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LINCOLN. NEBR. VOLUNTEER WORKERS for COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN B iil • Workers of the Community Chest Campaign representing "H” ; Division met at the Northside 1 YWCA Friday. Oct. 18th where last minute plans and instruction were outlined by Mrs. Morse Pal mer. general chairman of the Wo ‘' OUR GUEST Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) * * * BROTHEKIIOOI) BEGINS ON OUR BLOCK By Homer A. Jack. Ph. D., Executive Sec'y. Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination Peace begins on our street. Ar bitrate the neighborhood wars be tween Negroes and whites, Jews and gentiles and we will have the Internal health..and confidence to lead the world to abolish war. Brotherhood begins on our block. Brotherhood is not easy. It is doing the thing that hurts the most if we crave neighborhood approval. It's the thing that tou ches our pride. It means living next to a Jew. eating next to a Negro, sitting next to an Ameri can of Japanese descent, working next to an American of Mexican descent. Brotherhood is difficult, since it’s easier by far to conform to local prejudices. Brotherhood is not passive. It means speaking out when some body turns a joke against a Ne gro . speaking out whether or not j the Negro is present. It means! raising unpleasant issues. It means calling the lie to bigotry. Brother hood is active. Brotherhood is not optional. Ki ther we live as brothers or we per ther we live as brothers or we perish. White America suddenly finds itself in a colored world: 1 colored humans for every white man on this planet. And Christian arrogance must be displayed by black and white, Christian and non Christian cooneration. Brother hood is compulsory, .for survival. Brotherhood is not fun. It does not mean visiting Little Tokyos or eating Italian food or slumm ing at Negro nightclubs. It is re-d ing pamphlets, distributing liter ature organizing meetings, pro testing to discriminatory institu tions. voting bigots out of office sunn rting those who oppose dis crimination. Brotherhood is hard work. Brotherhood is not theory. Ne groes and whites can and do live together, .without riots Jews and Get ilea can and do work together without friction. Americans of Mexican an Itaian descent can and do nlav together without ar be l conflict. And that is the heart en in • thing shout brotherhood. It works. Trv it! -A P A .UK. \ I.O'ili I ITIZVN VOTK Nov. 5 Re-Elect T. H. Maenner \»ur Power Company Board M ill Need His experience The people of Omaha will vote for the first time on directors of , v the Omaha Public Power District at the election on November 5th. f The candidates' names appear on non-political ballot. The District, created at the last session of the State Legislature, has seven members.. five from Omaha and two from the territory served by the Power Company outside the city. At this election two members are to be chosen from the Omaha sub-division of the District. • T H Maenner, chairman of the board of the Nebraska Power Co., and Gerald Collins. South Omaha attorney and member of the Board, are candidates for the of fice Both Maenner and Collins were appointed three years ag<*. to ^serve on the Peoples' Power Commission, and have since been active in the transfer of the Ne Jaraska Power Company to the new District. ^ - » While the Power Company is still the property of tha Omaha Electric Committee, negotiations hSve been completed whereby the «- District will acquire the property of the Power Company in Nebras ka Acceding to Maenner and Col lins. this transfer should make pose; hie a considerable reduction in electric rates for the people of the Omaha Public Power District. •4*1. A COOIt CITIZEN VOTE N«>. S men's Division and Mrs. Minnii Dixon, chairman of H Division. Workers shown in photo reading from left to right are; Mmes. Beckman; Roxie Anderson; Cap tain Julia Galloway; Mary Fau cett; Captain Greta Wade; C. 4500 VOLUNTEERS AID CHEST CAMPAIGN TO RAISE $798,587 FOR UPKEEP OF WELFARE AGENCIES Division quotas in the commun ity chest campaign to raise $798, 587 for 30 Omaha health and wel fare agencies were announced 'O day by Harold D. LeMar, general chairman. The ouotas are: Initial Gifts division. $429,601; Industrial division. $226,632; Na tional Firms $38,650; Women's division, $58,872; Business division $44,832. First reports of the campaign’s progress were submitted early Wednesday afternoon at a work er’s meeting. Other reports will be made on Thursday and Friday and on Monday Oct. 28. Chairman Lemar said it is ex pected the seven day drive will be completed on schedule October 29. Of some 4500 Omahans vol unteering their services in the cam paign, there are approximately 1800 who represent the Women’s division whose solicitation is chief ly in the residential areas. An unusual gift to the Chest was the donation of 15 inch ela borately decorated cake with the wording ‘Communitv Chest 1946’ The cake was the gift of the Pratt School of Individual Instruction. It was accompanied by the cash contribution of $250 by the school. The cake had been one of two donated by the Jensen bakery to the school for use as it saw fit. The cake was turned over by the Chest to the Hattie B. Munroe Home for Convalescent Children for their delight. Education Is A Sound Investment Without good education our boys and girls cannot get ahead in life. Nothing we as parents give them is as im-ortant as the kind of edi'e^tinn thev get. We want a beautiful Omaha: we al= want our children to lead success ful and happy lives. November 5 is the day Omahan5 w'ill decide what will happen to their public schools. Two choices are provided for by the newly adopted school budget. A school term slashed from 36 to 30 weeks providing for a loss of six weeks of school in the spring; or two full terras and a debt of $-155,000. A dsrgerouslv small amount of schooling would result from the first nlan anil a crippling burden of debt from the second. A proposal will appear on the November 5 ballot which, is pass ed will enable the state to pro vide about $40 for each pupil’s ed-iration er»h year. With this added income, Omaha schools could keep on having a 36-week school-year and perhaps even hire a few additional teachers to re lieve overcrowded classes and to make it possible for teachers to give our boys and girls a Kttle of that personal attention that means so much in keeping them on the right path. Action is urgent. November 5 is the day of decision. We hope all our voting readers will vote ‘Yes” on the Stake Aid to Schools Amendment. Democratic Headquarters The Northside Demacratic Head quarters has just been opened at 24th and Lake Sts., Mrs. G. Aneita Hayes in charge. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH BROTHERHOOD Will hold their Mens’ Day pro gram Sunday, November 24th at 3 pm. at Zion Bapt. church. Rev. F. C. Williams, pastor P. H. Jenkins, president « Phillips; Major Hazel Miller; Ri ley; Chairman Minnie Dixon: Mozee; Captain Mattie Taylor; F. A. Lee and Beatrice Elliot. Mrs. Aaron McMillan is also a major in H Division. As the Drive reached its half way mark in H Division, Mrs. Dixon said that members of her division hoped to reach their full quota before the deadline. 0 inniMUMMntimiiituMiMmHiiiMNmmiimvmiiiimurutiiiiiiiiMiniNimniiiiittMuumMB * j March a 1R74. PT’BUSHING OFFICES AT 2420 GRANT ST.. Omaha, -Nebr. i SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1946 Our 19th Year—No. 38 : New Bethel A ME. Pastor Rev. H. W. Bletson Rev. H. W. Bletson for six-years pastor of the Allen Chapel church of Cheyenne, Wyo.. under Bishop Williams, has arrived in Omaha j to assume the pastorate of the Bethel AME church, 2426 Frank lin Street. Rev. Bletson who has been a minister for 17 years, was pro | minent in Cheyenne Civic and Fraternal affairs having been pre sident of the NAACP. Worshipful Vlaster of Western Star No. 6, _>rince Hall AFAM, Grand Lectur er of the Grand Lodge of the Co lorado Jurisdiction and a school teacher in the Wyoming public school., system. Rev. Bletsoe preached his first sermon in Omaha, Sunday, Oct. 20th at Allen Chapel. NAACP WINS EX-SAILOR HONORABLE DISCHARGE Washington, D. C. Oct 16th— Samuel R. Cassius, whose pro tests against segregation and dis crimination in the navy resulted ' in his being discharged as “unde ' sirabla'*, received word this week ' from the navy department that the ‘ undesirable discharge given you on August 25 1943, should be changed to a certificate of dis charge under honorable conditions’ The former sailor had been repre sented before the Naval Board of Review bby Leslie Perry, Wash ington Bureau, NAACP. tJassius, who was stationed at Pearl Harbor and saw action when the island was attacked December 7. 1941, had at various times while in the navy written leters bo news papers denouncing naval policy I which confined Negroes to menial assignments. After several such letters were published in leading Negro papers, his then Command ing Officer wrote Washington, as he (Cassius) would no doubt prove undesirable on any ship, it ap pears desirable to give him a spe cial discharge with the specific idea that he would enlist in the army in a colored division in ac cordance with his request. While arx undesirable discharge would rid the- navy of Cassius, it is not considered the propter solution of 1 the ptroblem and it is therefore re I commended that he be permitted I to enlist in another branch of South Side Man Dies From Stab Wounds Ted Dalton 34. of 2610 Jefferson Street was stabbed fatally Sun day evening at 26th and Q Sts. Otis Luster 34, of 1802 No. 18th St., who is held on the stabbing charge, claims Mr. Dalton was attempting to break up his home Inspector Franks said. Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Willie Griffin of 5119 So. 26th. St. told police that the assailant strolled Up to the corner as they were talking to Mr. Dalton and started a scuffle with him. During the scuffle he drew a knife and stabbed Mr. Dalton several times. Mr. Dalton fled, the couple related and the knife weilder pursued him slash ing him several times. The man injured his leg in the fray, the Griffins said, and started to limp away. After Mr. Dalton collapsed he died five hours after being attacked. Joe Hartfield. Omaha profes sional boxer was released on $100 bond to apnear as a state witness. He allegedly drove Luster to the scene of the stabbing, later car ried him to the hospital for the treatment of a slashed tendon. Denutv County Attorney Phil lip Kneifl also revealed that Ca therine St. Cry, 19, of 1802 No. 18th St., sister-in-law of Luster, is under a $100 bond as a state witness. Mr. Kneifl said she ac comnanied Hartfield and Luster to the hospital. A preliminary hearing in Municipal Court was continued Tuesday at Luster s request. He said he was unable to reach his attorney. the service”. Cassius continued to protest and a year later a new commander in asking for the ‘ undesirable” dis charge, justified his request on the ground that Cassius had “openly expressed dissatisfaction with the naval services and policies. . torm ented unrest, discontent and mal content among the mess attend dants”. The successful appeal now makes the ex-sailor eligible for educational, job and other G I benefits. _ LYNCH VICTIM RETURNS TO SCENE UNDER U S PROTECT’N NEW YORK, Oct. 17th—Albert Harris, Jr., and his father, Albert Harris Sr.. are today safe in their home in the midwest after a dra matic return visit to Louisiana, where on August 8th John Jones was brutally murdered by a sad istic mob and young Harris piti lessly beaten before he made his escape. The Harrisses are alive today, however, because they made the trip closely guarded by U. S. marshalls, following a request ad dressed to the NAACP by the Ju stice Department that they be pre sent when the Department pre sented the evidence of their investi gation to the Grand Jury in Mon roe, Louisiana, last Saturday. Since Monroe is notorious for its Officials of American Legion, Roosevelt Post No. 30 Prepare For Armistice Day Observance Officials of the American Le gion, Roosevelt Post No. 30, who met Tuesday at the Post Head quarters, 24th and Parker Sts. to outline plans for the Observance of Armistice Day. Photo, left to right: Porter Johnson, Chaplain; William Pierson, Chairman of the House Committee; John G. Flem ing, Commander of Roosevelt Post Ed Turner. Service Officer; Dr. Flenoy L. James, Adjutant; Ralph Underwood. Ex. Comftiittee anil Frank D. Payne, Ex. Committee. U. Supreme Court Supports N.A.A.C.P. Action NEW YORK, Oct. 17th—In an appeal for a review, which the registrars of voters in Macon Coun ty, Ala., filed with the Supreme Court in the case of Mitchell vs. Wright, the Court supported the NAACP’s position, and has denied Mrs. George C. Wright and other petitioners, the writ of certiorari requested. As was reported in the NAACP press release of October ' 10th. the denial of a review will result in the case actually going to trial upon the issues involved, .namely whether as a matter of fact the registrars in Macon County, Ala., had a policy, custom aeri usage of preventing Negroes from re gistering and voting in the county and whether such practice is un constitutional. Urban League Outlines Future Program Elks’ Ensemble To Give Concert •The Elks Ensemble is appearing in concert for the first time in their beautifully decorated hall at 2420 Lake Street Monday, Nov. 18th. Presenting some very fine artists in music; anyone that cares to hear this group of forty voices and vocalists under the direction of Mr. H. L. Preston, attend on this date at 8:15 pm. No admis sion will be charged. A very fine program is to be arranged for this occasion. All local artists in spiritual gospel' and classics. iiiiimimimiHiNimiiiuuiiraimmmMiimmiuimMiiuittiimiiuiiiiiHimiumiiiHMiinitni Ku Kluxism and mob violence, Walter White told the Justice De partment assume full responsibi lity for the Harrises’ safety from the minute they left the midwest tern state where they are now liv ing, under the care of the NAACP until their return. To do this, it was necessary for the Harrises to place themselves voluntarily in the protective cu stody of the U. S. Government as material witnesses. They, there fore, were required to appear, at a closed hearing, before a Federal judge in the midwest, so that no one would know about their plan to go back to Louisiana. In that State, they risked facing the mob which the NAACP knew would stop at nothing to close young Al bert Harris’s mouth forever, as he was an eye-witness to the lynching and can positively iden tify some members of the mob, which included deputy sheriffs. The Harrises traveled to Louis iana in a drawing room, accom panied by the Executive Secre- , tary of one of the NAACP bran ches. and guarded by several U. S. marshalls at all times. They testified before the Grand Jury on Monday, and left imme diately afterward for their home in the midwest. The announcement that they had testified was with held by the Justice Department until their safe return was establ ished. AFL SEEKING NEGRO MEMBERSHIP NEW ORLEANS —Prominent among the Crescent City’s offi cial delegates to the sixty-fifth annual convention of the Ameri can Federation of Labor which just ended in Chicago, was J Harvey Netter. president of Local 1419 of the International Long shoremen’s Association AFL, that has a membership of more than .3300 workers and is one of the largest locale in America as well as one of the largest longshore men’s organizations in the world. -BE A OOOD CITIZEN VOTE Not. 5— To Seek Enlarged Field of Employment for Citizens The Board of Directors of the Omaha Urban League makes the following announcement of the League’s future program: BACKGROUND For over eleven years the Ur ban League found it necessary to work in the recreation, and com munity center fields. The Board believes with the coming of the Near Northside YMCA-Commun ity Center and the continued act ivity of the Northside YWCA, many of the recreation, and com munity center activities of the Urban League are now adequately covered. The Board further belie ves the League can be of more value to the community by plac ing greater emphasis on those so cial, welfare, and community mat ters which are the responsibility of the Urban League and are not being met by any other agency. Listed, below is an outline of the objectives of the Urban League for the coming year. THE PROGRAM A. Industrial Relations The league's program in this area will consist of the following: 1. Opening new areas of em ployment for Negroes. 2. Aiding in the promotion of industrial peace. 3. Acting in the consultative capacity with industry, la bor unions, and federal a gencies where Negro labor and employment is affected. 4. Making available testing and training facilities for Negro labor. 5. Carrying out a vocational guidance and counselling program. 6. Aiding in the placing of qualified skilled, semi-skill ed. professional, clerical, and technicallv trained Ne groes into industry. B. Housing The League's Committee will work towards obtaining the fol!’ owing: 1. Slum clearance, 2. Improvement of privately owned and rented homes. ;; 3. Increased opportunities for Green Book Issues Tourist Guide The Victor H. Green and Co., of New York City has released its 1946 Green Book. The idea of the Green Book is to give the motorist and tourist a guide not only of the hotels and tourist homes in all of the large cities, but other classi fications, that will be found useful wherever he may be. Also facts and information that the Negro motorist can use and depend upon. Drive On Bilbo Increases; Charged With Bribe Taking WASHINGTON—The effort to prevent Theodore Bilbo, senior senator from Mississippi, from ta king his seat in the Senate when - it convenes in January is gaining | steadily in momentum. The fight | was started by Walter White of the NAACP Immediately aided and abetted by virtually the entire Negro press of America, j Sen. Bilbo will have no claim upon the seat until after the elec i tion in November; but since he has won the democratic primary nom ination without serious opposition it is certain that he will be elec ted to succeed himself. Bilbo’s victory at the primaries received immediate and serious challenge from Ross Collins, 1 of other candidates for the primary nomination who ran closest to Bil bo. Collins has received militant i support. COLLINS CHARGED during the campaign that Bilbo had accepted a $250,000 contribution from a war contractor. In reply to this charge, as well as to others equ ally damaging. Bilbo has hereto fore made only wisecracking re joinders. But when Sen. Flanagan (Ft. Mich.) recently reported "hat 1 inquiries were underway, presum- I ably concerning the $25,000 con tribution and other off-color trans actions in ivhich Bilbo is said to be involved, Bilbo reported at Jack son. Miss., that he had "no com ment." Most powerful addition to the I growing ranks of American citi-. i zens determined to relieve the sen-1 I ate of Bilbo’s presence is News Commentator Walter Winchell. On last Sunday Walter Winchell at tacked Bilbo on the ground of re ceiving the $25,000 contribution from a war contractor and went further to mention other contri butions of lesser amounts which he had accepted. Winchell frankly called them “bribes”. Even more damaging perhaps, was Winchell’s assertion that Bilbo had made use of U. S. Army personnel and material to develop his private estate at Pop larville. Miss. So. long as these charges were confined to his Mississippi con stituency Bilbo could well afford to answer them with his flippan cies and references to Winchell as a “kike.” But the matter seems to be get ting out of “The Man’s” hand and he reports from his stronghold in Jackson that he has “no comment' During his campaign for the I Senatorial nomination Bilbo gran i ted a press interview in which he i freely and brazenly admitted his membership in the KKK. But since that time the Klan has run into deep water. With the ceaseless hammering Governor. BILBO INVITED TO DINNER TO UNSEAT HIM NEW YORK (CNS)—Senator Theodore Bilbo has been invited in person to the “Unseat Bilbo” din ner being sponsored here Thurs day at the Hotel Roosevelt by the Civil Rights Congress. So far he hasn’t accepted. Guests certain to appear are Rep. Gahagan and Paul Robeson. immiiawMmtinimniiiiiiimiMimnnmaiimmifmniiiiic’niiHimttimnMiii.iiiiNiiHiiHiim Ca holic Women Plan ' F. E. P. C. Campaign LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12th—The organization of campaign workers who are leading Catholic parish groups in support o fthe Califor nia Fair Employment Practices Act was outlined here today at a public luncheon at the Mayfair hotel. The luncheon was sponsor ed by the Women's FEPC Com mittee of the Catholic Interracial Council of Los Angeles, which is promoting support for the legisla tion at the November 5 election. Fr. George H. Dunne, S. J„ of Loyola University, was the- prin cipal speaker. His topic was “A Catholic Looks at the Fair Em ployment Practices Act”. » Negroes to buy and rent, decent dwellings. 4. Cooperation with all groups interested in better housing C. Health The League will work towards improving the health conditions of Negroes by sponsoring health education programs, stimulating the use of available services and aiding in the obtaining of more and better health facilities. D. Welfare The League assists in the devel opment of self-help groups in the community, in order that many neighborhood problems can be solved by the groups, or group ac tion. Such problems as: 1. Sanitation, 2. Policy protection 3. Street lights, 4. Streets and alleys, 5. School, park, and play ground facilities, are the concern of the Urban Lea gue. D. Research and Statistics The League will continue to ga ther and maintain files on perti nent facts concerning Negroes ir. Omaha. These facts would be th« basis for setting' up new welfare services in the community. F. Race Relations The League's objectives Can be attained only through the use of a real and positive race relations program. The League is working towards improving racial under standing and racial amity in the community. The Urban League is a com munity organization. Its purpose “For Social Service Among Ne groes’’ and its slogan. .“Not Alms but Opportunity’’ expresses is brief the scope and method by which the League hopes to serve the community. The success of the League’s pro gTam depends upon the ’coopera tion of the community. We invite and solicit your participation. Signed May B. Taylor, President. Board of Director* Signed M. Leo Bohanon^ Executive Secretary J Y. W. C. A. PRESENTS Camille Dunham in Piano Concert bunday, Oct. 27, 1946 at 6:00 p. m sharp, Migs Camille Dun ham will be presented in a riano concert at the Northside Branch YWCA to which the public is cor dially invited. This recital will last from 6:00 to 7:30. During in termission. Miss Jackie Fisher will render three vocal selections in cluding one composition by Miss Dunham. The Artist for this occasion is a recent graduate of Bennett col lege having had experience With orchestras, senior choir and ac companist for groups. At the present. Miss DUnham is emnloyed by the local office of the OPA. Her rich experience .with music groups and the piano will make the following program one of interest to musie- lovers of the city: PROGRAM — I. Prelude and Fusrue . Back Sonata Opera No. 0, 1st Move ment .Beethoven Polichinelle Rachmaninoff n. Vocal Selections Miss Jackie Fisher Prelude in G Minor - Rachmaninoff Nocturne E Major. Chopin Etude Opera 25 No. 12 Chopin. III. Dewx Arabesques ... Ddmssy None But the Lonely Feart J . Tachaihovsky Etude, D (Un Sospiro ^ Litx IV. To a Closed Casement Detl (Tropic Winter Suite 1 Rhansodv in G Minor Brahmt I FIRST NEGRO AIR STEWARD . - - *>.' s^£#5aLi ''-•f1ri^BHMtf xTiV'L.r.; . • J $“mh i!th!: fi!0?eS',Wh?Sen,ed as a first lieutenant during World Imp i'’Jhu filLst c°l°red air steward. He flies with the FlyWTW Line. Jones has been acting as steward for Satchel P. ; ^e’s-Alf e/™* nH hlc ‘^esro baseball team. The team has been flying with Boh Fp?w ind hls team m a cross country tour. 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