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NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1924 Whole Number 492 Vol. X—No. 24
V “SNOUTRAGE” SAYS
SOUTHERN SOLON
I SO SCANDALIZED
Because Colored Policeman Was Sent
to Curb Confederate Daughters’
Row Over Election
of Officers
OFFICER PERFECT GENTLEMAN
But Congressman Casque Demands
an Apology of Washington Chief
of Police for Sending
Negro Officer.
(By Crispus Attucks News Service)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 12.—"I
think, to say the least, it is an out
rape for a Nepro policeman to he
sent hy the city povernment of Wash
inpton to preserve order amonp a
proup of southern ladies, especially
when there are so many white po
licemen in the District of Columbia.
Will you please tell me who was re
sponsible for this and why it was
done ? Asa southern man and mem
ber of Conpress on the District Com
mittee, I resent this action of the po
lice department and respectfully de
mand an explanation. I also think
I you should appear before that body
and explain this action or apolopize
for it.”
Thus wrote Conpressman Casque
of South Carolina to Major Sullivan
on account of sendinp Patrolman
Braxton (colored) to the United
Dauphters of the Confederacy Home,
1322 Vermont avenue, N. W., when a
call was sent in to the Second Pre
cinct station house for police pro
tection durinp a stormy session over
the election of the officers for the
ensuinp year.
It seems as thouph Stonewall Jack
son and Robert I,ee could not apree
and Thomas Jefferson became a little
alarmed at the trend of affairs when
someone called Captain Peck on the
phone for an officer. Braxton, a lonp
and faithful trusted arm of the law,
was sent as is characteristic of the
Metropolitan police department, re
pardless of color, especially under
the leadership of Major Sullivan.
Before he had a chance to fully re
alize what it was all about, Braxton
found himself face to face with the
stem portraits of Stonewall Jackson,
Thomas Jefferson and Robert K. Lee,
as well as in the midst of the Dauph
ters tf the Confederate pentlemen,
who had in years pone by, held the
iron hand of ownership, probably over
his ancestors Here he was sent to
restore peace in a convention of
southern white women.
“A Perfect Gentleman,” says Mrs.
Odenheimer
So tactful and diplomatic was Of
ficer Braxton, that when inquiry was
made as to the possible objection of
a colored officer being sent, that Mrs.
Frank 0. Odei’heimer, one of the del
■ egates, 1 rankly admitted that “the
officer behaved like a perfect gentle
man and T respected his uniform.”
Others (.poke of how diplomatic he
rwas in leaving immediately when he
found that his appearance had re
stated older, saying, “He would re
main on the side walk for a time in
case he was needed.” So thoroughly
had he done his job that Rome of the
delegates piotested and asked that he
remain inside, which he refused to
do, hut did wa't on the outside.
Commenting on the letter from
Congressman Casque, Major Sullivan
said, “The matter was a regular rou
tine affair under Captain Peck.”
Captain Peck is in charge of the
Second Precinct to which Braxton is
attached. When informed of Con
gressman Casque’s demand of an
apology, the captain said, “They
called for an officer. I sent them
one and I have no apologies to make.”
Braxton is hailed as an excellent
officer by many of the white people
or. his heat, which he has been on for
some time and inquiry brought out
the fact that he is highly respected
and liked at the precinct by his fellow
officers.
WHITE ACTRESS DRAWS
COLOR LINE IN PARIS
Paris, France, December 12.—Doris
Lloyd, white, American actress who
had contracted to appear at the fa
mous Moulin Benge cabaret in this
city, entered a protest when it was
learned that she would be billed In
the same show with black performers,
also from America. Needless to say,
the protest availed her naught.
The black workers sailed for France
under the direction of the l/>onard
Harper booking office which is han
dled by “Billy” Pierce. The dancer
of the troupe Is Emma Maitland, for
merly with “Follow Me”. Other girls
In the show are Laura Wamble, Aure
lia Wheelln, Frances Smith, Martha
Gilchrist, Sybil Turk, Dovey Boykin
and Marie Warren.
F. L. Barnett spent Sunday in Lin
coln. ^ y
JAPANESE EXCLUSION
BRINGS DEMAND FOR
BLACK AMERICANS
California’s Agricultural Industries
Suffering from Scarcity
of Farm Labor.
(By George Perry)
Los Angeles, Calif, Dec. 12.—(Pa
cific Coast News Bureau).—For the
first time in the history of the south
west, the black American has become
a factor in the future development of
its wonderful agricultural possibilit
ies. Exclusion of the Japanese-Chi
nese-Hindu farm labor through the
enforcement of the anti-alien land
law; and the increase of cotton pro
duction in California, are the factors
responsible for the present scarcity
of exnerienced farm labor.
With a total acreage of 445.000
acres, with a predicted yield of 256,
932 bales, the 1924 cotton crop will
yield approximately $40,000,000 to
the farmers of Southern California
Lower California and the Salt River
Valley in Arizona. Through ar
rangement the aliens will be permit
ted to harvest the 1924 crop yield;
but thousands have left and have at
this early date caused such a serious
shortage of efficient farm help that
distress calls are heard in many sec
tions. Tn the Yuma Valley district
below Needles with cotton averaging
a hale an acre, 3,000 cotton pickers
are needed. In the San Joaquin Val
ley district north of the Negro town
of Allensworth, with 4,000 cotton
pickers employed at $1.50 per 100
more are needed.
In fact so serious is the outlook
for 1925 that definite steps have re
cently been taken by several commun
ities and concerns to colonize certain
sections, particularly In the heavy
cotton districts, with experienced Ne
gro farmers from the South. One
concern is opening 2,000 acres for Ne
gro colonization in the Palo Verde
Valley, a promising locality near
the Colorado river, with a cotton pro
duction of 13,500 bales valued at $2,
295,000. Another concern has a pro
ject near Victorville, while others are
planning similar methods of insuring
the California cotton industry of a
plentiful future supply of efficient
farm labor.
In order to supervise the coloniza
tion of the Negro in the various pro
jects, the California Colored Realty
and Development Assn, Inc., a Negro
real estate men’s organization was
recently formed in I*os Angeles for
the purpose of co-operating with the
land owners, farm organizations and
realty boards in a systematic cam
paign of activity, publicity and super
vision with the object of interesting
ami locating reliable, efficient and
industrious Negro farmers in the
South in the approved colonization
projects underway in Southern Calif
ornia.
\Sk ClIRI&MAS PARDON
FOR HOUSTON MARTYRS
Boston, Mass., Dec. 12.—President
Coolldge is petitioned to set free the
remaining thirty-one prisoners im
plicated in the Houston affray as an
act of Christian clemency for the
Christmas season or for New Year’s
In an appeal sent from here today by
the National Equal Rights League.
The league urges the race every
where to write to the President and
to Secretary of War, John W. WeekB,
for Christmas pardons for these sol
diers who have already paid so heavy
penalty for what they are charged
with having done under great pro
vocation.
LEAGUE ASKS DYER BILL
Boston, Mass., Dec. 12.—The Na
tional Equal Rights League receutly
wired Senator Chas. Curtis of Kansas,
republican Senate leader, to put the
Dyer Anti-Lynching bill well up on
the calendar. The league sent re
quests of like tenor to Senator Wads
worth of New York, chairman of the
Republican Steering Committee, and
to Senator Butler, the successor to
the seat of the late Senator I»dge,
chairman of the Republican National
Committee and also a member of the
Steering Committee.
The league has been a potent and
active factor for the Dyer bill from
the beginning and Is still “on the
iob".
GEORGE LEE ORCHESTRA
ARRIVES TOO LATE
The famous George Lee’s Novelty
Singing orchestra which was to have
played at Dreamland Hall Wednes
day night, owning to an accident were
unable to reach the city in time to
fill their engagement. Mr. Jewell
received a message from them at
Falls City advising him that they ex
pected to arrive by 10 p. m. They
were unable to reach Omaha until
long past midnight. The large crowd
of dancers who had assembled at
Dreamland Hall were disappointed.
The management refunded their mon
ey. The orchestra will return to fill
an engagement at a later date.
KU FLUX KLAN OFFERS
REWARD FOR NEGRO BEATERS
Masked Men Who Mistreat Negro
Prisoners Claimed Not Members
of Klan Organization
Long Beach, Calif., Dec. 12.—(Pa
cific Coast News Bureau).—In an ef
fort to clear their skirts of the
charges of being responsible for the
mistreatment of three Negro prison
ers of the Long Beach jail, the local
Klan organization is offering a re
ward of $250 for the arrest within
sixty days ar.d cor", iction of “two
hooded and white garbed men” as
serted to have been responsible for
the n'.islreatment.
Kidnapped from Jail
The victims, Henry Hayes, 17; Sam
Haynes, 18, and Geo. Rice, 18, who
are being held in the local jail await
ing for trial on burglary charges,
stated that one night last week they
were removed from the jail by two
police offices who at a lonely spot on
the < utshirts of th ecity, turned them
over to white robed figures who flog
ged them and strung them up by the
wrists in order to make them confess
burglaries of which they were ac
cused.
N. A. A. C. P. Attorney Investigates
Thru their attorney, E. Burton Ce
ruti, of the local N. A. A. C. P., and
one of the greatest criminal lawyers
in the west, District Attorney Asa
Keyes has asked for a county grand
jury investigation. The names of the
officers have been withheld by the
district attorney pending action by
the grand jury.
TRANSLATE NEGRO’S SONG
INTO MANY LANGUAGES
(The Associated Negro Press)
Evanston, 111., Dec. 12—“America
First and Forever,’ a patriatic song
composed by Hermes Zimmerman,
composer-tenor, has been translated
into French, Spanish, Polish and Ger
man, and is being used by the Amer
icanization branch of the Women s
Christian Temperance Union.
Mr. Zimmerman was given a big
ovation when he sang the song at
the Orrington hotel before a large
gathering of workers of the Union.
He responded with four encores.
Flowers were tendered his accom
panist, Miss Le Jenne Jones.
BISHOP CLEAVES COMING
Bishop N. C. Cleaves, D. D., pre
siding bishop of the Fifth Episcopal
District of the Colored M. E. Church,
will preach at the Cleaves Temple C.
M. E. Church, corner 25th and Deca
tur streets, Sunday, December 28th,
morning and evening. All are cordi
ally. invited.
Rev. J. S. Blaine, Pastor.
RETURN ABYSSINIAN CROWN
(The Associated Negro Press)
London, England, Dec. 12.—The
crown of the Emperor Theodore of
Abyssinia, which after being kept in
a glass case at the Victoria and Al
bert Museum, this city, since 1869,
is now to b& returned to its former
home in Africa. It has had an event,
ful history.
This crown was taken to Britain by
Sir Robert, afterwards Lord Napier,
of Magdala, after the capture of
Magdala and the death of Theodore in
the Abyssinian war of 1868.
It is a ponderous piece of silver
gilt filigree work, many sizes too
large for any ordinary head. It is
lavishly decorated with little squares
and diamonds of red and blue glass,
varied with diminutive paintings. A
feature is the strange looking pipe
which projects several inches through
the center of the dome, apparently
for ventilation.
The king’s intention to present this
crown to the Empress Judith was an
nounced' when he granted a farewell
audience to Prince Tafari, the heir
apparent and regent of Abyssinia,
whose recent visit to Britain created
much interest.
It is interesting to note that the
only son of the Emperor Theodore
was educated at Rugby. He died in
1879, at the age of nineteen, and was
buried in St. George’s Chapel, Wind
sor.
PANAMA CANAL ZONE
FREE OF FEVER
Improved Sanitary Conditions Bene
fit Uncle Sam’s Colored
Employes.
Colon, I. Z., Dec. 12.—(Pacific
Coast News Bureau.)—The Panama
Canal zone with its second largest
representation of colored employees
in the federal service, is now the
healthiest place in Central America.
Epidemics of yellow fever and ty
phoid that have killed thousands will
never return.
Scores of army sanitation corp
workers have destroyed the bidding
places of the lowly mosquito by
spreading oil over stagnant pools,
and supervised the natives in
keeping their homes and properties
clean and modem. With a popula
tion of 460,000 the Canal Zone ranks
next to the postal service in number
of colored federal employees, with its
8,187 Negro laborers whose aggre
gate salaries amount to $4,867,608.23,
according to the latest available fig
ures
Mn. J. H. Abernathy of Spring
field, Mo., is visiting her husband at
2736 Caldwell street.
NAVAL AVIATORS LOST
ON MEXICAN LANDS OF
NEGRO SYNDICATE
Authorities Abandon Search Believ
ing Flyers Lost at Sea or in
Lower California, Mexico
Ensenada, Baja., Dec. 12.—(Pacific
Coast News Bureau.)—Search for
Harry E. Mitchell and Blakely E. Mi
nar, naval aviators from the naval air
station at San Diego, Calif., who dis
appeared after going aloft two weeks
ago, has been abandoned, naval au
thorities believing it would be useless
to continue the hunt.
Fifteen airplanes were sent on a
reconnoissance 125 miles below the
border and 40 miles out to sea. A de
tachment of blue jackets were
granted permission by Governor Ro
driguez, governor of Lower Califor
nia, to cross to Mexican soil, where
Mexican rurales from Tia Juana and
Ensenada joined in the hunt.
Numerous reports were received at
the air station that an airplane seem
ingly in distress had been sighted
near the border. A stiff wind was
blowing at the time and it is believed
the plane either crashed at sea or
was lost in the moutain region of the
vast tract lying northest of Ensenada
and owned by the Lower California
Mexican Land & Development Co., of
Los Angeles, a Negro syndicate.
Local aviation history reveals that
eight men have been lost in the air
lanes leading from San Diego to
Lower California and Arizona.
STUDENTS PALLBEARERS
FOR MILLIONAIRE
(The Associated Negro Press)
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 12.—Eight
male students from the Florida Nor
mal and Industrial Institute of
St. Augustine were the active pall
bearers at the funeral Wednesday of
Dr. Andrew Anderson, white, million
aire resident of St. Augustine and in
timate friend of the late Henry L.
Flagler, founder and builder of the
Florida East Coast Railway.
The honorary pallbearers were
some of the most prominent citizens
of America.
Funeral services were held in Flag
ler’s Memorial church which was
filled to overflowing, almost half of
the mourners being colored people.
Dr. Anderson was beloved by both
races throughout the state of Florida
and in many parts of the south.
The Florida Normal and Industrial
Institute from which the colored pall
bearers came is regarded as the “Tus
kegee” of Florida. Dr. N. W. Col
lier Is president.
Be Courteous, Be Pleasant—Shop
Early.
Step Lively!!
!‘WHI
SEGREGATIONISTS PUBLISHING NEWSPAPER
Washington, D. C., Dec. 12.—The
fight against residential segregation
in America, now being carried before
the U. S. Supreme Court by the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, is gaining in
intensity, according to a report sent
to the N. A. A. C. P. national office
by JameB A. Cobb, who is in general
charge of the legal work.
White property owners of Wash
ington have not only organized, but
are also publishing a newspaper in
the interest of segregation. This
newspaper, The North Capitol Citizen,
in its issue of November 21, reports
that the white property owners’ asso
ciation has printed a supply of signs
inscribed “For White Occupants” and
is distributing these signs free to be
placed in the windows of all houses
offered for sale or rent.
Mr. Cobb reports by letter: “Other
suits are being filed. I am sending
herewith a publication to you to show
you how active these people are here.
They have even filed a case here
where there is no written covenant
(to discriminate against colored peo
pie) but where they claim there is
an oral understanding among the
property holders. You can see how
pernicious and far-reaching this is.”
In St. Paul, Minn., according to re
ports received by the N. A. A. C. P., a
bitter segregation fight has been in
progress for two months, with W. T.
Francis, a colored attorney, on the
executive committee of the local N. A.
A. C. P., declining to vacate a house
he had purchased. The national of
fice of the N. A. A. C. P. hag written
Mr. Francis offering him assistance.
GOVERNMENT OFFERS
GREAT OPPPORTUNITIES
TO COLORED PRINTERS
—
Ideal Working Conditions and Good
Pay Should Prove Strong
Inducement.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 12.—(Spe
cia to The Monitor by Walter J. Sin
gleton).— Printers throughout the
country as well as boys who plan to
become apprentices for training in
the printers’ trade, would do well to
examine the advantages attending
employment at the government print
ing office at Washington. The pres
ent head of this vast plant is Mr.
George H. Carter, who has appointed
five colored boys as apprentices, and
under whose administration 12 col
ored employes hold very lucrative po
sitions. The general wage scale has
increased more than 100% during the
past twenty years, and under the
present administration compositors
have been advanced to $7.60 for a
day of 8 hours, and typesetting ma
chine operators to $8.40, with 15% ad
ditional for night work and 50% for
overtime, so that a full-fledged print
er may receive* from $2500 to $3000
annually.
Working conditions have improved
in the government printing office in
proportion to the increased rates of
compensation. The present public
printer has provided a cafeteria which
meets a vital need of the employees
by enabling them to secure a liberal
variety of well cooked food at reason
able prices. There is also a roof gar
den where, during recess from labor,
the workers may enjoy fresh air and
exercise without exposure to the
weather elements.
Competitive examinations are held
in all the large cities throughout the
land, from time to time, for appoint
ments to the government printing of
fice. Inquiries and applications for
permission to participate in these ex
aminations should be addressed to the
United States Civil Service Commis
sion, Washington, D. C., or to a local
branch office of the commission.
Lewis H. Douglass, son of Fred
erick Douglass, was the first colored
appointee to the government printing
office. Since that time, a half cen
tury ago, the race has been continu
ously represented, until today we find
such excellent citizens as E. C. Cain,
W. D. Clarkson, W. T. Menard, W. C.
Robinson, E. H. Fisher, H. W. Davis,
W. C. Peace, Bernardine Smith, G. W.
Knox, A. B. Hughes, C. W. Williams
and G. W. Shead, the two last named
being typesetting-machine operators.
The entire enrollment of colored
numbers 888 persons.
NATIONAL HONOR FOR NEGRO
SECRETARY TO TREASURY
Washington, D. C. Dec. 12.—(By
Crispus Attucks News Service).—
Secretary Andrew Mellon is to attend
the 150th anniversary of the matricu
lation in Columbia College of Alexan
der Hamilton, who was a Negro and
the first secretary of the Treasury.
It is intended to observe each year
the birthday of Hamilton and try to
make the same a national holiday. It
was Hamilton and Benjamin Frank
lin who planned and financed Amer
ica after the Revolutionary War,
bringing this great country out of
chaos into a healthy financial condi
tion, which enabled her to take her
place beside other world powers, dur
ing her dark days, when few men be
lieved it possible.
Alexander Hamilton, one of the
greatest of American statesman, was
horn January 11, 1757, in the British
West Indies. His father was a Scotch
man and it is claimed that his mother,
a native of the Islands, was of African
descent. He was sent to Elisabeth
town, N. J., in 1772 and matriculated
at King’s College, now Columbia Uni
versity, in 1773.
HAYES GIVES BENEFIT RECITAL
New York, Dec. 12.—Roland Hayes,
internationally known tenor, gave a
benefit recital here recently in Car
negie Hall. The performance was
given for Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn., of which Mr. Hayes Is a gradu
ate.
His determination to help other
young men and women of the race
has become one of his most absorbing
interests, and the benefit recital was
only one of the big efforts he haB
recently made in this direction.
REVIVAL MEETINGS CLOSE
The revival meetings at the Spring
Hill Baptist church, 33rd and Emmet
streets, closed last Friday night with
five additions and two of the number
candidates for baptism.
Mrs. C. Wood, Clerk.
Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, Pastor.
Miss Ophelia Hall, who attends the
Vocational School at Topeka, Kans.,
will arrive home December 19 to
spend the holidays with her parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Hall, 2816 Bur
dette street.
EXPENDING FOUR
MILLIORS A YEAR
FOR RACE SCHOOLS
North Carolina Has Awakened to a
High Sense of Its Duty In
Providing for Education
of Its Citizenry
AN UNPRECEDENTED INCREASE
In Eleven Years State Has Increased
Appropriations for Education
of Negroes by 1500
Per Cent.
(By R. B. Eleazer)
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 12.—North
Carolina is now appropriating for
Negro education nearly four million
dollars a year, a sum greater than
the state expended for its entire edu
cational program, white and colored,
in any year prior to 1910. This was
the startling statement made by Prof.
N. C. Newbold, of the state depart
ment of education, at the annual con
ference on Negro education held in
Raleigh a few days ago.
During the past four years the
state has expended $15,000,000 for
the education of its colored citizens
and is preparing to appropriate as
much more for this purpose in the
four years just ahead, according to
Prof. Newbold, who heads the de
partment of Negro education. Eleven
years ago the total appropriated for
this purpose was $225,000 a year.
The increase, therefore, has been
about 1500 per cent. Of the four year
budget $2,200,000 went for higher ed
ucation. Colored high schools have
increased in number from thirteen in
1921 to thirty-four in 1924, and high
school students from 1347 to 5341.
The total number of colored teachers
has increased in four years from
3779 to 5037. The salaries paid these
teachers during the four years ag
gregate about seven million dollars.
The greatest need for the immedi
ate future Mr. Newbold declared, is
a standard four-year teacher’s col
lege, which he thought would be pro
vided by the next legislature. After
that must come a four-year standard
college of liberal arts.
Both races, said Mr. Newbold, are
coming to realize the need for colored
doctors, lawyers, nurses and other
professionally trained leaders. "North
Carolina has faith in its Negro peo
ple,” he continued, “it has spent mil
lions for their education, and it be
lieves that there should be one stand
ard for teachers and not two. There
is still much left to be done if we live
up to the doctrine of equality of edu
cational opportunity for all children
of the state as provided for in the
constitution.” Prof. Newbold called
attention to the fact that less than
one-half of one per cent of the coun
try’s criminals come from the ranks
of educated Negroes.
The conference was attended by the
state superintendent of education and
by many other prominent educators
of both races from North Carolina
and other states. It was widely and
favorably commented on by the press
of the state. The Salisbury Press
thus expressed the general feeling,
“All right thinking people will be
not only willing but anxious that the
state undertake a bigger and a better
program of help for the Negroes * * *
it must not allow this good work to
lag.”
BUSINESS LEAGUE
AIDS FARMERS
(The Associated Negro Press)
Elizabeth City, N. C., Dec. 12.—The
local Negro Business League has been
instrumental in securing the appoint
ment of a county supervisor and a
farm demonstration agent for Pas
quotank county, in which Elizabeth
City is located.
In securing these appointments
they had the active co-operation of
the Board of Education and County
Commissioners. According to Mr. N.
E. Hart, secretary of the local league,
an effort is being made now to se
cure a standard high school for the
colored children of Elizabeth City.
Be Courteous, Be Pleasant—Shop
Early.
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