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VOLUME IX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, March 30th, 1935 NUMBER THREE
HITLER HELPS ABYSSINIA AND JAPAN
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Modern uLove Harem” Raided By Officials
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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
FOUND IN LOVE NEST
Pleads Guilty to Contributing to De
linquency of 15-Year-Old Girl—
Six Girls Taken Out of
House.
Cincinnati, 0. — A modern “love
harem” which houses girls of high
school age, is believed to have been
discovered with the arrest and con
viction of Robert Dalton, 37. of 520
Plum street, who was sentenced to
six months in jail by Judge Charles
W Hoffman in Juvenile Court last
week, after he had pleaded guilty to
contributing to the delinquency of a
15-year-ohl girl.
The girl, whose name was not re
vealed, has" been turned over to juve
nile court authorities, it is said.
As a result of the case, Judge Hoff
man ordered the probation depart
ment of Juvenile Court to make a
thorough investigation into the restau
rant and rooming house at the Plum
street address.
The restaurant, known as “Hog
head Joe’s Place,” is operated by Jos
eph Blackman. He has a lease on
the second and third floors of the
building.
Six Girls Taken Out
Court attaches testified during the
hearing that they had taken six girls,
all of them high school or college
age, out of the house on different oc
casions, and inferred that the place
was a “love-harem.”
Blackman, however, said that he
maintained the rooms as sleeping
quarters for his employes.
Dalton said, in court, that he was
dishwasher and general utility man in
Blackman’s employ.
MISS MADELINE SHIPMAN TO
WED
The engagement of Miss Madeline
Shipman, popular young Omahan, to
Mr. Alfred Doherty, of Kansas City,
Missouri, was announced last week,
when Miss Shipman, who is employed
in Kansas City, Missouri, accompanied
by Mr. Doherty, visited her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Shipman, 2724 N.
30th Street.
The wedding will take place Easter
Sunday.
A CORRECTION
We wish to make a correction that
the Heaven and Hell entertainment
given on March 15th, under the aus
pices of the Pleasant Green Baptist
Sunday School, was at Mrs. Dora
Blueford, 2864 Binney instead of Mrs.
Faulkner Oliver.
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CONFINED WITH DISLOCATED
SHOULDER
Mrs. Petersen, of Petersen’s Bakery,
2506 N. 24th Street, has been confined
to her home ever since she fell, break
ing and dislocating her shoulder, about
three weeks ago.
Mrs. Petersen’s arn> and shoulder
are in the cast, and it will probably be
somo time before she will be able to
be out again.
Have friends, not for the sake of
receiving, but of giving.—Joseph
Roux.
NAZI CLUB BARS NEGRO GUEST
New York—(CNA)—The German
Club of City College was denied the
right to have a supper party in
Eol.ng’s Casino, Bronx, New York,
because one of its members is a Ne
gro student.
The Casino, a public eating place,
informed the group, through one of
its employees that “the colored man
could not be served there!”
Eoling’s is located in a neighbor
hood which was the scene recently of
a Nazi mass meeting. A leaflet ad
vertising the meeting called on
“ r/hite Christians” to unite in Nation
alism.
The City College chapter of the
National Students league announced
that it will take legal and other steps
to fight this outspoken exhibition of
Negro discrimination in New York
City.
MR. W. 0. SWANSON SAYS:
If you Love Flowers, Don’t Miss the National Flower and Garden
Show from March 30th to April 7th, 1935.
At the National Flower and Gard
en show which opens at Ak-Sar-Ben
coliseum at 2 o’clock Saturday after
noon there will be hundreds of roses
like this one with a 12-foot stem.
They are now being carefully cared
for in the Wilcox greenhouse in
Council Bluffs. Don Wilcox is shown
holding the rose with Virginia, two
and-one half year old daughter of
Mts. Lee A. Borders, 2424 Saratoga
Street, pointing at the rose buds
which are encased in parafin paper to
delay their opening.
Ownership of Land
AsKs Federal Aid to
BILL TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE NOW
PENDING IN CONGRESS.
Atlanta, Ga., March 23:—Govern
ment aid to end the evils of “share
cropping” by enabling thousands of
tenant farmers to become self-sup
porting landowners is urged in a re
port just made public here by a com
mittee composed of Dr. Edwin R. Em
bree, President of the Julius Rosen
wald Fund, Dr. W- W. Alexander,
Director of the Commission on Inter
racial Cooperation, and Dr. Charles S.
Johnson, of Fisk University.
The report, based on an exhaustive
survey of the South’s agricultural sit
uation, reveals that 71 per cent of the
South’s cotton farmers are landless,
that 58 per cent of its total farm pop
ulation is in the same unhappy con
dition, that tenancy is rapidly increas
ing, and that declining exports of cot
ton are steadily undercutting the
foundations of the tenant system. A
far-reaching program of government
aid to ownership is seen as the only
remedy. The report reveals the fol
lowing facts:
In 1930 of 3,088,111 farms in the
thirteen Southern states, fifty-eight
per cent, or 1,789,000, were cultivated
by1 tenants, of whom 1,789,000, were
cultivated by tenants, of whom 1,091,
000 were white and 698,000 colored.
In the case of cotton farms the pre
valence of tenancy ran to seventy-one
per cent, and in certain Black Belt re
gions to eighty per cent and upward.
Due to the agricultural depression of
the nineteen-twenties, the number of
tenants increased 'in ten years by
200,000 through loss of farms and
otherwise.
Since 1930, according to the report
the Federal limitation of cotton acre
age, the steady decline of cotton ex
ports, due to tariff barriers and the
rapid increase of cotton production
abroad, (which in 1935 promises to ex
ceed that of the United States,) have
undercut the living of multitudes of
tenant farmers wholly dependent up
on cotton. Others it has cast entire
ly adrift, without access to the land
or other assured means of support.
As a result millions of people who
normally should be making their living
on the soil have been thrown on re
lief.
The report concludes that the South
is confronted with the necessary
choice between continued crop con
trol, with subsidies for idle lands and
relief for displaced tenants and labor
ers, or a program of Government aid
by which multitudes of tenants may
become self-supporting landowners,
after the example of Ireland, Den
mark, and other countries. It seems
obvious to the committee that to con
tinue the present system offers no
hope, and that the latter course will
be not only far better, but also cheap
er in the long run.
The committee is giving all possible
support to a bill introduced in Con
gress a few days ago by Senator
Bankhead, of Alabama, providing for
a vast government project to restore
tenants to land ownership. This
would be done by selling them land in
small tracts or by lending them mon
ey to buy, on long time and at low
interest rates. The committee re
gards his proposal as of the greatest
importance, both for immediate re
covery and for rebuilding the crumb
ling economic and social foundations
of the nation.
Honest men esteem and value noth
ing so much in the world as a real
friend. Such a one is, as it were
another self.—Palpay.
Undergoes Serious
Operation
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MR. HERMAN FRIEDLANDER
Mr. Herman Friedlander, of Her
man’s Market, 2422 N. 24th Street, is
confined to St. Joseph’s Hospital
where he underwent a very serious op
eration. This is the second operation
Mr. Friedlander has had within the
past twelve weeks.
Mr. Friedlander was anticipating a
vacation in the East. He planned to
leave Sunday, March 24th, accompan
ied by Dr. Price Terrell, Attorney Ray
L. Williams and Mr. C. C. Galloway,
Acting Editor of the Omaha Guide,
who were going as far as Chicago and
Detroit. On being examined Satur
day by his physician, Mr. Friedlander
was ordered to make reservations at
the hospital on Sunday.
Monday the operation was perform
ed, and the hospital reports that Mr.
Friedlander is doing very nicely at
present.
SETS TABLE IN REAR FOR
COLORED PATRONS.
Mrs. Dorothy Pollard, Miss Tamer
O’Neal and Miss Frances Covington,
case workers on the F. E. R. A., went
into the Harvey Annex, located at
24th and Cuming Streets, Wednesday,
March 20th, to eat their lunches.
Shortly after the waiter had taken
their orders and gone to the kitchen
to give the orders in, he returned to
say that the proprietor, Harvey Jacob
son, said that if the colored people
wanted to eat there, a table would be
prepared for them in the rear, but
hey could not eat in the front.
Mrs. Pollard said that this was the
first time they had gone in there, as
the place looked so much like a dump.
But due to the fact that some of their
co-workers, white, recommended the
food, they thought they would try the
place.
Mrs. Pollard and the Misses O'Neal
and Covington declined to lunch there.
LIFTING
Lifting the Scales from your eyes,
That you may see and perceive and
see the need,
Lifting, Lifting the burden from the
heart,
That you might understand, and
lend a helping hand.
Lifting is—is the purpose of the Ne
gro Press, that the
Race may have a chance to earn its
bread, and have a little rest.
The Omaha Guide is doing its best,
It is not easy but it is worth the test
If we all lift together, it will, be much
lighter
By* paying your subscription when
due.
B. S. Sutton,
' _Circulating Manager.
OMAHA’S LEADING CHOIRS IN
SPRING MUSICAL
For some time it has been the
thoughts and wishes of some of the
people of Omaha to see among the
choirs and musical clubs a closer
spirit of solidarity. These wishes are
brighter than ever before, as the lead
ing choirs are coming to St. John’s
A. M. E. Church, 22nd and Willis,
Sunday, March 31, at 3 p. m., to pre
sent the first Sunday afternoov musi
cal of the kind in the city of Omaha.
This promises to be a very fine pro
gram, in which the following choirs
are taking part: namely, Zion, Imper
ial, Mt. Moriah, Bethel Baptist of
South Omaha, Zion Senior, St. Phillips
Episcopal, Pilgrim Baptist, Clair
Chapel, Hill Side Presbyterian and
St. John’s A. M. E.
Rev. F. P. Jones of Mt- Moriah
will speak ten or twelve minutes on
The relations of the Choir to Public
Worship.
The choirs will form for their differ
ent processionals at 3 p. m. It is
very desirous that the many friends
wrho are going to attend will be on
time so as not to detract from the
beauty and sacredness of the proces
sionals .
It is hoped that out of this will
come a permanent organization by
which such programs will be given at
such times as the group may see fit.
CORONATION BALL TO BE GIVEN
IN MAY
The Fifth Annual Corontaion Ball
sponsored by St. Phillip’s Episcopal
church, will be given this year the
latter part of May at Dreamland
Hall.
Watch this paper for the date.
RED HOT AMATEUR BASEBALL
TEAM
If you are a baseball player and
lover of the game, register at the
Omaha Guide office Monday and Tues
day, April 1st and 2nd, for a red hot
local Amateur Ball Team to play in
Omaha and nearby towns.
Mr. iRchard Stanley will be on the
job to welcome you.
AFRICAN NATIVES MURDERED,
FRAMED
Pretoria, So. Africa—(By Mail to
CNA)—The local magistrate white
washed the brutal police murder of
Nicodemus Mahaba, Native worker,
who was “suspected” of having stolen
a coat. The magistrate declared the
killing “justifiable”.
Three Natives, who attempted to
prevent the murder, were sentencd to
on month’s hard labor each. They are
Alfred Fulda, Koos Keletsi and Amos
Molowena.
WINS $7,500.00
DAMAGE SUIT
Jude Redd, 2436 Blondo Street, was
awarded $7,500.00 by a jury in District
Judge Fitzgerald’s court for the death
of his daughter, Cecil, who was fatally
injured when struck last July 17.
The verdict was against the Atlas
Special Beer Company, and James
Moranto, driver of the company truck.
Cecil was the eldest girl in a family
of eleven children and had a small
sen about three years old.
E. L. Murphy was attorney for the
plaintiff.
By William Pickens.
He didn’t mean to do it, of
course. Hitler would be the last
man on earth to do anything to
help “inferior” races and na
tions. He was jusl seeking the
psychological moment for his own
move in his own behalf—and de
cided to issue his rearmament
defi to the world, while so much
of the world was engaged with
other interests—while Italy was
busy trying to steal Abyssinia and
the United States was busy try
ing to bear-bait Japan. He also
wanted to speak out and throw
overboard the Versailles Treaty
before England and France could
perfect) their plans for Eastern
European peace pacts. Any ar
rangement that would tend to
stabilize the status quo, would
tend to make it harder for Ger
many to rebuild its vast armies;
agreements among the other na
tions of the world, based on the
theory of a disarmed or partial
draw together against Germany,
if she started to increase arma
ments after those other nations
had arranged to support the stat
us quo. That is why Hitler and
his administration made up their
minds to strike now.
But incidentally they caught
Italy’s hand that was about to de
scend mercilessly on the blacks
of Abyssinia. We doubt whether
Italy will have the temerity to
go as far toward crushing Abys
sinians as she would have gore,
but for this threat by Hitler on
her rear. After all, the decision
of the Abyssinian Emperor to
stand firm and not yield to
Italy, may prove a lucky bit of
statesmanship, Italy cannot fight
a mean war in Abyssinia and bluff
Hitler and a vast army of Ger
mans out of pressing into Aus
tria at one hand and the same
time. Mussolini may keep on en
rolling men in his armies, but we
dare predict that they wont and
embark for Somaliland now.
Haile Selassie may save his oil
lands from being grabbed off by
thieving Europeans by the fact
that those thieves are falling out
among themselves. cW hear that
Mussolini has, or intended to
have, a quarter million of Italian
soldiers in Africa to humiliate
the tribesmen of the African
kingdom. That would be folly,
with greater interests being in
danger from a European conflict.
Talk abdut politics making
strange bed fellows—just think
of what “allies” are made by
war moves; Hitler and Haile Se
lassie find themselves aiding and
abetting each other, without any
formal alliance, in this very
minute.
Incidentally also Hitler gives
us Americans something to think
about besides the Japanese in
Asia. We were just about to send
our navy out into the Pacific to
sneer around a bit at the Japan
ese navy and people and to satis
fy our Japandphobes— by our
naval maneuvers scheduled to
take place from May 3rd to June
10th. That offered the prospect
of beginning war with Japan,
provided some Japanese fool
should shoot a torpedo at one of
our ships or lay a mine in the
pathway of our fleet. And Japa
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' $7,500.00 AWARDED TO FATHER OF AUTOMOBILE VICTIM >
ITALY HALTED IN
ABYSSINIAN ATTACK