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HOME OWNER LEAGUE ON THE JOB Home pi-rmenties in Omaha to the amount of $1,678,082 threatened with loss through foreclosures have been handled by the Homo Owners' and Citizens’ League for its members from January 27 to February 16 in clusive, according to Dr. Vernon R. Thomas, president of the League “Omaha homes threatened with foreclosures or already in the process of foreclosure were saved. Mutual settlements were made through the intervention of the Conciliatory Board of the Home Owners’ and Citizens’ League- The League urges people in Omaha whose homes are either threatened or are already in process of foreclosure, or these who are in difficulties through non-pay ment of taxes or insurance to come to the Home Owners’ and Citizens’ League,” said Dr. Thomas Tl*5 Home Owners’ and Citizens’ League will sponsor the following legislation: 1. Declaration of moratorium on tax foreclosure sales for a period of 5 years 2. Declaration of one year mora tonium of payments on homes with mortgages of $3,000 or less—amounts more than $3,000 to be cut in half. 3. To stop foreclosures and those pending foreclosure for a period of 5 years. 4- Reduction of interest rate charges on mortgages 5. Reduction of principal sum of mortgages to present appraisal values. 6- Payment of insurance by mor tgage for amount of mortgage they hold. 7. Exemption from foreclosures of homes having either tax or mort gage against them of $100 or less 8. Payments of taxes by mor tgagee for amount of mortgage they hold. 9- Reduction of taxes on individ ual home properties. 10. Reasonable rates on public necessities. A membership meeting will be held Friday evening, February 23 at the offices of the League, 318 Arthur Building, 210 South 18th Street. Dr. Thomas is talking every Wed nesday and Friday evening at 5 p- m. over radio station WAAW. NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE Macaroni is made in> more than 100 different shapes and forms in Italy. Pulling a cord raises a window shade mounted on a pew springless roller. France is the principal worm source of bauxite, from which alum inum is derived. Oil is being extracted from soy beans by a new process that uses al oohol as a solvent. A museum has been opened in Ber lin to show the implements and meth ods used by smugglers. An outside handle moves the broil er in and out of a new gas range to save burned fingers. High speed air mail service from Karachi in North West India to La hore has been planned. For drying garments at home a folding rack nxounisd on an electric has been invented. More than three fourths of the farm tractors used in Czechoslovakia are American machines. An extension lip on a new spoon facilitates giving medicine to an ill person or food to an infant. Passengers will be lurried in cab ins within the wings of a gigantic air plane being built in Germany. A shaker that works with damp salt contains a plunger that forces the contents out when it is depressed - Russia. Ukraine and Rumania sup ply most of the sunflower seed and oil imported into the United States. Half disks instead of the usual teeth are used in a new lawn rake that is not clogged by leaves and other debris. Passenger service has been begun on the Shanghai-Canton airway in China with planes in charge of Am erican pilots. A single cylinder motor has been invented to propel an ordinary bicycle by friction with the tire on the rear wheel. ° Germans have invented a varnish to be applied to worn automobile tires to protect them against heat and wet weather. Having a grooved mouthpiece to hold an instrument, a megaphone has been designed to amplify the sounds from a harmonica. Russian geologists have estimated the coal reserves of North Manchur ia to contain from three billion to 20 billion tons. A cap has been invented to replace the original cap on a collapsible tube and at the same time to serve as a stand for it To reduce air resistance a German has invented an enclosed side car for motorcycles along the lines of a dir igible balloon. Intended to be worn on a man’s belt, a new key chain is unwound from a reel for use, a spring winding in the chain when released. Tests made by a London physician have indicated that persons, especial ly women, do the most work when they have slight headaches. A metal cover has been invented that can be locked over a telephone dial preventing an unauthorized per son using the instrument. Italian motion picture theaters have been required by the govern ment to show one domestic for each three foreign films exhibited. An upholstered steel frame has been invented to be clamped to the rear seat of an automobile to con vert it into a bed for infants Argentina has a population density of slightly more than ten persons to the square mile as compared with 40 in the United States. The inventor of a novel syringe claims that it automatically records the cleanliness of oil drawn into it from an automobile motor. Of English invention is a vanity case mirroi equipped with an electric light to enable women to apply pow der or make up in the dark Rubber bath sponges in the form of mitten that fit the hands snugly are being made in a variety of colors to harmonise with bath rooms A South African court room has been equipped with amplifiers to en able every person listening to a trial to hear all that witnesses say. A key has been invented that fits any collapsible tube and enables it to be roller so that all the contents are squeezed out without waste A fuel for internal combustion en gines developed in Ireland from coal tar has proved more economical than gasoline in tests with automobiles. Writing in nine degrees of fineness can be produced with a new fountain pen that has an adjustable slide to vary the flexbility of the point The Greek government has begun work on a 20-year program for the construction of 2100 males of new highways and rearrangement of ex isting roads. Electric lamps are inserted in the wings of a new chair to illuminate books or work held in an occupant’s lap without flare affecting his eyes Since 1921, when Mexico ranked second among petroleum producing countries, jts production has declined steadily until now it is in seventh place. Any faucet can be converted into a sanitary drinking fountain by a met al device to be clipped to its outlet that diverts the flowing water up ward While in flight the wings of an air plane developed by a Russian avia tion engineer living in Paris can be altered in length between 36 and 68 feet. , Gold is being carried by airplane from Wyoming fields to San Fran cisco in six hours as compared with the six days required in the overland stage days. Natives of British Guiana jungles use leaves of the umbrella tree to protect their heads and bodies from the heat of the sun when it becomes excessive Almost anything made of wood can be closely imitated by using re sins obtained from phenol with formaldehyde and mixed with an equal quantity of wood meal. More than 2000 English physicians have formed a league to support the theory that germs do not cause dis eases but are incidental to the later stages of them. With the extension of the Calcutta j Rangoon r.ir route to Singapore at j the end of the year an extension I from the latter city to Australia is ; planned for April. A Northwestern University scient ist has found after extensive experi ments that more energy is required by a person to work in the afternoon than in the morning. Human remains unearthed in Tan ganyika have led an English scient ist to conclude that Africa was the original center of mankind, not Asia as generally believed. Rubber spiked belts have been in vented for cotton gins, having the advantage of lightness and flexibil ity and avoiding the danger of metal spikes striking sparks. To raise funds for the erection of a hospital in the province of Tumbes the Peruvian government has levied an additional duty on all flour im ported into the province. A Kansas State Agricultural Col lege scientist has designed a 1500 ton truck that can be driven over roads or on water by a Diesel motor, carry ing hundreds of tons of cargo. The Italian inventor of a one pas senger motor driven unicycle claims to have driven it at a speed of 100 miles an hour and to have traveled 280 miles on a single gallon of gaso line A partitionless house has been in vented by a New York architect, rooms being shut off from one an other by a person pressing buttons that cause motors to run around tracks with curtains. Seven leaf springs, built in a cir cle within the rim and covered with a steel plate to exclude rain and dost, feature an English inventor's auto mobile wheel that uses a solid rubber tire. Only two of the 235,139 passengers carried in 25,862,120 miles of sche duled flying by airplanes in the United States in the first six months this year were killed, both in the same crash. A simple turbine attached direct ly to the drill and operated by water poured upon it from the surface of the ground has been used in Russia to drill an oil well to a depth of nearly two miles. MUTT AND JEF> — Jeif ^es lhat Admiral Byrd ean Have His Exploring To Himself By BUD FISHER WCLL Jiff. AS LONG AS Wfc ARc i>P KlTtr. WHATS Tl NO C*P ESKIMOS HERE (N THE f R026M NGR’V. tT.- ESKIMOS ? IS 3 ise'fr'^PlTUFY SO ASHORE - I -THINK I S’ ,, 9 ARE ti'3J LSTHEY -r - POM«^ l *-IV6 ON Oil. * \*\J\._ A Nebraska optometrist has in vented spectacles with auxiliary lenses mounted on pivoted arms be side the main lenses, in front of which they can be swung for use in reading, serwing or other dose work. For the development of the Italian motion picture industry the govern ment has required that all foreign motion picture films be sound-syn chronized in Italy before exhibition and has imposed a tax upon the work. United States exports of chemicals in the first nine months of 1933 amounted to $75,500,000, a six per cent increase as compared with the similar period in 1932, and imports increased 11 per cent to $61,700,000. Self operating radio equipment in vented by a Russian scientist will transmit readings of meteorological instruments in Franz Josef Land to a central point instead of requiring the presence of a weather observer in winter. University of Michigan Bars Negro Basketball Star ANN ARBOR, Mich. April 2— Franklin Lett, freshman student at the University of Michigan, and former all-State center on the Battle Creek (Mich.) high school basketball team and all-State end on that school’s football team, has been bar red from the university’s freshman basketball team because of his color In explaining his reason for dis criminating against the young Ne gro athlete, head basketball coach Franklin Cappon, has stated: “There has never been a colored boy to play basketball in the Big Ten. It has been a mutual agreement be tween the coaches not to use a color ed boy in basketball. There is no rule in the Big Ten ‘in writing’ that says a boy cannot play because of his color, but just this ‘unwritten agree ment’ of the coaches to keep them out. No other Big Ten school has used a colored boy, and I do not want to ‘break the ice.’ That would put me on the spot, so to speak.” Nevertheless, Coach Cappon finds himself on the spot from another di rection- In response to a complaint received from Dr- Adonis Patterson of Battle Creek, both the local branch of the NAACP. and the National Of fice have taken immediate action. Protests have been sent to Coach Cappon. to President Alexander Ruthven, of the university, the Presi dent of the Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce, who as head of the local Michigan Alumni Association has promised to do his utmost to break down the color bar, and to Represen tative Kulp of the Congressional Dis trict who has placed the matter be fore the University Board of Regents In a sharp letter to Coach Cappon, Roy Wilkins, assistant secretary of the NAACP- denounced “the gratui tous insult to young Lett personally and to the race of which he happens to be a member” and, pointing to such internationally-known Michigan athletes as DeHart Hubbard, Eddie Tolan and Willis Ward, declared that the color bar “can be interpreted as nothing less than gross ingratitude for their services.” After calling at tention to the fact that the Univer sity of Michigan is a tax-supported institution supported by and main tained for all of the State’s citizens, Mr- Wilkins concludes: “No university in the Big Ten could better afford to bring this is sue squarely to the fore than the University of Michigan. Its athletic prestige is unquestioned. Its effect on the policies of the Big Ten is tremendous . • It can well afford to step out and say that Michigan will not be a party to this unjust, unde mocratic and ungrateful ban on Ne gro basketball athletes.” President Ruthven is away on an expedition in Egypt, but other offi cers have assured the NAACP- that the protest will be considered by the board of regents. 3 Students Ask To With Draw Sixty-four of the eighty-three new students entering Bishop College the third quarter are Freshmen. This brings the Freshman enrollment for the year up to 156 students- The new students entering have been selected in keeping with the policy of Bishop College to admit only the best and most promising high school gradu ates- An additional indication of the care taken in the selection is the fact that 98% of them are from accredit ed high schools Although most of the Freshman did exceptionally well in the prelim inary psychological and achievement tests: six students maintained honor averages- They are in order: Dorothynell Talley, Dunbar High, Texarkana, Texas; Alton Tyler, B. T Washington High, Dallas, Texas; J D. Collins, B: T- Washington High, Houston, Texas; Garland Johnson, Dun baa High, Texarkana, Texas; Harem McLeod. Manuel Training High, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Elbert Shaw, B- T. Washington High, Wich ita Falls, Texas. With the student body being in creased by eighty-three new comers, the total enrollment of Bishop Col lege, for the year, will exceed 360 students- This peak being the second highest enrollment since the depres sion- The other peak was in 1931-32 during which year 391 students en rol led While, on the one hand, the enroll ment has increased on the other hand three students have been asked to withdraw because of poor scholar ship. TEN THOUSAND NEW ORLEANS CITIZENS ANTI LYNCHING BILL New Orleans, La.., March 30.— The Winter Capital Lodge No- 59E Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, of this city sent to Senators Roert F- Wag ner and Edward P. Costigan at Wash ington, D- C. a resolution signed bj 10,000 colored citizens of New Or leans urging passage of the Costi gan-Wagner anti-lynching bill. The resolution was presented in regular session of the lodge by W. T. Meade Grant, Jr. Exalted Ruler. A copy has been sent to the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. PRINCETON PROFESSOR REVIEWS “WHITE PRIMARY” CASES New York, Mar. 30—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with offices here has received a copy of the February 1934 Michigan Law Review in which ap pears and article on “Primary Elec tions and the Constitution” by Luth er Harris Evans, assistant professor of politiets, Princeton University, re viewing the various “white prmary” •ases fought in Texas, Virginia and elsewhere by the Association, result ing in the safeguarding of the Negroes’ right to vote in Demo^at ic primaries in the South. It is the writer’s contention as it has been that of the N. A. A. C.. P. that primaries are intimately related to elections and that Congress has the power over primaries by virtue of Article 1, Section 4 of the federal constitution. TWENTY-FIFTH N A A C P MEETING IN OKLAHOMA CITY JUNE 27—JULY 1 Oklahoma City, Okla March 30— Preparations are in full swing here for the holding of the twenty-fifth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People June 27 to July 1, in clusive This is the first time the N. A.. A. C. P. has held an annual confer-* ence in the Southwent and the sec ond time it has met elow the Mason and Dtaan line. The 1920 confer ence mi held in Atlanta, Ga.. 'Mae**—nference will open with a vralanatag mass meeting Wednesday ev«*mg June 27. Business sessions will get under way the next morning, rhe Twentieth Spingarn medal will 3 awarded Friday night June 29. The dosing mass meeting will be held Sunday afternoon July 1. Oklahoma, known far and wide for the hospitality of its citizens an nounced last year in Chicago when extending the invitation, that it would give the association the finest conference it had ever had, a fitting celebration of its twenty-five years of work. The invitation was extend ed by Roscoe Dunjee, editor of The Black Dispatch and president of the state conference of branches.. W. M. McMurray is president of the Oklahoma City Branch. LOUISVILLE CITIZENS PRESS ING HAZARD LYNCH CASE New York, March 30—The Louis ville Branch of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People is still fighting for the trial and conviction of the lynchers of Rex Scott, Negro miner, on January 24. Attorney C. W. Anderson, Jr.. President of the Louisville branch has been at Hazard for some time at the expense of the branch. At torney Floyd Byrd of Lexington, a veteran whte criminal lawyer, is as sisting him. The jailer, Troy Combs, who as sisted the lynchers, has already been removed, as previously reported.. The association’s lawyers are coopetfat ing with the Commonwealth’s At torney in prosecuting the seven in dicted miners who allegedly partici pated in the lynching. One defendant, Ordell Fugate, who is partially blind, has been dismissed because of insufficient evidence. Judge Samuel Ward has granted the Commonwealth’s Attorney a continu ance until May 16- The National of fice of the N. A. A. C. P. is asking1 funds to aid the prosecution of the lynchers. — ARKANSAS COLLEGE GIVES N. A. A. C. P.. FUND $33.02* New York, March 30—The Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People has received from the Arkansas Agricultural Mechanio al and Normal College, Pine Bluff Ark., a check for $33.02 raised in a -drive conducted among teachers and students of the institution as its con tribution to the Association’s Cent A-Negro 25th anniversary fund. Dr.. J. B. Watson, the president contri buted $10 of this sum. PROTESTS NEW YORK “GOLDEN GLOVE” SEGREGATION New York, March 30—In a letter to Paul Gallico, sports editor of the New York Daily News, Roy Wilkins, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has protested against hotel discrimination practiced against colored members of the Golden Gloves tournament held here March 28, and sponsored by the Daily News A. A.. The colored members were quartered at the Crampion Hotel in Harlem, while the white members of the team were quartered at the Park Central Hotel down town. “This Association is surprised” writes Mr. Wilkins, “to find the p The Omaha Guide Recommends The State , Furniture Co. Corner 14th and Dodge ; Streets. As One of the Most I Reliable and Accomodating Firms to Buy from. Prices the Lowest and Terms the Easiest NEW HOME WASHING SERVICE 14 lbs. 48c 3 l-2c for each additional pound Shirts finished out of this service for 8c each EMERSON LAUNDRY And Zeric Dry Cleaners. Call Web. 1029 Daily „..ews, sponsor of these Golden Gloves tournaments, spoiling the fine sportsmanship exhibited in the bouts themselves by stooping to hu miliating and unsportsmanlike ar rangements for the quartering of the team. If the colored boys are good enough to fight and win a place in the Golden Gloves tournament, they are good enough to stay and train at the same hotel with their team mates.” Expressing the hope that “the Daily News will not offer the time worn excuse that it is more ‘conveni ent’ for the colored lads in Harlem, or that they ’are more comfortable and happiqr by them pelves,” Mr. Wilkins calls attention to the New York State laws barring denial of accomodations to any person on ac count of race color, or creed by places of public accomodatios, and urges that “in succeeding Golden Gloves tournaments the Daily News will have the backbone to say to hotel managers that they are reserving accomodations for the Golden Glove team, and that they expect the hotel to accord the same treatment to all members of the team ” What Negro Editors Are Saying— “The gambler’s mind is rapidly influencing the American people; it does not matter what it takes they meant to win. If it is to make a living, their dealings are unjust; if it is a leader, he must win if the whole race goes down in defeat. It is no more, bow did you play the game, but ’didn’t I put it over?” —The Negro Star, March 23, 1934 N A A C P NOT TO ENTER SENATORIAL CAMPAIGNS New York. March 30—Reply to day to letters received from Dr. E. S. Ballou and Attorney Hosmer S.. Brown, presidents respectively of the Montclair, N. J. and Pittsburgh Pa. Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, Walter White, the Association’s secretary, declare dthat the Nation al Office “does not desire in any way to enter into the campaign” for re election of ..Senators Hamilton F. Kean of New Jersey and David A. Reed of Pennsylvania. He pointed out, however, that both Senators had voted in favor of the confirmation of Judge John J. Parker for the United States Supreme Court, which the As asociation fought because Parker’s prejudice against Negroes voting. 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