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«■ 1 1_ . _ 87.000 SIGN PETITION FOR ANTI - LYNCH BILL New York, May 30—More than 87.000 signatures 'to petitions urg ing passage of a federal anti lynching bill, have been reeeivAl at tho headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to date, offi cials eaid today. Representative Caroline O’Day Congresswoman ait large for New York, issued " statement today aaying that she had received num erous letters urging her to *ign fia vagan petition. Miss O’Day •igned the petition several weeks •go. -oOo- ! 1 Read The Guide for News Call Us for M0DERNIZATI0N Attics, Kitehens, Basements, Re roofing, Insulation, Re-s’ding. , Easy Monthly Payments MICKLIN LUMBER CO. 19th & NICHOLAS STS. ' JA-5000 IMMAWAV/AWAWAM/ I DO YOU WANT I Nervous, Weak, Ankles Swollen! Much nervousness Is caused by an ex cess of acids and |K>isons due to func tional Kidney and Bladder disorders which may also cause Getting Up Nights, Burning Passages, Swollen • Joints, Backache, Circles Under Eyes, Bxcess Acidity, Leg Pains and Dizzi ness. Help your kidneys purify your blood with Cystex. Usually the very first dose starts helping your kidneys clean out excess acids and this soon may make you feel like new. Cystex must satisfy you completely or meney back If Earanteed. Get Cystex (slss-tex) to y. It costa only 3c a dose at druggist: and the guarantee protects you. NEW YORK CITY TO HAVE FIRST All NEGRO ART SAI01 New York City June 1 (ANP) —Tho finit art gallery in Ameri ca devoted to two exhibition and sale of the works of Negro ar tists will be opened at 143 Werst 126th street on June 8, the Au gusta Savage Studios, Inc., an nounced this week. Tho new gallery—Salon of Con temporary Negro Art—is owned and operrted by Negroes and will feature the works of outstanding Negro artists of today. A special preview of the exhi bition will L)e held on Wednesday evening, June 7, and is expected I ito bo an important soc:al event i in the life of tho commanity. More than 600 civic and social leaders have been invited to the preview, and Dr. CShanning H. Tobias, na tional (secretary, YMCA will pre side. Miss Augusta Savage, commis sioned artist for the New York World's Fair, is president of the $10,000, corporation which is spon soring the salon. Her sculpture group "Lift Every Voice and S:ng”, inspired by James Weldon Johnson’s Negro Nathional An them in now on exhibition on the Fair in front of the Contemporary Arts building. . _.... nCIn .. .. . TO HONOR NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER Los Angele*, June 1 (ANP)— Miss Fay E. Allen, recently elect ed member to the_Los Angeles boaivl of education and the first Negro to be elected to a citywide public office, will be honored by the Eastside Citizens committee of 100 at a presentation ball to be given at the Vogue ballroom. Su pervisor John Ans<sn Ford will present Miss Allen with a bronze plaque for her outstanding achievement. Mrs. Ronalie Ran dolph is chairman of the affair. Tentative date for the Ball is Juno 11. 'Miss Allen, a native of Iowa, is the only new member on the board. She is well qualified for the post since she is a teacher and has been prominent in local and civic affairs for a number of years. My Friend, here's a real tip on Summer Comfort... • Hot sticky days can be mighty un comfortable. Wise men and women are learning a simple "summer comfort" les son. Warm baths, always on tap. will keep you feeling fit will help you enjoy hot weather. An automatic GAS WATER HEATER is quickly and easily installed ... it takes only a'few hours. Don't go through another summer without this real essential to every modern home. FREE SERVICE Your automatic gas water heatef, like other appliances approved by th? American Gas Association, will be serviced free by the Utilities District. Call ATlantic 5760 for Oils free adjustment service. AS LITTLE AS $1.95 A MONTH BUYS AN AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER _ [STANDARD BRANDS ABOLISHES JIM CROW AT | N. Y. FAIR New York June 1—A" soon as the protest of the NAACP casie to the attention of the Executive Of fice of Standard Brands, Incor porated, the dispute covering ar rangements of employees at their Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair was adjusted to the entire sat’sfaction of the NAACP. A high official of Standard Brands, Incorporated, stated that tho Company does not tolerate of fensive or discriminatory arrange mentn for any racial or religious group. At the same time it was made known that the Standard Brand", Incorporated, products in World’s Fair has one of the high est percentages of Negroes em ploye d of any concessionaire at the Fair grouads. Standards Brands, Incorporated, produrts in cludo such well known items as Chaise and Sanborn Coffee, Ten der Leaf Tea, Fleischmann's Yeast ( Royal Desserts, Royal Baking Powder and others. 4 -_oOo ELEVEN MilXION NOW UN EMPLOYED (continued from page 1) federal as compared w'th state governments, especially in those e iates where Negroes live in lar gest numbers.” President .1. R, E. Lee of Flori da A. & M. college thinks this con dition can be improved “by wise and persistent approach to the authorities.” According to Princi pal W, R, Banks of Prairie View ‘‘it can be improved in the south by the hallot-.” Dr. Channing H. Tobias of the YMCA thinks it will continue “until ’industry opens up its doors and the occupational de cline i« done away with.” Since the big corporations are controlled by white people, it is “d’fficult to see how improvement can be made in the employment of Negroes when there are white people still unemployed capable of doing the work,” says President B. F. Hubert of Georgia State. ‘‘Negroes will certainly need to be an efficient or more effie’ent than the unemployed while people.” Pres’dent W. J. Hale of Tennessee State also think? the solution is “perhaps the greater acquisition of technical skill on the part of Negroes.” Atty. Charles H Houston of Washington and the NAACP be l’eves an increased number of fed eral jobs for Negroes is a reme dy. He also advocates “amend ments against discrimation in col lective bargaining acts and increa sed publicity and pressure on workers and employers.” Presi dent W. J. Clark of Virginia Un ion suggests that “all Negroes be urged to thoroughly prepare them selves to do the highest type of work efficiently,” while President W. L. Wright of Lincoln (Pa.) has no suggestion “other than person al influence where possible on in dividuals and local sentiment.” A prominent capital attorney, J. Franklin Wilson, blames this condition on President Roosevelt. Ho thinks conditions could be improved "by changing from the theorist now in charge of our na tional affairs and selecting practi cal men w'ho know no master ex cept justice. Change the national administration and get hack to normalcy.” And Judge James Cobb Johnson Drug Go. Prescriptions LIQOURS, WINES and BEER WE. 0899 1904 N. 24th St Nebraska produce 1202—4—6 North 24th St. • Phone WE 4137 Poultry and Egg Dealers Otu prices are rensousable, see us first. Free Trading Stamps with each Purchase. also of Washington, apparently shares this bel:ef for he says, “it could be improved by having fa vorable administrative officials. The head of the government should treat the Negro alike, in taxes and in all else.” On the question of relief, Judge Cobb believes entirely too many aro getting it in every city. At | the same time those holding WPA job8 should be assigned the same work as whites but are not “due to administration officials not be ing fair.” Atty. Wilson says jobs aro alloted in relation to “reach” rather than in relation to need, with the question being “who can you reach ? ” instead of “What do you need?” President F. D. Bluford of Gre cnsborro A. and T. states frankly that Negroes in his section of the country do not recieve the same consideration as whites. “In WPA work it i8 very difficult to gee Negroes certified as skilled work ers, but it is easy to get white persons certified as skilled work ers. In WPA work at this college I find a number of white workers who cannot do skilled work who are certified as skilled and a num ber of skilled Negroes certified as unskilled and assigned to unskill ed jobs. I believe this is done to keep the Negroes from getting the larger wages, and on the o.ther hand, to give the whites tlxe high est possible wages. someume ago we nau two v> i /v projects go'ng on here—building a heating tunnel and clearing farm land. There was a shortage of bricklayers for the 'tunnel, and the WPA administration claimed he could not find sufficient help. Ono day when I was visiting the clearing project where Negroes worked, I talked with some and found several Negro bricklayers clearing farm land. I reported this to the administrator, and we soon had them certified and they were given work on the tunnel.” Pres’dent Lee says, “I do not believe Negroes have received the same treatment as that given whites.” Atty. Houston likewise does not believe they are treated equally, but President Wright says “I think 'they are.” Principal Banks bel’eves the numbers on re lief are out of proportion to the population, but thinks .they get samo treatment as whites “in most cases.” “The problem of unemployment among Negroes is greater in the larger and more congested urban centers than in the rural or urb an centers of the south,” says President Hubert. “This does not mean that Negroes in the South aro :n an enviable position insofar as their living standards are con cerned. The subsistence level of many in the rural and urban south is so low they should be classed as unemployed. In other sections there seems to be a more liberal attitude towards placing Negroes on the relief rolls where the in come is at a low level. “Reports indicate there is a very strong tendency to class mecham ics as laborers, not to place peo ple on relief if they own a home or anybody in the family works even for a small amount, and Ne groes in rural areas are not given the same consideration as in the larger towns and cities. The fact that practically all of the offices and supervisory personnel are in charge of white people naturally causes seme preference.” In the New York area, accord ing to Dr. Tobas, “there is little to complain of. However, with the natural tendency to discrim ination, it is necessary far fluq leadership t# keep eternally vig iland so that I'trgrees may o©» tinuo to enjoy fair and equitable* treatment.” INSURANCE BENBFITS $165,163.8-1 Lincoln, Nebr., June 6—Job in surance benefits in Nebraska amounte<l to $165,163.81, repre senting 18,801 aompensated waeks of unemployment daring Apwl, according to officials of the Ne braska Unemployment Compensa tion division Average regular weekly bene fit checks, excluding flnal pay ments which are usually in small amounts totalled $4.45 per check in April as compared to $0.15 in March, when total benefits amounted to $240,995. Initial claims for benefits de clined 26.4 per cept over March with 3,909 in April and 5,314 ini tial claims in March. Continued claims filed by those already re ceiving benefits decreased 30.7 per cent, from 36,277 in March to 25,133 in April. This decrease in various t^pes of claims is attri I bu^ed partly to improved em ployment opporunities in Nebras ka during April, Nebraska received 2,408 claims from former Nebraskans during April of which 359 were initial claims and the balance continued claims During this same period, Nebraska sent to other states 340 initial claims and 2,447 continued claims filed by former residents of other states, now residing in Nebraska. Among the twenty offices of the Nebraska State Employment Ser vice which took initial and con tinued claims, •maha led with 7,278 benefit payments totalling $63,773. Lincoln was second with 1,682 payments totalling $12,884; Grant Island, third, with 1,572 payments totalling $16,069; and Scottsbluff, fourth with 1,423 payments totalling $14,765. The reason for the large number of claims paid at Scottsbluff and Grant Island was due to the fact that many sugar beet factory workers who had earned wage cre dits during the last quarter of 1938, were able to file their first initial claims on April 1, based on fourth quarter wage credits. — OMAHA RANKS SEVENTH IN TELEPHONE USERS Omaha ranks seventh among tho large cities of the world in the number of telephones per 100 population. It had been in eigh th place. At the beginning of 1938, according to figures on tele phone usage now available, Oma ha had 27.94 telephones for every 100 persons. New York ranked 15th, London 18th, Paris 21st, Ber lin 24th, and Tokio 52nd. As of January 1, 1938, Omaha had 65, 974 telephones. It has about 67, 000 today. These figures have been compil ed through world-wide surveys undertaken each year by the Am erican Telephone and Telegraph Company and are based upon re ports obtained from telephone companies and government depart ments in every country. Statist ics covering the year 1937 have just been published. At the beginning of 1938, there were slightly more than 2 billion people in the world and 39,245, 069 telephones. The United Stat es has only about one seventeenth of the world’s population, but nearly one-half of the world’s telephones. On January 1, 1938, there was, in fact, a total of 19, 453,401 telephones in th’s country. At the close of 1938, it was esti mated that there were approxim ately 19,900,000 telephones in this population, which is a greater de velopment than in any other coun try in the world. Since 1904, when only about 4 million telephones were in use throughout the world, the number of telephones has grown on the average by about one million a year. Some years, notably the de cade of the twenties, were marked by a world wide telephone growth well in excess of a million, while th edepression years from 1931 to 1933 showed losses. At the be ginning of 1937, the telephone in dustry had again caught up with the calendar, with 37,098,084 tele phones in service in the world. During that year this total in creased by 2,1*46,985 telephone*, a greater net gain than in any previous year. Indications are that the world total of telephones will pass the 41 million mark dur ing 1939. Serve 60 per cent of the world s tel**h#*es are operated by private companies, including 4,300,464 privately operated telephones out side the United States. The re maining 40 percent are owned and •parated by governmental author ities, most of them being in Eur «pe where 87 percent of the 14, ?09,230 telephenes are government operated. The average telephone deviHejpatent of Europe is 2.47 in si 'u-mentg per 100 population, or ene-si*th ©f the development in the United States, the only large cpuntvy that has always enjoyed private operation of all wire com municatlen facilities. In order to equal our telephone development the wfirid obtsrde the United Stat es would need to install nearly 300 million additional telephones, or almost fifteen times as jnany as there now are. New York City leads the world s cities in actual number of tele phones and Washington, D. C., in development of the service rela tive to population. Washington and San Francisco both have over 38 telephones for every 100 in habitants. This is more than twice as many telephones in rela tion to the population than there are in any of Europe’s large cap •it-al cities. During 1937 more than 28 bil lon local and long dsitance tele phone calls were completed in the United States. This equals some 900 calls for each second of each day and night throughout the year, or more than 220 calls for every man, woman and child. The average calling rate for the world outside the United States, amount ed to about 15 calls a person. According to statistics, the Am erican public has at its disposal telephone facilities far more ex tensive than those found in any other country. That there is greater usefulness and value of telephone service in America than elsewhere is explained, in part, in the fact that on the average the American telephone user in each community, whether large or small, can reach a much greater proportion of his fellow citizens by telephone. An extensive net work of long distance cables and wires provides him with the world’s most rapid and dependable system of intercommunication. By means of overseas circuits he can speak to nearly every country in the civilized werld. • ELKS NEWS The following Elk Lodges are members of the Mid-West asso ciation and are expected to send a large number of delegates to the Mid-West Association conven t’on which will hold a four session in Omaha beginning July 2, 1939. Wo are endeavoring to get the names of said delegates and if obtained will be published in The Omaha Guide a week ahead of the convention so that their fri ends may be aware of their visit to our city. The Omaha Guide will be glad to receive from any delegate or Lodge the name and pictures of the delegates that are coming to attend the convention if received before June 16-39. The same will appear on our June 24th issue. We want to inform your friends that you will be in our city July 2-3-3 4 and 5th, 1939. MIDDLE WESTERN STATES COLORADO No. 1 39 Mountain, Denver, M. A. Rutherford, 1036 E. 24 Ave., Exalted Ruler; R. H. Glass, 2547 Welton St, secretary, No. of mem gers 77. Taxes paid up. No. 2—321 Arkansas Valley, Pueblo. Fred Jones, 1608 E. Orman Ave., Exalted Ruler. Roy R. Levy 2706 Spruce St. secretary. Num ber of members 20. Taxes paid up. No. 3—474 Pikes Peak Region, Colorado Springs. W. H. Green, P. O. Box 667, Exalted Ruler. Jas. Simpson, P. O. Box 473, secretary. Number of members 50. Taxes paid up. No. 4—935 Twin Peaks, Walsen burg. Wm. C. Dunsmore, Raven wood, Colo. Exalted Ruler. R. P. Steele 221 W. 7th St., secretary. July 1937 to date. Number of members 11. Taxes IOWA No. 5— 160 Hawkeye, Des 15th St., Exalted Ruler. John Moines. Harry E. Wilson, 1029 E. Williams, secretary. Number of members 50. Taxes Jan. 1939. No. 6—373 Savoy Sioux City. Joseph Combs 1208 Leech St. Exalted Ruler. Wm. Bland 722 Morgan secretary. Number of members 31. Taxes Oct. 1936 to date No. 7—426 Cedar Valley Water loo. Scott Mardis, 902 Mobile St. 'Exalted Ruler. Calvin Casey 212 Salisberry St. secretary. Number of members 40. Taxes Oct. 1938 to Jaa. 1939. KANSAS No. 8—55 Central, Toppka. Doc Oglesvie, 1048 Grand Ave., Exalt ed Ruler. Floyd C. Wim-s, 523 N. Kansas, secretary. Number of members 29. Taxes Due April 1937 to date. No. 9—243 Peerless Princess, Wichita. Edward Frizzell, 840 Cleveland, Exalted Ruler. Frank Bynun, 1121 Mathewson, Secret ary. Number of members 41. Taxes paid up. No. 10—Kaw Valley, Lawrence. Wm. Knighten, Lawrence, Kansas, Exalted Ruler. Theo. Hamilton, 1333 New York St., Secretary. Number of members 15. Taxes due, July 1937 to date. No. 11—417 Ranger, Kansas City. N. W. Thatcher, 1520 N. 5th St., Exalted Ruler. Frank Chambers, 712 Everette, Secret ary. Number of members 75. Taxes due, Jan. 1937 to date. No. 12—452 Purple, Leaven worth. Daniel Taylor, 717 Chey enne, Exlalted Ruler. London Jackson, 326 Dakota St., Secret ary. Number of members 22. Taxes paid up. No. 13—945 Starlight, _ Atchin son. J. B. Oolbert, 914 N, 9th St., Exalted Ruler. W. D. Yodng 713 Washington, Secretary. Num ber of members 17. Taxes due April 1937 to date. , MISSOURI No. 14—149 Heart of America Kansas City. Emory Jefferson,, 1908 E. 17th St., Exalted Ruler A. E. Pullam, 2427 Paseo, Secre tary. Number of members 68 Taxes due Jan. 1939. No. 15—976 Oriental, Saint Louis. Lester Payne, 2812 Stod dard, Exalted Ruler. Ered Lloyd 3154 School St., Secretary. Num ber of members 93. Taxes paid up. No. 16—1012 Greater St. Louis Saint Louis. A. O. Thornton 3103 Washington, Exalted Ruler. S. T. Stafford, 4059 A. W. Belle PI., Secretary. Number of mem bers 225. Taxes due Jan. 1939. No. 17—1028 Pride of Central Missouri, Jefferson City. R. G Richardson, 421 Lafayette, Exalt Monroe, Secretary. Number of ed Ruler. Arthur Foster, 515 members 41. Taxes paid up. NEBRASKA No. 18—Iroquois Omaha. Chas. F. Davis, 1416 North 23rd St., Exalted Ruler. Dr. Price Terrell, 2601 1-2 N. 24th St., Secretary. Number of members 122. Taxes paid up. No. 19—679 Comhusker, Lin. Thos. Estes; 536 N. 22nd St., Ex alted Ruler. Rev. I. B. Smith, Box 310, Secretary. Number of members 26. Taxes paid up, OKLAHOMA No. 20—247 Cosmopolitan, Tul sa. D. W. Lawson, 104 N. Green wood, Exalted Ruler. Phil Dor sey, 123 N. Greenwood, Secretary. Number of members 19. Taxes due Oct. 1938 to Jan. 1989. WYOMING No. 21—285 Frontier, Cheyenne, John Pitwood, 816 W. 19th St., Exalted Ruler. Dorsey McDowell 621 W. 25th St., Secretary. Nura Jan. 1939. ber of members 32. Taxes due. No. 22—345 Big Horn, Casper. Wm. Hart, 241 N. Grant St., Ex alted Ruler. Charles Waddy, 317 N. Grant St., Secretary. Number of members 18. Taxes due April 1937 to date. GRAND TEMPLE DAUGHTERS OFFICIAL LIST OF TEMPLES,. COUNCILS AND JUVENILE CLASSES COLORADO No. 1—174 Mountain View,, Denver. Mrs. Alzada A. Williams, secretary, 2344 Ogden St. No. 2—300 Blue Bell Colorado Springs. Mrs. Marguerite Craw ford, secretary. 720 Maring Av*. No. 3—541 Queen of West Pueb lo. Mrs. Bumetita Harris, secre tary, 1222 Srruce St. IOWA No. 4—S3 Rose Des Moines. Mrs. Laura Washington, secretary, 850' W. 10th St. No. 4277 Molrose, Waterloo, Mrs. Mildred Pulley, secretary, 309 Douglass St. No. 6—Eureka, Sioux City. Mrs. Myrtle Campbell, secretary, 617 W. 6th St. KANSAS No. 7—Ranger, Kansas City. Mrs. Bthel James, secretary. 428 Quindario Blvd. No. 8—378 Purple Rose, Lea venworth. Mrs. Anna B. Fields, secretary. 408 Kickapoo St. No. 9—657 Princess, Wichita. Mi-s. Alice Curtis, seeretary, 91T Mathewson St. No 10—656 Starlight, Atehison. Mrs. Ruth Creacy, secretary. 71-7 Division St. MISSOURI No. 11— 19 White, St. Paul. Mrs. Annie Jackson, secretary. 709 AN. Leffingwell Ave. No. 12—87 Wave, St. Louis. Mrs. Janice Jones, secretary. 2621 A Washington St. No. 13—118 Great Western, St. Louis. Mrs. Zereata West, secre tary. 2906 Wawton Blvd. No. 14—120 Midwest, Kansas Mrs. Ruth Carter Herndon, secre tary. 801 Osage Independence. No. 16—131, Washington, St. Louis. Mrs. Mary E. Monroe, sec retary, 2915 Laclede Ave. No. 16—132 Phobe’s Pride, St. Louis. Mrs. Estelje B. Adkins, No. 17—141 Clover Leaf, St. Louis, Mrs. Naomi Thomas, No. 18—688 Greater St. Louis. Mrs. Jessie L. Parker, secretary. 1443 Enright Ave. NEBRASKA No. 19—223 Cherokee, Omaha. Mrs. Metra Williams, 160 W. 129th Street. WYOMING No. 20—641 Pioneer, Cheyenne. Mrs. Tessie James, secretary, 1510' Seed Avenue.
