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About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1939)
Edition The Weather W'eather outlook for th*; _ Period Jan. 23 to 28. WORLD W'IDB Upper Mis* and lowerl I liHU/C Missouri valleys and'Nor lt£*»U OLnllvn »— i—m—■ them and Central Groat ss-pubucC >n /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW T.0 THt LINeA ,2Sl ~ OF ALL LOCAL NEWS . " '■ ■ ■ ^ 11 I.--JT 1 Monday, followed by mo-1 MATTER ^ _ ^ ■ riaiag temp, rema nder *-—___ of week; not much precip ^RERVICEStation first of week _hbUyiCE_ ^_ LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY ♦ Entered as Second-Clas8 Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, fjmok.i Sfltlirrinv Tan 9S 1QQQ „.V0L- 12 Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. UmaflU, iNePT., pauiroa}, Jan. £Q, IWit_ ___ Number 42 New Anti-Lynch BiM Is Introduced In Senate Q-i Washington, Jan. 26—A new federal anti-lynching biH sponsor ed by Senators Robert P. Wagner «f New York, Frederick Van Nuys ol Indiana, and Arthur Capper of Kansas, was introduced in the Senate January 19th. The new Wagner-Van Nuys Qapper bill Is the one which will bo supported by the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People and others who haivo been carrying on the camp aign fox’ this legislation for many years. Senator Capper, a Republican, fchibi year joins the two Democrat ic sponsors of this legislation. The new bill differs in only two minor details from the Wogner Van Nays bill which was filibust ered to death in the Senate last Feferuary. The first change elim inated the exception of “gangster killings” contained in the old bill; fba second change omitted the re quirement that law enforcement officers establish that they bad ott been negligent in a lynching and placed this burden of proof up dr the plaintiff. The new bill still contain.® the section bolding a eounty in which a lynching occurs liable for dam ages to be recovered by civil suit in the federal court. This section is regarded as the “heart" of the WO, In a statement accompanying tbo introduction of the bill, the three sponsors of the measure painted out that there had been seven lynching® during 1938, all of them occurring after the debate on the federal anti-lynching bill had been concluded in the Senate. Hie statement further asserted that no action had been taken by the states in the 1938 lynching®— •pot even an arrest." MICHIGAN NEGRO SENATOR LEADS FIGHT FOR WPA NAACP, Nat. Negro Congress, , U nions Join Nation-Wide Movement Against Cuts Chicago, Jan. 24 (Harold Preece for CNA)—Midwestern citizens ;n every walk of life were mob iag this week to combat the thr. it of starvation *for millions, becom ing more acute as Congress whitt led WPA appropriations. In detroit, Negro and white WPA workers were rallying behind a Ne gro state senator, Charles E. Diggs to prevent what may become one of the worst relief crises since 1932. A conference of numerous orgn ni Ratio ns called by Senator Diggs • in his own headquarters at Detroit, met during the week-end. The meeting was addressed by speakers from the National Negro Con gress, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Edward J. Jefferies, presi dent of the Detroit Common Coun-' cil, and Senator Diggs. Plans were also under way for a huge rally based on the ues of housing, relief. WPA and civil gl rights on Jan. 28. Similar rallies I will be held throughout the coun try. »j S DURHAM CONCERNS PAY DIVIDENDS Durham, N. C. Jan. 12 (€)— The Mechanics and Farmers Bank, the Mutual Building & Loan As sociation, and the Bankers Fire In surance Company declared divi dends and mailed checks for the •uintmaa holidays. The bank, of OMAHA CONTRACTOR! DIES FROM STROKE Mr. James Streeter Turner. 65, of 2524 Corby St., veteran North Side contractor, died Tuesday at the St. Joseph hospit 1 from the effects of paralysis with which he was stricken, Sunday, January 15. The nerws of Mr. Turner’s illness and death came as a distinct shock to his many friends as he appear ed to be in the best of health, until the time ho was stricken. Tho deceased was a member of tho Masonic Lodge, St. John church and the Corahusker Golf Club. He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife, Mrs. Turner of the Gross Glow Beauty Shop; a daughter, Mrs. Robbie Turner Davis, wife of Wil liam Davis; two sisters Jennie Todd of Denver and Nellie Shorts of Philadelphia; two brothers, John C. Turner of Junction City. Kansas, and Stewart, of Salina, Kansas. Mr Turner had resided in Om aha for 32 years. The funeral was in charge of the Mason’s Lodge and was held from St John AME. Church at 2 p. m. Friday afternoon with Rev. R. A. Adams, Rev, J. S. Williams, and Rev. F. P. Jones officiating. In addition to Mr. Turner’s brothers and sis ters, Mrs. R . C. Cotrell and daugh ter and Mrs Dr. Moore of Okla-l homa city are expected to attend the funeral which Dr. C. C. Spaulding is presi dent, paid 3 and one half per cent the, loan association paid 2 per! cent, and the fire insurance com pany paid 3 per cent. Dr. Spauld ing is also oonnectetj With the other two concerns. -oOo VETERAN RETIRED SERGEANT PRAISES ARMY SERVICE Sargeant George E. Bivens, re tired, 2512 Lake St., visited the Oamha Guide office la^t Friday and told of his 30 years of service with the 24th Infantry on the Is lands and in the States. Sgt. Biv ens who first entered the army during 1890, estimated that he has traveled some 40,000 miles while in the service, having made three trips to the Phillipine Islands and around the coast of Japan. He related that his first active fight ing experience was in an island re bellion during the later part of 1899. In addition to his island ac tivities, he was stationed at sev eral forts in the U'. S. A. among them being Fort Leavenworth, Fort Arizona, and Fort Frances E. Warren in Wyoming. The sar geant has been maried 32 years and has two grown daughters. He appears to be in the best of health. Ho stated that if he had to live his life over again, he would still choose the army and the security which it has to offer those who serve with good records. The re tired sgt carried with him an arm ful of honorable discharge papers, attributing to the excellency of his record. He retired in 193G and be lieves Omaha is a wonderful city in which to spend his years of rc-i tireAnt. ^ —-—o ?A7iMERS READING NEGRO PRESS, SAYS HOLSEY i Tuskegeo Institute, Ala., Jan. 26 (C)—A. L. Holsey, field officer of [ho U. S. Department of Agricu-: cure. AAA division, in his annual j summary just made public, says: "‘More Negro farmers are read ing Negro newspapers than ever before which convincing evidence Receives Appointment that the Negro press is rendering a real service in helping to ina piovo conditions in rural areas.” -0O0 24th SPINGARN MEDAL TO MARIAN ANDERSON New York, Jan. 26—Marian An derson, world famous contralto, has been named to receive the Spingarn Medal for 1938 aawrded annually by J. E. Spingarn president of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People” for the highest or noblest achievement by an American Negro during the preceding year or years.” The formal statement of the committee declared: “Marian Anderson has been chos en for her special achievement in 1 tho field of music. Equally with ; that achievement, which has won | her world-wide fame as one of the 1 greatest singers of our time, is her i magnificent dignity as a human being. Her unassuming manner, which has not been changed by her phenomenal success, has added to the esteem not only of Marian Anderson as an individual but of tho race to which she belongs." Mias Anderson, who is the twen ty-fourth recipient of the gold medal award since it was institut ed in 1914 by Mr. Spingam, will receive it formally on July 2 dur ing the thirtieth annual conference of the NAACP. which will be held in Richmond. Va. CBS. Chain To Carry Ellington NAACP. Party • New York, Jan. 26—Ten stationsj of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-! tern will carry the music of Puke! ElTngton and guest radio artists | from the 30th birthday party of t.ho NAACP to be held in the j 360th Regiment Armory here the night of February 11. .Officials of, tho Columbia system generously! consented this week to carry a half: hour of the famous Ellington mus- j ic from 11:30 to midnight.' There! will be no speeches, the program J being confmed to the orchestra j music and the solo numbers of j special guests. 9MISS DAVIS RECEIVES POSI TION Miss Elizabeth Davis, daughter of Attorney and Mrs. Charles F. Davis 1416 North 23rd Street ap pointed a stenographer in the Le gislative Reference Bureau upon the recommendation of Senator John Adams, Jr. The Legislative Reference Bu reau prepare all Legislative Bills for the State Senate. Miss Davis during her attendance at North High school was Honor Student, also member of National Honor Society, and an Editor on the School Paper, the North Star. Upon her graduation in June, 1938. she was awarded The Board of Re gents’ Scholarship to the Univer sity of Nebraska. She is now in at tendance at the University of Lin coln, Nebraska. During her first semester at the University she was sleeted to the cast of the Univer sity Players. Senator Adams states, that the officials in charge of the Legisla tive Reference Bureau in the Cap ital are pleased with Miss Davis’ speed and efficiency. Miss Davis position does not conflict with her classes and her is fulfilling both endeavors creditably. -oOo DURHAM COLLEGE MAY GET A MEDICAL AND L A W DEPARTMENT Durham, N. C. Jan. 26 (C)—The North Carolina College, Dr. James E. Shepard, president, long known a3 the only state supported purely j liberal arts college in the South ( for Negroes, may get a law and medical department as a result of tho recent Supreme Court decision in tho Gaines case, according to Governor Clyde R. Hoey, who in his message to the legislature, said: j "We have no provision for the j education of Negroes in special j course3 of law, pharmacy or medi cine. Because it is our duty as a stato to make such provision, and in harmony with the Supreme Court decision in the Missouri case, I recommend that such courses are deemed necessary and essential be established at the college in Dur ham." CHESTER SCOTT PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER Appearing before District Judge Fitzgerald, Monday, Chester Scott, 3C, pleaded guilty to the fatal stab bing of McKinley Tapp in his home 2713 1-2 North 2©Lh St., Saturday night. The stabbing according to witnesses was an outgrowth of a prolonged argument between the. two men, who were cousins. After tho stabbing Scott is said to have fled to South Omaha, where he was later captured by detectives, i Scott's sentence was deferred to a later date. -o— 14 COMPANIES WIN HONORS IN INSURANCE COLLECTION DRIVE Chicago, Jan. 26 (C)—Fourteen companies have won honors in the second annual collection drive con- ( ducted by ‘he National Negro In- ! surance Association, according to announcement of returns by J G. j Ish, Jr., chairman of the drive, Mr. Ish’s report covered the drive per- * iod from October 31 to December 3, last, and listed the following companies as reporting Industrial collection percentages ranging from 125 per cent to 82 per cent. Pilgrim Hearth and Life, Augus ta, Ga.; United Mutual, New York; j Richmond Benetficiail, Richmond, j Va.; Central Life, Tampa, Fla.; Groat Lakes Mutual. Detroit; Vir ginia Mutual, Richmond; Southern Aid, Richmond, Va.,; Louisiana Industrial, Now Orleans; Federal Life, Washington, D. C.; B. T. Washington Burial, Fairfield, Ala.; N. C. Mutual, Durham; Supreme Liberty, Chicago; Domestic Life, Louisville, Ky.; Fireside Mutual, Columbus. O. The three companies reporting exceptionally high ordinary collec tions were: Pilgrim Health, 112 per cent; United Mutual, 93.5 per cent; N. C. Mutual 94 per cent. -oOo--— • AMERICA” THINKS MISSOURI WILL YIELD ON THE NEGRO New York, Jan. 26 (C)—“Am erica”, national Catholic weekly, of which Rev. John LaFarge, chap lain otf the Catholic Interracifel Council, is associate editor, says editorially of the Missouri case a gainst Lloyd Gaines: “This Review predicts that, des pite the petition (for rehearing, tho Court will stand firm and re peat that if Missouri wants to run a University and cannot also fi nance a Negro university, it will have to ovei'come its ‘long estab lished and deeply rooted tradjtion’ and freely admit Negroes into the classroom with the whites.” The weekly also directs the attention of white Catholics to the case, in terms of “the difficult problem of Catholic college education for Ca tholic Negroes.” ■-0O0 DR. WOODSON’S GROUP HAS RIG PUBLISHING RECORD Washington Jan. 26 (C)—List ing tho achievements of the Asso ciation for the Study of NegTO Life and History, 1538 Ninth St.. N. W., Dr. Carter G. Woodson, di rector, said the organization “has published twenty-four volumes of articles and documcntg giving facts wihch are generally unknown; has produced twenty-seven monographs on Negro life and history; has or ganized and stimulated the studies of local clubs and classes, which have done much to change the at t'tude of communities toward the Negro; has collected thousandg of valuable manuscripts on the Negro which have been made acessible to teh public in the Library of Con gress; and has had thirteen young men and women trained for re search in social science and for instruction in colleges and univer sities." Iroquois Lodge, Plans Extensive Membership Drive _-___ RADIO 1HNI6TBB Ilisiiop RUXfowsqo BISHOP A. S. LAWSON, famed Harlem radio minister and pastor of the Church of Refuge in Christ, Brooklyn and Harlem, has gained him large congregations in both j cities. He lately announced that profits from a gi-ocery store own ed and managed by him would go to the poor of his parish to al leviate suffering. He is heard over station WBNJ Sundays and | Mondays. (ANP) L. I). MILTON NOW RANK PRESIDENT Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 26 (C)—L. D. Milton, formerly cashier, is now president of the Citizens Trust Company, 212 Auburn avenue, of which Attorney A. T Walden was president, it has just been announ ced. Tho bank has resources of $511,812.05, demand deposits of , $252,000 time deposits of $16,000, ■ and saving,, deposits of $152,000. John F. Cock, is cashier. . _ aAa__ [new and successful SPORTS VENTURE SEES JOHN HENRY’S HOPES BLASTED Appearing in the first modern i championship heavyweight boxing contest between two race men, Joe Louis, the perpendicular Thunder bolt, willfully and intentionally com mi teed great bodily harm a gainst his friend “outside the ring’’ John Henry Lewis, The Horizontal Thunderbolt, on the night of Jan uary 25th at the Madison Square Garden bdfore 18,000 customers, who paid more than $100,000.00 to seo Louis punch Lewis into .nsen sibility in less than 3 minutes of fighting. --o-. Flashes Nashville, Tenn., Jan 26 (C) — The Citizens Savings Bank and Trusft Company, II. A. Boyd, pres ident, and J. C. Napier, cashier, had assets of $292,024 on Decem ber 31, last, according to a report to tho Superintendent of Banks. Tho bank, which is 36 years old, has individual deposits of $117,592 and savings deposits of $84,360. ***** New York, (C)—“Policy Kings” Michael Ashwood’s show based on tho Harlem numbers racket which ran only three nightes on Broad way at the Nora Bayes Theatre, cost $6,800 to produce, and took in only $267.50, it is reported. ***** Washington (C)—The issue of Janunry 21 is scheduled as the last for the Washington Tribune, it was learned this week. The paper has be°n sold to the Afro-American of Baltimore, is was said. Iroquois IxxJge No. 92 of Omaha, Nebraska, means to be known as the largest lodge of Elks in the middle west. Under the guidence Uf the exalted ruler, Charls F. Davis, the Iroquios Lodge km grown with limps and bounds. The exalted ruler is one of Omaha's popular young attorneys and since his election to the executive seat has created an interest in the mem bers that have laid dead for a ntntn ber of years. In his first message to the Lodge after his election in June 1937 He states the fundamen tal requisites for a successful or ganization is the general attitude of peace and harmony among Its members and the absence of cliques or factions. From than until now the exalted ruler and members are pleased to report that internally wo are at peace. Harmony prevails both within and without and the general conduct of the members b above reproach. Financial and of ficial consideration is reported greatly improved and our financial conditions with the Grand Lodge. Our current obligations are paid and rapidly retiring back indebted ness, The members are throughly informed on both income and ex penditures. The club room and the hall room have been newly decor ated and are open for the member* to enjoy an they afford wholesome entertainment. The officers are conscious of and are fulfilling cre ditably the duties of their respec tive offices. The Lodge was notified by the officers of the Mid-Western Asso ciation that Omaha, Nebraska la to receive its members for the 1939 Convention to be held next July 2, 3, and 4. The exalted ruler immediately appointed a Commit tee on Committees, with Brother Otto Mason as chairman The Com mittee proceeded to select chairmen of various committees to arrange for the convention. C. C. Galloway is chairman of the Housing Com mittee; Otto Mason is chairman and C. C. Galloway is assistant chair man of the publicity Committee; Paul S. Holliday, chairman of the Educational Committee; H. J. John son chairman of the Convention Ball Committee; and Bobbie Brown chairman of the Decoration and Souvenior Committee The Convention Committee is to consist of the chairman of the vari ous other committees. District Deputy Otto Mason stat ed that the joining fee for the membership drive, for new mem bers $4.50 and for reinstatement, $3:50 with the doctors fee paid. Wo have traveled a long way and mean to continue, on our way te a goal of 500 new members in 1939. -oOo-. HARLEM REAL ESTATE MEN TO HOLD DINNER New York, Jan. 26 (C)— The Harlem Real Estate Board, Inc., 2370 Seventh avenue, C. D. King, president, an organization of real estate brokers, salesmen and oper ators, will hold its first annual luncheon at the YMCA, 180 West 135th street, Friday at 1 p. m., January 20. Among speakers list ed are Clark G. Dailey, president of the Real Estate Board of New York city, Thomas G. Grace, State Supervisor of the Federal Housing Administration, and Hubert T. De lany. Commissioner of Taxes. Invi tations have been issued to three hundred prominent persona
