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5l I Cents® ^BCity ^er , Edition EVERYWHERE 3rf| I |)M| The Weather WORLD ‘^h/. /■ ^B ^B A Weather Outlook for the NEWS Stni.*’ ^‘•li':',‘>nc,x. ______ _' u>>i’<!r Mi'* « *-•»« U. n*KM<'ATioN /■ 0 ICE/EQUALITY I HEW TO THt UNF\ JF ALL LOCAL NEW'S ) ■■■ .. i —tion perm I middle turn MATTER . — -- —’" - ' fair toward close. FLASH PHOTO _ L. - SE?VICE ——4 LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY _-» — < Entered as Second-Clas8 Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Amav,„ VTflk„ Qnhirdov n^« m 1QQQ VOL. 12 Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. Omaha, Nebr., featUl day, Dec. 10, UM8 _ Number 35 Sues Indianapolis and Union Station for $50,000 DAUGHTER OF DR. M. C. B. MASON DRESSED TOO FINE COP LOCKS HER UP DURING STOP OVER IN INDIANA CITY Chicago, Dec. 8 (ANP)— Still under a physician's care this week from the nervous shock sustained when arrested in Indianapolis last Sunday, Mrs. Noblesse Boyd of Chicago, wealthy daughter of the late Dr. M. C. B. Mason of national fame and widow of the late D.uke Boyd, postal .clerk and prominent churchman, announced she has filed suit for $50,000 a gainst the Union Station and city .cf Indianapolis charging false, ar rest and imprisonment . it was while returning from , Cirticinnati, where she had spent ! Thanksgiving with friends that Mrs. Boyd stopped in Indianapylis While waiting three hours between ^trains at the Union station, she telephoned friends and went into the main waiting room to eat lunch. At approximately the time when pastors and leaders were publicly protesting the mistreatment of Jews in Nazi officials, a white sta tion policeman accompanied by a white girl about 13 years old went up to Mrs. Boyd and asker her to go into the women’s waiting room for a talk. She went with the officer assisting her carrying her luggage. As soon as she got there, the policeman said to the attendant, also white, “take her in there,” as1 ho pointed to a closed room. Mrs. Boyd was well dressed,! wearing a rich looking fur coat valued at $500. Having been abroad several times, her luggage was heavily laden with European la bels. What was apparently to him the unusual spectacle of a color ed woman being so attired and equipped was believed responsible for his attitude, because he an grily told the C-hieogoan “you don’t own these things.” TT l_I COQVfh hnt.Vl lie liUU w*v . Mrs. Boyd and her luggage and then demanded, “Where are you going with all those fine clothes?” Coming across her passport still saved from a recent European trip ho wanted to know just who she was. The traveller explained she was a property owner in Chicago and asked, permission to call her fri ends. The policeman ordered her to “shut up”. Mrs. Boyd said, and then told her he would “take her where she could telephone some body.” Handling her roughly, he pushed her to the door of the sta tion, huddler her into a patrol wa gon and took her to the city jail where she was locked up. There she gave the name of an influential friend who in three hours brought her release. Forced to stay over until the next day, Mrs. Boyd appeared in court Monday morning only to have the case dismissed as soon as it was called. The chavge filed against her was that of “vagrancy.” Although officials were apolo getic, Mrs. Boyd secured the ser vices of A tty. Andrew Jacobs of Indianapolis who immediately fil ed suit against the Union station and the city for $50,000. She an nounced she intends to fight the l case through. ———0O0 INSTALL SNEED AS CHICAGO COUNTY COMMISSIONER ft Chicago, Dec. 8 (ANP—In the Hi presence of civic, political and 5 other city leaders, gathered on 1 —World-Herald Photo.- i Dale Ward ■ ■ ■ got shoe*, saw a movie. —— *~ IlTJiuk i; MAN" SEEKS BOYS TOWN RESIDENCE Armed with a “Junior G-Man” badge and a broken watch and chain and bearing a large tag whlfch read: “To w.iom it may concern: ‘ My name is Dale Ward and I am on my way to Boys Town, Neb. Please see that I catch the right bus at Omaha.” Dale Ward arrived at the Union Bus Station Sunday morning. The youngster told police that his fa ther had put him on the bus at Kansas City Saturday night. He said that he was 8 years old and had attended Penn School in Kan sas City. The boy was called for by authorities from Boys Town where he will remain with the home and police department try to trace his parents. Dale said that his parent’s names are Mamie and Wesley, but that his father is called “Lonnie.” He has grandparents in Muskogee, Gkla. and a brother and sister, 10 year old twins .living with someone in California, he said. At Boys Town Dale joined the ether citizens of the little village wh'le they played in the recreation room and later attended a showing of Laurel and Hardy in “Swiss Miss.” He was pleased with the meal he had eaten and with a pair of shoes which replaced the soleless ones in wrhich he arrived, but what pleased him most was the movie. He said it was the first he’d ever seen. Monday at the County Building, Third Ward Democratic Commit- j teeman Edward M. Sneed was for mally installed as a member of the Board of County Commissioners. A victor at the November election Commissioner is the first Democrat of his race to serve on the County Board. ---wv MICHIGAN'S FIRST NEGRO JUDGE PRESIDES IN COUNTY COURT Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 8 (A. N. P.-—Last Tuesday for the first time in history of this state, a Negro Judge ascended the bench, the central figure being Judge Ed mond C. White of Yatrd Townshio, who presided in Lake County Cir cuit Court. The case at bar was an assault charge placed against John H. Smith. The state was represented by County Prosecutor Allan Lidkes and Simth’s counsel was Atty. F. H. Skinner, of Grand Rapids. Af ter Witnesses had testified, Pro secutor Lidke moved for the defen- j dant’s dismissal and discharge. Judge White granted the motion and the defendant was released. FIGHT OVER WILL ENDED RICH MAN’S NEGRO WIDOW AND WHITE FAMILY IN AGREMENT AT LAST New York—Two years of bitter legal entanglements, concerning the contested will of Arthur W, Frost, 70 year old white sugar king who tried to “cut off his blueblood relatives without a nickel” and leave bis immense estate to his colored wife and her 10 year old daughter in the Dominician Re public, will come to a halt at a hearing set for December 27. The hearing will find said white rela tives flaunting a previously drawn will dated in 1})22 and giving 02'^ per cent -to the fcluebloods’s nine nieces, grandnieces and nephews. ! ‘ Daddy is this the old man who | ir going to die and leave us a lot of money?” . •. This remark was made' by the daughter of one of Frost’s nieces. It made the plutocrat planter an gry. Ife drew up his will so that his wife and daughter, would get all his property. ‘He drew it up a r-tight,.lawyer-proof, and yet he failed. t , Thu inquiring little girl became something akin to a prophet when the widow, MVs. Julia Fredericks f rost, vigorously contested the will but apparently tired out by the court bickerings, finally agreed to accept 37'2 per cent of her hus band’s and (holdings. Mrs. Frost had served in the su- i gar king’s household for a quar ter of a century. A year before his death they were married. The ■ daughter, Maria was made legal by Frost at the time of his wed ding. Headlines For Two Years The planter died in San P |!ro de Macoris, Dominican Republic December 18, 1936. His American relatives produced a will drawn in 1922. Ever since a legal bat-J tie has been waged. For two years the case seethed and made head lines across the front page of the nation's colored and white newspa pers. Wednesday, papers were filed in j Surrogate’s Court showing that the 1 sugar-mill magnate had bequeath ed the money to be cut up among the little inquiring girl’s daddy, nine other nieces, grandnieces and nephews, a formidable array of re-! reiver's. The lawyer for the relatives, j Edward J. Welch of 67 West 44th street, was granted the request for a hearing on the final account ing of the City Bank Farmers Truts Co., executors for Frost’s vast proper-ties. -0O0 FIBBER M'BEE TB OMAHA Fibber McGee and Company, sec ond most popular program on the tadio, will present two Christmas Charity performances in Omaha, December 18, under sponsorship of Radio Station WOW, John Gillin, Jr., General Manager, announced today. Proceeds will be divided be tween Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home, the Masonic Home for Boys and the Good Fellows. The first performance will be at 2:00 p. m. and the second at 8:00 p. m. both at the Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum. Gen eral admission will be 55c, reserv ed seats 83c and $1.10. In addition to the Fibber McGee Company, which includes Donald Novis, Nick Do Depopulus, the Old Timer, Hal Peary, Sylvia Clark, Irene Vermil lion and her girl trumpeters, and The Four Notes with Marjorie Whitney, an abbreviated version of the WOW' Goodwill Follies will be presented at each performance. This is the show featuring 40 mem bers of the W’OW staff, which re cently played free performances in Atlantic, Iowa; Nebraska City, Fremont, Grand Island and Nor folk, Nebraska. WIVES OF CITY EMPLOYEES ORGANIZE The Wives of the Colored Police men and Firemen, have organized a very unique club. The club in its nature is social and educational. There are about 22 members. The club met at the beautiful apart ment of Mrs. Harry Lewis, 1406 North 22nd St. for the November meeting. Mrs, Thelma Hancock spoke to the club on “A World Wide Thanksgiving”. The hostess served a very tasteful luncheon. Mrs. Lucille Gustin, President, Mi s. Mattie Childs Jones, Sec'y. -o CATHOLIC MAGAZINE HITS AMEREN HYPOCRISY ON THE JEWISH ISSUE New York, Dec.'S (C) Ameri can hypocricy on the Jewish issue ih Germany was scored by The Commonwealth 2sfi, Fourth avenue. Philip Burnham and Edward Skil-, ling Jr., editors, a Catholic'Weekly review of literature, arts and public affairs, in its issue of Dec ember 2. In its ioading editorial Time magazine gave considerable spaco to a full discussion of the Nazi atrocities and concluded as follows. “However, though Jews are not e. race, the colored people are. It is blood that identifies them. And though Nazi Germany and Fas cist Italy j are tjhe outstanding preachers of racial intolerance to day, we make bold to assert that the United States is the outstand ing practiser of racial intolerance! There are 13,000,000 Negroes in the United States as against 700, 000 Jews in Germany and 50,000 in Italy. We need not detail here the well-known facts of racial op pression in America— disfran chisement, social ostracism, eco nomic discrimination, ghettoiijm, lynching, educational, cultural and hygienic neglect, religious, segre gation and the rest. They are so well known that we are callous to them. The still small voice of con science has been stilled in their re gard. This is our national shame! It is ardently to be hoped for that the present crisis of the Jews will | provoke widespread self-examina tion of conscience in America and efficacious resolution to mend our ways. Can we point out the mote in a brother’s eye. while there re mains a beam in our own?” HOWARD-KENNEDY PTA. The P. T. A. of Howard-Kennedy School will hold its regular meet ing Tuesday, December 13, 1938, at 2 p. m. The Adult Education chairman, Mrs. C. A. Branch and her committee will present the program. Mrs. Elizabeth Reiner will be the guest speaker, Mrs. D. V. Gordon will talk on Child De velopment. Music selections will be furnished by Mrs. Delores Black well. Mrs. B. E. Squires, Presi dent, Mrs. T. N. Hancock, Publicity Chairman. —-oOo— DEMOCRACY TAKEN TOO MUCH FOR GRANTED HERE WALTER WHITE TELLS JEWS New York, Dec. 5—Americans need to learn the lesson that de mocracy has been taken too much for granted in this country, Walter White told members of the New York Free Synagogue at a meet ing held at Carnegie Hall here Sunday morning, November 27. The executive secretary of the National Association for the Ar vancement of Colored People was one of the three speakers to ad dress the Free Synagogue on “The Nazi Terror: My Reaction." The others speakers were Dr. Henry S. Leiper, director of the Universal Christian Council; and Dr. Tarka nath Das. a prominent Hindu. “Unfortunately, most of us are so concerned about our own indi ( II vms U. WILSON. FORMER OM.\IIAN EMPLOYED BY RUMFORD BAKING ..POWDER CO. T’ ha# 'just been announced by Rumicrd, makers of Health Club Baking Power, that they have em ployed a fourth Negro salesman. The newcomer to the Rumford sale's force is Mr. Charles R. Wil son, of Chicago. Mr. Wilson is mar ried and the father of a three-year old son. He has had commercial training at Creighton University, Omaha, and business experience as catering manager of Poro College and the Grand Hotel in Chicago. Mi', Wilson will make his headquar ters at Memphis, his territory ex teitiJing as far»%outh as . Florida. The first, men of the Negro race to be emloyed as salesmen by Rumford were Randall L. Tyus and Raymond S. Scruggs, both graduates of Fisk University. They joined the Rumford staff in 1932. fn 1935 Paul D. Norton, graduate of Virginia Union University, was employed by this firm as sales man. Scruggs resigned three years ago to take up “Y" work in De troit. Tyus and Morton are still on the job. Morton is working the Mississippi territory, and Tyus is promoting Health Club Baking Powder in the Chicago area. As sociated with Tyus in his Chicago work is Mrs. Mattie L. Handy, fa mous food expert, who has been employed by the Rumford organi- | zation for many years. vidaul or group welfare,’' he said,' “that we fa', to understand the wuy in which b'gotry gains a strangle hold on a nation of peo ple.” Terming the Nazi persecutions of the .Jewish people a “night man)’’ which will soon pass,” said White. ———0O0 CHURCH FINANCIER Dr. I,. A. Bowman Treasurer of the Sunday school Publishing board, Nashville, Tenn. whose financial leadership is wide ly recognized. A native of South ('aroPna, Dr. Bowman finished dentistry at Meharry in ‘12 and has built up an intensive practice and at the same time further pre pared himself for service study ing finance. This study resulted in his being elected treasurer of the S. S. Publishing Board and treasu rer of the Finance Commission of the National Baptpist Convention, Inc. (Calvin Service.)— International Vice » ■ President of Sleep ing Car Porters To Appear Here THIS WEEK IN RELIGION & THOUGHT In ROBERT I,. MOODY The GIFT and The GIVER Once again we are approaching tho Christmas ’ season, There are generally several factors that we ■tress hut tlic ‘ gift” seems to b ■ the inoit popular. It appears that our idea of giv ing was inspired by the gifts of ' the kings and wise men who came liom the East to worship Christ the Lord. It is to be regretted that many of our present motives are far from this, concept. It has be i t mio popular to give only to those of our friends or those who will also probably . give to us. It -is possibly true that the wise men realized the potential gift of God in return for what they gave for tha Christ child was the gift of God personified. But we are to give each other out of the same rivjrit of love and helpfulness. Many charitable insti tutions, churches and social groups are planning to help make the poor men, women and children happy. This is very good, but we must re member that: “Not what we give but what we share." “The gift without the giver” is bare.” The Christ child is not being re born in the flesh this Christmas so that you may give directly to Him, but the Spirit of Love is here to he vitalized in our gifts. As often as we do it unto the least of these his little ones we do it unto him. Like the Macedonians of old, let us “first give ourselves to the Lord and our fellow men.” -nOn AWARDED COMPENSATION Edmund Mills of 2932 N. 25th St. who was party disabled in January of this year when he injured a hand while employed by a local motor ear concern was awarded a part disabi lity compensation of $12.00 a week for 32 weeks by Judge Lawrence F. Welsh, Tuesday. GEORGIA BAPTISTS UNITED BY PINKSTON; RAISE $7,000 Macon, Ga., Dec. 15 (C)—The General Missionary Baptist Con vention of Georgia was reunited last week through the able leader ship of Rev. L. A. Pinkston, pas tor of Tabernacle Baptist church, Augusta, as it held its 68th annual session at the First Baptist church Rev. F. N. Marhburn, pastor. Rev. Pinkston was reelected and brought harmony to the organization as all factions agreed to Fitzgerald as the site1 of the new theological school for ministers and mission ary workers. Dissention had invad ed the ranks of the group through tho loss of the Central City col lege propei-ty. -O DETROIT PREPARES FOR KAPPA CONCLAVE Detroit, Dec. 16 (ANP)—Improv ing the housing conditions of Ne gro students in “white’ 'univer sities; containing the fight against tho use of photographs in civil examination; broadening the base of its “Guide Right’’ movement, and several other matters will be discussed at the 28th annual meet ing of the Kappa Alpha Psi Frat ernity when it meets here Dec. 27 30, according to the program made public this week. BIG MASS MEETING TO BE IIEl l) HERE Mr. M. P. Webst?r, international vice-president of the Brotherhood - —— -.T ,-WMW M. P. WEBSTER of Sleeping Car Porters, will ap pear in a mass meeting, sponsor ed by the Omaha Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por ters, next Sunday, December 11, 1938, at the Clair Chapel ME. Church, 22nd ant^ Miami 8t., at 3:00 p, m. ’ A supporting program consist ing of Mayor Butler; Mace Brown, president of the Central Labor Union; Elder Scott, president of the Protective Order of O' ning Car Waiters, and fine musical numbers by some of Omaha’s outstanding artists. This will be one of the greatest affairs to be held in 0 maha for some time. The public in general is invited and urged to be present to hear Mr. Webster, one of the race’s greatest orators, who will outline to you the econ omic progress of the Negro in the Laboi* Movement. FORMER NEWSMAN’S STORY REPRINTED I READER’S DIGEST New York City. Dec. 8 (ANP)— Reprinted from the December issue of The Commentator ,an article “A Negro Looks at the South, authored by Ollie Stewart, appears in the January issue of Readers Digest. Stewart is a former staff member of Baltimore Afro Ameri can, now writes free lance, specia lizes in features and short stories. Ken Magazine and Globe, tra'e magazine, have also published his work.!. 300 ATTEND WOMEN’S MEET IN NEW’ YORK New York, Dec. 15 (C) Three hundred delegates from twenty eight national organizations at tended the banquet given Saturday night at the YWCA, honoring Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadel phia, recently elected to the Penn sylvania legislature and the first colored woman so honored any whero in America. Mrs. Mary Lc Leod Bethune, president the National Council of Negro Women sponsors of the banquet, presided. -0O°-“ HOWARD ESTABLISHES NATIONAL NEGRO LI BRARY AND MUSEUM Washington. Dec. 16 (ANP)— The board of trustees of Howard university have inagurated a plan for the establishment of a Na tional Negro Library and Museum which is expected in course of time to be one of the chief centers of educational interest in the country'. For the present, the museum will be located in the new $l 106,000 Founders’ library which will be ready for occupancy next month.