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    A STRONG URGE THAT LYNCH
ING BE INCLUDED IN DRIVE
TO CURB CRIME
WASHINGTON — (CNS) —
Joseph B Keenan, Special Assistant
States, is charge of the nationwide
to the Attorney General of the United
drive against gangsters, recently
wrote an article to the New York
Times entitled “Uncle Sam Presses
His New War on Crime.” Lynching
was not included in his outline of
crimes to be combatted and his at
tention is called to this great evil by
John T Doles Jr , writing to the
Times under date of September 22
“It is gratifying to note the recent (
public indignation at racket crimes
and the government's concentration
of its law enforcement agencies a- J
gainst such crimes When we consider
the prevalence of lynching, with so
little concern being manifested, and
with no attempt being made to erad
icate it, it is to be hoped that it will
be annihilated with other crimes in
this war
‘In order effectively to combat the
wave of rackets and crimes and pro
duce ‘reeultg of some degree of per
manency* the American people must
realize the principles of good govern
ment and be educated to be law abid
ing citizens This can not be done by
becoming hysterical about some
crimes and lackadasical about others
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PLEA FO EUEL LEE TO BE
HEARD BY GOV. RITCHIE
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—(CNS)—A plea
for clemency on behalf of Euel Lee,
sentenced to hang for the murder of
Green K Davis, Worcester County
farmer, will be heard by Governor
Ritchie Thursday, October 19.
The request for the hearing was ;
made by Bernard Aden, attorney for!
the doomed man, and followed the |
refusal of the Supreme Court to re- '
view his appeal from a decision of
the Court of Appeals of Maryland,
which had upheld the death sentence
imposed by the Circuit Court of Balti
more County.
Lee was arrested in Ocean City,
Maryland in 1931 after the bodies of
Davis and his wife and two daughters
were found in the Davis home. He
was arrested, charged with the mur
ders and was tried in Baltimore
County on a change of venue. He was
found guilty of murdering Davis, the
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only count on which he was fried.
Ades obtained a new trial when he
pleaded before the Court Appeals
that colored persons were excluded
from the jury panel. The case was
tried again — the names of colored
persons being included in the jury
panel — and was convicted anl sent
enced to be hanged.
Ades again went to the Court of
Appeals asking a new trial on the
grounds the grounds that the trial
had not been fair because there were
class distinctions made in Baltimore
County.
It was the Court of Appeals’ re
fusal to grant the new trial which
Ades used as the basis for his plea
for review by the United States Su
preme Court.
“Maxie
Miller
Writes
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(For The Literary Service Bureau)
W idow 52 and “Good looking” wants
marry a man half her age—she's
“riding for a fail.” I fear—better get
a man nearer her age—few such mar
riages ever aer successful.
Maxie Miller: I am a widow, 52,
well prserved, and good looking, so
they say I know my spirit is young
and my health the best ever. Coming
to the point I'm in love with a man
just half my age. I really love him,
and because I am lonesome, I am
thinking of marrying him. They say
he just wants my money, but I do be
lieve he loves me. What do you advise.
Inuiring Widow.
Inquiring Widow: I think you'd 1
better look before you leap. This man
may love you but you will be a “faded
leaf” in a few more years and will be
jealous and disagreeable, perhaps.
Few such marriages ever” turn out
well.” Better find a man nearer your
own a£e and let this youngster find a
woman nearer this age. Better “take
a fool’s advice” and drive your ducks
to another market! Maxie Miller.
LOOKING BACK
The Question Of Propriety
(For The Literary Service Bureau)
Among the things which were
“taboo” during the days into which I
am looking back, were proponged
good nights at the gate. Sitting on a
dark porch was unthinkable. A girl’s
beau could remain only till 9:30 Girls
were to be in the house by 9:30, and
10 o'clock was the “dead line.”
Mention these in the hearing of
youngsters today and they will laugh
in your face. Men callers remain until
midnight and couples sit in swings on
dark porches till—till morning. Often
women begin dressing for ocial gath
ering when they ought to be getting
ready to go home.
There are no proprieties, today. We
live in the age of “this freedom.” I
have a terrible time keeping my child
ren on speaking terms with proprie
ties. But, after all, propriety is the
anchor which saves Trom wreck; it is
the sentinel that protects the citadel
of social morality. It is the dykes
without which the flood waters of so
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HEROES UNSUNG
Destitute Widows
By A. B. Mann
(For The Literary Service Bureau)
There have been men who provided
splendidly for the wives and children,
during life time, yet had nc insurance
to provide for them after their bread
winner had departed. To do this is
little less than a crime. There have
been thousand of cases in which wives
have been left with children and noth
ing with which to provide for them.
Now and then have been found those
who neglected their own children and
allowed them to suffer and to go
wrong for lack of training. But, in
the many thousands of cases, these
loyal souls have struggled, suffered,
sacrifced, and have borne their bur
dens without complaint. Many of the
leaders of the world, today, what they
are and what they have accomplished
to toiling suffering, sacrificing moth
ers who had the entire burden to bear.
And all the deserving ones will not
have been remembered and rewarded
until justice is doe to destitute wives
for what they have done and for what
they have suffered.
INDUSTRIAL BANK REOR
GANIZATION PLAN BEING
WORKED OUT
WASHINGTON — (CNS) — The
Treasury Department has launched a
program of cooperation with officials
of the Industrial Savings Bank which
has been closed since the banking
holiday, with a view to developing a
plan for reorganization and reopening
as a national bank.
W M Taylor, national bank ex
aminer, has been assigned to repres
ent the Treasury in working with of
ficers of the bank of develop an ac
ceptable plan. These developments
followd a conference recntly of bank
officers w^t*1 Controller of the Cur
rency J. F T O'Connor at the con
troller’s office. Examiner Taylor was
aTtfte meeting and will now direct the
negotiations and lead in the program
of setting up a reorganization plan,
bank and now its conservator, is very
W H C Brown, president of the
much gratified at the action just
launched by the Treasuy Department
and has a reorganization committee of
bank officers and leading citizens of
Washington to help the cause along.
The plan is to open the institution
as a national bank with a capital of
$200,000. According to banking laws
for cities the size of Washington all
natonal banks must have a capital of
$200,000 except in cases where banks
are opened in outlying districts. Due
to the fact that the Industrial Bank is
uptown and caters exclusively to
Negroes the smaller capital of $100,
000 may be applied in this case.
$60,000 Subscribed
The sum of $60,000 has already
been subscribed in the new setup and
for every dollar the bank raises the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
will match. This means that if the
$100,000 capital is agreed on by of
ficials of the Treasuy the bank will
have to supply only half of that a
mount. Then the enly problem to be
worked out will be the amount' each
depositor will receive on the dollar.
The deadline for closed banks has
been set for January 1 at which time
all banks must be opened or they will
be liuidated.
SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR
ASKED TO PUSH LYNCH
PROBE
NEW YORK—A request that Gov_
ernor Ibra C. Blackwood of South
Carolina and his attorney general aid
the officials of Greewood county in
punishing the men accused of lynch.
I ing Bennie Thompson at Ninety.Six,,
IS. C. October 8 was sent Monday by
j the National Association for the Ad.
varfcement of Colored People. The
letter said:
“The lynching at Ninety.Six has
i the distinction of being the first one j
on record in many years where one of |
| the accused lynchers makes a plain j
public statement that the chief of po.
lice assisted the lynching party by
leaving the jail door open so they
could get the victim.”
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ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA FORMS
N, A. A. C. P. BRANCH
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A new
branch of the N A. A C. P., was
formed here Tuesday night after an
address by Walter White, national
secretary of New York. Henry C
Brooks was elected temporary chair.
man( L C Baltimore, temporary
treasurer, and J Byron Hopkins tem_
porary secretary. Civic feeling among
the colored citizens has been at a
high pitch since the fight launched for
inclusion of a colored high school in
a loan sought from the Public Works
Administration in Washington.
AMERICA YIELDS TO INTER
AL PRESSURE ON LIBERIAN
PLAN
NEW \ ORK — The statement
on October 9 of General Blanton Win
ship in Geneva that the Roosevelt ad
ministration had agreed not to insist
on an American financial adviser for
Liberia marks a yielding of the Unit,
ed States to internal pressure and
protests from the National Asso.
ciation for the Advancement of Color
ed People and other organizations,
Walter White, NAACP secretary,
said today.
N. A. A. C. P. PLANS LEGAL
CHALLENGE OF OKLAHOMA
HOUSING SEGREGATION
NEW YORK—Oklahoma City's
recently passjl city ordinance re.
gulating the residences of whites and
Negroes has been examined by the
NAACP and the belief is expressed
that it is clearly unconstitutional. The
Oklahoma state conference of branch
es under the leadership of Roscoe
Dunjee, and the Oklahoma City
branch headed by ff A Murray,
with the aid and advice of the nation
al office, is preparing to challenge
the new ordinance in the courts.
This kind of ordinance was d*e_
dared unconstitutional by the United
States supreme court in 1917 in the
case of Buchanan vs. Warley, arising
in Louisville, Kv. Since then two
cities, New Orleans, La. losing out in
a •Tower court, stopped there. New
Orleans lost out in the lower courts,
; but Carried on to the highest court
where its attorney was rebuked and
the case quickly decided against the
ordinance. Oklahoma City thinks it
can get by because its ordinance does
not bar Negroes from buying property
in socalled “white neighborhoods,”
but bars them only from occupying it.
OLYMPIC COMMITTEE ASKED TO
CHECK ON RACE BIAS IN
GERMANY
NEW YORK — A request that the
American members of the Interna,
tional Olympic committee secure
positive assurance from the Hilter
government in Germany that colored
athletes in the 1936 Olympic games
in Berlin will be given fair treatment
was sent by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo.
pie Wednesday to General Charles H.
Sherrill, New York; William May
Garland, Los Angeles; and Ernest
Lee Jahncke, New Orleans, La.
“Unless Germany gives unqualified
and unequivocal assurance of fair
play to these possible colored com.
petitors” the letter states, “we re.
spectfully request the American mem
bers of the International Olympic
committee to refuse to permit Amer_
icans to compete at Berlin.”
The letter was written, the N A
A. C. P said, because of the con.
tinued emphasis by the Hitler gov.
emment on color and race and upon
‘‘superior” and “inferior” peoples.
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On July 31 a committee headed by
Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of
Howard university and Dr. W E B
DuBois was received by the State de_
partment and it lodged a protest
against the pressure the U. S gov_
ernment was placing upon Liberia to
make it accept the plan for its gov_
ernment which included the naming
of an American financial adviser.
The state department at that time
denied it was insisting upon an Amer_
can adviser, but now General Winship
tellg Geneva the administration will
not insist on an American adviser. It
seems a fair inference thait America
was exerting pressure for an Ameri.
can adviser. The NAACP has re.
ceived private advices from this coun_
try and from Geneva that only the
unrelenting pressure of leading Negro
and white liberal organizations in this
country had any effect on the Amer.
ican position regarding the little
African republic.
The parents and the branch have
remained adamant in the refusal to
consent to send their children to a jim
crow school and more than 200 pup.
ils stayed out of classes the whole of
the school year 1932.33. It was in
June, 1932 that the school year 1932.
33. It was in June, 1932 that the town_
ship school board announced the com_
pletion of a $250,000 school, but added
that it would be for white children
and that the colored children would
have to continue going to the old
school. When O B Cobb, president of
the Bryn Mawr N A. A. C. P., pro.
tested and served notice of a legal
fight, the white newspapers of the
Main Line carried editorials saying
the Negroes were “badly advised” and
were “raising the race issue.” It in.
timated they ought to accept the se_
gregation and be glad to get it.
During the summer of 1933, Nor.
man Greene, who had been president
of the township school board, resign,
ed. Greene came north from Tenn.
essee and stated frequently that his
main purpose on the school board was
to introduce jim crow school “ilke we
have down South.”
During all these struggles, the
Bryn Mawr branch held out, fighting
every inch of the way. Mr. Cobb
writes:
“No one is contributing anything
to the support of this case but this
branch It was our desire from the
beginning to go alone, but now we
are practically out of monye-1 am
therefore writing this letter to ask
the National Office to kindly take
charge of the Berwyn school case at
once.”
A conference Of the legal commit,
tee of the state N. A A C P or.
ganization with representatives from
the New York office and Mr. Alexand_
er will be called shortly to map out
further legal procedure.
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Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God
I and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are
the only principles which will stand the acid test of good
citizenship in time of peace, war and death.
(1) We must have our pro-rata of employment in
businesses to which we give our patronage, such as groc
ery stores, laundries, furniture stores, department stores
and coal companies, m fact> every concern which we sup
port. We must give our citizens the chance to live res
pectably. We are tired of educating our children and
permitting them to remain economic slaves and enter in
to lives of shame.
(2) Our pro-rata of employment for the patronage
to our public corporations such as railroad companies,
the street car company, the Nebraska Power Company,
the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and other
establishments which we are forced to support by right
of franchise. Also our pro-rata of employment in re
turn for the taxes we pay in our city, county state and
federal government.
(4) A one hundred per cent deportment of our cit
(3) To encourage the establishment of a first class
hospital that we may get the best that there is in medical
science from our doctors whom we know to be nearest us,
also to encourage a high respect of them and encourage
more of our girls to take nurse training.
izens in our public or private places of business, especial
ly on street cars. If we are to be respected we must act
respectably, especially in public places where we are con
stantly before the public's eye.
(5) A one hundred per cent membership in the Om
aha branch of the NAACP. should be had to encourage
the efforts put forth by the founders of the organization
and to assist the general office to establish a five million
dollar endowment fund to maintain operating expenses
and to further the principles of the NAACP. AH peo
ple of aU races must be educated up to a higher principle
and a more thorough understanding of interracial rela
(6) The re-establishment of the Christian Religion
as Christ taught it, for the uplifting of mankind, elimin
ating financial and personal gain. A practical Christian
Religion, week day as well as Sunday. An attitude to
ward our feUowman as a brother in order to establish a
tionship that our countny may in reality be a government
of the people, for the people and By the people in whole
and not in part.
principle which will guide the destiny of each other's
children; our neighbor's children today are our children
tomorrow.
(7) Courteous treatment in all places of business
and the enforcement of the State Civil Right Law.
(8) To encourage and assist in the establishment of
the following financial institutions near 24th and Lake
Streets: A building and loan association, a state bank,
administering add and assistance to our widows and
children.
(9) To encourage the erection of a one hundred
thousand dollar Young Men’s Christian Association
Building near 24th and Lake Streets.
(10) To enlarge the Young Women’s Christian As
sociation that it may supply sufficient dormitory accom
modations.
(11) To teach our citizens to live economically with
in their earning capacity by printing in each issue a bud
get system for various salaries.
(12) To make Omaha a better city in which to live
by inaugurating a more cosmopolitan spirit among our
American citizens.
(13 To put a stop to the Divorce Evil by passing a
Siate law making the mistreatment of a wife or a hus
band by either of them, a criminal offense to be decided
by a jury, first offense, jail sentence of a short duration;
second offense, one of longer duration; third offense,
from one to five years in the penitentiary. This, we be
lieve will make men and women think before marrying.
(14) We must become owners of the city govern
ment by paying a seemingly higher salary to those whom
we employ to administer its affairs, a salary that will at
and, also, a first-class trust company for the purpose of
tract men of high calibre.
National
(1) Fight for a passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bill
and thus stop the shamful lynching of American citizens.
(2) One of our citizens in the president’s cabinet.
(3) Federal control of the educational system that
every child must have a high school education.
0) Assist in the furtherance of research by our
scientists and historians to prove that civilization was
first founded in Africa.
(5) Establish a political influence which will bring
about our pro-rata of higher appointments made by our
chief executives.
(6) Stop graft in politics by passing a Federal Law
making election day a legal holiday and compelling every
American citizen of voting age to vote.
(7) Prevent further wars by teaching the so-called
white race that it is high time for them to quit fooling
themselves about white supremacy with only three-tenths
of the world’s population. They must be taught that
color is due to climatic conditions. They must be taught
that seven-tenths of the world’s population is made up of
darker races. They must be taught that the rays of sun
that blaze upon the equator and turn the skin brown do
not affect the power of the brain any more than the cold
ness of icy glaciers affect the brain of the white race*
and that the darker races will not continue to be crushed
by a money mad few. If the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man are not welded into the hearts of this
world s family now, by teaching the principles laid down
byour Saviour, it will be welded into the hearts of our
children some day soon, on the bloodiest battlefields this
world has ever known.
.. (8) Cut down congressional representation from
the Southern States in proportion to the number of votes
cast.
OMAHA GUIDE will put forth its best efforts
to bring about the above 22 points with the assistance of
those who believe it is for the best interest of good Amer
ican citizenship.