WOMAN STRIPPED AND
BEEATEN BY MOB
(Continued from page 1)
section get an average of 7, 8,
9, cents per hundred-pound bag.
The average price paid workers is
3 to 4 cents per bag, though in
some cases it is as low' as 2 and
one-half cents. The workers spend
approximately four days per week
at work.)
‘T was unable to determine
what wages are paid here. How
ever, Mr. Dey said that seven
dollars a week to these Negroes
is "Big Money.’ In addition to
this money the only other provided
by the employer for the workers
is Pving quarters, if they can be
callel such. The u ual provisions
made for this are simply a few
bags for them to put down in a
barn or shack, if there is one on
the place. On one farm the living
quarters consists of a block of
t&r-paper cove ns 1 frames wh'ch
were originally luilt to serve as
chicken coops.’
The victims of the mob attack
which took place on the farm of
Raymond De.v, near Cranbury, N.
J„ included:
Jake Preston, 23 and his wife,
Mrs. Frances Preston, alsc* 33,
both of Coleman, Ga.; Monroe
Holmes, 24, of Ph'Tadelphia, Pa.;
Louis, Sreetcr, 18 and Ode Street,
24, both of Augusta, Ga.; James
Jordan, 22, of Quincy, Fla.; and
William Moten, 41, of Greensboro,
Ala
All o.f the victims, wno uvea in
a shack on the Dey farm, with
only a partition separating Pres
ton, and his wife from the other
workers, were aroused from their
beds shortly after midnight Fri
day, August 11, by a mob of
whites, who flashed lights in the^
faces. All were forced to disrobe
completely including Mrs, Pres
ton. Five of the men were chased
across the Dey farm to the tune
of pistol shots. Mr. and Mrs. Pres
ton were both doused with white
enamel pa:nt, subjected to elabor
ate indignities and carried in an
automobile seven miles from the
farm, where they were released.
All of the men were beaten with
rubber hoses. Only one, William
Moten, succeeded in getting away
while the mob was at work.
Police went into action as soon
as news of the attack spread.
About twelve hours after the
mob’s action, twelve suspects
were rounded up. When the work
ers found their way hack to the
Dey farm, Mrs. Preston found that
all her savingH, amount'ng to 20
dollars had been stolen by mem
bers of the mob.
The New Jersey NAACP is
continuing to push the investiga
tion. ,
—-ono
BOY DROWNED AS
HE WADES IN LAKE
Michigan City, Ind.,—Cornelius
J. Aiken, 13, only son of the Rev.
and Mrs. James Aiken was drown
NEBRA S K A
PRODUCE
1202— 4 6 North 24th St.
Phon* WE 4137
Poultry and Egg Dealer*
Oui price* are reasonsable,
■•e u* first.
Free Trading: Stamps with
tyh Purchase.
1 a, m.
JA! 9411
McGILL’S—
□BAR & BLUE ROOM
E. McGill, Prop.
2423-25 NORTH 24th St.
WINE, LIQUORS, and
CIGARS
Blue Room Open 8 p. m. to 1 a. m.
Open for Private Parties from
2 to 7 p. m.
—No Qhanres—
WE SPECIALIZE IN MIXED
DRINKS—In case you don’t
know what to put in R—Call
CASEY, JAckson 9411. He has
Sfot .the works and knows what
to do with it. He’s North
Omaha’s Famous drink mixer.
Nervous, Weak,
Ankles Swollen!
Much nervousness is caused by an ex
cess of acklg and poisons due to func
tional Kidney and Bladder disorder!
which may also cause Getting Up
Nights, Burning Passages. Swollen
Joints, Backache, Circles Under Eyes,
Excess Acidity, Leg Pains and Dizzi
ness. Help your kidneys purify your
b) ood with Cystex. Usually the very
first dose starts helping your kidnevi
clean out excess acids arm this soon may
make you feet like new. Cystex must
satisfy you completely or money back ie
guaranteed. Get Cystex (aiss-tex) to
day. It coBts only 3c a dose at druggists
and the guarantee protean* you.
ed recently' in Lake Michigan
wh'le wading along the lake front.
—-— 0O0
The D-X Service Statiorf at 24th
Grant streets is now open for busi
ness under a new name. The Quick
Service Station. Rev. J. P. Mosley
and Leroy Thompson managers.
With 24 hour service.
Wo are striving to give the pub
lic satisfactory service at a rea
sonable fee.
Come in and give us a trial.
-0O0———•
COLORED CMT CAMP
CLOSED AUGUST 4TH
Taking with them the benefits
of a months' mil:tary training
one hundred and fifty two (152)
I colored trainees turned in their
equipment here today were paid
necessary travel expenses and
started their return to homes in
various Middle Western States.
Closing exercises for the camp
were held yesterday morning at
which time Brigad er General Rob
ert C. Richardson, Jr., Command
er of the Gamp, addressed the
trainees complimenting them on
! their rapid progress and the’r am
b'tion which has moved them to
fake advantage of this opportun
ity to make themselves better citi
zens.
Mr. Marion T. Burton, Past
Commander, Veterans of Foreign*
VVai ■ Denar ment of Kansas made
MARRIED WOMAN LOSE ..ii
a iihort talk and awarded the
Commander in Chief?' medal and
1 Citation to trainee Ray Burchette
of Chicago, III. This award pre
sented by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars is presented each year to
tho Basie trainee in camp who has
demonstrated the most profi
ciency.
Colonel S. W. Winfree, Execu
t'vo Officer of Camp, presented
medals to winners.of final athle
tic events held on visitors day,
Tuesday, August 1, 1939. Out
standing athletes were trainees
Henry Clay of St. Louis, Mo.;
Clinton Harris, St. Ixiuis, Mo;
Claude Ellison, Des Moines, la.;
John Allen, Maywood, 111.; Val
more Gaines, St. Louis, Mo.; Win
dell R. Davis, Harvey 111.; Laur
ence IjaValle, St. Louis, Mo.; and
Excell Gilleylen, Iieavenworth,
Kansas. Boxers who received med
als for winning in their respective
weights were Charles S. Scott,
Topeka, Kans.; Claude Ellison, Dos
Moines, la.; Edward M. Kemp,
Chicago, 111.; Clyde L. Page, Cen
tral's, III.; Kermit T. Johnson,
Ccrut.ralia, 111.; and Theydon A.
Brown, Dei Moines, la.
Bronze medals "for excellence
presented by the Military Training
Camps Association were awarded
to the following trainees; Best
Basic Company "A”, Ray Bur
chette, Chicago, 111., Besit Basic
Company “B,” Keith Pittman,
Kansas City, Mo., Best Red in
Camp, Charles P. Warren, Chica
go, 111., Best White in Camp, Sam
ual George Watts, la'avenworth,
Kansas, Best Blue in Camp, John
Allen, Maywood, 111.
Trainee Charles P. Warren, Chi
cago, 111., was selected from this
camp for the Civilian Military
Education Fund Trip, to Washing
ton, D. C., with all expenses paid,
offered by the Civilian Military
Education Fund Committee to the
outstanding CMTC boy in each
| Corps Area, Samuel George Watts
Leavenworth, Kansas was selected
as alternate.
Henry T. Clay, St. Louis, Mo.,
was named by the officers of this
camp as a candidate to receive
the Scabbard & Blade Scholarship
award, which is awarded to assist
in tho college education of some
young men who have demonstrated
qualities of good citizenship and
excellent military leadership in
some CMT Camp. Scabbard and
Blade is an honorary military
society.
D. O. VARS,
1st Lieut., Calvary
Publicity Officer.
-0O0-—•
CHICAGO RELIEFERS,
PANIKY, SEE SOUP LINE
BY OCTOBER 1, 1939
CHICAGO, Aug 24 (ANP) —
Chicago’s relief and housing sit
uation was dealt a one-two body
and-ehain blow this week as a re
sult of which construction on the
Ida Well* low-cost federal hous
ing project was again delayed,
relief rolls were ordered cut, ra
^ tions reduced and the statute re
quiring residence of three years
in the state for reliefers was made
a law. Many dejected (relief'.ms
predicted a return of the soup and
broad lines by October 1.
An news mcerning the acute
situation among the city’s Negro
populat’on spread toward the
loop district, Chicago’s leading
white merchants and business men,
many of them members of the
Chamber of Commerce, were re
ported as viewing with alarm the
latest developments in Ghicago’ia
relief and housing crisis.
Since one-fourth of the city’s
WPA and relief rolls are Negro
indigents and since they are usu
ally the first to feel tho brunt of
all "retrenchment” orders, many
white businesn leaders, convinced
that what affects one section of
tho c'ty affects another, were out
spoken in demanding acUon to
remedy the situation.
Joel D. Hunter, superintendant
of the United States Charities, on
his personal stationery, wrote to
Gov. Henry Horner urging him
to call a special (session of the
legislature to consider what Hun
ter described as “the worst crisis
in tho history of Chicago relief
work." Hunter explained that he
wrote the governor as “an indig
nant citizen,” and not as head of
the United Charities.
, So it went on down the line,
from high officials to inve-stiga
ton; and to the relief clients them
selves. Hardest blow suffered by
tho reliefers was the new law
(effective Tuesday) which requ
ires that all applicants for relief
in Illinois must have been resi
dent i of the state for at least 3
years before they can :;et on the
relief rolls. Another provision of
tho statute permits the use of re
lief funds to send transient indi
gents back to their home commu
nities.
Leo M. Lyons, secretary ot tne
Illinois Relief Comm'ssion, said
that about 10,000 families will be
cut from the relief rolls under the
new law. At the 25 per cent, ratio,
this means that 2,500 Negro fami
lies will bo affected. Lyons alno
said on Tuesday that plans to
“comb” the relief rolls in a state
wide purge ordered by the relief
ccommission to cut down costs and
aid WPA workers discharged un
der the national “career’’ law are
about complete.
Lyons isaid relef lists now total
about 190,000 families and that
when the “purge” has been com
pleted about 10 per cent will have
been found ineligible for relief.
Caso workers, investigators and
supervisors woefully shook then
heads when asked what was to be
come of the hundred!, of Southern
Negroes who swarm to Chicago
weekly, attracted by the lure of
“belter wage , and better t'mes up
North.’’
Many citizens of both races
lopenly criticized superior court
judge John Lupo for issuing a
temporary injunction which again
held up construction of the Ida B.
Wells federal housing project on
the Southdde which will provide
months of employment for hun
dreds o Negro WPA workers.
The suit was brought by a
whito taxpayer, Robert C. Gerger,
who objects to the Chicago Hous
ing authority awarding the pro
ject contract to a general con
tractor instead of segregating the
mechanical contracts. Frayser T.
Lane, director of the civic depart
ment of the Chicago Urban league
and one of the city's best-\nform
ed men on the housing and relief
(situation here as affecting Ne
groes, declared:
-oOo
ADVERTISING MEANS
MORE BUSINESS
ALLIANCE HEAD HiTS
WPA CUTS IN NORTH
Washington, Aug. 24 (CNA)—
David Lasser, president of the
Workers Alliance, this week asked
Col. G. C. Harr:ngton, WPA Ad
ministrator to review cuts of $3
to $!• a month in the wages of
unskilled project workers in a
nurrfber of large cities including
New York, Detroit, Cleveland, and
Chicago.
Lasser sa’d that the Alliance
viewed this new WPA wage scale
“with a mixed feeling,” because it
waf heartily in favor of increases
made in the South and in small
towns, and at the same time con
demned the cuts in large urban
centers.
He announced that a demand for
included in the mass Labor Day
rescinding of the cuts would be
meetings and the “National Job
Hunt” which will be held through
)!U/W/ 6tf
Fk/l ' " ' 1
“We Gotta Hurry Up And Catch A Public Enemy. . .
It’* Almost Time For My Piano Lesson,”
A GLOBE TROTTER’S SKETCH BOOK
WAB®SR§ cf the*^®P tL®N£>®M
... /m . t ip m L\
k By III WATTS
."Actually, I am a vegetarian,
wearily replied the Guard standing
post outside the famous London
Tower, in response to my obvious
Query to one of the •'Beef-Eaters "
Then patiently continuing his
explanation of the term '•Beet
Eater," he said the origin of the
term springs from the French "buf
fetier," which applied to one who
served at the King's bullet. How
ever, there are those who Insist
that the term came from a custom
of olden days in which certain fa
vored ones of the royal retinue re
ceived part of their pay in choice
sirloins of beef. The garb Itself
goes back with very little change
to the coronation o( Henry VII in
-■ISO.
The Chief V/crder or the Tower
carries a mace toir«> 1 with a mini
ature White Tower, built for Wil
liam the Conquerer (seen on the
left). The Yeomen carry tail
pointed spikes with ornamental
trimmings, and a Headsman always
brings up the rear of the column
with a huge axe, highly polished,
and reminiscent of ancient execu
tions! (Seen on extreme right.)
However, tfte full regalia is only
worn on ceremonial occasions. On
every day visits to the Tower, tour
ists are shown about through dun
geons, jewel rooms, and historio
nooks by courteous "Beef-Eaters.'’
dressed in the every-day garb
shown in the lower right band cor
ner.
out the country on Monday, Sept
ember 11.
The Alliance head urged Har
rington not to make new dis
--
charges as a result of the increas
ed labor cost established by the
new wage scale.
Bee. IJ. 8. Pet. Off. /f
BERUTU^ROmmiCE^
—MB
1 The Lerieine Beauty Foundation wat established by f
the Godetroy Manufacturing Company to study methods
of preserving women's natural beauty, and to make
the Jesuits of this research available to the public.
Proper care of the eyes is, of
course, necessary to good health
since eye-strain is uot only physical
ly exhausting but frequently results
iu severe headaches and, if contin
uous and severe enough, will mean
that you eventually have to wear
glasses. But at the present moment
let’s consider the eyes from the
standpoint of beauty rather than
health.
Beautiful eyes need not be excep
tionally large or of an unusual col
or. Sparkling eyes, with the whites
very clear and the irises sharply de
fined, cun make the plainest face
seein lovely. But you can’t have
clear, shining eyes if you stay out
till all hours of the nigtit, constant
ly read in a poor light and generally
mistreat the “windows of your
soul.” Your eyes, like everything
else, require care if you would huve
them beautiful.
Sleep an Important Factor
Here are a few Important rules to
observe in the care of your eyes.
First of all, get at least eight hours
of sleep nightly. How many times
have you heard this, and in how
many different connections? Sleep
is the greatest beautifter known, and
the woman who disregards it will
pay in loss of beauty. Before using
your eyes for any length of time,
make sure that the lighting is
proper, neither too little nor too
much. Too bright light is just as
hard on the eyes as to little. When
going out in the glaring sun of
summer, protect your eyes either
witli a wide-brimmed hat, a sun
shade or dark glasses. Squinting
against the sun causes little lines
around the eyes which detract from
u their beauty.
If you use your eyes a great deal
during the day, a good way to make
them feel rested and look brighter
is to dip a pad of cotton in cold
skin tonic and place it across the
eyes for a few minutes while you
rest. This trick is a great boon to
working girls who come home feel
ing and looking tired and ragged and
still want to look their best for a
big evening.
Lines Around Eyes
The setting of your eyes is Im
portant to their beauty. If you have
dark circles, deeply-etched lines or
puffs around your eyes, you will look
tired and listless. And this, too,
is a matter of general health. Too
little sleep and too much gayety
contribute to that weary look.
The delicate skin around your
eyes deserves special attention.
Every time you laugh, smile, frown
or squint, little lines appear around
the eyes and if your skin is dry
these lines become deeply etched. A
heavy cream smoothed in this area
at night will keep the skin lubri
cated and discourage the lines. Care
should be taken not to rub the skin
roughly, however, because it is eas
ily stretched, causing more lines.
It is really more simple than you
would think. Get plenty of sleep,
avoid eyestrain, and use a rich
cream around your eyes at night if
you would be a bright-eyed girl with
that good old "come-hither" look.
What are your beauty prob
lems? Write Marie Downing,
Larieuse Beauty Foundation,
Room 321 — 319 North Fourth
St., St. Louis, Mo., and she will
be glad to answer them. Be sure
to enclose a self-addressed
stamped envelope.
V -
BEST OF KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF By SCHEEL
Nathaniel Hawthonnb said—
NO MAN, FOR ANY CONSIDERABLE
PERIOO, CAN WEAR ONE FACE
L TO HIMSELF, AMO ANOTHER TO TH^
^ MULTITUDE, WITHOUT FINALLY /
GETTING bewiloereo AS TO ' >
W WHICH MAY BE THE TRUE
OKAPI
CUCNOT STEAM WAGON
1 This three-wheeled contraption, 'tf
* DESIGNED AND BUILT IN 1771 BY
NICHOLAS UOSEPH CUGNOT,
A FRENCH ARMY CAPTAIN,
WAS THE FIRST
AUTOMOBILE THAT
ACTUALLY GENERATED
ITS OWN POWER
ANO RAN.
ATTAINING A SPEED
OF THREE MILES
AN HOUR
' THE STEAM-WAGON
r SOON QROKE DOWN
ANO THE
INVENTOR
FEMALE WAS
x GNAT exiled,'
^ '
J
THIS QUEER ANIMAL THAT ^
INHABITS THE DARK FOREST*
OF CENTRAL AFRICA ^
RESEMBLES A MULE, HAS
ZEBRA STRIPES ANO *“
I ONLV IRVING RELAT1C
IE O'RAFF*
A*
THE MALE GNAT
PENDS HI* TIME IN SUCKIN*
HONEY FROM FLOWERS,
HE FEMALE OF THE *“'"*■
GIVES ALL HER ENE
MSN ANO
flL ■ K^OWUt Anq places tn« limit 15 wven mssf_ " ' ■•
~ ~ " ——----By Thornton Ftshor
, Xvou was^\ /^T^T^r^x ---.
, / exceeding the‘\ I WP.S Nc5T_ 6o\0 ovee/N - YES, Bur )_
,. 5PSSO LiMir \ THE UMir^tODYOUVe fHYSPKeoo- ] £ MILES a HouF»
YOO V«\S GOtHC J 500T-- ITS A. 6OT TO 60 WlW J »“tT^P^~|S THE" LIMIT
TWCNTY-FNE mile C BoheO «*ft >oo I ME /^C' 1*0 THIS VILLAGE ft!, *
) V * H°U*X TMROOtH j N-1 M1Les am I ----
*-,■ *TD •.. T
---— - iininiuunwnMBi.
__prawn for Piis paw fly FistlUf
BFO(? I—. ( "tER. TERM tS <Jf> i
.MT ) *N0 'TE.R- 'WIFE
OSE FR.NCX I Wfv'NTS ~*OV TO
«5 OP ! V. COME HOME
E^THE j-'
_I