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-0-( i V**r&** An U;:b.*'*Lc.’, Outstanding , Mouthpiece lor lour Community “The Omaha Guide Is vour Paper” — _VUL- vu— OMAHA GUIDE, JAN. 13,1934 OMAHA, NEBRASKA NUMBER FORTY-SIX ANTI LYNCH BILL BROUGH! IN SENATE Five-Year Jail Term for Negligent State Officers and $1,000 Fine Against Lynching Counties Imposed by Costigan Wagner Measure Washington, D- C-, Jan. 5.—A fed eral anti-lyncring bill sponsored by Senator Edward P. Costigan of Col orado and Senator Robert F. Wagner of Now York was introduced in the senate yesterday The measure has been changed con siderably from the old Dyer bill, but the general provisions are the same. Under the bill a federal penalty of five years’ imprisonment or a $5,000 fine or both might be placed upon any state officer who failed to exercise diligence in protecting those in his charge from mob assaults, or who neglected to do his part in appre hending and convicting lynchers. For any State officer to counten ance such crimes affirmatively would be made a Federal crime punishable by imprisonment of from five years to life. The Federal courts would have jurisdiction to try and punish, in ac cordance with the law of the State where the injury was inflicted, all persons participating therein where the State instrumentalities of justice gave ample evidence of their inabilit> or unwiilingnss to enforce their owi law Any county in which a person was put to death by a mob would forfeit $1,000, which might be recovered ir a suit in the name of the Unitec States for the use of the family 01 dependent parents -of the victim, il any, and otherwise for the use of the United States. It is provided also that both the county in which the victim is seizee and the one in which he is lynchec shall be liable. Announcement will be made in am pie time of the hearings on the bil so that persons who wish to be heare can submit material. Announcemen will also be made of the members o: the committee which will conside: the bill. ■m-m-rm • . A A Meanwhile, waiver vv xuuc, C- P. secretary, who is here in con ference on the bill, urges all friend: of this legislation to write Senator: Costigan and Wagner, registering ap proval of the bill and thanking then for sponsoring it- These letters wil serve”to indicate to the senate th< ' widespread interest in this legislation Mr. White also telegraphed Presi ident Roosevelt thanking him for des ignating lynching in his message t< congress as one of the crimes callin; “on the strong arm of govemmen for their immediate suppression.” WHITE SUBSTITUTE FOR NE GROES WHEN INJUNCTION IS ISSUED WASHINGTON, D. C. January 8 The New Negro Alliance, an organ ization of young Negroes, organize! to secure employment for Negroes ii those establishments where the maj ority trade is colored, was restrainet by court order last week from pick eting Kaufman’s Department Stori ob Seventh Street northwest. Kauf man’s is a large department store located in a Negro neighborhood. Ni sooner had the injunction been issue! than the Young People’s Socialis f League, white, began to picket th store with signs reading, “Negroe. do not buy where you cannot work and “Jobs Jobs, Jobs.” They coul< not be stopped until the managemen of the store went into court and se cured another injunction. This wa I 4 impossible until the holiday rush ha oeased Lynch boy Tell Sheriff To “Come Get Body” Columbia, Term-, —(CN9)—The body of Cord Cheek, 20-year-old Negro whom the grand jury had re- 1 fused to indict following his arrest for an attempted 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 an onymous telephone call that he could find a “dead Negro at the forks \>f the road” and to “come and get him.” , The alleged attempted attack on the child occured about a month ago DR. PITTS INDICTED FOR MAIL FRAUD Philadelphia Jan- 8— (CN5) “Dr.”' Walter L. Pitte, alias Voice Publish ing, alias The Observer, alias Mayer Distributing Company, and so forth, has been indicted on ten counts for ! the use of the mails to defraud. Hi3 accomplice Adelaide Dabney was also ! indicted. ' Many patrons throughout the coun j try paid the “Doctor” his three-dol lar fee for the privilege of securing a “delayed number” that he guaran teed to “hit.” Representatives from the Pitts burgh Couries, Pittsburgh Criterion, Afro American, Washington Tribune, I , Norfolk Journal and Guide, were call , ed as witnesses to prove publication I of the “Doctor’s”Love Powders, i 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 in dictments. ■ ________ CHURCH TO GET MILLION DOLLARS IN RENT i NEW YOK CITY, January 8—(C ; NS)—St. Philip’s Protestant Epis copal Church which at one time was • situated down-town in New York City but for the past twenty-five . years has worshiped in a new church . edifice in 134th Street, Harlem, is s said to be the richest Negro church i in the world. As the result of a real . estate deal that disposed of the down i town property the church is soon to 1 collect about $1,000,000 in rent. ; The church has rented for tne . ten years to Louis B. Lipman the ■ row of tne six-story apartment - houses at 107 to 145 West 135th St., i which the congregation has owned , for more than twenty-five years. There are 250 rentable units of four and five rooms in the buildings in addition to stores. The ten buildings • have a frontage of 400 feet on the street. Mr. Lipman will alter the property. The church corporation is more than 100 years old. NEW MILLION DOLLAR Y. M- C. A 1 HOLDS ANNIVERSARY i CELEBRATION 1 New York City—(CNS)—“First Anniversary Week” of the new mil ■ lion dollar building of the One Hun ■ dred and Thirty-fifth Street Branch , of the Y. M- C. A. was celebrated > here last week starting January 1. I Sunday January 7 the general cele l bration was concluded with greetings 5 from the Board of Directors, deliver ! ed by Cleveland H- Dodge, New York ’’ millionaire, president of the Y. M. C. I A. movement in N°w York City- The t principal address was delivered by - Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of • Howard University. Dr- Peyton F. 1 Anderson, chairman of the Board of Managers presided. you pick up everything you WANTTO KEEP ANP take it vown in the DaSEMENT -THE PAPLOR. HAS 0EEN A MESS SINCE Mrs. Francis Cole Dies Mrs Frances Ruth Black Cole, of 2219 Grace St., who t as shot in an altercation with her husband, James Cole Januaiy 1, 1934, died Thursday afternoon at 1:00 P M ’ at the Covenant Hospital. ' *’ STUDENTS ACT AROUSEROTC _ .Washington — (CNS)—“Down with the R. 0- T. C.” as their battle cry and with the same emblazoned upon many banners more than 300 students (50 or more colored) recently march ed through the streets' of Washington to the White House, and demanded that President Roosevelt oust the R- 0. T. C- from American colleges As an outcome of this movement an to counteract the campaign against the Reserve Officers’ Train ing Corps recently launched by the National Student League in "Washing ton, supporters of military training have called a “National R. O. T. C Conference,” to be held in Washing ton on January 27. It is sponsored by a group of patriotic societies which are bent on combating “a combined attack on the R. O. T- C. by commun ist, socialist and pacifist organiza tions.” JACKSON TO TRANSIENT DIVISION Birmingham, Ala- (CNA) Jan. 6— Nison Jackson, Negro head of the Negro case department will be trans ferred to a transient division in or der to prevent him from giving dic tation to a white stenagrapher. This was the statement made by W. J. Plunkert, regional director of Fed eral Transient Bureau. Miss Keen who was the white sten ographer taking the dictation stated that a “negro stenographer had been employed to take Jackson’s dictation for the past few days” UNEMPLOYED CONVENTION IN SESSION New York City (CNA) Jan. 6_ i he National Committee of the un employed council announces a change in the date of the unemployed con vention scheduled to take place in ashington, D. C» in January to February 4-6. ; his will give an opportunity for more organizations to participate. DR. GORDON W. JACKSON AR RESTED FOR BIGAMY Chicago—(CNS)—Dr. Gordon W. Jackson of this city was recently married to Mrs- Lelia Stubbs Proctor, at the home of Mrs. George Cleveland Hall at 3636 South Parkway. Dr. J. A- Bray performed the ceremony. The announcement was made by Mrs. Hall. Dr. Jackson first married Mae Walker, daughter of Mrs. Lelia Walk er, and granddaughter of the late Madam Walker. In 1926 they were divorced. In 1931 Dr- Jackson was married to Mrs. Florence Bray who is now suing him for divorce- As a result of the recent marriage to Mrs. Proctor, Dr. Jackson is now charged with bigamy. CLAYBORNE GEORGE ON CLEVE LAND CIVIL SERVICE BOARD Cleveland—(CNS)—Former Coun cilman Clayborne George has been ap pointed a member of the local civil service commission to succeed Attor ney Harry C. Davis whose six yeai term expired December 31. Attomej George ran for judge in the last elec tion running fourteenth in a list oi 22 for five places. HOWARD UNIVERSITY TO HAVE NEW BUILDING FOR COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS - « Washington — (CNS) — Plans for construction of a new classroom •building with Public Works Adminis tration fund's are now ready. The new structure is to cost $460,000. It will have room for 1,100 students and the administrative offices of the College of Liberal Arts and Education SUBSISTENCE HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY TO BE LOCATED | IN COUNTY WITH NO NEGRO INHABITANTS Washington, — (CNS)—The latest move to ‘dodge the color line’ is shown in the recent announced plans to locate subsistence homestead com munity at Decatur, Indiana, under the direction of the Subsistence Home steads Division of the Department of the Interior. The Division is establishing demon stration homestead projects in se lected areas with the $25,000,000 re volving loan fund made available for this purpose by the National Recov ery Act. Decatur with a population of about 5,500 people, is the county seat of Adams County- The town is situated at the junction of the Erie, the Toledo St. Louis and Western, and the Penn sylvania railroads about sixty miles south of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Of the inhabitants 5,037 are aative whites- No Negroes were_ enumerat ed ii) the town in 1930 and only 6 show up as inhabitants of Adams County The project there involves a loan to the subsidiary corporation of $125, 000. Options have been obtained on 80 acres of farm land which adjoins the Decatur city limits. From 40 to 48 homesteads will be established, with tracts for each of from one to two acreas. The deveopment will be contiguous to the city, and the occupants are in tended to be a part of the Decatur community rather than a group set apart. A school and playground lay within two blocks of the site. M. L. Wilson, Director of the Sub sistence Homesteads Division, said that the project will furnish “a teat and demonstration of the opportun ities of workers in small cities to in crease their standard of living by re ducing their complete dependence on pay envelopes to achieve a satisfac tory livelihood-” Congressman Depr iest Hanged In Effigy Miami, Fla. — (CNS) —Congress man Oscar D-ePriest of the first Illi nois District was hanged in effigy here this morning, Friday, December 15. It was expected that he would arrive on a train from St- Petersburg over the Seaboard Airline Railway but the raifway officials reported him in Tampa. , Police removed from a telegraph pole a dummy bearing the following sign: “Oscar DePriest, stay out of Miami. This is a white man’s town-” The identity of the persons who lash ed the stuffed figure to the pole cross arm remained unknown. NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION ASKS ANTI LYNCHING LEGISLATION Boston, Mass. — (CNS)—The Na tional Equal Rights League has sent a communication to President Roose velt commending his denunciation of lynching and urges that he recom mend Federal anti-lynching legisla tion in his message to Congress. The League asks for a general audience on this request. “Because you call it plain murder1 and condemn all who condone it,” said the message, “colored Americans, as chief victims, feel a bit safer ” _ MRS. BYRD TO RETAIN HER POSITION Washington—(CNS)—Miss Mabel Byrd, who was appointed to a posi tion in Unit 10, headed by Dr. M Sachs, about four months ago, and was scheduled to be dropped on De cember 15 when Dr. Sachs’ unit of research and planning was discontin ued has been retained in the NRA ser vice- Miss Byrd has been transferred to the Labor Advisory Board staff. It is claimed that Miss Byrd al though originally appointed to ferret out and whip into line certain indus tries that set up two separate wage codes for white and colored labor, was never able to get the unit she supervised to properly function for | the best interests of Negro labor due to hampering activities of higher-ups ! in the NRA, including Hugh John- ■ son himself. _ AL JOLSON TO LEAD IN PORGY NEW YORK CITY, January 10— (CNS)—It is now reported that Al Jolson, white mammy singer has been selected to play the title role of the George Gershwin musical version of Du Bose and Dorothy Heyward’s musical play “Porgy” which the Theatre Guild will produce here in January. With an all-colored cast the play was a great sensation in 1927-1928, and ran for three years in America, England and France- Naturally it was expected that the musical adaptation would be presented by Negro artists. RABBI FREDRICK COHN TO SPEAK AT N. A. A. C- P. MEETING The N. A- A- C- P. will have a Mass Meeting at Bethel A- M. E Church, 25th and Franklin Streets, Sunday, January 14, at 3 p. m. The purpose of this Mass Meeting is to get behind the Anti-Lynch Leg islation introduced by Senator Ed. P. Costigan of Colorado- Rabbi Fred rick Cohn will be the principle speaker of the evening. I - Rumor Untrue Of Attempted Suicide Mrs. Greta Ladd Rooney, makes statement to Omaha Guide reporter, about the rumors of her attempting to jump into the Missouri River. Fol lowing is her statement: “I don’t understand how anyone could have started such rumors, it is not true. This is what really happen ed. I was with a party of my friends, and we had been to Council Bluff, la. On returnng from Coun cil Bluffs, we stopped to pay toll. I got out of the car and walked over to the edge of the bridge, and my hat fell into the river. I screamed, and there seemed to be some excitement. I don’t know what others thought but I was not thinking of jumping Hitlers Press Asks For Lynching Data New \ ork, Jan- 5.—The Ullstein Press Service which serves nil of the big newspapers in Berlin, Germany, has asked the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple for full information on the lynch ing record for 1933. They have been mailed the N. A. A. C- P.’s end-of-the year statement together with the complete lynching record since 1886 The Association’s summary of American Iynchings for 1933 has also been mailed to the London Daily Her ald, Reuters, Ltd., the London Times, the London Daily Express, the Lon don Daily Mail and the London Daily Telegraph. In previous years foreign newspapers and press services have shown keen interest in the Associa tion’s summaries of annual Iynchings. A request for lynch data has also come from the Social-Demokraten of Copenhagen, Denmark, a labor daily newspaper. NEW USES FOUND FOR THE PEANUT Washington — (CNS) —The start ling revelation . that when a person buys a bag of peanuts he is really buying a tube of shaving cream or a strip of linoleum, in rudimentary form, was impressed upon a group of Howard University students last week by Dr. George W. Carver, noted chemist of Tuskegee Institute- Dr Carver demonstrated 100 products which the South’s lowly “goober” has yielded to him in years of research Face powder and cheese, to name a few, not to mention synthetic rubber, milk, cream, butter, ice cream, in stant coffee, complete with sugar and cream; lard, soap, ink, pickles and axle grease. Dr. Carver said he is now experimenting on the applica tion of peanut rubber n the manufac ture of automobile tires. Although a specialist in by-pro ducts of the peanut, the Tuskegee scientist also has won fame for his production of 125 commodities from sweet potato base- Sweet potato flour, which he perfected, was used at the institute during the World War as a substitute for wheat flour. From Alabama clay he has ex tracted multicolored paints, and he has made paper, rope cordage and straw matting from okra fiber. He is still at work trying to perfect a road-building material from cotton and asphalt