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Vol. 30 No. 26 - Friday, August 31, 1956 10c Per Copy
- ATTEND YOUR STATE FAIR -
Negro Vote Swinging GOP
New York, N. Y. — Negro voters, consistently
Democratic since 1936, appear to be swinging to
ward the Republican Party and are (markedly criti
cal of Adlai Stevenson, a study in THE REPORT
ER revealed today.
“It is safe to say that if Stevenson were to
run against Eisenhower tomorrow,” the study re
ports, “the Negro vote would show a very marked
swing away from the Democratic Party...”
In a copyrighted article, “The Negro Vote and
the Democrats,” Robert Bendiner, recent winner
of the Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award, also re
ports that a good segment of the Negro press is
moving away from the Democrats, and he quotes
the editor of the Chicago Defender as predicting
“a major shift in political alignments” by Negroes
this year.
Bendiner, who interviewed Negro political and
civic leaders across the country, attributes the feel
ing against Stevenson to his “gradualist” stand on
desegregation and the bitter opposition by South
ern Demorats to the Supreme Court’s decision.
Bendiner points out that from 1936 through
1952, the Negro vote has run close to 80 per cent
Democratic, and in close elections, like the Tru
man-Dewey campaign, could have cost the Demo
crats their victory with less than a 15 per cent
switch in key states like California, Ohio and Illi
nois.
Today, he says, after interviews with Negro
political and civic leaders, the swing against
Stevenson and the Democratic Party would result
in a loss of votes greater than the decisive 15 per
cent difference.
However, Bendiner adds, “the saving grace,
from the Democratic viewpoint, is that the rebel
lion appears to be Working down from the top and
may not go deep enough into the rank and file by
November to be as disastrous as Republican stra
tegists fondly hope.”
He says, too, that continuation of a prosperous
economy is still another factor that will be decisive
in November.
Nevertheless, the study reveals that “political
unrest among Negro voters has been swelling ever
since the first violent Southern reactions to the
Supreme Court’s ban on segregation in the schools.”
Leaders of the revolt include officials of the
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, an organization theoretically non
partisan, but which “has run in easy harness with
the New Deal-Fair Deal party,” Bendiner says..
Recently, he reports, the NAACP’s Washing
ton Director, Clarence Mitchell warned that if the
Democratic Party persists in weighing itself down
with such an “albatross” as Senator James 0. East
land, of Mississippi, it may have to “kiss our votes
good-bye.”
Negro politicians across the nation told Ben
diner that most criticism is directed against Steven
son.
“Everywhere I went in Negro communities, l
found this word ‘gradualism’ the red rag.,”
Bendiner reports. “Colored leaders, Democrat and
Republican alike, seem appalled at the staff work
that allowed Stevenson to use the^ hated word...”
A New York Negro leader, Bendiner says, said
simply that Stevenson “has lost status among Ne
gro voters” who feel he is “pussyfooting and play
ing for Southern support.” Another reported that
Negro political circles regard Stevenson as a
“false-hearted lover” and that Negro party work
ers consider him “a dead duck right now.”
A Philadelphia Republican Negro worker, con
ceding that “the .tlO.P. itself is not loved by the
Negroes” of that city, says that Stevenson cannot
recover the Negro vote because Negroes “stopped
listening” to him after his pronouncement on gra
dualism. Both in Philadelphia and Baltimore, politi
cal leaders said that Negroes will probably “turn
to the Republicans no matter what they do.” They
will “vote against the Democrats, not for the Re
publicans,” Bendiner reports them as saying.
Bendiner also emphasized the “positive ap
peal” that President Eisenhower has for Negro
voters in his own right.
“It is impossible to talk politics in a colored
gathering,” he reports, “without hearing that the
President has contributed quite a bit to the cause
of Negro advancement.
He adds that most people he talked to feel the
Democrats can hpld the Negro vote in line “only
if they adopt an uncompromising plank on civil
rights, an unequivocal stand on enforcing the Su
preme Court’s ruling.”
Bendiner concludes that the “sizeable bloc” of
“militant and frustrated” Negroes will not vote
Democratic, adding:
“A majority of Negro votes will probably be
found in the Democratic column even in this year
of strong emotion, but all the signs are that the
days of 80 per cent majorities are over and done
with.”
Plan Health
Exhibit At
State Fair
Local residents will be remind
ed by the Hall of Health at the
State Fair, September 1-8, that
"Health is Nebraska’s Greatest
Asset.”
"This is the slogan adopted for
the 1956 Hall of Health”, said
Chairman, John B. Hermann, Exe
cutive Director of Nebraska Heart
Association.
He pointed out that the slogan
is based on the fact that Nebras
kans have a longer life expectancy
than the residents of most other
states. ^
Entering its second year as a
major feature of the State Fair,
the Hall of Health is designed to
acquaint fair-goers with Nebras
ka’s health and medical groups
and their services.
"We expect to have more ex
hibits than last year, with greater
emphasis on audience participa
tion,” said Hermann.
"The latest free health litera
ture will be available and we a
gain will nave an air-conditioned j
theater, showing the newest health
films”, he added.
The Hall of Health is a project
of the Nebraska State Medical As
sociation's Public Relations Com
mittee headed by Dr. Houghton F.
Elias of Beatrice. Members are:
Drs. J B. Christensen, Omaha;
Maurice Frazer, Lincoln; J. P.
Gilligan, Nebraska City; Geo. Hoff
meister, Hastings; R. L. Cassel,
Fairbury; and D. B. Wengert, Fre
mont.
Other organizational sponsors of
the project are: Nebraska Heart
Association, Nebraska Tuberculo
sis Association, and Nebraska Divi
sion of American Cancer Society.
Held for the first time last sum
mer, the Hall of Health attracted
more than 46,000 persons to its 13
exhibits and free movie theater.
Wagner In
New Cowboy
Killer Role
Tucson, Arizona long a mecca |
of moviemakers bent on fashion |
ing a screen drama of the wild i
and wooly West, still can’t get
over the shock of serving as a j
modern no-cowboy, no-lndian, no
six-shooter back ground for a
CinemaScope suspense film, Uni-1
ted Artists’ “A Kiss Before Dy !
ing,” now at the State Theatre.
Sixty-three straight westerns
were filmed in and around Tuc- 1
son before Director Gerd Oswald j
set up shop in front of Tucson’s j
Valley National Bank and pointed
cameras at such bootless and hoi
stcr-free thesians as Robert Wag
ner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia
Leith and Joanne Woodward. A
racy American sports car replaced
the cowboy ponies familiar to,
Tucson film settings.
"A Kiss Before Dying” is based
on Ira Levin’s mystery novel I
which won the 1954 Edgar Allan ^
Poe Award.
Robert Wagner, purveyor, of j
everything that's good in man-1
kind, grabbed screen newcomer J
Joanne Woodward by the should
ers, tossed her around as if she:
were a sack of potatoes, and non- j
chalantly pitched her over the
edge of a roof that was supposed
to be 14 stories above the cold,
hard concrete of the street.
k ''It’s wonderful,” he grinned.
"And to think that I’ve still got
a poisoning and a gun killing a
head of me.
The setting was a movie scene
for "A Kiss Before Dying,” and
the handsome young Mr. Wagner
was in the throes of one of the
biggest revolutions seen around
Hollywood in many a celluloid
moon. Veteran of every facet of
cinematic heroism in a succession
of adventuresome movies, Bob
was executing the complete switch
as the psychopathic murderer In
the screen version of Ira Levin's
1954 Edgar Allan Poe Award-win
ning mystery noved.
"A Kiss in the Dark" starts Fri
day at the State Theatre.
—
The average American, lucky |
fellow, ate 181 pounds of meat
last year—Up 37 pounds from
his pre war intake.
family vacation tima t
r 1
the 1956 Nebraska
Skte
! Eir
I 7 full days and nights
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• See all Nebraska
on display
• See the all new 1956
edition. Holiday on Ice
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Defense
Achievements
Summarized
1. Employment is highest in his
tory.
2. Both hourly and weekly wage
rates have smashed all pre
vious records.
3. Everybody benefits from the
new climate of peaceful labor
management relations with
strike losses, down more than
half in '55 from Truman's last
year.
5. Unemployment is 3/4 million
below last peacetime year un
der Democrats. Unemployment
benefits were improved and
extended to 1.3 million work-l
ers in small firms and 2.3 mil
lion in Federal Government.
6. Railroad retirement benefits
were liberalized for 1% million
railroaders and unemployment
insurance increased.
7 Social security benefits were
increased and extended to 10
million workers.
8. T a f t-Hartley improvements
were proposed but killed by
Democrats.
PROGRAMS TO AID WORKERS
1. Minimum wage raised to $1,
directly affecting over two
two million workers and in
directly aiding millions more
by influencing general wage
levels.
2. Railroad Retirement and Un- ^
employment Insurance Acts
liberalized for 1V4 million
railroaders: Allowable outside
earnings increased: income
basis of benefits raised; widow
ed mothers of disabled children
benefited, also disabled annui
tants; sick benefits and unem
ployment pay raised.
3. Labor standards laws vigor
ously enforced. Ike administra
tion undertook 1.143 enforce
ment actions in three years,
compared to only 476 in last
three Truman years.
4. More than -6 million in back
wages due under Fair Labor
Standards Act were paid to
over 80,00tf employees by
13,000 firms following Labor
Department investigations last
year alone.
5. Ike program encouraging em
ployment of physically handi
capped helped quarter of a
million handicapped workers
to secure jobs last year.
Mable Sheppard
Mrs. Mable "Sheppard, 40 years,
2431 Spaulding Street, passed
away Friday afternoon August
24th at her home. Mrs. Shep
pard had been a resident of Oma
ha sixteen years and was on the
Usher Board of the Zion Baptist
Church where she was a mem
ber. Mrs. Sheppard is survived
by her husband. Mr. Arthur Shep
pard, two daughters, Mrs. Jean
Marie Jerry, Diann Alice Shep
pard, son, Keith Richard Shep
pard, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Scott, brother, Mr. Alonzo Lee,
four uncles, the Rev. J. W. May,
Mr. Thomas May, all of Omaha,
Mr. Geore Lee. Mr. Issah Lee,
Delhi, La., two aunts, Mrs. Lulu
Mae Scott, Mrs. Corrie Collins,
Omaha, two nephews, Willie Otis
Lee, U. S. Air Force, Alonzo Lee,
Jr„ United States Army, two cou
Negro Heads
U.S. Board
of Parole
WASHINGTON, D. C—Scovel
Richardson, Chairman of the U.S.
Board of Parole, has been reap
pointed by President Eisenhower
for another term of 6 years ex
piring June, 1962.
Mr. Richardson was first ap
pointed to the Board of Parole in
August, 1953 and was named
Chairman by Attorney General
Brownell in August, 1954. He is
the first Negro to ever serve on
the Parole Board and as the
Chairman. His salary is about
$13,000 a year.
During his tenure several chan
ges and improvements have been
made in the parole system. He
was responsible for a national
conference on parole which was
called by the Attorney General in
cooperation with the National
Probation and Parole Associa
tion and the U. S. Board of Parole.
Mr. Richardson, who is an attor
ney, and former Dean of the
School of Law at Lincoln Univer
sity, St. Louis, Missouri, attended
the University of Illinois where
he received his A.B. and Master’s
degrees. In 1937 he graduated
from the Howard University of
Law.
After practicing law in Chicago,
.Illinois he accepted the post of
■ Associate Professor of Law at
Lincoln University where he
Jater became Dean.
He was in Government service
during 1943 and 1944 in the Legal
Division of the old Office of
Price Admnistration.
Mr. Richardson is a member of
the American Law Institute,
American Bar Association, Na
tional Bar Association, Missouri
Bar Association, Bar Association
of St. Louis, Lawyer’s Association
of St. Louis, American Judicature
Society and member of the Illi
nois, Missouri and U. S. Supreme
Court Bars. He is also a member
of the Chamber of- Commerce of
Metropolitan St. Louis, Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity and past
Supreme Chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias.
Several of Mr. Richardson’s
articles on law have been publish
ed: -Denial of Justice in Interna
tional Law (Master’s Thesis);
“Changing Concepts of the U.S.
Supreme Court as They Affect
the Legal Status of the Negro" -
National Bar Journal 1941; Com
ments in the National Bar Jour
nal on Restrictive Covenants;
Discrimination in Transporation
and Conflict of Laws in Divorce
Proceedings; Policies and P *•*»/»«*.
dures of the U. S. Board of Parole
published in “Federal Probation"
a journal of correctional philoso
phy and practice.
Mr. Williams is married to the
former Inez Williston They are
the parents of four daughters;
Frances Elaine, 16; Alice Inez,
13; Mary Louise and Marjorie
Linda (twins) 11.
Octavia Adams
Mrs. Octavia Winnie Adams, 65
years, of 1823 Lake Street, passed
away Wednesday afternoon Aug
ust 22nd. Mrs. Adams is survived
by her mother, Mrs. Nancy 3.
Holes, Prairie Home, Missouri,
four sisters, Mrs. Annie E. Jones,
Kansas City, Missouri, Miss Hat
tie Mae Boles, Prairie Home, Mis
souri, Mrs. Elsie M Booker, Oma
ha l|nd a host of other relatives.
The body was forwarded Friday
morning to Mays and Parker Fun
eral Home, Boonsville, Missouri,
for further services and burial.
Local arrangements were by
Thomas Funeral Home.
sins, Mrs. Millie Montgomery, Mr.
Shaw Collins, Omaha, sister-in
law, Mrs. Bessie May, Kansas City,
Kansas, son-in-law, Mr. Arthur
Jerry, Omaha.
Funeral services have been
set for Wednesday afternoon from
Zion Baptist Church with ar
rangements by Thomas Funeral
Home.
Center Bank Pays
Accounts Interest
The Center Bank is now pay
ing 2 percent interest on savings
accounts and 2% percent interest
on time certificates of deposit,
W. B. Hargleroad, Jr., president,
announced today.
It is the first bank to pay more
than one percent interest on
savings in the Omaha area for a
number of years, according to
Mr. Hargleroad. Time certifica
tes of deposit are savings depos
ited for a specified time.
Open only four months, the
bank already has deposits ex
ceeding $2,600 000.
The bank also has started a new
service: accepting payment for
all utility bills. It is located at
42nd and Center Streets, second
level, The Center.
Local Negro
Leader Dies
Mrs. Lucinda Williams, age 80
years, expired August 26, 1956 in
Tulsc, Oklahoma, where she had
lived for 5 months with a daugh
ter, Mrs. Dorothy Isaac.
She was Omaha’s first Negro
School teacher and widow of the
Rev. John Albert Williams, rector
of the St. Philip Episcopal Church
42 years.
Mrs. Williams became a teach
er in 1895 serving at the old
Dodge School, Eleventh and
Lodge Streets.
The Rev Mr. Williams, whose
only pastorate was St. Fhilips,
died in 1933.
.Mrs. Williams had served as a
delegate to the annual council of
Ihe Episcopal Dio:ese of Nebras
ka, was chairman of the board of
the Martha T. Smith Home for
Ihe Aged for 10 years, and had
been on the bord of thp Omaha
C 1 apter, N.A.A.C.P.
Other suvivors include a daugh
ler, Mrs. Catherine Walker of
Cleveland, Ohio; sister, Mrs. A1
berta Steele of Minneapolis, Min
ncsota; 3 brothers, Will and Fred
Gamble of Chicago, Illinois,
George Gamble of Crosby, Minnc
sota; 3 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday August 29, 1956 at
J0:00 a.m. from St. Philips Epis
copal Cflurch with Rev. Solomon
N. Jacobs officiating. Interment
was in the family plot at Forest
Lawn Cemetery.
Pallbearers M e s srs. Thomas
Chandler, Arlo South, Fred
Banks, Russell Bryan, James Jew
j ell and Heywood Vaughter.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vice.
Daisy Collins
Mrs. Daisy Collins, age 73,
years, of 2031 No. 21 Street, ex
pired Saturday August 18, 1956
at a local hospital.
She had been a resident of
Omaha for the past 70 years.
She is survived by her niece,
Mrs. Emma Oats of Omaha; 2
nephews, William Banks of Oma
ha, and Andrew Combs of St.
Paul, Minnesota.
Funeral services were held
Thursday August 23, 1956 at
10:00 a.m. from the Myers Fun
eral Home Chapel with Rev. L. A.
Parker officiating. Interment was
at Graceland Park Cemetery.
Pallbearers. Messrs. J. W. King,
Robert Gray, Edward Sydner and
Arthur Vaughn.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vice.
Rev. Roxie Morris
Rev. Roxie Morris, 61 years,
2624 Caldwell Street, passed a
way Thursday morning August
23rd at a local hospital. The Rev.
Roxie Morris had been a resident
of Omaha twenty years and was
a faithful member of the Church
of The Living God, 21 and Binney
Streets. She is survived by her
husband, Mr. Willie Morris, twin
sons, Mr. Johnnie B. and Mr. Wil
lie B. Wynne, brother, Mr. James
Cowans, of Omaha, sister, Mrs.
Mary Eckwood, Lincoln, Nebras
ka, two nieces, Mrs. Willa May
Bridgeman. Miss Virgie Eckwood,
in the United States service in
Germany and other relatives.
Union Labor Is Going To
Vote Republican Say Two
Recent Nationwide Surveys
Iroquois Elks
Win at Columbus
The Iroquois Drum and Bugle
Corps, Omaha Elks No. 92, was
awarded first prize for Best in
Music, at the Centennial Parade,
recently held at Columbus, Ne
braska. The prize consisted of a
photograph of the entire group
and a bronze Plaque bearing the
inscription, "Best in Music, Col
umbus Centennial, 1956.”
Arlene Jones is First Major
ette, Melvin Morson, Drum Ma
jor, and David Turner, Jr., Drill
Sergeant.
Under the Direction of Mrs.
Margaret Yancey, Mr. Evans
Vaughn, assisted by Mr. Leslie
Clayter and Mrs. Robbie Gibson.
'55 Income
Average Is
$5520 Family
The Nation’s 52 million families
had a record average income of
$5,520 before taxes in 1955.
The U. S. Department of Com
merce reported that the figure
1 brought the family’s average in
[ come "to a new high in both cur
rent dollars and purchasing pow
er.”
A breakdown of the Eisenhow
er prosperity figures discloses
these facts:
The new statistic brings the
three-year average family income
during the Eisenhower years to
$5,410—nearly $600 higher than
the average of Truman’s last three
years which covered the Korean
War period.
During the three Eisenhower
years, nearly three million more
people have moved into the mid
dle income ($5,000-$10,000- brack
et.
There are one and one hah
million fewer in the under-$5,000
bracket now than there were in
1952 under Truman,
About 700,000 more families
are now in the upper income
group (over $10,000- than there
were in 1952.
Putting it another way: In Ike's
three years, the number of fam
ilies earning under $5,000 has
fallen from 61 per cent to 55 per
cent of the total; those in the
$5,000-$10.000 range have in
creased from 32 percent to 37 per
cent; families in the over $10,000
group have increased by one per
cent.
Moreover, the work force has
increased by about three million
persons during the last three
years.
Janie Smith
Mrs. Janie Smith, of 2426 Cald
well Street, expired Saturday
August 18, 1956 at a local hospit
al.
She was an Omaha resident 22
years.
She is survived by two daugh
ters, Mrs. Louise Tucker, Mrs.
Vantroi Mimms; 3 granddaugh
ters, Mrs. Jeanette Allen, Mrs.
Shirley Mae Crawford and Mrs.
Floria Ross of Omaha.
Funeral services were neiui
Wednesday August 22, 1956 at ■
2:00 p.m. from the Myers Funer
al Home Chapel with Rev. Char
les Favors officiating. Interment
was at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Pallbearers Messrs. Floyd Gor-j
don, Willie Jones, William Stin
son. Surls Crawford, Rochell Mit
chell and Pete Hunter.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vice.
Those handsome pike, trout
and bass will look and taste bet
ter when you get them home from
that fishing trip if they are kept
fresh. One of the best methods
is interspersing layers of fish with
layers of ice chips in a galvanized
steel garbage can or garbage pail.
These leakproof steel containers
are equipped with handles or wire
Is union labor going Republi
can?
Two nationwide polls—conduc
ted by Gallup and Newsweek
Magazine—say “Yes.”
The latest Gallup Poll finds
that organized labor today would
vote 56 per cent for Eisenhower
and 44 per cent for Stevenson.
Newsweek, polling 48 top pol
itical columnists in 48 states, re
ported:
“Enough labor votes will switch
to the Republican ticket in No
vember to make the re-tlection
of Dwight Eisenhower and Rich
ard Nixon even more probable
than most politicians have pre
dicted. Politicians have correct
ly figured the G.O.P. would lose
some labor voters who went Re
publican in 1952. But Newsweek’s
survey shows that many working
men who voted for Adlai Steven
son because they feared hard
times if the G.O.P. got in, now
will support the Republican tick
et . . ”
How about the union leaders?
James C. Petrillo, head of the
25,000-member American Federa
tion of Musicians, and a member
of the Democratic National Com
mittee’s 18member Advisory Com
mittee on Labor, said the other
day:
“. . . If we ever had a friend in
| the White House, we have one
now. If Eisenhower is re-elected
—and it looks like he’s going to
be re-elected—I hope he reap
points Jim Mitchell for another
four years as Secretary of Labor.”
The New York Times conclud
ed: "iPetrillo) suggested strongly
that he might back President Ei
senhower for re-election.”
Roscoe Drummond, New York
Herald Tribune columnist, after
listing hall' a dozen important
labor leaders who have praised
Seer etary Mitchell (including
Jacob Potofsky made these two
points:
1. It is fair to say that secretary
Mitchell couldn’t prove himself
to be a friend of labor, as the
leaders all agree, unless President
Eisenhower wanted him to be a
friend of labor and created the
conditions which enabled him to
be . .
2. “The total budget of the De
partment of Labor in 1954 was
$223 million The Department
of Labor budget this year is $468
million. The purpose: to enable
Secretary Mitchell to do his job
better for labor.”
We would like to add a third
point: Labor’s share of national
income has averaged 69 per cent
during the Eisenhower years com
pared to the 65 per cent Truman
average. Corporation profits af
ter taxes have averaged 6 per
cent compared to the average of
7.7 per cent.
Arthur Bailey, Sr.
Arthur Bailey, Sr., age 49 years,
of 2525 Decatur St., expired Fri
day morning, August 17, 1956 at
a local 'hospital.
He was an Omaha resident 14
years and was a very dear friend
of Mrs. Janie Parker of the same
address.
He is survived by his son,
Arthur, Jr.; daughter, Mrs. Betty
Jones; sister, Mrs. Lulu Mae
Smith all of Houston, Texas; 6
uncles; 2 grandchildren and a
host of other relatives.
Funeral services were held
Thursday August 23, 1956 at 2:00
p.m. from the Myers Funeral
Home Chapel with Rev. Charles
Favors officiating assisted by Rev.
E. Rhodes and Rev. Cooper. In
terment was at Forest Lawn Cem
etery.
Pallbearers Messers. Floyd Gor
don. Charles Simms, Floyd
Whidy, Charles Butler, Richard
Clark and Leroy Campbell.
Myart Brothers Funeral Ser
vice.
Don’t poison rats and flies—
starve them to death. Keep all
garbage in rodent-proof galvani
zed steel garbage cans equipped
vith close-fitting, fly-proof covers.