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- READ THE OMAHA GUIDE - EXCLUSIVE CLUB? I HRgttUUlftv-1 For DUES-PAYING UNION MEMBERS OHLYf' >n ' Ri^M lo life, liberty, and Ihe pursuit oF happiness. : ^ OUNG members of an Eskimo congregation at Frobisher Air Ease, Baffin Island, watch Air Force Chaplain (Colonel) James R. Davidson, Jr., arrange altar for a service of Holy Communion con ducted for more than 200 people at the base. The Episcopal chaplain visited Episcopalians in the Northeast Air Command and gave them opportunities to attend such services. Fabulous Harlem Globetrotters Immortalized In 8inm-16mm Movies MILLIONS of basketball fans through the years have attended one of the game's greatest shows— the exhibitions put on by "The Har lem Globetrotters,’’ who have trav elled all over the world. Now they can be seen again and again in a new movie professionally produced for owners of home movie projec tors In both 8mm and 16mm sizes. This movie presents the popular organization, so often referred to as "fabulous" by sports writers, and shows how they earned such a description. Tffeir skilled handling of a basketball when they form their famous warm-up circle and baffle each other with the most unexpected tricks In passing the ball is a highlight of the film. Some of this action is shown in slow motion so that their skill can be Studied. The Globetrotters are famed for tricks In the game, too, and regu iarly baffle referees by craftily put ting into play a ball loaded with Mexican Jumping beans to make it bounce as crazily as if bewitched. .Their dribbling is also astonishing to basketball fans, some of the players mastering this maneuver so that the ball hardly leaves the floor —though they may be racing with it up and down the court. “The Harlem Globetrotters” is a fast and thrilling sports film and is sure to entertain everyone. Other new movies for owners of home movie projectors include a series of films especially interesting to golfers, covering grip, stance, the short and long game. It is based on Tommy Armour’s book, “How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time.” Then there is “Sports Carnival at Madison Square Garden,” an excit ing and action-packed review of thi3 famed arena’s sports and spec tacles. The popularity of these inexpen sive entertainment films, available at local camera stores, holds at a high level because they are won derful gifts on special occasions throughout the year and because they can be shown again and again without diminishing interest. They are ideal for parties for young and old. FNl 2500 Will Start Civil Rights Assembly Sunday Washington — Some 2,500 rep resentatives of at least 50 organiza tions will convene here tomorrow to press for federal civil rights legislation in this session of Con gress. They are expected to represent at least 200 congressional districts in 35 states. The three-day civil rights assembly is under sponsor ship of the leadership Conference on Civil Rights of which Roy Wil kins, NAACP head, is chairman. Arnold Aronson of the National Community Relations Advisory Council is secretary. A highlight of the assembly will be a series of first-hand eye-wit ness reports from southern victims of civil rights violations including economic pressures and other forms of intimidation. Among these persons will be Gus Courts, president of the Belzoni, Miss., NA ACP branch who was shot because he refused to remove his name from the voting list; L. A. Black man, president of the NAACP in Elloree, S. C., who has defied the Ku Klux Klan which sought to run him out of town; and others. The assembly delegates will visit their own senators and representa tives in Congress, to impress upon these legislators the necessity of reporting out of committee and passing civil rights bills. The assembly seeks enactment of an eight-point legislative pro gram which includes an effective FEPC, withholding federal funds from any institution which defies the constitutional prohibition a gainst segregation in public facili ties, making lynching and other race-inspired acts of violence fed eral offenses and abolition of the poll tax. Also: protection of the right to vote, giving to the Justice Depart ment’s civil rights division the authority to protect civil rights in all sections of the nation, creation of a permanent Federal Commis sion on Civil Rights, elimination of remaining segregation in inter state travel, and provision for ma jority rule in the Senate and House , of Representatives. Two Parties Will Speak It is expected that representa tives from the two parties in Con gress as well as from the Demo cratic and Republican national committees will appear before the assembly to state their views on the passage of civil rights legisla tion. Mr Wilkins will address the opening mass meeting of the con ference at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1225 R St., N. W., Sun day at 2:30 p.m. The southern victims of econo mic and other reprisals will give their reports tomorrow at the Interdepartmental Auditorium on Constitution Ave., N.W., at 7:00 P.M. Visits to senators and represent atives and discussion with party legislative leaders are expected to occupy most of Monday and Tues day. The assembly will close with a report session on Tuesday after noon. . A call issued for the civil rights ; conference said that the “Constitu I tion and Supreme Court are being : flouted openly.” “Citizens are being denied theit constitutional rights,” it continued, “and persecuted for demanding them. To permit these violations to continue is to sanction lawless ness and defiance of the Govern ' ment of the United States.” | “It is essential,” the call declar ed, “that Congress enact legisla tion in this session to safeguard; j the civil rights of American citi zens and the processes of orderly government.’ Participating Organizations In addition to the NAACP, the approximately 50 national organiza tions participating in the assembly include the American Civil Liber ties Union, American Council on Human Rights, American Federa |tion of Labor and Congress of In j dustrial Organizations, American Jewish Committee American Jew ish Congress, American Veterans Committee, Americans for Demo cratic Action, and Catholic Inter racial Council. Also: AME Zion Church, Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, the Elks, Jewish Labor Committee, Japanese American Citizens League, National Association of Colored Women, National Baptist Convention, U. S.A., National Bar Association, National Catholic Com mittee on Race Relations, National Community Relations Advisory Council, National Council of Negro Women. National Council of Jew ish Women, and National Negro Business League. Also: National Newspaper Pub lishers Association, National Relig ion and Labor Foundation, the Masons, Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, and the Workers De fense League. Bill Makes Mob Rule Illegal The new anti-lynching bill pro vides penalties ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 and one year to twenty years in prison for persons taking part in lynch mobs. It pro vides penalties of $5,000 and five years imprisonment for public officials who fail to use “all dili gent effort” to protect the victims of lynching or lynch attempts of fail to use diligence in apprehen sion and prosecution of the mem bers of lynch mobs. In its discussion of the intro duction of a new anti-lynching bill, similar to ones which have failed of adoption in the past, the ! Subcommittee says: “When this legislation has been considered on previous occasions, its con stitutionality has been questioned. Most of these assertions are based upon the suspicion that lynching i is nothing but murder and the j Federal government has no con i stitutional right to punish lynch ing any more than it has to pun ish murder. This analogy, how ever, between murder and lynch ing is dispelled upon closer ex i animation. In murder, one or 1 more individuals take life gener ally motivated by some personal i reason. In lynching, a mob sets | itself up in place of the State, in disregard of the processes of law, and attempts to mete out punish ment to persons accused or sus pected of crimes. The mob in such cases sets itself up as the judge, the jury and the execution er. In murder, the accused merely violates the laws of the state. In lynching, the mob arrogates to itself the powers of the State and the functions of the government. It is, therefore, not only an act of killing but a usurpation of the functions of the government, and it is this combination of acts which this legislation seeks to prevent. If there is no usurpa tion of governmental authority and a homicide has been commit ted, the homicide, if punishable, is punishable under State laws. But where a homicide occurs, having as its basis the denial of j justice to a person because of his! race, color, or religion, or any as sociated reason, the crime com mitted is against the sovereign and should be punishable accord ingly. Where does the Congress de rive authority for the punishment of such actions? First of all, from its authority to punish attempts to usurp federal authority. Sec ondly, from its constitutional pow er to guarantee to each State of the Union a republican form of government. Thirdly, from the constitutional power to enforce the provisions of the 14th Amend ment, prohibiting states from de priving any person of due process and equal protection of the laws/’ Bucholz Heads Push For Creighton Frederick H. Bucholz, president of the Omaha Steel Works, has been named chairman of the Presi dent’s Council Committee for the Greater Creighton Convocation. The appointment was announced today by the Very Rev. Carl M. Reinert, S. J., University president. This group will serve as advisory committee on arrangements for the Convocation They are conferring with Creighton officials concerning all plans for the event, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24. Other members of the Commit tee are Dr. Harry N. Boyne, associ ate professor of surgery at the Creighton School of Medicine; Ar thur L. Coad, president of Packers National Bank; Frank P. Fogarty, vice-president and general manager of Meredith-WOW, Inc.; Dr. Mau rice C. Howard, professor of medi cine at the Creighton School of Medicine; Arthur C. Storz, vice president and treasurer of the Storz Brewing Company, and W. Otto Swanson, president of the Ne braska Clothing Company. Committee members were select ed from the President’s Council at Creighton University. This Coun cil is composed of members of the Board of Lay Regents, former members of that organization plus several national representatives. Girl Tells Of Experiences With DeVine A shocking description of life with lather B'ivine is published in the new issue of Confidential Magazine, on sale March 6th. Written by a white girl who lived in one of his “heavens” the article reveals how the so-called God ravished her when she was 21 years old and how he kept her among his flock through threats on her life. Carol Sweet Hunt, brought to the New York mission by her mother in 1941, became one of George Baker’s workers. Her _PEOPLE'S CAPITALISM HOME OBULAR HOUSE to start soon on an around-the-world tour to show how tho average American worker lives. Tokyo, Japan W'll be the first stop. Then it goes to New Delhi, India. This dwelling made by United States Steel Homes, Inc., at New A.bany Ind., the housing subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., has been inspected by thousands, Including President Eisen- | i k*r|'. > *d h°me a*,he Pe°PIe’* Capitalism exhibit in Washington, D. C. The entire exhibit, which is going on a i global tour, is sponsored by the Advertising Council and the United States Information Agency of the State Department. mother was hypnotized into be coming one of his followers prior to that date and, according to the article, Baker told her that she and her mother would die if they left him. When Father Divine was driv en out of New York by law suits he took the girl to Philadelphia where she worked on the outside in the Navy Yard at $1,600 a year. She gave Baker $1,000 a year. One day, she relates, Father Divine made her one of hisj secretaries and soon after he be gan his attacks on her. So great was his power over her that she stayed on with him for more than six years, submitting to his advances. - ' i Worker Is Selected Melvin Walker of Mandaree, North Dakota, has been appointed Indian Affairs Secretary on the staff of the Urban League. The new position was created on the recommendation of the United Community Services Social Plan ning Unit after an exhaustive study of unmet needs among In dians in Omaha. Mr. Waixer is a graduate of Dickinson State Teachers College,, Dickinson, North Dakota. He studied for a year at the Univer sity of Nebraska School of Social Work. He was employed for two years as caseworker and child welfare worker for the County Welfare Boards in Benson and Rolette Counties, North Dakota. Mr. Walker served as a radio op erator in the Air Force during World War H. In his work at the Urban League, Mr. Walker will do ex tensive field work with the Indian population—engaging in counsel ling and educational activities with families in order to assist them in making necessary ad justments to industrialized urban conditions. The UCS study revealed that an increasing number of Indians would be coming to Omaha from nearby reservations for two main reasons: (1) there is not sufficient land on the reservations to sup port the growing Indian popula tion; (2) the Federal Government is encouraging Indians to leave the reservations and take their place as normal citizens in nearby towns and cities. George Robinson, League Ex ecutive Secretary, pointed out that Omaha is not waiting for the problem to become insur mountable befor attacking it. Through the United Community Services funds were made avail able for the Urban League to ex tend its program and provide aid to the growing Indian population. The League’s experience in rai sing the sights of Negroes, im proving their health, and broad ening their economic, education al and social opportunities will be brought to bear on the tragic problems encountered by Indians in our midst. WHO USES INSTALMENT CREDIT USE of CREDIT for 'MAJOR HOUSEHOLD GOODS - Head of Household Unit- by Age Groups 1954 ,—„ DEBT on AUTOMOBILES, by Income 6roups Percent of Owners Reporting Debt Outstanding on Cars in Early 1955 $1,000 1,999 2,999 3,999 4,999 7,499 fcover 1954 Income Before Taxes Source - Federal Reserve Board YOUNGER PEOPLE, IN MIDDLE INCOME GROUP. WITH BRIGHT PROSPECTS for the future, are major users of instalment credit, says American Finance Conference. Statistics show most credit for autos and household goods goes to families with best financial out look and ability to repay. For Immediate Release Leo M. Zamory, Architect House No. A-130 ~ and XJLANNED for your present needs, and with built-in JL space insurance for your future, this ranch house has many outstanding features. It’s the ideal choice for a narrow lot but by no means could you call it a “little” house. Everything you’d want is here: spacious living room with fireplace and a ten-foot picture window; separate dining room with double exposure; a fifteen-foot “U”-shaped kitchen, a guest closet at the front entrance, and a bathroom on the main floor level. On the first floor, there are two bedrooms with double exposure and plenty of closet space. The upstairs area can expand into two additional bedrooms and a second bathroom. The full basement will take care of your laundry center, plus your hobby activities and a play area for the youngsters. r For the convenience of readers who wish to study this house in greater detail, we have prepared a complete sketch plan which can be obtained by sending 25^ in coin to Modern Plan Service, Department 130, Lincoln Building, Mount Vernon, New York. • i Area: 1,448 »q. ft. ,, Cubage: 37,648 cu. ft.
