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CITY EDITION Price Five Cents THE WEATHER Weather Outlook for the period March 25 to March 30. Upper Mississippi Valley, gen erally fair north, occasional light t rain or snow south portion; temper ature below normal early in week, and near normal middle and last of week. Northern Great Plains, several periods of light snow or rain, tem perature below normal early in week, and near normal middle and last of week. LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY _ ... ...... ...|__!_.. . ---? Entered as Second Class Matter at Post Office, Omaha. Nebr., under Act of March 8, 1874. Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, March 30, 1940 Volume Thirteen, Number 2 Business Phone WE. 1517 7 __ 7 MR. AND MRS. STREETER B. TURNER Palm Sunday was the scene of a very pretty wedding at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred McDaniels, when Mr. McDaniels gave his niece, f Miss N*»ola McDaniels, t*f Chanute, Kansas, in marriage to Mr. Streeter B. Turner, son of Mrs. Elese Turner. The ceremony was performed at 9:30 by the Rev. Sears, Pastor of St. John’s AME. Church. Palms and white lillies and roses decorat ed the house throughout. The soft strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march, was played by Mrs. Fred McDaniels, as Mrs. James Lee, the bridesmaid, marched to the living room—a lovely /licture, wearing an evening gown of pink tulle, with an orchid taffetta jacket, an carrying a boquet of pink roses. The bi-ide marched in on the arm of her uncle, wearing one of the most beautiful wedding gowns seen for sometime. The dress was all white net with wide stripes of white lace. Her veil being of the same material. She carried a boquet of white lillies and roses and was one of the prettiest brides this season. Mr. James Lee was best man. Mrs. Fred McDaniels wore serece chiffon with a corsage of mat ching sweet peas. Mrs. Turner, mother of the groom, a charming pic ture in back, wore a corsage of sweet peas. Mrs. Billy Davis, sister of the groom, was gowned in black and white and wore a corsage of sweet peas. Mrs. Edgar Lee, mother of the best man, was a pretty picture in black, with a corsage of gardenias. Out of town guests to the wedding were Mrs. Felix Fayne, Mrs. L. V. Miller, Mrs. Weisman and daughter, Katherine, all of Kansas City, Mo. A wedding breakfast was served at the home of Mrs. Turner. Mr. and Mrs. Fred McDaniels have planned a reception at a later date, when Mrs. McDaniels fully recovers from her recent illness. The newlyweds have taken an apartment at the home of Mrs. George W. Bryant, 2875 Wirt St. Wh ite Man Nets Sentence of 15 Years in North Carolina * Fayetteville, N. C. — Charged with attempted criminal assault upon a sixteen-year-old Negro girl during the early part of February, John H. Davis, a white married man living in the Massey Hill sec tion here, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge A. Hall Johnson last week and was given a sentence of fifteen years in the state penitentiary. Davis’ conviction was the out growth of a court battle waged in the girl’s behalf by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Non Relief Famil ies Found To Be Thrifty New York, March 28 (ANP)—( The majority of colored families off relief here have managed to remain financially independent be cause of the combined factors of steady work, good health, few children, careful budgeting and roomers, according to a study is sued last week by the committee on Negro welfare of the Welfare council. The study, intended to show how non-relief families have managed to stay in that category, was based on the records of 39 representative families in Manhattan and Brook lyn where the proportion of relief cases is four times the city-wide average. A “will to manage,” in the fami lies which have avoided relief, was emphasized in the report, but in Cspite of this, the survey noted that families had to rent out rooms to supplement their meager incomes. More than 50 per cent of the fami lies studied were childless, and the survey saw a close relation be tween the size of family and their ability to maintain financial in dependence. “How socially desirable some of these factors in solving community problems is a question to be taken ! under serious advisement,” the re port said. I | The highest salary in the group studied was found to be $258 a month, the lowest $20. The month ly income range for women was [ from $8.50 to $107.50. Unskilled and domestic jobs predominated I for this group. John L. Lewis To Speak at Negro Congress Washington, March 25—National Negro Congress leaders announc ed last week that John L. Lewis, militant leader of the Congi'tss for Industrial Organizations will be the prinicipal speaker at the open ing session of the Congress to be held at the United States Depart ment of Labor Auditorium here Fri day, April 6. Recent statements by Mr. Lewis at the Convention of the United Mine Workers of America, of which he is also president, at Col umbus, Ohio, indicated clearly that the labor leader was keenly aware of the problems of the Negro peo ple. His speech at the American Youth Congress, in which he lash ed out vigorously against the inac I tion of the United States Depart ment of Justice in the matter of j poll taxes, has also served to bring him to the fore as a champion of three million disfranchised Negro voters of the south. Immediate response among Ne I gro leaders here to the Congress’ announcement that Mr. Lewis would speak was that his utteranc j es before this representative gath ering of leaders of Negro organiz 1 ations promises to mark a new e poch in the relations between the , Negro people and labor. Congress j officials themselves greeted with ! high enthusiasm his acceptance of their invitation. They announced I that his speech and the presidential address of A. Phillip Randolph, j head of the Congress, would be | carried over a national hookup, to be heard by some five million peo j pie. Steps have already been tak | en to arrange in key cities' through out the country for simultaneous meetings of local Congress counc j ils to hear these two important ad dresses. Congressman Mitchell Demands Third Term of Pres. Roosevelt & Washington, March 28 (ANP) — Declaring himself unreservedly in favor of a thrid for President Roosevelt, Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell of Illinois* in an address before the house Monday recited a resume of the accomplishments of the New Deal as far as Ne groes are concerned and challenged any other party to_ show tha,t it had done as much. Going down the line, Mr. Mitchell enumerated the seven alphabetical agencies which had contributed to the Negroes welfare and “saved them not only from starving, but kept them living.” They were in order, the WPA, PWA, CCC, FCA, FSA, NYA, and the USHA. Stating that some 300,000 Negro families, representing 14 per cent of the total on the WPA payrolls, had been benefitted from the acts of this organization, Congressman Mitchell further lauded the New Deal and cited figures from other departments to prove his conten tions. He was interrupted in his speech by a fellow representative who, listening to Mitchell’s praise of the Farm Credit administration, wanted to know if Mr. Mitchell would be willing to have this unit put in the department of agricul ture under the direction of Secre tary Wallace. Mr. Mitchell refused to answer this pointed question and refused to yield for further questioning. However, at the end of his allotted time, Hamilton Fish of New York who had asked the Speaker of the house for five minutes launched into Mr. Mitchell and demanded to know just how many unemployed Negroes there were in spite of the New Deal. Mr. Fish also asked, if Mr. Mitchell knew of the suffer ings of the Negroes in the South under the New Deal administra tion. Turning to another point in his attack, Mr. Fish declared that while Mr. Mitchell was lauding President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roose velt and the cabinet, why was it that Mr. Roosevelt refused to com mit himself on the anti-lynch bill, although he was greatly interested in the welfare of other races and creed three thousand miles away? “One word from the White House,” said Mr. Fish, “and the anti-lynch bill would pass through the senate without any difficulty at all.” ROOSEVELT INVITED TO SPEAK AT NEGRO CONGRESS Washington, March 25,—The na tional office of the National Negro Congress made public this week the fact that it had extended an invit ation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to address one of the ses soins of the National Negro Con gress to be held here at the United States Department of Labor audit orium April 26-28. The President was informed that ' the 3,000 delegates expected to be present. Seeks Re-election JOHN ADAMS. JR. John Adams, Jr., is a candidate for re-election to the State Legis lature from the 5th District. He has served in three regular and two special sessions of the legisla ture, 1935, 1937, 1939. The primary election is on April 9th The voting polls are open from 8 o’clock A. M. to 8 P. M. There are eight candidates running in the 5th District for the legislature, but you can only vote for ONE. The two candidates receiving the highest vote in the primary elec tion run it off in the general elec tion ir. November. John Adams, Jr., is also a candidate on the republi can primary ballot, with Valaria Lee McCaw, as a delegate to the National Republican Convention. For this office you may for two. On March 16, 1940, Mr. Adams receiv ed the following letter from the Independent Grocers and Meat Dealers of Omaha: “Dear Mr. Adams: The officers and mem bers of the Independent Grocers and Meat Dealers of Omaha in rec I ognition of the splendid services rendered the Omaha district, and the state of Nebraska at large, are desirous to support you in this pri mary campaign.” BEAUTY SALON MOVES The Willa Beauty Salon which has been located at 4th & Grant Street, next door to the Robins | Drug Store will move in their new Senator Norris Praises Justice Black New York—Senator George Nor ris, famed Nebraska liberal, and the Nation magazine have both lauded the recent supreme court decision handed down February 12, and written by Justice Hugo L. Black, of Alabama, in which the supreme court of Florida was deni ed the right to affirm the execu tion of four Negro youths whose conviction of murdering a white ' man had been upheld on the basis of confesssions obtained by a week of torture. Said Senntor Norris February 29, in a letter to the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, whose attorneys carried the case to the high court. “I think that that opinion is go going to go a long way towards placing not only the courts but the administrative officials of the entire United States on a much higher plane than ever before. I am not thinking particularly of the colored race, because, as I see it .this applies to the white race as well.” In a long and laudatory editor ial appearing in its issue of Feb. 24 the National Magazine conclud ed: ‘‘We take out the stock of words required for comment, and find them all dirtied by hyprocrisy and encrusted with cant. ‘The Majesty of th# law;’- ‘Equqal Justice’; ‘de*-’ mocratic processes’; ‘American Ideals.’ We put the words away. All we can say is that the supreme court saved the lives of four Ne groes. And saved something pre cious for the rest of us, too.” location at 2507 North 24th St., two doors west of the Beuler Butcher Market, just as soon as decorations are completed. FATHER OF KIP RHINELAND ER DIES Long Beach, N. Y. March 28 (ANP)—Commodore Philip Rhine lander, father of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, whose marriage to Alice Jones Rhinelander, colored, created a sensation 15 years ago, died last week at Long Beach hos pital here after an operation. Commodore Rhinelander, 80, the patriarch of one of New York’s oldest families was one of 13 Rhinelanders listed in the social register. Since Kip’s death in 1936, he had lived here in his sumptuous beach home. The defendant in a $500,000 alienation of affections suit brought by Alice at the time Kip sought an annulment of his marriage to her, the elder Rhine lander settled the case out of court but refused to recognize his son’s wife. Later, after a White Plains, N. Y., jury refused to annul the mar riage, Kip obtained a Reno divorce, giving his wife a reported settle ment of $300 a month for life) When the younger Rhinelander died, Alice declared that she had “always loved Leonard” and ac cused the commodore of snatching him from her. DRUG STORE ENLARGES Johnson’s Drug Store, formerly located at 24th & Parker St., which merged with the Robinson Drug Store on 24th & Grant St., a few weeks ago found quarters too small for the two stores. As a result of this, Mr. Johnson the Proprietor, has found that he must take over the Willa’s Salon Store which is next door to the Robins Drug Store. In a few days the building will be remodled and a large arch way cut through from the Robins Drug Store which will make the two stores into one large store. Mr. Johnson owns this property and is to be congradulated on ef forts being put forth to give the people of this community a one minute up-to-date service. Big Republican RALLY APRIL 4TH Dreamland Hall 24th Grant St. .. -*— Arthur R-McCaw, Chairman THOMAS E. DEWEY AND FAMILY Thomas E. Dewey, candidate for the Republican nomination for President and his family, lietween Mr. and Mrs. Dewey is John Martin Dewey, for and at Mr. Dewey’s left is Thomas E. Dewey, Jr., seven. Harris and Ewing Photo “DEWEY TAKES THE LEAD”—SO SAYS 1,605 DAILY EDITORS EDITORS SEE A THIRD RACE* _ * I BUT ROOSEVELT THIRD IN PREFERENCE New York, March 28—A poll of the 1,605 editors of daily newspa pers in the United States reveals it is their opinion President Roose- 1 velt will run for a third term and that his opponent on the republican DEDICATION CEREMONIES Mr. B. V. Calloway, Editor, GUIDE 2418 Grant Street Omaha, Nebraska Dear Mr. Galloway: A cordial invitation is extend ed to you by the Housing Author ity of Omaha to be present at the dedication ceremonies of the South Side Terrace Homes at 30th and “U” Streets, Sunday afternoon, March 31st, commenc ing at 2:30 p. m. There will be a musical pro gram and a few brief addresses. The project will be open for in spection and your participation in this civic events will be ap preciated. Sincerely yours, Samuel J. Howell, Samuel J. Howell, Chairman John J. Larkin, Vice-Chr. Catherine Carrick Mace Brown Grant Benson : LITTLE DIXIE HAS A NEW PROPRIETOR Little Dixie lunch room, 2210 N. 24th street, across the St. from the Tuxedo Billiard Parlor has been leased by an ex-union Pacific chef, Mr. Jim Pace, who is known to be one of the best cooks in the North end. Mr. Pace will open as soon as decorations are completed. { Watch-the door for good eats. ticket is mostly likely to be Thomas E. Dewey, New York district at torney. A fraction more than 63 per cent of the editors believe Roosevelt will get the democratic nomina tion. Second place is held by Secre tary of State Cordell Hull, with -a little more than 19 per cent. The editors who thinks Dewey will be nominated total 37.08 per cent while 25.42 per cent think Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio will get the nomination and 24.58 per cent vote for Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. Trend to Conservatism The poll taken by Current His tory magazine, also asked the edi tors whethers the sentiment in their communities is more liberal than in 1936, more conservative or about the same. A fraction more than 30 per cent of the editors polled replied. The editors report a 69.17 per cent trend toward conservatism. Only 2.71 per cent report more lib eral sentiments while 24.17 per cent detect no change. Percentages for democratic nominees were: Roosevelt, 63.13; Hull, 19.38; McNutt, 4.79; Garner, 4.38; Wheeer, 2.08; Jackson, 1.49; Farley, .62. For republicans:: Dewey, 37.08; Taft, 25.42; Vandenberg, 24.58; Gannett, 1.67; Hoover, .63. Preferences Different The editors also were asked who they thought the candidates should be. Then Hull took the democratic lead with Garner second and Roose velt third. Vandenberg was the republican preference with Dewey second. Preference percentages were: Hull, 33.96; Garner, 25.83; Roosevelt, 17.08; Wheeler, 5.42; McNutt, 3.33; Byrd 2.29; Jackson, 2.08; Farley, 1.67; Clark, .63; Glass, .21. Republicans: Vandenberg, 44.79; Dewey, 18.75; Taft, 16.88; Hoover, 8.13; Gannett, 4.58; Bricker, 3.96; Martin, 3.54; Willkie, 1.88; Bar ton, 1.67; Landon, 1.46. _J