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The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21

, nual statements Of your company
"In addition to the serious problens
confronting business in general there
are problecs peculia to the electric
light and power industry, the mos
Immediately serious of which are
the rapid rise in taxes and labor ano
material costs on the one hand, ano
the demand for rate reductions
throughout the country on the Other
hand. Many utilities companies In
the United States are faced with COM
petition by the construction, through
the use of Federal funds, of unneces-
sary and duplicating electric power
plants and distribution systems. 1t
is hoped, however, that the public
utility industry, in common with all
other industries, will be permitted
through the maintenance Of just and
reasonable rates, to meet the added
cost Of doing business and to share
fairy with others in the return Of
national prosperity"
That is a nice polite way of telling
you that you savings invested in the
electric light industry are threatened
with destruction by competition of
tax-exempt publicly owned plants,
built with funds supplied o guaranteed
or supplied by the public treasures.
Also that your company hopes that
public regulation asd legislation af-
fecting it will not discriminate a
gainst it in COMPARISON with other in
dustries and that regulatory author
tiles will permit it to earn a fair re
turn based upon present day cost of
operation which applies to it as well
as to any other industry.
Your company is asking for a fair
deal to protect your swings and in
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21

when you buy grocerie or shoes or in
surance or transportation or some
thing of the Hnd-and the cost of
the commodity or service includes
the takes the business pays In other
words, the business imply act as the
mddleman-it collects money from
you and passes it on to the govern
ment-
Today the tax problem is an in
tensely personal issue to every
American. 1t stands in the way Of
I ployment, Of wage increases, Of in
dusarial expansion of productive
investment 1T los a barrier 10 re-
cov1y. 1t is going to become a big
ger prblem every year until the mil
lions Of wage rne realize how
vital its solution is t their well-beine
and their future.
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
LIBERIAN B STILL
AND PREY
OF MILITARY RAIDS


following the protracted delays in
the negotiations between the American
Finance Corporation, which is the
fiscal concern of the Firestone rub
Der plantations, and the Liberian
Government, reveal that Liberian
tribes Of the hinderland are now being
attack BY civilized Negroes Onion
rovia-
These tribes surrendered their arms
to a League Of Nations Commission in
1882. and this is a blow to the League,
because DIR. Melville D. Mackenzie,
TIN Scotch physician who headed the
League commission in thes utnmerof
1882, persuaded the Kroo tribes that
Justice would be done if they abandon
ed revolution. Theirguns were sur
rendered, but the one year truce has
long expired and the tribeSmen who
were treated with white mans justice
are now helpless before reprisas.
Dr.. Mackenzie is said to be near
h~eartbroken ov~.- the betrayal Of the
Kroo chief whose confidence he won.
Meanwhile, although the American
State Department has gained the
Firestone company's acceptance Of
the League plan for the rehabilitation
OF Liberia, Monrovia has posed a serie
of notifications which are considered
as completely undoing the plan.
These reservations were iterated in
a formal document from the Liberian
Government today, leaving the League
helpless either to solve the question
or return it to the United States,
which deposited it on the Leagues
doorstep
League officials it is claimed are
hopeful that the three countries most
interested will find a means Ia mt
pressure on the Liberians. The diff
flculty here, it is said frankly, Is
that President Roosevelt recently de-
cared against crossing frontiers and
intervening, and that this would bar
the sending of a v3arship, which,
those who know Monrovia declare,
would alone le eloquent
In the meantime the unaryled a v
ages are the prey of a military mis-
sion sent by the Monrovian Govern
ment, which, the League was inform
ed through diplomatic quarters, claims
the m4en forced labor as carriers and
scatters their de~fenseless women asd
children into the jungle.
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"The only connection which this
Association has had with the case.~
continued Mr.. White "has beeen hat
of fulfilling TO the letter a written
agreement with the l. L. d., made on
April2, 1888. This agreement pro
vided that those persons who prefer
contributing TO the legal defense Of
the defendants through the N A. A.
G. p. could do SO. Under this agree
ment the N "A. "A. @. p. could do %.
Under this agreement the N. A. A. G..
p. has raise. and expended to date
through the 1. J.. D., a total Of 1882
for Investigations, travelling expenses
of lawyers and Investigators, tran
script of record and the like"
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
INTERESTING DOCU
MENTS GIVEN ~
HAMPTON SCHOOL

Hampton Institute, va, Aplii
Through the courtesy Of the secretary
If Mrs. CYRUS Mccormick of Chicago
Illinois. two copies of an extremely III
~teresting document have come into
the possession of Hampton Institute
Dated at Hampton Institute on Wash
ington's birthday, 1896, they r du-
| plicate copies of a Resolution on the
! Subject of an Arbitration adopted by
the Officers, Teachers and Students
| of Hampton Normal and Agricultur-
al Institute" One copy is addressed
"To Her Majesty The Queen of Eng
land;" the other, ITO His Excellency,
The President Of hte United States"
The resolution reads
"Whereas it is our opinion that war,
as a metod of deciding controversies
between nations, is like duelling OF
individuals, a relic of savergy, and
should be resorted to, only in case
of an absolute and crying injustice,
that can be set right by no other
"Therefore: Resolved, that we do
desire and entreat the Governments
of the United States and Great Brl-
tain, to establish by formal treaty
some system of arbitration for con-
cluding all differences which may
arise between the powers and when
may be of 80 grave a nature as 70
fail Of settlement by the usual al
plomatic agencies and metods-"
The case in which these resolutions
are ;ncIosed are excellent examples
Of the woodworker's craft, were
made by students in the Carpenter
Shop Of Hampton Institute. Inc
nanels are made from q piece OF Goa
Wood. from beam taken from the
Church in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands
in which the father of General 3. y.
Armstrong, founder OF Hampton
Normal and Agricultural lnstiou'e
preached for many yeas. as a mission.
airy.
The border and monogram are OF
Oak, from the fraame OF the y ?
Ship Cumberland, sunk in Hampton
Roads. March s, 1862, by the Confed-
crate Bate Ship "Merrimac.'
The petitions are signed by the
following: DR.. Hollis Burke FRS
sell and the members Of his admin
istrative staff; the Trustees led by
Robert C. Ogden; the Industrial
Superintendents. Officers and Clerks,
Mtrons and Housekeepers, the fac
ulty and the entire student body, COM
posed of both Negroes and Indians.
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
A STEP TOWARD
FIRE PREVENTION

Al announcement from the Ma
tionai Board of Fire Underwriters,
IS John Street New York Coty. con-
tains an offer Of great interest to
progressive communities.
Experience has proven that the ex-
tensive use Of fire drill towers BY
firss departments is extremely valua-
BILE in training the personel to com
lat actual bla1es. Many towns lack
towers, because of the substantial ex-
pense that must be undergone in
dcsinging and building them. Real
izing the need of protecting life and
property to the utmost, w. E. NAL
laheu, General Manager of the Ma
tional Board. has agreed to furnish
without charge to any city official
plans for either a model tower of
steel a rs foot tower of heavy limb
er or a 54-foot tower Of heavy timber.
They may be built with CWA labor,
and their cost to the ci.nmunity is
thus the naerest fraction of their
value.
Fire chiefs and city officials in
a number of communities have re-
ceived plans for towers, and they are
now under construction. Youngstown
Ohio, for 'enamjples has taken ad,
vantage of CWA work to erect q
Monumental drill tower out of local.
ly quarTied stone The bulk of cities,
so far, r employing heavy timber
construction.
Whatever the size or type of the
tower, it marks a definite step for
ward in the cause Of fire control in
the town building it. The opportuni-
ty should not be missed.
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
SAYS MISS OVINGTON
T lei TOUR

New 1OTK, April 1o-RSIuTnnS 10
this city after a 60-day tour Of the
South during which she addressed
two churches, one forum, sever COM
mittees, fourte n colleges and junior
colleges eleven high school, eight
grammar schools, one school Of social
service. one library school and four
teen branches Of the N. "A. A. c. p,
Hiss Mary w. Ovington, treasurer of
the association, declared that except
for St. Augustine, FLORIDA is indif-
fcrent or cruel or both" to its Negro
citizens.
AS evidence she cited the fact that
"there were not enough people who
dared to jon" the Association at San
! I'd. Florida; that she believed she
should haved embarrassed" the Ne
groes in Tampa. Miami, and West
Palm Beach if she had visited them,
and that the Negroes of Winter
Park are virtually in prison
Everything that I enjoyed, she
declared referring to the many at
fractions offered by Winter Park
was close to them They could not
enter the library OF the moving
n;cture house. They were not expect
ed to 70 to any Rollins college per
formance- They could not bathe i
any one of the % lakes, not even in
sur Inner when the tourists were away
After $3.50. unless they were working
for the whites, they must be on their
SIDE of the railroad track. Their pay
was small. A laundry that cost me
S1.30 when given out at the hotel
cost thirty cents when given to 2
colored woman who called for it anG
returned it in "a hours Few hae
non y to go the larger town Of Or
lando. Their neighborhood was darl
at night There is good feeling al
Winter Park, but the Negro who die
not keep his place would destroy
the social fabric"
: Negroes and New Deal in Dixie
Commenting on the workings O.
the New Deal as she observed i
on her lengthy tour Miss Ovingto1
declared: "the politicians are in the
first row, the poor whites in the sec
end. and the Negroes a bit back il
the third line. Naturally they get
what the others leave in many places
where the whites are pretty hungry
and need work, the leavings are OLE
clothes, some food, little work. Blu
where the money is considerable, tn,
Negro may get a shovel and tw,
white men lounging by them as over
seers."
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
A NEGRO STATE

THERE has reached our desk a bulletin Of The National
1 Council for the establishment of a 10th state. The
bulletin sets forth the proposal of the council which is as
ton, and also tells of the suffering of the Negro in the
United States for more than three hundred years. The
bulletin sets forth the proposal of the council whirh is as
follows:
We propose, therefore, the ultimate establishment of
a new state in the United States, where colored people in
their own destiny unbridled and ~unhampered by artifi-
cial barriers; wherein they can have a chance to raise
the lot of their masses from exploitation, misery, wretch
ededness and insecurity; wherein they can become re-
spected, industrious, thrifty citizens, self governing, self
reliant and self sustaining, always to be counted upon us
as unfalteringly loyal to their country and a credit to all
that is noblest and best in it. Thus we plan that the
Negro secure an actual physical, geographic area for the
establishment of a state like any other commonwealth in
the United States.
The proposal, to our minds, is the most worthy
movement begun by the American Negro since slavery,
and should be endorsed by every thinking member Of the
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
MISS ANTON HUFF EN-
ROBINS

Miss Anton Huff, president of the
Robins Club Of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Who entertained at Robins nest which
was the beautiful home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Leland,2824 No. Goth
Street, proved herself to be a de-
lightful hostess. The most talked
of event was held last Saturday even
ing.
Her guests were: Usher board of
Tabernacle Baptist Church of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, the Young Peoples Demo-
cratic Club of Omaha, and Andy
Kinks IL Clouds of Joy, who were
appearing at the beautiful Chermont
Ball room Saturday and Sunday.
They also played for the dance at the
Dreamland. Monday night.
1t was a party long to be rendered
by all who were fortunate engough to
be present.
Bridge wa enjoyed early in thu
evening by those present; about IL o.
clock the card tables wer removed
and dancing was enjoyed to its high
est. All kinds of music was to be
had for Kinks boys all play the piano
A. delightful luncheon was served by
Miss Huff and her assistants. There
was not a dull monaent at the party
until the last geust had departed from
the nest.
Those from the Bluffs who were
at the party Miss Wilma Harold.
Miss Bessie Reynolds, Mr.. Harold
Reynolds, Mr.. Henry Reynolds, Mr.
Manson l.. James, Mr.. Irving i.
Clark. df Minneapolis Mrs. Viola
Reynolds. Mrs. Ida Giles and those
rom Omaha who attended the party
we're: Mr.. j. d. Lewis, Mr.. Eldridge
cooper. Mr.. w. Cooper Mrs. Lucille
edwards. Mr.. asd Mrs. Chas. Pick
rs, Mrs. Beatrice McRae. Mr. and
FRS. Mabel Fields, Eta Butler, Miss
,ulu Green,BMiss Ruth Burleson, Mr..
Irgustine Mack Mr.. and Mrs. Chas-
,owden. Miss Stenola Williams, Mr..
Twin Goodwin, Mr.. Gearld Phillips,
fr. Ernest Williams, Mr.. Robert
'loyd, Mr.. sam Barton. Mr.. George
,arton, and Andy Kinks men we're:
Ir. Earl A. Thompson, trumpet. Mn
ed NJ. Brinson, banjo and guitar,
[r. John Harrington, sax and clari-
ct. Mr.. Henry Snodgrass- bus driver.
nd Mr.. Benjamin Thigsen, drummer.
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
EDITORIAL
WHY THE NEGRO HAS NOT PROFITED FROM
THE NRA
THE MIRA

THOUSANDS Of gallons of Printers ink has been ex-
pended by the Negro press ttling their readers that the
NRA and the various Codes under it, has worked against
the interest of the Negro, instead of working to their adj
vantage, but little or no ink has been used in telling why
this condition obtains. When the news was first flashed
over the air and the telegraph wires, and printed in the
press that President Roosevelt, with the assistance of his
advisors and Cabinet Members, was at work divising
some means by which the millions of idle men, who were
walking the streets and going from place to place in
quest of employment, may, through that means find the
much needed jobs, in every hamlet, village, town and
city, men (white) began to organize or revive the old or
carnations which had been partly or completely de-
came a law, if found those who had prepared for it, in a
much better position to profit by it, than those who failed
to take advantage of the injunction of the President to
organize.
The General Labor Provision, Article q, Section |,
of the Hotel and Restaurant Code says: Employees
shall have the right to organize and BARGAIN COL
LECTIVELY through representatives of their own
choosing, and shall be free from interference, restraint
or coercion Of employers of labor, or their agents in the
designation, of such representatives, or in self organiza-
ton, in ohtre concerted activities for the purpose of col
lective bargaining, or other mutual aid or protection"
BY this it can be readily seen that there is no excuse Tor
the timidity, which has so long kept the Negro from or
ganizing for the purpose Of his Industrial and economic
betterment.
The President has told US that we have a right to
organize; that we will be protected in that right; also the
right to organize and bargain collectively through repre-
s~entatives of your own choosing; and be free from re-
straint, or coercion of employers OF labor and their
agents. AS a group, for some reason, we have failed to
avail ourselves of these great privileges, by organizing
the different and various crafts, in which we are employ
ed, that we may make proper representation through the
regular channels to the NRA Code Officers; that we may
receive due consideration the same as other citizens, we
must cease our "wailing and ~gaushing of teeth" and cry
ing to the high heavens, and use the instruments at hand
to secure our temporal salvation.
Awake from your lethargy before it is too late.
Throw aside your Shiny coat of sefiShneSs, and put on the
coat Of Courage, Racial Confidence and Sacrifice, that we
may use the only agency by which we can hope to get our
full measure Of benefit from the NRA. To do this we
must organize.
M. l. Harris, President Omaha Hotel Walters As
ISOLATION. 1929 LIZ N. oath st. Phone ia. 1904.
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
Y. A. A. G.. p. LAWYERS
NOT TRYING TO GET
S~COTTSRORO CASE

New York, April 13-ln a lettr TO
Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief attorney
for the Scottsboro boys, WaltrWhite,
secretary of the National Association
for the S~cottsboro boys Walter White,
People denied a statement in the New
York Herald Tribune alleging that
the prison warden at Birmingham
Alabama is threatening certain Scots
boro defendants with dire consequence
es If they should not dispense with
the services Of the International
Labor Defense, a Communist organ
ization, and accept counsel offered by
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Cofored People"
I'VE sincerely trust" wrote Mr.
White, "That in this you are not being
made victim of propaganda We
wish to state unequivocally that the
National Association for the Adj
of Colored People has Of
fered no lawyers to the defendants
since our withdrawal from the case in
january 1882, when the defendants
chose to be defended by counsel re-
taned by the International Labor De-
tense. Thsi Association has had no
communication of any. nature what
ever with the defendants since that
date"
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
SCHOOL HEAD l.
SELF N SHOOTS 3

Sud1lSsIous w. ne
State School for Negro Deaf and
Blind, was the scene Of a double kill
isg on Friday April IS, when the
superintendent, James L. Hill drew a
revolver and killed one of the faculty
members, wounded three others and
shot himself. The shooting occurred
at the close Of a talk by Hill while
forty-two stuoen.s and the school en-
ployees we're at breakfast.
After the shooting in the dining room
Hill left the scene and later was
found dead in a private office across
from the dining room, he having shot
himself. The man he killed was w.
B. Ellison Jr., instructor in tailoring.
HE just said a few words and
pulled out a gun and began to oshoot.
Everybody began to run and hide"
said Felix Warren instructor in
barbering and one Of the wounded.
The shooting brought disclosure by
the State Board Of Control that one
account of tailor and barber shops
operating by the school have been I'M
der investigation.
Hill shot at Ellison, then fired down
the table, witnesses said. The wound
ed are Warren, Mrs. Fannie Herold,
an instructor in the school for the
deaf, and Helen Briggs, a cook. Wit
said Hill referred in his talk to
the investigation Of accounts and de-
fend his honesty.
The deaf and blind school is on
State property adjoining the West
Virginia State College, at Institute,
West Virginia of which John w. Davis
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
TOWNS IN DEEP
SOUTH" WOULD FORM
N. A. A. C.. P.

N<w YORK, April -13-t1ye new
branches of the Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, four
OF which are in the deep South,
are IN process of organization, the
national offices announces. Jennings,
La, has secured 70 charter members
-p9 more than the required 5o-and
has made formal application for a
its required number of charter MEM
bes. Coushatta, La. has secured 30
members and asks if it can divide
it branch because mhny residents
live on the other side of the river
and Will have to go fifteen tniles
each way to attend a meeting. Nat
chez, Miss. wishes to organize a
branch. Rahway,N. J. has secured
its full quota and asks a charter.
The new branches in thelower Miss
issippi delta region are regarded as
the result of the successful fight
Of the N. A. A. C. P. against exploit
atoms of Negro workers in the levee
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21

race in the United States. The struggle under which the
Negro is now living in the United States today is bound
to result in his ultimate defeat as a citizen. The straws
plainly show which way the wind is blowing, and it is only
a matter of time before the same thing that is happen
ing to the Jew in Germany, or worse, is going to happen
to the Negro in America.
Members of the race who love their posterity will
be willing to make real the plans Of the National Council
of the movement. Of course there are many Negroes in
the country who are goi = 70 q disagree with the move
ment, and if there were not it would be a good sign that
Che plans are no good. Then there are thousands of the
race who have never realized the plight of their group in
America who will assume a disinterested part.
There ought to be a branch of the Council in every
city of the United States with a Negro population of
1900. Certainly there ought to be a branch in every
the movement, and intends doing every thing it can TO
acquaint the Negro public with its program.
The Omaha guide., 1934-04-21
UTILITY INVESTORS
MUST DEMAND
A FAIR DEAL

IF you happened to be n of the
million or so investors in electric and
power companies in the United States
similar to the following in the an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
MAY DEPARTMENT
STORE SALES RISE
Increase of II Per Cent Is
Shown Over 1888.
By Times Special

By Times Special
CHICAGO, June 14.-Department
store sales throughout the country
during May increased II per cent
over last year, but were 2 per cent
above the April sales this year which
is less than the estimated seasonal
amount.
Index of the federal reserve
board, based on preliminary figures
for the month has been placed at
IT per cent on the basis of the
1923-25 average as 100 per cent.
The estimate is based on figures
from $40 reporting stores in 284
leading cities in the United States.
Sales for the first five months this
year, according to the reports, are
20 per cent ahead of the same
period last year.
Most of the gains yer made in
the central section of the country.
Cleveland and st. Louis led the
months gain with rises of "a per
cent each. Cleveland led all stores
in the five-month period, sales ris-
ing 80 per cent. st. Louis had a
gain of 26 per cent for the period.
Smallest gains for the month
we're made by San Francisco, l per
cent, and Boston, 3 per cent. Both
cities, however, reported IA per cent
gains for the first five months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
SECURITY LIST
TURNS UNEVEN;
TRADING LIGHT
ReiChsbank Declares Six
Months Moratorium on
Transfers.
BY ELMER c. Waller
United Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, June 14.-The New
York Stock Exchange vas upper
turbed by the declaration of the
Reichsbank of a siX-month mora
forum on cash transfers beginning
July l. Prices were mixed in a mar
row range with trading light.
Other markets were equally I'M
rufHed by the German move. Silver
was steady. Cotton eased slightly.
There was little trading in the Ger
man mark, which lost only is cent.
German bonds dropped in London
and then rallied. On the Stock Ex-
change German So per cent bonds
the Young plan loan-declined
less than a point to 36h.
A feature in stocks was Auburn
Automobile, which broke IA points
to a new low for the year at 28A.
The issue has steadily dropped from
3615 in the last few days on omiS-
sion of the dividend. The high
for the year was 57a. Other auto
mobile shares were steady.
A long list of stocks held at the
previous close at the outset. Among
them were steel common, Anaconda
and General Motors.
Small gains were noted in Cen
eral Electric and Westinghouse,
Chesapeake g. Ohio and New York
Central. Trading continued dull
after the opening with prices mixed.