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VOL. VII.— Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, May 27, 1933._Number Fourteen—
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The •exchanges”, releases, and pro
paganda literature receiver during the
week have been exceedingly full of
mass protests, marches, appeals, and
whatnot, all designed to create sym
pathy for, and to extract funds to aid
the causes of the various organiz
ation* and their momentary com
plaint.
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There is m. writer in America who
is in a better position to understand
the worthiness of attempting to secure
equal rights in the courts of justice
for the black man, particularly in the
south, hut because 1 have lived with
and among prisoners for nearly half
of my life I am also aware of the fact
that the best way for the black man
to he assured of his just rights is for
him to improve his economic standing
generally.
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As a prisoner 1 would rather have
one good strong influential and res
pectable business or professional man
pleading my cause than to have ten
thousand marchers Of course, know
ing something of publicity values,
ill admit that the ten thousand mar
cher* would attract more attention,
create more clamor, etc., which would
subsequently fill the “kitty” with
more nickels and dimes, consecrated
and otherwise, to carry on and fur
ther the spread of pertinent props
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If some organization, legal in scope
aan pol tical in character, and em
bracing all factions were to come into
existence to fight the legal battle of
all prtseoers, regardless of whether
the particular ease would make gov*
publicity or campaign fodder, then
the prisoners themselves, throughout
the country, and their sympathizers,
would contribute regularly to keep
such an organization in sufficient
funds to carry on the work. As mat
ters stand now, all prisoners know
that not one case in a thousand is
given consideration by these protest
enraluxations and then such a case
must be a “natural” for campaign
and publicity purposes.
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Until such an organization, as il
lustrated above, comet into existence,
this writer will save all of his pro
testa and bally boos for the benefit of
creating an interest in helping the
Hegro t« better bis economic stand
ing through the fostering, mainten
ance and general encouragement of
racial enterprises, or the increased
empiojrmnt at racial members in the
white enterprises who will cooperate.
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^ e should organise more protests
aad march* to the doors of Negro en
terprises who naed our help or to the
enterprises of whites who will give
ns employment, and if we would just
expend one-half of the enthusiasm on
such efforts as we do on otherwise
useless and wasteful forms of pro pa
ganda our newspapers would be more
thriving for they would be helping to
build up business and instead of read
ing at Negro bankrupts and failures
we would be reading of Negro suc
cesses who in tarn could wield vastly
more power in righting the wrongs
practiced on the blacks than any a
meunt of protest* or publicity march
es w.11 ever accomplish. Helping the
Negro in Business will be in this
writer’s motto—
“Cab” Calloway To
Appear In Omaha
June 24th
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CAB CALLOWAY
Leader of Famed Cotton
Club Orchestra to Appear
In City
TO CONTINUE WESTERN TOUR
Such tremendous box-office draw
has been demonstrated by Cab Cal
loway and his Cotton Club orchestra
on a tour of the South during the last
two months that Irying Mills, his
manager, has decided to postpone the
return of the band to New York until
fall and to continue its record-break
ing tour in midwestem cities.
An unusual and comprehensive ad
vertising and publicity campaign will
be waged preceding Calloway’s ap
pearances in Iowa, Minnesota, Neb
raska and Missouri by Ned E. Will
iams, exploitation specialist, who has
left New York to go in advance of
the attraction. He will supervise local
advertising and publicity campaigns
and effect special exploitation tieups
in each town. .
Williams is familiar with Callow
ay’s potentiality as a theatre and ball
room draw, having handled his pub
licity from New York for the last
two years. This is the first time that
an intensive ballyhoo on the road has
been put on in advance of an attract
ion of this character. A majority of
the theatres into yrhich the band goes
have had no stage shows for some
time, and the unit carries enough
specialty performers to make up a full
hour show.
Calloway’s middle west itinerary fol
lows: May 22-23. Orpheum Theatre,
Davenport, Iowa; May 24-25-26, Iowa
Theatre, Cedar Rapids. Iowa; May 27
June 2, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapo
lis, Minn.; June 3-9. Orpheum Theatre
SC Paul. Minn.; June 10-13, Orpheum
Theatre, Des Moines, Iowa; June 14.
16, Orpheum Theatre, Sioux City,
Iowa; June 17.23. Orpheum Theatre,
Omaha. Nebr.; June 24-30. Mainstreet
Theatre, Kansas City, Mo.
OHIO REPRESENTATIVE’S BILL
WOULD END UNIVERSITY JIM
CROW’
Columbus. O. May—A bill to a
raend the Ohio laws relative to the
powers of the board of trustees of
Ohio State university so as to pre
vent any race segregation or discrim
ination whatsoever at the school, was
introduced May 15. by Representative
Chester K. Gillspie of Cuyahoga
county (Cleveland). The bill states:
“The board of trustees may adopt
by-laws, rules and regulations for
the government of the university,
provided, however, that no by-law,
rule or regulation based upon the race
color or creed of a student or stu
dents may be adopted. Every student
at the university regardless of race,
color or creed, shall be afforded all
the opportunities of the university
wither they are educational or soc
t
ial.”
Mr. iTllespie’s bill is the direct re
sult of the treatment of Miss Doris
Weaver, Cleveland student at the uni.
versity, who was denied admission to
the home management practice cot
tage on the campus.
HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE HOLDS
MASS MEETING
The Housewives League held an in
teresting meeting at Hillside Presby
terian Church, Sunday at 4 p. m. A
bout 100 persons were present and
listened to addresses by the-men who
had secured their jobs through the
League.
The fact was stressed by Dr. Jones
and Mr. Adams, the President, that
those persons who secure these jdbs
should endeavor as near as possible
to spend some of their earnings with
our merchants. It was also brought
out that more jobs could be secured
at other firms who do business in our
community if the leadership would
but cooperate.
WHITE MAN JAILED FOR RAPE
ATTEMPT ON YOUNG WOMAN
Winston-Salem— Unable to supply
a $1,500 bond Monroe Cox 58-year old
white man is in the Forsyth county
jail awaiting trial for a criminal as.
sault upon a 20 year old colored girl
with intent to commit rape. During
the preliminary hearing it was reveal
ed that Cox had enticed the girl to go
to his home under the guise of having
his wife inspect her for a job as maid.
Upon entering the house the man, ac
cording to the girl’s testimony, drank
liquor and made improper advances.
Judge Thomas W. Watson of the
Forsyth Superior court, after hearing
the evidence ordered Cox held for
trial. He further declared that he
was not going to permit the fact that
the girl was colored and the accused
man was white, to make any differ
ence in the matter of his judgement.
The judge rebuked C. E. Edwards,
white defense attorney for attempt
ing to use unethical practices in the
case. The girl, whose name is being
whithheld to protect her from public
notice, was represented by the law
firm of Williams and Bright, colored
attorneys.
ENTRANCE OF WHITE FAMILY
INTO COMMUNITY PROTESTED
Silver Spring. Md. (CNS) Residents
of Smithville, a small Negro com
munity near Colesville, in Montgom
ery County, are protesting the en
trance of a white family into their
locality.
The Citizens Building and Loan
Association of Silver Spring, hold
ers of a mortgaged property which
was to be sold, had a prospective
white buyer and this has caused the
formal protest to be made.
MID-CITY COMMUNITY CENTER
TO SPONSOR WATER CARNIVAL
AND FIRST ANNUAL FIELD
DAY MEET
The first Field Day Meet will be
given at Carter Lake n Decoration
Day sponsored by the Mid-City Com
munity Center.
There will be three principal at
tractions, namely; The track meet at
1 p. m., A Water Carnival at 2 p. m.,
and baseball at 4 p. m.
There will also be special exhibit
ions. The events begin at 10 a. m.,
Tuesday, May 30th and last until 6
p. m. The awarding of prizes will be
at 3 p. m.
Some of the attractive prizes will
be 5 dresses and 5 suits cleaned and
pressed, 15 passes to the Ritz theatre
and 5 baskets of groceries.
For information call Webster 5020.
Free transportation for children from
the ages of 8 to 14 years, leaving
from 2213 Lake St., at 9 a. m. There
will also be free lemonade.
MORE COMPLAINTS MADE ON
METROPOLITAN LIFE OFFICES
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New York, May—Complaints on
the jim crow offices of the Metropol
itan Life Insurance Company continue
to come to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, 69 Fifth Avenue. A correspond
ent in Florida writes that her aged
mother in Chicago is forced to walk
up four flights of stairs in the 47th
street office of the company on the
souths ide. Offices for white policy
holders are said to be on a lower
! floor. A correspondent writes from
; Stamford. Conn, that her mother in
the Germantown section of Philadel
i phia is forced to come all the way in
to downtown Philadelphia to trans.
: act business at a special jim crow of
fice. The clerks are said to be dis
courteous and the office not neat.
The complaints have been referred
to K. C. Ringer, superintendent of a.
trencies of the company at the home
office in New York, who last month
wrote the NAACP. that offices of the
company were established for the
‘convenience and best interests” of
the policy holders, and to the local
| branches of the association for inves
tigation and action.
CALIFORNIA WRITER RECOVERS
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Oakland, Calif., May—Mrs. Delilah
Beasley, staff member of the Oakland
Daily Tribune, who has been confin
ed to bed for a number of weeks, is
up and about. Mrs. Beasley, long a
worker for the NAACP., aided mat
erially in the marshalling of public
opinion behind the new CalifornKa
anti-lynching law whcil| passed the
last legislature on May 5. At her re
quest Mr. Wm. F. Knowland, publish
er of the Tribune and F. R. Roberts,
editor of the Los Anlgeles Age-Dis
patch, introduced the bill on January
27th.
SCOTTSBORO CASES ATTRACT
ING ATTENTION OF ENTIRE
WORLD
Montgomery. Ala. (CNS) The chief
executive of the State of Alabama,
Governor Miller, receives hundreds of
letters every week from all over the
world in relation to the Scottsboro
cases. A couple of youthful stamp col
lectors are finding this a prolific
source of supply.
The two. Miller and Roy Childers,
5 and 7, grandsons of Governor Mil
ler. get an envelope almost every day
from the chief executive filled with
stamps clipped from letters on the
case sent from all over the world.
YOUNGSTON MERCHANT WHO
SOLD TAINTED MEAT IS FINED
$100
Youngston, 0. May—A merchant
on W. Federal Street, in a Negro resi
dential section was found guilty of
selling tainted meat to his customers
and especially of filling relief food
orders with bad meat and was fined
$100 and costs here this week. He
was hailed into court by the Young
ston branch of the NAACP., of which
J. Maynard Dickerson is president.
Jones to Represent School
In National Music Contest
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Son of Rev. F. P. Jones Wins
Music Honors
Thomas H. Phillips Jones
Thomas H. Phillips Jones, son of
Rev. and Mrs. F. P. Jones was rated
as Superior in the annual Music con
test of the State of Nebraska, which
was held at Kearney, Nebr., May 5,
6. Thomas received his grade school
education in the public schools of
Keokuk. Iowa, where he was born,
and at Excelsior Springs, Mo. He
entered Western Baptist College in
1930 and later transfered to Central
High of Omaha, when he moved here
with his parents last year. While
in Excelsior Spring he studied violin
under Madam Marvel deVoll Fell.
Following is a writeup from the
Omaha World Herald:—
Young Negro Student at Central
IN ins High Rating for His Voice
One of the two contestants who
won superior ratings in the baritone
division of the Nebraska state music
contest at Kearney, is Thomas Jones,
Negro, 16-year old 11-B student at
Central High.
Competing against 16 other stu
dents, Thomas and a Hastings High
school pupil were the only particip
ants to be judged “superior.” He is
the son of Rev. and Mrs. F. P. Jones,
2422 Ohio Streets. His father is pas
tor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
A member of the a cappella choir
at Central, Thomas had never had
voice training until coming to Cen
tral. Now he belongs to a voice class
which meets each morning before
school, under the direction of Mrs.
Carol M. Pitts. He sings in the choir
at his father’s church, and recently
was guest singer at Benson Baptist
and Trinity Baptist Churches.
A Violinist Too.
Although ar. accomplished violinist,
Thomas plans to specialize in voice
and plans to take such a course at
Fiske university. Nashville, Tenn.
upon graduating from high school.
May 26, at the annual spring con
cert of the Central High a cappella
choir and the combined glee clubs,
consisting of about five hundred
voices, Thomas is to be soloist in the
Negro spiritual, “Go Down, Moses.”
He will also be Central High baritone
representative in the 1934 national
music contest at Chicago.
TO GIVE RECEPTION, HONORING
THOMAS JONES
The Educational Committee of the
Omaha Urban League and their pa
trons will give a reception honoring
Thomas Jones, recent winner in the
Baritone Division of the Nebraska
State Music Contest, which was held
in Kearney. The reception will be
held at the Omaha Urban League and
will feature as part of the program
some of Omaha’s leading musical tal
ent.
VICTORIA PRICE, SCOTTSBORO
CASE WITNESS, MISSING
NOW LOCATED
Huntsville, Ala., (CNS) Victoria
Price, the principal witness iin the
Scottsboro casefc, reported missing,
has been located—visiting relatives in
nearby Tennessee.
Chamber of Commere Sponsor
Campaign to Create Jobs
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Here is the official RENOVIZING emblem, under which the Chamber
of Commerce will conduct a mighty campaign to stimulate building, repair
work, painting, modernization, yard beautification and similar jobs.
CRITICS LAUD VOICE OF NEGRO
BARITONE
Richmond, Va., (CNS) Frank
Roane, a native of this city, gave his
first recital here May 7, and com
petent critics who attended the recit
al were surprised at the quality of
his voice and the excellence of his
Italiaiu.and German. Roane’s offer
ings included “Ombra Mai Fu”,
“Handel; "Dio Possente,” Gaunod;
“It Is Enough,” from Mendelssol
ohn’s “Elijah,” and several spirituals.
He plans to continue his studies and
teach voice in New York. His voice
is said to equal in quality and in con
trol to that of any Negro singer that
has appeared in recital here.
Roane has been accompanist and
organist at the Fifth Street Baptist
Church for several years, and has
studied voice under one of Richmond’s
best teachers for the past year.
CITIZENS OPPOSE JUDGE
Decatur, 111., May—Many citizens
of this city are campaigning against
Judge J. S. Baldwin, who seeks a su
preme court post, because of his
prejudiced handling of the murder
trial of Hazel Johnson, a colored man
whose innocence was strongly in
dicated by the evidence, but was con
victed in Judge Baldwin’s court. The
fight is being led by the local NAA..
CP.
NEW JERSEY TO PICK CHAMP
ION ORATORS MAY 26th
Plainfield. N. J. May—New Jersey
will select its champion high orator
in the annual NAACP. competition
here Friday night, May 26, at the
Hubbard schol auditorium. Thirteen
i branches of the association from over
the state have entered contestants
and Governor A. Harry Moore has
promised to be present to award the
medals to the winners.
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Dr. Lennox |
On the Job j
January 31, 1933.
A. Callan,
Pullman Company,
General Managej,
19th and Mason -
City,
Dear Sir:
Knowing that the Colored citizens
are 5supporters of all public en
terprises of this city, and are entitl
ed to 5*6% of the emplyoment, the
Omaha Working Men’s Commissioners
by making investigations of our pro
rata of employment with different
concerns have endeavored to help the
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With all the frevor of a war-time
crusade, more than 2,000 workers are
mobilizing under the banner of the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce, to
take the field next week in a frontal
attack on unemployment through the
medium of a RENOVIZE OMAHA
campaign. The workers will make a
double house to house canvass in an
effort to get renovizing jobs started
on residential and business proper
ties.
The 2,000 RENOVIZERS will em
phasize the advantages of work at
present low prices and the virtual
certainty of an increase in material
and labor costs.
Kirk Griggs, chairman of the RE
NOVIZE OMAHA campaign, has
formed an executive committee head
led by Mayor Roy N. Towl, and J. E.
Davidson, with the latter acting as
chairman. Others on the executive
committee include George Brandeis,
Dale Clark, Walter Pierpoint, Louis
B. Tobin, Paul Martin, Henry Doorly,
Alvin Johnson and Thomas B. Cole
man.
An advisory committee of sixty
three, embracing virtually every sec
tion, class and creed in the city, will
also assist.
The ^stppng burst of enthusiasm
which greeted the first announcement
of the Chamber’s RENOVIZING
plans continued throughout the stren
uous week of preliminary organisation
More than two hundred members of
the Omaha Builders Exchange rallied
at the Chamber last Friday night and
enlisted in the RENOVIZING army.
Dr. H. L. Karrer, president of the
North Omaha Club, promptly volun
teered the services of the 2800 mem
bers of the club. The Benson Comm
ercial Club swung into line with as
surances of active support. Heads
of twenty local improvement clubs
met at a dinner in the Chamber of
Commerce Monday night. The Omaha
Advertising Club took over the task
of organizing publicity for the RE
NOVIZING campaign, which, it is
planned, will be the most thoroughly
advertised venture in Omaha since the
war. Tuesday noon, the Omaha Auto
Trade Association, and the local chap
ter of the American Institute of Ar
chitects, met to plan cooperation.
Scores of other organizations also
flocked to the RENOVIZING colors.
APPOINTED SPECIAL AGENT
J. Harvey Kerns, Executive Secre
tary of the Omaha Urban League has
recently been appointed Special A
gent in the Employment Service of
the United States Department of La
bor. The appointment is for a period
of one year. Mr. Kerns’ appointment
to this post will be a decided advan
tage in his efforts to secure larger
opportunities of employment for Ne
groes in Nebraska. Aside from being
an authorized agent of the govern
ment on any federal project, employ
ing men, it will place the Leaigue in
direct touch with federal improve
ments in this district.
Hear Paul F. Good, Atty. General of Nebr., Speak Sunday, June 4th; Auspices of N.A.A.C.P.