The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, February 09, 1946, Image 1
■ 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 <UE_CIO), states: as you are doubtless aware, 200,000 employees of the General Electric Westinghous and Genral Motors (electrical division) companies are on strike today for a living wage It will interest you to know, however, that our union presented a demand to General Electric and Westinghouse recently that the following clause be written into the contract with UE-CIO: The provisions of this contract shall be applied to all employees without discrimination on account of race, color, creed, or National origin. Both companies flatly rejected this proposed clause just as they have rejected the $2 a day wage increase demand of their employ ees. No explanation was offered No serious counter-proposal was made. DIESSUDDEISLY Josie Jones, 418 No. 14th St., who has been living with a white man, Ben Cronin as his common Washington, D C_Both the State and Treasury departments have assured the NAACP in wri ting that there will be no discrim ination against dark-skinned dele gates at the forthcoming Brettor vVoods monetary conference sche [ iuled to be held on \Vilmington island, near Savannah, Ca. “Whether the conference is held in Savannah, or elsewhere wrote Secretary of the Treasury, Fred M. Vinson I shall insist on assur ' ances from the management of ' the hotels in which it is held that : l! d delations are to receive the same treatment and that there 1 i to be no discrimination becouse of color. hieplying for Acting Secretary, of State Dean Acheeson, Warre; Kelchner, Chief of the Division of International Conferences, wrote “The Department hr^ consist ently maintained that all delegate to an international conference bf treated alike. As you well state this is an obvious and basic prin cipal in the conduct of interna tional conferences. Regardless of where a conference might be held I can assure you that the Depart | ment would not be a party to any arrangement of a different char acter.” , law wife, died Sunday morning. She had been ill for some time and about 10:00 am. Sunday, Ben Cronin went to work and left Jo sie in bed and had a friend, Ed King, Arcade Hotel, stay with her and about 11:58 am. he called the station and stated that Josie was dead. She was (pronounced dead by Dr. Follman and body was sent to Myers Funeral home. ASK OMAHANS TO BE ON LOOKUT FOR MISSING COAST- GUARDSMAN Citizens of Omaha today were asked to be on the look-out for Phillip C. Ford, Yeoman 2nd c of the United States Coast Guard who has been missing from his home in New York City since Oct. 1945 The request was made by H. W. Mead, general secretary of the YMCA here, who described Ford, a member of th YMCA in New York, as being five ft. eight in. tall, weighing 130 pounds, blue eyes, black curly hair, cleft chin and having even white teeth. While he wore his blue uniform, white I hat and pea jacket when he dis appeared, it is possible that he is now wearing civilian clothes. It is feared that Ford, who was with in one half point of being dischar ged by the Coast Guard, is suffer ing frrom amnesia. Ford's step-father has posted a reward of $5,000 for information leading to the finding of the miss ing youth. Citizens having any in formation concerning Ford were asked to contact Mr. Mead at the YMCA or any police officer. BAPTIST SEMINARY DENIES SMITH CONNECTION Los Angeles (L. R.)—The Bap tist Theological Seminary of Los Angeles has disassociated itself from any inference that it sup ports Gerald L. K. Smith or his program in any way. Confusion arose because of the fact that the pastor of the Seminary Baptist Church was reported in the press to be supporting Gerald L. K Smith. This Church has no con nection with the Seminary. The v. C. B. Cooper, secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Seminary stated: “As a matter of fact we all are of complete contrary opin ion to everything that Geraid L. K. Smith stands for.” In addition, the Rev. Cooper advised that the Theological Seminary has asked the Seminary Baptist Church to move from the Seminary’s premi DO YOU KNOW THE W HERE-ABOETS OF MR. JACK BATES? Sought by Mrs. O. Fisher of Sacramento, Calif. Omaha, Nebr. 2418 Grant Street Omaha, Guide Pub. Co. Dear Sir: Find enclosed a money order for which, please send me the last 4 copies of The Omaha Guide. I am trying to locate a young man who was released from the service a little over a month ago He has been gone from here three weeks. It is very important that I get in touch with him I under stand his mother lives in Omaha some where. The young mai. £ name is Jack Bates. In the even. you or any of your reporters dc j.-.-, w.ii jou please send ils add ess along with the copies ■ -"'-i— np.per. Thanks in Advance, Signed—Mrs. Oma Fisher ses, as a result of the unfavorable publicity given the Seminary. RED CROSS TO APPEAL FOR FENDS IN MARCH The American Red Cross will again appeal to the American peo ple during the month of March foi funds to continue its world wide service prog rm. The campaigr goal is 5100,000,000, the larges*, ever sought in peacetime. The work of the American Red Cross has the endorsement of prominent Negro leaders, includ ing Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethu e Rpx Ingram has made a record ing to he used by Negro speakers who will anpeal to churches, col leges, schools, ledges, and local National Congress of Co’ored Parcnts and Teachers as well as to other groups. Local Ne groes are being appointed to ass. ist in their community campaigns, and you will no doubt give them publicity. We are counting on your contin ued support in the forthcoming campaign. MR. BUDDY McCREA ORGANIZES BOYS CLUB A Boys’ Club was recently or ganized under the sponsorship of the City Recreation Dept, for boyr between the ages of 7 and 16 yrs. Mr. Buddy McCrea who has charge of this recreation section, says that the organization was formed for the purpose of build ing youth, both physically and mentally, by developing their bo dies through athletics, such as boxing, basketball, volleyball, etc. He further stated that the boys will be instructed in good conduct and moral upbuilding. The boys who were elected as officers of the Culb are: Alfred Brown, Pres.; Gilbert Gordon, as Vice-Pres.; Clifford Triggs, 2nd Vice-Pres.; James Williams, as Treas.; and Denny King, Sec’y. Meetings will be held every Sat urday afternoon about 4 o’clock at the YMCA building, 24th and Grant Sts. All boys 7 to 16 years of age are invited to join. Mem bership cards will be issued to all members. MRS. ROOSEVELT ANSWERS AGAIN ON INTERMINGLING OF RACES New York—“Your granddaugh ter, Miss Doll is quite a young lady now. Are you contemplating encouraging her to have young Negro men present at her debut or any other of her grown up parties?” asked a young woman of Mrs- Roosevelt. The forever 1st lady printed her answer in her January column. “If You Ask Me” a monthly feature of the Ladies’ Home Journal Said Mrs. Roosevelt, “I have never contemplated interfering with what my children or my grand children do. I would neither HUNDRED YEARS OLD M-ers, Okla.,—Bishop W. Angie Smith of Oklahoma City traveled roads made treacherous by winter snow and mud to fulfill the re quest of Hunting Horse, famous ■Ciowa Indian, to preach a sermon at his 100th birthday celebration. Thought to be the last Custer Scout, Army personnel from Fort Sill in recent years have honored this medal-wearer with an annual ! buffalo barbecue and mammoth birthday cake- 60 years ago Hunt ing Horse set out to scalp a mis. sionary for preaching the white man’s God to the Indians. He re turned a convert to Christia ity. Now h:s chief pride is in two sons and a son-in-law, all Methodist ministers. encourage nor discourage any of the plans which they had for so cial recreation, nor interfere in anyway in which they wished to e''nduct their lives. Once your chil dren are grown up and have chil dren of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes, the better. I should hope, however, that like any other mature person, that my granddaughter would know men and women of all races and ap preciate them for what they are worth.” me uieaves iempie unoir, i headed by Mrs. Lucy Mae Britt j and sponsored by the Rev. E. V. j Wade, will conduct a Race Relat ions Program this Sunday, Febr uary 10th at 4 o'clock pm. Both white and Colored are earn estly urged to attend. A panel discussion will be held on the subject “Problems of Re Adjustment for the Negro Service Personnel”. Both white and Col ored will participate in the panel. Musical numbers will be render ed by some of our leading talent of the city. Be a booster for this fine pro gram, attend the Church at 2oth and ecntur streets and invite youi friends to be present on next Sun day at 4 pm. Do not fail to be present for this very fi.:e treat. Rev. E. V. Wade is pastor of the Church and Mr Robert Hands, Secretary. LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY By H. W. Smith We are nnproachin" a very sa cred day, Lincoln’s birthday ard we should pay great homage to this great man that made everv effort to bring about a peaceful union between the North and the South. He encountered many ob stacles and met with many dis couragements along the way. As it was looked upon as an impossi ble thing to do at that time. But Mr. Lincoln met all of his critics with a smile. When he made of the idea of placing Negro sol.' diers in the service, he was told that the cotton fields would suf fer and the grass would grow He had plenty of the sound confidence that anv well thinking person real ly should have and that is the idea that nothing beats a trial but a failure, and with the help of the Union officers and at the same time having faith and trust in the Almighty God, he was rewarded with a Union that we are still en joying today. He hesitated to sign the proclamation but a good JVle thodist Bishop stood over him and insisted that he sign it. So we must not fail to pay the homage to this great man that he so earn estly deserves. BARKLEY COMMENDED FOR SUPPORT OF FEPC _ • New York—For his speech in i the Senate January 24th declar | ing his full support for FEPC and of limitation of debate to prevent filibusters despite letters he had received from Kentucky protest ing his stand, Senator Alben W. Barkley, Majority Leader, was commended by the NAACP. The enemies of FEPC kept egg ing Senator Barkley about his support of the bill. He finally got up and declared that he had voted to draft all young men of this country to fight in the war and that the draft law had no dis crimination as to race, color or religion. He said he felt in his own ■ conscience that he could not vote High Court To Hear Case First Part of March W’ahing+on. DC_On Monday, January 28. the United States Su preme Court “noted probable jur isdiction" in the cube ol Irene Morgan vs Commonwealth of Vir ginia, thus bringing before the highest court the whole question of the segregation of interstate passengers on any part of a com .ion carrier. The Supreme Court has ruled in p-evious cares that first class accommodations may not be denied Negroes, meaning that pullman berths and lounge* and club cars (which go with first class fare) may not be den ied them. However, the court ha« never ruled on the application of State Jim Crow statutes to inter oiate passengers. Mrs. Morgan on October 18. 1944, was found guilty by the Judge of the circuit court of Mid dlesex County, Virginia, of the crime of violating the Jim Crow transportation statute of Virginia while traveling in a bus from Nor folk, Virginia to Baltimore, Mary land. It was contended at the hearing that the Jim Crow statute of Virginia was unconstitutional as applied to an interstate passen ger. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir ginia on June 6, 1945. The judg ment and conviction was affirm ed. An appeal to the United States Supreme Court was presented and allowed by Chief Justice Stone or the United States Supreme Court on November 19, 1945. This lat est action by the Supreme Court in noting probable jurisdiction means that the case \Vill Be argu ed on its merits. It is expected that the case should be reached sometime du.i. g the first part ot March. The decision is expected to affect travel in all states. The lawyers in the case are Wm H Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, and Spottswood W. Robinson, III. against a measure designed to give all persons a fair chance at employment. He sa;d he was de termined upon his course despite the fact that many of his consti tuents in Kentucky had protested his view a id had threatened to vote against him in future elect ions. “1 have always felt that the filibuster as a legislative institu tion is unjustifiable and indefen sible—I intend to vote for the mo tion (cloture)—” The NAACf letter declared: “Your stand on this matter has g:ven hope to millions of . Ameri cans who are looking forward to a better day.—This Association is back of you with respect to your ideals which you have so clearly and unequivocally stated." NEGROES HAVE STAKE IN STRIKES Because 99 and nine-tenths per cent of Negroes work for a living with hand or brain, and therefore are an integral part of the work ing class that depends on wages for food, clothing, and shelter, ed ucation and recreation and a dec ent standard of living, they have a basic and vital stake in the nu merous strikes that are sweeping the nation. If the workers are de feated in these strikes, the Ne groes and all other minorities are defeated too, because they will suffer from reduced purchasing power, which in turn is the cause of financial and industrial depres sions, during which time Negroes are the first fired and last hired. All Negro leaders and organi zations states A. Philip Randolph International President of the Bro therhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the headquarters in New York: City, have a mor£d obligation to the workers who are fighting for bread and life in the steel, pack in, automobile, electric, telephone and railroad industries, as well as any other industry, CIO or AK of L., controlled, in which the struggle for rnore wages and bet ter working conditions by the wor kers is going on 30 Negro, Whites, Formulate Plan lor Interracial World War II Vets* Organization New York (C)—Thirty Negro and white, male and female vet ierans of World War II gathered in New York City on Saturday, January 26, 1946, and formulated plang for a national interracial, non partisan organization to be called United Veterans for Equa lity. The group constituted itself a National Organizing Committee for a nationwide conference of veterans to be held in Chicago on March 16—17, 1946, at which time the organization will be launched. Negro veterans throughout the nation and particularly in the South, face special problems. None of the existing veterans organiza tions have attempted to solve the problems Now more than ever be fore the need is urgent for a mili tant organization whose specific aim is to secure equal rights for Negro ex-servicemen. Bertram Alves and Thomas McDonald were elected temporary chairman and secretary respect ively. Speaking as a native of Ala bama and with obvioug emotion, Catherine Godfrey, former WAC lieutenant, told the Committee the GI Bill of Rights isn’t worth two cents in the South. No bank will lend a Negro vet money to buy his own farm and thus escape the vicious sharecropping systen. Miss Godfrey also told how the unde mocratic jim crow educational system makes it impossible to get an education under the GI Bill of Rights. A Committee member from Ohio scored the wide spread dis crimination in housing and em ployment encountered by return ing Negro servicemen. We fought and defeated Fascism abroad, and now we must fight and defeat the Bilbos, Eastlands and the other two bit Fascists at home, said he. The objective of the United Vet erans for Equality, as one mem ber stated is to fight for full de mocracy and progress—the prin ciples we and our buddies suffered bled and died for. The Committee includes Lucy Owens, ex-WAC; Sy Oliver, ar. ranger and composer; Elbert Ter. ry, Servicemen’s Federation; Writ. Taylor, NY State United Veter ans for Equality; Theodore Pal mer; William Actman, Chicago; Distinguished Flying Cross; Don Wheedlin, Calif.; Babe Kurokl, Neisi winner of Distinguished Fly ing Cross; Hilda McDonald, ex~ WAC; Walter Bernstein, former Stars and Stripes correspondents Lloyd Brown, Pittsburgh. Thomas Russel Jones, lawyer? Burt Jackson, ex.99th Pursuit Squadron; Millard Lampbell, ra dio script writer; George Murphy. Maryland; Joe Allen, Harlem fa b°r Union; Howard Johnson, pur ple Heart winner; Catherine God frey, Alabama; Thomas Jasper. Fur Workers Union; Bertram All ves, New York; Thomag McDon ald, NY State Veterans for Equa lity; Benita Schuster, ex.WAC; Theroda Bryant, ex.WAC; Win C. Hall, Missouri; Sterling T_ Rochester, Piladelphia;* WiIHam C Taylor. Conn.; Henry Thomas* Washington, D. C.; and Mercer Nanco, Ind. Bedford Park’s Beautiful Lots Are on the Market F or Sale Now! Msp tp ffljjT" Call Realty Improvement Cempany 342 Electric Bldg. JA-7718 or JA-1620 “Small Down Payment Will De the Jeb”.