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Prominent Real Estate Agent Passes Away * ! Per Copy number fifty-one ___ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935 VOL. VLH.— 1 ___ " * ' * — — - j'* yt jr\ j>\ y\ , BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT To the readers of the Omaha Guide, we, the officers of said companies, do hereby extend to you a Business Directory of Display Advertisements for the firms that make it possible for the Omaha Guide to serve this Com munity. Therefore, we sincerely re quest that our readers and friends give the following firms their kind consideration when they are in need of the commodities sold by these ad vertisers. Thanking you in advance for your support of these merchants, we are: Grant Street Pharmacy, 24th and Grant Sts. Mason & Knox Cafe, 2307 N. 24th St. Duffy Pharmacy, 24th and Lake Sts. Ideal Garage, 2419 Lake St. Frank Marks’ Grocery, 24th and Par ker Sts. Carey’s Coal Company, 27th Street at Grant. Rabe’s Buffet, 24th and Lake Sts. Colton Dry Goods Store, 2503 N. 24th Street. Lewis Service Station, 24th and Grant Streets. American Weiner Shop, 2509 N. 24th Street. Her man’s Market, 2422 N. 24 th St. Tuchcan Bros., 24th and Lake Sts. Autrey Ice and Coal Co., 2519 Grant Street. Kraft Bargain Store, 2518 N. 24th St. Petersen’s Bakery, 2506 N. 24th St. Nebraska Power Co., 17th and Harney Streets. Gerber Consolidated Auto Parts Co., 2501 Cuming Street. Emerson Laundry, 2324 N. 24th St. Publix Cab Co., 305 S. 27th Are. Ross Drug Store, 2122 N. 24th St. Silver Slipper Nite Club, 1123 S. 6th Street. State Furniture Co., 14th and Dodge Streets. Edholm-Sherman Laundry, 2401 N. 24th Street. Ritz Theater, 24th and Patrick Ave. Harry Mason, 1512 Farnam St. Northwestern Bell Tel. Co., 19th and Douglas Streets. Officer Suspended For For Slugging Man r SUSPENSION INDEFINITE Late Tuesday, February 26th, it was announced by Chief of Police Sa mardick that Officer Melvin J. Levin, son of Mrs. Ida Levin, candidate for Member of the Board of Education in the last election, was indefinitely sus pended for “conduct unbecoming an officer”. Complaint was filed against Officer Levin about ten days ago by George Crumbley, a local Negro musician, who alleged that, without any justifiable provocation, Levin at tacked him while in his (Levin’s) austody. From the evidence it ap pears that Crumbley was under ar rest for disturbing the peace, having had an altercation with his wife. Of ficer Levin, at the time, was trans porting him to the cell rooms via the elevator when the attack was made. From the attack Crumbley sustained a fractured jaw bone and was unable to testify when the cse was first called. Accordingly, the case was postponed until last Tuesday. 'p Crumbley was given a ten day sus pended sentence for disturbing the peace. EDUCATION IS GREATEST NEED AT THE PRESENT CLAIMS CLEAR THINKING, DI VESTED OF EMOTION AND PREJUDICE, IS ONE OF THE DIRE NEEDS OF OUR RACIAL GROUPS Capetown, South Africa, Feb 28— Representing the Negroes of America and the A. M. E- Church in South Africa, Bishop D. H. Sims delivered an address heard by a large audience, Thursday evening at annual confer ence of th3 civic body which is com posed by “coloured” people in South Africa. “No single factor has been more potent in progress than thinking,” said Bishop Sims, “give me right, straight thinking on all the great problems and a part of the task is done- Thinking in the League of Na tions, thinking in the various Dis armament Conferences thinking in the Economic Conference, in great mis sionary enterprises, in education, in the recent political crisis, n Parlia ment. thinking in the matter of race color, and class will go far towards solving the problem. We and all people need an adequate philosophy of life to get on in this world. Think ing is to progress what a plan is to ?. builder. The plans and specifica tions must be clearly discerned be fore the building is begun. Think ing has never been an epidemic. Few men have done the thinking of the world. “Clear thinking, divested of emo tion and prejudice is one of the dine n eds of our racial groups and lead ers. Thinking is a hard job. “We are told,” he continued, that there are 2,062,084,147 inhabitants on earth. Only 900,000,000 are white and 1,162,084,187 non-white- What is the function of this crowd on earth. except eating, sleeping, reproduction ■ and fighting? Education Needed. “How can man best perform his task of agency for God in promot ing progr:ss in the world. By edu cation, mutual understanding, social service, cooperation, organization, de termination, development of racial or group consciousness and of world group consciousness. “Education within the group for brain would rule the world, and ignor ance will have little chance in the new world order. The education of the European for they need to know the ability and progress of non-Eu ropeans “Tens of thousands of Europeans do not know that there is a Colored Councillor in Cape Town who sits with dignity and merit in that power ful body and who presides over one of the most important departments of the Municipality. A very worthy European woman who has been in South Africa for 25 years told me she was surprised to know that there are Native doctors and native school inspectors in South Africa. The church which I represent has been operating in South Africa for 37 years, recognized by the Government as any other well regulated body, and many Europeans still misunderstand ■t. They have thought it a segregat. ed church, when on the contrary it wa3 born out of the hot embryo of protest against segregation. The Crab Sin “Cooperation is another important function—within the group and get rid of the crab sin, without the group for you cannot make progress in a I country like ours without coopera tion with the Government. Loyalty to it is essential. Coopera tion with the best Europeans. For that is the way the American Negro has risen from obscurity into his pres ent status. Levin Asks Friendship; Support of Negroes To the Colored People of Omaha: I deeply regret that this most un fortunate incident, namely the affair between George Crum,bley and myself, has been magnified to such propor tions as to have almost become a com munal issue. The incident is one of those things that some times occur to mar the beautiful friendship and brotherly feeling that does exist be tween our two racial groups. Our people have always lived and co operated with each other in a harmo nious manner never *yet reached by any other minority groups. It is my fervent prayer and wishes of my peo ple that the colored people will per mit this unfortunate occurence to be decently forgotten and that I aan cont inue to call my colored friends, friends. I am saddened by the thought that so soon after I had to part with the moral but not spiritual person of my pal and comrade, Polic#. Officer Rob ert Turner, that his friends and I were to be estranged. I know as a clean decent young man that the im mortal soul of Bob Turner if it could only give voice to words would say that Bud Levin and he were the best of friends, both of us serving our city and all of its people to the very best of our ability If at any time I have seemingly been over zealous in my conduct, please rememb r that it is only be cause I have been eager to do my duty as a police officer. A police man’s life at its best can not be of such that an alert young officer can not but help to sometimes offend and occasionally hurt the feeling of some citiz'ens. I ask the colored people of our community to make possible by their expression of friendship and good will towards me, my early, return to my duties as a police officer of Oma ha. With kindest personal regards. Sincerely, Bud Melvin Levin. MISSOURI WEEKLY GIVES WHOLE PAGE TO ANTI LYNCHING DRIVE New York—The Hannibal Register, a weekly newspaper published at Han nibal, Missouri, devoted an entire page in its issue of January 19, to the cam paign for the passage of the Costigan Wagner Federal Anti-Lynching Bill. Calling lynching “the national crime’’, it asks its readsrs to “support the nation-wide campaign against lynch ing in America. Write the President today, fiend a card or letter to your Congressman or Senator at Washing ton. D. C. Mass protest will win. Ask them to support the Wagner-Cos tigan Anti-Lynch Law Bill now be fore Congress.” JOHN ADAMS ,JR. INTRODUCES SECOND BILL The following bill was introduced to the House of Representatives by the Representative from the Ninth District, Attorney John Adams, Jr. This is the second bill that Mr. Adams has introduced since taking his office. The bill was unanimously acc:pted Legislature of Nebraska, Fiftieth Session—House Roll No. 403. A BILL For an act to amend Section 20.1201 compiled statutes of Nebraska, 1929 relating to -civil, district court; to enumerate persons incompetent to testify as witnesses in all cases and to repeal said original section. Introduced and read first time Jan uary 29, 1935. Read second time January 30, 1935- Referred to com mittee on Judiciary. Sent to printer January 30, 1935. Be it enact'd by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. That Section 20-1201, compiled statutes of Nebraska, 1929, be amended to read as follows: Every human being of sufficient capacity to understand the obligation of an oath, is a competent witness in all cases, civil and criminal, except as otherwise her in declared- The following persons shall be incom petent to testify: First. Persons of unsound mind at the time of their production. Second- Husband and wife, concemnig any communication made by one to the other during mar riage, whether called as a witness while that relation subsists or after ward, except as may be otherwise pro vided by law. Third. An attorney con cerning any communication made to him by his clien in that relation or his advice thereon, without the client’s consent in open court. Fourth. A clergyman or priest, concerning any confession made to him in his pro fessional character in the course of discipline enjoyed by the church to which he belongs, wthout the consent of the person making the confession. That said original Section, 20-1201, compiled statutes of Nebraska, 1929 is hereby repealed. 2,000 NATIVES EXPELLED FROM SO. AFRICAN TOWN Johannesburg. So. Africa—(CNA) During Christmas week about 2,000 persona were expelled from Doomfon tein under the Urban Areas Act. Most of them have gone to live in Orlando and Prospect Township. The most heartrending scenes were witnessed when africans packed np their possessions on hand carts and other vehicles or carried them on their backs. Whole streets of houses stand vacant with “to-let” notices in their windows. Indians and colored people are al lowed to rent them, but Africans are no longer allowed there. Already soma of the old “yards” are being pulled down to make way for factor ies. The Urban Areas Act legalizes the expulsion of Natives from areas where wealthy whites live if the au thorities desire so. NEGRO YOUNG REPUBLICANS’ MEETING POSTPONED The meeting of the Negro Young Republican Club, which was scheduled for Sunday, March 3, has been post poned until the following Sunday, March 10, at 4 p. m., with Attorney John Adams, Jr., the principal speak er. The place of meeting will be an nounced later in this paper. -—-( A. J. Davis Real Estate Agent Dies Mr. A. J. Davis, 2605 Grant Street, Prominent Real Estate Agent, died Tu sday, February 26, at his home. Mr Davis was born in Anderson, Texas, fifty-one ^ears ago. He moved to Dallas, where he married. After leaving Dallas, hs went to Kansas City, Missouri, and then to Omaha in 1913. He became a member of Zion Baptist Church, later changing to Mt. Moriah. He finally returned to Zon, of which he was a member at the time of his death. Mr. Davis has been prominent in the Real Estate Business for a great number of years. He leaves to mourn his loss five brothers, Mark Davis, Parsons, Kan sas, Wash Davis, Kansas City, Miss ouri, Ed Davis and Richard Davis, both of Los Angeles, California, E. M. Davis of Omaha, and one sister, Lula Henson, Navasota, Texas, and a host of relatives and friends. The body was taken to Lewis Mor tuary. The funeral arrangements have not been completed. SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS IN “IMITATION OF LIFE” Review by Rev. Laurence Plank Rev. Laurence Plank, pastor of the First Unitarian Church, will speak on Social Implications in IMITATION OF LIFE, Sunday, March 3, at 3 p. m. The play in which Louise Beavers not ed Colored actress is starred with Claudette Colbert has elicited nation wide comment from the press and pulpit. The picture was recently pre sented at the Ritz Theater before a packed house each night. Rev. Plank, known as one of the outstanding Ministers. Humanist, and publicist of Omaha is well prepared as a speaker on this occasion. The meeting will be held at the Urban League-Center building, 2213 Lake. A symphonic concert featuring the Lewis City Service Orchestra, will be given Sunday, March 3, at 2:30 p. m. at the Omaha Urban League-Mid City Building, 2213 Lake- The concert, which will be directed by Mr. George Bryant, will offer to Omahans some thing new and different. The orches tra which is composed of 25 pieces will render a 45 minute program, at conclusion of which Rev. Laurence Plank will speak on Social Implica tions in IMITATION OF LIFE COMMISSIONER TO SPEAK AT COMMUNITY CENTER Law Enforcement League To Hold Protest Meeting The North Omaha Law Enforce ment League will hold a protest meet ing next Tuesda'y night, March 5, at the Community Center, 2213 Lake Street, to determine what action should be aken in the case of the slug ging of George Crumbley by Officer Melvin J. Levin. The League will, protest the re-instatement of Levin and will take up other matters of public interest. City Fire Commissioner, Bernard Stone, will be guest speaker at this meeting. Mr. Stone is an eloquent, interesting speaker. The public is in vited to attend the meeting at 8 p. m DETECTIVE SERGEANT FILES BANKRUPTCY Detective Sergent Ulysses S. Mat thews filed bankruptcy in the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska, Omaha Divis ion. The hearing will be held on March 12, 1935, at 10:45 A. M. COMPANY PRESIDENT PROMISES REWARD Newton Jones, 3320 Emonet St. pre vented a possible train wreck on the Missouri Pacific Railroad Saturday afternoon about 4:30 p. m. when on discovering a broken rail in the vicini ty of 34th and Bedford St- He re moved one of the signal lights and flaged a nverchandise express of 45 cars to a stop. Newton said that he discovered the d fective rail while re turning from his mother’s home. Al though the trainmen said that they would report the prevention to the proper authorities, Newton said that he had not heard from the company as yet. It was reported in a daily paper Sunday that the Superintendent of the road had stated that he would recommend a suitable reward and a job if Jones could qualify. UNCLE SAM TO START DRIVE ON ALIENS The long awaited report on the exact number of aliens in this coun try has been made public. It shows that right now, there are 20,000,000 aliens in this country, and 10,000,000 of these are here illegally. The great problem of unemployment, towether with th shocking crime wave in this country, brought about the survey, it s known. The list shows that there are in the United Stae3, mil lions of people who do no belong here and who are takng away! from the natve ctzens, many jobs and much of the money whch could go toward feedng and clothng our own. How to get rd of ths mass humanty, has bjen the study of the eDpartmen of Jusce for over a year. Complete data has been collected, and soon the drive to get rid of our alien population will be inaugurated. The reported policy of the Depart ment is to make a clean sweep of all classes and races. It th» countries irom which these aliens came, can not take care of them, why should they be allowed to stay h:re and fo ment trouble among our own. Many of he un-American movements in this country, are traced to some of three aliens. They have been here for years, many of them, and having enjoyed Perfect freedom in all their activities, they have assumed the role of a real native, and have become bold in many of their activities. The city of New York is said to house a great mass of these aliens who are passing every dajt as Americans, so lax has this country been toward deporting them. Ten million of the aliens here are liv ing here against the laws of the country, and they know it, but having been let alone, they have become bold to share any and everything this country has to offer its own citizens. The labor organizations will be combed thoroughly. The cities and towns will be combed from house to house until the whole alien population is rounded up for deportation to the countries from which they came. These millions here are employed at a wage detrimental to the American citizen. They not only work for less, but they send their earnings across the waters. They join many of the agitations for higher wages to make it appear that they are native citi zens. Much of he unemployment can be overcome, if the Department of Jus tice, with the assistance of the State Departments, gets busy with the task of rounding up and deporting these aliens. The American Negro suffers more than any other citizen because many of the aliens are Negroes from other lands- Our own Negro population is all we can care for, and that none too well. The Bill to require all common carriers to employ only native born citizens on Pullman cars, dining cars, parlor cars and like, will help some; but deportation of the aliens unlaw fully herj, will help more. Congress has the problem before it now, and somefchng s to be done before the grass gets green. Our economic boycott advocates will be interested in the boomerang ef fect of the Anti- Nazi boycott on Ger man imports. American imports from Germany in November, 1933, were $6,603,732- In November, 1934, fol lowing a year of the boycott, Ameri can imports from Germany were $5, 544,457. a million dollar loss. But a far more striking variance is to be found in the German imports from America. In Novemb.r 1933, these amounted to $16,873,201. In Novem ber, 1934, German imports from us amounted to only $5,063,043, a loss of almost twelve million dollars. Thus, Anti-Nazi boycott here, was less effective than German counter boycott. Those who advocate boy cotts always forget that the other fellow can boycott, oo. The Fory-Ninth State group in Chicago, launches an ambitious na tion-wide drive to win Negroes to the idea of a separate state where they can develop unfettered by the white man’s presence, his influence or pre sumably, his capital. “The white man has shown that he does not want us, is not interested In us. We must do something for ourselves." So says Attorney Oscar Brown, “Governor General" of the movement, thus revealing how unfa miliar he is with the history of his people and of his nation- If the white man had not wanted us and was not interested in us, we would not be here. And of course, Negroes have been “doing something for themselves” all along, as witness the ownership of a million homes and 25,000 businesses. Happily, Negroes have a sense of hu mor, so that the 49th State program will not get far. FORCE RELEASE OF SGOTTSBORO MARCHER New York—(CNA)—On February 11, the case against Leroy Hudson, member of the International Labor Defense, was thrown out of General Sessions Court here- Mass pressure, supported by the legal defense con ducted by Irving Schwab of the I. L. D., was responsible for forcing Judge Fraschie to dismiss the charges. Hudson was arrested on July 25, 1933 at a Scottsboro demonstration in Harlem. The police framed up a charge of larceny against him and he was kept in jail without bail for over two months. Later on he was indicted on a charge of stealing a camera from a representative of Collier’s magazine While the case was pending, the District Attorney threatened to “send Hudson up” for the limit. n.fl.fl.C.r MASS MEETING AT CLAIR CHAPEL, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 4 P, M. 17 ’ T :— -!