vo^‘ _„_ .________- _ Number Forty-Three—— Pickets Tailed At M A. A. C. P, Demonstration Carlton Goodlett is Delegate of Nation. , to Switzerland The honor of representing {the colleges of America “t e Con gress against War and Fascism is bestowed upon #ne of Omaha’s own, Mr. Carlton B. Goodlett, Howard University* senior. Mr. Goodlett has achieved a reirfarkable record at the uni i versity, as a member of the Howard Debating team, he represent ed his school at Fish© University, Nashville, Tennessee and also at Morehouse College,! Atlanta Georgia. At present he is president of the Howard University Student Council. His elementary training was ac quired in Omaha, obtaining his grade school education at Howard Kennedy school- He was graduated from Cen tral High School with honors in 1930 Mr- Good' tt i.« a member of St .John’s A M- E- Church- and was a Sunday School Teacher before leav ing for Washington. He is the son of Mr- and Mi's- A. R • Goodlett, 2815 Binney street- Afeer finishing Howard, hj will take a course in Neurolog j| H“ will board the Olympia Decem ber 21. and sail from New York City at 10:30 a- m-, on a five d,ay boat trip to Europe. He will :rpend 14 days there- Hj is scheduled to ad dress the Congress on War and Fas cism, convening in Geneva. Switzer land. His eubjedt is “Fascism and the Negro.” Dr. Wesley Jones Elected President of N. A. A. C. P. Sunday aftmoon at the Annual Election of the N.A.A C.P held at. the Community Center, Dr. J. Wesley Jo-nes. prominent physician, was, elect ed President of the organization to succeed Rufus Price, retiring presi dent. Dr. Jones Jia3 taken an active part in civic affairs of the commun ity, and is expected to malke a splen did executive. Other officers elected were, Mr. C C- Galloway, Vice President; Mr. John Benjamin Horton', Secr.tfary; Mrs. Lincoln Turner and attorney Charles F- Davis, members of execu tive commiatee The eie tion of a treasurer was de ferred until tho next meefcng, Dr A- L- Hawkins, present treasurer, be ing absent from the city, rend a report of the Florida Lynching, read a iepora of the Florida Lynching, all standing committees rendered an nual reports Fifty members were present for purpose of election. Christmas Vespers At the Y. W. C. A. A beautiful service with tableau scenes of the Christmas story will be hold at the North Side Y W-C.A. Sunday afternoon, December 23 at 4:30- The service is being held under the Branch Federation. Lucy Mae Stamps is chairman- Members of the Quack, Trojan, and Optimist, Athletic Gym and Semper Fidelis club® are assisting. The service will open with a procasskmal and a choir from both t'no Quack and Trojan clubs. The ser vice will close with a beautiful tree lighting ceremonial, in charge of the Trojan club. Following tea will be served- The tea table in charge of the EntreNous Club. Miss Margaret k Dickerson is president. All members I ©f the Y.W.C.A. and friends are in vited Members of the branch feder ation are: Lorraine Fletcher, Maud est Jackson, Margaret Dickerson, Louise Fletcher, Mamie Jackson, Mary I Ann Elliot, Essie Porter, Clara Leon ard, Thelma Dickinson, Olive Willis, Lawyers, Ministers Teach ERS Students _ I Executes Demonstration with Military Precision, Defying Order to Arrest Them. i j Washington, D C-, Dec. 14_gev. j enty pick «ts led by ministers, teach i era lawyers, students, and N.A.A.C-P. I branch officers carried out picketing : c:f the national crime confer nee here yesterday pite efforts of the De. partmenii of Justice office to force local police to arrest hem. The pick eting was planned and carried out with military precision. Nothing like it has bean seen in Washington in many a year. The pickets were pro tecting against the failure of the crime conference to include a discus sion of lynching. The following de scription of the demonstration was given out in a statement by the N. A A.CP.; The District of Columbia branch decided Tuesday, following the ar re:«; of four pickets Tuesday after, noon, to demonstrate again Thursday. The Thursday pickets wer? silent with ropes around their necks and small sigrs on their breasts giving the tc-tal cf lynching victims. The eigns wore less than on© foot to avoid violation of the sign law. Each picket was given detailed written instruction and one location in ord r to avoid the parade law. Approximately one-half the seventy pickets were giri^ and woman- There was one blind student There was a captain for each five pickets and one for each two squads. These captains volunteered to suffer arrest so that ft he majority ©f the pickets would not be held. “Thursday morning the pickets assembled at the Phyllis Wheatley Y-W.C-A- and were earned in colored cabs to tha Memorial Continental hall The cabs remained nearby wit ho at charge to bring the pickets back. The cabs were disptvtch d to the hall by different rout4^ ait intervals to avoid the charge of a parade. The city polio?, taken by surprise, threat ened to make arrests, but the pickets refused to mov?. Then the city po lice sent for the park police (the pickets w?.re standing quietly on park ground, off the sidewalk across the street from the hall) but the park police refused to interfere. An at. tomey for the department of justice tried to make the city police arrest the pickets but he was notified suits for false arrest would b? filed. “Failing in everything else, the city police threatened to arrest the pick ets when they left under the parade law withaUt a permit- To avoid this tha picka.s were removed one by one, picked up in the waiting cabs and' sent back to the Y-W.C.A- by different routes. The pickets were on post for one hour from 12-40 noon, catching delegate^ as they left tha morning session, and were stretched along Svanteenth street from Continental hall to Pnnjyivania avenue.” | Mrs. Hester Williams is still con. fined to her home alt 2424 Seward St. yjerry (Thristmas! Hjch is the old, old greeting that is ever new wh’cb will socn be heard on every side in this community. It is the greeting between individuals, between friends and business associates; it is the greeting which we will hear frequently in our dubs and societies and civic organizations, in cur churches and our schools. All these institutions have a definite place in our community lile and as such we give them our loyalty and our support. But not everyone can belong to all of them. So there may be some of us who will not have the feelirg of sharing in the Christmas greeting which comes from them. % ¥ ^ But there is one institution whose interests are the interests of the whole community,of every man and woman and child in it,an institution which is devoted to serving the interests of all. That is t he Home Town Newspaper. ^ $ $ A welcome visitor into the hemes of this community; a messenger tearing news or community interest; a chronicler of die joys and sorrows and of the trials and triumphs of its people; a mirror held up to reflect the daily life of the community; the loom in which is woven into one harmonious pattern the varied threads of community activity ... all these are the Heme Town Newspaper. *xr c2 f.o,t! rough whrt more appropriate medium than the T -Tome • own News pa oer should there come a greeting to all the people of our community at this time of the vear? We believe there is none more appropriate and we are happy to have the privilege of saying to you all: "A Merry Christmas.” 7he Publishers Omaha Inter-Racial Committee Plans Conference for Jan 26th The Omaha Inter-Racial Committee met Tuesday, Dec. 18th, at the Cen tral Y.W.C A. to formulaite plans for a regional conference to be held .the week end of Jan. 26th- As a gdastspeaker, the committee will pre sent Edward B. Reuter who heads the department of Sociology, Univer sity of Iowa, and is president of the American Society of Sociology. Other truest speakers will be Rev. Plank and Rev. Weatherly, Lincoln Unitarian Minister. The moating will be held a? rthe Central Y.W.C.A. Invita tions will be extended to all Inter Racial Committees within an area of 600 miles of Omaha, which includes Chicago. Sit. Louis, Kansas City, Min neapolis, Denver. Des Moines- Sieux City, Lincoln, etc. Committees which were named last night were the Finance Committeee, membeits being John B. Horton, Mrs. Carl Salne, Mr. DeBalkie. Lucy C Crawford. William Peebles is chair, man of the publicity committee. Those at the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Crawford, Rev. Rhone, Mrs- Manchester, Mr. John Horton, Mr. C. C. Galloway, Mr. Wm. Pee bles, Mr. Henry Black, Mrs. J. A. Willianfs. Mr. DeBalkie, Mrs. Grace Dorsey, Miss Catherine Wiliams, Mr. Henry Thomas, Mrs. and Miss Palm quist. The purpose of the conf*- ence is to bring about better Racial -:id Inter Racial feeling by educational propa., ganda. Special Announcement Dr. E B- Reuter, President, Ameri can Sociological Society, Head of the Department of Sociology, Univer. sity of Iowa and Internationally known Sociologists, has been secured as guest speaker for the tri-inter racial conference which will be held the latter part of January and will have representatives from the Des Moines Interracial Commission a3 guests. Mr. Henry Black is chair, man of the conference, assisjked by Dean Stevens, University of Omaha. Mrs. Lucy Charlotte Crawford, At toriey Sam Bebbcr and Mrs. M- L Rhone. , Ctime Confence Ires Crowd Who Defies Arrest WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 20—Four pickets of the N. A. A. C. P. were arrestjed here on Tuesday afternoon for carry signs denouncing lynching, outside ^Memorial Continental Hall where th« National Crime Conference was meeting under the call of Attorney General Homer S. Cumings. The conference had refused to place lynching on the program for discussion. Oscar Washington Addresses Forum The Literary Forum of the South Omaha Culture Center was addressed Sunday Bee. 16th. 1934, by Mr. Os car D. Washington of Creighton Uni versity. Thu subject; “What Makes A Bey Handsome,” was pre. ent.ed in a mostt intellectual and interesting fashion- The speaker b -gan with the period of infancy and discussed the different periods up Ithrough adoles. 1 cence. putting mart : m(phasis on the factors, heredity, will, training, en vironment. habit and education. The in-crest of the forum was manifested by the questions and discussion fol lowing the speaker. »!n his conclusion, Mr. Washington pointed out those characteristics which make a boy handsome as being, will power, desirable habits of dis cipline, courtesy, education, race-pride and self-confidence. University Students Wins Prize Julian W. McPherson, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. S. McPherson, 1712 N 28th street. Omaha, was awarded sec ond prize in a German Declamatory contest held at the auditorium of the Municipal University «f Omaha. The contoat was sponsored by the German Club of Omaha University. Mr. McPherson’s oration “Warum Ich Will Arzt Sein,” translated. “Why I Wish To Be A Doctor.” w»s very enthusiastically received and was ac claimed the mosit unique selection ever given in a German Oratorical congest at this University. All speak ing was in the German language. Mr. McPherson previously has been reedtrnized for hh| speaking ability. Whoa in Central High School, he was ; chosen out of tH? American History Club to represent China in a Good Will of Nations international radio program. The program was broad ca)t°d all over it,Ha civilized world from radio station W. O. W. Mr. McPherson is a graduate ®f Central High School and a second year student of the Municipal Uni versity of Omaha. Its is a member of the German Club, the Pre-Medic’s ClUb, and /the 'ChemJJify Gtyii) of Omaha University. , TO ATTEND THE LITERARY ASSOCIATION Mr. J. Harvey Kent'1, Executive Secretary of the Omaha Urban Leagiii, Oscar Washington of Creigh ton University, and Clutrles Davis of Omaha Municipal University, will leave December 27, 1934, for Topeka Kansa^. where th/ayi w