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555th Parachute Infantry Batalion Takes Part In New York City’s World War II Victory Parade Camp Shanks, NY, Jan. *19— The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion of the 13th Airborne Division arrived in Camp Shanks last week-end and took phrt in New York City’s World War II Victory Parade last Staurday, Jan 12th. Consisting of ten officers and 149 enlisted men, the 555th was transported to Camp Shanks from Fort Bragg, N. C. in trucks of the 663rd QM Truck Co. 62 of the 663rd’s drivers are veterans of the ETO's famous Red Ball Sup ply Highway. Commanding Officer of the 555 Paratrooops is Capt. James H. Porter, New York City. Other battalion officers are 1st Lt Ed ward D. Baker, E Chicago, Ind.; Lionel B. Cade, Berkeley, Calif.; Donald W. Tyler, Akron, Ohio; and Jesse Mayes, Emporia Va.; 2nd Lt. Wilfred S. Ford, New York City; George W. Whitaker, inta Monica, Calif.; Roger S. /alden, Detroit, Mich-; Thomas .IcFadden, Thomasville, Ala.; and Harry S Sutton, New York City. For many of the 555th’s Air borne troops, the Victory marked the last public ceremony of their Army careers, as they will leave Camp Shanks for separation cen ters and discharges. The 555th, only all-colored Air borne Battalion, was activated at Ft. Benning, Ga., in Dec., 1943, with a group a cadre-men from the 92nd Infantry Division and a group of volunteers from Negro troop units from all over the coun try. The parachute soldiers re ceived their advanced combat training at Camp McCall, N. C., and were activated as a battalion on Nov. 25, 1944. Later, the battalion was assign ed duties in the 9th Service Com mand Area, acting as Jap balloon spotters and air fire rangers over the states of Oregon, Washing ton, California, and Montana In the course of their duties they made over 4,000 parachute jumps and extinguished 36 fires during a three month period. They were the first Army troops to be given the job of fighting forest fires by descending near them by para chute. Frequently the men made descents over virgin wooded ter ritory in a fifty mile area and had to hack their way out of track less woods which had never be fore been penetrated by man One soldier, Pfc. Melvin Brown, of Philadelphia, lost his life after a jump into the Oregon woods. Most of the flights of the 555th were made in C-47 transport planes of the 1st Troop Transport Com mand. A citation was received by the battalion from Maj. Gen. William E. Shedd, Commanding General of the 9th Service Command, for the efficiency of their work there. At present the battalion has an enlisted strength of 319 men. It is attached to the 5th Corps of Gen. Hodges’ 1st Army. Capt. Porter, battalion CO, stated that the organization will probably be come a part of the Regular Army. About half of the battalion par ticipated Saturday, Jan 12, with other units of the 13th Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, in the greatest display of military might exhibited in this country since Gen. Pershing led the US Victory Parade in 1918. The parade began at Washington Square and Fifth Avenue, at 1:00 pm. NAACP COMPILING RECORD OF SOLDIERS The NAACP announced last week that it is now in the pro cess of compiling material from “IT FAYS TO LOOK WELL" MAYO’S BARBER SHOP Ladies and Children’s Work A Specialty 2422 LAKE ST. documents and authentic sources concerning the conduct and re-! cord of Negro troops in World War II. The Association is anxious to make this as complete and in formative as possible and invites persons who may have source ma terial to send it to the national office, 20 West 40th St., New York 8, NY 2 Omaha Packing Plants Not Affected by Strike The United Packing House wor kers of America, CIO will not at the present strike at the two Omaha plants, The Nebraska Beef Company and the South Omaha Packing Company- These plants will operate in order to supply the meat for the army, the Veterans Hospital and local hospitals for the sick. Also any other institu tions that need meat for health purposes. A union committee has met with the two local plant man agements and outlined the union program in regard to meat being sent to the above agencies. The two companies involved have agreed to cooperate with the un ion in regard to allocating their products as suggested by the un ion. The Nebraska Beef Company is represented by local 61, UPWA, i CIO, and the South Omaha Pack ing Company is represented by lo cal 113, UPWA, CIO. Both of the unions took a strike vote Novem ber 30, 1945, and were due to go on strike January 16, 1946 The decision to keep these two plants operating'vas reached by the In ternational Executive Board of the UPWA, CIO, and the top strategy committee in Chicago, 111. The ba lance of the packing industry in Omaha, Nebraska, will strike on January 16, 1945. This news re lease is given to the public in or der that any hospitals or health | agencies may contact the above two plants to gel meat allocated, for health purposes. This news release is issued by the United Packing House Wor- i kers of America, CIO, Publicity i Committee. Frank Cronin, Patrick Ratigan1 John A Cassidy—Signed. Negro Colleges Hold “Fund Raising Clinic” New York—A “fund raising" clinic was held here Monday and Tuesday among the presidents of the 32 educational institutions which comprise the United Negro College Fund, William J- Trent, Jr., executive director, announced this week. In the course of the two days' meeting, ’both the Executive Com mittee and the Board of Direct ors of the Fund met. The sessions were held at the Hotel Commo dore. The presidents reviewed the ex periences growing out of the 1943 campaign in which $1,060,000 was raised, and shared the views of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Thomas A. Morgan of the Sperry Corpor ation, Winthrop Aldrich, banker, and Walter Hoving, formerly pre sident of Lord and Taylor, na tional officers for that drive. The educators also heard pro posals foil improving their me thods of campaigning in the ma jor cities which generally caarry the brunt of the united appeal, as a preliminary to the 1946 drive which opens in April. Experts in the fields of organization, publi city and leadership from the John Jrice Jones Corporation paced the technical discussions. In two campaigns conducted since the Fund was organized in 1944, more than two million dol lars have been raised for the member colleges for the mainten ance of buildings, raising of sal aries, student aid, and improve ment of library facilities. This year, according to Mr- Wm Trent, the colleges find themsel ves faced with the return of thou sands of war veterans. 'Attention Veterans ) And Everybody! | The Opening of the [Rose La Telia Apparel Shop I will be January 24, 1946 at 2418 Grant Street, |first door east in The Omaha Guide Publishing Company Building. Come and look in the Rose I La Telia Apparel Shop,—You may find just | what you want in wearing apparel. | For Men and Boys For Women and Children| SUITS OVERCOATS SPORT COATS LEATHER JACKETS SHIRTS HATS PANTS SHORTS SCARFS SWEATERS SHOES RUBBERS POCKET KNIVES DRESSES HATS ' COATS SHOES I UNDIES FASCINATORS I BLOUSES SWEATERS i SKIRTS WHAT-NOTS \ Open Everyday from 10:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. Thrifty Service... • 6 LBS. OF LAUNDRY BEAUTIFULLY LAUNDERED FOR ONLY EO* AND ONLY 7c For Each Additional lb... • This Includes the Ironing of all FLAT-WORK with Wearing Apparel Returned Just Damp Enough for Ironing. Emerson - - Saratoga 2324 North 24th St. WE. 1029 HAPPY OVER PROGRESS ——i 'V .w———w—a«ara.y • • w.: ■v.^^^:^.^..v.-.:.;.:;:.>;,v;;-.'. •:•:•» Helene Elizabeth Rich, 12-year-old patient of the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis at Children’s Hospital in Baltimore, Md., is given pool therapy by Mrs. Benton James of Lutherville, Md., a housewife and a graduate of the Polio Emergency Volunteer course offered by the Maryland Chapter of the National Foundation. Stricken with poliomyelitis nine years and two weeks ago, Helene keeps exact track of the time since she lost use of her legs. She feels she has improved and some day will walk just as well as other girls. Funds that provide medical aid for Helene and other polio patients are raised in the annual March of Dimes, January 14-31. The 1946 campaign is dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, founder of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. HOW A UNION SET THE PACE IN BREAKING JIM CROW New York, (WDL)—The story of how a union in a jimcrow town set the pace in breaking down jimcrow is told in a recent issue of American Press Associates, inter-racial news service. The, town is St. Louis, the union the' United Retail, Wholesale and De partment Store Employes—CIO and the man responsible Harold J. Gibbons, the union’s St. Louis director. “Before taking this ground breaking step (of hiring a Negro office secretary) the head of the union asked various other liberal and labor leaders whether a mixed office staff was possible in a Jim Crow Town,” the story says. “To a man they all assured him that bers of the union nor the commu nity as a whole would tolerate such an innovation But the girl was hired anyway, and to this this day not even one question, let alone an outright objection, has been raised by anyone—either in or out of the unioa*" The union executive went even further. When nationalist feeling against Japanese-Americans was running high and professional pa triots were screeching racist epi thets at our yellow-skinned bro thers, the union brought into its office a capable Nisei stenagra pher. Once again not a word was said from the weak-kneed pro gressives. PROWLER FATALLY SHOT BY BENNETT STUDENT •Greensboro, N. C—Bennett Col lege and Greensboro were freed of a naked prowler last week when S- T Johnson was fatally shot by a Bennett College student as he stood outside the door of Pfeiffer residence hall about 5:40 am Thursday, January 10th. Investigating police said the incident was an obvious intent to ' enter. The student, Mis Estelle Watson, senior, of Suffolk, Va., was exonerated following an in vestigation by Dr. W. W. Har vey, Guilford coroner, who termed it justifiable homicide. Johnson, who was shot once in the groin, died from loss of blood following an attempt to flee the scene, police said. He was found at 6:30 am, clad only in his shoes, by officers on Gerrell Street adja cent to a brick wall which marks the campus boundary. Taken to the L. Richardson Memorial Hos pital, he died at 8:45 am. Police said that someone’s very clumsy and obvious efforts to en ter the dormitory had awakened residents once before during the night, at 3 am, and that some of the students thought that the in truder had entered it at that time and had fled when lights were Need a ' LAXATIVE? V Black-Draught is \ 1- Usually prompt I . 2- Usually thorough j 3- Always economical / “l » 'i thrown on in various rooms Prior to his fatal effort to gain entrance, Johnson had smashed a window on the south side of the Pfeiffer dormitory, officers de clared. Reconstructing his actions they said he next went to a door on the north side, where he was standing when Miss Watson shot him once, through a pane in the French door, with a .38 caliber pistol. Officers surmised that Johnson then crawled or stumbled away from tjie dormitory, across the campus, and over the brick wall. The Negro was conscious when found but made no statement to officers or hospital attendants concerning the incident, they said. The student used a pistol be longing to the dormitory director watchmen were called and they in turn, summoned police. Officers said Johnson had a po lice record here, having been tried for vagrancy, assault on a female and drunkenness. The slain man left his clothes at the front of the building and appeared at the doorway only in his shoes. It waa in this condition that police officers found him Commenting on the unfortunate incident President David D. Jones observed that the college had for twenty years been trying to stop prowlers from entering the cam pus. Omaha’s March of Dimes Drive Off to (rood Start Omaha’s March of Dimes drive is off to a good start, Douglas County Chairman W. B. Millard, Jr., said this week as the annual fund-raising campaign for the Na tional Foundation of Infantile Pa ralysis opened, but he added, it will need the support of every Omahan. There were 41 cases of polio in Omaha last year, Mr Millard said, and of that number 33 re ceived financial assistance from the Douglas County Chapter. And since the Chapter’s bill for assi stance to polio victims exceeds $8,000 which provided hospital care and treatment as well as the purchase of an iron lung and hot pack machines for three local hospitals. Dr. Floyd Clarke, member of the Chapter’s medical advisory committee, has emphasized the What Latin America Thinks of U. S. Intervention In Asia > Reenlists in America’s I Peace-Time Army OKINAWA—Because he wanti “to see more of the world,” Pri vate First Class Reynolds R. Col ton, 24, of 1713 N. 11th Street, St Louis, Missouri, was one of the „ first veterans on this historic is land to enlist in America’s new peace-time Army of volunteers He expects to be home soon on his enlistment furlough. He has al ready seen Germany, having served in the European Theater prior t« his service in the Pacific, but he has requested service in that The ater for the three-year period oi his enlistment. On Okinawa he worked as a jack hammer operatoi with the 1324th General Service Engineer Regiment. (U. S. Signal Corps Photo from the Bureau ol Public Relations.) need for increased facilities and trained personnel to care for the ever-increasing number of polio victims. “Care of a polio patient at an average cost of $2,500 a year is much too costly for the average American family. He said that they must have help from local chapters of the National Founda tion.” Dimes and dollars contributed to the March of Dimes will help provide treatment and care for every polio victim, Dr. Clarke said in urging Omahan’s to support the March of Dimes drive. One half of all Omaha contri butions remain here for treatment and care. The other half goes to the National Foundation for re search, education and emergency epidemic aid. SERVICE INSURANCE DONATED TO LAFAYETTE COLLEGE Dowington, Pa., Soundphoto— Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Johnstone are shown in their. Downing, Pa., home looking at photo of son Ro bert S. Jr., 18, killed on Luzon last May, 14th, after announcing that son’s national service insur ance and sum donated by them will be used to establish a scho larship at LaFayette College with provision that a Japanese student By Harold Preece m Harold Preece When New Year comes around, it’s not only wise to make resolu tions. It’s a good thing to sit and take stock of what people are thinking about you. The following editorial from the CTAL News, official organ of the Latin American Federation of La ! bor, published in Mexico City, shows what the Negro-Indian mixed blood peoples of Latin America think of our armed in tervention against the colored peoples of Asia, and how they tie up that interference with the question of independence for the mixed blood Puerto Rico. This editorial was published as an official opinion of the CTAL, representing millions of workers throughout Latin America. The majority of these workers would be Jim Crowed because of their. dark skins, down in Mississippi | A prominent leader of the CTAL is the dynamic young Negro con gressman, Lazaro Pena, of Cuba. You understand how the people of Cuba feel about intervention in China when you recall that a re giment of Chinese fought under the great Cuban Negro General. Antonio Maceo, for freedom from Spain The editorial follows: The war ended months ago but ‘military operations’ go on, no longer against the Axis aggres-j sors but against colonial people^' fighting for their freedom and | independence. The peoples of Latin America j must and their protests to these' of other peoples, demanding an end to reactionary imperialistic policies in the East and the fulfil ment of the principles for which 60 millions died during the war. In Indenesia, Indo-china and in China the armed intervention of Dutch, British, French and North American troops indicates that for oppressed Asia, where 70 per cent of the world’s population is living, the principles' °f the At lantic Charter do not exist Only freedom for these peoples will make the victory over facism the victory of mankind as a whole and the liberation movements of the colonies are a part of the struggle of Europe’s peoples for progressive democracy, the fight of the workers in the home coun tries for better living standards and the mobilization of the peo ples of Latin America for their full economic and political eman cipation. In the industrial countries, the huge monopolies are using the postwar crisis to tear down the living standards of the masses, to break up trade unions, divide pro gressives and to weaken the work* ing class economically and politi cally to keep it from playing an important postwar role. And in the colonies the monopolies dic tate the governmental policy in armed intervention to smash the hopes of these enslaved peoples for freedom and sovereignty. Despite the profound contra dictions between the imperialist forces operating in Southeastern Asia, they are united in one aim: To halt the democratic movement. They know that the independence of Indenesia and Indo-china and the democratization of China would speed the end of the col onial system in the whole world, be given first consideration. The young Johnstone, according to parents, believed that most war causes would be removed if bet ter understanding could be esta blished between nations. Save Four Children from Flaming Home FORT McCLELLAN, Alabama—Alertness an 1 courage on the part of two Negro enlisted men at this Fort won them unexpected cash award, and the gratitude of the citizens of the nearby town of Anniston. The home front heroes, Private Booker T. Trtbblett, Greenwood, Mississippi (left), and Technician Fifth Grade Joe D. Benson, Water Valley, Mississippi, were responsible for saving the lives of four children trapped in a flaming house. The gift of $100 was made to the GIs by city em ployees of Anniston and is being presented above by the flayor of Anniston, J. F. King. (U. S. Signal <'orps photo from the Bureau of Public Relations.) G1VE TOTHEMAKH OF DIMES i 'HELP THE•* _cfhafr -ANTU MfiMYStf mm. lv GET OVER THIS HUMP <^o ^ ■ ■ C.EL including Puerto Rico. Trying to justify armed inter vention, the British Prime Mini ster Clement Attlee said that it was aimed at disarming the Jap anese, protecting Allied former prisoners and re-establishing or der in Indenesia. He said the same about Indo-china. In both cases the British is us ing Japanese and Indian troops, that is, enemy troops and col onial troops, with the Indian sol diers forced to fight against their brothers-in-slavery. North American imperialism shares responsibility with the British. General Mac Arthur works with Lord Louis Mountbatton. Representatives of both powers maneuvered to refuse Hindu lea der Nehru’s permission to visit Indenesia. The alliance of the two imperialisms includes joint hoar ding of the secret of atomic bomb manufacture, collaborating to hinder establishment of democra cy in Europe, common efforts to drown the colonial revolt in blood and to block Latin American in dustrialization. North American imperialism is stronger and more aggressive- In Japan it fights democratization br forbidding the splitting up of feu dal estates and by protecting the monarchy and the rule of feudal lords and monopolies. In Korea it does not hesitate to make use of Japanese and quislings. In the Philippines jails the guerilla leaders and flirts with the puppet Roxas, friend and collaborator of the sinister Laurel. In China it intervenes with loans, arms, and planes and troops in favor of the Chungking government with the, aim of wiping out democratic and I progressive movements. US Secretary of State, Janies Byrnes, said this intervention is a military question, not a political one. This is false. It is a political intervention backed by armed force. That is how it is under-1 stood by the people of the United States, Britian, France, India and Australia. These events contradict the promises made by the allies dur ing the war. They Contradict President Truman’s Navy Day speech, when he said that all peo ples have the right to freedom and independence and to choose their own forms of government The colonial peoples do not want to keep on being slaves. They are tired of promises. They fought to rid themselves of the Jap imperialists and they do not intend to submit to any other im perialist yoke They want to de cide their own destinies. And there will be no world peace until Asia is freed. ENGINEER UNITS JOIN NAACP, SEND $824 Nw York—Six hundred officers and men of the 1324th Engineer General Service Regiment and the 2917th Engineer Dump Truck Company joined the NAACP in a recent drive conducted under the leadership of Chaplain George E. Allen of Philadelphia. Pa., and sent $824.34 to cover the member ships and contributions, it was announced last week. The following first sergeants assisted Chaplain Allen in this campaign: Mathew W White, Richmond, Va.; Dennis O. Cowan, Philadelphia; George L. Winton, Knoxville, Tenn.; Robert Turner, Campbell, St. Louis, Mo; Edward A Eaton, Lansing, Mish.; Bevere C. Dooms, Philadelphia; Cyral A. Benns, New York; and Clinton Bee of Houston, Texas. WILL HOLD CONFERENCE WITH US STEEL New York, N. Y., Soundphoto— CIO officials stand beside the US Steel exhibit in the lobby of 71 Broadway a3 they arrived for a wage conference with US Steel, bellweather of industry. If the company makes a satisfactory, offer President Murray said he could hold in abeyance industry wide strike (Left to right) Philip Murray, President of United Steelworkers and CIO Murray’s assistant Clinton S- Golden and Lee Pressman, general counsel of the United Steel Workers. FOR THE . LATEST HEWS" Subscribe to Omaha’s Greatest Race Weekly *The Omaha Guide NEGRO DOLLS j Every home should have a Col- J ored Doll. We offer in this sale two flashy numbers. With hair, moving eyes, shoes, stockings, nicely dressed. Price $4.98 and $6.59. If C. O. D. postage ex tra. Dealers— Agents wanted. Write National Co., 254 West 135th St., New York, 30. 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