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The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30
CITIZENS FIGHT VA. SCHOOL
BOARD RULE

Portsmouth, Va.,-Colored and
white tltiz. ms of Norfolk County,
Va, are Up in arms over t1e
County school boards refusal to
~reinstate three colored principals
and its reorganization plan which
would make Negro principals sub
ordinate to white principals in
their districts.
The school board is reported to
have received and ignored nearly
200 petitions protesting the GUST
rrs.
A mss meeting was he'd recent
y at which more than fifty dol
lars was collected to back the
fight for reinstatement of the
three men, James G.. Gillian, B.
w. Elliot and James A. Overton.
Speaking for a delegation of so
persons who appeared before the
school board, Oliver w. Hill of
Richmond, NAACP. legal staff
member, charged the board with
initiation a vicious, azi-Fascist
system and stated the commun-
ity's objection to placing white
| principals over Negro schools.
Public opinion is that the dis
~raissals came as reprisals for the
recent campaign to equalize teach
| er's salaries in Norfolk County.
Those dismissed leaders OF
the Norfolk County Teachers AS
ISOLATION which petitioned for pay
equalization last spring. The
school board and superintendent
were reported to have refused to
give any specific reason for the
busters.
In attempting to arrange a pro-
test demonstration meeting, At
to1ney Hill Secured the cooperat-
! ION Of the Norfolk police chief, I'M
I'll Colonel Borland, Norfolk city
manager, learned of the plan and
put pressure on the police chief to
stop the meeting. The meeting
was held without the cooperation
Of the police.
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

on IL sites, valued at S5,743,167
were Negroes.
Other employment percentages
reported by Mr.. Smith for airport
construction workers of the race
and estimated completed cost of
active projects in the Southern
States were:
Arkansas, So percent, $887,O46;
Georgia, 700, 1854, 729; Missi-
ssippi, $40, $2,52O,251; North Car
DINA, $40. $1,979,999; South Car
DINA, 46i0, $53O.492; Tennessee,
|27.O, $149,486; and Virginia, 49.2
percent and $1,257,223 the estima-
ted completed cost.
Mr.. Smith pointed out that for
a year after the national defense
program got under way, the WPA
constantly increased ITS airport
construction and improvement pro-
gram. Three times as many men
were employed on such projects
during the last week Of June, 1871
as a year before. This was done,
he emphasized, because of the i'm
portance of the work although
total WPA employment had been
acutely reduced.
Many of the $50 airport and
landing field sites which the WPA
has already constructed or improv-
ed are included among the 27S
sites and auxiliary fields. Many
others are new fields being con-
structed on U. S. Army and Navy
reservations Or, at the request of
the armed forces, on civilian sites
now regarded as if strategic i'm
p~ortance.
The Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration has been providing funds
for non-labor expenditures at a
number of the airports in the ac-
tive WPA program. 1t has been
announced that the two Federal
agencies will continue to cooper
ate under the new airport con-
struction program recently ann
ounced by the CAA. This pro-
gram includes additional improve
ments at many of the sites in the
current WPA program.
'The WPA workers of both rae
es who have been employed on
airport construction have won the
admiration Of officials high in
civilian and military aviation circl-
es," MI. Smith said. Despite the
drastic cut in appropriations
which will reduce WPA employ
ment during this fiscal year, the
number and percentage of WPA.
workers on airport construction
jobs will remain high because Of
the Importance Of this work to
our air defenseA"
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

tend a helping hand to more than
$4,000 persons and will continue
the policy of giving more than the
bare essentials of relief, by fin
ancing more than 40 social serv-
ices not duplicated by the Federal
government.
Part of the money will be used
to build up a strong and united
community front against disease,
poverty, despair and other forms
of social maladjustment. Guild
ance for youth, citizenship and
character building as well as CO.
ipeative community action will al
so be included in the services of
the Community Chest.
The Community Chest has a new
related service on the rolls this
year with the inclusion Of the Uni
ted Service Organizations in the
Chest program. The USO. was
formed nationally to provide recre-
alton for soldiers and sailors when
off duty, and by including it in
the Community Chest, the citizens
Of Omaha are paded a separate
summer drive for funds.
I'VE are going to attempt to
raise enough money in the coming
drive" Bozell said, ito take care
of Omaha's problem of the help.
less and needy. Also, we want to
be able to meet increased demands
and emergencies arising fdom the
national defense program"
Bozell also pointed out that the
campaign will be an about chAl'
lenge to the citizens of Omaha tx
demonstrate their faith in democ.
racy through direct humanitarian
action.
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

John Adams, Jr. Atty.
Notice by publication on petition,
for Settlement of Final Admins
tration Account
In the County Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska.
In the matter Of the estate Of
Charles Essex, deceased.
All persons interested in said
matter are hereby notified that on
the 9Th day Of August 1941 Jess
Hutton filed a petition in said
County Court, praying that his
final administration account filed
herein be settled and allowed, and
that he be discharged from his
trust as Administrator and that
a hearing will be had on said petit
ton before said Court on the 9Th
day Of September 1941, and that
if you fail to appear before said
Court on the said 9Th day of Sept
ember 1871 at 8 o'clock "A. M, and
contest said petition. the Court
may grant the prayer of said pet
ition, enter a decree Of heirship,
and make such other and further
orders, allowances and DEGREES, as
to this Court may seem proper, to
the end that all matters pertain
ing to said estate may be finally
settled and determined.
Charles j. Southland,
County Judge.
begin 8-16A1 end 8-3O-41
n Il
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

Community Chest drive, according
to General Chairman, Leo B. Boz
ell.
Thirty-five hundred men and
women will swing into the camp
align with the early bird breakfast
on October 27. They won't stop
their efforts until November 5.
What quota is, the workers don't
yet know, but a budget is being de-
termined by a budget committee,
headed by w. H. Smails.
The sums to be raised and spent
in each division during 1912 can't,
of course, be set now but the
chances are that they will approx
innate the figures for 1941.
The Community Chest has just
released a report on Chest oper-
atoms during the first six months
of 1941. During that time, 26-8
percent of the money spent, or
$144, 365.O0 went to youth servic-
es-the character building agenc-
les of the city.
Care Of families and aged took
SO. percent or $169,989.OO and
child care received $80,692.00 OF
1879 percent. The health service
received 12.9 percent. or $65,820
and coordinating work of the var
ious agencies cost 2.S percent, OF
Sill. $500. Administrative cost
for The entide year is only six per
cent.
The money now being raised fol
1912 will make it possible to ex-
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

"a date on which local housing
costs had not yet been affected BY
the boom.
Given evidence of p~rofiteering,
the committee calls the landlord
and cmplainant to a hearing. If
the landlord cimplies with the con-
mittee's recommendations, no fur
ther action is taken. If he rejects
them, full publicity is given to his
refusal. In addition, by agree
ment with OPACS, the Defense
Housing Coordination Unit will
not list at its Home Registration
Office any property on which an
unfair price has been placed by the
landlord.
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30
CEILING ON CEILINGS

Rent increases ranging from 20
to 100 percent since October 1889,
have been reported in more than
100 defense ~centers, according to
Federal surveys and thousands of
letters of complaint received by
OPM's Rent Section.
To forestall rent gourging and
profiteering at the expense of the
national emergency, OPACS has
set up "Fair Rent Committees,
composed Of local citizens, in
communities where abuses are re-
pirted. To determine a reasonable
rent figure, each committee est
ablishes a basic Fair Rent Day.
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30
NAACP. SCORES FIT. BRAGG
FAILURE TO PUNISH MP's
WHO INSULTED NEGRO
sol DIEPC
SOLDIERS

New York-Leveling criticism
at Fort Bragg authorities, the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People drew a
parallel between the case of a nor
thern white draftee who was sem
fenced to 10 years and nine months
at hard labor for refusing to clean
his quarters, and the case Of the
military police there who bullied
and insulted Negro soldiers and
officers after the shooting of a
Negro private and a white serg-
cant August 9th.
Sergeant Russell Owens was ac-
quilted last week for the shooting
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30
MINNESOTA NEGRO DEFENSE
COMMITTEE CONTINUES
FIGHT FOR EQUALITIES OF

TN
ST. Paul, Mimi, Aug. % CAMP
Saturday, Aug. 8, saw plans laid
for the continuance of the fight to
secure full equality for Negroes 10
Minnesota home defense force by
The Minnesota Negro Defense COM
mettee to contact personnel direct
mitee to contact personnel direct
tors of local firms with defense
contracts, seeking to secure en-
ployment for Negroes. At the
same time, Gov. Harold E. Stas-
sen received an invitation to
speak at a mass meeting given.
Sunday, August IL, in the Halle
Q. Brown house, on his position in
regards to Negroes enlisting in
Minnesota's home defense prog
RAM. Discussion, held on the mat
ter Of obtaining jobs in various
defense industries, drew several
hundred white and Negro citizens
of the twin cities.
The Minnesota state fair boards
attention was directed, in a letter,
50 acts Of discrimination practiced
at the state fair last year where
in a Minneapolis minister was
charged rs cents for a hamburger
at one of the concessions there,
informing the board that such
would not be tolerated this year.
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

ALL JUNE GRADE AND HIGH
SCHOOL GRADUATES ARE IN
vITED TO THE OMAHA GUIDE
INSPECTION PARTY, SEPT. l,
2, 8 FROM 2 PM. TO 6 PM. RE-
F~RESHMENTS SERVED FREE!
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

ALL JUNE GRADE AND HIGH
GRADUATES ARE IN
vITED TO THE OMAHA GUIDE
INSPECTION PARTY, SEPT. /,
2, 3 FROM 2 PM. TO 6 PM. RE-
F-RESHMENTS SERVED FREE!
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30

eral George Marshall, Army Chief
| Of Staff, protesting segregation
and the recent race friction in
army camps.
The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30
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The Omaha guide., 1941-08-30
Plans Laid For October 9th To Nov. 5h Annual Community Chest Drive
90

The dates October 9th through
November 5th are marked in red
on a lot of Omaha calendars. They,
are going to be strenuous days for
several thousand volunteer work
ers, for those dates have just been
set for the 10Th annual Omaha
Evening star., 1941-11-21

Hitchcock material. 1t gives him
precisely the characters and the in
cident which enables him to mix
comedy, terror and wild excitement
in those proportions which made
The Lady Vanishes' and number
Of other gay thrillers.
His narrative is told through the
character of the beautiful. loving
young wife played by Miss Fontaine.
From the moment of her first meet
ing with him. the man whom she
loves and marrieS frightenS her. She
senses something pSychopathically
strange. something morally amlSs
about him. He is debonalr, witty,
enormously attractive to women, IL
resistible so far as she is concerned.
In the period of courtship. she is too
much in love to give serious con-
sideration TO her mlSglVlngS too
blind TO notice his evaSiveneSs. But
the fear she feels underneath is
subtly communicated to the specta-
tor in one of those acting perform
ances which make Miss Fontaine
such perfect collaboration with
Hitchcock.
The two of them. of course, are
given great assistance by Grant
whose role enables to demonstrate
not merely his comedy skill but his
capability in handling much more
Evening star., 1941-11-21

subtly dramatic stuff. Those con-
stantly fearful and uncertain mo-
ments through which his wive lives
are quite as fearful and uncertain
for every one in the audience
The question raised in the early
portions of Suspicion is not so
much whether the young bride some
day will be murdered by her ador-
ing mate as just when and how he
Is TO accomplish it. You know it
won't happen when they wreStle.
he in a menacingly gay mood, she
in terror, atop a cliff on their first
walk together. You never know
that it won't thereafter, however,
a thereafter filled with the hus-
bands constant reading Of detec-
tive stories, his ever darker plunge
into financial difficulties, his I'M
ending curiosity about a fatal poison
so subtle as to be undetectable.
A dozen typical Hitchcock Sc
quenceS are woven of these varied
ingredients. The typical Hitchcock
sequence, of course, is that in which
suspense is built to the breaking
point, broken quickly and effectively
by a laugh. A pair of the more
memorable ones include one in
which the wife, convinced the hus-
band has just murdered his best
friend, creeps up on him as he
whistles an eerie. mad melody to
find the two men repairing a broken
radio. Save for the whistling,
Hitchcock dispenses with all sound
during this rather long passage, a
gesture in which the capacity audi
ence Yesterday afternoon joined him
completely. Another equally taut
moment, in which police inspectors
are quizzing the wife after an ac-
tual murder, ends in laugh in
duced by the police officers puzzled
glance at cubistic drawing on the
Aysgarth wall.
1t is Hitchcock in his most sky
larking mood, and it puts you in
the same one
Incidental characters in "SuSpi-
cion" are the usually interesting lot
They include a naughty retired
British general Cedric Hardwickel, ),
one of those haw-haw, bull-in-a-
china-shop Englishmen Nigel
Bruce; the acidulous cat of So
ciety woman Isabel Jeans, a gusty
woman author of detective tales
and numerous others equally we'll
drawn.
Each is testimony of the fact that
Hitchcock is a director who never
I wastes an actor.
I The script. which was done by
Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison
and Alma Reville, is supplemented
handsomely by musical score by
Franz WaXman.
Evening star., 1941-11-21

and has nothing to do with any
Shaw play called Arms and the
Man." which was the basis for the
original operetta called The Choco-
late Soldier" M-G-M, you see,
owned the Oscar Straus score and
the title, The Chocolate Soldier"
1t did not and does not own the
right to film Arms and the Man"
with or without music. But,
another Metro property is The
Guardsman," which it was free to
use any time.
So, now We have really a motion
picture version of The Guards
man." in which an actress and her
husband are busy, between bouts of
jealous sparring. with an operetta
in which they sing the Straus music
from The Chocolate Soldier"
There may be those among the
drama eugenics experts who would
question the wisdom of this mar
riage of two disparate works of art,
but they hardly will quibble after
seeing the picture. The combina-
tiOli 10 VII uNliCl y,
Director Roy del Ruth having
fashioned, from the material laid
before him by Script Writers
Leonard Lee and Keith Winter, a
lively, colorful and melodious enter
tainment. 1t is in the old Nelson
Eddy Operetta tradition without
being so long or so dull.
Mr.. Eddy, VINO usually has been
singing his songs to jeanette Mac
Donald. has been given new lead
ing lady this time, and thing OF
beauty she iS-if not a JOY forever,
at least a JOY for the duration OF
The Chocolate Soldier" One of
the Metropolitan's young American
singers, her name is Rise Stevens
and she is not only beautiful, rare
enough as that is in opera stars,
but her graceful and charming act
ing is quite equal 10 the PAGES Of
a light charade about a wife whose
husband does not trust her. That
her voice is a delight is something
YOU hardly need be told, though it
might be added that she propels it
with a most intriguing diaphragm.
There is scene which music teach
erS will make a must for their
pupils who try to sing with their
tongues.
The surprise Of THE Chocolate
Soldier" is Mr Eddy. though his
dOtinp admirers vii! be Quick to
howl that IL is no surprise at all.
But those who always have suspected
that Mr.. Eddy was made of wood,
or al best was controlled by strings
operated by heavy handed pup
PETER off stage. are due for some
thing that can only be called sur
prise Mr. Eddy even goes beyond
the not bad stage; he's good
Especially does he loosen up and
Evening star., 1941-11-21
The Lip Advises

Leo Durocher. manager OF the
worlds best loved Buns the
Brooklyn Dodgers, is the latest re-
cruit to the film version of the life
of Lou Gehrig.
The colorful brains of the Buns"
has been in conference for two
days with Samuel Goldwyn and Paul
Calico on the screen play Of
Gehrig's life.
In Hollywood as the house guest
Of George Raft, Leo the Lip" as
his Brooklyn admirers love to call
him, looms as not only an adviser
and contributor Of material to the
screen play, but as character in the
picture.
He played with the New York
Yankees as teammate Of Gehrig
in 1927, 1928 and 1929, and has a
fund of training camp stories and
incidents in the life Of the great
Gehrig which Producer Goldwyn
plans to make use of.
In addition, DVocher, who plans
to remain in Hollywood for three
weeks, will make extensive tests dur
ing that time to play himself in the
picture.
Production on the film is sched-
uled to start January Is, giving Du-
rocher time to return to Hollywood
and complete his work before the
cameras before spring training for
/ the Dodgers begins.
Evening star., 1941-11-21
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showink

Stage.
National The Rivals" with
Mary Boland, Bobby Clark and
Walter Hampden: $3.50 pm.
Wardman Park-"Kiss the Boys
Goodbye" played by the Washing
ton Civic Theater: 8::A5 pm.
Screen.
CapitOl-"The Chocolate Soldier" :"
Rise Stevens. Eddy and Strauss
music: IL am, las. 4:30, tbs and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1855, $40,
6:25 and 9:10 pm.
Earle-"They Died With Their
Boots On" Enrol Flynn as Gen
Custer: 10 am. 1855, 3:55, 6:55
and $50 pm. Stage shows: 1920
3:20, $40 and 9::20 pm.
Keith's-"Suspicion suspense by
Hitchcock: 11:15 an, lis, $40
5:25, 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Shadow Of the Thi,
Man." more about Mr.. and Mrs
Nick Charles: 10:45 am, 1855
3:05, Sis, 7:25 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan - parachute Bat
TALON" drama at 10000 feet: II: 80
M. los, 3:35, 5:35, TAO and 9:45
pm.
COlumbia-"A Yank in the r
A. F." Tyrone Power goes to Dun
kerque: 11:15 am, Ills, 1920, 5:25
7:3O and 9:35 pm.
Little-"The Stars Look Down,
human drama taut with suspense
II am, los, 3:15, $40, 7:30 ane
$40 pm.
Pix-"Tanks a Million" comedy
about the military life: $50, 4:45
6:45, $40 and 1890 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
continuous from 10 An.
Evening star., 1941-11-21

and 20 minutes of it, in fact.
1t probably was inevitable that
Mr.. Flynn should larrup into battle
and across the plains as Gen. Custer
and the portrait presented in They
Died With Their Boots On per-
haps is as authentic in spirit as his
admirers will demand. Mr.. Flynn
is blond, tall, slender and 1.-the, as
was Custer. Custer had his trials
at West Point, too, as is indicated
here, what with boyish pranks and
lackadaisical attitude toward his
studies. Flynn adopts gaudy uni
form. as did Custer, when made a
brigadier general of volunteers in
the Civil War. and when he goes out
to his last stand he dons buck
skin jacket, to indicate that Custer
adopted a more casual garb when
fighting Indians.
Now there is much in Gen. Gus
ter's life that would make an ex-
citing motion picture, so 1t is sur
prising to find such inventive
deviation. Flynn's Custer gets his
brigadier command by accident and
not as reward. as was actually
the case. Then he becomes a hero
by chasing Jeb Stuart away from
Gettysburg. one point the film
makes which is At least closer to
actuality. Throughout the entire
picture there is just enough of
truth to make you wish there were
more. just enough to lend to the
whole the ring Of authenticity. which
isn't good. But, with q moment OF
passing wonderment as to why War
ners let old Gen. Winfield Scott re-
main in command Of the Union
armies even unto Gettysburg, We'll
forget history.
They Died With Their Boots On
Is a crackerjack action yarn. at
any rate. Mr.. Flynn is in there
fighting all the time; il it isn't the
West Point regulations it is rebels
or his loves father or Indians or
villains who sell guns to Indians.
There is never-well, hardly ever
q dull moment, which certainly Is
a feather in Director Raoul Walsh's
cap. Maintaining a speedy pace for
2 hours and 20 minutes is no cinch.
Neither is watching it.
Mr.. Flynn's supporting cast Is a
capable one, too. His co-star,
Olivia de Havilland, is especially
effective as the wife who follows
her man through many a trial to
a premonition of disaster the morn
ing he rides oil in search of the
Sioux. Arthur Kennedy, Charley
Grapewin, Stanley Ridges, John Ii
tel, sydney Greenstreet, Gene Lock-
hart and Anthony Quinn make
memorable etchings of subordinate
roles.
There is a lot of fine action pho
Biography. too, a high point being a
panoramic view of the field where
Gen. Custer and his little band rode
into a trap that day at Little Big
Horn.
Johnny Longs orchestra. which
is being called cat least by its press
Department. 'the miracle band OF
the year" makes a tuneful and
rhythmic interlude of the Earle IS
stage show, complete with MI
Tschaikowsky' Concerto and that
"B-I-Bi" novelty. There are songs
too, by Helen Young and Bob
Houston, HIM.
Evening star., 1941-11-21
'Suspicion' Is Gay Thriller
In Best Hitchcock Style
Cary Grant.Joan Fontaine Screen Play
At keith's Is Perfect Mixture
OF Merriment and Suspense
BY JAY CARMODY.

When the years best pictures counted which won't take very
which
earnest consideration In that starring Cary Grant and Joan Fon
Alfred Hitchcock which
natural for the Hitchcock technique the which audi
bouncing a
lsted may nrather to-
Evening star., 1941-11-21

SUSPICION" an R-K-O production
starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontetne.
directed by Alfred Hitchcock. screen play
by Samson RaphaelSon, Joan Harrison and
Alma Reville. from the novel Before the
Fact" by Francis Hes.
Evening star., 1941-11-21
In Benny Film

Stanley Ridges, noted stage and
screen actor. has been signed by
Alexander Korda. for an important
featured role in the Ernst Lubitsch
production, Ito Be. or Not to Be, u
starring Carole Lombard and Jack
Benny.
Ridges plays the role Of the vii
famous Prof. Silotzky, Gestapo
agent, whose attentions to Miss
Lombard cause Benny more than
ordinary. anguish. In makeup the
resemblance between, the two men,
Benny and Ridges, is striking. re-
sulting in humorous complications
Ridges, one of the stages most
accomplished actors before he came
to Hollywood few years ago, has
recently appeared in The Lady Is
Willing" with Marlene Dietrich
Evening star., 1941-11-21

Guardsman" There have been
minor changes, of course, from the
Lunt-Fontanne version, the most
important. perhaps, being that this
time there is no doubt that the
wife knows the identity of her
suitor. point which probably has
kept the Hays Office happier. But
it is a minor point and detracts not
whit from gay musical treat.
X
Comedian Lew Parker headlines
the Capitol stage show, presenting
his "All Girl Minstrels." Featured
are Peggy Bernier, Nora Williams,
the five Jewels and the Callahan
sisters, plus the Rhythm Rockets,
plus Sam Jack kaufman and the
orchestra, plus Lynn Allison.
Evening star., 1941-11-21
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