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The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
AS Fight Against
Agency Spreads
By Ernest E. Johnson

Washington, (ANP)-Upon his
return to the capital last week.
President Roosevelt found him
self confronted with requests to
settle three cases arising out of
the efforts of the Fair Employ
ment Practice committee to com
bat discrimination.
These involve the disputes with
the railroads, the boilermakers'
union on the west coast, and the
Capital Transit company situa-
ton. In all of these cases there
has been sufficient evidence pro
duced to conclude that impasses
have been reached.
The unsettled question in the
minds of many observers, however,
is whether or not FEPC viii show
the courage and directness" ex-
%emplified by the National War
Labor board in its handling Of the
Point Breeze, Nd, case ~centering
around the demand by Western
Electric company employees for
separate toilet facilities for
Negroes.
While the railroades cited in the
September hearings have until De-
cember 23rd officially to comply
with the committees directives,
they filed their response on De-
cember 18th and left no doubt in
anybody's mind as to what they
planned to do within the next 10
days. "Impracticable," unreal
istic" lacking in jurisdiction" are
some of the things the response
said about the committee and its
directive.
The initiative o rests with FEPC
The boilermakers' union has IN
til January 23rd to act upon d.
receives against them to break up
the jim-crow auxiliaries, and to
the five shipbuilding companies to
rehire the Negroes they fired in
accordance with a closed shop
agreement. The union claims no
jurisdiction. Injunction proceed
ings instituted by fired employees
are now in the federal district
court in California, and the judge
has taken the matter under ad-
visement before rendering his de-
cision.
Irrespective of what the courts
decide, the committee will still
have to secure enforcement of its
directives, or at least that portion
of them which may not fall within
the purview of the courts ruling.
There is within FEPC a determ-
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
REST ON YOUR HOE
IN A LET'SDIG FOR FREEDOM

green peas, tomatoes. Especial
stress placed on a heavy increase
in the production Of green and
leafy vegetables.
In our southern region states we
have 546,625 Negro farm opera
tors as follows:
Alabama, 1884; Arkansas, ST.
OPS; Florida, 9,758; Georgia, 3d.
1872; Louisiana, 1854; Mississippi,
159, $40; South C~arlonia, 61,3O7;
Texas, 52,753.
Let US 90 on wartime schedule.
If each of our farmers will give
the customary half holiday on
Saturdays during the year 1914
and apply this two days per month
to their y%ear-round garden, it will
be a contribution to the war effort
far greater than we a imagine,
as it will mean 13,1O4, 500 extra
days in the production Of food for
our own families and all of our
boys at the front.
Remember, there was no hunger
in America this year,
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
By J. P. Davis

little Rock, Ark. (ANP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt in a recent address
said, "In the last war American
farmers fed four million people in
uniform. In the present world war
we are feeding 1000, 900 who are
scattered in all parts of the world
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
r. Wickard said, "There were 2O,-
100000 Victory gardens in 1943,'
and is asking for %, 1000, 900 or 10
per cent increase.
The secretary also said that a
recent survey showed approx
mately 80 per cent of those who
started gardens last spring were
still working away at them and
now have excellent paintings.
Judge Marvin Jones, wal food
administrator, is asking for an in
crease over 1913 production in the
following truck crops for veg
etables.
Lima beans, snap beans, cab
bage, carrots, sweet corn, onions,
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
Believe 93d really to Go
Into Action

Los Angeles, (ANP)-The be-
lief grew in some quarters here
that the 93rd divisions departure
for overseas duty may not be too
far off after all.
Brig. Gen. Benjamin o. Davis,
Sr., passed through the city last
week enroute to Camp Clipper
where the division is based. 1t is
understood he was going there
to make an inspection. The gen
eral, however, would make no com
ment on the purpose of his visit,
~preferring to maintain the silence
to which he has additionally ad-
hered.
Divisional inspection is a normal
procedure before a unit is about
to embark for a theater Of opera
ton, although imminent departure
need not be contingent upon in
spection.
However, there has been an I'M
relenting clamor among Negroes
for their men to see combat duty
and not be relegated to the labor
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25

Beginning January First, julius
E. Hill will become a regular mem
Der of THE OMAHA GUIDE staff.
as a Special reporter He viii al
50 be in charge Of circulation.
% years ago Hill had his first ex-
perience in the newspaper busin-
ess, which he began by writing
rhythms that were printed IN the
Hastings Daily Republican news
paper at Hastings, Nebr. He mas
written and sold quite a number Of
short stories and has been editor
Of VI small weekly newspapers.
He received his training in the
schools and colleges Of Nebraska,
but studied journalism in Mime
apoIis. MINI. He is a veteran Of
World War No. lis a member Of
Roosevelt Post No 80, the Ameri-
can Legion and is its present pub
licity officer.
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
MILLER MISSING
IN ACTION
CONTINUED from page j,

Continued from page -
race to be so honored in this war. He then read the cita-
ton which said:
while at the side Of his Captain On the bridge.
Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the
face Of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who
had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety.
and later manned and operated a machine gun directed
enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave
the bridge"
Later, in January 1913, while visiting the u. S. Naval
Training Station at Great Lakes, Ill., Bluejacket Miller
explained that the Pearl Harbor incident marked his first
experience with a machine gun. Addressing hundreds Of
Negro Bluejaekets who are now being taught at Great
Lakes to handle such weapons, Miller said:
at wasn't hard. I just pulled the trigger and she
worked fine I had watched the others with these guns.
! guess 7 fired her for about fifteen minutes At those Jap
planes. They were diving pretty close to US"
Miller who was born October II, 1919, left his fathers
small Waco, Texas, farm on September Is, 1889, to en-
list in the Navy a. a Mess Attendant, Third Class, at
Dallas, Texas. He was sent to the Naval Training Station
at Norfolk, Va, and then was assigned to the U. S. Ari-
IONA on which he served until the morning Of the Japanese
on Pearl Harbor.
Official reports reveal that he arose at 500 a. m. on
the morning of December 7th, and was collecting laundry
when the alarm for General Quarters sounded. He head
ed for his battle station-the anti-aircraft battery mag
azine amidships-only to discover that torpedo damage
already had rendered it untenable. So he went on deck
where because Of his powerful size-he was Immediately
assigned to the task Of carrying wounded to places of
greater safety. An officer ordered him to the bridge to
aid the mortally wounded captain. Miller helped remove the
dying officer, and then returned to the machine gun. Since
Pearl Harbor, Miller has been assingned to various other
naval vessels. Shortly before he was reported missing in
action, he was serving aboard the Aircraft carrier LIS
come Bay which was sunk BY enamy acton II tha S1uth-
west Pacific on November "a. 1913.
Miler's parents live at Route l. Box 161. Waco.
Texas The missing hero has three brothers, one a pri-
waite in the U. S. Army.
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
'Yank' Army Weekly
Plasts White Rule

Washington, (ANP)-"Yank,'
the army weekly publication,
thinks it folly" that Negroes
Should Be governed BY whites
when Negroes in the army and
navy are fighting for our couutry's
rights.
This is the publications printed
word as contained in the Deem
Der 18th issue, and directed at a
Sgt. Nolan and Cpl. Hitner whose
letter to the editor sought editor
ial opinion on "the race problem
after the war"
Negroes will think they are
equal to the whites because they
have fought in this war, and some
white people will feel the same
way about it." wrote Nolan and
Hitner. 1T is our opinion that
they should not be given equality,
but should be rewarded, perhaps
with some portion Of some country
for their own use, where they viii
be governed by white people, in
order that they will be taken care
Of and still have a chance to make
a good living"
The editors of Yank had this
answer:
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25

9346 prohibiting discrimination in
war industries and agencies on &C
count, of race, creed, color, or ma
tional origin.
The letter asserted that the rail-
roads had the "temerity" to at
tempt to blame violence which they
r attempting to stir up upon the
President.
Asserting that the inaccuracies
in the document, drafted by ex-
perienced lawyers, cannot be ac-
cidental" the NAACP points out
that the Southeastern Carriers
agreement was a joint contract and
that the FEPC hearings in Sep
TENDER virtually established a con-
spiracy by railway companies and
vigorously and unequivocally this
impudent challenge Of your author
Ity as PRESIDENT and as Command
er-in-Chief Of the Army and Navy"
unions against the employment Of
Negroes"
Blasting the statement of the
companies that conditions Of
chaos will result if Negroes are
employed, the letter states that
this idea is being planted deliber-
ateIy in the minds Of the travelling
public ''for sinister and undemo-
cratic purposes"
The President is urged to meet
with the prediction that the over
whelming majority of the American
people will give him unqualified
support.
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25

"YafK takes its views on the
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
COP SAYS
PARTY WILL AID
NEGRO "After New
Deal Defeat in IA"

New York, n. Y.-''The Repub-
lican Party will again undertake
its historic task Of working for
the betterment of the Negro people"
after the defeat of the New Deal
in 1914, is the opinion Of Harrison
E. Spangler, chairman of the Re
publican National Committee.
This statement, contained in a
letter to Walter White, NAACP
secretary, was sharply challenged
by Whites who pointed out that the
present record Of the Republicans
in Congress has caused Thought
full Negroes of the United States
to entertain very real doubts" of
such action. White emphasized
that the Hoover administration par
ticularly, as well as the admins
trations Of Harding and Coolidge
convinced Negroes that the COP
was not working for the better
ment Of the Negro people"
The continued alliance in the
present and recent Congresses of
conservative northern Republicans
and southern Democrats "has done
and is doing infinite harm to the
Negro" the NAACP secretary de-
clared. The Soldier Vote Bill was
cited as an example of the opera
ton Of this coalition by White who
asserted, "the shameless betrayal
of nearly 1000, 900 members of
the armed services, at least 10 per
cent of them Negro, would never
have been put over had not Is Re
publican senator's joined with "a
Democrats to pass the Eastland-
McKellar-McC lellan substitute"
Also set forth in the NAACP let
ter were the flibusters against the
anti-lynching bill and the anti-poll
tax bill. White charged that the
Republicans in the Senate refused
to vote for cloture which could have
broken the flibuster on both bills
and permitted them to come to a
vote.
Congressman John Taber (Rep.
N. W was singled out by White
for his anti-Negro speeches and
activities in connection with the
OWL pamphlet, Negroes and the
War"
Referring to the appearance be-
fore the National Republican Club
in New York City on December ii
Of Senator ". Lee pass the Bis
cults Pappy) O'Daniel, of Texas,
White declared:
"The taking to the bosom Of an
important unit of the Republican
party of an individual like Senator
O'Daniel certainly is not reassur-
ing to US that the Republican Party
will again undertake its historic
task of working for the betterment
Of the Negro people"
In acknowledging the receipt Of
"a Declaration of Negro Voters
Chairman Spangler wrote:
Il am firmly convinced that wher
the people have completed in 1914
their plainly indicated plan of re-
moving the New Deal from our ma
tional life, the Republican Party
will again undertake its historic
task of working for the bettermenf
Of the Negro people as well as al
others"
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
Mrs. Huten, Pioneer Omaha Social, Civic Woman Dies
Was Prominent in
City's Welfare Work
was former teacher
at San Juan, Puerto
Rico

After a brief illness, Mrs. Grace
Hutton, former teacher in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, ard long a
worker in Family Welfare Asso-
citation, passed to her reward.
Born in Osceola, Iowa, her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Morris,
came to Omaha where the children
were all educated. She taught
awhile in western Iowa and Ne
braska; also a commissioner in the
Colored Commercial Club; ard a
pioneer in Boy Scouting.
She was also a member Of the
American Association of Social
Workers, Nebraska Welfare Asso-
citation, Youth Guidance Council,
and active in establishing social re-
lations work in the Nebraska Do
cese of the Episcopal church. She
was a member Of St. Phillips
CHURCH.
She was married to DR.. Jesse
II. Hutten and to this union was
born one son, Jess, now in the
e. S. Army. Other relatives are
Mrs. Myrtle Goodlow, Omaha, Ell
mer Morris Of St. Paul. Mimi, DIT.
Craig Morris, Omaha, ana 2nd L--
Jess Huttens.
Services VII b Thursday al 10
a. m. at st. Phillips Church, Canon
George St. George Tyner oficiat-
ing.
Burial will be in Forest Lawn,
Lewis Mortuary in charge.
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
Announce
Union


The annual Union Services of
the churches will begin with the
First Sunday night of the New
Year, January 2, 1914, according
to the agreement Of the partici-
pating ministers and announced by
Rev. Clarence C. Reynolds. The
Services Sunday night, Jan. End,
will be held at st. John A. NJ. E.
Church with the sermon by Rev.
f. S. Goodlett and music BY the
Pilger church choir.
The Ministers are hoping that
these Sunday night services shall
be largely attended, and that each.
church shall send representatives
each Sunday night from their
Prayer Bands to participate in
the 1880 Devotional Services. We
are urgently pleading this year for
a true spirit of Evangelism
through out all of the services,
so that our loved one and friends
may be saved in Christ and for
His kingdom. The services will
begin each Sunday night with de-
votions at 7:3O and the sermon at
8 o'clock.
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
Ask Roosevelt to Act
i'm h r FEPC Cases

nation on the part of some to see
the Capital Transit dispute, dang
ling since December, 1912, settled
by the end Of the year or soon af-
ter. There is hardly anything now
to be disclosed about the case which
is not already known, and yet Paul
Lunt, a sociologist hired by the
labor-management committee for
the company, is making a survey
Of how best Negroes a be up
graded and hired into platform
jobs.
In this case, however, there are
several measures which the COM
mittee can employ to effect en-
forcement before proceeding di-
rectly to the President. There
would, Of course, have to be a dis
position on the part Of the various
other governmental agencies to go
along on FEPC recommendations
for enforcement. Initiative is still
with the committee.
The only time FEPC has appeal
ed a case to the President was in
1871 when the international As
ISOLATION of Machinists (AFL) re
fused to give Charles Sullivan
a Los Angeles Negro, a card 50
that he could work in a shipyard.
The case came before the first
hearing of the original committee.
The President called in William
Green, AFL president, Green call
ed in the lam president, and he
the president of the local. Sullivan
got his card shortly after.
In view of the Presidents fol-
low-up on the ruling of Comptrol-
ler-General Lindsay Warren, which
practically took the props from
under FEPC had it remained, it is
doubted here that the President
would hesitate to maintain con
sistency with an election coming
up next year.
One wag hero has said that IF
EPC may be the Presidents baby,
but it dosn't preclude his calling
for a blood test" which may or
may not make n c
defiance of fepc by railroads --
is called sabotage of war effort.
Washington, D. C.-The defiance
of Is southern railroads on the di-
receive Of the FEPC that discrimi-
nation in the employment of Ne
groes must be ended was termed
sabotage of the war effort little
short of treason" by the NAACP
in a letter to President Roosevelt.
The NAACP pointed out that there
we're in the letter Of the railroads
to the FEPC "two thinly-veiled
threats of mob violence" to thwart
the provisions Of Executive Order
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25
Tell it to Hill and he
will tell It to the public.



postwar race problem from the
founders of the United States who
believed that all men were created
equal. No man should talk about
giving any American that which
he already has by inalienable
right. On Aug. 31st, there were
74,O13 Negroes serving in the navy
and 582,861 in the army, Of whom
1853, 300 were overseas. There is
a Negro General in the U. S. army.
The navy recently named an air
field after a Negro who gave his
life for the service.
"Yank believes it is folly to
propose that Negroes be governed
by. whites when Negroes in the
army and navy are fighting for
our country's rights, when Negroes
in our state and national legisla-
lures are helping make our
country's laws and when there
are Negroes in our courts interp-
reting our laws"
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25

work that is, of course, a normal
part Of army life.
The 93rd has been at Camp
Clipper since early April immedi-
ately after spending two weeks
on maneuvers in Louisiana. 1t
was activated at Fort Huachuen
on May Is, 1912, as first all-Negro
division Of World War End.
Its cadres were obtained from
the 25th infantry and the 368th in
fantry. The division has been COM
manded by Maj. Gen. Fred W.
Miller since October, 1912.
The Omaha guide., 1943-12-25

The fighting men Of Huachuca prouly present one
of the most pleasant personalities to have visited
thte Fort for scores Of moons. She is the wife Of
Cpl. Fayard Nicholas (of the famous dancing Mich
olas Brothers. who is one of the top noting features
IN the 92nd Infantry Special Service Division. The
former Geraldine C"Gerry''O Pate spent several
weeks here with her popular husband and is now
spending the holidays with her parents in the east.
She is expected to return to her Los Angeles home
where she will head a national magazine in that area
until her ''real thing comes home. (PPS)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Natures Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY
WESTERN HEMLOCK
(TsugG heterophullaJ.

Western hemlocks are trees of in
creasing importance to mankind.
Today many of them are found In
the deep forests of humid coast
regions from Prince William Sound
in Alaska for a thousand miles to
Marin County. Calf, slightly north
OF San Francisco, and inland as far
as Idaho and Northwestern Mon
tana. They are also found on the
seward side of the Cascade Noun
tains at elevations from 1900 to
$500 feet above sea level, OCCASION
ally ascending to attitudes of 5000
feet.
Under favorable conditions. in
cool, moist locations, the Western
hemlock will grow to greater dimen-
sions than its Eastern relatives.
Many have been found from 100 to
$50 feet high, with II to 81 inch
| diameter, when 100 years old. The
5o0-year-olders may reach a height
Of $50 feet, with waisthne ranging
! from 8 to 10 feet. .....
| Western hemlocks are dignified
trees with stern and massive out
line when they have enough space
really to spread out their many
branches. These individuals have a
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Bedtime Stories
MOON MULLINS
THE SPIRIT
DRAFTIE
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Peter Rabbit chuckled to himself
as he left Unc' Billy Postum and
scampered ON down the Lone Little
Path through the Green Forest to-
ward Bobby Coons house. "A
stomach is a funny thing thought
Peter. Yes, sir stomach is a
funny thing. People say that this
one or that one is good-nearted or
bad-hearted when half the time l
don't believe the heart has any
thing to do with it. It's the stomach.
That's what it is-the stomach. II
q fellows stomach is just comfort
ably full he is good-natured, and if
it is uncomfortably empty he is
cross, It's surely funny how differ
emily things look when you've got
something in your stomach. Now
this is certainly a beautiful spring
morning, but Unc Billy PoSsun
couldn't see it until he got that
beetle in his stomach Then he was
his old. good -natured self all in a
wink. Why. if it wasn't for stom-
achs we wouldn't have much OF any
thing to worry about"
Peter stopped running to think
this new idea over He can always
think better sitting still. It's a
fact" continued Peter. talking out
loud TO himself IF it wasn't for OF,
stomachs VIC never would have tc
worry about food and We Wou'dn't
have to worry about enemies be-
cause We wouldn't have ANY," Al
this amazing thought Peters eyes
opened very wide He felt that h
had made discovery
Il don't know about that sale
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Not This

Sc, and Julia L. Ward, 30. 1909 2sth
corpl. Frank P. Del Guidice, 20. Baltimore,
Md, and Mary c. Clements, 20, l43o
22d st. Sc.
ne, and Dorothy j. Dion, p, 1879 Trim
sally J. Dwyer, 30. $50 Allison st. NV.
Richard c. Carlson, 81, SO4 alst ST. n w,
and Christine E. Sawyer, % Augusta
Richard G. owens, 81, Louisville. KY, and
Mabel E. Walker. IS, New Colonial
waiter Peterson. 3s. l102 L st. NV, and
Catherine Meyer 26, Davis, w. Va.
Robert E. Anderson. %, Norfolk, Va. and
Mary E. Edmondson, %, Falls Church
Robert F. Gebhardt. q. 3l34 Branch ave
Sc, and Margaret A. Stazel, II, 1884
william F cavanaueh. 80. 1925 F. St. W,
| and Jessie A. Miller. "a Troy: N Z,
and Dorothy NJ. Payne. 20, 7l3 Hamlin
Karl E. Elmquist, 81, us b st Sc. and
Rudolph A. Riskamm. -, Walter Reed
Hospital and Miriam B: Winston, 90
500 Lamont st.
Icy b. Cornet. 81 627 Newton pl. Nv
Raymond r Gotkln. %, 1853 Bird ST. NV,
and Eleanor Block 81 3o4l 4th 81. n W.
Lawrence ]. DAILY. so. 1880 18th st n ".
and Helen c. Quinn. IS, $50 Jocslyn
st. NV.
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rattle and Oisie in The Sunday Stars seconJ

comfortably. That is the time TO
sleep, as any one with common sense
knows. But when the snow ism t
too deep I come out in winter just
for little exercise and to get a
bite to eat. I'm not so foolish as to
sleep all the time, nor am l so fcol-
ish as to come out when the weather
is bad. I believe in being comfort
able"
There's no doubt about that"
said another voice. Peter and
Jimmy looked up to see Bobby
Coon coming up the Lone Little
Path. Bobby yawned and rubbed
his eyes
Hello, old sleepyhead! When did
! you wake up?" cried Peter.
This morning" replied Bobby
Drummer the Woodpecker ham
mered on the side of my house until
couldn't sleep another wink. :
had to get up to drive him away
! Funny how inconsiderate of others
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Paul Foqorty

some people are. Now I'm up,
guess I'll get something TO eat.
feel hollow clear to my toes. I think
Ill go over to the Laughing Brook
and see If 1 can't catch a fish Or
two"
That reminds me- Have either
Of you fellows seen any fat beetles
this morning." asked Jimmy Skunk.
IF I had they would be where
they would be doing the most good
now" replied Bobby Coon, patting
his stomach.
I've seen one said Peter.
"Where?" demanded Jimmy Skunk
eagerly.
disappearing down the throat
Of Unc' Billy Possum," chuckled
Peter.
Huh grunted Jimmy, with a
disappointed air. IF that old sinner
is abroad. guess I better be moving
II | want to get my share of fat
BEETLES"
So JIMMY Skunk started On Gown
the Lone Little Path. Bobby Coon
ambled off toward the Laughing
Brook and Peter Rabbit headed for
the Smiling Pool to see if Grand
father Frog was awake yet.