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VOLUME IX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1935 , NUMBER ONE
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FIRST LADY CHARMS
GUESTS AT CONCERT
Mrs. Franklin D. Rcosevelt (
Charms Guests.
Hampton Institute, Yra., March
14.—Before an audience which
completely filled the East Room
of the White House, the Trade
school Ringers of Hampton In
stitute gave a concert of song
last night, prepared especially for
the “First Lady” of the land,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Passing over the matter of the
impression created by the singing
of the students, the one marked
note which has caused comment
by mlmbers of persons present,
was the special graciousness
with which Mrs Roosevelt expres
sed her appreciation of the music
to which she had listened. Mov
ing fr6m her place at the close
of the concert, she went quickly
to the singers and expressed her
pleasure for the music they had
sung, in words and with a sinceri
ty which won the whole group.
It was a whole hearted, kindly
expression of thanks which touch
ed the singers deeply? and .help
ed better to an understanding of
the almost marvelous hold which
the President’s wife has taken
upon so many people.
To those Singers she spoke her
word of appreciation, and added
to this her warm wishes for their
future. The trainer of the, group*
Mr. Gerald Wilson, had each boy
stand and be presented to this
kindly mistress of the White
House. To Miss Dorothy Mainor,
Hampton’s splendid: graduate so
prano, Mrs Roosevelt gave a speci
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WIFE, SISTER SEE MINISTER
DIE IN PULPIT WHILE
PREACHING.
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Topeka, Kans., By —NCP—The
St. John A. M. E. Church here
was thrown into consternation
Sunday afternoon when Rev. Mat
thew Wilson, 59, dropped dead of
heart failure while delivering the
quarterly conference sermon. Sev
g eral ministers were in the pulpit
at the time, and Wilson struck
President Elder Everett in falling.
Mrs Alice Wilson, his wife and
Mrs. Alice Jackson, his sister,
were in the audience and saw him
fall dead. He was born in Ox
wakie, Kans., March 4, 1875 and
came to this city in 1929.
HOLD WiHJLTEL AWYSR IN
ATTACK CASE
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Knoxville, Tenn., March 14.—
Claiming that Charles R. Calo
way, a well known young white
lawyer .forced her into his car
and then attempted to criminally
assault her, Miss Bessie Johnson,
will soon face her alleged assail
ant in a local court.
Following a recent hearing,
Calloway was bound to the Knox
county grand jury under $2,000
bond.
Miss Johnson charges that Cal
loway brutally mistreated her and
only the arrival of police prevent
ajjjfd the assault, which her assailant
*^was attempting.
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Assembly Urged to
Reject Rights Bill
Indianapolis, Ind.,—March 14.
—The following resolution, con
demning Legislator Henry J.
R i c h a rdson, for introducing
a Civil Rights Bill in the Indana
General Assembly and urging the
rejection of the proposed meas
ure, was sent to the Assemblymen
of the Hoosier tSate hv Fountain
Square Klan Xo. 184 of the Klu
Klux Klan of Indiana..
. .An exact reproduction of the
original manuscript follows:
Invisible Empire.
Knights of the Klu Klux Klan.
Fountain Square Klan No. 184.
Realm of Indiana.
RESOLUTION.
WHEREAS, Henry J. Richard
son, a Negro, has introduced a
bill in the House of Representa
tives of the General Assembly of
the State of Indiana to increase
tlie penalties against hotels, res
taurants, theaters, and barber
shops, for refusal to give equal
accomodations to all persons re
gardless or color1 and
WHEREAS, said bill will have
the natural effect of increasing
friction between the races and
seriously hamper all efforts to
promote interraial good will; and
WHEREAS, we know from past
experience that after the passage
of sueh, a bill bands of radical
Negroes will make it a point to
seek out white places of entertain
ment for the purpose of compel
ling the managers of such places
to entertain them; and
WHEREAS, we firmly believe
in the right of every person to
choose his social and business as
sociates and to restrict his deal
ings to white, black, red, yellow,
brown, red-headed, bald-headed,
slim, fat, or any other class of
persons, and that any law restrict
ing that right is an unjust infring
ment of natural rights; and
WHEREAS, said bill will inter
fere with the comfortable and
convenient enjoyment by white
people of the service and enter
tainment afforded them by other
white people operating such plac
es of service and entertainment;
and , . . t
WHEREIAS, said bill will dis
courage the development of hotels,
restaurants, theaters and other
similar businesses by Negroe seek
ing the patronage of their own
raceT Therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, that Foun
tain Square Klan No. 184, Realm
of Indiana, Invisibe Empire
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in
Klonkave assembled respectfully
urge to the General Assembly of
the State of Indiana that said* bill
be defeated.
BE IT FURTpER RESOLVED,
that said Klan respectfully urge
to said General Assembly that all
acts now in effect imposing
penalties upon the operators of
any business for refusal to accom
modate all persons regardless of
PAUL .MURRAY RETIRED
U. S- EMPLOYEE DEAD
Mr. Paul Murray, retired Post Of
fice employee, was reported a suicide
at his residence, 2502 N. 24th St..
Thursday moring March 14th, his wife
died about three months ago
N. A. A. C. P. Founder
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MARY WHITE OVINGTON
Founder of the N. A. A. C. P., whc
has acted as Chairman of the Execu
tive Board since 1909 Miss Ovington
has given her entire life in the inter
est of justice to the Negro race. Do
you appreciate such loyalty? If you
do, attend the N. A. A. C- P. Mass
Meeting. ;
race or color be repealed; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
thta said Klan respetfully urge
to said General Assembly that a
bil|l be passed providing that
whenever separate and equally
convenient and comfortable ac
comodations are provided in any
public conveyance 'for different
raes ,it shall be a misdemeanor for
any person to enter the accomoda
tions reserved for members of a
race other than his own unless
eomonations are provided for the
race to which suh person belongs.
Done in the Klavem of Foun
tain Souare Klan No. 184. Realm
of Indiana. Invisible Empire,
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan this
25th day of January. A. D. 1935.
in witness whereof the Exalted
Gyclons of said Klan has caused
the Kligrapp thereof to affix
hereto the Seal of this Klan.”
Fountain Square Klan.
NEW YORK POLICY RACKET
EXPOSED.
New York. March 14.—An in
vestigation into crooked activities,
tinder the direction of Commis
sioner of ’ Accounts, Paul Blan
chard, last week disclosed that
“policy” or “numbers playing”
has spread from Harlem to the en
tire city and that the yearly in
take might reach nearly 500 mil
lion dollars.
Exposed as one of the big busi
nessmen of the policy racket was
Arthur, Dutch Schultz, Flegen
heimer, who is alleged to have
transferred his criminal activities
in 1932 to policy and to have or
ganized the racket throughout the
city. Testimony on the spread of
policy and the amount of money
invested was given by J. Richard
Davis, a lawyer who acted as
legal representative and bondsJ
man for Schultz.
Davis told members of the
Will Speak at Bethel A. M. EL Sunday
Dean Pickens will tell you why you should support the
N. A. A. C. P. and give you the inside view* on the Costigan-Wagner
Anti-Lynch Bill at Bethel A. M. E. Church, 2430 Franklin Street.
Sunday March 17 at 3 p. m.
Here are a few reasons w'hy you should support the N. A. A.
O. P.. The N. A. A. C. P. has
Won 6 victories of major import
ance before U. S. Supreme Court af
firming Negro’s fundamental citizen
ship rights. These victores are:
1. RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION
outlawed when Lousville, Ky., segre
gation ordinance was held unconsti
tutional by unanimous decision of Su
preme court, 1917.
2 GRANDFATHER CLAUSES dis
franchising Negroes barred by Su
preme Court, 1915, Moorfield Storey
submitting brief amicus curiae for
N- A. A. C. P.
3—TRIAL DOMINATED BY MOB
held to be not due process of law,
1925 by Supreme Court in decision
freeing six Arkansas Negroes sen
tenced to death, and resulting in re
lease of 6 others sentenced to death
and 67 sentenced to long prison
terms.
4 and 5 EXCLUSION OF Negroes
from Texas Democratic primary vot
ing held unconstitutional in 1927 and
agan in 1932.
6 LOUISIANA SEGREGATION
case affirming decision in Louisville
case won before Supreme Court 1927.
OTHER GREAT LEGAL victories
include: Release of Dr. O- H. Sweet
and 10 others who defended his home
from mob in Detroit and were de
fended from murder charges in two
sensational trials by Clarence Dar
row and Arthur Garfield Hays. Cost,
$37,849.
Hundreds of cases fought involving
school jim crow extradition of lynch
ing states, unequal accomodation in
public carriers, unfair court trials,
police or official brutality.
Blanchard committee that there
were approximately 100 policy
bankers in Harlem, 40 to 50 in
Lower Manhattan, 100 in Brook
lyn, 50 to 60 in the Bronx, or
around 350 in the entire city.
Schultz’s control included Har
lem as well as other sections of the
city. At first, the former policy
barons of Harlem became “bank
ers” or “controllers” under
Schultz. These men kept their
organizations intact and received
a 10 per cent rakeoff on all money
collected. This system prevailed
until Schultz tried to cut the con
troller percentage to five per
cent. The men in Harlem then
rebelled and some followed the
racket independently.
Franklin Harris enroute to Denver
spent Wednesday in Omaha.
EYE KNOCKED OUT,
FACE SLASHED IN
“ATTACK" FRAMEUP
Newark, N. J.—(GNA)—On bis
way to work last week, Henry Jordan
was seized by city detectives and
savagely beaten. One of his eyes was
knocked out, blood spurted from his
head like a geyser, and the flesh on his
face was cut into ribbons
Jordan was arrested on a charge by
Shirley Adelman, 173 ^Jellif Avenue,
that “A Negro had attempted to burg
larize her home”. Several other white
women had complained that “A mys
terious bedroom prowler” had been
in their homes. Although none of the
women claimed any attacks on their
persons, the city police and the local
press have attempted to inject the
“rape” angle into the story as has
happened in the Clide Allen case in
LEGISLATURE FAVORS
WESTERN UNIVERSITY
N. A .A. C. P. Secretary
WALTER WHITE
Executive Secretary of the N. A. A
C. P., and former investigator of
Lynchings in the South for the N- A.
A. C. P.- Many times he, in disguise,
was made deputy sheriff and assisted
in the search for law violators.
Brooklyn and many other cases
throughout the United States.
There is no evidence whatever that
there was any such “mysterious bed
room prowler” or that Jordan knew
anything about the alleged burglaries.
Mrs- Henry Jordan has retained the
International Labor Defense to defend
her husband. The investigation by
the I. L. D. attorneys shows that the
case against Jordan is a crude frame
jup
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SEIZE CHICAGOANS WITH
1,000 FIVE DOLLAR BILLS
Popular Bluff, Mo., March 14.—
Highway patrolmen here last
Thursday arrested three Chica
goans who had in their possession
1,000 five dollar bills. The men
were Willie Davis, John McGee
and Joe Williams.
Detroit, Mich., March 14.—For
mer Assistant Attorney General
Harold E. Bledsoe, candidate for
judge of the circuit court on the
Demoratic ticket was beten in the
primary Monday.
He made a poor showing.
MISSISSIPPI SLAYING
SUSPECT IS LYNCHED
Slayde, Miss., March 14.—Ab Young,
a Negro, was hanged to an oak tree in
a schoolyard three miles east of here
this afternoon by a mob of about 50
white men.
The Negro, who had been sought
in connection with the shooting to
death Saturday night of Harry
Mackie, 45, a state highway worker,
went to his death with a hymn on his
Kps.
SCOTTSBORO DECISION
EXPECTED THIS MONTH
New York—(CNA)—Last week the
natonal office of the I. L. D. announc
ed that decisions on the appeals of
Clarence Norris and Haywood Pat
terson, two of the Scottsboro boys,
may be expected any week during
the month of March.
Owing to the rules of the United
s
PRESENT administration
“DOING A MOST SATISFAC
TORY JOB,” SAYS REPORT.
Topeka, Kansas, March 14._
By the Continental Press.—The
Kansas Legislature which ended
early Sunday morning appropriat
ed eighty-three thousand dollars
for the upkeep of the State In
dustrial Department at Western
1 niversity for the fiscal years
1936-37.
The appropriation by this ses
sion of the Kansas Legislature re
quired no lobbying and was given
without protest on the part of the
Legislature. The attitude of the
legislature in this instance was
in diametrical and sharp contrast
to previous appropriations, there
having been necessity for much
lobbying and strong influence on
the part of those interested in
Western University.
The recent appropriation with
out necessity of lobbying and in
sistence is viotved as an unmis
takable indication of the State’s
satisfaction and approval of the
management' of the affairs of the
historic Quindaro institution und
er the present administration of
the State Board of Trustees nam
ed by Governor Alf. M. Landon
and Bishop W. T. Vernon, present
superintendent who was elected
Board of Trustees.
The board of trustees named by
(lovemor Landon is composed of:
Bishop J. Arthur Hamlett, Presi
dent, Kansas City, Kans; Dr. J. G.
N. Soanes, Vice-president, Kansas
City, Kansas; Mr Gerard B. Little,
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States Supreme Court, all decisions
are handed down on Mondays. There
fore the ruling of the court on the
two Scottsboro appeals will be hand
ed down on either the 11th, 18th or
25th of March.
The I. L. D. also requested all Ne
gro and white friends of the Scotts
boro boys to flood the United States
Supreme Court with petitions, indi
vidual letters, Telegrams and resolu
tions demanding the reversal of the
Patterson-Norris death verdicts and
the unconditional freedom of all the
Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herdon
The Angelo Herdon appeal will
probably be urged in the United
States Supreme Court some time this
month, according to the latest bulletin
from the I. L. D
HOWARD IS WORTH $5,500,000,
SAYS.
Washington—March 14—How
ard university is worth approxi
mately $5(500,000 not including
nearly $2,000,000 of unexpended
funds of Federal appropriations
for buildings, Dr. Mordecai W.
Johnson ,university president,
told the subcommittee of the
House Appropriations committee
in charge o fthe Inter Department
Appropriation bill for 1936, re
cently made public.
Rev. E. H. Hilson, pastor of Salem
Baptist Church, who had been ill in
Oklahoma a short time ago is much
improved now.
liU KLUX MAN TO URGE REJECTION OF RICHARDSON’S RIGHTS BILL >
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