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Entered as Second class Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Nebraska- Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday,-July 16, 1938 Number Fourteen
LAWN AND GARDEN CONTESTj
CLOSES
The Lawn and Garden contest,
sponsored! by ,dhe (Neighborhood
department of the Urban League
Community Center closed last
week. The judges complimented
every yard and mentioned five
beautiful iris buds. The follow
ing persons received awards:
For Big Yards first ^prize went
to Mr. and Mrs. E. R. West 29
16 Decatur, 2nd, Mr. and Mrs.
Edwards Grooms, 2906 Decatur,
and 3rd prize to Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Stallworth, 2610 Binney.
Small yards, 1st Mr. and Mrs.
Copeland, 2926 Sorth 2jl, 2nd,
M.r and Mrs. Clifford Foster
2621 Maple, 3rd Mrs. 'Gertrude
Viawter, 1719 N- 28. First prize
for an old Fashioned , Flower
Garden was won by Mrs. Dora
onley 2413 Erskihe, first prize
prize for renters was worn by Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Thomas, 2916 N.
28, 2nd prize by Mrs. Elizabeth
I^aris, 3208 Pinkney.
The Carter I,ake Day Oamp,
sponsored by the Uuban League
and other members of the council
of ceial Agencies, began last
Monday momlhg. A very rarge
enrollment was taken. The Uu
ban League and its friends sent
ten (10) children from the or
ganization. The Charity Club, art
organization of the Center, spon
sored two children in going to
camp and .the flary Mflhoney
Graduate Nurse’s Club aJ§p sent
one, __ i> .
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Emmett J. Scott with
Draws Plea For
Injunction
Washington, July 14 (ANP)—
Dr. Emmett J. Scott, former sec
retary of Howard university,
withdrew Monday his plea for a
temporary injunction to restrain
the university trustees from re
tiring him from employment a.s
secretary. Withdrawal of the
plea for a temporary injunction
does not alter his suit to perm
anently restrain the trustees,
however. That will come up in
the regular October term of court
and be hea.rd on its merits
MRS. JAMES WELDON
JOHNSON IMPROVED
New, York July7 (ANP)—Ad
vices $y John B. Nai|, father; of
Mrs. Janies Weldon Johnson, n>
dicate that ahe is improving un
der treatment at the hospital in
Maine where she. has been con
fined since her husband’s tragic
da<h in a collision/ of their auto
with a train two weeks ago.
AWARDED HONORARY
DEGREE
— ■ !■ ii i wfcMiiiH Hiima—nsgs
Miss Lue Swartz, solo actress,
who was awarded an honorary
master’s degree oy Douglass Uni
versity in St. Louis last week.
Herman S. Dreer is president of
ahe institution- Miss Swartz is a
school teacher in St. i/ouis and
is active in the affairs of the
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, being a
naaional officer and hasileus of
the local chapter. (ANP)
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Hold 2 Men In Auto
v* Death
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DRIVER SAYS WHITE MAN
MADE HIM DRIVE
Sumter, S. C. July 14 l By Char
lie Spears for ANP) Charged
with “criminal carelessness’’ in
connection with a automobile
wreck on the Columbia highway
three miles east of Sumter Fri
day afternoon, in which a. Negro
woman was killel and her husband
seriously injured, .Robert L. Wiley
jr. 26, white, of Clover, S. C. em
ploye of the Southern Ball Tele
phone company, and Julius Green
22, of Timmons ville, S. C., were
ordered held here by a coroner’s
jury.
The woman, Mrs. Aggie Jeffer
son of Sumter, was riding with |
her husband »,nd son, both of
whom were injured. The accident
occured when Green, who was
driving Wily’s car, first struck a
road sign and then turned across j
the road and slammed into the '
Jefferso car.
Green, who is held in the coun
ty jail, stated that the white man
picked him up a Florence and re- j
fused to let him out at Timmons- ;
ville or MayorsviU-e, tow towns
between Florence and. Sumter, bot
continued on toward Columbia. He
said that although he had never
Mr. Henry Black
Marries In Calif.
TEACHERS LOSE 12 MONTH
PAY PLAN
|Baton Rouge, La. July 7 (ANP)
—Colored teachers felt a “sting
ing blow” this week when the bill
proposed to pay teachers 12
month pay was defeated. Because
of short terms and meager pay
and the requirement that teachers
og to school in the summer, Ne
gro teachcers hadl a chance to
almost make “ends meet” if the
bill had passed- The terms of the
schools range from six to nine
months and the salaries of the
rural teachers from $35 to $60
per month.
This week toe New Orleans
teachers are expecting a hearing
from protests made a few days
ago to Mayor Maestri for 11
months day. This they seek from
a surplus said to be in the school
treasury.
driven a car before the white man
put him under the steering wheel
and ho was holding the wheel with
Wiley pressing the gas feed at
th time of the wreck.
Mrs. Jefferson is the mother of
ten children- Wiley is in the Sum
ter hospital suffering from nu
merous cuts ad bruises, but is ex
pected to recover. ,
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3 NOTED PERSONS PERILED
IN SECOND OLMPIAN WRECK
Seattle, Wash.. July 16—(ANP)
Three "persons of National pio
inence narrowly escaped serious
injury recently in the second
wreck of the Milwaukee Railroad’s
crack train the Olympian, when
tho flyer, west bound, collided
headon with an East bound CCC
train near Ingomov, Mont.
Those periled were Lt. Lawrence
A. Oxley, U. S. Labor Department
Miss Jane Hunter, dir'ictor Philis
Wheatley Association. Cleveland,
O., and Joseph II. ,B. Evans of
the /Resettlement * liniiiistraCor..
The men wer badly shaken and
'bruised while Miss Hunter escap
ed injury. Among the injured
taken to a Miles City Hospital
were two waiters and a Pullman
Porter. Tho wreck was the se
cend i a week to mar the long
record of safety enjoyed by the
Olympian. More than a score of
persops lost their lives in the pre
vious accident, when several cars
c.f the crack train crashed through
a bridge over flood-swollen Custer |
Creek, near Miles City, Mont
~ PREPARE for NATION’S DENTISTS
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Part of thfc membership of the
Lincoln Dental Socieay of Chica
go comprising the grtUp which
■will act as hosts to the .National
Dental Ajssortnaion which cele
brates its 25th annual meeting in
Chicago August 9112. Chicago is
recognized as the center of den
»al practice throughout the nation I
•uid a constrnctive program, is he- !
•rig worked out for the edifica
tion of the visiting professionals
local and National officials are
seaaed; secood from left F. F.
Harmon, chairman program com
mittee; C. H. Woodard, chairman
j Time and Place; S- C. Hamilton,
president-elect of National Dental
Assoccia-tion; M. R. Hehert, pres
ident Lincoln Dental Society; J.
vice-president; W. FF. Wethers,
M. Dean, secretary; H. W. Brown
chairman public Relations Com
mittee.
(Photo by Morphy for ANP)
Henry Black, retired mail car
rier and for many years a prom
inent resident of Omaha, married
Mrs. Mayme Clark of los Angel
es, July 13th. According to wool
received here by friends of the
couple. Mrs. Clark and Mr.
Flack were life-long friends.
The marriage took place in the
residence of Mr. Black’s niece,
included among the close friends
and relatives presnt at the cere
mony were Bishop and Mrs. E.
V. Shayler of the Episcopal Dio
ceses.
LEGISLATURE FEARS FALL
OF WHITE SUPREMACY
New Orleans, July 7 By Leon
Lewis for ANP)—Passing a reso
lution denouncing the Committee
for Industrial OrganiTiation, the
Louisiana legislature hit their ac
citivity as threatening to “white
supremacy.” Included in the len
gthy resolution was the following
paragraph: “Wheras o«m of the
greatest dangers that is threat
ening the people of this state is
that the insidious propaganda dis
seminated by these imported alien
radicals has boon directed to the
organization of the N egroes „ of (
this state, and it has unfortunate- j
ly taken root and unless drastic
seeps are eaken at once, it will
spread to the rural parts of this
state and white supremacy will be
endangered.”
Police and officials have attem
pted in every way to discourse
Negro participation in the CIO.
They have resorted to brutality,
falso arrest and general intimida
tion. But Negroes have continued
to join the folds of the famed la
bor union which has done more to
brehk up dlpcrimmation to the
Negro in labor than any ether.
Accepting whites and colored into
unios of equal classification has
aroused the ire of Southern whites
that class this as ,rCommunism,”
and because CIO has resorted to
this practice, they have been call
d Reds and Communists.
In a mass meeting? here last!
week, officials of the CIO spoke
btfore mere tha.n 26Q0 laborites,
half of whom were Negroes. On
the same platform, i white ami
Negro organizers ami officials
spoke to the vast cheering aud
ience. This the salons of the state
could not stand, and put forth the
cry of “it endangers white supre
macy.’’
The intimidation of Negroes by
Police has failed to divert them
from active participation; into a
program that offers the most
lucrative opportunity for the Ne
gro in labor, ever o be his lot.
Declaring that, New Orleans is
just beginning' to organize, it
will take more than an abuse of
power to step labor from winning
its rights because the abuse me
thods will fail here as it has in
other places,’’ John Rrophy, exe
cutive director of the CIO, de
livered the keynote address at
the mass meetirjg. Giving a brief
outline of thehistory and pros
pectus of the CIO and its move
ment toward complete industrial
organization, the CIO official
ste.ted, “this is the awakening of
labor n New Orleans. We must
organize nto national unions, ad
hering to the priciples of Demo
cracy, if our political and econo
mical condition is to improve. The
issues involved in the strikes
hero are constitutional rights and
those who deny them ajc acting
as anarchists.”
Negroes were s-audod for their
loyalty and courage in th" fight
for a united labor front. Harvey
Netter, Negro c npjvzer, made an
WILL SPEAK ON INDIA
MISS MARIAN MARTIN
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Boston girls, ami Howard gradu
ate. who studied a year in India
on a Juliette Dericotte scholarship
aised by Dr. and Mrs. Howard
Thurman of Howard, and Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Carrcll of Morgan
cal lege, who will speak through
out the country on her experiencei
in India, to help other students go
to that country and study. Ne
groes are little know in India.
Miss Martin reports. “I had the
privilege of speaking to many
university assemblies and always
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there was the request for some
treatment of the Negroes’ life
in America- I had a rich exper
ience and shall do my part to
help make possible the contir.Oa
tion of these scholarship grants to
Negro students for study in the
orient.” (Calvin Servive)
MOTHER OF-12 DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
inspirited address and received^
thundering applause as he. de
nounced the efforts of police and
state officials to chick “the only
democratic program in the
South.”
N. J. HOSPITAL FINALLY
ADMITS NEGRO DOCTORS
TO CLINIC
Orange, N. J-, July 15 (ANP)—
Climaxing a fight made for many
years by Dr. W. G. Alexander,
this city, to have reputable Ne
gro physicians added to the med
ical staff of public hospitals, Or
ange Memorial hospital last week
admitted a colored doctor to its
clinical staff.
After a number of rebuffs, ali
bis and explanations over a per
iod of years, Dr- AlexaruTer was
recently allowed $t» present his
plea, to the institution’s executive
committee. The doctor was later
notified that the staff had agreed
to his point of view and would
admit (one Negro physician for
services in each clinic.
Dr. Alexander wn.s offered on*•
of the positions, but ho felt that
r, younger physician could render
more service to tile community.
As a result, Dr. Walter E. Long
shore was accepted as a member
of the staff in the Venere-iJ I>is
easo clinic. It is also considered
likely that Dr. It. M. Coleman of
East Orange will be appointed to
tho Tuberculosis clinic- Dr. Alex
ander is bein«g widely commended
for (ho unselfish part he played
in this effort for civic soul com
munity betterment.
MRS. ALICE MASON NAMED
PRESIDENT OF MISSOURI
CLUB
Kansas City, Mo., July 15 (ANP)
At last Friday's selection of off
icers held in connection with the
annual sess km of the Missouri
State Association of Colored
Women, Mrs. Alice L. Mason of
this city was chosen new presi
dent of the organization.
Mrs. Mason, well known throu
grout the state, served as first
vice-president of the association
Inst year- She is also president
of th Kansas Citv Association of
Women during the session just
Mrs. Ella Shaw, mother of 12
children, died Tuesfty nrornirg
at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Lovie Daniel, 3504 Blondo
St. Mrs. Shaw was the wife of
Oliver Shaw. They had been'
married for 45 years and had re
sided in Omaha for 19 years.
Tho deceased was u, member of
Hillside Presbyterian Church. She
leaves to mourn her loss the fol
lowing children;; Lovie Daniel,
Curtis Shaw, Johnny, Loyce and
Marion Shaw, Lillie Mae Ander
son, Chicago; Jewell Shaw, De
troit, Mrsi Dell Lewis, Omaha;!
Wave Madison, Omaha and Jul
ian Shaw, Chicago, and the fol
lowing sisters and brother all of
Greenville, Texas, Birdie, David,
Daisy, Grace and Mattie Brig
ham. The funeral will be held
Saturday afternoon.
closed she was general chairman
of arrangements for entertain
ment of delegates and visitors.
“Go Down Death”
Heard at Johnson’s
Funeral
New York, July 14 (C)—In
stead of a funeral oration, strik
ing poetic creations of the late
James Weldon Johnson were re
cited and sung at his frT.eral last
Thursday. “Go Down Death!”
from “God’s Trombones” was re
cited by the Rev. J. Raymond
Henderson of Yonkers, and spirit
ua|s arranged by J. Rosamond
Johnson, brother of the deceased,
wer sung by th Juanita Hall
Singers and the Southern.aire
quartet. Salem church was pack
ed to the doors well before the
funeral began. Mrs. Grace Nail
Johnson*, widow' of the author and
oocpcser, w'ho was injured in the
wreck in which Mr. Johnson lost
his life, is reported on the road to
recovery.
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CLEVE ABBOTT WORRIED
OVER LOSING TWELVE
“TIGERS”
Tuskegee, July 14, (C) Coach
Clove Abbott of the Tuskegee
Golden T'gers football team is
worried over losng twelve of his
best mere through graduation this
year. But already the coach has
a number of canidates for the va
cant places.
BURLINGTON DINING CNR
EMPLOYES UNION BENTS
N. F, OF L.
Chicago, July 14 (By Fred D.
Harper for ANP) —At the re
cent election held to determine
tho bargaining agent for workers
in the Burlington dining ear de
partment, the Burlington Dining
Car Employes Union, Lceag- 1, an
independent organization, was
victorious over the American
Federation of Labor, Local 351,
by an overwhelming majority of
almost five to one.
Number of votes cast was 245,
the Burlington Local 1, receiving
201, the A F of L, Local 351, get
ting 44 votes. President Leo
Metzl, white, who heads Local 351
stated that this was his first de
feat. Burlington dining car em
ployes realize that their salva
tion ries in true representation, by
having officials who ar interest
ed in them and in their welfare.
Negroes ca represent Negroes to
better advantage, if their are
sincere. •
Local 351, AP of L, grought the
fight 'to a head b$r petitioning
the National Medical Board, de
claring there %Vas a dispute as to
the representation of the Burling
ton employes. The Metzl Loca]
contended that it had more thaij
the required 51 per cent, of em
ployes' signatures necessary fo«
t to represent the employes in
place of the Locar 1.
loiter, as a result of this, off!
cials of Local 1, headed by Jess
F. Ellis, chairman, met with th
Meditor fry"m the National Mod
tation Board. The officers felt
best to settle the matter perms
nemly, so demanded that a vote l
taken. Tho electon was herd. L
cal 1, as the sole bargaining age
for Burlington dining car worke
now offers them the democrat
principle of equality of snffrai
an dindependenoe without t
stigma of segregation and disc:
mination.
AMERICAN MINISTER
GIVES ENTERTAINMENT
Monroviva, Liberia July 7 (
N. P.) Minister A. Walton a
Mrs Walton were hosts to
president of Liberia, his oabii
the diplomatic corps and lead
members of local society on J
4 at an Independence Day G
| bration. The American log’at
^vas the scene of the receptioa.