An Unbridled, — Outstanding— :r Mouthpiece for Your Community “The Omaha Guide i - '* *. • f * *.* ' Is Your Paper” . . . , .j t * * •. • s * • • . r •’ ..*•'« ’» *'•** >■;;* •?*.»*'». •• «s. ■ •* ^ .. ■ VOL. YU.— >• , , v Omaha, NebrashK,'October 7,1933 ^ v ; : - • * ; ■ - fflJMBEE THIBTY^THREE. • -■ - h*ii--gwww ' , •- ' ✓ Wt DO OUR PART I Tune In - '■> I “0I6ESTING f me HEWS" | B RO A DG AST 1.1 • i Every Week from tfcfs Colomn J ^By^CLIFFORDC^ HITCHELt ■ ^ r o •••u; ;»» " An Advertising Agency Writes Some -weeks,, agoyin -this' cblurrfn, I commented cm .th^Tpeeript ■of a> letter from a Los Angeles reader A-f»jiar-‘ ently this column is read widely by all cas'ses oT‘ p^hsors' for* fam^in re* ceipt of the folowing letter from J D “cEwe/i, ,yic£„|»r<»side*t$ of th^ Anfenger AJverti^jn^. ^Agency. Inc , St Louis, Mo ' '." “ Deaf Mr 1 'Mitchell:' ' In the September 16th-issue of’ tfofe' Othafia Guide, tb.fe sartwe-WrtfctP-' appeared nationally as well) I note in your column a comment from oneofjour readers, Miss Gittift SHapelr' 6f' Los « > y • * A V* * Angeles; Caiiorma,''as to ‘Why yod 'if ..». don’t get sorife'crf the' large adver tisers of * the c be retry in- the :-eolore5 newspapers and'fbr yo& td-Ary *and get them to use coidi*eti - models in their advertisements “You will be interested to know that the Godefroy Mfg Company, manufacturers of Larieuse French Hair Coloring are doing this eery thing “Attached are four proofs of ads that are appearing .in Negro news papers throughout the United States Also you will note that- the models used for the ilustrations in these ads are Negro Stage Stars The Gode froy Mfg Company have found these ads very effective and they plan to continue using this type of copy I am glad to receive these expres ses from my readers and am glad to be able to make them public as an encouragement to other readers. And I am sur our advertising managers will be pleased to know, that they find your space very effective It was only this week that I talked with the president of a large white concern who have been advertising in t'h white publications for ever twenty years and have built up an enormous business without ever once appealing to or using the colored meuiums He seemed to bp impressed and was surprised to learn that su.ch a field existed and promised to con sider entering the colored field If they do I shall give full publicity to their pans through this column and would then suggest that each adver tising manager commence to. make direict contact with them so as to work together in developing the fielc for them ■ ■> ■■ In last weeks column I mentioned the Kuhn Remedy Company, of 1857 Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago Since then I have met personally the pro prietor, Mrs. Gladys Lohff Her fath r 3tarted this business in 1896 and conducted it successfully to a nation wide reputation in the white field un til nearly three years ago when he died In the meantime Mrs Lohff her father in confidential ways Af had learned the business by assisting te»r her father died she and her and since then the widow has conducted the business alone She is now pre paring heT winter and 1934 advertis ing budget and I would suggest that our advertising managers contact her accordingly for she believes in adver tising where it is proven that the medium is resultful Mrs E Nightengal Scott, presid. ent of Scott’s Beauty School, 4305 Forestville Avenue, Chicago, called at my office, leaving me some of her literature and requested that at my convenience that I call at her school as she felt that I would observe suf ficient to give me material for a spe cial feature on her activities She in a different way and she is anxious to let the public know how she can serve them She also gets out a little mimeographed monthly publication describing her service and her pro ducts which she will send free to all readers writing for same I hope to call on her within the next few days and will then accurately describe my reaction to the visit. yses _ _ _ a u .. . „ . , - • —Barnett ' anti1 Btrj'd V" Gallo ws#”, licensed Negro operators, began work ^atttW4y,‘Sdl5^ber,'3«rd«t'l to -make • appfiea tjopa ’membership in ithe - focal* opfrfLtopk'uni'on r>The 'employtftenVcf • these two- men aS’-projectSbriist^- marks the terrtinbtmn'-of ta tfrffee* yeai'S" of united effert by Trading* citizens to ef fect/ the; hirmg^iwf loolbred- machine operators in- a« theatre iwith 959fc; per cent^colored patrqnage . v». rf Although Mr H ATaylor/ ‘ the Ritz manager, had from the bginning expressed, hiSj willingness. to cooperate with the citiiens along, this JLn'e, it was found a'lihost impossible'to secu're city license It was only after.Com-, . * '’K * ; •r 'f * • * * missioned Frank L Frost introduced a new ordiance which was passed that the young meii were" able to Secure the necessary license • l~ -.'.v;—v. Mr Taylor has- received much praise for lys fairness in giving the two young men, \yho have, sacrificed much in order to secure an education a chance to exercise their knowledge in one of the better paying positions that the community has to offer Mr J Harvey Kerns, Rev 0 J. Burekhardt, Dr. G B Lennox, Lieut. Ed Turner Mr C C Galloway, Mr R C Price were active on a com mittee in behalf of the boys. JAMES • WELDON JOHNSON AUTOBIOGRAPHY PUBLISHED • • A _■> ^ NEW YORK—“Along This Way,” the autobiography of James Weldon Johnson', was published Monday,1 October 2,-by-the Viking Fh-ess, 18 East 48th ^Street, New York In the book, iMr , ...Johnson traces in detail his early life in Florida, his educa_ tion at Atlanta university, his liter ary work,.his song lyric writing his consular service in Venezuela, hia work for fourteen years' as secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and his experieCes as a member of the American delegation to the Institute of Pacific Relations in Kyoto, Japan in 1929 An inside account of the great battle against lynching, which was one of the highlights of his N A A C P secretaryship, culminat ing in the Dyer anti lynching bill, is given by the author, with many inter esting documents not heretofore pub lished. The New Yorker magazine for September 30 contains a brief life sketch of Mr Johnson by Robert Wohlforth. LINCOLN’S HOMES LIST FOR THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE FOUNDATION . FORT WAYNE, Ind. — (CNS)— A complete record of the dwelling places of Abraham Lincoln and the length of time spent at each has been com piled by Dr Louis A Warren, di rector of tht Lincoln National Life Foundation “In round numbers,” said Dr War ren, “Lincoln resided in Kentucky seven years; Indiana, fourteen years; rural Illinois, seven years; Spring field, Illinois, twenty one years, and in Washington, seven years. “The task of remembering the ium I ber is easy when it is noted tha+ I they are all multiples of seven.” THE ANNUAL. pQN,FER£NCE,.A>E TEE NAT?.O^Ut^UC*P.vHJBA^TR ,W$EK SPONSORED BY THE NAT. J;ONAL 'NEfcrfb ' ftEALTH MOVE-' ,.,-v . MENT 4>. Jp,^e .Co^Vagg;'Ai?encie?>;,i ,Gijg§tmgs: „ . ^ , .. JY^nVsfdajl,^ OcfbVeV 25, lSf33,"has beep dersfgh'at&I for {Tie Annual' Cdn. ferepce»o*f-the- NtttfdnaP‘Ndgfo'5He41th Week. -.1r.*.•■.* * .-*< ■.**• , . The Conference will, eonventf' ip'the auditorium of the npyr building tof,Hi*-, Public -.Health.--Service,'-Constitatfieto Avenue, betwfte^.l^ and ,20th-St-s*. ^ -W y.1^, A ?eIpain )«»• continuous sessjon .xjntjl }:00 P. .Ml,. ., TlTe Age apd fpr - the .,Conference, wilt "include: , „v, 1 Review of the 1933 f National. iS^egro Health Week o,b>s,epvanc^. . 2 ’ Outline of. pfogcarn.^fop. the 193? National Negro Health Week.^ 5 Suggestions for special fea tufes in recognition of the Twentieth Anniversary of the founding 6f the National" Negro' "Health Vfedic' ' .4 s< Consideration of the* National Permanent' Award for three *years’’ excellece in •'the Health Week obfeerv' vance, and an Activities Award for loca.l organizations.. < 5. Report by- personal represent-J atives or transmitted, memoranda •- of. cooperating agencies of possible aid in— (a) The supply of literature, exhibits, and motion pictures. (b) The services of speakers, or personnel for demonstrations, contests, or clinics, and other ser vices of a practical kind, including opportunities for the use—temporary or, preferably, permanent—of colored workers where the population and. problems of the Negro indicate their usefulness. , ' ■ 6 Inspection' of the National Negro Health Week Conference ’ Ex hibit . Informal talks and discussion may j follow adjournment of ..the .Confer ence. '■ '* ' ‘ ' j ence The Public Health Service will ap preciate acceptance of this invitation by personal representation or-thei transmittal of a written memorandum. Respectfully, s < H S CUMING, Surgeon General , OHIO N. A. A. C. P. BRANCHES TO WATCH JOBS, RELIEF, SCHOOLS ZANESVILLE, 0., —. Resolu tions adopted here by the fourth an nual state conference of N A A C P. branches stress the necessity of careful check on the distribution of public relief, a watch to prevent discrimination in employment on pubic works, an alerness to report violations of the N R A. codes to local authorities The conference also resolved to work for the retirement of the judges in the supreme court who rendered the decision in the Dor is Waver case at Ohio State univer sity; and urged Governor White to call a special session of the legisla_ ture to provide adequate appropria. tion for the schools of the state DRIVING OUT MINISTER CALLED “LOCAL AFFAIR” BY N. R. A. HEADS NEW YORK—The driving: out of town of a colored minister by Selma, Alabama whites because he refused to endorse a code lower than the N R. A standards was called “an infraction of local laws” by Alvin Brown, assisant to General Hugh JoKhson, in answer to a letter of complaint from the N A A C. P Mr Brown’s letter said ‘‘it is not clear what steps this administration might properly take or suggest’’ In reply, Walter White, secretary of the association, asks if the Nation_ al Recovery Administration “s so i Jwplesa that it cannot aj, .least sharp ly; -reprimand'the persons whoh'ave ,4one this thing—and.if^the N..JR \ isr.restrained’^from pufcjjpty re^pudi^t^ ing .sucl?' vjciopsljr^uplawfjjl activities in the name of the N R A ASK RQO£EV,ELT m.. E N D CONTRtH, OF.-HAlffiAN.FIN. • - ^ i ances, cftr 0A$d ^VaSHINGT.QX. — Terwuiatiop m Anierican -ffflanciaf eon'trdd in ■Haft! pef^«^teiT^o &Wt a^deft 'due to jfrtvafe bknkSrs” and a3miru istraVivi ’3ictioA%§fmilar to’ lhat'tafcen ixbiCuba' fo effedt^a scaling down ot tjhp,J^an^’by" these banCors were* urged oj .President'RobsevSlt' ^epfenther"^ ir^ a mdrtibrihl slgned'*by!"liljbralfe iffid liberal idi^aTHiatio/rSt' The- ’menidriil commended* th*e prWisibhb'of the 'focb cut We Agfferrifeht"jffgn&i Attgiist "‘T Whidh promised ' the * withdrawal ot marines from Haiti but recommend ed* that ‘ftiftbeY hkgAtfatiorri *' be *ud_ dertaken- fdr1 the’ ’setfletnedf :'bf£ *Rri 'awtial pr4bl«dns‘hy ah' official '{rb’Sf y? Supporting*"this pbtrcy wefe 'Yhe American Civil :I4beftiesfUnidn, 'by Harry F- ‘Ward,1 chairman*and Rogeir N Baldwin,-director; the Fellowship of Reconciliation, *by;J . ‘B' Matthews, secretary: the L’eaigue-for: Industrial Democracy,/by Mtfrv: Fox. secretary; th^ Natiohhl Association for the' Ad. vancemeht of Colored People, by "Walter White, secretary; the Wom en’s International League for Peace and Freedom 'by Dorothy Detzer, se t’afy; and the National Urban League, by Eugene Kinckle Jones, secretary and L Hollingsworth W-ood, presi dent; Rabbi Edward L Israel, Balti_ more; Hubert Herring, New , York; Rabbi Sidney E Goldstein, New York and Charles A Thompson, New York. HARLEM VOTERS RETIRE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. BOSSES NEW YORK—Two principal parts of the Democratic party'machine, and the Republican party, machine were wrecked in Harlem’s Twenty-Second Assembly District, by the organized efforts of Insurgent Democratic and Insurgent Republican workers in the primaries of last week - •« Republican ; leader: John > A. Battes and Democratic- leader Henry: Theil usson being .-defeated by the organ ised Antis . • »■ • . - - - • •; ■ | . c; -!—.—^: VIRGINIA DAILY RACKS NE GROES ON GRAND JURIES IN STATE RICHMOND,. Va ;—Declaring that Judge Lowell, in his famous decision iiv the .George Crawford case, “point, ed to; a sore:spot in the Vriginia sys tem of justice,” the Richmond Times Dispatch, editorially praises Judge Frederick W Coleman, who fined a white citizen $10 for refusing to sit on a grand jury with a Negro. Speaking of the Crawford case, which attracted national attention when carried through Massachusetts courts by NAACP attorneys, and isj now before the U S supreme court, the Times Dispatch says: “The dan ger of a system which does not re cognize Negroes in its deliberations has been sharply emphasized in the case of George Crawford—Judge Lowell’s decision was based on the fact that Negroes are not called for jury service in Loudoun county and j therefore the case against Crawford, may have been prejudiced — Judge Coleman is right There is no better time than the present to cure a sore spot which has brought to Virginia much unfavorable publicity.” - IMPORTANT MEASURES OF NRA • PROGRAM AFFECTING EDUCATION WASHINGTON—(CNS)—The Of fice of Education, through its Special ist in Negro Education. Dr. Ambrose Caliver, calls attention to two import ant measures of the NRA program affecting education. One concerns Federal Relief funds for needy un employed teachers, the other relates to the Public Works Administration funds for building school houses. I -1 ■ N,vA. A. C. P. Secures Copy Set , J4.»$ $10-55 ip,N.ortti ^nd $9*5{AIa $opth Wliicit . Southfni.; whjte Committee, Was Aa. Present ts«>Jt j. fi-t-M. A- Officials :n-;-c: .->*#• ,f -.-«*■TT3- *4'* COLORED. XABQR ADVISORY •, BOARD lylEMBER APAJN , , : ’ .URGED,. . , .v,i> ■•■vr 1 - ■*’ NEW YORK—A: .SJ>ecialJjft lU«iU?e«ii ,,c<*de which Jfgujd permit., employees. jwhqi#mad.e^|jrppfyjp)j>licf$on fo. hpre Wfg&fs’ jn'thft Jg.vgA at ^rrtyiijqum .N9rtA at!?.V°,*^awa^d^ign^d -Ax-.,s»at%jn whit^ jw^had^iagpgjd »lfi» KOt prominent N^rajS^* id^tlje. Sijutt tg^ endorse i^for. .presentation ' ^aa^niton,' .tfee ational Asg^i»tipp...fog ;tj}£A&. .yafl^ei\ti0o^..„Cv;orfd../geg^p. has, Jaarpf d . ^ *•*■> »•* A. .cop^^of^.^.prgP^ed, lfcepsipg. pgtje has’ ta&.j|e$tk to,th?.. NAAC£. , R?.y,.',E ., D,^Hughps, .;E, .minister who was driveij^put of .geJ,_ mia.i-Alabqjp)^ : b^c^se-,he • refused tg, teadoxse it,,* ■ i M :v ‘. ' * . ’n\ ' F. AfnfcS> head , pf;„ M\g. Selma ^lanfucaturing. company, who mailed •t.Rer.bode to Rev Hughes asking hfs1 endorsement, A*id-—he believed this ptarr (was ;the only ‘ons; ’whith-'w'otrid' ge{ colored people a fair-afhouift of ' (Continued ‘on page '2) * AWARDING LEE SWORD TO ARMY CADET RAPPED by g; A. R. ST PAUL* Minn —(CNS) — The j Grand Army of the Republic' con demns the practice of the Daughters of .the Confederacy of presenting each year a Robert E Lee sword to a West Point Military Academy cadet. The Civil War veterans, as their sixty seventh encampment ended, urged the Government to abolish the practice It was the first time in their history that they had taken the action Another resolution protested a gainst sale of 50 .cent- eoins ‘ at the World’s Fair in Chicago to aid in de fraying the Cost of the Stone Moun tain Memorial to confederate soldiers! — --- ■■ ■ ’-t VIRGIN ISLANDS’ ECONOMY SITUATION LIKELY TO SOON IMPROVE ' ’ • • -» ST.; THOMAS, • V. L —' (CNS)— Leading citizens here and all the newspapers are optimistic c5f th£ In/ terior and the government 'of the is-1, lands a: e taking in facilitating Amer ican capital interested in development of the Virgin Islands sugar industry. Governor Paul M Pearson has been in Washington, where he appeared at government hearings in connection with sugar allotments from various countries. / . The repeal of prohibition will play a great part in the future operations of the concern, it js. said, since present and bay rum in addition to sugar, and plans call for the manufacture of run contemplate the use of the Port of St Thomas as a transshipment center with a bonded warehouse for sugar that will be sent from Hayti to be refined at the company’s works at St. Croix. It is stated that more than $1,000, 000 of American capital will be in vested in the sugar industry of the Virgin Islands if negotiations now be. ing carried on by the Haytian Amer ican Sugar Company, vrith head quarters at Port au Prince, Hayti, for the purchase of the Bethlehem sugar interests of St Croix are suc cessful. FORMER PRUDENTIAL BANK EMPLOYES HELD FOR EMBEZZLEMENT WASHINGTON—(CNS) — Charg. 1 ed with embezzlement of a total of about $6,000 from the former Prud ential Bank, two brothers, Clarence S Baker and Edward A Baker, employes of that bank, were arrested last week and held under $5,00 bonds. f •'* ,4«£* ;!:••:•<*-;d^ ? T ~ j JJK-ANTS1 TO KJjOJE, ?\EHERE -TQ: ".;-» ..BUY POSTAG^jj^VMP^ WASHINGTON—(CNSs)— A puz. zled^sUjb^ber J.tfl.,t)^> N^A., pledge has-. ;Wi;it,4*i#410 nejnsifia p^r&r-an ;yicpjir}#J vybicJU hiS b&en Vea. .ferjred tjp.,,Gep!erjd 4}:ugh;iS. .•.Jbhiwon tax answer: yii'/K • 1 j JUxeads ag follows: t V^W ill.xpu ~k»nd-ly.i enAighten a pu*zi ,gd sutsoriber ?:I# I Srigft the piedg^ to deai with< cprtfcernfe-’, which ’hlave'l ‘‘.signed *up”;and 'display;the -NRA 'in. I sig.au, wherd-ami te^get m’y po’stage 'i ,stamps % I -*am’fi buy- -Ifheitov,* as : Here. ‘ tqSo-re from >the» Government,1 for the Oovei ".ijfcnt hnsfi’trSigni^d up’:!".' 4 ,-;» *•'.* r»t'» »»■ -» ■ • **A • NEGRO GIRL WINS PR^B FOR • DANCING AT IRISH FETE l , - i. •* >■-> t 1 ; CfT. '’NEW YORK CITY4— (UN'S)‘ IVl’iss . . ^ J ' Inez Emptage, an 1§ yegr o.ld colored , girl, danced her v$ay. to three first J places in the three, .hand reel, the. double jig and .the feel. The. other' girls who danced \yith Miss Emptage ' in the three hand reel were both white The dances were typical Irish steps. Miss Emptage, was born in Dublin, .Ireland, and came to this country at| the age of one year She graduated in' June from the St Joseph’s High • School and was the only colored con: testant in the,: dancing events. She was entered by her dance instructor * • • James MeKenna. . i The event was sponsored by a white organization, the United Irish Coun ties Association. FLAG ASSOCIATION WARS ON CRIME, BUT NOT LNCHING •. ..i. . 1 , . * WASHINGTON — The United Flag Association is calling a national Anti-Grime conference here October 12-14, and'has pcked out every known crime to fight — except lyching and mob violence. The Flag association lists murders, kidnapings, burglaries," arson, dope, racketeering, and vice, but.says not a mumbling word about: lynching Walter White, secretary of the: NAACP , who has been invited t( attend the confab, is suggesting the :great American pastime might be fought along with other crimes. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ANNUAL CONVENTION KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Negro em ployees in the Federal service were ably represented in the Twelfth An nual Convention of th National Fed eration of Federal Employees here this week E L Scott, president of i local 71 in the District of Columbia, took a part in all of the deliberations j and was especially active in support | —the convention movement in favor of repealing the marital status pro vision of the economy act which se parate?! either husband or wife from service when reductions of force are i necessary. *__ PERRY JACKSON ELECTED MEM BER OF CITY COUNCIL IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, Ohio— (CNS)— Per ry B Jackson, a former member of the Ohio General Assembly, has been elected a membr of the city council. He succeeds Attorney Clayboume George, who resigned to run for Judge of the Municipal Court. NEW YORK BRANCH N. A. A. C. P. OPENS DRIVE NEW YORK—The annual member ship campaign of the New York branch of the NAACP will start October 1 and continue for two weeks under the direction of William Pick, ens, field secretary. James Egert Al len is president ’. TJkje Kanban Nfebraiith Annual Con ference dfV5tfie" Fifth ’ E^s'copal' Dis- " * trict oprihed ’2t 'St^'Jirfi'fi’s A M fc Church * ht'' 2fend* in‘d^ "Willis ’ Avenue .W&cJnesddV' ifeorJlinj? at ri0 am' ^lan^ pastors *'an