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VOL VII.— Omaha, Nebraska Saturday March 10th, 1934 Number 53
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Happenings That Affect the Din
nor i'ails. Dividend Checks and Taj
Rills of Every Individual. Nationa
and International Problems Insepar
able from Local Welfare
Being more dramatic, the air mai
embraglio, which has degeneratec
into a name-calling contest hetweer
the principals on both sides, nas ob
scured the stock exchange investiga
tion and the proposed National Se
curities Exchange Act That Act,
however, is considerably the more
important of the two events so far
as business, large and small, is con
cerned- It came out of the Senate's
Banking and Currency Committees
and is about as stiff a piece of leg
islation as the New Deal has pro
duced- If it passes, expert opinion
predicts the stock exchanges of the
country are going to gather moan,
and the brokers, banks and invest
ment houses, as well as individual
speculators, wil have to find new
outlets for their energies. Among the
thing?! the blD prohibit* are: Wash
selling through which speculators
create an illusion of market activity
by placing buying and selling order*
at the same time; pool operations,
designed to force stock* up and down
by manipulation; starting of rumors
and the retailing of market tips; the
use of firm capital for private trad
ing by brokers; short selling, pegging
and stop-loss orders- The minimum
margin requirement is 60 per cent—
Con truck; On Page Two
Thrills Audience on
Negr ((Achievements
A*BURY PARK. N. J. March 4—
Speaking over radio station WCAP
on Sunday, February 11, William
Oneill a member of the Junior N- A.
A- C- P- here, thrilled the local radio
audience with his splendid appeal for
racial understanding. Holding that
"race prejudice or race prejudgment
ia due to a false set of attitudes
which are directly traceable to mis
education concerning the Negro
race,” the youthful speaker proceed
ed in a convincing manner to demon
strate how these attitudes may be
broken down by a presentation of the
facts of Negro history and achieve
ment- He related in detail an experi
ment carried on with white pupils in
Philadelphia which had excellent re
sults.
The talk was dramatized in part
by having a number of persons quote
various replies to two sets of ques
tionnaires in different voices. Listen
ers declared the talk “went over big.”
Gfvs Paiuiiss -'or _
N.A.A.C.P. Fund
BEAVER DAM, Wis- March 4—
Although there are no Negroes re
sident in this city, Mrs- Amy F- Ross,
wife of the president of Wayland
Academy here, learned of the N- A.
A- C- P- Penny-For-Every Negro
Campaign and took up the matter
■with her Sunday schoo pupils. They
collected 265 pennies for the fund.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. March 4—
This, the banner city in per capita
contribution to the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People has just completed its Penny
A-Negro 25th anniversary fund cam
paign by raising two cents for every
Springfield branch will conduct its
Negro resident in the city- The
usual membership and apportionment
campaign in April
Friend JOf Negroes
Editor Of Post
NEW YORK, March 4—Dr. Ern
est H. Gruening, formerly an editor
of the Nation, a liberal long interest
ed in the Negro question and one
who has rendered signal service to
the Republic of Haiti, has been ap
pointed editor of the New York Even
ing Post, the oldest daily newspaper
in the United States. Dr- Gruening
has been managing editor of the N
Y. Tribune and editor of the Portland
(Me ) Evening News. He is author of
“Mexico and Its Heritage."
A few days after assuming the
editorship of the Post, Dr- Gruening
carried an editorial severely con
demning the ejection of Mable Byrd
from the public restaurant in the
capitol building in Washington.
Rec. Sentence After
Third Offence
Mr. .John Smith 2234 Lake Street
who was sentenced three weeks ago
by Judge Yeager to serve a term of
five years in the State Penrtentary
will be taken from the County Jail to
Lincoln next week.
This is the third offence for Mr
Smith- Tba first time he was parol
ed; the second time he was sent to
Linoctn Nebraska for one year. Later
he went to work at the Paxton Bil
liard Parlors during the day and
spent his spare time taking extra
work at Central High School. Ac
cording to Attorney John Adams
l Mr. Smith has had a good record
with the exception of his one mis
take which was forgery and it is by
this record that Mr. Adams will at
tempt to either have Mr. Smith par
oed or his sentence shortened.
Food And Not Race
Cj'led Clew to T.B.i
NEW YORK CITY, March 4—Tu
berculosis is not a racial disease but
rather one of dietary habits, Ben- j
jamin Goldberg, Associate Professor
ox Medicince at the University of
Ilinois, told 300 medical and social
wvlfare experts attending the annual
meeting of the Tuberculosis Sanitar
ium Conference of Metropolitan New
York at the Hotel McAlpin last week.
“The races which seem more prone
to the severe or malignant types of
tuberculosis are the Indian, Negro,
native-born Irish and Scadinavian,”
he said. “At the other extreme, hav
ing a high resistance and tending to
develop tuberculosis of a more be
nign type, are the Italians and Jews
Drolet, in New York City demon
strated an average of two to three
living Negro cases to each Negro
death, while there were eight living
Jewish tuberculosis cases to every
Jewish tuberculosis death
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Labor Leader To
Speak Mar. 15th
Frank Crosswaith one of the
greatest Negro Labor leaders and
orators in America will speak in
Omaha on Thursday March 15 under
auspices of the Omaha Socialist
Party at Hotel Castle 16th and Jones
at 8 p. m. His subject will be “Eco
nomic Emancipation.”
Teaches in New York City
Frank Crosswaith is a graduate of
the Rand School of Social Science
New York City where he now teach
es- In 1924 he was a member of the
executive committee of the American
Labor party and was its candidate
for governor of New York. He has
also been candidate on the Socialist
ticket for lieutenant governor con
gressma and many other offices
Last year he was nominated for Pres
ident of the Board of Aldermen on
1 the Socialist municipal ticket in New
York City
26 Years In Office Gets
Laved Off
John Smith 2235 Grant after sev
eral weeks lay off from the office of1
Greenleaf the County Assessor re
fused to make any definite statement
for the cause of the lay-off
He said: “I cannot tell you any
thing definite until after the next
week. There will be a meeting and I
will know definitely what the out
come will be
Kentucky Lynch Car
Found; Jailor Ousted
HAZARD, Ky- March 4—Spurred
to renewed activity by the arrival «#
Charles W- Anderson, Jr., colored
attorney sent here by the Louisville
branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple the state’s attorney has gathered
considerable evidence pointing to the
lynchers of Rex Scott, Negro miner
near here on January 24. Law offi
cers have also discovered in the
mountains nearby the automobile in
which the mob carried Scott to his
death.
Governor Ruby Laffon on Feb
ruary 28 issued an executive order
removing Troy P- Combs, Perry
County jailer for negligence in per
Get’s Stabbed
In The Chest
Vasto Dodson 2630 Patrick Ave
nue was cut and stabbed across the
chest and back by Lucille Alexander
2210 Clark Street at the “Panama
Gardens” on Saturday night March
3rd.
According to the police records
Mr- Dodson and Miss Alexander got
into a heated argument- She then
left the “Panama Gardens” and went
home. Then returning unnoticed and
started cutting and stabbing Dodson.
Dodson was first taken to the of
fice of Dr. Jones 1514 North 24th
Street and was given first aid. Dr
Jones called the Police Station.
Detectives Sledge and Tregla arrived
with an ambulance and Dodson was
taken to the Covenant Hospital and
there was attended by Police Surgeon
Goodrich.
He was discharged from the hos
pital a short time later. Officers
Sledge and Tregla then returned to
the “Panama Gardens” and arrested
Miss Alexander. She Hhd thrown the
knife away (so he told the officers)
She was held without ond pending
the outcome of Mr- Dodson’s injuries.
Purse Snatched
Mrs- Catherine Coven 2715 North
26th Street on March 3rd was follow
ed and assailed by two young boys
who snatched her purse containing
seventy cents in change and ran
Mrs. Coven gives the description
of the boys as being about fifteen
and sixteen years of age and both
were dressed in dark clothing.
Snake Killed
in H;rlem
NEW YORK CITY, March 7—(CN
S)—Looking under his ice box to lo
cate the source of a hissing sound,
Esau Richards a 40 year old colored
man discovered a four-foot snake—a
copperhead, coiled for action
He made the distance from the
kitchen to his living room in nothing
flat sending his wife Adelaide to out
see the sight- Adelaide repeated her
husband's sprint in even faster time.
A policeman killed the copperhead
with a hammer and another tenant
of Richard’s apartment now will have
to sell his snake oil without his prin
cipal sales-resistance breaker down
aiitting the mob to remove Scott
from the jail at Hazard.
Attorney Anderson af Lonisville is
staying here for the trial of the ac
cused lynchers and will aid in their
prosecution.
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Noted Traveler Dies
NEW YORK, March 4 — With the
death on February 28 of Dr. Philip
G. Peabody, noted traveler, in Copen
hagen, Denmark Negroes lost one of
their best friends. Dr. Peabody, scion
of a noted American family, had in
his life-time visited 43 different
countries and crossed the Atlantic
f 145 times, but he never lost interest
in the plight of American Negroes
A foe of race prejudice in all its he
gave over $10,000 to the National
Association for the Advancement cf
Colored People to help it fight lyn
ching.
Bishop Denies
Being Drunk
Bishop Reverdy C- Ransom of the A
M. E- Church makes a flat denial of
a widely circulated newspaper story
that he appeared in a Detroit pulpit
in an intoxicated condition.
The Bishop says he has directed
his attorney Robert L. Vann, to pro
ceed against all persons and newspa
pers that have published the libel a
j gainst him
Boy .Winner Of
Magazine Prize
Warddll Hill nine year old boy
2909 North 26th Street was notified
Monday March 5th that he is the
winner of the first prize for the sec
ond grade pupils put on by My
Weekly Reader published in CWum
bus Ohio. Wardell is the second
grade at Lothrop School.
His father Robert B- Hill is head
waiter at the Fontenelle Hotel. War
den won the prize for the best draw
ing in the United States of George
Washington riding in a vehicle two
hundred years ago- He depicted
Washington riding in a coach drawn
by four horses- The prize will be a
! toy.
.
John Daivs Scores N. R. A.
Discrimination
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 4—
Denouncing the wage differentials
discriminating against Negro work
ers in the numerous N. R. A. codes,
ohn P. Davis, executive secretary of
the Joint Committee on National Re
covery appeared before the Com
plaint Hearing of the National Re
covery Administration on February
28, and stirred the large audience by
his spirited attack on the codes
Telling of the results of his per
| sonal investigation of the hardships
to which the wage differentials had
subjected Negro workers and the
prejudiced administration of the
codes, Mr. Davis scored the Admin
istration for placing no Negro repre
sentatives on the Labor Advisory or
Consumers’ Advisory Boards nor ap
pointing a single Negro N. R. A. as
sistant administrator
Will Be Married Soon
Miss Florence Jeanette Myers-Mr. Arthur L. Hughes
Miss. Florence Jeanette Myers was the honored
guest at a waffle breakfast and surprise towel shower
given by Mrs. Helen McWhorter on Thursday of last
week. On Monday of this week, Mrs. Joseph Taylor gave
a Kitchen Shower in honor of the bride to be. Miss Myers
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Myers and will be
come the bride of Arthur L. Hughes of Denver, on March
24th. They will be at home to their many friends between
the hours of five and seven, p. m.
Wagnor Hails
N. A.^A. C. P.
NEW YORK, March 4 — On the
25th anniversary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People on February 12th,
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New
York, co-author of the Costigan
Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill, sent the
following telegram to the Associa
tion:
“On the occasion of the 25th anni
versary of the founding of the Nat
ional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People I desire to
express my great admiration for the
work that this organization has done
and my keen appreciation of the use
ful services that it has given and will
render in the future- I hope that the
bill which I introduced in the first j
day of the present session of Con-!
gress w'hich has been to so large an,
extent the product of the constant |
efforts of the association will be pass
ed speedily and that it will mark an
important step in the achievement of
all the objectives of the Association.”
The Haitian Consul at New York,
M- Charles B. Vincent, brother of the
President of Haiti, wired “Please ac
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cept my sincere congratulations on |
the 25th anniversary of the N- A- A j
C. P- which you are celebrating to-1
day.”
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Notables That
Appeared On
Program
The two day conference that was
held at the Mid City Building by the
Emergency Advisory Committee of
the Urban League brought to Omaha
some of the outstanding leaders in
Social and Economic thought in the
country. The Conference which be
gan Monday at 10 a- m. and continued
through Tuesday evening and gave
special thought and consideration to
the Economic Status of the Negro in
the New Deal- The Monday evening
meeting was addressed by Rev
Lawrence Plank pastor of the first
Cinitanan Church. His subject was
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the value of Interracial Cooperation
in the economic problems of Negro
es.
On Tuesday; Richard Lowe secre
tary of the Code Observance Board
addrtssed the group on the various
Codes and how they effect the work
er. Andrew Towl son of Mayor Towl
who is professor of Labor Problems
at the Municipal University of Oma
ha spoke on the same program on
the Economic Causes of Depression
The Tuesday evening meeting
which was a dinner meeting witjh the
guest speaker; George K. Hodge of
Lincoln Federal Reemplojjjnent di
rector for Nebraska. His subject was
The next Steps in National Recovery.
To The
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Editor
The Sunday congregation of St
Benedict’s Church was inspired by
the fervent appeal of the Pastor Rev.
father Daly for unity. Realizing
that our race is subjected to injustice
hand his earnest advice is that we
become informed of these outrages
insults and discrimination on every
against our race through the columns
of our own papers organize and pre
sent a solid front of protest- No op
pression or discrimination ean stand
against organized and united force of
such proportion as could be estaglish
ed by the Negro race in America. It
is our duty to ourselves our duty to
every form of race unity and help
our race to become acquainted with
to stamp out the ever increasing evil
of race prejudice
Kerns To Speak
J. Harvey Kerns head of the Oma
ha Urban League will speak before
the Omaha Socialist Party this Sat
urday March 10 at 8 p. nt at 2 IS
Lyric Building 19 and Famam on
the subject “THE N. I. R. A. AND
THE OMAHA NEGRO.” This is part
of a local educational series of the
Omaha Socialist Party on consecu
* tive Saturdays- The public is wel
come
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Urge Letters
To The Senate
Senator Ashunt Is Qnimu of
Committee Which Should Be Ask
ed For Prompt and Pooorsblo
Action on Cootignn Wagner Mea
sure
WASHINGTON March V-Tho
next step in the campaign to get the
Costigan Wagner anti lynching bill
passed is to have the senate judiciary
committee report the bfll out prompt
ly and favorably for action on the
floor of the senate.
All persons and organizations who
want the federal government to step
in and assist in stamping out lynch
ing are urged to write or telegraph
all members of the judiciary com
mittee and especially the chairman
urging the committee te vote the bill
out promptly and favorably.
The judiciary committee members
are: Senator Henry F. Ashurst Ari
zona chairman; Senators William H
King Utah; Hubert D- Stephens
Mississippi; Clarence C. Dill Wash
Matthew M. Neely West Virginia;
Huey P- Long Louisiana; Frederick
Van Nuys Indiana; Pat McCarran
Nevada; M- M. Logan; Kentucky;
Wiliam H- Dieterich Illinois; William
E- Bcrah Idaho; George W- Norris
Nebraska; Arthur R. Robinson In
diana; Dar.iel 0- Hastings Delaware;
Felix Hebert Rhode Island; Thomas
D- Schall Minnesota; and Warren R
Austin Vermont. Telegrams and let
ters should be sent to these Senators
at the Senate Office Building Wash
ington D. C
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Dudley Brothers At
Murphey Hut
The Dudley Brothers from Detroit
Michigan were guest artists on the
singing program of Mrs. Etta Butler
who sings every Tuesday at 11 o'
clock over radio station HICK. Lit
tle Richard Morgan eight years old
gave a tap dance. The four brothers
sang two numbers entitled Dina and
You Rascal You. All are playing ev
enings out to Murphy’s Dining
Palace. The boys are playing at the
Orpheum Theatre beginning Satur
day March 10th for one week- After
their week’s engagement they are
going on to Sioux City to play. All
are staying at Mrs- Smith 2211 Ohio
Street.
Hospital Rec. Only
$10,000
NEW YORK March 7 — Although
Harlem Hospital is one of the most
overcrowded hospitals in New York
City and is about the only hospital
of $400000 granted by the Public
where Negroes may go of the fund
Works Administration r to build and
renovate health buildings only ten
thousand dollars have been allotted
to Harlem Hospital
Commissioner of HOSPITALS
Goldwater has announced that the
city will help Harlem only to the ex
tent of altering two buildings which
will be turned into dispensaries. No
j provisions are being made to enlarge
the facilities of the in patient divi
sion which is, critically overcrowded.
MOTHER OF PAUL LAWRENCE
' DUNBAR POET DIES
DAYTON, Ohio March 4—(CNS)
— Mrs- Mathilda Dunbar mother of
the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, not
ed poet died here February 24 after
a long illness.
Hodge’s Says “Don’t Be Mislead By Office Seekers Political Propaganda”
Keep Faith With President Franklin D. Roosevelt And Hopkins *7.,p'^ 5
Anti-Lynch Bill Pleases Sub Committee
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