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The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Thousands Of
Omahans Attend
Easter Services
By S. EDWARD GILBERT

Eater Sunday message of re-
newed life depicting the risen
Christ had unusual Significance for
thousands Of Omahans attending
the churches Of Omaha Sunday.
Awakening from the slnmber on
Easter, a brilliant spring morning
greeted church goers who joined in
PRAYERS for a renewed life. A life
that shall mean everlasting sun
shine. a life that will assure a
friendly and moral universe, teach
ing that life bevond the grave IS
reasonable, fased on the fact of
the resurr etion en- Easter morn.
At the close Of church, the re-
nown Twenty-fourth street par
ade got underway, rivaling the
traditional Easter parade on Fifth
Avenue. New York. Brown Amer
lea was truly in her gl ry. As you
promenaded tn ri t%oricel street of
of Omaha, you could not help but
admire the beautiful attire on liv-
ing models.
There were nleats a~d pleats and
more pleats, boleros played up in
every mood, colors that are exc't-
ingly new, prints that are re-
fresh 'ngly different, costume suits
and coats and dresses of wools
that revive enchanting pa tells,
stripes everywhere you turn in the
mode. flowery beribboned Watte0u
hats that bring the dainty fem
mine into the picture, Gibson girl
hlouses and wrist deep full sleeves,
Gibson girl sailors with colorful
wells that z brought up under The
chin to tie at The back in a flut-
terry butterfly bow, men CARRIED in
their spring colored suits, featur-
ing green with chalk stripes. Eth!
let us pause for a moment and
catch our breath, before we go on
with the reproduction of this nev-
| er-to-be-forgotten Easter parade
! that was beheld on old Twenty
| fourth street.
Joining the rubber-neck brigade,
this is what your eyes gazed upon:
Colors, neon blue, roseberry,
J strawberry, wheat straw, light tan,
green and citron yellow. Hats:
Poke bonnetts, Gibson Girl Sail
ors, Pill Boxes, Vatican, Bouben-
EFT, British Tan Shoes: Let US be
satisfied by saying, briught color
ed shoes. Dresses: Print and plain
dresses, th%ree-piece Travel suits,
consisting of skirt, jacket and top
coat, costume dresses, skirt-waist
frocks, manufactured suits and jig
ger coats.
Easter came smiling into 0ma-
ha in a roseate dawn around 400
p. m. the skies wept, but the crowd
! grew and grew and after awhile
the sidewalks of Twenty-fo fourth
street were churning with an ava
lanche of human flesh, trying to
be paraders and spectators at the
same time.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Annual May !.
Day Festival to be At
Zion Baptist Church

The committee on plans for the
second annual May Day Festival
anouces that the scene of the
May Da yFestival for 1888 will be
at Zion Baptist church, May %.
Already there are II churches
set to make the festival, present
ing the junior choirs Of Omaha
one of the most colorful demon
STATIONS of youth talent eve to
have been witnessed in Omaha.
Aside from the local churches
there are expected to be three out
of town churches sending guest
queens. Namely, Lincoln, Council
Bluffs, Iowa and Clarinda, Iowa.
The committee which will meet
again Monday, April 25, 700 p. m.
at the Northside "Y" urges all
directors and sponsors of the many
junior choirs to be present in or
der that they may secure queen
tickets to be sold in the queen con-
test. The winner to be crowned the
May Day Queen for the Year 1888.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Fifth Annual
Campaign To
Be Conducted

Atlanta, Ga, April 16-The Al
pha Phi Alpha fraternity will con-
duct during the week of May rs,
its Fiftieth Annual Campaign of
Education for Citizenship, accord
ing to a announcement made by DR..
Rayford w. Logan, the fraternity's
director of education. Throughout
tho country, he stated, graduate
and undergraduate chapters of the
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity are
laying plans to make the Fiftieth
Anniversary Campaign the most
effective in the new era of the
fraternity's educational campaign.
Numbered among the members
of the fraternity who will take an
active part in the campaign are
mny representatives of state legis-
latures. They and other national
ly known speakers will drive
home the slogan "a Voteless Peo-
pie is a Hopeless People" This
slogan has already been carried
to more than 100000 Negroes, DR..
Logan estimated.
In this campaign the fraternity
invites the cooperation of all sor-
critics, other fraternlties, local and
national organizations. "The frat
ernity seeks no glory for ITSELF the
director declared, sit wishes merely
to arouse Negroes from the leth-
argy of a generation and to make
them and the rest of The nation
realize that democracy is a farce
50 lone as eight millions Of people
IL the southern states T effee-
lively disfranehised."
r. Charles II. Wesley, dean Of
he Graduate School, Howard uni
versity, is the national president
Of the fraternity. Other national
officers are Mr.. Joseph H. B.
Evans Washington, d. c.: General
Secretary: Attorney Perchival r.
Piper, Detroit, treasurer; Mr..
Lewis o. Swingler, editor of the
Gnbinx
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
County to ut2,O0OM Men 10 Work Repairing Roads
. Concert Artist
Visits o m a h a

Mr.. X. l.. Bolton, of Minneapolis,
Mimi. a concert artist, poet, reader
and lecturer supreme, also a rad o
singer, accompanied by Miss Edith
Williams of Minneapolis and Miss
Bernice McGaw of st. Paul motor
e. to Omaha to spend the Easter
holiday. They were the guest Ct
Mrs. Melba tMeCawl Stewart. Mr..
Bolton has Just returned from a
concert tour in Honolulu, where he
spent three months. The following
are a few Of the places where he
made a splendid record in his con-
concert work. Honolulu Academy Of
Arts, The University of Hawaii,
Kamehameha School of Hawaii
and the University If North Da-
kota. Superior high school, Super-
ior, Wis, Virginia Junior College
and several institutions in Canada.
He was a visitor to the Omaha
Guide plant, visiting with Mr.. w.
M. Davis, of the Guide staff. Dur
ing his short stay in Omaha he
was royalty received and entertain
ed. He had the pleasure Of being
in the home of DR. g. b. Lennox,
Mr.. and Mrs. w M. Davis and
several others.
He will return to Omaha again
soon on another concert tour. and
Omaha will have a chance to en-
JOY some of his best concerts and
entertainments. Watch for the
date of his appearance.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Discord Is Struck As
Midway Pianist Takes
Shot At Boy Friend

Burdette St. suddenly whipped
out a baby hammerless pistol and
began to fire at Mr.. Douglas
Elackman, 1924 North 22nd St,
striking the victim in the ankle,
resultir IN his being taken to
Nicholas Sem Hospital.
Il is alleged by witnesses who
were remnarfs ef the early even
ing Easter parade that the scurry
for cover on the part guests and
kitchen help, was SO fast and fur
ious following the brardi hing of
the revolver that the police upon
arrival was for the moment at a
loss SIS to who had been the re-
ceiver of the bullet, due to- visible
limps, resulting from contact OF
movable objects against immoyable
objects.
Miss Wells fled out the rear
door but was apprehended an hour
and a haE later at the home Of a
friend by police and taken u jan
where she is being held for IN
vestigation.
Miss Wells told police their
quarrel started when some fellow
talked to her to long, causing MI
Rlaekman to change his tempo ,
slapping a light ~"crescendoD on
Miss Wells cheek. Angered by the
slap given her, she said she Just
started shooting
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
L. S. Employment
Service Report
Issued

Chicago, April % (By Ethel
Harris for ANP)-Sinee the es-
adjustment of the U. S. Employ
ment Service in 1888, those inter
ested in the economic rehabilita-
ton of unemployed Negroes have
been anxious to know: What pro
portion of the Negro population
uses the Service? What are the
industrial elassifications of Negro
applicants? What are the chances
of placement of Negroes and in
what fields? How do placements
of Negroes and whites compare?
A recent report issued for the
nine-month period, July 1886 to
March, 1887, covers such questions.
The Negro Applicant
II was obvious that the Service
was used by a larger proportion of
Negro males and smaller proper
ton of Negro females than there
were gainfully employed Negroes
in 1880. In 1880, these workers
were concentrated in California
and seven of the South Atlantic
and Gulf states. Nearly a quarter
Of the colored registrants for this
period were in the three states,
Penns vlvanla, Ohio and Illinois,
which contained for only one-tenth
of the 1880 working population be
cause % In the North relief re-
gistrants are required to seek
work through the Service; % the
Service is more readily available
to Negroes in the North where
they have engaged in urban pur-
suits
1t is not surprising that more
than half the applicants for dom
este service and physical labor
were eolored. Relatively few col
ored men were found in "white
CELLAR Jobs. 0ne-fifth of the men
were from agriculture, and one
sixth from manufacturing. A large
proportion Of Negroes, of course,
could not be attached to any in
dustry because they had nc SUI
ficiently recent or specific work
experience.
Negroes, generally, had been I'M
employed longer than whites. Only
10 per cent of the colored men were.
working when registered as COM
pard with Is per cent of white
men. A larger percentage of col
cred than white men had been I'M
employed from one TO six months
Placements
During this nine-month period,
allowing for repeot placements.
520,2 colored applicants were
placed. 395,612 were men, 81 per
cent of whom were placed in build
ing and construction; 20 per cent
were put on relief projects: 20 per
cent in agriculture; z per cent in
domestic and personal service: and
6 per cent in manufacturing. Of
the women placed, rs per cent in
fCootinuad on paoa ~
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
City Names Park
After Robinson

Bill Robinson is one of the hap
pieet persons in Hollywood.
The genial stage veteran, ac-
claimed the worlds most outstand-
inG. tap dancer, has received word
from his native home. Richmond.
Va that a park has been named
in his honor.
The Twentieth Centurv-Fox film
star, who has just taught Shirley
Temple new dance steps for her
starring role in "Rebecca of Sunny
brook Farm" recently gave the citv
Of his birth four traffic signal
liohts to mark a corner at Adam
End ! ee streets, where he played
rs n child.
The city set aside a park at this
intersection TO be called the "Bill
Robinson Park" in honor of the
dancer.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
iva To Be Investigated

New York City, April 16-Data
on the discrimination against Ne
groes by the IVA, is being assem-
hled by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People and will be presented to the
Joint committee from the House
and the Senate which is to investi-
gate the IVA.
The NAACP has some material
in its files, but desires additional
information on the treatment of
Negro citizens in the iva as to
housing, recreations, and other
features.
It is known, for instance. that
Negroes are not allowed TO live
in the government-built town of
Norris, Tenn. at Norris Dam. 1t is
known, also, that in the vast con-
s~truction work through the whole
iva area, Negroes were restrict
ed to certain types of work and did
not have supervisory positions
even on concrete-pouring gangs
there were no Negro foremen
There were no Negro white-collal
workers. No Negro skilled Labor
was employed except in a verv few
instances when it was engaged
in the construction of houses foi
Negroes only.
The NAAPC desires information
on iva discrimination 10 be sen
to it's New York office, SO Fiftl
avenue, as promptly as Possibl
so it may be arranged and present
ed to the joint committee.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Tennessee Supreme
Court
Murder Conviction

Huntington, Tenn. April 28-
Bill Jack Bledsoe, who was con
victed of murder, July 20, 1887,
had his conviction reversed by the
Tennessee supreme court last week
and the case remanded for q pew
trial.
Bledsoe was convicted Of billing
George Stanford, a white over
seer on the K. G. Denny plantation
located about six miles from Milan,
Tennessee. He received a sentence
of twenty years in prison.
All the evidence in the case
seemed to support Bledsoe's con-
tention that he shot in self-de-
Tense.
The shooting followed an argu-
ment over seed, Bledsoe, who was
born on the Denny farm, had
planted some grass seed but had
been told subsequently to move off
by the riding boss and the latter
is said to have promised to pay
Bledsoe for the seed but failed
to do so.
Bledsoe was defended by white
and colored lawyers, who were
assisted by the NAACP. The hw-
yers are P. L. Harden, jackson,
Tennessee; j. Ross Mckinney.
chief council; Jimmie Lee Taylor
and Buck Crider. Harden the sol
ored lawyer, was threatened witA
being run out Of town when the
case first came to trial, bue he
refused to be frightened.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Race Relations Better,
Says Mrs. Bethune

Lincoln, Nebr., April % (By Ell
wood Randol for ANP)-Mary Nc
Leod Bethune, president of the
Bethune- Goodman college at Day
tona Beach, Fla. told reporters
here that higher education was one
cf the most effective ear Of
breaking down race prejudice in
the United States.
In Lincoln inspecting NYA pro-
ieets, Mrs. Bethune said that the
white man drought the country is
taking a renewed interest in the
Negro, and that it is through the
facilities offered by the colleges
and universities of the nation that
the youth Of the two races may
get together for a better under
standing.
The educator could 2 a great
deal of change in the attitude to-
ward the race problem. The trend
is to work with the Negro instead
of remaining detached from him
and trying to prescribe what should
be done.
In December, 1887, Mars. Be
thune founded the Council of Ne
gro Women which was organized
so that the women's organizations
of America could pool their thou
ghts. ~ saw the Importance Oh
concentration of the thinking minds
Of one thing" she said in explain
ing the purpose of the organiza-
ton which represents about one
million women in this country.
"There is no comparable Negro
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
155 Miles of
County Roads
to be Repaired

Jobs will be provided for 2,000
men from WPA rolls when the 1898
cennty-WPA highway Improvement
program is fully underway, Coun-
tv Surveyor William Green an
nounces.
Work under the new program,
recent approved by WPA officials
in Washington, has been started.
L covers Is miles of roads. At its
completion all highways in the
county road system have received
improvements under the county
sponsored WPA projects on which
work was begun in November, 1885.
The program calls for estimated
expenditure of $861,779, of which
+he county is scheduled to contri-
but 1924, 34S in cash, supervision
and use of equipment.
Up to January l, 1898, Douglas
county had received two millio"s of
dollars worth of highway improve
ments through WPA projects, for
less than a 20 per cent outlay of
county funds. The work provided
Jobs for an average of 1926 men
from November, 1895 to Decem-
Der 81. 1886 and for an average
of 9s5 through 1887.
Saws Surveyor Green: Besides
providing these needed Jobs TO aid
WPB workers and their families,
tho work has given taxpayers o.
the county these road improve
ments at bargain prices. Farmers
have been helped by Improvement
of their farm-to-market roads,
trade with Omaha and other town.
in the county has been promoted
and all highway users in Omaha
End ether towns have been bene-
fitted"
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
G. O. P. LEADERS
IN TENNESSEE
LASH NEW DEAL

Chattanooga. Tenn, April %
IANP)--Two speakers, Carlyle S.
Littleton, white G. o. P. attorney,
and Walter Robinson, Fourth Ward
c%olored Republican leader, hurled
verbal blasts at President Roose-
velt's New Deal administration at
Tuesdays Republican rally at the
courthouse.
Atty. Littleton denounced the
Roosevelt ordell reciprocal trade
policy in information trade trans
actions, attributed the present ire
c~essional" and unemployment to
the New Deals tariff and tax
alton programs. The meeting was
sponsored by the Hamilton County
Young Mems Republican club.
Exhorted speaker Littleton, awe
wonder why we have a depression
after this length of time. We Won
der why there is starvation in our
land. Five years ago, the New Deal
went into office. During that time,
it has spent 81 billion dollars. To-
day the national debt is 38 billion
dollars. The expenditures during
the coming year will raise that
that debt to 80 billion collars. and
our best economist said that AZ
billion is the danger point. The
New Deal is now asking for an
other five and a half billion dol
lar" ATTY. L%ittleton's speech
ante-dated the Presidents emer-
gency message to Congress on
Thursday. April IA, in which he
asked an additional six and a half
billion dollars Appropriation to
beat the depression and ward off
dictatorship
Fourth Word G. o. P, leader Ro-
binson. in his blistering attack on
the present administration which
succeeded in weaving millions Of
NEGROES from Republican ranks,
declared, "Many members of my
race went off after a strange god
in 1886. Colored people from Miss
ksippi and other Southern states
drifted North, following that
strange god. Can you imagine
that? Negeoes from Mississippi
and Georgia voting for a Demo-
crat, when in their own states the
Democrats won't let them vote for
either a Democrat or a Republican.
II is my opinion that unless the
American people change doctors,
she patient will soon die"
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Woman Takes Poison


Knoxville. Tenn, Anril % (By
DR.. o. B. Taylor for ANP)-Last
Saturday, an attractive, unidentifi-
ed brown-skinned girl. apparently
20 years old, entered the drug
store at Vine and Central street
and asked for three ounces of pure
tincture of iodine. When the drug
giet handed her the wrapped pack
age, she at once tore away the
wrapper, removed the stopper, and
drank the contents before she
could be stopped. She soon fell to
the floor dazed. When the ambul-
ance arrived to take her TO the hos
pital, she was unconscious, and is
still in critical condition. No one
here seems to know the well dress
ed vounO woman, nor the motive
back of her rash act
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Last Rites Held For
Sis. Willie Davidson

Tuesday, April ~, at 2 p. m. the
heroic soul of Sister Willie David
son slipped its mooring and set
sail across the bar of eternity.
Sister davidson Was born in
Shugua1ak, Mississippi, January
30. 1905 and was converted at an
early age. She was a member of
Willie Grove Baptist church in
Shugalak, and in May 1926 she and
a sister. Tinnie. came to Omaha
and made their home with their
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Beasley, who reside at 949
North Twenty-fifth street.
On her arrival in Omaha, she un-
tied with Mt. Moriah Baptist
Church under the late Rev. G. w.
Day.
She was .. faithful member and
attended regularly as long as her
health permitted her to do so. She
was a member of the Mission Cir
Gle and was ever faithful in per
forming her christian duties.
In October, 1929, she vas united
in Holy matrimony to Mr.. Louis
Davidson Of Omaha, who is left
to mourn her lost. .
She was ambitious, thrifty. and
was possessed with a determination
to work for God, and to do her bit
for humanity.
She was q. devoted wife, a love-
ing mother who devoted her time
I to the training of her children in
the fear and admonition of God.
The God who been the sourc of
her strength during her illness
and in who's arms she sweetly
breathed her last.
She was mindful of herself, but
jealous in performing her duty to
her family, and her church.
Verify in the midst of life we
are in death. She happily awaited
for the end, and expressed no fear
at the appearance of death.
Rev. F. P. Jones, the present
pastor of Mt. Moriah, delivered
the funeral eulogy, taking his dis
course from the ever beautiful 23rd
Psalms.
She leaves to morn her passing
2 devoted husband, Mr.. Louis
Davirson two daughters, Ardieth
Louise 7, and Minnie 8; one son
Louis ir., her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. J. Beasley sr., who reside in
Mississippi. two brothers. Thos
J. Peasley, of Omaha, and Jonath-
on Beasley of Shugualak, Miss;
two sisters. Miss Tinnie Beasley of
Omaha. and Mrs. Lille B. Crockett
Of Shugualak. Miss; six uncles
and a host Of other relatives and
friends.
Her body was in the charge of
the Myers Funeral Home. TIL
husband and sister Tinnie accom-
panied the body to Shugualak,
for interment.
All her friends regret her pass
ing,
A precious one from us is gone;
A voice we loved is stilled,
a place is vacant in u hearts
That never a be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled,
The n to us he has given.
Although the body slumbers
here,
Her soul is safe in Heaven.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
NOTICE

Through the courtesy of the
Street Railway Co, we have been
notified that adequate street car
service will be available Sunday
beginning early afternoon goin
to and from Central high school.
one will have any worry about
going TO and from the Spring
Musical.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23
Mr.. Veitzer Buys Old
YOssem Grocery Store

Ma. Bernard Veitzer paeently
bought the old Yossem Grocery
store at 2012 North oath Street.
Mr.. Veitzer came here from Los
Angeles. California, where he had
been in the grocery business for
several years.
He invites you to visit him. Yes
will receive courteous serice all
times. He handles The be- It's
end groceries and fresh 'es
and a full stock. Mr. -
in his employ James 6"
is working full tir'~ t
April IL 3 r.
cial de-
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23

CWorld-H Herald Photo)
A purveyors of swing music
swung, a THE Midway Cafe, 2418
North oath St, the morning after
Easter, a discord was struck when
Miss Barbara Wells, pianist, 1926
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23

Mrs. Lima Bantam. Of st.
Joseph, cousin Of Mrs. Fila Long.
returned to Omaha to look after
her cousin, Mrs. Long 25t7 Lake
street. who has been i'll three years
Her stay will be an indefinite one.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23

Mrs. c. B. Manaloto entertained
with a Buffet luncheon Sunday
night honoring Mrs. George Hamil-
toK Of Chicago.
The Omaha guide., 1938-04-23

4 tea was given at the home Of
Mr.. Wardell. The guests present
were: Mrs. A. f. Jones and Mrs.
C. II. Anderson. The hostess was
Evening star., 1938-09-20
PREPARED FOR WAR.
CZECH VISITOR SAYS
Steps Taken by Government to
Meet Threat Explained by
DR.. Sladek.

Czechoslovakia is peace-loving
country prepared for the possibility OF
war, DR.. Jaromil Sladek. Sc. D., M. S
Phi, professor of organic and biolog-
ical chemistry at Charles University
Prague. said today.
But it should not be misunder-
Stood" he added. 1T is now so ter
rible. We are as pacifistic as you
We have done only what was deemed
necessary"
An annual quota is set for military
training. DR.. Sladek declared. and most
able-bodied men are called upon to
serve two years. This year, however
certain other measures have been
adopted not previously In effect. There
have been two or three air-raid drills
in the cities since the beginning o.
the year to accustom the people to seek
shelter and turn out lights in. case ot
air attack Also all urban jewellers
have had to provide gas masks fol
themselves, their children and servants
The government has provided masks
for those unable to pay.
DR.. Sladek came to America at the
end Of June and during the summer
did research on the active ingredients
Of liver extracts and hog stomach
which are used in the treatment OF
pernicious anemia. He is in WASH
ington visiting Government labora-
tories before returning in October to
CZechoslovakia.