• City
Edition
WEATHER
' Weather outlook for the
period July 3 to puly 8.
ftiru/e orni/IPC (Upper Miss, and lowen
ntffw otnllUL Mo. Valleys, hower Mon.. •
__ and Tues., and east and
- FREE PUBLICATION south portions Wed., gen
)F ALL LOCAL NEWS erally fair most of latter
MATTER_ half of week: temperatures
FLASH PHOTO mostly near normal.
^ -SERVrCE- LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPABER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY_
Entered as Second-Clas9 Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, i.,i„ q inon xt u ~
Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. Saturday, July 8, 1939 -Number 19
— ■ " ■ ■ 1 "" " ' ' "" ' ' ' .. " " "" * ‘ -"I — | 1 - ■ .. ~ -- - -- -- .. II ■' ■ ... — ■— !———i
I I I ' *
M. U. D. Announces New
Radio Program
The Metropolitan Utilities Dis
trict has just announced a new ra
dio program specially designed for
public service to the women of
Omaha. The program is known as
“Some American Homes” and fea
tures Ida Bailey Allen, noted news
paper writer, lecturer and home
economics authority.
This new feature is broadcast
over station WOW of Omaha each
Saturday morning at 9:30, July 1
being the opening broadcast.
In each program Mrs. Allen pre
sents —one of (the problems that
beset “some American homes,” and
proceeds to suggest a solution in a
dramatic fashion.
On these programs Mrs. Allen
rot only helps the homemaker
solve her daily problems, but she
also gives her listeners a great
variety of recipes and menus, as
well as handicraft instructions and
homernaking hints.
Hottentot’s Softball Team
TO PLAY AT FALSTAFF PARK
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Club organized in 1923. Incor
porated under laws of Illinois
1937 as the Hottentot A. C. The
Hottentot’s Softball club has nev
er been defeated by any Colored
team in the history of the organi
7ation—a record of which no other
Colored team in the world can
boast.
We claim the Colored World
Championship and are willing to
meet any Colored team in the
World at any time or place with
sufficient notice to make arrange
ments for the games.
Our Infield is known as the M51
Monaire’s Row. It is worth the
price of admission to see their In
field workout.
The HottentotV “Hot Pepper” a
game specially designed by the
team'and derived from Nick Alt
rock’s famous Comic game. This
act is part of the tea/m’s exhib
ition. Be sure to ask for it.
LINE UP
1. Agis "Aggie” Bray came to
the Hottentots last year with the
most colorful athletic background
of any Colored player in the U. S.
Played on Phillips Prep School B.
B. Team, 100 yd. dash and a for
mer Track Star at Wilberforce.
2. Wm. “Tarzan” Thornton _
the Dean of all Colored pitching
Stars. Tarzan has defeated some
of the best clubs in America such
as Weaver Walls of Cleveland,
Schukei of Waterloo, Tulsa Oilers.
Won 63 games in 1937 and lost 3.
3. Aubrey “Red” Walls. Capt.
Red is j-ated as one of the finest
caitchers in Softball. The Spark
Plug of our defensive play—also
a great favorite with the fans for
his many comical antic's during the
game. Red is also a member of
our famous “Pepper” game.
4. Marv Summerlin. Short
Field. First year with Champions
Was the outstanding hitter on the
City League Championship All
Star Team of last year.
5. Earnest “Yammie” Williams.
T' rd year with Champs. Center
Fielder. Undoubtedly the fastest
outfielder in Softball. Runs 100
yds. in 9.7 in his uniform.
-oOo—
MR HENRY ON GOOD WILL
TOUR
——• '1
Emil Nath vice president of the
Iowa-Nebraska States Industrial
Union Council, announced today
that the Council will hold its sec
ond annual constitutional conven
tion at the Rome Hotel in the «ity
of Omaha, August 26, 26, and 27.
Mr. Ben Henry, Secretary
Treasurer of the Iowa-Nebraska
States Industrial Union Council,
was in Omaha today on a Goodwill
tour. Mr. Henry’s intentions were
tfc> aee the Mayor and various
other authoritative people for the
purpose of creating a goodwill
feeling in the city of Omaha pre
paratory to the Iowa-Nobraska
States Industrial Union Council
Convention which will be held
here.
Mr. Henry stated that between
four and five hundred CIO dele
gates representing different or
ganizations having jurisdiction
over tlhe various industries
throughout (the two states would
participate in this convention to
draft a new constitution for the
Council and to adopt resolutions
to guide ithe future policies of
the OIO in Iowa and Nebraska
for the coming year.
Several noted labor represent
atives and political speakers have
been invited to address the dele
gation.
-o®o
Woman Leader Backs
Anti-Lynch Bill
CHICAGO, July 1 (Harold
Rreece for ONA)—Negro women
throughout the country are organ
izing the country for a better life,
declared Louise Thompson, noted
woman leader, this week.
Miss Thompson is spending a
few days in Chicago, her birth
place in connection with her pos
ition as isecretary of the English
language section of the Interna
tional Workers Order. She was
tional Worrkers Order. She was
honored at an IOW builders rally
at the Midland Hotel, this week.
“Negro women—even in the
Deep South—are more conscious
than ever before of the issues con
fronting our racial group and
moro. determined to defend demo
cracy than they have ever been,
Miss Thompson told the Crusader
News Agency.
“The growth of the CIO in the
South is even bringing white and
Negro women together for mutual
discussions arc1 cooperation on
the questions affecting them as
the wives of wage earners.
“Throughout the country, Ne
gro women are organizing into
consumers clubs, unions auxilia
ries and other groups to secure
for themselves and their families
all the rights of free American
citizens.”
MUSS lnompson cunsiuera bite
fight for federal anti-lynching
legislation to be the primary is
sue facing not only Negroes but
members of all other racial min
orities in America.
“We have had instances el
ready,” she said, “of Jews being
attacked Yorkville, the Naxi-con
trolled diserict of New York City.
FIRE WORKER FOR
PROTEST AGAINST
JIM CROW SIGNS
New York, July 3 (CNA)—
George L. Gillespie, butler-waiter
of 1322 Fulton St., Brooklyn, who
was recently fired from his $18
a-week job of serving selected
guests of Standard Brands Inc.,
at the New York World's Fair,
will not be taken back, according
to present indications, in spite of
the fact that he was given to un
derstand by Col. Snapp, in charge
of (the Standard! Brand exhibit,
tihat he would toe.
Gillespie was discharged two
weeks ago following his protest
against jim crow signs on doors
of the dressing room* for the 40
Negro employes of Standard
Mrs. Snapp, white Southerners,
Brandis Inc., at the Fair. CoL and
are said to have resented the
youth’s complaint about separate
dressing rooms for the Negro and
'White workers. There are appro
ximately 200 white3 employed on
the exhibit.
Col. Snapp was quoted as tell
ing Gillespie that he had ordered
the jim crow signs put up and
that regardless of what Gillespie
thought about it the signs would
stay up. They were hastily re
moved however when a Daily
Worker reporter and investiga
tors of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People inquired about them.
TWO IN ARKANSAS
DEATH HOUSE MAY
RECEIVE HEARING
Says Governor’s Sec’t.
New York, July 6— Assurance
that Jim Carruthers and Bubbles
Clayton, who are now in the death
house at th« Blytheville, Ark, jail
awaiting execution on a four yeav
old charge of shooting a Missi
ssippi county sheriff, would re
ceive a full hearing by Governor
Carl Bailey, before the execution
date, June 30, was given to Thur
good Marshall, by the Governor’s
secretary here today.
Marshall is National legal coun
sel for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, which has fought the
Clayton-Carruthers case through
the lower courts. On June 5, the
U. S. Supreme Court denied a
petition for Certiorai (denial of
permission to bring the case before
the high court for review to per
mit finding of errors) which al
lowed the execution sentence to
stand
Failing in an attempt to get
a statement from Governor Bailey
himself, who is in New York in
connection with the World’s hair’,
Marshall said he did not believe
the aissurance given by the Gover
nor’s secretary should be allowed
to set all fears of execution at
rest but only provided opportunity
for a hearing. The Governor’s se
cretary told Marshall that _ the
chief executive would return to
Arkansas before June 30 to hold
a hearing in the case. Argument
for clemency will be presented by
attorneys John Hfbbler, Scipio
Jones and J. R. Booker, all of
Liittle Rock, Arkansas.
History of the Case
Jim X. Caruthers and Bubbles
Clayton were arrested on January
12, 1935 and charged with the
crime of shooting Sheriff Wilson
of Mississippi County. They were
rushed Jvom place to place and
eventually were taken out of the
state into Memphis, Tenn., to
prevent a lynching. They were
severly beaten by the of fie el's aftd
these officers threatened them
that if they did not confess they
would bring in a white woman to
identify them. Despite the severe
beating the two men refused to
confress to the crime. When the
Sheriff recovered from his
wounds a young white woman and
p. white were brought to the de
tention house and identified ('lay
bo n and Carruthers as having been
the two Negroes who raped the
woman on January 11.
When they were arraigned on
April 1, 1935, the Court appointed
a lawyer from another County,
to defend them, stating they did
not want to appoint a local law
yer. Newspaper reports canned the
story that the local lawyers would
not take the case. The appointed
lawyer wai> unable bo secure a
change of venue and did not raise
the Jury question because he was
afraid of possible mob action.
When the Jury was out delibera
ting they requested permission to
retire for the night. A court of
ficial urged the Judge not to per
mit the Jury to retire because he
would not be able to get the Ne
groes to the jail if this happened.
The NAACP, through its local
Counsel, appealed the case through
(the Supreme Court of Arkansan
where the conviction was affirm
ed on November 11, 1935. A writ
of Habeas Corpus was filed in
the local Federal Court on May 5,
1936 and a hearing was finally
had and the Habeas Corpus denied
on March 8, 1938. An appeal was
taken to the United Stateg Cir
cuit Court of Appeals which af
firmed table Lower Court on Feb
ruary 25, 1939. A petition for Cer
tiorari was denied by the United
States Supreme Court on June 5,
1939.
MILWAUKEE BARS
NEGRO TEACHERS
Milwaukee, Win. July 6 (CNA)
—Charges that Negro teachers
were not being given a chance to
get jobs in the Milwaukee public
school system were made this
week before the school board ap
pointment committee.
Jibe charges were miade by Wil
liam V. Kelley, executive secre
tary, Milwaukee Urban League;
Dr. Prather J. Gilmer, a physician;
Mrs. Josephine Prassor, George E.
Teter, head of the English De
partment, Milwaukee State Teach
ers College; and Mrs. Alma Al
Elks Midwest State
Convention Closes
/T\
- *
lison, sociology teacher ait the col
lege.
Kelley an<| Dr. Gilmer urged
appointment of qualified Negro
teachers throughout the school
system.
-ooo
C M. T. CAMI* FOR COLORED
STUDENTS OPENS JULY 6TH
IN FORT RILEY, KANSAS
The Citizens’ Military Training
Camp for colored students opened
July filth in Ft Riley, Kansas.
This camp is the oldest of its kind
in the United States for Colored
students. More than one hundred
and fifty Colored from Arkansan,
Kansas, Towa, Illinois, Nebraska
and Missouri will enroll at the
opening Thursday, July 6th.
-0O0-—•
New Unity In House
Behind Anti-Lynching
Bill Seen- Following
Party Agreement
New York, July 6—Announce
ment of a agreement between the
authors of two discharge petitions
now on the speaker's desk, which
will permit the Gavagan Aritf
lynching bill to be brought to the
■ floor of the House fo-r a vote
sooner, was made here today by
officials of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People.
According to Walter White,
executive secretary of the Asso
ciation, who recently held a con
ference with Republican minority
leader Joseph Martin, J.*., of Mass
achusetts, the arrangement will
permit Republicans who have
signed the Fish petition <43 have
signed /to bring the Fish Anti
lynching Bill to the floor) to sign
.the Gavagan petition and thus al
low for a unified showing on the
House behind the Gavagan bill.
Representative Fish has sent a
letter to Republicans in the House
urging them to sign the Gavagan
petition. The NAACP reported
that 140 Representatives have
■— ■ . -... .. — I
35 Doctors Attend F^t-Goodridge Course
i“3 s 11' mmm u ■■bbimmb n
New Orleans, July 1 (ANP) The
fourth annual postgraduate course
which was held at the Flint
Goodridge hospital of Dillard uni
versity was attended by thirty
five physicians pictured above.
Tho instruction is given principal
ly by members of the medical
school faculties of Tulane univer
sity and the Louisiana State uni
versity. Two guest lecturers are
included in the faculty; Dr. W. S.
Ou inland, professor of pathology,
Meharry Medical college, Nash
ville, and Dr. Orville L. Ballard,
resident physician, Waverly Hill3
Tubereuloeis sanitarium, Waverly
Hills, Ky.
The following doctors, who are
attending the course, come from
Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Mis
sissippi, Alabama, Florida and
Spanish Honduras: Louisiana: R.
M. Baranco, Leo S. Butler and H.
Horne Huggins, Baton Rouge; F.
F. Brown, Franklin; A. C. Ter
rence, Opelousas; J. Phyroran Tay
lor, Shreveport.
Texas: B. J. Covington and J.
G. Gathings, Houston. O. H. Smith
Ardmore, Okla. Mississippi; A. W.
Dumas, Jr., Natchez; M. S. Love,
Gulfport; C. W. Smith, Hatties
burg. Alabama: A. C. Dungee,
Montgomery; M. J, Edmonds, Mo
bile; E. H. Jones, Talladega.
Florida: S. M. Frazier, Miami; T.
Leroy Jefferson, West Palm
Beach. George H. Jennett, Jr., La
Ceiba, Spanish Honduras. C. H.
D. Bowers, Ernest Cherrie, O. W.
Duncan, B. F. Easter, R. L. FHg
gins, G. C. Haydel, Henry Jenkins
Jr., E. P. Jrmson, F. T. Jones, J.
H. Murray, Frederick Rhodes, P.
T. Rdbinson, J. 0. Sheffield, J.
A- Sherrod, James R Spears, H.
P. Wheler, all of New Orleans.
Classes begin at 8:30 each
morning and run through to 8:30
each evening for a period of two
weeks, ending Saturday, July 1.
(ANP)
After four busy days in session
at the Elks Lodge Hall, 2420 Lake
St., the convention earned to a
close July 4th.
The following officer*? were
elected for the ensuing year:
Paul S. Holliday, President,
Omaha; J. D. Colbert re-elected
2nd vice-president, Atchinson,
Kansas; Rev. Reid, Auditor, Col
orado Springs, Colo.; M. Aubrey
Ruthford, Secretary, Denver, Colo;
A. E. Pullman, Treasurer, Kan
sas City Mo.; A. E. Tony Chair
man of Trustee Board Kansas
City Mo.; Chas. F. Davis, Legal
Advisor, Omaha.
signed the Gavagan petition to
date.
89 Congressmen Writ# NAACP
In addition to the 58 Congress
men who (told the NAACP upon in
quiry last week that they have
signed the Gavagan petition, the
following 28 Congressmen added
their names to this list this week:
Republican: H. Carl Andersen,
Minn.; Stephen Bolles, Wis.; Rob
ert J. Corbett, Pa.; Charles H. Els
ton, Ohio; Ffpderick C. Gartner,
Pa.; U. S. Guyer, Kans.; Leonard
W. Hall, N. Y.; Francis Harter,
N. Y.; Carl Hinshaw, Calif.; An
ton J, Johnson, 111.; Robert W.
Kean, N. J.; Frank B. Keefe, Wis.;
Earl R. I/ewis, Ohio; John Mc
Dowell, Pa.; Robert F. Rich, Pa.;
George N. Seger, N. J.; George
S. Williams, Del.
Democrat?: Emanuel Celler, N.
Y,; H. P. Eberharter, Pa.; Lee E.
Geyer, Calif.; John M. Houston,
Kans.; Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio;
William H. Larrabee, Ind.; John
C. Martin, 111.; James O’Leary,
N. Y.; Leonard W. Schuetz, 111.;
Pius L. Schwert, N. Y.; William I.
Sirovich, N. Y.! Thomas V. Smith,
111.
The parity line-up to date is
a*-, follows: Republicans, 35; Demo
crats, 50; Progressive, 1.
100,000 Sign Petitions
At the time officials of the
NAACP announced that 100,000
signatures have been received to
date in reply to petitions sent out
to progressive organizations and
individuals throughout the coun
try. Expressing dissatisfaction
with the results so far ithe As
sociation officials reiterated their
plea for a concerted drive on the
part of persons all over the coun
try to spur the drive. The NAACP
is seeking 1,000,000 signatures to
jthese petitions for passage of a
federal anti-lynching bill. Indivi
duals and organizations were also
urged to write their senators call
ing upon them to vote for cloture
(limitation of debate) when the,
bill comes before the Senate for
a vote.
- - ■ — /v/\a__
NEGRO SUBJECTS
DIDN’T GET TO
SEE THE KING
BWI COLORED CITIZENS
SEGREGATED AT FAIR WHEN
ROYALTY WAS WELCOMED
New York July 5 (ANP)—The
West Indian population of New
York is hotter than the weather
since the king and queen of Eng
and have departed lrom these
shores.
A large number of them were
sent invitations to greet their sov
ereigns. They donned their formal
clothes and joumed to the fair
grounds where they hoped to be
able to prose at one of the royal
palms.
On arriving at the appointed
spot at the appointed time, they
were dambfounded when they sow
they had, by some strange chance
(?) been placed off to one side by
themselves without a white face
within miles of them. Not one
DIES PROBING ANTI
LYNCHING ASKED TO
INVESTIGATE FLA,
KLAN TERROR
New York, July 5 —Congress
man Martin Dies, chairman of the
House committee investigating un
American activities in this coun
try was again requested to in
vestigate terrorist activities of
the Florida Ku Klux Klan, which
attempted to intimidate Negro
voters in the primary elections of
Miami, May 1.
The request was contained in
letter sent to the Texas Repre
sentative by the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, and made publie
today. The letter followed an an
nouncement made by Dies June 16
that he would send an investiga
tor to Baltimore, Md., to probe
anti-Semitism in the publie
schools there. Dies made the an
nouncement after four Baltimore
City College students were sus
pended as an outgrowth of tho
beating and branding of Melvin
Bridge, 14 year old Jex^ijsh pupil
at the Gwynne Falls School. -
The text of the NAACP letter
to Dies follows:
“We applaud your prompt act
ion as chairman of the House
Committee on un-American activi
ties in investigating anti-Semitism
in Baltimore schools which found
expression this week in the brand
ing of a 14 year old Jewish pupil
at the Gwynne Falls School. But
we are somewhat puzzled by tho
apparent indinference of your
committee to an equally notorious
violation of American principle
and laws in the attempted inti
midation by the Ku Klux Klan of
Negro voters at Miami, Florida,
on May 1. j
“May we again request infor
mation as to whether or not your
committee will also act in the
Miami case? From attempted in
timidation of Negroes in Miami
such lawlessness mny easily
spread against other American
citizens.”
■ mm mu - ■■ ,» —•
hand was shaken by the king or
queen, not one person in the group
was able to bend the crooked knee.
Judge James S. Watson, a form
er BWI subject, was the only one
out of scores to receive the invi
tation who refused the dubious
honor of being segregated on this
historic occasion. He returned the
invitation with a letter of indig
nation. • t»
No American Negro outside of
the Rev. John H. Johnson, pastor
of St. Martin’s church, received an
invitation. Other West Indiana
who were invited to see their ma
jesties from a distance were: Rev.
and Mrs. Elliot Durant, Rev. and
Mrs. H. Ingram Thomas, Captain
and Mrs. Joshua Cockbum, Dr.
and Mrs. T. E. Hanson, Dr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Petioni, and Mr.
and Mrs. A. M. Wendell Malliet.
-0O0
LOOK DEATH IN THE
FACE SEVEN TIMES
ELECTRIC CHAIR SNUFS OUT
NIXON’S LIFE
Chicago, June 29 (ANP)—Death
in the electric chair early Friday!
morning at the Cook County jail
claimed 19 year old Robert Nixon,
convicted of the May, 1939 slay
ing of Mrs. Florence Johnson,
white, at her Lake Park avenue
home. Nixon’s execution came af
ter he had previously been grant
ed seven reprieves, through stren
uous efforts of his attorney, Jos
eph E. Clayton Jr. About 100 per
sons were present in the death
room as Nixon, on the point of
collapse, was led to the death
chai/.
Two other men, scheduled to
follow Nixon to the death chair—
Charles Price, 28, colored and Ste
ve Olgan, white—were granted re
prieves, Price getting his on Wed
nesday, Clgan his just three hours
before the time set for his execu
tion. 1