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WHITE SOUTHERNER „
PAYS FINE FOR NEGROES
NEGROES; SAVES THEM
Greenville, Miss.. Sept. 4 (A^JP*
—M. Noble, white owner of the
Merry Spot cafe here, proved a
friend in need last week wihen he
paid the fines imposed on a ffroup
of Negroes from the Norwest and
saved them from aprison term.
Mr. Noble is also owmer of the
Harlem Theatre here.
LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY
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l!liinw*“hS*conwElV5i71*Mer 11 Po,t office• 0ra*h*' N*br- under Act ol M,rth 8> 1874- Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, September 7, 1940 OUR 13th YEAR—Number 25
GIRL LEAPS IN FRONT OF 1’ THAI
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KILLED
FADED ROMANCE CAUSES
EXPECTANT MOTHER TO
- SEEK SOLACE IN DEATH
By Blaine Poindexter
Deceived by the man she loved
and deserted by him just at the
time when she most needed his
care and protection in a serious
crisis facing her, a young woman
was driven to suicide Monday
morning. She ended her life by
jumping in front of a speeding
Englewood train which mangled
her body when she leaped from
the platform of the 51st Street
elevated station.
When Miss Willa Mae Petti
grew 19 years old 619 East 50th
street first met David Lockett, 526
Oakwood Boulevard some time ago
it was tihe beginning of an un
timely end for her. The girl fell in
love with Lockett and he made
her believe that he was in love
with her.
Her romance with Lockett filled
the girl with peace and happiness
as time wfent on. She trusted him
more and more, acceded to his
passionate demands of Iher until
the crisis was reached.
Affections Wane
When she told him after a time
that she was going to be tlhe
mother of his child, Lockett’s af
fections for Miss Pettigrew wan
ed He began to avoid her. She
found it difficult to get in touch
with him. When she called him by
phone at ihis home which she fre
quently did, she was told by the
party answering the phone that
he was not in.
Tlhen, disillusioned, realizing
that she was being left alone by
the man she trusted—the man to
whom she lhad given all, Miss Pet
tigrew lost her desire to live. She
made this known to Miss Marian
Attemus. 5726 Calumet Avenue,
her best girl friend for two years.
She lhad told Miss Attemus:
“Don’t be surprised if I am fish
ed out of the lake some day.’’ At
another time sihe told her friend:
“If I had a gun I would kill my
self.”
Writes Letter To Lover
Last week after a few more
vain attempts to see or talk over
the phone with Lockett, Miss Pet
tigrew definitely made up her
mind to kill herself. One of Iher
last acts was to write a letter to
Lockett- Tlhe long missive was
sealed in a stamped envelope ad
dressed to him. Shortly after 11
a m. she ascended to the platform
of tihe 51st street elevated station.
She waited until she saw a speed
ing north bound Englewood train
approaching. As it neared the sta
tion, the unlhappy girl threw hen
purse behind her and leaped in
front of the train.
Body Mangled
Her body was ground to pieces.
Fifth district police recovered
her purse and found In it her let
ter addressed to Lockett. In tthe
missive Miss Pettigrew accused
Lockett of being the father of her
expected child. She told him that
slhe knew now that he no longer
wanted her since he had refused
to see her any more.
The remains were taken to the
morgue of McHenry and Calhoun,
5047 Indiana avenue. The unhappy
girl was the sister of Miss Eva
Pettigrew, 711 Park Avenue, Wil
mette, and the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Neil Pettigrew of Chat
tanooga, Tenn. The remains were
shipped to her parents. The police
were unable to locate Lockett.
Their repeated visits to his home
to find him were in vain.
TRIBUNE
STRIKES
AGAIN
In its editorial columns in the!
issue of Friday, August 16, the
Chicago Tribune again takes up
the cause of colored Americans on
the issue of enlisting our colored
youths in the armed forces of the
nation. The Tribune’s editorial,
‘‘Negroes in The Army’’ follows:
When the United States army
consisted of 35 regiments of corn
bat troops of those regiments
were composed of colored troops.
Today with the number of line re
giments more than tripled, there
are still only four colored regi
ments. two of infantry and two of
cavalry.
The Negro regiments have had
honorable combat records in all the
wars in whidh they have fought
Because of limited economic op
portunities in civilian life they
never have trouble recruiting to
full strength. Most of their mem
bers are veterans of several en
listments.
Yet in spite of their record Ne
groes are subjected to almost as j
gPeat discrimination in the army
as they are in tihe navy, which ac
cepts them only as cooks and
waiters. The 10th calavrjy is an
example. Its fighting records is
perhaps the best known of any
colored organization, dating back
to the Indian wars. Today, and for
some years past, the bulk of the
regiment has been split between
West Point and Fort Leavenworth.
Its members are employed chiefly
as grooms and horseholders for
officers and cadets.
The proportion of colored regi
ment in the army should be re
stored to the old ratio of) about
one in nine, would mean about a
dozen regiments in place of the
present four. The army’s prejudice
against colored troops is only one,
of its numerous stupidities that
should be abandoned in tihe inter
est of sound national defense.
REPUBLICANS NAME
NEGRO CAMPAIGN AIDES
Washington, Sept. 5 (CNA) —
Francis E. Rivers of New York
City and Sidney B. Redmond of
St. Louis lhave been appointed as
heads of the Eastern and the
Western sections, respectively, of
the Colored Division of the Rep
resentative Joseph W. Martin, Jr,
chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee.
Rivers, wlho was in charge of
the Eastern section of the colored
division during the Landon cam
paign four years ago. is a mem
ber of the staff fif 'Thomas E.
Dewey, District Attorney of New
York County. He is a graduate of
Yale College, and of the Harvard
Law School. He has served as an
Assemblyman of the State of New
rYork, is a member of the Associ
ation of the Bar1 of the City of
New York, and of the New York
County Lawyers Association.
Redmond -was graduated from
Harvard College in 1923 and from
the Harvard Law School in 192(1.1
He is now serving his second term
as president of the National Bar
Association.
Miss Mary Hedee Wiggins, the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert
Wiggins is spending the vacation
in the city with relatives and
friends. Miss Wiggins is from the
Augnest Hospital of Relighton,
N- Carolina, and (has a three
weeks vacation.
MEET BEAUTIFUL MISS BRONZE AMERICA
mce, beautiful miss bronze ameri
To the beautiful brown girl pic
tured here went the title of “Miss
Bronze America’’ and $300 in cash
awarded by the American Negro
Exposition in a nationwide con
test to select the damsel who best
represents the ideals of Negro
womanhood. The winner, Miss
Miriam Ali ,19, "Miss Chicago De
fender,” was the choice of judges
at tihe finals during which Duke
Ellington's band played. A native
of Chicago. Miss AU is a sopho
moro student at Illinois Stato Nor
mal University. More than 10,000
saw her crowned last Monday
night.
MISS BRONZE AMERICA
CHOSEN AT EXPOSITION
10,000 CHEER
DANCE TO DUKE ELLINGTON
Chicago, Sept. 6—>A 19 year old
student at Illinois State Normal
university is the nation’s most
beautiful brown girl and owns the
title. “Miss Bronze America,’’ be
stowed upon her along with $300
cash by the American Negro Ex
position last Monday night.
She is Miriam AU, a gorgeous
bundle of copper loveliness repre
resenting the Chicago Defender,
who was crowned before 10,000
widly cheering enthusiasts of both
races who attended the finals and
listened to the tour id strains of
Duke Ellington's great band.
Finishing second and third were
two girls likewise pretty enough
to make a sultan desert his harem
and renounce all thoughts of big
amy. Iona Varnum, representing
the Chicago Bee, was second, and
received $150 with Gladys Wells,
representing the Levy Chappell
agency. Jackson, Miss-, third. Her
prize was $50.
These were the winners among
tho most dazzling array of Negro
beauty ever assembled. A total
of 26 girls, all of them winners in
preliminary contests conducted
throughout the nation, were pres
ent to compete in the finals. They
were survivors of a starting field
numbering more than 1,500.
Finals were held beginning at
midnight in the Exposition Thea
tre. Each contestant dressed in an
organdy gown. paraded alone
across the stage before the nine
judges who used special ballots to
grade her on popularity, person
ality, carriage, gracefullness. sym
metry, poise, torso and general
features.
There were five ratings on each
of these poor, fair, good, excel
lent, extraordinary. Points were
j from one- for poor, to five for ex
traordjnary.
n The judges were locked in a
room guarded by police while a
statistician checked the point tot
als to decide the winner. Each
judge was permitted to recheck
tihe vote to insure absolute fair
ness- Because of the care exercis
ed by the judges to insure com
plete impartiality, it was not un
til 2:30 a.m. that the winner could
be announced and crowned in the
Court of Dioarmas where Duke
Ellington was playing. The crown
was placed on tihe winner’s head
by James W. Washington, presi
dent and founder of the Exposi
tion.
Choice of the judges was not
made until 15 minutes before the
finals started. A list was present
ed and the judges chosen from
this list by members of the Expo
sition Authority.
They were Dean William Pic
kens, field secretary. AANCP,
New York; Jesse 0. Thomas, field
secretary, National Urban league.
Atlanta; Alonzo J. Aden, curator
of art, Howard university, Wash
ington; Mrs. Cordelia Johnson,
president, National B<’auty Cultu
rists’ association. Jersey City;
George W. Cox, vice president, N.
C. Mutual Life Insurance company
Durham; A. L. Foster, secretary.
Chicago Urban league; Lloyd
Isaacs, treasurer, Tuskegee Insti
tute; Mrs. Marjorie Stewart Joy
ner. nationally known beauty ex
pert, Chicago, an<l Donald Davis,
treasurer Hampton institute.
S. C YOUTH ACHES
FOR HITLER’S SCALP
Columbia, S C. Sept. 6 (ANP)—
George McDavid, 18, declared that
he was “as strong as any man on
earth’’ and flhe man to "get old
Hitler’’ last week when he applied
here to enter the army. His appli
cation said he wanted to join the
army because Ihe desired to be a
soldier, to learn traeds and to
‘.help get old Hitler before he
gets our country.’’
First Sgt. Chester R. Vaughn,
recruiting officer said he had fill
ed the ftr-st quota ever assigned
Ihere of ten Negroes for duty with
the 41st engineers at Fort Bragg,
N. C. but would "sign that boy up
if he got another quota.
TWO MEN TAKE LIVES IN
STRANGE SUICIDE PACT
Las Angeles (ANP)—Two mens
died in a down town hotel Thurs
day in a strange suicide pact.
They were Tom Winston, 15, and
Bill White, 19 Both men commit
ted suicide at a Japanese hotel.
Winston was first found in his
room by O. Oka. the proprietor^
who had begun to wonder at his
non-appearance so late in the
dry. Sprawled in a chair beside a
table, tihe man had been dead for
several hours. In a glass near his
hand were the remains of a deadly
mixture of ant-paste and whiskey.
Under the glass was a note
which read: ‘•'phis is the death
cup. It is very bitter, but I drank
it- It is the only way out.”
I The body was removed, and the
excitement that had arisen in the
neighborhood from the discovery
died down until 7 o’clock that
avening when it broke out anew.
Just as the clock struck the hour,
Bill White, in the adjoinging
room, crawled out on a balcony,
and in sight of scores of passers
by leaped four floors down to the
street. He died instantly, his body
crumpled into a grotesque bulk.
With few clues to work on, in
vestigators from the coroner’s and
the district attorney’s offices de
cided that the two men must have
agreed upon a suicide pact. They
were friends and had arrived in
town but a few days previously,
registering at the hotel together.
Night School For Adults
Changed To Technical
The Omaha Night High School
for adults has been transfered
from Central High School to Tech
nical High Sohool. September 9.
at 7 p. m. There is no tuition as
this school is under the Vocational
Department of the Omaiha Public
Schools and the W1PA. All teachers
meet the qualifications required
by the public schools of this city.
Classes will be offered in English,
science, languages, mathmematics.
economics (food a»d clothing),
history, dramatic, public speaking,
grammar, arithmetic and "civics.
High school and eight grade dip
lomas are granted by tihe public
sohool board to those students
who /have earner! the necessary
credits.
Classes will be held on Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday evenings
Omaha Public Schools
Work Projects Administration
Night High Sohool for Adults
September 9. 1940
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
Technical High School
Tentative Schedule
7:0Q to 8:00 p. m.
Geomery I or II..,._Miss Ryan
American History Miss Randall
World History . Mrs. Seesko
English I & Business English
..... Miss Welch
Spanish V .. Mrs. Haas
Public Speaking I ... Miss Decker
Everyday Science I.........
•Practical Eng. III... Mrs. Murphy
•Arithmetic . Miss Dill
•Citizenship .............. Miss Michael
Economics Foods & Clothing .
8:00 to 9:00
Algebra II. .. Miss Ryan
Spanish I.... ...Mrs. Haas
Modern Problems. .. Mrs. Randall
Public Speaking II Miss Decker
English III..;Miiss Welch
Everyday Science...
History of Eng Literature
.. Mrs. Seesko
•Reading-Spelling . Miss Dill
•Government ...... Mrs. Murphy
9:00 to 10:00
Algebra ...... Miss Ryan
English VII ....__ Miss Welch
Contemporary Hist. Mrs. Randall
German .Mrs. Seesko
Dramatics .™.„. Miiss Decker
French .. Mrs. Haas
•Grammar ... Mrs. Murphy
•History ....... Miss Dill
•Starred courses are Grade Work
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Parker
2825 No. 24th /have returned from
St. Louis, Mo. where they attend
ed the Elks Convention. Mr. Par
ker who is employed was on his
vacation- He said he had witness
ed a greater parade in St. Louis
by the Elks. Mrs. Parker said
she also was very much impressed
with the parade and the uniforms!
especially those of Memphis,
Tenn., and those of Miss Beal
Street In the parade. They said
they also impressed with the pro
gjess and beautiful homes of Ne
groes there.
Ace Electrician ....
Walter M. Dawson, only N'egro
member of the International Bro
therhood of Electrical Workers of
the World and an employee of the
Sargent Engineering company,
who will become maintenance el
ectrician for tne Bedford Dwellings
and Terrace Village in Pittsburgh
when his present contract expires,
The husband of Mary Cardwell
Dawson, president of the Natim
al Musicians’ Association, Mr
Dawson recently accompanied his
wife to Chicago to attend the as
sociation convention.
(ANP photo*—
California Publisher
Edward Grubbs, Editor and Pub
lisher of the Silhouette Pictorial
magazine, 665 N. Broadway. Los
Angeles, “the aristocrat of public
ations”. Mr. Grubbs, only Negro
proprietor of an engraving plant
on the West Coast, was born in
San Francisco 43 years ago, and
has lived in Sacramento and San
ta Cruz. At an early age Mr.
Qrubbs got an apprentice job in
an engraving plant and learned
tne trade. In 1921 he moved to
Los Angeles and worked for nine
years in white engraving plants as
an engraver, getting special exper
ience in moving picture engraving
In 1930 Mr. Grubbs established
the Acada Engraving plant, and a
year ago he began publishing The
Silhouette, wnich is distinguished
for its beautiful pictures.
In the season from November to
May, Cuba exported 109,688,799
pounds of fres(h vegetables to the
United States compared with 62,
039,546 pounds in the 1938-39 sea
son.
SATURDAY & MONDAY ONLY
-SEPTEMBER 7th & 9th
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2422 NORTH 24TH ST.
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This tear sheet and 22c will get you 1 pound of
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before the supply is gone. J >e Redeems Orange and
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