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/JUSTICE /EQUALlW)1^^^^a?HE NEWSJA/ HILEITI^^W^ gp) HEW TO THE UNE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ~ "~~l420GRAKfTST ' '_HONE HA.0800 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 ------ 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 \ 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 (Continued on Page 3) 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. I_ 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.