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GUEST
: Column
<Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS)
The Caribbean
By Clarence Senior, Research
Director Social Science Center,
University of Puerto Rico
The Caribbean Sea is the scene
of a little-known attempt to grap
ple with colonial problems on a
regional basis which brings en
couragement to believers in “one
world.” Politically, the Carribbean
is split into 12 independent coun
tries and the colonies of four em
pires. Ethnically, the peoples of
the world are well represented by
Africans, East Indians, American
Indians, Chinese, Europeans, An
Anglo and Latin Americans. The
non-self-governing territories con
tain around 6,000,000 inhabitants
and the republics have aboui
50.000,000.
Georgaphic obstacles hamper the
movement of men and g«>ds on
much of Ut'. tropical mainland, but
on the sea itself an itber type of
handicap is found -the man-made
barriers erected on the basis of
imperialism, nationalism and other
anachronistic belief. These bar
riers intefere with trade between
the islands, with raising standards
of living, with improving educa
tion, and with the building of a
broad-based, inclusive democracy
bereft of class, caste, color and
religious restrictions. ‘Here seem
to converge the by-products of all
the economic an dpolitica! errors
made by man in the past five hun
dred years,” said Charles W. Taus
sig.
The depression of the thirties
plus the impact of World War II
on the region began to shake some
of the once sacrosanct attitudes
of colonial officials, the sugar
planters, the military, and the
middle class, which tries to keep
its skirts away from the morass
in which the workers and peasants
live. Labor parties and unions
were organized. Demands for im
provements were presented. Riots
occurred when desperation led to
extreme measures. Labor leaders
were jail_i. Committees were ap
pointed to investigate, and event
ually "oxe action was taken on
their recommendations. Greater
political participation was grant
ed in the British colonies fairly
quickly, war interfered with many
of these activities and tossed ur
gent bread-and-butter problems
into the hopper. The leasing of
air and naval bases to the United
States and the flooding of some
of the military and civilian per
sonnel wearing the “white supre
macy” chip on their shoulders
created serious situations.
The Anglo-American Caribbean
Commission,'chaired for the Unit
ed States by Mr. Taussig, was
created to try to solve some of
these problems. The Commission
tackled the pressing war-born
troubles and kept at them during
the emergency. Annual reports
since its organization in 1942 are
useful reading to anyone interest
ed in the problems of colonial and
other “backward” p«oples.
The Commission has now adjust
ed its activities to times of peace.
It has taken the highly significant
step of bringing the Dutch and
French into the picture. The
Commission is now a four-power
affair. A Caribbean Research
Council is getting down to brass
tacks on the long-range needs of
the region. Perhaps the most use
ful arm of the Commission is the
West Indian Conference, a forum
for the peoples of the area, which
has now held two meetings where
opinions are fully and freely ex
pressed. The second conference,
which the writer was fortunate in
attending, marked a real stride
forward in democratic participa
tion. Fifteen colonial entities ir*
the Caribbean were represented,
usua’ly by at least one “people's
delegate,” as contrasted with a
colonial official. The complexion of
the second assembly was much
darker than the first: of the 29
delegates. 23 were natives of the
area. :■ k*'l
After the destroyer bases deal
in 1940, United States prestige
took a nose-dive as a result of the
ill-considered actions of many
continentals. The region still looks
askance at our domestic scene and
wonders how much longer visious
racism and religious bigotry will
prevail. The debate on the promo
tion of tourism at the West In
dian Conference indicated the fear
of many of the delegates that tour
ists would bring their prejudice
with them.
The organization provides a tool
with great potentialities. Whether
it will be used to tackle 3ome of
the more fundamental problems of
the region depends primarily on
public opinion in the metropolitan
countries. Since the abolition of
colonialism is one of the most ur
gent matters on the world’s agen
da today, all who believe in the
wides possible extension of de
mocracy should follow carefully
the work of the Caribbean Com
mission.
Firemen Battle
Blaze At Famous
Old Hotel Patton
Firemen battled smoke Satur
day afternoon caused from an
overheated stove which damaged
several third floor rooms at the
Patton Hotel, 1014 South 11th st.
None of the guests were injured.
A land mark of the South 13th
st. district the Patton Hotel was
for many years operated by Mr.
and Mrs. Patton, long time local
residents. Because of its proxim
ity to the railroad stations, the
Pattor. Hotel for many years has
been the home of visiting Sleeping
Car porters and Dining Car wait
ers. Since the death of Mr. Pat
ton, several years ago. Mrs. Pat
ton has carried on the busines
until recently when the property
was leased to other operators.
NAACP. OUTLINES
15-Pt. PROGRAM For 80th CONGRESS
500,000 Americans From Every1State In Union
DEMAND BILBO BE BARRED
Senators Robert F. Wagner, (D., N. Y.) and H. Styles Bridg
s, (R., N. H.) reeeivez petitions circulated by the Civil
Rights Congress, with signatures of 500,000 Americans from
every state in the union, demanding that Senator Theodore
C. Bilbo be barred. Presentation of the petitions took place
January 3rd in Senator Wagner’s office before the opening
of the 80th Senate. Participating in the ceremony (1 to r)
Charlotta Bass, editor California Eagle, Milton Kaufman,
exec. dir. Civil Rights Congress, Senator Wagner and Sen
ator Bridges.
STATEMENT BY MILTON
KAUFMAN, EXECUTIVE DIR.
OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS CONG.
ONTHE BILBO COMPROMISE
The majority of the American
people will rejoice in the unani
mous decision of the United
States Senate to ask Theodore Bil
bo to go home for two months.
The rejection of Bilbo is a victory
for decency and a blow to the
whole system of discrimination
against racial and religious min
orities which plagues our nation.
The Civil Rights Congress, which
launched the initial campaign to
oust Bilbo, applauds the bi-parti
san character of the temporary
ouster, at the same time warning
that the millions of our citizens
throughout the nation will not
stand for Bilbo sneaking in any
other door of the Senate now that
the front door is temporarily bar
red.
Signatures continue to pour in
on our popular petition, a half mil
lion signatures having already
been placed in the hands of Sena
tors Bridges and Wagner for pre
sentation to the Senate. We shall
not rest until the Senate has posi
tively barred Bilbo and all the
oolitical and social ugliness he
stands for.
The people wili be strengthened
and encouraged into demanding
that the new Congress remain on
the path of protecting civil and
democratic freedoms and that the
rights of labor, of racial, religious,
national and political minorities
will be safeguarded.
The Civil Rights Congress is
pleased with the present results
of the campaign it started last
summer, when it began to collect
evidence of the fraud, intimidation
and open incitation to violence to
which Bilbo is guilty. Democratic
America owes a debit of gratitude
to the courageous citizens of Mis
sissippi. mainly Negro, who 3tood
up to Bilbo and dared to challenge
his theory and practice of race
supremacy and lawlessness.
JOHN G. WINANT ACCEPTS
CHAIRMANSHIP OF AMERICAN
BROTHERHOOD WEEK
John G. Winant, former Ambas
sador to England, reportedly ac
cepted the general chairmanship
of the Fourteenth Annual Amer
ican Brotherhood Week—Feb. 16
23, sponsored by the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews.
The local chapter, header by
Miss N. Austin has been active in
promoting inter-faith and inter
racial cooepration in Omaha by
Promoting special activities, pro
grams, meetings, etc., in coopera
tion with local church, YWCA,
Urban League and USO gToups.
CONFESSES BURGLARY
James Young. 45. 2102 Grace
«t.. renortedlv admited to police
that he burglarized the Nalilow
Cafe. 2756 Dodge st. three times
before his fourth and unsuccessful
attempt resulting in his capture.
Pleading guilty to a charge of
breaking and entering before Dis
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trict Judge Frank Dineen, Fri
day, Jan. 10, sentencing of Young
was deferred.
LEONARD HAWKINS
New Sports
Columnist
Leonard Hawkins, boxing coach,
city recreation department, joined
the Omaha Guide as Sports Staff
Columnist. Mr. Hawkins, a former
light and middleweight boxer in
the Omaha and Council Bluffs
area is currently training local
young boxing aspirants for Golden
Gloves try-outs. Mr. Hawkins
also has ably assisted Mrs. Wil
liam Peebles, director, Logan Fon
tenelle Recreation Center, in deve
lopment of rcrational programs,
and has cooperated with Mr. John
Butler, executive secretary. North
Side Branch, YMCA with teen
age programs.
Mr. Hawkins; who resides at
2207 Franklin Plaza, is married
and has four children.
Negro Vet
NAACP Protests
Dismissal of
WASHINGTON—Protesting to
General Omar Bradley the dismis
sal of a war veteran, wounded in
action, from his job at the Veter
ans' Administration facility at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Jesse O.
Dedmon, NAACP Secretary of
Veterans’ Affairs today sent a
telegram to the Veterans’ Admin
istration. Mr. James Miles, a dish
washer, and holder of the Purple
Heart, was dismissed for malfeas
ance and non-feasance. Although
the matter was brought to the
attention of the St. Louis Civil
Service Commission, which decid
ed, after hearing the case in Mr.
Miles favor, and recommended his
reinstatement, the Veterans Ad
ministration declined to reinstate
him, and appealed to the Civil
Service Commission in Washing
ton, D. C.
This action was taken issue with
by Mr. Dedmon in his wire to
General Bradley, in which he
■stated:
“The National Association for
’he Advancement of Colored Peo
ple lodges its protest against the
action of the Veterans’ Adminis
tration in the case of Mr. James E.
Miles, a Negro war veteran, who
was discharged from the Ceterans
Administration facility at Jeffer
son Barracks. Missouri.
“We request that the recommen
dations of the regional Civil Ser
vice Commission be complied with
and that any further dismissals
or discharges based on race or
color be setonned by the Veterans’
Administration.’ ’
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NEW YORK—The National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, at its annual
meeting, January 6, looked to the
new Congress with hope temperec
with skepticism. Memer of' the
Association, meeting for the 38th
time, in the Wendell Willkie Mem
orial auditorium, called for con
gressional action o na 15-] toint
legislative program recomme ided
by Walter White, executive sicre
tary and designed “to strengthen
the democratic system” and spread
its benefits to all citizens.
Thurgood Marshall, chief cpun
sel, outlined a legal program- for
1947 which ill include intensified
court action against “discrinana
tory registration practices.” *
The legislative program recom
mended by Mr. White follows:
1. A Federal anti-lynching bill.
2 Adequate Federal Civil Rights
legislation.
3. A strong FEPC bill.
4. A bill to abolish the poll-Jtax.
5. A bill for federal aid to a
low-cost housing program, with
proper safeguards for the rights
of minorities.
6 A bill amending immigration
laws to re-establish lapsed quotas
and otherwise permit displaced
persons in Europe to enter the
United States.
7. A bill to include domestics
and agricultural workers under the
Social Seurity Act.
8. A bill to provide Federal aid
to the states for eduation, with
proper safeguards or the rights of
minority groups in states having
separate school systems.
9. A minimum wage bill for
workers producing goods for inter
state commerce.
10. A national health bill '
11. A bill to prohibit the segre
gation of passengers in inter-state
travel.
12. A civil rights bill for the
District of Columbia.
13. Abolition of the Wood-Ran
kip Committee on un -/American
Acitivities. •
14. Amendment of the Senate
rules to invoke cloture against
filibustering by a majority, instead
of a two-thirds vote.
15. Maintenance of rent con
trols.
Four new members elected to
the NAACP board of directors for
three year terms ending Dec. 31,
1949, were Eric Johnston and
Philip Murray,, both of Washing
ton, D. C.; Dr. George D. Flem
mings. of Fortworth, Texas and
Dr. Nathan K. Christopher, of
Cleveland, Ohio. Directors re
elected were: Dr. Louis T. Wright,
New York City; Hon. Charles E.
Toney, New York City; Theodore
Spaulding, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mary
White Ovington, New York City;
Dr. O. Clay Maxwell, New York
City; Allen F. Jackson, Hartford,
Conn.; Earl B. Dickerson, Chicago,
111.; Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers,
New York City and the Hon. Ar
thur Capper, Topeka, Kans
TO BE ELECTROCUTED
SECOND TIME
According to a recent ruling of
the Supreme Court, the State of
Louisiana, may make a second at
tempt to electrocute 17-year old
Willie Francis, the Negro lad, who
last May, when convicted of a
holdup murder, escaped the fate
of the death chair when a mech
anical edfect prevented his death
as he sat strapped in the port
able machine. The ruling of the
Supreme Court ended the nation
wide controversy, precipitated by
mechanical failure of the electric
chair, when the thrown switch
would have sent the 17 year old
Louisiana Negro lad to his death.
THREE OMAHANS HELD
ON WHISfKEY
TRANSPORT CHARGES
Federal agents in cooperation
with State Highway Patrolmen
discovered 50 cases of whiskey in
a trailer attached to the car of
three Omahans arrested near Ne
braska City. Identified as occu
pants of the car were Mr. and
Mrs. V. G Way, 504 South 21st
av. and Mr. George H. McDavis,
3019 Corby st. The trio, held for
the Federal Alcohol Tax unit have
been released on bond.
SELLS WIFE FOR $100
It seems as if the mill of life
never stops turning and as it re
volves its spins stories of various
natures from all comers of the
globe as witnessed by the setting
free of a man sentenced to five
years imprisonment by the Allah
abad High Court of Allahabad.
India for sale of his wife to a
friend for the sum of approxi
mately one hundred dollars, with
the wife, apparently showing no
signs of disapproval of her sale.
Court evidence! revealed that the
mother of the daughter sold for
one hundred dollars, protested to
police, but that the daughter was
willing to be sold to her husband’s
friend, and continued to live with
him.
Veteran’s Wife Enjoys Pool Therapy .
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While her husband was overseas, Mrs. Coleman was stricken by
polio. She is receiving; treatment at the Tuskegee Institute Polio
Center. Care of polio patients by the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis and its chapters is made possible by support of the
March of Dimes, January 15-30.
New FLPC Bill Drafted
WASHINGTON—A draft of a
new bill for a permanent Fair Em
ployment Practices Commission,
revised in the light of wartime
and postwar experience, has been
prepared for consideration by the
new Congress. This was announc
ed by Rev. Allen Knight Chalmers
and A. Philip Randolph, co-chair
man of the National Council for
a Permanent FEPC. Randolph is
also vice-chairman of the Work
ers Defense League.
Arrangements are now being
made for discussing the proposed
bill with members of both parties
in both Houses of Congress with
the objective of introducing it
early in January.
HAACP YOUTH GROUP HEAD
PROTESTS SPORTS SLAHDER
NEW YORK—Ruby Hurley,
NAACP Youth secretary, joined
i with prominent liberals^nd a host
I of sports fans throughout the lo
tion in condemning the anti-Sem
itic, anti-Negro mouthings of
Coach Ev Sheldon of the Univer
sity of Wyoming cagesters during
the recent game with Nat Hol
man’s CCNY aggregation. The
CCNY faculty athletic committee
had already announced its sever
ance of relations with Wyoming,
while Coach Holman went even
further by stating that Cily Col
lege will have nothing to do with
any team that Shelton may be
associated with in the future.
In the NAACP letter to Dr. G.
D. Humphries, president of the
University of Wyoming, Miss Hur
ley stated:
"We feel it most unfortunate at
this time that the expressed at
titude of Coach Everett Shelton,
one of your University’s represen
tatives. has made it necessary for
us to join with others in vigorius
protest.
‘At this moment Americans are
making efforts to re-educate Ger
man youth to a more democratic
way ol thinking. The United States
Senate has been in the spotlight
for months because of the pul'lie
uterances against minority
groups by one of its members.
The whole of America is concern
ed about the preservation of demo
cracy in a peace fgor which Pro
testants, Catholics and Jews
fought and died.
“We realize that many things
said during a sports contest when
enthusiasm is high might not be
said when emotions are calm and
tempers are cool. But, we cannot
condone the expression of anti
Semitic or other oppribrious re
marks directed to members of a
minority group by a person in the
position of Coach Everett Shelton.
“It would seem that Mr. Shel
ton’s dual position as an educator
and a sportsman would preclude
him from entertaining such thou
ghts as it is alleged he expressed.
It is even more represensible that
once h gav expression to un
American ideas, he should refuse
to make adequate apology.
“We trust that strong disciplin
ary measures will be taken by the
University otherwise, the youth of
America will be forced to con
clude that Coach Shelton’s attitude
reflects the official position of
Wyoming University. This would
be an intolerable position for an
institution of" higher learning,
particularly one which is present
ly supported by State funds and
which owes its existence to a land
grant from the Federal govern
ment.’’
GA. LEGISLATURE
CONVENES
The Georgia Legislature open
ed its session of 1947 on Monday
Jan. 13. to settle the dispute about
the Governor’s seat. .There are
, two aspirants.
NAACP REPORTS
Growth in South
NEW YORK—Eight new bran
ches were chartered by NAACP
National Board at its January
meeting, according to an announ
cement issued by Gloster B. Cur
rent, director of branches. Branch
es were chartered in Gould, Ark
ansas; Washington County, Ohio;
Lexington, Mississippi; Lebanon,
Tennessee; Warran County, Vir
ginia; Gochland County, Virginia;
Caroline County, Maryland and
Henrico County, Virginia.
The department reports increas
ed activity in Mississippi as a re
sult of the work of NAACP bran
ches in the Bilbo hearings. A
State Conference of Branches was
organized in Jackson, Dec. 1, of
which Isaac Peterson of Mound
Bayou is state secretary. Severl
ma branches are expected to be
organized in 'Mississippi, during
the year.
FINED $25 - COSTS
Richard L. Clark, 44, 2230 Bur
dette st., was fined $25 and costs
in Central Police Court Monday
morning as keeper of a disorderly
house at 1812 North 24th st. Six
inmates were arrested and fined
$1 each. Two of the inmates were
charged with vagrancy.
TO SERVE 18 HO.
SENTENCE
James M. Curley, 72-year-old
former Boston mayor, and veteran
of a half a century of politics, lost
to the United States Court of
Appeals, when his conviction was
affirmed by that body. Curley was
sentenced in Federal Court last
February to serve an 18 month
sentence and fined one thousand
dollars for alleged activities in
obtaining war contracts for cli
ents.
FINED $50.00
Fined $50.00 and cost in South
Side police court Mpnday for un
lawful sale of intoxicating liquor
was Richard Camerlinck. 40, 4920
South 25th st.. Janitor of a bar
at 6212 Maple st.; from which he
allegedly took a pint of whiskey
which he sold to State liquor
agents. Camerlinck was also fined
$10.00 and costs for petty lar
ceny.
SLUGGED AND DOBBED
Robert Adams, 2504*4 North
24th st.. was slugged and robbed
early Sunday of $18. The 57 year
old robbery victim reported to pol
ice that the holdup occured at 30th
and Lake sts. but was unable to
give a clear description of his as
sailants. Mr. Adams received
treatment at Doctor’s hospital for
head injuries.
CHILDREN!
We Want
Your Pictures
Don’t forget our invitation to have your pictures taken
FREE and published in this newspaper. Remind your par
ents it costs them nothing!
We are having Woltz Studios, of DesMoinest, Iowa, nation
ally known children’s photographers, take your pictures ex
pressly for publication in a new feature titled “CITIZENS of
TOMORROW.”
Remind your parents that nothing need by subscribed to:
There are no strings of any kind! Every youngster in this
trading area is eligible. There is no age limit. Extra prints
may be obtained by arranging with the studio representative
when the pose for publication is selected, but this, too, is en
tirely up to your parents.
Clippings of these pictures will become treasured memen
tos of childhood, so be sure to call on our photographer at
the Northside Branch of the YWCA., 22nd and Grant Sts.,
where we have arranged to set up the studio. We do| not
want h single local youngster to be disappointed. Appoint
ments are NOT necessary, but one of your parents or anoth
er adult must accompany you.
Here is a suggestion on how to get your picture taken
promptly. Go to the Northside Branch, YWCA., 22nd and
GrantI Streets^ during the days mentioned below and if your
last name begins with any of the letters between:
“A” and “H” Visit Photographer Friday, Jan. 17
“I” and “.M” Visit Photographer Saturday, Jan. 18
“/V” and “Z” Visit Photographer Monday, Jan. 20.
The above suggestion is not compulsory but your parents’
cooperation will be appreciated.
Four New Members
To NAACP Board .
SPINGARN RE-ELECTED
NAACP PRESIDENT
, NEW YORK—Arthur B. Spin
gam of New York was re-elected
President of the NAACP at its
first meeting in 1947 by the or
ganization’s board of directors.
Dr. Louis T. Wright, also of New
York, was re-elected board chair
man. Mary White Ovington was
again elected Treasurer of the As
sociation, and Dr. Allan Knight
Chalmers, of New York’s Broad
Broadway Tabernacle, was elected
as Assistant Treasurer.
Vice presidents re-elected for
1947 were Mary McLeod Bethune,
Nannie H. Burroughs, Godfrey
Lowell Cabot, Hon. Arthur Cap
per, Hon. Harry E. Davis, Bishop
John A. Gregg, Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, Dr. William Lloyd Imes,
Hon. Ira W. Jaynes, Isadore Mar
tin, T. G. Nutter, Rev. A. Clayton
Powell. Sr, A. Philip Randolph and
Oswald Garrison Villard.
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Parents Magazine
Rapped by NAACP
NEW YORK—Sharp issue was
taken today with Parents Maga
zine by Walter White, executive
secretary, NAACP, for its award
of a medal to “Song of the South,"
Walt Disney's film of the Uncle
Remus stories. Mr. White, in his
telegram, stated:
“The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple is shocked by the award of
the January Parents’ Magazine
medal to “Song of the South,”
which glorifies racial stereotypes
and virtually justifies slavery by
oicturing it as an idyllic system.
One of the chief causes of racial
friction in this country is the half
truths and untruths which are
planted in the unsuspecting minas
of young peoples which in later
years causes the perpetuation of
dangerous and divisive prejudices.
"Award of medal by a publica
tion so highly respected and cir
culated as Parents’ Magazine,
which many of us have read for
years, is not in keening, in our
opinion, with the high standards
which it has always maintained.”
The movie critics, too, in gen
eral, have given the film rather
unenthusiastic reviews due to its
'idealization of the “charm" of a
feudal slave-holding era.
NAACP TO HOLD
MONTHLY MEETING
The local branch of the NAACP
will hold its regular monthly meet
ing at Mt. Moriah Baptist church,
Sunday, 3:30 p m. Jan. 19. All
members and friends are urged
to attend.
RENT CONTROL SHOULD
BE KEPT IN FODCE
The Senate, determined that the
entire rent control program,
should not be abolished, disagreed
with the House of Representa
tives sharply as Chairman Wal
cott (Rep., Mich.) of the House
Banking Committee, related that
“present indications” were, that
rent controls should be kept in
force after July 1, but with
amendments which would erarp
“inequities.”
Mr. Jack Winters, director of
the Mayfair Fashion Guild an
nounced that the best dressed in
America have been selected as a
result of an American woman.
NEW YORK_The National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, at its Annual
Directors Meeting in New York’s
Freedom House auditorium on
Jan. 6, looked to the new Congress
with hope tempered with skeptic
ism. Directors and executives of
the Association, meeting for the
thirty-eighth time, sat in the im
posing Wendell Willkie Memorial
auditorium under the impressive
slogan which dominates the front
wall facade ‘ONE WORLD OR
NONE’ and called for Congres
sional action on a fifteen-point
legislative program recommended
by Walter White, executive secre
tary, NAACP, and designed "to
strengthen the democratic system’’
and spread it sbenefits to all citi
zens.
Thurgood Marshall of the As
sociation’s legal department, out
lined a program for 1947 which
will include court action against
“discriminatory registration prac
tices.”
The legislative program reccom
mended by Mr. White follows:
1. A Federal anti-lynching bill
2. A civil rights bill.
3. A bill for a Federal anti
lynching commission.
4. Abolition of the poll tax.
5. A bill for Federal financial
aid for low-cost housing programs.
6. Amendment of immigration
laws with respect to lapsed quotas
so as to permit the entry of home
less and displaced persons to this
country from Europe.
7. A bill to broaden the social
security act to include agricultur
al and domestic workers.
8. A bill to set a minimum
wage of 75 cents an hour for all
workers producing goods for in
terstate commerce.
9. Federal atcion to safeguard
the rights of minorities in states
having separate school systems on
a racial basis.
10. A national health bill.
11. A Federal bill to prohibit
segregation in interstate travel.
12. A civil rights bill for Wash
ington, D. C.
13. Any appropriation measure
to abolish the Wood-Rankin
Senatorial committee on un-Amer
ican activities.
14. Amendment of Senate rules
to invoke cloture by majority in
stead of by a two-thirds vote.
15. Maintenance of rent con
trol.
Four new members elected to
the board for two-year terms end
ing Dec. 31. 1949, were Eric John
ston and Philip Murray, both of
Washington; Dr. George D.
Flemmings, of Fort Wroth. Texas,
and Dr. Nathan K. Christopher,
of Cleveland.
Orville Jones
Appointed
Permanent
Postal Clerk
Orville Jones Jr. 2865 Maple st.,
recently received ^iis permanent
appointment as a postal clerk. Mr.
Jones was reported as the only
Negro among the 36 new appoin
tees. Recently married to the for
mer Agnes Montgomerly, Mr.
Jones, a former captian in the
United States Army, saw overseas
service. A graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, the former
captain is a product of the local
schools, and is active in civic and
social affairs of the community.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Orville Jones Sr.', well known re
sidents of the city
Mr. Jones’ sister, is Miss Rowena
Jones, graduate social worker and
well known member of Omaha’s
young social set.