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_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
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— City Edition
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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.
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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.
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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. ”
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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
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OTHER STATE CONFERENCES
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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