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RITZ Theatre Sunday and Monday, Wm. Powell in “Private Detect ive 62” also Ruth Chatter ton in “Lilly Turner” Tues., Wed., Thurs., Wal ter Huston in “Gabriel Over the White House” also Nan cy Carroll in' “I Love That Man”. Fri., Sat., Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in “Hell Divers’ “MID NIGHT MARY” THRILLS WITH WORTHY MELODRAMA New Underworld Picture Displays Talents of Com petent Cast in Two Theatres N. A. A. C. P. TO ATTACK LOW SALARIES FOR N. €. TEACHERS IN COURT RALEIGH, N C —(CN3) — The unequal salary scale which provides $90 a month for white teachers and $70 for Negro teachers, of the same experience, will be attacked in court by Attorneys acting for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People White teachers with eight years experience are to receive a salary of $720 per year or $90 per month, while Negro teachers of the same exper_ ience are schduled to get $560 a year or $70 per month Under the new schedules the salar ies of Negro teachers will run as low as $322 a year for “C” classification teachers of no experience. A conference of attorneys will be held in Durham next week attended by William H Hastie of Washing, ton, D C , and Conrad O Pearson and Cecil H McCoy, both of Durham, to outline the procedure of the asso ciation’s legal battle. Messrs Has. tie, McCoy and Pearson handled the case last spring in which the N A A C P sought a writ of mandamus to compel the University of North Carolina to admit Thomas Hocutt a colored student to the school of phar macy. The suit was brought because North Carolina does not provide pro. ' fessional training for its Negro stu dents in taxed supported institutions! and thus denies equality in education. WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA HOS. PITAL LOSES OLDEST PATIENT WINCHESTER, Va-(CNS)—Aft er 16 years in the Memorial Hospial here as a patient, Phillippa Newman, a former slave woman 85 years old, died last week Sixteen years ago she was stricken with arthritis and es_ tablished a new time record here for a patient in the Memorial Hospital. Tag—‘Brain Trust’ 04uft WASHONGTON—(CNS)—John P. Davis, executive secreary of the Joint Committee on National Recovery was in an extended conference last week with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Assistant Secretary of Labor McGrady. The conference took place in the Department of Labor and had to do with the needs of Negro labor for protection under the Nation al Recovery Administration. “Mr Davis declined to comment on the results of the conversations, stat ing that he would first have to con sult members °* the Joint Committee on National Recovery He could say he declared, that the meeting with the Secretary of Labor and Assistant Secretary McGrady had proved most helpful and that he thought both ad. ministration officials were maintain ing a sympathetic attitude toward Negro labor _ By WILLIAM BOEHNEL Two of the talking screen’s most effective players, Franchot Tone and Ricardo Cortez, and one of the talk ing screen’s good looking and com. petent actresses, Loretta Young, with the assistance of William Wellman as director, and Anita Loos as auth or, pool their various undisputed tal. entg in making a Cosmopolitan Pro ductions called ‘‘Midnight Mary,” at the Capitol and Loew’s Metropolitan. The result is a most agreeable and entertaining underworld melodrama with plenty cf action and thrills to satisfy all and sundry in this or any other kind of weather. In “Midnight Mary” the author j takes up the plight of a young girl whose environment leads her into a life of crime. Sentenced to the re. formatory on a conviction of shop lifting of which she is innocent, the ■irl finds it diffcult to get work she is released, and falls in with a hand, some racketeer. Living in a luxurious apartment and wearing clothes that are sup posed to be stunning, but which seem, to observer, fantastic, to say the least, she acts as a “eomeon” for the racketeer’s mob. During the hold up of a gambling house she meets an attractive young lawyer and falls in love with him Rather than bring disgrace to him she gives him up when she ig corner, ed by police a^s an accomplice in the robbery Later, when she is again released and is back once more with the racketeer, she kills the gangster to save the young lawyer’s life. The film is told m the increasingly i popular “flash back” method, which simply means that it begins at the' end of the story and then relates the events that preceded in time the opening sequences. The present ex hibit ends with the young lawyer ap_ pearing in the courtroom just as the verdict of guilty has been announced 1 by the jury and demanding a new tria1 for the girl on the ground that he has new evidence which will free her I liked that a lot. The prinieipals in the cast are all splendid, and receive some expert support from Andy Devine, Una Merkel and Warren Hymer. ANNOUNCEMENT The Omaha Guide wishes to an. nounce to its many readers that start_ ing Saturday, October 24, 1933, we will add to our regular paper a four (4) page Rotogravure Section with local pictures therein.. No advance in prices Robert L. Vann Seriously Injured in Auto Collision _ HAGERSTOFN, Md. — (CNS)— Friday, September 15 midday Rob. ert L Vann, the well known Pitts, i burgh newspaper man, who was re. cently appointed a special assistant to the Attorney General of the Unit, td States, was seriously injured when his car had a head on collision with another car containing five persons, on the National highway four miles east of here. Mr Vann, driving alone, left Washington about 11 a m enroute to his home in Pittsburgh in his automobile and the accident occurred as the two machipes approached each other below the crest of a hill. Both machines were completely demolish, ed and the five persons in the other car—two women and three men, all colored—were also seriously injured. All the injured persons were taken to the Washington County Hospital located here Mr Vann, who is pub. lisher of the Pittsburgh Courier, has a possible fractured skull and severe cuts and bruises, according to Dr i Milton Bargey, superintendent of the hospital. John Ely and Issia Sims, both of New Salem, Pa ; John Sims, of Union town, Pa., and Nannie Ely and Al_ thie Rutland, of Footdale, Pa , were enroute from Uniontown, Pa., to Washington when injured.* At a late hour Saturday, Mr Vann was still reported as unconscious. Abyssinia to Have Amuse ment Park Patterned Af ter Coney Island NEW YORK CITY—(CNS) — So delighted was a prince of the royal house of Ethiopa on a recent visit to Coney Island at the merry go rounds, roller coaster, old mills, Ferris wheels, pop corn stands, swimming pools, and other novel attractions, that he has announced his decision to build a similar playground in his nat_ ion land. The thrills afforded this potentate | on visits to New York’s Coney Island i and New Jersey’s beach resorts has reulted in contracts being placed for j Reid-Duffy Pharmacy 24th & Lake St Webster 0609 Free Delivery LAbhDRY... for your Apparel and Linens— We offer the QUALITY and SERVICE that you demand. You know our phone— WE-6055 Edholm & Sherman LAUNDERERS AND DRY CLEANERS the proper equipment to establish in. Ethiopa (Abyssinia) in the heart of, Northweastern Africa a pleasure park— with all the modern American amusement divices, thrill producers and where frivolity will be king — URBAN LEAGUE PLANS COURSE FOR DOMESTICS A group of more than twenty five domestics and other household era. ployees met Thursday night in the Urban League Annex to discuss a proposed course in the use of elect, rical appliances The course will be held some time the first week in the demonstration room of the Neb. WASHINGTON— (CNS) — A spe_ eial correspondent of thelnternational News Service in touring the South finds that the “New Deal” has aggra vated to a serious extent the South’s oldest problem the Negro ” “I ha> found no one w>th a happy solution of the problem raised by the displacemenl of Negroes in the mills and fields of the South The author, ities of various cities in the South land are jum^y because of ‘racial competition ’ How the problem will be solved nobody seems to know. There has been talk — as there all ways is in such circumstances — of communistic propaganda being spread among the Negroes ” Of course the ‘New Deal’ came as a blessing to the white man Under the new code provisions the white worker is extremely happy But, not so the Negro The mill employers and the planters of cotton and tobae_ co are perplexed Thev are afraid of the consequences but they feel help less They resent paying to Negroes twice the sum they were getting a few weeks ago. yet they fear that ‘New Deal’ for the white workers is going to provoke serious trouble ” From Selma, Alabama comes the information hat because he refused to. sign a statement saying he thought Negro workers ought to accept a low_ j er wage than that provided in the NRA codes, the Rev E D Hughes, pastor of Brown A M E Church, and President of the Selma Ministers Al liance, has been driven out of town by leading whites, including the chief of police> the secretary of the Cham_! ber of Commerce, and the President! of a bank Thursday, August 24, the Rev \ Hughes was forcibly taken before a committee of thirty of the promin ent white citizens of Selma at the courthouse and after a few questions was bluntly given twenty four hours to leave town. In a report to the NAACP in New LONDON, England—(CNS) — Re ports come from Palapye Road, Buchnanaland, Africa, that for the first time in many years, a white man lost in a controversy with natives in the Bx-itish African protectorate of Buchnanaland. A British commission sitting at Palapye Road, under guard of 200 marines soldiers, convicted Phines Me" Intosh, a European, and banished him from all native territories While natives were kept at a dis_ tance behind a high wire fence erect ed around the canvas awning under which the commission assembled, the investigators upheld the natives’ con_ tention that McIntosh deserved pun ishment McIntosh had been convicted by a native court of assault and immoral, ity among the natives The commis-1 sion’s decision was reached on the basis of evidence that McIntosh had lived with a native woman and se_* duced several girls One of them, it was testified, bore him a child. The case aroused high feelings among natives and whites It was the first case within recent memory in which a native court ordered a! European flogged for any offense 1 The future of Tshekedi, the young chief of the Bamangwato Tribe, rests' in the hands of a special British com mission after that body completed an investigation into the flogging by natives of Phineas Mackintosh, a Bri tish subject The commission now must take up the case of the young chief, who1 I raska Power Company. Among the electrical appliances the Nebraska Power Company has placed at the disposal of the League are; electric cookers, casseroles, mixers; percola. tors, toasters, waffle irons, range, refrigerators (General Electric and Kelvinator), sweepes (Hoove and Premier) Sun Lamps, Vibrators, Washers (Thor, Decker, Automatic, and Zenith) Water Heaters and var_ ious other equipment The course will be in charge of regisrations for Mrs Elaine McGee, Industrial Secre_ tary of the Omaha Urban League the Course All women who desire to enroll may Call at the Urban Lea_ gue office ‘NEW DEAL’ AND CODE MANIPULATIONS PRO VOKE SERIOUS TROUBLE IN SOUTH — York, a representative writes: “Bruce C Craig acted as spokesman for the whites and after a few ques_ lions told Mr Hughes: “ ‘Your record has been thoroughly investigated and we have found that you are not the type of citizen that exactly fits into a community like Selma and Dallas County, therefore we have decided that 24 hours from this minute, which is now 3:25 pm, are long enough for you to get your business together and get out of town and Dallas County.' “Rev Hughes says he recognized the following persons at the meeting: Bruce C Craig, Norman St^ndfield, chief of police; Hunt C Frazier, se cretary of the Chamber of Com. merce; and E C Melvin, President of the Selma National Bank, Mr. Hughes says he was offered $500 be fore this occurence to go to Wash, ■igton an $8 wage for Negroes Mr Hughes did not leave at once, however delaying until two days later. August 26 That afternoon five arloads of officers came to his house and chased his car which was just being driven away to be filled with gasoline by a friend \Vhen they caught it and arrested the driver, they doubled back to get Hughes> who in the meantime had been warned by car of his friend The two were chas a fellow pastor and taken away in the ed five or six miles out of Selma at sixty miles an hour. Mr Hughes had his friend slow down to 25 miles an hour in a cloud of dust and he jump_ ed from the car and rolled into a ditch while the whites whirled by after the car which had dropped him “Mr Hughes lay in the ditch under Bushes until nightfall and made his way on foot to another town where he secured a ride to a large city “Mr Hughes is a native of Pales tine, Arkansas He has pastored churches in Oklahoma and Louisiana. His wife was Miss Mattie L. Martin of Bosteville, Arkansas ” WHITE MAN FLOGGED AND BANISHED FOR AT TACK ON NATIVE WOMEN temporarily was deposed on the charge that he had violated the laws of the protectorate, which forbid the trial of a European by a native court under any circumstances. A detachment of marines was sent to accompany the special to the sweltering interior point. It was an example of British meth ods in upholding England’s rule over wild savage regions of the empire. MARTIN AND HODGE ADDRESS URBAN LEAGUE MEETING ON NATIONAL RECOVERY More than two hundred persons heard Paul Martin, general of the Omaha NRA Campaign and George Hodge Nebraska state administra. tor of the national reemployment service, in an address at Zion Baptist Church, Sunday, September 17th. The meeting was sponsored by the Omaha Urban League and was de_ \ signed to inform the public on recent 1 trends in national recovery under the j NRA and to give a perspective of employment projects planned for Nebraska Mr Hodge explained the five point program of the reemployment serv. ice, pointing out that the benefits were to apply insofar as possible, to local labor and to unemployed work, ers rather than to those who changed from one job to another “It is esti. mated,” said Mr. Hodge, ‘‘there are 60,000 unemployed in Nebraska On an average of four to a family, that means that 240,000 people, or 17.2% ' ADAIuS’ G rcccry ISIS North 2C'h St. JA-0538 COLQUITT GROCERY 2754 Lake St. WE-3091 MONTGOMERY GROCERY 2531 Lake St. WE-0226 SQUARE DEAL Stores CAREY’S NABORHOOD GROCERY 27th and Grant St. WE-6089 HAYDEN’S MARKET 2637 Franklin St. AT-8812 YONER & HOUSTON 2114 North 24th St. JA-3543 of the state’s population are vitally interested in reemployment In Doug_ las alone there are 15,000 unemploy, ed workers,” said Mr Hodge. He paid high tribute to the work of the Urban League and offered the full cooperation of the Federal Reemploy_ ment Service in regard, to matters affecting colored workers Musical; selections were given by the Sextette j of Philander.Smith college, Vera Chandler, pianist, and Thomas Jones, baritone. SIXTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY OF ZION BAPTIST CHURCH—WASHINGTON _ WASHINGTON — (CNS) — Zion Baptist Churchj located at Third and F Streets Southwest celebrated the 69th anniversary of its founding Sun_ day September 10, with Dr William D Jarvis of Mount Bethel Baptist Church as princ:pal speaker Zion Baptist Church w„as organized ; in 1861 by members who came here from Fredericksburg, Va During the 69 years of the church only four pas I tors have occupied the pulpit The; Rev. William Walker, founder, died; and was succeeded by the Rev Will, iam Gibbons in 1868 The Rev W O Howard was pastor from 1886 un t'l 1926, and the Rev. W L Wash, ington. now deceased, was pastor from 1926 until April 1933. By strange coincident all the! church pastors have been named “Wil-; liam” and a “William” was selected to preach the anniversary service | TENANT FARMERS IN THE SOUTH TO BE PUT OF BUSINESS BY AAA I- _ _ I WASHINGTON — (CNS) — “You can kiss the baby good by/’ says Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Finance- Com_ mitt ie, rtierring to the recovery pro gram and prosperity. It is essential he contends, to increase the purchas. ing power of the American farmer i as a mass or bid good by to dreams of prosperity and contentment in the average American home. The Mississippi Senator spent some time here the past week advocating putting into effect the provision of the Thomas amendment authorizing the notes as an inflating proposal. His issue of $3,000,000,000 of Treasury attention, howeverj was called to the fact that inflation will not help large numbers of farm tenants in Mississ ippi and elsewhere in the South who year unless Congress forces the AAA will be deprived of a livelihood next to provde for them “in the exclusion of 15,000,000 acres from cotton pro_ duction ” In addition to complaints from many sections of the South that the NRA is working to the disadvantage of large numbers of Negro workers i comes a Macedonian cry that the | AAA program is destined to put thou ' sands of Negro farmers entirely out ; of business next year, if the con_ | templated AAA program is carried I out Attention is called to the condition j that will arise from exclusion of 15,_ i 000,000 acres from cotton production ! as provided in the Agricultural Ad_ ! justment Administration program; and that the actual tillers of the soil ] are to be exploited to the advantage! of cotton land owners This year tenants hold an equity1 I in the cotton that has been plowed | i under and therefore will share in the Federal bonus, of from $3 to $11 per acre, depending upon the average production over a five year period But next year when an acreage ap_ proximatinp 15,000,000 acres is eli_ minated from cotton production, some 600,000 Negro tenants, who have been producing upon their 13,000,000 acres of rented land about 4,000,000 bales or one third of the cotton yield of the South, will be without means of support In view of the fact that the Gov_ ernment intends to pay a handsome rental on all land excluded from pro. duction, it is fair to presume that cotton land owners will cooperate in holding down the acreage to the ex. elusion of thousand of former tenant, farmers both black and white. It is stated that “the rental to be paid will average somewhat better than the equivalent of one fourth of the cotton that could be raised on the excluded land at 10 cents a pound ”; This will prove a strong inducement to land owners t° reduce their cotton planting The operation will fall hardest upon tenants, who are not provided for under the Aj\A plan. In 1930 the thirteen cotton States had 691,267 Negro tenant farmers who operated hired land only Of that number only 75,000 were cash ten. ants, while 325,000 were croppers, with an additional 200,000 ‘‘other ten ants” including those giving a share for the use of the land or a share for part and cash for part Thus it will readily be seen that land owners will find it far more profitable to deal with the Government—‘u sure things”, —than take a chance with their for. mer tenants, who have to confront weather conditions and boll weevil infestation. _ JULIA JETERKIN INSISTS NEGROES WILL WORK OUT THEIR OWN SALVATION i _ NEW YORK CITY—(CNS) — “I don’t see Negroes as a race,’ I see them as individuals as friends, help, ers, good men, bad men; women and what.not,” says Julia Peterkin, whose; novel “Scarlet Sister Mary,” won for her the Pulitzer Prize, and whose \ unique novel “Bright Eyes,” a novel] of Negro life in South Carolina with out a single white charter in it; and who lives in close contact with the Gullah Negroes Edisto Island in South Carolina f j Miss Peterkin, who probably knows j the Negro as well as any white writ, i er now before the public talked re. I luctantly of “the future of the raee,”| the problem of the race’’ and so forth.; “I don’t see Negroes as a ‘race,’ ”j she explained at her hotel, where she is writing still another to add to her list of four books about Negroes. “Even more”, Mrs Peterkin con. tinued, “I see them as individuals, as friends, helpers, good men, bad men, women—what not I’ve grown up with them all about me and I’ve loved many of them It is quite impossible for a Northerner to understand the j feeling go to far back for casual ex. humation and discussion ‘‘But I know one thing about the future of the Negro race, at least. This 's that its future place will de_ pend entirely on its future apcomp. lishment. Whatever the future pro. duces will be produced from inside “I went to a dinner the other night where all the guests but myself were Communists One was departing the . next day for the South to organize the cotton mills. ‘ “And when we have the mills! throughly organized,’’ he added, Sve, shall in or the Negro.’ “I laughed, and they asked me. why. “ ‘You’ll get nowhere organizing the Negro,’ I told them, ‘because the Negro will suspect you It will not pe the white people who stop you, but I the Negroes themselves. “And what’s more, the wall against j which that organzier will stop will not be a tangible one It wll be laughter The speeches will be made, and perhaps, accepted with a straight' face Back home there will be a lot of thigh.slapping ” Among Mrs Peterkin’s cherished: experiences is a visit to a certain night club in Harlem, where the wife of one of the Negro proprietors is a Negro woman who grew up on the Peterkin plantation. The club was discovered some years ago by a certain white set, and was transformed into a rendezvous “Yes, Mrs Peterkin,’’ said the proprietor, ‘‘we used to have good £imes here Just black folks came, and we had a real good time “But then we were ‘discovered,’ and now we fill up with white peo_ pie It’s not so much fun,” the pro. prietor brightened up, “but we make ’em pay for it. You see this little dime bottle of ginger ale? We make ’em pay a dollar and a half for that And they like it!” MR. EINSTEIN OS PEACE By R. A. Adams (For The Literary Service Bureau) Mr. Einstein, the much talked of philosopher of indefiniteness, who said many things and essayed may roles, now undertakes to give us a RHEUMATISM? BACKACHE? NEURALGIA? .'Do yoO know what you are taking for these complaint* % t YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO TRY TABS A doctor’s prescription, scientifically prepared and. founded on a pV”"ieirT',s hospital research and PTreriopoe ip private practice. 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S P D P"i .. ; Post Office . . .. firsts . .... - formula for national and inter-natron al amity, and for universal peace This is set forth in a recent article published in the daily papers of the nation The first statement is: “Peace is a religion.” This is co_ hsonant with the tenets of Christ, ianity, and with the life and fcpach. ings of Jesus, is Founder Mr Ein. sein’s theory of contagion is sound also In regard tc this, we red:” If you believe> then pass it on to an. ether and it grows until it is an ir_ ressitible influence ” This is the con tagion of peace and is in harmony with the Master’s philosophy of “the little leaven ” There were those who were in. dined to demur when Einstein was given a medal for his “contribution to religion ’’ Thu attitude was not baseless But, ’•n this expression con. cerning definite; and his position is unassailable Peace depends upon a proper under, standing of social values, social re. latiouships, sodai obligations and responsibilities, and the appleation of these to human problems. 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