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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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NEW ERA BAPT. SESSION'
|JUST AROUND CORNER
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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.
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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.
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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
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