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ut-. , __M Published In ■* Nebraska —- HEW TO THE 11N£\ ■ ■ ... i ■ ■■■ ■■ — Entered as Se»>nd Glass Matter at Postoffiee, Qtnaha, Nebraska- Qn*a^|, Nebraska, SATtTRDAY, JUlfE 5, 1937_^ _ _V01. XI, NO. 8 Subscription Certificate HAMS.__ADDRESS _ _ Complete Details On Page 3 I Read The Omaha Guide Because ___, ___——_._—_______. Colored Citizens Should Subscribe for The Omaha Guide Became . ____— - - Ut »»•> ♦ J> > » ■ - .... ..-■ ..I—-- ■ .. I -. — -. r t J ' Know Omaha Week featuring the products of Omaha manufacturers which will be displayed in down town sjiow windows, opens Mon day evening, June 7th, and centin ues through the week until Friday evening, ^une litn. More than thirty manufacturers have signed up to display their wares during this week, and prizes will be offered to the manufactur er with the best display, and to tlue retail store having the best deeorat ed window. Prizes totalling $100. will also ho offered to person visiting the downtown windows Monday, Tues day arid Wednesa/ evenings. Con test rules all for contest to vi sit eaeh window, number It and name the manufacturer, and then unscramble the jumbled name *f the manufacturer. For instance the Jr. Chamber of Commerce might appear as Noriuj Cramheb fo Merenfpc, and though that sound like we might imagine a stutterir^c Russian nomad might speak, it re ally isn’t as tough as it looks. First prize is $50. Monday evening wfll gee the un veiling of these windows, with five bands playing in various sections of the downtown area. There will be other attractions Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, also, and Thursday the prizes will be award ed for all contests. Thursday morn ing the Industrial tour will begin, with approximately 250 women riding a train around the ‘belt line' and visiting five large Omaha man ufacturing plants. .... . Summer Institute for Women to Be Held June 10 and 11 ** • . 1 A summer Institute for Women, sponsored by the Department of Education of the Nebraska Federa tion of Women’s Club, is being of fered in conection with the Univer sity of Omaha Summer Session this year. The Institute will be held on /une 10th and 11th. j The Institute, designed to help women keep abreast of the times, stimulate new limes of thought, en tourage self-education, personal growth and social progress, pre srnt some practical methods of solving home and community pro blems, and develop leadership, is open to all women who care to take advantage of it. Mrs. G. A. Rowles is chairman. -o 10 SALES LADIES WANTED TO WORK. LIBERAL PAY FOR EN ERGETIC PERSON SEE. MR. S. E. GILBERT AT THE OMAHA GUIDE OFFICE. 2118 GRANT STREET. Coronation Bail j Attendants Named' Coronation Ball committee |Krs selected the following named young debutante* to act as duch esses an^l jprin4es*3, whfrn her majest, Queen Aurora VII is, crowned at fho Dreamland Dance Hall on Monday evening, June. 14th. They are Misses Ora Lee Britt, Gladys Brown, Ethel Davis, Mildred Dorsey, Evelyn Dortch, Evelyn Floyd, Bernice Grice, Johnnie Gor don, Virginia Gorgan, Anna Pearl Harris, Chlarlottte Hicks, Ethel Huter, Rowena Jones, Mabel King, Anna Lett, Phyllis Love, LaVeme MeGaugh, Ann Michael, Mary Alice Morgan, Lduise Newland, Amelia Partridge, Lula Mae Powell, Ger aldine Smith, Mar'orie Terrell, An na Belle Thomas, Ada Lee Walker, Cecil Walls, and Eli Wright. Preceeding the coronation, Mrs. Rae Lee Jones will present sixteen young sub-debs in a unique singing and dancing revue, which promises to be one of the highlight of this colorful annual affair. Senator ihn Adams, jr., will be muster of ceremonies. Tickets for the Coron [ation ball, sponsored by St. Phil lips’ Episcopal church are now on sale. Walter White Gets 23rd Spingan Medal New York, May 28t#i—The twen ty-third Spingam medal for dis tinguished achievement by an Am erican Negro was awarded last week to Walter White, secretary' of the Nationnl Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The medal is made available each year by E. Spingam, president of tHe N. A. A. C. P., to a commit tee to be awarded to the American Negro adjudged to have made the most distinguished achievement in the past year. In awarding the medal to Mr. White, the committee cited his per sonal investigation of 41 lynchings and 8 race riots and also his ‘re markable tact, skill and persuasive ness’ in lobbying for a federal anti lynchng bill, and conluded its find ings with the state: “In zeal for, and loyalty to his race, the commit tee believes Mr. White to b^ sur passed by no one else. . -o /Death Ta|kes Well Known Chi Woman . Chicago, June 6 (ANP)—Final rites were held last Saturday from the Good Shepherd church, for Mrs. Lucy Lee McGee, a life long Con gregational ist and native of Mont gomery, Ala., where her father, Ruben Lee, had been deacon at the First Congregational church for 40 years. In her early years, Mrs. McGee had been graduated from the Montgomery Industrial school and from the Alabama State Teacher’s college, at which institution she al so served later as teacher. She had been a resident of Chicago since 1900, and was active in social and civic circles. A son, George McGee, a grand daughtr, Eugenia, one bro ther and four sisters, survive. Delinquent subscrii The postoffice department of papers to delinquent subscril up to date, please mail or bring s or call WEB1517 for represent! ; greatly appreciated* St. Phillip’s Church Loses Pastor REV. VICTORY E. HC^LY Sheriff ‘Probes’ Dead Man’s Lynching Bainbridge, Ga., June 6 (ANP)— Sheriff \V. 3. Catledge announced Tuesday he had begun a ‘personal investigation’ into the burning of a dead youth’s body Monday night by a mob of 100 men, women and children aroused by the slaying of two white women. The sheriff said there would be no inquest into the slaying earlier of the victim, Willie Reed, 20, by three deputies, who said h° tried to escape as he was being taken to jail at Albany aSter his arrest in Dothan, Ala. Senator Johnson For Anti-Lynch Bill New York, June 5—Senator Ed win C. Johnson, of Colorado, who had been reported in the, ‘uncertain’ group of senators on the Gavagafl anti-lynching bill, has written the N A. A. C. P. this week: “You may be confident that any adequate le gislation in this matter wll have my support.” This makes a total of 63 sena tors who have declared their will ingness to vote for a federal anti lynching bill. A favorable report on the bill is expected to be made by the sen ate judiciary committee immediate after Memorial Day holiday. There will then be an effort to have a date set for bringing the bill up on the floor. The mob took the body from a colored undertaking parlor, drag ged it through the main streets and through the terrified colored sec tion and burned it in the Negro baseball park ERS—PLEASE NOTICE does not permit the delivery >ers. If your payments are not mount due to The Guide office ttive: Your oooperation will be T5io Management The Rev. Victor Emanuel Holly, who atyaumed eh®ge of St. Phillip’s Episcopal churh following the death of tHb Rev. John Albert Wil liams, four years ago, has resigned and accepted a ciifl to St. Phillip’s church in St. Paul, Mian.. He left Thursday for his new post. Rev. Rfr. Holly is a native of Haiti and is the grandson of Bishfcp J^mes L. Holly, first colorod bis hop of the Protestant Ijgisdbpal church in America. During his stay at St. Phillip's ,thc church ha^ progressed steadily. Ho prepared and presented four classes to the bishop for confirma tion, totaling 72 persons. Financi ally, the church is better off than at any time in its history. Rev. Mr. Holly has also taken an active in terest in civic affairs of the city and has endearefl himself to many during his residence among us. The Omaha Guide wishes him Godspeed and success in his new work. ■ —-o-.- - To Probe Color Bar (In La^n-America New Yoilc, June 6—-It is likely that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will conduct an extensive investiga tion and possibly ask action by the United States government on the bar again?* Negro Americans which has been erected by most countries in Central and South America. The executive committee of the Dallas, Texas, branch of the N. A. A. C. P. has taken up the matter of the color bar now enforced by Moxio against Negro Americans. The opinion is general among those who have made preliminary study of the situation that this barring of American Negro citizens is either ncouraged by the American govern mcnt, or at least is not resented. Tho Dallas branch has asked the national office of the N. A. A. C. P. in New York to conduct an ivesti gation and to see wat can be done for colored people who wish to tra vel or stufly in Mexico and coun tries south. Periodically, Mexico has denied that it has any bar against Negro es, but colored Americans continue to have diffifulty in getting pass ports to go there, even for a short period of study and research. It is reported, also, that Brazil, which has a large Negro population and which is supposed to have no col or line within its own country does not desire to have NegroAmericans come to Brazil. ■--o Dorothy Scott Returns Home From Lincoln Miss Dorothy Scott, 2871 Maple street, who was graduated from Central high school in 1936 and who has been employed as a steno graper for the Unicameral Legisla tin' in the state house at Lincoln, Neibr., has >etun,ed home. It to sah. by those in the know that Miss Scott proved very satisfactory in the rendition of her stenographic service to the first Unicameral Le gislature ever to be attempted in America. Such efficient service '* indeed a credit to Miss Scott and the race. _ _____ MRS. L®UISE PRYOR IIOLLY Women’s League Endorses Gavagan Anti - Lynch Bill Washington, June, 6—At its re cent annual meeting here, the Wo men’s Intel-national League for Peace and Freedom endorsed the Gavagan anti-lynching bill in the following resolution: “Since America is recurrently disgraced by lynchings and since this violence has been praetied lar gely by the dominant white race upon members of the Negro race, “THEREFORE BE IT RESOLV ED that we urge immediate enact ment of the anti-lynching legisla tion as proposed by the Gavagan Bill recently passed by the House of Representatives, to provide ade quate punishment for the crime of lynching.” ———o Married At a ceremony performed at 8 o’clock Thursday evening, May 20th by the Rev. C. Pettis, Miss Bertha Walton, daughter of Mrs. Maud Walton, became the bride of James L. Smith, son of Mrs. A. Smith. The bride was a lovely figure in a gown of blue net, featuring a short matching Jacket with puffed sleeves. Her accessories were white and the flowers in her hair con trasted with the lovely corsage'of wite roses, sweet pas and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Elma Porter, who was maid of honor, wnre green or gandie. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, William Cooper and Charles S. Boyd was best man. Assisting at the recep tion given following the wedding were Mesdames Matthew Johnson, Leroy Love, Ada Crockett, Mattie Blair and Luther Shields. The new lyweds are to reside at 2021 No. 21st St. ^ . Man Cuts and Stabs Woman On 24th and Lake Streets I * Rockefeller has Given 31 Million Dollars For Negro Education New York, June 6 (ANP)—Near ly $111,000,000 was givbn for Negro education by John D. Rockefeller, who died last week. Gifts to col leges and schools totaled $14,844, 714 and at his death there w-as an unexpended balance of $7,172,916. Other funds for Negro education brought the total in this field to $21,617,449, with unexpended bal ances of $9,280,969. Spelman college of Atlanta was a direct benertciary of his pfrilan thropies and the institution was given its present name in honor : 'of Mrs, Rockefeller’s mother after he saved it in 1884 by preventing a mortgage forclosure. A short time later, he gave $40, 000 for construction of the first brick building on the qampus. It was named for him. In later years t.ho l,(ui.ra Spelman Rockefeller memorial was established and from this Spelman received a gift of $1, 000,000 toward its endowment. Pastor Gets Dej?ree At 64 Years of Age After diligent work in addition to his duties as a pastor, the Rov. George W, Slater, jr., 64, 2427 Fifth avenue, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, will receive his bachelor of arts degree on June 3rd from the Municipal University of Omaha. lie is tho oldest stu dent at the university. By virtue of his bachelor of arts degree, the Rev. Mr. Slater will be noeorded a degree of bachelor of theology from the Omaha Presbyterian seminary He completed work for the theo logical degree two years ago, but to be entitled to it requires a bach elor of arts degree. The Rev. Mr. Slater has been a student at the Municipal Uni versity of Omaha for two years, majoring in philosophy. Prior to entering tho university he had eigtbv f’ve hours of credits gleaned from Penn college, Oska loosa, la: Payne Theological semin ary, Wilberforce university; St. Stephen’s college,! Edmondton, Al berta, Canada, University of Chic ago Wesleyan university, Bloom ington, 111 and the Council Bluffs Community college. He intends to take work at the Omaha seminary for a master of theology degree. -n-— The Johnson Dancing Pirates en tetrtained at the Rome hotel Sun day. May 31st. They will give a minstrel program for the Mothers of America. They are instructed by ther mothers and fathers, Mr. and Mrs. Percy and Emma Johnson. -o Mr. and Mrs. James L. Smith were hosts on Friday, May 21st to Mr. Charles S. Boyd and his friend Mrs. Beulah Wesson. A very enjoy able evening was spent. _ Iairoy Guatin, young pofico of ficer, who through tha using erf good judgment, preventad a pos sible murder Monday evening at 24th and Lnko strets about 11:30 p m. when he interrupted a melea in which Eugene Pierre, 2417 No. 22nd street and Miss Emma Simma of the sftme address, were the prin cipals. Prior to the interruption of officer Gustin, it Is alleged that Pierre Inflicted several knife wound on the body of IMss Simms. The assailant not content with, his having brutally cut the lady, turned upon the officer and inflicted wounds on the abdomen and leg, necessitating the taking of fiva stitches. Officer Gustin putting hid oath of obligation above self-pre servation did not allow this to stop htm, but proceeded to arrest his man. called the patrol wagon and eent him down, where Pierre plead ed guilty to the charge of cutting with intent to wrund, subsequent ly he was given four years in tha state penitentiary at Lincoln by District Judge John W. Yeager, Wednesday. Against Jim Crow Hon David Dubinsky President of the International La dies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 8 West 16th street, New York City, who declared in a speech at the twenty-third convention of the on ion at Atlantic City, N. J., recent ly: “In our Union, no distinction is made between color creed or nation ality_We have organization in the south and splendid organiza tions, too. We are waging a fine battle there Jh which our member ship is confronted with many dif ficulties. I am glad to inform you that while it might have taken us a little time and we did not want to impose anything that might cause irritation within our move ment, and, therefore, we were mov ing slowly, step by step, we have good news from Atlanta that the colered people in our trades are being organized under the banner of the Internatioal.” There are nearly 300,000 members in the ILGWU, and about 9,000 colored. Ifcfis a C. I. 0. union (C) Watch for Commencement Number of The Guide —■—“—m m ♦‘•O—11 0i> h# i# | it < i>n> i| > —Htlt'i| '>■■#■■> 4i<ii>n>iit |-^** **> i| t t I < f | -0--#-^ | 10110i.ql^il0ln#i«^■ ii^t-fr—0iiQf '■■•'* • '#■