C. C. Galloway ‘Framed”
Says Tom Crawford
(Continued from Page 1)
plied “ No, l am satisfied that he
wouldn’t run away, but there is a lot
of people would pay $2,000 to get rid
of him’’ Mr. Wead said, ‘‘What
$2,000 to get rid of a man like Gallo
way, a man who Omaha knows has
lived above reproach, and stood for
his people in the community.” Mr.
Beal then said, "Don’t kid yourself
Wead, there is just plenty of people
who would pay $2,000 to get him out
of Omaha. Less than 15 days after
this a police lieutenant stood in a
public cafe demanded a piano to stop
playing and made these remarks to a
group of Negro Citizens.
“Yes, that piano must becut off, but
that is ju*l what you Negroes deserve
for letting a man like Galloway live.
If you had any sense at all, you would
put him on the spot. The OLD MAN
would take care of it. Fortunately
two of my friends heard this remark,
the late r rank Golden and Dr. T. C.
Ross, by the way this was not a Col
ored officer.
Ten days hence there was a liquor
raid on Erskine St., between 24th and
25th. Some one called the owner of
North Side Transfer, Mr. Press Hie
nonymou*, who heard Joe Patach say:
If you would get rid of Galloway you
wouldn't have all of this trouble.
Many times in the last 10 years, since
the Court House Riot, thi. is just a
few of the things that I have gone
through I talked this matter over
with Robert Smith, and he insisted
that I take it up with the Police Com
missioner, but I refused, because I
knew the entire department, was rot
ten from top to bottom. -Mr. Smith
said, "That may be true, but if any
thing happened and this made public
the people will know.”
At one time I owned 27 pieces of
property in Omaha, and I was forced
to take the record out of my own
name, because the tenants were driv
en out of their homes by insults and
raids. Every business I operated was
watched by the instructions of the
Underworld Machine. Ben Baker and
Tom Crawford are not the ones who
did the real framing to me, but
through the manipulation of “Court
Fixings” and Political Prestige, I was
robbed by the laws of Nebraska, of a
$60,000 property deal, in the pur
chase of Columbia Hall, 2420 Lake st.
and other properties. After I pre
sented the receipts of $600.00 showing
my payments in advance, before the
law suit started, 1 lost in the District
Court and likewise in the Supreme
Court. On the roornng of my trial in
Municipal Court before the supposed
Judge Wappich. whose office was on
the next floor, below the office of my
attorney, John M. MacFarland, I said
to Mr. MacFarland “W’e’d better hur
ry my case before they railroad some*
thing on me. Mr. McFarland had an
early engagement that morning, so h«
said I will slip down and see if the
Judge is gone, and if he hasn’t I’ll
ask him to hold the case until I can
get there. When Mr. McFarland re
turned to his office, his face was
flushed. 1 asked him why. He said
3. 3. Friedman and Your Friend are
in conference with the Judge now.
And the case was as Tom Crawford
stated, was tried before the evidence
was heard. According to what I am
now reading, Friedman is still on the
job ■ -
i have never said anything to any
individual other than to make this
community a better one in which to
live, and to create an invironment so
that the occurence of September 18,
1919, may never happen again. It
was at this date, the Court House was
burned and an innocent Negro Will
Brown was lynched. This was the be
ginning of my persecution, because I
u molded to Gen. Woods and Mr.
Brogan, at the time Chairman of the
Executive Board of the Chamber oi
Commerce, the reason for the riot.
The night of the Riot, I was told by
three different men, Galloway get off
of the street there are three men in
a Ford car waiting to get you on 24th
street. They are instructed to get
you. At that time I was down town
trying to stop the lynching of an in
nocent man, and keep the Underworld
Machine from Camoflaging the world.
On the following day after the Court
House riot, about 7:15 P. M. this po
litical leader who it is alleged by pub
lic opinion staged the burning of th«
Court House and th* lynching of Will
Brown, made this remark to two
prominent Negroes, about the Hen.
Ed Smith while the newsboys were
hollering “Extra” all about the Mayor
being hung.” This alleged political
leader said, “The Son-would have
been dead, if it hadn’t been for a
couple of chicken hearted Dumbells
who happened to come by.”
Unfortunately we have the same
conditions existing now, for instance
. few months ago three school girls
t.led a complaint in police court,
■igainst an individual for indecent ex
posure. These girls were forced to
return to the police court, three differ
•nt times, and at each time without
a request from the defendant who had
no attorney, this case was continued
to a future date, and the complaining
witnesses were told to bring in more
evidence. On th last appearance made
t~ these three young ladies, the>
brought with them a witness against
the defendent, Bishop Shayler’s sistei
Mjss_who is a teacher al
Technical High School. I was preseni
with two other daily news reporters
and heard the shameful testimony
against the defendant. Again the cas<
was continued, or the announcemen
of the verdict was postponed by thi
presiding Judge. If the verdict has
,.ver been rendered, it was done aftei
interested parties were worn out fron
going to police court. This defen an
was offered counsel, by a persona
friend of his who happened to be ai
attorney and was told his service was
not wanted for the matter was all be
ing care for by the powers of B —
Why talk about it why write about it.
It’s the thing Society has allowed t<
! exist in Omaha for over 30 years
knowingly, Willingly without utter
ing a word, until the life of one o
Omaha’s most prominent citizens wa:
taken by the same set of animals tha
i took poor little Will Brown fron
| chains, lynched and burned him—whi
was just as innocent according to thi
investigations made by Gen. Woods
as any citizen in Omaha today.
Many Omahans will remember thi
last city election, in the spring, 1930
| Was held, at Dreamland Hall, and Ton
Crawford made the damaging, dis
graceful speech against me, but fev
•know that it was the trick of my owl
people, so called Political leaders *'
] that time, helped put the words in Ton
j Crawford’s mouth. About a year af
ter the election, one of the principa
speakers at that meeting confessed t<
me, that he was picked up in a car bj
a colored government employee anc
taken to the home of the police lieu
tenant where this speech was dictatec
at the instructions of the power oi
B. I accepted his confession and fell
sorry for a man who was so weak thal
he used for such Political trickery. 1
have stood and fought for law and or
der and to break down this corrupt
machinery and I ahall fight as long as
I am a man for the welfare of the
people in the uplift of the community,
Political Issues
of the Day
Continued— Republican Central Com
mittee.
(By Jackson B. Chase. Chairman)
X. Tariff
Through the efforts of the foreign
countries and our own international
bankers, a tremendous effort is being
made to force America, to lower its
tariff walls so as to give access to
foreign made goods manufactured by
cheap foreign labor, employed in the
foreign countries, at from 8 cents to
$1.25 per day. In admitting foreign
goods we are in effect employing for
eign labor and paying wages to them.
The money these foreign laborers re
ceive from us, through the purchase of
their goods, will be spent by them in
the foreign countries. At this time
any money that America has to spend
in the employment of labor should
be spent on American labor. This
means that America should purchase
American made goods. The more
foreign goods we purchase the less
American made goods we will pur
chase and the less American wages
we will pay. It is high time that the
American people recognize the fact
that in buying foreign made goods we
are employing foreign labor.
If the tariffs are materially reduced
and a flood of foreign made goods
come* into America, foreign produc
ers and Laborers are benefited, but i
I American producers and laborers win
suffer. The international bankers who
have loaned huge sums of money to
the foreign countries are interested
in the rehabilitation of foregn indus
tries, so that they can collect their
money. The American people should
give first concern to the interests of
American producers and American
wage earners and refuse to yield to
the demand of the foreign countries
and these international bankers that
we permit their cheap goods to enter
the L1 nited States. We have re
stricted the immigration of foreign
laborers with the approval of both
parties so as to protect the American
wage earner. Why not be consistent
and also insist on restricting the im
portation of the products of foreign
labor? The American people should
be more nationalistic in spirit and hold
fast to the doctrine of “American
markets for the American people.”
Why not dismiss all idealist and
visionary notions of internationalism.
Why not recognize the fact that we
have a big job on our hands to attend
to our own affairs and our own inter,
ests and admit the impossibility of
curing all of the ailments of other:
countries? Let the foreign countries
look after their own affairs and pro
tect their own interests and let Amer
ica attend to its own business and con.
Come On\!-Dance with Jean-Hot-cha\
At Dreamland Hall, Monday, Oct. 24th.
I
I_■
STAGE AND SCREEN
(By C. Homer Burdett*)
"Blue Devils” at the Dreamland.
J. Jewell tells us that the 13 Blue
Devils will play at the Dreamland
Hall Holloween night, Oct. 31. The
“Devils” will play as well as broadcast
at Peony Park, Oct. 28, 29, 30, the
Broadcast coming over KOIL.
“ELLA B. MOORE SHOW”
The Ella B. show will leave Omaha,
Friday, Oct. 16, to play an 8 week
engagement at the Palace Theater in '
Oklahoma City. A big cast is leav.
I ing, composed of Omahans such as
George Harris, Wyonnie Harris, Thel
ma Shannon, Madame Farrel Robert
son, Sue Martin, Letha Spears, and
other*.
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At the Ritz: Sunday and Monday,
Oct. 23, 24. Warren Williams in “The
Mouth Piece” a Gangster picture.
October 25, 26, 27: Tuesday, Wednes
day, Thursday: Lowell Sherman, Neil
Hamilton “What Price Hollywood”
Romance in Hollywood. Also William
Powell and Kay Francis in “The Jewel
Robery” about a love making burglar.
Friday and Saturday, Oct 27, 28: “The
Trial of Vivienne Ware.” A murder
trial starring Donald Cook, Skeets
Gallager, Zasu Pitts- Also Ina Claire
in “Rebound.”
; fine all of its energies to improving
• its own affairs.
4. Prohibition.
The Presidential candidates of both
parties are agreed that the States
i should regulate and control the liquor
i business.
Both candidates are agreed that if
a state wants to be dry it should be
dry.
’ Both candidates are agreed that a
' dry state should be protected against
; the importation of liquor from a wet
' state.
;
Both candidates are agreed that the
legalized saloon must never return.
' The reading of the democratic plat
’ form and President Hoover’s Accep
tance Speech will show they are
’ agreed on all these matters. Then
( where is the difference ? The republi
can position is that they will make
’ good their promise to protect the dry
1 state against the wet state and to pre
vent the return of the saloon J>y incor
porating in the Constitution the neces
sary provisions to accomplish this
purpose. The democratic position is
1 that while they will promise to pro
tect the dry state against the wet
state and prevent the return of the
saloon,- they will not place this guar
antee in the Constitution. In other
words the republicans are willing to
make good their promise by a Consti
tutional guarantee and the demo
cratics refuse to provide a guarantee
for the carrying out of their promise.
Otherwise the position of both par
ties is identical,
y - “•s===,, ~|1" art
Wm. A. Redick
DISTRICT JUDGE
Douglas, Washington and Burt
Counties
Has Served this District 24 yrs.
CANDIDATE FOR
RE-ELECTION
Non-Political Ballot
(POLITICAL ADV.) "
There Are Seven Colored em
ployees In the State’s Public
Lands and Building Department.
RE-ELECT
DAN
SWANSON ;
STATE COMMISSIONER OF
PUBLIC LANDS AND
BUILDINGS ]
And Keep these Citizens
Employed
". " 1
Everybody’s going Where? To the
Calloway Cabaret Benefit Dance for
the Unemployed Married Men's Coun.
Cfl* : - j -_ .
BURKE SAYS NEGROES OF CITY!
SHOULD APPRECIATE EFFORTS
OF THE OMAHA GUIDE
EDWARD BURKE
Ed Burke, democratic candidate for
Congress, congratulates the editor
of the Omaha Guide for its efforts in
trying to get fairer treatment for
colored workers and says that Ne
groes of Omaha should appreciate
what th* Omaha Guide it doing for
them.
Burke uji that he haa always eon.
tended that the Negro population oi
Omaha makes up a very important
percentage of our tax payers, sup.
porting public schools, and paying
an important part of the city, county
and state’s tax debt and that be.
cause of this colored men and women
should bold a percentage of public
jobs which is equal to the amount ol
taxes which they pay.
While president of the Omaha
I School Board Burke introduced a sys
tem which gave Negroes a fairer per
| centage of the jobs given out by the
Public School system than they had
ever had before.
Prominent Negro professional and
business men all over the citv are
!
joining the Burke for Congress Club
because they believe that with Ed
Burke in Congres's Omaha will be
I better served than if a republican
I holds the office.
! Burke has come out for repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment and also
j for payment of the bonus to the
needy veterans. He is also againsf
the sales tax which is a tax on every
thing purchased. Burke says that
the people are overtaxed now and
that what they need are fewer taxes,
not more taxes.
Burke challenged his opponents to
come out openly and point out once
action of his during his public life
which in any way was harmful to col
ored workers.
PRIVATE THEATER PARTY
JEAN CALLOWAY and her Red
Hot Recording Orchestra in town TO
DAY. A big Private Theater Party is
being arranged fer JEAN’S Enter
tainment. EVERY BODY is going.
WHERE???? To the Dreamland
Hall, Monday, October 24th, 1932.
SAM BROWiN and His 8 Tap Dancing
Girl’s Revue, will put on a dance that
w’on’t let you behave. The Committee
on Reservations, has reported 600
reservations made. You’ll have to
hurry. Just a few left, for the City
Ordinance will not permit an over
crowded Dance Hall. Call We. 5020.
After 5 P. M. call We. 0790.
Air Aces Honored for Coast to Coast
Flight
New York City—(GNS)—The first
Negroes ever to fly from the Pacific
Coast to the Atlantic, J. Herman Ban
ning and Thomas C. Allen, were feted
here last week at a banquet in honor
of their accomplishment. The elapsed
time of their flight was two weeks( but
the actual flying time was 41 hours.
The long time taken for the trip was
accounted for by one forced landing
two descents for engine trouble, sev
eral days of being grounded by rain
and fog and several more days when
they couldn't obtain mony to have
i their craft refueled.
At the banquet there were repre
! sented business men, editors, and
other prominent persons of Harlem.
The aviators explained that their
trip had not been made in the
interest of science, but they had
just decided to do something that
no member of their race had ever
1 done before. The aviators told of their
trip and their numerous hardships
caused by the fact that they be?an
the journey with only $25, between
them, and the plane they used was a
. discarded service one of a type that is
no longer made. They explained, how.
| ever, that the people with whom they
came in contact were very cordial, giv
ing them money and furnishing them
with supplies. Notwithstanding the
fact they admitted that they went
hungry many times.
Everybody’s going Where} To the
Calloway Cabaret Benefit Dance for
the Unemployed Married Men’s Coun
cil.
John G. i’egg. Attorney
Notice of Probate of Will
In the County Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska. In the Matter of
the Estate of Caroline Bridwell, De
ceased.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court, pray
ing for the probate of a certain instru
ment now on file in said Court, pur
porting to be the last will and testa
ment of said deceased, and that a
hearing will be had on said petition
before said Court o nthe 12th day of
November 1932, and that if they fail
to appear at said Court on the said
12th day of November, 1932, at 9
o’clock A. M. to contest the probate
of said will, the Court may allow and
probate said will and grant adminis
tration of said estate to Florence
Muriel Wright or some other suitable
person and proceed to a settlement
thereof.
Bryce Crawford,
County Judge
In the District Court of Douglas
Couty, Nebraska,
Lavida Butler, Plaintiff, vs. Clem
W. Butler, defendant. Doc. 285, page
No. 1. NOTICE TO NON-RESI
DENT.
, TO CLEM W. BUTLER, non-resident
1 Defendant: You are hereby notified
that Lavida Butler filed a petition a
gainst you in the District Court of
Douglas County, Nebraska, on the
2th Day of May, 1932, in the case of
Lavida Butler, Plaintiff, vs. Clem W.
Butler, Defendant, Docket 285, Page
No. 1, the prayer of which requests
the Court to annul the marraige be
tween you and this Plaintiff on the
grounds of desertion and non-support.
You are required to answer said peti
tion on or before the 28th day of Nov
ember, 1932, or tbe allegations of the
said petition will be taken as true.
W. B. Bryant, Attorney.
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Read the Guide
Platform of The
Omaha Guide
Local
Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are
the only principles which will stand the acid test of good
citizenship in time of peace, war and death.
(1) We must have our pro-rata of employment in
businesses to which we give our patronage, such as groc
ery stores, laundries, furniture stores, department stores
and coal companies, in fact- every concern which we sup
port. We must give our citizens the chance to live res
pectably. We are tired of educating our children and
permitting them to remain economic slaves and enter in
to lives of shame.
(2) Our pTo-rafa of employment fdr the patronage
to our public corporations such as railroad companies,
the street caf company, the Nebraska Power Company,
the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and Other
establishments which we are forced to Support by right
of franchise. Also OUr pro-rata of employment in re
turn for the taxes we pay in our city, county state and
federal government. ^
(3) To encourage the t^ablishment of a rtrSt class
hospital that we may get the b#8fc that there is in Medical
science from our doctors whom WS know to be neart£t us,
also to encourage a high respect of them and encourage
more of our girts to take nurse trainfilfc
(4) A one hundred per cent deportment of our cit'
izens in our public of private places of business, especial
ly on street cars. If We are to be respected we must act
respectably, especially fc public places where W# tffe con
stantly before the public** eye.
(5) A one hundred per cent membership in Om
aha branch of the NAACP. should be had to encourage
the efforts put forth by the founders of the organization
and to assist the general office to establish a five miHiim
dollar endowment fund to maintain operating expense*
and to further the principles of the NAACP. All peo
ple of aH races must be educated up to a higher principle
and a more thorough understanding of interracial rela
tionship that our county may in reality be a government
[)f the people, for the people and by the people in whole
and not in part.
(6) The re-establishment of the Christian Religion
as Christ taught it, for the uplifting of mankind, elimin
iting financial and personal gain. A practical Christian
Eteligion, week day as well as Sunday. An attitude to
ward our fellowman as a brother in order to establish a
principle which will guide the destiny of each other’s
children; our neighbor’s children today are our children
;omorrow.
(7) Courteous treatment in all places of busineai
tnd the enforcement of the State Civil Right Law.
(8) To encourage and assist in the establishment of
the following financial institutions near 24th and Lake
Streets: A building and loan association, a state bank,
and, also, a first-class trust company for the purpose of
administering aid and assistance to our widows and
children.
(9) To encourage the erection of a one hundred
thousand dollar Young Men’s Christian Association
Building near 24th and Lake Streets.
(10) To enlarge the Young Women’s Christian As
sociation that it may supply sufficient dormitory accom
modations.
(11) To teach our citizens to live economically with
in their earning capacity by printing in each issue a bud
get system for various salaries.
(12) To make Omaha a better city in which to live
by inaugurating a more cosmopolitan spirit among our
American citizens.
(13 To put a stop td the Divorce Evil by passing a
State law making the mistreatment of a wife or a hus
band by either of them, a criminal offense to be decided
by a jury, first offense, jail sentence of a short duration;
second offense, one of longer duration; third offense,
from one to five years in the penitentiary. This, we be
lieve will make men and women think before marrying,
(14) We must become owners of the city govern
ment by paying a seemingly higher salary to those whom
we employ to administer its affairs, a salary that will at
tract men of high calibre.
N ational
(1) Fight for £ passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bill
and thus stop the shaMful lynching of American citizens.
(2) One of our citizens in the president’s cabinet.
(3) Federal control Of the educational system that
every child must have a high school education.
(4) Assist in the furtherance of research bjjr oaf
scientists and historians to prove that civilization was
first founded in Africa.
(5) Establish a political infludtee which will bring
about our pro-rata of higher appointments made by our
chief executives.
(6) Stop graft in politics by passing A Federal Law
making election* day a legal holiday and compelling every
American citizen of voting age to vote.
(7) Prevent further wars by teaching the so-called
white race that it is high time for them to quit fooling
themselves about white supremacy with only three-tenths
of the world’s population. They must be taught that
color1 is due to climatic conditions. They must be taught
that se\ en-tenths of the world’s population is made up of
darker i «ces. They must be taught that the rays of sun
that blazk e upon the equator and turn the skin brown do
not affect the power of the brain any more than the cold
ness of icy glaciers affect the brain of the white race;
and that the darker races will not continue to be crushed
by a money n uid few. If the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood o f Man are not welded into the hearts of this
world’s family * now, by teaching the principles laid down
by our Sawiour. i't will be welded into the hearts of our
children seme dayT soon, on the bloodiest battlefields this
world has ever kmAwn.
(8) Cut down congressional representation from
the Southern States i.* proportion to Uie number of votes
cast.
The OMAHA GUL^E will put forth its best efforts
to bring about* the above' 22 points^ with the assistance of
those who believe it is for the best interest of good Amer
ican citizenships