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* £ * n -rm’n 5c ! i /JUSTICE/ EQUALITY HEW TO THEUNE\ Per Copy _ ■■ ——... . _...- - . , O VOLUME vm OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1934 NUMBER THIRTY- SEVEN „m , , I 1 .III — —I ■! I I "" ' "" ' ' ' " ——— —■ - ' - - ' . ■ ' ' ... E. R. Burke To Speak Monday November 5th XXX XXX XXX XXX K k \c XXX XXX New Deal To Help Southern Negro Farmers FLA. OFFICIALS SENT PLEA TO STOP KILLING NEW YORK — Governor David Scholtz of Florida and Sheriff John P- Harrell of Washington County, Florida, ignored telegraphic appeals from the National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People to halt the advertised lynching of Claude Neal, alleged murderer, early today at Greenwood, Florida- The tele^ grams were sent to both officials ful ly twelve hours before the lynching when it was announced in the Dothan Alabama, Eagle- The telegrams read as follows: Hon. David Scholtz, Governor, Tallahassee, Flowda October 26, 1934 Associated Press just informed us that John P- Harrell, Sheriff of Wash ington County has announced that to night between eight and nine o’clock a mob will ake Claude Neal, charged with murder, tie him to stake near Greenwood and permit father of dead girl to light fire to burn Neal to death Every decent person North and South looks to you to take every possible step to avoid this diggrace upon the State of Florda- Dothan Alabama “Eagle also announcesc that NegTO~i» being held by mob four miles from scene where he is to be burned at stake- We urge upon you to take im mediate steps to rescue Negro from mob anti place him in afe custody. WALTER WHITE, Secretary Sheriff John P- Harrell, Washington County, Florida Associated Press reports your statement that Claucje eal will be burned at take between eight and nine o'clock tonight near Greenwood, Dothan Alabama Eeagle reports Ne gro being held four miles from scene where he is to be burned atstake. Wa urge you to utilize every force at your command to prevent this brutal niirder and outrage to civilization. WALTER WHITE,S ecretary ROOSEVELT URGED TO HALT LYNCHINGS IN FLORIDA NEW YORK, Oct. 27—As Florida perperated the 45th mob murder since the inauguration of the New Deal, with the advertised lynching of Claude Neal at Greenwood, President Roosevelt was urged by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to support a Federal Anti-Lynching Bill and make a state ment serving to check the lynching wave- The telegram sent today by Walter White, Secretary of the Asso ciation read: “Coldblooded lynching near Green wood, Florida early this morning was advertised twelve hours in advance. All the socalled law-abiding good citi zens including the Governor of the state, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, news paper editors and United States At torney General Cummings were inform ed this lynching was to take place. No action was taken by anyone to prevent murder by mob. This lynch ing is the forty-fifth authenticated one since you became the nation’s chief executive and seventeenth this year- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People be lieves the old contention state will stp lynching to be thoroughly disap proved by lynch record of last twen ty-two months and we urge you as President of our nation to insist upon pa sage *f Federal Anti-Lynching leg islation by Seventy-Fourth Congress. Elect Wo Bauman Says Mr. 0. South The most important office id be fill ed In the forthcoming election in Dot glass County is that of County Treat urea* It would indeed be hard to fin a man more fitted for this responsibl position than our present Count Treasurer, MV. Otto Bauman. He wa born, reared and educated in this cit and is a man of marked ability an stands high in public esteem. The m&i ner in which my Bauman has admin fctered the affairs of his office has me With the approval of all citizens re gSxdlegS of political belief. T .end you: support to him at the coming electioi and Interest your neighbors and Criendi in his candidacy. OMAHA URBAN LEA6UE MIO CENTER ACTIVITIES Among the many classes at the Cen ter, the Spanish class seems the most interesting. The attendance is grow ing weekly, tit is under the direction of Mrs. Avant. A greater interest is shown in the library, over two hundred books read the past month. New books are be ing added. Next Monday evening, November 5, Mr- C- T. Huych will be the speaker for the Worker’s Forum . Mr Huych was formerly general secretary of the Omaha Business Men’s Associa tion. He is now connected with the vocational education department of Omaha schools. Beginning the follow ing Monday evening, Mr. Huych will begin a series of eight lectures and discussions on Vocational Guidance. The purpose of this course is planned ! to help you analyse your vocations, j gather information on the opportuni [ ties afforded in the vocation which j you are interested and make a choice of your vocation and form a plan by which you may enter upon your vo cation. Sunday, November 11th, Father Flanagan, of Father Flanagan’s Boy’s Home, will be the speaker for our monthly forum- His speech, parental responsibility to children. Proceed ing his address, Father Flannagan’s Boys’ Band, consisting of 14 pieces, will render a concert? •' On Monday, Oct. 22th, Mr- Phillip A- Randolph, President of the Broth erhood of Sleeping Car Porters, gave a brief address to the members of the workers Forum. Among the many activities the Mu sical, Dramatics and Children’s Sat urday play school has greatly increas ed The Hallowe’en Party, Friday even ing for high school students was a gala affair. TWO INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Mrs- Leslie Shipman, 2724 N- 30th St-, and Mrs. D- V- Gordon, 3212 Cor by St.., were injured Friday after noon November 2, in an automobile accident at 22nd and Lake Streets, when Mrs. Eva Waldron of 2423 Maple St-, struck the Shipman car.. Mrs. Waldron is reported to have been driving at a high rate of speed when she hit the. rear end of the Shipman car, turning it around to smash into a telephone pole. Mrs. Gordon, who was riding in the back seat of the Shipman car, was badly cct and bruised- Mrs. Shipman was thrown from the car, also receiv ing cuts and bruises. Mrs. Gordon was taken to the Covenant Hospital ■where she is being treated, and Mrs. Shipman is in bed at 'home The case ■will be called November 15, and a verdict rendered, pending the outcome of the injured parties. CHIDES SENATOR DIETERICH FOR OPPOSITI ON TO ANTI * LYNCHING BILL NEW YORK, Oct- 27—The Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People chided Sena tor William H. Dieterich today, fol lowing the kidnapping - lynching of Claude Neal near Greenwood, Flori da, for his opposition to the county financial liability clause in the Costi gan-Wagner Bill- The telegram read: | “When Costigan-Wagner anti-lynch ing bill was before Senate Committee •last February you were chief oppon ent of clause to make county snanci {ally liable contending that good citi zens wold never allow lynching and should not be taxed for acts of ir , responsible hoodlums. Lynching of i Claude Neal at Greenwood, Florida, - early today was| advertised twelve • hours in advance with Governor of 1 State, club women, newspaper editors, p sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and entira na ption informed before lynching. Na tional Association for the Advance iment of Colored People believes this t-and other instances fully substanti ate our contention for liability clause on conty. Only by this means can law-abiding citizens be enlisted ' against lynching. Wa urge you to , support Federal bill to be reintroduc ed in Seventy-Fourth Congress.” ■■■' 1 ■1 '» ■ ■— ■ ■ - - . ' - .—.-....——— ... ■ ' ■ ■■■■— 1 — MOORE’S COLUMN 1 VOTE FOR BERT MOORE, JUS TICE OF THE PEACE, 2ND WARD Hello, Folks! What a wonder ful word, “Hello!” As a friend of mine, Sam Duke, used to say, “May the Lord bless you.” Well, it seems that that wonderful weather is making its exit. So skip it. Get your over shoes and over coat brushed up; so you may go to the polls Tuesday, Novem" her 6, and VOTE. Don’t take the attitude that your vote isn’t needed. Register your selection for men that yon want to represent you. YOUR WEAPON TS YOUR VOTE. I -• Legislation wil lbe enacted for the future of millions of people. How will they meet the future emergency? VOTE and vote your convictions right. Vote the Dem ocratic ticket. VOTE FOR RE PEAL. VOTE ‘YES’ FOR PARU MUTTEL RACING. VOTE AG ATNST ONE HOUSE LEGIS LATURE. Friends and voters of the 2nd Ward. 6th District. Vote for DFRT MOORE for Justice of the peace. Let’s go one hundred per cent. There wil he an open space in the rierht hand corner o* the ballot. Write in the name BERT MOORE for Justice of the Peace. Put this out as vour guide, and tell your friends to vote for Bert Moore for Justice of the Peace, 2nd Ward, 6th District. The 2nd Ward runs from Lake +o Grace Sf., and from 24th to 18h St. T hope all 2nd Ward Voters Will Vote. Yotr voters elected me August 14th, as a delegate to the Countv Convenion. Give me the same number of votes or more on No vember 6, and tell your friends to vote for me for Jutriee of the Peace, 2nd Ward, 6th iDstrict. New pals may come, new pals may go, but memories or old ones remain. A tourist who was traveling on a highway through Arkansas and met and old man driving along in a one horse wagon, stopped and inquired, “Hey, mister, where is Little Rock?” “Dad-gummed if I know, but here’s a big one down the road.” SAT I READ WIIAT BERT MOORE SAID IN THE OMAHA GfUIDE. If you are not a sub scriber, subscribe now. A lot judge people by what they do and know nohing about it. I pity the man who has no failures to his credit.—Bert Moore. A genius is like t taxi-driver who goes through this world and misses everything. All he cares and worries of a Mother’s life drift away like thej sunset from a beautiful day. Instead of closing schools, open more of them. Tf 'we pay more teachers, we will have less police men tomorrow. _ | Vote for BEET MOOEE, No vember 6, for Justice of the Peace. In the right hand corner of the ballot write BERT MOORE. I -- i COMMON-LAW WIFE ASKS DIVORCE AND HALF OF FUBNITUIiE Mrs. Artie Cooley, common 'aw wife of Mr. H. Stewart, 26tli and Seward Sts., applied in court for a divorce from Mr. Stewart, charging that she couldn’t stay at ohrae nor could she stay any where else. PTosecutor O’Brien explained to her that she was violating the law by living with this man and that there was no divorce to be given. Judge Wheeler divided the furniture,' giving the woman the bed and stove and the man the icc*bor and the setee. Mr. Sewart was given a thiry day suspended sentence and both were told to stay from each other after the furniture was divided. This is a “Common-Law Divorce.” Mrs. Elvira Willis and daugh* bo panupnoo) HOW THE NEW DEAL WORKS IN THE SOUTH (Stuart’s Service Bureau) In 1933 Alabama had on relief no less than 30,000 form workers and several sharecroppers. For these sufferers relief was accomplishing nothing- The sharecroppers had no idea what his previous burden of debts to his landlord were, for the landlord kept the only books. Most of the relief money for share croppers found its way back to the landlord- Time after time the land lord took over the sharecropper’s en tire crop, to pay old debts, and the administration had to furnish the farmers with canne dgoods “lest he starve” as the “Fortune” magazine ’ uts it- Thaddaus Holt, the State Relief Administrator in Alabama, de cided that th etime had come for a new sort of treatment for the econo mic ills of the farmer- Sixty per cent of whom were poor whites and 40 per cent Negroes. Drastic steps were taken early in 1934 and on the approval of Harry L- Hopkins, Mr. Holt put this to the landlords: “Eith er take over yecr tenant as yaur re lief problem and feed them or else waive your claims to his 1934 crop, and let the tenant farmer go for him self, with the help of the State and Federal Government. Some land lords agreed- Then the relief admini stration took a look over the roll, and selected 6,000, and began its ex peri ment giving each 8 months supplies which included one steer costing $20; feed for the steer, 4% months sup ply of food, seed fertilizer teols and clothing. The value of all this comes to an average of $91. It was a loan to the sharecroppers. He signed a note and the relief ad ministration took a mortgage on his crops. The sharecroppers remained a mortgagee, but with this difference His creditor was now the government not a private individual. When the sharecropper signed this note, he be came technically, not a relief case Now it has always been the con tention of the landlord who operate* under the feudal shareerop system, that the sharecropper is perpetually bankrupt because he is either a nn (Continued on Page 8J , ‘ M iss Edna Clack Miss Edna Clack, of Minneapolis, Minn, who has been the house guest of Mies Catherine Williams for the past three weeks left Thursday morn ing for her home- Miss Clack was entertained a number of times dcr ing her stay here and met many of the younger set. She made quite a few friends and hated to have to leave. She hopes to return to Omaha for another visit in the very near future. She was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs- Alberta Steel, of 422 Dupont St N. W- Minneapolis, Minn Mrs. teel is the sister of Mrs. John Albert Williams, 2418 Maple St INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR TO SPEAK FRIDAY OMAHA, Nebr., Nov. 1-John Schefcik, independent candidate for Governor, who is running on the Workers and Farmers United Front Ticket, will speak at the Workers Cultural Center, 2404 Parker St-, on Friday evening November 2nd. Mr- Schefcik dirt farmer, Chairman •> of the Farmers Union and President of the Nebraska Farm Holiday As sociation, Madison County Plan, will tell of the United Front Platform, which includes the Workers Unem ployment Insurance Bill, the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill, and demands for the right to organize, and strike, against wage cuts and speedups, against police terror, and against dis crimination of Negroes nd foreign born workers He will also tell of the efforts of ! the workers and farmers of Nebraska to get a full State ticket on the bal lot by petition, and of he trick of the Attorney General which disquali fied the United Front canddidates for Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State Treasurer. Ellen Allen, disqua lified candidate for Treasure rwill also speak. The candidate for Secretary of State whose petitions, more than filed according to instruction of the Secretary of States office at the Capi tol, were invalidated by a last minute ruse, is Floyd Booth, young colored worker who has been active in or ganizing the unemployed in central Nebraska and leading their struggle for adequate relief and against dis crimination Mr- Schefcik, wh,oae name will ap pear on the independent list on the ballot, is touring the state for the United Front Compaign, which is be ing endorsed by such organizations as the Nebraska Farm Holiday, the Communist Party, the Unemployment Council, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, and the International Labor Defense. NRA HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK New Consumer Emblom Available: In response to numberless requests for a 1934 Consumer’s Emblem, to symbolize cooperation with NRA codes, an attractive small sticker has been prepared for display in homes, on automoblie windows where per missible, etc. These emblems may be obtained by writing or telephoning to the Local NRA Committee in your town or eity. Last year, CO million consumers signed pledges of coopera tion with the President’s Reemploy ment Agreement. The 1934 pledge re-affirms allegiance to the Code Blue Eagle as follows: “In the national effort-to bring security to all- J wifi encourage and patronize those busi ness establishment in which the Blue Eagle of NRA Codes is displayed.” Bank Failure At New Low: Bank deposits have increased Uy four and a half bililon dollars and at no time in the history of the country has thef number of bank failures been so small as during the past year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora tion has reported to the President. “Only 5 small insured banks have failed. Tho Corporaton made funds available to pay the depositors of the banks within 10 days after the apr ppointment of the receiver. This has reduced the dstress caused by these bank failures to a negligible amount. The corporation now insures 50 mil lion accounts up to a maximum of $f>b00. The plan fully protects 97c out bf every 100 depositors. The Business Front: Business fail ures in the United States for August 1934, were fewer than for any other month in the past 14 years. In Aug. 1932, there were 2, 796 failures in volving over .$77 millions. In Aug. 1933 there were 1,472 failures involv ing over $42 millions- This August, the number of failures dropped to 929, involving about $18 millions. (Dun and Bradstreet.) The value of department store sales for August of this *year increased considerably over both June and July, 1934—the index figure rising to 79 per cent of the 1923-25 average compared with 74 per cent in June and 73 per cent in July. (Federal Reserve Bd ) How Workers Spend Their Leisure; One of the greatest benefits NRA’s shorter work-week provided is the im provement in the health of women •workers, according to Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor. Miss Ander son illustrates specifically by telling the story of one woman.who for 20 years, from the time she was 14, had worked in factories for 54 to 56 hours a week. When the code for her industry was adopted, her work ing time was reduced to 40 hour3. Jn 3 months, this worker gained twenty pounds. “I never had so much time to rest before,” was how she explain ed it. Canned Food Standards; As a con dition of approval of the canning in dustry code, the President required that a committee be appointed te study and recommend standards, grades and labels of canned foods for inclusion in the Code- This was opposed at first by many canners who declared that any changes in the old system would be impracticable. Now however, the industry has definitely committed itself to the development of a comprehensive system of descrip tive labelling. Separate committee* are being appointed to draft these requirements for important food pro ducts and the next month will be d«| veted to preparing recommendation* to the President. Temporary C- A- Retail Fuel Codej n (Continued on Page 5) 1