* ^ ★ SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1947-OUR 20TH YEAR NO-"l4~ ^18^ O&^AT 2420 ^Glt A NT ^T?,' ZX.XtT —O--O--O —O-V——O--0--O O-☆-O-☆-O— —O-£r-O-*-©— —O-*-O-*-O— LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS J Per Copy AND WORTH IT— “To Sell It, ADVERTISE** Galloway Appoints General Manager MASON DEVEREAUX, JR. RECEIVES APPOINTMENT OF GEN. MANAGER & ACTING EDITOR OF OMAHA GUIDE Mr. C. C. Galloway, Publisher & Action Editor of the Omaha Guide Newspaper announces the appoint ment of Mr. Mason M. Devereaux, Jr. of Omaha, Nebr., General Man ager and Acting Editor of the Omaha Guide Newspaper effective Monday, June 2, 1947. Mr. Devereaux, Jr., was born and reared in the city of Omaha, re ceiving his education in the public grade schools in Omaha and Cen tral High School of Omaha. He is at present a Senior at the Univer sity of Omaha in the College of Business Administration. Courses: When at the Univer sity of Omaha, accounting, bus iness organization,"" personal man agement Industrial management, credit collecting, sales manage ment, salesmanship, problems of Economics, and Business Law. He is the grand son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Dan Elligan who came to Omaha some 65 years ago from Hanbal. Missouri They being one of the first Negro families to settle in Omaha. Mrs. Elligan later joined the St. John’s A. M. E. Church and her husband became a affiliated with the Zion Baptist Church remaining membbers until death. He is the son of the former Mrs. Ottomar Devereaux (Now Mrs. Ora Yose) and Mr. Mason M. Devereaux. ,both residents of the city. Mr. Devereaux during his high school years was active in the Cen tral High Discussion Club,Player’s, Speakers Bureau, the Max Yergan Hi-Y, and a member of the cast of the Senior Play Mr. Devereaux is a member of the St John’s A. M. E. Church of Omaha. He is the St- John’s Offic ial Reporter, a member and secret ary of the Watchmen’s Club, mem ber of the Watchmen’s Chours, Secretary of the Minute Men’s and Auxiliary, and recently oecame an assistant to John Ordua in the Youth for Christ Organization. Mr. Devereaux hobbies consist of the following: reading, talking to people, dramatics, writing, en couraging youth men to prepare to compete in a commercial world for greater economic security. THERE’S NO PEACE FROM AUDITION-SEEKERS FOR “WINGS OVER JORDAN’’ CON DUCTOR . There is no peace for the wicked, nor for the musical director of a nomadic choral group, according to James Lewis Elkins, conductor of the famous and beloved ‘ Wings Over Jordan” choir heard Sundays over CBS. It is the natural out come of a conscientious devotion to duty. Mr. Elkins never turns down an application for an audition, and since the choir tours the United States, year in and year out, the flow of applications is almost in exhaustable- On a recent visit thr ough New York, for instance, Mr. Elkins was roused at 4 a. m. one morning by a telephone call from a lady in Brooklyn, who, having heard that the choir was moving on the next day, wished to be aud itioned there and then. Only the alarming distance between Brook lyn and Harlem prevented Mr. El kins from pursuing what he con sidered part of his directorial dut ies. Mr. Elkins has directed the gro ups during the past nine months At 31, he is already an old hand at choral conducting, having spec ialized in directing a cappella gro ups at Campbell College, Jackson, Miss., and Edward Waters College, in Jacksonville, Fla. He obtained his academic training and B. S. at Lane College in Jackson, Tenn., & his Master of Music degree, from Oberlin School of Muic. in Oberlin. Ohio. While erving with the Armed Services in Europe, he spent some time at the University with the University of Belgium, and was a DiDloma Americus, at the conclu sion of his studies there. Negro Medical Enrollment Low In Schools^ COLLIER’S DEPLORES LOW NEGRO ENROLLMENT IN MED ICAL SCHOOLS Our Negro citizens are in acute need of medical attention but only 90 to 120 Ngro doctors are grad uated each year from our colleges, because most of our 67 medical schools bar Negroes completely. Only eight to ten are admitted each year to Northern and West ern Colleges This report is given by Albert Q. Maisel, medical writer, in a signed article in the current issue of Col lier's. The article deplores discrim inatory practices against Negroes and Jews aand other factors which have resulted in a cutback in the enrollment of medical students. “Despite the tremendous need of our Negro citizens for medical care , our schools have been pro ducing fewer and fewer Negro physicians,” Maisel says. “The re ason for the shrinking is easily found. There are two colleges Ho ward University and Meharry Medical College—which are prim arily for Negroes. “Together they graduate bet ween 80 and 110 doctors a year. Most of the 07 other medical schools bar Negroes entirely- This is true not only in the South. Many a Northern and Western col lege has not admitted a Negro student is more than a decade. Only eight to twelve Negro stu dnts a year are admitted to all the medical colleges other than How ard and Meharry.” Maisel charges that our medi cal schools, though they will not admit it, discriminate to "a les ser degree” against Jews. ''Some1 ted as high as 40 per cent of Jewish students have—in recent yars—he says, "reduced their pro portion to as low as five to sev en per cent of each entering class.’ Maisel charges that the Amer ican Medical Association, which plays a “major role” in determin ing the policies of medical schools, has been influential in cutting back the enrollment of medical students in the postwar years. He points out the serious national need for more physicians. “The American Medical Assoc iation has given the Education Development bill almost no sup port” Maisel adds “This bill pro vides for federal aid in building hospitals and providing medical scholarships and is now pending in Congress. “The AMA is afraid that fed eral support,” he says, “may prove an entering wedge for federal health and insurance.” NAACP Urges Increase In Federal School Aid NAACP URGES INCREASE IN FEDERAL SCHOOL AID Washington, D. C. Apr29th—A mimimum of $50 per pupil and "appropriations for each succeed ing year to be progressively in creased until each child in every state is guaranteed by the federal government a minimum per capita xpenditure of $100,” was proposed by Leslie Perry, NAACP Washing ton Bureau, when he testified be fore the Senate hearings on S-199 and S_472, bills to provide federal aid to elementary and secondary schools. Poining to the difference in school expenditures among the states, the NAACP officer said: “The federal government must take immediate steps to assure that a child will not begin life with the severe handicap of a second class system of schools simply by the sheer accident of having been bom in a Southern state or rural area. Tne broad gap which cur rently obtains between the educa tional opportunities among within the states will be successfully bri dged only when the federal-gov rnment itself provides substantial assistance to the more improvish ed states.” Perry told the Committee that educational conditions in the Sou th for Negro children and teach ers were "intolerable ” He said that Mississippi expends “499 per cent” more on a white child as compared with $71.65 on a white boy or girl. He said school expenditures are but one index to the plight of the Ngro pupil in the South “In gen. eral appearance the school stru ctures assigned to Negro children, especially in the small towns and rural districts in the deep south, are delapidated one and two tea cher frame shacks,” the statement said. Also school terms for Neg ro shorter and they receive only 3 per cent of expenditures for free school bus transportation. Attention of Congress was also called to the fact that Negro tea chers are the victums of huge salary gouges. Mississippi, it was pointed out, for Negro teachers, “in spite of the fact that Negro teachers usually have a twenty five per cent higher pupil load” and “hold identical State teach ers licenses.” Perry declared that “most South ern states have shown a settled determination to distribute f’jtids in an-unequal manner” and urged that every possible precaution be taken against this where federal funds are involved The NAACP proposed an amend ment to the bill which would re quire the United States Commis sioner of Education to audit state expenditures and that such audits "at all times be available for pub lic inspection.” The amendment al so provided that if “any person shall complain to the Commission er that he has reason to believe that any portion of the funds ap propriated_ have been expend ed by the state contrary to the provisions of the Act”, the Com missioner shall afford such per son a hearing on his complaint. The aggrieved citizen would also be able to appeal from the Com missioner’s action or inaction to a United States District Court. Chicago Teacher To Test The Illinois Civil Rights Law CHICAGO TEACHER TO TEST ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Chicago—For the first time, the attorney general of the state of Illinois has taken up a case invol ving the violation of the stat’s civ il rights statutes. Plaintiff in the suit is Mrs. Eugene O. Shands, a Chicago school teacher who resid es at 4637 Wabash Ave., together Bertha Waller. This action again st Jonnie’s Rexall Drugs, Inc., of Springfield, 111., was made known in Chicago last week. Mrs. Shands reports that she was denied her civil rights on two counts while attending a conven tion of the Illinois Educational Association in the state capital at Springfield last December 26. As the only colored membber in pa group of 27 delegates, Mrs. Shands was denied the right to oc cupy a room in the Abraham Lin coln hotel there- Following this, she went to Jonne’s Rexall Drug store to get something to eat and was refused service. Spurred by the NAACP, Senator C. C. Wimbish, and labor organiz ations, attorney general George Barrett filed a criminal inform ation against the drug store pro prietors last Wednesday after ob taining affidavits from the plain tiffs. At a latter date, a civil suit for $20,000 will be brought aainst the Abraham Lincoln hotel by the law firm of Temple, Wimbish and Leighton. Mrs. Shands is the wife of the former Chicago NAACP executive secretary, Eugene O. Shands -- His present assignment is an ar duous one- The all_Negro choir gives an average of twelve con certs a week in addition to its weekly Sunday broadcast (CBS, 11:05-11:30 AM, EDT). It is Mr. Elkin’s task to see that the pro grams of spirituals are kept inter esting and varied. Although most of the tunes are already arranged, and have been sung by the choir for many years, he has contributed quite a few new arrangements and songs in the past year. The singers chosen for the choir are not “polished” musicians, in the sense that they have had for mal musical training. Mr. Elkins looks for the natural voice and the natural talent which better fit the demand of choral singing. Ester Overstreet, the diminutive soprano soloist, has never had a singing lesson- But she is a “shrewd” sing er, Mr. Elkins says, and knows the tricks for giving each word its full expresion and beauty. ! The choir reheases en route. It travels, together with its manager, Mildred C. Ridley, and its founder i and leader, the Rev. Glynn T. Settle in a huge bus. Mr- Elkins gives the choir its key on a diminutive musi cal gadget that looks like a pan cake, and, he proudly adds, he doesn’t have to use it very often. MELODY M r ’ERS SCORE IN DRESS REHEARSAL AT DEBUT OF A JUKE BOX Ai l.ana State Teachers College of Terre Haute, Indiana. For a while Ollie taught school in her native Evansville, then later she accepted a position teaching at the Bordentown, N. J. an industrial Manual Training School. There is no need to ask what came after that—of course Ollie came to New York City COMBINES MARRIAGE AND CARREER | Ollie then became Mrs. Jacob W. Porter. However, once a school m a r m , always a school hattan, New York City, marm, so Ollie starting teaching > again at Public School 89 in Man hattan, New York City. When I inquired if Mrs. Porter had any children the answer was “No, and since I have no children of my own, I spend my time with other people’s children.'’ Such an answer was typical of a woman who is an ardent civic and -ocial worker. At school Ollie works with the Parent-Teacher group, as well as being active in several women’s clubs. She was the first president of the New York Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, founder of the National Association of Business and Professional Women of New York with which she ser ved as president for three years. This charming little bundle of energy and her group of ladies are always working for the good of others, such as, sponsoring danc- , es to raise funds to purchase eye j glasses for the needy children, also ' to make donations to summer ca- | mps for children. HOME EXECUTIVE & CAREER WOMEN Ollie is an affiliate of Phi Delta Kappa Sorority, N. Y. Chapter- In 1941 when Ollie and "Jake” her husband) purchased their home in Stratford, Conn., they decided to sublet their New York apart ment because of Ollie’s daily date with some 40 children at P S. 89. Then she took residence at the Y. W. C- A. in Manhattan. As I took my departure, Ollie smiled prettily and said “My hus band is a bachelor during the week, but I always spend the week-end at our home in the coun try. And of course, the summer too.” I then learned that she plans to spend a part of her vacation in Indiana, when school is out. Since 1920 Ollie has very ef ficiently combined a career with the task of being a home execu tive. TED YATES PUBLICATIONS Famous artist Zoe Mozert puts the finishing touches to her beautiful painting of Jane Frazee which figures prominently in Republic’s musi-j cal hit, “Calendar Girl.” Miss Frazee, William Marshall, Gail Patrick and Fenny Baker are co-starred, with Victor McLaglen, James Ellison: anA Ttptui ’Rj.c.b in m-.^r>