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The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
NEGROES ACTIVE IN LEADER
SHIP OF NATIONAL
UNEMPLOYMENT CONGRESS

Washington, d. C.-(CNA)-One
hundred and fifty Negroes together
with about so white delegates, mem
bers of Negro organizations, in a
special ~sub-session hammered out a
militant campaign for unemployment
and social insurance and against relief
discrimination among the Negro
masses, at the National Unemploy-
ment Insurance Congress.
The organizations represented at
the Succession included the National
Urban League, the Spiritualist Church
Of Detroit, Father Divine's Peace
Mission, the League Of Struggle for
Negro Rights, National Miners Union
and the Unemployment Councils.
Delegate Lewis of the Baltimore
Urban League, acting as chairman,
opened the session, stressing the ur-
gent need of the Negro masses for a
federal system of unemployment in
surance without discrimination at the
expense of the employers and federal
government. He was followed bv
Delegate A. w. Berry, New York
Acting General Secretary of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
who outlined the tasks of the Negro
and white workers in drawing the Ne
gro masses into the fight for unem-
plo tment insurance.
Delegate Berry presented a draft
program for adoption which included
the calling of conferences of Negro
fraternal organizations to establish
declarations for unemployment and So
clal Insurance; the setting up Of COM
mittees against discrimination in
emergency employment Of Negro pro-
fessionals and clerical workers; a
campaign Of petitions to Congress
mcn Arthur Mitchell demanding his
endorsement and support Of H. R.
1927 (Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Billy.
A woman delegate, representing a
federation of Negro womens' clubs in
Washington, pledged the support of
her organization to the decisions of
the congress.
A resolution outlining a concrete
plan of action was adopted at the
Succession and will be a part of the
record of the congress.
T. Arnold Hill, of the National Ur-
ban League, was one of the main
speakers of the congress.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
ST. JOHNS A. M. E. CHURCH
"The Friendly Church.
Rev. L. p. Bryant, Pastor

The services at st. John last Sun
day were very interesting. The day
was started with a good attendance
at Sunday School, and on the whole,
more of the children were on time
than usual. We are always glad to
see the children show more and more
interest in the Sunday School. Why
not come and make yourself one of
those who come regularly?
At the morning service Rev. Fred
Divers, of Muskogee, Oklahoma,
preached a very splendid sermon from
the first few verses Of the 18th chap
ter Of st. Luke. He took prayer"
4or his subject. Some of the very fine
thoughts he left with US were as fol-
lows:
We need prayer because we need
God. Prayer is thanksgiving to God
for His goodness, but we do not al
ways pray when we should and do
not pray long enough to forget the
things of the world. We should con-
fess u sins and repent, and then we
would net continue to do the wrong
things.
The qualities we should adore most
are the good qualities within. We, too
often, see too much that is outside
show.
We should pray more intensively,
and we will find these prayer will be
different and have different results.
The sick of the church are Mr.. w.
E. Carter, and Miss Maude Ray. We
wish for them, and others who NAV
be sick and names not turned in. a
speedy recovery.
The visitors last Sunday were Rev.
Fred Divers and Mr.. l.. Boiler, Of
Muskogee, Oklahoma, Henry Burnett,
Geo. w. Macklin, J. H. Davis and F.
". Cloud, all of Omaha.
Visitors are always welcome to St.
John and asked to make it their
church home while in Omaha if it IS a
,hurch of their choice.
You will find your church and social
news in the Omaha Guide. Read the
St. John News each week and see how
ne rally is progressing. See your
captain and help make your auto move
N towards New York. Just at pres
ent Miss Offutt is out in the lead with
she Hupmobile.
Come to Church each Sunday night
and see them go.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
SHOOTINGS,
CLUBBINGS, MARK TREAT
MENT OF NEGROES IN
MARYLAND REFORMATORY

Baltimore, Nd, (CNA)-The shoot
ing Of Aubrey Bronson, an inmate Of
the Cheltenham Reformatory, by a
guard, Hurley (white) broke the
Chinese wall of censorship surround
ing the Institution disclosing its medi-
eval tortures and slave rule.
Whppings, clubbings and bread and
water diets" for the Negro inmates
were common practices. The Chelten-
lam Reformatory, located 40 miles
from Baltimore, was established b
private wealthy individuals ostensi-
bly, to rehabilitate juvenile d~elinquents
cages ranging from 9 to Ply. In
reality, it has been a source of ire
mendous profit for the Board of Trus-
tees through the brutal exploitation of
the inmates.
When the International Labor De-
Tense learned of the shooting. it i'm
mediately organized an Abolish Chel-
tenham Committee, demanding an
end to the slave rule and the dismissal
and punishment of the guard Hurley.
Inhuman Conditions.
The Board of Trustees was present
ed with a score of affidavits signed b,
-orn}er inmates t~estifying to the in
auman conditions and with hundreds
of petitions signed by citizens Of
Maryland demanding the immediate
abolition Of these conditions.
However, the Board whitewashed
the shooting and condoned the slave
rule. The Abolish C~heltenham Com
mittee plans to organize a mass peti-
ton drive and delegation to Governor
elect Nice.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
PASS-LAWS
FORCE NATIVE WOMEN
INTO PROSTITUTION

Johannesburg, So. Africa, (CNA)-
More than $50 natives met here to
hammer out a militant program of
struggle against the pickup" laws,
slave pass" laws and the general
brutal persecution of the South Afri-
can natives.
"It is Jul historical task to strug-
gle against slavery" M. Kotane de-
clared in opening the conference. "We
must show our oppressors that we are
going to fight until pickup, passes
and other forms of persecution end"
C. Marks received enthusiastic ap-
plause when he stated, africans
should fight against the vicious lodg-
ers' permits whose operations result
ed in thousands of women being
thrown out of locations into prostitu-
ton. South Africa is a sinking slave
market and the oppressed Africans
should commence to struggle for their
rights.
Pass laws require natives to carry
governments permits, purchased at
a high price, whenever they wish to
go to the market, when they wish to
travel to another town-in short.
whenever they moved more than a few
feet from their masters eve.
The South African natives are re-
quired to carry the following IL slave
passes: 1, Identification pass; 2, Tray
cling pass; 8, Six day pass; 4, month
ly pass; 5, Daily laborers pass; 6, Day
special pass; 7, Night special pass;
8, Trek pass; 9, Location visitors per-
nit pass; 10, Lodgers permit; IL, Poll
tax receipt pass; IL, Exemption pass.
The conference elected a continual
tons committee to carry out a con-
crete program of action against pick
up and pass laws.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09

Hon. James H. Fitzgerald, District
Judge ruled mis-trial after day and
half of taking testimony in the trial
Of Fred Saunders, VS. III. Katz, Paul
HOLIDAY and Myrtle Washington for
100000 damages.
Fred Saunders, sued H. Katz, Paul
Holiday and Myrtle Washington, for
100000 damages which he alleges
he suffered by reason Of the defen-
dants conspiracy to ruin his reputa-
ton by filing IN insanity complaint
against him; he alleges further that
after said complaint was filed by the
defendants he was unable to secure
employment or in another manner
make a living.
The case was opened Monday, Jan
uary 28th in Judge James M. Fitz-
gerald Court room with Emmett Muir
ply representing Fred Saunders,
plaintiff; Erwin Levin representing Fl.
Katz and Ray L. Williams, represent
ing the defendant Myrtle Washington.
The error occurred in the second
day Of the trial, when Erwin Levin.
who represents H. Katz on Cross-ex-
animation Of one Of Plaintiffs wit
nesses made a remark, which court
held was prejudicial to the rights Of
plaintiff, and therefore discharged the
jury and declared the procedure a mis-
trial.
The ease was again placed on the
call list for an early hearing.
When consulted concerning the case.
Ray L. Williams, Attorney for Myrtle
Washington stated "That this is q
case, where someone is looking for
something for nothing" and thanks to
the highly development Of the Courts
n the average mind of the jurors,
thai It just isn't being done, that the
day of concocking some imaginary
story and then going to the Courts
and jury, asking to sustain that story
is passed.
By Attorney Ray L. Williams.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
Flush POisOns From
Kidneys and Stop
Getting Up Nights

When you can get for 35 cents a
supremacy efficient and harmless slim
ulant and d,uretic that will flush from
your kidneys the vast matter, pois-
ons and acid that are now doing you
harm, why continue to break your
restful sleep by. getting up thru the
night. Just ask your druggist for
Gold Medal HARLEM Oil Capsules
but be sure and get GOLD MEDAL
r.fht from HARLEM in Holland. Other
symptoms of weak kidneys and irri-
tated bladder are back ache, puffy
eyes, leg cramps, moist palms, burn
ing or scanty passage.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09

Supervisor of the Home Relief
Bureau 70 ~rcausing the police to
beat up a group of workers Negro
and white, who came to her Bur
eau demanding relief for a sick
unemployed working woman. Ne
gro and viii e members of the or
ganization spoke in approval Of
the recommendation of the Board
of Directors
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
RELIEF DEMANDS BRING

NEW aORLEANS.-CNA) -
For going to Emergency Relief
headquarters on November s TO
ask for aid. four women and a
white man were sentenced on
December q to 80 days in the
House of Detention. Three other
women. arrested with them, will
stand trial in the near future
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09

Gray and Mr.. Baker, was given. We
we're welcomed by the matron and in
rited to return.
The choir of the church united with
the choir of Hillside Presbyterian
Church on Sunday night, January 27,
n presenting an evening of siprituals.
A very a~ppreciative audience was
present. The combined choirs plan to
do more work together at a future
date.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH
22nd and Seward SITS.
Rev. E. III. Hilson. Paste.

Rev. E. H. Hilson, Pastor
Owing to the fact that our pastor
was out of the city, Rev. Fort off
ciated. At II o'clock testimonial SER
vices were held. The church is re-
obtaining its regular attendance.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
JIM CROW IN THE FERA
BY LOREN MILLER.

Editors note: This is the third of
a series Of articles dealing with
Jlm-Crow in the relief admins
tratlon in Los Angeles, Cal,
where prejudice is supposed to
be at a minimum.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
Negro History, Week

Negro History Week will be OBJ
served throughout the entire club de-
partment of the North Side Y. W. C.
A. Speakers and forums have been
arranged.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
Workers Group Expels Anti
Negro Member Also Super
visor Who Called Police

BRONX, n. a
special meeting of the Workers
Cooperative Colony here last
week, the Board Of Directors of
the Colony recommended the ex-
pulSlon Of Leo Marquit (white)
from the organization for white
chauvinism Grace superiority
propaganda). The Workers Coop
erative Colony is a cooperative
apartment settlement in which
5000 white and $50 Negro tenants
live.
Marquit Slandered Negro People
When the proposal to elect two
Negro tenants to the Board of
Directors was made at a house
meeting IN December 10, Marquit
expressed the most insulting re-
marks against the Negro people,
asserting that Negroes if allowed
to move into the colony would
turn the place into slums, and
that white girls would not be
safe.
On December 26, before a
large gathering Of Colony mem
bers, a workers jury of II found
Marquit guilty Of white chauvin-
ism. Manning johnson, Commun-
ist leader and labor org inner,
addressed the meeting explaining
the "serious dangers Of white
chanvinism to the growing unity
of Negro and white workers in
the labor movement
This meeting also accepted the
recommendation of the Board Of
Directors to expel from the settle
ment Mrs. McLeary, a Negro
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09

JUDGE JAMES III. FITZGERALD
RULES MIS-TRIAL IN THE DAM
AGE SUIT OF FRED SAUNDERS,
VS.. HI. KATE, PAUL HOLIDAY
AND MYRTLE WASHINGTON FOR
$40, 100000
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09
CLASSIFIEDADS

FOR SALE-Beautiful 8 room,
modern home, wonderfully constructed,
steam-heated, 4 large bed rooms,
beautiful basement and back yard,
screened--n front porch for sale at
your own price to close an estate.
Call 1T 2212 Burdette Street for
further Information.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09

Remodelled furnished room. We. 37O7.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09

FOR RENT-Modern furnished rooms
Call Webster 4042.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
BIRTHDAY TO Be SPOILED
Woman's Plea to Defer Execution
Of Colored Slayer Fails.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, April @.-
Sheriff Scott Curtis received letter
yesterday from o woman at Wheat.
land. Mo-, asking that he postpone
Evening star., 1935-04-05
WOMEN BEATEN
IN MEAT STRIKE
500 Riot in Los Angeles in
Picketing Campaign
Against Butchers.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press:
LOS ANGELES. April 5-Police ra-
do cars cruised through the Boyle
Heights district today guarding
against another flare-up of trouble
in q picketing campaign against
butcher shops.
Riot squads dashed to the scene
last night when 500 men and women
Joined In o disturbance which start
ed when two housewives, Mrs. Edith
Bernhard and Mrs. Anna Joseph.
walked out Of o shop.
Pickets. representing two organiza-
tions protesting against high meat
costs, attempted to seize the women's
bundles and trouble started.
Mrs. Joseph's eye was blackened
and Mrs. Bernhard was cut and
bruised. Later they said their pack
ages contained groceries, not meat.
Ray Collin, owner Of the shop, said
he and his wife and daughter were
knocked down in the disturbance.
The Housewives League of Los An
geles and the United Conference
Against the High Cost Of Living are
the principal leaders in the anti
meat-buying movement.
The two housewives organizations
originated the meat strike" several
weeks ago when prices suddenly be-
gan to rise. Pickets have been sta
toned at numerous shops In the city.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
Marriage Licenses.

Aaron Goldman. -22; 800 14th St. ant
NJ Rfy' E. 4 aaeksy. Ell Me'z 20. 1915 M.ssachus.tt,
ave. and Helen NJ. Lankersby, rs. Jack.
sonyille. Fla. Rev. c. Ball.
=. Lee 40 Clifton. Va: Rev. c. T: Murray
w. c. Hit. %. Newport. Va. and Virginia
Aileshire. 81. Luray, Va: Rev. r. II
Andrew C. Davis. 80. and Ethel A. Frank
e. both Of Clifton Station. Va; Rev
Frederick Il. Partridge. "a. Edinburg: N
z. and Winifred D: Kennedy. ~. New
York City: Rev. G. B. Harrington.
william P. Turner. 81. and Dollie M. Gar
rett: 80. both Of 327 End st. ne: Rev.
Jacob vi. KILLER. SO. Fl Paso. Tex. and
Leila Miller, SO. 1101 Euclid st.; Rev.
john u ". sSfil Wall, ~. and Minnie Everett, 80.
w both Of ta6 ! ST. ,S0o sT' By Esy ". Westray;
yirsinia N; Thomas. 20. 1889 Goth ST.:
william H e. e. a5as aSss sss' ssg s.. : s.s sRe
Albert ). Hutzler. 20. Hondo. Tex. and
Theda ". Townshend. 81, Memphis.
Tenn; Rev. J. r. Sizoo.
Frank Winaker. 20. and Edith r. RaShin-
sky. %. both Of Baltimore; Rev. 8. H.
joseph i, Nelson. 81. and :paisyds.n
George r. Mains AZ. and Leola z john
son. 20, both Of Cedar Heishts. Nd;
Rev. e. r. Howard
Evening star., 1935-04-05
B. & O. RELIEF UNIT
HELD FREE FROM TAX
Board of Appeals overrules In
ternal Revenue Bureau in
$e1,32e Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
. The Board Of Tax Appeals has up
held the contention of the savings
feature of the relief department of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad that it is
an association exempt from income
taxes
: The petitioner had appealed income
taxes totaltng $9l,329 and penalties
for alleged failure to file an income
tax return Of S22,832. In overruling
the Internal Revenue Bureau the
board held the petitioner was q mu.
tual savings bank not having q cap
ltal stock represented by shares within
the meaning of the revenue act.
The Associated Press enormously
reported recently that the board had
upheld the bureau and ordered the
payment of the tax claims.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
FARLEY PREDICTS
SWEEPING VICTORY
Minimizes Third Party
Threat and Hints He May
Answer Long.
A sweeping victory in 1886.

No third party.
This is the political outlook as en-
Visioned by Postmaster General Farley
in his capacity as Democratic ma
tional chairman.
At the first press conference he has
held in weeks, Farley yesterday after
noon touched briefly on the campaign
next year; was discreetly silent on the
part he is to play, and grinlly limited
that he may have something to say re
Senator Long in the future.
He laughed away questions about
his resignation" from the cabinet,
which has been rumored from time to
time; the same for his reported gu
bernatorial aspirations; referred to
'the boss" President Roosevelt; in
Quiries as to his own status in the
quadrennial battle for control Of the
Government, an issue that has been
raised because of the one-time inten-
ton of the President to divorce Fed.
eral officials from political posts.
Scouts Worries.
1.-THE President hasn't anything to
worry about in 1885," Farley empha-
bAACO, tllO eOCo 4OI ILlC SCllCId1
congressional situation as we'll"
AS for those critics who are declar-
Ing that Congress has gotten out Of
hand, Farley recalls that this time q
year ago the same people were saying
that Congress was a rubber stamp"
It doesn't add up.
Not paying much attention to Re-
publican candidates. Sure of one
thing, though-"the people haven't
forgotten Hoover's administration"
And nothing would please the Demo-
Gratis more" than to have Represent
ative Hamilton Fish as the Republican
presidential nominee.
Avoids Reply to Long.
As for a prospective third party"
Farley can't see it at all. He antici-
pates the usual minority groups in the
field, but none of commanding pro.
portions.
Farley was pressed for some ex-
preston on the bitter attacks to which
he has been subjected by Senator Long
of Louisiana, but declined-now-to
be drawn into any discussion.
He did deny emphatically q recent
statement by Long to the effect that
had Franklin Roosevelt failed of
nomination at Chicago in 1882 he
planned to run for the presidency as
an independent.
There wasn't any need for him to
consider such thing" Farley added.
He knew all the time he was going to
get the nomination"
Evening star., 1935-04-05
Voluntary HOSPITALS have been uls

able to get Federal relief funds to
aid in caring for persons who are on
relief and who enter hospitals as
charity cases. 1t was stated.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
SOCIETY PLANS DANCE

The New York State Society will
give dance at the Shoreham Hotel
tomorrow at $50 pm. as its last social
function of this season.
Y Arrangements were completed by
Mrs. Mary D. Lightfoot, Walter D.
Sutcliffe, William Richards, Pauline
Parro and DR.. Lamar Harris. Samuel
Gompers, chairman Of the Entertain
ment Committee, has arranged a
special entertainment program. DR..
w. K. Davis is president of the society.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
Scarcity of Funds
To Care for Sick
Seen by Hospitals
One Out of Erery II
Persons to Be Treated
During the Year.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April 5.-One out
OF every seventeen persons in the
United States will 60 to a hospital
in 1885, and many Of the hospitals
are worried where TO find the funds
to care for them adequately.
This was brought out at the OPEN
ing session Of sectional meeting of
the American College of Surgeons here
yesterday. The 1885 estimate is based
on the 1884 actual count, Just fin
ished. This shows 7.147,416 patients,
1,079,5lo beds and an average hos
pital stay Of IA days.
Half the beds, college authorities
stated, are in tax-supported hospitals,
but two-thirds of the hospitals are
voluntary" and to these latter go
seven times as many patients as to
the Government-support institutions.
1t is these voluntary" hospitals,
non-profit making, where the bulk Of
the patients go, that face the flnan.
cial dilemma. About 400 of them have
closed in the past five years, against
about a dozen new ones starting.
The patients who pay for service
have decreased. Those asking charity
from endowments have dropped.
Voluntary hospitals have been uns
able to get Federal relief funds to
aid in caring for persons who are on
relief and who enter hospitals as
eharity cases. 1t was stated.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
Famous Gallows Stolen.

SAN JOSE, Calf, April R.-
Theft Of the gallows upon which
Tiburcio Vasquez, notorious bandit
was hanged back in 1875, was discov-
cred yesterday by Sheriff George Lyle
The relic had been stored in the base
ment Of the court house here.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
IOWA TEACHER RECEIVES
LITTLE AMERICA LETTER
Epistle Delayed a Year Because
Of Difficulties in Trans
portation.

By the Associated Press
WEBSTER CITY. Iowa, April S.
A letter mailed October 2, 1888, at
Little America has been received here
by Miss Mary Hall, Webster City
school teacher. It was sent by her
uncle, c. c. Boak of Tonopah, New.
On the envelope was written: DE-
1ayed year due to difficulties in trans
portation in Little America"
Evening star., 1935-04-05

the execution Of Frank Mcdaniel,
colored slayer scheduled to die April
H., because that Is her 6eth birthday
"ard 1t would spoil the day" The
sheriff shook his head.
Evening star., 1935-04-05
Reich Jobless Increase.

Unemployment In Germany has in
creased nearly 375, 900 In the last year.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
Ancient Poor Law.

The poor law of Queen Elizabeths
time, some $50 years ago, enjoined the
parishes to supply the able bodied un-
employed with all kinds of raw ma
terials for useful labor. FAX, hemp or
wool for spinning and weaving: iron
and timber for handicrafts and even
land for cultivation-somewhat like
what we are doing today.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
Gold Standard Failed.

At very remote date China ap-
pears to have tried the gold standard
ard failed to maintain 1t, owing nreo.
ably TO the uncertain and fiuctuating
supply Of the metal from the mines
and the absence Of an active foreign
commerce to make good Q deficiency
or dispose Of 0 surplus.