VQL- VIH_^_- _• _Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, December 15, 1934 Number Forty-Three——
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I 58ED S O
One horse Store
Robber Turned
In By Mother
( Gunman Shoots
Bakery Truck
Driver
At 7:05 a. m. three white men w®lk
/ ed in the One Horse Grocery store at
28th ®nd Grant g reets, holding auto
matic pistofn and giving the usual or
der, “sti°k ’em up”- Mr. Parsley,
the proprietor, who w®s alone in the
store behind the counter was forced
to turn around and price his hands on
the shelves. He waf told not to look
around, but was able to se€ that they
wore short coat: and the one carry
ing the gun had his cap pulled down
on one side. The 'second one appeared
to b® some older. He did not get a
good look at the third
After removing the small change
from the cash register, they took Mr.
Parsley to irhe back of the store and
tied him up with a clq.heslne. One
of them remained with him. The
other two were in the front.
Buicher In Basement
C. F. Carlsen. 2610 N. 30th street,
butcher, was in iihe basement shak
ing down the furnace and was un
aware of the plight of his boss up
stair..
Parsley said, “I told them to go
ahead. I wouldn’t resist. They ap
peared very nervous. J assured them
that they could have all of the money
in the store.” In the meanf.ime John
Wingender. driver for Bond Bread
Company, had tried to enter the front
door. A man on the inside was hold,
ing the door. Wingender, thinking
it an early morning antic. keeping him
out in the cold, boldly thrust the door
open and entered. One of the ban
dies escorted him to the rear of the
store, ordering him to keep his hands
up. The truck driver had obeyed, but
one of the bandits became nervous
and shot Wingender in the groin
The report of ithe piftol brought
the butcher bounding out of the base
ment. The bandits had left the
wounded man on fthe floor and Par
sley trussed up.
Police anived in about five minutes
taking Wingender to Lord Lister Hos
pital. His wound is considered grave.
An intensive search is in progress
for the trio.
Boy Confesses To Mother
Orville Crowell- 1G11 Casp Street,
was arrested in Blair, Nebraska, up
on information supplied the Police
Department by his mother. Orville
had confessed (to his mother partici
pation in the holdup and shooting of
Wingener.
The mother fearing for the 'son and
hoping to save him from a life of
crime and its consequence, supplied
officers with the information.
At Police Headqualliers, Orville
confessed his part in the holdup and
named Elmer Small, 905 No. 17th
Street and Michael Luki, 4818^ So.
24th St. They are being held at Cen
tral Police Headquarters on investi
gation.
MID-CITY CENTER NEWS
Now that the recreation institute
is over all classes at the Center will
b« resumed.
Miss Ida Rowland hafs* been added
to the staff and will teach classes in
crocheting, knitting nd other hand
craft.
, Any one wishing to improve their
speech or learn the art of speaking
may register now for classes in Public
Speaking to begin Jan. 1st under Mrs.
Z. E. McGee.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
NORTH SIDE DEMOCRATIC
ORGANIZATION MEETS
The Executive Committee of the
North Side Democratic Organization
im. at St Benedict’s School. Tuesday
evening.
Mr. C. C- Galloway, Chairman of
the Executive Committee presided
with Mrs. Madoline Sterling, sec
retary.
Recommendations of applicants to
positions in the County offices were
made.
Those present were C. C. Galloway,
Chairman, Madoline Sterling, Secre
tary. Lenora Gray. Charles F. Davis,
Charles J. Coleman, Fanny 'Owsley.
Louie Grant. Minnie Griffin. Lucille
Edwards, Harry Leland, Johnny Owen.
Charles Payne and S(.anley Hale.
Quizzes R. R. Czar On
Shelving of Negro
Clerks
New York. Dec. 7.—Joseph B. East
man, Federal Coordinator of Trans
portation. was queried this week on
the shelving of five Negro statistical
worker.; in keeping with the alleged
nolicy of the Interstate Commerce
Commission not to employ Negro
clerkes in the Washington office.
The letter from the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Color.
ed People stated that the colored
vorkers had charged instruction! had
omo from Eastman’s office in Wash
ington. D. C. that no colored em
ployees are to be included among
those listed for transfer there follow
ing the clawing of the New York of
fice at 60 Huct-on Street. “Out of
»ome eighty statistical workers”, the
letter states, “a list of fifty most ef
ficient employees wati sent to Wash
ington from which a selection was to
be made. We are informed that the
names of none of .the five Negr0 sta
tistical workers who were among the
most efficient in the office were in
cluded because of word that no Ne
groes were to be sent.”
Mr- Eastman was urged to explain
this flagrant color discrimination.
SURVEY OF NEGRO INDUSTRIAL
PROFESSIONAL WORKERS
APPROVED
J. Harvey Kerns Director; Mrs. Robbie
T. Davis Supervisor; 54 Workers
To Be Employed from FERA
A State wide Survey of Negro In
dustrial and Professional workers has
just been approved by Washington
authorities and the State Emergency
Relief Commissioner that should be
under way in a week. The study which
will be directed by J. Harvey Kerns,
executive secretary of the Omaha Ur
ban League-Mid City Community
Center and supervised by Mrs. Robbie
T- Davis will employ 54 workers from
FE1RA.
The study will include house to
house canvass, visits to plants where
Negroes are employed and a study of
all records and documentary material.
The Survey will employ workers as
investigators. C1 ©Tikis, Stenographers,
coders and statisticians. $5,825 has
been appropriated for the project.
Other cities to be included in the
Survey are Lincoln, Grand Island,
Norfolk, Fremont. The Statewide
project will be directed from the Ur
ban League-Mid City building. 2213
I^rice Street.
Archie Alexander To
Speak At “Youth”
Meeting
Archie Alexander, prerident of the
Alexander.Repass Company of Des
Moines, Iowa, will be the key-note
speaker at the opening of North Side
“Y” Boy and Girl Forum meeting on
January 13, 1934. In addition to be
ing a successful busine s man. Mr.
Alexander has shown interest in com
munity development as pertains to
different aged groups, and will no
| doutj. give a sound as well as. inspir
ing talk.
The Committee has planned special
music. Members of the 1934-35 Corn.
| mitte are: Ada Lee Walker, Irene
Harrold. Katherne Wheat, Rachel
Covin'* on, Evelyn Lucky, Mary H.
Wiggins. Mary Green, Allan Gordon,
! Walter Rhode e, Robert Myers, Car.
let-te Lewi:*. Willie Potts, and Ned,
: Moore.
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COL. WESTBROOK ADDRESSES
COLORED LAND.GRANT
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS
Washington. D. C-—Colonel Law
rence Wa brook, assistant administra.
tor of the FERA in charge of rural
rehabilitation, outlined last week the
government’s program to ihe seven
teen colored presidents of Land Grant
Colleges in the United States present'
a Howard Univei'yty.
“The plan has been effective”, said
Colonel Westbrook, “in making self
supporting citizens again oui, of the ,
people whom circumstances have
forced to become wards ef the State.
,!t will rebuild lost markers and re
duce taxes. Tax consumers will be
come tax payers.
“Our civilization can not stand on I
the foundation of a dedJtute, parasite
population. Our State can not live
infested with praritesi, whether those
parasites are living on unearned pri
vate income at the top of the struc
ture or on Government doles at the
ba.tom.”
Colonel Westbrook pointed out that
it took 80,000 men ten years ago in
Akron, Ohio- to furnish the neces
sary manpower for the rubber manu
facturers. Today, the same job can
be done by 11,000 men and nothing
can change this fact, he said. These
stranded white and colored workers
nyu^; be given a chance at self-support
“The basic requirement for a stable
and enduring state is economic secur
ity for the indhivdual citizen,” Col.
Westbrook declared. “Constructive
thinking and doing are impossible to
[ any of dq in an air of fear and un
! certainty. You know that in the final
analysis men muat have assurance of
being able to get shelter and food for
their families and themselves1. You
know that without ithbj assurance in
a tangible and unders-tandble form,
they struggle aimlessly and desper
ately, and they become potential re
cruits for the foolish, and fantastic
schemda of any designing demagogue.
Either thi.j, or they sink to such a
stage of degradation that they are
indifferent to any fate.
“The two elemental essentials for
human life are shelter and food. Not
knowing that they will continue to
have thd^e two simple essentials, mil
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SPORT NEWS SUCH AS IT IS
By Ferwilda Artison
Oh folks, let me tell you something.
Mrs. Geneva G«rland, 2112 N. 28th
street, went hunting last Sunday with
her husband. Charlie Garland, ami
Mr. Oscar Reed. The remarkable part
about this trip wa^ that Mrs. Garland
actually shot a cotton tail and hit
him, regardless of the fact that she
shot half of the poor fellow away and
jarred her hat off her head onto her
husband. She gently took the re
mains home and had rabbit hash Sun
day night.
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MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE HOLDS
SPECIAL SERVICE
The Interdenominational Minister.
'«! “Uliance of Omaha and Council
Bluff*, will hold a special service
Thursday evening, Dec. 20th, 8:00
' 1*. M. at Clair Chapel M. E- Church,
22nd and Miami Sts., honoring Rev.
Jas. H. Dotson, pastor of Pilgrim
Er.pti it Church for the past five years
and president of the Mini'?’] erial Al
liance for the past three years, who
has recently been called to the pastor
ate of the Calvary Bap-ist church of
Muskogee, Olda. Rev. Dotson has
also served as a .member of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Council of
Churches for three years, and Rev. O.
J. Burckhardt who is retiring after
having served fourteen years as a
pastor in Onjaha. and nine years a'st
Secretary of the Alliance. He is now
Dis rict President over the work of
the Church of Christ, in Missouri, Ne
brajka and Kartaas.
These ministers have served their
churches well and the community at
large. They will be greatly missed.
Set Up Form of Gov’t
In Father Flanagan’s
Who will be mayor of Boys’ Town.
Nebr. ?
On the theory th^t when a town;
has a paymaster it should also have
a mayor and other governing officials
tho 200 homeless boys at Father
Flanagan's Boys’ Home are going to
hold an election. Only recently a
postoffice was establi hed the home
and given officially the name of Boy
Town. Nebr.
Announcement that Boys Town will
soon be ruled by a complete city gov
ernment set-up, composed of the boys
themselves., wan made Saturday by
Father E. J. Flanagan, head of the
home which is now celebrating its
Seventeenth anniversary.
Simultaneous with the announce
ment by Father Flanagan came the
announcements of at least a score of
candidates for the office of mayor. But
they were all unofficial and they will
continue to be classified in that cate
gory until it is definitely decided by a
board of strategy what form the city
government of Boy)* Town will take.
FoiUdng to the fact that the people
of Nebraska have voted for a one
house legiJature and that in Douglas
county the manager form of govern
ment has been approved, several of
the leaders of the political juveniles
halve formed a bloc to insist on the
city manager form of government.
Others are just as insistent that the
city commission form be adopted
while still another group would en
dorse the old councilmanic system.
The first mass-meeting of the im
pending election campaign will be held
this week to decide:
1— W hat form the city government
will take.
2— The date cf the primary and the
election.
3— Qualifications of candidates.
4— Methods of campaigning.
“There will be plenty of stump
speeches and probably two or three
torchlight campaigns and all of the
ballyhoo so familiar to American poli
tics,” Father Flanagan said. “It’s
going to be a great campaign and a
great edueftdon for our boy.”
fused to hear Anything sjhe had to
say. Finally they threw her into the
patrol with the demand, “Shut your
damn mouth.
‘1 was told by the inhabitants of
•Nigger-Town’ socalled, that (the dem.
ontration I saw wataf a daily occurence
in this section of Miami. Moreover,
there was some intimation that the
cope treated this girl in this manner
because she. on previous occasions,
had refused to yield to their Solicita
tions’*.
Wholesale Whippings
In Florida Letters
Report
New York, Dec. 7—.Communica
tion) from Florida received by the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People reveal
that mob terror and police brutality
is rife in that state. following upon
the uri»peakable torture slaying of
Claude Neal at Marianna on October
26th.
One pitiful letter from a colored
girl in a small town to her mother
reads.
“Dear Mother: .... You see ev
erything is A l yet bad and they have
stai* ed out here where «T am now. The
Ku Klux’s are getting men out of their
beds and carrying them on the other
side of our school and whipping them.
They say that they lay them across
logs .and ever more whip them.
Mother, if it wavn’t that I just had
to work I would leave this place be
cause I am scared.
“One night they (some white men)
went to the man's house that they had
whipped and he was in bed with big
gashes on him and that was the sec.
ond time that they had whipped him
and ea-dh time in the same place, lay
the men across the log and get a
rope and wo; it and double it and
they ever more whip them. Aad they
dare them to tell who did it. At
night people leave home and go stay
with other people .... we are
afraid to go to sleep”.
The name and address of the cor
respondent is withheld for fear of
sure reprisals. The person who for
warded the letter to the N. A. A- C.
P- wrote in comment:
“All the white maniacs in the whole
region around and near to Marianna
and its lynch mob took advantage of
the situation and terrorized and beat
up and attacked colored people whom
they did not like; whom they envied,
or had any grievance against,—or
whom they had some old real or fan
cied cause of feeling againut”.
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Protests Hallowe ’en
Terror In Miami
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New York, Dec. 7.—A story of un
believable police brutality visited
upon a defenseless colored girl is re
lated in a letter of protest sent by
Emmett J- Marshall, a university
graduate, to Governor David Sholtz
of Florida, Mayor E. G. Sewell of
Miami, and other officials- a copy of
Which has been sent to the National
Association fcr the Advancement of
Colorer People.
The letter reads: “On October 81,
1S34, I arrived in the city of Miami
This being Halloween Night cr Vigil
of All Saints’ Day. I went straight
way into so-called “Nigger-Town”
to see the Halloween mask of the
Dark Americana there. It so hap
pened that I saw more than that.
“Between three and four o'clock in
the morning, I stepped out of the
Lyric Beer Garden, 827 Second Ave
nue, North West, just in tice to see
two policemen—each of them appear,
ing to be about six feet or more in
height and weighing more than two
hundred pounds—beating a Negro
girl with a knotted cow-hide whip.
They beat her, and be*t her, and
without even permitting her to say a
word in her defense shoved her
homeward. She went slowly, too
slowly for them, perhaps; sihe wa£
crying and bleeding, and saying,
“the police would not even let me
explain to them” Apparently they
heard this all too true stafceement;
for as they s tasted away in their open
wooden patrol No.i 15,» with; three
window's on each side and one in the
rear, license plate bearing X2-301,
they stopped and turned back after
they had gone three blocks, and again
they beat the girl and absolutely re
Robert Coleman
Taken In Big
Narcotic Drive
FERA APPOINTS SUPERVISORS
OF ADULT EDUCATION
Washington, Dec. 3.—Harry L. Hop
kins, Administrator of vhe FERA. an.
nouncedt this week the appointment
of five colored assistant Sate sup
ervisors of the Emergency Education
Program. Alabama, Georgia. Texas
Louisiana, and South ^CsKolinahave
taken the lead in this recognition. I).
should be pointed out that the:e ap.
pon ments by the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration are first recom
mended by the local and State school
authorities. The appointment of col
ored assistant t.upervisors in these
States showing a growing spirit of
mutualun derstanding and rympathy
with broad and general problems of
education regardless of race and
color which has followed in the wake
of the New Deal.
North Carolina has two colored
FERA supervisors of Adult Education
and one Negro Nursery school super
visor.
Virginia hat three colored district
FERA supervisors. The District of
Columbia haia one FERA Adult Edu
cation supervisor and also a colored
FERA nursery supervisor.
The following sum;mary of the edu
cational back ground of thore chosen
for thf? work bespeaks their high
qualifications and teaching standards
set by the FERA uthoricies:
District Supervisors of Adult Edu
cation—Virginia.
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Government Net
Closes On Local
Dope Ring
Federal Narcotic Agents Tuesday,
deal, » telling blow to Omaha’s source
ef narcotics, arresting dope addicts
and alleged dope peddlers, rounding
up fourteen persons in the raid. The
r«ids followed operations in the city
by agert.s for a period of some weeks.
Tangled in the government net are
Robert Coleman and Andrew Hill,
1007 Capitol Avenue and Lee Flow
ers and Carl Montgomery, Twenty
fifth and Seward Streets. They were
arraigned Tuesday before Commis
sioner Mary Mullen. Bail was set at
$2000 and as yet, has not been made.
Coleman conducts a pool-hall at
Thirteen-h and Mason Street.
Former Rilz Cafe Owner Arrested
Faces Charge in Dope Drive
Harold B. MfcLaughlin, former
owner of (the Ritz Cafe, and :eid by
Narcotic Agents to be the largest
operator yet taken in this Dope Clean
up Campaign was arrested by Federal
agents Wednesday evening and book
ed for violation of the 'Harrison Drug
Act. Arrefting officer.! say they
found several capsules of morphine
on the floor of McLaughlin’s car, after
forring him to drive into the curb at
Seventeenth and Jones Streets.
N. R. A. HIGHLIGHTS
To Expedite Code Enforcement
The National Industrial Recovery
Board is moving definitely to assist
government representatives and Code
Authorities to effectuate Cede com.
pliance. It has appointed Sol A. Ros
enblatt Director of Field Adminis
tration and Enforcement- He is to
coordinate activities of the Compliance
and Litigation Divisons and cooper
ate with other governmental agencies.
Ten regional compliance offices are
being set up to receive reports of the
State Compliance Directors, to adjust
difficult cases, and when necessary,
to start court proceedings. A. G. Mc.
Knlght, Special Assistant General
Counsel, will make a nation-wide
survey of conditions bearing on code
operation and enforcement
To Study Auto Industry
President Rootievelt, in a letter to
Chairman S- Clay Williamb, has di
rected the NIRB to make a study of
the possibilities of regularizing em
ployment and otherwise improving
employment conditions in the auto
manufacturing industry. The study
should be impartial, the President
said, and suggested that the work be
undertaken by the Division of Re
search and Planning in collaboration
with the Bureau of Labor Statistics
and other Federal agencies. Ample
time will be allowd all interested par
ties t« consider the findings and to
present their views.
Prison-Made Goods
A special investigating committee
appointed by direction of the Presi
dent. haa recommended to the NIRB
that the permission granted several
states to use NRA labels on prson
m&de goods be wihdravn, or that the
labels be changed to announce th*t
the garments on which they appear
are “prison made”, and th*t $504)00,
000 of P. W. A. funds be used in the
next two yeail l to buy up such goods
for the FERA. The NIRB has ap
pointed S. Clay Williams, Sidney Hill.
man and Linton Collins to confer with
the FERA.
To Curb Design piracy
The code of the textile print roller
engraving industry har, been amend
ed to aid in the suppression cf de
sign piracy. The members, hereafter,
will engrave only da igns which have
been duly registered with the Textile
Design Registration Bureau, main
tained by the Federated Textile In
dustries. Inc., unless they are “stable”
de'igrw, such as polka dots. Most
'silks and uottons are printed with de
signs. Few designs are woven in- For
years, the leaders in the fight against
deeivn piracy have sought the coop
eration of the roller engravers’ as
their adherence to the movement
would make it impossible for the
pirates to get other firms’ designs on
rollers.
Contm°tion Board Urges Move To
ward Stability
With the thought of getting wage
variations out of consideration when
construction bids *re made, the em
ployer and employee members of the
construction industry’s Planning and
Adjustment Board have presented a
report urging members* to reneew
the wage and hour agreements that
have recently been allowed to xpir®.
For a number of year^ such agree
ments between industry groups and
Idbor unions have been in existence
in the larger centers. Chairman S. W.
Jones says that “uncertainty and dis
content due to the absence of wage
base, are destroying the traditional
foundation of stability and good will
upon wihich the future of the industry
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Reaa The Christmas Gift Suggestions This Week