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-vy----vy- —vy-vy-\y--U-U-U— - U---— Q-Q-Q-Q ■■ An Uubridled, Outstanding Mouthpiece for Your Community “The Omaha Guide Is vour Paper” VOL. VII.— OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JAN. 27TH, 1934 NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT Girl gets life in Pen JACKSON. Miss-. January 24—(C NS)—The Governor of the State of Mississippi, M. S- Conner, last week, j commuted the death sentence irnpos-1 ed upon Ammie Mae Harmon, 17 year old Negro girl, convicted of killing her husband, to life imprison ment- The girl was to have been hanged last week. _ j Alabama Sehco! ; Closss MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 24 (CNS)—Public schools in Mont gomery County closed last Friday January 19 affecting 20,000 school children and teachers. More than one half of the 20,000 children are Ne groes. State superintendent of education I announces that he expects all of the public schools of the State to close by March 4 Calif, lynching Investigation Ends San Jose, Cal—(CNS-)—The San-j *ta Clara County Grand Jury con-1 eluded its investigation into the! lynching of John Holmes and Harold Thurmond, both white, last Novem ber 26, but would make no announce ment as to what had taken place or what findings might be expected. The lynching received a large amount of j publicity, especially after Governor j Rolph of California announced that j there would be no prosecution. Presi-: dent Roosevelt condemned this offi- j cial condoning of the crime, and form I er Presdent Herbert Hoover de- j nounced Ralp. The entire country, i both press and pulpit expressed! themselves on the case. Mencken Indorses Anti lynch bill Baltimore, Md., Jan. 19—In a lengthy comment on the Costigan-j Wagner anti-lynching bill in the I Baltimore Sun, H- L- Mencken, noted j critic endorses the bill and urges its ; enactment. “Under the Costigan-j Wagner bill,” he says, “they (lynch ers) are put on all fours with com mon murderers, and are liable to capital punishment in States where it is inflicted, and to life imprison ment in the rest- These heavy penal-1 ties will not only tend to dissuade the village bullies and morons who, perpetrate nearly all the lynchings;! they will also make it crystal clear that lynching is not to be defended ' any yiore as a mere aberration of public spirit, but as murder plain and unadulterated” Fined For Violating Law i i N.S)—Bruce Redding and John Brown two Negro high school stud ents were each fined $300 on charges of violating the Federal Aviation law's- The charges grew out of the wrecking of a Waco biplane, the pro perty of the Philadelphia Airport in which the students were returned from a trip Scranton, Pennsylvan ia last December Redding holds a learner’s permit, but Browm an experienced flyer had no permit and was accused of flying the plane, which was wrecked in land ing owing to poor visibility One Of Scottsboro Youths Lynched In Prison n r Hot Stove Center mmm lilii sgiisft s • ••••• •; •. •. .*.• The Negro’s Loyalty j From the Pen Of A White Man The white man forced his laws, religion and civilization upon the Negro as a penalty for his residence here in these United States, and then proved the lack of intelligence be hind his aims by treating the Negro as an inferior being, incapable of as similating the white man’s educa tional advantages. The Negro did not ask to be brought here; he was seized and sold* into ruthless slavery in this country, the disgrace and humiliation of that terrible condition afflicting his noble soul as it never could the soul of a white man/ That, in itself, is suffi cient to make the Negro inferior— if inferior he is—which I do not admit, lacking proof. Still, despite the above, the Negro has shown a lopalty to his white brother that is sublime in its sin-' cerity of aim.” This fact should credit him at least with equity un stinted- At the battle of San Juan Hill, the American forces, out-num bered twenty to one, were selling their lives in a losing fight; were be ing whipped.” Suddenly the black legion arrived! Then the tide of battle was turned-” That battle, won by the Americans, broke the back of the Spaniards, and tossed the laurels into the palms of the Rough Riders- , Is the Negro’s loyalty on that oc casion still remembered? We hear little of it if it is. On the Mexican Border another another black legion went down to a man. Uncle Sam was busy across the sea; this Negro faction was all that remained to protect life and property; the Mexicans having taken advantage of our Army’s absence to snoop, raid and cut up other devilish ness on American soil- Was not this act of heroism a great proof of loyal ty? Again, consider the black boys that went across to fight for Democ--. racy. How many returned to reap a reward for their bravery, their fi delity, their sacrifices? Does any one remember how they bled and died in the throes of agony to make America safe for the weak and de pendent ? Those black heroes showed no in feriority as they faced certain death before yt J-abid enemy;why should they now, in time of peace, be ad judged as mediocre beings? The black man’s heart is generous;, he’ll feed five out of six white men and think nothing of it. The white man, on the contrary, will feed one black man out of six, and never for get his liberality- I say God bless the black man for the favors I have received at his kindly hands.” Let’s tear away the barrier of so called rank existing now between the white man and his black brother, and be one in brotherhood as we were one on the bloody battlefields of Cuba, Mexico and France. And let no one forget the back man’s loyalty to his stiff-necked white brother. Richard D. Dare. 208 East Superior St Chicago, 111 -f Addresses Ferum Approximately 150 boys and girls crowded the Y- W. C. A., on Sunday afternoon to hear Rabbi David A Goldstein who spoke on the subject: “The Art of Living Together.” Guests of the afternoon were the Central Hi-Y Club and the Tech Girl Reserve Club. Mable King and Or ville Jones presided. The meeting was sponsored by the Boy-Girl For um Committee. Porters fight to get advantage of Code WASHINGTON, January 24—(CN S)—A Philip Randolph is making a strong fight to have the Pullman Car | company placed under the emergency railroad transportation act of 1933 Under the present conditions the porters get neither the benefit of the code under the NRA or the super vision of ETRA on the grounds, in the first instance, that the Pullman 1 company is a carrier, and in *Pe sec ond, that it is not a carrier by rail road, which places the Pullman com pany outside the reach of the law in both cases. Since the depression the Pullman company has reduced wages, has: ignored repeated written requests from the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to grant them a hearing for the purpose of discussing the grievances of the porters and maids. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor is pushing the porters case before the Government. Ask For Jobs On Bus line New Yqrk, aJn- 19.—Charging that conductors on the Fifth Avenue bus es are discourteous to Negro pas sengers and citing the failure of these employees to assist colored women on and off the conveyances, although wrhite women are eagerly assisted, or to close the doors on cold days on buses going through Harlem, the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People in a letter signed by Roy Wilkins, assist ant secretary, demands of the Fifth Avenue Coach company that all pas sengers on its buses be given uni form ily courteous treatment. The letter also calls attention to' the failure of the company to give employment to Negroes as bus driv ers, conductors or garage employees and urges that the color bar be re moved. Senator Dill Heads Committee For Anti-lynch Bill Washington, Jan. 19.—The Costi gan-Wagner anti-lynching bill moved forward another step today with the ! appointment of a sub-committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee to conduct hearings pi'obably in mid February. The members of the sub ! committee are Senators Clarence C. i Dill, Washington, Chairman, (D), George W- Norris. (R), Nebraska Frederick Van Nuys, (D) Indiana, ■ William H. Dieterich (D) Illinois and j 1 Warren R. Austin (D), Vermont The National Association for the ’ ! Advancement of Colored People has: announced that among those who will | ! be called to testify before the Sen-; | ate sub-committee are Charles H , Tuttle, former U. S. attorney in New j \ York City, Dean Charles H. Houston,' | Howard university law school, Arthur Garfield Hayes, noted lawyer, and Prof, Carl Llewllyn, Columbia uni versity law school, who helped draft the bill, and several other authorities on constitutional law- * League orders Libe rias Acceptance ef Foreign Advisory WASHINGTON, January 23—(C NS)—The League of Nations Coun cil in Geneva has informed Liberia flatly it must accept the Council’s plan for economic rehab ilitation through rule by foreign ad visers, without modification. On behalf of the government, President Edwin Barclay had advised the Council that the Liberian legisla ture had accepted the plan subject to reservations. Opinion in the Council was that reservations might destroy essentials of the program, but the text had not been received here. Under the plan, adopted last fall, an international white commission would supervise administrative and financial reorganization of the Afri can repubic for five years- The Unit ed States supported the movement- , Firestone-rubber interests promised to reduce the interest rate on a loan of $2,500,000 made to the republic in : 1926 if the plan was approved During discussion of the program, Louis Arthur Grimes, Secretary of State for Liberia, objected to a pro vision for appointment of an adviser to supervise the carrying out of the plan, contending it would make him a virtual dictator Qanal Zone workers Swells N.A.C.P. Fund NEW YORK, January 25—The six colored American Community Club house secretaries in the Canal Zone have just sent to the N. A. A. C- P national office a money order for $7-25 representing collections from Negro canal workers for the Asso ciation’s legal defense fund “Ait of us are aware” says the ac companying letter signed by J- E Waller, “of the great good which is being accomplished through the in strumentality of this wonderful or ganization.” EXTRA OLLIE JACKSON WELL KNOWN j OMAHAN DIED FRIDAY NIGHT | According to reports Youth lynched in Prison MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 23 —(CNS)—Louis Cunningham, one of the nine Negroes who had been sent enced to burn in the electric chair on February 9, died in Kilby Prison Tuesday- Cunningham’s death came within a few days of the announce ment that Governor Millerv snowed under by protests against this legal massacre, had promised a clemency hearing to eight of the condemned-1 Cunningham was one of those who was to have had such a hearing. The Montgomery papers are ex-! tremelv vague about the cause of j Cunningham’s death. They announce j that he “died of an illness he had had ! for a long time ” The intervention of white and Ne gro workers to halt the wholesale, slaughter scheduled for next month,, hp.3 infuriated the lynch-rulers of the state. The Selma police have visited' and grilled Adie Foster, sister of Ber Foster, one of the nine. Miss Foster, recently went to Birmingham to' make contact with the International | Labor Defense- There she told the story of her brother’s frame-up—a j story of police brutality that roused j the indignation of people everywhere j and brought a storm of protest down around the ears of the Alabama of ficials. The police of Selma insisted on knowing every detail of Miss Fos ter’s visit to Birmingham, and threatened her with punishment for what she had done. - I New S&ottsbsro Trial to be heard on Jan. 27th NEW YORK, January 25 —Osmund K. Fraenkel, well-known constitutional attorney, will probably be the legal representative of the In ternational Labor Defense in Judge W. W. Callahan’s Decatur court, January 27, when motions for new trials for Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys sentenced to die February 2, are up for hearing, it was announced by the I. L. D. The motions demand the setting aside of the lynch verdicts of death passed against the two boys by Cal lahan, contrary to the evidence which proved their innocence- The issues of Negro rights involved in the case— barring of Negroes from Alabama juries—as well as the prejudice evid enced by Judge Callahan and proved in affidavits presented by the I. L. D. to thea courts, are raised in the motions which will be argued. Cleveland Holds N.A.A.C.E Mass Meeting Cleveland, Jan. 19—More than 1000 colored and white people assembled in a mass meeting held at the First Methodist Church, Tuesday, under the auspices of the Cleveland N. A. A- C- P-, unanimously adopted a resolution offered by Attorney Harry E- Davis, President of the branch,, urging enactment of the Costigan Wagner federal anti-lynching bill. Copies of the resolution were sent to Ohio senators and congressmen in Washington. Among the speakers at the mass meeting were Rabbi A- H- Silver, Rev- Michael L. Moriarity, director of Catholic charities, Charles White, assistant city law director. Roland Hayes Quits LOS ANGELES. Calif., January 23 — (ONS)—Roland Hayes who came West to help produce a pieture of hi.i life has disagreed with the Holly wood producers who sought to inject into the production commercial ex ploitation angles that would reflect on his race. After the story of his life was written and turned over to the film makers they proceeded to blue pencil the high lights as seen by Hayes and Hayes blue penciled the propaganda that he called commercial; and there the project stands suspended Mass Pressure Smashes Color r * v ^ •* Ann A-’- M!oh., -Ten. l',\— pirit 1 pro' si "re .1 outraged .Jn \ -rsity f M -hif -a ah m:.; and vide ubli ity in me Neg . rs- ive >r$ed F. C. Cannon, Slichigm’.} tball beach to'all, v.- Fstar athlete la continue wc-rkonl.’ i the freshman team from which ho had been previously barred because of an “unwritten gentlemen’s agree ment” between the Big Ten schools. After a conference with Coaches Cappon and Yost on January 11, young Lott was told he could re port for the squad- They said ha could go out, that it was just up to him. The barring of Lett from the Mich igan freshman team was brought to the attention of the N. A. A. C. P. by Dr- Adnois Patterson of Battle Creek. Mich. Strong letters were im ! mediately dispatched to the Michigan authorities and state officials. The associations’ release widely carried in the press was instrumental in chang ing the mind of the university coach es. The association is now directing its attention to fighting the unwritten agreement of the Big Ten schools against Negro basketball players. Protests have already been made to to the presidents of Wisconsin and Minnesota universities. Alumni of other Big Ten schools are asked to protest to their universities on this alleged agreement. Indiana legislator tests State Civil Rights law INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., January 25 —To contest the present inadequate Indiana civil rights law, as it applies to theatres, restaurants and hotels, Representative Henry J. Richardson of the state legislature has filed four suits against the Indiana theatre and the Severin hotel here asking dam ages and costs of court in each >.ase. This action by Mr- Richardson as member of the legal staff of the Nat ional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, is part of the nationwide campaign of the As sociation against discrimination and segregation based solely on color. Under direction of Representative Richardson a petition in favor of the Costigan-Wagner Anti-lynching bill is being drawn up which will bear the signatures of the leading men and women of Indianapolis- The peti tion will be sent to Indiana’s two U. S. senators and all of its Congress men. Ignorance Never Bliss “Icnoranee is never bliss,” said Hi! ’To, the sage of Chinatown. “Tt is only on anesthetic which prevents a person rmporarily from being aware of a ••sinful condition.” _J