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Evening star., 1946-06-04
Negroes Cross Picket
Line 10 Hear Choir,
but All Ends Well
(See Music Repie,D OF Tuskegee
Choir on Page A-14.)

| Everybody was pleased today with
the outcome of the anomaly at Con-
stitution Hall last night where
Negroes marched through Negro
pickets to hear concert by an all
Negro choir.
After completing concert ap-
plauded by a capacity audience and
praised by reviewers, the Tuskegee
Institute Choir was in Richmond
today preparing for another concert
there tonight.
Nearly every seat was sold, and
the United Negro College Fund will
benefit. Yet the Washington Com
mittee of the fund had stuck to its
principles in refusing to participate
because the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution reaf1irmed their
policy against permitting Negro
artists to use the hall for CONNER
cial concerts, after leasing it to
Tuskegee Institute.
Committe to Continue Fight.
James H. Baker, member of the
Committee for Racial Democracy
in the Nations Capital, said many
who went through the line of rs
pickets took their circulars into the
hall and promised to support the
fight against the OAR.
The committee will continue Its
fight against discrimination and viii
support the Washington Committee
in its effort to raise a $4,000 quota
here without taking any credit fol-
concert proceeds sent to its national
Office in New York, Mr.. Baker re-
ported
Mr.. Baker believes the OAR ad-
ministration allowed Tuskegee to
use the hall under pressure from a
dissenting group in It's own ranks
and then reaffirmed its old policy
against Negro artists when strong
opposition failed to develop at the
OARS Atlantic City convention
last month.
! No Strings to Contract.
Mrs. Lucille Dale of 1869 Sumner
road Sc, sister of DR.. Freed D.
Patterson, president of Tuskegee,
said today her brother felt the con-
vention controversy was no concern
of his and did not interfere with
the business arrangement he had
made with Constitution Hall.
Like the Committee for Racial
Democracy, DR.. Patterson wants
equal opportunity for every one, she
emphasized. Nothing was said
about segregation and there were
no strings attached when he con-
tracted for the hall, Mrs. Dale re-
ported.
Fred E. Hand. manager of Con-
stitution Hall. said the concert
crossed between $4,000 and $4,000
Net profits will go to the United
Negro College Fund. and that figure
will not be available for about a
week. he reported, explaining that
ticket sales were handled by C. L
Cappel of Baltimore. The funds
headquarters in New York said il
would accept the money from Tus-
kegee after the Washington Com
mittee had refused it.
Evening star., 1946-06-04
Gen. Hull Will Command
Mid-Pacific Army Forces
by the Assoeioisd Press

1t. Gen. John E. Hull has been
assigned as commanding general OF
the Army forces in the Middle Pa
cific, with headquarters in Hawaii
He will assume his new command
July /.
Gen. Hull, who has been assistant
chief OF staff here, succeeds 1t. Gen
Robert C. Richardson, jr., who re-
linquished his command last March
Replacing Gen. Hull on the gen.
eral staff will be Maj. Gen. Lauris
Norstad, at present assistant chief of
staff of the Army Air Forces and
chief Of Staff of the Goth Air Force
Gen. Norstad is a native of Mime
apolis.
Gen. Hull, a native Of Greenfield,
Ohio, also will be commanding gen.
ersf of the Hawaiian Department.
TIL shifts were announced by the
Wa Department yesterday.
Evening star., 1946-06-04

strive to become
b e t er moral
guardians" of
the young.
Mr.. Mcmillan
sp ke owe r
WMAL on the
last Of a series
Of seven Youth
in Trou b | e"
broadcasts spon-
sored by The
Star in cooper
alton with the
M e t po Titan
Police and Po-
lice Boys Clubs.
In the midS,.
Evening star., 1946-06-04
Time Tested Crowd PIeosers
Feature New RingIing Show
What's new at the circus this

What's new at the circus this
year?
why, it's all new and all differ
ent," exults the press agent. Its
bigger and better than ever"
Remembering the big shows move
to "modernize''' few years ago with
blue main tent and other new
tangled doodads, the reporter went
yesterday with hopes it would not
be too new or different. His re-
assurance came with the first group
of performers-some not long out OF
the armed forces.
There's Lou Jacobs, that high
domed clown, and dozens of his antic
fellows bringing laughable proof
that the circus is bigger and better
in the same old way. There are
new people putting new twists on old
routines, to be sure. But only the
more discerning follower of circus
affairs can pick them out without
looking at the program.
Old Friends and Newcomers.
| 1lle "dilclludS dlC UdCh-tilS
Wallendas with their bicycles, chairs
and balancing poles on the high
wires. Other old friends, too, and
such postwar newcomers from over
seas as the Arriolas, Spanish somer-
saulters, the bicycling Belgian gym
nasts and the balancing Ericksons
from Sweden.
Short of skilled hands. the show
got under way an hour late al
yesterdays opening matinee. Mean
while, parents and children in the
usual relatively small first-perform-
anee "house" waited outside as flna.
adjustments were made.
I Last nights show went off more
smoothly as the big organization
settled down for its six-day stano
Fat Twenty sixth street and Bennine
road>NE. with matinees at 2:15 pm
I and night performances at 8:15 pm
Evening star., 1946-06-04
Jefferson Davis Honored

RICHMOND Va. June 4 (R.-
Graves of Jefferson Davis and his
daughter, Winnie, "the Daughter of
the Confederacy," were decorated
yesterday in observance of the 18Th
anniversary Of the birth of the pres
ldent of the Confederate States of
America.
Evening star., 1946-06-04
TAO Servicemen Due
To Arrive in i. 5. Today
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

By the Assoeiofed PFess
One vessel is scheduled to arrive
at New York today with 725 return
ing servicemen, while is more per-
sonnel are due to debark from fou1
transports at San Diego, Calf, and
Seattle, Wash.
Ships arriving:
At New York-Mahonoy City Vic
tory from Bremen (due originally
yesterday, 725 miscellaneous troops
At San Diego-Two patrol craft
and repair ship USS Indra, 9 Navy
4 Marines, two civilians.
At Seattle-S. S. Lawrence Gia.
nella from San Fernando, 2 Army
Evening star., 1946-06-04
Grace Moore UnubIe
To Sinq in London
Nv the Asxoe;o,sd p,.s,

BY the Asxoeiotsd Press
LONDON, June "A bad cold
prevented Grace Moore from sing
ing last night at concert of the
London Philharmonic Orchestra for
which she had made q special trip
to London.
Her place on the program in AL
bert Hall was taken by Marjorie
Lawrence, Australian soprano who
Evening star., 1946-06-04

company grant the 1872 cents ar
hour wage increase accepted by the
other roads at the end of the ma
tion-wide rail strike.
H. g. M. management has con-
tended it was not a party to the
talks in Washington and could not
afford the increase since its income
was derived exclusively from passen-
ger traffic at fixed rates.
The full effect of the walkout was
felt yesterday, the first norma
working day after the long Memoria
holiday. Ferries were jammed anc
busses and automobiles clogged the
Lincoln and Holland tunnels.
Evening star., 1946-06-04
Lou HoItz Sued for Divorce

LOS ANGELES, June 4 (P.-Mrs.
Phyllis Gilman Holtz, former New
York stage actress, yesterday asked
"a divorce from Comedian Lou
Holtz. She charged cruelty, and
asked division of community prop
erty. and support for their daugh-
ter, Laurie Elizabeth, 5.
Evening star., 1946-06-04

What else to see? The bareback
riders, including the fifth generation
of the Loyal family race around the
track. Ramon, 3i2, of the sixth gen.
Grafton already is in training.
Gargantua on Exhibition.
Gargantua the gorilla and his
aloof girl friend Toto are on ex-
hibition in their air-conditioned
glass-inclosed cages. Theirs is an
impromptu act Not a part of the
main show, they are left to their
own devices and contrive a success
sion of grimaces and gestures of
contempt for the spectators passing
into the big top.
Clayton Behee, billed as the only
performer now offering a triple
aerial somersault, cavorts on the
trapeze with his wife and brother
The funny men recognize the
atomic age with an ominous-lo looking
contraption composed of tubes, re-
torts, gears and pulley arrange
ments. A crank is turned-and the
laugh provoking result has little
bearing on nuclear research.
Ponies~always appeal to the young
sters and this years show includes
sleek-coated, long-maned company
of we'll disciplined prancers.
Remember the giant and the
midget following host of clowns
out of standard automobile:
They do it again. The big parade
still defies description in reasonable
language. Emmett Kelly clowns his
way among the spectators once more
There are trained dogs. chimpanzees
seals, horses and elephants in gen.
erous number.
Sideshows, peanuts, spun candy
and the band plays on, as loudly
and continuously as ever. It's the ole
Ringing Brothers and Barnum ano
Bailey circus with new features com.
plementing the time-tested crowd
pleasers.
Evening star., 1946-06-04
Mcmillan Stresses
Youth S Future Role

Youth is the Nations greatest
asset" in the atomic era which has
dawned with the wars end, Chair
man Mcmillan of the House District
Committee declared last night,
emphasizing that adults should
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07
The Bell Tolls
Continued from Page u

problems. The old organizations with experience and COM
munity prestige are amply qualified to handle the situation,
provided that they revamp their setups and re-estabiish con-
tact with the Negro mass. To service the steady stream of
Southern migrants and see that they are adequatIy housed
and given employment could be easily accomplished by some
of our national organizations, with local chapters or branch
es. This organization could work in close cooperation with
the railroads and bus companies 50 they would know when a
Southern migrant started to leave for a large city. Repre-
eentatves could approach them to give advice, to re-route
them il their chosen city il overcrowded and to secure hOus-
ing and employment for them wherever their destination.
Another national organization could easily handle the
housing end by buying up a few buildings, rigging them up
into reputable hotels OF rooming houses for men and for
women migrants. Still another, could handle the employ
ment end, so that the migrant might not only be satisfied in
their new secured job, but able to make a living at it.
Of course, the success of this program would depend on
close cooperation between all three organizations.
TINE FOR ACTION .
The church, which is the mainstay and guide of the Jew
ish people and was once considered the same for Negroes,
seems to be involved now i'm chickering's for power and self
wealth of its leaders. The same is true of some fraternal
orders-notabIy, the Elks, an international organization Of
500, 600 members, with lodges in almost every city and
town. They are both racial institutions. Will they heed the
pressing call for action-revamp-and do something for the
race?
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

in Canada of multi-colored wool,
with golden crowns. A doll was
given each Firm Framer who spon
sored the party. The six were Mrs
Andy Kirk and Mrs. Erskine Haw
kins (wives of bandleaders), Mrs.
Olivia Clarke and Miss Rose Nor
gan (co-owners of the Rose Meta
House of Beauty, Inc.,) Sylvia
BARLEY Miller (lyricist) and Mrs.
Villa Lee Calvin news syndicate
editor).
Before the official crowning, a
much sought for music box which
chimes the nursery tune ole King
Cole, was played and put aside
for Mats "favorite girl', his wife
Nadine, who was unable to make
the trip from California in time.
The Firm Trainers. a society of
devoted friends who knew Nat in
his struggling days, are the first
of their kind to throw such a la
wish affair for a top star of the
day. The six pooled their know
ledge and worldly possessions to
show Nat Cole and his trio that
as far as they were concerned, the
three were all Kings.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

would result in the Imprisonment
of hundreds of young people and
the death o fscores."
Other speakers were Madison
Jones. NAACP Administrative
Assistant; Isaac S. Heller, white
Orleans attorney; President Dent
of billiard, and George Snowden,
professor of economics at the uni
versity.
The Rev. Robert Wilson, of Col
umbia, S. c., was elected chair
man for 1946-47, while resolutions
were passed condemning the one
party system in operation in most
of the southern states" and the
complete end of segregation in all
forms of public travel, services
and accommodations. Congress
was urged to pass appropriate
bills and the Department of JUS
tice to take action against the
denial of the right to vote in the
white primary.
The end to all forms of discrim-
ination in the armed forces was
urged upon the Congress, federal
aid to education, stronger child
labor laws, support for the Wag-
ner-Ellender-Taft housing bill, a
national health bill, increased and
fairly distributed federal aid for
education, and abolition Of mill
tary training were sought.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

Mr.. Edgar c. Schmidt, execu-
tive assistant of the Union Pacific
was named chairman OF the 1947
drive of the Douglas County Chap
ter of the Red Cross Saturday.
The announcement was made by
Vincent c. Haskell. chairman of
the local chapter.
Schmidt has been prominent in
Omaha civic affairs for a number
of years and handled the publicity
in connection with the Red Cross
drive in Omaha in 1913. He direc-
ted publicity for the Omaha Can
Ger drive two years ago and was
chairman of the publicity commit
ttee of the recent City-Wide I'm
provement Campaign
The new drive chairman Joined
the Union Pacific in 1927 after
serving as reporter and editor on
newspapers throughout the west.
After serving as director the Com
pany's news department in Los
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

! NAT KING COLE wave coro-
net over his faithful subject,
press agent elores Calvin, during
ceremonies at the surprise party
given for the King Cole Trio by
a selected group of his friends
last week. Left to right: Oscar
Moore, King Cole, Sylvia BARLEY
Miller, Miss Calvin and Johnny
Miller. ..Calvin's News Service
Nat Cole is now officially a
King. At a gala, unique surprise
party last week at the stunning
st. Adams, Long Island home of
DR.. and Mrs. Jesse Miller, Nat
and his Trio were sanctioned as
royalty.
The unusual idea was originated
by the Trio's promotional expert.
Dolores Calvin who dreamed up
the gathering of outstanding Gel
ebrities to pay honor the the ma
TONS top trio, Nat, Johnny and
Oscar who are breaking all re-
cords at the Paramount Theatre;
are tars of the weekly NBS Shows
the Kraft Music Hall and the Wild
root program; and one of Capitol
Records ace drawing cards. 1t
was her idea that the six sponsors
of the surprise affair be called the
original members of the Firm
Fran Society. Grim Fran comes
from Mats last seasons hit ""The
Firm Fran Sauce".)
Guests arrived on two chartered
buses leaving from the Hotel
Thresa and Hotel Waldorf Astor-
la, making the half hour trip to
st. Adams on a secret route. Greet
ing the celebrities in st. Adams
were Miss Calvin, in a hostess
gown and Mrs. Miller, who stood
beside the guest book where a big
black wooden cat, made in Canada
for the occasion, stared at the sig
ners. The cat sported n of Mats
old ties around its neck and had
a gold crown tilted on its head.
The crowd met downstairs at
the bar where Nat completely took
over mixing drinks for Henry Arm
strong, Ethel Waters, the Three
Blazers, Sarah Vaughn, Sy Oliver
and a host of friends and press
people. Nat made himself a King
Cole special Of scotch and iced
champagne.
Highlight of the evening was the
unique singing Of a special song
written for the occasion by Sylvia
BARLEY Miller and Walter Bishop.
You Wanna Squeeze Me Like A
Lemon and Toss Me Aside, Sy
Oliver, famous arranger, sang it
with Billy Kyle at the piano.
More than 200 guests scrambled
for a 125 pound roast pig, two
baked hams Zone cooked by Mrs.
Count Basie), roast turkey hors
d'oeuvres catered exclusively from
Sutton Place. To Trio's radio
sponsor, Kraft Cheese Company,
sent over Is pounds of their new
McLauren's Cheese which has not
been used anywhere since the war
Pepsi Cola had 800 bottles deliv-
cred which were served by five
New York University co-eds who
acted as h~ostesses. There was
police protection for furs.
Towards the end of the evening,
Dolores Calvin presented the orr
ginal King Cole dolls, also made
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07
By CARL HELM

NEW YORK where $780,
900 people infest an area just about
big enough to accommodate the resi-
dents of What Cheer, Ia. (pop.
1880, in reasonable comfort and
dignity;
-. where, in a day, a couple of
holdup men took a gambling chance
on a pair of horsecart peddlers and
hit the jackpot with $500 in loot;
-. where a preacher and his on
gregation resigned because their
consistory wanted to sell their re-
year-old church on 9Th Ave. for
$4,000,00 to a real-estate specula-
tor who would tear it down;
where Patrolman Shamus
O'Callaghan encountered a Mexican
burro loose in 44th st. and got nip
ped in the breeches before he could
haul it away in a taxi to its stall in
a Broadway theatre;
-. where a fellow who took a
pasteboard box along when he went
to visit a friend was yanked into
court when the box turned out to
shelter a 6-ft. rattlesnake-'I love
that reptilei', the man said, impress
ing neither his friend nor the judge;
-. where a sport put up 200 bucks
for a ticket to a football game with
no takers -. where Bowery pan
handlers now ask you if you can
spare six-bits for a cuppa cawfee;
-. who're they make molehills out
OF mouA~ aims, purses out of pigs
ears, the false out Of the true.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07
Naacp Youth Meet
in New Orleans, La

NEW YORK-The 9Th Annual
Convention of NAACP Youth
Branches ended in New Orleans
with an outdoor mass meeting on
the spacious billiard university
campus Sunday November "a, as
hundreds of delegates and specta-
tors listened to blinded veteran
Isaac Woodland tell them, Il would
not want what happened to me to
happen to anyone, black or white
but unless we all get together now
before it is too late there are go
ing to be others like me. Woodland
spoke after Thurgood Marshall,
NAACP Special Counsel, speaking
for the first time since his narrow
escape from violence at the hands
of terrorist Tennessee State High
way patrolment and deputies. Also
speaking was Oliver w. Harring-
ton. NAACP Public Relations
Counsel.
Delegates to the Annual Con-
ference which boasts $4,000 mem
bers in youth councils and coll
eye chapters. all under the of 25
meeting November Goth to oath,
heard several nationally promin-
ent speakers in discussions of pro-
blems affecting Negro young peo-
pie in America today. Justice HUI
bert Delany of the New York City
Court of Domestic Relations de-
livering the keynote address warn
ed the delegates that Negroes
must seek 'unadulterated equality
in every field" and "stop Negroes
must seek unadulterated equality
in every field and stop apologizing
for being alive. Negroes must
learn to say I want a job, I want
a decent place in which to live,
and l want to live like a free hui
man being. continued Judge De-
lany. It is no longer possible for
the middle Of the road inter-cul-
tural racial philosopher to hide the
truth from the minds of intelligent
white people"
Thurgood Marshall told the con-
ference that a disobedience move
ment on the part of Negroes and
their white allies if employed in
the south, would result in whole
sale slaughter with no good achiev
Mr.. Marshall said that he had
been approached by some groups |
in New York about the use of
tactics employed in India as a
step forward awakening the AM
erican people to the plight of the
Negroes in the South. Don't do it
that way he said. In the South any
non-violence or disobedience move
ment executed on this pattern
would bring violence on the part
of local and state police which
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

It is a known fact that a voice
is never so bad that it cannot be
! made better especially if there is
no serious organic deficiencies in
the laryx region commonly called
J the vocal box. A long line of. sue
/ cessful orators. actors and singers
| to the present day radio announ-
! GERS, have been faced with a mad
/! struggle to over come their speech
| handicaps, and give eloquent
Testimony as to what can be gain
ed from attention given to voice
training.
Actors, for example, who were
not endowed with superior vocal
equipment. began their career
with tedious inferior voices. But
after putting in many long hours
of sincere study they were able
to overcome this speech difficulty.
And found that training of the
speaking voice is of supreme i'm
%portance, as it will transform into
a rich. charming voice of power.
Speech is unlike the functions
of walking, eating, crying or laugh
ing. 1t must be acquired. Wherein
we naturally go about eating and
walking, and cry under various
conditions and circumstances, but
we would never employ speech
unless at an early age we were
taught to s. it.
Much has been written and spo-
ken about the value Of a we'll
trained voice, and the importance
of using our voices and express
sions to create a revealing per-
sonality.
In casting a character role, ra-
dio announcing and drama, there
is a close correspondence between
the voice and the kind of role that
is being performed. The good
qualities of the speaking voice r
greatly improved when nature is
assisted nv art
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07
WAR ASSETS ADMINISTRAT'N

OMAHA-About 40 percent of
Nebraska and Wyoming veterans
of World War II want to continue
to hold priority certificates issued
to them for purchase of govern
ment owned surplus property the
Omaha War Assets Administration
said today.
For the past several weeks the
veterans in Omaha region have
been receiving WAA form letters
asking if they wish to continue or
discontinue their listings in WAA
files.
Officials said that some $500
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

letters have been mailed. Three
thousand letters have been return
ed Of which about 97.5 per cent
wish to continue priority certifi
Gates and IS per cent wish to can
eel. WAA considers that $500 vet
Grams who did not answer wish
to cancel their priorities.
The Omaha WAA announcement
follows a Washington directive
materially changing the veterans
priority operation policy. The Wa
shington announcement said that
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

Angeles, he was promoted to news
director for the system at Omaha
in 1929. He was appointed assist
ant to the president in charge Of
public relations in 1886 and was
elevated to executive assistant in
charge of the same department in
1914.
He is a member of the commit
tee on public relations, Western
Lines, and of the committee on
public relations of the Association
of American Railroads.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

on December certification of vets
on items on the set aside list will
he discontinued. The list includes
such items as motor vehicles,
fractional horsepower motors, me
dical, dental and surgical supplies
office machinery, appliances and
furniture. The list totals 111itemsT
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

ADVERTISE In The Greater
OMAHA GUIDE!
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The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07

Newest Christmas gift idea is
the Simmons electronic blanket
now available for the first time.
Controlled by a "magic brain" in
the cabinet ION the bedtable), it
automatically adjusts warmth to
changes in room and bed tempera-
ture.
See large Omaha Public POiU>
er Ad on page 2 this issue.
LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS
EVERY WEEK.!
in THE OMAHA GUIDE Columns
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07
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The Omaha guide., 1946-12-07
SPEECH
CULTURE
The Effective Voice

BY BEATRICE 1. MORGAN