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VOL. 20-No. 43 OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947 __Office. Omaha. Nebraska. Pnder Act of
WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING? THEREhIFa^TRAm!!^^^^5
city?
MRS. GERTRUDE LUCAS CRAIG
Flowers, yes. They were flowers that were well earned and much
deserving. The above picture was taken when Mrs. Lucas was appointed
the Probition worker in the court of Domestic "Relations, presided over by
Judge Rhodes who made the appointment.
Mrs. Lucas has made good in this position and come up to the expecta
tions of her many friends as she has in all other previous positions that
she held.
Flowers are coming! again for a different occasion. It looks as though
we are going to lose one of our good citizens. Wedding bells are ring
ing?
THE UTILITIES MODERNIZED ,
DISPLAY FLOOR
The Metropolitan Utilities District
have just completed modernizing their
first floor for the benefit of the public.
The eight Islands or center posts
have canopies illuminated with flore-1
scent lights. The five Islands on the
west are reserved for gas appliances.
The three Islands on the East have
signs directing traffic. They are
laminated slogan signs set in the cen
ter of the canopies and backed by the
florescent lighting.
The first post calls attention to the
cashier’s cages, the application depart
ment and states duplicate bills can be
obtained from application department.
The second Island reads information.
You can find here any information a
customer may want or what depart
ment to go to to get the exact informa
tion and necessary forms. Deposits are
also refunded.
The third post gives the information
that at the desk applications are taken,
duplicate bills given. The home serv
ice department is also shown. The
home service department occupies all
the space back of the third Island on
the East side. Then comes the bunga
low, where the home service do their
demonstrating and hold every Satur
day a Cooking School for Girl Scout
Troops, under the direction of Mrs.
Alta Weymuller.
The bungalow is equipped with a
model range, refrigerator, hot water
heater and dish washing machine. The
kitchen is on a raised platform which
can be closed off by a curtain. Tha
seating capacity of the bungalow be
low the stage is 75 and can be used
for demonstration luncheons or confer
ence room for employees.
Near the west wall is the kitchen
planning department and the model
kitchen. Here without cost you can
obtain plans for a modem kitchen or
be instructed how to modernize your
present kitchen.
The first floor has been designed to
save steps and help the public to ob
tain accurate information on all mat
ters of utility business.
THE WAITERS COLUMN
By H. W. SMITH, HA 0800
R. R. boys serving on wheels with
a smile.
Fontenelle headwaiter, politician,
Davis, and Mr. C. Brown had a friend
ly chat in a Northside business house.
Musician headwater very much out
in front with the quickstepping crew
at all times.
Waiters at the Regis Hotel and
White Horse Inn very much on the
frontline on quick service.
Waiters at the Hill Hotel and High
land Club improving on their line of
good service.
Paxton Hotel waiters on the up and
1 go with a smile when it comes to good
J service.
Blackstone Hotel waiters doing a
j very good job on fine service.
k Matridee Ward and Capt. Ross
Fountain and the wide-awake crew of
Capt. Billy Mitchell, Capt. McFarland
and Capt. Glover Scott up and coming
on good service.
Plants Discover Minerals
A possibility that certain types of
plant growth may come to be more
widely used as clues to mineral de
posits has ‘been suggested by Uni
versity of Wyoming workers. They
point out that selenium indicator
and accumulator plants are now
commonly relied upon as guides to
rocks and soils which carry that
element. They suggest that vegeta
tion also may be used as a guide to
other minerals. Certain toxic vege
tation is known to carry relatively
high rare-metal values, molybde
num being one example.
NEW IMPROVED BUTTER-NUT
The fresh, new bread in the fresh, new WTapper.
Try the blue-and-white gingham loaf.
TOWN THEATRE PReSIm^LL?
NEGRO FILM-MUSICALS
MIDNIGHT PERFORMANCE,
NOVEMBER 29, 1947
TWO MAJOR FEATURES!
“SEPIA CINDERELLA”
“BOY! WHAT A GIRL”
“SEPIA CINDERELLA,” second
of the twelve all-Negro feature pic
tures to be produced by Herald Pic
tures, Inc., is strictly box-office and
entertainment from main title to fade
out. 'Directed by Arthur Leonard,
with an eye towards fast-moving com
edy, a skillful cast of topflight enter
tainers, keep the action jumping.
Sheila Guyse and Billy Daniels, a
romantic team that scored on Broad
way in “MEMPHIS BOUND,” are
appealing and believable as the young
sweethearts and Tondaleyo and Ruble
Blakey give smooth performances as
the romantic opposition. A brisk and
lively musical score by Charlie
Shavers is played to the queen’s taste
by John Kirby and his All-Star Or
chestra ably abetted by Deek Watson
and His Brown Dots and Leonard and
Zola.
SEPIA CINDERELLA” is sumtiously
staged and the ‘Cinderella Club’ is one
of the most pretentious settings ever
seen in Negro motion pictures. Not
the least reason for the sparkling en
tertainment i nthis nite-club scene is
the attractive bevy of ‘Sepia Cinderel
las’ and their Prince Charmings who
appear in that sequence. Culled from
hundreds of contestants across the
country, they give a girl-packed wal
lop to the finale of the fast-moving
musical.
burpnse package in the show is a
guest appearance by Freddie Bartholo
mew, recently out of the armed forces.
“Boy! What a Girl” Is a Great Film
BOY! WHAT A GIRL,” now play
ing at the Town Theatre, advertises,
“a new day is bom in all-Negro
movies.” The picture is certainly liv
ing up to its advance billing.
The story is great. The comedy
runs with a high ferver of speed and
action. The sound (RCA) is better
than ever before heard in an all
Negro pcture, made by an independ
ent company. The cast is excellent
and delivers a bang-up job. The pho
tography and lighting are the work of
experts. The direction is everything
that the picture needed. It was made
at Fox Movietone Studies.
Considerable time, thought, effort
and cash were expended on “BOY!
WHAT A GIRL,” proving that given
these things, an all-Negro motion pic
ture can be produced to play any the
atre in the country and not merely
confined to the some odd 600 play
houses that cater strictly to an all
Negro audience.
The music in the picture is much
better than average and it should be.
Sid Catlett’s band supplies the back
ground, with the support of t^e Brown
Dots, Slam Stewart Trio, Ann Gomell,
with her husky melidious voifce; Basil
Spears and her marvelous piano. The
surprise in the picture, from a musical
standpoint, is the guest star appear
ance of Gene Krupa. Thus in one
movie we have the two greatest drum
mers in America.
The cast, consisting of seventy-five
people, is headed by such well known
artists as Tim Moore, A1 Jackson,
Warren Patterson, Sybil Lewis, Sheila
Guyse, Betti Mays, Jimmy Fuller, El
wood Smith, Duke Williams, Deek
Watson, Milton Wood, Lorenzo Tuck
er and A1 Gluster. The production was
directed by Arthur Leonard and writ
ten by Vincent Valentini.
According to executives of Herald
[Pictures, Inc., it is their plan to re
lease eleven more features on a par
with “BOY! WHAT A GIRL,” at the
rate of one per month.
If they live up to this promise there
certainly is “a new day bom in all
j Negro Motion Pictures.
By MacDONALD
Over 50 years of service in Omaha.
That is the record of Dresher Bros.,
Omaha’s outstanding Laundry and
Dry Cleaning establishment. When
you look for compelte service, includ
ing fur cleaning and storage you no
doubt cant’ fail to look at the scien
tific fur service offered by Dreshers.
They do also leather cleaning, wa
terproofing, etc.
A half century of doing business has
made the firm one of the soundess in
Omaha with a foundation that is solid
all the way through. Come in any
time, your patronage is appreciated.
SPEND THANKSGIVING
IN CHICAGO
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King of 2234
Franklin Street Plaza will spend their
Thanksgiving holidays in Chicago with
their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Davis and grandson, Karl
Robinson. *
Mr and Mrs. King, wmile in Chi
cago, will visit other friends and places
of interest.
JOINT COMMITTEEFOR
CIVIC ACTION
The Joint Committee for Civic Ac
tion held its meeting on Thursday, No
vember 19, 1947, at 8 p. m. at the
Northside Branch Y.W.C.A.
Mr Leo Bohanan, temporary chair
men, presided over the meeting.
Those present on this rainy night
discussed several community questions,
making arrangements to act upon sev
eral of them betweefi this mopting and
the next.
The Joint Committee for Civic Ac
tion will meet Thursday, December 4,
1947, at 8 p. m. at the Northside
Y.W.C.A. Members are urged to
please keep this date in mind.
THIS WEEK
By H. W. SMITH, HA 0800
U. S. Senator Taft is not in favor
of President Truman’s grain feeding
curbs. Senate groups agree. U. S
Senators heard Secretary Anderson of
Agriculture predict meat shortage in
1948.
Custodian of an apartment house in
Omaha routes a burglar that robs coin
boxes on the washing machines.
A 9-year-old boy saved his 12-year
old brother from suffocation in a cedar
chest when they were playing hiding
go-seek at their home in Albany, N.
Y., on November 21.
An Omaha woman blames the U.
S. Army for her sons drinking liquor, j
I he young man told in court he was
allowed a fifth of whiskey as his al
lotmen when he was on duty in Ger
many.'
John Prykoh and Edward Foten,
two boys from Chicago, accused of
tying a man to a bed in a hotel in Ok
lahoma City at gun point and steal
ing his car. The victim was Stephen
Wm. Cloud of Dallas, Tex.
Congressman Goff of Idaho, stated
on November 22nd he would seek con
gressional support of a five billion dol
lar air craft construction program and
for Unit^rsity Military Training.
A continued hearing of the Small
Business group, chairman, U S. Sen
ator Wherry, announced November 21.
The Louis-Walcott bout at Madison
Square Garden is very much in the
front line, and the ticket sale has al
ready passed over the 100,000 dollar
mark.
MUSE DRAMA GUILD
HOLD TRYOUTS
The Muse Drama Guild guest di
rector, Miss Lottie Wright, held try
outs for the Drama Guild’s forthcom
ing 3-act play, “Jimmy He Careful”
by Lilliam Mortimer on last Wednes
day, November 18, 1947 at 8:15 p. m.
at the Urban League Center.
Those present to this tryout was as
follows: Mrs. Alberta Pearl, Ella F.
Faulkner, Jamie Robbins, C. Pearl,
Marion M. Taylor, Raymond Gorden,
Mrs. Evalyn Webster, Mrs. Dell
Moore, Miss Lottie Wright, Ted Cun
ningham, Mrs. Kenneth Myers, Harvey
Carter, Mrs. Roi Gordon and Mason
Devereaux Jr.
From all indications the play will
have little difficulty in getting under
way with the enthusiasm manifested
at this tryout.
Those who desire to participate in
future plays of the Drama Guild this!
season please see any member of the
Guild for information. -
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FIRST TWO CATHOLIC
MISSIONARIES, NEGROES
Norfolk, Va., Nov. (Special)—
Brother Conrad Williams, S.V.D., of
Norolk, who left Sunday to work as
a missioner on the Gold Coast of
Africa, is one of the two first Ameri
can members of his society to be sent
to the foreign mission. The other is
Brother Michael Miller, S.V.D. of
Baltimore.
Both men—called “Brothers” in
view of their work as assistants to
Catholic priests—are members of the
Society of the Divine Word, Catholic
missionary order.
The two had been corresponding
with missionaries in Africa for several
years and their superiors report they
had been cherishing the hope that one
day they would join them.
Brother Conrad, 31 years of age,
was bom in Norfolk, where he at
tended St. Joseph’s parochial school.
Going to St. Augustine’s Seminary in
Bay St. Louis, Miss., in 1934 to pre
pare for the religious brotherhood, he
entered the Novitiate of the Society of
the Divine Word in 1935. In 1937 he
and Brother Vincent Webb of Toledo,
Ohio, were received as the first two
colored Brothers of the Divine Word.
They pronounced their perpetual vows
in 1943.
There are now 14 colored S.V.D.
brothers, including four noives, who
are preparing for the work and three
more are to enter the novitiate this
month.
An accomplished bookbinder, Broth
'er Conrad also had been the head
sacristan at St. Augustine’s for several
years.
The two were among numerous mis
sionaries who received the Mission
Cross at departure ceremonies at
Techny, 111., Nov. 2.
Frederick Douglass Patterson, presi
dent Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, ap
jpeared in the panel discussion ‘‘Recent
Economic Changes in the South” at
Fisk Memorial Chapel November 6
during the inaugural ceremonies of
Doctor Charles S. Johnson as the sixth
president of Fisk University.
PRIEST, CHAIRMAN OF INTER
RACIAL COMMISSION HEADS
LABOR SCHOOLS
Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. (Special)
—Labor schools which opened in the
Twin Cities last week drew 86 men
in Minneapolis and 74 in St. Paul.
Father Francis J. Gilligan, chairman
of the Minnesota Governor’s Inter
racial Commission, under whose direct
on the schools reopened for their first I
postwar courses, said he is well satis- |
fied with this start but hopes that at- '
tendance will double at subsequent j
meetings. Father Gilligan, who is pro- I
fessor of moral theology at St. Paul
Seminary, is the well-known author of
“The Morality of the Color Line.”
The work is planned to train Catho
lic members of labor unions in Catho
lic social teaching, labor law and par
liamentary law. The school is not!
identified with any Catholic labor
movement. “It is designed solely to
instruct Catholics so that they may
help preserve the many good things in
the American labor movement and in
dividually contribute to its improve
ment,” Father Gilligan said.
CATHOLICS AND RACISM
PANEL TOPIC AT
PRESS MEET
Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. (Special)—
A panel discussion on Catholics and
Racism eatured an afternoon meeting
of the National Catholic Educational
Uress Congress held here last week at
Marquette High School. The Congress
was sponsored jointly by the Catholic
Press Association and the Marquette
School of Journalism.
Members of the panel included. Fa
ther Claude Heithaus, S.J., Marquette
University, chairman; Father Frank
lyn Kennedy editor of the Catholic
Herald Citizen; Father William Porter,
S.C.J., Negro priest of Sacred Heart
monastery; Margaret Yu, Hong Kong,
Ohina; James Doyle, Milwaukee news
paperman, and Eugene Sleevi, The
Marquette Tribune. *
STIMULATE, DON’T STIFLE
YOUNGSTER’S INTEREST IN
OTHERS—NEGRO EDUCATOR
Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. (Special)
—Instead o breeding race hatred at
home American parents should stimu
late a child’s interest in the race)
groups he encounter—the boys and!
girls he meets in school, Mrs. Euphe
mia Haynes, acuity member at How
ard University, Washington, D. C.,
told the Minneapolis round table of
Christians and Jews here. Mrs{
Haynes, who also acts as chairman of
the mathematics division, Miner’s
Teachers College, Washington, is
president of the Federation of Colored
Catholics.
“Immediate and actual experience
with children of other races will give
the .child an open mind for future race
associations,” the educator told the
group, comprised mostly of ' parents
and teachers.
“(Mir nation is looked on as the
proving ground of democracy. If we
i fail to weld all our races into this de
mocracy, then it will appear we have
no democracy,” she said.
Here primarily to address the Min
nesota Council of Catholic Women,
which convened last week at the Hotel
St. Paul, Mrs. Haynes spoke also at
the Catholic Youth Center and the
University of Minnesota. She was
guest of honor at a tea Sunday spon
sored by the Ladies’ Sodality at St.
Peter Claver’s Church.
WHITES MEET COLORED
SECRET OF INTERRACIAL
| UNDERSTANDING, SAYS
NOTED PRIEST
New York, Nov. (Special)—“If white
people could meet aifd know colored
people their prejudices could be elimi
|nated,” Father Sean Reid, O. Carm.,
I told the weekly Forum at the Catho
| lie Interracial Council here. “For ex
ample, I am familiar with an athletic
association which has both white and
colored members. There is absolutely
no color distinction made.”
“We are too accustomed to looking
for big things, for great solutions,
while we are surrounded by small
solutions,” the priest said. “We must
not overlook the small ways of getting
at the problem.”
Father Reid’s reputation as an out
standing spokesman for interracial
justice was confirmed when he ad
ministered the oath of office to Mayor j
O’Dwyer. At that time he reminded j
the Mayor publicly that New oYrk
City faces no more important problem
than that of securing equal and just
opportunities for the Negro. Ques
tioned as to public reaction to that
speech, Father Reid replied that the
newspapers had seemed most im
pressed by the fact that a Catholic
priest was the only one of the speak
ers at the inaugural ceremony who
brought up the subject of interracial
justice.
CAMPBELL RECEIVES SUPERIOR
SERVICE AWARD FOR OUT
STANDING AGRICULTURAL
EXTENSION WORK
In recognition of his outstanding
agricultural extension work, T. M.
Campbell, Extension Service field
agent, was presented a Superior Serv
ice Award last week by Secretary of
Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson.
The presentation was made at the
first annual Honor Awards Ceremony
on the Washington Monument
grounds. Altogether, 33 of the De
partment’s 76,000 employees received
Superior Service Awards; five received
Distinguished Service Awards, and
124 received Length of Service
Awards. Of this latter group, one has
served the Department for over 50
years, and the others have served for
40 or more years.
in maxing tne presentation to Mr.
Campbell, Secretary Anderson said,
“For your outstanding extension work
among colored farm people, I present
you this Superior Service Award. This
is not for just doing a good job, but
for work considerably over and be
yond the call of duty. You have my
good wishes and the good wishes of
the entire Department.” The award
consisted of a certificate, a medal, and
lapel pin.
Among the 1,500 who witnessed the
Honor Awards Ceremony were Mr.
Campbell’s wife and two of their five
children. The two daughters present
were Miss Rose Elizabeth Campbell,
a physical therapist, and Mrs. Emily
Virginia Hawkins, a registered nurse.'
Along with his Superior Service
Award, Mr. Campbell also received a
Length of Service Award for having
served the Department for 41 years.
He was the first colored extension
worker employed by the Department.
It was on November 12, 1906, that
Mr. Campbell went to work as a farm
demonstration leader in Alabama. He
was employed jointly by Tuskegee In
stitute and the Department of Agricul
ture.
I
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WINTER WARNING
ISSUED TO CAR
AND TRUCK OPERATORS
uon t let Did Man Winter catch
you by surprise, car owners and truck
fleet operators were warned today by
Dwight Havens, President of the Ne
braska State Safety Council.
"Face the threats of wintry months
ahead in confidence that your vehicles
are in tip-top shape, particularly from
the standpoint of safe driving,” he ad
vised. "Preparing an adequate de
efnse will help you prevent causing
accidents and traffic tie-ups. It’s no
fun to have mechanical failures, an
accident or get stalled at any time,
but it’s doubly disheartening to run
into trouble in had weather and then
realize that a little timely care would
have prevented it.”
Items requiring pre-winter checkup
jwere listed as follows. BRAKES—Be
'sure they are equalized; WIND
SHIELD DEFROSTERS AND
WIPERS—You must see a hazard to
avoid it when it gets cold or snows;
TIRE CHAINS—Have them ready to
use when snow or ice conditions get
bad; EXHAUST SYSTEM—Check for
possible defects, and carbon monoxide
leakage into car; ELECTRICAL SYS
jTEM—Inspect to present added mois
ture of winter causing short circuits;
HEADLIGHTS—Check for proper fo
cus and aim, on bright and dim beams.
Remember, you may even need lights
during day when snow storms de
velop; and TIRES—Good treads are
highly desirable because they help lots
■on wet pavement; but even new treads
or “rubber chains” won’t aid on
packed snow or ice. Only metal tire
chains will bite into packed snow or
ice, according to National Safety
Council tests.
I
“NIGHT OF STARS” PUTS KING
COLE IN LAST PLACE ON
BENEFIT SHOW; TRIO PLAYS
TO HALF EMPTY HALL
New York City (CNS)—It was such
a shame to bring out the best package
of all the very last when, after four
hours of sitting in one position, the
audience just couldn’t stay to hear Nat
croon “Naughty Angeline” and “The
Christmas Song” with his King Cole
Trio. After such an array of top notch
motion picture and. stage stars at
Madison Square Garden Monday night
to hear the “one and only” Night of
Stars, people became too restless to
enjoy the drily Negro star who per
formed for the benefit of the United
Jewish Appeal.
The Garden show, beginning at 8.30
sharp, lasted until 12.30 when strains
of “Christmas Song” filled the empty
ing hall as more than half of the 20,
000 people had left and the remaining
10,000 were on their way out.
The gala event began with Ed Sul
livan, famed Daily News columnist,
acting as an m. c., and introducing
Jane Powell, Hollywood singing star
and Milton Berle. After some very
funny jokes (though old), Berle brought
out young Dick Demene, who sang a(
very weal and studied version of “Ol i
Man River.” (we’re convinced nobody I
can sing it like either Sinatra or Robe
son). Dick was followed by* Jan
Pierce, Metropolitan Opera tenor who
sang in Yiddish for the occasion. Then
came Hit Parade singer, Joan Edwards
imitating the Ink Spots doing “If I
Didn’t Care;” Jinx Faulkenburg and
Tex McCrary; film stars Celeste Holm
and Vivian Blaine; William O’Dwyer,
Mayor of New York; comedian George
Jessel; crooner Perry Como, John
Garfield, Paul Muni reading “Prayer
of the Displaced Persons,” Lana Turn
er, Eddie Bracken, Joan Fontaine, I
Humphrey Bogart and wife Lauren
Bacall.
All during thje last 6 acts, King Cole j
and Trio stood on the side with the
other stars, though hardly talking to
them, just waiting to be called. After
thunderous applause for each per
formance, Nat and the boys got ready. I
But star after star walked across the1
great tsage during the evening, urging
contributions to further the work of
the United Jewish Appeal in aiding
the children and adults who are vic
tims of Nazi terror still in Europe.
John Garfield’s emotional message of
“how long can they wait for our-help?”
got a terrific response from thj^mink
and sabled ladies sitting in lodges with
their millionaire husbands.
Still King Cole was not introduced.
Finally, Ed Sullivan asked the audi
ence, then getting restless, to get up
and stretch—but please stay for the
last five acts as they had been waiting
all evening to go on. First of the five
were the Three Stooges, Hollywood
picture comedians who have made i
more shorts than any other group we
know; Nanette Fabray, singing star of |
Broadway’s top musical “High Button j
Shoes;” Jan Murray comedian-star ofi
“Music in My Heart,” Randy -Brooks,
bandleader who’s appearing at the
Paramount—and last, very last, King
Cole Trio.
As Brook’s “golden trumpet” rang
its last notes of his number, the au
dience had all left its seats. When
Nat Cole took to the stage, he almost
had to applaude for himself.
SEEIN’ STARS
WITH DOLORES CALVIN
New York City (CNS)—Pearl Bailey,
the Blue Angel’s lovely star, is rush
ing Columbia recordings before the
1 December deadline—her latest (and
.best, we think), are St. Louis Blues,
which is really a teriffic version—fast
and different—and “Get It Off Your
Mind;” a know-it-all type of number
| on the order of “It’s a Woman’s Per
rogative to Shange Her Mind, which
Pearl did so well in “St. Louis Worn
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an. ... .
I Savannah Churchill into the Onyx
on 52nd Street. Andy Kirk s band re
united or Apollo opening. . . . Kirk
still determined to go into a business
'of which nature he refuses to divulge.
|. . . Friends think it’s music publishing
| with a little booking on the side. . . .
Maxine Sullivan headlines Loews’
State this week with the wiskered
billing “Loch Lohmond Girl.” . . .
That was a cute idea of Joe Bostic s
to give the editors the tip as a “con
fidential item” that Duke U. (Durham,
NC), has a Negro playing on the fresh
man football team—and there’s been
no trouble. . . .
Thelma Carpenter, who’s been hav
ing a grand time in New York for the
past couple of weeks, heads for Ken
tucky’s Latin Quarter and hates to
leave. . . . What’s this about pianist
Bill Davis leaving Louis Jordan’s band
November 26th to go home to Chi
cago to play his brand new Hammond
organ? . . . And Louie, at Billy Berg s,
does four shows to a packed house and
is backed by a quartette (musical and
vocal) and a mean boogie dancer.
U. S. CIVIL SERVICE^
COMMISSION
The United States «Civil Service
Commission announced today that ap
plications for probational (career) ap
pointment sto the position of Examiner
(Loans) in the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation will be accepted at the
Office of the Director, Eighth U. S.
Civil Service Region, Post Office and
Customhouse Building, Saint Paul 1,
Minnesota, until the close of business
15 December 1947.
Vacancies exist in the Heconstruc
tion Finance Corporation, Minneapolis,
Minnesota and Omaha, Nebraska. Re
lated positions in toher agencies at
other locations within the Eighth U.
S. Civil Service Region may be filled
from this examination. The salaries
range from $4,170 to $7,081 per an
num.
Applicants for this position will be
graded by the Civil Service Commis
sion on the basis of the length and
quality of their experience and educa
tion as stated in their application.
There will be no written test required.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained from the Civil
Service Secretary, at any first- or
.^cond-class post office, or from the
Eighth U. S. Civil Service Regional
Office, Post Office and Customhouse
Building, Saint Paul 1, Minnesota.
PARTY FOR MILLIONAIRE
Chicago—How would YOU go
about throwing a party for a Negro
Millionaire?
Los Angeles hotel owner Horace P.
Clark made the party he gave foi
Washington D. C.’s millionaire Negro
gynecologist, Dr. William Goodloe,
his ‘last fling” according to a picture
story in December Ebony. The blow
out took place on the West Coaster’s
spacious lawn, last from 4 o’clock
Sunday afternoon until daybreak Mon
day morning.
stage and screen stars were in at
tendance as well as professional and
society leaders from all races and from
all over the nation. Two hundred bal
loons were strung up for the festivi
ties, according to Ebony’s story and
over 350 out-of-town guests alone at
tended. The salad for the guests in
itself took over three hours to prepare.
Clark also threw open the doors of
his wine cellar and guests raided his
j precious stocks of champagne and
other rare wines. It was definitely
Clark’s last fling, however, and Ebony
quotes him as saying:
“After this party, all my excess
money goes to organizations.”
ROBBERY ATTEMPT FOILED
BY 14-YEAR-OLD BOY
Chicago (CNS)—Four robbers in
holding up a restaurant at 1301 South
Michigan, lined up the fourteen
customers and a woman in the rear of
the place just as much decorated De
tective Anthony Cominsky walked in.
He had been tipped off by a 14-year
old boy passing by the restaurant and
managed to bag one of the gang, with
! three escaping.
Ben and the Ice Cream Soda
Franklin institute was founded in
honor of Benjamin Franklin to pro
mote the practical sciences of the
world. One honor, not usually asso
ciated with the institute was that
the first ice cream soda was sold at
the Franklin institute exhibition of
1874. A school of design for women
also was founded by the institute in
the year 1850. Other firsts were the
tests of electric dynamos; stand
ards for screw ,.and bolt threads,
and the first extension table.