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■ LOCAL & NATL NEWS--10c per copy “AND WORTH IT” ■ i I I i I | I /JUSTICE/EQUALITY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 2420 GRANT ST ■fa_At_At “Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper W est of Chicago and North of KC.” if.--if. _ Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-oft ice, Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of Saturday, February 2,1946 Our 18th Year—No. 52 ★ 10c Per Copy ★ March 8, m4. Publishing offices at 2420 Gram street, Omaha, Nebr. a— " " ■■■ ' 11 I ! I . — - 111 '*'*' ' ■ I ■■■- —!■■■. _ I . .. —■—BM.— .——.I . . a — MEW CIO CONTRACT MAKES KAISER HAPPY I Pleased at the signing of a company-union contract considered unique in the auto industry, Henry J. Kaiser, left, chairman of the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation; R. J. Thomas, center, president of the CAYV-CIO; and Joseph \\. Frazer, right, president of Kaiser Frazer Corporation and Graham-Paige Motors, get together in Detroit. In addition to a high base rate of pay for employees and allowances for possible increases, the contract also provides ad ditional wages for efficient production through Company’s deposit in the trust fund of $5 for each finished automobile delivered from the assembly lines at YVillow Run, to be distributed annually among the employees Negro Leaders Call Kaiser Industrialist of the Future i c Nationally known Negro leaders of widely difering professional activities and political afiliations today hailed the Kaiser-Frazer Automobile Corporation’s wage agreement with the UAW-CIO as an outstanding example of indu strial "democracy at its best. Al ter a through check among sever al score Negroes of national sta tus whose opinions exert consid erable influence in the moulding of public opinion, their statements revealed the deep-seated interest of the nation «n the tug.of-ideas battles which continues between union and management at De troit and throughout the nation. It was obvious that one of their most urgent concerns was the fu ture fare of thousands of Negro automobile workers. Typical of their intense interest was that of Julius Thomas, Industrial Secre tary of the National Urban Lea gue, who hailed the agreement but refrained from making a for mal complete statement until he was able to ascertain the employ - nt policy >f the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation. However, other Negroes heaped unstinted praise on Kaiser-Frazef. C. B- Powell, President and Edi tor of the Amsterdam Star-News, and Assistant Campaign Director for the Republican Party during the 1944 campaign said : “The Kaiser-Frazer aggrement is an economic example which should be followed elsewhere in the au tomobile industry as well as in the rubber and electrical fields where hundreds of thousands of Negroes are employed.” Concur ring with C. B. Powell, Roy Wil kins, Assistant Secretary of the NAACP, stated: "It seems to me that in the agreement with the UAW-CIO, the Kaiser - Frazer Corporation has set the standard for the General Motors dispute.” George Schuyler. Associate Ed itor of the Pittsburgh Courier, called the agreement "an axam ple of industrial democracy at its best.” He said: “The spirit shown by both sides in this case should be adopted generally- If this were done, the future of the American way of life would be assured. Sin ister forces in our nation are counting on industrial strife to get a better grip. Such statesman ' like negotiations will ever defeat such nefarious purposes.” Henry J. Kaiser, the Chairman■ of the new automobile corpora tion, was described as being "a true friend of the working man”, by Ashley L. To’tten, Int,l Sec’y Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping car Porters. Both Mr. Totten and Ben.iamin F. McLau rin, Int’l Field Organizer for the Brotherhood made statements in the absence of their President, A. Philip Randolph. Mr. Totten con tinued to laud Mr. Kaiser and he said that “by coming to an agree ment with the UAW-CIO at a time when it was an unpopulai thing to do, he has shown keen vision, plain intestinil fortitude, and an unusual moral stability which makes him qualified to as sume the role of the industrialist of the future.” Mr. McLaurin said that “Negroes and all working people should create a market for the new car in light of the wisdom and far reaching judgement of an enlightened industrialist. I hope that General Motors will follow this lead.” Those associated with cars say that the Kaiser-Frazer models will be among the finest in the market. Executives of the com pany state that they will exhibit models of the Kaiser-Frazer cars beginning this month in New York NAACP ASKS LYNCH INVESTIGATION Washington, D. C_The NAACP turned over to the Criminal Divi sion of the Department of Justice the name, address and other mat erial identifying a Tennessee man white, who lost a pocketbook con taining a snap-shot of a dead body hanging from a tree Leslie Perry of the NAACP Washington Bur eau, who asked Justice officials to make an investigation, said that the bocketbook was found in Nashville, Tenn., and its contents sent to the NAACP. He said that while the color of the lynch vic tim could not be ascertained from the photograph, the dead man ap pears to have been wearing an I army fatigue uniform. The incri-' miniating purse contained draft registration card, A Tennessee Drivers permit, pictures of two young children and a white wo man. and other personal papers of the owner. ARMY KEEPING OFFICERS; WHERE VACANCY EXISTS’ ! New York—“Where suitable va cancies exist,” the Wail depart ment is retaining Negro officers of field grade, the NAACP was'; informed last week by Kenneth C. Royal1., Acting Secretary of War. Mr. Royall wrote: “Those officers who have sig nified a willingness to remain on active duty for the duration plus | six months, or who under current | regulations have volunteered to > remain on active duty until 30 June 1947, are being assigned where suitable vacancies exist. Where such vacancies do not ex ist, the concerened officers are be ing returned to the inactive sta 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 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 i 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 Omahar—30th from Wirt to Spencer. Don’t be sorry, don’t wait another day. Start now to be come A HOME OWNER. Thomas Chandler Receives Appointment From County Clerk Slavik Negro Workers Segregated By Federal Reserve Board v* ashing ton. D. C—After com peting an investigation of em ployment conditions in the Fed ral Reserve Board, the Washing on Bureau charged the agency vith segregating against and dis criminating its Negro employees. In a letter to Marriner S. Ec clees, Chairman of the Board, Mr. Leslie Perry charged that: 1. The thirty Negro employees of the Board are required to use a separate toilet in the basement marked ‘colored men’. 2. Negroes must use a small windowless cafeteria with six ta bles while all other employees ea' in a cheerful, commodious roor that runs the length of the build ing. 3. As a matter of policy, Ne groes irrespective of their train ing and qualifications, are kept as messengers and laborers. Includ ed in this group were six colored veterans of World War II. After pointing out that the board of Governors of the Feder al Reserve Board are appointed by the President and are therefore public officrs of the United States the letter concluded. The policy of the United States against discri mination on account of race, color creed, or national origin has been enunciated time and time again by the President, and the nation subscribed to it when it adontec: the United Nations Charter that was framed at San Francisco. In these circumstances, I do not see how the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System can continue to condone the shameful and undemocratic practices that prevail in their Washington office and still remain faithful to the oath they took as officers of this Government. tue and placed upon terminal leave. This does not in any way prejudice their rights for regular Army appoir.iments r.f qualified requirements are met. It would be uneconomical and not in keep ing with War Department jpoli cies to return officers in cases where they could not construct ively be employed.” Ask Reversal of Death Sentence for Soldier V Washington—A reversal of the death sentence imposed upon the General Prisoner Benjamin Mil ’er for being AWOL and acting in an insubordinate manner to ward his superior officer was ask ed of the Judge Advocate General in a petition filed last week by the NAACP through Franklin H. Williams of its legal staff. The petition set forth that Mil ler may probably be an epileptic that he suffered from lapses of memory, that the episode for which he was charged must have occured during such a period and that therefore further investiga tion is warranted before the death sentence is executed. A reversal of the sentence, or a reduction to one in keeping with the offense charged was asked. A petition was filed also by the NAACP asking reversal of the conviction of Gerald Knox, Jr., on a charge of desertion, with a sentence of dishonorable dis charge and 10 years at hard la bor, later reduced to 5 years. The petition recited that all that had been charged and proved was that Knox was guilty of an extended AWOL, and charged that the Ar ticles of War had never been read to him as required by regulations. It was requested that Knox be given an opportunity to re-enlist in the service. 1 . ....“ .. LINCOLN U. MO. PROFESSOR RECEIVES ATOMIC RESEARCH AWARD Jefferson City. Mo., January 29 j 1946—Dr. Moddie D. Taylor, whc was on leave from Lincoln Uni /ersity to the United States Gov ->rnment for a year and a half during the war period, is recipi ent of a merit certificate and la pel pen for service with the Man hattan Project which contributed to the development of the Atomic Bomb. The certificate, issued by tli. War Department, signed by Hon , Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of' War, states: “This is to certify that Moddie D. Taylor, Universi ty of Chicago, has participated in work essential to the production of the Atomic Bomb, thereby con tributing to the successful con clusion of World War II. This cer tificate is awarded in appreciation of efective service.” The circular lapel pen of it tarnishable metal carries the let ter ‘A’ superimposed on back ground symbolic of scientific -re hattan Project’ around the outer edge. Dr. Taylor is professor of Che mistry at Lincoln University. PANEL DISCUSSION AT URBAN LEAGUE MEETING Plans for the Annual MeAJj3’ > of the Omaha Urban League are I going forward. The meeting will be held at Joslyn Memorial Lec ture room, February 12, at 7:30 pm. The theme of the meeting will be “Omaha United”. There will be a panel discussion on (his subject with the press, industry labor, and veterans being repre sented on the panel. The Imperi alist Choral Group will sing. The public is invited. Tract of Land Available for Vets' Housing II, D. Dee Sets Aside Plot For Their Use in New Bedford Park Addition Mr. Hiram Dee of the Realty Improvement Co. has made . a tract of land between 27th ant' 29th and between Spencer anc' Bristol Streets available for ton porary veteran housing. All vet erans in need of housing shoula contact the Omaha Urban League so that the housing needs of vet erans will be known and they will oe able to participate in the plaig NAACP Opposes Dirksen Bill on USES of Offices Washington, D. C.—Opposition to H. R 5142, the Dirksen bill which would return the United States Employment Service to each of the 48 states was expres sed in a telegram to Rep. Jennings ' Randolph of the House Commit tee on labor, by the Washington Bureau of the NAACP. Leslie Perry wired: “In our judgement a unified nationwide system of employment offices is urgently needed if we are to achieve any approximation of an orderly and effective job placement program for the coun try's labor force. On the othei hand, to return these offices to the states during present critical ;oH as proposed by legislation like R. R. 5142, the Dirksen bill, would bring only chaos to the la I bor market and great personal hardship and suffering to thou sands of working families.” BUST THE FILIBUSTER! DEMAND 24 HOUR SESSIONS! Don't wire your senator because Westren Union in New York City, company headquarters, is on strike, jj But you can anti MUST write him air-maii special de , livery. If you senators are among those who have been fighting against the FEPC filibuster, write them to show your support. Ask them to keep the Senate in 24 hour sessions daily £o wear out the filibustering min ority. If he is in the camp of the filibusters, let him know your opposition. If he is neutral or on the fence, urge him to get behind the FEPC bill. Send copies of replies to National Committee for a Permanent FEPC, 939 F Street, N.W., Washington DC. The situation is urgent. Act Immediately! Cab Calloway is Coming to Town ORPHEUM Theatre, Week Starting, Fri., Feb. 8th AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE,, WEEK STARTING FRIDAY, FEB. 8-ON THE STAGE IN PERSON, His Royal Highness of Hi-De-Ho CAB CALLOWAY, Dean of American Jive with his Cotton Club Orch estra and NEW 1946 REVUE —featuring Tyree Glenn, The Cab Jivers, Jonah Jones, Milton Hinton and The Three Poms, "Scintillating Step pers", Moke and Doke, “It Ain’t No Joke’! EXTRA ADDED ATTRAC TION! In Person Popular Stage and Screen Favorites, The Peters Sis ters in "A Ton of Harmony and Rhythm” ON THE SCREEN “SHADY LADY” with Ginny Simms, Robert Paige, Charles Cobum. FEPC. RILL HINGES ON ADOPTIONS CLOTURE Washington, D. C_The Fate of the FEPC bill (S. 101) in the Senate depends upon whether two thirds of the Senators will vote for cloture, it became evident after Dixie Senators had conduc- I ted a 6-day filibuster against the measure called up by Senator Dennis Chavez (D., N. M.) Thousands of letters, telegrams and postcards urging senators to vote for cloture and break the fil ibuster have been received f/m individuals and organizations all over tVip pnunt.rv. NAAfar^n-1 ches have been particularly act ive- More than 600 telegrams went from Michigan up to January 23, according to Dr. J. L. Leach, pre sident of the state conference of branches. One thousand postcards were sent by the BridgeDort-Stra. tford. Conn., NAACP, John Lan caster, president, reported. 100 telegrams arrived January 23rd from New Orleans. Anderson, Ind. Jacksonville, Fla , Memphis Tenn. Fairmont, W. Va., Kiilona, La., Albuqerque, N. M., Detroit, Mich., Moline. Ill, Milwaukee. Wis. . Catted ''\napPr°priate" BV State Dept- on dt New York—With reference to the proposed 4 billion dollar loan to Great Britain, the State de partment believes it would be most inappropriate to have the question of financial assistance to the United Kingdom linked to a wide range of political issues, the NAACP was told last week. The State department letter, signed by M. R. T. Carter, Act ing Chief of the Division of Public Liaison, was in reply to a tele gram sent by the NAACP Dec 13, 1945, urging America to se cure pledges that no part of the loan would be used to perpetuate imperialism or to deny any col onials of the British empire full freedom and justice. After stating that the final de cision on the loan rests with Con gress, the State department said its primary purpose was to bring about mutually beneficial econo mic relations between this govern ment and that of the United King dom in expanding world trade on a multilateral basis. The letter then declared: “There are, of course, many specific political issues in which the United Kingdom and the Uni ted States are both interested and on which the opinions of these two governments may not be id entical. The department believes, however, that it would be most in anpropriate to have the question of financial assistance to the Uni ted Kingdom linked to a wide range of political issues or to in sist that the United Kingdom take the point of view of the United States on these issues as a con dition of a loan.” I - Thomas P. ^mmoler, 2804 No. 25th Street, was appointed by the County Clerk, John Slavik, to a position in the County Clerk’s office on February 1st. Mr Chandler has been a resi det of Omaha for 28 years and resides with his mother, Mrs. M. G. Chandler. A veteran of the re cent war, he has just returned from the European Theatre where he served in England, France, Belgium, and Germany. While in the armed service, he was person nel clerk of his company. Proir to entering the service, he was employed by the United States Nat’l Bank and the Muni cipal Airport. Mi. Chandler will succeed the late J. Dillard Crawford. Phoebus, Va., Easton, Pa., States ville, N. C., were other cities re porting activity. Although most messages have gone to senators, hundreds of tr.e wires have been addressed to De mocratic Chairman Robert e. Hannegan and Republican Chair, man Herbert Brownell, carrying the fight right into the major pol itical parties. Former Omaha Attorney Amos P. Scruggs, Dies Atty. Amos P. Scruggs who formerly lived in Omaha, servcN at one time as Inspector of weight and measures during the Dolman administration. He practiced law here with offices at 13th and Far nam St., while he lived in Omalit he was active in social, civic, re ligious, and fraternal activities. He was a member of St. Bene diet Church ancl Iroquois Elk Lodge No. 92. He lived at 2210 No. 22nd St. About 13 years ago, he left Omoha to make his home temporarily in Chicago The fam ily remained here in Omaha at their residense. After being in Chicago a few months, he war appointed Assistant Cooperation Counsel of Cook County, 111., the position which he was holding at the time of death. The above sad news reached Omaha Monday, Jan. 28th by long distance tele phone at the Northside YWCA Mrs. Scruggs left for Chicago Monday evening. It is not known whether the body will be brought to Omaha for burial or taken to the family lot in Jackson. 111., the place of his birth. 2 Negro Laivyers Head Divisions of I.egfd Staff of Office Price Adm.’ Promotion of two Negro law yers to head Divisions of the legal staff of its national office was recently announced by the oil ice of Price Administration. On Dec | 3. 1945, Bernard S Jefferson was promoted to the position of Asso ciate Division Counsel of the Food Price Division, and on January 5, 1946, Charles W. Quick was made Acting Division Counsel in charge of Rationing. Mr. Jefferson came to the OPA in July 1943 on leave of absence from the faculty of Howard Uni versity Law School. He is a native of Los Angeles, Calif-, and a gra duate of the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kap pa honorary scholastic fraternity. He was awarded the LLB degree from Harvard Law School in 1934 and the SJD degree from the same institution in 1943. In his new position he has dir ect supervision of the work of about 35 lawyers in the Food Price Division of the OPA Nat ional Office. Mr. Quick is the son of the Rev. 1 O. B. Quick, Pastor of Cory Me thodist Episcopal Church, Cleve land, Ohio. He has been with the OPA since December 2, 1942, and came to the agericy from the fac ulty of the Law School of North Carolina College for Negroes at Durham. His training was received at Talladega College, where he grad uated with highest honors in 1935. winning the Kirkpatrick Scholar ship, and at Harvard University Law School from which he wras graduated in 19a8. He served as a research assistant to James A. McLaughlin at the Harvard Law I School in 1939, and practiced a ' year in Cleveland before going to j | North Carolina. He is one of four Negroes to hold membership in the Federal Bar Association Before his recent promotion, he served as chief counsel for the Sugar and Section of the Food Di vision, and chief counsel for all legal drafting in the Rationing! Department. He is an authority! 14 Vets Place in “On Job” Training Program Job openings, were made for 14 veterans in the "on the job” train ing program by two representa tives of ttfe United States Em ployment Service, Mr. Darrell J. Dunham, veterans representative and Mr. Harrold Rams»v. Field Representative of the USES; and Mr. Duward R. Crooms and Mr. Arthur B. McCaw of the Omaha Urban League staff. Visits were made to six busin ess establishments in this commu nity and in five of the organiza tions, the management made ap plication for and were certified to participate in the "on the job“ training program Any business interested in giving this type of training to veterans is urged to call either the Urban League or the USES and ask for informa tion concerning it. Veterans are also urged to seek participation in this program. The government will pay a subsistaice of S75 per month for a single veteran and $90 per month to those with de pendents. These payments wil supplement salary paid by the employer and the veteran during the time he is in training learning a trade or vocation that when he completes his training, he will be a finished workman. The training period may last as long as is re quired to complete the training. Union Services Union Services will be held at St. Johns AME Church, 22nd and Willis Ave.k Sunday, February 3. Devotional Services at 7:30 pm. Sermo.; at 8:00 pm. The speaker will be Rev. C. C. Revnolds, pas tor of Clair Methodist Church. Music by Clair Church Choir. on sugar and recently made a trip to Newark, N. J., where he ap. peared in federal court as an ex pert witness for the government in a case which involved the mis use of 25 million pounds of sugar by a manufacturing concern. IIS POLICE COURT FINED FOR RUNNING DISORDERLY HOUSES I W. Lawson, 2422 Burdette SL was fined $50 and costs of court, Monday morning, on charges of running a disorderly house. Police watched from a side win dow Saturdav night and saw gambling in the basement. Found in the house was a table, covered with blankets and a small bar with whiskey, beer, and glasses, diet and a snail ’Kitty Box’ which police cla;m is used for putting ‘cuts’ in from gambling games. John H. Philips, Henry L. Tuck er, Wilbur W’right, Leroy Lovew Lewis C. Henry, Harry Denison, Edward Martin and J. Story were also fined $2.50 on charges ar inmates. Sunday morning, January 27ttv police raided the house of Me Percy Holmes, 2511 Burdette St Mr. Holmes was charged with the running of a disorderly house— with gambling. Police found four cases of beer, one case of coke* and whiskey in the house. Alsu found a pool table with pocket* stuffed with rags. Holme3 states that he was giv ing a party celebrating the dura, tion of the Packing House strike Among those present were: Roosevelt Walker; Eddie Wash ington; Andrew Grant; Robert Jones; William Bates; John Bar ber; Leroy Turner; James Rob inson; John Payne; Ruth Jack son, Bertha Bell and Myrtle McDonald. Monday morning court found Holmes guilty of running a dis orderly house and fined him $50 and costs- Ail inmates were fined $2.50. -QUOTES-1 OF THE WEEK “Lincoln freed the slaves. Who will free us?”—GIs in Manila, demanding demobilization. “We’re friends—but not that friendly.” — Col. "Pappy” Boy ington, denying intent to wed Reno woman. “Their purpose is to destroy - democracy, set up a godless, to talitarian state.”—FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, re Communists in U.S. “Unless we get production quickly we’re either going to have a bad deflation or a real, extreme inflation.”—U. S. Sen ator Homer Capehart, Ind. “It’s an attempt to rob men of their freedom.”—Pres. William Green, AFL, on proposed fact finding law. “There’s not 30 cents’ worth of cotton in a $3 shirt.”—Rep. A. S. i Camp, Ga., protesting proposed OP A price ceiling on cotton. _ I To Subscribe for Omaha’s Greater Negro Weekly CALL HA-0800 Bedford Park’s Beautiful Lots Are on the Market F or Sale Now! From $450 to S600 ” o Call Realty Improvement Company 342 Electric Bldg. JA-7718 or JA-1620 “Small Down Payment Will Do the Job”.
