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■\ /--. The Omaha Guide LOCAL A^ATIONAL Classified Ads Get Results . ^ Phone- IQc Per Copy H Arney 0800 /justice ^ EQUALITY AND W°R™" /JUbllU/LWUAUIT .<To seu It, ADVERTISE" 1-' EQUAL OPPORTUNITY _ _ _ PHONE HA.0800 ^ ___2420 GRANT ST_ ■ * * *_____SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1947 OL'R 20TH YEAR-No, 19 L?.",. MERCHANTS AND GUIDE PAY TRIDUTE TO '47 GRADUATES Iowa NAACP Meets Bn Council Bluffs June 14-15 Ike Smalls of Des Moines to Preside at 8th Annual Conference Meeting The eighth annual Iowa Con ferences of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People will convene in Coun cil Bluffs, Saturday and Sunday, June 14, and 15, at Bethel AME church, 16th and Ave- A. The state president, Mr. Ike Smalls of Des Moines will preside. The business sessions will open Saturday at 9 o'clock. Represen tatives of the 14 branches will make their reports. Mr. Frank L. Alsup of Cedar Rapids, a labor leader, will be guest speaker Sat urday afternoon. Saturday even ing will be youth night. Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock a mass meeting will be held. The speaker will be Mr LeRoy A. Car ter, regional director of the mid dlewest, also assistant field secre tary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The subject of his address, “This Way to Unity.” Mr. Carter was bom in Atlanta Ga., and attended the local schools. He graduated from Clark university in 1930 and later did graduate work in the University School of Social Work. He work ed with the Atlanta Life Insur ance company as auditor and later as manager of the Savannah, Ga., district. Another feature of the Sunday afternoon session will be the pre sentation of a picture of the late George Washington Carver, fam ed Negro scientist, to the library of Council Bluffs by the state president, Mr. Ike Smalls. Occupation Forces Give Unsolicited Aid to NAACP NEW YORK—Negro GI’s serv ing in the occupation forces over seas are indicating their uncom promising support of the NAACP all-out attack on race hatred and bigotry in the United States, in an unprecedented and unsolicited fund and membership drive, it was disclosed at the Association's national office this week by Glo ster B. Current, director of bran ches. Applications for member ship from individual soldiers as well as army units continue to pour in the New York office from far-flung bases in the Pacific as well as from Japan and Germany Indicative of the GI response to the NAACP’s desperate drive against lynching and racial dis crimination, 1st Lieut. Cauthion T. Boyd, Jr., a chaplain in the Marianas Base Command, wrote: ‘ Because I believe in the objec tives and accpmplishments of the NAACP I have sponsored a vol untary drive in this Command asking each man to make a con tribution. The men are all enthus iastic about the wonderful work being done by NAACP to make our country a decent one to re turn to. God bless you." The chaplain's letter conta# ed contributions amounting to w87 and listed the following units as contributors: 3388th TC Truck ing Company, 3693rd TC Truck ing Companv, 3522 TC Trucking Company, 439 TC Port Company, 625th TC Port Company. There were also requests in the GI mail for the Crisis Magazine, all avail able NAACP literature and thou sands of membership applications. ENGINEERS NEEDED IN KOREA According to a spokesman for the Omaha District Engineer’s of fice. their is an urgent need for engineer's, clerks and skilled workmen for contruction work in Korea, China. The Chief Office of Engineer’s in Washington has distributed a list of 40 types of jobs that need ed men to fill them badly. Sal aries range from $3,306 for an engineering aid up to $8,578 for hydranic engineers. Thirty-four mosquito control foremqn Are needed at $1.49 an hour. Application blanks may be ob tained from the Engineer office. Room 407. District Engineer's office, 1709 Jackson st. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gregory, 2122 Grace st., announce the ar rival of their daughter, Darlene Priscilla. Baby Darlene was born on May 28 at 9:35 p. m. and weigher seven pounds, five ounces. Baby Darlene's grandparents are Mrs. Alice McGee and Mrs. May Lee Gegoy. NAACP to Demand Action Against Lynchers RALEIGH, N. C—T. V. Man gum, president of the North Caro lina State Conference of Branches of the NAACP, announced this week that Attorneys Herman Tay lor of Raleigh and Jesse Bowser of Charlotte had been retained to defend Godwin Bush, young near lynching victim, who made a des perate break from a lynch-bent mob in Rich Square, N, C„ on the night of May 22, just one day after a South Carolina jury had acquitted 28 confessed lynchers m a verdict that shocked the nation. Young Bush gave himself up to FBI agents after his dramatic escape from the mob Bush had been arrested by local police on Thursday, May 22, on a charge of attempted rape. He was later taken from the local jail by several armed and masked white men and pushed into a waiting car from which he leaped and ran as the thwarted mobsters fir ed their rifles at him. Attorney Taylor, wh'o was rush- I ed to Bush's cell by North Caro- ; lina NAACP officials, subjected Bush to an exhaustive interroga tion and expressed the firm op inion that Bush was entirely inno cent of the attempted rape charger Taylor declared that Bush was apparently the Victim of certain circumstancs to which any Negro in the South is exposed. The North Carolina NAACP has assured Bush and members of his family that it will defend him to the limit. RALPH B. McCLINTOCK NEW PARK BOSS E. G. Hinton told staff members of the Park and Recreation De partment at their get-acquainted meeting with Mr. McClintock Tuesday, May 27, that Mr. Mc Clintock is the boss. He has com plete charge and he is responsible to the Park and Recreation Com mission. Commisisoner Hinton spoke for the chairman Clarence L. Kirkland and who is ill. Mr. Hinton said that “Politics won’t get very far with this com mission." He further said Oma ha has “lagged behind for a num ber of years, particularly in re creation." , Public Property Commissioner Roy N. Towl, former park chief said that “he always wanted an independent board and superin tendent for parks and recreation. He felt that Mr. Bang could do a good job. Mr. McClintock things the op portunity here is unlimited for fu ture park and recreation develop ment. The space and the present facilities, if properly developed will be of value to the city of Omaha. Association Attorneys Open First Attack On S. C.’s ‘White Primary’ COLUMBIA, S. C —NAACP at torneys Thurgood Marshall, Ro bert L. Carter and Harold R. Boul ware, arrived in Columbia this week, prepared to open the NAACP’s attack upon South Carolina’s “white primary” laws. The suit, on behalf of George El-1 more and other qualified Negro voters of Richland County, S- C., names the Democratic executive committee and the Election Man agers of Richland County as de fendants for refusal to allow Ne groes to vote in the Democratic Primaries since 1944, when the State of South Carolina repeal ed all laws regulating the primary elections in that state. The state legislature took this action on the heels of the historic NAACP Texas primary victory in the United States Supreme Court, in April 1944, which gave Negroes in the South the right to vote in what had until that time been “white primaries.” Under the pre sent South Carolina primary sys tem, the Democratic Party is con sidered a private, voluntary as sociation with the inherent right to determine its own membership. The action of the South Carolina legislature was taken when the { body was called to meet in special session by the then-Governor, Olin D. Johnson who, alarmed over the Supreme Court decision, demanded that the laws regulat ing primaries in that state be abolish in order to maintain white supremacy. The NAACP suit, which will be argued in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina on June 3, is bas ed on the grounds that although the primary laws have been abol ished, the Democratic Party, in holding primaries in South Caro lina, is still performing the same state function which it performed prior to the repeal of these laws and is, therefore, a state agency. As a state agency, its actions are limited by the Constitutional pro visions prohibiting the state from denying Negroes the right to vote. This will be the first attack upon southern attempts to circumvent the 1944 Supreme Court ruling on “white primaries.” GRADUATES OF LOTHROP SCHOOL The following students received diplomas at the Lothrop school graduation exercises. They were Ruth D. Lespine, Cartine Foxall,1 Louise Hollingsworth, Marjorie Partridge, Beverly Rucker, Bar bara Davis, Joyce Fisher. j Outstanding Tech High June Graduate COSETTA EUBANKS Cosetta Eubanks graduated from Technical high school. 9he I won the Mem# Clug scholarship' and the Ted Damusk Essay scho-1 larship. She was the only Negro ' from Tech to compete for the an- 1 nual Pepsi-Cola Scholarship. Cosetta was on the honor roK seven times and won a citizenahJB award twice. She was the wKe president and president of her homeroom during her soph^nore and junior years and served on the Tech News staff for one and a half years. She was a member of the Senior Cabinet, Class His torian, and Annual Committee Chicago Girl Wins Scholarship to Wisconsin Uni. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Ala. —Dr. Kenneth Little, registrar of the University of Wisconsin, has informed Bettye Jeanne Phillips, who will graduate from Hyde Park public school in Chicago, that she has been awarded a Le gislative Scholarship to attend I the University of Wisconsin for the next four years- This award was made on the basis of her scholastic record ki Chicago and her ability to make use of the op portunities which the University of Wisconsin offers. She is one of the few out-of-state freshmen that will enter the University this Fall. She plans to major in Home Economics and Journalism. The Honorable W. E. Nield of Racine, Wisconsin, named Bettye Jeanne for this scholarship. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Phillips of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Mr. Phillips is Presi dent of the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial of Rocky Mount, Virginia and Special Re presentative of the Nehi Corpora tion of Columbus, Georgia. A Salute to Our June Graduates The Staff, Subscribers, and Readers of Tbe Omaha Guidte salute you, our June Graduates of 1947 on your achievement. You have done well and what you have done is a credit to/ yourselves and the cotnmunity from which you are a resiident. You Shave lifted your community by your accomplishment of a higher standard of ap preciation through your increase knowledge and service rendered the community during your school days. Many of you that received your diplomas from grade school are already looking forward to four happy years of pleasure and schol astic achievement in high school. Baseball, softball, reading, and arithmetic, patrol duty, clubs, etc. will become but cherished mem ories of yesterday. To the high school graduate a new horizon is unfolding before youchallengiing you to do better and greater things. Opportunity awaits you on every hand; grasp it and hold on, until you have won a glorious victory. Many of you will continue on to college, others will go to far distant cities scattering to the four corners of these Lnited States, and still others will stay in the old home town keepiing the banners of advancement and progress ever flying. You, too, like your grade school fellow graduates will have your memories and experiences to recite to those that come after you, rich with the geed things cf your high schccl days. Your first boy friiend, your first date to that all-school prom, football game, basket ball games, etc. All your extra-cirriciflum activities will be re-ex perienccd over with additions and plenty of hard work if you choose to go to college. Be not afraid for these driays like your grade and high school days will be filled with a great deal of happiness. ™ Last but not least we pay tribute to our university graduates that have for the past four years equipped themselves for efficient service to humaniity in the community that they choose to reside in perman ently. When the road became rough and rugged many of you didn’ become dismayed, but'shrugged off your burden and with sheer determination and the will to achieve a victory you now stand on the thrreshhold of a new and glorious day. May your pathway he one of smooth sailing as you glide toward happiness, security, and success. When you look back at your Year-Books you too will have a store house of treasures of memories that will give you much pleasure as the years go by. ^es! Gradates of 1941 may the light of vision brighten your pathway as you march forward to many victories filled with good will toward all mankind. Plans to Enroll in Pre.Law School EARL BENNING Earl Benning graduated from North high school June ’47. He was a member of the Boy’s O Club and has received letters in wrestling. Earl was also a mem ber of the R.O.T.C Military Pol ice and Choir. He plans to enroll in the University of Omaha this fall as a Pre-Law student Earl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Erdie Benning of 1334 Ogden st. JUNE AND AUGUST GRADS OF TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL Graduating seniors of the Tech nical high school that received their diplomas at the June Graduation exercises were as fol lows: Hopie Bronson. Eugene Burnell. Floyd Cloud. Roland Cook. Cosetta Eubanks, Ralph T. Hunter, Laura Loudd, Dorothy O’Brien. August Station. Frank White, Ilia Greene. Irma Greene, Bob Hammonds, Frances Grant. Those receiving their diplomas in August are: Clarence Buckner, Harry Donaldson. Horaoice Combs, Wiliam Payton, Ruth Seay. De lores Taylor, and Mary E. Ware. Mr. and Mrs. Thedora Thames, 2126 North 29th st., announce the arrival of their son, Alvin Earl. Baby Alvin was bom at the Uni versity Hospital at 11:47 p. m. on May 31 and weighed six pounds 14 ounces. Long School Exercises Impressive The graduation exercises for June for the Long school was held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m. in the school auditorium. The im pressive program for this occa sion was opened with the class saying in unison the Salute to the American Flag. The song Amer ica was then sung. A piano solo was rendered by Julius Conner with the class saying in unison The Gettysburg Address. The class then ang “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Constance Niaze favor ed the audience with a piano solo. A poem, “A Day in June,” was recited by the class. Mrs. W. P. Ervin gave out awards to the Fire Patrol girls, a group that she sponsored, Betty Bams, Thelma Gardner, Alice Johnson, Constance 'Niaze, Clau dette Neal. Mary Webb and Mar ion Collins. Safety Patrol awards went to Julius Conner, Charles Wilson, Robert Turner, George Barrie, Albert Jones. A message was ready by the principle of Long from Dr. Burke, superintendent of the Omaha Pub lic Schools after which she pre sented diplomas to the following students: Betty Barnes, Marilyn Crocker, Thelma Gardner, Grace Hall, Ophilia Henry. June Jakes, Alice Johnson, Ruth Wheeler, Claudette Neal. Constance Niaze, Hazel Roundtree. Gloria Tapp, Mary Webb, Evelyn White, Betty L- Womach. Eddie Anderson, George Barrie, Julius Conners, Albert Jones. David Nicholson, Samuel Thomas, Charles Wilson, Milton Wilson, Robert Turner, Stewart Grimes. The program was closed with the class and the audience singing the Star Spangled Banner. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hill an nounce the birth of their son. Ronald. Baby Ronald was born at the University Hospital at 10:30 a. m. on May 27- Baby Ronald and his parents live at 3117 Corby at “TUT, TUT, NOTHING BUT Honor Student at Central High FLORENTINE UEE CRAWFORD Florentine Lee Crawford grad uated from Central high sdftool, May 31. She received the Memo reward, which was judged by the principals of North high school, one of the Central teachers, and members of the Memo club. She also receivd the Susie Paxton award in Latin. She was the Latin and Spanish teachers’ as sistant, and she was on the honor roll during her Junior and Senior years. Florentine wishes to thank the members of the Memo club and thinks this opportunity is a ch«i, lenge for every boy and girl in high school. Florentine is the niece of Flor entine Pinkston and will be heard in a pianoforte recital. Watch for the date. I [Helena Thomas Dies | After Long Illness i _ | Miss Helena Thomas, 37, 2877 | Binney st-, died Thursday, June } 5 at a local hospital after an ex tended illness. Miss Thomas was a ntoary and secretary for Dr. Wesley Jones for a number of years a member of Clair Chapel Methodist church, YWCA and had taken an aetive part in USO work and other civic organizations. Miss Thomas is survived by her mother, Mrs. W. C. Edson, sister, Miss Henrietta Edson: two bro . thers, Mrs, Samuel and Mr. Wil liam Edson, of Omaha; four aunts. Mrs. Estella Titus, Omaha; Mrs! Elizabeth Anderson Kansas City; Mrs- Ethel Bowers, Grand Rapids; Mich.; Mrs. Nancy Lee. Dallas. Texas; uncle, Mr. William Jeffer son, Omaha and other relatives. Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon from Clair Chapel Methodist church with Rev. C. C. Reynolds officiating assisted by Ftev. O. J. Burkhardt- Pallbearers were officers and members of the church, Y. W. Logan, L. V. Gray, C. N. Pankey, Ned Moore Law rence Watson. Robert Jones. Bur ial was at Forest Lawn cemetery with arrangements by Thomas Mortuary. JUNE AND AUGUST GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA June graduates of the Univer sity of Omaha are Miss Ruth An derson, R. N., with Bachelor of Science, major in Nursing; Miss Jenne L. Rudd, Bachelor of Arts, major in Sociblogy: Miss Myra Franklin, Bachelor of Arts, minor in Socialogy, and Miss Florentine V. Goodlett, Bachelor of Science in Business Adminis tration, major in Business and i Education. Miss Audrey Forest, ! Bachelor of Arts, major in Socio logy, will receive her degree in August. RECEIVES DIPLOMAH FROM SOUTH HIGH The students received their di plomas from the South high school graduation exercises in May: Erma Blackson, Alonzo Col lins, Sam Beeks, Geneva Brown. Roy W. Robbins and Tommie Mae Williams. BUTTER - NUT BREAD.” [First Annual Graduation Edition Acknowledges Achievements of Grads Greater Support Urged for World Christian Missions ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Special)—An appeal for greater support in be half of world-wide Christian Mis sions was issued today by Dr. , Eugene R. Bertermann, Director of Radio for the LuthAan Hour. Speaking on the subject, “Into All the World—For Christ/’Dr. Bertermann declared: "Christian missionaries have always written ‘ bright chapters in the forward march om Christ’s Gospel by bringing the Holy Spirit’s trans forming, enlightening power to lands located in heathen thrall dom • . . The memorial tablet to Dr. Geddie in Aneityum in the New Hebrides has this inscrip | tion: ‘Mhen he landed in 1848, there were no Christian here, when he left, in 1872, there were no heathen.” , . . Because our re surrected Redeemer is the al mihty Lord of header. »nd earth, therefore’, He continues, ‘Go ye . . . and teach all nations, baptiz ing them in the name of the Fa ther and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.’^'Because I have ‘all power,* our risen mighty Lord de clares, therefore you are charged with the duty of winning the world for its King.’ The all-ruling Christ, accordingly, calls for the universal proclamation of His sov ereignity by His disciples- Here with Jesus gives His mighty com mand, the great commission, the primary purpose for whtyh the Church of Jesus Christ exists and this world of woe and wickedness i still permitted to tand,” The radio peaker continued: “This radio mission for the Re deemer, Bringing Christ to the Nations, has resolutely dedicated itself to the task of carrying out the Savior’s great commission: 'Go ye therefore and make dis ciples of all nations!’ To proclaim the Gospel truth that ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself,’ it now broadcasts in English, Spanish and Portuguese, French, Arabis and Afrikaans, over more than nine hundred sta tions in the United States, Canada and thirty-six territories and for eign countries, extending from Alaska to the Straits of Magellan, from China and the Philippines to Portuguese East Africa. The Lu theran Laymen’s League, spon sor of this broadcast, has set it self the goal of using ‘every avail able and suitable station on earth for the proclamation of Christ's eternal Gospel.’ Our Savior Him self has pledged: This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all the nations and then shall the end come’ As this world fast draws to* its close and the radio pro claims, “The faith which was once delivered unto the saints’ over in creasing areas of the earth’s sur face, <pray for Bringing Christ to the Nations that it may be per mitted to proclaim Christ Cruci fied, risen and coming again, to scores of new lands in dozens of new languages.’’ RECEIVED DIPLOMAS AT NORTH HIGH SCHOOL The following four students re ceived their diplomas from the North high school at the May graduation exercises of 1947. Earl W. Benning, Wilbur Leon Phil lips, Betty Jane Nelum, and Kath ryn Nina Cole. The Merchants serving the Mid-City Sectic.. and The Omaha Guide, pause in their daily sche dule to honor the June graduates of 1947 in the First Annual Graduation hdition. These mer chants and the Omaha Guide felt that the community and the city at large should know about the splendid effort put forth by our schools serving the Mid-City community In behalf of our chil dren of this area in the preparing them for future citizens. They felt Also that these children de serv some recognition and ack nowldgement of their achieve ment. They wanted the subscrib ers, readers, and the citizens of the Mid-City community and the city at large to share with them (the Merchants and The Omaha Guide staff) the pleasure and hap pinness over these children’s vic tory. The merchants and the Omaha Guide and staff members have spared no pains in preparation of this interesting, enlightening and bieath-takig edition. The stimulatio of these three hundred or more graduates In the effort they have put forth in or der that they might march on to greater heights has been a major iactor in the bringing of this edi tion to our numerous readers. The merchants and the Omaha Guide staff wish the best of luck to these graduates and they are * confident that this added acknow ledgement of appreciation of the graduates will act as a direct in centive to them to continue to reach higher heighs and at the same time continue to serve their j community. j The Omaha Guide I Acknowledge Support Given in This Edition It rs with th greatest of pleasure that the Omaha Guide staff, and officials sincerely thank those that supplied copy, advertisement, and worked diligently for the prepara tion for our many readers and sub scribers the First Annual Gradu ; ation Edition. We especially acknowledge and thank the excellent support given us by the principals and Eighth Grade teachers of Long. Howard Kennedy, Lake, Kelfom and Loth rop Schools- The cooperative spirit given by the Technical High school, the Central High school, the South High school, and the North High scool is deeply appre ciated. Te generous support given us by the merchants through their ad vertisement in this edition shows the vision of men and women of business establishments serving the community in the welfare of the young people of the commun ity and their achievement. To the students and the many friends of the Omaha Guide we ; thank you for your wholehearted | cooperation in our preparing of this edition. The pleasure in pre paring it for you, our graduates. Staff and Officials The Omaha Guide, Newspaper Mason M. Devereaux, Jr. General Mgr & Acting Editor C. C. Galloway, Publisher Honorable W. E. Nield, Assem blyman from Racine, Wisconsin, presents Bettye Jeanne Phillips w»th his Legislative Scholarship Assemblyman Leroy Simmons of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, looks on.
