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Vo! VIII. Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, September 29, 1934 NUMBER THIRTY—TWO
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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
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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
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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.
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INJURES FINGER
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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
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Want Ward In Michigan-Georgia Game
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
