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■ LOCAL & NATL NEWS-lOc per copy “AND WORTH IT” ■ /JUSTICE/EQUALITY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 d^rdU OKANT ST Ac_X_At “Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC.” Jf. Entered as 2nd class matter at Post- oftice. Omaha, Nebr, Under Act of Saturday, January 19, 1946 Our 18th Year—No. 50 ★ 10c Per Copy ★ March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr • “Give To ThpMarch of Dimes — — —_•Remember The Victory Clothing Relief Campaign Weekly Feature Launched To Promote Race Harmony +■ Every Week, we shall present ’Our Guest Column,” a non-profit service of the American Press Associates devoted to furthering ^Edited^y Erna ‘i ^iarrts noted journalist, our new weekly column will feature prominent guest contributors who will review current developments on the minority group front and suggest Local and na ttonwide action. Jewel uilding Condemnation The t nited Sttaes District Attorney started condemnation proceedings against the J. C. Jewel Build ing located at 24th and Grant streets on the southeast comer. _W SEE Page 8 of this issue for advertisement of this legal notice. OUR GUEST Column <Edited by ERNA P. HARRIS) • Minorities and the American Community ' K'nrrey £ at ■ Ot.' ,.eois cu* - - ut co? 3 ■* •* & ...r 'he r.ott . affirmed ir. a l ie Am«ricai! Chru ea for Refugee's pul • *t# It 13 tins J, rm«. aij ctual community to ward which modern man who finds himself ‘obsolete,’ must be led in the present universal con fusion. The question of who shall lead becomes, then, all-important. For there are those who seem to be lieve quite seriously that we should give all our attention to international issues, since domes tic problems will solve themselves if we can solve world problems. Such reasoning is seductive. It is pleasant to believe that as Amer icans we have the ultimate in de sirable social formulae to offer the rest of the world. Bemused by the Atlantic Charter and the my stical four freedoms, we seem to forget our Missippis and our Bil bos, our Jew-baiters, and Negro baiters, our General Motors and our C E. Wilsons. But. it would seem that before we offer a way of life to the rest of the world We should examine the worth of our proposed gift International isolationism, so to speak, can be as dangerous as America first-ism. Both are ram pant today. The protagonists of international cooperation includ ing Senator Vandenburg, will ren der neither the world nor America ! much gbod in this critical hour if' they t conspicously or consciously | or not i blind us to our national i defects and the wave of fascism j threatening to engulf us. The National CIO Community Services Committee has worked actively in communities through out America during the war and I into the peace as the CIO's social i , welfare and relief arm. The Com- i mittee has fought discrimination I against any and all minorities in certam Community Chests and social service agencies. The broad experience gained in community relations has given the Committee a clear picture of the frightening extent to which fear, ignorance prejudice and reaction permeate the body of American society. This consists not only of racial prejudice and prejudice against organized labor and fear of pro gressive social and political act ion, but also of reaction against the sheer principles of democracy The desparate need for the unity j of all progressive forces through out the country has been clearly demonstrated, but confusion and political fractionalism are becom ing increasingly an obstacle. At no time has the garden-variety j liberal better deserved the epithet! of confused'. The United Nations now are meeting in London, and world peace and security are at stake. World cooperation must be achi eved. clearly, even cooperation be tween shabby government which deny democracy to their own cit izens. But essentially, over the years, world peace, world securi ty and world freedom begin at home, on the banks of the Missi ssippi and Yazoo Rivers and in our myriad Detroits and Garys PROTEST ON DISCHARGE OF FIELD OFFICERS Washington, D. C_Negro of ficers of field grade who have ex pressed a desire to remain in the army are being summarily dis missed at Fort McClellan. Ala., it was clj^rged by the NAACP in a wire to Secretary of War Rob ert P Patterson- The association’s protest said subordinate com manders were being discrimina I Union Services Union Services will be held at St. John AME Church, 22nd and Willis Avenue. Sunday, January 20th. Devotional Services at 7:30 pm. Sermon at 8:00 pm. The speaker will be Rev F. C. Will iams. pastor of Zion Baptist Church. Music by Zion’s Senior Choir. South Omaha YMCA Given Official Status ' tha Branch of the \ inters . —vn Association : by action Erector's vester * T iwoxier o. o. oiwrt'^«opten. The first providing for Ai „cles of Government under which the branch will operate These Arti cles had been adopted by the una nimous decision of South Omaha Committee upon presentation by a special committee headed by Albert Young. The Articles of Government generally agree with the rules governing branches ad- ■ opted by the YMCA Board of Di rectors about a year ago. The se cond resolution submitted a list of 16 names fQr the South Omaha Branch Committee of Manage ment, five to be appointed later The names submitted and appro ved by the Board and officially appointed by the President are: William Kunold, Ben Prosch, David Blacker, Rev George S. | Bancroft, Chris Gugas, William j BerquisJ, Albert Stelling, Henry Miessner, Guy Chipman. Rev. Jo seph A Aughney, Fred ..idoe, Herbert Wells, Ralph Marrs. John Nixon, Joseph Swoboda, and Chauncey Premer. J F Berner reported on ^e act. ivities of the new near Northside Branch explaining that temporary YMCA headquarters have been established in an omce of the Jewell Building at 2221 North 24 Street. Parts of this building have been rented by Youth Centers, Inc., and the following five agen cies share in its use: YWCA, Ur ban League. City Recreation, Youth Centers, Inc., and YMCA. The YMCA is not responsible for the operation of this building, ! explained Mr. Berner, but are do- j nating part of Secretary Brad- ' ford’s time to assist the Commun- j ity Welfare Council in its man agement j The Branch Committee will meet Wednesday noon for election of chairman and addition of com- \ mittee members. General Secretary, W H. Mead,; in his report announced that Glenn | Gillespie, now General Secretary at McCook, Nebraska, has accep , ted the Omaha YMCA’s offer to] become Executive of the North: Omaha Committee effective on March 1st- This will compelte the j for the YMCA's program of ad vance in qommunity | ,-cirk, phis : year. AJ Getchey, Industrial Se -! cretary, has been given the addi-! tional responsibility of Business Secretary in the Central Build j mg.,_ 1 tory in disregarding the requests of the men, made under appropri ate War department regulations ' The protest took significance here among observers of postwar pol- : icy of the War department has no j plans for use of Negro officers of field grade, and that the long rumored integration policy may; not materialize. NEW OFFICE SECRETARY AT OMAHA URBAN LEAGUE Miss Ovalyn Grice, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Paul Grice of 1516 i North 28 Street, was selected by the Personnell Committee of the Urban League Board to replace Mrs. Elma F Lloyd as Office and Placement Secretary. Miss Grice is a graduate of Technical High School and until her recent appointment, was em ployed by the State Health De partment as a junior stenograph er. She has been closely a^^aied with League youth groups and served as president of the Omaha Negro Youth Council for two yrs. Hurry! Hurry! You will have to hurry if you want one of those beautiful lots in Bedford Park addition. They are going like hot-cakes in March. Don’t wait another day. call the owner, JA-7718 and arrange for your j first small down payment. Get started. Become a home owner. .20 years from today you won’t be sorry. Did you know when you get your lot paid for, you are right on the road to build your own home according to your own design, without putting up another dime. The government will furnish the funds for you to build your home. _ YES SIR, we say that you will have to HURRY, if you want one of those beautiful lots in Bedford Park addition. Call JA-7718 and make arrange ments for your deal. Where is Bedford Park addition? It is right in the heart of the most beautiful spot in the city of Omaha—30th from Wirt to Spencer. Don’t be sorry, don’t wait another day. Start now to be come A HOME OWNER. LaGUARDIA ELECTED MEMBER OF NAACP. DIR-BOARD Orchestra Leader Buys “L” Garage NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OPENING SET FOR 3:30 P. M. SUNDAY AFTERNOON _ A THRILLING MOMENT I GLAMOR-STRUCK: A thrilling moment for Y 3/c Tow Hawkins, of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, as he _atograph of Hilda Sims, star of “Anna Lucasta” now plavs^i&^mcago, Illinois. Th« occasion is a reception for the cast at the U*0 Club. Waukegan. Illinois. CIO SAYS PEARL HARBOR INVESTIGATION Smear on Memory of Roosevelt Describing the Senate ’investi gation’ of the Pearl Harbor dis aster as “an attempted smear on the memory of a great President" the CIO today told Senate Major ity Leader Alben Barkley (D. Kv) “It is time this mockery of an investigation was stopped and the Senate encouraged to go to work on issues of concern to the people rather than to the politicians.” The appeal to drop the Pearl Harbor probe was contained in a letter to Barkley from CIO Leg islative Director Nathan Cowan, who pointed out that the political jockeying now going on around the investigation was delaying action on needed legislation in the Senate, such as repeal of the polltax. passage of the 65-75 cents minimum wage bill, and other is sues. Text of Cowan's letter to Sena tor Barkley follows: “For some weeks now. the Sen ate of the United States has been prevented from carrying on its constitutional function of legisla ting for the government of this nation "The factor that has prevented the Senators from doing their duty to the people who elect them is the so-called investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster. ‘This investigation should more properly be described as an at tempted smear on the memory of a great President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt It should be also described as elect ion campaign strategy on the part of the Republican Party aimed at confusing the voters in time for November, 1946 “More serious than even these results from the prolonged exhi bition of political jockeying in and around the Pearl Harbor in vestigation is the delay that it has meant to needed legislation in the Senate—a delay that seems to be continuing into the new session. ‘Thus, while Senators vie for the headlines, progress on essen tial bills is completely stymied. Among such measures are the re peal of the polltax, the passage of the 65-75 cents minimum wage bill, the creation of a permanent FEPC. and others. “Unfortunately, several Sena tors on the majority side seem de termined to continue to appease I - A committee consisting of Miss Elizabeth Jordan, Mrs. Ruth Wiles Gaines T. Bradford and Arthur B. McCaw, completed plans for the formal opening of the new North side Community Center at the old USO building, 24th and Grant Sts,, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 pm Talks will be given by Mr. Fred Hill, Ass’t Superintendent of Schools and chairman of the Group Work Division of the Com munity Welfare Council; Mr. Ralph Adams, member of the newly elected board of the new Northside YMCA and prominent attorney; and Mrs. Robbie T. Da vis of the public schools. Musical selections will be given by the Imperialists under the di rection of Mr. Walter Bell with solos by Lester Corbin and Mrs. Colleen” St. Clair. Invocation will be by Rev. E B. Childress and the* benediction by Rev. S. S. Spaght. the Republican ana other enemies of the late President Roosevelt, even though it involves still fur ther stalling on needed social leg islation. “It is time this mockery of an investigation was stopped and the Senate encouraged to go to work on issues of concern to the people rather than the politicians.” WALTER WHITE ON W. COAST New York—Walter White, the NAACP secretary, is on the Pa cific Coast for conferences and speaking engagements that will keep him out of New York for 6 weeks- Mr. White will speak in Loa Angeles, San Francisco and the East. ELLINGTON AGAIN TOPS ESGUIRE’S AWARDS The inimitable Duke Ellington has been chosen for the second consecutive year as the top ar ranger and his band as the top jazz band in Esquire’s 1946 All American Jazz Selections. And the jazz stylists Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Red Norvo, and Coleman Hawkins have been picked for the third ' consecutive year as the top spe cialists in the jazz world-three i time winners of one of jazz's most i coveted awards, the 1946 Gold Esky” Statuette, signifying All American rating. t The complete list of the ranking jadzmen of the year as picked by Esquire's nationally known Board I of Experts—all winners of the ’46 j ‘ Eskys” greaL URBAN LEAGUE ANNUAL MEETING AT JOSLYN MEMORIAL !The Joslyn Memorial lecture hall has been selected by the Omaha League Board for their 18th An i nual Meeting according to an an ! nouncement made by Rev. W. H. Phelps. President. The meeting is to be held on Lincoln’s birthday, Tuesday, February 12. National Council For Permanent FEPC. Calls Emergency Meeting The National Council for a Permanent FEPC. through its co chairmen. A. Philip Randolph and Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers, has called an emergency meeting of national leaders at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. D. C. for Wednesday. January 23rd. Fail ure of the Congress to act on TEPC legislat.on. rapidly mount hg racial and religious tensions, | je return of over a million non white servicemen, and the minor ity problems brought about by planless reconversion have cre ated a situation so fraught with danger as to constitute a national emergency. Consideration of measures to meet this emergency will be the principle business of the dinner meeting at which Hon. Harold £. Lewis Schwellenbach will be the Principal speakers. The principal officers of the 70 national organizations which are cooperating with the National Council, as well as presidents of such organizations as the Nation al Association of Manufacturers.; United States Chamber of Com- i merce, the American Legion. American Veterans Committee and other Veteran's organizations have been invited to participate. The famous Band leader, Mr. Nat Tow les and a Mr. Alfred A. Fiedler, bought the New L Oarage building at 24th and Lake—so shows the record. The purchase price was approximately $8,500.00. So far, we have been unable to contact Mr. Towl es to find out what he expects to do with the build ing. (Watch next week’s paper for a statement on his plans.) Race Benefactor Dies LIBERIA ISSUES FDR STAMP Washington, D. C.—Liberia is issuing a Roosevelt Memorial pos tage as tribute to the apprecia tion of the late President, the Liberian Consulate has announ ced. A $15,000,000 construction pro ject initiated by President Roose velt will give Liberia one of the most modern seaports in West Africa, the Consulate announced. It is being built under US sup ervision. — Every Nebraskan Will Have Chance to Partici pate in March of Dimes Every Nebraskan will have an j opportunity to participate in Ne-1 braska's biggest March of Dimes drive, now underway to continue through January 31, Walter F. Cozad, Omaha, State Chairman, announced as the -drive opened Monday. With 120 cases of polio reported in Nebraska last year, Nebrask ans, like the nation, have had an opportunity to see the National Foundation for Infantile Para lysis in action, Mr. Cozad said. During 1945 the state received $6 300 from the National organ ization to assist against local chapters carry on the fight against the desease "Adequate treatment and care i of the infantile paralysis patient I requires months, sometimes even years, of nursing and medical service and this is costly”, Mr. Cozad said. At an average cost of $2,500 for each patient, it is too costly for the average American family to carry the load unassi sted by local chapters of the Na tional Foundation. “Your dimes and dollars serve your own community and the na tion,” the State Chairman said in asking Nebraskans to support the March of Dimes drive. He empha sized that ail contributions should be sent to local March of Dimes chairmen. Local chapters retain half of ail 1 contributions for care and treat ment of polio victims in their own communities. The other half goes to the National Foundation for research, training of personnel and epedemic emergency aid. PRINCIPAL OF BANCROFT SCHOOL COMMENDS CHOIR Dear Mr. McCaw and Mr Bell: All day Friday, after your dra matic concert on Thursday even ‘ mg at our Parent-Teacher meet ing. I kept receiving messages by phone or note expressing pleasure at your appearance. Several par ents who had not been present ex pressed regret at their absence Word got around fast of the treat they had missed. The children made a special point to let me o 1 their teachers know how much their parents had enjoyed the mu sic. It is and will be the high per formance of our year. It is a very fine thing to assemble a group of young people together for such artistic development and then to make it possible for other people to enjoy the products of their act ivities. I hope you have the very best success in your proposed concert tour I | Sincerely, I S’smed: Zell R Sahn Greensboro, N C—The death of Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer in New York Tuesday, January 8, robbed Ben nett College of its most generous benefactor. She had been confined to a hospital and at her home for several months with a broken leg following a fall. She was 85 years old. Her gifts of approximately $850,000 to Bennett since 1934, represents a small portion of the millioms she has given to colleges and other institutions in the Uni ted States and foreign countries. Funeral services were held in New York, Friday. January 11. President and Mrs. David Jones and Miss Willa B. Player, regis trar, represented the college. FORMER 92nd OFFICER HAS SENTENCE REMITTED New York—The sentence of 25 years at hard labor meted out to Noel W. Greenridge, former 1st lieutenant in the 92nd Infantry, has been completely remitted and Greenridge has reenlisted and he will be eligible for an honorable discharge, the NAACP was ad vised last week Thurgood Mar shall and Franklin H. Williams, NAACP lawyers, filed the petit ion for clemency on behalf of him with the Secretary of War. The lawyers also filed a similiar pe Ution on Denan oi jonn Arnoiu, formerly a private, who was con victed on a charge of rape. NEW CIVILIAN AIDE—Lieu tenant Colonel Marcus H. Ray, j Chicago, Illinois, formerly com , manding officer of the 600th Field Artillery Battalion of the 92nd [ Infantry (“Buffalo”) Division was 1 appointed Civilian Aide to the Sec ! retary of War on January 2, 1946. I Colonel Ray succeeds Mr. Truman l K. Gibson, Jr., who held the post for three years before resigning on November 19, 1945. Colonel Ray’s service in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations won him the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, and the Italian honor. Cross of Merit of War. (U. S. Army photo from Bureau of Public Relations. 1-7-46.) Phone us vour SOCIAL NOTES j JA-3215 ^*##############»##»»»»»##»#^#^ 3 - j Association Reports 500,000 Members and $442,000 Income in ’45 New York—F H. LaGuardia, former Mayor of New York, was among the 16 persons elected to the board of directors of the NAACP at the annual meeting of the association January 7. Other new' members chosen were Norman O. Houston, president of r the Golden State Mutual Life In surance Company, Los Angeles, Calif., and Ike Smalls, Des Moin es, la., business man and presi dent of the Iowa State conference of NAACP branches. Members re-elected include: Dr. Buell G. Gallagher. Berkeley, Calif.; S Ralph Harlow. North ampton, Mass-; Mrs. Grace B. Fenderson, Newark, N. J.; Carl Murphy, Baltimore, Md.; Judge William H. Hastie, Washington, D. C.; Dr. William Allan Neilson. Falls Village, Conn.; and Miss Marion Cuthbert, Judge Hubert T. DeLany, Lewis S- Gannett, John Hammond. Rev. James H. Robinson, Arthur B. Springam. and Dr Channing H. Tobias, all of New York. Colored peoples throughout the world, who constitute two-thirds of the earth’s population, are de termined once and for all time to end white exploitation and im perialism. declared Walter White in his report to the meeting. The NAACP faces a new year with undimmed determination, he said. Its membership has reached an all-time high of both Negro and write members totalling 500. 000. Its branches, youth councils and college chapters now total 1129—more than twice the num ber in 1943. Significant victories were won in 1945 against housing segregation, trade union discri mination and legal injustices. In 1946 the work of the NAACP Veteran’s Bureau, established on January 1, 1945, will be greatly expanded to meet the needs of veterans, particularly Negro vet erans, who are facing in many in stances unbelievable discrimina in finding jobs and places to live. We have added to our staff a lawyer, himself a veteran, whose duties will be the handling of our courts martials and blue discharge certificate cases of Negro veter ans which are inordinately chs proportioned because of race pre judice We shall continue a vig orous legislation campaign both in the national Congress and in State Legislatures for needed legislation dealing with employ ment, voting, racial discrimina tion, segregation in armed ser vices. the poll tax, lynching, hou sing and fair employment prac tice. An expanded and more spe cific program of activity against misrepresentation of the Negro in moving pictures, radio, news reels, stage, fiction and newspa pers wul be put into errect. The NAACF, Mr. White said, will work also on international phases of the race question be cause the American situation is part and parcel of the problems of other colored peoples in the West Indies, South America Afri* ca the Pacific and Asia. A fight during 1946 for abso lute equality of educational fa cilities and expenditures between Negro and white students in the southern states where segrega tion is required by law, was also pledged by Thurgood Marshall. Special Counsel, reporting for the legal department. The report fore cast that the coming year will see a large number of cases filed in states below the Mason-Dixon line to compel equality in the lo cal school systems In voting cases the report also pledged -continued vigilance against efforts of election offici als in the southern states to en force the ‘white primary', out lawed in the famous 1944 Texas White Primary case decision, brought to the US Supreme Court by the NAACP. Discriminatory registration practices and the poll tax were attacked in the report. Cases involving these principles are already filed and others are now ready for filing in a number or souuiern sutues. Charters were granted during the past year to 170 new branches of the association, located in 31 states and the Territory of Ha waii. The greatest expansion was in Texas, where 42 new chapters were chatered, according to the report of Ella J. Baker, director of branches. The NAACP has branches in all states except New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Mon. tana. North Dakota, she said Membership in the Youth de 1 partment increased by one-third during 1945, said Mrs. Ruby Hur ley, secretary for youth work- The present youth membership is 22, 180 with 5,485 of these being in college chapters. Incomplete ta bulations place the total member ship for 1945 near the 500,000 mark, with many final reports from many areas not yet re ceived. tiross income for the year was $442,000. of which approximately $403,000 came in one form or an other from the rank and file membership. This total includes $65,000 sent in by men and women white and colored, in the armed services The Crisis magazine, official monthly of the NAACP. reDorted an average circulation during ’45 i of 59,000 copies monthly. Its ! gross income was $79,992, accor ding to Roy Wilkins, editor. Bedford Park’s Beautiful Lots Are on the Market F or Sale Now! From $450 to $600 CallRealty Improvement Company 342 Electric Bldg. JA-7718 or JA-1620 “Small Down Payment Will Do the Job”.
