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s Cunts i .attest 1 Neorro Paper «1 ^er t •Mil W Conv r in Nebraska _ _ »is=^w-^.==sa* /JUSTICE/EQUAL1TT HEW TO ThcjJNE^ Entered as Seeerd Class Matter n* Hns*nffice. Omaha. Nebraska- r HJj OMAHA GolDH Of-.AHA, I*RE R.- FKA PATuHDAY, MAY 21, 10^8 _________ Baptist Regional Convention Meets Here Conclave Meets at Zion Church May 24, 25, 26 The Regional meet of the Na tional Baptist Convention (Inc.) A. S. A. will meet May 24, 25 and 26. Also the pie-convention pro gram will be held May 23. There will be a chorus of three hundred voices in the mammouth chorus, including some of the out • ; tan ling soloists of the city and (i mmunity. The principal speakei ' will be of national reputation. Three hundred delegates will b > in attendance at this meeting.. There will be consecration service morning. Dr. C. H. Hickerson, Hutchinson. Kas.; Dr. S. C. Doyle, Kansas City kan; and Dr. W. M. Thomas. Lea venworth, Kas, will conduct these meetings, -o Reveal Marriage Of Steele And Dawes Poston, May 21 (ANP)— In stead of waiting until June, Julian De egal Steele and Miss Mary Pradley (“Polly”) Dawes, white are already married, it was an nounced Wednesdoy at the office of the bridgegroom’s attorney. The ceremony, which climaxed an in terracial romance that shook New Em-Jand resulted in Steele’s re signation as director of the Ro bert- Shaw settlement house and Miss Dawes’ resignation from an exclusive school in Prov dence, R I., where she taught music, was performed at a small church in New York City. In obtaining a marriage 1'oense in New York on May 4, Steele listed himself as 31, a so'isl work er. and his birthplace as Savannah, (Ja. Miss Dawes said she was 30, a. teacher, born/ in Clinton. Mass., the daughter of Fred Dawes and the former Ada Taylor, an English woman. Both gave adrresses from near Harlem. Steelo. a Harvard graduate, first met his bride when she was a social worker in the settlement house several years ago. Miss Dawes, who attended an exclus ve girl’s school in Nashville, is social ly prominent in New England. She is a niece of Charles Gates Dawes former Republican vice president, and a descendant of the Dawes who was a colleague of Paul Re vere, Revolutionary war hero. The bride’s parents were oppos ed to the match, but there was no thing they could do to stop it. Steele sent in his resignation after his romance became known to the public and officials of the settle ment house accepted it. although their action has created consider able resentment. He is of the op inion that the publicity attending his union is “unfortunate and un necessary.” -o 3oston Church Fire Routs 200 at Meeting Boston, Mass., May 21 (ANP)— A fire last week in the basement of St. Mark’s AME church, near Central Square, Cambridge, broke up a meeting of the Lewis Hay den Commandery Knights Temp lar and its auxiliary Syrene coui*t No. 7, and drove the 200 members into the street. Rev. H. L. Moore who was con ducting the annual memorial ser vices, had just called for the col lection to be taken up when the smoke began pouring through a door in back of the church. An investigatin revealed that the base ment was engulfed with flames, which spread so rapidly that es cape throughout the main entrance upstairs was momentarily threat tened. Police broke open a side door, through which many of the audience escaped. k 1 Mr. Simmons Geis High Aopointm _n By Calvert Disk F. SlaiF'SON Calvert Distillers Corporation, tillers of Calvert’s "Reserve,” Special," and “Old Drum’ whisk ;s, in appreciation of the fine i ,'egro patronage which it receiv j *, announces with pleasure the i ppoirjtment of Enil F. Simpson in n important executive position. I Mr. Simpson has been affiliated I ;ith the Negro press for sixteen •ears arjl was formerly manager ■f the Chicago Defender. Metro iclitan News of Chicago, and the lew Amsterdam News. .Recently ' e was director of Negro sales of Vellach’s, Inc., Harlem’s 125th street store. In the latter establish rent he started as sales promotion manager and was later promoted o assistant manager of the store. This we understand established a irecedemt in New York City as well as throughout the country. The appointment of Mr. Simp -mn should be looked upon with favors by members of the Negro race who are interested in the progress of its members in posi tions of an executive nature. Mr. Simpson is well qualified bv act ual ,ev]fTieF.ce and trairfrg '-to enrrv on the duties of his new position with dignity and reserve and hopes to demonstrate to otW>-a of his race and to his new employ ers his ability to mevchambse and market to a group whose spending power is in excess of two billion dollars annually, representing one torgV, of the popu’ir tion of the United States. Mr. Simpson’s duties will be to direct promotion sales in this group to make surveys and re commendations. and to see that at all ties those of his race are shown rho same consideration which is shown to others. -o-— White House Officer To Speak in Boston Boston, May 21 (ANP)—Mrs. Elizabeth H. McDuffie. White House employe and officer of the United Government Employes or ganization in Washigtom. delivered an address at Harriet Tubman cen ter on “The Colored Ctizen and Pour JBillion Dollar 19.‘>8 Relief Bill before Congress.” Mrs McDuffie outlined the pro posed UGE Tower building pro ject and the $2,000,000 proposal nresented before the appropria tions committee of the house of representatives in Washington on Mom lav bv Edgar G. Brown, presi dent of the United Government Employes, Inc , on. the invitation of sub-committee chairman. Con gressman Woodrum of Virginia. The plan incompasses transfer ring 100 000 women from the re lief rools of the nation to WPA Household Workers Demonstration projects throughout the country, there to train them in he latest ' practises of modern home making | in all its scientific phases. Placements will be then made in ] the American homes where there ] aro 400.000 available jobs in do | mestic service according to a re cent survey of the U S. Employ i ment Service conducted by the De partment of Labor. Nat’l Association Head Speaks to S. C. Medics i-. Columbia, S C. May 21 (ANP1 —Addressing the 42nd annual ses ion of the Palmetto Medical As ociat on advised his fellow doctors o become more interested in the ivic and economic life of fheir om reunifies and to encourage qua ified youths to prepare for the nedical profession. He deelar d: “F;rst in inipoi-tance :s *he short age of graduates from accredited red?erl Dental and Phermac -uf' 1 colleges. During the pest yenr here were approximately 188 edi-nl graduate’s and about 1 1 •a dilates in dentistry of our oun fmm aM the aoc’-edited col ges of the country These figures •uind a signal warning in view of he following facts: I my own •ate. Geeorgia, there is a Negro •prlation of about one million, .'i’t there a>e omIv 109 Negro phy sicians and 59 dentists. “This means that there is only or e physician to every 5.500 of the Negro population; and one Negro dentist to every 18,000 of the Ne gro population. Ini Alabama the Negro population is almost one million, but there are only 116 phy sicians, or approximately one to every 8 000 of the Negro popula tion there are only 45 dentists, or about one to every 20.000 of the Negro ponulat’on. Thus we can readiyl see why there is su’h p high mortality ratte among our rural people. “I have authentic reports that in the rurals where there is a scar city of physicians, the charge to patients for a call is reckoned by the mile not by the regular price of a profession call. For instances, if a pyhsician makes a call to a family who lives 25 m'les _ from town., then the price is $25 for one visit. Many times the illness of one child will consume the entire income of the family for a whole year. Shall we sit idly by and see our profession dwindle into a neg ligible factor in the life of cur race?” Po;nting to the need for more Negro pharmacists, Dr. Hill continued: “If we wish to encourage young men to study pharmacy it is our duty to provide good jobs for them. Last year Meharry Medical college was forced to close the de partment of Pharmacy, simply be cause there was not a sufficient number of students applying for courses to warrant its upkeep. “We might consider establishing community drug stores, drug stores in which the community buy stock, and those persons of the community with business ability sit on the board of drectors. The hoys in the community will be the soda-jerkers. clerks, etc. If serious | thought is given to this, many good suggestions will occur to you. We must build for tomorrow, we must build that our sons and daughter's may stand on firmer | ground.” ■-6 Va. Farmers Meet Petersburg, Va., May 21 (ANP) —More than 2.500 farmers, repre senting 24 Virginia counties gath ered at Virginia State college Wed nesday to participate i nthe An nual Farmers conference held un der the jot sponsorship of the Uni ted States Extension service and; the college’s Division of Agricul- \ ture. The conferencei s desi.gnx'd to J acquaint farmers of the state with ; the latest development in agricul- ; ure and the part which the ccllege J through its extension program, ( plays i nthe promotion of j>etter I farm production and better farm ! life. Under the leadership of Field j Agent J B. Pierce of the U. S. Department of ^Agriculture and Dr. ,T. L. Lockett, director of Virginia State College’s Division of Agri culture, the conference has become a force in the improvement of farm conditions in the state and in the education of farm people. Knot Hole Gang Praised Gy Editor — Chattanooga, Term.. May 21 (By Katie E. Johns n for ANP) “Joe I Engel'* K»'>t-H !e Gang.’ school | olt'ldren up to 14 years aid who have a 98 per cent school attend ance ren id and attend Sunday school re .ula’ ly, crew high praise last week ir m Morgan Blake, ■ oi‘s editor of t! e Atlanta Jour nal. This Knot-I I Me gang last year had 4,000 wil l.® and 2.000 ■i.lorsd boys who attended free til I Chattanooga baseball games ex cept those ora Sunday. Rlake, who wafi here to n*tend the opening Chaitanooga-Atlanta games i:i the Southern league. | wrote in his paper. “There is a ] ''notion of the stair's at ('hat' a- j j nooga reserved for the white boys land an'her for the colored boys. “I wish you could see the de '•orum by these kf4*, at thet game, I Ten fht% H4 tie colored boys. They make all i the din you can imagine a lot o ; kids would make, but they all : cnrduct themselves like litttle gen ! tlemen. They never start any I fights, because that would cou”t against, them in the knot-hole gang records.’’ -o Forum Hears Gov. Rocky Mount, N. C. May 21 (A. N. P.)—America may produce the fourth “great race” (Jov, Clyde R Hoey told a meeting of the Rocky Mount Civic forum, an organiza f!on complet’ng its fourth venr, Sunday in the auditorium of Book er T. Washington high school. Gov Heev told the audience, “I am. glad to talk to you because of vour interest in public affairs. I am always interested in an audi ence like this.” In an eloquent spirited address the govrnment reviewed the phil osophies of “the three grent races,” and suggested that America might jroduce he fourth. The philoso phies he referred to wore the Oreeg, “know thvself;” the Roman, “control thvself,” arvl the Hebrew, “deny thyself.” -o ATTEND THE MAY DAY FESTIVAL 1 SUNDAY MAY 22. 1938 f n.d Good Year j-aum**'*, « ■: wmmsasmrmr* ' HON. WM. NICKERSON, J't. President of ihe CoUen State A*.- i t 1 jf(. Insurance company, ■1111 Central avenue. Ins Angeles, who reports a good year in 1937, income be n" $’12.Ilf,.If). t. ■ eon, biiv orTMOpI in 1925 i ns assess of $299 875 0) nnd sur •' s »r 854.1R1 «1. It has paid $"85 99« ,>8 in Maims since organi-l "of'on. 0*»or<re A. H“s vecs. Jr., *sl vice prey'd nt and N. O. Houston. I .peri tnrv-t'reai rer. A native of *!•>•« tsci^to c^’otv, T“xgs Mr., N*cker‘<>o »■»« cdueMe’ i»t Hishno •• d Prode View and taught ) ."hoo! hofore entering t*ie Insur ant'. husine.s at Dallas in 1905, (Calvin Service) ■-« Blame Jap War On Nation Race Refusal Washington. May 14 *ANP)— Japar/s aggresson in Ch'na is the result of the refusal o1. white Oc cidental nations to accord her ra cial equal'ty, according to Miss Muriel Lester, “the Jan« Addains of London,” who spoke here last week at a dinner given by fhe National Council for Prevention of War. “It was a Mack day for the Ori ent,” Miss Lester said, ’’when the white statesmen at Versailles after the World war decided to refuse the request for race equality put forward by Japanese representa tives. When fhe news was tele graphed toTokio, liberals were im mediately diacred ted and militiar ists seated firmly in the saddle. We may as well face the fact that our personal imlulger.ee in race prejudice is contributing today to the agony of China. Explain Reasons for Closing of Harlem's Dunbar Bank New York, May 21, (ANP) — From sources close toi the officials of the Dunbar bank, a definite statement which led to John D. Rockefeller’s ordering the liquida tion of the Dunbar National bank were made this week to ANP. “Mr. Rockefeller,’’ said theinfor marct, “first built the Dunbar Gardens in Harlem because he felt that the housing facilities for Negroes were inadequate and that if it could be demonstrated that it was a good investment for capi tal to build houses for Negroes, other persons of wealth might fol low his example. “The original idea was to sell the homes on a co-operative basis to the tenants. That plan failed largely because the depression de scented shortly after they were completed and the tenants whoj had started the purchase of homes | were forced to liquidate their hold ings. “The government then entered the field and build low cost hous ing directly adjacent to the Dun bar Gardens. If that project proves sucessful it will be follow ed by others. The need for which Mr. Rockefeller entered the field was. therefore, satisfiedl so he withdraw, arranging to dispose of his holdings to a firm which was most syrnpathetcally disposed to Negroes, "The Dunbar National bank was established with a two-fold pur pose, first to provide banking fa cilities for the tenants of the Duru bar and for the people of Harlem who at that time were without any bank in the gemeral territory and second to give training to young Negroes. Later other banks [ established ‘branches 1 in Harlem relieving the original necessity. The Dunbar National while not losing money was not a financial success. The maximum of the gen eral accounts were low. Harlem residents who had substantial banking accounts did business else where. In the meantime, the per sonnel employed had received val uable traning which would stand the in good stead in future busi ness efforts. Mr. Rockefeller felt that, he had accomplished his ob jectives in bettering conditions in Harlem. The liquidation is pro ceeding in orderly fashion so as not to cause either business or personal inconvenience to those concerned. Negroes are now com plaining about theloss of the $3. 000,000 institution, but the fact is they did not support it, when they had the opportunity." Beuhier Employee Found Guilty in Court; Fined $20 _ i Prominent Omahan Passed On Thursday Mr. John C. Parker, 112 North 43rd A'e. died Thursday morning at 1:30 at St. Joseph's Hospital where he had undeigone an Ap pendectomy operation. Mr. Parker who was reside! in Omaha for 63 years, coming here Chillicothe, <>hio., wus a retired mail carrier and is reported to have been 76 years old at his death. Mr. Parker served St. John’s AM E church in va ious official ca pacities for more than thirty years. These included director of the '■hureh choir, director of S. S. Choir, secretary of the off cia! ' oards, teacher of the Bible claa es, president of the Allen Chris tian Endeavor League, At the time i f his death he was still actively engaged in the work of the church. The deceased leaves to survive him, Mrs. J. C. Parker, his devoted wife, two nieces of Chica go, an^ a Nephew of Atlantic City, N. J. Funeral services havo not been arranged as we go to press. His 1 ody is at the Joseph D. Lewis Funeral Home. Don Rrvant 21X5 North 16th Street. an cm pi yd butcher of 1 BUEIILER BROTHERS who have stores located at 2501 No. 24th St. t00'{ South 21th Street and 212 North 16th Street was found gull s' of short " eight ini Police court Tuesday morning. May 10. It is a I matter of record ip. the Police j court that the Police officer bring ng the chovg was an pye wit tv>ss to a weight fraud on the part of said butcher "’ho wilfully charge 1 a customer $1.28 for a cut ! of meat that by weight and price ! not- pound onlv should ha'’« cost i $’ 28. T'oop rot'ng such UNFAIR PRAU’c-'OE on the part if the but | eher U’e arresting office,. ap"re j HopHpd the cut of meat, the sales t!cVet and the bipcimr, ini suvse ooentlv carried < he perpetrator of UNFAIR PRAUTirE down to the mlice station where he filed a "hargp of violation of seM ordi t«nee which governs weights and pleasure, as true evidence against the hutcb°r employed by BU’EH LAR BROTHERS; resulting in Don Brvant. a hut her employed hv BUFHLAR BROTHERS. being fmod $20,00 and costs in Judge [ Palmer’s court. The City weights and measures office prosecuted the case. Mr Maroellus Ritchie, Inspector of Weights and Measures, was the ar resting officer. Man Killed When He Is Caught Between Fire Ga. Bank Aids Negro Farm Boys and Girls Savannah Ga., May 21 (ANP) —Sixty-three Negro 4-H club boys and girls from 12 counties of Ga. j gathered here Saturday at State College to complete their year’s projects in raising beef cattle. Early last Eall the Cltizents and Southern National Bank, a white institution, financed the project by giving each of the contesting boys and giris a calf and taking a note to cover payment when the matur- ! ed calf is sold on the market, “It was an impressive sight," said Alexander Horsy Negro Club Agent, “when these" boys and girls went to the bank in a body awl paid their notes.” "A fine experience in learning how business 's conducted," said J. H. Stone, Negro State Exten-1 sion Leader, Book On Southern Negro Published Hattiesburg Miss., May 21, (ANP)—Publication.' by the Yale Fniversitw Press of “Southern Negroes—1861-65" written by Dr, B. I. Wiley, white, history profes sor at Mississipp State Teacchesr, college here ha just been announc ed. The 366 page volume is an ac count of the experience of South ern Negroes during the Civic war. The opening chapter captioned “The Coming of the Yankees,” tells what the slaves thought when they first beheld the invaders, what they thought of the war and how they acted when they were freed. Tn subsequent chapters, Dr, Wiley tells of the conduct of the slaves on the plantation during the war. experiences of the “body servants” who went to war withj Northern army. The author began work on the ] volume fcix (years ago while a graduate student at Yale, and was awarded two consecutive travel ing fellowship by Yale for its com pletion. In 1935 the manuscrip won the $1,00 Baruch prize for the best essay submitted in a two year competition on n Southern subject. 1847 North 24th St., was the scene of a gruesome murder Sat urday night at exactly 11:00 P. M. when Napoleon Merritt Jackson, former waiter and innocent by stander was instantly killed when caugh withim the line of f:re which was being enacted by Willie Brice. 2728 Parker Street and Bennie A. Bates of 2407 N. 2‘)th Street. Accoring to Brice, one of the principals in the shooting, he was dealing poker for the house in a game which included Bates as a player. Brice s»id Bates lost {2,50 nd then complained that the game wasn’t honest. Rather than argue he said, he refunded Bates money only to have Bates return to the game and again lose. When Bates arose from the ta ble the second time, Brice said, he whipped out an automatic and started shooting in the direction of Brice and Beasley who is re ported to have been in the acu men*:. Brice then retaliated with a .45 automatic which he had obtain ed upon going to the safe to get Bates refund. Most of the occupants of the place dived under pool tables when the shooting started, but Jackson who was 65 years old apparently became bewildered, tried to make his exit. He was killed within a half step of the door. When police arrived they found the establishment virtually vacant but rounded up the duelist short ly afer midnight. Brice is alleged to have surrendered to Duputy Sherriff Ward while Bates was apprehended in the rear of 2927 Parker street. Having been ar raigned Brice was charged with second degree murder, intent to wound and intent to murder. Bates was charged with intent to mur der. Both are held without bail. •-0 Prominent Couple Celbrate Their First * VVeddincr Anniversary On Mondav, Mav 9, Mr. and Mrs R. 0. Price entertained their bridal party and a few friends at an elaborate dinner party in their home.. The table was esquisite with a complete service of crystal and King Edward, the E'ghth light silverware. Knap dragons, tulips, roses and carnations were used throughout the house f^r decoration. This very fine ’"le received many beautiful H'ts.