- --v.,— —^-- w-v ^ w vwv-U-u-u-o .... tmtiu&I »rii :»*a«l» .'.4itqaf-)> wJ ■josa OKOR-AU-IAV , i... , ,,. „.. : . , JO.OOfl People Read The Only Paper of hs The Omaha Guide / I XJ Kind West of the - Every Week .. Missouri River . ’ /JUSTICE/EQUA I,,,0 vww ijv:4 t»h •♦m*? » ttinf# li h« '«!Ptar VOL. VI. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1832. NUMBER twenty TWn_ “' ’"Si'Voulhs to) --x M ER 1 I Contest Editor, Omaha Guide)) * 1 A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A a _ ► ‘mblint? £)fte IEWS’ \ l s ) BROADCASTED ^ Every Week {ran this Colomc i By CLIFFORD C. 'MTCHELL ? BARTER and TRADE • • • Weekly I peruse about seven ty five colored “exchanges” that eorue to uie from all parts of the country and l carefully scan each advertisement fur in each ad a story is told if one is observant enough to unfold it. • • • Here and there 1 have seen seme very interesting ads that indicates considerable itiguenity on the part of the advertiser. The ad vertiser. apparently, has realized t hat to sell his commo .ify. or ser vice, for eash only, would consid erably restrict his business, so the advertiser has suggested an exchange of commodities, or serv ices. • • • After all what is commercialism but an exchange of commodities or services? Harter ami Trade may not be considered as a high cla*g commercial business but it at least brings the actual produc er and consumer together on a common basis. • • • Money was invented as the medium of exchange and as such is very useful when one has it. Unfortunately, it has a way of seemingly, becoming cornered and divested in the hands of a few, while the many are still In need of the commodities, or serv ices, but have not the money to obtain same. • • • A* long as actual labor will produce the necessities of life there will be found ways for in dustrious persons to barter this labor in exchange for various forms of commercial trade even without a cent of money exchang ing hands. * * * !n one community I noticed that a tradesman, once prosperous and doing a thriving business was faced with the dilemma of retir ing from business or to continue and eventually face bankruptcy proceedings for at the r*te he was going his obligations were ex ceeding his collectible assets. • • • fie w as doing plenty of business and on paper was making money but bis debtors couldn’t pay him. What did he do? He hit upon the ingenuous plan of collecting his accounts receivable in the form of labor and started many im provement*. • • • In a short time his own place of business was entirely remodel ed ami ra*de entirely modern, all out of the profits of his business w' *eh he accepted in the form of labor. He expanded the idea and is today the possessor of much valuable improved realty hold ings. • • • If you are one who thinks the Negro hasn't a chance you >hould more carefully observe the many opportunities he is creating for himself by exchanging his com modities and services in an effort to get a foothold and which I am constantly observing by reading the advertisements appearing in our paper* throughout the coun try. CARNIVAL EMPLOYEES STAGE BATHE 4 Men Held by Federal TEX RITCHIE AND THREE OTHERS ARRESTED Arthur Young. Willie Counce, i • x Ritchie and Henry Davis, lour .Negroes were arrested last w . i ii by the police and later turn ed over to Federal authorities for nosing the demoniational value an s of paper money The first complaint was filed by Charles Snap who stated that he received a 11.00 hill raised to a $5.00 bill. It was also reported that many complaints were made by persons who had received bad money. All four of these men have police rec ords and two of them have been before Federal officials for nar cotics. HOOVER WITHDRAWS FROM SENATE NAME OF LILY-! WHITE APPOINTEE Washington, (CNS) President Hoover last week withdrew the name of B. B. Montgomery as his appointee to be United States Marshal for the Northern District after Montgomery had been ap proved by the Judiciary (.'oimnit of the Senate and Chairman Norris of that committee had an nounced last week that he was in favor of the appointment. Mont gomery had been recommended by i Lamout Rowlands, lily-white pa tronage dispenser of the Admin istration since 1928. He was opposed by Mrs. Mary Booze, National Cormnitteewo man for the State of Mississippi, | who charged him with being a lily white and having insulted Negro womanhood in public statements; and Perry W. Howard, National Committeeman. Additional pro test to his appointment was made by the NAACP. and other civic-; groups. The fight led by Mr. Howard: and Mrs. Booze, resulted in the1 holding up of the confirmation of the nomination for several execu tive sessions of the Senate, many [ of the Senators fearing that ac i other "Parker ease” would be precipitated. The significance of the with drawal by the President of Mont gomery ‘s name is great, political observers declare. They point first, that it indicates the final de cision of the President to recogn ize the right of the twice duly elected State Republican organiz ation, headed by Mr. Howard and Mrs. Booze, to control patronage in Mississippi in place of Row lands: and second, that it shows the President wary of offending Negro voters on the eve of the campaign. PENNY MURRAY LOCAL GOLF CHAMPION Loving Cup Presented TTie 36-hole Inter-club medal play for the 14 inch Loving Cup contest, closed Sunday July 17. The cup was awarded at the Swastika dance Monday evening, i al Fontenelle club house hv Johnnie Goodman, one of the World's amatuer champion golf i ers. Mr. Art McCaw. president »f the Swatiskas introduced Mr. j Goodman, who presented Mr. Murray the cup*. Mr. Murray turned in the lowest score among | the club members. 98-79. All the trolfcrs readily conceded that “Penny” deserved the cup be , he knows his golf. The cup was | donated by Mr. Donoghue of the Spaulding Sport goods store. COLLEGE GIRL KILLS SELF Miss Ray Evelyn Yerger. 16 year old Arkansas State College Summer School student, eommit i ted suicide last Friday afternoon ct )'•~ home in -Battleville, by shooting herself. No cause for ‘he net was known. She ^vns bur ied Sunday from St. James M. E. i Church. ; NAACP INVESTIGATE THE MURDER OP LUKE MURRAY New York, June—To Governor George H. White of Ohio, has gone a report from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, of *an invest igation on the spot at South Point, Ohio, of the lynching early this month of a colored chauffuer Luke Murray. The NAACP. re- j port sets for the following points j uncovered by the Association’s! special investigator.— 1. That autopsy by two white physicians disclosed that the mob victim was not drowned as at first alleged, but that his neck had been broken. 2. That it is the general feel ing in South Point that a local official gave assistance to the lynchers. 3. That the prosecuting at torney “is not as active or as de termined in the matter of prose cution of the lynchers as might1 he the case.” 4. That certain whites in the1 neighborhood had threatened the chauffeur with dire eonseqnenc-1 es because he had followed his white employer’s orders in tak-I ing out the employer’s wife and^ daughter in the car. Tl^c iNAACP. recommends to! Governor White that he appoint as associate counsel in prosecut ing the lynchers “outside attor neys who would not be to friendly ly with the lynchers or intimidat ed by the local atmosphere through political pressure or otherwise. ” DARK DAUGHTER PERSECUT ED BY NEAR WHITE FAMILY - I Washington (CNS ) Catherine1 Eden, 29, the only darkling in a color-conscious “near-white” fam! ily, testified in lunacy court here Friday that if her mind is un-1 sound, her family which has per secuted her relentlessly for years because she “was not white” is responsible for the condition of her nerves which may have un balanced her mind. Miss Eden has been under ob servation at G-allinger Hospital for several weeks. She told the court that her mother had often remarked that she was the only colored child she had. “All of the other children are more or less of the Caucasian type.” she said. She told the court, that her food at times had a taste foreign to its natural flavor which led her to believe that it was poisoned. On several occasions, she testified she became violently ill after eating the food prepared by her mother. The court psychiatrist upheld her testimony to the extent that she had very evidently been the subject of a steady course of systematised persecution by her family. He testified that three weeks’ treatment would make it possible for her to take her place in the community. On the strength of this treat ment the petition for permanent commitment sought by her fam ily was denied and the court com mitted Miss Eden to Gallinger Hospital for treatment. SUCCUMBS AFTER WINNING LEGAL BATTLE FOR VOTERS — Puham, N. C. (CNS) Attorney I R. McCants Andrews long a prac ticing attorney and leader in North Carolina died in Lincoln Hospital July 5th after a short illness. Mr. Andrews led the recent le gal fight of the Voters League a "•dns* Raleigh registrars -&ho dis onal’.f'ed Negro voters of that city illegally in the recent pri mary election. Pioneer Resident Dies Mr. F. L. Barnett, 70, of 1613% North twenty second street, pioneer Ne braskan, died Thursday, after a long illness. He came to Omaha in 1887, after attending Fisk Uni versity and started a newspaper, called the Pro gressive of which he was owner and editor for 18 years. After that time he became very prominent in politics and served as deputy clerk of the county court under Judge Irving Baxter in 1906. In 1927 he was elected as State Representative and served in the Legis lature. He introduced the Anti-Lynch Bill, the first bill introduced-*and passed by a Negro in the Legislature for twenty-five years. This bill was signed by Governor Adam McMullen and Mr. Barnett was given the pen by which the Bill was signed as h! possesion, fdr. (Barnett ranked highest in the fraternal organization as a thirty-third degree mason. He was an employe of the city for years. He leaves a devoted wid i Mr. F. L. Barnett ow, Mrs. Hattie Barnett, sisters and brothers and a host of friends. Mr. A. S. Barnett, a brother of Chicago, and Mrs. M. B. Garrett, a sister of Kansas, attended the funeral. Services were held from St. John Church, Monday after noon, 2 O’clock. Interment at Forest Lawn. Had Two Wives In Same City; Slays One and Ends Another Hidden Triangle Houston—Houston Informer— Did Jim Watson, suicide of a few days ago, lead a double life, maintaining two homes and two wives at one and the same time? This question was raised follow ing the inquest proceedings, which were held in Justice Camp hell R. Overstreet’s court after the murder and suicide mystery. Mrs. Lucy Watson, wife if Jim Watson, who committed suicide here last week and who was re ported by one of our newspapers as having killed his wife, vigor ously denied at her home yester day that she had been killed and The Informer reporter was forced to admit that the report of her death did appear to be “very much exaggerated.’’ Mrs. Wat son is a quiet, well built, and re fined woman of middle age and appeared in the best of health. She also denied that her hus band lived on Liberty Road, where he shot himself as had been reported, but declared that he lived with her during all their married life which began some years ago and that they have liv-! ed at her present residence, 1403 (Continued on page 2) ASKS CONGRESS TO ERECT SHRINE TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS AT WASHINGTON Washington, (CNS) Represent ative Emanuel Cellar of the tenth New York congressional district has recently introduced in the House of Representatives a reso lution calling for the erection of a monument to the memory of Frederick Douglass. Tn introducing his resolution, Cellar took a crack at prejudice, when he said: “Such a monu-j ment would serve to remind the, Nation of its responsibility to the (colored race, upon whom they foisted the bondage of slavery, j and to whom it should lend a help ing hand. A. B. Mitchell Visits Guide Office Mr. A. B. Mitchell, owner of the Mitchell’s summer resort and ranch of Las Vegas, Nevada, was a visitor at the Guide office Saturday morning. On this re sort are swimming pools, cabins, a hotel valued at $8,OtX) and mo dern equipments for all tourists. He is president of the Las Vegas branch of the NAACP. and prom inent in the civic activities of the community. Mr. Mitchell states that his resort is only 20 miles from the Hoover Dam and up until last week, there has been over 3,000 employees and no col ored. Last week eight men were given work. He and the NAACP are making a fight to get a pro rata of employment. While in the city, he is visiting old friends enroute to Oklahoma, where he will be the guest of his uncle, Dr. Whitby. FIGHT OVER SALT SHAKERS FATAL TO SALESMAN Paul Walton, insurance sales man, 2561 Manderson street, (white) was shot and fatally wounded at 1:15 a. m. Monday morning at 24th and Lake Sts. Mr. and Mrs. Walton with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Connors, went to this hamburger stand to get a lunch. According to Connors. Sam Pappas, night manager ac cused them of taking the salt shaker. An argument ensued which resulted ina free for all fight and Walton was shot and died later. As Pappas states he didn't mean to shoot,—the gun went off. Pappas is pleading self-defense. The old saying, wasting salt is had luck. Caddy Wins Negro Open Golf Championship of South Atlanta. Ga. (CNS) John Han dy. a caddy at *the Asheville. North Carolina. Golf and County Club, claims titled of the first Southern Negro open golf cham pionship. CONTEST ENTRIES! GET GOING Suscription contest nominees Mary Moore, nominated by Mrs. Edith Todd; Lucille Gray, nomin ated by Mrs. L. V. Gray”; Olead Madison, nominated by Mrs. Beaulah Madison; Mildred Bron son, nominated by Mrs. Ada Woodson. Frances Covington, nominated by Mrs. Frances Hol loway; I. W. Green, nominated by Mrs. Pearl Green; Paul Phil ips, nominated by T. S. Phillips; Ellen Richardson, n 'ruinated by Mrs. Ollie Richardson; Ralph Adams, nominated by Miss Ger trude Lucas. “GREEN PASTURES" GIVES 1000 SHOW Los Angeles, Calif., (CNS) “The first thousand performanc es are the hardest" thus “Green j Pastures" having past that point will make a triumphant return East after a gala celebration here. Richard B. Harrison who plays, the leading role of “the Lawd”) is among several of the company who number more than 100, who I have not missed a performance. ! Opening in New York February; 26, 1930 it ran 640 performances. I After 160 shows in Chicago the j Coast tour began with no oue night-stands. Before reaching California it had made 939 per formances. _ i ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT, CHANGES DEATH SENTENCE TO 21 YEARS __ Little Rock. Ark., July— The death sentences given Louis and Elbert Blake, father and sou, of Camden, Ark., for the fatal shoot ing last Christmas day of Brad Polk, white! plantation owner, were reduced by the Arkansas supreme court July 2 to 21 years | in prison. The court found that ; ■the evidence used to convict the, men was not sufficient to call! for the death penalty. The Blakes shot* Polk when he | came to their cabin Christmas morning, accusing vftem of steal ing a piece of hanress. The Blak es said they went into the cabin to avoid trouble with Polk, but that he drew a guiijmd, fired into their home. They testified they shot to defend themselves, Mrs. Blake and smaller children. Judge Scipio A. Jones of this city was retained as attorney for the appeal by the Camden Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Office of the Association in New York. Plans arc under way to secure a furth er reduction in the sentence. JESS HOLLINS, FRAMED SHARE CROPPER, GAINS NEW STAY OF EXECUTION Kansas Pity, Mo.,—Jess Hollins. 22 year old Negro share cropper of Sapulpa. Okla., who was fram ed last December on a fake charge of rape, and railroaded through the courts, has received another stay of execution to August 18, The case is being fought hy the International Labor Defense. This is the second stay of exe cution which the slate of Okla homa, has granted Hollins be cause of the furious protests ot Negro and white workers, espec ially throughout the Middle West. Hollins was arrested on Decem ber 24, tried in a special session of night court that same night,1 and found guilty after a trial that Investigators for working- class lasted half an ur. organizations found that Hollins had been going with a girl for two years, but when a white man found them together, he raised the lying erv of “rape.” Demonstrations of Negro and ARGUMENT ENDS IN FIGHT Carl Lawton, Waco, T