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-U-u-u-u- —u -u-u-u— —O O-0-0— -0-0_0_0_< c : „ \ HEW TO THE L1NE\ 1 i VOL. VII.— OMAHA, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 23, 1933 Number 43 4 — — ■ ' I -j1" 1 LI. ■ 1 ■■■ L— ■ I ■— 1 ' J " ■ J! ±m i — ■ - — __ . «Anrd B***” > \ i»OOl» • * ux W1 DO OUR PART DR. PITTS INDICTED FOR MAIL FRAUD Philadelphia—(CNS)—“Dr.” Wal ter L. Pitts, alias Voice Publishing, alias The Observer, alias Mayer Dis tributing Company, and so forth and so forth, has been indicted on ten counts for the use of the mails to de fraud. His accomplice Adelaide Dab ney was also indicted. Many patrons throughout the coun try paifl the “Doctor” his three-dol lar fee for the privilege of securing a “delayed number” that he guaranteed to “hit.” Representatives from the Pitts burgh Courier, Pittsburgh Criterion, Afro-American, Washington Tribune, I Norfolk Journal and Guide, were called as witnesses to prove publica tion of the “Doctor’s” Love Powders, Lucky Incenses, Number Dust, and other advertisements. Assistant U. S. Attorney, E. Wash ington Rhodes editor of the Phila delphia Tribune, was in charge of the grand jury that returned the indicts ments. ROOSEVELT’S VALET FETED FOR HUMANE EFFORTS Washington—(CNS) — Irvin Mc Duffy, valet to the President, and his wife who is maid to the First Lady, were entertained at the Howard Thea ter the night of December 13, by a group of citizens in appreciation for McDuffy’s efforts to have the Presi dent commute the death sentence of Charles Edward Washington. Washington was recently executed at the District Jail for murdering a taxi driver. LYNCH BOY AND TELL SHERIFF TO COME AND GET BODY Columbia, Tenn., (CNS)—The body of Cord Cheek, 20-year-old Negro whom the grand jury had refused to indict following his arrest for an at tempted attack on an 11-year-old girl, was found hanging from the limb of a tree near here December 15. The sheriff said he received an xSnonymous telephone call thjit h'e could find a “dead Negro at the forks of the road” and to “Come and get him.” The allege attempted attack on the child occurred about a month ago. NEW YORK CHURCH FORCED IN TO FORECLOSURE SUIT New York City—(CNS)—The Title Guarantee and Trust Company filed suit in the Supreme Court December 9, to foreclose a mortgage against the property of St. Mark’s Methodist Episcopal Church at the northwest corner of Edgecombe Avenue and 137th Street. The mortgage, orig inally for $180,000, has been reduced to $169,150. The suit is based on de fault in the payment of $9,902 inter est and $7,850 principal. The church property is valued at approximately $500,000. CRAWFORD TRIAL DEC. 12 Washington, Dec. 8—Dean Charles H. Houston and his staff of lawyers who are to defend George Crawford at Leesburg, Va. on December 12 are prepared with all their moves for the opening of the trial. The first mo tion undoubtedly will be for a quash ing of the jury venire on the grounds that Negroes have been excluded in appeal for contributions to carry on the fight. With Brandeis _ / Miss Cleota King, Brandeis Store elevator operator. Miss King was formerly employed by the Julius Or kins Stores where she was promoted from elevator operator to saleslady in which capacity she was awarded a prize for being very competent. CAR INJURES WOMAN Mrs. Dorothy Weston, of 956 No. 25th Ave., was taken to Nicholas Sen hospital with a fractured skull early Monday night after being struck at 16th and California Sts. by an auto driven by Robert Dew, 5116 No. 16th Street Osnahan Joins j Ellington’s Show Duke Ellington, the “Aiistocrat of Jazz”, his cast and his sensational band played a weeks engagement at the Brandeis Theater, which began Dec. 15. The Duke’s great band, Miss Ivy Anderson, and cast went over with a bang, as usual. During his engagements here in Omaha, Mr. Ellington has added a new member to his group, Miss Boby Castor of Chicago, a blues singer, who went over the top and will con tinue with Mr. Ellington on his tour. While filling his engagement in Om aha, Mr. Duke Ellington and Mrs. Duke Ellington, who is accompaning her husband on his tour, but is not a member of the cast, stopped at the Fontenelle Hotel. The Duke and Company will make their next engagement in Sioux City, Iowa. GIVE YOUR OWN BOY AND GIRL A CHANCE TO EARN AN HONEST LIVING AND RESPECT ABLE JOB BY TRADING WITH THE SQUARE DEAL GROCERY flerry Christmas! JUCH is the old, old greeting that is ever new which will soon be heard on every side in this community. It is the greeting between individuals, between friends and business associates; it is the greeting which we will hear frequently in our clubs and societies and civic organizations, in our churches and our schools. it * ¥ All these institutions have a definite place in our community life and as such we give them our loyalty and our support. But not everyone can belong to all of them. So there may be some of us who will not have the feeling of sharing in the Christmas greeting which comes from them. But there is one institution whose interests are the interests of the whole community, of every man and woman and child in it, an institution which is devoted to serving the interests of all. That is the Home Town Newspaper. ^ $ A welcome visitor into the homes of this community; a messenger bearing news of community interest, a chronicler of the joys and sorrows and of the trials and triumphs of its people; a mirror held up to reflect the daily life of the community; the loom in which is woven into one harmonious pattern the varied threads of community activity. ■» . all these are the Home Town Newspaper. ' * ¥ * So, through what more appropriate medium than the Home Town News paper should there come a greeting to all the people of our community at this time of the year? We believe there is none more appropriate and we are happy to have the privilege of saying to you all: ” A Merry Christmas.” The Publishers Copyright, tigs. 6 Holiday Shoppers i Victims 01 Rim away Car Six people, including two children were injured by a driverless car at V 16th and Farnam Sts. Wednesday j afternoon. ijS The most seriously injured of a y group of anas shoppers Miss Hildur Peterson of 3025 Franklin St. Four V i fingers of her left hand were cut off V and her right arm was bruised. She ‘-oj also suffered a slight fracture of the ft skulL The run-away car was owned by v Billie Young of 984 N. 25th St. ^ Young’s roadster stalled at 16th and Famam. He asked a patrolman to P let him get a push but was told to ''a “get out and crank it”. When the car was started it began to move backwards down Famam St. where r it crashed into the six people and fin ally into a 16th St. tram. Young fled from the scene of the «!n accident during the excitement ut later returned to the Police Station . where he was booked for investiga- ^ tion. He has a wife, Mrs. Elizabeth ^ Young and a child. They formerly lived in Chicago. ~ / MANN, CHICAGO ATTORNEY, ^ GIVEN A POSITION IN PWA / Washington—(CNS) — Theophilus JI M. Mann, of Chicago, an attomey-at- • , law, has been appointed on the legal Ik staff of the Public Works Adminis tration. Mr. Mann is a native of \\ Illinois and has been associated with Earl B. Dickerson and William E. King in the practice of law. ^ He is Communications Officer of c ^ the Eighth Infantry Illinois National k Guard; Secretary of the Legal Re- 1 dress Committee of the Chicago / Branch N A A C P; Senior Vice K Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha V Psi, a member of the Illinois State Bar association and Cook County Bar ^ association. - S NO NEGROES CALLED TO SERVE \ ON CRAWFORD JURY \ Leesburg, Va.—(CNS)—The panel > of more than one hundred men which Q was drawn last week for the jury that K will hear the case of George Craw- 1 ford, the man returned from Boston, > Massachusetts, on a charge of mur- ^ der; does not contain the name of any Negro. The defendant’s counsel will |jjj| attack the failure to have colored rep resentation in the trial panel as pre judicial to the constitutional rights of ^ the man on trial for his life. ^ Beautiful Story Of Nativity 7 old Vividly In Pictures l r . - - ► >. ^ k_ ^ V THE MAGI THE ANGEL AND THE SHEPHERDS BETHLEHEM CHRIST IS BORN ,0n® °,!,.the fi?f,st ™>“°f religious in the Electric Shop of theart may be view ed Nebraska Power Company, Seventeenth andHarney streets, where four beautifully paint ed Pictures, softly flood-lighted convey the sweet story of tile Nativity of Bethlehem. When visiting the downtown stores with your children to see Santa C'aus, we recom p* Chld^en hf® WOrkS °f J pISr3 "7u bring a. ^ew vlsion of the real significance of Christmas into the mind ts and hearts of the little ones. lustrItionNnfb^W»h^er Company 18 aIs0 usul? considerable billboard advertising space with the slogan “Peace on Earth-Good Will to Men.” used in conjunction with an fr ustration of Bethlehem. J. E. Davidson, president of the Nebras- ka Power Company, believer strongly that Christmas should not be over-commercialized