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> - —■ **•*,;“ I.» The Only Paper of Rs The Omaha Guide Kind West of tKe Missouri River Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, April 22, 1933. ; Number Nine—. Omaha, May 1st A A A A /\ /\ /% ^ ^ a. _ I Tune In — | “DI6ESTIN61 )nie NEWS" f BROA nCASTI.l » Every Week from ttis Column By CLIFFORD C. WTCHELL? LOOKING AROUND! • • • Now that Mayor Murphy of De troit can be addressed as Governor General of the Phillipines, the colored travelers will, no doubt, find it much more attractive to cross the Pacific than the -Atlantic. • • • Apparently, all factional differenc es have been ironed out and the Vic tory Life Insurance Company will continue to operate as an independent concern, after a re-organization and a capital adjustment have been made/ Thus, a structure has been saved for the race that will provide employ ment for hundreds of our men and women. • • * Out of the Scottsboro mess the name of one attorney is being for ever placed on a pedestal as far as colored readers are concerned. Who will ever forget, Samuel C. Leibo witt? • • * O. Wendell Shaw. 1026 tk Mt. Ver non Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, writes in to announce that he is able to as sist any aspiring race writer in the preparation and disposition of their manuscripts. (This information should please those writers who want, ed to contact a colored literary a. **nt.) • • • Laurence J. W. Hayes, of Wash, iigrton. D. C. writing in a recent is sue of the Washington Tribune says that he is the only colored person writing a weekly column for a white publication. Maybe, he means the only colored person in Washington, D. C. so doing? • • • A word of praise for little “Jimmy Lu Valle, star track man out in Cali fornia. Over two yean ago I started compiling data on his accomplish ments. That was when he was a sen ior at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles, and before he won the Dunn gold medal. A little later on it look, ed as though his track career was over, due to serious illness, operations and toe trouble. In spite of all his dif ficulties ho now turns up in college as the most remarkable track “find” of the season. • • • The spring weather is bringing out quite a f«w writers who have been hibernating during the winter months and incidentally giving a new spring appearanc« to some of our news sheets. Bill Donaldson is livening up the Detroit Peoples News with his Stage. Screen and Radio page. Mau rice Dancer, the new theatrical editor of the Courier “Ted Yatc’s “Around New York Town” is in the Buffalo Star. •••And with Floyd G. Snel. son's second week with the Buffalo Star we find the four attractive Pope sisters on the front page. “‘Ralph Lester, apparently of Philadelphia, or Elmwood, is seen in the papers all over the country. • • • Liquid Assets are increasing! Sev eral of our papers have already an. nexed some good “beer” advertise, ments. (If our advertising managers don’t know ft, there it to be a pub. licity war waged between the soft drink manufacturers and the brew, •n.) Drink that statement down. Garden Contest Gets Under Way! I .— .... ■■ THOMAS R. HOCUTT « .... i-t Lgggg^g^gga CECIL A. McCOY Left to right are shown Thomas R. Hocutt, and Atty. Cecil A. Mc Coy, both of Durham N. Carolina. Mr. Hocutt was denied recently a mandamus to enable him to enter the pharmacy course at the University of North Carolina. Messrs. McCoy an Pearson (not shown) were his attor neys in the case and were assisted by Win. Hastie of Washington DC. sent to Durham by the NAACP. The case will be appealed. This is the first step by the NAACP. to secure professional training for Negroes in the south at the expense of the state. As a result of the Hocutt action, the North Carolina legislature is consid ering a bill to pay the tuition of Ne gro students in professional schools outside the State. “With Our... Law Makers” THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE by O. J. BURCKHARDT - f. This writing will say to you that the house passed that awful beer bill today 58 to 39 without the emergency clause. Friends to beer held the house in a deadlock for 10 minutes on the call of the house hoping to put on the emergency clause which the house failed to do. The hope of the beer friends now rests in the senate to put on the emergency clause. To do that they must have 22 votes out of 33. While the friends of the beer bill are anxious for the senate to take up the bill Wednesday but the finance bill will have preference and the finance committee. I think will report their bill for action Wednesday morning. When the beer bill came up this morn ing any member had a right to object to its consideration. The first action was by Tremmor Cone of Valley to send it back to the committee of the whole for a specific amendment. Both sides listened to Cone’s explanation then voted down his motion. Then Speaker O’Malley said shall the bill pass with the emergency clause. Rep. Vance <xf Milford rose to object. O’Gana, a strong beer advocate, join ed him. Both pointed out that the bill had not been on the board long e nough but the chair ruled that no ob jection was made when the bill was taken under consideration. O’Gana’s appeal was beaten by a tie vote of 35-35. Then W. H. Meirs of Lincoln backed by Frank Klopping of Wayne moved for a reconsideration. The mo tion secured a majority of 49.28, but lacked the 51 votes required for re consideration. so the famous beer bill came to a final vote. The speaker rang the gong, lights flashed on the electric voting machine. The beer leaders were disappointed for they had only 55 votes when they needed 67, but they immediately moved for a call of the house and the total reached 59. The beer advocates said, “If we can get 60 votes, look for a landslide." But the landslide did not come. My personal conviction is that the beer bill will pass the senate, but I doubt it carrying the emergency clause, if so it will be close. The senators are getting tired and want to get through and rather than make a delay they may not vote either way. Both the senate and the house are fighting with short arms now. They want to get away by the 1st of May. Many bills will go to the slaughter pen in the closing few days. It is now a great question, in my mind, whether or not the Governor will sign said beer bill which if he don’t will mean a further delay. In the next writing, I will say when we hope to close. Other bills of importance have been dealt with in both house and senate. Bryan salary bill was approved by the house. The big fight aside from the beer bill will be the budget or finance bill. FEDERAL FORESTRY RECRUITS SENT TO SEPARATE CAMPS New York, April—Although no discrimination has been found thus far in the recruiting of men to serve in the federal reforestation camps, the colored men are being sent to separate camps. The Cincinnati, Phil adelphia and Chicago branches of the NAACP. followed up personally the enlistment of the men in their cities and report no discrimination against Negroes. In New York, the NAACP. natonal office found that Negroes were being enlisted proportionately, but that whites were being sent to Fort Slocum, near New Rochelle, N. Y. and Negroes were being sent to Camp Dix, New Jersey. The separa tion is believed due to the fact that the War department has charge of the enlistment ^nd the War depart ment policy is segregation from top to bottom in everything it handles. NAACP. /PROTEST SAVES JOBS IN NEW HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING New York, April 14—Acting upon the direct information from high sources that an order had been issu ed that no Negroes were to be em ployed in any capacity in the newly completed House office building in Washington, the NAACP. protested to Anning S. Prall, chairman of the committee on patronage of the dem ocratic party, and to President Roosevelt. Mr. Prall telegraphed Wal ter M hite April 13 denying that any such order had bqpn issued. The wire continued: “employment will be giv en here as in the old building to those having the qualifications and where vacancies exist.” NEW OFFICIALS OF LOCAL BRANCH NAACP. ELECTED The New officials of the local branch NAACP. are as follows: R. C. Price, President; Rev. P. M. Harris 1st vice President; Atty Wm. Ritchie, Jr., 2nd vice President; Thelma Marie Hancock, Secretary; H. L. Anderson, Treasurer. Chamber of Commerce to Sponsor Annual Yard, Garden Contest MASTER OF THE TRUMPET LOUIS ARMSTRONG, the world’s greatest cornetists and his fourteen piece band, will play at a dance at the Dreamland, Monday, May 1st. A record breaking crowd is expected, as this is Armstrong’s first appear ance in Omaha. -—-— I NABS WOMAN WHO MURDERED BABY DAUGHTER Washington,—Acting on a tip po lice raided a house in southwest Washington last week and apprehend ed Mrs. Ella Holdman. fugitive slay er of her 5 year old daughter whose body was found in a sewer trap on March 5. Crying, laughing, scream ing and cursing, alternately, the for mer Greensboro woman defied police When shown a photograph of her murdered daughter, the woman laugh ed hysterically. She told police she took the child to a dump lot and killed her with a brick, then threw the body in the 'Swwer trap. When asked concerning the child’s whereabouts shortly after its disappearance and before she her self vanished Mrs. Holdman told of sending the child to its (father who was living in Greensboro. BILLY PIERCE DEAD; MAKER OF ARTISTS New York,—Billy Pierce, teacher of many of the mostly-known dancers of America and Europe, died Tuesday in a hospital here a victim of influ enza. Mr. Pierce who was known as “Harlem’s ambassador to Broad way” was the creator of the Charles ton, the Black Bottom and the Sugar Foot Stump. The dancing instructor was born in Purcelville, Va., 42 years ago. He was educated there and at Stover’s college at Harper’s Ferry. Before en tering the stage show producing game Billy was managing editor of the Washington Dispatch and the Chi cago Defender. The London.England producer, Charles Cochrane, secured the services of the instructor last year to train his famous stage show “Evergreen.” The remains have been carried to the small Virginia town for burial. The sixth annual Omaha Yard and Garden contest now is under way, according to Mrs. Sadie Johnston, chairman of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce Women’s Division commit tee which is sponsoring the contest. Prizes will be offered for the most attractive homes and commercial sit es in the city, with competition in six different classes. Winners are enter ed in the National Yard and Garden Contest at the close of the summer, by photograph. Omaha homes have won several prizes in the national contest in the past. Classes will be as follows: 1. Owners do all of their own gard ening and landscaping, with following sub-divisions; (a) Unrestricted as to size of home. (b) Small homes. (c) Urban League contest. 2. Owners employ a part-time gar dener. 3. Owners employ full time gardener. 4. Commercial sites. Homes and sites entered are given a preliminary judging early in the summer. Final judging takes place a bout July 1 or July 15, depending up on the weather, and improvement be tween the two judging dates has a bearing on final scoring. Members of various garden clubs assist with the judging, and-a group of experts is selected for tbe final survey. There is no charge for entering the contest. Simply fill out and mail the coupon printed below to the Women’s Division of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Woodmen of the World building: Yard and Garden Contest ENTRY BLANK (Sign and mail to the Women’s Div ision, Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Woodmen of the World Building.) Please enter my name in the 1933 Omaha Yard and Garden Contest. Name . Address .. Telephone . CLASS 1. Do all my own work ( ) 2. Have part-time gardener ( ) 3. Hire full-time gardenr ( ) 4. Commercial site ( ) NEGRO HEALTH WEEK PARADE As a part of Negro Health Week Program, a parade in which sixty youngsters participated' was held Saturday from the North Side YWCA which sponsored the campaign, up to Twenty-fourth Street and over to the Ritz Theatre. The children there were shown a health movie, and stunts and first aid demonstrations by Boy Scout Troop No. 79. The parade was led by Motorcycle escorts Carl Zich and Chance J. Wil son, followed by the Scout Troop. Then came girls dressed as Red Cross nurses, and last, the Urban League Brigade. The children carried ban ners with the advice, “Brush your teeth twice a day”. “Get Plenty of Sunshine”, “Eat Vegetables with ev ery Meal”, etc. During the week each YWCA, club held a discussion with Health Experts on health problems. SIGHT FAILING “BLACK BILL” SHOOTS SELF New York,—Followers of sports were shocked here by the attempted suicide Saturday afternoon of Black Bill, one time contender for the world’s flyweight boxing title and stablemate of Kid Chocolate. The 27 year old pugilist, whose real name is Elabio Valdes, had been brooding over his failing eyesight, which resulted from ring encounters. Black Bill shot himself in the left side of the abdomen after his wife. Frances had gone out to shop. He was conveyed to Harlem Hospital in a serious condition. Was On Brink fo Title The tragic failure of the fighter’s eyesight, which forced him from the ring and left him almost destitute, just as he was on the brink of winning the world’s title, occurred two years ago, It was reported that an oppon ent in a Cuban ring smeared his glove in resin and got the powder into his eye, effecting them disastrously. MID CITY COMMUNITY CENTER ACTIVITIES The Mid City Community Center is now open to all. This Center is open ed from 10:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. each day. The Library is also open in the evening from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. with an ass>stant in charge. Open House Saturday evening, April 14th, the Mid-City Community Center held Open House for all young people. More than 100 guests enjoyed ping pong, bridge games and dancing. Dental Clinic The Dental Clinic will be open on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 12 p. m. to 1 p. m. Gymnasium Classes Girls: Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday from 3:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. Boys: Monday, Wednesday and Fri day from 3:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. Boys over 16: 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. Business Girls: Tuesday from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. Men’s classes: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. NATION EDITORIAL HITS SCOTTSBORO PREJUDICE New York, April—An editorial in the April 19th issue of The Nation, headed, “Albama Justice,” scores the race prejudice exhibited in and out of the courtroom at Decatur, After citing the now famous remark of Wfade Wright about “Jew money from New York” and the statement of Attorney General Knight that .no matter how bad Victoria Price was "she didn't live with niggers,v the editorial says “Surely no human be ing, although he might be guilty of the worst crime, should be forced to submit his right to live to the pas.| sions that were flaunted inside and outside the courtroom at Decatur.” NAACP. TO RAISE FUNDS FOR DEFENSE OF SCOTTSBORO BOYS New York, April—The Machinery of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, con sisting of 327 branches scattered from coast to coast, swum? into ac tion this week behind the Scottsboro case. The NAACP. on April 12 announc ed that although it still differed with the International Labor Defense on certain methods of procedure and on political philosophy, it would put those difference!? in the background and use all its energy in raising funds for the defense. The International Labor Defense, through choice of the boys and their guardians, is in full control of the case and the NAACP. has nothing to say about procedure and seeks con trol of the case, the association’s statement said, CRAWFORD EXTRADITION CASE NOW SET FOR APRIL 24th Boston, Mass, April—The hearing in the George Crawford extradition case has been set for April 24. Vir ginia authorities are seeking to re turn Crawford to Middleburg, Va., to stand trial there on a charge of murdering on January 13, 1932, Mrs. Agnes B. Usley, society sportswom an, and her maid, Crawford’s extradi tion is being fought by attorneys act ing for the NAACP. CAUSE AND EFFECT by R. A. ADAMS (for the Literary Service Bureau) Do others seem to you unkind— Seem all algainst you to combine, To block your way, and hinder you, In all you may essay to do? If this appears without a cause. It would be wise for you to pause, And your own self sincerely weigh— Your words and actions to assay. Yourself seen as by others viewed, Perhaps you'd find their attitude, When, shall the truth be fully known, Was but reflection of your own. • Seeing yourself as others see, Perhaps you’d find the truth’ to be, That what you’ve dealt to other men, Was meted unto you, again. February 20, 1933. Governor C. W. Bryan, Chief Executive’s Office, Lincoln, Nebraska. Dear Governor Bryan: Knowing your long seige of illness was perhaps due to the heavy duties of our state that you have had to per. form, the citizens of Nebraska are' greatly elated to know you are con valescing. We are indeed glad physicians well versed in the art of medicine were able to reach your case and you have again resumed your duties to mani fest your loyalty to those who have made it possible that you should hold the office as chief executive of our state. “Loyalty to your friends, belief, ancestry, promise and purpose.” Loy alty is courage and devotion, which was greatly characterized when many affairs of state were so ably taken care of by you from your sick room. Citizens of Nebraska have great confidence in you to the extent they realize you will work in their behalf in every way possible that will prove beneficial to them and our state. Recently we have read with grave apprehension the bills, is passed, that pill prove disastrous to Omaha’s — 11 . .. ■ "".r# school system, and greatly retro grade the progress of education. The state of Nebraska has always maintained a high standard regard ing education of our boys and girls and the parents and citizens of Ne braska's Metropolitan city knows that you will do all in your power to help save Omaha’s schools. Thanking you very much for what ever consideration you may give to this matter, I am, Respectfully yours, Dr. G. B. Lennox, President Omaha Working Men's Commis. sionera, 2122 N. 24th Street. February 24, 1933 Dr. G. B. Lennox, President, • Omaha Working Men’s Commissioners 2122 North 24th St., Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Sir: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th and I want to thank you for your very kind re marks about the Governor. I will be glad to call to his attention your whole letter. * Very truly yours, H. B. Porterfield, Sec’y to the Governor.
