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VOL. VII.— OMAHA, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 23, 1933 Number 43 4
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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