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*<%*<*, . ■'— LOCAL AND NATIONAL The Omaha Guide r* news Classifed Ads Get Results ^ (~\c Per Copy Phone- ^ ^ Tj. nonn . * _ tr worth it riAmey UbOO /JUSTICE/ HEWTOTHEUNEX I “To Sell It, ADVERTISE” l__ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHON£HA.0800 1_ ____ _1 *»v vuntf i _ __ ★ H _ jk___ ‘ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30,7947 No. 30 _iTot NEGRO GIRL BEATEN, RAPED IN MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI Fiorintine Goodiett Gets -Hampton Appointment __ \ Omahan to Serve As Secretary to Comptroller At the Widely Known Educational Institution Miss Florintine V. Goodlett daughter off Rev. and Mrs. F. S Goodlett 2726 Binney st., recent. ly received an appointment as secretary to the Comptroller of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Miss Goodlett was born and reared in the city of Omaha at tending the public schools grad uating from Central High school in 1943 going on to the Univer sity of Omaha where she entered the College of Business Adminis tration. There she received her degree of Bachelor of Science June 1947 in Business with a Major in Education. She is a member of the Moriah Baptist Church. She holds a mebmbershij? in tbe Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority the retiring Basi leus, president for the past three years of the Alphea Omega Club, member of the University of Omaha Cosmopolitan Club, W. A. A., and the independents. ' Miss Florintine V. Goodlett will leave our city to take over her new post on Sunday August 31. Meat Packing Industry The start of commercial meat packing in North America can be traced to 1641 when a square-rigged ship sailed from Boston harbor with a cargo which a handful of New England colonists hoped could be sold to West Indies plantation own ers. Capt. John Pynchon, Spring field, Mass., and a few farmer neigh bors had consigned hogsheads of beef and pork, packed in salt, to England’s colonies Retired Army Sergeant Isaac Bailey Passes Sargant Isaac Bailey 2818 Pratt st„ died Staurday morning at the Veteran’s Hospital at Knoxville, Iowa.. Sergant Bailey enlisted in the regular army in 1883 and served with valor and courage until hon orably discharged in 1907. He served in the Indiana up rising in the 80’s and with Col Roosevelt at San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War. He was with Gen. Pershing in the Mexican War. Sergant Bailey received many honorable commendations from high ranking officers among whom were Gen. Pershing, Gen. Duncan, Gen. Smith, and others. He was active in lodges and civic affairs for many years be ing a member of the Masons, The Elks, and several other or. ganizations. He served as a War den in the St. Phillips Episcopal church. He leaves a wife Mrs. Madge Bailey and a son Robert Bailey of Akron, Ohio. Myer’s Funeral Directors in charge of burial. ANNOUCEMENT Ritualistic Service for Bro. Isaac Bailey deceased, 11:00 p. m. Wenesday night, at Meyer Funer al Home. Assemble at Hall at 10:00 p. m. RADIO STATION KBON TO OCCUPY NEW STUDIOS On Wednesday, August 27, the Inland Broadcasting Company and Radio Station K-B-O-N will move their ^offices and studios from the present location in the American Legion Building, 2027 Dodge, to 676 Saunders-Kennedy Building, 18th and Douglas. The new location, consisting of over 20 offices, studios, and con trol rooms, will occupy the West portion of the sixth floor. A signal victory was won this newsmen were admitted to the congressional piess galleries. First to be ad mitted was Louis R. Lautier, At lanta Daily World correspondent and National Negro Publishers association bureau chief. He Was backed by Griffing Bancroft, Chi cago Sun correspondent and chair man of the senate press gallery’s standing committee of correspon dents, who opposed seating Laut ier. Mrs. Alice Dunnigan, As sociated Negro Press correspond dent, was admitted later after Sen. C. Wayland Brooks (Rep. Il^j chairman of the senate committee on rules and administration, over rode the whi)te newsmen’s objec. ntios. Percival L. Prattis, a cor respendent for ‘ Our World'' mag. azine, has been admitted to the Periodical Press gallery of the senate. ANP correspondent Dun nigan is the first Negro woman to ever be seated in the capitol LACK OF DORMITORY SPACE TO REDUCE STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT LINCOLN JEFFERSON CITY. MO.—With the date (July 1) for room reser vations at Lincoln university (Mo.) six weeks past, applications are still being received by the registrar’s office. As for the i past year, it is obvious that many who desire to enter the institution will not be permitted to do so because of the lack of housing facilities. Those persons for whom no room space is available on the campus will not be permitted to register unless arrangements have bene made to live in approved residence quarters in the city. It is anticipated that the number of veterans will be about the same as last year, even though the ratio of this group to the entire stud ent body wiH probably be smaller due to the influx of many younger students. An adjustment in avail able housing facilities will affect the ratic between male and female students on the campus resulting in a greater differential in favor of males. READ THE OMAHA GUIDE Young Negro Receives Appoinment to Staff ot Pepsi Cola Scholarship Board Paul F. Lawrence, Former Teacher in New Jersey School and a Lieutenant in World War 11, Err_:_-___ PAUL F. LAWRENCE Will Assume California Post in September. Calls Scholarship Pro gram ‘ an Example of American ism at Its Best.” Paul F. Lawrence, who is now receiving the degree of Doctor of Education from Stanford Univer sity, has just been appointed to Che staff of the Pepsi-Cola Scholarship Board in Palo Alto, California, and he will aaswme his duties there on September 1. Chosen because of his specia lized knowledge of the problems of Negro education, Dr. Lawrence will have charge of that part of the Pepsi-Cpla scholarship pro gram which is directly concerned with discovering Negro students of unusual ability. He will also act as a consultant on all rela tions of the Scholarship Board with Negro high school principals, colleges, and Negro students who receive the Pepsi- Cola Scholar ships and pollege Entrance A wards. These Pepsi. Cola scholarship awards are financed by the Pepsi Cola Company as a part of its public service program, and they are administered by the Pepsi-1 Cola Scholarship Board. This Board is composed of a group of distinguished educators, including Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard University; and it year ly awards 119 Four-Year College | Scholarships and 550 fifty-dollar ' College Entrance Awards to boys | and girls of exceptional promise f ki the nation’s high schools. At I least 18 of these Scholarships and j 75 of the College Entrance A words Me set aside specifically for boys and girls in the South’s Negro schools, Dr. Lawrence said and Negro students may also compete for the other awards which are granted to seniors in those states which do not have a dual system of education. Through training and experi ence in the field of education particularly fit Dr. Lawrence for wo rkwith this Scholarship Board Son of a pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark. New Jersey, he was born J in 1912 in Patterson and later ! moved with his family to Bloom, field, where his parents still make their home. He was one of the first two Negro boys to be gradu j atd from the New Jersey State* Teachers College, and for eight years he taught In th public i school system of Princeton, New Jersey. The war did not interrupt his teaching, for almost immediately after his enlistment as a private \ in the army. Dr. Lawrence be- : came an instructor of military science and tactics. Even a de fective fuse on a land-mine, which sent him to the hospital with a badly wounded fiand. could not Continued on Page Eight Three factors May Ease Inpact of Low Prices Omaha Guide and Businessmen Urge “Back to School” Thet Mid-City Community and businessmen join the Omaha Guid' in encmouraging our boys and girls in the Mid-City area to join now the Back To School Move ment by preparing your school wardrobe, purchasing your school supplies, etc from your favorite merchant. These citizens, businessme.n and the Guide believes that better living, healthy, strudy, bodies, and sounder minds can only come through better education for all boys and girls. They believe that a progressive city depends upon for its future growth upon pro gressive minds trained in our cities school systems. They hope that what assistant and encour agement that they can give will be a stimulus to your boys and girls to continue their education. Summer jobs where they can should be changed to part-time jobs, for if you have certain aims in life tjiat cannot be achieved no other way then through education join the Back To School Move ment Today. In the long-run it will pay off in great dividends. INCREASE IN FEES AT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (MO.) JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—The rising costs of operation at Lin coln university (Mo.) has result ed in a slight increase in fees. Effective Sept. 1, incidental fees will be $22.50 per semester, pay able at the time of registration; room and board are on a cash in-advance basis, with meal tic kets being available in the $7.50 and $15 denominations. Meals, al so purchasable for cash in the University cafeteria, will be well balanced and priced in keeping with prevailing market condi tions. The office of the business man ager announced recently the pol icy on student accounts to the effect that “no student will ba permitted to reenter school, nor will any transcripts be released until all past due accounts are liquidated.” Listen to “ALL STAR STATION WOW. 6:30 P. “TUT, TUT, NOTHING BUT BERKELEY, CALIF. — Three special conditions, especially fav orable to California, ay protect California farmers somewhat from the impact of falling farm prices and land values which seems certain in the next few years, believes Dr. James H. Tin ley, farm economist in the Univer sity of California College of Agri culture. First hopeful signs is that CaL ifornia grows many specialty crops whose demand has increas ed greatly with the wartime rise in consumer baying power. This demand will contiue strong while purchasing power remains high. The rapid increase in popula tion in California, which is con tinuing may be an even more important influence, Tinley thinks More than 2,500,000 more persons live in California now than in 1940, almost a 40 per cent in crease. More people mean more demand for farm crops which in turn means lower transportation costs and higher returns to far mers. Third factor bolstering farm land and crop values in Califor nia is the prospect of higher aver age yields per acre. ‘ Despite these faverable signs,” ( Tinley warns, ” the spectacular jump in farm land values should cause considerable concern to everyone. The real danger from high-priced land comes when farms change, and its buyer who is the real risk.taker then. Urban League Exec. To NalT Conference Mr. Leo Bohanon, Executive Secretary and Mr. Marion Taylor Industrial Secretary of the Omaha Urban League left Thursady to attend the National Urban Lea gue Conference at Camp Atwater near Springfield, Massachusetts. The Conference will be held from August 31 to September 4. The Urban League will be giv The Urban League will be opea during the absence of the two Executives who will be back in their offices on September S. Clover From lUlgr Crfanign clover was introduced into the UnjtecMNales from Itoly in 1818 , WESTERN THEATRE M. EACH THURSDAY. BUTTER-NUT BREAD Crack Jim Crow Train Target of A AACP Suit NEW YORK,—The requirement by the Suothern Railway Com. pany that Negro coach passeng ers be segregated on the Souther- , ner, crack train from New York City to New Orleans, is unreason able and should be set aside by the Interstate Commerce Com mission according to a brief filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with the ICC today in a suit on behalf of Vashti Brown. Lillian Falls, and Muriel Hol combe against the railroad. The brief was filed in support of exceptions to a report of an examiner of the ICC ard was pre 'iited by Attorneys Spot'.swood W Robinson, 111, Thurgood Marshall and Robert L. Carter. The ex aminer's report had found that the accommodations furnished to Negro passengers were “substan tially equal” to those provided for white passengers and that a | regulation requiring segregation is reasonable. The brief took the position that the railroad is with out authority to adopt such a re gulation basing much of its argu ment upon the logic of the Irene Morgan decision where the Sup reme Court struck down a Virgin, ia law requiring segregation of interstate bus passengers because “It seems clear to us that seating arrangements for the different races in interstate motor travel require a single, uniform rule to promote and protect national tra vet. The brief also pointed out that any such regulation is unreason ably jsfnce it is based upon a sup posed necessity to maintain the safety of passengers and to a void conflict among passengers. Yet, pullman cars are operated by the Southern Railway Com pany throughout the South with out any segregation and their successful operation without clashes among the passengers proves conclusively that such seg regation is not necessay in the coaches. It is pointed out that in some cases, the same train will carry segregated coaches and unsegregated pullman cars. Finally, the brief points out the dirty, uncomfortable nature of the cars set aside for Negro use as compared with the modem, clean and shining cars for the whites. After listing all the many dif ferences between the two types of accommodations. the brief says that except for an absolute re fusal to transport Negro passen gers. it is hard to see how accom modations could be more unequal Labor Day By H. W. Smilh Labor Day should be one of the outstanding holidays of this year, and we as citizens should at all time show ourselves grate ful to labor for its contribution. We should encourage the men an women that produce electrical power for the home, the business, and the hotels. Streetcars, buses, railway trains, airplanes, etc. all have been improved by men who labor. These laborers do much to provide the public with the essen tial items that make the wheels of progress continue to go around. Let us all ^oin with the labor group in a very common sense celebration on their day, for this day has been set aside by the U. S. Congress. Give honor where honor is due. Eye aims Worm To tempt potential husbands many maidens in the Oaient, espe cially in Asia Minor, build up nice dowries by weaving rug?. With their earnings they buy perforated gold coins, which they wear as necklaces around their necks so that a young village buck, at a glance, can evaluate a girl’s worth. Allegedly Tortured By Oil Man After Promise of Job As A [Baby Sitter In Home b„,....— ' • .. REV. HENRY HARTNER The Rev. Henry Hartner, pastor of Emmaus Lutheran Church in Denver, Colorado, and summer guest speaker on the In ternational Lutheran Hour on Sundays, August 31, September 7, 14 and 21. W anting Issued to Watch For School Children Mr. Dwight Havens, President of the Nebraska State Safety Council and Captain Sanders of the State Safety Patrol today issued a join warning to motor ists to be on the lookout for child ren going back to school.* They pointed out that last year during the month of September, four youngsters twelve years of age, four youngsters fifteen years of age, and one sixteen year3 of age were all killed in traffic ac cidents. To emphasize the importance of watching these youngsters as they first start back to school, was brought out clearly by the fact that although there were nine children killed in September last year, none were killed in October and none were killed in November. Therefore, it appears that the motorists forget that the children are starting back to I school in September and the | youngsters, in their excitement, also forget about the motorists. Mr. Havens and Captain Sand ers are requesting motorists to be on the alert so that we will not have a repetition of last Sept ember’s catastrophes. JOHNNY MERCER REPEATS AS GUEST WITH KING COLT TRIO ON SAT., AUG. 30 | Song-writing and song-sing Johnny Mercer will pay a repeat visit to “King Cole Trio Time” on Saturday (Aug. 30) at 3:45 p.m. over W. O. W. Johnny will respond with one of his famous numbers after requesting the Trio to sing and play “Ooh Kick. I eroonie,” a medley of “Don’t Tell Me’’ and "I Miss You So”, and finally, “Naughty Angeline.” Famous as the author of such all-time favorites as “Atchinson. Topeka and Santa Fe,” “Accent uate the Positive” and “Tang erine,” Mercer is currently repre senteded on best selling records as “Tallahassee.,’ ‘‘Cecelia’’ and the forth coming “Sugar Blues”. 1 Johnny now mixes big business with songwriting, being president j of one of the largest record com panies. USil pa^eajepuii pgjT)«a : 6U1 ui uoiduieqa aieq st ] o/noia aqj uo*i oq-iw sauiep diumo isjij s.pi-iuM MERIDIAN, MISS. — NAACP officials in this city were attemp ting to arouse sufficient public opinion to guarantee the prose cution of a well-to-do white oil dealer who allegedly raped and tortured a Negro girl lured by promises of a job as baby sitter. Probpects of any action against the rapist appeared slim, al though it was learned that he had been asked to post a five hundred dollar bond. Ruby Attee Pigford, from her bed in a local hospital, told NAACP members that James Dee Perry, a salesman for the Fowler Butane Gas Company of Meri dian, had beaten her unmerci fully, until she lost conscioi^j. ness, raped her and dragged her bound body behind his car when her frightened refusal to accom pany him into a roadhouse in 1 furiated him. After dragging her behind his car along a dirt road he Carried her back to her home ! unconscious. I Perry, who would ordinarily be described as a clean-cut Mississi ppi businessman, allegedly ap peared at the Pigford home to sell the girl’s mother some gas. When Mrs. Pigford’s mother as sured him that she had no need for gas, Pejrry allegedly asked whether she had a daughter who wanted to work. He was intro duced to Mrs. Pigford whom he offered 70 cents an hour to take caer of his children. She agreed to keep his children that night while he and his wife attended a rodeo. The alleged rape occurred on the way to Perry’s home. Vets Worried About Finances LOS ANGELES, CALIF—The average veteran on the Los An , geles campus of the University | of California is as worried about | the high cost of living as the ! average housewife. In a recent survey conducted i by the Associated Students a mong 2,273 servicemen and 75 service women, the average sin gle veteran reported living ex i penses of $105 a month, while the average married veteran re ported $170 a month. This repre sents a wide gap between the $65 subsidy for single vets and $90 for married vets allowed un der the G. I. Bill of Rights. To meet such expense, 43 per cent said that they were cash, ing in their War Bonds, 62 per cent were drawing from other savings, 20 per cent were bor rowing from parents or friends, 40 per cent were using the earn ings of wife or husband. The volume of borrowing from student loan funds administered by the Dean of Undergraduates’* office is more than three times the pre-war volume. The size of the loans has increased also, In 1939 it averaged $45,11; today it averages $103.73. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN As of August 25th, 1947 Mr. Bill Poindexter is no longer an em ployee of the Omaha Guide Pub lishing Company. Any person or persons doing business with him in the name of the Omaha Guide after the above dat^ does it at their own risk. His relationships with the Omaha Guide as a re presentative has been discontinH ed on the above date and he has been duly notified. Mason M. Devereaux Jr. General Manager — Acting Editor Omaha Guide Pub. Co.