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ANTI - LYNCH BILL MAY BE SIDETRACKEB
Detective Rose Accidently Shot
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Omaha Officer Is
Victim of Hunting
Accident at Wahoo
Detective Sargeant E. A. Rose,
suffered from a gunshot wound in
his left thigh, received in a hunt
ing accident near Wahoo Friday
morning, by the accidental dischar.
ge of a gun by Detective Sargeant
W. E. Birch
The hunting party of four were
after a squirrel which ran into the
hollow of a tree. Rose went up the
tree to run the squirrell out, and
Birch stood away in readiness with
hands on the trigger of his gun to
get the squirrel when it came out
of the hollow; while walking to
wards the tree his feet became en
tangled with vines and as he Stum
bled and fell to the ground, the
gun was discharged. The shell car
ried 400 shots, 30 ware lodged in
Officer Rose’s thigh. The car in
which the part^ was riding was
several hundred feet from the
scene of the accident. One of the
men accompanied Officer Birch to
get the car, and brought it within |
200 feet where Officer Rose, was
shot. Birch then carried Rose to
the car. He also stated that he was
over anxious to get Rose to the car
in order to obtain emergency treat
ment, that he felt that his strength
was sufficient to carry a building
at that time. Two other gentlemen
who accompanied them on the hunt
ing trip were present at the time
of the accidental shooting.
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Prisoner Gets Break;
But Doesn’t Leave
City Soon Enough
Kingstme, S. C., Oct 28 (ANP)
•—“Boots” Washington was recent
ly convicted here by Judge Thomas
S. Sense in Criminal Court and
was given a suspended sentence on
condition that he leave, the city.
Put ‘Boots” didn’t leave soon en
ough. I,ast Saturday he was taken
into custody by Sheriff Ed Parrot
and sentenced to the. county gang
for violation of state liquor laws.
Speech ef Hon. A. Phillip Randolph
At National Conference of Pining
Car Employees, Wed., Oct. 26th
By Omaiha Guide Reporter
Mr. E. G. SCOTT, Oha’rman
Invocation, Rev. F. C. WilLrbi)m3
More than fifteen hundred Negro
and white people crowded Zion
Baptist church Tuesday evening, Oc
toler 26th to hear A. Phillip Ran
dolph, President of the Internation
al Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, and President of the Na
tional Negro Congress, exhort Ne
groes in Omaha to unite as workers
and as people to struggle against
the reaction and for peace, progress
and security.
The meeting was under the aus
pices of the National Conference
of Dining Car Employees which
was in session from October 25th
,to 29 inclusive. , >
Other speakers on the program
were: Mr. Bernard Squires, execu
tive secretary of the Omaha Urban
League and Mrs. Gladys Pullum,
executive secretary of the YWCA,
who welcomed the delegates to the
conference. Mr. Ishmael P. Flory,
secretary of the Conference, who
responded to the welcoming ad
dresses, Mr. Clarence R. Johnson,
International Representative of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees
International Alliance and Barten
tiers’ league of America; Mr. E.
G. Scott, chairman; Rev. F. C.
Williams gave the invocation. Mr. |
Haloid Butler sang a solo and mu
sic was furnished by the Los Can
tores Music club, directed by Miss
Ethel Jones.
Mr. Flory also lifted the offering
surprising the citizenry of Omaha
with his sincere appeal which net
ted the Conference $115.25.
Mr. Randolph's speech which was
greeted with a standing applause,
follows:
“I am delighted to return to
Omaha and meet my many friends
here, because I always enjoy my
visits to this city, and I am happy
to be here on this occasion. Our
purpose here is in the organization
of a National structure of dining
UP TO THE MINUTE BUSINESS
C. C. Spaulding, president of i
the (National Negro Business
Lfeague visits) the new Ben
Franklin department store in
Chicago. He commented upon
the modern attractive appear
ance of the establishment and
proved the motive which con
eeived the development of thih
new enterprise. The establish
ment which is housed in its
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own building on busy 47th st.,
occupying a, frontage of 100
feet, employs more than fifty
pfeojple ,<and liandl^s [merchan
disr priced from 5c to $1.00.
Staning to Mr. Spaulding’s
left is Mr. Dianiel E. Williams,
floor manager, and Mr. James
Hill, manager. Miss Tda Mae
Lewis is the clerk shown in
the picture.
car employees.
“Now my friends, we have met
at a time when the world is under
going great stresses and strains.
There is world wide economic and
social chaos and political disorder,
and intellectual uncertainty in the
world today. Everywhere! Mankind
all over the world is concerned
about finding a road to peace, good
will and order. When you look into
the eastern section of the world,
you will find war; a great nation of
■Japan is attempting to subjugate
four millions of peoples who for
years have represented the highest
of culture. Their doing so, may lead
us to war. As we look into the West
into the Mediterranean there we
see conflict. Spain, one of the great
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Wilson Owen, Omaha
Pioneer, Father of
Mayor Owen, Dies
Last rites were held for Wilson
Owe,n, Monday at Zion Baptist
church with Rev. M. K. Curry of
ficiating.
After a short illness death oc
curred Saturday, October 30th, fol
lowing an operation at St. Cather
ine hospital.
Mr. Owen was born in Macon,
Ga., 1862. There were other chil
dren in the family, but he had not
seen them since childhood, because
of separation due to the loss of
parent?.
He moved to Newport, Ark.
where he met and married Miss
Fannie Mae McCraty. To this union
3 children were born; Mrs. Lydia
Rogers, Dr. J. M. Owen and Johnny
Owen.
The tamuy nrst resided in
South Omaha for a number of
years, later moving to 2228 Ohio
street where they have resided for
the past 13 years.
Mr. Owen was a devout and faith
ful church worker, having served
as a deacon for the past 33 years.
This was the largest Negro fun
eral procession ever held in Oma
ha, approximately a mile long, led
by police escorts, mostly Negroes
in the line of march.
The services'were largely attend
ed by prominent political figures,
namely: Thomas J. O’Connor, Re
gister of Deeds; Sheriff John Hop
kins, Frank McGrath, Clerk of Dis
trict Court, Harry Stevenson, De
puty Sheriff, Edward J. Dugan,
Chairman of the Democratic Cen
tral Committee and others.
Funeral services were in charge
of the W. L. Meyers funeral di
rectors and interment was at For-1
rest Lawn cemertery.
Resides his widow, he is surviv
ed by three children, four grand
children, three nieces and other re
latives.
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SIX BOYS WITH BICYCLES
TO SERVE YOU
Notice to Subscribers:
If you do not get your paper at
least in the Saturday morning mall,
call the office, WEbester 1517, and
we will send you a paper at once.
Mr. C. C. Galloway, Manager
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Prize Poster Stresses Need
for Chest Drive Qenerosity
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This appealing poster, symbolizing the forceful slogan of
“Give—There is SUCH a Need!”, has been chosen in the contest
conducted in connection with the Community Chest drive, to be
held from November 16 to 27. It was submitted by Rudy Itam
pacek, 4915 Burt street, Omaha artist. Honorable mention for
outstanding posters also was given to Floyd Wilson and Milton
Reynolds. The poster will be used extensively in this year’s
drive, in which the goal has been set as $577,739.10.
Walter White On
.C.B.S. Radio Chain
On November 10th
New York, Nov. 4—Walter
White, secretary of the NAACP,
will speak over stations of the Col
umbia Broadcasting System Wed
nesday afternoon, November 10th,
from 3:15 to 3:30 o’clock, eastern
standard time. The CBS has grant
ed Mr. White fifteen minutes of
time to speak on the topic, “Edu
cational Opportunities for Negro
Youth.” The talk will be a part of
the nation wide activity of the
youth councils and college chap
ters of the NAACP during Amer
ican Education Week. The young
people of the NAACP are staging
exhibits and holding mass meetings
and forums outlining the disadvan
tages in education suffered by col
ored young people.
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CommercialClub Asks
Public to Meeting
At the regular meeting of the.
Negro Commercial club to be held
at the Urban League, Thursday
evening, beginning at 8 p. m. Mr.
Bernard Squires, executive sec’y.
of the Urban League Community
Center, will address the body on
the ‘ Social and Economic Problems
of the Negro.”
Mr. Squires has gathered a weal
th of material on the subject here
in Omaha, and thus shall be able
to give many concrete facts on the
existing social and economical con
ditions of the Negro here in Oma
ha.
The public is cordially invited to
join the Commercial club in an ev
ening of social and economic dis
cussion as it pertains to the Negro.
Household & Food
Demonstration to
Feature 3 G iants
Of Swing
The Omaha Guide and the
Housewives League 10th Annual
Food Festival and Household Show,
beginning Monday evening Novem
her 15th and running for 6 days
will feature the ‘3 Giants of Swing’
«s the main part of (the entertain
ment program.
The show will consist of ten
(tooths, demonstrating the food pro
ducts of Omaha’s most popular
distributors and nationally known
household equipments.
I Each booth will be manned by
uniformed attendants who will ex
plain to the visiting homemakers
the merits of their respective pro
ducts.
In addition to the booth demon
strations there will be special de
monstrations from the stage which
will be equipped with a loud speak
er and cooking equipments. There
will also be the usual award of
many prices.
All homemakers are invited to
attend.
Remember the date, 6 big nights,
from Novevmber 15th to November
20th at the Omaha Guide building
2418-20 Grant street, Omaha, Nebr.
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The Governor of Puerto Rico is
trying to make the Island the
"Garden of America’’ and is im
porting magnolias and other plants
to plant along the public highways
and around government buildings.
A New York advertising firm is
conducting a $250,000 publicity
campaign to attract tourists to the
island.
Opponents of Bill Would Limit
Scope of Special Session to Five
PoLts Named In President’s Call
New York, Nov. 4—As the date
for the special session of Congress
draws near, efforts are being made
in Wahington to limit the program
of tho special session and postpone!
action on the anti J--nching bill
and other controversial measures
until the regular session convenes
in January.
Administration leaders are re
ported to be working on a five
point program for the special ses*
sion embracing crop control, wage
and hour regulations, government
reorganization, regional, and re
vision of the anti trust laws.
If tho program of the special
Says Negro Leaders
Scorn Labor Drive
New York, Nov. 4—The vast
majority of educated ltft“gro leaders
have given little Or no assistance
in the organization of Negro work
ers in the vast labor movements of
the past year, according to George
8. Schuyler, writing in the Novem
her issue of The Crisis.
The Schuyler article, drawn from
his first hand observations in 35
industrial centers during the latter
part of the summer, hails the
growth of solidarity and interracial
understanding between white and
Negro workers themselves, but the
writer declares that the educated
Negro leaders in each community,
with but few exceptions, not only
failed to aid the unionization drive,
but oftitnes obstructed it.
‘‘Their desertion of the strug
gling Negro workers in this crisis
constitutes one of the most shame
ful chapters in our recent history,”
the article declares. ‘‘The new posi
tion Negro leadership has won in
tho past yenr has been in spite of
the old leadership. It has been won
with new leadership; militant
young men and women from the
ranks of labor ad guzzled black
veterans of the pick and shovel and
the blast furnace.”
Also in the November issue is
an article on cancer among Amer
ican Negroes by Dr. Frederick L.
Iloffman; a feature article on the
victory of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters by G. James
Fleming; and a story of peonage
in Florida by Stetson Kennedy.
session is held to these five points,
it will mean that the anti lynching
bill will be passed by until the re
gular session in January.
Tho principal objective of these
moves to limit the program is to
get the anti-lynching bill out of
tho wny as tjhe second item of busi
ness on the Senate calendar. For
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Chest Drivje Nov.16-27
Goal Is $577,739.10
The goal which several thousand
workers will seek in the forthcom
ing Omaha Community Cheat cam
paign, from November 16 to 27,
will be $577,739.10 according to
President J. L. Hough of the
Chest and Roy L. Page, general
chairman of the drive.
The figure was reached after a
careful survey of the needs of all
the agencies by the budget com
mittee, they stated. It represents
an increase of P per cent over the
amount actually raised last year,
and this increase is due principally
to the requirement of agencies for
the care of children and those for
caro of dependent families. Rising
food costs make their administra
tion more expensive, the budget
officials discovered.
Chairman Page also announced
that the Omaha organization “will
follow the practice of the majority
of Chests and publish daily during
tho campaign the pledges of in
dividuals and business firms of $10
or more-”
“We feel that the generosity of
Chest supporters merits this con
sideration,” he stated.
In impressive campaign of edu
cational (publicity tyo f ssist the
actual drive workers is swinging
into action, headed by the large
speakers bureau under the joint
chairmanship of Farrar Newberry
and Walter L. Pierpoint. News
papers, radio stations, theaters and
many other institutions are all co
operating.
Tho goal which has been set re
presents the absolute minimum re
quired to keep the various agencies
in tho Chest operating on an ef
ficient and an effective basis, the
officials declared.
RESIGNS POSITION
J. HARVEY KERNS
J. Harvey Kerns, acting sec
retary of the Urban League of
Greater Little Rock for the
past eight months, tendered
,his resignation to the Board of
Directors to become effective
Nov. 15, 1937. Mr. Kerns leaves
LittleRock to accept the posi
titan as secretary of the Divis
ion of Negro Affairs in the city
of Cincinnati and Hamilton
county, OhlP. Mr. Kerns will
be one of the eight: division of
ficers of the Cincinnati Com
muhity Chest. He will be the
consultant to the heads of ten
Negro agencies in the Chest
and flhe coordinator for the
sjeven other divisions in wel
fare work, as it applies to the
Negro population.
Before coming to Little Rock
Mr. Kerns was field secretary
of the National Urban League
and prior to that served as ex
ecutive secretary of Milwaukee
"Wis., and Omaha, Neb., Urban
Leagues. In 1935 he was super
visor of the Intake Division of
the New York Home Relief and
during that year spent a brief
interlude as director of the In
sfitute for Teachers Training
and Workers Education under
the Federal government for
nine southeastern states and
tjhe District of Columbia.
The name of his successor aa
executive secretary of the local
branch has not been determiu
ed. . .