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The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
Negro Troops Doing
Superman Job There

The Government of Liberia has
granted to the United States for the
duration of the war the right to
CONSTRUCT, control, operate and de-
fend airports in Liberia and 10 as
sist also in the protection and de-
Tense Of n part o the Republic
which might be liable to attack dur-
ing the present emergency, it was
announced by the Department Of
State.
An agreement was signed at Mon
rovia on March 81, 1912 by the Lib
erian Secretary Of State and Lieur.
Colonel Harry "A. Mcbride, special
representative of the President of
the United States, under the terms
of which the United States was
granted exclusive jurisdiction over
airports notifications and such 9th
er defense e as may be mutaal-
ly considered necessary. The Re-
public OF Liberia retains sovereign
ty over all such airports and de-
Tense areas, while the United Star
continued on pagegaT=2
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
SCOREL UCKY STRIKE
AKERSFORRACESL

New York. Discontinuance of
the sale of a pipe tobacco obnox-
iously labelled "Nigger Head To
bacco'' was insisted on this week
by the NAACP. A formal protest
was made to George Washington
Hill, president of the American To-
bacco Company. Ill Fifth Avenue.
The American Tobacco Company
whiehdistributed the pipe tobacco
in a number of Northwestern Stat
es including Oregon. Washington
and Wisconsin is also the distrib-
utor Of Lucky Strike Cigarettes.
The sections in which the pipe to-
bacco is sold r areas only sparse
ly populated by Negroes.
Declaring that it was needless to
point out the fact that such a name
for a product is repulsive to all Ne
groes including smokers OF Lucky
Strike cigarettes the statement con-
cluded that the NAACP lis confid-
ent that the American Tobacco CO..
will Immediately discontinue this
method of holding UP the Negro
race to ridicule and insulting the
many Negro smokers Of Lucky
Strike Cigarettes"
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

December "a.
Third, Men who reached their
eighteenth birthdays in November
or December, 1912 will register dur
ing the period beginning Saturday,
December 26th and ending, Deem.
Der 31st.
Local board Stats viii be able
to handle theregistrations in most
counties without the aid of volun-
teer helpers provided all the new
registrants don't try to register ON
the first Dr. second day Of their reg
istration period" Major Turner
said: Young men subject to the
registration should bear in mind an
avoid wholesale rushes to the reg
istration Offices
Beginning January /. 1913 all
youths are required to register
with their local boards on their
eighteenth birthdays, the major ex.
planned. If a young mans birth.
day falls on Sunday or a legal holi.
day when the local board office is
closed, he is to register the follow.
ing day. This automatic system
will make the fixing Of further rec.
istration periods unnecessary.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
ESTIMATE 5000 Is YR.
III NEBRASKANS
WILL ANSWER CALL

An estimated 5000 young Nebras-
ka men who have reached their Is
birthdays since June 80, 1912 will
re-iSter with Selec.Ns S--vi.e 6u..
ing the period beginning Friday,
December 18th and ending Thurs
day. December S1st, Major H. L.
Turner. state registration officer,
announced.
Local selective service boards,
the major said, will receive the reg
istrations in Nebraska on week days
between the hours Of 9 a. m. and .
p m. The registration will be TAX
en- by three age groups as follows.
First, Men who reached their 18th
birthdays in July or August, 1912,
are to register during the week be-
ginning Friday, December 18th and
ending Thursday, December 17tn.
Second, Men who reached their
eighteenth birthdays in September
or October, 1912 are to register dur.
ing the week beginning FRIDAY
December IS and ending Thursday
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

Youths away from home who are
subject to the December or subse-
quent registration orders may reg
lister wherever they are by report
ing to the local board office having
jurisdiction over the area where
they are located. Such re~gistrants.
however, should be sure to give
their correct HOME ADDRESS to
the registrar.
Enlisted ~reservists and advanced
ROTC. students under government
al contract are not required to reg
lister.
Local boards will add the nam
es Of December registrants to their
records in order Of age toldest man
first Immediately following the
files Of IS and 1s year olds who reg
istered in June. Order numbers
for the new registrants will be as
signed by age and therefore no ma
tional selective service lottery win
be necessary for the December or
subsequent registrations.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
HudChuCa SmrenderS; WAACs Take Over

} FORT HUACHUCA, Arizona
Not since the days OF Caesar whel
he conquered Rome. was there a
more triumphant entrance made than
when the WAACS conquered Fort
Huachuca, the largest Negro Milf
airy Command in the World.
Newsreel cameras clicking. bands
playing. soldiers shouting with the
distant hills resounding, caused a
riot Of merriment as the train roll
ed into Fort Huachuca from Fort
DesMoines, bringing two full comp
anies of these soldiers.
Qualities of leadership, a requis-
Continued on page ey y
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
Plckets Stop Showing
Of birth of A Nation

New York. N. Y-Three hours
after the NAACP had thrown a
picket line around the 55th Street
Playhouse ON December End, the
infamous motion picture Birth Of
a Nation" which was being shown
at the Theatre was withdrawn from
the screen and posters advertising
abraham Lincoln as the Thea
tres next ATTRACTION went up.
The NAACP was first informed of
the revival of the ancient motion
picture by one Of a group Of white
army officers who telephoned pro
tests against the pictures on behalf
of the group who had wandered in
to the theatre without realizing
what "a being shown.
The action of the NAACP was
taken after a representative of the
management failed to discontinue
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
HES WILLING, HE'S CAPABLE, AND WE NED HIM ~Ud HlMM"
.nIII..lIInIm
LACK OF FUNDS FORCES CLOSING OF ALA
TRAINING CLASSES FOR NEGROES

closed between now and January
Is because their graduates can't
crash the South's discrimination
policy to obtain jobs.
In Alabama now, 5000 whites are
being trained and only 5000 Negro
es, but with the closing down Of
two-thirds of the units, only 200
will continue to get training. Cen
tiers to be discontinued will include
Dothan, Opelika, Selma. Mobile.
Tuskegee. Huntsville, Fairfield and
other cities in the state.
I'm view Of the fact that trahlees
are not being placed from Some of
our Negro classes " stated Director
E. r. Plowden. state supervisor Of
vocational training. these classes
will not be renewed upon termin-
alton of the period.
ITO do SO would be a waste OF
public funds as well as time and eff
fort, and would lead the trainees
themselves to disappointment. The
State Department Of Education,
however, wishes it distinctly Under
stood that classes will be organized
for Negroes at any time and at any
place when it is reasonably clear
that the product Of such classes will
be utilized in the wal effort"
Negroes in the other classes, to
be continued in the state, are being
placed, according to Plowden, in To-
cal industries, in the Navy Seabees,
division, in aero-mechanic work at
Tuskegee and in othes war occupa-
tons. No white classes are being
closed at this time, Plowden said.
as there is a constant demand from
Mobile for trained, white workers.
New training classes are organiz-
ed, either for Negroes or whites
whenever the U. S. Employment
Service certifies a need for workers
in nearby industries, according TO
Director Plowden. This is his stare
ment:
The State Department Of Educa-
ton has exerted every effort over
the years to promote vocational
training for Negroes but arbitar-
lily to set UP training Of Negroes Or
whites or anyone, without regard
for placement possibilities of such
persons, would be to ignore the
primary purpose of vocational edu.
cation, which is to enable an Incl
cidual to get and hold a specific
job"
More than 100 Negroes, trained Il
Birmingham during the summer. il
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
More than $500, 600 In Construction Work In Vital War Areas
DEMAND FULL Use OF NEGRO NARROWER

Washington, D. C.-Declaring
that ethe Negro views the immin-
ence of compulsory service with
real alarm because it threatens 10
freeze him at his present employ
ment level, which is substantially
below his ability. Leslie Perry, ad-
m~inistrative assistant Of the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, submitted this
week a statement to the Pepper Sub
Committee on Senate Resolution
291 providing for a full investigat-
ion of the mar power resources of
the nation and their most advant-
ageous use in the war effort.
The NAACP expressed deep and
Continued on pages~3 y
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

the film aker making such a com
mittment and announced that the
picture would be shown "indefinit-
ely.
Originally produced in 1915 Birth
Of a Nation" which appeals to pre-
judice and glorifies the KuKluxKlan
as a saviour of white women" has
been banned from Is states because
Of its vicious racial Islander.
Recent announcement in the Hol-
lywood Reporter stating that the
film was to be remade into a talkie
led the NAACP to communicate
with Nelson Pointer of the Holly
wood Bureau OF Motion Pictures
Of the Office Of War Information.
urging that no re-make of the pic
ture be Permitted. The NAACP
was advised by MI. Pointer that all
plans for a talking picture version
Of Birth of a Nation" had been a.
bandoned by United Artists. The
NAACP has since requested that
steps be taken to prevent the show
ing Of the original silent produc-
ton.
This film, said the NAACP in
a correspondence to Lowell Melletr,
chief Of Bureau Of Motion Pictures,
Office Of War Information, harm
full and dangerous in peace times is
IN war time a menace to national
morale and unity"
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

Negroes Receive

Negro workers have received
more than 81, 500. 900 in the construc
ton OF schools. hospitals, recreation
buildings and other community fac
ilities in vital war areas, according
10 a recent report to Major General
Philip B. Fleming. Federal Works
Administrator. by William j.. TRENT
Jr.. Racial Relations officer. Thin
amount represents payments to skill
ed and unskilled Negro labor en-
ployed on war public works during
the first ten months of 1912.
More than half Of the total pay
rolls on projects in North and south
Carolina was earned by Negro lab
or more tn a third in Alabama,
Arkansas. Georgia, Kentucky, Lou
isiana, Maryland. Mississippi aid
Virginia. In south Carolina Negro
workers earned % percent Of the
skilled payroll; in Kentucky. % per
cent and in North Carolina. 16 per
cent.
Under contraetual provisions, war
public works contractors are re-
quired to employ Negroes III pro
portion to their availability in the
communities in which the projects
are located. Before construction
begin on a given job, the contractor
is informed as to the approximate
percentage OF Negroes in the local
supply Of construction labor, skilled
as well as unskilled. and these per
centages are expected to be reflect
ed in racial employment on the pro
ject. Census occupational data,
field reports and other relevant
sources are used j undermining ap-
propriate percentages to be used.
The experience Of Negroes on w
PW projects has been very favor
able. of the total wage payments
since the start Of the program last
fall. Negroes have received more
than IS Percent. When this is com
pared with the proportion of Ne
groes in the total building construc
ton labor force as reported by the
Social Security Board, it indicates
the effectiveness of the FWA prima
facie non-discrimination procedure
in improving the position of Negro
workers in the building industry.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
PLAIN TALK
ABOUT COLOR

from Golfers Magazine, Nov.
%, 1922
The Negro Question, solemnly So
called. is adding to some Americans
worries about the war. Lynchings
are on the upcurve. There are dis
putes and near riots here and there
about colored people moving into
public housing developments. Now
and then, a Jap agent is caught try
Ing to make medicine among our
Negroes according to the why
fight the white mans war;" FORM
ula- All these things stir up anc-
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
WHITES FINED
FOR DINING IN
NEGRO CAFE
WHITE TALLEDEGA PROF.
AND WIFE FINED SIS =
COLORED PROPRIETOR

ALSO FINED
Birmingham, Ala. (C) youthful
Sociology Professor, Donald Ras.
mussen rs, white of Talledega Col.
lege and his wife, Lore, %. wera
fined $500 a piece because they
dined with Louis Durham, colored
In the Nancy Cafe, one Of the nice
st eating places in Birmingham,
Durham. 81, as well as Nancy vii
liams, proprietor Of the cafe, were
fined $500 each too and were charg
ed with violation of Sections 1927
and 52SS Of the city code, which
provides for segregation Of the rae
es in public places. All paid fines.
Professor Rasmussen said on the
witness stand that he knew gin q
general way" of the feeling in the
South concerning the segregation Of
races but did not know that there
was any law against him and his
wife dining in a Negro cafe. Burn
ham testified that Prof. RASMUSSEN
had sent a message to him request
ing a conference and later in the
evening when Rasmussen and his
wife met Durham, it was suggested
by the Professor that they go to
Nancy's and "eat while we talk"
Miss Williams testified that when
the trio came to her, she didn't even
notice that Durham was aecompan-
led by a white couple. City Rec
prder Henry Martin, who handed
down the decision, told the defend.
ants that since it was not shown
by the evidence that the couple and
Durham or Miss williams we're chal
longing the segregation laws Of the
city and state, he was assessing only
a nominal penalty; otherwise the
penalty would have been more Sc
we're.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

aent hates, fears and prejudices.
and a serious blowup conceivably
could result sometimes.
Here is what we think about it.
We expect extremists Of all sorts TO
damn US for these remarks, but
we're used to that and we're disap-
pointed when, as sometimes hap
pens. our expectations don't pan
out.
We think. for one thing, that all
sensible Americans should set their
faces sternly against the aforesaid
extremists. We refer mainly to ID
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

the domestic Communists who. while
claiming to be all out for an Allied
victory, are not above making some
homegrown hay for themselves by
spreading discomfort among all the
Negroes they can get at; and t)
the old fashioned white Negro hat
ers In both North and South.
Neither Of these extremist groups
has the workable answer to the col.
ored question. What both Americ-
an whites and American Negroes
need are those sometimes drearv.
Continued on page 81
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
VIOLATES GAS ORDINANCE:
FINED $500

"A So fine for storing gasoline 10
violation Of a city ordinance wa.
imposed upon Joe Allen, Of 24os
Hamilton St., by Municipal Judge
Perry Wheeler.
Allen, in whose possession police
found a drum containing Is gal
ions Of the fuel, was charged under
the law which as a fire safety meas
IRE, forbids storage OF more than
one gallon. His case was the first
such in Omaha since rationing BE-
gan.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
SLIGHTLY INJURED

Mrs. Marjorie Thompson, 291s II
street and Mrs Anna Ray, 29O6 r
street, were injured slightly when
a car driven by Mrs. Thompson col
lided at 25th and Erskine streets
with the auto of James Eddens of
17O1 North oath ST.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
. CALL MEETING FOR ZION BAPTIST CHURCH

All members OF the NAACP are
urged to be present at the election
of Officers, Sunday, December 18th,
1912.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

Reports of the years work win
be read and other interesting sub
jects. Come and bring your neigh
Dor.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12

Birmingham, Ala, OeThough skilled workers, approximately 20
the wal industries of Alabama and of the States 80 training classes
all over the South are hungry for for Negro war workers r to be
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
REDRESS o
SENATE INSULT
TO CLERGMEN

Washington, ID. C.-SeeklnS re
dress for discourtesies to A. Pnilir
Randolph and several other New
York Ministers by capitol police On
the day of the cloture vote on the
anti-Poll tax bill, the washington
Bureau Of the NAACP Immediately
requested that the victims issue af-
fidavits so that charges might be
filed and trial be had of the offend
ing officers with adequate punish
ment for the guilty. The NAACP
brought the case to the attention Of
Philip Levy. Secretary to Senator
Robert Wagner Of New york, who.
has also called on Col. Chesley w.
Jurney, Sergeant at Arms Of the
Senate for a full statement of the
facts as a basis for subsequent ac-
ton.
The NAACP emphasized that the
persons attacked are highly res
pected citizens. that many Of the
police in Washington got their jobs
as patronage from southern senar-
ors and that they need to be taught
that Negroes have as mulch right to
the Senate galleries and other plac-
es in Washington as any other A.
merican citizens and must be pro
tected in those rights.
At the present time control Of the
Capitol police is in the hands OF
the Senate Rules Committee Of
which Senator Harry F. Byrd Of
Virginia is chairman. Many men,
bers of the Committee were filibus-
terers against the anti-poll tax bill
including Senator's Kenneth Nickel
lar Of Tenn; Charles o. Andrews Of
Florida; John H. Bankhead. End of
Alabama; Lloyd Spencer of Ark,
and Burnet r. Maybank Of South
Carolina. other members Of the
Committee are Senators Guy NJ.
Gillette of Iowa; Arthur H. Vanden-
berg of Michigan; Warren W. Bar
bour Of New Jersey; and Charles w
Tobey Of New Hampshire.
1t is possible that ever worse
treatment is in prospect for Ne
groes in the next Session of Con
gress since according to Drew Pear
sons Washington Merry-Go-Round
the Democratic Caucus is going to
elect Senator Wall Doxey, lame
duck senator from Miss, and one of
the most vicious fil~ibusterers a.
gainst the anti-poll tax bill, as the
new Sergeant at Arms. Doxey tri-
ed to out-Bilbo Bilbo in his Trades
against the Negro.
Observation-Disclosures NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
answer to requests from Mobile ship
yards. were not placed there. Vern-
on J. Douglas. local director of 70
c~ational education, reported. Steel
Shipyard heads said that an expect
ed supply of steel did not arrive,
therefore additional workers we're
not needed, and that Mobile hous-
ing facilities could not take care Of
an increased number Of Negro
workers.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-12
Omaha Branch NAAC to hold Election SmdayDec Is 33opm.

Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe
Ito THE OMAHA GUIDE and learn what the dark.
Ter or tenth of the American population is think
ting and doing.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-02-13
0PA Declares
 Rate Increase
 Is Unreasonable

SEATTLE = The Office of Price Administration this week opposed the 45 per cent surcharge imposed by the steamship companies operat- ing in Alaska when hearing on the rate increase resumed here, as- serting the existing rates on food stuffs to Alaska are already so much higher than heavy cargo as to be unjust and unreasonable.
 The companies asserted the in- creases were needed because of cost increases incident to the war.
 A bill of particulars submitted by Attorney Robert Jones quoted the OPA as stating that while the ship ping companies should get a fair re- return, the rates should be equitable without due burdens on any one class of shipper.
 Commodities on which high rates are charged, the OPA said, include fruits, vegetables. hay, meat and grain. Commodities going at a lower rate are cement, lumber, canned fish. empty cans, labels and wire netting.
 Financial statements of the AL aska Steamship company were en- tered as evidence at the hearing on the 45 percent surcharge granted the company by the maritime com mission.
 Testimony indicated the 45 per cent boost would add about $4,880,- GOO to the gross revenues of the company during 1942, if the volume of business remains the same as it was during 1941.
 Gross revenues of the Alaska Steamship company last year, not including mail revenue, were $10,- S45,00O.
 Samuel Nichols, Washington state president of the United Mine Work CTS, testified that the increased rates would place an unbearable burden on the consuming population of AL aska." He said he spoke in behalf of 1000 members of the union at Ju- neau. He said the increase would "tend to depopulate the Territory and work untold hardship on the en- tire population"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-02-13
NaziS Best
 British In
 Dover Fight
(By Associated Pressl

LONDON - The German battle ships Gnesinau, Scharnhorst and cruiser Prinz Eugene slipped away from French coast anehorages yes terday with strong air surface es- cort and engaged the Royal British air force and navy in the greatest land and sea battle off Dover since France surrendered
 The German ships were last re- ported escaping to new bases in Hel- goland bight
 The British acknowledged the loss of 20 bombers and 22 other planes. The Admiralty said: Casualties to our destroyers was not heavy"
 British also placed the German losses at IS fighter planes and said muggy weather hampered observa- tions but it was indicated that bomb blows were scored on all three prin- cipal enemy warships and a torpe- do hit a German destroyer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-02-13
JapS Continue
 Drive South
 In Pacific War

WASHINGTON - A Japanese drive southward to occupy the re- maining islands of the Philippines was disclosed today as more enemy troops massed for a renewed attempt to smash the defenses of the Batan peninsula.
 Nipponese troops, who presumably moved southward from Luzon, occu- pied the island of Masbate, the War Department announced. Thus they extended their control to the cen tral part of the archipelago which had escaped invasion.
 A comparative lull in the Batan fighting in the past 24 hours was said to indicate that the enemy was awaiting additional new supplies and endorsements before resuming the offense against Gen. Douglas MacArthur's little defending army. Enemy alarm over the situation was evidenced in a proclamation issuedI by Lieut.. Gen. Masasaru Somma, theI Japanese top commander, who ap- pealed to the Filipinos as "dear bre- thern" to harvest neglected crops
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-02-13
SCHOOL BOARD
 CONSIDERS RAISES
 IN TEACHERS PAY

At the regular meeting of the lo- cal school Board this week the mat ter of raises in teachers pay was taken under consideration. Under the present Territorial law, 75 per cent of the money for municipal schools is appropriated by the Terri tory and the balance by the town in which the school is situated. The Wrangell Board is communicating with the Territorial Department o1 Education to learn what, if anything they are doing toward increasing wages for the territorial teachers The only action the Territorial De- partment of Education could make, IL is thought, would be to ask a spe- cial session of the Legislature to ap- propriate additional funds
 If word from the Department is not encouraging, H. B. ThOrnquist. President of the local Board said the matter will be taken up with WrangelTs City Council to determine what measures could be taken local ly to afford the teachers added pay.
 Oar Smith was appointed janitor
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-02-13
Wolves And Vikings Clash
 In Hoop Games Tonight
 And Tomorrow Night Here

Douglas Huskies started the game using a zone defense similar to Wrangells but the Wolves quickly ran up 12 points against it. Score the first quarter was so for the Wolves. Douglas changed to man-for- man defense and managed by the half time to have points to Wran- gell's 14.
 The second half the Huskies still couldn't get through the tight Wran- gell defense and managed only one more long shot. The fourth quarter the game begged down to what some spectators called comedy with the Wrangell reserves holding the Illus kies scoreless. The last quarter was spent in shooting fouls (and missing) and jump balls. The ball seldom got in motion to any extent and a lot of players spent their time in "dog piles" which added to the "com- edy".
 High point man for Wrangell was Iversen with points; for Douglas, Sayikke with 3.