The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, September 08, 1934, Image 1
- 5c Per Copy =VoLVffl;==^^_Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, Sept. 8,1934 _NumberJTwenty-Nine_ ANGELO HERNDON SCHEDULED FOR OMAHA « ECONOMIC HIGHU6HTS __ Happenings That Affect the Din ner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual. National and International Prob lem? Inseparable from Locel Wefare. Man proposes — God disposes,” says the old proverb. It proves a fact that has the Department of Ag riculture and high government of Ag als giddy and dismayed. Main Administration program for the former has been crop and acre age reduction- Working on the the tOontinhed on Page 2) BERT MOORE'S COLUMN Ques:—Why Are People Wrho Keep On Gabbing Like Tonsilitus? A ns:—They Are A Pain In The Neck. WITHOUT LABOR NOTHING PROSPERS INJURED LEAVING.RITZ THEATRE Mrs. Mary Hayes, 2619 Decatur St., on going out af the Ritz Theatre, slipped and fell striking her bead on the pavement She was taken in a cab to her home by Mrs. Bertha Harris of 2908 N. 26th St.., and attended there by Dr. Lennox for severe shock and head injuries. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE ®n Sept- 4, Mrs. Rose Jackson of 4912 So 25th St. attempted suicide by drinking lysol poison, over do mestic troubles she was having. Jack Jackson, her husband, is visit ing in Chicago, and was erpescted to return Tuesday night, the night that the attempted suicide. Mrs.. Jackson was attended by Dr. McMahon at her home . ASSAULT AND BEATING Mrs. Elizabeth Planer of 1821 N.. 23rd St , on September 2, got into an argument with Tom Union, of the same address, which resulted in a fight. Three of Mrs. Planer’s teeth were dislocated, and she also suffer ed abrasions of the right arm and knee.. She was attended by Dr. Foil man and left at home.. No arrest was made SHOT IN BACK Sunday night Sept. 2, William Brice, alias Frank Quack of 2728 Parker St.., was seated at a table near the east window in the Panama Gardens, at 2210 Seward, when some unknown person fired a shot through the window, striking Brice in the back. He was take* to the Lord Lister Hospital, and attended by Dr. Attwood for a bullet wound in the back, which was removed from the left chest.. Jaanita Brice, his wife, and Buden Dixon of 2728 Parker Street, were arrested for investigation in connec tion with the shooting. CAUSE OF FALL UNKNOWN Mrs. Anna Jones of 1608 Burt St.. was walking alone, going east on 17th St., between I.gard and Nicholas, and m some unknown manner, stumbled fell and injured herself. There was n® eye witness to the accident. She was taken to the police station by Gmiser ear officers Shanahan and Voboril, and attended by Dr.. Good rich. then taken home ASSAULT AND ROBBERY On Sept 1, 1934 at 4:50 a. m.., Mr. A. Cooper of 2413 Blondo St.., en terer his garage at his home, while entering he was struck on the head, knocked down and robbed of $90.00, by an unidentified white man.. Mrs.. Cooper, on hearing the com motion, rushed to her husband’s aid, ar.d the assailant fired a shot at her, missing his aim. The shot was heard ; throughout the neighborhood.. De tectives Arthur and Callahn, with' ambulance, and Dr. Goodrich attend ing Cooper and left him at home Officers Rose, Burke and other of ficers searched the neighborhood for j tka robber, but was not successful in finding him (Continued en Page 8| POPULAR HEADWAITER MR SIMON HAROLD Mr.. Simon Harold of 2211 No.. 28th Avenue, head waiter at the Cham ber of Commerce for some 20 odd years. He has gven the position as headwater when Mr. W.. M.. Lewis tetired a few years ago.. About six months ago, the execu tive committee of the Chamber of Commerce took over the Dining De partment, and all Negro waiters were replaced by girls . Mr. Harold was kept on the job as headwaiter.. After a few months of unsuccessful efforts of trying to sat isfy the patrons of the Chamber of Commerce dining room with girl wait resses. the lady in charge resigned, and the dining room was closed for the summer.. Mr. Glen Eastborn, the Chamber of Commerce Commis sioner, kept Mr.. Simon Harold on full pay and on Sept.. 1, the dining room was re-opened in charge of Mrs. Qusenberry, with Mr.. S.. L. McLead, who lives at 20 North 15th St.., Council Bluffs, Iowa, as Chef cook, the first Negro Ctef cook the Chamber of Commerce has had since 1906. Mr.. Harold still remains as head waiter in charge of the Dining Room with the following men in his employ ment; some extra and some full time, Earl Hunnigan, Chester Hodges, E.. Simoa, D.. Morrison, K. Macklien, William Lomack, Tom Jones, Fritz McKim, A. Massey, Ml. W. Reanex, William Pierson, A. Johnson, Forres ter Scott, Isaac Fie her, Laurenca Tucker, Ulysses £. Watson, Carl M.. Heidelberg, and N.. W. Jackson.. TUSKEGEE AM WILBERFORCE Tuskegree and Wilberforee will hoW their annual football classic game at Soldiers Field, Chicago, Bl_, on Oct. 21, 1934. There will he special ex cursion rates from Omaha for alumni of Wilberforee and Tuskege* Insti tute, and their friends.. If you wish to join the party, register at the Omaha Guide Office.. You can make it a three day or a 10 day stay. You will also have the priviledge of attending the World’s Fair for the admission of 15c after the foot ball game.. The public is cordially invited- Watch the columns of the Omaha Guide for more details. WHITE ATTEMPTS^RAPE ON NEGRO WOMAN; FINED NEW YORK—(CNA)—Had it been a Negro accused of “attempting to rape a white woman,” he would not have gotten off so lightly as did Pat rick Carlos, white IRT ticket agent, who appeared last Wednesday, Aug. 15, before Magistrate Ann Kross of the First District Magistrate’s Court. On the morning of July 30, Mrs. .Richard B. Moore Angelo Herndon NATIONALLY FAMOUS ORATOR APPEARING HERE Saved from the Georgia Chain Gang by $15,000 cash bail by the In temartional Labor Defense, Angelo Herndon, young Negro organizer of the unemployed will be In Omaha this mouth to speak at a mass meeting at the Workers Cultural Center, 2404 Parker St. on the evening of the 26th.. With him will be Richard B.. Moore, of the International Labor Defense, nationally famous Negro Speaker, and Mrs. Ida Norria, mother of one of the nine Scottsboro Boys Herndon was convicted under an old ‘‘inciting to insurrection” law dating back to the last century, be cause of his activity in organizing the unemployed workers of the South and sentenced to twenty years hard labor Although his cause was under appeal, he was ordered to the chain gang unless bail could be raised at once. A nationwide call by the In ternational Labor Defense brought response from all parts of the coun try, workers sending quarters and dollars to make up the sum, and bail was raised in time to release him. A erowd of ten thousand workers, col ored and white, met him at Pennsyl vania station in New York on his re lease * The Omaha branch of the Interna tional Lab^r Defense is 'calling a special meeting of members and all other interested, at 2404 Parker St. Monday evening, September 9th, to prepare for the appearance here of three nationally known figures in the Negro liberation movement GOLFERS INJURED AS GAR LEAVES HIGHWAY Atty. Charles P Howard Of Des Moines Injured Kansas City, Mo.—Sept.. 4—Attor ney Charles P.. Howard and J. W.. Mitchell of Des Moines, and Clyde Baker of Fort Dodge, Iowa, on their return trip home, after competing in Kansas City’s Labor Day Golf Tour nament, with teams from Omaha, Topeka, St.. Louis, Des Moines and Kansas City, were severely injured in an auto accident 75 miles out of K. C.., about 2 a. m.. Tuesday, Sept.. 4.. The men left Kansas City about midnight, and were seventy-five miles out on Highway 69, when the acci dent occured, traveling in a Plymouth coupe. The car plunged over an em bankment at a curve in the highway, completely demolishing the car All three were brought back to K. C- X-rayB revealed no fractures. Clyde Baker, most seriously injured, when questioned about the accident, said that he was driving, and must have fallen asleep at the wheel, just as be was approaching the curve After emergency treatments to Mr.. Howard and Mr. Mitchell, they were taken to Dee Moines by Dr.. D.. M. Miller.. Mr. Baker is in the hospital beat OPEN I. L. D. HEADQUARTERS The Workers Cultural Center, meeting place of workrs organiza tions, has been opened at 2404 Park er St. Beside regular meetings of the International Workers Order, the International Labor Defense, and the Unemployment Council, the Center is preparing to offer classes on political and economic questions, and a regular weekly open forum, with loial and national speakers on a wide variety of subjects. The Center has a read ing room of workers literature, for general use, open every day from tern to five Alic® William^, Negro saleswoman of Harlem, entered the women’s room at the Grand Street Station. Carlos left his change booth and attempted to persuade Mrs. Williams to become intimate with him. When she re sisted, he tried {f v« fore®. Mrs.. LIBERTY LEAGUE ASKED TO DEFEND NEGRO’S TS — New York, August 31—The new ly organized American Liberty League was asked yesterday if it would “include in its work defense of the oonstitutional rights of j twelve millions of American Negro j citizens whose rights are more fre- j queiitly violated and flouted than of any other racial group in the United States”. The query was addressed to Jouett Shouse and Alfred E. Smith, guiding spirits of the organ ization, by Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the j Advancement of Colored People. Citing the lynching of 3,615 Ne groes out of total of 5066 mob vic tims since 1882, fifteen since Jan uary first of this year, “thirteen of that number being lynched since June when Congress adjourned with; out acting on Federal anti-lynching legislation”; the recent barring of ‘ qualified Negro voters” from voting in so called Democratic primaries” j ia Texas by opinon of Attorney Gen era! James Allred, successful Demo cratic nominee for Governor of that State despite two U. S. Supreme Court decisions and a third decision by a federal district court in Texas ruling such exclusion unconstitu tional. and the gross discrimination against Negroes in the expenditure of federal educational funds, the telegram asked “Will American Lib erty League fight against such viol ! atlon of constitutional guarantees to all citizens of equal protection of the law regardless of race and color “Should the American Liberty League devote all its energies and resources at its command in up-; holding the constitution insofar as ( Negro Americans are concerned”, i the telegram ontinued, “it would strike at the grossest violations of | the Constitution now existing. Will j the American Liberty League do this?” ——— WHIiams screamed and fled. Miss Alice Evans, Long Island S teacher, was attracted by the screams and came to Mrs. Williams' aid. When they confronted Carlos in his change booth, he spat on them and j screamed: “You goddamn black nig ger, go back to Harlem.” A policeman was finally persuaded to anrd the ticket agent. HOUSTON AND MCARTHUR CUSH JIM CROW Washington, Aug. 31—Dean Char les H. Houston of Howard Univers ity law school and the legal com mittee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People took sharp issue this week with the reply by General Douglas! MacArthur. Chief of Staff of the! U. S. Army, to an earlier letter charging gross discrimination a gainst Negroes in the military ser-; vice. Replying to Mr. Houston’s letter °f August 9th, General MacArthur denied the existence of aolor prej udice in enlistments or in the train ng of Negro reserve offcers and colored regiments. “The four Negro regiments are distinctly combat reg iments”, he insisted, “and receive combat training in like manner as white regiments. All regiments, col ored and white, due te lack of ap propriations, are compelled from time to time to perform duties nor mally falling to service battalions. The records of the War department indicate that here is only an infiniti simal percentage of colored applic ants for training in newer arms.” j In an answering letter dated Aug ust 29th Dean Houston charges that “the Army has consistently discrim inated, and is erven now discriminat ing, against Negro officers and troops.” "We notice that all our officers from Colonel Charles Young down to date seem to get shunted a way from the regiments into detach ed service—Colonel Young was kept from overseas and combat duty be cause the War Department was will cause the War Department was un willing to have a Negro general in the service—The morale of the 92nd Division was shot to pieces because the Negro officers and the men felt there was a determined policy to dis criminate aganst them and keep them from promotion, regardlless of what their records might be. If consistent with War Department policy, Negroes would like to know why Negro officers are so continu ously kept from active service with troops” Turning to the status of the four Negro regiments, he insists that “service work is their primary occup ation, except for the 25th Infantry” and that “75 percent of the Negro combat troops are actually doing service battalion duty as their pri-j mary function, which is a greater i percentage than can be found among the regular infantry and cavalry as, a whole.” In proof of his contention, the former army officer cites the fact that the 2".fc Infantry stationed at Fort Benning, Ga, the 9th Cavalry stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas and the 19th Cavalry which is divided, between Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,! West Point, New York and Fort, Myer, Va, all perform a minimum of drill but are largely used as service! battalions and on police and escort duty, and that none of these troops takes part in maneuvers except as orderlies. Only the 25th Infantry stationed at Fort Huachua, Arizona,i “functions normally as a combat regiment ca garrison duty” No Promotion for Non-Coms Dean Houston further charges that “The recent non promotion pol icy of the War Department operat-. ed distinctly to tha prejudice of Ne gro troops—In order to fill up the complement of troops in the newer rrms within the limitations of the appropriations, the War Department until recently had a policy whereby in case of a vacancy among the non commissioned officers in the older line regiments the vacancy wouldn’t be filled, but a corresponding posi tion would be created in one of the newer arms of the service and the pay from the old office transferred to the new. There would be no ob jection to this policy if Negro sold iers were permitted to qualify for, the newer arms of the service. But they were not and are not. The result was te deprive Negro soldiers in the four regular army regiment* i DEFIES Ml TO EJECT NEGROES MADISON, III.—(CNA—Six him hundred Negroes and whites attend ing a pi me given by the Communist Party in Eagle Park here on Aug.. 26, forced the park management to re scind its order that all Negroes leave ! the grounds . The picnic was already well under : way when representatives of the man j agement approached the picnic com mittee, demanding that all Negroes j be asked to leave the park at once In support of their demand, they mentioned that the Amalgam tea As sociation of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers was planning a picnic for1 I the following Sunday, and would l hold separate picnics, one for whites ! and one for Negroes, from the Com ! munist picnic. Crowd Votes to Remain The picnic committee immediately called together all workers in the park, and explained the situation..: Speakers called on the white workers I to defend the Negroes in case of at t tack. When one of the speakers ask ; ed the andience: “Shall w« remain' here—together?”* the crowd answer ed with a thundering “Stay!” The speaker then went on to dnownee the Jimcrow tactics of the leadership of the Amalgamated Association in planning separate pinics. Because of the evident solidarity and determination of the crowd, the park management did not press its orders and did not carry out its threat to call the police. -G WHITE HOODLUMS AND POLICE ATTACK PROTEST MEET . NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—:CNA— White hoodlums and police swooped down Tuesday Aug. 27, on a mass > meeting held here by the Internation al Labor Defense to protest the rape frame-up of a young Negro worker, ! Alphonso Davis While the police looked quietly on,' the hoodlums beat up several white and NegTe workers. Then polce and i Hoodlums waded in together to smash the meeting. The possbility that William Fisher,' NegTO member of the International Labor Defense, may be framed on a charge of murder. Is seen by ILD. leaders here. When the crowd de fended itself against attack, some of the white hoodlums were hurt.. One of them may die.. Fisher has been i charged wth the assault, and in the event of the hoodlum’s death may be charged wth murder. Fisher is himself in the hospital, suffering from cuts and possible fractures. A mass delegation of workers has demanded of the mayor that all charges against Fisher be dropped Meeting Protested FrameUp Alphonse Davis, in whose defense the meeting is called, is being held en a charge of “rape.” A white girl, j Helen Lachut, claimed that she had been raped by two Negroes in a pub lk park. Davis was picked up, ar rested and held in $25,000 cash or $50,000 property bail. Attorneys and investigators for the ILD. found strong evdence that the girl had had sexual relations with her white es cert that evening, and had invented the rape story to cover up the truth.. Newspapers in Niagara Falls im mediately began a campaign of lynch incitement. A letter, appearing in the Gazette, called on the “men of the community to show chivalry to wards their women in the southern style, to bend all efforts to make the streets safe again for white girls to walk by making an example of a few Negroes.” — . —n of all chance of promotion and create a condition of stagnation.” Attorney Houston attributes the few Negro applications for enlist ment in the newer arms of the ser vice to the fact that “the War De partment has let it be known in one way or another that Negroes will (Continued on it WIFE KILLED; HUSBAND INJURED .Driving east on Center St., Sunday night, Sept. 2, Mr. L.. Steel of 2701 North 27th St. made a left turn into a filling station at 112th St A large truck traveling west at a speed of about 40 miles per hour, struck the Steel car broadside. Mrs.. M L.. Steel, an occupant of the car, died instantly from injuries received Mr Steel received head bruises and possible fracture of an arm. Edwin Rabe, Beemer, Nebr., driv er of the truck was uninjured. In reporting the accident to County Au thorities, it was said, the driver of the auto made a left turn without giving any signal, and the crash re sulted. Mr. Steel was attended by Dr. Grayson and removed to the County Hospital. The body of Mrs. Steal is at the Myers Funeral Home.. -G NEGRO AVIATORS BID FOR RECOGNITION — Including 25 Countries In Goodwill Flight Another new song is in the mak j k'ff- This time it is to be a saga of 'the skies which will blazen forth the name of the Negro in letters so high that millions of persons throughout the world will not fail to see it For our race, so well known for its accomplishments in the field of music, so well known for its loyalty in peace and war is about to invade the skies of the western hemisphere to stag* one of the most daring Good - Will Flights ever attempted under ad verse conditions. Today aviation represents achieve ment—recognized achievemen tof the highest type and the Negro who it ever reaching upward towards great er heights is about to make a bid ior a place in the sun beside those other groups who have already bias ed the trail in the skies.. Handicapped m theirfopportunities for training, denied the experimen- ’ cies that come to those who have the privilege of piloting army, mail, and commercial aeroplanes, laclcxr^g the financial support ttjat a wealthier race could readily furnish, colored aviators will take off this month in a tiny 90 horsepower Lambert Mono coupe te wing their way along a 12,000 mile circuit which will take them to twenty-five or more Pan American countries. In this flight the third of a series to be sponsored by tbe Interracial Goodwill Aviation Committee colored America will make a mighty bid for recognition, for un derstanding, for goodwill, a bid for the things that must of necessity form the foundation for any further progress that is to be made. Always there has been too much talk about increasing race pride, about establishing confidence among ourselves, about getting our youth to aspire to worthwhile things. Such things cannot be talked into exis tence, they aannot be had for the asking, nor can they be bought They have to be earned. Earned as other people have earned them; by self sacrifices, by the risking of lives, by daring to do things which we ordi narily hesitate te attempt; by out standing achievement. These air flights are being effectively used as a key to open many of the doors which heretofore we have been vainly knocking against. The far reaching good already accomplished by the In terracial Goodwill Aviation Program cannot be fully estimated at this ear ly date. A flashy new orange and black Lambert Monocoupe chosen for the Pan-American Flight completed its maiden tour when t landed at the At lantic City Airport on September 1st It will be fittingly christened with appropriate ceremony the Booker T. Washington- The aviators had am ple opportunity t(o test tihe flying qualties of the new ship on its re cent voyage At tiroes aided by tail winds the plane averaged over 160 ♦Continued on Page S)