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The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
NAACP QUESTIONS BAR
ASSN SELECTION FOR
COURTS-MARTIAL PROBE

New York-The NAACP reaf-
friend its position in urging Sec
Rotary of War Robert P. Patter-
son to appoint a Negro to the
Army's board Investigating the
courts martial proceedings. The
board, comprising 9 prominent
judges and lawyers, was selected
by the American Bar Association
at the request of the War Dept.
head.
In an exchange Of correspon-
dence, Walter White, Secretary Of
the NAACP, pointed out that the
Bar Association itself has been
notorious for its exclusion Of Ne
gro lawyers except for William
H. Lewis, who was admitted to
the Bar Association many years
ago in Boston, until quite recently
when, as a result of vigorous and
widespread protests on the part
of white and colored lawyers
grudging admittance was given
to two Negro lawyers.
Mr.. White agreed with Sec'y
Patterson that there should be no
racial isues in matters of militia
~ justice or any other kind Of
justice, and that neither black nor
white lawyers should desire any
special advantage for a particu-
lar race before a military court.
But 1 hhave seen so many inst
ances gross injustices in courts
martial because of race, and ven
ture to suggest again that it
would be desirable to have one
Negro serve on the committee.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
Rev. ~BurckharGt
Celebrates His
18th Birthday

Rev. 0. j. Burkhardt, religious
missionary, living at 1924 North
26th St, observed his 18th birth
day April 10. He has led a pro-
ductive life doing good for others
and is still active.
His life has been spent in sew
eral different phases of service to
his fellow man. He has been act
i've in prison work and brought
comfort to the sick in hospitals
throughout this area. On some &C.
casions he has saved prisoners
from electrocution. He is prejudi-
ced toward none and makes nc
distinction in race or social status.
He has been in Omaha since De.
cember to live but has been act
i've in this section for the past
half century. Rev. Burkhardt
says he has been called for coun-
Gil on racial matters by every
Governor from John L. Sheldon
up to the present administration.
p This will be the LIST birthday in
At Years that the the Rev. has
observed without the presence of
his beloved wife, Mrs. Anna Bur
khardt who died on June goth AS.
Mrs. Burkhardt in addition to be-
ing active in civic and social work
was an instructor of religious art
for 80 years. One of her paintings
"The Straight and Narrow is
displayed in the Lincoln City
Mission.
Rev. Burkhardt was born in
Franklin Howard County, Mo-, 5
years after the Civil War.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
South Editor Disasrees with Powell

progress for the Negro can only
come by merit.
Equality is a God given some
thing born in a man, black OF
white. Let's make ourselves equal
by BEING equal and one doesn't
have to yell it so loud Or assert
it so vigorously when one is equal
for Dan Gardner summarizes
Our philosophy should be one Of
pride of race-with the knowled-
&c and ability to compete equally
with any and alF".
Booker Washington, whom the
Congressman Powell quotes once
avered: Merit, no matter under
what skin found will in the long
run be recognized and rewarded
Louisiana's own E. D. Tyler ex-
presses it thus: 81 am glad TO
meet a person who is glad that
he is black. Who is conscious of
his color, and appreciates the fact
I am gl1d to meet a person who
is glad that he is white. Every
person has some color, any color
is alright. I am glad to meet ali
people, when they strictly under
stand, That character makes the
person, color does not make the
man.
Originally a great race with a
wonderful heritage and many
virtues, we have been sold o little
short somewhere down the line,
many times by our own leaders.
Our greatest present needs other
than economic, r health and
educational ones. The South rea-
Lies this, and in fairness, is pre-
sently essaying to do something
about both. Our educational sv-
stems must be directed away from
the formal, the classics and the
fictitious, toward the productive,
the creative, and the actual. Agri-
culture and industry, buying and
selling, manufacturing and mar.
keting the great resources of the
South and the nation-the back
bone and substance of any econ
omy-must slant and dominate
the educational curricular and
pattern of our high schools, col
leges and universities. We must
in fact, be a part and parcel OF
a nations production to be indis.
pensible.
These things, Congressman C.
Powell, are The Negro SOUTH'S
aim for the Negro in the South.
These are the basic things. vic.
ariously unfulfilled by us in the
unilateral picture of American
economy, that retard our progr-
ess. These things we will contend
for with great vigor. But well
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
URBAN LEAGUE ISSUES
CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS
By H. Davis

The Urban League Center was
created to stimulate and assist in
improving the economic, health
and civic life of our Urban Com
munity. The effectiveness of our
work along these lines is proper.
tional to the active participation
of those we serve.
we are now launching our
Spring Membership Drive we
hope that every civic minded in
dividual in our community will
avail his or herself of the oppor-
tunity of becoming active mem
bers of u organization and also
urge their neighbors to join"
Stated by Mr. Onward R. Gro.
oms, Executive Secretary of the
Omaha Urban League. Mr.. Du-
ward R. Crooms says the Center
has created several new organi-
cations, among them being: The
Community Fair, whose purpose
is to stimulate interest in crea-
tive personal industry through
public exhibits; the Frontier Club
an organization of business and
professional men.
Mr.. Crooms, who Resides with
his wife, Erma Lee and his six
year old son, Jerome, at 27O7
Maple St, became Director of the
Urban League in 1915 after the
transfer of Raymond Brown to
Akron, Ohio. He holds a Bache.
Tor of Science degree having ma
Jored in economics, speeSh and
sociology. Mr.. Crooms was also
an athlete of note while attending
school, having ran the 100 yd.
dash in 9.6 and the 22O in 2O.9.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
W ||dce Speaks Out
Against Ne8ro Hatred

Chicago, Ill-(CNS )-Secretary
of Commerce, Henry a.. Wallace
sent the following message to the
Provisional Committee For a Ma
I sympathize deeply with the
problems of all groups who suffer
discrimination and brutal forms
of persecution in this country in
which such forms of inequality
are so out of harmony with the
principles on which Our democra-
cy is based. I senderly hope that
the National Veterans Organiza-
ton succeeds in finding a partial
solution to the problems of racial
discrimination, which is one of the
two or three most important pro-
blems facing us in America today.
The Provisional Committee, witt
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
WASHINGTON NAACP TO
PICKET LINE CIRUCS

Washington, D.. CDR. e. b.
Henderson, chairman of the Re
creation Committee of the ID. G.
Branch, NAACP, announced to-
day that the Association was pi-
exciting Uline's Arena while the
Shrine Circus is in progress April
8-14. In a statement to the press
DIR, Henderson stated while we
feel that the purpose of the Shrine
Circus is commendable, We adhere
to our principle presimse that no
matter how worthy the cause,
Uline's Circus Arena is Out of
Bounds to self respecting negroes
and fair minded white persons.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
By AlOnzo B. Willis, Jr.

"Harlem's militant Congress
man A. Clayton Powell's illustra-
ted advocacy of The Great Mi.
grafton is a blantly inept propo.
sal for the solution of the Race
problem.
In the second and main pre-
mise, if, the Harlem Congress
man ayers, the Negro worker is
truly the backbone of the South's
income then Mr.. Powell, he Is
the South and could have little
reason to run away from such
. substantial affiliation.
Gould you, Congressman Po-
Well, as a representative of the
of the whole race in the greatest
Democratic body in the world be
serious in trying to coddle the
Negro into thinking that blissfuI
ease and security awaits him be.
yond the Mason-Dixon line where
he pose as illustrator Brent de.
picts him dapper ad superiority
Indifferent to the industry, the
pioneering, the blood, the sweat
the sleepless nights; the brain.
the skill, the initiative and toll
that makes the wheels of South
ern industry and agriculture turn
that makes America the richest
and most productive country in
the world"
Don't you know that the sou.
tn is presently by far richer in
opportunity for the Negro, and
that sage Booker Washington
advised right when he said LET
down your buckets where you are
! 1t is true that the South has
many needs; the Negro South
has many, many more. That pre-
cisely is where opportunity be-
gins Acceptance of the challenge
to meet these needs-that the
Negro must solve his problems
with his omn initiative. Legisla-
ton alone won't solve the race
problems
Congressman Powell you anc
other, so-called leaders and perio.
ideals, lulled into a sence of false
security and equality by wishfuI
thinking, Should look at the cold
crystal clear facts about us as q
minority group group and real
ize that long range, substantial
Washington, D. c., demanding
release for Milton. Now that vol
too know the facts, won't vol
join me in the fight to free E
courageous youth from the omi
nous tyranny of our prison 7sy
| stem?
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
NAACP BENEFIT DANCE
FOR z o MEN

New York-It was announcer
by the NAACP this week that ~
benefit dance for the legal ne
Tense Of the riot victims Of Tenn.
would be held May 3rd at the
Savoy Ballroom. Each year the
Association sponsors a birthday
ball. This Year the Ball Commit
tee has decided to devote the ar
fair to the extremely important
Columbia riot fund. All proceeds
will go toward the legal defense
of these unfortunate victims eF
Southern mob violence. Boxes and
general admission tickets are On
sale all over New York.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13

never coddle the Negro into the
thinking that he is measuring up
completely, but for the restrict
ions imposed on him by the othe,
man. Our present argument is that
We need a different approach in
supplying these deficiencies. We
need first to un-prejudice our own
minds, see the beam in our own
eyes, ere we try to pluck the mote
from the other mans.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
Union Services

Union Services will be held at
st. Johns AME Church, 22nd and
Willis Ave-, Sunday night, April
14th. Devotional Service Tao pm.
Sermon at 500 pm. by Rev. c. c.
Reynolds of Clair Methodist and
music by Clair Church Choir. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend this last meeting of the I'm
ion Services.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13

was wrecked during the February
26th riot by white terrorists, were
the feature speakers at a mass
meeting, Sunday, April 7th, under
the auspices of the District of
Columbia Branch of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
The meeting was one of a ser
les Of demonstrations being sta
ged throughout the country SO
that the American people may
learn the facts in the Columbia
affair. The funds raised at these
meetings will be sent to the nat
ionai office of the NAACP to
provide for the legal defense of
the 81 Negroes indicted in Tenn.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13

Joe Louis as honorary chairman
is in the midst of preparations
for its conference Of veterans nm
Chicago on April 81.
500 Negro and white veterans
fro.l al over the nation are en-
pected to attend and form a nz-
tional, Interracial veterans org
anizaUioA whose aim win be To
solve the SPECIAL problems con-
fronting Negro veterans. Latest
news indicated that the South win
be represented by a mixed dele
cation of $50 veterans.
Speakers at the conference WIN
include Joe Louis, DIR. Charlotte
Hawkins Brown, Cong. A. Clay
ton Powell, William Dawson and
and Ferdinand Smith of the Ma
tional Maritime Union.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
SEN. WAGNER URGED TO
OPPOSE BILL AGAINST
MUSICIANS UNION

New York (WDL )-Senator
Robert F. Wagner has been urged
by the Workers Defense League
to give leadership in opposing the
conference committe version of
the Lea Bill, which is scheduled
to come up soon in the senate.
The bill would make illegal i'm
portant provisions won by the
musicians union which protect
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13

We trust through the picketing
to acquaint the public and the
Shriner's with Uline's undemocra-
tic policy Of barring Negroes from
admission from any Of their regu-
lar affairs, excepting boxing mat
chehs which he terms low class
entertainment for low class peo-
pie. If you believe n the democra-
cy u bows fought for, join US in
our protest at this un-AmericaR
policy.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13
CHARMING H. TOBIAS AND
WIFE OF TENN. RIOT VICTIM
SPEAK AT WASHINGTON

Washington, D. CDR. Chan
ming H. Tobias, prominent Negro
leader, and Mrs. James Morton,
wife of the Columbia, Tennessee
Undertaken whose establishment
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13

MARVA AND IVY ARE EARLY BIRDS-Alluring Marya
Louis who is never caught mapping when something new Is
being added, arrived in town just in time TO agree with al
tractive Ivy Madden that the new Allure Magazine for wom-
en- of color. debuting May l, will be the talk of the season.
However, because of the shortage of paper,not many news
stand copies will be available. But Marva and Ivy arent
taking any chances. They're buying advance subscr piions
to be sure they get their copy of Allure. "We can't a-
ford to be without it,, they say. CONS pEoto)
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-13

musicians against increasing I'M
employment and which grant them
a share Of the profits on their
recordings, Morris Milgram, WDL
national secretary wrote Senator
Wagner. If James G. Petrillo, the
one which this bill is aimed at,
has committed any crime, there
are ample laws on the statute
books to cover every variety Of
offense against society.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
PENALTIES
ASKED FOR JAPS
Advocate Says Vow
Made By FDR Must Be
Upheld By u. S.

GUAM. Sept, 24-(P-The prose
s-on Tuesday demanded 4 e
penalty for five senior Of
among IA Japanese On trial
cannibalism and asked a YER
lit Of guilt for the nine other de-
l.dge Advocate 1t. E. L. Field,
closing arguments, asked the U
Military commission to decree
Hath for the following:
L. Gen. Yoshito Tachibana,
of the japanese 109th
-'lSlol on Chichi Jime in the
sains, where the alleged offense
cannibalism occurred; Vice
I'm. Kunzio Mort, commanding
.@2aneSe naval forces on Chichi;
IVY Capt. Shizuo Yoshii, Maj.
E4o Matoba and Army Capt.
Sato.
Iae mad sadistic lust of the
defendants plunged them
u atrociouS inebriation," said
Iisd.
he mentioned the late President
FMSevelt's promise that the time
'old come when the United States
EoAd hold strictly accountable all
'ao committed such atrocities.
sleld said it was the commits
Nas duty 10 see that this promise
fs uphsld.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
BY r r S

SISTER MASCOTS - we guess
ALONG THE CAPE FEAR must
be the only organization in the
world that has two mascots.
In Mondays paper, you may re-
call, we said we were seriously
thinking of adopting the S. S. Cape
Fear, the Port City's first con-
crete ship, as our mascot. .
Well, it looks as though We'll
have to adopt not only the S. S.
Cape Fear but her sister ship
too, the S. S. Old North State.
And what a life they're going to
lead us. Each is 263 feet long
weighs $500 gross tons, and has a
1000 horsepower engine which de-
velops an 11-knot speed.
We'd rather settle for two
Great Danes, even in the face OF
the meat shortage, but the folks
who sent us in all the material on
the two sister ships decree other
wise. So we'll accept the Cape
Fear and the Old North State and
just hope our backyard is big
enough to hold them
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
BOARD
PLANNING SURVEY
Will Hire Engineer tt
Study Drainage Problem,
DR.. Hoggard Says

The New Hanover County Board
of Education will hire a special
engineer to study the drainage
situation at Winter Park school
and recommend suitable action to
the county commissioners, DR..
John T. Hoggard, board chairman,
announced last night.
H. M. Roland. school superinten-
dent, has been instructed to assign
ar engineer to the study today, Hog
gard said.
Although Winter Park is the best
publicized of all the school boards
problem spots, Hoggard declared,
virtually all New Hanover schools
located outside the city limits and
one or two inside Wilmington had
water in their Easements after last
Thursdays finch rain.
The board will hold a called
meeting as soon as the engineer
ing survey is completed with a
view to recommending extended
drainage improvements throughout
the county's school units. he said.
Hoggard, Emsley Laney and
James C. Roe, school board mem
bers, met yesterday afternoon, for
a one-hour discussion of Winter
Parks difficulties with a special
See EDUCATION on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
AlongThe Cape Fear
OFFICIAL INVITATION

OFFICIAL INVITATION - FRS
of all, let's get the story on the
S. S. Cape Fear Strengthened out
In Mondays paper we asked fo1
the date of the launching. Mrs. D.
D. B., an elderly Cape Fear lady
did better than that. She sent US
the following official invitation to
attend the launching:
Liberty Shipbuilding Company
Superintendent. United States
Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet
Corporation. requests the honor OF
your presence at the launching OF
the Reinforced Concrete Ship,
Cape Fear, Thursday Afternoon,
July Thirty-first, Nineteen Hun
bred and Nineteen, at three o'clock
Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs.
Lewis R. Ferguson, Sponsor"
That was 3 CLOCK in the after
noon, of course, but owing to
launching difficulties the vessel
didn't hit the water until a few
minutes after 4 p. M. according
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
MEMORIAL RITES
SET FOR TODAY
Army Transport Carrying
Clergy Will Circle Scene
OF Sabena Crash

GANDER, Mild, Sept. "a -(P-
Loss of life in the Sabena air
liner crash grew to 27, the equal
of any commercial al rhine wreck
in history, with the death last
night of the Belgian industrialist
Walter Devos.
Devos, 48, was one of the 10
survivors brought alive from the
wreck, % miles southwest of here,
and ferried to the Sir Frederick
Banting hospital by %helicopter and
Catalina flying boat.
Memorial services for the rs
whose bodies were left at the
scene of the crash will be held
Wednesday from an army trans
port circling overhead while 4
Jewish Rabbi, Catholic priest and
Protestant minister read their
burial services. Wreaths of New
foundland wild flowers will be
dropped on the graves of the vic
TINS who were bound from Brus-
sells to New York.
At st. Johns, the Newfoundland
government announced an investi-
cation would be held of the crAas
which occurred last Wednesday,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
JEWS ORDER TWO-HOUR
WORK STOPPAGE OVER
KILLING OF REFUGEE

JERUSALEM, Sept. "a - up -
A two-hour work stoppage was call
ed Tuesday in the Jewish quarters
of Jerusalem, the all-Jewish city
of Tel Aviv and other Jewish set
Elements in protest against the
killing of a Jew on the captured
blockade runner Palmakh.
A Jewish agency spokesman
said the protest was against con-
tinued deportations to Cyprus as
well as 1.-The killing Of 31-year-old
Yehiel Schwartz"
Nearly 600 unauthorized immi.
grants were transferred to q
British troopship Monday for
shipment to Cyprus after nearly
100 of them had dived over the
side of the Palmakh in an attempt
to swim ashore.
An agency spokesman said the
Staying of the immigrant when
British sailors boarded the Pal
makh Sunday had brought renew
ed opposition to participating in
the London conference on Pales-
tine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
PESSIMISTlC VIEW
VOICED ON MEAT
Retail Grocers' President
Sees Scant Supply If
Price Ceilings Stay

If OPA meat ceilings continue.
there is small chance that any no.
tlceable supply of beef will show
itself in Wilmington grocery stores
in the next two months, J. c
Parker, president of the local Re.
tail Grocers association, declared
last night.
Parker made his gloomy predic.
ton as he and R. B. Roebuck, {
director of the North Caroline
Food Dealers association, prepar
ed to leave today for Raleigh
where they will be among the Ia
Heel grocerymen who will press
State OPA director T. S. johnson
and other price control officials
for a quick removal of price cell
iags on meat.
The local meat situation is grow
ing Continually worse" with only
chicken and a meagre supply o.
canned luncheon meat available a
grocery counters yesterday. Park
er asserted.
The two Wilmington delegates
will form part of a group of North
Carolina food dealers who will
start off what promises to be q
two-day invasion of the state
capital OPA office by food dealers,
Thursday. the states meat pro-
cessors will gather to confer with
johnson on methods of relieving
See PESSIMISTIC On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
So To Bed

Last night a man went into a
local restaurant and ordered
fried oysters.
The waitress brought him
the oysters and a bottle of
ketchup.
The man picked up the bot
tie, shook it vigorously per the
directions on the label, and
sprayed himself and the lady
sitting next to him as the can
flew off and the ketchup erupt-
ed like a geyser.
The waitress. observing the
accident, started to offer her
condolences to the man, but he
waved her off with a hapuy
smile.
"In all the years I've been
eating ketchup," he explained,
"this is the first bottle I've
come across that l didn't have
to shake and squeeze for half
an hour to get results
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
Dreamboat Set

HONOLULU, Sept. 24.-A-Col.
c. S. (BilD Irvine announced Tues
day that the Sup~erfortress PA
cusan Dreamboat'' will take off
from here at $50 a. m. az noon
EDIT Wednesday in an attempt to
fly nonstop from Hawaii to Cairo,
Egypt, via the Polar icecap if
weather conditions continue good.
Irvine's announcement was made
Immediately after he had complet-
ed a two-hour test hop and pro-
nounced the big plane in perfect
condition for the TO-, 000-mile flight.
The flight, which is designed to
test the feasibility of air travel
over the northern ice regions as
well as its effects on equipment
and personnel, has been in the
making for nearly a month.
Originally the trip was scheduled
to take place between Sept. 1 and
10, but unfavorable weather con-
ditions delayed the departure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
To-day and Tomorrow
Rv WALTER LIPPMANN

real question is not whether Rus
sian expansion should be opposed
but how it can be opposed success
fully. This question has been OBJ
scu-ed by the Wallace controversy
But the trend of events will COM
pei us to consider it. and to ask
ourselves whether, having taken
the decision to oppose the Soviet
expansion, Mr.. Byrnes has adopted
a workable program for achieving
his diplomatic ends.
A severe test of his diplomacy
will come fairly soon now: is there
See LIPPMANN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
North and South Carolina - Partl.
cloudy to cloudy and continued rathe
warn Wednesday and Thursday; Widel.
scattered thu~ndershoWers in afternoon
mostly ove east and central portions.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hour
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. Is; 7:30 am. 76; 1870 pm. 70
1870 m. rs.
Maximum "a; Minimum "a; Mean rs
II.
Humidity
1870 am. 90; 7:3o am. 90; 1870 pm. 80
7.30 pm. 100.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
OBJ inches.
Total since the first of the month -
1928 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published b,
U. S. Coast and Geoedtic Survey.
High Low
wilmington go 9:46 am. 4:23 am
1905 pm. 4:42 pm
Inlet 1885 am. 1:2O am
7:5O pm. 1:38 pm
Sunrise SOP; Sunset sos; Moonrise SO,
am; Moonset 6:38 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C.. at
Tuesday, 9.4 feet.