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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.
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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.