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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.