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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1946 OUR 19th YEAR—No. 6 ★ IOC Per Copy ★ March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr.
New Northside Branch Y. M. C. A. Sec’y Appointed
nebr. state historical soceity
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OUR
GUEST
Column
Edited by Verna V. Harris
THE HATED VICTOR
(by Luigi Creatore, Assoc.
Director Servicement’s &
Veterans’ Division, Natl.
CIO Community Services
Committee
The fighting man has done
with war. He has been thru
the impartial fury of mech
anized battle. He has met
the f rres of fascism and con
quered them. Now he Is
home.
Is there an American who
wilt deny the homage we owe
the soldier s there an Ameri
can who will deny him the
right to a job. the right to
establish a home, to raise his
family in reasonable secur
ity?
Is there a citizen of Amer
ica who would hold back the
freedoms from the soldier
whose life was offered in the
name of democracy?
It seems an ahsurb ques
tion.
No voice w ill defame the
soldier’s name or deny his
rights—as long as he is a fig
ment of editorial imagination
But let him become a reality,
let him face one hundred and
thirty million people, and he
will have enemies.
If he is a Japanese-Amer
ican who fought furiously a
gainst the Germans in the
hope he would chosen for the '
push against Japan, if ins]
mind was troubled by more
than the fear of personal]
danger because mail from his
family had an internment
camp for a return address—
he will have enemies.
If he is a Negro whose la- j
tent skills were developed a
long with a sense of respon
sibility and leadership, for
the purpose of winning a war
—he will have enemies.
If he is a Jew, or a Catho
lic, or a Protestant, or a des
cendant of the Latin peoples,
the Antlo-Saxon peoples, or
the peoples—1'• will,
have enemies.
The enemy ahroad wore a
uniform and said “Hell” or
“Banzai.” He was a tough
enemy but easily identified. '
The enemy at home wears
civilian clothes and spits
words of intolerance. He is
not alwavs easilv identified. I
* *
He is sly enough to talk a
gainst the Jew to the Italian,
against the Italian to the Ne
gro, against the Negro to the
Catholic—and on and on in a
vicious cycle.
He is the soldier's enemy
because he is the people's en
emy and the soldier has
fought a people's war.
He is the soldier's enemv
because he seeks to spread
intolerance in the nation that
has led the world’s search
and the world's fight for free
dom from intolerance.
He is the soldier's enemy
because he would ration the
soldier’s share in freedom ac
cording to the color of his
skin, his creed and his race.
We at CIO are ever aware
that the soldier fought the
peo pie's enemy abroad. We
believe it is for the people to
fight the soldeir’s enemy at
home.
We can do this by demand
ing a permanent FEPC.
We can do this by demand
ing equal wages for equal
work.
We can do this by demand
ing equal opportunities for
all veterans seeking jobs,
housing, medical attention,
education, etc.
We must ask that the Con
stitution of the United Stales
conceived in liberty an equal
ity, become a reality. We
must ask the man on the
street to search his heart for
justice and give us the answ
er.
-A FA
JIM CROW TRAVEL CASE
OFF TO MARCH 25 27
Washington D. C—The oral ar
gument in the Irene Morgan case
testing the segregation of pas
sengers in intrdtate travel, has
been postponed by the US Sup
reme Court until the week of
March 25, it was announied on
March 7. The case will be argued
by William H. Hastie and Thur
good Marshall, of the NAACP
legal staff. The case will ^ rea
ched on March 27.
★ FOR THE PEACE
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' NAACP RADIO PROGRAM
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ft . O. W. Sunday, March 17th—10:30 P. M.
1. Treble Clef Chorus.
(a) Sylvia—Speaks
(b) Balm in Gilead—Burleigh
2. Address—Mr. H. J. Pinkett
3. Appeal for Memberships—Miss Bernice Grice,
(former Red Cros~ I. B. Theaier).
4. Piano Solo—Booker T. Washington.
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NAACP COISGRATI GATES
YWCA OIS IYTERGRATIOM
POLICY
Atlantic City, N J.—A tele- j
;ram of congratulation on the
idoption of a program calling for
.he full integration of Negro wo
!men and girls in the YWCA was
received last week bv Mrs Hr-—
a. ingia-icim, piealuelA, Iiom die
NA^VCP. The wire, sig .ed by WaP
ter White, NAACP sec’y said:
“The National Association for
Advancement cf Colored People
extends its warmest congratula
tions to the YWCA for its vision
and -Courage in adoption of the 35
point program calling for the full
integration of Netrro "Wfn e-n
erMs in the YWCA program. You
have thereby implemented more C
, effectively uian any otner rengi
[ ous organization the tenets of
true Christianity.”
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• KNOW YOUR RACE
A new feature of The Omaha
Guide on page 5 of this issue.
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W. H. Mead, General Secretary (
of the Omaha YMCA together
.vith Charles Davis, chairman of I
.he Committee of Management of
:he Near Noithside Branch of the
YMCA are announcing the appoin
ment of John R. Butler of Spring
field, Ohio as Executive Secretary
of the Branch YMCA with tem
porary headquarters in the former
USO Club 2221 No. 24th St- But
ler arrived Friday from Wichita
Falls, Texas where for the past
two months he had been serving
as Staff Assistant of the Redwood
USO Club Serving approximately'
6500 soldiers. He brings to the
Association 23 years of experience
beginning his work in Springfield,
Ohio in January 1923 as Boys and
Physical Director, in 1929 moved
to Columbus, Ohio a3 Boys Work
Secretary later becoming Execu
tive of tne YMCA there. In 1923
returned to Springfield as Exe
cutive Secretary of the Center
Street Branch YMCA and in
1941 transferred to the Army and
Navy Department of the YMCA
working with USO serving in Sa
vanna, Illinois, Little Rock, Ark.,
Omaha, Lawton, Oklahoma and
Wichita Falls, Texas. He has at
tended Wilberforce University,
Wittenberg College, Ohio State
University and YMCA Summer
Schools. He /feels highly) elated
over his return to Omaha and sen
ses the great challenge and need
for a well rounded YMCA program
in this community. He is a mem
ber of the Methodist Church, NAA
CP, Urban ^League. Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity, Masonic Lodge
and several other civic and fra
ternal organizations. He is marr
ied and has a daughter attending
Ohio State University.
NO HOPE FOR COLORED
PEOPLE IN CHURCHILL
SPEEECH—NAA CP
New York—The speech by
Winston Churchill, wartime pre
mier of Great Britain, at West
minster College in Missouri on
March 5 "would virtually insure
continuation of imperialism’’, it
wag declared last week in a state
ment by the NAACP.
“Great Britain’s policies toward
colonial peoples which have been
continued by the present Labor
govrenment”, said the -aCi’,
"can only cause shudders of ap
pehesion as far as Churchill's pro
posal of an Anglo-American coa
' lition is concerned ” The complete
statement:
“Mr. Churchill’s address is be
yond question one of the most
dangerous and cynical made in
contemporary history by a pre
sumably responsible spokesman.
It calls for an Anglo-American
bloc which, if successful, may de
stroy the United Nations Organi
zation and plunge the world with
in a short time into another war,
with the splitting of the atom, it i
would make the destruction of the!
last war seem trivial by compar
ison
‘ As far as colonial peoples are
concerned, and particularly col
ored peoples of the world, the pro
posal would virtually insure con
tinuation of imperialism. Great
Britain’s imperialist record in In
dia, Indonesia, South Africa and
in other parts of the world, and
its policies toward peoples which
have been continued by the pre
sent Labor government can cause
only shudders of apprehension so
far as Churchill’s proposal of an
Anglo-American coalition is con
cerned. This would have direct and
immediate effect on all Americans
in its underwriting of mpire. It
would have particularly disastr
ous effects upon the fate and the
fortunes of colored peoples”.
BRIGADIER GEN.
BENJ. O. DAVIS
PRAISES
RED CROSS
Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis
(Special to the OMAHA GUIDE:—The personal endorse
ment of those who have been assisted by the Red Cross, or
those who have seen its work and services in aciion, are
high their praise, and can well serve as the incentive to give
by those in more fortunate circumstances.
Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, highest ranking
Negro in the United States Army, has this to say for the Red
Cross:
“The American Red Cross stands high with Army offieers
and with the enlisted men. Its directives are fair and with
out favoritism or discrimination, and because the veteran
has formed the habit of looking to the American Red Cross
for help in his problems, that organization promises to*be
of great service now that peace has come.”
And in the words of the Great Emancipator, Abraham
Lincoln, “Let us strive to finish the work we are In: to hind
up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall liaVe
do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Lincoln could see, as we do now, the stirrings of other in
terests. Money ami jobs and the newest inventions de
mand attention, once the fighting has stopped.
But war doesnt leave an area we ean build a fence around
and forget. This war left us with the atomic bomb. It
left us, too, with the soldier who must spend weary months
learning to get along with a paralyzed back ... tlie veteran
who must catch up somehow with the years he lost while
patrolling the Pacific the MP who must walk the streets
of Berlin carrying a sub-machine gun.
W e, as individuals, cannot stop the business of life to
help all these men: but their happiness, anti ultiinatelv
ours,—depends on making them available.
A simple design, just a red cross on a field of white; yet
such a mighty symbol of a friendly hand given by man to
man. For whatever the race, for whatever the country,
your Red Cross carries on. Yet it must have the support
of the people who constitute the Red Cross so tliat its we '
in the interests of humanity can continue forever.
The Red Cross appeals on a basis of continuing need for
services to the armed forces, and the veterans, with added
emphasis on the need of advancing its health, safety and
disaster preparedness program.
Tour contribution will be your way of standing by when
the need is great. GIVE to the RED CROSS, and GIVE
. generously for YOUR RED CROSS MUST CARRY ON.
I HAT IN RING FOR
I GOVERNORSHIP
VAL PF-TF.RSON
VAL PETERSON, ELGIN,
NEBRASKA, REPUBLICAN
FOR GOVERNOR, TRAINED
FOR THE JOB.
NATIVE NEBRASKAN
Born at Oakland, Burt County,
Nebraska, July 18, 19C3. Father
was Henry C. Peterson, well
known C. St. P. M. & O. Railroad
agent and Northwestern traffic
representative. He was mayor at
Bloomfield and also Oakland
Grandfather, Rev. F. N. Swan
berg, .was an early day leader in
the Augustana Lutheran Church
serving at Lincoln, Mead, Swede,
burg, Oakland and Holdredge.
EDUCATION
Wayne High School- A. B.
Wayne State Teachers College and
A. M., Universitv of Nebraska
H30 done additional graduate
work
Specialized in government do
ing research work in public adm
inistration. Among other duties
wrote a thesis on the Governor’s
office.
Worked his way through high
school and college by carrying
the hod, cooking on railroad
bridge gangs, plowing corn and
I ‘‘smashing baggage.”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Coached athletics and taught at
Carroll, Madison and Kimball.
Supt. of Public Schools at Elgin
for six years. Instructor in gov
ernment at the University of Ne
braska.
PUBLISHER- BUSINESSMAN
Owner and publisher of the El
gin Review since 1936. Operates
a successful commercial printing
i plant.
Former district superintendent
for a large oil company. Operat
ed out of North Platte and Ogal
lala.
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Active in political affairs for
many years. Campaign manager
for Senator Hugh Butler in 1940.
Secretary to Governor Dwight
Griswold January 1941 to May
20, 1942 when he resigned to en
ter the armed service
Was administrative assistant to
Governor Griswold for 18 months
and is thoroughly familiar with
all problems that a governor must
meet.
OVERSEAS VETERAN
Served in ihe China-Burma-In
dia theatre for twenty-four mon
ths in World War II. Was in the
service for forty-two months.
Is one of five brothers, all of
whom saw service during the war
Time' /ere ovrseas and one was
k;’ m the breakthrough at St
, France. Their mother, Mrs
H. C. Peterson, lives at Oakdale,
Nebraska.
Peterson was Chief of the Plans
and Operations Division of the
Northern Air Service Area Comm
and and as such deployed troops
and supplies to support the 10th
Air Fores in Burma and partici
pated in supervising the move
ment of supplies over the Hump
into China.
Was in the first Civilian Milit
ary Training Corps camp held i
★Awarded Hash Mark
3ARGEANT CHRISTINE BOYD
Camp Stoneman, San Francisco
Fort of Embarkation, Pittsburg,
Calif, March 6—Sergeant Christ
.ne Boyd of Omaha, Nebraska,
ias recently been awarded a hash
mark for three years’ service with
.he Woman’s Army Corps, as of
18 January, 1946.
Sgt. Boyd took hr basic training
at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and
has since been stationed at Fort
Devens, N- J.; Ft. Des Moines, la.;
New York Port of Embarkation;
and Camp Knight, San Francisco
Port of Embarkation. She is now
assigned to the 106th WAC Dt
cac'nment of Camp Stoneman,
where she is serving as clerk-typ
ist in the Debarkee Personel Sec
tion, processing recordg of Pacific
veterans.
Sgt. Boyd is the neice of Mrs.
Hattie Riley of Century, Florida.
the midwest at Jb t. Snelling, Minn
in 1921.
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Has been secretary and presi
dent of the Elgin Commercial club
and a director of the Nebraska
Association of Commercial Organ
ization Secretaries. He served as
a director of the Northeast Nebr
aska Press Association and as Sec
retary of the Oakdale-Scribner
Branch Organization to fight
train service removal. He is a
past president of District Three
of the Nebraska State Teachers
Association and is a member of
numerous honorary and profess
ional clubs and fraternities.
WHAT OTHERS THINK—
Val is just a common fellow
with uncommonly fine intelli
gence and high objectives. His
feet are on the ground.—WAYNE
HERALD
Mr. Peterson ts expected by
most observers to be one of the
strongst candidates in the race.—
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD..
At the age of 42 years, he is
old enough to have had valuable
experience and yet young enougt
to bring virile effort into the of
fice—LEIGH WORLD.
Val is not only a “G. I.” but a
“right Guy” and for our election
vote would make Nebraska a top
notch state executive_HOOPER
SENTINEL.
As manager of Senator Butler’s
successful campaign and working
with Ken Wherry, (now Senator
Wherry) \tho was state chairman
in the campaign of 1940, together
they pulled the republican party
out of the “doldrums” into which
it had fallen. As a result, Nebr
aska has been safely in the^epub
lican line-up ever since. Pus ex
perience therefore is sure to make
it interesting for any candidate
who may oppose him.—AINS
WORTH STAR-JOURNAL.
He has everything that would
make a real governor of Nebras
ka.we believe that Nebraska
would profit greatly by his leader
ship as chief excutive.—GENOA
LEADER-TIMES.
. TRAINED FOR THE JOB.
1_ —
1Former Omahan
JOINS ISO STAFF AT
LEIGH ST. GLI B
MRS. A- C BURROUGHS
It was announced this week by
Wesley F Taylor, Director of the
Leigh Street USO Club, that Mr3.
A. Christine Burroughs of Omaha,
mother of Mrs. Celestine Ransom,
of 2922 North 2th St., has been
added to the USO Staff as Staff1
Vssistant at the local club, 212
33. Leigh St., Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Burroughs is an alumnus
if Atlanta University, Atlanta,
Georgia. She has had consider
able experience in education and
also in the Social Work Field.
Coming into USO work four years
ago as a professional worker of
the YMCA-USO, she has served
USO in Kansas, Texas, Louisiana,
North Carolina and now in Rich
mond, Va.
Mrs. Burroughs was honored
last aMy by being certified as Sec
retary of the YMCA of North A
merica. She is a native of At
lanta, Georgia, but for a number
of years she has made her home
in Omaha. Mrs. Burroughs' work
at the Leigh St. Club will be
largely that of organizing, train
ing and supervising volunteer
hostess groups in larger program
services for men of the armed ser
vices.
FEDERAL COUNCIL
PRAISED FOR ANTI-JIM
CROW STAND
New York—Praise for the ado
ption of a resolution renouncing
the pattern or segregation in race
relations was se> t to the Federal
Council of Churches in Christ in
America by the NAACP in tile
following telegram to Bishop C.
Bromley Oxnam, president:
“The NAACP on behalf of its
branches, members and associates
extends its warmest congratula
tions to the Federal Council of
Churches upon its adoption of re
solution to renounce unequivacol
ly the patter of segregation in
race relations as unnecessary and
undesirable. Passage of this reso
lution and its subsequent implem
entation will go far both in this
country and throughout the world
1 in demonstrating that the Federal
Council and many American Chri
stians believe in practising prac
tical Christianity without a color
line. We trust that the 25 million
Protestants represented by the
Federal Council "ill follow your
courageous lead.
ELGIN VAL PETERSON
for GOVERNOR CLUB
Elgin, Nebraska
Dear Fellow Republican:
Judge Carroll Stauffer, promi
nent Oakland citizen and former
district judge, has known Val Pe
terson since his birth and is thor
oughly familiar with Val an,j his
family. Speaking before a rally
of our club he said:
“By ancestry, nature, education,
training, experience and charact
! er, Val Peterson is the best qual
ified candidate for Governor that
Nebraska has ever had in my ex
pierence.
“He is one of the common folks
who has elevated himself entirely
by his own efforts.
“He is young enough for vision
and mature enough for balanced
judgement and his patriotism was
amply proved during the recent
war.”
The people of this community,
where Val has established himself
as an outstanding citizen, endorse
Judge Stauffer’s comment and
wholeheartedly recommend Val
' to you and the people of your
I community. We believe he will
. make Nebraska an outstanding
Chief Executive.
Yourg very truly,
Signed—Cleon Pratt, Sec’y
Officers:—S- M Huffman, pre
sident; H. C. Mignery, James
Squire, vice-presidents; Cleon E.
. Pratt, secretary; D. J. Sass, trea
I turer; ,and George A. Wright, Act
ivities chairman
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POLICY ISSUED AFTER
INVESTIGATION BY URBAN
LEAGUE DIRECTOR,
DUWARD CROOMS
Mr. Alonzo Crawford, 1911 Paul
Street, trucker, reported to the
Urban League that he had been
denied the opportunity to purch
ase liability insurance on his
truck and as a result he could not
license his truck for 1946, and
was deprived of his means of mak
ing a living. Crawford stated that
the agency whom he had attempt
ed to secure his liability insurance
from could not find a company
who would accept his policy.
Mr. Duward K Crooms, execu
tive Secretary of the Urban Lea
gue called Mr. Stanley Matzke,
State Insurance Commissioner at
Lincoln and explained Mr Craw
ford's predicament, Mr. Matzke
told rM. Crooms that he had not
notified the Insurance oCmpanies
of hi3 recent order directly, but
that all companies doing business
in this state were subject to the
order from the date that he had
filed the order with the Secretary
of State.
Mr. Crooms then notified the
companiea concerned, and inform
ed them of their abridgement otr
the rule. Mr. Crawford's p°licy is
now in the process of issuance.
WINS RIGHT TO VOTE IN
GEORGIA PRIMARIES
New Orleans, La—The right to
vote of the Rev. Primus King in
the Democratic primaries of Mu
, scogee county, Georgia, was up
held here March by the US Su
prece Court of Appeals for the
5th Circuit. The case was argued
Febiuary 19 and the NAACP le
gal staff field filed a brief ami
cus curiae, supporting Rev. King.
JIM CROW NOT ENDED IN
NEW ARMY POLICY
New York—The new army po
licy on the use of Negro troops
is a step forward, but does not
abolish segregation in the army,
said the NAACP in an official
statement March 7.
“The new policy provides for
Jim Crow platoons instead of
divisions. It also stateg that even
tually Negro officers are expec
ted to command the Negro units
Ther is some referer.ce to Ejpeci
alist and <jJinicians being used
according to theri ability, but the
main body of the recommendat
ions has to do with the formation
of still separate Negro units, un
der Negro officers, for service in
the army. Although it is stated
that Negro officers will be accep
ted and treater the same as the
white officers, it is apparent that
they will be dependent for promo
tion upon the openings available
in so called Negro units.
“As the report states, and as
Secretary Patterson has said, this
is merely a step forward toward
integration. It is by no means in
tegration and will not answer the
legitimate complaints of Negro of
icers and enlisted men who served
in the last war. If it is hoped by
this report to secure the support
of Negroes for peacetime military
conscription, the chances are slim.
ARMY DENIES RAN ON
MIXED MARRIAGES
New York—US Army theatre
commanders abroad have not
prevented the marriage of Ameri
can Negro soldiers and women of
the countries in which they were
stationed according to Robert P
Patterson, Secretary of War.
Replying to a letter from the
NAACP, Sec’y Patterson said no
incidents such as alleged in your
letter have come to the attention
of theatre commanders. Sec’y
Patterson suggested that specific
facts such as names, ranks and
serial numbers, and location of thc
unit of complainants would be
helpful in conducting a thorough
investigation.
“The Commanding General of
the Theatre, “Wrote Secretary
Patterson, under instructions that
he has issued, must take many
things into consideration in de
termining whether or not a mar
riage should be permitted or re
fused, such as the capacity to
marry, application of the local
, laws to foreigners marrying, ste
rility of the individuals concerned
| reputation of the intended spouse
at cetera. All rules and regula
tions which govern the marriage
of military personel in oversea
areas are applicable to all mem
bers of the Army, regardless of
race, creed or color. You may be
assured that it is not the policy
of the War Department to prac
tice discrimination.
The NAACP is furnishing to the
I War Department the several spe
1 cific complaints it has had and
' invites Negro soldiers to submit
additional information to the na
tional office at 20 West 40th St
New York 18, NY.
NAACP INVESTIGATES
ALLEGED LYNCHING
Augusta, Ga.—-Further investi
gation on the reported lynching
of a colored man at Elko, South
Carolina, near here, is being con
ducted by the Augusta branch of
the NAACP, according to Rever
end G. H. Carter, president.
The case was first reported to
the New York office by a man
who drove through Elko and sent
word from Atlanta.
According to a story circulating
here, the dead man, recently dis
charged from the Navy, had fol
lowed his wife from New York
to her home in Elko to try to
«ffect a reconciliation. They had
an argument in her home and the
husband is said to have left in the
company of two of hia wife’s bro
thers. The brothers were reported
to have returned later without the
sisters husband. The next morn
ing the body was found hanging
1 near the road.
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