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Entered as Se»>nd Glass Matter at Postoffiee, Qtnaha, Nebraska- Qn*a^|, Nebraska, SATtTRDAY, JUlfE 5, 1937_^ _ _V01. XI, NO. 8
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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.
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Summer Institute for
Women to Be Held
June 10 and 11
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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.
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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.
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/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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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