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_VOL. VI._Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, October 1, 1932_ _Number Thirty-Two.
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By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL i
THREE MICHIGAN
CANDIDATES—
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Ordinarily the race would have
cause for rejoicing over the winning
of three .-uch major nominations as
two republican candidates for the
state senate and one republican candi
date for congress, but not so this
year, especially when the recent pri
mary vote is thoroughly analayzed.
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In the newly reapportioned first
congre.--iiona! district, Charles H. Ma
honey, lawyer and insurance executive
of Detroit, won the nomination with
a plurality of about two thousand
votes but securing only a third of the
total party votes. Add to this fact
that the democrats polled twice as
many votes as the republicans and
over fifteen times as many demo
crats votes were cast than in the pre
vious primaries and you are forced to
picture a gloomy outlook for our race
candidate.
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In the second senatorial district,
Dr. 0. H. Sweet, Detroit, won the
plurality vote but securing less than
half of the party votes, while the
democrats polled twice as many
votes as the republicans and over
twenty times as many democratic
votes cast than in the last primaries,
so, again, our candidate's possibilities
are dimmed.
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Senator Charles A. Roxborough, of
the third senatorial district, and a
leading Lawyer of Detroit, won his re
nomination with a more favorable
showing than the two other candidat
es. The Senator not only won the
republican plurality but be also re
ceived about sixty-five per cent of
the total republican votes cast. Even
■o, however, the democratic threat
in his district is quite apparent, for
the democrats polled more votes than
the republicans whereas in the pre
vious primaries the democrats showed
less than one tenth of their present
strength.
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Two other colored candidates fin
ished as “runner-ups”. H. Percival
Thompson, ran second to Dr. Sweet,
and J ulian W. Perry ran second to
Senator Roxborough. Dr. James W.
Ames did not fare so well in the
congressional race and ran fourth ,
being defeated by Lawyer Mahoney
and two white candidates. In the
fifteenth congressional district,
our two candidates, William T. Pat
rick. Sr., and Henry H. Tarrant, fin
ished eighth and twenty-sixth, res
pectively. None of the ten race can
didates for state representative fin
ished among the first seventeen nom
inees.
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Therefore, on the basis of what has
already transpired. Senator Roxbor
pugh appears to be the only candi
date with a probability of winning in
the November elections. The other
two candidates, like the Senator,
must not only garner all the race
votes but they must fight for their
own party votes and also combat the
even greater threat of the democrats
who, particularly in Detroit, are rap
idly gaining in power and influence.
We must look these facts in the face
and fight to overcome them, if such
is possible, not withstanding that the
democrats are in the ascendency
even in Michigan. •
NOTICE!
Have you registered yet? If you
have changed your address since the
April Primaries, you must register
to vote. November 8th, 1932.
DO IT NOW!
For your convenience the Election
Commissioner will provide for you to
register at the Office of the The
OMAHA GUIDE, 2418-20 Grant St.,
Thursday and Friday, October 13th,
and 14th from 1 p. m. to 9 p. m.
REGISTER NOW!!
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Political
Paragraphs
(By Capitan)
(A Capital News Service Feature)
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You Must Register
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If you want to be treated like a
| citizen, you must act like one. If you
are discontent with the way things
are being handled in local, State or
Federal Government, there is no use
complaining unless you intend to back
up that complaint with your actual
vote. For the business of politics is
one of “put up or shut up.” And,
one of the reasons why the Negro
electorate in many large centers is not
given its fair share of patronage, is
not considered in matters of civic
improvement, is because the men and
women who carries that electorate
don’t care enough about their fran
chise to exercise it.
There is today hardly a city north or
South where Negroes may not vote.
In the South intimidation s.till per
sists, it is true. But there is little
question that in the larger cities of the
South the Negro can vote in general
elections. In the North and West
there is not even a question of this
right.
But you cannot vote unless you reg
ister. Above all things the Negro bal
lot holder should register and conform
to the necessary requirements of his
State election law. It is all very well
to decide which candidate you will
support and to be able to give pro- !
found reason for your choice. But
that mental effort will be fruitless, if
on election day you find that you have
neglected to register. Not only is it
your duty to do this, but you ought
to see to it that your family and
friends are also registered.
It doesn’t matter so much how a
man votes as that he does vote. Once
you get people in the habit of voting,
they will learn soon enough not to
waste their ballots by voting foolishly.
Election day comes in November. We
all know that. But how many know
when the period for registration be
gins and ends. This is the more im
portant date to find out, to remember
and to act upon. The campaign slo
gan all Negroes can agree upon is,
“Let us cast every vote we can in the
November election.” It is useless to
grumble about not being treated like
a citizen, unless you act like one.
Police Summoned to
Legion Meeting
Police officers Jenkins and Ma
thews were called to American Legion
Meeting last Friday night to quell an
argument over the refusal of the Com
mander and his staff of officers to
audit the books of the Post, and show
how the shortage alleged to exist
came about. The Officers came on
complaint of the Commander, that
there was a gun in the room. How
ever, no such weapon was in evidence
as they could not find it when officers
arrived. Neither could they find out
who placed the call, until the Sgt. at
Arms was pressed for a statement.
He finally, Chris Cochran, admitted
that Coleman had transmitted him
the order from the Commander of the
Post. It was generally admitted to
be one of the most collossal blunders
of the season. John T. Fields made a
I strong plea for an audit of books for
the protection of the Post Charter and
its members. A motion was passed
upon to apoint an auditing Commit
tee but the Commander refused to ap
point the committee. The meeting
was adjourned. Next meeting night
nomination of officers.
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Omahans Welcome Roosevelt
Camp Investigator Testifies Before War Dept.
Brutality and Peonage in Mississippi
Area
Washington—(CU^S) — Determined
to stamp out evil and prejudiced con
ditions among Negro contract labor
engaged on Federal construction pro
jects, representatives of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People held a conference here
last week with Brigadier General
C. B. Pillsbury, Assistant Chief of
Army Engineers, and laid before him
factual evidence to substantiate their
recent charges that a condition of
“virtual peonage existed on the Miss
issippi Riveqj Flood Control project.”
Walter White, executive secretary
of association, and Miss Helen Board
man, white, who was the association’s
special investigator in the Mississippi
area, were present at the conference.
Newspapermen were excluded from
the meeting by General Pillsbury, \vho
said that the meeting was not in the
nature of a hearing, since none of the
contractors accused of brutality and
peonage were to be present.
However, an advance statement
giving an abstract of Miss Boardman’s
testimony before the War Department
official was released by the National
Association. Miss Boardman was for
merly an investigator for the Ameri
can Red Cross. An article written by
her in the Crisis revealing unfair
treatment of Negroes by Red Cross
units is said to have led to her dis
missal.
According to the N. A. A. C. P.
statement Miss Boardman visited 22
contractor’s camps along the Mississ
ippi River and in all of them she
found “unspeakable conditions, with
brutality the rule."
The admissions of white contractors
and foremen, Miss Boardman said,
corroborated the charges made by the
Negroes, whom she described as terri
fied and afraid to talk.
“They would talk to me only if no
white people other than myself were
in sight, and then only if introduced
by some one whom they knew,” Miss
Boardman said.
“Brutality in the camps is the rule.
In one place the contractor, a man of
particularly violent temper, was re
ported as having picked up a club and
knocked a worker down simply be
cause he did not like the way he looked
at him. Women were beaten for not
having meals ready on time. Two
men were beaten and discharged for
refusing night work after having
worked all day.
“Some of the contractors and fore
men were armed with rifles. I saw
them myself. The heat was terrific.
The men were driven in a temperature
of 120 degrees in swamps filled with
mosquitoes.
Sanitary Conditions Scored
“I saw Negroes living in ragged,
miserable and over-crowded tents,
unscreened (from mosquitoes and flies,
surrounded in some cases by piles of
INTRODUCED ROOSEVELT
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EDWARD R. BURKE
Candidate for CongTess from the
2nd District, who introduced Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in front of the
Court House, Wednesday at 1 p. m.
Husband Killed When He
Attacks wife with Vase
Ballard Hawkins, 2513 M St., was
shot and killed by his common-law
wife; Marie Fellows, during a quarrel
at their home Thursday night. She
said she fired five times in self de
fense when he attacked her with a
vase. She is being held.
j “Has the Leopard
Changed Its Spots
or is it the effect of Hawaii?
! New York City (ONS)—Clarence
Darrow, America’s foremost agnostic
was reported last week as having
| joined a church. The church men
tioned was the First Unitarian Society
of Minneapolis, of which Dr. John
Dietrich, one of the leading disciples
| of Charles Francis Potter, founder of
th» First Humanist Society of New
York, Inc. is pastor. Announcement oi
the alliance of Darrow with the Hu
manist Society was made last week to
members of the society in New York
by Howard G. Kraus of the Humanist
extension Bureau. Clarence Darrow
in a statement to the press denied hav
ing joined the church, but admitted
that he was to lecture for them.
With the announcement that Darrow
had joined a church, his friends re
ceived no less a shock than they re
ceived when Darrow, 4fho had always
been a foe of mob violence decided to
defend the Massie lynchers in that
celebrated “travesty on justice” of a
few months ago, about which startling
disclosures may soon be made. Dar
row who is on the board of directors
of the N. A. A. C. P. has not fully ex
plained this action to the satisfaction
of the colored people who looked upon
him as their friend and champion.
garbage. The men worked from 12
to 16 hours a day. On the outskirts
of some of the camps there were
groups of hungry unemployed men
waiting for any vacancy, a condition
of which the foreman took full ad
vantage. Wages amounted from $1
to $2.50 a day, but by the use of a
I trick commissary system even that
amount was seldom paid.
“The workers were forced to pay a
weekly fee of $4 or $5 whether they
traded at the commissary or not. In
addition they were charged, according
to the whim of the commissary agent
for all sorts of necessities, such as 50
cents a week for drinking water, $1
a week for tent rent, which was sup
posed to be free; $1 a week for cook’s
! fee. 25 cents for 15 cent cigarettes
and other prices in proportion.
“One man told me he got $1.50 for
three week’s work.”
Miss Boardman blamed the contract
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system used by the War Department
for the worst abuses, saying that at
one government camp conditions were
much better, both as to living and
wages, and there was no commissary
there, although the men there, too,
were worked twelve hours a day.
MOB DRAGS YOUTH FROM JAIL
AND HANGS HIM
Crossett, Ark.—(CNS)—While wo
men and children looked on as interest
ed spectators, the men of Crossett
dragged a young Negro from jail here
and hung him to a light pole immed
iately in front of the jail in the busi- j
ness district of the town. He had
slashed the throat of a deputy in a '
futile attempt to escape a few min
utes before.
The youth, Frank Tucker, 24, had
been arrested on a charge of trying to
steal from a bank teller’s window.
He did not get the $10 which he is
Here’s how Gov. and Mrs. Roosevelt lookel in their
car as it left the Burlington Depot Thursday morning
for the parade through the business district and out
through Douglas County to the Sumnick Home near
Waterloo.
alleged to have attempted to snatch
from the banl^ official.
Tucker was awaiting a hearing in
the jail under guard of Sheriff’s Dep
uty Reed. He is alleged to have whip
ped out a razor and demanded that
the deputy give up his gun. The
deputy claims that Tucker then sprang
upon him, cut his throat and ran from
the building.
After a short chase by bystanders,
Tucker was recaptured and returned
to a cell in the jail. A few minutes
later he was dragged threefrom by
an angry mob which quickly gathered
and hung to the electric ligiht pole in
front of the jail in the heart of the
city’s business district.
WHITE REDS TARRED AND
FEATHERED IN FLORIDA
Tampa, Fla. — (CNS) — Two men,
who had been arrested and held for
several hours in connection with a
Federal Investigation of communistic
activities, here Monday, were kid
napped shortly after their release,
when they were but a few Bteps from
the police station, driven to a lonely
spot, severely beaten and tarred and
feathered.
They were found early the follow
ing morning seriously wounded. At
the hospital their condition is believed
to be serious, for in addition to their
wounds they are suffering from expos
ure from the night spent in the woods
with tar infecting their cuts and
bruises.
Both men are white. Officials
claim that they doubt if the men will
be able to identify the members of
the mob who attacked them.
We extend a heartfelt welcome to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, candidate
to the presidency of the United States
on his visit to Omaha this week. Our
people express sincere regard for the
Governor of the State of New York
who is being popularly carried for
ward to the greatest honor of our na
tion.
To John Nance Garner, his running
mate and other officials members of
the entourage here with Governor
Roosevelt, on his campaign tour
throughout the nation, we are pleas
ed to have you with us.
We sincerely hope that this visit
will leave a lasting impression of the
greatness of our enterprise in the
Middle West and a comprehensive
understanding of its varied problems.
Roosevelt was officially welcomed
by our Efficient Governor Charles W
Bryan, in behalf of the people of Ne
braska, Addresses of welcome were
also made by Edwin P Burke, prom
inent local attorney and candidate for
Congress, and Francis P. Matthews,
chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee. They lauded the splen
did work and activity of Roosevelt
and Garner and expressed the well
wishes and appreciation of our local
citizens on their visit here and of the
success of their campaign.
The Presidential candidate and his
party were the guests of Governor
Bryan, Mr. Burke and Mr. Matthews
while on their stay here. They head
ed" a huge parade through the down
Uwn area and were then taken on a
tour through the city and the Stoc k
yards district. They also visited
several farms in this territory.
Roosevelt praised the progress and
loyalty of the Nebraskans and ex
pressed his views on the agricultural
situation of which he has made a
thorough practical study. Governor
Bryan told of the needs of Nebraska,
of our farms and other enterprises.
Contract Bridge
Knows No Colorline
Washington—(CNS)—Negroes are
not allowed to take part in national
tennis or golf matches, but contract
bridge will know no color iine if the
plans of the Musolit Club here to
enter a team in the National Bridge
Association tournament mature. Al
ready Mr. Ely Culbertson, president
of the association, has invited the
Musolit Club to hold its local tourna
'ment as a part <fo the American Bridge
Olympic to be held all over the coun
try on October 19 and the club has
accepted. Dr. R. B. Pearson, a mem
ber of the club, has been made game
captain and will be in charge of the
arrangements.
Some 40 or more players, who took
part in the Musolit Club Round Robin
Bridge tournament last spring, will
compete in the Olympic and winners
of the club competition will then com
pete with white teams for State and
national honors. It is likely also that
there will be colored players in the
first annual Contract Bridge Cham
pionship tournament to be held in
Chicago during the World’s. Fair.
A number of colored persons
throughout the country have qualified
as teachers of the Culbertson con
tract system. An interesting story
has recently been told with regard to
one such qualified teacher in Lynch
burg, Virginia. The report is that a
white woman in that city wrote to Mr.
Culbertson, who is a Russian Jew,
and asked that he recommend a teach
er of his system. A colored lady, who
had qualified under the rigid Culbert
son rules, was recommended; and the
white lady sought her out only to dis
cover that she was colored. Then she
wrote a bitter letter to Mr. Culbert
son complaining in fine Southern
style. His reply .according to the re
port, was short and sweet. It simply
said: “Dear Madam, Contract Bridge
knows no color line.”
The Emotions & Marriage
The Y. W, C. A, is offering a six
weeks course on MARRIAGE. Are
you happily married? Are you going
to be married ? This discussion course
will start in October with Mrs. Saidee
0. Harris, leader. The following sub
jects will be discussed beginning,
October 3, 1932. Registration fee 26c.
Monday, 7:30 p. m.—“The Emotions
and Marriage.” A six week's dis
cussion course, with the following
subjects.
Oct. 3—What controls my behavior?
Oct. 10—What is morality?
Oct. 17—Should we educate for
marriage?
Oct. 24—What is the influence of
emotional habits on marriage?
Oct. 31—Is married life more diffi
cult today? If so, why?
Nov. 7—What is a successful mar
riage?
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