1 St)E /JUSTICE/ EQUALITY | HEW TO THtUNE^ _ LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY_ 7 ~ Saturday, August 5, 1939 _ Numb,, I 9 City Edition ! 10c per Copy ' The Weather July 31 to Ausrust 5. Upper Miss, and lower Mo. valleys, generally fair first half of week, occasional showers latter half; cooler north, warmer south Monday, cooler south portion Tuesday, warmer middle of week, cooler north por- j tion at close, -3 NEGRO GIVES CITY $100,000 to Improve Playground For Children \ _— — — —:---- 1 9 Mays landing, N. J.—Public I \ Vi / / ... • . 1 ". “Pay Your Telephone Bill WITHOUT GOIN* DOWNTOWN SEE ARTICLE BELOW 1 . .. ■■■ -® WOMEN S GROUP MRS. S. M. G. BAKER, PIONEER RESIDENT PASSES Mrs. S. M. C. Baker, who was a resident of 1712 North 28th St. passed away August 1, at 11:15 p. inib She is the mother of de tective Matthews of 2305 North 29th St. She also leaves a sister Mrs. Lacy Wall of Dennisor. Texas, a grand-daughter Dorothy Houston. Her funeral was held Friday at *2 p. m. at St. John AME. church. Rev. Adams officiating. J D. Lewis, funeral dihector. Inter ment! Graeeland cemetery. Omahan Loses 2 Sisters in Auto Train Wreck Mrs. Catherine Hogan and Mrs. Grace Elliott of California, sisters of Mrs. ffm. Triplett, 2709 Wirt Si. were killed when hit by a Key System Train at Ward and Sac ramento, California Their car was dragged along the right of way for 200 yards. Tho motorman c«f the train said ths auto seemed to appear to stall on the tracks. Tho bodies will be shipped to Valley Mills, Texas for burial. -, , — .. ."I..I ■ (• COLOR LINE SMASHED AT BAPTIST WORLD PARLEY Atlanta, Ga., August 3 (CNA) Jimcrowiam suffered a smashing defeat at the sixth congress of the Baptist World Alliance when vig orous protests of Negro delegates forced the removal of “For Ne- ! groes” signs from the congress hall. The historic congress was at- ; tended by more than 10,000 regis tered delegates or “messengers” , from all parts of the world—sixty nations of many races being rep JB Ea Spingarn, N. Aa A. C. P. President Dies At Sixty-Four New York, July 30—J. E. Spin garn, president of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People, died at his hfjme, 110 E. 78 street, July 26 after a long illness. Mr. Spingarn had been president of the NAACP since 1930. Prior to that time he was chairman of the board 1913-1919; and treasurer of the NAA CP 1919-1930. In 1913 he established the Spingarn medal which has tyeen awarded an nually since that time to “the man or woman of African descent and Ameri can citizenship who has made the highest achievement during the pre ceding year or years in any honorable field.” ‘ The 24th recipient of the Spingarn medal wr)as Marian Anderson, famous contralto, who received the medal from the hands of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 30th annual confer ence of the NAACP in Richmond, Va. on July 2,1939. Throughout his long career with the NAACP, over a quarter of a cen tury, Mr. Spingarn wras an uncom prising fighter for absolute equal jus tice for the Negro race. He became interested in the NAA CP years ago through the extradition case of Steve Green, a colored share cropper who escaped from Arkansas after an argument with the landlord over pay and his crop. Arkansas au thorities attempted to extradite Green from Chicago and warned him that a mob would be waiting for him at the Arkansas line. Mr. Spingarn was outraged when he read the Steve Green incident and plunged into the work of the associa tion with his Whole heart and soul. The Steve Green case was won and the sharecropper did not have to go back to Arkansas. From that day through-1 out a quarter of a century, Mr. Spin garn saw' the association win victory after victory and extend the rights of Negro citizens over greater and great er areas. He made four transcontinental speaking tours for the association in which he always insisted on paying every penny of his own expenses. He became intimately acquainted with the problems of Negroes in every section of the country and often delighted to tell how some of his audiences in the southern and borden states melted a way person by person before he fin ished his uncompri^ir^g speeches on equal rights. In 1916 Colonel Spingarn invited the leading Negro leaders of the day to his country estate, “Troutbeck/' at Amenia, N. Y. to chart a course of militant and liberal action for the Ne gro. The second Amemia conference was held sixteen years later in August 1932, when Mr. Spingarn had as his guests forty outstanding young peo ples from all sections of the country together with officials of the NAACP. on a weekend conference whose pur pose was to advise on a program for the Negro in the light of the needs of the Negro youth of the day. Colonel Spingarn who served dur ing the World War is credited with have been the chief mover in forcing the United States government to train Negro officers for service in France. Over 1,000 were so trained. One of the most memorable speech (Continued on page 5) resented. There were also thou sands of visitors from Alanta’s 100,000 Baptists and from the rest if Georgia, which with 1,000,000 Baptists has the largest popula tion of that faJth of any State in the Union The jim-crow signs were order ed removed from the City Audi ;oriuan after a hectic two day battle in which Negro delegates lurled indignant charges of unde mocratic and un-Christian prac ;iees against their fellow Baptists. The fight against jim-crowism ind the resultant ^ctory for rac ial tolerance, helped to set a pro gressive tone for the convention, which went on record against fas cist racialism and condemned dis crimination as a “sin”, in a state ment on the Baptist position on war and peace. The report, presented by a com mission on “What Baptists can do to avert war and promote peace, ‘condemned war and profiteering from war and urged general dis irmament and strengthening of the League of Nations. The re port, however, struck a reaction ary note in asking for a solution )f the problem of unequal distri bution of natural resources, that b, recognition of the demands of fascist powers for colonies in Af rica. The Rev. Dr. James H, Rush brooke of London, England, who bas been general secretary since 1928, was elected president to suc ceed the Rev. Dr. George W. Trust of Dallas, Texas. Falling Ice Breaks Man’s Foot Falling ice broke the foot of Mr. D. W- Bell. 2806 North 25th St., affecting the use of the other also. Mr. ©ell a packing house worker was on the job at the time of the accident. ___0O0-— CARDENAS PROMISES MORE LAND TO PEASANTS Mexico City, August 3—(CNA) President Lazaro Cardenas, who in the five years of bis progres sive regime baa distributed over 37,000,000 acres of land to impov erwhed Mexican peasants, this week promised every peasant thru out the length and breadth of Mex ico fifty acres of land. He said this must be done if the agrarian revolution started almost a third of a century ago was not to be accounted a fail ure. The Mexican President prom ised the farmers the necessary credit required to “guarantee col lective farmers against the dan ger of their crops falling into the hands of rapacious middlemen.’’ ON HIS WAY TO TOP F. E. SMITH F. E. Smith, assistant general manager of the Nebraska Power Company for the past 10 years, was elected vice-president of the company, according to an announ cement Tuesday by J. E. Davidson president. Bom in Macedonia, Iowa, where ho spent his boyhood and was graduated from high school, Mr. Smith entered the electrical utili ty field as a lineman with the Red Oak Electric Company at Red Oak, Iowa. After workicing as lineman two years he entered the school of electrical engineering at Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. Fol lowing his graduation in 1912 he came to Omaha where he was em ployed by the old Omaha Electric Light & Power Company. He remained in Omaha two years when he accepted a posi tion as local manager of tihe Red Oak Electric Company at Oak land, Iowa. In 1916 he was trans ferred to a similar post at Platts mouth, Nebr. where he remained until 1918 when he joined the Ne braska Power Company in Oma f I HARLEM GIVES $.2000 FOR CAMP FOR NEEDY KIDs New York, Aug. 3—(C-NA) — A group of prominent Harlemites this week presented Mayor La Guardia with a check for $2,000 to be used by the City Welfare De partment to send underprivileged Harlem children to camp this sum mer. When Mrs. Fannie Robinson, wife of the famous tap dancer and treasurer of Che Harlem Chil drenls Camp Fund, handed the Ma yor the check, LaGuardia replied that he would match the $2,000 with $3,000 from the welfare mo ney coming from Police and Fhre Department ball games. Members of Che Harlem commit tee who visited the Mayor were: the Rev. Johnny Johnson, chair man; George Gregory, secretary; police Lieutenant Samuel J. Bat le, Jack Rose and Ida Ryan Fen ner. ha as assistant engineer. In 1923 Mr. Smith was made chief engineer of the company , and served in that capacity until two years ago. In 1928 he was elected assistant general mana ger which position he has held up to the present time. He is the father of three chil- ' dren, Mrs. Willard Neal of Mount Vernon, Iowa; Josephine, a junior at Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa; and Jack, 10, at home. “It is with sincere appreciation that I accept my new duties as vice-president,” Smith said. “Dur ing my twenty-one years associa tion with the company I have come to have tihe highest regard for the other officials and employees and hold among my most valued treasures the many pleasant re lations my contacts her have j brought me.” Authorize Milton E. Johnson to Receive Payments of Telephone Rills at 1904 North 24th Street Milton E. Johnson, proprietor of the Johnson Drug Company, 1904 North 24th Street, has been au thorized by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company to receive pay ments of telephone bills, according to an announcement made today by J. B. Moore, District Manager. This will make a convenient lo cation for the people in this neigh borhood to pay their telephone bills without making a special trip downtown. Mr. Moore stated that the Tele phone Company has been giving consideration to establishing a con vement place in inis section m Omaha for telephone customers to pay their accounts for several years and as a result of increasing suggestions by customers aner, France Enchainee, slandering he Jewish people. Pierre Gerard, a member of the paper’s staff, was sentenced to one month in jail and fined 600 francs. FIRST NEGrTwOMAN . JUSTICE BEGINS DUTIES hfc?w York, August 3 (CNA) — Miss Jane M Bolin, who was ap pointed and sworn in by Mayor La Guardiia last week as the first Negro woman justice of the Do mestic Relations Court, began her duties this week, first in Brooklyn and then in the Manhattan family court. Mayor LaGuardia smashed a precedent for the entre United States when he appointed Miss Bolin. She is the first Negro woman judge to be appointed in this country. Miss Bolin, who is 31 and resid es at 36 West 110th St., Harlem was sworn in as Justice of the Do mestic Relations Court for a ten year term by the Liberal New York Mayor. “It really makes me feel happy to be aible to appoint such a fine tyoung lady to a post in the court* (Continued on page 6) ---- PATRONIZE Your Neighborhood Laundry } The Omaha Guide is 650 Weeks Old August 5,1939. Edholm and Sherman Laundry has been an Advertiser in , your paper just six hundred and fifty weeks, which makes it possible for us.to serve you.