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Educator Raps Bishop: fenny For Slur On Negroes ~H il|> Cents ! Largest M Per Negro Paper |J Copy in Nebraska _ _, ~T~ —' /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THtllNE^ ", J nii:n1 P...W 0^1,.. Nebraska- OMAHA. NEBRASKA SATURDAY, APRIL 9,1938 - T”' ^ — Last Rites Held For Mr, Tom Wheeler Pioneer Omahan Laid to Rest; Here 57 Years _ * The funeral services of Mr. Tom Wheeler of 2530 Grant street were held. March 30 from Myers funeral liome. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Curry of Zion Baptist church, of which he was a member. Mr. Wheeler, although veiy sick and weak on Thursday, before ! passintg, he recognized his biother, Rev. Grundy Wheeler of Toledo, Ohio, whom he had not seen since they were boys in Kentucky 00 years ago. Mr. Wheeler was 74 years of age, and was an employee of the city hall and the old court house building for many years. He retired seven years ago, after 15 years at the City Hall. Before this he was a railroad p iter for many years. He came to Omaha ini 1881 and for 16 years, prior to 1917 was a member of the National Guards. dSepkies bis broth ar he ‘ thlree uisters, JVfrs. Lucind na vi*, who he lived with; Mrs. Eva Smith of Chicago. 111.; Mrs. Eliza Gillkie, of 2121 North Twenty eighth avenue; his son, Mr. Earl Wheeler, 3011 North Twenty eighth avenue; one nephew, Will'e C. Gillkie, 1513 North Twentieth street; two nieces, Mrs. Thelma Mitchell of 2021 Grant; Little Bertha Smith, 2530 Grant street; and one daughter, Ruth Wheeler, and two dear little grandchildren; one brother-in-law, Mr.- Kail Kill-' kie. AH hia friends regret his pass ir.g. A precious one from us is gone. A voice we loved is still. A place is vacant in our heart That never can be filled. God in his wisdom has recalled , The (>m to us us is gi roil All though the body slumbers | here His soul is safe ir, Heaven. -*—o Memphian Fourth Death By Automobile Memphis, April 9 (ANP) — March’s fourth traffic death was recorded March 30 at John Gaston hospital when George Hollis died of injuries received when he was struck by an. auto while repairing his truck on South Parkway, East. Rarnard Holmes, driver of the car will be charged with reckless driv ing after he recovers from back injuries suffered in the crash, ac cording to police. ■-o BIG INCREASE MADE BY SUPREME LIBERTY LIFE Chicago, April 9 (C)—The Ru pjemo Liberty Life Insurance com pany, 3511 South Parkway, Harry H. Pace, president, and Truman Kelln Gibson, chairman of the t?oard and treasurer, gained $179, 160.55 in assets in 1937, the asset? of the company now being $2,122, 108.88, according to .the annual statement made public last week. The company has 141,366 policy holders, has $.36,155,509 in insur ance in force, and has legal reser ve of $1,821,833. The cash item is $46,932.00. Supreme Liberty em ploys 600 people, operates 26 branches in 21 cities of nine states, and has a home office valued at $300,000, fully paid for. The com lvany is seventeen years old, and has paid to policy holders $3,310, 693.43 since 1922. Ladies Home Mission Circle The Ladies Home Mission Circle met at the hotme of Mrs. Alice Britt, 2525 Blondo street, Thurs day. Eleven were present, includ ing one visitor. Mrs. Naomi John son giave a lesson on “Religious Wducation.” Informa tarn about time and place of each meeting Mrs. Mrs. Edna W. Moody, Secretary and Ropertei __y. .— At 59th Anniversary The Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker Presiding Bishop The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Right RevJ Henry St. George Tucker, 1). 1)., who is also the Bishop of V » 'il ia, has just issued a statement calling his church to interest and cooperation in the Fiftieth Anni versary celebration, May 1-3 in clusive, of St. Paul Normal and Irdustrial school, at Lawrenceville, Virginia, the largest of the nine schools operated under the Ar.ier iean Church Institute for Negroes, —a chain of institutions compris ing the largest single educational project for Negroes of the South. MAMMOTH LIFE INCREASE INCOME BY $35,588 Louisville, April 9 (C)—The Mammoth Life and Accident In surance company, 606 W. Walnut street, H. E. Hall, president, earn ed net income of $65,153, last year, and the income was increased over that of 1936 by $35,588. according to J. E. Hankins, auditor. A 8 per cent dividend, amounting to $'>,000. Was declared and distributed to stockholders. -o BETHUNT OOOKMAN STUDENT GIVE PLAY Daytona Beach, Fla., April 9 (ANP)—A feature of the annual Spring bazaar, held Tuesday on the campus of Be^une-Cookman Coll ege was the presenilation of Mrs. F. L. Dyett’s original drama or rural Negro life “Down Sandy Level Way.” The cast was made up ox faculty members and students and the big audience consisted mostly of tourists. Student singers also presented a program. The one day bazaar netted the college more than $900. BANKERS FIRE HAS $251,938 SURPLUS Durham, N. C.. April 9 (C)— Hankers Fire Insurance company Prof. W. G. Pearson, president, held its eighteenth annual meeting Wednesday and Thursday, and the secretary, R. N. Harris, reported ; surplus to policyholders of $251, ; 638.08. Since its organization, the company has paid claims of $453, R36.61, paid t** stockholders $60, 122, and collected premiums of $1,069,380.68. James T. Carter of Richmond, president of Souther,! Aid Society of Virginia, was elect od to the board, vacancy caused by the death of R. L. Jordan of Rich mond, and J- H. Ridley, chairman of the Crown Savings bank of New port News, was eleated vice pre sident. Policeman Goes Free In Slaying of Keys Washington. April 9 (By Daniel D. Chase for ANP)—The surprise of the week came today when the grand jury of the District, which had conducted what it termed “an exhaustive investigation” into the I slaying of Leroy Ke»'s, ignored the j case. Keys, 38-year-old shell-shock ! ed World War veteran, was slain in his home on March 8, and this action on the part of the District Grand Jury automatically clears Policeman John W. Nally, the of ficer who was charged with the slaying of the unfortunate veteran. Nally had been free under the small bail of $1,500. A number of civic, religous, and veterans’ organization had critici zed the shooting, claiming that it could have been avoided. They have been one in voicing the thought that the less drastic action could have been taken. Fooling has been expressed that the case be reopen ed and prominent citizens declare that the sV ying.of Leroy Kcyc, “is a travesty on justice.” Texans Like Singer’s Voice, But Bar Her From Hotels; Cafes Dallas, April 9 (ANP)—Al though white Texans jampaeke McFarlin auditorium last Tuesday night to hear the golden voice of Marian Anderson, they had no ac-j comodations for her either at ho- j tols otr cafes, aftdr the recital was' over. As a result she had to find lodgings and her meals at a pri vate home. The strange, paradoxical situa tion where white people throng to hear her sing but refuse to provide her with a night’s lodging—empha stxm anew the hypocrisy of so-j called race relations below the Mason and Dixon line. The fact remains, that despite culture, wealth or distinction, all Negroes are reduced to 'the common level, I must face the Jim Crow bar when i seeking “white” accomodations. Travel in the South presents the j same problem. On some roads trainmen consider a Pullum draw ing room, or compartment provides the separation from whites de-j manded by Jim Crow laws, but. 1 other don’t. Congressman Arthur' Mitchell of Chicago now has a suitl , pending against a railroad because' he was refused first class accomo dations, and had to ride all night in the Jim Orow Car. enrowte from Little Pock to Memphis. Recently. C. C. Spaulding, Dur , ham. N. C., president National Ne gro Business League and head of the North Carolina Mutual Ins. Co., was donned a Pullum reserva tion out. of Dallas. Later, Bill (Bo fangles) Robinson, noted tap dan cer and screen star was given Pullum accomodations from Dallas, hut why the distinction was made, i not known. Motorists also con tantly complain of the lack of rest room facilities on highways all through the South. In Dallas, C. F. Starks, president Negro Chamber of Commerce, us ually arranges accomodations for , colored celebrities visiting here. Women are generally taken to pri vate homes while the men* are sent to the local YMCA. A. Maceo Smith, civic leader here, said re cently he thought in the near fu ture Negro investigators would build hotels in the key cities ef the South because of the great num ber of colored motorists and train passengers. -o GUIDE VISITORS Rev. C. C. Petis of Salem Raptist church and Rev. F. C. Williams of of Zion visited the office and shop of the Omaha Guide Tuesday, April Sth. Dr. Hancock Says If Churches Are United Negroes Must Be Accepted In Church; Schools Chicogoans Oganize Funeral Financing Co. Chicago, April 9 (ANP)—Somc thir.tr new and unique in Negro business is the recent organization and incorporation of the Supreme Service Company of Chicago. The company, which is located ini the Supreme Liberty Life Building, at 3507 South Parkway, will special ize in funeral financing. Funeral financing, according to the organizers of the company has grown to major proportions on the southside where most of Chi cago’s ieofl red population lives. IN possibilities first became im • at nit during the earlv days of vhe depression whoa credit conditions grew tighter and practically non existent. Chicago's C3 undertakers found themselves in a predicament where they bad to finance with cash most of the funerals of the estimated 7,000 of our people who die annually in Chicago. In addi tion, they had to wait for their money until the insurance company paid off their clients. It is estimated time over $250,000 is paid out annually in financing funerals for Chicago’s colored ci tizens. In the past, all of these fi nance charges have gone mto the hands of members of the other race. The personnel oif the Supreme Service company is made up of men who have had many years of ex perience in the field of insurance, and among them are H. L. Thomp-; son, president; Truman K. Gibeon, jr. secretary; W. Ellis Stewart, treasurer; with Dr. E. W. Beasley, Jefferson Tsh, M. C. Adkins, vice president, and Earl B. Dickerson counsel. , Aside from financing funerals, tho company will also operate a currency exchange as an anxiliary activity, where checks will be cash ed and money orders issued to pay ■ gas, light, water and other bills. Cooks, Walters Choose Brotherhood As Agent Boston. Mass., April 9 (ANP)—< j In a secret-ballot election corduct i cd by the Nation Mediation Board ' nmoftg dining car cooks and wait ! erg of the Boston and Maine rail-: rood here last Tuesday, Local No.1 | .170 of the American Federation of i Labor was badly beaten by the! : Brotherhood n|f Dining Car Em-i nloyees as their representative and bargaining agent. The Brotherhood has represent ! ed Boston and Maine men since I 1919. Reinzi B. I.emus is the presi I dent. _n__ Mixed Audience Hear Va. Men’s Glee Club Orangeburg, S. C.. April 9 (ANP)—With J. Harold Montague widely known musician conducting, the Men’s Glee club of Virginia State college, presented a program last Saiturday night to an enthus iastic audience of both races at White Hall on the campus of South Carolina State college. Repeated encores greeted their renditions. Miss Carlcr.c McCoy was accom panist. After the concert a recep tion and dance was given in honor of the singer«. -o Don’t forget the Rain-bow Wed ding, Friday evening, April 8, at 8 p. m., at Bethel A ME church. The bride that sells the most tick e-ts will get married. Richmond, Va., April 9 (ANP)— Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, widely kqown student of race relations and head of the Department of Economics and Sociology at Vir ginia Union university, this week unloosed a blast at Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond for his slur againsit the J'Jegro race and for in jecting the racial question into the fight over unification of the var ious branches of the Methodist church. In an open letter, Dr. Hancock puinte i'.y took exception to this re cent utterance of the prelate: “If the churches are united, we will have to accept Negroes in our church, and social equality will be taught in our church schools.” Dr. Hancock assured the Bishop ilhat people interested in the im provement of race relations “are considerably dismayed that an ec clesiastic of your prominence should resort to the threadbare argument of 'social equality’ in a matter where the color question, might, with profit, have been omit ted.” He continued, "There **ay be some excuse for such •rocedure as vcu employed for -ware! politicians, Klanners; but there is no excuse moral scapegoats and K« KIux for tho ecclesiastical dignitary’s to baser passionfl of this nation. If you have been correctly quoted, your attitude become one of grave concern to the millions of Negroes throughout the nation. It tho *Ben Tillmanization’ of politics was a great misfortune, the 'Ren Tillmnn ization’ of the great A .If.FI. church, South, would be a calamity.” -o . . — Republic of Liberia At tbe New York’s World’s Fair, 1939 New York, April 9 (ANP)— Pla/ns and models for the Liberian Government Building, Vartner W. Tandy, architect, have been unan imously accepted by tbe Board of Design of the New York World’s Fair Commission. Among those at the ceremony c<f approval, which recently took place at the offices of the commission in the Kmpire Slate Building, were Admiral W. H. fttandley, Director of Foreign artieipation; Lestof A, American Minister to Liberia; Walter F. Walker, Liberian Consul at Now York; Mr. Tbrjcly, and Dr. I, . L. Berry, Secretary cf the For eign Mission Board of the AME church. This was the second design sub mitted by a foreign government to be accented, and Architect Tandy was highly complimented. The Liberian Building at the 1939 World’s Fair will be 9<>xl40. The first floor will be devoted to the exhibition otf native product— rubber, piassava. coffee, cocoa, gine'er. palm oil products and cola nuts. O the second floor will be the Liberian National Restaurant where will be featured famous Li berian dishes, including ground nut stew and palm fruit dishes. In the main building will be a little theatre where will be shown native dancers and acrobats and motion pictures of Liberian life. Adininrng the building will be typi cal native villages where abori gines from Liberia will give exhi bitions of dyeing, weaving, basket and leather work, and many other handicrafts. CLINIC HOURS CHANGED The Clinic hours at the Zioa Baptist have been shaaged The I oliiyp is open fro* • p, m. t* 7 p. m. each Thursday. Editor of Georgia Paper Angered at Interracial Meet Popular Book Atty. Fitzhugk Lee Styles Member of the Philadelphia bar whose book, ,‘Negroes and the Law,” is proving popular, not only in the legal |« fession, but with all students of Nrpro life. The work is actual, and replete with biographies of 21 lawyers. Mr.j Styles, only 37, is a native of j Jacksonville, Fla., and a graduate of college and law nt Howard. The j Into renown editor, T. Thomas For tune, was hig uncle. The book is distributed by the I-angston Sales company, 2200 West Columbia ave-| nnc, Philadelphia, P«. Hon. E. Washington Rhodes, editor of the Philadelphia 'fu'uine and former presklent of the Nation Bar As sociation, wrote the forward, and Charles II. Houston of the NAACP und It. L. Vann contributed special chapters. (Calvin Photo) College Women Hold Meeting In Pittsbugh i Pittsburgh, April 9 (ANP)— Local officers and memebrg of the National Association of College Women are perfecting plane for entertainment of delegates to the 16th annual convention! of the As sociation to bo held here April 15 17. The college women will be head ed by President Helen B. Grossley of Dover, Del., and the conference (theme will be ‘‘Techniques for Ac tion on Contemporary Problems,” < President Gfossley and the mem-1 bera at large look with favor on selection of Pittsburgh for this; year’s session because of this city’s : position of prominence in indus trial, educational, economic and so cial activities. NACW members comprising the j coniviention committee in charge of | nrraaccents for the conclave are . the following: Mi's. Vivian J. Cook. 1 Baltimore, general chairman; Mrs. Orlean Collins Ricco, 281« Berford avenue, Pittsburgh, chairman, Hostess Branch and Mrs. Esther Popel Shaw eorrespt nding secre tary. 1111 Columbia R’d., N. W., Washington, D. C. 1 -o New England Youths Plan Rig Conference — » Boston, Mass., April 9 (ANP)— i Victor A. Byivce, an executive of I the Now Rngland Youth Gtnfer i cnee, is making final preparations I to welcome more than BOO dele : cahes expected here to attend the Spring meeting of the conference. 1 Bvrvce and co-workers have been I working for six weeks on details of i th( meeting whose object will be to iron out the many problems affect ing youth, such as cccccphryment, discrimination and educational shortcomings. Atlanta. April 9 (ANP*—Not content with maligning Nifnes nnd the pro-Negjro moves of the Roosevelt administration, Mrs. J. E. Andrews, White, editor of the race-hating ,‘Georgia Woman’s World,” Saturday, afternoon de liberately slapped, Dr. Wlllio J, King, president of Gammon Theo logical seminary, when he refused to let her photographer take pic tures of a meeting of colored and white college students. Although police Mjere called to tho seminary where title slapping took place, no ease was made against the woman. Lator she made an apology and is understood to have ‘‘regretted the laeideet” , ollowu r pressure brought on her by officials of Emory uaivorsity nnd Agnes Scott college, leadhng white institutions. The interracial meeting to we sell Mrs. Andrews objected was the hhree-day session of the Georgia Student Christian council. She re gistered Saturday morning as the meeting opened in order to he atte to attend all sessions. That after noon she reappeared with a ***» praman, intending to take pietastx for use in her publication whem her opposition to the mixed gntheahw went unheeded. Dr.King oh jetted. and she struck him in thte laee Tho educator made no attract a* retaliation. When police were called. »r. Kirug urged them not to take a case against the woman, although die insisted on l>cing arrested. Iieter that day, however, she displayed a friendly attitude toward th* se minary head and attended *thev sessions. Before the contemn** ended, mem'oersT most <># them white, passed n reaolntion - mending Dr. King for the way he handled the incident. “Georgia Woman’s World” is the publication which was widely dis tributed by Roosevelt opponents ia the 1996 election. It carried pkr tures showing Negro New Dealers dictating to white stenographer' Mrs. Roosevelt being escorted by Negroes following an appearance at Howard university, and facsi miles of colored newspaper articles lauding benefits obtained fr m th* present administratiocu It attempt ed to inej’ense the state’s pr»>*d ices acainst Negroes, hurt wtas not ablfc to prevent Ryvosevellt from carrying Georgia. m -O *~ " ARKANSAS EDUCATOR endorsed for prtw OF TEACHER’S A9«*N. Little Rock, Ark., April f (0) — Prof. I. T. Gillatn, for 40 yearn an educator in this state and new principal of Gibbs nigh schcol and head of the Practice School ef Dunbar Junior collage, w»s endors ed by 200 members of the City Teacher’s Association for president of the American Teacher’s Asso iation, last week. ' 0 GIVES PIANO RECITAL Booker Washington gave h* third annual piano recital for the students of Howard Kanssedy school last Sunday. After opening <ho concert with a serious inter pretation of the “Sonata Op. 37, No. 2” by Beethoven. He played a sonata that he composed. Ttirongh out the entire concert the calm ness and surety that only an artist can give to his audience was felt. The best received number on the program was a brilliant reading of the “Militaire Polonaise, writ ten by Chopin. The piece was ar ranged by Ce<rl Berryman, noted Omaha teacher and composer -o LEAVES CITY Mrs. Lelia Sampsn f > h, left Thursday, Mar»' her hush" Mr ’ ‘J Angelo ^'lif. ■ ’ -- - w H