/JUSIlCE/EQUAOTY^I^^felLTHE NEWS WHILE IT ISNEWS^IHiThEWTOTHE LINTS _LQPPORTVJNirr * ^2420GRAKrr~5 PHONEHA.Q800 VOL. XXI—No. 29. OMAHA. NEBRASKA—THE OM AHA GUIDE—Saturday, August 14th, 1948 ONLY TEN CENTS PER COPY POSTAL ALLIANCE HOLD INSTITUTE AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Thirty-three members of the National Alliance of Postal Employees from nine states and including three national of ficers, three district presidents and Mrs. Alberta J. Braxton, National Vice President of the Ladies Auxiliary, were in at tendance on July 30, 31', and August 1st at a week-end in stitute on worker education held at Ohio State University by the Alliance’s Education Committee in co-operation with the Summer School for Office Workers, a branch of the Am erican Labor Education Ser vice. NAPE President Ashby B. Carter of Chicago, Welfare Director William C. Jason, Jr. of Philadelphia, Editor Snow F. Grigsby of Dfetroit, Legis lative Committee chairman, John C. Lymas of Philadel phia, and Education committee chairman James J. S. Keys of Chicago acted as resource lead ers for the panel discussions. Professor Joel Seidman of Chi cago University, Professor George Catlin and Alma Her bst of Ohio State, and Iistruc* tor Margaret E. Smith of Rad cliffe College, assisted Miss Eleanor G. Coit, Director of the American Labor Educa tion Service, as discussion leaders. The Alliance delegates roomed at Neil Hall with the fifty-seven other people from ten states and three foreign countries who were in atten dance at the Summer school for Office Workers. These eighty people roomed together ate together, attended classes, dances, and had a picnic to gether during the three day in stitute. Heman Sweatt of, Houston, Texas, hero of the legal fight to enter the Texas La\v School, travelled the long est dsist noecat’Aancyelani 1 est distance of any Alliance delegate present at the Ohio State meeting. On Saturday night, NAPE President Ashby B. Carter de livered a stirring address in which he stressed the devel opment of intelligent militancy in handling Alliance problems the changing of verbal pleae into written briefs, and the Risher investigation of dis crimination in the postal ser vice which saw Welfare Direc tor Jason play the star part. He pointed out that the Al liance Convention of 1943, af ter a speech by Attorney Jas. B. Cobb of Washington, D.C., had set up a worker education program and that this week end institute w*s another mile stone toward eliminating sec ond class citizenship. Presi dent Carter stated that the Al liance had opened up jobs in the South and secured promo tions in the North by using “tradition as a rudder, not as an anchor.” \ ai j. w asnmgiun ^ieit; im. fers with Herbert Brownell,’ Jr. Campaign Manager for the Dewey-Warren Ticket during a meeting in Washington at which Mr. Washington accept ed an appointment as Assist ant Campaign Manager. VAL WASHINGTON Washington, D C.—Herbert Brownell, Jr. last week annou nced that Val J. Washington, of Chicago, Director of Negro Activities for the Republician National Committee, will serve as Assistant Campaign Mana ger during the 1948 campaign.1 Mr. Washington, who is serv ing his fourth term as a mem ber of the Illinois Commerce Commission, has taken a leave of absence for the duration of the Presidential campaign. He is a graduate of Indiana Un is d newspaper man, and at various times has served as general manager, business manager and advertising man ager of the Chicago Defender. He is also active in church and fraternal affairs. “The Republican Party is the unswerving enemy of any form of discrimination based upon race, creed or color,” Mr. Brawnell said, commenting up on the appointment. “The Re-, publician Party’s position is stated forthrightly in its Plat form, and the sincerity of its declaration is attested by the records of its candidates for the president and the vice-presi dent. I am confident that Com missioner Washington will ef fectively carry that message to the American people in this campaign.” AFRICAN MISSIONARIES AFRICAN MISSIONARIES Archdeacon and Mrs. L. A. Lennon of Ikare. Nigeria. West Africa, where for thirty years they have been engaged in religious and educational work among the natives. One ! of the few colored missionaries not of African birth, the Len nons are from Jamaics, West Indies. They have built scores of churches and schools. Mrs. Lennon has conducted a clinic and maternal health center. They are now on vacation in their home town of Kingston, Jamaica.—ANP SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS Scholarship awards totalling $600 went to these three 17 3'earK)ld misses \\ho made the highest grades in the national competitive examination spon sored by Phi Delta Kappa sor ority recently. Winner of the national nward of $500 was Miss Beulah Mae Kibble of Cincinnati (center photo), a honor graduate of Walnut Hills Classical High school. She plans to use the scholar. ship at the University of Cin cinnati Teachers’ college. At left is Miss Lillian An derson of Atlantic City, who won the $50 scholarship for the highest grade in the north eastern region. A graduate of Atlantic City Hig school, she has won the sixth, seventh and eighth grade American Legion history medals. She will at | tend Howard university to ! study psychology. Miss Jacquelyne M. John-i son took the southern regional award of S50 for being an hon or student at Tuskegee Insti* tute High school. She plans to teach law and has chosen Howard to pursue her career. Phi Delta Kappa annually awards scholarships to female high school seniors in the country who plan to pursue teaching as a vocation and who make the highest grade in the sorority’s competitive examination.—AN P OMAHA GIRLS ARE NOW GREETING CARD ARTISTS Mrs. Winona Cleary, 25. the former Winona Marsh, of Om aha and Miss Lorraine Gore lick, 19, graduate of Central high school here, are now mem bers of one of the world’s lar gest art organizations. Mrs. Cleary is a design artist and Miss Gorelick a production art-i ist at Hall Brothers, Kansas' City greetingcard publishers. Mrs. Cleary graduated from BUILDING~WOrTd PEACE THEME OF INSTITUTE “Building a Peaceful World in a Changing World is the theme of the second annual Kansas City Institute on In ternational Relations at the University of Kansas City, June 10-13. Two world travelers and lecturers are being featured on a panel of 33 speakers and dis cussion leaders. They are Am iya Chakravarty, native of In dia and counsellor to the late Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Hall, European born and ed ucated news correspondent. Chakravarty, now visiting professor of English at How ard university, is active in lit erary, political and ’internat ional fields. In April of 1947 he represented the Calcutta university at the Asian Rela tions conference held in Del hi, India. Hall, an American citizen by naturalization, was forced to flee Germany in 1936 because of his opposition to the Nazi regime. He is a nationally rec ognized authoritv on Europ-: ean Civilization at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkley, California. Other nationally known speakers .and discussion lead*' ers include : Vernon Nash, vice president of the United States Federalists; Edgar Fisher, con* sultant of the Institute of In ternational Education; Henry Holmes, Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; Paul L. Dengler, founder and director of the Austrian-American In stitute of Education and Ste-| phen . Labunski, veteran dnd I lecturer on European affairs, j Local speakers included Rev. j Philip T. Bohi, pastor Grand J Avenue Methodist church; Miss Elizabeth Jones, execu tive of Sociology at the Uni versity of Kansas City; Rob ert M. Murray, president of the Council on World Affairs; Richard Bolling, former ex ecutive vice president of the American Veterans Commu te; Samuel S. White, manager of Kansas City International Ladies Garment Workers un ion; Perrin D. McElroy, man ager of the Building Trade Council, A.F.L.; Rev. John J. Higgins, dean of Rockhurst college; Irvin Levitas, director of adult education, Jewish Community Center; Dowdal H. Davis, general manager of THE CALL; Harry B. Kies, professor of sociology at Rock hurst college; Mrs. Maria Cas tellani, professor of maathe matics at the University of Kansas City; Sidney Lawrence director of the Jewish Com munity Relations bureau; Mer lin Miller, director of the Con sumers Cooperative assicia tion; Mrs. Frances Hayden, executive secretary of the Pa seo branch YWCA; Norman Sun, professor at Park College; and John Henry Harris, direc tor of Carver Neighborhood Center. The institute will open Thursday evening, June 10, with an address, “A Changing World”, by Martin Hall. Dr. Clarence R. Decker, president of the University of Kansas City, will spe^k on “A Chang ing Orient”, at Friday morn ing’s session. Friday noon luncheon will be held with the university workshop groups which are holding classes June 7 to 18 on the subject “Educating World Citizens”. Vernon Nash jvill be the luncheon speaker. The afternoon sessions will be chaired by Mrs. James R. Gavlor, chairman of the Inter national Relations committee (Continued on page 4) Arlington Hall, Washington, D. C. high school and prepared for her career by studying at Omaha University and North western University at Evan ston, 111. Miss Gorlick, after her graduation from high sch ool, studied at the Art Insti tute at Kansas City. The talents, of Mrs. Cleary and Miss Gorelick contribute to the creation of designes on the company’s Hallmark greet ing cards and are reproduced on seasonal and everyday cards Friends of the Handicap ped are Ready to Re ceive Requests The Friends of the Handi capped, an on-profit corpora i tion incorporated March 1947 announces that in accordance with the aims of the Corpor ation, that they are ready to receive requests for artifical legs, arms, wheelchairs, seeing eye dogs, etc., from those han dicapped people in this country who cannot afford such app liances themselves. The corporation object is to purchase needed appliances for the handicapped who are un able financially to obtain them through regular credit chan nels for reasons of un-employ ment. The organization pro poses to eventually operate on a national basis and will seek funds through donations and other fund raising activities. A Number One Song Stylist is shown above with Count Basie famous orchestra leader, who co-stars the bill with her at the Broadway Strand Theatre. new all-time attendance re cord was set the first week of ■ —I i i iH I, I III—t j,| their engagement. Fans lined up for blocks along Broadway, and many waited for,' hours trying to get into the famous playhouse. —Photo by Leo Fuchs ..Arrives aboard the Twentie ty Century Limited, Billie Hol iday, America’s Famous Song stylist, and her personal mana ger, John Levy, arriving from Chicago, where she rolled up long established attendance records, during her engage ments. This is the, first photograph of the Nation’s Number One Song stylist and her new man ager. —Photo by Leo Fuchs BILLIE HOLIDAY INKS NEW PERSONAL MAN AGER By Floyd Snelson New York, August 10 — Much to the surprise of Broad way theatrical agents and man agers comes the announcement made via Billboard, bible of the Show World, of the news that Billie Holiday, Numflfcr One Song Stylist of the nation, has signed contract with John Le vy, co-owner of Club Ebony as her personal manager. She will continue to be booked under the banner of Joe Glaser and the Associated Booking Cor poration. John Levy, who has long be en identified with the show business and night-life may be remembered having produced the musical “Black Rhythm” on Broadway more than a de cade ago. At one time he also was personal manager of Herb Jeffries, Tondaleyo, Dickie Wells a*d others. His most re cent success was marked by the opening of the beautiful Club Ebony cif Broadway. One of the considerations of the new contract, guarantees the reappearance of Miss Holiday at Club Ebony. Incidentally, this marks the first time a major attraction is managed by a Negro. recent ruling bl the Internation al Revenue Department in Wa shington, interprets such don ations to the organization as tax exempt. (Continued on page 4) News from NAACP WILL MAP PLANS FOR DEFENSE OF INGRAMS New York, ug. 5—Plans for the continued defense of Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and her two teen-age sons will be develop ed at a conference of lawyers called by Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the NAACP which has charge of the case. The decision to call the con ference followed denial last week by the Georgia State i Supreme Court of a petition for a rehearing of an appeal from a ruling of the trial court denying a motion for a new trial. The lawyers will explore federal grounds on which an appeal to the United States Supreme Court may be based. Mrs. Ingram and her sons were convicted last winter of the self-defense slaying of a white farmer near Ellaville in southwest Georgia. They were sentenced to death—a sentence which was cummuted to life imprisonment after the NAA CP sought a new trial for the three. The case was taken to the State Supreme Court which affirmed the decision of the lower court. Meanwhile the Ingram De fense Fund passed the $40 thousand mark as NAACP branches, churches, other or ganizations and individuals continued to send in contri butions. Receipts last week amounted to $666.05 bringing the total to $40,965.76. Con tributions included the Golden Gate Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles, $50; Stan dard Industrial Life Insur ance Co. of New Orleans $35; Gertrude Geddes Willis Life and Burial Insurance Co. of New Orleans $25; an