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tv- . j rtEW TO THtM) LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO VXD NORTH OF KANSAS CITY__ i .-.■■■ .... ' — - ■ ■—;■ ———————— Entered as Second-C)ass Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Saturday, August 19, 1939 ^ Number 20 Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. __ *____ t - Citv Edition 10c per Copy f The Weather Weather Outlook for the Period August 14 to August 19. Upper Miss, and lower Mo. Valleys generally fair most of week with temperatures near or somewhat above normal, except scattered thundershowers and cooler about Tuesday. NEGRO 1 CHILD White Brute CHARGE WHITE MAN WITH RAPE ON GIRL 16 --® - Ww\^. L ELKS DO POLITICALLY? Natl Dtr. Elk Official Killed In Razor and Gun Battle Former Memphis Woman Dies From Razor Cuts Gary Ind., Aug. 17—Mrs. Clara E. Webster, national Daughter Elk executive and prominent pol tician, died yi a local hospital Sunday Aug. 6 from wounds sus tained in a gun and razor fracas with Mrs. Mattie D. Caldwell over the former’s ex-husband, Willie Webster. Police here are investigating the case and Mrs. Caldwell is being held pending the inquest. It is alleged that Mrs. Webster a former policewoman, saw her ex husband, Mr. Webster, driving in a car with Mrs. Caldwell, Wednes day evening. Determined to regain her d’vorced husband whom she had been seeing recently, Mrs. Webster is said to have followed the couple in another car. She found her rival sitting in the ve hicle near the corner of Fifteenth and Washington streets. Takes 21 Stitches It is reported that Mrs. Web ster approached the car with a drawn pistol, opened the door The latter came out wielding a razor. Mrs.Webster suffered sev eral deep cuts about the arms and body. She was rushed to a local hospital where physie’ans took 21 sti'tches and released her. During the latter part of the week Mrs. Webster’s condition became worse and she was return. ed to the hospital where she died. According to Mr. Webster’s tes timony he was across the street in a tavern when the fight occurred He says that he did not witness the cutting. Mrs. Webster was a native of Memphis, Tenn., but had lived in Gary since 1913. Mr. Webster to whom she had been married 29 years was her second husband. They are said to have been di vorced for nearly a year, however, recently it is alleged that they haa been seeing a good deal of each other and it was her jeal ously of her ex-husband and Mrs. Caldwell, with whom he worked at a daily local newspaper office, that led to the Elk ruler’s death. Paragraph 4, Section 526, Postal Laws and Regulations. 4. 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I . — GLD RESIDENT AND RAIL ROAD MAN DIES - Mr. Levi Nathaniel James of 2202 Burdette Street, who has been a resident of Omaha for many years, passed away at his DOCTOR J. H, HUTTON DIES Funeral services for Dr. J. H. Hutten, dean of Omaha Negro physician, who died Saturday of Heart disease in Los Angeles, Calif., where he went a month ago, were held Tuesday afternoon at Hillside Presbyterian church 30th and Ohio streets. Rev. J. S. Williams, pastor as sisted by Rev. C. B. Hancock, of Chair Chapel ME Church and Rev. G. A. Stams of St. Philips Epis copal church conoducted the im pressive services. Hillside choir furnished the music. Mrs| Irene Morton sang “Flee As a Bird.” home Saturday morning at 7:3u. He has 'been ill for some time. He leaves a devoted wife, Mrs. Fran cis James, a brother, Mr. William James of Bartiville, Okla., a s;s tcr Mrs. Nellie Smith of Chicago, a neice, Mrs. Ruby Russel of Min neapolis, Minn., two loving chil dren, Nathaniel James and Mrs. Zenobia Carey, both of this city, and other relatives plus a host of fr:end-. The remains were at the Lewis mortuary. The funeral was Wednesday morning at nine o’clock at St. Benedict Church; interment in Sacred Heart Ceme^ tary. A long cortege of friends follow ed the remains to Forest Lawn Memorial Park where interment took place in the Hutten lot. Dr. Hutten came to Omaha in 1.899, fresh from Washington, D. C. where he had just finished his internship at Freedman’s hos pital there. He was a graduate of Beddle College, Charlotte, N. C. and of the Howard University school of Medicine. He established tha first colored drug store in the state of Nebraska and built up a large and lucrative medical practice among ‘both races of this city. In his quiet unassuming way. Dr. Hutten was a leader in Negro activities here. He is given credit for the organization of Hillside Presbyterian church and helped organized the Omaha Urban Lea gue. He was tremendously inter ested in the Colored Old Folks Home and served as a member of —- —-—-- —--1* I Webster Dictionary Free HERE is the most sensational sub scription offer you have ever seen! This big 900 page New Universities Webster Dictionary is yours—[-ABSO LUTELY FREE—with your new or renewal subscription to this paper at the regular rate, $2.50 per year. YOU MUST ACT QUICKLY! This amazing SPECIAL SUBSCRIP TION OFFER is limited. —Call WE. 1517 today— - —fe ---/•! its board of directors for many years. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Omaha Community Chest for sev eral years. Hi* only survivor is his ison. Attorney Jesse C. Hutten who hastened to Califor nia by plane and reached his bedside before the end and accom panied his body here for inter men Hundreds of citizens viewed his remains at the Ix-wis Funeral home, where it lay in state for several hours preceeding the fun eral. Dr. Hutten was one of the most prominent highly respected, and beloved citizens of this c’ty and ho leaves a host of friends who sincerely mourns his passing. Ac tive pallbearers, aH physisians or dentists were W. D. Gooden, Price Terrel, Herbert Wiggins W. W. Solomon, W. AY. Peebles, and C. A. Singleton. --—oOo LEFT FOR ELKS GRAND LODGE CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY Dr. Price Terrell, secretary of Elks. Local lodge and one of Oma. ha’s leading successful physician. The Hon. Otto Mason a former business man who is Grand Deputy of the grand lodge for the state of Nebraska. Attorney Charles F. Davis, exalted ruler of the Omaha herd, the man that took the pieces and put them together and from all indications will hold them to gather. Honorable Ray White, a former candidate for the state Senate and Esteemed Leading Knight of Iro quois Lodge No. 92 also a success ful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the local lodge. ' The local lodge and all Omahans are wishing for these gentlemen a successful trip with safety in re turn. While in New York, Dr. Price Terrell will attend the alumni as sociation of Fisk University Thursday, August 24 at the New York World’s Fair. -oOo 1 OMAHAN KILLED IN WRECK 2 EX-RESIDENTS KILLED MUNGER ESCAPES Leon Moore was a member of a family that has put in a total of more than one hundred years in dining car service. His father, Reuben is chef, and a brother, Frank, a porter on the private car of W. M. Jeffers, Union Pa cific president, Three other broth ers, Kenneth, Milton and Delroy, are in dining car service. Other survivors include the mother, who was in Oakland to visit Leon Special Release* to The Omaha'* Guide— New York, Aug. 17 (ANP)— The 40th annual grand lodge of tho I.N.P.O. Elks of the World will take on a definitely political aspect here next Tuesday morn ing when several headline figures in the com'ng presidential cam paigns will make their appearance. Chief among them will be Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, whose address will Moore; his brother, Paul and two s'sters, Mercedes and Mrs. Lucille Gustin. Survivors of Schwein in Omaha include his father, Harry; a broth er, Gordon Hopkins, and grand mother, Mrs. Audie Hopkins. Omahan Injured One Omahan was injured seri ously. He is John Hainowski, 42 2765 Kene street, a chef. His in juries include a broken leg and a back injury, and relatives received I a telgeram saying he was in the I county hospital at Elko, Nev. At least 2 former Omahans, rail employes, were included on the i list of injured. One was Sam Wall Alameda, Cal., reported in serious condition. The other Alex Fus tos, 22, Oakland, who suffered a bump on the head. Barta had been a cook on the railroad for more than three years, and on the City of San Francisco for two years. He is sdivived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Antone Barta, at whose home he lived; two brothers, Joseph and Charles am! two sisters, Annette and Mrs. Mary Chadek. Parents Omahans Bowens was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dock Bowens, 2536 Hamilton street, H« is n)»o survived by two 'small children, AlleCn anfl Burl, Jr., who live in Chicago. He had been a porter for six years. Johnson, a din’ng car waitet* four years, was the son of Mrs Carrie Howell, 2667 Binney street. His wife, Edith, who had been visiting her mother, Mrs. George Edwards, 2806 Seward street left Sunday for the west to assist in funeral arrangements. Two chair car porters from Omaha were on the train but their names were not mentioned in the list of casualties. They are Burton Walker, 25, 2911 North Twenty eight street, and Andrew Wood, 1409 North Twenty-third street (Logan Fontenelle homes). Almost all the 21 dining car em ployes were reported to be former Omahans who had moved to Oak land western terminus of the lux ury tra/Ln’s run. Former Omahans know to have died in the wreck were: Burl Bowens, 33; Leon Moore, 35; Harry Schwein, 24 and William Burton. All railroad em ployes, all except Burton are known to have relatives here. ---—--i bo flanked by speeches from Gov. j Herbert H. Lehman, and Mayor j Fiorellio H. LaGuardia of this city. On the same program will be Rep. Bruce Barton, and Rep. Hamilton Fish, both of New York ant! State Democrae:c Chairman Kenneth J. Simpson, also of New York. Veteran observers of Elk poli tics and their trend* remember back to 1933 when at Indianapolis; tho grand lodge enthusiastically voted to support the then Gover nor Paul V. McNutt, if he ever decided to run for president. This was based on the McNutt record in Indiana affair*, including his sponsorship of one of the first civil rights ever to pass a state leg'slature in this country, and which was introduced hy then state senator Henry J. Richard sono, Jr., of Indiana. Richardson is now assistant grand legal ad visor of the Elks, and will be on hand to blow the McNutt horn. However, Mayor LaGuardia was quoted in a recent issue of the Washington, D. C. Times, a daily there, as feeling more inelmed to support John N. Garner for presi dent as against McNutt, This opinion may bo reflected in the mayor’s speech, for it is a cer tainty that with Dewey present, the Democratic group will miss no chance to drive home a point for any of the’r candidates. The gen eral feeling here is against Gar ner, however, for Easterners do not feel inclined to overlook his snubs of Miss Marian Anderson in the nation’s capital recently. Governor Lehman’s presence will inject still another angle in to the picture, for he is regarded as a pro-thtrd-termer, and how tho Elks feel about that will not be known until Tuesday. It might bo remarked, however, that Fin ley Wilson Elk ruler, has a set of very fine pictures made at the White House in warm conversation with F. D. R. On the other side of the picture will be the veteran politician, Perry, W. Howard, and a strong slate of well-known Negro GOP’s who have expressed their firm intentions of supporting Senator Robert Taft of Ohio for the GOP nomination. Among those who are very conspicuous by their ab sence from Perry’s list will be found the Memphis leader Bob Church, who is on the line for Governor James of Pennsylvania, and Assistant District Attorney Kunton and Frances E. Rivers, | both of New Pork City who have I gone into the ring for Mr. Dewey. The list of Mr. Howard includes: Bishops Robt. E. Jones, A. P. Shaw, and S. L. Green, Lawrence O. Payne, Cleveland assembly | man, Robert L. Bailey, former member of the Indian legislature, John Schenck, former assistant \ district attorney of Boston, S. D. Lester MeGrady, white employee for the Pr'llips Petroleum com puny fees a charge of brutally raping Cecelia Bailey, 1G year old maid, Tuesday morning in the sec ond division of the city court be fore Judge Clark E. Tucker. The attack occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Howard, 1724 North Thirteenth Street, ear';/ Thursday morning, August 3, where she was nursing the child ren of the Howards. According to the girl’s statement, she was asleep when someone knocked on the door, but she did not answer the door. The intruder, whom po lice record8 revealed was Lester MeGrady, of 1908 Noorth Thir teenth street is said to have forc ed his way into the home, choked the girl and forced her to submit to his will, even though she was sick. The girl is regularly employed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hutchings, 1716 North Thirteenth street and was only nursing the two children of the Howards at the time of the atack. She state i that she ran out of the house af ter the attack to her employee’s home and Mr. Hutchings came over to the Howard’s home and caught the intruder in the hath room. Hutchings, an employee in the police department called police officers and the intruder was ar rested and booked as Lester Me Grady. State charges were filed against him, and he was released on a $1,0<K) bond. ljocal civic organizations mani fested an interest in the case this week and asked that McGrady be g:ven a speedy trial and convicted if guilty. The National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People, Wyandottee County Association of Colored Women, the Parent Teachers Association, and the Ministers Alliance pledge to aid in every way possible to ward the proper procedure and prosecution of the intruder. A committee held a conference with Arthur J. Stanley, Jr., county at torney and asked that he personal ly conduct the prosecution. The committee was composed of Dr. Wm. Blount, James A. Ham lett, Jr., Milton Bledsoe, R. B. Brown, David Wilhite and U. G. Plummer representing the Nation al Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, Mrs. Gus tava Gray, Association of Color ed Women, Mrs. Ella Bailey and Mrs. O. M. Freeman representing the Parent Teachers Association. (the Gaines case) Redmond, of Mo., Dr. J. H. E. Westbrooke of Denver, James E. Kelley, grand secretary of the Elks, Roy Bond, Baltimore lawyer and Perry B. Jackson, assistant prosecuting at torney of Cleveland. This group han dubbed Taft as “the ideal can didate,” and are prepared to fight for his recognition at New York. Whatever may transpire, one thing is certain, and Senator Mil lard F. Tydings of Maryland will vouch for it; the colored Elks wield a tremendous political influ ence. For last year at Baltimore (continued on page 8) 2500Phones Taken Out CAMPAIGN FOR JOBS JUST BEGUN WITH BELL TELE PHONE COMPANY DEMAND PHONE JOBS IN CHICAGO ^ * CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (CNA)— “Twenty-five hundred phones have already been taken out and the campaign for jobs with the Illi nois Bell Telephone Company has just gotten started,” announced the Negro Labor Relations Lea que this week. Edward Joseph, league secre tary, stated that ^thousands of past cards have been circulated on the South Side in the campaign to force the big utility to abolish its job discrimination against Ne groes. These postcards, addressed to Illinois Bell Telephone Com pany, direct the company to dis continue phone service until Ne groes are hired as employees of the company.’' The Chicago Urban League Board, which will meet soon, will discuss the job question, and is expected to join the boycott move ment for jobs. 6