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VOLUME DC & O s' OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 20th, 1935 NUMBER SIX
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Evangelist To Conduct Lectures At 24th And Grant Sts.
13 Year Old Boy Accused Of Attacking Officer
SEEK UNCONDITIONAL
RELEASE OF MILLER
FORCE RELEASE OF 13 YEAB^
OLD BOY ACCUSED OF
ATTACKING OFFICER
Bronx, N. Y.—CNA—Edwin
Miller, 13 year old child accused 1
of “assaulting” a 250-pound po-^
liceman at a relief demonstration, 1
was released here on-probation by
Magistrate Levy of the Childrens
Court. The courtroom was pack
ed wi h Negro and white sympa
thizers of the boy.
Witnesses testified to the piti
ful relief received by the Miller
family, $6.00 a webk 'for four
persons. The judge, visibly shak
en by the packed court, posed as:
a “liberal.” He ordered Edwin’s
release on probation and‘instruct
ed the probation officer to ask
for a $5.00 increase in relief for
the family. .
The Unemployment Council
and International Labor Defense
have declared that they will fight
lor the unconditional release of
the boy and for the removal of all
court jurisdic.ion over the case.
Rumored Death of an
Omahan Denied
It was rumored on the streets
of maha and" in the Pool Halls
and Cafes’ that Lester Price, a
former Central High school track
star, and a recent graduate of
Omaha University, was lynched
in Omaha, Texas, or Paris, Texas.
Evidently Paris, considered the
inquiry an insult or of such little
consequence that it did not de
serve and answer, for we have
had no aiiswer from Paris. How
ever, Omaha, Texas, says, “No.
no. “Lester Price, nor any other
citizen has been lynched here.”
Let us hope it is just a rumor.
However, we are still probibing
for facts. Watch this paper for
more information concerning this
case.
Attorney Wins Support
of Negroes in His
Candidacy for Judge
Detroit, Mich.—(CNA) — Clarence
Darrow, world-famous criminal lawyer i
endorsed the candidacy of Mr. Mau
rice Sugar for Judge of the Recorders
Court here last Saturday.
Sugar is a brilliant lawyer, and de
fended James Victory, worker framed
on a rape charge last year. The com
bined efforts of the I- L. D. and the
L. S. N. R- resulted in the complete
vindication of Victory. Sugar’s cand
idacy is supported by the entire Michi
gan labor movement, including such
organizations as the Mechanic’s Edu
cational Society, the Wayne County
Federation of Labor (A. F. of L.),
the Communist Party, the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights, the I.L.D.
and many others. He is also support
ed by many Negro fraternal organiza
tions and churches.
Madame Evanti Will
Appear at Chamber
of Commerce
On Monday, April 22, Madame
Lillian Evanti, International Col
oratura Soprano, will appear at
the Chamber of Commerce, under
the auspices of the City Interra
cial Committee. i
Dinner will be served promptly
at 6:30.p. m. Tickets are now on
sale at the Y. W. C. A. 2306 N.
22nd St. Make your reservations
not later than Saturday. The
public is invited.
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“Ablest Pulpiter” is in
Omaha on Easter
Bishop J. Arthur Hamlett, A.
M. of Kansas City, Kans., will
spend Easter Sunday at Cleaves
Temple, C. M. E. Church. He is
the presiding bishop of the 5th
Episcopal Dis rict of the C. M. E.
I church and will speak at both
morning and evening services.
Bishop Hamlett is the owner of
the PLAINDEALER.,, a Negro
newspaper published in Kansas
City, Kans. He is also one of the
ablest pulpners of America. Don’t
fail to hear him at Cleaves Tem
ple, 25th and Decatur Streets.
Judge Raps Practice of
Dircrediting Testimony
of Race in Court Trials
By. S. B. Wallace
Augusta, Ga. April 11—ANP—
Judge William H. Barrett, in his
charge to the jury in the case of
John T. Witi, charged with the
theft of a mail pouch, that he
thought it was time for the court
to comment on the proposition
that a Negro should not be given
the same recognition in courts as
members of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Previously there had been an
argument of the defense attorney,
in which the latter had contended
that this case was one in which
the United States had little real
interest—that it was a case be
ween two races and that no one
should take the testimony of a
Negro against a white man.
He was referring to the testi
mony offered by Robert Everson,
a colored man, who admitted the
theft of a mail pouch as well as
two mail sacks and implicated
Witt, a white man, through a
written confession.
The government’s position was
that Witt and Everson planned
the felonies after holding a con
versation on hard times and that
Everson snatched the bag from
the mail room of the Union Sta
tion, signalled Witt who drove
his taxi around the park in front
of the station, to a gas station
nearby where Everson joined
him.
The jury brought in a sealed
verdict in Witt’s case.
“Things have come to a pretty
pass,” the court said, “when a
person was not believed on th(
witness stand because of his
color. If the time ever comes
when a man is not believed be
cause of his race, we shall have
taken a long step toward destroy
ing our government. When
justice fails to come from the
jury box, it is high time to raze
our courthouses and abolish our
jury system.”
He also referred to the practice
in slavery days of rejecting the
testimony of a slave. A man could
committ murder and get away
with it if the only witness was a
slave.
N. A. A. C. P. Supports
Civil Rights Bill
Trenton, N. J., April 12. — The
amended New Jersey civil rights law
introduced by Assemblyman J. Mer
cer Burrell is being supported by the
New Jersey State Conference of
Branches of the NAACP and also has
the endorsement of the national of
fice of the Association, it was an
IN CHARGE
Rev. F. P. Jones, pastor of Mt.i
Moriah' Baptist Church opens a great
Revival Campaign, April 21st.
Dr. C. H. Bratton, D- D., Pastor
Evangelist and honored minister of
the First Baptist Church, Leaven
worth, Kansas; the oldest church in
the State, will conduct this meeting.
Objective: Souls saved, Backsliders
Reclaimed, Christians Edified and God j
Glorified.
Omaha is invited to come and hear
this Spiritual giant and Son of Thun
der; as he declares the truth, the
; whole truth and nothing but the
truth so help him God. These are
some of the vital subjects that will
be discussed by the minister.
1. The prerequisites of a Revival.
2. Man where art thou?.
3- My personal Testimony.
4. Have we taken our portion out?
8- Do you know the way.
6. Vital religion undisturbed
7. Unpreceived doom, the hand
writing on the wall.
8. Death in the Pot (Illustrated).
9. Bulwarks of the Nation (Illus
trated) .
10. Four periods of life (Young
people, Illustrated).
11. Making of a man (Profession
al), and many others will be heard.
Mrs. C. H • Bratton, a well known'
gospel singer, will accompany her
husband, and will be heard throughout
this meeting. The church choir will
be its best each night. All Pastors
and churches are cordially invited to
co-opeTate and share with us in this
spiritual blessing, for it is much
needed. Brethren, The harvest truly
is great, but the laborers are few, etc.
“Whosoever will let him come”. Fol
low the crowd and come see for your
selves the church with the old time
spiritual fire and the man with the
message. Devotional at 7:30 P. M.
Preaching at 8:00 P. M. You will
have to come early for a comfortable
seat.
nounced here this week. The bill
represents a considerable improvement
over the present New Jersey civil
rights law and will make it easier to
add other amendments later.
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“Fantastic” Scene of
Shooting
Sunday night, April 14th Lil
lian Thomas, 2634 Parker Street,
and James Vance, 1522 1-2 N.
24th Street, engaged in an argu
ment in the “Fantas.ic,” a beer
and lunch stand at 24th and Char
les Street. In the heat of The ar
gument Miss Thomas shot four
times, one bullet striking Vance.
He was taken to Lord Lister
Hospital, where he was still con
fined at the last report. The trial
will be taken into court either
Saturday or Monday.
KILLS ESCAPING CONVICT
Tucker Prison Farm, Ark.,
18.—ANP—When he attempted
to escape from the state prison
farm two days after he had start
ed serving a grand larceny sen
tence, Henry Taylor, 43 colored
convict from Mississippi county,
was shot to death early Thursday
night by Will Tillman, a trusty,
also colored. Tillman was absolv
ed from criminal charges by a cor
ner’s jury.
UPHOLDS JIM CROW POLICY
OP DEMOCRATIC* LEADER
Washington, D. C.,—CNA—The
•Jim Crow policy of the Democrat
ic Party’s leadership was upheld
in a decision handed down by
the United Sttaes supreme court.
The ruling legally sanctions the
barring of Negroes from the
Democratic Party primaries.
The constitutionality of the
right of the Democratic Party
to exclude Negro voters from the
primary was challenged by R. R.
Grovey, of Harrison County, Tex
as. Grovey, a qualified voter un
der Texas state laws and a mem
ber of the Democratic Party, had
been denied a ballot in the 1934
primaries by the county clerk. His
case was defeated in the lower
courts, and on appeal was
brought to the United S.ates Su
preme court.
i This was the fourth time that
the. rigth of Negros to partici
pate in Texas primaries had been
brought to Washington for op
inion. Successful nomination in
the primaries of the Texas Demo
cratic party is tantamount -to
election. ... _.
Alabama Bill Restricts
Jury Service to Voters
Montgomery, Ala., April 12.—A bill
to restrict jury service in Alabama to
qualified voters will be introduced in
the state senate April 30 by Senator
Bonned of Camden, he announced
here this week.
The purpose of the bill is to attempt
to get around the United States Su
preme Court decision in the Scotts
boro case.
Observers were quick to see the
connection between the U. S. su
preme court’s decisions in the Texas
primary case and the Scottsboro case
Although the Scottsboro decision was
a great victory, southerners immed
iately tir'd, it up with the Texas decis
ion denying Negroes the right to vote
in the Democratic primaries and Sen
ator Bonner’s proposed bill is the re
sultt of their Study of ways and means
to still exclude Negroes from jury
service.
Senator Bonner s bill brings to the
front once more the great importance
of the various primary fights which
have been carried on in the past ten
years and which on occasion have
been denounced as “useless” by some
persons who did not realize their im
portance .
Supported by a decision which ef
fectively disfranchises Negroes it is
possible that reactionary elements in
the South will be able to base all sorts
of discrimination against the Negro
upon the requirement of their being
qualified voters. This is what hap
pened in New Orleans in 1933 when
tho city council attempted to pass a
resolution restricting employment on
a huge bridge, a public works project
to registered voters.
It was announced in New York that
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People is mak
ing a study of the recent Texas pri
mary decision with a view to taking
whatever legal action is possible to
offset it.
MINISTER’S HOME RIDDLED
BY LYNCH MOB
Marked Tree, Ark.,—CNA—
The residence of Rev. A. B.
Brookins, one of the organizers
of Southern Tenants Farmers
Union was surrounded by a lynch
mob last week and riddled with
bullets.
Rev. Brookins had been active
in holding meetings of Negro and
white sharecroppers to improve
their conditions.
For such courageous actiivties
his life has been many times
threatened by landlords who
have organized lynch mobs to
drive him out of town.
Mussolini Provokes
Skirmishes on The
Abyssinian Border
Rome, Italy—Clashes between Ital
ian and Abyssinian troops on the
Abyssinian-Eritrea frontier resulted
in the death of one Abyssinian, an of
ficial government communique an
nounced here.
The skirmishes were the first to
occur on Abyssinian-Eritrea border,
the others having been confined to the
Abyssinian-Italian Somaliland fron
tier.
APPEAL FORGOTTEN
IN CLERK’S OFFICE
DR. C. H. BRATTON, D. D.
EVANGELIST
To Conduct Lecture
Courses
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.Evangelist Henry J. Miller, a
member of “The World League
of Evangelists,” passed through
Omaha from the western part of
the country in his route to Des
Moines, Iowa, where he conduct
ed successful meetings on pres
en day conditions in the light of
Bible prophecy. He received a
great impression while in Omaha,
and a desire to return. This de-1
sire is going to be realized and the |
people of Omaha will receive the!
benefits of hearing this great j
I Bible student lecture on his great
themes of Bible prophecy.
Mr. Miller will give five courses
1 of lectures, some to be illustrated
wit helectrical desolving pictures,
wi.h electrical desolving pictures
ent day conditions, “Man’s Pres
ent Relationship to God in View
of the Judgement” and the
“Second Coming of Jesus
Christ.”
A large tabornaclejsnow being
erected at 24tb and Grant's! reels.
This will accomodate 400 people
who will hear these lectures.
Organizations Demand
Investigations of
Harlem Conditions
Mayor’s Administration Under Fire
For Attempts To White-Wash
Causes Of The Harlem
Disturbances.
New York—(CNA) —Growing out
of the recent turbulent events in Har
lem, Mayor La Guardia appointed the
following committee to investigate
conditions in Harlem:
Eunice Hunton Carter, Prominent
attorney; Hubert Delaney, city tax
commissioner. Dr. Charles Roberts,
well-known physician; Countee Cullen,
noted poet; A. Phillip Randolph, lead
er of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters; Judge Charles Toney, muni
cipal court judge; Oswald Garrison
Villard, publisher of The Nation; Dr.
Grimly, prominent dentist; Morris
Ernst, constitutional lawyer. Arthur
Garfield Hays, prominent Civil Liber
ties attorney.
lhe first open hearing of this com
mittee was set for March 19 at 10
p. m., in the 7th District Municipal
Court, 447 West 151st Street. Promi
nent leaders were scheduled to appear
before the committee to demand a
thoroughgoing investigation on hun
ger conditions, Jim-CroW^relief, po
lice brutality, job discrimination, ex
orbitant rents and bad housing.
Among the leaders scheduled to speak
were A. W. Berry, Acting National
Secretary of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, Williana Bur
roughs, Editor of the Women’s Col
umn in the Negro Liberator, James
W. Ford, Communist leader, Adam
Powell Jr., well-known minister, and
many others.
A demand will be made for the in
vestigation of the recent murders of
Edward Lourie, beaten to death by a
policeman for “talking back to a
white cop”, and Tommy Akin, whose
eye was knocked out by three police
men because he refused to give up his
place in a breadline, and many other
instances of police brutality.
A rising wave of protest against all
efforts of the city administration to
whitewash the conditions of the Ne
gro people in Harlem has resulted in
Arthur Garfield Hays denouncing the
red-baiting tactics of Mayor LaGuar
dia and District Attorney Dodge, who
Negro Hanged Despite
Legal Stay.
Legal Blunder Discovered After The
Execution of Young Suspect
Los Angeles; April 9.—Court ma
chinery moved solemnly here today
to “save” the life of a dead man,
hanged four days ago at San Quentin
prison.
Meanwh.le state officials investigat
ed the legal blunder which sent Rush
Griffin, 19-year-old negro, to the gal- .
lows last Friday although he had been
granted a stay of execution.
An appeal which automatically
postponed Griffin’s death sentence was
found in the files of a lower clerk’s
i office yesterday, apparently forgotten.
The investigation started after
Richard F. Bird, the negro’s attorney,
read of his client’s execution in the
newspapers.
He started on the trail of the ap
peal, filed with a transcript of record
two months ago, and found it in the
office of Court Clerk E. K. Board
man.
Boardman admitted the error and
immediately ordered the appeal filed
and transmitted to the state supreme
court, where, if usual court procedure
is followed, a stay of execution will be
issued to save the dead man’s life.
have unit-ashed . an unprecedented
flurry of police terror againsf ~"&il
workers’ organizations in Harlem.
POLICE PREVENT HERNDON
MEETINGS.
Jersey City, N. J.—CNA—By
intimidating hall owners, police
here prevented two meetings
from being held where Angelo
Herndon, heroic young Negro or
ganizer was to speak.
Herndon is on a speaking tour
in the interest of his own case,
which will be heard soon by the
United States Supreme Court.
TO DEPORT HARLEMITES TO
GET OFF RELIEF ROLLS
New York—CNA—In the back
ground of the recent Harlem dis
turbances caused by enforced
starvation, police brutality and
rent robbery, lies the proposal to
deport 25,000 Negroes from the
West Indies in order to get them
off the relief rolls.
Foreign born workers in Har
lem who demanded adequate re
lief are threatened with deporta
tion.
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Declares Scottsboro
Case a Frame-up;
Wants to Help.
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New York, —CNA—Upon hear
ing of the recent Scottsboro de
cision reversing the death ver
dicts of Clarence Norris and Hey
wood Patterson, Ruby Bates, de
fense witness, declared:
“I am glad that I was able to
help convince many people in
many different parts of the coun
try about the Ssottcboro frameup
and get them to line up behind
the I. L. D. in the defense cam
paign. I wish I could do a lot
more. I wish I could talk to mil
lions of people and tell them the
truth about the Scottsboro case
and ask them to do whatever
they can to help the I. L. D. get
those boys out free and safe.”
She also appealed to all friends
of the Scottsboro boys to rush
funds to the International Labor
Defense to help carry on the fight
for the complete freedom of all
the Scottsboro boys. The address
of the I. L. D. is 89 E 11th Street,
Room 610, New York City.
Ruby Bates Pledges Intensified
Support To Scottsbty’o Cose
