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More than 12 times larger , S Circulation 1I® CENTS Than Any Colored f f Newsjaper Ever ^^^B | r>lX J§^' Published In ^ Pf^PV m Nebraska -_I • - /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THE LINE\ — _, ""' ' "J 1 Entered as Second Class Matterat Postoffice, Omaha. Nebraska- OMAHA, NEBRASKA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1937 VOL. IX, NO. 20 Policeman Suspended On Graft Charge -- Chicago, Sept. 9 (AND—-Ed ward Mowen, white, a member of the local police force for 1 year«, was suspended lost week after be ing accused of "shaking down” a motorist for $6. His trouble grow out of a request by Raymond Har ris, colored, for the return of $fi he said he paid the policeman Au gust 24th. Harris, enroute for ♦ Oown Point with a party of fri ends to attend a wedding, was stop ped by Mowen. Harris said Mowen told him, ‘ You look like a good fel low, and I can save you a heavy fine for sp; ng if you want to give me $6. I’ll pay your fine.” A few days later, reading the papers of a similar "shakedown” case led him to seek the return of his mon ey. Harris said. -o Jim Crow Cheeks Out of Millwaukee Hotels at Parley Milwaukee, Wis-, Sept. 9 (CNA) —Efforts or the part of three ho tels here to bar Negro delegates to tha United Auto Workers conven tion were promptly scotched when the union sent a large delegation to insist on equal rights for their fel low unionists. Hotel managements were flatly told that if the Negro workers were not given accomoda tions, If en the white delegates would check out in a body. Jim Crow checked out instead. Final registration figures at the convention showed 71 Negro dele gates present. All of them leading figures in tiheir locals. One is pre sident of his local in Grand Rapids, Mich.; while another, Frank Evans, is vice president of Local 464 in Cleveland, O Detroit leads in the number «f ^ delegates, witih 17 of them from that ciy. I'lay Big Role These men, who have fought to build and strengthen the Union since its inception, are playing a leading part in the deliberations of the convention. Sam Fanroy was placed on the Committee of Edu cation, wihile John Wright was * made a member of the important Committee on Organization. It was learned this week that the convention will be asked to act upon a number of proposals affect ing Negro workers. Among them, one calling for tfhe election of at least one Negro worker to the Gen eral Executive Board of the Union. Others will ask for additional Negro organizers to be placed on the staff of the international; for Negro clerical workers to be. em ployer by tfhe union; and for great er opportunity for Negro workers in the industy demanding an end to present discriminatory practices by plant managements. Some of the demands insist on the right of Ne gro workers to all jobs, with full op portunity to acquire the skill neces sary to make them eligible to all jobs- It is also insisted that Negro women be employed without dis crimination in all auto plants. The Minch igan Division of tfhe National Negro Congress sent greetings to the convention, pledg ing its full cooperation in the im portant asks facing the Union in organizing tfh.e Ford plants and others. Miss Rae Lee Jonea left Mon day morning for Shreveport, La., where she will visit relatives and friends for a few weeks. Miss Jones k and her cousin motored through the southland. She will return via Memphis where she will visit with fiance, Dr. E. Frank White. Youth Movement Leader field With Labor Pickets Philadelphia. Sept. 9 (ANP)— Samuel L. Evans, president of the North Philadelphia Youth Move, ment, was held under $400 bail for court by Magistrate Girard at a hearing Sunday morning as the re sult of a campaign to persuade merchants of the Columbia avenue business section from Ninth «trect to Broad street to employ Negro clerks. Mr. Evans is charged with send, ing letters citing the Harlem riots that were the results of circum sances and threatening like events here. The letters stated that 95 per cent of the trade in that section is Negro. Arrested at the same time on a warrant sworn out by the Coulmbia Avenue Business Men’s Association (white) were seven other members of the orgnnization who were. pick, eting before a restaurant on Col uinbia Avenue near Broad. They were held in $300 bond to keep the peace. -n Editor Nanted To Expositon Post Los Angeles, Sept. 9 (ANP)— Appiontment of Mrs. Charlotta A. Pass, president of the California Eagle Publishing Co., and editor of the Eagle, as a member of the finance committee of the South Los Angeles Exposition Site and World Fair association was announced last week by Loren Howe, chair an of the finance committee. . n — SIX BOYS WITH BICYCLES TO SERVE YOU Notice to Subscribers: If you do not pet your paper at least in the Saturday morning mail, call the office, WEbester 1517, and we will send you a paper at once. Mr. C. C- Galloway, Manager -o Mr. and Mrs. T. Robertson and friends, Mrs. Ned Moore, and Mr and Mrs. John MeGaugh, motored to Lincoln for Labor day. While there they visited the State Fair. -o Mrs. Adora Bland, 2909 No. 28th street, left last Tuesday morning for Los Angeles, Calif., where, she will visit with friends. While in Los Angeles, she plans to attend the National Baptist convention Important Race Relations Council Is Held At Blue Ridge Blue Ridge, N. C., Sept. 9 (ANP) «—Under tihe direction of Dr. Wea therford, noted authority on race relations, the Seventh Day Adven tist World Educational Council was held here wit-h delegates from Ad ventist schools and colleges the country over in attendance. Both white and colored delegates were present from the Seventh Day Ad ventist organization which is inter racial. among those of color being 0. B. Edwards, head of the his tory department; Rev. C. E. Mose ley, head of the theological depart ment; Miss Julia Baugh, dean of women; and Rev. Owen A. Troy, business manager, all of the Oak wood Junior college at Huntsville, Ala.; Miss Anna Knight of Chat tanooga, Tenn.; and Arna Bon temps, author, who is principal of Shiloh Academy at Chicago, 111. The writing of Mr. Bahtemps form ed a basis for discussion on the part of a number of the white En glish professors present, many of their schools using his bocks and poems in their courses. This wras the second racial group in attendance at Blue Ridge this year. Dr. James Weldon Johnson had been a speaker several weeks before the arrival of the Adventists and his lectures were still a topic of discussion. Every courtesy was accorded the colored delegates by the officials, employees, and stu ents of the Blue Ridge Association. -o Trigger Man Has TheBrairiof A Child Jackson, Mich-, Sept. 9 (ANP) —Payton Dean, trigger man of the Black Legion, who testified against 40 fellow members of the band and who is now serving two life terms for Black Legion killings, one of wlhom was a colored man, has the brain of a 11 year old boy, it was learned last Tuesday, following an ’xamination by prison classification examination by prison classification board. Dean will be given further education and training in prison. -o Mr. and Mrs. J. R- Wheeler of Minneapols, Minn., spent the week end wth Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lewis. Mrs. Wheeler is the police matron in Minneapolis, while Mr. Wheeler serves in the capacity as manager of tihe O’Neil Funeral home. They left Tuesday night for their ome, after spending an enjoyable week end in the city. Motorist Finds Murder Suspect As 117 Cops Search in Vain New Rochelle, N. Y., Sept. 9 (ANP)—Last Sunday, while 117 police for 7 hours searched in vain on the Ilutdninson River Parkway for Joseph Dunn, 40, a murder sus pect, Rocco Bambacc, a White Plains merchant, joined the hunt, and while driving along the park ROOSEVELT CLUB GETS A STATE CHARTER Springfield, 111., Sept. 9 (ANP) —Secretary of State E. J. Hughes Wednesday issued a state charter to the Colored Roosevelt Democrat, ic club, East St. Louis, to have o social and political organization. It is to be operated not for profit and was incorporated by Dr. A. H. Smith, E. Nelson, and J. C. Carroll. way suddenly saw the fugitive’s head protruding above a thicket He notified police who closed in, soon had Dunn on the way to New Rochelle police station. After his capture, Dunn, his legs trembling with fright, said he had been in tlhe same spot all afternoon and tihat several times the officers passed just a few feet from him. Dunn, a pants presser, was booked on a charge of murder, then turned over to the police of White Plains. Six otiher Negroes are being held as material witnesses. Police say the men were playing cards at a White Plains club and that a quar. rel arose during which time Dunn killed Frank Graham, then fled. The alarm was spread, which re sulted in his capture. Chicago Youth Is Crippled By Police Beating Chicago, Sept. 9 (By Howard Lawrence for CNA)—Two white Chicago policemen are charged with crippling a youth while try ing to force him to confess to rob bery in a complaint to Police Com missioner James P- Allman and the Civil Service Commission by the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee. The story sounds like a tale from a Nazi concentration camp. William Harris, 20-y«irs-old, was arrested with a friend, Henry Jones, 23, on suspicion of snatch ing a purse several weeks before. They were taken to the office, of Captain John A. Egan at the Max well street station for questioning. Then Officers Hennig and Miller who arrested them, took them to an adjoining room where each of ficer hit Harris on the stomach and back ten times. They forced Harris to strip to •the waist saying to Harris: “We’ll make you talk.” j A witness testified that Lieut, j Jjouis Cappartlli told Harris: “You . had better talk, boy, because we ■ have a way of making you ” | “You can whip me with an iron j pipe but I won’t tell a lie on my j self,’’ was Harris’ answer. Hung on Ladder Harris was then taken to the second floor gym by a numl'r of policemen. Witnesses remaining nearby heard Harris yelling and crying with pain. Forty minutes later Harris was carried downstairs. A policeman said “The kid must be tough.” “Yes,” said another officer, ‘I’ve never hung anybody up there that long who would not talk.” Harris state* that Miller and Hennig handcuffed his hands be hind him to a ladder in the gym [ with his feet on a box. Then Miller kicked the box out from under his feet leaving him hanging in the air with th* handcuffs cutting his wrists. He was then punched in the stomach, back and sides. Finally they used a board a foot wide and beat him across'the feet, stomach, back and chest about 00 times. Har r-is right arm was paralyzed from the torture judge Frank Paddcn of the Fel ony Court has refused to issue war rants for the cops’ arrest unless approved by the State’s attorney’s office. Despite testimony by wit nesses and medical men who ex amined the youth, Assistant State’s Attorney O’Connell told Judge Padden: “This is an attept on the part of some Chicago people, to discredit the police department. This is an attempt to get vengeance against these police officers for having ar rested this young man-” --o Two Scottsboro Boys Are Baptised in N.Y. New York, Sept. 9 (ANP)—Two of the four Scottsboro boys, recent ly released in the faous case—Eu gene Williams Robertson—were baptized last Sunday by Rev- T. S. Harten at Brooklyn’s Holy Trinity Baptist church. Their two compan ions, also freed—Roy Wright and Olin Montgomry—were ill and un able to attend the service, during which 13 other converts were also baptized. CIO Program Scores Gains In the T exas Textile Work Drive Houston, Sept. 9 (CNA)—Or ganization of the Negro workers in the textile industry in this city is proceeding a rapid rate, th rough the efforts of the Textile Workers Committee, affiliated to he CIO. More than fifty per cent of the Negro workers in the. Mente Bug ging company plant have received their cards in the Textile Union. The company has attempted to in timidate the workers by passing out a rumor that the plant would be closed if they joitied the union and the work transferred to the company’s plant in New Orleans. The workers learned, however, that the plant in New Orleans is being unionized as rapidly as Che Houston plant. Margaret Flores, pretty little Mexican textile worker, who was dismissed from the plant of the I.one Star Bagging company of Houston for union activities spoke to the Negro workers in their meet ing here last week. Miss Flores has preferred charges against the com pany with the National Labor Re lations Board nad her case is sche duled for an early hearing. Through the activities of the CIO in the Houston area, Negro, Mexi can and white workers are gradual ly learning the power of labor sol idarity and what benefits it brings. - Q ■— We Are Thankful Indeed The Omaha Guide Publishing Company, Inc., is indeed thankful to its many subscribers for your cooperation with Mrs. C. E. Rey nolds, circulation manager and her six lightning streak pick-up boys. By you cooperating with Mrs. Reynolds, you are making a place in the sun for six of your boys, to have a part time job during school days, and a full time job when job when school closes. Please have your local news items ready when our boys knock upon your door. It will be published in the current is sue of each week, without any charges, providing it reaches our office on or before 12 o'clock noon Wednesdays. Again we want to thank our subscribers for cooperation with • your paper. THE OMAHA GUIDE PUB. CO. C. C. Galloway, Mgr. -o Mr. C. W. Hutton of Richcond. Mo., s visiting his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Delroy Moore, 2858 Burdette street. Seek Man Who Set Bomb That Killed Doorman Detroit, Sept. 9 (ANP)—Police last week pressed the search for •hose responsible for placing a bomb, composed of 12 sticks of dy namite, under the hood of a car in ft parking lot at the downtown Ten Forty Club last Sunday. William Holmes, colored doorman at the club, was sent after the car, was killed as foe stepped on the starter, exploding the bomb. So violent was the blast that all windows in a da dius of 100 yards were shattered. The hood of the car wns found on the roof of a five-story building near where the car was parked. Eugene Robinson, also colored, said he had come by the club early that morning to walk home with Holmes when ihe was off duty- Ro binson told police that one of three men standing in front of the club asked Holmes to go to the lot for the. car nnd a short time later the blast occurred. The car bore license plates issued to Harry Milmnn, a former member of Detroit’s “Pur ple” gang, during prohibition. ■ ..o — — « Omahan Is Elected President of Nat’l Fraternal Congress One of the highest honors that can come to a fraternalist was ac corded an Omaha woman Septem ber 1st, when Mrs. Dora Alexander Talley, president of the Supreme Forest Woodman Circle, was un animously elected president of the National Fraternal Congress of America at the annual meeting of that organzation in Columbus, Ohio. For twenty-five years, Mrs. Tal ley has been an active member of the Congress. She has served in various offices in the Secretaries Section, on several standing com mittees, and in 1935 became pre sident of the Presidents Section and a member of the Congress ex ecutive committee. Sihe was elected vice president of the Congress in 19S6, and succeeded to the presi dency as the fourth woman to hold this position. The Congress also honored an Omaha man, Farrar Newberry, na tional secretary of the Woodmen of the World, by electing him to the board of directors. It was his first office in the national Congress, according to officials at the socie ty’s home offiice here. Ninety-two fraternal benefit so cicties are represented in the Na tional Fraternal Congress of Amer ica, making it one of the strongest institutions of its kind in the world. Cole Circus Sued for $30,000: Case Transferred to Federal Court The case of Eunice 0- Butler aganist the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beat ty circus for $30,000 damages, ori ginally filed by Adams, Adams and Adams for Butler in the District Court of Douglas County, has been transferred to the Federal Court, District of Nebraska, Omaha divi sion. Defense lawyers Crossman, Monger and Barton, notified the Adams law firm of the transfer on the groud that the claim was over $3,000 and against a non-resident corporation. The case is based on the allega tions that in August, 1935, a circus hand employed by said circus vio lently assaultey and sexaully abus ed Imogene Butler, minor daughter of Eunice O. Butler. John Adams, attorney, stated that he felt that the circus, being a business affect ed with a public interest, has a positive duty, not only to treat guests and invitees in a proper manner, but also to safeguard and render the circus premises safe for (Continued on Page 6) AUGUSTA OPENS FIRST COLORED HIGH SCHOOL Augusta, Ga., Sept. 9 (ANP)— Augusta’s first colored high school opened for the fall term, on Sept 7th with freshmen and sophomore courses scheduled for this year Superintendent of Schools S. D. Copeland said a junior class will be added next year and a senior class in 1939. Dr. “Shag” Hosran Held On $1500 Bond Now York, Sept. 9 (ANP)—Dr. Clarence “Shag” Hogan, prominent Harlem physician whose name be en ma involved in the investigation of the Louis-,Schmeling fight a year ago in Juno, sprang into the news again when he was arrested and released on $1,500 bond charged with beating Miss Mae Johnson, lovely allure-dancer and torch sing er at the llbangi-Plantation club in Harlem. Miss Johnson meanwhile is nurs ing bruises suffered about the face and head after the altercation which occurred when she left her apartment to go to work last Thurs day night. She told police the phy sician struck her in the face, knock ed her down and continued to beat her despite her screams which at tracted the neighborood. It is believed te alleged attack grew out of an attempt by the cn ertainer to jilt the doctor, who had been showering his attentions upon her profusely and was a nightly caller at her apartment. Miss Johnson is scheduled to ap pear as one of the stars in the New Cotton club show which opens this month. Dr. Hogan, in his college days, was a star lineman on the Lincon university football team. W.P.A. Official Is Charged with Race Prejudice New York, Sept. 9 (CNA)— Gladys Williston, actress employed by the Popular Priced theatre, a WPA unit, 152 West 54th street, this city, has presented evidence of discrimination against Negro ac tors and actresses before the Board of Appeals of the Federal theatre, it was learned this week. The decision of the Board of Ap peals is not yet known. The bulk of the evidence was directed against Ida B. Sullivan, a white wardrolbe mistress also employed by the Popular Priced theatre. Six other workers, it was asserted, testified in support of Miss Wil liston’s charges. In order to discourage Negroes from working in WPA theatres, a campaign of sabotage and abuse was launched wth Ida B. Sullivan at its head, it was asserted The evidence, comprising a sheet of typwriten paper notarized and sealed, reads like occurences in the deep south. On sveral occasions the woman was charged with address ing men employed in the capacity of doormen and cleaners as ‘Sambo’ ‘Rastus’ and similar names. 16-Year-Old Boy Saved from Dixie Mob Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 9 (ANP)—John A. Murphy, 16, was brought to this city Saturday night from Burgaw by Deputy Sheriff Raymond Bell of Pender county for safekeeping after the boy had been arrested as a sus pect in an attempted assault case Feeling in Burgaw wa3 so intense after his arrest it precipitated a street clash between whites and Negroes, in which Johnny Walker, colored, was badly featen. Walker said he made the mis take of saying how badly Negroes were treated in the district, relat ing how ha been beaten with a blackjack by a polieman several days ago. A white man heard his complaint, promptly struck him. A free-for-all fight resulted. -o The Widows club held their an nual picnic ^Thursday at Elmwood park. The afternoon »vas spent in playing games, taking pictures. A wonderful spread was enjoyed by all present