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• •• Jfcj|g£j7 r 5 CENTS TT* CITY ' PER 7 sp COPY _ / EDITION I-/JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THE LINE\ ~ "'W-- - - - - — \^TJ vm.mra U OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 29, 1936 NUMBER FIFTY EMPLOYEE KILLS COUPLE FOR S50 DR. HAYNES LECTURES AT DRAKE UNIVERSITY The Crisis Magazine Barred By Board Washington, Feb. 27 —The board of education of the Dis trict of Columbia today decid ed that The Crisis, official or gan of the NAACP, was “mili tant propaganda'1 and there fore unsuitable for schools of the District of Columbia. The board is reported to have ruled that another Negro magazine contained “sociological data’’ and was therefore all right for the students in the District. It wtas reported that, the board's action was taken upon the re commendation of Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant superin tendent of schools in charge of Negro schools, but this could not bo confirmed. In a telegraphic statement to newspaper men here, Roy Wil kins, acting editor of The Crisis in New York, said: “Feel con fident Garnet Wilkinson would not of his ow*n free will pre vent circulation of Crisis to col ored school children in Wash ington, D. C. As for action of board of education can say only that colored citizens may be cer tain whatever white people do not wish them to read is good for them. Regard action of board as sincerest compliment to editorial policy of Crisis paid in recent years. ’ MAKES HISTORY Dee Moines, Feb. 27—For the first time in the history of Drake university a Negro con ducted a lecture course at thje institution this week when Dr. George E. Haynes, executive secretary of thje Federal Coun cil of Churches, opened a series of lectures Tuesday. Dr. Ilaynes, am outstanding leader in interracial and church work lectured three days at the university on the general theme of “Land Tenure and Social Problems in South Africa and Southern United States.'' In ad dition to being one of thl? guest lecturers at Drake university, he will otlso be one the principal speakers during the six weeks forum sponsorietd by the Board of Education. John H. Buffkins Dies (Easy Walking Tom) John H. Buffkins, 2426 Patrick Ave., died Saturday, Feb. 22, in a local hospital, a victim of double pneumonia Mr. Buffkins, commonly known as "Easy Walking Tom” was a familiar character to everyone. He was to be seen pushing his cart up and down the streets Funeral services will be held at the Lewis Mortuary Monday, Mar 2, at 11:30 A- M. Burial wil be made in Forest Lawn cemetery. Survivors are the widow, Mrs W. Buffkins: two children, Maggie and Idalia., and five step-children— four girls and one boy. CORTEZ W. PETERS 3 _1 I --—■—— Former World's Amateur Champion Typist and Director of Business Schools in Washington and Baltimore, shown as he demonstrated his technique before an audience in Chicago, whore he is planning to open a similar school. Mr. Peters dis played his ability before several Chicago schools and businesses last week. Former Omahan Dies At Lincoln ■ " ■■ Lincoln, Neb.,-Mr. Thomas Watts, father of Mrs. Jennie Ed wards, 2420 P Street, died at the given address Monday, Feb- 17th. Since the death of his wife, some years ago, Mr- Watts has made his home with his daughter, Mrs Edwards. Mr- Watts was born in Glasgow, Mo-, March 10, 1830. Had he lived to see March 10th of this year he would have been 106 years old. Bound into slavery on the Dr. Watts’ plantation in Virginia, many were the stories he had to tell of slave days and conditions. Mr. Watts came to Omaha, Neb., some fifty years ago, but later he moved to Fremont, Neb. At this place, he worked for many years, with the masons. Later he became custodian of the public library there, a position he held until he was 101 years of age Funeral services were held in the little church Mr. Watts built in Fremont—St. James A. M- E church Thursday, Feb- 20th. Rev Metcalf officiated. BJiri&l was made at Fremont Mrs- Edwards’ many friends 'sympathize with her in her grief I - Race Wrote WPA 6,000 Complaints -- Washington, Fob. *6, (C) No groes o# the nation Iwrote the about 6,000 letters concerning re lief problems in 1936, according to ' Alfred Edgar Smith, administra ! tive assistant to Harry L. Hojv kins, in a special statement to Cal vin’ Newspaper Service. Mr. Smith, whose office is in the Walker-Johnson building, 1734 New York Avenue, has three as sistants, John W Whitten, Leona M- Cobb and Charlotte S. Price. In his statement Mr. Smith outlined his duties as follows: (1) main tain close contact with our various state WPA and provide accurate, up-to-date picture of status of Negro on relief or in WPA em ployment; (2) furnish other offi cials data toguide them in form ation of policies in which the ra cial question is involved; (3) make detailed study of Negroes on relief (4) receive individuals and dele gations and secure interviews with proper officials. ..— - ■" - The Negro Middle Class Dr. Robert C. Weaver, adviser on Negro affairs in the U- S- De patrment of Interior, recently com piled significant data to show how tho Negro middle class has lost out economically. While the num ber of white men in a selected business was reduced from 154,510 in 1910 to 126,291 in 1930, the num ber of Negroes in the same period fell from 1,713 to 862. 20 2 per cent of all employed white work ers are in clerical and similar po sitions, while only 15 percent of employed Negroes are so placed. In 1929, there were 25,701 retail stores operated by Negroes, com pared with 833,581 such stores in the country. Georgian Selected For Jury Service Leesburg, Ga-, Feb. 26, (ANP) For the first time in the history of Lee county a Negro has been se lected for jury service, the juror being Samuel Chapman, well-to-do farmer, who will serve in the fed eral court to be held at Americus next week. Others eligible for service are: B. L. Jordan, Furlough Adams, Frank Murray and J. H. Griffin For Re-Election John Adams, Jr, announces that he will be a candidate for re-elec tion to the State Legislature from ;the 5th District Mussolini Prepares For A Second Winter Of War Having failed to conquer Ethio pia during the first winter, Mus solini is preparing to subject the Italian troops to a second winter of war. Fascist Italy’s armed for ces will total about 1,650,000 men by the end of Februauy. The air force is being augmented daily, being already 20 per cent above peace-time strength. The navy is j to be reinforced by the completion j of six submarines. Mussolini’s road 1 construction plan resulted in 60,000 j additional workers being sent to j East Africa All wool has been j requisitioned for military supplies. Every male Italian between the j ages of 11 and 32 must keep a record of his physical condition i and his degree of military train- , ing. Such information is to be kept ; up to date under the threat of punishment for failure to do so. To pay for all these prepara tions, the tax on consumption of household gas and electricity was | increased, ns was also the tax on coal and its by-products. There was also a 50 per cent increase in the tax on bachelors. — TELLING FACTS The number of British unem ployed has risen to a new total of 2,169,722. Their families live on a weekly dole of $6. —N. Y- Times, 1-4-36 Prof. Bogart of the University of Illinois estimates the cost of the World War at $337,000,000,000 The cost to the United States was about $23,000,000,000 plus about $22,000,000,000 of war debts— Fight, Feb. 1936 The number of deserters from foreign ships arriving in the U 8- inereastd to 1,212 in 1936, com pared with 972 in 1934, as a re sult of the Jtalian war in Ethiopia. N. Y. Times, 2-6-36. The cost of the Chaco War to Bolivia alone was $196,000,000. About 40,000 to 46,000 men were lost by Bolivia. — World Events, 1-16-36. Dr. Wrisrht Lauds Five Nesrroes Cincinnati, Feb. 27,—(ANP) —-Five Negroes, born the same month as Lincoln and Washing ton, were praised and their con tributions enumerated before the Century club at the Negro YMCA here last week by Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., president of Wilberforce university. Those given special praise were lleury McNeil Turner, born February 1st, 1831, first Negro chaplain in the U. S. army, and AM!E bishop and mis sionary to Africa; Joseph C. Price, born Feb. 10,1858, found er of Livingstone college and called by Dr. Wright the race's best known orator; Bishop Dan iel A. Payne, born February 24, 1811, who taught Negroes in South Carolina to read and i write and a founder of Wilber ,force; Bishop Richard Allen, born February 14, 1850, a founder of the AME church and first ordained bishop, and Frederick Douglass, greatest of Negro abolitionists. London Calls Up Alabama Sheriff On Seottsboro Birmingham, Ala-. Feb. 26, (A NP) Alabama officials learned last week that world interest in the famous Seottsboro case is still keen when British papers called up Sheriff McDuff of Birmingham on the Trans-Atlantic telephone. It developed that the first ca bled reports reaching London of tho horrible burning alive of 20 Negro chain gang prisoners on Jan 31 had given rise to the be lief that the Seottsboro boys were among the victims. One of the first London papers to make a check-up of the report was the London Daily Mail. Just a few hours after the tragedy, in which twenty convicts died like rats locked in a steel cage and chained together, the sheriff was informed that London was on the wire. Amazed, he lifted the receiv er to hear: “This is the London Daily Mail calling. We understand that the Seottsboro boys were tak en out and burned. is it so? Oxley Urges Negroes To Prepare For Jobs Cincinnati, 0,Fleb. 26, (ANP) If Negroes are to receive the bene fits to be accorded them in the New Deal program they must pre pare tor jobs that will be available was the declaration of Lieut enant Lawrence A. Oxley, Chief of Negro Labor in the U. S. Depart ment of Labor, in an address be fore a city-wide mass meeting here Wednesday. “The administration’' said the speaker, “h a s established the Works Progres Administration to provide emlploymtent-f' The Na tional Yrtuth Administration the CCC corps, the Resettlement Ad ministration, the Federal Security Board, the Federal Housing Ad ministration and the Public Works Administration have all been es tablished to provide work oppor tunities for America’s unemploy ed ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce to our South Side friends that Mrs. Wm. Alston, 2627 Jefferson St-, is our news reporter for that vicin ity. EMPLOYE PAID TO KILL HUSBAND AND RIVAL - Dr. John Hope, President Atlanta University Dies Atlanta, Ga., Feh. 25, Follow ing an illness of less than a week, 67 year old president of Greater due to pneumonia. Dr. John Hope, Atlanta University, and one of the foremost Negro educators of the country, died Thursday, Feb. 20, at Spelman College infirmary. In the chapel of Sale Hall, where for many years he presided as head of Morehouse College, the fu neral services of Dr. Hope, were held, Feb. 23. in the presence of more than seven hundred of his colleagues in the field of educa tion and friends from all walks of me. his body was earned by his students to a simple grave on the nearby campus of Atlanta Univer sity, the scene of his last labors. Bom June 2, 1868, in Augusta, Ga-, the famous educator gave practically all his life to teaching and college administration except a year during the World War days when he did Y M- C. A- work among Negro soldiers in France. Dr- Hope was educated in the North, graduating from Worces ter Academy in Massachusetts in 1890; receiving his A- B. from Brown University, Providence, R I- in 1894; studied at the Univer sity of Chicago summer sessions of 1897-98 and got his A. M from Brown in 1907 Surviving Dr. Hope are his wife, Lugenia, whom he married in 1897; and two sons. John, Jr-, and Ed ward Of the 20,1000,000 young people in the U- S between the ages of 16 and 24, 4,700,000 or 23 per cent are out of school, unemployed and seeking employment. This is an in crease of over 160 per cent since 1930—SchoolLi fe, Jan. 1936. INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY Ruston, L&., Feb. 25—(ANP) —Incensed by her husband’s refusal to sever relations with his Negro sweetheart, Mrs. R. II. I>aird, wife of prominent white pi an tier, paid Robert “Smoky" Hill fifty dollars to murder her husband and her paramour, Mary Harris, accord ing to the confession of Hill to Sheriff A. J. Thigpen, here Tuesday morning. The sheriff said that Hill had maae u eompietje confession that he shot and killed Laird and Miss Harris near the Laird farm last Friday night as they were seated in an automobile. The bodies of the murdered couple were discovered Satur day morning by a passing mot orist and two days later Hill was arrested as a suspect duo to the fact that he had been seen approaching the parked auto mobile in which Laird and his sweetheart were seated, armed with a shotgun. Accuses Laird’s Wife At the inquest Mrs. Laird denied any knowledge of the cause of her husband's dca/Lh and feigned ignorance as to his relations with Miss Hill, who was a comely brown-skin wo man several ytcars her junior. She urged a complete investi gation of the dual slaying and rumor has it tba/t she stated that she would pay a reward (Continued on Page 5) TODD DUNCAN AND ANNE WIGGINS The NBO radio presentation “Genius of Color'' is the latest weekly program of all-colored artists. With a cast of 50 artists headed by Chick Webb and his Orchestra each Wednesday ev ening, 10:30 to 11:00 p. m. EST on its coast to coast network, this aggregation is highly received. (Photo above.) The Four Ink Spots a novelty instrumental and vocal quartet is one of the popular features along with Ella Fitzgerald, a blues singer that is a sepia Connie Boswell and one of the season's latest “finds’’: Hamtree Harrington, comedian, a vest-pocket edition of Bert Williams; Charles Linton, who possesses a Morton Downey tenor and Cecil McPherson's celebrated Jubilee Choir. It is conceded to be one of the greatest all-Negro programs ever arranged for the Nation-wide hook-up.—NNF