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--— OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1947 office. Qmahn. Neha»k«. Coder Act of
VOL. 20 —No. 41 _______— ---
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MRS. CHRISTINE BASSET WINS
OMAHA GUIDE POPULARITY
AND BEAUTY '
At the Gala Omaha Guide and
American Legion Post No. 30 Ball at
the Dreamland Hall Tuesday night,
November 11, 1947, Christine Basset
was crowned Miss Sepia Queen of the
Mid-City.
Second place winner, Mrs. Rosalie
Stewart, “Miss Watson Beauty School;”
third place went to Madeline Mathews,
“Miss Corby Street,” and fourth and
last prize to Opal Smith, “Miss M. M.
Buffet.
“Miss South Omaha,” Christine
Basset, winner of the $200.00 Grand
Prize wore fabulous black velvet
topped with pink chiffon skirt, grace
fully draped about her lovely figure.
Her slippers were sparkling silver.
Rosalie Steward wore a beautiful
royal blue crepe sequin, shimmering
long sleeve dinner gown with a V
neckline and rhinestone choker, wear
ing also red kid slippers.
Madeline Mathews, third place win
ner, wore gorgeous blue metallic gown
with pelum—short in front and trailing
long in the back. Doves la High neck;
silver evening bag is carried to en
hance the beauty of metallic cloth
gown. She wore silver slippers.
Opal Smith wears royal blue sequin
trimmed attire the latest in lovely
formal for holiday wear. The dress
was of crepe material having a jewel
neckline.
Prizes — First, Christine Bassett,
$200.00, $35.00 bonus check, three
strung pearl necklace from T. L.
Combs Jewelers; second, Rosalie Stew
ward, $32.00, bonus check, diamond
ring from Zales Jewelers, and radio
from Borsheim Jewelers; third place
winner, Madeline Mathews, $27.75,
bonus check, overnight traveling bag
from Koran Trunk Co., manicuring
set from Brodkey Jewelers, and a pop
up toaster from Sol Lewis Appliance,
and fourth prize, Opal Smith, birth
stone ring from Horwich Jewelers, ^
leather purse from Malashock Jewelers
and a vanity set from Royal Jewelers.
Mr. John Smith was program and
ceremonies arranger and acted as Mas
ter of Ceremonies.
Sponsors Mr. C. C. Galloway and
Mr. George McDavis of The Omaha
Guide Publishing Co., and the Ameri
can Legion Roosevelt Post No. 30.
(See Runner-ups’ Picture on Inside.)
mnrd / ^u1-0 CINDERELLA-Mr, Annie Rhone, 60 great-grand
Lln< the micr°phone on the stage of the LincSo Thatre m La
JXS -te r Eddie -Rochat^Ander^
* . ..^P" Cinderella prize in connection with the Vest Coe*
premiercof the all-Negro picture with that title. Left to right, Rochester Mr*
Rhone, .od Master of Ceremon.es Fred Hanneman ^ Rochester. Ms*
Eye cnrrs Tvnrtn
To tempt potential husbands
many maidens in the Orient, espe
cially in Asia Minor, build up niee
dowries by weaving rugs. With
their earnings they buy perforated
gold coins, which they wear as
necklaces around their necks so
that a young village buck, at a
eiance. can evaluate a girl’s worth
Milk in Industry
In more and more industries milk
is being used to improve employees’
health arid counteract fatigue. Re
ductions in accidents with an lm»
provement in safety, less absentee
ism due to illlness, increased produt
tion during hours of fatigue lo\t
points, are reported where milk f
being served between meals or ad<
ed to diets.
NEAR NORTHSIDE BRANCH
Y.M.C.A. WILL LAUNCH
MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN
NOV. 13-24, 1947
As a part of the city-wide Y.M.C.A.
Membership Campaign the Near
Northside Branch Y.M.C.A. will con
duct their Membership Campaign for
200 adult members. The campaign
organization is setup in the form of
football teams with Alton B. Goode,
Herman Franklin, Eugene Skinner,
Emmett Avant, and C. J. Williamson
as Captains. Ralph Atfems is serving
! as Coach of all of the teams.
At the first organization meeting on
Wednesday night the players were
urged to work hard in this Campaign,
because it is through a large member
ship that the Branch expects to ex
pand their program. Other players on
the teams are: Paul Orduna, Leroy
Gibson, Clarence Davis, Wendell
Thomas, Lonnie Thomas, Milton Stro
mile, Virgil Lee, Leonard Glenn, Wil
bur Hook, John Brown, O. B. Pres
tidge, Milton Johnson, James Bailey,
Robert Myers, Millard Carr, Travis
Dixon, A. R. Goodlett, Simon Harrold,
Charles Davis, Martin Thomas, Rev.
E. B. Childress, Father S. G. Sanchez,
James Jewell and J. F. Berner.
MUSE DRAMA GUILD
The Muse Drama Guild held their
very important business meeting on
Thursday, November I3th, rather than
Thursday, November the 6th, as stated
in last week’s paper.
JOINT COMMITTEE FOR CIVIC
ACTION MET THURSDAY
NOV. 6 AT Y.W.C.A.
The temporary President, Mr. Leo
Bohanon o fthe Urban League, pre
sided at the meeting Thursday, No
vember 6, 947, at the Northside
Y.W.C.A. of the Joint Committee for
Civic Action whose membership is
drawn from various community occu
pational groups in the Mid-City area
such as; social and welfare workers,
professional, religious, education, busi
ness, press, etc.
Business on the agenda was the
listing and discussion of the report of
the committee on Juvenile and Police
Protection affecting various areas of
our city. After a very thorough dis
cussion by members at this meeting
of the report it was adopted and the
committee was instructed to carry on
its other phases of its work.
There was several other items of
business discussed with planned action
to be taken upon at a later date.
The Committee on Parental Control j
is to make a report at the next meet
ing.
| The Committee for Civic Action is
a temporary’ organization set up to
serve the Mid-City and City at-large
in order that suggestions and action
might be taken on various problems
affecting the well-being of the people
of Omaha, and it is calling for then
enlistment of and support of social,
religious, professional, business, edu
cational, editors, fraternal leaders.
Plan to attend the next meeting ol
this committee on Thursday, Novem
ber 20, 1947 at 8 p. m. at the North
side Branch Y.W.C.A.
Members present at the meeting,
Mr. T. Hayes, Mr. J. Butler, Mr. Bo
hanon, Mrs. P. Hayes, Mr. E. Skin
ner, Mrs. M. Dickerson, Mr. A. Goode,
Miss V. Hill, Dr. W. W. Peebles and
Mr. M. Devereaux, Jr.
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FIRST MISSION OF GOD
SENT LIGHT CHURCH
We praise God for another success
ful week of blessing. All is well and
we are happy in the Lord because
Jesus never fails.
We feasted on a wonderful sermon
Sunday a. m. The spirit truly was
high. Our pastor preached from his
soul from St. John 14:16—Subject, “It
You Love Me, Keep My Command
ments.” Text, St. John 15:18—“If the
World Hates You Ye Know That It
Hated Me Before It Hated You.”
We feasted on a wonderful sermon
Sunday p. m. by Reverend Sister Mag
gie Pate. Subject, St. James 3:5—
“The Taungue.” We had a number
of visitors from Council Bluffs. You
are always welcome to our services.
Sunday High Noon, Tuesday, 8
p. m., Thursday, 8 p. m., 2428 De
cauter Street.
Prophet Hess, Pastor.
Sister J. May Weathers, Reporter.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ON
INCREASE
October was a disasterous month for j
Nebraska motorists, with 38 people!
killed in traffic accidents.
This was twice the number that met!
death in traffic during the same month |
in 1946.
the October fatalities brought the
1947 total to 275 for a 26% increase
over the 217 fatalities for the same
period in 1946.
Captain C. J. Sanders, Nebraska
Safety Patrol, reported that a large
percentage of the October fatalities
were due to carelessness and inatten
tion, as 18 of the 38 fatalities for Oc
tober were non-collision or one-car
accidents. He also stated that the
first three fatalities for November
were also the result of one-car acci
dents. As a solution, Captain Sanders
urged motorists to’ have their cars un
der control at all times.
CIVIL SERVICE
The United States Civil Service
Commission announced today that ap
plications for probational (career) ap
pointments to the position of Purchas
ing Officer will accepted at the Office
of the Director, Eighth U. S. Civil
Service Region, Post Office and Cus
tomhouse Builring, Saint Paul 1, Min
nesota, until the close of business 1
December, 1947. The optional fields
under this announcement are (1) Ma
chinery and tools; electric and preci
sion instruments and apparatus, acces
sories and supplies; (2) Office supplies
and equipment, printing and binding
services; (3) Textile, textile products
and clothing, cordage; (4) Leather,
rubber and paper products; (5) Con
struction materials and equipment (in
cluding Builders’ Hardware), Heating,
Plumbing and pipefitting goods and
equipment; metals—rad and semi
finished; (6) Agricultural equipment,
feed, forage, etc., horticultural stock,
fertilizer; (7) Warehousing, transporta
tion and automotive vehicles, equip
ment and parts; (8) Fuels, petroleum
products, heavy chemicals, paints; (9)
Food, groceries, meats, provisions;
(10) Kitchen apparatus, utensils, and
equipment, tableware; (11) Photo
graphic and topographic equipment
and supplies; (12) Hospital, dental,
surgical, and laboratory equipment and
supplies (including drugs, medicines,
and refined chemicals).
Vacancies exist in various Fede'al
| agencies throughout the states of Iowa,
I Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota,
j 7
and South Dakota. The salaries range
from $3397 to $4902 per annum.
Applicants for these positions will
be graded by the Civil Service Com
mission on the basis of the length and
quality of their experience and educa
tion as stated in their appliaction
Thefe will be no written test required.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained from the Civil
Service Secretary, at any first- or sec
ond-class post office, or from the
Eighth U. S. Civil Service Regional
office, Post Office and Customhouse
Building, Saint Paul 1, Minnesota.
PICTURE CAPTION.
Mrs. Eunice H. Carter, Chairman of
. the Board of the National Council of
Negro Women is shown discussing
with reporters her six weeks tour to
Europe. She returned last week
aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Mrs.
Carter is also a partner in the New
York public relations firm of Cater
Johnson Associates.
PLEA TO INTERVENE IN BIAS
SUIT OF FIREMEN FOLLOWS
CIVIL RIGHTS REPORT
New York, N. Y.—The Federal
Government today asked the Federal
Court for the District of Columbia for
permission to itnervene in the suit of
twenty-one Negro locomotive firemen
seeking reinstatement and damages on
the ground that the Southeastern rail
roads and the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen have not
obeyed the 1944 decision of the Su
preme Court prohibiting discrimina
-ion. Tihs action was the first affirma
tive step in a discrimination proceed
ing taken by the Government since the
report of the President’s Committee on
Civil Rights last week.
You are showing by action that the
Department of Justice means to im
plement the report of the President’s
Committee on Civil "Rights,” said A. i
Philip Randolph, President of the
I Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
n a telegram today to Attorney Gen
eral Tom C. Clark.
In the move to obtain compliance
with the Railway Labor Act, Robert
L. Stem, special assistant to the Attor
ney General and George Morris Fay,
United States attorney, said:
“The question in this case is whether
the defendants should be allowed to
continually flount the Supreme Court’s
decision.’ They argued that the South
ern Railway, one of the defendants,
had urged, in opposing a motion for
a temporary injunction, that such ac
tion would refrain further application
of the discriminatory agreement to dif
ferent colored firemen in the future
and “would alter the existing status of
the parties fundamentally.” “This, in
effect, confesses that the agreement
(to limit the number of colored fire
men) is still being carried out,” it was
stated.
The motion further stated that the
Seaboard Air Line’s affidavit asserted
diat the agreement it had with the
Firemen’s Union, dated February 18,
1941, was replaced by a contract dated
May 15, 1942. Excerpts from the lat
ter document, it was declared reveal
that it permits the colored firemen to
be no greater than 40% as contrasted
with 50% in the February 18, 1941
agreements.
It was argued that there was a pub
lic as well as a private interest in the
litigation, that the Bortherhood was
acting in violation of the law and that
the discrimination based on race was
“invidious” as well as “illegal.”
In conclusion the Federal officials
asked the court to grant an immediate
temporary injunction “against the con
tinuance of any unlawful discrimina
tion.”
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters’ Provisional Committee to Or
ganize Colored Locomotive Firemen
will hold a conference in Jacksonville,
Fla., December 2nd and 3rd. They
will explore further methods of deal
ing with their problem of discrimina
tion.
WRITING QUEEN
/ MENOMONIE, WIS.—The art of
tersonal letter writing will never
>e lost if young people away from
£ome write to their parents once a
day says Lydia Prok, above, as she
invites everybody to take pen in
hand and observe letter writing
week. Beginning with this event in
October and continuing through the
holidays if every person wrote only
iO letters to friends and relatives,
more than a billion and a half let
ters would be mailed. Lydia, visit
ing the Parker Pen Company ink
plant in Menomonie sees the ini
start to flow to meet the huge holi
day demand, which will run into
thousands of gallons.
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NEW YORK—No need for Rich
ard to come and open the door for
this pretty housewife. Yale’s new
spring latch, pictured here, fea
tures “one-arm” action. The new
lock makes it possible for one per
son to open the door with ease,
though encumbered with packages,
without having to have both hands
free to manipulate key, lock and
.door knob.
A revolutionary invention, the
lock also has new material and
mechanical patented improvements
which make it impossible for any
one except a master locksmith to
pick it. It heads a series of new
night latches which are the first
new products in the builder’s hard
ware line announced by Yale &
Towne since the war. __
PHOTOMATIC PICTURE
MACHINE INSTALLED
A $3,000 photomatic picture ma
chine was installed at The Omaha
Guide office, 2420 Grant Street, No
vember 11, 1947.
This machine will take your picture
and make a frame for it all in three
minutes—ready for mailing to your
loved ones. No more going down
town looking for a photographer. Be
your own photographer. Always
ready.
Office open from 8 a. m. until 5
p. m.—later by request. Just call HA|
0800. |
JC SCHOOL IN WILLOW RUN
Willow Run, Mich.—A system of,
partially segregated schools has been
set up in this area, according to Gloster
B. Current, NAACP director of
branches, who made an investigation
last week and conferred with Super
intendent of Schools Malcolm B. Rog
ers. Rev. David A. Blake, Jr., presi
dent of the Willow Run NAACP
branch charged that “subtle segrega
tion and discrimination are in prac
tice here.” The NAACP head said
that the segregated housing policy
maintained by the FPHA enables the
Board of Education to set aside segre
gated schools.
Irate Negro parents with the assist
ance of the American Veterans Com
mittee, NAACP, University of Michi
gan Interracial Association, and other
, groups picketed the jim-crow school
when Negro children were transferred
from the mixed Ross School in Sep
tember. Appeals to Michigan’s Gov
ernor Sigler were referred to State
Superintendent of Schools, Eugene B.
Elliot, who said his office was with
out authority to alter the decision of
the School Board. The Legal Depart
ment of NAACP is studying the case
for possibility of further action.
| CIVIL RIGHTS REPORT
i GIVES NAACP MANDATE’
Camden, N. J.—“The NAACP has
been given a government-backed man
date by the report of the President’s
Committee on Civil Rights to cont
inue with renewed vigor the fight foi
full equality in the United States,”
Gloster B. Current, NAACP directoi
of branches, declared here Sunday, al
a mass meeting sponsored by the
branch. The meeting, held at the
Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church, Sun
day, November 9, was part of the
membership program of the branch
which is in the midst of its annual
membership drive for 3,000 members.
Mr. Current, reviewing the work of
| the NAACP throughout the country,
'pointed out that, “NAACP branches
are more active this year than at any
[previous time in the thirty-nine-year|
history of the Association.”
Lashing out at Southern criticism
to the effect that the Civil Rights re
port is “impractical and harmful” and
the South is determined to preserve
sufficient segregation to discourage
miscegenation, Current declared “the
issue is not miscegenation. The issue
is full and complete equality within
the framework of the United States
Constitution and the Charter of the
United Nations.”
^VHITE PLAINS LEADERS
CONDEMN JIM-CROW YMCA
White Plains, N. Y.—Prominent Ne
gro civic and community leaders is
sued a statement last week in opposi
tion to plans of the YMCA to continue
a segregated program in White Plains.
The signers called for a policy of
membership in the White Plains “Y”
open to “any man or boy of good
character, regardless of race, color or
creed, who is able and desirous to
join.”
Calling for “an end to the prepos
terous claim that the Negroes of White
Plains want a Jim Crow YMCA,” the
thirteen signers pointed out that the
national policy of the “Y” supports
racial integration of personnel and
membership; that the community is
deeply disturbed and confused by the
policy of the White Plains YMCA; and
“many of the substantial givers are
withholding their gifts because of the
fact that the “Y” has failed dismally
to move forward in its social outlook.”
The fight against the segregated
“Y” in White Plains is being led by
the White Plains Branch NAACP of
which Mr. Jefferson E. Perry is presi
dent. Signers of the statement were:
Alvis Tinnin, Mrs. Anna Bernard, Dor
is Gallimore, Harcourt Tynes, Dr. Er
rold D. Collymore, Rev. C. J. Wil
liams, Mrs. Gladys Williams, Rev.
I Haywood D. Morris, Miss Bertha L.
j Herrington, Phillip M. Jenkins, Jef-[
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ISAAC WOODARD ASKS
$50,000 FOR HIS EYES
Charles, W. Va.—Isaac Woodard.
Negro veteran whose brutal blinding
by Lynwood Shull, Batesburg, S. C.,
police chief shocked the nation in
1946, will appear in the Kanawha
County Court here on Nov. 10th with
attorneys furnished by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, in an attempt to re
cover $.50,000 in damages from the
.Atlantic Greyhound Corporation, op
erators of the bus from which Wood
ard was dragged a few moments be
fore his brutal beating and maiming.
According to briefs filed by NAACP
attorneys, T. G. Nutter and Franklin
H. Williams, in behalf of Mr. Wood
ard, the shocking incident developed
after Woodard, a newly discharged
veteran of 18 months in the South Pa
' cific, objected to being cursed by tire
driver of the bus, whereup the an
1 gered driver stopped the bus to call
police in Batesburg. Woodard was
dragged from the bus, beaten into
semi-consciousness and both his eyes
gouged out by the police chief.
j In commenting upon this case,
| Thurgood Marshall, special counsel
( for the Association, stated that, “The
maiming of Isaac Woodard was one
of the most brutal, inhuman and1
atrocious acts that has ever been com
mitted against an American citizen to
my knowledge by an officer of the
law. The Association is determined to
in some manner attempt to compensate
Mr. Woodard for having to spend the
rest of his days in darkness because of
the act of a vicious individual, as a di
rect result of having been ejected by
the driver of the Greyhound bus. We
have established a $10,000 trust fund
for Mr. Woodard, and are determined
by this suit to prevent common car
riers in the South from ejecting Ne
gro passengers without any justifica
tion and without regard for their rights
as interstate travelers.”
Pickets! Missing! <
✓ LOS ANGELES, CAL.—(Sound-*
photo)—Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio, Republican leader of Senate,'
arrives here on his six-state West
ern tour, and was met by GOP
leaders, but no pickets. Taft then
called a press conference, and is
shown in photo during meeting
with reporters as he consulted his
appointment booklet. Although he
is frankly here to measure West
ern sentiment towards his candi
dacy for President, he is not bid
ding for California’s 53 Republi
can votes at the 1948 Convention;
those votes are earmarked for Gov.
,Earl Warren of California, f
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iTough On Teeth'
' DETROIT — (Soundphoto) —
Gordon Walker, ©f Ann Arbor,
Mich, was on his way to get his
auto after having it serviced at
Frost Avis’ Agency and was beaterr
up by pickets who are picketing!
Eie strikebound service establish
ent. He is being led away b^
dice officer to safety.
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The wearing'of something blue at
the wedding was ancient Israelite
custom which suggested a bhu rib
bon for the bricle—bice heing4h« col
ir of pnrltv love avd, .
Handle Logs Promptly
Timber cut during the growing
season requires prompt handling to
avoid deterioration from decay, in
sect attacks or sap stains, exten
sion foresters report.
Gives A Lift
To give a lift to canned or cooked
dried fruit, squeeze orange or
grapefruit juice over the top just be
fore serving.
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Last week I made a very intei
esting discovery! It all starts
when I ran into an old friend, Am
Stevens, and invited her out to mj
home for tea. Ann, who had beei
hard of hearing for years, sur>
prised me by hearing everything l
said perfectly—so of course I had
to know just what she had done. «
Ann told me that she had heard
so much about hearing aids sh«
finally had visited the local dealei
and asked him if he could really
help her deafness. Well, she said
I the dealer fitted her for a hearing
aid on the Beltone “Selectometer"
and let her hear the improvement
herself! I was curious as to just
what the “Selectometer’' was and
Ann explained that it was a special
instrument developed by the Bel
tone Hearing Aid Company in Chi
cago . . . and that it enabled a1
deafened person to choose his own
hearing aid. Ann said she actual
ly selected for herself the precise
combination of tubes, receivers and
electronic circuits with which she
could hear best. Then, she went on,*
the Beltone dealer fitted her withi
a plastic ear mold that goes right
into her ear canal, and she lifted
her hair to show me the thin flesh
solored tube that runs over and be
nina tier ear.'
Even morej
amazing, she
showed me her!
instrument —i
about the size
of a compact,1
fastened to the
strap of her slip
—completely in-)
visible under
her dress! <
I mentioned that Ann’s hairdo*
was ideal for concealing her hear-J
ing aid, and she told me that her!
coiffure was especially designed to
do so. With her new hearing aid
the can even wear earrings — and
the tells me she feels like a new,
person now that she can really
••par well
Rise and Shine!
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new ingredient, enamelon, that
actually helps defy chipping. Home
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LA COUTERIE CLUB
The La Couterie Club held its regu
lar meeting Saturday, November 1,
1947, at the residence of Mrs. Robbie
Davis, 2514 Corby Street. After the
business period the evening was de
voted to play bridge. Top honors
went to Miss Lucy Brooker. Mrs.
Thelma Hancock won the consolation
prize.
A delightful repast was served by
the hostess. Our next meeting will be
Saturday, November 15, 1947, with
Mrs. Katherine Fletcher, 2722 Bin
ney Street.
Miss Gertrude Booker, President.
Mrs. Edmae Swain, Reporter,