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- /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THEJJNE\ VOLUME 12 OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 22, 193G NUMBER FORTY-NINE _ _immrr , mi t 0 **m I I . I mr .in imir rrnmiwn >i i r -'I i—■ ■" . .1 .— II I mvmmrnmmmmmHmmammmmmmm———————, - t ■_■ Rev. Carnegie Flayed By Head Of Hospital Assn, Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 20— (ANP)—Declaring that the Rev. Amos Carnegie, head of the National Hospital Fund now seeking to -establish infirmaries all over the country through popular contribution, is “mak ing a racket out of the hospital situation as concerns our race-’’ Dr. E. B. Perry, prominent local physician who is president of the National Hospital Associa tion, listed his findings in this field. Answering Rev. Carnegie’s contention that there were not enough hospital facilities to take care of Negro medical graduates, Dr. Perry declared, “The truth is that all graduates do not care for interneships, and then they won't go south. They prefer the lamp-posts in the big cities." Plan Impractical “Carnegie has no organiza tion and his plan is not possible to realize," the local physician commented. “For instance, a penny a week from 12,000,000 Negroes, to be collected in var ious churches, is far fetched. He coiildn’t find the personnel even if he got the hospitals. “There are 20 ‘A’ class Ne gro Hospitals satisfying the requirements of surgeons. There (Continued on Page 8) Insane Man Kills Wife And Dog Raleigh, N. C-, Feb. 19, (ANP) Going suddenly insane, Carthy Evans, a farmer living near here, shot and killed his wife and a val uable bird dog and attempted to kill a nine-year-old girl who was spending the night with them, ear ly Tuesday morning. Coroner Waring declared that his investigation showed that Ev ans, who is considered a well-to-do farmer, arose from his bed at one o’clock Tuesday morning, secured his shot-gun and went out in the backyard where the dog was kept He shot the dog and returned to the house and when his wife, Mrs. Anna E' ans, remonstrated with him for killing the dog he turned the gun on her, shooting and fa tally wounding her. The girl, Viola Evans, hearing the shot screamed and according to her testimony as she ran out of the house in her nightgown, Evans fired twice at her. The coroner further stated that he believed the man was insane at the time of the shooting and that he was still crazy- He was lodged in jail, how ever, after having been captured at the home of his brother several rn.iles from his own farm and was charged with murder. Borah Attends Messenger’s Funeral Baltimor, McL, Fob. 20 — (ANR)- - Senator William E. Borah was among the notables who a! tended the funeral of C. O. Patterson, Messenger for the Foreign Relations Committee who was burled at Rockville, Mil., Friday. 1 I. V. L. COMMISSIONERS FILE FOR RE-ELECTION me opening gun in tho hattle of the six I. V. Ij. city ad ministration commissioners for reelection was fired this week when they filed as a group in Election Commissioner Anton Tusa’s office. Mayor Roy N. Towl and Commissioners Ilarry Knndsen John Kresl, ‘William E. (Bill) l>orrance, Harry Trustin and Frank E. Frost filed in that order, settling all discussion as to whether they would run together in the primary campaign. Mayor Towl, as leader of the ticket, in a statement, express ed pleasure over the action of his group in filing together: “The move of these commissioners in seeking reeleetion as a group is a move for the continuance of the independent. 1 ' I -— boss-less government idea put-forward by the Independent Voters League three years ago,’’ he said. “I believe the voters will approve our record of economy and balanced budget.1' Tuesday night 200 persons greeted Ex-Commissioner Bern ard R. Stone and his successor on the City Council' Fire Com missioner Dorrance, at a banquet in the Paxton hotel. Appre ciation for Commissioner Stone’s fine work while a member of the Council was voiced by Mayor Towl and Cmmissiners Kresl and Frost. They welcomed Commissioner Dorrance and expressed their certainty that he would be a fine public ser vant. Commissioners Ivnudsen and Trust in were ill and un able to attend. r., Destitute Man Battles For Life i Smithfield, N. C, Feb. 19 (ANP) Ned Field, 70-year-old man, is in the local hospital waging a battle for his life after being rescued from an improvised shelter by of ficers here Tuesday night. Officers who discovered him, stated that he was lying under a priecu of tin which he had erected as the roof of his shelter and was nearly frozen when they arrived He told them that he was destitute and hungry and without a home and that he had found a quiet “spot” to lay down and die peace fully. 131 Clerks Get U. S. Labor Dept. Jobs Washington, Feb. T9 (ANP) Ap pointment of thirty additional Negro clerks in the U- S. Depart cent of Labor at Washington was announced here this week. These Workers have been assigned to the Machine Tabulating Division to work on the U. S- Employment Service Perpetual Inventory of job applications from offices scatter aa-ht sy hsota9tpp, rnn par vb ed over the nation. The appoint mont of these young Negro wo men increases the number of Ne gro clerks now employed by the U- S- Department of Labor to an all-time total of one hundred and sixty-one. John Adams, Sr. Attends Founder’s Day Celebration Attorney John Adams, Sr., father of Attorney John and Ralph Adams spent the. past week in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Pounder’s ee’ebration of the Greater Payne University, of which he is president. TTe is I now enroute to Kansas City to ■ atetnd the Bishops’ Council. What’s the Truth About Mississippi Relief Situation? State Officials “Know Little’’; Federal Government Is Handicapped Washington, Feb. 20—(AN I’) — Mississippi Negroes, who make up more than half of that state’s population, have receiv ed comparatively few benefits from the New Deal, the Associ ated Negro Press has been able to learn through a prominent but unnamed colored resident there and from other sources. Unlike other states where a far smaller percentage of the population is colored, apparent ly few statistics in Mississippi are available, The KKA there Is controlled wholly by the state and serving the 1,009,718 Negroes and 996,856 whites there, declares all records on re lief “have been permanently stored.’’ Information has been readily obtained from other states both north and south where the colored population was not so great. Washington headquarters of the WPA> which now supplies relief to Mississippi solely through jobs, declares that it cannot exercise dictatorial con trol over various common wealths, as by so doing it would tver-step its prerogatives in rlirect violation of state’s rights. It does admit, however, that ac cording to its statistics Negroes have not shared in direct pro portion to their numbers of res idents. Under-Represented Although colored citizens are (Continued on Page 6) Rev. Bryant and Wife Attend the Bishop’s Council -- Rev. L. P. Bryant, pastor of St. John’s AJME church of this city, and wife, left for Kan sas City .Monday night, to at tend the Bishops’ Council, Rev. Bryant being a delegate to the General Conference which meets in New York in May. They w'ill also attend the fun eral of the Senior Bishop H. B. Parks, which is to be held in Allen Chapel in Kansas City. ,The Rev. L. P. Bryant has been announced as candidate to edit and publish the Western Chris tian Recorder of the AME con vention. I Tuskegee Cadets Receive Promotion Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Feb. 20 (ANP) Colonel R 0. Davis, profes sor of military science and tactics and commander of the R. O. T. C., at Tuskegee Institute announced the following promotions here this week: Captain Riley B. Harris, to major; First Lieutenant E. B. Hooker to captain and Second Lieutenants M. B. Lghtfoot, Rob ert M. Malone and Earl S. Jores to first lieutenants and Sergeants Louis D. Green and Howard M. Smith and Private John W. King to second lieutenants. Editor of Crisis at National Congress New York, Feb. 19—Roy Wil kins, Assistant Secretary of the N A A C. P and Editor of The Crisis, is attending the National Negro Congress as an official ob server on behalf of the N A.A.C P. Will D. Manuel Dies Suddenly Will D. Manuel, 1527 N. 17th street, died Sunday morning from an attack of acute indi gestion. Mr. Manuel was born in Hel ena, Arkansas- on December 25, 1885. He came to Omaha In 1921. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Mary Manuel, a daughter, Kffie; three sisters. Mrs. Effie R. Dudley, 2624 N. 25th street, Mrs. B. R. Turner. Denver. Colorado, Mrs. Bessie Smith, Helena, Ark ; and nieces, nephews and a host of friends. No funeral arrangements had been made at this writing. ARNA BONTEMPS ARNA BONTEMPS author of "Black Thunder** (Macmillan) Mr. Kon temps new book, “Black Thunder'* lias attract ed wide attention and revived high praise from some of the country’s most important crit ics. It is a talc of the attempt ed Richmond insurrection led by slave hero “Gabriel” RACE CONGRESS DRAWS A LARGE DELEGATION HARMONY IS SOUGHT — —-—-- /a What A Lawyer’s Client Should Know A lawsuit is an unusual event to the average person, lie may have but one in a lifetime. To him it seems to be a contest of words, an argument—a few calisthenics. He seldom knows the work that has preceded the words he hears in court. He does not know^he hours of labor his lawyer has devoted to briefing the law. lie does not know that in almost every law suit this work is necessary. ITc does not know that no lawyer knows all the law. It is said by Corpus Juris that 563,000 distinct and sep arate propositions of law are digested; that of these a good lawyer knows but 10,000. Assuming that the judge is a good lawyer, he may know no more on the subject presented to him than the lawyer who is tiding the ease knew about the subject before he began to look up the law. Is it surprising, then, that the judge is grateful for the results of the hours of labor in research by which the trial brief is produced and by w'bich ultimate justice is rend ered? Under those conditions the responsibility of the lawyer is great; in a large measure the quality of justice depends up on his industry and research. These are matters about which the client know's little. Is it surprising then that some times the client wonders- when the bill comes, whether lie is not paying too high a price for the little demonstration he sees in court? The occasional differ ence between the lawyer and his client is frequently due to this cause, ne should be made to know that no lawyer oan know' all tlio law’ and that the client is paying also for the time and labor in research which was necessary in his case. Arthur C. Thomsen, District Judge. Chicago, Feb. 20—(ANP)— Three lusty and resounding strikes of the gavel and the Na tional Negro Congress opened at the Eighth Infantry Regi ment Armory here in Chicago Friday night So What—-For the next, three days the plight of the Negro will be aired, res olutions will lie accepted, the congress will adjourn and tin* members will await the coming of another yeftr and perhaps another National Negro Con gress. Tin* gavel used has fine his-. torical value according to tin* chairman of the mooting, At torney Charles Wesley Burton in that it was carved by Hamp ton Institute students from the wood of the last slave ship and presented to the Congress. The wood must be in good condition yet because the champion pounded the table with it fre quently and vigorously. The brethren of the Baptist persuasion must have felt per fectly at home upon entering the convention hall when they saw the white robed choir and a stage setting similar to that of the sessions of the National Baptist Convention, with the gospel choir substituted for by a jazz orchestra. The music of the latter, however, was much the same as to cadence and fer vor. That harmony had been sought by the promoters was evidenced by the program and other activities for instance, Dr. W. H. Jernagin prominent Baptist minister invoked the “Spirit of God on the proceed ings", the Rev. Archibald Car ey welcomed the delegates to Chicago, giving an address so chockful of racial history that it would have done credit to Dr. Carter G. Woodsen or Dr. Charles H. Wesley; seated next to Rev. Carey, a minister of the AME denomination and engag ing him in much conversation (Continued on Page 8) BORAH—WIIAT DOES HE STAND FOR? By Louis L. Redding Do you know' that Senator Borah declared for the repeal of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution saying it was a “mistake" to give Negroes the vote? Do you know what Senator Borah said about Negro women and the ballot during the debate on women’s suffrage? Do you know what Senator Borah said about Negro soldiers after the 25th Infantry—Brownsville, Tex., affair? Do you know that Senator Borah “sympathizes deeply’’ with the South because it has to “bear the burden" of the Ne gro? And that he thinks the North can afford to listen to the j requests of our southern friends?’’ Do you know that Mr. Borah, if President, wotdd veto anti-lynching laws without giving the courts a chance to pass ! on them ? Bead all about the “liberal’’ Senator from Idaho in The Crisis for March. Mr. Redding has written his article Strictly From The Re ' cord of Mr. Borah in the U. S. Senate. Negroes and their friends cannot afford to miss this picture of the man who wants to be i President. We don’t think the Republican leaders in certain j states can afford to miss it, either.
