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/JUST1CE/EQUAL1TY(1^^WALLTHE NEWS WHILE IT I^EWSfjllHi^EWtOTHETlNEX EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ~:^4^rantst~~~~-PHONE HA.0800 SATURDAY, JULY 20, I9«, Q„r 19,h Ye„-No. 24 ♦ Me Per Copy ★ SSV£ S&, gX*i£ Nebraska Authorr/ill Provides forlndusirial 7raining of Negro Youth the Street... | and. hereabouts Lawrence P. Lewis OMAHA'S SAFETY DRIVE_ Every evening at seven minutes after eight another day passes in Omaha's Safety Drive. Only a couple of weeks more without a traffic fatality and Omaha will have surpassed the World’s Re cord. There is only one way that can be accomplished and that is by the drivers themselves. THEY MUST DRIVE SAFELY AND CAREFULLY! We all know that someday, someone will be careless and a life will be lost. It is up to the drivers of the automobiles to save as many lives as possible. Those who do most of their driving in our vi cinity, can at least, keep the Sa fety Record on Our Street. Let us do our part, then it will be left up to the drivers in the other parts of the city to do theirs. Now Lawrence, don’t you write about me, said one of our most popular young matrons. Mrs. Margaret King, 2626 De catur, and the mother of two of the sweetest children in Omaha, made that remark to me while eating lunch in Neal's Cafe the other day. Mrs. King has just returned from a vacation that took her to Chicago and then for a few days ID Carbondale, Illinois. Mrs. King is Carbondale as large as it sounds?, I asked. Mrs. King looked at me as if she wanted to throw her lunch on me but decided against that. I guess because food is so high, and there is still thousands starving in Europe. Yes, she answered. But it is a lovely place, and Jean and I just rested and increased our weight. should see her now; as fat as she can be. How did you enjoy your stay in Chicago?, I asked. I enjoyed every minute of it. We found so much to do. You know what there is in Chicago, or you should, you lived there, she said. Yes, I lived in Chicago, but the salary that I made could not keep me attending such places as the Club DeLisa. White’s Emporium, Grand Terrace, Rhumboogie, and the 411 Club, play golf, eat ham and eggs, steaks and chicken, and still keep some part of the family up to standard, I said. Millions of people live in Chicago, so it must be a grand place to live, but for me, being small town, Chicago is not the place. We talked about the children; Joyce, Jean, and my better-half and my little daughter Judy. We talked about the prices continual ly going up and how many mer chants were taking advantage of it. Mrs. Margaret King is now at tending the Northside Beauty School, and hopes to became an operator this fall. Many years have passed since I first became acquainted with Mrs. King and her family. Her two daughters are growing lovelier everyday, and with their beauty, they have learn ed kindness, respect and obedi ence. Those years have not changed their mother much. She was a charming young lady then, filled with determination. Today, still determined, Mrs. King is equally as charming. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU. WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT RE CEIVE THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS A LITTLE CHILD, HE SHALL NOT ENTER THEREIN. St. Mark 10:15. This is a story about a child not yet four years old. A small child just like thousands of other child ren that live amongst us. She is a normal child: always wanting to play with her playmates, not want ing her face washed or her hair combed, and often she runs into the street after her rubber ball, not realizing the danger, although she has been told many times. One day while playing this child ran into a steel pole, cutting a deep hole in her head. She ran to mother, and mother took her to the doctor, and everything seem ed alright. A few days later her head began to swell. It was swelling so fast " that you could almost see it. Her mother, of course, grew frantic, but the child, not knowing about fear, just complained a little about her jaw hurting. The family doctor was out of town, but her mother called an other. At first the doctor seemed interested, but when she gave the address, the doctor told her I can not come out there. He was nice enough to reccommend another doctor, and later this doctor did come. All this time the swelling was getting worse, but the child did not complain as she lay quiet ly on the bed. The doctor examined the child. SAVE For A Rainy Day — Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! LOCAL AND NATIONAL MEWS 1 ry Per Copy AMP WORTH IT- A“To Sell It, ADVERTISE” Negro Vet Beaten, Eyes Gouged Out By Georgia Police NEW YORK—One of the most horrible cases of southern police brutality against returning NegTO vets was brought to light today when the NAACP released the facts surrounding the unbelieva bly barbarous beating and blinding of Isaac Woodard, 27 year old veteran of 4 years, 15 months of which were spent in the South Pacific. Woodard, 3 hours after his discharge from a demobiliza tion center, was taken from a bus in Georgia by two policemen on complaint of a bus driver. The po lice immediately attacked the vet with their blackjacks and as he lay at their feet gouged out both his eyes with the blunt end of a blackjack before throwing him in a narrow cell where he was left intensely suffering through the night without treatment. Told in his own quiet words, Woodward's story matches any that ever came out of the barbar ous horror chambers of Nazi Ger many. The following story is ta ken without embellishment from the Negro vet’s affidavit filed with the legal division of the NAACP: “I, Isaac Woodard, Jr., being duly sworn, do depose and state as follows: ‘That I reside at 1100 Franklin Avenue, Bronx, New York, Apt. 2. 1 am 27 years old, and a vet eran of the United States Army, Having served from the 13th of October, 1942 to the 12th of Feb ruary, 1946, when I received an honorable discharge from Camp Gordon, Georgia. I served for 15 months in the South Pacific with the 429th Port Battalion. I served in the Philippines and in New Guinea and earned one battle star. “I was discharged about 5:30 p. m. February 13, 1946 from Camp Gordon, Georgia. At 8:30 p. m. at the Greyhound Terminal in Atlanta, Georgia, while I was in uniform I purchased a ticket to Winnsboro, South Carolina and took the bus headed there to pick up my wife to come to New York to see my father and mother. About one hour out of Atlanta the bus driver stopped at a small drug store. As he stopped, I asked him if he had time to wait for me until I had a chance to go to the rest room. He cursed and said no and when he cursed me, I cursed him back. After I cursed him, he said, “Go ahead and get off and hurry back”, so I got off hurrying back as he said. “About half an hour later, when the bus got to Aiken, he stopped again and got off and went and got the police. I did not know what he was doing and thought it was just a regular stop. He came back and came in the bus and came up to me and said, ‘Come outside for a minute,’ and I got off the bus. When I walked out, the police were there. As I walked out, the bus driver started telling the police that I was the one that was dis turbing the bus. When he said that, I started eplaining to the po *ce that I was not raising a dist urbance on the bus, but they didn't give me a chance to explain. The policeman struck me with a billy across my head and told me to shut up. After he finished talking he said to me, ‘You won’t catch this bus out of here, you catch the next bus’. ‘After that, he grabbed me by (Continued on pageJJgPS) Lena Gets Citation LENA HORNE, glamorous MUM star, has been presented with a citation from the Los Angeles County Tuberculosis and Health Assocation for her outstanding work on the 1945 Christmas Seal Campaign. The citation which Lena holds reads: ”In recognition of exceptional and meritorious ser vice in the cause of the nation’s health, there shall be inscribed on the honor roll of this Association as an Advocate of Public Healtn, /he name of Lena Home whose outstandng- ability and loyalty warrants this citation.” Gary Citizens, Welcome Fiormer Omahan and Husband Couple To Have Charge of Settlement House Gary, Ind—Representatives of city and church organizations wel comed Rev. and Mrs. Frederick B. Clay last night at a reception in the Stewart house lounge. Mrs. Clay will assist Rev. Clay in his new work as superintendent of the John Stewart settlement house and as pastor of the De laney Memorial Church. The Clays, formerly of St. Louis are both experienced in recrea tional work. Rev. Clay is a grad uate of Rust College, Gammon Theological seminary and Boston university. He succeeds Rev. B. F. Neal who is now working on a real estate project for the Meth odist church. Mrs. Clay, a former public school teacher from Omaha, Neb., has also done nursery school su pervision work. Welcome addresses were given by Dr. Dennis Bethea for the tru stees of the church; A. S. Williams Southside Business and Profess ional Men’s Association; A. B. Whitlock, Stewart house board of directors, and Rev. H. B. Mitchell of the Interdenominational Mini sterial alliance. Greetings were also given from the young people of the church by Miss Geraldine McDonald; from Neighborhood house, by Miss Cath erine Barber; Woman’s Society of Christian Service, Mrs. Rebec ca Fields; Methodist Men’s organ ization, James Davis, and the Chi cago district of Methodist Mini sters, Rev. Sumpter Riley of Chi cago. Congregational singing was led by the Church choir. The Kings men, directed by Mrs. Eloise Aa ron, also sang. Miss Emma Neal sang a solo, William Jones gave a piano selection and Miss Norma Jean Bethea played a violin solo. Charles Winston read the invoca tion. The guests were introduced by Clarence Walker, chairman of the official board of the church. Tribute was paid to Mrs. Lucilla i Whitlock, 91-year-old widow of A fine doctor. You could tell by watching him; tenderly fondling the child, telling her stories, and letting her play with his tie and some of his instruments. The child did not understand as the doctor quietly spoke to her mother. We must get her to the hospital tonight. She must receive treatments immediately, he said. As her mother wrapped her up she smiled and played with her mother’s hair. Little did the child know that the doctor was puzzled and that her life was dangerously close to the end. But small child ren do not worry about life or death, and as long as her mother was there, that was all the life she needed. The hospital was strange to her; the nurses and interns in their white, and everyone so quiet and business-like. The many small beds with other sick children in them. This put a different light on the subject, because she under stood that something was up, and mother looked worried, but still the child was not worried. As the nurse entered, mother stepped back. The nurses turned her on her stomach and she felt a sharp pain. She yelled. Mama, Mama. In a few seconds they were gone, but mother was there, so she forgot the pain. But the nurses came back again. At first, every ten minutes, then every hour, every two hours. Al ways the pain again and again, but always there was mother, and the child knew what was happen ing had to happen, because her mother would never let them hurt her unless it was right. All this time her face was still swelling and one eye was swollen shut. She didn’t cry any more when they punctured her tender body. She just looked at her mo ther, and sometimes mother would i take her hand. She didn’t like it, and she would yell at mother to help her but mother couldn’t help her, so she just yelled at the nur se instead, and by that time it was all over for a little while. One day, two days, three days; needles, more needles; sulfa, more sulfa, and sometimes when she was not herself, mother would be come frightened. When she was herself again, she would play and sing to the other children, prob ably disturbing them more than helping them, but she only wanted them to be happy too. The nurse came with the needle, those needles this child had become quite accustomed to, and said, Well young lady, one more time and you can go home. The child looked up at her mo ther and smiled, and this small child, not four years old, just turned over, and let the nurse stick the needle into her already sore body. Not one word, not a yell, but a smile, as the nurse finished, for her mother. Mama, let’s go home now, the child said. That is the story. I thought it was a good story, because it is a true story. Surely it must make us realize how great the pain when we do not have COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR! J.W.Dacus Promoted to Clerk in Charge at Omaha Rpo.fTerminal the late Rev. William H. Whitlock first pastor of the Delaney Mem orial church, formerly the Trinity Methodist church. Miss Gustavy Delanev was also honored. She is the sister of the late Rev. Frank S. Delaney, founder of the John Stewart settlement house and for mer pastor of the church. Negro Leaders Mourn Death of Sidney Hillman Negro leaders joined with labor and other progressive forces in mourning the death of Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CTO Po litics’ Committee and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Work ers Union, CIO. Hillman, the cen ter of bitter controversy during the 1944 presidential election, was buried Friday afternoon (July 12) following funeral rites at which Rabbi Stephen S. Wise officiated and Philip Murray, CIO president delivered the eulogy. Death came to the 59 year-old labor leader/ on the morning of July 10 as the result of a neart attack. Although he had been in his union office the day before, he had been in ill health for months due to a serious cardiac condition. Indeed, he had not been well since his return last winter from Paris where he had been a prime mover in the establishment of the World Federation of Trade Unions. Statements from Negro labor officials, civic leaders and associ ates hailed Hillman as a great American, who despite discrimina tory attacks, was a valiant cham pion of minority rights. The statements follow: Willard S. Townsend, president UTSEA-CIO “In the passing of Sidney Hill man., the American labor move ment lost a consistent and valiant champion. Rising above the attack of racial bigots, he not only be came one of America’s great la bor leaders, but also sustained an influential position in the interna tional labor movement through his invaluable contribution to the est ablishment of the World Federa tion of Trade Unions. Here at his home he will long be remembered for his sterling role in the found ing of the CIO, in the fight for the FEPC and in the leadership of PAC. The United Transport Ser vice Employees of America shares with all trade unionists and other progressives the deep loss sustain ed by the death of Sidney Hill man”. Walter White, secretary of the NAACP “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple sends you most profound sym pathy in the death of your distin guished husband. Few men in the history of America have been sub jected to such criticism because of birth and race. America is a richer place because he refused to be daunted. We mourn his passing not only for you but for all of Amer ica”. Congressman Adam C. Powell The passing of Mr Hillman must take its place as a national tra gedy by the side of the passing of Mr. Roosevelt. Both were people's leaders. The loss is irreparablle. Just as we who believe in Mr. Roosevelt dedicated ourselves to keeping alive his spirit so now we must rededicate ourselves to keep ing alive the spirit of Mr. Hillman’. A. Philip Randolph president of Brotherhood Sleeping Car Porters AFL. “Kindly accept my condolences and heartfelt sympathy upon the death of your illustrious husband Brother Sidney Hillman. He was a great American and labor lead er”. Eugene Kinckle Jones, general secretary, National Urban League “The cause of Democracy every where and particularly American minorities have lost a great cham pion. Your husband was not only a great citizen but a distinguished statesman. The National Urban League joins you in your grief and extends deepest sympathy”. • Quality Job Printing Phone HA. 0800 J. W. Dacus, 2518 Wirt St., was promoted to a Supervisory Posi tion in the Railway Postal Service July 1, 1946 after serving as a clerk for twenty-seven years. His upgrading came as a reward for his loyalty, good record and good workmanship. We feel justly proud of this ap pointment, because it is the first time a member of our group has been given such recognition. The Chief Clerk and the Superintend ent of the Railway Mail Service are to be highly commended for their recommendation of Mr. Da cus for this promotion. Omaha Branch, Nat. Alliance of Postal Employees. RACE RELATION COUNCIL SAYS MINORITY VETS ARE DETOURED BY BIAS It is still less than a year since our veterans began to come home. And in that brief time, sufficient evidence has piled up to prove that all the pretty speeches and promises that were made while the fighting was still going on were not meant for the more than a million Negro, Japanese Ameri can and other minority veterans. Discrimination as usual by gov j ernment agencies, starting from ! the federal level and going all the way down the line, is depriving this more than a million veterans of their benefits and privileges supposedly guaranteed them un der the G I Bill of Rights. The ever mounting instances of Jim Crow treatment of Negro war veterans above and below the Ma son-uixon nne is a national dis grace. The American Council on Race Relations has focused nat ional attention on the problem. In a survey of Veterans Information Centers in 21 key cities in the in the United States, the American Council found evidence that min ority group veterans, particularly Negroes, were receiving service and treatment in almost every city studies. The situation was so serious that the American Council called together veterans’, civic and religious organizations in a national emergency conference on minority veterans problems. This was the first cooperative attempt to bring all organizations together to consider the plight of the min ority veteran. That the minority group veter an was being discriminated again st in his reconversion to civilian life was well known and much lip service was being given on behalf of the problems he was having. The effort to make a national is sue of the plight of Negro, Jap anese American and other minor ity veteran deserves the commen dation and the active support of all who are interested in seeing democratic treatment given to those who gave so much so that others might enjoy it. Government agencies are now well aware of the public indigna tion with respect to their gross neglect of the rights of minority veterans. Nevertheless, the press, church and civic organizations throughout the nation should con tinue to speak out whenever in justice comes to their attention. The American Council has started | the ball rolling but only the con tinued pressure is going to get for the minority group veteran the democratic treatment that he so justly deserves. SPOTLIGHT ON AMERICA Officials of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company announced this week that the company and its employ ees will sponsor the local broad cast of the new national radio show “SPOTLIGHT ON AMERI CA” The first program will be broad cast over Radio Station KBON at 8 p. m. Friday evening July 19. Subsequent programs will be broadcast each Friday night there after at the same time. “SPOTLIGHT 'ON AMERICA” will dramatize up-to-the-minute news and events on American life. It will emphasize the human side of the news and will highlight the week’s happenings from all over the United States. The Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company and 50 of the largest transit companies in the United States have joined in the national sponsorship of this new type of radio entertainment. j “Stanley R. Osborn Fund” To Encourage Creative Employment for Colored Americans STANLEY r. OSBORN Benefactor Was Startled by Huge Economic Loss To Nation Due to Prejudice Quote—Having no dependents I feel free to bestow my savings where it seems to me these will be of greatest public benefit. In seek ing this end I was startled by a realization of the huge economic loss to the Nation which comes from one-tenh of its producers being by reason of prejudice, fear and tradition and their own ignor ance, barred from creating more than a fraction of the National wealth of which they are capable. It is therefore, my desire to do what little I may to help Colored Americans upward into a more efficient and productive citizen ship”. In those words the late Stanley R. Osborn, Nebraska born author and newspaperman expressed his reason for setting aside the bulk of his estimated $100,000.00 estate to be used for the training of young Negro men and women who seek employment in industrial en terprises. The contents of the Osborn will and his remarkable understanding of the problems encountered by the Race group came as an ap preciable surprise to the colored populace. Mr. Osborn, 69, who was a nat ive of Blair, Nebraska, died June 25th at Duluth, Minn. He was a graduate of the Blair High School and attended the University of Nebraska from 1897 to 1900. He lived in Samoa while his father was United States Counsul there. It was then that he obtained at mosphere for his successful novel, Red Hair and Blue Sea, a popular fiction work of the 1920's. Amorg his other writings were: The Ser pent and Mr. Henrdy’s Heavens: Two Feet and a Thousand Miles; On Rush St. Bridge; The Lonliest Man God Ever Made; and The Knife In the Door. Mr. Osborn worked five years for the Omaha Bee and the Daily News and later for the Chicago Tribune. He returned to Blair in 1920 and lived there until 1937. During the last nine years he had toured the South during the win ter months and the Northern States in summer. In addition to the Educational Fund, provisions were made in the will for relatives and the Ne braska State Historical Society. The will was filed for probate in the County Court June 29, 1946 and will come up for hearing July 27th. Other sections of the last will and testament dealing with the Osborn Fund are as follows: ”, .Said trustee shall thereafter, as soon as any revenue begins to be able, expend and use the in come from the Stanley R. Osborn Fund solely for the benefit of Ne groes, giving effect to the follow ing: PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT So long as conditions remain about as present, I have a strong preference for promoting the em ployment and advancement of young Negro men and women in the manufacturing and other in dustrial plants. SCHOLARSHIPS Therefore, whenever Negroes are being granted a reasonable opportunity in the skilled crafts and technical professions for which they have hgen trained, I ask my said trustee to aid them to gain, through scholarship, main tenance or such other method as may be selected by the trustee, such skills, arts, trades and engin eering and other techniques as are in demand by the said industrial plants. In so far as the University of Nebraska offers reasonably sufficient courses in such indust-1 rial and technical training, I ask that it be given preference. But if my said trustee shall become convinced that better results in this particular field may be ob tained elsewhere, I ask that part or all of the said Osborn income be used to aid Negro students at the Illinois Institute of Technolo gy, 3300 Federal Street, Chicago, | Illinois, or if satisfactory arrange ments cannot be made there, then at the Iowa State College, Ames, | Iowa. CITES FEPC When, however, these crafts and professions are in practical effect closed to Negroes as they were pri-1 or to 1943 and the setting up of the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice, then the said Osborn income shall go for the above institutions in the order named for whatever form of edu cation such university regards as offering the best opportunities for Negroes at that time. PREFERENCE TO NEBRASKANS As regards education aid, all de tails as to its form, terms and conditions, and method of select ing beneficiaries, should be left to the judgement of the school. I hope, however, that in general (Continued on page OUR GUEST Column Edited by Verna P. Harris by ANNA ARNOLD HEDGEMAN? Executive Secretary, National Council for a Permanent FEPG The headlines on June 25th dealt with OPA extension and a host of other matters. There should have been one more item on the front page of every paper: the anniver sary of FEPC. On that date in 1941 President Roosevelt issued an executive or der reaffirming the nation’s creed of no job discrimination (a creed more often by-passed than observ ed.) Despite giant want ads, Ne groes, Jews, and other minorities were being refused job training, up-grading and even union mem bership. The situation was so ser ious, in terms of community ten sions, that A. Philip Randolph or ganized a mass protest which soon resounded in Congress and the White House. Thus, out of the struggle of one minority group an executive order was born which brought other minorities into its scope. The wartime FEPC had respons ibility for discrimination in de fense industries and government This Committee developed techni ques for consideration and inte gration. But after constant snip ing from Negro-baiting, Jew-bait ing, labor-baiting congressmen, the wartime FEPC went out of official existence on June 30th. On June 25th the National Coun cil for a Permanent FEPC spon sored rallies and meetings through the country in order to focus ev eryone’s attention on our reconver sion to prewar discriminatory practices. We want the country to know that even the U. S. Em ployment Service is now accepting orders for "white only", "Gentile only”, or "Protestant only”. It was the hope of the National Council that permanent legisla tion could be enacted before the wartime Committee was dissolved. The National Council has, through its 67 cooperating organizations, been able to make the FEPC a national issue in two years. . an unusual achievement in the an uals of Washington lobbying. Both major parties felt compelled to in sert an FEPC plank into their platforms. The bills introduced in the Sen ate and the House were approved by Committees of the respective bodies. In the Senate, the bill ac tually reached the floor; but after the filibuster it was returned to the calendar. In the House, the Rules Committee voted to hold the bill in committee. A discharge pe tition, requiring 218 signatures, which would bring the bill to the House floor for discussion, lacks 43 signatures. But those very 43 missing signatures mean that nei ther party has lived up to its pro mises. The National Council made June 25th a day of re-consecra tion to the task of preparing for action in the next Congress. Our sogan is ‘Political Action at Home’ while congressmen and senators are back in their districts for the summer. The National Council has two strong arms—the 67 cooperating organizations and the 98 local councils. We are reorganizing our executive committee to include more representatives of national organizations and other key peo ple. We have set up a policy com mittee. A planning committee is working with us on a complete study of our program, with a view to strengthening it and giving more adequate services to all in terested groups. Recently, from a refugee camp in Germany a congratulatory cablegram reached the United Council of Church Women follow ing its selection of a Negro mo ther as the American Mother of 1946. ‘You have given hope to the world", the cablegram said. Imagine the hope which could be given here at home if, after our our observance of June 25th, we create a national groundswell that helps us pass federal legislation against job discrimination. For in the final analysis, "the right to work is the right to live”. —APA— HE.4 R AISD SEE Lionel Hampton and Hey Baba Rebop REVUE ISoit Shotting at ORPHEEM THEATRE