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. — ■ • ' - N ' ' * f ;y'"' * - - —1 — —^ * * • r % '' % n _ Per Copy HEW TO THEUNeX Vo! VIII. Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, September 29, 1934 NUMBER THIRTY—TWO =r=~LjM —. — . . ■ - __. . .. -- ... ■ -- . .— ■■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■ . . ■ Negro Is Member “American Surgeons” | NRA I NRA HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK NEW CODE GROUPINGS ANDMER GERS: The NRA will soon be in the midst of realigning the code group ings to confirm to a new classifica tion of all industries and trades. Codes have been sorted into 22 classes They will be divided among 10 or 11 in dustrial divisions for administration The industries whch have temporar ily adopted the basic code have been assigned positions in the classes. The classes themelves have been arranged under the headings. Producing Indus tries, Fabricating Industries, Service Industries and Distributing Trades; it j is expected that the industries will move toward code merger as they gain administrative experience, both to bringing themselves into better co ordination with like groups and also to reduce the unit cost of administra tion- A tentative object is a total of about 250 codes instead of the pre ^aent 682. FIRMS RELIEVED FROM PAYING MULTIPLE ASSESSMENT: The NRA administration has issued tem porary order which permits rural general stores, city departments stor -es and wholesale establishments with a few exceptions, to avoid assess ments to more than one code author ity—the one in control over the main line of distribution n each case. A permanent plan is being worked out to protect both the distributors and the eode authorities. LTTLE FELLOW GETS RELIEF: The Industrial Appeals Board, the “Little Fellows’ Forum,” has exempt ed the BuCk Creek Cotton Mills, of Silura, Ala., from a decision of the Cotton Textile Code Authority. It had asked to be exempted from the order of May 22, curtailing produc tive machine hours in the cotton in dustry 25 per cent until August 25. , It had obtained partial exemption from the NRA Administrator, but the Code Authority would not continue the ex emption even though the Millsorgani xation showed that it was working on unfilled orders only and that its stock on hand was insufficient to take care of them. CODE AIDS CALIFORNIA SAR DINE INDUSTRY: The Monterey Sardine Industries, Inc., a cooperative organization of sardine boat opera tors’, writes: “The sardine catching * processing industry of California, in our opinion, would be prostrate at this time had it net be^n for the pass age of the NtIRA and the adoption of a code by the processors, which has been followed by a more satisfactory collective bargaining agreement be tween the processors, boat owners and fishermen than had been formulated in the past history of the industry- De structive price cutting, chiseling, re bates and other praefees had brought the California sardine industry almost to the brink of ruin and the outlook only one year ago seemed almost hope less. It is a different picture today-’ STATE NRA DIRECTORS WIN A' FORTUNE- Back pay aggregating $323,000 has been restored to 13,762 J workers in all pc,rts of the counfry1 through the adjustment of 4,159 com-1 plaints of code violations in the six weeks ending August 18. i - 1 PAINLESS FIRE CRACKERS FOR FUTURE FOURTHS: Manufacturers, operating under the Pyrotechnic In dustry Code have reached an under stand ng with NRA officials where by they v 11 produce firecrackers here after which will make big noises and small bums. It is all in the wrapping, hhey say. RETATh CODE AMENDMENT BANS LOTTERIES: Sales promotion de-; vices involving ‘a lottery, gamble - r! element of charce,” such as a "suit elub plan,” will be a violation of the Retail Trade Code on and after Sep?. 2. PUBLICATION ADVERTISING GAINING: Advertising age has ta bulated the newspaper advertising1 line age which appeared July in 77 lead cities. The total was 116,877,000 fines against a total of 109,733,000 lines for July 1933. Magazine advert ising in 102 publications showed an increase of 30.6 per cent this past July ever July a year ago. (For additional material, write to j3he Special Assistant to the Adminis trator, NRA, Washington, D. C.) Dr. L.I T. Wright of N. V. Whns Membership In Am ericanCollege of Surgeons , — '■■■' ■ , ' —■ ■ — 1 ■ » ■ ■" — NEGRO DISFRANCHISEMENT NETTED ALFRED 49,000 VOTES WAC8, Ttex., Sept 24—Attorney R. I D- Evans, local Negro lawyer, who has headed the fight against thee bar ring of colored voters from the prim aries in this district, charged today that Attorney General James Alfred, successful canddate for Governor, who sponsored the recent disfranhisement of Negro voters, would have lost by 49,000 votes but for this disfranhise ment- Alfred, he says, only won over Tom Hunter by 44,000 votes. Attorney Evans further charges that 1 the two Republican Federal judges, Randolph Bryant of the Eastern District and Judge Keunerly of the , Southern District refused writs of in junction to Negro applicants in their districts, and did the same thing two years ago. AlJb/rnay Evar/i Is appealing to every Negro community in Texas to form bhanches of the National Asso cation for the Advancement of Color ed People to raise funds and fight the disfranchiserhent of Negro voters. At the National Baptist Conventien at Muskogee Oklahoma, on September 7th, Mr. Evans appealed for nation wide support to fight the Texas vo.e bar. DR. LOUIS T. WRIGHT WINS HIGH HONORS FIRST EVER TO PASS CREDENTIALS COMTTTEE NEW YORK, Sept 25—Dr. Louis T. Wright of this city has become the only Negro Fellow of the Asrverican College of Supjgeons. His applica tion was acted upon favorably this week and the Fellowship will be con ferred at the annual meeting of the College in Boston the week of Oct ober 15, the convocation being held Friday evening, October 19 at the Hotel Statler Dr. Wright is surgeon of the New York City Police Department with the rank of Inspector, member of the staff of Hartem Hospital where | he was formerly secretary of the I -Vtedical Board, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National I Association for the Advancement of i Colored People. The only other Negro ever to be- , come a Fellow of the American Col of Surgeons was the late Dr T^iel H. Williams of Chicago, who .joined the College at its inception, fnce then no Negro has ever been ejected or even passed the Credentals Committee Bert MOORE’S Column My slogan is to pelase you with! interesting news—Bert Moore. So make it your slogan to buy the ©maha Guide. Here is the story for this week: Abound the old fashioned gen eral store in a little country town, where all kinds of contests were sometimes held, one of the con testants who had finished second in the Lear Contest, told me about a trained horse that he owned. He horse could do. He could go to the told of the wonderful tricks the horse could do. He could go to the market and bring back the groceries and could sit at the same table and eat with him, could make a fire in the kitchen stove, and would carry the mail and papers, and numerous other things that his horse could do. He told this same story each day, and week for months; but he didn’t have a horse or ever owned one. He told the lie so often that he believed it himself, so one day, he went shopping at the General Store and bought a saddle and bridle for the horse he didn’t have. Any old club can get along if he pounds away hard enough. ■ Mental health is greater than material wealth. Mr. Charles Wales, proprietor of the Apex iBlilard Parlor, 23rd and Grace St., Nathan Lewis and Idona oDnaldson left Tuesday, Sept. 25th, to motor to Louisiana; also to visit several cities, includ ing New Orleans, Shreveport and Monroe. Mr. Wales plans on stop ping in Shcrcveport to visit his sister for several days. Love well, but love hitn not too much. i OUT ON HEAD BY FALLING Charley Coleman of 2208 Ohio, v, as working in a sewer near the police station, when in some man ner a brick fell from the top of the hole in which he was owrk ing, wthch struck him on top of is head, causing a small cut. Cole man went into the police station and was attended by Dr. Good rich, and went back to work. If you’re not a subscriber, sub scribe now for the Omaha Guide. >—• «... t--t t- r t t INJURES FINGER I Fred Harris, 2609 Hamilton was stacking bricks at the City plant, 11th and Nicholas, when in some manner his finger got caught be tween bricks and smashed the mid dle finger of his right hand. He was taken to the station by George Fleege of 3156 Ames Ave. He was attended by Dr. Goodrich and re turned to his home. Betty Baugh, 11-years-old, of 2216 Miami was brought to the i polcie station by her mother and treated for craumatie injuries on her right arm. She was attended by Dr. Goodrich and then taken home. She received the injuries when she was knocked off the back porch by her brother, Merrill Thomas Robinson of 2020 Char les, 8-years-old, found some lye in a drawer and tasteed it. A few minutes later he became ill, an his mother, Carlotte .Robinson no tified the police station and cruis er car officers, McDonald and Stipe and Dr. Jensen respondedi The child was taken to Lord Lister Hospital, where he was attended and then taken home. • SUDDEN ILLNESS George Stromile of 2405 Frank lin St. became suddenly ill in the! rear of 2629 Parker St— W. C. Morris at whose home Stromile was notified the station, officers McDonald and Stipe and Dr. Jen sen responded, attended the sick man and left him at the above ad dress CUT 3Y UNIDENTIFIED LADY Norma illiams 1610 Izard St. stated that she had been cut by another woman by the name of Anna, whom she did not know. The Williams woman was taken to Lord Lister Hospital, where she was treated for a stab wound in the back. She was attended by Dr. Jensen an'd left at the hos arrested by Detectives Jones and Jenkins and charged with investi* gation in connectio with the cut ting. INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT William Owens of 3807 II St. was riding in a car with Carl Jon es, 3715 S. St., collided with a car driven by Glen Luke, 1311 No. 26t St., goieg east on G St., turning north into 26th St., causing pro perty damage to both cars. Owens . * Want Ward In Michigan-Georgia Game I «L"" ' ■ l T" —1 ' . - . H T1 — - — CHARGES TEXAS U. S. ATT'Y EIHER FORGOT OR LIES NEW YORK, Sept. 24—W. R. Smith United States District attorney at San Antonio, Texas, has either a poor memory or he is a bar, according to Waiter White, secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People. The charge was made today in a letter sent by Mr. White to Assistant Attorney Gen eral Joseph B. Keenan in Washington D. C., in connection with the 20 “miss ing” affidavits of qualfied Negro vot ers barred from the recent Texas Pri maries which Mr. Keenan says were forwarded with ins tractions for ac tion to U- S. Attorney Smith. Replying to Mr. White’s letter of August 31, declaring that Smith told j several Texas Negroes that he had re- \ ceived no affidavits or instructions from Washington, Mr. Keenan wrote on September 6 that the Texas U. S. Attorney acknowledged receipt of the documents under date of August 21. To this letter Mr. White has re pled: “We hand you herewith affida vits of Messrs. J. W- Lowe and C- F. Cooke. You will not that- Mr. Cooke declares, under oath, that when he telephoned Mr. Smith on the morn ing of August 25th and asked him if ho had any instructions from Wash ington relative to Negroes voting in the primaries, Mir. Smith declared that he had none “In view of the fact that this con versation took place four days after Mr- Smith had written to the Attorney General’s office acknowledging re ceipt of your -letter, it is apparent ei ther that his memory is so short as to cast reflection upon his mental a bility, or he, in plain language, lied. “We submit that this would appear prmarlly to be a matter for action by the Attorney General’s office to determine whether a man occupying the responsible position of United Stat-, es Attorney, who is guilty ether of. shortness of memory or prevarication, is a fit person to remain in that office, j ‘May we respectfully but firmly | urge prompt and vigorous action by j your office in the matter of Mr. Smith but in the prosecution of all those j responsible for violation of federal laws and expressed through their ac tion in illegally barring qualified Ne gro voters from the primaries of July j 28th and August 25th. ’ I was cut on the nose and forehead j The car Luke was driving belong-1 ed to Warren Davidson, 2026 Far-i nam St., who claimed that he knew; nothing of Luke having the car. Luke was arrested and charged] with no state driver’s license and] reckless driving. The officers | were ost and Carter. k_ ASSAULTED AND BEATEN James Butler after being arrest ed at the aciSc school for being drunk along with B. Bradley, was placed in a cell, picked an argu' ment with Bradley, who is deaf, then beat him causing fracture of the nose and lacerations of the inside of lower lip. The charge against Butler was changed to as* suit and battery and drunkness Bradley was attended by Dr. Att wood and then returned to dif ferent cells. > * SHOT HIMSELF IN FOOT WHILE EXAMINING GUN EE WANTED TO BUY William Murphy 112 So. 13th St. wan looking at a gun that a man, by the name of Davis, want ed to sell him. He pulled the trigger shooting himself in the ankle of the right foot. Dr. Jones of 1514 No. 24th St., had treated the wound and then notified po lice. Murphy was taken to Lord hospital, where the slug was re ed by the New Castle branch. The treasurer is Mr- Robert G. Field’s of Media. MRS. LUMPKIN OPENS NORFOLK N. A. A. G. P. DRIVE NORFOLK, Va.. Sept 24—Mrs Daisy Lampkin, regional field secre ary of the Natonal Association for the Advancement of Colored People, ar rived in this city and has opened cam paign headquarters at 603 Bramble ton Avenue- She has launched the campaign with characteristic vigor, ten captains having been already se cured. The best key people in the city are lining up behind the member ship campaign and Mrs. Lampkin feels sure of success. The goal is 1,000 membere. A big mass meetng is to be held here on September 30th. Mem bership drives are also scheduled for Portsmouth, Hampton and Newport News. ' PENNSYLVANIA N. A. A. G. P. BRANCHES ELECT STATE OFFICERS PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 25—A more vigorous fight against discrimin- 1 ation and segreation in Pennsylvania was assured following the recent ses sion of the State Conference of Bran ches of the N. A- A. C. P. here on September 11. Sixty-two delegates were present, representing seventeen of the twenty-two Pensylvania bran ches. The session was characteriz ed by lively discussion for intensive membership drives and obtained jobs nd relief for Negroes in every part of the State- It was pointed out that there were 60 towns in the state with 500 or more Negroes and a goal was set for the next year of organ izng a branch in as many of these places as possible. A program was adopted embodying fights for adequate employment and relief; for the Cos tigan-Wagner anti lynching bill; for intelligent use of the ballcrt and for a state law barrin color discrimina- J tion on public works. The newly elected officers of the State conference are: President, Dr. James A. Gillespie of New Castle; Vice president, Attorney Joseph Giv ens, Pittsburgh;Dr. Burrell Johnson, Johnstown; Mr- 0. B. Cobb, Bryn Mawr. A 'fourth vice-president for the Phildelphia District is to be nam ed by the N- A. A. C- P. branch. The new Recording secretary is Mrs. Mary Johnston, Ohio Valley, the Cor responding secrtary will be appoint HEW YORK SURGEON STANDS HIGH ON LIST The Negro surgeon who has been barred from appointment anywhere, xeept at the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital, is Dr- Jesse J. Greene, 18G4 7th Avenue, New York City. On September 28, 1933, he took the -!■— - "" ■ — - -■ -- moved from his foot by Dr. Att wood. No arrest was made. Re ported by Detective Jones and Jenkins. SHOT BY WOMAN; DIED AT HOSPITAL Luther McLaughton, of 520 No1 3 5th fTL died of a builct wmund in his left breast, Wednesday night, i Sept.19 ,at Lc-rd Lister hospital, i It is said that he was shot in an j argument with Josephine Tayor, I who also lives at 520 No. 15thSt. j According to police t.hey had i quarreled several times recently, but during this argument tnr fighl Luther tore her dress and she shol him. His fcedy wad taken tc (Continued on Page 2) United States Civil Sendee examina tion for Medical Offcer, was qu&lifed and placed on the eligible list for ap pointment. He became No. 3 on the list for Genera] Surgery in the state of New York with the Veterans Ad ministraton and tire Public Health Service. While the Veterans Admin * stratton through Chas. M Grffith, Medical Director, and Gen- Frank T. j Hines, Administrator, has admitted Dr. Green’s eligibility for assignment it says he can secure appointment only at the Tuskegee hospital. Dr Greene had requested consideration for appointment at the Veterans Ad ministration Facility, Bronx, New York City, because of ts proximity to his home. Both Administrator Hines and Director Griffith admit that “Civil Service rules and regulations do not eliminate colored physicians for certification or for consideration for assignments at stations other than Tuskegee, Alabama,” and yet they both state that ‘Dr Greene will be considered for appointment ,to the Veterans’ Administration in keeping with the Civil Service rules and reg ulations as appropriate vacancy de velopments at Tuskegee, Alabama." DR. GREENE HAS DISTINGUISHED RECORD Dr. Greene, who is 41 years old and married, has had a distingushed mili tary and professional career- tin a l prevous letter written to President Roosevelt on Aug. 23rd, Mr. White pointed out that the NegTO surgeon served thiouh the World War as 1st Lieutenant in the U- S. Army; that he is a graduate of Western Reserve and Howard Universities; that he is a member of the Harlem Hospital staff and “has done distinguished work in the treatment of skull frac tures and brain injuries. The nature of this work and conclusions basen upon it, have profoundly influenced j the whole treatment of skull frac-1 tures and brain injuries- Articles on the work done by Dr. Greene and his associates have appeared in such medical journals as the Archives Mr. White declared today that this incident furnishes further evidence of the evils of segregation and how the Negro’s progress is frequently handi apped by the exstence of seregated institutiomsi supported by the taxes of all Americans. SHALL ThOeGrT SUPPORT COMMUNISM Sunday, Oct. 7th marks the the opening of a series of forums on Contemporary Problems of Ne* pro life. Attorney H. J. Pinkett will fire the opening dismussion, “Shall the Negro Support Com muninism?” Comparatively few men and women, even liberal friends of the Negro, ralize the extent of discrimination in law against Negores or the forces nee* essary to abolish it. Itacediscrim ination in general, they well un derstand a grim reality of Amer ican life. They tend to accept it as a factor whose evils can only be lessened, not abolished. Most of them recoil fro mthe current Com munist propoganda for abolish ing discrimination by fighting for the unity of white and black workers against their common bosses. Yet they have no more direct program of their own, than joint “community” enterprises, education, social service and at 1 tcrnpts to get “justice” in the courts. The Communist cam* paigns of recent years have chal lenged it dramatically. Bring your questions and your' ; friends. Make these meetings i worthwhile and interesting! They arc planned for you! Place—North Side Y. M. C. A., Sunday, Oct. 7th at 4:30 p. m. NAACP. Frowns ON Discrimin ating Practice of Southern Foot ball Team NEW YORK, SepL 21—Coach Har ry Kipke of the University of Mich igan football team was asked today not to accede to the reported request of Georgia Tech that Willis Ward, star end o«f the Michigan team, be left on the bench on October 20, when I the two teams will clash. The letter, signed by Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretaary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, urged that “no such unsportsmanlike request be heeded, if it is to be or has been made. Georgia Tech knew that Ward was a member of the Michigan varsity, and a sur vey of his work during last season must have made clear to everybody that he was a star, necessary for the development of the full power of the Michigan team. We believe that if Georgia Tech has made this requests, it is seeking, behind the cloak of race prejudice, to take an unfair advan tage of the Michigan team.’ veteransIInistration JIM CROW POLICY HITS NEW YORK SURGEON __ ' •*-*■**.«*. NEW YORK, Sept- 25—In a letter to President Roosevelt today, Walter White, secretary of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Color ed People, scored the j'im crow policy of the Veterans Administration which insists that Negro physcians seeking appointment can secure it only at the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital- He urg ed the president “to instruct the Veter ans Administration that appointments should be made on basis of marit and that any rule, wrtten or unwritten, which confines the services of qual ified Negro physicians and" surgeons o the Tuskegee hosptal be im mediately abandoned.” He warned the president that “if the Veterans Administration is permitted to pur* ue such a polcy — there will be wide spread reseentment among Negroes and fair-minded white people through out th country.” “The Veterans Administration,” Mr. White continued, “either forgets or gnores the fact that moneys for the support of thhe Administration are gained by the taxing of Negro Am ericans as well as white Americans. It forets as well that Negroes fought in the war, supposeedly for De mocracy, the results of which provide the chief reason for existence of the Veterans Administration. Such a pol icy of discriminaton, based upon rank race prejudice, is the oldest of deals and is wholly inconsistent with the high prncples of Democracy as enun ciated by yourself.” PITTSBURGH COURIER TO REPORT ON BENEFITS NEW YORK, Sept. 21—Robert L. Vann, Editor of the Pittsburgh Cour ier, wired Arthur B. Spingarn of the National Association for the Advan cement of Colored People last Wed nesday that “The Courier is respon sible for all funds we collected. Full page is devoted to reports of aH ben efits to appear in next week’s issue.” Th Pittsburgh Courier is raising a National Defense Fund for the Na ional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People in connection with its d5th Anniversary celebration. ASKS FOR NATIONWIDE PROTEST The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is urging physicians, medical associa tions, churches and other organiza tions to vigorously protest to Presi dent Roosevelt and General Hines against this jim crow policy of the Veterans Administration, and to call, upon Senators who do not come up for re-election this year to protest ancl activity take steps for Congressional aetien against this administration. HunrARTISufi VOTER RASS MEETING OCTOBER 2ti f?:30 P. M. 24th & LAKE ST.