Film Composer Wants Races
To Get Acquainted
By Verna A ^alvin's News
Ho'lywood. Calif..—The other
day, while interviewing Howard
Jackson, composer from Warner
Brothers Etudio, we covered his
musical life and his artistic pur.
su’t *, and then asked what do
you think about the Race Quest
ion Howard. He replied that we
h" •! better put no high sounding
phrases into his mouth. The only
thing I tmnk is U.a, ac ■
should get better acquainted- If
we all knew each other better,
there wouldn't be a race problem.
Then he went on to explain how
he had always tried to live his
belief in the 1 rotherbood of man
how he had tried to show what he
felt by actions rather than words.
Vv?A»n he was a boy in St. August,
ine, Fla, (his birthplace), his con
stant playmate and best friend
was a little colored boy. He has
never forgotten that friendship,
and in his later work in the the
atre and in films, Howard Jack
son has consistently tried to make
opening for colored artists whom
he considered deserving.
In the beginning, r.e nad a few
chances Vn?’ sP P j-g v'st c~r<.
ing up himself. He had started to
study music on piano in St. Au
gustine when he was seven. 14
years later, he found himself in
New York, studying at the Insti
tute of Musical Art, taking priv
ate lessons from Rubin Goldmark
and accompaning concert singers.
From that beginning, he went on
to the more lucrative popular mu
sic field, playing piano in small
bands. Vaudeville followed, as a
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matter of course, and on the Fan
chon and Marco circuit he direc
ted his own band. That brought
him up to 1928, when sound film3
came in. MGM approached him to
do some work for Herb Brown an
Arthur Freed in ‘Broadway Melo
dy.’
vVhen ‘Hearts in Dixie’ a pion
eer NegTo film came along, it v.a.
Howard Jackson who supervisee
its music. He wrote a number ot
pieces for it, among them the pic
, ture’s theme song. There was one
1 amusing experience in connecticn
' with this film, when the producer*
insisted on having a Negro spiri
tual about a wedding, Mr. Jackson
enlisted the aid of all the colored
musicians he knew, but when non*
of them could find such a spiri
tual, he deeded that he’d have tc
write one. He did just that. After
he’d finished it, someone noticed
in it a resemblance to a then pop
ular song. The payoff came when
everyone accepted Howard Jack
son’s song as a genuine spiritual
'and thought the writers of the
popular song had stolen their ma
terial from the folk-.
After ‘Hearts in Dixie’ was over
and he had been under contract
to Paramount for awhile, Mr.
Jackson went to New York where
he orchestrated shows: George
White’s ‘Scandals”, Ziegfield's
‘Follies’ and about half a dozen
Cotton Club Shows. There he met
William Grant Still .then conduc
ting the "Deep River Hour” over
WOR, and there he was just alone
one day when Bill Robinson came
up to him and said, "You are from
the South aren’t you?” Howard
admitted it, and also admitted he
was lonely- Bill Robinson invited
him to his apartment, where Mr.
Robinson cooked for all of them
what Howard describes as one of
th° best dinners he had ever eat
en. Eating it, and responding to
the Robinson's friendliness, How
ard completely forgot his lonelin
ess.
^ Soon Hollywood beckoned once
more, and Mr. Jackson became
Musical Director at Columbia Pic
tures and later a composer anti
conaactor at Warner Brothers,
where he has been ever since. Al
most all the colored people who
have worked in films in a musical
way, know and like him. It was
he who brought the Negro com
poser William Grant Still to films
The Musical that Introduces the ✓
"HUBBA-HUGBA" Song,
ere Comes Heaven
, Again" and other Big Hitsi
Produced by BRYAN FOY
Directed by LEWIS SEILER *
) Songs by Jimmy McHugh 20th
and Harold Adamson Century-Fox
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and always saw to it that the wor^
given Mr. Still was of a dignifiec
nature, in keeping with the com
posers gifts. Mr. Jackso.i evei.
went out of his way to crusade
for Mr. Still’s right to be associ
ated with film music that was fa:
removed from the stereotype, ai
though here he met opposition
from the people in charge. It if
interesting to note, too, that be
fore Eddie Anderson became the
famous "Rochester” on the Jack
Benny Show, he worked in a Harrj
Richman film with Howard Jack
son.
Today Mr. Jackson combines his
work with art collecting and
among his treasurers are severa:
paintings on Negro subjects One
if these is Dan Lutz’s idealizatior
of the Negro spiritual, “I Got a
Harp” (which won a prize at the
Carnegie Institute) and ancthpi
is a Negro head by the Japanese
painter, Serisawa. One of Mr.
Jackson’s most recent musical
ventures was the exotic back
ground music for ‘Land of Living
Waters’, a feature directed by
Andro Gauvin, noted authority on
the Belgian Congo, and showing
how the not so backward African
natives helped to win the second
world war through using the most
modern, scientific methods.
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NEGROES SHOULD OPPOSE
, INrLATION TRENDS
New York, NY, February 15,
1946—It is apparent that the Uni
ted States is steadily and rapidly
moving toward inflation. In fact
it is already in a state of incipi.
| ent inflation. Prices of various
| commodities are rising. There are
huge piles of money in the hands
of the public ready for use to pur
chase goods for consurrrtion. The
I dealer1, wholesale and retail, are
building inventories and hoarding
goods, waiting for higher prices
with a View t© making exorbitant
profit^ Jy M^lip Randolph, In
ternational President, of the Bro.
therhood of Sleeping Car Porters
in New York City.
Meanwhile pressure from big
business upon the Government to
abolish the OPA and eliminate ail
forms of price controls is terri
fic United States Steel, General
Motors, Ford, the meat packers
and practically all of the major
industrial concerns insist upon
the right to raise prices as a con
dition to granting wage increases.
It is apparent that Government is
yielding to this pressure. Already
the increase in the price of steel
has been practically insured. This
means an increase in prices in
practically everything, since steel
is a basic industry which affects
practically all other industries.
When inflations comes, those
sections of the national communi
ty that are eqenomically weak,
sulh as the Negro, who is the 1st
fired and the last hired, will be
the hardest hit. In direct ratio to
the rising of prices the value of
money goes down. The bonds that
were bought during the war by
Negroes will depreciate in value
Bank savings will slump in value
In fact the possessions of the Ne
gro will melt away under the bur
ning sun of spiralling inflation.
Hence Negroes and all other min
orities, including labor, should re
gister a vigorous and continuous
protest against; the Government
granting an increase in prices to
steel, especially to the extent that
steel is demanding. A strong drive
should be inaugurated to maintain
the OPA and strengthen the hand
of Chester W. Bowles, Adminis
trator.
No time should be lost in fight
ing to maintain rent control- Kea
estate dealers are waging a vio
ent campaign to break down ren
0 w-..ja wui enable then
to profit from runaway rentals
-t is bad enough to be without ad
3quate housingbut it is worse tc
pay higher rentals for houses
whose present rents are too high
GOT TO KEEP
EXPENSES
DOWN?
CHECK FAMILY
TRANSPORTATION COSTS
If you’re racking your brain trying to
keep your budget in line, check the
low cost of street car and bus trans
portation against the cost of automobile
driving. Compare the low pre-war fare of 3 rides for 25 cents
.with all the necessary driving charges, such as gasoline, oil,
parking, chains, tires, anti-freeze, battery service, insurance,
i depreciation, and repairs. You’ll find just one answer—street car
and bus transportation is a family budget balancer. Yes, the
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Company continues to
* furnish safe, dependable transportation at low pre-war costs.
UNRRA Has
Up-and-Comin’
Young People
On the Staff
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There are many bright, up and I
3o:n'.ig young people cn the head-'
quarters staff of the United Na.1
lions Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration in \Washington.'
They find UNRRA’s strongest at
traction to be the agency’s hum
anitarian aim of assi .ting the neo.
le—regardless of race, creed or
color -n Cj c. .os . - _
laid waste by the Axis. Interview
MRS. SUSIE TAYLOR FOSHEE
(1) MRS. SUSIE TAYLOR FO
SHEE, Supply Assistant in UNR
RA’s Food Division. Her jcb is to
receive requests for food, analyze
them, pass information along to
the proper commodity divisions for
actio: j, Basically statistical, the
job involves setting up tables, and
requires a knowledge of the oper
ation of UNRRA food programs as
well as a knowledge of indigenous
production and import require
ments of the various countries
Mrs. Foshee's work is concerned
with the programs in Czechoslo
vakia, Yugoslavia, Italy and Al
! bania,
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, MrS.
Foshee grew up on the Clark U.
Campus where her father, Profes
I sor Lawyer Taylor, taught mathe
; matics. She was valedictorian of
her class of 1935 at the Booker T.
Washington High School, and she
took her AB degree at Spelman
College where she majored in
' Economics. A scholarship student
| the first two years, she was also
[ president of the Senior Class of
1939 and president of the Athletic
Council.
Mrs. Foshee has held jobs as
secretarial assistant of the Nat
ional Youth Administration pro
ject at Dorchester, Georgia, and
I bank teller at the Citizens Trust
! Co. in Atlanta before coming to
Washington. She entered the War
Production Board in 1941 when it
was Office of Production Manage
ment, as a clerk-typist at clerical
grade 2, and left there with the
title of labor economist at profes
sional grade 2, representing an
advance of approximately six
grades.
“I joined UNRRA in October of
1945 at a grade raise over the last
WPB job and I enjoy my work
here tremendously. The work in
the Labor Division of OPM and
WPB where I became familiar
with the labor problems of some
of the country’s most important
war time industries, and the job
of bank teller in Atlanta where 1
learned most about people, all has
added up to extremely valuable
background for the work I am
doing now here in UNRRA, said
Mrs. Foshee”.
Mrs. Foshee is the wife of Cpl
Samuel Foshee, a native of Akron,
Ohio, and alumnus of Kent Coll
ege there. He has teen stationed
at Aberdeen, Maryland, where ht
nus e< .. -OidiC-S ciurim
the war.
LtONlDAS R. SMITH I
(2) LEONIDAS R. SMITH, of|
Maxton. North Carolina, now head
of UNRRA Mail Distribution su
pervising 32 employees was one of
he original mail clerks when only
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A GENIUS AND A KING
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ORSON WELLES, sensational radio, motion picture and Broadway
producer-actor confabs with Nat ‘King’ Cole in New York during a
play rehearsal there. Welles, a jazz enthusiast of many years, is an avid
King Cole fan and here the two are discussing Nat’s music and jazz in
general Welles is currently writing a book on jazz and Latin American
music. King Cole is on vacation in Mexico. The trio opens at the
Trocaderoon _ February I for as extended engagement./ '_Jj
4 peonle were in the unit. Among |
UNRRA's earliest employees him-;
self Mr. Smith joined the agency I
in 1943 when it was part of the I
State Department and known as
OFRRO (Office of Foreign Re
lief and Rehabilitation Operations)
“UNRRA is different from the
Federal Government and I find
the work more interesting” said
Mr. Smith. His basis of compari
son besides OFRRO is the Office
of Civilian Defense where he ser
ved as a clerk
“We receive a great deal of for
eign mail of course and quite a
bit through the State Department
diplomatic pouch though our best
turnover is in the domestic mail.
Our job is to service all UNRRA
headquarters offices, and though
we started with one building at
Dupont Circle 2 years ago, today
we are also serving nine annexes”.
The Health Division, Ocean
Shipping Branch, the Training
Center, Personnel Investigation
and several other divisions are now
located outside the main building
and spread all around Washing
ton. “In the operation of the mail
distribution, ” Mr. Smith went on,
“we have to service our 47 mem
ber governments as well as our
own offices; we have to see that
documents are delivered by hand
on the average of four times per
week, to the different member
government organizatiins in the
city as well as all the Embassies
and Consulates.”
Mr. Smith’s staff consists of 9
messengers for the Dupont Circle
Bu lding, 6 annex messengers, 2
irside mail clerks, 4 liaison mess
engers, a truck driver and a juni
per and a reserve pool of messen
gers for the special jobs comirg
in all day long and which involve
constant contact with all other
government agencies in the city,
transportation offices, nev. spaper
offices, etc,”
*fr- Smith is married, has four
youngsters ranging from one year
to 7; and though he is devoted to
UNRRA where he enjoy’s a re
putation of a difficult job with a
high degree of efficiency, he in
tends to finish bringing up thorc
youngsteis cn a farm. Back in
ir. .truth received a Super
ior Deffree from the Future Farm
Club (rival of the 4—Clubs) for
the best vegetable farm of the
year. Farming has been his hobby
ever since, and when UNRRA is
no more, truck farming will con.
tinue to be his ♦life work as well
1 tup acres he has recently pur.
chased in the vicinity of Maxton,
N. C.
MISS SARA H. MAYO
(3) MISS SARAH H. MAYO,
Secretary to Dr. Raphael O’Hara
LanieA Special Assistant in the
Bureau of Services, and former
Dean of Faculty at Hampton In
’*•», Va.
Miss Mayo, a bright, alert young
lady, is a native of Philadelphia
where her family live- She is es
pecially proud or her record in
Overbrook High Scnool where she
look a college preparatory course.
She was unable to go to college,
but continued to study bv herself
'ater, particularly the French lan
guage
Joining UNRRA in March 1944
Miss Mayo did cataloging in the
library, later resigned to work for
three months in the library of the
Soviet Purchasing Commission
But since, as she says, she is “tru
ly interested in international af
fairs", she returned to UNRRA
to be secretary to Harold Brown
of the Bureau of Supply, until she
was asked to assist Dr. Lanier in
July of 1945
“I got my start as a secretary,”
Miss Mayo said, “in the Henry
Phipps Institute, a tuberculosis
clinic in Philadelphia. I had taken
a short business course but act
ually learned typing and short
band at home with a second-hand
typewriter and by the sweat of my
brow”.
“At the Phipps Institute the
bead secretary took an interest in'
me, and gave me my chance when
she went on vacation. I had lear
led to take medical shorthand by
endlessly copying out the words
’rom the medical charts. Before
hat time the Phipps Institute did
lot hire Negroes as secretaries
ind I was the first one on the
lay roll; my salary jumped from
>18 a month as a typist working
hrough NYA, to $25 a week as
lecretary.”
Speaking of her work in UNR
tA, Miss Mayo said, "I was at
racted to UNRRA by their prin
ciple of helping people to help
themselves. I like to feel I am do
ing everything I can—though my
job is a small one—to help to re
build Europe.” Incidently, one of
Miss Mayo’s ambitions is to get
to Frajice eventually ana work
p o- T«ynr* PPOPlp.
MRS NOVETTA WILLIAMS
(4) MRS. NOVETTA WILLI ]
AMS, Statistical Analyst in the
Bureau of Supply, is very young,
brilliant, a recent graduate of
Howard University. She works in
the Clothing, Textiles and Foot
wear Division on allocation and
shipments of contributed clothing, j
makes up reports and breaks them
down as she says to make sense
to the Treasury. She hopes for a
better classification soon in the
professional ranks
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A native of Birmingham, Ala.,
Mrs. Williams has also spent a i
good deal of her time with re'a-1
tives in Chicago. She majored in
commerce, finance and account
ing at Howard, completed the
course in 3 years and worked at
various jobs while going to coll
ege. On graduation, she enrolled
at the American University where
she was accepted as a Sloan Fou
ndation student and expects to
have her master’s degree in eco
nomics and labor by next June.
The f oundation is a teaching in
stitute particularly interested in
original thought in economics, and
she avows her chief interest is
to know how to present economic
facts to laymen, to get across to
them an understanding of such
things as full employment, the
subject of the present seminar
She takes 3 courses, working 3
nights a week.
In a government job with the
War Department that Mrs. Will
iams took as a junior cierx typist
in 1942, she was agreeably sui
prised at the speed with whici
-...mui uiiii.urue with figures
vaa recognized and appreciated,
i-i t ie ^.viaii Retirement Ke
lords Branch she was quickly re
ciass.iied and put to work on a
lookkeeping machine. She says,
I started tooling around with the
machine and before I knew it I
had figuied out a system that
.ncreased production in posting ot
civilian retirement records to dou
ble tlie maximum they had ever
nad before.”
Among ner otner activities at
college Mrs. Williams wrote a col
umn titled “On Campus and Off
Campus” for the magazine called
PULSE. She has thought about
writing as a career, particularly
in the field of economics and of
labor; and is certified to teach
English as well as commercial
subjects in the Washington, D. C
schools. With many interests and
talents, it was difficult to make
up her mind about which career
to choose. She has also thought (
of studying Hospital Administra
tion at the Chicago University,
and though far younger than most
applicants for that special course,
she was accepted. However, the
Sloan Foundation offer at Ameri
can University won out.
For diversion Mrs. Williams is
partial to swimming and modern
dancing. At co'ege she became
a fairly prof' 0 ent swimmer in |
the Howard Pool; and was a stu
dent of Erika Thimey, who her.
self had studied under the great
est modern dancers in pre-war
Germany and the United States.
As a member of the Howard Club
for Dancing, Mrs Williams took
part in periodic dance recitals.
Mrs. Williams has been married
four years to a fellow student at
Howard who spent 3 years in Ita
ly as an Army corporal. He is back
home now and has recently en-1
tered Howard Law School.
REDUCTION SOUGHT IN
SOLDIER SENTENCE .|
Washington, D. C.—Clemency
for Clarence W. Harding, a soldier
sentenced to dishonorable dischar
ge and five years at hard labor,
was sought by NAACP lawyers
last week in a petition filed with
thg War Department. The petition (
pointed out that Harding, convic
ted by a military court in Atlanta ,
in April, 1943, was held incommu
nicado from December 28, 1942 ,
until April 13, 1943, thus denying '
him rights guaranteed by the Art- ,
icles of War. Harding was char- \
ged with having made disloyal ,
statements against the United \
Government and having - —
other persons to evade
service.
CARDIN A LS-DESIGNA TE,
STRITCH AND MOONEY
ARRIVE IN ROME
Rome, Italy (Radio photo, Souna
photo)—Archbishop Samuel A.
Stritch of Chicago, is greeted by
Franklin Gown, representative ot
Myron Taylor at the United States
Embassy in Rome, (at right), In
the center is Archbishop Edward
Mooney of Detroit. Both are Card
inals-Designate and are in Rome for
the consistory of February 18th
when they were formally named to
the College of Cardinals.
NATIONAL WINNER
Berne, Indiana (Special CFI pho
to to The Omaha Guide) from Sim
on M. Schwtrtz—Arveda Schaefer,
16, Kirkland township, Adams coun
ty, Indiana high school girl and 4-H
club member, has just been named
national winner among high school
age contestants in the 1945 Green
Thumb contest. Her record' which
included the care, harvesting and
preservation of vegetables she pro
duced on her half-acre garden at he;
home in Adams county. In addition
Arveda helped td Operate an 80 acre
farm and to milk a hard of 22 co^ys
She is shown here with a silver
medal that she was awarded a.
state wniner in Indiana. Her rec
ord then won the national tit’e of
champion gardener in the youth age
group and $500, in addition to the
national title in the high school age
section which brought a $100 victory
bond.
HANNEGAN ASKED TO
DISMISS CHARGES
AGAINST PO EMPLOYEE
Washington, DC.— Postmastei
General Robert E- Hannegan was
asked by Thurgood Marshall, NAA
rP attorney, to dismiss the cliarge
against John L. LeFlore, post ofiic
employee of Mobile, Alabama, who
is under fire for his work as secre
tary of the Mobile, NAACP on dir
ecting Negroes how to register and
vote.
“The present charges against Mr,
LeFlure,” \y rote the NAACP* "arc
an outgrowth of his resistance to the
| policies established by Registrar
i Milton Schnell which are under pro
test by this Association with the
United States Department of Jus
tice. It is clearly a spite action
, and is an effort to intimidate an A
i merican citizen n the exercise of his
| ciitenship rights. The National As
socation for the Advancement ot
Colored People strongly urges that
you, as Postmaster General, dismiss
these charges against Mr. UeFlora
; at your earliest possible moment.'
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THE COBURN CONVALESCING HOME <
AT 2811 CALDWELL HAVE ROOM FOR 6 PATIENTS
The Coburn Convalescing Home patients are improving
hack to health. She has nine patients, blind, paralysis,
and bed-fast. Mrs. Coburn has room for six more patients.
Please visit my Home when it is convenient for you.
Or Call for Information—JA-7520.
Mrs. Evelenra Coburn, Prop.
' yf 2811 Caldwell Street.
To Whom It May Concern:
MR. VOYAL y. WATSON, 2125 Ohio Street,
ISSUES PUBLIC STATEMENT:
In a late issue of one of the local papers Several state
ments were made concerning Mr. Watson's qualifications
in Cosmetology, which I did not make. I wish to state who
ever it was, should be careful, especially when they don’t
know what they are saying. I have reference to a state
ment made about the State Cosmetology Board showing
favoritism in state examinations.
I can truly and willingly say the Board is quite fair in all
its dealings, regardless of race, color, male or female.
The added cornments concerning my examinations and
my future plans, were false, as I have not made such state
ments what-so-ever.
To tiie general public and my Co-worker in this great
beauty profession: I came into this field not to harm,
fight, or hurt anyone—instead I came into this field be
cause I see a great need and a duty to; perform. Let us
work together for one good cause, and let that cause be to
improve the entire world through the Art of Beauty Cul
ture.
Signed: VOYAL V. WATSON, 32°
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