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_ VOL. VII.—_. _Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, August 12,1933_Number Twenty-Five.
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\ By CLIFFORD C. 1ITCHELL *
Serving my Renders!
The greatest thrill 1 receive in con.
J ■■cting thi- < lumn is in the receipt
if letters from old friends and new
•r-» in which an opportunity is giv.
en me to U of some email service to
them. '
S “Chick” Coleman, one of the
few colored newspapermen who made
a special trip to Jackson Prison to
visit me when I was there, writes
“_ Well once again I’m out of
the game I am now devoting my en_
re time to the promotion of the Nat.
: >nal Negro Business and National
Housewives League conventions which
will meet tr Durham on August 23rd.
24th and 25th In mustering every
avenue of publicity I’m calling upon
you to give the conventions a send,
iff in your valuable syndicated col.
jams Please stress the fact that
business men and women can rest on
refreshing lawns of private homes
and sach otner features as to attract
.Merest and attendance I know
you’ll look out for me. Mr Spaulding
and I dwcii*wed at 1 ngth your article
»n hanking yesterday There is a
possibility IT! see you after the con.
ventiom._"
There you are. “Chick " Your letter
v quoted verbatim and I hope it will
help your cause. Well do 1 know the
truth about those beautiful and re.
freshing lawns for I have enjoyed
many of them myself along Fayette,
ville Street People really live in
private homes in Durham Another
thing. “Chick." I’m flattered to know
that a mar. of Mr Spaulding’s pro.
minence in the business world should
be reading my weekly messages mut'e1
less discussing them.
And at your meetings, “Chick,”
why don’t you suggest the idea that
Negro Business find some practical
method of continuing the excellent
service that James A Jackson has
buih up in Washington Surely, what
he has built up is too valuable to be
permitted to disintegrate? Negro
Business, combined, could easily use
his serekos, his records, and his con.
tacts m forming some sort of a cen.
trained trade bureau at Washington.
Think it over; talk it over; and then
ACT.
J E Kennaid, Monrovia, Califor.
nia. write- that he has been follow.
;ag my article for years in the
Philadelphia Tribune, a paper he has
read for over thirty years, and wants
to know what papers carry my com.
piete line of weekly articles For
your benefit, Mr Kennard, I would
explain that I turn oat six and seven
features a week but no one paper,
with the single excption of the Gary
American. 1819 Washington Street,
Gary, Indiana, carry all of my fea.
tores regularly each week. There are,
however, any number of the papers
that carry as many as four of my
features regularly each week.
Some weeks ago in this column I
commented upon the Elva Correspond
ence Club. Box 373. Alhambra, Cali,
forma, who wanted to supply me with
a widow, rich or otherwise — but at
'.asst willing. Now they have sent me
a list of them I am going to pick
at the names of those living in Chi.
eago and just for the fun of it see
what they look like. And what a news
story that'll make after I have inter,
viewed a few of them
Here at late I have been recom.
mending acquaintances to various
' • rr.s who are looking for re_
sponsible representatives “Book”
Lawtcn of Clay Center, Kansas,
write*; “-Thanks for the many
recommendations you have given me
is a salt s man. I am giving to each of
I your recommendations my earnest
conditionally on their merit I am
building up a real “Supply Service.”
of which your efforts n my behalf
belongs a major portion of any sue.
cesa it might attain in the future...”
Waiter, Alleged To Have
Been Forced Back To Job
At Point of Gun
It is alleged that Robert Rucker,
who was employed as a waiter at the
Olive Crest Inn, was $6.00 short when
checking the receipts he had taken in
for the evening while serving. It is
further alleged that Rucker says that
he had placed the check for the
amount on the desk of the manager,
hut the manager failed to find it
Sometime atterward Dot Hawthorne
and Forrester Scott met Rucker and
asked him to go back to the Inn to
w.rk Rucker refused saying he
didn’t ever want to go there again.
He was asked then to telephone to
the manager and explain to him about
the shortage Rucker consented and
got into the tftir with Haw'thome and
Scott It s alleged that Hawthorne
pointed a revolver at him after he
was in the car and the two of them
took him to the Inn Rucker called
his father in law Mr Charles A.
Burnett, 2510 Corby to come for him.,
Mr Burnett and Mr William John.,
son went to the Inn for him. On
reaching the place an argument was
staged between Johnson and Haw.
thorne, and Hawthorne as it is alleged
struck Johnson on the back of the
head with a pistol
Hawthorne and. Johnson renewed
the fight a day or two afterwards on:
24th and Burdette Streets and were!
arrested and booked for disturbing
the peace. Hawthorne forfeited a
S15.00 bond. Johnson was released.
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Roosevelt Appoints
Texas Negro Student
To West Point
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SAN ANTONIO—Charles Y Tho_
mas of this city has been designated
by President Roosevelt as one of those
to take the entrance examinations at
the Vest Point military academy
next March.
Thomas is a graduate of the Grant
junior high school here, the Negales
high school of Negales, Ariz., and is
at present a student in Prairie View
college. His father is a master ser_
geant in the finance department of
the regular army and is stationed at
Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Appointment of Thomas was made
by the President under the law re_
quiring the designation for examina.
tion of sons of regular army officers
or enlisted men who desire examina.
tions
If Thomas passes the examinations,
he will become the second Negro in
the academy Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
son of the commandant at Tuskegee
institute, is at present a student at
West Point, having passed the ex_
animations and entered in July, 1932.
Davis went into the academy after
several boys appointed by Congress,
man Oscar DePriest to take examin_
ations both for West Point and An.
napolis had been turned down for
various reasons.
Tk irty w omen Jailed
ky Cleanup Order
Thirty women were arrested on
the streets Thursday night, charged
with vagrancy, in a cleanup ordered
by Acting Police Chief Samardick
In police court Friday morning, 16
were sentenced to 10 days, seven to
five days, three to two, and one to
one day in jail One obtained a con_
tinuance, and two others forfeited 50
dollar bonds Only half a dozen were
able to post bonds Thursday night.
The arrests were made by three
pairs of officers, dressed in civilian
clothes
EARNS $300,000 A DAY;
PAYS YJORKERS 18c HR.
NEW YORK—Andrew Mellon,
Secretary of the Treasury under
Hoover, possesses the enormous per.
sonal fortune of more than two and a
half billion dollars—$2,492,290,443 to
be exact This is the conclusion of
the studies just completed by Harvey
O'Connor to be made public soon in
his book “Mellon’s Millions.”
This estimate of Mellon’s fortune
is based on the most cautious analy.
sis, and represents without a doubt
only the minimum figures Other es_
timates which take into consideration
not only the actual personal posses,
ssions of the Mellon’s but all of the
millions indirectly controlled by them
have appraised the Mellon fortunes
as close to eight billion dollars.
Whatever the estimates, all fin.
ancial authorities agree that the Mel.
!cn fortune is one of the three great,
est private fortunes in the United
States. O'Connor declares that it is
the largest fortune in the country.
O'Connor’s survey also shows that
the colossal investments of the Mel.
lcn yields them a yearly income of
$50,000,000, $300,000 a day, $12,.
500 an hour.
Mellon Company Pays $1.45 a Day to
Women Workers in his Plant
NEW YORK—The workers in the
Mellon Aluminum factories get wages
for the entire year, which are 150
times less than Mellon gets as income
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CHILDREN STARVING, MOTHER
ENDS LIFE
NEW YORK CITY — (CNA)—
Ending her life by jumping from the
roof at 239 West 143rd Street, rather
than see her two children starve, Mrs.
Mary Thomas committed suicide on
Wednesday morning
An investigation revealed that the
woman had undergone a nervous
breakdown due to worry caused by
the economic plight of her home.
The husband, Willard Thomas, stat_
ed that he had been out of employ,
ment for several months and that
they had been denied relief by the
Relief Bureau The mother, unable to
bear the sight of her children dying
from slow starvation coupled with
her own illness and the blunt refusal
of the Harlem hospital to accept her
for treatment became frantic, taking
suicide as the way out.
She is survived by her husband and
two children. The tragedy was dis.
covered by A. Giles organizer of the
Roy Wright Branch of the Intemat.
ional Labor Defense
SENTENCE SLAPPING KILLER TO
CAL. PRISON
VIS ALLA., CCal., August 11—Mrs.
Nancy Yates Wilson convicted of
slapping to death her four.month
old baby Saturday had been denied
probation and sentenced from one to
10 years in San Quentin prison.
Free Groceries
GET YOUR FREE BASKET OF
GROCERIES
The Square Deal Stores will give
away FREE a BUSHEL BASKET of
GROCERIES every Saturday at 6 p.
m , at one of the member stores.
Take your coupon ad exchange it for
your ticket when you make your pur_
chase at one of the following Square
Deal Grocery Companies: Colquitt
Grocery, - 2754 Lake; Voner and
-Houston, 2114 North 24th Street;
Hayden’s Market, 2637 Frankiln St.;
Adams Grocery, 1313 North 26th St.;
Montgomery Grocery, 2531 Lake St.;
Carey’s Naborhood Grocery, 27th and
Grant.
This week’s bushel basket of gro_
ceries will be give away at the
Adams’ Grocery, 1313 North 26th St.
GIRL SLAYER GIVEN SUSPENDED
SENTENCE
NEW YORK — (CNA) — Gladys
Robinson, 21 years old, of 159 South
Seventh Avenue Mt. Vernon, N. Y ,
was given a suspended sentence of
IVi to 15 years, and placed on five
years probation by Judge John B.'
Coyle, in Webster County Court last
Tuesday after pleading guilty to the
charge of second degree manslaugh.
ter
The young woman had stabbed her
20 year old sweetheart, Theodore
Nelson, in the chest with a pocket
knife during a lovers’ quarrel months
ago
According to the testimony of the
girl, Nelson failed to keep his pro.
mise to her of marriage, and was at.
tentive to other young women, which
she resented
It wag such action that caused thfc
altercation, resulting in the death of
the young man. In pronouncing sent,
ence, Judge Coyle said that the case
of the young woman was that of one
who had too much confidence in an
unfaithful lover.
It was reported that she was the
first woman to be freed on a charge
of homicide in Mt Vernon
KilletTby Train
Henry Graham, 52 years, 1837
North 22nd Street, was killed in an
attempt to catch a fast freight train
last Monday, on the Missouri Pacific
R R Belt line His body was cut to
pieces, and was taken to Myers Fun.
eral Home
NR A Officials Consider
Naming Negro Advisor
Nw York, August—The naming of
a Negro adviser and deputy adminis.
trator under the National Recovery
Act is being considered by a number
of NRA officials, according to confi_
dential advices received here this
week by the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
The NAACP. again urged the ap_
pointment of a colored man to the
labor advisory board in letters ad _
dressed to Secretary Frances Perkins
and to each member of the labor ad_
visory board.
Th fact that the steel code, sub_
mitted last week, contained a lower
wage scale for Negro workers was
cited by the NAACP. as reason for
the naming of a colored man to look
after the interests of the Negro wor.
ker. , Miss Perkins made vigorous ob_
jection to the Negro wage scale, but
the NAACP. points out that in the
hurry and bustle to get industry back
on its feet, the Negro worker may not
always have Miss Perkins handy to
plead his cause, and many wage seal,
es based on color will be slipped by.
It is understood that only a very
selected list of less than ten men is
being tentatively considred for the
appointment. If the officials select
a man it is regarded as certain that
the appointment will not be political,
but will name a man recognized as an
expert in economics and Negro prob_
lems. than a half dozen Negro,
es fall into this category, Washing,
ton observers point out.
EXECUTE WRONG MAN
FEAR INNOCENT MAN EXECUT.
ED AS KILLER
L’nnamed Hitch.Hikers Sought to
Verify Puzzling Story.
GASTONIA, N. C., August 11—
Whether Clay Fogleman, executed
Friday for murder, died an innocent
man was a question that remained
unanswered tonight.
Authorities, despite a statement by
the governor that he considered the
report “irresponsible,” sought two
young unidentified white men who
claimed Fogleman did not kill W J.
Carter.
S J. Durham, for 25 years a prac_
ticing attorney here, disclosed today
he had telephoned the governor’s of_
fice Friday morning that two hitch,
hikers, whose names he did not learn,
told him they were eyewitnesses to
Carter’s slaying at his Rockingham
county filling station, and that Fogle,
man was not the murderer.
“I do not mean to say the attorney
who made the report was irrespon.
sible,” the governor said from his
vacation retreat in the mountains,
“but he reported to my secretary that
he had seen two unknown white men,
going to an unknown place in South
Carolina who said they saw Carter
murdered and Fogleman was not pre.
sent.
“We cannot act on such reports.
The case was tried in the court and
appealed to the supreme court. Re.
prieves were grantd and Fogleman’s
attorneys produced every iota of
evidence which they could find in his
favor ”
In a farewell letter, Fogleman
wrote: “I am going to die for some,
thing I didn’t do.”
Levee Contractors To Submit
Code Raising Pay of Laborers
Agent of Contractors Admits Negroes Have Been Working
“About’’ 11 Hours Daily for “Approximately’ 1312c an
Hour; N. A. A. C. P. Asks To Examine Code.
Marines To Be Recall
ed from Haiti
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF |
COLORED WOMEN TO AID NEGRO !
BUSINESS
Dr. Mary F. Waring, newly elected
President to prepare statement of
plans.
By Clifford C. Mitchell
In a telephone conversation with
Dr Mary F Waring, for thirty years
in the public life of the race and
country, the newly elected president
of the National Association of Color_
ed Women, after paying her respects
and thanks to her many supporters,
and particularly lauding the sterling
qualities of her opponent in the race
for the presidency, Mrs Charlotte
Hawkins Brown, included in her plans
for the national association an exten_
sive campaign to aid the Negro in
business
This writer, who is ever seeking
out sources of aid to Negro Business
has secured the promise of a com_
plete statement on the exact methods
Dr Waring proposes to launch in or_
der to awaken the members of the
association on how they can pool the
purchasing power of the house wives
and thus land a most telling blow' on
all things economic When this state_
ment is received the writer will make
special efforts to bring it to the at_
tention of all the readers in the
hundred.odd papers cooperating.
WASHINGTON, D C —An agree,
ment to withdraw the eight hundred
American marines in Haiti within 15
months was made by the American
government today in a treaty with
the island, republic signed by Min.
ister Norman Armour.
The treaty will end the 18_year
occupation of the island by American
forces
American marines first went to
Haiti in 1915, following the revolution
in which President Sam was dragged
from the French legation and torn to
piece* by a mob infuriated by assas.
sination of imprisoned political pri.
soners
NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIA.
TION MEETS IN CHICAGO
August 15th to 18th
The National Medical Association
meets in Chicago, August 15th to 18th
inclusive The National Hospital
Association and the National Asso_
ciation of Graduate Nurses meet here
at the same time.
A very large attendance is anti,
cipated for these association meet,
ings; excellent scientific programs
have been prepared and the new 3
million dollar Greater Provident Hos_
pital will be used to furnish clinics
There will be a number of social
events, but the high point of the
summer will be the banquet of the
National Medical Association, cele_
brating the Twenty Fifth Anniver.
sary of the Journal of the National
Medical Association in the air cooled
grand ball room of the Hotel Sher.
man
This hotel is the home of Ben Bur.
nie of radio fame and the center Chi_
cago’s night life during the Century
of Progress
Over 1,000 invitations have been
sent out to white and colored persons
and this great interracial dinner will
be addressed by Dr. Morris Fishbein,
Editor of the Journal of the Amer.
ican Medical Association on “New
Forms of Medical Practice,” and by
Dr. John A Kenney, editor of the
Journal of the National Medical As.
sociation on “Twenty Five years with
a Negro Medical Association.”
Other speakers will be: Dr E T.
Belsaw, Mobile, Alabama; Dr Har.
riett Marble, Lexington, Kentucky;
Dr W S. Alexander Newark, New
Jersey, and Dr C. V Roman, of
Nashville, Tennessee
At least 1,000 guests are expected
at this affair It will be informal
and probably one of the great,
est events in the whole history of the
National Medical Association. Per.
sons acquainted with the way Chi.
cago does things will not be surprised.
MOTHER TELLS KILLING OF
TWO BABY SONS
JEFFERSON, Ohio, August 11—A
young farm wife today pleaded guilty
to murder of an infant son, after tell,
ing Sheriff Blance that she had. kill,
ed two sons in a year and a half.
She is Mrs Aleeta Fleming, 28?
The father, Mertis Fleming pleaded
not guilty to the same charge The
woman said she killed the children
because her husband “didn't like boy
babies. ”
FORMER ACTRESS HELD ON
ASSAULT
NEW YORK CITY — (CNA)—
Catherine Noisette, 485 Convent Ave_
nue, one time actress of the silver
screen was found guilty, on the
charge of assault, in Special Session
Court last Monday and received sus_
pended sentence of thirty days.
Louise Hillard, the complainant,
Washington, August—The contract,
ors working on the Mississippi river
levees have finally admitted practic.
ally all the charges of exploitation of
Negro labor made by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and have prepared a
code under the National Recovery
Act which will shorten the working
week and aise the pay of workers.
Fred Beneke, agent of the Mississ.
ippi Vally branch of the Associated
General Contractors, said here last
week that a code will be submitted
to General Hugh Johnson. NRA ad.
ministrator, providing for a 50 hour
week for unskilled labor and a min.
imum pay scale of 30 cents an hour.
There are about 30,000 Negro un.
skilled workmen now on the levees.
Beneke admitted that the men
have been working “about” 11 hours
a day for “approximately” $1.50 a
day, or 13% cents an hour.
As a matter of fact, the men have
been working 77 and 84 hours weekly
for many contractors who either work
a seven day week, 11 hours a day or
a seven day week, 12 hours a day.
In some counties in Mississippi, Sun.
day work is prohibited and in them
66 and 72 hour weeks have been work,
ed.
The NAACP. has charged that
Negro workers average 10 cents an
hour “book” wages and actually re.
ceive in cash 5 cents an hour or less.
Beneke is said to have conferred with
Senator Hugh Stephens of Mississ.
ippi and to have told him that all
complaints about labor conditions
will be corrected in the code. Senator
Stephens is one of the three senators
named to investigate conditions on
the levee. Senator Wagner, chair,
man of the committee, is in Europe.
The NAACP. has charged the con.
tractors with starvation pay, long
hours, unsanitary camp conditions,
camp commissary systems which rob
the worekrs by charging exorbitant
prices, and brutality.
A study of the contractors’ code
will be made by the NAACP. in order
to see that all evils are corrected, es_
pecially the camp commissary sys.
terns which often take away one half
the pay of the workers.
“The NAACP. has wired General
Johnson asking the privilege of
studying the code submitted by the
contractors,” said Roy Wilkins, assist
ant secretary, who visited fifteen of
the levee camps last December in the
garb of a laborer. “We do not intend
to let up in our fight until the ex.
ploited black workers get a square
deal from the contractors working fof
the United States government. The
contractors have rushed up with this
code to prevent the senatorial investi.
gation which was sure to reveal the
most shameful conditions of “coolie”
labor on work for the government it.
self. If the code corrects the condi.
tions, well and good; if it does not,
we shall continue to fight.”
charged that the former actress had
struck her on the head with a blunt
instrument during a heated argument
at her home about a month ago
FETCHIT ARRESTED FOR
SPEEDING
NEW YORK — (CNA) — Sfcepin
Fetchit, nationally famous stage and
screen comedian was hailed into traf_
fic court la3t week on a charge of
speeding
He was alleged to have driven his
car at the rate of 42 miles per hour
on Lenox Avenue and taken into cus_
tory by motorcycle patrolman, Sulli_
van
Fetchit, whose real name is Lincoln
Perry was locked up at the 135th
precinct and later arraigned at night
court, where he was released in $25
00 bail for a hearing in traffic court.