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~ ^ ~ v V - v - v -- — —■ ■ v —1 ■■■11 50.000 People Read The Only Paper of Its A* to*'" Kind West of the HP *(• A tjff '< ’■* - vjpife' 4, Ivoy vti Missouri River S VOL. VI. Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, February 4, 1933 _ _ Number Fiftv.— I 5 c PER COPY Tune In ——« "DIGESTING j |fke NEWS" I f « } BROADCASTED l / Every Week from this Columc J f By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL * HOW WILL IT END? • • • We read that foreign governments are failing; others are staggering, and some writers would have us be lieve that our own government is floundering. • • • And through it all we learn by reading—and implication—that Ne groes are sleeping. Some of our own writers, columnists and propa gandists would make us believe that those Negroes who are not sleeping are knocking each other into uncon sciousness in their attempt to pre vent other from progressing. • • • Daily we read of propagandized campaigns being waged in an effort to bolster American interests. These cunpa.’iB> run the gauntlet of “Buy American”; “Travel American”; and “Hire American”. In these cam paigns is an opportunity for the Ne gro if he will wake up. • • • Personally we do not believe in sub sidized interests, but as long as they are the order of the day, we might as well take advantage of them. If we postpone our day of action until that perfect day arrives when all things will be considered purely on merits then we might as well continue our sleeping indefinitely. • • • If any class can be considered as Americans, surely our race can. In many cases we are able and willing to “Buy American” but we secure the same value for our money? We are milling to “Travel American” but can we secure the same accommodations hi our travel that foreign countries will provide us with? And as for “Hire American"—well, we just sim ply don't classify as Americans at all. Yet, we sleep? • • m However, there is much danger in these comercialized campaigns. It paves the way for retaliation, not only »t home but abroad. Other groups adopt the same sort of tactics and soon our civilization—continents, nations, states and local communit ies will be divided according to pro pagandized groups. Already we can begin to see such results. Governmental economics and changes are announced and put into effect for the ostensible benefit of the people and the officials are ac cordingly applauded, until in the dis tance we see a big storm cloud ap proaching which we later analyze and discover to be the propagandized ef forts of opposition interests who de sire economy as long as some other group does the economizing. • • • In all of these apparent eontrover. aies. merit seems to be side-tracked, and it is every man for himself, and the Negroes—no longer chattels of the white race—must wake up, if he really is seeping, and do some plug ging Of his own. Otherwise, it will hardly take a seer, a medium, or a tipster to answer the question: “How will H end?" PINBOY FOUND ON SCALES POLICE TAKE HIM AWAY — Charles Alrid. Negro pin setter in a local bowling alley, was arrested early Monday after he is alleged to hare broken into a weighing machine in front of the Knudsen drug store, North 23rd St., employed in a bakery North 23rd St . mployed in a bakery opposite the drug store, saw Alrid tampering with the machine and call ed police. DesMoines Attorney To Speak In Omaha CAROLINA GOVERNOR ORDERS CHAIN GANcTkROBE Columbia. S. C.—(CNS) Seeking to profit by and escape from the un savory reputation recently hung on Georgia for its chain gang brutalities Governor Blackwood of this State has ordered a prompt investigation into brutality charges recently made against a Greenville County chain gang. “In justice to the State and to Greenville County,” said Charles H. Gerald, the Governor’s secretary “the investigation will be promptly made.” INTERRACIAL GROUP ANNOUNCES CONTEST Washington, (CNS) The Commis i sion on Interracial Cooperation with ’ Headquarters in Atlanta has announc ed the offer of a number of substan i ual cash prizes to be awarded to 1 teachers, schools and pupils partici pating in a simple educational project in history, entitled, “America’s Tenth Man.” ——■ — 1 ■ WHITE WOMAN LEADS NEGRO IN DEMONSTRATION BEFORE EMERGENCY RELIEF STATION Chicago, (CNS) Mary Wernick, a white woman, is under arrest here charged with leading a band of riot ers. mostly Negroes, demonstrating in front of an emergency relief station on the South Side last Thursday. Forty police had been assigned to guard the relief station in anticipa tion of the demonstration. Bricks, and stones soon started to fly. The patrolmen replied with clubs, to dis perse the rioters. Two wragon loads of prisoners were hauled aw^ay. One policeman suffered a fractured kneecap and another was believed to have received a skull fracture. The rest were bruised and cut. Two agitators were sent to the Bridewell Hospital for treatment of bruises. Capt, Mooney, of the police, said the fighting started when Mary Wern. ick. 21, struck him behind the head with an iron bar. PROMINENT YOUNG SOCIETY MATRON DIES Mrs. Genevieve Gaskin, wife of Mr. Richard Gaskin, 2640 Decatur St., died Jauary 27th. 1933 at the Cove nant Hospital. Mrs. Gaskin was very popular in the community as a civic and church worker and was loved by all those who knew her. The funeral was held Monday af ternoon from St. John AME. Church of which she was an active member. Rev. Bryant, the Pastor, preached the sermon and eugolized her “ life ser vice”. Many resolutions were read. Mrs. Venus Starnes and Mrs. Irene Moten were the soloist. She is survived by her husband, mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Elam, and a host of friends. HARLEM HOSPITAL TO BE IN VESTIGATED BT IMPARTIAL PHYSICIANS New York City, (CNS) A group of distinguished physicians including Dr. Dean Lewis, president of the Amer can Medical Association; Dr. Samuel A. Brown, dean of New York Univer. sity Medical School and William Dar aah, dean emeritus of Columbia Uni. verarty Medical School, will investi gate the changes of racial discrimin ation, overcrowding and other unfa, vorable conditions in Harlem Hospit aL VICTIM IDENTIFIES WOMAN AS BANDIT Callie Taylor, Negro, 402 North 14th St., was bound over to district court Friday under $2,500 bond on changes of robbery of A. Rosenfeld, 2516 Jones St.. Wednesday at 9:30 p. m. on Jackson St., between 15th and 16th. Rosenfeld identified her as the woman who met him shortly after he came out of the Rome hotel, pressed something that might have been a gun against his chest and ordered him to hand over his money. Two Youths Arrested On Girl*s Charge Mark Hel linger, N. Y. Columnist Spends A Couple of Hours with Jack Johnson New York City. (CNS) Mark Hel linger the well known New York col umnist writing for his column “Broadways of the World” from Ber lin, Germany, says last week: “I ran into Jack Johnson this morning and we spent a couple of hours together.” “Jack, as I suppose almost every, one knows, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1908 un ' til 1915. He’s in the fifties now, but | he still thinks he can stand up with any of our modern heavyweights for ! as long as they wish. And when I | consider our modern heavyweights, I I think so too. “Jack’s over here with his white wife at the present time, and, if the proposed capital comes through, he expects to open a Jack Johnson gymn asium in Berlin. His plans seemed a trifle indefinite when we talked, | for he spoke vaguely of a huge bar on one floor, a night club on the next and the gymnasium on the third. Spectacular Career “As one of the most famous— or ; infamous—gentlemen that the colored race has produced in America, John j son has had a career that has few ; equals. He has been accused of prac tically every crime on the calendar. “They have said this about the i man. And that. And the other At one time in his career, he was barred from almost every country in the world. The colored race has repud iated his actions time and time a gain. He knows what the inside of a prison looks like. He has admitted that he took part in any number of phony fights, and that he was no more knocked out by Jess Willard than you were. ^ ou may think of him as a scamp and a rogue, but surely you can never take away from him the fact that he has lived hard, dangerously and well. Neither can you take away his sense of humor nor his unfailing optimism. “If you could have seen him as I did this morning, I’m quite certain you would agree with me. I knew there wasn’t any too much dough in the family sock, I know the man was growing older. All my common sense told me that the end of the game couldn’t be too far away And yet—there sat Jack, reciting amusing antecedotes by the carload. His white wife—a decidedly keen-wit ted and pretty woman—sat content edly by his side. People strolled from different directions to get a look at him, and he loved it. His beret perch ed jauntily upon his huge dome. His tan coat, tan gloves, tan suit, tan socks and tan shoes made the perfect combination. Big Dough “He tapped my knee with the long cigarette holder. “ ‘Mark,’ he murmured, don’t you ever go getting the idea that Jack Johnson’s money days are over. Jim. onelly, no! There’s big dough just a. round the corner, brother. Big dough. Could you spare me another cigar ette?’ ^ “What a character! “When I speak of Johnson and his white wife, I trust that I offend no one. It’s a dangerous subject to tackle in America, and I have no in tention of going into it at any length. All I will tell you is that the woman amazed me. I looked for a specific type of woman—and I found instead a wel.read damsel who knew exactly what everything was all about. “Over here, of course neither John son nor his white wife suffer the least embarrassment because of Jacks color. They are welcomed to the best hotels and the best restaurants and. if anything, they receive a little bet ter service than your average guest. Just as Josephine Baker is catered to by the finest Frenchmen in Paris, so is Jack Johnson treated on this side of the border. “With which I now leave this tick lish subject to other and more agile hands. It’s not for me. Not in a daily column at any rate.” SWAP COWS AND COTTON FOK EDUCATION IN DIXIE Atlanta, Ga., (CNS) “From the ground up” is the typical slogan of many southern boys and girls who perforce of conditions are swapping cows and cotton for college educ ation. It is reported that the Negro State Normal School at Elizabeth, N. C. accepts any kind of produce for tuition. Many Southern colleges have ac cepted farm produce for students’ expenses for years, and now it’s quite the thing to swap a shoat, some sweet potatoes and maybe some spinach for an education. It is not unusual at some schools to see a farmer and, his son drive up in a truck or mule wagon loaded with molasses, corn meal and cabbages. Maybe there’s a yearling aboard. The boy is fresh from the cotton furrows. His hair has been trimmed by his mother. His jeans are cut downs from his father’s best suit. The fa ther will have to wear overalls, but his boy will have a chance to “git some 1’armmg’.” Some fathers are like that. The school will accept the produce as tuition for the student. Next month the father will fetch some fresh wa ter ground meal for the school, and the mother will send a pound of her best butter or a j'ar of fig preserves for the teacher who has been good to her boy. SAM CALDWELL ADDRESSES COMMUNITY iCIVIC IMPROVE. MENT CLUB On Monday night, Jan. 30th, the Community Civic Improvement Club met. Mr. Sam Caldwell, president of the Douglas Motor Co., gave a won derful address on the present econ omic condition, his address was well received by all. The membership of this organiz ation was brought up to the number of 301. This is a remarkable record with only two weeks campaigning. The Community Civic Improvement Club is contemplating a dance in the near future for the purpose of rais ing finances to foster civic better ment and fostering jobs for our groups. John B. Horton, Jr., pres. Mrs. Shackelford, sec’y. Harry Le land, Chairman of executive comm. CONVICTED Angelo Herndon GEORGIA INVOKES OLD LAW AND INVITES CRITICISM OF THE WORLD Atlanta, Ga., (CNS) Georgia’s re suscitating of an old moss covered law to facilitate the railroading to prison of the young Cincinnati Ne gro, Angelo Herndon, charged with “incitin/? to insurrection,” again plac es the State of notorious chain gangs, in an unenviable light before the civ ilized world. The old carpet bag law converted into a weapon against Communism provides that a person guilty of at tempting to incite insurrection shall be punished by death or long im prisonment. Declaring the conviction of Hern don, here last week on charges of “inciting to insurrection” as “the type of injustice which indicates we live in a maze of corruption where ever the courts and public sentiment must deal with black people,” a group of ministers representing several colored churches have made public a resolution deploring the long sent ence of from 18 to 20 years given the young man. The resolution points out that “some of the slayers of Dennis Hubert were given shorter sentences for brutal murder—to say nothng of the thous ands of lynchers who roam at will throughout the nation.” The resolu tion opens with, “We as ministers and American citizens desire to trust ouri courts for absolute justice.” Among the ministers signing the resolution were: the Revs. A. F. Bail, ey. pastor, Butler Street CME. church J. A. Martin, editor Sunday school periodicals, CME. Church; C. L. John, son, district superintendent, ME. church; N. J. Crolley, pastor, South Atlanta ME. church; J. N. Peacock, formerly pastor Rush Congregational Church; J. H. Wiggins, presiding el der, Atlanta district, CME. church W. J. Thorpe, ME. church; W. B. Wood, pastor, Fort street ME church J. N. Newton. Griffin district ME. Church; N. T. Bridges, Rome district ME. Church; I. C. Nicholson, West Mitchell CME. church; J. A. Barter Central ME. church. The State charged that Herndon had attempted to incite insurrection and he demanded an immediate trial Literature identified as his advocat ed self-determination of Negroes in the “black belt’’ and the State used that advocacy in its attempt to send the man to his death. Overthrow White Supremacy The State said Communism by ad vocating self-determination for Ne. Irroes sought to overthrow white supremacy in the South, abolish State lines, confiscate property and make the South a Negro republic with an l*wo youths, LeRoy Gilliam, age 15. 3026 Lindsey St., and Earl Welberg, age 17, 3015 Burdette St., were held by Juvenile authorities last week on charges of .improper intimacies with a six year old girl, Loma Imogene Bath of 2208 North 30th St. Reports state that the boys were arrested in the old brick yard at 30th and Lake Streets by Detectives Mat thews and Jenkins after neighbors had complained. The school records of the youngsters are being investi gated and a hearing will be held this morning at 10 o’clock. The doctor said that the girl had not been injur ed. R. C. Price of the NAACP. is in vestigating the case. thority to secede from the union if it so desired. Herndon’s defense said his only crime was his color and argued that some of the literature in his posses sion was considered classical and found in the “great libraries of At lanta.” When the case came to trial, how ever, it took only two hours for a jury to convict Herndon. And with; that case on the records, the State is preparing to go forward with its trial of the six other persons charged with a similar offense. Herndon has filed a motion for a new trial and the International Labor Defense is aiding him. RUBY BATES NOW DENIES AUTHORSHIP OF LETTER OF DENIAL Huntsville. Ala., (CNS) Ruby Bates the 22 year old white textile operative and one of the accusers of the nine youths in the Scottsboro case, has a gain reiterated previous denials that she had written a letter repudiating the testimony given in the trials in April, 1931. “I didn’t write any such letter, and I don’t know who did,” the girl hotly declared when questioned. Chief of Police H. C. Blakemore said the letter in question, wdiich was take from Danny Dundee, a puglist the night of January 5, 1932, had been sent to court officials in Birm ingham, where habeas corpus pro ceedings are pending in behalf of Roy Wright, 14, one of the nine de fendants. The girl signed an affidavit Jan uary 6, 1932, repudiating the letter and declaring if she had signed such a document “it was when I was so drunk I did not know what I was do ing.” She reiterated her testimony against the boys was true. FLORIDA WHITE GIRL SAVES NEGRO BOY’S LIFE—GETS CAREGIE MEDAL Pittsburgh, Pa.( fCNS) Ten year old Evelyn E. Overstreet, of Panama City, Fla., has been awarded a bronze medal of Carnegie here fund com mission. Evelyn saved Willie S. Hides, a 12 year old Negro, much larger and heavier than herself, from drowning at Panama City, July 25, 1931. Ig noring warnings of an older sister, the girl leaped into Saint Andrews bay and saved Willie by having him to on» of her feet while she swam, towing him 20 feet to wadable wa ter. MARYLAND SPINSTER LEAVING $2,000 BEQUEST TO COLORED SERVANTS I — Leonardtown, Md. (CNS) Miss Ida Kirk, the 73 year old spinster of Chap tico, Maryland, who was recently kill ed by a bomb planted in her automo bile, January 6. left among other be quests, $2,000 each to two colored ser vants John and Mary Shade. Iowa Atty. To Speak On Race Relation Program at Northside “Y” The Pubic Affairs Committee of the Northside YWCA, is planning an all day Interracial Institute for Feb ruary 16th. The guest speaker for the day will be Atty. S. Joe Brown of DesMoines, Iowa, who will ad dress a laivre meeting in the evening from the subject, “Recent Develop ments in the Interracial Movement”. Attorney Brown, besides being an outstanding character in his profes sional field, has been aligned for a number of years with National In terracial Conferences, having held the office of President of the DesMoines Interracial Commission for a number of years. The meeting begins at 10:. 30 in the morning with luncheon and dinner sessions. Some of the city’s best thinkers on interracial prob lems will address meetings and lead discussions during the day. All meetings, with the exception of the luncheon and dinner meetings, will be free. The next week’s issue of this paper will carry a more detailed ac count of the day's program. Mrs. lone Hanger, Chairman; Mrs. J. A. Williams, Chairman of Public Af fairs Committee. CHICAGO GETS 1933 MEETING OF NATIONAL BAPTIST CONGRESS Lsuisville, Ky. (CNS) The execu tive board of the National Sunday School and Baptist Young People People Union Congress met here last week and cancelled St. Paul, Minne sota as the place of meeting for the 1933 sessions of the congress Six other places invited the con gress to meet in their cities next June, but after a prolonged discus sion Chicago was finally selected for the next annual meeting of the Young People. Dr. W. H. Jernagin, presi dent of the congress, announces that “the Baptists will put on the greatest demonstration in the history of the denomination, at the World’s Fair in religious education at Chicago next Summer beginning June 21. SEC’Y OF ALABAMA INTER RACIAL COMMISSION CHARGES ATTEMPT TO SOW RACIAL DISCORD Tuskegee, Ala. (CNS) The annual meeting of the Alabama Interracial Commission met here last week in annual session and James D. Burton, its secretary reported an attempt by “sinister alien influences” to sow seeds of discord between white and Negroes. The influences, Burton charged, were working among Alabama Negro es “seemingly with deliberate purpos es” to bring about “discord and sus picion” between the two races. Bur ton handed in his resignation as in terstate secretary of the commission point to a lack of funds to carry on the work. STUDENTS OF AFRICA VISIT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Hampton, Va, (CNS) Last week, Friday, a group of twenty-five white students visited Hampton Institute. The visitors, consising of six men and nineteen women,' representing the leading universities of South Africa, under Miss Helen Donnon, of the Na tional Student's Federation of Amer ica, arrived at Old Point by steam er. They were met by Representatives from Hampton Institute and brought to the school grounds, where break fast was served. Following this the visitors were shown over the school and were permitted to see the classes at work. Luncheon was served by the home economic class and the vis itors were received by Dr. and Mrs. Howe at a reception at the "Mansion house.” The visitors said that they had selected Hampton Institute as the leading Negro institute in America.
