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The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
CANDIDATE FOR u. S. SENATE
ACQUITTED or RIOT CHARGE

NORFOLK, Va-(CNA) Alexand-
er Wright, Negro dock worker and
Communist candidate for U. S. Sem
ator, was acquitted last week Of a
charge of "inciting TO riot" in the
court Of Judge NJ. Christian.
Wright has been active in organ
ization Of Negro and white longshore
men here. State witnesses in court
said that he had "toid the workers to
petition the government for relief an
to organizein defense Of their rights
When faced with this accusation,
Wright said in court.
Would it please you better if
] had told the workers to starve
quietly?"
When the case was dismissed, Ne
gro and white workers who had
thronged the court room carried
| Wright outside and held a victory
meeting before the court house.
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cleveland GIVES S10O TO
AAAGP anniversary FUND

NEW YORK, Sept 19-The 18th
anniversary campaign fund for the
National Association for the Advance
nnent Of Colored People was swelled
this week by a contribution Of 500
from the Cleveland, Ohio branch. This
is the first large sum received in the
fall drive, and is the result of branch
activity during the "slow" summer
months The money was contributed
by nearly sixty clubs, churches, as
sociations and individuals solicited
members of the Cleveland branch
MissL. Pearl Mitchell is president o.
the branch.
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WILL TELL oF THE STRUGGLE
or TIE UNEMPLOYED Ne
GRO nF THE SnITH IN
TRYING TO UNI TE

The scheduled appearance in Omaha
on the goth, Of Angelo Herndon,
young Negro organizer Of the IN
employed, under sentence Of twenty
years on the Georgia chain gang for
his leadership of the unemployed, has
aroused such interest, that the COM
mittee in charge of the meeting has
cancelled arrangements for the Work
ers Cultural Center, originally engag-
ed, and has taken a larger hall, the
Dreamland, at 1928 No. Oath ST., for
the evening Of the meeting.
Herndon will tell Of the struggles
Of the southern unemployed to organ
ize for conditions, Of the arrest of the
leaders under an obsolete law, held
over from the days of slavery, and
of the conduct of the case by the In
ternational Labor Defense.
Herndonis trip to New York from
Atlanta, when he had been released
n $4,000 cash bail raised on a ma
tionwire call, is a dramatic story IN
itself. Although he had to be TAX
en- by a circuitous route to avoid
threatened attacks by the Ku Klux
Khan, his trip amounted to a trium-
phal procession, met at every sta
ton by crowds of cheering workers,
who recognize in his release on bail
the first victory n the fight for his
freedom
The Georgia Supreme Court has
denied him a new trial, and the Snter-
national Labor Defense is now taking
his case, and that Of the framed Scot
tsboro boys, before the United States
Supreme Court.
With Herndon on tour are Richard
B. Moore, nationally famous Negro
speaker, and Ida Norris, mother OF
one of the S~cottsboro boys.
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Force Cafeteria To Hire Colored Help

to hire Negroes was conducted by
means of mass picketing by Negroes
and whites, by boycott on the part Of
neighborhood working class patrons
by street meetings and by mass dem
o~nstrations.
An important flctcr in winning
the victory was the organized boy.
colt by the workers of the Home
relief Bureau Employees Association
Of Precinct %, at 124th Street. The
association contains several hundred
employees, the majority white, The
action of the association directly con
tradicted the argument Of the cafet
eria management, that it chad no
objectioss to hiring Negroes as dish
washers and porters, but white pat
rons object to see them act as counter
mel and bus boys.
The struggle was started by the
Young Liberators, youth section OF
the League of Struggle for Negro
rights, which sent a delegation to
the cafeteria management demanding
that Negroes be employed as counter
men and bus boys. The manage
ment refused, saying that it would
prefer not to have any Negro patrons
at all.
Arrest Angelo Herndsn's Brother
The Young Liberators then began
to picket the cafeteria. Milton Hern-
dan 25 year old brother of Angelo
Herndon, whose sentence to the Geor-
gia chain gang has aroused world
wide protest, was arrested Aug. 90,
and agssn on September /, the second
time together with three other Ne
groes and two whites.
A mass meeting attended by over
1000 Negro and white workers was
held before the cafeteria on the night
of September 5. The meeting stood
firm in spite of the attacks of "a
patrolmen and three ~sergeants, who
swung clubs wildly and trampled a
Negro woman.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
L0R CITY CASE ON Trial

The seven defendants IN the case
Of the Loup City attack, are now On
trial, the selection Of the jury having
begun Wednesday. These seven
workers and farmers were arrested
after they had been attack BIZ a local
fascist gang led By city and ounty
officials. They were meeting to pro-
test against low wages and unsani-
tary working conditions Of chicken
piclers in Ravenna Creamery.
Among the defendants IRE Mother
Bloor, famous workers and farmers
leader, and Flyod Booth, young Ne
gro organizer Of the unemployed in
Central Nebraska. The Information
al Labor Defense is handling the asa
with I. L. D. attorneys Benthall, from
Chicago, and Hansen from Omaha in
charge of the defense.
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NEW YORK-(CNA) "We do not
discriminate against Negro help"
tbs sign, prominently displayed
last week in the window Of the En-
pire Cafeteria at 125th Street and
L ,nnox Avenue, symbolized the vic
torious end of a sharp fight by mil
liant Negro and white workers to
force this cafeteria to hire Negroes.
Four Negro workers have gone to
work at the Empire, in accordance
with the agreement worked out be-
tween the cafeteria management, the
League of Struggle for Negro
rights, the Young Liberators, and the
Food Workers Industrial Union.
The agreement provides for tie
employment of one Negro counter
man and three floor workers, one Of
them to be a woman; no victimisa-
ton Of the white workers already on
the job in the cafeteria; and the with
drawal Of all charges against the Ne
groes and whites arrested during the
picketing. The Negro workers are to
receive the same pay and work the
same hours as the whites in simil-
ar positions. The management has
agreed that in the future, there is to
be no discrimination Of any sort a.
gainst Negro help or Negro custom
ers.
Plan to Spread Fight
Plans are now under way for q
broad conference to spread the fight
to other restaurants, stores and factor
les. The League of Struggle for Me-
gro rights, the Young Liberators, and
the Cafeteria Workers Union-(sec-
ton of Food Workers Industrial I'm
ion) have issued a joint call to such
conference, to be held Saturday,
Sept. 90 at 2 p. m. The conference
committee, with headquarters at 119
West 135th Street, urges all organi-
cations to elect delegates.
The fight to force the Empire Cafe
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PUzzLIkG FREAK OF BIRTH, is
BABY WHITE OR NEGRO
DOCTORS CAN'T DECIDE, AND
FOUNDING MAY GO THROUGH
LIFE UNDER FALSE COLOR

Memphis, Tenm.-Police are asking
a mother to come forward and ident-
ify a girl abandoned on a Negroes
door setp on Sunday Aug. 10, so the
raco of the child can be determined.
Nurses and physicians at General
Hospital cannot tell whether the child
is white or colored and are puzzled
concerning its future. It is less than
q week old. VIII it be brought up as
a Negro or a white child.
Doctors and scientists shook their
heads, admitting that there was no
no way of determining the race Of the
infant. Blood tests, hair examina-
tions and thee more hornely method of
the finger nail and spinal examina-
ton viii fail to bring a definite con-
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
LAHGST0h HUGHES IN LIST OF
% MOST Interesting MEN

NEW YORK-(CNA) Langston
Hughes, Negro poet and novelist, and
President Of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, is among the %
men and women selected by DR.. Char
les A. Beard, outstanding American
historian as 'fthe most Interesting
Americans"
DR.. Beard is the author of "The
Rise of American Civilization" "The
American Leviathan," Economic In
depreciation of the Constitution" and
many other works
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CHILD STRUCK By AUTO

Oliver Hayes, 2 years old, Of 1910
Emmett St. was struck by a car
or his way to school as he was ross
ing the street at 30th and Bedford at
$40 a. m, Thursday Sept 13.
The auto was driven by Erik Erik
sen of South Dakota. Oliver was
turning north on Both St., at Bedford,
=. Continued on Page 50
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clusion, they say. There is a small
contingent, however, which claims that
the race can be determined
"The child has pink finger nails"
said a nurse at General Hospital. All
Negro babes have blue nails. 1t has a
distinct arch to it's foot, something
rare among Negro children"
There's is absolutely no way Of
Continued on page 2
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HAPPY HOUR BRIDGE CLUB
HOLD DELIGHTFUL PICNIC

The Happy Hour Bridge club gave
g delightful picnic Sunday evening
Sept. 16 at Riverview park. 26 mem
bers and guests were present. A
wonderful dinner was served. After
which the party went to the home Of
Mrs. Eva Phillips and spent the
evening playing bridge. Everyone
present conceded it a most pleasant
day.
Mrs. Matte Payton-Pres.
Mrs. E. Levison-Reporter
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OHIO N. 4. A. G. P. BRANCHES
TO CONFER At CANTON OCT.

Canton, 0. Sept 16-The fifth an
nual convention Of the Ohio Confer
ence of Branches of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of
Colored People will be held here
October 6 : z, at the st. James A.. M.
e. Church, Thirteenth and Willet st.
S. E. Arrangements for the confer
enca are being perfected by the Cam
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
Mayor Asks For Employment
of Two CoIored Girl Typists

Mayor Roy N. Towl. head of the
city health department, has required
the FERA to give the above depart
naent some assistance in compiling
records of births and deaths. Six
typists will be employed in this work
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HELLO FOLKS Health, happi-
ness and success to everyone.
WOMAN CUT

On Saturday Sept Is, LaVera Rice
Of 2432 Franklin st. vas walking
with Clyde White between Franklin
and DECATUR Sts., when they began
to argue and White cut the Rice
woman
Mrs. Rice claims she did not know
the kind Of weapon White used. She
was cut n the pit of the left arm, and
attended by DR.. Goodrich. White had
disappeared before the officers ar
rived.
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Bert MOORE'S coluu,
CONVICTED o N NARCOTIC
G II A z C e

Maurice Lee of Omaha was convict
ed in the Federal Court at Topeka,
Kans., on a narcotic charge, Saturday
Sept. Is. He was sentenced to three
years in the Federal Penetenitary at
Leavenworth, Kans.
Among the court visitors were Mrs.
Elvers Warren of 2307 Grace, and
Mrs. Lseona Grant Of 2O10 Nortl, 23rd
ST., both of Omaha. They motored
to Topeka for the trial and returned
to Omaha Sunday Sept. 16.
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TAKEN SUDDENLY I'LL

Wednesday Sept. II, Mr.. Bonner
Jones OF 3849 St, taken suddenly i'll
at the FERA offices at 2406 No. 21st
St. The Police ambulance was called
and police officers Aloud and Stripe
and DR.. Atwood responded. He was
taken home and attended by the doc
tor.
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and the mayor has asked that two Of
this number be colored girls. DR.. Mil
lard Langfeld, director Of Public
Health, is supervisor of the work,
and is glad to cooperate by employ
ng colored help where possible.
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Is to furnish it for you to read in
THE OMAHA GUIDE
ROBBERY

Saturday Sept Is, Gus Kerakos of
2406 N Street, alleges he was walking
and talking with q woma along 18th
Street about in 5000 block, when 9
man came up and asked him what he
was doing with his wife. The strange
han and the woman attack him and
robbed hin Of $1,000 and escaped be
fore officers were notified.
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ton branch. C. E. Dickinson is pres
ident Of the conference and Miss
Geraldine Freeman, secretary.
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Your Newspaped is your National
weapon Let's support it 1os per
cent as a Fart Of the New Deal
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GIEF CASE SETTLED: A settle.

GIEF CASE SETTLED: A settle
ment has been reached in the contre-
versy between NRA and L. Grief and
Bros. of Baltimore over the applica-
tion of certain wage provisions of
the Mems Clothing Code. AS a re
suit the firm will dicontinue IS court
ease against the NRA and the MIRA
will withdraw its order p T o h b t
ing the Code Authority r o m
issuing NRA labels to this concern. In
place of the bonus system to which
the Code Authority objected, a piece
rate system is established which all
sides consider satisfactory
MAYONNAISE CODE WORKING
WELL: Operation of this code has
materially benefited labor and .brou-
ght members of the industry fair
and reasonably stable competitive con
ditions, according to W. F. L. Tuttle,
managing agent of the Code Author
Continued on Page g.
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HIGHLIGHTs OF THE WEEK

A RESIGNATION ACCEPTED:
MIRA has accepted the resignation
submitted in a body by the Retail Fuel
Code Authority. The issue grew out
of complaints that prices to consum-
err were being set at unduly high
levels in various cities. MIRA there
upon required that prices must be
reviewed by it in the public interest
before becoming effective, and the
Code Authority helped to prepare the
necessary procedure, to which it now
objects. In accepting the resignation
the Administrator declared that ~the
price fitting INDUCED under the code
required MIRA to intervene on behalf
Of the public interest" and further
that "self-government by industry" is
a privilege under the Act which al
only be exercised so long as the in
dividuals constituted as agents for
that purpose operate n consonance
with the interest of the public"
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MAJORITY RULE" FOR WORK
Frs: The principle Of majority
rule" has been established by the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board decision
that the Houde Engineering Co. of
Bufflao violated Section Ia Of MIRA
by dealing with a company union
after an outside union had won the
majority of the votes east in an en-
ployee election to determine repre-
sentatiop- The American Fedora
ton of Labor has fought for this
principle SINCE the question of it's
legality first arose, on the ground
that it controlled majority votes in
many plants where it did not have
400 per cent membership. The Board
decision means that hereafter the ma
jority vote in such cases is to repre-
sent all the employees in collective
bargaining.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-27
Coach Powell Has Whipped
Boys in Fine Fettle;
Improvement Is
Shown
ONLY 2 NEW FACES
IN STARTING LINEUP
Red Duke and Wes Adams
Only Starters That Were
Not Regulars or Re-
serves Last Year; Team
Moves to Scene of Game,
Leaving School at Lunch
Hour IL

Topping of their drills this after
noon with light signal drill, the
Henderson high school Bulldog foot
ball eleven concluded their preseason
training, and were all cooked and
primed for their opening game to-
morrow afternoon with the Yellow
Jackets of Roanoke Rapids high
school there.
In the two weeks that the highs
have ben drilling under the direction
OF Coach Hank Powell, they have
SHOWN d great deal or Improvement
with some of the first year men step
ping on par with the last years re-
serves. Lettermen from last year
seem to be in better shape ana to
have gathered d good deal of polish
from their work.
Ransom Red" Duke, at left end,
and Yves Adams, at center, are the
only two new men on the first string.
All of the others had some experience
last year.
Murat Kearney, d big hefty lines
man whom the mentor was counting
on this fall, left this week for Oak
Ridge to enter school,
Coach Powell has been working
several combinations through his
scrimmage sessions in the past two
weeks, endeavoring to give every man
a chance to show his wares before he
selects his starters. He picked his
first eleven men to start with the
others held in reserve.
Those slated to get the starting
call tomorrow at Roanoke Rapids are:
Duke, lie; Ellis, 1t; Elvie Turner, lg;
Yves Adams. center; Durward Turner
rg Ed Beckham, TT and Lefty Ays-
cue, re. The signal calling duties
will fal Ito Bill Bryan at quarterback,
Frank Legg and Roscoe Stainback
will share the half back berths with
Rudd Edwards doing the fullbacking.
The reserve team is made up of
Wortham and Scoggins, ends; Wilk-
erson and Chavasse, tackles; Butch
Peace and Evans, guards, Billie Peace
center; Bits Watkins, quarter, Hicks
and Crudup, halves and Inscoe, full
back.
The team will leave school at the
lunch hour.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-27
RecordsO independents
Show Successful Season
Won 28 of az Games Playe d, Tied One; Boyd Leads
Pitchers with II Wins Ag ainst Lone Defeat; Pah
Says Effort Be Ma de to Form League

When the SHeenderson Indeepend-
ents concluded their basebeall season
here last Sunday, thy brought very
successful season a close, the rec
crds show.
During the season the team played
AZ game, winning 28, losingf 13 and
tieing one that was called in the
eighth inning because of rain.
Archer Boyd started out as manager
Of the club at the seasons outset tut
gave way to Otto Pahlman, former
minor league baseball star, after they
had dropped five out Of the first
seveen games.
Under Pahlman's regime, the locals
took 26 victories against eight defeats,
the: tie game coming during his reign.
OF the pitchers who worked for the
lccals during the season, Boyd has the
best record, winning IL and losing /
for an average of 917 dwards pitch
ed only one game for the locals win
ming that for a perfect average. He
was not a regular for Pahlman's S crew.
Peasants and Harris were the next
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-27
Nav
Still Get
Park Road
Daily dispatch Bureau,
1n Ihe Sis waiter HOteI,
lty j. T.. baskerville

Raleigh, Sept. z7-The delay on the
part or the y. s. Bureal OF Public
koads in Washington is approving the
contract for the construction or the
SOCO Gap road in Jackson county.
which when completed will open up
new eastern entrance into the
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
from Waynesville and Asheville. is
being regarded by several of the en-
"5ineers in the State Highway and
Public Works Commission as indi-
eating that the government NAV be
delaying approval of this project with
a view to including it in the park-to-
park highway route.
1t is pointed out here by highway
department engineers that if Secre-
tary Harold L. 1ckes decides to have
the park-to-park ...ghway follow the
route recommended by North Caro-
lima engineers, that it will enter the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park through Soco Gap and follow
the Identical route no walready sur
Veyed for State highway and for
which the contract has already been
let. Some four or five weeks ago the
highway commission authorized work
to proceed on this last link in the
Dellwood-Soco Gap highway as soon
as the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
should approve the contract Bu tin
spite of repeated telegraphic queries
from the highway engineers here to
Washington, no word has yet been re-
ceived authorizing the commission
here to proceed with the project.
Since the parl1-to-park highway will
be built under the immediate super
vision of the u. S. Bureau of Public
Roads, many here believe that the
reason the present Soco Gap project
is being held up is that the North
Carolina route for this highway is still
being considered, in which event the
Soco Gap link would become part of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-27
Relief Financing
Facing A Dilemma
(Continued from rage One.)

Federal authority that the problem is
more acutely sensed, because it sees
the situation on a national scale.
office Upton Sinclair, running for the
governorship of California; hat condi-
ton were best analysed on his recent
visit in Washington.
BY utilizing California's now un-
utilized productive resources, Sinclair
reasoned, CALIFORNIA; unemployed can
themselves produce what they them
selves need, thus supporting them
seleves, at least after fashion, and
takinI gthe burden of supporting them
from the bacys of other Californians.
Yes reply the anti-Sinclarists, but
if the unemployed do SO, the result
will be that the "other Californians"
will forfeit the profit they have OBJ
tanned from selling commodities to
the unemployed.
All, but the unemployed have no
money, says the Sinclair; so what
good are they, as customers?
DuL l1lCy OO nave AAkO1lCy Va llLCAt
anyway answer the anti-Sinclairists !:
they have the money they receive in
the shape of unernployment relies.
No, insist the anti-Sinclairists its
Federal money.
Whereupon everyone with a. scintilla
If economic sense laughs raucously
Cor sheds tears), realizing that, in pro-
portion to its population and wealth,
each of the 48 states will have to foot
it's share of the Federal bill
Even so, the ani-Sinclairists don t
like the Sinclair plan. hey contend
that, in effect, it will set UP socialist
system, paralleelling the capitaliEtic
system. If capitalism presently re-
absorbs the socialistic experiment
well and good, the anti-Sinclairists
agree But isn't there danger, they
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-27
WASH OUT
Is MILES OF
KIDNEY TUBES
Win Back Pep Vigor Vitality

Win Back Pep Vigor -. Vitality
Medical authorities agree that your kid.
neys contain 10 MILES of tiny tubes or
filters which help to purify the blood and
keep you healthy.
If you have trouble with too frequent
bladder passages with scanty amount csus-
ing burning and discomfort, the is MILES
Of kidney tubes need washing out. This dan.
ger signal may be the beginning of naaeine
backache, leg pains, loss of pep and Yitality,
getting up nights, lumbago, swollen feet
and ankles, rheumatic pains and dizziness
If kidneys don't empty 8 pints every daY
and get rid of a pounds of waste matter
your body will take up these poisons causing
serious trouble. It may knock you out and
lay you up for many months. Don't wait.
Ask your druggist for DOAN'S PILLS
doctors prescription {. +. which has been
used successfully by millions of kidney SUI
ferers for over 40 years. They give auicl
relief and will help to wash out The is
MILES of kidney tubes.
SBut don't take chances with strong drues
Dr so-called kidney cures that claim to AZ
you up in Is minutes for they NAV seriouslv
injure and irritate delicate tissues. Tnsis+
on DOAN'S PILLS . the old reliable re-
lief that contain no dope or habit-forrnine
drugs. Be sure you get DOAN'S PILLS
at your druggist G 1884, Fostez-Milburn Co,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-09-27
CARDS ,ANDsGIANTS
BOTH LOSE GAME

New York, Sept. q (AP)-A second
straight defeat at the hands of the
Phillies left the Giants hanging on
the ropes yesterday so far as their
National league pennant race with
the Cardinals was concerned, but HOyt
pulled them off again when he shut
out the Cards for Pittsburgh.
Hoyt gave the onrushing Cards only
two hits in beating them, 3 to 0, to
offset the effects of New York's to
los to the Phils. The result sent
the Cards into the last four days of
the campaign with a one-game deficit
and chance to make it UP before
the Giants return to action Saturday.