Amer icans are now looking forward to the Seventh War Loan, which is to run officially from May 14 through the month of June. There will be only two War Loan periods in 1945, instead of the usual three There fore, the following facts are of great importance to you and me, and to all the American people, including the American Negro; The previous War Loan, the Six th, was the greatest financial a chievement, so far, in the history of the world: it aimed at 14 billion dollars and reached more than 21 and a half billion dollars Only 5 billions was asked of “individual purchasers” in that War Loan drive. Now comes the Seventh War Loan —May 14th through June 30th—In which 14 billions is again the' gen eral goal, but 7 billions of that 14 is being sought from individuals, rather than from banks and other organizations and corporations The individual citizen is the man who counts in America When he saves his money, invested in the safest institution and at the best interest for the security, instead of putting t into channels of trade, he defeats inflation Reducing the number of buyers, reduces the chanc es for inflationary rise in the pric es of constmer goods Every dol lar put into War Bonds by the in dividual, and allowed to stay there —is a dollar lined up with the anti inflation forces ) We are going to win the war a gainst the common enemy, in Eur ope and in Asia, and if we win the war against inflation—in many ways the worst enemy of all—our victory will be complete. All the people of the L'nited Stat es, including the colored people, are in this needed in-fighting which we must do at home, for the ulti mate Salvation of our country our way of living, and ourselves In this domestic battle we must continue to march, not ’ only un til, but even after “the boys come home." Very truly yours, WILLIAM PICKENS, Chief, Interracial Sec. National Organizations, Subdivision. I