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La gaceta., 1938-07-19

Ell s~ervicio electrico s~ignifica comodi-
dad, Governmental y lujo. FL dinero que listed
gasta en- electricidad significa algo mas de
ESQ para listed y cada miembro de SUI fami-
liza. Es una inversion en- mejor vivir. FL SER
vicio electrico siempre es una de las cosas
mas baratas que listed compra..... y ahora
cuesta menos todavia. listed puede tener
mejor alumbrado; gozar mas de la conve-
niencia de los pequenos utensilios; tener la
protection y las cualidades de la r~efrigera-
cion electrical, y tener las ventajas del coci-
mar electricamente y ~calentar aqua en- la
misma forma. En- sintesis, su hogar puede
ser TODD electrico, y costar menos, tamhien.
La electricidad de nuevo ha bajado en- pre-
clio, continuance su marca de economizarle
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
AGED CITIZEN KILLED By
AUTOMOBILE

The third tragic death among
race citizens in three days was reg
istered Monady night when Mrs
Nellie Gordon, 81, employee in the
L. p. Loring home and living at
2739 Caldwell Street was fatally in
jured at oath and Paul sts., when
struck by a car driven by Jessie G.
Parrish, 40, WPA worker, living
at 2530 Indiana avenue. Parrish
said she stepped from behind =
street car. He was booked on a
charge Of reckless driving and held
on a $4,000 bond.
The woman was unidentified UNI
til later in the evening when her
daughter, Eliza Smith, called po-
Leo station to report her mother
missing. The body was taken to
the Meyers funeral home.
County Coroner Jap will hold
an inquiry into Mrs. Gordon's death
Tuesday at 10 a. m. at the county
attorneys office.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

Supreme Physician of the Ameri-
can Woodmen, Denver, Colo. whose
new book, "All White America"
defends the race against the charge
of being physically inferior to 9th
err races. The Surgeon General of
the United States. DIR. Thomas
Parran, in an article in the Survey
Graphic recently, conceded with
DR.. McKinney's view, declaring
tuberculosis and syphilis to be the
"white mans Diseases. Going to
the heart and core of the race prob
lem in America, DR.. McKinney's
book is popular with both races.
He declares the race problem can
not be solved until the Negro is
heard in his own right, and. that
humanity is one in vices and vir-
tues and blood. A prominent white
lawyer in Denver bought five OF
the books and gave them to
his friends. Calvin Service
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
indianapolis Gets 1889
Baptist Sunday School
Congress Session, There

indianapolis, Dec. 3 ANP)-Foi-
lowing receipt here of a message
from DIR. Henry Allen Boyd, secre-
tary Baptist Sunday School Con-
gress, Rev. Charles H. Bell, pas
tor Mt. Paran Baptist church, an
nounced Wednesday that the 1889
session of the congress will be held
in this city.
The meeting, set for June Gil,
will be the organizations 39th an
nual session. 1t is estimated that
approximately 5000 religious
workers will attend the Summer
meeting. Religious and secular
groups endorsing Indianapolis" in
vitation bringing the congress here
included State Sunday School and
BYPU convention, Indiana General
Baptist association, the four dis
trict association, local chamber of
Commerce, the Mayor and City
Council and the Governor of In
diana.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
CONGRESSMAN MITCHELL u
LOSES FAMOUS JIM GROW
RAILROAD SUIT CASE
Interstate Commerce Commission Dismisses Com
plant, Upholds Arkansas Jim Grow Law

Washington, d. C. Dec. 3 (ANP)
In a surprise ruling that spelled
finis to a widely heralded discri-
mination case, the Interstate Com
merce commission last Friday dis
missed the complaint of Congress
man Arthur w. Mitchell of Chica-
COS First district that the Rock
Island Railroad had required him
to leave a Pullman sleeping a in
Arkansaw and travel in a Jiw Crow
coach, inferior to the Pullman.
The Commissions opinion said
in part. at is not for us to enforce
the state law. We understand that
to be a matter for state authori-
ties. But in deciding the case on
the facts presented, we mist re-
cognize that under the state law.
defendants must seq egate passen-
gers"
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

Author of the new book, "Hu-
man Side of a People," published
by Philemon Co, 224 w. 135th st,
New York City, which the author
insists settles the question OF
whether the race should be called
Negroes of Colored.' Mr.. Powell
was educated in Northeastern uni
versity and the Suffolk Law
School of Boston. He worked on
the present volume twelve years.
and it is filled with contemporary
as well as past history of the race.
He is now working on a book on
Ethiopia, dealing with Italian ag-
gression there, and a novel.
calvin Service
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
Receives LIST Firewomans'
License

Mrs. Gertrude Kenney, 2315 Har-
ney st. had the distinction last
week of being the 1st Omaha wo-
man to receive a boiler fireman
license.
Her husband for Is years was
fireman at the st. Glare apart
ments, 2315 Harvey street where
Mrs. Kinney lives. He died last
July 7, and Mrs. Kinney, in order
to keep her husbands job coupled
the practical knowledge she had
picked up with a six months study
Of textbooks before she applied
for a license.
She came to Omaha about 20
years, and for a time was one OF
the city's popular caterers.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

noticed to my utter disgust, signs
in conspicuous places, one of which
read: This section for Colored
People Only The other read This
section for White People only
Edward Strong told a special
youth meeting at First Methodist
church that "the hopes and de-
sires of the Negro young people
of the South are the same as those
of the white young people and
declared zone reason the South has
not gone forward more rapidly is
because so much time has been
spent in keeping the Negro down."
At the same meeting, Mrs. Bethune
urged that whites and Negroes
together pull the South up to bet
ter standards.
One of the resolutions adopted
by a special panel section on con-
stitutional rights was freedom for
the five remaining Scottsboro
boys and pointed out "the ends of
justice will be better served by
the release of these prisoners"
This section in another resolu-
ticn also declared hat protection
of the Negroes constitutional rights
constitutes one of the vital issues
in the South's economic and po-
litical progress, since discrimina-
ton against the Negro is deteri-
mental not only to him but to the
whole South" and urged:
"That the names of Negroes be
placed in jury boxes and that Ne
groes be allowed to serve on both
petit and grand juries;
"That the Negro be permitted to
register and participate in party
primaries as well as general cleo
tons;
"That the intimidation and bru-
tally practiced upon Negroes by
police officers be stopped;
"That facilities for education,
recreation, housing and public
health be extended to provide ade-
quate attention to needs of the
Negro population"
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

Commissioners dissenting fro.s
the majority opinion were Messrs=
Eastman, Lee Miller, Atchionson x
Porter. Cong. Mitchell had charged
that On April 20, 1887, while ira
Yelling from Chicago to Hot
Springs, the conductor on the train
required him to change ears when
the train reached Arkansas. Rock
Island officials declared that segre-
CATION of races is required by Ar
kansas law.
The case had attracted wide at
t%ention for the important principles
involved as a victory for the con-
gress man would have eventually
have sounded a death knell tc dis
elimination and Jim Crowism
throughout the South, which now
flourishes certain states under the
p%erogative of estate rights
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
LOUIS TRAINS
FOR COMING
FIGHT

French Lick, Ind.-Joe Louis,
champion glove swingers of the
world, moved into his training
camp here Wednesday and began
sharpening himself for his coming
fight with John Henry Lewis,
World Light Heavyweight cham
pion.
He said that he would remain
here until the middle of December
before going to New York to
finish training for the contest.
He brought only one sparring
partner with him.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
KILLING ENDS MINISTER'S
LOVE AFFAIR

Fairlawn, N. shot by his
paramour in the shoulder, left lung
and the heart, as he sat in his
car, Rev. George Armstead, 35,
pastor of the Christian Missionary
Baptist Church, Paterson, died in
Barnet Hospital, Peterson, soon
after being admitted Friday.
The fatal shooting came as a
tragic finale to the illicit relation
ship which police say evisted be-
tween the minister and Mrs. Clau-
d.a Sumner, 81 year old Paterson
woman, who admitted the killing
saying that ne had failed to keep
an appointment to give her $50
for medical treatment for a dis
erse which she accused him of giving
her.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

tho last two years against the
frame apartment building.
Mayor Butler said today that sit
is true many buildings like the
one that burned Saturday are a
fire danger. but the council has all
so to keep in mind that If families
are sAiven out of one they are
forced, by finances, to move INTO
something no better and sometim-
es worse. Sometimes, when we
can get substantial repairs made.
the result is better than what pe1-
pie would move to in seeking an
other home"
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

New York City, Dec. 3-The APP
pointment of DR.. j. Warren Bell,
as Medical director Of the National
Society for the Prevention of
Blindness has been announced by
Lewis H. Carris, Managing Di-
rector of the Society. DR.. Bell was
formerly Director of Maternal and
Child Health in the State of Ne
braska. Before that, he was Di-
rector cf the Division of Maternal
and Child Health in Cattaraugus
County in New York state.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
TWO BURNED TO DEATH IN
MYSTERIOUS BLAZE
Two Trapped In 18th Street Apt.
House Fire


Two men, Howard Marshall and
Ernest Howe were burned to
death in a second floor apartment
at 1926 North 18th St, Saturday
night. The charred bodies of the
men were found in a clothes closet.
They apparently had lost their
way in the smoke and had dashed
into the closet in an attempt to es-
cape the fire.
The flames destroyed a section
of the floor in the apartment and
firemen found the bodies after the
fire only by treading cautiously a
cross charred joists to the closet.
The two-alarm blaze resisted the
firefighters for nearly an hour.
Several were drenched with freez-
ing water as they hauled hoselin-
es up ladders to the roof.
The flames had broken quickly
through the roof and into the cor
nices. Interiors of nearly all apart
ments were drenched before the
blaze was checked.
Rodman M. Brown, chief engin-
Ger of the city building department
said that condemnation proceedings
had been instituted twice within
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
Negro Invited Guests
Elected From G.. O. p.
Victory Ball i'm Iowa

Des Moines, Ia. Dec. 3 (ANP)-
Fourteen young Negro couples
were unceremoniously elected from
the COP victory ball sponsored by
the Young Republicans Club of
Polk county, Ia, held at the Tro-
mar ballroom in Des Moines last
week.
The Ia couples included some Of
the young outstanding Negroes of
the state, among them the son of
the president of the NAACP, Fred
Morrow jr., and the state chair
man of the Young Negro COP
club, Freddie Hawkins of Des
Moines. These couples were speci-
fically invited to the victory ball
and given invitations by order of
the county, district and state
chairmen of the Young Republican
club of which all IA were mem
bers.
While several of the couples
we're dancing, the matron, who is
under the supervision of the police
department, approached them and
tapped the girls on the shoulder,
telling them NegfrJes were not
permitted to dance on the floor
the dancers asked why, the matron
and for them to get off. When they
replied, "Why you can't dance here.
1t is against the rules of the man
agement. You will ruin the repu-
tation and business of Mr.. Archer.
Those that were reluctant to leave
were taken by the arm and led off.
The one thousand or more guests
present were shocked and imme-
diately rushed to the matron, the
manager of the Tromar and the
officers of the Young Republican
club to find out what had happened
and why.
1t finally developed that Tom
Archer, Independent Jewish owne'
Bierkamp, manager to have the
matron remove all Negroes who
wero dancing on the floor. The
Young Republicans informed the
Negroes of the order and stated
they were sorry about it, but there
was nothing they could do" They
admitted they knew the rules were
illegel, but in order to make as
little noise as possible. asked then
to refrain fro dancinng. Hawkins
sensing the situation, told his fri
ends to go home, and he would SEE
that the wrongful persons woulC
be punished.
Atty. J. Nelson Thompson, lega
advisor of the Young Negro GOf
club has been retained as counse
for the group, and has declared
that those responsible for this hu
initiation would be publicly nance
and prosecuted, no matter who they
might be. A warrant may be ISSUED
for the arrest of Tom Archer, Bier
kamp and the police matron, i
was deported.
The state of Iowa has a eivi
rights statute which guarantees
equal rights of every one in al
public places. There is also an or.
dinance of the city of Des Moines
guaranteeing such equal rights.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03
STATE WITNESS SHOT BY
MEN ON EVE OF MO.
BOMBING TRIAL

st. Louis, Mo.-Lee Baker, 80
year old Negro who was scheduled
to testify on Monday for the State
in the bombing tria% of Isadore
Londe. paroled convict, was shot
Friday night at two men left him
for dead in a boarded-up and de-
serted house.
Baker, wounded twice in the
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

head and once in the neck, revived
and managed to make his way
about five miles away for aid.
County hospital authorities said he
would recover unless complications
set in.
The identify of Baker. as the
witness who said he saw Londe
bomb a cleaners shop had been
concealed by police and for the
last several months he had been
employed on a cotton plantation
near Sikeston, Mo.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

OUiitIlAA ttkoAl
visitors. Mrs. Mary Mcleod Be
thune is understood to have pro
tested the segregation, but ques-
toned the wisdom of Negroes boy
cotting the conference. John p.
Davis was very vocal at first, say
ing lawyers knew the ordinance
was unconstitutional and urged
that it be ignored so IS to test
out the law in court. At the con-
ference with the committee, how
ever, he said would attend the
meetings anyhow and would not let
p little "city ordinance keep me
from my white friends"
South Is Test
At the first session Sunday night
which was open to the public, DR..
Frank P. Grahm, president of the
University of North Carolina, de-
l;vered the opening address. A
mong other things, DR.. Graham
said: "The Negro in the South is
the test of Democracy and the
white mans Christianity" He en-
phasized that the white mans at
titude toward the Negro in the
South had more weight in deter
ming the white mans democracy
and Christianity" than many pious
words rendered important because
of non-application of what is so
frequently and eloquently pronou-
ced. One delegate defined cooper
atom as follows: Cooperation is
the situation where the one COOS
and the other operates"
In an interview with Bishop
Bray, of the CINE Church, he des-
cribed his experience at the con-
ference where he was ushered from
n of the several fronts doors of
the Auditorium to a side entrance
down the alley.
Bishop Bray Details Experience
In reply to questions, Bishop
Bray said: "On passing through
Birmingham Monday, some of the
citizens induced me to stop over
during the evening to attend the
session of the conference. The con-
ference was reported to me as be-
ing an epic-making event in the
matter of Improvement of senti-
ment and race relations, inasmuch
as it was attended by many of the
leading educational, religious, labor
and social workers-not excluding
politicians.
Although l understand the con-
ference was begun with considera-
Bile freedom from race discrimina-
ton owing to a statement alleged
ly made by the presiding officer
at the second session to the effect
there would be a distinct separa-
ton of races, on going to the au-
ditorium and investigating first
handed | found race discrimination
to a degree that | dreamed.
Leaves in Digust
81 found through my own ex-
p~erience this status of affairs
Upon going to one of the several
entrances at the front door of the
city auditorium, l was met by a
uniformed policeman who inquired:
Are you a white man?' To which
| replied, No. The officer then
said, 4 did not wish to insult you
by that question. Go around to the
side and you'll find a door which
colored people I using"
81 went around to the door on
the alley side, where trucks, etc,
are unloaded, and with great di-
fficulty found the way into the
auditorium. I entered only that 1
might get a real slant on the ac-
commodations for Negroes attend
ing the conference.
Entering the auditorium from
the alley side, l saw police on
both sides of the auditorium and
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-03

Edition

The Weather
Weather outlook for the
period Nov. % to Dec ?.
Upper Mississippi and
Lower Missouri Valleys 4
Northern and Central
Great Plains, not much
precipitation likely; tenn
peratures normal or above
for most part.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-20
STACKS, SLAPSTICK
AND COURTS DIGNITY

The courtroom battle of the slacks is
over, and Miss Helen Hulick, Los Ar
geles kindergarten teacher will not have
TO pay a fine or go to Jail. The appel
late division of the Los Angeles superior
court reversed Miss Hulicks conviction
for contempt of court, ruling that she
was within her rights in wearing Slacks
instead of a dress TO court.
We're glad it ended that way.
We're glad because the appellate deci-
sion is a slap in the face to a reactionary
attitude which would have placed the
court on record against any change, re-
gardless of its nature.
One of these days slacks may be part
of the stylish everyday attire for women.
If this comes to pass, it is evident that
a court ruling such as that proposing to
bar slacks from the courtroom would
appear ridiculous to contemporaries.
At the same time, however, we believe
the Los Angeles battle of the slacks re-
Elected very little credit on anyone con-
cerned.
Miss Hulick, regardless of her vindca-
ton, does not emerge as a gracious Win
ner. She will. rather, appear to many
people somewhat as the appellate deci-
sion regretfully described her, person
who ''indulged in type of eXhibitionism
which may have tended to impede orderly
procedure
The superior court judge who started
the trouble might, on the other hand,
have handled the matter graciously, with
dignity, and without losing any of the
serious bearing to which his position
should entitle him. He was hardly within
his rights when he sentenced the woman
to Jail for contempt of court. We submit,
however, that he could not have been
criticized had he followed another pro-
cedure.
The wise thing for the Judge, under
the circumstances, would have been to
allow the woman to testify in the case
before the court slacks or no slacks.
Then, when her testimony was done, he
could quietly sternly and in simple words
have told her the opinion of the court in
the matter of slacks as courtroom attire.
Thus the court would have maintained
its dignity, administered stinging re-
buke, and emerged with unimpaired
standing.
Instead the thing turned into a squab-
BILE between a toO-touchy Judge and a wit
ness who evidently knows little of the
real honor all Americans should pay
their courts.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-20
DIPLOMATS BEWARE
IN CHINA PROBLEMS

lOroyille Mercury-Register)
Unless the United States is prepared
to back up its demands with something
of powerful nature it may as well quit
writing notes to Japan demanding that
the door to Chinese trade be kept open.
Japan yesterday rejected the demand
Of the United States. Britain and France
that the HangtSe river be reopened to
the ships Of those nations. Japan will
continue to ignore these three nations
for she has the upper hand in China and
means to retain it.
When Henry Stinson was secretary
of state some years ago and Japan was
having her way in Manchuria he objected
very vigorously. There were hot diplo-
matte words, but he was unable to back
up his words. and Japan learned then
that when democracieS get hot under the
collar they can be ignored
We have started upon the course fol-
lowed by Britain in her dealings with
Italy over Ethiopia, and we will get the
same kind of results Britain got. That
Will be nothing. As our trade with China
gradually diminiSheS, additional men will
be thrown out of work and taxes will
mount higher to pay for relief 1t is to
the interests of everyone that channels
of trade remain Open-everyOne, that is.
except Japan.
There is one way we can punish Japan
without resort to arms, and that would
mean embargo upon japanese goods 1t
is very unlikely that such a step will be
taken, however, for such an embargo
would be nipping our own nose bit.
SO it would be we'll if our diplomats
toned down bit, unless they wish to
face the same sort of humiliation as was
dished out to Stinson few years ago
and Chamberlain more recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-20
Bruce Cation Says
Out of the Baekwash Came the 1929 Crash

any effective action from the fed
eral government. If contemporary
accounts are correct, the poor paid
an even higher price for that de-
preston of 1873 than they did for
our most recent one; yet neither
rescue nor reform was forthcom-
ing.
Viewed in that light, our exper-
fences of the last eight or nine years
look a little different. Somewhere,
somehow, the country has acquired
a far greater social consciousness
than it had 65 years ago. An ex-
perience which shocked no one into
action in 1873 stirred the country
to the most expensive and far
reaching kind Of action two gener-
ationS later.
To say it in another way; the
earlier crash disturbed people but
it did not frighten them-the later
crash frightened them very badly
indeed. And the fright, apparently.
came because there was a wider,
saner recognition of the need for
social system which is fair to
all. We have come to see that in
limited but real sense we are
our brothers keepers.
The most recent chapter seems
to be closed now. We have come out
of the backwash of the 1929 crash
and are starting a new chapter.
And by comparing the recent past
with the more remote past we may
be able to get far better line on
the gains and losses of the last
half-dozen years.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-20
EDUCATION THE ANSWER,
NOT LEGISLATION

Laws may do much to relieve the evil
of child marriages, so often reflected in
news columns these days. Education of
parents will do more. 1t is, in fact, the
only real answer to a very serious prob
lem.
Perhaps the fact that 13-year-old girl
has been married to 78-year-old man
does not directly affect the American
people as a whole. The fact that there
are parents who will allow such a mar
riage, and whose mode of thought re-
fleets the thought of large slice of our
population, does directly affect the peo-
pie as a whole, however.
1t is an indictment of our national
educational and social systems that
such practices remain in any communi-
ty.
We still have long way to go be-
fore the American people, even now the
worlds most enlightened, are fully edu-
Gated to the responsibilities of communi-
ty life