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Entered as Second Class Matterat Postoffice, Omaha. Nebraska- OMAHA, NEBRASKA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1937 VOL. IX, NO. 20
Policeman Suspended On Graft Charge
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-”
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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