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I - — City Jj I j Edition J | The Weather Weather outlook for the period Mr.r. 2~ to April 1.1 Upper Miss, and Lower Missouri Vlaley, consid erable rain south anJ rain or snow north por- j tion during week; tem . ?{ perature mostly near or above noi mal except be low normal part of time north portion. — - Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday April 1, 1939 N. Y. OFFICIAL FOR RENEW ED FIGHT ON ANTI-BIASJ.AW Nerw York, March 30 (CAN))— Charging that the action of a Re publican dominated committee of Who State Assembly in killink all anti-discrimination bills without even waiting for the completion of a public hearing on the measures was “nothing short of a scandal,'1 Stanley M. Isaac Borough Presi dent of Manhattan, this week urged a continued fight for the renewal of such legislation. Isaacs, speaking over the muni cipal Radio Station WNYC, under the auspices of the National Ur ban league, detailed the miseries and calumnies inflicted upon the Negro people struck particularly at the policies of discrimination in practice in public utilities and other agencies operating under city franchises. In his radio talk, Isaacs pointed out that “half of Harlem lives on a family income of $16 or less, and less than 15 per cent live an $£,000 or more. In short, the bulk incomes far below the minimum of of the people of Harlem exist on decency set by the U. S. Depart ment of Labor.” -ooO——— State Engrineer Warns Nebraska of Gasoline Tax Ex emption Evils Lincoln, Nebr., March 30 (Spec ial)-A warning against passage of L. B. No. 12 which would ex empt from taxation that fuel pur chase and intended for use in oper ating tractors and combines for strictly agricultural purposes was voiced today by State Engineer A C. Tilley. “If exemption is granted to any group of non-highway gasoline users, it follows that demand for exempt ins of all other groups of non-highway gnsoline users will result,” Mr. Tittley declared. He pointed out that the plan failed to work satisfactorily in several states where the law was in effect in years past and cited tho undesirability of the program now in effect in Nebraska’s neigh boring states. He referred to the following statement made in March, 1935 by the Kansas State Planning board in a release entitled “Statistical Analysis of Gasoline Tax Exemp tions.” The Kansas State Department of Inspection and Registration dis covered and prosecuted evasions and false or illegal exemption claims in 1933 in Thomas County and others. 'Routine county hear ings have failed, however, to alter the situation materially.” “There is more than a suspion that many claimed exemptions benefit unscrupious gasoline rather than the persons whose names appear on exemption statements.” Mr. Tilley pointed out that a gasoline tax exemption measure was passed by the Nebraska legis lature of 1925, “And the experience was of such an unsatisfactory na ture that the act was repealed at the following session." “Obviously, any law providing for gasoline tax exemption will reduce the amount of revenue a vailable for highway construction. Based on the assumption that the exemptoins has been found. In a7! five neighboring states—or^l.96 per cent—it would mean a reduct ion in highway finances of appro ximately $4,275,000 per biennium,” ho asserted. “Of this $4,275,000 reduction, ap proximately $2,850,000 would be a reduction in the state’s share of gasoline tax revenue, and since this reduction would affect Nebras ka’s ability to match Federal Aid in direct proportion, it would mean ♦hat there would be approximately $6,700,000 worth less construction work on the State and Federal highway system as well as appro priately $1,452,000 less work on county roads during a biennium due to exemptions alone.” Ho continued: “No effective method of policing | or administering gasoline tax exemptions has been fuond. In all instances where gasoline tax exemptions has been provided for, flagrant abuse has resulted. To at tempt to police or control these abuses would require a large new bureau and a small army of men, and even then it is doubtful if satisfactory results could be ob tained. It is my understanding that Kansas has approximately 151 em ployees in the gasoline tax exemp tion bureau. “The demand for new construc tion and for additional improve ment on already constructed high ways is far greater at the present time than the ability to finance the construction that would be re quired if all demands were to be met. “This applies to primary high ways and feeder roals a» well.” “And reduction in finances such as would result from gasoline tax exemptions would, of course have the effect of making, it impossi ble to even a greater degree than at present to meet the demands of tho public.” ANDREWS BLASTS N. Y. WORLD FAIR ANTI NEGRO BIAS Albany, N. Y. March 31 (CNA) ■—The anti-Negro bias of the New York World’s Fair Corporation was denounced vehemently on the floor of the Assembly this week by William T Andrews, Negro De mocrat from Harlem. “No institution or business in the State discriminates more a gainst the Negro people,” Andrews charged. “Yet, the World’s Fair was created by the laws of the Stato and receive Millions of Dol lars from City and State. Andrews revealed that the Fair recently hired two thousand per sons, only the merest fraction of whom were Negroes. He also cited the case of a Negro honor gradu ate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was given a porter’s job by the Fair authorities. “This attitude is continuing,” he said. “And they call that depicting the ‘World of Tomorrow.’ ” Andrews warned that the virus of racial discrimination cannot be confined to any group. He conclud ed with a strong plea for enact ment of anti-discrimination laws. -O CALVIN SISTERS IN BROOK LYN PIANO RECITAL Brooklyn, N. Y. March, 30 (C)— Bernice and Dolores Calvin, 14 and 11 year old pianist-coon posers from Manhattan, appeared in their first Brooklyn recital Sunday af ternoon at Bethel Tabernacle A. M.E. Church, 90 Schenectady ave nue, Rev. S. H. V. Gumbs, pastor. The recital was sponsored by the Young Ladies Auxiliary, and Mrs. Ruth Dennis of Manhattan presi ded. A large crowd of young peo ple and their parents greeted the artists, and Mrs. Willa Lee Cal vin, mother of the girls, made a brief talk. -oOo SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY WORTH $902,308.96; $122,456.41 IN CASH Richmond, Va., March 30 (C)— The Southern Aid Society of Vir ginia has assets of $902,308.96, of which $122,456.41 is in cash, ac cording to a statement of condi tion as December 13, last, just published. The company has paid claims of $7,752,257.19 since its organization 46 years ago. COX SUPS WHITE MAN WHEN ASKED TO MEET A- NEGRO Washington, March 29 (CNA) — Rep. E. E. Cox, Tory democrat oT Georgia found him-elf in a de cided minority among his Southern colleagues when he took a sock at a white member of the Worker’s Alliance who attempted to intro duce the Congressman to one of his Negro constituents this week. Delegates to an All-Southern conference of the Alliance called to press for passage of the Presi dent’s request for a ? 150,000,000 grant to'WPA, said that they got a friendly reception from most of their Congressmen. Approximately 100 delegates from 13 states at tended the conference. Hits Delegate | Cox, who introduced the bill passed by the House this week to investigate the WPA, was the only distinctly hostile Congress man. Tex Oxmum, a white leader of tho Alliance, approached Cox and asked him to meet two of the de-‘ legates to the conference. Cox wanted to know who those dele gates were, and Oxmum told him that one was a Negro from his Congressional district. At this point, Cox hauled off and took a sock at Oxmum. The Geor gia Tory later described it as a “slap.” Melvin Inabinett is the Negro worker whom Cox refused to meet. The other delegate who was along with him was Glem T. Allen, white. Oxmum was showing the two Southerners around the Capitol. David Lasser, president of the Workers’ Alliance, described Cox’s action ar. an ‘unprovoked assault.” Ho said Ihtat “domestic problems, just as foreign problems should be solved, by discussion and not by force and violence.” -0O0——— 30,000 ATEND WPA. PRESENT ATIONS New York, March 30 (CNA)— Close to 30,000,000 persons throughout the nation have attend ed at least one WPA presentation since the establishment of the WPA Federal Theatre en August 29, 1935. Business Consumer Relations Conference To Be Held in June At the invitation of the National Association of Better Business Bu reaus, over 90 important organi zations have signified their inten tion to become a part of the Busi ness-Consumer Helations Confer ence on Advertising and selling practices that will be held in Buf falo, New York, June 5 and 6, 1939.. This conference will be the first of all its kind ever to be held and will be a very forward move ment in bettering the conditions prevailing in advertising and sell ing practices of today. Trade associations, consumer or ganizations, educational institu tions and organizations, and gov ernment groups wiH all be repre sented to cooperate in dealing with the major problems of each group in regard to advertising and sell ing practices. The trade associa tion group includes those in the merchandise, financial, and service fields, as well as those represent ing the different froms of distribu tions, »uch as mail order, chain stores, independent retailers, direct selling organizations, and others. Witjh the exception of local groups in or near Buffalo, only organizations active on a nation wide scale in the United States or Canada were limited to become co operating organizations. Various regional, state and local organiza tions, as well as various consumer, educational, hnd government groups unable to be listed as coop erating organizations, have indi cated their intention of being rep resented by delebates at the Con ference. It is also expected that a few more naThes will be added to tho list as other organizations act on the invitations that have been extended The names of the cooperating or ganizations were recently made public by John * N. Garver, Jr., Chairman of the Board of the Na tional Association of Better BUsi ress Bureas and Vivc-President of tho Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, Buffalo. Institute for Consumer Educa tion, Stephens College; Institute of Distribution, Inc.;* International Association of Ice Cream Manu MANAGING EDITOR J. DON DAVIS Youthful Managing Editor of the Houston Informer, Houston, Tex., who is a graduate of Southern U. Baton Rouge, la., and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. Mr. Davis is only 24, and is perhaps the young est managing editor of an impor tant newspaper in Negro journa lism, the Informer recently cele brating its 45th anniversary. Mr. Davis did his first newspaper work in New Orleans, and edited a pa per in school for three years. He edited an extra-edition which sold 7,500 copies when a murder was solved. Mr. Davis is also a member of the Managing Committee of the company which publishes the In former. (Calvin Service.) factureis; International Silk Guild , Kiwanis Club of Buffalo; Life In surance Sales Research Bureau; Limited Price Variety Stores As sociation; State Teachers College at Buffalo; Toilet Goods Associa tion; Amos Tuck School of Admin istration and Finnnce, Dartmouth College; United States Building and Loan League; University of Buffalo. -0 FOUR KIDDIES DIE IN ILL. FIRE Phoenix, 111. March 30 (CNA) — here when their home burned. The Three Nergo children were burn ed to death and a 4th suffocated, dead are: Margueritte, 5; Randall, MRS. ROOSEVELT ATTENDS GALA PREMIERE OF “THE SWING MIKADO,, AT NEW YORKER THEATRE Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first Lady of the land, was among the notables attending the Gala Premiere of “The Swing Mikado” at the New Yorker Theatre in New York City on Wednesday night, March 1. Shown in the plhoto, from left to right are: Florence Kerr, as sistant WPA Administrator; Col onel Harrington, WPA Adminis trator; Mrs, Roosevelt; Harry Minturn, Director of the WPA Federal Theatre project of 111. and producer of “The Swing Mi kado Gladys Boucree, who plays the part of Yum Yum; Mayor Fio relja La Guardia of New York City. Herman Greene as Ko Ko; The instantaneous success of the 1939 version of the Gilbert and Sullivan “Mikado” gives the Fed eral Theatre. Two current produc tions in New York playing to ca pacity Houses. “Pinocchio” now at the Ritz Theatre, reported a sell out everyday last week. The un precented demand for tickets for "The Swing Mikado" has given jobs to two additional telephone operators, assigned to the New Yorker Theatre to handle the flood of telephone calls requesting tic kets. ‘The Swing Mikado” is a product of the Federal theatre of Chicago. Dr. C. G. Woodson Writes Article in N. York Teacher New York, March 29 (C-—The New York Teacher, 114 E. 16th street, a monthly teacher’s journal carried in its March issue an ar ticle by Dr. Garter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro) History, Washington, D. C., on) “Race Prejudice in School Book’s.”! A photo on the front cover of the magazine showed colored and white children in a classroom. -oOo FDR REBUFFS DUCES ENVOY OF ETHIOPIA Washington, March 31 (CNA)— President Roosevelt this week made it clear to the new Italian Ambassador, Don Ascanio dei Principi folonia, that this country does not recognize Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia. The envoy, presenting his cre dentials to Mr. Roosevelt, spoke of “his majesty the King of Italy, Emperor of Ethiopia.” Tlhe president, replying to his greetings, referred to “his Majes ty the King, your sovereign.” 4; Charlene, 2; and Carolyn 7 months, Children of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Tolson. Big Crowd of Doctors Expected at Tusk egee This Year Tuskegee Institute, Ala., March 29 (By E. L. Hercules, Calvin Ser vice)—With preparation under way for the largest gathering of phy sicians and surgeons from all parts of the country who will be in at tendance at the annual Bpimg cli nic bo take place in the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, April 2-8, Dr. Cyril A. Walwyn, medical director of the Tuskegee Institute Hospital, has announced plans for the event which is expected to ex ceed all previous sessions held here. Already numerous physicians from various sections have made application in an effort to be in attendance at the clinic, which has grown rapidly since its beginning in 1912. I)r. Walwyn, recently appointed director of the Institute Hospital, is a graduate of Howord Univer sity College of Liberal Arts and Science, and the School of Medi cine. The brilliant young medico, who practiced in Washington, D. C., for several years was at one time on the faculty. He is a mem ber of the Kappa Pi scholarship society, Phi Beta Sigma frater nity, and president of the Tus kegee Medical Society. Dr. Walwyn who announced that important medical boards will meet during the clinic, is looking forward to a one hundred per cent attendance on the art of all Negro physicians at the Jom A. Andrew Clinical Society meeting, which takes place each year in connection with the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospi tal. The Society was founded “for tho advancement of Negro Physi cians and Surgeons in the Science and Art of Medicine and Surgery and for the Study and Treatment of Morbid conditions affecting thousands of needy sufferers in this section of the South.” -0O0 SUPREME LIBERTY LIFE WORTH $2,261,564.83 Chicago, I1J., March 29 (C)— The Supreme Liberty Life Insur ance Company, 8611 South Park way, the largest Negro business enterprise in the North, now has assets of $2,261,564.83, as of Dec. 81, last, according to the annual report, just released by Harry H. Pace, president. The company gained $139,456.10 in assets during RANDOLPH CALLS G - ENCE OF R. R. WORKERS New York, March 30 (CNA)— A. Fhfliph Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, announced this week that a Na:ional, D. C„ under the auspices of his union. The Conference will be composed of representatives from all classes of Negro railroad employees in* eluding train-porters, firemen, maintenance of way men, dining ear employes, Red Caps, hostlers, shop craft, sleeping car porters, express and freight handlers, etc. organized and unorganized. The purpose of he Conference is to bring together the many and varied classes of Negro wage earn ers employed in the railroad trans portation system of the country to exchange ideas, discus* the problems that besfaT them, with a view to formulating plans for joint action. Randolph asserted that the Fed eral legislative program which is in process of development by President Roosevelt’s Committee for the reorganization of the rail roads, is certain to have a funda mental “rid far-reaching effect on all railway workers, including Ne groes. “When a carefully reasoned program is behelf of Negro rail road workers has been set up by the Conference, “Randolph stud, “it will be submitted to President Roosevelt, Congress and appropri ate departments of the govern ment. Methods will be adopted to niobolizo public opinion behind the program, with a view of securing its favorable consideration.” the past year, and gained $2,552, 297 insurance in force. The com pany lhas paid td, policyholders $3,611,882.21 since is organiza tion. -oOo CULINARY UNION RAPS JIM CROW AT FRISCO FAIR San Francisco, March 30 (CNA> —Membership of Local 30 of the Culinary Workers International this week instructed it officers to fill vacancies at the World’s Fair with Negro members of the local. Action of the membership fol lowed a protracted struggle by the Negro people of the San Francis co Bay Communities to obtain em pployment on Treasure Island. Ex position officials repeatedly told delegation that the unions were responsible for the job bias. The membership voted unani mously to spike tihe arguments of the Fair officials and ordered union! officials to find jobs on Treasure Island for the Negro members of the union. A resolution adopted by the meeting condemned discrimination at the Fair and declared that “the Culinary International has taken a bold and firm position time and again against discrimination which if permitted to exist will under mine the wihole trade union move ment in San Francisco. -0O0 CONN. 60P. BARS BILL OF RIGHTS Hartford, Conn., March 30 (CN A)—The historic Bill of Rights guaranteeing the civil liberties of the American people isnt popular with Connecticut Republicans. This was revealed this week when the overwhelming Republi can majority in the House of the General Assembly lined up almost to a man to defeat a Democratic move for immediate action to bring Connecticut “into line with the rest of the United States,” by ratify" ing the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which first went before the States 150 years ago.