CQ--Y— /JUSTICE/EQUALITY IeW TO VOLUME 12 OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1936 NUMBER FORTY-FIVE MRS. MCDOWELL IS HONOREDBYLOCAL INTERRACIAL GROUP --- .. Visitor To Omaha Is G"*»st At Nesro *Y* Associatoin IS VERY LIBERAL The local interracial commission sponsored a reception Monday night at the Northside Branch of the Y. W. C- A. honoring Mbs Mary McDowell, honorary head resident alt the University Settle ■ ment in Chicago, a project she . founded and for years was in charge of the settlement The affair was well attended and worthy of its honored guest Mrs. McDowell who for years has been active in interracial work in Chicago, spoke several minutes on the importance and the great need for a definite and permanent pro gram for the building of racial understanding among all people, in Omaha Several short talks were made by members of the commission and guests- Dr. Herbert Wiggins acted as master of ceremonies The commission went on record as favor'-? the adoption of a def inite program for 1936 and a com mittee was named to present re commendations to the group at its I next regular meeting The com mittee is headed by Bernard Elmer Squires, executive^ secretary of the Omaha Urban League and the following people will assist him in the work, Mrs. Robbie Turner Helen Gauss, Mrs- William Haynes Davis, Mrs. Gladys Pullman, Mbs and Mrs. Charlotte Crawford. Maryland Court Orders University To Admit NegToes Opinion Declares Separate Schools Must Be Equal and States That Since There Is Onlv One Law School D. G. Murray Must Be Admitted Victory For NAACP Annapo'is. .Tan. 25—Mary land’s highest court ruled to day that duly qualified Negroes “must, at present, he admitted to the one school provided for the study of law—the Law School of the University of Maryland.' ’ The ruling was given in the ease of Donald G. Murray, Bal timore Negro graduate of Am herst College. The Court of Ap peals upheld the action of 1hc Baltimore City Court in grant ing a writ of mandamus order ing the university to admit Murray to the law school. The case wras carried to court by the NAACP through Attor neys Thurgood Marshall of Bal timore and Charles H. Houston of New York. The Maryland case victory is expected to speed up the progress in the cam paign against educational in equa'ities now being carried on by the NAACP under the dir ection of Mr. Houston. The as sociation Is continuing its as saults upon the barring of Ne groes from professional and graduate study and is likely to initiate court action in Virgin ia soon. Other states in which surveys are being made are North Carolina and Missouri. In addition to fighting for graduate and professional op (Continued on Page 8) Tuskegee Legion naires Laud Dr. Fred Patterson __ Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Jan. 25—Full credit for the official sanstion of the Britton McKen zie Post No. 150 of the Ameri can Legion, on the part of the Executive Committee of the Department of Alabama of the American Legion, was given to Dr. Frederick Douglass Patter son, by the members of the Post here at the first meeting of 1936 held at the Veterans Hospital No. 91. According to the laudatory statements made by the mem-j bers of the Post that appeared I before the executive committee of the State Department, it was directly through the efforts of the president, of Tuskegee that the charter was granted. E. II. Cravens, adjutant of the Post declared: "Dr. Patterson accompanied our committee to Montgomery to attend the State meet* uid appeared before the e? committee and so f< he lay our ease b it was unaniniouiJJPt'r6"‘' grant the -charter, thereby es tablishing the first and only chapter of the Alabama Depart ment of the American Legion comprising a Negro member shin.’’ The Britton McKenzie Post No. 150 was organized in June 1935 nad was named in, honor of a graduate of Tuskegee In stitute, who had served with the AEF, and as a member of the medical staff at the United States Veterans Ilospial. The Post. Commander is L. W. Driv er, also a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, whose grandfather was a member of the faculty of the institution during the early nineties. Other officers are A. H. Barnes, 1st vice commander; Calvin Watson, 2nd vice com mander; and E. H. Cravens, Jr. Wide Demand For Lynching: Leaflet New York, Jan. 25—Demands for copies of the leaflet carry ing a photograph of the lynch ing of Rubin Stacy at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last July con tinue to flood into the office of the NAACP, 69 Fifth avenue, New York. The leaflet, which is being distributed in large quantities by the NAACP, has attracted attert.on from coast to coast. Margaret DeDland, famous author, has written the national office saying' “The photograph is overwhelming. I would like to do what little I can in circulating this picture.” Many weekly papers, both white and colored, especially laobr papers, have asked for cuts to be reproduced. The leaflet was partially paid for by a young white man who wishes to remain unknown. It is being sent out at the very modest charge of twenty-five cents per hundred. SCOTTSBORO CASES IN COURT State Rejects Plea For Change From State Courts ALL WHITE JURY A joint Seottsboro Defense committee has been formed to direct the new triads scheduled to begin Jan. 20th. The Ala bama court's decision of last April was declared unconstitu tional by the U. S. supreme court because of the systematic barring of Negroes from the juries. In spite of this, the Ala bama c’oilrts have recently re jected *he plea by the defense attorncya.to have the case tried outside of Alabama in a Feder al court. The new defence com-! mittee is headed by Dr. Allan j Knight Chalmers, a distingu ish-; od New York pastor. Organiza-1 tions which are participating in the Jo;nt Defense Committee are: The National Association for t1- Advancement of Colored Pe Methodist Federation f " * ial Service, American bertjes Union, Tnterna !.nhnr Defense. League V „ Jstrinl Demoeraev nnd . the Nafl'onal Nrban League. Arrested For Calling’ Negro Mister Is Said Accidental Arrested Fod Calling- Negjoes “Mister” White Socialists Declared Accidental Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 25— Assuring the Chief of Police that calling a Negro “mister’’ before a white audience was “an, accidental sip’’ William A. Mardis, secretary of the local chapter of the Workers Alli ance, a socialistic organization, was released after having been held in custody for 31 hours for questioning concerning the charge. Mardis has been active in the organization work of the Work ers Alliance, which is composed of some 500 members, of which more than one hundred are Ne groes. Tuesday night after de livering an address before a (Continued on page five) Zaphiro Refutes Julian’s White Official Charge Boston, Jon. 25—(ANP)— Prince Tasfayo Zaphiro, young Ethiopian official touring the U. S. in the interests of Abys sinia, stated while here last week that Hubert Julian, the “Black Eagle of Ilarlem,’’ was all wrong in his statement that all governmental jobs and pos ition of responsibility in Ethi opia are boing held by white men. “That statement is utterly ridiculous,” the prince assert ed. “There are only four white civil officers in my country and they are there merely in an ad visory capacity.” THE SEPIA KING i DUKE EL.EllNUi.ur* The “Sophisticated Lady” may like to know that Duke Ellington earned $18,GOO last year, according to the report of The Internal Rev enue Department. Says Only “Yes” To Memphis Cops Student Fined $25 - i Memphis, January 25—(ANjP) A few days after William, A. Mir dis, white, had been arrested for addressing Negroes as “mister," Walterd Nelson, 18 year old Le moyno College student, was ar rested and fined $25 on a dis orderly conduct charge for say ing only “yes” instead of “yes sir” when he was questioned by policemen. * Nelson was returning home for orchestra practice with a roll of music under his arm around 9 p. m. Thursday night when he was stopped by plainclothes policemen whom he did not know were of ficers. When he answered “yes” to questions put by the sleuths, he was taken to the police station where he was denied the use of the telephone to call his aunt with whom he lived. Arraigned next day in court on a disorderly conduct charge, the aunt, Mrs. Lillian Wright, paid the $25 fine and got his release. Memphians interested in the plight of Nelson whose tuition at Lemoyne is now due are trying to get the fine remitted in order that the money may be used to further his education at the col lege. Georgia Policeman Kills Fifty Year Old Man In Ga. Thomasville, Ga., Jan. 25— When he declared thut he had shot and killed Koberi Harrison 50 year old man, here Wednes day afternoon, in self-defense, r&troJman Fred Noris. v'as ex onerated by the corner’s jury that rendered a verdict of jus tifiable homicide’’ thereby add ing one more to Georgia’s al ready long list of Negro vic tims of police fire. The policeman told the cor oner’s jury that he was called to a wh>'te residential district Wednesday afternoon to arrest the fifty year old man who was alleged to be. intoxicated and creating a disturbance. When he attempted to place TTarnson under arrest, the policeman stated, Harrison picked up a club and advanced upon him. Fearing that the man, weaken ed by the effects of liquor and old age, would k* 11 him he shot him twice. The wounded man was rushed to the local hospital where he died a few hours later. An Englishman has invented a gauge to measure the thiekness of the walls of glass bulbs and uteo ils from the outside, INITIATION FOR ELKS SUNDAY Special Drive Ends: Harris Makes It Grand Success OVER 5r McMillan will be guest at the Medical Society’s Banquet. There v, ill be, -^gathering of business n\en at -»ne residence of Mr. Dav i.'. KcGoven after the event cf JJcr.vtary 24th. On fSunday Jan uary 2(ith Dr. McMillan and Dr.. Wynn C.. Fairfield of the Amer ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission,, Boston, Mass, will be speakers at the morning service. On Sunday evening there will be a special meeting of the Missionary Society and a re ception for the McMillans at 6:30 On Monday afternoon he will go to the regular meeting of the Misionary Society and on Mon day evening he will be one of the guest speakers at tho rally cf society for American Aid to Eth iopia at the New Wendell Phil lips High School. Former Omahan Returns To City To Visit Mother Miss Raelee Jones, former Om ahan, who has been with the Metropolitan Jubilee Singers has returned to Omaha due to the ill ness of her mother. Friends of Miss Jones will be pleased to know of the success she has met with since leaving Omaha. She has toured with the Metropolitan Jubilee Singers in Chiago, under the management of the North west Assembly. The group trav elled throughout the Northwest giving concerts in High Schools and Colleges. At the end of the tour and until the present time Miss Jones has been in New York City where she studied at the In stitution of Musical Arts in the Juiliard School of Music. Miss Jones was mentioned for a schol arship and was soloist for the National Association of Negro Music this summer in New York. Desaible Society Holds Reception Wednesday P. M. Chicago, Jan. 25, (ANP) With Lulu Irving as guest speaker, the National DeSaible Memorial So ciety held its annual New Year’s reception at Elam home Wednes day evening Mrs. A. Tompkins was mistress of ceremonies Though af small size a novel trap has been invented that its inventor asserts will catch and kill 12 lbs. of ants Negro Appointed Distrist Supt. Of Street Department Civil Liberties League of Elks Recommends Appointment A few weeks ago, a commit tee from the Civil Liberties League, of the Negro Elks, awaited upon the Hon. John Kresl, Commissioner of Htreets, and asked that a Negro he ap pointed to the positi on of Street Foreman, The committee was courteously received. Mr. Kresl expressed himself frankly, saying, “I am heartily in ac cord with your request. I want your people to know that I am going to appoint a foreman^ from your group on or near t^B first of the year. True promise, R S. Jlollr day the area comprising *' pointed Supervisor oi district in North Wirt Street, Omaha < ifiz. nS Fierht DiscnraT ination by WPiPj [ Omaha, January 25 (by R. C.. Price for A NP)—Charging that Negroes were being subjected to gross discrimination on the var ious WPA projects in progress here Edgar Waren, urged the lo cal branch of the NAACP. to take immediate steps to curb the ne farious practice which was robb ing the citizens of the advantage of the New Deal program, here this week. According to Mr. Warren, a study of conditions, made by him that the Negro workers received their rights, revealed that at the present time no Negro foreman were being employed or any of the projects and the three straw bosses on the payrolls are receiv ing much less than the whites doing the same work. We have only one truck driv er” MrWarren stated to the Associated Negro Press corres pondent, “and he is employed at the Municipal Airport and there is a vast difference between the wages received by white and col ored employees doing the same kind of work.. There are cases where white men and colored men are working on the same job with the san^e claslfication and the whites receive $5/5.00 per month while the colored workers receive $45.,00 and the same con ditions exists as far as the pro jects employing women are con cerned.” Mr.. Warren was caustic in his criticism of the officers of the lo cal branch of the NAACP.., charging them with laxity In per formance of their duty and ex pressed the intention of appeal ing to the National organization for assistance.. “This is one of the conditions existing in this city that should be investigated immediately and the proper steps taken to remedy it” said Mr.. Warren, “I have ap pealed to the local officers of the NAACP.., but as yet have receiv ed no indication of their willing ness to cooperate with me.. If they do not take immediate steps I am going to call a city wide mass meeting and there present a petition to be filed with the na tional offcers of tho organisa tion requesting their removal and that they be replaced by officers who are interested in carrying out tho object of the organization namely ‘to fight all forms of dis crimination.' "