'OUR I
GUEST
Column
(Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS)
After The
Cotton Picker
By Benton J. Stong, Editor,
National Union Farmer
(organ of Natl. Farmers Unionl
l n e estimates
that from 300.
0 0 0 to 500,000
farm famlies will
be displayed in
the South by the
cotton picker in
the next 5 years
constitute a chal
lenge to the na
tion.
It is not just a
problem for the
I South.
Unfortunately,
a plan proposed
Benton J. Stongby the Bureau or
Agricultural Economics for a re
adjustment in the South, adjust
ment of cotton acreage, diversion
of crops, more family-type farms
and encouragement of industry,
has not been given serious consi
deration.
It is becoming increasingly ob
vious that many of these displaced
people will migrate out of the
South into the North and West.
There will be colored people. And
there will be white people—all
human beings displaced in the
mechanization of another agricul*
tural crop.
The migration of southern peo
ple will offer economic competi
tion to both groups. Accustomed
to a bare subsistence, they may
be willing to take farm leases or
make farm labor contracts below
the standards of the states into
which they migrate. They may
also may offer laboring people
competition in terms of wages. In
both instances, there is danger
that they will be met with force,
intimidation and violence rather
than understanding and helpful
assistance.
Certainly, farm groups, labor
groups, and all those organiza
tions which deal with the problem
of tolerance and human relation
ships, should prepare now to meet
this situation intelligently.
These people will be unfortun
ates, cast off by the reorganiza
tion of southern agriculture and
forced to migrate by conditions
beyond their control, including our
failure as a nation to guide south
ern readjustment to meet or am
eliorate the situation.
They will need educational as
sistance to adjust to the stand
ards of their new homes. They
will need assistance in re-establi
shing themselves.
Certainly nothing will be gained
by forcing them, in Ku Klux fa
shion. to keep on the move from
one inhospitable area to another.
We SHOULD deal with this
matter as a nation. Realistically
however, people's organizations
should hegin now to prepare their
member1 for the migration out of
the South. If by any chance an
intelligent national program to
meet the situation is adopted, the
preparation for a practical appli- J
cation of our principles will not
have been wasted. It will have j
been a very worthwhile rehearsal.
Packing-House Workers
Prepare For Strike Action
INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT BELIEVED STARTED AS
Dixie Policemen Kill
Dominican (or Negro
BUNN EL, FLA.—Dixie cops are believed to have start
ed an international incident in their unwarranted shooting of
Negroes when a deputy sheriff here shot and killed Jose
Adrian Trujillo Seijas, nephew of the President of the Domi
nican Republic, in the belief that he was an American
.Negro. The Dominican consul, Jose M. Noel, hurried here
from Miami on orders from President Trujillo, after hold
ing a telephone conservation
with the youth’s father,
Anihal Trujillo, brother to
the President.
The deputy sheriff, Miller
Teeter, was exonerated by a cor
oner's jury which decided that he
had shot in self defense. A State
Department official in Florida i3
reported to have been advised of
the matter.
Young Trujillo was shot Satur
day night during an argument
with local policemen when he and
his companion, Louis Henryy Todd
a Jamaisan, stopped at a cafe just
before midnight and were refused
service because they were thought
to be American Negroes. They ar
gued that they should be served
and the proprietor called the sher
iff.
Deputy Sheriff Tetter was sent
to the scene. He found Trujillo
seated in his car with Todd stand
ing nearby. The deputy testified
at the inquest that Trupillo drew
a pistol and was told to put it
away. When he refused, he was
shot through the chest dying in
stantly.
Bunnell is 25 miles from Day
tona Beach.
The dead youth was adopted as
a child by Anibal Trujillo brother
to President Trujillo, known as
the strong man of the Caribbean.
He was named Seijas by his adop
Woodard Attacker
Shull Acquitted
In Federal Court
COLUMBIA. S. C. Nov 8—An
all white, Federal Court jury sit- ]
ting in the Woodard case, took
leas than a half hour last week ,
to absolve police chief Lynwood
L. Shull of Batesburg, S. C.t of
any responsibility for the blind
ing of the Negro veteran Isaac
Woodard, who will be blind for
the rest of his life due to the
brutal and merciless attack made
upon him by Sheriff Shull, said
of this verdict, which was return
ed after only 28 minutes of de
liberation. "The right man hasn't
tried him yet", referring no doubt
to the Judgement Day when Shull
will have to face his unprejudiced
Maker.
Shull was being prosecuted for
a violation of the Civil Rights
code of the United States Code
for having on the night of Febru
ary 12th. at Batesburg, S. C.
gouged out Woodard's eyes just a
few hours after his honorable
discharge from the U. S. Army.
Mr Claude Sapp, the local Fe
deral District Attorney in charge
of the prosecution, although ass- ;
isted by a special prosecutor from
the Department of Justice in Wa-1
shington, never asked for the ex
pected conviction, but in his sum- j
m&tion, practically apologized to
the jury for having prosecuted
the case, saying "I was only doing
my job, and whatever verdict you
gentlemen bring in. the Govern
ment will be satisfied”.
The jury did not hear quite all
the story, as the two witnesses
who had been on the bus with
Woodard were not called. They
heard him when he talked back
t oa bus driver for swearing at
him when he inquired whether or i
not he would have time to go to
the restr oom at a bus stop. The
bus driver called ahead to Bates
burg and arranged to have Wood
ard taken off at that stop. Con
sequently, he was charged with
being drunk and disorderly and
was beaten, blinded and thrown
into jail without a trial by Sher
iff Shull.
At the trial, the prosecution in
troduced four witnesses. .Isaac
Woodard, who told his story in a
straightforward and calm manner
a Batesburg white physician and
two Veterans Admanistration hos
pital doctors who treated Woodard
after the attack. Then the prose
cution rested, failing to call on
the two men who had seen Wood
ard arrested.
In his support, Shull produced
three character witnesses, one of
whom was Archie Beecham, a
Negro preacher, who testified that
he had known Shull for twenty
years and knew him to have a re
putation among the colored peo
ple of Batesburg for being “extra
fine” to them.
In their summation, the defense
counsel said, among other things
“If a decision against the U. S.
means seceding, then let South
Caroline secede again”. Referring
to Woodard s having talked back
to the bus driver: "That’s not the
talk of a sober n-r in South
Carolina”.
New Style
Captain’s Cap
If you see Captain Frank J.
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ted father and used this name in
formal signatures. He was on ter
minal leave from the U. S. Army
and was generally called “Trujillo’
He was on his way home. He had
served two years in the army.
Caught With
Groceries Booked
For Inquiry
Robert Gardener, 38, of 1919%
Clark Street, was booked for in
vestigation at Central Police Sta
tion late Saturday.
Detective reports said he was
carrying a package of groceries
believed to have been stolen from
the Belzer Grocery, 16?4 North
Twenty-fourth Street. The bundle
included six cigars, 36 pork chops,
a piece of round steak, fifteen
pounds of lard and eight slabs of
spareribs.
Gardener told police he bought
the groceries from a man on the
street for a $1.
Seek To Raise
The Educational
Level Of Negroes
NASHVILLE. TENN. (Global) -
A project designed to raise the
educational level of ‘’functionally
illiterate” Negroes in the Nash
ville. Tenn., area has been started
by Fisk University and Tennessee
A. & I. State College.
The project is sponsored by the
United States Office of Education
in cooperation with the American
Association on Adult Education
and the National Conference on
Adult Education and the Negro.
GOSPEL PREACHER HERE
Mother V. Z. W. Mooney, State
Evangelist of Arkansas and Nat
ionally known gospel preacher will
open a revival at the First Spiri
tual Army Church of Christ. 1201
No. 24th St., Nov. 17 at 11 am.
Preaching each night until the
Spirit orders stop. All citizens
are invited to hear this powerful
woman. Mother Mooney is a ma
ster at preachng such subjects as:
Opening the Seven Seals; Dry
Bones in the Valley; Who Shall Be
Able to Stand, As God Pours out
His Wrath; and many others.
Rev. Alfred J. Thomas pas.
Rev. Mother Green asst. pas.
Mrs. Hazel Taylor, rep.
SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
/V BASEMENT OF HOME
David Cole. 63, of 1831 North
Twenty-second Street, was found
dead in the basement of his home
Monday morning. Police said
death was from natural causes.
Mr. Cole had gone to the base
ment about 6:30 a. m. to start a
fire, police said, and suffered a
heart attack. The body was taken
to the Myers Funeral Home.
FIRST TIME IN GEORGIA’S HISTORY
Negro and White Baptists
Hold Meeting Together
Savannah, Ga.— Negro and
white Baptists of Georgia met
Tuesday for the first time in their
history to hear an appeal that the
two races “practice* a spirit of
good will.”
The white aptists adjourned
their convention to go to the mu
nicipal auditorium and occupy
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special seats in the balcony as
their leaders presented a program
before the Negro convention.
The Rev. Leander Asberry Pink
ston, Negro president of the Gen
eral Missionary Baptists conven
tion yielded the gavel of his group
after stating the joint session
barked a “spirit of good will” be
tween the two races.
Rose of the Omaha Police Dept,
wearing a new white captain's
cap, he’s declared an armistice on
his old white duck cap which has
given fifteen years of faithful
service.
Captain Rose has the latest New
York police style now.
Prowlers Enter
Home Through
Coal Chute
Mr. G. R. Price of 2413 Caldwell
Street reports the theft of a green
slick suit; overnight bag; two
leather purses; gloves and a pearl
necklace. Someone entered the
house through the coal chute on
November 8th.
ARRESTED IN
ATTACK CASES
Messiah Thomas. 32, of 2214 N.
26th St., who was arrested Sun
day in connection with reported
assaults on two young women dur
ing last week end, was bound over
to the District Court Wednesday
after a hearing in Police Court on
the two charges of rape. Judge
Perry Wheeler set bond at 25
thousand dollars in each count.
A 15-year-old girl told police
that Thomas attacked her Friday
afternoon at his home after threat
ening her with a knife. He had
asked her to go to the grocery
store, she said, and attacked her
when she returned with the gro
ceries.
While detectives were looking
for Thomas, a 21-year-old woman
reported Saturday* night she also
Catholic Women Outlaw Discrimination
WASHINGTON—A pledge for
support in securing for minority
groups a ‘more equitable and hu
mane treatment" is among the
resolutions adopted by the Nation
al Council of Catholic Women at
their Twenty-Third National Con
vention and published here.
The resolution is as follows:
“Discrimination as to race, color
or nation origin has no place in a
democratic country, but certainly
it has no place among Christians
who must see in each human be
ing an individual created to the
image and likeness of God. Yet.
Negroes, the Spanish - speaking
peoples in the United States, and
other minority groups are subjec
ted to discriminatory treatment in
their right toeducation, to work,
to a decent wage, to housing, to
i legal protection in fundamental
matters. We pledge our support
in securing for these groups a
more equitable and humane treat
ment”.
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had been assaulted.
A man grabbed her as she was
walking home from a streetcar
line and forced her into the the
baseball grounds at Twentieth and
Burdette Streets, she said. There
he assaulted her and threatened
i to kill her if she reported the at
tack to police, she added.
The second young woman Sun
day picked Thomas from a line
up of prisoners as the man who
attacked her. Thomas denied both
charges.
Police reports revealed a Rec'
ord for Thomas extending through
Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
He is reported as having been ar
rested by the Sheriff’s office in
Burlington, Kansas on May 16,
(1935 and held for investigation
and later released. On August
23rd, 1936. he was reported as be
ing fined on an assault and bat
tery charge in Omaha. On Jan
uary 18th, 1940, he was held on a
burglary charge at Tulsa, Okla.,
and on Nov. 11th, 1940, he is re
ported as having been arrested on
a charge of larceny-domestic ani
mals at Okmulgee, Okla.
Thomas who is 5 feet 11 inches
high and weighs 181 pounds, is
reported as havng worked at var
ious times as an construction la
borer.
MAYBERRY YOW
AFFILIATED WITH
HOLMES TAILOR SHOP
Mr. Herbert Mayberry, well
known Omaha Hotel man,'has an"
nounced his partnership affilia
tion with Holmes Tailor and Clean
ing Shop, 2218 No. 24th St. Mr.
Mayberry says he will continue
his present employment with his
son-in-law Roosevelt L. Cawthorne
I being an active employee in the
shop.
Mr. Cawthorne is well experien
ced in the tailoring and cleaning
business having been proprietor
of the Hawthorne Togerry Co. of
Tulsa, Okla. for eight years.
Messrs. Holmes, Mayberry and
Cawthorne are inviting the public
to give them a call that they may
demonstrate their efficient service.
Demand $1 Hr.
Minimum
Wage
Skyrocketing Prices
Given As Cause
CHICAGO, ILL..
Following a week'end confer
ence of local union representa
tives, Ralph Helstein, President of
the United Packinghouse Work
ers of America, CIO, announced
today that the representatives un
animously voted to prepare for
strike action which would affect
the Big Four Packing companies
and most of the independent com
panies throughout the country.
“Although we desire in every
way to avoid the necessity of a
strike," Helstein said, “the inter
ests of our membership require
that conditions of work and in
come be sufficiently adequate and
secure as to permit them to live
decently’’.
The more than 200 representa
tives who attended the conference
from all sections of the country
commented that “the continuing
decline of the buying power of the
wage earner’s dollar, which was
substantially accelerated in recent
weeks, makes it urgent that im
mediate improvements be attain
ed by the packinghouse workers.
“The results of our negotiations
at the moment leave no alterna
tive but to implement our plans
for strike action by establishing
a strike strategy committee and
by the preparing of the necessary
strike apparatus by all local un
ions.
“All local unions are instruc
ted to complete within two weeks
| the collection of strike funds and
I the establishment of machinery
| for strike action,’’ the conference
declared.
The union has been negotiating
for new contracts with the pack
ers since last August. Opening
date for the contract was August
11, although the workers have
been employed since that time un
der an extention of the old con
contract.
Chief demands of the union are:
1. A dollar an hour, minimum
wage for men and women work
ers in all sections of the country.
The present common labor rate for
men varies from 8814 cents an
hour in metropolitan areas to 71
and 80 cents in the Southern
states. Womens’ rates average
about 10 cents an hour less. Ap
proximately one-third of the pack
inghouse workers are employed
at the common rate.
2. a guaranteed annual wage.
3. a health and welfare fund,
4. a cost of livng bonus.
. Commenting on the negotiations
which are still in progress, Hel
stein said, “We sincerely hope
that a peaceful settlement can be
reached through collective bar
gaining. We know that the pack
ers have made unprecedented pro
fits in the past few years and
now that they have successfully
pressured the government into
abolishing price, controls, their
prospects for the future promises
even higher profits.
“Although our membership has
not completed their referendum
strike vote, we have heard from
the majority of the unions and
their response is overwhelming in
favor for strike if such action is
necessary.”
The UPWA-CIO conference est
ablished a 27 man strike strategy
committee.
Jeremiah Wiggins
Buried Nov. 14th
The funeral of Jeremiah Wig
gins, age 67, of 3016 Emmett St.,
who died November 12th, was held
Thursday morning from Myers’
Funeral Home.
Burial was at Forest Lawn.
Survivors: Brothers, Dr. Her
bert Wiggins, Omaha: Robert and
Moses Wiggins of Williamstown,
New Jersey.
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Salem To Sponsor
Religious Institute
OMAHA—The S. S. & B. T. U.
Department of the Salem Baptist
Church will sponsor an institute
for all Christian workers who are
interested in religious education,
beginning Monday, November 18
7:30 pm. each evening through
Friday the 22nd with approved
credits.
Mr. J. W. Dacus, Dean: Mrs.
F. Wesley and Mr. Wm. Cooper
Instructors. PLACE, the Salem
Baptist church, 28th and Decatur
Sts. Rev. J. C. Wade, pastor.
Natl Dental Assn.
To Aid Vets
Health Plan
In Nebraska
I WASHINGTON, D. C. (Atlas
News Service)—Dr. W. T. Grady,
Washington, D. C. Chairman of
Veterans’ Affairs Committee of
the National Dental Association,
announces that the Veterans’ Ad
ministration has agreed to utilize
the services of the members of
the National Dental Association in
the following states: Alabama:
Arkansas; California; Delaware;
District of Columbia; Florida; W.
Virginia; Georgia; Maryland; N.
Carolina; Massachusetts; Miss
ouri; Kentucky; Nebraska: Ohio;
Louisianna; New York; Indiana;
Virginia; New Jersey; Oklahoma;
Texas; S. Carolina; Tennesee; Ill
inois; Kansas; Pennsylvania and
Mississippi in the dental rehabi
litation program for veterans of
all wars as well as WAVES and
WACS.
This complete dental service
will be done by any dentist selec
ted by the veteran who has been
approved by the Veterans Admin
istration and organized denistry to
practice on a free basis and pay
ments are made by the Veterans
Administration to the dentist. The
extractions, bridges, fillings, and
plates will be permitted on the
basis of the service connected den
tal disability record of the armed
forces with the G. I.’s getting a
dental application from the local
Veteran’s Administration office.
NAACP Reports
Violence On
111. Central
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov 5—
The record of violence of the Ill
inois Central Railway received a
second blotch this week, when
James Graves, a Memphis tiain
porter, outlined in an affidavit to
the NAACP his story of being
blackjacked and shot by a conduc
tor in Mississippi. In September,
a conductor beat Albert Wooden,
also a train porter, with a black
jack.
Mr. Graves, the father of three
children, stated that on Septem
ber 25th. N. B. Kaigler, a conduc
tor, argued with him about the
seating of two colored passengers
bound for Memphis, who boarded
the train at Merigold, Mississippi.
According to Mr. Graves, the
conductor struck him behind the
ear with a blackjack, after say
ing. “Can't you get those g—d—
Negroes going to Chicago and to
Memphis to come back here like
I tell you to”.
The porter stated that he held
the conductor's hand to keep from
being injured further, and that
two other white railway employ
ees finally persuaded Kaigler to
stop the attack.
When the train got to Mound
Bayou, Miss., and the porter got
out to assist departing passengers
the conductor ordered him not to
get back on.
While he was waiting to give
the ‘highball signal’ the conduc
tor shot him in the chest, Graves
charged.
“I broke and ran behind the
depot,” said Graves, “as the mail
porter hollered, ‘keep running for
he comes’”. Mr. Graves mana
ged to escape, but claims that he
was in the hospital for eleven days
and is still under the care of a
doctor.
Duke Ellington in Concert Tonight
At Omaha’s City Auditorium
DUKE ELLINGTON AT THE PIANO surrounded by three of
his feminine admirers. Mr. Ellington, along w itli his hand
and other feature artists, will appear in Concert at the Gty
Auditorium, Saturday night, November 16, for a one night
engagement onlv.
(PROGRAM of DUKE’S CONCERT on Z-rf' Page 2)
High School Students Invited
To Y-Teen Fun Ni^ht
"Harvest Horseplay”, a fun-nite
for all Omaha high school students
will be held at the Y.M.C.A., 17th
and St. Mary’s Avenue. Saturday
November 23rd from 8:00 to 11:30
A fun night Council composed of
boys and girls from the five pu
blic high schools and sponsored by
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the Omaha Y-Teen Clubs are in
charge of the evening. Group
names, gym facilities, dancing,
door prize, and snack bar will pro
vide the main entertainment. Ad
mission at the door is twenty-five
crgits. jAll high school students
are welcome.
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NAACP RESTRICTIVE
Covenant Fight
Strongly
Supported
NEWYORK. Oct. 11—Queens
County New York became the
scene of the latest battle in the
NAACP's nationwide campaign
against restrictive covenants on
Ort. 11th. Andrew D. Weinberger
member of the NAACP moved in
the Supreme Court of Queens
County to dismiss a complaint
seeking to prevent Samuel Rich
ardson, Negro businessman, from
purchasing a home in St. Albans
on the ground that the race restr
ictive covenant upon which the
white neighbors relied was not en
forceable in a eourt of law.
Civic, religious and labor organ
izations rallied to the support of
this attack on Jim Crow housing
by filing briefs and arguing in
support of the motion to dismiss
| at the hearing. Attorneys for the
! American Jewish Congress, the
[ New York State Industrial Union
Council and the Greater New York
Industrial Council and the Natl
Lawyers Guild all appeared in the
court in support of the NAACP
position. The Social Action com
mittee of the Congregational chur
ch, the Methodist Federation for
Social Service and the City-Wide
Citizens Committee on Harlem all
filed memoranda in Court sup
porting the position taken by the
NAACP.
New York State has never had
a case involving restrictive cove
nants decided by an appellate
court, although there are two de
cisions in lower courts unholding
the covenants. The NAACP is still
waiting for decisions in two other
cases, one in California’s highest
court and the other in Michigan’s
highest court, both of which cases
were argued in October.
JIMMY JEWELL BUYS OUT
VICTORY HOLDING CO.
James C. Jewell has re-acquired
the property known as Dreamland
Hall from the Victory Holding Co.
The building was built by Mr.
Jewel’s father James G. Jewell in
the early 1920’s.
H. J. Pinkett, Attorney Here 39 Years,
Recalls First Armistice in France
Monday was a big day for
H. J. Pinkett, 63, of 2118 North
Twenty-fifth Street.
Not only was the Negro at
torney starting his fortieth year
as a member of the Nebraska
Bar Association but he was
thankfully remembering the
cease-fire order in World
War I.
He was Capt. H. J. Pinkett
then, and he was under fire in
front of Metz with the Ninety
second Infantry Division when
the war ended.
"I’ll never forget that one.”
Mr. Pinkett said. “The colored
boys under me laid down their
rifles, and the Germans did the
same. They rushed across the
clearing that separated them,
and embraced with joy.”
Mr. Pinkett spent il months
in France during World War I.
The attorney attended Columbia
University, got his law degree
at Howard University in Wash
ington, D. C. and was admitted
to the Nebraska Bar on No- i
vember 11, 1S07.
“I was the first colored at
torney formally educated for the !
bar to practice in Nebraska,” j
Mr. Pinkett recalls. "I was quite
a curiosity in those days,
especially in small outstate com
munities.”
Mr. Pinkett said he consid
ered his work as legal counsel
for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People one of his most import
ant contributions to his people.
“We have won 25 of 26 cases
in the Supreme Court of the
United States. All of them in
volved the civil liberties of the
American Neero.” Mr. Pinkett
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embraced with joy.”
said. "I have taken a keen in- ,
terest in helping young people >
get an education, and have been .
fortunate in being able to aid I
at least 1,500 of them in one I
way or another ”
|
: Booked For Safety
James I. Danner, 22, of 1432 N.
22nd St., was booked for safe
keeping at Central Station Sat
urday night..
Police said he admitted that he
had stolen various pieces of cloth
ing from the South Side Laundry
where he worked as a presser.
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Christmas Seals-1947
420,000 sheets of Christmas Seals, selling for one dollar a
sheet, will be sent out in Nebraska on November 25 to fin
ance the fight against tuberculosis for another year, accord
ing to Dr. John F. Gardiner, President of the Nebraska Tu
berculosis Association.
The design for this year's Seals features a lamplighter, in
an overcoat, red muffler and mittens. He is standing at the
top of a ladder placed against a lamp post, in the act of light
ing the lamp. The entire design is on a light blue back
ground. carrying an arch of seven five-pointed stars.
“Christmas Seals have become a Yuletide tradition in this
country,” said Dr. Gardiner, “but they are more than just
pretty ornaments to be placed on Christmas cards and pack
ages. They are really weapons against tuberculosis, which
last year resulted in the deaths of 178 Nebraskans and caus
ed 446 newly-reported cases of active tuberculosis in our
state. That figure has already been surpassed this year for
netc cases, with more than 500 new cases of active tubercuL
osis reported since January 1, 1946.”
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