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Red Cross Aids Tornado Victims __ • I “ NACOGDOCHES, TEX.—These East Texas tornado victims whose nomes were destroyed or damaged on the evening of January 5 gather in a Negro schoolhouse for a substantial meal served by Red Cross volunteers. . _ __ __——■ * NACOGDOCHES, TEX.—Tornado victims whose personal belongings “went with the wind” January 5 search for suitable wearing apparel in a Red Cross clothing center generously supplied by sympathetic townspeople. MARCH 1 DEADLINE DATE TO APPLY FOR REGULAR ARMY OFFICER COMMISIONS _ ! Omaha, Nebr.,—Officers with temporary commissions in the Army of the United States and who have served during the war, may become commissioned offi cers in the Regular Army if they apply prior to March 1, under a new bill recently signed by Pres ident Truman. Although no officer wlil be ap pointed in a higher grade than that held in war time, commission;* are open in the grades of 2nd Li eutenant, 1st Lieutenant, Captain and Major. Under terms df the bill, total strength of all commi sioned officers will not exceed 25,000. Officers holding tempor ary commissions in a higher grade and on active or inactive status, and appointed under provisions of the bill, will retain the temporary commission until reduced in the general reduction program for temporary grades for other Regu lar Army Officers. Appointment in “IT PATS TO LOOK WELL" MAYO’S BARBER SHOP Ladies and Children’s Work A Specialty 2422 LAKE ST. the Regular Army will not mili tate against promotion to a high- j er temporary grade. Officers must be physically qualified, male, of good moral character, and have served hon orably in the AUS anytime be tween 1941 and date of enactment of the bill, to qualify for an ap pointment. Deadline (site for applications ■ is March 1. Application forms' may be procured from all Army , Recruiting Stations, posts, camps, and stations, or by writing Tho Adjutant General, Washington Hf>, D. vj , attention: AGSO-R. PLANT PERSONALLY ASKS VETS BACK A glass manufacturing com pany, finding that a number of its ex-GI employees were not auto matically coming to the plant for reinstatement within the 90 days prescribed by law, sends a repre sentative to call at the veterans’ homes within 30 days after their discharge. Personal invitation back to the job. NEW TYPE PLOW RESTORES THE LAND Development of a new type plow which will enable farmers to re juvenate their land, protect it a gainst erosion and increase pro duction with the same or less ex Attention Veterans And Everybody The Opening of the Rose La Telia Apparel Shop 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 La Telia Apparel Shop,—You may find just what you want in wearing apparel. For Men and Boys For Women and Children I SUITS DRESSES I OVERCOATS HATS U SPORT COATS COATS S LEATHER JACKETS SHOES I SHIRTS UNDIES HATS FASCINATORS fl PANTS BLOUSES SHORTS SWEATERS 4 SCARFS SKIRTS SWEATERS WHAT-NOTS SHOES RUBBERS POCKET KNIVES Open Everyday from 10:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. Thrifty Service... = •T^"" m • 6 LBS. OF LAUNDRY BEAUTIFULLY LAUNDERED FOR ONLY COr 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 penditure in manpower and effort is announced by a Chicago manu facturer. It has additional bases set a few inches below and behind, as well as to one side of the upper bases The latter are adjusted to normal depth for conventional plowing. The lower bases widen and deepen the cut, restoring soil packed by the years RANDOLPH STATES NEGROES SHOULD BACK THE FIGHT OF JEWS FOR PALESTINE The viscious and dangerous li bel of Jewish refugees from Po land by Lieut. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan, former head of the United Nations Relief and Rehab ilitation Administration, operat ing in Germany, by attempting to discredit them as being well dres sed. well fed and with plenty of money; and also being a part of a world plot to enable Jews to flee Europe, is a blow, not only to Jews, but to all Christians, and all minorities, including Negroes. Of course, it ought not be consi dered as a reflection upon the Jews, because they ought to be well fed, well clothed and they ought to have money to help them plot to leave Europe where 6 million of their people have star ved and been done to death. It is a strange paradox that the Allied Nations that spent millions of lives and billions of dollars to destroy the Nazi theories of ra cialism, are themselves rapidly adopting and expressing those theories, said Mr. Randolph. Let us not deceive ouselves, for there are many more Morgans in England and the United States and elsewhere, who are only bid ing their time to vent their spleen of racism against Jews, Negroes, Catholics and foreigners in our own USA. Unless Negroes join in the battle to help build the dikes against the rising tides of anti Semitism, they may be sure that they will be swept into oblivion by the onrush of the floods of ra cial and religious bigotry and fan aticism let loose upon the world by the Hitlerites. Racial hatred, like peace, is indivisable and so hence, no Negro is secure so long as one Jew, whether in Provid ence or Poland, is the victim of Persecution and hate. lUecMonte. % H&pjcvitesi j&ia WASHINGTON pi By Welter Shead jf WNU Correspondent WNU Washington Bureau, 1616 Eye St., N. W. FIIA Ready to Help Farm Home Builders THE Federal Housing administra tion has just announced that it n"w has a hundred-mi'hon dollar bank balance. In addition, for the past five years, this agency of gov ernment has been paying operating costs out of its own income. It has mortgage insurance of $6,700,000,000 on its books plus about $2,000,000, 000 of insured loans on repairs and modernizing programs on existing homes. Your Home Town Reporter can remember back 11 years ago when the FHA entered the field of home financing. It was attacked by most of the men in private home financ ing as a ‘‘ridiculous and hairbrained proposal of long haired theorists,'’ and ‘‘was doomed to utter failure.'’ Its activities, however, are now accepted by lending institutions ev erywhere. Banks and other lenders are now making home financing loans, some of them on more gen erous terms than even the FHA will make. Eleven years ago it was impossi ble, or at least very difficult, for a man of moderate means to own his own home. He had to save up enough for at least 50 per cent of its value and had to go on mortgaging and remortgaging for three-vear pe riods, at high interest rates. In some instances he paid as high as 8 per cent. FHA said to prospective home owners and to private lending insti tutions alike, “you folks can own your own homes by paying only 10 per cent down on new homes cost ing less than $6,000. and Uncle Sam will guarantee the bank against loss. You can make your payments in equal monthly installments for a period up to 25 years at interest of not more than 4^ per cent. Loans for Farm Homes After financing many thousands of home purchases, Raymond Fo ley. FHA director, says. “Because of the sound financial principles un derlying the FHA program, its far reaching benefits are proceeding without cost to the government.” Of great importance to rural res idents and those living in rural communities, the FHA has just re cently announced that it is ex tending its guaranteed loan provi sions to the construction of country homes and also the provisions of its Title I for the repair and mod ernization of existing homes and farm buildings. It seems to your reporter that in ' the face of the acute housing short age, the tendency to throw away government restraints, the rapidly increasing prices on speculative housing and other factors, that the safest procedure a prospective home owner could take would be to go to his bank or building and loan association and say he wanted to buy that home on an FHA in sured mortgage. He would be protected (1) against any inflated appraisal of the prop erty; (2) against any shoddy con struction; (3) against costly second and third mortgages; (4) against costly mortgage renewals; (5) against lapsing of taxes and insur ance. And his monthly payments would be in reasonable proportion to his regular income, obviating insofar as possible, the chance of defaults in payments and consequent foreclos ures resulting from over-borrowing. Veterans not only have the advan tage of this FHA loan, they also can borrow up to $2,000 under the GI.. 1 bill for new home purchase, which Is also guaranteed by the govern ment through the Veterans’ admin istration. For the first time since the war, FHA applications for guaranteed home loans are now running at the rate of approximately 1,000 per week. The trend in new house con struction is to get out of the cities and into the country, and this pres ent housing emergency finds more than a million and a half families living doubled up, according to the National Housing agency. ‘Back to Land’ Movement Those who are watching the acute housing shortage see a definite “back to the land” movement which will mean the construction of thou sands of new small homes in rural areas and in the smaller towns of the nation. One-acre and half-acre plots are the dream of thousands in the massed population centers in the cities. Estimates of housing shortages reach the 12,000,000 mark and of this number approximately five mil lion are in the small towns and ru ral areas throughout the nation. The war brought about mass migration of workers from the South and East into the West and Midwest and these next several peacetime years will see another mass migration of workers from the slum and crowd ed sections of our great cities into the breathing space of the rural sec I tions. So pressure of these events to come will make housing one of the critical issues in the future. Plione us your SOCIAL NOTES JA-3215 Thomasina Johnson of AKA’S Receives Appointment As Member of OPA Consumers Advisory Committee - I Mrs. Thopiasina Johnson, ot' Boston, Mass., legislative repre sentative of the Alpha Kappa Al pha Sorority in Washington, D C. has accepted appointment as a ; member of the Consumer Advi sory Committee of the Office of Price Administration, Administr ator Chester Bowles announced Mo .day, January 14th. Mrs. Johnson is the third Ne gro to serve on the committee. The other two are Miss Ella Ba lter, of New York, NY., director if branches for the Natio ai as lociation for the Advancement of Colored People, and Mrs. dace Townes Hamilton, executive se cretary cf the Atlanta, Ga., Ur >an League. In his invitation to Mrs. John con, dated January 11, 1946, Mr. 3owles wrote: “Your interest in current issues and in price control in particu lar, has oeen so well demonstra ted that I should like very much to have your experience and gui dance in shaping OPA policies affecting consumers. Consequently I am extending to you a cordial invitation to membership on the Consumer Advisory Committee ;and sincerely hope you will be able to serve “The Committee is composed of 27 members, many of them lea ders in organizations which have a broad consumer interest. It should be stated, however, that while your membership on the Committee gives recognition to your organization and offers a more direct channel of organiza tion opinion on consumers quest ions, you will serve as an indiv idual, not as a representative of your group. “I trust that you will let me have your word of acceptance and that I shall have the privilege of welcoming you at the next gen eral meeting of the Committee. Dr. Esther Cole Franklin is Consumer Relations Advisor for' the OPA, and in that capacity acts as executive secretary of the | Consumer Advisory Committee I ___ . MARCHING BLACKS A Dynamic Program by Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, as a newly elected member of the House of Representatives and as head of the largest Negro church in New York Citv—The At’™ ■ - ian Baptist Church—is one of the most influential Neg^u this country. What he has to say about the Negro problem is of the utmost importance. In his book, he recounts drama tic instances of economic discrim inations practiced against Ne' groes- Shunning the pussy-footing appeasement approach, Dr. Pow ell outlines a realistic program that if followed, will result in a gain for the Negro and for the nation at large. Marching Blacks was published January 26th by the Dial Press. BILLY CONN IN HEAVY TRAINING Hot Springs, Ark- (C)—Leading heavyweight contender Billy Co. n has arrived here to spend four to six weeks of his 6 months train ing program to ~et him in tune for the title bout “The first ti.n.0 on my program is to get my legs in shape,” says Conn. “I’ll be doing a lot of boun cing up and down these Arkansas mountains for about four weeks”. Billy is now weighing 190 lbs. but hopes to cut it to 180 by the time he leaves Hot Springs. He is returning here in late February again. The Negro In Latin America By Harold Preece Harold Preece I’ve written a lot in this col umn about Argentina and her mad-dog ‘lily-white’ phobia which makes her the Alabama of Latin America. I’ve exposed constantly the plan of Argentin’s ‘Bilbo,’ Col. Juan Domingo Peron, to turn the Wes tern Hemisphere into another Al abama with Negroes and Indians who are the majority of the peo ple in our part of the world being turned into bondsmen. But along with a lot of writers including the renowned authority on the Latin American Negro, Dr. Richard Pattee, I’ve accepted the story that Argentina wag actually lilywhite in her racial makeup. I’ve believed along with them that the Negro had all but ‘dis appeared’ in a country which mocks her next-door neighbor, Brazil, as a “n-rnation.” Well, fronds, the Negro is still in Argen'la. Maybe, you won't like to call him your brother be cause he represents probably thr_ greatest example of mass “pass ing* that we have ever seen in the history of the world- He may not want to call himself a Negro as some people of part Jewish ex traction tried to deny their blood in Hitler Germany. But if Heron is elected as the next president of Argntina, those renegade Negroes are going to suffer as did rene gade Jews in Germany when fa scist officials started poking into musty old birth records. There were 200,000 mulatoes out of a total national population of almost 8,000,000, according to tiie report of the second Argen tine census taken in 1914. Probab ly a laro'e percentage of the 402, 000 mestizos (mixed white and Indian Argentinians) also had varying proportions of Negro blood. We know that the three races— I white, Negro, and Indian—began j mixing indiscriminately in Argen tina at a very early period. The British traveler, Samuel Haigh, who visited Buenos Aires around the turn of the 19th Century wrote that ‘the rank and file’ of the Argentine capital ’are such a mixture of white, Indian and Ne gro that it was diffficult to tell I their origin.’ Argentina takes lts census every 20 years instead of every 10 as 1 in our country. The report of the third Argentine census due in ’44 has not yet been made public. But mv guess from mv knowledge of Argentina’s present political set ..j ner ieverish desire to be classed as a ’white’ nation, is that only a few hundred unmistakably black people will be classed as Negroes and that the term ‘mul atto’ will probably be dropped entirely from the report. Which still doesn’t answer the question of what happened to those 200,000 people who were de VIOLENCE AT US MOTOR PLANT Los Angeles, Cal, Soundphoto— General view outside US Motors plant showing clouds of tear gas released in effort to disperse 1500 rioting pickets. Clubs were used freely and a number of persons were reported injured. signated as ‘mulatoes’ in that se cond census report taken just 32 years ago. No group of people dies out that quickly unless they are put to the sword, and that did not happen in 20th century Argentina. ' By the law of averages, it is reasonable to suppose that some of these 200,000 mulattoes are still living although it is to be expected that they don’t admit it in their violently race conscious homeland- It is also reasonable to suppose that they have thousanus of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with from one-haif to one-sixteenth Negro blood still living in Peron’s para dise Maybe, a very close comparison can be drawn between Argentina's Spanish speaking mulattoes and those who talk French down in Louisiana. All of us know that the majority of Louisiana Frencn have varying percentages of col ored blood. Not long ago, we read of a young French-American box er from Louisiana who was about to lose his place in the ring be cause somebody had dug into the roots °f his family tree and found a Negro ancestor. It is the pressure of white color prejudice, stirred up by rich and selfish aristocracies, which makes men ashamed of some particular racial strain although every hu man being probably has in veins traces of the blood of every people on the earth. Louisiana. The same thing has happened in Argentina. People who ought to be proud of the part that their colored ancestors played in the freeing of the country from Spain now deny those ancestors because ‘Nordic’ British and Americans settling in the country brought with them all all of the arrogance about color differences which one finds them exhibiting in at home. Today, in Argentina, not only the Negro has ‘passed’ because of color prejudice but so has what is left of the fine old cuuture which he brought with him from Africa. Argentina’s national dance, the tango, was born in Africa. But one of Peron’s gangsters would shoot you if you insisted that it was of Negro origin. He’d swear that it was a dance of white Span ish gentlemen and that the Negro hag no part in creating it. JIM HERBERT AFTER MILROSE 600 FOR 6th TIME New York Calvin’s News Ser vice—Veteran middle-distanoe star Jim Herbert is after winning the Milrose 600 this February 2. Herbert has competed for the cup race 10 straight years and won 5 of those years. This puts him in the class with Alan Helfrich of Penn State and the New York A C. No matter what he does in the Feb. 2nd. game, he will be setting a record. The first entry accepted in the Milrose meet, Herbert will run the 1,000 in both the Metropolitan A. A. championship at the 23rd meet POLIOMYELITIS PATIENTS LEARN TO KNIT Instruction in knitting is given poliomyelitis patients by a physiotherapist from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Hospital and Home for Crippled Children in Newark, N. J. Financial aid for treatment of infantile paralysis victims is provided through contributions to the annual March of Dimes, January 14-31. Patients pictured here are (left to right) Mary Sietsena, Zora Mao Hillard and Helen Kurgan.—Photo by Handy & Boesser, Newark, N. J. _._ Regiment Armory and the Phila delphia Inquirer. CLEMENCY SOUGHT FOR SOLDIER IN RAPE CASE Washington—A petition for cle mency in behalf of Edward Pow ell, now serving a life sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, af ter conviction of the crime of rape upon a French woman last Sep tember, has been filed by the legal staff of the NAACP. Franklin H. Williams, assistant special counsel of the Association said the petition pointed out that in spite of the fact that 7 or 8 servicemen allegedly attacked the woman, Powell and three others were the only ones brought to trial. It was further pointed out that the counsel appointed by the court to defend Powell apparently made little effort to introduce into evidence the defendant's conten tions as to the events taking place on the night of the alleged rape. , The prosecutrix, it was empha sized, was an infamous prostitute who was allowed to ply her trade unhampered by army authorities, within a few yards of the barrack of hundreds'of Negro soldiers. The responsibility, therefore, for such, occurrences, even if true, should rest upon army authorities as well as upon the soldiers themselves. It was asserted that the prose cution did not sustain their bur den of proving Powell’s guilt be youd a reasonable doubt; and it was requested that his conviction be rev.rsed writh a view toward allowing him to re-enlist in the armed forces and honorably ter minate his services to his coun try. BRETTONWOODS MONEY CONFERENCE SHOULD BE MOVED OUT OF GEORGIA The proposed Bretton woods Monetary Conference scheduled to be held around Savannah, Ga., should be removed unless the Ho tel General Oglethorpe, which will accomodate t£e delegates (will ac cept the colored delegates who will attend this conference- In formation has been received that efforts are being made to secure stopping places in Negro homes in Savannah for the colored dele gates who will come from Liber ia, Abyssinia, and Haiti, and other points. The Treasury Department should be called upon to demand that these colored delegates be given every privilege enjoyed by every other delegate in the Hotel and other places in Savannah. Georgia, or to carry the confer ence to a city in the USA which is civilized enough to treat the delegates, regardless of color, like human beings, stated A. Philip Randolph, National Director of the March on Washington move ment. To Subscribe for Omaha’s Greater Negro Weekly CALL HA-0800 FOR THE LATEST HEWS*^jpv Subscribe to Omaha’s Greatest Race Weekly *The Omaha Guide . jjfljjjMgM,1 1 i I !j 1 . ■BnoBHnHlBdSHD f W#### \ negro dolls : |.Every home should have a Col- ;! .lured Doll. We offer in this sale If |;two flashy numbers. With hair,!; . moving eyes, shoes, stockings, If i nicely dressed. Price $4.98 and'; ; $6.59. If C. O. D. postage ex-If .|tra. Dealers— Agents wanted. If 4Write National Co., 254 West? 1,135th St., New York, 30. 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