Governor Cochran • Appoints Delegate To Emancipation
H. L. ANDERSON APPOINTED DELEGATE
H L. ANDERSON
Honorable Roy L. Cochran, Governor of Nebraska, appointed
Mr. II L. Anderson, 2914 Lake street, to represent Nebraska at the
72nd Anniversary Celebration of the Emancipation and Progress of
the Negro, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 26th.
This celebration Ls to show the advance which the Negro has
made in education, good citizenship, science, art, music, literature,
medicine, invention, and in commerce, and industry, since they were
emancipated, seventy two years ago.
Hon. R .R. Wright, president of the Citizens and Southern Bank
and Trust Co., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is chairman of the
meetings. The committee has requested the Governors of the 48
states to send a good will representative to this event.
Receives Grand Lodge
Appointment at Elks
Convention in Wash.
Mr. M. L. Harris, formerly connect
ed with the Omaha Guide, and who
represented that paper on the press
committee at the Grand Lodge of
Elks, was appointed to the office of
Grand Organizer and inspector of
all subordinate lodges in the states
of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colo
rado, Nebraska and Iowa. It will be
remembered that from the fight
waged against the decision of the
judges and regional director that
the scholarship contest in Kansas
City, Mo., June 10, was awarded to
an Omaha girl. Miss Madree Jackson,
who was taken to Washington to en
ter the Howard University a few
weeks ago.
Each year contests are held in the
educational areas, comprising all the
states and other places where Elks
Lodges are established.
The winner from each area is
awarded a four year scholarship to
any University or College they care
to attend. This is open to all boys
and girls graduating from the high
schools, regardless of their affilia
tion, or that of their parents to any
Elks Lodge. The only requisite, is
that they comply with the rules and
regulations promulgated by the board
cf education of the Grand Lodge of
Elks. Boys and girls of Nebraska
and Omaha especially, who wish to
pursue their education after coming
out of high school can avail them
selves of this opportunty by becom
ing familiar with the constitution of
the United States, and the lives of
men who have contributed to the
progress of the Negro race.
Lynching Good For
Negro; Says German
Fascist Leader
BERLIN. Germany—(CN A Spe
cial)—Outlining the favorable atti
ing to him. And as we do not bother
lynching of Negroes in America,
Julius Streicher, chief anti-semite of
of the Hitler regime, stated August
15th:
“I would like to sa\ to Americans
that almost every week we read about
Negroes being lynched in America
for having assaulted whit£ women.
Here in Germany, we say that when
a Negro is lynched for assaulting a
white woman, he gets what is com
tude of German fascism toward the
about executions of Negroes, you
should not bother when we lead a
race desecrator through the street.”
Hitler once declared that French
people were “inferior” because they
had Negro blood in them. Negro j-izr.
orchestras are barred from perform
ing in Germany.
The Hitler Regime, stronghold of
fascism, is as rabid against Negroes
as against Jews, Catholics and work
ers.
Visitors From K. C. Call
Mr. S. S, Swancey, manager of the
advertising department of the Kan
sas City Call, and Mr. Harold Swain,
also of The Call, were in the city
visiting over the week-end and Labor
Day. While here they stayed at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. McCutcheon,
2630 Bkmdo.
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Visits New
England States
Professor O. B. Holmes, former
agent for the Omaha Guide, of Lin
coln. Nebraska, and his aunt, Mrs.
A. B. Whitley, accompanied by Mrs.
J. R. Burden, of Lincoln, Nebraska,
| spent three weeks in the east. They
motored through Canada, visited
Niagara Falls, Old Historic Boston
and New York City, where relatives
and friends of Mrs. Burden made
their stay pleasant with dinners and
parties. The party covered 3500
miles enroute.
Old Timer Dies
< n’vin Hnrangs. 3115*4 Torby
street, one of Omaha’s old timers,'
died at a local hospital at 10 a. m.
Thursday.
Lorrane Baker Dies
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Lorrane Baker, 2512 Parker
street, died at a local hospital,
Thursday a. m. She is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Ida Sears.
Joe Louis Meets
C. C. C. Boys
Joe Louis got a big handshake
from President Roosevelt and an
autographed picture of the nation’s
leader here this week during the
Grand Lodge Conclave of the Elks.
A few minutes* later, Joe Louis,
whose mighty punches have cata
pulted him in one short year into
fame and fortune as the leading
challenger for the world’s heavy
weight championship, was doing for
somre of the boys in thb Civilian
Conservation Corps, what the chief
executive had done for him. The
twenty-one year eld, popular idol was
busy autographing pictures of him
self and other souvenirs for a score
or more of colored CCC enrollees of
about his own age, who had awaited
his return from the White House.
The party had been arranged for
these young men of Company 1360
stationed in the nation’s capital by
Robert Jones, president of their
Leaders’ Club and for the past year
clerk in charge of the company head
quarters, working in cooperation
with Dr. W. A. GoocQoe, host to Lou
is during his visit in Washington.
Returns To School
Miss Juliette Thelma Lee, the;
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clar
ence E. Lee, 2863 Maple street,
left last Sunday evening for Kan
sas City, Missouri, to resume her
course of nurse training at the
General Hospital, No. 2, where
she is a junior
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250,000 Signatures For Herndon
36TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF GRAND
LODGE OF ELKS ENDS A SUCCESSFUL
AND HARMONIOUS SESSION
J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler Endorses All Officers
Re-Elected By Acclamation
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Passes Away
Elder Z. A .Craig, 2511 Miami
street, one of the oldest and well;
thought of members of The
Seventh Day Adventist church,
died on August 24. He was wide
ly known and loved by all who
knew him. Many outstanding
churchmen attended his funeral
and extended their sympathy to
the bereaved family. Among
them who took active part in the
services were : Elder A. B. Brew
er of Des Moines, who read the
scripture; remarks by Elder
W, J. Lewis of Wichita,' Kansas
and others; prayer by Elder
Boodle, pastor of The Seventh
Day Adventist church. The
Sermon vcas by Elder D. H. j
Cranshaw. Des Moines and Elder
Z. F Craig, who was approxi
mately 90 years old. Interment
was in Prospect Hill cemetery .
New York’s Modem
“Slave Block”
Domestics Must “Sell Themselves”
For Coolie Pay
BRONX, N. Y.,—(CNA Special)
What amounts to an ancient ‘Slave
Block’ exists here at the corner of
Walter Avenue and 170th Street.
Domestics, both men and women
with their kitchen tools can be found
sitting on buikets, tin cans or boxes,
waiting to be sold to the highest
bidder. If they are “lucky”, a house
wife or shopkeeper comes along,
beats down the union rate and hires
them for ten or fifteen cents an hour.
Forced by long weeks of unem
ployment, hunger and families to
support these modem “slaves” must
accept anything that comes along.
Mrs. Annie Banks of 227 East
Ninety-ninth Street, who is a regular
ocupant of the “slave block” declar
ed, “Once in a while you get a per
manent job, but it usually lasts only
a couple of weeks”. Meantime, her
house rent piles up and her family
must be supported.
Agencies Rob Them
When questioned as to why they
did not apply to employment agenci
es for work, they all replied that
the agencies charge so much, that
they cannot afford to pay the com
mission. One of them stated also that
they have sat in agency offices for
weeks and have not received a job.
Many of the domestics after re
ceiving the miserable paying jobs, j
are framed by their employers. One
told of how a housewife had charged
her with stealing her pocketbook, to
keep from paying her after her job
was finished.
Rain, snow, sleet or a hot steaming j
sun. these modem “saves” can be
seen waiting on the comers, con
demned to a coolie wage in order to
make ends meet.
Baby Ella Louise Kelly, the two
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Kelly, of 801 Pacific Street, was
latally burned. The funeral was
held from the J. D. Lewis funeral
home at 2 o’clock, Wednesday, Au
gust 28th.
(By Special Correspondent of Om
aha Guide).
At the opening of the 36th annual
Grand Lodge Convention which con
vened in Washington, D. C., August
25th, looked as if this was going to
be a very turbulent session from the |
fact that the members of the local
lodge Columbia 85 and Morning Star
No. 40 had taken exception to the
actions of the Grand Exalted Ruler,
J. Finley Wilson in setting aside the
chairman of the local Grand Lodge
committee, and replacing him with
one of his own. It seems that at the
joint meeting of the two lodges, Mr.
Herb Jones had been elected as
chairman of the Grand Lodge com
mittee, this over the opposition of the
Grand Exalted Ruler, who had prior
-to this informed them that he had
the man who he was going to appoint
to that position, consequently acting
within his constitutional rights, he
appointed instead, Dr. W. B. Fisher.
This seemed to have cast a shadow
over the Grand Lodge session. The
first days of the session was preg
nant with strife and dissentions. Re
(tarding the progress and work of the
convention so much so, that frequent
recesses had to be taken. However,
on the third day of the convention,
Fast Grand Exalted Ruler Nutter
came before the convention and in a
most eloquent plea for liarmonv that
the great work in which the Elks are
engaged maybe continued unhamper
ed and unobstructed and that all dif
ferences existing, real or imaginary,
against the Grand Exalted Ruler Wil
son or the two local lodges or any
other members of the organization,
would be buried and forgotten and
that they come before the convention,
shake the hand of the Exalted Ruler
and declare all differences settled.
Which was done by the Honorable
Judge A. W. Scott of Washington, as
well as ^he officers and delegates of
the lodges from which the trouble
eminated. After that the conven
tion settled down to business. The
reports of the Grand Lodge officers,
secretary, treasurer, educational com
mittee, civil liberators dept., and
ether officers reports were accepted,
and the present incumberence were
elected to serve.
.The hardest fight, I may say the
only fight, that was on the floor of
the convention was the fight for the
meeting place for the 1936 conven
tion. It took about all night to de
cide. The Grand Lodge not recessing
until 6 A. M. Saturday morning. The
cities which asked for the convention
were, Brooklyn, Boston, Cleveland,
Milwaukee, and Norfolk. After it
had sin^mered down to Brooklyn and
Cleveland, the fun began. After
balloting and re-balloting, counting
and re-counting, objecting and re
objecting, promising and counter
promising, at last a method was de
cided upon by which the votes were
to be cast and counted. After count
ing of which Brooklyn won by a large
majority. It appeared to the wnriter,
who sat through this convention and
heard all the reports and observed the ‘
attitude of the men who were in
trusted with the task of carrying out1
the principles and doing the work for j
this great Order, that they were im
bued with the spirit and policies re
quired to do the work and by the
program outlined and the harmonious
ending of this convention not only
presages good for the Negro peo
ple, but for the Great Order of Elks
as well.
Ethiopia, The Soviet
Union and the League
Of Nations
Litvinoff Uses League to Block II
Duce’s War Plans
Lovers of Peace and Anti-Fascists
of World Must Save Ethiopia
By Ben Davis. Jr.
A threat to quit the League of
Nations, is the latest move of «Ttal
ian fascism in its mad rush to gobble
up the brave but almost defenceless
Negro contry, Ethiopia.
Althogh knowing that the domi
nant imperialist powers in the League
of Nations have approved his con
quest of Ethiopia, Mussolini is ang
ered by the fact that the League has
been used to delay his imperialist
plans. For this brilliant strategy,
Mussolini has Litvinoff to “thank.”
Realizing that the League of Na
tions cannot stop Italy’s unprovoked
attack on Ethiopia, Maxim Litvinoff,
foreign representative of the Soviet
Union and chairman of the League of
Nations Council during the Italo
Ethiopian dispute, has nevertheless
sought to squeeze every ounce of
substance out of the League by post
poning the war. When Litvinoff vot
ed for the agreement based on the
infamous 1906 treaty, he declared
expressly that the agreement did not
preclde the Leage of Nations from
going into the w^hole controversy on
September 4th. The principal proviso
in the agreement was that the signa
tories (Italy and Ethiopia) defer de
claration of war until the League of
Nations council meeting September
4th.
A consideration of the entire Italo
Ethiopian controversy would not only
again postpone Mussolini’s fascist
| plans, but would further air the hgh
handed method used by Italian fas
cism in framing a case against Ethi
opia. The Italian fascist diplomats
recognize fhis as a stumbing black
to Italy’s “civilizing” mission in Ethi
opia, and thus Mussolini threatens
I to bolt the League before September
4th. This policy was followed by Ja
pan w'ben Japanese imperialism
| thumbed its nose at the League and
seized Manchuria.
The diplomacy of Litvinoff in the
League is not difficult to understand,
when it is made clear that the Soviet
Union is the one country in the
world which has no mperfalist appe
tite, and desires no colonial empire.
Litvinoff represents a government of
workers and farmers, wdiich shows
by deeds—and not merely by words
—that it stands for equality of all
oppressed nationalities and minority
peoples, including the Negro people
all over the world.
Dividing The Spoils
On August 15th, Italy, France and
England dominant imperialist pow
ers in the League, met in Paris to
decide the fate of Ethiopia. The true
nature of this conference was shown
when Ethiopia was barred from par
ticipation. Both England and France
have given their consent to Musso
lini’s plans, but this Paris meeting
was evidently to prevent Italian fas
cism from stepping on the toes of
Britain and France, both of whom
have large interests in Ethiopia—in
other words to divide the spoils.
Uncle Sam is already involved in
support of Italian agression in Ethi
opia since Wall Street is tied to Mus
solini through huge American invest
ments.
There are approximately 250,000
Italian troops already stationed in
(Continued on page eight)
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Crisis Urges
Boycott of 1936
Olympic Games
New York, Sept. 4.—With all the
perjudices of America against Ne
gro athletes Within the United
States, THE CRISIS magazine in its
September issue, out this week,
urges that American athletes not be
allowed to compete in the 1936
Olympic games in Berlin. The edi
torial inferred that America cannot
make the sincere protest on the
grounds of poor sportsmanship and
dischimination since it has given Ne
gro athletes large doses of both.
“If memory does not fail THE
CRISIS, there ‘was talk of the poor
treatment of Tolan, Metcalfe and
other colored athletes at the 1932
Olympic games in sunny California,
which at last reports was not in
Germany, This too, while the Pair
of Negro runners was carrying the
i Stars and Stripes to victory.”
The editorial continues: “We do
| believe, however, that the American
Olympic coir^mittee ought to with
draw our team from the Berlin
Olympics because the games are be
ing held in a country whose govern
ment is founded officially upon sup
presson of religious, political and so
cial liberty, and upon terror and
brutality. We ought not contribute
anything, either in money or pres
tige, to such a government. Keep
American athletes at home in 1936.
In the meantime, if we just have to
work up a lather over discrimina
tion in sports, let us address our
selves to the color line in our own
back yard.”
Harlem World War
Veterans Train
Ethiopian Soldiers
ADDIS ABABA—(CNA)—A corP
of Negro World War veterans from
Harlem, are acting as instructors in
the Ethiopian Army here and aiding
! in the preparations to hurl back the
forces of Italan Fascsm. These men
fought in the Chateau Thierry and
Hindenburg Line campaign. Their ex
perience gained in the imperalist
slaughter of the world war is now
| swelling the defensive power of the
Negro nation.
As the rainy season draws to an
end, drilling is being carried on at
a more intensive pace. Haile Selassie
watches the defensive mantuvers con
tinuously which despite the lack of
adequate ammunitions and arms,
caused by the British and French em
bargo, indicate the complete unity
of the country in the face of the in
vaders.
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New Member Added
To The Omaha
Guide Staff
We are pleased to announce to our
many friends and readers of The
Omaha Guide, that Miss Prances An
derson, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
has recently been added to our staff,
as a representative of that city. We
are more than glad to welcome Miss
Anderson into the Guide family.
If you people, of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
have any news that you would like to
have published, call Miss Anderson
or see her at home, 305 W. Bailey
street. We are pleased to announce
the following subscribers of that city:
Mrs. Marie Maxley, Mrs. M. Greer,
Miss Estel Brodgewater, Mrs. Etta
Taylor, Mrs. E. C. Collins, Mrs. C.
H. Warden.
Harlem Organizations
Get 250,000 Signatures
Herndon Petition
NEW YORK— (CN A) —Delegates
from Harlem organizatons met at
325 Lenox Ave., on August 19th to
push the campagn for the freedom of
Angelo Herndon* The Harlem Hern
don signature Campaign Conference
set itself the quota of 250,000 sig
natures on the petition to the gov
ernor of Georgia, demanding the li
berty of Herndon, and will send a
delegation to the Mayor and other
j city officials to ask them to sign the
petition. Postcards will be sent to
the Supreme Court demanding that it
! reviewr the case on its merits.
The conference which was called by
Provisional Harlem Herndon Signa
ture Committee, elected- temporary
j officers and discussed means of draw
ing other organizations into the «r
I tive work for Herndon’s freedom.
Plans were made to make August
2ith and 25th National Herndon days.
The conference was endorsed by
the Harlem Baptist Minister’s Alli
ance, Rev. William Lloyd times and
( other prominent leaders in Harlem.
Just A Little Bet On
Louis And Baer
Watch For The Big Parade!
Two of the Omahan enthusiastic
fight fans, have decided to wage
their wit on the big fight, which the
world has its eyes on, which will take
place in Madison Square Garden, on
September 24.
O. B. Patton, 2314 N. 22nd Street,
believes in his judgment and is will
ing to back it up in a most humilia
ting fashion.
Glenn Pruitt, 2314 N. 22nd Street,
thinks he is the better judge of the
fight and places his bet on Maxie
Baer.
The following is the way these two
distinguished gentlemen have decided
to settle this dispute, Mr. O. B. Pat
ton, who believes in the Brown Bomb
er, and who challenged Mr. Pruitt’s
judgment agrees on the following
bet (big parade starts at the Grant
Street Pharmacy) to wheel Mr.
Pruitt in a -wheelbarrow, with a big
sign on his back with whatsoever
words, Mr. Pruitt desires printed on
same. Route of parade: from The
Grant Street Pharmacy at 24th and
Grant, w-est on Grant, stopping in
front of The Omaha Guide long
enough for a picture to be taken, to
25th street, north on 25th to Lake,
east on Lake to 24th, south on 24th
to Charles, and after a few brief mo
ments of relaxation, he is to return
from Charles, north on 24th to the
Grant Street Pharmacy, where the
treats will be on the loser.
Mr. Glenn Pruitt agrees to perform
this same method of procedure in a
well greased wheelbarrow, with Mr.
Patton, therein, if Max Baer gets the
decision over Joe Louis.
This parade will take place the
following afternoon after the fight,
at 4:30 P. M.
It will be quite a contrast from Mr.
Patton’s appearance from pushing
around a lovely $3,000 Nash to push
ing, or being pushed in a wheel-bar
row.
Mr. Patton stated in the event that
he lose this fight, he will willingly
pay his bet, and Mr. Pruitt stated
that he wras not worried about losing,
but in the event that he should, he
wfH gladly, and without hesitation
serve Mr. Patton, with pleasure.
A World Wide Ethiopian Defense Movement in Progress