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Eyewitness DISCOVERED in WOODARD CASE
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NEW YORK. August 15th—The
NAACF investigators working in
South Carolina in an attempt to
discover clues which would lead
them to the policemen responsible
for the savage attack and blinding
of Negro veteran. Isaac Woodard,
announced today the discovery of
an eyewitness to the February 12
assault. The witness, a Negro vet
eran. had remained silent for fear
of retaliatory action against him
self. When found however, the ve
teran readily supplied investiga
tors with the information he pos
sessed and drew up a signed affi
davit when promised NAACP pro
tection.
The veteran, whose identity can
not be disclosed for obvious rea
sons. in his affidavit clears up a
controversy which reached a dra
matic climax recently when Orson
Welles, hard-hitting radio com
mentator and Hollywood actor,
answered the mayor of Aiken. S.
C. who demanded a retraction of
the charge made by Woodard that
the brutal attack had occurred in
that city. Welles in his regular
Sunday afternoon network broad
cast, had stated that Woodard, a
man who had served his country
during the war claimed that he
had been attacked and blinded in
Aiken. S C. 'The burden of proof
lies with you, Mr! Mayor”, said
Welles. ‘ You should have addres
sed your demands for a retraction
to Sgt Isaac Woodard. But it
would have to be sent in braille,
Mr. Mayor, for Isaac Woodard has
no eyes", continued the provoca
tive commentator.
Woodard in explaining his rea
sons for naming Aiken as the
scene of his horrifying experience
said. ’To the best of my know
ledge I was attacked in Aiken, S.
C. The policeman, after he put me
in a car to take me to the hospi
tal answered me when asked him
where I was. He told me we were
in Aiken. When we got to the
hospital, the police told the doc
tor that he was from Aiken. A
few days later a couple of guys
came into the ward inquiring of
the soldier who got beat up in Ai
ken. They were interested because
they were from Aiken themselves'
According to the story told by
the eyewitness the atttck actu
ally occurred in Batesburg, a few
miles fn.m Aiken. "The bus opera
tor came into the bus with three |
police officers and pointed to!
Isaac Woodward. One of the po
licemen came into the back of the j
bus and took Woodard out. When
they got his outside one of the !
policemen took out a blackjack and
smashed Woodard across the
head., then they carried him down (
the street. That is the last I saw
of him”, said the witness.
Negro Veteran
Natl Convent’n
Held In Ark.
UTTl-E ROCK. Ark., Aug. 18—
Many states were represented at
the National Convention of the
National Council of Negro Vet
erans which held its second nat
ional meeting here this week. The
session which were extended over
a three-day period were presided
over by National Commander B.
H. Muldrew of Kansas Cty. one of
the founders of the organization.
Formed and chartered in the state
of Kansas, in 1940 by a group of
disappointed World War I veter
ans who saw the many discrimin
atory tactics employed against Ne
gro veterans by the older veteran
groups this organization has grown
into a large body covering many
states Highliting the program
were the resolutions passed con
demning the rising tide of racial
strife now engulfing the nation. A
more liberal policy providing more
livcral opportunities for Negro ve
terans and the intergration of Ne
gro personnel in the Veterans Ad
ministration and the other agen
cies responsible for the administr
ation of veterans training were
also adopted. The appointment of
a National Service Officer to re
present Negro veterans claims be
fore the Veterans Administration
and the establishment of a nation
al office in Kansas City, Kans.
were other important measures'
passed by the convention.
CAMPAIGN STARTED TO
REDUCE OMAHA SMOKE
NUISANCE
First stage of the campaign to |
reduce Omaha's smoke nuisance
starts the week of August 25.
All householders will be urged
to get their furnaces cleaned and
repaired or to make arrangements
to have the work done before the!
heating season starts.
After the heating season begins,
the second stage of the campaign
will be carried on to teach the pro
per method of firing furnaces in j
order to reduce smoke and, con
serve fuel.
Smoke is evidence of wasted
fuel, chairman Frank R. Boicourt
of the Omaha Smoke Commission |
said in announcing plans for the!
campaign. " »
It is good economy to reduce
smoke. Not only does the presence
of smoke indicate that some of
the fuel is going to waste, but it
adds to the family cleaning bills,
it makes the housewife work hard
er to keep her house clean and it
is a hazard to health.
One of the basic requirements
of smokeless firing, said Mr. Boi
court explained, to impress people
with the necessity of getting heat
ing plants in serviceable condition
before cold weather arrives and it
becomes difficult to have furnaces
cleaned and repaired.
He urged all householders to
arrange now with their furnace
man to have heating equipment
made ready for winter.
An Omaha anti-smoke ordinance
provides penalties for violations,
and the Smoke Commission is em
powered to cite violators in the
jcity atomey for prosecution.
Urban League Conference
To Discuss Race Relation Problems
"American Team Work-Works
I he National Urban League’s 1946 Annual Conference was an
nounced this week by William H. Baldwin of New York City, Presi
4‘-nt of tiie organization. It is being held in St. Louis, Missouri,
September 25-29 in the Kiel Municipal Auditorium, with the open
ing date marking the 157th anniversary of the proposal of the Bill
of Rights to the l nited States. The Conference’s main emphasis will
be on effective methods of oppos
ing race hate and solving * social
problems through "American team
work" in local communities, with
the theme “American Teamwork
Works: Attacking Postwar Prob
lems in Race Relations.”
This interracial group, which
will hold five days of workship
sessions on employment, housing,
and community planning, will be
addressed by white and Negro
leaders in industry, labor, govern
ment and public welfare from both
the North and he South.
Wilson Wyatt, National Hous
ing Expediter, is among the speak
ers already listed, which also in
clude Frank Horne, FPHA Race
Relations Advisor; Victor Reuth
ec, UAW-CIO Educational Direc
tor: Boris Shiskin, AFL Econom
ist: George L-P Weaver, Director
CIO Committee to Abolish Discri
mination: Benjamin Wood, Mana
ging Director, Tea Bureau; Ed
ward Ray. Editor, TAMPA DAILY
TIMES; Roscoe Dunjee, Editor,
Oklahoma City BLACK DIS
PATCH; and Catherine G. Dye of
the Greater St. Louis Community
c^nesi.
The meeting in St. Louis, one of
America’s border line cities.. that
may well become an example of
the best or worst in northern and
southern racial patterns..is com
ing at a critical time. Tension
spots increasing in the midst of the
Ku Klux Klan, which recently
held a demonstration in St. Louis;
price increases, contiuing low wa
ges, and thousands of unsatisfac
torily employed and unhoused ve
terans are calling for new ap
proaches by Urban League affi
liates. which stretch across the
country in 54 cities and 27 states.
Representatives of League board
and staff in eight strategically lo
cated southern cities will be at
tendance with first hand accounts
of what is happening in their com1
munities. with the entire attention
of the Negro-white conference di
rected to finding better, more ef
fective plans to attacking the ra
cial and economic inequalities thru
out the nation.
Using Athens, Alabama, as an
example, President Baldwin sta
ted, 'The temper of many com
munities, north as well as south,
is like the heavy atmosphere be
fore a thunderstorm. In selecting
for this year's conference the
theme that ‘American Teamwork
Works’ the National Urban Lea
gue reaffirms its faith in the
soundness of the American peo
ple and in the integrity of their
democracy.
The St. Louis conference will be
a forceful reminder to the entire
nation that determined groups of
white and Negro Americans are
continuing to work together for
the four freedoms which the Bill
of Rights was designed to guar
antee for all people”.
BENNETT TO OPEN FALL
SESSION WITH RECORD
ENROLLMENT
GREENSBORO, N. C—A capa
city number of 450 students will I
be enrolled at Bennett College
this fall when the college opens
September 11. Freshmen and new
students will arrive on the campus
September 12 to begin their period
of orientation. Returning students
will arrive September 17.
In announcing the opening dates
president Jones stated that the in
stitution would welcome to its cam
pus one of the largest freshman
classes in the history of the col
lege. The 154 freshmen and new
students will represent 22 states,
Africa, the Virgin Islands and the
District of Columbia.
W IFE OF SO. OMAHA
PASTOR KILLED
iy ALTO ACCIDEyT
Mrs. Elizabeth Black, 60, 2520
J Street, died Sunday afternoon of
injuries caused when a car driven
by her husband Rev. F. J. Black,
60, was in a collision with a truck
at West Pacific St. and County
Road 56, about a mile south of
Boys Town.
The condition of the Rev. Black
was reported as “good” at Doc
tors’ Hospital. He is pastor of the
Heaven of Rest, First Church of
Spiritual Healing.
Mrs. Black suffered chest in
juries and shock, hospital author
ities said. The Rev. Black received
chest and side injuries.
Mrs Black’s body was taken to
Myers Funeral Home.
PROMiyEy'T OMAHAy DIES
Mrs. Minnie Solomon,' 2516 Ma
ple Street, wife of Mr. Charles
Solomon and mother of Dr. W. W.
Solomon, passed away August 18.
Mrs. Solomon had been ill since
spring.
Her momentous love, faith and
devotion were great factors in in
spiring her son in his quest for
medical knowledge. She raised 2
nephews, William Clark and Elli
ott Solomon, from an early age to
manhood.
In addition to being a devoted
wife and mother, Mrs. Solomon
was well known and loved in the
community for her creative work
in church, civic and club circles.
In addition to husband Charles
and son and daughter, Dr. and Mrs
W. W. Solomon, she leaves to
mourn her loss: sisters Mrs. Gen
ette Shelton and Miss Fanny Jones
and a brother, Richard Jones of
Chicago.
Funeral services were held at 10
am. Wednesday from St. John's
AME church.
Honorary pallbearers were: T. P
Mahammitt; Eugene West; Will
iam Haynes, Dr. Herbert Wiggins;
Dr. D. W. Gooden and Arthur
Goodlett.
Active pallbearers were the mem
bers of Dr. Solomon's fraternity.
They were: Milton E. Johnson;
Ray L. Williams; James C. Jew
ell; Lonnie Thomas; Wanaseebee
Fletcher and Arthur B. McCaw.
Services were conducted by Rev.
E. B. Childress. Internment For
rest Lawn Cemetery.
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CONSTRUCTION BEGUN ON
NEW DORMITORIES FOR VETS
AT FISK UNIVERSITY, TENN.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.—Construc
tion has been started on two dor
mitories for student veterans at
Fisk University, it was announced
today by John H. Sweitzer, sup
erintendent of buildings and the
grounds at Fisk. The dwellings,
which are expected to be complet
ed in early October, will be loca
ted at 912-18th Avenue North.
The two units, provided by the
Federal Public Housing Authority
consist of a two-story building
which will accomodate 38 men, and
a single dormitory with space for
16 men. Study rooms and lounges
will be included in each building.
These dwellings, said Mr. Sweit
zer, plus a 12 family unit and a
30-man dormitory recently com
pleted on the campus, will help
considerably in meeting the needs
occasioned by the university’s in
creased enrollment.
| Latest Methods of Canning To Bel/lade Available at
Homemakers Canning Caravan
At 24th & Grant Sts., Aug. 30th
The Home Canning Caravan
will be in North Omaha Friday
afternoon, August 30th from 3 to
5 p. m. at 24th and Grant Sts.,
near the Northside YMCA.
Home Economists will be with
the Caravan to answer questions
on all phases of food preservation.
Free bulletins will be given out
and pressure cooker gages tested
free. Bring only lid of cooker for
testing.
The Caravan represents one of
the activities of the Omaha, Dou
glas County Food Preservation
Committee composed of the follow
ing agencies:
Nebraska Power Co, Home Ser
vice Dept.; Douglas County Ex
tention Service; Red Cross Nutri
tion Service; Metropolitan Utili
ties District, Home Service Dept.;
Farm Security Administration;
Household Arts Dept, of World
Herald; Adult Home Making Dept,
of Omaha Public School system;
and Omaha Nutrition Councils.
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Defeats LaFollette
In Senatorial Race
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MADISON, WIS.-Soundphoto—
Ending the 40-year regime of the
LaFollettes in .he U. S. Senate.
Judge Joseph R. McCarthy defeat
ed Sen. Robt. LaFollette in the
Republican primary last week.
“Young Bob’ has served 21 years
in the Senate, following his fa
ther’s 19 years. McCarthy, 37, is
a circuit court judge and Marine
Corps veteran.
FORGOTTON GA. MURDER
UnderScrutiny
NEW YORK, Aug. 15—Another
incident in the concerted drive un
der way in Georgia to terrorize
Negroes has belatedly come to the
light. Ollie Harrington, Public Re
lations Director of NAACP, re
cently in that state investigating
the Monroe massacre unearthed
facts indicating a new lynching.
The incident would have been one
of the many that occurs and is
forgotten had not NAACP invest
igators immediately gone to work
to clear up the mystery.
The story is a pitifully familiar
one. John J. Gilbert, employed in
a chalk mill in Gordon, was found
shot to death on a roadside about
500 yards from his home on the
morning of August 3rd. He had,
according to his wife, left for
work on his regular schedule that
morning at about 5:30. 1> seems
evident that he was waylaid as
Gordon citizens state, by some un
known party who had planned the
killing. Rumor has it, in whispers,
that possibly and even probably,
he was put to death by enemes he
had made more among the whites
by his ‘participation in a recent
unionizing movement in the chalk
mines. An earier case of a beating
given a Negro labor union member
in the mines received considerable
pubilicity.
Although the case has not been
NEGRO & WHITE CITIZENS
Form Omaha Council of N.N.C.
A meeting of negro and white
citizens on August 21, formed a
Council of the National Negro Con
gress. Elected officers are Mrs. G.
Anita Hayes, president; Mrs. Ro
wena Sudduth, executive secretary;
Mr. Charles R. Trimble, treas.
The Congress sent a telegram
to President Harry S. Truman and
Atty.-Gen. Tom Clark demanding
immediate action in bringing the
Georgia mob lynchers to justice.
A copy of the telegram follows:
President Harry S. Truman
White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
The Omaha Council of the Ne
gro National Congress demands
that the Georgia mob lynchers be
brought to justice and that all re
sources at your command be used
to further a prompt investigation
and immediate prosecution of the
perpetrators of these crimes.
Signed—Mrs. G. Anita, pres.
Mrs. Rowena Sudduth,
executive secretary
Charles R. Trimble, treas
A similar copy was sent to the
Attorney General.
Rowena Sudduth, 2828 R St.
FOREMAN SAYS
MOB VIOLENCE
FASCISM FORERUNNER
HAMPTON INSTITUTE. Va..
August 23—Outbeaks of organiz
ed violence such as the recent
lynchings and beatings of Negroes
in the south reveal a growing
threat of Fascism in this country,
Dr. Clark Foreman of Atlanta, Ga.
president of the Southern Confer
ence for Human Welfare, told the
Hampton Institute Summer Con
vocation here today.
Pointing out that Negro veter
ans had been the victims in nearly
every case, Dr. Foreman declared:
‘‘Men who went away to fight
for democracy have died because
lack of it here. .Almost without
exception the victims were guilty
only of standing up for their own
rightts.
‘‘This is no racial matter”, he
told the graduating class of 82,
the faculty and many visitors”—
The organization of prejudice is
the prelude to Fascism. Violence
and discrimination against one
group easily spreads to other
groups and other parts of the coun
try.
“We blame the Genan people
because they did not resist more
effectively the growth of Nazism
in Germany. We must also blame
ourselves if we sit indifferently to
the growth of Fascism here.
“There are signs,” said Dr. Fore
investigated locally, the coroner
and the sheriff who were called
immediately upon discovery of
the body, and held an immediate
inquest, gave their verdict as gun
shot at the hand of unknown par
ties. Nothing further has been
done.
If this man was killed as an ex
ample of the treatment which will
be dealt other Negroes in that
county who join unions, it will
serve as a convincing kind of in
timidation. NAACP’s investigators
are working to bring the murder
ers to account, so that those free
doms granted all citizens under
the Fourteenth Amendment and
the NLRA will be properly respec
ted by brutal southern lawbreak
ers. _ _
School Teacher
Miss Jewell Miller
MISS JEWELL TO TEACH
IN THE OMAHA SCHOOLS
Miss Jewell Miller, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. David O. Miller. 2212
Ohio St., was appointed as a re
gular school teacher in Omaha at
a recent Board of Education meet
ing.
Miss Miller graduated from
Omaha University in June. She
completed her course in three
years and received her B. S. de
gree in Education. Active on the
campus, she belonged to the WAA,
Womens’ Chorus, Future Teach
ers of America, Cosmopolitan Club,
Spanish Club, Student Christian
Assn., of which she was a co-or
dinator and the Alpha Kappa Al
pha sorority.
During her senior year she
taught at the Dundee school as a
practise teacher and substituted
at Minna Lusa school.
man, “that people are beginning
to realize citizens must be alert
to stand for democracy here as
they fought for it overseas. The
fact that Georgia Citizens are con
testing the nomination of Eugene
Talmadge for Governor because
of the clearly unconstitutional
county unit vote system is one ex
ample, he declared.
“I believe that the Supreme
Court will in October decide that
Mr.Talmadge has not been nomin
ated for governor of Georgia”.
The Summer Convocation wit
nessed the conferring of 30 Master
of Arts Degrees and 52 bachelor’s
degrees by Ralph P. Bridgman,
president of Hampton Instittue.
and saw G. James Gholson, presi
dent of the graduating classes pre
sent to the Institute the graduates
parting gift of $100 to be used in
connection with the annual Arts of
the Theatre Festival.
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Many Department and Retail
STORES ADOPTING
FAIR EMPLOYMENT
PRACTICES
Clerks and Sales People Hired
In Midwest and Eastern Areas
In a manual on “Integration of Negroes in Department Stores,”
the National Urban League revealed this week a substantial gain in
the use of Negroes as sales and clerical workers in the retail mer
chandising field throughout the counry. The department store
manual, compiled by Leroy Jeffries, Assistant Director of the Lea
gue’s Industrial Relations Department, from reports of local Leagues
—and released for Urban League use—indicated that the greatest
gains have been made in New York, New Jersev. and Massachusetts.
The retail merchandising field, described as late as 1983 as being
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Lawrence P. Lewis
TERMINAL LEAVE PAY
When they first started to talk
ing about giving the enlisted men
terminal leave pay I started coun
ting up the dollars I was going
to have. Of course all of us know
now that Uncle Sam said: “It
wasn’t like that.”
I may seem ungrateful, but the
giving of those bonds, which I may
cash in five years, just adds one
more trouble to my already over
taxed mind. Just taking care of
the bonds five years is almost
worth the money that I will get.
I can’t afford a safety deposit box
because that will eat up much of
the principal.
Personally, I cannot see any ad- j
” ant age of the Government pass-.
iag such a bill at this time as
long as they gave it in bonds. Most
of the veterans who have been
lucky enough to ccrr.c ck -•ith,
their health and strength will not.
in five years, need the men Kv as
they need it now.
Many are out of iobs. living on |
$20 a week: many are sick, ment
ally and phvsically; many cannot
afford a $100 bonus for a place to
live; and those who do not need
the cash now will not cash the
bonds anvwav. If the veteran ever
needs help. HE NEEDS IT NOW!
All of us cannot go to school.
I stopped by the Band-Box Re
sell Clothing Shoo, owned and
operated by Mrs. Charles Davis,
■ 976 North 25th St., located next
to the Omaha Guide office. I pass
the clothing shop very frequently.
I was surprised to see the qual
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(World-Herald Photo)
ANNUAL OMAHA ELKS’ PARADE
Omaha Elks, Iroquois Lodge No. 92, I. B. P.0. E. of W. and Cherckee Temple No. 223—other
Auxiliaries and Bands in Annual Elks’ Parade Sun day as they passed the Ritz Theatre on 24th Street.
Lodge activities were held at the Elks Hall. The Annual Sermon was held at Zion Baptist Church.
"barred to Negroes as effectively
as if by legislative fiat,” is grad
ually opening new job opportunit
es to Negroes, Jeffries stated.
Fourteen large merchandise firms
in the New York area use Negroes
as sales and stock clerks, steno
graphers, and personnel executiv
es.In New Jersey, the local Lea
gue’s Industrial Relations Depart
ment reported placement of six
clerks in two Newark stores. Fur
ther east, seven Boston stores, in
cluding small exclusive shops in
the Cambridge and Back Bay sec
tions, are using a total of twenty
Negro sales girls in addition to
clerical workers. Department stor
es in a number of small Western
and mid-western towns are hiring
Negro clerks. In milwaukee, Wis
consin, the first Negro department
store clerk was placed earily this
year through the local League.
This lessening of opposition to
employing Negroes by the retail
merchandising industry, which com
pjleted more than 7 billion dollars
worth of sales in 1945 and employs
millions of workers around the
country, is viewed as an encourag
ing sign in the total white collar
pictures for Negroes, Jeffries stat
ed. It is one of the areas, he
pointed out. in which timidity on
the part of employers fearing pub
lic opinion has kept employment
bars most rigid. In 1938, accord
ing to a survey made by the New
York State Commission to investi
gate conditions of the urban Negro
population, there was not a single
Negro sales clerk in any of the
seven major department stores in
New York City. The crack was
made during the war years when,
after assiduous spade work by the
New York Urban League, various
civic groups presented their re
quests to department stores, with
the result that two of the city’s
leading firms employed Negroes
as sales clerks and clerical work
ers. New York's example has
been studied by cities throughout
the country, Jeffries said, and be
is of the opinion that the move
ment will spread throughout the
country.
Integration of Negroes in depart
ment stores h.-s become one of
the major activities of t*e Urban
League movement 7 i t 13 con
nection it has wc J with other
organizations thro "'-'out the coun
try in spearheading variou; move
ments, particularly n Chicago
where the local Lea. jc’~ Women’s
division has formde t rracial
committee in launch; -. . . . special
effort to secure employment for
Negro women as sales clerks in
stores in the “loop.”
The Urban League department
store manual, subtitled “Practical
Applications for the Integration
of Negroes in Department Stores'*
includes the plan thqj wherever
feasible, training courses in mer
chandising and retailing be estab
lished in the schools or in local
Leagues in cooperation with de
partment store management to in
sure the availability of trained
Negro personnel. It will be used
by the Urban League personnel at
the National Urban League’s An
nual Conference, to be held in St.
Louis, Missouri. September 25-29,
as a basis for discussion in devel
oping techniques to attack the
problem systematically in local
League areas. The conference
will also take up at length, the
whole problem of “The Negro
Worker in the White Collar Fields’.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
BOARD OF ELECTIONS
NEW YORK City— (Calvin’s
News Service)—Charles Collins
was ruled out of the Democratic
prfrnaries for State Senator of the
21st district when the Supreme
Court upheld the decision of the
board of elections that some of
Collins’ petitions had been fraud
ulently obtained. Headquarters of
the ALP endorsee says it will ap
peal the courts’ decision. Should
the appeal be turned down, Coll
ins will go after a big write-in
campaign.
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COM STRICT lOM CO.
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Company located at 4104 North
24th St., wishes to announce to
the readers of this publication that
it is equipped to do a complete
job in all types of home repairs,
including siding, roofing, basement
and all types of cement finishing.
And extend a cordial welcome to
all. Your patronage is solicited and
appreciated.