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The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
Convict Tells of Bruta
CrueIties

Charlotte, N. O., April IL
Woodrow Wilson Shropshire, 49,
year old Negro convict, today
told of II days Of horror in a
dark cell" at a prison camp near
here as a judicial inquiry was
begun into circumstances which
caused him and Robert Barnes,
10, another Negro, to lose their
feet.
The Negro testified to being
chained in a standing position in
freezing weather last January in
unheated punishment cells and
said he and Barnes were given
only a little bread to eat.
"All they gave us was a piece
Of biscuit, trimmed down until it
wasn't no thicker than an orange
peel, and some water" he said.
He testified R. @. Rape, a guard,
beat Barnes for Splitting on the
floor"
Their feet froze, he said, and
within a few days after their re
moval from the cells their limbs
were rotting and the flesh falling
from the bones.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
WILLIAMS, CONNOLLY THE
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

The jury in Judge James Fitz-
geralds's court awarded 81, $50
judgement to Mrs. Martha Smith,
2211 Ohio Street, in a damage
suit against G.. A. Carney, retired
police Captain. Mrs, Smith was
injured on August 26, 1884, when
two ears collided at 18th and
Capitol Avenue. One car was
driven by Captain Carney andSthe
car in which Mrs. Smith was rid
ing was driven by her daughter
in-law, Mrs. Louise Smith.
Mrs. Smith suffered broken
ribs, slight conclusions, leg and
other body injuries.
Her attorneys were Cornelius
Connolly Of the firm Of Growfoos,
Frasier, Connolly and Stryker,
and Ray L. Williams.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
COMMITTEE HEARING
BARES HARLEM TERROR

New York, N. Y, (CNA)-A crowd
ed courtroom listened to Russell Hobb,
Is, tell how his brother Lloyd, 16, was
shot by a policeman On the evening
Of March 10. According to Russell's
testimony, Lloyd, fearing a beating,
a when accosted by ~patrolman Nc
Innerny, and was shot in the abdomen.
Lloyd's death was announced on the
same day as the hearing. This brings
the total deaths to 5 due to quick-on-
the-trigger policemen. The testimony
was given at the first open hearing of
the Mayors Committee, to investigate
conditions in Harlem.
James W. Ford, Communist leader,
testified at the hearing, pointing out
many cases of police brutality preced-
ing the March 10 events. The sharp
questions of Robert Minor and Inter
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
Rev. Burckhardt, CoIored
Civic, Religious Leader
Here Forty-five years

Monday marked the 10Th an
niversary Of the arrival of Rev.
0. j. Burckhardt in the city Of
Lincoln. He came from Jefferson
City, Mo, where he had been at
tending Lincoln Institute, a Ne
gro college organized by the col
ored soldiers Of Missouri at the
close Of the Civil war. His first
Is years in Lincoln were spent
as a porter for the Burlington.
The next 13 years, Rev. Burck-
hardt was employed as a waiter
at the Lincoln hotel. His profess
sional number, "13," is always
one Of good luck, he declared.
For the past 35 years Rev.
Burckhardt has been engaged
in Christian work. During the
years hat he worked for the rail
road and the hotel he also did
missionary evangelistic work, and
for the past IA years he has held
a pastorate at Omaha. He is con-
sidered a civic and religious lead
er of his race in Nebraska.
For nine years he was actively
associated with the work Of the
Ministerial Alliance at Omaha
and he has written many articles
relative to temperance, religion
and the civic welfare Of his race,
For five years he was associated
with the Beulah mission in Lin.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13

In 1909 THE NEW YORK
WORLD sent a young man, Will
liam Walling, a reporter for the
paper, to investigate the race riot
In the home town of the Great
Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.
On his return to New York he
wrote his findings for the paper
and closed with the following
remarks, or words to this effect :
what group Of people or or
ganization will come forward and
furnish the proper protection for
the oppressed Negro race?"
Miss Mary White Ovington,
who had finished college and was
engaged in settlement work
among Negroes, read this news
item, and shortly afterwards a
meeting was called. Although
only three people, Miss Ovington,
MI. Walling and a Mr.. Russell,
attended, out of this conference
was organized the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13

Simmons Special Guest At Athletic Banquet
WORKER FREED IN HARLEM
OUTBREAK CHARGES

New York, (CNA) - Indictments
against Joseph Moore were quashed
in the General Sessions Court here
when the International Labor Defense
attorneys barred the frame-up nature
of the case.
Moore was arrested in connection
with the spontaneous revolt of the Ne
gro people in Harlem against starva-
ton conditions, misery and police bru-
tally. He was indicted on a charge
of robbery and looting".
Witnesses and l.. l.. D. lawyers
pointed out that the charge of "rob-
berry and looting" was an attempt on
the part of the city officials to dis
tort the character Of the revolt, and
to pave the way for a monstrous
white-wash of the city administration,
upon whom the responsibility for the
outbreak lies.
The indisputable evidence presented
by the defense attornys and witnesses,
backed by the mass anger of the Ne
gro and white workers against the
frame-up, compelled the presiding JUS
tice, Judge Goenig, to direct a YER
dict of acquittal.
Six other framed-up workers, four
of whom are whites, have asked the
international Labor Defense to defend
to defend them.
Brooklyn, N. Y, (CNA)-In a
courtroom packed with Negro and
white sympathizers, Nathan Goldstein
and Max Samuels (both Whitley were
freed.
They were arrested and charged
with unlawful assembly" for distrib-
uting leaflets on the recent Harlem
outbreak.
The leaflets characterized the Har-
lem uprising as the logical result of
the city administrations policy of
jim-crowism.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
WHITE MINISTER'S ENDORSE
C-OSTIGAN-WAGNER BILL

New Orleans, La, April ga reso-
luton endorsing the Costigan-Wagner
Federal anti-lynching bill was adopt
ed Monday, April 1, by members of
the New Orleans Ministers Union.
The resolution was adopted follow
ing a talk on the bill by James E.
Gayle, president Of our New Orleans
branch Of the NAACP.
AS a result of this meeting, Mr..
Gayle has been invited to address the
young people of the Evangelical de-
nomination in New Orleans at the
First Evangelical Church (white) on
the subject Of the work of the N.A.A.
C.P. and the anti-lynching bill.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
HALFBACK AND TRACK
STAR TO BE PRESENT
FIRST ANNUAL ATHLETIC BANQUET ON APRIL 10Th.

} Ozzie Simmons, flashy colored
halfback Of Iowa University will
be a special guest at the First
Annual Athletic Award Banquet
sponsored by the Urban League
Community Center on April 10Th.
Eugtne Skinner, former Tech
High rack star, now attending
Iowa University, also plans to be
present for the occasion. Awards
will be made to more than 30
players who have participated in
various sports.
Mr.. J. Truitt Maxwell, executive
Secretary Of the Omaha Y. M. @.
A, will deliver the principal adj
dress. Special musical numbers
will be given by the Community
Center Quartette and Tom Jones.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
Unofficial Cabinet" Member.

COlIs
Unofficial Cabinet Member.
Rev. Burckhardt has been in
the unofficial cabinet of every
Nebraska governor from the time
Of Sheldon. During the years
that Rev. Burckhardt held his
Omaha pastorate at a prosperous
INSTRUMENTATION church he
maintained his residence in Lin
coin. He retired from his Omaha
work January l, and was recent
ly appointed by Governor Coch-
ran as an assistant in the state
health laboratory.
Wife Talented
His wife, Mrs. Anna Burck-
hardt, has conducted an art studio
for, the past 80 years at their resi-
dence, 1886 Washington street.
She is one Of the best china
painters in the middle west, and
has had oil paintings and china
in exhibitions from New York to
the Pacific coast. She won first
prize on her china entries at the
jamestown exposition Of 1908,
and has won numerous other
awards. One Of the more prom
inent pictures which she has
painted is a portrait Of Booker
T. Washington which the colored
citizens of the city presented to
the Lincoln high school in 1916.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
WIN JUDGEMENT IN
SMITH CARNEY SUIT


national Labor Defense attorneys
Kuntz and Tauber, brought forth q
protest against "police baiting''.A
According to eyewitnesses testify
ing at the Mayors Committee the
Young Liberator leaflet was not dis
tributed until the disturbance began
Under questioning police officials
admitted that Jim Crow tactics were
in vogue against Negroes.
In his testimony, Ford pointed out
that workers "need no police to safe
guard them. The police are for
guarding property. The workers are
capable Of forming their own defense
corps.
He was promptly interrupted.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
MINISTER MURDERED BY
PLANTATION OWNERS

Memphis, Tenn, (CNA)-Rev T. A.
Allan was lynched last week by
wealthy plantation owners for organ
izing share troopers into a union.
The minister's body was found in
the shallow waters of the Coldwater
River here by a group of fishermen.
He had been shot through the heart,
An unsuccessful attempt had been
made to conceal the body in the river
by weighing it down with chains.
The pockets of the slain minister
contained literature for the organiza-
ton Of sharecroppers. Sheriff Sid
Campbell (white) of fernando, Miss.
who is conducting an investigation
of the Staying, frankly admitted that
Rev. Allen was murdered by planters
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13

New York, April 1O.-Special to
Omaha Guide-A Washington Heights
dentist was thrown out of the win
dow Of his operating room this after
noon by his patient while he was pre-
pairing to extract a molar from the
left side of the jaw and was busy adj
ministering gas. Fortunately, the
window was on the first floor and the
dentist was not seriously hurt.
The patient threw the dentist out
of the window with his right hand and
threw the gas machine out of the win
dow with his left hand, and then
jumped through the window himself.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
CHICAGO MINISTERS ENDORSE
ANTI-LYNCHING BILL

Chicago, ILL.,, April SIN a tele-
gram to Senator William H. Dieterich,
of Illinois, the Chicago Congressional
Ministers Union, representing ninety
churches and thirty-fve thousand
communicates, stated its endorsement
Of the Costigan-W Wagner bill and ex-
pressed the hope that the penalty
clause would not be eliminated.
The Union Ministers Meeting of
Chicago, representing eighteen de-
nominations and $50 churches, with
approximately 100000 communicates
also ~telegraphed Senator Dieterich its
endorsement Of the bill and it's belief
that the penalty clause should be re-
tanned.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
Excited Patient Kur|s
Dentist Through Window

When all three were outside the pa
tent went after the dentist and
to throttle him. He was subdued BY
several astonished citizens.
A few minutes later the patient was
back in the operating chair. A DO
liceman and an ambulance surgeon
were holding him down, and the den.
tist, without the use of gas, removed
the troublesome tooth. The patient
then rested in the dentists chair. and
as soon as he recovered sufficiently
he went home.
The dentist was DR.. Alvin B. Lea.
witt, 60. The patient was Albert Cal.
lahan, 80.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
Doctors Medicine Kills
Many African
Children

Southern Tanganyika, Africa-(By
Mail to CNA)-Twenty-fve school
children are dead and twenty-three
others seriously i'll here from the eff
fects Of a medicine. The white
school physician administered the
death potion.
A chemical analysis of the medicine
showed that it was a poisonous solu-
ton OF soap containing arsenic. The
coroner whitewashed the doctors re-
sponsibility for the deaths stating that
n was guilty of criminal negli-
gence".
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
$4,000 Damage Suit
Filed

Mrs. Florence Terrell, 2502 N.
oath Street, who was injured by
a Publix Cab at 10Th and Douglas
Streets at AS p. m. on March
28th, filed suit Thursday, April
18th, in District Court against
the Publix Cab Co, for injuries
sustained. The attorneys for the
plaintiff are Ray l.. Williams, R.
B. Hesselquist and Donald S.
Krouse.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
A

The Omaha Guide published a news
item last week headed, equity of
Grand Larceny; Sentenced to Ten
Years.. This week we wish to apol-
ogize to Mr.. Thomas Coulter for such
an error. However, it was not our
error but the error Of our informant.
Thomas Coulter was found NOT
GUILTY Of Grand Larceny and
ACQUITTED. We deeply regret the
error, and are more than glad to
make the correction.
THE OMAHA GUIDE
PUBLISHING CO., Inc.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
Cuts Are Fatal to Mrs,
Henry Walker.

Mrsc. Henry Walker, 1017 S.
18th S rect, who it is alleged, was
cut by Willie Griffin more than
a weey ago, died in Lord Lister
Hospital Tuesday afternoon.
The funeral was conducted
from the Jones Funeral Parlors
Thursday at 3. p. m. Mrs. Walk
er, his wife, left with the body
for the south Thursday night.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
BRITISH CAPITAL FEARS
OUTBREAK IN COLONIES

London, England, (CNA)-Fearing
"anti-white" (anti-imperialist) out
breaks in her African colonies, British
capital automatically moved last week
to discourage fascist Italy's robber
war against the Ethiopian people.
Italy's attacks on Ethiopia have given
rise to an intense revolutionary wave
of national feeling among the natives.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
MOTOR ACCIDENT

Misses June Artison and Ethel Cole
were slightly injured Sunday evening,
April 7, when the car in which they
were riding, driven by John Barquette,
was struck by another car at 18th
and Webster Streets. No trace has
been found of the hit-and-run driver
of the other Ear. No one was serious
" injured.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13
RECOVERING AFTER SERIOUS
OPERATION

Nh. Paul Turner, 2704 Lake Street,
was rushed to st. Joseph's Hospital
Saturday night to undergo an appen-
dectomy. The operation was per-
formed Immediately, and he is re-
ported as recovering rapidly.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13

Tor his union activities.
The shooting of Rev. Allan is the
fourth reported lynching this year.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-13

PUBLISHING co., Inc.
Evening star., 1935-02-19
WHOLESALE INDEX
ADVANCES IN WEEK
Fertilizer Association Finds
Gain of Three Points
to 1872 Level.

Wholesale commodity prices again
moved upward last week, according
to the index Of the National Fertilizer
Association. The rise which occurred
was sufficient to advance the index
three points to 1872, the highest point
reached in the upward movement
which has been in progress during
the past two years.
The index last week was "a per
cent above a year ago and 401 per
cent above the depression low point
which was reached in the week Of
March 4. 1888. The index week ago
was 779; a month ago, I'll, and
year ago, IT'S, based on the 1926-23
average as 100
The rise in commodity prices last
week was due in large part to a con-
tinued upward movement in agricul-
tural prices. The fats and oils group
again advanced, continuing the sharp
rise which has been in progress for
several months, and there were small
advances in the foods and building
materials groups. Declines occurred
in mixed fertilizers, metals, automo-
biles and miscellaneous commodities.
The other six groups were not affect
ed by price changes last week.
The rise in the grain. feeds and
live stock group was the result of
higher prices for all grains and live
stock; the only item in this group to
decline was llnseed meal. while l3
commodities advanced. The trend of
foOdStuff prices was mixed last week
with nine items advancing and six
declining; milk. sugar, pork and -four
were among the commodities which
rose in price, while eggs, bread and
potatoes declined. The rise in the
fats and oils group was due to higher
quotations for lard and butter as well
as for vegetable oils. An advance
in the price Of glass caused a slight
rise in the building materials group.
The small decline in the metals group
was the result of lower tin prices
more than counterbalancing slightly
higher quotations for lead and silver.
There was no net change in the tex
tile group as the rise in the prices of
cotton, burlap and silk was Offset by
a substantial decline in wooden yarn
prices. Last week 40 commodities ad-
vanced and l3 declined; in the pre-
ceding week there were l6 advances
and 26 declines.
Evening star., 1935-02-19
U. S. TREASURY NOTES.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
(Reported by Chas. D. Barney & Coz

NEW YORK. February 10 R,.-Foreign
others in cents. Great Britain. demand
1857: cables 4.ssh; 6O.day bills. 4. %;
France. demand. 6.62; cebles. 6.62; Italy
demand S4S; cables S.4S.
Demands-Belgium, 23 AZ: Germany;
40.2S; Holland. 67.S5; Norway. "a So;
Sweden. 1920; Denmark, 81 80; Finland.
Portugal. 4.44; Greece. "a; Poland. 1900;
Czechcslovakia. 4,20; Yugoslavia. 2.29;
Austria. 1S.95n: Hungary. 2g. son: Ru-
S.59n; Toxic. 1888; Shanghai. 81 so;
Hongkong 45.12l2: Mexico City tsilver
peso). 27S5; Montreal in New York,
Nominal.
Evening star., 1935-02-19
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO: IU56 February 10 lR UNITED
States 6eo Department Of Agricultural Hogs
Weeishts. above 2Io pounds Ss5a95; top.
49, REnsSs pond dn'e s4SgsG FSgS%Oef shs sSs haS
7s5aS.50: slaughter pigs. 9 OOaS 90; good
packing sows; s.ooa15; light light. good
and choice. l40-l60 pounds. 7.75aS6 30:
light weight 10000 pounds. s25agi;
medium weight. 20O-o5O pounds. s75a
35; heavy weight 250-35o pounds, s.s5a
$50 poand SOT me9m pFs fnd 5000 sSSd and
choice, 1901 40 pounds e.06as 90. 'N'
cattle Iea 1000; 1000; calves; 1000. Better
Mondays 25a50. downturn; lower grade
steers. steady, this applying to kinds sell
on ns good @ ana cToce sST bHk gens
1880; best yearlings held around Is 90;
ers about steady. Slaughter cattle and
veaiefs Steers see9%d and n6o ch1ce ice 55o-S3o
1858; I.3oo-i 500 pounds. 10 5oa13 65;
common and medium. 55o-1.3oo pounds.
Heifers, good and choice, 55o;75o
pounds. 9.00a11.25; common and medium.
4.50a9.0Q; cows good: 65oas;5O; com
aRd Hn catter ara bas
cluded). good (beeD, 5;00a7 90: cutter.
common and medium: 3; ;2oaS25; vealers.
$50; Gull and common, 35Oa5 80.
Stocker and feeder cattle: Steers. good and
choice. 500-1 ,05O pounds. 6.00aS.25; COM
Sheep, $1,000. strictly good and choice
fat lambs steady to strong: spots 5 to
10 higher: others little changed: sheep
and feeding lambs about steady; better
grade lambs to local packers. S.40a65; top.
S.75 to shippers and small killers: ewes
quotable. 4.50a5.25. Slaughter sheep AND
choice. S.00a75 common and medium,
6.50aS 10: 9O-9S pounds. good and choice:
T.15aS5; ewes. 90-150 pounds, good and
choice. 3aOa5 so: ali weights. common
and medium. 3.O0a4.5O feeding lambs,
50-75 pounds, good and choice, 6.25a7.25
Evening star., 1935-02-19
Brokers' Comments
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 19.-Com-
mission house commentators were
only moderately bullish today in their
stock market opinions.
Fenner & Beane-Would accept
profits on any near-term advance.
Jackson Bros, BoeSel & Co.-Fun-
damentally. the way is now cleared
for imitation markets in equity securi-
ties and commodities.
Hornblower & Weeks-We would be
inclined to avoid today any repeti-
ton of the scramble for stocks expert
enced yesterday.
Shields & Co.-The long side will
remain the more attractive so long as
further trade betterment is indicated
Lamborn. Hutchings & Cove are
inclined to believe that the same selec-
tive market is likely to continue after
this furry has spent itself.
E. A. Pierce & Co.-There is no
reason to conclude that market selec-
tivity will materially diminish.
Evening star., 1935-02-19
OPINIONS DIFFER
ON GOLD DECISION
Wall Street Disappointed
Decision Is Not as Clean
Cut as Expected.
BY CHARLES F. SPEARE.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, February 19.-There
are three points of view from which
the United States Supreme Court de-
cision in the gold clause cases may be
reviewed. They are those of the
Roosevelt administration, of the bank
ing and business world and of the
general public, which includes those
who have a modest investment in the
securities involved or none at all.
Naturally, the administration is
pleased withsthe decision. 1t Sustains
the spirit, if not the letter, Of the laws
relating to the revaluation of the
dollar. 1t does not require any new
emergency legislation such as had
been contemplated in the event of the
decision going against the Govern
ment, for the section in the opinion
defining the status of the holder of
Federal bonds with respect to the
Court Of Claims covers that con-
tingency.
The feeling of Wall Street and what
1t represents, is that the decision was
a "Straddle." Wall Street maintains
that the ruling was not as clear-cut
as had been hoped and leaves the
bondholder in fbout the same posi-
ton as he occupied before the gold
clause cases went to the court.
There is among corporation LAWYERS.
and those who had hoped for an ex-
plicie definition of the obligation of
the Government toward its contracts.
sense of disappointment in tie atti-
tude Of the majority members of the
Court toward an issue that. thev
argue, has such an importan: bearing
on national recovery. For they have
maintained that nothing would so
stimulate business as vigorous pro-
nouncement by The highest tribunal
in the United States that contracts
are sacred and must be observed.
The less professional view held bv
the majority is more inclined to sup
port the Government, and to welcome
the decision that favored it, than to
follow the argument of the bankers
and corporation leaders. Undoubtedly
the feeling of most people has been
that, even If the decision went against
the Government, the holders of bonds
would not sustain an actual loss,
though they might have to sacrifice
potential profit. and that TO COM
pensate one class on the basis of
sl.69 for each S100 involved would
bring heavy burden on the majority
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1935-02-19
SECONDARY BONDS
TEND TO DECLINE.
Few Rails Rise Further.
Many Prime Corporates
Go Higher.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, February le.-The
gold clause decision was less potent
influence in the bond market today,
although its effects were still visible
in several parts of the list.
The non-gold issues of the United
States Government group enjoyed
good advances and while realizing was
prompted by the early strength values
held close to their best levels in the
late trading. Geld contract Treasury
issues participated in the advance in
2 small way, but the gold payment
Liberties were relatively easy.
The corporate list was mixed. There
were further gains in some of the sec
ondary rails, but the major trend
here was reactionary. Higher prices
were paid for a considerable number
OF prime corporate loans
Foreign bonds were active in spots
with prices irregular.
Evening star., 1935-02-19
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury on Feb
ruary .l6 was: Receipts, S4.23s; 81: 10;
expenditures. S32.233, ,4S6. "A: balance.
month. S12. ,T96.47.
Receipts for the fiscal year !since
S4.345. .53O.977 AS (including S2.245.471.-
755.S 80 of emergency expenditureSl: excess
of expenditures. s2,152;11012sO1: gold
Receipts for February 16. 1894 tcom-
parable date last yearl. S7.Sl4 ;so1 so:
expenditures, S33, 79S,970.44: net balance
S4,244, 1913, ,5s1.20 customs receipts for
the month. SI3,SS1 oil 81.
Receipts for the fiscal year, 81, 81 S5s;;
1885; expenditures, So, 996, ,36l- 762 ~
experditures); excess of receipts. S631,-
496,367 81; gold assets, S7,093,276,301.S3.
Evening star., 1935-02-19
Smaller Earnings
For 1884 Shown by
Sharpe & Dohme
Special Dispatch to The staI

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, February 49, Net
earnings Of Sharpe & Dohme, Inc,
for the year ended December 81. 1894,
amounted to $e41,555, after deprecia-
ton, taxes, provisions for contingen-
cieS and other charges, equivalent
after annual dividend requirements on
the $3.50 cumulative convertible pre-
ferred to 10 cents a share on 776,627
shares Of no-par common. This COM
pares with $975,379, or % cents a
share, reported for 1888
The balance sheet shows current
assets as of December 81 of $780,
002, including $2,440,O9z cash and
United States Government securities
and current liabilities of S317.8O2.