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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
