Kansas Hits Another Jackpot
• DODGE CITY, KAN.—Fifty acres in a 10-hour day . . . wheat
making 30 bushels to the acre . . . that’s 1,500 golden bushels—the
i result of one day's harvest with a self-propelled combine and a couple
of busy grain trucks. Still to be reckoned with, but not nearly so
disturbing a factor as it once was, bad weather may slow up operations
here and there along the way, but time lost is soon made up when
I skies clear. The self-propelled combine, since its mass demonstration
in the Massey-Hs.rris Harvest brigade during the critical harvest years
of 1944-45, is the rule toda/ wherever wheat is grown. By the hun
dreds they work their way up from Texas, through the panhandle,
i to arrive In Kansas about mid-July; then into Nebraska, the Dakotas,
| Montana and Minnesota. Many cross the border into Canada,
j | With winter wheat crop estimated at more than a billion bushels
I (Kansas alone is expected to yield 284 million bushels) there will be
wheat aplenty for the ]U.S. and a sizeable surplus available for the
hungry world.
MAILBOX DISPUTE SOUNDED
LIKE RIOT
A telephone call followed by a
fire alarm Thursday sent three
ploice cars, four engine compan
ies and a ladder truck to an
Eighth st. house.
Cause of it all, said Detective
r
James Wilson, was an argument
over a mailbox between a land
lord and tenant in which the ten
ant bit the landlord’s ear.
A large crowd was attracted. ;
If you growl all day it’s only ;
natural to feel dogtired at night.
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K MONTHS . $2.50
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ELECTED TO
CONVOCATION COMMITTEE
DES MOINES, IOWA — Law
rence C. Howard, son of Charles
P. Howard, prominent Des Moin
es lawyer and publisher, has
been elected to the convocations
committee by the student-faculty
council at Drake university, Des
Moines, la.
Howard, a junior will fill the
vacancy created by the resigna
tion of Harvey Masimore, who is
transferring to the University of
Iowa this fell, Howard is the
first Drake Negro to be elected
to such a position.
A pre-law student, Howard for
merly attended Howard universi
ty, Washington, D. C.
The committee schedules and
plans all university convocations.
‘Sweei Sea’
Ths Amazon river is, sometimes
' vV" sea.”
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“Summer cooking," says Mrs. Williams, “is something
I hated to do—BEFORE I got my electric range. Why,
my kitchen used to be like a Turkish bath on hot nights.
But not anymore! Electric cooking leaves the kitchen as
cool as the rest of the house. I can fix a whole meal with
out wilting—and we can eat in the kitchen very com
fortably—because the heat goes into the pan, not up
around the outside of it to raise room temperatures. And
that’s only one of many reasons why Fd never go back to
any other cooking method!”
• • • s
ELECTRIC cooking takes the drudgery out of SUM
MER cooking! Heat does not escape through the oven
walls. Heat from the surface units goes into cooking the
food—not out into the room. Why not enjoy cool, com
fortable summer cooking at your house with an electric
range!
Electric Cooking Is
CLEAN • SAFE • FAST • MODERN • ECONOMICAL
Earnings at
New Peak
During May
NEW YORK—Hourly earnings
in 25 industries reached a new
peak in May for the sixteenth
straight month, the National in
dustrial Conference Board report
ed Sunday.
Weekly earnings also reached
! a new high, but ‘ real” eamings,
adjusted for changes in the con
sumers’ price index, although ris
i ing slightly over April, were still
below the war years.
In its monthly survey of the
25 industries, the board found
, average hours, employment a<nd
total manhours lower than in
i April.
j May hourly eamings average
! $1,329, an increase of 1.9 per
cent from April and 12.6 per cent
from May, 1946.
Weekly eamings averaged
($53.59 in May, up 1.5 per cent
I from April.
•MASONS CENTENNIAL IN
PH I LA.,PA. DRAWS NEAR
The City of Brotherly Love
Phila. will be the host city to
the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
of Free and Accepted Ancient
York Masons; August 23rd
^ through the 25th. Members from
all sections of the United States
are making ready for this great
event. Omaha will have its sliare
of representative at this great
I Centennial Celebration.
This great festival will tom
merate the 100 years of the work
and toil that has been manifest
down through the years.
This is to be a grand and glori
ous ocassion for members of
this great fraterinal body for it
will give a complete history of
the progress of this great orani
zation. Fellow Masons will get
to-gether and exchange views and
ideas of the accomplishments of
this great order.
Many persons of note of the
race will be in attendance at this
celebration giving to it the add
ed spirit of good fellowship and
brotherhood.
It is desired that as many mem
bers of the Omaha Area going
to this Centennial make sure that
all plans are in order that you
might arrive at the Centennial
intime for the grand opening.
The modem girl hair may look
like a mop. but that doesn’t worry
her—she doesn’t know what a
mop looks like.
Fishing and Banting Area '*
Sun Valley, Idaho, borders on a
hunting and fishing area as large
as th*» entire state of Connecticut.
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NAACF Scores FBI
On Hiring Policy
WASHINGTON, — Stirred by'
growing complaints from Negro
applicants for FBI clerical jobs
charging J. Edgar Hoover’s de.
partment with giving NegToes a
“brush off’, the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People’s Washington Bureau
protested what it termed a “lily
white hiring policy’'.
Leslie Perry, NAACP Washing
ton Bureau spokesman, moved by
the steadily growing number of
complaints, today wrote the FBI
chief: “It is increasingly difficult
for thousands upon thousands of
American citizens to believe that
an agency of the government
whose personnel recruiting re
cord is so badly tainted with rac- !
ial bias, will, when it comes to 1
protecting the rights of minority
racial groups, give them a square 1
deal.”
The situation which drew the
NAACP fire came as a result of
a story which appeared in the
Washington newspapers on July
29, in which it was stated that
the FBI was accepting applica
tions to fill 2,000 clerical jobs
and openings for 500 additional
agents. This increase in person
nel was apparently necessiated by
the recently authorized federal
employee loyalty program. It
was pointed out that applicants
do not have to meet civil service
requirements.
According to the NAACP
spokeman, hundreds of Negro
government clerks who are about
to lose their jobs in other agenc
ies because of reductions, are ap
plying for these openings. Many
other experienced Negro govern,
ment workers who wre trminated
immediately after the war have
also unsuccessfully attempted to
find jobs with the FBI.
It was inescapably evident from
the mass of complaints being re
ceived by the NAACP that Neg
roes are being given what
' amounts to nothing more than
a “brush off’' by FBI officials,
j The NAACP protest to the FBI
i stated further: “Many of us have
| know for years that the Federal
| Bureau of Investigation has fol
lowed a ‘lily white’ hiring policy
in its clerical as well as its in
vestigation jobs. t,
We continue to hope and urge,
however, that your agency will
revise its personnel practices so
that the basic qualifications of
fitness of an applicant rather
than skin color, will be the de
terming factor as to whether or
not he will receive employment..’’
ANTI.NEGRO OWNERS
APPEAL FOR FUNDS
DETROIT, — According to
NAACP officials in this city the
NORTHWEST CIVIC ASS. INC.
which calls itself a “non-profit or
ganization* has been forced to
issue an urgent appeal for funds
with which to carry on its anti
Negro property fight in the U. S.
Supreme Court.
In a petulent appeal, one of
the “Civic” association’s appeals
which was intercepted by alert
NAACP members stated::
“The negroes’ appeal in the
case of Sipes vs. McGhee has
now been accepted by the Sup
reme Court of the United States
and will b heard at the October
1947, erm of that court.
This case, which involves re
strictions prohibiting negroes
from occupying property in our
neighborhood, has been success
fully fought.
REP. CHAIRMAN FAVORS
NAACP ANTI.
LYNCH STRATEGY
NEW YORK—The National As
of Colored People's determined
battle to secure passage of anti
lynching lgislation took on allel
political significance today when
Carrol Reece, Chairman of the
Republican National Committee
notified Roy Wilkins, NAACP
Assistant Secretary, that he fav
ored the enactment of legislation
along this line’. Mr. Reece stated
his position as a reply to a letter
outlining the NAACP stand and ;
urging support of the bill in the
House of Representatives, which
was sent to Earl C. Michener,
Michigan Republican, chairman
of the House Committee on the j
Judiciary, with a copy of the
letter going to Reece.
Mr. Reece’s stand varied from I
that of Congressman Michener, j
who has insisted on bottling up
the bill in his committee on the
rather dubious grounds that the
bill’s chances for passage would
be enhanced only if the Senate
first took action. In reply to a
nother letter in which it was
poined out that the House took
action. In reply to another letter
in which it pointed out that the
House took favorable action on
the poll tax measure without
waiting for Senate action, Micb.
ener declared, *'I have heretofore
informed you as to my position
in reference to this proposed
legislation. I still entertain the
same views.”
We know a fellow who tried
to fix his wife’s cuckoo-clock, and
now the cuckoo backs out and
asks what time it is.
Dr. Brown
Addresses
Atlanta U.
ATLANTA. Ga.—An appeal to
meet the standards of effective
educational stewardship was
madg on Thursday by President
Aaron Brown of Albany State
College to the graduating class cf
Atlanta University at the sec
ond summer convocation. Sixty
three graduate and professional
degrees were awarded by Pres
ident Clement to graduates of the
School of Arts and Sciences, the
School of Education, the School,
of Liberary Service, the School of
Business Administration, and the
School of Social Work.
Citing the sharp disparity be
tween educational expenditures
for whites and Negro students in
the public schools of Georgia and
other southern states, Dr. Brown
emphasized that this placed an
additional burden and responsi
bility upon Negro educators; but
that in spite of these handicaps
poorer buildings, poorer equip
ment, shorter terms, and lack of
administration of compulsory at
tendance laws-the Negro teacher
is expected to do as good a job
as anyone else. In a more optim
istic vein, he stated that there
of public education for Negroes
in the south, but admitted that
these gains were in line with what
is happening throughout the re
gion and were not directly an in
dication of greater emphasis on
the education of Negroes. Dr.
Brown challenged the graduates
to put forth every effort to give
adequate training to Negro stu
dents, and suggested as desirable
and necessary qualities of the
good steward basic health and
character, clear perspective, and
social sensitivity.
THIS COULDN'T HAPPEN XisiP
ft IN THE CAROLINAS
0 '*• •* ^Exclunvt to 7 m Yatu Publications
ipHlS, my friends, will probably shock" our Southern brethren
*of' the South. The "You-alls” who resent Northern "med
dlin’ ” won’t like this picture story. In the South, you see, much
tirne is spent in tracking down Negroes, attacking them, beating
them unmercifully, sometimes shooting them to death—lynchings.
Two wars were fought and won by Americans. Many
Negroes fro|n the South fought and died for Democracy. (This is
-their just reward? Lynching, that is.) , . j
No, this could not happen in the Carolinas, Suh. The story
of Connee Boswell, white, Apollo recording artist, in a recording
session with Freddy Norman, Negro musician and composer.
That’s Jerry Jerome. Jewish, musical director, looking on the’
score with great concentration. Oh, yes. The musicians are Protes
tant, Catholic and Jewish. Incidently, Connee’s first release tor
Apollo was "Chi Baba Chi Baba,” backed by “There’s That
Lonely Feeling Again.”
-I
Check Room Girl Wins
Scholarship Built Up
By Small Donations
CLEVELAND, O. — Ethelyn
Gorman, head of the check room
at the Cleveland Public Library j
was positively “thrilled and ex
cited'’ to find that she had wen
a scholarship for a two weeks'
course at the Hudson Shore
School in West Park, N. Y.
^3
People from all parts of the
, world attend Hudson Shore as
1 it is an outgrowth of the first in
dustrial workers’ school originat
ed at swanky Bryn Mawr Col
lege. What made it possible for
Miss Gorman to go was winning
the Frieda Seigworth scholarship
which was established a year a
go upon the death of Miss Seig
worth, who had been for 17 years
industrial director of the YWCA
Money for the scholarship came
from small contributions until ,
finally the sum of $1,279 was
reached and this is sending Ethe
lyn Gorman to school.
Ethelyn knows all this and it
has made her doubly appreciative
of the scholarship. A graduate of
East Tech H. S., she is an active
member of her branch of the
NAACP. and other churdh and
union affairs.
Meanwhile, the Frieda Seig
worth Memorial is still swelling
and trustees are hoping that once
it reaches $2,000, thg interest a
lone can be used to provide a
scholarship each year for a
worthy Clevelander.
Say you saw it advfrtised in The j
Omaha Guide I
THEY’LL NEVER DIE g, Stt*« 7**
CHARLES HENRY TURNER.
BORN 60 YEARS Aft) IN
C1NCINNAT(,OHIO, RECEIVED H6
EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF CINCINNATI AND THE 0- OF
CHICAGO • FOR A TIME HE
SERVED A5 ASSISTANT INSTRUC
TOR AT BOTH INSTITUTIONS.'
HE LATER TAU&HT AT CLARK
UNIVERSITY AND HAYNES
NORMAL A INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL- BOTH IN GEORGIA
JDR. TURNER SETTLED AT SUMMER
HIGH SCHOOL IN ST- LOUIS, MO
AS A BIOLOGIST AND CHEMIST
OR-TURNER RANKS WITH THE
FINEST OF THE WORLD /
HIS SPECIAL FINDINGS IN
THE FIELD OF ANIMAL.
Bt OLOGICAL.BE HAVIOR
WAVE EVOKED THE HIGH
PRAISE OF INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC BODIES/
CORNER I
■ w BtOLO&tST
* v . ^ AND CHFM&T OF KAfi£ ABILITY
^4kMd PwtawR
Dining Room Is Center of Family
- Gatherings
Dining rooms are happy rooms. There has been much talk about
doing away with them in modern houses because of the space re
quired. but there is no denying that they add much to the gracious^
In this^busy work-a-day world, each member of the family b
constantly on the go, and it is only at the dining room table that they
all congregate for good food and genial get-togethers. _ It_ should be
not only a functional room, but ajplejsant room since it is the cen
ter of so many of the most pleasant moments of life. ' J*
The dining room pictured here is the essence of charm with its
large, sunny windows. The vividly colored wall paper not only brings
the garden inside the house, but also sets the color scheme for tha
entire room. The crisp ruffled curtains repeat the white ground of
the wall paper, while the slip seats on the chairs and the rug pick
up the reds and greens in the' flowers. The plants on the window,
seat and the collection of glass and copper bric-a-brac make inter)
eating accessories for a thoroughly delightful room.
Lemas Woods l ound Aot
Guilty By Army Court
SIMPLIFIED DRIVING AID
FOR DISABLED SHOWN BY ..
TRAVELING WAR VETERAN
DETROIT, Mich.—Disabled per
sons of many types, who have in
the past given up the privilege of
driving a car will help encourag
ed to reapply for drivers licenses
when they learn of demonstra
tions being made by James W.
Redding, World War II veteran
who lost both legs in the Ardennes
Campaign.
Redding is making a nationwide
tour of hospitals, driving and de
montrating the newest Plymouth
sedar. equipped Vv;th a set of sim
plified driving controls developed
by Chrysler Corporation engine
ers. Redding has been licensed in
several of the most exacting
states and drives with perfect
control and skill.
The sets of control, supplied as
packaged accessories for any
model Plymouth from 1941 on.
compensate for disabilities caused
by injury or disease where loss
or loss of use of limbs has re
sulted. Due to shortages of mater
ials in the immediate post-war
period, disabled verterans were
given high priority in filling or
ders for the control sets. Today
the sets are available to all who
need them.
Controls are supplied in five
different sets graduated to com
pensate for various disablities.
This process of “tailoring” to the
degree of disability enables the
purchaser to select the set need
ed from chart compiled by medi
cal, safety and engineering ex
perts. Prices range from seventy.
five cents to $180. depending up
on the set required.
Redding’s demonstration of the
controls will be made at Ply
mouth dealerships at various
cities and towns throughout the
country lying on his current tour
of militarv and civilian hospitals. '
Route of the tour is revised from
time to time in accordance with J
requests from hospital authorities !
desiring the demonstrations for |
their patients, according to R. C.
Somerville, general sales man- [
ager of Plymouth.
For the disabled who have not
seen one of Redding’s driving
demonstrations, complete infor
mation on the simplified control
sets is immediately available
through any Plymouth dealer, or
can be had by writing directly to
Blythewood at Detroit,
Hailed as “a tremendous vict
ory” by the Lemas Woods Defen
[ se Committee of the Civil Rights
| Congress, was a verdict of not
! guilty of murder turned in today
by an Army court in San Francis
co composed of 8 officers, in the
case of Lemas Woods, Jr.
Woods, 24 year old Negro GI,
was sentenced in the Philippines
in May 1946 to hang for the death
J of his tentmate, Thomas Patter
son, when his gun accidentally
discharged.
“This is truly a tremendous
victory,” said Jack Raskin, exe
cutive secretary of the Civil
Rights Congress, “all the evid
ence which had been given and
accepted at the former court mar
tial was completely discredited in
cluding a confession which was
obtained by third degree methods.
. .Comparing the two trials, Ras
kin pointed out that it took three
weeks to find the truth and only
three hours to sentence a man to
die. “Investigation should he
made into army court martial
practices which nearly cost an
innocent man his life. This trial
proves beyond a doubt that the
present system needs serious re
vision.”
Woods was charged with invol
untary manslaughter and sen
tenced to three years hard labor
with a dishonorable discharge.
"We shall continue to work to
get the charge now against
Woods reversed. Involuntary man
slaughter is just another name
for accident, and 16 months fac
ing the gallows is enough punish
ment. We shall work for an hon
orable discharge.”
Acting as chief defense coun
sel was Detroit labor attorney
Ernest Goodman, who at the re
quest of the Civil Rights Con
gress, UAW-CIO and other or
ganizations, made the original in
vestigation which won the con
demned GI a new trial by pre
sidential decree. The Lemas
Woods Defense Commfrtee. co
chaired by George F. Addes. UAW
CIO International secretary-tres
surer and Rev. T. T. Timberlake
president of the Baptist Ministers
Conference, was formed and spon
sored by many prominent indivi.
dnais for the purpose of guaran
teeing Woods a fair trial.
Goodman was assisted by army
appointed Major Evans C Bunk
er former Seattle lawyer; Capt'
John A. McLoughlin, former Kan
sas City attorney, and Carlos Ra
mos, executive secretary of the
Philippine Lawyers Guild, and
veteran of Bataan Death March
and Japanese Concentration Camp
who uncovered much of the evid
ence which resulted in the acquit
l&I,
NAACP APPEALS FOR
MEMBERS AT LARGE
NEW YORK - Reports to the
National Office of the NAACP in.
dicate that many former NAACP
members have thus far failed to
renew their memberships. This is
especially true of soldiers who
joined while overseas but have
not renewed their membership
since returning home.
A special appeal for members
at-large was issued by Miss Lucil.
le Black. Membership Secretary,
| to all citizens throughout the
country who want to join the
! NAACP hu either have not been
approaehed by a solicitor or lire
in an area in which there is no
NAACP branch.