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VOLUME IX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1935 NUMBER FOURTEEN
St. Loivf Call Twelve Page Paper, Makes Appearance
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Attempts Suicide After Murdering His Wife
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AIR SQUADRON HONORS
MISS BESSIE COLMAN
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Drop Wreathes While Flying
Over Cemetery
Formation Includes
Five Planes
Chicago, June 13, (ANP)—Memor
ial Day marked a new ei-a for the
Negro in aviation. For the past five
years it has been the policy of the
Challenger Air Pilots Association of
this city to fly over Lincoln Cemetery
and drop flowers in honor of the late
Bessie Coleman, pioneer woman in
aviation and the first of the Negro
race to sacrifice a life for the cause
ef flying. Her plane crashed in
Jacksonville, Florida eight years ago.
Colonel John C- Robinson, president
of Challenger association started this
memorial commemoration for the
club when it possessed only one
plane in which to fly. This year the
club boasts of five ships, owned and
operated by Negro pilots from the
Harlem Airport. In the absence of
Colonel Robinson, Lieut. Col. Cornel
ius R. Coffey made preparation, early
Memorial Day, to lead the five planes
on their memorial flight. In the
midst of low clouds drizzling rain
they one by one gained the required
altitude when they received the signal
from Lieut. Col. Coffey, pulled into
formation and headed toward the
south-east. Upon the invitation of
General Frank Stewart, Commander
in Chief of the Military Order of
Guards, of which this aviation di
vision is a part, the planes circled Mr.
Glenwood Cemetery at 10:00 A. M.
and dropped wreaths in honor of our
departed veterans. With the ex
ception of the five pilots in the air
all members of the air corps were
present to hear taps given. After the
completion of ceremonies here, the
crowd journeyed to Lincoln Cemetery
where Rev. Austin, pastor of Pilgrim
Baptist Church, had a representative
audience assembled around the grave
of Bessie Coleman. Exercises were
in process. Miss Willa B. Brown,
enthusiastic lady flyer, spoke in be
half of the aviation division. She
paid homage to the late Bessie Cole
man who has been an inspiration to
her as well as five other young wo
men who are interested in Aeronau
tics. Sh believes that too much cred
it cannot be given Colonel John C
Robinson, who is now visiting in
Paris, France; or Lieut. Col. Cornel
ius R. Coffey -who is now in command
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Prominent Citizen
Passes Away
Mr. S. H. Dorsey, who has lived
in Omaha for the past 60 years,
passed away fa a local hospital
on Friday, June 14th, at 3:30 p.
m. Mr. Dorsey was one of Onfa
lta’s pioneers business men. His
first business venture was the ice
and coal business in 1903, with
Mr. Alfred Jones as his partner.
For the past twenty years he has
been in the catering business,
until bis health failed him.
Mr. Dorsey operated the Dor
sey Chicken Hut on West Center
Street for four years and had
charge of the Carter Lake Club
for three or four seasons. He
vas last employed with the Ne
braska Power company as a glob<
salesman.
Dragonettes
Soft Ball Team
The Dragonettes, girls’ soft ball
I team, under the management of Mr.
j Stanley Hale and Mrs. Dell Lewis,
defeated the Safeway Cab girls at
20th and Lake Streets, Wednesday,
June 6th, by a score of 9 to 6.
The firms that donated sweaters
I to the team are: Emerson Laundry,
Kimball Laundry, Dresher Bros.,
; Sam Hornstein Grocery, Duffy Phar
macy, Herman’s Market, Black’s Oil
Station, Welch Oil Station, Deep
Rock Oil Station, Forbes Bakery,
White’s Service Station, Sunset Taxi.
Other donation^ were made by
Edholm-Sherman, Willa’s Beauty
Shop, Myers’ Funeral Home, Robin
son Drug, Belzer Market and Mr. H.
A. Taylor, of the Ritz Theater.
This is the first girls’ soft ball
team ever organized in this com
munity .
CASE OF MISTAKEN
INDENDITY
White Woman Withdraws Charge
Against Negro.
Chicago, iJune 13, (ANP)—“I'm
sure glad I was down south with all
this mess happening,” gloafted 24
year-old Junious Weathers Thursday
afternoon, being held in the county
jail pending the clearing up of false
charges against him which had
caused him to be held to the grand
jury under bonds of $20,000.
“My name would have been mud,”
continued Weathers, “If all this had
happened down at my home in Ala
bama. I remember about eight
years ago, me and a boy named Ollie
Smith, were returning from a fishin’
trip near Brewton when a mob of
whites seized Ollie and accused him
of doing something to a white wo
man. He hadn’t done a thing be
cause we had been fishing all the
time the thing was supposed to have
happened. But just the same, they
took him, the white woman identified
him, and we never heard of Olie after
that.
“They would-a got me, too, but I
saw them coining and sort o’ hung
back and when I saw how they were
talking to Ollie I sneaked out of the
way. We lost all track of Ollie after
we heard the white woman had iden
tified him. I never expected that J
would be in the same fix with Ollie,
but I’m mighty happy that I got my
bad break in Chicago rather than
down home ”
Weathers was arrested after Lean
LaPorte, a young white woman, had
complained that early on the morning
of May 18, she and a white compan
ion had been hed up near the White
Sox baseball park by a colored man.
She and her companion asserted that
this man had forced them into a small
park where the white man was forced
to lie on the ground, guarded by an
other colored man who showed up,
while the first man raped the woman.
Armed with the description given
by the La Porte woman, the white
police (who always get busy where a
white woman is involved) began
combing the district to find a man
fitting the La Porte description.
Weathers was arrested. Taken be
fore the La Porte woman and her
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HOLC Applies Rigid Eligibility Tests to Applicants for Loans
Under New Legislation Permitting New Applications to Be
Taken
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HOLC Applies Rigid Eligibility Tests to Ap
plicants for Loans Under New Legislation Per
mitting- New Applications to be Taken Until
Midnight, June 27th, 1935.
J) BALING with the amendment to the Home
Owners’ Loan Act, signed today by President
Roosevelt, which permits the Home Owners’ Loan
Corporation to accept new loan applications, John
H. Fahey, chairman of the Corporation, today is
sued the following statement, emphasizing that such
applications will be accepted only from home
owners who are clearly in distress, and are threat
ened with the loss of their homes through fore
closure.
“The same tests of eligibility of HOLC appli
cations which have been applied in the past will
in general continue in full force under this new
legislation. The Corporation intends to make every
effort to assist home owers who are in genuine fi
nancial difficulty, but it will be forced to reject
every application which is not clearly eligible.
“No home owner should apply for a loan until
he has first made certain that his application will
be eligible under the Corporation’s restrictions. He
should realize that the rejections of an ineligible ap
plication, on grounds of deliberate default on exist
ing debts, is likely to cause the home owner the
loss of his property, because of the unwillingness
of his present mortgagee to carry the loan follow
ing such default.
“Largely as a result of more than 2 1-2 billion
dollars in bonds already disbursed to them by the
Home Owner’ Loan Corporation, lending institu
tions are in a far stronger position today than they
were a year ago. They are well able to recast and
carry reasonably sound mortgage loans, instead of
coercing, or even encouraging such borrowers to
make application to this Corporation.
“The tests of eligibility are as follows:
1—The applicant must have been in involuntary de
fa idt on his home on June 13th, 1933, and unable
to carry or refund his present mortgage, unless it
can be shown to the Corporation’s satisfaction that
a default occuring later than June 13, 1933 was the
result of unemployment or other misfortune beyond
the applicant’s control. The Corporation was
created to protect honest home owner who are in
temporary difficulty, and not for the purpose of
saving lenders from the results of their own past
mitakes in making excessive loans, or in lending to
persons not entitled to credit.
2— The past record of the applicant for integrity is
a vital factor. Any applicant will be rejected as
ineligible if his general record is unsatisfactory,
partcularly if he has deliberately defaulted on his
existing indebtedness, and has a record of not pay
ing his bills when he is able to do so.
3— To redeem the home from forced sale or volun
tary surrender, such sale or surrender must have
taken place since January 1, 1930.
4— The applicant must be in actual distress with
his mortgage indebtedness and threatened with the
loss of his home by foreclosure. Applicants who
have no present or prospective income of any
character, and clearly could not meet the indebted
ness, are ineligible unless their notes are also signed
by responsible parties.
5— The property must be used by the owner as his
home or held by him as his homestead and as a rule,
it must have been his home on June 13, 1933.
G—The home must have a value not exceeding $20,
000 as appraised by the Corporation. No loan may
be made for an amount exceeding $14,000 or 80 per
cent of the Corporation's appraisal of the property,
whichever is the smaller.
7— Ordinary farm property is not eligible unless
the applicant draws his main livelihood from no
farm occupations.
8— No applicant will be granted a loan if such re
financing is intended only to protect a bank loan or
other business obligations.
9— The Corporation will not refinance the home of
an owner who can continue to carry his present
loan.”
Applications will be filed with Local Attorneys’*
one of whom has been appointed for each county in
the State.
To Establish Law
Firm of Adams,
Adams and Adams
Rev. >John Adams* Sr., who is in
Omaha for a short time only, will
open the law offices of Adams, Adams
and Adan*s at 310 Karbach Block,
during his brief stay. These offices
will represent Rev. John Adams, Sr.,
who is also an attorney, Attorney
John Adams, Jr., and Attorney Ralph
W. Adams, who just recently re
ceived his degree from, the college of
Law at the University of Nebraska
Attorney Charles F. Davis will al
so be located in the offices of Adams,
Adams and Adams.
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Mrs. Green Deceased
Mrs. Willie Green, 2863 Ohio
Street, who has been seriously ill for
sometime, passed away Monday, June
10th, at 11:45 P. M. at a local hospit
al. Mrs. Green was bom in Omaha
and had lived here all her life.
She leaves a husband, Wade Green,
three children, Alice, William and
Robert Green, father, W- B. Watson,
three sisters, Mrs- Otis Jamieson,
Mrs. Cuma Claytor and Mrs. Alice
Jones, and a host of friends.
The body was taken to Myers’ Fun
eral Home. No funeral arrange
ments have been made.
Quack Club Operetta
A Big Success
The committee reports that seven
hundred people attended the Quack
Club operetta “College Days”, given
at the Ritz Theater, Thursday, June
6- About forty-five talented young
men and women took part in this
operetta, under the direction of Miss
Estella Robertson, assisted by Mrs
Helen McWhorter at the piano.
HUSBAND KILLER JAILED
Wilson, N- C-, June 13, (ANP)—
Mrs. Luella Jones was arrested here
last Tuesday for the murder of her
husband, Tobe Jones in Nash county.
After killing her husband, Mrs. Jones
fled to the home of her father.
WORKS 17 YEARS
SIX MONTHS FOR WHITE FIRM,
Mr- Leroy Robins, who just passed
the Pharmacuetical Examining Board
in the state of Wyoming, was re
marking to friends a few days ago
that he had been working for seven
teen years, and only six months of
that time for a white firm. He says
he would not know what to do work
ing for any other than our group.
He now expects to engage in the
Drug business in Omaha.
Mrs. Mary Washington is improv
ing nicely at her home.
~ OVER VIADUCT;
RESCUED BY POLICE
St. Louis Call
Makes Appearance
St. Louis, Mo., June 13, (By Con
tinental Press)—The St. Louis Call,
a 12-page newspaper full of news
and pictures, including 2 women’s
pages, 2 sport pages and a theatrical
page made its appearace here Fri
day, June 7.
According to the wording on the
editorial page, this new journalistic
venture is published by the St- Louis
Call publishing company, with Alvin
D. Smith, editor. Offices are in the
Odeon Theatre Building, Grand at
Finney.
Noticable among the contributing
columnists were: Sam Shepard, di
rector of athletics of Negro schools
at St. Louis; J. E. Cook, Boys Work
secretary at the Pine Street Y. M.
C. A.; Roy Wilkins, Assistant Sec
! retary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple and editor of the Crisis magazine;
L- Herbert Henegan, Fay Young
and Lucile Bluford.
Smith, the editor has had consider
able newspaper experience, at one
time having had charge of the dis
tribution of the Chicago Defender in
its heyday and later a publisher of a
newspaper of his own in Cincinnati.
He was publisher of the Beautician
Magazine here.
During the week prior to the first
issue of the St- Louis Call Fay, News
Editor of The Call, Kansas City, Mo
better know as Fay Young, spent sev
eral days in St. Louis and was in
daily contact and conference with
Editor Smith. He was back here
again Friday. The two newspaper
men were frequently seen hobnob
ing together in public places and in
the Pine Street Y dining room. It
has been hinted in unofficial circles
that Fay Young may become manag
ng editor of the new publication.
Others hint he may direct the news
department of the St- Louis Call and
the Call published in Kansas City.
When questioned by a representa
tive of the Continental Press, Young
said he was in St. Louis on a visit
and being interested in newspapers
gave Smith a helping hand with the
first two issues of the St. Louis Call.
When asked if ha intended to con
nect himself with the new organ,
Young answered in his usual cold,
curt matter of fact way: “J do not
choose to answer”. In an effort to
interview Editor Smith, the Conti
nental Press was told, “See Mr.
Young”.
Young has had 34 years newspa
per experience during which he has
held various positions ranging from
newsboy to printer’s devil; from po
lice station reporter to managing ed
itor- He is well known as a column
ist and as a driving forceful recorder
of news. He is well known as a foot
ball official, track and boxing referee
and is recognized as one of the fore
most commentators in the country;
so much so that the Kansas City Star,
one of the leading white metropoli
tan dailies of the nation, carried a
leading sport editorial on his work
last fall. Young s now present news
editor of the Kansas City Call having
succeeded Roy Wilkins, assistant sec
retary of the National Asociation
for the Advancement o f Colored Peo
ple and managing editor of the
Crisis Magazine.
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TeUs Passerby That He Just
Killed Wife.
Attacked While Doing
Family Irioning
Johnston, Pa., June 13, (By B. K.
Jordan for ANP)—Mrs. Georgia
Pride, 43, wounded in a murderous
attack by her 35 year old husband,
Morris Pride, died at Lee Hospital
here Wednesday afternoon. Pride
who attempted to commit suicide by
I jumping into the Conemaugh River,
was rescued and taken to the same
hospital where his wife was dying
He is being held for murder.
Mrs. Pride’s head was laid open,
apparently with a hammer. Pride is
reported to have come home while
his wife was doing the family ironing
and to have attacked her. He then
made a wild dash down the street to
the Prospect Viaduct and leaped over
into the river- Just before he leaped
he is reported to have told a passerby
that he had just killed his wife. He
was rescued from the river by City
police.
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Negro Hospital
Discussed Here
Plans for a 400 thousland-dollar
Negro hospital in Omaha were being
discussed here today, following the
arrival Yesterday of Rev. Amos H.
Carnegie of New York City, founder
and executive secretary of the Ne
gro National Hospital fund
Funds for the hospital would be
raised through private and voluntary
contributions of about 1-cent a week
from the 12 million Negro in the
United States, and would be collected
through the 42,600 Negro churches in
the country and the bankers with
whom the churches do business, ac
cording to Rev. Carnegie.
He said he planned a one hundred
bed hospital for Omaha.
The program calls for the estab
lishment of Negro hospitals in the
90 cities which have a Negro popu
lation of more than 10 thousand; and
the establishment of six tuberculosis
santa Rev. Carneifie said he is
making a nationwide survey now of
the hospitalization, medical educa
tion and nurse training problems of
the Negro race, preparatory to
launching a nation-wide campaign in
October to raise 200 million dollars
to finance the program.
Dr. R. R. Moton
Reported Dead
Mr. S. E. Montgomery, pro
prietor of the Montgomery Gro
cery 26th and Lake Streets, re
ceived the following information
from his sister, Mrs. L. E. Stall
worth, who lives in Beatrice, Ala
bama : “I was informed that Dr.
R. R. Moton was dead.”
Mrs. Stallworth’s daughter fi
nished at Tuskegee last year
The Omaha Guide called the
Associated Press and the two
dialy papers. Neither had any in
formation on this matter.
Mrs. Stallworth is a reader of
the Montgomery, Alabama, daily
paper. Mr. Montgomery, her
brother, says he believes she had
some reliable course of informa
tion.
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Victim of Mistaken Identity Glad To Be In Chicago^