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Mills Brothers
to Appear at
Orpheum Fri.
Randy Brooks Band
to Accompany the
Famous Quartet
Those famous four boys of
harmony and song the Mills
Brothers wil appear on the stage
Coming Friday
The Mills Brothers will be fea
tured ne::t Friday on the Orphe
um stage with Randy Brooks
Orchestra.
of the Orpheum Theater begin
ning Friday August 8, for one
week stand.
The Mills Brothers is one of
the oldest and best loved and
known singing teams on the
theaterical stage today, will be
here to give out with some of
those well-known tunes that
have made them famous through
out the Americas and Europe.
They have long been at the top
list of singing group, touring,
America and continent. The re
cord breaking audience at their
preformano* >mve hailed their
unique style of presentation
wherever they appear.
Radio audience throughout the
land find the Mills Brothers
songs refreshing and breath-tak
ing in presentation. Their re
cords and sheet music sales
more than verify the popularity
of these four singers.
Europe went wild over them
when they went abroad before
World War 11, and now since
the war is over promoters are in
the country trying to sign these
famous boys up for another
long European Theater tours.
The Mills Brothers, John Sr.
Herbert, Harry and Donald are
coming to the Orpheum Theater
in Omaha Friday August 8, with
the noted Randy Brooks band to
bring to the musical public a
host of those smooth mellow
tunes and songs like none other
but the Mills Brother can.
Anti-Picketing
Decision Voided
NEW YORK — A magistrates
court anti-picketing decision of
March 1946, described by the
Workers Defense League as
“the first instance in recent
times of the denial of the right
to picket in New York City,” has
been reversed by the appellate
division. Joseph Glass. WDL
attorney, handled the appeal.
The case arose from an at
tempt by the Committee for
Non-Violent Revolution to set up
an anti-imperialist picket line in
front of the swanky Hotel Savoy
Plaza, where the first United Na
tions reception was in progress.
When police arbitrarily barred
picketing in front of the hotel,
the pickets insisted on their
rights. Eight were arrested on
disorderly conduct charges, con
victed and fined from $15 to $50.
As a result of the appellate div
ision's ruling, the fines will be
refunded.
Presiding Justice Geoge B. De
Luca in delivering the opinion
of the court stated “Appellants
were attempting to exercise their
lawful rights to freedom of
speech and press by picketing
with placards and distributing
leaflets on a public street—That
a crowd may have collected was
due for the most part to the
actions of the police.”
Pork Chops Are
Irking, Man
Punches Wife
Years of eating pork chops
would make any man rebel, Or
ville Hoagland, 35, told Judge
John T. Zuris, Monday.
“It was always pork chops and
potatoes, pork chops and potat
oes,’' Mr. Hoagland said. "That’s
why I did it.’’
What he did was throw his
pork chops on the floor of his
home, punch his wife, attempt to
choke her and then douse her
with coffee.
The husband’s rebellion cost
him a one hundred fine.
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‘School Texts
Not Adequate’
Says Doctor
Lag Far 'J&ehind a
CJhild’s Actual Vo
cabulary, He Says
Grade school textbbooks are
lagging far behind children’s
actual vocabularies, a North
western University psychologist
said Sunday.
Dr. Robert H. Seashore, chair
man of the University's Depart
ment of Psychology, said the a
verage classroom reader’’ used
in America’s grade schools intro
duced only five hundred words a
year, while the average child
builds his vocabulary at the rate
of some five thousand words an- j
nually.
“Children’s vocabularies have '
been developed in spite of,
rather than through the aid of,
textbooks with their extremely
limited vocabularies,’’ Dr. Sea
shore said. “Editors don’t take
cognizance of the fact that child
ren read newspapers and maga
zines as well as many other
books, which are not based on
restricted vocabularies.”
Recent research at the Univer
sity, he stateded, indicates that
estimated vocabularies of child
ren aged 4 to 10 are: 5,600 basic
words for age 4, 9,600 for age 5,1
14. 700 for age 6, 21,000 for age
7. 26300 for age 8, 29,300 for
age 9, and 34,300 for age 10.
I Business Growth Rate
Gradually Receding
WASHINGTON — A new high
in the number of business firms
was reported Saturday by the
Commerce Department, but it
said t^ rate of growth is slow
ing down.
The record number is 3,700,tX)0.
It was established in March, and
is 300,000 above the pre-war
high reached in September, 1941.
The slowdown in business popu
lation growth showed up like
this: in the first six months of
1946, the number of firms was
increasing at the rate of 18 per
cent a year. But in the follow
ing six months, the increase was
only half as great—9 per cent.
Farmers Get
Warning of
New Racket
Lightning Rod Re
pair Bill Sltagger
Property Owners
A warning was released today
by the Omaha Better Business
Bureau to farmers, institutions
and home owners to be on the
alert for the lightning rod ser
vicing racket. Anyone who auth
orizes a serviceman to checkup
on his lightning rod equipment
and to make necessary repairs
without a definite understanding
of the total cost, according to
hg Bureau, may receive an ex
cessive bill covering dubious and
unnecessary repairs.
In calling attention to this
scheme, John J. Henry, General
Manager of the Bureau stated:
“Home owners, farmers and in
stitutions which have protected
their buildings with lightning
rod equipment should exercise
caution in authorizing anyone to
“check" or “inspect” their in
stallations. Failure to ascertain
in advance what the totaPcost of
a job would be has led in some
cases to some very extensive ‘re
pairs' and to bills which have
staggered owners. A recent com
plainant to the Bureau, for ex
ample stated that she was sol
icited to have equipment check
ed because possibly a few points
needed regrounding. The solici
tor advised that he would also
sharpen the points, ‘to make sure
you are fully proected.’ The com
plainant asked for an estimate
but the solicitor shrugged it off
as if to say 'Why discuss pen
nies?’ Whereupon he asked the
complainant to sign what she de -
scribed as a little slip of paper
with some typing on it,’ which
he said would protect him in
case anybody on the place ques
tioned him while he was check
ing up on the equipment. The
‘little slip of paper’ apparently
authorized the repairman to pro
ceed. A week later he presented
■the complainant with a bill for
over $2000.
“Similar complaints have been
received by the Buearu from
others who have authorized what
they thought was a mere check
ing up job but which resulted
in the replacement of copper
cable, grounding clamps, and
lightning rods. In some instances
victims of this scheme were giv
en to understand that the solic
tor represented the fire insur
ance underwriters. After an in
spection, the solicitor reported
that the lightning rod equipment
would not pass inspection and
would have to be repaired. Bills
ranging from a few hundred to
over a thousand dollars subse
quently were submitted for ser
vices rendered.
“This scheme can be avoided
by the owners of lightning rod
equipment by following the
simple precaution of having a
written contract specifying the
work to be done, and its cost.
If a contract is entered into with
a firm of known reliability
there will be no gouging for un
necessary servicing.’’
WDL Protects Rights in
Unemployed Welfare
40 HR WEEK SURVEY MADE
WASHINGTON—The post-war
40-hour work week is yielding
better results in efficiency, ab
senteeism and safety than did
the longer hours of war time,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
concluded Saturday.
A survey of 20 industries
where incentive plans are in ef
fect to spur workers was analyz
ed in an article released by the
bureau's monthly review.
Up to a certain point, the in
vestigation showed. the longer
hours yielded higher levels of to
tal weekly output. But the in
crease did not measure up to the
increase in hours. .
‘Sweet Sea'
The Amazon river jniei’.uies
X.ii'Swn as the “swept
NEW YORK—At the request of
the Unemployed & Project Work
ers Union, the Workers Defense
League supliped attorneys and
observers for a mass demon
stration by the union in front of
the department of welfare.
Ruth Murphy of the WDL
staff was among the observers.
Ted Diamond and Conrad Lynn,
WDL attorneys, stood by in case
of trouble. However, police did
not interfere.
Carrying signs saying: "We
can't live on 65 cents a day,” the
200 demonstrators urged remova’
of Alphonse Henningburg, the
welfare department’s director of
staff and community relations.
Destroying a grievance procedure
bui’t vp ever Id years. Panning
i burg is refusing to negotiate
i orrj^rpnAori mifVi lit 2VOS
of the union.
Something to Think About
By BLANCHE ALICE RICH
Is the any simple way of breaking down race prejudice?
Some unknown writer said there seems to be a remedy for every
human ailment i. cept prejudice.
1 d'. nut believe •here is an.t*-;r.j more evil :n 8hr wor'c thin
race prejudice. My interpretation of sin against God is race pre
judice. When we hate people because their skin is dark, we are
committing a sin. We are condemning man for "being exactly as God
made him.
If we would only stop and think how much harm we do, not
only to ourseives, but others, wc would realize that hating is com
pletely stupid. Hate goes much deeper than any surface act or word.
Hate goes to the ver^ roots of our life.
Hate is a communicable disease. A person who carries hate in
his heart is emotionally diseased The proper function of organism
is a standard for health. If our organism is not functioning correctly
there is no health. The best methods to attack these germs is to
eradicate them fiom our bodies. We can best eradicate these harm
ful germs and apply correct treatment by inward examination of
our soul. But if we fail to cope with the disease it may spread. We
can check its spread by preventing the poison being spread from
one individual to another. Careless remarks are like invisible germs
they spread the virus of hate prejudice.
People who make insulting remarks are disease carriers.
We can take positive action against the spread1 of hate by being
on the alert. We can lend a helping hand to members of the
minority group whenever the opportunity arises. There are oppor
tunities every day.
I am going to give an example of an illustration of which many
people are guilty every day.
The other day while I was riding a street car, a lady boarded
and sat with me. “The reason I sat with you,” she said, “is when
we get farther down the line the colored people begin to get on and
I don’t want any of them to sit next to me.”
Well, I had heard such expressions several times and1 they soon
become like bits of gravel which somehow get into one’s shoe and
which, though they may be small in themselves, yet set up such
irritation and discomfort as not only to make the journey unpleasant,
but to give me the feeling that maybe I can write something which
will help enlighten the minds of the people who make those kidC of
remarks. Somehow, some white people have the idea that the Negro
above every thing else likes to associate with the white people.
Nothing is further from the truth. The Negro has1 suffered so much
at the hands of the white man,that except as his economic needs
demand it, he is far happier to be out of the presence of the white
man than to be in it. The Label “white” is not and never has been
sufficient to command his respect in and for itself. The Negro
wants justice. It is hard enough for any race under the most
favorable conditions to climb the rough road of success. Equality
of opportunity is what the Negro wants and he should have it.
We believe many things about people who are different from
ourselves, many of which are not tiue. There be but two races in
this world so far, “the good, the bad, and they be everywhere.”
Where there is segregation between the “white” and the “color
ed,” instead it should be, ‘segregattion between good and bad.
(Think about that a while.)
The price of race prejudice is high. If the total of sum the
cost of racial prejudice were clearly and widely known—we Amer
icans wmuld stop and pause awhile.
If there is any hate in any of us let us all take the same pre
scription, that is by cooperation and understanding. We would
then shed our prejudices and become better citizens.
Each of us has a role to play in the development of Democracy.
Every day individual Negroes face galling insults and uncertainities.
It is too late to keep tthe Negroes, “in their place.” If we wanted
to do that we should never have drawn them into the armed foces
or war production.
The Negro seeks only citizenship and a place to stand in Amer
ica.
Those of you who are guilty of such prejudice, try dissectii^
your reasons. Make yourself learn all about the standing
members of the group againsa which you are prejudice.
Stop awhile and think about this.
Wm. Powell* Kept
Under His Hat
• William Powell is very parti
cular about hats. This is true
about the hats he wears on the
street as well as on the screen
But the hats that Powell wore
on Siyidays and other days off
during the filming of “Life With
Father,” were a startling addi
tion to his alraedy large supply
of headgear.
They were provided by Diana
Lewis, who is Mra Powell in pri
vate life. They were large, col
orful, floppy straw hats from
Mexico and they all but hid the
actor from view when he wore
one. Yet they were a “must” on
on his holiday schedule during
he making of the picture.
“Life With Father’’ was filmed
at Warner Bros, in Technicolor,
which is peculiary sensitive to
any chromatic changes in skin
and hair. Hence, Powell, who
likes sun baths, was forced to
keep his face and red-dyed hair
well shaded.
“I felt sort of silly,” said Po
well. ‘‘But it was better than
spending extra hours being made
up and se-tinted.”
Credit Totals Higher
for Month of June
The Volume of consumer credit
continued its month_by-mont.h
record-breaking climb through
June, swinging up 2 per cent to
another peak of $10,834,000,000
the Federal Reserve Board re
ported Thursday night.
This was a gain of $2,979,000,
000 in the last 12 months alone.
Installment buying, the only
consumer credit field still under
restriction, performed about the
same as other types of credit.
Installment credit on auto sales
increased another 6 per cent in
June to a total of 862 million dol
lars—but the rate of increase
was less rapid than for any of
the last 12 months.
Installment sale credit for
other items rose nearly 3 per
cent in June to a total of $1, 142,
000,000.
Installment loans, totaling $2,
902,000,000 gamed about 3 per
cent in June, which virtually du
plicates the performance in other
recent months.
Charge accounts increased
slightly m June although usual
ly they are little changted for
that month.
I ist"n to “ALL STAR WESTERN THEATRE
STATION WOW, 6:30 P. M. EACH THURSDAY.
“TJT, TUT, NOTHING BUT BUTTER-NUT BREAD
Pvt. Woods to
Get New Trial
By the Army
Sentenced to Hang
for Sjhooting Tent^
Mate 16 Mo. Ago
SAN FANCISCO — The retrial
of Pvt. Lemas Woods, Jr., open
ed in a blaze of flashbulbs and
army brass this week at the Pre
sido.
As the trial progressed, it be
ame increasingly evident that
the army is bending over back
wards to guarantee the 24-year
old Negro GI a fair trial which
he had been, denied 16 months
ago when he was sentenced to
hang for shooting his tentmate,
Robert Patterson.
The court consists of 8 officers
headed by Brigadier General
Robin B. Pape and includes a
Negro 1st Lt., Seth D. Finley.
The defense had challenged Col.
Charles G. Rau, a Southern, who
was immediately excused by Pape
Most evident in the week’s pro
ceedings is the glaring contrast
between the trial being conduct
ed now, with careful emphasis
placed on details, and the court
martial proceedings which took
place in the Philippines in 1946
when Woods was tried and con
victed in only three and one
half hours.
Instead of a soft drink sales
man, who acted as defense coun
sel in the first trial, Woods is be
ing defended by an impressive
battery of competent lawyers
headed by Ernest Goodman, De
troit attorney, who upon the re
quest of the Civil Rights Con
gres, UAW-CIO, and other or
ganizations, conducted the ori
ginal investigation which won
the new trial by presidential de
cree.
The noted labor attorney is as
sisted by army-appointed Major i
Evans C. Bunker, former Seat
tle lawyer, Captain John A. Me
Lloughlin, former kansas City
Continued On Page 8.
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Packed Cities to
Concern Urban
League Meeting
Businessmen Forcast
Cautious Buying and?
Sign of Buyers Mart
Most business men report in
creased conservation and more
cautious buying both in their |
won purchasing and among their
customers.
A National Industrial Confer
ence Board survey of the busi
ness outlook for the next six
months shows heavy in some
lines and backlogs are still high,
only one of every 10 executives
replying expects new orders to
exceed shipments in the six
months ahead.
Cancellations currently “pre
sent no particular problem.'’
Of such items c.' r’teel, coal. •
petroleum and othe.' materials or I
parts which are short the major
concern is to obtain a supply suf- j
ficient to maintain production.
ELKS DRUM AND BUGLE
CORPS ENTERTAINED AT
JOHNSON'S DRUG STORE
Monday evening quite a plea- !
sant surprise party, given by the !
American Legion ror the Elks i
Drum and Bugle Corps, was en
joyed by this group of young
people at Johnson's drug store.
The American Legion was mag
namious in their praise of the
Corps for their cooperating and
participation in the Legion parade
July 29th.
To the American Legion: The
Elks Drum and Bugle Corps sal
ute y°u and are at your services
at any time.
Sergeant Hamilton, director;
Major Underwood, assistant dir
ector and Daughter Marie Parker,
chaperon.
Protest ‘Negro’ Veteran
Hospital at the Booker T.
Washington Birthplace Site
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A sharply
worded protest was dispatched to
General Omar Bradley. Adminis
trator of thg Veteran Administra
tion, by the National Urban lea
gue opposing a bill to establish a
$2,000,000 hospial for Negro vet
erans at the birthplace of Booker
T. Washington in Franklin Coun
ty Virginia.
j The action of the National Ur
ban League was made public to
day as Lester B. Granger, ex
ecutive secretary, pointed out
that the House of Represenativ
Veteran Affaires Committee ap
proved the bill on July 15.
“The measure would authorize
expenditure of $2,000,000 for
Veterans Administration to ac
quire the birthplace of Booker
, T. Washington and for the con
struction of the seprcp-nted hos
pital.” Mr. Granger added.
In his protest to General Bradley
the National Urban League of
ficial asserted “There la tragi*1
irony in such action. Booker T.
Washington If alive today, would
have been outspoken against a
policy of racial segregation esta
blished by the Federal Govern
ment and inflicted upon Negro
men and women who have risked
their lives and shattered their
health in a war to defend demo
cracy.
“More than irony is involved,”
Mr. Granger continued. “It is an
insult, to the memorv of a great
j educator and a noble American
j to memorialize him bv erecting
a seereeated Institution on the
site of birtholace.”
j "Service and Need” More Im
. pedant Than Race
j “There are those who will
that m Washine+on
; b*’"<*e1f headed an educational in_
, stitnffon fo- Nevrooq alone.” the
■ *T<»t),vr,o1 TT-V„„ T exee„ffw
I secretary continued “This la true
, K”* i- wa3 n d-'-n°r-»te last-step
maneuver, undertaken as the
only way to provide education for
Negroes of Alabama and the
Deep South at a time when the
Civil War passions had not yet
died down. But many decades
have passed, and this (the pro
posed hospital for Negro veterans
is not aprivate educational insti
tution for Negroes alone,” the
National Urban League executive
secretary continuted. ‘This is
true, but it was a desperate last
step maneuver, undertaken as
the only way to provide educa
tion for Negroes of Alabama and
the Deep South at a time when
the Civil War passions had not
vet died down. But many decades
have passed, and this(thepro_
nosed hospital for Negro vet
erans) is not a private educa
“!onal enterprise which is invol
ved. It is a contract entered in
to by the Federal Government it
self. Furthermore during the war
the Army and Navy hospitals in
this country and overseas ac
cepted Negro and white veterans
together on the basis of their
' service and need, rather than
their race. If this could be done
during the war, there is no just
ification for its not being done
during peace.
Mr. Granger concluded his
communication of proest by urg
ing the Veterans Administration
“To reconsider the policy inherit
ed by your Administration of
separating American veterans on
the basis of race.” He warned
that “Twenty-five years of racial
malpractice in the Veterans Ad
ministration may make such a
decision difficult to establish and
eaually difficult to administer.
“We are certain.” the National
Urban League official concluded,
that a maioritv of thP American
people reg«rdlr«s of their ra-e,
"r,1l approve and support such
en-if(rmaj-jon of democratic in—
' -tJon by our Federal Govern
ment.”
Negro Population
In Some Key Cities
More Tha Doubled
NEW YORK—Lester B. Gran
ger, National Urban League Ex
ecutive Secretary, announced to
day that the organization’s first
‘‘closed’ conference in f°ur years
would be held August 31 through
September 3, at Camp Atwater,
East Brookfield, Mass. The na
ture of the 194” annual meeting
was virtual!/ demanded by Urban
League personnel greatly con
cerned with increased responsibil
ities posed by the continued mi
gration of Negroes to urban
areas. Anxious to sit down again
in self-analysis and planning ses
sions, more than 200 of the 300
Urban League paid professional
staff throughout the country, and
numerous board and committee
members, have already made re
vai:ons for attendance. The foun
dry sessions will deal solely with
plans for improving the organiza
tion's war':. based on a review of
facts, figure, and experience re
ports from the 56 affiliates.
The Urban League geared from
its beginning to work in urban
areas, is faced with the same de
termined movement of Negroes
to cities as the migration which
precipitated its organization in
1910.
“The 67 per cent Increase of the
Negro population in New York—
from 327,706 in 1930 to 547,000 in
1945—,” Mr. Granger astated, "as
reported in a recent tabulation by
the Urban League of Greater New
York, is not exceptional. Negro
migration to Detroit, Los Angeles,
Chicago. Pheonix, Portland—all
Urban League affiliate cities, in—
cidently—and other big urban
centers around the country means
our work has tripled in import
ance. The main problems are
housing, employment, education
and vocational guidance, with in
terracial harmony an absolute ne
cessity, if we're going to have a
peaceful, progressive nation.
Where the Negro finds himself in
this swiftly-moving current is oup
concern: we must harness our
methods and techniques for the
biggest job we’ve had yet.”
High up on the Conference
agenda is an analytic report and
discussion of the National Urban
League’s Three-year Community
relations Project which closes of
ficially August 31. In one of the
most unique social work ap
proaches ever executed, the or
ganization, under the direction of
its Departmnt of Research and
Community Projects, studied
and worked in 13 cities—five in
the Deep South. The Project,
which attracted the active parti
cipating interest of thirteen of
the country’s largest social work
agencies, was made possible
through a 575,000 grant by the
, General Education Board.
j Julius A# Thomas, the ^National
Urban League’s Director of In
dustrial Relations, is chairman of
the 1947 Annual Meeting, with
Ann Tanneyhill serving as Con
ference Secretary. Dr. William N.
DeBerry, Founder and Executive
Director of Camp Atwater, will
be Conference Host. The Camp,
one of the most completely equip
ped in the country, was organized
in 1920 by Dr. DeBerry, then Ex
ecutive Secretary of the Urban
League affiliate in Springfield,
Mass.
The National Urban League is
the only interracial social work
agency in the country, its 56 af
filiates in 29 states and the Dis
trict of Columbia are manned by
paid professional workers, and
■ directed by interracial boards and
committees. The combined bud
gets of the national and local or
ganizations reached more than
$1,200,000 in 1946.
Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Henry Har
rison and their son motored to
Omaha to srrwwd a few days with
their T>arp"*i M". and Mrs. Albert
TTarrison and Mr. and Mrs. L T.
Boggus.
Omaha i<» t*>e fnrmor home of
Dr and M”® TTr-'!.':nn who are
now living in T Mich.