HUNDREDS EXPECTED AT URBAN LEAGUE OPENING, FAIR
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MOUSE VOTES RETURN TO
STANDARD TIME
Washington. DC., (soundphoto-—
The House Interstate Commerce
Committee has voted to do away
with war time at the end of the
month. Representative Lyle H.
Boren of Oklahoma, author of jhe
mea*ure. is shown checking his
wrist watch wijh clock on hi* of
fice wall. Standard time will start
at 2 am. Sunday^ September 30th.
L. B. Granger
Tours Pacific
Naval Bases
Reports Lag in Naval
Policy in So. Posts
Legter B. Granger. Executive
Secretary of the National Urban
LeaKue, left New York on Septem
ber 15th for San Francisco, Calif
ornia. from which city he will start
overseag on September 25th for a
tour of Naval bases in the Pacific.
Accompanying him on that tour
will be Matthew W. Bullock of
Boston, Mass., Chairman of the
Massachusetts State Parole Com
mission, Harry McAlpin, Whit
House Correspondent for the Nat
ional Negro Publishers Association,
Lieutenant Robert Ropef, repres
entative of the Bureau of Naval
Personnel and Lieut, (jg) Sylvester
White, representative of the Navy’s
Bureau of Public Information. The
party's itinerary includes Pearl
Harbor, the Phillipine Islands Es
piritu Santo in the New Hebrides,
Manus Island in the Admiralties.
uam, Tinian and Saipan in the
Marianas, and the famed battle is
lands of Iowa Jima and Okinawa.
The party will return to the United
States about the first of November.
As personal representative of
Secretary Forrestal. Mr. Granger
will conclude a series of inspect
ions on which he has based a num
ber of recommendations to the Navy
Department for improvement of
service conditions affecting Negro
personnel. The first trip was mode
to West Coast installations in June
of this year> and the second to cer
tain base* in the South.
CRITICIZES CONDITIONS
IN SOITHERN BASES
In a recent report to Mr. Forres
tal, the Urban League execut>ve
sevcre'y criticized certain condit
ions which he found in Southern
Naval bases—conditions which he
described as being "sharply at
variance with the Navy's official
racial policy." On the basis of ob
servations made at the Naval Air
Station, Corpus Christi. Texas> the
Naval Repair Ba.se, New' Orleans,
La., and the Naval Mine Depot at
Torktown. Va„ Mr. Granger de
clared to the Navy Secretary “Sev
eral of the activities which I visit
(Continued on pageS)
CONTINUED FIGHT FOR
$25 JOBLESS PAY URGED
Washington, DC,—The NAAC1
this week blasted the Senate Fin
ance Committee headed by Senator
Walter F. George (D.. Ga. ) for
striking from the Kilgore Unem
ployment Compensation Bill provis
ions to give jobless workers thru
out the United States the max jin um
weekly benefits of $25 per week
for 26 weekg.
Walter White, NAACP secretary
declared that this important provis
ion was killed in the Finance Com
mittee by a coalition of reactonary
northern and southern senators
whoi would rather see thousands of
families half-fed, ill-clothed and
generally demoralized than provide
a decent rate of unemployment com
pensation.
The NAACP told Senator Harley
M. Kilgore (D. W. Va.f) that it
heartily endorses all the provisions
of his bill and urged him to stand
firm against compromises. It prais
ed public statements by Senator
Kilgore to the effect that he would
continue the ‘fight on the Senate
Floor to restore the $25 weekly job
aid.
In addition, the Kilgore unem
ployment compensation bill would
extend compensation to federal em
ployees, merchant seamen and
workers handling agricultural pro
ducts and increase GI unemploy
ment benefits. This measure, the
NAACP pointed out> is of particu
lar importance .to Negroeg during
the period of employment cutbacks
and of reconversion. It urged mcs
sages to Senator Kilgore pledging
support and telegrams to senators.
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ROOSEVELT I*I.AQIE IN
RECORDER’S OFFICE
Washington—President Harry S.
Truman will speak at the cerem
ony unveiling a plaque of the late
President Roosevelt. in rhe Record
er of Deeds Building, Monday af
ternoon, September 11, at 4 pm.
Marshall L. Shepard, Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Cdumbia.
announced this w > >k,
The plaque is cast bronze and
presents the late President in has
relief. featuring the four freedoms
and will hang in the beautiful lob
by of the Recorder of Deeds build
ing.
The artist, Migg Selma Burke, of
New York. was selccted for the
work in a competition conducted by
the United States Fine Arts Com
mission. She began work on the
plaque in 1944. President Roose
velt Sat for the artigt twice and
was scheduled for a third siting at
the time of his death.
Funds for the plaque were grant
ed by the Federal Works Adminis
tration through the efforts of the
late Recorder of Deeds, Dr. Will
iam J. Thompking, and the Commis
sioners of the Distric t of Columbia.
The present Recorder, Dr. Shep
ard, expedited the completion oi
the plaque and planned the cere
mony which included 'nvitmg Pres
ident Truman to participate.
Attending the ceremony will be
members of the Supreme Court the
President's Cabinet and sta", mem
berg of CongrCir, and perso i3 high
•a the ttligict.s and civic life of
thp.commute* y.
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Reunion At TAAF
It was a happy family reunion
for Capfain and Mrs. Homer L.
Starks at Tuskegee Army Air Field
when the parents and sister of Mrs.
Starks were visitors there recently.
The parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Myers, hail from Omaha. Nebraska.
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where Mr. Mvers has operated a
mortuary for over 20 years.
Reading left to right, they are:
Mrs. Hazel Jordan (sister), of Dal
las. Texas; Mrs. Myers; Capt. Starks
of Portmouth. Ohio; Mr. Myers, and
Mrs. Starks. Capt. Starks is Coinm
anding Officer of the Training and
Operations Squadron at TAAF
while his popular wife, the former
Miss Florence Myers of Omaha is
employed as treasurer in the Offic-!
ers' Club Office there. (Official U.
S. Photo by AAF Training Command
T 1 he Bigots Are Working, While We Sleep.
“During the years of war production we made Lsubstantial progress in overcoming many of the preju
dices which had resulted in discrimination against minority group. In the reconversion Lperiod and
thereafter, we should make every effort to continue this American ideal. It is one of the fundamentals
of our political philosophy, and it should be an integral part of our economy.” l
President Harry S. Truman, September 6, 1945.
innuuiAlu ACTION ON FEPC \,
“MIST” FOR NATION RECON- 1
ERTING TO PEACETIME NEEDS
The Weeks since tr-J Day have
emphasized with tragic starkness
the need for some immediate, in
terim action on the present FEPC
and for the definite establishment
without further delay, of a perm
anent Fair Employment Practice
Commission. In the layoffs which
immediately followed the end of
the war, Negro workers and work
ers from other minority groups,
frequently having been. through
exigtencg of prejudices of long
standing, the last hired, felt the
axe of unemployment most heavily.
At the same time, cancellation of
war contracts is taking many
plants from the jurisdiction of the
present temporary (Executive Order
created) FEPC. As presently con
stituted, the agency's jurisdiction
extendg only to Government agenc
ies and to businesses enSAged in
war work.
Just as full employment is the
concern of the entire nation, so the
full exercise of democracy in the
distribution of employment is the
concern, not only of a few, but of|
every American. Jobs must be a
Available to all Americans, regard
less of race creed, color or nation
al origin. Unless we achieve this,
we face a period of chaos in which
civil liberties will inevitably be
drastically curtailed. Such condi
tions would strengthen the hand of
all pro-fascist forces in the country
Write your two Senators, asking
^ach to pledge to help bring up
s. 101 in the Senate for vote, and to
support it favorably.
150 Delegates Meet
On FEPC Problem
One hundred fifty delegates from
thirty states representing local
groups affiliated wi|h the National
Council for a Permanent FEPC con
eluded a two day session with a
dinner at which they heard Senator
Wayne Morse Republican of Ore
gon pledge his support and urge
wider public education for the
principle of fair employment.
He told the Interracial gathering
that “this issue is so great that it
cannot be compromised. Unless the
concept of economic democracy is
held to political democracy,” he
added, “you lose all basic govern
mental conceptions for which we
fought not only this war but the
last and those preceeding.”
The purpose of the two day meet
ing was to acquaint “the folks at
the grass roots” with the work be
ing done in Washington, and to en
able them better to carry out their
end of the job.
Dr. Channing H. Tobias, Secre
tary, National Board of the YMCAt
also addressed the dinner meeting.
He called for an end to "soft and
persuasive words” an,j recommend
ed political action as a means of
getting a permanent FEPC.
A. Philip Randolph’ Co-Chairman
of the National Council for a Perm
anent FEPC, in his opening address
to the f?rouP’ placed legislation for
fair employment on a par with that
proposed for full employment.
SPINt.AKN MEDAL TO ROBESON
OCTOBER 1 ST H
New York—The 30th Spingarn
Medal will be presented formally
to Paul Robegont internationally
famous actor and singer, on Thurs
day, October 18. at a dinner in the
Hotel Biltmore here’ it was announc
ed last week by the NAACP.
j The presentation address will be
made by Marshall Field Chicago
publisher. There will be a special
music for the gathering of disting,
uished guests expected to tax the
capacity of the grand ballroom of
the hotel.
Mr. Robeson wa8 awarded the
?° Committees and Staff
I Work Hard To Put
i Over Community
i Affair
The Urban League Fall Opening
ncxt Monday, September 24, prom
ises to be one of the mo9t outstand
ing events to be staged In this com
munlty according to Miss Mae B.
Taylor, Chairman of the Neighbor
hood Committee of the Urban Lea
gue.
Entries are coming in fast. Those
who have entered at la9t report are
Mrs. Helen Curry. Mrs. Dorothy
Greer, Mrs. Mary Alfred, Mr. Rud
olph Gerren, The Omaha Guide,
Mrs. Beulah Watts, Mrs. S. Newman
Pearl Jane Billingsley, Mr,. Ger
trude Brooks, Mrs. Vera Cowan,
Mr. Paul Gibson, Mrs. Valaria Lee
McCaw, Mrs. Alma Longmire, Mrs.
Edith Grant, Mrs. Eva Peel. Mrs.
Minnie Dixon, Mrs. Connie McDon
ald, Mr,. L. C. Clarke, Mrs. Emma
Simpson, Mrs. Ella Haynes, Mrs.
Anna Ruth Davis, Mrs. Stella Glov
er, Mrs. Ernestine Speese. Mrs. Ber
tha Williamg, Mr,. Lula Rivers.
Mrs. Pinkie Speese, Mrs. Doreene
Holliday, Mrs. Olive Hawking, Mrs.
Edna Burrell, Mrs. Rebecca Evans.
Mrs. J. D. Thornton, Mrs. Ethel
Gardner, Mrs, Ruth Burleson. Mrs.
Ernest Brown and Mrs. Elma Lloyd
The Committee is making prep
arations for twenty three hundred
people to visit the building on the
day of the Fair that will open at
11:00 am. and run through the ev
ening. There will he a special
movie for the children after 8chool.
Parents are asked t° accompany
the children to the evening exhibit
at 8;00 pm.
The Urban League is supported by
the Omaha Community Chest.
Rev. T. J. Douglass
Will Close Work at
Cleaves Temple CME.
Church, Sunday Sept. 23i.
Dr. T. J. Douglass has done phen'
oraenal work at Cleaves Temple
for the last two years. There has
been a substantial increase in the
membership of the Church and
plans made for building of a new
parsonage. The congregation has
been spiritually lifte.d by the fine
sermons he has delivered from time
to time.
It is hoped by many of the mem
bers and friends that Dr. T. J.
Douglass will be returned to Om
aha for a third Vear. Of course
that matter of appointment is in the
hands of the Bishop and his cabin
et.
The Conference will convene at
Kansas City, Missouri, on the 26th
of September.
Dr. Douglass cordially invites his
frieiids to com, and hear hig eloging
message Sunday the 23rd at eleven
o'clock. Dr. C. C. Reynolds will
preach at 3 pm.
Rev. T. J. Douglass, Pastor,
S. L. Tucker. Steward.
SEN. BARKLEY PLEDGES
AID ON LEGISLATION
New York—Legislation affecting
Negroes will have the “earnest anil
serlous consideration" of Senator
Alben W. Barkley( Majority Lead
er.
This pledge was contained in a
letter to the NAACP following an
exchange of correspondence started
by Senator Barkley after reading
an editorial in the Crisis magazine.
Senator Barkley, writing to Roy
Wilkins> assistant secretary and
editor of the magazine, said "I
realize the force of the statements
contained in your letter of Augugt
2X and shall give them my earnest
and serious consideration in conn
ection with the whole problem of
legislation affecting those for
whom you speak and millions of
others who are similarly situated."
STINSON, VINSON (U'ERIED ON
"GAG’’ ON NEGRO TALK
New York—Secretary of War
Henry L, Stinson and Secretary of
the Treasury, Fred M. Vinson were
asked this week by the NAACF
whether the instructions to 23
Treasury women employes by an
Army lieutenant not to disctigg the
Negro question during their stay
in Germany represented official
policy of the two departments.
The letter of inquiry pointed out
that military censorship In Euiope
had been abolished and termed “in
credible” the idea that American
civilians should be denied free
speech on any question. According
to the original report of the “gag”
on the women, revealed by one of
them after the group arrived in
Frankfurt, they were told that dis
cussion of the Negro question
would "hasten” a revolution in the
South.”
medal by a special committee last
spring, but because of his theatre
and concert commitments including
a USO tour overseas. the formal
presentation hag been delayed untfl
now. The citation accompanying
the award stated it was for "dis
tinguished achievement in the the
atre an,} on the concert stage.”
MEETING OF FOREIGN MIMS.
I Efts. L.ondon> Englandj U. S. Sec
retary of State—left—shakes hands
with Russia’a Foreign Minister
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Molotov as they met at opening of
conference of Foreign Ministers of
the United States, Britain. Russia
China and France in London. They
will tackle problems of post-war
I world, of which there are many
‘ not the least of which is the fear of
! a flare-up in the Balkans.