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The Weather Weather outlook for the Period Feb. 13 to 18. I Upper Miss, and lower Mo. Valleys and Northern and. Central Great plains, tem Ihbmmum.. •«—peratures about normal HFW TO THF liwF\ northern and *•"««%« JL.li IV/ lilL LlllC. \ bove normal southern por jl *- tions; one or two precipit ___ ■ • - -— 1 ations likely latter part at I FLASH PHOTO week. 1 LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY EnteN^StaTS*ff^lrftMLih 0Tnata’ Omaha, Nebr., Saturday, Feb. 18, 1939 NamS^ if y KAPPA GRAND POLEMARCH Names Committees For Year of 1939 JAMES E. SCOTT, Washington jpeaKor, is the recently elected grand polemarch of Kappa Alpha' ^Bi Fraternity. WASHINGTON. D. C.— Indic ating a broad national program the various committees and appoint «l officers to serve during the rest ■of 1939 were named here this week by the Kappa -Alpha Psi Fratern . through- James E. Scott, law. year and realtor who wae recent ly elected grand polemarch. Carrying out a mandate to con tinue close cooperation with civil S rights organizations such as the NAACP., the National Problems Advisory Committee was strength ened and W. Robert Ming, Jr., pro cessor of law at Howard Univer sity, named chairman. Arming to keep an eye on all parts of the country, other mem bers of the committee are; Attor neys Theophilus M, Mann, Chica go; Louise R. Mehlenger of the U. (continued on p. 3) — ■ ■ --' '■ Anti-Lynch Fight Mnst Co On Says Radio Speaker New York, Feb. 16—The fight for a federal anti-lynching law must go on despite any filibuster, it was declared ‘here over radio station WNEW by Richard Brooks news comimentator, in his talk on February 3. After citing the fact that the vast majority of senators are in favor of the bill, Commentator Brooks takes up the question of a filibuster, calling Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, “chief fighter in tho battle to prevent federal in terference in lynchings.” He quotes Senator Connally as saying: “It will not pass. Let me in form the senators (Wagner Capper and VanNuys) that those opposed to this legislation are ready to earry on the fight as long as their legs hold out and their mental fac ulties function.” Commentator Brooks cites the brutal lynching of two colored men to Duck Hill, Miss., in April 1937. The victims were tied to trees, •tripped and tortured with blow torches before being killed. The fact that no lynchings at •11 occurred during the filibuster to the Senate in January and Peb Tuary, 1938, and that the first lyn ching of the year occurred after the bill was safely off the Senate calendar is also cited by the radio news man. The record of Texas in having more than 480 lynchings since 18821 was referred to by Mr. Brooks, who asks: “What has the state to fear from a federal anti-lynching law? What has any senator to fear from a law which will put an end to this shameful practice which is direct ly contradictory to the United States Constitution ? How can Tom Connally and his supporters In the Senate blandly say that the states can take care of it? own lyn chings when the facts have proved otherwise?” I No Greater Moral Force In the World Than Love Declares Bishop J. S. Flipper Columbia, S. C. Feb. 16 (AMP) —Concluding a series of successful conferences in South Carolina re cently, Bishop J. S. Flipper who presides over the “Iodone State” said, “there is no greater moral force in the world than love.” With this theme, as the basis of an ora tion delivered by the senior prelate of the AME church, presiding eld ers, ministers and numerous lay people gathered in spacious Trinity church in Manning, were happily informed of the great increase in conference claims over the previous years. As chancellor of Allen university the renowned religionist spoke briefly on the progress of the Col umbia institution that has made rapid progress. With many more students enrolled at Allen this year and the splendid spirit of coopera tion that is existent between pre rid'ng elder', minist"’"* and others interested in the educational pro , gress of youth, Bishop Flipper sees ahead “a bright future for Allen.” fife acknowledged gratefully the gift of a $25,000 organ from an outstanding South Carolina citizen, whose contribution is said to be unequalled in recent months U- S- BRINGING NEGRO OUT OF SOUTHS SLUMS LET CONTRACT FOR BIG LOUSIANA NEGRO FARM PROJECT Tallulah, La., Feb. 16 (ANP)— Regional officials of the Farm se curity administration in Little Rock, Ark., announced last Tues day that the contract for the erection of 147 farmstead units ®n tho lands of LaDelta farms, FSA Negro Resettlement project in Lou siana’s Madison and East Carroll parishes, has been awarded to E. E. Rabalais of Bunkie, La., one of that state’s leading contractors. Each of the 147 units of the farmstead project will consist of a five-room house, a commondious barn, an up-to-date polutry house. The houses will vary somewhat in design so that monotosy of appear ance will be avoided, six different plans in all being used. Each dwelling will have three 'bedrooms, a living room, modern kitchen, screened back porches and (continued on p. 3) NEGRO AP POINTEES ASKED FOR On Federal Wage and Hour Committees Chicago, Feb., 23 (ANP)—Ap pointment of qualified Negroes to the various industrial committees created by passage of the federal wage and hour law was asked by Isbmael P. Flory, secretary-trea surer of the Joint Council of Din ing Car Employes unions, in a letter sent Wednesday to Elmer F Andrew, administrator of the Wage and Hour division of the U. S. Department of Labor. After pointing out that no Ne groes were appointed to the commi ttee for the apparel industry, in which colored workers have a place, Mr. Flory declared: “It is our conviction that there should be at least one represen tative on all industry committees representative of the interest of the Negro workers and the Negro people whose interests are fre quently ignored and not safeguard ed. It is our hope that in the fu (continued on p. 3) "Negro Is Shadow Over All Southern Thinking;... There Are Two Souths” Says Maury Maverick. NEW YORK, Feb. 16—In almost ! every southern question, the Negro is a long, black, shadow affecting south ern thought, declares Maury Maver ick, former congressman from Texas, in an article in the winter number of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Writing under the title of “Let's Join the United States,” the fiery Tex an* who was the only southern Con gressman to vote for a federal anti 'lynching bill during the last session of Congress, lashes out at the phony tra dition of the South in these words: “Sir, there are two Souths. The South! The Glorious South! ThSe land of noble families, illustrious tra ditions, of magnolia blossoms and beau tiful poetry—-of Old Black Joes bowing and scraping to their cultured masters who always treated their Negroes just exactly as Nobody Else Knows How. “Then there is the region of poor whites and underprivileged Negroes; of the worst labor conditions in the United States of unsalable business and agriculture, of the lowest standard of living; of lynching bees; of lowest pro duction in dairy products and green vegetables, the worst housing and the lowest wages anywhere in our coun try.” Maverick traces the historical back ground of the type of thinking which makes American tories fight so hard for “states rights”, “local self govern ment,” “plant police”, “plantation po lice,” the right to be “let alone-” in busi ness. Back of it all is the Negro, he says, either as a fact or a symbol. “As in almost every other southern question,” he says, “the Negro was a long black shadow”. Not content with an exposition of the problems affecting the South and its relationship with the rest of the country, the former Southern congress man, who is now running for Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, gives his inter pretation of a way out. “Yes. The South may rise, but if that is to be done* let us leave the mag nolia blossoms on the trees, and use the brains in our heads for thinking, rath er than for emotions and escape com-, plexes. Let us say the condition of the South was forced upon us by the slave shippers of New and that New England stole the slaves away; let us lay it on those who destroyed us in the Civil War, and then kicked us down under the heel of Eastern exploitation. But let us agree that this is merely his tory, and solves nothing for the future. Let us resolve that from here on out we are determined to free ourselves. If we do not, this time it will be our own fault.” CHAIRMAN . I ■■!!!■ ■ ■ I ■■■— « I I Dr. E. W. Taggart, Birmingham, who is serving his second three year term as chairman of the exe cutive board of the National Den tal association. Dr. Taggart’s as tute, military manner becomes his slender six feet three inches of height. Military service halted his education. He served overseas with the 349th Field artillery and received both his A. B. and D. D. S. degrees before locating in Birm ingham wheie he haB remained 15 years. He edited a weekly col umn on “Teeth and Health” for Tho Birmingham World, being one of the first to so interest himself in properly informing the pub! c. Dr. Taggart combines his relig ious and civic duties in such a way that he has served as an officer and teacher in the Sunday school for year, is an active member of the Masonic lodge and a trustee of the Boy’s Club. Long associated with the NAACP. and its militant president for five years, he is at present a member of the national board of directors of the NAACP. Ho belongs to the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. His outdoor loves cen ter around the cultivating of his prize dehlias and nursing the flow er garden and he gives his wife, Essie Wilmer. full credit for her affectionate care and attentiveness to their spacious home. (ANP photo —■ ' II ^ Seagram’s Distillery Charged with Banning of Negro Workers Indianapolis, Feb. 23 (ANP)— The Joseph Seagram distillery lo cated at Lawrence burg, Ind., mak ers of liquors popular in Negro neighborhoods, haa no place for Negro workers, it is stated in a letter written to R. L. Bailey, pro minent local attorney, by Charles Baker who has just been discharg. ed because of a recently instituted ban against colored laborer*. Baker, a laborer employed by the Owend Construction company of Louisville, has been doing construc J tion work for his company at the Seagram plant. Last week he was told by the foreman that he and another colored laborer named Sanders, could no longer use the lavatory because the distillery em ployes. all white, objected. The foreman promised to provide special accomodations for them, but before this could be done, he was called to the office and on returning told Baker and Sanders they were be ing discharged, adding that he hat ed to let them go He had no fault . to find w th their work, he said, but was forced to protect his con 1 struction firm. The plant now operated by Sea gram was formerly owned by the James Walsh company which for 30 yeara employed up to 26 Ne groes. According to Baker, the Seagram company has refused tO' employ Negroes, and any colored persons working there were hired by construction firms, but now even that has been stopped. -oOo-— NAACP. Asks Dies To INVESTIGATE KLAN New York. Feb. 16—A new re quest that Congressman Martin Dies of Texas, chairman of the Committee to Investigate Un-Am erican Activities, examine into the workings of the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Legion, and lynching mobs, was made by the NAACP. this week. The request, the third made by the NAACP., was sent to Congress man Dies immediately after the House voted to continue his com mittee and gave It $100,000 for ex penses. The NAACP letter, signed by Walter White, secretary, cited the article In Ken Magazine for Febr uary 9 entitled “The Klan’s Spring Campaign”, in which the writer in dicated that the Klan was being used by some powerful forces, who rema'n in the background, to carry on a camnaign of hatred. Cony of the letter was sent to Congressman Arthur D. Healy, Toy,n J. Dempsey, Joe Starnes, NV.ah M. Mason, and J. Parnell Thomas. Mr. Thomas replied to tho NAACP.. stating that he would u^go tho investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organiz Homeless Missouri Share Croppers Get Federal Relief Cash .. * WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16 (ANP)—Destitution among South east Missouri’s homeless share croppers, tenants and farm work ers has been lessened, ’t was dis closed here Wednesday by Farm | Security Administration officials. I FSA. officials told representa tives of the Southern Tenant Far mer’s Union, CIO affiliate, they were doing all in their power to aid the jobless Missouri farm work ers, many of whom gathered rec ently in roadside camps to protest their eviction from farms by land- j lords who insisted on changing their sharecropper status to thut of day workers. Dr. W. W. Alexander, FSA. ad ministrator told H. L. Mitchell of Memphis (white) STFU aocretary treosurer and Hev. Owen White field vice president that FSA had made about 4,000 reljjef grants averaging about $20 each, to 3,600 families in the cotton-growing oounties of Southeast Missouri in recent weeks He said they would bo unable to extend this relief in definitely however, because of shortage of funds. He explained: "We are robbing other parts of the country of funds they should receive in order to make grants to the Southeast Missouri fami- > lies." Dr. Alexander a bo said FSA was investigating an offer of the Great Northern Land company at Popular Bluffs, Mo., to extend use of cut-over and uncleared land to the homeless tenants and laborers. Harlemite Named^P^ie WORLD YWCA COUNCIL i . i New York, Feb. 16 (ANP)—Mrs. E. P. Roberts, prominent YWCA leader in New York, was selected by the national board of the YWCA at its first meeting of the year on Jan. 4 to fill an unexpired term in the group of Amercian members on the World's Council of the YWCA in Geneva, Switzerland, it was announced last week in New Pork. Mrs. Roberts will serve until 1940. She will be one of the twelve members of the National Board who officially represent the asso ciations of this country in the in ternational group, now comprising representatives from B2 countries. She has been a member of the National Board since 1930 and ac tive in the Committee of Manage ment in the 137th Street Branch of the New York assocation. Mrs. Robert’s interest in the so cial welfare is extended to out standing civic groups, including the Harlem Committee of the New York Tuberculosis and Health as sociation and the Citizens’ Com mittee Affiliated with Local Grad uate Nurses, She is chairman of both groups. She is a member of a prominent family. Her father, Warren Logan, for many years treasurer of Tus kegee institute, is now retired but still a member of the board of trustees. One of the outstanding pieces of work which she will be doing this year for the YWCA will be as chairman of the Wll berforce conference for delegates from branch associations which will be held June 20-27. Republishing Calvin’s Article on Catholicism Pitstsbugrh, Pa. (C)—The Catho lic Sunday Observer of January 22, Tohn Joseph Gorrell, K. H. S., Edi tor. 2"8 Third Avenut, renubl'shed :n fn'l tve art’cle, “Catholic Inter racial Promotion," by Floyd J. Cal vin, which appeared originally in fho Interracial Review of New York. J FINLEY WIL SON INDORSES $1*500 - 55 cts. Minimnm Year and Hour Wag© WASHINGTON, Feb. ItJ (Cl ~ Hon. J. Finley Wilson, Grand HI* alted Ruler of the Elks, indonwt tho $1,500 minimum annual wsvg® tor all district and federal worker* now being sponsored before Con gress by the Un ted Government Employes, in a stirring speech at Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday ev ening. The U. G. E. is also call ing for an increase to 55 cents a* lour for 5,000 charwomen in th* post office service, higher classif ication for Bureau of Engraving workers and hospitalization far employes, admittance of color®* youth in tho U. S. Army and Navy Air Corps, and inclusion of dbn» estic workers i nthe Social Secur ity Act for old age and unemploy ment benefits. The U. G. f* ha* secured wage increases for SjJOt colored government workers sin#* its founding two years ago. Burlington Buys Fleet of New Air-Conditioned 't . Buses . , .• • f • *2" Chicago, Feb. 10-Air/>»ditiftfr ed .completely modern* and tnehab ing every comfort for long-distaM* travel, a fleet of new strwrmKiN* buses will be introduced this spring by the Burlington Trailways N01 system *for service dn it* OiSfppg *4 (California lines, according to an nouncement today by W. K Fuller Vice-Fresident of the Burbngto® ing to Mr. Fuller, the new ftogfc Transportation Company. Accord will be operated on daily limited schedules over the companylp through routes between Chicago*, and San Francisco and Los An geles. For the past four years tip company, owned and operated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, has operated over 368v* 000 bus miles per month on theaP California routes, in addition to IIP extensive services throughout thp Middle West and West. While assuring ultra-modern and safe long-distance bus schedules be tween the Great Lakes anl Pacific Coast, these amazing sew buses will usher in new advancements in air condition'ng which will maintain • perfectly comfortable balance be tween temperature and humidity aft all times, regardless of weather conditions. Complete insulation and wide-vision, sealed windows, toge ther will render interiors dustlesay odorless and practically noiselem. Likewise interior design and accom modations will introduce new stan dards of passenger luxury into the field of economical bus travel. Specifically designed for tram continental service, the entire flat# is being built by General Motor# and will feature the faitiiMn# “Cream-and-Crimson” colors of®* eially adopted by members of th# National Trail ways System, <#• nationwide bus service. It is efth pected that the new equipment, em bodying many new features #9 restfulness and convenience and equipped with every known safety devioe, will offer a type of travel accommodation unknown to high way transportation a few year# ago. “We are already preparing fat a heavy volume of traff’c on owr new buses this summer,” Mr. Fulle* stated .“We are eanf:d°nt that vV sitors to the G' lden Gate Kxptt si ion at San F^-an isco and thm World’s Fair at Now York City, aa well as ma ■ r o*"er vacationist* hound far r‘ a nod western play grounds. will d this n°w sip* condtfotied fleet pa-‘irular!y ad vantage us f — swift, sa'e and courteous ! -1. ?f no nereasa | over prevailing low bus fares.”