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% \ /JUSTICE/EQUALITY I HEW TO THtUNE\ _LARGEST ACTREOTTEO NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY___ Entered as Seeond-Class Matter at Postoffice. Omana, Saturday, Septembrr 30, 1939 —Number 25 Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. * _ Adams Leads In Race For AME. Bishopric FOUR GOVERNORS CONFER ON NEGRO UNEMPLOYMENT __ * — City Edition 10c V ~ per Copy Weather outlook for the Period September 25 to September 30. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys and Northern and Central Great Plains, not tures normal or above for most precipitation indicated; tempera part. - WHITES EXPLOIT ‘HEAVEN’ TO JACK UP LAND VALUES AT SATAN’S TOE While Plains, N. Y., Sept. 28— tCNA)—Recent reports that Fa ther Divine, cut leader was about to establish a "heaven” on Edge water Pofwt, a ritzy ""V-hite res: dential area facing Long Island Sound at Maman leek, were part of a plot by w.iich David Wark Griffith, producer of the anti-Ne gro film “Birth of a Nation,” for mer Representative Woodson R. Oglesby and other whites attem ted to force residents of the Point to purchase property at an exor bitant price, according to charges filed here this week in Supreme Court . ' Earlier in the year Father Di vine had opened “heavens” ir\ New Rochelle and Yonkers and the re port that he was negotiating for land in the Satan’s toe area o* Edge water Point caused' rich Re publican neighbors to lay off their pet New Deal hate for a while to concetrate on the Divine ‘menace’. The papers Died thi week dis closed that Neal R. Andrews, head of Salan’s Toe, Inc., a real estate concern, is 'suing Griffith, Oglesby and seven others for re cther defendants in a land deal. Andrews charged that in 1»33 Cirffitih owned thirty-two acres on the Point, where he made several pictures, and that Oglesby and ot hers acquired an interest in the property. Griffith and Oglesby then, acording to the charges, fodced Andrews and Residents of the Point inito buying more land “by threatening to sell otherwise to undesirable people, to colored people.” In 1937 Andrews, because of the alleged threat, purchased what he thought was all of the Griffith land, but last Spring Griffith and Oglesby tried to sell him a plot they had retainer, he charged. Un successful, they then had a dum my-titleholder sell to a woman l.ving in Harlem, suing a Negro lawyer and * Negro real estate dealer in the transacion, according to thet complaint. The Harlem woman paid nothing for the land, it was said. NINE WHITE MOBBISTS PLEAD GUILTY IN NEW JERSEY ATTACK CASE UP FOR SENTENCE^ New Brunswick, N. J.—Sept. 27 —Nine members of the mob of white hoodlums who brutally at tacked seven Negro potato pick ers, including a woman, August 11, on the farm of Raymond Dey, white landowner near Cranbury, N. J. pleaded guilty this morning jin Middlesex County Courthouse to charges of assault and bat tery. The mobbists, all of whom were men, was sentenced here by the Court Friday, September 22 at 10 a.m. A tenth member of the mob, who have escaped capture to date. They are sad to have fled the vatu “ By pleading guilty and throw ing themselves on the mercy of the Court the members of the mob fore-tailed possible indictments at the hands of the Middlesex grand jury and a trial. Their appearance here before the Court followed a series of the State police of New Jersey that appeared questionable to of ficials of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People, until they were ex plained. The first action on the part of the police involved the Negro po tato pickers. When Dr. David An thony, president of the New Jer sey state conference of NAAGP branches, arrived at the Dey farm in Cranbury to arrange transpor ttion of the migratory workers to Newark, N. J. where they were to be lodged in a hotel until the trial, at the expense of the As sociation, he was told by one of the four remaining potato pick ers (who had not been assaulted by the molb) that the seven work ers ha dbeen wisked away Thurs c»y afternoon by police to be held as material witnesses in the case, as soon as the workers were paid off. ur. Anuiony went immediately to Newark, where he met E. Fred eric Morrow, of the Association’s staff, who come prepared to pay for the boadd and lodging of the workers. The two went to New York, where an investigation got under way immediately. A phone call to Col. Mark 0. Kimberling, bead of the New Jer-| sey State Police, at his office in Trenton elicited the information that he knew nothing about the arrest of the workers. Kimberling stated he would investigate at once. Shortly thereafter the NAACP received a phone call from Captain Lamb, second in command of the state police forces?, who told the NAACP that . :l«e seven workers had been taken co Middlesex jail in New Bruns wick, where they were being de tained in a detection ljoom as material witnesses. Calling Assistant State Prose cutor White at New Brunswick, the NAACP learned that the nine mobbists had pleaded guilty and thrown themselves on the mercy of the court. Because this pre cluded a trial and the necessity or material witnesses, he advised the NAACP that the •vt rkers >”<>id.i be turned over to the Associa i m today. Dr*. Anthony and E. Frederic Morrow, coordinator of NAACP branches, left immediately for New Brunswick where they were to meet Frank H. Wimberly of Trenton, N. J., who has been re tainer! by the NAACP temporari ly and arranged to take the group of seven to Newark. At a State Conference held Sat urday afternoon, September 16, at Far Hills, N. J. by the NAACP the question of action against the mcbbists for damanges was taken up. Association officials said the low bail for the mobfbists and the possibility that they would get short sentences would play a big part in taking further action on behalf of the potato pickers. -0O0-— GOAL OF CITY’S COMMUNITY CHEST SET AT $553,417.00 The goal for the 1939-40 Com munity Chest campaign will be $553,417, an increase of $33,404 over the amount raised last year. This was decided last Friday fol lowing a meeting of the Foard of Governors of the Chest with the Budget Committee. The addition of two new agen cies and one new service, togeth er wit hthe increased cost of food stuffs, clothing and other things given to the needy by chest agen ces, and the increase in demands for services of the agencies make up the reasons for the nicrease according to William L. Holzman vice-president of the Chest. The cw agencies added are the Ne braska Council fo*1 Clime Preven tion, and the Minerva Home. The new service is a medical worker whose activities will be carried on in connection with the Creight on iUnversity Dispensary. According to Casper Y. Offutt, chairman o fthe budget committee the new agencies added carry on progiams that do not conflict in any way and do not cover the same ground as any other participating agency in the chest. Alvin E .Johnson, chairman of the campaign organization which will raise the funds, said in com menting on the amount set, “The money needed for next year is the responsibility of every citizen in Omaha. To attain the goal of $5663,417 it will be necessary be cause of deaths, unemployment, and removals from the city of some subscribers, for this years donors to increase contributions approximately 20 percent over the amount.} donated last year. This means sacrificial giving to meet the needs of the chest. We must not fall short. ” -0O0 STATEMENT SENT TO EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS Th eNAACP will keep a dose watch o nlegislation during the present special session of Con gress, officials of the organiza tion said, in order that the feder al anti-lynching bill shall not be inanuevered out of its present position at the hcau of the House calendar . The special session has been re quested by llhe President to de vote itself to proposed changes in the Neutrality Aict bnljy. The House voted on Thursday, Sept ember 21, to maik time and take .hree-day adjournments until the Senate acted. If leadeils of both Hooses of Congress do not succeed in limiting legislation to Neutral ity legislation, then the associa tion will go into action immedi ately to 'bring up the Anti-lynch ing bill. POLANDS’S WAR IS EVERY NEGRO’S FIGHT By William L. Patterson Associate Editor, CNA “IF YOU can keep your head when all about you men are tell ing lies-you’ll be a man, my son.” onfusion is rife. It is being broadcast consciously. Lies are being manufactured by the min-1 ute in the editorial offices of the “big” Dailies. Their foreign “ex perts” are finding all kinds of Quotations from this or that un named dplomat or authority on Europe. All condemn the Soviet Union for protecting the lives of its own people after its preferred protection for Poland was brazen ly rejected by Chamberlain and his Polish puppets. Of course, some of these lies go ove.*. I listened to several persons tal king the war over. “It’s a white naa’s war, let them keep it up,” one said. But this theory dies, and it dies in the pooketbook wihen you stop to realize that out of the killing in Europe, American Wall Street ers are making milions by raising prices of the foods we eat. Was the war of 1776 a white man’s war? The Haitians did not < OTHER STATE CONFERENCES — Washington, D. C. Sept. 28 (C) —Continuing an attack on Negro unemployment on a broad-Nation wide front, Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley, Supervisor of the Ne gro Placement Service in the Bu- ; reau of E nployment Security, an-: nounced Satuiday the plain* for a New England Regional Confer ence on Negro employment prob lems. The four Governors of the New England States— Massachu setts, Rhode Islan, Connecticut, New Hampshire, are officially sponsoring the Conference. Be sides outHtandiing individuals in the fields of industry, labor, and civic leaders on the promising program at Boston on the 30th of this month. It is significant that the Boston meeting marks the 1st time in the history of that section that there has been indicated a feeling of need for special study and emphasis in providing equi table job opjK)ii|unities for the Negro in New England. Other State-wide Conferences, are being developed under the direction of Lieut. Oxley in Onio, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, New York, Ar kansas, Virginia, West Virginia. Indiana, Mi.-souri, South arolina, Tennessee and California. These State-wide Conference on employ ment problems of the Negro work er are not ‘•fault-finding” Con ferences but have for their pur pose the focusing of attention on the problem of the Negro worker in his search for adequate, pro ductive and continuing employ ment. think so. Eight hundred black men from Haiti fought with Lafay ette on these shores. They saw in our independence an aid to Eman cipation. There are no white men or black men’s wars. Let us rec ognizo that. Let us see that our place is a gainst imperialism and imperial ists. This war will touch upon the future of the colonial peoples sooner or later. Are we not con cerned with this question Wlbat is so easily recognizable if we will only think is that those in America who hate and perse cute Negroes are the friends of the facsists. In fact, the promo ters of the Klan and the many kinds of gangster legions, include ing some of the jim-crow advo cates in the American Legion are borrowing from the Nazis’ racial theories. The friends of fascism are the enemies of Roosevelt and the New Deal policies. iNo, this is not a white man s war. The Polish pdople must have all posible support from the Negro people. They have common enomies in the Hitlers and Cham berlains and Daladiers. Against fascism everywhere at home and abroad is our cry. Full moral and economic aid to the Pol ish people and those who help Po land defend its national indepen PRICES AND THE WAR One immediate result of the 1 outbreak of war in Europe has been a sharp and sudden rise in |the wholesale prices of many basic commodities. After current stocks in b'.ie hands of retailers arc exhausted, the increased cost must be felt by the consumer. It is the government’s h«pe to prevent price-profiteering. But, as any economist can tell you, prices must inevitably rise sub stantially in many fttelde, even though profiteering is eliminat ed. This is perfectly natural, on the basic of supply and donand. Nations at war present an almost insatiable appetite for a long list of commodities—grains, dairy products, metals, etc. When con sumption takes a great and im mediate jump, the sources of sup ply are strained and price rises follow. The current situation makes it all the more important to prevent artificial and avoidable increases in prices, both wholesale and re tail. As a specific case in point, those various existing “anti-con sumer” laws which encourage price fixing, discourage honest competition, and attempt to ham per the efficient distributor in eider to aid the inefficient, may bo cited. To an extent never be fore true, laws of this character menact the millions of hard p-eas ed American families, to whom making both ends meet is a dif ficult problem. In other words, let real, un hampered competition do all it can to hold prices to fair and natural levels, for the benefit of the consumer. donee and who still will aid Ethi opia. We are concerned with securing a democratic p<yice because we know the fight for social security at (home will be aided by it. Where the people stand to win, we stand to win, for we too are the peo ple. -uwu YOUTHS THRONG TO COL LEGE Some idea of the eager rush to college which is taking place this year can be gained from the figures at Bishop college, the wel! known Baptist institution located a Marshall, Texas. Above are pictured 100 freshmen who regis ered the first day. 442 students had enrolled by the end of the first week, 238 of these being freshmen, the largest number since the institution has been un der the guidance of its first Ne gro president, Dr. Joseph J. Rho ads. (ANP) --oOo NORTH CAROLINA DOCTOR LEADS FULL LIFE Henderson, H. C., Sept. 28 (Bv Calvin Service)—One of the most prominent physicians in * this State who h®s gained consider able recognition as the result of hard work in his chosen field is Dr. S. M. Beckford. Dr. Beckford, a nativo of Jamaica, B. W. I., lias been practicing in this thriving North Carolina City for many jears. He is President of the Old North State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Society. A grad uate of Howard and Boston Uni versities, Dr. Beckford is also on the Staff of the Jubilee Hospital More Than 40 Candidates in Race For Exalted Office ? i. (Note- This is the result of a re cent survey made by a representa tive of Calvin's Service who has just returned from a tour of twto ty-five States.) , New York, Sept. 28, (By f'a4» vin Service)—Of the more than 40 candidates seeking high honors at the forthcoming conference of the A. M. E. Church which will ’akc place in Detroit, Michigan, next year, oniy 12 are being prom inently mentioned for the Bishop ric. Among those whom the lay people all over the country are particularly inteietted include the distinguished Rev. E. A. Adams of Columbia, South Carolina. The Rev. Dr. Adams is raid to be the people’s choice due largely to his broad educational background. Dr. Adams, a Presiding Elder, has been in the ministry far more than 28 years, and is widely rec ognized for his business acumen duo largely to the efficient manner ir. which he has maintained the of fice of President of the Victory Savings Bank of Columbia, whic» is unquestionaolv one of the few substantial Negio banks in this country. Rev. Adams has gained the wholehearted support of re ligionists and others everywhere and his success is based on ability as a Christian leader with genuine ideals. Always ac.ive in civic af fairs, bhe Rev. Dr. Adams who is a Trustee of Allen University and r. member of the Financial Board of the . M. E. Church, i» cer tainly the most widely discussed candidate in the race. Next in line, according to the survey made, is the Rev. Joseph Gomez of Cleveland, Ohio, and followed by Rev. H. M. Collins of Los Angeles, California, Rev. C. A. Stewart, Portsmouth, Va., Rev. D. Ward Niobols, New York, N. Y., Rev. F. M. Reid, St. Louis, Mo., Rev. A. D. Avery, Greensboro, N. C., Rev. S J5. Mofris, Nashvilile, Tenn., Rev. Wayman Ward, Chicago, 111., Rev. A. J. Allen, Cleveland, Ohio, Rev. George Baber, Detroit, Mich., R ev.J. S. Johson, Pensacola, Flor iiiu, and Re.v. J. Jf. Clayboru, Lit* (!-• Rook, Arkansas here and occasionally finds time to preach the gospel. -oOo A. P. SPEARS, NEXT SECRETARY-TREASURER OF A. C. E. LEAGUE Sumter, S. CAR Sept. 28 (Cal vin Service)—Considered by per ?o".b in African Methodism to be the most logical candidate, who ought to be elected to the posito.l of Secreiary-Treasurer of the Al ien Christian Endeavor League, the Reverend A. P. Spears, bril liant South Carolinian will take his rightful place in the 1940 elec tion to be held in Detroit. The Reverend Dr. Spears has had wide experience based on an educational bbckjground obtained in the New England States. This distinguished Christian gentleman who has been in the Ministry for 20 years, has had conspicuous success. For the past 12 years he has served his denomination in the capacity of Presiding Elder. At present Re presides over the Mar ion District in the “Iodine State” and he is unquestionably the young people’s man. Rev. Spears has been a leader of the North east Conference and is very active in community affairs in his home city. In addition to his religious work, this energetic idealist finds time to efficiently manage an Undertaking concern, which is worthy of mention. He has a keen ren.se as a business man and as a man of integrity and character, he believes in honesty. Dr. Spear* leceived special training Cor young people’s work. For many >ears he headed the young poo pie’s department of the Church Cor the State of South Carolina. The fact that for two quadrenians he received, next to Rev. Morris, th« largest number of votes, is in it self an indication of the people's choice for the office which be rightfully seeks. * l < • OMAHA ^>U Guide’s SIlOW Turkey AfDay Given Away Oct 21 to 28 Ind.