The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, July 14, 1945, Image 1
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 O o ^ ",Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC- ^ ^ ^ Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oft ice Omaha, Nebr Under Art of Saturday, July 14, 1945 ★ IOC Per Copy ★ Our 18th Year—No. 23 March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr * } J 7 UP TO YOU FROM HOW ON TELEGRAM YOUR SENATOR When Sinatra Almost Swooned We Carry a Full Line of LOCAL NEWS Omaha Guide 10c Per Copy, 3.00 Per Year 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. ‘ ,*r 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.