VOLUME IX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY AUGUST 24, 1935 NUMBER TWENTY-THREE
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Transient Bureau Registers 20,934 Unemployed
OMAHA’S LOVELY HOSTESS
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M^s. G. B. L#e*nnox, formerly of New York, who now resides
at 252F» Patrick Ave. Mrs. Lennox makes a woderfunl hostess and
Nt'-f York is a great city but Omaha ns know how to entertain so
says Mias Claudia Gibson, Miss Gibson and Miss Leola Carter are
the housejruosts of Dr. and Mrs. Lennox. Three hundred were enter
tained royally as her guest at the Fontenelle Park.
THIRTEEN PROVED TO
BE A LUCKY NUMBER FOR 20924
UNEMPLOYED MEN j
Tlie following is a few facts about
the Nebraska Transient Bureau:
The Nebraska Transient Bureau
was opened in 312 Merchants Nation
al Eank Building. Omaha, on Novem
ber 13, 1933, calling itself the State
Central Registration Bureau. The
staff consisted of John McPherson,
State Transient Director, newiy ap
pointed. aild Louose Tanner, secretary.
On November 23, a case worker
(S. T. VanMetre, Jr.) was hired and
the taking of case histories began
Every inch of space in the office was
filled with men, standing and sitting
•on park benches, poorly dr-essed and
few of them clean. Winter had set
in, and they needed food, shelter, and
clothing. Their expressions, as they
sat waiting for their number to be
called, were distrustful. They were
suspicious of the motives behind
this new program, although they
were willing to wait, perhaps sitting
in the office an entire day before
their numbers were called, to discover
what was to be done.
All relief was issued from the
central office at this time, including
relief orders for clothing and slips
good for contract meals r *' lodging
at Pacific School and Salvation Army
hotels.
Other arrangements for the care of
these men were soon made. Per
mission was received from the War
Department to use the empty Quar
termaster Depot at 22nd and Hickory
Streets, which had ample room for
development and expansion. The de
pot was opened as a transient cen
ter January 1, 1934. CWA labor was
used for remodeling and conditioning
Buildings for occupancy. A G- Wood
gate was appointed Superintendent,
and another early appointee was
Dr. W. H. Betz, appointed to exam
ne transients medically and give
necessary treatment and surgical
care.
Case w«rjt for families began at
of a woman case worker, and various
agencies handling transient fam- !
Hies throughout the city were in
structed to refer them to tse Tran
sient Bureau.
Special arrangements were made
for segregating boys under twenty
one at the Jefferson Hotel. The en
vironment of the city, however, was
not found conducive toward the for
mation of a good program for the
youths, and in the latter part of
April a tent camp for the boys was
set up on the Plattsmouth Rifle Range
In this area of approximately 700
acres, there was ample room for an
outdoor program, and permission was
reoeived in June from the army to
construct temporary frame buildings
on the range, the work being done by
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the camp residents on a work sched
ule of thirty hours a week.
PJattsmouth Camp has a capacity
c ' 140 men. Work program consists
of road maintenance, clearing under
brush and pruning trees, and general
beautification of the rifle range. In
addition approximately 150 acres are
farmed, and a dairy herd of 52 pro
duces approximately 80 gallons of
milk per day. Camp consists of four
barracks, a mess hall, recreational
hall. and administration building
F. E. Kaser is Camp Director, and
Frank (Joons, Farm and Dairy Super
intendent.
Or April 1, 1934, a Case Work Su
pervisor was added to the staff
(Stella H. Winn) and the entire case
work department was moved shortly
thereafter to 22nd and Hickory, re
sulting in the downtown office being
made primarily a business office. Ad
ditional case workers were added to
the staff to serve the constantly in
creasing case load. The case work
staff now consists, beside the Super
visor, of three case workers and two
case aides in the Facily Department,
in addition to registration clerks,
clerical staff, and volunteer workers
in the Unattached Department.
The program continued to expand
rapidly. Average registration at the
Omaha Center reached 1000 men, and
?. full program of service was made
available. The Center is used as an
Intake Center for the other camps in
the vicinity. Gradually service de
partments were organized and now
include modern laundry, shoe repair
shop, clothing repair and pressing
room, and barber shop. A cabinet
shop was completed, where furniture
for the Center, State Office, and camp
offices was constructed. Canteen be
came operative. A bakery was con
structed with transient labor, provid
ing baked goods not only to the Cen
ter, but to camps and family clients.
Overall and garment factory was in
stituted, and recreational and eddca
tional program worked out.
S. S. Caldwell, appointed early in
1934 to act as Work Eh rector, also
took over direct supervision of the
recreational and educational program, i
Library, theatre, orchestra, recrea- 1
tion rooms, and athletic training con- J
stitute the recreational department.
A typical Center program is as fol- I
lows:
Monday evenings—Movie.
Tuesday evenings—Boxing.
Wednesday evenings—Open Forum
for discussion gf current topics.
Thursday evenings—
Friday evenings—\\audevilie Enter
tainment.
Saturday evenings—Lecture.
(Continued on page five).
XXX 1 X X X XXX XXX XXX
Bishop and Mrs. Gregg Celebrate
200.000 Ethiopian
Soldiers Ready For
Italian Attack
500.000 OTHERS AWAIT EM
PEROR’S COMMAND
Prepared to Fight With Hands
and Fists and Faith in God.
By RUDOLPH DUNBAR
(For ANP)
London, Eng., Aug. 22—The
Italo-Ethiopian war is receiving
as much advance publicity as the
King’s .Jubilee, the Wimbleton
tennis matches, or the American
brand of lynching.
There have been many wars In
the past, before civilization kali
become so refined, but it has tak
en this gracious age to plan a war
with reserved seats.
The World War was set off with
a spark, but it got going quickly,
before the fans knew whether
they were going to occupy the'
seats or the military ranks.
Even preparations for the
American Civil War had to be
made after war was declared.
But for the war in Italy, the
show is ready and the world
awaits the rise of the curtain.
Last week, just prior to the
meeting of League of Nations
Minister Anthony Eden, repre
senting England; Premier Pierre
Laval of France and Baron Pom
peii of Italy, in Paris to confer
on whether it would be wise to
allow the promoters to put this
“Birth of a Nation” show on,
Emperor Haile Selassie hit the
cables with an adroitly worded
message which he had delivered
to his chiefs. At one and the same
time, it said, “Ethiopia will fight
—to the last drop of blood, but
Christian nations, do you think
it is fair, do you think it is civil
ized to allow us to be 'massacred’
by the Christian soldiers, Chris
tian gas bombs ,Christian air
planes and Christian tanks of the
Italian army?”
Here are the real issues: First,
will the white nations of the
world allow this “Birth of a Na
tion” wrar to proceed and invite
bloodshed among races all over
the wrorld?
Second, regardless of whether
Italy or Ethiopia wans, will Chris
tianity permit <?ueh wantdn blood
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Tiger Jack Payne
In Front Again
Tiger Jack Payne, noted for his
hard hitting and his heavy slug
ging and at one time wras able to
take it, is now a front liner at the
Omaha Arena, 22nd and Hickory,
Tuesday evening, August 27th, at
8:30 P. M. ‘Tiger’ Jack is fresh
from Joe Louis’ camp.
The Omaha Arena wall present
a total of 26 rounds of boxing to
all Omaha’s sport lovers.
Jimmie Alger from Grand Ra
pids, Mich., at 160 pounds will
battle 6 rounds with George Ken
nard at 158. Smiling Spight of
Omaha weighing 180 says he will
lay Jimmie Dugan from Boston
among the sweet peas in the 5th.
Willie Brown, Wichita’s pride at
135 says Stanley Novak of New
Bedford, Conn., will have to come
out of his shell and take the
count. Earl Puryear, promoter at
the arena predicts Tuesday will
be one of his best sporting events
of the season, and all are invited
to come and see a real fight.
Mrs. Jewel Enjoying
Trip Along West Coast
Mrs. Cecelia Jewel left July 25th
on an extensive tour, by rail, through
out the west, stopping 10 days in
Denver, making a three day visit- in
Salt Lake City and visiting Seattle
and Tacoma, in Washington. She
will then make all the principle stops
in California, returning home the
latter part of October.
Mississippian In
Omaha Visiting Sons
And Daughters
Mr. Tom Saunders, 60, of Sugar
Lock .Miss., returned to his home
August 15th after spending sev
eral weeks here visiting with his
sons and daughters. Mr. Saund
ers, who owns a farm near Sugar
Lock and is active in church cir
cles having been Superintendent
of the New Silo Baptist church
Sunday school for 26 years, ex
pressed himself as being quite
pleased with Omaha and the re
ceptions given in his honor.
The visitor met many friends
formerly of his home state. The
members of his family in Omaha
are: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beas
ley ,Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Murry,
Mr. and Mrs. James Saunders,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saunders,
who wish to express their thanks
to their friends for making their
father’s visit a real pleasure.
Editorial of the Week
(New Bedford, Mass, Mercury
Lynching rears its ugly head again
ill the United States. On Monday,
two Negro farmers were taken from
a sheriff by a Mississippi mob and 1
hanged. It is said that the victims of
the lynching were accused of making
or at emoting attacks on white wo
oden.- The news dispatcher offer no
details in corroboration of the guilt
alleged against the men; but the de
tails of tbiir murder are specific. So
long as seeti< nal sentiment is able
to prevent the enactment by Con
gress of legislation imposing Fed
eral penalties upon local officials or
communities that give either active
aid or the sanction ol passive re
sistance to murderous mobs, the
crime of lynching will continue a re
proach to the nation and a menace to
the principles of law and order.
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German Speaker Scores
Treatment of Ne
gro in America
Berrlin, Aug. 23—(ANP)—Speak
ing before 25,000 Nazis here Wed- i
nesday night Julius Streicher, king
of Germany’s Jew haters, in discus- |
sing the criticism in Am°r -a of the
Nazi’s treatment of the Jews, scored
the Americans for their inconsistency
based on the treatment accorded
Negroes in the States, especially the
Southern states of the Uniter States.
Streicher declared that no country
that sat idly by and saw citizens who
had won their rights of citizenship
on the battle fields as v ii as
through their contributions to the
general progress and advancement
of the country, lynched by prejudic
ed and maniacal mobs should, raise
its voice in protest against the treat
ment being meted out to Jews in
Germany.
‘“We do not kill Jews in Germany”
declared the speaker. Perhaps they
would like for us to do so, that is
the Jews, but we have other and
more civilized methods of punishing
them. In America, however, Ngroes
are killed by mobs without fear of
punishment and for the most trivial
reasons. Six have been lynched :n
the southern states during the past
few weeks and only the sending of
troops to the scene stopped the
wholesale lynching of 11 Negroes in
South Carolina. In no case, have
the lynchers been punished. Yet
Germans are being criticized by
Americans for their inhumane treat
ment of the Jews.
“Negroes in the United States, in
most of the States, are forbidden to
many whites legally, just as we are
attempting to prevent the marriage
of Jews and Germans. And whenever
a Negroe marries a white woman
that woman is ostracized and no
matter what her socal standing was
prior to her marriage to her Negro
husband, she is described as of the
lower social order. But wiiite men
consort with Negro women freely
even in the southern states, which
accounts for the thousands, perhaps
millions of mulattoes in the United
States.”
Then ban on Jewish business and
the running out of Jewish business
men who rival German ndustrialists
and business leaders, finds a parallel
in the way Negroes in the Southern
States who, after building up large
and lucrative businesses, and pro
fessional men who attain wealth
through their professions, are driv*
en out of the town in the south for
any make-shift reason and in nauiy
cases beaten and humiliated before
they are forced to leave the homes
and businesses they have establish
ed, which in the end is due to the
Jealousy of the whites in the par
ticular section.
Jews are not permitted to attend
theatres operated by Germans in
this coamtry and in the United
States, the same proves to be the
lot of Negro Americans in America.
Negroes are prohibited and segre
gated in the theatres in southern
states and even in the capital of the
Uniter States, Washington, D. C.
They must live at their own hotels,
eat in restaurants owned and oper
ated by them or by Greeks for them.
They are denied the right to vote in
Democratic primaries, despite the
fact that thousands of them living
in the south are better qualifed ed
ucationally and otherwise then the
whites whose white face qualify
them for the franchise. They must
attend separate and in most cases
inferior schools in the southern
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states, although they pay enormous
sums into the city, county and state
treasuries in taxes.
The treatment, the speaker point
ed out, of Negroes in America was
far worse than that accorded Jews
by the Nazis and America's criticism
should be turned in that direction
rather than toward Germany. Con
certed action in remedying the
plight of Negro citizens in the Unit
ed States would do much toward
procoting solidarity of purpose and
the happiness of the entire country.
McMillan’s Reception
Is Gala Event
Many Attended Dance Despite A
Heavy Rain
The L. C. A. Club of Omaha. were
the hostesses of a dancing party giv
en at the Dreamland Dance Hall Hon
oring Doctor and Mrs. Aaron Me- !
Millian. The affair was one of the
most artistic and splendid arranged
dances given this summer. There
were 300 invited guests who attended
and were entertained by a pleasing
orchestra. The hall was graced.with
pot palms and green and pink stream
■ ers.
The Hostesses were gowned as fol
lows: Mrs. Gertrude Lucas, the
president wore a lovely shell laced
dress, Vera Cowans was gracefully
gowned in a white crepe creation,
with a red rose in the center of the
back, with white pumps to match,
the dress had a semi train to off-set
it, Gertrude Vawrters, wrore a beauti
ful wine colored satin gown, she was
also an outstanding figure, Jessica
Wright, wore a black dress winch
was nicely tilored, Vera Lee’s dress
was a neat white evening gown,
Elese Turner was attired in brown
patterned with flowers, Effie Bryant
exquisitely adorned m her orchid
dress patterned with a delicate floral
design wse worthy of admiration, and
Mrs. Mary Frazier wine colored gown
was elegantly tactful and smart.
All wore a small pretty bouquet on
their left arm.
The Honor guests were attired
magnificently, Docborr McMillian,
wore a well tailored lightweight tux
edo made in England, high collar with
black bow tie. Mrs. McMillian was
richly gowned in black satin, trim*
med with rhinestones and silver slip
pers.
The out-of-towr. guests that were
pjesent were Mrs. Herbert Gleed and
»son, Creston, of . Lawrence, Kansas,
f ‘Mrs. Mable Tompkins, Mrs. New
some and her charming daughters,
Victoria, Bella and ^Mary, Mrs. Joe
Herriford and Mrs. Fred Gleed all
of whom were from Kansas City.
Prof, and Mrs. Hawkins of Fort
Scott, Kansas, and Mrs. Cavanaugh of
Toledo, Ohio.
Afteethe dance, Mrs. Murphy in
vited them to a cocktail party at her
Chicken Palace in west-end, honor
ing her house guest, Mrs. Cavanaugh.
Everyone enjoyed the lovely sur
roundings and the light repast which
consisted of nicely decorated salad,
stuffed olives, black and green, Wee
hot buttered rolls, and golden brown
potato chips. Drinks were Berved at
the tables and bar. There was con
tinuous dancing until the early hours
of the Morning.
NOTICE
Attorney Ray L. Williams has re
turned from the East, and is now
back at his office. Room No. 200,
Tuchman.. Building,.. 24th and Lake
Streets.
Celebrate 35th Wedd
ing Anniversary
Entire District Joins in Honoring
Bishop and Mrs. Gregg.
Kansas City, Kans., Aug. 21,
(ANP)—Bishop and Mrs. J. A.
Gregg of the African Methodist
Episcopal church, celebrated
their 35th wedding anniversary
here August 21, before a great as
semblage in the First A. M. E.
church of Kansas City. The en
tire official personnel of the 5th
Episcopal District and many of
the membership took part in the
occasion, joining in extending
congratulations and bearing gifts
to the distiguished couple.
The right Reverend W. Y.
Tooks, a fellow bishop, per
formed the ceremony and deliv
ered the principal address, fol
lowing which a reception took
place. A large committee of
which Rev. W. D. Wilkins, pastor
of the entertaining church was
chairman, had charge of the ban
quet.
Rev. if. F. Moten, presiding
elder, was chairman of the pro
gram committee. Visitors from
seven, states attended the affair
and joined in honoring the prel
ate, one of the most popular of
ficials of his church and his wife.
Speakers reviewed the highlights
of their joint career in tff5
church, in Africa, where for
many years they were stationed
and at [Wilberforce where Bishop
Gregg served as president.
Colored Reserve
Officers Still Barred
By C. C. C.
New York, Aug. 22—Although
the War Department at the di
rection of President Roosevelt
has called Negro reserve medical
officers arid chaplains for service
I with the Civilian Conservation
j Corps, it has not called Negro re
serve army officers. It is stated
| that the War Deparment was ad
j ament in its refusal to call Negro
j officers because it felt that their
presence would cause added re
senment on the part of the com
munities in which the camps were
located against the presence of
Negro enrollees. The War Depart
ment is said to be of the opinion
that white officers in these color
ed camps help to quiet communi
ty sentiment against them. The
War Department is also , said to
be of the opinion that since every
camp contains a number of white
technical employees who' would
be under the jurisdiction of color
ed officers, it would be contrary
to army tradition to place white
men in this “embarrassing” po
sition. Other requests are being
made by the N. A. A. C. ’P. that
the matter of calling colored re
serve officers be given .further
consideration and that they be
given service with the C. C. C.
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