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: '1. . ^ | City |u ' a* ■ Edition ura/p CCDI/I^C ' ' LIlVIUC — „„ —. i. Missouri valleys, conskter ™.;k blSation /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO Wt LINeA it ALL LOCAL NfcWS —I i m 1 «u« puiodso prwi MATTER ____ _ .*■»•• Y^11 itation, mostly ligfet; tenv - —j7||OTO- peratures mostly near or SERVICE ^ LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY_■»- _# --- — — r _ vol * _Omaha, Neb.-., Saturday, Dec. 17,1938 __N.-b., o—-—-O O ■■■■' — 0 Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 15 (ANP) —Those persons who scoff at the idea of "haunts” and tell the world there are no such things are warn ed to stay away from Kansas City under threat of assault and battery if they air their beliefs before the wrong people. At the present time, this city is in the midst of the greatest spook scare in its career, with thousands of citizens relating in awed tones the story of a ghost gill who has scared two taxi dri vers almost out of their wits, as well as talked at church to the minister who preached her funeral. The first driver, so the story goes, was at the bar of a popular aight spot when he met up with a most charming young woman. After drinking and dancing toge ther he became highly interested and asked to take her home. She consented. So they went out and got into his cab. “Where do you live?” the dri ver asked. Maybe it was the drinks, or the blindness of budding love, but any way the address did not strike him as peculiar. Even when sihe told him the gates were wide open, he thought nothing of it. On the way there, she talked about herself. She was the daugh ter of a woman living on Wood lawn avenue, the girl sail, but hadn't lived with her mother for tjhree years. Arriving at the gateway to Highland cemetary^ the driver got out of the car and opened the door with a Sir Walter Raleigh bow to his companion. The car was emtpy. Becoming instantly sober and realizing where he was, the cabbie leaped back into his car and drove as fast as the machine could take him to the mother’s address. A wakening her he told hig stoiy and was informed that girl was the woman's daughter, all right, but had been dead three years and buried in Highland. It took a doctor to revive the man. The other cap driver, imssiuu, unaware of what had happened to a fellow member of his vocation, was cruising along Vine Street a couple of days later when he pick ed up a feminene fare who was sensationally attractive. She dit-ected the cabbie to take her to Highland cemetary. Since carrying people anywhere was his business, he did. When the taxi stxipped at the gates, the young woman alighted and told him she was sorry she had no money to pay her bill. She instructed him to collect from her mother on Wood lawn, then went inside the gates. Since she appeared prosperous, tht driver did not argue, but drove to the address. There he told what had happen ed. and asked if she had such a daughter. The woman told him she did, but the girl died three years before. Then the woman fainted. However, nobody seems to know whether she was joined by the MEMPHIS DAILY PAPER CONDEMNS LYNCHING Memphis, Dec. 16 (ANP)—The Memphis Press Scimitar, a Script's Howard newspapepr, of which Ed ward J. Meeman is editor last Wed nesday delivered editorial rebuke to the lynch mob at Wiggins, Miss, and told how Hitler’s Nazi press will focus attention on America’s lynching of 24 years old Wilder McGowan. KU KLUX KLAN CHALLENGES C10 cabbie. Still another story has it that this same girl was at church Sun day night talking at lenght to the minister who) preached her funeral in 193d. Although her face looked familiar, the minister did not realize who his conversation alist had been until after the young woman had left the church. Mother of Alice Kip Rhinelander Dies In New York City — New Rochelle, N. Y. Dec. 16 — Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, white, 76 year-old mother of Mrs. Alice Kip ; Rhinelander, died Monday in her home. She testified for her daugh ; ter, Alice at the trial which the j late Leonard Kip Rhinelander in , stituted at White Plains in an at tempt to annul their marriage. Rhinelander charged that his wil’ ' had misrepresented herself as i p white woman when he married her in 1924. She then waf a laund res md Ver father a cab driver. —- —oOo MORRIS COLLEGE GETS $50,000 FROM ROSENWALD FUND __ Atlanta. Ga., Dec. 15 (C)—A gift of $60,000 to Morris Brown College, one of the largest grants made to Negro institutions in the past year, and the largest ever made to a school of the A. M . E. church, has just been announced by Bishop W. A. Fountain, chair man of the Board of Trustees. This gift marks another mile stone in the progressive casegr of the dynamic bishop, who is giving his life to the cause of education in Georgia, and to Moris Brown Coll ege, which is rapidly taking its placo in the ranks of the leading Negro institutions of higher learn ing. -oOo— GRANDMOTHER AND CHILD BURN TO DEATH AS FIRE RAZES HOME Orangesburg, S. C. Dec. 16 (A NP)—Mrs. Shellie Sweat, 50 years old and her four year old grandson were burned to death last Sunday, in a fire of undetermined origin which destroyed their home. Police are investigating the case as an examination of the woman's body disclosed a fractured skull and there was evidence of possible foul play. Atlanta, G., Dec. 16 —Immediate j has been the response of “Ku Klux Klan dominated’’ Georgia to the ! proclamation of the CIO, made at i its recent convenion in Pittsburgh Pa., that it proposed to work for | the organization of all the workers j in the South and for the abolition : of the poll tax and the enfranchise i ment of all citizens. The Ku Klux Klan placed itself . across the path of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Ga., ; John L. Lewis, president of the j CIO is to be opposed by Hiram : Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. FIGHTING ATT EM PING. TO ! ORGANIZE WORKERS In a statement t« a representa I tive of the North American News paper Association here, Edward Earnhart, Georgia director of the | Textile Workers Organization Committee, a subsidiary of the CIO charged that the Ku Klux I Klan was fighting attempts to or 1 ganize mill workers with every means at is disposals. “Not only have the members of the Klan carried on a campaign on intimidation by threats of vio lence, but in several cases actury^ beating^ have been ministered to union members,” Mr. Earnhart declared. "At Klan meetings strong I speeches agajn^ our efforts are often made.” ■-0O0 U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES THAT NE6R0ES MAY ENTER UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Washington, D. C. Dec. 16 (AN P)—T'>e right of a qualified Negro j stucent to enroll at the University of Missouri was upheld here Mon day by the U. S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the university law school should admit Lloyd L. Gaines, St. Ix>uis resident, as a student. Gaines has an A. B. degree from Lincoln university, Jefferson City Mo., and together with his coun sel has waged an insistent fight against the University of Missouri Jim Crow rule since he was denied admission there to oursuc his work as a law student. Student Gaines maintained that he was rejected solely because of his color and this constitutes a violation of the “equal protection” clause of the Federal constitution. His petition stated that there were 16 states that exclude Negroes from state universities because < f of race or color. SENATOR HITS ARMY JIM CROW A ___ Lodge Says He Will Study Bill'For The Next Congress Boston Dec. 15 (ANP)—“I as sure you I shall carefully study a bill petitioning for the admittance of Negroes into all branches of the United States army, navy and air force. “I am opposed to discrimination in the public service because of race, creed, or color.” So wrote the Mass, militant and youthful senator, Henry Cabot (R), in a letter last Saturday to Mabe Kountze, Boeton represen tative for ANP. Senator Lodge was informed of the anti-Jim Crow bill originated by Robert L. Vann, Pittsburg edi tor and this year carried to the congressional floor by Hamilton Fish of New York. Mr. Kountze requested the stand of Senator Lodge for publication and a reply was mailed him early the same week. PRES. WILSON’S ATTITUDE. ON NEGROES REVEALED New York Dec. 15—A report | of an interview wit hthe late Pres. Woodrow Wilson in October, 1913, on the treatment of the Negro is contained in the December issue of The Crisis Magazine, official organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The interview written by Oswald Garrison Villard, famed contribut ! ing editor of The Nation, tells how Villard carried the protest of Ne groes against segregation in go vernment departments directly to the white House. Villard was a close friend of Wilson and after having luncheon with the presi dent, had a discussion of more than a hour of the whole of ques tion of Negro citizens. Villard reports that Wilson told him, “I have thought about this thing for 20 years, and I see no way out. It will take a very big man to solve this thing. . STATEMENT . | The ease of Jonothan N. Thomas Excelsior Ixnlge Number Two, an cient Free and Accepted Masons and others similarly situated vs. Walter L. Seals, William M. High tower. Robert Harris, Profit Jen-i kins, L. F. McIntosh, and A. iR. Goodlet, and most worshipful Grand Lodgeg of Ancient Fee and Accepted Masons for the State of Nebraska, wherein the plaintiff asked the District Court of Doug las County, Nebraska, for an in junction enjoining the defendants above from acting as the officers of said Grand Lodge and perform ing the duties of officers, and wherein the plaintiff claims that the said officers were illegally e locted in July, 1936, and wherein the plaintiff requests that the of ficers be required to make an ac counting of all their acts and do ings, has been dismissed. This case was filed approximately two years ago. There was also pending at the same time a case by the Masonic Grand Lodge against Jonothan N. Thomas for an accounting of funds | collected by Mr. Thomas. Mr. Tho mas had refused to turn these funds over for the reason that he i claimed that the officers were not duly elected and for that reason could not receive said funds. Recently the Masonic Grand Lodge employed W. B. Bryant and John Adams Jr., attorneys, to dispose of these two cases. The said attorneys filed a demurrer in the first case on the ground that the civil Courts had not juris diction to hear this case for the reason that the plaintiff had not exhausted all his remedies within the Grand Lodge. This demurrer I was argued by the attorneys on the 26th day of September, 1938, and the Courts decided the same in favor of the said attorney’s con tentions and in favor of the Grand Lodge and dismissed the case. The second case was settled out of Court and Mr. Thomas had a pro per and satisfactory accounting to the Grand Lodge, and the said attorneys dismissed the case a gainst Jonothan N. Thomas. The dispute oecassioned by these two cases has been settled peace-' ably and all parties are satisfied, j John Adams, Jr. WT. B. Bryant, atty's. j -—oOo | Father LaFarge Friend of Minorities Honored in New York City, N. Y. New York, Dec. 15 (C)—Father John I/aFarge, asosciate editor of “America," national Catholic week ly, and chaplain of the Catholic Interracial Council, who is widely known of the book, “Interracial Justice,” was honored with a din ner at the Town Hall Club, 123 West 43rd street, Tuesday evening Which was attended by nearly three hundred persons prominent in re ligious and social welfare circles. Father LaFarge recently return ed from an extensive six months tour of Europe, where he observed the trend of “racism," to which he is vigorously oposed. The wri | ter declared in his speech that | “Racism" is on the increase in the j United States, and that it is prin cipally directed against Negroes, foreigners and Jews. Colored speakers were Elmer Carter, editor of Opportunity, Dr. Hudson J. Oliver, president of the Catholic Interracial Council, and Rev. Gladstone O. Wilson, Catholic priest from Jamaica, B. Wr. I. -oOo Chicagoan Appointed To Housing Authority Chicago, Dec. 15 (ANP)—Mayor Edward Kelly last Wednesday an nounced appointment of Robert R. Taylor, civic leader and resident manager of the Rosenwald Apart ments as a member of the Chicago Housing Authority. He will serve out the remainder of the term of WENDELL WILKIE MAKES HIS STATEMENT BEFORE JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE The citizens of Oma- I ha will have an oppor- ' tunity bo hear Bishop John A. Gregg, at St. John AME Church, Sunday, December 18, at the morning service. Bishop Gregg is now the preaiding Bishop of the Fourth Episco pal District, made of Illinois Minnesota, Wis consin, and Iowa. He was at one time bishop of the Fifth District of which Nebraska is a part. Dr. Gregg is known to be one of the best speakers of his group, and if you fail to hear him, you will miss a great treat. The St. John Choir will be at its best for this service and will try to give you some very good music. __ s BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG COMING TO ST. JOHN BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG SWEEPSTAKES WINNER GOES TO IRELAND William J. Lynch, resigned, the term expirinfi Jan. 6, 1942. Aid. Robert R. Jackson made a motion before the city council that the appointment be confirmed. Taylor’s confirmation was unani mous. -0O0 Interrace Conference Advocates Opening All Episcopal Colleges To Negroes Bill Passed Chicago, Dec. 16 (ANP)—Open ing of all colleges and seminaries operated by the Episcopal church to Negro aspirants for the priest hood was one of the most impor tant resolutions passed by the 1,000 delegates attending the National Interracial Council of Churchmen held at the International house of the Unigersity of Chicago Tuesday and Wednesday under the auspices of the Joint Commission on Negro Work of the Protestant Episcopal church. -ouo—— GEORGIA BURNS SIX NEGROES Reidsville, Ga., 15 —Six Negroes convicted of murder, went to their deaths singing “The Lord is Com ing” and reciting the Lord’s Pray er today in the biggest mass exe cution of Georgia’s history, while a white man, also convicted of murder was granted a Last-minute reprieve. The seventh man scheduled to die in the electric chair was Tom Dickerson, a farmer who killed a baby bom as a resul tof incestuous relations with his daughetr. Meanwhile the state claimed the lives of Jim Williamson, Charles Rucker, Raymond Carter, Arthur Perry, Arthur Mack and Willie Rusell. When the second man, Arthur returned to the prison warden and Mack, entered the death chamber, asked:“Can I pray?" The warden nodded and the man knelt before the square-backed and prayed aloud for two minutes. Af ter the final “Amen’ he rose, turn ed and sat in the chair unassisted and repeated the Lord’s Prayer un til the jolt of current hit him. Chicago, Dec. 16 (ANP)-—Ac companied by his attorney, W. E. Temple, Royal Spurlock well known Chicago Pullman employee, who recently won $75,000 on his Irish Sweepstakes ticket, left the city Thursday for New York City, whence he will sail for Dublin, Ire land to collect his winnings. -—0 VETERAN OMAHA CITIZEN IS BURIED Mr. Walter Scott Daniels, a resi dent of Omaha for fifty years, passed away Thursday December 7, at 3:45 a. m. He was buried Sat urday at 2 P. M. from the Myers funeral home. Mr. Daniels was born in St. Joseph, Mo., He came to Omaha at the age of 16 years. On two accassions he had offers to be come a policeman, in 1905-1908. He would not accept the position, saying "Police always have ene mies.” He was quiet, sober, honest loving son and husband. He was tho son of Mrs. Mary Wilson, bro ther of Mrs. Dora Washington, Mrs. Nora Harris, and Mrs. Geor gia Watts. The family wish to thank the many friends and neigh bors for the kindness shown them in their bereavement and for the beautiful flowers. In appealing before your Com* mittee, I want first of all to er» press my conviction that you ba the power to make a very impor tant contribution to the natio?a| welfare. The consequences of UM» situation which we are her* coa sideling are not confined merely to the TVA or the utility industry. They directly affact a porblem is which we are all most deeply com* cerned—the nation’s economic t«~ covory. Business is now showing signs of improvement—just at it did a year and a half ago. This* improvement will be short Lived— just as it was a year and a halT ago—if the manufacturers af heavy goods are unable to .join ia this expansion. Economists gener ally recognize that one of the greatest factoi-s in economic re covery is the utility industi-y—am industry which is a principal mar ket for construction materials and heavy machinery and which, more than any other, can stimulate flow of capital and the reemploy ment of men. ; In this brief statement, I waat to suggest a method whereby’ yotnr Committee can break the log jam in the utility industry and cum contribute materially to HaXMaaS recovery. _ In the past five ye«rs efeetraa utility expenditure for new con struction and new eqquipment has been far less than necessary be cause the utilities have been unable to obtain the required capital, lb is my estimate that in 1938 the— utilities will spend approximately four hundred million dollars oa capital reconstruction. For the neat two years the industry, including; the company which I head, has pledged the government its whole hearted cooperation in the national defense program. In my judgement however, even with this special stimulant and this special effort and even with the pick-up in gea eral business, the utilities will not be able to spend, under present conditions, over five hundred mil lion dollars in 1939 and, insofar as can be predicted, not more thaa * that in 1940. As contrasted with this probabl* expenditure, Mr. Frank McNinch, former head of the Federal Power Commission, has estimated that the utilities need to spend about one and a half billion dollars each • year for the next five years. And 1 all students of the power indus- » try whether they work for the go vernment or the private utilities and whether or not they adopt (continued on page 5) \ - 1 JURY WITH NEGRO FOREMAN FINDS MURDERER GUILTY _:_ CAPTURES OWN SON TO RE 1 TAIN HIS “GOOD NAME” Clinton, N. C. Dec. 16 (ANP)— Because he wanted to maintain his “good name with the white folks” Ammie Williams, 69 years old, last Saturday captured his own son, Raymond and surrendered him to Constable E. B. Beasley, to face a murder charge. The constable said that Raymond was held in the slaying and robb ing of Nathan iReif, 48 of Harris burg, Pa., merchant who was club bed to death near here last Thurs daq. A coroner’s jury named young Williams as the slayer. Three oth er Negroes were ordered held as material witnesses by the coroner’s jury. Raymond’s aged father said. “I know my son will go to the gas chamber, but I want to see the right thing done.” Annapolis, Md., Dec. 15 (ANP)1 —A jury with the first Negro foreman in Anne Arundel county’* history, Tuesday night found F» Dorsey guilty of second degTee murdey in the shooting of Rudolph Johnson on Aug. 13. The verdict was read by Wil liam H. Brown, foreman after the jury had deliberated two hours. -0O0 State Of Lousiania Buys 75 Copies Of Colored Who’s Who Brooklyn, N. Y. (C)-Thomas Yenser, 2317 Newkirk avenue, pub lisher of Who’s Who In Colored America, announed Monday that the State of Louisiana, through Thomas J. Moran’s Sons of New Orleans, had purchased 76 copies j of the book for State distribution.
