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VOL. XXI—No. 26. OMAHA, NEBRASKA—THE OMAHA GUIDE-Saturday, July 24th, 1948 ONLY TEN CENTS FER COPY
An Open Letter
Nebraska State Committee for
Wallace
July 15th, 1948
Dear Friend,
We are happy to inform you
that we have opened our offic
ial state headquarters at thhe
above address and we hope you
will drop in to see us as soon
as possible. The campaign for
Wallace has now reached a
new level and the State Con
vention to officiate forf the new
Progressive party of Nebraska
will take place on ugust 28 <k
29th at Central high school.
The Calls to the Convention
will be mailed out in thousand
of copies of individuals and or
ganizations by the end of this
week. We expect to have Mr.
Wallace himself and Paul Rob
eson as the keynote speakers
at the Convention.
Of course, one of the prob
lems, which we are sure you
can well appreciate, is that of
finances. However we are con
vinced that as between peace
and an atom bomb war. Demo
cracy or the nightmare terror
that is Fascism, there are peo
ple such as yourself who let
nothing stand in the way of
your helping out with as many
dollars as you can spare as
soon as possible. This is an im
mediate need which will help
us mail our Call to the Con
vention to so many more thou
sands of people.
You were kind enough to
make a pledge to the campaign
at the Glen Taylor rally which
for one reason or another we
have not yet received. Will you
not mail it in to us immediate
ly
Hoping to hear from you
soon,, I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Rev. Arthur F. Stearns,
State Chairman
DR. ADWIN R. EMBREE
President of the Julius Ros
envvald fund until its termin
ation June 30. has been elected
president of The Liberian
foundation, according to an an
nouncement by Edward R.
Stettinius Jr., chairman of the
board of the Liberia company.
The foundation will assist in
the advancement of health,
■welfare, and education pro
grams in the West African
Republic of Liberia.
NAACP ASKS INVESTI
GATION OF U. S. CONSUL
New York. July 15.—In a let
ter addressed to Secretary of
State George C. Marshall, NA
ACP secretary Walter White
today demanded a prompt and
thorough investigation of the
charges made against U. S.
Council UN..eP ETAOIDW
Consul John Bernard Faust of
Beirut. Lebanon, in the New
York Post on July 14.
It was reported in that paper
that Mr. Faust made a state
ment to the effect that. “There
is no law about the nigger in
the South and here there are
no laws against killing Jews.”
The NAACP secretary sta
ted that he was certain that
Secretary Marshall would a
gree that if Mr. Faust made
a statement, he would be un
fit to represent the United Sta
tes Government in any capac
ity. If the New York Post re
port is found to be true, Mr.
White declared that it was the
NAACP’s opinion that Mr. Fa
st should be dismissed from
the Consular Service.
New Party Convention Starts
WALLACE FOR PRES.
Charles P. Howard of Des Moi
nes, Iowa prominent Negro at
torney, newspaper publishes
and Iowan Republician leader
for the past 25 years, will be
proposed as the keynote spea
ker at the New Party conven
ion which meets in Philadel
phia, July 23-25, the National
Wallace for President Commit
tee announced this week.
C. B. Baldwin, campaign ma
nager of the Wallace Commit
tee, said Howard would be pro
posed 'by the convention arran
gements committee headed by
Josiah Gitt, publisher of the
York Pa, Gazette and Dailey.
He is scheduled to speak at the
opening session of the conven
tion.
Three times chairman of the
Negro division of the Republic
an national convention in 1932,
Howard resigned from his Re
publician county central com
mittee early this year to sup
port Henry Wallace.
“It is obvious that only the
New Party of Wallace really
intends to fight racial discrim
ination and segregation in Am
erica,” Howard said. “The old
parties have repeatedly broken
their pledges to Negroes and
will continue to do so.”
Howard, 53, a graduate of
Drake university, where he
was a four letter athlete, has
been practicing law in Des Mo
ines since 1930 and publishes
twa weekly newspapers. An in
fantry lieutenant in the first
World War, he has three sons
all veterans of World War II.
Born in Abbeville, South
Carolina in 1895, and raised in
Georgia where his father was
a fireman on the Georgia rail
road, Howard attended the
Tuskegee institute for two vrs
After graduation he went to
Minneapolis where he worked
on a railroad himself for a year
while trying to find a way to
make up the requirements foi
entering college. In 1916, he
won a scholarship to Drake u
niversity, where he studied for
a year before entering the armv
He was commissioned in 19
17 and served overseas as Jud
ge Advocate of the 366 Infan
try as well as a platoon com
mander of combat troops. Af
ter release from the army, h°
returned to Drake, where he
graduated from law school in
1922, having passed the bar 2
years earlier. While at Drake
iie won letters in football, base
ball, track, and tennis, and held
the state record for shot and
discus. He organizied the Al
pha Xu fraternity, of which
his son is today President of
the Drake university chapter.
Since 1920 he has been pra
cting law in Des Moines, whe
re he 'became President of the
the Iowa Bar Association. In
addition to his law practice an
publishing the Iowa Observer
and the Lake County Observer
now edited by his son, he has
taught and coached at Hamp
ton Institute.
INGRAM FUND TOTAL
CONTINUES TO RISE
Front Page Top position
New York, July 15th—$551.04
was contributed to the Ingram
Defense Fund this week, bring
ing the total of money donated
to the NAACP for the defense
of the Geogian Ingram family
to $39,9333.72.
$27,498.54 of this total has
been contributed by NAACP
branches; $1,538 has come
from individuals; churches
have donated $1,621.74; and
organizations have given $9.
027.01. The Alpha Kappa Al
pha Sorority in Louisville, Ky.
sent in a contribution of $208.
50 this week and the 332nd
| Station Medical Group in Col
lumbus, Ohio., donated $39.00.
The son of Mary L. Howard.
Negro woman leader, who wor
ked closely with Mrs. Booker
T. Washington, one of his fir
st cases was the defense of a
Negro charged with murder
and rape of a white woman. He
became closely interested in
criminal cases as a result, since
has handled approximately
sixty-eight murder cases.
A member of the American
Legion, in which he organized
the Lincoln post and became
its first copimander, he is also
a former president of the Des
Moines chapter of the NAACP
and present chairman of its
legal redress committee, and
a trustee of the Des Moines
African Methodist Episcopal
Church.
A personal friend of Henry
Wallace, he was among the fir
st to urge the former vice pres
ident of the United States to
run on an independant ticket.
The strongest platform on
civil rights for Negroes since
the Reconstruction era is ex
pected to be written by the
New Party convention of 2500
delegates who convene in Phil- j
adelphia, July 23 to 25 to nom
inate Henry Wallace for Pres
ident and Senator Glen H.
Taylor for Vice President.
The convention is also ex
pected to demand of President
Truman that he use his cow
ers to end segregation in the
armed forces by an executive
order immediately.
Some 500 Negro delegates
and most of the approximately
30 Negro candidates running
for state and federal office on
the New Party ticket will take
part in formally organizing the
New Party and writing the
platform.
Charles P. Howard, Des
Moines, Iowa, attorney, pub
lisher and leading Republican
for 25 years, will be proposed
as keynote speaker at the open
ing session in Convention Hall
Friday night.
Larkin Marshall, Macon,
Ga., publisher and first Negro
candidate in Georgia to run
for the U. S. Senate since
post-civil war days, is sched
uled to nominate Taylor for
Vice President.
Both Wallace and Taylor
will accept the nominations
Saturday night before a crowd
of 35.000 persons expected to
pack Philadelphia's Shibe Park
city baseball grounds, for the
only outdoor session of the
major political conventions.
Opening speaker at the Satur
j da}- session will be Magistrate
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Joseph Rainey, President of
the Philadelphia NAACP.
The New Party platform is
expected to call for complete
outlawing of racial discrimin
ation and segregation in Am
erica. It will demand an im
mediate end of discrimination
in federal service and is expect
ed to call for federal supervis
ion of polling places in the So.
where voting rights are ignor
ed.
In addition, the platform is
expected to call specifically for
anti-poll tax and anti-lynch
legislation, halting federal aid
to any agencies practicing dis
crimination, prohibition of dis
crimination in government ct i
tracts, a permanent F E P C,
state legislation to outlaw dis
crimination and segregation
and abolition of immegration
restrictions based on race.
“The platform will mean it
says, in sharp contrast to the
civil rights program passed by
the Democrats in an attempt
to woo the liberal and Negro
voters away from Henry \\ al
lace and the only partv really
fighting Jim Crow, ” C. B.
| Baldwin, Wallace campai
I I
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The Lincoln university trus
! tees had a pre-commencement
at the Red Rose inn for Gov.
. James H. Duff of Pennsylvan
| ia on June 8. just 'before the
j governor spoke at the 94th an
i nual exercises. At the center
manager said,
The Democratic civil rights
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W. D. MORRISON JR.
Of Detroit, president of the
National Association of Real
Estate Brokers, Inc., an out
growth of the National Negro
Business league. The real as*
tate men, known as “realtists,”
held their first annual conven
tion this week at Atlantic City
in Convention hall.
Discussing plans for the national founding convention of the !
new political party which meets in Philadelphia July 23-25
are Henry Wallace and Margaret Bush Wilson of St. Louis,
i Mo. Mrs. Wilson, a convention delegate, is also the new
i party’s candidate for Congress in the 11th Missouri congres
sional district. She is an attorney and women’s leader:
) table are seen Gov. Duff, who
is facing the camera; Mrs.
■ Bond is seated to the left of
the governor and Dr. Bond,
president of Lincoln, is on the
governor’s rights. Other per
son at the center table are:
■ Mr. Stevens of the trustee
' board. Dr. and Mrs. Walter G.
. Alexander, Walter Phillips of
I the trustee board, and Mrs.
| Lewis M. Stevens.
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NAACP TO ASK FOR
HEARING OF INGRAM '
CASE
Atlanta. Ga., July 15 —A
petition for a rehearing of the
Ingram ease is being submit
ted to the Supreme Court of
Georgia by the NAACP. This
action follows the decision of
the Georgia Supreme Court in
affirming, on July 13. the judg
ment of the trial court denying
a motion for a new trial.
Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and
her two teen-aged sons were
convicted by a Georgia jury
for the self-defense slaying of
a white sharecropper and were
sentenced to die in the electric
chair on February 27. The NA
ACP was able to obtain a com
mutation of the death senten
ces, but the trial judge then
sentenced the Ingram’s to life
imprisonment. In the recent
hearing before the Supreme
Court of. Georgia, the NAACP
ointed out that the evidence in
troduced at the trial was not
. onlv insufficient to sustain a
Martin Katzman of Berkel
ey, Calif., receiving the certif
icate of award for the $500
Alma Wells Givens scholar
ship of the Women's auxiliary
to the Xational Medical asso
ciation. Mr. Katzman is pict
I ured yith LeCount Mathews
'of Washington who served as
i proxy for Mrs. Givens, organ
izer of the women’s auxiliary,
and for Mrs. Wilbur E. Pan
ned. chairman of the Alma
Wells Givens Scholarship
fund.
verdict of tirst-degree murder
but was also completely devoid
of any evidence showing mal
ice and intent necessary to su
stain such a conviction.
NAACP Hails Deocrats on Civil Rights
New York. July 15.—Describing the civil rights plank
adopted on July 14 in the platform of the Democratic Party
as an example of “real Americanism,” Walter White, secret
ary of the National Association for the Advancement of Color
ed* People, today expressed the appreciation of the half-mil
lion NAACP members for this action.
Mr. White declared the NAACP delighted at the spec
ific inclusion of remedial legislation and other action against
long-standing abuses like lynching, the poll tax, job discrim
ination and segregation in the Democratic platform. “W e be
lieve,” Mr. Wihte stated, “the victory of decency at Philadel
phia marks the greatest turning point for the South and for
America which has occured since the Civil War. Both parties
are now committed to implementation of the major recom
mendations of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights.”
The NAACP secretary expressed the belif that the sou
thern delegates who walked out of the Democratic convention
in protest against its firm stand on civil rights do not repres
ent majority opinion in the South. “We have more than 700
branches in the South through which we keep closely in touch
with opinion there,” Mr. White pointed out. “Except in a few
isolated instances, the type of sectional selfishness and bad
manners exhibited at Philadelphia are not approved by the
church, labor, student and veteran’s groups in the South. In
sheer self-defense, the South is going to find new political
leadership to replace that which disgraced the South in the
fighting civil rights.”
NAACP Ad Stimulates Action at Con
vention
Philadelphia, July 15.—Considerable comment and ap
probation was provoked in political circles here by an ad
vertisement, sponsored by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in collaboration with twenty
other national Negro organizations, which appeared in the
July 13 edition of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Entitled “Let ’Em Walk,” the NAACP ad urged the dem
ocratic convention to take a firm stand on civil rights in the
Democratic platform. “There may be times for compromise,
for concessions that do not sacrificel moral integrity or endan
ger the great and objective,” the NAACP admitted. “But
there is no room in Philadelphia in July, 1948, for compromise
on human rights in the Democratic party platform.”
If the southern delegates refuse to agree to such basic
tenets of American democracy as civil rights, the six-col
umn advertisement advised the convention to remain undis
turbed if these delegates walked out. “If a set of men wants
to organize a political party on a platform of letting lynch
ing take, care of itself, of permitting disfranchisement, of m^in
taining discrimination and inequality in employment, of en
throning segregation and the doctrine of superiority of one
mhn over another on the basis of mere skin color, it is free to
do so,” the advertisement read. “In the attainment of the great
end objective of a free, truly democratic nation and a free wor
ld for all men, they are a nobble, not a help. Their going
would be a blessing not a blow. Let ’em walk!”
This advertisement’ which helped to strengthen the suc
cessful determination of northern and western delegates to
include'a strong civil rights plank in the Democratic platform,
Was viewed as a culmination of the NAACP’s 39-year fight
to persuade political parties to take forthright stands on the
civil rights issues.
NAACP WILL QUESTION CONGRESS CAND.
Washington, D. C. July 15—Branches of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Colored People throughout
the nation were urged this week by the national office to bend
every effort between now and November to help elect genuine
ly liberal Congress if they want “a breed civil rights program
enacted into law (and) economic and political democracy in
this country for all people.”
To help giide voters in selecting such a Congress, Leslie
Perry of the NAACP’s Washington office has prepared a
twenty-one question covering civil rights, housing health, ed
ucation and other social welfare legislation, which the branch
es are asked to submit to all candidates for Congress. NAACP
members were urged to use their answers as one of the meas
uring rods of a candidate’s merit.
Typical questions ppon which candidates for seats in the
House and Senate are asked to take a definite sttand if elected
are: “Will you offer and work for the adoption of amend
ments designed to prohibit racial segregation and discrimin
ation wherever federal funds are used to aid education, hous
ing, health and employment?”
“Will you work to promote the integregation of qualified
citizens in all branches of the armed forces without regard to
race, religion or national orgin?”
The answers given by Congressional candidates to quest
ions such as these will determine the support which they will
receive from Negroes and other voters interested in the attain
ment of democracy for all of America’s citizens.
Newly elected bishop of the
Methodist church. The Rt.
Rev. Bowen was formerly ed*
itor of the Central Christian
Advocate.