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/mimm 1¥wtotheune\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 -* ^ ^ o * Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oft ice. Omaha. Nebr., Under Act of „ , ~ Marcn 8. 1874, Publishing Offices at £420 Grant Street. Omaha. Nebr Saturday, August 18, 1945 ★ 10c Per Copy ★ Our 18th Year—No. 28 ■ . .. - — -- 1 ■ ■__ mm ^; r^SCOTT| fHE GLAMOROUS QUEEN OF 1 THE IVORIES'WHO RECENTLY S HAS GIVEN UP THE BOOGIE-WOOGIE « TO PLAY BACH-APPEARED IN 1 CARNEGIE HALL AT 16 AND HAD I HER OWN RADIO PROGRAM OVER WOR .MISS SCOTT A HIGHLY TALENTED f PIANIST ROSE FROM*65pER-WEEK \ TO$d>000 A WEEK HOLLYWOOD BIDS. o C^REsTotT"^ ,v 1 oruH«mElKy THE FIRST NEGRO I PHOTOGRAPHER TO BE RATED PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALIST IN THE NAVY. PRESTON,SpCP)2/c WAS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE LOUISVILLE DEFEND iT BEFORE JOINING THE NAVY ET> --- ! I MAJOR CLEMENT ATTLEE VICTOR . . London• England \Radiophoto — Soundphoto) Major Clement Attlee leader of Britain's Ljtbor Party, had reason for this smile as he was photographed last week following announcement of Britain s General Election returns- His party had woo 2-1 victory over Conservative Party, headed by Prim0 Minister Winston Chdrchill. If British tra dition is followed, Churchill will submit his resignation to King George, who will then request At tlee to form a new government STRIKE SHUTS DODGE PLANT IN CHICAGO Chicago, 111- Production of B2')'s engines came to a standstill last week at the Chicago Dodge plant of the Chrysler Corp. Spokesman fot the strikers said the 200 who report ed for work were advised by their foreman to leave since output was | shut down.. Photo shows speakers | between flags as they addressed some of the 10.000 strikers ---- - f ***—mm•—» ™" " ' 1 ! ~ INTO HISTORY ! - — Sensational Brother and Sister Combination - s Giving St. Louis Nitery High Class Entertainment I'—---1—— . Exclusive to Ted Yates Publications Ella Johnson and her brother Buddy (inset) are really in the groove at the Plantation Club in St Louis Missouri, where the musical aggregation is headed by Buddy with sister Ella on the vocals. A great coml bination, diversion seekers frequenting the spot rate the sister-brother team one of the nation's best. Having recorded “That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch” (Decca Records, exclusively) Ella and Buddy are set for a senes of engagements extraordinary after their Missouri date. To give you an idea of the | popularity of this great orchestra, booked for an appearance in Camden, N. J.’s Convention Hall for Labor Day—the advance sale of tickits indicates that a police line will have to be called out to keeo the bobby-SOXers in check. (Editor's note. And that's the stuff you really got to watch!) from executive division OFFICE OF POSTMASTER Dear Editor: Officers of the U. S. Navy Mail and V-Mail Service have asked us to co operate wit hthem in connection with an interesting exhibit of the U. S. Navy s Official Navy Mail Service and V-Mail Exhibit, outlined in the following story. They asked that we send the following story to you with a request that it, or as much as possible of it, be used. 1 hey also asked. that clippings of the story you carry in your publica tion be forwarded to: Ensign Charles E. Hill, U.S.N.R. O.I.C., Navy Mail and V-Mail Service Exhibit c/o General Delivery U. S. Main Post Office Omaha, Nebraska Thanking you for any assistance | ►'ou can give the Navy in this matter, 1 remain Kespecttutly yours, JOHN H. HOPKINS, Postmaster, Omaha, Nebraska, j _ I Suggested News Release How servicemen’s mail is processed or overseas shipment is being dem nstrated to residents of the Omaha rea at the U. S. Navy’s Official Navy Tail Service and V-Mail Exhibit at he J. L. Brandeis and Sons’ Store, 6th and Douglas Streets, Omaha, febraska, on the Seventh Floor, be inning July 27, 1945, through Au- [ ;ust 11, 1945, John H, Hopkins, ’ostmaster, announced. The exhibit, on national tour, shows -Mail procedure and furnishes in ormation concerning Navy mail of .11 type. Action photographs and j >osters show graphically how the savy handles mail for its personnel ill over the world. Current Navy film releases are be ng shown together with late spot lews flashes furnished by a national lews service. Arrangements have peen made to write letters at the ex libit and these letters will be dis patched immediately by the post office department to the Fleet Post Office, Chicago, for processing and overse, s transmittal. The exhibit includes processing equipment for oflding, sealing and filming of the letters. A huge map shows all Navy and Marine V-Mail stations. Ten original paintings by Lt. Craft, a Navy combat artist, are on display. The exhibit is an effort to bring about a better understanding of the Navy’s problems in transporting and delivering mail to fighting men over seas. The Omaha Guide 2418 Grant Street Omaha, Nebraska Dear Editor: As you no doubt know, the Ne braska Advisory Defense Committee has been issuing a certificate”oTrec ognition to the nearest of kin of all i Nebraska serv ice men who hav e lost ' or will rose their lives as a result of participation in World War II. We make even' eiron to obtain the | correct nae and other accurate infor- | mation on every casualty. The news-; papers in Nebraska have been an in valuable source of information for us through a clipping bureau which is maintained in the State House to which we subscribe. We find that the newspapers can >e of still further help to us if they will cooperate with us in trying to obtain the correct and latest rank of ?ach fatality. Our certificates bear the name of the senice man and we lave found that the recipients prefer that the rank also be given. We have a civilian defense chair man in even- county and they have cooperated most unselfishly with us n obtaining many details for oui permanent record on these casualties. tV’e have found that the information most often lacking is the rank, and thus it occurred to us to seek your cooperation. Assuring you of our sincere appre ciation for the service you have been igving and will continue to give, we are Very truly yours, C. H. RHOADES, Executive Secretary. values are expected to remain high but HOME CANNING will save points, and assure individual supplies of PEACHES. Remember PEACHES ARE PLEN TIFUL and prices are relatively fa vorable. URGE your customers to take advantage of this situation. In creased sales of peaches for fresh fruit and for home preservation will have the 3-fold benefit of (1) increas ing ■vour sales, (2) providing your customers with an appetizing and highly valued fmit, and (3) helping the producers market the nation’s largest peach crop. FEDERATION OF NEBRASKA RETAILERS 1025 W. O. W. Building Omaha, Nebraska Fellow Retail Grocer: We urgently appeal for your whole hearted cooperation in the sale of this vear’s large peach crop. The U. S. Department of Agriculture advises that this year’s crop is the largest on record. As you know most fruits will be in short supply so we owe it to the producers of peaches as well as to our customers to aid in this worthy campaign. Encourage your customers to use and preserve as much as possible of this fmit while it is available. This is a wonderful opportunity for the in dependent retail grocers of the State of Nebraska to demonstrate their ability to do a real cooperative job with the Department of Agriculture and the growers of this fruit. Please note carefully the material herewith enclosed, which you can use to a good advantage. Display the pos ters in prominent places in your store and discuss the information contained in the enclosed circulars with your customers. Your cooperation is greatly j appreciated. Louis Kavan, Secretary. Promotes Growth Nitrogen in fertilizer promotes growth of plant stems and leaves and too heavy applications may de- | lay maturing of the plant. Nitrogen deficiencies often are indicated by yellowing of plants’ leaves. Phos- I phorus and calcium stimulate root ] growth and affect the flowering and fruiting of the plant. Potash stiffens . plant stems and may help to make 1 plants resistant to disease. O WORKERS' SAFETY, FIRST AID OFFERED BY RED CROSS Cooperating with the Division of Labor Standards, U. S. Department of Labor, in the fourth of a series of industrial safety programs, the Amer ican Red Cross will offer first aid courses to workers of the fabricated structural steel industry during a four-month campaign beginning Au gust 1. In three previous nation-wide safety campaigns conducted by the Labor Department, first aid training has demonstrated its worth in preventing accidents as well as in preparing workers to care for themselves and others who are injured. I In 1944 approximately 6,700 work j ers, or one out of every 12, in the fabricated structural industry were in jured or killed, and 4,500,000 man hours were lost as a result of acci dents, according to the Bureau of La bor Statistics. This industry piled up one of the ten highest accident rec ords in the nation in 1944, with an j injury frequency rate of 34.7 per mil- j lion man-hours. This was 75% above the average for all manufacturing. Made up of more than 1,100 indi vidual establishments, the industry has plants in nearly every one of the 48 states with heaviest concentrations , in Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, | New York and Illinois. As in the past, 15 other national I agencies also are cooperating with the Labor Department in various phases of the safety campaign. The Red Cross contribution of first aid training will be made through local chapters, with the cooperation of the area offices, in communities where steel fabricating plants are located. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY RETURNS Mr. and Mrs. Duward R. Crooms returned to Omaha from New York | City where Mr. Crooms, Executive Secretary of the Omaha Urban League, attended the summer session of Columbia University and received training in the national office of the I Urban League. Mr. and Mrs. Crooms I report that they spent a very busy and enjoyable stay in the nation’s metropolis. CONDUCTS SEMINAR The Senior Class of Nurses at the j University of Nebraska School of | Nurses heard Mr. Arthur B. McCaw 1 of the Omaha Urban League staff on Monday, August 13, in a discussion on rape relations in the post war pe riod. — INSTITUTE FOR CUB DEN MOTHERS, COMMITTEEMEN An institute is being conducted by Mr. Frank Barris of the Boy Scout Executive Staff for Cub Den Mothers and Committeemen at the Omaha Urban League on Mondays, August 13 and 20. Registered for the course are Mr. and Mrs. Savbert Hanger, Mrs. Richard Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harrold. Mrs. Inex Hudgins, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lee, Mrs. C. L. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Solo mon, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Speese, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Van Foote, and Mrs. Cletus Willis. The Omaha Urban League is sup ported by the Community Chest. Mrs. Anderson, 1007 So. 13th St. reports that she has a new bom baby boy on the 6th of this month. The baby’s name is Michael James. The mother of the baby, Helen Session, is now doing well while the reporter was there, Mrs. Anderson came in and offered him a hot cup of coffee. Mrs. Helen Sessions is from the Ha waiian Islands. Mrs. Lillian Burk from Peoria, 111. paid us a very nice visit about three weeks ago. She stopped by on her way from Colorado and on her way home to Peoria. Mrs. Switzler of 815-5th Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa, was very busy hanging wall paper. She says she would make a great paper hanger. She also says that she likes fine things and a nice home. Mrs. Switzler says she likes to work around a home. She has some fruit left over from last year. Mrs. Lewis of 1412 So. 9th St. has a family of two. One boy and one girl. Mr. Lewis is working for the Parsons Construction Co. of Omaha, and has been working there for seven years. Mrs. Lewis stays home and takes care of the house and kids. She says she likes Omaha best, in Chicago to visit friends and rela tives. They will go to Detroit, Mich, igan. They will attend the wedding anniversary of their cousin, who has been married twenty-five years, and then go on to New York. When they return home by Sept. 1st. We wish them a happy and glorious time. SHARECROPPER ASKS $6,000 FOR BEATING BY PLANTER; HALF-BLINDNESS RESULTED HELENA, Ark. — (WDL)—Six thousand dollars in damages is being asked by Gus Mackey, 71-year-old Negro sharecropper of Whitmore, Ar kansas, and his son Leroy, from planter Jake Lewis, of Heth, Arkan sas, who is charged with a brutal at tack on them, the Workers Defense League announced. Suit was filed in the St. Francis County Circuit Court by K. T. Sut ton, of Helena, Southern Tenant Fanners Union attorney. Mr. Mackey is a member of the Union. The complaint charges that in May, Deputy Sheriff Campbell permitted Mr. Lewis to beat Mr. Mackey and his son brutally while they were un der arrest charged with stealing a harrow. After the beating, in which the aged man was knocked uncon scious, they were cleared by a con fession of two boys who admitted the theft. The complaint further charges that Mr. Mackey “sustained serious injury to his head, eyes, nerves, resulting in over 50% blindness in the right eye; that he still suffers excruciating pain as a result of said injury and will con tinue to suffer such pain and dis ability as long as he lives; that as a result of said beating, Gus Mackey, plaintiff, becomes completely blind at times and turns dizzy and would fall unless aided.” It also declares that as a result of the beating Mr. Mackey is “totally and permanently disabled.” Eleven year old Leroy Mackey was hit over the head with a fist and kicked on various parts of the body, the complaint states. Small Turkeys Some of the small-type turkeys, recently developed by the poultry scientists of the U. S. department of agriculture, are proving to be ex cellent layers. Records of the bureau of animal industry show that, during 1944. one turkey hen bred at the Beltsville (Md.) research center laid 211 eggs and another 206 eggs. Av erage turkeys normally lay from 40 to 60 eggs during the spring months and few, if any, during the remainder of the year. With Malice Toward None; with Charity' Toward All; With Firmness in the Right, as God gives us to See the Right, Let us Strive on to Finish the Work we are in; To bind up the Nation’s wounds.. .To do all which may achieve and cherish a Just and Lasting Peace among ourselves and with all nations. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865. With the superb simplicity of laug uage which marked his every public utterance, Lincoln gave voice in these few words to a war-weary na tion’s longing for peace. r Today-four score years later— we are apain seekinp to achieve this same “just and lasting peace". but on a world-wide basis- And, if we have learned anything since Lincoln* day, e shall build THIS peace less on formal treaties and more on a bcttet understanding between peo pls and nations—an understanding developed through education and trade. -Hl — One War Is Over; Another War Is In The Making World W ar 1 and 2 are over and a war looms on the horizon in the making now to the win the peace. \\ ill the United Nations win World War 3 for the peace of the world'? It remains to be seen—let us hope that they will. W oild War 1 and 2 were born out of the dark ness of ignorance. World war 3 will need more in tellectual thinking than World wars 1 and 2 had and needed. As long as a handful of human beings think in terms of taking an economic advantage of the weak we are going to continue to have and permit a soc ity that will breed more weaknesses to inhabit this planet. W eakness is part of the family of ignorance, and ignorance is the fundamental home where wars be gin. It is strange that society will continue to per mit an environment around them that will produce such greed on the part of the so-called intellectual ly among us. Greed to get something for nothing, —greed to take economic advantage of the weak and the meek. This greed is the number one root of evil of all wars. \\ e permit a society to give the human family dif ferent racial identities for the purpose of creating racial hatred minded groups with intent to take advantage of one another. We should ali know, (that is if we have just ordinary horse sense) ac cording to the world’s best teacher, the book which we claim to love and have so much respect for. the Bible, that racial difference is only in the mind's of the unenlightened, the ignorant of human beings. We all came from the Garden of Eden and accord ing to the Holy Bible, there were just two people in the beginning—yes sir, two human beings of one blood and flesh, and according to the greatest teach er who ever lived and according to just plain horse sense, we should at least know enough to treat an other human being like we want to be treated, and have the true love in our heart for our neighbors as well as for ourselves. There just isn’t anything in the book as an Eng lishman, a Jew, an Italian, Mexican, Frenchman, a ( anadian, a Negro, Japanese or a Chinaman— these are all names which have been giv en to us solely for the purpose of dividing different groups —one against the other, for the purpose of taking economic advantage of them. To win World war .5 and the peace on earth, there is just one thing to be done by the human family, and that is each individual, each corpor ation, each political organization, to make up their minds to treat and deal fairly with the other fellow, as they would want the other fellow to treat and deal fairly with them. All should bear in mind that they are their brother’s keeper and that the old familiar saying is still the law in the human family, namely “nothing goes over the devil’s back that will not buckle under his belly”, and that what ever you hand out to others, will be handed back to you the same way, someday.