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‘MID-CITY QUEEN1 To Be Chosen #■ In Beauty and Popularity Contest proudly presents the 2nd ANNUAL CROWNING of “Miss Mid-City Sepia Queen” at the DREAMLAND Attend The Gala Ball and Crowning of Mid-City Queen By GEORGE H. McDAVIS FACTORY JOBS IN NEW YORK ON INCREASE New York City (CNS)—Factory jobs as well as the wages paid for them are on the increase in the state of New York, according to the latest tabulations of the Bureau of Research and Statistics. Between mid-August j and mid-September, the number of' jobs available increased 2.1 percent and payrolls rose 4.2 percent. Increases expected to continue with new jobs opening in canning, preserving and clothing industry. HIGH COURT TO ACT ON BOAT SEGREGATION DetroitTMichT {Global)—The” Su preme Court has agreed to review the case of the Bob-Lo Excursion com pany, involving the refusal of trans portation to a Negro girl. Miss Sarah Ray, claimed she was refused passage on one of the company’s boats from Detroit to the Province of Ontario, Canada, and sued the company on the grounds that her rights under the1 Michigan State #civil rights act” had been violated. The Courts of Michigan upheld Miss Ray’s contention, and pointed out that refusal to transport her, violated the act which provides that “public conveyances on land or water, shall show no discrimination on ac count of race, creed, or color.” The Excursion company is appeal ing the case to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the law could not control foreign commerce. « OMAHA GLIDE AND AMERICAN LEGION PREPARE FOR ROYAL VICTORY DANCE HALL, Tuesday Night, NOVEMBER 11th at The Amer ican Legion Annual Dance. Music by Archie Brown. Admission $1.00 in advance, $1.25 at door. Tickets may be obtained at JoJmson's Drug Store and Ameri can Legion Hall at 24th and Parker. THE OMAHA GLIDE in cooperation with THE AMERICAN LEGION, Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 30 7 * % 0 % I 12 CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR FINALS; MANY ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING 1. S1,000.00 in Prizes. 2. 10 Winners; 10 Prizes. 3. First Prize, $200.00 in Cash. 4. Queen to be Crowned November 11th. 5. Winners to be Crbwnetl at Gala Ba]j on Nov. 11th. 6. No member of the “Mid-City Queen” Committee will be permitted to makh any nomination. 7. The 10 contestants receiving the largest number of votes in order, will be adjudged winners. j ANNA LUCASTA” RECEIVED j WILDLY AT BONBON London (CNS)—The British took Anna Lucasta, the story of a prosti tute, to their hearts this week when the Broadway success opened here at His Majesty’s Theatre. Perhaps Londoners were so excited because the play as acted by Negroes, was a novelty to theatre goers. Too, the expert acting particularly of lead ing lady Hilda Simms, who responded to the numerous curtain calls with a little speech, caused critics to become exhuberant. “ Anna Lucasta’ had the feel of a big hit,” wrote W. A. Farlington of the Daily Telegraph. He gave credit to the acting of the cast rather than to the play. I ) NEW 1-HAND TYPEWRITER * FOR DISABLED VETS Washington, D. C. (Global>-A new typewriter which groups letter keys on one side of the machine with less fre quent use of number and punctuation keys on the other, has been given a Georgetown University law student, Albin Ulrickson. Ulrickson is 34, and his left side was paralyzed by a shell in Germany. The machine was given by the eVt eran’s Administration, and an official said four other machines were on or der for handicapped veterans in the Washington area. The new machine was developed by the International Business machines corporation. •“BATTLE OF THE BULGE”—1947 - By COLLIER FREEDOM TRAIN TO BY-PASS JIM CROW TOWNS New York, N. Y. (Global)—Accord ing to Mr. Louis A. Novins, Vice president of the American Heritage Foundation, sponsors of the Freedom Train, the Freedom Train will not visit any Southern Communities that insist on enforcing religious or racial segregation upon visitors to the Train. The train will start tour of the South toward the end of November. All of the communities,” an nounced Mr. Novins, “are aware of this policy. If any of them should in sist officially on segregated visiting hours, then we simply won’t partici-1 pate.” I - I UN-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ! CALLED UPON TO INVESTIGATE RACE-HATERS New York (Global)—Rabbi William F. Rosenblum told a capacity audience in Temple Israel, 210 West Ninety first Street Sunday that the “Un American Committee should investi gate the new crop of bigots” who are attempting to resume their pre-war activities as peddlers of race hate. N. Y. MEDICAL SOCIETY REFUSES TO STAMP OUT BIAS New York (Global)—The Medical Society of the county of New York I has just refused to condemn County! Societies that segregate Negro Physi cians from membership. It urged and approved by vote, a resolution that the State Medical Group encourage the American Medi cal Society to provide “a special type of membership for physicians who, for reasons of race, creed, color, or sex, have been denied admission to thei Tat from pork chops and other meat is poured into the container of iat that will be re-used in cooking and baking. Guy Reigler, 4J4, Kew 'Garden Hills, N. Y., supervises his mother’s conscientious fat salvage that helps provide soap, paint, electrical appliances, fabrics, tires, an< ^ther^ products used in the home every day. -' i WjfCHCF THE WAVES PIGGY BANKERS r Pm sorry you're skk, Judy, brought you u bouquet. / brought you something else, the money for Mom's used fet... It was your tun to the money's ; really yours. ~ ' /010 OKEEZT \ fiy T. MELVIN " fTHERE: 60E£ MIOTE GRA^VUTE^/Ti \\fMY? ISN'T WELUNOrZ HE A FINE EXA&IY UPSTANPmi THEY SAY frMAN? ' HE'^ 'MORE cKl^A' Slowdown £§gi 1 D/.YTOilA FLA, — Cn.'(wA Wonae-haired JohnetU AirkpatrvcH, one *f the world’* ace weewa >iui elder*, poaee for a :ieiH **bot“ on the beach near bee ft iee ■ hero. Her most recent twae’ert was m the recent easterd ^hamjdonahlp meet at Baltimore, BETTIE PARHAM, COSMETIC EXECUTIVE, BUYS NEW BUILDING New York City (CNS) — Bettie Esther Parham, president of the Na tional Beauty Supply Company, which manufactures and exports Esther Mir acle Products, purchased this week the three story building adjoining the 52 West 125th Street store which already houses the ropidly growing firm. The reported cash down payment made was $7,800. A cosmetic executive since 1940, Miss Parham has come a long way since she decided seven years ago that not enough college educated Negroes went into business. In fact, as the story goes, she was sitting in a lec ture class at Dillard University when she first learned that less than one percent of Negroes in business were college traind. Armed with A.B. and M.A. degrees from Shaw and Colum bia, she plunged into the business world, determined to do the unusual. JIM STEELE By MELVIN TAPLEY 'Mi-tm&eoH, KHCPOBimsOfJT, -<RmTO PMPtr/ (rwteim'&xz.1 Bur&ne$rt)QD~ wqN&swr smm&pemr -■jo&etaPAHEAvy MIALlAWPMlT ---.«. AS THE BOSS F€LL,H/S \ GUV F/RBD AND...// \ P WOW/TWO DOWN AND ONE \ TOGO/. ..THE BOSS' TRIGGER \ FINGER MUST'VE TIGHTENED. I AS HE FELL,CHIEF/ANYWAY l HE PLUGGED HIS BO/CXAMONPS V^DIAMQNPS' (S PEAEg'^ Page Three | DREAMLAND HALL Armistice Day - 9:00 P.M. TUESDAY, NOV. II, 1947 local medical societies. or admission to regular or active The small minority among the 150*iembership.” But advocates of the Medics gathered at the Academy oforiginal resolution, said it would be Medicine, fought to uphold the rightuseless to dictate to the Medics in of each country' medical society “tuDixie, hence it urged the special type determine for itself the requirementsof membership for Negro Physicians. _Science Aids Housewife_ mmmmm * ■■HwiiiMi n 1 m . Just as it has in many other things, modern industrial scienc has come to the aid of the housewife in the design of present-da washing machine wringers. “Equalized pressure," essential in thor ough drying of wet laundry, is a feature of these wringers, as ii demonstrated here by the young lady. String, at left, is held firmlj between the wringer rolls, even though large bar has forced roll apart at right. PROBLEMS i HUMANITY 1 Editor's Note:— Submit your problems for publication to ABBE* WALLACE, In cars of this newspaper. Give your full name, ad dress and blrthdate. For a "private reply* send Abbe'a stamped envelope and twenty-five cents for one of his new and inspiring “LESSONS FOR HAPPIER LIVING." Your letter will be treated sonfidentially. Send 25 cents in coin, stamps or money order. Address your letter to: The ^RBE' WALLACE Service, in care of. APOLLO RECORDS 'DOOD' IT! MINOR FIRM MAJORS OVERNIGH1 Gerry Colton Firm's Progress Linked With Its Stand li p Selecting Talent on Merit, Not "Name,1 Color or Creed; Has Constructive Progran [Editors Note: This Is the first of two Installments depicting the rise of Apollo Records! ------By GERRY COLSOI New York (IPS): "Phenomenal" is the word for the overnight appearance of Apoll< Records to a major posrtion in the music world. The story is told today because of its special significance to followers of real jazz and blues, to admirers of Lee Richardson, Wyonie "Mr. Blues" Harris, Ray Eberle, Hal Winters, Luis Russell and the galaxy of other Apollo recording artists. Miraculously, side by side with Apollo, these singers and orchestra leaders, with song writers and businessmen, .nave come into prominence —almost overnight! luit RuttcO It began in Harlem, in a small record shop called The Rainbow. A few young met with vision saw the need for producing the kind of blues, Jazz, folk and pop music tha' Lee Richardson Wynonie Harris Hal Winters John Kirby people wanted, but were not getting on records. With a small amount of capital and a grea' deal of musical know-how, these young men established Apollo. They brought out record* I ! "Hot" Lips Pago Dinah Washington ' Willie Bryant r Laurel Watson ^ Ihgs of depth and feeling, and their recordings were welcomed as if by a music-starved public. "Hot" Lips Page, Illinois Jacquet, Rabon Tarrant, Coleman Hawkir.s orchestra, John Kirby and orchestra, Dinah Washington, Babe Wallace, Willie Bryant, Laurel Watson, Hall Winters, Teddy McRae and band, Mahalia Jackson and the Bill Campbell orchestra—all were quick to turn to Apollo to record music they loved, the way they felt it. Here was a chance to give the world music with expression, music with spontaneous and native feeling. The public loved it. More records were demanded and, suddenly, before tne major companies Knew it, Apollo and its artists were on their way! HlinoiTTIequrf Using sharp fores qht, the Apollo originators joined forces with additional interests, sound and progressive. Then, fully equipped, the new Apollo team of talent; artistic direc tion and business acumen, went to work, producing! Their goal was to produce Music Americana. Their ambition was to build a company to champion in production and ideals, and their first victory came from the stand they took on the issue of tolerance. fEditor's note: Inside story of how this young company made Its sensational rise to a leading position In the recording industry will be continued in our next issue. 1