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The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
NEGROES HONOR UNITED
NATIONS DELEGATES

New York (CNS) New York
Negroes honored three distingu-
ished delegates to the United Ma
tons Assembly last Friday night
when the Provisional World Coun-
Gil of Dominated People joined
with the West Indies National
Council in a testimonial dinner at
the Hotel Capitol. Guest Of honor
was Brigadier General Carlos p
sRomulo, Philippine delegate to
the assembly. Sharing honors with
him were Mrs. Vijaya Lakahmi
Pandit, Indian representative and
". N. Molotov. Soviet delegate.
Richard B. Moore was the gen
eral chairman for the history
making occasion, marking the ap-
probation of the Negro people for
the efforts of the tree delegates
on bhalf of tn independent peo-
pies of the world. Inez Matthews,
soprano, sang several French and
German selections as principal
guest artist.
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NAACP FIGHTS IN OHIO
To Uphold Civil
Rights Law

NEW YORK, Dec. 9Th. The
NAACP, on November 80, 1916,
filed a brief in the Supreme Court
of Ohio counter attacking the eff
forts Of reactionary forces in Ohio
which requires that a retail store
sell to Negroes without discrim-
nation in the case Of Claude w.
Wright VS.. Thomas M. Garbet.
Wright is a Negro who went into
Garbet's grocery store in Cleve-
land to buy a bottle of milk and
was refused. He brought suit and
in the lower court, secures a judge
ment against Garbet. Garbet then
appealed to the Ohio Supreme
Court stating that the civil rights
law is unconstitutional as applied
to a purely private business.
In its brief, the NAACP stated:
During the past two decades.
there has been increasing restric-
ton of the freedom of contract
and freedom to use ones private
property, each step in this restric-
ton being predicted upon the re-
sponsibility Of the Government to,
protect citizens who are helpless
to protect themselves.
1.-THE attempt of appellant here
in to place his desire to discrimi-
nate against Negroes beyond the
pale of the states police power by
resort to liberty Of contract UNI
der the Fourteenth Amendment,
must be rejected against the valid
exercise of the states power to pro
tect Negroes from discrimination"
Stating that the Ohio Legisla-
ture acted reasonably in protecting
the right Of Negroes to purchase
freely in retail stores, the NAACP-
said:
* Obviously, however, in a conn
petive economy they must receive
fairer prices, better quality and a
greater share Of available goods if
the stores which eater to the Ne
gro people have to compete for
their trade with stores in other
areas to which Negro shoppers
will eventually go in an effort to
escape higher prices and poorer
quality if they are left free to act
as reasonable economic men in
the situation"
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
Is Congressman, 2 Senators
COMMITTED IN v OF
ANTI-LYNCH LEGISLATION

Twenty-Five Congressman and
two Senators have alreads COM
mitted themselves in favor of
Federal anti-lynching legislation,
1t was announced today by I'm
manuel Neumark. executive Sc
cretary of the American Crusade
to End Lynching. These commit
ments have been obtained in re-
spouse to a letter sent by the or
ganization last week to all mem
bers of the 80th Congress.
A number of the legislators. in
their replies, expressed themsel-
yes ~forcefully against lynching
and in favor Of Federal legisla-
ton. There is no greater nation
al crime than numbering people
by mob violence, stated Senator
Chapmen Revercomb wv. Val in
his letter.
I am unalterably opposed to
any form of lynching. wrote Con.
elect John Davis Lodge who came
from the Fourth District Of Con-
necticut which was formerly re-
presented by Clare Boothe Lace.
Purely aside from anything else
it is nothing less than insurrec-
ton" III
Fourteen of the legislators who
have committed themselves are
from New York State. Three are
from President Truman's home
state of Missouri. There are two
each from New Jersey and Ohio
and one from Connecticut, Indiana
Kentucky, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Wisconsin.
1t is gratifying to note" stated
Neunark in releasing the informa
ton, that twenty-seven members
Of the S0th Congress have respon-
ded favorably in the period of
less than a week since they have
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received our Letter. However. it
will rquire the support Of 21S
Congressman, or a majority of
the House of Representatives, to
pass a Federal anti-lynching bill
and it may require two thirds of
the Senate, or "a Senators, to stop
a filibuster on the bill by voting
cloture. The American Crusade to
End Lynching will not be salts
fled until the necessary number
of members Of the 80th Congress
have committed themselves to
full support of an anti-lynch law.
We are urging all public spirited
citizens to write their Congress
men and Senators urging that
they Immediately make known
their willingness to work for the
passage of this legislation.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
Worth Omaha Organizations To Sponsor
Seven Golden Gloves Entrants

Duuuy McCrea formerly athletic director at NSCC. Boxing and PHYS
Dh aiming strueto in the Army and now of the Charles Street Re-
creation Center is in charge of training seven aspirants for Golden Glove
hurels TO De held IN February Of 197. The following boys are now IN
dergoing rigorous training at the hands Of McCrea. all are amateurs:
Harold Mcdonald, 126 pounds; Reginald Hughes, 15 pounds: Joe Glass.
- pouhd ugene Brown, is pounds; Charles Martin. 10 pounds: sam
"mams' III pounds; Baby June Gray, 112 pounds. All these boys and
others will be sponsored by the following Norhside Organizations: The
AMNEIs Post No. % American Legion Roosevelt Post So. 30; Charles St
hecreauon center. hi Center is sponsored by the City and any boy
may I'M n take BLOSSOMS o learn the manly art Of self defense. Classes
are held 3 days a week. There are % 20 bows enrolled.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
NEGROES ON GA. JURY

ATHENS, Ca. Two Negroes
are members of the Federal Grand
Jury which convened to hear evil
dence in the presentation that
grew out Of the cold blooded lyn-
ching Of two Negro men and two
Negro women in Walton County
last July. The jury, composed of
thirteen farmers, two coal deal
ers, a clerk, a barber, a laundry
manager; a ginner; a banker and
a retired businessman, heard
Judge T. Hoyt ask them ito in
quire. (into the case) .~fearlessly
and fairlV."
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| TOUR
GUEST
| Column
edited by vERNA p. HARRIS
Upon The
Hudson
Edited by VERNA p. HARRIS)
By Rhetta III. After.
'0 Hs VI
Educational Director, Hudson
Shore Labor School

Since the learning Of ideas oc-
ours by the same processes for
Negroes as for others, it is pre-
dictable that each year some of
the students at Hudson Shore La
Dor School in West Park, New
York who have faulty ideas about
people of other races and faiths
will have brown skins also. 1t is
inevitable that at a school where
the subjects concentrated upon
are those that relate to the pro-
blems of workers today, the class
room discussions, dormitory bull
sessions" and table conversations
will include confused and unsound
statements about groups of people.
Discussions about labor legislation
democratic trade unionism and
labor's role in the community ne
c~essarily bares some of the misin-
formation that has been picked up.
Negro workers seek escape in
moving pictures, they scan news
papers, laugh at cartoons and are
hemmed in by the same stereotyp
ing that besets other Americans
What does the School do about
it? Students are encouraged to
admit their feelings. The interra-
cial faculty operats on the know
ledge that an attitude which is
brought into the open is one that
can be grappled with and which
has a chance for constructive
change. The anti-Semitism that is
encountered among Negro stu
dents at Hudson Shore Labor
School is treated as are the other
1anti-people' feelings we meet;
those who r blighted by bigotry
are introduced to scientific infor-
nation and r helped to accept
facts.
1t is of no little importance that
while they learn, they have the
rare opportunity to live closely
with Jewish students and to be
taught by teachers, some Of whom
obey the laws Of Judaism. These
things usually hasten arrival at a
point where it is possible to realize
that Jewish people-like Negroes
are individuals, and that the
only sound congratulations about
them are those that apply to all
people. AS these Negro workers
begin to realize that the same
poison pen which today writes
"the Jews have all the money" is
the one which is mixed tomorrow
for preaching white supremacy,
they come closer to clarity about
the interdependence Of workers the
world over. AS they achieve in
creasing freedom from the burdens
of bigotry, they are released to
Join other workers in programs Of
enlightened social action.
-APA-
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
MORALS SQUAD NABS 8
IN RAID ON HOUSE

Metz Manion, go, Of 25O9 Maple
Street, was booked on a charge Of
keeping a disorderly house early
Sunday after the police morals
squad raided a house at 22S4
Miami Street. Eight other persons
were charged as inmates.
Evidence taken by the raiders
included eight decks of cards.
nine pairs Of dice and some
change.
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Over one hundred persons have
been supoenaed to testify in this
cas- that shocked the world last
summer when it was revealed
that a mob of about twenty men
removed the four Negroes from
an automobile and riddled their
bodies with rifle bullets. It was
pointed out during the opening
session of the Grand jury hear
ings that should it develop that
the Federal Government does not
have jurisdiction to prosecute the
case the evidenc will be turned
over to the state.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
ELECTION PROBE SHOWS
ELECTION @ SHOWS
v i n C e
Helped BiIbo
II 0 W in

(from CLIO Union Service News
MISSISSIPPI Negroes last week
arose to the challenge of race hate
designed to rob them of their pol
itical rights.
Led by veterans back from the
war against fascism, they paid
their own transportation costs to
testify in Jackson, the state cap
ital against Senator Theodore G.
Bilbo, admitted member of the Ku
Klux Khan, who is accused of in
citing white people to prevent
Negroes from voting in the re
cent Democratic Primary.
They testified over and over "a
gain to acts of intimidation at
polling places, to savage beatings
administered in some cases by DO
lice officials, and to death threats
designed to keep the primary
"IiIy white"
They told the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee that
since 1890 they have effectively
been denied the right to partici-
pate in the only election that
means anything in a state that
has elected Democratic Congress
men year after year.
Testimony brought out the fact
that 66,972 war veterans from
Mississippi had been discharged
as of June 80, yet only $500 Of
them voted despite the fact that
they have been exempted from
polltax paymnts.
The witnesses, who damned a
little courtroom to overlooking,
heard BiIbo accused of a radio
speech in which he urged white
people to use any means to pre-
Negroes from voting
Bilbo said he meant any legal
means and added: II meant
that white people should advise
and counsel with the Negroes the
night before. That's what they
did in Greenwood and everything
worked out the way it should"
The way it worked" in other
places where Bilbo's advice was
taken in the literal Mississippi
tradition was something else.
From the many Negro witnesses
came testimony that:
. Etoy Fletcher, %, war veteran
tried to register for the Democra-
tic Primary at Pickett. He was
told he would not be allowed to
vote. Leaving the courthouse, he
was seized by four white men.
who dumped him into a car, took
him out of town, and beat him
savagely with a 2k foot long car
cable. He was warned that if he
tried to vote he would be killed.
. Richard E. Daniel. 125 ID.
war veteran. tried to vote at Gulf
port. He was beaten by two white
men in the corridor of the court
house. Then Policeman Robert L.
Williams, weighing It's pounds,
took him to a cell and beat me
up" Daniel testified. He beat me
around the ears with his fist and
in the stomach and I fell to the
floor unconscious"
. Vernado Collier, president of
the Gulfport branch of the Natl
Assn. for the Advancement of
Colored People. testified that as
he proceeded down a courthouse
corridor to vote he was attacked
by white men and knocked IN
conscious. A policeman standing
by ignored the attack.
The record of the Committee,
headed by sympathetic to Bilbo
Sen. Ellender d., Lao was pack
ed with other testimony of inti-
midation designed to keep Ne
.groes from the polls If they val
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in vain. After being stabbed in
the back by Luster several times
he wondered off a distance then
fell. Lawyer Jameson for the
defendant, pleaded s~elf-defense to
the jury and put up a stiff argu-
ment to the jury in his closing
remarks. The trial lasted three
days before a crowded courtroom.
The jury was out four and me
half hours before reaching a YER
dict.
Otis Luster was a World War
II veteran and was wounded in
action at Saipan in the Pacific.
Dalton's wife, Dolly Dolores,
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was the last one to take the wit
ness stand. She didn't know much
about the case so did very little
testifying.
Joe fairfield, the prize fighter
was also a witness. He was driv-
ing the car that took Luster near
the scene where the tragedy oc-
cured. On the witness stand Hart
field testified that he was una
ware of what had happened after
he had let Luster out of the car.
A few minutes later coming across
Luster lying on the ground try
ing to get up and assisted him to
do so; taking him to Doctors
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
ANTI-NEGRO POSTERS
DISPLAYED IN MANILA

MANILA (AP)-Extra details
Of American military police in ar
mored cars cruised the streets Of
Pasay Sunday night after a score
of posters, demanding that Amer
lean Negro soldiers be sent home
had appeared.
Two Negro enlisted men were
reported beaten and robbed by
armed Filipino gang in the sec
ton.
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Hospital where they couldn't take
him in So he took him to the
Lutheran Hospital where he was
accepted for treatment.
Luster's wife, Virginia and her
sister were also witnesses for the
State. According to the evidence
in the case Luster's wife had
been keeping company with Ted
Dalton the deceased. She had been
missing from home for a couple
of days before her husband (Lus-
teri could find her. On the second
day Luster had gone on a hunt
ing spree trying to find his wife;
and while doing so came across
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Jury Deliberates
Az Hours
(BY BILLY DAVIS)

Wednesday, December 18th, a
jury of ten women and two men
returned a verdict of manslaught-
er against Otis Luster who on
October 20, 1916 stabbed to death
Ted Dalton at 26th and Q Street
in South Omaha.
Witnesses for the State testified
that Luster attacked Dalton with
out any warning at all. They
said Dalton tried desperately to
get away from Luster but he tried
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
SAINT PHILIPS CHURCH
TO PRESENT RECITAL

The st. Philips Episcopal church
1121 North Twenty-first Street,
the Rev. S. G. Sanchez, rector,
will present Mrs. Elizabeth Pow
ell in an organ recital Sunday,
December is, at 5 o'clock p. m. A
cordial invitation is extended all.
The Omaha guide., 1946-12-14
Courageous Negroes Flock To Testify
At Senator The0. BIb0's Hearings
24th Street Brawl
To Two

Ernestine Williams and Mary Canady. are confined in a
local hospital as a result of street brawl early Sunday morn.
ing about 2 a. m, in front Of 25O7 North 9th street at
which place, a plate glass window was broken during the
scuffle and each participant received injuries therefrom.
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and add d:
1T | discouraging that high government officials have
Deen taken In by this fast-talking razzle-dazzle. We COM
mend MIR. Wyatt for his courageous efforts to build homes
Tor Americans at prices they can afford"
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Ted Dalton at 18th and Q Streets
and attacked Dalton with a knife.
Otis was very calm during the
entire trial. He was on crutches
and limping very badly. He show
ed no emotions Of nervousness.
The prosecuting attorneys were
Philip r. Kneifl and Joseph d.
Houston. Judge Dineen was on
the bench.
Luster was a resident of South
Omaha; also Ted Dalton.
READ "ALONG MY WAYD BY
Lawrence p. Lewis Weekly
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(from CLIO Union Service News
MISSISSIPPI Negroes last week
arose to the challenge of race hate
designed to rob them of their pol
itical rights.
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all they have largely accounts for
the high esteem in which the team
has been held this year.
The Braves do have the nucleus for
winner with big Mort Cooper, who
won IS games for Southworth in
three years for the Cards, on the
hill, and smuggling Tommy Holmes,
Max West and Johnny Hopp in the
outfield.
Pittsburgh's Pirates, rated none
too highly in the early doping, could
easily develop into the dark-horse of
the 1916 season In shortstop Bill
Cox and outfielder Ralph Kiner,
Manager Frisch has come up with
two prize prospects to go along with
established performers like Bob Ell
lott in the outfield and Elbie Fletch-
er and Babe Dahlgren in the in
field. With Lefties Ostermueller,
Wilkie and Roe and right-handers
Sewell. Gables, Heintzelman and
klinger, the Pirates should get
good pitching.
Quoted at 80 to | longshots in
early betting to win the National
league gonfalon, the Cincinnati Reds
and Philadelphia Phillies do not fig
ure in the running.
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The National Leagues champion
batsman in 1945 with a 1855 mark,
Phil Cavarretta, will be back at first
to pace the Cubs attack, with help
forthcoming from the veteran STAN
ley Hack at third, who hit 1923 in
his 18th season as a Bruin last year !;
little peanuts" Lowrey, Andy PAT
ko and - Grimm hopes - Big Bill
Nicholson, who Topped to .243 last
year.
Led by the irrepressible Leo
c'The Lip") Durocher, who won
fame as one of the toughest of the
Gas House Gang" at St. Louis in
the thirties, the Brooklyn Dodgers
are figured to be right up in the
thick of the National league race.
THE Lip" enters the pennant run
with a fair country outfeld in Pete
Reiser, who hit $40 before joining
the army in 1912; Goody Rosen, who
batted 1925 last year; the veteran
Dixie Walker, and rookie Gene Her.
manski. In the infield, Billy Her.
man and Pee-wee Reese make a
winning combination around second.
While none too strong. the pitching
staff is built around fire-balling Kir-
by Higbe, Hugh Casey. Ed Head
and Vic Lombardi.
Giants Still Powerful.
The New York. Giants, while not
the hated and feared aggregation of
the John McGraw or Bill Terry
days, nonetheless is expected to cut
figure in this years race. No de-
fensive geniuses, the Giants do pos
sess power, with Manager Mel OFT,
who hit 1903 last year, in right;
Johnny Mize, 3O5, at first; Mickey
Wick, .3l4, at third. and Walker
Cooper, BIT, behind the plate.
Ability of brainy Billy Southworth
to spur the Boston Braves to give
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TINE TO PLAY Ball
Great Ball Season Seen
Returned Vets
Add Color to
Natl Game
By AL JEDLICKA
WNU Features,

play BALL" And the crack of
the bat again thrills Americans
the nation over as the 1916 sea-
son gets under way.
While softball, football, basket
ball and golf have challenged base
ball for youths attentions in recent
years, the game still ranks as the
No. ! sports spectacle, an enjoy
able outdoor relaxation for the fans.
Last year, approximately IS million
persons paid to watch major and
minor league ball, and with most
of the big stars returning from the
war this season attendance should
be equally great or greater.
Nineteen hundred and forty-six
may be memorable year for an
other reason, too. for it marks the
introduction of baseball on a big
time professional basis in Mexico.
Following an old American custom,
President Avila Camacho tossed out
the first ball at the Mexican leagues
first game in which the Vera Cruz
Blues walloped the Mexico City
Reds IL to S before an overflow
crowd of $4,000 in Mexico City.
In the U. S., chief interest again
will center on the major league
races, though the return of topnotch
performers from the services and
continued postwar prosperity should
herald banner minor league sea-
son.
It'll be like old times again In
the American league with the New
York Yankee sluggers back in there,
denting the fences. But because of
an average pitching staff, Joe
McCarthy's aggregation will be
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surrounds this place when we strip
it of its outward casualness.
I hope that the importance of this
part of the great experiment in Gre
ating world sentiment against war
is getting home to the people.
l wonder how much of the sig
nificance of the part public opinion
plays in the success of this effort
was impressed on that gathering
of students in Portland, Ore, early
this month. In the first youth con-
ference of its kind, representatives
of 81 colleges in the northwestern
states and British Columbia gath
cred to discuss the control of atomic
energy and preservation of peace;
the promotion of social and econom-
ic welfare; the promotion of the well
fare of backward peoples; the pro-
motion of worldwide human rights;
and the establishment of effective
means for the peaceful settlement
of International disputes. Dele
gates will carry back to their re-
spective campuses resolutions the
conference passed; the student bod
les will vote on them, and thus pro-
vide poll of more than 10000
thinking youth; many of them
veterans of this war, half of them
81 and voters-the generation which
must benefit or suffer from the re-
suits of efforts of the United Ma
tons.
This is positive approach in con-
traSt to the negative credo of paci-
fism which has been taught in the
past. Pacifism says DON'T FIGHT.
Well, that's all right, if it's your
religious conviction. But, when war
arrives, conscientious directors
can't stop it. Perhaps they can stop
the one AFTER that. But it's the
next one we want to prevent now.
Fire prevention stops more fires
than firemen can. Removing the fire.
men won't help. Somebody has to
be put in their place.
Let's hope the young people can
carry back to their campuses the
message General Macarthur gave
to the world recently: that. nations
must yield their sovereign power to
make war-that sovereignty must
rest in an international body, and
incidentally, if the people who write
me asking what they can do to
work for peace really mean it, they
might organize similar youth con-
crosses in their own communities.
Get youth thinking - they are the
ones who have to do the fighting.
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strongly pressed for pennant hon.
ors by the champion Detroit Tigers,
Boston Red Sox and Washington
Senators
Yanks Have Sluggers.
Indicative of the dynamite in the
Yankee bats, DiMaggio hit 1905 in
his last season out, Keller .3O1,
Stirnweiss 1909, and Dickey .351.
Though falling below the 300 mark,
the other regulars have that explo-
sive Yankee touch in the pinch.
While the New Workers. are long
on power and short on pitching, the
Detroit Tigers have strength in both
departments and may well repeat
their 1915 league triumph. A .311
slugger in rs games last year after
his discharge from the army, Hank
Greenberg will be at first this sea-
son, with hard-hitting Pinky Higgins
back at third and Barney McCos-
ky, Dick Wakefield and Pat Mullin
in youthful, brilliant outfield.
But the Tigers real strength lies
on the mound, with lanky Hal New
houser, who won Is games in 1945
while dropping only 9, heading the
staff. In addition, Manager Steve
O'Neill has Dizzy Trout, an 18-game
winner last year; Virgil Trucks,
Stuffy Overmire, AL Benton and Ruff
Gentry.
Because of aIl-around balance,
many of the major league scribes
like the Boston Red Sox chances in
1916.
Williams Sparks Red Sox.
Back from the wars after three
years in naval aviation, spindly Ted
Williams, who hit 1856 for Joe Gro
MINIS outfit in 1912, promises to put
plenty Of punch back into the scarlet
hose along with Rudy York, OBJ
tanned from the Tigers in an over
winter trade; Johnny Pesky, who