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The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
NAACP SUES IN
VOTE REGISTRATION
CASE.

Birmingham, Ala.,-Argument was
heard August 21 on the motion to
dismiss the complaint of w. L. Pat
terson, charging denial of vote regis
tration by the Alabama Board of
Registration. Special NAACP De-
fense Counsel, Thurgood Marshall
and Arthur Shores, represented the
plaintiff.
In the complaint which was filed
almost two years ago, Mr.. Patterson
alleges registration was denied him
solely on the basis of race or color,
and that despite the fact he answered
all questions correctly concerning his
qualification and filled in the requir-
ed application blank, the Board re-
fused to register him. Pointed out
also is the policy of the Board clerks
in filling out applications for whites
and denal of this service to Negroes.
A declaratory judgement for $4,000
was asked by attorneys for the plain
tiff who maintained that the suit was
based upon violations of the3 United
States Constitution and federal stat
utes, and as such was the type of case
to be decided by federal court.
Mr.. Marshall, pleaded that while
the registrars were state officials, the
naute of the complaint involved infrac
ton specifically of the 14th amend
ment 1--WE do not attck the laws Of
Alabama" Marshall said, ''only the
administration of the law in this part
icular case" He quoted a Supreme
Court justice who in an opinion on a
case involving parallel charges con-
sidered administration of such a law
with an evil eye and unequal hand
falls athwart the 14th amendment"
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
Only Vigorous
Action Will Aid
Fepc. CO1ltinuin'

Washington, DC.,-Senator Dennis
Shaver (Dem- New Mexico) and
sponsor Of the Senate Bill for a perm
anent FEPC, S2O4s announced that
he had been appointed chairman of a
subcommittee of the senate Educa-
ton and Labor committee to hold a
hearing on his bill to establish a per-
manent FEPC.
Senator Chavez indicated clearly
ne does not inetnd to hold more than
3 days Of hearings before the Senate.
The NAACP is reliably informed
that the Senate will not convene a.
gain until after the election unless
pressure of public opinoin causes
members of Congress to know that
it would be politically inadvisable to
remain in recess.
AS it appears now the hearings
scheduled by Senator Chavez will be
no more than mere "window-dress-
ing" as no definite action will be talk
en- by the committee before the cleo
ton. This comes as blow to those
who had hopes that the major polit-
ical parties would do something about
this grave issue, especially since the
House Labor Committee which held
hearings on the Dawson -Scanlon-La-
Follettc Bill in June mt and voted
today that it would moi resume hear
ings or take any action on the House
Bill until after the November election
Only unremitting and vigorous pro-
tests from constituents to their Sen
ators insisting on passage of the per-
manent FEPC now and not at some
future date after the election, can
prevent this unseemingly procedure.
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
TO CONTINUE DES-
MONIES Wac BAND

New York-In a letter to Walter
White, NAACP Secra-a-1, the War
Department announced its decision to
continue activation of the WAC band
at Desmoines, Iowa.
Inquiry into the situation was made
following a wire to Secretary Slim
son urging reconsideration of the
plan odisband the unit. Resembling
of the order was based on the evalu-
alton Of the Commanding Officer at
the WAC Training Center who con-
siders the band an excellent morale
agency and has requested its contin-
uation.
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
ANNIVERSARY
STARTS

We wish to announce that our an
niversary starts Friday Sept. 1st at
S:39 pT. and will continue nightly for
10 nights. Everyone is welcome to
come and feast with us. Also on
Saturday Sept. 2nd, we are celebrat-
ing our pastors birthday. Come and
join in with us and let us have
good time in the Lord.
Prophet Hess, Pastor,
2734 Blonde street. ..
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
JITTERBUGS ARE
HERE TO STAY

New York (C) ranted that the jit-
terbugs are here to stay, the nations
teachers are trying to refine it none,
theless. According to Dorothy Don
elson, convention manager Of the Ma
tional Assn. Of Dancing, a lot of the
violent gymnastics have been taken
out of the dance but many a teacher
over the country is suffering from
fallen arches trying to figure out mild
substitute steps.
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
SUFFERS FROM
HEAT; DIES

Mr.. Orson c. Hunter, A years Of
1923 Pacific street, died Wednesday
August 23rd at local hospital. Mr..
Hunter suffered a heat attack while
on roofing job the first of the
month and grew steadily worse until
his passing. Mr.. Hunter had been a
resident of Omaha for forty years
and was member of St. Benedict's
Catholic Church. He is survived by
a daughter, Miss Merica Hunter,
mother, Mrs. Chester Smith, three
aunts, Mrs. Margarete Ransom, Mrs.
Idella Gardner, all Of Omaha, Mrs.
Nina Ransom, uncle Mr. John Ran
som, Of Fort Worth, Texas.
The Rosary was recited Sunday
evening at The Thomas Funeral
Home and funeral services were held
Monday morning from St. Benedicfs
Catholic Church with Father Joseph
R. Moylan, S. J., officiating. Burial
at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
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MAUPIN'S COTTAGE
LUNCH NOW IN
NEW HOME.
WITH BETTER ACCOMMO-
DATIONS, FASTER SERVICE
EFFICIENT HELP.

Mrs. Maupin, one of our wide
awake and progressive business wom-
en-, began a restaurant business Sept
4, 1912 then operating at 1922 North
oath street. At this beginning she
had no employees but at the end Of
six months time, had one and at the
first of the year had two-by the
middle of 1943, had three and begin
ming in IA had four. From this To-
cation she built up worthwhile bus
mess and in time was able to buy the
present property at 2015 North gath
Street which under the expert guild
ance, architectural and masonry work
manship Of Mr.. w. F. Center the
property was made over into the de-
lightful ,showplace that it now is.
Mrs. Maupin opened her new lunch
room Saturday, August 26th and she
is now able to serve more people with
better accommodations, faster service.
and with very efficient help. 1--WE
hope to start at the bottom and build
up and we shall appreciate everyone's
patronage" says Mrs. Maupin with
her courteous and friendly smile.
11ElITRfSlIHV VHIllIHIHl
also ask any Democratic or Republic
an party worker no VITO go about reg
istering and voting. He will, indeed,
be glad to help you.
The important thins, however, are
to register now, or when the time
comes, and vote on election day. For
whom you vote is your business and
yours alone It's something you
must decide for yourself. But if you
can't vote on election day because you
failed to register, or if you don't vote
even though you did register, you will
hurt yourself, your children, your race
and your country.
+. You were given your ballot to use
Use it. It's your front line and most
! potent weapon.
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
REPORT THEFT
OF S697.OO

Cash and jewelry valued at $697
was reported stolen Wednesday by
Mrs. John Wlker- of 2721 Parker St.
The loot: SIS in silver dollars, scr
in dimes, $3.50 in pennies, and two
$25 war bonds and jewelry.
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
(BY LEWIS GANNETT)
sOMEWHERE IN FRANCE

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE -
Aug. 21 (Delayed)--If you go out
onto the ships in Cherbourg Harbor
you look down into the cavernous
holds Of Liberty ships and see the a.
mazing miscellany Of supplies that
keeps an army going being unloaded
by colored soldiers
You see colored soldiers rigging
the crates onto the swarms Of ducks
that chug back and forth, and colored
soldiers driving those weird amphib-
ious craft-boats with spare tire on
deck-out of the water, up ramp
and away.
Colored soldiers man winches as the
ungainly LIST. maneuver their way up
to the tracks across which flat cars
are transferred directly to the French
railway lines. And you see thousands
of black faces behind the steering
wheels of the endless conveys Of
trucks, tanks, trailers, gun carriages,
and weapons carriers which make the
front line advances possible. The Of
ficial figure is that 9 percent of the
American troops in France are col
ored, which is close to the proportion
Of the civilian population at home,
but in Normandy it looks like more
lot more.
Bdyyage Balloon Handlers ..
Negro units handle the silvery bar
rage balloons that protect the landing
beaches, and have been handling them
since d Day. They are stringing tel
ephone wires throughout liberated
France. They drive the fire trucks
armed with foam smothering chem
icals which are sometimes the only
indication to layman that a gasoline
or ammunition dump is just behind a
hedgerow.
American Negroes are doing the
oduple-quick job of building base
hospitals behind the front They
mount anti-aircraft batteries. Their
field artillery units are at the front
and they guard German prisoners
One sometimes suspects that an offic-
eF with an shlthopolicai sense OF hum
or selected the coal-black boys who
with rifles on their shoulders, march
as guards besides the struggling lines
of tired Henenvolk prisoners that you
see everywhere on the French roads.
Afro-American soldiers also mount
guard over the gangs of Germans who
have volunteered-for extra pay-to
do pick and shovel work about the
base hospitals and to clear the rubble
covered roads Of St. Lo and other
heavily bombarded towns.
| have just spent three days on a
tour Of inspection that covered some
OOO AtlllCo III fdl IOuS SCClOIS VI
with Brigadier General Benjamin o.
Davis, the only colored general in the
American Army, and his aide, Major
Homer B. Roberts, Of Chicago. Gen
eral Davis, incidentally, is the father
Of Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O.
Davis, Jr., who graduated tenth il,
his class at West Point and is now in
command Of a fighter group Of four
squadrons on the Italian front.
General Davis entered the United
States Army in 1896 and has been in
it ever since. He has long, strong
memory, and in virtually every en-
campment he recognizes officers :
and occasionally non-coms-with
whom he has served in China or the
Philippines, on the Mclean border or
in one Of several dozen American
Continued on Page W2)
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02
MIXED-UP
FIGHT

A four-way fight that ended with
two trends as antagonists Monday
night resulted in ST fines Tuesday
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After much confusion on the part
OF surly audience, the Misses Dor
othy M. Jones, 451S Calumet Ave,
left and Mary Jeanne Ballord, 4254
South Parkway were both crowned
Queen of the Elks National Bathing
Beauty Contest by the Grand Exalted
Ruler, ]. Finley Wilson. The coron-
alton was the climax of the Elks
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ial occasions, when they wear the uni
form of the highest rank or grade
they held during the war.
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Cited for
CT g q n
Physical
Condition

Coolnel Clarence W.. Richmond,
(zUhite) Their Commanding
Officer, Served Under Gen. Benz.
Dazis ~ the oh Cavalry ....
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GOOD CONDUCT
FOR EVERY YEAR
IN SERVICE.

Guaducanal South Pacific-Cor-
pora' Joshua Foster, Of Omaha, Neb.,
has been in the South Pacific with an
Engineer Organization since early
January, this year. The husband of
Mr.. Willie Mae Foster, 1926 Cald-
well ST., Omaha, the corporal entered
the army March IS, 1871 and receiv-
ed his basic training at Fort Riley,
Kansas. In his present organization,
Corporal Foster is a construction fore
man. A brother, Corporal Louis
Foster, is somewhere in the Europ-
ear theatre. Prior to entering the
service, Corporal Foster was employ
ed at. the Fontenelle Hotel, Omaha.
Hc played professional basepall, his
last cluy being the Texas Black Spi-
ders, and is at present star memper
of all Island team He. has run a.
cross several friends from civilian life
in this theatre
Corporal Foster has a good con
duct medal to show for each year of
serpice and has been in the cavalry as
we'll as the Engineers.
DeInEsBHp8spseessnsss1sesea
morning in police court for Stella
Williams, 23 of 26Os Patrick avenue,
and Mabel Pollard, 80, of 1913 V N.
gath street. The two told Judge Den
mis- O'Brien they we're attacked by
two other women but got befuddled
so that hen police appeared they were
fighting each other.
The Omaha guide., 1944-09-02

Bill "Bojdngks" Robinson, aoorld
celebrated tap dancer leading the fotv
hour EMS parade doaVn beautiful
South PdrkaOay Bonlevard IN Chicago
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J. Finley Wilson, Grand Eraited
Ruler of the Elks receiacd tremend
ons hand as his car passed through III
cro1sd of 100000 during tic 44ng 2
parade IN Chicago. The reelection .
the great Eli Leader BY aeca nation
for his 2Srd term, indicates the high
esteem he holds ~ hearts of his con
stanency. PPNS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
TOMORROW'S MENU (Eat the Basic ] Every Day)

BREAKFAST: Orange Juice. ready to eat cereal, fried scrapple, enriched toast. butter or fortified margarine. currant jelly, coffee, milk for children.
 LUNCH: Red kidney beans, onions and tomatoes, enriched hard rolls, raw carrot sticks, cranberry and raisin tapioca, tea, milk for children.
 DINNER: Dreamed codfish in egg sauce, parsley potatoes. buttered peas, cabbage and j. pie salad, whole wheat bread, butter or fortified margarine, praline cake, coffee, milk for children.
 Peanut butter Is one of the Basi Seven Foods.
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IT'S ALL OFFICIAL

More than 1750 books and period icals were assembled by Warner Bros. for the research job necessary to make "The Adventures of Mark Twain"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
3 MeKENNEY oN BRIDGE
GOREN TAKES PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY America's Card Authority

Tn winning the national open board a-match team-of-four cham pionship this year, Charles H.. Goren set several new records. This victory gave him five national championships for the year and one runner-up. It also gave him more than 300 Master points, the largest number ever accumu- lated by one player in year, and cinched the Mckinney Trophy awarded to the outstanding player of the year. Goren's teammates were B. Jay Becker and Mrs. A. M. Sobel of New York and Sidney Silo- dor of Philadelphia.
 Here is an interesting hand from the event. East's bidding did not lack aggreSsiveneSs. and West seemed to face an impossible task to make the contract. South won the first trick with the ace (dummy played the jack), then led the club ace and continued with the queen, North winning. North led another heart. West won and returned a club. North dis carded a heart and South won. A heart was returned and won by West, North and East discarding spades. The king and ace of dia- monds were then played and a low diamond was ruffed. Dummy was entered with the ace of spades and the diamonds gave the tricks needed to fulfill the contract.
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ration the fOOd valid will printed them Thus point would
 and you would get tokens in change.
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take up such problems.
 And young parents, eager to do right by their small children, pretty much follow the good ad- vice that is handed out to them.
 But until the wartime increases in juvenile delinquency forced the matter to public attention, there wasn't so much advice available for parents of adolescents.
 And parents themselves, by the time their children have reached the teens, probably lose a lot of their youthful zeal to handle be- havior problems according to the advice of authorities.
 JUST ANOTHER PROBLEM
 When Susie was 2, her parents went to a book on child psychol- ogy or to a pediatrician to find out what to do about Q behavior problem. But they don't go to anybody when Susie, at IS, be- comes manageable.
 They don't think of her rebel lious attitude as just another be- havior problem, probably com mon to many adolescents, and one
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for which there is a cure, just as there was a cure for her childhood behavior problems.
 Instead, they throw up their hands and say thay can't do thing with her. Or they try to bully her, and that makes matters worse. May be one trouble with our adolescents
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&@M GlAA @y4|
 RNfckoMMM
 Make Toothsome Praline Cake For Special Treat
BY GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Staff Writer

There's no law against making the most of available foods. That's & matter of having good recipes. How about a toothsome praline cake for dinner2 Save some for the workers lunch box next day.
 Praline Cake
 (6 to 8 servings)
 Cake: Two cups cake flour. sifted, 3 teaspoons baking powder, IA tea spoon salt, IA cup shortening, 3-4 cup sugar, l egg, unbeaten, 1 tea spoon vanilla extract, 3-4 cup milk.
 Sift together flour. baking pow der and salt. Beat shortening un- til creamy: add vanilla. Beat su- gar into shortening gradually; add egg, beating thoroughly. Add sift- ed dry ingredients alternately with the milk, beating mixture until smooth after each addition. Pour cake batter into well greased one- quart heat resistant glass utility dish. Bake in a moderate oven, $50 degrees F., about 40 minutes. Spread Praline Topping on the cake while 1t is hot.
 Topping: One-quarter cup brown sugar, 2 teaspoons flour, 1-3 cup nut meats, chopped, 3 tablespoons melt ed butter or fortified margarine, I tablespoon water
 Mix together thoroughly lrown sugar, cake flour, chopped oceans, melted butter or fortified margar- inc and water. Spread tins mixture carefully over the top of the hot cake. Return to the moderate oven $50 degrees F., and bake for 5 min- uteS.
 Here's another seasonable dessert everyone likes.
 Cranberry and Raisin Tapioca
 (Serves 6
 One-half cup seedless raisins, 1 cup water, 1-2 cups halved, raw cranberries, 4 tablespoons sugar, cup water. 3 tablespoons quick cooking tapioca, tablespoons su- gar, 1-8 teaspoon salt.
 Cook raisinS and l cup water over direct heat 5 minutes. Wash cram berries. Add cranberries and 4 ta- blespoons sugar to raisins; cover and cook 5 minutes longer. or ,'ntil done. Place cup water in top of double boiler and bring to a boil over direct heat. Combine tapioca, remaining 4 tablespoons sugar, anu salt; add gradually to water and bring to a brisk boil, stirring con- stantly. Place immediately over rapidly boiling water and cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool mixture clears and thickens as 1t cools. When slightly cool, add cranberry mixture.
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minutes. But the tokens are ex- pected to reduce that time.
 For the housewife, the system is easier, too. Each ration stamp will be worth ten points, regardless of the numeral now printed on the stamp in her book. She will get change in tokens. and each token will be worth one point and will have no time limit on it.
 Here's the way it works: If you buy pound of butter, 1t will cost you, under present conditions, l6 red points. But as each ration stamp is worth 10 points, you will have to give your grocer stamps and ask for change. He will give you back red tokens.
 VALID ANY TIME
 Remember this: Each token is worth exactly one point and is datelesS. The blue tokens are for processed goods, the red for meat and fats.
 Three red stamps with a total of 30 points will become valid every two weeks beginning Feb ruary 27. The first series of red stamps will remain valid until May 20. This arrangement will give a total of 6 red stamps with a total of 60 points for each four-week period. This system makes it far easier for the housewife to budeet her ration points. And the longer validity periods also should nelp to cut down that last-minute rush to spend points which are about to expire.
 Behind the two billion red and blue tokens now being made, and the carefully worked-out method of using them, lies a little hint which many consumers. their eyes fixed on battle headlines, may overlook. The government didn't go to all this trouble in the belief that the war will be over any day now. Nor that rationing will stop when the fighting stops.
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is small, doesn't follow through when the child reaches adolesc- ence7
 Parents know what to do when junior, aged 2, refuses to ca { his spinach or has Q temper tantrum. There are newspapers and magazine articles, books, and child study courses by the t.ho,isnndR that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
BY GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Food and Markets Editor

NEA Food and Markets Editor
 Today. in Cincinnati, two billion ration tokens are being made from tough vulcanized fibre. That's quite a bit of change. It will begin flow ing across food counters into house. wives purses on February 27. It will make life eaS.er for grocerS and simpler for housewives, and will save the government money.
 It costs the government nearly $l l,500,000 to produce a ration book for the nation. With these new tokens to supplement ration stamps of 8 single denomination, War Ra- ton Book Four can last 96 weeks. At least three ration books, at a total cost of about $4500,000 would be required to carry through this same period if ration tokens were not used. OPA believes the two billion tokens ordered will last at least a year, maybe longer, and will save more than $2,000,000.
 TOKENS SAVE TIME
 The token will reduce the headaches of neighborhood gro- cers. Under the present system of coupons only, they have been obliged to count and sort and de- posit over four billion separate ra- ton stamps spent by consumers each month. The new system will reduce their work by about SO per cent because only II stamps (6 red and 5 blue) will be validated for buying rationed food during each ration period, roughly a month. as against 28 under the present ar engagement.
 Furthermore, tokens will take the threat of nervous breakdown out of the grocer's job of making ration-coupon change for shop pers. Before the war, it used to take about three minutes to wait on the average customer. Now it takes, they complain, about Is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20

Although radios fir: ,-cheekec Katherine Smith has never taken this exercise, this trumpet-bloweI in Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orches- tra applauds it. Says footing on a trumpet keeps muscles in good shape, flesh above them firm. According to Katherine, "You don't have to worry about sagging contours if you'll keep muscles that brace them in fine fettle."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
NOT THE SAME

Despite the fact that Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Claude Rains and other members of the cast of "Casablanca" are in Warner Brothers Passage to Marseille," 1" and both were directed by Michael Curtiz, the new film is not a sequel to the former nit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20

is that the parents who carefully sterilized their childrens bottlees when they were babies and straight ened out their personality kinks when they were kids just didn't fol- low through with interest and con- cern and enlightened guidance when they reached the teen ages.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
Beauties Hints
 Give Muscles a Workout to Keep Cheeks Youthful
BY ALICIA HART NEA Staff Writer

Blow out your checks. Although it sounds silly, it's the best known exercise Tor keeping facial con- tours firmly braced. One famous New York beautician wheedleS eli ents who want to stay young into blowing an imaginary feather around and around.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
-MR. TIIR MoAEKN.
-----WR, THE WOMEN Don't Stop
 Being Parents
 When Children Reach Teens
By RUTH MHLLETT

Could 1t be possible that one reason why there Is so much juvenile delinquency in this country is be- cause the average parent, to handle behavior problems when his child
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
GET DEPTH CHARGED

The shattering effects of pattern depth bombing as experienced by a submarine crew are kAown in faith full detail in Warner Bros "Destina- ton Tokyo" story of secret mis- sion taken by an American sub in Pacific waters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
MICHELE ALL ALONE

Michele Morgan, playing the role of Humphrey Bogart's wife, is the only femine member of Warner Bros Passage to Marseille" directed by Michael Curtiz.