■ LOCAL 8c NATL NEWS-lOc per copy “AND WORTH IT” ■ j j * i I I /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEWTOTHE LINE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY _ PHONE HA.0800 2420 GRANT ST ^_Ar “Largest Accredited Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and North of KC.n ^^ „ , „ . , . , _ _ „ . Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-of lice, Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of Saturday, February 9, 1946 OUR 19th Year—No. 1 * 10c Per Copy ★ March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr. git-- SUPREME COURT TO RULE OR “J.C.” TRAVEL URBAN LEAGUE ANNUAL MEETING—Joslyn Memorial, Tues. Feb. 12th The Annual meeting oi tne Omaha Urban League will be held at Joslyn Memorial Lecture Hoorn at 7:30 PM., Tuesday, February 12 The meeting will feature a panel discussion on the subject— ‘WHAT THE URBAN LEAGUE MEANS TO OMAHA UNITED.” Participating in the panel will be Frank Cronin, Regional Director -— oi ^iO; Clarence Kirkland, Pres Omaha Industries, Inc.; Hugi Fogarty, Associate Editor Omaha World-Herald; Russell Hand, Dir ector of USES; Richard Gibson, Ex-Serviceman. The Imperialist Choral, Choii will sing and reports for the yeai ed. will be given. The public is invit. "S, OUR GUEST Column.. -(Edited by Erna P. Harris) ‘i • Every Week, we shall present “OUR GUEST COLUMN ", a non profit service of the American Press Associates devoted to furth ering group understanding. Edited by Erna P Harris, noted ** journalist, our new weekly columr will feature prominent guest con tributors who will review current developments on the minority group front and suggest local and nationwide action 4* * ALL OF VS (by Edwin R. Embree, President Julius Rosenwald Fund) Note to readers: Edwin R. Embree, who is chair man of the Mayor's Committee on Race Relations in Chicago, is a native of Kentucky, (born while his parents were temporarily ab sent from the State! ) He grew up in the household of his abolit. ionist grandfather, John G. Fee, who had founded before the Civil War and maintained in spite of mobs, a "co-educational” colleg for white and Colored pupils. He is the author of a number o books, largely on social find racia matters, the latest of which ar< Brown Americans, and 13 against the Odds, biographies of 13 dis tinguished Negroes. When a Japanese-A.nerican was brought into a Chicago office, a Negro stenographer sneered, “I'll not work with any yellow belly,” and stalked out—haughty as any Nor dic. Cults of Negroes in many cities gleefully engage in antisSemitism. At the same time Jewish businessmen all too frequently exploit Negroes, ami Jewish families along with their Gentile neighbors give suport to the same kind of gheto walls in America that they fled from In Europe. Catholics often show the very same intolerance to other Christians that they complain of when it is directed against them. Polish Catholics led by their priests fought Negro admission to the homes built for them by the Federal gov ernment in Detroit. In California, Negroes, Mexicans and Japanese-Americans have vied in looking down o >> OTIC 311* other. All of this is crazy. A Negro fascist is just as ugh' as a white fascist. Intol erance is just as evil in a Catholic as in a Baptist. We are not going to get democracy in America so long as each group strives for special advantages for itself. We are not going to break the tough walls of segrega tiomand discrimination unless all groups in behalf of full participation in all phases of American life by all the peo ple. Liberals have lost their batles, time out of mind, be cause we fought among ourselves rather than against the 1 eomon enemy. All of us in America—Negroes, whites, Jews, Japanese-Americans, Catholics, Protestants, all of us —can build a society of freedom and security if we stand together. If any of us suffer, we all suffer. This idea was put forcibly and beautifully by John Dunne three hundred years ago. With a slight emend ation of mine, one of his great poems ends: No man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of a continent, ft part of the main. If the bell tolls the knell of any man (or any group of men ), Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.” ---APA Transfer of D. C. Tourist Camp To Virginia Opposed Washington, DC.— The DC. branch of the NAACP last week opposed the proposal to move the tourist camp from East Potomac Park. The National Capital Parks Commission, under the Depart ment of Interior, had proposed to rebuild and increase the size of the tourist camp. The DC Board of Recreation urged that the area be transferred to their jurisdiction for the construction of night-light ed recreational facilities and sug gested Daingerfield Island as an alternate site for the tourist camp located on the Virginia side of the Potomac midway between the Na tional Airport and Alexandria. Oscar Chapman, Assistant Sec retary of Interior, has assured the NAACP that the tourist camp will be operated on a non-segre gated basis. When the question was schedul ed for discussion at the January meeting of the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, Dr. E. B. Henderson, Chairman of the NAACP Recreation Commit tee, wrote to the Chairman, Gen eral U. S. Grant, III, basing op position to any change of location on the following points: (I) That the tourist citizens of the nation should be given accommodations in a camp as close as possible to points of interest in the capital; (2) That the question of legal jurisdiction over Daingerfield Is land might well develop into a controversy such as has been waged over the National Airport with the imposition of the Jim Crow laws of Virginia. LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. JOHN B. MARTIN -.- Q Surrounded by many beautiful floral offerings and her family and j many friends, last rites were held I for Mrs- Ostella Martin, 63, of I 1406 23rd Street Plaza, who died i at a local hospital last Friday. Services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 oclock from the Bethel AME. Church of which she was an active and faithful mem ber of long standing. She is survived by her husband, John Benjamin; sons, Ira, of Kan sas City, Mo., Cecil of Chelsea, Okla, Roy of Omaha, 2 daughters and son-in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Snell, all of Omaha, two sisters of Los Angeles, Calif., and one brother. ' * ^ Burial was in Forest Lawn Cem etery. Rev. C. L. Williams, Pastor of Bethel, officiated. Union Services Union services will be held Sun day night at Zion Baptist Church, Rev. C. L. Williams, Pastor of the Bethel AME Church will be the speaker. The Bethel AME Choir will sing. GEORGIA SENATE SAYS FEPC COULD HELP HITLER Washington, D. C.—If Adolf Hitler was alive, he could get a peper hanging job here under the fair employment practices Com mission declared heavy-jowled Richard Russel, a Senator from Georgia. Taking the floor, immediately after a quram was assembled at 12:15 pm. Russell began with, “If Adolph Hitler could come over here and he could hail an employ er before a FEPC kangaroo court Inter-Racial Relation Meeting At Cleaves C. M. E. Church Cab Calloway*s At The Orpheum This Week "Keep Vp With Youth”... Read “Chatter-Box”Every Week No Jim Crow for Delegates To Monetary Conference ULj.viN w. PAULEY Washington, DC. (Soundphoto) Edwin W. Pauley, nominee for the post of Undejr Secretary of the Navy, .denied vigorously he had ever tried to influence legislation to give the state ownership of "'idwater oil lands. Photo shows “ft to right, Senator David I. Walsh, Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and Ed win W. Pauley at the Senate Nav al Affairs Committee last wepk. and get a job, he would keep some American soldier from a job.” Russell kept the gab for hours. PURSE SNATCHED Mrs. Roy Nolte, 919 No 27th St. reported to police February 2nd that her purse was snatched by a colored man in front of 2502 Cuming St. She described the man as colored, about 55 years of age, 5 ft. 9 in. tall, weighing about 150 lbs, wearing mustache, brown lea ther jacket, blue overalls and a dark felt hat. SAYS W ESTINGHOUSE REJECTS EMPLOYEES NON-DISCRIMINA TION CLAUSE IN CONTRACT Claiming that companies such Sg, the General Electric Co. and Wes. tinghouse Electric Corp. have re jected the demand of their employ ees that no discrimination in hir ing clause oe inserted in their con' tract with the Union, a represen tative of 200,000 striking electri cal workers today dispatched a communication to all US Senators demanding that the filibuster hol ding up passage of a permanent Fair Employment Practice bill be immediately ended. The communication, signed by Julius Emspak, general secretary treasurer of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America