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_ #■—" .. —.. v . LOCAL AND NATIONAL The t ' NEWS Clossifed AiU%^V0<°*ult§ 1 l^lc Pcr CoPy Phone- ^ _ V ft WORTH IT— HArney 080v> J “To SeU It, ADVERTISE" _, Equal opportunity l _ r ___ ___________ _-_——^ .. ■ . 11 .." ... "■ IIL ~ ★ ^ ~ir ~~ ~~ OMAHA, NEBRASGA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1947 No. 31 . a^oi The Omaha Guide Sponsor Second Yearly Queen Contest _«r _____... ___ Students and Colleges Rate Negro Professors ‘A’ White Students Prove the Popularity had Approve Ability of Negro Teachers CHICAGO—This month white students are proving the popular ity and approving the teaching ability of the 63 Negro instructors at 25 of the nations universities, says an October Ebony photo feature announcing the colleges’ gratified satisfaction with these pioneers in education. Results of the long up-hill fight Negro instructors have made to crack the teaching color line in the nation's big white colleges are well worth the while, Ebony says. A total of 78 Negroes have taught at 43 Northern white col leges. And in this, the first and only comprehensive study of the field, the work of the individual teachers as well as that of the Rosenwald Fund is credited with starting to democratize the American system of higher edu cation. Salaries, though, remain low and prestige rather than wealth attracts Negroes to the white colleges. The University of Illinois now leads in the number of Negro in. structors with ten. Others include Rooseveit College (Chicago), - 7, City College (New York), 5, Brooklyn College. New York Uni versity, and The School of Social Research 4 each. Hunter College and the Univrsity of Chicago have 3 each. Harvard, Cornell, Columbia. Rutgers, Smith, Iowa, and Minnesota have one each. Oldest and also little.known Negro prof is Chicago-born Dr. William Augustus Hinton ,63, member of the Harvard Univer. sity Medical School faculty since 1915. NAACP HOLD MEETING The Omaha Branch of the NAACP held a very interesting business meeting on Tuesday eve rting Sept. 2, at St. John’s Church Committee reports were well presented. We are always look ing for new members so take your membership out today. Atty. Ralph Adiams Pres. Mrs. John Albert Williams Secy. Bign Fire ToH For many years deaths hs the United States due to fire have been • vAisiVrina o rru in nnn • Camp Meeting Choir At Golden Gate Auditorium Sept. 17 Arrangements have been Com pleted for the appearance of the World-Famous Camp Meetin" Choir at the Golden Gate Audi torium in New York City On Wed nesday Sept. 17. The date will be played for the benefit of Williams Institutional C. M. E. Church of which Rev. P. L. Hailey is pastor. The engagement will mark the first appearance of the nation’s outstanding jubilee singers *n ‘ New York since their spectacular concert at Madison Square Gar den on June 2, 1946. It will a so give the choir a chance to fill som« of the thousands of requests for appearances in New York. New Jersey and the New Eng land States with which requests they have been deluged in the past year. ' v The Camp Meetin' Choir has long been a favorite in the South. Through its weekly boradcasts over the coast to coast radio net work of the National Broadcast ing Company Saturday at 2:45 pm. EDST, it has enjoyed in the past three years, a meteoric rise to popularity in the wohle nation. Mr. J. Garfield Wilson, Camp Meetin’ Choir, say the choir is looking forward with great anti cipation to its return visit to the New York area where it enjoyed such a warm welcome on its pre vious visit. W. BARTON BEATTY NEW HAMPTON PUBLIC RELATIONS HEAD Beatty's leadership has been felt throughout Texas, as demon strated by his having received the Degree of Doctor of Distin guished Service from Bishop Ool lege after building an organiza tion which secured $51,000 for college building purposes. His Moorland associates say his personality and leadership have made him “respected and loved by every boy at Moorland.” j Mrs. Beatty, who has served as j a Dallas USO director, like her ; husband has taken a leading role I in various community activities. L. I. bathhouse’Ordered to Stop Discrimination NEW YORK CITY—The Park Inn Baths, big bathhouse and swimming pool at Long Island Rockaway Beach has been order ed by Benjamin Fielding, New York Sity license commissioner, to cease discriminating or face immediate revocation of its license. Fielding issued his order after a hearing on a complaint by Mir iam Bversley and George Howard both Negroes, who were refused admittance July 13 at the same time that James Peck, white, who is news editor of the Workers De fense League, was admitted. On each weekend since July 13, the baths had "been picketed by the Co-ordinating Committee for Social Action, which was organiz. ed on Long Island by Conrad Ly nn, a WDL attorney. ^CUror Trim" Italy Orimian cloVer w»s* intradu^ed into the United States fsooi Italy ia mi. DONALD M. TYPER TO SERVE ON YMCA STAFF IN JAPAN Donald M. Typer, associate ex eoutive for program services on the YMCA National Board staff, left for Japas recently. He will serve for two years as youth or. ganization and student activities officer in the Education Division, Civil Information and Education Section of General MacArthur’s staff. His duties will include the for mulation of plans and policies governing the educational obpect ives of youth organizations and student activities, and advisory relationships with appropriate re presentative of the Japanese government concerning the pro blems related to youth organiza tions. READ THE LATEST NEWS IN THE OMAHA GUIDE. Omaha to Get Much Improved Transportation Imporved transportation ser vice for Omaha will become ef fective next Sunday, Sept.7. Improvements which include route changes, establishment of new routes, and replacement of street cars by buses on some lines are made possible by the addition of sixty new buses to Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company’s fleet. The new Plan calls for the re placing of street cars with buses j on the West Leavenworth, Park j West, and 24th and Kansas— | Park East lines I ' On Sundays buses service will ; be provided on all Omaha routes. Buses will also replace street ! car service on the southern sec | tion of 24th Street-Crosstown | street car line with the route ex. tended to the neighborhoods of 13 j and Harrison Streets and Mandati | Park. A new buses route will operate between 16th and Cuming and lltlf and Grace Streets. Due to traffic conditions in the j downtown district, buses on week days will load in the center of the street on 15th and 16th Streets between I ^apStol and Howard and on Famam and Har. ney between 10th and 18th streets. On all other stops curb loading will be used. However, on j Sundays when buses are used on | all Omaha lines, they will load at curbs in both downtown and sububran districts. A total of fourteen of Omaha’s twenty-eight transportation rout, es are affected by the changes be ing made at this time. The Street Car Company has announced tha1 folders containing rr|aps of in dividual route# as well as the en tire system will be available in all Omaha street cars and buses this week. The Company expects delivery of 90 additional buses during * 1948. Its expenditure for buses I during the two years will total j $2,400,000. ! HERALD STARTS THIRD “MIRACLE IN HARLEM” "Mircle In Harlem,” Hera'd Pictures’ third all-Negro feature, goes into production next Mon day (Sept.8) at the Filmcraft (Bronx). According to Jack Gold berg, president and producer of Herald Pictures, the feature mark theentirely new departure in the Negor field of screen entertain ment. “As the title implies”, said Mr. Glodberg, “the action is laid in Harlem, but unlike other Negro pictures, the plot is very heavy drama and mystery, with strong religious overtones.” Contracted to be released by Screen Guild Productions, it marks the first independent Ne gro picture to be distributed by a national comj|any. According to Herald's contract they are to deliver three more productions to Screen Guild, following the cur. rent attraction. The Guild has al so taken over the distribution of Herald’s firse two pictures, “Boy What a Girl!'’ and “Sepia Cinder ella”. both musicals. The new picture, written by Vincent Valeatini and directed by Jack Kemp, carries among its featured players Stepin Petchit, ! marking the comedian's return to | the screen. He will play the same j type of comedy role that has en. 1 deared him to millions of movie fans. “Mircle In Harlem” is camera man George Webber's 20th Negro production. MISS CINCORE Outstanding personalities in the ranks of organized labor are Miss Mamie Cincore, secretary-manag er of the Longshoremen's Finance Mr. PERKINS Company, Inc., and John H. Per kins, financial secretary of the General Longshore Workers, ILA, Local 1419, AFL. \\. barton beatty, Jr. l\ew Public Relations Director at Ranwton __» Governor Praised For Pressing- Prosecution of Bush Lynchers ASHEVILLE, N. C.—Govemot ft. Grgge Cherry of Norh Carolina was praised by the Workers De fense League for pressing for con viction of mobsters who attempt ed to kidnap Godwin Bush from I the Northampton country jail last May and lynch him. “In describing the Northamton' county jury’s failure to indict the seven accused as ’a miscarriage of justice,’ you expressed the view of freedom-loving people in our state,’’ Joe Felmet, WDL field secretary wrote the goverhor. “I hope you will succeed in your plan to secure an indictment in another county.” The governor said: “Undoubt, edly a crime has been committed by those who entered the Jack son jail, and one of the members of the mob had confessed the crime. Thg jury should have found a true bill so that the evidence could have been heard in open court.” Drinking Drivers Issued W arning “You drivers who feel you can drink and also drive safely are warned that you may only be kid ding yourselves,” said Dwight Havens. President of the Nebr aska State Safety Council today. “Our records will me out on this, for last year, 17 per-cent of the drivers involved in fatal accidents had been drinking.” “IN connection with drinking and driving, I would like to ask, what would you think if the en gineer of a crack-limited or even a freight train took a few drinks before starting out on an import ant run? You would think It highly insensible, wouldn’t you9 Or, if the driver of a city or cross-country bus indulged in a few drinks—you would probably write a letter to the president of the bus company Obviously, nei ther the engineer or the bus driv er do this, but, how do you be have as the driver of your own car ? Do you take these, and other chances, behind the wheel of your automobile? Some drivers do. Be alert to avoid getting hurt in a highway accident. Frequent ly you must think—not only for yourself—but f®r the *her fel. only as weel.” - \ HAMPTON, Va—Appointment of W. Barton Beatty, Jr., present Executive Secretary of the Dal. las, Texas, Moorland Branch YMCA. as Director of Public Re lations at Hampton Institute, has been announced by President Ralph P. Bridgman. Mr. Beatty will assume his duties this month. Hampton's new Public Relation, s Director, a Fisk graduate who lacks only one semester’s work attended high school. His grad uate training at Michigan is in the field of Guidance and Per sonnel Administration. Prior to his four years as Ex ecutive of the Dallas Moorland YMCA, Mr. Beatty served in Ji variety of typical student jobs— to receive his doctorate in Edu cation from the Racham School of Graduate Studies of the Uni versity of Michigan, is former re sident of Cairo, Illinois, where he newspapers saleman in high school, assistant head waiter and summer painter at Fisk—before spending two summers as a staff member of the Michigan Fresh Air Camp and later becom ing Boys Work Secretary for the St. Antoin- Branch YMCA of De trot. Typical of Mr. Beatty, says his YMCA associates, is his declara tion, "I love people’’—a state ment supported by his many act ivities and responsibilities in the community. He holds or has held the following positions and hon ors: President, Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce; Execut ive Director, Community Chest Campaign for the past three year; s; member of the Southwest Area YMCA Committee, serving as chairman of the sub-committee on Finance; Executive Director, Un ited Negro College Fund for the past four years; Sponsor of the Unsighted Guild, a movement to build a lighthouse for the blind; member of the mayor’s Bi-Racial Committee; member of the Dal las Crime Commission; Commis sioner of Negro Baseball; Dir ector of th« Progressive Voters’ League; member of the Educa tion Committee of the Dallas NAACP; Director of the Dallas Council of Social Agencies; Sec retary of the Dallas Council of human relations; member of the Dallas Housing Committee; re cipient of the National USO Cer tificcate of Merit, the Man of the Year Cup in 1945, and the United States Treasury Award for ser vices rendered in finance from 1941 to 1945, when he led three war loan drives. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. hew Hollywood Beauty Salon to Open Sept. 10th Miss Iceslona McSwaine will open her new Hollywood Beauty Salon at 2418 Grant st„ Wednes day September 10. Miss McSwaine finished the Watson Beauty School passing the State Board on January 15th. re ceiving her license to practice the art of beauty culture. She then began working at the Laura’s Beauty Salon later changing to the Powder Puffs Beauty Salon where she has been employed up until the past week. Miss McSwaine came to Omaha two years ago from Little Rock, Arkansas with her son Wallace C. Fisher who is now attending the parochial schools in Omaha. This is Miss McSwaine first venture in business in Omaha. 1 and she desires all her former customers, well-wishers, and po tential customers to drop in and see her new shop at 2418 Grant st. j WDL BACKS ACTORS IN FIGHT TO END JIM-CROW AT NATIONAL THEATER NEW YORK CITY—At the re quest of Actors Equity Associa tion—AFL, the Workers Defense League has written all members of the board of governors of the League of New York Theaters urging that they support the act ors* demand for ending the ban on Negroes at the National Thea ter in Washington, D„ C. by June 1. "The barring of Negroes at the National Theater is particularly obnoxious because it places racial discrimination in a prominently displayed showcase to beviewed by passersby from countries all over the world,'* said the letters, signed by Rev. Donald Harring ton, national WDL chairnam. “The request for a change of policy by the theater originated with the actors, but has the sup. port of our labor movement and ■ of freedom-loving people through out the country." The demand for ending jimerow at the National Theater was . made by Actors Equity Associa tion in current negotiations for a new contract. The League of New York Theaters is split as to wether to grant it. JOHNNY MOORE AND HIS THREE BLAZERS KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers, who have i laways shied away from air tra ve for the simple reason that they like to feel the good earth beneath their feet, almost disa ppointed a crowd of more than 4000 persons at the Auditorium here last Tuesday night because ptheir road manager, Sid Fields, talked them into making a hop from Nashville to Kansas City via plane. The flight was smooth as silk until the plane approached Kan | sas City, which was shrouded in a heavy fog with the visibility so poor that a landing was im possible. The plane circled the J city for some three hours before the pilot was instructed to make a landing at an airport som^ forty miles distant. While the huge crowd at the Auditorium impatiently awaited their arrived, the Blazers were making the last lap of their journey under police escort and finally reached the dance slte to swing into action an hour-and-a half later than scheduled. Listen to "ALL STAR STATION WOW, 6:30 P "TUT, TUT, NOTHING BUT Who Will Be This Year’s Mid-City Sepia Queen? $800 to Be Given in Prizes ■ » W# wish to take this opportunity to inform, ony readers of tire iVl'id-City Sepia Queen Contest, sponsored by The Omaha Guide,'• con ceived purely for the purpose of “glorifying out young womanhood, and to stimulate the interest of our younger set.” This contest should have a definite place in the life of your com munity, and should have tthe active support of every social and civic organization. The Omaha Guide whiles to invite all other organizations and indivdiuals to join in making this. Second Annual affair a success, in order to establish a precendt for such an affair to which our group may look forward to each year and which it is hoped/ may encour age others. With the advent of this contes*, The Omaha Guide marked a mile stone in endeavor. A Vowed purpose to make this one long to be remembered. But this is only half the story. To assure the permanency oi this venture, we must have the active help and cooperation of ti|r whole community. I here is only one way you can help and that Is by picking a Candidate and vot'.ng. Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, and' several other large cities, have conculded successful # contests. Surely that should be an added stimulus to us^ The Omaha Guide is proud to be the sponsor of sum a worth while undertaking. To make this contest a success, entails hard work and initiative. This venture can be just as successful as we make it, and we need the publicity and favorable public opinion, and prestige that will come to our city thongh it. It seems safei to predicf that the needed community-wide assistance, will be forthcoming. The advantages, both temporary a"no permanent, to be derived from it, are such that it should appeal tq! all of us. LET’S GET OUT AND VOTE!!! 1. Your club or organization may sponsor a contestant. 2-. You may nominate someone yourself. 3. Any girl over 18 is eligible. \ 4. Please furnish The Oamha Guide with a glossy-print of your Nominee for publication. 1. $800.00 in Prizes. 2. Seven winners; seven prizes. 3. Winners to be Honored at gala ball on October 6th. 4. No member of the “Mid-City Queen” Committee will be per mitted to make any nomination. } 5. The Seven Contestants receiving the largest number of votes in order, will be adjudged winners.. No person may vote more than ONE TIME. 6. Mail or bring entries to The Omaha Gt^ide Office, 2420 Grant Street. In care of Mr. George H. McDavis. CORRECTION In “To Whom It May Con cern” item that appeared in the Omaha Guide Staurday Aug ust 30, issue. The name given should have been Bob Poindextar rather than Bill Poindextar his brother. . SEPTEMBER WEDDING The Marriage of Miss Jean Wal ker daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walker to Mr. Clinton Patridge son of Mr. and Mrs. Clin ton Partidge is to be announced soon. Murray Joins Green In I raising WDL \etoRole JIMMY RUSHING’S MEMOIRS OF BLf/ES GOES INTO BOOK NEW YORK—Jimmy Rushing *The Man Who Sings The Blues” with Count Basies incomparable ^rchestra, has turned author in his spare time and is currently writing his memoirs of mere than 28 years of blues singing, which will be incorporated into a book, appropriately titled “Singin* The Blues’. The 300-pound blues-chanter of the Basie band strated his career as a choral singer in Oklahoma City in the early 1920’s and turn ed to blues singing in 1925. He first won fame as a member of Walter Page’s Blue Devils and ] later with the great band of the j late Beeny Moten. Both organiza tions also featured the piano work of one Count Basie. WESTERN THEATRE M. EACH THURSDAY. BUTTER-NUT BREAD WASHINGTON, D. C. — Philip Murray, president of the CIO. has written Rowland Watts, acting national secretary of the Workers Defense League: “Your organi?a tion is to be commended for its enterprise in establishing such a representative group as the Na tional Clergymen’s Committee on the Taft-Hartley Bill. “The fact that 700 leading cler gymen in forty-six states can be brought together on a committee to oppose cruel and unjust legis lation is extremely heartening The statement by the committee asking President Truman to vote the Taft-Hartley measure set for th exactly the materialistic anti unmoral functions of th bill.” Previously William Green, pre sident to exercise his President ail veto of the anti-labor Taft Hartley bill. I am sure your state, ment to the President on the •€. casion referred to must have madea most favorable impresslo* School Has Started Again. Please Drive Carefully. Protect the Children
