RECEIVERS DISMISSED FROM VICTORY LIFE First Company Ever to Emerge' When Once Thrown Into Receivership CHICAGO.—(By Jacob Ander son for the AXP)—A new and really significant chapter in the history of Negro business was written here last FViday, when1 federal Judge Evan A. Evans signed an order dismissing the j receiver of the Victory Life In surance Company. The company foj- a period of more than a year, while direQ ed by its own offi cers. has been under the general supervision of the federal court and the receiver. Witht he dis charge of all of its obligations, the payment of every outstanding death claim and approval of the state insurance departmet, Judge Evans’ signature gave a clean bill of heath and a certificate of merit to an insitution whose rehabilia tion is the result of fine faith. coOpera ion, sacrifice and unre*; lenting work upon, the part of a group of men, white and colored. These men have worked together toward the common goal of serv ing a race and pu ting a business back upon a sound- foundation. “The receivership and reorgani zation of Victory Mutual have been, very- much a success and the company- ought to succeed,” said Judge Evans one of the noted jurists of the country, as he hand he decree to attorney for the re ceiver, David A. Watts. Leaders Help It is these two men, Judge Evans taking a personal interest and spending liberally of his own time; attorney David A. Watts, member of one of Chicago’s larg est law firms and a insurance expert who joined hands with Dr. P. M. H. Savory of New York, chairman of the board, president .L K. Williams, Dr. C. B. Powell and their associates, in ihe effort which for the first time in the history of Negro insurance organi zation, saw company which .mu been placed in the hands of re ceivers, emerge with new strength ad nsoidity, girded for business. 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Might Have Gained The proceed ore used in mutual izing Victory Mutual has estab lished insurance precedent in Ul/.nois, said Mr. Watts. “The federa lcourt here permitted us. to do the precise thing which the District of Columbia court refus ed to allow the receivers of Nat ional Benefit to do, that is, mutu alize the company for the benefit of the policyholders. "We were limited in our possibilt'es. Only two companies offered to reinsure offer and the Missouri Life a com paratively small white concern of St. Louis. “Mkrch 25, 1933, Judge Evans ap proved of a new stock company pro posed by a committee headed by Rev. L. K. Williams, Dr. Savory, Dr. Haley Beil, John Hollman and A. L. William*. Finding they could not raise the monep necessary to meet the heavy demands for new capital, this group returned to court and asked that they be permitted to form for a mutual or ganization to be owned by the policy holders. The judge assented. The r.linois insurance department was fin ally sold on the idea of permitting the receiver to put the assets of the old as capital for the new mutual company. Jure 9. 1933 the state granted a license. June 21, the contract was anproved. White Texas Aids. “Immediately the fundamental faith of the public demontrated it self. Premium income which had fallen to $8,000 per month when difficulty had come, ran up to $10,000 per month. The Recon struction Finance Corporation, convinced of the soundness of the plan and with the cooperation of examiner. Rochelle, one of its of fieais who formerly was of the Texas Insurance Dept., loaned, $48,500. This loan has been repaid. The $103,000 in death claims which had accumulated at the time of reorganization, have all been paid in full. The receiver's fees have been met. The company has been licensed in the District of Columbia.. It confidently ex pects to be deadmitted into New York soon, a sufficient commen tary upon the soundness with which it has been rebuilt. Its pol icy will be to concentrate upon the large profitable fields which lie within its grasp. “In September 1934, the insur ance department made a repprais al of assets and slightly increased valuations. The results is a sur" plus of $102,000. The court sign ed an order after a study made by the receiver, the attorney and an independent actuary, the court signed an order through which all causes of action are transferred to the new company. This may result in the collection of large sums, claimed to be due, but the re ceviership is not held open pend ing their collection. Slash Overhead “I believe the company will make steady progress. I agree with receiver Gullett who says he will stack the home office force against any similar group in any white company he knows.” Mr. Watts made another signi ficant remark. He said that his study of the company showed that insofar as the insurance com pany was concerned it was as sound as a dollar and it was only the efforts made to save the Dou glass National Bank in which it had become a large stockholder which caused the difficulty of the insurance organization. The $07, 700 stock liability which the company was involved in as a re sult of its stock holdings in the bank were compromised for $2000. Dr. Savory and his associates seem well on their way to make a certainty, Judge Evans state ment in court in 1934 when he said: “We have overthrown a defective organization and estab lished what it seems to me will be the largest Negro insurance com pany in th United States.” The financial committee of man and Drs. Williams and Sav* "I wcrk all the time and jeel strong . . .** You Can Escape Periodic Upsets Women who must be on the job every day need Lydia E. Pinkham’s Tablets. 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Powell is chair income at all times and to begin the payment of dividends upon policies ab the earliest possible moment. N. A. A. C. P. QUERIES CUMMINGS FURTHER ON FEDERAL ACTION New York, Jan. 25.—‘Are the De partment of Justice and the Attorney General of the United States afraid of the lynchers ? Or, is politics the reason you can be proficient when property is stolen and apathetic when only the body of a friendless and pen niless person who happens to be black is involved?’ With these two queries, Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People ended a letter to U. S. Attorney General Hom er S. Cummings this week. These were but two of a number of questions the peppery N. A. A. C. P. | official asked. He also inquired in the same letter as to what theory of law ‘permits the Bureau of Investiga tion of the Department of Justice to run down and arrest bank bandits . . and which permits your Department to remain inactive and, indeed, to re fuse to proceed under the clear pro visions of the Lindbergh Kidnap.ng Law against the kidnapers of Claude Neal.’ While expressing no objections to running down bandits, the N. A. A. C. P. secretary feigned astonishment ‘that you can show such efficiency and vgor against those who steal from banks but at the same time can manifest such complete indifference to those who steal the body of a hu man being for the purpose of putting it to death without authority of law’. Association officals point out that Attorney General Cummings has been the most difficult member of President Roosevelt’s cabinet to deal with, and has shown less interest than others in the affairs of Negroes. The associa tion’s letter was prompted by the ar rest of the leaders of the Mais gang in New York by federal agents on charges of murder, kidnaping and robbery. PICKENS FEATURED IN ENGLISH MAGAZINE New York, Jan. 25.—A biographical sketch of W ,'lliam Pickens, author, lecturer and field secretary of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, appears in the December 1934, Special American ; Biographical Sect.on of the ‘Town and Country Revjewr’, published in London, England, featuring notable Americans. DISMISS FAKE CHARGES AGAINST WOMAN BRUTALLY SLUGGED BY POLICEMEN New York City, (CNA)—Last week the grand jury here dismissed framed charges of grand larceny aganst Mrs. Willis Hall, who vras arrested and held in jail for three weeks. Mrs. Hall and her friend Misa Marie Shelton were brutally beaten by po licemen who dragged them to jail up on the word of a drunken white man. Slag Sick Woman Miss Shelton was in bed ill when one uniformed policeman, two plain clothes men and a drunken white man broke into her apartment, cursed her, beat her unmercifully and kicked her down the steps. The drunken man clain^ed he had been to the house be fore and someone had stolen his over coat. The men called Miss Shelton a black monkey, a lousy bastard and other vile names. The four men then proceeded to the apartment of Mrs. Hall, and slugged her so brutally that she is still suffer- j ing from the effects of the assault. The policemen stated, ‘We ought to kill iyou\ Mrs. Hall screamed her innocence, claiming she knew nothing of the drunken white man nor his overcoat. Jailer Threatens Miss Shelton "When Miss Shelton carried Mrs. Hall sandwiches while she was in jail, the jailer took the sandwiches, threw j them away, and called her a ‘black bastard’. He threatened, ‘If you ever ! come back here, I’ll put jou in jail too’. Mrs. Hall lives at 119 West 118th Street in Harlem. NEW YORK HAMPTON CLUB AIDS FIGHT FOR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW New York, January 25.—G. James Fleming, secretar.' of the Founder’s Day Committee of the New York i Hampton Club, Inc., has announced that a spec.al offering lifted at its an nual Founder’s Day program and tea on January 27, is to be contributed to the Natioaal Association for the Ad vancement of Colored Beople to aid in its fight for the passage of the Costigan-Wagner anti-1.inching bill. NEWTON FOUND GUILTY; FINED; — Chicago, 111.—(CNA)—A lily-white jury here handed down a verdict of guilty in the case of Herbert Newton, charged with ‘disorderly conduct'. Judge Smith fined Newton ten dollars. Newton was arrested for resisting eviction of his famiiy from 615 Oak wood Boulevard. The eviction order , was issued by Municipal Court Judge G'een on the basis that Newton is a Negro. FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION Michigan Provides FERA Nursery Schools For Colored Children. By Edgar G. Brown Four FERA nursery schools exclus ively for oclored children have been approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Michigan. These nursery schools are part of the FERA emergency educational pro gram authorized by Harry L. Hop kins, Federal Emergency Relef Ad ministrator. Dr. Grace Langdon is the FERA specialist in charge of the nursery school program. The FERA nursery schools at Hig ginbotham and Russell schools in De troit are exclusively for colored children. This is true, also of the Christian Street Community House. Michigan has a number of mixed nursery schools. The Garfield and Bach nursery schools are located at Ann Arbor, the Franklin Settlement and the Dwyer school in Detroit, the Thomson and Willard schools in High land Park, the \ anderlaan school in Muskegon, Platt, Petosley, and the SSaginaw public schools have colored, white and Mexicans, as well, in at tendance. Dr. Lewis R. Alderman, of the United States Office of Education and Director of the FERA Emergency Educational Program in an article of the current issue, Opportunity, ex plains the philosophy, back of this educational advance on a new, cultural front. The following is Dr. Alderman's statement about the nursery school program: “Emergency nursery schools are designed for children primarily from two to four years of age from under privileged, dependent, and neglected families and homes. These nursery schools are in essence an extension downward of the public schools and /GET MONEY—LOVE I guaranty* to h«!p you get a aew file. No caaa DCTood hop*. Stop png I Write me today. Information K. WILLIAMS, 901 B*aa i'JERSEY CITY. M. X ~ ~ ~ } CALL OMAHA POULTRY MARKET 1114 N. 24th St. We. 1100 Fresh E>«rs — Fresh Dressed Poultry While Tou Wait an extension out^-v-d to include su b aspects of the child’s development health, physical growth, nutrition, play, social life, and mental hygiene. They provide an all-day program in cludng lunch and nap. They become centers for medical and dental care and for the education of parents in essentials of childr growth and guid ance. Approximately 12.2 per cent of the funds (for the Emergency Edu cational Program) expended last year were for emergency nursery schools.” The Urban League in Milwaukee houses the only strictly FERA nur sery school for colored children in Wisconsin. Arkansas has three FERA nurser schools, one in Helena, one in Little Rock located at the public schools, and another in Pine Bluff at the A. M. & N. College. There are six colored children out of thirty in regular attendance at Stowe nursery school in Duluth, Minnesota. There are several Negro children in the Pocatello public school in Jdaho. “Three units of the nursery schools in Butte, Montana, have an occasional black, red, or yellow child,” according to a recent report. In New Hampshire, the Ward House in Concord has a half dozen colored children in attendance at the FERA nursery school. The Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. in Denver, Colo., is another nursery school for colored children, while the Community Center at Pueblo, sup ported by the community chest, houses a mixed nursery school unit. Du rango has another in an elementary school. The FERA nursery school in New London, Conn, has five colored child ren in attendance. Two colored child ren attend the Cedar school, two the Lowell school, 15 the Windeter and . two the Fair school, 15 the Arsenal, and two the Bernard junior high, all located in New Haven, Conn. Recent reports show no Negro at tendance in FERA nursery schools located in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Wyoming. Help Kidneys • If poorly functioning Kidney* and Bladder make you Buffer from Getting Up Night*. Nervousness. Rheumatic • Pain*. Stiffness, Burning. Smarting. 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NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEBRASKA TO: Jesse Turner,-Turner, wife of Jesse Turner, first and real name unknown, Kittie Meeker, - Meeker, husband of Kittie Meeker, first and real name unknown, Mary Welles.--Welles, husband of Mary Welles, first and real name un known, George Turner, -Tur ner, wife of George Turner, first and real name unknown, Abner Turner, -Turner, wife of Abner Tur ner, first and real name unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives and all other persons in terested in the estate of Jesse Turuer. deceased, real nances unknown, the heirs devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives and all other persons in terested in the estate of-Tur ner, wife of Jesse Turaer, first and real name unknown, deceased, real names unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Kittie Meeker, deceased, real names unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the es tate of-Meeker, husband of Kittie Meeker, first and real name un known, deceased, real names unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Mary Welles, deceased, real names unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, persona! representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of - Welles, husband of Mary Welles, first and real name unknown, deceased, real names unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the es tate of George Turner, deceased, real names unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the es tate of -Turner, wife of George Turner, first and real name unknown, deceased, real names un known, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all per sons interested in the estate of Abner Turner, deceased, real names unknown, the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all persons inter ested in the estate of-Turner, wife of Abner Turner, first and real name unknown, deceased, Teal names unknown, and all persons having or claim.ng any interest in the East Vz of the west of the South 134.6 feet of Lot 63, Gise’s Addition, an addition to the City of Omaha, as surveyed, platted and recorded in Douglas Coun ty, Nebraska, real names unknown: You are hereby notified that on the 18th day of January, A. D. 1935, Frank L. Burbr.dge, Trustee, and Jacob C. Care , as plaintiffs filed a pe tition in the Distr.ct Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, against you and each of you shown in Appearance Docket 309 at Page 220, the object and prayer of said petition being to ob tain a decree of the Court quieting the title of said plaintJF, Frank L. Bur bridge, Trustee, in and to: East '/i of the West % of the South 134.6 feet of Lot 63, Gise’s Addition, an addition to the City of Omaha, as surveyed, platted and recorded in Douglas County, Nebraska. Said petition further prays that title to the above described property be. quieted in the plaintiff, Frank L. Bur bridge, Trustee, and that you and each ; of you be forever barred from having br claiming any right, title, interest or ' ownership in or to said real estate I or any part thereof, and for such other and further relief as equity requires. T ou and each of you are hereby notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before the 11th day of March, 1935. Frank L. Burbridge, Trustee and Jacob C. Carey, Plaintiffs. By Charles F. Davis, Their Attorney. Begins 1-26-35 Ends 2-23-35 SINCLAIR WITHDRAWS PREACHER-ATTACK Los Angeles, Cal. — (ANP)—j Cpton Sinclair, candidate for the November election here, ad Governor on a EPIC platform in mitted that his charge that “even," Negro preacher in the city received fifty dollars to preach against him’ was false, in a letter addressed to the press last week. Rev. W. A. Johnson, pastor of Trinity Baptist church, who had entered a million-dollar libel suit against the author, withdrew his suit. Johnson alleged that he did not preach any sermon, against Sinclair and was out of the city during election time. Sinclair reiterated his charge that some preachers recived pay to preach against him “but it. is not true concerning preachers and I apologize to those preachers who are not involved in any way. JOHNSON ’S BOOK REVIEWED ON AIR BY RACE WOMAN Los Angeles, Cal.—(ANP—) “Negro Americans, What Now,” by James Weldon Johnson, were among the books by and about Negroes reviewed Monday, Jan uary 21, over radio station KECA by Miss Miriam Matthews, race librarian in charge of the \ emon library branch. EJVEALING', Lpur 1 ST, PRESENT HJlCflE •• ?ee'|>ouL^cE- - J. J. A.—Please tell me if I have been getting an even break on my job since Xmas ? Ans.—-You have—but the firm that employed you has not been able to give you a FULL DAY’S WORK since the holidays. They do not want I to let you go altogether and had rath er work you part time—so, stick to this job for ;