Leader and Spokesmen at Convention
Readjpg from left to right: So
lon C. Bell, Local 465, Omaha,
Nebr.; A. Phillip Randolph, Pre
sident, International Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters; Chas.
Mitchell, Local 372, Oakland, Calif.;
Geo. E. Brown, Local 370, New
York City; Clarence R. Johnson,
Local 582, Los Angeles, Calif., In
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ternational Representative, Hotel
and Restaurant Employees and
Bartenders League: Leo Metzl, Lo
cal 351, Chicago, 111.
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Kathryn Perry At
Famous Kit Kat
New York,-Oct. 28 (ANP)—Ka
thryn Perry, muscal comedy sing
ing star, goes into her fourth week
at the famous Kit Kat club next
Sunday night, having had her op
tion taken up by Jules Podell, own
er of th? swanky East Side niterie.
Her present contract at the Kit
Kat expires some time in November
and Jo*' Glaser, personal represen
tative of the song stylist, is mak
ing preparations for Miss Perry to
be featured in a nfw unit with
Louis Armstrong, which is to he
produced for Paramount theatres.
Springers and Roasting chickens,
24c per pound. CAREY’S NABOR
HOOD GROCERY, WE 6089.
Open Sundays. Also Choice Baby
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DIES AT SIOUX CITY
C. F. WILLIAMS
Mi. C. F Williams, who for more
than 50 years has been engaged in
the rug cleaning industry in Sioux
City, passed away Monday, Novem
ber 1st, about 1 p. m. at St. Vin
cents hospital, where he had been
confined for nearly three weeks.
Mr. Williams may rightfully be
called the father of the rug clean
ing industry in Sioux, in that it
was he who established the first
such industry on Perry Creek near
Market street, during the 19th
Century, later purchasing a two
story frame building on West 7th,
between Cook and Omaha streets
where he installed a plant valued
at approximately $5,000.
Most of the present day rug
cleaning owners of Sioux City re
ceived the idea and council for such
a business from this grand old
pioneer, who operated a successful
business until the time of his pass
ing.
Mr. Williams who was known to
be a friend of youth, embarking
into the field of business played a
great hand in assisting all who
showed an ambition to go forward
in a career of business, he who was
the father of Malone AME church,
was active unto his last days.
In the passing of Mr. Williams,
Sioux City, has lost a stalwart ci
tizen, a man that will be hard to
replace.
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Newly Elected Officers of
Nationa* Dining Car Porters Un:on
Recently elected secretary of the
Provisional National Council of
Dining Car Workers, was Mr. Is
mad P. Flory of Oakland, Calif.
Mv. Flory come to this office well
qualified both as a student of ec
onomics and as a militant and
forceful person interested in pro
fcleins affecting the great masses,
and particularly those problems af
fecting labor.
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of California, where he ma
jored in Labor Economics. Follow
ing his matriculation from the
University of California, he stud
ied Sociology under E. Franklin
Frazier at Fisk university.
Returning to the state, of Cali
fornia he became actively engaged
in problems affecting persons in
the various Federal Projects. Sev
alliances were formed for the pro
tection of workers within the Fed
oral set up for the purpose of ele
vating the sub normal standards
where persons in these projects'
were subjected.
Because of his perseverance in
the field of political, industrial and
social proplems, he was chosen to
head the Oakland Council of the
National Negro Congress, making
p, very fine counter position in the
field or organizing a trade union
section of the Congress, which re
sulted in his services being sought
after by the large unions, and from
there to become actively indenti
fied with the Southern Pacific Din
ing Car, Cooks and Waiters unions,
serving in the capacity of vice
chairman and secretary business
manager. He recently attended the
National Negro Congress in Phil
adelphia, and has been given an
extended leave of absence to study
labor and economic problems
throughout the nation.
The new office to which he has
been elected which is functional on
a national basis could not be ser
ved by a person more highly quali
fied because of his training and ex
perience.
While in the city Mr. Flory was
the house guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Rufus C. Long, 2638 Binney.
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Mr. Clarence R. Johnson, has
been a pioneer in the field of deal
ing with both organizational and
labor problems of Dining Car Work
ers. For fourteen yars or more he
has taken an active interest in the
problems of this group of workers.
Ho was connected with the first
contract with the powerful South
ern Pacific Railroad company oper
ating in California, for the Dining
Car employees. This was no small
task in view of the fact that so
little had been done in the matter
of trail blazing in his field.
Most people do not realize that
numerically dining car employees
aro the largest group of railroad
workers among Negroes. Even lar
ger than the Pullman porters
group, and therefore a definite ec
1 onomic and political power to be
recognized with. Mr. Johnson finds
timo to take part, amiss all of h:s
work in the civic, political and ec !
onomic life of the entire community j
in which he reaches through
his efforts along with other pro 1
gressive forces.
Mr. Johnson was made Interna
tional Representative of the Hotel!
and Restaurant Employees Interna !
tional Alliance Bartenders’ League J
[ of America For Dining Car em
ployees in the early part of 1937.
A position to which very few Ne
groes achieve in A. F. of L. Unions.
Mr. Johnson is on a tour at the
present time, in the interest of
Dining Car workers for the pur
pose of unifying and solidifying
tho progress outlined by the gov
ernment of Dining Car employees,
and a national structure for the
purpose of obtaining economic, in
dustrial and political equality and
equal rights of Dining Car and al
lied service workers.
iHe is an extention student of
Labor and Political economics.
While in the city he is the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Squires,
2918 No. 28th street. __
Legion Makes Plan
For Celebration
Roosevelt Post No. 30 American
Legion plans all day celebration
Armistice day, November 11th.
Promptly at 11 o’clock in the !
morning of this holiday Roosevelt |
Post will parade to the corner of '
24th and Lake streets facing east
on Lake. Major General Stanley
Ford is furnishing buglers and a
firing squad for the Armistice day
salute.
At 8 p. m. the Legion will hold a
celebration as guest of Iroquois
Lodge No. 92 Improved Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks of the
World at Elks Hall, 2420 lake
street.
Everything is free to the public
who are cordially invited, refresh
ments will be served in true Legion
style.
Prominent speakers will be heard i
on the program including: Major j
General Stanley Ford, commander j
of the Seventh Corps Area; Robert
Drum, Commander Omaha Post No.
1 American Legion; Theodore Met
calfe, State Commander, American
Legion; Bernard E. Squires, execu
five secretary Urban League; J.
Gail Mordick, Commander Benson
Post American Legion; Paul S.
Holliday, Service Officer Roosevelt
Post No. 30; (Dr. W. W. Peebles,
Past Commander Roosevelt Post
No. 30; Edward Turner, Adjutant
Roosvelt Post No. 30; Charles F.
Davis, Exalted Ruler, Iroquois
Lodge No. 92, Elks; Charles J. Cole
man, Commander of Roosevelt
Post No. 30 will have charge of
the ceremonies and also act as Mas
ter of Ceremonies. Sgts. Hamilton
and Johnson, members of the re
gular Army, who are stationed at
Fort Omaha will sing a duet.
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Health Beauty Charm
Keep Young and Beau iful
(By Althouse Beauty School)
By Althouse Beauty School
Fall should be a rich and colorful
season (a riot of colors) and this
year it is. Those of you who have
purchased your new fall outfit will
bear me out in the statement that
Dame Fashion is working overtime
in emphasizing the importance of
color in everthing we wear.
Never before have the maroons,
tho deep sapphires, the dark green,
the rusts and the deep wines, so
successfully rivalled the old tradi
tional blacks and browns for fall
clothes.
This array of colors mean that
correct makeup in turn is more, im
portant than ever before. The pro
per shade of powder, rouge, lipstick
and of course, the general condition
of the skin and hair must be con
sidered.
We simply cannot wear these
colors with muddy sun tanned or
freckled complexions.
You will be surprised at what a
few facials and bleach packs will :
do for you at this time.
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Bishop James Walter Brown of
the AMF church, on his return
to America, reports that hia Afri
can West Gold Coast conferences
contain 81 stations and a member
ship of 7,396; and 29 schools with
an enrollment of 1,654. In the Gold
Coast conference there is a school
of high school standard, with a na
tive principal, Rev. A. A. Adjahoe,
and a faculty of 16
In Police Court
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German Craig, was arrested
Sunday morning about 3 a. m., and
charged with being the keeper and
operator of a disorderly house. 12
inmates were also booked. They
were: James Allen, Justin Burrell.
Boisy Blunt, Lewis Harris, C. Riggs
Ben Frazier, Richard Wilson, Rich
ard Clark, John Jackson, Franl
Roy, David Shawnee, Virgil Massey
The case was dismissed because of
insufficient evidence produced by
the arresting officer.
Officer Luray Gustin, arrested
Alex Fields and Walter Gill of Lin
coln, Nebr., Sunday morning about
4 a. m., for disturbing the peace
After a severe rebuking, the judge
dismissed the case.
At 1111 So. 14th street, Friday
evening, Robert Marshall, WPA
worker, was arrested and charged
With being drunk. Upon his promise
not to get drunk again, he was re
leased.
Gladys McGill, charged with be
ing drunk and disturbing peace and
Albert Jackson, charged with as
sault and battery and disturbing
the peace, appeared before Judge
Dennis O’Brien Monday morning.
Mrs. McGill received a cut which
required eight stitches in her left
side after a quarrel with Jackson..
Threet months ago Jackson cut |
Mrs. McGil on the neck and upon
his plea she failed to take any legal
actions.
Mr. Jackson, denied cutting Mrs.
McGill purposely. The case was
continued.
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Brooklyn Cop Saves
Two Girls in Fire
Broklyn, N. Y., Nov. 4 (ANP)—
Two sisters, Vernee Lane, 10 and
Collette, 3, trapped on the third
floor of an apartment building on
Hergimer street, were rescued last
Tusday by Patrolman Herbert
Downward, attachd to the Creed
more, Queens station.
The policeman, off duty was
passing the house when he sudden
ly heard the older girl’s scream for
help. Rushing to the apartment he
broke in the door. Found the child
ren’s clothing ablaze, rushed them
to safety. Vernee, partially blind
was burned on both hands, her
sister about the face- Mrs. Collette
Lane, the mother, had locked in
the children in the house, was out
on a shopping trip.
Delegates to Waiters Convention
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Reading from left to right:
Charles Mitchell, Oakland, Calif.;
Geo. Halsey, Denver, Colo.; Joseph
Easley, Oakland, Calif.; John C.
Baker, Portland, Ore.; Chas. H.
Hunt, Kansas City, Mo.; L. M.
Stafford, Senttle, Wash.; McGill
Simms, Chicago, 111.; Bernard Gra
velli, Oakland, Calif.; .R. N. Thomp
KSSWN*\vC'Ci*'.V. .v.. ■■ —WM11. .1WIL I Ufl—ftW/.-,
son, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. James
Massey, Women’s Auxiliary, Lo
cal 456, Oakland, Calif.; John E
Hargrove, Los Angeles, Calif.; A.
Fhiflip Randolph; Charles P. Mc
Murray, Berkley, Calif.; Clarence
R. Johnson, Los Angeles, Calif.;
Robt. L. Singletary, Texarkana,
Tex.; Solon C. Bell, Omaha, Nabr.;
H. L. McCain, Denver, Colo.; Maceo
Littlejohn, St. Paul, Minn.; Ercil
Or me, Denver, Colo.; Arthur H.
Reed, Omaha, Nebr.; Geo. Brown,
New York City; S. E. Griggs, Fort
Worth, Tex.; Ishmael P. Flory,
Oakland, Calif.; Leo Metzl, Chic
ago, 111.
Colored GOP Leaders
Eye Mid llerm Meet
Chicago, Nov. 4 (ANP)—Color
ed Republican leaders of the coun
try this week learned that plans
for a 1988 mid term convention of
tho Republican party are in the
formative stage and that details of
the confab will be ironed out at
the forthcoming Nov. 6th meeting
in Chicago of the National Com
mittee, headed by Chairman John
D. M. Hamilton.
Tho opinion semed prevalent
among many of the colored stund
ardbearers that the 1938 conven
tion, if called, would resolve itself
into a test of strength between
former Gov. Alf M. London, the
party’s 1936 presidential candidate
and former President Her,ev
Hoover. It is learned here that if
the midterm convention is called,
Mr. Hoover is anxious to have ad*
opted a plan he has endorsed as
sembling the delegates.
Mr. London, it was said at To
pka, insisted that if the convention
is hekl the rank and file of the
party should be represented, both
in the convention proper and in the ,
deliberatios of the committee char |
ged with bringing in a report on
poliay. Mr. I,andon conferred here
with National Chairman Hamilton
last Monday, following which Mr.
Landon said:
“Mr. Hamilton came to Topeka
primarily to talk over any action
which might be taken by the Re'
publican N'ational Committee at
its meeting on Nov. 6th. Naturally,
wo discussed the possible action
that the committee might take,
not only with regard to establish
ing a policy committee to consider
the pertinent questions which are
before the country, but also the
possbility of a confidence or a con
vention to consider such expres
sions as a policy committee might
formulate. But before a decicsion is
reached, there are a number of
things that will have, to be careful
ly considred.... We are particular
ly concerned that if the national
committee should decide to hold a
convention that the rank and file
should be represented in delibera
tions, as well as in the considera
tion of any report on behalf of the
policy committee.”
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Illinois Mayor Asks
Courtesies for Negro
Lobor Delegates
Chicago, Oct. 28 (ANP)—James
A. Gree, postal clerk, who repre
sented the Post office Union, Local
No. 1, as a delegate to the recent
convention of the Illinois Federa
tion of Labor at LaSalle, 111., was
high in praise this wieek of the
treatment accorded the Negro de
legates by Union officials, the con
vention commitljee and by Mayor
H. M. Orr of LaSalle.
LaSalle, nationally known be
cause Big Ben clocks are manufact
ured there, has long been notorious
as the most rabid Jim Crow town
in Illinois, the citizens priding
themselves on the fact that no Ne
gro has ever lived there and they
all obey the ‘ read and run” signs
plastered all over the city. Several
years ago, Dave Washington, trav
eling representative of Tuskegee
Institute, stopped overnight in La
Salle unaware of the Jim Crow
ban, and the next morning he was
summoned before the secretary of
the chamber of commerce and told
to leave the city on the next train
out—in any direction.
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Betty:—“I guess my neck wasn’t
clean, mother.”
Mother:—‘Why, dear?”
Betty:—“Cause the barber used
his vacuum cleaner on it.”
HEADS CONVENTION |
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D*r. 1*. P. Oreuzot, native of
Louisiana, iis general chairman
f the Alpha. Phi Alpa convcn
tion which meets in New Or
leans! December 28 to 81, A
graduate of Fisk and Nor.h ;
western, Dr. Creuzot its a mem
her of vhe e^ecutivV t•■miniit
tees of the Fisk Alumni Asso
cialion and the National No
gro Insurance Association, and
is regarded as one of Louisi
ana’s most prosperous dentists,
lie is the firsl vice president
and secretary of the Louisiana
Industrial Life Insurnnee Com
pany, one of the state’s largest
businesses, and is an out stand
iug eivict leader. —i.\N*P.
Sioux City Notes
Rev. J. H. Patten, pastor of Mt.
Olive Baptist church has returned
after conducting a successful re
vival at the Maple Street Baptist
church in Des Moines, la.
The Missionary Society conduct
ed an inspirational program Sun
day, Oct. 31st. Missionaries from
the Wall Street Mission appeared
on the program.
C. F. Willliams of the W. Rug
cleaners passed Monday in St. Vin
cents hospital.
Mrs. Leah Walker of Chicago,
111., is visiting her parents, Mr
and Mrs. Charles Webb.
The torch bearers women’s club
gave a Hallowe’en tack party at
the home of Frances Anderson,
Monday. The first prize was given
Mrs. Georgia Carter, Mrs. Pearl
O’Dell won first prize; Catherine
Daniels, Eleanora Jennings, second
and third prizes in the donkey con
test. Spaghetti with saltines and
Spirit’s punch were served to all
present.
Mrs. Susie Laudium, 611 Lafayet
te street, is improving in health.
Sunday visitors at Mt. Olive Bap
tist church were Mr. and Mrs. Otto
.Russell, of Clinton, Mo.; Mr. Tony
Bassett of this city, and Mrs. Mae
Berry of Omaha, Nebr.
Mrs. M!ae Berry is visiting with
her daughter Mrs. Lulu Newton,
306 Vi So. Howard street,
Rev. J. H. Patten left Tuesday
morning for Sioux Falls to attend
the executive board meeting.
Springers and Roasting chicken**.
24c per pound. CAREY’S NABOR
HOOD GROCERY, WE 6089.
Open Sundays. Also Choice Baby
Beef.
Ray L. WILLIAMS. Atty.
Km. 200 Tuchman IHdg. 24th Lake
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In the cWnty Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska:
In the Matter of the Estate of
Lovelac Campbell, deceased.
To Lovelac Campbell and all be, •
neficiaries of his estate, and all
other persons interested in said es
tate:
You are hereby notified that a
petition has bet n filed in this Court
on the 3rd day of November, 1937
by Horace Campbell, interested in
said estate as sole beneficiary
thereof, alleging that Lovelac
Campbell, a resident of Douglas
County, Nebraska, on or about the
1st day of November, 1929, with
out known cause absented himself
from his usual place of residence
and has ever since concealed his
whereabouts from his family for a
period of more than seven years
last past; that said absentee has
personal property to l:e administer
ed in Douglas County, Nebraska.
Said petitioner prays that the
Court prescribe the notice and the
return date therein which shall be
given, addressed to and served upon
said absentee and sa;d beneficiary
ns provided by law, that the date
of death of said Lovelac Campbell
be determined and that administra
tion of said estate be granted to
Ray L. Williams. You are. therefore
notified that a hearing will be had
on said petition on the 3rd day of
January, 1938 at 9 o’clock n. in.
at the County Court Room of
Douglas County, Nebraska and
that if you fail to appear at said
time and place and contest the pe
tition, the Court may grant the
prayer thereof, appoint a repre
senative for said absentee and
make such other orders according
to law, as may be necessary to the
end that said estate, and all things
peraining thereto may be finally
settled and determined.
Bryce Crawford,
County Judge
Bo Nov. 6 37 End Dec. 30 37
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