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The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
HOUSING PROJECT.
Omaha Neb.

Omaha, Neb.
June II, 1889
To the Mayor and City Council:
City Hall, Omaha, Neb.
Gentlemen:
In discussing the Logan Fon-
tenelle Homes Project last Tues
day. | mentioned Mr.. Ben Handler
as having moved from a 100000
home in Bemis Park to the Homes.
| was mistaken as to the location
of the home from which he moved.
His home was located at 115
Turner blvd. As I remembered it
at the time, l had in mind Lin
coin Blvd. which runs through
Bemis Park.
The City directories from 1929
to 1887 show Nh. Handlers resi-
dence at 115 Turner Blvd. The
1888 and 1889 directories show
Mr. Handlers address at 2020
Charles st. Plaza, which is the
Logan Fontenelle Homes. The re-
cord also shows him to be the
owner of other property.
l mentioned Mr., Handler, for
whom I have the highest respect,
only to illustrate the type of
tenants in Logan F%ontenelle
Homes. State Senator John Adams
resides there as does DIR. Milton
Johnson, who operates two drug
stores in the Colored section.
Ny only point IS that such
houses should be for persons in
the low income and poorly housed
families.
Respectfully,
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
June 20, 1889

June ~, 1887
To The City Commissioners.
l hereby certify that the follow
ing is a true and correct copy of
a motion unanimously adopted by
the ten members of the Board of
Education present at the regular
meeting of said Board held on
Monday, June 19, 1889:
Il move that this Board
should go on record as unal-
terably opposed to any adj
ditional housing projects UNI
til we have received pro-
portionate tax revenues from
those housing units which al
ready exist and those which
are in process of construction
due to the fact that the Oma-
ha schools are currently fac
ed with a serious shortage of
funds and further projects OF
this kind will simply add to
cur problems.
Mary E. Bird,
Secretary Board of Education.
No. 1886
Report of Board of Education
to protest the additional Housing
Project without proportionate tax
revenue. Presented to Council June
20, 1889, held over to July 5, 1889.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22

Happenings that affect the Dinner
Pals, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills
of Every Individual. National and
International Problems I%nseparable
from Local Welfare.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
THE THEME
THE WHITE WOMAN??? THE
WHITE MAN22??

QUITE OFTEN WE SEE IN THE
LARGEST UNITED STATES DA-
lily PAPERS "NEGREsS', MAR
IAN ANDERSON ENTERTAIN
ING BY SINGING TO THE KING
AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND
AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED
GUESTS AT THE U. S. EXEC
UTIVE MANSION, THE GUEST
OF OUR U S. PRESIDENT AND
FIRST LADY. THE WORD Ne
GRESS WAS USED IN THE DA-
lily PAPERS, MENTIONING
MARIAN ANDERSON AS Ne
GRESS. NO PUBLIC C0LORED
NEWSPAPERS USE THIS WORD
WHY THE COLORED PUBL
CATION THAT WOULD USE
THIS WORD WOULD NOT BE
SUPPORTED BY THE RACE
LOVING CITIZENS. SINCE WE
KNOW THE WHITE MAN AND
THE WHITE WOMAN ARE NOT
WHITE, WHY NOT APPLY TO
THEM AS C~AUCASIANS. BUT
so LONG AS WE CALL OUT A
BOUT THE WHITE MAN, THE
WHITE WOMAN AND THE
WHITE RACE: THE COL0RED
FEMALES ARE GOING TO BE
NEGRESSES.
WHAT WOULD BE WRONG?
WHEN SPEAKING OF A eau
CASIAN LADY, IN C0LORED
PUBLICATION: SAYING; A
CAUCASIANESS, MRS. ANNA
DOE, WILL ADDRESS THE
YOUNG PEOPLES MEETING
A. M. E. BETHEL CHURCH
sunday OR JUDGE DOE, A
CAUCASIAN, WILL GIVE A
SPECIAL TALK TO THE col
ORED BUSINESS MEMS CLUB
THE NEGRO RACE
A WHOLE THE CAUCAS-
AS A WHOLE? IT SEEMS
TO ME-, IT WOULD GIVE BET
TER BALANCE TO EVERYBO-
IN OUR KINGS ENGLISH.
WHEN WE SAY THE TRUTH
ABOUT THINGS, THEN ENG
LISH WILL BE PRESENTED IN
A BETTER LIGHT. THEN COL
ORED CITIZENS, WILL GET
BETTER CONSIDERATION, IN
OUR KINGS ENGLISH.
NEGRESS ..CAUCASIANESS
WHY DO THE AMERICAN DC
TIONARIES AND DAILY PA
ERS USE THE UGLY WORD
"NEGRESS"? ASK EVERY IN
TELLIGENT COLORED PERSON
IN THE U. S. IF THIS WORD
OFFENDS THEM? THE ANS
WEIR WILL BE YES. THEN
WHY ATTEMPT TO TRY TO
HUMILIATE MILLIONS OF WO-
AND MEN? IT Is WRONG
TO SAY SUCH A WORD AS Ne
GRESS.
BY f. SHANKLIN
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
Respectfully,
H. J. Pinkett, =
2118 N. 25th st.

No. 1881
Communication from H. J. Pin
kett relative to his statement
made in protesting the Housing
Project. June 20, 1889 over to
July 5, 1889.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-22
OMAHA GUIDE

Largest Accredited Negro News
paper West of Chicago and North
of Kansas City
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Beatrice Creamery Buys
Blue Valley Company

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 18.-Sale of the
Blue Valley Creamery Co. and its IA
manufacturing plants to the Bea-
trice Creamery Co., was announced
today by officials of the two firms,
uniting two of the oldest cream
cries of the Middle West.
Clinton H. Haskell, president of
Beatrice, and r. H. Van SAINT, gen.
eral manager of the Blue Valley
firm, said Beatrice would take over
the IA plants on March l. Blue
Valley products will continue to be
manufactured under that name and
the plant employees will be retained,
they said.
Haskell said the transaction in
volved $4OOO0O cash for the plants
and equipment, and Beatrice would
take over the accounts receivable
and merchandise inventories of Blue
Valley, valued at between 5000, 600
and $250,OOO, on March l.
Van SAINT said Blue Valley plants
were situated in Chicago, Spring
field and Clinton, ILL.,; st. Louis
and st. Joseph, Mo-; Parsons, Kans.
Dardanelle, Ark; Pittsburgh, Pa;
Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; De-
troit and Grand Rapids. Mich; In
dianapolis, Ind, and Louisville, KY
Evening star., 1939-02-19
World Wheat Exports Rise
Well Above Year Ago
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The Agriculture Department re-
ported yesterday that world wheat
exports totaled 32650O,0O0 bushels
so far this season.. representing an
increase of about 18 per cent over
a year ago.
Canada led with shipments of
Ill 100000 bushels between July
and February II. the department
said. This compared with 70.40O,-
900 during the corresponding period
last season. Australia was second
with SIS, 5,384000 bushels, the United
States third with 53,425 900, and Ar
gentina fourth with 40,598,OOO.
Exports to Europe were reported
at 254, 100000 bushels, compared with
277 7,404 900 during the like period a
year ago.
Factors said to have contributed
to increased trade were larger sup
plies, lower prices and the deci-
sion of several European countries
to acquire emergency stocks for use
in event of war.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Real Estate Leader
Opposes Restriction
0nF F. H. A. Lendinq
Ostenbere Tells Senators
Curb Would Cause
Market Breakdown
By the Associated Press.

Edgar L. Ostendorf of Cleveland
president of the National Associ-
alton of Real Estate Boards, urged
Senate subcommittee yesterday to
support removal of a restriction
which would prevent the Federal
Housing Administration from insur-
ing mortgages on other than new
homes after July l.
Failure to extend F. H. A. powers
to insure mortgages on existing con-
struction. Mr.. Ostendorf said, would
cause breaking down of the entire
real estate market
Mr. Ostendorf testified at hear
ings on a proposal by Senator Bank
head, Democrat, of Alabama to re-
move the restriction. increase from
SO 900 000,000 to S6.OOO.OOO,OOO the
total amount of mortgage insurance
the F. H. A. may have in force, and
make permanent the agency's tenn
porary authority to insure 25-year
loans up to S5,400 on owner occupied
homes.
Senators Maloney, Democrat, of
Connecticut. and Townsend. Repub-
lican. of Delaware expressed concern
that lifting the restriction on insur-
ing mortgages on existing construc-
ton would open the way to "bailing
out banks and other financial agen-
cies holding distressed mortgages. -
Stewart Mcdonald, F. H. A. ad-
ministrator, said that under the law
the agency would be prevented from
taking over distressed mortgages.
He contended, however. the F.. H. A.
should be permitted to insure mort
cages when only reinancing and no
purchase was involved.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
District Business Burometers

Business Washington first month
1889 according the readings
married. yesterday.
Bank cearngs January 5o6 ac-
cording to the Washington Clearing January
years with the exception
Washington served by 241 6 telephones
increase of 1903 phones during the month";
Telephone
the first time January, reaching
the index
department sales
to 98 flat in January, 1889.
Postal receipts with the other
January revenues reaching $62189 gain
than IL per cent over the first month of 1885,
Still another
Electric Power District total
of 63667180 January gain of sol
10 make the business comprehensive
January comparisons and other months given
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Steel Employment Average
Close 10 1929 Levels
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-The aver
age number of men employed in the
steel industry in the United States
in 1898 approached within per cent
the total in the boom days" of 1929,
the American Iron and Steel Insti-
tute reported.
Last years average was 443,000
employees, compared with $4,000 in
1929, but substantially below the
$4,000 employed in 1887.
Hourly wage earnings increased
last year to 80 cents, compared with
50 cents in 1887 and 65.4 cents in
1929.
Because of reduced weekly hours
of labor, the total steel pay rolls
fell off, despite the hourly wage in
crease, to $613, 100000 in 1888, COM
pared with $841, 600, 900 in 1929 and
$976, 6,OO0, 900 in 1887.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Bon Ami Co. Reports
$1,389,113 Profit
For Z Months
1888 TotoI Compares
With $1,391, ,282 in
Previous Year
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-The Bon
Ami Co. and subsidiaries reported
for 1898 net profit of s1,389,113,
against $1.391 ,282 in 1887.
The latest profit was figured as
equal to $670 a share on the class
"a" and $3.78 on the class b"
compared with s6.71 and s37s, re-
spectively, in 1887.
The company has plants at Man.
chester, Conn. and in Canada and
mining operations in New Hamp-
shire and North Carolina.
Yellow Truck & Coach.
Yellow Truck & Coach Manufac-
turing Co., controlled by General
Motors Corp. reported preliminary
consolidated net profit for 1888 of
s514,983, equal to 1888 a share on
81 cumulative preferred stock. This
compared with S3,571 ,669 in 1887,
equal after annual preferred divi-
dend requirements to IS cents a
share on combined class "B' and
common stock. On January pre-
ferred stock arrears amounted to
S14 a share.
First National Stores.
First National Stores. Inc, op-
orators of a chain of food stores
in New England. reported for the
quarter ended December 81 net
profit of $721,157, equal after pre-
ferred dividend requirements to 88
cents a share on common stock,
compared with $632 1863. or 70 cents
a common share, for the IA weeks
ended December 81, 1887.
Western Auto Supply.
Western Auto supply Co. reported
net income for 1898 of $2087 $40,
equal after charges to S2.77 share
on common stock, compared with
STATS, ,176, or 1929 a share in 1887.
Company operates a chain of auto
mobile accessory and sporting goods
stores through the Middle West.
Reynolds Spring.
Reynolds Spring Co. reported for
1888 net loss of $435 5,273, compared
with profit of $219,115 in 1887, equal
to IS cents share. The companys
main plant is at Jackson, Mich.
Electric AutO-Lite.
Consolidated net 1888 earnings of
the Electric Auto-Lite Corp. were
S1,838, ,149, Royce G.. Martin, presi-
dent, announced. Directors voted a
50-cent dividend on common stock,
payable April /, to holders of record
March II. Net earnings the pre-
vious year totaled $4,128,1 ,109.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Reed Drug Sales Set
Record in January
srecial Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, Feb. 18-January
sales reported for the Reed Drug
Co., retail drug chain, were the
highest for any January month
since the inception of the company.
January, 1899, sales amounted to
$3.50, .O8 as compared with $171,-
673.17 for the corresponding 1888
month, an increase of 5.44 per cent.
Sales for January, 1887, were re-
ported at $153,25264.
For the year ended December, 81,
1888, the income account showed
sales of $2,183, 1856, resulting in a net
profit of sos, ,719, representing an in
crease of 341 per cent as compared
to the preceding year. Earnings
amounted to $2.16 per class A share
in 1898 on the average number out
standing. The common, In 1898,
earned 10 cents per share. Divi-
dends Of IS cents each were paid
on both classes In 1898.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Lionel Corp. Declares
Dividend of 30 Cents
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. 18.-Directors
of the Lionel Corp. manufacturers
of the toy electric trains and other
gadgets which amuse children at
Christmas time and cause family
rows when the old man insists on
monopolizing the controls, have de-
clared a dividend of 80 cents
share on the common stock, payable
February % to stock of record Feb
ruary 81.
This brought total disbursements
for the fiscal year ended February
% to so cents, an interim payment
of 20 cents having been paid on
January 3.
In the preceding fiscal year divi-
dends totaled 81 a share.
The company has two plants IN
nearby New Jersey.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Business Looms Rise
In New York City
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-Business
loans in New York City rallied from
the record low set the previous week
during the period ended February Is.
Since the loans in the financial
center account for more than one
third of the total for all leading
cities, financial quarters expect an
upturn for the country as whole
when the figures become available
next week.
Commercial, industrial and agri-
cultural loans of Federal Reserve
member banks in New York COM
pared as follows:
Week ended February 15 $1,35s. 900. 900
GAIN over previous week. 100000
Decline from last year. 846.O00.000
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Auto Dealers Plan
Five-DuyCIinic

Dealers in Plymouth automobiles
from Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia will join District of Co.
lumbla statesmen here tomorrow to
attend sales clinic, or sales train
ing course, which will continue for
five days at the Wardman Park
Hotel. For two hours each morning
J. N. Burr, special representative
from Detroit. will lecture to the
group. G. P. Flood, Washington dis
tr1ct manager, will address the
statesmen Friday evening. About 100
dealers are expected.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
|$7S,701,234 | Net
Is Reported by
|Union Pacific
BY the Associated Press.

Oy tlIc ASSUCIdteU ETeSS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-Union Pa
cif1c Railroad, in a preliminary
statement issued today, reported net
income for 1898 of $18,701 ,234 after
taxes and charges, equal after pre-
ferred dividend requirements to
$662 share on common stock. This
compared with $17,655 SIC, or $6.15
a common share, in 1887.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Dividend Is Ordered

BOSTON, Feb. 18 (SpeciaD A
dividend of 20 per cent, payable on
all policies expiring during the Pc
Rod April l to April 80, 1899, has
been declared by the American Mu-
tual Libability Insurance CO. This
is American Mutual's 6O6th consecu-
tive dividend Of 20 per cent or more.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

Washington dur
ing the week just
ended, in COM
parison with the
correspond i n G
week a year ago.
Trade was also
off STA per cent
from the previ-
Gus week.
Depart m e n t
stores in other
cities in the fifth
district reported
trade spot t Y.
N orfolk an d
Charleston eX-
perienced gains
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Weather Curbs
Store Volumes
In Capital
Weeks S Drop Leaves
SuIes 8 Per Cent
Below Year Ago
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Unfavorable weather for shopping
was assigned by the Department of
Commerce as the chief reason for a
drop of per cent in retail sales in
Evening star., 1939-02-19

WASHINGTON CLEARING HOUSE.

Totas- s1127 $50 222 ST. 255 900 eoe $1,l TIT
Evening star., 1939-06-10
Dr.. Peter Marshall
Announces Sermons

DR.. Peter Marshall. minister of
the New York Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
Church, will have as his topic to-
morrow at II O'Clock AT the Bot
tom of the Well" The quarterly
communion service will be observed
and new members will be received
The Lincoln Fellowship Forum
will meet at 6:45 pm. in the lecture
room. Mrs. Peter Marshall will lead
the discussion of the topic. The
Christian Home-Ideals That Make
or Wreck Nations"
The young people are sponsoring
series of meetings beginning with
the evening service on Sunday and
concluding on Friday evening. Each
service will have for its aim and
purpose the reaching of some deci-
sion affecting faith and conduct.
All the members and friends of the
church are invited. Visitors will be
welcomed. The services will be held
at O'Clock each evening in the lee
ture room. DR.. Marshall will
preach.
Evening star., 1939-06-10
Graduates Heritaqe'
Is Sermon Theme

The Graduates Heritage" will
be the subject Of the Rev. Raymond
w. White, pastor of Rhode Island
Avenue Methodist Church. Sunday
morning. The services will be ar
ranged for students who are being
promoted and graduated. The pas
tors evening subject will be Wits
end Praying"
The Mems Bible Glass at $50
m. will be taught by the pastor.
His subject will be christian Solu-
tions for Church Difficulties"
At the adjourned meeting of
the last quarterly conference on
Tuesday night, Bailey Phelps and
Albert Jones were recommended for
the Christian ministry. Mr.. Jones
will enter Western Maryland Col
lege and Mr.. Phelps will enter the
Westminster Theological Seminary
in the fall. Miss Svbil Greenway
will enter George Washington Uni
versity to prepare for a medical
missionary for India.
The Methodist Junior High School
Camp will be held at Western
Maryland College from June 26 to
July 2. The Leadership Training
School of what was formerly the
Methodist Protestant Church, will
be held at the same place the week
OF July "a. Delegates are now pre-
pairing to attend.
Evening star., 1939-06-10
Presidents Car Little Noted
Near Kings Royal Train

Contrasting the way royalty and
democracy travels, the private car
in which President Roosevelt travels
stood almost unnoticed last night a
few tracks away from the l2-car
blue and silver royal train which
was the center of attraction.
The presidential quarters in the
Pullman car which has served
American Chief Executives for
nearly 20 years were humble COM
pared with the British Monarch S
palace on wheels that rolled out of
the Washington station at 11:5O
pm. tE. S. t. for New York.
The presidential car with its five
compartments. dining space and
a small observation car space where
President Roosevelt works and re-
ceives visitors is but a fraction of
the royal train. The Presidents s
room is like the others except that
it contains brass bed and has a
bath room with shower attached.
The permanent staff of the presi-
Dental car is one man. Harry
Lucas, whose official title is porter
but who has been a major domo of
the rolling White House for l8
years
Payment for the presidential car
comes out of the $25 900 the Govern
Evening star., 1939-06-10

ment provides annually for the
Chief Executives travelling expenses.
II that amount is exceeded. the
President pays out of his own pocket.
The King and Queen and their
entourage, as guests of the Canadian
government. ride free on their train.
The Canadian government paid all
expenses of the train in Canada
and the United States Government
paid all expenses of the royal train
over the railways between Niagara
Falls and Washington, back to New
York and the return to the Cana
dian line This cost, which has not
been announced. was said by officials
to be relatively small.
The royal train itself. is valued
roughly at a million dollars. 1t is
not new equipment but recondi-
toned. The last two cars, which
the King and Queen and some men,
bers of their suite occupy, are regu-
larly used by the Governor General
OF Canada, A proposal has been
made in Canada that the blue and
silver special be routed through Cam
ada again as an exhibition train be-
fore the cars are returned to use as
special cars or units in regular
trains across the Dominion.
Evening star., 1939-06-10
|New Operation
|Cures Heart III
|Once 'IncurobIe'

DS lilc 1SSoCidleu STeSS.
BOSTON, June 10.-Dr. Robert E
Gross, instructor in surgery at Har-
ward, described today remarkable
new operation he has developed for
treatment of a serious congenital
heart defect in children which pre-
viously had been considered incur
able.
"Ihe operation is directed against
failure of prenatal connection be-
tween the aorta and the pulmonary
artery to close after birth" said DR.
Gross, speaking at exercises cele-
brating the 10th anniversary OF
Childrens Hospital.
This connection is a necessary
one before birth, but if it fails to
close after birth the patients are
subject to certain hazards The
child suffers from the fact that his
blood is short-circuited through this
abnormal vessel and the heart is
greatly overWorked.
Such a patient is abnormally
susceptible to heart Infections and is
unable to take violent exercise. Op-
erative closure of the abnormal ves-
sci greatly diminishes the work OF
the heart and improves the health
of the individuals"
DR.. Gross said he had successfully
treated in the last year four chill
dren suffering the defect.
Evening star., 1939-06-10
Struggle on for Leadership
OF Labor Party in Britain
AtIee to Be Out of
Action Till Fall
After Operation
BY WILLIAM H. STONEMAN,

BY WILLIAM II. STONEMAN,
Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
LONDON, June 10-A quiet
struggle for the leadership of the
British parliamentary Labor Party
is now going on behind the scenes.
Maj. Clement R. Attlee, present
leader OF the party, underwent an
operation several days ago. and
while he is recovering, his allment
expected to be really strong until
late autumn. At the same time, it
now looks as though there would be
a general election in November, un-
less the European situation prevents,
and it is evident that the Labor
Party will require the strongest and
most active leadership it can COM
mand. Even at his best Maj Attlee
would probably be too weak for the
job, both physically and tempera-
mentally. 1t is particularly neces-
sary to have the proper person for
the position because of the likeli-
hool that he would become prime
minister if Labor were to win the
election.
Two persons are being mentioned
for the position and it is probable
that the choice will fall between
them. The first is Herbert Morrison
leader of the London County Coun-
Gil and minister Of transport in
the last Labor government. Mr.
Morrison is internationally known
as first-rate administrator and as
a strong man. Politically, he is
known as right-winger. Temper
amentally, he is serious and sober;
physically, he is rather unimpres-
slve because of his short stature
and the fact that he is blind in one
eye.
Arthur Greenwood, deputy parGa-
mentarv Labor leader, is an entirely
different type. Tall and handsome,
with lron-gray hair, a nimble tongue
and a quick wit, he is the type of
person whom a great many laborites
would like to see representing the
party in Parliament He is known
as an economist and served as
| minister Of health in the last Labor
government. He is a warm sup
porter Of the so-called "gay crowd
in the Larbor Party, which numbers
about So His enemies accuse him
of not having tended to business
and of not being reliable enough to
command the party in Parliament
The more sober-minded members
of the party, and liberals in gen.
eral. would be inclined to favor Mr.
Morrison because of his long
standing record of fine public serv-
ice and the certainty that he would
tend to business. The final choice
will be made only after a bitter
struggle which it will be hard to
keep under the surface.
Copyright 1899, by Chicago Daily
News, Inc.
Evening star., 1939-06-10
W. c. T. u. Schedules
Peace Prayer Sunday

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June 1O.-Tomorrow
has been designated Peace PRAYER
Sunday" by the National Woman's S
Christian Temperance Union.
Governors of all States were asked
TO assist in urging the entire Nation
to unite in a prayer for world peace.
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. National
w. c. T. U. president, said her
organization believed peace can
come only by the exemplifcation
of the principles of the Prince of
Peace"
In her plea to the Governors. Mrs.
Smith said: Because of the tragic
conditions in many foreign coun-
tries, the world is looking to our
Nation for leadership in the cause
of universal peace and good will"
London has new school where
brides are taught how to behave at
weddings.