The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, August 16, 1947, Image 2
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. smW'HTrTJC 4 RATES: j l MONTH. 50c ' t MONTH*.$1.50 K MONTHS . $2.50 l YEAR . $4.00 o o o • * l Vli (Out of Towi 4 $1.50 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.” . - * “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. Jl PRESCRIPTIONS Free Delivery Duffy Pharmacy —WE-0609— 24th & Lake Sts. W atson’s School of Beau tv Cultu ENROLL NOW i Can Be Ar-anged 2511 North 22nd Street — JA-3974 — a TRIANGLE SHOE REPAIR a • QUALITY MATERIALS, • GUARANTEED WORKMANSHIP, • CLEANING & PRESSING, • HATS CLEANED & BLOCKED. 1608 NORTH 24th ST- JA. 0858 Contractor See Bailey First SPECIALIZING IN PATCH WORK, PLASTERING • BRICKLAYING CHIMNEYS AND CONCRETEING® • RETAINING WALLS C OFFICE—*209 NO. 22ND S. —PHONE—AT1154— THRIFTY LIQUOR STORE .• WINES, BEER, LIQUORS “We Appreciate Your Trade” *4th & LAKE AT. 4248 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.