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The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
COAST LIBERALS
AND LABOR FIGHT
ANTI-NEGR0 BILL

Olympia, Wash, March 3, CNA
Liberal and labor forces this
week sought to prevent an inter-
marriage ban from being added to
the statutes of this last American
frontier state.
Publicity and organized protests
were prepared to oppose enactment
into law of a bill that would out
law marriages between whites,
Negroes and Orientals. The bill is
now under consideration by the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Proposed by Senator Earl Max
well, %upperhouse whip of Governor
Clearance Martin, the measure
would nillify "fiNed marriages"
and make both parties to such
marriages and person authorized
To perform or solemmize' them
guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Opponents of the bill have been
urged to wire or write their pro-
tests to Chairman Fred S. Duggan,
Judiciary Committee, State Senate,
Olympia, Washington.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
Two Unsung Heroines

lWo ofisung htfolneS
During the Civil War. Harriet
Tubman undertook the dangerous
work of spy and scout for the I'm
ion Army at the request of Gov
ernor Andrew of Massachusetts,.
Into the South she went, facing
fire from both armies, leading
the orthern troops through the
Jungle and swamps, overcoming
the fear of the slaves as they
went.
After the war ended, Harriet
Tubman returned to Auburn, N.
Y, to find her little farm sold to
satisfy a mortgage an herself with
no means TO redeem it or care for
her parents. All during the war
che had received no compensation
for her invaluable service to the
army and had had to maintain
herself by making pies ginger
bread and root beer to sell to the
soldiers. Now, despite the plead
ing of Secretary Seward and other
prominent citizens, the government
denied her a pension. She was
compelled to depend on the assist
ance of abolitionist friends and
her own labor.
Soiourner Truth as well as Har-
riet Tubman, was never compen-
stated dby the government for her
work in the Civil War. Likewise
these two noble women have been
ignored by historians and unsung
in the nations literature. Our
task today Is to bring them out
of obscurity into the front ranks
of our country's heroes that their
ives may be an inspiration TO the
emancipation fighters Of the TWEEN
tieth century.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
TEXAS COURT REVERSES
DEATH SENTENCE WHEN
NEGROES ARE EXCLUDED
FROM JURY

Austin, Tex, March 3 (ANP)-
J. D Hill, IT year old youth, whe
was convicted of an attack upon
a white woman here and sentenced
to the e~lecrtic chair, saw. death
postponed temporarily at least
when the eTxas court of criminal
appeals reversed the death penalty
and dismissed the prosecution in
his case on the grounds that he
had been denied a fair trial and
equal protection under the law.
Justice J. w. Hawkins, who read
the decision. pointed to the United
States supreme court case which
held that consistent failure to have
Negroes on iuries constituted a
prima-faeie evidence Of denial of
the. equal protection which the con-
stitution guarantees. It Is said that
Negroes have not served in Dallas
county in which the ease was orr
ginally heard for 80 years.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
CLERIC SAYS CHURCH
SHOULD HELP SOLVE
ILLS OF THE
PEOPLE

Jacksonville, Fla, March 2
fANP)-At a crowded held at Mt.
ION AME. church several days af-
ter the funeral of the late Bishop
r. A. Grant, presiding prelate of
the Florida district, Rev. C. A.
Gibbs, presiding elder of North
jacksonville district and business
managertreasurer Edward Wat
e scollege, strongly condemned the
apathy of some churchmen for the
civic and economic problems faced
by members of the race.
Sounding the warning that the
church should lead all movements
aimed at lettering the conditions
of Negroes, improving education
al facilities and relieving econo-
mic distress and unemployment,
DR. Gibbs, pointed out that the
influence and prosperity of the
church depended on the prosperity
of all the people in all sections
o fthe nation.
DR.. Gibbs has been prominently
mentioned as a candidate for the
AME bishopric at the General
conference to be held in 1910 at
Detroit, Mich. He is president of
the AME Ministerical alliance
here, and a former president of
Edward Waters college. He is now
working with Bishop Henry Young
Tookes. who has been assigned to
fill out the unexpired term of the
late Bishop Grant. As presiding
prelate of the 18th distric, Bishop
Tookes is president of the trust
ees board, Edward Waters college,
of which DR.. G. S. Long Jr. is pre-
sident, and DIR. Gibbs the treasur-
er and business manager.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
LOW PAY DEGREES
POOR DIETS FOR
URBAN WORKERS

Washington, March 3 (CNA)-
Almost two-thirds Of the Negro
employed city workers have insult
ficient diets, according to a sur
vey of 43 industrial centers re-
Gently completed by the govern
ment.
From 40 to so percent of the
white families and so percent of
the Negro families included in the
nationwide survey had inadesuate
diets from the standpoint of nu-
triton and health.
The survey of diets and food
costs, the most comprehensive and
detailed ever made, was conducted
by the Federal Bureau of Home
Economics under the direction of
DIR. Hazel K. Stibeling and Esther
P. Phippard.
The Bureau selected samples of
about 100 lyrical families of wage
Garner and low-salaried clerical
workers in each of the 43 cities.
Each kept detailed food records CO.
vering the period of December 1884
to February 1887.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
S9|za I,YEISn3a

with the worst part Of the winter
behind US, we are all thinking about
spring clothes. But before we get
around to the actual purchase of
our spring wardrobe, 1t Is well TO
take a good long look at ourselves
in the mirror.
The chances are that during the
winter we have let up on Il regu-
lar exercises. The weather was
not conducive to outdoor activity
and most Of us, I am afraid, have
failed to keep up Il daily dozen
indoors. Then, too. we seem to
have bigger appetites In winter. due
TO the cold weather, and we eat an
abundance of heavy foods. Many
of us added a good five pounds dur
Ing the holidays from the rich holt
day fire and have neglected TO do
ANYTHING about 1t. And now Is the
time that we must nay for our lazi-
ness and neglect If WI hope to wear
our spring clothes with an air.
improve Your Posture
The feminine figure shows the
IlfSl SlHIS III ut2ttiA III 0iiN III aftY
Of three places: the hips. the abdo-
men md the waist. The day of the
wasnlike waist is gone, but a slim,
trim midriff is still in demand II
yon want to wear your clothes to
advantage. And, of course, nothing
delraets more from the line of a
dress or suit than a bulging tnmmy.
And This common feminine failing
is more the result of poor pasture
nna weak stomach muscles than OF
surplus %ponndage. Stamping actu-
ally adals several inches to the
waist, hips md abdomen. Try hold.
ing yourself erect and notice the
difference. Holding your stomach
in strengthens the stomach muscles
and, IL p,n keep 1t up long enough
you will be rid of at least that par
ticnlar defect.
Exercises Must Be Done Reguiarl,
Tile hips. however, are the big,
gest problem. Nothing Will trim
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04

was the only other Negro member
Of the state legislative body. Their
disappointment was keen therefore,
when it was learned that insteal
OF supporting it Rep. Turpeau of
Hamilton county was the only per-
son who spoke against the bill.
clayborne George. Cleveland
civic and political leader. common
ting on Turpeau's action, said.
REV. Turpeau objects TO the bill
on the ground that if the state Is
redistricted, they in Hamilton
county will lose the services of
two eongressmen-at-large. Upon
being asked by MI. Gillespie as to
whether he was more i~terested in
the retention of two congressman
at-large or the election of a Ne
gro to congress. Rev Turpeau re-
piled. II do not represent the Ne
gro. | represent all the people.
"The way the bill is set up. il
will definitely assure the possibi-
lily of electing a Negro from this
county to the u. s. congress. For
the first time in several years
wo have a state Legislative over
whelmingly Republican. If we can
not pass such a bill now, I do not
know when we can"
The Federal Relations eommi-
ttee, by vote of ten to four, agreed
to indefinitely postpone action on
the bill, which means that the bill
was killed in committee.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04

them down but regular exercise and
diet. / suggest diet only If you are
all aruond overweight and then i
must be accompanied by exercise.
But many of us have unnecessarily
well-padded hips without being
generally heavy. This condition Is
brought about by a lazy life and Is
remedled only by Il well-establlshed
routine of exercise. / am going to
give you a couple of simple exer-
cises to reduce the hips and. for
tunately. these same exercises, il
done regularly. will slim your waist
too.
ID lie on back and roll hips
from side to side, keeping the shoul.
ders fiat on the floor. Start with ten
rolls n day and work gradually VI
to fifty.
10 Standing erect. bend for
ward, trying to touch the toes. Then
bend backward, then from side &c
side.
I have selected these two K e
cises because they r simple, and
do the same work as the more com
plleated. and oftentimes confusing
ones. Nor will they leave you sc
worn out that you will neglect the
proper care of your hair. your Skin
and your general you'd grooming
Remember TINT Il few dnys, II ever
a few weeks of exercise IL nol
enough. You must keep 1t ur regu.
larly over Il period of time II YOU
hope to slip into spring with a slim
silhouette.
What are yoar beauty prob
lens? Write Marie Downing,
Ldriense Beauty Foundation,
Room 52I-5Io North Fon1tb
ST., ST. Louis, Mo-, and she nil
be glad to anseer them. Be snre
TO enclose d seif-addressed
stamped envelope.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
CITIZENS SCORE OHIO SOLON
FOR BLOCKING CHANCE TO
GET NEGRO CONGRESSMAN

Cleveland, March 2-(ANP)-
Many citizens here who for years
have envisioned the day. when an
Ohio Negro will be sent to the
u. s. congress-, yer outspoken
in criticism this week of Rev. Da-
vid Turpeau, colored minister of
Cincinnati, and a state represent
alive, whose opposition to a con-
pressional redistricting bill last
week at Columbus has killed pre-
sent chances of eecting a Negro
congressman in this state.
There are only two colored Ohio
state representatives-Rev. Tur-
peau and Rep. Chester K. Giles
pie of Cleveland's Cuyahoga coun.
ty-the latter being author of the
Congressional Redistricting bill.
At the state capital in Columbus
the bill under which Ohio's con-
gressional districts will be reds
tricted came up for hearing on
Wednesday before the Federal Re-
lations committee of the house OF
representatives.
Citizens throughout the state
hailed with joy the Forthcoming
hearing and anticipated strong
support from Rep. Turpeau for The
Gillespie bill, inasmuch as Turpear
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04

"Our present relief system is in pol
itics by its nature. 1t will remain in
politics SO long as the distribution of
Federal funds remain in the unfettered
discretion of any single man or small
group or so long as those on relief can
be made to feel that their jobs and
the level of their pay depends upon
which local candidate or national party
is elected to office. This situation will
not be cured until the distribution of
Federal relief funds is made on the
basis of some impersonal formula that
the whole country understands clearly
and accepts as fair."-The New York
Times.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
PLAN BASKETBALL WORLD
SERIES IN CHICAGO

Chicago, March 3 (ANP)-The
New York's Renaissance and the
Harlem Globe Troters basketball
teams have been invited TO compete
along with several leading white
professional teams, in a $4,000
basketball worlds series to be play
cd here March 20, II and %, it
was announced last week by Harry
Hannin and Harry Wilson, co-spon-
sors.
White teams receiving invita-
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04

REFEREE SHOULD BE FAIR

= In a feature editorial, the Kansas
City, Missouri, Journal urges the sWl1t
enactment of the transportation leg1s-
lative program proposed by the special
committee of six appointed by the pre-
sident, which recently made its report.
The welfare of the railroads, the
editorial observes, "is. synonymous with
the city's. welfare" And this is true OF
thousands of other communities, large
and small, in evey state. These CON-
munities look to the railroads for a
large part of their tax revenue-for
the payrools that flow into their stores
= and industries-for the indirect and dl-
rect employment that is vital to NUM-
cipal as well as national prosperity.
They look to the railroads to perform
the major part Of the great job OF
quickly and efficiently transporting
the products of farm and factory. 9th
er agencies perform valuable transpor-
tation services, but it is the railroads
which are the backbones of the whole
system.
The proposals of the Presidents
committee of six are characterized by
moderation and common sense, |. e.,
that all agencies be placed on a basis
of equality so far as regulation is con-
cerned-that such white elephants as
the government-subsidized Inland
Waterways Corporation be abolished
that the. outmoded long-and-short haul
clause of the Transportation Act which
damages the interest of both the rail
roa6s and the shippers, be repealed.
The program is designed to stabilize
transportation, giving all units a fair
competitive break, and to enable each
type of transportation to perform the
services for which it is best fitted.
Summing up, the Kansas City Jour-
nal says, ut is time to abandon the
policy of gouging the railroads with
subsidized and unfair competition. The
railroads should stand on their own
feet, meeting competition from their
own when the competition is
reasonable" Enactment of the commi-
tees program would go a long way to-
ward enabling them to do that.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04

tons include the New York Celtics,
Philadelphia Hebrews, Jersey City
Reds, Oshkosh All Stars, Indiana
polls Kautskys, Akron Fire stones.
Sheboygan Redskins, and Ham
mend Street armory on March 26
and possibly in the coliseum the
next two days.
The Globe Trotters and the
Geltics are scheduled to meet in
White City on the Southside Sum
day afternoon, March II.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
NEW DEAL SONG WORRIES
COP

Washington, March 2-(ONA)
Republican strategists are repor-
ted worried at the growing popu-
larity of the song, Franklin D.
Roosevelt JONES'" from "Sing out
the News" With the 1910 elect
ions approaching, they r distur-
bed at the prospect of an ever
widening curcle of voters singing
or whistling TO:
THE folks in the town all
agree
He'll be as famous as famous
can be,
How can he be a dud
Or q stick-in-the-mud,
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
PAPER CHANGES HANDS

Washington, March 2-(ANP-
Tho Washington Tribune, which
has enjoyed a wide circulation here
for a number of years, has chang
ed hands. The Capital News Ser
vice Inc, assumes ownership and
management of the Tribune, with
Robert A. Pelman at the head.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
ARMSTRONG TO DEFEND
TITLE IN LONDON

Miami Beach, March 8 (ANP)-
Henry Armstrong has been signed
to defend his welterweight title
in London the first week in May,
it was announced Monday by his
manager. Eddie Mead. His oppo-
nent will be the winner of the
Forthcoming bout between Erie Ro-
derrick and Jake Kifrain.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
When he's Franklin D.
Roosevelt Jones ?"
s%OJOURNER TRUTH AMI
r TUBMAN
By Louise Thompson

Negro woman abolionist, went to
see Abraham Lincoln she was not
e stranger to him. He had known
of her long fight for the freedom
of her people long before she, her
self, knew of Lincoln.
1t was not strange that Lincoln
should have heard of Sojourner
Truth. The Negro woman who was
born a slave about 1900 in Ulster
County, New York, and who never
throughout her long life learned
to read or write, was known by
those in high places a well as by
the great masses of her own peo-
pie for her uneompromising fight
agaist slavery and for the rehab-
iliation for the ex-slaves after the
war In her "Book of Life which
she carried wherever she travel
led are testimonials from the great
est abolitionists of the day-Will-
lam Lloyd Garrison, kFrederick
Douglas, Wendall Phillips, Charles
Sumner, to name a few, similar
to her fearless struggle for equ-
atty of women was paid by SUI
san B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott.
In the halls of Congress, in
churches and meeting rooms, on
street corners-anywhere and au-
dience was to be found, went So
journer Truth, travelling thous-
ands of miles without funds, a
lone and unafraid. Her audiences
were not always friendly.
War Nurse
During the Civil War, when So
journer Truth was over, six
ty, she nursed the wounded sold
iers in the hospitals around Wa
shington. After the war she work
ed among the freed people there,
teaching them how to adapt them
selves to freedom.
SojoNTter Truth kept up her
travels and, speeches until she was
we'll past eighty. Peoples We're a
mazed at the vitality and intelli-
gence of this aged woman who
lost none of her fire and passion
to struggle for the rights of her
people
One could not end this brief
sketch of Sojourner Truth with
out at least mentioning her con-
temporary fighter for liberty. Har-
riet Tubman. | know of no meet
ing between Lincoln and this brave
woman, but I am confident that
no heard of her many times, too.
No one, pro-slave or abolitionist,
did ever not know of this fugitive
slave woman, who with a $40, 900
price on her head, made nineteen
trips into the South to bring over
three hundred Negro men, women
and children to freedom. She was
known as 1.-THE Moses of her
people" John Brown called her
General Tubman' in recognition
Of her assistance to him.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
WINS OHIO %ORAT0RICAL
CONTEST

Akron, o., March 3 (ANP)-
Herbert Bracken, student at the
University of Akron, last week
won the Ohio intercollegiate con-
test held at Kent State university
with his address on "The Economic
Color Line" White student from
Wittenberg college was second.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
STRIkE S SPREAD IN
BRITISH GUINA

Georgetown, British Guiana,
March 3 (CNA)-A complete tie
up of the sugar industry doomed
This week as strikes spread to all
estates in the colony, and workers
mostly Negro, began a march on
Georgetown to seek settlement of
their dispute with operators.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04

Louisville, Ky. March 8 (O)-
Domestic Life and Accident Insur-
ance company has assets Of $685.
454.9 as of December 81, last, ae-
cording to its annual statement,
just made public The company has
S25, 1904 in cash.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04

However this medical argument
ends, we're bound to work out some
system that will give sick people more
doctoring and idle doctors mere pa
tients.
The Omaha guide., 1939-03-04
JUSTICE DEPT. ASKS FOR
DATA on LYNCHINGs; COP
HITS At ANTI-LYNCH FIGHT

New York, March 3 (CNA)-
Petitions in support of the Wag-
ner anti-lynching bill were being
circulated thsi week by the 22nd
A. D. Manhattan organization of
the American Labor Party. The
organization has also called an
anti-lynching mass meeting for
Thursday evening March %, at
1885, Broadway. near 18TH street
in a white district.
Washington, March 3 (CNA)-
The anti-lynch forces of the nation
were encouraged this week by a
request from the Department of
Justice for data on the recent
lynch attack on two Negroes work.
r in Goldsboro, N. c. At the
same time ind 'gnation was express
sed at what was considered a
move by Senator w. Warren Bar
hour, New Jersey Republican, to
split the united support behind the
Wagner anti-lynching measure by
introducing in Congress a rival
bill that omits the punitive clauses
of the Wagner bill.
The Department of Justice re-
quest was contained in a telegram
sent by Brian MacMahon, Assistant
Attorney General, to James W.
Ford, Negro in answer TO a wire
by Ford to Attorney General
Murphy Ford's telegram declared
that the brutal flogging of Floyd
Edwards and Kirby Baldwin in
Goldsboro necessitated an imme-
>diate Federal investigation. In his
reply, MacMahon asked that all
facts be submitted "in order that
determination may be made wheth-
err a Federal violation" had taken
place.
Proponents of Federal anti
lynching legislation assaulted the
Barbour bill IS weakening the
penalties of the Wagner measure
by making them applicable only in
the ease of "wilful neglect on the
part of peace officers in taking
precautions to prevent mob vio-
lence. It was pointed out that the
Barbour bill provides a loophole
for officials in communities where
a lynching takes place. 1t was
also recalled that last year the
Republicans joined with the fill
clustering anti-New Deal Demo-,
Gratis of the South to kill the Wag-
ner anti-lynching bill. The Wag-
ner bill already has been re-intro-
duced into the Senate.
"I think as we develop the strug-
gle for the passage of the Federal
anti-lynching bill that a precedent
should be clearly established for
the office of the Attorney General
to take the responsibility to in
vesigate lynch acts. I trust you will
act accordingly"
With the letter was enclosed a
complete copy of Ford's cores
pondence with the Department of
Jusice.
-n4n -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
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 2, A stretch Of meadow, un- lharred by trees or buildings (New Jersey),
 A. You're likely to feel like this If you spot headless figure out- side your window some stormy night (pennsylvanla).
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
scARECRow GOES wARLIKE

zellwood, Fla. --(UP) - The war is having It's influence on costumes for scarecrows. James Vincent, vet. eran of the last World War, has dressed c scarccrow near his house in his old A.BP. uniform, complete with gas mask, steel helmet and knnpaaek.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-26
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