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v----^^v— —yj-yj-v-kj— -u-U-U-U-(J-O_0_0_ 39.000 People Read i The Omaha Go^ *>* Kind West of the Every We \ Missouri Riven VOL. VI. Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, January 7, 1933._ Number Forty-Six_ 5c PER COPY Tune in — “DIGESTING file NEWS" i BROADCASTED Every Week from this Column ( By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL 1 A NEGRO CONTRIBUTOR S MAGAZINE— • • • About three months ago this col umn wns devoted to suggestions for "Young Negro Writers". That part icular release was written merely by way <rf reply to hundreds of letters received from aspiring writers over a period of two years. • • • I had hoped that by contributing my thoughts on the subject that the matter would be dropped, as far as 1 waa personally concerned. To my sur prise a condition quite to the contrary has arisen and an even greater am ount of correspond Ace has been re ceived on the subject. • * * Not only do the correspondents thank me for analyzing the situation they were up against but most of them seem to think that because this # column is read in every pert of Am. j erica that I can considerably advance their cause by placing their aim be.! fore the public in the hope that some progressive and capable member will respond by providing a medium of national circulation for their partic ular benefit. • • * My conclusions in the matter con vinces me that there is a wonderful field for a “Negro Contributor’s Mag azine". Such a magazine would ac cept only contributed matter, stories essays, poems, features and drawings from the pen of aspiring Negro writ ers. • • • Such contributors, judging from the correspondence I have received are to be found in every community in the country. Each contributor would not only have the satisfaction of seeing their “brain-child” in print but they could, and would, act as a distributing agent for the magazine, and in this Latter capacity they could commerc. ilize their efforts, thus earning, in directly. a competence for their con tributions. • • • With thousands of such contributors from all parts of the country, an im mediate nation-wide circulation would be assured, and would be constantly increasing because of the very active offort that each contributor would make in “selling" the idea and the magazine to their relatives, friends, acquaintances and neighbors. • • • Apparently, the demand for snch a magazine is undisputed. The ques tion then is securing a competent person to “put it across.” There have been many attempts made at filling this demand, usually by “fly by-night” promoters who lacked both the necessary ability and finances to make their project successful. • • • To properly launch such a magaz ine the owner, or owners, should have a sufficient financial backing to carry their efforts for at least a year, either in the form of outright own. ership of the necessary capital, or a pro-rats investment from each aspir ing contibutor. e e e To may who might undertake this project I shall be glad to cooperate and help to provide a definite med ium for our aspiring writers. Ask Redress (or Citizen Jailed/ Insulted at Panama_ u ui ir; /ims uuTcrnor ror Report Washington,—The Secretary of War has received a complaint and de mand for redress transmitted by the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People in behalf of John Samuel Clark, naturalized Am erican citizen, born in the British West Indies, who by reason of his color was placed in jail and subjected to indignities at Cristobal, Canal Zone, while enroute from Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies, to his home in San Francisco. The complaint, drawn up for Mr. Clark by his attorney, Edward D. Mabson, of San Framsco, states that Mr. Clark was carrying a passport issued by the U. S. Government, that he had in his possession sufficient funds to cover the expenses of his passage from San Francisco to King ston and return, and that on his way home while waiting for his ship at Cristobal on June 24, 1931, he was insulted and jailed by the local offic ers. It is charged that the local health officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne, Chief Quar antine Offcier for the Canal Zone at Cristobal, sent him to the Captain of the Port at Colon who asked him only his name and where he was going, thereupon returning him to the cus tody of Dr Hearne to be put in jail. Upon Mr. Clark’s inquiring the reas on for his tention, as he was a first class passenger having his passport and first class passage, waiting for his boat to San Francisco. Dr. Hearne is alleged to have said that Mr. Clark was not wanted on Colon, that he the doctor “had nothing to do with it, I am just going by orders and it makes no difference to me if you have an American passport and first-class passage, you are still nothing but a damned old Jamaican nigger.” Mr, Clarke, the complaint states, was thereupon sent to the Chief of Police at Cristobal to be placed in jail. Mr. Clark thereupon informed the Panama Agencies Company, con trolling the Nelson Steamship Line, which company after communicating with the Panama Police Department, Dr. Hearne and the Captain of the Port of the Panamanian Government, prevailed upon the United States Consul at Colon, Dr. William W. Early, to procure Mr. Clark’s release. Mr. Clark’s complaint to the War Department states that he was con fined in the Cristobal jail for one hour, and his liberty was restricted for an additional hour in the custody of Cristobal police. Had To Pay for Jail Food Dr. Heame, furthermore, it is charged, surrendered Mr. Clark’s pasport to the United Fruit Company only after he had paid $1.50 for meals served him in jail and this passport was not returned to Mr. Clark from the United Fruit Company without the intercession of the U. S. Consul. Mr. Clark states that he was not seeking entrance into Panama and was therefore not subject to local im migration laws, but was merely wait ing for his ship. Copies of orders issued in his case state that he was detained because he was “likely to become a public charge”, whereas in fact he had $55.50 in his possession and was merely awaiting the arrival of his ship. The governor of the Canal Zone, H. Burgess, is quoted as having report ed to the State Department that “Un der a strict interpretation of the reg ulations, Clark should have been de tained for the entire time he was on the Isthmus.” Redress Asked The complaint states that not only was Mr. Clark a United States citis en, on American territory at the time of his arrest, and entitled to the full protection of his government, but that he was “wrongfully, arbitrarily and without cause or reason” arrest ed and jailed "without the least sem blance of a hearing or trial and en tirely without recognition of his rights as a citizen.” The War Department is asked to vindicate the violation of Mr. Clark’s rights while in the Canal Zone by A. merican officials acting in the dual capacity of officials for the American and Panamaian governments. His j being on shore was due to the steam. | ship company transporting him. The complaint asks for redress ! that shall be "substantial and com-! . mensurate with the wrong inflicted and the injury suffered.” The National Asociation for the Ad vancement of Colored People in trans mitting the complaint asks not only redress for Mr. Clark and appropr iate action against the officers res ponsible for his treatment but also "the correction of conditions so that there may be repetition of this epi sode with regard to other colored A mericans who may have occasion to be traveling in the Canal Zone.” Hurley Asks Report In a letter dated Dec. 27, Patrick J. Hurley, Secertary of War, acknow ledges receipt of the NAACP. com. munication and states: “Your letter and its inclosures are being brought to the attention of the governor of the Panama Canal with the request that he furnish a report on this case and upon the receipt of the govern or’s report you will be comunieated with again.’ NAACP. ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD New York— Plans were announced today for the annual meeting of the Association to be held on Sunday Jan.; uary 8th, and Monday January 9th.1 The Sunday mass meeting will be held at 3:00 p. m. at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 West 138th St., 'New York-City. Among the speak. I ers will be Mayor Joseph V. McKee, if his health permits, and the Rev. Lorenzo H. King, Pastor of the St. i Marks ME. Church. Featured at this ; meeting will be the Mississippi Flood | Control Project and the Wagner res | olution for a Senate investigation. The annual busines meeting of the , Association will be held in the offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, promptly at 2:30 p. m. on January 9th. At this meeting the annual reports of the Secretary, Treasurer and other officials will be read and members of the Board of Directors will be voted upon. The public is cordially invited to attend both meetings. GETS DAY IN JAIL FOR SAFETY ZONE PARKING Otis Johnson, Negro, 307 Nicholas St., rubbish hauler, was sentenced to a day in jail Wednesday by Judge John Battin, when he was tagged for parking in a safety zone and cussed out the whole police department from Sergeant William Krfcnek, the tagger on up. Johnson’s complaint was that pleasure cars parked in the safety zone and got away with it, but when an honest busy rubbish hauler tried it he was pounced upon. SPENT (HUSBAND’S CHRISTMAS FUND FAKES STORY OF “NEGRO BURGLAR” New York,— One of the many cases of crimes falsely attributed to Negro, es every year 1 sthe case of a white woman in New Orleans, who,, after spending the Christmas fund she and her husband had been saving, fabric ated a story about a Negro burglar. The story forwarded to the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People is authenticated in the New Orleans States, one of the leading daily papers of the city. According to the story, Mrs. Jessie Saunders, wife of a packer earning $12 a week, bought clothing for "her sisters out of a $11 fund she and her husband had saved. When the money was spent she alarmed her neighbors with a tale of how a Negro had grab bed her in her home, struck her over the head with a blunt instrument, tore her clothing and robbed her of money and jewels. She had taken the pre caution to hide her jewelry under the house. , Detectives, after extended question ing, made the woman admit that the burglar story was false. MRS. COLOMBO PINKETT DIES The many friends of Atty. H. J. Pinkett were shocked to hear of the sudden death of his mother, Mrs. Col ombo Pinkett of Beatrice, Nebraska. Mrs. Pinkett made her home with her daugher, Mrs. Daisy Gordon, prominent club woman of Beatrice, Nebr. Wealthy Omahan Is Buried Dr. Lennox to Fight Suit *~' • 11 —■ » _ Jewells Robbed Sunday evening between 8 and 11 p. m. the home of Mrs. James G. Jew. ell was robbed. As reported by Mrs. Jewell, a fur coat valued at $400.00 belonging to James Jewell, Jr., was stolen, two diamond rings of Mrs. Carrie Jewell, two suits of clothing, a fur neck piece of Mrs. Cecilia Jew ell and practically all the clothing of Mrs. Ruth Sykes of Chicago, niece of Mrs. Jewell. A rear window was found opened by which the robbers j gained entrance. -:-— TREASURY DEPT. ASSURES NAACP. OF EFFORTS TO GET JOBS FOR NEGROES New York, —FeTry K. Heath, As sistant Secretary of the Treasury, has written the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to state that efforts will be continued by the Treasury Department to ob tain jobs for colored workers on the new Parcel Post Building in New York City. The NAACP. has previously com plained that of the hundreds of jobs on this work only one or two had gone to colored workmen and had again writen to state that the situation had not been improved. Mr. Heath reports that although the Department is without authority in the matter of labor employed by contractors,” the employment of col ored labor was taken up in a person al interview with one of the national representatives of the Bricklayers Masons, and Plaster’s Union in Wash ington. The union representatives, according to Mr. Heath, stated that there are two bricklayers’ unions in New York “an uptown union (no. 37) and a downtown union (no. 34)—and that the lamer proportion of colored bricklayers are members of the up town union. It is the belief of this representative hat some of the dif ficulty experienced in connection with the Parcel Post work may be due to an effort on the part of the down town union to obtain a greater part of the work for its* own members.” Mr. Heath states that “a letter is being addressed to the Secretary of the Bricklayers, Masons, and Plaster- j Public Interest in Mississippi River Exploitation Sweeps Country New York, Dec.—Reports from all parts of the country to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reveal that public in terest among all classes and races in the exploitation of Negroes in the Federal-financed Mississippi Flood Control Project is reaching over whelming proportions. Among the latest to pledge their suppor by tele gram to Senator Robert F. Wagner for Senate Resolution 300, which pro vides for a thorough investigation of the charges of brutality and exploit ation by a Senate investigating com mittee, is the National Religion and Labor Foundation with headquarter! at Yale University. The Executive Secretaries of the Foundation Fran cis A. Henson and George A. Doug las, wired Senator Wagner on Dec ember 19th: “The National Religion and Labor Foundation heartily supports the res olution you introduce^ authorizing an investigation of labor conditions on the Mississippi flood-control project Urge you read this telegram into Con gressional Record and utilize it in other ways to secure action on your resolution. Jerome Davis, Stephen Wise, Bishop Francis McConnell, John Haynes Holmes, Philip Randolph, Ed ward L. Israel and more than hund red other national leaders supporting Foundation.” The NAACP. has just had printed 10,000 copies of a leaflet, “Mississi ppi River Slavery—1932.” Branches of the Association, lodges, the Feder al Council of Churches of Christ in America, the League for Industrial Democracy, the Fellowship of Recon siliation, the American Civil Liberties Union, churches and other organis ations are being supplied with copies of this leaflet and are being urged to bombard their senators in the nam es of these various organisations and as individuals, with telegraphic de mands that they support the Wagner resolution. Copies of this leaflet giv ing the full facts may be secured from the National Office of the NAACP. 69 Fifth Avenue New York. The NAACP. this week placed in the hands of each member of the United States Senate an eight page digest of editorials which have ap peared in colored newspapers of the United Sates urging support of the Wagner resolution. Latest reports from Washington in. dicate that the Wagner resolution will shortly be acted upon by the Com mittee on Commerce and reported out to the floor of the Senate for a vote. “Colored people and their friends” said the NAACP., today, “realize that this fight is more important to the Negro than any other issue. It is the opening wedge not only in ending the brutality and exploitation of the col ored workers immediately concerned, but in the struggle to secure for Ne groes a proportionate share of jobs in FederalJfinanced projects. Practically the only construction now being done is that by the Feder al government, and by States and Cit ies and the NAACP. is determined to fight to the limit to see that Negroes get their full share of jobs in these projects for the financing of which they are all taxed at the same rate as other citizens. Read j 1932" on P. 3 In answer to reports that a suit is being brought against his property at 2527 Patrick St., Dr. G. B. Lennox, well known Omaha physician, stated that the legal proceeding was brought about through the failure of the de ceased Myrtle Crutchfield to release the second mortgage as promised by her after he had paid her the sum of Four Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($4,200.00) in checks. Dr. Lennox further stated that he is of the opin ion that Mrs. Crutchfield would have fulfilled her promise had she not died before the necessary steps could be completed. He says that it is only natural for the administrators of the Crutchfield Estate to make such a move, which he doubts will be suc cessful under the existing circum stances. ers International Union of America, requesting him to use his influence in obtaining equitable consideraton for colored workmen in connection with fthe New York Parcel Post work.” The NAACP. is also writing to the union and to William Green, Presi dent of the American Federation of Labor. BITTER LEGAL BATTLE IN ALA. HIGH COURT OVER WILLIE PETERSON DEATH SENTENCE Birmingham, Ala.—One of the abl est criminal lawyers in the State of Alabama has been working td perfect the defense of Willie Feterson, twice sentenced to death on a charge of mur dering a white woman, himself shot while a prisoner in jail by the worn, j an’s brother. Dr. Charles A. J. McPherson, Sec- j retary of the Birmingham Branch, National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, states that the bill of exceptions in Peterson’s behalf is being filed before the Ala bama Supreme Court, instead of be fore the trial judge. The bill was prepared by John W. Altman, known throughout the South as a criminal lawyer, who is in charge of the de fense. “We have raised and paid to the attorntys of Willie Peterson, §2,425,” said Dr. McPherson today, “and to date we still have a drive on in our NAACP. branch to raise the balance of $571. Our local newspapers in Birmingram have all given us ex ceptional support in our drive.” The National Office of the NAACP has contributed $100. toward the de fence of this case which has deeply stirred Birmingham. The alleged crime occurred Aug. 4, 1931, and involved the murder of two white “society girls” and the wound ing of a third by “Negro” who, it was charged kept the girls on a lone ly wagon road “more than three hours.” Peterson, a sufferer from tubercul osis, a church member with good rep utation, never before in trouble, was suddenly seized on the street when the surviving white woman passing in an automobile screamed that he was the Negro who had shot her. Pet erson steadfastly denied his guilt. An alibi established for him by wit nesses at his first trial, begun Dee. 7, 1931, resulted in a mistrial. A sec ond trial brought a death sentence March 4, execution of which was stay, ed by notice of appeal. Despite KuKluxKlan parades and other efforts to intimidate the color ed citizens of Birmingham, they, led by the local NAACP. and backed up by the National Office are conducting a finish fight on this case. Dr. Mc Pherson reports that the fight in Peterson’s behalf has the sympathy of many “high clas intelligent white people.” THOMAS S. VINEGAR, WEALTHY PULLMAN PORTER IS BURIED The funeral of Thomas S. Vinegar, 2529 North 19th St., who is reputed to be one of the wealthiest colored cit izens in Nebraska, was held from the , Myer’s Funeral Home Thursday even ing, December 29th. Mr. Vinegar was a retired Pull man porter, having entered the serv ice in 1877 and retired five years a. go. Being thrifty, temperate of hab its and a wise investor, the aged por ter is said to have amassed a fortune well above the six figure mark. Dur ing his residence here he acquired a multitude of friends who mourned his passing along with his wife, several nieces and a brother. The active palbearers were W. R. Estell, J. W. Thomas, W. H. Ray, A, L. Bowler, H. W. Black and R. W, Freeman. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OF CHEROKEE NATION IS DISCOVERED Washington, (CNIS) The emanci pation proclamation of the Cherokee nation—an instrument that provided for freedom of Negro slaves from Red masters—has been found in old rec ords and it antedates the “no slavery” treaty of the Indians by three years. The act was passed by the Chero. kee council at Cowskin praire in 1863. Spring Frog was speaker of the council. The act stated that “all Ne gro and other slaves within lands of the Cherokee nation be and are here by emancipated from slavery.” It provided a find for violation of the act. “The no slavery” treaty was signed three years later and provided that the Indians be readmitted “to pro_ tection of the United States but ob liged to liberate their Negro slaves and admit them to equal sitizenship.” The Cherokee nation was an inde pendent government within the Uni ted States and its Red citizens were beyond pale of American law. Their own government was fashioned after the United States. The Indians held slaves, but their loyalty was divided during the War of the Rebellion. In_ dians sympathetic with slavery were organized into “Knights of the Gold en Circle” in 1855 and the organized aim was to protect the institutions of slavery. Indians who sympathized with the abolition movement formed the “Ke toowah.” Approximately 8,500 Cher_ okees joined forces with the Confed eracy and about 13,000 were loyal to the Union. In 1861, the nation met in a convention and decided to sign a treaty with the Confederacy. How ever, when the tide turned against the South the Indians agreed to make no such treaty and even disbarred from office Cherokees who had “se ceded” and joined the Confederacy. Sell It zu— #*r Fwumvn a, FOR UU WANT-AD £H7jF!-?r3 ppm ▼«■_ WANT-AD thru the Columns of The Guide After ThoDnco riniirOtnro1**'11®* Located N.24thSt. January 12th 1116 llUoO III III* O lUI 6 In The Hawkins Bldg. Web.2770