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Entered ee Second Claai Matter at Poet Office, Omaha. Nebr., under Act of March 8. 1S74. Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, October 19, 1940 OUR 13th \ EAR Number 31
Bueinese Phone WE. 1517 ’ ___
C. C. Galloway Named State Director
Colored Division Republican State i
Committee
C. C. Galloway, Republican State Chairman
Mr. Kemieth Wherry announces the appoint
ment of Mr. C. C. Galloway as Director, Colored Div
isor),, Republican State Committee in Nebraska.
Mr. Galloway has been for many years the direct
ing force in the founding and development of The
Omaha Guide Printing and Publishing Company
which for the past fourteen years has printed and
published The Omaha Guide. During this period
there has beeh developed a printing establishment
which represents a large capital investment.
Aside from his business interests Mr. Galloway
hos beerf one of the few men who has been active in
every civic effort for the advancement of the Color
ed People arid the community. He is not a politician
and has no flair for it, but has accepted the post as
Director, Colored Division of the Republican organi
zation, as a patriotic duty to his country and his race.
He asks the co-operation of all the people who love
liberty and wish to realize it here in their native land.
OMAHA BAR ASSOC.
CONDUCTS POLL
The Omaha Bar Association has
conducted a referendum of the
members of the Bar in Douglas,
Washington and Burt Counties of
the candidates running for elect
ion to judicial office on November
5th of this year.
Members of the Bar in Douglas
Washington and Burt Counties
were eligible to vote for candidates
for District Judge but for the of
fice of County Judge, only mem
bers of the Bar association of
Douglas County were eligible and
for the office of Municipal Judge
only members of the Bar within
the City of Omaha were eligible to
vote.
The Omaha Bar Association is
giving to the public for its inform
ation the results of this referen
dum, but is taking no further part
whatever in the campaign.
For District Judge (nine to be
elected)
Herbert Rhoades 453 |
Charles Leslie 443
Arthur C. Thomsen 424
James M. Fitzgerald 387
Willis G. Sears 381
Frank M. Dineen 362
Ross King 351
Edson Smith 336
John A. Rhine 334
Raymond McGrath 312
W. A. Day 285
Henry J. Beal 272
J. C. Travis 217
James C. Kinsler 173
David 0. Matthews 135
John C. Barret 94
Henry F. Pederson 71
Grenville P. North 67
For County Judge (one to be
elected)
Bryce Crawford( Sr. 295
C. jj. Southard 251
For Municipal Judge (five to be
elected)
Perry Wheeler 489
John Battin 422
Dennis O’Brien 356
Georg© Holmes 306
Lester Palmer 294
J. J. Krajicek 292
Gerald LaViolette 284
E. M. Melvin Kennedy 165
Patrick O’Connor 83
Fred Anheuser 78
873 Ballots sent out. and 619 re
turned
Hampton To) Inaugurate
President, November ?5
Hampton, Va-, Oct. (ANP> Dr.
MSalcolm S. MacLean will be form
ally inaugurated as president of
Hampton institute pn the morning
of Nov. 25. Following the cere
monies in Ogden hall and the ad
dress by a nationally known speak
er, there will be a two day round
table conference on the Negro’s
| part in national defense.
W. RITCHIE
SLAYER
GIVEN THE
CHAIR
(BY BILLY DAVIS)
JURY FINDS ROGERS GUILTY
AFTER TWO HOURS DELIBER
ATION
Twenty two yea>- old John Rog
ers who was born in Star City, Mo
was found guilty of first degree
murder by the jury on October 16,
of Wallace Ritchie, former cheu
ffeur of Mr. Fred Hovey. King of
Ak Sar Ben. Rogers attorney
John Baldwin put up an excellent
plea for Rogers. He tried to con
vince the jurors to give Rogers
life in the penitentiary, but his
plea was in vain according to the
decision of the jurors.
Rogers admitted the kiling cf
Ritchie when he took the stand.
He admitted the same thing that
he said when he gave his statement
to the police dept.
After twelve witnesses gave
their statements and left the stand
Rogers was put on the stand by
his attorney and he gave the same
statement that he previously had
gave the arresting officers. He
didn’t deny one thing that he had
told the officers after they arrest
ed him.
Rogers was very cool and calm
all during the trial with no emot
ional display at all.
The prosecuting attorney, Mr.
Teauser put up a very stiff plea
to the juiy demanding the death
p nalty followed by the brilliant
County Attorney Mr. English in
his closing argument.
The defendant John Rogers said
that he called Ritchie front the
drug store at 24th and Lake about
8:15 p. m. on August 15th to take
him to South Omaha but instead of
having Ritchie to pick him up at
24th and Lake^ he told him to pick
him up at 25th and Lake. Then
he told Ritchie to drive him to
South Omaha to see a friend, of
his. After they got to South O
maha, he told Ritchie to drive him
to Ralston to see another friend.
After they had gotten out aways,
Rogers said that he stuck a gun
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Scores Belated
New Deal Repud
iation of “Smear
Willkie Circular’'
Lamar Perkins, former Assem
blyman and chief of the Colored
Division of the Republican State
Committee, in a statement today
(Monday) scouted ‘“belated New
Deal repudiation of the “Smear
Willkie” circular distributed by
the Colored Division of the Not
ional Democratic Committee,’’ and
declared ‘‘the action of the New
Deal high command in pinning the
blame for this disgraceful camp
aign blunder upon Roosevelt col
ored workers is a graphic illustra
tion of the administration’s treat
ment of the colored people of A
merica.”
The statement of the former leg
islator. made at Republican State
Committee headquarters 41 East
42nd street, follows:
"Edward J. Flynn, Chairman of
the National Democratic Commit
tee, has now made belated repud
iation of the linear Willkie’ cir
cular—a disgraceful piece of Jew
Deal propaganda reflecting upon
the German ancestry of Mr. Will
kie, his wife, and both their fa ' I
ies. *
"Mr. Flynn's repudiation corn’s
too late to be convincing. It is
marked by tongue in cheek piety,
and it is of a patter^ in purpose
and phraseology, with New Deal
smear statements made public
these last eight years. Apd to
those who deny this assertion, I
urK« they examine the back files
of the newspapers since Mr. Roose
velt first took Presidential office.1
These files show that every single
person of sufficient consequence
to have his or her anti-New Deal
views published in the press has
been smeared by the New Deal’s
uge propaganda machine.
“Let those who doubt the accur
acy of my assertion consider the
attempts to smear former Gover
nor A1 Smith, Raymond Moley Dr.
Tugwell, L^wis W. Douglas. Dr.
Stanley High and John J. Raskob,
to mention but a few of those as
sailed.
“Let them consider the purge of
Representative John |J. O'Connor,
and the attempts to purge Senat
or George and other dully elected
representatives of the people who
refused to become legislative putty
in the hands of Mr. Roosevelt
“Let them consider the New
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Announcts Temporary
Committed For Center
Dr. C. W. Pollard .temporary
chairman of the Woodson Center a
Community Chest agency, ann
ounced today the personnel of a
temporary committee for adminis
tration of the Center.
The Woodson Center, which up
to two months ago was part of the
Social Settlement Association, >s
now a separate agency in the
Community Chest and is being ad
ministered to under the jurisdict
ion of this special committee of
the Omaha Council of Social Ag
encies.
A complete study of the prog
ram needed to meet the require
ments of the area which Woodson
Center serves is being made very
soon- Upon completion of the
study, plans will be made for a
permanent administration of the
Center, and a new board will be
formed.
Activities are being carried on
at the present time at the Wood
son Center in its old location. The
Committee appointed by Pollard is
as follows:
Mr. Lew Etter( Mrs. J. A. Wil
liams, Dr. K. W. Klusmire. Miss
Ruth Rainey, Mrs. H. B. Bergquist
Mrs. Gertrude James, Mr. Charles
Stewart, Mr. George Redd, Mrs.
Marie Tuckeri Rev. G. A. Stains.
Dr. Joseph P. Swoboda, Mr. Frank
Bosanek, Mr. C- H. Walls, Mr.
Dean Collins Consultant, Rabbi
I David Wice, ex-officio.
ROOSEVELT RALLY TO BE
STAGED IN NEW MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN
A> DR.V B. POWFI.L
20)000 Expected To Pack Historic Sports Arena Mon.
Eve., October 28th. When Prominent Speakers Will
Vie With Musical Comedy Stars Flor The Honors of
The Night. Broadcast of Meeting To Be Over NBC.
DEMOCRATS OPEN
HEADQUARTERS
The Northside Democrats open
ed their headquarters at 24th and
Ohio Streets,—-Cochran for United
States Senator.
Mr. John O. Woods in charge, as
sisted by Attorney Charles F.
Davis and Mr. Bobbv Brown
MEET TO FORM ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Interested in the formation of a National Advisory Committee
of Negro Democratic women, the group pictured above lunched
with Mrs. Crystal Byrd Fauset, national director of work among
Negro women for the 1940 Presidential campaign, on Monday
afternoon at the Y. W. C. A., in New York. Atty. Julian IX
Rainey, natonal director of the Negro division of the Democratic
national campaign, was the guest speaker. A second meeting is
planned for Saturday, Oct. 12, at 1 o’clock at the same place.
In the front row (left to right) are Mrs. T. Arnold Hill; Mrs.
Bertha Green and Mrs. Ruth Brown Price, co-leaders of the Nine- ^
teenth and Twenty-first Assembly Districts, respectively; Mr,
Rainey and Mrs. Fauset; Mr.. Lester A. Walton, wife of the U. S.
Minister to Liberia; Mrs. Bessy. J. Bearde*.Mrs.James. S, Wat
son In the middle row (left to right) are Mrs. Mae Irwin, Mrs.
Estelle Meade. Mr.. Mary Louiee Brown, Mrs. Frances Dougherty,
Mr.. Harry Bragg, Mr.. Eddie Johnson Mr.. M»rgaret V Brown
Mrs. Beatrice Elmore. Mrs. Phillip J. Jones. In the top row (left
to right) are Miw Ruth Aiken, Mrs. WilliemT. Andrews. Mrs.
Leonora Brinkerhoff. Mrs. LHlian Watery Mrs Henrietta De
Mendez, Mrs. Sadye Carter Williams, Mrs. Thelma Berladl ,
Boozer and Mr*, Sgftittu Atty. Lucille Edwards Chance.
I NEW YORK—D. C. B. Powell,
Negro P'lblcity Director for the
Democratic National Committee
for the re-election of President
Roosevelt, announced today that
he had secured New Madison
Square Garden for the night of
October 28th, wherein to stage a
monster “Roosevelt Re-Election
Rally.
“And it may be possible for the
President to be with us,” said the
astute, energetic businessman and
newspaper publisher. “It’s onl a
very remote possibility, but never
theless we have hopes that he will
be with us for a minute or two.
But there is one thing I can posit
ively and most emphatically tell
you gentlemen now” said Dr. Pow
ell to the reporters at his press
conference in the Biltmore Hotel,
“and that is, the President will not
mako a speech.”
The program, as outlined by
Dr Powell, will be of two and a
half hours duration. Among the
speakers scheduled to take the ro
strum will be Hon. Harold L. Ick
es, United States Senator, Robert
F. Wagner United States Senator,
James M. Meade and United Stat
es Representative Joseph Gavagan
Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset, only Col
ored woman elected to a 8eat in the
State Legislative body and Julian
D. Rainey, prominent Boston at
torney, Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr. of
the AME. Church.
Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald,
Catherine Jarboro> the Philharm
onic Glee Club and the Imperial
Lodge 127 Elks Band are some of
the musical entertainers that will
appear. The doors of the famous
sports center will be thrown open
at eight oclock and admission will
be absolutely free. For that rea
son the public is advised to come
early and be sure of getting the
better seats near the front.
1 he NBC Blue network will
broadcast the meeting from the
.Madison Square Garden the West
side of gth Avenue between 49th