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SERVICE ^ LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY_■»- _#
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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
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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.
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MORRIS COLLEGE
GETS $50,000 FROM
ROSENWALD FUND
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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.
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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.”
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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
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| 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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JURY WITH NEGRO
FOREMAN FINDS
MURDERER GUILTY
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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.
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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.