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VOLUME IX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9,1935 NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR
CURRENT
EVENTS
By Gaines T. Bradford
(Continued Prom Last Week)
In the Pouilles, militiamen
refused to leave for Eastern
Africa. A working-woman, who
had just been told that her
husband had died in Africa,
threw her child out of the win
dow of her home in Bassano
Veneto street, and then threw
herself out.
Clashes took place at the
Milan station between the sold
iers coming from Bergamo and
the fascist militia.
At Albino, quarrels broke
between the drunken fascist
militia who were departing, and
the fascists who were not leav
ing. A militiaman was killed.
At Sesto San Giovanni (Mi
lan), militiamen pretended to
be sick in order not to have to
leave for Africa. A doctor, who
was an officer in the militia,
wras sentenced to deportation.
At Genoa the family of a
soldier wdio died in Africa was
warned not to cry and not to
speak of the matter. A business
man who had closed his store
because his son had just died
in Africa, was arrested.
Labor contracts made with
workers in Eritrea are not
kept.
At Vavenago (Milan)( mil
itiamen who were about to
leave were beaten because they
embraced their families.
At Livorna, the third regi
ment of Bersaglieri left amid
the tears of their families.
At Istria, soldiers returning
from Africa were imprisoned
because they said that they had
been mistreated.
quarrels took place between
recruits who sang in Slovenian
and an army petty officer who
tried to stop them.
Arrests take place frequently
and people are denounced to
the Military Tribunal.
In Julian Venice, militiamen
jumped the border in order not
to have to leave for Africa.
More than 900 deserters have
already beeli placed in concen
tration camps in Yugoslavia.
At Turin ,a merchant was
arrested because he had closed
his shop as a sign of grief for
his son who had died in Africa.
103,000 soldiers went through
the Suez Canal; 8,000 of them
came back sick.
At Milan, quarrels broke out
between the fascists and peace
ful citizens who did not want
to hear talk of war.
Artillerymen demonstrated
against war and fraternized
with the Ethiopians.
We have here given instances
of the “civilizing” role of Fas
cism. We shall not come down
to the question of economics to
show the state of misery and
degradation to which the Ital
ian people has been reduced
because of the policy of spolia
tion and famine. That is not our
task. Our Committee is concern
ed only with the political vic
tims ,and we shall limit our_
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Conductnjar Revival
MISS AGNES COLEMAN
Well known evangelist who
is now conducting revival ser
vices at the Church of Cod, 2025
North 24th Street. The services
will be continued for an indef
inite period. The public is in
vited to come out and hear this
spirit filled evangelist and her
Spiritual Co workers sing.
Insurance Company
Licensed In N. Y.
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New York City, Nov. 9—
(ANP)—History repeated it
self here this week when the
Victory Mutual Life Insurance
company of Chicago, Illinois,
was granted license to.do busi"
ness in the State of New York,
from the local office by Dr. P.
frof the local office by Dr. P.
M. H. Savory, chairman of the
Company’s board of directors.
The Victory Life Insurance
Company, out of which the
present company grew, was the
first insurance company owned
and operated by Negroes to
meet the insurance laws of this
state and granted license for
operation in 1927. Following
the reorganization of the com
pany into a mutual insurance
company the question as to
whether the new company
would be permitted to operate
here was raised.
The question was answered
when license was granted and
policyholders in this state were
assured that the new company,
like the old, had proved its se
curity and had met the require
ments of this state, which are
considered as the most exact
ing of any commonwealth. The
company now stands as the
only Illinois insurance firm
licensed to do busniess in New
York, regardless of race, fol
lowing a receivership.
Wendell Green
Named To Civil
Service Com.
Chicago, Nov. 9, (ANP)—Ap
pointment of Wendell E. Green,
noted criminal attorney, to the
city civil service commission by
Mayor Kelly was confirmed Wed
nesday. The lawyer fills the vae
rany caused by the death of A. E.
Anderson, Republican commis
sioner.
Mrs. Snowden
Heads District
Chest Drive
MRS. Z. C. SNOWDEN
chairman of division C of the
Women’s Division of the Com
munity Chest campaign as she
with her two majors, Mrs. Cora
Haines (right) and Mrs. Min
nie L. Dixon (left) to map out
final instructions before they
open their part of t he Chest
drive Tuesday morning, Nov.
12, for a goal of $555,330.
Mrs. Snowden, serving as a
chairman of the Chest drive for
the first time states: “I am
encouraged over the way the
women of my division have re"
sponded to this work, but we
are still in need of a few more.’’
Mrs. Snowden went further to
state that, "Eevry home in my
division will be covered and
we are asking everyone to do
their best toward this worth"
while cause.
The 1935 Community Chest
drive will swing into action
Tuesday morning, Nov. 12,
when approximately 4,000
Chest workers meet for the
“early bird breakfast” at the
Fontenelle hotel at 8:00 o 'clock
to get the “go signal” for the
big residence and business div
ision drive. . • - «*
These divisions require the
greatest amount of person to
person contact and use the bulk
of the army of men ami women
who volunteer their services for
the campaign, according to J.
L. Haugh, general campaign
chairman.
W. Dale Clark, President of
the Omaha National Bank and
President of the Community
Chest, speaking before 71 mem
bers of the Initial gifts division
last week said: “I challenge
any of you men in private busi
nes to operate your own busi
ness more efficiently than the
Chest program is operated.”
Each division has a definite
quota ,and each strives to ex
ceed that quota, if possible, so
that the necessary total is
reached to insure the mainten
ance of the 28 Chest agencies
among which the much-needed
work of Omaha's co-ordinated
charity is divided, according to
•ampaign chairman, Mr. Haugh.
DRUG STORE DEMOLISHED
BY TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
AND FLAMES WEDNESDAY
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Georgia Governor
Flooded With Let
ters Urging Pardon
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 9, (ANP)—
That Governor Talmadge had
been flooded with letters urging
that Angelo Herndon, who was
sentenced to serve from, 18 to 20
years in prison for “inciting an
insurrection” be pardoned by the
chief executive of the state, was
reported here Tuesday afternoon.
According to the reports more
than “ten thousand” letters had
been received by the governor
from students at Columbia Uni
versity and thousands have
poured in from various sections of
the country and representatives of
different organizations.
Most of the letters have been
similar in verbiage and appeared
to be of the form-letter type urg
ing the governor to give the con
demned man a just hearing and
to pardon him. Others have
threatened death to the governor
if he failed to do so and still oth
ers threatened the destruction of
the state capitol building for fail
ure.
Governor Talmadge has indi
cated in conversations with those
close to him that “his mind was
opened” and that when all court
methods are exhausted that he
would give Herndon a hearing,
but that threatening letters would
prejudice many who wanted to
help him against him.
Pressley Gamble
Dies Suddenly
Pressley Gamble, 36, 2512
Lake, proprietor of the P. and
G. Recreation Room at 2426
Lake St., was found dead Mon
day morning at his home. Al
though he was up and about
the day before, his death was
ascribed to double pneumonia.
Gamble, who was born and
reared in Omaha, was a mem"
ber of the Elks Ladge and an
enthusiastic golfer. lie was
well known in sporting circles.
The funeral services were held
from the Elks Rest, Tuesday....
Sheriff’s Office Opens
Invesviffation Into
Mysterious Blast
PARTNERS PART
A sheriff’s investigation
launched Wednesday morning
failed to reveal any definite
causes for the mystery explo
sion which wrecked the Grant
Street Pharmacy Wednesday
morning at 1:40 a. m. The blast
caused a fire which was extin
guished by fire companier an
swering the call. The entire
stock of the store was blown
up and the interior w a s
ruined.
The store has been in litiga
tion for the past week due to
a misunderstanding between the
operator Pelham J. Robinson
and Ben Lustgarten silent part
ner of the firm. The store was
ordered closed and the sheriff
placed in charge until a fair
hearing could be held as to who
should operate the store after
the two men had failed to agree
as to who should manage the
Store. ~ -i « X _' .
Mr. Robinson was ordered
to appear before Judge
Hastings Thursday and show
why he entered the store after
the court had ordered it closed
and the sheriff placed in charge
until a hearing could be held.
The hearing would result in a
contempt of court should he
fail to show sufficient cause. In
an interview Wednesday even
ing with a Guide reporter Mr.
Robinson stated that he enter
ed the store Tuesday morning
in the company of deputies to
take and inventory of the stock
and that he had not entered the
store later than that time.
At the time that he was in
the store he stated that he saw
nothing that resembled a time
bomb. He further stated that
there was nothing in the stock
of the store that would explode
to cause this wreckage. Invest'
igation at the store reveals that
the explosion occured at one
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MRS. Z. C. SNOWDE N AND TWO MAJORS
Amsterdam News
Staff Has Won
Partial Victory
; Owner Forced to Reduce Price
From Ten Cents To
Five Cents
,
ENTERS FOURTH WEEK
New York—The “lock out’’
Editorial staff of the Amster
dam News won a partial victory
last week when Mrs. Sadie
Warren Davis, publisher and
owner, was forced to reduce
the price of the newspaper from
ten cents to five cents.
In an effort to regain a forty
five percent loss in circulation
Mrs. Davis announced last week
that beginning with the No
vember 1st issue of the paper,
the price will be “five cents
everywhere.’’
Un|ion Recognition Demanded
The circulation drop was due
to the fight conducted by the
New Y'ork Newspaper Guild to
obtain union recognition of the
editorial employees and rein
statement on their jobs. The
Amsterdam News unit is a
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AMATEUR WINNER
ROSA BUCKNER
Dramatic soprano, 3032 Em
met Street who was the second
place winner and the only col
ored contestant at the amateur
contest sponsored by the Broad
way Theatre of Council Bluffs
last Friday night. She sang
“L’Amour Toujours L'Amour’’.
The final winners of the con
test will have an opportunity
to appear on the Major Bowes’
Amateur Hour over the Nation
al Broadcasting Company’s
network.
ATTORNEY WINS POINT
IN DEFENSE OF SLAYER
~ - OF JACQUELINE GREEN
Negro, Italian,
Get Fortune,
Then Lose It
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 9,
(ANP)—Edward A. Wilkcns and
Benedict de Angelis, an Italian,
two $19 a week employees of the
bureau of street cleaning, scooped
a small fortune in torn and bat
tered bills from a sewer at 16th
street and Venango.
Immediately, they began to plan
to do things that heretofore
seemed impossible.
De Angelis was to use his
share in searching for his wife,
who left him for another man tak
ing their child with her and send
a part of the money to Italy for
Mussolini’s fight with Ethipoia
because he has two brothers in
Africa.
Wilkens stated he would buy
some new clothes, take his wife to
see his aging father in Florida,
and buy an automobile, a luxury
of which he often dreamed.
However, the two men’s dreams
came to naught when police and
secret service agents, after clean
ing the torn fragments and com
paring them, discovered they were
only the ends of $1, $5, $10, $20,
and $50 bills, all worthless be
cause the centers of the bills
bearing the serial numbers, were
missing.
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.
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Judge Decides Inquest
Must be Held Before
Hollins Is Tried
Many Attend Case
Attorneys for Roosevelt Hol
lins, slayer of Mrs. acqueline.
Green, on Friday morning,
November 1, won an Import
ant point in their fight to save
him from the electric chair
when Attorney John Adams,
Sr., raised the issue that Nie'
braska laws hold that there
must be an inquest held by the
coroner over the body when
one has met death by violet or
unlawful means. Judge Sophus
Neble upheld the contention of
Attorney Adams that there
can be no trial until such an
inquest is held. The body was
shipped to Kansas City for
burial and unless it is disin
terred and borught back to
Omaha no trial of constitution'
al value can be held for Hol
lins on the first degree mur
der charge on which he is now
being held. V/
Mrs. Green was the es'
tranged wife of Hud Green lo
cal fireman. She was shot to
death at 8 a. m. in the morning
after a night of hilarity for
hallowe’en by Hollins who is
alleged to have fired on her as
sell alighted from a taxi in
front of her h o m e at 2802
Caldwell street. Prior to her
fatal trip home Mrs. Green
was in another alleged gun
battle o n 25th street between
Erskine and Lake streets, in
which it is said that she fired
several shots at John Phillips.
Hollins wms arested and
placed in the eounty jail
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