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N. A. A. C. P. Takes Murder Case to Sup rem ! Largest 1 Negro Paper in Nebraska i_ /JUSTICE/EQUALITY ticUNE^ 1 Fnter>-<) a- .>• r»nd • 1r»» fatter •' Posioffiee. Omaha Nebraska- OMAHA, NEBRASKA (5ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1938 VOL. XI, ---—----— —--11 •--— --1 Five Negro Boys Make Division Finals STATE GOLDEN GLOVES FINALS AT AK-SAR-BEN Five of the greatest young N<‘ gro boxers that hav.- be n seen n Omaha for some time will appe'i in the finals at the Ak-SarB n col settm on Thursd y n ch‘ Febru ary 17th. Thny fought 1 h ir wav up to the finals at the city audi torium on Tuesday and Wednes day February 8 and 9 hv smashing their way to victory ov r some of the greatest fighters in their class, liach one ef them won 1 hr r» figh's. They are a clover bunch of boys, with a lot ef class- And boy speak ing o8 class just watch this littK I-fc ich -ison .if Omaha »i-b« fought in tH.- novice d'vision. His wei ght, s 133 pounds h's age s 17 and is a student at T eh High. H is train'd and manag'd by one of tgwkUh NlckeUon, 135 poundj (Photo Courtesy World-Herald) our own One Step Watson who at one time was one. of the smartest and dev rest boxers in the coun try in his dass. You will hear lots of Nicholson in days to come. He fast as lightening with a terrific punch and as smooth as they come. Now just a little dope on that gioat little southpaw Roscoe Smith who is also a student at Tech High He is 18 years old and formerly of Council Bluffs. He is a boy with plenty of punch. He fights in the lightweight division. His fight will he nnp of the feature bouts of the evening He is a very clever boxer .1. ('. Johnson of Sioux City is a bantamweight. He weighs 118 and looks pery promising. His chances are very bright for him to win th championship of that division. Ste'g Lock of Grand Island will bear watching he won all of his previous fights very cleverly. He fights for the American Legion of Grand Island- He. is a fast little Boxer. He is very fast. His weight Is i is The only Negro heavyweight hai to default his second match be cause he hurt his left hand in his first fight which he won on a tech nical knock. He was Don Coulter * of Hastings, The names of all the colored fighters that fought in the Golden Gloves are as follows: Hezekiah Nicholson; .!► C. Johnson; Steve I.ock; Don Coulter; Preston Love; Roscoe Smith; Aaron Knowles; Roosevelt Hubbard; Clyde Brown; Ed Goodwin; Pee Wee Hollowel. The winners of the finals will go to Chicago to compete in the Nation al Golden Gloves to be held there ia March. r Paul Holliday Elected New President of Repuilican Club Phi.iI S. Holi day was oUjc’ed president of the Nebraska Negro R-puMTean club at the annual meeting Friday night. O'her offi ce's: Mrs. Victoria Turner, first vice pres'(lent; Mrs. Lavina Rose, m uetary; ard C. J! Coleman, trea surer. Named to the executive commit '•<» were: Miss Gertrude Lucas. Thomas Scott, George Douglas, Mrs. Maggie McGowan and Roy White. Purpose cf tihe organization was restated as including “concerted action to aid all fair tih,inking re publican candidates and persons in this community ’’ Pui*o ef meetings have been | changed to the second and fourth , Thursdays of ach month. BOARD SETS WEEK’S GOAL AT 20 MILLION — Tampa. Fla. Feb. 17 (ANP) -G. D. Rogers, president of the Nation al Insurance Association, in a re cent proclamation sent to the. As sociations member and non mem her companies set the week of JVIay 9 to 16, as National Negro Insurance Week, a feature which will be the goal of 20 million do] lars in new business during Insur ance Week. Galling attention to the 1938 goal of 20 million dollars the president’s proclamation said: “ We call upon the executives, agency offi cers. clerical forces and field forces I of all Negro insurancec companies to strive to produce during the week of May 9 to 16. an aggregate sum of new business of not less than twenty million dollars and that the amount of busin* s« pro duced by each company be furnish i d in detail to the National Negro Ii surance Week Committe e at a time designated by the chairman of said committee.’' In 1937. alhough a goal of ten million dolars was set the actual National Negro Insurance Week production was $11 91 fi.051. Wal ter S. Hornsby. Augusta Ga. is ' ice president and general manager of the Association and C. L. Town es is the secretary. DISTINGUISHED GUESTS VISIT OMAHA GUIDE PLANT Rev. E. M M Wright, pastor of St. Philip’s church. Kenneth Wherry, of Pawnee Oity, Nebr.; Hugh M. Butled,Republican Nation tl Committeeman, of Omaha; Her man FVielander; Peter Merhens, and Hazel Means of Council Bluffs who says her mother. Mrs- Herndon who has been blind for a number of years, is regaining her sight. I White Writer Says Golf Caddies Gun lay Many of Stars Vaahiigt n b “ b. 17 (AN1*)—• riven Wusn ng on s best white am J(.uer golfers might have, to take a i aek snat or at least get th\ sur prise of their lives-—were, they to compe.e against sonvt of the local laddies. believes Walter McCnllum sports writer who said so in the .Sunday Star. Wrot McCallura: ‘Out at Col umbia and Chevy Cluise and Con gressional there aie a lot of col or H boys who know all the an swers to the business of playing golf. You don't hear much about them uni ss you read the newspa pers given over to chronicling the doings of the colored race. But boys like Billy Adams and Bobby King and Harry Jackson and Claude Martin can play golf—lots of it. ..Th se hoys—no fooling—can ge* around any good course, like Colum bia in figures that would make you turn green with envy- Scores like 1 70 and 71 and so on slip off their clubs like magic, and yet you never hear of ,em. Can you imagine the laughs th y get when they caddy for a guy who can’t bust 100, or how laud they must be when they g-t a real duff1 r—-'n the 120 class.’’ After telling some of their “ex ploits. including a tee shot clean over the first gretn. .‘145 yards away. by Adams. and another short clean past the 15th green into the tool shed beyond, a dis tance of 400 yards, the writer add ed. “Some say it might be a good idea for some club to put on a cad dies’ tournament. Forget color and put V>m out there to play for a fairsized purse, or if you insist on llVcr*. V 41 4 -- *-1 •• / ‘Lots of golfers who think they are good would learn that bagtot er can play golf, too ’’ • POSTAL ALLIANCE AUX The Postal Alliance Auxiliary met at the home of Mi’s. Gladys Pullum, 2418 Maple street. Febr uary 3 with eight members present. The me* ting was opened in the us ual form, after which a brief busi rss talk was given by the hostess. Following, she served a delightful luncheon, whichwas enjoyed by all, T hen the past year’s work was closed and the election was held. Those elected were: Mrs. C. B. Wilks, president; Mrs. J'ohn Pegg, vice president; Mrs. Archie B. Young, secretary; Mrs. Earl Whe ler financial secretary; Mrs ,T, C. Dacus, treasurer; Mrs. Ollie Lewie, champlain and Mrs. Will u m Parker, reporter. -o - FELIZ DOCE CLUB The Flefiz Doce club gave a birthday celebration in honor of Mrs. Jiuanita Bassett, Saturday night. February 5 at the Elite club. Eighteen guests were present. A lcvely gift was presented to Mrs. Bassett by he Feliz Doce club of which she is treasurer After having a most enjoyable tim|Q at the Elite the guests went to the home of Mr. Wardell McWilliams and enjoyed an even np of dancing. SENATE DEFEATS CLOTURE i Wednesday mo, n i g over th * radio came the sad news that th j S* nat* in their second vote d *feat td the cloture lufc, which would have stopped the sou'hern senators filibuster against the Anti-Lynch , b'll. The republicans again joined their southern friends to defeat the rule. According to Walter White, se cretary of the NAACP. the vote against t!he dome rule was a vole against the Anti-Lynch bill • Mr. White further stated that if the bill did not pass it would be the fault of the .Republican Sena tors in the Senate. . —.—o— VISITORS HERE Mrs, B. F. Gr'ffin of Sioux City, Iowa and Mrs. Gertrude Brookes of Shenandoah, Iowa, who were on their annual visit for the Western District convention of Iowa. South Dakota. Nebraska and Minnesota, were also the guests of the trea surer of the District and first vice president of the state convention, Mrs. Estella Watters. Mrs. Griffin is the District President and Mrs. Brookes the District Secretary Rev. J. H. Patton of Sioux City, Iowa. Moderator of the District, was also visiting in the city on Thursday, February 10. Many so cial affair were held for the. guests during their stay in the city. -U-— The Missionary Society was well attended. The meeting was at the home of Mrs. Addie Wason, 1609 No. 27th street, at 2 o’cock Friday afternoon. Fourteen were present. All chairmen brought in their re ports. Our Bible instructor, Mi'S. A. I). Turner, taught us a beau tiful lesson from the 3rd chapter of James 1:18- The Missionary so ciety will meet at the home of Mrs. Inez Henderson. 2411 Barker street. Visitors are always wel come. Lesson will be taught from 2nd chapter of Jpmes- Subject, ‘‘C.an Faitih Save A Man.” On the 27th of February, the Mission society will render their fourth Sunday program. Mrs. J E Dodd will deliver to us an address Also Miss Louise Morris wil sing. Everyone come out. Mrs. Mary Alexander. President. Mrs. Inez Henderson. Repoi-ter THE MISHON ART CLUB The Mishon Art club met at the home of Mrs. Odett Brown, 4409 So. 17th street, Wednesday. Febr uary 9. Plans were made for a Washington Birthday Tee to be at the home of Mrs. Mildred Ro berts, 1711 No- 28th street. A de lightful lunch was served by the hostess and a good time was had by all. HOSTS TO ALOHA CLUB Mr. and Mrs. Edward Groomes were host and hostess to the Aloha club, Monday night Febru ary 14 at a Valentine House party. Dancing and games were indulged ia and a good time was had. Club activities ceased until Easter ‘Y’ Activities The Annual Birhday Dinre.i g v og by the House Committee a id Committee of Management w.11 l> • h' Id on Thursday February 24 at the North side Branch. The tables will bo decorated accord ng to th> nu*nth. Come and give us a hand. Tickets will be on sale beginning this week at only 26c. All club groups of the Branch are looking forward to the Bunnial Convention to be held in Columbus Ohio begirn:ng April 22 and pro greasing through thr 28th i f April. There will bp four representatives from the the branch. The Quack club is turninv its attention to th- major < mphax's of the National Assembly, nam ly; nternational Relations. Minority Groups and Social and Eeonom'e Welfare. Tb'.; Entic Nous club made a toi a tlhcou-vh tfrtN >Bond) Rak'ng Company. They watched the modern way of making broad, working with few men and lots of machinery. There were approxi mntiely 34 gills and their escorts. Th Trojan club Wishes to take this means of thanking its many friends for the cooperation shown by them during their Inter Club Banquet on January 27. It was very successful and the Silver Loving cup was presented to th? Gay Cavalier club a group of pro mising young men. for the most originally decorated table and with the most suggestive decoration of their name. Mr. Jlarvis Green is president of the Gay Cavaliers. The Boy and Girl Forum Com mittee Is really doing some very good work. On Sunday, February' 6. the committee opened the obser vance of Negro History at the Branch with an open discussion, [led by our Branch executive, Mrs. Gladys A. Pullum. The enthusiasm was very high There were about 100 boys and girls of high school age who shared in this observance. All high school and Business and industrial girls clubs are looking forward to the Sesquicentennial celebration of the Constitution, to be hold on February 21 at 7:45 r>. m., at the Jewish Community Center. All youth of the city. Id years nr older are invited to attend The Hillside Presbyterian church group will sing Negro spirituals and the main speaker will be Pro fessor William Sternberg of the Creighton university Law school. The Girl Reserve department is \ery enthused at the outcome of their week end Conference rn Shennandoah la., on February 11 and 12. There were four girls, namely: Mercedes Moore. Cather ine Boggue, Wilda Chue and Doris Ware; one advisor. Mrs. Althea Vann and the Girl Reserve Sccre. tai-y, Mrs- L. Charlotte Crawford. It was a very inspiring and help ful conference. More than 250 girls from this area attended. WATCH FOR OMAHA GUIDE’S ANNIVERSARY EDITION Watch for our 32-page Eleventh Annual Anniversary Edition. Full of interesting facts about you and yours. Two full pages of the Oma ha Guido’s publishing plant and two full pages of local leading ac tivities. I -» Winter Book of Plays To Be Presented At Jewish Auditorium Thi third chapter in t h* winder b >ok plays present annually by the I layers Gu Id of ih1 Jewish Com- ' munity C <n er will occupy (he stage of be Center auditorium on Tues- - day and Wednesday of next week, it was announced today. The subject for the latest drama- j tic effort will be a sophisticated comedy of marriage ami divorce by Rachel Crothers author of “39 East’ and ‘As Husbands Go-’ Her first contribution to the Center Tlavers’ activities is ‘ Let Us Be Gay.” which enjoyed a considerable run on Broadway. Margaret Friedlander and Sale win Michnick, popular Center play era. will take the leading roles. As divorced mates they are thrown into indelicate and highly envharas sing posit'ons by the cupid-like wiles of an aged grandmother ^lvenile lends will be taken by Bertha Guss and Arnold. Mrs. ernian will direct. The play wiP run for three acts, starting at 8:30 p. m Tr op-*n to the public at popular . V j prices. HALE CASE CARRIED UP BY SOCIETY New York- February 17—The case of Joe Hale, who was con victed of murder in the 1st degree in Poducah, Ky.. October 13. 1936, will be argued before the United States supreme court February 28 by attorneys of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People and the state of Kentucky. Hale is supposed to have killed a white man. At his first trial his lawyers, Copeland and Copeland- filed a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that alll qualified Negro citizens of the county had been excluded from the jury of the county for more than fifty years. The motion was overruled. After Hale's conviction, counsel filed an appeal in the Court of Appeals of Ke.ntucky where the sentence of the lower court was affirmed be cause the original motion was omitted from the record through error LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB The Ladies Friendship club met at the home of Mrs. Emma, last Saturday February 13. Three ta bles of whist were played and a very delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. Beulah Watts, President M. Burns. Reporter -o— Come and bring your friends to Zion Baptist church, 22nd and Grant. Sunday February 20, at 3 o’cock. to hear Foster May, ‘The Man on the Street,” sponsored by i the Senior choir. ' Washington, I (’. F h. 17 ThiJ n'f s- r,. (1f prok| -nt i;«ios«*velt tc^B tnth houses (f Congress urging an^J ndd:t'onnl an 'nopriath n of $25(h^fl ihmmhjO for i |r f '(i eat ned todJfl to eompliic'itc )i • ftght for th^^fl pasago of hr an i lyichirg 1)11 A ft "I- five we) ks l>et re the ate the an'i-ynehing h>l! appeareB^B definitely to 1 e gaining fav. ■ pans wei'1 underway calculated to^fl force a vote \h's week. ^ In the beginning with the fili laist 'f»rs morvopol zing n’l *he time, • he supporters of the bill Adopted a |>olicy of watchful waiting, confi dent that th( y had the votes for passh'g tjhi measure. As time wore on. the filibustererjj gained some public hacking but in the past ten days, they have definitely lost ground. The fact that the Senate refused Upside track the bill_tj** February 4 by a vote of 52-.T4 in dented thai even after four solid week debating, support of the bill was as firm as ever. The introduction of the relief measure has caused the organiza ions supporting t.he bill to go into a‘huddle. Two brief conferences have been held here between representatives of the NAACP and senators who are sponsoring the legislation on the floor. HONORED AT PARTY A Valentine birthday party was gi'ten in honor of little. Ella Louis# Bryant on her fifth birthday Sun day. February 13 at 2425 Seward street. Th' fourteen guests spent a very very enjoyable afternoon playing games and singing songs, after which refir shnun's were served. Ella Louise received many beauti ful gifts and Valentines. -—o The Women’s Mission Circle of the Church of God met Thursday, February 3 for business and lunch eon at the home Mrs- Helen S. Bald win. The Circle meets each Thurs day. all Christian women are invi ted to help us in our endeavor For information as to place of each meeting call our president, Mrs. Baldwin, 2910 No. 26th street, WE 0132 Mrs- Helen S. Baldwin President Mrs R. L- Moody. Secretary and Reporter CARTER BENEVOLENT CLUB The Carter Benevolent club held its regular meeting at 2868 Corby street, with hostesses Markaret Starks, Leona McVay, Gertrude Greene, and Susie Yancy- The at tendance was good. We were glad to give aid to four needy families. Our next meeting, March 3rd at 2808 Binney street. -o- ——■ LOCAL SPORTSMAN DIES Mr. Robert Jones. 2515 Burdette street, passed away Wednesday af ernoon at the Methodist hospital lie had been there three weeks. He is survived by his wife, Ada Jones; a son- Clifton JYmes; a sis ter, Mrs. Pruitt of Independence Has.; a niece and nephew. Mr. and Mrs. O Patten of 22nd street and a host of other relative/. -o Mr. S. S. Glispie rf IV oit, Mich.- arrived in the citv Tuesday morning to be a* th'1 bedside of his cousin its. F,. I.. Dudley of 2524 No. 25th str"et.