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CLEAVES TEMPLE CHURCH 25th and Decatur Sts. Rtv. O. A. Calhoun, Pastor Miss Alice E. Hunter, Reporter Sunday found a goodly number of mem,bers out for morning service. Rev. Calhoun preached a very practical and interesting sermon. The choir render ed good music. Cleaves Temple has a very good Sunday School that is largely attend ed. under the able supervision of Mr. R. F. Adams. The Sunday School is doing a great work among the young people of the church. Our Epworth League has been new ly organized with Mr. Geo. E. Baker as president, and a qualified group of co-workers. The Epworth League sponsors self-expression for the young people. We have some very interest ing debates on biblical subjects on Sunday evenings at 6 p. m. On Sunday, January 13, the league spent their lesson hour with the in mates of the Old Folk’s Home. They served them a chicken dinner with ice cream and cake. A short program, composed of sabred numbers by the group, remarks by the following per sona: Rev. O. A. Calhoun. Mrs. Cal houn, Mr. R. F. Adams, Mrs. Beatrice ' Just try it once . . . and you’ll simply rave over the marvelous way that Blackand White Complexion Powder blends with your natural skin tone . . . the way it clings for hours so smoothly and so evenly. You’ll adore its fragrant perfume, too. You’ll enthuse over its six flattering tints of White, Flesh, Pink, Bru nette, High Brown and Nut Brown. Yes, just try it once, then you’ll always be a reg ular user of Black and White Complexion Powder. V Tune in "Lombardo-Land" Featuring Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra, Wed. Night, NBC Gray and Mr. Baker, was given. We -vere welcomed by the matron and in cited to return. The choir of the church united with the choir of Hillside Presbyterian Church on Sunday night, January 27, in presenting an evening of siprituals. A very appreciative audience was present. The combined choirs plan to do more work together at a future date. ST. JOHNS’ A. M. E. CHURCH “The Friendly Church” Rer. L. P. Bryant, Pastor The services at St. John last Sun day were very interesting. The day was started with a good attendance at Sunday School, and on the whole, more of the children were on time than usual. We are always glad to see the children show more and more interest in the Sunday School. Why not come and make yourself one of those who come regularly? At the morning service Rev. Fred Divers, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, preached a very splendid sermon from the first few verses of the 18th chap ter of St. Luke. He took “Prayer” jr his subject. Some of the very fine Noughts he left with us were as fol lows: We need prayer because we need God. Prayer is thanksgiving to God for His goodness, but we do not al ways pray when we should and do not pray long enough to forget the things of the world. We should con fess our sins and repent, and then we would net continue to do the wrong things. The qualities we should adore most are the good qualities within. We, too often, see too much that is outside show. We should pray more intensively, and we will find these prayers will be different and have different results. The sick of the church are Mr. W. E. Carter, and Miss Maude Ray. We wish for them, and others who may be sick and names not turned in, a speedy recovery. The visitors last Sunday were Rev. Fred Divers and Mr. L. Boiller, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, Henry Burnett, Geo. W. Macklin, J. H. Davis and F. vV. Cloud, all of Omaha. Visitors are always welcome to St. John and asked to make it their -hurch home while in Omaha if it is a 'hurch of their choice. ^ ou will find your church and social lews in the Omaha Guide. Read the 3t. John News each week and see how he rally is progressing. See your captain and help make your auto move m towards New York. Just at pres ent Miss Offutt is out in the lead with -he Hupmobile. Come to Church each Sunday night and see them go. SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts. Rev. E. H. Hilson, Pastor Owing to the fact that our pastor was out of the city, Rev. Fort offi ciated. At 11 o’clock testimonial ser vices were held. The church is re ob.aining its regular attendance. Flush Poisons From Kidneys and Stop Getting Up Nights When you can get for 35 cents a supremely efficient and harmless stim ulant and diuretic that will flush from your kidneys the wast matter, pois ons and acid that are now doing you harm, why continue to break your restful sleep by.getting up thru the night. Just ask ,your druggist for Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules— but be sure and get GOLD MEDAL— rifht from Haarlem in Holland. Other symptoms of weak kidneys and irri tated bladder are back ache, puffy eyes, leg cramps, moist palms, burn ing or scanty passage. Annual February Sale K ilpatrick’s Hardwater SOAP Regularly 1.20 Dozen An exquisite soap made es- Odors pecially for us. F r e n c h milled to extract every bit _ Jasmin Rose of moisture ... so that it Violet Bouquet supplies abundant lather Lilac down to the thinnest silver! __ ^ , Colors Mail Orders _ Green Rose Postage 12c Additional Orchid Up to 150 Miles! White Blue Kilpatrick’s Toiletries Section—Main Floor There has been an addition of 16 and of this number 10 are candidates for baptism, to be held the second Sun day. B. Y. P. U. opened at 5:30 with de votion led by Lorenzo Rosenbaugh, and Perry Roach. A most delightful program sponsored by the Cultural course, was given during B. Y. P. U. under the leadership of Mr. John Ros enbaugh. Every Sunday a Negro his torical fact is presented to the Union, by Mrs. Young. Such an interesting and titmely subject should not only attract the young people; but the elders as well. Visitors are alwajs welcome. We were pleased to have Mrs. John Lancaster, of Chicago, with us. The mission Circle will meet Wed nesday at the home of Mrs. Marg. Alexander, 2712 Charles. For the evening worship, Rev. Fort, a wonderful speaker, conveyed to us a talk on ‘.Obedence”, the scripture reading of Acts 27:19. Bertha Patterson, Reporter. CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD 25tth and Rrskine Sts. Sunday was a day of fiery spirit, starting Ln the Sunday School and continuing to the last minutes of night service. The Sunday School lesson was very interesting and was made more stirring by a review from the Bishop. The School was dismissed to enter into a service of real joy. Ev er one seemed full of the spirit. The Bishop stepped into the pulpit with the match of truth and set fire to everyone. His text was taken from St. Luke, 9:62, “And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God”. The subject was “Count up the Cost”. Bishop Musgrove is one of the most power ful ministers Omaha has ever known. Anyone who hasn’t heard him, has missed a real gospel treat. The early evening was devoted to the Bible Band, under the leadership cf Rev. A. J. Henderson and Mrs. Vera Graham. It is progressing rap idly. In fact, the whole church is progressing under the love and tutor ing of the new pastor, Dr. A. S. May field, formerly of Oklahoma, and you are urged to hear him. The night service was a repetition of the morning service. The Bishop took his text from Job, 16:19, “Be hold, myi witness is in Heaven, and my record is on high”, the subject of which was, “Two Witnesses”. The visitors of the day were Rev. Harris, of Council Bluffs, Mrs. Davis, of the Spiritual Church, Mr. and Mrs.' William Wright and Mrs. Trotter. Rev. A. S. Mayfield, Pastor. JIM CROW IN THE FERA BY LOREN MILLER Ed*tor’s note: This is the third of a series of articles dealing with Jim-Crow in the relief adminis tration in Los Angeles, Cal., where prejudice is supposed to be at a minimum. LOS ANGELES. — (CNA) _ None of the enterprising mer chants of Los Angeles maintains separate store for Negro and w hite customers. Times being " bat they are, the average mer chant is glad to welcome anv cus tomer regardless of color. Lut the Los- Angeles County Re lief Administration has nothing to sell at its newly established com missary stores to which the un employed applicants for aid may go and draw patronage by dis crimination. On December 11, LACR offic ials issued an official memoran dum advising ease workers that i\ hen giving out orders on the commisaries the geographical lo cation of the stores should be taken into account. That sounds humanitarian. It is sensible to make it as easy as possible for the applicant to get his supplies without going to any great dis tance. The Jokes But there was a joker in the order. “Mixing of races” at the scores, said the order, was to be strictly avoided. In other words, ^egro and white unemployed are forbidden t0 stand side by side to draw their dole. Here again, a JinrCrow order was made with out any shadow of reason. I have been a working newspaperman in this city for five years, and I know there has never been anv trouble between workers who went to supply depots for their supplies. The amazing thing is that this policy is such a thorough depar ure from all that experience has shown. For years the county has rnasntained supply depots. White and Negro, Mexican and Orien tal workers, are accustomed to seeing each other at these stores. Certainly no objections have ever been made. The harsh truth is that IiAGR officials are bent on seperating ihe races. Just as they have drawn the color line in forbid ding Negro case workers to pay professional visi.s on white ap plicants, so thjey now- move to split up the workers themselves. By instituting that policy they have taken a tremendous step for ward toward fanning the flame and perpetuating racial animos ity. Of course, the order is destined to work a hardship on many work ers, both black and white. For in stance, if a Negro worker lives closer to a store to which whites go he may be required to go far out of his way to another "Negro s ore.” The white worker may find himself in the same position The stores are being located in various districts and one will probably be located in the Negro section. Whether it will be man ned by Negroes or not has not yet been decided. There is a pos sibility that it will be. That would follow the LACR tradition of in stituting a completely separate set-up for the Negro people. Drive lo Keep Workers Apart Of course, LACR did not invent this separation policy. It has been in vogue in Los Angeles, and other parts of the nati.on, for many years. Es sentially it is part of that fierce and determ.ned drive to keep workers apart. And if LACR authorities can be credited with persistence in playing their role in separatng the races they have at least never reached the heights attained by the city of Los Angeles when it built its transmission line to bring power from Boulder Dam to the city. Power in Los Angeles is supplied by a municipally-owned bureau— “Your City Owned Bureau” says the advertisements. In building the pow er lines, the city fathers went into Jim Crow in a way seldom equalled out side of cities in the deep South. It [ 'vent far enough to forbid “mixed” gambling between colored and white workmen. But that’s getting ahead of the story for next week. (Next week: Municipally-Owned Jim-Crow). Workers Group Expels Anti Negro Member Also Super visor Who Called Police BRONX, N. Y.—(CNA)—At a special meeting of the Workers Cooperative Colony here last week, the Board of Directors of the Colony recommended the ex pulsion of Leo Marquit (white) from the organiztaion for white chauvinism (“race superiority’’ propaganda). The Workers Coop' erative Colony is a cooperative apartment settlement in which oOOO white and 150 Negro tenants live. Marquit Slandered Negro People When the proposal to elect two Negro tenants to the Board of Directors was made at a house meeting on December 10, Marquit expressed the most insulting re marks against the Negro people, asserting that Negroes if allowed to move into the colony would turn the place into slums, and that white girls would not be safe. On December 26, before a large gathering of Colony mem bers, a workers’ jury of 12 found Marquit guilty of white chauvin ism. Manning Johnson, Commun ist leader and labor org in/er, addressed the meeting explaining the “serious dangers of white chauvinism to the growing unity of Negro and white workers in the labor movement ’’ This meeting also accepted the recommendation of the Board of Directors to expel from the settle ment Mrs. McLeary, a NegTO CARD OF THANKS V e are grateful to our many friends for the beautiful floral offering, cars and their kind expression of sympathy in, the loss of my beloved husband, son and brother, Robert L. Turner. Surely it has been an hour of great trial to us, but we have sustained it all by the grace of God and loving hearted friends. Sincerely, MRS. VICTORIA TURNER, Wife. MR. NATHAN TURNER, Father MR. and MRS. NATHAN TURNER MR. and MRS. JOHN TURNER MR. BEN TURNER. CARD OF THANKS e hereby desire to express our sincere thanks to our relatives and friends for their kindness, sympathy and beautiful floral offerings during our sad bereavement in the death of our be loved husband and father. MRS. FLORA RHODES, Wife. MBS. GRACE JACKSON, Daughter. Supervisor of the Home Relief Bureau fo rcausing the police to beat up a group of workers Negro and white, who came to her Bur eau demanding relief for a sick unemployed working woman. Ne gro and whi e members of the or ganization spoke in approval of the recommendation of the Board of Directors NEGROES ACTIVE IN LEADER SHIP OF NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT CONGRESS Washington, D. C.—(CNA)—One hundred and fifty Negroes together with about 50 white delegates, mem bers of Negro organizations, in a ; special sub-session hamrryered out a militant campaign for unemployment and social insurance and against relief discrimination among the Negro masses, at the National Unemploy ment Insurance Congress. The organizations represented at the Subsession included the National Urban League, the Spiritualist Church of Detroit, Father Divine’s Peace Mission, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, National Miners Union and the Unemployment Councils. Delegate Lewis of the Baltimore Urban League, acting as chairman, opened the session, stressing the ur gent need of the Negro masses for a federal system, of unemployment in surance without discrimination at the expense of the employers and federal government. He was followed by Delegate A. W. Berry, New York Acting General Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro R ghts, who outlined the tasks of the Negro and white workers in drawing the Ne gro masses into the fight for unem plo iment insurance. Lelegate Berry presented a draft program for adoption which included the calling of conferences of Negro fraternal organizations to establish federations for unemployment and so cial insurance; the setting up of com mittees against discrimination in emergency employment of Negro pro fessionals and clerical workers; a campaign of petitions to Congress men Arthur Mitchell demanding his endorsement and support of H. R. 2827 (Workers Unemployment Insur ance Bill). A woman delegate, representing a federation of Negro womens’ clubs in Washington, pledged the support of her organization to the decisions of the congress. A resolution outlining a concrete plan of action was adopted at the Subsession and will be a part of the record of the congress. T. Arnold Hill, of the National Ur ban League, was one of the main speakers of the congress. AFRICAN PASS-LAWS FORCE NATIVE WOMEN INTO PROSTITUTION Johannesburg, So. Africa.,(CNA) — More than 250 natives met here to hammer out a militant Program of struggle against the “pick-up” laws, slave “pass” laws and the general ! brutal persecution of the South Afri can natives. “It is our historical task to strug gle against slavery,” M. Kotane de clared in opening the conference. “We must show our oppressors that we are going to fight until pick-up, passes and other forms of persecution end.” C. Marks received enthusiastic ap plause when he stated, “Africans should fight against the vicious lodg ers’ permits whose operations result ed in thousands of women being thrown out of locations into prostitu tion. South Africa is a stinking slave market and the oppressed Africans should commence to struggle for their rights”. Pass laws require natives to carry governments permits, purchased at a high price, whenever they wish to go to the market, when they wish to ] travel to another town—in short, whenever they moved more than a few feet from their master’s eye. The South African natives are re quired to carry the following 12 slave passes: 1, Identification pass; 2, Trav elling pass; 3, Six day pass; 4, month ly pass; 5, Daily laborers pass; 6, Day special pass; 7, Night special pass; 8, Trek pass; 9, Location visitors per mit pass; 10, Lodgers permit; 11, Poll tax receipt pass; 12, Exemption pass. The conference elected a continua tions committee to carry out a con crete program of action against pick up and pass laws. Negro History' Week Negro History Week will be ob served throughout the entire club de partment of the North Side Y. W. C. A. Speakers and forums have been arranged. •TUBBS SYX WKYS HAIR GROWER keeps the hair straight, Beautifies and grows at the same time. Prices 25 and 50 cents TUBBS SHOP OF BEAUTY CULTURE 1712 N. 24th St. We. 2243 Barn Lack? Mo-Jo Incense. How it perfumes the sir. Fills year room with the fragrance of flowers. Banish, es bad smells. Write for F R E SAMPLE of Lucky Mo-Jo Incense and Agents’ Money-Making Offer Famous Products Oo, Dept. 802— 5249 Cottage Grove Are- Chicago 10. USA. WHIPPINGS, SHOOTINGS, CLUBBINGS, MARK TREAT MENT OF NEGROES IN MARYLAND REFORMATORY . _ Baltimore, Md., (CNA)—The shoot ing of Aubrey Bronson, an inmate of tho Cheltenham Reformatory, by a guard, Hurleiy (white) broke the Chinese wall of censorship surround ing the Institution disclosing its medi eval tortures and slave rule. Wh ppings, clubbings and bread and water “diets” for the Negro inmates were common practices. The Chelten ham Reformatory, located 40 miles from Baltimore, was established b private wealth/ individuals ostensi bly to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents (ages ranging from 9 to 21). In real id/, it has been a source of tre mendous profit for the Board of Trus tees through the brutal exploitation of the inmates. When the International Labor De fense learned of the shooting, it im mediately organized an Abolish Chel tenham Committee, demanding an end to the slave rule and the dismissal and punishment of the guard Hurlev. Inhuman Conditions. The Board of Trustees was present ed with a score of affidavits signed b< 'orrner inmates testifying to the in human conditions and with hundreds of petit ons signed by citizens of Maryland demanding the immediate abolition of these conditions. However, the Board whitewashed the shoot.ng and condoned the slave rule. The Abolish Cheltenham Com mittee plans to organize a mass peti tion drive and delegation to Governor elect Nice. DIVISION CHAIRMEN TO AID TICKET SALE FOR NATIONAL FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW Ford Hovey, in charge of the sale of reduced price advance tckets for the National Flower and Garden show to be held in On^aha at Ak-Sar-Ben coliseum starting March 30, has an nounced division chairmen to aid him in the ticket campaign. They are: W. O. Swanson, retail and j wholesale division; W. F. Cozad, finan cial; Alvin F. Johnson, South Omaha; Ford Bates, public service; Harley Conant, hotels; R. F. Myers, Council Bluffs, and Glen B. Eastburn, Miss ouri Valley territory. r ilty-thousand of the advaiice tick ets will go on Sale starting February 1. When these are all gone, the ad mission price will then be raised to 65 cents for the duration of the show. In a communication to division heads Mr. Hovey cautoned them of the absolute impossibility of obtaining more of the advance tickets: “When the national committee was here in Omaha last week I made a personal plea that Omaha and this territory be given an adequate number of the tickets. But due to the financial ex igencies of the venture, the committee insisted that only a very limited num ber of the advance tickets be sold. Our quota must remain at the 50,000 fig ure,” he said. Division heads will act as chairmen of groups to handle distribution of the tickets. Each division will be allocat ed an amount of the tickets repre sentative of the number of persons in its particular class. When this fig ure has been exhausted, no more of the tickets will be allowed the divis ion. Under direction of division heads, who will report directly to Mr. Hovey' tickets will be placed in the hands of workers. Persons in the division may then obtain them from workers. Sale of the tickets throughout the Mssouri Valley outside of Omaha and Council Bluffs will be under direction of Glen Eastburn, Omaha Chamber of Commerce commissioner. These will be distributed through chamber of commerce throughout the territory. RELIEF DEMANDS BRING NEW ORLEANS.-CNA) _ For going to Emergency Relief headquarters on November 8 to ask for aid, four women and a white man were sentenced on December 21 to 30 days in the House of Detention. Three other women, arrested with them, will stand trial in the near future The Omaha Guide Recommends The State Furniture Co. Corner 14th and Dodge Streets. As One of the Most Reliable and Accomodating Firms to Buy from. Prices the Lowest and Terms the Easiest CLASSIFIED ADS FOR SALE—Beautiful 8 room, modern home, wonderfully constructed, -team-heated, 4 larjfe bed rooms, besutiful basement and back yard, screened-.:n front porch for sale at your own price to cLse an estate. Call pf. 2212 Burdette Street for further informaton. Remodelled furnished room. We. 3707. FOR RENT—Modern furnished rooms Call WEbster 4042. Furnished Apartments, Reasonable. WEbster 2243. The women are Mrs. Glzina V.'tst. Airs. Irene Wya t, Mrs Marie Krnst and Mrs. Magnolia Gordon.. The white man is Leo Khalif. Kahlif was arrested for coming to the defense of Mrs West, who was kicked in ,'h<* stomach by the police during the effort of the group to visit relief officials. The delegation was un der ihe leadership of the Unem ployment Council. The I. L. I). defended the cases In conducting the trial, Judge Rose of Second Recorder’s court, made a slur against the mixed or ganizations of Negro and white people. He referred to the Unem ployment Council ’as a Negro or ganizations. and when informed by the defendants that it is an organization, of Negro and white workers, he said: “Then :his is not the kind of organization we want in the United States ’’ JUDGE JAM.ES H. FITZGERALD RULES MIS-TRIAL IN THE DAM AGE SUIT OF FRED SAUNDERS, VS. H. KATZ, PAUL HOLLIDAY AND MYRTLE WASHINGTON FOR $10,000.00 Hon. Janies H. Fitzgerald, District Judge ruled mis-trial after day and half of taking tesUmony in the trial of Fred Saunders, vs H. Katz, Paul Hollida;,) and Myrtle Washington for $10,000.00 damages. Fred Saunders, sued H. Katz, Paul Holliday and Myrtle Washington, for $10,000.00 damages which he alleges he suffered by reason of the defen dants conspiracy to ruin his reputa tion by filing an insanity complaint against him; he alleges further that after said complaint was filed by the defendants he was unable to secure employment or in another manner make a living. The case was opened Monday, Jan uary 28th in Judge James M. Fitz gerald Court room w.th Emmett Mur Ph» representing Fred Saunders, plaintiff; Ervin Levin representing H. Katz and Ray L. Williams, represent ing the defendant Mlyrtle Washington. The error occurred ih the second day of the trial, when Ervin Levin, who represents H. Katz on Cross-ex amination of one of Plaintiff’s wit nesses made a remark, which court held was prejudicial to the rights of plaintiff, and therefore discharged the jury and declared the procedure a mis trial. The case was again placed on the call list for an early hearing. When consulted concerning the case, Ray L. Williams, Attorney for Myrtle Washington stated “That this is a case, where someone is looking for something for nothing” and thanks to the highly development of the Courts and the average mind of the jurors, that it just isn't being done, that the day of concocking some imaginary story and then going to the Courts and jury, asking to sustain that story is passed. By Attorney Ray L. Williams. Ross Drug Store Now Located At 2122 N. 24th St We. 2770
