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MMk Read The Only Paper of Its « The Omaha Guide Kind West of the Every Week _ Missouri River HEW TO THE LINE\ _VOL. VL_Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, January 28, 1933 ___■ Number Forty-Nine—* \ Tufie In .| I I 1 i i ■ i BROADCASTED | { Every Week froa this Colonic J ) By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL i <:y<ir<2yC> INCREASE YOUR INCOME! • • • Since this column recently indicat ed an expressed desire to be of as. sislance to our struggling business firms I have received a number of communications from those desiring the services, spare-time or whole, of men and women who are in position to act as agents, representatives and distributors on a strictly commission ■ basis. • • • They offers come front firms handling a variety of specialties, nov. ’ elties. periodicals and personal serv ice. Some of the firms are willing to j trust prospective representatives who can furnish good references with 1 an initial supply of merchandise, while others desire a deposit or out right advance purchase. • • • A great many of these propositions look particularly attractive and ap. i pear to offer ideal methods whereby members of our race who are well, known in their particular locality can very easily increase their income and incidentally provde renumerative op. incidentally provide renumerative op work under their direction* It is just possible that from time to time this column can analyze the activities of some of these concerns, especially if their methods offer something of a newsy or novel at traction. or a new selling policy with increased advantage* and opportun ities are offered U members of our race. » • • In the meantime I will be glad to receive your name, address, vocation i and an explanation of the amount of time you would like to give to such aforementioned activities, and your preference, if any. to the kind of op portunities you would like to handle, j • • • All of this information will be tab. ulated and added to my files accord. • ing to geographical, vocational and alphabetical arrangement, and in time your name will be given to the partic ular firm who can use your particular services and in your particular ter ritory. • • • Under my present circumstances it will be impossible to reply to any of your communications but that will not deter me from doing my bit to aid you in increasing your income and also to aid our business firms who can uae your services. • • • This service I am offering to you without any cost or obligation on your part but your communications must be addressed strictly as follows. Clifford C Mitchell. No. 30667, C]o A. L. Van Horn, Jackson, Michigan, and confined strictly to giving such information as asked for in the fifth paragraph of this release. • • • In offering this service I sincerely trust that during the present year of 1933 I will be able to materially help members of our race located in every section of America. * KFAB. SIGNS UP T* PLAYERS Following a successful audition at: Station KFAB the “Y” Dramatic Players, under the direction of Miss Frances Fintel, will be heard over Staton KFAB regularly every two weeks. According to Mr. Penner Chairman at the Program Activities for KFAB. this is the only group of its kind within a radios of six hun dred miles who will be presenting such a program. The “Y” Players appeared in a Radio Audition on Mon day evening before the Omaha Univ. eesity Radio School. Telephone Web ster 1539 for information concerning their Crst broadcast. Kerns Speaks Before Continental Club Speaking before members of the Continental Club at the Paxton Hotel Thursday noon, J. Harvey Kerns, Executive Sfcc’y, of the Omaha Urb an League declared the developement of the Negro people in America is es sential to flie progressive well-being of the Nation. “The most signif icant fact in recent Negro history,” said Mr. Kerns, “is the rapid growth of this rising people under stress of differential treatment, of self con sciousness, and race pride.” “One of the greatest problems con fronting the Net?ro today is his lim ited opportunities for employment and the loss of many of the traditional jobs he has held,” said Mr. Kerns. Leaders of thought among Negroes are seeking no special favors for the race, but asks that they be judged by the same standard as other Americ ans. ’‘Where American standards are applied to Negroes”, declared Mr. Kerns, “Negroes have proven their ability to compete in responsible civ ic, social and industrial positions of the country. Fifteen million Negro es in the United States can be a def inite asset if open mindedness instead of sentiment is used in determining racial issues.” Mr. Kerns cited the names of Prof. George Carver, the industrial chemist of Tuskegee, Hen ry O. Tanner, the painter, Roland Hayes and Colerige Taylor in music and Eliza McCoy, the Negro inventor as evidences of racial accomplish ments. Mr. Kerns said it is in the long run less expensive to permit fifteen million Negroes to become increas ingly productive than to support that group by taxation of those permitted to work. Mr. E. Zschau, secretary of the Industrial Bureau of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, will be the guest speaker before members of the Workers’ Forum of tffe Omaha Urb an League on Monday, January 30th. Mr. Zschau will speak from the sub ject, “Present Trends in the Indust rial Development of Omaha”. In his address, he will also relate just how these trends will affect, employment opportunities of the day worker. Ev ery working man is invited by the Forum to hear this address by Mr. Zschau. Special music will be given by the Melody Boys Quartette. GEORGIA SMARTING UNDER LASH OF PUBLIC SCORN DENIES “RIDICULOUS STORIES” Savannah, Ga., (CNS) Motor Clubs in the State are busy now trying to "spike ridiculous stories” that are being told around in the North that tourists passing through Georgia are liable to have trouble with chain gang guards. A letter received from a member of the Staten Island division of the Automobile Club of New York asks for confirmation or denial of the stor. ies. It read. “One of our members is making a trip to Florida and was informed that he is liable to have trouble going through Georgia because of recent difficulties with the chain gang. He is driving a 7 passenger car, but there will be only six in the car. He was told that if he carried more than four passengers, he is liable to be held up and possibly lose his car.” LOSES NOSE IN SUNDAY BATTLE WITH COMPANION Atlanta, Ga. (CNS) Walking into the Grady Hospital last Sunday night Vanderbilt Adams handed in a pack age which upon being opened was found to contain a human nose. Adams told the doctors that a com panion named “Blue” had bitten his nose off. His face was bloody and, as he said, his nose was missing. The doctors found that they could not sew the organ back and then Ad ams also became “blue.” Dr. Aaron McMillan Bags His Lion Former nebr. legislator KILLS ELEVEN FOOT LION IN JUNGLES OF AFRICA Boston, Mass, January— Dr. Aaron M. McMillan, of Omaha, Nebraska, American Negro physican serving under {he American Board of Com missioners for Foreign Missions, in Galangue, Angola, West Africa, has killed his lion! 0 a brief vacation—foi even a missionary has to have a vacation— in company with three other doctors, McMillan shot a lion with a gTeat mane and measuring 11 feet from nose to tip of tail. Much choice game was seen, including zebra and Koodoo. McMillan is building up a small hospital in Galangue, the only one in that whole section and his skill prevented this year the usual epi demic of pneumonia. First going to Portugal and learn ing not only Portuguese, the official tongue of Angola, but earning a Port uguese medical license, McMillan gained the distinction also of being the first Negro to receive this degree from the Medical University at Lis bon. He was born in Cotton Plant J Arkansas and is the son of Mrs. Sarah F. McMillan formerly of De troit. In addition ot Portuguese, Dr. Mc Millan is now acquiring the native tongue, Umbundu. Mrs. McMillan (Willena V. Cooper) is the daughter of Mrs. S. E. Boone of Miami St., Omaha. Both Dr. and Mrs. McMil lan are graduates of Bishop College and Dr. McMillan i« also a graduate 'of Meharry Medical College. He is the brother of Samuel McMillan of 2754 Hastings Street, Detroit, Mich igan. With McMillan at Galangue are two other American Negroes, namely. Rev. Henry C. McDowell of Epes, Al abama and Samuel Bracy Coles of Mobile, Alabama. Although the Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry did not visit Africa, Mr. McDowell is conducting his work along lines that would doubtless find great favor with the Commission. Instead of erecting a new church building, as was plann ed, McDowell is trying the experi ment of landscaping the site reserv ed for the church, so the people may gather in the open air for worship as has been their custom from time immemorial. McDowell in 1931 received the William E. Harmon award for dis. tinguished achievement among Ne groes in the field of religious serv ice. He was bora in Alabama, and holds a B. A. and B. D. from Talla dega College. Before going to Af rica, he was pastor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mrs. McDowell (Bessie F. Fonvielle), was bom in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and is the daughter of Mrs. Bessie Fonvielle, 509 South Cedar Street, Mobile, Alabama. Both Mr. and Mrs. McDowell were grad uates of Talledega College. Samuel Coles of Tilden, Alabama, the third in this fine trio, specializes in agriculture. Among many other things, he has developed a farm which he called Elombo, some six miles from Galague, where native boys learn to make the most of the land and at the same time work their way through the school. When Coles re turned from his last furlough, the native people turned out with a torch light procession, a mass meeting, speeches of welcome, and showers of gifts in form of chickens, eggs, po tatoes and even pigs. Coles took back with him new varieties of seed which he hopes to introduce, as well as a grist mill, a 16-inch model break er, several ploughs, and a tractor. -- The Portuguese Government of Agri culture often consults with Coles al ong agricultural lines relating to the native people. Mrs. Coles (Bertha Terry) comes originally from Talledega, Alabama, and is a graduate of Talladega Col ege and Fiske University. Mr. Coles* is also a graduate of Talledega Col lege. The McMillans, McDowells and Coles are all supported by the Negro American Congregatonal Churches. MRS. JOHN ALBER'r WILLIAMS . CHAIRMAN At a regular monthly meeting of the Committee of Managament of the Northside YWCA, the following of ficers for the year 1933 were elected: Mrs. John Albert Williams, Chair man, Mrs. Minnie Dixon, Vice-Chair man; Mrs. Clarence Singleton, Secre.* tary; and Mrs. Florence Johnson, Fi nance Chairman. Mrs. Milton Wilson and Mrs. William Dav;s were elected new members. Mrs. Walter Seals and Mrs. C. B. Wilkes were re-elected for a three year term. The Board accepted with regrets the resign ations of Mrs. Herbert Wiggins, Mrs. Milton Johnson, and Mrs. William Haynes. CHRIST TEMPLE CHURCH SLIGHTLY DAMAGED BY FIRE About 7:45 Wednesday morning, neighbors in the vicinity of 26th and Burdete were aroused by smoke and flames from a fire started inside of Christ Temple Church, 2124 North 26th St, The origin of the fire is not known. An old man stopped in the church on Tuesday night and asked permission to sleep in the Church as he had no place to stay. The fire seemed to have started from a chair where he had been sitt ing. The floor and ceiling was burn ed and a few chairs. Rev. O. J. Burckhardt is pastor of the Church. — DR. ABRAM HARRIS OF HOWARD OPENS CHICAGO UNIVERSITY SERIES Chicago, 111. (CNS) As the first of a series of articles in which the eco nomic doctrines of Thorstein Vebion and Kard Marx are contrasted, the University of Chicago has just pub lished an article by Dr. Abram L. Harris, associate professor of eco nomic at Howard University, the content of which underlies the gen eral system of technocracy. Dr. Harris received the Simon N. Patten Fellowship of $1,000 for com-’ pletion of a study of the relation of colored financial institutions to busi ness enterprises the grant being made by the American Academy of Politic, al and Social Science. BUSINESS GIRLS’ COUNCIL HOLDS MEETING IN OMAHA ■ - The meeting of the Business Girls’ Council was held in the city last week end, January 21st and 22nd. This Council includes five Business girls representing the eleven states in this area, and its purpose is to plan the Okoboji Conference for Busi ness Girls to be held July 17th to August 5th. The group included Helen Woolsey of Joplin, Missouri; Kathryn Dahm of Winona, Minnesota Gertrude Zaffle of Ottumwa, Iowa; Lottie Swearingen of Fort Dodge, Iowa; and Albertine Johnson of Omaha. All girls on the Council were guests at the Flat-Iron Hotel. N.Y. Bay Yields Body of Former Lincoln Girl SOUTHERN WHITE MAN JAILED FOR DEATH OF NEGRO Montezuma, Ga. (CNS) Lee Hill, a white man, has been ordered held as the result of a coroner’s jury verdict after an inquest in the death of Em mitt Goucho, a resident of the Gordon Valley district. Goucho was shot last week in the house of Hill, with Hill’s shot gun. Hill claimed the man shot himsef, but the coroner’s verdfct was that the wound was not self-inflicted. Hill was arrested and jailed in Oglethorpe, pending further investi gation. QUAIL, RABBITS AND SQUIR RELS FED TO COUNTY HOME INMATES Holly Springs, Miss. (GNS) James Jeans. Ulyses Threat, Otho Powers, Robert Walls, James Rogers and Earl Jones of Wakefield, Tate County about 12 miles south of Byhalia, Mar shall County, were recently captured with 162 rabbits, 35 quail and 30 squirrels near Olive Branch, DeSoto County, as they were supposedly at tempting to transport thq, game a. cross the State line into Tennessee for sale in Memphis about 30 miles a way. The six men, all Negroes, were tri ed on a charge of hunting without a license, killing squirrels out of seas on and attempting to transport squir rels and quail into Tennessee. They were each fned $100 and costs and given 90 days each in jail. The game was delivered to the De Soto County home and its inmates will have a feast for some days. JACK JOHNSON HURT IN WRESTLING MATCH IN BELGIUM New York City (CNS) Word comes from Brussel, Belgium, that Jack Johnson, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world in a recent wrestling bout with Sailor Constant of Belgium was severely bruised and suffered a physical collapse when thrown from the ring during the bout. After grapping for a while, the burly Belgian suddenly picked up the aged exchampion and tossed him from the ring to the floor below. Johnson gamely tried to struggle to his feet, but fainted from the shock. Sailor Constant was awarded vic tory when Johnson was unable to re turn to the ring. Johnson, however, is reported re covering, but has not signified any desire to test his strength with the modern wrestlers. RETIRES |AFTER SIXTY YEARS SERVICE IN EDUCATION WORK Dallas, Texas, (CNS) After sixty years active participation in educa tional and church affairs, Or, Alex ander S. Jackson for 33 years pastor of New Hope Baptist Church of this city has retired. Dr. Jackson was colletor of public moneys under President Benjamin Harrison at New Orleans, and also represented his race at the Interna tional Conference of Missions in Stockholm, in 1910, and served as a professor of theology at Tulane Col lege. COMING ATTRACTION AT THE RITZ THEATRE, 24th & Patrick “The Girl from Chicago”, all star colored cast, featuring Grace Smith, popular screen star and Carl Mahon. “The Girl from Chicago” is a fast, thrilling emotional and sensational play. A drama of love, gay life, growing out of the notorious number racket in Harlem. The date of this coming attraction will be Fefc. 14, 15, 16 at the Ritz Theatre. DISAPPEARED AFTER AUTOMOBILE CRASH; POLICE ATTEMPT TO UNRAVEL MYSTERY MISSING SINCE NOVEMBER The mystery surounding the disappearance on November 19, of Mrs. Francis L. Taylor, 26 year old soc ial worker of 533 Washington avenue, Brooklyn, was deepened on Wednesday afternoon when an Italian lab orer reported to police that a woman’s body was floating in Pelham Bay, near Shore Inn Road. The body, badly decomposed, was removed from the water by police who are now facing a mystery as to the cause of death. Whether or not foul play was responsible for the death or death was caused as a result of an automobile accident in Mount Vernon the day of her disappearance is what the police are trying to find out. FIVE UNDER ARREST FOR FAKE HOLD UP Washington, (CNS) The story of Ellsworth Williams, 46, messenger, for the Southern Maryland Trust I Company who told the police a melo dramatic story to the effect that he had been held up and robbed' of $5,215 of the bank’s funds turned out to be untrue. Five men are now under arrest charged with being implicated in the “fake hold up.” Acting on Williams’ confession, po lice recovered all the missing money in a shed in Seat Pleasant, Mary land, and arrested James Butler, 30 years old, Cedar Heights, Maryland; Rodney R. Rice, 27 and Chauncey R. Rice. 25, brothers of Cedar Heights, and Earl F. Goodwin, 43, 1800 block of Potomac avenue, southeast, all col ored. Williams, according to officials of the Seat Pleasant bank, had been employed by the institution for about 10 years, on a part time basis, and was paid $15 a month, his pay hav ing been reduced recently from $25 a month. His duties were those of a part time janitor, requiring his pres ence'at the bank for only a short time each morning and evening. In addi tion, he made one or two trips a week to carry bank funds from Seat Pleasant to Washington for deposit in the Commercial National Bank, Fourteenth and G streets. In his spare time Williams was employed as an “odd jobs” man in and around Seat Pleasant. LILIAN EVANTI WINS HIGH PRAISE IN MUNICH, GERMANY Washington (CNS) Word has just been received here that Lilian Evanti the colosatura soprano, now engaged i in singing in famous European opera houses, scored a complete triumph on January 16, with a classical program and Negro spirituals in the town hall at Munich, Germany, where Ernest Hoffmann of Boston, Massachusett conducted a series of concert of con temporary American music. i _ STOLE PIG—BUT TESTIMONY GOT HIM FREEDOM AND A JOB Roanoke Rapids, N. C.—Hart Tay lor, an unemployed man from the neighborhood of Seaboard on the sea board Air Line about 15 miles from here was recently arraigned before the town authorities for stealing a pier His testimony got him his liberty and a job. When asked if he was guilty of theft he emphatically said, “no!” He admitted unhesitatingly that he “tuk” the pig because he could get no work and his wife and three little children were hungry. Hs begged, he said, and had offered to cut two loads of wood for one hog’s head, without success. Then he “took” a pij?. He was told to re port at the next term of court and at a job that would be waiting for him next day. He promised to do both. The last time Mrs. Taylor was seen alive was when she left the home of Dr. Hermanas Beard, Columbus ave nue, Mount Vernon, with Charles White, adopted son of the doctor, for a drive in the city. Mrs. Taylor had come to the Beards earlier in the day to visit her mother-in-law who was employed at the household. The visit was intended for a day but as the time for her departure grew nearer, Mrs. Taylor decided to stretch out her visit over the week end. On the night of November 19, while Mrs. Taylor was in the car with Mr. White there was a collision with a big truck. White was badly shaken up and while his limp body was beintg removed from the wreckage, Mrs. Taylor who is said to have receive minor injuries, walked away from the scene of the accident apparently in a daze as if from shock. The truck man’s helper, saw her walking away and called her but she continued on her way. White was removed to the hospital and nothing more thought about it until Mrs. Taylor failed to show up by midnight at the home of Dr. Beard Inquiries then revealed that she had apparently vanished from sight of everyone and no one could remember seeing her after she walked away from the car. When Mrs. Taylor failed to show up either at the home she kept with her husband, Bert Taylor, at Wash ington avenue, Brooklyn, or at the home of Dr, Beard, Mount Vernon police were called in to conduct a search for her. Police of New York City were also notified of the disap pearance of the woman. But from November 19 not one word came from her nor had anyone seen her until her body was discovered in Pelham Bay on Wednesday, January 4. As soon as the body was found, Detective Bufano of the 45th Precinct in the Bronx was assigned the case. A friend, Frank Roach of 615 Throop avenue, Brooklyn, identified the body. Mrs. Taylor’s body was removed to Brooklyn and after funeral service* the body was shipped to Lincoln, Neb. to the home city of her mother, Mrs. Sarah Galbreath for interment. The body was accompanied by Mr. Taylor who left the city Monday night. Mrs. Taylor, who was a member of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, was well-known in Brooklyn and for the past few years was » volunteer worker at the Brooklyn Urban League where she did settlement work. She Was highly thought of in the com munity. She married Bert Taylof three years ago and they had a happy married life. “I’M FROM TEXAS” FATAL TO LINCOLN “NATIVE SON” Los Angeles, Jan. 21—"I'm from Texas.” “So am I.” These words Saturday started a quarrel in which Ward 0. Nelson, SO, killed Wade “Spareribs” Davis, 40, a Negro, according to police who said Nelson is from Lincoln. Neb. Davis was from Wellston, Okla.
