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The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
REP. CHAIRMAN FAvORS
NAACP ANTI
LYNCH STRATEGY

NEW YORK,-The National AS
of Colored Peoples determined
battle to secure passage of anti
lynching legislation took on allel
political significance today when
Carol Reece, Chairman Of the
Republican National Committee
notified Roy Wilkins, NAACP
Assistant Secretary, that he fav-
ored the enactment of legislation
along this line. MI. Reece stated
his position as a reply to a letter
outlining the NAACP stand and
urging support Of the bill in the
House Of Representatives, which
was sent to Earl c. Kitchener,
Michigan Republican, chairman
of the House Committee on the
Judiciary, with a copy Of the
letter going to Reece.
Mr.. Recess stand varied from
that of Congressman Kitchener,
who has insisted on bottling up
the bill in his committee on the
rather dubious grounds that the
bills chances for passage would
be enhanced only if the Senate
first took action. In reply to a.
mother letter in which it was
poined out that the House took
action. In reply to another letter
in which it pointed out that the
House took favorable action on
the poll tax measure without
waiting for Senate action, Mich
ener declared, Il have heretofore
informed you as to my position
in reference to this proposed
legislation. I still entertain the
same views"
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
hoods found Not
Guilty By Army Court

Hailed as "a tremendous vict-
DRY" by the Lemas Woods Defen-
| Sc Committee of the Civil Rights
| Congress, was a verdict of not
guilty of murder turned n today
by an Army court in San Francis
co composed Of 8 officers, in the
case of Lemas Woods, Jr.
Woods, "a year old Negro CT,
was sentenced in the Philippines
in May 1916 to hang for the death
of his terminate, Thomas Patter-
son, when his gun accidentally
discharged.
This is truly a tremendous
victory said Jack Raskin, exc
cutive secretary of the Civil
Rights Congress. all the evid-
ence which had been given and
accepted at the former court mar.
tial was completely d~iscredited in
Guiding a confession which was
obtained by third degree methods.
Comparing the two trials. Ras-
kin pointed out that it took three
weeks to find the truth and only
three hours to sentence a man to
die. Investigation should be
made into army court martial
practices which nearly cost an
innocent man his life. This trial
proves beyond a doubt that the
present system needs serious re-
vision"
Woods was charged with invoI-
untary manslaughter and SEN
fenced to three years hard labor
with a dishonorable discharge.
we shall continue to work to
get the charge now against
Woods reversed. Involuntary man.
slaughter is just another name
o accident, and 16 months fac
ing the gallows is enough punish.
ment. We shall work for an hon.
orable discharge
Acting as chief defense coun-
sci was Detroit labor ATTORNEY
Ernest Goodman, who at the re.
quest OF the Civil Rights Con
gress, UAW-CIO and other ar
PLANTATIONS, made the original in.
vestlgation which won tn con
demned CT a new trial by pre.
sldential decree. The Lemas
Woods Defense CommAtee co
haired by George F. Adde's. JAW
Clo International secretarv-tres.
surer and Rev. T. t. TimberIake
president Of the Baptist Ministers
conference, was formed ana snor
sored by many prominent indivi-
duals for the purpose Of r.
teelng Woods a fair trial.
Goodman was assisted by army
appointed Major Evans G. Bunk.
er, former Seattle lawyer; Can't
John A. Mclaughlin, former Kan
sas City attorney. and Carlos -.
mos, executive secretary of the
philippine Lawyers Guild. and
veteran of Bataan Death Morch
md japanese Concentration camn
III uncovered much of the evid.
ence which resulted in the acquit.
al.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
Gatherings

Dining rooms are happy rooms; There has been much tax ABOUT
quired. but there is no denying that they add much to the gracious;
In this busy work-a-day world. each member of the family 10
constantly on the go. and it is only at the dining room table tnt sney
ali conpreeate for good food and genial gettogethers. 1t should De
not only a functional room, but pleasant room. since Il 5 the CEN
tr Of SO many Of the most pleasant moments Of life.
The dining room pictured here j, the essence Of charm with is
the garden inside the house, but also sets the color scheme for the
The wan paper. while the slip seats on the chairs and the rug pek
seat and the collection Of glass and copper bric-a-brsc make inters
estinS accessories for a thoroughly. delightful room.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
MAILBox DISPUTE SOUNDED
LIKE RIOT

A telephone call followed by q
fire alarm Thursday sent three
ploice cars, four engine compan-
les and a ladder truck to an
Eighth st. house.
Cause of it all, said Detective
James Wilson, was an argument
over a mailbox between a land
lord and tenant in which the ten
ant bit the landlords ear.
A large crowd was attracted.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
NAACF Scores FBI
On Hiring PoZicu

WASHINGTON, - Stirred by
growing complaints from Negro
applicants for FBI clerical jobs
charging ]. Edgar Hoover's de-
partment with giving Negroes a
brush off,, the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored Peoples Washington Bureau
protested what it termed a lilly
white hiring policy.
Leslie Perry, NAACP Washing.
ton Bureau spokesman, moved by
the steadily growing number Of
complaints, today wrote the FBI
chief: 1T is increasingly difficult
for thousands upon thousands of
American citizens to believe that
an agency of the government
whose personnel recruiting re-
cord is so badly tainted with rae
ial bias, will, when it comes to
protecting the rights of minority
racial groups. give them a square
DEAL"
The situation which drew the
NAACP fire came as a result Of
a story which appeared in the
Washington newspapers on July
20, in which it was stated that
the FIJI was accepting applica-
tions to fill 1000 clerical jobs
and openings for 500 additional
agents. This increase in person
mel was apparently n~ecessiated by
the recently authorized federal
employee loyalty program. 1t
was pointed out that applicants
do not have to meet civil service
requirements.
According to the NAACP
spokeman, hundreds. Of Negro
government clerks who are about
to lose their jobs in other agenc-
les because of reductions, are ap-
plying for these openings. Many
other experienced Negro govern
ment workers who wre trminated
Immediately after the war have
also unsuccessfully attempted to
find jobs with the FIJI.
It was inescapably evident from
the mass Of complaints being re
ceived by the NAACP that Neg
roes are being given what
amounts to nothing more than
a brush off, by FBI officials.
The NAACP protest to the FIJI
stated further: MANY of US have
know for years that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has fol
lowed a lily white hiring policy
in its clerical as well as its in.
vestigation jobs.
We continue to hope and urge
however, that your agency will
revise it's personnel practices 81
that the basic qualifications o.
fitness of an applicant rather
than skin color, will be the de
terming factor as to whether OF
not he will receive employment
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

The modern girl hair may look
like a mop, but that doesn't worry
her-she doesn't know what a
mop looks like.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

We know a fellow who tried
to fix his wife's cuckoo-clock, and
nov the cuckoo backs out and
asks what time it is.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Say you Saw it advertised in The
Omaha Guide
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

scholarship each year for {
worthy Clevelander.
Evening star., 1947-08-10

11y Ill " y II /, ' 1'AeeAhhe''
anxious for suitable" marriages for
her three daughters, is particularly
felicitous.
David was headed for a Foreign
Office career but turned to another
job when he decided on marriage.
Miss Machines seizes the oppor-
tunity here to take a dig at the
Foreign Office old school tie ira
dition.
Closed Shop Careers.
There's scale of living attached
to jobs like that which is really
crippling unless you have enough
money" David says.
Then" says Penny angrily, "ca-
reers such as that become kind
of closed shop. 1t is setting a
kind of limit. isn't it, on the kind
of brain power we could develop?'
Difficulties in the way of the
young couples happiness are finally
resolved, as they should be. They
are married in quite the proper
atmosphere with the approval of
Mrs. Lorrimer and her husband.
Miss Machines has an easily read
able style and occasionally awards
the reader an extra dividend in the
shape of passages of acute observa-
ton or chuckling wit.
No doubt she draws on her own
background for painting the back
drop of this book. She is Scots
woman herself and studied at the
University of London. Her hus-
band, now Columbia University
professor, was an oxford don.
This is her fifth book. In addi-
tion to those already mentioned,
there is Horizon" with which this
reviewer is not familiar.
Evening star., 1947-08-10
A Violent Novel
Of Racial Hatred
THE TERRIFIED SOCIETY

ILL 1GIGC1r 1EO oOC1E14
BY Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet.
doubleday; $3.)
Mrs. Teilhet has written an un-
usual novel of suspense, with an
element of mystery, that probably
will keep your bed lamp burning
much later than usual.
1t is more than story filled with
tension and excitement, for the
characters are ably imagined, the
theme OF contemporary Importance
The central figure is Thomas
Jarrot. He has come out of the war
a lieutenant colonel, after serving
most of it in Washington, the rest
in Germany after We day. Casting
about for job, he encounters a
Pentagon friend, Col. Walt Anon
They and a third character, Chuck
Blevens, form fascist-type organ
ization in the South, anti-Negro
and anti-Semitic. The "boys" turn
out to welcome a Jewish violinist
at the Atlanta station. He has in
sisted that Negroes be allowed in
the audience at his recital that
night. Thomas is the advance guard,
and the enraged musician smashes
his violin over the leaders head.
Some of the boys" attack the
violinist, so crushing his hand that
he can never play again.
Anon and Chuck spirit Thomas
away in an ambulance to a sani-
tarium in Tennessee, pretending he
is seriously hurt. They arrange for
him to escape" and GO to Guate-
mala, promising to send him large
sum, part of his share of the pro-
ceeds OF their racket organization.
When he has left the country. they
double cross Thomas, telling the
press he alone caused the riot" in
Atlanta and that they are disband-
ing the outfit But Thomas troubles
in Guatemala and adjacent San
Salvador are only beginning. A
relentless, mysterious pursuit, al
most ghostly in its inexplicable
ways, haunts him day and night.
Thomas is anything but an ad-
mirable person, as you must have
guessed. He is a cynical oppor-
tunist, not even believing in the
fascism he breaches. He is even a
physical coward. Yet so terrible is
the psychological and physical pur-
suit that envelopes him that you'll
probably come to have a certain
sympathy for him.
Mrs. Teilhet's Central American
scenes are particularly effective.
Her descriptions. however, often are
too long drawn. and they slow up a
narrative that otherwise would
move at breathless pace.
&C, 3, J,
Evening star., 1947-08-10

Any criticism of administration in
the American zone of Germany
cannot include lack of foresight.
Early in 1912 the Army established
military government schools for
certain of its personnel. But Prof.
Harold link of De Pauw, one of the
civilians early commissioned as a
military government officer and
later consultant to the United States
Group, Control Council for Ger
many, puts down the rest of the
record with candor.
Original schooling of officers fol-
lowed the pattern familiar in other
fields. to many a staff officer: worth
while and worthless lectures mex
tricably mixed, much time spent on
matters later never encountered in
the field, in general only blunder-
ing at instead of a straight aiming
at the educational target. Arrived
in England, some 1000 military gov
ernment specialist officers found
themselves anything but popular
with other military branches, and
Mr. link tells the old Army story
of a group cuffed about, looking for
it's niche. Essentially a civilian, he
cannot help reciting the tale with
civilian plaintiyeness. His criti-
cisms of top brass, of echelon jockey
ing for power, of officer transfers,
have a basic justification; but his
group did not seem to realize that
such problems are common to all
branches of the Army, and that
only the initiative and force to be
supplied within itself could have
mitigated its lot.
When the group finally got going
Evening star., 1947-08-10

expulsion from the Amalgamated
Order of Parents, for he actually
says that not infrequently the
difficulties which parents have in
dealing with their children are
largely of the parents making!
Heresy!
DR.. Bauer, whose book will be pub
lished next Friday, is director of
the Bureau of Health Education of
the American Medical Association.
In addition to having three chill
dren Zone of whom contributes a
chapter to this book entitled Aren't
Parents a Mess!') who evidently
curb any temptation to ex cathedra
utterances on the part of the pater-
familias, he has an exuberant sense
Of humor which makes the book
enjoyably readable.
But this is no funny book. It is
full of sound advice and common
sense, and is devoted to the
psychiatrically sound thesis that all
conduct is an attempt to adjust to
the environment. When that en-
vironment is made up in large meas
ure of parents who overprotect, or
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Money-Moking
RecoVections
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER
DOLLAR
BY John T. Winterich. II. B
Lippincott; $780,
IkCtlCWCu ny
GEORGE BEVERIDGE.


It's doubtful that any mans future
achievement Can equal the satisfac-
ton brought by the dollars of his
first jobs as boy. Hardly reader
of this collection will resist the
temptation to recall those first few
jobs.
The idea hit Mr.. Winterich as he
contemplated an Army QUESTIONABLE
that asked for a complete list" of
civilian occupations. He complied,
going back to the age of IL, and
came up with Another Day, An
other Dollar"
The author found that between
the ages of IL and 81, he held at
least 10 remembered jobs. Most
were part-time, none with much of
a future. But they brought back
enough of a flood of memories to
spin a score of tales of people and
places near Providence, r. l., where
he was a delivery boy, a salesman
for various wares, a census taker
and a streetcar conductor.
MI. WlnCeTlcn, VINO later became
managing editor of the Saturday
Review Of Literature and a staff
member of the New Yorker, obvi-
ously is fondest of his first jobs.
And he is at his best describing the
unhurried, arc-lamp era of the early
p19O0s, when 81 a week was pretty
good pay for boy of IL.
In these 204 pages, Mr.. Winterich
introduces the reader to a weird as
sortment Of friends, business asso-
ciates and nonprofessional contacts.
Each chapter stands by itself as a
separate piece Of humor. irony or
simply fond remembrance. Several
already have appeared in issues of
the New Yorker.
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

The Hungarian novelist, Paul
Tabori, explains in a foreward that
this is tale of guess work and
make-believe but, for all that, you
may as well take it seriously"
His novel of suspense, while
natural for Hollywood, merits seri-
GUS acceptance both for literary
skill and for it's handling of still
grave problem besetting Europe.
Its dramatic devices-even such
familiar ones as escape, manhunt,
and concealed identity-have the
benefit of better than usual crafts
manship. It's psychological aspects
add immeasurably to the plot and
the credibility of the central char
acter. Its background and implica-
tions are far bigger than the area
covered by ruthless Nazi war GRIM
inal who thought he devised a fool
proof plan of getting away from
Germany.
Horst Won Falkenau had a me-
thodical and murderous scheme to
flee from the vengeance of his own
people, outwit the conquerer of his
country, find refuge in sympathetic
surroundings and eventually return
when he believed the times again
ready for spreading Fascism over
Europe.
With forged credentials he passed
as Czech patriot, Karel Reznicek.
He ran into his first major trouble
when robbed of safer indentif1ca-
ton papers that had been faxed for
him at Nazi underground station
in Leipzig. Coldly resourceful as
ever, he met and married Helen
Fleming, an English girl. She and
Capt. Peter Whitney, an American
officer, had befriended him. The
supposed Czech repaid Capt. Whit
ney by taking not only the girl but
also important documents. The
honeymoon turned out to be a des-
perate chase from Germany to
Spain.
The book deals in suspense rather
than surprise, although it has full
quota of unexpected events and
Shocks. There is no rule against
disclosing that Falkenau not only
never came back but that he never
really got away.
His downfall comes because he
fails to get away from himself. He
is persued and overcome by name
less terror, conscience, retributive
justice, or call it what you will. He
gave lifetime to crushing the bet
ter angels of his nature. The payoff
catches up with him in a diabolic
fury.
Paul Tabori, known to America
readers for his earlier novels, ought
to gain wider popularity with this
one, which is exciting without beins
fantastic, haunting without being
morbid, and psychological without
being phoney. 1t will not mystify
readers but it can make them think
while they are being entertained.
Evening star., 1947-08-10


typewriters saying: L don't care
whether you like this. I know the
Post or Golfers never would. Per-
haps if you have sense enough, you'll
understand me-"
Like Modern Composers.
These writers scorn the distin-
guished short-story tellers of the
past-Poe, De Maupassant, Chekhov,
Henry James, Kipling, o. Henry-or
at least their techniques. Our icon-
oclasts shun the dramatic climax;
their stories are without beginning
or ending. They remind me of mod
ern composers who mistake lack of
melody and form for originality.
Whatever an artists medium and
whatever his technique, he must
have something to say. Mr. Weld
man always has.
There is drama in every one of
these stories. There is development.
None is a mere vignette. And Mr..
Weidman is not afraid to give his
stories definite endings, sometimes
sharp climaxes, though they never
seem contrived to sway or surprise
the reader. Even if they end on
subtle note, as in MY Aunt From
Twelfth Street." they tell complete
stories, leaving you with the feeling
that you know as much about the
situation as if the author had writ
ten on for explicit pages. He has G
feeling for irony which goes deeper
than the surface satire of many con-
temporary stories. He has a terse-
ness of expression that could we'll
serve as a model for short story
writer's. He's never dull.
Several of the stories are about
Washington during the war or i'm
mediately afterward. The Third
Alphabet" is an excellent study of
bewildered but shrewd Government
girl. Everybody and His Brother"
is sharp picture of Federal ex-
ecutive who has had an important
role in the war, but envies the men
who have been at the front. THE
Pleasure of the President" the most
humorous tale in the book, and "a
Lodging for the Night" reveal, in a
refreshing way, that not all men
are wolves, and that predatory per-
sons can be of the other sex.
The stories are commercially free
of propaganda or sermonizing. At a
time when many writers are turning
ont polemics in the form of novels,
some of them best-sellers, most of
them pretty bad novels, Mr.. Weld
man has stuck closely to- life as he
has observed it. The solitary ex-
ception in this volume. "Gsllantry
in Action" which deals with anti
Semitism, struck me as the only
story in the book that was not
plausible. 1t could have happened,
but I doubt that it would have.
It's hard to pick best among so
many fine stories. But it seems to
me that the one I'll remember long
est is THE Bottom of the Noun
tain," the dramatic story of an
American bandleader who settled
in London because of greater pro-
fessional opportunity and stayed on
through the years and became
British subject for the same reason.
There came a time when he ..
But you'll want to discover that for
yourself. This story is, of it's kind,
a masterpiece.
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Somerset Vaughan, Ready to Retire, Says
He Can't Recoqnize His Earlier Works

lust still has him in its thrall. He
believes that wanderlust, which gave
him so much copy, is so necessary
to writer's that he has bequeathed
a large sum OF money to provide a
yearly travel scholarship for Brit
ish authors of promise.
Il may 60 to South America" he
continued. 1--WE had a lot of invi-
tations to 60 to the Argentine
Brazil and Chile, because I'm sup
posed to be the most widely read
novelist there. I've never beer
there. Then I've been asked to visit
South Africa. That's a nice sunny
country that would be interesting to
see."
: But Vaughan hopes to die In
Southern France.
Calls France Home"
II suppose I stayed in the United
States longer at a stretch than in
any other country in my life, though
I've had a permanent home In
France for 20 years.
I'm America they were very kind
to me, and indeed, they f1attered me
which everybody likes. But if you're
an European, well, that's where
your roots are, and your old friends
And when you get old, you banker
to get back"
Vaughan, whose works are still
best sellers, and who admits that he
made writing pay, still advises youth
not to write for a career-unless
they can't help it.
For the same amount of work
and application, you can make twice
that amount of money in a lifetime
at other forms of work." he ex-
planned. But if you've got the urge
to write, well, then you've Just got
to, and it will be worth 1t In salts
faction"
A writer should have private
means, if he can, Vaughan says, if,
like Vaughan himself, he doesn't
then 1t is best, the author advises,
to start writing while earning a liv-
ing at some other career not con-
nected with writing.
And the successful writer must re-
member two principles, he says
Stick to. the point, and whenever
you can, cut, cut, cut"
Evening star., 1947-08-10

in Germany it was so mixed by that
time with officers never exposed to
military government training that
the original principles were hope
lessly lost. From there on the story,
despite flashes of competence in an
overwhelming task, is one of in
determinate policy, administrative
stumbling, clashing jurisdictions,
and territorial divisions ignoring
economic and cultural patterns.
1t thus seems remarkable that as
much progress has been made as 1t
has. Mr.. link, after recording
every weakness, still sees much &C
complishment. For the future, he
believes necessary a general recogni-
ton in the United States that we
must commit ourselves to an oc-
cupational program of at least
10 years; and a transition to a civil
American administration, directly
under a single civil agency in Wash
ington.