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► LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF t'UlCAGO AND NORTH PI KANSAS (I'M_ _____ ^ Entered as Se<vmd-Class Matter at Po*toffice,r Omaha, Saturday, September 9, 1939 Numbe,. 22— Vpfrira«lrn nnHpr Act of March 8. 1874. _ _ - -- — --- — City Edition The Weather Weather outlook for the period Sept. 4 to Sept. 9. Upper Miss, and lower Mo. valleys and Central Great Plains, cooler beginning of week and temperatures generally near normal thereafter; not much precipitation indicated. ( IF © Mayor Butler’s North Side Advisory Comm. ittee Elects Officers ■■ — The meeting was called Thurs day P. M. an dat this meeting At torney Charles F. Davis was *>,“Ct ed chairman and Mrs. Gertrude Lucas was elected secretary of Mayor Butlers’ North Side Advis ory Committee. ----- S «If Father Devine does, It will Be Over My Dead Body ... ROOSEVELTS OK DIVINE AS NEIGHBOR New York, Sept. 7 (CNA)— Through a series of letter's ex changed by President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Father Divine, it was revealed this week that fol lowers of the cult leader are nego tiating for the purchase of the elaborate 700-acne Vanderbilt es tate adjoining the President’s an cestral acres at Hyde Park. The correepondance, in which the President affirmed “the right i which all citizens have to pur chase any property” but said that he had always felt the Vanderbilt place should be acquired “prefer ably by some public or govern ment body” was made public by John Lamb, Father Divine’s white secretary. The estate, with its fifty-room manor house, is on the same side | of the river as the Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home. The cult lead er last year acquired the Krum Elbow property of Howland Spen cer, on the other side of the river from the Roosevelt’s estate. Spen cer, anti-New Dealer, made a “spite” deal with Divine’s follow' ers but W'as dJ comfitted when the President and Mrs. Roose velt greeted Divine as a “goo:! neighbor.” Meanwhile, publication of the correspondence between Divine and tho Roosevelt brought a “No Sale” statement from Mr*. [ James Laurens Van Allen New port dowager who inherited the • uge e.-rtate from her unde Fi ed erick W. Vanderbilt, upon his death June 29, 1938. Mrsi. Van Allen said that it would be over her dead body if Father Divine ever gets title to a place she once valued at $500,000. However, in his correspondence with the Roosevelts, Divine made it clear that he did not expect to c.ffect purchase of the estate by direct negotiations, but rather by using some of his white followers to put through the deal. In his letters, Father Divine warmly praised the democratic attitude of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt and expressed sup port for the New Deal. Postal Men $32,416.80 Good Start: S40.5I8.00 - * Good End Chicago. Sept. 7 (By Trezzvant W. Anderson for ANP)—The 10th annual biennial convention of the National Alliance of Postal Em-* ployes got under way here Mon day night, with Mayor Edward J. Kelley welcoming the visitors at a public sejsion at the Metro ' politan Community church. At the registration desk at the Wabash Avenue, YMCA on Mon day morning approximately 75 delegates and 80 vi itors had re gistered, in addition to 14 na tional officers. The meeting of the executive committee occupied the full morn ing, and reports from various dis tricts indicated substantial gains in membership. The main reports taken up were those of the na tional secretary and the treasurer. The report of Thomas P. Bomar secretary, showed the organiza tion had in cash $40,518.36, and $1.3,000 in government bonds. The total assets were $54,782.36, as compared with cash in 1937 of ! _ /C $32,416.80 and the $13,000 in< bonds, or a gain of $7,925.44 in actual assets during the two year period following the last meeting in Philadelphia. Membership to tals showed a similar substantial increase. These cash assets are those left after disbursements had been made. There appeared to be little in the way of internal politics as the convention began, but one fight which was to develop was (continued on page 7) Eating Beer Bottle* for 18 yrs. Gets Choired! On A Few Rtzor Blades * RAZOfc BLADE DIET PROVES ‘STICKLER’ TO CARNIVAL PERFORMER Jefferson City, Mo. Sept. 7— (ANP)—For more than 18 years Alfred Edwards has made his liv ing at carnivals and county fairs by swallowing pieces of broken bottles, knives, tacks, razor blades and other articles of cut lery. , ___ 1 But last week misfortune be fell the “swallowing champ,” when, after disposing of a beer bottle, some tacks and three knives—a razor blade stuck in his throat. His physician ordered a strict fast until the blade worked out of his throat. Last Friday, out came the shaving acce'ssory an<l Edwards is reported seeking a less hazardous occupation. HEADLINE BELOW— PROVE RAPE CHARGE UN TRUE; SAVE POPULAR YOUTH FROM GRAVE SITUATION Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 7 (By .T .E. Fair for ANP)—The entire ^ local populate was thrown into a istato of unrest Tuesday morning when a Knoxville daily paper ap peared with a sensational story charging Fred Wade, popular young Negro man with raping Mrs. Sarah Anderson, white woman, after driving Hayes Jef fries her white companion away at the point of an automatic pis tol. The picture of Wade stand ing between two police officers and Jeffries, the white man who, according to the highly inflamma tory article, positively identified him as the rapist, appeared on tho paper. The white woman, who gave her 1 address at 102 K. street, North west, Washington, D. C., and stat ed that she was on a visit to the city while enroute to Nashville declared the Wade first robbed hej- and then criminally assaulted her. , Relatives of the accused Negro employed Attorney Webster L. Porter, to defend him, and when the case was called in city court Wednesday morning, Judge John L. Mynatt dismissed the charges after hearing the statements of Chief of Detectives Pat Wells, Mrs. Anderson and Jeffries. After tho grilling cross examination of the white woman and her male companion by Attorney Porter, in which flagrant conflicting state ments were offered and absurd contentions were advanced, Judge Mynatt announced, “there’s noth ing to this charge,” and tossed the (continued on page 7) Armstrong Got Raw Deal By LESTER RODNEY Crusader News Agency OUT OF THE welter of accu zations of “fix” denials and gen eral bad taste following the sec ond Armstrong-Ambers fight one thing is dear and has to be said —Armstrong got a bad deal. When two little fighters like Armstrong and Ambers lock to gether for fifteen bruising rounds of what was almost toe to toe punching it’s impossible to clean ly and accurately score the round in favor of one or another. The completely contradictory score cards around the press box and even of the three judges proved that. Nevertheless there were very few who would have given Am-, bers the fight without the aid of j five rounds automatically award ed him by Referee Donovan for supposed Armstrong fouls. Don avan’s scorecard itself even with tho five round headstart for Am bers was only 7 and 7 in favor of Lou. So if it weren’t for the rounds taken away from him by the referee whose judgement in the matter also dictates the score of the two judges it’s clear that Armstrong would have won the fight and retained the lightweight title. What about those “fouls?” (cojjtinued on page 5) Railroad Union De mands Probe of Fatal Wreck San Francisco, Sept. 7 (CNA) —Was the wreck of the City of Francisco, streamlined train in which 24 persons, including eight dining-service employees, were killed, a result of the “retrench ment” policies of the railroad monopolists who reduced appro priations for personnel and main tenance of trackage and equip ment ? That question was raised this week as veteran train service employees charged that flagrant neglect of equipment may have been responsible for the fatal crackup and ridiculed Southern Pacific officials’ charges of sabo tage as “poppycock.” The charge was backed up of ficially in Chicago when AFL Joint Council <f Dining Car Em ployees asked the U. S. Depart ment of Justice to investigate the curtailment” of maintenance ex pense on railroad trackage as a probable cause of the wreck. “The lives of members of our organization were lost and some of them were jnaimed ton the recent wreck of the Southern Pa cific lines near Carlin and Elko, Nevada,” said the union letter ad dr e s s e d to Attorney-General Frank Murphy and signed by Secretary Treasurer Ishmael P. Flory. Referring to Southern Pacific’s charge of “sabotage,” Flory said: “The truth of this conclusion has r.oi been established to the satis faction of our organization, and Lo the bereaved members of the deceased and maimed.” Seven of the Negro employees killed in the wreck were members of the waiters union, and one a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Pn-n.rs. Six waiters also suffered grave injuries, and several of them may be crippled for life. PROVE RAPE CHARGE UNTRUE • * * 4 Former Omahan Dies Mr. John South, one of Oma ha oldest citizens died in Fre mont,! Thursday Sept. 7. When in Omahla, Mr. South and Mr. Tho mas 'were the proprietors o<f a Cafe located where the Roxy is now' being run. Mr. South and Mr. Thomam were the first Ne groes to run a business on N. 24th St. He was a cousin of Mr. Arlo South, who is now employ ed by the Treasury Department in the Douglas County Court house. Mr. Arlo South left for Fremont yesterday afternoon. ———0O0 200,000 Dismissals on WPA Planned Washington, Sept. 6 (Cy Chas. Alexander for CNA)— Works Projects Administration officials announced this week that plans have been completed for the dis missal of over 200,000 workers from the work-relief rolls by mid October. The dismissals are in addition to the thousands being fired under the eighteen months provision of the Woodrum Relief Bill. Workers on the rolls now number 2,000,000. a considerable reduction during the past few weeks. An extent of the rate of re duction was seen from the reports of major cities. Newr York City reported 36,00b laid off so far, with an additional 39,000 schedul ed for dismissal within the next ten dhys. It was revealed that the number on the rolls in that city was the lowest since 1933. Other lare’e cities show a similar trend. The dismissals in New York were reported hitting Negroes with unusual severity. Several hundred Negroes have already been fired under the 18-months ruling and a considerable num ber is still slated to go. * • The social usefulness of the WPA was dramatically demon strated by a partial report issued by Colonel Somervill, the New York City administrator. The re port stated that during the past year the New Deal work program has built 308 new Public buildings, repaired 633, made 190 miles of new highways, built scores of new playgrounds, and made many other public and municipal im |provements. Among the structures erected and improved are baby 40 Ne^voes Deported by Coast City Stockton Cal. Sept. 7 (CNA)— The Stockton Negro community was agitated this week over the forcible ‘deportation” of forty Negro agricultural workers from tho county. The workers were rounded up by the police and booked in the local jail on vagrancy charges. At a healing before Police Judge E. E. Breitenbucher political ma chine appointee they were found “quilty” of vagrancy sentenced to 180 days in the county jail. Sen tence was then suspended on con dition they leave the county and not return for two years. It was reported that policeman engaged in the roundup had said: ‘‘There’s too many niggers in town. We've got order- to drive you out before election.” Many of the workers driven from town had made Stockton their home for many years. Some at the time of their arrest were awaiting the arrival of a con tractor’s truck to take them to a ptach-picking job at Linden. Upon learning of the raid the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People nam ed a commitee to consult with the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America, CIO agricultural union, 0 ruefonsive measures to be tak 1 n. The two groups planned to take legal action to win a rever -rl of Judge Breitenbucher’s de cision. > Dallas, Sept. 7 (By Pritz Cans ler for ANP)—Here is one for tho statistician who complies the lynching figures for the year book! About 10 days ago near the small Texas hamlet, Terrell, 30 miles from Dallas, a white woman reported that she had been the victim of a criminal as sault, and she gave the police tho description of a Negro man as the perpetrator. For a whole day and n'^ht a “posso" of citi zen* searched for the assaulter until finally a man was fotind who seemed to answer the 'es tjt-ion, Pen \vueeler, a few l miles from the place the c me ks alleged . ti> have occured. The \h gut, hi 'vilv manacled, wa ■ nicd to I>a las’ lynch-proof Ml arid promptly indicted for llnitml assaul n capital offense i i® exas. X.h the speed with which such are handled in the South, un •hjjfhunge of venue the Ne gro, L. lb officer? ",d a half dozen Texas ranger sTifTST*~~Stl5a| police, left the Dallas jail at 3:30 a.m. last Monday for Kaufman in an adjoining county. Promptly over-ruling a defense motion to ouash the indictment on the claim of racial di crimination in the selection of the grand jury, and in face of the statement of several witnes •«, including Judg * i Joel R. Bond, chief justice of the I Texas court of appeals, who stat j ed that Negroes had never been summoned for grand jury service in Kaufman county, the trial was, underway and testimony taken. After a characteristically short trial in which the Negro’s lif" was at stake, the case was turned over to the jury, who deliberates! for five whole minutes, and re turned with the verdict “guilty as charged,’’ with the punishment, electrocution. Citizens commenting on the case are of the opinion that re gardless of the guilt or innocenc I of tho accused, that the preseence of spectators crowding the court room and the streets around the court house during the course of the trial, must have had their effects on the jury. Others have stated that five minutes is all too inadequate a time to consider th'i evidence. Ml Races Same; Skim, Celer aid Pigameat Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 7 (AN P)—A thorough, scientific study of human skin colors, now being conducted at Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology under direc- j tion of Dr. Edward A. Edwards of Harvard Medical School and Dr. S. Quimbly Duntley of MIT, has revealed some hitherto un known facts concerning pigment tation. Regarded as outstanding among their findings, declared the scien tists, is proof that all races have the same five color pigments and that variations in skin color are due to the proportions in which they are blended. Doctors Edwards and Huntley are using the newly developed recording spectrophometer i» studying variations in the five pigments which make up skin color. Their investigation, as re* ported in 'the current issue of the American Journal of Anatomy may lead jto quicker, more ac curate diagnoses of anemia and * reliable method of checking re sults of treatment. One of the pigments revealed by the investigation—and named melanoid by its discoverers—has heretofore remained a mystery. It is a diffuse form of the fami liar brown pigment, melanin, found in abundance in colored persons. health stations , court houses, schools, libraries, hospital, gar ages. warehouse and fire houses. In addition 106 miles of new water mains were improved, two new breakwaters were erected anl several piers were repaired. Announcement of the new fir ings was accompanied by reports of further wage cuts. Under the Woodrum Bill the national WPA administration is ordered to make the wage reductions at the same time increasing the number of hours of work. The United States Conference of Mayors under the leadership of Mayor I>aGuardia of New York i has protested the reduced wages. The Mayors pointed out that such reductions will have an adverse effect on the economy of the country and could not but in crease the burden of many muni cipalties. It was stated that the cities will be compelled to supple ment the relief wages of many workers with home relief. Plans to prevent the mass dis missals were being considered by several organizations including the Workers Alliance. Leaders of the Alliance announced that a delegation from that organization will see Colonel Harrington with in the next few days to insi*» that the rolls be kept intact and a deficiency appropriation be re quested when Congress ri venes. J ^ ^
