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.
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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
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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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