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EQUM OPPORlUNn ( a^p M pgg Entered as 2nd Class matter at Post-Office. Omaha. Nebraska, Under Act of March 8, 1874. PUBLISHING OFFICES AT 2420 CHANT ST., Omaha. Nr hr SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 1946 (hir 19th Year—!V* 34 - -J- ^ • » - -?■- ... -.. —-— -— —-—— - - Attend The Gala Ball & The Crowning Mid-City Queen! Tickets On Sale At Johnson’s Drug & AMVETS’ ■V ~ . - _ ------ ------ -- - - - ■ ■ ■» r»»* *» ~.J» ! Schwellenbach Pledges lo Abolish Discrimination I /» D. C. Office USES A. PHILIP RANDOLPH RE-ELECTED PORTERS’ BROTHERHOOD PRES. THE CONVENTION PICTURE OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS Assembled in Chicago. Sept. 5-^0, 1946. Sleepmg Car Porters9 Auxiliary Meet At Chicago r n --- --/■*■-»--— . CONVENTION PICTURE OF THE LADIES AUXILIARY Meeting in Chicago, September 15—18 1946. T Fifth Biennial Convention Largest Ever Held Heads RR. Organizatien for 21 Years At tl - 1 ~ing -i-sion of the Fifth Biennial Convention, at Chi cago. pt -ruber 20. 1946, A. Philip Randolph was unanimously re elected Ini national President, r.iadts his 21st year as head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. All of the officials were re elected, including M. P. Webster, 1st International Vice President. Other International Vice Presi dents include Bennie Smith of De troit. E. J. Bradley of St. Louis, and C. L. Dellums of Oakland Cal ifornia. A.sliiey L. Totten was re elected International Seccretary Treasurer. The fifth Biennial Convention of the BSCP was the largest ever held »n its history with 150 or more de legates coming from 100 or more kscal divisions stretching across the entire country of the United States and Canada and including representation of 95 percent of the railroads in the two countries em ploying sleeping car, train, coach, and chair car porters, attendants and maids. There were also obser vers to the convention from the ranks of the Pullman Yard Forces in attendance. Resolutions debated and adopted by the Convention covered a wide range of subjects and interests, both with respect to the craft and those of broader, social, economic, and political interests. The resolu tion of absorbing interest was con cerned with the reduction of the work-month from 240 to 180 hours as a basic month in all classes of service with time and a-half for overtime. There was overwhelming - agree bent that with the progres sive mechanization of the rail roads 240 is much too long for a porter to work, stated A. Philip Randolph, the porter’s leader. A. Philip Randolph, M. P. Web ster and Claude Grooms, 2nd Vice President of the Chicago Division, were elected to represent the Bro therhood at the 66th convention of the American Federation of Labor in Chicago October. 1946. The city selected for the 1948 convention was the Motor City, Detroit. GUEST OF HASTINGS C. of C. REVEREND C. C. ADAMS, attend ed the tour of Tri State County Projects as a guest of the Hast ings Chamber of Commerce, Hast ings. Nebraska, on September 23, and 25th. G. D. Hancock at Qair ME. As Guest Speaker Sunday The Rev. G. D. Hancock, Dist rict Superintendent of the Topeka District of The Methodist Church, will be guest speaker at Clair Me thodist Church this coming Sun day, September 29th. He will de liver the sermons at both the morn | ing and night services. He will hold the Second Quarterly Confer ___. ^ The Ladies Auxiliary to ihe Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, onvened in session at Metropolitan Community Church, 41st and South Parkway, Monday September 16 at 10 a. m., Chicago, Illinois The opening address of the International President, Helena Wil son, sounded the keynote address of the social and economic policy of the Auxiliary. The following officers were re elected by acclamation: Halena Wilson, President: Katherine Las siter, 1st Vice President: Mae Dai ley, 2nd Vice President; Fannie J. Cavine^s, 3rd Vice President; Letitia Murray, 4th Vice President Rosina C. Tucker, Secretary-Trea surer; and Executive Board mem bers Nora Fant; Carrie B. Mc Watt; Ella Johnson; Marion Sap pington; Rosie Taylor; Carrie E. White; Velma I. Coward; Ella Mc Bride and A. Philip Randolph. The president recommended the endorsement of The Murray-Wag ner-Thomas-O’Mahoney full em ployment bill: the Wagner-Ellender Taft Housing bill: the Wagner Murray-Dingell National Health bill; creation of a National Per manent Fair Employment Prac tices Commission: retention of OP A and price controls until pri ces are stabilized, and approval of consumers co-operates was ur ged by the president. The convention accepted these recommendations in its fifth ses sion. Thirty-three states and 45 divisions from the United 'States and Canada were represented at the convention. ——————————— — —" - Truman Promises Committee HE WILL WORK TO END MOB VIOLENCE -- WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 19 President Truman today held a conference at the White House with a delegation from the recent ly formed National Emergency Committee Against Mob Violence. The Committee, formed at the call of the NAACP, represents 47 na tional labor, church, women's, pu blisher’s, lawyers’, civH rights and fraternal organizations. Its delega tion wse warmly received by the President. His interest in the sub ject was so great he spent 35 in stead of the precluded 15 minutes discussing the situation with the group, which included Dr. Chan ning H. Tobias, Frederick E. Reis sig of the Federal Council of ence on Monday night. The pas tor, Rev. Reynolds urges all mem bers to be present Sunday and ex tends a cordial invitation to all the friends of Dr. Hancock to hear him as well as friends of the church. He will take moving pictures of the morning service. BOARD P'CTURE Members of the International Executive Board. Swted left to right: Ashley L. Totten, E. J. Bradley, Bennie Smith. T. T. Patterson M. P. Webster A. PMBp Itat^oloh J R Benoit C L. Dellums, Standing left to right John C. Mills, G. C. Garren, Henry YaUe, A. R. Dailey. ’ ' Churches in Christ in America; James Carey, secretary of the CIO Boris Shishkin of the AFL and Walter White, secretary, and Les lie Perry, Administrative assist ant of the NAACP. Serving as spokesman for the group, Mr. White urged the Presi dent to act to stem the rising tide of lynchings and violence against Negroes. He described to the Pre sident circumstances leading up to the blinding of Isaac Woodard, calling attention to the fact that Sheriff L. M. Shull of Batesburg, S. C., boasted that it was all his handiwork. Mr. White further pointed out the fact that the NA ACP has submitted to the Dept, of Justice the names of partici pants in the quadruple lynchings , in Walton County. Ga., and the blow-torch, meat cleaver lynchings in Minden, Louisiana—emphasiz ing the fact that the Department has not yet moved for indictment. The plight of the defendants and counsel in the prejudice-ridden court in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.. was detailed to the President, and Mr. White cited the remark of District Atorney Bumpus that he was go ing to wrap a chair around the n— lawyer’s head if he didn’t stop contradicting him, referring to NAACP defense counselor Dr. Leon A. Ransom. The President said that this big wave of violence has been one of his greatest problems. Visibly mo ved by the story of Woodard’s blinding, he said that nothing he could think of could justify a sher iff doing what this one did—that there must be some law under which the sheriff can be handled. He promised the group that he would take up the matters discus sed with Attv. Gen. Tom Clark the next day. Doctor Tobias told the President that he had just returned from Africa via London and that, abroad there was great admiration for the United States, but everywhere he went, where the papers played up this country’s lynichings, he could see that America had lost a great deal of its prestige. Dr. Tobias and Mr. Carey both reiterated the need for leadership OUR 1 GUEST Column i Edited by Verna P. Harris MUTUAL AW By Philippa Duke Schuyler, gifted young composer and pianist Members of other minority groups have been so exceptionally kind and helpful to me that I doubt if I could have done the things I have without their encouragement and aid. If Hedi Katz, a violinist and teacher, had not sent me to see Mother Stevens of the Convent of the Sacred Heart when I was five, I would never have had the fine early training in Gregorian Chant that I had, nor met the won derful Catholic nuns of Manhattan ville. If Chotszinoff, then music critic of the New York Post, had not praised my original composi tions at the same age, my parents might not have had the same con fidence in them. If Rebecca Davidson, piona teach er, and Pauline Apanowitz, piano teacher, had not taught me when I was seven and eight, I might have done far less well. If Rudolph Ganz had not been simply wonder ful to me for years at the Phil harmonic Young People’s Concerts then given his valuable time to listen to my first orchestral work, and then played it for the first time at Carnegi Hall when lesser men than he refused even to look at it and when Mr. Ganz played my piece later in San Francisco, Chicago and Grand Rapids, and more than this..took the time to write to me and phone me regard ing my work, how could I ever harbor anything exceut the highest regard and deepest appreciation for people of his faith ? How could I have played in Bos ton of at the N. Y. Stadium this yar without the help of Herman Wasserman, my piano teacher, or Arthur Fielder, conductor of the Boston Pops under whom I made my debut with the symphony or chestra as soloist? Well really, not only would my life be much less without the help of these fine peo ple, but America would be far pooer without them. I think a coun try’s greatest asset lies in its peo ple, their quality and intelligence, and when I visualize America with out the Jew who has hepled to give it wit and charm and music, well, I think we'd be just another Au stralia. .a country without glamor or brilliance. —APA— from the White House, saying that the decent people in Georgia and other areas are confused and need the clarion voice of the Chief ^ixecutive. .that should President Truman speak out on this subject it woull bolster the morale of li beral forces throughout the world. learners Should unite ror Total School Improvement .Says Picott RICHMOND—Teachers in city schools should lead the way in ed ucation for dynamic and function al living, J. Rupert Picott, execu tive secretary, Virginia Association for Education told members of the Roanoke City Teacers Assn, here today in an address entitled “Precision Education for Today’s World”. Declaring that Virginia’s dty school systems because of the cal ibre and training ef scchool fac ulties and equipment have the op portunity and undeniable respon sibility to prepare pupils and ad ults for social understandings in i a dangerous eriod of racial read Washington, DC., September 21 Pledging that his Department would put an end to the segregat ed office set-up in the USES office in Washington as quickly as pos sible, Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach said no possible defense could be offered for the practice, since we have just fin ished fighting a war against dis crimination. His assurances that plans were being made to elimin ate jim crowism in the D. C. em ployment offices was given to the representatives of ten organizat ions called together by the Secre tary following numerous requests for such a conference addressed to him by prominent persons and or ganizations urged to action by NAACP Labor Secretary Clarence B. Mitchell. Mr. Schwellenbach said that, while he was opposed to the pro gram of segregation in state offic es, he could not give a commit ment at this time on whether or not the proposals of the organiz ations would be made a part of the minimum standards of operation, since the Department of Labor's effort to have adequate policing powers included in its legislation was not successful in Congress. The Department’s only method of applying pressure would be to withdraw its funds. Several per sons at the conference thought this would be a most potent sanc tion against discriminatory prac tices, but the Secretary said this action has many complications. --» 40 Year Natural Gas Supply Assured Omaha Known natural gas reserves and future discoveries will assure Om aha of a sufficient supply for at least 40 years, should the people vote for a changeover to full na tural gas from the present sy stem of 600 B. t. u. That was the opinion voiced by Charles R. Bellamy, one of the na tion's most foremost gas engin eers, in answer to questions by board members of the Metropoli tan Utilities District. Bellamy ur ged in a formal report that Omaha be converted to straight 100 per cent natural gas service as the most practicable and economical method of meeting the city’s ra pidly increasing and urgent gas de mands. “But the most fortunate thing about the situation is this”, Bella my continued: "In the past 10 | years discoveries have exceeded consumption so that reserves are stronger today than they were 10 years ago”. He added that by the time Omaha could install full na tural gas service (summer of 1947) j there would be double or ‘louped’: lines practically all the way from natural gas fields to here, provid ing double protection from any breaks. Bellamy also emphasized that Omaha is fortunate in being the first "Big customer” on lines run ning northward and as such would be first to receive gas from the line. He pointed out that the main line running to Omaha could be stepped up to meet any capacity needed for the day’s requirements in the future. Questioned about what would happen to Omaha in case of a break in the pipeline, Bellamy said that many cities never know when there is an interruption because repair crews maintain constant vigilance. “Meanwhile”, he explain ed the gas in the line itself is suf ficient to sustain pressure for an extended period. Fortunately, in the case of Omaha, should pipeline breaks occur, with your large hol der capacity your are in an exce ptionally fine position to weather such conditions”. j iciuicu iu v/maiia s o large gas holders maintained at the Gas Works where a reserve supply of gns can be stored for emergencies. The Gas Engineer cited Omaha’s holder capacity as “very great” in comparison with most gas com paniesv many of which operate with natural gas without any emergen cy holder capacity. “You have a holder capacity, Bellamy said, suf ficient to meet almost a peak day when the chageover to natural gas is made. It will meet normal days very easily. That is very un usual .. most companies have very little over half that supply”. justment, Mr. Picott held that too often these schools have become retarded by political manipulations and emeshed in the inertia of size, i Insisting that the current wave > of lynching and racial intimidation of Negroes in the South as much as the current L’Affaire Wallace shows that we don’t know where we are going as a nation, the Tea chers State Officer stated it is disgraceful and a wanton waste of human resources for any school system to keep on teaching the 3 R’s and ignore courses and discu ssions in human relationships. Continuing Mr Picott declared that the current shortage of in structors offered teachers the best opportunity to demand and secure better pay, increased working and retirement rights. Maybe he said we need some of the Norwalk, Connecticut school tactics applied in Virginia to awaken both our parents and our teachers that the schoolhouse is the place whore fu ture Americans are trained and teaching should be treated as such. Lambasting education as the only profession which does not itself giv,e qualifying examinations to trainees or set other standards for pratcice, Mr. Picott remarked that from the physicians who try to keep alive to the morticians who bury, all excepting teachers “exert the major voice in the operations of the# professions. His association is now initiating a campaign to remedy this defect, the speaker indicated and he ask ed Roanoke educators to give full aanport to the project. This project, Mr. Picott said, (Continued on page 5) Chatter-Box -- Starts Chatting Again! IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF THE GREATER OMAHA GUIDE ■W...nil,iimnimniWW|n,tnminwMHMMWwnHWWiwinminniniiiuu:ini}iniiiilturihmmHiH.lii.ai.l....l.il..»m.«.,.Ml..,...*...,MM— PAST LEGION COMMANDER CHARLES J. COLEMAJs, DIES Mr. Charles J. Coleman, 50, of 2208 Ohio Street, died Sunday, Sept ember 22nd at the Veterans Hospital Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. Coleman was a City employee and was a Past Commander of Roosevelt Post No. 30, American Legion and a member of Rough Ashler Lodge No. 1, A. F. & A. M. He is survived by his wife Mrs. Goldie Coleman, Omaha; father, Mr. Charles Coleman, Pensacola* Florida; two sisters, Mrs. Mal vina Hudgens, Miss Irma Coleman, both of Omaha; brother, Mr. Ed ward Coleman, Chicago, Illinois. The body lay in state at the Thomas Mortuary Home, 2022 Lake SL, until the funeral hour. Services were held Thursday afternoon from Clair Chapel Methodist Church with the Rev. C. C- Reynolds officiat ing, assisted by Rev. S. K. Nicholas. Rough Ashler Lodge No. 1, was in charge of Masonic rites. Roosevelt Post No. 30 was in charge of the Military services. Burial was in Soldiers’ Circle at Forest Lawr cem etery. m*MiiiiiHUininmiiiHtiiuiniinnm»ninmnnwminriur'iiuiiiiniiiHnwMwiiHiiniiiiiiiiiiniuiiiinmwtuiu>iiimn.uin>iniiiiii.iiiiiiiiininiiiiiuiiwiMiniMigiMMttH«unwinwi——B 10c Per Copyan^ wort^ To Crown The Queen COUNT BASIE, No. 1 Orchestra Leader, Appearing at the Orpfceunr. Theatre, One Week beginning September 27, will be on hand at the Gala Ball to present Awards and Crown the winner of the Mid-Citr Sepia Queen Contest at the AMVETS’ Club, 24th and Miami Streets on the evening of September 30 1946 at 9 p. m. Mississippi Editor Charges Bilbo Renominated Through Fraud And Intimidation New York, N. Y.—Percy Green, editor of “The Jack son (Miss.) Advocate**, said here today that Sen. Theo dore G. Bilbo was renomina ted to the Senate on July 2 through fraud, intimidation and terror. The Negroes of Mississippi live under the shadow of fear. Mr. Green said at a press conference in the offices of the Civil Rights Con gress, and throughout his primary campaign Senator Bilbo stirred the passions and inflamed the preju dices of the white people of the State. Among the incidents which mar ked the election, according to Mr. Green, was one in which a veter an who sought to vote in Gulfport Miss, was beaten unconscious by election officials and arrested by the local police. At Louisville, Miss a Negro voter who appeared at the polls was told: “We’d rather you did not vote. If you do, we’ll see you about that tonight”. Senator Bilbo was renominated by a slim majority of 3,500 votes, Mr. Green said. This majority could have been upset without any trouble at all if the 500JJp0 eligi ble Negro citizens had been free to register and vote, he pointed out. Actually only from 3,000 to 4,000 NegToes have been registered in the State because of the bar George Corwin To Visit Omaha “Y” Mr. George Corwin, National Council YMCA Boys' Work Admin istrator will be the guest of the September 25th. He is scheduled to talk at the Laymens conference at 6:30 PM on "Trends in Youth Work.” Mr. Corwin will also help with the all-city Hi-Y Inductior Service to be handled by the South Hi-Y Induction team scheduled foi 7:30 PM at the Central Y.M.C.A Auditorium. An informal dis cussion of Hi-Y will follow the Induction Service. In addition to the above appear ance Mr. Corwin will meet with the YMCA Staff at 8:30 AM anc with Executive and Group workers of Community agencies at 10:0< AM at the YMCA. Mr. Ernest Adams, Chairman ol the Schools "Y" Committee, whc is instrumental in Mr. Corwin's visit to Omaha, claims that it is f real opportunity for Hi-Y anc Youth Leaders to hear Mr. Corwin READ The Greater Omaha Guide - riers which have been' erected by Bilbo and others who build them power on the “White supremacy" program. “There are thousands of white citizens in Missippi who are aa fine as any people anywhere”, Mr. Green declared, and the Mississ ippi campaign to unseat Bilbo cer tainly had a bearing on the narrow margin with which Bilbo wn* re nominated. Mr. Green made it dear that the movement to bar Bilbo from I public office is a Mississoppi move ment supported by the 1 £5(1.OOP Negroes and the many liberal white people of the state He add ed, however, that the Negroes in Mississippi face a problem which involves not only the Negroes and Mississippi but the Whole nation, and the relations of the United States with other nations. For that reason, he said, Mississ ippians have welcomed the help given the unseat-Bilbo campaign by the Civil Rights Congreas, that assigned a staff of attorneys and investigators to help the people of that State in formulating the pe tition and gathering signatures for a petition which was filed with the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures and the Committee on Privileges and Elections this week. The Civil Rights Congress, which has been giving publicity and ad vice in the campaign to unseat Bilbo, will hold a dinner at the Hotel Pennslyvania on October 17 to focus attention on the issues involved. The organization expects that a larger and broader coordin ated national compaign against Bilbo will develop out of this func tion. The fifteen million Negroes in the United States are not a threat to the other one hun'dred twenty 1 five million people in this country. I Mr Green said. The Negroes should ! be given all their legal rights as I Americans now, and the whole na j tion will be the better fer it wher. that is done. Our democratic sy stem itself, he pointed out, is in danger as long as some of the peo ple are free and the rest are de nied the privileges of full citizen l ship. To a question whether his life was in danger in the South be cause of the liberal stand his new* paper has taken and because he was one of the signers of the pe tition to unseat Bilbo, Mr. Green declared “I don’t think my life is in danger because I don’t think that way”. “I was bom in Jackson and I like it there. I dc»‘t think all the j people of the South should start for the North. The Negro people i who are there were bom there, I and they like it, and {hey ought I to be able to remain there with their freedom guaranteed”.