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Entered as Second Class Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Nebraska- THE OMAHA GUIDE OMAHA, NEBRASKA SATURDAY. JUNE 25, 1933 _ ___ ^ Number Iti
Have You
Got Your
Social Security
Number?
Lincoln, Nebraska, June 23—
Many Nebraska wage earners who
are eligble for unemployment com
pensation benefits, when they be
come payable under the Nebras
ka law after January 1 ,1939 may
find difficulty in proving their
claims due to lack of a Social Se
curity B.cccunt number, it was
pointed out in a statement issued
by R. T. Malone, drector of the
Nebraska Unemployment Com
pensation Division. Cooperation
(,t' employers in reporting cor
rect records for each- employee
has been asked to assure prompt
payment of benefit claims.
Js 4‘In checking over workers’ re-,
ports filed with the division by
employers, of erght or m re wor
lu'iis, who are therefore subject
to thie law, we find that many eli
gible' Nebraska workers have fail
ed either to apply for their Social
Security account number or have
logt the number after it was is
sued,” said Malone. “Between,
5,000 and 7,000 errors have been
found in workers’ wage reports,
which must be corrected.
“Every covered worker wheth
er under or over 65 years of age
must have a Social Security ac
count number, so that an accur
ate check on his accumulated
wage redits can be kept. Work
ers who have not previously se
cured a Social Security number
should write immediately to the
imrest Social Security field of
f'oo for a new number. Nebras
ka offices of the Social Security
Board are located at Omaha, Lin
coln and North Platte.”
Wage reports and contributions
for the second quarter of 1938,
which ends June 30, may be filed
».nd paid after July 1, and must
h i submitted not later than July
31.
“Some Nebraska workers have
obtained more than one Social
Security number, secured while
working for d'fferent employers”
said Malone. “This is confusing
- and means thv.t such a person
When fling a claim for benfits
when \inemployed in 1939 with
the Unemployment Compv.'is»ti >n
Division may experience delay
through the duplication of num
bers or may not receive the full
weekly unemployment benefits to
which he would be entitled, due
to the fact that his wage records
from which benefit am unto are
computed would hr lifted under
several different accounts. With
two Social Security account num
bers for the same worker, records
of the Division would possibly
consider the worker as two sep
arate persons.”
When the original Social Sec
urity number is lost, the worker
should notify h:s empl yer and
immediately .secure a duplicate and
. not a new number from the near
est, Social Security Board field
office.
Women who continue to work
after marriage, should also apply
to the SocialSecurity Board offices
for a change of name om their
origin*.',I account number, so that
their wage records may be accur
ate.
Tho Nebraska Unemployment
Compensation Devision in a letter
to liable employers states: “The
imprvrtanee of Tycurate Social Se
curity account numbers may be
appreinted by the fact that appli
cation for benefits after January,
1939, by an ind/Vvidual with an
erreneous number would cause
considerable am$>y)ande ,to the
employer, iiv addition to jeopard
izing the worker’s c’aim. Much
future correspondence and incon
venience will be saved emnloyeds
in getting these numbers correct
ly at this t’nie. for all employees.
Employers will also be protecting,
their own accounts against the]
possibility of erroneous charges
which would adversely affect their i
future merit rating, hv menns of
which wage contributions in the
future may be materially reduced.
Correct spelling of (riven name
and family name is the first essen
tial requirement for workers’ wage
records and the Nebraska Unem
ployment Wivision requests em
ployers and workers to assure
that each worker be listed under
the same name md initials when
quarterly reports are filed.
Tho fact than hundreds of per
sons living in Nebraska, who w o k
for employers eo/oit 1 by the law,
have the sa.me family name, as for
example “Smith or ‘‘Jones", re
quires careful checking by both
name pad Social Security number
to assure accurate workers’ wage
records.
Every worker should safeguard
MAN DROWNS AT CARTER LAKE
Wias On Early Morn
ing Party Swim
Bossie Blunt 2723 N. 26th St.
drowned early Thursday morning
in Carter Lake.
Blunt was an expert swimmer.
He was serlzed by cramps and went
down before any of his compan
ions could reach him.
His body was recovered about
one hour after he was last seen.
lie is survived by a cousin, Mil
lard Haynes, send a mother in
Pensacola Florida. The body was
shipped to Pensacola June 22 for
burial.
Ira Ballard, had the following
statement to make about the trag
edy at Carter Lake, Thursday
morning at 6:30 a. m.
“We, went out to Carter • Lake
after an all night drinking party,
someone suggested going in sw'rn
ming, but I was, against it.
Upon going in, Jaitntia Yancy,
was drowi»in*y and yelling for help.
I dived, after her. Wynonia Harris
was also in the Water with Jau
nita and just as she went il wn
for the third time, Wyoiva and I
grabbed her. We swam to the
dredge. We looked aroung for
Bossie Blunt and con’d rot fi "1
him. We figured he yent'd'.wn .-rv4
searched for him. We. were unable
to find him. A boy f'shing on a
boat, told us, that he had seen
him go down, and had d:ved for
him and could not locate his boyd.
The Lifeguard at the beacch found
his body.” Others in the Partv
were: Bob Brodder, George Harris,
Juanita Yancy and Wyr.onia Har
ris. __
his interests by using the same
given name and initial, when
changing jobs, so that his new
employer will file his wage re
port in the same manner in wh'i‘
it; was netered originally ore the
records of the Nebraska Unem
ployment Compensation Division.
“Wiht more than 130,000 covered
workers empliyed by firms sub
ject to the Nebraska Unemploy
ment Compensation law listed in
our files, we must have the coop
eration of every worker a.nd of the
3,300 subject Nebraska employers,
in properly filing quarterly wage
report}* -f )f ^individual employees
covered by the law, so as to ass
ure efficiency and accuracy when
the time arrives for benefit pay
ments next January,” said Direct
or Malone. ‘‘The c bperation to
date of employers and workers
h;'s been most satisfactory, but
during the next six months the
geatest care must be taken in fil
ing quarterly reports, so that no
eligible worker will be delayed in
proving his elal'm to benefits in
1939.
“Lack of a Social Security ac
count number, giving a. wrong
number for a covered worker thr
ough clerical error, incorrect
spelling of the family name of the
wirker, or change in name in the
case of married women, are the
chief errors in workers’ wage re
ports which must be cleared up,
i’f prompt benefit payments are to
be accomplished.”
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Braddock Picked Joe
New York June 23 (C)—Out of
the confusion of choices in the
heavyweight championship battle
on June 22 were two choices.
James J. Braddock, from whom
Jce Louis won the title in Chicago,
picked Louis to win inside of seven
rounds. Jack Dempsey, also a
former champion, said “I picked
Schmeliivg.”
Negro Held In $80,000
Celotex Fire
New Orleans, June 21 (ANPl —
A $30,000 fir1, which burned up
80.000 bales of bagasse, destroyed
» crane and s;x railroad .ars and
tru■ ‘ g, on a ;r r li^c !>i S.e-i
dev, was cause.) on tile property
of tl •; Celotex company storage
•v> t baling plant io Reserve by •
young colored man’s attempt to
steal a small quantity of gasoline!
from a drum, officials said.
The ma.n, Earnest Kelson, 20,
was arrested here with his face and i
hands bandaged, he said, from an
explosion of his automobile radi
ator. He denied starting the fire.
Officers held him, however, as the I
person seen running from the |
scene, his clothes ablzo, shortly
after an explosion.
The oil drum had been punctured
evidently from a pick ncarbv.
Officers, believe a, spark ignited
the oil as the Negro sought to
steal it. Fire f:ghters prevented
tho flames, which burned for two
days, from spreading to the plant.
King Louis
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MR. and MRS. JOE LOUIS
Joe Lewis and his better half,
■ America’s 1st Family in the pug
j uistic world. Joe says, “Now he
might have a chance to enyoy a
few months with his loved ones,
for they will have to pull mit
something new now, mere ;ie t i
anymore old eh •.mpions worthy
i' •> eharre at the crown he wears
Urban League Branch
Ha« Successful Mem
bership Drive
Columbus, O., June 16 (ANP)—
When the Columbus Uuban league
exceeded its goal of 2,000 mem
bers on Tuesday 'noon, another
milestone for cooperation and
goodwill between the races was
reached, according to A. P. Bent
ley, jreneral chairman One hund
red and fifty white and colored
workers vied with each other in
order to five the Urban league,
through this enrollmer.it, the back
ing that an active membership of
2,()00 would reflect. The goal was
| exceeded by 79 members at noon.
Laters reports and renewals on
old memberships are expected to
carry the enrollment to 2,500.
Churches To Honor Reverend and Mrs.
John . S. Williams
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Sunday June 26th will mark the
9th year since the Rev. John S.
Williams resigned the first Past
orate in Gary, Indiana and came
to Omaha s pastor of the Hillside
Presbyterian- ^Chilrrh located at
30th and Ohio Streets. Churches
all over the city will join in re
minding Rev. and Mrs. Williams
that Omoha still appreciates such
leaders a.s they. At the 11 o’clock
services, Miss Rose Brown, for
mer winner of the Mid-west vocal
music contest will be the great
soloist.
Miss Brown, leaving Omaha in
1936, went to Oakland, Ca.lforruia
and studied, where she became a
singer of unusual ability and pro
j inunce.
in the s’.fternoorj nt 3:30 there
will be an anniversary choir fest
ival. The choirs taking part include
the Zion Baptist Imperial choir,
the Clair Chapel ME choir, the
Pilgrim Baptist choir, Salem Bap
tist choir, the St. John AME choir,
the Mt. Moriah (.Baptist choir and
the Bethel Baptist choir.
Each choir will sin.r two num
bers end concluding the program
aH will combine in singing “The
Ilalleujah Chorus” by Handel, ac
companied by the Civic Service
Orchestra,
The orchestra coming to us
through the courtesy of Mr. Billy
At Tuskegee BYPU. Meeting
Photo shows Executive Com
mittee of the National Sun
day School and Baptist Young
Peeples Union Congress, whose
organization is in sessoni at
Tuskegee Institute, Ala., June
' 21-26. From left to right are
Prof. E. W. I). Isaac. Associate
(Director Genera'; Dr. A. M.
Townsend, Director General;
Dr. F. D. Patterson, President
'■f Tuskegee Institute; Dr. Mar
sjjp." A. Talley, Dean and Edi
tor of the S. S. Literature; Dr.
W. II. Jernag'n, President of
the Congress; end Rev. Harry
D. Richardson. Chaplain of Tus
kegco. The Congress has thir
ty six instructors and classs
rooms for f;ftv units cf work
for the 2.000 delegates. A new
Four Year Program is being
adopted. (Calvin Service)
M St. Scene of
Much Celebrating
Myers Mid under the direction of
Mr. George Bryant, will play sev
erest numbersincluding i lie final
chorus. Mr. H. L. Preston general
chairman of tho music anniver
sary festival, will direct th> Beth
el Baptist choir and the "Halle
lujah Chorus."
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Double Wedding In
Louisville
Louievill, Ky., June 16 (ANP)
— An outstanding social event was
the double wedding here Saturday
Juris 4, in which Miss Anna How
ard Russel was married to Pro
fessor William H. Pipes, and her
sister, Miss Bessie Tucker Russell,
was married to Mr. Alfred C.
Stono.
Tho young womont aro daugh
ters of Professor H. C. Russell,
president of West Kentucky In
lustrial college, p.n<| Mrs. .Russell.
Mr. and Mrs. Pipes are bith 1937
graduates of Atlanta university.
Mrs. Stone is a 1937 graduate of
Hampton Library school, and Mr.
Stone, an insurance man, is 1936
graduate of Louisville Muncipal
college.
Gen. Smuts Demands
Fair Treatment of
African Natives
Cape Town, S. Africa, June 24
(ANP) —Last week, while addres
sing a crowded meeting at Wyn
berg Town Hall, Geneiv.l Jan
tnado an appeal for justice and
declaring they were a minority in
this coun;ry ami should not be
discriminated agamt .r treated
as if they were monkeys oi bab
oons.
The General told his big audi
ence of whites that he was askiiiir
them to di things that were by no
means easy. He said they were
solving the racial question 1k*
tween the English anil Afrikaners
hut they should not stop there,
j they should take in the other races
! as well. The General said:
“Wo hear people talking about
segregating colored people, driv
ing them apart and hording them
together as if they had not human
rights—as if they were baboons or
monkeys.
“Respect the other man’s rights
although he is not of the same
color as yourself. Do not to corral
him a.s if he were an animal If
you do that you wil] pay a heavy
price. Deal tenderly, circumspect
ly and delicately with this colored
situation. Do not create problems
which for us must be difficult,
but which for our children may
bo insoluble.”
\ nother ‘Ghost’ Nude
Man Roams Over Old
Meridan Road
Washington, June 24 (ANP1—
Resider|s mnTfunityr.gr ’Meridian
Hill Park, where stood the old
Waybi.nd Seminury, telephoned
noice that a colored man in the
nude was raomiry? through the
>ark. Wiien emmbers of the park
oolieo unit arrived, although a
ho.ough search wns made of the
»ark, no man could be found. How.
■vcr. the serger.nt in carge says
he found one pair of panto, one
ihirt, two shoes, one belt, one hat
with the initials B. T. and five
dolars in cash. The articles are at
the Pf.rk Police headquarters. No
man wns found-GONE WTH THE
WIND?
Scottsboro Defense
Committee Yet Fights
The Scottsboro Defense Comm
ittee culls the attention of the
people of America to the fact that
the Supreme Court of Alabama
on legal ground has confirmed the
monstrous injustice by wWch
Clarence Norris was sentenced to
de'o.tb and Andy Wright and
Charlie Weems to long p rison
terms. Morris Shapiro, Secretary
of the Committee announced that
it will do everythinrr possible for
the defendants in face of these
verdicts.
It appeals now to the great
court of public opinion It re
minds the American people and
especially the citizens of Alabama
that the State of Albania itself
bns virtually acknowledged the
innocence of Norris of this crime
by setting four of the Scottsboro
boys fit liberty. These four hoys,
tho state says for various, good
Tho date, June 22nd. It is 10
o’clock in New York, (5 o’clock in
Los Angeles, 8 o’clock in Omaha
and fight time everywhere. The
Streets are deserted. Business is
at a standstill. A dozen; synch
ronized radios can be heard in any
block. The two gladiators (Joe
Louis and Max Schmeling) of tho
squared circle are introduced, a
hundred thousand voices break
forth in spontaneous acclaimation
and then are hushed in nervous
expectation. The fight of the
century is on. Joe Louis peeved
about his opponent’s comments
since their last fight and about
Schmeling hitting him after the
bell, rushes front his cor re r and
smacks Max with two lefts on his
smacker and then smacks him
some more. Max winds up his
much vaunted ryrht, unwinds it
and flings it at Joe, it is not
true. Joe frets madder and gives
Max a left and r, right and a
left and a right. Max, who has
boasted about seeing “something
weak in Louis’ ilefenwe sinks to
tho canvass which comes up to
meet him. This time he sees
“something” too but they are only
stars and more stars. /Galling
upon his Ip.st reserve the German
f ghter manages to stagger to
his feet only again to be greeted
b.V flying fits, which put “Big
Bertha” to shame. Max is down
ngi'.in and this time—out, and less
U’-.n two minjtes "nave passed.
AH of Sehmedng’s dreams fade
with the drone of ten.
It is 8:15 o’clock in Omaha.
Deserted streets come to l'fe as
it ny magic, automobiles and
moro automobiles are s’en every
■where, the siddwalks ate filled
with pedestrians. East OnuAta
North Omaha, South Omaha and
west all converged on 24th St.—
5,000 autos and twice as many
peopJe on foot try to fill the sev
eral blocks between Lake anc
Hamilton Sts. Traffic at 24 ti
and Lake is hopelessly tied up,—
the crowd takes over the inter
section. Sgnjd 'carsf mdtoreycU
cops and patrolmen appear op the
scene and try to untangle th<
very tangled mass of surging hu
manity, newspaper photographer;
take house top scenes. Crude ant
over enthusiastic fans endeavo’
to start a lion fire in the centei
of 24th ami Lake—the very pat
■iont cops will have none of this
Trolley poles are pulled from wir
es, necessitating guards beinj
placed on the back of each car
A blue sedan bedecked with s
box draped in red with the in
scription “Here lies Sc'hmelinjr’ —
paraded the streets. A group o
youngsters formed a tin pan bam
at 24th and Grace and did the;
celebrate. Buckets and tubs wer
tied to rear bumpers. The figh
is fought over in gestures an
words a down on every stree
cornr. Bets are paid, drinks ar
bought, old friends and new mee
ami talk it over.
It is 1:15 the streets are desert
ed but the street cleaners wil
know that there had been a cele
bration.
reasons, could not have dome wha
Victoria Price charged them with
ut Victoria Price, whise swor
j testimony the state thus impeach
es was the state’s sole witness fo
the conviction of Norris who i
now under sentence of death o
August 19th. It may be tha
the forms of the law ha.ve bee
complied with as t he Suprem
Court of Alabama seems to be
! lieve. If so, the forms of lax
I are tragically inadequate to th
1 doings of justice The fight fc
I justice must go on.
Elks Victory Ball
Glamorous Affai
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Wtmphis, Juiia 24 (ANP)—T1
Elks Victory ball staged at Churc
park auditorium Friday evenin
was a huge affair. The affair wa
arranged by Philip Booth, mast*
of serial session. Colonel Rose*
Conkling Sfmmorji, %oted gue>
of Elks Victory Week Celebrat'd
with Miss Annette Church, led tt
grand march, which was the ma i
l or feature of the evening. Ts'd.
C. Haves of the T. H. Hayes Eu?
era! Home, in the darkness ■ f tt jj
I room, recited the “Eleven O'Clot j
| Toast", while the horn- tand of tl jj
clock pointed *o th<> f'gure Ii Tl
Brown TV-hy Orchestra renfen
the music.
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