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TO CALIFORNIA • F ' INflany thousands of men in uniform have yet to be returned home from the Pacific theatre. That's Union Pacific's first and most impor tant job. o But if you're planning a trip to California, don't give up the idea. It's worth waiting for. And travel conditions are improving, day by day. Start your vacation with relaxation. Enjoy t "smooth sailing" on a fast Streamliner ... a world of comfort on a modernly-appointed Limited. Or choose the Challenger — famous for low-cost travel enjoyment. Your journey by rail will be the high* spot of your vacation or business trip. Ask about "stop overs" at various interesting points enroute to or from California or the Pacific Northwest. Union Pacific serves more western scenic regions than any other rail road—the world's greatest travel bargain. , be Specific - Union Pacific’ *' i t THI rROGRIJJIVt V UN ION PACIFIC RAI L R O A D * , roAo or the £~/aia*ti£<A*trt4_ano\tnc ^ SIGHS CHARTER FOR BOOKER T. WASHINGTON' BIRTHPLACE MEMORAL ORGANIZATION Mrs. Portia Washington Pittman, duaghter of Booker T. Washington, is shown signing the charter for the organiz ation which has laid plans for a $2,000,000 campaign for a Booker T- Washington Birthplace Memorial. An ap propriation bill for this memorial is now before the Vir ginia General Assembly. Booker T. Washington, Negro Educator, was recently elected to the Hall of Fame. The program outlined by this organization, besides hon oring this great leader with a momorial is also aiming to carry out a project based on his teachings. TRAINING COURSE IN RACE RELATIONS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER A training course in race rela tions for law enforcement officers is now available to city, county and state law enforcement agen. cies through the cooperation of the California Department of Ju stice and the American Council on Race Relations The course is preented in a po lice bulletin, “A Guide to Race Re lations for Police Officers”, prin ted by the California State Print ing Office and available through the American Council on Race Re lni ona, 32 West Randolph Street, Chicago 1, Illinois. First tested in Richmond, Cali fornia, the course proved so sue. Cessful that Attorney General Ro bert W. Kenny is distributing the training bulletin to all sheriffs and police chiefg in the state- A. A. Liverright, executive director of the American Council, is super vising distribution throughout the rest of the country. “We in the profession of law enforcement have realized more and more the importanc of train ing in human relations as well as the detection of crime”, says At ty. Gen. Kenny. "This bulletin of fers poiice officers, for the first time, a concrete, practical guide for training in the vitally impor tant field of race relations or, more accurately, the racial as pects of human relations.” The Richmond course and the training bulletin resulted from a growing interest among law en forcement leaders in developing .■ •. •pC rf\MTER HOW WE ARRANGE THE FURNiT'J°F. I STILL FEcL SOMETHING IS LACKING/* , .Don’t overload your oloctric circuits. When you .feuild or modernise provide ADIQUATI WIRING NE33ASXA-IOWA ELECTRICAL COUNCIL -0-er professional police stand-' .ids for handling cases involving minority groups. A conference called by the American Council in February, 1945, and attended by jeis like Police . Chief John Prendergast of Chicago, Public ,axecy Director Gordon Scherer of Cincinnati, and Deputy Superin .endcnt Thomas S. J Kavanagh of he Boston Police Department, 1 ged that a basic training course je developed, tested, and distribu ted nationally. The conferees did agree that officers trained to und erstand minority problems could j lo much to halt incipient racial friction. There has also been wide inter- i st in a study issued through the I American Council by the Internat'' onal City Manager's Association- i "itled “The Police and Minority | Groups”, and prepared by Theo E. Hall, then police chief of Wilmette 1 111., and Joseph Ej Weckler, of the American Council staff the study has been usedby 93 municipal de partments, the International Ass ociation of Police Chiefs, union race relations committees, and of1 Army military police and security j officers. Dacis McEntire, of the Ameri can Council’s Pacific Coast Re.1 gional Office, 259 Geary Street, San Francisco 2, Calif., worked with Robert B. Powers, coordina tor of law enforcement agencies for the California Department of Justice, in developing the Rich mond coursea nd preparing the new bulletin. The new bulletin is being wel [ corned by law enforcement leaders ’nd Dr Gordon W. Allport, chair man of the Psychology Depart ment at Harvard University and an authority on the role of police in community tensions states: “The police of America are our chief line of defense against riots and other serious expressions of group conflict. Bothb y preventive work and by skillful handling of critical situations when they rise they can save the country from irreparable damage. Like special ists in any field they must have modern and expert training that will teach them both the back ground of the problem they face and the special skills that are in need in coping with it”. Joseph T. Kluchesky, retired Police Chief of Milwaukee, Wis., and former vice president of the International Association of Pol ice Chiefs, comments: “The bulletin contains much val uable material that should be used in training police officers in the vitally important field of race re lations. It approaches the problem of race relations from the point of view of the practical policeman and should be made available tc law enforcement agencies thru out the country”. EVENING COMMERCIAL CLASS TO BEGIN AT TECH A neyy term in Evening Commer cial Classes at Technical High School beginning on February 26th and continuing until May 9th has been announced by Mr. W- C. Cur— ming, Director of Vocational Edu* PHONE IN YOUR ■ LOCAL NEWS CALL JA-3215 WHY RAISE BASIC PAY 10. Take a Look at History From 1924 to 1929, wages rose only 5%, while profits rose 72%. This uncontrolled swelling of profits without corresponding wage raises, upset the boat of economic stability and brought about the devastating depression of the 30's. We can't let it happen againl I— ' I cation, Omaha Public Schools. Registration for the classes which are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings will be in Room 377 at Technical High School from 6:30 to 9:00 on February 26th. Classes are to be offered in Be ginning and Advanced Typing, be ginning and Advanced Shorthand, and Comptometry. For any additional information, call the Vocational Office AT-3140. ANTI-LABOR A THREAT NEGRO BY LEGISLATION A flood of anti-labor legislation is bedevilling the Congress. First k was tne Bull, Burton, Hatch Act a -’d now it is the bill by Congress man Case of South Dakota which provides for civil liability of the unions and employees violating contracts, the emasculation of col lecuve bargaining, the reinaugur ation of the vicious practice of issuing injunctions against unions together with a number of other objectionable and unjust features, observed A. Philip Randolph, In ternational President of the Bro therhood of Sleeping Car Porters. riie mg business tycoons con sider that now is the time, in the postwar period, when they have the right to carry back tax bene fits, to start an all out attack on labor to deprive it of its gams that were won during the war. If labor loses any of its rights it now possess, it will constitute a mortal ulow to the Negro since a large majority of Negroes work for a living and benefit from legislation which supports the worker, states Mr. Randolph. To this end, Negroes should rely on labor and rally their forces and urge their senators and congress men to wage relentless war again st the Case bill and other anti labor legislation that are raising their heads in the Congress. Each bill which is against labor ia one against the Negro and every bill against the Negro is against. labor concluded Mr. Randolph. NAMED AS NEW AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA New York, N. Y. (Soundphoto)— Lt. General Walter B. Smith, for Tlirifty Service... • 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 t _r ■ t mer Chief, f Staff to Geeral Eisen how, who has been named by Presi dent Truman as Ambassador to Russia- Lt. General Smith signed the unconditional surrender terms with the German officials which end ed the war in Europe. BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL REFUSES DAR MEDAL Brooklyn, N. Y_The Girls’ High School of Brooklyn, whicn has a goodly percentage of Ne gro students enrolled, has refused to accept the annual American History medals awarded bv the Pntt'o Pass Chanter of the DAR. The action was taken because the Battle Pass Chapter wrote Princi pal Edith M. Ward that its policy was “not to comment on any act ion taken by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution”. Mrs. Ward had written the chap ter that her students were “upset at the discrimination shown bv the Washington Chapter of the DAR in the case of Hazel Scott, and earlier, Marian Anderson " She asked what the attitude was of the Battle Pass Chapter. When informed that the Eattle Pass Chapter hatl no comment, Princi pal Ward wrote: “To evade a stand is equivalent to agreement with those who den> to the Negro his Americanism. 1 regret, therefore, that because of this, our long and hitherto plea sant relations will have to be se vered.” LODESTME Believed by the Ancients to be Power ful to Attract and Repel, this pair of Genuine White Rajah alive highly Magnetic Lodestones may bring you fame and good luck. One stone la said to attract Good Luck in Money. Love, etc., the other is said to repel Bad Luck. Troubles, etc. We don't i make these claims, but we do seU plenty of Lode i stones! Now Only $1.98 Per Pair. Free of extra coek a special carrying bag. Money back guarantee ! Order from MR. LUCK'S CURIO CO. DEPT. 350L, 215 NO. MICHIGAN CHICAGO 1, ILL. -IT PATS TO LOOK WELL" MATO'S BARBER SHOP Ladies sad Children’s Wark A Specialty 2422 LAKE ST. ! —-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS-— . New Wage-Price Policy Pattern For Settling Industrial Strife; FBI Warns Of Crime Increase — Released by Western Newspaper Union .. (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.! Industrial Front—With labor adamant in its demands for appreciable wage increases to assure continued high “take home” pay, and with management equally determined to re sist sizable raises in the face of OPA ceilings, President Tru man and his aides sought to stave off an economic deadlock imperiling reconversion by granting companies price relief. Representing a complete reversal of announced administration policy of granting price increases only after operations had proven that management could not absorb wage boosts given first, Mr. Truman’s new approach to the problem was expected to result in a general pat tern of settlements embodying pay raises of from 15 to 18 per cent. The administration’s new policy was first applied to the dispute in the steel industry over the CIO United Steel Workers demands for a $2 a day wage increase and was quickly utilized in efforts to break the deadlock in the packing field over the CIO and AFL bid for a 25 cents an hour pay boost. As a result of the administration decision to grant price increases to the steel industry, the companies agreed to resume negotiations with the USW, though they were not per mitted the full advances asked Pending industry offers of what the USW called adequate counter-pro posals to its wage demands, the union considered holding off its scheduled strike of 700.000 workers, affecting the aluminum and mag nesium as well as steel trade. In holding out offers of price in creases to the big packers, the gov ernment stated that they could help the companies in figuring out what wage raises they could actually ad varce following their initial pro posals of about IVz cents per hour In asking for a 25 cents per hour raise, the CtO and AFL declared they would be willing to accept 17V4 cents to start with before the situ ation clarified itself. The packing dispute was of par ticular interest to the nation's farmers since companies’ fixed costs would go far to deterrr*.ne bids for live cattle to permit profit able operations against wholesale price ceilings. Of general interest was the whole new administration policy in its possible effect upon efforts to hold down living costs and avert an inflationary spiral which would cheapen wages and income and lead to still further demands for relief. DEMOBILIZATION: G.I.s Kick Incensed over war depr*tment plans for a slow-down in demobili zation, G.I.s the world over raised a storm of protest, with the army quickly reacting to the complaints by ordering the immediate return of surplus overseas troops and an nouncing a re-examlnation of policy At the same time. General Mac Arthur declared that soldiers would not be punished for orderly demon strations in the Pacific theater, stat ing that the unrest was primarily caused by "acute homesickness ag gravated by the termination of ho3 tilities.” In ordering the immediate return of surplus overseas personnel. Chief of Staff Eisenhower said that ex tensive shipping facilities should be used in sending the men home, with troops with the highest point scores and longest record of service given priority. A re-examination of the whole de mobilization program would touch the recent formula for spreading scheduled shipments home for the first three months of 1946 over a half-year because of war depart ment claims of a shortage of re placements. Despite the slowdown army strength was expected to be pared by 400,000 under previous esti mates by July 1, with more than half of the 1.550,000 troops remain ing in service in overseas duty. Having started in the Pacific shortly after announcement of the slow-down program, G.I. demonstra tions quickly spread to Europe, where troops protested in support of their buddies in the east. In all cases, the men were orderly and no violence occurred. Most vociferous of all. the Pacific demonstrators attributed the slow down to administration efforts to | force through a compulsory mili tary bill to secure replacements: "brass-hats” seeking to retain war time rank by maintenance of a large army, and the state depart ment’s "imperialistic” policies in the far east. G.I.s were told to ap ply pressure to friends back hame to petition congress for a revision ot demobilization plans. CRIME WAVE: Gathers Momentum Pointed up by the brutal murder of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan in Chicago, 111., a dangerous postwar crime wave is gathering momen tum, FBI officials w$rn, with lenient treatment of old offenders and a growing irresponsibility of youth among the principal causes. Horrified and enraged by the fiendish slaying and dissectio.i of the Degnan girl, an aroused Chica go citizenry acted to spur the search for the maniacal killer, with $36,000 in rewards posted for information leading to his arrest. Of this amount, $5,000 was offered by the municipal government upon sug gestion of Mayor Edward J. Kelly. With 11 of our most important cities reporting substantial in creases in crime during the first 10 months of 1945, FBI Chieftain J. J. Edgar Hoover Edgar Hoover rapped the abuses and maladministration of our pris on systems, declaring that a larga percentage of fugitives being sough; throughout the country have en joyed ill-advised clemency. The manner in which murderers, sex degenerates, outlaws and bandits are released constitutes a national disgrace, he said. Added to the loose handling of previous offenders is the mounting waywardness of youth. Hoover said, disclosing that of all crimes re ported in 1945, 21 per cent were committed by persons under 21 years of age. Young people in this age group made op 14 per cent of all murderers: 36 per cent of aul robbers: 51 per cent of all burglars; 34 per cent of all thieves; 25 per cent of all arsonists; 36 per cent of all auto thieves and 32 per cem of all rapists. As one remedial measure against the growing wave of youthful law lessness. Hoover recommended in creased church or social activity designed to direct youngsters’ en ergies and imaginations into con structive activities. UNO: Undenvay Meeting in Central hall in West minster, against a background of great blue curtains set off by a huge gilded globe surrounded by olive branches, the United Nations organ ization officially got underway with the election of Foregin Minister Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium as its president. In greeting UNO. British Prime Minister Attlee expressed general sentiment by declaring that organ ization represented universal hope for peace and the prevention of a third world war which might well destroy civilization. Unlike the ill fated league of nations, he said, UNO’s effectiveness will be consid erably enhanced from the beginning by the participation of both the U. S. and Russia. Calling for close international col laboration of nations, Attlee de clared that the various governments should work through UNO instead of considering it as a detached in strument of foreign policy to be used only as an additional means for obtaining an end. A champion of a western bloc of European nations for economic and political purposes, Spaak was elect ed to UNO’s presidency by a 28 to 23 vote over the Soviet-sponsored candidate. Foreign Minister Trygve Lie of Norway. I ..■■ ■ . Americans Heaviest Investors in ksurance i - — .- ■ Though reliable statistics from abroad are not readily available, about two-thirds of all life insur ance in the world is owned by citi zens of this country, Claris Adams president of the American Life con vention, declared. Supporting his statement, he said that at the end of 1945 71 million Americans owned life insurance, that is, more than one-half the population of the country, includ ing men, women and children. Dur ing the war, he said, life insurance in force has increased by 40 billion dollars. This represents $1,000 per family and brings the family aver age up to $4,500. Life insurance savings constitute one of the principal items, ranking fourth or fifth in the average family budget, Adams said. WAR Neiv Case Even as the U. S Supreme court considered Gen. Tomoyuki Yama shita's petition against his convic tion by an American military com mission in the Philippines, the war crimes trial of his predecessor. Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma. got under way in Manila on similar charges of countenancing atrocities of his forces. In appealing to the highest Amer ican judicial tribunal. Yamashita s three U. S. army attorneys had de clared that the cessation of firing had ended the need for special mili tary measures and entitled the doomed Jap chieftain to a hearing before an ordinary court. In con testing the petition, the government declared that a ruling against war crimes procedure would upset ef forts for punishment of suspects. Forty-nine-year-old V/Sgt. James Baldassarre of New Haven, Conn., a vet with 28 years of service, was one of the principal witnesses as the Homma trial began. One of the survivors of the “death march of Bataan.” he told of how Jap guards shot or bayoneted sick or thirsty American soldiers who wandered from their ranks “The Japs did nothing for us,” Baldassarre said. "No food, no water, no medicine. Nothing but bullets and bayonets.” I--—---—, Ask German Relief While Senators Wherry (Rep., Neb.) and Langer (Rep., N. D.) rapped the administration for re fusing to permit the private ship ment of food to Germany to help avert starvation. Dr. Lawrence Meyer of the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church revealed efforts to organize a Christian congress »o push for alteration of government policy. Wherry’s and Langer’s criticism of the administration came in the midst of President Truman's an nouncement that he had told a sena torial committee that it was im possible under present conditions to permit shipments. In reporting on the conference with Mr. Truman, a member of the delegation said that Russia objected to reopening of mail to Germany, and service could not be re-established without the unani mous consent of the Big Four. . In revealing his intentions to work for a Christian congress embracing both the Catholic and Protestant churches, Dr. Meyer declared that the force of 60 million members of all faiths in America must be mobil ized to impress the administration that the country is not committed to a policy of vengeance. Report ing on his visit to Germany, Dr. Meyer said that of 100 children oe saw in one Frankfort hospital, 7-r were marked for death because « insufficient food. FOOTBALL: Fewer Deaths Reflecting improved technique*, football fatalities continued to drop during the last season, with only 9 reported as against 49 when Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood of Purdue uni versity first undertook a compila tion of grid accidents. While no fatalities directly at tributable to collegiate football were recorded through 1945, those occur ring were evenly divided between high school and sandlot play. East wood said. Despite the toll among secondary teams, the actual inci dence of high school deaths was only about .48 per cent per 100.000 of contestants. In undertaking his study for the rules committee of the National Col legiate Athletic association and the committee on injuries and fatalities of the American Football Coaches association. Eastwood called for consideration of methods for mini mizing occurrence of cerebral hem orrhages. Such mishaps have ac counted for 44.7 per cent of all foot ball fatalities reported since 1931. TOBACCO: Kentucky Acts As the market for hurley tobacco took a big drop and farmers re portedly were losing $1,000,000 a day m comparison with the previ ous month. Gov. Simeon Willis of Kentucky acted to close all ware houses under unanimous recom mendation of the state legislature. Main cash crop of Kentucky farm ers. burley tobacco, used in cigar ette, chewing and pipe mixtures, is auctioned off in various warehouses throughout the state, with buyers from the big manufacturing com panies bidding against each other. The season usually runs from De cember through January. With the requirement that all sales be transacted under OPA ce»l ing regulations, prices have been set on all 26 different grades of t^e tobacco, ranging up to 50 cents a pound or more Following sharp price recessions after early favor able bidding, average paid for the crop slumped to 38 cents. POLIO: Infantile paralysis attacked near ly 14,000 persons in the United States in 1945, making it the fourth worst poliomyelitis year on record, the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis revealed. Invading all 48 states, polio erupted into epi demics in sections of six states and hit 28 states harder than in the near-record year of 1944. The incidence of poliomyelitis reached its peak the week of Sep tember 15, when 962 cases were re ported. H • A Turn-about is fair play So turn your Chick I ens intcf Eggs and your Eggs into Chickens. I . .Place Yonr Display Advertisement with THE I OMAHA GUIDE—HA-0800 g Mrs. Lola Marshall, Adv. Agent. 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