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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.