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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 194* Our 19th Year—No. 39
Political !
NEWS
JOE C. STOLINSKI
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR
Since he has been in public of
fice Joe C. Stolinski has made a re
cord for fair and impartial deal
ing with all people, he has never
played favorites nor has he lis
tened to pressure groups, large
or small to assess property this
way or that. He has done what
he has considered the right and
fair job.
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CARL JOHNSON AND JOSEPH
V. BENESCH CANDIDATES
FOR THE LEGISLATURE
It is to the best interest of the
people of this community to elect
Carl Johnson. State Senator from
the Fifth legislative district and
Joseph V. Bcnesch to represent
the Sixth legislative district.
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ROMAN L. HRUSKA, FRANK
BEST AND H. B. BERQUIST
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ROMAN L. HRUSKA is serving
his second year as chairman of
the County Board.
He is the only attorney member
of the Board. For 17 years he has
successfully engaged in general
practice of law in Omaha.
As chairman of the Board. Mr.
Hruska has ably presented Doug
las Countv's contentions to the
State Legislature in regard to
laws and bills on county business.
FRANK C. BEST has establish
ed himself as a man of action in
public office. His good judgement
with the welfare of the people
foremost in his mind, has resulted
in economy and efficiency in the
Douglas County administration.
Through his appointment of the
“Hospital Investigating Commit
tee" which was composed of civic
minded leaders, the Douglas Coun
ty Hospital has been reorganized
and definitely taken out of poli
tic^. He actively supported the
Polio Ward in the hospital for
victims of the dreaded infantile
paralysis which rendered such
splendid service in the present
epidemic, this being attested to by
medical men and parents alike.
H. D. BERQUIST S record as a
present member of the Douglas
County Commission warrants his
re-election.. for a continuance of
efficient management.
Since Mr. Berquist became a
member, the County Board has
paid off a $550,000 deficit incur
red b ya previous regime; also
$2,000,000, in road and hospital
bonds. This leaves Douglas Coun- !
ty with a debt of only $35,000,
which can easily be paid off in
two years, .leaving Douglas Coun
ty debt free.
In charge of operation of River
view Home. Mr. Berquist has man
aged the Institution humanely and
efficently.
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T. H. MAENNER and GERALD
E. COLLINS QUALIFIED
CANDIDATES FOR
PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT
In these days of greatly increas
ed living costs, it is comforting to
learn that at least one necessity
of life for every Omaha family
can now be lowered.
This situation is the direct re
sult of the foresight and courage
of a group of loyal Omaha citi
zens who acted at a critical mo
ment to purchase the Nebraska
Power Company for the people of
this community.
The Company is now in the pro
cess of being transferred from
that local-non-nrofit group to the
Omaha Public Power District.
This District, being publically
owned, will effect sufficient sav
ings over the old private owner- J
ship to pay off the purchase price
and at the same time reduce the I
cost of electricity to all users.
Two men who were leaders in i
the group which acted for the\
people are now candidates for Di- j
rectors of the new District. They |
are T. H. Maenner, prominent
Omaha real estate insurance agent
and Gerald E. Collins, well-known
Omaha attorney.
The experience and knowledge
of the situation which these two
men gained in acquiring the Com
pany for the people will be ex
tremely valuable to the new Dis
trict. The District is composed of
seven Directors, two of whom will
be elected November 5. The selec- j
tion of the two Directors is not a
political matter, but a matter of
choosing experienced and capable
men who have proved that they
have the best interests of the peo
ple at heart.
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NATURAL GAS
WHAT ABOUT RATES?
The City of Detroit, after years
of dealing with Natural Gas Com
panies, officially and through the
City Corporation Council, makes
four suggestions to any city which
contemplates changing from Man
ufactured to Natural Gas.
1. Know exactly what the rates
are to be, especially the rate to
home consumers, and reduce the
understanding to writing.
2. Know what the contracts are
between the distributing company
and the pipeline company—all con
tracts.
3. Reach and adequate under
standing for the elimination of un
necessary standby and obsolete
equipment.
4. Know on what capital the
rate will be based—have that cry
stal clear.
Let's take Detroits advice and
get a definite understanding as to
what the little fellow is going to
pay in comparison with the big
fellow, before we sign that blank
check—Committee for Telling the
Other Side.
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NATURAL GAS WILL CUT
COSTS TO GAS USERS,
DISTRICT SAYS
Definite reductions in gas costs
to Omaha users will result if the
city's voters approve full Natural
Gas in the election, according to a
statement by the Metropolitan
Utilities District.
Pointing out that the Utilities
FEDERAL GRAND JURY
Indicts Six in
Jones Lynching
NEW YORK, Oct. 24th—Six
men named by Albert Harris Jr.,
as members of the mob which
lynched his cousin, John Jones,
and beat Harris, in Minden, La.,
on August Sth were indicted on
Oct. 18th by a Federal Grand Jury
for violation of civil rights sta
tutes. Young Harris and his fath
er Albert Harris, Sr., made a dra
matic trip to Monroe, La., last
week under the protection of US
marshals and accompanied by the
executive secretary of an NAACP
branch, to present their evidence
to the grand jury.
The indictment charged that
Chief of Police B. Geary Gantt,
Deputy Sheriffs Charles Edwards
and O H. Haynes, Jr., deprived
the Negroes of their Constitution
al rights by “causing them to be
released from jail and handed
over to a mob which inflicted a
beating upon both. The others
named were Samuel Maddry, Sr.,
H. E. Perry and W. D. Perkins.
The indictments followed an
investigation by the FBI at the
request of the civil rights section
of the Justice Department, before
whom Albert Marris, Jr., presen
ted his testimony last August af
ter his escape from the lynch
mob through NAACP interven
tion.
In a letter to Attorney General
Tom Clark, Walter White, exe
cutive secretary of the NAACP
stated:
“The NAACP is very happy
about the Federal Grand Jury’s
indictments of six men who parti
cipated in the lynching of John
Jones and the beating of Albert
Harris Jr. in Minden, La., August
8th. We feel, however, that the
only way to insure a full and cor
rect prefantation of the case
would be through the appoint
ment of a Special Prosecutor by
you.
“The record of United States
Attorney Malcolm LaFargue, in
regard to Negroes, which is well
known to you and to us, seems
to make this imperative”._
SAYS NATURAL GAS
WILL EASE COAL SHORTAGE
Public Pulse,
Omaha Guide,
Omaha, Nebr.
Dear Sir:
The oil and coal dealers oppos
ing Natural Gas are criticizing
the fact that there is only forty
year3 of reserve natural gas. How
can they talk.
I heard over the radio the other
day that there was only 32 days
reserve supply of coal available,
John L. Lewis thinks it about time
to pull another coal strike and
hike the price of coal still higher
on the helpless public. .
i I don’t see how these coal deal
| ers have the nerve to object to
: 40 years of gas supply when they
can only offer us thirty days and
even that depends on the whim
i of John L. Lewis. If the people
1 are fooled again on Natural Gas
by the coal and oil dealers, they
are certainly dumb.
Our city needs Natural Gas for
equal competition among larger
cities. The longer we put this off
j and the more times we vote on
the subject, the longer it will take
to have reduced rates.
Yours truly,
C. S. Bosanek, 5919 S. 36 St.
Decline to Restrict Contribution to Negro Schools
SLEEPING CAR PORTERS BECOME
SPONSORS OF 2 RURAL SCHOOLS
As a contribution to better ed
ucation in rural America, the Bro.
therhood of Sleeping Car Porters
has recently, through Save the
Children Federation, 1 Madison
Avenue, New York 10, N. Y., be
came the sponsor of two rural
schools in Wyoming County, W.
Virginia. A. Philip Randolph, pre
sident of the Brotherhood declin
ed to restrict the contribution to
Negro school aid, telling the Fe
deration “You are doing excellent
work. Please use the money where
you see fit”.
The Federation has selected
from numerous applicants for help
two Negro schools in Wyoming j
County, which under the supervi
sion of a local Save the Children ,
County Committee, will receive
aid in providing the children with
the necessities of education and
the stimulus of contact with the
''outside". Such help usually takes
the form of assistance in the est
ablishment of a school lunch pro
gram, health and recreational pro
motion, or providing badly need
ed teaching materials. Further,
the Federation will make it poss
ible for these children to receive
good, useable clothing and shoes.
About 900 schools in disadvanta
ged rural areas in six states now
receive (such, help through the
Save the Children Federation, as
well as more than a thousand
schools in Western Europe.
Brother Benjamin F. McLaurin,
the Porters organization field re
presentative, has been designated
District is a public property and
makes no profit, the statement
emphasizes that “economies af
fected by the use of Natural Gas
will be passed on to all gas users
in the form of reductions in cost
for gas service”.
•From experience in other ci
ties that use Natural Gas, and
from estimates of our own and
leading gas engineers, the savings
from Natural Gas will be substan
tion ", the statement says.
If Natural Gas is not approved
the city will be forced to a 75
percent mixture of Natural and
manufactured gas, which would
be but a temporary remedy for
the acute gas shortage, according
to District officials, and a change
to full Natural Gas would have
to be made anyway in five years
or less.
The Utilities statement points
out that only a small part of the
gas plant will be abandoned if
Natural Gas is adopted. The only
part of the plant that would not
i be used with Natural Gas would
be the generator and purifying
equipment. The rest of the equip
ment and plant, holders, compres
sors, boiler plant, valves, fogging
equipment etc.,, .would continue
to be used with Natural Gas as
they are today.
Gas home heating..now restric
ted—would be open to all who
want it if Natural Gas is adopted
the District says.
j YOUR OPINION DOES COUNT
IDONT FAIL TO VOTE NOV. 5.
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NAACP ASKS
END OF
LABOR UNIONS’
SEGREGATION
NEW YORK Oct. 24th—Follow
ing the first meeting of the
NAACP’s National Labor Com
mittee, Walter White announced
that joint NAACP and labor ac
tion was one of its key objectives.
The National Labor Committee
which will work with Clarence
Mitchell, NAACP Labor Secre •
tary and former director of field
operations for the National FEPC
will follow a 7 point program. As
announced by the Committee, its
objectives are.
1. Elimination of discrimina
tory employment practices in in
dustry and government which re
sult in refusal to hire colored
workers, wage differentials based
on race unequal opportunities for
training and promotion, unfair
dismissals and segregation in em
ployment because of race.
2. Greater participation of col
ored persons in the trade union
movement.
3. Ending of segregated locals
auxiliaries and other discrimina
tory practices in labor unions.
4. Passage of state and federal j
FEPC legislation.
5. Inclusion of non-discrimina- j
tion clauses in state and federal
laws pertaining to the employment
of persons in the execution of gov
ernment contracts.
6. Joining with labor unions
favored by labor for the repealing
of unfavorable legislation.
7. Expanding and improving
opportunities for vocational train
ing on the basis on non segrega
uon.
The Committee voted action to
prevent discrimination. against
minority workers in the Employ
ment Service when it is returned
to the states on November 15, and
discussed plans for the full util
ization of colored building con
struction workers in the current
veterans housing program. Ways
of implementing an NAACP Na
tional Convention resolution call
ing for support of the AFL and
CIO drives in the south were also
discussed at the meeting.
Members of the Committee are:
Frank Fenton, AFL director of
Organization: Boris Shiskin. AFL
economist: Nelson Cruikshank,
AFL director of social insurance:
Walter Reuther. UAW-CIO pre
sident; George L. P. Weaver, di
rector of the CIO Committee A
gainst Discrimination; Willard S.
Townsend, president of the United
Transport Service Employee CIO;
the Rev. Francis J. Gilligan, St.
Paul, Minn.; Alfred Baker Lewis,
Greenwich, Conn.; and Palmer
Weber, research director, CIO
PAC, New York City; Mrs. Elea
| Officers of Negro Group
Praised By
A11 y.- Genera]
Attorney General Tom Clark
praises officers of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People for nullifying
attempts on the part of local un
its of the organization to ban the
showing of a musical version of
Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
The Attorney General’s commen
dation is contained in an article
in the December American Mag
azine in which he says “intoler
ance is on the increase largely be
cause a growing number of Am
ericans are unwilling to grant to
people they don’t like the rights
and privileges they, themselves
enjoy under the Bill of Rights”.
Well-meaning groups often stum
ble into dangerous practices, he
says, explaining:
‘ Take the Negroes. For decades
they have fought to abolish lynch
ing, poll taxes, and discrimination
But recently Negro groups took
a stand that was an attempt at
censorship. In many cities, local
units of the NAACP campaigned
to ban the showing of a musical
version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on
the ground that is portrays the
Negro in a derogatory manner. It
is to the credit of the national
officers of the NAACP that they
quickly saw that a civil rights
issue was involved and wired the
locals to desist from their attempt
to suppress the play.’*_
nor Roosevelt: and Mr. Charles
Houston, Washington, D. C.
Liberals Plan
Organization
NEW YORK—Preparation to
build the most powerful liberal
movement ever brought together
in the history of the United States
to fight for progressive govern
ment and to outlaw such evils as
racial discrimination took shape
this week when leaders of the
groups who formed the Confer
ence of Progressives Coordination
Committee met in New York.
The group chose a nominations
committee, which inccluded suc-V
outstanding national leaders \ j
Walter White, secretary of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People to
consider the affiliation of new
groups.
CIO president Philip Murray
who presided over the session de
clared “we expect this movement
to expand to become the most
•powerful liberal or progressive
organization ever brought toge
ther in the history of the United
States”. Nucleus of the organiza
tions who attendd the first Con
ference of Progressives in Chicago
last month.
x lit: t/umcicuv.c uicw up on uug
platforms in Chicago calling for a
Federal Civil Rights Bill “to in
sure effective Federal protection
of civil rights in every state by
abolishing the poll tax, punishing
lynchers and establishing a perm
anent FEPC. It also demanded
that all funds under the GI Bill
of Rights be withheld from any
educational institution that prac
tices discrimination.
Murray said that the Coordina
tion Committee would later have
city, state and county committees
“so that the actual work will get
down to the grass roots”. He too
pointed that the movement will
include industrial workers, mem
bers of the arts, sciences, profes
sions, farmers, small businessmen
and white collar employes.
He set as the purpose ,of the
movement "to bring before the
people all the important issues af
fecting the well being of all our
people and the nation’’.
The Coordination Committee
planned a second meeting in Wash
ington on November 8th and an
nounced its intention to hold a 2nd
major conference sometime in mid
January.
RACE MAN OPENS
NEW FIELD
IN INDUSTRY
by Susie Conway for Omaha .Guide
Benjamin White of Fort Byron,
New York has opened the Cayu
ga Foundry Co., Inc., on the N." Y.
Central Lines near four main high
ways (Rochester, Aubury, Buffa
lo and Syracuse). The foundry
specializes in bronze, brass, alum
inum castings and foundry equip
ment flaska. The plant employs
nineteen people with the personnel
being protected with unemploy
ment insurance and social secur
ity benefits. No racial barriers are
evident among the employees with
the administrative structure being
of Negro personell. During the
war the foundry carried an ‘A’
rating which was the highest pri*
ority rating. The plant produced
carrier parts and 75 milimeter
bomb-locks and war contracts re
lative to navy and ordinance pump
sheels for amphibians.
Business contacts are Sampson,
Inc., Rums Mfg. Co., Carrier Corp
Syracuse Stamping Co., Caldwell
Cland and E. C. Tteams.
Mr. White’s talented and attrac
tive daughter is treasurer of the
firm. During his spare time Mr.
White has built a spacious and
modern home from the ground up.
It is a master piece of architect
ure. His home is modestly furni
shed and designed by his wife, Ber
tha, who specializes i ninterior de
corations. Be sure to look in on
our fellow worker as he is an as
set to the Nation and his race.
j Would Restrict Negro Vote By Constitutional Amendment In Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Global)
The State Democratic organiza
tion will put before the voters in
the November 5th election a con
stitutional amendment measure,
the Boswell amendment, which |
would set up as a qualification for |
registration the ability of the pro- j
spective voter to read, write and
interpret the Constitution of the \
United States.
This same political trick which
was used to restrict Negro voting
after the Civil War would vali
date the present voting qualifica
The proposed measure is op
tion of ability to read and write
and own property valued at $300.
posed by Governor-Elect Folsom,
Republicans, PAC and several lo
cal business groups.
War Dept. Orders Release of 55% of Lockburne AAF Officers
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New Hotel Opened
at 2504 Charles St.
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Realizing the need for additional
Hotel accomodation for transient
and permanent guests, Mr. and
I Mrs. John Walker, 2721 Parker
! St., recently purchased the proper
; ty at 2504 Charles St. where they
i have opened a modern spacious
hotel with accomodation for 30
people.
WALLACE TO
SPEAK NOV. 4
Former Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace will deliver his
first New York address since his
resignation from the cabinet at a
! luncheon at the Hotel Commodore
; Monday, November 4th. sponsor
ed by thhe National Citizens Pol
itical Action Committee, it was
I announced yesterday by Dr. F.
i Kingdon, chairman of the organ
| ization.
The speech will mark Mr. Wal
lace’s only Neww York appear
ance during the current election
! campaign. Thhe luncheon, which
is the closing event in National
; Citizens PAC’s campaign activi
ties, has as its co-chairman Mrs.
Stephans Wiman, chairman of the
Women’s Division, and Mr. Paul
Tishman, chairman of the Busin
essmen’s Division. C. B. Baldwin,
executive vice-chairman of Nat'i
Citizens Political Action Commit
tee, will serve as toastmaster.
Colored Rail Firemen
FIGHT FOR JOBS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct. 24—
Assembled in the Fifth National
Conference in Birmingham, Ala.,
the industrial center of the south
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters’ Provisional Committee to
| Organize Colored Locomotive Fire
men, to wage an aggressive and
relentless battle (1) to maintain
jobs colored firemen have and
other Negro workers employed
in the operating-running crafts of
the railroads, (2) safeguard their
security (3) consolidate security
on the jobs, (4) and keep the door
of employment open to Negro
workers in the railroad industry.
Delegates from all are leading
h tilro.,13 in tiie south, were in at
tendance at the Conference and
gave graphic and dramatic stor
ies of the injustice and hardships
they were suffering at the hands
of the Southeastern Carriers, the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En
ginemen and Firemen and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
A presentation of the cases now
in uic luiu to piaimcu uj uc
filed was made by attorneys T.
W. Johnson of Macon, Ga., Thur
man L. Dodson of Washington
D. C. and Samuel H. Gellman of
Richmond, Va., M. P. Webster,
former member of the President’s
Committee on Fair Employment
Practices and First National Vice
President of the Brotherhood^of
Sleeping Car Porters, gave the
history of the work of FEPC in
the interest of the colored firemen
and other Negro railroad workers.
He also deplored the misrepresen
tation of the Brotherhood of Sleep
ing Car Porters and the AF of L
by some of the papers.
A. Philip Randolph, chairman of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters Provisional Committee for
the organization of colored loco
motive firemen presided. In his op
ening statement, he pointed out
the war between two world sy
stems of ideas for dominion over
the hearts and minds of men,
touched and affected the Negro in
Birmingham just as it affected the
peoples of Greece, China, the Mid
dle East and France. Negroes must
make a choice said he, between
the totalitarian philosophy on the
right and left espoused by Hitler’s
Germany and Mussolini’s Italy and
there was more need in Nebraska
represented in the Western Demo
cracies. Totalitarianism, Fascist,
and Communist, achieve social,
economic and political convictions
through police terrorism and those
who dissent invite liquidation. The
democracies, on the other hand
achieve convictions and decisions
on economic, social and political
EXPERT CONSULTANT — Dr.
William E. Allen, Jr., St. Louis,
Mo., who has been appointed a
j consultant to the Secretary of War
| through the Surgeon General. He
will work in conjunction with other
medical experts in a program de
signed to improve the quality of
1 medical care given the American
' soldier. (Photo by Young from
War Department Public Relations
| Division.)
Klansman ‘Mayor*
of Nationj Capital
BY FRED d’AVILA
It was August 9, 1946. The Amer
ican people, who had just helped
win a bloody war to crush fascism
heard a scratchy, nasal whine over
a national radio hookup, declaring
that, “I am a member of the Ku
Klux Klan No. 40, called the Bilbo
Klan No. 40, of Mississippi.”
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, 69-year
old thrice elected Senator from
Mississippi, was brazen but not
rash. Admission of membership in
the rope, terror and bedsheet club
was part of his race-baiting stra
tegy that has made him a success
ful politician in his polltax “para
dise.”
But—and it concerns the whole
nation—the flat-headed hate mon
ger is also “mayor” of the United
States Capitol. As ranking mem
ber of the District Committee be
cause of his Senate seniority. Bil
bo calls the shots for a city of
nearly a million people.
Bilbo’s viciousness has been
equalled by his political durabil
ity. He survived a clouded scandal
as supervisor of a girl’s school in
1908 as a state senator. At a
grand jury hearing, he admitted
taking a bribe to swing an elec
tion, but claimed he had accepted
it to expose the bribe givers. He
avoided expulsion from the state
senate by just one *ote, after the
senate had pass*- u a resolution
asking hi mto resign and declar
ing him “unfit to sit with honest
upright men in a respectable leg
islative body.”
While thousands of Cohens and
Kellys, Massettii# and Hansens
were giving their lives for victor
ry, Bilbo contributed to national
unity by referring to millions of
Italian citizens as “dagoes,’’ by
reviling Jews as “kikes,” and by
calling Negroes “niggers.”
D. C. residents eight years ago
rolled up a 7-1 majority in favor
of home rule and a 12-1 majority
for national representation.
In the referendum scheduled for
November 5th, it is expected that
majorities will be even more over
whelming. After all, no self-re
spectitng capital could long toler
ate a Bilbo as “mayor.”
—from CIO News.
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Dewey Bans Bilboism from New York:
Administration Outlaws K. K. K.
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questions through intellectual com
bat in the arena of public decision.
Senator Morse Says
Democrats
Refused To Block
FEPC Filibuster
Text of letters addressed by Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon to the
New York Herald Tribune, and
to the National • Association for
tty; Advancement of Colored Peo
ple.
Fditor. New York Herald Tribune
New York, New York
Dear Mr. Editor:
I have just finished reading a
special article which appeared in
your paper of October 18 written
by my good friend, Walter White
entitled, ''Will Negroes Vote Re
publican?” In this article, Mr.
White makes some observations
and draws some conclusions which
make good propaganda for the
Democratic Party but which cer
tainly cannot be reconciled with
the best political interests of the
Negroes in America.
I am sure that any fair-minded
person who reads Mr. White’s ar
ticle will see that the conclusion
which he would like to have them
draw is that the Republican Par
ty is no more friendly to protec
ting the civil rights and providing
the Negro people with equality of
economic opportunity and freedom
under our Constitutio than is the
Democratic Party. I am at a com
plete loss to understand how Wal
ter White, for whom I have an
exceedinly high regard and great
respect, could so completely for
get when he wrote his article the
wretched record which the Demo*
crais in Congress wrote for them
selves in the 79th Congress.
I am sure Mr. White knows it
was the Democrats in the Senate
of the United States who, by way
of the filibuster, defeated time
and time again the attempts of a
considerable number of Republi
can Senators to force through to
a vote on its merits the FEPC bill.
“In behalf of the people of this
State, I want to identify for the
slander and scurrility that they
are, the statements reported in
the press as having been made by
Bilbo about New York. We, here
in New York, live together as
free Americans, regardless of
what differences there may be
among us in race, creed or color.
In contrast to the man from Miss
issippi, we do not claim to have
achieved perfection in human rela
tions. We confess, frankly, that
we are learning to improve them
all the time. Nothing else could
measure up to being the American
way.
“We have no opology to make to
Bilbo, or anyone else, for being the
first State to pioneer with an Anti
Discrimination, Law. Democracy
in employment is one of our av
owed objectives
“The tar brush, the lyncher’s
rope and the klansman's sheet for
which Bilbo stands, have no place
in New York, nor anywhere in
America. As dangerous to welfare
there is nothing to choose between
Bilboism and Communism. Both
are wretched, both are subver
sive.
“As for myself, I feel that so far
as it is in his power to do so.
Bilbo has conferred upon me an
honor by attacking me in terms
only slightly more abusive than
he has used to vilify a number of
distinguished Americans”_Gov
ernor Thomas E Dewey of N. Y.
yjn. yes, mere were a tew Demo
cratic Senators who were support
ing the bill, but there was not a
single Democratic Senator who,
at any time gave any support
whatsoever to those of us on the
Republican side of the aisle who l
took the position that the only
way to beat the filibuster against
the FEPC bill was to hold the
Senate in session for twenty-four
hours a day for as many days or
weeks or months as might be ne
cessary in order to drive the vi
cious practice of the filibuster
from the floor of the Senate.
I
We not only failed to get any
help from a single Democratic
Senator in that fight but those
Democratic Senators who were as
suming leadership on the Demo
cratic side of the aisle in favor
of the FEPC bill actually advised
against it and refused to cooper
I -
Already occupied with the dif
ficult task of effecting a 53 per
cent reduction in civilian staff,
part of a nationwide economy
move, Col. B. O. Davis. Jr., Lock
bourne C. O., announced last week
the receipt of orders to separate
196 of the presently assigned 357
officers from active duty with the
Air Forces.
This week, following its edict
to cut the officer staff more than
55 per cent, the War Department
that Lockbourne, among twenty
other military posts, was consti
tuted as a Separation point to
facilitate the processing of out
going personnel.
According to Col. Davis, this
reduction of officer strength is
ordered by Headquarters, Army
Air Forces as part of the national
economy drive. It is expected that
the officer strength, Tactical Air
Command Stations will be cut ap
proximately 50 percent. At the
time this order was received from
Tactical Air Command, a total of
358 officers were assigned to the
Ohio Air Base. Approximately 12
and one half percent of the num
ber to be separated under the di
rective will be relieved from duty
and assigned to Squadron ‘‘X’’
for separation from the service
by October 1st. The remainder
will be released upon orders from
higher headquarters.
Officers being separated will be
tendered the opportunity to accept
commissions in the Air Reserve,
equal to the grade which they
hold at the time of separation. Of
ficers who were originally com
missioned in other branches of the
service will also be given an op
portunity to take commissions in
the Air Reserve.
Authorities at the Base stated
that of the number to be released
approximately 72 percent are fly
ing officers and 28 percent are
non-rated. The same proportion
existed before the separation pro
cess.
VETERAN U. P. WAITER
RETIRES
Ralph Emmons. 60, oldest wait
er in length of service on the Un
ion Pacific Railroad, has applied
for annuity under provisions of
the railroad retirement act. A
waiter operating out of Omaha
since 1912, Emmons has been on
leave of absence for ten months
due to illness.
ate with us in, our atcmpts to
secure a majority in favor of
holding continuous sessions in or*
der to beat the FEPC filibuster.
I cite this as one of manv exam
ples I could site in support of my
charge that there is a great diff
erence between the professings of
the Democratic Party on minority
race issues and its practices. Cer
tainly no one of the Negro race
in this country should be surpri
sed with the hypocracy of the De
mocratic Party on race issues
when .it is well known that the
Party is controlled by the anti
Negro forces of the South.
Then too. Mr. White I am sure
is fully informed of the political
jockeying that Democratic lead
ers participated in during the last
lew days of the 79th Congress on
the anti-poll-tax bill. They know
that the complete failure of the
tax bill up on the calendar for a
vote on the merits was stirring up
bitter and deserved political op
position to the Democrats among
the Negro voters of the country.
So what did they do? They pulled
a stunt of political window-dress
ing but surely Walter White could
not have been fooled by it.
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Receives $1200 Graduate Social Study Award
NEW YORK—Mrs. Aldena B
Runnels receives the first fellow
ship award of 51200 sponsored by
the Adam Hat Welfare Commit
tee and given through the Nat’l
Urban League for graduate study
in social work. Others in the pho
] tograph are, Julius A. Thomas,
director of the League’s Industr
i ial Relations Department, the
Honorable Francis E. Rivers, Ju
stice of the city court of New
York and JosephSaik, member of
the Adam Hat Welfare Commit
tee. Mrs. Runnels, who will study
at the New York School of Social
Work, is a graduate of Prairie
View State College, Prairie View,
Texas, and was formerly assist
ant to the Executive Secretary of
the Portland Ore., Urban League.
