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zzhz/ The Monitor rZZI .s NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS t THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year—5c a Copy | OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1925 Whole Number 512 Vol. X—No. 42 ASKS PROMOTIONS FOR POSTAL WORKERS RACE IN HARLEM MAKING DEMAND FOR FAIR RECOGNITION Leading Ministers and Prominent Pol iticians Head Movement Seeking Proper Recognition REPRESENT HEAVIEST VOTE Republicans Are Charged With Ignor ing Race in Ptfrty Councils and Distribution of Patronage. New York, N. Y., May 1.—(By the Associated Negro Press.) — Leading ministers and prominent politicians directed a petition to Samuel S. Koe nig, republican committeeman this week demanding that the dual plan of leadership In the affairs of the twenty-first assembly district be adopted. They made plain that their reason for making the demand was the fact that the Negroes of the dis-1 trict, representing the largest portion of the republican voting strength v ere ignored in party councils. The petition asking for dual leader- j ship was signed by 1,000 registered voters of the district and headed by j the Rev. William P. Hayes, pastor of] the Mt. Olivet Baptist church; the Rev. H. C. Bishop, rector of St. Phil- ] ips P. K. church; the Rev. W. W. : Brown, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist j church; the Rev. A. Clayton Powell, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist church; the Rev. M. W. Thornton, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church and the Rev. E. A. Cullen, pastor of Salem M. E. church. The 21st district is divided into what is known as the ‘‘Hill” or West End, where the white voters live, and the ‘‘Valley” or East End, populated by colored. The figures presented by the petitioners showed that the Ne gro section was materially responsible for the election of Republican condi dates last fall. Much of the dissasisfaction has been caused by the appointment of whites from the Hill district to big paying positions and the giving of preference to them in the administration of party affairs. Just recently Robert S. Conk lin, a white district leader, was ap pointed to a $6,000 job while the col ored leaders have been ignored. WOMEN VOTERS’ CONVENTION (By the Associated Negro Press) Richmond, Va., May 1.—The race was represented at the convention of the National League of Women Vot ers held here recently by Miss Delilah Beasley of Oakland, Calif. Miss Beas ley was an accredited delegate from the California League of Women Voters and a representative of the Alameda County League of Colored Women Voters. She was the only race woman present at the convention of more than a thousand women from all parts of the country. In her brief talk she is reported to have said: “The great issues of value to the race have too often been overshadowed by the word ‘social equality’, which has been the means of confusing the civil rights of the race." APPOINTED TO LIBERIA (Columbian Press Bureau.) Washington, D. C., May 1.—Mr. Clifton R. Wharton, a colored attor ney of Boston, has been appointed to the diplomatic service as secretary of the United States legation at Mon rovia, Liberia. Mr. Wharton took the examination for the foreign service j under the new reform act of 1924. Of the 160 who took the examination' only twenty passed, and Mr. Wharton , was one of those. He has been con nected with the State Department here for several months and although a native of Maryland is a product of the Boston schools. HAMPTON AND TUSKEGEE RECEIVE BENEFACTIONS New York City, May 1.—The will of the Jate Charles William Stough ton filed recently provides that at the death of his widow, Florence Ada Troughton, the estate is to be used in establishing scholarship trust funds for Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, Hampton, Va., and Tuske gee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. This money will be used to assist "such poor, ambitious, deserving Negro boys and girls to pursue their education,” who expreu their intention to "devote their lives to the service and benefit of the Ne gro race in the United States". No valuation of the estate was given, ex cept, “over $10,000”. WILBERFORCE RELAY TEAM WINS SECOND PLACE (Preston News Service.) Columbus, O., May 1.—The Wilber force University track team entered the 440 sprint relay and the 880 sprint medley at the Ohio Relays, April 18, in Division 111, Class “B” Colleges. There were twenty-one schools entered in the 440-yard sprint relay including Otterbein, Blufton, Ohio university, Ohio Wesleyan, Oberlin, Cincinnati, Detroit, Findlay and others. Wilberforce university, : represented by Hargrove, Clark, j Camplbell and Thompson, manager, being the only Negro school which entered in the relays, won second Otterbein was first, Ohio university third and Cincinnati fourth; the time being 45 3-10 seconds. Handsome silver medals were given the four men on the team. The race ■ was run in a drizzling rain, which caused no effect to the participants. ■ The competition was keen and close from start to the finish. YOUNG WHITE MAN ADMITS STARTING DISASTROUS FIRE Dunn, N. C., April 30.—(Preston News Service.)—Norman Ross, a j young white man, was remanded to j Hartington county jail without bond i when he waived a preliminary hear | ing on the charge of arson. Ross is J j charged with, and admits, starting the1 fire which resulted in the death of Joseph Monk, an aged colored man, and destroyed property totaling al-; most $20,000 here on Monday night, April 13. TO SOLICIT $52,000 FOR SHORTER COLLEGE L Pine Bluff, Ark., April 30.—(Pres ton News Service.)—Plans for aiding in the state drive for $52,000 to pay off the indebtedness of Shorter Col lege, located at North Little Rock, were considered during the annual conference of the Pine Bluff district of the A. M. E. church which was held here last week in the St. John’s church. Several hundred ministers and laymen from all parts of Arkan sas attended the sessions. KLAN INCORPORATION REFUSED BY WISCONSIN Madison, Wis., May 1.—(Preston News Service.)—The articles of in corporation filed by the Ku Klux Klan for the state of Wisconsin were refused by Attorney General Herman L. Ekern. Under the state laws for eign dictatorship is prohibited for non-stock organizations, and the pa pers filed by the klan declared that the Wisconsin unit would be under the jurisdiction of the Georgia klan. R. O. T. C. UNIT AT WILBERFORCE INSPECTED (Preston News Service.) Wilberforce, O., May 1.—The Unit of the R. O. T. C. at Wilberforce Uni versity was inspected recently by Major Robert O’Bryan of the Fifth Corps Area, stationed at Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio. There was rainy weather during the early part of the morning and the first inspection was held in the spacious gymnasium. After the rain had ceased the unit marched to the parade field and re ceived final inspection. Col, Biddle, who has had charge of the R. O. T. C. work, was unable to make the inspec tion on account of receiving a trans fer to Des Moines, la. Major O’Bryan was well pleased with the unit, stating in particular, “The unit is in splendid condition. It1 is doing well and should be retained. I appreciate the way in which the university is backing up Captain Wil son. The band is one of the best equipped and musical I have ever seen. The Juniors are fine young men and will make good officers. Such men will be needed for any future war.” He also prevailed upon them to enter the Summer training camp. The words of Major O’Bryan speak well for the work done by Capt. C. H. Wilson, commanding officer in charge of the unit, and It also speaks well for the men in the R. O. T. C. Wilberforce is the only colored school in the Fifth Corps area and has com peted in rifle matches with Ohio State University, Northwestern, Michigan Agricultural College, Cincinnati Uni versity und other large colleges of the midwest. Those who are interested in the suc cess of Wilberforce University are pleased with the appointment of Edit or Harry C. Smith of the Cleveland Gazette to the board of trustees. Labor Cains in Steel Industries Washington, D. C., May 1.—Colored employees holding skilled occupations in the country’s iron and steel indus tries are gaining slowly but surely. This fact is evidenced by the increas ing number of mill-wrights, electric welders, moulders, coremakers, fur nace keepers, machine hands, crane engineers, and other artisans whose proportions are widening in the Penn sylvania, Birmingham, Ohio and In diana steel districts, in which, prior to 1917 and 1918, semi-skilled and hn skilled workers far overbalanced skilled workers in proportion to white steel hands. In this connection the policies of certain mills, particularly in Middleton, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pa., Gary, Ind., Birmingham, Ala., which have insisted opon health programs and pleasant working conditions for their employees, black as well as white, together with promotional op em industry with its great combina tions and the great aggregations of both capital and employees has ne cessarily brought many new prob portunities, should be warmly com mended as having a most helpful in fluence upon the advancement of the colored working classes in the iron and steel pursuits. Along this line of advancement en couraging indeed are the words of the Secretary of Labor, Hon. James J. Davis, who, when recently addressing the steel workers convention in Pitts burgh, Pa., said: "Within their line of duty and within the law, every man and every group of men, every indus try and every union can depend upon President Coolidge to be with them to the limit in the defense of their rights. They can depend upon him to use the full power of his position and of the government to punish or erad icate abuses. He realizes that mod 1 lems for solution in our effort to work out a righteous human relation ship.” The slow but sure gains of Negro labor .in the great American steel mills have largely come from the new understanding of human relationships as found among the working masses, regardless of color—the masses which make American-made products the best products in the markets of the world. With both organized and un organized Negro labor becoming more potent each day, in council as well as on the job, to the end that human re lationships among the working groups may be shaped by the same Christian creed that shapes all American prog ress, it is to be expected that labor gains, both profitable and peaceful, are soon to follow the steel gains and pervade all other industries common to American production. BRIEFS i The public school enrollment in, Washington, D. C., includes 22,822 colored pupils. Petersburg, Va., has a “Ladies Aux iliary of the Colored Cemetery Asso ciation.” The Liberty Building and Loan As sociation of Los Angeles recently cele brated its first anniversary. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover says, “The recruiting ground for the future leaders of the United States will be on the farms rather than in the factories.” Approximately 80 per cent of all high schools in the United States are located either in the open country or in villages having less than 2,500 in habitants. Abyssinia has a Jewish population of 50,000. INVESTIGATE MAN’S DEATH (Preston News Service.) Washington, D. C., May 1.—Not wholly satisfied as to the cause of the death of Walter P. Ray, aged 44 years, who died at his home Tues day night, following illness of more than two years, relatives appealed to the coroner to conduct an investiga tion. It was suggested that poison may have figured in his death. The officials made a thorough investiga tion, it is said, and failed to find any trace of poison. Ray, it is stated, had been treated for tuberculosis, and the autopsy re vealed that he had suffered from such an ailment. Arthur S. K. Ray, broth er of the deceased, died suddenly in March, and an autopsy was performed on his body which disclosed that he had died from natural causes. Arthur was a clerk in the city post office, while Walter was a mail carrier prior to his illness which began about two years ago. LEAGUE OF NATIONS j AND AFRICAN AFFAIRS (Columbian Press Bureau) Washington, D. C., May 1.—Abys sinia has notified the League of Na tions that she will participate in the conference for control of the inter national traffic to arms, opening in Geneva, Switzerland, shortly, and has submitted a memorandum explaining why she needs arms and ammunition. Coincident with the action taken by the Abyssinians, the Rehoboth tribes men of Southwest Africa have peti tioned the League to make their country a free and independent state. This district is under the mandate of the Union of South Africa. BUFFALOES WIN THE OPENING GAME AT B’IRCHROD PARK Tulsa Oilers Are Beaten 10 to 8 With j Bailey and Stone Doing the Hurling—Osborn a Real Slugger. Western League baseball was un corked at league Park Wednesday afternoon when the Omaha Buffaloes met and defeated the Tulsa Oilers, 10 to 8. It was a hectic battle filled with heavy slugging from both teams. About 3000 persons clicked the turnstiles into the park for the game and had the weather been warmer— it was 14 below zero at game time— twice the number or more would have crowded into the park and Ramey would have been several thousand dollars richer. Saturnay and Sunday the Wichita team will be here with a dooble header Sunday. Despite the several losses by the Omaha team as a whole the club looks good and great things can be expected from it. First game Sunday at 2 p. m. and at 2:45 on week-days. The more pres ent the merrier. When our professional “healere’* and “spiritualists" find business slow in St Louis and Knoxville, they move Ootham. BRIEFS The value of public school property in the United States is estimated at $2,344,399,000. If more of our colored farmers sub scribed for colored newspapers, some of our editors would publish weekly market quotations. Enterprising colored citizens of Los Angeles are financing a seaside resort proposition to be known as "The Pa cific Beach Club.” With a membership of 3,000 the Chicago and Northern District Fed eration of Colored Women’s Clubs plan to purchase a $10,000 club house. The annual cost of operation of public schools in the United States is approximately $963,678,000. Classes for colored clergymen of the Episcopal Church and for colored men intending to enter the ministry are being formed in Washington, D. C. WOULD PENSION AGED NEGRO CONFEDERATE Tallahassee, Fla., May 1.—An aged Negro, Dock Kemp Williams, a res ident of Florida, would be pensioned by the state, provided Senate Bill No. 107 becomes a law. Preamble of the bill, which was on its second reading in the upper house states Williams is 91 years old and has a wife, who has reached the age of 85, both of whom are unable to work. According to the preamble, the aged man remained loyal to the South during the war of the Rebellion work ing in the fields and rendering faith ful service to the white women and children when their husbands «nd fathers went to the front to fight with the Confederate armies. It also is stated that Williams rendered in valuable services to the southern army in digging trenches and guard ing federal prisoners. The bill would provide $10 per month for the man. ■■■■■■MaBnBnaRS ... jj _ - ■ .. Swat ’em Now V___ TUSKEGEE ALUMNI TO HOLD NATIONAL GATHERING IN MAY (By the Associated Negro Press) Memphis, Tenn., May 1.—Tuskegee graduates from every section of the country will gather here May 27th in the annual meeting of the National Tuskegee Alumni Association which convenes on that date. Much interest is being manifested in the meeting which is the first that the organiza tion has held away from Tuskegee and which marks the first step to bind the hundreds of thousands of Tuskegeeans into an effestive and functioning or ganization, which shall back up active ly the program in life to which these young men and women are committed. Probably no institotion in the country has more of the representatives it has sent out into the world who, to use the parlance of the street, “are mak ing good”, and doing quiet, effective, useful work, than has Booker T. Washington’s school. This meeting bids fair to be particularly fruitful because of the successful men and wo men who are to gather in conference over a constructive program. PRESIDENT INTER MOUNTAIN TUBERCULAR SANITARIUM IN OMAHA The Rev. M. H. Lindsy of Colorado Springs, Colo., Here In the Interest of a Much Needed Institution. Rev. M. H. Lindsy of Colorado Springs, Colo., is in Omaha in the in terest of the Inter-Mountain Baptist Tubercular Sanitarium which they are establishing in that mecca of tu bercular patients. Rev. Mr. Lindsy is president of the Roard of Directors, and brings cre dentials from the Governor of Color ado and the Secretary of State. The sanitarium is duly incorporated under the laws of Colorado. Rev. Mr.Lindsay, who has been a resi dent of Colorado Springs for many years, says that hundreds of Negroes who are victims of tuberculosis come to Colorado Springs yearly. They are not admitted to the sanitariums al ready there which admit white pa tients only. Consequently they have to be taken into private homes im perilling the health of such families. Some provision must be made for the care of these people. This is what the Inter-Mountain Sanitarium plans to do. Desirable property costing $10,000 is available and the Board of Directors are trying to secure this sum. 1 he Rev. Mr. Lindsy, who is stop ping at 2218 Willis avenue, will be glad to meet and give information to any person who may be interested in this praiseworthy project. TENTH CAVALRY SERGEANT DECORATED FOR HEROISM Washington, D. C., May 1.—Jacob C. Smith, of 117 “N” street Southeast, a retired sergeant of the Tenth United States cavalry, was summoned to the War Department recently and decor ated for heroism. Major General John N. Hines, chief of staff of the U. S. army, acting for Secretary of War Weeks, attended by his aides, pre sented Smith with the distinguished service cross recently awarded him by the general staff of the army, “for extraordinary heroism in action against Spanish forces at San Juan, Cuba, July 1, 1898, while serving as saddler sergeant in the famous Tenth cavalry. Smith, who is a familiar figure on the streets of the National Capital, still active and in full health, takes great pleasure in modestly re counting the great San Juan drive. CAR I, DITON, COMPOSER, VISITS WILBERFORCE (Preston News Service.) Wilberforce, 0., May 1.—Carl Di ton, the American pianist-composer, was a visitor at Wilberforce univer sity recently in the interest of the National Association of Negro Mu sicians. He gave a very interesting talk to the student body assembled in chapel at the chapel services. In the afternoon he organized the Wilber force branch of the National Associ ation of Negro Musicians. The fol lowing officers were elected: Chorles L. Williams, president; Matrha Swann, vice-president; Alberta Mayo, secretary; Prof. M. S. Stewart, treas urer. The organization is hoping to stimulate a greater interest in music at Wilberforce and to do some of the big things along the musical line in -this? vicinity. ( The Harrison Silk Undergarment Company in New York has success fully manufactured ladies’ underwear and negligees for three years. ASKS POSTHASTE* GENERAL FOR BETTER ! JOBS FOR NEGROES President National Alliance of Postal Employees Urges Appointment of Qualified Colored Men as Supervisors FAVORABLE FOR LARGE CITIES Success of Assistant Chief Clerk Gainey in Handling Cases Cited as Precedent in Making Like Promotions. (By the Associated Negro Press) Washington, D. C., May 1.—The request that qualified colored em ployees in the post office service ba promoted to supervisory positions in local offices and that two additional men be given positions similar to that occupied Iby Asst. Chief Clerk John Gainey were the chief points stressed in a conference which Alonzo L. Glenn, president of the National Alliance of Postal Employees had with Postmas ter General New, recently. Mr. Glenn suggested that such recognition should be granted particularly in the larger offices such as Chicago, Louis ville, Kansas City, St. Louis, Rich mond, Norfolk, New Orleans, Atlan ta, Memphis and Cincinnati, where large numbers of clerks and carriers are now employed. He pointed out that “a great number of young col ored men entered the government civil service years ago in preference to choosing professional or business ca reers and that the more efficient ones in this group aspire to higher places in the classified service. They arc anxious to get out of the rut, and their promotion will be an inspiration to other employees as well as the entire race because it will show it is possible to ascend from the ranks and that the present barriers are not immov-. able”, he said. It was suggested that two addition al positions be made at Washington of the type occupied by Mr. Gainey who has handled more than a hundred cases calling for special attention and that these two appointees be confined to service among the letter carriers, laborers and clerks. Representation in the Inspection department was also asked for. Postmaster General New is said to have expressed his active sympathy with the service, ideals and aspira tions outlined by Mr. Glenn and stated that he would give his immediate at tention to the matters presented. SCOTTISH RITE MASONS TO MEET IN NEW YORK (Preston News Service.) New York City, May 1.—The Unit ed Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Thir ty-third and last degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Ma sonry (Prince Hall, Affiliation) for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America con venes in its forty-fourth annual ses sion in this city from May 9th to 13th. The session will be held at the Prince Hall Temple, 280 West 155th street. Dr. Summer A. Fumiss, Thirty third Degree Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander, Indianapolis, Ind., states, the reports thus far from the various consistories show an unpre cedented growth in membership dur ing the past masonic year, and the financial returns indicate this organ ization to be one ofthe strongest among colored fraternal bodies. It is intimated that this session of the supreme council will excel all others, and it will afford the members and their friends a rare opportunity to visit New York, the world’s financial center and the metropolis of the Unit ed States. ESTATE GETS $15,000 FOR DEATH IN WRECK (Preston News Service.) Raleigh, N. C., May 1.—E. E. Wal dron, white administrator for Geo. Minter, colored railroad man, was awarded a verdict for $15,000 Tues day in the Wake county superior court against the Seaboard Air Line Railroad company for negligence re sulting in Minter’s death in the wreck in Apex a year ago. Minter was killed instantly when a Seaboard passenger train collided with a freight standing in the sta tion at Apex. Several other people were injured. Waldron sued for $25,000. There are 190 colored men who earn their living as structural iron work ers on buildings.