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—- VOLUME VIII OMAHA, NEBRASKA, APRIL 21, 1934. Number Fourteen.
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Reappointed Judge
Of rCourt
Washington —(CNS)— The Wash
ington Daily News in commenting on
the delay in the appointment of a
successor to Municipal Court Judge
James A. Cobb- whose term expired
March 18- attributes the delay to
Presidents Roosevlt’s fishing trip and
adds "courthouse observers feel that
Judge Cobb will be his own successor”
“Judge Cobb- only colored man on
the local bench- has been urged for
reappointment not only by the Dis
trict white and colored bar associa
tioss but by many persons prominent
ir> policital and civic life in other
sections of the country.
Cobb was appointed to the bench
by President- but scores of letters
have been received ot the White House
in recent weeks from prominent Dem
crats leading the colored judge and
asking his reappointment.
Vote Opposition
To Segregation
New York, April 13— At its re
gular monthly meeting here on April
9 the board of directors of the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People adopted the follow
ing resolution on segregation:
“The Rational Association foi'
the Advancement of Colored People
ii opposed both to the principle and
the practice of enforced segregation
of human beings on the basis of race
and color
“Enforced segregation by its very
existence carries with it the indi
cation of a superior and inferior
group and invariably results in the
imposition of a lower status on the
deemed inferior. Thus both principle
and practice necessitates unyielding
opposition to any and every form of
enforced segregation ”
John R. Wells
Age 101 Dies
Washington —( CNS )— John R.
Wells- the well-known municipal em
ployee, died here last week at the age
of 101. The deceased centennarian
often stated that he could recall the
day Lincoln was assassinated “as if
it was yesterday.” Born in Prince
Georges County, Wells came to Wash
ington shortly after Lincoln freed the
slaves and was living here when an
assassin’s bullet felled the great e
ndancipator.
Omaha Family
Hurt In Crash
Mrs. Clifford Sessions, accompa
nied by Mrs. Beatrice Elligton re
turned here Thursday a. m. with the
body of Mr. Clifford Sessions.
Mr. Clifford Sessions was fatally
wounded in an automibile accident in
St. Paul, Minn. Sunday April 8th.
He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife
Mrs. Alma Sessions, a daughter
Mary Sessions, a sen Clifford Ses
sions, Jr., two cousins, Mr. Webst
er and James Edwards and a host
of friends, both here and in Kan
sas City.
Funeral services were held at St.
Benedict’s Church Friday at 9 a. m
Interment was at Holy Sepulcher.
Dt. and Mrs. A. Porter Davis,
life long friends of Mrs. Sessioss, of
Kansas City, Kans, Mrs. Mattie
Fridia and Mrs. Nannie Wyla sisters
of Mrs. Sessions, Dr- Webster Ed
wards. Rev. W^i. F. Taylor and
Mrs. Janie Hawkins of Kansas City,
Mo-, drove here to attend the funeral.
James Cole Found Not Guilty
Gambling/ Drinking Bad For Waiters, Says Head Waiter
COMMENTS ON ANTI-LYNCH BILL
Hon. Walter White.
SAYS ANTI LYNCH BILL vote for its passage and to resist to
WILL PASS IF IT CAN
BE VOTED ON
Walter White Pleads for Treble Ef
forts In Pressure on Sena.be Aa
Measure Is Slated for Argument on
Floor About May 1; Best Chance
in Years, Despite Opposition
New York, April 13—The Gostigan
Wagner federal anti-lynching bill
will more than likely be passed by the
senate if it can be got out on the floo
for a vote
This was the opinion of Walter
White, N. A. A. C. P. secretary,
who returned here today from two
days of conference in Washngton with
Senators Costigan, Wagner and Van
Nuys.
Senators Wagner and Costigan have
pledged that they will take the mea
sure to the floor of the senate about
May 1 after three important bills, now
before the senate have been acted
upon. It is conceeded that the sugar
tex and air moil bills will have the
right of way for the present and that
no bill can make any headway until
they are disposed of.
The anti-lynching bill was reported
out favorably to the senate yesterday,
April 12 by the full judiciary com
mittee. Senator Van Nuys of Indiana
ana Senator Henry F. Ashurst of
Arizona stood firmly against any at
tempts in the committee to sidetrack
the bill or smother it in cof.runittee.
Unofficially it is reported that
Senator Ashurst, chairman of the
judiciary committee, has received
5,000 teegrams and letters urging
passage of the bill. Hundreds of
messages have been received by other
senators.
Trebled Effort Needed.
Despite the eycellent cooperation
thus far, trebled effort is needed
from now on to force the bill through,
Mr. White declared-Letters and tele
grams by the thousands should be
sent to senators. They must be in
formed that their constituents want
this bill passed. Telegrams and let
ters should urge senators to aid in
bringing the bill up for a vote and to
the last ditch any atttf n.pt to filibust
er. To support on the floor an amend
ment which will make the bill apply
to all persons injured or killed by
mobs instead of only to those taken
from the custody of officers of the
law.
“While the outlook is brighter
than at any time for the passage of
this type of legislation,” Mr. White
said “there is plenty of opposition to
• Already plans are underway to
‘knife’ the bill. The white and col
ored people, north and south, who
have fought a great battle thus far,
must redouble their efforts. We
cannot relax. Hold mass meetings.
Pass resolutions. Send letters and
telegrams and resoutions. Get your
friends and other organizations to do
ikewise. Raise money and send it
to the N. A. A. P. C. at 69 Fifth
Avenue, New York, so we can issue
the necessary literature and spread
the message to the people who want
to help in this fight. We have an
even chance for victory, but we will
lose if we stop to rest.
With money the people will not fail
at this critical time, for if they
do, they will not be failing any or
ganization or group they will be
failing themselves—fussing a golden
chance to help the effort to wipe out
the hideous crime of lynching from
America.”
Killer 1$ Freed In
Alleged Atteci
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Bradenton. Fla.—(CNS)—A few
hours after Joe Kopman- promintnt
citrus grower- shot and killed a col
ored prisoner accused of attacking
Kapman’s small daughter- a coroner’s
jury today held the act “justifiable
homicide.” and the grower was freed
immediately.
James Franklin- colored yardman
was killed as he walked between two
officers from a physician’s office,
where he had had a physicial and men
tal examination and had denied the
charge.
No Photos For
Ohio Oivii Service
Applicants
Columbus 0-, April 13—According to
an opinion rendered on March 29,
in response to a reflation of the
state House of Representatives re
q usting information on the policy of
the state Civil Service Commission
in “requiring applicants to disclose
the identity of their race and to sub
General John W- Bricker holds that
“no person can be denied the right
to take an examination by reason of
his failure to set forth in his applica
tion his race or to attach there to his
photograph.”
This opinion marks a victory in
the fight of the Ohio branches of the
N. A- A- C. P. against this discrimin
atory requirement that has resulted
in injustice to Negro applicants
The National Association for the
Advance of Colored People in the
light of this opinion is seeking to
have a similiar decision made with
reference to the Federal Civil Service,
according to a comunication received
here from Walter White, secretary
N. A. A. e. P.
To Meet Sun.
The local branch of the N. A. A.
C. P. is having their last Series of
mass meetings Sunday at 3 p. m., at
Allen's Chapel in South Omaha
Mrs. Hazel Lowise and Mr. Roy
White will be the speakers. The
public is cordiually invited to attend.
Urges Passage Of
Anti-Lynch Bill
Norfolk Va-, April 13—Under the
diretion of Thomas L- Debney,
chairman of the local petition com
mittee, 215 Norfolk citizens have
signed a petition asking Congress to
pass the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynch
ing bill- It has been sent to Sena
tor Edward P- Costigan at Washing
ton D C
In his accompanying letter, Mr.
Dabney writes-"This petition is still
being emulated fcftr signatures in
the churches here- We expect to se
cure 1000 signatures within a week
or so . . . -We are solidly behind you
and the N- A- A- C- P. in this fight
and we do hope that the bill will pass
both houses of Congress. ”
MANY NEGROES AMONG
SORROWING TOWNS
PEOPLE
Body of Edward William Pou,veter
an Congressman from North Caro
lina was brought here for burial last
week and among the sorrowing towns
people who wee at the station while
the train arrived were “nearly a thou
sand colored school childen who stood
at attention, an Anieican flag at half
mast at their head in tribute to the
dead Congressman.
The Congressman is reported to
own tombstone, it reads “I know not
what record of sin may await me in
the world to come, but this I do know.
I was never mean enough to despise
a man because he was poor, because
he was ignorant or because he was
black.”
EASTERN WOMAN HOLD
INGBIG REVIVAL AT
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Mrs. Rev. F. A# Waites of Philadel
phia Pennsylvania
The Pentecostal Revivil has begun
with the prominent holiness Evange
list and success***) pastor, Mrs- Rev.
F. A Waites of Phildelphia, Pa-, who
an-ived with Mrs. Waites, is the suc
cessful gospel Singer and Evangelist,
Rev Mrs- Elizabeth Fox Sweet. Mrs.
sweet is a converted sanctified, bap
tised Catholic. Both womien are
wonderful Spiritual Gospel preachers
tnat hold the people spellbound,every
where they hold Revivals. Mrs.
Waites has the gift of healing and at
the services at the Omaha All-Nation’s
Pentecosta 1 Church, 2302 Grace St.
every night at 8 o’clock. Revival
services healing meeting will be
held. On every Wednesday night,
Mrs. Waites will hold special healing
services for all manner of diseases.
If you cannot bring your sick bring
handkerchiefs to be annointed. Bod
will heal accordingto your faith.
Revival will continue indefinitely.
Watch the Guide for information.
Racial Art Scored
By French
New York City—Art snobbishness
received a stinging blow at the twen
ty-third annual meeting of the Col
lege Arts Association at the Metro
politan Museum of Art here last week
when Jean Lurcat, well-known French
artist called narrow nationism in art
fallacious in a dissuasion of The Place
of the Artist in the Community
Mr. Lurcat, whoe address in Eng
lish was read for him by the Dr .An
dre, argued that a great school of
art can come into existence and de
velope only in a place geographically
and morrally open to all; that a
school worthy of the term “great”
must reach beyond national and ra
cial grounds, and that divisions that
break up society into categories
work against universality and, there
fore. against the artist
AGED WHITE WOMAN
SAVED FROM DEATH
BY COLORED MAN
New York—(CNS)—John Foster
of thi3 city saved the ife of Mrs. Jo
sephine Balazona, white, when he
found her with her clothing aflame
He did so by quickly stripping off
his eoat and wrapping it about her
body
SPANISH WAR VETER
AN RETIRES
Washington —<CNS)—First Ser
geant William McGauly the last re
maining member of the 24th United
States Infantry Regiment’s campaign
in Cuba in 1898, under Col- Theodore
after thirty-eight years of service
It Is Economy Now To Use Electric Appliances s"sp“*e
One Who Is Inter*
ested li Walters
Program
April 11th, 1934.
Mr. M. L. Harris, President of,
Omaha Waiter’s Association
1820 N. 24th St
Omaha, Neb.
Dear Mr. Harris:
I want to congratulate you on the
wonderful move you have taken in
Omaha in ehalf of the waiters there.
I am so glad that some one came
along and saw the need of getting
the waiters together. I hope you
will continue to do your part ecauses
I elieve it is much needed there.
Now Mr. Harris if you keep the
club clean you can not fail. Having
gambling and drinking around is a
bad thing for waiters, which is one
of the things that we must get away
from if we expect to hold our own in
the HOTEL WORLD.
We must learn SERVICE, Foods
and Salesmanship—and above all
others we must learn to give our
best effort to our COLORED Head
waiters and Captains.
Keep your mafobers from the
Back Doors of the Hotels in Omaha.
Keep them in your CLUB ROOMS
and when they are needed let the
HOTELS CALL your CLUB, then
you can demand pay for your work,
having the HOTEL MANAGERS to
vsit your club house is a fine move.
Let them see that you are teaching
the waiters—service and salesman
ship .
Again I Congratulate you
I beg to remain yours truly
Irving W■ Gray.
Hotel Del Prado,
Chicago, 111
C. W. A. Projects
Caisc Complaints
. ..Washington—(CNS—One hunndred
New York Conference fo United Ac
tion on CWA and Unemployment ,
with headquarters in New York, came
here Monday and filed protests with
both Harry L- Hopkins, Federal Emer
gency Relief and Civil Works Admin
istrator. and Harold L- Ickes, Secre
tary of the Interior, against the rc
duction of CWA projects*.-Resolu
tions favoring unemployment insur
a nee and demandng that an end be
put to all forms of discrimination in
CWA and Emergency Relief projects
were passed._—
__Also that (a) Negroes be register
ed in all places of registration and not
at “jim crow” special registration of
fices; (b) that degisnation and use
of race identification queries be re
moved from relief and unemployment
applications; and (c) that Negrowhite
collar workers and professionals be
employed and otherwise provided for
upon equal basis with the whites._
TALK ABOUT
HOT ELECTIONS
The merged Mic City Community
Center and the Omaha Urban League
is really having a hot campaign.
Three times the Board of Directors
have voted a choice for president and
no president is elected yet, so says
the chairman of the nominating com
mittee, Mr. Herman FriecOander.
Mr. T- P- Mohamitt says we should
elect a president and give the Center
a name. Monday in oar regular
meeting the full board will meet and
go into a huddle to try the job again
There is talk of declaring the whole
election void and appointing a new
nominating committee and nominate
and elect officers- The following
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Beats First Degree
Murder Charge
James Cole who was charged with
murder in the first degree by the
Ccunty Attorney, was found not
guilty in District Court Room No- 1
Thursday April 19, about 3:45- The
jury was out from, 1:30 to 3:45
When they returned to the court
room and read their verdict: “We, the
jury find the defendent not guilty.”
Friends Request
Him TO File
Henry F- Myers.
Mr. Henry F. Myers, chief deputy
for the United States Marshal’s of
fice is being persuaded by his many
friends to file for sheriff of Douglas
County in the August primaries on
I the Republican Ticket. He was choe
en Chief Assistant to the Supervisor
of the census in Omaha in 1930. Mr
Myer took the examination for this
place along with 500,000 others
throughout the United States- He was
the only one to receive a grade of
100 per cent- He has been a resident
of the city of Omaha for 33 years
and has always lived on the north
side- He has been chief deputy for
the United States Marshall, for the
past three years- The work he is
would have to perform as sheriff. He
now doing is similiar to the work he
was chairman of the Douglas County
Central Committee twice and vice
chairman once, and he has also acted
as Secretary of this committee twice
He has been a member of the State
Central committee for 8 consecutive
times for 16 years. He has also been
a mmber of the Douglas County com
mittee for 26 years- Mr- Myer’s
served as County Treasurer for two
years- He is a Spanish-American
War Veteran and served with Co- D.
157 Indiana- He was a volunteer
entry and his services were in Porto
Rico- Mr- Myers served during the
Wod War on No- 1 and No- 3 of the
Selective Board- He is the only man
in the United States that has had
the honor of serving on two of these
boards at the same time He was
elected to these jobs because of his
honesty and his good work- He was
chairman on both of these boards- Mr
Myers was never at any time coa
nected with the Metropolitan police
force of Oipaha- He is a married
man, and a father of three children,
all graduates of Qfmeha High schools
Hs wife is president of the Parent’s
Teacher’s Association- Mr- Myer’s
ran for County assessor 4 years ago
and made a fine showing. It is said
by his many friends, that he will be
nominated and elected if he can be
persuaded to resign from his present
position and run for the Republican
nomination for sheriff in the Au
gust primaries.
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DON’t Forget April 23rd
Don’t forget the big bgnefit bell
given by the Omaha Waiter’s Bene*
fit Ball at the Dreamland Wall, on
Monday April 23rd- Music will be
furnished by Lloyd Hunter’s Bed Hot
Orchestra.
