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.— ----( olonel B. 0. Davis, Jr. Assumes Command of 477th Composite Group
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The War Department has an
nounced the assignment of Colonel
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., former com
manding officer of the 332nd Fighter
Croup in Italy, as commanding offi
cer of the 477tn Composite Group,
formerly the 447th Bombardment
Group (Madium), at Godman Field,
Kentucky. Photo at left is of Lieu
tenant General Ira E. Eaker, Acting
Commanding General, Army Air
Forces, who announced the change
in command of the 477th on June 21
in ceremonies held, at Godman Field.
Former Commanding General of the
Allied Air Forces in the Mediter- j
ranean Theater, where the 332nd
Fighter Group fought with distinc
tion as a part of the 15th Air Force,
General Eaker is a former com
mander of the Eighth Air Force. Cen
ter photo is of Colonel Davis, new
32-year-old commander of the 477th,
I who was graduated from West Point
in 1936. At right is Mr. Truman K.
Gibson, Jr., Civilian Aide to the Sec
retary of War, who was largely in
strumental in effecting the change.
POLICE HOLD WOMAN ~~
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AFTER MATE STABBED
Martha Lavina Boyd, of 1520%
North Twenty-fourth Street, is held
by police for investigation into the
alleged stabbing of her husband at
their home following an argument at
a bar Wednesday night. He was
treated at Doctors Hospital, and is to
be held for investigation by police
after his release.
London — The Army newspaper
Stars and Stripes said in a Paris dis
patch Thursday that the venereal dis
ease rate among United States Army
ground forces in the European the
ater had increased more than 300 per
cent between early April and the
week ended May 25.
The rate among Allied troops since
Y-E Day has increased by about 50
per cent, the dispatch said, and in
Germany alone, where non-fratemiza
tion has been ruled, reported cases
increased from 77 during the week
ended April 30 to 957 during the
week ended May 25.
CITIZENS PAC PLANS SPREAD
Independent of CIO. Benson Says
Washington—Elmer A. Benson, for
mer Senator and Governor of Min
nesota. announced preparations Wed
nesday for broadening the organiza
tion work of the National Citizens’
Political Action Committee.
Mr. Benson, recently chosen chair
man of the executive committee, will
devote his full time to the position
and will spend most of that time in
the field doing organization work. He
said he hoped the committee would
be dominated by fanners and busi- '
ness men.”
The objectives:
Complete and final victory, a just
and durable peace, attainment of the
late President Roosevelts economic
bill of rights, elimination of racial
discrimination, attainment of full vot
ing rights.
Mr. Benson said the organization
would be financially independent of
the CIO-PAC.
When asked whether he was sat
isfied with the record of President
Truman, Mr. Benson replied, “Yes, I
certainly am."
Faster Cooking
Home economists suggest that a
faster and less wasteful method of
cooking is: (1) read the recipe care
fully. unless you know it by heart;
(2) assemble all ingredients and
utensils needed; (3) measure care
fully; (4) mix and cook.
WILL NEGROES TRADE
WITH ANOTHER NEGRO?
Proprietor of 3 J & J Furniture Stores Says “Yes”
Mr. Andrew Johnson, proprietor of the 3 J & J
Bagain Stores, 1604-6 North 24th St. and 2405 Cum
ing, says yes, they will without a doubt. Mr. Johnson
says that if you are in business, all you need to do is
to treat every customer writh respect that he or she
deserves in a businesslike manner. Above all of course
you must carry a well stocked store and keep the dust
in the sewer where it belongs. Mr. Johnson says that j
every satisfied customer pays a large dividend. Mr.j
Johnson says you should not misrepresent your mer-,
chandise and be truthful in your statement as to qual-!
ity. Do not carry a double price system for if you doj
it will catch up with you down the line somewhere.
Mr. Johnson says he has been in the furniture busi
ness for the past six years and his first customers are
still trading with him and of course a satisfied cus
tomer is a standing advertisement. Mr. Johnson
wishes to take these means through the columns of
the Omaha Guide to thank his many good friends
and customers for their proof to him that the old say
ing “That the Negro Will Not Trade With Another:
Negro” is a false statement. This fact has been proven
to him absolutely beyond all doubt. Mr. Johnson says
you must remember there are certain business ethics
that must be reserved: Keep your stock up, keep your j
stor clean and give your customers polite and cour
teous attention with a smile always. Let every cus
tomer go out of your store in a better frame of mind
than when they entered. Mr. Johnson says this can be
done whether you agree on prices or whether you
have what they want on hand or not. Just remember
at all times to let it be known that you are indeed
thankful for their inquiry whether they buy or not
and with a persuasion attitude tell them you are go
ing to stock in your store their wants and call again.
The important thing to keep in mind is that the cus
tomer is the boss and we who are in business are just
their humble servants and are glad to be. Mr. Johnson
says that if you do business in a businesslike manner
y ou don t need to fear the old slogan “Negroes Will
Not Trade With Another Negro.” The above is a
statement of the owner of the three J & J Bargain
Stores, 1604-6 North 24th St. and 2405 Cuming St.
Mr. Andrew Johnson, Prop.
RAILWAY MAIL ASSOCIATION
LOSES FIGHT TO BAR NEGROES
Washington, D. C.—On June 19th
the Railway Mail Association lost its
fight in the U. S. Supreme Court to
bar Negroes from membership in the
Association. The Supreme Court rul
ing upheld the validity of the New
York Civil Rights law and a pre
vious ruling in July 1944 of the New
York Supreme Court that the Asso
ciation was a labor union and had
violated the State Civil Rights laws
in limiting membership to white gov
ernment postal clerks.
The NAACP filed briefs amious
curiae with both the State Court and
the U. S. Supreme Court, in which it
pointed out that the State had ample
power to pass such statutes regulating
union practices as the result of its
police power over places and activi
ties affected with the public interest.
The U. S. Supreme Court opinion
written by Justice Reed stated:
. . In their very nature racial and
religious minorities are likely to be
so small in number in any particular
industry as to be unable to form an \
effective organization for securing set
tlement of their grievances and con
sideration of their group aims with i
respect to conditions of employ- '
ment. . .
The Court further stated: “We see
no constitutional basis for the conten
tion that a State cannot protect work
ers from exclusion solely on the basis
of race, color or creed by an organi
zation, functioning under the pro
tection of the State, which holds itself
out to represent the general business
needs of employees.”
The Railway Mail Association, a I
New Hampshire corporation, limits 1
membership, by constitutional provi
sion. to any regular male railway
postal clerk or male substitute postal j
clerk of the United States Railway
Mail Service who is of the Caucasian
race or a native American Indian.”
The decision of June 18th makes un
enforceable in the State of New
York any such provision in the con
stitution and by-laws of this or an>
other organization.
ROUND-THE-WORLD
FLIGHT TO COST S700
New York—A post-war round-the
world flight for seven hundred dol
lars was offered Friday by the Pan
American Airways. It announced that |
the commercial passenger route will I
take 88 hours flying time.
DEFEAT CONGRESSMEN
AGAINST FEPC!” WALTER
WHITE URGES AT RALLY
New York—"No Congressman who
failed to sign the discharge petition
to bring FEPC to the floor of the
House for voting is worthy of re
election,” declared Walter White in
a vigorous speech Tuesday evening
at a SAVE THE FEPC rally in Town
Hall sponsored by the Council
Against Intolerance in America. “He
should be defeated and retired to
private life by the votes not only of
labor, Negroes, Jews and other mi
norities but by all decent, liberty
loving Americans who do not belong
to minorities,’ Mr. White said.
In emphasizing the fact that FEPC
may be the margin between a speedy
or long-deferred final victory. White
declared. “FEPC is not an issue af
fecting only those to whom it will
afford protection of the right to work.
General Joseph Stilwell only two
weeks ago announced that the war in
the Pacific may last another three
and a half years. President Truman,
with magnificent courage and forth
rightness, has called on the Congress
to establish a permanent FEPC be
cause we still have a long and bloody
path ahead of us which requires that
full production must be maintained |
until the war is won.”
“The Congress,” warned White,
“should not be permitted to adjourn
until it has enacted this legislation.”
White labelled the conduct and
procedure of reactionaries maneuver
ing for the defeat of the measure “a
nauseating example of legislative
trickery at its lowest.”
there is no more bewildering ex
perience one can undergo,” he said,
'“than has recently been mine—to
some back from battlefronts where I
saw men die, to find members of the
Congress viciously and dishonestly
attempting to destroy the very things
For which men fight.”
Citing the more than half million
Negroes in the Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps overseas as of April 28—
in addition to thousands more sent
over since then. White said, “I invite
you to imagine the emotions and
thoughts of these more than 700,000
Americans—as well as those members
of other minorities—when they hear
that back home the John Tabers of
New York and the Rankins of Mis
sissippi are using every trickery
known to legislative procedure to pre
serve the poll tax, to wipe out the |
OWI, to deny the right to work with- ;
out discrimination on account of race,
creed, color, or national origin.
' You can fight, work and die for
democracy,’ these American fascists
declare, ‘but you cannot vote, we will
lynch you if we choose, we will deny
you the right to obtain a home with
out segregation through the FHA,
and now you shall not even have a
job! The House Appropriations Com
mittee, obviously with tongue in
cheek, declared it would make no
appropriation for the FEPC because
legislation dealing with that agency
is pending before the Congress. The
House Rules Committee promptly re
fused a rule to permit the overwhelm
ing majority of the House of Repre
sentatives the opportunity to debate
and vote for the FEPC. As of noon
today, only 131 of the 435 members.”
In conclusion, White admonished.
Will mankind never learn the ter
rible price of hate? Norman Coun
sins, editor of the Saturday Review
of Literature, cited these appalling
figures at a meeting recently. Be
tween ninety and one hundred mil
lion persons have died to date in
World War II. This is an average of
180,000 dead for every page in Mein
Kampf. Three hundred men, women
and children have died to date for
every word in that volume of hate.
But there are still Americans who
seem to have not learned that hate
breeds hate nor that when one op
poses another human being because
of his creed or color or place of birth,
he thereby injures not only the hated
but the hater.”
Mr. White also spoke in Washing
ton Friday, June 22, at D. C. branch
l1 EPC Mass Meeting in the South
Interior Auditorium.
The decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the
case of Harry Bridges is a victory for
the principle of free collective bar-'
gaining,” CIO President Philip Mur
ray said today.
“Harry Bridges is the elected officer
of a responsible union of the CIO.
As such, he was chosen by the mem
bers of his union to represent them
in their dealings with their employers.
“The decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States thus up
holds the right of free people in this
country to choose their own collec
tive bargaining agents without fear
of interference from any source.”
Toagh Popcorn
If popped corn becomes tough,
heating it thoroughly will restore its
crispness.
MRS. GERTRUDE £.
AYER
or Aft IN YOOK
The first and only negro
PRINCIPAL IN NEWYORKCITYS
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.STARTED
HER TEACHING CAREER IN 1905.
IN 1935SHE WAS APPOINTED
ASSISTANT-IN-CHARGE OF RS.24
AND IN 1936 APPOINTED PRINCIPAL.
MRS. AYER HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING
IN PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION.
SHE ATTENDED HUNTER COLLEGE
AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
[wr.i.TMPiTp rrn
NEGRO TO I
SERVICE CROSS.'
CAPT. THOMAS (THEN A
LIEUTENANT) LED A COLUMN
OF TANK DESTROYERS IN A
BREAK-THROUGH OF THE
SlEGRIED LINE,AND THOUGH
SEVERELY WOUNDED REFUSED
TO LEAVE H15 MEN UNTIL
THE SITUATION WAS
WELL IKI HAND.
or oeriHur
INDEPENDENCE DAY
By H. W. Smith
nflfpHMn.1” the approach of July 4th that origi
fho^ht t t tdelph,a m 1776 and we should lend a
honnfaV w® tlme out and celebrate and do high
pwhat was accomplished from the activities
Hvil Waf m1 wary War’ the Mexican War, the
Civil War orld War numbers one and two and the
UniteH ^t"aVT16rI'Ca 11 War now in P^gress. With the
United States of America and the very brave soldiers
sailors, marines, aviators and the WAC’s, doctors’
forvLnnd the,Rfd .Cross risking their lives hoping
sohlil? and af llmn poace that we may find our
aV iltHv tnCt?Ur'Cndly ™ood- Fe€li"K tha‘ «e are
vv iilbfrt\n°Ti^ak^ a part ln a Peace on Earth, Good
Sr ^J iff, at"k!"d,-. Popin« that a" Nations use
their best efforts to bring about good fellowshin as
c'raMvipTf if J?rant and his Army closed in on Gen
r Richmond, Va., and on the Fourth of July,
1866 and General Lee surrendered and General Grant
had eliminated the Confederate Army And at III
Umes let all of us have serious thoughk of the preset
LT G,je way to thlnk vl>r> kindly of all the soldiers
that made so many sacrifices, went to the front and
battle^ronff1 h* •**£A*11*1* and were left on the
^ be picked UP and laid in a basket and
deposrted in the earth and a white board at the head
and dear motlier, wife, sister and brother are advised
that h M?,ed on the battlefield and let us all hope thSe
th3t wd! return will be given the same opportunity as
all American citizens at all times. y
i I B£LI(iN GRANT TO BRITISH URGED
London Dog Races Bets Hit U
. . _ $100,000,000 in the 1st Quarter
who Gitrthrc.™™s„rs.fou,d D°what?
LONDON DOG BETS 3
Mil 9100,000,000
London—Despite a 50 per cent re
duction in the number of meetings
permitted, more than 100 million dol
lars was put through the mutuel ma
chines at London s 13 dog racing
tracks in 1944.
The Church’s Committee on gam
bling has asked parliamentary candi
dates whether they would "support
measures to curtail facilities for bet
ting at popular sports and eliminate
all inducements to gamble.”
U. S. WAR CASUALTIES
Army Navy Total
Killed 187,369 44,769 232,138
Wounded 558,611 57,402 616,013
Missing 42,710 10,736 53,446,
Prisoners 111,262 4,238 115,500
Totals 899,952 117,145 1,017,097
The casualties figures tabulated
here were released Thursday by Sec
retary of War Stimson. They show an
increase of 5,048 over figures released
last week. The increase, one of the
smallest in months, apparently re
flects the end of fighting in Europe.
American losses due to ship sink
ings reached 3,604 in 41 months of
war.
ANOTHER TANK CLASS
IS PLANNED FOR CIRLS
Another beginners’ swimming class
for girls 9 to 14 will start at the Jew
ish Community Center Friday at
noon.
The class will meet every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday from 12 to 1
p. m.
CARTER LAKE YIELDS
YEAR’S TOP CATFISH
K. N. White hauled “the biggest
catfish caught this year” from Carter
Lake Wednesday. White’s prize
weighed 20 pounds and was 30
inches long.
TO BRITISH URGED
Washington-A New York Federal
Reserve Bank officer Thursday rec
ommended that the United Slates
give Great Britain three billion dol
lars to stabilize her economy.
The recommendation was made to
the Senate Banking and Currency
Committee by John H. Williams, the
bank’s vice-president and Harvard
University professor of economics.
NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
FISHING IS IMPROVED
Fishing is good in northeast Ne
braska, according to the chart of the
State Game Commission. The report
shows good for bluegills, crappie,
bass and carp; fair for bullheads, cat
fish and perch.
Fishing is reported especially good
Crystal Lake, fair in the Elkhom
River and on Logan ditch, and good
in the Missouri River.
Home Grown Sugar
Council Bluffs, la.: If you have
garden space, why go too short on
sugar? Having been a farmer in the
Middle West most of my life I think
I can conscientiously offer the fol
lowing suggestion: I have raised
sugar beets as large as your head
many times in my garden. The beets
are full of juice containing mostly
sugar and water. If topped and
cleaned, the juice can be squeezed
out in a cider press, or possibly, if
cut into 'strips, they can be put
through a clothes wringer. I know
that an ordinary food chopper would
squeeze out the juice. Then the juice
could be boiled down into a simple
sugar svrup the same as maple sap,
which would take the place of sugar
anywhere.
THINK A. LITTLE
Robber Scraper
A rubber plate scraper will re
move bread or cake batter from a
bowl more easily than is possible
when a spoon is used.