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JJUSTICE/EQUALITY[[^^^LLTHE;Ww^HlLEJH^^ i HEW TOTHtllNE) LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY Entered as Second-Class Matter at Fostoffice. Oma>na, Saturday, September 16, 1939 „ . Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. __________ Number 23 . - u. s. Officers AreTo Report Immed iately a _____ NASHVIL1 WOMAN KILLS UIICDAlin ATTENDS RITES nUdDAliU: DOES NOT CRY Nashville, Tenn—Mrs. Jessie Hailey, daughter of the late Rev. T. E. Dixon of this city and a loyal member of First Baptist Church, East Nashville, shot and killed her husband. Edgar Hailey, last Sunday afternoon at their home, 320 Berry street. Mrs. Hailey gave her age as 50 and the age of her late husband as 57. At the police station it is reported that Mrs. Hailey gave the following statement to of ficers: "He came home after doing some drinking, and 'went to the kitchen ami got a knife. He told me that he was going to kill me. I ran into the bedroom, and got the gun and shot him.” Attends Funeral; Does Not Cry •Surprising many of her friends here, Mrs. Hailey attended the funeral services of her late hus band. During the ceremonies over the remains of the late plumber, :n the packed funeral chapel of the Bert Oumby Funeral home. Mrs. Hailey, who three days pre viously shot and killed her hus band, sat on the front row with a cool, expressionless face and gave no indication that she re gretted the incident which rocked East Nashville. Following the gray plush casket to the waiting her.se before leav ing the funeral establishment, } crowds looked with amazement as the widow with her daughter and aister entered their waiting cars for his last journey, and the end of what was considered by many, an unhappy marriage. Bishop Wright Periled by Auto Accident in Wilds of Africa ■ ■■ Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia,_ Sept. 14 <ANP)— Bishop R. R. Wright, of the AME church as signed to the African diocese had a narrow escape from death last week when his auto ran over an embankment on a sharp curve just 14 miles south of Lusaka. Those in the bishop’s car at the time were his wife, Mrs. Wright; his son, R. R. Wright. 3. M. Mekone and the chauffeur, 3rd; Mrs. Luella G. Wright, Rev. Josia Khampane. As the big car caroned across the read the rear wheels tilted downward at a peri lous angle. Trapped, the bishop and party remained . helpless for several hours until a gang of road work ers nearby discovered their plight and came to the rescue. The work ers lifted the car bodily back onto the road. Passing motorists car ried work to Lusaka and a wreck ing crew was sent after the car. Leaving his son and chauffeur (to look after the damaged auto, the bishop and other members of his party proceeded by train to Choma to complete visits to sev eral mission points. None of the party was injured. 'rai' yfcu.i -j- f- t >-; * Officers Community Chest, Women’s Division Mrs. Bernard Wickham, chair man of the Women’s Division for the 1939-40 Omaha Community Chest Campaign has named as her assistants on an Advisory Board the following: Mrs. Howard Rush ton, Mrs. W. Dale Clark, Mrs. Charles W. Hamilton, Jr., Mrs. C. Louis Meyer, Mrs. T. L Davis, Mrs. J. P. McDermott, Mrs. J. A. Kulakotfsky. and Mrs. Earl C. Sage. Divisional heads named are: Initial Gifts, Mrs. C. Louis Meyer; Publicity, Mrs. Frank E. Dusk; Clubs and Churches, Mrs. Clyde W. Drew; Maps, Mrs. F. Francis McDermott; Motor Corp.. Mrs. Samuel L. Oooper; Colleges and Universities , Mrs. Donald W. Lyle; Parochial schools, Mrs. Deiss E. Muffitt; Division A, Mrs. E. B. Raymond; Division B, Mrs. Mildred Tfayjpr Hynes; Division C Mrs. lone C. Hanger; Division P. Mrs. H. Malcomm Baldrige; Divi sion G. Mrs. Helen Adkins Scott, Division J. Mrs. Roy Page; Divi sion K. .iMrs. Richard L. Baker; Division L. Mrs. J. Hewitt Judd; DivNion M. Mrs. Lorenzo Donari co; Division N, Mrs. Jack Abaji an and Division O, Mrs. Elmer O. Andfiron. Mrs. Wickham in announcing the appointments said that meet ings of her 1300 workers were being scheduled during the last week :r. October at various agency cent* rs where the worker would have an opportunity to view the work of the agencies. Alvin E. Johnson is general chairman of the campaign for Omaha’s 29 service and character building agencies which will be held October 30 to November 10. ■" - ir YOUTH, 19, INJURED BY TRAIN. AMPUTATES OWN FOOT WITH KNIFE Lorain, Ohio. (CNA)—Atten dants at St. Joseph’s Hospital re ported this week that William Capps, plucky, 19-year-old youth of Somerset, Ky., who amputated his own foot after it was chrush ed in a fall from a train was in “good” condition. After cutting off the foot at the ankle with a pocketknife, young Capps fashioned a tourni quet from his clothing and made a pair of crude crutches from limb of a nearby tree. Then he hobbled nearly a mile along the railroad tracks to Vermillion, 0., whence he was brought here in an ambulance. “I just used my head,” Capps said in describing how he ampu tated his foot, mangled when he fell under a freight train at Ver million, 12 miles West of here. Dr. William E. Wheatley, white who attended Capps, praised the lad's pluck. “He is one plucky boy, and he - did what few people would have risked doing,' Dr. Wheatley said. “He did a fair job of amputation although, of course, he risked ser ious danger of infection from his knife. He’ll pull through all right. ] Hospital nurses said Capps was the "best. natured patient we ever had.” -—0O0 Robber Who Got 20 cents Executed Raleigh, N. C. Sept. 14 (ANP) —Arthur Morris, 20, known as “the grey mouse,” was asphyxiat ed at Central prison Friday for a robbery that netted him 20 cents | and a check he could not cash. ! Efforts were made to commute his sentence, but Gov. Hoey refused, saying Morris was suspected of 50 other burglaries. Smiling as he entered the gas chamber, Mor ris shook hands with the execu tioner, R. A. Bridges, waved to witnesses and calmly sat down in the chair. He was pronounced dead 15 minutes after the lethal gas was administered. -oOo Urge Negro Troops As President’s Guard Washington, Sept. 14 (ANP)— Urging the use of colored troops as a guard for the president, a resolution was framed and adopt ed Sunday by the members of the United Government Employes >...... Father Devine Has $15,000,000 Land Fund The Weather Weather out for the period Sept 1i to Set rt. 1C. L%pei < Miss, and lower Mo. valleys and Northern & Central Great plains, not much precipitation indicated during wk; normal temperatures For most part, but below normal beginning of week. when they met at Shiloh Baptist church. The famous 9th and 10th cavalry should be assigned to the White House, the resolution said. At the same time, equal oppor tunity for colored men in the army, navy and air corps was urged. -0O0 Kansas Masonics Close 64th Annua] Conference Wichita, Kan., Sept. IB, (ANP)— The re-election here -last week of Dr. J. G. N. Soanes, for the 16th consecutive term as grand master of the Prince Hall Grand lodge, climaxed the most successful an nual session the Masonics have held in 10 years. Both Gov. Payne H. Ratner and Atty. Gen. J. S. Parker sent the organization greetings. Others elected during the session were A. J. Payne, Topeka, grand emminent commander of the Knight Temp lar; P. G. Porter, Atchison, deputy grand master; G. E. Watson, Ft. Scott, senior grand warden; A. J. Payne, Topeka, junior grand warden; Neil Pierce, Pittsburgh, grand treasurer; A. F. Wilson, Kansas City, grand secretary; B. C. Ester, Salina, grand custodian; Thomas McCaleb, Lawrence, grand lecturer; William Towers, Kansas City, grand attorney, and V. T. Watts, Hutchinson, grand orator. -oOo— Wages and Hours Board Seeks Colored Inspectors The Wages and Hours Board of which Elmer F. Andrews is the administrator is anxious to appoint a colored person to its staff of inspectors* spokesman for the board said this week. The inspectors will be appoint ed from an eligible list of those who successfully passed a civil service examination given for this purpose July 17th he said. t -—— DIVINE TO NEWPORT ► . . m Providence, R. I. ^-Father Divine and his staff will come to Newport to take over The Castle, which was offered to him by Mrs. Angela C. Kauf man, it as learned today. Divine said he would “respect the Con stitution and the zoning laws" in using the estate on Green ough Place “for the purpose for which I decide it is available." New York—John Lamb, white secretary to Father Divine, said yester (Wednesday) that Divine has a $15,000,000 found to buy land “under certain circumstanc es." He explained these “certain cir cumstances” by saying it would depend on a modification of tax laws to exempt property improve ments for the next five years. Secretary Lamb further said Divijie conferred several weeks ago with Robert W. Goelet, so cially prominent descendant of early Dutch settlers of New Am sterdam regarding the acquisition of Mr. Goelet’s 2,500-acre estate in the Hudson highlands back of Newburgh, N. Y. This would be the biggest single piece af property yet offered the famous Harlem messiah. “Father has had so many fine offers here late, he simply hasn’t had chance to attend to all the matters,” the secretary said. “There have been many other of fers which will be considered with in the next to weeks, but the prospective donors have requested their names be withheld.” He said Divine would meet this week with Mrs. Angela Kaufman “to arrange a date for signing pa pers” whereby the cult would gain posse-ison of the Castle, a stone mansion in Newport, R. I., form erly owned by the late U. S. Am bassador Richard Washburn Child. -—oOo-- < WPA LAY-OFFS HALTS CHI. SYPHILIS FIGHT Chicago, Sept. 14 (CNA)—Chi cago’s two-year offensive against syphillis went into retreat this week as members of the Chicago Syphilis Control Project were fir ed under the provisions of the Woodrum Act, which call for the firing of all workers over 18 months on WPA. Divided on question of Negro l)i vicion but all Oppose Use as Labor Battalions; Some de mand Strict American Neutral;.) Chicago, Sept. 14 (ANP) — If the new European war continues for any appreciable length of time the United States will eventually 1*> drawn into it, h the majority opinion of Negro leaders in a sym posium conducted by the Associat ed Negro Press. As to the advisability of a se I parate Negro division and what j benefits would accure to the race ! as a result of this conflict, these j leaders are divided. Only in the belief that Negroes should fight gny attempt to segragate them into labor battalions is there un animity of opinion. Declaring his detest for the methods and actions of Hitler and stating the sympathies of the American people and particularly j Negrool must “almost naturally be on the awN of the democn cies," Dr. Rufus E, Clement, president of Atlanta university, says: “If the European conflict lasts over a year, it is almost certain we shall be drawn into it. Should this come, I believe Negroes should be included in all of the armed forces of our nation, serv ing in every branch. I should pre fer to see Negroes completely in tegrated rather than formed into special divisions or units. But this “If the nation goes to war, we is not a major question, must fight as we have always done, and we must expect, with the victory, a larger measure of freedom and democracy for all of the peoples of the country.” Because “what affects Europe will ultimately affect America” and “the world is scientifically one today,” AME Bishop David Henry Sims, Philadelphia, foresees America’s entry in hostilities con tinue long enough. “Negroes who enlist will have a greater opportunity than before for the reason that this war will bring a fuller consciousness of the Negro’s worth and service,” says the noted prelate. “I hate war, but‘ since it must be, the Negro will share whatever good there is com ing out of it.” Saying that if colored soldiers were to be used exclusively as service regiments or stevedores, it should be fought to the fullest by all leaders and churches of both races, Bishop Sims added, "I favor opportunity for Negroes in the army equal to any other group, namely, on the basis of merit. I am opposed to compulsory segra gation. The best service could be secured from Negroes in Negro unts, but let them enlist also in whatever units they fit and de sire.’ A nationally known business leader, C. 0. Spaulding, president of the N. C. Mutual Life Iusur ance Co., also forsees America’s entry if the war continues for an indefinite period, and declares, “in this event, the American Negro in all possibility will share the com mon lot of all Amercans. "I feel the Negro should be accorded the status of an Ameri can citizen in every respect with out discrimination,” Mr. Spauld ing adds. "As an American he'** expected to measure up to recog nized standards of citizenship. H the role of a soldier, he should he accorded the same consideration ind treatment as other American groups." Another college president, I>* Joseph J. Rhoads of Bishop col lege. Marshall, Tex. favors a lea gue of nations unarmed for war with an adequate police force lo prevent big nations from molest ing small ones, thus preventing wars similar to the new one m Europe. Because of mutual interests, Im proved methods of transportati n and national sympathies for tti» democracies, “America’s policy of isolation i< untenable” an I "under the cirmu«.tances Americas involvement seems inevitable,” opines I)r. Rhoads, pointing out that this naton ‘‘faces the al ternative of joining England an I France in putting an end to the present militaiy crusade for Euro pean domination, or of preparing to fight a greatly strengthen*'! Germany single-handed later, in the event that nation is victor ious." Negro soldiers should get ttu* best possible training and be as signed rank and responsibility on “exactly the same basis as othe*. racial elements in our population" for “there is enough potential de mocracy in America to sustain that principle of action, if tha president and secretary of war could bo induced to adopt it ia preparation for an impending? crisis,” the Bishop president says. Jess« 0. Thomas .national ur ban league official now in Newr York, thinks there is a possibility that the war, i/ ii continues may engulf all the civilised nations thinks the race will beneffa through jobs necessitated by in creased farm and factory produc tion whether the U. S. is involve* in fighting or remains neutral* Although it would be better forj the race and the nation if Ne groes were included in the army on equal footing, Mr. Thomas be lieves that if this rule is not fol lowed, he should have training in* separate military units for his. own protection if he is to copq with highly trained soldiers o< other nations. He is also opposed to limitation to service regiments, and considers it debatable how far the permanent social status o| the race would be changed by war. “We should keep in mind that, even though the economic position* of oppressed people may be al tered by a war, that unless wan is waged against their oppressors* very little permanent change may occur in their social status,” Mr. Thomas declares adding, however the Negro is nevertheless as American citizen and during wqg should meet his country’s c»l) with “patriotism and enthusiasm** Dr. Waldo Howard of Houston president of the National Dentajf association, asserts, “Providing our neutrality act will be broad ened to permit cash and cax*^ policy, I can’t see any direct oif indirect benefit for our group es pecially on the economic si** However, our position might bc^ strengthened politically.” He against exclusive service as wfcr'q regiments and favors a Negr^| army division. While President W. L. Wwgntf of Lincoln university, Pa., *,ces| no advantages for "Negroes or anyeno else,” he Jielieves the W A. will “jirobably be drawn ifi if the war continues over a long po-» iod.” ? He is opposed to formation • tj a Negro division, saying, "the, nearer we can come to the treat ment of the Negro as an Abwm can, the better off we all shall l-ft* One leader who has refused *ot comment is Dr. Emmett J. 6«"ot.U former assistant to the secrete A j of war and now identified whh| the National Republic an ft ra“ mittee. 4 Amputates Own Foot With Knife
