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<«... - /JUSTICE/EQUALITY j-HEW TQ THtllNE\ W^mmam 9 LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY_ Entered as Second-Class Matter at rodoffict, Omaha, Saturday, Jllly 22, 1939 Ntm ln r 1(1 — Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874._J „ tr 10 City Edition * 5c per Copy * The Weather Weather outlook for the period July 17 to July 22—upper Miss, and lower Mo. Talleys, -generally fair nioet of week, except scatter ed thundershowers north portion first part; temperaiture mostly a bovo normal, except near or betow normal nor-portion latter part wk. _^ World’s Greatest Scientist Once Traded far A irSorse ----———--——-- r *~ ~ ' ' " — -.— -——-—- Wn t li rimiPDL h t/i | from REV. HILSON and j His Altys. to The Omaha Guide.. L v ; ‘ I j L — - * r _ - i RiiPriori have beep rife for some' time ubout affairs at Salem Bap tist Church and Its pastor. Ac cording to reports gleaned from very reliable resources certain of ficers of the church have for some time been demanding an audit of the finances of the church growing out of the building fund received from the government two or three years ago. IVie officers having the cancell ed checks and records, bank books and so forth, refuses to turn them over for audit. Without these re cords nearly $2,000.00 are unac counted for. The pastor and trustees are in sisting that the money be account ed for at once and that the records be produced. In order to head off the investigation and audit, the clique holding the records is seek-, ing to force the pastor to resign jo as'iW) prevent the untangl ng of the finances. It is unasual, to say the least, to have a situatiorj where the minister is fighting to protect the ■ inanec’3 of bis members being pur sued by the men who refuse to de liver the records. Tho community is becoming in terested in this matter and inas much as the public, in some meas ure, at least, contributes to Salem Baptist Chui-ch along with 85 per cent of the members who are loyal; to it and its pastor, they should be informed*r.bout what i$came of all the money which the United States Government paid over for a building fund for Salem Baptist Church. Turn on the light. If there is nothing wrong, the air will be cleared; if tthere is any thing wrong, let the wrong-doers face the bar of justice. MAYOR PROCLAIMS NEXT WEEK OMAHA RREWED BEER WEEK Mayor Dan Butler today issued a proclamation proclaiming next week Omaha-Brewed Beer week. The proclamation read: “The week of July 24th has been designated by the Brewery Workers of Omaha as “Omaha Brewed Beer Week”. During this period a earn ps.ign will be carried on to induce Omaha citzens to buy beer brew ed in this city. “This is not a campaign to sell more beer, but to create a demand fey the products of Omaha Brew ti ies. It is an effort on the part of employees of the Omaha con cerns to increase employment in this city through the greater con sumption of beer brewed here. “Statistics show that less than 50 per cent of all the beer consum ed in this city is brewed in Oma ha. In other brewing centers, the percentage of local beer consumed is more than 90 per cent of the total consumption. “/\ny movement that will en courage the sale of our home pro ducts and increase local employ ment is worthy of support. T t re fore, I urge Omaha citizens, who drink beer, to purchase more of the products of our home brewer ies in order that Omaha payrolls may bo increased.” Signed—• Dan B. Butler, Mayor of Omaha INJURED WHILE WORKING Mr. James H. Williams was in jured Saturday July 15, while he was working on 24th Birt St. He was helping unload a truck when the truck backed into a pile of lumber, causing the lumber to fall. His left foot was caught be tween two jacks (thus facturing his foot. He also suffered bruises on his shoulder. He was taken to Nicholas Senn Hospital. At the present time he is at home at 2816 Blondo St, CUT HELPING HIS DAUGHTER Mr. V. Moore of 2508 Blondo St. was very badly cut in trying .to protect his daughter when she and her husband were in a cutting scrape Sunday July 16. TWO WHITE TEXANS INDICT ED FOR MURDER OF NEGRO YOUTH McKinney, Tex. July 10 (Elaine Ellis for CNA)—Two white bro thers, Glen and Melvin Johnson, havo been charged with the brutal murder of Delmiar IJolt, 20 year old youth of this town. Melvin Johnson, who was an employe of Horn and White Auto Accessory Store, where young Holt was also employed, is charged with murder with malice afore thougth, while his brother Glen is charged with being an accessory to the fact. The latter lives at Sherman, where he conducts an auto accessory store. Young Holt was discovered in a dying condition by 0. K. Ste vens ,who had gone squirrel hunt ing in the lonely creek bottom where he found the victim. Holt w'as unconscious and hg was cov ered with blood from four bullet wounds, one of which was in the head and the others in the body. He died in the city hospital with out regaining consciousness. Clues led officers to the two men now charged with the crime. —-oOo--— 106,000 SIGN ANTI LYNCHING PETITIONS New York July ID—Officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced today that 106,000 sig natures to petitions for a federal anti-lynching bill have been turned in to the association’s national of fice to date. -oOo NAACP TO PHILADELPHIA IN 1940 New' York, July 19—The 1940 Conference of the NAACP was voted to Philadelphia by delegates to the recent conference in Rich | mond, Va. Drive Man, Wife, 3 Children from Home; Destroy Furniture FORMER SECY. OF BOOKER T. HOW IN CHARGE V 1 ? •'. DK. EMMETT J. STOTT Jonn Hamilton, Clu.Timan cT the Republican National Committee, today announced the appointment of Dr. Emmett J. Scott as an As sistant Publicity Director in charge of Republican publicity in the Negro press. Dr. Scott also will sene as one of the advisers to Chairman Hamilton on problems relating to the colored citizens “Dr. Scott is one of the out standing Negroes of this country an<I tho Republican National Com mittee is indeed very fortunate to obtain his services at this cri tical period in the history o? our country,” Chairman Hamilton as serted. Dr. Scott, known to tenfc of thousands of Negroes for his acti vities in national and local civic and social welfare, is now a mem ber of the Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole for the Dis trict of Columbia; is Secretary of tho Southern Education Founda tion—a, merger of the Anna T.1 Jeanes Fund, the John F. Slater Fund and the Peabody Fund, with an endowment slightly less than Three Million Dollars. He was for many years confi dential secretary to the late Book er T. Washington and secretary at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Ho served for nineteen years as secretary and as secretary-treasu rer of Howard University, Wash ington, D. C., and is a member of the Republican State Commit tee in and for the District of Col _• u muia. Ho was a member »f the Advi sory Committee of the Republican National Committee in the 1924 campaign, Vice Chairman of the Colored Voters’ Division of the Republican Committee, campaign of 1928 and a member of the Planning Committees of the Re publican National Committee, Col r, Forth Worth, July 19 (CNA)—3 ! Indignant citizens bgth white and Negro tfhs week were demanding police action against the leaders of a white mob wihich invaded the recently purchased home of Otis Flake and drove out Flake, his wife and three children, destroyed their furniture and damaged the building. The violence climaxed three days of threats which started when the Flakes moged into the house, which is in a so-called white residential district. Despite the advance warning of trouble, no adequate rteps to protect the ' family was taken by lihe police. Local progressives white real estatb interests of fermenting* the trouble and demanded a thorough investigation and prosecution of the mob leader's. ored Voters’ Division, campaigns of 1932 and 1936. Doctor Scott served as a mem ber of the American Commission to Liberia, by appointment of President William Howard Taft, in 1909 and as secretary of the National Negro Business League from its organization in 1900 until May, 1922 when he resigned af- j ter having been unanimously re elected. During the World War he serv ed as Special Assistant to Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War. ad vising in matters affecting color ed troops and civilians. He is an author of distinction, having published “Tuskogee and Its People;” is also Co-Author of the “Biography of Booker T. Washington—Builder of a Civili zation.” He also is the au V>r of the “American Negro in the World War,” and “Negro Migra tion During the World War,” this latter publication being prepared for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. -oOo NEGROES WAGES ON RAIL ROAD LESS THAN HALF OF ■ WHITES EARNINGS Washington, July (CNA) Negro employes on the nation’s railroad’s earned less than half of the aver age amount by white employes in 1937, accordng to figures just made public by the Railroad Re tirement Board. The average anual wage of white employes waw $1,290 and of Negro employes only $590; in that year. The Board figures are bas ed on pay up to $300 a month rec eived by all persons who for em ployers covered by the Railroad Retirement Act, regardless of the amount of tJheir employment. The average annual pay of railroad employes in 1937, regardless of . color or race, was $1,116.65 (re vised average.). Negro workers ) NEW ERA BAPT. SESSION' |JUST AROUND CORNER -® REV. F. P. JONES Omaha, Nebr. July 17tb. 1939 To the Baptist forces of Nebras ka and Christian friends Greetings; Feeling the pressure of my duty I wish to call to your attention, that tlhe annual session of the New Era Baptist Asso. is just around tho corner, so to speak. (1)1 have nothing hut praise and thankful nes to every pastor and Church and many friends for their coop eration and encou;ragtement this year. (2) We are earnestly pleading that we give this meeting our whole hearted support in construc tive thinking and concentrative efforts. For wo must admit that tho distructive indisguised enemy is still lurking at the doors of our sacred Institutions, and gradual ly entering those sacred walls and destroying tho timely honored cus toms of our forefathers and the high standard of Christian living J for which they suffered and died.' Tho Church has been given her Marching orders, and we must not fail in our efforts to put to flight these undisguised evils. Yes the problems of to-day and to-morrow’s generations must not lie over looked, but dealt with in all sincer ity and truth. I pludgo my self to tho task. What about you? Yours for greater service, F. P. Jones, Moderator constituted about 10 per cent of the total number covered. The explanation for the great differential in wages of Negroes and whites lies in the fact that the former are limited to the lower paid jobs and are not given an op portunity for promotion. Ixmg standing agreements between the railroad unions and the companies aim to prevent promotion, and in many cases employment, of Negro workers. REINSTATE WAITERS WITH BACK WAGES Chicago, July 19 (CNA)—The Joint Council of Dining Car Em ployes won a tremendous victory this week ' with the ruling of th0 National Railroad Adjust ment Board that tfhe New York, New Haven and HurLford Railroad Coi pany must reinstate with com pensation for loss of wages suf fered since June 28th, 1938 a num ber of Negro dining car Qooks ' and waiters fired by the road when it introduced the new type of drill and Cafeteria Car. The new cafeteria car* replaced a number of dining cars and were staffed by white girls, not previ ously in the employment of the Carrier, at wages lower than those paid the waiters under an agree ment in effect between tine road and the union. At the same time, senior Negro employes were re duced to the Extra Board of fur loughed from service. Tho union based its claim for reinstatement and compensation of the fired men upon “the long es tablished principle that senior qualified employes shall have the right to advancement to prefer red runs and higher rated posi tions with the craft or class and the fact that the Management ar bitarily removed work from the jurisdiction of the agreement and assigned those duties to other persons who formerly held no seniority with the Carrier as din ing service employes.’’ Tho union charged further that the road violated tho agreement again when “it established a rate of pay” for the ne-w employes low er than the wage scale specified in the agreement. Tho Board sustained the con tentions of the union both counts. -—oOo BISHOP WALLS SUES CHARG ING DISRIMINATION Indianapolis, July 19 (ANP) — Charging ho was refused service in the Indianapolis union station restaurant unless he accepted it in a jirn crow corner reserved ‘ for Negroes only”, Bishop William J. 1 Walls of the AME. Zion church; filed suit last week through his i attorney, Robert Lee Brecken bridge, former NAACP. president, I against Mary R. and Irvin A. j Fendrick, restaurant proprietors, for violation of the state civil rights law. SENTENCED TO FIVE TEARS Dave Stevens 21, of 2316 North twenty-seventh St., and Alfred Cottonham IS, of 2312 North twen ty-seventh st., was sentenced to 5 years each on a charge of attempt eel triminal assault. They beat and attempted to rob Georgo Chase, 23, of Fort Calhoun and Mrs. Lucille Endicott 23 of Denver, Colo. -oOo LIQUOR LICENSE REVOKED Perry O. Preston, 1604 North 24th St., lost his permit for alleg ed sale of his license. •> Dr. Carver in His Labratory j GEORGE WASHINGTON ' CARVER TO APPEAR ON RADIO SHOty Tells Life Story On Edgar A. July Guest’s ‘'it Can Be Done” Thursday, July 20 George Washington Carver, born of slave parents in Civil War Missouri, and now one of Ameri ca’s leading research scientists, will tell his life story on the pro gram called “It Can Be Done’’, which has its master of ceremonies the eminent poet, Edgar A. Guest. Tae program will be presented on the National Broadcasting Com pany’s Blue Network Thursday, July 20, from 8:30 to 9, Eastern Daylight Time. When he was a child, Dr. Carver was traded for a horse. Today he is seventy-five years old, and his work is recognized as comparable to that of Luther Burbank, tlie great plant wizard. Be t known for his accomplishments with the lowly peanut, Dr. Carver cnca spoke before Congress about the >65 products he had created from it. These include chemical oils, dyes, rubber, paper, ink, and many other synthetic products. Ho has been experimenting with peanut oil as a treatment for in fantile paralysis. After many thousand experiments from which remarkable results have been ob tained, he turned over his findings to the medical profession for tri al and certification. Dr. Carver is a member of tho staff at Tuskegee Institute and a of the oRyal Society of G;eat Britain. In 1922 he received the Springarn medal for the most dis tinguished servico by an Ameri can Negro of that year. SFE HEADLINE BELOW RANDOLPH MOVES TO ORGANIZE NEGRO RAIL ROAD WORKESS IN CANADA Montreal, Canada, July 15th,—• For ten days beginning July 6, A. Philip Randolph, International President, and Bennie Smith, 2nd International Vice-President, con ducted an organization campaign to organize the sleeping car, par lor car and buffet car porters up on the railroads of the Dominion of Canada. Reports from the In ternational office of the Brother hood indicated that Mr. Randolph was invited to come to Canada by the sleeping car porters on the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Naional Railroads to plan accep tance into membership of tbo Brothei hood (the aforementioned classes of railway employees. In Toronto, Ontaria, meetings that were held for the sleeping car porters operating on Pullman cars and the Canadian railways were large and enthusiastic and received the support from piomi nent Negro Canadians, including Dr. Davis Dyke and Counselor PLtt, widely respected professionals among the white and Negro pub lic of the Dominion of Canada. From Toronto, Messrs. Randolph and Smith journeyed to Montreal, Quebec, where they met with a similarly encouraging reception (Continued on Page 5) BaiMotah "tens Am 1 na ■ VII ffi?@?S
