-TO THELJNE\ VOLUME IX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2,1935 NUMBER THIRTY-TIIREE CURRENT EVENTS By Gaines T. Bradford We present the final install ment of the memorandum start ed last week proving that Fas cist Italy cannot justify her claim that she is “civilizing’’ Ethiopia when conditions in her own country are almost unbearable. At the time of this writing we are informed that more than two thousand Ethi' opian warriors were killed in combat with the Fascist murd erers. We hope that Guide read ers have studied the points out* lined carefully in order that they might understand tlie'vic iousnss of a fascist regime. This rapid and summary re view of thirteen years of fas" cism in Italy would not be com plete if we failed to mention the profound and growing dis content is more and more re vealing itself in open hostility on the part of the masses of people to the fascist regime, and we ask the delegates to the League of Nations to take into account this state of discon tent, since it is the essential element explaining the need for a mad and criminal war which is leading the Italian people to | the verge of catastrophe and which may throw the entire wrorld into a bloody conflagra tion. | I The incidents we are about to mention ,although they can" not give a complete idea of the situation now existing in Italy, are nevertheless enough to show how unpopular the gov ernment and this war are, and how fake is Mussolini’s state ment that, even if he tried to hold them back “the 200,000 guns which are in Eritrea would go off of themselves." The “carabinieri" (militia) were forced to search for those called to the colors in Julian Venitia: this search almost took on the character of a ser ies of arrests. It was forbidden to sing hymns in the Slavish languages in the churches. At Poschiera, soldiers leav ing for Africa protested. Their officers beat the soldiers to force them to march: result: one soldier was killed with blows from a club and a captain was thrown into a ravine for ven geance. Newspapers publish decrees forbidding discussion of the war against Ethiopia. At Sulmona, 300 militiamen refused to leave for Africa and were arrested. . A rebellion broke out at Tri" ( cassia: five were killed and a ' large number wounded. At As- 1 coli, Piceno and at Naples, the ^ soldiers revolted. < At Olgiate, relief was refus- 1 ed to families of those called 1 to the colors. 1 (Continued Next Week) c LOWER POWER RATES FOR OMAHANS ANNOUNCED BY NEBRASKA ELECTRIC CO. —- -V Mrs. Swanigan Speaks Up for Her Defense To Guide Readers LETTER PRINTED \) the Editor of the Omaha Guide: [fly Dear Editor. For some time past now, I tave been trying to bring my. elf to ■write you this letter, nit as time went on, I have Hit it off from time to time mtil now I am real sorry I haven’t written sooner. For the >ast seven years I have from fine to time had little mean, nasty things said about my haracter. Things that have urt in a way, I have felt were ust born of jealousy or some liing, but I have let it run dong, until the people who tarted it have succeeded to he extent that they have made I eople believe I am a person I > be shunned or loathed. I had bought that my everyday walk through life would prove to the intelligent class what I really am, but I think most jeople forget intelligence where rossip is concerned. Now I am ust about fed up on the whole ness ,and I think the time has ome to put a stop to the whis' | erings. From now on, the first olored person in Lincoln that ust so much as let me know l.e or she is saying or has said something about my character, 1 am going to give them a chance to prove what they said in court, and let all of Lincoln and the world know what they (Continued on Page 6) W. ELLIS STEWART W. Ellis Stewart, chairman )£ the committee of manage nent of the Wabash Avenue Y. VI. C. A., secretary of the Su* )reme Liberty Life Insurance Company and secretary of the National Negro Insurance As lociation, has been elected to he National Y. M. C. A. coun ;il and a delegate to the inter mtional convention which con rened this week in Niagara '’alls, N. Y., after the national ouncil convention. 'J - Voluntary Reduction Effective Beginning January 1,1936 LOWEST IN YEARS 51,440 homes in Omaha— every residential electric eus' tomer,—will obtain a saving in their electric bills when the latest voluntary rate reduction goes into effect January 1. Announcement of this big voluntary rate reduction was made during this week by J. E. Davidson, president of the Ne bniska Power Company, in a talk before the City Council. “The voluntary reduction in Omaha follows our policy 0f furnishing electricity to our customers at the lowest possible rates consistent with a high standard of service,” said Mr. Davidson, “Electricity lias always been cheap in Omaha, but now elec tric service for all uses in the home will be cheaper than ever before.’’ Mr. Davidson explained the rate reduction in the following manner: “Our so'calied ‘top’ rate is now 5'4c a kilowatt hour. This will be cut to 4%c a kilowatt hour, giving to this city one of the lowest electric rates in America. This reduc tion will leave in effect our very low 3c rate for the next block and 114c rate for the re mainder. (Continued on page eight) Herndon Speaks Before He Joins The Chain Gang Below is published the major portion of a speech delivered by Angelo Herndon on October 19, five days before he was to surrender to the Georgia chain gang. The speech was made at a conference in New York, call ed by the Joint Committe to Aid the Herndon Defense. Every person who heard the speech was swept away by the fire of the young Negro lead er and here, and when he fin ished, the entire audience rose to take a solemn pledge that they would not rest until he was freed. By Angelo Herndon This monstrous frame-up of myself is not something that has been directed against an in dividual, but is symbolic of a people, the oppression that all workers are faced with. I wonder if those of you who have bever been South, who have not had a chance to see what the conditions are like, have an idea what the worker has to go through. I worked for a number of years organizing black and white workers in the various states in the South. We know that Negroes constitute »IT* i C 1*1« ♦ « ! b Ilia *3 Mil New President of Tuskegee Institute ...... DR. FREDERIC DOUGLAS PATTERSON Who was inaugurated president of Tuskegee Institute Monday afternoon at special exercises held at the famous Alabama school. X>r. Patterson succeeds ]>r. Robert Russa Moton, now president emeritus. Bankes Honored At Reception On Sunday evening ,October 27th, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bid diex, 2218 N. 27th Avenue, en tertained at a reception at the Y.W.C-A. to honor their son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Fredric D. Banks, who were recently married at St. Philip's Episcopal church. Nearly one hundred and fifty guests attended the reception. The room was decorated with potted palms and vases of white roses, which were very skill fully arranged. The huge wed ding cake was placed on one end of a large table which was covered with a beautiful lace cloth .In the center of the table an aisle was formed by two rows of tall white candles, between which a small bridal procession of dolls stood. A large bowl of punch, at the oth er end of the table, and several dishes of candies completed the table adornments. Two candelabras, each hold ing seven white tapers, and a number of potted palms form ed a background for the re ceiving line, which was compos ed of Mrs. II. Biddiex, Mr. and Mrs. Fredric D. Banks, Mrs. Josephine Bell and Att’y H. J. Pinkett. Mrs. Banks was beautifully gowned in eggshell chiffon vel vet with a corsage of pink roses. Her mother, Mrs Bid 3iex, wore dahlia chiffon vel vet ,and Mrs Bell wore black ! ind red crepe Mrs. E. R. West presided i )ver the wedding cake, and ' ANNOUNCEMENT The Omaha Guide is pleased to announce to the friends and subscribers of the Guide in Council Bluffs, our new news representative, Mrs. H. M. Funcher, 2528 Fourth Ave. We are also pleased to recommend to you our advertisement repre sentative, Mrs. George Mina, 2522 Sixth Ave. If you have a room to rent ,or anything to sell or advertise, see Mrs. Mina. 4,000 CHEST WORKERS READY TO INAUGURATE CAMPAIGN FOR 1936 -