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NEW YORK—A series of meetings in strategic
cities i nthe Middle West and East to rally support
for the passage of the bill for a permanent FEPC
will be sponsored by the( NAAOP, it was announced
this week. The meeting will be held between Jan
uary 2 and January 14 when Congress reconvenes
its second session. Details will be announced later.
Walter White, NAACP Secretary, issued a state
ment urging all friends of FEPC to see their con
gressmen and senators while they are home during
the holiday recess, secure pledges from congressmen
to sign the discharge petition to get the FEPC bill
out of the House committee, and secure from senat
ors a pledge to vote for cloture when the bill comes
up in the upper house.
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Public Pressure Seems to Be
Breaking Through Fepc. Stalemate
930 F St., No. W,
Washington 4, D. C.
Executive 2233
(Mrs.) Anna Arnold Hedgeman,
Executive, Secretary
"Public pressure appears to be
* breaking through the stalemate
that for many months has held up
congressional action on Perma
nent FEPC,’ said 'the National
Council for a Permanent FEPC
in a special message to it’s affili
ates released today.
Assurances of Republican lea
dership in House and Senate that
efforts would be made to precipi
tate floor action soon after the
turn of the year were revealed in
the message.
In the Senate the Council anroun
ced, a group of Republican Sen.
atora intends to undertake an ag
gressive role to force the issue to
the floor of the Senate at the first ]
oppoi i.unity. This ieatersfdp group
includes Senators Wayne Morse,'
Oregon; Joseph Bali, Minn.; H1
Alexander Smith, N. J; Milton R.
Young, N. D.; William F. Know
land, California; Charles W. To
bey, N. H; George D. Aiken. Vt.
itv Leadei Jo eph Martin that a,3
soon as possible after the House
holiday recess enough Republicans
will sign the petition to bring the
bill to the floor of the House.
The protest resignation from the
Presidents FEPC of Attorney
Charles Houston, the message de
clared, has made the country ac
utely conscious of the futility of a
government agency which must re
ly upon the Executive for enforce
ment powers, and the emphasizes
the great need for a permanent
FEPC with full authority.
The mesage called upon the 7,00
odd local councils for permanent
FEPC and 60 odd national collor.
ating organizations throughout
the country to intensify mobiliza
tion of public opinion, in messages
to the White House and Party lea
ders, and in mass meetings, for im
mediate Congressional action. A
revised list of Representatives who
have not signed the House petition
on the basis of a voluntary poll,
conducted by the National Council
was issued with the message.
TRUMAN SCORED FOP. PLAN i
MAKING FEPC FACT FINDING;
Washington, D. C_Scoring Pre
sident Truman’s action in setting
up FEPC purely as a fact-finding
agency as doing infinite harm by
delaying action on permanent i
FEPC legislation, the NAACP
wired Hide* Chief EX<»eutrv6 last
week, failure of your Administra
tion to act in these crises destroys
hope and faith of millions of
Americans who face joblessness.
This step following your failure
to require Capital Transit Com
pany to cease discriminating pra.
tices while Government he'd con
trol of that utility and your order
tc FEPC against issuam e of di
rective to Capital Transit Com
pany negates all your statement
on behalf of FEPC. Already m
northern as well as southern in
dustrial centers employers are re
questing of United States Em
ployment Service offices “white,
Gentile, Protesta r.t, native born
Chrjstian, North European stock,’
employees.
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In Cosmetic Business
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MARVA LOUIS former wife of the world’s heavy
weight champion, who will open her new cosmetic
concern in Uhieago within the next few days with
the blessings of Joe Louis. The “brown bomber”
has called this new venture the best idea sin- ever
had and indicates he favors a business career for
Marva over the stage. (AXP Photo)
Urban League, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority To Present Imperialist Choral Recital Sunday
AKA COUNCIL..
Gets Three Anti
Discrimination
Provisions i n
Hospital BiU
History was made in Congress
last week when three anti-disci i
mination provisions were added to
the National Hospital Construc
tion Act which has been urged and
advocated by the National Non
Partisan Council on Public Affairs
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Dr. Boulding Ferebee appeared
before the Senate Education and
Labor Committe to request that
the bill then pending, which had
no safeguards, be amended. She,
offered 8 anti-discrimination am
endments, the substance of which
were generally encouched in the
three that were finally added to
the bill. An intense educational
campaign with the members of
the Committee by Mrs. Thomasina
W. Johnson, Legislative Repre
sentative of the Council on the
need for these amendments resul
ted in their inclusion.
Intense efforts to keep the pio
visions out on the floor were sr
effective that the provisions wet
retained despite the fact that Sei
ator Olin D. Johnston of Sou;
Carolina was presiding and Sen.
or Lister Hill of Alabama had t
Jefend the bill inasmuch as he wr
.he author of the original bill an
:hairman of the Sub-Committee c
he Senate
I he anti-discrimination provisic
state that in the construction .
hospitals and hospital facilities in
the authorization of funds, they
ire to be ailoted according to cer
tain fundamental requirements
which prescribe that the state plan
shall provide for adequate hospi
tal facilities for the people resid
ing in the state, without discrimi
nation on account of race, creed
or color
This anti discrimination provi
sion also concerns the regulations
regarding the state plan tnai must
be submitted to the Surgeon Gen
eral. Such regulations, among
others, may require that before
approval of any applications for a
hospital or addition to a hospital
is recommended by a state agency,
assurance shall be received by a
state fiom the applicant that such
hospital or addition to a hospital
will be made available to ah per
sons residing in that area of the
applicant without discrimination
on account of race, creed, or color,
nut an exception shall be made in
cases where separate hospital fa
cilities are provided for separate
population groups if the plan ma
kes equitable provisions on the ba.
sis of need for facilities and ser
vices of like quality for each of
such groups.
The second anti-discrimination
provision directs itself to the states
to which funds may be ailoted. Re
gulations are issued to the states
by the Surgeon General with the
approval of the Federal Hospital
Louncil and the Administrator, af
‘et which each state desiring to
| participate will formulate plans
by which each hospital or facility
will be constructed. These plans
must include regulations which
meet requirements as to lack of
discrimination.
The third anti-discrimination pro
I vision concerns the withholding of
unds. The approval of the plan
ubmitted by the state is based on
tssurance that many requireme nts
ire met, before money may be al.
lotted to a state for construction
! of hospitals or facilities. AtnOfig
I the requirments that a state must
j meet before funds may be allotted
| to it are requirements that assur
t ances be given that regulations be
j provided for regarding the provi
1 sions of facilities without discrim- j
! ination on account of race, cree<»!
j or color.
Dr. Ferebee stated that it is'
| gratifying to know that the United
States Senate has incorporated
; partially the requests of the Alpha
i Kappa Alpha women in the Na
. tional Hospital Act of 1946. The
j passage of this bill with the Sen
i ate provisions, which we hope a: e
I strengthed by the House, will do
much to raise the health standards
of minority groups. Our success
in this bill will only heighten the
determination of the Alpha Kappa
Alpha women to sponsor and work
for the passage of better legisla.
; tion that will raise the standards
of all people in America
Mrs. Johnson, who was the au
thor of the amendments states
that an intense effort would be
made in the house to change the
I wording of the provisions in the
I House, to make the bill stronger
j when it comes up for passage in
there. She also indicated that the
| wording of the amendment with
J regard to separate facilities nced
! ed changing from ‘shall’ to ‘may.
! She expressed deep concern over
| the fact that to date no word hud
j as yet been devised of compelling
l the federal government to afcol
j ish segregation, in grant-in-aid
I programs to state governments
where the state pays part of the
cost, in federal legislation of this
kind. The only technique so far
advanced, where there are state
laws compelling segregation, is to
compel an equitable distribution of
the funds so allotted, within the
limits of the state law of segrega
tion while fighting state segrega-1
gation laws through other chan
nels. This same principal applies
to use of minority groups on the
staff and in personnel practices of
programs under such federal bills.
She stated that Alpha Kappa Al
pha women were unalterably op
posed to segregation and discrim
ination it all its forms and that
segregation and discrimination
will be fought in any and all ways
that this bill did not include all
that might be desired generally
nor all that might be desired for
Negroes, but that it did go fur
ther than any previous bill; and
that it was a step in the right dir
ection but that the Alpha Kappa
Alpha women would not be con
tent until the whole journey to ab
solute equality and freedom had
been completed. The council is ur
ging all other organizations arc!
persons to request that the bill be
strengthened in the House of Re
presentatives where it will be
shortly after the Christmas re
ess.
SAYS GOP MUST STAND FOR
FREEDOM, NO RACE BIAS
Boston, Mass—Writing in the
Christian Science Monitor, Bart
ley Crum, San Francisco attorney
declared that a liberal Republican
program will stress one of the
first planks of the first Republican
leadership, the moral issue of hu
man freedom, the absence of re
strictions or distinctions based on
race, creed or color.
The Republican party has a
moral obligation to Negroes de
clared Mr. Crum. Quoting an un
named Negro leader to the effect
that if a liberal Republican party
would break its alliance with re
actionary Southern Democrats and
would muster an actual rather
I
than a potential Negro vote which
among other things, would hasten
the exit from public life of the !
Rankins, Bilbos and Eastlands, the
writer asserts, the potential Negro
vote, according to the 1940 census
is 7,375,609; the potential impact
of the second emancipation of the
Negro is worldwide.
Post Offices to be Used
As Collecting Stations
for Relief Clothing Drive
VICTORY CLOTHING
COLLECTION
New York, Dec—Soon after the
post offices are cleared of the last
Christmas packages, They will be
gin to recieve clothing gifts from
the American people to the suf
fering people in bombed out lands
according to an order of Postma
ster General Robert E. Hannagan
which was made public today.
Henry J Kaiser, national chair
man of the Victory Clothing Col
lection, declared that the order to
all postmasters authorized and di
rected them to permit local com
mitees of the nation-wide clothing
drive to place boxes in post-office
lobbies to receive clothing dona
tions.
Mr. Kaiser also anounced that
Nelson A. Rockefeller, former As.
sistant Secretary of State, will
serve as the New York City chair
.. «, r-ie collection.
Mr. Kaiser also announced that
9,607 communities throughout Am
erica are organized to conduct the
clothing drives under the local
chairmanship of 4,313 men and
women, many of whom will direct
county-wide drives.
One community, South Hero.
Vt., has completed its clothing
HOLIDAY CHORAL RECITAL
Next Sunday, Dec. 30th, 1945 at
6 pm, the Omaha Urban League
and the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
will present the Imperialists in
their initial Holiday Recital at the
Urban League Community Center
2213 Lake Street. Young Lee
Simms, president, Janie Robbins,
sec’y Walter Bell, director
PROGRAMME
I
Rocka My Soul.arr. by Briggs
Miss Young Lee Simms soloist
I’m So Glad.....arr. by Bell
Until I Found the Lord arr. by Bell
PWase, Jesus....arr. by Bell
« II
Oh Holy Night.Stephen Adams
Mrs. Collen St. Clair, soloist
The Holy City.Stephen Adams
Mr. Paul Briggs, soloist
III
Joy To The World
Silent Night
Mrs. Colleen St. Clair, soloist
Poor Little Jesus Boy
The Story of Xmas ...arr. by Bell
Mr. Duward R- Grooms, nar’tor
Intermission
Remarks by Mr. Arthur B. McCaw
IV
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Tingle Bells
(male voices)
arranged by Bell
V
Vhite Christmas
J Come All Ye Faithful
arranged by Bell
vJod Bless America...Berlin
audience standing join in on 3rd
verse)
he public is all invited.
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3ollection. The 606 residents of
his village on an island in Lake
Champlain began their drive one
tonth in advance of the national
campaign. Mrs Henry Buermann,
local chairman, explained that
three pre-Christmas sewing bees
were held to salvage garments
that were torn and ripped.
The Victory Clothing Collection
scheduled from Jan. 7—31, seeks
100,000,000 used garments, in se
dition to shoes and bedding Eacn
contributor is invited to attach
good-will mesages to clothing
gifts.
Heads Carver
Savings & Loan
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MR. MILTON E. JOHNSON
Mr Milton Johnson, the proprie
tor of the Johnson Drug and Li
quor Store at 24th and Grant, who
lives at 2836 Decatur Street was
elected President of the Carver
board of directors at their last
meeting, an office which became
vacant when Dr. Craig Morris re
signed and moved to San Fran
:isco, California.
Mr Johnson’s native home was
St. Joseph, Missouri, where he
finished high school. After com
pleting high school, he moved to
Lincoln, Nebraska. He is a gradu
ate of Nebraska University, in
Pharmacy. The Board of Direct
ors are very much pleased with
their newly elected president. At
torney Charlea F Davis, the foun
der of the Carver Savings & Loan
Association and who is sec’y and
treasurer of the same says he feels
that the directors made a fine se
lection for their president.
Mrs. Valeria McCaw
Appointed Art Teacher
In Public School System
Mrs. Valeria McCaw, the wife of
Mr. Arthur B. McCaw at 2806
Ohio, was appointed by the board
of education as a Teacher of Art
at the Long School and wlil begin
her services on January 24th
Mrs McCaw has been attending
Omaha University art classes for
two years, and during that time
she led her class and made the
honor roll in each semester.'
Mrs. Althouse to Hold
“Open House” Tea
The Althouse School of Beauty
Culture, 2715-17 No. 24th St., will
be hostess to a New Years open
house tea Tuesday January 1st.
The "iihlic is invited and there will
be eilts lor all. hours from 4 to 8
o’clock pm.
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LEAVES FOR HOT SPRINGS
Dr. J. J. Jones, one of Omaha s
leading and most popular dentists,
will leave Saturday for Hot
Springs, Arkansas for a course of
baths. Dr. Jones will be gone for
four weeks and expects to return
i to Omaha about February 1st,
j 1946.
AID 1945 CHRISTMAS SEAL CAMPAIGN
Jimmie Lunceford, Lena Horne and Rex Ingram
gave a helping hand in the fight against tubercul
osis by campaigning for sale of 1945 Christmas Seal.
(ANP Photo)
Bedford Park’s Beautiful Lots will be put on the Market For Sale Soon! Watch
The Omaha Guide for size & Prices. “Small Down Payment Will Do the Job”.
