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m St n^-.rd ’iistorioal Lincoln, Kebr. CITY EDITION VOLUME 12 OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1936 NUMBER FORTY-FOUR ETHIOPIANS AIDED BY GIFT OF UNIT FROM U. S. NEGROES IS Harlem Medical Group Shins Unit To Ethiopians Committee Keeps Pledge To Re place Hospital Destroyed by Fascist Invaders New York, N. Y. (CNA)—On December 6, when the Italian in vaders destroyed the Ethiopian hospital ajt Dessye, the Medical Committee for the Defense of Ethiopia launched a campaign for $3,000 and pledged itself to re place that hospital unit. Exactly twenty-five days later, the Medical Committee kept its pledge. First Unit From America For onDecember 31, it shipp ed a field hospital unit to Ethiop ia via S. S. Steel Age, over the Isthmian Ship Lines. This is the first hosprital unit ever shipped to Ethiopia from American shor- ; es. But it is only the first of a series of units to be shipped by the Medical Committee as rapidly ' as the remainder of its $3,000 quota can be raised. The field hospital which Is now Ethiopia-bound, contains a hos pital tent ninety by sixteen feet wide, which is divided into dress ing and operating rooms 7 1-2 by 16 feet wide. There is a general ward seventy five feet by sixteen feet. The unit is equipped with fifty cots, United States Army type; fifty mattress sacks; twenty five dozen hospital sheets; fifteen dozen pillow caes; 100 all wool blankets, army weight and size. Bandage Materials Shipped In addition to the hospital unit and equipment a ton of bandages and sterilized dressings prepared by nurses and lay women were also shipped. The Medical Committee for the Defense of Ethiopia, is a member of the United Committees for the Defense of Ethiopia, which is composed of several New York Ethiopia Defense groups. Dr. P. M. H, Savory, one of the owners of the ‘Amsterdam News’ is treas urer, and r. Arnold Donawa, prominent Harlem Dentist, is sec retary. The Committee is locat ed at 2384 Seventh Avenue, New York City. This is not the first shipment of material which the Medical Committee has sent to Ethiopia. Last October 22, it sent two tons of bandages, antiseptics, anti toxins and other materials to Ethiopia. Husband Jailed By Paramour Of His Spouse St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 18, (ANP) John Hicks was having domestic trouble. In fact another man was about to taike his wife. At first Hicks thought of the old law that every m^n’s home is his castle and it was his duty to protect It and the contents thereof, so he resorted to a bit of knife play sev eral weks ago, for which he had to pay a fine. The wife-snatcher, however, con tinued his activities and Hicks decided to find a way out thru the Scriptures, but try as he may he could not find the proper com mandment among the ten brought down by Moses, so he decided to write one not with fire but with a modem pen, and his creation read: “Thou shalt not be any more I will give you 24 hours to leave my wife alone.”He stuffed it un der the door of his rival’s home and when it was turned over to the police. Hicks was arrested, charged with writing threatening ■notes and in court Tuesday was sentenced to ten days in jail. Youths Prove Best Corn Raisers In North Carolina ' Raleigh, Jan. 18—(ANT)— ! Records cited at the annual North Carolina corn show prov- j ed that the youths of the state are far ahead of the adults in he art of raising corn and es tablished Booker T. Mills, a student at the Pitt Training School as the State champion with a yield of 99.5 bushels per acre. Young Mills won second place last year and came back this season to take first place and his yield was with.'na half bush-1 el of the all time state record. ' The adults were far in the rear with th ehigheat yield being that of Edward Perry topping the list at 89 bushels per acre. Other winners at the state-wide contest staged at the St. Augus tine College here Wednesday were: Lacy Harris, of the Ber ry O’Kelly School, at Method with 95 bushels per acre; and Robert Jones, of the Durham County Training School, with 90 bushels per acre. Prizes were 'also awarded to .three chapters of the New Farm ers Association of America which made reports at the meet ing, with Nash County Training School, Nashville, getting first prize and Edenton High School and Pearson County Tarining School, Roxboro, the runners ups. Prof. C. E. Dean, of the North Carolina A. and T. College pre sided over the meeting and the principal addresses were deliv ered by F. D. Bluford, presi dent of the state school, and Roy H. Thomas, State director of vocational agriculture . Boston Organized Fight Against Discrimination Boston, Mass. Jan. 18—En dorsed by an impressive array of prominent individuals and Negro labor organizations, a call has been issued here for an Eastern New England Congress for Equal Opportunities which will elect delegates to the Na tional Negro Congress conven ing in Chicago on. February 14. The local Congress which will >e held on February 9th at But er hall, Boston, will take up ueh problems as conditions of the eNgro people in the depres ;ion, lynching and official in flation of race hatred, dis •rimination against Negroes on •elief. It will fight for united iction of the Negro people and ill groups “as will take a stand for equal opportunities and ■ights’ To combat these evils md in addition wars and the Italian fascist attack on Ethi »pia. „ # MANY PRIZES FOR USERS OF GAS “Mystery Chef” To Be Heard Over WOW Station The Metropolitan Utilities Dis-, trict is sponsoring a new home service radio program for Omaha women, over station WOW each Tuesday and Thursday morning at j 10 o’clock. The series of broad- ! casts will feature the “Mystery ] Chef,” nationally known radio cooking expert and champion of the theory that “every woman can be an artist at the gas range.” The program will start Tuesday, January 21. Valuable prizes will be given to listeners and Omaha women should find the “Mystery Chef” of unus ual assistance in successmul cook ing. All of the “Mystery Chef” recipes are for gas ranges and will appeal to the thousands of women who use gas for cooking. The radio program is part of a widespread educational program j sponsored by the Utilities District in an effort to widen its scope of public service in promoting the advantages of gas as a cooking fuel. Fascists Recall Native Askari As “Cannon Fodder” Asmara, Eritrea,—So heavy were the Italian losses in Eth iopia during December that all former Askari-Native Eritrean troops—who are still able to carry arms have been recalled to Mussolini’s service to fill the vacancies, it was reported this week. The Askari were summoned under a law which requires all able-bodied men of any color to defend their colony. Man Sentenced To Serve 199 Years In Jail St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 18—(CP) —Expressing regret he could not assess the death penalty, Judge William F. Powesr, sen tenced Perry Dixon, 19 year old Negro, to 199 years in the Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Menard on Dixon’s pleading guilty to attack upon a white girl. The guilty r>lea was enter ed upon advice of Dixon’s at-1 torney who asked the court for mercy in sentencing the pris oner. Bowers expressed disap proval of the parole system as an interference with the law. “I will assess a penalty which will make it impossible for the parole board to set you free in 20 years. I will sentence you to 199 years so you will not be eligible for a parole until you are eighty-five years old,” saUl City Judge Bowers. I think that I shall never view A gal that’s lovely thru and thru. For when her mouth is like a rose, Or if her nose be cute, alack! Her lips seem slightly out of whack ■> And when she boasts of per fect limbs, She also flaunts two goggled glims; Since perfect frails seem hard to find, Let’s all give thanks that Love is blind. —Swiped POPULAR LEADER JIMMIE LUNCEFORD Director of his own orchestra and glee club, .now on tour with band and star*' show, .currently placing Fay’s Theatre, PhUadel Phia. New York Show Slanders Negroes New York, Jan. 18—George White’s “Scandals’, Broad way’s “tired business man’s show”, in its 1935-1936 edition, produces one of ihe season’s worst slanders of Negro people. One of the acts shows throe tap-dancers, disguised as Em iperor Haile Selassie and his I army, Ln a number entitled (“Brothe rSublimc and his Pied Piper of Harlem”. Not content I with portraying Emperor Sel assie as a buffoon and a min strel clown, an impersonator of Mussolini declaims that the “Italian race” needed a place in the sun and “that’s why darkies were bom.” It was George White’s “Scan dals” which sponsored “That’s Why Darkies Were Born”, a musical comedy song which car icatured Negroes as born to be exploited as sharecroppers and poor farmers. The 'insulting epithet “darky” is used throughout the song. Raleigh’s First Born Of the Year Is Negro Girl Raleigh, N. C:, Jan. 18, (ANP) To the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hill goes the honor of be ing the first baby bom in 1936, in this city, according to the birth records which show that the Hill baby was born at 2:20 p. m., Jan. 1, 1936, in St. Agnes Hospital. The first white baby to be bom in 1936, according to the record was that of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. House, who was bom at 6:00 p.m., January 1, 1936. Angelo Herndon Speak In New ark, New Jersey Newark, N. J., Jan. 18—Un ity fa the fight for the com plete freedom of Angelo Hern don was the keynote of the An gelo Herndon victory rally held here last week. Speakers included church representatives, NAACP mem bers, the International Labor Defense, educational leaders and local officials. Angelo Herndon was the main speaker. He was greeted with tumultuous applause when he pleaded for a united fight against fascism and war. 1936 CALLED DECISIVE YEAR Negro Vote Will Be Balance Of Power Says NAACP IGNORE PARTIES New oYrk, Jan. 18—The 1936 election offers the Negro voter a greater opportunity than at any time in recent years to in fluence the election, it was de clared here Sunday by Walter White, NAACP serrctary, in a packed mass meeting at Metro politan Baptist church in Har lem. After surveying the national scene and recounting the pre d eainent of the Negro, Mr. White declared: “The 1936 presidential elec tion offers, through a combina tion of circumstances, an un paralleled opportunity to the Negro voter to utilize his vote in such fashion as may conceiv ably determine the election. In seventeen states with a total electoral vote of 281 the Negro vote holds the balance of power in any normal or close election. When this potential vote is con isidered in the light of the party majorities of the 1924, 1928 and 1932 elections and the latest figures of the Literary IXgest Fortune and other polls on the Roosevelt policies, it can be real ized how great an opportunity is the Negro voter’s to help solve national as well as his own problems. “It is of the utmost 'impor tance that the Negro vote this year should ignore party lab els and support men and meas ures, which would lessen the evils from which the Negro suf fers—lynching, relief and job discrimination, disfranchise ment, unequal approtionment of iSchool and other public funds; and also the Negro voter should be inspired with the broad vis ion which surpasses racial sel fishness .Far more than most white Americans realize the Negro voter is thinking today as he has never thought before. Old line politicians—white or Negro—have no appeal to him and no influence upon him. The various political parties who hope to appeal to Negro vot ers need desperately to realize this.” Angelo Herndon also spoke, interpreting the significance of the Seottsboro ease and appeal ing for a union of all forces against the threat of Fascism. James E. Allen, president of the New York branch, told of the work in New York City. Miss Nannie If. Burroughs, one of the Association’s vice presi dents, and head of the National School for Girls in Washing ton, D. C., presided. Paris Will Have Negro Production Paris, Jan. 18, (ANP)) That theatre-goers will have the oppor-1 tunity to see an all-star Negro pro duction here within a short time ment that George Simonon’s piece "Negro Quarter” would follow Sacho Guitry’s “End of the World” at the Madeline. RADIO ENCOURAGES PROGRAMS THAT DO INJUSTICE TO RACE Alabama Students Hear Dr. Bel Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 18— (ANP)—Students of the Ala bama State Teachers Colleg< and local citizens heard tht “Part Played by the Slaves ii W. A. Bell, secretary of the the Advancement of America' bore Tuesday night when Dr General Education Board of tht C. M. E. Church, Atlanta, Ga., delivered an address at the in stitution on that subject. That the Negro slaves played an important part in the ad vancement of this country and particularly the South, was out lined by the speaker, who told of the value of the work done by them before the war. After citing the part played by the slaves, Dr. Bell related the part that the Negro had played in the progress of this country during his seventy-three years of freedom. The program was under the auspices of the local branch of the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, of which M.M. Scott, is manager and was presided over by II. Council Trenholm, president of the Alabama Teachers College. Rev. Allen Goes To Pastorate In Knoxville, Tenn. Knoxvile, Tenn., Jan. 18 (A. N. P.) Rev. M. C. Allen, of Peters burg, editor of the church paper of the Baptist State Convention of Virginia and educational secre tary for the body, writer, scholar and lecturer has accepted a call to the pastorate of the fashionable Rogers Memorial Baptist church here. He will succeed the late Rev. E. M. Seymour who died last July. Show Uses Of gas Throughout House Utilities District Is To Have A Novel Display The economy of luxurious living with the work of the housewife cut to a minimum will be demon strated by the Metropolitan Util ties District in a model gas bung ilow which will be built soon. The model gas bungalow wdll be built it the south end of the main dis play floor of the utilities district wilding. The kitchen will be equipped with a modern gas range and Elec ;rolux gas refrigerator and in the iving room will be a blazing gas fireplace. The modern basement with its gas furnace and water water also will be equipped with i recreation room “We are building this model wngalow,” CoL T. A, Liesen, gen eral manager, said “to show the people of Omaha the comfort and convenience of a modern home when all possible use is made of ?as appliances. When the bunga low is completed we want every man and woman in Omaha to in spect it and learn of the comforts made possible by the use of gas for heating, cooking and refrig eration.” Regular cooking classes for housewives will be conducted in :he model bungalow by Mrs. Alta Weymuller, home cooking demon strator for the district Leo B. Daly is the architect. Radio Companies’ I Attitude Toward Negroes Exposed Broadcasting Chains Want Only Slanderous Maerial Against The Negro People Tho indignation of self-respect j ing Negroes and justice-loving ! whites should be at its peak when it views the treatment of the Ne gro people and thoir problems on that national institution, the rad io. The jim-cTow attitude of broad casting stations, is demonstrated when we find that radio not only discourages a fair approach to tho situation, but actually fosters and encourages definitely anti Negro programs. Even so innocucus an effort as a discussion of “The Catholic Church and the Negro Question’’ attempted by the Reverend James M. Gillis over station WMC, Memphis, Tenn., was cut off the air before its allotted time was up. White Priest Cut Off In the discourse on the Christ ian doctrines of race relations, Father Gillis, began to detail in a general way the injustices which are being committed daily against millions of American citizens of Negro origin. Immediately the station received several protesting ‘phone calls, and the speaker was cut off after twelve minutes at the microphone. A program sponsored by the National Association for the Ad vancement Of Colored People for tho purpose of raising ft fund to fight for the admittance of Negro students to the University of Maryland was cancelled by Sta tion WCAO, Baltimore in Octob er, 1936. Tlie program, written and enacted by Negroes consisted of a half-hour series of sketches, depicting some of the anti-segre gation campaigns waged by the NAACP. in sections of the South, as well as the dramatization of several lynching episodes of the past few years. I'he station manager, upon see ing the script, immediately de manded that it be tuned down, and that parts of it be left out entirely. When the NAACP. re fused to comply, the station can celled the agreement. Bar Words “Discrimination and ‘Lynching” On the twenty-fifth annivers ary of the NAACP., J. E. Spin gain, president of the organiz ation, was scheduled to review its history on the program of the Southernaires, a well-known sing ing quartet, over the NBC net work. On request he submitted his script to the office in advance On the day of his broadcast Feb. 11, 1934, he was told that he must omit every use of the words “lynching”, “race riot”, “discrim (Continued on page five) Josephine Baker Sued In Paris For Collision New York City, Jan. 18(A. N. P.) Folowing closely In the wake of her initial appearance as one of the stars of the “Follies” that opened in America, Tuesday night, Josephine Baker was apprised that she had ben made the de fendant in a damage suit filed in Paris by Mme. Heyser, with whose auto that of Miss Baker had col lided in the Bois de Boulogne, just prior to the sepia star’s departure from the French metropolis, ac cording to a report circulated here.