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Buts“w8,PhSOTeonwElai55i7,att*r “ Po*‘office’ 0ra*h,' Nebr-und*r Act of M,rch *■ U74, Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, March 16, 1940 Volume Twelve, Number 52
A GREAT RACE MAN
LAID TO REST
Kobert seng
stacke AB
BOTT, editor
and publisher
of the Chicago
Defender since
its founding in
1905, who died
Thurs. morn of
last week at
his mansion in
Chicago at the age of 69. Funeral
services were held Monday.
(ANP Photo)
OBSERVE WILDLIFE
WEEK, MARCH 17-23
The rape of this continent’s wild
life resources is one of the blackest
chapters in American history.
The story of spoilage is an un
savory one, but the end has not
beet ;*ten. And if conservation
,.cd Americans among the na
tion’s 11,000,000 sporttmen have
their way about it the ending will,
be a happy one.
Working for the preservation and
;vs ration of our wildlife resourc
s an agency known as the Na
tional Wildlife Federation, whk-v
is attempting to co-ordinate the
opinions of these 11,000,000 sports
men.
Nebraska is a member. Tha
Nebraska Wildlife Federation is an
integral part of the national group.1
And because it is a dominant fac-1
tor, Nebraska officers of the fed- |
eruticc i are asking all Nebraskans ;
te^lniy to the defense «f wildlife
by observnig National Wildlife
Week March 17 to 23.
The federation exists only thru
the support of individual sports
men through their purchases of
Wildlife stamps. There are no
dues or monthly meetings in the
Wildlife Federation. There are no
paid officers in Nebraska. There
are only two in the national head
quarters in Washington, D. C.
Receipts from the stamp sales
are divided on a 50-50 basis—half
to the national office; half to the
state organization.
These funds make it possible to
campaign for favorable legislation
legislation that will have far-reach
ing effects on the nation’s and the
state’s wildlife resources.
The federation builds for tomor
row and in the short time it has
been operative, has worked suc
cessfully for the passage of such
beneficial bills as the Pittman
Robertson act which gave to Ne
braska $30,000 in 1939 for conserv
ation projects. There will be ap
proximately $50,000 available to
Nebraska in 1940 from this feder
al aid fund.
Here in Nebraska, the Federation
was instrumental in obtaining the
two state game farms, worked for
the passage of the increased game
permit bill which enabled Nebras
ka to raise the money to meet fed
eral aid funds.
Nebraskans in the Federation
now are campaigning for the Mundt
Anti-pollution bill which will mean
clean streams with no sewage; for
a permanent national appropria
tion for tree planting activity, and
for a citizen’s committee which will
be of real service to the Nebraska
game and fish commission when
help is needed.
The Wildlife stamps, arranged
in four blocks of 25 stamps each,
are in natural colors. They may be
purchased from your local repres
entative of the Federation, Hard
ware Stores, Sporting Goods Stor
es, in your town or from the Neb
raska Wildlife Federation, state
headquarters, 1700 South 24th St.,
Lincoln.
NAACP. STILL UNABLE' TO
FIND LLOYD GAINES
Washington, D. C.—Charles H.
Houston, special counsel, for the
National Association for the Ad-1
vancement of Colored People, an-1
nounced toda that he has been un
able to locate Lloyd Gaines, plain
tiff in the famous University of
Missouri case.
“The NAACP. has exhausted all,
means of locating him,” Houston;
Hush Butler Makes Statement On Anti-Lynch Bill
2% COMMISSION TO
MINISTERS AND
CHURCHES
The Square Deal Stores will give
to the ministers of any churches a
2% commission on all the purchas
es made by the members or friends
of their congregations. All the
purchasers have to do is to ask for
his 2% discount slip at the time
the purchase is made. Then turn
them over to your minister and
when they have accumulated in
sufficient quantities, The Square
Deal Stores will give him in cash
2%. _
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said “and added that the associa
tion requests a one possessing in
formation confining the wherea
bouts of Gaines to send the infor
mation to the Association at 69th
Fifth Avenue, New York City.”
HOLY WEEK SERVICE AT RITZ
THEATRE
The Interdenominational Minis
terila Alliance will conduct Noon
day Service each day during Holy
Week at the RiU Theatre on north
24th St.
The services will begin prompt
ly at 12 o’clock noon and close at
one p. m. Monday March 18 Ser
mon by Rev. G. A. Stams, Rev. F.
C. Williams, Chairman. Tuesday
March 19th Sermon by Rev. C. Q.
Hickerson, Rev. T. A. Seat s, Chair
man. Wed., March 20th. Sermon
by Rev. F. P. Jones, Rev G. W.
Hubbard, Chairman. Thursday,
March 21st, Rev. G. D. Hancock,
Rev. J. H. Reynolds, Chairman.
Everyone is invited to attend
these services and enjoy this Holy
Week. Good Friday Union Serv
ices will be held at Clair Methodist
Church and seven sermons will be
preached by seven ministers of the
city. Music for these services will
be furnished by the WFA band.
Please come on time. Remember
12 o’clock noon.
SENATE SEEKS VIEWS ON
FEDERAL HOSPITAL PLAN
Washington, D. C.—Charles H.
Houston, special counsel of the N.
AAC.P. will testify March 18 be
fore the sub-committee of the Sen
ate Education and labor committee
on the proposed plan to have the
fedefal government build small hos
pitals over the country. The bill
is S. 3230 and Mr. Houston will
speak in behalf of a coordinating
committee of Negro organizations
interested in health, of which the
NAACP. is a member. Other co
operating organizations are: Am
erican Feedration of Teachers; Am
erican Missionary Association;
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por
ters and Maids; Improved Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks
of the World; National Alliance of
Postal Employees; National Ass
ociation of Colored Graduate Nurs
es; National Baptist Convention,
USA.; National Bar Association;
National Council of Negro Women;
National Federation of Colored
Farmers; National Negro Insur
ance Company; National Sunday
School and Baptist Training Union
Congress; Phi Delta Kappa; South
ern Negro Youth Congress.
RICHARD B. HARRISON BUST
UNVEILED
New York City, March 15 (ANP)
A bust of the late Richard B. Har
rison who rose to immortal fame
as “De Lawd” in Roark Bradford’s
“Green Pastures”, was unveiled at
the 135th Street Public Library
here Friday nite.
Miss Augusta Savage, internat
ionally known sculptress, fashioned
the bust in her studio.
The “Green Pastures” choir of
fered a group of spirituals and Miss
Susie Sutton read a fnw brief ex
cerpts from the play at the exer
cises.
GETS BOY SCOUT EXECUTIVE
APPOINTMENT
T- N ' *
LEWIS WATTS, has recently
been appointed District Field Exe
cutive of the Sam Houston Area
Council of Boy Scout Work, Hous
ton, Texas. He is a er stu
dent of the Atlanta University
School of Social Work, and a grad
uate of Morehouse College, Atlan
ta, Georgia. Mr. Watts is tKe first
Negro professional Boy Scout exe
cutive to be employed in the South
west. His duties are to organize
new troops, to train volunteers, and
to interpret the Scouting Program
to the community. He is a mem
ber of the Alpha Phi Alpha Frater
nity and has been active for a num
ber of years in various group act
ivities of young people.
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CHICAGOANS URGE POSTMAS
TER TO GIVE MORE SUPER
VISORY POSITIONS TO NEGRO
POSTAL WORKERS
Chicago, March 15, (ANP) Last
Thursday, a group of prominent
Chicagoans, representing the busi
ness, professional and club life of
the city, met with Postmaster Ern
est J. Druetgen, purpose of the con
ferenee being to lay before the Post
master a bill of particulars point
ing out numerous instances in
which Negroes in the local postal
service have been denied merited
advance and promotion as clerks
and carriers.
Heading the committee were G.
N. T. Gray, welfare director of the
National Alliance of Postal Em
ployes, with the headquarters in
Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Irene
McCoy Gaines, president of the
Chicago Council of Negro Organiz
ations and an executive of the Ill
inois Federation of Colored Wbm
en’s Clubs.
It was also pointed out to Post
master Druetgen that Chicago, de
spite its leadership in other lines,
has signally failed in extending re
cognition to colored postal workers
because of the fact that up to date
no Negro has been elevaetd to a
position higher than that of fore
man.
KU KLUX KLAN WANTS
COMMUNIST PARTY BANNED
Atlanta, Ga., March 15, (CNA)—
Several hundred hooded members
of the KuKluxKlan in full ngiht
gown regalia distributed on the
streets of Atlanta this week hand
bills entitled “An Open Letter to
Congress” and demanding legisla
tion “to outlaw the Communist
Party in the United States of Am
erica and all other un-American or
ganizations.” The Klan some
ears ago attacked hte Communist
Party as “the ‘nigger’ party.”
The leaflet cited several red-bait
ing statements by the witch-hunt
ing Dies Committee to back up its
demand for the outlawing of the
Communist Party.
The recent activities of the Klan
have been directed against the CIO
on the grounds that the CIO is or
ganizing Southern Negro and white
workers on a basis of full equality,
and it is assumed here that the CIO
is included in the “un-American or
ganizations” the terroristic klan is
seeking to have outlawed.
Vandenberg Says He’ll Fight
LOCAL KAPPAS HOLD MEET
ING
The Alpha Eta Chapter of the
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraterntiy held
its regular bi-weekly meeting a
fortnight ago at the home of Bro,
W. W. Solomon, 2716 Maple Street.
The members present were Broth
ers Gaitha Pegg W. W.'Gray, Lloyd
Livingston Lee, Russell Bryan Jr.,
Arthur B. McCaw, Ray Williams,
John Adams, Jr., James Jewell, J.
Westbrook McPherson, Stanley
Madison, J. Dillard Crawford, Ric
hard Harrison, Jess Hutten, Milton
Johnson and Delmar Woods.
The most important item of
business was the annual election of
officers. The following brothers
were thus elected: Polemareh Stan
ley Madison; vice Polemareh, W.
W. Gray; Keeper of records, J.
Westbrook McPherson; Keeper of
Exchequer, Jess Hutten; Strategus
J. Dillard Crawford; Lieutenant
Strategus, Gaitha Pegg;; and His
torian and Reporter, Lloyd Living
ston Lee.
The pledges in the Scrollers club
Foster Goodlett, Russell Rudd and
Minor Williams, served the bro
thers the very tasty refreshments.
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WALLACE SAYS SOUTH NEED
IS MILLION HOMES
Washington, March 15 (CNA) —
In an address at a banquet on the
73rd anniversary of the founding
of Howard University, Henry A.
Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture,
suggested that a vast home con
struction program would do much
to cure the economic ills of that re
gion, once characterized by Presi
dent Roosevelt as “the nation’s No.
1 economic problem.” He estimat
ed that Southern farmers and farm
laborers needed at least a million
new homes.
“The dilemma of the Southern
low-income farmer is of paramount
importance to the Negro race, be
cause half of the American Negro
es are Southern farmers, and most
of them are tenants and sharecrop
pers in the lowest income group,”
he said.
FINED AS KEEPER OF DIS
ORDERLY HOUSE
Tex Richie, owner of a cigar
store at 1604 North twenty-fourth
street, was fined $10 as keeper of
a disorderly house and 12 inmates
were fined $1 each by Municipal
Judge Palmer today. They were
arrested in a dice raid Saturday.
U N EM PLOY M ENT COM PENS A
TION
Lincoln, Nebr., March—The Ne-,
braska Unemployment Compensa-1
tion Division issued its two hun
dred thousandth check on March 1,
according to R. T. Malone, Direc
tor of the state job insurance pro
gram.
The check was for $5, the mini
mam amount payable for total un
employment benefits under the
state law, but check No. 200,000*
was for the amount of $9, which is
approximately the weekly benefit
average. Benefits have been pay
able since January 1939.
During February, 29,471 benefit
checks were written for a total a
mount of $278,965. This repres
ented an increase of 11,150 checks
and of $109,798. over the January
1940 payments.
Excessive seasonal unemploy
ment caused payments for total an
partial unemployment during the
first two months of 1940 to approx
imate the payments of the peak
months of 1939. The Unemploy
ment Compensation Division paid
out $448,132 in benefits during
January and February, as compar
ed with payments 6'f $1,304,515.
for the entire year 1939.
TO BREAK SENATE FILIBUSTER IF ONE RISES
ON ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
New York, March 14—Senator Arthur H. Van
denburg (R), of Michigan, has told the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Colored People that
he will do everything in his power to break a Senate
filibuster should one develop over bringing the anti
lynching bill to the floor of the Senate, according to
an announcement made today by Walter White, exe
cutive secretary of the organization.
On March 1, the NAACP. secretary sent the
following letter to the Michigan senator, who is also
a figure in the 1940 presidential nomination race:
JUNE RICHMOND. MISTRESS
SWING!
Plumpaeious June Richmond who
is featured with Andy Kirk’s and
His “Clouds of Joy” is the femme
bombshell of rhythm. Miss Rich
mond who scored an immediate suc
cess with Cab Calloway before
coming to the Girk aggregation is
a sensation—a well known fact in
band circles.
The band is currently on tour
playing Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas,
Texas and Louisiana. The extend
ed tour carries the unit as far south
as Florida, thence to the Carolinas,
Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, W.
Wirginia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Il
linois and Indiana before returning
East.—Ted Yates (Calvin’s News
Service.’)
JOE LOUIS BEGINS TRAINING
FOR PAYCHECK
New York, March 15 (ANP) —
Joe Louis, world’s heavyweight
champion, arrived here this week
preparatory to going into training
for his coming title defense against
Johnny Paycheck at Madison
Square garden, March 27.
According to John Roxborough,
co-manager of the champ, Joe spent
last week at his newly acquired
Michigan farm. He now weight
206 pounds. Announcement of his
training camp site was ont made.
The decision lies between PomiHon
Lakes, usual quarters, and Green
wood Lake, N. Y.
MUSIC PROJECT WILL HOLD
SEVERAL SACRED CONCERTS
WEEK OF MARK 18th
The Week of March 18th will be
observed by the units of the WPA
Nebraska Music Project with sev
eral sacred concerts at various in
stitutions throughout the city.
These concerts will feature devot
ional music by the orchestra as
well as several vocal solos.
Due to Easter vacation, no school
concerts are being played. The
band will follow a similar schedule.
Negro Band
Dances—
March 19 Urban League Recre
ation at No. Side Elks lub. 8-11 p.
m.
March 21 Bellevue 8:30-11:30 p.
m. Ashland Park—48th Q 9-11 p.
m.
March 22—Fontenelle Park 8-11
p. m.
r “My dear Senator Vandenburg
“Thank you for your very
frank and honest letter of Feb
ruary 28.
“When the Bill reaches the
nsand if, as now seems likely
there is a long filibuster, may we
count on you at the appropriate
time to insist vigorously on con
tinuous sessions of the Senate to
break the filibuster? And may
we also count on your getting as
many of your associates in the
Senate as possible to join in this
effort?”
In a reply to Mr. White’s letter,
dated March 5, Senator Vanden
burg said:
“The answer to your letter of
March 1 is an unequivocal ‘yes’.”
No Illusion, Says NAACT.
Expressing themselves as having
no illusions about the necessity of
waging a fight to the finish in or-!
der to get the bill to the Senate
floor, officials of the NAACP.!
pointed out that attentino should,
be given to the statement made by j
Kenneth Crawford, Washington^
correspondent for the New York ^
Post, who commented on the signi- j
ficance of Senator Alben Barkley’s
recent announcement concerning
the bills which Administration,
leaders expect to pass during the
present session of Congress. Sen-:
ator Barklye is Democratic leader
in the Senate.
Of this prediction Crawford, in
the New York Post of March 2 says :
“Barkley’s prediction is nota- [
ble for what it leaves out, rather 1
than what it includes on the list
of things to do. He expects that
the wage-hour amendments,
Wagner Act changes, anti-mono
poly legislation, the anti-lynch- |
ing bill and anti-alien measures j
will be left hanging at the close
of the season."
SIX DIE IN AUTO TRAIN COL
LISION
Richmond, Va., March 15 (ANP)
! Four men and two women were
killed early Monday morning when
[ the car in which they were riding
collided with a Norfolk and Wes
tern freight train at a crossing one
mile south of Pamplin in AApom
attox county. This accident sent
the week-end death toll up to nine.
Those killed in the crossing ac
cident were Lee Moses, and Thomas
Wiley, brothers; Belle Wiley, the
wife of Thomas, Will Jones and
Has'sie Morton. Others killed in
this vicinity Saturday and Sunday
were Betty Lewis, fiO, and Marcel
la and Theodore Adams crushed
when their automobile ouverturned
after striking a culvert near Sper
ryvTlle.
MARCANTONIO OFFERS BILL
FOR THREE MILLION JOBS
Washington, March 8 (Charles
Alexander for CNA)—Determined
to fight for “decent, self-respect
ing standard of relief” for the na
tion’s Negro and white jobless,
Rep. Vito Marcantonio of N. York
introduced a bill this week which
requires the government to provide
work relief for all unemployed
workers and fixes an immediate
minimum of 3,000,000 jobs.
The New York liberal’s sweep
/fan or able Hugh Butler
Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 1940
Hon. C. C. Galloway,
Omaha, Nebr.,
Dear Mr. Galloway:—
#
Referring to our conversations
relative my attitude on the Anti
lynching bill now before Con
gress:—
I have just read that portion
of the circular issued under date
of March 8, 1940, by the Press
Service of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People, and I assure you
that I can take the same position
as thut taken by Senator Vand
enberg, and r*lX) take that posi
tion.
You may so advise your New
York headquarters, and I would
appreciate having a copy of said
circular, complete, for my pers
onal files.
Yours very truly,
HUGH A. BUTLER
ing measure would correct the im
adequacies of the present wage and
hour scales of WPA and complete
ly wipe out the hardships caused by
the Woodrum law.
Among its provisions are: three
milium immediate jobs, establish
ment of prevailing hour wage rates
with a maximum work month of
not more than 130 hours and an
average wage of $70 a month, per
manency of all projects with the
aim of preserving the skill, train
ing and morale of workers, elim
ination of relief test as a pre-re
quisite for obtaining a WPA job
ancT retention of the job as long as
the worker is unable to secure work
in private industry.
Proposals similar to those in
Marcantonio’s bill have been back
ed by the Workers Alliance of A
merica. The CIO has also gone on
record in favor of many of its pro
visions.
Commenting on his bill, the New
York Congressman declared that it
“automatically abolishes the cruel
and inhuman 18 months provisions
in the present relief act, and rem
edy several outstanding disgraceful
things in the present WPA.”
The timeliness of the bill was
graphically illustrated this week
following publication of a report
of unemployment by the Depart
ment of Labor. In her survey of
labor conditions for January, Sec
retary Perkins revealed that em
ployment except on farms declined
about 1,160,000 during the past
month with a corresponding reduc
tion in payrolls estimated about
10,500,000 a week. She added that
the drop was about 100,000 greater
than that of the same period last
year.
Meanwhile, stirred by reports of
ever growing misery among the
jobless in several states, Alliance
president David Lasses has written
to Colonel Harrington, WPA head
protesting against the “arbitrary
discharges” of 800,000 WPA work
ers planned for the next few
months. Pointing to the “declin
ing employment and payrolls,”
Lasses requested Harrington to
order an increase of personnel in
the work-relief agency “to provide
purchasing power and limit the
spread of Ihe recession.”