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More than 12 times larger .. ... r Circulation ' i } rFNT^i! ■ Than Any Colored * |H News) aper Ever PER Published In ____ I I Nebraska -y (jUl * - /JUSTICE/EQUALITY L__ _Entered cs Second Class Matterat Postoffice, Omaha, Nebraska- OMAHA, NEBRASKA SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1937 VOL XI NO, 13 NAACP. Gives Parts In Debate on Anti Lynch Bill Open Letter Shows Arguments Advanced in Congress During First Hearing of Present Bill To Editors: The Wagner-VanNuys-Ga va gaii bill, JI. R. 1507 was favor ably reported by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate on June 21st by a vote of 13 to 3. Senators Wagner and Van Nuys are pressing for an early date on the Senate calendar for de bate and a vote on .the bill. Sen ator Tom Connallv of Texas who voted against reporting tkf bill baborably promised to speak against the bill in the debate and vote against it. He also said that other Sou- j them Senators would do .the same. In 1935, during the de-! bate on the Costigan-Wagner Former Omahan Visits Friends Here Always a joy it is. when Mrs. j Robinson, a former Omahan, re iuras to visit with her old fri ends. All these friends have crammed her visit with parties and luncheons. One of the pret tiest of these, was a luncheon given by Mrs. Haywood Vaw ter, in her beautiful home at 2717 No. 27th street. From .the time they entered the long spa cious living room, until they bid the hostess good bye and thanks in her beautiful flower garden, they were graciously entertained. Each luncheon .ta ble was a picture not to be for gotten. Guests were as follows: Mesdames Foster. Pollard, McPherson. Wright, Shipman, Turner. Soloman, Lewis, Haw kins, Thomas, Singleton, Frai ser, West, Hanger, Lee, and Wright. o The Bacchaniie Club’s Carni val Dance tickets are on sale at the following places of business: Robbins Drug Store 24th and Grant St. Tuxedo Billiard Parlor 24th and Grant Sis. George Lewis Chicken Hut Council Bluffs General Admission 50c. Before. y*u can save a dime, if you buy a ticket on time. 'JC WANTED OC «Girls and Women to go to work immediately. Make money during vacation. Good pay, pleasant work, short hours. Call Mrs. M. Gilbert each mom'ng at 8:43 or each evening at 6 p. m. at the Omaha Guide office, 2418 Grant Street. Phone WE 1517 bill and in 1937 during the de bate on the Gavagan bill in ,tlie House of Representatives, cer tain objections were raised by these opponents to anti-lynch ing legislation. These so-called objections have been carefully analyzed and certain facts have been arranged which clearly an swer them. We i're passing this material on to you for back ground information and what ever use you may wish to make of it. The debate in the Senate and the debate in the House of Re presentatives were both very lengthy. However, these debates can all be narrowed down to certain basic contentions. These objections and in answer there to are set out below: Objection Raised: The hill 1? an invasion of states’ rights1 Answer The bill operates only a fhor the state has forfeited its rights by failing, neglecting or re fusing to employ the lawful means at its disposal against lynching. Constitutional authority for the bill is set out in the pream ble to ,tbe bill which states that the bill is to better assure citi zens the equal protection and due process of law .guaranteed by tlie Fourteenth amendment. Section five of the Fourteenth amendment provides that “The Congress shall have power ,to enforce, by appropriate legis lation, the provisions of this ar (Continued on Page 6) Visitor Feted Mrs! W. II... Robinson, of De troit, Mich., former Omahan, ar rived June 26th, and has been spending the past few weeks here visiting among her old fri ends. She has been the house guest of Mrs. Edgar Lee, 2417 Maple street. “Eddie Lou,” as she 5s popularly known ,to a wide circle of admiring friends, has been the inspiration of many delightful social functions during her stay here. Mrs. Robinson, who is an ar dent devotee of all outdoor sports, was entertained on July 2nd, by the Sunrise Golfers, at Fontenelle park. Nine holes of golf were played followed by a delicious picnic supper. The members were Mesdames Rae Lee Jones, James C. Jewell, William Davis, G. B... Lennox, Craig Morris, Earl Wheeler, Bernie Corran, W. G... Haynes, Saybert Hanger, Frank Black well, Milton Wilson and Miss Edrose Willis. Mrs. Jessie Hardin honored: Mrs. Robinson, July 4th, with I a beautiful appointed dinner at her charming home at 2006 | No. 28th street. Covers were laid for six. Following the din- j ner, Mrs. James Lee entertain-1 ed Mrs. Robinson and a parly a.t an enjoyable cabaret party, at! the Harlem. ,On Monday, July 5th, her host ess, Mrs. Edgar 'Lee, honored ■ her with a lovely bridge lunch eon, at her home on Maple St. Her home was beautifully de corated with summer flowers. The dining table had a center piece of roses and snap dragons, (Cintijnued on Page 8) Test Air-conditioning Plant With Special Katz Thermometer the air conditioning plant re cently installed in the Metropol itan Utilities District Bldg, with PWA funds is functioning perfectly before Utilities offi cails accept it from the contract ors, Utilities engneers are mak ing delicae tests with a new and rare instrument—the kata-ther-j mometer. Recently perfected in Eng land by the firm of James J. Hicks, Incorporated with AY. F. Stanley andCompanv, Ltd., the kata-thermometer is designed to measure the slowest velocity and cooling power of air. AAThere as the areonometer, usually us ed in such tests will accurate ly register as low as 30 feet per minute velocity of air, the kata-thermometer will accurate ly register down to 16 feet per minute. t Specifications for the air con ditioning plant—which condi in winter as well as summer— cover more than a a hundred typewritten pages as ,t,he deter mination of the Utlities official that it should measure fully up to thesd spe(eijficatiohs before acceptance led to the acquisi tion of the newly-perfected test ing instrument from England. There are only six other kata thermometers in the United States and the one at the Utili ties building is the only onej west of the Mississippi river. The tests are being conduct ed by B. Manchesterc and C. F. Iloldrege, of the Metropolitan UtiilSSes Engineering Depart ment under the supervsion of 0. D. Robison, operating engin eer. TRAVEL EXPERT ~j —--- 11 .■■tst "ZZJ DUDLEY LUCK Tourist travel is going to bring in creased business to Negro mer chants, service stations, and cabin Cainp operators who cater to the Negro trade, says Mr. Lurk, direc tor of the Negro Branch of the Conoco Travel Bureau, Denver, Colo. Lastfflinuto Snappy _v-‘ews Items From National Fie!. .Fort Gaines, Ga., July 15 (XP)_ *4Aunt Josie” Price, 102, is the oldest applicant for old age pensions in Clay county. Johannesburg, So. Africa, July 15 (ANP)—Eight natives and one European, all workers in a factory at Modderfontein, were killed Inst Thursday when a terrific dynamite explosion shook the buildings of the big plant, located about 19 miles east of Johannesburg. -o Tuskegee! Institute, lAla., July 15 (ANP)—Todd Duncan, —bariton, in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess made his second ap pearance at Tuskegee Institute in sing recital. Mr Duncan was assisted at the piano by Cecil Cohen, of Howard university faculty. - yj 1 JJGHTNING turns BLACK PIG WHITE (?) Austin, Tex., July 15 (ANP) —A litter of pigs owned by Calvin Hughes, white dairy man, was entirely black. Then came a thrunderstorm and light ning struck in the barnyard. Next morning Hughes said he found one of his pigs was snow white. He attributes the change in color of the pig’s hair to fright from the light ning. . — -o Oh Brother, “Don’t you want to save a dime?” Get your tick et on time to the season’s great est Carnival Barn Dance, on or before Sat... July 24, 10 P. M. C.I.O. SPEAKS (By William Pickens for ANP‘ 1 am not .talking about the speech which CIO has been through its. “peaceful pickets,” armed with baseball bats, brick bats, and dynamite. I am re ferring to the speech of a suave “big shot,” trying to “explain” that he and Jesus are birds of a feather that both of them were trying to help “.the poor, the helpless and opressed” The CIO leader who is president of the U. A. W. A_., made a good fifteen minute speech in an hour’s time, he said,some things well worth remembering,—and littered a good mar'" 1 -’es and rehashed mur _ .id bunk,—which you can remem ber if you want to. But we all agree with him in the following statements: That white and cooeed work ers can only rise together. (He could have deduced that thev may also fall together.) That ! where Negroes work in the ma jority there you vill find as a rule lower and more dangerous (Continued on Page 6) .. O i VISITING IN THE EAST I — Mrs. Florence Terrell and her daughter, Jean, left Friday i evening for a three weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ethel M. Henry of 67£8 Champlain Ave. Before returning, Mrs. Terrell and daughter, ' Jean will visit some of the eastern cities. In route home, they will go through St. Paul and Min neapolis and spend a few Jays with Mrs. A. Gambles a former Omahan. / «9 * ----■ I • Husband Goes to Hospital; Wife To Jail, As Result of Argument At Anniversary Celebration Clevelond, Ohio, July 15 (ANP)—The Rev. Mr- Norman James, 42, of 2325 East 63rd, pastor of downtown Mt. Nebo Baptist church, located on St. Clair at 23rd street, was shot and seriously wounded here last week by his pretty 30-year-old wife, Mrs. Sally James, after he is reported to have struck her several times, through jeal ousy. He was shot in his left hand and back with a 38 Nickel-Plat ed revolver. According to police, Rev. and Mrs. James were celebrating at Garfield park where a. group of churches were sponsoring a picnic. Rev. James became en a.ged when lie discovered his wife in the company of a strange man. He accused her of | OLD TIMER LAID TO REST j Mr. W. M. Ransom, a well j known old timer, who passed Tuesday morning July 6th at 3.30 a. in. was buried from the Myers Funeral Home Monday, July 12 at 2 p. m., Rev. W. S~ Medcalf officiating. The funeral was in charge of Iroquois Lodge j No. 92. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Mr. Hanson's funeral was one of .the largest funerals in the history of Elk dom. -O Everybody’s Going! WHERE? To the big Carnival Dance featuring Anna Mae Win burn and her Swing Band on Mon., July 26, at the beautiful Dreamland hall. The Bacchanite Boys will be on hand to see that everybody ha* fun. Forest Lawn Perpetual Care Fund Reaches $300,000 Mark The perpetula care fund of Forest Lawn Cemetery Associa tion will amount to more than $300,000 by the end of 1937, it was predicted today by Frank T. B. Martin and \V. B.|"Millard, jr. president and treasurer, res pectively of the; Association. This unique fund which assures perpetual groomng of the For )eSt Lawn park amounted to $298,678.26 on July 1st aceord ingto Treasurer Martin. Appro priations during the first six months of this year have amounted to ’4,681.24, he said. Private endowments for perpet. ual care have increased :2,000 this year to a total 038,321.81. This is in addition to the regu lar amounts set aside from the ! Assocd.ion’s inontjhly business | for perpetual care. The principal of these per petual care funds can never be expended for any " Association trustees explained. The income from the fund is used exclusively for the care of the cemetery. Typical of the work .that is being done with money from the perpetual care fund is the planting of 12,000’ pounds of grass seed in the park since March 21st, according to T. Hilton Fonda, general manager. Preparation is now under way for .the Seventh Annual Chry santheum Show to be held at the park Thanksgiving wqck, | Eleven thousand chrysanthe-} mums of 35 to 40 varieties, plus an assortment of carnations and snapdragons, have been planted in the last ten days, he said. paying “too much attention” to him. A slight scene was start ed on the picnic grounds Wishing to avoid this humilia tion, Mrs. James requested that they go home. They drove home in the family automobile where the argument became fervent. It was during the second dispute that the minister is said to have struck her several times. According to the story told Sergeant Carl Rossback, she went to a bureau drawer and secured .the revolver, firing twice at her husband. Friends rushed him to the family car and drove him to St- Vincent hospital. Mrs. James was ar rested by Sergeant Rossback and charged writh the crime. Rev. James is a native of Memphis, Tenn., having come Cleveland a number of years ago. Rev. James and his church were celebrating his first anni versary which has five days more before closing. There are no children. -_—o RETURN FROM SCHOOL Ashton Leob Devilla and h'is sister, Billie, of 2624 Blondo street, have returned from Monroe, La., where they both were in high sehoil. Ashton was graduated from Monroe high school where he also won two gold medals of honor. He is an unusually brilliant bid and is considered quite an orator. From a class of fifty-three, he was the olny one one re ceived honors. -o Sing! Swing! Dance! .That Swing, Sing and Dance Orchastra will be in town soon featuring Anna Mae Winburn, the Mid-west’s most popular en tertainer. .‘v5f£!| Mrs. William Richardson spent the week-end and July 4th, visiting relatives and fri ends in her home town, White Cloud Kansas. Mr. Richardson, husband, motored down to White Cloud to accompany his wife home. -o Friends are Requested For Assistance v Mrs. Saddie Burton is asking the friends of her daughter, Mrs. Maude Ranson, deceased, who died June 20, 1937, to please aid her with the borial of Mrs. Maude Ranson- Dona tions will be accepted at the Louis Woff Taylor Shop, 150$ No. 24th s reet, or you may call JA 9384, and we send someone for the donation- Mr Louis Woff donates the sum of $2.00 Witt i r.lE AT THE CARNIVAL DANCE ..Maturing Anna Mae WSnburn at the Dreamland Hall on July 26th • ~ ~ w ~ w •• 1 w * ^9 ■ >i i+ i# » + «
