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«00 r. st ^ 3©C. *"-*-«* rjp v. - VVtU»l;uu - -. B + > j Please Phone Your B ** - This Is Your Newspaper HA 0800 fl VVhat you are doing is news. " or send it to Please Phone Your News To THE OMAHA GUIDE __ __ ;; HA 0800 J? i: 2420 Grantst /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THE LINEN j; the°omaha guide !L **" EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ii 24i0Gr“tst i: Friday, August 3, 1956 _ Vol. 30 No. 22_ _ 10c Per Copy McCaw Is Assigned To Korea Arthur B. McCaw, former mem ber of the Douglas County Tax Appraisal Board, has been ap pointed to the Staff of the United States Opeiations Mission at Seoul, Korea. He has been in Washington since July 18, under going orientation. McCaw was the first Negro to be appointed to a Nebraska Governor's Cabinet When he was appointed State Budget Director by former Gover nor Robert B. Crosby. He was appointed by Gov. Crosby to the Douglas County Tax Appraisal Board in 1955. He had worked for this Board for su years prior to his appointment as Budget Dir ector. He resigned his post on the Board to accept the appointment in Korea. Very active in the community life, he is currently Vice-Presi dent of the United Community Services, and the Omaha Urban League. He is a member of the Board near North YMCA, Oak view Boys' Home and the Cmaha Branch of the NAACP. He was Advisor for the Youth’s Council, and College Group, of the NAA CP. He is the Polemarker, of the Omaha Alumnae Chapter of Kap pa Alpha Psi. An active Repub lican. he has served on the Coun ty and State Finance Committees. He wiil assume his duties at Seoul. Korea, on August 11th. Congress Takes Whack At Drugs Congress has passed the nar cotics control bill. There seems every reason to expect it will be signed. The new legislation attacks tijeproblem from two directions: It ir!N|ase3 the severity of allow able punnln^ents. and it endeav ors to aid ui'#|»nrehension and conviction of thos^^ngaged in the drug traffic. The matter of punishmen1%^ not insignificant. For the crim inal the penality he courts unde niably has an influence on the risk he chooses to take. Insofar as punishment should bear a rational relationship to the dam age done society, prior limitations unquestionably led police and courts alike to downgrade the seriousness of the offense. Of far more importance, how ever, is to catch guilty offenders and to convict them. In this con nection Congress has shown wis dom in permitting, not requiring, the death penalty for giving or selling heroin to minors. For a mandatory capital penalty means that judges and juries are loath to risk making an irretrievable error, hence hesitant to convict. Thus many a probably guilty per son goes scot free. In other ways the measure should aid authorities to get con victions on some ground—by making punishable use of the mails, telephone, or other forms of communication in illicit drug traffic and by making it easier to get search warrants. An adequate law is always a necessity in fighting crime. Con gress has made a contribution in this direction. It now will be up to the agencies of enforcement and to the courts—and to the watchfulness of the public to see that they do their duty . You cannot lead anyone furth er than you have gene yourself. The eternal triangle: income, overhead and upkeep! Offutt Seeks YW Military Hostesses Omaha girls are invited to be YWCA Military Hostesses serving at the Offutt Air Rorce Base Ser vice Club. Girls are scheduled at events planned for the personnel at Of futt. Included in August are social dances, square dances, swim parties, picnics, roller skat ing parties and a talent show. To join girls must be eighteen years of age or over and out of school. The next training session will be at the YWCA on Wednes day, August 8th. For additional information call the YWCA at Ja-2748. Sincerely Elinor Van Steenburg Young Adult Director Old Timers Baseball Assn Seeks Funds This is the last week of the drive for $25,000 by the Nebraska and Western Iowa Old Timers Baseball Ass’n. This drive is for Omaha’s Youth Activity Program. General Chairman, Ralph O. Hefflinger said, “The Old Timers Baseball Ass’n, a non-profit or ganization, believe that the police youth activity league and the city recreation youth program are doing a world of good in curbing juvenile delinquency. We earnestly believe that these two groups could do more if they had more money with which to work. It is the old timers desire to help meet this need and give a boost to Mayor Rosenblatt's program of combating juvenile delinquen cy with organized activity in all the All Star Benefit Baseball neighborhoods. All proceeds of Attraction will go to help provide supervision and equipment for the Omaha Youth Activity Pro gram.” President of the Old Timers, Laddie Kozeny, announced, the Old Timers All Star Baseball Pro gram will get under way Sunday, August 5th, 1956, Two American Legion teams will play at 1:00 P.M. and Two All Star C Y O teams will play at 3:30 P.M. The Offutt Air Force Base Band will be on hand. Tickets are available at: RUSSELL SPORTS, PACKERS NATIONAL BANK and HEFFLINGER’S SHOE STORE. ALL OLDTIMERS MEMBERS. Althea Gibson Wins 1st Major American Crown Philadelphia, Pa. . . (CNS) . . [ In an impressive victory, 28 year ^dAlthea Gibson won her first major American grass courts ten nis championship by beating Mrs. William du Pont of Wilmington, Delaware, in the of the Pennsylvania and Eastern- States tourney. < Althea needed only 45 minutes to get her 6-1 and 6-4 victories. The first set took but 16 minutes. In this first triumph since her re turn from Wimbledon where she was defeated in the quarter finals by Shirley Fry, Althea combined power and speed of youth against a veteran campaigner as exper ienced as Mrs. du Pont. GOP Plans To Propose Rights Bill Washington, D. C. . . (CNS) . . Republican leaders in admitting to President Eisenhower that the Administration’s Civil Rights Bill was dead for this session, said that if they regain control of Congress in the November elec tion, they will bring up civil rights early next session to make a filibuster impossible. Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland of California did most of the talking about the new pro position. In the Senate, Senator Paul Douglas (Democrat of nii.) conceded it would be impossible to get action on civil rights be cause of the “temper” of the Southerners. Tennis Champs Played at Durham JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPS— Handshakes were in order last week for youthful William Neil son, Hampton, Virginia, and Clara Henry, lovely tennis stylist from Hawkins, Texas, who took j top honors at American Tennis Association’s National Junior Ten ! nis Tournament at Durham, North Carolina. Above, Durham insur ance executive W. L. Cook, left, chairman of ATA Junior Develop ment Program, and Moss H. Kend rix, The Moss H. Kendrix Organ ization, Washington, D. C., com pliment winners following play held on the campus of North Carolina College at Durham. Support Ike or 'Use' Ike? Republican candidates for re-election whooped for joy when they learned that good old Ike is going to sail into a second-term campaign for the Presidency and that there is going to be the welcome chance for them to latch onto his coattail. What a prospect! What a shoo-in to victory! Everyone of the beaming Congressmen in Washington who feels that Ike is going to help him in a fight against a Democrat in Novem ber is supercharged with delight. But what do these great solons, these masters of parliamentary maneuvering, these lawmakers with bleeding breasts, do for Ike? Oh, yes, they want him to run. But do they want to help him? Do they want to support him? Do they stand firmly for the things for. which he stands? We are speaking of Republicans. We want to know if the Re publicans who expect to cling frantically to Ike’s coattail intend to support him? Will they back his program? This week they have a chance to prove whether they ar<* for fee and decency and justice—or are purely for themselves. The President has sent a civil rights legislation package to Con gress. It is a modest pack. For what does the President ask? A civil rights commission. A civil rights division in the Department of Justice. A statute to enable persons denied the right to vote to seek civil redress in the courts. There’s nothing radical about that package. It isn’t revolutionary. It isn’t communistic. How could it be? It’s Ike’s. What are the Republican members of the Senate going to do when Ike’s civil rights package comes before the members this week? We already know what those bond brothers of the South, the most united of the Democrats, are going to do. Already they have oil ed and limbered their guns. They propose to bombard and obliterate the package with factitious constitutional rationalizations. They're going to have great sport—and they may win. But what about Ike’s friends—ti.e Republicans of the East, North and West? Are they organized to defend Ike’s package? Will they organize? Will they say: “He’s gonna help us and we oughta help him” or just let things slide? No self-respecting Republican can afford to desert the President at this time. The nation has been looking at the manner in which Republicans have been scuttling the President's programs. Indepen dents and Democrats have been strangely struck by the spectacle of Republicans letting the President down—even when he's sick. If Republicans do not get together and demonst-ably support the President’s civil rights package, they may find out in November that they have done more than fail to support the man, Ike. They may discover to their dismay that there are many more Americans interested in civil rights than they bargained for and that in their passionate desire to guarantee civil rights to all Ameri cans, they had decided the Republican party is not their instrument. They might discover that in failing to support Ike, they had fail ed to support the party and even to support themselves. They would go to Washington the next time as visitors, not Congressmen. The President has the challenging leadership, responsibility of | making it clearly understood that he wants his party in Congress ; to stand firmly behind his legislation to support him All Republican Congressmen who propse to use “Ike” rather | than support Mm deserve defeat. Voters should keep a sharp lookout for the supporters and the | users this week. Even The Dixiecrats Learn! Current political moves among Democrats in the Deep South indicate that, beyond doubt, the Dixiecrats have learned something from their 1948 debacle. There is no doubt that most of the machine Democrats in Deep Dixie are violently opposed to desegregation and civil rights but there is also no doubt that they will have to subscribe to a platform which contains verbiage favorable to civil rights i nan effort to main tain national unity within the party. If they followed their natural inclinations, the Dixiecrats would q“t Democratic party to go it alone; but the loss of patronage after 1948 has taught these professional politicians a lesson, and they are going along with the program whether they like it or not We can therefore take with a grain of salt any talk about high principles and unswerving moral determination coming from the Dixiecrat spokemen because their present actions in buttering up to the national organization is proof that they are motivated by expedi ency rather than principle. H Committee To Probe Govt. Secrets Blasts Clam-Up By Agendas Washington, D. C. .. <CNS) . . . Congressman William L. Dawson —the Democrat from Illinois— is heading the house Government Operations’ Committee in a new move to seek why every major federal agency of the Eisenhower Administration i s concealing routine information from Con gress and the public on the grounds tnai they are following the president’s orders. Dawson and this group claim that “a strange psychosis exists throughout high military and governmental circles today that the government’s business is not the people’s business.” He also died some executive officials who are withholding information which the public not only needs “but has an inalienable right to know.” Basis of the clamming up by of ficials is a letter by Eisenhower to Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson in 1954 during the Army McCarthy hearings which said that “the federal employees should regard as privileged all official conversations or commun ications between officials of the executive branch.” “It seems inconceivable that 19 government agencies are now citing this letter as a shadowy cloak of authority to restrict or withhold information. This flim sy pretext only serves to demon strate what extent executive de partments will go.” Otther Russell Mr. Otther Austin Russell, 32 years, 2211 Ohio Street, ^expired unexpectedly on July 22, 1956. A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Rus sell had lived in Omaha 17 years. He is survived by a wife. Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, Alderson, Vir ginia; one son, Delbert Russell, Omaha; two daughters, Sandra and Alice Rose Russell, Omaha; father, Mr. Walter Russell, Enid, Oklahoma; six brothers, Walter Russell, Nash, Oklahoma; Willis Russell, Wichita, Kansas; Cash 1 Russell, Los Angeles, California; Brownie Russell, Chicago, Dli nois, Harold and Delbert Russell, Omaha, Nebraska. The remains were forwar led from the Thomas Funerfil Home to Enid. Oklahoma for services and burial. Mrs. Lizzie Malone Mrs. Lizzie Maloae, age 70 years of 2618 Parker Street ex pired Thursday, July 2f,, 1956 at Lincoln. Nebraska. She was a long time resident of Omaha, and was a member of Salem Bap tist Church. There fxe no sur vivors. Funeral sendees were held Thursday, August 2nd at the Myers Funeral Houjc, Rev. J. c. Wade officiating. Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetei7. Myers Brothers Service. . ■ Isr? C .. 1 Beatrice Daniels Mrs. Beatrice Daniels, age 34. 2629 Caldwell Street was killed in an automobile accident 15 miles from Ft. Dodge highway on No. 20 on July 28. Survivors: mother, Emma Mc Ney; son. Frank Day; 2 sisters, Mrs. Ella Belle Smith of Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Johnetta Nor ris of Omaha; 5 aunts; and 5 Uncles. Remains were forwarded to the Miller Funeral Home, Pinebluff, Arkansas, Thursday August 2nd, for services and burial. Myers Brothers Funeral Ser vice. NEWCOMBE WINS HIS 15th OF THE SEASON 100th IN HIS CAREER Brooklyn, N. Y. . . (CNS) . . Big Don Newcombe won his 15th game of the season— his 100th win in his major league career by very handily knocking off the Chicago Cubs 1-0. He kept alive,! too, his club’s recent upsurge by notching for them their eighth straight victory. They lost in the second game of the double header, 4-2. Annabel Hollins Mrs. Annabel Hollins, age 61, 2016 No. 25th Street expired Sunday July 29, 1956 at Lincoln, Nebraska. She was an Omaha resident 40 years. Survivors: Husband, Tim 2 nieces, Mrs. O. Garth, Mrs. Vera Posey, of Chicago, Illinois; 2 nephews, Sherill Posey. D. Garth both of Chicago, grand nephew, D. Garth, Jr. Chicago; sister-in law. Mrs. Ethel Posey, Chicago; 2 brothers-in-law, D. Hollins, Chi cago; W. Hollins, Cleveland, Ohio. , Witnesses Hold Confab The assembly of Jehovah's wit nesses begins today in the Civic Auditorium and continues through Sunday. Robert W. Wallen and Alfred J. Nussrallah, former O maha residents, and now with the Watchtower Bible and Tract So ciety of Brooklyn are speakers on the program. Wallen gives the principal address Sunday at 3:00 P.M., speaking on the sub ject: “Why Permanent Peace Will come in Our Day.” During the assembly, the Wit nesses will operate their own cafeteria in the auditorium. Eu gene Smercheck of Manhattan. Kansas is in charge of this. He has appointed Lillard D. Kenoly of 2506% North 24th as head j cook. Assisting Mr. Kenoly is Alanzo Prayer of 2312 North 22.! Volunteering to assist in the cafe- j teria also are Anna Randolph, j 2202 Clark, Ora Lee Randolph of j 2527 Charles, Katy Thomas, 2202 | Clark and Mary McCullough of; 2411 Charles, and Thelma Ken oly of 2506% North 24th, has j been assisting in the room de-1 partment seeking rooms for the delegates. ^ ■pf* Both Wallen and^ ^jssrailah were born and raised in Omaha. Both graduated, from Technical High School in 1P48. Both be gan full-time missionary-ministry work for Jehovah’s witnesses upon completion of high school, and were called to t'ae world head quarters of the /roup at Brooklyn in 1950. At the present time, each one is a presiding minister of a congregation in the New York are*, and both have given lectures within a 200 mile radius of New York City. Do Negroes Hate Whites? Or Whites Hate Negroes? Senate May Hold Civil Rights Bill CIVIL RIGHTS BILL This bill, though passed in the House, will undoubtedly remain buried in the Tenate Committee and therefore fail to become a law. I voted for the bill because I was willing to support President Eisenhower’s recommendation to set up a temporary commission of a bipartisan nature to make close study of the question as to whether United States citizens are being deprived of their right to vote or of other constitutional rights by reason of their color, i race, religion, or national origin. The commission would be re quired to make its report within two years and sixty days and then would cease to exist. There were several provisions in the bill which did not have my approval, but if any of the rights and protection guaranteed by our Constitution might be lost for lack of adequate means of en forcement of those constitutional rights, then enforcement must be supplied by legislation or court action. Otherwise our Constitu tion on those matters would be a mere collection of lifeless words. But since its creation the Constitution of America has been a living document designed to serve and protect all persons sub ject to its operation. Therefore, I considered it proper that the temporary commission be author ized to make inquiry into this very serious question of violation of constitutional rights. HONORABLE PEACE—OUR MOST IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE President Eisenhower has dem onstrated by his words and deeds that he has earned a position of outstanding leadership through out the world in the all important work of winning a firm establish ment of sound, permanent and honorable peace among all na tions of the globe. I believe his contribution* in this iKi*>le eaus^" '.iave strongly advanced the drive for peace. And when the crusade has been won and all nations and peoples freed of the worries and fears of another hot war, as well as the wasteful and eroding effects of the cold war, all peoples will have cause to praise and applaud the labors and services in their behalf rendered in such an unselfish and magnificent manner by an American President—Dwight D. Eisenhower. Miss Crosby Goes to Norway New, York.. Manhattan Borough President Hulan E. Jack is shown welcoming Miss Barbara Ann Cors by 15, (1317 Burdett Avenue) Cin cinnati, Ohio, in his office July 12 in the Municipal Building. Miss Crosby is enroute to Norway as Junior Ambassador in a 26-nation project known as The Children’s International Summer Villages as guest of Remington Rand who is financing her trip abroad. During Miss Crosby’s visit with the Bo rough President she presented a goodwill token from Mayor Char- J les Taft of Cincinnati. Mr. Jack paid tribute to themovement which established miniature world com-i munities in which children ad vance world citizenship through working and playing together ir, cross national contacts. Photo shows: Miss Crosby wl-> will serve as a Junior Counejn’ *r in a camp near Oslo, Norw*y. is shown presenting a letter f pm Mayor Taft to Borough President Jack. Photo Shows: Miss Cnrthy is shown taking over the mm.: •attan | Borough President’s seat a his office for a day, as Mr. M* looks on with pleasure. This writer has often heard some Negroes say “I hate all White Folks”; and likewise heard some white people say “1 dislike Negroes.” Both White and Negro are stating an untrue fact. No Negro hates a White person because of his color; nor on the other hand does any White person dislike a Negro because of his color. Ne groes hate Whites because of the ill treatment that the White races have inflicted upon the Dark races; White hate Negroes be norance, mistrust, and insecurity, cause of misunderstanding, ig The recent and present revolu tion in Africa (The Wester® world and its newspapers ea them riots and demonstratioi demonstrates the problem of hat red. The Western World would like to lead us to think that this l is a race riot based on hate. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This is a move for na tionalism with both members of the White and Dark race parti cipating on the same side. The Dark races could not hate the White race; for a great per-cent age of the Dark races have an cestors that are members of th» White race. None can deny that many a Dark baby is bom each year because of transgression of the White race. Each half-breed becomes a member of the Dark race while its parent is a member of the white race. Therefore if the Dark races hated on race a lone; they may end up hating themselves. Therefore the revolution in Africa is not based on hate. These Alrician people only want to be free as the U.S.A. did from Eng land and the French from the royal rulers. While many Negroes in Ameri ca hate Senator Eastland and his Southern friends, it is not be cause of his race but because of his treatment to Negroes and their problems. If he changed his hate, we may soon stop hating; him. One Bilbo once said that U. S. A. should ship all Negroes back to Africa. We are sure that if someone tried this (if this was possible), you would have more White than Neroes objecting. Every White person has some person of color that is a friend of his; every White person has some person of color that he would stand up and fight for. vthere the hate can not be on ac count of color. In every mixed ndjg. borhood there are white and coty'r d kids that are playmates. Nf ( dored parent would let any otic i Colored person mistreat !Mi) child’s White playmate; Also no White parent will let another |fhi.e person mistreat their c|ii, ’s Colored playmate. In both rJfe> the parents would defenc thl nghts of the other race chU . So let none of us say that ate a person because of his let’s say that we hate Sena Eastland because of Senator Eas land not because he is a men. -T of the White race. Hattie Hawkins Mrs. IjEi/tie Maddox HawkuxsL age 78 ytevs, of 2318 No. 22nd Street ejfr>/ed Wednesday even ing Augfls 1, 195G at a local hos pital. Sfc was an Omaha resident 41 year! and was a member of Prince*^. Ozeal Chapter No. 11 O.E.Si, 4rs. Thearis Wiley, Wor thy ,\i*on. She was also a char ter nit nber of the Carter Charity cluby -he Willing Workers Club of at John A.M.E. Church; and a *< .nber of the Thursday Social Mu fjjae is survived by her son, Qa dr Lee Maddox of St. Pa»il, m«.«. *> a. Funeral services have beea ^tentatively arranged for g-ftr '< ay, August 4th, 10:00 A M at ;t. John A.M.E. Church, snder auspicies of Princess Ozeal Chap ter No. 11 O.E.S. Myers Brothers Funeral Ser vice. The remarkable increases in wages and better living in the last two decades can be largely attributed to new invention^ large capital investment, labor saving machinery, research, wiser management and greater prcv ductivity. “No man is master in his own hoM^e if the bedroom is painted pink v