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The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Granddaughter OF
Frederick Douglass
Visits In Omaha

Mrs Frederick Douglass Spra-
que Perry, who is travelling in the
interest of the National Republican
party has been in the city for sew
eral days speaking and making con-
facts.
Mrs. Perry is the granddaughter
of the late Frederick Douglass, be-
ing the daughter of Rosetta Dou-
glass, first born of Frederick Dou-
glass. She has the distinction of
having been named after her grand
father.
The Nine Cantacuzene, of Wash
ington, d. C. who recently visited
Omaha in the interest of the Ma
tional Republican party, is a grand
daughter of General Grant. Now
Gen. Grant and our beloved Fred
erick Douglass were very close
friends. It was a coincidence, in
deed, that the granddaughters of
these great men should happen to
be here at the same time and meet,
Continued on Page 81
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
100000 TO NEGRO
NEEDY FOR
MEDICAL USE

Jackson, Miss Oct. 25 (ANP1-
Following the announcement that
the late r. II. Green, wealthy
wholesale grocer, who died recent
", had left a trust fund of 5000, 900
to provide hospital care for needy
colored residents, Vaughn Watkins,
ono of the executors of the estate
said this week that wards in Jack
son hospitals will be established for
the charity patients rather than
building a special hospital for the
purpose.
M. Vaughn explained that the
amount set aside in Mr.. Green's
viii would not be sufficient to build
. hospital, equip it, maintain a
staff and furnish free food and
medicinal supplies But if existing
facilities are used and wards estab-
lished in the hospitals already built
tll $200,0 900 trust fund car be de
veloped into one of the principal
philanthropies in the south.
Big Step Forward For Negroes
The wealthy merchants trust
fund raises hopes here in the hearts
of members of both races that it
is the forerunner of other requests
and financial efforts to provide ad-
equate medical care and hospital
tretment for needy colored patients,
1t is well known that as individuals
Negroes r in many cases gener-
ously provided for by southerners,
but little has ever been done in
Mississippi to provide for them col
lactively. in the matter of hospit-
al care. 1t is pointed out, however,
that the development of social
wards attached to the already ex-
isting white hospitals will offer nc
opportunity to Negro doctors who
had hoped to have the institution
established and placed under their
care.
This states colored charity pa
TENTS have always exceeded the ac-
comodations. and north of Jackson
especially in the delta counties
where the ratio of Negroes to
whites is 8 to 1, no facilities are
provided for them. Through the
charity hospital fund recently pro-
vided by the state legislature a few
free beds r made available for
Negroes, but lot nearly enough for
the great number needing medical
and surgical care
NJ" Watkins believes that Mr..
I Gree"'s bequest for Negro welfare
augurs well for a betterment of
race relations and is indicative of
the decline of race prejudice in
the south" Hundreds of colored
residents attended the hast rites for
the merchant. and he remembered
a numbered of them, family SER
wants and employees of his whole
sale house, in his will.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Perry Howard
Saws:

81 trust that all my friends in
Nebyaska will continue y stand up
Tor the G. o. P.
A division of votes WI not help
us, and will not result in making
up the balance of power.
| am one of those wha believes
shat no colored person can be a
Democrat at heart. l define a DEM
acrat as being a mad or sore Re-
publican" We are just as natur-
ally Republicans as we are Method
lists or Baptists.
| am enc of hose who believes
ing about what Roosevelt has done
for the colored people. As a matter
of fact, he has done nothing out of
tho ordinary in administering re-
lief. In the south, it is a crime-in
my state, Mississippi, where there
are more Negroes than whites, they
have not given the Negro ten jobs
Just the other day, they laid of
10000 Negroes from the relief rolls
and not white.
Mr.. Roosevelt has brought tC
Washington, D. c., over 10000
white people in the departments
and only so colored.
The Democrats are trying tt
buy my people through Relief, anC
in buying them through relief, the!
are buying them with their owl
money 1 want to urge my colore'
friends to take all relief they cal
get and then go into the booths ant
vote according to their own die
tates."
The above is an interview givel
a reporter of the Omaha Guide Fri
day, Oct. 16, by the Hon. PER-!
W. Howard, while in the city.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Jesse Owens
Says:

Everyone has his own opinion
about things. | went to visit Lam
don, and before | went to visit him
Il was in my mind to go Rerubli-
can. | was talking to several men
and they thought that | could
do Landon a lot of good by talking
ior him I was a Republican at all
times, it was not a matter of chang
Ing parties. | really think he is a
fine mar and | like his personality
very much. | especially like his
views on lynehing. | like his attit-
ude and the stand he takes toward
our people"
His message to youth is, the OPP
p~ortunity that is before him now
will not be for long. They have a
wonderful opportunity at the pre-
sent time. They have ample time
in school, and opportunities present
themselves. so that they are learn
more about worldly affairs. Il is
not going to be very long before
they are voters themselves ano
they should know something of the
facts that are facing them today
and they should weigh then
better than they have in the pas
/ and take more advantage of them
In due time, by taking advantage
of the opportunities offered there
will be abetter understanding be
tween the two races of people il
this country-white and black.
Owens said he started in JUNO.
high school in 1928. One morning
the coach took him out to run am
was so pleased that he asked hin
to come back that afternoon. From
then on he took an interest in run
ming and has been participating il
track eventsever since He ha
had a marvellous time during hi
athletic career and has made som.
marvellous CONFLICTS. Through hi
athletic ability he has had aa OPP
portunity to secure a college educa
ton and so it has proven very pro
fitable TO him.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Republicans Endorsed
By Jesse Owens and
Perry Howard

Two thousand persons attended
tho Republican political rally held
at Zion Baptist church Friday night
Oct. 10th and heard a bitter de-
nunciation of the new deal policies
by Perry Howard. Republican Ma
tional Committeeman from Miss.
Other speakers on the program
were Jesse Owens. four event Oily
mpic winner aud "world's fastest
human" and Stanton DePriest, son
of Oscar Depriest. former con-
from Illinois.
"Landon is he real friend of
our people. I've met Governor
Landon and admire his sincerity
and honesty with our people. He's
going o be cur next president of
the United States
Earlier Friday Owens, Howard,
DePriest and Miss Fannie O'Con-
nell, in charge Of he Republican
Young Women's division, paraded
north Omaha and made a number
of short stops for talks.
Also on the program was Mrs. D.
Perry, Kansas Ciy, Mo. who urged
return of the Negro voters to Re-
publican ranks.
The party left late Friday night
for st. Paul.
John Adams. candidate for the
unicamoral legislature, the only
Negro candidate in the state of
Nebraska, also spoke. He said he
would strive to represent all of the
persons in his district if elected.
Other speakers on the program
were II, j, Pinkett, master of cere
monies; Ray Williams, chairman;
Art. B. McCaw; Gaitha Pegg and
Miss Josephine Bell.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
n A C. p. to Hold
MidsOuth Conference
In New Orleans, La.

New Orleans, Oct 25-The fall
meeting of the regional conference
Of southern branches of the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People will be held here
Oct 30-31 and Nov. l..
NAACP representatives from
Georgia. Florida, Mississippi, Lou
isiana and Alabama, will converge
on New Orleans to seriously dis
cuss problems affecting the Negro
group, and to devise ways and
means to collectively combat many
of the existing injustices.
Problems to be discussed include
lynchings, jury service, unfair
trials; police brutality, voting, edu-
eational inequalities. WPA and
PWA jobs, cotton control admins
stration, farm aid; crime; travel
and transportation discrimination.
Negro business and unemployment.
The conference will open Friday
night. Oct. 80 at the st. Marks
Baptist church. On Saturday, Oct
81 there will be sessions at Xavier
university and st. James AME
church. and on Sunday afternoon,
Nov. l another big mass meeting
will be held.
The business sessions of the
meeting will be held on Saturday.
at which time plans will be form
ulated for the united attack against
the evils retarding the progress of
the Negro group, or it Is consider
ed that more than 100000 color
ed people; or approximately one
third of the Negro population of the
nation. live within the bounds of
the conference, the importance of
the meeting is obvious.
A. T. Walden, of Atlanta, a men,
Der of the NAACP board of direct
ors, Forester B. Washington, pre-
sident of the Atlanta branch; E.
Luther Brooks. of Clarke univer-
sity, and DR.. E. w. Taggart, mil
liant president of the Birmingham
branch will be among those to de-
liver addresses in connection with
the meeting
The regional conference of SOU
thern branches was organized in
Mobile last April, and promises to
become an integral force in allevi-
problems of the Negro in the
south.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Father Divine Checks
On Cleveland Judge

Cleveland. Oct. % (ANP)-The
secular activities of Father Divine
are not confined to providing chick
en- blow outs, it was apparent here
the other day. In fact, the Harlem
God" seems to be extending his
territory. The clever promotion
stories showing converts moved to
retribution and jaying old debts
popping up all yer the coun-
try. They make the daily papers
easily. so unusual is it for old debts
to be paid because of religion. Here
in Cleveland, Father Divine has
"cut a new one"
In the mail Of Common Pleas
Judge Samuel E. Kramer last week
was a letter from Father Divine's
Righteous Government forum in
New York City and a copy of its
semi-monthly magazine containing
the Righteous Government plat
form. Judge is a candidate for re-
election.
Kindly write me whether you
will accept this platform in your
political work; merely state yes
or no." the letter read. Father
Divine has a following of over
10000, 900 people, many of whom
are voters and living in CuyhOga
County, Ohio.
"He says stay your hand in
regards voting till you hear from
me.
waiting to hear from you be-
for election, and wishing you hap
piness and peace, | am peaceful
ly yOurs..."
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
JUBILEE SINGERS
MASTER OF SONGS
Give Rightful Expression To
Famous Spirituals Tops
In Sweetness Of Tone

Fisk Jubilee singers sang in the
Urban League Community Center
in the evening, Oct. 10Th, to a very
a~ppreciative audience. Program in
Guided ten Negro S%pirituals, a set
ting by H. 7. Burleigh of Hugh
Dillman's 81 want to Learn to Ser
We" written for the Fisk Singers,
q group of secular part songs, and
many encores. The group was ae-
companied by Mr. Berrien. He also
accompanied Nh. Leonard Frank
lin who rendered four soloes which
were well received by the audience.
The singers number eight: Cecil
Reeves, William A. Collier, Leon
ard Franklin; Author Bostle, Carl
Weems, Aswald Lampkins; Linton
Berrien, and Mrs. Jas. Myers who
is also director of the ensemble
All the sweetness of a Negro song
is in their tuneful harmonies. They
are masters of effect in tone and
rhythms, changes of key and eccen-
tricities of accent, however extreme
or abrupt have no terrors for them.
And their voices have that quality
OF softness and sympathy in which
no race on earth can surpass them.
Their singing is singing all the
time even in dramatic and de-lam-
atory passages. where words OF
startling force leap out from a
context of gentle persuasion, it is
beautiful modulated song that is
medium of expression, and they
sing always on their words-ev-
cry word distinct and ennoble by
melodic modelling. But even better
than the sweetness of their tone.
the smoothness of their modula-
tons, and the freedom of theil
rhythms is the throb of spOntaniety
that marks every phase of their
song They might be improvising
all the time, their singing is so ma
tural and sincere.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
TENANTS HOLD PARADE
IN BIRMINGHAM, ALA

New York. Oct % (C)-The Con.
solidated Tenants league sched-
uled "a protest parade and mass
meeting on Saturday. The assembly
was called for Dorrence Brooks at
2 p. m, and the mass meeting at
Rockland Palace afterward 30 pro-
test increasing tenants. DIR. William
Lloyd ImeA Attorney Vernal J.
Williams and Rev. Thomas S. Har-
ten were listed as speakers.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
OWENS and HOWARD IN BIG Cop. RALLY
GALLOWAY HURT
IN AUTO CRASH
Suffers Two Broken Ribs

Mr. C. c. Galloway, res dent of
Cmala for 36 years end we | kncgn
i business. civic and roliti al cir
le-. was severely iniuled in an
r "tomohile accident eight miles
west o, Atlantic, Ia. about 6 A.. m.
Saturday morning Oct. 18th; while
enrout to the Iowa university
Homecoming football game and
tier to Chicago. His CIR was in a
collision with another driven by
r. F1ickenger of Council Bluffs, Ia.
who was also going to Iowa City.
Tho details of the accident have
not as yet been a%seertained Accord
ing to reports there were four per-
sons in the Other car. The most
seriously hurt of these is said to
have suffered al fractured wrist
while one Of the women occupants
suffered a head injury.
Mr.. Galloway, whose son Ledrue
Galloway was a member of the
University of Iowa football team
cf 1924-25, suffered two broken
ribs and cuts about the face and
hands. He is at the Jones
hospital in Atlantic where his con.
! dition is reported as satisfactory
More than a hundred Omaht
friends have visited him since the
accident. He has been acting bust
ess manager of the Omaha Guild
for several years.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Tenants Chances Oh
Land Ownership Small

Jonesboro, Ark, Oct. "a (ANP)
Although tenant farmers regard
farm ownership as the remedy for
the south's big social and agricul-
tural problem, sharecroppers and
day laborers feel no good can come
from this proposal, made to the
special committee of 10 from Gov.
Futrell's Farm Tenancy commission
of SO members which is scheduled to
meet again near the end of October.
In Arkansas the average tenant
farmer pays the landlord part of the
crops produced for the rent of the
Ind, and has his WI farm equip
ment, livestock and seed. Share
troopers. however, have nothing
except supplies furnished at inter
est from the landlords. While farm
tenants have a good start toward
land ownership, no way appears
open for sharecroppers to obtain
land. Rural Negroes fall into both
classes.
J. o. E. Beck of Hughes, a men,
Der of Futrell's commission and n
of the yargest cotton planters in
eastern Arkansas. believes that I'M
provement of the lot of the share
cropper class in this section must
start through educational channels.
He intimates the belief that by edu-
eating the children of his type of
tenants, standards will be raised to
to a position equal to farm owner
ship.
Educational and religious facili
ties are lacking in many commun-
tiles in eastern Arkansas. In many
of them colored tenant children
have no opportunity at all to at
tend school.
The next meeting of the Futrell
commission is expected to consider
proposals made to remedy exist
ing conditions. After it meets, a
southwide tenant conference at Hot
Springs attended by Gov. Futrell
and governors or their representa-
from either other southern
states is scheduled to be held.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Rainey Breakfasts for
Roosevelt and Curley

Boston, Mass, Oct. % (C)-Hon.
Julian D. Rainey, eastern director
of the Democratic drive among Ne
groes, with offices in New York
spoke for fifteen minutes over WBZ
and the Yankee Net work Friday
evening for the reelection of Pre-
sident Roosevelt, and the election
to the U. S. Senate of Gov. Curley,
and the election to the governor
ship of Charles F. Hurley, state
treasurer,
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Roscoe Simmons On
Air Oct. % and Nov. |

Chicago, Oct. 25-Speaking I'M
der the auspices of the Republican
National Committee, Col Roscoe
Conkling Simmons. noted orator
and exponent of Republican prin-
ciples of constitutional govern
ment, will discuss the issues of the
national campaign as they relate
directly to colored people, his
speeches being broadcast over a
nationwide hookup on Sunday,
Oct. rs, and Sunday, Nov. 1. The
time for the broadcast will be from
$3.50 to 400 p. M, EST.
KOHL, Omaha. will carry the
speech.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Season Omen for Ina
Ray Hutton and Band

Ina Ray Hutton and her Melo-
dears will have new scenery, new
costumes, new specially acts, and
an entirely new routine of numbers
and novelties when they open their
season on at the Astor theatre in
Reading, Pa.
The blonde bombshell of rhythm
also booked for stage appearances
at the Earl theatre in Washington,
D. C. at Loew's in Montreal and at
Shea's Hippodrome in Toronto.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
BURY PROMINENT
D. o. PHARMACIST

Washington. Oct. "a (ANP)-
Funeral services for DR.. Benjamin
F. H~ailstorks, for over two decades
prominent pharmacist of southwest
Washington, were held Thursday
from Metropolitan AME Zion
church, the Rev. J. M. Mccoy, pas
tor, officiating, followed by inter-
ment at the Woodlawn cemetery.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
OLD FOLKS HOME TO HOLD
OPEN HOUSE OCTOBER 25th

The managers of the Old Folks
Home. 933 No. 25th street, will
have an open house Sunday, Oct
25th. Everyone is invited to attend.
Mrs. Olivia Kirtley, president; Mrs.
Martha Taylor Smith, reporter.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
RENT AND JOB
JIMCROW HIT IN
RELIEF PROBE

New York, Oct 25 (CNA)-Rent
,xtorticns and jim-erow discrimina-
tion in employment r denounced
as the most vicious Harlem con IL
tions In an official report relV aed
this week by the Advisory Commit
tee on Negro Problems to the Di-
rector of the Emergency Relief
Bureeu. Thu committee includes 81
Harlem leaders and is headed by
The Rev. Dir John II. Johnson re-
Gently appointed r. Mayor IA
Guardia tc the ERB board.
The rorort charged that the
"most serious ard most immed ate
problem for the Nero family s em-
ployment," and stated that the
rent problem was the most acute
faced in the Harlem area" 1t char
ged further that private industry
openly ldiscriminates against Ne
gro workers and that the bad
housing conditions breed disorder
and vice" Similar conditions con-
front the Spanish-speaking popul-
alton in lower, the report pointed
out.
1t fully confirmed the finding OF
the Mayors Commission on Harlem
that rent and job discrimination
unbridled police brutality and other
oppressive conditions were direct
ly responsible for the historic
March 10, 1885 outbreak in Har-
lem. The report was issued on the
very day that eleven city depart
ment heads, including Police Com
missioner Valentine, treated them
selves to a generous whitewash II
3 blanket denial of the charges OF
the Mayors Commission
The Advisory Committee found
chat "rents already prohibitiye fol
the facilities offered are being
raised in many instances L pro
posed consideration of "the post
ity of reenactment of emergency
rent as a possible solution to what
is the most acute problem faced in
the Harlem area"
The report describes as utterly
inadequate present ERB rent al
lowances the present policy of Civ
ing the client a rent allowance
which the bureau recognizes insult
ficient to pay the rent scale agreed
upon between the landlord and the
tenant, is unsound. The client must
supplement his relief allowance or
be dispossessed. This Is done by
hook or crook" Other surveys
show that the client is ordered to
draw on his food allowance to sup
plement the rent check.
The report assails discrimination
by private employers and quotes
statistics from the State Employ
ment Service to show trait only 3S
Negroes have been placed in jobs
In jrivate industry during the per-
iod from Aug. Is to Sept. 10. This
despite the fine record made by Ne
groes in executive posts in the ERB.
The committee acknowledges in
creased placements of Negroes in
executive positions in the ERB fol-
lowing the March 10th outbreak in
contrast to "a year ago when the
Negro worker, regardless of his
ability, appeared to be automatic
ally excluded from most of the i'm
portant jobs in the ERB. The num-
Der in executive posts increased
from nine to So, the report said.
The LOIS Negro staff members Of
the ERB comprise SO per cent of
the total, as against the Al per
cent Negro population of the city.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24

Mrs. Estella Saunders, State
Custodian of Records A W. NJ,
left Tuesday Oct. goth, to attend
the state convention in Sargent,
Nebr.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24

The trustees of the Pilgrim Bap-
fist church wish to announce to the
public that we denounce the action
taken on the premises of the above
named church Friday, Oct. 10th
when n nan refused to permit
the meeting scheduled TO be held
there to hear Hon. Perry Howard,
Jessie Owens and other speakers.
This guilty party was not a trustee
nor any officer of this church what
ever and was not authorized 10
stop this meeting. We feel that we
owe the public u regrets and we
would like to let you know that 1t
was unlawfully done.
(Signed) Trustees of Pilgrim
Baptist Church
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Lee Washing
ton of 2634 Corby St, announce
the birth of an eight pound boy. He
was christened Leslie Lee, jr.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
QUASH N. C. INDICTMENT

Charlotte, N. C. Oct. % (C)-
Judge j viii Pless, jr. quashed a
burglary Indictment Wednesday
against Tommis Walls, and defer
red the trial of Fred Steel and Sam
uel Jones, charged with murder,
when he learned no Negroes were
on the Mecklenburg Grand Jury
that voted the indictment.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24

Mrs. Zelma Leffall, 2877 Maple,
who has been sick for the past
four weeks, is greatly improved.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Mrs. John Hope For
F. d. Roosevelt

New York, Oct. "a (C)-Mrs.
John Hope, ST., widow of the pre-
sident of Atlanta university, has
written Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset,
director of the Women's Division of
the Democratic drive among Ne
groes, 81 will cast my vote for
Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Evening star., 1936-12-06

Give one to the family t. give
one to q young mother to
put in the nursery every
one will welcome one of these
sturdy heaters that take the
chill on a room in q jihy.
With wire safety
~ guard. tilt-proof base.
, ~ cord and handle.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

delightful bath perfume. delicate hankie scent, g
In beautiful crystal glass bottle Smells the real
flower.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

A realistic block signal
with switch to operate the
lights. Can also be hooked
UP to the track so they
stop the train automatic
ally. z inches high. With
. sections of track.
s:"s':;; e.; S:';5 So
Evening star., 1936-12-06

This pure. bland oil lubricates
the intestinal tract re-
lieves temporary constipation.
Easy to take because 1t is
odorless, colorless and TASTE
LESS.