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voi: 20—NO. 51 THE OMAHA GUIDE, l /JUSTICE /EQUALITY HEW TO THE LINE \ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 _ ... raUbKANI 5T ZETA PFU BETA SORORITY Zeta Phi Beta Sorority met Sun day, January 18, 1948, at the home of Soror Lucyle B. Avant. A very inter esting meeting was held which includ ed the election of officers for the year. The following were elected: Basileus, Soror Lucyle B. Avant; Anti-Basileus, Soror Eloise J. Taylor; Grammateris, Soror Ethel D. Dean; Philacter, Soror Pearl R. Gibson; Tamias, Soror Beat rice Jackson; Epistoleus, Soror Edmae P. Swain. Plans were completed for the cele bration of “Finer Womanhood Week,” ■which will be from February 22-Feb ruary 29. The week will be celebrated with several affairs befitting the oc casion. During this week an outstand ’ing Woman of the Year will be named. Public services will b*e held on the fifth Sunday in February at the Pil grim Baptist Church at 11 o’clock. The Rev. Charles E. Tyler, minister of the Hillside Presbyterian Church and a member of our brother Frater nity, Phi Beta Sigma, will deliver the message. We were happy to welcome back Soror Asilee Dotson, who has been out of town, and Soror Edgar Camper who was reinstated. The next meeting will be February 1, 1948, at the home of Soror Beatrice Jackson, 2908 No. 26th St. From Holland “In Holland, our butter ration ia 5 ounces every two weeks,” says Mrs. J. C. Bruening, who is greeted by her son Hans, as she arrives in America for the first time. "Fats are pitifully short in Europe, and fats are what make other slim rations palatable. We are grateful to Ameri can women who save used cooking fat, and make greater shipments ) of food fats possible,” she explained. 1 TpEM years ago discussion of tolerance and civil liberties in -* general on the airwaves was rare. Today, individual stations and most networks have grown up. Minority group problems of daily life are almost a matter for regular programming. Among the networks jassiduously taking the lead is the COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM. The “CBS School of the Air” (Mon. thru Fri.—5 PM) forthrightly attempts to show the fallacy of discrimination. The web’s year-end documentary, “Among Our selves,” was a real blow at bigotry. NBC’s “Public Affairs” pro gram (Sat.—2:45 PM) is another which presents frank and open discussion of community, civic and religious matters. The latest tolerance slant is the use of one-minute musical jingles. Origi nated by New York’s independent WNEW, they are being sung over more than 500 stations; appeal particularly to children. As a major medium of mass communication—and a relatively young one—radio is doing an improved and vital job of helping Ameri-1 cans to attain their national ideals of democracy. SHOW TIME: Sportcaster Bill Brandt of MUTUAL has selected his outstanding personalities of ’47 on his “Inside of Sports” feature (daily, 7:45 PM). In the group were Brooklyn 1st baseman Jackie Robinson, U. of Illinois track star Herb McKinnley, and heavyweight Jersey Joe Wal cott, who nearly upset champ Joe Louis . . . In New York WMCA’s “New World A’ Coming” is in its fourth broadcast-year. “A Young American," a penetrating analysis of race re lations and inter-group attitudes, is being of fered on Jan. 20 . . . Aidine hillbillv Juriv Dandridge Canova to become adjusted to polite suburban „ , , society is Ruby Dandridge. An NBC regular Saturday laugh-getter (9:30 PM), this show is a “must” on your listening schedule ... An hour-length production of the mem orable “Green Pastures” will be aired on the Ford Theater show Sunday. Feb. 1 (NBC—5 PM). WITH THE WEBS: 9' . In case you missed the 40-voice choir of Howard University Sunday morning over CBS (11:05 AM) they’re repeating this Sunday, Jan. 24, offering spirituals and religious music . . . Designed to aid individuals and groups com batting juvenile delinquency, the Lou Costello Bud Abbott Kid Show every Saturday (11 AM) over ABC is one of the best on the air. These two gagsters have gone all out to build better citizens of teen-agers . . . Of definite interest to every former GI is the NBC “Veterans auumai , aevotea to tne interest of vets and mm their families (Sat.-2:30 PM). There is a one>= rnstelln minute cut-in each week for affiliated stations to cover local activities of vets’ groups and news of sectional Veterans Administration offices. PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK: When Halyard Patterson’s mother first I bought him a piano in Fresno, Cal., neither realized that one day he would be a regular feature attraction on bandleader Horace Heidt’s [?aulent sh°w- Waving a baton since 1923, j-ieidt has a nation-wide reputation for giving breaks to new. musical talent. Airing his show ; ea?h week (NBC-Sun.- 1 10.30 PM) Heidt tests various local contestants. 1 In Fresno recently Patterson was one of the ] hopefuls. So promising was his keyboard ar- 1 tist , Heidt promptly signed him as a i Heidt re ular w. 1 the show. To top it off and to „ .c,c .ie with Jtate education laws (Halyard is only 1<) Mrs. Heidt a registered teacher, is tutoring him while he is with the aggre^ ‘ton. 1-20-48 _ ^ -»(All Time Eastern Standard, -? — 1 Forgotten Inventor * ft— -—— -5g?W [MICHAEL Wm-?*m*OLD ! SERB - HAD ONLY 5 CE NTS WHEN i HE LANDED IN NEW YORKf i oCajfefv... STUDIED... TAUGHT AT f 1 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY...SOLVED f. 1 LONG INSTANCE TELEPHONY WITH ftp | SPECIAL COILS-PXnHTtb JUNE 19 V i 1900... SOLD RIGHTS TO AT&T V ? FOR $1,000,000... SAVED PHONE ; USERS $100,000,000 IN FIRST 25 YEARS/ Qm^tednew*MYPHOTOGRAPHY METHOD, ..MEANSOFELIMINATING RADIO STATIC... IMPROVED RADIO TELEPHONY, ! ELECTRICAL TUNING, RECTIFICATION. .. TWO OF HIS PUPILS MILLIKAN AND LANGMUIR-Wftf NOBEL , PRIZE-WINNERS/ | AywW Af tUtumcU Pattit Council _I! RETURNS TO MUSIC PROFESSION The exotic and charming Bertha Davis Jackson has returned to the music profession after an absence of four years. Mrs. Jackson rendered a . piano Zion Baptist Church, that was an in spiration to all young musicians. Mrs. Bertha Davis Jackson is a former student of the Pinkston School of Mu sic, where she received her musical training from the prominent Mrs. Flora Pinkston. Mrs. Jackson taught in the Normal Department of the Pinkston Conservatory of Music. Be sides being a very fine musician, Mrs. Jackson is one of the best dramatic actresses of the city. Mrs. Jackson is booked for many engagements. She is the mother of two sons and a promi nent figure in social and religious ac tivities. THE MORTIMERS RETURN FROM 'VACATIONING IN NEW YORK Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Mortimer are back in the city after spending a few weeks in the Big City. While there they made the rounds of the famous Nite Spots, including “Smalls.” They also saw many former residents of Omaha. In all they had an enjoyable time; but said the weather was far from cooperative. NEGRO VOTE MAY BE DECISIVE, WHITE SAYS New York—Predicting that the Ne gro voters will play a significant and potentially decisive part in the 1948 election in 17 key states, Walter White told the 9th annual meeting of the National Association for the ! Advancement of Colored People, “All ’who love democracy must use their ballots wisely and unselfishly to the end that the best candidates are elected, irrespective of political party.” 1 NEGRO GIRL ENROLLS IN , U. OF OKLAHOMA L\W SCHOOL Norman, Okla.—The University of Oklahoma announced Monday it will I accept the enrollment of Mrs. Ada ' Sipuel Fisher, 2-year-old Negro, in her fight to gain admission to the in stitution s law school. The honor grad uate from Langston University, who took to the U. S. Supreme Court her fight for admittance, was to enroll Monday. The Court orders Oklahoma to grant her equal and immediate ed ucation with white students. Signal honors should go to Attor neys Amos T. Hall of Tulsa and Thurgood Marshall of New York City, and the NAACP. Late News Release | Monday night read, “University of | Oklahoma Regents are going to se up a separate school for Mrs. Ada Sip uel.” NEGROES PROTEST OKLAHOMA PLAN Charge Evasion of Supreme Court Order Oklahoma City—The legal battle of a 23-year-old Negro woman to enroll in the University of Oklahoma law school Tuesday was headed back to the United States suprmee court, which only last week directed the state to establish equal law school fa cilities for Negroes and whites. A Negro school of law established here in a surprise move Monday by the Oklahoma state regents for higher education was branded by Negro leaders as a “jim crowe law school.” At a mass meeting here attended by some 600 Negroes, James E. Stew art, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Ad vanement of Colored People, said the assoication’s attorneys will go back I to the supreme court to contend thal “some unit of the state government is in contempt” of the court’s ruling. Roscoe Dunjee, editor of a Negro newspaper here and a national direc tor in the NAACP, said the organiza tion’s legal staff is to meet Tuesday in Washington, D. C., to plan future legal steps. Mrs. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, the Negro seeking admission to the uni versity’s law school, will not attempt to enroll in the newly created law school but will stand on her applica tion for enrollment at the state uni versity, Dunjee said. Accompanied by Dunjee and NAACP officials she visited the state university at Norman Monday mom \ing and filed application to enroll. Propose Separate School A few hours after her application was accepted the state regents an nounced at a special meeting the .es tablishment of a Negro school of law here as a branch of Langston univer sity, the state’s only Negro college at Langston, Olda. An honor graduate of Langston uni versity, Mrs. Fisher first sought to en roll in the state university law school two years ago. Denied admission be cause of the state’s laws requiring separate schools for Negroes, she ap pealed to the state coutrs and finally I to the U. S. supreme court. In establishing the separate law school, the regents sought to comply with a state supreme court order is sued Saturday in line with the federal supreme court decision. The state supreme court directed the regents to provide equal law school facilities for Negroes as soon as they are provided for white per sons, but without violation of the Oklahoma statutes requiring separate schools. “I can’t see how the regents can give us a school next Monday which is equal in faculty and facilities and the 40-year-old tradition of the Okla homa school,” said Dunjee. * The regents left details of getting the school under way immediately and registration of Negro applicants to a committee of five members. The j program calls for classroom facilities ! at the state capitol and use of the state law library there. Dr. W. Page j Keeton, dean of the University of Oklahoma law school, is to recom mend faculty members to be em ployed. - f RECENTLY PASSED Mr. John O. Bradford, 48 years, 2020 No. 22nd St., died Friday at a local hospital after an extended”ilT ness. Mr. Bradford had been a resi dent of Omaha twenty-seven years, and was a member of Zion Baptist church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mattie Bradford, Muskogee, Okla.; two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Smith, Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Stella Hogan, Bryan, Texas; niece, Mrs. Patsy Clay, Oakland, Calif., and other relatives. Funeral services were held Tuesday! afternoon from Thomas Mortuary with Rev. F. C. Williams officiating with burial at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Willis Dean Noland, age two and a half years, 2623% Charels St., died Tuesday after a brief illness at a lo cal hospital. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis D. No land, Sr.; sister, Norma Jean, of Oma ha; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Daniels, Mineola, Texas; grandmother, Mrs. L. C. Noland, Kansas City, Mo., and other relatives. The body is at Thomas Mortuary. Forest Lawn Cemetery. A “FIRST” AT L. U. Mrs. Thelma Thurston Vor ham, assistant professor of journalism at Lincoln, Univer sity (Mo.) School of Journal ism is the first Negro woman elected to Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary society for women in journalism, and the only woman to serve as editor of an official Army publica tion. In the various areas of her preparedness, Mrs. Gor ham has served with the Bans as City and St. Louis Calls, the Crisis, the Sunn (California) and Ivy Leaf; has done pub licity for the West Coatt NAACP and is author of a var iety of published feature ar ticles, poetry and fiction “Aquarina” is a book from her pen. Marriey to Richard R. Gor ham of Berkeley, Cal., she had taught at Hampton institute before coming to Lincoln the current semester. She is an AKA soror. From Ireland I Deirdre MeAuliffe, from Dublin, !re land, says the first thing she he.-.rc when she got off the ship in Nevi York was one woman telling anoif.ei that she h_d to take her used fai to her meat dealer. “That made m« feel right at home,” Deirdre ex plains. “Fats and oils are so scarce we save every drop at home, an; I'se them over and over again." I From Norway 'Fats and oils is a desperate need ill over Europe,” says Merete Klei ►erg, as she arrives from 8tavan icr, Norway, aboard the SS Amer ica. Merete, who came to this Muntry to go to school, hopes that American women keep up conscien tious fat salvage, because used cook ing fat that is turned over to the neat dealer helps relieve the work mortage of fata and oils. Extend Gravy* Canned mushrooms and their Juice not only add to the flavor of gravies, but also extend the gravy. Chinese Rice Poor Because of poor milling, shipping and cooking practices, Chinese rice ; is of inferior quality. Vitamin Stockpile Vitamin A for winter health is supplied in large quantities through eating fall greens. Strengthen Pockets Strengthen pockets at the corners with a few stitches to keep from tearing. METZ BREWING Co. One of the Sponsors of “MAIN STEM DERBY” _HARRY HESSE_:_ | MAIN STEM DERBY, UNIQUE f RADIO PROGRAM ATTRACTS CITY-WIDE ATTENTION Saturday, January 17,\ 1948, was a red-letter day for the colored citizens of our locality and marked a mile stone in endeavor. We wish to take this opportunity to thank the Metz Brewing Co. for their part in making it possible. I am referring to “Main Stem Derby,” presented by KSWI, KFMX, featuring Harry Besse, one of our esteemed colored citizens. Mi. Besse is well deserving of this oppor tunity, as he is well liked and re spected by white and colored. The Omaha Guide is proud of its small part in making this a reality. We wish to take this opportunity to inform our readers that this program should have a definite place in the life of our com munity, and should have the active support of every Social and Civic or ganization. The Omaha Guide wishes to invite all other organizations and individuals to join in making this program a suc cess ,in order to establish a precedent for this locality, to which our race may look forward to for months to come, and which we hope may en tourage others. But this is only half the story. To assure the permanency of this ven ture, we must have the active help and cooperation of the whole com munity. There are many ways you can help, mainly by writing the Radio Station, and by patronizing the mer chants who make this broadcast pos sible. To make this broadcast a suc cess will entail hard work and initia tive. This venture can be just as suc cessful as we care to make it, and we need the publicity and favorable pub li copinion, and prestige that will come to our city through it. The ad vantage, both temporary and perma nent, to be derived from it, are such that it should appeal to all of us. So let’s all get out and pull for Harry Besse. The Omaha Guide is proud to be apart of such a worthwhile under taking. George H. McDavis, Promotions Director. COUNCIL BLUFFS MERCHANTS IVE “HARRY BESSE” VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Whole Page of Advertisements Spon sored by Appreciative Merchants Hats off to the Council Bluffs Mer chants for donating a whole page to “Main Stem Derby” and “Harry Besse.” No greater testimonial could be given than their gesture.. SUPREME COURT SETS ASIDE SENTENCE OF MISSISSIPPI NEGRO Washington—The conviction of Al bert Lee, a Jackson, Miss., Negro sentenced at 17 to serve 18 years in prison on charges of assault with at tempt to rape, Monday was unani mously set aside by the supreme court. In another decision the justices voted six to three to grant a new hear ing on whether Mrs. Marianna von Moltke of .Detroit should be released from serving a four-year prison term to which she was sentenced for aiding a nazi spy ring. Speaking for the court in the Lee case, Justice Murphy noted that coun sel for Lee contended an asserted con fession was improperly introduced as evidence in his trial because it was “extorted by duress, fear, threats and physical violence.” The Mississippi supreme court, Murphy said, rejected Lee’s conten tion that use of this evidence violated his rights under the fourteenth amend ment to the constitution which forbids abridgment of the right of citizens. Consequently, Murphy said, the Mississippi court’s action in affirming Lee’s conviction is reversed and the case returned so that the state court “may definitely express its views” on use of the alleged confession. An in complete record, Murphy said, “pre cludes our determination of whether the petitioner (Lee) did deny in the trial court that he had confessed the crime.” Lee entered a plea of innocence at the trial held in November, 1945. He was convicted by a jury, however. ATTORNEY’S WIFE PASSES Mrs. H. J. Pickett, 2118 No. 25th St., wife of Attorney H. J. Pickett, died Tuesday morning January 20, 1948. Mrs. Pickett, a long time resident of the city of Omaha, leaves to moum her passing, besides her husband, a sister, Mrs. Mattie E. Williamson of Chicago, 111.; Fred D. Banks, a neph ew in Omaha; Mrs. Francis Elliot, niece of Denver, Colo., and a host of friends. Funeral services for Mrs. Pickett was Friday morning at 10 a. m. from the Myers Funeral Chapel with the Reverend Charles Tyler officiating. Interment at the Forest Lawn Ceme tery. Myers Funeral Home in charge of burial. ; — Half Have Lights Fifty-three per cent of the nation’* farms now have electric *ervic*. Arthur Sampson, 56 years, died Fri day at his home, 2802 Binney St., aft er an extended illness. Mr. Sampson I had been a resident of Omaha thirty years and was a member of Immanuel Community Church. He had been em ployed at a-loeak packing plant twenty years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lena Sampson, Omaha; daugh ter, Miss Mary Sampson, Lincoln, two brothers, Mr. Walter Sampson, Chi cago, 111., Mr. Asa Sampson, Law rence, Kans.; granddaughter, Miss Louise Perkins, Omaha; cousin, Mrs. Ametta Sayer, Kansas City, Kans., and other relatives. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from Im manuel Community Church, with Rev. E. F. Ridley officiating, assisted by | Rev. Foster Goodlett. Pallbearers, Mr. I Harrison Brown, Mr. Clifton McKin ney, Mr. Emmett Mason, Mr. James White, Mr. Syvester Waite, Mr. Ed Jackson. Burial was in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery. Jewell H. Rose, 3rd, age six years, 2884 Binney St., died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack, after he had collapsed during-recess at the Howard Kennedy School. Efforts of the Fire Department Squad to revive the lad were futile. He is survived by his father, Mr. Jewell H. Rose, Jr., Oma ha city fireman, mother, Mrs. Celia Rose; brother, Dennis; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Meehan. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell H. Rose, Sr., Mr. Rose, Sr. is a retired Captain of the Omaha Fire Department. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon from St. John’s A.M.E. Church, with Rev. E. B. Childress, officiating, assisted by Rev. Thomas Rucker, music by the junior choir with Mrs. Ruth Downing at the organ. Honorary pallbearers were the following school mates, Eu gene Napier, Raymond Gant, Ernest ine Roland, Adrienne Merriweather, Maurice Rollerson, active bearers were Mr. Robert Greene, Mr. Harry Speece, Mr. Elijah McClinton, Mr. Leon Ray. Burial was at Forest Lawn Cemetery. URBAN LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE—BEGINS JAN. 26 “The Omaha Urban League should have a membership of at least 1,000 persons,’’ said Mr. J. C. Harris, Jr., member of the Urban League Board of Directors and chairman of the 1948 Membership Drive. Mr. Harris said the work of the League during the past yera had done much to im ! prove the welfare of the Negro and the entire community. ! Some of the League’s accomplish ments Mr. Harris said, were as fol lows: Finding employment for over 400 Negroes; persuading firms which had never employed Negroes to ac cept them for the first time; bringing to the attention of responsible officials the urgent need for housing improve ments in the near northside area; working with other health and wel fare agencies for better health and recreation facilities, and making many in the community aware for the first I ■ in o. wipmpvt ditions of the Negro in Omaha. The Membership Campaign this yae rwill be from January 26 to March 1. However, the Urban League ac cepts membership throughout the year. A regular one year membership will again be $1.00. A year’s subscrip tion to Opportunity or Negro Digest magazine will cost an additional $1.00 and $2.50 respectively. Mr. Millard Carr of 2684 Burdette St., is assisting Mr. Harris and the Board of Directors in this Campaign. Mail your membership to the Urban League Office, 506 So. 17th St., or give it to Mr. Carr or any Board mem ber. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD IN PHOENIX, ARIZ. | Military funeral services are being held in Phoenix, Ariz., Friday (Jan. 23) for T/5 Robert L. Williams of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, a brother of Mrs. Joseph W. Davis, 2228 Franklin Plaza. The soldier was killed in an acci dent in Guam last November 20, which was his nineteenth birthday. He was the youngest of 10 children of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Williams of Phoenix. Rites will be in charge of the Rev. Charles F. Favors, pastor of Omaha’s Pilgrim Baptist church, who was ac companied on the trip to Phoenix by Mrs. Davis and her three sons, Joe Wayne, Charles Winfred and Hayden Wilbur. Surviving besides Mrs. Davis, whose husband is custodian at Hink-Dinky Stores company headquarters in Oma ha, are three other sisters, Mrs. Kris Powell and Mrs. Leatha Jones, both of Phoenix, and Mrs. Hazel Mangrum of Wichita Falls, Tex., and five broth ers, Jimmie, D. W., Travis, B. W. and Bernard, all of Phoenix. ORGANIZE P.T.A. Hope Luthern School, 30th and Corby streets, organized a P.T A. recently with Mr*. Gwendolyn Hadley president. Mr. Ralph Wagoner: vice* president; Mr. Walter Hadley, »ccretary; Mrs. Mary Mason, treasurer. Meetings are to be held the first and third Wed nesday of the month in the church basement. .ehfehr.nle bsieFM7 T T T T Oscar Eugene Jones, Jr., age two weeks, 2204 Maple St., died Thurs day at a local hospital. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. Jones., Sr.; a sister, Nonna Lee, of Omaha; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones; grandmother, Mrs. Irene Willis, of Centerville, Iowa. Services were held Saturday morning from Thomas Mortuary, with Rev. J. H. Reynolds officiating with burial at Mentally m in America Approximately seven million per sons in the United States are men tally ill and their care costs the public more than 175 million dollars a year.