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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 *•"««%«
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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)
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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?”
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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
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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
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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.
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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 . ,
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• *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.”
