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V*. .. -n *- < _ v. LOCAL AMD NATIONAL ne °^v Ov r'NBWS Cbulfcd Ad**» ^ "* -| Per Copy Phone- 1U HArney 0800 * W0MMrr~ “To Sell It, ADVEKTME” i__ Cqu/m owornimnT l__ » ★ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1917 No. 32 ~ ‘ KS? ZST 2nd Annual Beauty Contest of Omaha Guide Date To Be Set Discrimination In D.C. Housing Investigation Setup - ----. — -■ - -_____ _ Ask for Investigation of Real Estate Board Who Restricts Housing Chances for Negroes Investigation of practices of the Washington, D, C. Real B«*ate Board which have restricted hous ing opportunities for Negro real dents of the District of Columbia, was asked today of Attorney Gen eral Tom C. Clark by James B. Carey, secretary-taarsure of the CIO and chairman of the CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimina tion. Text of Mr. Carey's letter fol lows: “It has been brought to our at tention that the Washington Real Bstate Board, currently under in dictment for violation of the Anti Trust laws, follows the practice of denying the sale, rental or ad vertising of property in a so-called white section to colored people The Board’s constitution states: N‘o property in a white section should ever be sold, rented,adver tised Or offered to colored people. In a doubtful case, advice from the Public Affairs Committee should be obtained.’ ‘ In the past, many of Washing, ton s Negroes and white have lived close together in many parts ef tha city and where mixed neigh borhoeds still exist, incidents of racial friction are rare. “In late years, Negroes have increasingly been forced into a few overcrowded stums. City planners and well-to-do private citizens are displacing old Negro neighborhoods while white real estate dealers and property owner erect formal barriers to keep Ne. gross out of so-called white areas. Housing conditions are poor for Washington residents in general, but largely because of the pras sure just described, they are much worse for Negroes. “We are of the opinion that the above-mentioned technique along with restrictive convenants arid the refusal of financial institu tions to make loans to Negroes on property within the so-called white neighborhoods, are a viola tion of the Anti-Trust Act in ad dition to being a gross violation of the civM liberties and rights ef Negro citizens. “We are calling this practice of the Washington Real Estate Board to your attention, respectfully urging that this phase of tis act ivitise be included in the current scope of legal action engaged in by the U. S. Government against the Washington Real Estate Board.” 1 ——-j-- ■ r MISS JACKSONVILLE 1947 CROWNED JACKSONVILLE, Fla. _ In a mamoth event last weak in Jack, sonville Hiss Alice Braxton was crowned “Miss Jacksonville Pin Up Girl 1947" and Mips Dclcres HaU, winning third place was de. signatad “Miss Jacksonville Pet", This is an annual event staged by the Young Men’s Civic Club with a round trip ticket to New York City as first price. FREIGHT HANQfJCR6 PURCHASE TWO BUILDINGS AT COST OP $113,500 NEW ORLEANS — The Inter naotinal Longshoremen’s Associa. tion of Dock Loaders and Un loaders of Freight Cars and Barg, es, Local 854, AFL, recently pur chased two buildings in the busi ness sectipn of Suth Rampart st„ at a total cost of $113,500, ateord^ ing to an astiouncement by H. B Augustine, president. / How to Avoid Shaving So much Yet Look Brighter’ Younger Men troubled with "Five O’ Clock Shadow,” ‘‘Stubble Trouble.' or just plain whiskers, may be In. terested in a secret formula for shaving which James A. Moore of Narrowsburg, New York, is cur. rently offering for $1.<W), cash in advance. 1 Moore’s discovery eliminates the need for daily shaving aad pow dering. Regardless of how heavy your beard is, Moore’s Becret method will keep you looking your best with a once a week shave. The results will “astonish” your friends, says, Moore, and you yourself will be “amazed” after you get the secret formula. An architect, who received one of Moore’s solicitations asked the National Better Business Bureau to investigate and the following advice is what they got for a dol lar: i FORMULA Wash hands and face thoroughly and when gtx>d and dry take a pair of tweezers and pluck one I hair at a time. “The first treatment of plucking ■ breaks the roots of Ipng standing ' and of course smarts a little. “When you have completed the plucking, wash bfands and face again and save your face again and shave your face for the fine fuzz and fine hairs that are left after the plucking.” In revealing this bit of wisdom. Moore says to his customers, among other things: Don’t say you can’t do it. remember ‘Men are Men.’ The first treatment is the hardest be cause you have to break the con nection, whilt you will hardly no-! tice the second treatment.” The genteman from Narrows- j burg offers this boon to blue beards with perhaps the safest1 guarantee that was ever offered. He guarantees double your money back if you shave more than oncg a week with his method. Salt Lake Great Salt lake has a salt oon ’“T't of about 20 per cent. Telephone Co. Keeps Pace With Growing Omaha Telephone construction projects which are being carried on by the telephorte company in keeping pace with the rapid growth of Omaha are making good progress and several important steps will be completed this fall. Saturday night, November 15, has been set as the time for plac ing in operation the dial equip ment which is being insalled in the new Pleasant office on North 30th st. This equipment will serve about 5,500 homes and places of business in the general area between Lake st. and Ames ave. Transfer of these customers from other central office areas will make it possible to serve more than 2,300 Omaha applicants now waiting for telephones. These ap plicants are being contacted to arrange for wiring and installs tion of telephones before Novem ber 15 so that they can get ser. vice as soon as practicable after that date. At the same ume, about 300 telephone customers in the Carter Lake district in Iowa wiN be given a new central office prefix-Lake. This step is being taken to identify these telephone custom ers as located in Iowa. New Omaha telephone direc tory, with more than 10,000 new and changed telephone numbers, ki now being prepared and will "be distributed to homes and offices for use beginning November 16. Foreshadowing further progress in meeting service demands in Omaha, the new Orchard tele phone building at 23rd and “O’* st., is nearing completion. Deliv eries of equipment are scheduled for late this year and we are centering our efforts on the ob jective of getting it installed, tested, and ready for service by tl^ middle of 1948. The additions and changes requir ed to meet Omah’s greatly in creased needs for telephone ser vice add up to a big and compli cated job. Each construction pro ject which is completed is one more step in the telephone com pany program of a completely of Omaha. Ideal Hog Size Moderately fat hogs, weighing be tween UK) and 240 pounds alive, pro duce hams, shoulders and sides of the mast desirable size for curing. .Mary’s Chicken Hut Mary’? Chicken Hut where you dan Set Porter Haase §teak from Bob’s Own Baby Beef. Farm. Barbecued Milk-Fed Spring Cfcicken from hie milk-hd gprirtg chicken garden Meaty Pig Spare Rlfbs Barbecue^ thfe old southern style with Bob’s special Bar-B-Q Sauce. ' Hot Breadout of the pit today. "Y es, Mary’s Chicken Hut is the place to go when you want'moft pit barbecued Pig Spare Rib*. Open from 10 a. m. until ? ? ? ? Special attention given to private parties. Cdl JA 8946. Listen to “ALL STAR WESTERN THBATRE STATION WOW, 6:30 P. M. EACH THUBSDAY. “TUT, TUT, NOTHING BUT BUTTER-NUT BREAD I Plan Extensive Concert Tour The International Sweetherats of Rhythm, world famous all-girl dance orchestra currently on a nationwide tour of ballrooms, theatres, auditoriums and night clubs, plan a special series of modern musical concerts, under local sponsorship of colleges, churches and religious groups, civic, welfare, fraternal and other fund-raising organizations. The present aggregation will be augmented by the addition of sev eral outstanding musicians, re cent honor graduates of the jiartftoM's £ead|ng music schools. Posts are still to be filled, in rhythm and brass sections as well as in the newly-added string divi sion. Girl instrumentalists, in terested in o professional music*’ career are invited to contact Dan iel M. Gary, business manager International Sweethearts of Rhythm, 208 S. st„ N. W., Wash ingtoti, D. C. The special Concert tour will commence in December, follow ing completion of current one nighter engagements. ‘YM’Informal Education School Announces Plan \ Carl W. Mprrow, Program Dir ector of the Omah YMCA, has announced that all the arrange ments have been completed for the “Y”’s informal education pro gram for both men and women which will begin on October 6. Anyone who is interested in this educational opportunity may register now either at the Central “Y” General Office or by mail on or before October 1. All mail should be addressed to Harriette Koch, Registrar. Students will find a wide vari ety of courses offered which have been designed for the particular purpose of mating leisure time more enjoyable and profitable. Classes will include the following: Beginning Photography; Advanc ed Photography; Public Speaking; j Painting; Marriage for Moderns; Salesmanship; Greek; Russian; Leathercraft; Citizenship and English; Singing; Advertising; and the Sports School for Begin ners. All classes, unless specified otherwise, will meet once a week for ten weeks. Don Warner, Glen Walker, and Norman Haried comprise the Ed ucational Committee. Carl W. Morrow is the Director, and Mar guerity Grote is the Business Manager. All instructors are specialists in their particular field and the courses should be both interesting and helpful. Civil Service Offers Future and Careers Persons kiterested in securing permanent Fadral employment as Pharmacists, $2644 to $4149 a year, are invited to Ale applica 'tion wtith the Executive Secretary, Bbar d of U. S. CivilS Service Ex aminers, Veterans Adminsrtation, Fort Snelling, St. Paul 11, Minn., not later than October 2. Positions are in Veterans Adminstration establishments throughout Branch No. 8 Area, which includes the States o$ Iowa, Minnesota, Nebr. North and South Dakota. Further information and applies- i tion forms may obtained from the Civil Service Board at Fort ; Snelling, from the Director, Eight < U. S. Civil Service Region, Post < ! Churchmen Desire Closer Planning Cooperation “The common loyalty of our churches to the cause of Christ ought to find expression more ful ly in our planning together and co-operation for the ext®118*011 of the church in Omaha” declared administrative officials of nine de nominationai groups represented on the Extension and Church Planning Committee of the Omaha Council of Churches in a “State, ment of Principles” adopted to day by the committee. The com. mittee met at 4 p.m. at thg “Book of Books Store,” new church publ. ication agency located at 316 South 18th st„ and was chaired by Mr. Joseph M. Emmert, lawyer. In a statement which it direct ed sent to Protestant churche* of Omaha, the committee outlined principles of church location which it approved, and described the procedures which it was pre pared to follow in advising with churches in projected plans for building new churches or re-locat ing churches already established. “The ta& of winning the rity is too big for any one communion It is a common responsibility of all. Omaha should have enough churches, but not too many. They should be good churches,” the statement said. A sub-committee presented » may showing a re-study of the present location of all chur.'L structures in Omaha. In one area six blocks square, the commute found twelve churches. Information available to committee indicated that Proto-1, ant churches are prepared to ex pend more than $700,000,000 in America on Church plant in the immedate future. Members of th*. committee are: Mr. Joseph M. Emmert, chairman* Rev. Glen L. Rice, Executive Sec retary for the Presbyterian Churches of Nebraska; Rev. Paul M. Hillman, District Superintend ent of the Methodist Church; Rev. G. C. Becker, chairman of the De partment of Home Missions of the Nebraska Regional Conference of the National Lutheran Coubc*1. Rev .A. L. Cole, representing fh Nebraska Convention of the Dis ciples of Christ; Rev. Gottfr* 1 Anderson, Superintendent of the Midwest Conference of the Evan gelical Mission Covenant Church: Rev. E. E. Eriekson, registrar fb the Omaha Association of the Con gregational Christian Churches; Rev. Ralph McAuley, Stated Clark for the Synod of Nebraska of the United Presbyterian Chunoh. 1 -~“C— BRITAIN EfrJDS BOXING COLOR BAR LONDO N,Hng. —Accdkding to ttte stewards of Britain's Boxing Boa Si of Control, Britain’s tradi t*onal regulation barring non whites and aliens frcim seeking a British title, was changed last weak so that anyone of British birth may now seek the title. This new ruling will allow Bri. tian’s popular l^yddr-old Him. dolph Turpin, a Negro cook his chance to compete for the Bri tish middleweight title. Office and Customhouse, St. Paul l. Minnesota, or from any first— or second-class post office in Branch No. 8 Area. Applications nust be on ffile with the Board >f U. S. Civil Service Examiners, j Veterans Administration, Fort; Snelling, St. Paul 11, Minnesota >n or before the close of business m October 2, 1947. Harlem On Ice’ All-Negro Rerue Goes On lour Glittering 4-act Musical Revue, Staged On Real Ice, Presents America’s Greatest Negro Ice Skating Champions and Enter tainers Nationwide Tour of \ Major Cities To Commence v Early October I "Harlem-On-Ice,” lavish musical extravaganza, staged on real ice and starring a brilliant all-Negro cast of speed, ballet, figure-skat mg champions and specialty en tertainers, will commence a nation wide tour of principal American cities in early October, appearing in auditoriums, ballrooms, theatr. es and night-clubs. The extravaganza-on-ice, staged by John Brett, nationally famed ice show director, sets a new high for dazzling beauty, brilliant color and kaleidoscopic action. The four thrilling acts, “Panama”, "Katie Went To HaitJ”„ “Frankie and Johnnie” and the "Harlem-On-Ice” gTand final|, jeach spotlight a | ocuco ui mouern ice bkul ! ing ballet sequences, featuring I the Harlem Ice Ballet-Dears, cap tivating skating choros, and the sensational Gay Blades Quartet, in addition to thfe breath-taking specialties of Dolores, 17-yeaj old Queen of the Ice, whetee beauty, grace, technique and almost Incre. dible speed on ice, have won her stardom despite her youth. Whirlwind Jimmy McMillan, handsome, versatile Speed and figure-skating champion, teams the enchanting Dolores in many origional dancing-on-ice specialt ies featuring jet-propelled spins and whirlwind routines. 'Hie production, first to feature an all-Negro cast, took eight months to cast and stage. A special 400 sq. ft„ guick freezing ics rink is part of production equipment. Tour is under personal direction of Stewart Seymour, Musical Entertainment Agency, 48 West 48 st., N. Y. C. Gene Cedric and his orchestra will provide musical aicompani. memt for the precedent-Shatter ing extravaganza, as well as for public tancing which will be. a before-and-dancing-after feature of each performance. Warner Bros. Launch Record Fall Filming BURBANK, Calif. — Warner Bros, swung into a record-break ing Fall shooting schedule this wee* with two new productions hefore the cameras, third return ed from an overseas location trek, two more booked to start before the week’s close and three others In preparation ft* September be ginnlngs. Picture# rolling are "Christo, pher Blake,” starring Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas and Ted Donald son, "April Showers,” star aing Jack Carson and Ann South, em with Bobby Ellis and “To the Victor,’’ starring Dennis Morgan and Viveoa Lindfors. The latter company has just returned from **ranee. where scenes were film ed in Pafis and on the D-Day bat tle sector in Niortnandy. Scheduled to roll befoife tke week’s close are “Winter Meeting’ the Bette Davis starrer and "Jotmny Belinda,” starring Jane Wyman and Lou Ayres. In preparation to roll in Sept ember are "Sunburst,” Frederick i de Cordova, director, and Ranald MacDougall, producer, "Colt .415,” j Raoul Walsh, director, and Rea. [ 1:011 I. Miller, producer and "The j Adventures of Don Juan.” $1000.00 In Prizes To Be Given At This Years Sepia Qneen Contest And Dance ■1 > We wish to take this opportunity to inform( ou^ readers of the Mid-City Sepia Queen Contest, sponsored by The Omaha Guide,k con ceived purely for the purpose of “glprifying our young womanhood, and to stimulate the interest of our younger set.” This contest should have a defiriflfc place in the life of your com munity, and should have tlhe active s^iport of every social and civic organization. The Omaha Guide wishes to invite all other organizations and indivdinals 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 hopedj may encour 1 age others. With the advent of this contest, Tbe Omaha Guide marked a mile I slone in endeavor. A Vowed purpose to make this one long to be j remembered. 1. $800.00 in Prizes. 2. Seven winners; seven prizes. 3. Winners to be Honored at gnda 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 Gipde Office, 2420 Grant Street. In care of Mr. Geor&e H. McDavis. i L. Your club or organization may sponsor a contestant. 2. You may nominate sonrt^pne yourself. 3. Any girl over 18 is eligible. 4. Please furnish The Oamha Guide with a glossy-print of your Nominee for publication. But this is only half the story. To assure the permanency of this venture, we must have the active help and cooperation of tijf whole community. There is only one way you can help and that is by picking a Candidate and voting. Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, and several other large cities, have conculdod successful contests. Surely that should be an added stimulus to us. The Omaha Guide is proud to be the sponsor of. such 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 %vorable public opinion, and prestige that will come to our city though it. It saems safe* to predief that the needed •ommunity-wide assistance, will be forthcoming. The advantages, both temporary arid permanent, to be derived ^fom it, are 6uch that it should appeal tcj all of uo. LET’S GET OUT AND VOTE!!! Hate Merchant Arrested Under Gary Law GARY, Ind.—What police offic. iala believed to be the first ar rest under Indiana’s new anti-hate law which was passeti by the 1947 General Assembly making it a felony ‘to dfssteminate malicious hatred by reaeon of race, color or religion,” was carried out last Saturday when Jo«l Eddy, a mid dle-aged store operator, accused of encouragfrg- the mass truancy of Emerson School students in Gary, was held on charges of act ing to Violate Indiana’s new law. According to Police Chief Mil land Matodjna, Eddy was taken into custody last Tuesday, when the pupils first walked out In pao test against admission of Negro children to their school. After a warning, he said that Eddy was released, but was rearrested last Saturday on an affidavit filed by Mark C. Roser, public school wel fare (child) director. With parents being called in to appear before the Lake County probation officer, the school board stood by its city-wide anti- segre gation policy, which has made it possible for thirty-eight Negro pupils under the seventh grade to enroll at Emerson. REA DTHE OMAHA GUIDE Move Over Allen, Hope Make Room for Sam Spade Howard Duff — who as Sam Spade (Sunday at 8 p.m. EDT over station and CBS) has broken put recently in several snatches of song is a somewhat shaky bar), ton®—now is flattered to find himself classed as a comedian. Howard ’a claim to comic fame is based cm a fan letter from a lady in the Pacific Northwest. The letter explains that she and her husband had listened t» Jack Ben ny and other funny men, high and low, with cm occasional chuckle as tki result. Hdh^sver, she con, tinuds, th® roar of laughter that had overtaken them, quite by sur prise, while listening to "The Adventures of Sam Spade" has been worth years of patient radio listening. The lady had thought that Sffede might just have seemed funny at the moment of listen ing. But the seat morning she gave his humor the acid test. Even with a huge wash staring her in the face she writes the lines were still funny. The lady typed the letter before tackling the laundry, finishing off t>y say. ing thanks for the laughs and now for the washing. Duff knows that one swallow the time being the reputations of doesn't make a summer so for Allen and Hope and Benny seem in no danger. Plan to Attend The Omaha Guide’s Second Annual Sepia Queen Contest