(Continued from Pige 1)
THREE NOTABLES DIE
were supposed to lay asuSe a suffit lent
amount t. pay the pru t for the bury-1
ing of vote through the policy of
hiring workers at the rate in some I
instances of $20.00 per day. It de-!
pended on the influence and posiUon
of the worker in the Community At
one city election, it is said that $3,000
was divided among some of the min
isters in the city of Omaha. Some
workers are said to have received as
high as $20-00 per day for a period of
ten days.
’ In the 1929 Primary it Hooked as
though all the above efforts put forth
had failed to get the desired results j
in the Primary Election- In the sec
ond ward, the Negro precincts the;
counts’showed the Negroes had cast,
their ballot in favor of the good gov
ernment candidates- This became
alarming in the underworld down
'town cabinet, and the word went out
that somching must be done, money
seemed not to have the pulling pbwer,
that it had had in previous years.
Dennison was advised by his North
(jmaha spies, that he must break in
on the organization of the Omaha
At this time. Mr. Hiram Greenfield
was circulation manager, Mrs. Cecelia
Jewell was city Editor, and C. C- Gal
loway, business smanager. After
many conferences amongst the un
derworld element. and Dennison
Headquarters',. Mr. Dennison called
the Omaha Guide Headquarters and
asked for a conference with the of
ficial staff, at the home of Mrs. Ce
•oelia Jewell. Mrs- Jewell made the
engagement and said she would put
forth every effort to have the officials
of the Omaha Guide present. Mrs
Jewell extended tine invitation to the
staff, and it was flatly turned down.
M,r. (Galloway said, that Mr- Denni
son wished to see him that he,
Dennison would have to come to the
■office that he wadld not meet him at
any private residence. Mrs. Green
field said that Omaha politics were
too filthy for any Christian person to
take part in, and that she woi/ld not
take part in any political activities.
Mrs. Jewell filled the engagement
E-V.ne, and held a lengtriy conference i
■fit.h Mr. Dennison, *nd as a result,
she became the political manueverer
for that <raty campaign. She was
requested, as a result, by the man
agement of the Cmaha Guide to re- (
r-i~n her position as City Editor.
Mr. "Dennison «!id not know at this
time that he was employing one uf
the smoothest feminal political minds,
black or white in the city -of Omaha.
Mrs- Jewell put the job ewer for him
in good shape in the final city elec
tion. He lost only one of his candi
dates, Henry Dunn, the white vote
being responsible for his defeat
But after the election was over the
same old argument came to surface,
“You shines in North ‘Omaha, must
get together’, those were the remarks
of the lieutenants in Dennison’s of-!
Sice.
Note, Ibefore the election, they were
full fledged American Citizens, en
titled to every consideration that any
other citizen was entitled to, and
would be taken care of in prorata of
employment, and protection f under
world plunder. But the next day
after election, “You shines must get
together”. However, Dennison’s of
fice was crowded with would be North
Omaha underworld leaders. Harry
Buford was spoken of again, but old
timers said he was too hot headed,
and had too many personal enemies.
Finally Dennison went to California,
and two lieutenants seemingly for
about 18 months kept things pretty
smooth in the stnwffied underworld
of North Omaha.
About this time, “fHell broke loose
in Georgia”, when the late Honorable
Harry Lapidus was viciously murder
ed a few days before Christmas, a-hen
lie stopped his car "by command of a
recognized voice, a few blocks from
his home
We are wondering what will became
«f North Omaha nmv, since Tom Den
nison, Ollie Jackson, Jack Broomfield,
anies Jewell. Missouri Jack, and Balee
Jackson, who stood in. class A in wide
world elements and other lieutenants
•wio stood in class B, have passed on
tie (Other shore of line and are now
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U. S. URGED TO RESUME
RELATIONS WITH
LIBERIA
Washington—(CNS) — The grave
situation confronting the Republic -rff
Liberia and the far-reaching effects
the impending disintegration of the
little Republic will have on the mis
sionary activities of Negro churches,
as well as the loss of her sovereignty
;and automy, was called to the atten
tion of the Secretary Cordell Hull, of
the State Department, the past week.
A group of representatives of the
Foreign Mission Beards of the Na
tional Convention of America, the
New England Baptist Missionary
Convention, the Lott Carey Baptist
, Convention, A- M- E. Zion and A- M.
! E. Churches, the Methodist Episco
| pal, Lutheran, Protestant Episcopal
and Presbyterian Churches, and
•Friends of Liberia, doing work in
Liberia; niet here Wednesday Febru
ary 7, in a round table conference
The conference formulated a “]>etition
to the United States Government urg
ing that it maintain its traditional
policy of helpfulness and protection
to Liberia.”
waning auenuun to tne lacr tnai
Liberia was founded as a colony for
freed American Negroes by the
American Colonization Society in
18251; -that the United States Govern
ment has a duty and responsibility
which it cannot evade, and that the
Liberian people also have a duty and
responsibility to maintain a stable
government which will command the
respect of the powers of the world;
these representatives after a day’s
discussion reached the following con
clusions which were transmitted to
the Secretary of State:
1. That the Government of the
United States be urged to resume di
plomatic relations with the Republic
of Liberia.
2. That the League of Nations
Pan of Assistance to Liberia in her
present crisis be thoroughly consid-'
ertd in the light and spirit of Li
beria’s reservations, and that the Li
berian Government be urged to do
everything possible to regain the tra
ditional interest and support of the
American Government
A. (The “reservations” here re
ferred to are those that may not have
been considered by the League of
Nations-)
B- (It was the general feeling
of the conference that the acceptance
of the plan as it may finally be ap
proved by the League of Nations af
ter consideration of the reservations
adopted by the Liberian Legislature
January 12, 1934, is essential to the
political independence and stability
of Liberia, and its economic and so
cial progress.)
C- (Further, it was the feeling i
of the Conference that the appoint
ment of an American Advisor will
greatly contribute to the restoration
of the traditional interest and sup- ■
port of the American people, who!
have been Liberia’s main dependence
during all the years of her history.)
3- That in view of the large in
vestment in Liberia of missionaries!
and money by the respective foreign
boards, channels of communication
be kept open so that this missionary
effort shall remain under the guid
ance of American influences
4. It is recommended that repre
sentatives of the Liberian Govern
ment now enroute to America be in
vited into conference by the above
mentioned boards so that relation
ships of good-will may be continued
5. Finally, it is recommended that
representatives of the respective
boards seek to convey to Negro pub
Here are two homes where
men want more work
Which one is
more likely to
get a job
first?
The home without o telephone The home with a telephone
Where a job opens up may be miles To furnish you service the 3ell Sys
away . . . one might not go there at A tern provides millions of miles of
the right time . . . but with a tele- [$/ wire, a vast amount of equipment
phone, he can be notified. Employ- U and an army of employees. They
ers call those with telephones. * are always ready to serve you.
lie cpinion is America and . to all
right-thinking Americans and to the
Siberian Government, an earnest de
sire to help preserve the sovereignty
and automy of Liberia- ii is our
earnest desire that there be resumed j
the historical relationships of confi-;
dence between the U- S. Department j
of State and the Government of Li- f
heria
The organization of Foreign -Mis- j
sion Secretaries w'hich sponsored the '•
calling of the conference is officered
as follows: The Rev. J. E. East,
president. Philadelphia; the Rev- L
L. Berry, vice-president. New York
City; the Rev- H. T- Medfor-d, secre
tary, Washington, D- C.; the Rev- J.
H- Randolph, treasurer, Washington,
D- C.
Invited to sit with the representa
tive.^ fur inlo.toa paiyoses and
retired before the resolutions were
adopted were: Jlenry L. West of the
American Colonization Society; Dr-!
Thomas Jesse Jones, Phelps-Stokes
Fund; Harvey S. Firestone, Jr-, Fire- j
store Tire and Rubber Company, j
Judge Frederick C. Fisher, Expert on
Legal Phases of the Liberian, situa-'
tion; and George A- Kuyper, Editor
Southern Wnrkman, Hampton Insti
tute
Among others who took part in the
discussions of the conference were:
Bishop W. W. Matthews, Dr- Emmett
J. Scott, Mrs. A. P. Camphor, Miss
Nannie H. Burroughs, Ernest Lyon.
Lester A- W'alton of the New York
Age; W- N- Jones of the Baltimore
Afro-American; Mrs. Eva Ball White,
Dr. J. C- Jackson, Dr- E. H: Allen
and the Reverends, W. H- Jernagin.
W- H- Thomas, J. L- S. Holloman,
Samuel A. Young, Thomas S. Dono
■hugh. E. White, J. C- Lott, Hampton
T* Gaskins, P. D- Perryman, W. T.
-Johnson, W. O. Carrington, J- P.
Reeden, Daniel C- Pope, E. L- Harri
son, W. D. Jarvis, Albert J- Greeun,
B_ A- Donovan, Eameat C- Smith,
JL Timothy Boddie, A. J- Payne, J- C.
Olden, S. N- Galloway, Walter H
Brooks, Thomas W- Wallace, A. Wr
Brown, CL C- Scott and H. A- Bouey
‘Bishop’ Grace Pleads Not
Guilty of Violating Mann
Act.
NEW YORK CITY. February 13—
(CNS)—Charles Manuel Grace, so
called ‘Bishop Grace’ of the House of
Prayer for All Peopie was arrested
in Brooklyn, February 5 and taken to
a Federal court where he pleaded not
guilty to a Mann act charge and was
held in $1,500 bail for trial on Feb
ruary 19.
‘Bishop’ Grace drove up to court
in a limousine, driven by a chauffer.
He said he was a Portuguese. The
accusation against him was made by
Minnie Lee Kambell, 21 years old,
who said that Grace took her from
her Brooklyn home to various South
ern cities- She also asserted that he
was the father of her infant daugh
ter.
Grace lives at 965 Herkiner Street,
Brooklyn, which is also the Brooklyn
branch of “The House of Prayer for
All People,” which ministers to in
dividuals of all people. He is said to
be head of churches in New York
City, Philadelphia, Baltimore Wash
ington, and communities in Virginia
and the Carolinas, with a total of
200,000 communicants.
Negro Applicants Try to
Buy P. W. A. Jobs at $20
Each.
WASHINGTON, February 13—(C
NS)—The “sale” of Public Works
Administrative and CWA jobs here is
under investigation as agents of the
PWA hunt up witnesses to substant
iate the charge that a “salesman”
would approach an applicant for a
job and say “I am a close personal
friend of Secretary Ickes and have
considerable influence,”
In support of his contention, he
would exhibit letters addressed to
himself, containing references to Se
cretary Ickes and otherwise using the
administrator’s name- In addition, he
would display newspaper pictures of
Mrs. Ickes and clippings explaining
that he was a close friend of the j
Ickes family.
He would then offer to place the j
applicant on a PWA job for $20- Of- j
ficials claim he victimized a consider
able number of persons including:
many colored men and women- In no ■
aase was a job obtained and now the
man cannot be found in the Districtj
of Coumbia
January 17, 1934
Editor,
The Omaha Guide,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
We wish to express our deep ap
preciation for the treatment your
paper has given the news items of the
N- A- A. C- P. during 1933, and for
the editorial comments on the Asso
ation’s work. The N. A- A. C- P.
could not push forward any sort of |
program for the general welfare of
the colored people without the co- j
peration of the press- We look for
ward to a year of continued cooper
ation and wish for you and your pa
per a prosperous and progressive j
New Year
Very sincerely yours,
BOY WILKINS.
Assistant Secretary and
Director of Publicity.
Plans Suggested For Rais
ing Fund to Construct Ne,
gro Hospitals in Certain
Cities.
NEW YORK CITY, February 13- -
(CNS)—Hospitals to be owned and I
controlled by Negroes Tn every city
in the United States -with a Negro
population of 10.000 or more, is sug
gested and a scheme to raise $150,
000,000 over a twenty-year period is |
planned to finance the building the
up-to-date hospitals, is planned by
Rev. Amos H. Carnegie, the origina
tor of the Negro National Hospital!
Fund
The 12,000,000 Negroes in the
United States are each to be request
ed to contribute one cent a week dur
ing tie twenty-year period and the
proceeds used for the adequate hos
pitalization of the Negro race in
America and the proper training of
Negro physiciaiB, nurses and social
workers
The plan was outlined at the Madi
s o n Avenue' Methodist Episcopal
Church last week. Among those who
attended were the Rev. Dr. Ralph W
Sodkman, Dr- 3- G- Vaughan, James
N. Speers and the Right Rev. Char
les £.. Gilbert, Suffragan Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
New York.
l&ere will he no action taken on
the formation of a board of trustees
unt3 a committee of physicians has
been organized by Dr- Vaughan to
make definite suggestions for the
improvement of present conditions.
STATES MUST
FIND WAY TO
PUNISH MOBS
Otherwise Federal Interven
tion Is Inevitable, Says
Interracial Head.
Commenting On St. Joseph
Acquittal
Atlanta, Ga-, Feb. 10.—Legislation
to lift lynching cases out of the
“local atmosphere” and provide for
their trial in communities unaffected
by mob hysteria was urged here in a
statement this week by Dr- W W.
Alexander, director of the Commis
sion on Interracial Cooperation, in
commenting on the failure of the
Missouri courts to convict partici
pants in the recent lynching at St.
Joseph. If state officers and courts
coninue to manifest inability or un
willingness to apprehend and convict
lynchers, the intervention of the Fed
eral Government is inevitable, said
Dr. Alexander, adding that “a state
which cannot maintain the civiliza
tion of which it is the custodian need
not expect the government to respect
its theoretical rights " Dr. Alexan
der’s statement follows in full:
“The St. Joseph case is the old
story over again of the failure of
courts to convict in cases of mob vio
lence. In the 1,880 recorded lynch
ings from 1900 to 1930 convictions
were obtained in only twelve in
stances, or less than one per cent, in
spite of the fact that in hundreds of
these cases—probably in most of
them—the identity of mob members
was well known in the community.
Local courts and juries will not con
vict lynchers, even in the rare cases
where officers have the courage to
make arrests and grand juries the
couage to indict
“This condition indicates the im
perative need of legislation which
will automatically lift such eases out
of the local atmosphere and provide
for their trial in communities unaf
fected by the hysteria that incited
the mobs in the first place- The var-1
lous state legislatures are quite com
petent to enact such legislation and in
my judgment should do so at the
earliest possible moment.
“Otherwise, it is reasonable to ex
pect that the federal government will
intervene and take over jurisdiction
in cases of mob murder. A state
which cannot maintain the civilization
»
of which it is the custodian need not t
expect the government to respect its:
theoretical rights. The nation must ■
i-id itself of lynching. Technicalities
must not stand in the wav-”
I
CHARLES J. THOMAS DIES
Charles J- Thomas, who has been
ill at the home of Mrs- E- M. Baucom,
2410 Erskine St., for the {test few
weeks was removed to a local hos
pital Tuesday, February 6, departed;
this life Wednesday, Feb- 7, 1934.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs
Phyllis Birch, and sister Miss Mary
Thomas of Lawrence, Kan-, and three
daughters,'Mrs. Charlotte Clark of
2408 Erskine St., Omaha, Alta and
Jeanette Thomas of New York City.
Funeral services were held Monday,
February 12, at the Myers Chapel at
10:00 A- M.
In The Senate
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ficer or employee shall likewise fee
guilty of a felony- On conviction the
parties participating theiein shall be
punished by imprisonment of n:.t Jes;
than five years or for life
Sec. 4. I he district court of :.h
judicial district wherein the person
is injured or put to death by a mob
or riotous assemblage shall have jur
isdiction to try and to punish, in ac
cordance with the law-s of the State
where the injury is inflicted or the
homicide is committed, any and all
persons who participate therein: Pro
vided, that it is first made to appear
to such court (1) that the officers of
the State charged with the duty of
apprehending, prosecuting, and pun
ishing such offenders under the laws
of the State shall have failed, neglect
ed, or refused to apprehend, prose
i punish such offenders; or (2)
that the jurors obtainable for service
in the State court having jurisdiction;
of the offense are so strongly opposed !
to such punishment that there is no
probability that those guilty of the
offense can be punished in such State i
court. A failure for more than thirty
days after the commission of such an i
offense to apprehend or to indict the |
persons guilty thereof, or a failure I
diligently to prosecute such persons,
shall be sufficient to constitute prima
facie evidence of the failure, neglect,
or refusal described in the above pro
viso
&ec- o- Any county in wmcn a per
son is put to death by a mob or riot
ous .assemblage shall forfeit $10,000,
which sum may be recovered by suit
therefor in the name of the United
States against such county for the
use of the family, if any, of the per
son so put to death; if he had no fam
ily, then of his dependent parents, if
any; otherwise for the use of the
United States. Such action shall be
brought and prosecuted by the dis
trict attorney of the United States of
the district in the United States dis
trict court for such district. If such
forfeiture be not paid upon recovery
of a judgment therefor, such court
shall have jurisdiction to enforce pay
ment thereof by levy of execution up
on any property of the county, or may
otherwise compel payment thereof by
mandamus or other appropriate pro
cess; and any officer of such county
or other person w’ho disobeys or fails
to comply with any lawful order of
the court in the premises shall be lia
ble to punishment as for contempt
and to any other penalty provided by
law therefor.
Sec. 6- In the event that any p r
son so put to death shall have been
tiansported by such mob or riotous
assemblage from one county to an
other county during the time inter
vening between his seizure and put
ting to death, the county in which ho
is seized and the county in which he
is put to death shall be jointly and
seveialiy liable to pay the forfeiture j
herein provided.
Sec. 7. Any act committed in any
State or Territory of the United
States in violation of the rights of a
citizen or subject of a foreign coun
try secured to such citizen or subject
by treaty between the United States
and such foreign country, which act
constitutes a crime under the laws of
such State or Territory, shall con
stitute a like crime against the peace
and dignity of the United States, pun
ishable in like manner in its courts as
in the courts of said State or Terri
tory, and within the period limited by
the laws of such State or Territory,
and may be prosecuted in the courts
of the United States, and upon con
viction the sentence executed in like
manner as sentences upon convictions
for crimes under the laws of the
United States
Sec. 8. If any provision of this Act
er the application thereof to any per
son or circumstances, is held invalid,
the remainder of the Act, and the
application of such provision to other
persons or circumstances, shall not be
affected thereby.
k
j P. J. McMAHON
Omaha,^Nebraska,
Feb. 10. 1934.
Congressman Edward Burk,
Congressman of Second District
of Nebraska,
House of Representatives, «
Washington, D. C.
My dear Congressman:
Knowing you as I do, I am sure you
will support the Costigan-Wagner
Measure, known as the Anti-lynching
Bill, now pending in Congress. This
is human and meritorius Legislation,
and as one of your constituents and
supporters, I heartily join the request
and demand for its enactment.
As a member of the Forty-Sixth
Session of the Nebraska Legislature
in nineteen hundred and twenty-seven,
it was my privilege to support and
work for identical Legislation here in
our State.
Very truly yours,
P. J. McMahon.
LYNCHED! ! ! ;
Swinging aloft, in the summer's
breeze,
Was a charred and blackened mass;
Tied to the limb of a sturdy tree.
In the noose of a rope made fast
But what is this object, so ioath
,«ome, I see?
Surely my eyes, deceiveth,
Can this a part of humanity be?
Oh Lord! how I hate to believe it
Alone it hangs, in mute appeal,
For justice, war or prayer,
I cry aloud as I bend to kneel.
‘Why did They place you there?’
Were you guilty of crime, without a
name ?
But what matters that to men?
Are their deeds so just, or pure theitf
fame.
Thr;t a stone they can cast at your
sin?
Ch! man „f Gj.!, w'.h chin so fair,
Hov- can you do th’.s thing?
Do you not feel toe kindred there,
Within those d^rl- veins?
I wiil arise an fight I vow,
Cut wait, is that the beat ?
And from within, a voice speaks, now,
“Abide, this is thy test”
So once again, upon my knees,
I listen, bending low,
“I will repap, lean thou on me, •
And follow, where I go.
Did I arise and fight, that night.
In Gethsemane, alone?
This is thy crown of thorns, Dear
child,
Thy cross that must be born.”
Forgive, I pray their unjust deed,
Their sinful lust, and shame,
Their cruel chains of slavery, and
greed,
Resigned, I cal on thy name
I bow to thy will, Oh God Divine!
This cup of Gall shan’t pass,
Like thy precious son, who on Cal
vary pined,
I drain each drop, to the last
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