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The Omaha guide., 1942-01-31
ATTY ii. ]. PINKE--
TO BE GUEST
SPEAKER

AT LlNcOLN'S DAY BANQUET
IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
The Newman Methodist Church
Brotherhood will give a Lincoln's
day Banquet on Thursday evening
February 18th, in honor of that
great patriot Saint of the repub-
lican party, Abraham Lincoln.
The Banquet will be held at the
Newman Methodist Church, 23rd
and S Streets in Lincoln, Nebras-
ka. The guest speaker will be
Attorney H. ]. Pinkett, one of D
maha's most outstanding law
yers and political leaders.
The Banquet will begin at $3.50
p. M. Those in charge are as fol-
lows Chairman, Mrs. H~arriette
Williams, Co-Chairman, Kenneth
Smith, Program Chairman, Char
lotte Williams, Master of Cerem-
onies, C. B. Evans, assisted by VII
liam B. Davis of Omaha, The
Pastor of the Church is Rev. G. A.
Shaw.
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IF YOU WANT TO HELP
REGISTER FOR CIVILIAN
EFENS

Red Cross supervisory chairmen
and ward chairmen met at the Ped
Cross Chapter House Thursday an
reported to Mrs. Jack Abajian on
the status of the organization IN
their wards. Miss Rosemary Tut
tie, Executive Secretary Of the
Douglas County Chapter, in ex-
planning the part the Red Cross
has been assigned in case of wal
time disaster in Douglas County,
gave new emphasis to the import
ance of the block chairmen in the
Red Cross city wide coordination
program.
when people ask what they can
do to help, tell them to register at
the civilian defense office and then
to get in touch with the Red Cross
chairmen of their block. The
block chairmen in each block in
the city is trying to have at Least
one person in her block trained
in each of the Red Cross voiun-
teer services. In case of disaster
or need this will make the work
ing of I'll plan much more effic-
lent"
Mrs. Abajian, city chairman of
the coordination program, explain
ed that there are still some blocks
without a volunteer chairman to
enroll residents of that block in
Red Cross classes. She stated that
the importance. of this job is so
great that no one can do a finer
service for his or her community
than to accept a block chairman
ship.
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DIR. Bruce K. Bailey of the Hos
pital Administrative Staff is the
first officer in charge Of operat-
ions and DR.. James Lowell Hall
has organized the entire facilities
Of Freedmen's Hospital to handle
600 bed patients of every type.
DR.. w. G. Coins, of the War Res
ources Committee of the Medico-
Chirugical Society, is in charge of
the medical auxiliaries. Under mis-
supervisor approximately 100 phys
clans are ready to serv in any
capacity.
Registered nurse under veter-
an Army nurse, Mrs. Marion 3.
Seymour are giving their complete
support to DR.. Phillip T. Jonn-
son who is in charge of this div
ision.
Every Individual in this serv-
Ice feels that he or she is giving
the utmost of their energies to the
war program" DR.. johnson says.
"They have cheerfully and willing
~ answered every call from the
office of the Chief Medical Offic-
er and have pledged themselves to
continue to do So"
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URBAN LEAGUES
ANNUAL MEETING
r FEBRUARY 10TH


Organized in 1928 by many
prominent citizens now living in
Omaha, the Urban League Com
munity Center will celebrate on
Tuesday, February 10th. its 14th
Annual Meeting. Although spec
ial notices of the meeting were
sent this week to all members of
the Urban League, everyone is in
vited to come and hear the inter-
esting program arranged for that
occasion. +
MI. Arthur J. Lelyveld, brilliant
young Rabbi Of Temple Israel will
be the guest speaker.
The Paul Briggs Ensemble, one
of Omaha's best loved choirs, will
sing on the program.
Rev. w. III. Phelps, Pastor of
Lowe Avenue Presbyterian church
will lead a panel discussion on the
theme: 1.-THE Urban Leagues Pro-
gram in our Nations War Effort"
Following the annual election of
new members to the Board of Dir
e~ctors, refreshments will be serv-
ed. Mrs. Dorene Holiday, Miss
Johannah Chapman, MI. Charles
Stewart and Rev. w. H. Phelps
form the program committee in
charge Of this meeting.
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search workers and scientists by
the scarcity of rubber. This is
a challenge, says the Dispatch,
mot only to white America but to
ell Americans. 1t is a challenge
to our schools and colleges. Every
where there can develop types of
research and investigation. Some
time ago, DR.. George Washington
Carver was able to isolate rubber
from petroleum by-products. There
is plant life all over America
which may our needs. The
challenge comes in the preparation
Negroes are making for those
fleeting opportunities which from
time to time will present themsel-
YES"
From every section of the coun-
try, Negro papers are expressing
the full determination Of the Ne
gro people to unite with the rest
Of the nation in an about support
for winning the war.
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COMPLETE ORGANIZING OF
NEGRO EMERGENCY
MEDICAL FIELD UNITS

Organization of Negro Emers-
ecv Medical Field Units in the Dis
trict Of Columbia under the direc-
ton Of race physicians and nursc
has been completed, according to
an announcement by DR.. Philip T.
johnson, Assistant Chief Medical
Officer, of Washington.
Mobilization of Negro medical
facilities and physicians, nurses,
and nurses aids has been complet-
ed. Dr.. Charles Drew, head Of
the Department of Surgery, school
of Medicine, Howard University,
Washington, is in command of the
medical field unit formed at Free
dmen's Hospital, Washington. It
is composed of four large squads.
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STIMSON TOLD ARMY MUST
PROTECT MEN IN UNIFORM

New York, N. Y.-Until the Ar
my gives exact and equal treat
ment to all soldiers In uniform and
until it protects Negro soldiers
from beatings and shootings in
prejudiced southern communities.
the nation can expect only bitter
resentment and low morale from
Negro citizens.
This was the assertion of the N.
AACP in a letter to Henry L. Sim
son, secretary are war, about the
riot at Alexandria, La, January 9,
in which twelve Negro soldiers
were shot by civilian police.
"This incident" the NAACP
said, lis only one more in "a sue
cession of regrettable ones whose
cumulative effect has been to de-
monstrate that the Army has abb
dlcated in favor of local southern
white sentiment in the handling
of Unied States soldiers who hap
zen to be colored.
I'VE submit that these riots
prove that the Army mas adopted
and is enforcing a social pattern
i'll keeping with the morales of the
small communities adjacent to the
Army camps. The Army has TAX
en- thousands of Negro men from
northern and eastern states and
placed them in localities whose
traditions and practices are des-
ign. ed deliberately to humiliate and
insult them, and even to maltreat
and kill them. Not only does the
War department take these men
to these kinds of communities. but
tia military police, upon the light
est pretext, solicit the active as
sistance Of civilian police, who have
no regard for Negroes as men, or
| ciizens, or soldiers of their coun-
try. and who shoot them down
without hesitation"
The Association called upon the
War Department to take swift &C
| ton in the Alexandria case, and
advanced the opinion that the bas-
ic u of friction and clashes be-
tween the races at Army camps
was the segregation policy of the
War Department.
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QUARTER MILLION
MEMBERS SAACP
GOAL FOR 1912

New York-An all out drive for
a quarter of a million members is
the goal the NAACP field staff
has set for itself for the year 1912
Five staff members will cover II
states between February AMI
June inclusive, to push the ASSOC
iation's fight for equality in ma
tional defense and full citizenship
rights for all American Negroes.
HAVE YOU JOINED YOUR
LOCAL BRANCH YET? iF
NOT JOIN TODAYH!
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Minority Groups Branches of OPM
in cooperation with the Presidents
Committee, at the request of sew
eral defense contractors who felt
that the Governments policy
|! should be brought directly to the
attention of workers in their
plants.
Immediately upon receipt of the
posters, score of contractors ask
ed for additional copies SO that
the Executive Order could be post
ed on all bulletin boards in their
plants. Typical of the response
still being received daily by MI.
Ethridge are the following:
OLDS MOTOR WORKS DIVIS-
ION, General Motors Corporation
Twill you please send thirty-six
1857 copies Of the poster. -. so
that we may post all our bulletin
boards throughout the plant"
PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS
C~OMPANY-"We are very much
pleased with the posters. we
will see that these are prominent
ly displayed"
GENERAL CABLE CORPOR-
ALTON, N. Y.-"We are very
glad to have (the p%osters) and
would appreciate it if you VIII
send us twenty-five (25) more SO
that we may have complete COW
erage of our offices and plants"
CLINTON BRIDGE WORKS,
Iowa. I'VE have placed these pos
ters in conspicuous places through
out our plant. We will be glad 10
do everything we can to do our
part during the present emery
ency."
ATLAS IMPERIAL DIESEL
ENGINE CO., Cal.,-"We were
verv pleased to receive this order
in poster form, and the poster Is
now prominently displayed In our
plant"
SUN SHIPBUILDING AM
DRY DOCK CO., PA,-"We vii
have these posters put up in on
yard Immediately. For your IT
:, formation, approximately 10 per
cent of our employees r colorei
This is a greater number Of col
ored employees than in any othel
shipyard north of the Mason-Dix'
on line"
AMERICAN BRASS CONF
ANY. Conn.-"Please accept oul
thanks for the poster. we coul.
use four more about the plant
TOLEDO STEEL PRODUCTS
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INDUSTRIALISTS REQUEST
MORE NON-DIScRIMlNATlON
POSTERS FOR PLANTS

Supporting the Governments Eff
forts to end discrimination in de-
Tense employment industrialists
throughout the country this week
requested additional non-discria-
nation posters for display on shop
and employment office bulletin
boards.
Approximately $4,000 such pos
tiers, quoting President Roosevelts
Executive Order No. 1902, were
dispatched to all defense contract
holders last month by Mark Eth
ridge, Chairman of the Presidents
Committee on Fair Employment
Practice.
The "a by % inch placard hao
been prepared by the Negro En-
ployment and Training and the
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MAJOR BLOCKS SEGREGATION
IN PHILLY OFFICE

MAJOR BLOCKS SEGREGATION
IN PHILLY OFFICE
Philadelphia, PA bright note
for the week is the report that an
attempt to segregate 20 colored
girls in the typist section of the
Army Signal Corps department
here was scotched by Major Schail
in charge of the unit.
The incident was reported last
week to Theodore Spaulding, pres
ident Of the Philadelphia branch,
who said that a Mr.. Weinberg, u
pervisor of personnel in the office,
approached most of the girls who
are scattered in various parts of
the department and asked them
'if they would not be better sat
isfied working ogether as a color
ed group"
According to Mr.. Spaulding,
Major Schall heard of the incident
and chastised Weinberg, in the
presence of a number of the girls.
He stated this is not time for
the raising of racial issues when
our country is at war, and we do
not want disturbing factors introd-
uced which Will separate the cit
liens of our country in their inter
est to help it."
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REMOVAL OF BARRIERS
SPEEDS UP


Negro boiler makers, clippers.
caulkers and other skilled workers
were speeding ship construction on
the Pacific Coast this week follow
ing the removal of impediments to
their employment in West Coast
shipyards.
This development was announc-
ed by DR.. Robert c. Weaver, Chief
of the Negro Employment and
Training Branch of the War Pro-
duction Board, after representa-
ives of his office had completed
negotiations with officials Of Lo-
cal No. 80 of the International
Boilermakers' Union, at Oakland,
California.
AS a result Of these negotiations
DR.. Weaver stated, Local No. 80 is
now referring Negro skilled work
ers to the various shipyards hav-
ing agreements with that union.
More than so Negro workers have
been referred to the Moore Dry
dock Company and the Todd Ship
building Corporation and many Of
these are now working as boiler
makers, caulkers, clippers and as
helpers in various categories.
In the meantime, more than 40
additional workers have signed up
for membership and the unions
has advised shipbuilders that all
Negro workers referred in the fu-
ture must be accepted for employ
ment.
This expansion of Negro en-
ployment in Pacific Coast ship
yards was greatly expediated by
the public hearings of the Presid-
ent's Committee on Fair Employ
ment Practice" DR.. Weaver stat
ed. These hearings brought into
the open certain discriminatory
practices both on the part of man.
agement and organized labor"
In a recent summary Of its find
ings at it's Los Angeles hearing,
the Presidents Committee, which
is headed by Mark Ethridge, de-
clared:
1.-The Committee recommends
that the national or international
officers Of unions which deny mem
bership to on-Caucatians take
prompt, positive and vigorous
steps to assure that this un-Amer-
lean and undemocratic practice
will not continue to operate as an
effective bar to prevent qualified
and needed workers Of on-Caucas-
ian origin from securing employ
ment in defense industries"
A short time after this recomm-
endation was made, Joseph Fran
kiln, President of the Information
al Boilermakers' Union instructed
officials of Local No. 80 to furnish
clearance for Negro workers in
shipyards under their jurisdiction.
In addition to referring workers
to shipyards jobs, the union has
reached an agreement on the ir-
duction Of Negroes into the train
ing courses for ungrading. As q
result of this agreement, Negro
unskilled and semi-skilled work.
ers will be able to qaulify through
training as boilermakers, clippers
slab men, Hangers, caulkers and
riggers.
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But he attributed the increase
in number of cases, in these as
well as other diseases during the
year. to better reporting by doc
tors and county officials.
Gonorrhea cases, reported num-
bered 1,21s; syphilis 1904; chick
en- pox LAB; and scarlet fever
1.0Oe. In 1910 chicken pox led
with 1,O61 cases reported, follow
ed by measles with 1,042.
Other diseases reported in 1911
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UTHERN NEGRO Planners MOBILIZE :
NEGRO SKILLED WORKERS sPEEDUP SHIP CONSTRUCTION
Z SOUTHERN
oOo
TO FOOD
EOR VICTORY

Tuskegee, Jan. "a (ANP) Stock
piles of food, says Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard, will win
the war and write the peace. Me-
gro farmers are organizing at
state. county and community lev
els to produce their share of these
urgently needed stock piles.
Negro rural leaders including ex
tension workers, and teachers of
vocational agricultural and home
economies, Ire holding statewide
meetings in the AAA southern re-
gion for the purpose of reviewing
presenot efforts and formulating
plans to reach Negro farmers in
the remotest area in order that
they may receive all available in
formation on the drastically IN
creased production goals.
State meetings have already
been held in Georgia, Alabama and
Louisiana and similar meetings
are scheduled for Texas, Okla
homa, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Florida.
Typical procedure for these
meetings is a study of farm plan
sheets in which farmers have in
Dictated their intentions to increase
production. Balancing such AAA
practices as gardens, pastures,
corn crops, etc., with intentions
are necessary in order to insure
each farmer fulfilling his pledga.
During the meeting held at IN
dustrial College, Georgia, there
was full discussions of various
methods whereby all farmers may
be reached and given guidance IN
following a scientific and system
attic plan of procedure.
A committee composed of Ne
gro state supervising officials in
GLIDING P. H. Stone, state extern
sion leader; Miss Camilla Weems,
state home demonstration leader;
Alva Tabor; teacher trainer in vo-
cational agriculture, and Misses
Vivian Smith and Daisy L. Lewis,
supervising c~ounsellors of vocal
ional home economics assembled
the suggestions for organizing at
county and neighborhood levels
and distributed them to the $50
Negro state workers who attended
the conference.
The report of the Georgia COM
mittee pledged "all out support CT
Negro agricultural workers, farm
ers and other rural leaders behind
this production program.
The Alabama compilation COM
mittee composed of ]. T. Alexand-
err, T. w. Bridge and Miss l.. NJ.
Upshaw of the extension service,
F T. Mcqueen of vocational agri-
culture and Mrs. Abigail Hobson
of vocational home economics,
stated that throughout the confer
C there was every evidence Of
the desire of the Negro workers to
fully participate in the program to
attain the food and feed goals and
otherwise to contribute fully their
support to the government in the
present emergency.
White state officials of the AAA
extension service and vocational
education are attending and assist
ing in the meetings.
AAA officials from the Wash
ington office include E. A. Miller,
assistant to director, southern div
ision, who is in charge of the meet
ings; c. F. Clarke agricultural e
economist and the two Negro ad-
ministrative officers, James F.
Davis and A. l.. Holsey.
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WHITE RACE
A MINORITY
IN WORLD
Says Walter White
No Enduring Peace Unless Race
Factor Settled Right, Freedom
House Is Told -

House Is Told -
New York. There is no hope
whatever for an enduring peace in
the world until the right to full
participation in government and
to equal justice is accorded black,
brown and yellow races, as well as.
white" declared Walter White,
secretary of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People last week, in a broad
cast from Freedom House at its
formal dedication. Recognition of
this fact by the sponsors of Free
dom House was hailed by Mr..
White as a hopeful sign.
Mr.. White pointed out that the
white peoples of the world should
remember that they are the min
ority; and that the majority, COM
posed of non-whites, would not for
ever accept a world in which col
or relegated dark people to infer
Tor status.
"Lynchings, discrimination in
the defense program and other
manifestations of racial bigotry
are being used by anti-American
-propagandists to label the United
States as a hypocrite. Twenty
four hours after white military po-
lice attacked Negro soldiers at
Alexandria, Louisiana, on January
9. Japanese short wave broad
casts were heard in the United
States citing the Alexandria riot
as proof of what would be done to
colored peoples if the democracies
won the war. White America and
white Britain must in enlighten-
ed selfishness, wipe out every YES
tige of racial discrimination with
in their own borders or they may
suffer defeat and humiliation"
Mr.. White was one of a number
of persons who spoke at the ded-
ication of Freedom House which
is designed to be a center of act
ivities against totalitarianism
throughout the world. Wendell
Willkie declared that, Free men
know how to be tough, free men
know how to win" Others broad
casting were Dorothy Thompson,
columnist; Richard G. Casey, Aus
tralian Minister to the United
States; DR.. Frank Kingdom, CO
chairman with Miss Thompson OF
Freedom House; Herbert Agar OF
the Louisville Courier Journal; DR.
Francisco Castillo Najera, MeXl-
can Ambassador to the United
States; vladimir Hurba, Czecho-
slovakian Minister to Washington
and others.
Honorary president of Freedom
House is Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Among members of the board Of
Directors are DR.. Harry B. Gid
eonse. President of Brooklyn Col
lege; Dean Virginia G. G~ildersleeve
Herbert Bayard Swope, G. D, JACK
son, president of Time, Life and
Fortune; Lester B. Granger; MT
Willkie and Mr.. White.
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FORCES u. S.
LINES TO EMPLOY r
ON SIS k~UNGSHOLM

new YORK, Jan. 70 AM "A
recent protest by the National
Maritime union, CLIO, caused the
government to crack down on the
United States Lines and compel
the company to hire rs Negro un-
ion members, who were not ac-
~ceptable" the day before, for SER
vice on the former Swedish luxury
liner SIS Kungsholm. The quick
and strong action taken by NMU
and the government made q SER
ious dent in the s~hipown.r's wall
of prejudice against hiring seamen
because their skin is dark. The
United States line, Moore -CcCorn
ack, and Grace line r three of
the most important companies who
persistently refuse to hire colored
seamen and have caused many
ships to said short-handed.
With its new slogan keep EN-
sailing" the MUM seeks to throw
overheard the business as-usual
methods and discriminatory prac-
tees, and have war cargoes deliv-
cred on schedule.
The S. S. Kungsholm was rec
emily taken over by the govern
ment, although operated by the u.
S. lines. Last Dec. 2, the comp
any called the union hall for 140
seamen to man the liner. Among
the men sent were 25 Negroes of
a variety of ratings for the stew
ards department. The personnel
office of the company rejected
each one of the Is, marking mot
acceptable" on his assignment
card. In answer to their protest,
the colored seamen told =
write your senator or congress
man."
NMU President Joe Curran i'm
mediately dispatched a wire to
President Roosevelt, apprizing him
that the company's insistence on
doing business as usual was max
ing the unions Attempts to man
merchant ships difficult.
ut is the understanding of the
NMU," Curran wired, that the
expressed policy of the United
States government is nc discrim-
nation against any American be-
cause of color. Unless the oper-
ators change this policy of busin-
! ess as usual during the var emer
gency complete mannig of vessels
will become increasingly difficult
Before sending the message to
President Roosevelt, Paul Warfield
personnel manager of U. S. Lines
was contacted, but he claimed that
he knew nothing of the situation
According to John M. Franklin
J company president, who was in
f, Maryland, 1--WE don't discriminate
against anybody who's a member
of the union"
When asked if the personel mar
ager was violating company pol
icies, Franklin also replied that he
knew nothing of the situation.
The wire to the President bro
an immediate answer from the
maritime commission which stat
ed it was taking up the question
with the company. Later thai
CAV, Warfield called the union and
announced that Negro member:
would be accepted.
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Chicago and a series of engage
ments which include, Ell Dorado,
Ark, Jan. %, Camden, Ark, Jan.
%; Langston university, Jan. 26;
Oklahoma City, Jan. 27; Tulsa,
Okla, Jan. 80; Muskogee, Okla,
AKA's, Feb. 1; Sumner High
School, Kansas City, Kan, Feb.
3; Camp Livingston, La, Feb. g;
Ruston, La, Feb. 10; Lufkin, Tex
as, Feb. IL; Galveston, Tex, Feb.
IT; Waco, Texas, Feb. 20; Mont
gomery, Ala, Feb. "a; Tuscaloosa,
Ala, Feb. %; Florence, Ala, Feb.
27
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SOCIAL DISEASES UP,
REPORT o

Lincoln, Jan. 22-Chicken pox
and measles the most common dis
eases reported in Nebraska in 1910
were succeeded in 1941 by gonor-
rhea and syphilis, DR.. A. L. Miller
state health director, announced.
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ETA MOTEN brought happiness
to the members of the famous 25th
Infantry regiment upon the occas-
ion of her appearance in concert
there. Miss Moten sang to a CAP
acity house in the post theatre.
She was the guest of Mrs. Mary
Carter, senior hostess at the fort.
and was the recipient of many
graceful courtesies upon the part
of the veteran colored officers Of
the post and their wives.
Miss Moten, who was enroute
east from Los Angeles, left for
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COMPANY, Ohio-"We wish to
express our desire for six more
posters, if possible, so that we can
cover each department in u
plant"
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were diphtheria 128, influenza 1e7
measles 478, meningitis 1, polio
myelitis %, smallpox %, tuber-
culosis 1856, typhoid fever Fl,
whooping cough 728.
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would be accepted.