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Entered as Second Class Manor at Po*U>ffic«, Omaha, Nebraska- THE OMAHA GUIDE OMAHA, NEBRASKA SATURDAY. JUNE, 11, 1938 _NoJ
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Omaha Has Twice As
Many Phones As
London or Berlin
Omaha continues to hold eighth
place among the larger cities in
the world in the number of tele
phone, with 26.58 telepones per,
100 population or one telephone
for every four persons, accoring
to figures mow available as to tele
phone usage in every country in
the world at the beginning of 1937
For every 100 people, Omaha
has opproximately twice as many
telephones as do either London or
Berlin, three times as many as
Paris or Amsterdam, slightly less
than fivg times as many as Glos
gow, Scotland; six times as many
as Tokio and 14 times as many os
Hong Kong. While the world
telephone statistics as of January
1, 1937, show Omaha as hoving
64,553 telephones, its telephones
at present total about 66,000.
A report just released by the
chief satistician of the American
Telephone and Telegroph Comp
any, shows a total of 37,098,084
telephones in the world as of
January 1, 1937. This number is
6 percent greater than the prev
ious peak reached in the beginn
ing of 1931.
The United Stotes, with only 6
percent of the world's aggregate
population of slightly over 'two
billions, had one-half of the
word’s telephones, or slightly over
two billions, had one half of the
world’s telephones, or 18,433,400
on January 1, 1937. (At the pres
ent time there are more than 19,
500,000 telephones in the United
Stories.) Europe, witih over 575
million people, had 13,513,152 tele
phones on January L, 1937 or 36.
43 percent of the world total,
Next to the United States, Germ
any had th elargest number of
telephones, 3,431,074, followed by
Great Britain with 2,791,597 tele
phones, France with 1,481,788,
Conada with 1,266,228 and Japan
with 1,197,129. These five count
ries, together with the United
States, account for 77 percent of
all telephones in the world.
Sixty one percent ot ail tne
word’s telephones are owned by
private companies, operating
chiefly in countries having the
largest number of telephones in
relation to population. For ex
ample, the United States outranks
all other countries with 14.39 tele
phones to each 100 of its popula
tion. Next in rank to the United
States comes Canada, with 11.48
telephones per 100 population and
15 percent of its telephones under
government operation. Among
countries where the telephone ser
vice is operated as a government
monopoly are Great Britain, Ger
many and France, where the tele
phone density is 5.93, 5.08 and
3.51 telephones per 100 population
respectively.
The world’s leading cities in,
point of telephone development
are Washington, D C., and San
Francisco, where there was more
than one telephone for every three
people. Then there were Stock
holm, Sweden; Denver; Vancouv
er, B. C.; Los Angeles, Seattle and
Omaha.
Telephone Calls
Nearly twenty-seven billion lo
cal and long distancec telephone
calls were completed in the Unit
ed States during 1936. This fig
ure is equivalent to nearly 850
conversations each second during
the day and night; it also is equiv
alent to 210 calls for every mam
woman child in this eocuntry. Else
where in the world, the annual
rate average per capita is estim
ated at 12.5, or less than 6 per
cent of the frequency with which
the telephone is used by the Am
erican people.
School Founder
Visits Omahans
Professor Floyd Brown, found
er and President of 'Fargo Agri
cultural School at Fargo, Ark
ansas visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Hamler, 961 North
25th St Professor Brown has
met with much success since the
founding of the school at Fargo
seventeen years ago. He lt.ft for
Juncoln, Nebraska. Saturday June
4th.
WILL ENTERTAIN
HON. M. C. CLARKE
Former Insurance Examiner of
the State of Ohio, by appointment
of Governor Martin L. Davey,
who is president of the Dunbar
Mutual Insurance Society, 2319
East 55th street, Cleveland, which
is co-host of the National Negro
Insurance Association’s 18th an
nual meeting there on June 15
17. The Dunbar, largcfct Negro
corporate enterprise in Ohio, had
income of more than $40,000 last
year. Mr. Clarke is a native of
Lewiston, N. C., and wa.s educat
ed at Kittrell college and the Un
iversity of Cincinnati. (Cal. Serv)
Girl Wanted Some
thing To«Eat; Put In
Jail
GIRL INDICTED FOR ‘
sending president
A THREATING NOTE
Topeka, Kan., June 9—.In jail
here since last December om a
charge of sending a threating let
ter to President Roosevlt, the
plight of Miss Lucille Harris, 18
years old, ha.s attracted wide at
tention among Kansans of both
races.
Lest Friday the Federal grand
jury returned an indictment
against the girl charging her with
sending through the mails a threat
to kill the president. She is being
represented by Atty. Elisha Scott.
Interested in her case has been
aroused because of her winning
personality and intelligence, and
her solicitude for her mother, an
invalid living in Virginia. Her
father is dead; she is a member
of the Roman Catholic church.
Miss Harris found herself
stranded here last winter without
a job when the army officer she
had been working was transferred
to another city. Her futile quest
for a job and the circumstances
which prompted her to write the
damaging letter.
She explained “After being with
out a job for over a week applying
to welfoTe authorities, begging for
work and being turned down go
ing without food for five days,
knowing of no one else to ask for
aid, I thought surely I could write
the President of the United States
telling him <.f my situation as
best I could. I wrote him and I re
ceived no answer, I grew franctic
and wrote again what they call
v. “threating” letter. I don’t re
merrtber just what I wrote, but I
dinn’t know I had written any
thing wrong until I was arrested
at Junction City, Dec. 22, 1937 ami
brought to Topeka on Christmas
day.”
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Mrs. Hattie Brownlow Knight, j
58, was shot to death by her hu*- j
band, Joseph Knight, 58 at their !
homo 2810 Ohio St., at 7:3'i A. M.
Monday morning. According to
Mr. Knight, the shooting was the
result of five years of family
trouble. Knight stated that he
had returned from work where he
was employed as o night watch
man and janitor; and that he and
his wife had », quarrel in which
he decided to move from the
home. He said, that he started to
pack his clothes anti in his bed
rocm and saw his wife coining at
him with a knife; and he grabbed
his gun and shot her in the door
way of the kitchen. Mrs. Kn;ght
then ran to the yard where some
more shots were fired, five bul
lets entered Mrs. Knights body.
Knight waived preliminary hear
ing and was br.und over to district
court for trial. The charge is 1st
degree murder. He is being held
without bail.
Mrs. Knight was a very active
worker at Bethel AME. Church,
the Eastern Star of which she wr/s
Grand Matron, and leaves to
mourn her passing, one son Don
ald Brownlow and a host of
friends. The body is at the Mey
ers Funerel Home. As we go to
press final arrangements for the
fcuriul have n~it beta mat0
Teachers Get Grant
For Library Study
Hampton Institute, Va., June 9
(ANP)—The American Library
Association of Chicago, through
the financial assistance of the
General Education Board of New
York, is assisting Negro teachers -
in-serviee in the field of teachcr
librarianship to attend the Hamp
ton Institute Summer School which
will open on June 13..
Last summer 43 Negro teachers
followed a. carefully made plan in
library science. For the 1938
Summer school, plans have been
made to take care of 33 teachers
who will complete the work which
was begun in 1937.
It was also announced that the
American Library Association is
ready to start a new group of
teacher-librarians in their course
covering two summers of work in '
three fields: Adolescent Literature,
High-School Reference Materials,
and th Management of School Li
braries.
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Home For Colored
Women, Girls, Open
The Phylis Wheatley Club ctf
South Omaha will open the Home I
for colored girls and women at ■
5625 South 24th St., Sunday June
12th, 1938.
This Home is for colored women
who make small wages and for
girls who have no homes. Our ob
ject is to moke this Home self
supporting and give employment
to as many girls and women as
possible.
Our friends are asked to help
us with donations of money andi
household furnishings. We Irish'
to thank thfcse whtf have helped
us.
Any woman in need of a friend
ma,y call on this institution for as
sistance,.
Mr- C. M. Farmer, Mrs. Anna
Austin, Mrs. Lydio Austin, are th*
committee who have succeeded
thus far in getting the institution
going. Vesper services at 4:00 0
clock, Tea from 5:00 to 8:00 Sun>-:
day evening.
Judge Cobb To Ficrht
For Job at Howard
Washington, June 9 (ANP)_‘
Calm on Howard University’s sea
does not appear to last very long,
for scarcely has one wave receded
before another billow rolls. This
time James A. Cobb, Esq., one of
the city’s most prominent lawyers
has instituted proceedings in which
he asks that the District Court is
sue an injunction to restrain Ho^
ward university from removing
him as a professor of law. The
board of trustees has ordered his
removal as of date June 30. Atty
Cobb has taught at the university
since 1919. He blames differences
between himself and the president
of the university as a basis for his i
removal.
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King P orealis-Queen Aurora VIII
, The king and queen .. . receive their subjects following the coronation ceremonies.
r King Be calls VJJI (Charles W. Dickerson) and Queen Aurora
m (MJ?S Algerppq Pryor) fft new rulers.
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Relief Bill Includes Two-MM
Dollars F or household Workers
Washington, June 9—The first
federal legislation specifically in
(cliuling benefits for household
Workers was recommended for
passing to congress last week by
the powerful Senate Appropria
tions committee in charge of the
president’s four billion dollar re
lief bill.
The language of Joint Resolu
tion 679 continuing work relief
for 1938 to March, 1939, specifi- |
cally appropriated 285 million dol
lars for white collar projects end 1
enumerated them as “educational, \
professional, clerical, culture, re
creational, production, service, and
miscellaneous nom-construction
products.’’ This favorable action
of congress came as a result of the ;
presentation before the House and
Senate Appropriations committee1
of the1 recent survey of the U. S.
Employment Service, by Edgar G.
Brown, president, of the United
Government Employees Inc., point
ing out there were four hundred
thousands available jobs through
out the country for trained house
hold workers.
Congressmen and senators
agreed with the plan and recom
mendation of Mr. Brown to expend
2 million dollars to furnish house
hold workers * raining centers un
der WPA in 150 eiiios and to hire
somq 600 colored graduates in
home economics a5 teachers of
these projects. Members of con
gress were impressed with the ex
perimented household training cen
ter sponsored by the United Gov
ernment Employees organization
under the leadership of Mrs. Eliza
beth If. McDuffie, for the past
three month, just two blocks from
the seriate, and house office build
ings on Capital Hill in Washing
ton.
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Jury Says Farley Sane
When He Slew
Deputies
WHITE REVENGE SLAYER
IS HELD WITHOUT BOND
Los Angeles, June 9 (ANP)—
Shattering the hopes of many citi
zens who had hoped to see George
Farley go free, the jury in Super
ior Judge Tn'-dl W. Bull’s court
returned n v edict last Friday that
he was sane when ho shot to
death two white deputy city mar
shals last Feburarv.
Farley hal already been convict
ed last week on two counts of man
slaughter after the all-white jury
had been deadlocked for more than
21 hours. A pandemonium of
cheering and rejoicing had broken
out in the court corridors by the
MISS ALGERNON PRYOR,
QUEEN AURORA VIII. Miss
Pryor is tho daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. P. Pryor. She is a grad
ucte of North High School and
very prominent in St. Phillips
Church aetivites. She s also very
popular in the younger social set.
MR. CHARLES IDXCKERSON,
Sr., KING BOREALIS VIlL Mr.
Dickerson is a veteran employee
of the OnAha National Bank. He
has fOT ycWs been 'active in the
Episcopal Church. He has also
been very (active in the' Masonic
Lodge of Nebraska, having served
as Grand Master of the State
Lodge.
Coronation of * King
and Quee'ri, Monday
]%ht, June 6th
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Mr- Charles Dickerson sr. King
Borealis VIII and Miss Alernon
Pryor Queen Aurora VIII were
crowned at the 8th araiual Coro
nation Pageant sponsored by St.
Phillip’s church. - . *
'I'he Pageant opened with: chor
als by flhc SurWay Music Club con
ducted by Mrs.' Alyce Wilson.
The trumpeters were. Lawrence
Parker, and Llyod Marshall; Mr.'
W. Gaitha Pegg was Grand Poten
tate; The crown-bearei i was Ken
neth Young; Pages, to the'King
were Lewis Watt<5s and Harold
McDonald. The Princesses were
Dovie Carter,* Elizabeth Davis
iU! Ilia Gordon, Margaret Dortch,
Way L. Harris, Loraine Irving;
Mary H. Wiggins, Pauline Wil
liams, Louise Wright, Betty Jean
James, Elaine Mease, Marian
Shaw, Elnora Smith, Marion
Stewart, Francis Thomas, Duch
esses were: Daisy Cole, Rachcel
Covington, Darlene Craig, Anna
Franklin, Mary Greene, Althea
Lightner, Hortense Harper, Pearl
Winston, Olive Willis, Mable Rich
ardson, Ora Mae Milan, R. Louise
Me wand.
Tho Countesses were: Korea
Clark St. Joseph, Mo., Geraldine
Cooper, Texarkana Ark., Marga
ret Griggs, Marysville, Mi Betty
Majors, Macon Mo. Celia Miehan
White, Lincoln, Nebr.
Flower girls were Barbara Sell,
Shirley Curry, Ruth Delespine
Elaine Embry, Beverly Aran Ma
dison, Valaria Joan MeCaw, Evelyn
Rogers, Joan Squires, Mary Inez
Hunter, Barbara Walker. The
crown bearer was little Rrtehetta
Lewis, ring |bearer was Margie
Payne, and J. Carey jr. was Page
with Kenneth Rogers.
The Committee was headed by
Mrs. Cecelia Jewell. It was a beau
tiful affair and very successful.
crowd that had packed the court
room for over a week. Mrs. Farley
the accused elderly wife who had
broken down in tears several times
during the trial had hysterically
wept, laughed and wept, embrac
ing Loren Miller, brilliant young
attorney head of defense, had kiss
’d him on the cheek again and
again.
All the local group and many
white had hopodl for an acquittal
on a verdict of “Not guilty by rea
son of insanity" which would have
automatically freed Harley from
the manslaughter conviction. Their
hopes were braced up the stronger
due to the fact tha ho was being
tried before the same judge and
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Defend Wage,
Hour Agree
ment
New York City, June 9 (ANP)
—Answesring a recent statement
by T. J. Reid, president of the
Pullman Porters and Maids Pre
tec live Association that 2,500 por
ters have recently lost their jobs
or been furloughed and holding the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por
ters responsible for the Pullman
employes predicament, A. Philip
'Randolph, international president
of the Ilrotherhood this week
branded the charges as pure “com
pany union propaganda*' and mis
representation. Declared President
Randolph.
"Concerning the charge that 2,
500 porters have lost their jobs or
been furloughed, in the first place,
this is not true. In the second
place, the several hundred porters
who have been furloughed would
have been furloughed if the Bro
therhood was not in existence. The
Pullman Company has been fur
loughing porters ever since there
has been i\ Pullmani company, at
the close of seasonal business, such
as the winter and summer resort
seasons. This is so simple and ob
vious to anyone in the railroad
business that to raise it as a cri
ticism of the Brotherhood is redi
culous.
They charge also that there are
<00 Filipinos in the service, that
white hostesses have supplanted
colored maids, implying that the
Brotherhood is responsible for it
How true is this? It is simply a
tissue of misrepresentations. Ac
cording to Mr. Kelly, vice presi
dent and attorney for the Pullman
Company In 1934, there were less
than 9P0 Filipinos in the service,
working on club ears. Js there any
sa.ne reason.to assume that the
number wojfld increase while^hns
iiuess got worse? Of course not.
But tho Brotherhood cannot pre
vent the company from employing
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Lynch Man In Court
* ' Hous^n ....
, Birminghum^tAla., June 9—H. E.
'Colburn, wfcitd^yho shot and killed
John Lewis Smith, a young Negro
the corridor ojj.the court house
hero May 11, jd?t as the colored*
^rLsorter had been sentenced to 99
years for camel knowledge of Col
burn’s 7 year old daughter, haS
been iff used bail ar.>f' will be. held
in jail pemfing' trial on the charges
of .first degree murder.
The Birmingham branch of the
NAACP registered protest with
the city authorities on the cqld
blooded shoeing of Smith and ask
ed thdt the law take its course
Colburn was searched when/ he
entered the court room on tfce
morning young Smith was tobe
sentenced. About ten minutes be
fore sentence was parsed. Cplburn
left the courtroom and when Smith
was being moved to an elevator
to take Kim to the jail on the
eight floor, Colburn suddenly pa
poared and fired six shots into
the convicted man'who died almost
instantly. . . ■ - > . *
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Bilbo Tirage Against
Negroes Falls Fla^
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Washington, DC., June 3—Th<|
four hour speech by Senator Tbeo»
doro G. Bilbo of iMssissippi
gainst Negroes, urging deport*
aton of 12,000,000 colored Peopl£
to Africa in order to solve the un«
emplyment problem, fell flattsr
than a pancake. J*
Xhe Bilbo tirade was so naus-’
eating and so silly, by turns, tha^
the Mississippi race hater did noli
have even a half dozen senators to?
listen to him. As soon as he gotjj
into his speech they left the floorj
Bilbo admitted after his tall#
that he really did not wish to make,
an amendment to the relief bill?
as he stated in order to get the
floor, but solely to make a speech
against Negroes. This admis
sion disgusted the senators and
even the veteran news correspon- ,
dnts so that Bilbo did not get one
tenth the publicity he expected,
even in the southern press. One
of the so-called wisecracks of the
speech was the quotation “God
created the whites. I know not
who created the blacks. Surely
a devil created the mongrels.”
Bilbo has served a term in jail
for contempt of court, once ad
mitted a charge of bribery, and
1 was once indicted for corruption.
; In spite of this he served three
I years in the Mississippi state Ieg
' islaturo f>"d was + vice elected gov
, ornor. «•«,? elected to the sene
1 a,te four years ago. j