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PHILADELPHIA, PA.—When Stuart F. Louchheim, Philadelphia
eivic leader, presented Frank Sinatra with this Zenith Clipper port
able radio at a musical conference here, the famous swooner had a
facline akin to that he irives his fans. Radios of any sort arc hard
*“ —* *1-——but this part'Jar model has been in particular
She Was Crowns
As Miss America
MISS ALESTA CAREY
The Sunshine Charity Club of St.
1 John Church presented an unusual
1 affair June 29, a Pageant of Beauty
• depietinjT"th«r",fortyHeiglir"states with
| their product carried by lovely young
ladies, the Misses Mickey Jean Har
ris, Barbara Waldron, Nadine and
Charlotte Manley, Patricia Sims, Iola
Holliday, Miss Macey and represen
tatives from neighbor churches. The
climaxing feature the crowning of
Miss America of St. John church,
who was Miss Aleste Caray, -daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Carey with a sum of
| $91.00. Second place was coveted by
Miss Mickey Jean Harris and third
place honors were bestowed on Miss
Thomas, under direction of the va
rious Miss Helen Daugherty of Chi
cago, 111.
1 THE MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND
LODGE
Of Nebraska and Masonic Jurisdic
tion.
Prime Hall Affiliation
Will hold its 27th annual Grand
Session at Masonic Temple, 26th and
and Blondo St., July 18th and 19th,
in Omaha, Nebraska, as guests of the
six United Lodges of Omaha.
First District
Rough Ashler, No. 1; Excelsior,
No. 2; Lebanon, No. 3; Resene, No.
4; Omaha, No. 9; Hiram, No. 10; Nat
Heunter, No. 12.
General Comimttee
Leon Burden, chairman; S. W.
Waites, secretary; finance, R. C. Ste
art; publicity, Maynard Wilson; Clay
ton P. Lewis, M. W. G. Master; J.
W. Dacus, Rt. W. G. Deputy; Rob
ert Harris, Rt. W. G. Secretary; J. T.
Scott, Rt. W. G. Treasurer.
MARINE HA SCLOSE SHAVE
Okinawa (Soundphoto)—M a r i n e
Corporal Glenn H. Tanner, Jr., of
Cleveland, Tex., receives a shave
from Nishi Nobuyuki, Jap prisoner of
war on Okinawa. Nobuyuki had been
the barber for enemy naval construc
tion battalion, somewhat comparable
to an American Seabec unit.
REDUCING JAPAN
Battle lines showing the progress
of armed forces are well known to
those who follow the war maps,
but here is the “battle line of the
B-29’s,” showing the Tokyo-Yoko
hama target area, which has been
so devastated by Superfortresses that
both cities have been “eliminated as
primary objectives” of strategic air
power.
There will be a Christian Leader
ship Training Institute to be con
ducted here by the department of
Christian education of Sunday School
Public Board of the Baptist Council.
Dr. Chas. L. Dunkins, under the aus
pices of Neweanna B. T. U. Congress
of Nebraska will be held at the Zion
Baptist church. July 24th to 27th.
Wind Tunnel
A wind tunnel able to generate
winds of more than 600 m.p.h. at 67
below-zero temperatures will test
models of bombers and fighter
planes at Wright Field.
Dies in Captivity
A picturesque legend revolves
about the Guatemalan quetzal. The
quetzal, an almost extinct bird, sym
bolizes the fierce Guatemalan love
of freedom in that it quickly dies in
captivity.
NEW YORK PORT OF EMBARKATION, Camp Shanks, N. Y.-Happy members of the crack
365th Engineer General Service Regiment wave a joyous greeting on arrival at Camp Shanks from
the European Theater of Operations. The redeployed veterans gained wide recognition for their
operation of the Red Ball Highway, main supply artery from the Normandy beaches to beyond Paris.
(U. S. Army Signal Corps photo from Bureau of Public Relations.)
Newer Saw a
Movies
BURKE NEVER SAW A MOVIE
And he might like to know that
a just and effective method for in
dicting a whole peoole has been
found. The two Army films, “German
Atrocities Unexpurgated,” and “Your
Job in Germany” were shown to a
selected audience of five hundred af
the Museum of Modem Art (invited
by the Writers’ War Board) on May
28, 1945. In St. Louis over 80 thou
sand people sa wthem in a series
at showings arranged by the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. Newspapers in
177 towns and cities were requested
by the Writers’ War Board and 15
of the editors who went overseas re
cently to see concentration camps, to
arrange for showings in their com
munities, and the response has been
far beyond expectations. A request
to use the films from any individual,
group or local theater, should be
sent to the Bureau of Public Rela
tions, War Department, Washington,
D. C.
THE NAVY NEEDS MORE
HOSPITAL CORPS WAVES
Here’s one into which you can get
your teeth. The backwash of the
intensified war in the Pacific and
the ever-mounting Naval casualties—
the result of Jap suicide attacks and
expanding invasion—has left the
Navy desperately in need of 10,000
Hospital Corps WAVES. There are
now more than 13.000 Hospital Corps
V A\ ES on duty whose performance
has been outstanding. New recruiting
must proceed at the rate of no less
than a thousand a month for the next
10 months if Navy wounded are to
have tlie attention and treatment they
deserve.
Turn your pen to telling the story
of this need for women in this blue
ribbon service to be trained in every'
detail of functional hospital work in
cluding bacteriology, hygiene, labora
tory work, texicology, dietetics, first
aid, minor surgery, pharmacy, chem
istry. fever therapy, neuro-psychiatry,
records, administration, etc. Oui
greatest Pacific battles lie ahead.
V omen can help to win them.
Overcrowding Chickens
One of the outstanding faults in
brooding chicks is overcrowding.
Not over two chicks should be start
ed for each square foot of floor
space.
Lucky Mother,
WEBSTER CITY, IOWA—Mrs
Sterling McKee, first housewife ir.
America to receive a brand-new
“reconversion” washing machine
Wife of an Army captain now ir
Germany with the Combat Engi
neers, she and 16 months old
daughter Beth, inspect the firsl
washer to come off the productior
line here, as manufacture of elec
trie washers was resumed July 1
under WPB’s limited phoductior
release. Production of civilian elec
tric washers stopped May 15, 1942
Mrs. McKee placed her washer or
der with her local Gamble store
manager before Baby Beth wai
born.
the poll tax minority of national
Action: (1) Wire Senate Majority
Leader Alben W. Barkley and Sen
ate Minority- Leader Wallace H.
White, Jr., Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. C. Insist to each that
he rally his party enators to see that
the full appropriation request for
I' EPC, 599,000 is voted in the War
Agencies Appropriation Bill, without
any further delay.
(2) Write House Majority Leader
John W. McCormack and House
Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin,
Jr., House Office Bldg., Washington,
D. C., insisting that they rally their
members to guarantee that, after the
Senate has taken action on the War
Agencies Appropriation Bill, the
House also vote the FEPC its appro
priation.
(3) Write vour own two Senators
and Representatives. Tell each yoi
expect him to stay in Washington tc
fight and vote for FEPC; absenteeisn'
is a great danger and must not bt
tolerated.
taxers and their allies, certain mem
bers of the Republican Party, have
succeeded in waging their bitterest
and most successful fight in four
years on the FEPC. While keeping
legislation for a permanent FEPC
bottled up in committee, they have
lsed every parliamentary device since
fune lto keep the FEPC appropri
ation request from coming to a roll
call vote in Congress. Their reckless
campaign on this war agency which
President Truman clearly termed
essential to the war effort, leaves
over a dozen war agencies, more than
a week after the end of the fiscal
year, June 30, without funds.
Beginning June 1 FEPC’s enemies
got the House Appropriations Com
mittee to omit the Bureau of the
Budget’s request for 599 thousand
Jollars for the present, temporary
,FEPC from the War Agencies Appro
priation Bill. They have succeeded
through controlling major committees,
through much absenteeism among
friends of FEPC, and through the
intricate use of parliamentary ma
neuvers in juggling the bill back and
forth from one house to another,
obviously hoping to wear out the
supporters of FEPC in and out of
Congress. Killed in the House, the
Senate Appropriations Committee by
i 14-4 vote recommended $446,200
cor FEPC. Senator Theo.Bilbo and
las. O. Eastland, both of Mississippi,
conducted a shameful four-day fili
buster (June 27-30) on FEPC. Their
speeches, full of slanders against
Jews, Negroes, trade unions and pop
ular organizations, can only be char
acterized as fascist. On June 30 they
finally agreed to a “compromise” to
give FEPC $250,000 for the year.
Present Status: With most special
war agencies beginning the fiscal |
year July 1 without funds, enemies
of FEPC engineered the death of the
Senate version of the War Agencies
Bill—in order to keep the Ffouse
from having a chance to vote on the
FEPC. They wrote a “new' bill”—
without any provision for FEPC. On
lulv 5 this bill was passed in the
House—but without any provision for
some 11 agencies all, like FEPC, ex
ecutive-created. These include the
War Production Board and OWI.
It is now up to the Senate Ap
propriations Committee to put these
[hack in the bill, including the origi
jnal request for FEPC of $599,000.
[Any further delay in giving funds to
j^hese agencies, or any attempt to
■put all back except FEPC, will con
Istitute the most dangerous tampering
Jwith the war effort, and dictation by
ent, who is opposing Prime Minister OPPOSES PRIME MINISTER
Churchill in the Woodford Division. CHURCHILL IN ELECTION
for a sat in the Commons, is shown London, England Soundphoto)
with his wife. Mr. Alexander Hancock, Independ
men at the court-martial and was j
assisted by Lieuts. Edward K. Nich
ols, Jr., and William F. Coleman,
Jr., military defense counsel.
The officers were charged with
violating the 64tb Article of War in
their refusal to obey the order of a
superior officer and with jostling an
officer when they were told not to
enter a club set aside for the use of
whites. Violation of the 68th Article
of War was also charged.
The men were originally confined
with 98 others at Freeman Field in
Indiana. Release of the latter group,
however, was brought about after
investigation was made and vigorous
protests were sent to the War' De
partment by the NAACP and other
groups.
Floridia Court
Revokes Death!
Sentence
FLORIDA COURT REVOKES •
NEGRO’S DEATH SENTENCE |
Tallahassee, Fla.—The State Su- |
preme Court returned a decision to
day reversing the death sentence im
posed on Simon Peter Taylor, con
victed in the killing of Deputy Sher
iff Robert Max Saurez. The Circuit
Court was ordered to enter a second
degree murder conviction replacing
that of first degree.
The case was defended by both
the Tampa Branch of the NAACP and
the National Office, who secured the
services of Attorneys Scofield and
Scofield, of Inverness, Fla., to rep
resent Taylor.
Taylor was convicted following an
altercation with the deputy sheriff
in September of last year. The sher
iff, in attempting to serve an illegal
writ upon Taylor as a result of a
furniture bill owed by the defend
ant, began a brutal attack resulting
in Taylor's being shot through the
army by the deputy sheriff. In the
following tussle the deputy sheriff
was shot to death.
In setting aside the death sentence!
the court stated; “The essential ele
ment of premeditation was absent,
hence there could be no finding of
murder in the first degree. We are
satisfied that the homicide was un
lawful; that the exidence xxas suffi
cient to justify a conviction of mur
der in the second degree.’’
Law Maker '
Promise Naccp
a full Employ
ment
SENATE ACTION NEEDED
IN APPROPRIATION FIGHT
Nebraska Need!
AMVA
REGIONAL MVA COMMITTEE
Dr. Sherman D. Scruggs, president
of Lincoln University, Jefferson City,
Mo., urged support for the proposed
Missouri Valley Authority in an ad
dress at the Urban League Com
munity Center here July 6.
He said that the establishment of
an MVA through enactment of the
Murray bill pending in Congress
would mean broader economic oppor
tunities for Negroes and would lessen
job discrimination.
Here for a regional conference on
MVA, Dr. Scruggs was prominent inj
conference proceedings as secretary
of the resolutions committee.
In one resolution the conference
called for a mass petition campaign
to secure one million signatures of
Missouri Valley citizens in support
ot an MV A. Citig Article 58 of the |
San Francisco Charter, the conference j
said that “application of those high
principles to America means the pas
sage of such legislation as the Mis
souri Valley Authority Bill.”
Article 58 pledges “universal re
spece for and observance of human
rights and fundamental freedoms for
all without distinctions as to race,
sex, language or religion.” It also
calls for “higher standards of living,
full employment and conditions of
economic and social progress and
development; solutions of interna-'
tional culture and educational co-'
operation.”
Two films, “The River” and “TVA”!
were shown at the meeting at Urban
League Community Center.
Naacp Win Ac
quaittalforTwo
477 officers
NAACP WINS ACQUITTAL
FOR TWO 477TH OFFICERS
HELD SINCE APRIL
Godman Field, Ky.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People won acquittal this
week for Lieuts. Marsden Thompson
and Shirley B. Clinton, two of the
three Negro officers of the 477th
Bombardment Group held since early
spring for entering a white officers’
club at Freeman Field, in Seymour,
Ind. At a subsequent hearing, Lieut.
Roger Terry, the third defendant,
was found guilty of “offering vio
lence to a military police officer
and fined $150. Other charges of
disobedience were dismissed.
At the request of Judge William
H. Hastio, chairmanof the NAACP
legal committee, Attorney Theodore
M. Berry, president of the Cincin- j
nati branch, NAACP represented the
WINS $1,600 SCHOLARSHIPS
Winners of two $1,600 college
scholarships, Cynthia M. Smith,
Olympia, Wash., and Robert Strand,
West Allis, Wis., were honored at
a dinner in Chicago recently by the
United Christian Youth Movement
representing 10 million Protestant
youths in the United States and
Canada. Donor of the Parshad schol
arship awards, Mr. Alfred A. Avery
(right) prominent Methodist of Cam
bridge, Mass., praised young people
who won in nationwide contests
competing with representatives from
26 states.
Approving these awards as part of
the observance of National Yout
Week is Dr. Roy G. Ross (secon
from right), Chicago, general sec
retary of the International Council of
Religious Education through which
the United Christian Youth Move
ment is administered. Commander
Harold E. Stassen, recent United
States delegate to the United Na
tions Conference at San Francisco,
is president of the International
Council and Janies L. Kraft; founder
of a cheese company, Chicago, is
acting president during the naval
service of Commander Stassen.
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MARSHALL AND KING ARE
WELCOMED BY GOVERNORS
Mackinac Island, Mich. (Sound
photo)—Governor Harry F. Kelly of
Michigan at left with cane, welcomes
Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. Army
Chief of Staff while Admiral Ernest
J. King, Commander in Chief of the
united states Fleet shakes the hand
of Governor Herbert B. Maw of
Utah, Conference Chairman. Their
smart-liveried hackman drives the
carriage from the hotel entrance. The
two military leaders will address a
closed session of governors.
IS THAT FAIR, WE ASK YOU
Camp Beale, Cal. (Soundphoto)—
An unhappy five hundred officers
and men of the United States Army,
after long service in North Africa
and Europe, arrived last week in
Camp Beale, Cal. Their feelings
were expressed by this sign on a
day coach in which they rode for
five days from Boston to California.
At this time he is entitled to wear
the Asiatic-Pacific medal with a com
bat star to denote battle participation
in the New Guinea campaign and the
Philippine liberation medal for his
current activities. He has also been
awarded the good conduct medal.
Corporal French attended Wau
neta High School and was graduated
in 1943, entering the Army imme
diately thereafter. Not having had
the opportunity to enter a civilian
occupation has made him eager to
see the end of the war and his re
turn to Wauneta.
Afte rseeing half the earth he says
that there is no place like Waunet.
T5 FORREST I. FRENCH
IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
With the 14th Anti-aircraft Com
mand in Luzon—Technician Fiftli
Grade Forrest I. French, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. French of Wauneta,
Neb., is serving as a fuze setter in
ananti-aircraft artillery gun battalion
under Maj. Gen. William F. Mar
quat’s Fourteenth Anti-aircraft Com
mand.
Corporal French was inducted in
June, 1943, and received his basic
training at Camp Wallace, Tex., and
additional training at Camp Stewart,
Georgia, and Camp Pickett, Virginia.
He left for foreign service in July
of 1944.