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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.