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Bus Driver Kill Baby
Soldier Kill Bus Driver
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KILLS BUS DRIVER
Defends Woman in Death of Baby
Shreveport, la*.—A white soldier
killed a white bus driver here last
week in defense of a Negro mother
whose crying baby had been killed
by the angry white bus driver, ac
cording to reliable local reports.
The background of the trouble
reportedly began when the Negro
mother and her child were riding
a bus enroute from Lake Charles
to this city. The baby’s constant
irritated the bus driver. He
demanded that the mother “quiet
that damn little ‘n . . . and “if
you don’t, I will.”
When the mother was unable
to stop the baby from crying, he
is reported to have gone to the
rear of the bus where the mother
and child were seated, snatched
the baby from the mother’s arms,
then choked it to death.
A white soldier on the bus
spoke in defense of the Negro
mother when he heard her pro
Two Collapse
In Basement
2 COLLAPSE, OXYGEN
EXHAUSTED BY HEATER
M rs. Ida Moore, 73, and Mrs.
Beuhle Ramsey, 35, of 2902 North
27th St., collapsed in the basement
of their home Saturday afternoon
■when oxygen in the basement was
exhausted by a gas water heater
which had been burning for some
time.
Mrs. Moore rallied sufficiently
to turn off the heater and attract
the attention of a passer-by, who
called police. The women were
given first aid by a police doctor.
THE WEEKLY
By H. W. Smith
Dudley H. McMillen was killed
when he fell from a thirty story win
dow of a hotel in Paris' 111., Wednes
day, May :sOth
President Truman went on a
crrise on the Potomac River Wednes
day, May 30th.
Master Sgt. Jesse J. Rucks of Con
way, S- C. was very much surprised
when he went to get his pay check
from the Government, it was over
thirty thousand dollars.
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Food Juice
So much good flavor and nutritive
value are carried in the juice of
foods that the good cook takes pains
to lose as little juice as possible
from all foods in preparation and in
cooking. Home economists offer
the following suggestions for saving
juices: Avoid loss of juice in pre
paring meat, poultry and fish by
never soaking in water. In cooking
meat save juice by using moderate
heat. Juice from oysters and clams
has especially fine flavor. Never
wash because this means a loss of
juice Soaking fresh vegetables,
especially after they are cut, draws
out juice that contains both food
value and flavor To save the juice
of strawberries, wash them before,
not after, hulling. Hold juicy fruits
like oranges and cnerries over a
bowl when slicing so none of the
juice will be lost as it drips.
1 homas H. Robinson, condemed
kidnaper, smiied when he heard his
execution sentence in Louisville. Ky-,
in Federal Court Tuesday, May 29th.
The International Paper Co. has
sold the Augusta, Ga.. Chornicle. It is
the last Southedn Newspaper dispos
ed of.
I Lady Astor, American born mem
ber of the British Parliment may
have another son candidate for Parli
ment.
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The Cnited States Federal Reserve
member board reported that all
checking accounts were at an all time
SANO SCULPTOR DEMONSTRATES FOR SERVICE MEN
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10H1GHT
Lorenzo Harris, a leading Negro citizen of Asbury Park, N. J„ is show
ing service men at the USO there how to model in wet sand. He
volunteers his services every Saturday evening. In the Summer, he
has a concesvon along the beach where he attracts large crowds by
his widely recognized skill in this form of art. Mr. Harris is also
Interested in politics and is currently running for local office. USO
is supported by the National War Fund.
tests. The bus driver threatened
him. The soldier is said to have
whippped out his knife, nearly
severed the bus driver’s head form
his shoulders, then drove the bus
here with the dead driver and
Negro 'baby.
Although details of the tragedy
were not published in the local
white press, residents here brand
the reports as true rather than
rumor. The principals have not
been identified.
i high Wednesday, May 30th.
Colonel James M- Mozely and his
son a Lieutenant in the United States
Army who was wounded in Germany
are both in Oriely General Hospital
in Springfield, Mo.
Thirteen hundred men from over
seas landed at Branley Field, Conn.,
by on hundred Flying Fortress libra
tor Bombers on Wednsday, May 30th.
Three young men and two girls
staged a fhke ,'shooting prank in
Pueblo, Colorado Wednesday night.
May 30th. People on the streets ran
and screamed- Armed poliie traced
the car they had to a tavern and ar
rested them.
Three brothers were killed near
Pittsburgh, Pa., when the car they
1 were riding in was struck by a train
| and caught fire, Wednesday, May 30
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The President’s wife, Mrs- Harry
Truman dented the nose of a hospital
plane while christening it with a
bottle of Champayne on Wednesday,
May 30th.
Omaha had real winter weather on
the first and second days of June.
C- S- Senate may take a recess in
July and a group of them may go
overseas to familarize themselves with
conditions in and with the European
situtation, there may be seven or ten
«« a groip.
Mrs. Alice V. Royland, State Sena
tor of Conn, hod her granddaughter,
Xancv Royland Brown in the State
House and the child broke away
from her and was sitting in the center
of tht State Senate floor amusing
herself when sshe was found.
Three brothers separated for two
years and a half met onthe Island
of Luzon and had a cheerful re
union
A sign in a drug store window in
Concord. X. H. “Wanted High
School boy for cigarette counter". Xu
yes men need applv.”
Tefferon Davis who led the cause
of the South in the Civil War will
be honored on his birthday Sunday.
June 3rd by the Southern States in
all Confederate Cemeteries.
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Most From Soap
To get full cleaning power of soap,
use just enough and dissolve it thor
oughly. Mild soap is best for ordi
nary washing; stronger soap, for
very dirty or greasy clothes.
Strong soap or chemicals are hard
on both fabrics and washer.
Soap flakes, chips, beads and
powder save time by dissolving
quickly In water, but bar soap,
shaved or grated and then made
into a soap jelly with a little boil
ing water, may be cheaper. Whisk
the water about as the soap goes in,
to dissolve it completely before the
clothes go in. This prevents soap
spots on clothes. Use just enough
soap to make suds about two inches
thick. Too much or too little soap
does not wash satisfactorily If the
suds thin out in washing, more soap
may be added.
S-Sgt L. P. Lewis
W rites From...
the PACIFIC
(by S/Sjft. Lawrence I*. Lewis
OVER SEAS NEWS
Special to The Omaha Guide
from
S-Sgt. Lawrence P. Lewis
Welcome to India American
The first week here in this part
of India was spent trying to get
a raincoat to keep the rain out,
and finding clothing thin enough
to keep us cool. That, so far, in
the months I have spent in India,
is an impossibility. Remember the
salt slogan (when it rains it pours)
—that would fit this area complete
ly. It rains for days. Sometimes
a downpour, but most of the rain
is slow, steady, and soaking. I
truthfully don’t know whether I
prefer the sun or the rain.
When the sun stays out for a
day or so, the roads are dusty and
the heat intense. You are never
comfortable, working or otherwise.
Salty sweat, running all over your
body; getting in your eyes and
mouth. You can taste the dirt and
dust, which continually clings to
your face. A shower at night may
relieve you of the dirt and dust
you have accumulated during the
day, but showers we did not have.
Helmets and shortening cans were
the best substitute. You get used
to being dirty, and you feel a little
strange when you are completely
clean.
My greatest problem was comb
ing my hair. I had it completely
cut off so I wouldn’t have to bother
with it. I was afraid to look at
myself in the mirror for days, but
it was so comfortable being with
out hair and not worrying about
brushing or combing it. I tried to
wash at least once a day; I im
agine I missed a few days. Those
days I left to the rain to clean me
off.
There is not a village in this
area which is not out of bounds
to American Troops, and when they
say out of bounds, they mean just
that. There are some small towns
where we may go to buy gifts to
send back to the states, but if you
see a woman there at nights you
will have eyes like Superman, be
cause you’ll have to look through
the walls of the huts. On market
day, which is on Sunday, you hard-1
ly ever see a woman unless it is |
at the market place. I get a big |
kick watching them; they looked!
half scared to death most of the!
time. |
With time on my hands, I be
gan writing to everybody. At least
it kept me going to mail call, and
when there wasn’t any mail for
me; the day ended in sadness. I
couldn’t understand why the people
in the states didn’t have time to
write. I was up before six, worked
most of the day in weather con
ditions that are beyond most ci- i
vilians imagination, helped build
and construct our area; yet I found
time to write my family and my
few friends. Why couldn’t they
write as I did? I don’t know the
answers, but I am sure that they
do. I do know that mail call, when
I was fortunate enough to receive
a fetter, was the happiest moment
of that day.
Most men are proud of their j
work and accomplishments. I got!
a thrill every time I came back to j
camp. The area was being clear- ;
ed. showers were being installed, J
roads were made serviceable, con-1
structing a day room, baseball
fields almost completed, and most
of all they were going to give the
camps in our area a movie. The
American Army does so much to
see that the soldiers have a chance
for a few hours of relaxation and
pleasure. They would show the
movies rain or shine, and many a
soaking I received from standing
in the rain watching a picture
show.
My hat goes off to the men who
are fighting in the Southwest Pa
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eific, the Burma jungles. I imag
ine fighting the Japs is tough
enough in good weather, but dur
ing the rainy season those jnugles
must be complete misery. It is
bad enough working in these con
ditions, as I am doing, but what
it is like, fighting and dying in
the same, only God and the men
there fighting know. My task is
easy compared to theirs, I am not
worthy in comparison.
Today, in the area in which we
live, those conditions are no more.
We have showers, electric lights,
day room, radios, inside movies,
Red Cross Clubs, a fine post ex
change, ice, candy, beer, and all
the softball and other sports we
choose to play. We have an ex
cellent hospital and good doctors,
who do everything in their power
to help us keep our good health.
Compare America, to any other
country, I can not, because there
is only One who can do more, and
that is God.
MUSE DRAMA GUILD
Muse Drama Guild
Those fortunate enough to see
the Director Ryland E. Melford,
St., cast in S. N. Behrman’s “No
Time for Comedy,” were well re
warded with fine acting by all the
group. Ernestine McKim, William
Harrison, Raymond Metoyer, Bet
ty Anderson, Geraldine McKim,
George Patterson, and Richard
Lewis, all were superb in their
interpretation of the author’s en
tertaining play.
The program pointed out that
the aim of the Guild has been to
entertain and enrich appreciation
of the drama. There is not any
question in anyone’s mind that the
Guild was successful in achieving
this.
Youth Council
Miss Doris McGill was named
chairman of a committee to plan
a hay rack ride on June 2Gth to
| be sponsored by the Council. At
the last meeting the club had a
speaker, Arthur B. McCaw, who
spoke on boy and girl relationship
and public behavior. After this,
was a question and answer period.
Tomorrow’s World
The group is preparing to give
a program on June 14th at the
Urban League auditorium, a vol
unteer show that should be both
entertaining and informative.
Visitors
The League recently had a vis
itor, Mr. George C. Wooasen, with
the Veterans Administration of
Chicago, 111. Other visitors were
Misses Willa Mae Dunn and Eve
lyn H. Edwards of Lincoln. Nebr.
Entertain Graduates
The Urban League Board of Di
rectors and staff entertained the
1945 high graduates at a banquet
[ at the League Auditorium on Fri
| day, June 8th. Mrs. Doreen Hol
liday, chairman of the Program
Committee, was in charge of the
banquet. Invitations were mailed
to Nathaniel Cook, Imogene But
ler, Easter Burnell, Ovalyn Grice,
Clyde Longmire (in the service),
Jessie Turner, and Marion Law
son, all November graduates of
Technical High School.
The other graduates who receiv
ed invitations were Katherine Tur
ner, Beulah Gibson, Jean Dearborn, |
Mary Davis, Betty Fuller, Gilda
Thomas, Anita Porter, Daniel Yan-j
cy, James Ware, Ward Triplett, j
Sam \ eland, Daisy Thomas, Louise
Godby, Ethel Andrews, Evelyn j
Rucker, Betty Cook, and Dorothy I
Lawson.
Others were Eisel Hudson, Bet
ty Macey, Vivian Turner, John
Jlarber, Aaron Dailey, Dorcus
Wright, Betty Lou Kasper, Ruby
Holts, Anna Lee Upcher, Betty
Voner, Evelyn Trigg, Doris Man
ley, Madeline Wilkes, Allyce Allen,
Von Richard Trimble, Willa Mae
Battle, Gail Warwick, Virginia
McRaven, Margaret Faison, Mar
celine Floyd, Udoxie Goodwin,
Odessie Goodwin, Raymond Met
oyer, Rose Howard, Dorothy Gray,
Frances Johnson, Robert Samuels,
Almito Holiiday, and Joe Hart
field.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
SAYS A MUST FOR
ALL AMERICANS
All Americans must receive the
best possible training “to conquer
the many tests of peace” and this
includes “the right of American
Negroes to adequate college fa
cilities to provide post-war leader
ship for their race,” General of
the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Supreme Commander of the Al
lied Expeditionary Force, said in
a letter made public today en
dorsing the current nationwide
campaign of the United Negro
College Fund.
General Eisenhower’s letter was j
sent to Thomas A. Morgan, na-1
tional chairman of the campaign j
which is now seeking $1,550,000 j
to meet the operating needs of
32 accredited private Negro col
leges. National headquarters are
at 38 East 57th Street, New York
City.
The text of the statement from
Genearl Eisenhower follows:
“The American Negro has play
ed an important part in many
tests of battle and of service in
this theatre of war. The best pos
sible training will be needed by
the American nation as a whole,
including its Negro citizens, to
conquer the many tests of peace.
■No one questions the right of
American Negroes to adequate
college facilities to provide post
war leadership for their race. Best
wishes for the success of the
United Negro College Fund 1945
campaign.”
Mr. Morgan pointed' out that
Negro servicemen voluntarily con
tributed more than $35,000 to the
P und last year, and' that prelimi
nary gifts from Negro soldiers
and sailors in this country and in
overseas theatres “indicate an even
greater participation in the 1945
appeal.”
“Obviously, the Negro service
m a n is vitally interested i n
strengthening the Negro institu
tions of higher education,” Mr.
Morgan said. “According to an
Army survey, over 30,000 Negro
enlisted men plan to return to full
time school or college upon their
discharge from the service. The
private Negro colleges must be
given every opportunity to offer
the highest type of training to
these veterans.”
* By Frantta Ainsworth pp
,
i Every woman wants her home to
i be attractively different. 1 recent
ly visited such a home as a lunch
■ eon guest. It was so wonderfully
j full of gay, colorful ideas that I
| want to tell you about it.
By the simple use of ready-1
pasted cut-outs my hostess had
transformed an otherwise ordinary
dwelling-into an attractive, radiant
home. In her kitchen she had
generously used several beautiful
flower designs sprinkled on the
cupboard doors, cannister set and
salt and pepper shakers. Instead
of tucking away her hot pads, she
| displayed them prominently with
cut-outs of gay “Berry Clusters.” ]
Flower pots on the window sill had
been brightened with small cut-i
/ outs of the “Peasant Stencil” with
a larger design on the waste
basket. *
The luncheon table was almost
(too beautiful to disturb! Clever use
I of ready-pasted cut-outs on the
napkins, place cards, wooden serv
ing trays, hot dish pads, and indi
vidual ash trays made a different
and colorful setting.
, Each room was a pleasant, gay
surprise, just bursting with life.
She showed me how easy it is for
the inexperienced home decorator
to achieve the professional touch
with ready-pasted cut-outs. They’re
inexpensive, and each one of the
j seventeen attractive patterns is
i die-cut all around. Only a moment
is required to separate the design
from the background, dip in water,
and pat in place with a clean, dry
cloth. You will find them on sale
in department, chain, drug, hard
ware or paint stores.
You’ll want to use cut-outs not
only on painted walls and furniture i
but also on the little accessories
around the house. My hostess did
and her home was attractively dif- I
ierenL
Mr. Willie Devoe of 2872 Binney !
St., has just arrived from Leaven- |
worth, Kans., where he went to
have a very bad case of asthma
treated. Mr. Devoe seems to feel
that he is improving. He says he
would feel much better if the
weather would get better.
THANK YOU
We wish to thank our many
friends for the cards, flowers, tel
egrams, and expressions of sym
pathy during our recent bereave
ment of our beloved father, Mr.
Chas. W. Dickinson, Sr.
Chas. W. Dickinson, Jr.,
Mrs. Margaret Wright,
Mrs. Mary Ellen Myers.
THE LIVING
SOUTH
(HY HAHOLD GREECE) 1
(Copyright, 1945, by New South
Features)
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THE LIVING SOUTH
Bilbo and the “Revoltuion”
By Harold Preece
(Copyright, 1945, by New South
Features.)
Now, they tell me that old Bilbo
was so crooked when he was born
that his ma had to put him inside
a milk bottle to keep him from
starving to death.
They tell me that his mouth
was so twisted that was the only
way they could get a speck of milk
down it. His mouth was twisted
when he was born, and his head
got twisted when they were rais
ing him.
He can’t think straight, and he
can’t talk straight. I’m saying,
as one white Southerner about an
other, he can’t act straight.
But even a crooked mouthed,
cuss spittin’, natural born liar like
Bilbo sometimes trips upon the
truth, even if he tries to twist it
around by calling it something
else.
I reckon he tripped up on the
truth and called' it something else
when he said in the United States
Senate, not long ago:
“If the (permanent) FEPC bill,
as drafted by Mrs. Norton of the
House of Representatives, is pass
ed and an attempt is made to en
force it in the South, there will
be a revolution.”
Now, brothers, I never expected
to find myself agreeing with Bilbo
even about the weather. But this
time I can sure say “amen” and
agree with that old Mississippi
mud hen that “there will be a rev
olution in the South” when we get
the permanent FEPC that’s going
to come in spite of brickbats and
bilbos.
Only it won’t be the kind of rev
olution that Bilbo’s shooting off
his crooked little mouth about. .
Revolution Means Change
It’s going to be a revolution,
fought not with guns but with
something that’ll make guns look
like the cap pistols that my ma
used to buy me for Christmas down
in Texas. It will be fought with
pay envelopes in the hands of our
people — every manjack of them,
white or colored, willing and able
to work. 1
One meaning of the word “revo
lution” is change. There’s going
to be a big change coming in Dixie
when Dixie has a chance to work
for first class wages and not for
second hand cornbread.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission outlawing the Southern
freight differentia! was our green
light to go ahead and build the
great new factories which will be
the signs that the revolution has
come in Dixie. The permanent
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee will be our solid guarantee
that this second revoltion of our
people will not be choked by the I
bilbos as was that first revolution
of our fathers which we call Re
construction.
FEPC Must For Dixie
Revolution means change. But
there can be no change in Dixie
without full and equal employment
for Dixie’s people of both colors.
There cannot be full and equal em
ployment without a permanent F
E P C.
So long as the South’s black mil
lions can get jobs only in the un
skilled category, just so long will
reactionary employers use those
millions desperately seeking any
jobs at any price to beat down
wages and living standards for the
South. And when wages and liv
ing standards go down in Dixie,
they go down in the rest of
America.
Just so long as we are without
a full-time, year-round FEPC,
will these same employers try to
use untrained, uneducated Negroes
from the plantations to smash the
South’s pillars of democracy —
the new unions now mobilizing the
working people of both races for
these last great battles at the
pools which will see the Bilbos
crying for the ageless rocks and
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mountains of Dixie to bide them. ’
Just so long as there is not a
permanent FEPC, the purchasing
power of the Southern people — ■
and all prosperity rests upon pur
chasing power — will be held
down. If the purchasing power of
the Southern people is kept at
the hoecake level because of un
employed Negroes on the one
hand and low paid whites on the
other, we’ll wind up in another
depression with the bilbos stag
ing the same kind of fascist rev
oltion that their ku kluxer fathers
staged in the 70’s to drive our
fathers back to the cotton patches.
But I know my people, and I
know that the fascists are doomed
in Dixie as they are doomed all
over the face of God’s good earth.
If a fascist Germany cannot ex
ist in the same world with the
great democracies of America,
Britain, and Russia, how can fas
cist Dixie continue to exist in these
states ?
I can say this, knowing my peo
ple, that millions of them want
the FEPC to be made permanent.
For when the chains are lifted
from your people who are the
black millions, they will also be
lifted from my people who are
the white millions.
TWO BOYS PLAYING TAG
WITH TWO AUTOS RUN INTO
THE LAW
Patrol Traffic Tips
From the files of the Patrol, we
find a report of an incident which
took place on the night of May
12th, in a small mid-western town.
Two boys were playing “tag” with
one another by speeding up and
down the streets of this town with
their cars. Two Safety Patrolmen
happend upon the scene and got
into the game, too.
One of the boys stopped on a
dark street. The one Patrolman
proceeded to give this boy a sum
mons into court ticket, while the
other Patrolman went on to catch
the second boy. During the time
the Patrolman was giving the first
boy a summons, another boy came
running up the street. Not seeing
the Patrolman, this boy warned
the driver to stop the tag game
as the Safety Patrol was in town.
He was very much surprised when
the Patrolman informed him that
the advice was too late.
The Patrolman’s advice is for
drivers to remember that nine out
of every ten accidents for which
the driver is to blame, result from
too much speed and carelessness.
Urban League and Y. W. C. A.
Sponsor Joint Summer Activities
for Children
Announcements have been made
by the Omaha Urban League Com
munity Center and the Northside
Branch of the Y. W. C. A. of a
Summer Activities combining the
Urban League day camp and Y. W.
C. A. Stay at Home Camp.
The summer activities will start
June 11th and run through July
13th, every day except Saturdays
| and Sundays from 9 to 12:30. The
camp is for boys and girls between
the ages of six and 13 years. There
will be games, showers, singing,
handcrafts, cooking, sewing, sports,
nature craft, folk dancing, and
dramatics. Registration will be
held at the northside Y. W. C. A.
There will be a registration fee of
25 cents.
Submarine
13 Trip
MISSED ONE SUBMARINE TRIP
IN 13 AND THAT TRIP HE FAIL
ED TO GO THE SHIP WENT
DOWN; WHOLE CREW LOST
CPO Dave Ball, formerly sta
tioned in the South Pacific in the
United States Submarine Service,
has been in Omaha for a few days
visiting his uncle, Mr. V. W. Nel
son, 3020 R Street. CPO Ball has
been in the service of the U. S.
Navy for the past nine years, six
of these being in the Submarine
Service. He is the first Negro in
the Submarine Service to receive
the Silver Star Medal for distin
guishing himself by meritorious
service as a member of the crew
during War Patrol of a vessel in
enemy controlled waters. His de
votion to duty during that patrol
especially during attacks and coun
terattacks, inspired and heartened
the officers and crew of the ves
sel and contributed greatly to the
high state of morals existing
throughout the patrol. His at
tention to duties was admired by
all hands. His conduct has dis
tinguished him among those per
forming duties of the same char
acter. He is also recipient of the
Bronze Star Medal and the Purple
Heart. CPO Ball is being recom
mended for a higher award. CPO
j Ball is passing through Omaha on
I his way home to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
The Interdenominational Sun
day School Alliance will hold their
Annual Sermon at Hillside Pres
byterian Church Sunday June 17
1945 at 3:30 P. M.