i Largest 75C0 4th of July NegroPaper Tickets. Sold for in Nebraska American Legion --- Fireworks at Cents Creighton . Per . /JUSTICE/EQUALITY stadium • Copy ' ' (Story Mow) -! Entered as Second Class Matter a» Postoffice, Omaha. Nebraska- THE OMAHA GUIDE OMAHA, NEBRASKA SATURDAY. JULY 2. 1938 NUMBER IS 4“ “'JULY CELEBRATION Omaha will be tbo mec^a ter thousands of i d day visitor.,, Jcdy Fourth, who will come fro o com munities throughout eastern N't* braska and i’julhttest Iowa < at tend the Ak-Sar-Ben races in the afternoon the the American Le gion’s fireworks exposition and clown circus in Creighton stadium that night. Early advance sale of reserved and general admission tickets and reservation cf more than two thirds of the 96 boxes in the sta dium indicate that attendan this year’s fireworks show much larger than at the fV v! of these Celebrations sponsored (by Omaha Post last year. “I won’t be surprised to see a complete sellout of the 18,000 seats i in the stadium," Morris E. Jacobs Finance Chairman of tire Legion Post's fireworks exposition, said. ‘‘We have had most encourageing reports from post members who took 7,500 tickets a week ago to sell to their friends and neigh bors. People who saw last yc.i.r”s show are telling their friends a bout it, and are planning to re turn this year. With a much big ger firework display and more en tertainment for our second show, I really look for a capaccity crowd,” he added. Among the fifty-odd set pieces which will be fired are several beautiful patriotic displays. Others depict scenic wonders, animals, flowers arid animated comedy car toons in Maxing color. Tickets for the show went on | sale this week at the Beaten and IJnitt-Doeekal drug stores, an 1 at the American Legion office, 105 City Hall. General admission tic kets P.re 40 cents each for adults ijnd 25 cents for children. This may be reserved for an additional 25 cents. With a capacity crowd expected, purchase of reserved neats at.'• se ■ a I 1 noti fication tor • : ' h ' 0I9 was included also. ( t gre.-.-mie n Wai te.- Chandler announced approval of the proj rt 1 V . - on. New York July 2—A check for $2,500 was presented tr the Na tional Association for th i Ad vancement of Colored People here today from Joe Louis, world hen vy-weight champion, by John Rox 1 orough, one of his managers. Tie' heck \v?.s a part of the champ o’ bar;- of the fight in which he <1 tested Max Schmeling Juno 22. The preserttat’on was made to Walter White, NAAOP secret.try, by Mr. Roxborough. A check t< r h- nne a* • was presetted to ,v ! i : . a 1 - M 10. - « NVw Y«i-k City, July 1. \ • rib'-; 1 ; information received t'f tl i intematonnl headquarters j , f (He Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, A. Philip Radolph,, in i i'- .tion; 1 President, as a re sult of an extended illness, will enter Mayo Clinic at K'Chester, j Minnesota for examination and treatment. He will he aceompan ied to the clone by M. 1*. Webster, Fir ' Internation a. Vice-President. Mr. Randolph suffered from a collapse recently while in a con ference in the Nafionrl Mednr-; tion Board in Washington, I). C. Ho entered the clinic June '28. Hold Nursery Confer ence for Workers Chicago, June 28 (ANP) -Spon sored by tlse staff of the Helping j Hand Community Day Nursery,; mothers and social workers last Tuesday attended what was des cribed i«.s the first nursery insti tute ever held here for colored people. The conference waa he'd at Olivet Baptist church, of which Dr. L. K. Williams is the pastor. Speakers addressing the insti tute were Miss Majorio Hubers, executive secretary of the nursery cure, C< ifncil of Social Agencies' 1 Mrs. Edith Dailev, Elizabeth M* Cormiek Memorial fund; Mrs. I Maudelle Bou.sfield, prirc'pal of > Douglas school; Dr. Ruth Howard, medical director, NYA; Mrs. Ida i Mbo Cress, WPA nursery school; Mrs. Alma Foss. McCormick fund; M'-s Lillian Summers. United Charities, and Miss Lucille Kell v, j WPA regional director of recrea tion. Mitchell Case Hearing Set For July 6th Chicago June 16 '(AMP)—No tice was received this week from the Interstate Commerce Com mission by Atty. Richard E. Wsst brooks who represtntg Congress man Arthur \V, Mitchell in his fight against discrimination in Inter-state Commerce, that p.ral argument will be heard July 6, before Division 4, of the Inter state Commerce Commission, Washington, I>. C. The Rock Island Railroad has filed its reply to the “Exception" filed on behalf of Congressman Mitchell, and the ease will, be hotly contested. -o Ethiopian Runs Amuck In Rome Rome, Italy June 23 (AMP)— Four persons, an armv officer, a butcher’s boy and two Fas'st mili tiamen, were wonnded here last| Wednesday when an Ethiopian ran -moV with a sword, slashing fur iftuslv at nil who came within striking distance. The incident occured before the^ monument commemor:'.tin12 Italian soldiers who were slaughtered by' Ethiopions at Dogy.li in 1887,. A glide! lion of Judah, taken In Ad dis Ababa during the recent Ethi opian campaign is at. the brse of the monument. The Ethiopion was observed praying aloud before the lion of Judah when an army cap tain steuucd up. The Wneelimr men suddenly sprang to his feot,| pulled forth the scimitar and wounded the captain severly. A bnteebor’s delivery bov. ngop bv hurled his bicycle at the Eth o-1 nian, was in turn slashed by th ' man. Two Fascist militiamen were also cut, but in the melee t..e of them fired four shots which fe’led the sword wieflder. —-ii Lulu 15. Thomas Will Uplfsld JURY RFTURNS VFRDICT IN FAVOR OF CHICAGO HEIR In u hotly contested legal bat tle in I istrict Court, presided over by Judge Arthur C. Thomsen and lasting four days, a jury returned a verdict upholding the Will of I.ulu R. Thomr.s, deceased. Proponents for the Will wore Mrs. Lulu Si ut of Chicago, Illinois, represented by Attorney Charles F, Davis, who has won decisions in both County and District Court. Contestants were Mrs. Laurens l'avet, and Delia Overton of Flat, Michigan, and Mrs. Radio Davis, of Tuskegee, Alabama, wife if Col. 13. O. Davis. Attorney Jack Maser tried the case wor the contestants who were represened by Jack Maser and At torney Ray L. Williams. This case first tried in the County Court on April 17, 19J7. Lester Granger Takes New Job -- New York City June 23 (ANT’) —The National Urban leugc an nounce, tips week'th* trsjj fer of Lester Ik Granger from the league's worker’ bureau, where he I has served as secretary for four I years, to the staff of the welfivre council of New York City. Gran ger’s duties with the Wdfarce ouncil, as secretary of the com mittee on Negro welfare, will be to study existing service facilities '.vaiblo to the colored population ol‘ greater New York, with a view to strengthening ai d coordinating those services ami planning for he the creation of ne*v services •vhere the need exists. Houston Odd Fellows Building Sold To WHte Man • Houston, lex., July 1 (ANP) T’10 fan: us Odd Fellows building at Lausiara and Frail ic, one of the sU w places of this ccity and the last big Negro office building in Itoustton,, pasb'-d Amm racial nwuijtohip last t.eik ■> •< i. the Graliit United jttrder uf Fellows ■" d clou ehoid.vof Ruth sold it for $120,000 to L. F. Gilliland, "V white investor. The two lots on which the build ing starv Is cost th > Order rig;n aily about $85,000 cash and the structure represents an ’"vestment i ’ exec - : of $300,000. S i'i> of th porperty was authorized ;,t the r.jii special grand season. The •. on [riven was that “the mouiit for change and consequent decline in membership.” In a statement, new owner Gild lr>,ud said, "I have fully approci-' a to the sentiment which the color ed people of Houston ai d of Texas l.'i'n for this building, und it is my intentir'iis to paint it inside arid, out, create new offices sp.\e» ommensurate with the needs of! Negroes professional men and wo men of Houston, and maintain i1 under the sv.me name and to servo the same purpose at it al-, ways has. In fact, it is my in tention it as the finest offie-’ building for Negroes in the whole j of-ithe South.” Ask Change of Venue For Alleged Slayers Chicago, June 30 (ANP) Con te’| lirfg ‘that daily papers have created so much prejudice against them that a fair trial ’n Cook „ ,, „. . • i- -'Ll 11 .1—. Mi... ■i and Ear] TTicks. charged with the rp,pe-murders of several white women, Thursday asked a change of venue to another county. The boys have already repudi ated in court confessions extract ed hv p lire whom they accuse of using third degree methods. At heorinir Tuesday morning, they pleaded not gni’lty to charges of rnne and murder. Defense attorneys include Jos eph E. Clayton. Ulysses S, Keys "»vd Sylveiter White .Tr. The Na tions' Negro pengress and Tuter nationr.I T.ahor Defense are furn ishing the defense. Negro Essayists Win Prizes in Internation a I Contest New York Pity July 2 (AND i ?n an L'S*uy contest (Nov. 15, IS), j '•••>> H st >t'*f ° ■■•vv (f New York, 182 contestants pur' iciputed I represent it .g 42 states and the : I lilHpine Islands, all whom wrote j on the subject. “How Ca.n Culture and Social Values of Racial M’n j . ritie-’. in the* 11. S. and Its out- j j lying Possessions and rViritmies j He Adjusted and Harmoii>zed ’** Among the prizewinners there 1 wore three Negroes; Isaac Fisher I j of Hwnpton, Institute, Cornelim : Golightly, TaHaUega c liege, A11. j and Mrs. L. H. Chaplle of Mem phis. Two colored contestants also won herorable memtoWn: Mrs. Jo | hnnna SiViiter, Birmingham, and j Andre R. Reefl, Bronx, N.Y. Speak ! ing of the contest and the excel- ] leri'o of th essays submitted, Mirza 1 Ahmad Schnjh, director New His- j 1 tory Society! said, “We feel that ; these writers have given* mottling . valuable and constructive, the workng out.of which viill stimu : late racial harmony between the i Negroes and tSie whites.” -o-— Chicago Relief Client Leads Strike Springfield 111., .July 2 1 j filenna Clark also of Chicago, led j the Negro c ntiger.it of 50 among the 150 relief clients who staged a sit down strike in a section of j the gallery and declared they i would not K> • until better pro j I 'im'i ;tad 1> n ma for destitute ' ' citizens of the sta.te. The strike j I was short life, however as state , ! police soon pe uaded them that ; | notice soon persuaded them that ; i discretion was the better part of \ valor and that they were biv-.k ' ing the law ' y remaining in the building when the legislature was ii t in session. They left peaceably and returned to their homes. Business B’ge .Plans Memorial To Booker T. Washington Ifoustoi'.. Te , June 23 (AN!*) 1 —One of the h ghlights of the i August l Lh ion of the Nation-1 n1 XegTi, Business league con v<> i ion to lii'.1 htdd ini ^Houston August 17-19. will be special memorial • <-es in honor of Dr. j Booker T, Washington, eminent j founder of Tu«kcgce institute n.nd orgnviizer of the business league, j Dr. F 1). palt r in, ■ P'r.jdent of '!i ’■ego-.*, will de’iver, the principal ddress and other speaker of 1:.J ,od natiornl re pute will be i the program.In nuti. will 1 - on the program. In Pntrio I ih week it was an rv'ii'i od tli tl>“ program for that ('ax' will in chide a feast of barbecue ami Texas watermelons at produced in or no i.r the campus of the school. The pie-conVention smoker wilh bo held on Tuesday night befon j tbs opening of the league at Har tom Grill, arm ligaments for whir* I are the hands of Prof. J ynes 1> Ryan. _ Colored W?r Vets Or ganization Seek 100, 000 New Members Boston. June ’3, (ANP)—An or ennization mcetirr* of the execn 'b-n committee National Colored War Veterans of America, was he'd Inst week to draft n nnb' e ftntomeot. on t'riin'Dn, affairs ns fpnn .. rf r-t e' 1 ''od vc1 eran-' of the nat.ini \ new plan of or ganization wn adopted in order to secure a membership of 100, 090 by October 1, 1938 to be known a ; a “Colored Veterans Join-Up ’’ The vets hold a two-day , session here Julv 31 to August 1. Explaining the organization’s program, Monroe Meson, tempor ary organizer, said, “1000.000 Col f Maroellus Richie in Fatal Crash Was Returning from Lincoln Marcellus Richie Marcellus Richie, 3.1, of 2636 Franklin street, City Inspector of weights and measures, was killed instantly at Lincoln, Nebrasku Tuesday morning at 4:20 a. m. ! when his car w».s struck by a Rock ! Island passenger train and carried some 60 feet along the track be fore it toppled intu. a ditch. Omaha friends were shocked Tuesday morning when informed of the accident as Richie hail been about 24th street until nearly mid night Monday and had expressed no intentions of leaving the city. Three rf his acqua'ntances who went to Lincoln immediately after the crash said that they could find no on: around town who had seen 1 Richie arrive or depart, he was j alono in the car and there were j known eye witnesses. Severe in- j juries about the legs ar.d chest j caused his death. The lx dy was returned to Omaha ! Tuesday afternoon and placed in i the Myers Morturnry. Fraternity brothers, of the Alpha Eta Chap ter, Kappa Alpha Psl, will serve as pallbearers at the funeral which . will hr- held Friday afternoon, Richie had lived it) Omaha since 1 191,7. He graduated from Central i High school end attended theU ni'ersfty < f Nebraska. Later hi' went to Chicago, where be w.i employed a- a mail clerk. He rc- i turned to Omaha in 1933, where! ho worked at various jobs, un<;l ; ho was appointed as a government i meat inspect' r in San Franc I si , i Calif. He returned to Omaha in | j 935 grid was appointed by Mayor j Ilan B. Butler as Inspector of, Weights and Measures the follow ing year. While in San Francisco, Mr. j Richie was married to Miss De 1 res Johnson of that city. He is survived by his mol her.; Mrs. Georgia Ritchie Allen - t .ree j sisters, Mrs. Ver r Thomas, Mrs. j Portia Riggs, and Mrs. Na risa i K turns, all i f Oin't • : 1 f our brother^. Htwmer, R. T., .rre-11 •,nd Wallace also of On:: oieil War Veteran. 1 'n - mn-| ployI'd. a ser.oug tu y r d be | i n i to find jo's fir them and their dependents, v ho ; e cin ployr.bles. “20,000 totally d sab e l ' lured ■ War Vetera!' because o t1 war inborn* status have be n denied the privilege of t t 1 di ability An e stimate of $.‘]0,o i:i,0 o retro active payments is the sum that the Veterans’ Administration has i r-it.y withheld from :h -;e ex-1 soldiers.” Dean Pickens S°eks To SUrHitrht^n Or* So. Carolina Housing* Wranfrlf? Uolumhi *. S. C. duly ” < VNP) Hear, Williams Pi ' e"\ . factor| of branches NAA'P rr»i f ederal I •forum to«vl's b-* i n dc tivmlm- tnre ■ 1 o1, \ and vicinity for more tluvii inn - weeks is cooperating with local residents is an effort to rectify alleged in- | eonalities inferior accomodations [ given Negroes at University Ter race, WPA hnv-ecost housing pro- ! jefit In University Terrace, houses for whites and Negroes are ar-1 SEN WAGNER OPENS NAACP CONFERENCE ranged on the same sqpare hut face different streets. Negro tenants complain that they are required to pay rent and furnish heat, while the rent paid by whites includes steam heat, refrigeration v.nd other conveniences. A colored assistant who manages the Negro houses say that while the coloredl families pay txtra for ho-.t, they tho furnished refrigeration and that they pay extra for electricity only when they eus more than a. certain maximum. In a letter the U. S. Housing Authority, Department of the In terior in Washington, Dean Pick ens suggested a solution to the present difficulty and v. guard I against similar problems in the i future. Dean Pickens* letter in i part was as follows; ! “Seeing that you v.re planning i to finance new housing projects : for the two l aces in Columbia, 1 want to call certain things to I your attention -and the sugges-l tkms which I niiiJ supported by the leading color ed people of Columbia. “1. That since the Negro project is to be always separate from the white, tho management be also distinct: v.nd that the Negro pro jects be managed by a Negro, through their own projects office Your new projects, for whjte and colored, are to be, We are told, on separato lots, perhaps in separate parts of th ecity. “2. That you build the same type of housing with the same equipment and for the same rent- j \1, for colored as for white. Your ] University Tcrrftce has a serious! illusion; that the Negroes are be-1 ing charged n cheaper housing] cost—-wherns they w paying as' much or m re than the whites, I for inferior accomodations to the' conveniences of the whites. Bridge Church Marks 50th Anniversary Bidgeport, (’nnn., July 1 (ANP) By Inez M. Holly—A relebratlnn marking the 50th anniversary of tho Messiah Baptist church wk opened nt the chu eh Sundivv, with • necial services,- attended bv more than 500 person, nt v Inch visiting clergymen f mi Bridge port and con.rmn ft s paid h;gh tribute to the pari, a, il past »>,n 1 present lenders and it . congrega tion. I'r William Horace Day, pastor , emeritus of (he Utf'church, la,oded the rhnreh for "la oping t > | c.ether for 50 years,*’ and for the i ingr. •- it has made nlong roligi ous lines. The address ef welcome War given hy Mrs. Etta Boss and the - nening sermon wa.s preached hy tho Rev. P. W. .Tiu-ebs, pastor of of Messiah, olos were rcmlered by Mrs. Margaret Gardiner and mtwi • by the comviiied choirs Rev. I. (’. laid- on of Hardford, - no:’.king nt the afternoon program delivered tho 50th nniversnry ser mon. * - Columbus, 0.,—Delegates from , twenty-seven states heard the open* mg keynote speech of Senator It. F. Wagner at the 29th annual con ference of the National Assoc’a tion fo rthe Advancement of Col ored People here Tuesday night June 28th. Senator Wagner, co-author of seventy 1 federal -anti-lnyching hills, b Id of the fight for the ' passage of the Wagner-Van Nuys hil[ which ©occupied the floor of tho Senate from January 6 to February 21, 1938, Aubrey Williams, assistant to j Marry P. Hopkins as administra tor of the ,WPA, wHl address the conference Friday night, July 1, r.'onir with Dr, Mordeeai W. John son, president of Howard univer sity. Ono of the highlights of the conference is expected to he tho speech of -Dr. 'Charles Edward ltussel June 30 m thei mistreat ment of the Negro in tho txetbooks used in the public schools. At, the last moment, Dr. Char lotte Hawkins Jlrown, who was to haw nddrosssed the conference ■a,sited to be excused because of illness and death in the family. Pester TP Granger will speak June "0 to a mass meet’ng dedicated to young pefjple on tho subject “A Challenge to Youtli.’’ Prominent in the discussions by delegates during the day sessions will he the topics of unemploy ment. relief, and social security. Speakers on these topics will inclu do A Hired Kdgnr Smith, Wash ington, 1>. C.. Lester B. Granger; Gharle II. ITnuston, of the NAA GP staff: i\nd George Cohron, head of the social secupTy office in Harlem. A NA \CP merit medal, given for meritorious w. rk in the asso ciation, will he awn'dod h'r'd'.y night July 1, to Mrs. Knolia Pett igen McMillan of Baltimore, Mil. President of the Maryland Kdnentfi nr,I Association, for her work in connection with the cam ps inn ii.gainat inefpiHl’ties in pub lic education. Other inull or; nt the confer ence will he Hr, Ch-rles 11. Wes ley, of Howard university; Pr. T. V, Smith, of the University of CldcBjr : Walter Whte, NAA CP secretary; and Mrs, Henrietta McGhee, who will tell of the share cropper problems in eastern Ark ansas. Tin* conference sessions will be beld at Shiloh Baptist Church, at. Mt. Vern n and Ham ilton avenues, and will conclude Saturday, July 2. -- DON’T FORGET “Tangle Threads” a short story written about Negro life especial ly for the Omaha. Guide. Proof of the Pudding Is In the Eating of It -o Just A Few Of The Many Tho following are a few of many sales made by Mr. E. M. Davis Licensed Ileal estate Broker. Mr. E. M. Davis on April 1st, 1.938 Held the residense u.t 3022 Events St. On May 21th, 1938, gold to Mr. & Mrs. Peter James Henderson, who resides at 3800 Harney, | bought the house at 2621 Bur- j dutte, Mr. Henderson is now mak ing preparations to redecorate this | heme throught out. June 7, 1938,Mr. Dto.vis, sold to j Mr. Jessie McGee who resides 1 now, 1011 N. 25th Rt. a beautiul ' home located at 2843 Binney. Mrs. Blanch Banks on May 3, bought from Mr. Davis a residence at 2027 Patrick Ave, On June 21, 1938, Mr. p.nd Mrs. Donaldson, who resides at 2527 Charles, bought a residence at j 2823 Seward, through Mr. Davis, j Mrs. Emma Gilmore and daugh ter, Florence owe, bought from Mr. Davis June 22, 1938 i>. residence at 2541 Binney St, Mr. Davis also sold the house at 2621 Caldwell St. The above are satified purchases of homes through Omaha's Oldest Negro Real estate Agency. If you aro in the market for a home at' the right price it will pay you to get in touch with E. M.Davis Licensed Real estate Broker. BETTER YET Watch the col umn of the OMAHA GUIDE for Mr. Davis’ PERMANENT ADD, for real bargains, at a prise .you can. afford to pay. A small Down Payment—The Balance I ike Rent. Call We. 11GG office art -*17 No, 24th St. • ■ ' Why not be a full fledged Citi zen. Own your own home that means solid comfort for your family an J yourself.