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An Unbridled, — Outstanding— Mouthpiece for Your Community “The Omaha Guide Is Your Paper” ■ 1 .. VOL. VII.—_ Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, September 30, 1933 Number Thirty-Two ||j—If Help Stimulate Business and Create A JOB for Yourself—“BUY IN OCTOBER” fJKL ! Refuses to Serve on Jury with Negro, Fined $10 V t — ~~ X.Yi w we DO OUR PART ITune In — | "DIGESTING I The NEWS" I BROADCAST^' f Every Week from this Column J By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL t AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE. The current issues of our press have been filled with the general knowldge that a colored advisory committee has been selected and per. fected by certain govrenmental agen_ cies at Washington to pass on and recommend pertinent programs for the particular benefit of our race and while this news has been received in more or less laudatory terms it will not be ^surprising to see or hear of some dissension because of the per. sorrtiel selected and more particularly becaup* of probably some not select, ed. The fact remains however that at last a committee and a program of action ha^ been devised that will probably gain for us some real action without the usual fanfare and hull, abollo of publicity or puff notices. Immediately on Mr Harry H Pace’s return from Washington, where he was elecedt vice chairman of this advisory committee, I con. suited him at length and while I learned in confidence the contem. plated action of this committee no good. For this reason I owe my readers an apology for not divulging certain bits of knowledge that I would like to publicize and which would make real news material but would in all probability defeat the purposes of the committee who are more desir. ou.' of actually accomplishing some, thing worthwhile than to be nation, ally publicized. And all readers will agree that the strength of an army is in its strategy in carrying out its campaign to a successful conclusion without any apparent leakage in its attacks. And at the expense of fall, ing down on a real news beat I must ask my readers to accept my state, ment that the Negro is really going to be taken care of in a concrete and practical manner If the efforts of - the Advisory Committee are to mean anything But the workingman is be_ ing considered and his situtation will be remedied rapidly And speaking of working I want to quote from a letter received from a concern .who offers work to some of our women: “ My dear Mr Mitchell: In keeping with your policy of giving your readers first class opportunities to earn money during their spare time we wish to call your attention to our exclusive service in preparing cosmetics for each indvidual user by our exclusive prescription method. “We can use a number of energetic young women ni each community in the country to canvas their particu. lar communities and through our in_ dividual charts prepare a definite cream for each individual laser. “You may have all of your readers who are desiring such a profitable spare time opportunity to write di_ rect to us, The Krenaex Laboratories, 105 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois. “Incidentally we would suggest that you have all of your feminine readers write direct to us for one of our individual facial and climatic analysis which we will make and for_ ward to them absolutely free. . . ” In connecton with the above letter I might state that I have been in_ f >rmed that the above concern have ne\er before attempted a contact with the colored field and within the next week or ten days I hope to have a personal interview with their exe_ cutives and at that time perhaps I can wi^te something that will appeal k not only to the readers but to the ad_ 'ertising managers of our papers as well. I would be pleased to receive com. nients from readers who have contact ed the various firms mentioned from time to time in this column and if 1 your experiences have been helpful I \ would like to pass that knowledge on to others Write, Clifford C Mit. c oil. Writer, 350/ South Parkway, Chicago, Elinois. Colored Boys Turn ed Down So far the local Moiton Picture Operators’ Union have turned down ths two Colored youths, that recently passed the city examination for Mo. tion Picture Operators and secured their license, for membership in their local branch Even though a letter from Mr Harry B Zimman, superintendent of THE BRANDIES STORE, and a strong petition of endorsement was presented to them with the follow, ing outstanding citizens requesting them to accept these two colored youths in the local organization: Mayor Roy N Towl, V B Kinney. Editor of the Labor Unionist, Dr Palmer Findley, President of the i Urban League; Mr Frank Myers, Police Commissioner; Mr S S Caldwell, proprietor of Douglas Truck Company; M C. Nollman, Chief Deputy Sheriff, District Judges James M Fitzgerald, Arthur C inomsen, n t> itnoaaes, Judge George Holmes, Municipal Judge; Robert Smith, Clerk of District Court; Emmett Hannon, City Clerk; Mr George W Allen, Chief of Po_ lice; Mr Robert Smardick, Inspect, or Police; Mr John M Gibb, City Electrician; Morris E Jacobs, 510 Electric Building; Mr Thomas C Ross, Pharmacist, Mr J Harvey Kerns, Executive Secretary of The Urban League, Joseph Owen, Phar. macis; Arthur B McCaw, Attorney; R C Price, President of NAACP ; R S. Simmons, Newspaper Report. I er; James Holmes, Tailor; Dr G B Lennox, Physician and Surgeon; Voner and Houston, Grocers; M E Johnson, Druggist; W B Bryant, Attorney; Leroy Robbins, Chief; Charles M Simmons, Tailor; D M. : Cole, minister; D W Robinson, Pharmacist, Julia Williams, Steno. grapher, Lucy Mae Samps, Steno. grapher; Percy Taylor, Barber; R | E Thull, Pharmacist Submitted by the following Committee on Septem. ber 5, 1933. R. C. Price, President of NAACP. J Harvey Kerns, Executive Secre. tary of the Urban League, Rev 0 J Burckhardt, Secretary of The Ministerial Alliance, Dr G B Len. nox, President of THE OMAHA GUIDE Working Men’s Commission, ers; Lieutenant Ed Tilrner, repre_ sentative of the American Legion, and Mr C C. Galloway, Acting Editor of THE OMAHA GUIDE. JIM OROW HOTEL MUST PAY DAMAGES OF $400 NEW YORK—Damages of $400 were awarded a party of four colored people here Tuesday by a jury in municipal- court for discrimination suffered by them at the hands of the Prince George hotel here on Sept, ember 2, 1932. The winners in the suit were Dr T Price Hurst Wash. ington physician; his mother, Mrs Bertha Hurst, widow of Bishop John Hurst, Balitmore; Dr Hurst’s , son, John Hurst, 2nd.; and Dr J E H Taylor, Washingon surgeon. On the morning of September 2 last year Dr Hurst and his party were leaving Montreal by motor car and wired the Prince George for two rooms for that night, asking the hotel to wire a reply to Albany. The hotel wired Albany stating two rooms had been reserved and thanking Dr Hurst for his patronage When the party reached New York City about lam , the hotel clerk; without look, ing up the reservation, said abruptly there was no such reservation and the party could not be accommodated. Suits were filed in the name of each person in the party and the NAACP i secured Allen Hays, eousin of Arth. j ur Garfield Hays, and Henry Van ; Veen as counsel The hotel’s main defense was that reservations not called for by “about 11 p m ” were cancelled The plain_ tiffs produced a surprise witness who had reserved a room by telegraph from Newark, N J September 16, 1933 and who claimed it at 1:05 a Arrest Proprietor ot Hayden’s Cash Market ON OUR STAFF Mr. M. L. Harris, former prorpietor and Publisher of the St. Joseph Review of St. Joseph, Missouri has joined the staff of THE OMAHA GUIDE as Advertising Manager. Mr. Harris is not a stranger to the citizens of Omaha. In 1921 he Was connection with Brandies Restaurant as headwaiter of the Grill Room and in 1922-23 Headwaiter at the Blackstone. Since then he has devoted his time mostly to lecturing and organization work through the States of Minnesota, Missouri, Okla homa ad Texas. Mr. Harris will edit a column each week for THE OMAHA GUIDE AND will contribute to our Editorial page. m , and was cheerfully accommodate ed. Dr Hurst is a graduate of Am. herst college and Harvard medical college, is an xray expert, a member faculty and the staff of Freedmen’s of the Howard university medical hospital in Washington 81 NEGROES LOSE JOBS IN CHAPEL HILL CHAPEL HILL—Eighty one jobs in the dining halls and other depart, ments of the University of North Carolina here which up to this year have been held by Negro wrorkmen will be lost to them this fall The University announced last week that the jobs were needed by students who could not otherwise afford to pay tuition. Salaries from the jobs ap_ proximated $25,000 annually ROBESON’S “EMPEROR JONES” BREAKS THEA TRE RECORDS NEW YORK— All records for this year for the Rivoli theatre, 49th street and Broadway, were broken in the first two days of the showing of Paul Robeson in “Emperor Jones,” according to the producers. Outstand_ ing films which have played the Rivoli this year are “I Cover the Waterfront,” “The Kid from Spain,” with Eddie Cantor; “A Bed Time Story,” with Maurice Chevalier; “Bitter Sweet,v ad ‘‘The Masquerad. or,” with Ronald Coleman The critics have disagreed about some aspects of the film, but on one point they are united: Robeson is magnificent. Even the Communist Daily Worker critic writes “Robeson s swell.” The producers Messrs. John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran are hopeful the film may be booked in the South and would be glad to hear from individuals and theatres. They may be addressed at 509 Madison avenue, New York, N. Y. TO BE AT THE RITZ THEARTE SOON TROJANS SPONSOR N. R. A. MEET!!! Y. W. C. A. OCTOBER 10 The Trojan Girls’ Club is planning something that should be of interest to most everyone This big event is to be an N R A meeting concerning all household employees It is being called at the request of the Women’s Labor Department of the United States Bureau The Bureau has re_ quested the Y W C A of Amer. ica to secure the attitude of house, hold workers toward the N. R. A Code. A special speaker from the Federal Employment Department will speak and there will be an oppor tunity for questions and discussion The Trwjans cordially invite everyone | to attend this meeting Do not for. get that important date and place. The Northside Y. W C A on Oct. ■ ober 10, at 8 p m j 36 MEN ARE SENT TO MISSOURI RIVER WORK The reemployment office in the courthouse has sent 36 men to the Condon, Cunninghhm and Cole Con. struction company for preliminary work connection with its $763,000 contract for improving the Florence bend of the Missouri river The com. pany*S pile driving equipment and barges have not arrived from Kansas City. Fined $10 VIRGINIAN FARMER FINED AS OBJECTOR TO NEGROES ON JURY RICHMOND, Va. — Wellford Gill, man, former, was fined $10 by Judge Frederick W. Coleman, in Hanover Counyt last week for refusing to serve on a grand jury because the Circuit Court had appointed two Ne_ groes to serve on the jury When Gillman told the court that he had no money to pay the fine, Judge Coleman sentenced him to serve two days in jail. At this juncture friends of Gill_ | man came forward and paid the fine for him. Judge Coleman is one of several Virginia judges who have decided to call Negroes for jury service as a re_ suit of the refusal of Federal Judge Lowell, of Boston, to permit George Ciawford, Negro, to b* extradited to Virginia to answer the charge of mur_ der Dur ng the absence of his wife who is usually in charge, Mr L L Hay. den of the Hayden Cash Market which is a member of the Square Deal i Stores was arrested Saturday, Sept ember 23 and charged with irregular operation under the local one day a week closing law. According to witnesses the arrest was evidently prompted by an enter prising 24th Street merchant who is suspected of leading several under cover attacks on various members of the Square Deal organization because they have secured a certain amount of “his business ” It is claimed that the incensed mer. I chant accompanied by a police and his little colored delivery boy drove up near the Hayden Store and the unsuspecting little boy was given a dime and told to put up an urgent preteinse to get a can of corn and when the youngster returned with the purchase the police officer made the arrest Mr Hayden was held under $50.00 ! cash bond until Monday morning,! when he was released and given a suspended fine of $15.00. President Addresses Vv elf are Workers (From the Herald Tribune Bureau) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — Presi. dent Roosevelt’s address today before the third annual Conference on Mob. ilization for Human Needs follows: Mr. Secretary of State, and you who are the leaders in this cause for the alleviation of human need: I have been somewhat occupied du_ ring the last forty eight hours with human needs in other parts of the world, outside of our own country— occupied in the hope that the United States would not have to act outside of their own quarters, in the hope that another republic will be able to solve its own diffuclties just as we are seeking to solve our difficulties And, so; I have no set speech to de_ liver to you today. I want to talk to yom very simply and very briefly in regard to what might be called the “whole of the picture.’’ You are not the whole of the picture and neither am I, but the nation is. Our task, I think, is to complete the whole of the picture and not leave any unfinished portion thereof As you know, the many govern, ments in the United States, the Fed. eral government, the forty eight statfi) governments and the tens of thou, sands of local governmentsare doing their best to meet what has been in many ways one of the most serious crises in history On the whole, they have done well. The Federal govern, ment cannot^ by any means, accomp. lish the task alone. The government has, during these last months, enter, ed into many fields of human endeav or that it has never participated in (Continued on page Five) Workers Demand Only 80c P er Day U. S. WARSHIP SPEEDING TO CUBAN MILLS Sugar Workers Seize Rockefeller Property; Demand 80. a Day HAVANA—Ready to bombard the | sugar mills seized by revolutionary j Cuban sugar workers, the United States warship Hamilton, is speeding 1 toward Tanamo, 500 miles east to i Havana, ready to land marines if the Cuban workers refuse to surrender the mills Owned By Rockefeller The mills are owned by Percy Rockefeller, member of John D Rockefeller’s family, and Vincent Astor, American multi millionaire. The Cuban workers who have seized ! the mills demand minimum wages of j 80 cents a day, the eight hour day recognition of their union, half pay I for all unemployed workers, free i housing and medical care. . Before the revolution the Rocke. j feller Astor Company was paying them 24 cents a day for 14 hours’ work Mines controlled indirectly by the United States Steel Corporation, •which, in turn, is controlled by the Wall Street house of J P Morgan, have also been seized by the workers at El Cristo N.A.A.C.P. BRANCHES ACTIVE ON NRA NEW YORK—Branches of the N. A A C P. n all sections of the country are active in investigating the effect of the NRA on Negroes and in reporting findings to the proper authorities The Chicago branch has reported a number of cases directly to the National Recovery Administra_ tion in Washington and has ascer tained in another instance, that the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in Chicago sent a request to the Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare for “young WHITE men between the ages of 18 and 24 with high school education.” From other branches re quests are going to Washington to have the flood control workers includ_ ed in the general contractors’ code in the matters of minimum wages and maximum hours The Reverend Moth_ er Katharine Drexel, superior general of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacre_ ment for Indians and Colored People has sent a telegram and a letter to President Roosevelt on the levee workrs, as she is tremendously in terested in the Mississippi Delta sec tion, having provided the funds for Xavier university at New Orleans. MAN SHOT AFTER HEATED ARGUMENT It is alleged that Gene Pendleton, 1513 North Twentieth Street, shot William Patterson in the left leg twice Saturday night after a heated argument It is alleged that Patter, son attacked PencTleton, who after, wards shot him Pendleton escaped the police after the shooting, and on Sunday morn, ing called at the Station to see if he could be released on bond, and said that he was on his way down with a bondsman N. A. A. C. P. RESENTS SLUR ON CHURCH NEW YORK—A reference to Negro churches as “darky” churches by Helen Worden, a society writer for the New York World Telegram, has drawn a protest from the N A A C P Miss Worden, speaking of the heavy society attendance at the pre. miere of “Emperor Jones,” said she had heard the church in the film was a duplicate of the “darky churches in Carolina.’’ The N A A C P. letter to Lee B Wood, executive edi. tor of the paper> stated the word was offensive to Negroes and was in spe. cial bad taste when used to refer to an institution very near to the hearts of colored people. It is believed the word slipped into the society column with out the knowledge of the higher editors as the World Telegram is one of the fairest dailies in the whole country in its handling of news about Negroes LOANS TO BENEFIT UN FINISHED HOMES Congressman E R. Burke was advised by the Home Owners Loan Corporation in Washington Wednes. day that it will be possible for home owners living in uncompleted houses to obtain government loans for their completion The act specifies cash loans only for necessary repairs Mr Burke had requests from 50 persons in Nebraska, of whom 20 were in and near Omaha, living in the basements or wings of homes they had started but could not complete W F Stevenson, national chair, man of the Home Owners Loan Cor. poration, referred Burke’s problem to W F Thompson, assistant attorney, who ruled that “it is possible in cases of real distress for a home owner to borrow the necessary funds to finish his uncompleted home.” All such cases will have to go to Washington under the provision that all cash loans must be passed upon there CERTIFICATE AT 80 SEEKS TEACHING COLUMBIA, S. C —An applica. tion was received here this week by the state department of education for a teacher’s certificate from Thomas McLean, 77th St Philip street, Charleston, S C With his application Mr McLean sent a diploma to show that he was graduated from the University of South Carolina ni 1877 nearly 60 years ago Mr. McLean is now eigh_ ty. He is one of the few living gra_ duates of the university of that time. Mr McLean attended the Univer. sity of South Carolina during the Reconstruction Days when Negro students were admitted. Before en_ tering, he went to the Putnam high school at Newbury, Mass., from which he was graduated in 1874 and spent one year at Amherst college He claims a teaching record of 40 years, having taught in the Indian summer school service in Oregon and North Dakota, and in Texas for nine years. He also has taught in several | South Carolina schools