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VOLUME IX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY OCTOBER 12, 1935 NUMBER THIRTY
NAACP FILES BRIEF IN
U S SUPREME COURT
FOR ANGELO HERNDON
Association Seeks Tc
Force Rehearing By
Supreme Court
I.L.D. IS IN CHARGE
New York. Oct. 12—A brief as
amici curiae (friends of the court in
terested in the cause) in the Angelo
Herndon case has bean filed by the
National Association for the Ad-1
vancement of Colored People and oth
ers in the United States supreme
Court.
The brief is in support of a motion
for a re-hearing by the highest
court which has been made by Hern
don’s attorneys of record. Last May
the supreme court declined to review
the Herndon appeal, holding that his
lawyers had not raised the federal
question properly. His lawyers have
appealed from this technical ruling
and asked the court to reconsider this
case. The motion for rehearing is ex
pected to be heard within the next
six weeks. Herndon, meanwhile was
granted a stay from beginning serv
ice of his sentence of 18 to 20 years
on a chain gang until the supreme
court acts upon the new petition. He
was convicted at Atlanta. Ga., of “in
surrection” because he led a demon
stration for better relief.
The N. A. A C. P. bnef maintains
k that the federal question was raised
at the earliest possible moment in
the trial and that it was properly
preserved for review. Charles H.
Houston is counsel for the associa
tion. Other organizations supporting
the brief are the American Civil Lib
erties Union, represented by Arthur
Garfield Hays and Morris L. Ernst;
The Church League for Industrial
Democracy, the Methodists Federa
tion for Social Service, the Justice
Commission of the Central Confer
ence of American Rabbis, represent
ed by Betheul M. Webster, jr.; and
the following individuals, also repre
sented by Mr. Webster; the Rev. W.
Bowie, the Rev. Alan Knight Chal
mers, the Rev. Harry Emerson Fos
diek, the Rev. Hubert C. Herring and
Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
Relief Workers Join
With Strikers In
Cotton Fields
Montgomery. Ala.. —(CXA)—As
an indication of the effectiveness
of the cotton pickers strike, Al
bert Jackson .secretary of the
Share Croppers Union, declared
that ‘‘landlord cotton is hanging
heavy in al lthe fields'* in Tala
poosa Jjee and Chambers Coun
ties .Alabama.
The attempt of the state and
local relief officials to force re
lief workers to scab is meeting
with increasing opposition and
failure. Jackson averred.
Thirteen of the sivty-five re
lief workers from Lafayette, who
had been compelled to pick cot
ton under threat of losing their
relief, have joined with the strik
ers.
The others have stated they will
quit if the landlord kefuses to
give them the equivelent of the
strike demand, $1 per hundred
pounds of cotton pjieked.
For the first time in the bistory
of teh South, Jackson revealed,
the croppers and tenants in Tala
poosa county are fighting for the
right to gin and sell their own
cotton.
Titherto they have been com
pelled to permit tehir cotton to
be sold by the landlord who us
ually returned very little of any
of the money he received for the
cotton.
Despite the murderous terror
r in Lowndos county, over 100 crop
pers filed applications into the
Share Croppers Union. Fifteen
croppers have bqen killed in the
strike by the landlords and po
lice, Jackson reported.
DISEASE GRIPS
ITALY’S A R M Y
Sanctions Held Likely
In Shipping Circles
As News Spreads
London. Eng.. Oct. 12— (IP)—
Disease has become Italy’s
greatest enemy in its East African
campaign .the Sunday Chronicle
said today, and may cause inter
national shippers to support a
policy of sanctions against Italy.
The Chronicle said it had learn
ed secret instructions has been
issued to port authorities through
out the world to impose rigerous
restrictions on Italian vessels as
a consequence of confidential in
formation from the International
Sanitary Convention at Geneva
that infectious diseases were rife
in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland.
The Sanitary Convention, in is
suing the instructions, urged rig
erous inspection of ships’ crews
and added that censorship of the
Italian government prevented the
convention from securing reliable
figures. Many cases have been re
moved to Greece and the condi
tion is well known to Italian
authorities according to the
Chronicle.
Jubilee Day Observed
Throughout the Nation
People the country over bowed
their heads in prayer on Sunday, Oc
tober 6 in commemoration of the
going forth of the Original Jubilee
Singers who 64 years ago set out to
carry to the world the songs of
their people. On October 6, 1871 the
then unknown Fisk group of eleven
went out to get funds for keeping
the doors of the University open. Not
only did they keep the doors of Fisk
open, but raised enough money to
erect beautiful Jubilee Hall, “frozen
music, on those steps last Sunday
night an illuminating pageant was
unfolded depicting the going forth
of the Singers”.
Reports have conve in from all over
the nation telling of the memorial
services held in various churches in
observance of the day. Fiskites in
all walks of life in communities
throughout the country observed the
day with special services. In Ohio,
New York, Indiana, Tennessee, North
Carolina, South Carolina. Texas and
Oklahoma churches, through the local
Fisk clubs, had special Jubilee Day
programs.
On the Fisk campus a full week
end was observed. On Friday at the
chapel exercises Speaker of the House
of Representatives, Joseph W. Byms,
addressed the student body at the
opening of the Greater Fisk Spirit
Week. On Saturday a tour of the
city of Nashville was made for the
benefit of new students. The points
of educational and historical interest
were visited by the motorcade. At
3:30 P. M., Saturday a picnic for
the student body, faculty and alumni
was held on Livingstone campus.
During the picnic “Tubby” Johnson
presented for the first time, in
scrimmage, his 1935 Fisk Bulldogs.
At 8:00 a Jubilee Acquaintance-Re
ception Dance was given for the stu
dents of the collegiate institutions
in Nashville.
Impressive services were held Sun
day. October 6 in Fisk Memorial
Chapel. All of the music for the oc
casion was Jubilee Music. The Fisk
Singers rendered three numbers, de
dicated to the members of the Origi
nal Jubilee Singers.
At 3:00 P. M., a pilgrimage was
made to the graves of Mabel Lewis
Imes, Minnie Tate and Ella Sheppard
Moore, three of the Original Jubilee
Singers whose bodies lie interred in
Nashville. On Sunday night a pa
geant under the direction of Miss
Lillian E. Cashin was staged on the
fteps of historic Jubilee Hall.
ADMIRAL BYRD
WILL VISIT
OMAHA
Noted Explorer Will Ap
pear Twice At the
Technical High
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the
outstanding explorer of the twen
tieth century, will be in Omaha
on Friday, October 25, for twc
personal appearances at the Tech
nical high school auditorium.
His appearances, sponsored by
the Omaha Junior Chamber of
Commerce, will include 8,000 feet
of motion picture highlights of
his most recent expedition to the
I South Pole, and will be accom
panied by a running fire of per
sonal comment by Admiral Byrd
He will talk throughout the
showing of the pictures, explain
ing every detail.
In the afternoon, a special price
of 40 cents has been arranged for
school children. Out-of-town
school children can get tickets by
writing to the Omaha Junior
Chamber of Commerce, 1711
Woodmen of the World building.
For the everting performance,
tickets at $1.00 and $1.65 can be
reserved by mail through the
Junior Chamber.
By a coincidence, Admiral Byrd
will celebrate his 47th birthday
on the date of his appearance in
Omaha. He was born on October
25. 1888. Twentv vears later he
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entered the United States Naval
Academy, from which he was
graduated in 1912. An injury
forced his retirement from the
navy, but he returned to serve in
the air forces in 1917. Then, in
1925, his career as an explorer
began when he headed the Xavy
division of the MacMillan Arctic
expedition.
In 1926. with Floyd Bennett,
he made the first flight across
the North Pole. The next year ne
flew the Atlantic ocean .and in
1929 he formed and headed the
first Byrd South Pole expedition.
The second expedition, which he
will describe with motion pictures
and lecture in Omaha on October
25, began in 1933 and lasted two
years. He returned this spring.
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Parent-Teachers
Want Insulting
Books Prohibited
Boston, Mass., Oct. 12. (By
E. W. Clark for AXP)—The bat
tle against the use of books Nvith
insulting terms and pro-slavery
learning in the public schools of
this city was continued last week
when a delegation from the Par
ent-Teachers Association called
upon the Boston School Commit
tee and urged immediate and
favorable action in this direc
tion.
The delegation not only cited
Rndyard Kipling’s ‘'Captain
Courageous” in which the word
■‘nigger’ appears 13 times but al
so the text book of United States
IUstory in which the role of the
colored people in the Reconstruc
tion period is perverted and col
ored to suit the prejudices of the
author.
Ajuother request made by t h e
delegation was that more Ne
groes be appointed as teachers.
The committe reserved the reply
to both petitions desiring more
time for consideration.
Wins National Contest
Miss Geraldine Rogers of Chi
| eago who has just won first prize
in the essay contest conducted
among students in Negro Colleges
by the National Tuberculosis As
sociation. Miss Rogers who is a
student at Knoxville College
wrote on.1' How Can I. As a Teach
er. Best Cooperate To Reduce Tu
berculosis Among Negroes. Olga
J. Lash of Livingstone College
won second prize and August Mae
Gustin of Spellman College, At
lanta, won third place.
Nebraska Conference In
Annua] Meeting At
Kansas City. Kan.
RAPS W. T. VERNON
Rev. L. P. Bryant Again Assigned
To St. John’s Also Elected
Delegate To General
Conference
Kansas City, Kans.—There is an
old Methodist hymn that begins, “An
other new year has began”, and this
may appropriately be applied to the
churches and pastors of the Nebras
ka Annual Conference since the close
of its 15th session Sunday night.
The most pathetic incident of the
conference session was the retire
ment of the veteran presiding elder.
Dr. W. B. Brooks after 58 years of
faithful service. The feeling was
tense, there were audible sighs and
much of actual weeping as Dr. Brooks
recounted his work and then asked
to be given supernumerary relation,
which means he will resume his work
if his health will make it possible.
Without a dissenting vote the con
The delegates elected to the gen
eral conference are: R. A. Adams,
presiding elder Kansas City District;
W. D. Wilkins, pastor First Church,
Kansas City, Kansas; L. P. Bryant,
pastor St. John Church. Omaha; 0.
H. Burbridge, newly appointed pre
siding elder of the Omaha District.
Alternates are: J. C. Bell, pastor, Ar
gentine; J. N. Goddard, Trinity, Kan
sas City, Kansas. L. J. Phillips, pas
tor St, Luke, Kansas and C. A. Long,
pastor at Lincoln, Nebraska.
By special resolution the delegates
were instructed to use every honor
able means to secure the return of
Bishop Gregg for another quadren
nial term on the 5th district. The con
ference also unanimously adopted a
resolution condemning the action of
W. T. Vernon who is an elder in the
Kansas C-onfereryx;. in which said
conference was advised and urged to
bring W. T. Vernon to account for
his actions and activities against the
interests of Western University.
Assignments were as follows: Oma
ha District, O. H. Burbridge, presid
ing elder; St. John, Omaha, L, P.
Bryant, Omaha, to be supplied; At
chison, James Arthur. Allen Chapel,
Omaha, Don Stepheson; Fremont,
Wm. Metcalf. Nebraska City, Noble
Lee; Hiawatha. H. W. Bietson; Hor
ton. D. M. Cole; Troy & El wood, J.
S. Butler; Beatrice, to be supplied.
Lincoln. C. A. Long.
Kansas City District: R. A. Adams,
presiding elder; First Church, W. D.
Wilkins; Trinity, J. N. Goddard; Ar
gentine, J. C. Bell; Leavenworth, J.
W. Williams; Quindaro, G. M. Till
man; Grant Chapel, J. W. Green; St.
Luke & Terrell, L. J. Phillips; Mt.
Zion Circuit, R. V. Swaimey; St.
James, Gertrude Broils; Tonganoxie,
B. J. Martin; Oskaloosa. W. L. Dav
is; New Bethel and Olathe to be sup
plied.
JOHN BROWN’S
LETTERS AT
ATLANTA U.
Letters and Papers On
Works of Noted Man
In Univ. Library
FOR RESEARCH USE
Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 12, (Special)
—The Atlanta University Li
brary has acquired a large col
lection of letters of John Brown
and other papers bearing on the
l$fe of the abolitionist leader
whose military activities in an ef
fort to liberate Negroes from
slavery led to his conviction and
death at Harper’s Ferry. Vir
ginia, on December 2, 1859. An
nouncement of the acquisition of
this highly valuable historical
material ,which has been de
posited in the University library,
was made this week by President
John Hope of Atlanta Universitv.
The collection consists largely
! of material which has never been
published and has not been avail
able to students of this period of
American history. In the collec
tion are 52 autograph letters
from John Brown to Seth Thomp
son. his financial backer, full of
important detail covering
Brown s home and business life;
General Robert E. Lee’s order to
take Brown to jail, which was
dated from the Harper’s Ferry
Arsenal. October 19. 1859; 17 let
ters to Brown from Frank B.
Sanborn, his biographer; a 12
page hand-written account of
the Harper s Ferry* raid by D. E.
Henderson, who was an eve wit
ness of the events and as a dis
patch carrier participated active
ly in the affair; miscellaneous
papers of Richard Parker,
Brown s judge, including his
diaries, and several letters from
relatives of the abolishment
: leader.
Ot particular value to students
are the letters from John Brown
to Seth Thompson. These reveal
the writer’s life from the age of
26 years to 49 years, and form a
more or less complete autobiog
raphy of the years during which
he was moving about the United
States and developing his ideas
of using direct action in freeing
the slaves.
The collection will be available
to students of the University who
are engaged in advanced study
in the field of Amer.can hist or v
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anu w ill supplement the other
material which the University
has gathered for research stu
dents.
Two Employed As
Educational Advisers
Washington. D. C.. Oct. 12,
AXP)—Two additions were
made to the List of educational
advisers in the CCC camps in the
states of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey last week when Joseph A.
Bailey and Leon E. DeKalb were
appointed by Robert Feehner.
Director of Emergency Conserva
tion Work.
Both of the ne wappointees are
graduates o f Lincoln University
in Pennsylvania. Mr. Bailey has
previously been engaged in teach
ing and Mr. DeKalb, who has al
so received his Master of Arts de
gree from Columbia, served as a
welfare worker in New York
City and was connected with the
Y. M. C. A.
ITALIANS REPULSED IN
NEW ATTACK ONAKSUM
BY ETHIOPIAN TROOPS
Two Negro Hoys
Seek Harlem
Aldermanic Posts
New York, Oct. 12, (ANP)—
Under the label of the Commun
ist party, two men, the roots of
whose family trees are buried
deep in the red clay of the state
of Georgia, are seeking election to
the Board of Aldermen from the
19th and 21st (Harlem) districts.
There are 138 nominees of the
Communist party in the eity and
15 are Negroes.
One of the eldermanic candi
dates is James W. Ford, one of
the leaders of the Communist
party, its candidate for vice
president in 1932, who has just
returned from the meeting of the
Communist Internationale i n
Moscow. Ford's family made its
way from Georgia to Alabama
after a lynching and from Ala
bama. Ford went to Chicago,
working in the post office.
The other candidate is Benja
min J. Davis, Jr., editor of The
Negro Liberator. Davis, a lawyer,
is the son of Atlanta s famous
Republican of the same name,
| former national committeeman
for the state, leading fraternal
figure and for many years the
editor of The Independent. As a
| youngster, the elder Davis slept
at the foot of the bed of the Jef
ferson Davis who was head of the
Confederacy, to keep the latter’s
feet warm. Young Benjamin,
however, has removed himself far
from keeping the feet of the
white folk warm. He defended
Angelo Herndon against the
charge of insurrection in Atlanta
and has been, for several years,
in the frontline trenches of Com
munist activity.
Neither Ford nor Davis is con
i ceded a chance for election, but
; their candidacies will serve as
excellent grounds of the strength
“of Communist sentiment in the
two districts.
1935 Lynching Record
Supports Anti
Lynching Bill
New York, Oct. 12—The lynching
record of 1935 with the latest vic
tim, Lewis Harris, of Vienna. Ga.,
being lynched September 28 for “be
ing intoxicated”, is the strongest ar
gument in support of the federal an
ti-lynching law. according to the Na
tional Association for the Advance
I ment of Colored People.
The assocation’s statement said:
“One of the main arguments used
against the Costigan-Wagner bill last
year was that lynchings would not
happen if the law would act to pun
ish accused persons. All intelligent
people know that there have never
been any delays in the South when
colored people are accused of crime.
In rrujjiy cases victims were lynched
before the law ever got a chance to
act in their cases. The killing of Ell
wood Higginbotham, by a mob at Ox
ford, Miss., September 17, even while
a white jury was trying to arrive at
a verdict, proves that mobs do not
want to give the law a chance. The
only method of checking violence and
lynching which remains to be tried
is federal action such as is taken in
the crime of kidnaping. As long as
mobs know that they have no one
to fear except local officials, they will
continue to lynch persons for even
. so trivial offense as being intoxicat
j ed. The N. A A C. P. intends to
push the Costigan-Wagner bill in the
next session of Congress, and we be
lieve the shameless lynching.' of 1935
coupled with the total indifference of
state officials towards movements to
seek out and prosecute lynchers will
be the strongest aid to the passage
of the federal law.”
Aduwa Recaptured In
Surprise Attacks Cn
Italian Soldiers
ITALIANS WEAKEN
Addis Ababa. Oet. 12—(IP)—
While Italian troops were sleep
ing Wednesday night they were
stormed from three sides by Eth
iopian warriors who recaptured
he city Aduwa which had been
previously evacuated by Ethiop.
ans and taken over by Italian
troops. The Italians were great
ly demormalized by the Ethiop
ians victory Wednesday night as
approximately one thousand were
taken as prisoners along with the
daughter of several more thous
ands.
The intense tropical heat has
caused several units to be separat
ed from the main Italian troops
and tropical fever is threatening
Mussolini’s men. More than 2,000
were sent to the hospital Wednes
lay and several others remain on
board the hospital ships awaiting
anding at the base hospital.
The bombing planes of the ItaL
ans have felt the effects of the
errain of the country. Two planes
“ollided at Ogaden while bombing
he province. Another plane was
ost off the coast of Turkey en
■oute to the country and two more
were shot down by Ethiopian
nti-aircraft gunners near Aduwa.
With AduwaTvaek into the folds
the warriors of Haile Sellassie
are expected to penetrate far into
the Italian provinces in Eritrea
and cut off the army from its
base. Thus starving the men and
allowing them to die from fever
and tropical diseases. The Italian
troops for the greater part have
fought the warfare expected and
the Ethiopians are well educated
with their plans. The jubilant
Italians were sad Thursday after
he complete rount at Aduwa and
nany deserters are showing up.
Several hundred of the native Ital
ian soldiers have joined the ranks
)f Ethiopia and are divulging the
secret plans of the Italian army.
The League of nations having
nvoked sanctions against Italy
for her part in the war will de
cide this w'eek as to whether ac
ual war threats must be made
against Italy to stop Mussolini or
w hether mild economic penalties
will stop him. The meeting Mon
day at Geneva brought forth com
ment from many smaller nations
of Europe who are standing be
hind the league in its efforts to
avert a European crises. Mean
avert a European crisis. Mean
Hitler is attempting to muddle
the European situation by threat
ening the proposed alliance be
tween France and England.
NAACP Benefit Dance
Monday Night, Oct 14
Monday night, October 14th, the
local branch of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People will hold a benefit
dance at the Dreamland Hall. The
dance will feature the music of
the Syneo Hi-Hatters orchestra
along wtih ether entertainment.
The main feature of the affair
will be the gift of the General
Electric refrigerator to the person
lolding the lucky number. There
will be many other prizes to be
iwarded in a similar manner.
Tickets are now on sale by sot eit
>rs. The committee on arranee
nents has worked hard to make
he affair a success.
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