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■ LOCAL 8c NAT’L NEWS-lOc per copy “AND WORTH IT” ■ ! ^ ^ ^**Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC• O ^ + Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oftice. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of _ , , _ , , _ _ _ . _ . „,, __ __ March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha. Nehr StitUXdSy, Oct. 13, 1945 ★ 10C PGP Copy ^ OlIF 18th YeST No. 36 LOCAL BRANCH NAACP. PROTECTS CITIZEN’S RIGHTS... PROTEST ILLE6AL HOME ENTRY; ARREST OF CITIZEN Harvard Departs from Tradition Members of the Harvard University teaching staff shown with the ILGWU members of the Trade Union Fellowship. Left to right (standing): Prof. Sumner H. Slichter, Sam Janis, Harry Shugar, Dr. John Dunlop; (seated) Benice Taylor, Mabel Durham. Mabel Durham, a young Negro underwear worker, until last week assistant to the chaplain of her WAC unit, was designated mem ber of a team of four garment workers belonging to the Interna tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, to attend the Harvard Trade Union Fellowship Courses at Har vard University, Cambridge. Mass-, as a full-time student for the year 1945-1946, under a free scholarship arrangement Miss Durham shares scholarships with two other veterans- Bernice Taylor, ex-sergeant in the WAC, and Harry Shugar who was a staff sergeant in a paratroop battalion. Samuel Janis, a union officer of Bridgeport, Conn, is the other des ignated student. The admission of two women to the Trade Union Courses at Har vard to study in mixed classes marks a departure from old established traditions at the university- The acdeptance of a Negro woman into these classes, at the initiative of the International Ladies’ Garment Work ers’ Union, is another significant j point. I Smoker to be Held for Benefit of War 2 Vets;Explain GI Rights Bill Roosevelt Post No- 30 American Legion will hold a Smoker Thurs day evening, October 18, 1945 at the Post headquarters 24th and Parker Streets. All ex-servicemen are cor dially invited to attend. Mr A Westmoreland of the Veterans Administration and others will be on hand to explain the G1 Bill of Rights. This will be of interest to all vet erans of world war 2- Come out and hear just what you are entitled to know and receive Be prepared to ask questions and enjoy an evening of fun and refresh ments at tre expense of the Ameri 1 can Legion Post No- 30 A Membership drive will be start ed and it is hoped all veterans and memebrs of the armed forces now in service will be able to join this wonderful organization. Charles Williamson is Command er of the Post TV A Housing Policy 'Separate* but 'Equal* — I New York—The housing policy of the Tennessee valley Authority for its Negro and white employees is “separate but equal” according to Gordon R Clapp, general managei speaking for David E Lilienthal, chairman. In response to a letter of inquiry from the NAACP Mr Clapp wrote "It is the policy of the TV A to provide recreatoinal and education al facilities and health and medicai services for the temporary commun ities located at its construction pro jects The facilities provided for Negro employees are of the sam< standards as those provided for white employees and the cost to em ployees for similar accommodations is the same "The housing facilities, both fam ily units and dormitory accommo dations, provided for Negro employ ees at construction projects are sep arated from similar facilities prov ided for white employees- This con forms to established laws and cus toms in the area which we believe cannot be ignored without detriment ly affecting TV As ability to carry on its construction and operating re sponsibilities. "The extent to which customary arrangements of racial segregation can be or should be disregarded on projects such as we carry on is a question about which there is, of course, much difference of opin ion.” Mr Clapp then stated that the ef fect of any housing policy adopted by TV A would probably diminish as the years go on because as eac* pro ject is completed, almost all TVA employees will depend upon estab lished communities for residence and services | CHECKER CAB ANNOUNCES END OE COORDINATION Omaha Guide: 2420 Grant Street, I Omaha, Nebraska [ Gentlemen: Within the next ninety days the coordinated cab service will be dis solved- The purpose of the coor dination was to save on tires and gasoline through the conservation of miles- We appreciate your cooper ation during this emergency We will again be able to provide you with prompt, courteous service- You may now purchase Checker Cab coupon books at a 10% discount Your future patronage will be ap preciated- Call J A-8000 for Check er Service. Yours Very Truly) CHECKER CAB COMPANY. /. J. Roberts, Manager MRS. TIME HIBBLER, DIES WAS OMAHA PIOXEER Mrs- Tinie Hibbler, 71, died Sun day Oct. 7th at the residence, 288a Ohio Street- She was a pioneer 0* mana and the wife of the late M«. George Hibbler. She is survived by daughter, Vi ola- Services were held Thursday, at 2 pm. from the Mt- Moriah Bap tist Church- Burial. Forest Lawn. Rev. Brooks Calls on Negroes of Omaha To Support Chest Drive ^ ^ ^ ★ *★* ★ *★* ★ ^ ^ ^ ^ DAILIES FAN "RIOT" AT N. Y. HIGH SCHOOL Probes School Disturbances New York-A page one news story in the New York Times writ ten by Alexander Feinberg on the so-called “rio9t” between white ana colored students at the Benjamin Franklin high school was charact erized by the NAACP as “highly inflammatory” in a telegram from Walter White to the Editor of the Times The Times sent a representative to the NAACP to explain its posi tion and secure a statement from Secretary White who declared that the violence in New York City schools and other schools in ths Middle West were “part of an or ganized attempt to foment racial strife in the nation’s schools.” The NAACP also wired Police Commissioner Arthcr Wallander who called a conference within an hour Constituted of six top officials of the police department, the Rev John R Johnson, police chaplain and rector of St Martin’s Episco pal church in Harlem. Commission er Samuel Battle, formerly a police captain, and Walter White The "riot" at Benjamin Franklin! school quieted down over the week end with the vast majority of color ed and white students going peace fully to their classes and normal activities The disturbance was said to have been initiated by a very small group NAACP STAFF MEMBER PROBES SCHOOL STRIKES New York—Miss Noma Jensen, one of the assistant field secretar ies of the NAACP, was sent last week by the National Office to Gary Indiana and Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, to investigate the high school strikes in those cities which I have been staged allegedly, for the purpose of ousting Negro students from mixed schools The NAACP has expressed tht belief that the school strikes which broke out in the Middle West and in New York City, are part of a plan concocted by adults to fasten segregation as a pattern upon Negro es in the North The Association ' believes it unlikely that the students themselves would have staged these demonstrations without careful plan ning and support from their parents and commcnity organizations comm itted to race-hate programs — PREVENTABLE FIRE LOSSES TOTALLED $380,000,000 IN 1944 Omaha will join the nation-wide campaign against fire loss next week with a spirited program de signed to conserve life and proper ty through emphasis of the old tru ism that where fire is concerned, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure The Chamber's Fire Pre vention committee, under the leader ship of P K Walsh, will head this year's campaign Property loss by fire in wartime 1944 reached the appalling total or $380,000,000, with Omaha's reactf ing $466,595- In the same perioG, fires took a national toll of 10,00i; lives This tremendous sacrifice of - human and property assets can bc prevented through care and v'gii ence The 1945 program of the Cham , ber's committee is geared to make' all citizens “fire prevention con scious”, to teach the principles ni fire safety to students in public and parochial schools, and o bring recog nition of the fact that fires do not just HAPPEN—they are caused THEY’RE TOPS: Climbing rapidly to the top bracket in radio appeal, the John Howard Choir is an all-Negro organization which broadcasts every Sunday afternoon from the National Broadcast ing Company’s Cleveland station, WTAM, in Ohio. The choir, directed by John Howard Ogletree (right), has won the support of thousands of WTAM listeners, and many radio columnists in the state are listing it as a Sunday afternoon "must". SIDNEY HILLMAN DENIES DISCRIMINATION CHARGE — « NEW YORK, October 12 — Re- j affirming the CIO policy of non discrimination abroad, as well as at home, Sidney Hillman, acting chair man of the CIO delegation to the World Trade Union Conference in Paris, denied reports published ”.n two American weeklies that, ove» the opposition of Negro delegates, he had maneuvered the selection of a white South African trade union ist to represent Africa on the con stitution committee Hillman's statement, received here Friday, October 5, was in answer to a Paris dispatch to a Chicago pa per charging the CIO leader with "using deliberate steam roller tac tics” to assure selection of M J Devries, white secretary of the Sou th African Trades and Labor Coun cil- Selection of Devries, Hillman asserted, was not contested The South African Trades and Labor Council, while predominantly white, does include in its member ship some unions with colored mem bers. according to Dr W A Hunton, educational director of the Council on African Affairs. A re cent law, however, bans the segr gation of Negro natives in the same unions with white workers and workers of mied African and Eur opean descent, known in South Afr ica as Cape Coloured In his cable to his New \ork of fice* Hillman pointed out that "Ne gro representatives of labor organ izations o fother sections of Africa have been elected by the conference to ether committees-” As president, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Chairman of the CIO Political Ac tion Committee, Hillman has con sistently and realistically fought for the inclusion of Negro workers on an integrated basis in all of the act ivates of organized labor. “We car ry on this fight,” he recently assert ed, “not as a sentimental favor to the Negro, but because to do lest would be to imperil our program, to cheat ourselves, to defeat our pur poses and, finally, to line us up- wiT ly-nillv, with the reactionary, an— Fight on USES. •If You Have Any Worthwhile Connections in Washington, Use Them NOW!!! (from A1 Heningburg’s “Overtones on page 2) One of the big gains made during the War was to establish a United States Employment Service, thus ending the spotty, jim crow direction of employ ment by the several states. In the face of a con certd drive to re-establish state direction, Senaorst Wagner and Murray are introducing a bill to make permanent the federal service instituted during the War. The new bill stipulates that there is to be ‘‘no discrimination.” If you have any worthwhile contacts in Washington, now is the time to work on them, for a return to state control of this important service will mean that millions of Negroes will a gain be by-passed on the job question, and won’t even have a chance at referral in the better- paving jobs. —. _____ " ! progressive forces in American life.” , In its charter of basic trade union and workers' rights, formulated at the London meeting last February, the World Trade LTiion Conference proclaimed: "Every form of politic al, economic, or social discriminat ion based on race, creed or sex shall be elminated. and in this sense equal pay for equal work shall be estab lished The complete text of Hillman's wire from Paris follows: Reference to white delegate or Soutl Africa must be to his election by conference to constitution comm ittee. No contest was made regard ing seating of such representative at conference since South African j trade unions are affiliated. Negri, representatives of labor organiza tions of other sections of Africa have been elected by the conference to other ommittees- CIO's position at tris international conference, a.-, at home, is one of complete opposi tion to any form of racial discrim ination. PLANS FOR HEALTH CONFERENCE UNDERWAY A a meeting held at the Urban League Wednesday, October 10, the Banquet Committee, headed by Miss Mae B. Taylor and consisting of Miss Leeta Holdredge, Mrs. Waiter Harrold and Mrs Rudolph Gerrei., j completed plans for the banquet to | be held at the Railroad Men's Bene volent Club in conjunction with the State Health Conference on October 24. Principal speaker will be Dr Roscoe C Brown, one of the partic ipants in the conference Other committees reporting pro gress are the Program Committee, Mrs Albin Simmons and Miss Jos ephine Albrecht: and the Executive Youth Committee which met Thurs day, October 4, and of which Miss Ovalyn Grice is chairman. They planned a meeting for the youth ot the city to be held at the USO fol lowed by a dance with refreshments Race Benefits from Camp’gn Plans have been completed for solicitation of Omaha Negroes in the Victory Fund and Community Chest campaign Chest officials an nounced recently Rev J B Brooks, pastor of the Allen Chapel of the African Meth odist Episcopal Church, issued a statement urging all Negroes to support the Chest “We Negroes benefit from' the funds raised,” he said- “since the Colored Old Folks Home, Woodson Center, and the Urban League are maintained partially by money re ceived from the Chest. Other Chest agencies stand ready to help Negroes wehnever called upon. “Negroes in the armed forces," the statement goes on, “bene tit through the services of the USO-" “Consebuently,” Rev- Brooks con tinues, “I appeal to Omaha Negroes to contribute as generously as pos sible to the Victory Fund and Com munity Chest in order to help those who battle to make the peace as suc cessful for us as was the war.” Division “H”, with Mrs- Frank Blackwell as chairman and Mrs W W- Gray and Mrs J R Miller as associate chairmen, will be in charge of house-to-house solicitations in the Negro districts. This activity gets underway on Monday- Work in Division “H” is expected to be finished in time for the regular re port meetings, Mrs Blackwell stat ed WAITERS’ KEY CLUB TO AID IN ANNUAL VICTORY END DRIVE—COMMUNITY CHEST— In support of the Annual camp aign Victory Fund Drive and Com munity Chest, the Labor Advisory Committee of the Omaha Dining Car Waiters Key Club will present FREE MOVING PICTURES and a Special program Tuesday, October 16, 1945 at 8 o’clock pm- at the club rooms 2409 Burdette street. All of our friends and members are invited to be present and do our part for this worthy cause. The entertainment committee ot the club will ge in charge RANDOLPH SAYS NEGROES MUST FIGHT FOR JOBS RIGHTS NOW New Yorp—-After returning from a trip which took him through Rich mond, Va-, Hinton and Huntington, W Va , Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ashe fille, N- C| where, together with B F McLaurin, International Field Organizer and candidate for City Council of New York City, he set up Local Councils for a Permanent FEPC and held huge mass meetings to mobilize public sentiment back of the fight for the Bills now before Congress for a permanent FEPC law, Mr Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Co-Chairman of tht National Council for a Perm anent FEPC, declared at the head quarters of the Uflion that Negroes have no choice now but to fight ceaselessly and with all of their mass power for job rights now. He pointed out that labor through it strikes in various industries is fight ing for the right to work and decent hages, which means that they must hit hard now for re-enactment of Bills SlOl and HR 2232 that face violent opposition from the solid South and the reactionary Republic ans of the North and also support the Wagner-Murray Full Employ ment Bill. wanted 14 Women ~ Apply At Edhelm & Sherman Laundry 24th At Willis er Call We-6055 ’ Police Officials Sympathetic The Omaha branch of the NAA CP, through its Executive Comm ittee, received a complaint from a young lady that she had been ar rested on October 6 after a detail of police had invaded the home of her sister-in-law- The police de% tail were attempting to apprehend a person they suspected of having com mitted a crime and attempted to find the person at this home- It was charged by the young lady that they took her to jail instead. A committee headed by the Presi dent, Rev C C- Adams, and mem bers of the Legal Redress Commit tee, appeared before the police of ficials at a meeting Wednesday, Oct 10, to file a complaint against the arresting officers basing their com plaint on the fact that the constitu tional rights of the home and this girl were violated is making the ar rest The committee further pointed out to the police officials that this was a common practice and urged them to adopt some procedure as would put a stop to tre invasion of private rights by police officials, in their attempt to carry out their duties The police officials were very sym pathetic and promised the commit tee that some action would be taken with regard to this case and they would bring this to the attention of the entire department Swear To Affidavits State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, Christine Hickman, of lawful age being first duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says that she is the wife of Eddie Hickman; that she is the mother and he the father of two children, one of them aged 16 months and the other one aged 1 month. That their residence is 2103 North 27th street, Omaha, Ne braska ; that this was their address on the 6th day of October, 1943. That on the evening of October 6th. Eddie Hickman, husband of af fiant told her he had gotten into trouble on 24th street and was go ing away. That on Saturday morn ing, Oct- Gth, 1945, at about 3:30 a m two men broke into the bedroom of affiant by forcing opening s. door and breaking the clasy of the bolt which held it fast- That be fore breaking into the premises ot affiant the men gave no warning of their official capacities; they read no warrant, presented no search warrant and before entering made no demand for admission. That after breaking into the bedroom of the affiant and after many que» tions were asked this affiant, and after they had threatened and abused this affiant, her sister Salcna Tur ner, aged 20 years and a young man (Continued on piifge 8) GOVERNMENT OWNED SURPLUS PROPERTY FOR SALE IN OMAHA Approximately 3,000 items ot Government owned surplus prop erty, which the Reconstruction Fin aice Corporation handles as a dis posal agency designated by the Sur plus Property Board for capital and producers’ goods, are listed in an informative booklet, “How to Do Business with REC-’, which is be ing mailed iwthout cost or obligat ion to interested persons. “Tte booklet covers a wide rang*, of surplus items including indust rial plants; industrial tools and e* quipment, raw materials, such as chemicals, building materials, etc., aircraft and parts and accessories, radio, telephone and electronic e quipment; and iron, steel and non ferrous metals", according to Gord on 1 Burke assistant manager in charge of surplus property for the Omaha RFC Agency “You can buy the material you want in great quantity or just a single item. Individual purchasers, as weil as large companies interest ed in acquiring RFC handled prop erty, are advised in the booklet to contact qur office, the RFC, 1208 WOW Bldg, Omaha, Nebraska', Mrr Burke said. RFC is anxious to hear from po tential buyers and no one should feel that an inquiry will be creat ing unnecessary work for the u gency. As a seller of surplus prop erty, RFC is anxious to help busi ness men in Nebraska and Wyoming get the equipment and materials they need to create additional em ployment and keep people at work by using war-born tools to produce the goods of peace ® To the readers of this notice— you can come into The Omaha Guide office- 2420 Grant street and read this boolet and see if there are any items listed that you can use C- C- Galloway, Editor.,
