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/justice /equautyH^M^^the newsjvhileit isnewsJ a\ Imhewtothe une\ ___2420 GRAMTsT" __1_ VOL. XXI—No. 25._OMAHA, NEBRASKA—THE OM AHA GUIDE—Saturday, July 17th, 1948 ONLY TEN CENTS FER COPY News from NAACP CIVIL RIGHTS ' PLANK URGED ON .THE DEMOCRATS .Philadelphia, July* 8—ijEn dorsement of the recdmntchd at^i^s of the President’s Com mittee. on Civil Rights by the National Democratic Conven tion "as urged today by W alter 'Wh.itey. NAACP stc#etary, sneaking before the conven tion’s platform committee on behalf <5f 21 nationaly Negro ■organisations ith a 'combined membership of more than 6 million. ~‘\Ye urge and insist”, Mr, J White told the committee, * ‘-‘that <h£ platform of the 1948 Dfmqcrapc convention en dorse withdut*equivocation the entire program of the Presi dent’s * Committee on Civil Rights and • especially those provisions to suppress lynch ing and mob violence, to ban the poll tax as a voting re quirement, to afford equality of job opportunity, and to , bplish discrimination and seg regation-in the armed services, education and transportation. 1 Mr. White reminded the Democrats of t,he support which "Negro voters have giv en that party and pointed out that “in reasonably close el ections, these voters are a vital factor in some 75 congression al districts in at least 17 bord er" and northern states with a total of 295 electoral votes. In 1944, this vote as essential to the viwetory of the Democrat ic partty.” - In Northern and border states, he said, “there is a po tential of 3 million Negro vot ers. These are independent voters tied to the agron string of no party and in- the bag of no politician. In addition to these three million, thhere is every likelihood of another million- Negro voters in the southern states. For the most the^r^v^o^rs are new for the development of decent human relations among the people of this country. These voters, perforse, will support the growing liberal element in the South. Ultimately, this will mean a replacement of the pre sent congressional reprecen tation by men and women more representative of all the people of the South.” In addition to approval of the recommendations of the Civil Rights committee, Mr. ,White asked “the platform pledge the full weight of the Democratic party to the amendment of the Senate rules to invoke cloture by a major ity vote in order that filibust ers which have disgraced Am erica for too long may be stop ped in the United States Sen ate. The committee was present ed with the Declaration of Ne gro voters, formulated at a meeting of representatives of the 21 organizations in New York City on March 27 of this year. Joining Mr. White in pre sentation of the demands of Negro voters ere Dr. Chan ning H. Tobias, of the CME Church ; George L-P Weaver, CIO Committee to Abolisli Racial Discrimination; Miss Mabel S. Lewis, National As sociation of Negro Milliners and Dress Designers; Dr. \\. C. Jason, National Alliance of Postal Employees; and Theo dore Spaulding, National Bat Association. I JUDGE ISSUES A RESTRAINING ORbER Charleston, S.C., July 8— Judge J. Waties Waring, of the United States District Court, Eastern District of So. Carolina, issued a restraining order today in the suit filed today by attorneys for the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People against eigthy-nine officers and members of the State’s Democratic Party, who the crw" ’ int alleges, have sought £ Negro citizens of vote. *I|k at, tiled on behalf of David Thrown and other qual ified Negro voters of South Caroline, follows by three months the victory won by the NAACP in the case of El more W. Rice. In the latter case, Judge Waring held illeg al the refusal of the Democrat ic Party of South Carolina to allow qualified Negroes the right to participate in the Democratic party primary. Judge Waring’s decision was sustained by the Fourth Cir cuit Cort of Appeals and the United States Supreme Courc ! refused, last April, to review the decision. rouowing inese decisions, the Democratic party of South Carolina determined to con tinue its infringement upon the right of Negroes to vote in the primary. Pursuant to this aim, the party passed rules prohib iting any Negro from joining Democratic party clubs, re quiring that every Negro up on registering present a gen eral registration certificate, and requiring every member of the Democratic Party to take an oath to uphold racial segrega tion and oppose federal fair employment practices legis lation. The present suit, filed against every officer of the Democratic party in South Carolina who was not a de fendant in the case of Elmore V. Rice, asked the court to ‘isstSe immediately a tempor ary order restraining the de fendants from employing these devices to prevent Negroes from voting in the August 10 primary. The new rules of the Democratic Party of South Car olina were devised soley for the purpose of disfranchising voters on the basis of their race and color, according to the NAACP attorney. Such devic es, the complaint claims, are in violation of the Article 1 and Amendment 14, 15 and 17 of the United States Constitution and of Sections 31 and 43 of Title 8 of the United States Code. The restraining order issued today by Judge Waring both the defendants and the plaint iffs to appear in court July 16 to present both sides of the case. The attorneys handling the case for the NAACP are Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall anil Assistant Spec ial Counsel Edward R. Dudlev of Ne v\A ork and Harold Bou! ware of Columbia, S. C. A. M. E. BISHOPS SIGNED STATE MENT THAT WALLACE AS A FINE CHRISTIAN LEADER AT KANSAS CONFERENC E Henry Wallace was praised as a “leader in the cause of peace among people through out the world,” by A. M. E. Church leaders in one of the most significant pronounceme nts to come out of the 33rd Quadrennial Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church meeting in Kansas City Kansas. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. The Conferen ce closed May 17. , Characterizing Wallace as an example ®f a Christian lead er “who stands up for the rights of the Xegro people and the Jewish people as well as Protestants and Catholics”, nine bishops signed the state-] sient, jvhich as released short ly after Senator Glen T. Tav lor, \\ allace’s running mate, addressed the Conference on his fight aggainst Jim Crow in Birmingham, Alabama. The statement was signed by Bishop S. L. Greene of the 9th Episcopal District, Ala bama; Bishop W. A. Fountain I Sr., of the 12th District, Okla homa and Arkansas; Bishop A. J. Allen o£ the 3rd District, Bishop J. H. Clavburn of the 13th District, Kentucky and Tennessee; Bishop R. R. Wright of the 6th District, Georgia; Bishop H. Y. Tooke; of the 10th District, Texas; Bishop G. H. Ba'ber of the 4th District, Chicago, Michigan Indiana; Bishop D. Ward Nichols of the 1st District, New York, and Bishop D. Ormonde Walker of the 5th District, Missouri, Colorado, Kansas and California. The complete text of the statement follows : ‘‘We, the following Bishops of the African Methodist Epis copal Church, in recognition of Henry Wallace as a Christ ian and as a leader in the cause of peac# among people throughout the orld, apart from political reasons, but as a Christian who stands up for the rights of the Negro peo ple and the Jewish people as well as Protestants and Cath olics, hereby commend the Honorable Henry A. Wallace for his contribution to the cause of a living Christianity to which our daily lives are 1 dedicated.” KMA Listener Wins $30,000 “I know I won’t win be cause no one ever wins who needs the prize.” Twenty min utes after she made this state ment, Mrs. Bessie Lawerence, a regular KMA listener, who! lives in Shenandoha, Iowa proved herself wrong by win ning $30,000 in prizes for sub mitting the best entry in the “Abbott and Costello Kid Show” contest. Mrs. Lawrence who lives with her unemployed husband in a two room walk up apart ment ov<r a hamburger stand, is the mother of five children. She has eight, grandchildren. Since she was married 35 years ago, Bessie Lawerence has dreamed of a home to call her own, However, rearing the children took all the money which Mr. Lawrence a day laborer, could make. Yester day the Lawrences were wor rying about tomorrow’s meal and next month’s rent. Today their only worry is the income 1 tax on $30,000. In her winning entry, Mrs. Lawrence said, “I want to help fight juvenile delinquency be cause I love children—kind ness, patience and affectionate understanding are what children need most—We sho uld never make a promise to! a child we don’t intend to keep Their faith in us in soon gone Next Manday, July 12, Mrs. and Mr. Lawrence will leave for Hollywood to meet Lou Costello and Bud Abbott. On Saturday, July 17th, she will participate in a national wide broadcast during which she will receive the following pr lzes*. $5,000 mink coat $4,795 four place sedan airplane. $3,000 new Kaiser four door sedan, fully equipped with a radio, heater and other acces sories. $3,000 House trailer $1,250 coronation diamond ring. Two weeks all expenses paid vacation with her husband at Theel Rancho Vegas Hotel, in Los Vegas. $1,200 silver and gold en crusted jewel chest presented by Arturo de Cordova to Luc ille Bremer in “The Adven ture of Casanova”. A fully automatic O’Keefe and Merrit Gas Rane $200 makeup kit. $650 diamond and platinum precision wrist watch for Mrs. Lawerence another for her hus 'band $400 a complete service for 12 of Franciscan china $580 flooring of the Lawr ence kitchen, drainboard and bathroom in ceramic tile. $1,000 complete heating or cooling system for their apart ment or trailer $200 sterling service for 8 A handbag fitted in gold and I a lighter, a cigarette case, com-] past and lipstick, and $130 en try. $350 living room suite $130 pillow rest mattress and a box spring $120 vacuum speaper, com plete with nine household unit $400 16 MM sound motion picture projector accompanied, by a print of Abbott and Cos tello’s first movie “Buch Pri vates” and a print of their latest film “The Noose hangs High” The prints are valued at $1,000. $250 set of luggage. Round trip to Hollywood and a week’s stay in the film city with all expenses paid. A television set Several other prizes. Mrs. Lawrence said that all of the prizes but the car and the furniture would be sold to buy an acreage here on the outskirts of Shenandoah. She spoke wistfully of the $5,000 mink coat, but finally said, “Myhusband and I worked too many years to spend any of the money foolishly. Believe me, folks dreams do come true. _ QUICK TAKES ~ By Baer "I sure could use soma advice from the 'fishing and Hontirig .Club of the Air* at this paint." 1 b Not Inherited i Tuberculosis is not inherited. It is a disease which well peoplte catch from people whothave active tuber culosis. While it is a serious disease it can be cured and its spread can be prevented. Truman Nominated at Convention The Hon. President Harry S. Truman Trumtfn and Barkly nominat ed. Harry Truman’s opening remark: “We are goin^ to beat the Republician and make them like it.’’ Mississippi and Alab ama walked out of the conven tion. Humphrey of Minn, help the platform committee’s feet to the fire—Made them call a spade a spade. Tenn., No. Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Mississippi and Georgia, the real die-hard kind fought a good battle but lost. They will loo,se again in the November election unless they decide to cut out their system of polit ical persecution of 50 per cent of their citizens. It doesn’t make very much difference who's elected in November—Truman— Wall ace—Dewey. From all outside appearances it looks like Am erica is beginning to practice a real democratic Democracy. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH New York, June 11—In an effort unique in Negro labor unionism, five organizations of Negro railroad workers have pooled their strength in the organization of the Negro Railway Labor Executives As sociation. The five unions committee, organized in Washington, D. C., in April has published the first issue of its joint publi cation dealing with the pro blems of job-security common to each of them. The paper, named the Negro Railway Labor News, details the many strangles in which the participating organizations are involved. The slogans of the commit tee—unity, equality, job and seniority protection—corres pond to the aims the five un ions have in the raijroad in dustry. The five unions are: Associ ation of Colored Railway Trainmen and Locomotive Firemen, Roanoke, Va.; Inter- \ ational Association of Rail way Employees, Memphis, Tenn.; Southern Association of Colored Railway Trainmen and Firemen, Savannah, Ga.: Colored Trainmen of America, Kingsville, Texas and the Din ing Car and Railroad Food Workers Union, Chicago, 111. Three outstanding attorneys of national reputation wrho are co-counsel for the Negro rail road unions’ committee, are Charles H. Houston and Jos eph C. Waddy of Washington, D.C. and Archibald Bromsen of New York. The Committee’s newspaper is being planned as a monthly four-page publication and is edited by Daniel Benjamin, Eeastern vice-president of the DC A RRFWU, 124 West 124 St., New York City 27, N.Y. The subscription price is one dollar per year. Special Omaha Release Russel J. Hopley, president of the Northwestern Bell Tel ephone Company, today par ticipated in ceremonies mark ing the installation of the 30 millionth Bell System tele phone. Mr. Hopley, who has justt returned for several days from Washington, D. C.. where he is serving as Direct or of Civil Defense Planning in the office of Secretary of Defense Forrestal, took part in a three-ay conference call between Omaha, Marshall town, Iowa and New York City. cnner parties to tne conver-1 sation were LeRov A. Wilson, president of the A. T. & T. Company, Vice President of the Northwestern Company C. L. Sampson, in Iowa, and Har old Bragg, the customer in whose home the 30 millionth installation was made at Mar shalltown. Mr. Bragg, ^of 207 South 16 Ave., is an engineer employed by the Lennox Furnace Com pany. He and M*s. Bragg have a two-and-a-half-vear old daughter, Jane Kay. The installation comes seventy-two years after Alex ander Graham Bell said, “Mr. Watson, come 'here. I . want you,” over the first telephone to transmit intelligible speech. That as on March 10, 1876. in Boston. It took the Bell Sys tem over forty-five years "to attain its first 10 millionth telephones, not quite twentv years for thhe next 10 mill ionth and less than six veais for the third 10 millionth," The / System has added 8 million, two hundred thousand tele phones since V-J Day. The Northwestern Bell Tele phone Company and the other Bell System Companies are doing their utmostt to catch up with the unprecedented de mand for telephones. Ne •/ switchboards and more wire Zaad cable are being manufac tured and installed in record quantities, looking toward th day when everyone again can have the kind of telephone service he wants, when he wants it. In the last 10 years, the num ber of Bell System telephones in service has nearly doubled, growing from 15 million, four hundred and sixty thousand, to JO million. More than half of this gain has been made since the end of the ar. Today’s Bell System plant investment is about 8 billion dollars. This is almost double what it was 10 years ago. Nearly to-thirds of this 10-yr. gain has been made, since the war. Similarly, there are today about 675 thousand Bell Sys tem employees or more than twice the total of a decade ago. Owners of the American Tele phone and Telegraph Com pany, parent Company of the System, now total nearly 750 thousand. The number of telephone conversations completed dailv in the Bell System now exceed 125 million, as compared to around 70 mollion per day 10 years ago. I Today 115 million miles of Reservations in the Special Train T» * • • .1 1 HM • < *11 1 Reservations in the special train going from Omaha to the Fort Randall dam site July 22 now total approxi mately 100, according to the manager of the Omaha Cham ber of Commerce Transpor tation department, R. \Y.< Heinecamp. The list of those planning to attend the Army Engineers’ Open House day has doubled in the past week. The River Development and Flood Control committee of the Omaha Chamber is spon soring a. special train via the Milwaukee railroad to the event. Purpose of the day is to acquaint residents of the Missouri Basin with the orkl being done at Fort Randall and the importance that it holds for all those who live in this area. Interest in the trip is not confined solely to Omaha. Here are some of the interest ed communities and the num ber of representatives they are sending: Lincoln, six; Colum bus, four; Council Bluffs, ap proximately ten; St. Joseph, Mo., eight. Others ho have promised to send representa tives are Minden and Nebras ka City. » * -- The special train will make no stops between Omaha and Fort Randall. Harry Trustin. chairman of the River Development and Flood Control committee, says that attendance of his group for the trip will be virtually one hundred per cent. Four teen members of the 22 man group have already made res ervations. The train will leave Omaha at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, arriving at the dam site at approximately 8 a.m., Julv 22. The train ill leave again at about 3 p.m. Thursday, arriv ing back in Omaha about mid night. The delegation will travel in air-conditioned cars with a special diner. Round trip fare, including lower Pullman berth and parlor seat on return, and meals, ill be $3wl.50. Reserva tions may be made ith G. A. Henkens, General Agent of the Milwaukee Passenger Depart ment at 1611 Farnam, or the Omaha Chamber’s Transpor tation Department. A crowd of nearly 10.000 persons is expected to visit the dam during the one-day cele bration. I CALIFORNIA CANDIDATES i_ Augustus F. Hawkins (left) and James T. Allen are two candidates for California State Assembly with full backing of the Wallace New.Party. Hawkins, incumbent Democrat, will run on both Democratic and Independent Progressive (Wallace) Paivty tickets in the 62nd A.D., Los Angeles. Hawkins was. first elected to the State Legislature in 1933 and has since been re-elee'leU to seven successive terms. James Allen (right) is the IPP’s candidate in Los Angeles’ 6*7t,h A.D. and has received endorsement of the Los Angeles CIO. Eddie Dunn: ‘"frying to goto sleep the other night I counted so many sheep they started to picket -for shorter hours." "True Or False,- MBS ♦ wire interconnect Bell System telephones. Ten years ago there were 83 million miles. Including the 6 million five hundred thousand telephones served by the nation's inde pendent-owned telephone com panies, there are now 36 mill ion five hundred thousand tele phones interconnected in the United Statau. This represents about three-fifths of all the telephones in the Vorld. The Unteid States has one tele phone for every four persons as compared to about oae for every 90 persons n the rest of the world. The history of the telephone in Marshalltown data* from the eariest days of telephony. In 1877, Theodore Birchard, i Marshalltown youth attending Stevens Technological Insti tute ai Hoboken, New Jersey, built fU'o telephones from plans 'in a scientific magazine, and sent them home where they were connected between his father’s home a*d his drug store. Marshalltown, a city in cen tral Iowa with 25 thousand population, had ts first tele phone exchange in 1881. To day there are 8,580 telephones serving the city. SEE THE U. S. ARMY Recruiting Service Ad On Top of Page Four Named Administrator WAStffNGTON, D. C — (Sound photo) X President Truman today 'nominated Paul Gray Hoffman, above, a leading GOP, as adminis trator. o'ftAbe 6 trillion dollar For eign Aid Program. Hoffman’s, title ! will be* Administrator for Erono | mic Cooperations. / ! (H7hj 7lsujhbffi& By Box Paulson “Can’t understand ‘made-worK' or ‘featherbedding.’ Suppose we had to hire three men to milk liro cows; milk would hare to sell fer $1.75 a quart!!” Destroyer of Crops storms destroy mors farm crops In America than tornadoes. LJ'MM, . Child Welfare Worker George T. Hedgevpeth, 1948 graduate of the Atlanta Univer sity School of Social Work, is now enjoying his work as the Child Welfare Worker with the Social Service Bureau, of Richmond Ya. Mf". Hedgge speth, who is the only male and Negro worker employed on the staff is a native of Nor* folk, Va. and a member of the Omega Psi Fraternity. Among other duties, his work includes the supervision of juvenile parolees who have been returned to the local co mmunity from the State In dustrial School and the State Childrens Bureau. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Ser vice Commission announced todajr that applications are be ing sought from persons qual ified to fill the position of Maintenance Superintendent. The salary for the position of Maintenance Superintendent ranges from $2469 to $3648 per annum. Vacancies exist in various Public Housing Administra tion units in the folloing loca tions, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Alliance, Grand Island, Hast ings, and Sidney, Nebraska; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Full information and appli cation blanks may be obtained from the Civil Service Secre tary at any first or second class post office where the an nouncement is posted or from t4ie Information Office, Eighth U.S. Civil Service Region, Post Office and Customhouse Build ing, Saint Paul I, Minnesota. 100 RURAL COLORED YOUTHS ATTEND THE SOUTHWIDE 4-H CAMP Over 100 rural colored you ths will attend the first South wide 4-H Club Camp, Aug ust 24-31, at Southern Univer sity, Baton Rouge, La., accor ding to an announcement made this week by Acting Exten sion Service Director Walter H. Conway. Encampment delegates, who will represent the 300 thousand colored 4-H club boys and girls in the Nation, have been sel ected from clubs in each of the 17 Southern States. Each State is sending six delegates—three boys and three girls who have done outstanding 4-H club work. Plans for the event are being completed this week by the en campment committee in a meet ing at Knoxville College, at the tenative encampment program includes a series of addresses by prominent white and color ed leaders, a oneday trip to New Orleans where the club bers will visit historic places a boat ride on the Mississippi, and tours of the State Capitol at Baton Rouge, Louisana St ate University, and the State agricultural experiment station At southern- the 4-Hers will take part in discussions of health, good citizenship, 4-H w’ork, and rural life problems. Following the discussion per iods they will join in various types of recreational activit ies under the direction of Ross C. Owens of Tuskegee. During the evenings, the boys and the girls will see movies, take part in group singing, and play indoor games. One of the highlights of the encampment will be a present ation ceremony during which 4-H membership plaques will be presented to four outstan ding citizens who have been an inspiration to rural youths.
