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>Te\v Opportunities Opening Up.
My readers, and especially our ad
vertising managers, will be inter
ested in the following letter:
“ . . .Dear Mr. Mitchell: “As we
have been following your efforts
through your various columns in tin
many colored publications for which
you write we are offering to yau
and your readers something entirely
new and which we sincerely believe j
has never 'before been offered to the ■
. general public.
A “Out of the many creations le-!
' signed and developed at the Century
of Progress here, the new Paris
Cape, the latest Hollywood Fad, is a
practical and useful garment, made
in five colors and designed for the
useof both men and women. It is
small and compact, using only a
> small space when not in use, ex
tremely flexible, made of thin Gum
Rubber. Special sizes are unneces
sary and the cape is adaptable lor
use in rain or shine.
“We are introducing this cape to
the general public and desire an
energetic and hustling agent in each
community of the country who will
find this cape the fastest selling spe
cialty on the market today.
“Incidentally this cape sells to the
ultimate consumer for only one dol
lar, easily within the price reach of
every pocketbook, and where >\e
have no active agent on the job
will, on receipt of one dollar sent to
us, the Consumers Raincoat Com
pany, 456 Transportation Building,
Chicago, forward a cape in any of
the following standardized colors,
green, red, blue, white or black. Our
experience has been that each pur
chaser of a cape automatically be
comes an active agent forthe product
sells on sight.
we woum De very giaa, i»ir. iuii
chell, to have you introduce this
cape for us through your many
columns as it will mean thousands
of satisfied cape users, and create
opportunities for thousands of oth
er agents who can do this work in
their spare or whole time.
“Also advise us ofa practical
method of securing the most beuo- j
ficial “coverage" o f advertising i
space in the colored publications.
I understand that this firm has
never attempted to contact Negro t
readers as a group and I would ad
h vise our advertising managers to j
* cooperate with them in every parti
cular.
The Friendly Tip Company, 3210
Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, manu
facturers of “Sta^Sweet” and other
cosmetic preparations are about ro
put on an active campaign to secure
^ thousands of agents in every part of
' the country and those interested
would do well in writing to them
direct. And the names of the many
who have written directly to me for
to me efor such opportunities will
be turned over to them so if you do
not hear from me personally you
should be hearing from these var
ious concerns who can use your ser
vice from the to time. I'll tell you
more about the “Sta-Sweet" oppor
tunity after I have personally con
tacted them.
I have been asked .o publicly an
nounce the fact that Arite F. Gen
try, has opened up the “Modern
Flower Shop” right in the same
building in which I am located, his
address being, 409 East 35th Street,
Chicago. And Mr. Gentry wants it
particularly known that he is in pos
ition to handle all out of town or
ders, either mail or telegraph, from
persons who may flowers for all oc
casions delivered to friends and ac
quaintances in Chicago. Mr. Gentry
hails from Kansas City, having oper
ated a florist shop there for throe
years, moving to Chicago about five
years ago.
I thank the Kuhn Remedy Com
pany, 1857 Milwaukee Avenue, Chi
cago, for the little booklet of testi
monials concerning their rheumatic
remedy and when space permits I
shall be glad to quote some of these
tetimonials for the benefit of *he
thousands of my readers who can
use their product with much satis
faction to themselves and the com
pany. Incidentaly thisl firm also de
sires active agents throughout the
country.
BIRMINGHAM NAACP. OFFERS
$100 REWARD FOR TUSCALOOSA
LYNCHERS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Bir
mingham branch of the National As.
V sociation for the Advancement of
• Colored People has telegraphed Gov
ernor B M Miller offering $100 re
ward in addition to the governor’s
$400 reward for the arrest and con
viction of -the lynchers of Dennis
Cross, Tuscaloosa paralytic, who w7as
• ( shot to death by a group of white men
\ posing as officers.
MRS. MARY DAYIS SUES FOR
DIVORCE
Mrs. Mary Davis of 2318 North
28th Avenue, is suing Mr. George
Davis for divorce, on the grounds of
cruelty and non-support.
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VOL. VII.— _OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY OCT. 21st., 1933NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE
CasEi For Unem
ployed
At the next meeting of the State
Fedeial Relief Committee, I will offer
a resolution providing for the pay_
ment of relief in money as wages, in
stead of in grocery orders, as at pres
ent. There is plenty of public work
to be done in Omaha. If the unemploy
ed person is connected with a job he
can fee', and the public can feel, that
he is earning what he gets and is not
accepting charity, even though he is
paid from federal funds.
It is my firm belief that the vast
majority of the unemployed want to
earn their living rather than accept
charity. Work for the unemployed will
increase their morale in many ways.
I am not alone in my belief as to
spending the Federal money for wages
rather than for grocery orders. On
September 23rd., 1933, Harry L. Hop
kins, Federal Relief Administrator
said, when addressing the U S. Con
ference of Mayors:
“I don’t believe in grocery orders. I
have come around to believe in cash
nstead of grocery orders if you are
going to give relief.”
“I think it is all nonsense, this busi
ness about people not being able to
handle the money. They can handle
the money as well as you can handle
your money.”
We have from 5.000 to 6,000 fam
ilies on the relief rolls in Douglas
County now. This number will in
crease as the weather gets colder.
The various projects will employ only
a comparatively small number, while
federal work relief would give- jobs to
hundreds of our distressed fellow citi
zens. My thought is to give work re
lief in money, at once. It will simplify
the relief problem and will help ev
eryone.
—
Atty. John Adams
On The Radio
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peoplej grew
ou of a small committee organized in
1909, after the terrible race riott in
Springfield, Illinois Carter Woodson,
the historian, says} “It sprang from
whites and blacks who believed that
some good can be accomplished by
publicity, by agitation and memorial
izing the state legislatures and Con_
gress for a redress of grievances.” It
was an attempt on the part of both
races to organize, and cooperate to
bring about a better understanding,
full opportunity and justice.
From a small committee in the last
25 years? it has to a nation wide or
ganization. It has over 400 branches
covering 44 states, with membership
running into the millions. It has press
release in over 200 Negro newspapers,
arnd in a great number of white
journals.
Ihe essentials point3 of its plat,
form are as fellows:
1. A vote for every Negro man
and woman on the same terms -as for
white men and women.
2. An equal chance to acquire the
kind of education that will enable the
Negro every where wisely to use his
vote.
3. A fair trial in the courts for all
crimes of which he is accused, by
judges in whose election he has parti
cipated, without discrimination be.
cause of race.
4. A right to sit upon the jury
which passes judgment upon him.
5. Defense against lynching and
burning at the hands of mobs.
6. Equal sendee on railroads and
other public carriers.
7. Equal right to the use of pub
lic parks, libraries and other comm,
unity services for which he is taxed.
8. An equal chance for a liveli
hood in public and private employ,
ment.
9. The abolition of color hyphena
tion, and the substitution of straight
Americanism. In short we might say
its purpose is as follows; in the words
of William Pickens, one of the fore,
most orators of the country, and the
field secretary of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Col.
ored People, “To emancipate America
from caste prejudice, to set the Ne_
gro free from the barriers which now
confronts him, to open to America the
large gifts of this great group of her
population.”
Scottsboro Mother ; To Be In Omaha
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Utility Ownership Turned Down By Ala.
Its methods used for the fulfilment
of this platform are peaceful and with
in the law: first, the education of
public opinion; second, the use of the
courts; third, the legislatures; fourth,
nt liigent use of the ballot, and fifth,
cel oral ard economic stimulus.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, is
supported financially by voluntary
membership and contributions. The
total budget for 1932 amounted to
$67,742. This Association makes a
yearly, statemet of every cent received
and expended, audited and certified
by public accountants.
The Omaha Branch is now in the
midst of a membership campaign.
Any citizen, white or colored who be_
lieve3 in establishing full opportunity
irri?peetive of race in the United
States of America is eligible to mem.
tnrship.
The minmum annual membership
fee is one dollar. A membership with
the Crisis Magazine is two dollars
and fifty cents. The Crisis is the of_
ficial organ of the Association. It is
edited by Edward Du Bois, a novelist,
poet and sociologist of distinction, and
it is the ambition of the Omaha
Branch to place this magzines in as
many homes as possible in this city.
We believe that the National Asso_
eiation for the Advancement of Col_
ored People, is a worthy organization,
and is worth th while of any Amer.
can citizen becoming a member. We
hope before this campaign is over the
Omaha Banch will have at least 5900
members. The fight against injustice
is a long one, and the odds against us
are heavy. You can help by becoming
a member of this great organization,
which stands for peace, good will, and
equal opportunity for all.
Horse Doper Gets
Negro into Trouble
DETROIT—(CNS)—Horace Moore,
Negro stable hand for the Audley
Farm Stable was caught, last week,
preparing to dope the filly Knights
Gal at the Detroit Fair Grounds
track.
Three men, R Wingfield, former
jickey and new trainer for the Aud
ley Farm; Tommy Murray, another
former jockey; and Moore have all
admitted part in the plot to dope
horses at the race meeting,
THERE ARE SIGNS OF HOPE
FOR NEGLECTED AFRICA’
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WASHINGTON—(CNS) — There
are signs of hope for the future of
the Dark Continent, Canon Anson
Phelps Stokes of Washington Cath
edral told an audience gathered at the
First Congregational Church under
auspices of the Committee on Race
Relations of the Federation of
Churches last week.'
Dr. Stokes was in Africa for five
months as visiting lecturer of the
Carnegie Foundation. With his wife
and daughter he traveled approximate
ly 12.000 miles by train, boat, auto
mobile and airplane.
Neglected by Americans
“Africa,” he said, “has been neg
lected by Americans as compared
with Europe and Asia. But since one
tenth of the population of the United
States is of African descent we should
be more interested in that portion of
the world than we have been.
“The race problem is acute in only
two places—the Union of South Afri
ca and Kenya. Much good is being
done by the Joint Councils which
bring natives and whites together to
face racial and social problems.
‘fThe native peoples of Africa have
been backward, due to the slave trade
and the climate. But they are peoples
capable of great development under
the right opportunities.”
Dr. Stokes praised the British of
ficals who represent the crown in
Africa. He also spoke highly of the
administration of the French colonies.
The Christian missionaries, he de
clared, are doing a noble work, and
are deserving of generous support.
With regard to religion, he said, the
Virgin Island To Get From
UncSe Sam $360,000,060
WASHINGTON. D C —The sum !
I of $360,000 has been made available !
to the Virgin Islands to aid in various |
parts of its recovery program, Secre.
tary Harold L Ickes announced re_
cently in a message to the Colonial
Councils of St. Thomas and St. Croix.
A new bank for which the Recon.
struction Finance Corporation has
advanced $125,000 is one of the items
cited. Housing will receive $45,000,
unemployment relief $25,000, and
various public works a total of $165,
000. Mr. Ickes wrote that the Presi_
dent was interested in reviving the
rum trade, for which the islands were
once famous, and had directed a study
be made of it. “I want the people of
the Virgin Islands,” said the mes_
sage “to know, as Governor Pearson
returns to his work, that we in Wash
ington are heartily behind his pro_
gram and that you are fortunate, in
having a continuation of his serv_
ices.”
Georgia Hit and Run Driver
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ATLANTA, Ga—Cliff Butler, 35,
of Griffin, Spalding County, has been
sentenced to life imprisonment fol
lowing conviction in Spalding County
court on a charge of running over and
fatally injuring Clarence Nelms a
young Negro boy.
Witnesses testified that the boy was
riding a bicycle on the north side of
the road, when Butler, driving on the
south side, crossed the road and ran
off the payment striking him. Butler
then continued on toward Griffin with
out stopping according to the testi
mony.
problem is as to whetherMohammecT
anism or Christianity is destined to
dominate the continent.
NEGRO PROVES 1933 ‘STEVE
BRODIE’ SEIZED ON WASH
INGTON BRIDGE
NEW YORK CITY—(CNS) — Jas
per Gay of 218 West 127th Street,
found ‘testing the wind currents’ on
the George Washington Bridge early
Friday afternoon October 13th was
nabbed by a bridge officer as he was
preparing to dive into the Hudson
River.
Gay, a thirty one year old barber
said he had been thinking over the
stunt for some weeks past. He wore a
red bathing suit under his street
clothes and carried in a suitcase his
own special diving equipment, which
included two footballs, a sort of pro
peller, shoulder pads, a balloon-like
rubber cap, and a whistle on a string.
He told George DeForge, the bridge
officer who nabbed him, that he had
intended to adjust the footballs on
his shoulders, the propeller on his
head, put on the shoulder pads and
blow up the rubbr cap before he
dived. The whistle, he added, was to
be used after he was in the water in
case he needed help.
DeForge saw Gay contemplating
the water from the bridge on Thurs
day afternoon. From time to time the
Negro tossed pieces of newspaper ov
er the edge and then craned his neck
out to watch their descent. DeForge
was on the look out for him when he
appeared yesterday with a suitcase.
“I was testing the wind current”
was his explanation of the bits of pa
per.
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, FIRST NEGRO LAWYER IN WEST
VIRGINIA DIES
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; MARTINSBURG, W. Va —(CNS)
—John R Clifford of this city, the
first colored man to be admitted to
practice law in lhis state, died here
October 6 from a cerebral hemorrhage
resulting from a fall.
Mr Clifford was born in Williams
port Grant County, September 13,
1848. son of the late Isaac and Satil
pa Kent Clifford. He came to Mar
tinsburg when but a boy. After at
tending school there for a time, he
attended Storer College, Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia.
He studied law under the Nelson
Wisner, and established his practice
in Martinsburg more than 45 years
ago On July 30, 1884 he was admitted
to practice before the Supreme Court
ginia. He had been a member of the
of Appeals of the State oi West Vir
Berkeley County Bar Association for
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44 years, and was dean of the West
Virginia State Bar.
He was one of the founders of the
Niagara Movement which later deve
loped into the NAACP.
On August 18, 1898, he was made a
33rd degree Mason and served as
grand master, of the Grand Loge of
Colored Masons in West Virginia for
a time.
He was editor and publisher of the
Pioneer Press, a weekly newspaper.
He received a State life certificate to:
teach in the fre schools of the State j
in 1917? and was principal of the |
Martinsburg school for about ten
years.
He was a member of the following
organizations: McKinley National
Mcrmorial Association, Negro Society
for Historcial Research, American
Negro Academy, Colonel n Pen and
Pencil Club of Washington, D C.
In 1893 he received an honorary
degree from Shaw University.
Mr. Clifford was one of Martins
burg’s remaining four Civil War
veterans In 1926 he was made a not
ary pubic in Berkeley County.
Surviving are his widow, formerly
Mary Franklin; two sons, J. Paul of
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and
John Roberts Jr., of Washington, D
C ; a daughter, Mrs Helen Clifford
Jackson of Washington, D C , and
four grandchildren.
SUGGEST NEW LOME FOR THE
‘BRAIN TRUST’
NEW YORK CITY — (CNS) — A
Kew Garden Long Island correspond
ent to the New York Herald Tribune
writes as follows:
“In the long list of moneys lent by
the R F. C. is many a queer one
which your correspondnet as a humble
forgotten woman taxpayer puzzles
over. For instance, the sum loaned to
the Arkansas Teachers College to buy
a new dome. How about investing in
a new one for the' brain trust’? I’d
subscribe to that myself.”
POSTAL TELEGRAPH SETTLES
DISCOURTESY IN NORFOLK,
VIRGINIA
NORFOLK, Vi.—Manager Charles
H. Ashbum of tty Postal Telegraph
here has settled satisfactorily the
complaint of discourtesy toward col_
ored patrons after a protest had gone
to the New York office of his com.
pany and a request had been sent the
NAACP in New York not to use
Postal service in communicating with
Norfolk.
The people of Birmingham, Ala
bama, rejected municipal ownership
of electric utilities October 9 by a
substantial majority. The returns
showed a vote of 6,923 for municipal
ownership of electric light and pow
er facilities and 9,696 votes again
st.
Four proposals were submitted to
the voters. (1) to own and operate
the electric utilities; (2) to acquire
the domestic water supply system;
(3) for municipal ownership of the
street car system; (4) for the cen
tral steam heating plant. All four
proposals lost by a great majority.
The plan of the proponents of
municipal ownership of the electric
utilities was to obtain electric energy
from Muscle Shoals. The citizens
opposing municipal ownership of the
electric utilities encountered the
claims of cheaper electric rates with
arguments that there was no guar
antee from municipal ownership
promoters that electric rates would
over be reduced. If the municipal
ownership plan had carried, the city
would have had to vote 50 million
dollars in bonds, thereby increasing
taxes.
House Wife To* j Learn ^ore About
Electric Refrigeration
The Fall Electrical Festival, spon
sored by the Omaha Electric Refri
geration Bureau, will be held four
days next week. The novel plan of a
“traveling Fall Festival” has been
devised by the Bureau instead of
sponsoring one big show down town
which has been the practice in past
years. Entertainment which pro
mises to be exceedingly novel nas
been arranged for.
The first of the four shows will
be held at the Florence Community
Building for Florence residents,
Tuesday, October 24. Benson will
have the next show on Wednesday at
the Benson Community Building. On
Thursday the show will have move
to West Leavenworth to the Neb
raska Power Company’s service
building auditorium, 43 and Leaven
worth Streets. South Omaha will
have the fourth and last show in the
Buther-Workmen’s Auditorium, 25
and M Streets.
Talkies will be a feature of the
program. Interesting talks for the
homemarkers have been arranged
for. Dramatics and music will also
take part of the program time. A
cooking school will be held each af
ternoon the show is staged. The
school will be conducted by a nat
ionally known home economist and
will begin promptly at 2 p. m. Re
cipes and prizes will be given to
those attending.
R. C. Geppert, chairman of the
Omaha Electric Refrigeration Bu
reau, stated yesterday that he ex
pected this year’s shows to surpass
all others due to the novel features
in the program. He said that the
Fall Electrical Festival will offer a
complete evening’s entertainment fo
the visitors at no cost. The differ
ent manufacturers of electric refri
geratorsare cooperating to present
this festival to the people of Omaha,
he said.
One of the most interesting fea
tures of the program will be the
cooking school. All-electric ap
pliances, including the electric
range and refrigerator will be fea
tured. A complete meal will be pre
pared at each session.
“Men are particularly invited to
attend the evening show,” Mr. Gep
pert said. "The unusual features of
the electric refrigerator appealing to
men will be stressed.”
The evening entertainment will
start at 7:30. A Laurel-Hardy come
dy will be one ofthe features of the
entertainment.
from Southeastern, Texas, having
been given the scholarship by the
Beaumont Trade and Labor Assembly.
miss Wells, who spent two years
at Howard University, is a graduate
of the Phyllis Whatley High School
of Houston, Texas, and became inter
ested in labor conditions and labor
problems through the intervention of
Fredrick H Robb of Chicago, student
labor davisor in American colleges.
She follows closey in the foot-steps
of Miss Thyra J. Edwards of Chi
cago, who recently graduated from
the Brookwood College where she won
a six months’ schodarship at the In
ternational People’s College at Hel
ingfors, Denmark. Miss Edwards, en
route of Denmark, sailed on the S.
S Lafayette, Saturday October 7 for
London. England where she will lec
ture for short periods under tlie aus
pices of the Council of Friends on the
subject of “Contempoary Social For
ces in American Negro Life.”
DEATHS FROM PELLAGRA
DROP AS SOUTH GROWS
MORE VEGETABLES
WASHINGTON — (CNS) — The
business depression has been a stanch
ally in the South’s fight against pell
agra, a disease caused by lack of
fresh meat, fresh vegetables and milk,
and one in which deths among Negro
es outnumber those among whites.
In 1928 deaths in the registration
area from Pellagra were as follws:
Males, white—1,112; Colored, 942.
Femaes, white—1,877; Colored, 2,
892
In a report to the American Public
Health Association, Dr. W H Seb
rell of the Public Health Service says:
“As the price of cotton continued low
and credit became more restricted, it
was absolutely necessary for farmers
to produce a greater quantity and
variety of food at home, which caused
the diet to become more dviersified,
and a marked reduction iif Pellagra
incidence followed."
Deaths reported from Pellagra
have declined steadily since 1929. In
that year there were 7,013 deaths re
ported. There were 6,727 in 1930, 5,
477 in 1931 and 3812 in 1932.
Special to Omaha Guide
Scottsboro Trial
Set
iThenine Scottsb
oro boys will go to
trial in Decatur
Ala. on Nov. 27th
GOES TO LABOR COLLEGE AS
PROTEGE OF WHITE TRADE
AND LABOR ASSEMBLY
WASHINGTON— (CNS) — MSss
Jessie Wells, of Beaumont, Texas, a
guest at the Phyllis Wheatley Y W.
C A during the week was.enroute
to the Brookwood Labor College at
Katonah, Westchester County, New
York, where she has 'matriculated for
a two year study course in labor pro
blems. Miss Wells a comely young
Miss under twenty has the distinction
of being the youngest person to ever
; enter the Katonah labor institution,
and also is the first person to be sent
--
Janie Patterson, Mother of Hey
wood first of the nine Negro boys to
| be retried in Decatur last spring,
| will be in Omaha Monday and Tues
1 day of next week.
Mother Patterson after a long
tour throughout the Western
States, speaking for her soo, is on
her way east. With her are two very
prominent figures. Lester Carter,
white boy, eye witness to all that
took place on the infamous freight
train, accompanies the Scottsboro
Mother. Carter with Ruby Bates '13 a
main defense witness for the boys.
To add zest to this speaking tour,
th,e renowned Negro Orator, Richard
B. Moore makes the third of this in
teresting trio. Moore for the past
two years has been touring United
States and Europe speaking in «le
fenseof the Scottsboro boys.
This meeting should draw a not
able response from all Omaha citi
zens. We have heard and read much
about Scottsboro, but at no time
have we had such opportunity to
hear the exact truth from princip’es
of the case.
A meeting will be held in Council
Bluffs the evening ofthe 23rd. The
main Mass Meeting will be held in
North Omaha at Dreamland Hall,
24th and Grant Streets, at 8 p. ra.,
Tuesday evening the 24th.
The speakers come from Kansas
City and will go from here to Sioux
City.i This tour is sponsored by the
International Labor Defense, the or
ganization in charge of the Scotts
boro case.
By HELEN DeMARK.
Organizer, The ILD.l Omaha Branch