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Entered as Second Class Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Nebraska- THE OMAHA GUIDE OMAHA, N'EBRASKA SATURDAY, JUNE, 18, 1938 Number
Over One Thousand Young Men and
Women Enrolled On NYA - - Bethune
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Stop Lorain Numbers
Racket
OTHER GAMES BEING LE
GALIZED
Lorain, O., June 16 (by Johnny
Willis for ANP)—Almost in the
same breath tha.t .the Ohio Leg
islature approved a bill to license
race horse bookmakers and to le
galize n,nd license bookmaking in
tho state, Chief of PoMce Theo
dore Walker ordered arrests of
several so-called “key figures” in
the numbers racket here on the
i proxy that the game ‘ pieys” upon
relief recipients in the c'ty,
Tho r .’Tests appear to be part
of a series being made among col- j
ored pool rooms and parlors here
since only a few days t’.tro a raid
was made in another uoo’ -oom in
.the city, and several youths were
taker, down for “petty” gambling.
Ir. the raid only a very few r n
tuea were found, since gambling
opiiates on a very much larger
scale among the whites than a
»nong the colored.
For the past decade, Lorain has
been known for more than her free
and qultable sh?xe of gambling
devices in the state, most of it
taking plate under the regime of
the present chief of police. Though
the whites still have their “punch
hoards., slot machines, and base
hall slips, the local chief takes
time out to war upon the small
est unit of them all—numbers—
perhaps because it's played al
most exclusively among the color
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Workers' Alliance
Opens 3 Day Meet
Wnsfoirgon, June lfi (ANP) —
The executive board of the Work
ers..’ Alliance opened a three day
meeting at the Lee house, 15th
is.nd “L’’ atrets, N. W. The chief
bhemes of the meeting will be'
the future relationship of the
Workers' Alliance to the organiz
ed labor movement and “plarm for
active participation., {n the prim
ary electons aid general Novem
ber election.
The board membersh!p compris
es 23, and the board includes in
its program for consideration a
largo scale drive to organize all
WPA projects: arc incres.se in
WPA wage scales, and improve
ments of conditions on direct re
lief and a drive against the $1000
ceiling order of WPA which lim
its the man-year cost on all white
collar projects. v
Dining Car Union
Fight Wage Cuts
L<>s Angeles, June 16 (ANP)—
Declaring that they already are
receiving too little for their work
Dining Car cooks and waiters un
ion, Local 582, issued an ultimat
um to four railway companies
last week relative to a. proposed
wage cut. The companies in ques
tion with which the union had
contractural relations had given
notice that begilning July 1, they
would reduce all rates of com
pensia.tiin 15 percent.
Local 582 is prepared to resist
any raid on the pay checks of its
members by exerting every rem
edy at its command, and by exer
cising its economic force in the use
if various Federal agencies, “the
official statement’’ read.
Washington, D. C.—One of the
most significant accomplishments
of the National Youth Administra
tion in 1937 was the establishm nt
of resident training projects for
Southern communties, Mrs. Mary
McLeod Bethume, Director of the
Division of Niegro Affairs, told
co-members of the NYA Advisory
Committee at a meeting held here
last Wednesday.
Mrs. Bethume later accompanied
other members of the committee
to the White House. The group
was entertained at tea by Mrs.
Roosevelt, and then spent over an
hour with the President in v. dis
cussion of the future of the NYA.
In her report Mts. Bethume said
that over 1,100 young colored men
and women are r.iow enrolled in
the twenty-five resident centers,
located on or rear the compuses
of Negro educational institutions
■n thirteen states. These students,
drawn from nearby rur".! commu
nities, are taught farming techni
ques and home management, earn
ing their “tuition” by part-time
work on NYA projects.
Types of training provided nil
students include soil conersva
tion. care of plants and shrubbery,
repair of farm tools and equip
ment, dairying, noultry raising
an'* persorr\l hysrience. Girls are
■••iven special courses in the care
of home, cunning, sewing, laundry
work and the preparation and ser
(Continued on page 2)
BUYS APEX BAR
MISS THELMA JACKSON
Miss Thelma Jackson, niece of
the late C. N. Huey, business wo
man, from Kansas City, Mo., who
came to Omaha to look after her
uncle’s business at 24th and Grant
Street, place of business has
bought out the Apex Bar, at 1818
N. 24th St., from Mr. Lee Wash
ington. Mi^s Jackson, has
thoroughly redecorated this place
of business and has replaced old
fixures with new.
Miss Jackson, stated to am Oma
h". Guide reporter that she will
have one of the swellest places
on North 24,th St. some day, by
the degree, she is cutting out all
rude and uncouth roughness that
heretofore, was displayed at this
place. Miss Jackson stated, that
she wanted to keep order and corn
duct in her place, in such a wa\
that any respectable family, wti
Let’s Have The Fireworks - - Where*
Creighton Stadium—When? The One Bij
Day Of The Year—July 4th—P. M.
Omaha’s feature attraction for
the Fourth of July will be the e
laborate fireworks exposition and
entertainment, in Creighton Uni
versity Stadium, sponsored by O
mahii Post No 1, American Le
gion.
Encouraged by the success of
its first Independence Day fire
works display last year, the Legion
post has planned this year’s en
tertainment on a much larger
scale—all in keeping with Oma
ha’s desire for a. gay, yet safe and
sane holiday.
More than 50 varieties of set
pieces, in addition to scores of
bursting bombs and aerial dis
plays will be fired to thrill the
thousands expected to attend the
celebration. Omaha Post’s band
and drum corps and a swarm of
hilariously funny clowns will add
ga.iety to the day’s program.
Cimax of the fireworks exposi
ton will be the final number, an
elaborate battle scene in hazing
colors, bursting bombs and the
crackle of machine guns and rifl
es.
tr
The entire fireworks display
and entertainment represent a cost
of nearly $2,000, but is offered tr
the public at a low admission
charge, to make it available tr
everyone. General admission will
be 40 cents for adults and 25
cents for children, with more
than 5,000 general admission
seats available in the stadium.
Reserved seats will cost only 25
cents addiVioijial. Boxes, ehch
seating eight persons, are being
I reserved at $10 per box.
“By keeping the admission
[ charge* low, we are making it pos
sible for entire families to attend
this fine Fourth of July celebra
tion at less cost than the average
; family formerly spent for fire
i crackers,” Robert A. Drum, Om
; aha Post Commander explained
| “Wo do hope for P, profit, how
ever, as all proce-is will be used
for the Post’s welfare and rehab
i Ration work among needy World
War veterans and their families
j throughout the ven.r. This is 0
maha Post’s only money-raising
I activity of the year for this pur
I pose.”
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ROBBIE MAE EDMONDSON
Robbie graduated with b'gh h n
ors and was given prominence in
all the social organizations. She
was also President of her class.
Sha is planning to attend Omaha
University for one year and !hi#n
she will go to St. Louis, Mo.,
where she will study nurse train
ing at the Homer G. Phillips hos
pital.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Edmondson
and their son and daughter, mot
ored to Topeka, Kansas, Saturday
morning to witness the gradu
ation exercises of their oldest
daughter Robbie Mae Edmondson
at the Kansas Vocational School,
” — "ka, Kansas.
wishes to paxtake of lunuches and
the kind of beverages she served
could feel safe in stopping ini for
a few moments of amusements
without being embarrassed by the
rough and ready rudeness. Miss
Jackson invites all of her Kansas
City, Mo., friends anddbe friends
of the uncle, the late XJ, N, Huey,
and other respectable Omahans, to
pay her a visit and see the dif
ference in the conduct of MV
guests in this place since she htt
take possession.
Chicago Boy Elected
Co—Capt. Academy
Track Team
Andover, Mass., June 16 (ANP)
—A Chicago colored boy, Alexal
der Louis Jackson, III, class of
1939 at Phililps academy was elect
ed co-cap,tain of the Andover
track game. Jackson won the jave-i
lin against Exeter, Andover an- j
cien»t rival, with a toss of 176 feet
1 inch, and took third place in the
broad jump. He is also a good high
jumper. He did not compete in the
! high jump against Exeter, in whic
he was expected to take second
place, but was “scratched” in or-1
der that ano/ther Andover man j
might win his “A” in that event.
Jackson played end on the An
dover football team last fall, and
was awarded his football “A”. His
Father, A, L. Jackson, IT, former;
president and trustee of Provident,
hospital, graduated at Andover In
the class of 1910, and was inter- |
collegiate champion hurduer at
Harward a.nd class orator of the j
class of 1914 at Harvard. William
E. Jackson, a younger brother, is
grp.duat.ing this week at Williston
Academy Junior school, Easthamp- ,
ton, Mass., with first honors and j
will enter Andover in September j
to join his brother. William is a
hockey and baseball player.
A third brother, Winslow Loring
Jackson, will follow his brother
“Bill’ at Williston this September
to prepare for Andover. A. L.
Jackson, III, will enter Harvard,
his father’s college, when he grad
uates from Andover in June, 1939.
Hampton Has Visitor
Hampton Institute, Va., June 16
H>38—Victor Rastien, supervisor
of rural education in Haiti, who
has been a student at Teachers
College, Columbia University, I
throughout the present school vear,
is visiting Hampton Institute, I
through the cooperation of the
Phelp-Stokes Fund of New York,
with n view to observing the In
stitute's educational a'•'Cities
relation to rural people and com-'
munity life.
Mr. Rastien is visiting schools
in the South according to arrange
ments that have been made
through Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones,
educational director of the Phelps
Stokes Fund and also Professor
Mabel Carney of Teachers College.
MISS FRANCES LOUISE
THOMAS, is an Honor Graduate
at Technical High School.
At Commencement Exercises
for the June Graduat:ng Class of
Technical High School ast Friday
June 3, Miss Frances Louise
Thomas, popular young grand
daughter of Mrs. J. N. Thomas,
received her reward for outstand
ing scholastic work during her
high school years in the form of a
gold medal presented to her by
the Principal of the school, Mr.
Dwight E. Porter. Of the 31
Honor Graduates, Miss Thomas
was the only Nei»ro to receive
such an award, and is the fourth
ever to receive it in the history of
Technical High school.
Miss Thomas, who came to O
maha from Denver, Colorado, has
attended Technical High for the
past four yours, maintaining a
high scholastic and citizenship
record ajl during her high school
career. T?he been on the
school Honor Roll four times, and
has participated in many extra
curricular activities.
Miss Thomas is the grand
daughter of Mr. J. N. (Noah)
Thomas,, a retired detective s»,r
geant, who has served the city of
Omaha for 35 years.
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Many Leaders Attend
Interracial Luncheon
New York, June 16 (ANP) —
Mora than 11,000 persons, includ
ing many of the city’s Negro
leaders, attended the interracial
luncheon at the Hotel Commodore
Saturday of the American Society
Race Tolerance and heard speak
ers plead for the preservation of
the rights of all racial and religi
ous minority groups in the nation.
Among the speakers of a.l] races
and nationalities was Walter White
NAACP executive secretary, who
warned listeners that bigortry and
intolerance invariably start against
“the most defenseless groups in
a country and then spread until
the stage is set up to deny demo
cratic and civil rights even to the
majority of people in a coun.try.’’
“I make no special plea, for my
Negro people," he said, “but if
Jews, Catholics, Protestants, labor
unions and all civil liberty loving
people now worried about their
own lot had concerned themselves
with the lynching tuid proscription
of the rights of Negro Americans
a few years ago. Fascism and ra
cial intolerance would not be so
great a menace in the United
States as it is today.
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Howard ROTC Unit
Has Final Inspection
Washington, June 16, IANP)—
Company A, Captain Frederick E.
Davidson commanding, was the
winner in the company competitive
drill and inspection of the Howard
university ROTC unit held at the
university stadium. Col. Robert
Weatherhill. ROTC was inspector.
A medal for military efficiency
ws.s awarded Major Halley B. Tay
lor. The platoon drill was won by
Lieut. James T. Toliver, and the
souad drill by Serjrt. Joseph F.
Martin, individual honors being
riven to Robert H. Ewell. The
first basic award wus received by
Robert A. Hicks.
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Found with Narcotics
Memphis, Tenn., June 16 CANP1
—Annie Nolan was arrested with
24 narco!in tablets at Rinlev, Tern,
nnd is beinr held in Shelby county
jail here by the U. S, deputy
marshall in default of $5,000 bond.
$66,612,548 For Slum
Clearance and Low
Rent Houses
Washington, D. C.—'Resolutions
aimed at preventing stoppage of
work because of labor disputes or
reduction in wages during con
struction of slum clearance and
low rent housing projects built
with loans from the United States
housing Authority have been a
dopted by 23 local Building
Trades Councils of the American
federation of labor, according
to reports received today by Na
than Straus, Administrator of the
United States Housing Authority.
In 10 of the 23 cities, local
Housing. Authorities Have nego
tiated loan contracts with the
USHA with which to construct
slum-clearance and low rent hous
ing projufa at a total cost of ap
proximately $66,612,548. Local
Housing Authorities in many of
the other 13 cities have requests
for USHA loans now under con
sideration.
Walter V. Price, Director of
labor Relation* of the USHA, as
serted that the actions of the lo
cal labor groups are the first in
the history of low rent housing
construction in this country in
which it has been agreed in ad
vance that men employed on the
projects would not resort to
(continued on page 2)
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Miss Burroughs Is
Com mencement
Speaker
Bordentown, N. J. June 16 (A.
N. P.)—Miss Nannie H. Burroughs
principal National Training School
for Girls, Washington, D. C. de
livered the commencement address
on June 16 at. the graduation ex
ercises of Bordentown Manual
Training School. An/ exl);’ ' in
the gymnasium was anv, r fea
ture ef fhr> dry. The baccalaureate1
sermon was delivered on June 12
by the .Rev. Charles C. Weathers
of Newark.
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Rumor Hinton May
Refuse Spingarn
Award
Boston, JJsas., June 16 (ANP)
—Although it has not been de
finitely corroborated the rumor
persists that Dr. William A. Hin
ton may not accept the Spingarn
award, bostowed in recognition of
his many contributions to medical
science, espeically Ire the treatment
of syphilis. NAACP officials re
fuse to discuss the matter and
reason for the rumor refusal has
not been made public.
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Louise Beavers Ap
pears In Memphis
Memphis, Tenn., June 16 (By
Dickerson for ANP) Louise Beavers
made her initial southern appear
ance in Memphis in person this
week with performances 4 times
daily. Her last picture, “Imitation
of life” was shown at the same
time,
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[ SET TIME FOR DEDICATION
AND <>iPEMlNG OF DUNBAR
HIRH PLACE
Dayton, 0„ June 16 (ANP)—
Dedicat f/n/ ami oj.enti |; to th
public of the Paul Lawrence Dun
bar home as a sta.te memorial
shrine has been set for Monday,
June 27, the 66th birthday anni
versary of the great poet, with
Dr. George E. ftaynes of the Fed
eral Council of Churches as^prin
cipal speaker.
The program will include brief
talks by Dunbar’s brother, Charles
Murphy of Cfifcaig'o; ibis neice,
Mrs. Helen Gillim of Akron, and
Mrs. Adah Didds Poiree, who has
been p. leader in the movement
to give proper recognition to the
poet.
Dunber, whose death from tu
berculosis in 1906 at the age of
34 cut short a. brilliant career, is
recognized as .Ohio’s greatest
poet in a recent analysis of noted
Ohioans published by Harry R.
Slovens., white, of Cincinnlati.
Follow Hi g dedication exercises
on the lawn, the old brick resi
dence where Dunber lived and
dic'd will be opened to the public
view for the first time since the
Ohio State museum assumed re
sponsibility for its 'restoration
through a $5,100 giant by the
state legislature.
The Dayton Memorial committee
headed bv YMCA Secretary J. A
Greene, has named an advisor?
cimmittee including c Ezra M
Kuhns. George B. Smith, Charle;
•T. Moore, Dr. L. H. Cox, Charlc;
D. Higgins, Mrs. E, .J. Brown anr
Earl I’ollin.s, w^io were plosel?
associated with Dunbar’s career
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Proof of The Pudding
“Is In The Eating”
MRS. MARY THOMAS
One who Knows
Mrs. Mary Thomas, 2fil8 Charles
Street, has the following to say
about tho Omahu Guide Classified
Telephone Directory Column; "I
have been a constant advertiser in
the Omaha Guide Classified For
Rent Column, for more than 5
years. I must say, “The Classified
Ads that 1 have run in two lines
have all through* me wonderful
results.” My two line ads usual
ly brings me, the first day_ the
paper comes off the press, from
eight to thirty-five telephone
culls, and as a rule are a “High
Type Class” of people.” “Seeming
from the conversation, they are
people who you would enjoy hav
ing them share the comforts of
vour home. Mrs. Thomas, says,
“That she js too glad to recom
mend tho Classified Column to
enyone w'ho has rooms or apart
ments for ren,t. She will assure
them a 100 per cent expected re
sult. If in doubt, of this testimony
of Mrs. Thomas, call We. 2742,
and she will in person, more fully
tell you her experience with the
Classified For Renjt Column in
the Omaha Guide.
Nor for your further information
we have ulso a SWOPPER’S
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NEED?. Why not trade it in
through The Omaha Guide Swop
per’s Classified Coulnm, for what
someone else has, that they do
not need, and what you need. Just
call Tlie Omuha Guide office, WE.
1517, and ask for The Classified
Advertisement Department. _
Joseph Knignt who killed hia
wife on Monday, June 6, at 7:38
a. m. made a statement to C. C.
Galloway on the dav before hang
ing himself. Mr. Iuugh,t stinted
that he felt everything was going
r.lright. But he had some inner
feelimr that was quite depressing.
He said that no one realized what
had happened between he and hia
wife, but he did. he felt for a long
time that they wa.s going to be
disgraced by some kind of d sast
er. He said that he had tried to
leave home on several occasions
and room some place. While away
from home, he maintained the fin
ance of the home expense and
tried to stav away at that time.
Mr. Knight stated that, he in
arriving home Monday morning,
became dissatisfied with certain
conditions in the home. As h«
dd’nt like confusion in the home,
he said to his wife that he was
packing his things and was leavv
ino at once, for good. His wife
informed him that he wasn’t go
ing any place, and not. to start.
If so, she would stop him. When
he had finished packing his wear
ing apparel, she opened a drawer
and took out a knife and started
n.fter him in a rage of anger.
Knowing her temper, he opened
a drawer and took out a gun and
thought that he would flash it and
stop her. But the last thing he
remembers before the shooting,
she appeared so arugry, paying no
attention to the pun, and ran to
wards him with the knife. Mr.
Knight, stated that eery,thing
went blank before him, after he
discovered what hn/1 happened he
:“d to kill himsdlf, but the gun
cmed empty. He found a gun
that had not been u=ed for n long
time and tried to kill himse.f w.th
this gun, but was unable to get
it to work
He thought that things would
WarIfl out a Height ‘uniyVluy., He
said tha he was so yorried over
what had happened in former af
fairs, but he hated the thoughts
of meeting his friends if he wa.s
acquitted at the trial. He said
it wa.s a terrible thing to happen
aral no one hated it as he did, but
he had felt for 5 ,vee.rs that some
kind of trouble would be the re
sults of a missmated union.
Mr. Knight stated that he had
empliyed Atty. John Adams, Jr.,
for his counsellor and he thought
ho would be able to defend him.
Ho said he was grdS.tly concerned
about the lyoy’s future, and he
had always had great affections
for him, which was contrary to
the wishes of thj wife.
On Friday morping, June 10th,
the body of My. hrfght was found
tied with pieces of Wtanket, dead.
Evidence showed that he had com
mitted suicide.
The funeral of Mrs. Knight was
held Monday at the Bethel A ME.
i Church of which she was a mem
ber. She was a member of the
Eastern Star being Grand Worthy
Matron of the State of Nebraska.
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Dr. Thompkins and Clerks May Lose
.Jobs If Bill Becomes A Law'
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Fight Move To Abolish Recorder
of Deeds Office
Washington, June 16, (ANP) —
.Declaring that the District of
Columbia Commissioners have,
through Senate Bill 3261, intro
duced a measure aimed to virtual
ly abolish the offioe cf recorder
of deeds, the Norv-Partisan Lob
by for Economic and Democratic
Rights through W. P. Robinson,
its representative, announced a
fight had been launched against
this threatened move.
The bill is “disguised” as one
to reduce rates for the recording
of chattels, Mr. Robinson said, al
] though such is ndt its real pur
I pose. "s
“Thoro has been for the past
I six or seven years a consistent, re
lentless and systematic program
j to reduce the number of Negroes
■ emiXoyed in clerical and other
i such jobs above those of janitor,
elevator boy or messsenger,” the
I lobby spokesman sfud. “The drive
' now is to remove from the recor
■ der of deeds office over 70 percent
.■ of .the work done there without
stating that the bill is designed
to do away with that office.”
Mr. Robinson suggested that all
interested in defeating this move
write to members of the senate
committee asking that the office
of recorder of deeds be retained.
Northern senators on the com
mittee include W. H. King of
Utah, Royal S, Copeland of New
York, J. Hamilton Is?wis of Illiro
ois, James H. Hughes of Dela
ware and H. E. Hitchcock of So.
Dakota. ,
Sentenced to 150 Days
Washington, June 16. (ANP)-t
James Broom was sentenced by
Police Court Judge Edward M.
Curran to serve 60 days on one
charge of leaving after colliding:
30 days on a second charge: and
30 days each for reckless driving
and operating without P. permit.
Another charge, that of joyriding
is pending. After leading his fol
lowers a wild chase, he abandon
ed the car and ran before being
caught.