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Goodwill Spring Musical Presidents to Meet with MinisteralCommmittee CITES NEED FOR NEGRO PHYSICAL THERAPISTS _ Hampton Institute, Va.—The ur' gent need for Negro physical ther apists was cited at Hampton In stitute recently by Dr. Frances A. Hellebrandt, acting director of the Baruch Center of Physical Medi cine in Richmond, who spoke at the Thursday all-campus assembly of the college in Ogden Hall. In her address, Dr. Helelbrandt also spoke of the million and a halt dollar scholarship fund which the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has allocated for the ed ucation of physical thereapy tech nicians. Any student, irrespective or race, possess the proper ere dentials, is eligible for this type of isubsidy, which provides not only tuition and books, but also makes available a modest sum suf ficient to cover the living expenses of the 12 months required for cer luiutuun. Negro men wounded overseas, workers who have suffered from industrial accidents, and the inno cent victims of infantile paralyse should be the recipient of the bene fits which accdue from modern, intelligently conceived and execu ted convalescent training and re habilitation, declared Dr. Helle brandt, who h£ls seen in St. Phil lip hospital in Rihmond an unpa ralled opportunity for Negro tech nicians to do pioneer service in the rural communities of the Ri chmond area. At the present time, she stated, there is no one availa ble to assume responsibility, for after-care of our Negro children, stricken by poliomyelitis, and our small unit reaches only a fraction of those crippled by accidental in. juries or disease. However, according to Dr. Hei lebrandt, months of searching has failed to locate one Negro techni cian, male or female, willing tc accept the challenge of establish ing the service envisioned at St. Phillip, where the establishment of an all-Negro Therapy technicia: training program was proposed ir November, 1944. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which had been approached foi grant in aid, recommended agams1 the establishment of such a school primarily because of the critical shortage of suitable teaching per “IT PAYS TO LOOK WELL" MAYO’S BARBER SHOP Ladies and Children’s Work A Specialty 2422 LAKE ST. GLASS PROTECTS HOCKEY FANS Pittsburgh, Pa—Perfect vision ( /ith absolute safety is assured fo; lockey fans with use of panels of i .he remarkably strong herculitc empered plate glass. Able to with stand the terrific blows of hocke? sticks as the players swing them .n jams a ainst the sideboard, Ui' glass pa •> s replace the old heav; wire screening which oft-tinir made it difficult for spectators tc follow the fast action of the team This installation was made at th-r Gardens and show members oi the Pittsburgh Hornets, Americar League entry. 3onnel. Pointing out that the impetus 'or physical therapy services to; Negroes must come from a poin’ vithin the Negro group. Dr. Hel ebrandt quoted Col. M. O. Bous ield’s prediction that requests fo» physical therapy would be so ui gent in the post-war period that Negro physicians would have tc prepare themselves to meet tht demand. In his estimation, Dr Hellebrandt reported, some 20 Ne gro physical therap:sts could b; immediately assimilated in the South. The real need, Dr. Helebrar.dt continued, is, of course far in ex-i cess of this figure, in part because the South lags significantly behind the North, the Middle and Kar( est in the establishment of Phy. sical Therapy treatment centers Except for the group in Richmond there are almost no physical ther anists in the Commonwealth oi Virginia and fewer in North and South Carolina. V/ttho doubt, there are more physical therapists associated with New York Univer sity and its affiliated clinical unit i than the number found in the all of the Southeast. Thrifty Service... • 6 LBS. OF LAUNDRY BEAUTIFULLY LAUNDERED FOR ONLY Cgr 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 fTTm-v/».rwtr * wt i ~ "wi • "THERE'S ST/LL ONE PLUG LEFT OVER/" Don’t overload your electric circuits. When you build or modernize provide ADEQUATE WIRING; NEBRASKA-IOWA ELECTRICAL COUNCIL SIGN PACT IN CHINA — . ChungKing, Chi a-Sorndphoto— - Signmg the ce"se f;re n.et is pic : tured above in the Chungking home of G'me,"Pl C^or^e C. Mar shall, US President al envoy as mediator. Lef<. to rigut are Gov eraor Chang Chun, representing the Nationalists, and General Chow En-Lai, representative of the Chinese Communist faction. ] General Marshall shows General ! Chow En-Lai where to affix sig nature. FARM INCOME RISE IN NEBR. BOOSTS HOME DEVICE MART A gain in the annual gross in i come of the average Nebraska j farm family from $2,136 in 1940 to $5,867 in 1944, as reported by ! the United States Department of Agriculture, has created a power ful buyer’s market for home labor saving devices, according to a manufacturers' survey of this market since V-J Day. Spokesman for industry visual ize a vast new outlet in rural areas for equipment such as washing machines, electric refrigerators, automatically controlled central heating systems, kitchen stoves j and vacuum cleaners, according to j John E. Haines, vice president of ■ Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator ! • Company, manufacturer of auto T ie presid,_ — the Goodwill ■Spring Musical .Choir are to meet 7ith a committee from the Mini ate ial Ailiance at the home of L. L.. McVay, 286S Corby St., Sun ay r'e ruary 10th at 4:00 pm. Tire purpose of tills meeting mill re to make plans for the Goodwill Chorus' program for the year of 1946. The presidents of the choirs are asked to bring one or two mem reis of his or her respective choir _o this meeting so that we may draw ideas fix in a larger commit ae than jusi ti e presidents. We are su e • it!', the cooperat on from the M'nisteral Allia ce /e w 11 b,? able to si cv a nate pir't cf goodwill and Chrisiian iellowship L. L. McVay TAKES OVFP PACKING PLANTS Washington. D. i;.-Foundnhota— Gayle G- Armstrong, Assistant Administrator of the Department of Agriculture who took over the strike-bound meat packing plants at the order of President Truman. matic heating controls, who has just completed an analysis of the farm market. The desire for automatic devices goes hand in hand with the gen eral movement to modernize which Haines said was expected to result in an estimated annual expendi ture of$250,000,000 for farm home remodeling in the United States for tb“ next five years. Based on the valuation of farm land, build ings anci equipment in Nebraska as $1,197,357, 000, the annual out lay for remodeling is expected to total $8,457,500 for the next five years. Reflecting this demand, manu facturers are stepping up output over prewar levels, it is reported. A shortage of some materials and labor difficulities have retarded production somewhat, but a sharp upturn in volume is expected in 1946. KLAN CROSS LIGHTED IN GEORGIA Atlanta (L. R.l—A fiery cross, visible for many miles, was plant ed atop Stone Mountain, Georgia, on October 20, 1945, heralding the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan into the open. Dr. Samuel Green, Grand Dra gon, claims a Georgia membership of 20,000 for the Klan. Although since the beginning of the year, Green had been working secretly at rorganizing the Klan as a na tion-wide “Invisible Empire,” he now publicly announces that the Klan is on longer on a national basis, but consits of voluntary state groups SUCCEEDS GENERAL DEGAULLE Paris, France, Radiophoto—Fe lix Gouin, 61 year old Socialist leader of the Constituent Assembly accepts formal notice of his elec tion as interim President of • France, from Andre Mercier, vice chairman of the Assembly (left) as others look on. Gouin who had been President of the Assembly succeeds Gen. Charles De Gaulle He received 497 votes out of a possible 535. In his first speech as President, Gouin said ‘‘I accept the burden as a duty not only to ward the Republic but toward all France.” * 1A t CLEARANCE CadiesI serviceable anklets and mittens are now available at greatly reduced prices! ANKLETS.19c Full size range in assorted colors and a few white. Formerly 29c-1.00 . . . now only 19c MITTENS.$1 Black, red, white and yeHow. Formerly 1.50, now 1.00. ladies' accessories . . . main floor Nebraska Clothing Co♦ ANN PETRY, author of “THE STREET,” Houghton Mifflin Lit erary Fellowship Winner. Ann Petrv, who was born in Old Sa'brook. Connectcut, comes from a New England family that has specialized in some branch of che mistry for three generations. Her grandfather was a chemist; he: 1 father, an aunt and an uncle are | druggists i She is a graduate of the college j of Pharmacy of the University of ' Connecticut. While working as £ registered pharmacist in the drug stores owned by her family in Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, she did her first short stories. If she had not married and gone to New York City to live she woulc have undoubtedly continued hex career as a pharmist. Instead she sought and found jobs in New York that would give her an op po"tunity to write—jobs that ran ged from selling advertising space and writing advertising copy for a Harlem weekly to editing the women’s page and covering gen eral news stories for a rival news paper. While interviewing celebrities covering political rallies and some 3 alarm fires, and reporting on murders and all other forms of sudden death, she acquired an in timate and disturbing knowledge of Harlem and its ancient, evi) housing; its tragic, broken fami lies; its high death rate. She spent nine months working on an experiment in education that was being conducted in one of the city’s elementary schools and thus observed at firsthand the toll that segreated areas like Harlem exac' in the twisting and warping oi the lives of children. aii ctuaiLiu.i tu wui iviiig news papers she has taught salesman ship, written children's plays, act ed with an amateur theatrical group. She is a former member of the new famous American JNe-! gro Theatre. She has studied paint ing, and plays the piano for he; own amusement, claiming to b< the least promising pupil of a well j known composer and artist. At present she is executive secretary of Negro Women Incorporated i civic minded organization whic.’. keeps a watchful eye on local anc national legislation. Her first story to be publisher appeared in the November, 1943 issue of “The Cris's ” a ma^azinr published monthly by the National Association for the Advanceme of Colored People- This story wa: read bv one of the editors of Hou g'.iton Mifflin who then wrote ask ing if Mrs. Petry were workin,' on a vcvel. The following year she submit j ted the first five chanters and f | complete synopsis of “The Street’ and was awarded the $2400 Hou ghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for 1945- This enabled her to de vote the next ten months to fini shing the novel. Ann Petry’s own explanation o< how she came to write 'The Street her first novel, is as follows: “I wrote THE STREET in a: effort to s’^ow why the Negro war instrumental in having a high rat of crime, a high death rate anc little or no chance of keeping hi; family unit intact in large Nor them cities. There are no statist ice in THE STREET though they are present in the background not as columns of figures but in terms of what life is like for peo ple who live in over-crowded ten ements I tried to write a story that does | move swiftly so that it would hold , L the attention of people who might 1 ordinarily shy away from a so called problem novel. And I hope that I have created characters who are real, believable, alive. For 1 am of the opinion that most Ame-1 ricans regard Negroes as types— not quite human—who fit into a special category and I wanted tc show them as people with the vpry same capacity for love and hate, for tears and laughter, and the same instincts for survival pos sessed by all men.” SUBSCRIBE NOW! CAIX HA-0800 I --WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Radar Opens Way for Scientific ; Exploration of Stratosphere; j Filibuster Fair Employment Bill ' by Western Newspaper Union. .— I (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) RADAR: Reach Moon With U. S. army radar contact with the moon, vast possibilities con fronted a rapidly developing sci entific world, which had record d the explosive use of atomic energy only a short six months ago. Having sent radio waves 238.857 miles up to the moon at the rate of 186,000 miles a second and reg istered echoes 2Vz seconds later, army physicists working on the proj ct at the Evans Signal lab oratory in Belmar, N. J., saw these possible revolutionary wartime and peacetime uses of the new tech nique: • Radio control of long-range jet or rocket-propelled missiles, circling the earth above the atmosphere. •Study of effects of upper layers of atmosphere on radio waves. • Drawing of detailed topographical maps of distant planets and deter mine the composition of other cel s tial bodies. • Radio control of strato-ships sent aloft to record astronomical data computed aboard such craft by elec tronic devices. CONGRESS: Seek Labor Curb Despite the general congressional tendency to give the administration wide latitude in handling the strike situation, especially in an election year, southern solons 1 d by Repre sentatives Smith (Dem., Va.) and Cox (Dem., Ga.) have prodded cau tious legislators toward considera tion of anti-strike measures. Hitting congressional timidity for taking the teeth out of the Presi d nt’s proposed fact-finding legisla tion, Smith declared his intentions to restore the right of federal officials to look into disputants’ books in studying issues and establish a 30 day anti-strike period. In addition. Smith joined with other congressmen in calling for legislation which would make unions as well as ccmpani s equally re sponsible for observing contracts, and went even further in demand ing the prohibition of sympathy strikes and the organization of su pervisory and management em ployees. Crippling Strike As the far-flung ste 1 strike involv ing upwards of 800,000 workers took effect, government officials looked to a widespread closing of many plants dependent upon the vital material for peacetime products. Ordinarily, the big auto manufac tur rs hold only a 10-day inventory of sheet steel, while producers of washing machines, vacuum cleaners and similar* items build up 30 to 40 day stocks. Anticipating a walkout, however, many companies ordered heavily in preceding we ks, though the government restricted permissi ble inventories of sheet steel to 45 days and other steel to 60 days. In evaluating the situation, gov ernment officials declared that the volume of production would be part ly influenced by the amount of ma terial manufacturers may decide to draw on from stocks. Though many of the bigger companies in the auto and appliance industries have been struck, smaller plants and parts suppliers have been free to work. Rescinding all priorities after the CIO-United Steel Workers left their jobs, the gov: rnment directed ware houses to channel stocks to utility, fire, police, hospital, railroad, food processing and other outlets serv ing the public needs. Plant Seizures In taking over struck packing plants, the government declared that meat was a vital product, neces sary for the maintenance of Amer ican strength in securing the peace during the continuing postwar emer gency, differentiating it from goods of a civilian nature. Though AFL members agreed to return to their jobs, the CIO pack inghouse workers rebelled at going back in U. S. controlled plants un der old pay rates. By taking over the plants and re-establishing old conditions, they said, the govern ment had robbed them of their one weapon for enforcing higher wage demands. While the government took over the plants of Swift, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson, Morrel and others, with com pany officials conducting the busi ness under U. S. supervision, fed eral conciliators maintained efforts to bring the disputants together on the wage issue. Increased price ceilings were proposed to offset higher pay advances. PEARL HARBOR: Short’s Turn In telling the Pearl Harbor inves tigating committee that the war de partment's withholding of intercept ed Japanese messages prior to the fatal attack on the naval base had not permitted hjm to make adequate preparations against assault, Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short took the same position as Admiral Kimmel. Lashing the war department for having made him the "scapegoat” for the disaster, Short d dared that had he been furnished the gist of in tercepted Japanese messages point ing toward imminent war, he would have girded his Hawaiian command for an all-out alert. As it was, he said, he only ordered a watch against sabotage and presumed it was satisfactory since Chief of Staff Marshall had not countermanded the step. Discussing the intercept d enemy message of December 6, indicating a break in diplomatic relations, and the concluding part of the dispatch December 7, specifying the exact time for the rupture. Short assert ed that had the war department sent him the information promptly, he would have had four hours in which to pr.pare for an attack. A tele phone call to Hawaii would have taken a few minutes. Short stated. TALK: And More Talk Resisting northern efforts to push through the fair employment prac tices bill, which prohibits discrimi nation in hiring work.rs, southern senators led by Mississippi’s Theo dore G. Bilbo carried on a lengthy filibuster against the measure in their drive to talk it to death. With all of the southern senators save Pepper (Dem., Fla.) lined up against the FEPC, one outdid the other in holding forth against the measure. Whereas Bilbo announced his readiness to deliver a 30-day speech, Eastland (Dem., Miss.) threatened to outshine his colleague by filibustering for two years. In forming ranks to talk the FEPC to death, the southern senators, re ferring to chamber members as “my delightful and revered friend,” etc., concentrated on discussion of As leader of Southern filibuster, Sen. Bilbo girds for 30-day talk. the contents of the formal s nate journal, which carries a detailed ac count of proceedings. For hours Dixie’s stalwarts talked about the advisability of including a chaplain’s prayer in the r port before Taft (Rep., Ohio) got them oft on some thing else by succeeding in having the matter tabled. GRAIN: Big Demand With the government planning to export between 200 and 225 million bushels of wheat during the first half of 1946, and with livestock pro ducers and distillers scrambling for grain to meet heavy feed and proc essing needs, farmers were assured strong and steady markets through the year. Because of the government’s ex port program and feed and proc essing needs, the nation’s supply of wheat was expected to dip to around 200 million bushels by July 1, with some sources predicting even less. With one to two months supply on hand, many mills already are be ginning to feel the pinch, and dis tillers have been forced to use hulled oats for alcohol despite small er gallonage per 100 bushels. Though the department of agri culture considered limiting the use of wheat for feed, it reportedly was reluctant to act because of a short age of feed in the poultry produc ing New England states. South America May Be Rich Oil Source Some of the world’s greatest de posits of oil may be found locked in or beyond the forbidding Andes mountains of South America, says Ethyl News magazine. South Amer- 1 ica already is the second largest oil producer in the world, and evi dences of the presence of petroleum are found the full length of the An des, giving foundation to the belief that some of the world’s major de- | posits may be located there, it is declared. Wartime depletion of oil reserves makes the discovery of new depos its all the more imperative, accord ing to the publication, adding that part of the answer may lie in the snow-clad, towering Andes running 4.500 miles from Tierra del Fuego up to the Caribbean coast of Ven ezuela. VETS: Surplus Goods Disposal of surplus goods to vet* promised to be speeded up through the formation of a special division in the War Assets corporation to handle the program and meet nu merous objections posed by past practices. Though the volume of surplus goods for disposal will depend upon the final determination of service needs after demobilization, the Chi cago regional office of WAC was quick to set up model procedure to facilitate the mov ment of govern ment material to G.I. applicants. Under the new system, any vet desiring surplus goods will be given a certificate to purchase whatever material he wants, and a WAC ri p resentative then will conduct him to the department handling the item. If the product is not available, the vet will then be notified when it has b en received, and he will be permitted to make a purchase under ceilings established by OPA. Formerly, vets had complained that ceiling prices were too high, and that they had not been notified of public sal s to dealers on a bid basis for unclaimed surplus ma terial. Doctors Aid 'Blue Baby' Doctor Taussig (left) bids Judy Hackman and father goodbye. Snug in a scarlet and ivory suit, with a red cap tucked over golden curls. 2 year-old Judy Hackman oj Buckley, Wash., kicked impishly as she war wheeled nut of famed Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, Md., to he taken home after a delicate operation had re paired a malformed heart that menaced her life. ff'hen first brought into the hospital. Judy faced early death as a “blue baby," but Doctors Blalock and Taussig skill fully seived a good artery to a defec tive one. increasing the supply of oxy genated blood in her sys’-m. As the youngster recovered, the blue line jr» her lips gradually was supplanted by a rosy hue. GERMANY: Rural Elections First free voting in Germany since the Nazi rise to power in 1933. elections held in the rural sections of the American zone of occupation resulted in a decid d victory for the liberal Social Democratic party, which polled 41.4 per cent of the ballots. In swinging to the Social Demo crats, the Germans passed up the conservative Christian Democratic Union of Catholics and Protestants, which drew 28 per cent of the vote, and the radical communists, who polled about 3 per cent. Lending credence to the Ameri can authorities warning that the elections were largely determined by personalities rather than basic party principle s was the defeat of the Christian Union. Seeking to swing over the small land-owners' vote, organization candidates as serted that a radical victory would lead to subdivision of existing acre age to accommodate refugees. INSURANCE: Policy Loans Up Reflecting increased emergency needs resulting from the economic dislocations following V-J Day, life insurance policy loans have risen since the end of the war, almost doubling in the case of some com panies over the record low point of 1945. Advances averaged between $100 and $200. Despite the rise in new loans, how ever, the debt position of policy-hold ers was far more favorable than ir» 1939, the amount outstanding at the end of 1945 having been pared al most 200 million dollars to about 1 billion from the prewar years. Whereas the ratio of loans to re serves stood at 13 per cent in 1939, it now is only 5 per cent. While cash surrender value pay ments also rose moderately follow ing V-J Day, the total of 240 million dollars in 1945 compared with 732 million in 1939. FARM PRICES: Familiar Pattern Since the end of World War II, the prices of farm products have shown a tendency to follow a trend similar to that which occurred after the end of World War I, according to the Alexander Hamilton institute. When World War I was drawing to a close, prices first showed a mod erate recession from the peak which was reached during the wartime rise, and then resumed their ad vance. BSCP DEMANDS 180 HR WORK MONTH, 30c PER HOUR WAGE INCREASE It was announced in the Inter national Headquarter,, of the Bro therhood of Sleeping Car Porters in New York City, by A. Philip Randolph, International President, that the Brotherhood had submit ted to the Pullman Company, Jan. 21st, demands for a reduction of the basic work month from 240 to 180 hours, a wage increase of 30 cents per hour and fundamen tal changes in working rules. The submission of these proposals was made to the management of the Pullman Company in Chicago by the Brotherhood’s Agreement Committee, under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph. Phone us your SOCIAL NOTES JA-3215 r »##»#########»######»»»^»» »»»» !• NEGRO DOLLS [[Every home shoald have a Col oured 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.