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THE OMAHA GUIDE, MARCH 19. j
1934,—Abbe Wallace
T. L- B. Why don’t I have luck with
money or women?
Ans: You don’t pick your women
Tom- Be fussy who you choose for
your friends- The women you choose
are the real reason why YOU ARE
ALWAYS BROKE.
* A. A-_Will my husband ever at
tend Church?
Ans: The only thing that keeps
him out of church at this time is his
love FOR STRONG DRINK. If you
can WEAN HIM OFF THE BOTTLE
you will have a model husband and a
real Christian mate
Little Sister:—Will you please tell
me will I overcome the troubles I am
in now?
Ans: In later years you will look j
back and realize how silly you were
in BECOMING UPSET over such a
thing. This matter will soon be j
cleared up satisfactorily and you will j
have profited gy YOUR ERROR.
F. A- J-—Please tell me my cor-;
rect age?
Ans:—On the 11th day of October
1934 you will reach your Forty-Ninth,
Birthday. I predict many more long, j
happy years ahead in your life
P. A- D-—Shall I be successful in
paying for my home?
Ans:—With no trouble at all. Mon
ey will come to you from YOUR
MOTHER’S INSURANCE POLICY
that will help turn the trick- It will
pay you to keep this money in the
bank until it is time to use it
E- E- C.—Is there any immediate
relief in tsore for me and my husb
and?
Ans: Relief in the form of EM
PLOYMENT will visit your home this
Spring I contact a job being offer
ed to a member of your family that
will get you out of this rut.
J. H- J.—Is there any likelihood of
my husband locating the finance he
thinks is nearby?
Ans: Not a chance- Simply be
bauce there is no such POT OF GOLD
to be found- Advise your husband to
lay away every penny he can get his
hands on for you and he will need it
to take care of a NEW ARRIVAL
that is to be bom in your family
THIS YEAR
L- J. —Will I ever live with the
girl I go with?
Ans: Not in marriage- She en
joys your company immensely but
there are a few things that stand in
the way of a WEDDING CEREMO
NY- I see a marriage in store for
you gut not with this girl of your
dreams
L O- C-—Does any boy friend care
for me?
Ans: A young man whose intials
are T- A- and whose first name is
TED is deeply interested in you- You
are wrong when you think that E- D.
is in love with you- HE’S NOT- Y ou
would be better off if you GAVE HIM
THE AIR
L. A- D- Please tell me if I should
pull up and go home?
Ans: What’s home? No, don’t
leave town- If you stay where you
are you will STRIKE A JOB shortly
that will make it worthwhile for you
to stay away from home a while
longer.
J. J. J. —Will my husband and I
ever agree again?
Ans: Of course you will- This
little love affair he is carrying on at
present will soon be a thing of the
past- No one knoows better than he
that you are HIS TRUE LO\E.
I
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Dr. Lennox
On The Job
February 10, 1934
Miss Frances Perkins,
Secretary of Labor,
Washisgton, D. C.
Dear Miss Perkins:
I wish to call your attention to an
employment situation existing in the
local Union Pacific System shops.
A shop employee’s union was form
ed with various rules regulations and
a fee, effective March 1, 1929- Me
chanics at this time were receiving
eighty-five cents per hour. In 1932
1934 their wages were raised to
eighty-six cents per hour, taking in
to consideration the code- This sum
makes it possbile for these employ
es to fully take care of their families
and meet all obligations
However, employees suhc as boiler
men, fire-builders, locomotive engine
wipers and cleaners in 1925 were re
ceiving from forty to forty-six cents
per hour. In 1932-1933 and 1934 the
above men were dropped to forty
three cents- These employees are
forming objections and complaints
due to the fact they are compelled to
pay the same union fee and dues per
month, and are required to pay an
additional sum to the Family League
carried on by this system. This
company formally paid the insurance
each employee i srequired to carry,
but at this time each employee ha»
to pay $1-25 per month for a $L0°0
life insurance policy.
Taking ii^o aonsid'prjition' their
weekly salary with the above de
crease makes it hardly possible for
these men to take care of their needs
Haring to carry on the same ob
ligations, these men feel, as the
salaries of the mechanihs have been
raised a similar donsideration should
be given to them.
1 was asked by several of these
employees to take this matter up wi
you in their behalf, and should like
for you to espelially note the wage
laws for the Union Pacific System,
effective March, 1929 and compare
same to those of March 1934
I shall appreciate whatever con
sideration you may give to this sit
uation in favor of the above under
paid employees
Respectfully yours,
G. B. Lennox, President
Omaha Working Men’s Com
U S DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary, Washington,
D. C-, Fed 16th 1934.
The matter referred to in your re
cent communication does not come
under the jurisdiction of this depart
ment It is therefore being referred
to U. S. Board of Mediation, Wash
ington, Dc- as this is a matter com
ing under their jurisdiction
Signed: Lucas McNair
Secretary.
United States Board of Mediation,
Washington, D- C- February 19, 1934.
Dr. G. B. Lennox,
2122 1-2 N. 24th St
Omoha, Nebr.
Dear Mr. Lennox:
Your letter under date of February
10, 1934 addressed to the Secretary of
Labor has been referred to' the Board
of Mediation as an agency of the
United States Government having to
do with disputes between rairoads and
their employees
We have read with interest what
you have written in respect of rates
of pay and working conditions of
certain shop employees of the Union
Pacific System shps.
This Board, however knows of no
function which it can perform in such
a matter unless and until an invo
cation of its services has been made
by one of the parties interested and
and in accordance with the provi
sions laid down y the Railway Labor
Act which governs the administra
tion of the Board
We are enclosing a copy of the
Railway Labor Act, and in connec
tion invite your attention to Section
2, 5 and 6 thereof.
Very truly yours,
Signed: George A. Cook
Secretary, Board of Mediation
Legal Notices
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In the County Court of Douglas
County Nebraska.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF:
Wiliam H. Mortimer decreased
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court;
praying for the probate of a certain
instrument now on file in said Court
purporting to be the last will and
testament of said decreased and that
a hearing will be had on said petition
before said Court on the 9th day of
April 1934 and that if they fail to ap
pear at said Court on the said 9th
day of April 1934 at 9 o‘clock A- M.
to contest the probate of said will
the Court may allow and probate said
will and great administration of said
estate to CLEO MORTIMER or some
other suitable person and proceed to
a settlement thereof.
BRYCE CRAWFORD County Judge
begin 3—10—34 Exp. 3—24—34.
Ray Williams Attorney Room 200
Tuckman Building at 24th and Lake
Street
PROBATE NOTICE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF:
Francis Ruth Cole deceased
That the creditors of said deceased
■will meet the administrator of said
estate before me County Judge of
Douglas County Nebraska at the
County Court Room in said County
on the 7th day of May 1934 and on
the 7th day of July 1934 at 9 .o'clock
A- M. each day for the purpose of
presenting their claims for examina
tion adjustment and allowance.
Three months are allowed for the
creditors to present their claims
from the 7th day of April 1934
Bryce Crawford County Judge
begin 3—17—34 ex 3—31—34.
Ray Williams Attorney Room 200
Tuckman Brothers’ Building at 24th
and Lake Streets
PROBATE NOTICE
IN THE MATTER OF THAT ES
TATE OF:
Ethel Gayhart deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That the creditors of said deceased
will meet the executrix of said es
tate before me County Judge of
Douglas County Nebraska at the
County Court Room in said County
on the 7th day of May 1934 and on
the 7th day of July 1934 at 9 o'clock
A- M. each day for the purpose of
presenting their claims for examina
tion adjustment and allowance. Three
months are allowed for the creditors
to present their claims from the 7th
day of April 1934
Bryce Crawford County Judge
begin 3—17—34 ex 3—31—34.
LEGAL NOTICE
Ray Lawrence Williams Room 200
Tuckman Brothers’ Building at 24th
and Lake Streets
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF
DOUGLAS COUNTY NEBRASKA.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Cassie Simmons deceased- To the
heirs at law creditors and other per
sons interested in said estate:
You are hereby notified that a
petition has been filed in this court
the 5th day of March 1934 by Kin
cheon Simmons alleging that Cassie
Simmons died a resident of Douglas
County Nebraska on the 3rd day of
December A. D 1933 possessed of
real estate in said County consisting
of an estate of inheritance in:
East (Vz) Lot 4 Block 6
Shinn’s Addition as surveyed plat
ted and recorded in the City of Oma
ha Douglas County Nebraska
That the interest of said deceased
in said rea estate is wholly exempt
from attachment execution or other
mense process and not liable for the
payment of the debts of said de
ceased and asking that regular ad
ministration of said estate be dis
penses with and that a decree be en
tered naming the heirs at law of said
deceased together with their ages
and place of residence
You are therefore notified that a
hearing will be held on said petition
at the County Court Room of said
County on the 2nd day of April A- D.
1934 at 9:00 A. M- and if you fail to
appear at said time and place and
contest said petition the Court may
grant the same enter a decree of
heirship and dispense with further
administration of said estate
Byrce Crawford County Judge
gegins 3—17—34 ex 3—31—34
Attorney John Adams, Jr. 2314'/i
North 24th Street
IN THE 'COUNTY COURT 0F
DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
In the matter of the Estate of
Theresa J. Liverpool deceased:
All persons interested in said mat
ter are hereby notified that on the
15th day of March 1934 Beatrice El
lington filed a petition in said County
Court, praying that her final admin
istration account filed herein he
settled and allowed, and that she be
discharged from her trust as admin
istratrix and that a hearing will be
had on said petition before said
Court on the 14th day of April 1934,
and that if you fail to appear before
said Court on the said 14th day of
April 1934 at 9 o'clock A. M-, and
contest 3aid petition, the Court may
gTant the prayer of said petition,
enter a decree of heirship, and make
such other and further orders, allow
ances and decrees, as to this Court
may seem proper, to the end that all
matters pertaining to said estate may
be finally settled and determined.
BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge
begins 3—24—34 ex- 4—7—34
Attorney Ray L. Williams Number
200 Tuckman Building 24th and Lake
Streets.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF:
Joe P. Camper, deceased.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tios 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 will be had on said petition
before said court on the 16th day of
April 1934, and that if they fail to
appear at said Court on the said 16th
day of April 1934, at 9 o'clock A. M.
to contest said petition, the Court
may grant the same and grant ad
ministration of said estate to Carrie
Green or some other suitable person
and proceed to a settlement thereof.
BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge
begins 3—24—34 ex. 4—7—34
ZODICAL FORECAST
IF YOU WERE BORN ON March 31
Any Year— You have an elastic tem
perament that quickly recovers from
falls and failures Nineteen-thirty
four will bring some upheavals, both
good and bad to you
—
DAILY FORECAST MARCH 31.
A good day to visit the doctor if
necessary. The afternoon is good for
business of all kinds
—
SPECIAL FORECAST FOR 1934
CHILDREN—MARCH 31
Success ill come to this person after
hard effort- A strong person, with
an venetful destiny
APRIL 1
You are impulsive, yet kindhearted
and charitable. Much good luck will
come to you in 1934.
DAILY FORECAST
APRIL 1
The very early morning is bad
for journeys. The rest of the day
favors peaceful quiet occupations
APRIL 1
This child will show good musical
ability. It will gain through wills.
APRIL 2
You are one who has a sociable
and bountiful nature. You are domest
ic. Nineteen-thirty-four will bring
you love and romance; also good
DAILY FORECAST
APRIL 2
Sign papers today, advertise, push
all business matters- Good for lawy
ers or to consult them
APRIL 2
Today’s child will have literary
gifts- The life will be rounded and
full.
APRIL 3
You have many qualities of genius.
You would make a good actor. Use
care to avoid accidents this year.
DAILY FORECAST
APRIL 3
To get the best out of this day,
keep quiet and do not quarrel with
anyone. Do not travel if avoidable.
APRIL 3
This child may prove a little peevi
sh and hard to get along with. There
will be many love affairs.
APRIL 4
You have much strength of char
acter. Nineteen-thirty-four will bring
you increase of work. There may be
seme trouble through documents and
papers.
DAILY FORECAST
APRIL 4
A good day to deal with people in
high position- Ask favors of employ
ers. Seek emplyment.
APRIL 4
Energetic, imaginative subtle, this
person will make a good place for
itself in the world.
APRIL 5
You are an optomistic person- You
have much originality. Business gains
and happy journeys will come to you
in 1934.
DAILY FORECAST
APRIL 5
The morning is good for going to
beauty parlors, for are work, decorat
ing and all general outer improve
ments.
APRIL 5
Today's children will be friendly,
happy beings. Many advantages will
come to them.
APRIL 6
You are full of montion and activi
ty. This year will bring some unex
pected fulfillment of your desires.
DAILY FORECAST
APRIL 6
Not a good day for important busi
ness deals or changes.
APRIL 6
This child will be good at detail
work, industrious and very popular.
EL PASO CITIZENS
SCORE SEGREGATION
El Paso, Tex-, March 23— By
unanimous vote the El Paso branch
of the National Association for the
Advancement for Colored people at its
regular monthly meeting endorsed the
statement in the March Crisis by
Walter White on the N. A. A. C. P.
stand on segregation, “that the orga
nization on first, last and always in
tends to fight segregation in all its
forms. In fact, we think that it was
organized to oppose all injustices—
and certainly segregation as practic
ed in too many parts of our great
country is so classed. We want to
thank you for stating the facts so
clearly that no one hereafter will be
mistaken as to the policy of the N.
A. A. C. P. in connection with the
subject.
“If we are so situated that segre
gation is forced upon us, we should
continue to register our protest and
not feel that it is impssible of cor
rection at some time- We should re
dedicate ourselves to the struggle
while we live and instruct our child
ren to keep at it after we are dead ”
The president of the El Paso branch
is L. W. Washington
WILLIE PETERSON
SAVED FROM CHAIR;
FIGHT TO CONTINUE
Case Arose at Height of Bitterness
Over Scottsboro Trial and Once
Threatened to Develop Into
Race Riot; Efforts for Full
Freedom to Be Continued
By N. A. A. C. P.
Birmingham, Ala March 23.—Willie
Peterson, sentenced to death in the
electric chair for the murder of two
white society girls in August, 1931,
had his sentence commuted to life im
prisonment Tuesday March 20 by
Governor B. M- Miller.
Thus ended another stage in the
two and a half year fight for Peter
son’s freedom, which has been pack
ed with melodrama including attempt
ed murder of the defendant in jail
and a near race riot, since Peterson’s
arrest in the fall of 1931- Since his
arrest he has been defended by the
N. A. A. C. P.
Peterson was picked up off the
streets of Birmingham when Miss
Nell Williams, the only surviving girl
of the trio that went for a drive in
the late afternoon of August 4, 1931
to a park on the outskirts f the city,
saw him as she was driving down a
street. Peterson made no effort to
run away since he has steadfastly
maintained he knows nothing of the
crime.
Shot Down in Jail
His first trial resulted in a hung
jury. While confined in the jail, the
mother of Miss Williams and several
others visited him for a conference
and there before their eyes of the
sheriff, Williams shot Peterson down
The latter recovered, however.
The second trial resulted in a con
viction after the charge of rape had
been added to the original charge of
murder. Nothing had ever been said,
even in the very first newspaper re
pots of the crime aout rape- The
brother of Miss Williams was thes
tried and acquitted of attempted mur
der.
Dean Houston Assists
The long, weary, difficult legal
battle was carried forward by the N.
A- A. C. P. up to the United States
supreme court, which declined to re
view the case.
By the summer of 1933 the strategy
of dividing Alabama white sentiment
was beginning to take effect- Hun
dreds of influential people came for
ward and declared they did not be
lieve Peterson guilty- The basis of
this activity was the memorandum
prepared by Dean Charles H. H»s
ton and his associates following their
conference in Birmingham with white
and colored people.
Throughout the fight, the coolness
and courage of the Birmingham
branch of the N. A. A. C. P. led
the fight in the face of the most sin
ister hostility in the history of this
city. At one time in 1931 a race
riot was imminent. All firearms in
retail stores in Birmingham were
sold out to white people- Only the
stadiness of the local N. A. A. C.
P. leaders and some few powerful
whites,, kept the peace- Conferences
were held with Walter White, called
here hurriedly from New York. Dr
Charles A. J. McPherson, Dr. E- W
Taggart, Oscar W. Adams and others
tactfully, but uncompromisingly met
every crisis.
A superb legal battle was carried
on by John W- Altman, who wired the
N. A. A. C. P. New York office
this week:
“You and your associates have sav
ed from death a good man ”
. Want Full Freedom.
Walter White has wired Dr- Mc
Pherson congratulations for the
branch, stating: “It is not all that1
we would have wished, but we are'
gratified to know that Peterson will
not be executed. . . .We must con
tinue the fight for full freedom for
we all know that Peterson is inno
cent” N
About $4,500 has geen paid to date
for fees and expenses in the case and
a balance is still due of $275. The
money was contributed by the na
tional office of the N. A. A. C. P.,
the Birmingham branch and citizens
committee and by the Southern Com
mission on Interracial Cooperation,
which, since Nov. 10, 1.933, has given
fifty cents for every dollar raised
elsewhere- The New York office of
the N. A. A. C. P. has spent in
fees and expenses the sum df $1,469
57.
N A A C P ASKS FAIR PLAY
FOR NEGRO AUTO WORKERS
Washington, D. C- March 23—
Fair play for the thousands of Negro
workers who have won jobs aRd ad
vancement in the open shop prevail
ing in the automobile indsutry was
asked here Wednesday by Walter
White, secretary. Mr. White wired
President Roosevelt and conferred
with Edward F. McGrady, assistant
secretary of labor, as the arbitration
meetings were about to be held to
avert the threatened strike of work
ers in the industry.
The telegram, in part, to President
Roosevelt who is conducting the medi
ation:
“May we respectfully urge you in
your conference with labor represent
atives in automobile situation to in
sist on full and unequivocal rights
for Negro workers- Under open shop
Negro has received greater oppotuni
ty in autmotive industy than in any
other both in number of jobs and
chance sfor advancement. Unhappily
Negro in some industries has joined
unions and then after going on strike
has been replaced with white union
ists. In your notable efforts to help
organised lagor to obtain a vice in
industry we ask yu to remind labor
unions they will ill grace can ask
benefits for white labor while these
unions discriminate against black
labor”
“Broke” Municipalities
Many municipalities of the eountry
are in the same position as thou
sands of individuals these days—
either they’re broke or are going
broke—their credit is no good due to
too much public extravagance and
debt. Conditions have reached the
point where Congress is considering
a Municipal Bankruptcy Relief Bill- I
At last report, 2,019 municipal and
county governmental units were in
default on bonds (debt certificates
against homes, farms and business
es) totaling $2,000,000,000, which
they cannot pay. According to Repre
sentative Wilcox of Florida, more
than 100 additional units are going
into default monthly.
That is especially interesting at
this time, when a determined cam
paign is being carried on to put more
municipalities into business and
debt—usually with an electric light
and power plant. Every one of these
proposals entails a substantial bond
issue (debt certificate) which, to
gether with interest, must be event
ually paid or defaulted by the tax
payers.
Practically all such proposals are
unnecessary duplications of existing
power facilities and do not offer any
new or needed service
Each one threatens the savings of
investors in private electric projects
—hard earned savings put into utili
ty issues because thrifty men and
women believed the industry would
receive the encouragement and pro
tection that business has always re
»
ceived under the American constitu
tion. Every one of these tax-exempt
municipal, state or federal plants
piles up tremendous obligations for
local taxpayers, and most of all they
render no needed or additional serv
ice to the nation which is already
oversupplied with electric power
more than there is any demand for.
It is heartening to record in this
connection that a large number of
municipalities have recently turned
down such proposals by papular vote
Towns and cities must keep their
eyes open if they are to avoid taking
on political white elephants with vast
appetites for taxpayers’ money.
WALTER WHITE ON CWA
HEARING BOARD FOR
NEW YORK CITY
New York City, March 23—In re
sponse to an invitation from Miss
Grace H. Gosselin, deputy admini
strator of the service division of the
CWA in this city, Walter White, N.
A. A. C. P. secretary, has accepted
membership on a Hearing Board,
which wrill make recommendations to
the CWA here as the result of hear
ings held each week- Among other
members will be David Lasser of the
Worker’s Committee on Unemploy
ment; Helen Hall, head worker at
Henry Street Settlement House; Paul
U. Kellog, editor of the Survey; Su
san Brandeis, attorney; Mrs. Henry
Goddard Leach; and oger Baldwin, di
rector American Civil Libertiet
Union.
LOLA STEWART’S COLUMN
ITEMS IN NEGRO HISTORY
In order to please the prejudiced
public, some writers have tried to
give the Negro race a separate crea
tion and deny it any relationship to
Adam and Eve. However, mention is
made of the black race five thousand
years in the past which proves it to
be as old as the most ancient races.
History traced from the flood,
makes the three sons of Noah—Shem,
Japheth and Ham—the forefathers of
the three earliest races, Mongolian,
Caucasian, Ethiopian- Shem settled
in Southern and Eastern Asia, Jape
th in Europe and Ham in Africa
Canaan, a son of Ham, was the
forefather of the Canaanites, the
troublesome enemies of the Jews;
Nimrod, a grandson of Ham, found
ed the Babylonian Empire; Nimrod’s
son established Nieveh, the matchless
city in the valley of the Tigris
The Egyptians named their princip
al god Hammon or Ammon, in honor
of Ham. Buddhists in Asia represent
their chief god with Negro features
and hair
If it be true that “God created of
one blood all nations of men for to
dwell on the face of the earth,” and
unless the best of historians have
been misinformed, the Negroe’s origin
is one to be proud of and merits his
highest hopes for the future
WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US
“For as we saw, see and shall see,
the Negro's way of doing a thing is
merely to do it as the man who went
before him did it- The slaves of
precedent, they dog the steps of a
thousand ancestors, and such is the
tenacity of the Negro type that to
this day their whole outfit of the
twentieth century A- D. can be found
perfectly reproduced on Egyptian
monuments of the same century, B.
C ” D Crawford in “Thinking Black.”
The Rev. L. P. Bryant, pastor of
the St- John African Methodist Epis
copal church, and the church choir
were featured last Sunday on the
Barnsdall choir broadcast A five
minute sermon was delivered by the
Rev Bryant.
H. L. Preston directed the choir,
Mrs. Otis Jamerilon accompanist,
William Lewis, bass violin and E. P
Cook, saxaphone.
Following was the program:
1- Hymn—He Leadeth Me
2. Father, O Hear Us.
Solo Passage by Mrs. Levida Ervin
3. Sermon (5 minutes)
Rev. Bryant.
4. Rejoice In The#Lord.
Solo passage by Mrs- Venus Starms
5. Spiritual. Couldn’t Hear No
body Pray.
Solo passages by Mrs- Levida Erwin
6. Let Not Your Heart Be
Troubled.
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