SC TTSBO 0 yrpn at I ^ If, eopie Read EMJ ill The Omaha Guide The Only Paper of ks ' Kind West of the \ Missouri River i !Tune In ■— | “0I6€ST1NG | '' Die NEWS" l i1 ( i'( 11 BROADCAST!.! { (Every Week from tils Column J By CLIFFORD^. HERE AND THERE. • • • In the preparation of this weekly “Digesting ths News’* release I sm assisted by the activ* cooperation of nearly one hundred publishers who rend me their “exchanges’* regularly. On many *n occasion a reader has called n\y sttent-on to something specific in some “exchange” that I have failed to comment on, directly or indirectly, and for the benefit of sll leaders 1 will briefly explain why, 9 9 • * My releases are always prepared on Sunday and fully four.fifths of the weekly “exchanges” received do not arrive until Monday night—entirely too late to pick up a comment on some item the following Sunday. Perhaps some day I can arrange my product ion schedule on a more timely basis but until then I a*k the readers and the publishers t<> overlook these seeming omissions. Up to the present writing the Am sterdam News of New York is the only current paper in which I read of the return of Max Yergan. the 1932 Spngarn Medalist from Africa. That medal is quite attractive. • • • Floyd G. Snelson, late of Courier fame, is now the managing editor of the Buffalo Star. So, the “Harlem limited—Broadway Bound”, is now running out of Buffalo, instead of Pittsburgh • • • Negro journalism receives a credit ia the manner of its reporting the Soottsboro trial. Special representa tive*: telegraph service. And th« ILD. ANP, and CNS, are sending out many extra special bulletins. • * • romrm man Oscar DePriest ia not only the representative for the first Illinois district but for all Afro-Am ericans Recently I wanted some spec, ific information that only a Congres mats or Senator could well secure. I wrote to our Congressman, and in a few days the desired information was at hand. • • • I know that J- A. Rogers, author of “World's Greatest Men of African Descent” is in America, hut unless he is using a nom de plume I am un able to locate his connection with any particular paper. (This is for the benefit of that Ohio reader who scanted this particular information.) • • • Although I was ate in reading it, Walter Wilson’s “Chain Gangs and ProfiU" in the April Harper’s Mag azine should be read by every race reader, interested in the subject. And how well do I personally know the truth of the conditions he describes? • • • Out of all the publications 1 read none give me the real inside facts on the demerits of advertised products, as do the monthly bulletins of the Consumer’* Research Society, of New York. • • • The recent New York Age editor ial on the Tuskegee Institute Sav ings Bank is worthy of being “Re printed” in all our papers. I owe that particular bank a debt and although, legally. I’ve paid it, I still recognize the moral obligation involved. 500At Opening of Mid-City Community Center Pennsylvania Citizens Fight Theatre Jim Crowism Jury Sentences Boy To Death After Deliberating For 21 Hours Eight Others to Face Jury Decatur, Ala., April 9—Death in the electric chair! This was the verdict of the all white jury in the case of Haywood I Patterson 19 year old Negro boy. i The verdict was rendered at 10:50 ! this morning, after the jury had been 1 “deliberating” the case for eighteen and one half hours. At 9:5b a. m.. while only a half a dozen reporters, and the bailiff were in the courtroom, three loud knocks were heard on the door of the jury room. ABOUT 20 MINUTES EARLIER LOUD LAUGHTER HAD BEEN HEARD ISSUING FROM BEHIND THE LOCKED JURY-ROOM DOORS The first ballot of the jur^ was e leven for death and one for life im | prssonment, thus accounting (for the many hours the jury stayed out. Judge Horton huried here from his home in Athens 12 miles away, to re j ceive the report of the jury. A hush fell over the court room as the 1-00 spectators, who had arrived in the meantime, heard the verdict read: ' - I “We. the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged and fix his punish ment as death.” Several of the jurymen had gnns i>n their faces as they filed into the | jury box. As soon as the the verdict was read Judge Horton thanked the jury, and j soldiers with fixed bayonets rushed Patterson back to the jail. The boy’s head drooped and tears formed in his eyes as the verdict was read. Patterson had been brought in at 10:30 by six soldiers with automatic rifles on their shoulders. He smiled bravely, but his lips trembled in an ticipation of the verdict. To Be Sentenced April 17 Kansmen and their supporters rushed gleefully from the courtroom, shout ing “Sentenced to death! Sentenced to tfeath!” Formal sentence upon Paterson will be passed by Judge Horton on April 17. when the re-trial of Charlie Weems, another of the innocent de fendants, begins. Newspapermen made a rush for the ! telegraph and telephone wires as the verdict was read. Lynchers Ready Last night, with lynch mobs gird ing for action in the event of an ac quittal, all the Negro boys but Pat > terson were suddenly taken to the Birmingham county jail. It was to this jail that the boys had been 1 brought after ILD. attorneys had forced their removal from the death cells in Kilby prison. Samuel S. Lelbowitz, chief trial lawyer of the defense, denounced the verdict as the "working of bigots.” He added that he would “fight this case to my dying days.” Gen. George W. Chamlee, chief de fense counsel, served notice of an immediate appeal. “We will carry it straight back to Washington. It will be back in Ala bama in another year or two.” Obviously jubilant, Prosecutor Knight, who engineered the present frame-up trial, said: “I have no comment to make.” Fight Begins Anew Brodsky declared that he had been threatened three times since Wade Wright. Morgan county solicitor had made his speech to the jury, and that fiery crosses had been burned by klan men in Huntsville and Jackson coun ties. When the trial of Charles Weems begins, the defense will again move for the dismissal of the indictment on the gTound that Negroes were bar red not only from the grand jury which returned the indictments, but that they were also excluded from the petit jury which convicted the inno cent boys at the original frame.up trial. TWO YEAR HEADACHE GONE o -o Lester Carter Lester Carter, companion of Ruby Bates, on hobo trip, who last week testified for the Scottsboro defense in Decatur court, telling of frame-up plans in Scottsboro jail, and telling story of trip which tallied in all de tails with testimony of Ruby Bates, who repudiated her original charges of ‘rape” later in the afternoon of the same day. “I had a headache and my consc ience bothered me for two years, un til I got a chance to tell the truth to day,” Carter said. SCOTTSBORO MEETING Scottsboro Mass Meeting will be held Monday, April 17th at 7:30 p. vn. at Bethel Baptist Church, 29th and T Sts. Speeches will be delivered by Charles Edward Gray.A. B. and oth ers. The meeting will be under the auspices of the Internatior. Labor De fense. MARY WHITE OVINGTON AT SESSION OF SCOTTSBORO TRIAL New York, April 7—The dramatic session of the famous Scottsboro trial on April 6 when Ruby Bates ap peared and denied the nine boys had ever attacked her was attended by Mary White Ovirteton, one of the founders of the NAACP. Miss Ovin gton is on a tour of the southern branches of the association. She wir ed Walter White: “Carter and Ruby Bates fine witneses under grilling cross examination—poverty on trial and whatever the verdict poverty with its hunger will be convicted.” Bihn ingham. April—Arrangements have been made here for several lib eral white groups to hear Mary White Ovington, one of the founders and present treasurer of the NAACP. during her visit to the Birmingham branch of the association April 11 13. She will speak at a mass meeting April 11 and will be the guest of Col ored and white and mixed groups during the next two days. Her visit is arousing keen interest among whites and Negroes and the newspa pers have been generous with advance publicity. NEW LINCOLN MARKET OPENS The Lincoln Market has moved to its new location at 24th and Franklin Sts. This has added another oppor tunity .for Colored employment. Mrs. Louise Scott, who is active in frater nal and civic affairs of our city has been employed to be at the new store. They also have 3 other Colored em ployees, namely; George Edwards, Frost Christopherson and “Shef” Ed wards. The management states that their aim will be to give the public the very best merchandise at the low est possible prices. The store has been greatly enlarged and is now one of the most spacious markets in the mid-city district. Look for Adv. of meat prices on page two. AN EASTER VISION by R. A. Adams (For the Literary Service Bureau) Hanging, bleeding, groaning, crying, I behold the Saviour dying, Suff’ring bitterest agony, Man from sin and death to free. I behold Him gently sleeping, While grim soldiers watch are keep ing, Lest before the dawn of day, Friends should steal His corpse a way. Now. I view angels descending, At the sepulchre low bending, Touch the stone, and, as He said, Christ arises from the dead. While anew the world rejoices, With glad hearts and cheerful voices, Let the nations rise and sing, , Praise unto our KING! JEWS GRATEFUL FOR SYM PATHY IN HITLER PERS’CUTION New York, April—Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, honorary president of the American Jewish Congress, the grat i itude of the Jewish people for the | sympathy of Negro Americans in the hour of Hitler persecution of Jews in Germany, in a letter to Walter White secretary of the '‘NAACR “I know, and have indeed felt, that the deepest sympathy of you and your people is with us in our hour of sorrow.” the famous liberal rabbi writes. Mr. White had written Mr. Wise: “Though it is a truism to make such a statement, yet the truth can never be too frequently or too strongly em phasized that bigotry and race hatred against any racial group work dis astrously against all minority groups, to say nothing of the deteriorating effect upon those who practice such intolerance. Twelve million American Negroes look with horror upon the physical violence and proscription which are being inflicted upon Jews in Germany, having learned in our own United States what is means to suffer.” SENATOR WAGNER NAMED HEAD OF LEVEE PROBE COMMITTEE Washington. D. C. April—Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York was named chairman of the special sen ate committee to investigate labor conditions in the Mississippi river levee camps by Vice President Garn er yesterday. Other members of the committee are Senator Gerald P. Nye republican. North Dakota and Sen ator Hubert D. Stephens, democrat, of Mississippi. The resolution author izing the committee, which was in troduced by Senator Wagner, was ,“passed in the closing days of the last congress, but the appointments were held up until the new session opened. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its branches throughout the country pressed for a senate investigation af ter a report made to it last summer by Miss Helen Boardman who was sent down into the camps by the na tional office. She charged wages for Negroes were about ten cents an hour; hat work days were 12 and 14 hours in length; that sanitary condi tions were bad; that brutality was practiced in some of the camps; and that camp commissaries overcharged het men as much as 500 per cent on some articles; and that foremen loan ed money to workers at 25 per cent interest rates. WAGNER SURE TO GIVE FAIR DEAL, DECLARES NAACP. New York, April—The Negro cit izens of the country can be assured that the senate committee named to investigation conditions in the levee camps will examine fairly into all evidence of alleged virtual slavery, declared the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People here today. The association, which has made two investigations into the camps in the delta and which asked Senator Wagner to introduce a resolution for a senate investigation, pointed out that Senator Wlagner has long been an outspoken, fearless advocate of fairness to tie Negro. He was the only senator who dared to speak plainly on the Judge Parker nomin ation in 1930 bringing the color ques tion, the real issue in the Parker fight, out on the senate floor. Sen ator Nye is one of the band of liberal in the senate and is known to be op en-minded and inclined to sympathize with minority groups. He is a foe of wage slavery and exploitation. Sen ator Stephens has not expressed him self on the levee situation, but it is believed that he is desirous of gett ing at the truth of the conditions particularly in his home state, since a decent wage for the thousands of Negroes employed on the levees would mean more money spent with Mississippi merchants in the cities and towns alonlg the river. No date has been set for the taking of testimony. The last congress au thorized only $1,000 for the expenses of the probe, although Senator Wag ner had asked for $10,000. SOUTHERN COMMISSION ON LYNCHING ANNOUNCES .FINAL REPORT IN BOOK FORM Atlanta, Ga., April—The Southern Commission on the Study of Lynch ing, headed by George Fort Milton, editor of the Chatanooga News, today announced the publication of its fin al report in the form of a 500 page book just from the University of N. Carolina Press. Entitled “The Tragedy of Lynch ing,” this volume is the result of two years of painstaking investigation an study of lynching phenomena, and lays bare to the public a vast amount of authentic information on this sub ject never before available. It sur veys the general lynching situation over a period of forty years, presents exhaustive case studies of each of the twenty-one lynchings of 1930, and al so includes studies of a number of cases in which threatened lynchings were averted. _ • CHORUS SINGS IN CALHOUN The Hillside Presbyterian Church Choir accompanied by members of the Community Chorus, sang “The Seven Last Words” by DuBois last Friday night at the Fort Calhoun Presbyter ian Church under the direction of Rev. J. S. Williams. The soloists were: Mrs. Ruth Johnson, Mrs. Ruth Broadus, Mrs. Irefte Morton and Mr. H. L. Preston. Miss Edrose Willis played the piano. FREE GARDEN INSTITUTE HELD A large group of people attended the Garden Institute held at the North Side “Y”, on Thursday. April 6th, under the auspices of the Family Welfare Association. Mr. E. A. Hop. pert, Horticulturist, School of Agri culture, University of Nebraska, gave a practical talk on gardening. Many questions concerning flowers and vegetables were answered. WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB OF HOW. ARD UNI. TO BE PRESENTED Washington, D. C., April—The Wo. men’s Glee Club of Howard Univers. ity will be presented in the lecture, recital series at 8:15 Tuesday even ing in Andrew Rankin Chapel. In addition to selections by group. Miss Louise Burge will sing “Dei Erl Ronig” by Schubert; Miss Ethyl Wise, Mrs. Ruth Logan, and Miss Burge will sing “Evening Fair” by Debussy, arranged by Coleman; and Miss Ethyl Wise will sing “Ah fors’e lui che l’anima” from Traviata by Verdi. ROSS DRUG CO. BURGLARIZED The Ross Drug Store at 2124 N. 24th ! Street was broken into Monday night, A drawer from the cash register was smashed and the two locks on the en trance door were sprung. A small amount of change in pennies was tak en. Detectives were notified. Phila. Builds Test Case Against Jim Crowism Philadelphia, Pa., April— Theatr es in this city which have gradually adopted rules, contrary to law, barr. ing Negroes from seats on the main floor of practically all movie houses, are to be challenged in a law suit to be brought by the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP. The branch believes it has an "airtight” case. Last week, I. Max Martin, secretarj of the branch, and George J. Evans, jr. purchased tickets at the Stanton theatre which entitled them to sit anywhere in the house. They were directed to the balcony and a man who claimed to be the mgr. refused ab solutely to seat them on the main floor. Their witness was a light-skin i ned colored man. Paul Binford, dental I student at the University of Pennsyl [ vania. Mr. Binford purchased a tick et and was admitted to the main floor. He lingered near the door and heard all the argument. Herbert F. Millen, an attorney and president of the local branch, has declared war a. gainst jim crowism in the “City of Brotherly Love” and has filed suit a gainst the theatre corporation under Pennsylvania laws, which forbid se gregation. ORDINANCE BARRING JOB JIM CROW SOUGHT BY SAN DIEGO CITIZENS San Diego, Calif., April—A city or dinance which would bar discrimin ation in employment on city public works is being sought here by the San Diego branch of the NAACP. The branch is also sppnsoring a bet ter baby campaign and health clinic during April in charge of Dr. F. C. Calvert, the only colored physician in the city. “With Our... Law Makers by OJ. BUROKHARDT The Nebraska Legislature began on another busy week with some of the largest problems before them that ever confronted a body of lawmakers. The repeal of the 18th amendment, the beer bill and the general appropr iation bill which was sent over from the house to the senate with a million dollar cut below Bryan’s original fig ures. Senator Callan (Dem.) of O Dell, Chairman of the Finance Com mittee, called his committee into con sultation at once. In the meantime, senate was dis cussing th« economy bill as to uni form mileage fee proposed which the house had passed. The senate left un changed it’s previous anions of mak. ing an exemption in the favor of the sheriffs 8c a mile against 5c left to other affairs, but it remained against the amendment to reduce the per diem of game commission member from $10 to $7 and to abolish the $2500 office of coroner physician in r» i i ugiaa vjwumjr. The coroner’s physician section of the bill was restored over objection of Senator Bullock of McCook, (Dem. He demanded that Douglas County be cut out and Senator Sam Rathwell of Douglas County, (Dem.) said that Doukrlas County should be left alone and the vote stood 17-8. The house wrestled with the income tax proposal, heard their farm mort gage moratorium criticized and be gan work on a court commission bill. The house tackled three measures Monday without definite actions ex cept on another farm relief bill. The irrigation power project is threatened with certain amendments that its friends claim means death to the measure. This irrigation bill has had a rocky voyage all along and it would not surprise me to see it take a nose dive on the third reading. Tuesday afternoon, there were evi dences of efficient work on the part of friends of the bill and the Chase amendment striking the petition sec tion was defeated 43 to 19 after the members from Douglas had been suc cessful in the morning with all of his Many Northsiders Visit Center on Opening Night Wm. Pickens Present (by A. M. Galloway) About 500 people, attended the grand opening of the Mid-City Com munity Center located at 23rd and Lake St., Tuesday evening. As you entered the door you were cordially greeted and shown over the building by a special escort. The basement has been marked off for basketball, volley ball and other games that young people enjoy play ing. On the first floor is located the library and the auditorium. The nur. sery, in which young children may be left under the special care of a train ed nurse, and the dental and medical clinics are on the second floor. These clinics are fully equipped and ready for use. After being escorted over the building, the guests were seated in the auditorium that was beautiful' with large bouquets of cut flowers and fresh palms. Simon Harrold’s orchestra very willingly donated their services for the evening and their melodious music was a rare treat. Mr. Sherman of Edholm and Sherman .Laundry Company, who is chairman (of the Executive Board, gave a short talk thanking the people who had so kindly helped put this project over. Me also mtro<|Uce