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Iht We?lL-r King Gets Congratulations Jo Stafford, Johnny Desmond and bandleader Stan Kenton 1 iffer their congratulations to Nat ‘King’ Cole on his new NBC radio irogram (Saturdays at 5:45 p.m. EST) for Wildroot. This makes two veb shows for the King Cole Trio since the boys are still featured m .the Kraft Music Hall over NBC every Thursday night. King ?ofe trie, with Kenton's orchestra on the same bill, just broke a weivty ear all-time attendance record at the Paramount theater in Broadway. — .. ■ .. . Makes Film Debut ; DOROTHY MAYNOR, nationally famous soprano, is scheduled to jnake her initial screen debut in “A Message from Dorothy Maynor” presented by the National Tuberculosis Associotion) The film is being produced by Emerson Yorke, a New York City production company, and distribution is expected to begin by the first of the year. (ANP) CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS • 1 So be it 5 Measure (Heb.) , 9 Two wheeled vehicle (colloq.) 10 Displayed 11 Detested 12 Clamor 14 Tart 15 American Indian 16 Haul 17 High, craggy hill 18 Personal pronoun 119 Japanese city (poss.) ,21 Run away 23 Metal 24 Silkworm 25 Internal decay of fruit 27 Outgrowths of stems 30 American moth 31 Lubricate 32 Epoch 33 Copy from an original 36 Cry of a calf (var.) 37 Lift 38 Ascended 39 Pain (Dial.) 40 Fervr,e,'tcd juice cf grapes 41 Blundc -s 42 Supports DOWN tl Calculating ! instrument Solution in Next Issue. No. 26 2 Alleviate 3 Pieced cut 4 -Man's i nickname 5 Possessor 6 Satellite 7 Afnerican Indian 8 Free from danger 11 Circle of light 112 Ccmfcrt 15 Distress signal 17 Brown, as in the sun's rays 20 Outfit 21 Erother (Monk’s title) 22 Long in passing 24 Elongated fish 25 A litter 26 Settle 27 Falsehood 28 Rubs ont 29 To gratify to wariness 31 Unrolls 34 A layer 35 River <Eur.) GC French O’’'OS"' SG Kole-r Arc ing tool An*«rer to Pnirfe Number 25 \ t C. it 5k tx-ltt Lake Street BOWLING Alley News By Miidred Martin - I You know, friends, it is really beginning to become a problem to obtain an alley at the Lanes now. adays. The crowds are so heavy that if you want to wait 'til late in the evening now to go bowling : you are just out of luck, for every i one rushes there early and stay ; I until late. Buying and owning your own | ball is also becoming a fad, for | : as a new week rolls in we al ways have at least one new ball owner to add to our list. This week we want to congratulate Corne lius Arnold, president of our Lea gue, owns his own ball. Upon be ing asked its name, he says he will call it “Texana”. Why, he doesn’t say but could it be because Texas is his home state? We also are informed that Elsie Johnson has decided to call her ball “Tip. ping In”. We’ll have to ask her why also. We want to congratulate the new team of young girls, captain ed by Betty Jackson known as the Bewares. They are really coming on strong for a new team and gi ving plenty of competition to every team they come in contact with. The names of the team’s members are: Anna Ware; Betty White; Ruth Lewis and Elsie Johnson. League games were: Sunday nite found the Lefties facing the Junior Hellcats the latter winning two, their opponents one; Tuesday was the Hellcat’s against the Be wares. The Hellcat’s won two, the Bewares one; Wednesday night was the Tigers against the Lake street Wonders, the Tigers win. ning one, the Wonders two; Thurs day found the Trojans facing the Lions, the Lions winning two. the Trojans one; Friday was the Bac chanites against the Lefties, the former winning all three. High scores for the week were obtained by Anna Ware and Ed- | ward Slater. Anna had a score of 177 and received a bubble bath assortment with 24 different fla vors. Edward had a score of 222 and received a tobacco pouch. Mr. Rosfcoe Knight,, manager of the Bowling Lanes wants to thank his many patrons for their patronage as the year draws to a close and I quote him saying; “To my many friends, you have pro ven to me beyond the slightest margin of a doubt, that you ap. predate good, clean recreation. A | place where women can go with babies in their arms and feel con sented. Fathers bowl with wives. ' daughters and sons. A place wher« the entire family goes. Ladies are | always respected because the young and old men are always perfect gentlemen. I am wishing you a prosperous and happy New Year. To the Captains and co workers of all league teams. I wish to thank all for their fine cooperation in the past year and as you strive to reach the top I with your team in the bowling I league, I thank you sincerely. All I are welcome at the lanes at any time and wll always be treated with utmost courtesy.” ! So until next.. adieu bowling fans. TEXAS COURT DENIES NEGRO RIGHT TO ENTER ‘WHITE’ UNIVERSITY AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 17th..Ac tion by the NAACP against the Board of Regents of the Univer sity of Texas, to compel them to admit Heman Marion Sweatt, a Negro applicant, to their school of law in the absence of a “sep arate but equal” law school for Negroes in the state, was blocked today in the District Court of Tra vis County, in a surprising and unwarranted order handed down by Judge Roy C. Archer, dismiss ing the NAACP’s petition for a writ of mandamus. On June 17th, Judge Archer had entered an or. der giving the university of Tex as six months in which to esta blish a law school for Negroes, saying at that time, that if such a school was not established, the writ should be issued. So bitterly has the state of Texas opposed the admission of a Negro into the heretofore, all - white law school that Attorney General Gro. ver Sellers himself appeared in the crowded court to file a motion urging that the NAACP’s petition be dismissed, although no eviden ce was introduced as to whether a Negro school was established or would be established. All that the Attorney General’s motion con tained was a resolution by the Board of Regents of the Texas A & M College, authorizing the est ablishment of a law scchool, and stating that a law school for Ne groes would be established in Hou ston, Texas, .“that the Governor will be asked for a defiency ap propriation to provide for the cost I of any instructions.” The Atty. General s motion was immediately contested by Mr.: Sweatt’s attorney’s, Thurgood Mar shall, NAACP Special Counsel, W. J. Durham, James M.'Nabritt, Jr., C. Dunkley, and Robert L. Carter, NAACP Assistant Coun sel, who argued that the only an swer and justification for a sep arate law school for Negroes was the actual establishment of a separate school completely equal, and that, unless a school was actually established and in operation, the writ of mandamus should be issued. The assistant Attorney General insisted that they were going to establish a separate law school, which state ment was backed up by the Atty. i General, who said that he would “fight until the end of the breath in his body to maintain the sy. stem of segregation.” The highly highly debatable or der issued by Judge Archer sta ted, “.. the law school for legal training substantially equivalent to that offered at the University of Texas has now been made avail able to the relator.. (and that)., writ of mandamus sought herein be in all things denied.. ” Counsel for Mr. Sweatt will ap peal this action in the Court of Civil Appeals for the third Su preme Judicial District of the State of Texas. That the attitude of a large The Dreamers TOP HOLLYWOOD QUARTETTE, who are now enroute to the Pacific on a USO-Camp Shows tour. All top ranking concert art ists, the Quartette is comprised of (left to right) Charles Grose, ten or, Maudie Biilbrew, soprano, James Stewart,, baritone and General White, bosso and manager of the group. ANP 1 part of the University is not as hostile as that of some State of. ficials was demonstrated at a mass meeting for the NAACP the night of the hearing, in Austin, when J. Frank Dobie, professor a the university, told a crowd of several thousand students and in terested members of the commu nity, that if the state does not set up a university equal to the Uni versity of Texas, he was in favor of admiting Negroes to the Uni- , versity of Texas. The president of the University's student bodyr, a young veteran, said a group of students were for Christanity, de. mocracy, equality and justice now adding that he wanted to correct a false impression. “If Negroes were admitted to the University of Texas, they would not be shun ned and outcast. They would be my friends and would have many friends among other students..” In a telephone conversation w ith Walter White NAACP Executive Secretary, a few moments after court had adjourned, Thurgood Marshall stated: “We shall carry on this fight to provide adequate professional education opportunities for Ne groes to a successful finish. It is apparent now that v,Te are not alone.. even in Texas. The court room was packed with young Texans students of the University who sat cross-legged on the floor and aisle cheering on the NAACP attorneys in their fight for dem. ocracy.’’ H. M. MANN NAMED RACIAL RELATIONS ADVISER OF NAT’L HOUSING AGENCY Regional Administrator, Charles J. Horan, of the National Hous ing Agency today announced the appointment of Harold M. Mann, as assistant regional racial rela tions adviser. Working with Geo. B. Nesbitt, regional relations ad viser, Mann’s chief responsibility will be to assist in assuring that a fair proportion of new housing is made available to Negro vet erans and to ex.servicemen in other minority groups. He will also assist in interpreting the a gency’s program t o minority groups and in making known the housing needs of minorities to builders and to the general pub lic. “Mr. Mann has had a broad ex perience in helping to meet the problems of racial minorities,” Horan said. “During the war, he was assistant regional supervisor and later, regional supervisor of the W’ar Relocation Authority, having responsibility for assisting Japanese-Americans to find hous. ing, employment and social ac ceptance in the middle west. Prior to the war, he was in charge of the selection of Illinois WPA wor kers for retraining for private employment and of their place ment in such employment. A big part of this work involved the overcoming of objections to hiring non.white workers especially for semi-skilled and skilled machine operations.” NAACP CONTINUES CAMPAIGN TO DENY BILBO SENATE SEAT NEW YORK, Dec. 18_The Na. tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People con tinued its unrelenting program to have race-hating, Mississippi de mogue, Senator Theodore Bilbo forced out of his seat in the upper House before the 80th Con gress convenes. The Association’s fight, on a wide front, was being spearheaded by Walter White, the executive secretary, and the Asso ciation’s legal representative at the recently concluded hearings in Mississippi, Attorney Charles H. Houston. Mr. White was continu ing pressure upon senatorial mem bers of the Investigating Commit tee who would vote on the status of the Mississippian while Atty. Houston persisted in his efforts to introduce the NAACP’s final brief challenging Bilbo’s election. Mr. White, who mobilized the Mississippi NAACP branches dur ing the historic hearings in Jack son, which gave Mississippian and the rest of the nation an unpre cedented spectacle of Negro vet erans fearlessly testifying against the rabid spokesman for white supremacy, urgently wired Sena, tor Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma Democrat, who reached his seat in the Senate through a large Negro vote, the following telegram. “May I express on behalf of the NAACP with 1400 branches, youth councils and college chapters and bi-racial membership of 535.000 the sincere hope that you will see fit to vote against seating of Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo for his vicious TUNEFUL WORK Harold ‘-hum” clakk, pian ist of the Harmonaires, and Rag lan Reid, director of the singing group, do a little special arrang. ing before their broadcast on NBC’s Circle Arrow Program. (ANP) atacks on racial minorities. I was informed in Washington yes terday that your vote may be the deciding one in the committee of five. We ask you to oppose seat ing Senator Bilbo because his ad mitted vicious incitements to mqb violents against Negroes for at. tempting to exercise their consti tutional right to vote is the most dangerous anti-democratic force operataing in the United States in America. Exercise by the Senate of its right to determine the qual ifications of its members in re jecting Senator Bilbo will serve notice on other demagogues that American public and official opin. ion is at least aroused to voice de cency an democracy instead of bi gotry. It will also say to the world which is now attempting to build a United Nations and a lasting peace that democracy is not de cadent and that Senator Bilbo does not speak for the maiority of A mericans as is now believed by many people of other nations. And finally, rejection of Senator Bilbo by the Senate will reassure Amer. ican Negroes and other minorities that the war for democracf was not fought in vain and that they too will share in the fruits of de mocracy.” Atty. Houston, in an effort to offset any attempts to confuse the issues, reminded Senator Allen J Ellender, (Dem. La.) chairman of one of the investigating commit tees that, .“the inquiry before : your committee, as established by the NAACP-LaFollette memoran dum brief, is the legality of the election which purports to .return Senator Bilbo to the Senate. This includes the campaign for nomina. tion and the primary election for United States Senator from Miss issippi. Senator Bilbo himselr ack nowledges he had no opposition in the general election and that not a single vote was cast against • him.” In another message to Sena tor Ellender, Houston stated: “May I add my individual re quest to be heard as a voteless citizen of the District of Columbia whose government is so largely in hands of Senate Committee on District of Columbia of which Senator Bilbo as chairman claims to be the ‘mayor’ of Washington, and on which he will be ranking minority member after convening new Congress if seated. Respect, fully submit citizens of District of Columbia have as direct and as primary a right to be heard as citizens of Mississippi on question of Senator Bilbo's qualifications and his nomination and election. Will appreciate your advice my office 615 F. Street, Northwest. Washington, D. C. when and where final brief may be presen ted and oral argument heard by your Committee.” SOUTHERN CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTES TO COMMIT’EE FOR JUSTICE IN TENNESSEE New York, Dec. 18—For the work of the National Committee for Justice in Columbia. Tenn. the Southern Conference for Hu man Welfare, on December 7th, sent a check for $501.16 to the NAACP. Their appeal in the Columbia case raised $4,325.64 of which $4,024.48 was spent in distribu ting some 200,000 copies of a pam phlet on the riot. Their contribu tion represents the total amount realized after expenses had been deducted. CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATOR FINED IN ALASKA COURT New York, Dec. 18—For his refusal to serve Mrs. Beatrice Coleman, a Negro, a Fairbanks, Alaska, tavern keeper was fined ALONG MY WAY (BY LAWRENCE P. LEWIS) A LETTER TO MOM DEAR MOM: I It has been quite some time since I have written you and I really have no excuse. Somehow you always seem to understand and I keep telling myself that you [do understand. I know that I am only doing some wishful thinking, and I should write oftener. As al ways I promise again that I will write more often in the future. It isn’t that I don’t think of you Mom. I think of you every day, and sometimes oftener than that. Everytime I look at my little dau ghter I think of you. She is the image of vou Mora. Has the same mouth and forehead. Her little nose and big brown eyes are you all over again. I only hope that she will grow up and be as lovely kind and generous, as you are Mom. Christmas at our house was a. : bout the best ever We always did get a big kick out of Christmas. I guess I overspent a little, but af ter watching the jov a few dollars can bring, it was worth it. Everv time I see someone real happy at Christmas time it reminds me of the time that you received your first electwc washing machine. How you priced it more than any other of the gifts. I don't see how you washed all of those dirty ov eralls on that washboard for so many years. You certainly had it tough. Mom. I didn’t go to Church this Christ mas. I ernes® rPOple would call me a backslider or somethin®'. Not that I don’t believe in God. God knows that I do. He has answered mv pravers so many tim es. I guess I will have to start go ing to Church more often, but I always have ®aid the same thing. Haven't I. Mom? I intend to visit you and the fam ily as soon as I can get some money together. I have said that before, but I mean it this time. As soon as I can get a few dollars to gether I’m coming this time for sure. I want to see those wander ing brothers and sisters of mine. Of course, most of all I want to see you. Hazel hasn’t written for quite some time, but her children do keep her busy. I thought she was coming here for Christmas, but she didn't. Did you enjoy your, self the last time that you visited her. That boy of hers is really growing. And little Pat is as pretty as a picture. Soon the Republicans will take over. Your party is again in pow er. I guess you are still a Repub lican. I hope that they do some thing worthwhile, like sending Bilbo back to the cotton fields. They won’t though. I can't under stand it. What a world. Oh well time will take care of everything. The last time we heard from you you were not feeling so well. I do hope you are better by now. Let me know if you need anything. Since we have grown up most of us forget that we should return some of that love that you have showered on us for the many years. I certainly have been neg lectful, but Mom. I've always lov. ed vou. You know that. Please take care of yourself. Mom. Tell all the children hello. I miss all of them as well as you. Mom. Keep writing me, Mom, and before you know it, one of those days 111 be walking up on the front porch. Pauline and Judy send their love. Pretty lucky fel low don’t you think? All my love, LAWRENCE. $250 by the United States Com. missioner's Court, when he was found guilty under the Alaska Civil Rights Statute. Mrs. Coleman, a resident of the> Territory, of Alaska appealed to the NAACP Legal Department for assistance when she was first discriminated against, and the pocedure followed in obtaining re sress was that advised by the NAACP staff. L. S. U. DEFENDS ITS SEGREGATION POLICY i New York. Dec. 18—Louisiana State University is putting up a viborous court battle to prohibit two Negroes from enrolling in its medical and law schools. At a pre liminary hearing in Baton Rouge, La., on December 16, counsel for the University argued that the writ of mandamus requested by NAACP attorneys compelling the Board of Regents to admit Chas. J. Hatfield and Viola bohnson to the University will not lie, since, by the laws of Louisiana, Negro es are required to attend separ. ate schools. It is argued by A. P. Turead and Robert L. Carter, lawyers that the" Fourteenth Amendment, at the very least, requires that if segregation is maintained by the state# it must provide equal faci lities for Negroes, and since there is not a separate medical or law school for Negroes, the petition ers, Charles Hatfield and Viola Johnson, must be admitted to ex isting facilities... that is to Louis, iana State University. Typic&l of the attitude of this Southern university is the state ment made by B. B. Taylor, Jr., Bids Goodbye mllr nfffrTfrihr *' UNITED NEW \ORK CIT\—Pretty Una Mae Carlisle bids ‘ ‘Bye” to a group of friends who saw her off as she boarded the plane for her “frolics Show Bar” engagement in Detroit, Michigan. Before leav ing for the Motor City with her hubby—Johnnie Bradford who is al so her personal manager—Una Mae spent a few days with her friend Carrie Stancel of 351 West 114th Street where she took a needed rest after a three month’s tour. As a triple-attraction Star Miss Carlisle is always a Box-ofifce attraction, and Keeps ‘em “wow ing for more just as she is dqng in Detroit. Out in Chicago she was such a sensation that she was held over at the El Grotto. Soon her engagements will take her to the Coast for a lengthy tour. and while on the Coast she will perhaps make a motion picture for one of the major studios. 30,000,000 AMERICAN CITIZENS SAY. Bilbo Must Not Be Seated January 3rd NEW ORK—Delegates from organization?, churches, unions, and veterans’ groups will convene in Washington on January 2, to demand the ouster of Senator Bilbo, and the passage of Federal Anti-Lynching legislation it was announced today by the American Crusade to End Lynching. Immanuel Neumark, Executive Sec’y. of the organization, indicated that a planning conference of all dele gates will be held in Washington on January 2, followed by meet ings with Congressional leaders on January 3, prior to the opening of Congress at noon on that day. “The American Crusade to End L. S. U. counsel, who said: “Public policy of segregation is based on the experience that the mingling of the two races in the past has always resulted in fric tion and trouble. .Those who will force the intermingling of white: and Negroes are not the friends of Negroes.” In the state of Louisiana, as well as in courts throughout the country, this statement will be challenged as he fight being wa ged by true “friends of Negroes'' goes on toward ultimate victorj. FINE FARMER-KILLERS OF VETERAN $200 EACH DANVILLE, 111. (ANP)—Nine white farmers, found guilty of conspiring to violate federal civil rights acts by depriving a Negro veteran, of his life and liberty without due process of law. were fined $200 each in Federal Judge '■ Walter C. Lindley's court here ] last Monday. At the same time, I Judge Walter Lindley dismissed conspiracy charges against a sheriff, two deputies and a form er deputy, upon evidence that they were not at the scene of the shooting. Victim of the shooting wras 33 year.old James Edward Person of Sommerville, Tenn. Person, who ;’iad been honorably discharger? from the navy, was said to have been living in the woods in the vicinity of the Illinois-Indiana bor der and engaged in frightening farm families by peering in their windows. i According to Defense Counsel i W. M. Acton, “Person had been 1 carrying a hammer and loitering 1 in tnis community seeking food j and water at various houses". Sheriff John Trierwiler testified ; that 10 days prior to the shooting j he and his deputies, James Elliot j and Herbert Beasley and former Deputy Pearl Miller, had received reports from worried farmers a bout the presence of a ‘wild man’ in the woods. A search of the woods failed to net the capture or even a sight of Person. On Oct. 12, 1942, a group of farmers, beating through t h e | woods of Vigo county, Ind. saw Person and fired at him. Later that day. he was sighted by an other group a mile inside the Illi nois line and was fired upon a. gain. Both groups broke up with out being able to apprehend the fugitive, but on Nov. 26 his body riddled with 60 shotgun slugs and one bullet was found on James Stickler’s farm in Edgar county, ni. The farmers and sheriff offi cers were indicted July 13, 1943, by a federal grand jury at East St. Louis, HI. The men fined pleaded nolo contendere, and de clined to contest charges of civil rights violation. J. C. Heard Wins Case Against Dismissal By N. Y. Cafe Owner A situation which might have affected the right of all musicians to play benefit performances was narrowly averted last week when J. C. Heard, whose crack band is about to complete a solid year of performances, at Cafe Society Downtown. New' York’s smart Greenwhich Village rendezvous, managed to settle amicably his dispute with the management. Heard, who had previously re ceived the .management's permis sion to play for the Tenth Amst erham Star News Benefit for the Harlem Needy at the Apolo The. ater (Sat. Dec. 7th) returned to the club twenty minutes late. The ielay was caused by a wait back Lynching”, INeumark stated, “or ganized a delegation of 2,500 Americans to Washington o n September 23 under the leader ship of Paul Robeson, to demand effective Federal action against lynchers. We are returning to Washington as Congress convenes with a group of three hundred or more delegates, each representing an important group citizens in his or her community. We are lifting our voices to demand that those who comuit lynching and those who inspire it shall be restrained by the force of effective Federal action." Neumark emphasized in his statement that Senate action on the question of seating Senator Bilbo is likely to occur immedi ately after the sessions opens on noon of January 3. “The Crusade is urging all delegates”, he point ed out, “to be in Washington on the afternoon of January 2, so that we can have ample time to express our opposition to seating Bilbo before the session starts." stage, despite the fact that police escort whisked them to the Apol lo and back. The management, in a moment of anger, dismissed the band and Heard was forced to refer the dispute to Local 802 of the Am erican Federation of Musicians. After a union hearing lasting al most one hour, it became clear that the union board would sus. tain Heard’s position. The Cafe Society Downtown management, thereupon withdrew its dismissal notice and Heard withdrew his complaint. With tempers cooled, Heard and the club management are arm in arming it once again according to latest reports. • WATCH for The GUIDE’S Cameraman! FOR THE / LATEST Z PICTURES "I READ THE OMAHA GUIDE Gross JEWELRY & LOAN CO. PHONE JA-4635 formerly at 24th & Erskine St. NEW LOCATION I 516 North 16th |