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JUDGE ~LE GIVES POLICY “s 10LYS *' ^orioe" 1 , *,.W *•» 1 The Only Paper of Its 0“hl Caide Kind West of & Missouri River 1 == = V'‘z' *ZZ - . ' P"181**. Nebraska, Saturday, June 24,1933 —Number Eighteen— ■ j Tune In ■— j 5 "DIGESTING | v ><i NEWS" \ f _.f 1 ^ i ) BROADCAST!.! X / Every Week froTQ ttis Columr J f By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL ? <Vsy^y^ » WRITING FROM CHICAGO! Heretofore my “digesting" has been . done from a prison cell. No longer is that necessary. I find myself, through no effort of mine, but at! through the kindness of Harry FT Pace, president of the Supreme Lib. erty life Insurance Company, in a second floor office in their home of fice building. I look out the window on the “Avenue"—and see Hfe as it passes. I remain in the office and “di gest” th news that comes to me through many papers, releases and personal letters. Life is wonderful and I’m grateful to be alive. The building in which I am located is a virtual bee-hive of Negro busin ess, affording direct daily employ ment to about one hundred in the van iou* offices and stores, and seven or eight hundred more in the field. The building is owned by Negroes and in it can be found every form of racial enterprise. And from my scant obser vation of its tenants there are but two firms that I shall be reluctant to patronize—one is the beauty parlor and the other is the undertaker. Yru are wondering how I got to Chi-rago? By bus, my friends, by bus I «*ten wondered how the buses could transport people so cheaply but after riding from Jaclfson. Michigan, to Chicago, 1 am wondering no more. In fact. I congratulate myself that I ac. I tually got here. 'Nuff said! But may be I was on the wrong bus line. How ever. to anyone seeking cheap trans. portation I can recommend the bus from experience. On the bus was a colored porter and another colored fellow who was "dead heading" to Chicago. If :t had »>t been for the "dead head” we nev. er would have reached Chicago in the •ame bus we left ia I asked the reg. nlar porter what was wrong wits the bus to which he replied. “O’ this isn't our regular bus. Our regular bus is br-.ke down, the extra bus got lost and this was the only bus left ” What a bus! Our first trouble came before reach ing Battle Creek. Having to wait there an hour or so for “adjusmens” I strolled around the city. I visited with Lawyer John R Golden, who. some of my readers will remember, ray writing about sometime ago when he was the first colored man in Battle Creek to run for a City Commissior. ership. While there I met Dr. Evans, dentist, and if I had of known how long the bus would have been laid up for “adjustments" I could have riven the Doctor a little dental job. However. I was anxious to get to Chi. r»go. so back to the bus station I went. After waitiiyr there a half hour or so our lawyer friend entered the station with a very charming young !» it whom he introduced as Mis? KVancea Catkins, his former secre. tar> and who is slated for a govern mental job at Lansing the first of July, so I learned confidentially. 1 inalK the dead.head” managed to get the motor of the bus runring and for his pay he announced he »xs L “riding” to Chicago And thank hetv. p ens that he did, although he did more working than riding. That bus had more trouble than a cat has kittens, but thanks to the colored “dead-head” he always managed to get the “dura” thing running again. When we got Square Deal Grocers Hold Banquet Otto Mason, Haywood Bascom Get Jail Sentence « in Chicago every took up a collection for the “dead-head”. I didn’t know the a p’s name but 1 heartily recom mend him as a necessary adjunct to all run down busses. Now that you know where I am lo ated and how I got here I promise you s< me up-to-date “ditesting” in this column from now on. MRS. H. GREENFIELD REPORTED IMPROVING Mr-. Hiram Greenfield, 1005 North 49th Ave.f who was operated on at the Methodist Hospital for ruptured appendix and gall stones is reported doing as nicely as could be expected at this time. VIRGINIA JUDGE CALLS NEGRO FOR GRAND JURY SERVICE ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 24— For the first time in the history of this city a colored man, Lucius Gaines, has been called as a member of the grand jury. Judge William P. Wools on Monday called Gaine after he had been told by Charles H. Houston, at torney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, and J. Bryon Hopkins of this city that the question of unconstitutional indictment would be raised if Ne’roes were excluded from the jury panel in the case about to be tried. Without waiting for the attorney to file their papers. Judge Woolls called a new grand jury with a Negro on it. This is the identical point raised by the N. A. A. C. P. in its fight on the attempt of Virginia to extradite George Crawford from Boston to Middleburg, Va., for trial for murder. The N. A. A. C. P. attorneys in the Crawford case contend that Crawford is illegally and unconstitutionally in dicted because Negroes were barred from the grand jury which indicted him. In the case here in Alexandria, a colored man, Lloyd Wade, of New V ork. is being held for manslaughter arising out of an automobile accident June 4 here in which a white man was killed. Wade’s attorneys, Mr. Hopkins and W. Butts of this city consulted with Mr. Houston, who has been active in Crawford case, and Messrs. Hous ton and Hopkins obtained from Judge Woolls a statement that he never con sidered N«*rroes for jury service. The attorneys then served notice they would raise the constitutional ques tion and the judge acted immediately without waiting for formal legal action. E F. Hoffman, clerk of the court, stated that the names of 20 colored persons would be added to the regular jury list within the next few days by the jury commissioners. RACE MAN TO GET U. S. POSI. TION Mr. Charles L. Newman. Berkeley first man west of the Rockies, receiv ed a notice from the fearless warrior Major A. V. Dalrymple, Prohibition Director, at Washington, D. C., to re port there at once for duty. Mr. and Mrs. Newman will leave Friday. June 16th, via the Panama Canal to make Washington their home for an indef inite period. Mr. Newman who is president of the United Progressive Democrats, was the first race Democrat to come out in the open in the 1932 campaign and notify Northern California that he was for the new deal. To Attend Convention Mrs. Emma Avant, President of the Emat Evans Chapter AW Mothers and Mrs. Estelle Saunders, state Historian of the Amercan War Mothers, left Tuesday. June 20th for the convention to be held in Lincoln, Nebraska at the Lincoln Hotel. . ~ JUDGE NEBLE GIVES JAIL SEN TENCES TO POLICY WRITERS — On Saturdy evning, June 17th l)e j tectives Birch, Rose. Rogers, Morten I sen, Edwards and Neelson raided a ! policy headquarters located at 1829% North 24th St. The evidence found on the premis. l es was: One Victor adding machine, a cigar box containing duplicates, three boxes of carbon paper, one box containing lottery sheets, tabs ir. pad and letters, a can of purple ink, pa per sack containing sheet of rules, box of membership cards, small books lottery pads, a small press, a small letter file, a large book of names and addresses and a quantity of money wrappers. Those taken to the station were Otto Mason, 2036 Parker St., who was booked on the charge of keep-ins: a disorderly house and operating a | lottery wheel. The other writers and j workers taken were: Charles Newby 2024 Burt St., Presley Gamble. 2903 Charles St., Arthur Watson, 2624 Caldwell St., Willie Hays, 5014 So. 26th St., Louie Williams, 1814‘4 N 24th St., Julius Johnson. 2436 Park er, Joe Stevens, 1010 So. 13th St. Haywood Bascom. 2719 Lake St [ Wm. Lawson, £005 N. 20th St., Char' iles Damerson, 2612 Parker St., Metz iMarrion. 2318 Palvels Ave.. Ira Bur loss, 1614 Izard St., Miles Dixon, 2889 Ohio St., Fannie Jimmesen, 1911 Izard St:, Emma Oats, 1006 Grove St i Alberta Brown, 2636 Parker St., Enu erson Green. 2426 Caldwell St, Louis Knox, 2(11 Burdette St., Laura Green 1824 North 22nd St, and Verce Thom as, 2432 Decatur St. They were tried and found guilty by Judge Neble and sentenced to from five to ten days in jail. POLICE COMMISSIONER MYERS SAYS, “SQUARE DEAL TO ALL IS HIS MOTTO Omaha Guide Acting Editor Holds Interview with Police Commissioner Myers We had the pleasure of being intro, duced to Police Commisioner Myers and Mrs. Alice A. Holman. On our call to the police station, we met a very fine, high, strong, positive, clean cut Police Commissioner, Mr. Frank Myers. Commissioner Myers complimented the fine group of police officers he was working with and said that he had no friends to favor or no enemies to punish. He said he did not care what the past record was of a police officer for he appreciated the fact that they had been working under a handicap and that he was looking for sendee from the police force and that his job was to take politics out of the police department. The Editor asked the Commissioner did he consider the new position ex lieutenant Harry Buford had been placed in. a promotion or demotion. His answer was sharp, positive and to the point. “I consider Harry Buford the best car driver in the city of Omaha. I think h|'s the best fitted in the de partment for the position I have him on now.” Mr. Myers stated that when he came to the police station as police commisioner, he found too many gen erals and not enough privates. What we want is to put these men where they can a service to the community. The Editor asked the Commission er, “What have you for me to tell the people out North?” Again, we got the same quick, a. lert answer to the point, from the Commissioner, “Mr. Galloway, just tell the people out North that all they I have to do to get along with the po Prominent Figures In Coming Nat’INAACP. Conference I ■! Hull mill /,i J. E. Spingarn, president of the N. A. A. C. P.f donor of the Spingarn medal, awarded annually for dis tinguished achievements. Miss Mary White Ovington, one of the founders of the N. A. A. C. P., author, lecturer, former chairman of the board of directors, and at present national treasurer. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. ine of the founders of the N. A. A. C. P„ scholar, lecturer, traveler, and editor »f The Crisis. Walter White, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., investigator of more than fifty race riots and lynchings, author Rope and Faggot,” an exhaustive stury of lynching. Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, of Pitts, burgh. Pa., regional field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. and director of membership campaigns Dean William Pickens, Traveling Lecturer and at present Field Secre tary of the NAACP. EMBREE TO PRESENT SPINGARN MEDAL AT N. A. A. C. P. CONFERENCE NEW YORK, June 24—Edwin R. Embree, presient of the Rosenwald fund and member of the Spingarn medal award committee, will formally present the nineteenth medal to Max Yergan, Y M C A., secretary in South Africa, at the night mass meet ing July 1 of the 24th annual confer ence of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Chicago. Other speakers at that meeting, which will be held in the Ebenezer Baptist church, 4501 Vincennes ave nue, will be Miss Marion Cuthbert of New York City, member of the staff of the national boar, Y. W. C. A., whe will speak on “Honesty in Race Re lations;” Mrs. Addie W. Hunton, New York, of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, who will pay a brief personal tribute to Mr. Yergan; and Mr. Yergan, who is expected to tell something of his work in interracial relations in the difficult and ultra-prejudiced section of South (Continued on Page 2) lice is to do the right thing and they won’t have any trouble with our de partment whatsoever. All we want is no law violators. If they should be weak enough to break the law, they can suffer the consequence for we ful ly expect to protect life and property in our city.” We are glad to state to our read ers that we believe Commissioner Myers is a square shooter and will make a record at the police station if he continues his present attitude that has never been made in Omaha and will be appreciated by the public at large. SCOTT3BORO BOYS FLOGGED, TORTURED IN JAIL BY GUARDS ILD. RAISES MASS PROTEST TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES New York—A series of fiendish cruelities have been resorted to by Birmingham prison, guards to break the spirit and wreck the health of the nine Scottsboro boys They are brutally flogged almost daily, are kept in a small cell and not permitted to see visitors or even com municate with the outside world. Ev ery trick and threats are used to pre vent any intimation of the ill treat ment from leaking out. This information reached the nat ional office of the International Labor Defense today. (Friday). Immediate demand that this lawless vicious attack on the nine Negro boys be stopped at once and the guards guilty of these violent attacks on the youths be removed and punished were made in a telegram to the warden of the prison by Frank Spector, assist ant national secretary of the ILD. The telegram follows: “Learn prison guards torture flog otherwise brutally mistreat Scottsboro boys confine Birmingham jail. Inter national Labor Defense demands you immediately order vicious illegal at tacks these nine innocent boys stopp ed. Demand remove punish guards guilty of these inhuman cruelities. Holding you responsible well being, health lives of these boys ” A similar demand was sent to Gov. ernor B. M. Miller of Alabama. Spector also instructed General George W. Chamlee, chief of the ILD. Scottsboro legal defense corps to make an immediate demand he be al lowed to visit the boys and for a ces sation of the brutalities. At the same time, all ILD. districts and branches, liberal organizations, trade unions and others were called upon to rush telegrams of protest to Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama, and to the warden of the jail at Birm ingham. News of vicious persecution of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys was re vealed as preparations are under wav for arguments on a motion for a new trial June 22 on behalf of Haywood Patterson, convicted and sentenced to death again after his recent Decatur. Ala., retrial. Judge Janies E. Horton, who presided over the retrial which resulted in the lynch-verdict, will hear the arguments at Athens, Ala. The next day, at Decatur, Judge B. L. Malone, is scheduled to conduct juvenile court hearings in the case of Roy Wright and Eugene Williams, the two youngest of the Scottsboro boys. These proceedings will take place at Decatur, N. A. A. C. P. ASKS JOBS FOR NEGROES UNDER 3.BILLION RECOVERY ACT WASHINGTON, D. C., Jun 24—A fair shar of jobs and relief to be made available under the 3-billion.dollar in. dustria recovery act was asked for the suffering Negro workers of the coun try of General Hugh S. Johnson, di rector of the huge program today by Walter White, secretary of the N. 4. A. C. P., who was in Washington for a series of conferences. “Negro Americans constitute one, tenth of population of the United States, but because of the prejudice of labor unions, employers and the pub lic the Negro unemployed number four times the Negro proportion of the population in many cites ” declared Mr. White. The NAACP. secretary asked also that qualified Negroes who have first hand information of the acute needs of the colored population, be placed in administrative positions. The director of the national recovery pro BIG BANQUET HELD AT PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH The Square Deal Stores, House Wives’ League and the Business and Profesional Men’s League sponsored the largest event that has been given in the history of Omaha in the form of a free banquet last Thursday even, ing at Pilgrim Baptist Church. At this banquet more than 700 guests attended and were graciously served. The menu consisted of veal loaf, hot biscuits, rolls, fresh tomato and hard boiled egg salad, macaroni salad, mashed potatoes, milk, cocoa malt, lemonade jello with whipped cream and cake. These organizations are putting forth a strong fight in the interest of the Negro group as far as giving your dollar justice wherver it is spent. If you spend your dollar in some business .house "be sure in re turn you are not only getting your value’s worth in cents, but will also be buying your child a job and est ablishing racial independence Here the organizations were happy to present on their program such speakers and supporters as Dr. A. L. Hawkins, principle speaker, who un falteringly maintains that in order to raise the Negro standard we must first capitalize within our group. With Mr. J. H. Kerns of the Urban League and Miss R. Taylor of the YWCA, deliberating on the saving of Negro youth for reconstruction and then two of the younger 2roup in the persons of Mr. Julian McPherson and Miss Mary Jones, who are seeking to find their own in our race. Among the others were Rev. Banks and Dr. W. Jones. As guest artist, Mr. Thom as Jones favored the gathering with an unusual vocal solo. These organizations are doing work in their own set field and have se cured jobs now where six years ago a Negro would not even be considered They have the faith that the public will believe and work with the fidelity of a true Catholic to soTve our prob lems of injustice. Following up this program. Dr. A L. Hawkins appointed Speakers from the Business and Professional Men's League to make five minute talks in every church in the city of Omaha. This will reach more than 3,000 peo! pie through this channel. Perhaps, never before in the history o* Omaha’ Jias such a constructive program been set forth and the men behind this program pledge ^o carry through to successful end. n gram hopes to see five million persons re-employed within the next 90 days. JEFF SMITH VACATIONING IN OMAHA Jeff Smith, an ex.Omahan and the former world’s greatest comet solo ist and first trumpeter in Desdunes band, is in the city for a two month’s vacation. He is stopping at 2025 Wil lis Avenue. N. A. A. C. P. PROTESTS LYNCH ING OF TENNESSEE WHITES NEW YORK June 24—A protect against the lynching of two white men by a mob at Huntsville, Tenn., June 8 and a request that the lynchers be caught and punished was sent to Governor Hill McAllister by Roy Wil kins, assistant secretary of the Nat ional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People last week. WHITE. HOUSTON, LOVETT ON VIRGINIA TOUR FOR CRAWFORD PETERSBURG, Va., June 24— Charles H. Houston and Edward P. Lovett of Washington and Walter White of N. York spoke here tonight on their tour of Virginia explaining the Crawford extradition case and the program of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. Other cities on the tour are: Rich mond, Norfolk, Roanoke and Hampton. "SUfcSS'K PAROLE GIRL” “AIR HOSTESS” RITZ Theatre, Sun. & Mon. June 25, 26