!Lraest 1 p iC I Mesro Paper J ■ in Nebraska __ .-1 n=—— /justice/equality m} ■ w-. SecondClass"Matter a[ Phonic. Q..>., Nebm.k.._OMAHA. NEBRASKA SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1938___VOL XII, No 2| County to Put2,000Men to Work Repairing Roads 155 Miles of County Roads to be Repaired .Jobs will be provided for 2,000 moil from WPA rolls when the 1038 n unty-WPA highway improvement program is fully underway, Coun ty Surveyor William Green an nounces. Work under *he new program, rieentl approved by WPA officials in Washington, has been started. I; ,.f vers 15 miles of roads. At its completion all highways in the county road system have receive 1 improvements under the county sponsored WPA projects on which work was begun in November, 1935. The program calls for estimated expenditure of $861,779, of which the county is scheduled to contri hut $234,348 in cash, supervision and use of equipment. Up to January 1, 1938, Douglas county had re-eived two mill’O’-s of dollars worth of highway improve ments through WPA projects, for |»aa than a 20 per cent outlay of county funds. The work provide! jobs for an average of 1,236 men from November, 1035 to Decem ber 31, 1936 and for an average of 8*5 through 1937. Si,vs Surveyor Green: “Besides providing the.we needed jobs to aid WPA workers and their families, tdto work has given taxpayers o' the county these road improve ments at bargain prices. Farmers have been helped by improvement of their farm-to-market roads, trade with Omaha anil other town; in ifee county has been nromoto'i, and all highway users in Omaha and et’ner towns have been bene fited. ” _n - ■ ——..— G. 0. P. LEADERS IN TENNESSEE LASH NEW DEAL Chattanooga, Tenn., April 23 (ANP) Two speakers, Carlyle S. Littleton, white G. 0 P. attorney, anil Walter Robinson, Fourth Ward colored Republican leader, hurled verbal blasts at President Roose velt’s New Deal administration at Tuesday's Republican rally at the courthouse. Atty. Littleton denounced the Roosevelt-Cordell reciprocal trade policy in internation trade trans actions, attributed the present “re cessional” and unemployment to the New Deal’s tarriff and tax ation programs. The meeting was sponsored by the Hamilton County Young Men’s Republican club. Exhorted speaker Littleton, “We wonder why we have a depression after this length of time. We won der why there is starvation in our land. Five years ago, the New Deal went into office. During that time, it has spent 31 billion dollaars. To day the national debt is 38 billion dollars. The expenditures during the coming year will raise that that debt to 39 billion dollars, and our best economist said that 4(. billion is the danger point. The New Deal is now asking for an other five and a half billion dol lar.” (Atty. Littleton’s speech ante-dated the President’s emer gency message to Congress on Thursday. April 14, in which he asked an additional six and a half billion dollars appropriation to beat the depression and ward off dictatorship.) Fourth Ward G- O. P. leader Ro binson. in his blistering attack on the present administration which succeeded in weaning millions of Negroes from Republican ranks, declared. “Many members of mv race went off after a strange god in 1936. Colored people front Miss issippi and other Southern states drifted North, following that strange god. Can you imagine that? Negates from Mississippi and Georgia voting for a Demo crat, when in their own states the Democrats won’t let them vote for either a Democrat or a Republican. It is my opinion that unless the American people change doctors, tie patient will soon die.” --- Mrs. C. B. Manaloto entertained wAtyr a Buffet luncheon Sunday ni$*kt honoring Mrs. George Hamil ton Of Chicago. Thousands Of Omahans Attend Easter Services By S. EDWARD GILBERT Ha't t Sunday message of re newed life dopicting the risen Christ had unusual significance for -hoiwands of Omahans attending tho churches of Omaha Sunday. Awakening from the slumber on Faster, n brilliant spring morning gi noted hurch goers who joined in prayers for a renewed life. A life that shall mean everlasting sun shine, a life that wi’l assure a friendly and moral uni'e'se, teach ing that life bevond the grave is reasonabh . based on the fact of the resurr ction rn Easter mo,-o. At the close of church, the re nown 'Twenty-fourth street par ade got underway, rivaling th » tradition"! Ea ter narede on Fifth Avenue, New York. Brown Amer ica was truly in her el ry. As you promenaded th s hi to tier I street of of Omaha, you could n"* help but I admire the beautiful attire on liv i ing models. i hero were cleats a~a pleats anti more p'ants, boleros played up in every mood, colors thnt are exet ingly new, prints 'hat are re fresh ugly different, costume suits anti coats and dresses of wo"ls that revive enchanting pa tots, stripes everywhere you turn in fhe mode, flowery beribbaned Watteau bats that b'ing the dainty fem inine into the picture, Gibson girl blouses and wrist deep full sleeves, Gibson girl sailors with colorful veils thnt. are brought up under the chin to tie at ‘he back in a flut tery butterfly bow, men garbed in their spring colored suits, featur ing green with chalk stripes. Eh! let us pause for a moment and catch our breath, before we go on with the reproduction of this nev er-to-be-forgotten Easter parade that was beheld on old Twenty fourth'street. Joining the rubber-neck brigade, [this is what your eyes gazed upon: [ Colors, neon blue, roseberry, (Strawberry, wheat straw, light tan, I green and citron yellow. Hats: Poke bonnetts, Gibson Girl Sail ors, Pill Boxes, Watteau, Bouben ett, British Tan Shoes: Let us be satisfied by saying, briught color ed shoes. Dresses; Print and plain dresses, three-piece Travel suits, I consisting of skirt, jacket and top coat, costume dresses, skirt-waist frocks, man-tailored suits and jig ger coats. Easter came smiling into Oma ha in a roseate dawn around 4:00 p. m. the skies wept, but the cr#wd grew and grew and after awhile the sidevdafks ’ of 'Twenty-fourth street were churning with an awa lanche of human flesh, trying to be paraders and spectators at the same time. City Names Park After Robinson Rill Robinson is one of the hap pip't persons in Hollywood. The penial st-'pe veteran, ac claimed the world’s most outstand I inp* tap dancer, has received word | from bis native homo. R:chmond. | Vn that, a park has been named I in bis honor. 1 The Twentieth Centurv-Pox film "tar. who has just taupht Shirlev Temple new dance steps for h'r stnrripe role in “Rebecca of Sunny brcok Farm,” recently pave the citv of bis birth four traffic sipnal lipbfs In mark a corner at Adam Ictv’ lee •-•treets, where he played a" a child. The city set liable a nark at this intersection to lie called the ‘‘Bill Robinson Park” in honor of the dancer. ,--O NOTICE Thropph the courtesy of the I Street Railway Co., we have been I notified that adequate street car service will he available Sunday j bepinninp early afternoon poin to and from Central hiph school. No one will have any worry about poinp to and from the Sprinp Musical. --o 1 M rs. Lina Banham, of St. , Joseph-, cousin of Mrs. Plla Ixinp. ; returned to Omaha to look after , her cousin, Mrs. Lonp 2517 Lake street, who has been ill three years 1 Her stay will be an indefinite one. Discord Is Struck As Midway Pianist Takes Shot At Boy Friend Barbara Wells . . . gun spats “blues” fortissimo. (World-Herald Photo) As purveyors of swing music swung, a (.the Midway Cafe, 2418 North 24th St., the morning after Foster, a discord was shuck when .Miss Barbara Wells, pianist, 2226 Burdette St., suddenly whipped < u' a haby hammerless pistol and began to fire at Mr. Douglas j I laekman, 2224 North 22nd SI., striking the victim in the ankle, result:" ' in his being taken to Nicholas 'enn Hospital. It is nll?ged by witnesses who were remnarts the southern states are effec tively disfranchised.” P" Char'es H. Wesley, dean of he Graduate School. Howard uni versity. is the national president of the fraternity. Other national officers are Mr. Joseph H. F>. ’•’vans Washington, D. C.; General Secretary; Attorney Perchival R. Piper, Detroit, treasurer; Mr. Lewis O. Swinglev, editor of the Sphinx. -o Woman Takes Poison Knoxville. Toon., Anril 22 (By ■ Dr. O. B. Taylor for ANP)—Last Saturday, an attractive, unidentifi ed brown-skinned girl, apparently 26 years old, entered *he drug store at Vine and Central street •>n IT. S. Employment Service Report Issued Chicago, April 2.3 (By Ethel Harris for ANP)—Since the es tablishment of the U. S. Employ ment Service in 1938, those inter ested in the economic rehabilita tion of unemployed Negroes have been anxious to know; What pro portion of the Negro population uses the Service? What are the industrial classifications of Negro applicants? What are the chances of placement of Negroes and in what fields? How do placements of Negroes and whites compare? A recent report issued for the nine-month period, July 1936 to March, 1937, covers such questions. The Negro APP*»?»nt It was obvious that the Service was used by a larger proportion of Negro males and smaller propor tion of Negro females than there were gainfully employed Negroes in 1930. In 1930. these workers were concentrated in California and seven of the South Atlantic and Gulf states. Nearly a o.uarter of the colored registrants for this period were in the three states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, which contained for only one-tenth of the 1930 working population be cause (1) In the North relief re gistrants are required to seek work through the Service; (2) the Service is more readily available to Negroes in the North where they have engaged in urban pur suits . It is not surprising that more than half the applicants for dom estic service and physical labor were colored. Relatively few col ored men were found in “w'hite cqllar" jobs. One-fifth Of the men were from agricuture, and one sixth from manufacturing. A large proportion of Negroes, of course, could not be attached to any in dustry because they had no suf ficiently recent or specific work experience. Negroes, generally, had been un employed longer than whites. Only 1.0 per cent of the colored men were working when registered as c°nn pard with 18 per cent of white men. A larger percentage of col ored than white men had been un employed from one to six months Placements During this nmc month period, allowing for rone-t placements, 520,204 col cod applicants were placed. 395,612 were men, 31 per cent of whom were placed in build ing and construction; 29 per cent were put on relief projects; 20 per cent in agriculture; 7 per cent in domestic and personal service; and 6 per cent in manufacturing. Of the women placed, 75 per cent in ( C* r* rtfimiA/I r.t» P.1 r*r\ K\ Second Annual May . Day Festival to be At Zion Baptist Church The committee on plans for the second annual May Day Festival! anoucos that the scene of the1 May Da yFostival for 1938 will be] at Zion baptist church, May 22. Already there are 12 churches] set to make the festival, present-] ing the junior choirs of Omaha' one of the most colorful demon-[ strations of youth talent ever to have been witnessed in Omaha. ! Aside from the local churches there are expected to be three out-] of town churches sending guest queens. Namely, Lincoln, Council Bluffs, Iowa and Clarinda. low'a. The eomml.fre which will meet again Monday, April 25, 7:00 p. m. at, the Northside "Y” urges all directors and sponsors of the many junior choirs to be present in or der that they may secure queen tickets to be sold in the queen con test. The winner to be crowned the May Day Queen for the Year 1938. Ijast Rites Held For Sis. Willie Davidson Tuesday,' April 12, fit 2 p. ni.? the heroic soul of Sister Willie David son slipped its mooring and set sail across the bar of e'ernity. Sister p/tP.vide'on .wba born in Shugualak, Mississippi. January 30. 1905 and was convert 'd at an (ivly age. She was a member of Willie Grove Baptist church in Shugelak, and in May 1920 she and a sister Tinnie, came to Omaha., and made their home with their, aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. FM , ward Beasley, who reside at 949 North Twenty-fifth street. On her arrival in Omaha, she un ited with Mt. Moriah Baptist Church under the late Rev. G. W. Day. She was a faithful member and attended regularly u-s long as her health permitted her to do so. She was a member of the Mission Cir cle and was ever faithful in per forming her Christian duties. In October, 1929. she was united in Holy matrimony to Mr. Louis Davidson of Omaha, who is left to mourn her lost. She was ambitious, thrifty, suid was possessed with a determination | to work for God, and to do her bit for humanity. She was a devoted wife, a love ing mother who devoted her time to the training of her children jn the fear and admonition of God. The God who been the source of her strength during her illness, and in whos arms she sweetly breathed her last. She WPS mindful Of herself, but | zealous in performing her duty to j her family, and her church. I Verily in the midst of life we j are in death. She happily awaited ' for the end, and expressed no fear ! at the appearance of death. Rev. F. P. Jones, the present pastor of Mt. Moriah, delivered J the funeral eulogy, taking his dis ! courso from the ever beautiful 23rd Psalms. She lea'es to morn her passing » devoted husband, Mr. Louis Davirson, two daughters, Ardieth Louise 7, and Minnie 3; one son I,ouis jr., her parents Mr. and Mrs. Thos. J. Beasley sr., who reside in \1 wsi««i| .pi; two brothers. Tlv>s J P-asley, of Omaha, and Jonath 1 on Beasley of Shugualak, Miss.; two isters. Miss Tinnic Beasley of Omaha, and Mrs. Lillie B. Crockett of Shugualak. Miss.; six uncles and a host of other relatives and f fiends. Her body was in the charge of the Myers Funeral Home. Th | husband and sister Tinnie accom panied the body to Shugualak, | for interment. All her friends regret her pass ing A precious one from us is gone; A voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our hearts That never can be filled. God in his wisdom has recalled, The one to us he has given; Although the body slumbers here, Her i>oul is safe in Heaven. A tea was given at the home of I Mr. Wardell. The guests present ■ were: Mrs. A. F. Jones and Mrs. I C. If. Anderson. The hostess was «ir T1 LI -__ A Concert Artist Visits O m a h a Mr. R. E. Belton, of Minneapolis, Minn, a concert artist, poet, leader and lecturer supreme, also a rad o singer, accompanied by Mi-* Edith Williams of Minneapolis nod Miss Bernice McCaw of St. Paul motor ed to Omaha to spend the Easter holiday. They were the guest of Mrs. Melba (McCaw 1 Stewart. Mr. Belton hag just returned from a concert four in Honolulu, where he sp>*nt three months. T’u* following are a few of the places where he made a splendid record in his eon concert work: Honolulu Academy of Aits, The University of Hawaii, Kamehameha School of Hawaii and the University if North Da kota. Superior high school, Super ior, Wis. Virginia Junior College and several institution* in Canada. He was a visitor to the Omaha Guide plant, visiting with Mr. W. M. Da' is, of the Guide staff. Dur ing his short stay in Omaha he was royally relieved and entertain-1 ed. He had the pleasure of being in the home of Dr. G. B. l onnox, Mr. and Mrs. W- M. Davis and several others. He will return to Omaha again soon on another concert tour, and Omaha will have a chance to en joy'edme of hie best concerts and entertainments. Watch for the date of his appearance. -t#-— TV A To Be Investigated New York Ci*y, April 16—Data on the discrimination against Ne groes by the TVA, is being assern 1 led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and will be presented to the joint committee from the House and the Senate which is to investi gate the TV A. The NAACP has some material in its) files, but desires additional information on the treatment of Negro citizens in the TVA as to housing, recreations, and other features. It is known, for instance, that Negroes are not allowed to Tive in the government-built town of Norris, Tenn. at Norris Dam. It is known, also, that in the vast con struction work through the whole TVA area, Negroes were restrict ed to certain types of work and did not have supervisory positions— even on concrete-pouring gangs, thjcre were no Negro foremen. There were no Negro white-collar workers. No Negro skilled labor was employed except in a very few instances when it was engaged in the construction of houses for Negroes only. The NAADO desires information on TVA discrimination to be sent to its New York office, 69 Fifth avenue, as promptly, as possible so it may be arranged and present ed to the joint committee. Race Relations Better, Says Mrs. Bethune Lincoln, Nebr., April 23 (By El w'Otui Randol for ANP)—Mary Mc Leod Bethune, president of the Bethune-Oobkman college at Day tona Beach, Fla., told reporters here that higher education was one cf the most effective means of breaking down race prejudice in the United States. In Lincoln inspecting NYA pro tects, Mrs. Betllune said *hat the white man throught the country is | trking a renewed interest in the; Negro, and that it is through the j facilities offered by the colleges ■ and universities of the nation that (he youth of the two races may | get together for a better under- j standing. The educator could see a great deal of change in the attitude to-; ward the race problem. The trend is to work with the Negro instead of remaining detached from him and trying to prescribe what should be done. In iDecember, 1937, Mas. Be thune founded the Council of Ne gro Women which was organized so that the women’s organizations of America could pool their thou ghts. “I saw the importance of concentration of the thinking minds of one thing,” she said in explain ing the purpose of the organiza tion which represents about one million women in this country. ‘‘There is no comparable Negro Joe Hale Case Is |§ Ninth Victory ■ for the Ass'n.l Washington, I>. C. April 15 H .loo Halo, a young Negro hoy nineteen, had his conviction on charge ef nut nicy set aside by the^H^ I luted States supreme court ItercHH April II, on the ground thatHH Met'i ackon ccttn'y. Ky. in whioh^H lie was cunvleted, lias systcmieally.HH barred Negroes from jury ser' ice HI lur more than fifty years. ^H The case argued In-fore the su-.HK I ■rente couit, March 2S, by Cty rlcslHH It. Houston special <■■ uueol of tho HB \ A \< I . and la-on A. Ransom. |H I ho opinion i t trio n'gh court wn> uiiaiiiinous. 'This is 'ho second cum' involving Negroes jn which ;Hfi .lu.'-tiri' Hugo Block has j tincd in a 1 I'oraMo decision. The first case IHS involved picketing by the New No- IHH gii A Ilia use, of Washington, It. C. IHH Ju 'ice Black concurred in the fifi opinion there that Negroes hn.d the HH rig' ' to picket urd r certain cir- fifl cun: dances in an off rt to get jobs. fifi Hale’s case, like many which come to the NAACP, was not SB turned o'er to the Assoc ation until iflB time came to appeal to the sup- [fifl icnio court. The NAAftp entered 'fill the case at the request of the Pad- ^H ucah. Kentuky Colored Civic La - fi| gue. Hale is alleged to have killed IB a white man in Paducah, in August fig In his argument to the supreme H court on March 28. Mr. Houston, fig rited an affidavit showing tUui H the population of McCrakea cuunty |M was approximately 48,000, of which \%t), 8,000 were Negroes; that there jH were ^piptroTComitely fi 000 white |H persons and 700 Negroes fully IS (nullified for jury service under jH Kentucky law; but that no Negroes fij had served on a jury in a state H court in McCraken county iu the H past fifty years. fij The Hale case is the ninth vie- fi tor of the NAACP in the supremo fi court. Of ten cases which it has fi taken up the NAACP has won nine, fi The next ca.se which the association fi will take up will be the ease of H Gaines University of Missouri fi where Lloyd Gaines. Negro grad- fi uate of Lincoln University (Mo.l fi is seeking entrance to the Univer- I sity of Missouri law school. Tennessee Supreme Court Reverses Murder Conviction Huntington, Tenyi. April <18— Bill Jack Bledsoe, who was con victed of murder, July 26, 1937, had his conviction reversed by the Tennessee supreme court last week and the case remanded for a pew trial. Bledsoe was cotiyl^ed of JdQIng , George Stanford, a white over seer on the R. C. Denny plantation located about six miles from Milan, Tennessee. He received a sentence of twenty years in prison. All the evidence in the case seemed to support Bledsoe’s con tention tha.t he shot in self-de fense. The shooting followed an prgu jijcnt over seen, Bledsoe, who ias born on the Denny farm, had planted some grass seed but had been told subsquently to move off by the riding boss a.nd the latter is said to have promised to pay Bledsoe for the seed but failed to do so. Bledsoe was defended by whit# and colored lawyers, who wrer« assisted by the NAAOP. The law yers are : P. L. Harden, Jackson, Tennessee; J. Ross McKinney, chief couneel; Jimmie Lee Tayh'i and Buck Crider. Harden the *ol 1 ored lawyer, Was threatened with i being run out of town when the ! case first came to trial, hue he I refused to be frightened. Mr. Veitzer Buys OH Yossem Grocery Store Mr. Bernard Veitzer P cently | bought the old Yossem Grocery j store at 2012 North 24th Street. I Mr. Veitzer came here from I os Angeles. California, where he had been in the grocery business for several years. He invites you to visit him. Yea will receive courteous seriee *■ all times. He handles ”he be”' ts and groceries and iresh - 'as and a full stock. Mr ’* in his employ Janies e” » Is working full t'V April 18 ' ',3 ‘ 1 cial do’