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_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.
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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.
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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
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.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
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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 ”
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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.
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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.
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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