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RITZ Theatre Sunday and Monday—James Cag ney in “PICTURE SNATCHER” GIRLS!—Watch your st«p*_ins! Jim my's on the job with his candid cam era-taking pictures no artist would dare to paint—snap shooting his way to fame and fortune. Also “MEN MUST FIGHT”. Juesday, Wednes., Thurs.—Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper in “TO* day WE LIVE”—Can any woman be faithful in the heart of one man and in the arms of--another? Friday, and Saturday—Alison Skip worth in “A LADY’S PROFESSION” —Madame Racketeer is back in a new racket! This time her Larceny is Grand! Also “STRANGERS IN TOWN". NEGRO RHYTHMS AND SPIRIT, I'ALS WILL BE STAGED IN HOLLYWOOD BOWL OVER 84 STATION RADIO HOOK-UP Negro rhythms and spirituals will be featured in the famous Hollywood B«wl over an 84 station radio hook_ up on Saturday, August 19th at 8 p m The program is under the direct ion of Albert Deano and Clarence Muse, noted Negro artist, is to essay the principle role. The entire program is built around Dvoraks New World Symphany. The announcer for this program is Floyd Covington, execu_ tive secretary cf the Los Angels Ur ban League The program to be fea_ tured will establish a new precedent in the field of Negro art and music. Beginning with Afric Rhythms which will consist of melodic inter vals of peculiar successions, African chants and an exhibition of the emo. tionalism of the Afric peoples as shown in their dances The program will shift to the crude rattlers, keep ing time with the mellow sounds of water jars Plantation impressions depicting moonlight, rivers, steam, boats, deltas, swamplands, a whole creation of plantations and levees Men, women, children of the sun, toil ing daily, singing at eventide—South land. O Southland The music will then shift to the happy and carefree reflective where simple folks laugh at OP Man River and dance with aban don A consuihing fanfare of physi. cal gyrations—the Cakewalk An or chestral interlude will follow in which exerpts from the Fourth Movement of the New World sym. phany wiil be given This will be fol lowed by the complete number of River Jordan spirituals In this num_ ber will be heard prayer with a chor us of responses, suggesting a stir, ring antiphonal refrain. Human shad ows move from the River Jordan and the Soul of the Race lingers COLORED GIRL BOOED IN WAL TER WINCHELL MOVIE NEW YORK—A colored girl ap pearing in a movie short featuring Walter Winchell, Broadway column ist. is roundly booed by the audience in the picture, according to Wash ington, D C. movie patrons who have seen the picture The film is called “Beauty on Broadway” and is produced by Universal Pictures. In it various sections of New York City send representative young women to a citywide beauty contest. It is re_ ported that all the girls receive eith. er applause of silence from the aud_ ience in the film, but when “Miss Ilarl m" appears she is booed not ! only by the audience, but by the men acting as judges. A letter has been written both to Mr Winehell and to Uhiversal Pictures by the N A | A C P , deploring the humiliation and ridicule heaped upon the Negro g'rl and through her upon the Negro, race and its women and asking that the scene be deleted The management of the Elk’s Hall wishes to announce that the Cabaret’s attendance is increasing. The best of rder is maintained, and we are open ed on Thursday, Saturday and Sun_ days. The Nay Brothers wish to announce that their engagement will continue indefinitely at the Elk’s Hall, 2422 j Lake Street. The management of the Elk’s Hall wish to state that in relative to some question and misunderstanding raised in relative to our ticket seller that there is no white people in our em ploy The lady in question has been raised in Omaha, and is connected with one of the best colored families in the city of Omaha. Signed: Management of Elk’s Hall. White House Fine Place To Live (Continued from page One) ix years of absence while I was the President in New York, has made my work here a delight.” The wife adds: “To be together again is a godsend.” One Large Family Not only does the companionship of her husband account for the joy found in the work of Mrs McDuffie, but, according to her statement, “the entire working staff here is very agreeable; everyone is like sister and j brother. We feel like one large fam ily.” And what is more essential to enjoyment in work than to have pleasant surroundings, with everyone cheerful and happy? Mrs McDuffie was educated in Atlanta, Georgia where her family moved when she was six years old i She attended the public schools of Atlanta and spent nearly four years! in Morris Brown college. Due to ill health she was forced to withdraw before completing her course. How_ ever her education didn’t end there She secured the services of an instruc tor at an Atlanta college, who gave her private lessons for two years in English and public speaking. With this course completed she turned her attention to dramatic reading and i making public speeches. To supple, ment her work as a dramatic reader, j she served as a maid in the prominent household of Mr and Mrs. Edward H Inman, of Atlanta. Her marriage j 0ga WASHER-IRONER and 2 Drain Tubs & 6950 During August Only Sold on Easy Terms Nebraska Power € Courtesy * Service • Low Sates — * ^ ... —— I. ■ ■ to Valet McDuffie took place in 1912 when he was a barber in Atlanta. Remained in Atlanta When Mr McDuffie went to New York to become Mr Roosevelt’s vaU et, Mrs McDuffie remained in At_ lanta. Tired of being away from his wife, McDuffie requested that she given a job at the White House with him. This the President considered, and today she is one of the several maids in the White House with such duties as supervising the help room.! caring for the rooms occupied by the : President’s grandchildren, who visit: him occasionally; caring for the room of the President’s personal secretary, looking after the beds and keeping the linen changed and mended. In addition to this her work is in. creased as the occasion demands. For instance, when a lady guest comes to the White House, Mrs. McDuffie as_ sists in taking care of her needs; if she wishes some sewing done, some washing, the White House maids will look after it. “The entire work of the staff of maids is more of a personal nature,” said Mrs McDuffie The First Lady According to Mrs McDuffie, con tact with the “Mistress of the House, as Mrs Roosevelt is called, is not made very often. Occasionally Mrs Roosevelt will send for a maid to help her, but usually her personal maid looks after her direct needs. “Though it is seldom necessary, Mrs Roosevelt is a type of mistress that one can easily approach, and we feel free to call on her at any time for assistance,” declared Mrs Me. Duffie. Asked how she personally regarded Mrs Roosevelt as a mistress the reply was: “I think that can be ans wered by saying that Mrs. Roosevelt is loved by all who know her. We love her to the extent that from the moment she enters the home every, one is ‘in the air’ until we know that she has reached her room.” The Bell Rings Mrs. Roosevelt enters the house just as the President does and the same precaution is used. The guard on the outside rings'a bell notifying the next guard that the First Lady is entering and this is relayed con tinuously until her destination is reached. Mr and Mrs McDuffie live to. gether in a pretty suite in the East Wing on the third floor of the White House. Her suite consists of a bath room, parlor and bedroom. Large closets are in the room. One general dining room fs located on the first floor for all the White House force. Three meals are prepared for them a day The dining room is colorfully done in green with dishes to harmon ize with the room. Waiters are fur. nished them so that the meal may be eaten undisturbed and to ward off the heat are two large electric fans. “Oh, we are well cared for with everything arranged for our comfort and convenience,” said Mrs Mc Duffie Breakfast is served them at eight, lunch at twelve, and supper at five A White Dress Mrs. MdDuffie was found at the door wearing a white dress. I was surprised when told that she was fifty.two years old Judging from her appearance, one would think her weighing about 140 pounds, Mrs in her thirties. Robust and healthy, McDuffie possessse ab(Jut the most pleasing personality I have encount ered. Harmonizing with her person, ality is her pleasing disposition In a non.boastful manner, she answered willingly my questions, with an oc_ casional “I’d rather not discuss that.” She regard her position as one where skill, dignity, carefulness and thoroughness should be displayed. Mrs McDuffie is fully capable of fulfilling all of these requirements Full of experience,' well educated, en riched with travel, Mrs McDuffie is an entertaining talker, an ideal wife, companion, maid and lady I am told that her speeches are fine enough to make our best orators “move over,” and if her dynamic appearance, fluent and interesting conversations are a test, I must accede. THANK YOU FATHER! NEW YORK — (ONA) — Father Devine broke? Bologny! “In Fathers house is plenty money and food and drink for all,’* according to Priscilla 7 Grandstand Admission Reduced at the NEBRASKA STATE FAIR ' OPENING day, 25 cents, with no grandstand adm cslon charge. Balance of week, outside gate is 30c and automobiles 23c fcr dayt.me; grandstand. 25c and 5Cc. After C:33 P. M.. adm ssion 23c, automobiles free. Chi dren under 10 admitted free each day. HIGH Sr GTS ©Full program hers* racing be fore grandstand ftenday, Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons. ©Rural School Chorus and Spell ing Contest Tuesday. ©First Nebraska State Fair Horse Show, 5 nights. ©“Diamond P vue” before the grandstara every night. ©Competitive auto races Tues day an, hr.day a.tornoons. ©Free camping grounds. Paul, archangel in Father’s “heaven.” All this in answer to the query as to why 65 year old Mrs. Catherine Edmonson, 309 West 147th Street, had withdrawn the amount of her life's savings, $1800 from the post office. “Father can dig down in his jeans any old day in the week and pull out $1000 bills without nary a crease,” boasted Miss PAUL. “What would he n»ed with $1800 belonging to one of his children?” When reporters called at the home of Mrs. Edmonson Monday morning, they were told she had moved with out leaving any address. -1 ■ — ■" $1600 PURSE TO AUTO RACERS ' — Nebraska State Fair Offers Com petitive Auto Races For First Time Cash prizes totalling $1,600 will be put up for the winners in the Competitive Auto Races, offered for the first time this year at the Nebraska State Fair. In other years automobile race? have been provided by a syndicate that supplied cars and drivers. The drivers were rewarded whether they won or lost. This year all drivers will compete as individuals, and each driver must win his race to win the money. The purse offered will be sure to draw some of the country’s speec demons to the Fair, and will pro vide thrills never before witnesse on the Nebraska Speedway. Thes automobile races will be run c Tuesday and Friday only. COMMUNIST PAPER SCORES MOTON’S BID FOR LOWER WAGES FOR NEGROES BIRMINGHAM. Ala. — (CNA)— Following reports in the Alabama lynch press that Dr Robert R Mot on, head of Tuskegee Institute, had requested General Hugh S Johnson! to set different wage standards for white and Negro workers, the “South_ ern Worker,” Communist newspaper published in the South, sent the fol-; lowing open letter to Dr Moton: The Southern Worker Box 572, Birmingham, Ala. Dr Robert R Moton, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser of July 28 carries on its front page a story to the effect that Montgomery businessmen are “Encouraged” over the report that Dr R R Moton re.1 questd Hugh S Johnson, national administrate | of the N f R A. ad. ministration that it would be to the disadvantage of Negro labor to have a $14.00 minimum wage. The Southern Worker, which is the paper of the white and Negro work, ers and toiling farmers of the South, is addressing this letter to you to discover whether or n°t the state- j ments attributed to you are correct, j and, if so, in what way you justify such action. CODES ALREADY DISCRIMINATE The actual fact is that the indus. trial codes being adopted by the N. R. A. do differentiate in practice be tween white and Negro labor by ex. cepting the lowest—grade jobs from the minimum wage provisions. These lowest grade jobs are those which are forced upon the Negro workers by the employers and by the discriminatory practices of the A. F. of L. unions. The textile code specifically ex empts outside workers and cleaners from the minimum wage provisions. Practically all Negroes in the South, ern Textile industry come under these classifications, as it is a well established practice in the South to employ no Negroes on skilled or semi-skilled jobs. LOWER PAY FOR SOUTHERN LABOR The lumber industry is another case in point. The difference between the minimum for Southern labor and the minimum for Northern labor is great er in the proposed lumber code so far considered. Under the code, labor in Southern saw and planing mills will work at 22Mi cents an hour, while the same labor in the Northern mills will bring 40 cents an hour. This is a much greater difference than exists in the textile code. The explanation is that labor in the lumber industry of the South is predominantly Negro, whereas in the North and West it is predominantly white. $6 WEEKLY FOR NEGRO PORTERS Or take the following figures from the code adopted by Montgomery re tail gxt)cers: minimum wages of $25 for store managers, $15 for clerks and helpers and $6 for Negro porters Auto Parts for ALL MAKES ALL MODELS Everything Priced to Sell Come and See Us GERBER Auto Parts Co. 16th & Pierce Ja. 6300 Consolidated Auto Parts Co. (2501 Cuming St. At-5656 I “Home of Kangaroo Court” BY ART KANSAS CITY WINS TRI.CITY TENNIS MEET * * * The first tri-city tennis meet be_ tween Kansas City, Des Moines, and Omaha was held on the 32nd and Dewey courts on Sunday, August 13. The heavy battery from Kansas City proved to wield their rackets too ef_ fectively for the Des Moines and Omaha opponents. As result, Kansas City walked away with both singles and doubles, honors Superb playing was done by “Duck” Bell, Ross, and Taylor of Kansas City Earl Neweombe and Williams were stfirs for the Des Moines visitors, while Lee and Me-! Ca*w were the outstanding players on Omaha’s team An enthusiastic crowd witnessed both morning and after, noon contests which produced many thrills The tri-city meet was sponsored by the Maple Leaf Tennis Club, a mem. ber of the Missouri Valley Tennis Association W Robert Smalls, exe cutive secretary of the Kansas City Urban League and President of the Missouri Valley Tennis Association was guest of the meet and accom. panied the Kansas City players. SCORES OF TRI-CITY TENNIS MEET HELD AUGUST 13th. 1933 Singles Matches Taylor of Kansas City defeated Wilson of Omaha_6_0, 6-0 Lee of Omaha defeated Woods of Des Moines_6-3, 7_5 Newcombe of Des Moines defeated Scott of Omaha_6_0, 6-4 Ross of Kansas City defeated Montgomery of Omaha_6-2, 6_0 Bell of Kansas City defeated Newcombe of Des Moines_6_1, 6-0 Newcombe of Des Moines defeated Rudd of Kansas City_6-0, 7_5 Ross of Kansas City defeated Proctor of Des Moines_6_2, 7-5 McCaw of Omaha defeated Ashby of Des Moines_9-7, 6_4 Bell of Kansas City defeated Lane of Omaha_6_2. 6-0 Gates of Kansas City defeated Lee of Omaha_6-4, 6_1, 6 to 3 Taylor of Kansas City defeated Williams of Des Moines_6_4, 6-1 Doubles Matches Taylor, Ross of Kansas City defeated Lee, Lane of Omaha. 6-2, 6_1 Ross, Taylor of Kansas City defeated Newcombe, Woods of D:s Moines __. , . 7.5. 7-5 Bell, Gates of Kansas City defeated Newcombe, Ashby of Des Moines ". . 6-1, 6_0. Ashby, Newcombe of Des Moines defeated Montgomey, Wilson of Omaha . ._ _ _ . .. . . 6.2, 6-0 Taylor, Rudd of Kansas City defeated Lambert, Chandler of Omaha . ... 6-1, 6_1. Omaha Won Doubles—None. Singles—1. 9_7, 6-4. 2. 6-3, 7.5. and delivery boys. The Alabama coal operators have asked to be exempted from the nat. ional mining code and have submit ted a special code under which miners in Alabama will receive far less as a minimum wage than miners else, where. There is a definite connection between this special code and the fact that three-quarters of the Alabama coal miners are Negroes. The N. R A officials have an. nounced in response to queries that the provisions of the blanket code do not apply to agricultural laborers and to domestic workers. Agricultural work tops the list of all occupations for Negroes, and domestic labor ab sorbs the second largest number of all Negroes gainfully employed. But what you, Dr Moton, evident, ly desire, if the reports in the press are correct, is the stamp of legal ap proval on the payment of lower wages to Negroes a written and open agree_ ment that Negro workers shall re ceive less for the same work than white workers receive. CODES ACTUALLY SLASH WAGES The industrial codes being adopted by the government, though they pre_ tend to raise wages, actually slash wages for the enormous majority of the workers, in an increase in wages of most other workers as they are. In no case do they result in an in crease in wages proportionate to the rapidly rising cost of living. And now you, Dr Moton, propose that in ad_ dition, the codes specifically provide for a lower wage for Negro labor. It is not only the Southern Negro workers who will be interested in your answer. Everyone knows that the white workers of the South are paid far less for the their labor than workers on similar jobs in the rest of the country. The industrial codes now being adopted provide a lower rate of pay in the South. In other words the entire working class of the South is forced to live at a lower standard than the working class in the north, East and West. And why is this Chiefly because of the existence of a group of workers—the Negro workers —forced to take lower wages and work longer hours than the rest of the working class in this section of the country. And because, also, the white rulers have tried to keep Negro and white workers apart, have spread among them hatred for each other, and have thereby to some extent pre vented them frqfm taking common action for their common benefit. If reports in the press are correct, your action injures the interests cf the white as well as the Negro workers of tbe South. You speak of the possible substi tution of white for Negro labor if the rate of pay is the same. Such sub stitution is going on all the time. What solution do we, the Commun ists, propose? Not the legalizatcn of lower pay for Negro workers but a united struggle of Negro and white toilers, together, for higher and equal pay. Yours truly, JIM MALLORY, TiMi+nr *he Southern Worker .. . ,1 . "If:... ■ • «a*\ TENANTS OF ENTIRE HARLEM HOUSE EVICTED Mothers and Babies Put Out on Street: Workers Must Fight Mass Eviction NEW YORK—(CNA)—The tenants of the entire building at 272 West 128th Street were thrown on the streets last Monday in a wholesale eviction move which is gaining head way in Harlem as the result of the cutting off of rent payment by the relief bureaus. Late into the night, desparate families, many of them with Children in their arms, were congregated on the steps and side, walks until taken in temporarily by other families. Henchmen of the landlord attempt ed to stop the taking of photographs by members of the Liberator staff, who met this move by personal inter_ views with the dispossessed tenants and other worker, rallying them to the defense of the Lib photographer. A meeting was subsequntly held by members of the Harlem Unem ployed council, who called upon the workers to resist the growing evict, ions. On the following day, Tuesday, an other case of eviction was reported to the Liberator, this time at 227 West 129th Street, where the furniture of Mrs Parrish, mother of two young children, was thrown on the sidewalk during her absence from the house. Harlem tenants are increasingly offering resistance to the mass evict_ tions, high rents and unsanitary con ditions as demonstrated in the rent strike of the tenants of 128 East 111th Street Tenants should seek to or_ ganize anti-Eviction Committees in their houses and should get in touch with the Harlem. Unemployed Coun_ cil, which is carrying on a militant struggle against evictions, and in many cases has succeeded in return ing the furniture of evicted workers to their homes. HARLEM WORKERS JOIN HUGE ANTI.WAR MEETING 25,000 Demonstrate in Union Square August 1, Score War Plans, Fascist Lynch Terror NEW YORK—(CNA)—Rallying to the struggle against imperialist war from the demand that all war funds be used for unemployment relief, sev. eral hundred Harlem workers joined the huge anti.war demonstration of, over 25,000 workers in Union Square Tuesday afternoon. The square was a sea of banners and placards calling for struggle against the war mongers and the fascist lynchers of Negro and Ger man workers as speaker after' speak_ i er exposed the growing war prepara tions of the ruling classes, and called for a relentless struggle against war for the defense of the Soviet Union, the Negro and colonial masses and the Chinese Soviet territories in which the masses have thrown off the yoke of imperialism and its Kuorn. intang (Chinese Nationalist Party) agents. The demonstration was ad dressed by white and Negro leaders of the working class. The workers marched to the Square from four distant mobilization points. Th.e Battery Park contingent first carried out a demonstration in front of the Cuban Consulate, in protest against the bloody dictatorship of the Cuban agent of Wall Street, Mach, ada. -_____ r • STUDENT CLUB EXPOSES JIM. CROWISM AT COLUMBIA U. NEW YORK—(CNA)—The World Student Club at Columbia University, yesterday charged the administration with Jim.Crowism in living quarters and a subtle attempt to prevent the association of Negro and white stud, ents. Bella Cross and J A Kivantintz head the organization. Negro women were greatly dis couraged in their attempt to gain ad_ mission to the campus living quart ers, and referred to the 137th Street YWCA The few who refused to room in Harlem were given ill. ventilated, dark, dingy rooms behind the elevator shaft in Bryn Mawr Hall. Up to last week, girls who were not able to “pass” for white were not ad mitted to the swimming classes with out difficulty. I he reason given for these gross expressions of racehatred and Jim. Crowism, was “deference to the feel ing of many white Southern summer school students.” Columbia officials, in their attempts to fight against equal rights for all students, regardless of race or color, discouraged the meetings of the club by failing to provide it with regular accommodations for its meetings and discounted and discarded a petition for an interracial dance at which the various groups could meet each oth_ er. HARLEM GIRLS FRAMED BY WHITE COP AND NEGRO STOOL PIGEONS NEW YORK—(CNA)—Evidence of how Negro women are framed up on the streets of Harlem was brought to light last Saturday night, when a white worker witnessed two innocent girls being victimized by police thugs, aided by two Negro between 123rd and 124th Streets. The girls were walking down the street when the car drove up. One of the occupants leaned out of the car and said something by way of inquiry and as soon as the young women stopped, two bulls rushed out of hid ing and nabbed them for “soliciting.” What gave the act away was that noth:ng was said to the men in the auto, not even the usual “Come on, get to hell outa here,” the by.word of Tammany eossacks in addressing Negroes. BRITISH BOMB INDIANS VILLAGE CALCUTTA—(CNA)—British air_ planes rained bombs on a defenseless village of the Bajauri tribesmen in retaliation because the tribesmen re fused to hand over to the British three “agitators” ^gainst British iinperial_ ism. I.ll===H=====.L".. I Weekly Record Jr . i[=r==if==" i NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the matter of the Estate of: JEANETTE MATHEWS PEARE, deceased. All persons interested in said es_ tate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court alleging that said deceased died leav. ing no last will and praying for ad_ ministration upon his estate, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said court on the 16th day of September, 1933, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 16th day of September, 1933 at 9 o'clock A M to contest said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to some suitable person and proceed to a settlemeent thereof. BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge, i 3t. shrdl cmfwy cmv me vrac v cv Elyria State Bank, Elyria, Neb_ raska has been satisfactorily reor ganized by its stockholders and is now operating without restrictions. The Stromsburg Bank, Stromsburg, Nebraska has also been satisfactorily reorganized by its stockholers and is now operating without restrictions. The Exchange Bank, Bladen, Neb_ raska, which has been operating on a restricted basis and which has been in process of liquidation since March 3, 1933, was taken over August 9, 1933 by the Department of Banking for final liquidation. WINSLOW: WINSLOW STATE BANK Court order of July 19, 1933, for First Dividend Payment. Dividend No. 1 5% . . . . $12,174.10 O’NEILL: NEBRASKA STATE ^ BANK Prior payments made during receivership 5% .. $5,039.34 Court order of July 24. 1933, for further 5% - 5,039.34 10% -$10,078.68 ^ ELM CREEK: CITY BANK Prior paymnets made during receivership 10%: _ $ 6,217.85 for further 10%_ 6i217.85 Court order of July 22, 1933, 20% .. -$12,435.70