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S)—Subsistence Homestead projects!
to the number of fifteen to provide1
for approximately 2700 settler fam-1
ilies in several States, both North
and South, fails to provide in any
way for Negro families. In July last,
the Division of Subsistence Home-'
steads, a unit in the Department of
the Interior, was formed to assist in
“providing aid for the redistribution
of the overbalance of population in
industrial centers-” An allotment of
$25,000,000 was made available to the
Division for making loans for and
otherwise aid in, the purchase of sub
sistence homesteads; the moneys
collected as repayments of said loans
to constitute a revolving fund to be
administered as directed by the Se
cretary of the Interior. It was an
nounced in “the purpose and po
licies” of the Division that in “the
program of the Division full consid
eration will be given to demonstra
tion projects for Negroes and other
racial groups.” And in promulgating
that as part of the program it was
also set forth that “the impact of the
depression in both agriculture and
industry has been particularly severe
upon the Negro ”
With these pronouncements . in
mind, several efforts have been made
of late, to ascertain just what pro
visions are being - made to take care
of those upon whom “the impact of
the depression has been particularly
severe” since Negroes in many of
the States are getting short-shifts
in many projects of the Federal Em
ergency Administration of Public
Works
The Secretary of the Interior up io
January 20 had announced plans for
the establishment of fifteen subsist
ence homestead projects in several
States, including New Jersey, Ind
iana, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Caro
lina, Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvan
ia, Delaware, Tennessee; two in West
Virginia; and five each in Mississ
ippi, and Texas.
To date, however, no information
is available as to how the NegTo pop
ulation of the country is ta be pro
vided for.
Early in October, the Arthur Dale
farm property situated near the
Reedsville, West Virginia postoffice,
was purchased by the Government
and the Subsistence Homestead Divi
sion announced that on that 1,100
acre tract in Preston County would
be established “a demonstration pro
ject in decentralized industry for 200
families.” This first project known
as the Reedsville project is located
in Preston County, West Virginia,
about 56 miles almost due west of
Cumberland, Maryland, and about 28
miles south of Uniontown, Pennsy
vania. It was first announced as
“new Morgantown, West Virginia,”
the nearest town of more than 15,000
inhabitants, the county seat of Mon
ongalia County, from which abandon
ed coal mine area, moat of the set
tler families will be removed to
"Reeds ville.
It develops that the settlers will
be chosen from applicants—unem
ployed coal miners formerly employ- j
ed in Monongalia County coal mines.
Approximately 200 Negro miners'
.orinerly employed in the nearby
coal regions and representing a Ne- J
gro population of some 800 persons
are among those who have filed ap- j
plications in due form for the home-1
steads- To date the application of no
Negro has been approved, although
at least one half of the 200 home- j
steads have been allotted to others
Seme of tljese Negro coal miners
have been without steady employ-!
ment for four years or more, and it
is stated that the prospects for re
employment there has vanished,
’they have been stranded with short
shifts in the industry and have been
largely dependent on public and pri
vate relief, in recent years, with
their own material resources ex
hausted. This is also true of the
white miners of the surrounding
county, who have to date received all
of the allotted homesteads. The fil
ing of these applications and its re
sultant effects in the Department of
the Interior is claimed to have
brought forth the Clark Foreman
outburst that “I hm sick and tired of
being a complainer.” Mr. Foreman
who is “Adviser on vne Economic
Status of Negroes is attached to the
Department of the Interior where his
duties entail special attention to the
manner and extent to which Negro
es are sharing in the results of the
operation of the National Recovery
Act,” and is quoted as saying just
after the Reedsville project was an
nounced: “I am sick and tired of be
ing a complainer. I mean that, in
, stead of going to various depart
ments of the government and com
plain that Negroes are being dis
i criminated against in the national
1 reconstruction, I want to see plans
worked out whereby constructive
work can be done for them.”
Continuing Mr- Foreman is quot
ed as saying: “Mr. W. E. B. DuBois,
the famous Negro leader says: ‘that
the only way the Negro can develop
; is through group effort. He is quite
right. I propose that the Public
Works Administration help him get
started in building his own self-suf
' ficient communities.”
“Under the subsistence homesteads
plan Negroes can have little plots of
| ground to sustain themselves, with a
| beginning in housing. With that as a
j municipal start, financed by their
j own people, and by the Public Works
Administration, they wmuld construct
their own public utilities. With
power and fuel and water developed
by their own activities, they could
next turn to Industry.”
Mr- Foreman was at once denounc
ed by many as a “Segregationist” to
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which he promptly replied: “I do not
advocate segregation, but their com
munities should be Negro built; Ne
gro controlled, so that the colored
people would have freedom for exer
cise of their leadership, w’hich has |
been developed-” *
Inquiries at the Department of the
Interior and the Division of Subsist- j
ence Homesteads as to what is being
done for the Negro reveals the fact 1
that Mr. Foreman’s belief that such <
communities would place the Negro 1
on the road to economic emancipa-<
tion, is uppermost in the minds of the |
officials of the Department and the j
Division, and this belief is further {
bolstered up by quotations from Dr. j
DuBois’ recent comment in the Jan- j
uary Crisis, that “It is impossible to j
wait for the millenium of free and
normal intercourse before we unite,
to co-operate among ourselves in
groups of like-minded people and in
groups of people suffering from the;
sama disadvantages and the same
hatreds-”
In direct reference to the projects:
«f the subsistence homesteads Mr
DuBois says: “In the recent endeav
or of the United States Government
to redistribute capital so that some
ct the disadvantaged groups may get
a chance for development, the Amer
ican Negro should voluntarily and
insistenly demand his share. Group
communities and farms inhabited by
colored folk should be voluntarily
lormed. In no case should there be
any discrimination against white and
blacks. But, at the same time, color
ed people shoud come forward, should
organize and conduct enterprizes and
their only insistence should be that
the same provisions be made for the
success of their enterprises that is
being made for the success of any
! ,>ther enterprise. It must be remem
bered that in the last quarter of a
century, the advance of the colored
people has been mainly in the lines
where they themselves working by
and for themselves, have accomplish
ed the greatest advance.” .
January 6 a project was announced
to provide homes for 500 families in
Jasper and Putnam Counties in cen
tral Georgia.
This project will be carried out
under the direction of the. Subsist
i enC€ Homesteads Division of the De
partment of the Interior. A loan of
$1.000,000 will be made by the Fed
eral Subsistence Homesteads Cor
poration, through the Division func
tions, to Chancellorville Homesteads,
Inc., a local corporation- This has
been organized for the purpose of
developing and managing the pro
ject as an integral part of the pro
gram of research, teaching and ex
tension directed by the Regents of
| the University System of Georgia
The many facilities of the Univer
i aHy System, which comprises sev
enteen institutions, including two
agricultural experiment stations and
three Negro institutions, will cooper
ate in this project. The three Negro
| institutions: Georgia Normal and
Agricultural College at Albany,
headed by J. W. Holley; State Tea
cher and Agricultural College at
Forsyth, W. M. Hubbard, president;
and the Georgia State Industrial Col
lege at .Savannah, B. F- Hubert, pres-'
ident, who is also supervisor of ex- j
imcntal and extension work in
Hancock County Georgia
The Negro population in both
counties outnumbered the white pop
ulation in 1930; Jasper County hav- i
ing 5,237 Negroes and only 3,357
whites; and Putnam County 5212 Ne
groes and only 3,155 whites- Local
representatives connected with the
project are quoted as saying the
“status quo” of the population of the
counties will be maintained in the al
lotment.
INTERRACIAL COMMITTEE
ELECTS OFFICERS
At the monthly meeting of the
City Interracial Committee, the fol
lowing officers were elected: Chair
man, Miss Rachel I. Taylor, Co-chair
man, Miss V erna Snell, Secretary,
Mrs- Lucy C- Crawford, Treasurer,
Mr. Karl Saline. Rev. Laurence R.
Plank, retiring President presided
The Committee is promoting inter
racial forums in young people’s
meetings. Interested groups of White
and Negro churches may secure
speakers from the Committee by
phoning the secretary, Mrs. Lucy C.
Crawford at WEbster 4729.
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ROBINSON DREAMS OF TAP
D ANCING THEN WORKS IT
OUT FOR STAGE
New York City—<CNS)—Bill
Robinson, better known at “Bojangl
es” is not only a premier of -he*
dancing art but is also a sprinter of
no mean ability. He can also run
backwards as fast as some pretenti
out athletes can run forward- Bill
has a lot of cups, medals and an
assortment of trophes to prove his
agility. , j
i One summer, while he was touriing
the entertainment centers of Europe,
he stopped long enough to 'set new
records for running backward- He
challenged America’s fastest track
men in novelty races and won, runn
ing seventy-five yards backward in
less time than it took then to. run
100 yards forward. Among those
who went down in defeat were Char
les Paddock, Chet Brown and Howard
Drew. He made the seventy-five
yards backward run in a trifle more
than eight seconds and 100 yards in
13 seconds
It is claimed that his brilliant run
ning is partly due to the perfect
breath control and effortless move
ment he has learned in dancing.
Learned, that is, unconsciously- For
this great tap dancer has never had
a teacher, even though he himself
has instructed many, among them the
late Florence Mills and Linda- He
; started to dance at approximately the
same time that he started to walk.
No one ever taught him a routine
When he hummed a tune, steps just
came to him. He admits quite simply
i that his ideas for his particular ren
* dition of buck and wing come to him
in di’eams.
“I dream,” he unce said, “that I am
dancing before some important per
son in some foreign country, and I
remember what I dream and work it
’ out for the stage ” In this fashion,
he evolved the most remarkable of
his performances, that of doing a
buck and wing up and down a flight
of steps that, with the floor as a
starting point, make the intervals of
the minstrel, Eddie Leonard. And
i even now, at an age when most men
indulge in nothing more strenuous
than around of golf. Bill is tapping
out rythms tirelessly, each night, as
the star of the stage revue at the
Casino de Paree, remaining supreme
in this'type of dancing.
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Legal Notices
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska.
In the matter of the Estate of
Annie Brown, Deceased.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court al
leging that said deceased died leaving
no last will an praying for adminis
tration upon her estate, and that a
hearing will be had on said petition
before said court on the 13th day of
January, 1934 and that if they fail
to appear at said Court on the said
13th day of January, 1934 at 9:00
o’clock A. M. to contest said petition,
the Court may grant the same and
grant administration of said estate
to Ella Flowers or some other suita
le person and proceed to a settlement'
thereof.
BRYCE CRTWFORD,
• County Judge
Attorney Ray Williams, Room No
2. Tuckman Bros. Building, 24th and
Lake Streets
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County of Douglas County,
Neraska, ir* the matter of the estate
of Joseph Jones, deceased.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court al
leging that said deceased die leavinig
no last will an praying for admini
stration upon his estate, and that a
hearing will be had on said petition
before said court on the 10th day of
February 1934, and that if they fail
to appear at said Court on the said
10th day of February 1934 at 9
o’clock a. m- to contest sad petioion,
the court may grant the same and
grant administration of said estate to
Dr. Westley Jones or some other
suitable person and proceed to a set
tlement thereof.
Bryce Crawford
County Judge
ATTORNEY RAY L. WILLIAMS
Expres January 27th- 1934
Attorney Ray Williams, Room No
2, Tuckm-un Bros. Building, 24th and
Lake Streets
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT
DEFENDANT
In the District Court of Doug
las County, Nebraska
TO: MAY EDWARDS, whose place
of residence and upon whom
personal service of summons
cannot be had, Defendant
Yrou are hereby notified that on the
11th day of August, 1933, Roy Ed
wards, as plaintiff, filed his petition
against you in the District Court of
Douglas County, Nebraska. Docket
296, Page 319, the object and prayer
of which petition is to obtain a di
vorce from you on the grounds of
Abandonment.
You are hereby required to answer
said petition on or before the 23th
day of February, 1934, or said pe
tition against you will be taken as
true.
ROY EDWARDS, Plaintiff.
Beginning Jan. 20, 1934
Endng February 3, 1S34
Attorney Ray Williams, Room No
2. Tuckman Bros. Building, 24th and
Lake Streets
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska
In the Matter of the Estate of
Francis Ruth Cole, Deceased
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a pe
tition has been filed in said Court al
eging that said deceased died leaving
no last will an praying for adminis
tration upon her estate, and that a
hearing will be had on said petition
before said court on the 10th day of
February, 1934, and that if they fail
to appear at said Court on the said
10th day of February, 1934, at 9:00
o’clock A. M. to contest said petition,
the Court may grant the same and
grant administration of said estate to
Dr. Craig Morris, or some other suit
abe person and proceed to a settle
ment thereof.
BRYCE CRAWFORD,
County Judge.
Attorney Ray Williams, Room No
2, Tuckman Bros. Building, 24th and
Lake Streets
—
PROBATE NOTICE
In the matter of the estate of Annie
Brown, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That the creditors of said deceased
wil meet the administrator of said
estate, before me, County Judge of
Douglas County, Nebraska, at the
County Court Room, ni said County,
on the 10th day of March, 1934 and
on the 10th day of May, 1934, at 9j
o’clock A- M., each day, for the pur
pose of presenting their claims for
examination, adjustment and allow
ance. Three months are allowed for
the creditors to present their claims,
from the 10th day of February, 1934.
BRYCE CRAWFORD,
County Judge.
begins 1-20-34
ends 2-3-34
Attorney Ray Williams, Room No.
2. Tuckman Bros. Building, 24th and
Lake Streets
Attorney Ray L. Williams, Room
No- 2 Tuckman Bros- Building, 24th
and Lake Streets.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF:
Mary Brown, Deceased
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court al
leging that said deceased died leav
ing no last will and praying for ad
ministration upon his estate, and
that a hearing wil be held on said
petition before said court on the
19th day of February, 1934, and that
if they fail to appear at said Court
on the said 19th day of February
1934 at 9 o'clock A- M- to contest
said petition, the Court may grant
the same and grant administration
of said estate to Eleanor Turner or
some other suitable person and pro
ceed to a settlement thereof.
BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge,
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NEAR SLAVERY REVEALED
IN MISSISSIPPI STUDY
WASHINGTON, January 23—(C
NS)—The plight of Negro farm
families in rural Mississippi was
brought out in bold relief in a report
made public this week by the Joint
Committee on National Recovery.
The report was based on question
aires sent by Dr. W. A. C. Hughes,
of the Homes Mission Board of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to Ne
gro ministers in Noi'thern Mississ
ippi. The answers to these question
naires were compiled by the research
division of the Joint Committee
On the basis of returns it was
roughly estimated that less than 17
per cent cf the Negro population in
33 counties in Northern Mississippi
were employed- Reports of discrim
ination in employment of Negroes in
public works, of discharge of Negro
es from plantations and other abuses
were widespread. Thus for example
84 out of 85 ministers answering the
questionaire stated that in their ex
perience Negroes were discriminated
against by the Red Cross, by local
and Federal relief agencies and in
the distribution of jobs. Instances
were reported of white plantation
owners telling Federal employment
officers not to give “their Negroes
jobs,” because they could take care
of them. In this way hundreds of col
ored men were kept out of employ
ment.
Domestic Wages Low
A prevailing wage less than $2-00
a week was reported by the ministers
for Negro women who work as
domestics. Wages as low as 25 cents
a week were reported in one county,
and wages of from 75 cents to $1-00
were reported us quite common For
loing the weekly washing for a com
plete family the wage of 50 cents a
washing was reported- More women
were employed in the area covered
than men, an analysis of the ans
wers to the questionnaire showed.
Sharecroppers Condition Horrible
Condition of Negro sharecroppers
were shown by the report to be ser
ious. A conservative estimate show
ed that more than 7,000 Negro farm
ers plowed up their cotton and were
entitled to payment from the govern
ment. Very few actually received
their checks. Unscrupulous landlords
kept the checks and refused to turn
them over to the Negro sharecrop
pers.
Is This Slavery?
Detailed account of this process
was contained in statements taken
from a number of ministers, some of
them sharecroppers themselves. One
striking account of injustice was as
follows: (name of plantation with
j held) “Approximately 200 Negro
families live on this plantation_
—is the master. He is a cruel master
I and will not feed his folks. He gave
! them yellow corn meal and cheap
j meat and expected them to work
! through the winter. He does not feed
and clothe them. In the spring they
began to leave and he pursued them.
Some got away, some he caught and
j n ought back and treated them cruel
| ly. He had some arrested at West
j Point and some at Macon- This was
on Sunday- On Monday three of the
men were whipped unmercifully in
the town. No one said anything to
him. One white woman heard them
; screaming. She fainted and her hus
band went down and asked him to
stop. He took the others out in the
! country and whipped them. You could
hear their screams for quarter of a
mile.
Steals Tenants Checks
He had them plow up their eottoif.
The government sent the checks- Mr.
H- held the checks. He said so
many names had to go on them they
would have to have a trustee sign for
them. The trustee was to get the
checks cashed and give them the
money- They have not seen the mon
ey or the checks.”
Other conditions equally as bad
stand out in the report. Strong pro
test against these injustices was re
gistered with Chester C- Davis, head
of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration in charge of the cotton
acreage reduction program and to
Harry *L. Hopkins, Federal Emer
gency Relief Administration, by the
Joint Committee on National Re
covery, composed of 22 national or
ganizations.
CRAWFORD CASE
AT IMPASSE
Leedsburg, \a- —(CxNc;—v^eoigt
Crawford, convicted and sentenced ti
life imprisonment for the murder oJ
Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, wealth}
Mibbleburg, sporstwoman, may be
brought to trial in the near future
lor the slaying of Mrs. Ulsley’s maid,
Mrs. Nina Buckner. Negotations he
tween his counsel and Common
wealth’s Attorney John Gallaher of
Loudoun county remain at an im
passe
Crawford’s lawyers have offered tc
have him plead guilty to the Buckner
indictment provided he is promised
the same punishment meted out by
a jury in Loudoun County Circuit
Court last December. If the offer
is not accepted, his counsel will seek
to have him brought to trial after
February 15, as a new jury com
mission will be selected on that date
and the defense wishes to wait to
see if colored persons are added to
to the new jury list
MANY ORGANIZATIONS TO
SUPPORT COSTIGAN BILL
New York, Jan- 19.—At a meeting
held last Monday at the national of
fice of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
representatives from the Public Af
fairs Committee of the Young Wom
ens’ Christian Association, the
American Civil Liberties Union, the
Race Relations Committee of the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
in America, the Fellowship of Recon
ciliation and the League for Indus
trial Democracy considered ways and
means of supporting, the Costigan
Wagner federal anti-lynching bill.
The Toledo Federation of Churches
and the Women’s International league
for Peace and Freedom have also en
dorsed the bill and promised to help
push it.
The Association announces that it
has received an amazing number of
pledges of support from persons in
all walks of life. Bishop R. E. Jones
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church, Bishop W- J. Walls cf the
African Methodist Episcopal Zior.
Church and Bishop E- D. W. Jones of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church wil work for the passage cf
the bill. A number of U. S. Senators j
and representatives have pledged
themselves to support the bill when
it comes to a vote.
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ROLAND HAYES INJURED IN
| TAXICAB ACCIDENT IN
SEATTLE
i SEATTLE, Washington, January
24—(CNS)—Roland Hayes, the not
ed tenor singer was injured in a taxi
cab accident here last Saturday
! night- He was confined in the Provid
ent Hospital several days suffering
from shoulder bruises and shock
! when the taxicab which he was rid
ing and an automobile crashed.
He was forced to postpone a con
cert at Bellingham, Washington.
STEALS A BUS-ROBS TWO-AS
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PITTSFIELD, Mass., January 24
! —(CNS)—James Coles, 24, pleaded
; guilty in Superior Court, here last
J week to robbing a driver of a bus
| and another male passenger, assault
ing a woman passenger, and stealing
the bus in early December He was
sentenced to serve from sixty to sev
enty-five years in the State prison
His companion, Nicholas Waytovich
a lad of nineteen, also pleaded guilty
and received thirty-three to forty
years.
TRYING TO RIDE FREIGHT
TRAIN LOSES ARM IN ATTEMPT
ALEXANDRIA. Va-. January 24
—(CNS)—Given a suspended sent
ence of ten days in police court, here,
last week for hopping freight trains,
Enoch J- Helms, 22. fell and crushed
his arm while attempting to hop an
other train to go home. He lives in
Thoroughfare, Virginia. He was tak
en to the Alexandria Hospital, where
his arm was amputated ar.d he was
treated for other injuries.
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LYNCH VERDICT
NEW YORK, January 25—Protest
against the lynch sentence passed on
Heywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris, Scottsboro boys, at Decatur,
was expressed in a cablegram re
ceived by the International Labor
Defense from the Carpenters’ union
of New South Wales Australia last
week- The cablegram asked the I. L.
D. to forward the Australian work
ers’ protest to President Roosevelt.
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