- VOLUME VIII OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16TH, 1934 NUMBER SIXTEEN
Ask President To Call
Economic Highlights
Happening That Affect the Dinner
Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills
of Every individual- National and
International Problems Inseparable
from Local Welfare.
The Administration is moving to pi -
vent two diametrically different kinds
of crime
First compet.id move was the sign
ing by he President cf a grcu > >f
bills requested by thj, Department of
Justice, which provide Federal penal
ties for offenses that have heretofore
been cover, id by state laws only. One
bill provides that if a kidnapped per
son is kept seven days it shall to'
legally presumed that he has been
taken across a state line, which
bring it within Federal jurisdiction
and makes it a very serious offense
ind sed- Other bills in the group make
it a federal crime to send extortion
messages in interstate commerce, to
flee across state lines to avoid pro
secution or giving t estimony in fel
ony cases, to defraud or rob national
banks to ship stolen securities
across state lines, and so on
The passage of tha bills gives Fed
eral authorities a great deal more
leeway than they *ver had before in
running down and punishing criminals
They are the direct result of a Dilling
er “comic opera,” which has mad.*
everyone concerned, Federal and local
authorities both- look foolish.
In th J second move the President
is striking at war—international
crime on the grand scale. He sent
a resolution to Congress calling for
ratification of international agreement
that would cafl for licensing arrange
ments for international arms ship
ments- This, he said, would help end
the mad race in armament which, if
permitted to continue, may well re
sult in war- The President wishes
that special attention be given end
ing the jungle warfare between Bo
livia and Paraguay which has been
continuing for years in the Gran
Chaco district- Not a great deal
about that war has been heard in
this country—but foreign observers
say it is as ghastly, as need
less and as destructive a conflict as
has ever been fought
Within the next fow months there
is going to be a great deal heard
about the arms manufacturers—those
who make big guns, big shells, tanks
and similiar weapons- It all started
with an article in Fortune, which was
reprinted in many newspapers, com
mented upon by rqany more- This
was followed by two books by well
known journalists showing the me
thods, the set-up and the activities of
the great arms companies- There are
no big concerns of the kind in this
country, and it is said that our arms j
makers have for the most part kept j
aloof fi'om the more nefarious activi
ties of the European concerns- In
Europe, however, their power extends
into government—interlocking di
rectorship and stock ownerhip make
them an almost absolute trust- Dur
ing the war English concerns shipped
weapons to Germany—and German j
shipped supplies to England—through
neutral Switzerland- An example: In
Scotland there is a field piece in a
public squar,- On one side of it are
the names of the British troops who
died in capturing it from the Germans
On the other is the manufacurer’s—
Vickers, largest English arms mak
er
Business, of late, has shown little
change. Recently there was a drop
from the spring highs, but this has
been regained in a number of major
lines. Main worry of great indus
trialist now cannot be shown in the
indices—it is, simply, labor trouble
That is proving very embarrassing
to the Administration, inasmuch as
the trouble stems largely from the
NRA- When the NRA was set up it
provided that labor should have the
P right to organize, that no worker be
penalized for belonging to a union,
t.liafr collective bargaining be permit
ted- At that time there had been no
major strikes for many years, and no
one thought any were coming- As a
result, no special provision was made
for settling them
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MAE WEST and DUKE ON The SCREEN
' UNION CONVENTION
CHANGES CHICAGO
HOTELS OVER COLOR
BAR ISSUE
400 Ladies Garment Workers Dele
gates Leave Medinah Club When
Negro Delegates are Jim
Crowd
Chicago, 111—The 400 delegates at
tending the 22nd convention of the
International Ladies Garment Work
ers Union, affiliated with thb Am
erican Federation of Labor and
boasting a membership of 200,00C
voted unanimously on June 3, to move
from the ft^dinh Club to the Mor
rison hotel because of the former’s
discrimination against a dozen Negro
, delegates.
In jxplaining the union’s stand,
David Dubinsky, president of the I.
L. G- W. U-, stated, ‘‘At the time we
selected the Mladinah Club as head
quarters and meeting place for our
convention, we explicitly agp.-ed with
the management of the club that our
Negro delegates would hte admitted
with white delegates. This promise, :
however, tlu management failed to
keep and the Negro delegates from
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DEPRIEST WILL AD
DRESS N. A. A. C. P.
CONFERENCE
New YorK City—Congressman Os
car DePriest will deliver the principal
address at the closing Sunday after
noon mass meeting of the 25th annual
conference of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People in Oklahoma City, Okla. July
1. it was announced here today.
Sharing the platform with Mr- D.?
Priest will b Walter White, the as
sociation’s secretary, who will report
upon the year’s work and give es
pecially the inside story of the fight
for the passage of the Costigan-Wag
ner anti-lynching bill.
Jess Larsen, ex-mayor of Chickasha.
Okla-, will address the conference Sat
urday night June 30, on the subject,
“City Government and Its Intiirra
cial Problems.” Mr. Larsen has been
a memiber of the N- A. A- C- P-, hav
ing first joined in 1930.
Miss Juanita Jackson, president of
the City-Wide Young People’s Forum
of Baltimore, will speak also Saturday
night on “Youth’s Part in the Fight
for Race Rights-”
J. E. DAVIDSON HONORED AT
CONVENTION OF EDISON
ELECTRIC INSTITUTE
ATLANTIC CITY. N- J. June 15—
J- E. Davidson, president of the Neb
raska Power Company, was honored
here last Wednesday at the national
convention of the Edison Electric In
stitute for his work in directing the
nationwide Electric Refrigeration
Bureau activity during the past
thre i years. Nearly three million
electric refrigerators were sold as a
result of this activity.
Following Mr. Davidson’s address
herg Wednesday on the subject of
cooperating with other electrical
dealers in the sale of merchandise,
George B. Cortelyou, president of tha
Institute and secretary of the trea
sury undnr Theodore Roosevelt, paid
him a high tribute for his leadership
in the electric industry and presented
him with a hand-painted, illuminated
world globe
The artist spent a year in painting
this globe which illustrates historical
events, properly located- A similar
globe was painted by the artist for
Owen D- Young, president of the
G neral Electric Cotnpanv.
In presenting the globe to Mr
Davidson. Mr. Cortelyou sad: “Your
leadership has been an inspiration to
all of us- Not only have your activi
ties been a decided contribution to
our Industry, but your work has aid
ed in making electricity of greater
benefit to our fellow men- Through
your efforts and stimulation of lead
ership you have played as important
part in replacing drudgery in the
home with comfort, convenience, and
greater happiness.”
In his address Mr- Davidson said
that all power companies should co
operate at all times with other deal
ers of electrical appliances, and told
of his company’s cooperative adver
tising and selling programs for aid
ing dealers.
“The time is opportune,” said Mr.
Davidson, “for the utilities, the manu
facturers, the dealers and the trades
to join together in this, the greatest
selling opportunity in the history of
our industry, and which, in my opin
ion, could bj developed into the
greatest coordinated selling and ad
vertising promotion activity ever
conducted in the history of Ameri
can business.
ATTORNEY RAY LAWRENCE
WILLIAMS. ONE OF SIX KEY
SPEAKERS. AT LAW MEM
ORIAL SERVICES
For the first time in the history of
Nebraska, Attorney Ray Lawrence
Williams, a Race Lawyer, was hon
ored along with five other very out
standing Lawyers of Omaha, at the
annual memorial services of the
Omaha and Douglas County Bar As
sociation for members who have died
during the past year- Court Room No
1, at the Court House marked the
scene of activities.
Business associate and CLOSE
friends read many tributes- Those so
honored were: Attorney A. B. Mat
hews, colored, Who died May 29, 1934;
Benjamin Thomas; Nelson H. Loamis;
E- G- McGilton; Andrew M. Morris
sey, former Chief Justice of Neb
raska Supreme Court J. H- Ready.
Other speaks on program were:
Charles Battelle; W- C. Dorsey;
Prank Gaines and A. V. Shotwell
District Judge Redick presided. W
W- Slabaugh was master of Cere
monies.
NEGRO APPOINTED REPRESENT
ATIVE OF CONTINENTAL OIL CO.
ORGANIZES NEGRO DEPARTMENT OF CONOCO
TRAVEL BUREAU
PONCA CITY, OKLA. June 15
In order better to serve its N.gro
market, Dudley B- Luck, a Negro
who has been associated with Con
tin yntal Oil Company for several
years, has been appointed a special
representative of the marketing d>
partiment of this company to cover
all of the 42 states in which Conoco
Products are distribute, according
to announcement at the general of
fices here
During his period of service with
Continental Oil Company, Mr. Luck
has organized a Negro department of
the Conoco Travel Bureau, America’s
j for jmost free travel service, located
in the Continental Oil building, Den
ver, Colorado- This department pro
vides to Negro motor travelers mark
ed road maps indicating b.Gt and
most scenic routes, attractive litera
ture descriptive of major points of
interest along the way and mar the
destination, a Conoco Passport show
ing the holder to be a member of the
Conoco Travel Club and entitling
him to special consideration and lo
cal information at Conoco’s nearly
20,000 retail stations, and a list of
hotels, YMCA-’s, YWCA-’s-, and
tourist homes catering to Negro
travelers and tourists.
In addition to directing th work of
the Negro branch of the Conoco
Travel Bureau. Mr. Luck in his new
position will travel throughout the
country, aiding Negro dealers in
merchandising Conoco Products
A well rounded educational back
ground, and several years of intelli
gent and aggressive service amply
equip Mr Luck for his promotions to
a better position- Bom in Danville,
Virginia, he attended WtBtmoreland
High School, and was preparing to
onter college when America entered
, the World War. Mr- Luck enlisted in
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the army at Virginia Union Univer
sity, Virginia, and served for the
duration of the war. After being dis
charged from military service, he
spjnt a year in the government serv
ice before enrolling in Armstrong
High School, Washington, D. C- Fol
lowing his graduation there, he re
ceived his college education at How
ard University. He joined the Con
tinental Oil Company at Denver in
1925, and has won rapid promotion
through diligent and constructive
work. Bjsides being a member of the
American Legion, Mr. Luck is an
active member of the Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity.
RECORD IN SALES OF GAS REFRI
GERATORS TO BE ESTABLISHED
IN OMAHA
An all-time record in the sales of
gas refrigerators will be established
in Omaha this year, it was confident
ly predicted Thursday by W. J. Bar
bel , assistant to the general manager
of the Metropolitan Utilities Dis
tinct- Barber based his preduction on
the fact that so far this year more
than six times as many gas refriger
tors have been sold by all dealers in
Omaha than for the same period a
year ago
The tremendous increase in sales is
attributable chiefly, it was said, to
the fact that the Utilities District has
announced that it would guarantee
the refrigerating unit of all gas re
frigerators, unconditionally, for five
years- This guarantee applies to gas
refrigerators sold by dealers as well
as Utilities District
“There is another important factor
in the rapidly increasing sales of gas
refrigerators,” Barber said,” and
that is that the Utilities District will
service them free- In other words,
when a gas refrigerator is sold by a
dealer the Utilities District takes
over all responsibility for its future
satisfactory operation, without cost
to the owner.”
It also was pointed out that the
rapidly growing demand for gas re
frigeration is due in part to the fact
that it provides the cheapest auto
matic refrigeration available in Oma
ha—at a cost of less than four cents
a day.
Mob of 1,000 Seek Negro |
Man
GREENVILLE, S- C- — (CNA)_ |
June 11—This town was almost torn
up last Sunday when half man lynch
mobs poured thru the streets in quest
of a Negro boy who was arrested and
framed on a rape charge. The boy
was to have raped could not identify
him he was still held
The whereabouts of the boy was
not disclosed by the prison authori
ties. There was a rumor that he had
been taken to the State Penitentiary
at Columbus but officials of the
penitentiary said that he had not
been received there.
One section of the mob built a large
bonfire on the outskirts of the town
in preparation for thjp lynching.
Demonstrator and Seller
of Mme. Walker’s Articles
Mrs. M- C. Lomaxe, 2512 Parker
Street, is demonstrating and selling
Mme- Walker’s Hair Preparation- She
will make a house to house canvass
with her articles.
Mrs- Lomaxe is a registered Walk
er Agent, having been with the com
pany for nearly twenty years. You
may purchase any of these Walker
Article at her home. For any in
formation Call WEbster 2076.
VISITS IN CITY
Mrs. Quitman Pierce, neice and
daughter from Los Angeles, Califor
nia, spent five weeks in the city.
They left-for Marshall,
Texas- Mrs- Pierce is a teacher there.
While in the city they stopped with
Mr. and Mrs. R. L- Pierce, 2532 Par
ker Street
MILLS ARTISTS
Cloria Hilton and her Girls of
Syncopation is the latest attraction
■ to come under the sponsorship of
j Irving Mills, head of Mills Artists,
; Inc-, whose genius in the field of
| developing hot orchestra combina
i tions gave Ellington and Galloway to
the show world
Gloria Hilton’s band is an orches
tra of young pretty girls, whose mu
sicianship equals their beauty and
whose music is just as torrid as any
of the white male bands and as
many of the famous colored com
binations
“This orchestra will astonish show
business,” says Mills. “Never HAS
there been a girl band in existence
playing with the same swing which
characterizes the music of our hot
test colored bands. They are as com
petent as any male musicians I have
heard, white or colored, nd the girls
have individual styles which are sel
dom found in any band- They are
sensational.”
Miss Hilton and her girls, all
young and personable without a sin
gle exception, will make an extended
dance tour of ballrooms and summer
parks, and their new sponsor will
present them as a stage attraction
and already is negotiating radio work
for them
DOTTED NOTES—Within a month
Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra
will succeed Jimmie Lunceford at the
Cotton Club in Harlem, when the
latter band begins a dance tour_
Mills Blue Rhythm Band had an audi
tion this week for an NBC sponsor
and are scheduled to begin rehearsals
for the corrtmercial period soon..
Duke Ellington and his famous or- |
chfstra will make another short sub
ject for Paramount for early release
_An all-girl dance band, (white)
playing music as hot as that of the
leading colored orchestras, is the lat
est discovery of Irving Mills, whose
genius in the field of torrid music
made Ellington and Calloway famous
.Record audiences at Loew’s
State theatre in New York are mak
ing the return to Broadway of Cab
Calloway who made London shout hi
de-hi.Mayor W- H. McCracken of
Oakland, California, extended an of
ficial welcome recently to Duke El
lington, Harlem’s artistocrat of jazz
.Because his Blue Rhythm Band
did such a swell job with “Old Ken
tucky Home” on Derby Day in Louis
ville, Governor Ruby Laffoon award
ed the w. k- colonel’s commission to
Irving Mils.Add Harlemese: “Lay
your racket!”; explanation, when a
drurnjmer shows off, he is laying his
racket- Anyone who “spreads his
stuff,” lays his racket, dancing, sing
ing, talking or performing.Earl
Carroll’s “Murder at the Vanities”
picture, featuring Duke Ellington and
band, has opened at the Rivoli thea
tre in New York and soon will be
seen on other screens throughout the
•ountry_.First of the Mills Artists
productions, “Harlem Merry-Go
Round,” with Lucky Millinder and
the Mills Blue Rhythm is packing
’em in at the Lafayette theatre in
New York this week, and will go to
Philadelphia and Washington from
here_Fletcher Henderson and his
band will be featured on the stage of
the Apollo theatre in New York for
one week beginning June 1.Glor
ia Hilton is the personality leader of
the new band of syncopating girlies
sponsored by Irving -Mills through
Mills Artists, Inc.
The air waves will swing with the
rhythms of Fletcher Henderson and
his orchestra commencing June 16th,
for on that date this well known ag
gregation succeeds Jimmie Lunce
ford and his band at the famous Cot
ton Club in Harlem.
Henderson will broadcast on sta
tion WMCA nightly from 11:30 to
midnight, (E- D. S. T.) and on Thurs
days and Sundays each week via the
NBC network from, midnight until
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ASK PRESIDENT TO
CALL FOR ANTI
LYNCH BILL VOTE
Voters Urged to Ask Their Senators
Also to Chief Executive to Insist
on Vote Before Adjournment
I
Washine+on—Another appeal to
President Roosevelt in behalf of the
Co stigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill
was madi here last night by Walter
White, N. A- A. C- P' secretary, in a
telegram to the Chief Executive- Mr
White, who has spent th i past few
Hays here in conferences with the
senators and others supporting the
bill, wind:
“In your forthcoming message to
Congress on social legislation may
I as s*rongly as possible urge you
to ask Congress to vote without
fail on Oodtigan-Wagner Anti
Lvnching hill at this session
Only vigorous public utterance
by you can overcome the machin
ations of the two senators who
are blocking vote- Latest check
no discloses bill has cl ar ma
jority in both houses- Organiza
tions with membership of forty
million have endorsed and are de
manding vote on measure.
“These citizens from south as
well as north have a right to know
who is for and who is against the
bill and they insist on a vote prior
to adjournment. They resent two
senators being permitted to kill
legislation which the majority of
senators and congressmen want to
vote for. In final analysis the
public will not hold members of
congress accountable but will
place responsibility on yourself
as head of the government.. I
am confident you will meet the
situation firmly and will strong
ly urge senate to limit debate
and take a vote- The entire
country will applaud such action.”
As one more method of forcing ac
tion on tha bill before adjournment,
supporters of the bill are urged to
write at once to the senators from
th|lir states asking them to ask the
President for a vote on he measure
This will carry the pressure directly
to the White House through the
various senators.
This action also will expose again
just who is for the measure and who
is against it)- ’Senators should be
asked to send thair voters copies of
tHi letters which they write the
President on the bill.
The latest report is that Senator
Walter F- George, of Georgia, has
changed his mind and is not blocking
the bill, although, of course, hs is not
working for it
New Orleans Shipping Com
panies Try to Hire Negro
Scabs in Harlem
NEW YORK June 11—(CNA)—
Frantic attempts are being made in
Harlem and other Negro sections in
the East to recruit Negro longeshore
men to work the cargoes on the docks
of New Orleans where the men have
been on Wednesday where attempts
were made to entice the men South
It was rumored that the men were
being hired thru the local Home Re
lief Office. When asked to collabor
ate this information over the tele
phone however, the central office of
Home Relief Bureau said that they
could not make that information
“public”
Only a few recruits were obtained
in Harlem the majority of the men
signifying that they had no idea of
either returning to the lynch terror
of the South or of scabing on the
Negro and white stevedores who have
been fighting so valiantly for a de
cent standard of living down there.
R.'-' -
NEW ORLEANS, June 11—(CNA)
—The stevedores in this city are unit
ed in one solid phalanx. The Negro
dockmen are out one hundred per
cnt with the white stevedores and
yin versa. They picket th docks and
fight and “nigger loving reds" ever
since the strike began three weeks
ago ar.d altho the local Negro mi»
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