The Weather I
Nebraska—Generally Fair
and Not So Cold East I
Portion Thursday. Friday
Considerable Cloudiness,
Somewhat Warmer in
East and South Portion,
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EntcabrLErutdSMArtMot *&T 0m‘ll‘'_Omaha, Nebr., Saturday, Nov. 26,1938___number'I. _
MILLIONAIRE FACES
CHILDREN IN LAW
SUIT; $500,000 SOUGHT
Oklahoma City, Okla.—The re
ported million dollars law suit now
being pressed by the children of
the late Mrs. Sadie Lyon? against
S. D. Lyons, their father, pro
prietor of the Ea«t India Hair
Grower Company rocked the south
west this week.
The present hearing of the case
is the second. In 1935 suit was
first filed. At that time the plain
tiffs presented the facts with which
they hope to persuade the court
to sustain their plea for a trust
hut the district court ruled against
them.
The Lyon children through their
r.ttorneys proceeded to carry the
case to the Oklahoma Supreme
Court which held that the facts
presented by the petitioners would
justify a new trial.
Tho trial started here Wednes
day Nov, 2 and the hearing was
resumed Wednesday when Mr.
Lyons attorneys were present to
represent him. One would think
that all of the state of Oklahoma
hail turned out to hear the nation
wide discussed case Wednesday
morning when viewing the. huge
crowd.
The plaintiffs in the care are
Effie Lyons Edwards of Kansas
City Mo., and Ruby Lyons, a pro
minent businessman of this city.
A third daughter, Mrs. Allie Lyons
Anthony has come to an agree
ment wjth her father and with
drawn from the suit.
Mrs. Edwards and her mother
are asking the courts to set aside
the one-half share which their mo
ther had in the business in trust
for future benefit of the children
born to the union of SaJie Lyons
and S. D. Lyons.
According to the story told the
court! by Mrs. Edwards and Ruby
Lyons, the East India Hair Grow
er Company was started by their
mother, Sadie Lyons.
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411 EMPLOYED BY
NEW YORK UTILITY
New York. Nov. 26 (C)—The
Consolidated Ed*on company, dis
pensers of gas and electricity, em
ployed 411 colored as of June 11
last, according to A. A. Low. vice
president, who testified on Tues
day before the State Temporary
Commission. Mr. Low said Ne
groes make up one percent of the
employes of the company, and they
are as follows:
six. supervisors. 84 clerks. 48
mechanics, 228 skilled laborers, 45
laborers and one doctor.
$7,000,000 FOR UNEMPLOYED
Lincoln, Neb. Nov. 23—Nebraska j
had the sum of $7,022,443 avail-1
able for payment of Unemploy
ment insurance when tabulation of
third quarterly contributions a
mounting to $974,423 from 3,300
Nebraska employers, who are sub
ject to the law, was completed on
November 15 by the Nebraska Un
employment Compensation divi
sion.
An increase in wages paid over
the second quarter of 1938 was
noted, -s'nee ciontributidns based
on a two and seven-tenths percent
tax on payrolls, totalled approxi
mately $24,000 more during the
third quarter, which ended Sept
ember 30.
WINS $20 PRIZE
Hay E. Mack, 1)34 No. 25th St
an employee of the Dundee gar
age won a prize of $20 represent
ing 3rd place in a citywide contest
of Firestone products. This is the
1st contest Mack has entered. Be
fore coming to Omaha, a year ago,
he was a residence of Emporia,
Kansa .
ALL STAR FOOTBALL
GAME AT CREIGHTON
STADIUM SUNDAY
I SOB VANDEVERE
The brisk November weather of
the past few days makes it certain
that Omaha Football fans will wit
ness a bang-up game when the
Nebraska All-Stars tangle with
the Iowa All-Stars this Sunday at
Creighton Stadium. Bob Vende
vere, fleet half back of the Iowa
AllStars believes that this sort of
weather is just the right kind to
give him the zip to scamper for
touchdowns next Sunday. This
wing-footed Negro half, who is ac
knowledged the fastest man to
wear a football uniform i« expected
to provide the fireworks for the
Iowa team. Vandevere will be aid
ed by a squad of outstanding gridi
ron stars from all parts of the
state of Iowa, and he promises
to make life miserable for the Ne
braska hopefuls.
The Nebraska team is all assem
bled in Omaha and is working out
daily at the Creighton Stadium un
der the watchful eye of Marchie
Schwartz, head coach of Creighton
oni'er-sity, anti a staff of the lead
ing coaches of Omaha. Hope has
teen brought to the Nebraska fans
with the news that Sam Francis,
All-American star fullback from
Nebraska and the spark plug of
the Chicago Bears has been signed
to play with the Nebraska All
Stars. The Nebraska backfield has
been argumented with the signing
of the Senior backfield of Creigh
ton University. Zeisel, Piet, Ga
lonka, and Leahy will don the mole
skins for the Nebraska team. Omar
Kelly and Dick Rucki of the 1938
Creighton squad have been added
to the Nebraska roster.
Officials for the game have sign
ed assuring a fast and furious pro
fessional game for the football
fans of Omaha and vicinity .Spon
sors of the game, The House of the
Good Shepard, have taken every
precaution that this game will be
the greatest football contest ever
to be presented in Omaha.
LASSO PREVENTS
SUICIDE ATTEMPT!
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COI THROWS LASSO IN TIME
TO HALT MAN’S THREE
STORY PLUNGE
New York—A quick thinking po
liceman on Sunday used a lasso to
save a Brooklyn man, whose mind
was affected by unemployment,
threatened to plunge out a three
: tory window.
Leslie Sherwood, 36 of 338 Grand
Avenue was afterwards treated
By Dr. Handell of the Jewish Hos
pital, strait-jacketed and taken to
the King,s County Hospital. About
260 persons looked on while police
frustrated the suicide attempt.
Emergency squads from the Grand
and Hamilton avenue stations and
the two radio cars were on the
scene.
Marie Sherwood frantiely tele
phoned police about 12:15 p. m. that
her husband was trying to end
his life. Responding to the call in a
radio car, patrolman Joseph Ross
and Arthur Hayes of the Classon
Avenue station found Sherwood at
, I
the open window. 1 he man was
armed with a screwdriver.
Patrolman Hayes entered the a
partment. Sherwood, who was then
standing on the window-sill, seized
three straight razor* from a chest
and warned the policeman, it was
said, away. Patrolman, meanwhile
had rushed off for aid. His call
brought the emergency squad3 and
radio cars, composed of 30 police
men. and two sergeants who quick
ly spread nets should Sherwood
leap
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HARLEM SPOKESMEN SEE
DANGER TO ALL MINORITIES
OVER THE WORLD IN NAZIS
NEWEST ATTACK
New York. Nov. 22—Negro lead
ers on Nov. 17 vigorously condem
ned the Hitler Government for its
atrocities against the Jewish peo
ple and declared that unity of the
people in America is now an ut
most and immediate necessity.
In the actions of the* Nazi di
tator they saw a definite threat
to democracy everywhere and felt
Civic, and Business
Enterprises Plan
Xmas Entertain
ment for Children
Mr. H. A* Taylor, manager of
tbt Ritz Theatre will give a Xmas
entertainment for deserving child
ren, on Thuteday Dec. 22nd, 1988.
He is doingrfthis with the assist
ance of the YWCA, the NAAt'P
and the Community Center. The
Omaha CJuine will assist with pub
licity. •
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TEXAS PARLEY TO SPUR
NEGRO EDUCATIONAL PLANS
COMMISSION ON INTER
RACIAL COOPERATION TO
MEET FOR DRAFTING IN
( R K A BED OP FORTH NITI ES
I AI Ktt FOLLOW 1( KES NEGRO
CONGRESS ADDRESS
Tort Worth, Tex., Nov. 2i> The
Texas CTromHs on on Inter-Haeir.l
Co-cperfitlon will meet here No
■ ember 18 and 19 to map its cam
paign to obtain graduate 3 hooi
training for Negroes in this state.
The Commission on Inter-Racial
Co-operation is composed equally
cf whites and Negroes. Mrs. J. L.
1 rock of Bryan is State chairman
and W. R. Banks, president of
l rnirie View Normal, is secretary.
The Commission has advocated
? uch a school possibly in connection
with the present Prairie View
1 tate Norrrfal 4or Negroes, for two
years. Present plans are to ask a
separate appropriation from the
legislature or to include the ap
propriation on the general bill to
1 roviile money for State schools.
Should these fail, the cominis
"or. may institute a te»t case in
I court, commission members said.
A. similar case, now on appeal be
ore the U. S. Supreme Court was
presented in Missouri. A Negro
was refused admission to the state
university Law School and the Ne
gro pleaded in court that he had no
alternative.
This action follows the address
of Secretary of Interior Ickes at
the recent National Negro Con
gress in Baltimore where he called
for increased opportunities for the
Negro people. (Ickes called not
merely for educational opportuni
ties, but stressed the need for
greater job, social and equal rights
advantages for the Negroes.)
The meeting in Texas is indica
tive of the wide progressive move
ment in the South for bringing to
the Negro people a broader and
sweeping educational program.
that America with its population
of Negroes, Jews and Catholics
should exercise leadership in creat
ing world-action to repulse fascism.
In an interview, Walter White,
secretary of the National Associa
tion tor the Advancement of Col
ored People said:
“So horrible is the news out of
Germany that it is almost im
possible to believe what has ap
peared in the newspapers these
last few days. It is now obvious
that Hitler i: resorting to race
prejudice against the Jews to
seize their property, to bolster
Germany's precarious economic
situation.
NEGKO UNITY URGED
"*We Negroes know what this
means since it has happened to
us. We must join with all those
in condemning Nazi terror be
cause what happens to one min
ority can happen to others— a
lesson which Jews, Negroes and
all other minorities must learn
'in sheer self-defense."
Ashley Totten, International fi
nance secreaary of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters, said:
“The terrible situation obtain
ing in Germany is of as much
concern to Negroes as to Jews.
In Germany, and particularly, in
Ethiopia, the Negro people have
COMPLETES 40 YEARS
C. C. SPAULDING
DR. C. C. SPAULDING
Who has served the full 40 years
which were celebrated by the
North Carolina Mutal Life In- !
surance Company of Durham,
recently, and who has been pres- !
ident of the company since the
death of the second president.
Dr. A. M. Moore, on April 29,
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ers and was elected the first
192,‘l. He was one of the found -
president of the National Ne
gro Insurance Association, serv
ing three terms. He started with
the N. C. Mutal as a janitor and
agent, coming to It from a gro
ceiy store which he managed.
(Crflvin Service.
felt the lash of fascism."
“We don’t have to leave the
United States to be aware of
of anti-Semitism and the farther
development of Negro hatred;
other agents of Hitler are here a
mong us, spying and propagan
dizing—spreading the germs of
minority antagonism from coast
to coast.”
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BUILDING MAY BE FORECAST
OF “REAL RECOVERY"
A forecast that new building
construction may initiate “real re
covery" in 1939 was made today
by Professor Roderic Crane, mem
ber of the department of business
administiation at the University of
Omaha.
Professor Crane pointed out,
however that the forecast would
hold true if the present boom does
not assume wild speculative pro
portions and if costs of production
do out outstrip prices as they did
in 1937.
1 he University of Omaha busi
ness expert declined to commit
himself precisely as to the factors
which have brought about the pre- !
sent industrial upswing. “No one j
can say with certainty what peci-,
tic factors make depression give I
way to recovery. In 1932, the au
tomotive industry initiated the re
covery movement.
“Today,” continued the business
professor, “it is my opinion that
the building industry will be the
foundation of real recovery in 1939.
“Residential building contracts
awarded in October were greater
in volume than in any October
since 1928. Contracts for public
financed projects are also at a
record.”
Professor Crane stated he
thought the Federal Housing Ad
ministration is direct influence in
stimulating the construction in
dustry.
Tiue, the middle west has not
i yet felt the full force of the re
covery movement. This section of
the country i* always .slow in
reacting to changes in the business
cycle. But thre has been a very
pronounced industrial upturn since
June.”
Besides the upsurge in the build
ing industry, the University of
Omaha econcmii . cited other indi
cations of business improvement.
Reliable business indices show a
40 per cent recovery since June;
raw material prices have advanc
ed 80 per cent; the stock market
1 as spurted up 00 per cent; and
till production has climbed from
27 per cent capacity in June to
58 per cent at the present tine.
Professor Crane believes it is
row time for a temporary seasonal
slowing down of the present re
covery movement at least until
spring. By then, he said, industry
should be prepared for further ad
vances to carry it above present i
levels.
“The building contracts which al
ready been awarded are themselves
i harbinger of spring activity.”
he added.
The Omaha business specialist
sees the farmer benefiting from
industrial recovery in two ways;
lower costs of finished goods and
stimulaton of the chomurgic indus
try
As times get better, farm pro
ducts will be in ever wider demand
lor use in the making of syn
thet'c industrial g ^>ds.Then the
middle west will share a larger in
come with the rest of the nation.'
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NAT L BEAUTY DIRECTORY
Marjorie Stewart Joiner, presi
dent ol' the National Beauty Lea
gue is compiling a directory, giv
ing the name* of all Beauty Shops
throughout the nation. Omaha
Beauty operators wishing to be
listed n this directory will please
call Mrs. Althouse. WE. 0840 as
soon as possible.
REDUCED RATES TO CALIF.
WORLD S FAIR
CHICAGO, Nov. 24—Reduced
ailroad passenger rates to the
'9J9 California World’s Fair, ef
fective starting next February 1
md continuing throughout the Ex
oo.iticn, were announced by H. W.
Siddall of Chicago, Chairman of
he Transcontinental Passenger
Association. Return limit on tic
kets has been extended to 90 days.
The reduction will apply to first
i lass or standard sleeping car far
| or on all rail lines west of Chicago,
| and it is protable that the extend
j ed reductions also will apply o>n
i a: tern lines Siddall announced.
To enable, visitors to “See All
DISCUSS NEGRO’S
CONTRIBUTION TO
U. S. CULTURE
New York Nov. 20—“The his
tory of our people shows the
matchless patriotism, unconquered
heroism and splendid cultural ac
Sevement ot the Negro," Mrs. M.
McLeod Bethuno, prominent eduea
I f :• and president of the Associa
tion tor the Study' of Negro Life
and History, declared before an
audience of 1,500 last Friday even
ing.
'1 i;e occasion was the opening
session of the 22nd annual meet
ing of the association at the Ri
verside Church, and had as its
theme the Negro's contribution of
American culture. Harccurt A.
dynes, who introduced Mrs. Bfe
thune as one of the greatest women
in the United States, was chair
man.
Mrs. Bethune raid that the task
of thi associa tion is to bring the
glaring untruths and inaccuracies
ir. m;>?t histories ami textbooks to
the attention of school authorities.
Pi llowing Mrs. Bethune's ad
dress, Dr. Henry Neumann, of bhe
Brooklyn Society for Eth'cal Cul
ture, told of the association's pio
neer work in unearthing soicolo
gcal and ethnogioal data and con
ducting research.
1 he meeting was concluded by an
impromtu address by Dr. Carter
G. Woodson, distinguished Negro
historian and scholar, who de
nounced propaganda that damned
the Negro as inferior. Ponting to
the Negro as a dominant factor in
early human progress and in im
portant contributor to American
civilization. Dr. Woodson said that
the Negro when given the same
opportunity as the white man, has
walked in the great procession of
men.”
the West in ’.‘19” during the great
fiesta year throughout the eleven
Western states which are co-spon
sor? of the Golden Gate Interna
tional Exposition, railroad? are ex
tending the time limit for return
to 90 days, instead of the usual
60 said Siddali. The extension in
time also will apply to tourist far
es.
Regular summer round trip far
es, which usually are in effect
from May 16 to October 15, will be
offered next February 1, to enable
visitors to arrive ju*t before the
opening of the Exposition on Trea
sure Island next February 18, Re
ductions amount to about 10 per
cent of the usual winter rates.
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BUY XMAS SEALS
With the funds raised through
the annual Christmas Seal drive,
the Nebraska Tuberculosis Asso
ciation will continue the unceasing
warfare against this deadly dis
ease, tuberculosis, and it is be
lieved that with continuous effort
tuberculosis eventually may be era
dicated.
Although it is true that the
death rate has declined three
fourths in the past thirty years, it
is also true that it has increased
in Nebraska the past year. Tu
berculosis is still the most diffi
cult health problem that confronts
us .There were 70,000 deaths from
tuberculosis last year, and this
means that there are no less than
50,000 living persons who are act
ive cases of this disease in the
United States.
No home will be safe until all
home are protected. With the pre
sent knowledge of tuberculosis the
only excuse for its increasing will
be our neglect to supply funds to
continue this great work. There
is tuberculin testing which must be
done, literature to be distributed,
important medical research to car
ry on and clinics to be supported.
More money is needed to carry
n this great work and save hu
manity. Only by continued and Per
sistant effort, can the grmnd
gained be maintained and further
advances made. Do your part! Buy
Christmas Seals!
Elk's 33rd Annual Charity Ball, Dec. 9-at the New Rainbow Dance Hall asss™.