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The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17
Special Omaha Release

System has added s million,
two hundred thousand tele-
phones since VI Day.
The Northwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company and the other
Bell System Companies are
doing their utmost to catch
up with the unprecedented de
mand for telephones. Ne =
switchboards and more wire
Zand cable are being manufac-
tared ana Installed in record
quantities, looking toward tn
day when everyone again can
have the kind of telephone
service he wants, when he
wants it.
In the last 10 years, the num-
Der Of Bell System telephones
in service has nearly doubled,
growing from Is million, four
hundred and sixty thousand,
to 80 million. More than half
of this gain has been made
since the end of the ar.
Today's Bell System plant
investment is about 8 billion
dollars. This is almost double
what it was 10 years ago.
Nearly to-thirds of this 1O-yr.
gain has been made since the
war. Similarly, there are today
about 675 thousand Bell Sys-
tenn employees or more than
twice the total Of a decade ago.
Owners Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Com
pany, parent Company of the
System, now total nearly $50
thousand.
The number of telephone
conversations completed dailv
in the Bell System now exceed
rs million, as compared to
around 20 mollion per day 10
years ago.
Today is million miles OF
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

Trainmen and Locomotive
Firemen, Roanoke, Va; Inter-
ational Association of Rail
way Employees, Memphis,
Tenn; Southern Association
of Colored Railway Trainmel
and Firemen, Savannah, Ga.
Colored Trainmen of America,
Kingsville, Texas and the Din
ing Car and Railroad Food
Workers Union, Chicago, III.
Three outstanding attorneys
of national reputation who are
co-counsel for the Negro rail-
road unions committee, are
Charles H. Houston and JOS
eph G. Waddy Of Washington,
DC. and Archibald Bronson
of New York.
The Committees newspaper
is being planned as a monthly
four-page publication and is
edited by Daniel Benjamin,
Eeastern vice-president of the
DC & RRFWU, 124 West 124
St., New York City u, NY.
The subscription price is one
dollar per wear.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17
A. M. E. BISHOPS SIGNED STATE
MENT THAT WALLACE AS A FINE
CHRISTIANLEADER AT KANSAS
CONFERENC E

Henry Wallace was praised
as a leader in the cause of
peace among people through
out the world" by A. NJ. E.
Church leaders in one Of the
most significant pronounceme-
nts to come out Of the 33rd
Quadrennial Conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal
Church meeting in Kansas City
Kansas. Soldiers and Sailors
Memorial Hall. The Conferen
&C closed May IL.
Characterizing Wallace as
an example of a Christian lead
er who stands up for the
rights Of the Negro people anu
the Jewish people as. well as
Protestants and Catholics,
nine bishops signed the state
nent, which as released short
y after Senator Glen T.. Tav-
Tor, Wallace's running mate,
addressed the Conference on
his fight Against Jim Crow
in Birmingham, Alabama.
The statement was signed
by Bishop S. L. Greene of the
9th Episcopal District, Ala
bama Bishop w. A. Fountain
ST., of the 18th District, Okla.
homa and Arkansas; Bishop
"A. ]. Allen of the 3rd District.
Ohio and West Virginia
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100 r
YOUTHS ATTEND THE
SOUTHWIDE All CAMP

Over 100 rural colored YOU
tbs will attend the first South
wide Al Club Camp, Aug
ust 24-31, at Southern Univer-
sity, Baton Rouge, La, accor-
ding to an announcement made
this week by Acting Exten-
sion Service Director Walter
H. Conway.
Encampment delegates, who
will represent the 800 thousand
colored All club boys and girls
in the Nation, have been sell
ected from clubs in each Of the
IL Southern States. Each State
is sending six delegates-three
boys and three girls who have
done outstanding All club
work.
Plans for the event are being
completed this week by the en-
campment committee in a meet
ing at Knoxville College, at the
tentative encampment program
includes a series Of addresses
by prominent white and color
ed leaders, a oneday trip to
New Orleans where the club
bers will visit historic places
a boat ride on the Mississippi,
and tours of the State Capitol
at Baton Rouge, Louisiana ST.
ate University, and the State
agricultural experiment station
At southern the Alters will
take part in discussions of
health good citizenship, All
work, and rural life problems.
Following the discussion per-
iods they will join in various
types Of recreational activit--
les under the direction Of Ross
Owens Of Tuskegee. During
the evenings, the boys and the
girls will see movies, take
part in group singing, and play
indoor games.
One of the highlights of the
encampment will be a present.
alton ceremony during which
4-H membership plaques will
be presented to four outstan-
ding citizens who have been
an inspiration to rural youths.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17
Reservations in the Special Train

Reservations i'll the special
train going from Omaha to
the Fort Randall dam site
July p now total approx
mately 100, according to the
manager of the Omaha Cham
Der of Commerce Transpor-
tation department, r. w.
Heinecamp.
The list Of those planning
to attend the Army Engineers
Open House day has doubled
in the past week.
The River Development and
Flood Control committee Of
the Omaha Chamber is spon.
soring a.. special train via the
Milwaukee railroad to the
event. Purpose of the day is
to acquaint residents of the
Missouri Basin with the ork
being done at Fort Randall and
the Importance that it holds
for all those who live in this
area.
Interest in the trip is not
confined solely to Omaha.
Here are some Of the interest
ed communities and the num-
Der of representatives they are
sending: Lincoln, six; Column
bus, four; Council Bluffs, APP
p%roximately ten; St. Joseph,
Mo-, eight. Others no have
promised to send representa-
tives are Minden and Nebras-
ka Civ.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

RuSSel J. Hopley, president
Of the Northwestern Bell Tel
ephone Company, today par
ticipated in ceremonies mark
ing the installation Of the 80
millionth Bell System tele-
phone. Mr.. Hopley, who has
JUST returned for several days
from Washington, D. c..
where he is serving as Direct
or of Civil Defense Planning
in the office Of Secretary OF
Defense Forrestal, took part
in a three-ay conference call
between Omaha, Marshall
town, Iowa and New York
City.
Other parties to the CONVEX
sation were Leroy A. Wilson,
president Of the "A. t. & T.
Company, Vice President Of
the Northwestern Company G.
L. Sampson, in Iowa, and Har-
old Bragg, the customer in
whose home the 30 millionth
installation was made at Mar
Shalltown.
Mr.. Bragg, Of 207 South 10
Ave, IS an engineer employed
by the Lennox Furnace Com
pany. He and Mas. Bragg have
a two-and-a-half-year old
daughter, Jane Kay.
The installation Q e 5
seventy-two years after Alex
ander Graham Bell said, "Mr.
Watson, come here, | want
you,' over the first telephone
to transmit ineligible speech.
That as on March 10, 1876, in
Boston. It took the Bell Sys.
tenn over forty-five years to
attain its first 10 millionth
telephones, not quite twenty
years for thhe next 10 mill
ionth and less than six wears
for the third 10 millionth. The
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

The special train Will make
no stops between Omaha and
Fort Randall.
Harry Trustin, chairman Of
the River Development and
Flood Control committee, says
that attendance of his group
for the trip will be virtually
one hundred per cent. Four
teen members of the p man
group have already made res
ervations.
The train will leave Omaha
at 1870 pm. Wednesday, July
Fl, arriving at the dam site at
approximately s am, July %.
The train i'll leave again at
about 3 pm. Thursday, arriv-
ing back in Omaha about mid
night.
The delegation will travel IN
air-conditioned cars with a
special diner. Round trip fare,
including lower Pullman berth
and parlor seat on return, and
meals, i'll be $3wl.50. Reserva-
tons may be made it'll G. A.
Henkens, General Agent Of the
Milwaukee Passenger Depart
ment at 1611 Farnam, or the
Omaha Chambers Transport
tation Department.
"A crowd of nearly 10000
persons is expected to visit the
dam during the one-day cele-
bration.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

wire interconnect Bell System
telephones. Ten years ago
there were 50 million miles.
Including the 6 million five
hundred thousand telephones
served by the nations indie
pendent-owned telephone com
panies, there are now 80 mill
ion five hundred thousand tele-
phones interconnected in the
United States. This represents
about three-fifths of all the
telephones in the world. The
Unteid States has one tele-
phone for every four persons
as compared to about one for
every 90 persons n the rest Of
the world.
The history Of the telephone
in MarshaAtown dates from
the earliest days Of telephony.
In 1877, Theodore B4Fchard, 4
Marshalltown youth attending
Stevens archaeological InSti-
tute at Hoboken, New Jersey,
built auo telephones from
plans in a scientific magazine,
and sent them home where
they were connected between
his fathers home and his drug
store.
Marshalltown, a city in cen
trail Iowa with rs thousand
population, had IS first tele-
phone exchange in 1881. To-
day there are $3.50 telephones
serving the city.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

year. Joining Mr.. White in pre-
sentation of the demands O.
Negro voters ere DIR. Chan
ming H. Tobias, Of the CME
Church; George LIP Weaver,
CLIO Committee to Abolish
Racial Discrimination; Miss
Mabel S. Lewis, National AS
ISOLATION of Negro Milliners
and Dress Designers; DR.. w.
c. Jason, National Alliance of
Postal Employees; and Theo-
dore S~paulding, National Bal
Association.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

Truman and Barkly nominal
ed. Harry Truman's opening
remark: 1--WE are goino to beat
the Republican and make them
like it, Mississippi and Alab-
anna walked out of the conven
ton. Humphrey of MINI. help
the platform committees feet
to the fire-Made them call
a spade a spade. Tenn, No.
Carolina, Virginia, Texas and
Mississippi and Georgia, the
real dle-hard kind fought a
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17
JUDGE ISSUES A
ORDER

Judge ]. Yates w arfng, OF
the United States District
Court, Eastern District Of So.
Carolina, issued a restraining
order today in the suit filed
today by attorneys for the Ma
tional Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People
against eigthy-nine officers
and members of the States
Democratic Party, who the
CO int alleges, have sought
Negro citizens Of
- vote.
lit, filed on behalf Of
David Brown and other quail
flied Negro voters Of South
Caroline, follows by three
months the victory won by the
NAACP in the case Of FL
more w. Rice. In the latter
case, Judge Waring held illeg-
al the refusal of the Democrat
ic Party of South Carolina to
allow qualified Negroes the
right to participate in the
Democratic party primary.
Judge Warnings decision was
sustained by the Fourth Cir
cult Cort Of Appeals and the
United States Supreme Court
refused, last April, to review
the decision.
Following these decisions.
the Democratic party Of South
Carolina determined to con-
tinue its infringement upon the
right of Negroes to vote in the
primary. Pursuant to this aim,
the party passed rules prohib-
iting any Negro from joining
Democratic party clubs, re-
curing that every Negro up
on registering present a gen.
eral registration certificate, and
requiring every member of the
Democratic Party to take an
oath. to uphold racial segrega.
ton and oppose federal fair
employment practices legis-
lation.
The present suit, filed
against every officer of the
Democratic party in South
Carolina who was not a de-
PENDANT in the case of Elmore
Y, Rice, asked the court to
issue Immediately a tenipor-
airy order restraining the de-
PENDANTS from employing these
devices to prevent Negroes
from voting in the August 10
primary. The new rules Of the
Democratic Party of South Car
DINA were devised soley for
the purpose of DISTINGUISHING
voters on the basis Of their
race and color, according to the
attorney. Such devic-
es, the complaint claims, are
in violation of the Article l and
Amendment II, Is and II of
the United States Constitution
and Of Sections 81 and 43 of
Title 8 Of the United States
Code.
The restraining order issued
today by Judge Waring both
the defendants and the plant
ifs to appear in court July 10
to present both sides of the
case. The attorneys handling
the case for the NAACP are
Special Counsel Thurgood
Marshall and Assistant Spec
ial Counsel Edward R. Dudley
Of Ne wYork and Harold Boul
ware Of Columbia. s. C.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

good battle but lost. They will
loose again in the November
election unless they decide to
cut out their system Of polit-
ical persecution Of so per cent
of their citizens.
1t doesn't make very much
difference who's elected in
Wall
ace-Dewey. From all outside
appearances it looks like Am
erica is beginning to practice
a real democratic Democracy.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

George T. Hedgespeth, 1913
graduate Of the Atlanta Univer
sity School of Social Work, is
now enjoying his work as the
Child Welfare Worker with
the Social Service Bureau, of
Richmond Va. Mr.. Hedge
speth, who is the only male
and Negro worker employed
on the staff is a native of Nor
folk, Va. and a member of the
Omega Psi Fraternity.
Among other duties, his
work includes the supervision
Of juvenile PAROLES who have
been returned to the local Co
immunity from the State In
dustrial School and the State
Childrens Bureau.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17
KMA Listener
Wins $4,000

AAAO YSO3OOS
81 know l won't win be-
cause no one ever wins who
needs the prize" Twenty MIN
utes after she made this state
ment, Mrs. Bessie Lawrence,
a regular M listener, who
lives in Shenandoah, Iowa /!
proved herself wrong by win
ming $4,000 in prizes for sub
hitting the best entry in the
abbott and Costello Kid
Show" contest.
Mrs. Lawrence who lives
with her unemployed husband
in a two room walk up apart
ment over a hamburger stand,
is the mother Of five children.
She has eight. grandchildren.
Since she was married IS
years ago, Bessie Lawrence
has dreamed Of a home to call
her own, However,, rearing the
children took all the money
which Mr.. Lawrence a day
laborer, could make. Yester-
day the Lawrences were wor-
rying about tomorrow's meal
and next months rent. Today
their only worry is the income
tax on $4,000.
In her winning entry, Mrs.
Lawrence said, 81 want to help
fight juvenile delinquency be-
cause | love children-kind-
ness, patience and affectionate
understanding are what
children need most-We sho-
uld never make a promise In
a child we don't intend to keep
Their faith in us in soon gone
Next Manday, July II, Mrs.
and Mr.. Lawrence will leave
for Hollywood to meet Lou
Costello and Bud Abbott. On
Saturday, July 18th, she will
participate in a national wide
broadcast during which she
will receive the following pr
ICES:
$1,000 mink coat
S4,795 four place sedan
airplane.
$1,000 new Kaiser four door
sedan, fully equipped with a
radio, heater and other Access
sories.
$1,000 House trailer
$3.50 coronation diamond
ring.
Two weeks all expenses paid
vacation with her husband at
Theel Rancho Vegas Hotel, in
Los Vegas.
$1,000 silver and gold en-
crusted jewel chest presented
by Arturo de Cordova to Luc-
lille Bremen in "The Adven-
ture of Casanova.
A fully automatic O'Keefe
and Merit Gas Rane
$500 makeup kit
$3.50 diamond and platinum
precision wrist watch for Mrs.
Lawrence another for her huS
band
$500 a complete service for
II of franciscan china
$3.50 flooring Of the Lawr-
ence kitchen, drainboard and
bathroom in ceramic tile.
$1,000 complete heating or
cooling system for their apart
ment or trailer
$500 sterling service for 8
A handbag fitted in gold and
a lighter, a cigarette case, COM
past and lipstick, and $3.50 en-
try.
$3.50 living room suite
$50 pillow rest mattress
and a box spring
$120 vacuum speaper, COM
plete with nine household unit
$500 10 NM sound motion
picture protector accompanied
by a print Of Abbott and Cos
tello's first movie "Buch Pri-
Yates" and a print Of their
latest film "The Moose hangs
High The prints are valued at
81 900.
$3.50 set of luggage.
Round trip to Hollywood
and a weeks stay in the film
city with all expenses paid.
A television set
Several other prizes.
Mrs. Lawrence said that all
Of the prizes but the car and
the furniture would be sold to
buy an acreage here on the
outskirts Of Shenandoah. She
spoke wistfully Of the $1,000
mink coat, but finally said,
"Myhusband and l worked too
many years to spend any Of
the money foolishly. Believe
me, folks dreams do come true.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

News II
from
NAACP
Observation-Disclosures
CIVIL RIGHTS
PLANK G. ON
rr- ATC

1@A
Philadelphia, July 8rEn-
dorsement of the r~ecommehd-
atioas Of the Presidents Com
mittee on Civil Rights by the
National Democratic Conyen-
ton as urged today by Walter
White, NAACP SECRETARY,
sheaking Before the conven-
tons platform committee on
behalf Of Fl national Negro
organizations it'll a combined
membership of more than g
million.
awe urge and insist, Mr..
White told the committee,
rthat the platform of the 1913
Democratic convention en-
dorse without equivocation the
entire program of the Presi-
dent's Committee on Civil
Rights and especially those
provisions to suppress lynch
ing and mob violence, to ban
the poll tax as a voting re-
quirement, to afford equality
of job opportunity, and to =
bplish discrimination and seq
regationsin the armed services,
education and transportation"
Mr.. White reminded the
Democrats of the support
which Negro voters have Civ
en- that party and pointed out
that "in reasonably close ell
ections, these voters are a vital
factor in some rs COMPRESSION
al districts in at least II bord-
er and northern states with a
total of POS electoral votes. In
1914, this vote as essential to
the viwctory of the Democrat
&c parity"
In northern and border
states, he said, there is a po-
tential of 3 million Negro vot-
ers. These are independent
voters tied to the agron string
of no party and in the bag of
no politician. In addition to
these three million, thhere is
every likelihood of another
million Negro voters in the
southern states. For the most
part, thesefnew voters are new
misfePrcsented in Congress BY
mem
for the development of decent
human relations among the
people of this country. These
voters, perforse, will support
the growing liberal element in
the South. Ultimately, this will
mean a replacement of the pre-
sent congressional reprecen-
tation by men and women
more representative Of all the
people Of the South"
In addition to approval Of
the communications of the
Civil Rights committee, Mr..
White asked ''the platform
pledge the full weight Of the
Democratic party to the
amendment Of the Senate rules
to invoke cloture by a major
ity vote in order that filibust-
ers which have disgraced Am
erica for too long may be stop
ped in the United States Sen
ate.
The committee was present
ed with the Declaration of Ne
gro voters, formulated at a
meeting Of representatives of
the 21 organizations in New
York City on March u Of this
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17
Is Not Inherited
BY Boer

tuberculosis is not inherited. It is
a disease which well people catch
from people whoshave active tuber-
culosis. While 1t Is a serious disease
It can be cured and its spread can
be prevented.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

~ Augustus F. Hawkins (left) and James I. Allen are two
candidates for California State Assembly with full backing of
the Wallace New Party. Hawkins, incumbent Democrat, will
run on both Democratic and Independent Progressive
(Waflace) Party tickets in the 62nd AID. Los Angeles.
Hawkins was. FIRST elected t. The State Legislature in 1885 and
has since been reelected 10 seven successive terms. James Allen
(right) is the IPP's candidate iii Los Angeles 9th AID. and
has received endorsement Of the Los Angeles Go.
The Omaha guide., 1948-07-17

Eddie Dunn: Trying to go to sleep
the other night I counted 80 many
sheep they started to picket for
shorter hours"
TINE Or False" MBS
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

hammering at wages and unions
and steering up toward a blood
bath of needless war for a Wall
Street empire, nothing could call
a halt to the vicious program
better than marching hundreds
of thousands of American work.
ers on May Day.
On April 80, think of wage cuts,
Taft Hartley, union smashing,
sky-high prices, fantastic indus
trial profits, no housing, the new
spare-the-greedy tax law, the
American industry-owned sweat
shop empire now rising through
out the world, the drive to war
and depression, and the whole
rotten program. =.
And on May LIST, help get
across your opposition to the
whole handcuff deal. Take your
union banner out of the hall and
parade it in the sun, with the
membership proudly proclaiming
that they amt buying it!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

tag on May Day, and set the
working people at each others
Threats, and they have foolishly
been more or less at it ever
since.
May Day has special signifi-
canoe to workers in the farm
equipment industry, because the
Mccormick Reaper workers of
1886 had several of their strik-
ing members shot in the Hay
market period strikes for the s.
hour day. No militant farm
equipment worker today can
overlook this connection with the
fighting past of our rugged and
horny-handed grandfathers who
worked from sun-up to shutdown
for a pittance in wages and
premature grave for their open
shop freedom.
In Chicago especially, May
Day is a proud tradition. And, in
this fateful year of 1913, with
the most powerful forces of re-
action in the worlds history
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
BY GRANT w. CAKES
President Go United Farm
Equipment Workers

" HERE are two outstand-
i ingly American holidays
in our calendar, one made in
Boston at Bunker Hill, the other
made in Chicago at Haymarket
Square.
May Day was born in Chicago
in 1886, confirmed by an AFL
convention in st. Louis, accept
ed later in Paris international
labor gathering, and went on to
become, throughout the world,
the day when workers parade
to show their determination
and their organized strength and
solidarity.
May Day became so univer-
sally recognized that management
had to water down the enthusi-
asm, SO they projected another
day entirely and got Labor Day
going. Then they put a fright
tag on Labor Day and a cleft"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

came to the u. S. as a seaman.
After knocking around the coun-
try ior a while, he joined the
IWW in San Pedro, Calf, in
1910, shortly after he had COM
posed one of his most famous
songs, Casey Jones, the Union
Scab."
AND THAT was one of the
songs the workers sang on their
way to Graceland Cemetery. And
they sang others after the funet-
al orations-ip English, Polish,
Swedish, Russian, Yiddish, and
Lithuanian-were over.
The next day, some of Joe
Hills close friends, in obedience
to his last command, ordered the
cremation of his body.
The ashes were placed in hum
dreds of small envelopes.
And on the following May
Day. in 1914. in every state in
the union and every country in
the world, the envelopes were
opened and Joe Hills ashes were