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x-vc: \ /- / IDE /JUSTICE/EQUALITY ) HEW TO THttlNE\ _LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY____ Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Saturday, October 28, 1939 Number 20— Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. --------- - ii ifiin niciniE GIVE TO THE COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 10 NAVY DAY—OCTOBER 27TH ; PROCLAMATION CITY OF OMAHA Executive Office For more than one hundred and fifty years, the American Navy has played an important part in the progress of this country. In peace and in wat‘, the Navy has k been and is the pride of America. Ever since October 1775, when it was founded the Navy has been our first line of defense. In view of the present world conditions, it is important that the American people become better acquainted with the history of our Navy and the part it has taken and is tak ing in ouii National Life. Every year for the last seven teen years, we have celebrated October 27th as NAVY DAY, as the one day in the year set apart to honor our Naval Forces. This year it is more important than ever that this day be ob served in such a manner as will enable a better knowledge of the aims, accomplishments and func tion of the Navy. Therefore I as the Mayor of Omaha urge a general observance of Navy Day I. suggest that the American flag be displayed and that such educational and patrio tic exercises be held \'-s shaP do honor to our Navy. Respectfully, PAN B. BUTLER, Mayor Omaha, Nebraska, October 19, 1939 -0O0 JAPAN ADMITS CHINESE VICTORY Shanghia, Oct. 26 (CNA)—The Japanese military spokesman! here this week admitted Chinese claims that the Tokio offensive against Changsha, capital of Hunan province, has been shat tered by the Chinese Army. The spokesman declared that the Ja panese had withdrawn into “per il manent positions.” " Chinese sources described the Japenese defeat as the greatest Tokio has suffered in two years of war. Japanese losses were placed at 30,000, killed, an even higher casualty figure than of the Tairhchwang battle on the Lung hai railway front where Chinese last spring administered a major defeat to the invaders. It was also reported from Hankow that 64 Japanese planes had been destroyed or disabled in a Chinese air raid on the Hankow airport. _-nDn STATE AND COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDS FIGHT EACH OTHER OVER EQUAL SALARY ISSUE Baltimore Md. Oct. 25 —When ^ Walter Mills’ case against the Anne Arundel County Maryland board of education comes up for hearing in the United States Dis trict Court here Thursday, Octo ber 26 it will reveal a fight be tween the State and county boards- of education in their ef fort to get out of a bad situation. This is the second time that Mills, a schoolteacher at Camp Parole, Maryland has had his case brought before the Maryland Courts in an effort to force the board of education to pay him a salary equal to that of, a white teacher doing similar work. Last March, when attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought his case before Judge Chesnut, against the «tate board of education the Court ruled that * the fight should have been wag ed against the county board of education The NAACP attorneys have, Gottlieb Storz, Omaha Brewer, Dies at 87 Known ior His Many Charities Gottlieb Storz, president of Storz Brewing Co., died hI his, home in Omaha Tuesday morning at the age of 8 7. Mr. Storz' death came suddenly. He had beea in ex cellent health and had been spend ing eiyh day at Ws office, where he was active in tne management 'of every branch of the business. Mr. Storz was known through out the mid-west, not only through .bis business activities, but also as a booster of all mid-west agricul ture and industry. He was one of the business pioneers himself, hav ing come to Omaha in 1876 to start his own brewery. Mr. Storz was born in Ben ningen-am-Neckar, Germany, Jan uary 21, 1852. He was the third youngest of a family of 10 chil dren. At the age of 14, after the death of his parents, Mr. Storz en tered the brewing trade. In 1872 he came to America. After two years in New York and two years in St. Louis he came to Omaha. His brewery there has been in continuous operation ever since. His business was his greatest pleasure and he refused to retire; At 87 be was keen and alert, Spending each day at his office* His employees remember him for bis many gifts and kindly treat ment. Many mid-west charitable insti tutions will mourn the passing of Mr. Storz. In his quiet way he pad been their financial benefactor for many years. A man of great kindness and great heart, ha was said to have never turned any needy person away without help. [ The Storz brewing business will be continued by three sons: Adolph, Arthur and Robert Storz, who have been associated in the paanagement of the business for a number of years. therefore revised their case, and made the county board of educa tion defendant in the present, case. Now the County Board of Education answers that the State Board shoul(j be properly brought in as a defendant, too, or else “great confusion and embarrass ment would result in the adminis tration of the affairs of the public school system of Anne Arundel County.” The County Commissioners in doing this, may have taken ad vantage of what is known as a third party complaint, a legal technicality. The hearing on Oct ober 26 will be on a motion to dismiss the answer given by the County Commissioners. Mills is being represented by Thurgood Marshall, special coun sel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; William H. Hastie, and W. A. C. Hughes, Jr. SUES FOR DIVORCE - Mr. Fred McDaniels, 2620 Bristol St. is sueing his wife, Mrs. Ootrrine, for divorce, charging cruelty. Mr. and Mrs. McDaniels have been married for several years. -uuu-■ A SHARI* CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH (Special to the Omaha Guide) —A sharp challenge to Church and Society is contained in a new book by Dr. Davi^ Nathniel Lic orish, Negro leader. The book en titled ‘ Adventures for Today,” will be published October 16 by Fortuny's, Publishers, 67 West 44th Street, New York. Dr. Licorish who is Director of publicity for the National Negro Achievement Commission of th? New York World’s Fair, calls upon the Church and State to recognize the changing order of world affairs and to fall in line with the new order. “The Church must contend for social justice and racial equality” the author writes. “No church can hope to survive any longer in human affairs unless it tears away from its doorsteps, pews, altar and pulpit, the partitions of discrimination. “Barriers of sectarianism and racialism have caiused much in justice to the masses of people. Small wonder that millions have turned away from the Church. Tho Church must welcome the changing order benefit by the new contributions of science, and live in the world of events.” The book is divided into two parts—“Adventures for Religious Education” and ‘ Adventures for Social Relations.” Among the subjects discussed are the relation of Churieh and capitalism, world peaae and srience, natural re sources and labor. Negro race relations and the lynch problem, and a sound program of Christian relations. “Adventures for Today” is de dicated to the Rev. Adber W. Brown, pastor of the Metropoli tan Baptis Chjurch of New York. Dr .Licorish is well known in Ne gro church and social circles, .and ha3 been a frequent contributor to Negro journals. His book is being hailed as a definite con tribution to current thought. -aDo-• SUPREME LIBERTY LIFE ' INSURANCE HAS MORE AS SETS ON LIABILITIES THAN LARGEST WHITE FIRMS Chicago, 111. Oct. 26 (Calvin Service)—According to an inde pendent seport compiled by the Standard Analytical Service, the Suppreme Liberty Life Insurance Company of Chicago has more asserts for each $100 of liabili ties than any of the 17 largest white insurance companies in the United States. Included in this list is the great Metropolitan,j Life Insurance Company of New | York with assets of $106.77 for each $100 of liabilities. Supreme, Liberty has ,.sserts of $120.49 for each $100 of liabilities. Officials of the company in commenting on the report said that the present economic status of the company was a result of many yijars of careful and diver sified investments. The company has a portfolio of over $650,000 in Railroad, Public Utility and United States Government Bonds. In one day, Sept. 14th, of this year, the company purchased $67 ,095.76 worth of bonds, through Adams and Co. Chicago Brokers. Supreme Liberty Life has now over 150,000 persons insurer! for over $4’,000,000. Consumer Protection Urged by President Washington, Oct. 26 (ONA)— President Roosevelt’s determina tion to shield the American peo ptt from price gouging by the big trusts was further emphasized this week when the Chief Execu tive in a letter to the National Association of Food Chains urged that consumers be protected against the unvtasonable high prices of commodities. The president’s message was an answer to a letter from John A. lx)gan of Washington, president of the Association, in which Ix> gan pledged support of his organ ization in combatting the effect of the European war upun the prices of domestic foodstuffs. In his message the President clearly indicated those responsible for the mounting prices. He de clared: “Consumers of food must be protected against runaway prices caused not by increases at the farm but by increases in margins between the farmer and the kitchen table.” He added that re.nil grocery trade, together with representatives of process ing and distributing oiganizations can lie effective instruments in aiding consumers’ endeavors a gainsi rising prices. Progressive Jwces meeui white continued to press the adminis tration for more decisivt actions against the war profiteers. Rep resentatives of these groups as sorted that the present monopoly investigation should be '•romptly utilized as a basic for now legis lation to curb mounting prices. They ase also demanding imme diate passage of stringent laws to prevent excess profits. Chicago Baptist Pastor Wires Pres. Roosevelt in War Emergency Chicago, 111. (Calvin Service)— A strong telegram condemning racial injustice in the United States of America and pledging Negro loyalty to America was sent to President Roosevelt on behalf of 110,000 Negro Baptists iri Chicago by the Chicago Bap tist Ministers Conference. The telegram which follows was signed by the following Negro Baptist Leaders: Dr. L. K. Wil liams, President National Bap tist Convention: Dr. L. R. Mit chell, Pastor Zion Baptis* church East Chicago, Indiana; Dr. D. Z. Jackson, Pastor Liberty Baptist Church; Dr. E. J. Coles, president Chicago Baptist Minister0 Con ference; Dean H. M. Smith, Chi cago Baptist Institute. “President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr.' President: In the face of the present world crisis which faces America the Chicago Baptist Ministers Conference representing 260 Ne gro Baptist Ministers and Pas tors and 110,000 communicants wishes to assure you of their earnest prayei* that you maV be guided of God. as our leader. As Dr. L. K. Williams, President of the National Baptist Convention has already said—‘we pray for peace’ and urge that no means be left untried to keen our coun try out of the tragedy of war. American Negroes have always been loyal to this country, even though they have not always shared in the democracy offered by America to others of its citizens. We are passionately de dicated to the principle of demo cracy for all men lvgardless of race or creed. To this end we pledge our allegiance and coop eration in the great tasks of mod ern democracy. Fight To Save Fugitives From Ga. Chain Gang — Chicago, Oct. 25 (CNA—A fear-ridden colony of Georgia fugitives huddled this week in a battered South Side tenement as the long arm of the Georgia chain gang reached out into Chi cago to shackle the ball and chain on three of their number. Far from the crack of the plan tation owner’s whip, more than a score of fugitives from virtual peonage on the immense farm of W. T. Cunningham in Sandy Coves, Ha., were threatened with jo XqiiBjnaq oijsipus oqj oj uanjoj white overseers. Whether they can be saved from rule by rope and faggot depends on the fate of their of their num ber framed on charges of burg lary by Cunningham. If Illinois sends three back to Georgia, all are threatened. The trio—Otis Woods, 46; his son, Dock 23; and Solomon Mc Cannon, 39 are lodged in Cook County Jail awaiting the outcome of an extradition hearing before Judge DeWitt C. Billman, Gov. Henrry Horner’s agent. Demands U. S. Act Interlocked with the fight against extradition is the demand that the Departmen of Justice take action against peonage on the Cunningham plantation. Facts in the case have been lain before Attorney General Frank Murphy. Defense attorney William Huff told the Crusader News Agency Cunningham is law in Oglethrope County, Ga., and can have any Negro jailed by a request to the sheriff. Three weeks ago he swore out a warrant against the Woods, father and son, and MicGannon and had them arrested here. He charged them with burglarizing his barn on Dec. 23, 1935, al though all three were working for him in Georgia long after that date. The Woods family left on May 2, 1936 after working for Cun ningham for 10 years to pay off a $75 debt. Strongest evidence for the ac cused is a letter from John Alex ander, white, who was overseer at the Cunningham place, to Huff which states: “I was overseer at the Cunning ham place near Sandy Coves on Dec. 23, 1939. Your letter today was the first information I hao’ about burglary by these men or anyone else on that date. I never had any trouble with these men about stealing or otherwise.” Witnesses before Judge Bill GEN EK A TREASURER E. R. WEST General Treasurer o' Union Pacific Dining Car Waiters Union, who will leave Omnna to attend the General Convention of the Union in Los Angeles, Cali fornia, October 24th to 27th. man last week told gruesome stories of heatings on the Cun ningham farm. One fugitive told of a pregnant woman whipped a month before she gave birth. Mrs. Dennie Woods, in reply to a question on how Negroes get away from the farm said: “They run away or die away.” The International Labor De fense announced that it would seek an immediate prolive of peon age charges by Attorney General Mui-phy and wrote to its national president Congressman Vite Mar cantenic, urging that he see Mur phy on the case. --0O0 DEMAND GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION INTO CRANBURY N.J. OUTRAGES Cranbury, N. J. Oct. 26, (Calvin Service)—A demand for an im mediate Grand Jury investigation into the background of the recent outrages at Cranbury, N. J., when seven Negro potato pickers were assaulted by a vigilante white mob who were seconded by an audience of 200. The demand had been formally presented the dav before a group of 11 which rep resented the NAACtP, the Work er's’ Defense league, and promi nent Negro and white citizens of New Jersey. Though of the mob sters who had thrown themselves at the mency of the Court were already arrested, it was charged at the meeting that the ring leaders still remained at large. It was warned there too that the League nor its participants would res until he leaders were behind bars. -OUO CARNEGIE HALL HAILS NEGRO EMPLOYEE OF FIFTY YEARS New York, N. Y. Oco. 2G (Cal vin Servie) John Williams Downs 73 yea rohl Negro elevator oper ator!, was te recipient of a watch from Robert E. Siwaon, Jr., Pres ident of the Carnegie Hall Cor poration. The award was present ed to mark his fifty years of ser vice at this Concert Hall. The many changes in personnel and the neighborhood this veteran employee has witnessed in a half century. He recalled the opening | of the Hall in 1891 and some of l the notables he served as Caruso j and David Belasco and many | others now dead. A great lover i of music he always heard the Concerts performed in Carnegie ' Hall when he was young. Now he says he is tired and old and I goes home to rest when the day’s i work is done. --dOn | ST. LOUIS CELEBRATES ISSUANCE OF EMANCIPA TION PROCLAMATION St. Louis, Mo. Oct. 26 (Galvin Service)—5,000 persons of both races turner! out herb for the «ala celebration of the 7S)th An niversary of the issuance of th?. Emancipation Proclamation. The guest orator was Dr. Emmett J. Scott, who made an impassioned plea for true democracy in Amer ica which grants untrammeled citizenship rights to colored men and women. , — City Edition — per Copy W.uther outlook for 1 - periocf October 23 to October £.. Up pea. Miss, and lower Mo. va!lays, generally fair, except .,u pre cipitati'.on bo want end o w eeR;; cooler Monday and Tues< n paraUires below normal moat of remainder of week. Northern and Central great p'ains, generally fair, except some precipitation fn the Dako.'.f. nvd* dl.i and latter half of week; aoiti er beginning of week, coi t' ■uiRijt mostly below normal thoi f.er but, wibh cosidenable flr.,t J rtiona south portion. COURTS CURBS ACTIVT" i dd OF RACE HATE PEDDLER New York, Oct. 26 (C .\ Y)— The plans of FVts Kuhn. . , e-r of the Nazi Gcrman-Am-r car* Bund to spread race hat.vu pro paganda in odher states . ates I ending his trial on Octob r 30 as a common thief were wi e ke# this week when Judge Corr.ellus F. Collins warned the f -.dsu chkftain that his $30,0)0 bait would be revoked and lv w'*ul<# bo reledged in Tombs p 'iron if ho aJtcxpts to leave th." t eat - be fore his trial. Tho Judge's stem wa- ug-. road© at the request of a rvpn-e sentativo of the District A ,'nr ncy’s office was interpreted as * sign of the mounting indigo * ioi* of the people against the violent anti-semetic, anti-Negro and an«f Democratic poison spewed by; Kuhn in various parts of tin* country. It was disclosed that following bis release on bail a week agnv Kuhn went to Andover, N. J where he made a fiery ad Ires* at a bumd inlly, attacking Amer ican democratic institutions, and attributing his arrest as u ual to ‘‘inU-rnatonal Jewish bank rs." Meanwhle the Grand Jury lias started an investigation into tha circumstances sjurrounding tire* bail money raised fob the nu:nb« ono race hatred leader otf A v eri ca. The money was handed to the scout in bills ranging from ten to one thousand denominations. It was hinted that the larger L ills, could not possibly have been de noted by Kuhn’s rank and fils? followers, most of whom are nil* guided people of very means. -oOo FILE ACTION AGAINST UNIVERSITY OF TENN. FOR REFUSAL TO ADMIT 6 GRADUATE STUDENTS New York, Oct. 25—A manda mus action against the Universi y of Tennessee, to force that insti tution to admit six Negro stu dents to graduate schools in th<* University, was filed in Knox ville, Tennessee, October 18, by Carl Cowan NAACf* attorney acting for the students, the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People an nounced today. Action against the university was taken shortly after trustee.-; of the institution refused to art on the six applications, although notifying the students that their applicaions had been received. -oOo DR. A. WILLIAM IXIOS ON RELIGION FACULTY AT SPELMAN COLLEGE Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 26 (Calvin Service)—To teach in the De partment of Philosophy and Re ligion at Spelman College end to serve on the faculty of tiro Morehouse School of Religion, Spelman College h^s secured the services of Dr. A. William Loo*, a native of St. Paul, Minn. Dr. Loos received the bachelor of arts degree from Carleto r College in 1930; the bachelor ot divinity degree from Andovjr Newton Theological Seminary in 1.933; and the doctor of philoso phy degree from the University of Edinburgh. For one term he studied at the University of Tu bingen in Germany. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Loos has served as pastor 1 of t’|j First; Congregational Church in Brooklyn, Mass, and during his stay in Sotland was associate pastor of historic Can ongate Parish Church in Edin burgh. Dr. Loos is the joint author' and collaborator with Ronall Selby Wright of ‘Asking Why,’r published by the Oxford Univer sity Press this year.’’ -—oOo PITTSBURGH, Oct. 26 (CNA) —Tom Mooney, labor leader, this week cancelled his speaking tour because of a recurrence of henri orrhages from a duodenal ulder.