LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS | Per Copy AND WORTH IT— “To Sell It, ADVERTISE” ZjPSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THE LINE \ EQUAL OPPORTUNE _ -PHONEHA.OSOO _★ ^ ★ SATURDAY, DEC. 7, 1946 Our 19th Year—No. 44 Entered as 2nd Class matter at Post-Office. Omaha Nebraska TTmler Art r.f —- -- • • - - - -. March s- PI'BLISHING OFFICES AT 2420 GRANT ST., Omaha Nebr 'OUR GUEST Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) By Bertha Diggs, Secretary New York State Depi'-tment of Labor The ability to look into the fu ture has been one of man’s great est desires. Today, probably more than ever before in the history of the world, all of us are deeply concerned about what is to come. Our objective is the attainment of *a real, lasting peace in which there will be assurance of full justice and protection of all peo iples from oppression^ Such an objective is worthy of any sacri fice. We have not yet obtained that objective. There still remains much to be done. During the war we heard much about the urgent need for full p’ar ticipation by all people in some part of the fight. The pressure of a national emergency ripped a way the mantle of hypocrisy that cloaked many shabby spots on the foundation garment of American democracy. In these post-war years, and in the immediate years to come, the stake of the minority is a large one. To achieve it, there must be no let down in the fight for equal ity and integration. Industry today is poised on the threshhold of *a vastly expanded domain. To the progress it had al ready made has now been added new processes and products, most of them evolved during the war. The labor movement today has reached dimensions greater th’an ever before. Labor in the United States is the very essence of our democracy. This does not mean that labor has no faults within its own movement. We all know that such do exist. Labor is also ■aware of them. But if these de ficiencies are to be corrected, the job must be done with the help of everybody involved. Most cer tainly minorities are involved in the labor movement. The key to the future lies, too, in political activity. Under our form of government “we the peo ple” have the sole right to decide which course the nation must follow. It is up to all of us who look forward honestly to an endu rable peace to work now for that future. Through use of our political power we can pass a FEPC bill in Washington. We can establish firmly such principles as may be necessary to protect our economy and stabilize our industrial life. Most of all, we can cle’an house of those who have lost the vision of a dynamic, progressive Amer ica in which men and women shall have equal social treatment, an equal ch’ance in life. An America of self respecting working men and women free of bias and ex ploitation- aware of the One World in which we live, ready to lead that world into a new area of peace, cooperation and prosperity among all the peoples of the world. —APA— Acts To Save Wyatt Housiig Progr a* NEW YORK — The NAACP •added its support to the rapidly growing campaign action over the tragic lack of housing. With alarmingly increasing indications that President Truman considers scrapping Housing Expediter Wy att's program for factory-built homes in favor of his long-time friend and advisor director George Allen of the Reconstruction Fin ance Corp., who bitterly opposes the housing program, the NAACP began mobilizing its forces for what appears to be an impending battle. President Trum'an was in receipt of a strong statement today, which expressed the stand taken by the Association. In a state ment addressed to the Chief Ex ecutive, the NAACP declared, the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People is deeply concerned with the tragic lack of housing especially for Ne gro veterans. This shortage is one of the chief causes of such success as organizaions like the Columbi ans and Ku Klux Klan have had to date. Situations facing Negro veterans and others can only be solved by continued price and ma terials control and vigorous af firmative support by you of the Wyatt veterans 'emergency hous ing program. We urge you to act now to save housing program from collapse and assure cooper ation of all branches of govern ment of national housing agency.’ FALL INJURIES F A T A L TO PACKING HOUSE WORKER Capt.John Adams Jr., Passes California Bar Exams Word was received in Omaha this week that Capt. John Adams Jr., former Omaha Attorney and Legislator, had passed the bar ex amination in California and will be sworn in on the 17th of Dec ember. He is stationed at Oak land, California in the Judge Ad vocate General’s Dept- of the Uni" ted States Army. He is the son of Rev. and Mrs. John Adams, Sr., of 2622 North Twenty-fourth St. and the brother of Atty. Ralph Adams. _ Every Week in The Greater OMAHA GUIDE Read Lawrence Lewis’ “ALONG MY WAY”— An accident on Saturday after noon at the Cudahy Packing Co., brought death Sunday to Ulysses L. Burroughs, 49, of 2519 Wirt St. Mr. Burroughs suffered a bro ken back when he fell backward on the cement floor from a three foot high wooden bench. He had been standing on the bench butch ering hogs. He was taken to St. Joseph’s j hospital where he died at 11:30 a- m- Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 p. m. from Pilgrim Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Favors officiat ing. He is survived by wife. Henriet ta, son Henley, both of Kansas City, Mo., and his father, Willie of Sioux City, Iowa- Myers Funeral Home in charge I MiHmHmmmnuiiHiimiiumtumiHiwmimMiwHuiiHiniiiiiwHiuiiiiiiiuniuiMmqimM jlNAT’L NEWS I 1 REVIEW — ‘Little Napoleon’ of Elkdom Ordered by N. Y. State Supreme Court to Hold An Election in Imprial Lodge Case NEW YORK, N. Y.. .Global Automatic ally lifting the sus pension of Imperial Lodge No. 127 IBPOE of W of 160 West 129th St in New York City, and holding the J. Finley Wilson-directed elec tion of a group of alleged insur gent members which was held on August 20th in the Lodge Home, illegal, New York State Supreme Court Judge James B. M. McNally ruled that Imperial Lodge No. 127 of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World should hold another elec tion ’at which all of the members of the Lodge would be present on December 3, 1946, at which the District Deputy of the Grand Lod ge must be present, and to be su pervised by Judge John R. Davis another Judge of the New York Supreme Court. The ruling was made on Nov ember 20th. Court Ignores J. Finley Wilson’s Plea for Dissolution of Imperial’s State Corporation In dispensing his Court Order for a new election, which would be representative of the entire membership of the Lodge, Judge James B. M. McNally tacitly ig nored the frenzied pleas of J. Fin ley Wilson and his co-Counsel. Attorneys Perry Howard and Watts, that Imperial Lodge break down or dissolve their N. Y., State Corporation immediately and turn ed over the member’s property to Elkdom’s Grand Lodge. Inste’ad, he made the above ruling and ad journed the case until December 13th. Imperial Lodge’s property holdings, which are owned exclu sively by the members, are listed at approximately $500,000 with a yearly revenue of over $100,000. Case Began Wh^n Wilson Was Served Summons in Buffalo At the Elks Convention J. Finley Wilson. Grand Exalted Ruler of the IBPOE of W started ,the present legal wrangle when he according to Mr. Arthur Brisbane exalted ruler of Imperial Lodge, arbitrarily and dictatorlally sus pended the Lodge January 3, 1946 for failure to break down the Lodges Corporation and turns the members property over to the Grand Lodge. When he failed Jo pay any heed to J. Finley Wilson’s suspension order. The court fight was initiated when Leonard H. Bell, public re lations officer and board member of Imperial Lodge No. 127, served Mr. Wilson with a Supreme Court summons on August 27th in Buf falo toward a court Injunction re straining Mr. Wilson and his dual lodge from interferring with Im perial Lodge property, sifter Wil son had held an election in Imper ial Lodge among the members, whom Mr. Bell contended were an insurgent group and that the elec tion was unauthorized. imperial Loage ino. mi /\sKea i-or an Election on 1st Hearing of Case Mr. Brisbane revealed that at the first hearing of this case in September, before Supreme Court Judge Ferdinand Pecora. who re ferred it to Judge John R. Davis for meditation. Imperial’s Attorn eys, Sidney Hirsh and Edwin Lad den, had offered a suggestion that all other issues be set aside and a new election be held to decide just who the membership wanted for their leader. But Mr. Brisbane declared, “this proposition was flatly rejected by the Grand Ex alted Ruler and His Counsel, Perry Howard and Watts, who in their refusal to accept this pro position, stated that they first w-anted the property turned over to the Grand Lodge and the Cor poration broken down after which they would be willing to consider anything.” Mr. Brisbane feels that Imperial Lodge No. 127 and the Elks lod ges throughout the jurisdiction have won a complete moral and technical victory over a dictatorial leader, J. Finley Wilson, and an arbitrary power-mad Grand Lodge who have been is power too long.” FIRST COLORED WOMENS LEGIOy POST CHARTERED CHICAGO. HI.—The first all women’s colored American Legion post has been chartered here. It is composed of colored World War n service women. The new post h'as been designa ted as the Pallas Athene Post 1103 JEWISH CONGRESS SEEKS SEGREGATION ELIMINATION IN CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS Brief Filed Against Segre gation of Mexicans, Latins, Negroes and other Minor ities in Orange County LOS ANGELES—A legal attack aimed at the elimination of segre gation of Mexicans, Negroes and other minorities was launched here by the American Jewish Congress in a brief amicus curiae filed in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The case, Westminster School Board vs. Mendez, Involves an ap_ peal by the local school authori ties of Orange County, California from a Federal District Court ru ling that segregating school chil dren of Mexican of Latin descent into separate schools is a violation of the 14th Amendment. The significance of the Ameri can Jewish Congress’ brief rests in its argument that segregation per se. irrespective of the so called ed equality of the facilities invol ved, is discriminatory and there fore unconstitutional. Since 1896 so called Jim Crow segregation laws, state enforced, have been up held where the facilities for segre gated groups are considered equal to those provided others. The American Jewish Congress’ brief attacks the doctrine of sep (Continued on page 2) according to Department Adjutant William C. Mundt. It has 15 char ter members. Grace B. Prettyman is post commander. This raises the number of wom en’s posts in the American Legion to 145 of which 84 ‘are World War II posts. MM. PANDIT, WALTER WHITE SPEAK AT RALLY NEW YORK..Making one of the rare public appearances that her duties as head of the Indian delegation to the United Nations permit Mrs. Vijaya L. Pandit, ta-. lented sister of the brilliant Jawa harlal Nehru, spoke last Sunday at the Golden Gate Ballroom here. Sharing the platform with Mrs. Pandit was Walter White. The meeting under the auspices of the | New York Branch NAACP, cli maxed the Goth'am drive for 10, 000 new members. Mrs. Pandit, acclaimed one of her country’s great leaders as well as among the world’s truly beautiful women, has recently been making headlines because of her frequent sharp clashes at Lake Success, Long Island, where the United Nations General As sembly is convening, with General Jan Christian Smuts and other members of South Africa which arbitrarily demands annexation of Southwest Afric’a, a source of. much mineral and material riches, j Her consistent championing of j the rights of colored peoples in ■ general and of Indians specifically has moulded a career of extreme interest. Bom into luxury forty six years ago ’as a daughter of one of India’s most powerful law yers she nevertheless has devoted her life to the arduous and some times thankless task of seeking India’s freedom through work with the Congress party. Twice in 1930 and again in 1932, she was jailed by the British for her ac tivities. Yet in 1937 she emerged as the first woman Cabinet min ister when the Congress party formed a government in the Uni ted Provinces, and now she is the first and only woman to head 'a delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. Last year she made an extensive tour of'the Uni ted States pleading the cause of Indian independence. Powell's Rift A False Report NEW YORK CITY. (Calvin’s News Service—New Workers were amazed by a report carried as an exclusive in a western sheet sug gestion there had been a rift in the Congressman Adam C. Pow ell-Hazel Scott household. Invest igation indicates the report to be a slap from a disgruntled press agent with an itchy palm. Most New Yorkers consider the story a model of wishful thinking that will never come true. The family life of the Powell trio. Hazel, Dad ■and Junior stacks up well enough with that of any average Ameri can family. Committee Demands Justice Dept. Act unniuiitni”wmntnminuiMimnM»imn» —" mm*