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I By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL
\ Reader Writ**!
Tm> i i .ntarjr re- ponses reaching
: e as the result of my recent definite
ana to use tin* column to stimulate
act: n in economic efforts make me
rraitze f at readers are appreciating
w at I am trying to do. A letter
me- from R P Harrell, a manu
re -ring CT» *m.*'-t, of Collierville,
TenncMee, from which I will quote:
“ ... it just occured to me that
after reading some of your articles,
,.ra«ng them the very constructive
advice.—'HELPING THE NEGRO
IN BUSINESS” that I am willing to
ffrr your readers who are interested
:n earning something during their
spare time a very attractive plan
whereby without any experience they
can soon realize several dollars per
week for just a few hours effort.
“Tht if no “get rich quick” scheme
1» * an ‘'honest to goodness" product
* hich appeals to and is needed every.
’niHy On the market for the past
*-n yetcs and making new
fraud* readers a sample of this pro
! -,t. Th. j are under no obligation
-a hatsoev* r. I simply want them to
give it z fair trial then I know they'll
be my friends . . . '
An*? tf any of my readers, or any of
"i-r advertising managers, contact
Mr Ham 11 and he does not send the
fn *♦ ample to each reader as pro
m:««J I would ask ycu to write direct
to me for I have no intention of per
! any firm or individual with
»h to cooperate to take un
i-e advantage of any reader of this
column.
Incidentally. Mr Harrell, you
tisitrht send me a sample of your pro
isict also bo that HI know just what
my reader* will receive.
Ir last week's release I mentioned
the exclusive high grade line of cos
"n 1 I r Mme. Marguerita
’t* and 46-T.i South Michigan Boule
va-1 Chicago, and although Mme
* ard tnanked me for my mention of
her effort* I have learned that I did
not mention a moat distinct achieve
ment. It seem* that her high-grade
ine of cosmetics are the only line
manofartared by any colored firm
that nre on exhibit at the World’s
Fair, king i„ the exhibits ef ail the
WalgTve* Stores at the Century of
Progrvaa.
Seme weeks ago I quoted a letter
from the J L Nichols and Company
Inc , of Naperville, Illinois. During
P**t week they sent me a very
beautifully bound Bible and an ex
pression of thanks for my efforts to
render a ronsructive service.
The many readers who have been
writing to me for yean for a photo
af myself have hut read “Found”, a
short story of mine in the September
Bronze man Magazine. In illustrating
this story Charles C Dawson, the
illustrator, used an actual likeness of
mys*«f for his male character. *o th»t
’1TW *** the trouble and expense of
having photos made.
The only colored business magazine
caching me regularly is the Negro
Market, the house organ of the Nat-'
nal Negro Business League and its1
associated concerns Readers can.1
r -ahljr. secure copies of this mag
at ne by writing to Albon L Holsey,
West 13fith Street, New York.
Another publication using all six
mv features ^weekly is the Negro
World of New York City.
Remember friends that while I
1 guarantee to personally reply
ear; tetter I will promise to give
-arn mmunication careful consider
ation if addressed to Clifford C
Mitchell. Writer. 3S07 South Park
way. Chciago, Illinois.
JOHN PRIDE HORSE DOPER'
GETS TWO YE ARS IN PRISON
CHICAGO — (CNS) — Among the
first flee convictions for “doping”
face horse was John Pride who was
*er.termed to two years in Leaven
worth penitentiary.
MOB RULE
Seek ISiegro Appointments By Governors
Brotherho d Celeb atcs Airi^ersa y
I he iirotherhood Anniversary .Mark
id by Notable Discussion of The N.
K. A. in Chicago
The bration of the Brother
hood's eighth anniversary began with
an able and comprehensive address
•>y Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuar
d.a on the politico economic aspects
■'f th National Industrial Recovery
Act. He predicted success for the
me. sures and a new era for Ameri
can la t or, but warned that should it
fail, chaos, confusion and a general
economic and social break down
would inevitably follpw in its train.
The huge Sunday mass meeting
was followed by a week of meetings
where there was general and inten
sive discussion of the social, indus
trial, and labor problems of the pres
ent period, and methods for effect
ing their solution. Monday night,
August 21st., Attorney Charles Wes
ley Burtcn was in charge of the pro
gram and delivered a brilliant speech
on “The Negro citizens part in giv
ing cooperation and support to the
black workers who are attempting to
form trade and industrial unions for
their economic protection and ad
vancement under the N R A ” A
(Continued on Page 2)
Dallas Turner Beats
huey Long for Insult
By J. Winston Harrington
(Special to The Omaha Guide)
NEW YORK — The mystery is a
mystery no longer. What the white
press of the country either could not
do, or pretended to be unable to do,
a reporter for The Chicago Defender
succeeded in accomplishing. He found
■ lit who gave Senator Huey “King
fish” Long of Louisiana a black eye
and why! The man's name is Dallas
Turner, and he is a well known mu
- ian and teacher in New York. And
most important of all—he is a BLACK
MAN
According to' the information gath
ered by The OMAHA GUIDE, re
porter, Mr Turner was a guest art
ist at the exclusive Sands Point Bath
club on Long Island Saturday night.
Gene Buck, internationally known
musician and member of the Amer
ican Society of Composers, Artists
and Publishers, was host. “Kingfish”
Long was also a guest. There are also
several Race employees of the club.
Insults Guests
There you have the setting Now.
i'or he aetion: From the moment
Huey Long arrived he began insult
ing the dark employees of the club
with whom he came in contact. He
called them insulting terms and even
resorted to vulgar personal acts to
humiliate them. Noting Mr Turner’s
conduct—that of a cultured gentle
man—Huey was especially offensive
to him. At every opportunity he made
some remark to Turner, calling him
“nigger,” “shine,” “coon” and any
thing else he could think of, to all
of which the musician had remained
indifferent.
But being persistent, the ballyhoo
artist from New Orleans kept at his
taunts. Then, after several hours of
this, he followed Turner from the
bandstand, where he had been play
ing, into the bar. Walking up behind
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REPRESENTATIVE, ACTIVE IN
OPENING UP NEW POSITIONS
FOR RACE
Through the efforts of Representa
tive Johnny Owen, Mr William Per
kins, 2909 North 25th Street has
been employed as a custodian in the
nw Capitol Building and at Lincoln
under Mr Harry P Conklin, Com
missioner of Public Lands and Build
ings. This is the first time an Oma
ha Negro has been employed in the
Capitol Building.
Another new position opened, in
which Representative Owen was ac
tive was the placing of Robert Ruck
er, son in law of Mr Burnett, mail
man. as bookkeeper in Miss Mon
sky’s office, County and Federal Re
lief offices in the Court House. This
position was only temporarily but
through the timely action of our Re
presentative and the kind considera
tion and unbiased judgment of coun
ty commissioner Jacobberger, it is
now permanent.
Many Negro citizens who received
aid from the county and Federal Re
lief stations have repeatedly asked to
have their relief orders drawn on
one of the many Negro merchants of
this community, but have been den
ied. The colored merchants are en
titled to receive their share of these
orders along with other stores. Re
presentative Owen took the matter
up with Commissioner Jacobberger
who in turn gave the matter his per
sonal attention, which brought about
results. The colored merchants are
now receiving their share of orders
from the Sailors’ and Soldiers’ relief
and the County and Federal Relief
Agencies.
It seems to be of great advantage
to have Negro Democrats at this
time to keep the race in contact with
the outside world.
Johnny Owen states: “That, it is
not only my aim and desire to repre
sent my people in the Legislative
Halls a Lincoln, but anywhere that
I may be of service. I feel very deep
ly the responsibility the Voters placed
in me last fall.
OLD RESIDENT OF OMAHA DIES
Mrs Grace Hayes, 625 South 18
Street, died Wednesday at a local
hospital after an illness for quite
sometime. Mrs Hayes has lived in
Omaha for thirty years or more. She
is survived by her husband, a prom
inent business man, Mr Ezra Hayes
and daughter, Miss Willa Hayes, of
Omaha and a son Mr Ezra Hayes,
Jr , of Minneapolis Mr Hayes
came to his mother’s bedside while
she was ill.
The body was taken to Jones Fun
eral Home. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed yet
MRS. JOSEPH CHENEY ENTERS
SUIT
Mrs Joseph Cheyney filed suit
against the following parties August
29, 1933. Mrs Addie Childs, Edward
Childs, Mrs Mattie E Jones, Frank
B James, Sunset Taxi Company, and
Frank D James doing business as
Sunset Taxi Company, J D Lewis
Undertaking Establishment and
Joseph D Lewis and Mrs Hazel
Lewis as individuals, and doing busi
ness under the name of J D Lewis
Undertaking Company, and Leroy
Childs.
This is suit is the outcome of the
accident that happened at 24th and
Grant Street some weeks ago.
RECEIVED SETTLEMENT
Mrs Carrie Jewell has received a
settlement of $500.00 from a Hart
ford Insurance Company for injuries
which she substained when she fell
down the stairs in the Urban League
building last February. Attorney
Dan Gross represented Mrs Jewell.
A GET TOGETHER MEETING
Thursday, September 5 will be get
Together Day at the Air Field for
City Employers of four departments.
HURT BY CONSCIENCE, MAN
ADMITS THEFT
FALLS CITY, Neb. — Saying his
conscience bothered him, a Negro
giving the name of George Davis,
Omaha, walked into the police station
here today and said he robbed a local
cafe on two occasions last week.
Smith said he feared an innocent
man might be arrested for the rob
bery in which he got some cigarets
and tobacco. He sold the loot. Police
put him in jail but filed -no charges
pending an investigation.
NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL
HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE MEET
INGS
DURHAM, N C —(CNS)—Chair
man C C. Spaulding ofDurham,
chairman of the National Business
League executive committee appeals
to business people and housewives
throughout the nation urging them
to signify intentions to attend the
34th annual session of the league;
and the 3rd Arjnual Cpnvention of the
Durham, -aug
ust 23, 24 and 25
Due to the size of Durham it is
necessary that delegates and visitors
advise the Durham branch of the
Business League a 809 Fayetteville
St., as to their plans so that arrange-!
ments can be made for their comfort.
While facilities of North Carolina
State College have been placed at the
disposal of the committee by Presi
dent James Shepard- A number of
the visitors will be placed in private
homes.
“Business—the Battle Front of Ne-1
gro Hope,” is the theme selected for
the annual meeting of the League.
NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE ENDORSES NEGRO
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE
DURHAM, N C — (CNS) — In
what was termed the most successful
meeting of the National Negro Busi
ness League here last week the body
endorsed the program of the Negro
Industrial League Dr Robert C
Weaver, director of research of the
Negro Industrial League, spoke of
the position of the Negro under the
NRA and presented the program of
the joint Committee on National Re
covery. Lt Oxley and the Honorable
Charles E Mitchell commended the
work of the Industrial League and
stressed the importance of the func
tioning of the joint Committee on
National Recovery during the next
six months. The convention was very
enthusiastic in its reception of these
speeches.
Dr Robert R Moton, president of
the Business League, stressed the
importance of thb protection of Ne
groes under the NRA, and congratu
lated Mr Davis and Dr Weaver of
the League upon their work in the
past and assured his whole hearted
support in the future.
The Business League endorsed the
plans of the joint Committee on Nat
ional Recovery and affirmed Dr. Wea*
ver of its enthusiastic support in the
future.
Among the officers elected were:
Dr Robert R Moton, President:
Fred R Moore, vice president; A L.
Lewis, treasurer; Albon L Holsey,
secretary; Claude A Barnett, pub
licity; Bishop W J Walls, Chaplain,
and C C Spaulding, Chairman of the
Executive Committee.
JOBS FOR 2,000,000 IN U. S. SINCE
MARCH 1
WASHINGTON — William Green,
president of the A F of L , said
late Wednesday 2,000,000 persons had
been returned to work since March 1.
He estimated that there are still 11,
000,000 persons unemployed.
He specifically mentioned the rub
ber factories in Arkoii, Ohio, auto
mobile factories and electrical manu
facturing as fields where large gains
have been made.
GOVERNORS ASKED TO AP
POINT NEGROES A. F. L. RE
MINDED OF DISCRIMINATION
Governors of each of the states
were appealed to by the National
Urban League to appoint Negro rep
resentatives on the Advisory Com
mittee of their state’s employment
office which is to be run in coopera
tion with the United States Employ
ment Service. The League argues
that in this way Negro unemployed
can be sure of having their problems
brought before state authorities.
William Green, President of the
American Federation of Labor, in the
League’s third appeal to him for
action to doaway with discrimination
in Labor Unions aganist Negroes, has
been asked to form a commission
that will hear and adjust charges
against labor groups practicing re
strictions against Negroes. Appeal
ing to him not only as the President
of the Federation but as a member of
the Labor Advisory Board of the
NRA and the President’s National
Industrial Mediation Board, to adjust
strike difficulties, he was exhorted to
apply the principle of conciliaton ad
vocated by *hese two groups ta the
disputes that are arising in connect
ion with Negro workers in the trade
union movement.
EAC STATE CHAIRMEN AN
NOUCED
The Emergency Advisory Council
for Negroes formed by the National
Urban League and gaining popular
ity as the EAC, will have as state
chairman for Washington, D. C ,
Colonel West A Hamilton, long an
active participant in civic affairs in
the naton’s capitol. Dr M O Bous
field, vice president of the Supreme
Liberty Life Insurance Company of
Chicago, will shoulder the responsi
bilities for the state of Illinois as
chairman of that state’s EAC and
Joseph L McLemore of St. Louis will
be the chairman for the state of Mis
souri. Mr McLemore is a prominent
lawyer of that state and was taken at
one time a candidate for Congress
from the district from which Con
gressman Dyer comes.
I L. D. OBTAINS HASSAN ALI
RELEASE
BOSTON, Mass.—Release AM from
the immigration station at East Bos
ton has been won by the Intemation.
al Labor Defense, it was announced
last week. Ali, who was ill from the
bad conditions and food in the sta
tion, was released on Mrs. Jessica
Henderson’s recognizance.
Ali, a colored worker, was arrested
by deportation agents when their at
tention was drawn to him foy praise
in the newspapers for the heroic act
of saving a child from under the ice
in a lake near Danbury, last Dec
ember
THREE HUNDRED DEMAND BOYS
RELEASE
CROTON-ON.HUDSON, N. Y —
More than three hundred persons at
demanding that Judge Horton fix a
date to hear arguments of the writs
a meeting here passed a resultion
habeas corpus demanding that bail be
set for the Scottsboro boys, and de
claring that further prosecution of
the boys is “merely further evidence
of the vindictiveness of the white,
ruling class.”
N. A. A. C. P. CHARGES OFFI
CIALS AIDED IN ALABAMA
LYNCHING
NEW YORK—A telegram stating
that there appeared strong indications
of collusion between the officers of
the law and the lynchers who shot to
death two Negro boys at Woodstock,
Ala, August 13, was sent August 14
by the N A A C. P , to Governor
B M. Miller of Alabama The N.
A A C P , wire urged a thorough
investigation by the state, rather
than by local officers and trial and
punishment for the lynchers.
SHERIFFS OF MISSISSIPPI SIGN
DEFINITE PLEDGES TO HELP
PREVENT LYNCHINGS
JACKSON, Miss.—(CNS)— “I am
opposed to the crime of lynching and
will do everything in my power as an
official to eradicate lynching and eli
minate mob violence,” is the pledge
that has been signed by 20 sheriffs of
this State. The personal signatures
were in response to an appeal by the
Mississippi Council of Southern Wo
men for the Prevention of Lynching.
Many additional signatures are ex
pected (from sheriffs in sympathy
with the purposes of the council.
The letter eliciting these pledges
was addressed to the sheriffs that “a
host of citizens in 80 counties of our
State are committed to the eradication
of lynching and the elimination of
mob violence.” It congratulates the
sheriffs upon the marked decline of
lynchings in Mississippi in recent
years, and expresses gratitude foT
the official vigilance reponsible for
this improvement.
“The council,” it is reported, “is
pledged to assist in reaching a3 soon
as possible the goal of a ‘lynchless
South’ by supporting faithful officials
and fostering a public opinion that
will not longer tolerate mob violence.
The Mississippi Council is a branch
of the Association of Southern Wom
en for the Prevention of Lynching.
The organization was founded in 1930
and has enrolled more than 10,000
women in 12 Southern States.
NAACP. Asks Moley to Ad
vise Federal Action Against
Mobs
NEW YORK-—Dr. Raymond Mol
ty, member of President Roosevelt’s
“brain trust” who is studying ways
and means for the federal govern
ment to check crime, especially kid
naping, has been asked by the Nat
ional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People to study also
federal action against lynching, mob
violence and peonage.
“There is another manifestation of
lawlessness,” the letter said, “which
is more savage than kidnaping and
which has been prevalent in this coun
try on a much wider scale. We refer
to lynching. If the federal govern
ment can take cognizance of the
crime of kidnaping and place a fed
eral curb upon it, it certainly should
'Ije able to devise federal laws to curb
lynching.”
SALVATION ARMY SUED BY SO
CIALISTS FOR JIM.CROW
ALBANY, N Y —Suit for dam
ages under the New York civil rights
act has been filed here by Alton I.
irevy, of New York City against Lt.
John Olsen of the Salvation Army
shelter because of the refusal of Ol
sen on August 12 to rent lodging to
three Negro members of the Young
Socialist League along with white
Socialists, who were attending a con
ference of unemployed here. The case
ha3 been set for August 23
LINCOLN LETTER STOLEN FROM
EXHIBIT AT CHICAGO FAIR
CHICAGO—(CNS) — The wigwam
exhibit at the Century of Progress
Fair is minus a 13 word letter taken
from the Lincoln group. The letter
was written by President Lincoln
and dated February 25, 1866 It read
“Will the Secretary of the Navy
please see and hear this Connecticut
gentleman?”
As the case containing the letter
did not appear to have been forced
open—there is an air of mystery at
tached to the report of the theft.
VIRGIN ISLAND TURN AGAIN TO
THB RUM TRADE
ST. THOMAS, V I — (CNS)—
Contemplating the repeal of the 18th
Amendment in a few months the
Haytian-American Sugar Company of
Port au Prince, Haiti, is negotiating
for the purchase of the Bethlehem
sugar factories at St Croix, with a
view to producing sugar, rum and
bay rum.
Restoration of the Virgin Islands
to their once-famous position as the
source of excellent rum and bay rum
appeared to bear a hope soon to be
realized.
TRAIN KILLS MAN BUT PRIZE
MELON IS NOT DAMAGEB
LEXINGTON, N C — (CNS)—
John Little, 40, lumber yard worker
and amateur gardener, taking a prize
melon from his water melon patch,
started home in high glee with his
product last Saturday night, was hit
by a train and killed.
Little was walking on the railroad
track with the melon in a sack slung
over his shoulder, when fast Southern
passenger train hit and killed him.
The melon was not damaged.
ETHEL WATERS SUCCUMBS TO
STORMY WEATHER
ATLANTIC CITY— (CNS)—
Stormy Weather here last week
found Ethel Waters gazing out upon
a storm beaten coast while resting
here under orders of her physician to
take a long rest. Meanwhile “As
Thousands Cheer’’ a new revue by
Irving Berlin and Moss Hart which is
already in rehearsal is due at the
Music Box Theatre in New York,
September 26, with Marilyn Miller,
Clifton Webb, Ethel Waters and oth
ers taking part.
GETS INCOME FOR LIFE FROM
ESTATE OF DEAD BENEFACTOR
NEW YORK CITY—(CNS) — Al
bert L Wynne, 75 year old Negro of
Port Jefferson, L. I , will receive
$500 and the income for life of a re
siduary estate estimated at about
$40,000 under the will of Miss Lizzie
J Smith of Port Jefferson, who died
there July 28 at the age of 79.
Miss Smith’s will, which has been
filed for probate in the Suffolk Coun
ty Surrogate’s Court here, also pro
vides that Wynne may be buried in
her eemetary plot. The will explained
that these bequests were made because
of his friendship and services for
many years and his solicitude in her
last illness. Wynne was named as its
executor.
QUICK VOTE ON REPEAL SEEN
WASHINGTON — A clear cut pos
sibility the Eighteenth amendment
could be voted void within the next
10 weeks emerged Thursday from the
3 to 1 repeal majority cast by voters
representing nearly three fifths of
the nation’s population.
The 'heavy recording of Washing
ton as the 24th state to favor repeal
carried the antiprchibition surge
across two thirds of the distance to
its goal. •**vT
At least 15 or more states will vote
before November 8, providing a
minimum of three more than neces
sary for repeal.
Should 12 of the 15 states follow
the line of the first 24, the prohibition
amendment would be formally abolish
ed December 5 or 6
Square Deal Stores T o Give
Away Bushel Basket of
Groceries Each Week