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5 Cents | City ; Per ^ Edition | WORLD WIDE M l J* •L*:,£'*~,MJ Cpper Miss, and iowwi ucu/e ccduipc Mi’wuri vallcy« »-"* RtVYO otnViut ...— , ■ them and Central {Trent — , HEW TO THh HNF\ plains' al,n<,rma"y «,r* PEEK I I .CM W >N 1 *_ * * iV IIIL fclitL. \ Monday, full w.d l i 3P ALL I L!.;'1' N‘,A'f | ly rising temp, remainder _M ' ‘ * hB _ ^ of week; not much p,*r» FLA'SH PHOTO i——- ■•■ - • m. » I station likely first of wxe% SERVICE ^ H LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPd r OF CHICAGO .AND NORTH °F KANSAS CITY ♦«._# ^... 1 "1 ---~ - 1 17 - - —r -- v o l 12 ~ Entered as Second Cla s Mailer at PostoUice, Omaha, k , , Omaha Nplll* SatUl'daV Feb 4 1939 *■ NumUr ' Nebraska, under Art of March 8, 1874. * C maild, 11 oaiuuldh 1 tu‘ *♦ 1' Numbei «— STATEMENT OF REP- H. FISH OF NEW YORK Washington, D. C., Jan. 31 - • Representative Hamilton ..Fish introduced today three bills aimed j at removing certain "discrimin ations affecting Negro citizens. Mr. Fis'h said: “With the Presi dent’s recommendations for in 'creaSed armaments before the Con gross, we must obtain the greatest 'possible amount of hational d«-' •fense with the funds involved. • “Ono of the bills I introduced ‘opens up all branches of the reg ular Army to colored soldiers, I know from war service overseas that foreign governments, partic ularly Great Britain and France ‘have ahfvays used colored soldiers in their armed forces. The Seng alese, colored French soldiers, sei^ ved throughout the World War with distinction. In our Army we do not permit colored men to serve in the Coast Artillery, the Signal Corps, the Engineer Corps, the Chemical Warfare Service, Field Artillery, the Tank Corps, and - special services such as the Army Air 'Corps. If we are to provide the maximum national defense we must do away with these discrimin ations against any element of our population.” Another bill introduced by . Mr. • Fish provides for the appointment of two Colored Cadets to West Point annually by the President. Under this proposal, after four years there would be eight such Cadets at the Academy, two being appointed each year through com petitive Civil Service examinations until a total of eight is reached. ! In time of war, or emergency, these colored officers could be as signed to comtnand colored troops Mr. Fish has also introduced the identical bill in the House to the Waigner-Van Nuys-Capper Anti I/jmching Bill, drafted by the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People to cover some of the objections raised in the last Congress. -Q-... NAACP BIRTH - DAY PARTY . Willie Bryant to Aid Duke Elling ton as Master of Ceremonies Cctant Basie Guest Artist New York, Jan. 31—Willie Bry ant, well known band leader, fav •rite Harlem master of ceremon ies. and now featured on Broad way as the villain in “Mamba’s Daughters", will share M. C. hon ors with Duke Ellington, February 11 at the huge NAACP. 30th An niversary Dance in the 369th Reg iment Armory here. The dance, for which Duke is donating his services' and the ser vices of his orchestra and singing Stars, is the key affair in a coun. trywide series of dances to be held throughout the United States by branches of the association. Other stars who have 'indicated that they will appear • includ^: Count Basie, Sister Rossita Tharpe and Mildred Bailey. Victor Moore star of the Broadway hit, “Leave it to Me”, has also written tlje NAACP. that he will be presenjt. A whole list of Broadway and ri dio stars have to be heard from before the complete list can be an nounced, officials of the associa tion said today., The Columbia Broadcasting sys tem will carry Duke’s music for half an hour over a hookup that will tap the key cities throughout the country. More than forty national and local organizations have taken boxes for the affar, which is ex pected to draw in excess of 6,000 people. Armory officials announced to Aap that Colonel Benjamin 0 Da War Issue Opinion Even ly Divided Opinion among Nebraska and Iowa newspaper editors w^s even ly div dec! over the Tsaue'df a war referendum in the mblflation of firs', returns today of the Univer sity of Omaha's 'Midwest Poll. Of'thf thirty-four signed ballots' returned SfPfar, seventeen were marked ‘‘yes” arid seventeen '*no” on the proposal of several members of the present Congress-that wars waged by the United States on for eign soil should be stibjeCt to pop ular approval. Tho comment of Mrs. J. C. Hen drick, editor of the Upland (Nebr.) “Eagle", summarized the viewpoint of referendum supporters In terse, pungent fashion :“It is a bunch of (continued on page five) vis, in charge of the 369th infan try, New York National Guard, will be present with officers of the regiment. \ Jot I.ouis is fJetreit Chairman Joe I^ouis hasMigreed to act as I 1 .lcv-rj chairman for the Detroit I 1ranch. According to Walter Wh te, sec retary of the NAACP., funds rais | ed from these dances will go to i ward pushing the anti-lynching | bill fight in Congress, carrying the fight against educational inequali ! ties suffered by Negro citizens to | a wider section of the population, and broadening the Association’s 1 program in fighting anti-Negro ' propaganda in textbooks, films and the ratho. The Association’s civ il liberties drive will be given in creased impetus also with the aid of these funds, Mr. White said. Laffeyette Palace of Wonders To Show Under Auspices of The N. C. of C. _ The National Council of Chur Il men is presen: ng the famous Ln fayette Palace of Wonders wiln many featured attractions. Amc.ig them is the world’s greatest mech anical robot, direct from Hollywood showing an unbelievable perfor mance, along with highly educat . d dogs and many other acts. The entire show is under one admission 10c to all and the proceeds go to the National Council to further their program of Racial Amity and Religious Tolerance among all people. The show will open on Friday February 3, and close Feb ruary 12. The show will be held every day from 11:30 A. M. until 11:00 P. M. and willl be held at 2418 Grant St. This is a clean wholesome entertainment and in tho interest of a worthy cause, and bespeaks your patronage. GEORGIAN FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING WHITE RECTOR Brunswick, Gfc. Feb.,' (ANP)— George Cleybom was convicted hero last week of first degree mur der for the shooting last Feb ruary of Dr. Charles H. Lee, Epis copal rhetor of Christ Church on St. Simons Island, but the jury recommended mercy wh'ch means a sentence of life imprisoment. Death Reveals Discrep ancies; Preferred Suicide To Revelation " * Tuskegee, Feb. 3 (ANP)—Post al authorities checkihg over the ac counts of TraJcy Brannam,-veteran arid popular-postal clerk who -died by his own hand here two weeks ago, are 3aid to have found a con siderable shortage. Mr. Brannum for years'hSd«^epn-in; charge of the money order -ajjd HCftal savings accounts at the institute post of fice. j. B. Washington, postmaster at Tuskegee for 40 years, died last October. Conjecture among Mr. Bran num's many friends points to the presumption that kno wng the advent of * new postmaster meant * * * * 4 ‘ « To Conduct Meeting Rev A. W. T. CHISM Look, who’s coming to town to conduct a meeting at the Salem Baptist Church, 28bh and Decatur Sts., of wdiich E. H. Hilson is the partor—The Rev. A. W. T. Chism, of Phoenix, Arizona, and formerly of New York. The Dr, Chism will begin this meeting on the first Sunday or Monday n'ght following in Febr u&*y. You will miss a ‘reat if you do not attend these services and hear this eminent minister who will he conducting these meetings for 10 or 12 days. This is a chance for all unsaved young men, young women and elderly ones alike to be saved. "Come and seek and ye shall find rest for your soul.’ Rev. E. H. Hilson, pastor. EDITOR Fredrick S Weaver Editor-in-Chief of The Oracle, official organ of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Mr. Weaver is a Howard graduate and is director cf the Omega Achievement Proj ect, from his office, 920 You St., N. W. Washington, D. C. (Calvin Service.) the auditing of otffice account**, and seeing no immediate- way out of the situation, which it is re ported covered a period of five years, Brannum chose death, raither than face exposure. Branum died from a self-inflicted revolver wound Friday, Jan. 13. < FLASHES New Yerk (C)—The enormous, circulation of The Pittsburgh Courier has gone into decline, drop ping 13,800 in the past .year, it was revealed Saturday, as the PubPsher’a -Statement for .Septem ber, laat.-was given as 134,000. The Courier gave its circulation as 147,800 a year ago in- a barrage fired at the Chicago Defender, when is “estimated" the Defender’s circulation at only 46,000. The De fender later gave out its circu lation ait 107,000. New York (C)—Mra. Amy Aeh* j wood Garvey, first wife of Marcus Garvey, has returned to the United States and was s peaker at a mass meeting of the Ethiopian World Federation in Harlem last Sunday Mrs. Garvey’s brother, Michaei Ashwood, producer of “Policy Kings” at one time feared for his sister’s safety when she was living in London. MEDIATION BOARD RE SPONDS TO Brotherhood’s Call For Porters On Chicago and Northwestern R. R. __ Following the invocation of the services of the National Mediation Board by the Brotherhood of Sleep ing Car Porters, to settle a repres-j entation dispute with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, con cerning, parlor car and chair car porters, A. Philip Randolph, Inter national President, and Mjlton P. Webster, First International Vice President. held a conference with Robert F. Cole, Secretary of the Board, in its offices in Washing ton, E>. C., Wednesday, January 26 to determine the, steps the Board had taken to adjust the dispute, officers were informed that the The Brotherhood’s international Board would proceed, steadily with the case until ik.js brought .to some definite conclusion under the prov isions of the Railway Labor Act, Mr. Randolph announced that he ■expected • the dispute to be favor ably settled and that the Brother hood would negotiate an Agree ment for the above mentioned class of worker in the near future with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Randolph and Webster are en routo South where they will visit Jacksmville, and Tampa ,Florida, divisions of the Brotherhood. Jewell Divorce Case Settled ACE CBS COM MENTATOR TO APPEAR IN OMAHA H. V. Kaltenborn H. V. Kaltenborn. writer, world 1 traveler and ace news commenta tor for the Columbia Broadcasting System, will appear in Omaha or j the evening of March 20 in a lecture under the sponsorship of tho Omaha Post No. 1 of the American Legion. Announcement that Mr. Kalten born has been signed for an Oma ha. speaking engagement was mado today by Morris Jacobs, chairman of the legion’s finance committee. i The lecture will be presented in the Technical High school audi j torium, Mr. Jacobs said, because of the popularity of the speaker. ( Mr Kaltenborn’s recent digest of current, affairs in war-threatened Europe has made him a much de manded and popular lecturer. Tickets for the lecture will go on sale late this week at the legion headquarters in the Omaha j City Halk All seats will be $1. There will be no reserved seats. , Mail orders will be filled at the j legion headquarters. Proceeds from the event will go j to the legion’s welfare fund, Mr. Jacbos indicated: It has long been j the policy of the legion to spon ] sor worthwhile events in Omaha, j Appearance of Mr. Kaltenborn here is deemed timely because of his ability to explain the current European happenings. Known as the “dean of radio commentators,” Mr. j Kaltenborn was born in Milwaukee. He was a cub reporter at 14 and at 19 he ran away from home to enlist in the Spanish American War. Af ter the war, Mr. Kaltenborn spent a few yeais in Europe. Up on "his return to the United States I he joined the editorial staff of the | Brooklyn Eagle. After a year on the Eagle staff, Mr Kaltenborn decided to attend Harvard where he later graduat ed with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Ho tutored Vincnt Astor for a year before he returned to the Brooklyn Eagle staff. Mr. Kalten bom rose from a reported to an associate editor of the Eagle as years passed. A natural public speaker, Mr. Kaltenborn spent much of his WIFE ASKS $10,000 ALIMONY | —-RECEIVES $1,439 AND INSURANCE POLICY The bitterly fought Jewell div-1 oree ease which has been under consideration' in District Court for the past month, featured by much sensational newspftper notoriety was finally settled January 31st, when Judge Herbert Rhoades granted Mrs. Carrie Jewell, a div orce from J. C. (Jimmie) Jewell, or grounds of cruelty. Mrs. Jewell claimed that young Jewell had an income of $600 per month derived from the various enterprises in the Jewell building unarm ged by him Through her attorney, George Boland, she had asked for an ali mony settlement of $10,000. Judge Rhoades granted her permanent alimony of $1,439, payable at the rate of $30 per month. She also received a paid up life insurance oj $661. Mr. Jewell did not contest the divorce. Irvin Levin represented him. time addressing public audiences ,during„his editorship The man agement of the Eagle reasoned back in 15)22 that if Mr. Kalten born could pack the paper’s audi tcr.ium each week he should he a natural for radio. Once in • radio, Mr. Kaltenborn devote! more and more time to this new field. Finally, he left the Eagle staff, some 10 years ago. to de'ote his entire time to radio' leetturing and world travel. As tho Columbia network’s ace com-, mentator, Kaltenborn’s activities have been loaded with adventure for he has interviewed such news headliners as Mussolini, Chamber lain, Eden, Benes .and Hitler. Assisting Mr. Jacobs in bring ing Mr. Kaltenborn to Omaha in behalf of the legion post are: James P. Lee, V. C Hascall, John Hepkins, Robert J. Webb, ^Arthur R. Klopp and Allan Turkey, all members of legion’s finance com mittee. _aAa_ GALLOWAY-SANFORD MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED Friends of Miss Julia Sanford, and Mr. Boyd Galloway were sur prised this week to learn of their recent marriage, after *y secret en gagement of several months. The bride is the daughter of Rev, and Mrs. Thomas J. Sanford of 3118 Corby St. She was a resident of Cheyenne, Wyoming until coming to Omaha some 18 months ago. and graduated from Central High school in 1U38. Mr. Galloway is a licensed motion picture projec tionist and a member of the Omaha Guide staff Mrs. Galloway is a tennis enthusiast, while her hus band is active in golf circles be ing the president of the Cornhus ker Golf dub and a member of the Amateur Theatre Group. * ¥he Galloway’s will be at home to their friends at 2814 North 28th St., after February 16. _ndn_ ' Homeless Missouri Share Croppers Still A Problem To Authorities Now Madrid, Mo. Jan. 81 (ANP) ! —Last Wednesday after a fort ! night of trials and tribulations, the problem of the encamped sharecroppers in Southeast Miss ouri still baffled solution and there was no indication as to what would be done with the BOO Ne groes who, on Monday, were put into a oamp six miles east of Highway 61 in swamp area inun-, dated during the 1937 floods. ROY PAGE GIVEN LONG OVATION More than 500 electrice ers, distributors, cox t.ors uai manufacturers' '. opresentative* were guests of the Nebraska L*ow» er Company last Thursday aigMt at a dinner meeting in the Rem Hotel, Omaha at which the co-ay erative sales plan for the industry was presented. Dealers and their salesme* from Omaha, Council Bluffs an# all towns in eastern NcbraskB, and western Iowa served by the company, who attended were en thusiastic over the comprehensive? program outlined by the company for co-operative sales proruotum throughout 1939. Mr. Fay Smith, assistant (fun eral manager of the power com pany, in presenting a survey of the territory the company serves,, forecast better business for 1959 Mrs. B. E. Marsh, residential salesmanager. told of the increas ed program of newspaper adver tising, and .other sales promotion, activities tihe company will carry on in the interest of dealers. Koy Page, vice president and g e n or a 1 * w a n a gc r "*■ th» Nebraska Power Company, was given a loafer ovation when, in a brief address, he assured his audience tWl Ike Nebraska Power Company fs not for sale and that, despite rumors there have been no negotiation* for its sale to the power district* or t,o anyone else. The company,, he said, has served Omaha, Coun cil * Bluffs and other Nebraska and Iowa communities for fifty-four -years and oxpects to continue t* serve them many more years. Dr. George W. Allison of tb« Electrical Kitchen Bureau, Near York, delivered a “gatling gun*’ address on salesmanship in whiete he emphasized that the customer is the silent partner in every busi ness and business can succeed on ly i nthe measure in which in serve* this silent partner. —-0O0 WANT itIG CHICAGO HOUSING PROJECT NAMED AFTER lb* B., WELLS-BARNETT / Chicago, Fab. 3(ANP)—Vari ous Chicago civic organizations ate clubs are seeking to have the big: federal housing project at 37th ate South Parkway named after tka late Ida B. Wells-Barnett, famte woman leader, militant foe of tte lynching evil and advocate of aqote rights for Negroes. Mrs. Barate died, in 1931 after a long career in public life, during which aim espoused the cause of women ate organized influential women’s dote an activity which won her' the titlr ‘‘mother of clubs.' The Ida B. Wells club, thib city was organized over 40 years ago, and is still one «£ the strongest women’s organism* tions in Chicago. -oOo— ASKED TO EROVE HARLEM" ‘MURDER A DAY” GHARGH New York. Feb. 3. (^NP)~ Charging that Harlem has “a mw. der a day” unrecorded unnoticed bjr the police department, Joseph Clark Baldwin, minority leader of the city council, was hauled before Mayor Fiorella LaOuardia Satur* day to substantiate the claim. Recalling that Baldwin, as mino rity member of the Aldermanie board, had been responsible for the furoe which resulted in the iseabury investigation, forcing the resignation of many prommmA Tammy officials including former Mayor James Walker, much tion v£i drawn to Baldwin's % I derations.