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The Omaha guide., 1944-11-11
The After Election

is the question whether all these good
speakers and race champions will hi
bernate for another four years after
election or stay on the firing line a.
gainst the common enemy. The ma
tionai Negro Council calls upon all to
lraly to the uncompleted task Of de
handing that President Roosevelt as
COMMANDMENTS Chief, now as before
Nov. 18th to court martial 1t. Gener-
al Brehon Somervell for the reported
slur Of returning coolred veterans as
first published by Harry McAlpin,
White House press Correspondent in
the leading colored weekly newspap-
ers. The great dailies, the Chicago
Tribune and the Washington Times
Herald were the first newspapers to
publish the protest resolution sent by
the National Negro Council to the
President calling for positive action
in this matter before election day to
discipline this prejudiced officer
Now the election is over, let us all
unite to back up this demand to re-
move 1t. General Somervell from
command of the y. S. Army Services
as No. / on the Races must program
for the alleged statement ! would
like to throw all the coons in the mid
die of the desert"
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ARMISTIG DAY 1884,.

have created, discovered, invented,
taught
We have to face the fact that be-
fore this war is ever, thousands up
On thousands of these, u finest, will
have died. They will be Americans,
maybe rich or poor, maybe Black or
White, maybe Protestant, Catholic or
Jew; but NOT German-American,
Russian-American, Itaian-American
not a son of the American Revolu-
ton, not an immigrant-but just
citizens Of the UNITED States-A-
mericans who loved their country and
its ideals of freedom and equality e.
nough to offer their lives that these
ideals of justice and democracy
might not perish.
We, too, though we cannot fight,
must not shame the land from which
we sprung" We have a duty as
binding upon US as that of any sold
Ter as long as this war lasts. After
wards We have another duty, too
that of seeing to it hat they did not
die in vain, that the promises made in
edthe Four Freedoms are at last full
filled for all the peoples of all the
earth, and that those who come after
may i've as free men, unafraid in a
free world.
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KAT 4ERINE DURHAM PROTEST &c POLICY
Shocks White
Audience of
1000 with
Unexpected Talk
by MARVIN SMITH

Louisville, KY, (PPNS) Rather
Inc Dunham, renown interpretative
dancer attained the ranks Of other
race champions this week when she
protested before an audience of more
than 1000 the racial segregation en-
dorsed by the Memorial auditorium
where she and her troupe appeared
last Thursday.
Miss Dunham's stand is deservant
Of much praise, and her remarks adj
dressed to the audience after the per-
Torrance from the auditorium stage
must have caused considerable shock
among some of the white Kentuck-
ians. When Miss Durham returned
to the stage and uttered her first
sentence, a complete silence settled
over the crowd, who had a moment a
60 loudly applauded the staging OF
her Tropical Revue" Said Miss
Durham in a very clear and strong
voice This is the last time l am
coming to Louisville because the man
agement refuses to let my people sit
with your people. Maybe after the
war we viii have democracy and l
can return"
Other race performers who refused
to make appearances in jim crow
theatres are Paul Robson, current
star of the much acclaimed stage
play Othello, and Lena Horne, who
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Pullman Porter, 60
Dies Aboard Train

Sam Foster, Of 1867 Cass Street,
second Oldest Pullman porter in the
Omaha district in point OF service.
died of a heart attack while on the
BurHrgton-O Omaha Casper run last
Thursday night near Ravenna, Nebr.
FIe was employed by the Pullman
Company since March 10, 1911 and
ahd been on the above run for 10
years. He left Omaha on the Burl-
ington train Thursday afternoon Oct
26, 1914. The body was taken off
the train at Ravenna, Nebraska.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Matte Foster, a sister Mrs. Blanche
Goens Of Denver, Colorado.
The funeral wa held from the
Myers Funeral Home October 31st,
1914. Burial in Forest Lawn Gene
terry.
The Omaha guide., 1944-11-11
BY RUTH TAYLOR

"Here lie gUe dead because gCe did
not choose,
To shame the land from qVhich
1ge sprung.
Life is perhaps no great thing to
lose,
But young men think il is,
And 5Ue are young"
We, who remember the casualty
lists of the last war, walk with
ghosts today. Besides the soldiers on
our streets, we see those other lads
whose lives were far too short, who
loved life too greatly to be misery
with it when their country called.
In the Armistice Day pause this
year, there will be new heroes to re-
member. All over the globe there
are places halowed by those who
could say as did A. E. Housman in
the "Epitaph for the Fallen"
Here lie we dead because We did not
choose to shame the lang from which
we sprung"
They have given their all and it
was so much! Who knows that great
things they might have accomplished
what great good might have come
to the world if they had been allow
ed to live, what things they might
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Biven's Tabernacle
To Hold Armistice
Day Program Sun.

"A Christian and Armistice Day
program will be held at 2711 North
gath Street, the home Of the George
E. Biven's Tabernacle next Sunday,
November 10, 1914 at $50 pm.
The Mistress of Ceremonies for
the program will be Mrs. Mesley. {,
The program is as follows:
1. Selection by the choir.
2. Scripture Reading, Minister.
3. THE War-191s" Rev. Doug
lass Of Cleaves Temple, Is minutes.
A. A solo by Mrs. Mosley.
5. An address by representative Of
American Legion, Post No. 3o-5
minutes.
6. Selection by the choir.
Z. Principal Speaker-Mr. Will
lam Parkinson, Area Director War
Manpower Commission, 20 minutes.
s. An address by Iozgy White, In
fantry, Illinois. 10 minutes.
Offering.
Announcements by Sgt. Bivens, 5
minutes.
The National Anthem.
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ctott OJIHtt ~ L.. NC ~ JQ
URGES THOSE SUFFERING
FROM VENEREAL DISEASE
TO SEEK ADVICE
Ryland E. Mleford, Nebraska State
Health Department, urges all persons
suffering from venereal diseases and
those interested in the treatment of
the diseases to obtain Information
from their private physicians how
best they can be cured or have their
cases arrested.
The use Of the new drug "Penicillin
has proved very efficient in the treat
ment Of early infectious syphilis and
gonorrhea. For those person inter-
ested n the clinical and hospital SER
vices of the State Health Depart
ment and the United States Public
Health Service information may be
secured through your private physic-
ian or either Of the above named a.
gencies.
Mr.. Melferd, Of the Nebraska
State Health Department, is Assist
ant Director OF Venereal Disease
Control Education and is the only
Negro Health Officer in this area.
All persons wishing private consulta-
ton with Mr.. Melford, may make ar
rangcments by calling the Omaha Ur-
ban League.
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Fighting Negro Sea
bees Return Home
UNIT CITATION FOR
TWENTY MONTHS OF
JUNGLE WARFARE AND
BUILDIN UNDER GREAT
DIFFICULTIES 49,.

Veterans of 20 months of jungle
warfare in the South Pacific, and
bearing a unit citation for many our
standing feats of construction COM
pleted under great difficulties, the
first battalion of Negro Seabees to
go overseas has returned to this coun-
Try, the Navy Department announced
this week.
The unit, the 34th CONSTRUCTION Bat
talon, indoctrinated at Camp Allen
in Virginia, sailed outside the conten-
entail limits Of the United St1es on
January Z, 1912, and arrived in Nou-
mea, New Caledonia, nineteen days
later. Since that date, the unit has
suffered casualties of five men kill
ed in action and 35 wounded.
The first big job tackled by the
unit was the construction of the Hal
avo Seaplane Base at Halavo in the
Florida Islands. Brigaded there
with the Acorn (Red) -Four, an air
unit, the 34th Battalion helped carve
its camp out Of a deep jungle. Dur
ing February and March 1943, the
two outfits experienced two direct
enemy bombings and were under al
most nightly enemy air raids in the
area for a period of five months.
Casualties from these raids resulted
in two killed and % wounded.
A detachment of approximately $50
men were transferred on March 10,
1913, to Guadalcanal to assist other
battalions in constructing fuel and
gas storage facilities. This detach-
ment remained on Guadalcanal until
November 1913, constructing all typ
es of airfield facilities and housing.
They were under frequent enemy air
raids for the first six months of
their duty there and then less fire.
quent raids, the last of which occur
red in October 1913. No casualties
resulted.
On April 20, 1913, another detach-
ment of approximately 200 men with
rs percent of the Battalion's heavy
equipment was transferred by Let's
to Russell Island where they laid out
and constructed, together with the
35th Construction Battalion, the sec
ond fighter strip north of Renard
Sound on Banika Island. This de-
tachment was a part of what was es-
sentially a regimental command on
sisting of the entire 47th Battalion
and one-half of the goth Battalion.
1t was assigned to the task of con-
structing a 6,0O0-foot bomber strip,
and a 500 foot fighter strip on the
Russells in time for the New Geor-
gia campaign. These Seabee units
completed their assigned task on time
and the first three units later enlarg-
ed the bomber facilities south of
Continued page 81
The Omaha guide., 1944-11-11

New York-The NAACP Youth
Conference which will be held a,
Virginia Union University, Richmond
Va, November ..7-19, 1914, promis-
es to be the largest in the history of
the Association. Seriously interested
in the theme, Building for Total
Democracy, delegates have already
registered fror states as far distant
as Michigan, Massachusetts,, Ala
bama and Georgia. Since the MA
ACP Couth membership has more
than doubled in the past year, it is
expected that the number of delegates
will be far in excess Of the 200 at
tending last years conference.
DIR. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,
New Cork's first Negro Congress-
man and pastor of the worlds largest
Protestant Church, Abyssinian Bap-
fist, will deliver the keynote address
at the opening mass meeting, on Fri
day night, November II. Response
will be made by Mrs. Ruby Hurley,
magnetic young youth secretary.
Ella J. Baker, Director Of Branch
es, will open the discussions on Sat-
urday morning, the topic being, RE
cruiting for the NAACP, A Mass
Organization. She will outline re,
cruiting and sustaining Association
programs.
Gloster Current, former president
of the Detroit Youth Council, now
Executive Secretary of that Branch
will outline Protest and Pressure
Tcchniques for a Mass Organization
for the second discussion Of the day.
Emphasizing the conditions under
which other minorities live, Rabbi
Edward Klein of the Free Synagogue
School, New York City and another
speaker to be named, will lead the
discussion Negro Youth Relation
ships to National and international
Minority Problems"
Rev. James H. Robinson, dynamic
Youth leader and pastor of the
Church Of the Master, New York
City, will summarize conference find
ings.
Judge William H. HASTE, Dean
of Howard Law School and Edward
R. Dudley, Assistant NAACP Coun-
sci will provide information.
Miss Marjorie Penny, Executive
Director, of Fellowship House,
Philadelphia, Pa, will speak for the
Sunday morning Chapel Services and
the closing meeting of the conference
es.
Highlighting social features of the
conference will be a reception for
delegates by Dr. ]. M. Ellison, pres
ident Of Virginia. Union University
and the host chapter of which Mar
shall Shepard, Jr-, is president will
give a dance for the visitors.
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EX-BLUFFS RESIDENT IS
WINNER

Manson G. James, AZ, Negro candi-
date for Polk County Representative
at DesMoines, who apparently was
assured Of election Wednesday, is a
former Council Bluffs resident.
lie served several years as custod-
ian Of the Council Bluffs City Hall,
leaving in 1888 to take a state Civil
Service appointment as a mail handl-
er at the State House.
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JOE LOUIS TO IN
BOXING EXHIBITIONS

Chicago, (PPNS) 1t is expected
that fight fans of the Windy City
will soon have the keen pleasure of
witnessing the Brown Bomber in ac-
ton after a hull of more than two
years. Sgt. Joe Louis, king OF the
heavyweight division, who is now en-
joying a 81 day furlough, began his
exhibition tour at Detrot's Olympia
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November 3, with Johnny benson as
his target in three rounds Of exhib-
ition boxing.
Louis is scheduled to appear in sey
eral cities during his tour. None Of
the exhibition bouts are to exceed 5
rounds.
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Dr.. adam Clayton PoaCeH, I.
New York City NAACP Youth
Conference.
CONGRESSMAN ADAM
JR., AMONG
NAACP YOUTH SPEAKERS
VIRGINIA UNION NOV. 1919
The Omaha guide., 1944-11-11
BY EDGAR G. BROWN

Washington, DC, (PPNS) The
voters al the height of World War
ii, have gone peacefully to the ballot
box and help reelect Pres. Roosevelt,
President of the United States for
the next four years.
During this next administration the
country must still be made conscious
that the $4,000, 900 coolred Americ-
ans expect a radically better deal in
the future, on the home front and a.
broad, especially for our million SER
vice men and women in the Army and
Navy. If we can whip the Nazis and
The Japs, we must strike down Jim
Crow here to make the victory a real
ity to colored people. 1t is an all
out, uncompromising militant fight
on I'll fronts for equal rights and
justice under the constitution, North
and South. The President, the Con-
gress, the press and the radio must
be even more articulate on these prop
ositions Of decency and the dignity
Of human personality. Full citizen
ship must be gained by ~unceasing
mass pressure upon Congress, the
White House and at Albany, Spring.
field, Jefferson City, Harrisburg,
Annapolis, Richmond, indianapolis,
Montgomery, Austin, Sacramento and
every one of the forty state capitals
Of the nations capital at Washington.
Il UNITED STATES TEN
POINT FRONT. ...-
A united racial front for all hui
mainly and unlimited security must
be the order of the day in the Unit
ed States. /. Mass action without
regard to race, creed or color in an
all inclusive program of indignation.
2. Broadening and deepening of 90,
ial security and national welafr laws.
8. Reconversion Of industry and full
employment in private and public
work. A. Universal compulsory mil
itary training on an unsegregated
basis and no Jim Crow. 5. Federal
statute multiplying all Jim Grow State
laws. 6. Federal statute authoriz-
ing punishment and heavy fines for
any form of public discrimination
and such abuses in civil and military
affairs. z. Use of the armed serv-
ices to prohibit mob rule, riots and
disfranch1sement. 8. Absolute pol
itical independence and action. 9.
Opposition to foreign ~ideologies and
narrow nationalism. 10. War on
government, management and labor
organizations practicing unholy and
unconstitutional racial discrimination.
CAMPAIGN MUST GO ON ....
The Republicans, Democratic and
PAC orators and strategists won't
get ten dollars daily expense allow
ance and one hundred dollars per
speech, now that the partisan political
campaign is ended. 1t is only a ques-
ton of who is elected to state nation
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Meat Rationinq
Returns in July

WASHINGTON, June IS (INS)
The ration point holiday for IS
per cent of the nations meat
probably will be ended in July to
correct bad distribution of sup
plies. il was learned today.
The mporary zero point
values for a number of major
canned vegetables may also be
terminated, il was said, because
most of the 1943 pack Of canned
goods now has been moved off
grocer and wholesalers shelves,
as planned, to make room for the
incoming 1914 pack.
n A.. n.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Yanks Attack
After Ha|tinQ
Ndzi Smash
ALLIED SUPREME HQ.

ALLIED SUPREME HQ.,
LONDON, June Is (UP)-
American airborne forces,
crushing enemy resistance
in a powerful drive from
Carentan, surged six miles
across the narrow neck Of
the Normandy peninsula to-
day TO within seven miles of
the last German escape high
way and railway from Cher
bourg.
American tanks and infantry
were advancing toward the west
coast oyer parallel roads on a
-mile-wide front. 1t. Gen.
Omar ~. Bradley. the American
commander. appeared TO have
committed his main strength in
an attempt to seal off the PENN
sula for an about assault on
Cherbourg, u miles northwest of
Carentan and one Of the best
ports in France.
TANK BATTLES
While the Germans hastily
sought means Of countering the
grave threat to their north-south
communications, tank and infan-
try battles were fought at Monte
bourg. Troarn and several other
key sectors along the 105-mile
perimeter of the expanding Nor
mandy beachhead.
Street fighting ragged into the
third day at Montebourg, ID miles
southeast of Cherbourg. but the
Americans held a stretch of high
way northeast of the town and
had almost encircled il.
The Germans. at last reports,
held Troarn, five miles east of
Caen, at the southeastern corner
of the beachhead, but Allied
forces repeatedly thrust into its
streets in see-Saw fighting
Caen, still under bombardment
M fContfnued on paoa I'M
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Pittsburgs InstdIIs
Daily Prayer Hour
Special TO THE DETROIT TIMES

PITTSBURGH, June 15-Mayor
Cornelius d. Scully and city coun-
Gil, by unanimous resolution, have
established a pause for prayer"
at IL a. m. daily here. Every
person in the city Is called upon
to stop at that moment and offer
a united prayer for "the safety
of our loved ones, a speedy VIC
tory, and a just and lasting
peace"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Ray Schneider
In State Prison

Ray d. Schneider. form 9 r
Wayne County auditor. quietly
arrived at jackson Prison Tues
day to start his 3 to 10-year term
for accepting brides in the award
ing of insurance contracts, it was
disclosed today.
Schneider was assigned No.
58067 and taken to quarantine,
where he will remain 80 days be-
fore being assigned prison chores.
He was convicted in 1912 but
remained free pending an appeal
which was rejected by the state
supreme court June 5 of this
year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Kelly Chooses Tyler
In Fight ON Mckay

LANSING, June Is (UP)-
Jerry Tyler. 43. Niles Industrial
list, today confirmed a report that
he had been secretly selected by
anti-McKay, forces as their can
didate for Republican committee
man.
Disclosure of Tyler's selection
tipped the hand of a Republican
bloc, headed by Gov. Kelly. seek
ing to unseat Frank ID. Mckay
as COP committeeman at the
June 20 national convention in
Chicago.
Informed sources said Tyler
was picked with approval Of Kelly
over three other possible con-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Air WAC Recruiting Doubles

Air WAC recruiting has doubled the figures for the
same period month ago, according to 1t Emory Solo
man, in charge of WAC recruiting.
With the closing of the schools yesterday attendance
during the day scared Several hundred east side school
children were at each gate when the show opened
Checkers of the Ford Motor Co. checked in ID O93 per
sons during the last three hours of the exhibit yesterday
only one of the gates 1t estimated that at least an
equal number came in the other gate and the total visitors
Tor the day were estimated in excess of $4,000
(Other news of the Air Show on Page 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Bayeux Sings;
For Gau||e

By JOSEPH WILICOMBE -
WITH CANADIAN FORCES
IN FRANCE, June IA (deiay( d
UNS) - Bayeux seemed reb3f0
tonight after Gen. De Cattle, I151
of the French Committee Of No
tional Liberation, personal1y
greeted its citizens and infcru161
them that the hour Of iberafion
had struck. ss
In dramatic appearance in.fhe
square before the towns faxD6G
cathedral, the Free French 60
eral said:
"Citizens Of Bayeux, the gess
eminent Of Free France salu1eo
you, the first liberated town.
De Gaulle's appearance In the
towns main street was traaES.
nounced. He was standing IN q
open automobile when load
speakers on nearby trees todd q
his presence.
Suddenly the village was alive
with cheers; emotion was ~
bounded. -:
After telling them liberation y
at hand, the general said, his voice
marked by emotion:
81 want to ask you 60 sing
the Marseillaise with me-"
Tears sire a m ID down III
cheeks of men, women and cl1ikp
dren alike. Many women CARRIE
children in their arms as they
sang the stirring anthem. &r
Army Air show In Frre ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Adm. HdIsey Is Shifted
To New Pacific Post.

SOUTH PACIFIC HQ.. June IS
(UP)-Adm. Halsey today was
relieved of his command Of the
South Pacific area and the South
Pacific force of the U. S. Pacific
fleet TO take new and as yet
undisclosed role in the Pacific
war.
He was succeeded by Vice Adm
John Henry Newton. former dep
uty commander of the South
Pacific.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15
Strawberries Scarce.
Few Left for Canning

A short crop of strawberries.
together with some black market
activity, will make home canning
of that berry virtually impossible
this summer.
That was the bad news passed
along today. by the municipal
bureau of markets, which reported
that the crop Is two-thirds less
than normal and the supply is
ordinary to poor quality.
The bureau reported also that
shipments would taper of at the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-15

The enemy account OF the
assault by combat forces said to
have landed from a score Of
transports after a bombardment
by u. S. warships was given In a
wireless transmission by the
Domef agency.
Heavy fighting is going on
between Japanese units and
enemy forces which attempted
to land on Saipan Island" Japa-
nese said.
The Domei description Of the
assault, unconfirmed by official
u. S. quarters, was recorded by
FEC monitors.
The Japs claimed that one at
tempted landing on Saipan Island
had been frustrated by the gar
rison but added that a another
landing had been attempted on
'Mariana's Harbor" and that the
Japanese were engaged in con-
flict with the invaders"
HEADQUARTERS REPORT
The Americans made their way
toward shore from 20 transports
aboard some 20 landing barges,
Domei said.
Since last Saturday the islands
had been subjected to aerial on
slaughts by u. S. carrier-based
planes, and headquarters of Adm.
Nimitz announced at Pearl Harbor
yesterday that battleships. cruis-
ers and destroyers had opened
up with their big guns Monday
against Saipan and Tinian islands
in the Marianas group. japanese
bases in the Kuriles. 600 miles
north of Japan, also were shelled.
The fact that the Marianas
were subjected to such sustained
assault indicated an early landing
assault against this japanese
bastion protecting the southern
approaches to the main japanese
islands. Guam, formerly a u. S.
possession, is one of the Marianas.
Domei said that 20 transports
had appeared off Saipan and
from about $50 a. m. Tokyo time
$3.50 p. m. Wednesday EWT) had
attempted a landing, employing
about 20 landing barges and some
20 to 80 special barges."
"A n.