DIRECTOR
w. •
Charles H. Bynum, director of
Interracial Activities for the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, is confident of enthusi
astic participation by men, women
and children of all races and faiths
in the 1946 March of Dimes, Janu
ary 14-31, which is dedicated to
the memory of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, founder of the organi
zation. Funds contributed to the
National Foundation are used to
aid all victims of infantile paraly
sis, regardless of ajje, race, creed
or color.
Endorses Drive
President Harry S. Truman
sees 1946 March of Dimes, Jan
uary 14-31, as “a fitting tribute”
to his predecessor, Franklin D.
Roosevelt. *
Negroes Active in
“March of Dimes”
1948 Campaign
New York, Jan 5—Active par
ticipation of Negroes is already
indicated as the 1946 March of
Dimes, nation-wide appeal of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, gets under way. Tne
campaign will be opened officially
on Monday, January 14, by Foun
dation President Basil O-Connor.
Dedicated to the memory of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great
war president who founded the
National Foundation, the eighteen
day March of Dimes will continue
through January 31. Spearheaded
enthusiastically by National Chap
ters in nearly all of the 3,070 coun
ties of the nation, the annual fund
raising appeal is supported by men
women and children of all races
and faiths.
This will be the 13th yearly ap
peal for funds in the war against
infantile paralysis. Negroes in ma.
por cities are volunteering their
services in this intensive and ne
cessary campaign for funds to aid
poliomyelitis victims, regardless
of age, race, creed or color. Or
3 ;an.nations with which they are
actively affiliated have endorsed
the National Foundation and its
determination that polio shall be
conquered. They will address their
contributions to their home town
chapters.
New York City arid Chicago are
setting the pace for the March of
Dimes at noon-day rallies on Jan
uary 14. Here at City Hall, Mayor
O'Dwyer, City Councilman Jos
eph T Sharkey and Russel Ma
guire, chairman of the Greater
New York Chapter of the Nation
al Foundation, will participate in
special March of Dimes ceremon
ies. In Chicago, Mayor Kelly and
Mr. O’ Connor will be on hand for
the opening March of Dimes rally
at Madison and State Streets
The first Mile O’ Dimes stand
in this city’s Harlem will be offi
cially inaugurated at a noon-day
rally on Tuesday, January 15th, in
front of the Opollo Theatre on W
125th Street, it was announced by
Charles H. Bynum, director of in
terracial Activities for the Nat
ional Foundation. The project will
be directed by an interracial com
mittee of which Edward T. Ber
nath, public school principal, and
Mrs. Gertrude A. Robinson, nat
ional president of Phi Delta Kap
pa Sorority, are co-chairmen. The
Foundation’s greater Neto York
Chapter, under whose auspices the
stand will be operated, predicted
that contributions from Upper
Manhattanites will be comparable
to those made at other Mile of
Dimes stands throughout the city
<uia nation.
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, founded in 1938
by the late President Roosevelt to
lead, direct and unify the fight
against iniantile paralysis, is de
dicated to the conquest of the dis
ease. President Harry S. Truman
endorsed this fight against this
disease.
This year, concert hail will re
plane tlie traditional ball-room in
observances of January 30 as hun*
dreds of cities and towns rally the
nation in the continuing war ag.
ainst polimyelitis, one of tne most
dreaded and most expensive dis
eases known to medical science.
Thai night President Truman will
be one of the speakers on the full
hour four network show to be
broadcast from Washington and
Hollywood
More than 13,000 men, women
and children in the United States
■were victims of infantile paralysis
in 1945, making it the fourth ...gn
! LET'S GET TOGETHER FOR THE REAL FIGHT
est year on record. In 1943 and ’44
the nation had 12,429 and
cases, respectively. The three-year
total, 1943-45 inclusive, is greater
than has ever been reported pre
viously for any five-year period.
The peak reported for any one
ear in this country was in
when more than 27,000 person
were stricken by the Great Grip
pier.
Outbreaks of infantile paralysis
come without warning. No one
knows what will happen in 1946
but the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis and its chap
ters throughout the nation are
making preparations now for any
emergency. Since treatment of in
fantile paralysis is" so expensive,
only the united gifts of all can in
sure every aid for the afflicted.
Dimes and dollars contributed
to previout appeals of the Nation
al Foundation helped thousands of
victims of infantile paralysis by
providing them adequate care and
treatment. Join the 1946 March of
Dimes, January 14-31.
JAP SUICIDES
Tokyo, Japan, (Soundphoto) _
The widow of Prince Fumimaro
Konoye bows her head in grief in
her Tokyo home shortly after the
| three time Jap Prmiere had taken
his life by poison on Dec. 16th.
Konoye took his life on the eve of
j his imprisonment as a War crimes
| suspect. His arrest had been or
dered several days before by Gen
ral MacArthur.
CAN YOU IRON A GUSSET?..... i
Joliet, 111.,—“Just wait until 11
finish this shirt”, said gusset i
press operator Mary Ann Vietorisl
at the American Institute of Laun |
dering's model laundry here. She
rushed from the altar in her brid
al veil and returned to her old job
long enough to show her husband
Joseph Gromos, how she helped
win the war—keeping a fighting
nation clean. And the groom, a
war veteran, with bridesmaid Lil
lian Gromos, watched impatiently
as his bride adjusted the sleeve of
a shirt in the gusset press on the
shirt production line at the laund
ry, where test washings under
normal conditions are made.
“SEIZED CRADLE OF THE
peOple"._.
Istanbul, Turkey, Soundphoto—
Dispatches publicized by the semi
official Turkish news agency Ana
tolia, branded as ‘crazy’ Russian
Georgian’ demands that Russia an
nex a 180-mile stretch of Black
. Sea Coast, and said Turkey would
\ fight to prevent the loss of a sin
I gle inch of Turkish territory. The
Georgian demands, in form of a
letter referred to the seized cradle
of the people’ and demanded that
Turkey turn over to the Georgi
ans eight administrative districts,
of which the picturesque Black
Sea City of Trabzon, of 30,000 pop
ulation, pictured here, is the chief
city and port. The incident is no
help to already strained Russo -
Turkish relations which have been
deteriating since last March when
j the Soviet denounced a 20-year-old
| treaty of friendship and non-ag
j gression
| Christmas Seal Sale May
i Exceed Last Year’s
Special advance reports from
the Tuberculosis Association thru
the state indicate that the results
of this year’s Christmas Seal sale
will at least equal and possibly ex
ceed last year’s, so the Nebraska
Tuberculosis Association announ
ced today.
With results as yet only parti
ally tabulated the following com
munities have already exceeded
their last years quotas and are
still expecting more funds: Ain
sworth, Bayard, Beatrice, Belvi
dere, Bertrand, Broken Bow, Cher
ry County, Cheyenne County, Co
zad, Deshler, Dixon County, Dod
ge, Ew'ing, Franklin County, Ber
ing Friend, Gobbon, Greeley, Hol
dredge, Hooker County, Johns
town, Kimball, Long Pine, Mea
dow Grove, Nebraska City, New
man Grove, North Bend, O’Neill,
Oscola, Otoe County, Overton, St
Paul, Shelton, Sidney, Stroms
burg Tekamah, Thayer County,
Tobias, Waterloo, and Webster
County.
Numerous other associations
had practically reached their quo
tas by the time of the advance re
port. The report shows a total of
$94,784.63 already received, out of
a quota of $125,000 for the state.
Omahans contributed $30,766.41 of
this total.
Many of the Christmas Seal com
mittees within the state conducted
a mail sale for the first time this
year, instead of having the Seals
sold by school children, and have
expressed gratification at the re
sults of the change
Officials of th eNebraska Tu
berculosis Association consider
this year’s Seal Sale a particular
ly important one. Tuberculosis in
creases have been an aftermath
of every major war said Dr. John
Gardiner, President of the Asso
ciation. We musn’t let this happen
this time.
v _ _
! A YOUTHFUL COLUMN
Chatter
Box...
by DORIS ANN McCILL
Greetings friends and Happy
New Year through ail this year!
If you didn’t hear Betty Givins
sing at the breakfast dance New
Years Eve, you certainly missed
a treat. Hay Richard!
Billje R. was there any truth in
that statement you made to yours
truly about that certain person?
It doesn’t seem so! !I !
Cliff must be Captain Midnite
in disguise. Ask him to tell you
of his latest venture! !!! !
M. S says she’s in love with RB
but doesn’t seem like 1 2 and 3 on
track 6. do you follow me? oo-la.
Jingle bells rattled for Dorothy
Lincoln and many good wishes.
Lorraine Jackson keeps us dying
laughing Speak to her and you’ll
find out what I mean.
_
Flash! Flash! ! !
The Party given by Chatsie Wil
son turned out to be fine. Every
one there seemed to be happy but
one certain (rooster) No name to
be mentioned. )
Cute Girls of the Week
Evelyn Trigg, Joyce Gardner,
and Marie Rose.
What certain girl went to school
Wednesday morning drunk and
got in class, looked at the teacher
and walked out of the class, (only
2 guesses this time)
siansr or rne Year—
Vi til I’ll say there now ! : '
Home for the holidays—
Pauline Berry, Merriel Sanders,
Chatsie Wilson and Shirley San
ders. All lookin’ great also Udoxia
and Odessa Goodwin, Betty Davis
Betty Masie, Margaret Faison,
Betty Thomas, Edsel Hudson, Jac
queline Johnson (Council Bluffs),
I Beverly Crimes and Eva Littles.
Huba! Huba! The party is to
nite, Friday, Jan. 4th at 2S07 Se
ward St. for Jackie Johnson given
by Bernice and Tinnie. Come one,
come all lets jam up right,
i
Boom! ! ! Boom' ! !
Who are the certain boys who
go around showing their papers
i received from Uncle Sam! Hay La
Rue, Ronald, and Brsles.
Bing! ! quote Dec. 7th, Sam Lee
discovered World War II in Japan
He’s a sad hero! Hay Lee ha! ha!
And now for our 1946 Parade
Pres, of the Bro Hood. Jack Mar
ion.
Best Dresser—Alphonzo Marion
Best Manners—Are you kidding?
Best L;ne—Arnold Biddix
Best Singers—Lester
Best Shape—Nadine Monday
Best Physique—Cliff Robbins
Cutest smile—Barbara Scott
Sweetest—Calvin Murriel
Nicest—June McKinny
Queerest—Pitman Foxall
Personality—Margaret Fowler
Most Popular—William Payton
She Wolf—Mary Curren
He Wolf—Skipper
Best Athlete—Tech, William Wil
liams. Central, Cleveland
Most Loveliest—Lady in the Dark
Most Whitest—June Walker
Most Glamorous—Joyce Gardner
Jolliest—Fred Lee
Most Shy—Pole Cat
Best Cave Mannish—Art Smith
Wildest—Jerome Daniels
Pretiest—Cozie Eubanks
Most Meddlesome—Tommy Up
chure
Best nature acting—Ben Rucker
Best Dancer—-Kenneth Graham
Best Sport—Robert Reynolds
Finest Hair—Amelia Orduna and
Lorraine Jackson
Line of a Nose—Thelma Pruitt
Most Ignorant—Do I have to tell
Most Friendly—Cleo Beil
Best Legs—Delores Hall
Bi.s* Features—Lorraine Morris
Tall Dark and Nobtushes—Roland
Green
Best all Around—Bobby Ownes
Eyes—Jean Pierce
Loads of Fun—Field Mouse
(Charline W.)
Smallest—Naomi Duncan
Best Skaters—Louise Perkins and
Katherine Wilburn
Signing off with Mouth Pierce CB
The Lionel Hampton Dance jum
ped like mad. Everyone had a fine
time also, Nat Towle;- was pretty
sharp. r
Servicemen of the Year—
Paul O., Von Richard, Clydq
GIRL, 12, COG IN HARVEST
BRIGADE
Grant, Nebr., Verdeen, 12, shown
with her father, Clarence Beisner,
above played a man's part in the
1945 harvest brigade. It was her
■ob to buy the groceries and pre
pare three square meals a day for
her dad and a hired man. With
many farm hands off to war ar.d
too few machines available for the
harvest, bumper crops found far
mers. aj well as government, con
. ccrnea about getting the crops har
[ vested. To help meet the emergen.
I cy, a company of Racine, Wis.,
launched the wartime harvest bri
gade. Hundreds of farmer-owned
I self propelled combines harvested
over four million acres of the 1944
! an! 1945 grain crops, tie cause of
the emergency the government
permitted manufacture of an extra
allotment of combines a3 they
saved manpower, grain, fuel and
critical wartime materials.
t
I ■" -
Victory Clothing Drive for War Relief
Victims Gets Under Way Jan. 7th
THESE Chinese war orphans must face the winter in threadbare rags. You can help them and millions
of others who experienced the terror of war. Give all the clothing, shoes and bedding you can spare to
the Victory Clothing Collection for relief of war victims. Let your old clothes take on new life overseas.
Manan Anderson, Lester
B. Granger Make Appeal
for Victory Clothing
Campaign for Destitute
New York, Jan. 5th—Two pro
minent Negro leaders, Lester B.
Granger, who recently returned
from a tour of Naval bases in the
Pacific as a personel representa
tive of Secretary Forrestal, and
Marian Anderson, the singer, have
made special appeals for generous
response to the Victory Clothing
Collection for Overseas Relief.
Their statements were made pub
lic today by Henry J. Kaiser, na
tional chairman of the drive which
begins January 7 in communities
throughout America.
Mr Granger, who is executive
Lonnie, and Lewis Curren.
The Slumber Party I heard turn
ed out to be beat. Wonder why
certain people called the law! ! !
cause they couldn’t come in. Boys
you’ll get caught, but soon! ! !
I Nice People to Know—
Erma Smith, Eddie Sulivan,
‘ Harold Johnson, Daniel Ware, Bet
1 ty White, Margaret Thomas, Gol
j die Perkins, Alice Halcomb and
i Velma Watkir.s.
I Happy birthday to Jean Reg
| gins! !!
j .
There will be a jump the 21 of
' January- Watch this column for
| other information.
Also there is to be a party at
the YWCA next Thursday, 4—8
good deal! ! !
This year we will start some
thing diferent and hope you like
it as much as I so here it is:
Guess Who—
Color—Olive Brown (tan)
Eyes—Baby blue
Hair—Blond
Hangout—All around
Slang Word—Now what you bet!
Movie Star—Clark Gable
Add—4708 So. Choc Ave.
Phone—WE 4459 or JA 5453
Weight—148
Height—5ft-5 half inches
Age—18 and hal^ birthday in Feb.
Pet Peeve—To keep my mind off
boys.
In closing always remember that
champagne spending New Years
on a coca cola pocket is the high
i way to the poor house.
I’ll be seeing you—Dot.
! NAACP HAILS DEWEY STAND
AGAINST J. C. IN VETERANS
HOUSING
New York—The announcement
of Governor Dewey that there wiil
be no discrimination on the basis
or race, color or religion in the
emergency housing program for
veterans drew congratulations
from the NAACP last week, to
gether with a request that the
state and city authorities give the
closest scrutiny to the policy to
be carried out by a private man
agement company.
While positive in his statement
on no discrimination, Governor
Dewey declared that details will be
be up to the management, refer
ring to the fact that the admini
stration of veterans housing units
will be in the hands of a private
management company selected by
the City, subject to the approval
ot the State.
It is imperative, the NAACP
letter said, that approval by you
of the management selected by the
City shall be conditioned upon a
guarantee by the company selected
that it will not discriminate be
cause of race, color, or creed in
the admission of veterans or any
other citizens to any of the hous
ing units under its management.
Such a guarantee must be abso
lute and must be carried under the
closest scrutiny of both State and I
City officials.
We wish to congratulate you up
on your prompt statement of the ;
policy of the State and urge upon
you an immediate implementation
of that policy along the lines sug
gested In this letter.
A similar letter was sent to Ma
yor-Elect William O’Dwyer, stat
ing it is now clearly up to your ad
ministration to fix as a condition
of the employment of the private
management company charged
with the administration of the
housing project a guarantee from
that company that it will not dis
criminate in any way in the ad
mission of veterans or any other
citizens to any of the housing un
its.
CLEMENCY ASKED FOR
SOLDIER
Washington. D. C_A petition
for clemency in behalf of John H.
Thorpe has been filed by NAACP
attorneys with the Secretary of
War. Thorpe was convicted Nov.
21, 1944, for allegedly participat
ing in an assault upon some mili
tary policemen- He was sentenced / :
to hishonorable discharge and 15 I
secretary of the National Urban
League declared: “I have recently
returned from one war-blasted
city, Manila. The desolation and
destitution in that once beautiful
Philippine capital are pitiful be
yond words. Half-naked and na
ked children and ragged adults
swarm neighborhoods where Jap
anese bombs literally blasted their
dwellings out of existence.
“And what of the destitute and
ragged who walk the streets of
Europe’s cities? We fought to
free their spirits. With the war
won, we must keep their bodies
alive to make our sacrifices and
theirs worthwhile. We must give
all that we can, for humanity’s
sake. The Victory Clothing Col
lection deserves the support of
every Amercan citizen who has at
heart the welfare of the world’s
unfortunates.
Marian Anderson, a member of
the National Committee of the
Victory Clothing Collection, point
ed that 25 million people of the
devastated lands overseas “have
received something to wear from
us in America’’ through the first
nation-wide clothing drive last
April. She added that the sharp
truth is that millions still suffer.
In China alone 200 million are
destitute. So we are asked once
more to look into our closets and
our dresser drawers and share
with those who have nothing our
useful clothes, clothes our children
have outgrown, the coat or shoes
or suit we and' our husbands can
do without.
Miss Anderson also emphasized
the importance of attaching letters
of goodwill to clothing contribu
tions That word of kindness will
put hope in another human heart
and create one more bond of good
will among human beings who all
long for piece above everything
no matter what their land or lan
guage. President Truman has said i
that thi3 is a service to peace. I
beleive this with all my heart.”
The national goal of the cloth
ing collection is 100 million ser
viceable, used garments in addi
tion to shoes and bedding. Collec
tion depots have been set up in j
every community. The United Na
tions Relief and Rehabilitation |
Administration will ship the cloth"
ing gifts overseas for free distri
—.—..
bution without discrimination of
any kind.
SOUTHERN CONFERENCE FOR
HUMAN WELFARE
(Continued from page I'gy’l)
the anti-poll tax bill.
I wish there was some filibuster
that I could inaugurate that would
immediately and finally forever
dissolve and destroy the so-called
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare, a mongrel organization
that is only a communistic front
that has no other purposes on
earth except to bring about social
equality between the white and
black races which would lead to
miscegenation and intermarriage
j of the races and thereby destroy
i the white race and the black race
and our Caucasion civilization
which the white man of this cour
| try has made possible for the glory
j happiness, success and prosperity
• of the American people as a
j whole.
You may be able for a little
J time to fool a few decent white
; people with your insidious scheme
that is behind the Southern Con
ference for Human Welfare DUt
not long. If I were called upon to
name the Number One Enemy of
the South today it would be the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare.
signed—Theo G. Bilbo, U S S
ANTI-NEGRO ATTITUDE
SCORED BY EISTEIN
New York—Prejudice against
Negroes is unworthy and even fa
tal according to Albert Einstein,
world famous scientist. Writing in
the magazine, Pageant, for Janu
ary, under the title, A Message to
My Adopted Country, Prof. Ein
stein says:
"There is, however, a somber
point in the social outlook of Am
ericans. Their sense of equality is
mainly limited to men of white
skins. The more I feel ah Ameri
can, the more this situation pains
me I can escape the feeling of
complicity in it only by speaking
out.
"I believe that whoever tries to
think things through honestly will
soon tecognize how unworthy and
even fatal is the traditional bias
against Negroes.”
JUNIOR GRAND CHAMPION
Frank Trainer, Pontiac, IJ1.,
md his 228 pound Berkshire which
was awarded the 4—H Grand
Championship over all breeds at
:he Chicago Market Fat Stock
Show the first of December. In ad
,’ears at hard labor. The NAACP
■equesti d that the conviction be
■eversed and the remaining por
tion of Thorpe’s sentence be re
nitted, therefore allowing him to
•e-enlist in the army and receive
in honorable discharge.
dition to his 4—H activities, which
netted him his supreme award at
this year’s wartime edition of the
world famed International Live
Stock Exposition, the youthful 11.
linoisian has been operating a 320
acre farm the last two years, due
to the continued illness of him fa
ther. Next year with the return of
a brother from the armed forces,
they expect to operate a farm of
480 acres. However, this is Franks
last year in 4—H work, and his
win with his Berkshire comes as
a fitting climax to his ten years’
participation in the farm youth
program.
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