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Largest _ Negro Paper —^ faLa in Nebraska "ff \|"VtTfT^ full pages op | if^rl __ 4*™ Comics II (Fer /JUSTICE/ EQUALITY ) HEW TO THtUNE) evuhv week t^yr^^ZfaWOiXM^. ----- -- Entered as Second Class Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Nebraska- Omaha, Nt*bl\, Saturday, Oct. 22 1938 Numbej Twenty eight HOUSEHOLD SHOW TO CLOSE TONIGHT; SWINGSTERS FURNISH MUSIC Tho Omaha Guido Food and Household Demonstration now in its fifth and final night has been drawing a steady enthusiastic ga thering each night from all parts of the city and Council Bluffs. Everyone has been delighted by tho beautifully decorated displays attended by Miss Lila Pryor, Ne braska Power Co.; Mrs. Meritt, Butter-Nut Coffee; Mrs. L. C. Crawford, Roberts Dairy Pro ducts; Miss Julia Sanford, Omar Flour; Mrs. Paul Barnett. Harding Cream Products; and Mrs. Alma Clarke, Metz and Robin Hood Belrrs. Miss Susie Whiteside is acting as general attendant. On Wednesday night Senator John Adams act-d briefly as master of ceremonies and on Thursday night Mr. Arthur B. McCaw acted as Master of ceremonies. Boyd V. Galloway, Director, said that he was well pleased with the progress of the demonstration and hoped for a packed house tonight so that he could dispose of the balance of the prizes. The Swinging Swing sters ha'o been furnishing a hot m sical show for the visitors. Winners of Tuesday nights priz es were as follows: Mrs. Herbert Clark, Mr. Jack Hale, Mrs. Lottie Keys, Mrs. Flor ences Speese, Miss Betty Jean Jam-1 es, Miss Edith Buckner. Mrs. Toby Jones, Miss Lena Buckn r, Mrs. Alma Clark, Mr. Johnnie Gardner, Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Scott, Mr. Robert Scott, Mrs. Jean Clive. Mr. Felix Williams, Mrs. Chcttles, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Valena MeCary, Mrs. Harris, Mr. Spencer Jacobs, Mj. McCaw, Mrs. Evelyn Dyer. Among the Wednesday night prize winners was Mrs. Givens of Coun cil Bluffs, who won a box of candy. Where Public Officials Are Still The Public Servants _. ®..— Nebraska’s famous governmen tal policies are dictated by the public will—ai}d public servants obey the people’s commands. The Constitution prohibits state debt. BOTH GREAT POUTJOAL PAR TIES HAVE DECLARED A G A INST ANY NEW FORMS OF TAXATION. Nebraska’s "pay-as-it goes.” Before any public improve ments are made or governmental responsibilities aro assumed. Ne braska MUST HAVE THE MON EY TO PAY FOR THEM! Public officials are elected to carry “but these sound practices, AND THEY DO SO! While many states plunge more deeply into debt, piling new burdens on farmer, worker, and business man, Nebraska rejects ex travagance. Unharrased by punitive taxation, industry finds news op portunity in Nebraska. Learn about the great consuming market for manufactured goods in this section ef America. Nebraska also offers excellent transportation, cheap fuel and power, co-operative labor, plentiful raw materials. Nebraska Off rs; No Income Tax No Sales Tax ' No Other Extra Taxes , No Bonded Debt More Money for Living Nebraska’s constitution prohibits state bonds. Moreover, ”7 of 93 counties hav0 no bonds. Municipal debts aro low, and steadily declin ing. ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF NEBRASKA 414 INSURANCE BLDG. Lincoln -—oOo HOCTOR FOR COUNTY CLERK Mr. James P. Hoctor is the first and only public official in the state County, or city who has retained regularly two Race employees in his office personnel. Knowing the Race taxpayers aro entitled to re presentation he has given the Race two positions in his office. We of tho Race appreciate his stand and ho will appreciate your vote in the •omirg election. Mr. Hoctor has made an excel lent record, managing the affairs of his office with due regard for the public’s money. He has attend ed strictly to business, watched his expenditures and has served the people well. His enviable record for service to this community is en dorsed by the press and citizens in business, labor and professions. Ho was born and reared on the South side; graduating from South High school. He is 43 year3 of age married, has 3 children and is a h»me-owner residing at 4902 Un derwood Avenue. For many years he has been associated in all worth while Civic activities in Omaha. He is a World War Veteran and a member of the American legion. Hoctor for County Clerk, Ruth Lewis, Pres. -0O0— Dallas Sheriff Protects New Ne°ro Juror Dallas, Tex&s, Oct. 19—Police protection is being given W. I. Dickerson, 46 a colored sh»e re pairman who was summoned for jury duty here October 10. Mr. Dickerson was the first Negro to be called since the brutal assault September 28, upon Dr. G. F. Por te.-, president of Wiley Junior Col lege, and a prospective juror who was thrown down the court house steps by tvfro white hoodlums when ho refused to be “excused” from serving at the suggestion of court officials. Mi-. Dickerson and James Childs also colored, wrote registered let ters to Sheriff Smoot informing him they had been called for jury service and desired . protection They got it, but Childs took his day’s fee and left. White jurors glared at Dicker son and mutterings were heard, but the sheriff quieted everything down. Dickerson, who lives at 2109 Allen, said he wanted to serve on a jury and see how courts work, lie paid no attention to the glares. Lousiana Adds To Lynchings Shreveport, La., Oct. 21 (ANP) —Because they thought he might havo been the man guilty of slay ing R. M. Blair, white and his woman companion on a highway 1 uesday night, a mob of several hundred whites went to the shack of W. C. Williams, 19 near Rus ton, 30 milos from here, Thursday night and lynched him from a tree in an adjacent pine groove. The death of Blair was the se cond fatality from similar causes within the past few weeks. In the first case following an attack on a white man and his companion, a suspect was arrested and rushed away to thwart an angry mob. had no connection with the attack. Williams had not been arrested when the mob trailed him to his mother’s country shack. Tho day before Williams was lynched, this suspict was released after police became convinced he TESTIMONY GIVEN THAT TRANSFORMERS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT INSTALLED WITH OUT OWNERS CONSENT Testimony that transformers and other equipment to serve farms had been installed without owners con sent by the Eastern Nebraska Pub lic Power District, was given Thursday afternoon before the state railway commission in Lincoln wh< n hearing of the Nebraska Power Company’s petition to pre vent duplication of its linss in Cass and Saunders counties was resum ed. A. B. Stromer, manager, Alvo Telephono Company, testified that such equipment had been placed at the farm of L .D. Mullen of Alvo which had been untenanted for ten years. Similar equipment he said was installed at District School j No. 64 although this school has not j been used for two year. Pupils of that district attend the consolidat ed school at Alvo. H. h. Bornemeier, farmer of rear Alvo, corroborated Mr. Stro mer’g testimony and also stated that he had heard of several other such unauthorized installations of electric service equipment by the public power district. Roy Page, vice president, Ne braska Power Company, and C. W. Minard, chief engineer, declared that duplication of powpr lines and serv f.'er in rural territory would not be to the best interests of the public. In answer to question by Robert Van Pelt, public power dis trict attorney, Mr. Page said that with two electric utilities operat ing in the same field, lower rates for farm electric scrvice would be impossible. This, he said, is be cause the two utilities would divide tho available customers, thus in creasing the cost per customer, through duplication of all operat ing and maintenance expenses. The hearing was adjourned until October 28. -—0O0 BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL WOMEN HOLD CONFAB IN PHILADELPHIA, PENN. Pihladelphia, Oct. 21 (By Bernice Dutricuille-Shelton for (ANP)— Negro business womens have seiz ed the bull of recession by the horns and in doing have gotten a jump on the men—in the matter of formulation of a definite pro gram to offset the effects of the economic plight among Negroes. Setting forth the first week in May for the inauguration of a Ne gro Business Women’s week, mark ed a decided highlight in the program last Saturday and Sunday of tho third annual convention of tha National Association of Busi ness Women’s Clubs. Sessions were held at the Southwest-Belmont Branch of the YWCA. THREE SCOTTSBORO BOYS ARE DENIED PARDONS Montgomery, Oct. 21 (ANP)— After hearing arguments for and against the release of Andy Wright Charlie Weems and Clarence Nor ris, threo of the youths convicted in the Scottsboro case, the Alaba ma pardon board this we^k denied petitions for their freedom. Mau rice Shapiro, New York lawyer, pleaded for the boys and former Senator J. Thomas Heflin gave the opposing arguments. Heflin objected to the written arguments which the board had re quested an<l said: “If this board pardons these Negroes, its mem bers won’t be safe in their homes.” He said ho had journed all the way from his home in Lafayette to op poso the boys’ pleas, and told re porters he would “make a speech every chance I get” to oppose re lease of the Scottsboro defendants. ti Gets NYA Post DELTA PRESIDENT GETS NYA POST Mrs. Vivian Osborne-Marsh of Eerkely, California, national presidert of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, who has just been appointed a* state super visor of he Division of Negro Affairs in the California Depart ment of the National Youth Ad ministration. Her office will be located in San Francisco. (ANP) Des Moines Hits Beatings By Cops Des Moims, Iowa. Oct. 21 (CNA) —A protest movement against third, degree method* on the part of the Des Moines police depart ment is gaining in this city. Three city detectives. Miller, O’Brien and Rich, attacked Ward. 11 Coyle while he was being held for investiga tion, and beat him brutally. City authorities, alarmed over tho resentment the action caused, hastily fined the detectives seventy fiv0 dollars in an effort to head off organized protest. But the beating and other cases of similar terrorism, were the targets of a mass meeting held here this week whe re resolutions calling for a pub lic investigation of the entire po lice department, were adopted. Maine State-Wide Vote Refuses To Go Back To Horrors of Prohibition In connection with the general State election in Maine Septem ber 12, every district in the State was required by law to vote for or against the continuation of the salo of liquor in such district. Now with the returns coming, into the offices of the Secretary of State there is no evidence yet that Maine is prepared to take back poisoned alcohol and moonshine liquor after having voted down Prohobitin four years ago. Everywhere the cities and towns retained thUr present systems of the sale of alcoholic beverages and a number of the small town, form erly Dry, turned over into the Wet ranks. S, veral of the smaller towns PORTER’S BROTHERHOOD OF A F OF L- DELEGATES FIGHT WHITE PRIMARIES RABBIS CONDEMN RACE PERSECUTION New York, Oct. 20 (CNA)—The common cause of Jews and other racial and religious minorities to sustain against advancing fascism, and pleas for recognition of the rights of religious and racial groups were themes that marked tho sermon delivered at the Yom Kipper services in this city. “America has no place for the preachment of hate which the emi ssaries of Hitler are trying to dis seminate among the gullible," Rab bi Louis L. Coleman declared at Congregation Rodolph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third Street. ‘‘The propagandists who are creating dis sension in the ranks of faithful American citizens of Germanic; background should halt their obno- j xious efforts at once, or take thej consequences at tht> hands of their co-racialists.” At the Mount Ncboh Temple, 130 West Seventy-ninth St. Rabbi L. Keinbcry stressed the duty of Jews to rally to the defense of all mino rity groups. “The duty of Jews in America i« not to demand rights for them selves as Jews but to defend the Bill of (Rights for all, as Ameri cans, By upholding the Constitu tion, we preserve o'ir own existence l’or it is the ultimate safeguard of every minority and creed. The Jews of this country have utmost faith in the ability of its people to distinguish between those who honor the Constitution by observ ing it, and those who use it us a shield for prejudice and disloyalty.” COMMUNITY CHEST SELECTS MAJORS r . 4 ■* ■ /' mi I -7 (j however, where the so-called beer parlors have become a problem voted against the renewal or issue of such licenses after January 1, 1939. Finds $500 Hidden In 1931 _Scotland. Neck, N. C. Oct. 21 (ANP)—James L. Taylor, a wan derer, returner! to Scotland Neck efter an absence of seven years. Ho visited the house occupied be fore. leaving in 1931 and told the tenants that he would like to look for something which he had hidden i there before he left. The residents agreed and Taylor went under the rear of the house. There he thought for a moment, slipped a loose brick from the foundation, reached in and located a waterproof jacket, containing $500 in bonds. --oO o— MRS. J. FARMER ANI) SON OPEN NEW CAFE The Plaza Cafe, 1408 North 24th St., operated by Mrs. J. Farmer and son, Rosso Farmer, is a clean up to date place. Three hot meals aro served daily— breakafst as early as 7:30 a. m.—Dinner ^s late as 2:30 a. m. Sandwiches of all kinds. Mrs. Farmer and son are pioneers of Omaha and will ap preciate your patronage. They al so cater to parties. W. Le.Roy Wilcox, chairman of tho Business Division of the Com munity Chest campaign today, an nounced the following majors who will direct their team workers in the canvass of the business houses. They are: Ralph Campbell, William Byrne, Royal Miller, Don Parker, F. J. Melia. Truitt Maxwell, and Don McArdle, Parker, Melia and Max well are second year men, having served in the same capacity last year. Moving forward with its plans for tho city wide campaign, the Community Chest is now establish ing headquarters on the eight floor of the World Herald Building, one floor above its regular offices. -0O0— JULIUS ROSENWALD FUND OFFERS FELLOWSHIPS Chicago, Oct. 21 (ANP)—The Committee on Fellowships for the Julius Rosenwald fund is again offering fellowships to worthy in dividuals for further study in their respective fields- *ie fellowships arc not restricted to any special subject or activity. While many of | the candidates will probably con template advanced university work j th« fellowships are open not on ly to scholara and scientists but [ to persons who may plan to go in- j to tho professions or the fine arts 1 or into agriculture, journalism or creativo writing, education, busi ness or public s* rvice. Physicians Do Post Graduate Work at Flint-Goodridge f ■■ ■■■-- VL.T.- ~ ' "" " ■ -- u X, iw Orleans, La., Oct. 20—The abovo is a partial group of staff physicians at Flint Goodridge ilos posital of Dillard university who are taking postgraduate courses in Tuberculosis and Syphilis. The group will meet weekly, October through May, for lectures, demon strations and discussions on the latest developments in the diag nosis and treatment of these two insidious diseases. Physicians who take the courses are given free sero-logieal service, diagnos tic x-ray service and drugs for the treatment of their private pa tients. Houston, Texas, October 20 Report- from the A. F. of I*» Convention at Houston, Texas, «how that A. Philip Randolph, In ternational President and M. P* Wehgttr, First International Vice President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, battled with force and ability to place the pow erful American Federation of L<ab er behind the fight of the JSTegro people to break down white prim aries and thereby eliminate tho disfranchisement of Negroes. In his speech against white pri maries in the South, Mr. .Randolph attacked the Poll Tax. Brotherhood Delegates Reverse Convention In one of the only two instances when tht A. F. of L. Convention reversed it* position and the re port of the powerful Resolution Committee was overruled when under the attacks of delegates Randolph and Webster, the Bro therhood’s Resolution for the re storation of colored maids on a basis of seniority rule was upheld. In a speech on the resolution, Deb gate M. P. Webster told the Convention that the membership of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters included Filipinos, Chin ese and that white barber* had made application for membership and would be accepted. He point ed out that the Brotherhood wras fighting for maids who, with 20 and 30 years of service were thrown out without any consider ation by the Union Pacific Rail road and other carriers. The Brotherhood’s resolution on the Scottsboro Boys w’as adopted and also the resolution for an Anti Lynching Law. The C. Indention reaffirmed its position in favor of the restoration of the independence, of Ethiopia. The Brotherhood resolution a gainst general discrimination a gainst tho Negro people provoked an extended and bitter discussion on thc floor, with delegate Ran dolph denouncing the whole jim crow system of the South, pointing out that it was a form of econom ic duplication which caused the South to be Nation’s according to President Roosevelt. Number one Problem, A. F. of L. Calls on Unions to Abolish Color Bar For the first time since the Bro therhood has been fighting for the elimination of thc Color bar, the A. F. of L. Convention, adopted the Brotherhood’s resolution which requested committee to be set up in National and Internationa] Un ions to discuss the cjuestlion of their succeeding convention in or der to keep the issue alive in the unions. Southern delegates and the peo ple of Houston were astonished at tho drastic demands and attacks of the Brotherhood delegates a gainst all forms of race discrim ination, as attested by general ex piessior.s of the South' rn delegat es. Webster Stirs Negro Houston At a meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Mr. Webster assailed Negro leadership as a fail ure and called for a working class Negro Leadership which has courage, vision and intelligence# as is expressed in the Sleeping Car Porters and other unions. Ho told th<3 story of the struggle of the Brotherhood and pointed eut tho significance of the role of tha Brotherhood in tho A. F. of L. and that the Negro and white workers should unite in a common cause. Dr. Jerome Davis, President of the Ttachers’ Union backed the Brotherhood’s resolutions.