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- VOLUME vni OMAHA, NEBRASKA SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1934 NUMBER 12.
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Economic
Hi(kli(kts
Happenings That Effect the Dinner
Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Indnvidu&l- National
and International Problems Insep
arable From Local Welfare
"Will you please issue immediate
orders to the Army Air Corps stopp
ing all carrying of airmail except on
such routes, under such weather con
ditions and under such equipment and
personel conditions as will insure
■ - . .against constant recurrence of
fatal accidents?”
This, appearing over the potent
signature of Franklin D- Roosevelt,
caused one of the most remarkable
happenings of recent years. Without
notice, an entire nation’s airmail
service-—built up laboriously, at im
mense expense in men and machines
and money and time—camle to a full
stop. The Army, prideful of its abili
ty, was humiliated. The public was
astounded. And banks and other
businesses, which had come to regard
air-mail delivery as being almost as
certain as that of train mail, found
themselves back in pre-war days so
far as communication was concerned
The air-mail entanglement becomes
increasingly important as time goes
on. It isn’t only that service is dis
organized—that the companies were
penalized without benefit of a hear
ing—that a dozen or so pilots, one of
whom had flown less than 24 hours
in eighteen months, have been killed
Most observers regard it as the Ad
ministration’s first major mistake. It
has caused a fathering of criticism,
much of it coming from otherwise
friendly quarters, such as no other
act has done.
Bulk of the critism takes the form
of fear of the kind of despotism that
can abrogate contracts without con
clusive proof of graft and malfeas
ance r some other offense against the
public welfare. The thought if freely
expressed that the President was
poorly advised; but that, even so, he
acted much too hastily. The Lind
burgh testimony has cemented this
belief. The Colonel was a frank, dig
nified witness, in refreshing relief to
mo^j of the other witnesses who have
defended or attacked by name-call
ing.
So far as the army’s ability to
carry the mail is concerned, Mr.
Roosevelt receives little criticism
Army air chiefs were too sanguine
when they told him that they could
handle it- Army training, with stress
laid on formation and combat flying,
is very different fTom the training
given pilots of private lines, who
must fly long routes under almost
any weather conditions, good, bad or
indifferent, and who are required to
have far more hours in the air before
being employed, than have most
army pilots. Army ships, even though
they have been revamped, where never
designed for long-haul transporta
tion
Upshot of the matter has been
that the Administration has been
forced to back water. The President
wrote Senator McKellar, Chairman of
the Committee on Post Offices and
1 ost Roads, said it would be neces
sary to' make new private contracts
as speedily as possible- Bidding will
be “really competitive,” and strict
rules will be laid down to prevent air
monopolies, excessive salaries and
unearned bonuses, etc- Interstate
Commerce Commission will have a
voice in making rates.
That is where the issue stands now
It isn’t dead by a long shot- And it
will figure heavily in future political
races.
Fired From
C. C. Dinniig Rom
Mr. Glen B Eastman the commis
sioner of the Chamber of Commerce,
who has so often showed his interests
in the welfare of the Negro by ap
pearing before many groups and
meetings sponsoroed by the Omaha
League, showed his real interest of
the Negro by ordering his full crew
of Negro Waiters discharged from
service on March 28.
Many of these men have been em
ployed in the Chamber of Commerce
dining room department for as long
as 26 years
Mr. Simon Harrod, was reemploy
ed by the new manager under the
instruction of Glen B. Eastman- It
is thought by many for a short period
of time for the purpose of acquaint
ing the new management with the
line of service. The cashier reported
to the new manage rthat five regular
meeting groups had canceled their
reservations on account of the
change
The Omaha Guide office was in
formed that these groups who can
celed their reservation had been regu
lar guests of the Chamber ofo Com
merce dining rooms for a period of
ten to fifteen years- They will now
hold their meetings and be served at
the Omaha Club by the same waiter
that had been serving them at the
Chamber of Commerce
Woman Cuts And
Stabs Man
Calvin Hartfield, 1525 North 17th
Street was cut and stabbed in his
left side just over the heart and in
the left arm, by Jose Morse, living
at the same address.
Hartfield is reported to have been
home Saturday night drinking. A
little later he staggered to his feet
and went out in the hallway, where
he met his assailant, Miss Morse,
who lives in the next apartment
Some sort of an argument pursued
and Miss Morse drew out a knife and
proceded to stab Hartfield. The po
lice station was then notified by un
known persons- Hartfield was taken
to the Nicholas Seim Hospital in the
police ambulance by Officers Beck
with and Kaufhold, where he was at
tended by Dr- G. W- Goodrich and
left at the hospital.
A pick up was issued for Jose
Morse, but as yet she has not been
found.
SIX OUT OF 14 KILLED IN
LYNCHBURG FIVE NEGROES
LYNCHBURG, Va. March 28— (C
NS)—Fourteen persons were burned
to death in a fire which swept the
Federal Transcient Bureau here just
before sunrise Saturday March 24.
Of the fourteen, six were Negroes.
Among the latter, James Miller, Wil
liam Lewis, Willie Williams, Willie
Brooks, and Frank Stuart.
Grease boiling on a hot stove was
blamed for the fife. Of these 190
housed in the building many were in
jured in addition to these killed.
The Lynchburg Bureau was one of
several camps in the State set up to
care for homeless persons.
Reported Ducking
Anti-Lynch Bill
COSTIGAN WAGNER MEASURE
READY TO COME OUT OF SUB
COMMITTEE WITH FAVOR
ABLE REPORT TO FULL JUDI
CIARY COMMITTEE; SOME
SOLONS SEEK TO SCUTTLE
THE BILL.
WASHINGTON, March 23 — With
the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching
bill ready for reporting out of the
sub-committee on the judiciary fav
orably, persistent reports have it
that a number of northern and west
ern senators are pulling wires behind
the scenes to sidetrack the bill until
the next session of congress—which
will be after the fall elections.
These senators are said to be un
easy. They want to postpone the
anti-lynching law, which is full of
“dynamite” as far as their political
fortunes are concerned, hoping they
can stall off the voters at the fall
elections.
Meanwhile Senator Frederick Van
Nuys, of Indiana, chairman of the
sub-committee, is going ahead with
his work. He declares he is ready to
defend the bill and is known to be
whole-heartedly in favor of prompt
passage of it by the Senate.
Friends of the bill here state that
so far, the total of letters from in
dividuals and organizations to mem
bers of the Senate judiciary commit
tee and to individual senators has not
been mountain high. Support for this
legislation should be pouring in upon
senators by every mail so that there
Lightfoot Sued
For$5O,OO0
—Elder Lightfoot Michaux, the
“happv-am-I” radio preacher, is be
ing sued for $50,000 in the District
Supreme Court on a charge of eject
ing W. Herman Lucas from a meet
ing in the Garnet-Patters on Junior
High School last week.
Ms. Lucas declared that he was at
tending a meeting of the Industrial
Savings Bank depositors’ committee
and was defending himself from a
verbal attack when Elder Michaux
left the speaker’s rostrum, assaulted
him, and forced him to leave the aud
itorium.
The altercation resulted, Mr- Lu
cas said, "because, owing to the late
ness of the hour, the plaintiff object
ed to a lengthy prayer and insisted
that the depositors be heard instead
of numerous guest speakers.”
LA GUARDIA WISHES HE WAS
IN CONGRESS TO HELP
DePRIEST
NEW YORK CITY, March 28—
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(GNS)—Mayor LaGuardia in a
speech here last week turned to Con
gressman DePriest and said: “I wish
I were in- Washington now to help
you in that fight. Why anyone would
want to eat that pea soup they serve
there. I do not know, but it should be
there for whoever wants it- You
know, some of those Congressmen
are- fine fellows on everything except
the race, problem. It’s an obsession
with them, and you can’t reason with
a man who obsessed.”
will be no excuse for postponement
The N. A. A- C- P:, which is fight
ing for the bill, has urged everyone
of its branches to personally canvass
members and have tfiem write letters
to their senators urging passage of
the bill- Other organizations are
urged to do likewise. Every person
who believes lynching should be
stamped out should write his senator
to vote for this bill, which is known
as S- 1978, the Costigan-Wagner anti
lynching bill.
Kangaroo Courts
Organized In
North Omaha
For the past five years, Mr
Dave Gerber, the president and own
er of the Consoladet Auto Parts Co
at 2501 Cummings street, has carried
on an organization known as the
Kangaroo court for the benefit of the
employees of the Consoladet Auto
Parts Co
This organization has worked so
surprisingly and keeping down fric
tion between employee and promot
ing courtious treatment to the pat
rons of the Concoladted Auto Parts
Co. and proving to be a business
booster to such an extent, Mr. Gerb
er organized a supreme Kangaroo
Court for businessmen. Up to this
date fifty business men are mem
bers of this organization, known as
the Kangaroo Supreme Court- The
intent of organizing the business men
and employee in the community, is
to create a bigger and better busi
ness relationship between employee
and employer and to increase the
buying power of the members of the
Kangaroo Ooi^rt and the Supreme
Court
Mr. Gerber, Harry Levey and Mr.
Herman Friedlander is calling a
meeting of the businessmen and their
employees at the Mid-City Communi
ty Center, 2213 Lake Street Wednes
day eevning, April 4 at 8 p. m. Ev
ery ody is invited to attend this
meeting at which time the Kangaroo
Supreme Court efficiency and its
enefits will be more fully explained
by the founders and the organizers
and members.
24TH ST. TO HAVE FIRST
CLASS SANITARY UP
TO DATE GROCERY
STORE
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The Hayden Cast Market, now lo
cated at 27th and Franklin Street
will move on April 15 to 1804 N. 24th
St next door north to the Robinson
Drug Co. which is on the corner of
24th and Decatur Streets.
Mr and Mrs Hayden said that they
will spare no pains in making this
one of North 24th Streets most up
to-date sanitary grocery and meat
markets, with all the latest equip
ments on 24 Street
Mr. and Mrs. Hayden have been
operating their market at its pres
ent location for about three years
Church Joins In
Million Dollar
Merger
BROOKLYN, N. Y. March 28— (C
NS)—In 1846 the anti-slavery agita
tion caused a rift between members
of the Church of the Pilgrims; and
three members, desiring a more lib
eral doctrine, broke away from the
congregation, founded the Plymouth
Church and called to its pulpit the
following year, Henry Ward Beech
er
Now the two oldest Congregational
churches in Brooklyn have joined in
a $1,000,000 merger and the new
church organization is to be known
as “The Plymouth Church of the Pil
grims” with a combined active mem
bership of 1,500 persons and endow
ment funds of approximately half a
million dollars- For the present its
serJ1Si*s will be divided between the
two houses of worship, with head
quarters at the Plymouth Church at
Orange and Hicks streets, until the
ultimate disposal of the Church of
the Pilgrims properties at Henry and
Remsen streets- The first united
service of the Plymouth Church of
the Pilgrims will be held on Easter
Sunday in Plymouth Church.
An effort will be made to maintain
the separate identity of the two
churches, both rich in historical trad
ition- The Rev. Dr. J. Stanley Durkee,
pastor of Plymouth Church since
1926 and prior to that President of
Howard University, in Washington,
and the Rev. Dr. John Curry Walker,
manager of the Church of the Pil
grims for the last three years, will
! become the co-pastors of the new
church, with equal rank and dignity
Twelve members, six from each
church, will constitute the board of
trustees, and twenty-four deacons
twelve from each, will be the board
of deacons.
For many years consolidation had
been considered by the two churches,
scarcely six blocks apart- Last week
87 persons who met in Plymouth
Church voted unanimously for the
consolidation, but at the Church of
the Pilgrims there were two dissent
ing votes in a total of sixty-one.
The merger heals a rift between
the two churches that has existed
since 1846- In 1847 Henry Ward
Beecher attracted world attention to
the new church as he thundered a
gainst slavery and became America’s
greatest pulpit orator is his dramatic
campaign against the accursed sys
tem.
THINGS ONE REMEMBERS
By R. M. Hofer.
According to the most anthentie
reports, the German and Russian
press are bound and gagged by dic
tatorship and the people are fed only
such opinions as the ruling powers
desire. Such a breach of liberty
would be intolerable in the United
States. In all history, hard-won free
dom of the individual has been safe
guarded toward trespass upon such
freedom, must be resisted
And now it is proposed that the
government should manufacture
furniture for post offices in order to
employ unemployed coal miners from
West Virginia. The next logical step
would be fo rthe government to
operate coal mines to employ the fur
niture workers who lost their jobs1 be
cause of government competition.
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fist’s 10 Years
Flat
Evelyn Stone, of South Omaha who
was convicted for manslaughter in
the District court a few days ago for
killing a woman by the name of Mrs.
Wright—one of the Wright sisters
by cutting her juggler vein with a
knife was sentenced to 10 years by
District Judge Yeager.
N A A C P REGION
AL SECRETARY DOES
JOB WELL IN OMAHA
M rs. Daisy Lampkin
Mrs- Daisy E. Lampkin, Regional
Field Secretary of N. A. A. C. P.
who resides at 2919 Western Avenue
Pittsburgh Penn., was enthustically
received by Owahans during her
short stay in our city. Mrs- Lampk
in was the house guest of M. C.
“Toby” James, at 2851 Wirt St
Mrs. Lampkin left, Tuesday morn
ing at 11:15 for Salt Lake City.
Mrs- Daisy E- Lampkin who was
guest speaker at a mass meeting held
at Salem Baptist Church, 22nd and
Seward streets Sunday, March 25
swayed her audiences at will. She
spoke to a packed house for one hour
and 22 minutes and every moment
was so interesting not a single per
son attempted to absent himself from
the auditorium during the course of
her lecture.
It was said by many that Mrs.
Lampkin could be defined as Ameri
ca’s greatest woman orator.
Mrs. Lampkin seems to have the
interest of the organization so deep
ly in her sould until it was no trick
for her to relate the high spots of
the organization for the past twenty-,
five years
She spoke at length on the United
States Supreme Court decisions on
justice for the Negro of America
She spoke on segregation decisions
of Louisville Ken., and West Virginia
and of the right of Negroes to parti
cipate in Democratic primary elec
tions in the state of Texas- She
spoke of the Costigan-Wagner anti
lynching ill now pending in the Sena
te and requested all justice loving
American citizens to send a telegram
to their senators asking their support
of the ill.
She told the story of the lieration
of the Negroes in Helian Arkansas
riot. And °n leaving said that the
comomittee had made things so
pleasant for her, her two days and
one night stay seemed but a moment
and that she would be glad when the
time came for her to return to Oma
ha again.
Four Omihans
Pill Off Str»Bg
Arm Deal
On Uust Sunday evening Mrs. Liz
zy Malone, better known by “Big
Lizz," and the lady by whom she was
employed and is in business on the
Weet side of the city undertook to
entertain themselves by attending the
North Omaha beer gardens cab
arets- It is reported that on leav
ing the Ritz Cafe, two men, who were
unidentified staged a sham battle be
tween Big Lizz and her employer as
they left the cafe for a taxi. When
Big Lizz’s employer got into the cab,
to her surprise two men were seated
therein and the sham battle was
keeping Big Liz from the cab door,
the two inside, it is alleged by force
of arms relieved the guest of $76
from her bosom.
On Wednesday morning, George
"Gunny" Harris, the singing bird of
north Omaha and Alvin “Gabby”
Baldwin, was bound over to the dis
trict court and their bond set at
$1,600 for the alleged robbery
Negroes Among
Marchers To
White House
WASHINGTON, March 28—(CNS
)—Some 500 marchers from New
York, Camden, Philadelphia Reading,
and Baltimore, headed by Norman
Thomas Socialist leader, visited the
White House Saturday March 24, to
protest against the discontinuance of
CWA relief work. Accompanying the
delegation were a number of Negro
es who stood for their spokesman’s
demand for a $5,000,000,000 relief
program and a $20-a-week minimum
wage.
The delegation did not get to see
President Roosevelt- Secretary to the
President Marvin M- McIntyre gave
them audience and listened to their
appeals.
Thomas pictured to Mr. McIntyre
the seriousness of the situation,
which he said was not exaggerated,
and ridiculed the idea that the Gov
ernment would be unable to expend
$5,000,000,000 for relief- He explain
ed he was not a civilian worker and
not a member of the delegation, but
was in hearty sympathy with them.
Without disturbances of any kind
the marchers left the city about night
fall.
BROOKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI RE
PUBLICAN GETS COMMITTEE
APPOINTMENT
WASHINGTON, March 28—(CNS)
—-Perry W. Howard, Republican Nat
ional Committeeman for Mississippi,
announces the appointment of F. S.
Swalm Brookhaven, Mississippi, as
Assistant Treasurer of the National
Committee for that State. The ap
pointment was made by the National
Treasurer, George F- Getz, upon the
recommendation of Perry W. How
ard and was confirmed by the Exe
cutive Committee of the National
Committee and he will handle all af
fairs of Mississippi that come under
the Treasurer’s Office*
Mr. Swalm is a widely known
druggist and business -man in the
City of Brookhaven, has been a life
long Republican and his friends will
learn with pleasure of this national
recognition coming to him.
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WILLIE PETERSON SAVED
(CNS)—Yielding in part to a grow
ing sentiment that Willie Peterson is
not guilty of the murder of 'which he
stands convicted, his sentence has
been commuted to life imprisonment.
Forty Fourth Anniversary In The State