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VOLUME IX * OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY DECEMBER 7,1935 NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT
NAACPS ASK SENATOR
BORAH TO DEFINE HIS
VIEWS ON LYNCH BILL
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Senior Senator Twice
. Kills Bill Before
By Filibusters
Idaho Senator Also Asked Why
He Has Not Moved For
An Amendment
New York, Dec. 7—Sena
tor William E. Borah, Repub
who declared this week that he
would veto any federal anti'
lynching bill if he were presi'
dent and who declared that he
had often expressed “by word
and act.’’ his horror of lynch'
ing, was asked by the N. A. A.
0. P. to cite the occasions up
on w hich he had opposed lynch
ing .
The Association’s letter stat
ed that its anti-lynching re'
cords showed that Senator
Boarh had not acted or spoken
in any manner about lynching,
except when federal antflynch
ing bills were bding considered
in the senate, and on those oc*
casions he had ahvay allied
himself with a f ilibuster block
made up of senators from the
staste with the worst lynching
records.
The Association's letter ques'
tioned the Idaho senator also
as to why he had not intro
duced a resolution for a const!'
tutional amendment to punish
lynching if he believes, as he
stated publicly this week, that
such an amendment is the only
Com mow-Law Wife .
Of Sister’s Hus
band Kills Self
Chicago, Dec. 7, (ANP)—Mat
tie Belle Harden, 32, common-law
wife of Herbert Freeman, hus
band of her sister, Lucille, and
allegedly fath r of Miss Harden’s
four-year-old boy, ended her life
Tuesday morning by leaping
from the window of her third
floor apartment.
The following suicide note was
found by investigating police r
“Herb. You didn’t have to wait
until I fell off to sleep to take my
money like that. Well, I’m pay
ing you back and you’ll find my
body outside. Maybe I’m going
crazy, but I guess my mind will
be at ease. Take care of William.
May the Lord bless you.—Belle.’’
The woman was believed to
have been exasperated when
Freeman took $5 while she was
asleep Monday night and spent
it to get drunk. The man told
police he waited until Miss Har
den dozed off before taking the
cash and going outside to use it
for liquor.
Two Injured
As Truck Stalls
Two men were injured Monday
afternoon when their coal truck
stalled and backed out of control
marly a block down hill on Cor
by street to Thirty-first, where it
overturned.
Manning Mosley, 17, of 2411
North Twenty-ninth street, a
helper, was pinned under the cab
and sustained a fracture of the
pelvis and body bruises. The driv
er, Elmer McCreary, 20, of 2915
Grant stre.t, was bruised about
the legs and head. They were
taken to Lord Lister hospital.
r
Fled With Smith’s
Relief Money
Houston, Dec. 7—(ANP)—
John T. Smith, 5303 Nichols,
was feeling pretty good Sat
urday, for he had just drawn
his relief check for $6. He went
into a drug store to make a
small purchase and to get the
cheek cashed.
When the druggist gave
John his purchase, he also
handed him 5 one dollar bills
and some small change. A man
said to have been James Cain,
grabbed the money out of
Smith’s hand asd fled.
Smith seized a glass off the
drug store counter and heaved
it at Cain, but instead of hit
ting Cain the glass broke a
large window in the front of
the drug store.
So it was that the police car
red Smith off to jain where lie
was held until Monday. But
then the tables were turned, for
police had found and arrested
Cain.
Now Smith is wondering how
he is going to live until the
government issues him another
check next week.
Open Ranks of
25th Infantry
For Enlistment
Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Dec. 7,
(Special to ANP)—On January
1st, 1936, the 25th Infantry,
United States Army, will again
rrsume ENLISTMENTS of col
ored youths, betwen tho ages of
1 and 30 years, who are unmar
ried, physically and morally fit,
and who have completed their
grammar school education.
On Octob r 4th, 1935, enlist
ments were suspended by the
War Department. At this date
there are 243 accepted applicants
for enlistment, who have been or
dered to report here on and after
December, 1st, 1935. The appli
cants were permitted to undergo
their physical examinations at the
United States Recruiting Office
nearest their homes, after a com
plete investigation of their moral
fitnnss for enlistment after he has
undergone the expense of railroad
or bus fare journeying to this sta
tion, unless some change has oc
cured in his physical condition.
Those applicants who have been
ordered to report here will be
housed and rationed at the ex
pense of the government until
January 1st, 1936, on which date
they will be enlisted into the ser
vice of the United States Army.
Th; excellence of the education
al, moral, and physical fitness of
the young men who have applied
for enlistment, and have been en
listed in the 25th Infantry, since
July 1st, 1935, has been very
gratifying.
There still remain many vacan
cies to be filled by the type of
young m n desired, however, of
ficers state, and those who are
interested, and who feel that they
can fill the requirem nts, may ad
dress their inquiries to the “Re
cruiting Officer, Fort Huachuca,
Arizona.”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
ADDRESSES GROUP AT
ATLANTA GA. PROJECT
A. K. A.’s Hold
Reg. Conference
New Orleans, Dee. 7—(ANP)
With many delegates in at
tendance, the South Central
Regional conference of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
was held here with Regional
Director Lois Davis presiding
and Alpha Tieta Omega chap"
ter of New Orleans as host.
Announcement of the award
ing of a scholarship to Audry;
Williams, graduate of Straight
College, for one year at Dill
ard university was made.
Greetings were also read from
Zatella Turner who received
the organization's foreign fel
lowship and is now studying
at the University of London.
Oither Greiek letter organiza
tions sent greetings and help
icd provide the meeting’s so
cial program.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Hayden’s Cash Market pro
prietress, Mrs. Pauline Hay
den, wishes to announce to her
many friends and customers in
order to give them a more sat
isfactory service with a com
plete stock of fresh groceries,
meats and vegetables, she has
moved her store out of the high
rent district to 1715 No. 26th
street, AT 5244. At this new
location she will also handle
coal, ice and kindling.
Negro Civic Leaders
Welcome F.D.R. At .
Housing Project'
DELIVERS-SPEECH
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7, (Special)
—Twenty thousand school chil
dren, college stud?ntA and citi
zens of Atlanta, assembled on the
new Atlanta university athletic
field, gave Presid nt Franklin D.
Roosevelt a resounding welcome
as he stopped for a few minutes
this afternoon on his way to view
the University low cost housing
project. The President spoke
briefly and expressed his inter st
in “better homes for the American
people to live in” and his hope to
come back when the university
project was cafmjpleted when he
could talk again to those who had
gathered to greet him today.
As the President’s car turned
down West Hunter street on the
way from Grant Field, where he
had given the principal talk of
tho “home coming day” vslebra
tion, the crowd in th> Atlanta
university athletic field and along
West Hunter street ch ered en
thusiastically and waved thou
sands of flags. His car was
driven up on a ramp from which
ho could view the assemblage,
and Dr. Willis J. King, president
of Gammon Th.ological Seminary,
who, in the absence of President
John Hope, was acting chairman
for the welcoming committee,
greeted Mr. Roos.-velt in behalf
of the Negro schools and citizens
of Atlanta.
From his seat in the rear of his
car the President spoke into a
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Texas May Raise Ban
In Attempt To Get
Olympic Tryouts
INVITES NEGROES
New York, Dec. 7, (ANP)—
From far off Texas, according to
Tom Meany, of the World Tele
gram, comes the astounding in
formation that the Texas Centen
nial Exposition has not only of
fered $30,000 to the Olympic
Committee to hold the final track
and field tryouts under its au
spices, but has ev.n gone so far
as to raise the ban on Negro ath
letes.
Seek To Better
D. C/s T. B. Rate
Washington, Dec. 7, (ANP) —
With the beginning this week of
tha Tuebrculosis case-finding pro
ject in Washington, the capital of
the nation is being used as an ex
perimental station. In spite of its
comparatively small size, there
are only two states in the United
States—Arizona and New Mexico
—with as high a tuberculosis
death rate; and only one city with
a T. B. death rate as high as that
in the Capital city. In 1934, it
was discovered that 609 persons
succumb; d In the District of
Columbia to tuberculosis; of
these 416 were of the Negro race.
A staff of field workers, com
posed of both white and colored,
ara attempting at the present
time, to interest Washingtonians
in the 10,000 free X-Rays which
are being offered by the Health
Department.
After the results of these
X-Rays have been determined, the
r. al work of the project begins.
The field workers will then try
to interest those individuals hav
ing positive reactions in submit
ting to further treatment—or in
case the individuals prove not in
terested in further treatment, it
will be the duty of the worker to
go into the homes and point out
what can be done there within the
home to better existing conditions
and prevent the spread of infec
tion. A great part of the work
er’s job will be th? breaking down
of superstitions and fears now
connected with T. B.
The Health Department is hop
ing that should the project prove
a success in Washington, other
states might adopt similar pro
grams, to be financed out of state
funds.
It is also the secret of the
Health Department that this pro
ject will develop a permanent
branch of the Health Department.
The Ancient
Ethiopians Say
By Gertrude Parthenia Brown
(For ANP)
“Be not haughty because of thy
knowledge. Converse with the
ignorant man as well as with him
that is educated.”
“Do not terrify the people, for
if thou dost, God will punish thr*e.
If any man saith that he Is going
to live by these means, God will
make his mouth empty of food.
If a man saith that he is going to
make himself powerful, thereby,
saying ‘I shall reap advantage,
having knowledge,’ and if he
saith, ‘I will b:at down the other
man,’ he will arrive at the result
of being able to do nothing.”
“If thou hast become a great
man, having once been a poor
man, and hast attained to the
headship of the city, study not to
take the fullest advantage of thy
situation. Be not harsh in respect
of the grain, for thou are only an
overseer of the food of God.”
ETHIOPIA IS
EXPECTED
TO WIN
Missionary Believes
Haile Selassie A .
Man Of God
FRIEND OF KING
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7, (Special)
—Italy cannot give Ethiopia a
half of what that nation plans to
give to itself in the way of a more
civilized life and the advantages
of Christian education and well
ordered government, .Reverend
George W. Rhoads, for the past
five years a missionary in Ethi
opia with the Inland African
Mission, told the students of
Spelman and Morehouse colleges
today. The speaker, a close
friend of Emperor Haile Selassie,
whom he described as "a man of
God and leader of men,” told of
tho many improvements the Em
peror had made during his short
reign including the establishment
of a constitutional government,
abolition of serfdom by which
men were bound to the land, and
stablishment of a system of land
tenure whereby men might profit
by the fruit of their labor. He
expressed the conviction that
Ethiopia would not be defeated in
tho present conflict.
The message of the Emperor,
which was recently broadcast to
the world but which was distorted
in translation into English, ex
pressed completely the faith of
the Emperor and his people in the
righteousness of their cause. Mr.
Rhoads freely translated the Em
peror’s statement of Ethipoia to
remain free as follows: “As fr.e
men we were born, as freemen we
have lived, as freemen we will
die. We have never known servi
tude to man, we know only servi
tude. to God. The yoke of ser
vice to Jesus Christ we have glad
ly borne. That yoke we will
gladly continue to bear. All other
yokes we refuse, as God is our
helper.”
“Ethiopia has had a place In
history for the last 7,000 years,”
Mr. Rhoads declared. “There
were kings reigning in that
country befor; the Roman Empire
was founded. These people had a
written language before the peo
ple of Europe were able to read
tho Bible in their own tongues.
This country of which so much,
that is Iniquitous and untrue, is
being written today, is winning a
place in the modern world, and
will continue to play a tremend
ous part in world affairs until the
end of time.”
The visiter, who Is serving as
director of the Gospel Furthering
Fellowship, is returning to Africa
in January with a party of eight
missionaries whom he has re
cruited.
Women’s Clubs To
Work For Home
And Children
Chicago, Dec. 7, (ANP)—Dr.
Mary F. Waring, president of the
National Association of Colored
Women, announced here this week
that the organization was engag
ing in an active program of child
and home welfare. She reported
also that Mrs. Catherine Helm of
Kansas had acc pted the chair
manship of the “Women In In
dustry” Dept, and Member Organ
izations are being urged to send
reports to Mrs. Josenberger, 703
N. 11th St., Ft. Smith, Ark.
ETHIOPIAN AGENT
IRKS ITALIANS AT
BOSTON TEA PARTY
Strategy Failed
To Win Turkey
Houston, Texas, Dec. 7, (ANP)
—John Henry Rice hasn’t had a
job lately so, with Thanksgiving
just a few days away and no turk
ey in sight, John Henry decided
to get one free.
At the Farmer’s market John
Henry saw the turkey he wanted.
It was plump and sleek and he
could imagine just how good it
would look baked on his table.
Now John Henry was raised in
the country and knew a few
tricks. First, on the pretense of
cvamining a turkey he cut the
string around the fowl’s legs.
I Then he walked slowly away,
dropping, as h? went, yellow
grains of corn—and the turkey
followed him.
But alas for John Henry, the
owner of the gobbler followed it.
So when "John Henry got several
Imndr. d yards from the market
and turned around to grab his
prize, he was grabbed himself in
stead.
John Henry hoped they would
servo turkey in the jailhouse on
thanksgiving, for that is where
he spent that holiday.
Segregation Outlawed
By Oklahoma Courts
Oklahoma City, Olda., Dee. 7
—The two-year fight of the
Oklahoma City NAACP branch
supported by other citizens,
against the residential segre
gation ordinance passed here
in 1933 was won this week
when the Oklahoma supreme
court declared the ordinance
violated the 13th and 14th
Amendments to the Constitu
tion.
The ordinance was similar
to those attempted in many
southern communities about
tweny years ago, but which
were then declared illegal in a
decision secured from the Unit
ed States Supreme Court by
the NAACP in a case arising in
Louisville, Ky. The Oklahoma
City ordinance attempted to
set aside certain districts where
colored people could not live,
and similar districts in which
white people could not live.
The branches of the NAACP in
the state, under the leadership
of Roscoe Dunjee, state presi
dent, made the fight.
A Young Trombonist
Robert Payne Anderson, 11-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Anderson, 3501 Blondo street,
played a trombone solo at the
Masonic Temple, 19th and Doug
las Btreet, Saturday, November
23, and appeased his audience so
much that he was asked to play
at the Town Hall at Ralston, Ne
braska.
This talented little boy, whose
trombone is almost as large as he
is, played a solo at Bennington,
Nebraska, for the Parents and
Teachers, under the auspices of
the Bennington Public Schools.
November 14. Last Friday, the
22 of November, he played for the
Teachers’ meeting at St. John
A. M. E. church and was invited
I to join St. John’s orchestra. He
has also played for the Pilgrim
| Baptist B. Y. P. U. and was
Dr. Huggins Declares
. Mussolini Plans To .
. Create New Race .
DUCE DESPERATE
Boston, Dee. 7, (ANP)—Dr.
Willis N. Huggins, noted his
torian and Ethiopian agent in
members of the Professional
Women’s Club Tuesday night
at the Hotel Statler when lie
stated in his feature address,
“Mussolini; is planning to
found a new rr.ee in Ethopia
to be produced from the union
of Italian men with Ethopian
worn fin, producing |i people
aide to withstand the rigors of
the Ethiopian climate.
The Italian element, led by
Joseph A. Totnasello, contract'
opera singer, obtained copies
of the address and vehemently
answered him.
Indicating that the peace of
the world is in danger Dr. Hug
gins commented farther. “It'
nly aims to cut the life luiie be
tween England and the Orient,
and sever the vital sinews
which hind France to Africa.
Ethiopia has nothing to do with
causing the fight with Italy.
World pence is in jeopardy,
not merely in Africa but more
so in Europe. There is still
time to avoid total disaster.’’
Dr. Huggins wears a decora'
tion given him by Emperor
Hniile Selassie, and on his re*
cent visit to England in behalf
of Ethiopia he was appointed
that country’s agent in Amer'
ica by Dr. Martin, Ethiopiau
minister to Britian.
Mid-City Federal
Credit Union
A Mid-City Federal Credit
Union has been established at
2122V* N. 24th street. This or
ganization is a general credit
union law that a credit union
may be made only for a provi
dent or productive purpose.
This union is being sponsored
by the Protective Order of Diu
ing Car Waiters. Solon C. Bell
is president.
The credit union is a person
al relationship, all transactions
are treated in the utmost con
fidence.
Election of officers was held
Tuesday, December 3rd, five
directors were elected, Solon C.
Bell, Rufus Long, Frances Giv
ens, E. R. West, and Mrs. Edna
Carr; credit committee was
elected which consists of Mrs.
West, William Bell and Arthur
Read.
The association extends an
invitation to the general public
to visit their headquarters and
become acquainted.
greeted with the highest praise.
Robert belongs to Schmoller &
Mueller’s Orchestra, Franklin
school orchestra, and to the Oma
ha Boys Civic Band. He is the
| pupil of Mr. W. Mayard. You will
I soon hear him over the radio.
: Don’t Forget Omaha Guide’s Food Show Starts Dec. 9th
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