The Omaha Guide ] I ^ A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER -X- i I Publish.-a firry Saturday at 2*20 Grant Street [ OMAHA, NEBRASKA—PHONE HA. 0800 k Entered as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927 j l at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under I Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. IC* C- Gallantly^—. Publisher and Acting Editor | News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be in our office not later than 1:00 | P; ni- Monday for current issue. All Advertising kCopy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday ■ noon, proceeding date of issue, to insure public ation. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA I ONE YEAR . $3.0uJ SIX MONTHS .$1,751 THREE MONTHS .$i-25| SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN | ONE YEAR . $3.501 SIX MONTHS .$2 001 National Advertising Representatives— '* INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, /»r| 545 Fifth Avenue, New York Qty, Phone:— J MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peck, Manager. 1 Editorial: “Did They Sacrifice Their Sons for This?” kT l!.J! i PLAIN TALK BY JOHN M. 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There can be no quarrel with any attempt to build a community free of distructive racial animosities so long as that attempt is not being made solely to create and keep dissension alive, but it has been | proven time and again that the | better way to improve the status' of a race is to improve the sta tus of the members of that race. Primarily, the individual is of far greater consequence than the race he represents. For instance, in Columbus, it is more important to know that Harry Alexander is the personal secretary of R. H. Jeffrey, white chairman of the board of the Jeffrey Manufactur ing Company than it is to know that unhappy events often occur in the city’s ‘Burma Road’ slum areas. Likewise, C. W. Bryant, head of a firm that moves heavy industry and buildins, and a re cognized leader in this field, is a stronger smybol of hope than are the ‘zoot-suiters’ who exhibit their way through life. iviosi oi me neavy rnuusiry ui Columbus offers employment to Negroes. Columbus hotels employ Negroes in large numbers. ..egroes are employed in the six major truck lines that serve in the area and salary levels are at the pre vailing rate. The telephone com pany and the gas company hire a few Negroes in the labor clas sification and department stores discriminate completely. In many respects, Columbus is no different from many commun ities in the deep south. There are elements, such as street car discri mination and racial prejudice that might as well have served to dis courage and devitalize the Negroes of Columbus, but they elected to whine less and work a lot. They weren’t handed anything on a sil ver platter. They have achieved without benefit of tub-thumping by Labor groups and liberal re formers. Llewellyn A. Coles editor and publisher of the Ohio State News says: “All has not been rosy for the Negro in the laboring field. It is on the lower levels that the Ne gro recently arrived here finds his troubles. 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Di PRESCRIPTION ! •* AT ELECTRONIC RECORD SHOP LIONEL HAMPTON GREETS FANS LIONEL HAMPTON Lionel Hampton the Musical Sensation of the Nation, who has just completed a weeks engage ment at the Orpheum Theatre, journeyed out to the Electronic Sales 24th and Erskine Sts., Mon day p. m. for an autograph ses sion with his teen-age bobby sock fans and other connoisseurs of mo dern musical recordings. The dy namic band leader was accompan ied by three of his top performers, the lovely melodious Madeline Freen; Golden voiced Winni Brown and the Gravel Trumpet Man, Duke Garrett. The quarette very gener ously autographed records and other memos for the idolizing mu sical fans. Among the lucky re cipients of autographed Hamptone Records were: La Verne Buford; Carolyne Jeanne Good, 418 So. 38 Ave., said, ‘1 am greatly honored to have been fortunate enough to meet such a congenial and well known personality as Mr. Lionel Hampton”; Miss Thelma Temple, 3747 Vincinne Ave., Chicago, Wen dell Phillips graduate and a sum mer guest of Mrs. Bowen, 2535 Hamilton St. was another recipi ent of a Hamptone "Hey Ba Ba Rebop’’ record autographed by Hampton. Although she is from Lionel’s home-town, she says this was the first time she had a real close up of the band leader Lionel i aid that he attended St. Mary's School in Chicago and that he became acquainted v. itli the great N. Clark Smith through their mutual interest in civic con certs. Hampton said he was very well pleased with the success of the Hamptone Recording Co., of which his wife, Gladys Hamptone is president and that they had sent something like one hundred thou sand discs rolling across the na tion. The King of the vibraharp is about 5 feet 9 inches tall and of muscular build and seems to be entirely engrossed in music. When he walked in the door of the Elec tronic Sales he went directly over to the record shelves and began to thumb through recordings by Cab Calloway, Perry Como and Tommy Dorsey. The reporter could not help comparing his entrance with those of the re-known Cab. "Hi de Hi and Ho di Ho. .Hi gang”. The reporter tapped the musical great on the shoulder, wondering if that was the proper thing to do and introduced himself. “Oh yes, the Hampton said, energetically shaking hands. “I’ve heard about you, we appreciate all of the good publicity you have been giving us. Keep the good work up”. About that time the shop record player, began to play “Hey Ba Ba Rebop”.' The music seemed to engross Li onel. “Like it?”, he asked, beating out the ryhthm on the counter. “That’s what we are featuring, but our company will not only spe cialize in hot jazz and swing, but will record classicals and other varied forms of folk music”. Book er T. Washington, virtuoso of the Steinway, was present and obser ving the proceedings. Mrs. Lucille Avant, supervisor at the Howard Kenedy play ground, was accompanied by a group of music loving youngsters who had their various memos au tographed. Among those in this group were: Buzzy Johnson; Don ald Cole; Marcella Cole; Steven Johnson; Dorothy Johnson; Stevy Kerchival; Robert Kercheval; George Simpson; Judy Trice; C. Trice; Trone Cole; Phyllis Simp son and Thomas Robertson. Franklin “Red Apple” Herman, in charge of the record depart ment said the Electronic Sales j.-d tjvome authorized di~“ri f ;r the Hamptone records. At Cafe Zanzibar Opening «———bebim, iw^ou^jq. ON POLITICS By Ruth Taylor Have you noticed how much loose talk there is going on about the political reason back of every act, about building political fen ces. about practical politics? It looks as though we had come to think of politics as the science of putting something over, and of politicians as a peculiar breed of crooks. But. . why should we assume that all of those who are in elected of fices should have low motives ? Would we in their place? Can not we believe that they are at least as honest, as patriotic as we are. . until we find to the contrary? If or when we do. there is always the ballot box to correct the situ ation. What is a voter? What is an election ? We say that they are the basis of our form of democr acy. We talk about the great num ber of voters in this country, and of free elections, but do we stop to realize the full significance of our own words? , According to the dictionary, a voter is "one who votes”. But there is a great discrepancy be tween the number of voters and the number of people who can vote. When we refer to the back slidings of other nations, we refer to voting as a great and much to be desired privilege but, tell me, have you voted at every election? Have you exercised your privillege or have you been one of those who were too busy to go to the polls or who didn’t like any of the candidates chosen in the pri maries at whicch you didn't vote because it wasn't important? Are you a voter? What is an election? I like the dictionary’s final definition. 'Any choice between alternatives; free choice, especially of means to an end; hence, discretion; responsibi lity’. In a prizewinning essay written by Ralph Bushnell Potts, for the American Bar Association Com mittee on American Citizenship, there was a paragraph I wish could be framed in every voting booth. “I vote as if my ballot alone decided the contest. I may lose my preference but I will not throw away my sacred vote. For within the booth I hold in my humble hand the living proxy of all my country’s honored dead”. There s no moral to this article there is just an earnest plea that as a citizen and a voter you will think it out for yourself, ignoring party labels and catch phrases. Consider the issue on your own responsibility in the coming elec With hot weather hitting the City in such a sustained blast. Bill Baker, 'Director of Institutional Public Relations to General Foods Neil Scott, President of Neil Scot and Associates, and Dan Burley, Managing Editor of the Amster dam Star News moved out of the spacious offices of General Foods Corporation to the air-cooled lux urious Cafe Zanzibar to complete a business conference that had begun at 4:30 P. M. At the time that this picture was taken Baker Burley and Scott were trying to decide whether a corporation should function as a citizen or not. General Foods was well represent ed at the affair. Absent at the time of the picture was Howard Chase, Director of Public Rela tionsa nd Advertising for the Cor poration. The conference was of such interest that Bill Nunn, the Managing Editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, called the group long dis tance to get in his views on the topic of discussion. President of the National Negro Publisher's Association, Frank Stanley, was supposed to be present but due to the illness of his wife was unable to come. The General Foods Cor poration is the largest food cor poration in the world. tions and use your power wisely and with careful, dispassionate thought. The Week By H. W. Smith Omaha Traffic Safety Club re quests all pedestrians to keep on crosswalks in crossing the street. Janeete Pearson a four year old girl fell in Spirit Lake Iowa Tues day July 16. She was on the dock with friends who saved her from drowning. Sixty families protest eviction in Chicago from their apartments in I the Hyde Park district. Mrs. Blanche Carothers, an ex convict and the mother of two children in Chicago, made a rough face at the camerman as she was taken from court July 17. U. S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark said in a speech in Chicago recently there is no difference in Communist and fascist. A movement was started in Ab lene, Kansas, the home of Gen. Eisenhower, for a permanent hon o arv reward for him for his work in World War II. The Chicago Herald American says the power of the courts to issue injunctions in strikes against illegal action should be fully re stored. Lief Erickson former Montana S preme Court Justice, defeated | US Senator Wheeler in the US Sen atorial primary July 17 in Helena. Bernard M. Bawer and Peter F. Fresman were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in Detroit in cancelled war contracts. Bill Heirens confessed to three murders to states attorney Touhy of Illinois and chief justice Harold D. Ward of the criminal court. Any deal cooked up by the defense is to be thrown out of court. Duraz Miliailovich was executed before a firing squad in Belgrade on July 17 for being convited on a charge of treason and colabora 1 tion with Germany Mrs. Craig Rice nationally known writer on crime and my sterv is writing a very thrilling one on Wm. Heirens, the accused tri ple murderer in Chicago. The Her ald-Tribune will carry the story. Nicalo G Reeding of the Soviet Navy was acquitted of all counts of espionage in Seattle, Washing ton July. Congressman Andrew J. May of Kentucky was accused of taking $1000 from a metal products com pany of the Erie Basin on July 17. Attorneys for Chris Brown chief of police of Buckner, 111., asked the court for a writ of habeas corpus on July 17. Jle was called to trial on Jan. 24 but the jury could not agree. An attorney in a criminal case in Decatur, 111., on July 17 hit his hand so hard on a table in the court room he fractured a bone. Four persons were drowned in Albia, Io-.va July 17 when an auto plunged into a flooded creek. An auto sounded an alarm in Dee’’ Creek, 111., July 17 when it caught fire in a garage, the sound e ou'cd the owner who was asleep n his home nearby. Orville Roth of Decatur, 111, was jailed on July 16 on an extor tion charge. A woman made the charge producing good evidence. Bruso Berleler a film director in Hollywood tried to commit suicide Police were called and they repor ted he tried to kill himself several months ago. Reports from Washington July 18 are that President Truman is planning to go to San Francisco by air plane. NAACP Membership Committee is asking 1000 members in their fall drive in Omaha. • Read The Greater OMAHA GUIDE SUBSCRIBE | TODAY! CROSSWORD PUZZLE | f ACROSS 1 Blemishes 6 Profits 11 Unit of gem weight 12 Country of S. 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HW Scries G-48 FRONTIERS TO DISCUSS THE F. E. /*. C. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 20_Re vival of interest in' national fair employment is one of the import ant items on the program of the National Frontiers Convention to i be held in Columbus. Ohio. Aug ust 15-18, 1946. Mr. N. B. Allen. National Pres- ! ident and founder of the Frontiers ! said that the tentative program of 1 the convention, now complete, in-1 eludes not only the fair employ- i ment discussion and action but' housing, the veteran, and other! social and civic matters as well. This convention marks the 10th Anniversary of the Club, which now has 15 chapter in as many ci ties, composed of Negro busness and professional men. 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( Phil’s contribution to Semantics is a tune called “Hokey Mokey Poke, Skee de Wah de Sqwatch” and he has just disced still an other Musicraft record of, a ro mantic psycho-neurotic titled “It’s Bigamy.” In the photos above Phil runs over some of his songs and scores with Edward Everett Horton (top), who is obviously pleased with one of Moore’s gags; on the telephone with the famous Make Believe Ballroom man, Martin Block; with lovely Lena Horne; and with the famed radio conductor Raymond Paige. Moore's “Lazy Lady Boogie,” written with Leonard Feather, has just been recorded by Count Basie, too. J Dr. FRED Palmer’s Skin Whitener helps win lighter, lovelier skin. 7 day trial convinces or money back. Caution: Use only as directed. 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