LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS j Qc Per Copy AND WORTH IT— “To Sell It, ADVERTISE** /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEWTOTHE UNE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 ctcv vjrrwiMi -ai + m + SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1947 Our 19th Year—No. 51 Entered as 2nd Class matter at Post-Office, Omaha, Nebraska, Under Act of . ■ ~ ” — , * . .. ’_ March.8.,1874. PUBLISHING OFFICES AT 2420 GRANT ST„ Omaha, Nebr. NAACP Sets MiltUn Member Goa! in ’47 New York, Jan. 21—Setting an all time high goal of one million members under the slogan “Make It A Million”, the NAACP has an nounced the dates of its Annual Nationwide Membership Camp aign to cover the months of April, May and June. In making the announcement, the NAACP expressed confidence that the goal would be attained, although it represents a virtual doubling of the membership of 535,000 in 1946 Justifying this confidence is the fact that each year since the Nationwide Camp aign idea was inaugurated three years ago, in the spring of 1944, the Association’s growth has been extraordinary. When it closed its books at the end of 1942 the NA ACP had slightly more than 100, ' 000 members, organized into over three hundred units. In 1943, the figure jumped to 250.00 then, in the next years to 300,000, 400,000 and, finally, more than half a mil lion last year. Correspondingly, the number of branches increased until they reached a figure of 1,497 in 194f, including Youth Council and College Chapter units. Commenting on the ambitious goal for this year Walter White, executive secretary, NAACP, stat ccl * "A goal of one million members of the i;AACP in 1947 is modest if one looks at the tasks which lie ahead in winning full freedom for the Negro. In the light of the ac complishments during the year just ended, it is conservative. Es tablishment by President Truman of a national Civil Rights Commis sion, the acquittal of 24 of the 27 defendants tried in 1946 arising out of the Columbia. Tennessee dis orders, the verdict in the United States Supreme Court in the Irene Morgan case and other real mile* stones which • vere passed show what real organization, experience and public confidence can accom plish. "Despite the Ku Klux Klan, the Columbians, Bilbo and all the evils witn which we have to contend, we have great allies and great hope. Endorsement of the NAA CP by the CIO and the support which other Americans, North and 3outh, white and colored, have giv en the NAACP in past makes us confident that the goal of one mil lion will be reached. We believe that v.e shall have the continued support of all Americans who be lieve In justice and know no color line in achieving this goal. Then we shall really go to town in win ning further victories.” Congress Lawyer Wins Merit Award Hiss Pauli Murray, a member of tlic egal staff of the Commission on Law ind Social Action of the American •ewish Congress, won the 1946 Made tioiselle Merit Award for signal ichievement in law. A graduate of Howard University law school and re cipient of a Rosenwald Fellowship, Miss Murray was temporary Deputy Attorney General for the State of Cali fornia before joining the staff of the American Jewish Congress to aid in it* campaign against racial discrimination^ Earl Hunigan Appointed 1st Lt. in Central ROTC Bari Hunigan, son of Mrs. Flor ence Hunigan, 2627 Binney street, became the first Negro student ap pointed to the Central Cadet Of ficers Corps since Dr. Carleton Goodlett held a commission some years back. Earl, is a senior student and plans to attend college in the fall, majoring in the field of architect ure. Lieutenant Hunigan is employed in the evenings after school and cannot allow time for extra cur ricula activities, but is a member of Central’s Track team. Earl’s hobby is photography, a past-time which he shares with his brother, Curtis, also a Central student. The young Lieutenant's escort to the military ball held at beauti ful Peony park, was Miss Lois Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, 2924 North 24th street. Miss Brown is a Centralite with an outstanding scholarship record. Lois is a talented vocalist. Threat To Negroes Seen In Move To Outlaw Closed Shop Washington, D. C„ Jan. 22—Ef forts by Senator Joseph H. Ball, to give the impression that pass age of anti-closed shop legislation would be beneficial to minorities were challenged last week by the Labor Department of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In a letter to Senator Ball, Clar ence Mitchell, the Association’s Labor Secretary, stated that: "The Washington Post this morn ing quotes you as contending that "the backing (Senator) Morse gave FEPC legislation would make it hard for him to refute arguments by Southern Democrats that the closed shop is discriminatory ' I earnestly hope that this quotation does not reflect your views with respect to the enactment of FEPC legislation. It would be a terrible blow to minorities if, in your ef forts to attack the closed shop, you attempt to give the impression that this will be a benefit to min ority group workers seeking em ployment. “When I was a member of the staff of the FEPC, it was my duty to scrutinize and investigate the major cases before our agency in volving discriminatory practices whieh prevented employment of colored persons in companies with closed shop contracts. At no time did anyone on the staff or on the Committee indicate that the elimin ation of the closed shop provision would ensure employment of min ority groups. On the contrary, at all times it was our desire to have colored workers share in the bene fits of the closed shop agreements by having them admitted to em ployment and full union member ship. “At this moment* I have on my desk a matter in which I sincerely believe that the sole protection of some 300 colored employees of a large plant is the fact that their bargaining representatives have negotiated successfully a union shop agreement with the employ er. Now that there are white wor kers available in the labor market, this employer gives evidence of seeking to displace the colored em ployees in the better jobs with non union individuals. If your bill to outlaw the closed shop became law it would place every one of these persons in jeopardy. "The arguments of Southern Sen ators that the closed shop is dis criminatory will have no weight with minority groups, because leg islators have advanced every type of spacious asgument to defeat measures which would benefit wage earners in general and also minority groops.Those persons who have so consistently and vig orously opposed FEPC legislation will joyfully support the anti-clos ed shop bill in an attempt to divide labor and minorities, thereby greatly damaging the interests of both.” To Petition U. S. Supreme Court For Lives of Miss. Youths New York, Jan. 22—Not for an other sixty days will the death chair claim Charles Trudell, 16, and James Lewis, 15, sentenced to die on January 17th for the alleg ed murder of their white employ er. The NAACP, through its rep resentative, Walter D. Coleman, was last week successful in secur ing from the Mississippi Supreme Court a stay of execution to allow time for the preparation of a peti tion for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme* Court. There is some hope felt now that these youths will not have to [ pay the extreme penalty for a crime committed when under the age most U. S. state laws prose cute criminally. Because of the denial of civil rights involved in their case, and because of their ex treme youth, an outcry has been raised here and abroad against punishing them by death. The Governor of Mississippi has been deluged with letters and telegrams of protest from an outraged pub lic which resents the trend in some states of demanding death penalt ies for children unedr eighteen. A mong the many protests were two cables from London, from the Lea gue of Colored People and the West African Students’ Union. St John's Choir To Appear In Recital, Febr. 17 Forum To be Held on City-Wide Planning at Northside YWCA On Sunday, January 26, 1947 at 5:00 p. m., a very interesting and informative discussion will be held dealing with citywide planning in Omaha and the Negro. There will be four persons in the discussion who will ask and answer questions from each other as well as from the audience. These persons are: Mrs. Alice Wilson, Mrs. Gladys Ervin, Ralph Adams and Leo Bo hanon. These persons bring with them rich experience and know ledge on city plans and how these plans challenge the future of the Negro citizenry- Mrs. Alice Wil son, the director of Woodson Cen ter; Mrs. Gladys Ervin, a teacher in the public schools of Omaha; Ralph Adams, a prominent lawyer in the city and Leo Bohanon, Exe cutive Secretary of the Urban Lea gue will discuss the pro and con of the aforesaid topic. The public is urged to attend this discussion and participate in it. Mrs. Anna Mary Kennedy, Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the Committee of Management at the Northside Y. W.C.A., cordially extends this in vitation. - USO Fund Drive to Open January 27 The USO, no longer in the Com munity Chest here, will launch its campaign for funds in Douglas County January 27. Campaign leaders are: Sam W. Reynolds, C. W. Fraser, co-chair mei^of^e^ounty^lrive^n^^eci^ Slocum, chairman of the World War n Veterans Appreciation Com mittee. Approximately 75 veter ans met with the committee mem bers Friday at the Omaha Athletic Club to make plana for the drive. NAAGBSupports Anti-Filibuster Seril^e Resolution Washington, D- C., Jan. 22—Hail ing the introduction on the Senate floor of four separate resolutions to amend the rules in order to end filibusters by majority vote, the NAACP’s Washington Bureau this week urged that such resolutions be speedily adopted. Introduced by Senators Leverett Saltonstall, (R. Mass.), William F. Knowland, (R. Calif.), Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.), Wayne Morse (R. Oregon) Glen H. Taylor (D. Idaho), and Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) the res olutions were referred to the Sen ate Committee on Rules and Adm inistration, headed by Senator C Wayland Brooks (R. HI.). The present Senate rule required a two thirds vote to end debate and has seldom been successfully invoked. Leslie S. Perry, NAACP admin istrative assistant in Washington, stated, in a letter to Senator Brooks: “For more than twenty years legislation basic to the establish ment of real democracy in Ameri ca such as the Anti-lynching bill, FEPC, the anti-poll tax bill, and other important measures has been strangled to death because the antiquated rules of the Senate have made it possible for a willful and for the most part, irrespons ible minority to dominate the Con gress through its ability to talk indefinitely. "The Committee on Rules and Administration, of which you are the chairman, has the opportunity to perform a genuine service to the Congress, the people of the United States and to the democrat ic process by taking prompt and favorable action on these resolu I tlons establishing ‘majority rule’ in the Senate.” ->——* • Walter White, executive secret ary, NAACP, urged interested or ganizations and individuals to tele graph or write to Senator Brooks Majority Leader Wallace H. White, Jr., and Minority Leader Alben Barkley insisting that prompt and unequivocal action be taken now on the anti-filibuster resolutions which have been intro duced. “This action is imperative,” Mr. White said, “because unless the Senate rules are changed, there is little hope of passage of remedial legislation such as the anti-lynch ing, anti-poll tax, FEPC and civil rights bills.” JAMES H. HERBERT, KANSAS CITY ATTORNEY SWORN IN AS JACKSON COUNTY, ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR Attorney James H. Herbert, Kansas City, Missouri, was sworn in January 1, as Jackson County Assistant Prosecutor. Mr. Herbert is well known to many Omahans. He is the first Negro to serve in that position in 22 years. A native of Louisiana, Attorney Herbert established his practice in Kansas City in 1917 12 years later, he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. The abrrister is well fitted for his new position Mr. Herbert is mar ried and is prominent in Kansas City civic, fraternal, church and social affairs. --I “DISARM HIM"_ B—ill II ■ lil'ir -1 Dr. McMillan to be Presented In Symposium Dr. Aaron M. McMillan is to be presented in a Symposium by the Omaha Council of The National Negro Congress on January 31, 1947 the Eve of Brotherhood month at 8 P. M. in the Embassy Room of the Fontenelle Hotel. The Omaha Council of The Na tional Congress in keeping with it’s National program for better understanding and relations and the predominant, National Empha sis during the month of Febraury presents Dr. Aaron M. McMillan on the Eve of Brotherhood Month, Friday evening, January 31, at 8 P. M. in The Embassy Room of the Fontenelle Hotel. Dr. McMillan, who has spent the past eighteen years in Africa and Europe as Physician in charge of the Hospital De Bunje (Willis Me morial Hospital) Angola West Africa with his wife, Mrs. Willena V. McMillan as his assistant and superintendent of Nurses under the auspices of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis sions of The Congregational Church will speak on “The Future of World Democracy.” Two of these years were spent in Europe where Dr. and Mrs. McMillan com pleted their graduate work in Trop ical Diseases at the University of Lisbon- Dr. McMillan completed his undergraduate work ot Me harry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. The McMillans with their twelve year old daughter, Helen Casova who was born in Africa are spending their furlough in Omaha where they with their two sons re sided and Dr. McMillan was a practicing physician and mem ber of the Nebraska State Legsis lature before leaving America to accept his position in Angola, West Africa. CIVIL RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HAVE ALL-OUT AID New York, Jan. 23—In cooper ation with the fifteen-man Civil Rights Committee, recently ap pointed by President Truman to study violations and recommend legislation to strengthen the feder al government’s hand in dealing with problems of racial discrimin ation and mob violence, Walter White, executive secretary, NAA CP, on January 14th sent a letter to all NAACP branch officers- The letter requested them to forward immediately to the national office of the Association specific instanc es and detailed descriptions of cases of which they have direct knowledge, in the following cate gories; lynching .police brutality, denial of right to vote and regis ter, discrimination in emiployment, housing, transportation, recreation education and health. In addition, the staff of the na tional office of the NAACP is compiling material for present ation as the basis for federal leg islation, on the experiences of thir ty-eight years of handling cases of civil rights violations. The NAA CP has volunteered the full use of its resources to Charles E. Wilson chairman of the President's Com mittee. The Civil Rights Committee came into being as the result of a conference at the White House on September 19th, when the Presid ent met with representatives of the National Committee against Mob Violence, a coalition group of* for ty-one organizations which met in the fall in Wendell Willkie Memor ial Building at the invitation of the NAACP to cooperate in stemm ing the rising tide of violence. A mong those who participated in the discussion with President Tru man were Walter White, Channing H. Tobias, director of the Phelps Stokes Fund, member of the board of the NAACP. and a member of the new Commitee on Civil Rights James Carey, CIO; Boris Shiskin, AFL; Frederick E. Reissig, Feder al Council of Church of Christ in America, and Leslie Perry, Adm inistrative Assistant, NAACP. ‘JIM CROW’ CONVICTION CONTESTED BY NAACP New York. Jan. 22—Arrested and convicted for violating the Arkansas separate coach law, Charles Royal, a Negro, is being represented by the NAACP, which has filed a brief in the Arkansas Supreme Court appealing his con viction on the grounds that the statute, as applied to Royal, a pas senger in interstate commerce, was unconstitutional and inappli cable to him under the theory of One of the most out standing musical treats ev er presented in our com munity, will be heard, on the evening of February 17th, at the St. Johns A.M. E. Church, when their Sr. Choir, under the most cap able direction of Mrs. Pearl Gibson, will be heard in Re cital. Carver Savings & Loan Placf BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HALF DOLLAR ON SALE The Carver Savings and Loan Association, 2414 Lake street placed on sale Tuesday, January 21, the Booker T. Washington Memorial Half Dollar. The first half dollar was purchased by Pres ident Harry S. Truman. The first half dollar purchased in Omaha was by Mr. C. C. Galloway, publish er and editor of the Omaha Guide. The 1946 half dollar commemorat ing the late Booker T. Washington Negro leader of fame, may be pur chased for $1.10. amHMifMMMMtimiiiiinMiMiiiHitmiHimiumnmMmiiiiiiimiitmfiimmmittfttiiHitmmH! the Irene Morgan case. Royal, on January 9, 1946, en route to McGehee, Arkansas, from Kansas City, Missouri, was taken off the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Van Buren, Arkansas, for sitt ing in the ‘white” coach. He was tried, found guilty and fined $25. An appeal of the conviction taken to the Circuit Court was affirmed, and the present appeal was then instituted in the Supreme Court of the state, by Attorney J. R. Book er, of Little Rock, Arkansas, the NAACP’s representative in the case. In Irene Morgan vs. Virginia the U. S. Supreme Court on June 3, 1946, held that state statutes that tend to enforce segregation pat terns in interstate commerce are invalid Urges Killing War Investigating Committee New York, Jan 22—Expressing the opposition of the NAACP to the continuation of the Senate War Expenditures Investigating Comm ittee Walter White, executive sec retary, NAACP, last wek sent tele grams to thirty-one United States Senators, urging them to vote a gainst the Senate resolution which would enable the committee to continue its work. Mr. White bases his attitude on the Meader report, recently released to the press, over SS2 protest, which contains vic ious and unverified charges a gainst Negro troops in Europe and against Jewish displaced persons in the American zone of occupat ion. . , . Referring to this report in his telegrams, Mr. White stated: “In connection with the consid eration of pending Senate Resolu tion 46 to extend the life of the War Investigating Committee we would like you to bear in mind the smearing of racial and religious minorities conducted by some mem bers of the committee and its coun sel during recent months and the flagrant denial of all due process to racial and religious minorities attendant upon this smearing cam paign.” Senators receiving this request were: Forrest C. Donnell, Albert W. Hawkes, William Langer. Ed ward Martin, Eugene D. Millikin, Alexander Wiley, John W. Bricker H. Styles Bridges, C. Wayland Brooks, Chan Gurney, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Irving M. Ives, Wil liam E- Jenner, William F. Know land, Brien McMahon, Edward B. Robertson, H. Alexander Smith, Robert F. Wagner, Kenneth S, Wherry, George A. Wilson, Wal lace H. White, Alben W. Barkley, Robert A. Taft, Arthur H. Vanden berg, Leverett Saltonstall, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Raymond E. Baldwin, Wayne Morse, Glenn Tay lor, George D. Aiken and Claude Pepper. CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Miss Doris McGill, of 2724 Lake Street, celebrated her 17th birth day at a party given by her sister. Miss Naomi McGill of the same address. Refreshments were served to a host of friends, who joined in games and community singing, making the evening gay and festive. The late James E. Seay, Jr. Your life was like a ray of sunshine, growing brighter day by day, Laughing, helping, joking, loving, As you traveled on your way. T’was a joy to be around you— for so much you seemed to know Never dreaming we would lose you— Oh dear James, we lc