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WE DO OUR PART I Tune In—j BROADCASTS" f Every Week‘from tkfs Column X ^aiF^cmraEu? -. DIGESTING THE NEWS . -By Clifford C. Mitchell . Serving a Columbus, Ohio, reader! Lester Brown, 898 Leonard Avenue, Columbus, writes: ....“I would like to get lined up with some company that is putting out a high-class nov elty for the Jmas market and can be used for bridge clubs, prizes, etc.” To accomodate Mr. Brown I contact ed the Clifford Crosby Company, who can supply him with just such nov eltys and for the purposees he desir es. In fact this is an old established firm who for twelve years have been buying bankrupt stocks of new mer chandise in every conceivafle line including, novelty houses, druggists, clothing store/, whciesale houses, auction sales, millinery stores and1 the like... So many firms went bankrupt during the depressed times that an unusual ly large stock of merchandise, strict ly new, has been accumulated by the CliffordACrosby Company, 13,81 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago,; and they are now able to offer my re-' aders throughout tha country an op-1 portunity to engage in the sale of; such new stocks at prices far below! the actual cost of manufacture, and i with as little as Five Dollars for an initial investment and thus my read ers can commence the business of re tailing bargain stocks right in your own home or place of vusiness. The Clifford-Crosby Company is a \ thoroughly reliable firm with best of! references by any Chicago bank or; agency. Mr. Crosby personally show-' ed me through his store and ware- j house rooms and after inspecting i their merchandise I can heartily re commend their opportunity to my re aders throughout the country and would suggest that each reader in terested write at once to the Clifford Crosby Company, 1381 North Milwa ukee Avenue, Chicago, for their latest complete confidential price list of amazing bargain values. While on Milwaukee Avenue I also contacted the Amazon Company, at 1517, who are manufacturers and wholesales of raincoats and jackets for both men and women which they dispose of through agents through out the country and Mr. Moore, the Sales Manager, assured me, that while he has never solicited the color ed trade directly he would be glad in deed to co-operate and give our men and women an opportunity to util ize their spare-time in the handling of their products and every reader who is interested in handling a high grade line of raincoats and jackets at the very lowest prices are requested to write direct to Mr. Moore, ment ioning my suggestion, and he will forward them without expense to the reader an elaborate; and complete selling outfit, and full instructions as to how each agent can earn for himself a free raincoat in addition to each reader.. ... I am frank to state 'that Mr. Moore made me a present of one of his rain coats which I am proud to wear and which is proving both serviceable and stylish, so much so that I am glad to recommend my readers to the Ama zon Manufacturing Companjf, 1517 Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, for their purchases in this line*__ It might interest my readers who are literary-minded to know hat I have contacted here in Chicago, Mr. Owen Davies, wh operates a book store at 348 North Clark Street, Chicago, and handles new and second-hand books in eveory descripition. In fact it is his claim that any book in print can be secured by him and in most instanc es at prices ranging from one-third to one-half less than the regular mar ket price of same. It will pay my re aders to write the Owen Davies Book Store for information or price on any book desired to purchase and for a copy of their free monthly catalog of second hand books._ TRADE WITH YOURSELF. BUY YOUR NEXT ORDER OF GROCERIES FROM A SQUARE _q _y--kj- —u-y-v-v— —wvv-v/-v-v--y-y-y_ An Unbridled^— Outstanding— Mouthpiece for Your Community “The Omaha Guide /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THE UNE\ ' Is Your Papcr” _VOL. VII.— _ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, DEC. 2nd ,1933_NUMBER FORTY_ Ross Drug Co. Victim Of Burglars _:_ ! California Gov. Says Lynching A Good Thing St. Joseph, Mo.,—Within less than a weeks time of the sensational lyn ching at San Jose, California, Lloyd Warner, 19 year old Negro youth met his fate at the hands of an angry mob of Missouri lynchers after he was turned over to the lynchers by Sher iff Otto Theisen Tuesday night. Sher ig Theisen said that he turned the Negro over to the mob rather than open fire on the crowd surrounding the county jail, because he would have killed innocent people. Sherig Otto Theisen gave the vic j tim to the lynchers after thy had ! battered at the jail for hours, doing ! heavy damage to the sturdy build ing. At 11:40 o’clock, after the mob had tom away the steel barred outer door of the jail with a motor truck and chain, the sherig came out in front of the building and raised his hand to be heard. Only those nearest could hear his words, but he said he was willing to give up Lloyd Warner. | Warner then was dragged out, and propelled around the comer and south on Fifth street in a press ofthousands of bodies, wedged tight across the I street. The crowd was shouting and I cursing. The huge crowd pressed around, 1 filling the street and sidewalk space j j for about three blocks, packed solid, | the weaker ones jostled and bruised. Three youths shinned up the trunk of the big tree, one hauling a heavy rope. They threw it over a limb, and the Negro, stripped to the waist, was jerked into the air, as most of the crowd cheered. Salisbury, Md.—Defying Governor Ritchie’s order toarrest nine men said to have led the mob which October 18 lynched George Armwood in Princess Anne, another mob of resentful Mary landers Tuesday attacked state guardsmen who had been sent to capture the lynchers. “NO RACE PREJUDICE IN THE SOVIET UNION" Says Miss Anna Louise Strong. New York, N. Y., November 25 (CNA)—Contrary to he popular opinion generally held that there are no Negroes in the Soviet Union, Anna Louise Strong, famous international journalist now visiting America, re vealed that a tribe of Julus had been discovered recently in the lower Cau casus near the Black Sea. “These natives were brought to these parts as soldiers by the Turks who were making war on the Caucas ian tribes more than five hundred years ago. They seemed to have strayed off from the main body of troops and gotten lost. At any rate they didn’t return to the mainland with the Turkish caravans. This tribe numbers at present more than three thousands of which more than one thousand are still pure blooded Negres. *»(«*■ “They ^jrist under a condition of complete freedom in the Soviet Un ion. The Government is utilizing ev ery means possible to help them de velop and consolidate their culture. “There is no race prejudice in the Soviet Union,” said Miss Strong. The government is founded on a so cialist basis which will not tolerate such practices.” During the last few years, a large number of Negro engineers and spec ialists have been going to the Soviet Union where they were able to obtain jobs that they certainly could not have held in America. GIVE YOUR OWN BOY AND GIRL A CHANCE TO EARN AN HONEST LIVING AND RESPECT ABLE JOB BY TRADING WITH THE SQUARE DEAL GROCERY STORES. Judge Fitzgerald Gives Editor 90 Days Scottsboro Boy Bee. 3rd Death Sentence Decatur, Alabama, Dec. 2, 1933— The jury holding the fate of Haywood Patterson in their group returned a verdict, which call for a death sen tence in the trial of the lrst of seven defendents in the Scottsboro trial, ac cused of attacking Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, one of the girls issued the following statement before the trial. “Boys Are Innocent” I hear that the Scottsboro boys are going to have to go back for a new trial,” she said. “I hear the j lawyers and everybody are going; down there again, and I want to go ‘ too. Last time I told how these in nocent boys were framed up by the deputy sheriffs and Victoria Price and it made me feel better aftr I told the truth. I want the world to knowj them boys is innocent and that they did not touch Victoria Price or me. I want everybody to know that the j story I told to Reverend Fosdick is! the true story of Scottsboro. _ LATEST NEWS ON TRIAL Decatur, Ala., November 25 (CNA) ; Heyivood Patterson goes t otrial on | Monday, November 27th before the Ku Klux Klan Judge Callahan. Calla han has expressed the determination | to rush the trials of at least four of | the seven boys through before Christ : mas. Charlie Weems is to be ar raigned a week from Monday, and ; his trial to follow shortly. Judge Callahan overruled the de fense motion to squash the jury ve nire holding that Negroes are not il legally excluded from the Morgan ‘ County. Callahan made this ruling fully aware of the fact that in his forty-two years of law practice he had never seen a Ngro on a southern j jury. Attorney-General Knight has an : nounced that he will call to the wit ness stand for the prosecution Orville Gilley, white boy, whose testimony the state failed to present at the first and second Scotttsboro trials. Ruby Bates wrhose life has been threatened if she appears in Decatur again, gave hr testimony to Julius Applebaum, 32 Broadway, as directed by an order of the court. Joseph Brodsky, International Labor Defense attorney, explained to Judge Calla han that Ruby Bates refused to come to Decatur beause of the open-voiced threats to kill her. The atmosphere in Decatur is very tense. The safty of the Scottsboro Boys and their attorneys grows less secure every hour. Unless the Negro people, white workers and sympa thizers act and that quickly, morally and financially the Scottsboro boys will not be saved. LYNCH TOLL INCREASE There has been more than forty four lynchings in America since the first of this year. Two Negroes were lynched in South Carolina and Louis iana this week. On November 14th, Mack Leslie was shot to death in Farmersville, La., by Deputy Sheriff Murphy of that town. Murphy was called upon to protect Leslie from a lynch mob that was being formed in the Cherry Hill Community. He was accused of being active in a secret organization of Negroes around Farmersville. Sheriff Murphy covered up his das tard deed by saying that Leslie had attempted to reach for a hidden weap on. Leslie’s arrest followed the arrest of more than fourteen Negro farmers in Farmersville who were active in the League of Struggl for Negro Rights. WIDOW SUES FOR $2,000 FOR LYNCHED HUSBAND Greenville, S. C, Nov. 24—Mrs. Ade Thompson, widow of Bennie Thomp son, who was taken from the jail at Ninety-Six, S. C., October 8, by four white men and lynched by being beat en to death has engaged lawyers in this city to file suit against the coun ty for $2,000 damages. This amount is allowed under the South Carolina anti-lynching law and may be re covered from the county where a lynching occurs. The county author ities are expected to try and dodge on the word “lynching.” They are said to believe Thompson was mur dered.” The state also argued over these two words in the 4ynching of Norris Dendy July 4 at Clinton, S. C. Both men were taken frm jail and killed. The county solicior here will present the Thompson case to the grand jury next month. Four white: textile workers are being held for j Thompson’s death. One made a state ment confessing he crime and stating the chief of police left the jail door open for them. ! “NEW BLOOD” SUGGESTED FOR NAACP BOARD OF CONTROL New York- (CNR) New blood in the persons of several younger men and women has been nominated for positions on the board of directors of the National Association for the I Advancement of Colored People, for terms ending December 31, 1936. The nominating committee’s report was submitted last week. Election will be held at the annual meeting in New York on January 8, 1934. The whole list of nominees: James Weldon Johnson, Nashville and New York; Carl Murphy, Baltimore; Arthur B. Spingarn, New York; Charles H. Studin, New York; Dr. William Allan Neilson,President Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; Joseph P. Loud Boston; Miss Marion Cuthbert, New York; Sterling A. Brown, Washing-! ton; Hubert T. Delany, New York;! Mrs. Rachel Davis DuBois, Philadel phia; Lewis Gannett, New York;' Dr. Abram L. Harris, Washington; Mrs. Lucy R. Mason, Richmond and New York; Govenor Frank Murphy, Detroit and Philippine Islands; Clarence Darrow, Chicago. The new names are those of Miss Cuthbert, member of the staff of the national ^ WCA.; Mr. Brown, writer, poet, j professor of English at Howard Uni versity; Mrs. DuBois, worker with tho Friend interracial movement; Dr. Delany, well-known young att j orney, former assistant U. S. attor ney for New York; Mr. Gannett, book editor New York Herald Trib une; Dr. Harris, economist secretary of the National Consumers’ League of America. TO CONTINUE MOVEMENT FOR HIGH WAGE SCALE FOR NEGRO NEGROES CATCH LYNCHING FEVER ON EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND Centerville, Md. -(CNS) Police authorities of Queen Annes County had to rescue Walter Aitch, from a mob of his own race and commit him to jail to save him from bodily harm. It is claimed that Aitch went to his wife’s home near Newton on Kent Island and stabbed her because she would not come back and live with him. Aitch was sent to jail for 60 days about three mnoths ago on a charge of bating his wife, and that since then she refused to live with him. FORUM GIVES $25 TO CRAW FORD CASE New York, Nov. 24.- The NAA CP has received a contribution of $25 to the George Crawford case ex pense fund from the St. John’s Pres byterian church Forum of Detroit, Mich. Snow F. Grisby is the direct or of the Forum. Refuses Appeal, Case To Go To Supreme Court C. C. Galloway, acting editor of the Omaha Guide and veteran of many political and cival battles dur ing his 33 years of residence in Om aha was given a sentence of 90 days by Judge James M. Fitzgerald this morning on a misdemeanor charge growing out of an item in the August 5th issue of the paper in which Mrs. Rae Lee Jones, former news editor of the Guide, 2122 No. 26th St. and Jess Hutten, 2414 Maple St., son of Mrs. Grace Hutten, claimed that they were the parties referred to as keep ing an alleged midnight rendezvous during the absence of Mrs. Hutten this summer. Mr.Galloway was re leased on a $500 bond for appeal to the supreme court signed by S. E. Montgomery after Judge Fitzgerald had overruled a motion for a new trial. Other bondsmen were W. T. Graham, F. D. Weed, T. Carr and J. C. Carey. At the trial the defense denied that ANTI-LYNCH BILL INTRODUCED IN MARYLAND LEGISLATURE Annapolis, Md.—sCNS) A special session of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland opened Thurs day Novmber 23, and the day was marked by the introduction of 15 | miscellaneous bills and five liquor j measures. Among the miscellaneous bills was one on lynching introduced by Delegate Oliver Metzeratt of Prince Georges County, who represents in the lower house of the Maryland Leg islature, appi-oximately 60,000 per sons of whom about 15,000 are Ne groes< Md. Metzeratt in speaking of the anti-lynch bill said it would no doubt prove a controversial meas ure but that it embodied his own idea% on the subject. An unusual feature of the bill pro hibits persons who have formed oi expressed any opinions in favor of lynching from serving on juries which try lynching cases. The measure aims to abolish lynching chiefly by making counties and cities liable to the extent of $5,000 when a crime of this type ccurs within their borders. Undismayed by the fate of a sim ilar bill received in the last regular session. Delegate Frank Hirt intro duced an unemployment insurance bill providing for weekly payments of $18. A bill to regulate the business of hair dressers and beauticians was introduced by Mrs. Lulu W. Boucher of Allegheny County, at the request of beauty parlor operators who de sire to shut out the “kitchen sink” hairdressers. HISPANIOLA MINISTER TO UNI TED STATES SUCCEEDS DANTES BELLEGARDE Washington (CNS) The new min ister to the United States, Albert Blanchot, who comes to succeed Dan tes Bellegarde, who resigned recent ly, arrived here Thursday November 23 to find that in accordance with a recent decision by the United States Geographic Board the Island of Haiti officially has returned to its original designation—Hispaniola giv -en i by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Hispaiola, second largest island in area and population in the West In dies, comprises the republics of Hai ti and Santo Dmingo, and for years has been known as the Island of Hai ti. The Navy’s hydrographic office is the first of the Government agenc ies to make the change, placing it on its pilot charts. The name will also be used in all United States maps and publications. the article intended to give any ref erence to the parties involved. John Pegg, G. Young, postoffice employees and H. J. Pinkett, Atfy. and Dr Craig Morris were the principle witnesses for Mrs. Jones. On the witness stand Mrs. Jones denied having been guilty of any of the things done or were alleged to have been done as intimated or charg ed on the night in question. Finally stating that the reason she believed that she was the party referred to “because I walk with a swagger” and because she was 33 years old and Hutten was only 26 and that the arti cle had referred to 1‘Rocking the Cradle.” It is currently rumored that Mr. Galloway’s political connections were more important in the bringing of the charges than the merits of the case. TEACHERS Durham, N. C. -(CNS) The mov ement to secure a higher wage scale for the Negro teachers of the State will be pushed vigorously not with snading the attempt of daily news papers to frighten and discourage the North Carolina citizens behind the movement. The implied threat to replace all colored teachers with whites has fallen flat and all Negro educators of the State are lining up for a militant program for a scrupu lous observance of the law as it is written. BOULDER DAM CONTRACTORS; TO GIVE NEGROES MORE EM PLOYMENT Washington -(CNS) Secretary Harold L. Ickes has recently given the contractors building the Boulder Dam project to understand that there must be no discrimination against ap plicants for employment for race workers. Steps are also being taken by the Interior Department to open up Bo ulder City to colored residents. Up to his time Negroes have not been allowed to live in this govemment woned and built town near the dam. WIDOW SUES FOR $2,000 FOR LYNCHED HUSBAND Greenville, S. C. -(CNS) Mrs. Ada Thompson, widow of Bennie Thompson, who was taken from jail at Ninety-Six, South Carolina, Oct ober 8 and lynched is suing under tho South Carolina anti-lynching law for $2,000. PWA JOBS IN ATLANTA Washington, Noy. 24. - A goodly number of jobs on the million dollar housing project in Atlanta will go Negro workers, it was announced here by the Public Works Administ ration, which advanced funds for the project. PROBE STARTED IN LYNCHING WORKER Greenville, South Carolina, Nov. 25. (CNA) As a result of the nat ion-wide drive against Lyuching in itiated by the League of Struggle for Negro “investigation” has been opened into the “lynching” of Geor ge Green, middle aged worker who was taken from his home at Taylors, near here last Thursday morning and shot to death. Two other workers, in the same neighborhood, a man and a woman were brutally whipped the same night. GIVE YOUR OWN BOY AND GIRL A CHANCE TO EARN AN HONEST LIVING AND RESPECT Thugs Make Thank sgiving Raid A brick thrown through the plate glass door was the means used by six young prowlers to grain entrance in to the Ross Drug Store, 2122 No. 24th St. about 5 A. M. Thanksgiving morn ing. According to a watchman, for the Lumber yard, which faces the store, the six youngstesr first passed the store and threw a brick through the door, and after walking down the street, and waiting for a short while; returned armed with several sacks, ana entered the place where they be gan to help themselves to cigars, cigarettes and candy after finding no money in the cash drawer. The watchman, who was not armed, at tempted to frighten the prowlers away, but was chased for two blocks by two of the group, who was said to have had a gun. They escaped' with about $35.00 worth of merchandise. Mr. T. C. Ross, manager, was visit ing relatives in Kansas at the time of the robbery, * APPOINT ASSISTANT’ SOLICITOR OF INTERIOR DEPARTMENT Washington, (CNTS) The ap^oint taent of William H. Hastie, young local attorney and member of the faculty of Howard of Law to the pr Solicitor in the T Interior last week recent graduate of uarva: been called to official duties in the Interior Department during the past month, Mr. Hastie was sworn in last week and started to work immediately. He has indicated that he will con tinue on a part time basis in the Howard Law School, Finishing Dunbar, Mr. Hastie re sumed his studies at Amerherst Col lege, from where he was graduated with honors, and later in the School of Law at Harvard University. He ' received his degree of Doctor of Laws in 1930. Just prior to that time Mr. Hastie spent a brief period as an instructor at the State of New Jersey Military Training and industrial Institute at Bordentown. Leaving Harvard he came to Washington where he was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia. In 1932 he returned to Harvard and became the recipient f the de gree of Docor of Judicial Science the highest honor bestowed in the field of legal education. Again returning to this city he became affiliated with the law firm of Houston and Hous ton, Mr. Hastie’s duties calls for the writing of legal briefs and opinions involving the United States govern ment and other agencies in land dealings. HARBORER’ OF ARMWOOD LYNCHING VICTIM DE MAND RELEASE | Baltimore, d., (CNS) obins, pros ecutor and other officials of Somer set County have been ordered to ap par in court here in regard to the in carceration of John H. Richardson, white, who is alleged to have “har bored” George Armwood who later was taken from the Somerset jail and lynched. Richardson was arrested after the sheriff found Armwood, hiding in an adjoining county. Witnesses said Richardson had taken him there. State police transferred Richard son from the Somerset to the Balti. more jail the night Armwood was lynched. They said they feared the ,mob would return for him. For a month he has remained in jail “for safe keeping.” Mrs. Richardson instituted habeas corpus proceeding in the Baltimore Circuit Curt and Judge Eugene O’ Dunne will preside at the hearing.