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New Mayor Makes Statement LATIN AMERICAN NEGROES MAKE GOOD CITIZENS The Children’s THE By Harold Preece LIVING to | I’d like be one of the first to -COLUMN- welcome into the (BY JOY\ MeCAW) many-tongued and of ■ many-colored family 130,- SYMPATHY EOH: SOUTH 000,000 Americans, a Negro from Q CHARLES DICKERSON. SR, <HY HAROLD PREECE) Latin America—Private Mel- (Copyright, 1945. by New South bourne Owen who was born “JUNE” Features) Smith, E down in Panama but who now- June is the month of spring, claims Brooklyn, N. Y., as his When all the robins love to sing. home. HEWTOTHEUNEX It is the month when school is out, it’s a And all the children run about. Maybe, just coincidence that Private Smith and another Spring very seldom has a storm PHONE HA.0800 in the American But it is sometimes very warm. Negro serving June is the month of armed forces, Diata Pierre Cam- Accredited North happy cheer, ■jf -fg- "Largest Negro Newspaper West of Chicago and of KC• ^ ^ ^ in And sometimes the month of a pine, born Senegal, should have ' been naturalized a happy year. by Department of o£T!;‘l.0SS Saturday. June 9,1945 * 10c Per Copy * Our 18th Year-No. 18 Valaria Joan McCaw, Editor. Justice Official, Dr. Henry B. ES'riS *«£ s£ SSL^. Hazard, in old Mother Africa “THE CIRCUS” where they shed their blood for The in circus is town, human freedom. Negroes every- have not gone without recognition, With many a clown. where are proud that the War De- although for a long time its activi- The lions and tigers are there partment singled them out for ties and struggles remained un- The trapeze people are in the air, special mention in connection with known because of an almost total All the people are sitting tight, “I Am An American Day” ob- New blackout due to a lack of first class Waiting for the show with all served 20th. Makes Sunday, Statement May Part of this was due their Mayor publicity. might. We are glad to have with us to the of the which Gee I The assuming of public office operate as a Board of Directors, modesty group, like the circus so, Melbourne Smith, Diata Campine, of how minor or how while each will not to regardless and department be preferred “keep too much But even better I like the show, whose two boyonet scars are set great, is an important undertaking headed by a Commissioner, that noise” until it “had ar- really Valaria Joan McCaw, Editor. down as identifying marks on his Each and every such public ot- Commissioner will seek and re- rived.” certificate of a ficial should recognize that he is ceive the counsel and advice of the naturalization, and In VICTORY SWEETHEARTS not all wise nor all powerful. other Commissioners. paying tribute to ANT, this third young Negro soldier, Frank- The The Sweethearts enter- office of City Commissioner Returning veterans should have year the Schomburg Collection of Victory lyn Emanuel Long, native of Trin- is tthe most important public office on all The of- tained the servicemen from Fair- priority city jobs. Negro Literature, which annually HAROLD PREECE idad whom Dr. Hazard made an of the and whether our city, city fices and of the city and employees honors 12 individuals or groups mont, Kearney, Nebr., camps, American citizen in the He- is to to a of New going progress point should be used in gathering data New one of the for the most Saturday, May 24, 1945, at the (Copyright, 1945, by South brides. great commerical cen- and plans for utilizing and giving outstanding perform- ters of the Middle West to a ance in the of home of Elizabeth Slupman and Features.) is, employment to our men and wo- promotion inter- Three Negroes from three dif- great extent, determined our 2116 Ohio Street. I reckon that fellow South- by men returning from the Armed racial harmony, included ANT on Etteyle Hunter, my ferent City Council. ? parts of the world—from Forces. its list. The was spent in danc- erner, P. B. Young, Jr., of the Nor- evening Latin from the West In- In our opinion, a We our America, go.,d public accept charge humbly Riverdale Children’s Association ing. Refreshments were served folk Journal and Guide, was tes- official is one who not and wish to assure the of dies, and from Panama—who recognizes people for all the little of join committee will give a similar the boys. tifying people oniy the limitations of man. but Omaha that we are going to en- their strength to ours in that long, Dixie when he wrote from Sar. more his own limita- best award to the this month at Sunday, May 25, 1945, the club especially deavor to render the very group but inevitably victorious fight, to tions No ,,ne man could possibly service that is humanly possible. which time Technical Sergeant Joe held a dinner for the boys. There Francisco on May 12th: confer the diginity of man upon all be possessed of full of We solicit constructive criticism “So far as the knowledge Louis also will receive a River- were fifteen present. The boys little people of men. All of us are honored be- a.id all matters to and assure you that it will be ac- any pertaiimng dale award. were served cocktails before the the world and the United Nations j the various of the cepted in good grace. cause three men of the darker departments Conference are it Last year the General Education dinner. The menu consisted of here concerned, city, nor even to one department I sincerely pledge to each of peoples were given this special is to America and Russia of the thereof. VVe must our- you Commissioners my whole Board of the Rockefeller Founda- segmented grapefruit with cher- surround City recognition on an important Amer- and for a Five that look for selves with competent assistants hearted support hope tion made a of for the ries, fried chicken, rice with gib- Big they nflust grant $9,500 ican holiday. It gives point to and seek information progressive and efficient adminis- let whatever deliverance is in store continuously Theatre’s 1945-1946 season to help gravy, buttered peas, buttered from the best sources available. tration. I am sure that we will something that Paul Robeson said continue the of what hot rolls, candied sweet potatoes, for them.” We thank all of the voters of all work to that end. development in an interview published in the has been called the best lettuce and tomato sahid, and cof- Now, Brother P. B. Young is Omaha for their confidence ex- experi- Modern Thinker Magazine back in pressed the election, and hum- mental theatre in New York and fee. The evening w'as spent in sitting up there with other news- by 1935: enter our in the amen corner at bly upon responsibilities. PLAIN TALK environs. i dancing and playing Po Kena. The t papermen Our iiterature and our talks “We must remember that out- By Julius J. Adams Dillard University of New Or- boys departed for their camp at San Francisco listening to what to the election were n..t previous the who are side North there are Editor’s Note: Mr. Julius Adams, leans cited ANT as the 11 o’clock. An enjoyable time was big people, the diplo- America, just "campaign talk" and propa- being pro- had alL have to say about Russia. three other centres of Negro pop- ganda. We were sincere. associate editor of N. Y. Amster- tagonist of the Negro Theatre by mats, Me, I’m here on a moun- (Continued on Page 2, Col 1) We propose to develop a firm dam News, is the guest editor for Movement, and the history of the Colleen St. Clair, Pres. sitting up of law enforcement in the tain in to policy this week on a very timely sub- group was brilliantly dramatized Ethigl Hunter, Sec. top Tennessee, trying Police but at the for Department, over Radio Station WMCA last get enough fencing my five same time to use common sense ject. warm territory and cotton, the December. acres, and listening to what the ifn that enforcement, ,We will When the history of racial way they produce it, gives them little who are endeavor to see that all em- So has been the con- people my neighbors city achievement and interracial good- outstanding something besides a slab of bacon ployees are paid a wage compar- tribution of ANT to I have to say about Russia. will in the United States the theatre and a chalico bonnet for a year’s able to the indus- during wage paid by that Longman Green My neighbors say that they’re in this the four decades of the 20th Cen- Publishing work. try locality. It is our plan not to little old House has to an going help filthy to inaugurate a program which tury is written, no little of the arranged publish ‘‘There’s a lot of talk here John Rankin, cuss-hollerin’ old will our in \-E DAY ON anthology of ANT plays this sum- compensate policemen credit for its success will have to OKINAWA—Kan Francisco. Calif -US. Marine Corps among the big white folks about a amount in Photo Pappy O’Daniel, and finaglin’ old sufficient keeping (Soundphoto)—This Marinecbserved V-E on Okinawa mer, which, when will go to the American Negro Theatre Day by complete Russia to save our coun- with the increased standards of his Bob who comes from whipping having clothing blown from hisback by a Jap mortar shell Shock-? bring another first to the Taft, Ohio (ANT), that once unknown group, from and make ft group ed and hurt but on try what they call ‘commu- living unnecessary' still his heig toward the rear a but who in with the Dixie feet, helped by com- since there is no record of such a hangs for them to be of men and women who not on the line.
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