Prominent Real Estate Agent Passes Away
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___ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF
DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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