/jUs!icr7EQUA0Wt1^^fc)ALLTHE NEWS WHILE IT lSNEWSj||jBpHEWTDTHE UNE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY "^2420^RANTST ~~ HONEHA.0800 + + -o + "Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC• _^ ^ ^ ^_ . • -.1 a* and class matter at Post-oft.ce. Omaha. Nebr., Under Act of Saturday June 2, 1945 ★ 10c Per Copy ★ Our 18th Year—No. 17 Mr i "74 Pui>'>shiii^ Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr. } I TO THOSE WHO GRIEVE by Ruth Taylor ] "It is better to break your hearl than to do nothing with it." I read that line once and it has stayed in my memory. 1 talk now not to those whose dreams come true—but to those who have been hurt—to those who dread to look ahead—to all thosoe whom war has bereft To them 1 say—nothing can take away what you* lave had Even though you have lost what was dearer than life, would >ou rather never have had 'he Cha (Continued on Page W^2) Northside Area Plans for Post>War Business I ■ PROGRESSIVE MEN, WOMEN EITHER ADDING TO OR STARTING VARIOUS NEW BUSINESSES In addition to the Carver Savings and Loan Association enterprise, and1 the Hiram l). bee extensive building program in this community, other progressive men and women, with their eyes on the future, are establishing various busi nesses in Ibis locality. Among the new ones beginning are those below:— A New Beauty Salon to Open for Business June 10th 5 \p.m. Mists Oorts Hawkins who formerly wits a operator at Florence's at 24th and Grace Streets, and is pres ently at the Victory Beauty Salon, 2tth and Burdette, has spared no pains to give Omaha the most beau tifully decorated and equipped Beauty Salon Omaha has ever had f‘e*. Miss Hawkins has newly decor ated the west room in the Omaha Gsidc building at 2422 Grant Street, throughout, with the color scheme designed to quiet your nerves while you are being served at the Modern istic Beauty Salon, with anyone of the four leading and experienced Omaha beauty operators They are as follows: Mrs Dorothy Harris Allen. Mrs Ethel Smith, Mrs Wil lie Mae Killingsworth and Doris Hawkins The opening House date is set for Sunday, June 10th and Monday June 11th Time 5 until? The public is most cordially invited at the Grand Opening of the Modernis- j tic Beautv Salon. 2422 Grant street > Miss Doris Hawkifls> Proprietor Harry Buford Opens Electrical Appliance Store l.ieut Harry Buford, wishes to i announce to hl» many friends and acquaintances, that the Klectronic Balt.: and Service Shop, will open its doors to the Public on Saturday, Juno 9. 1945 Yes there will be a worthwhile door prise for all who register on the visitor's book on that day and date Mr liuford. stated to the Omaha Guide reporter, that he expects to carry a full line of all electrical appliances, also records, phono graphs and radios Rendering the very best of repair services for all types of electrical appliances Don't forget the date, Saturday. June 9 1945 You have a date with the Electronic Sales and Service Shop at 2411 North 24th Street Off-sale Ltqour Store to Open Soon ^V^^^N^^r^l^t'hnsni^prnprirUir of Johnson's Drug, secured his off sale liquor license Monday He will open his new Liquor Store at North 24th Street (next door : . his drugstore, just as soon as it become* vacant This building is now operated by Dr J J Jones, 1 flenns^^^P^iF ones has bought the building at 251S Xorth 24th Street, which is now occupied by Lillian's Bargain Center Just as soon as the Bargain Center is vacated. Dr Jones, who recently purchased the building, will take over. FIRST TWO NEGRO BLUE JACKET NEWSMEN ASSIGNED TO SO. PACIFIC Great Lake*. Til,—Lieut Chatlcs W Payne. Officer-in-ctaarg« of the( Fleet Home Town Distribution Celt ter. Chicago, Illinois. presented letter* of recommendation to Mur ray J Mania, Jr , seaman, fust class. 216 Coulter Street and Charl es W Campbell, seaman, first class .Ml North 12nd street. both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as they t were about to depart for duty in j the South Pacific area These Blue jacket newsmen are two of the first five Negroes to be assigned is fleet correspondents under the i-’V'y’s new program of furnishing inter esting news sidelights to the home town newspapers of Navy men serv ing in the Pacific battle /ones Campbell and Marvin worked in the Public Relations Office it 'treat Rakes and were more recently at tached to the Fleet Home Town Distribution Center in Chicago “KEEP ABREAST OF THE TIME”... Subscribe Today for The Greater OMAHA GUIDE GETS LICENSE FOR LIQUOR SALES.. :BSE" 1 U&fi ' 7 MR. MILTON E. JOHNSON President Truman Confers with Walter White Washington. DC.—In a half hour conference with President Truman. Walter White, executive secretary NAACP. vigorously pro tested the action of the American delegation at the San Francisco Confernece in its siding with Great Britain and France against event ual independence for colonials and dependent peoples, as originally proposed by China and Russia Mr.• White told President Truman it was imperative that the United States modify its position and if possible change !t altogether. On the question of minority rights and Federal legislation. Mr. White reported the President much interested in the FEPC bill. Other matters discussed included the Anti Poll tax measure. Vetera.is rights and the Veterans Bureau. Toe NAACP Secretary was asked to sub mlt memorandum of his observat ions on conditions and treatment of Negro troops by Army, Navy and Marine Corps, during his recent trip to the Pacific 4 President Truman indicated a de sire for further discussion if tinse and other issues. Mr White sug gested leaders of Negro opinion be invited—if another conference is held A .4IHVIIUI P1BI.ISHKK RA\ QI ETS CHICAGO AI.PII V**—Doctor Henry Allen Boyd, in appreciation of the many social courtesies ex tended him through the years, gave a unique banquet for 175 of his fraternity brothers at the Parkway ballroom on May 18 Left to right Dr E K McDonald. Dr. James F Smith, V-president of XX Lamb da Chapter. Dr Luther S. Peck, president of the Theta XI Lambda' Foundation, Dr Boyd addressing the gathering, Paul Robeson, guest of honor. Atty. Sidney A. Jones^ Jr. toastmasteri and Dr Charles M Thompson (Atlas Newsphoto Ser vice) . Wm. Z. Foster, Labor Leader to Speak at Swedish Auditor’m ^-—--V Miss Ilena Bradley, Dr. W. W. Solomon, were crowned King Queen last Monday eve’ at the Annual St. Philip’s Corona tion Ball. t/ Council o£ Churches Join NAACP Fight for Anti-Lynch Bill Washington. D. C —The Frater nal Council of Negro Churches i« America joined the NAACP this week in pressing for signatures on i5frfcharge Petition No. 3 to bring the Powers’ Anti-Lynching Bill be fore the House. In urging congressmen to sign the petition. Dr. William H. Jerm gan. Director of the Council's Wash ington Bureau> declared: “As this war closes the Church is concerned with the possible outbreak of viol ence. The usual search for a scapegoatj identifying it with a minority group, has fostered anti Negro strikes, race riots and lynch ings. and increased the msecurity df 13 million American citizens of Negro descent. We are painfully aware of the tragic experiences which followed World War I and we would be woefully neglectful of our Christian duty if we failed to point up the need for adequate gov ernmental machinery to prevent such a recurrence following World War III The Anti-Lynching Discharge Petition has 87 signatures Reverend Jernigan said that it was the Christian duty of every | FRIDAY, Jl'\E STH—8 P. M. William Z Foster, one of Amer 1 ica's outstanding labor leaders will ; speak at the Swedish Auditorium, 1809 Chicago street, Omaha, Nebras ka, on Friday. June 8th at 8 pm . on the occasion of his 50th anni versary in the labor movement. Mr. Foster’s topic will be thej “Xgw Labor Charter", and “Prob lems Facing the People in Connec tion with the San Francisco Con ference” and the building unity and a world security organization. Mr Foster is known to the peo ple of Omaha having spoken here on numerous occasions :n connec tion with the organization of the workers into trade unions For the past ten years Mr. Foster lias devoted his activities to work ers# education. He has written hundreds of articles and pamphlets which have served as a guide to understanding what active steps should be taken in a given situation. .His books have been used in con nection with classes Mr. Foster is also the author of many books More recent books are "From Bry an to Stalin” and an autobiography “Pages From A Worker’s Life." Mr. Foster was one of the lead ers in the drive to organize the stockyard workers after the first world war. He was responsible to the A. F of L in 1919 for the great drive to organize the steel workers of the United States along the lines of industrial unionism Mr Foster is one of the Vice Presidents of the Communist Polit ical Association under whose aus pices the Omaha meeting will be held I I Negro church and church-goer in ! America to make a titantic effort to push this bill through Congress lilBERATED AMERICAN SOLD- Aboard the vessels are American IER.S New \ ork ( Soundphoto) — soldiers who were liberated from A convoy of four ships—first to German prisoner of war camps^ leave Europe since \-E day car- several hundred wounded soldiers, rying a total of 4.3S1 army passen- as w'ell as contingent of returning gers arrived in New York last week troops for fotational furlough or PETITIONS COLONIALS EQUALITY STATUS URGES SELF GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES San Francisco—The NAACP vig orously protested action of the A merican delegation in voting with Britain and France, two largest colonial powers, against China and Russia who proposed not only self government but independence be assured in the charter of interna tional organization, to all colonial and dependent peoples. The Chin ese proposal further provided for punitive action against any nation branches and others joined in this proposal and the latest report ;s that the American delegation is at tempting to work out a compro mise . Additional action by XAACP con sultants Walter White, Dr. W. E. B DuBois and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune included the circularizing of an appeal to the American dele gation petitioning it "in the name of 13 million Americans, tlood bro thers of many millions of colon ists: “FIRST, to make a i ieliminary , statement on the essential equality ' of all races, the same statement which the United States and (Jreat Britain once refused to grant Jap an; and identical with the suppres sed proposal of the Chinese delega tion at Dumbarton Oaks; and that “SECONDLY, the United States delegation propose this article for the Charter of the United Nations; The colonial system of government however deeply rooted in history ! and custom, is today undemocratic, 'socially dangerous and a main cause of wars. The United Na tions recognizing democracy as the only just way of life for all peoples make it a first statute of interna tional law that at the earliest pos sible moment no nation or group shall be deprived of effective voice I in its own government and enjoy ment of the four freedoms. An in ternational colonial commission on which colonial peoples shall have representation will have power to investigate the facts and imple ment this declaration under the Se curity Council ” i In preface to the plea tor specif ic provision for the 750 million col onies, in an Internation Bill .if Rights. Dr. DuBois challenged the wisdom of the 3 great rations in • ignoring those peoples whose ex ploitation “has been a prime cause of war, turmoil and suffering for 3 centuries”. He declared "we ail know' that the opposition of Great Britain to any International action on the colonial problem has made the United States refrain from this step and make no allusion to the festering problems of India, of the Netherlands, Indies and of West and South Africa. “But is this wise—not only for our own sakes but for the future ot the people of Britain, many of whom have denounced the colonial system? We have allowed oursel ves in this conference to be estrang ed from Russia by the plight of a dozen reactionary and jew-baiting Polish landlords, and have made no comment and taken no action on the great words spoken by Molo tov: ‘We must first of all see to t that dependent countries are en abled as soon as possible to take the path of national independ ence.’ ” Dr DuBois further pointed out that "the omission of specific ref erence to these peoples is almost i advertisenemt of their tacit exclu [ sion as not citizens of lrte states I and that their w'elfare and freedom would be considered only at the will of the countries owning them and not at the demand of enlight ened world public opinion.” Druggist’s Wife Dies MRS. BESSIE E. ROSS SUCCUMBS. Mrs Bessie E. Ross, the wife ol I Doctor Thomas C. Ross, who form-! erly lived in Omaha and operated the Ross Drug Store, and who now resides at 2125 6th avenue, Council Bluffs. Iowa, died Thursday at 2 p m , May 28th at her home Mrs. Ross was 56 years old She was born in Hannibal, Mo. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband. Thomas Ross, Sr , a son Thomas Ross. Jr., 2 daughters Mrs. Margie Williams and Miss Anna Mae Ross, who is a student at Creigtiton Uni verity, studying for pharmacy in her Junior year, two grandsons, Robert George Brown, Joseph Dav id Brown, a sister, Mrs. Fannie, Green, a brother A. Lagon Shep herd, all in Omaha, except Thomas Jr , who is in England. Funeral was held at Lewis Funer al Home in the Chapel at 2 p m . Thursday, burial at Forest Lawn cemetery. reassignment. *»hotw sviows view of one of the loaded troopships, decks crowded with returning Yanks, as volunteer Red Cross Can teen girl wave greetings from the “Welcome Home' boat which -met the troopships down the bay Congressman William L. Dawson and Bishop R.fiims 1C ilberforce Commencement Speakers President Charles H Wesley an nounced that the 1945 Commence ment speakers at Wilberforce Uni versity include Congressmas Will, iam L Dawson, a graduate of Fisk University. Magna Cum I aude. the Chicago Kent College of Law and Northwestern University School of Law Congressman Dawson was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1920 lias served as Aledrman is the city of Chicago; First Lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Forces. United States Army. 1917-1919; and has been a member of the Seventy eighth Congress since 1943 Con gressman Dawson will deliver the Commencement Address on une 14 1945 Bishop David H Sims, of the 1st Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a grad, uate of Georgia State College, Ober lin. the University of Chicago and Yale university; a former dean of Morris Brown University and Allen University asd President of Allen University at the time of his elec tion to the Bishopric, will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon on Sun day morning, June 10, 1945 These two speakers are looked forward to with great interest and expectation by the Graduating class of 1945, the Alumni and those inter, eeted in education It is believed that these addresses will sound new notes in the Education of the Ne gro Other speaker* include Dr Leon idas H Berry, distinguished spec ialist in internal medicine, a grad uate of Wilberforce. the Rush Medi_ cal school the University of Chicago and specialist in research m Chicago Medical Research Centers, who will deliver the address to the Alumni of the University on June 13, 1945 Mr Tanner Duckery. Assistant to the Board of Superintendents, board of Public Education. Philadelphia, Pennslyvania, will deliver the ad dress to the Wilberforce University Laboratory High School on June 11, 1945 Fort Huachuca "Sweetheart” Miss ‘Dot” Davis of El Paso, Texas, lias been sel ected by soldiers at Fort Huachuca as their favorite. Miss Davis is now attending school at Hilliston Col lege, Austin, Texas. A AAA A a 'THE LIVING SOUTH (HY HAROI.lt PREECE) (Copyright, 1945, by New South Features) HAROLD PREECE * Ed West, who works in the coal mines, wag telling me the other day that one reason Dixie practices so much discrimination is that Dixie has been discriminated against so much herself “Now, you understand. Harold " said Ed West, "that I’m not making out cases for all that bunch of two legged buzzards which go around eating out the insides of colored people I’d like to wall ’em up all inside that truck mine where I dig coal and then light a match to a smidgeon of black powder and blow ’em skyways to hell. I figure that colored people and all kinds of peo ple have the right to the same chance because the same Lord made all of us with the same mouths that's gotta be fed. “But I reckon the trouble is that all of us white and colored, live behind the same vails that they call discrimination so that we’ve been shut out from the rest of these here United States Them walls are so derned high that we can’t look over ’em very far and see what’s hurting us. So we just naturally take it out on each other.” Now. brothers, 1 kept studying a. bout those walls of discrimination which have shut us all up until long after Ed West had left because hi3 wife had told him to get home early for supper And while I was studying the news broke over my radio that the Isterstate Comm ?rce Commission had knocked one of those cussed walls into a dirt pile that a one-eyed cockroach wouldn’t dig a hole in . VKXAU AT THE BAT The interstate commerce commis sion plumb played hell with what was called "Discriminatory freight rates” and it was the South's num ber 1 progressive leader. Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia, who raised cain with tehm until the commis. sion got busy and did something AVhic hmakes me feel mighty prou.l \ because it shows that Dixie is start- I ing hammering at these walls from the inside at the same time that good friends up North are ham mering at them from the outside. No, I figure that Old Jim Crow got his tail feathers blown skyways j when the Interstate commerce com mission handed down that decision I agree with Brother Osceola Me. Kaine, who helps get out that cour ageous paper, the Columbia, S C. Lighthouse and Informer, that the best way to run old Jim off his nest in Dixie is to build a Dixie where all our folks have something to do and something to take home to their families on Saturday night Professors like my friend. Dr Charles S ohnson. of Fisk, call that “attacking discrimination at the job level " They say that when people work together, form unions together, and realize that they have common economic interests, that there's much less danger of some body getting mad because somebody of a different color accidentally steps on his toe NET’ JOBS FOn NEW DIXIE T‘l, this decision means that we car ~e thousands of new factor w w New Cabinet Members ■au JUDGE LOUIS SCH WELLEISBACII Washington, DC., (Soundphoto — Judge Louis Schwellenbach of Spo kane, Washington, an intimate friend of President Harry Truman, pictured here has been named to succeed Mme. Frances Perkins as Secretary, of .Labor. ■33 ASSISTANT ATTORNEY TOM C. CLARK,—Washington, I) C Sound photo-This is a recent photo of Assistant Attorney General Tom C Clark who was named by President Truman to succeed Attorney Gen eral Francis Biddle, who resigned last week. HKP. CLINTON P. ANDERSON — Rep Clinton P. Anderson (D) of New Mexic'o has been named by President Truman to replace Claude Wickard as Secretary of Agricult ure Wickard is slated to be Rur al Electifii atio i v dm in infra tor ies with thousands of new jobs for the people of both colors in a new Dixie It means that we can have | factories and that we can have jobs because Southern industries can now compete on an equal basis with Industries in the North without hav ing to pay Jim Crow rates to ship out their goods I reckon that's going to make the j South forget the Civil War and that i Is going to make the South take ! Old Jim Crow out and wring hi.s ! neck along with the last kluxer and the last bilbo. I reckon that Ed West is finding out that the Lord meant him to be a man and not a bilbo Old Time Omaha Resident, Dies j Mr Charles Dickerson died Sun day evening, May 27, 1045 at his homej 2814 Ohio street Cause ot death, high blood pressure He leaves to mourn his loss, son Char les Dickerson, J' t two daughters, Mrs Leroy Wright and Mrs Rob ert Myers, and 3 grandchildren Mr Dickerson was employed at the Omaha National Bank for 31 years He was a lay reader at St Philips Church Funeral was held Thursday morning at 10 a m. Burial at Forest Lawn cemetery. Hal