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Entered as Second-Class Matter at The Post Office, Omaua, Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, January 4,1941 OUR 13th YEAR—No. 42, City Edition, Copy 5c
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HARTEN CHALLENGES POWELL
HARTEN SAYS NATL* BAPTISTS WILL GIVE POWELL $5000 IF HE CAN PROVE STATEMENT
... 4cTHAT THE LATE L. K. WILLIAMS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF PIERSON IN ’30
BISHOP A. SHAW TO
SPEAK IN CITY ON
THURS., JANUARY 9
HIS SUBJECT WILL BE THY<
KINGDOM COME”
Bishop Alexander P. Shaw, the
resident bishop of the Baltimore
area of the Central Jurisdiction of
the Methodist Church will be the
guest speaker for the Inter-racial
meeting that will b<r held at the
First Methodist Church, 20th and
Davenport Streets on Thursday,
January 9th.
Bishop Shaw is a native of Mis
sissippi and received his college
training at Rust College, Holly
Springs, Miss. Taking his bach
elor of Art* degree in 1902. He
later attended Gammon Theolog
ical Seminary and received his
Bachelor of Divinity degree- Con
tinuing his education he attended
BostonU niversity and studied un
der Dr. Broden P. Bowne from
1906 to 1908.
The Doctor of Diviinity degree
was bestowed upon him by Phil
ander Smith College and Gammon
Theological Seminary.
Bishop Shaw: served as a pastor
for a number of years and served
as pastor of Wesley Methodist
Church Los Angeles, Calif., for
fourteen years and from that pas
torate, he was elected the Editor
of the Christian Advocate, South
western Edition
From this position as editor he
was elected a Bishop of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church by the Gsn
eral Conference in Columbus, Ohio
in 193C.
He served as resident Bishop of
the New Orleans Area from 1936
to 1940 and was assigned to the
Baltimore Area at the first ses
sion of the Central Jurisdicti vial
Conference in June 1940.
Bishop Shaw is a son of tha
parsonage and is a great leader of
his people,
Dr. G. D. Hancock will be host
to the Bishop while be is in Om
aha and Bishop Shaw will address
the congregation of Clair Chapel
Thursday evening^ following hip
address at the First Methodist
Church. The public is invited to
hear Bishop Shaw.
Several of our choirs will rend
er music on the program.
Rev. Patton Retires
Church and educational circles
throughout the country heard with
regret yesterday o fthe retirement
January 1, of the Rev. Robert W.
Patton, D. D- as Director of the
American Church Institute for Ne
groes, which operates, under the
auspices if the Church, eight nor
mal and industrial schools for Ne
groes in as many states in the
South.
One of the most widely known
and best loved of the leaders of
the Church Dr. Patton, militant
and picturesque, is also one if the
few rmaining links between this
generation and the ancient regime
• of the Southland. His great grand
father, Genral Hug Mercer emi
ing border warfare between Eng
land and Scotland, served as an
aide to George Washington in the
Revolutionary War. IIip father,
John Mercer Patton, one time Gov
ernor of Virginia, and associated
in Congress with Henry Clay,
John C Calhoun and Daniel Web
ster, was a member of the staff
of Stonewall Jackson in the war
between the States. Sarah Chur
ch Lindsay ,his mother numbered
among her ancestors James Madi
son and Zachary Taylor. She was
a belle in Richmond during the
NAACP ESTABLISHES SUND A Y
JAN 26 NATL DEFENSE DAY
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MR. & A. SPITNAGLE RE
TURNS TO OMAHA—
Charles B. Schmidbauer, Omaha
plant manager o fthe Falstaff
Brewing Corporaion, announced to
day that Stephen A. Spitznagle
had become associated with the ad
vertising department of that firm.
Spitznagle resigned in August
as Informational Representative of
the Nebraska State Labor Depart
ment. He recently returned to O
maha after an extensive eastern
trip.
Following his graduation from
Creighton university in 1924,
Spitznagle was a member of The
World-Herald editorial staff and
later was affiliated with the ad
vertising firm of Bozell and Jac
obs Inc. He formerly operated an
advertising agency in Omaha, a id
from 1933 to 1936 served as man
aging editor and business manager
of The True Voi<i, local weekly
newspaper. He resided in Lincoln
for the past two and a half years.
"I am very happy to return to
Omaha after an absence of sever
al years,” said Spitznagle'. ‘It
gives me .Treat pleasure to become
associated with the Falstaff Brew
ing Corporation, a national con
cern which several years ago sel
ected Omaha as the location for
one of the most modern brewing
plants in America, In my work
with Falstaff I hope to find time
to participate in various undertak
ings that will promote Omaha’s
growth and civic well-being.”
Civil War. It was from the porch
of the Patton home in Richmond
that Webster, in the late* fifties,
delivered a now famous oration
directed towhrd reconciliation of
the differences between North and
South which were then driving for
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TUSKEGEE ISSUES REPORT
ON LYNCHINGS FOR 1940
Dear Sir: I send you the fol
lowing information concerning!
lvncjhings for the year 1940. I
find, according to the reports
compiled in the Department of
Records and Research, that there
were 5 persons lynched in 1940.
This is 2 more than the number of
3 for the year 1939, 1 less than the
number 6 for the year 1938 and 3
less than the number 8 for each
of the years 1937 and 1936- One
of the persons lynched was taken
from the jail; 1 was shot to death
in jail.
There vtfiere 22 reports of in
stances in which officers of the
law prevented lynchings. Three
of the reported instances were in
northern states, and 19 of the re
ported instances were in southern
states. In 21 instances, persons
were removed or guards augment
ed or other precautions taken.
In 1 case, arm<*d force was us
ed. A total number of 28 persons
4 white men, 2 Negro women, and
22 Negro mi:n—-Were thus saved
from the hands of mobs.
Of the person,, lynched, 1 was
white and 4 were Negro. The of
fenses changed were wife beating
and drunkeness, 1: attempted
lap'*, 1: attempting to qualify to
vote, 1; and an altercation with
white man, 1; and failure to refer
p Association Organizes Nation
wide Drive For Jobs, And Aboli
tion of Discrimination In Nai’l
Defense
New York-—A call to its mem
berg and the American public
throughout the country to galvan
ize public opinion in their comm
unities to concrete action against
the segregation and discrimination
against Negroes in the Army,
Navy and Air Corps, and the bav
l ing of Negroes ,adult and youth,
from jobs in national defense in
dustries, was announced here to
day hy the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
The campaign, according to as
sociation officials, will culminate
in the celebration of “National De
fense Day’’ on Sunday January
26 when mass meetings will be
held in key citks throughout the
country. National groups includ
ing church, welfare, fraternal, so
cial and labor organizations that
have worked with the Association
in the fight to pass the Anti-I<yn
h hill will be asked to cooperate
in the campaign, the announce
ment said- The association urged
its members to work out commun
ity plans for calling upon minis
ters toset aside a part of their
Sunday services on January 26th
for the voicing of protestg against
discrimination under tb. national
defense program. The plan calls
for flooding1 Congress w?th post
cards, letters and telegrams, urg
ing the abolition of all discrimin
ation in the country’s armed forc
es and the opening up of job oppor
tunities to Negroes in defense
industry in the skilled as well as
unskilled occupations. The plight
of Negro youth, under the national
defense set-up, will also be pictur
ed with the participation of NA
ACP. youth councils in the drive.
Further information about the
conduct of the drive will be ann
ounced shortly, Association offic
ial said.
to a white man as "Mr." 1.
States in which lynchings oc
curred and the number in each
state are as follows: Georgia, 2;
Alabama 2^ and Tennessee, 1.
There are 5 cases concerning
which information, at the present
time, is regarded as uncertain or
incomplete. These cases are in the
following states: Georgia, 3;
Tennessee, 1; and Louisiana, 1.
BROTHERHOOD PLANS TO
NEGOTIATE AGREEMENTS
FOR TRAIN PORTERS OF
MO. PACIFIC RAILROAD
It was announced at the head
quarters of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, 217 West
126th Street, New York City, by
A. Philip andolph, International
President, that the Brotherhood,
as a result of wining an election
conducted by the National Mediat
ion Board for Train Porters on
the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
moves to negotiate the revision of
the exisitirvr agreement for Train
Porters of the aforementioned car
i rier
Conferences for the negotiations
will begin January 3, in the Miss
j ouri Pacific Building, St. Louis,
TO HEAD SECTION OF THE MEDICAL STAFF
AT FL1NT-GOODRIDGE HOSPITAL
New Orleans, Dec. 30—Drs. N.
R. Davidson and C- H. D. Bowers
will head section^ of the medical
staff at Flint-Goodridge Hospital,
beginning January first. Dr. Bo
wers holds the degrees of Bachel
or of Arts and Master of Arts
from New Orleans University and
the M. D. degree from the Mehar
ry Medical Cillege. Dr. Davidson
is a graduate of Morgan College,
Baltimore, Marylandt and the Ho
ward University School of Medic
ine in the class of 1934.
NEGRO SOLDIERS AT FORT
RILEY DON’T WANT DAVIS
FORT RILEY, Kan., Jan. 1 (by
Lazetta LiDrazzah for ANP)—If
lecently pyomoted Brig. Gen. B
0. Davis is assigned to duty with
the 9th and 10th cavalry in this
area, h'a may look forward to an
unhappy time. Most of the older
soldiers and the non-commissioned
officers have stated that they pre
fer w(ii'te officer® and currently
art “faring a hundred times better
under white officers than we
would under Gen. Davis ”
To understand the reasoning
back of this strange psychology,
one must undierstand the mental
makeup of the soldiers and non
commissioned officers who are
members of tb.se regular army
units. I know, for I served in the
9th cavalry for 12 years and left
it only last summer.
For almost two decades, the 9th
and 10th cavalrymen were little
more than uniformed chamber
maids, bootblacks, stablehands and
flunkies for white officers and
units, the 9th being restored to
active duty status only last Aug
us. During the intervening years
white commissioned officers care
fully selected and cu3tivat“d a
mob of semi-illiterate colored non
commissioned officers who receiv
ed special privileges in return for
depriving other Negro soldiers of
the few favorable advantages
granted the race by the war dep
artment. These men, and the pri-^
vates who have also gone along
wfith them to obtain special fav
ors, are the ones who are opposed
to Gen. Davis as their command
ing officer.
These ‘‘old soldiers”, struggling
along at the ranks of private and
corporal, despite more than 20
years of service, begin to predict
a formidable end to their freedom
and privileges. Some contended
that the rank of B. O. Davis would
inspire him to treat them worse
than any white commanding offi
cer under whom they have served.
These old soldiers were the lead
ers of the mob, which comprised
approximately 95 percent of the
soldiers of the 9th cavalry, that
opposed the late Major Monroe
S. Caver, their chaplain, in every
thing he planned during his last
days in v<*hich he devoted his spare
moments to documents which was
meant to aid those interested in
the recognition of the rights of
| Negro soldiers.
Near the close of November,
grapevine rumors suggested that
Gen. Davis had declined a chance
to serve with the 9th and 10th cav
alries. This, according to the
Uncle Toms, of the white officer
ed 9th and 10th, was the best
news that they had heard in years
Nevertheless, having served 12
years as a private of the 9th cav
alry, the writer has observed the
introduction of enough acts of s“
gregation, imposed upon Negro
soldiers and civilians if Ft. Leav
enworth and Ft. Riley to declare:
The suggestionB of such Negro
non-commissioned officers, are
one of the main reasons why
young, intelligent, progressive
minded Negroes are most always
kicked out of the army and given
dishonorable dischargee. Those
who are fortunate enough to get
an honorable discharge find them
mutilated with black marks of
sojne description, w'hich makie it
impossible for them to reenlist
should they desire to do so. Levi
Pierce, ond of the most brilliant
and efficient young men to scrvp
with the 9th and 10th, was doom
ed in such a way.
It is also interesting to note
that despite the fact that the 9th
cavalry was restored to duty, to
day Negroes in uniform in Ft.
Riley are still washing dishes, pol
ishing hoots, scrubbing bathtubs,
dumping garbage, grooming hors
es, flunkeying and doing other
menial chores for the families of
white commissioned officers. This
mean*; that the “progressive step’’
of the 9th cavalry is merely an
appeaser for the eyes of the Ne
gro press and its supporters
PROTEST WAR DEPARTMENT
PLAN TO SEGREGATE NEGRO
ES THROUGH CALLING UP
ONLY WHITE DRAFTEES
New York—A vigorous protest
against the studied policy of care
fully preparing the ground Ur
complete segregation of Negro
troops from white troops in train
ing camps by selecting and :n
ducting only whit|e draftees into
the army until “camp facilities
are available for Negro troops,"
was launched with the War Depart
ment on Monday, December 23rd
by the National Association foi
the Advancement of Colored peo
ple
The protest was made followii g
ATLANTA NEGRO CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE STUDIES ECO
NOMIC SITUATION OF NEGRO
EMPLOYEES
Atlanta, Dec. 24 (ANP)— The
Atlanta Negro Chamber of Com
merce has sent out questionnan-es
to business and manufacturing!
firms in an effort to get a picture
of the eflpnomic situation; facing
the Negroes in this city. Its aim
is to point out to what extent Ne
grods are providing employment
for themselves and to discern
which type of economic activhy
offers the greatest possibilities.
the issuance of an order to local
draft boards here on Monday by
New York City’s selective service
headquarters, advising board mem
bers that only white draftees will
be selected and inducted into the
army under the first 1941 druft
call until sometime during Febr
uary, when facilities for Negro
troops are expected to be ready.
The order means that, regardless
of number, Negro draftees will be
passed over and only white draft
ees will be ordered to report for
training during the present per
iod. '
Association officials said that.
they believed similar orders have
gone out to draft boards in many
sections of the country. The com
plete text of the type of order
sent to local boards in New York
city follows:
"Thij, is an order coming from
the Selective Service Headquar
ters (in New York). The Army
has calk'd for a total of 3,663
white ment o be furnished from
the city of New York in the initial
call for January, 1941. Your
quota for this call is 21 men- If
any of the men whose order num
bers bring them within your quota
call are Negro they will not be di
rected to report at the induction
station. Instead, notice of select
ion will be sent to these men and
they will be called for induction as
soon as camp facilities are avail
able for Negro troops, probably
during the month of February.
For example, if the quota for your
board is fifteen men and two out
of the first fifteen men on the or
der list are Negroes, the two Ne
groes will be given only notice of
selection, and the thirteen white
men will be given notice of select
ion and also the order to report
for induction.”
Draft Boards All White
From reports that continue to
com'o in from NAACP. branches,
as a result of the association’s
survey launched several weeks a
go to determine conidtions facing
the Negro under th'e draft law,
announcement was made today
that no Negroes are serving on
either local or advisory draft
boards in St. Paul, Minn . New
port, H. I.; Nashville ,Tenn.; Full
ton, Ark.; and Charleston, Mo
Tacoma .Washington, has one
Negro serving on the local board,
but none on the advisory board;
New Bedford, Mlass., reports none
on the local and two on the advis
ory board. Bridgeport, Conn, nas
one serving on the local and one
on the advisory board.
In none of the above named cit
ies are Negroes employed as paid
worker’s on either local or advisory
draft boards, it was reported
While ten Negro volunteer phyt>
ifrians wfork with local draft
boards in Nashville, Tpnn., they
examine only Negro draftees.
Negro physicians work with local
draft board in Nashville and in St.
Paul, Minn.
No N gio physicians work with
draft boards in any of the follow
ing cities: Tacoma, W’ash ; New
Bedford, Mass.; Newport, R. k;
Fulton, Ark.: and Charlestown,
Mo.
ANOTHER $1000 IF HE CAN
POINT OUT ANY OFFICIAL
STEALING FROM BAPTIST
DENOMINATION
• ••
New York City—Dr. Harten
States that “Powell will be given
a reward of ine thousand dollars
in cash, if he can point out the
thief,o r a single man or woman
holding a high office in the Nat
ional Baptist Convention who is
stealing from the denomination,
or who has knowledge of the fact,
but whose character is such that
he is a victim of ‘lockjaw’, which
h® referred to on Sunday.”
The Rev. Mir. Harten stated: “If
Adam Powell accepts, he will send
him the names of twenty thousand
people who will pack the Madison
Square Garden or the Golden Gate
Auditorium for the debate. The
loser of the debate will pay for the
Madison Square Garden or Audit
orium”
It appeared in one of New
York’s Weeklies and other papers
that Powell stated in sermon
Dec. I6th, "I know that When the
next President of the National
Baptist Convention in September
takes office, I will have him so
scared that I bet he won’t do any
stealing for the first three or four
months at least. There are cer
tain ministers who are upholding
dishonesty in high places. TIhe
reason they can't speak against
these things is that their own char
acter and integrity are not unques
tionable. 1 have the goods on
them,” he shouted. "I have the
goods on them from down in Tex
as to New York City. The minis
ter* who are calling me intemper
ate and unchristian are just talk
ing. They are afraid to do any
thing else.”
Likening those who have attack
ed him to ‘Rats’ Powell boasted,
“I will have them scurrying back
to the holes from whence they
aame, before I am through with
mem ”
Attack Fearless-Fighting Parson
Then he turned his poisonous
spleen upon the fearless fighting
parson, the Rev. Dr. Thomas S
Harten, one of the Vice-Presidents
of the National Baptist Convent
ion, and Pastor of the Holy Trin
ity Baptist Church of Brooklyn,
N. Y., Who had differed with Dr.
Powell in his atack on the Rev.
Dr. L. K. Williams And Dr. Hai
ten also made a speech at the Dec
ember Board Meeting in Louisville
Ky., and along with others, dem
anded that step* be taken to bring
Rev- Powell to task.
Last week, the Rev. Dr. Harten
answered the Rev. Adam Powell in
a most befitting manner. It is re
ported that he received hundreds
of messages of congratulation and
many came from Powell’s closest
friends who termed him ag the
very ‘‘incarnation of egotism."
The Rev. Harten declared, “I
am positive that when the debate
is over the entire nation will be
convinced thatt hey have been mis
led, in regards to Powell’s devot
ion to his race. And in attempting
to build himself by discrediting
Negro leaders, except those who
worship at his shrine, and dennunc
ing our wiorthvdhile tiji|titutfcjns;
the public will know that he is the
•I^IGGEST OPPORTUNIST’ that
the Ne»rro race has ever produced:
that he is fickle, unsafe and bis
criticism is destructive; with the
intent to kill others that he may
shine. He wanta to be ‘Hitler’.
He wants to be flooded with hun
dreds of invitations to speak, as it
were, and to be met at the station
with a brass band, and ‘Hai'-ed’
If he is a man he will prove his
assertion ccmceming the dishon
esty of officers of the National
Baptist Convention; but if he is a
coward, he will howl that he has
been misquoted in the press, or of
fer some other alibi- If he is not
able to prove that Adam Powell is
the most egotistical, chaep public
ity speaker in the entire race, the
and prove to the audience that a
man v#(ho would resort to besmirch
ing the character of a dead man,
and endeavor to step on his life
less body in order to be accepted
as a man of courage and a mod
ern hero is the cheapest of worth
less cowards and not only a dis
grace to the ministry, but a hind
rance to the progress of the race
and a curse to civilisation.”
Hsrten and Powell Battle
Broadcasted This W eek—
One of the Broadcasting Stat
ion son th. Negro News deferred
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