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The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
GIBBS To ADDRESS GRADU.
hTING MINISTERS

Wherefore, Ohio July 10 (Ap)
Rev. c. A. Gibbs, treasurer of
Edward Waters college and one of
the prominent young ministers in
the African Methodist Episcopal
church addressed the faculty,
graduating class and student body
Of Payne Theological Seminary,
associated with Wherefore uni
versity, last Sunday. Rev. Gibbs
spoke upon the subject "Master
Builders directing his remarks
particularly to the opportunities
which lie before the trained young
minister of the present day.
Rev. Gibbs, who is being men,
toned f~avorably for the bishopric
Of his denomination came from
attendance upon a round of East
ern conferences, presided over by
Bishop Sims.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. D. Nicholson, pastor
Clarinda, Iowa

Sunday school at the usual hour
with a good attendance.
We were happy to have our
pastor back with us. He has been
on his vacation for two weeks. He
also went 10 the Sunday school &
BYPU Congress in Tulsa, Okla,
and visited his people in Texas
and Arkansas.
Morning service was in a high
spirit and the pastor brought US
a soul stirring message.
Evening service, the pastor
brought us another inspiring mes
sage full of thought. He reported
els having a happy time while on
his vacation.
We were happy to have Mrs.
Cartron and Miss Morton back
with US Sunday. The spirit was
very high all day.
The Fourth Sunday, we will
have a Anniversary program of
the Second Baptist Church and are
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
FIRST MISSION PROPHET
HESS, GOD SENT LIGHT
Prophet Hess, Leader
Sister Woodie, reporter

Prophet Hess made his depar-
ture for his home Friday July 7th,
accompanied by his two sons and
daughter. He was highly honored
by a large crowd of followers
and his many friends that the Lord
has blessed him with. Service
shall continue in his absent. Tues
day and Thursday night at $3.50
p. M. The Lord has blessed him
with a strong prayer band. The
Prophet Hess shall keep his peo-
pie informed through the mail.
We r. praying for wife recovery.
Look for notice of his return.
May the Lord bless and keep the
Prophet Hess. Amen.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15

clear that the Fair Labor Stan
dards Act is concerned with the
Negro only as a wage worker.
"The Act has and will continue
to have a tremendous effect on
the economic status of the Ne
gro worker he said, because this
worker has changed from agrilcul-
tural to industrial employment to
a high degree during the last
twenty years."
Emphasizing the significance of
a races full cultural development
being built upon economic securi-
ty, Mr.. Dykstra concluded.
EVERY time the Negroes status
has improved economically, he has
increased his cultural contributions
to American life become a better
citizen and a better neighbor."
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alism', and insisted that the case
was clearly one involving jim-crow
discrimination.
The Adamses moved two years
ago into the building at II Lex
ington Ave, which is also occu-
pied by nine other families, all
white. The new tenants got along
nicely win the white tenants.
However, the landlords, in May
1888, suddenly sought to evict the
couple without warning or explain
alton. The white tenants rallied
to protest the discriminatory act
and signed a petition of protest,
causing the landlords to withdraw
the disposses.
Two weeks ago, the Adams
were again served with eviction
papers.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
Host to AME. Zion
Confab in Philly
Dies as Session
Opens

Philadelphia, July t3 (ANP)
The Grim Reaper played co-host
lest Saturday to the 18TH session
Of the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Conference, AME Zion Church,
when DR.. Fred Douglas, pastor
Wesley AME church and host to
the conference died in Douglass
hospital at the conelave was about
to open.
DIR. Douglas was So years old,
had served as pastor at Wesley
for seven years. He slumped to
the concrete walk at the rear Of
the church whence he had rushed
after being taken i'll while Bishop
G. G. Alleyne, presiding prelate
was completing certification of
delegates. He was rushed TO the
hospital by friends.
Just an hour before his fatal
collapse, DR.. Douglas was elected
as one of the seven delegates to
the general conference of his
church, to be held in Washington
d. c. in 1910.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
White Tenants
Block Jim Crow
Eviction

New York, July 10 (CNA)-
New York's tenant organizations
this week were celebrating a par
tial victory against landlord dis
elimination following a court de-
cision granting a Negro family the
maximum six months stay of evie-
ton.
The landlord, the estate of
Max Eisman, 271 Madison Ave,
sought to evict the Rev. Alger
l.. Adams and his wife, Jesse
Wells, a social worker from II
Lexington Ave, because of their
race.
In a ruling following a legal
battle royal, Municipal Court
Justice Charles J. Garrison grant
ed the couple the maximum time
extension allowed in disposses pro
ceedings to find another apart
ment.
At the outset of the hearing
Justice Garrison attempted to min.
imize the jim-crow aspect of the
case, asserting that the case was
"iust another ordinary landlord.
tenant case"
Sharp exception this analyst.
was taken by Oscar Albert, execu.
tive secretary of the City Wide
Tenants Council and Barney Ros.
%enstein, Council lawyer. AlberI
termed the law on which the case
was based, which permits a land
lord to evict a tenant without
cause as a 'hold over from feud-
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
MT. M6RIAH BAPTIST
Rev. +. P. Jones, Pastor
+. Burroughs, reporter

The morning services were
somewhat unusual. The pastor
favored his audience with an illus
ira. ed sermon. The outlines and
pictures were spon the blackboard
and the scriptures bearing out the
Illustrations were assigned to var
lous persons in the audience TO
read. The subject "What Time Is
/. with You? The first outline
Time to Awake" was covered.
Next Sunday morning the second
outline "Time to go to Work" will
be presented. You are invited to
attend.
Mr.. Edward Anthony sang a
iolo number.
Mr.. July Miles is somewhat in
disposed at his home. Others on
he sick list are doing nicely.
Tuesday July 10, a trip to Pixies
Peak under the auspices of the
Usher Board will be given.
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CHRIST TEMPLE CHURCH
Rev. L. NJ. Relf. pastor
Sas. A. Hogan, reporer

Sunday school was opened at
nine thirty A. M. by Rev. S. Stat
ford. The lesson was a great in
SEPARATION to all that attended the
service.
Morning service began at 11:15.
The Junior Choir took the stand
at 1880. Rev. Relf brought us
a wonderful sermon during the
morning service. HYPU was open
ed by Miss Edith Lewis at six
thirty P. NJ. Sunday night service
began at eve forty five. Rev.
Ref preached a wonderful sermon
from the 10th chapter of st. Luke.
Visitors Were two in number. We
invite you to come and worship
with us at anytime.
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law school spoke at the opening
meeting of the seven-day confer
ence, in the Richmond Mosque,
June 81.
He was outlining the develop
ment of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, from 1880 until the pre-
sent time, in an effort to show that
the association is broadening out in
it's methods of obtaining citizen
ships rights for the Negro peo-
pie, and 4" q reasons for this.
his liason between the so-called
Negro problem and other prob
lens, he said, includes the social
problems, "of peace and war, of
labor and the distribution of wealth
of the further emancipation of
women, of industrial democracy,
and the curbing of imperialism,
from which no great social problem
can long successfully be segregat-
ed.
at is becoming increasingly flu
tile to think and act solely in
terms of racial betterment," the
jurist said ."While the defensive
strategy of the association nation
ally must still be directed large
ly at racial disadvantages, u Of
fensiye strategy, u sustained and
sustaining program must %increas-
ingly emphasize and embody the
recognition of common interests a
cross the color line"
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
WAGE HOUR LAW AIDS
NEGROES, SAYS OFFICIAL

Richmond, Va. July 13-Because
the Fair Labor Standards 'iseeks
to protect all workers, of every
racial group, from exploitation"
it gives to the Negro worker a
protection that will allow him to
make his fullest contribution to
American life on a material basis
that is built up through sound &C.
onomy.
This was the sentiment expressed
by S. H. Dykstra, representative
of the Wage and Hour division of
the us. Department of Labor, in
an address before the thirtieth an
nual conference of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People here, June %.
Speaking before that session of
the conference having to do with e.
economic problems of the South, Mr..
Dykstra said: at has been the lot
of the Negro in the United States
to be a marginal worker. That fast
more than any other, has condition
ed the development of the race, eco
nomically and culturally. Were it
not true there would be little need
for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie"
Tracing this development from
the slavery period in America, and
showing how racial animosities
have come to have a place in
American life mainly through this
false economic position to which
the Negro worker has been rele-
gated, the labor official made il
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
CHICAGO CHURCH SINGERS
PRESENT SLAVE MAID
MAID OF ISRAEL

Chicago, July 10 (~ANP)-Directed
by Mrs. e. B. Bohannon, a cast of
25 members of Olivet Baptis.
church presented "The Slave Maid
of Israeli last Monday night in
the auditorium of the church. APP
propriate scenery and costumes
we're used in depicting the drama,
woven around the biblical story
of Naaman the leper, of his heal
ing at the hands of the prophet Eli
sha and his conversion to the wor-
ship of Jehovah.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
Sec'y Ickes Hits
Race Hatred E.

New York, July 10 (CNA)-Ad-
dressing the $500 graduates of the
adult classes of the New York CT
ty Board of Education, Secretary
of the Interior Harold l.. Ickes
dhis week urged them to keep in
mind always that "for the sake of
our common country, of our future,
of our democracy, we must, every
n of us, learn to respect n a.
Mothers race, religion, color and
culture" The graduating exercises
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
BUFFALO CHURCH HITS RE-
LIEF BIAS

Buffalo, N. Y, July 10 (CNA)
Thomas w. H. Peacock, commits
TONER Of welfare here this week
received a protest from the Evan
gelistic Community Church Cen
Ter, against the policy of "deport-
ing Negroes families formerly of
the South who are on the city's
relief rolls.
The protest cited that in the re-
cent period five families on relief
have been "deportedp from Buffalo,
1t also called attention to newspa-
per publicity that is stimulated
by the attitude of the welfare de-
partment, one article referring to
Negro families as coming "up here
to get white mem relief"
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
THIS WEEK
IN RELIGION & THOUGHT
by ROBERT L. o

Dy hODEhl IL. mOODl
American Jim Grow Cars
For German Jews
A recent editorial from the New
York Sun quotes a German news
paper, Das Schwartz Karps".
In the worlds freest country
where the president storms against
bhe devilish invention of race
conscious, it is not permitted for
a Negro citizen equally to sit
on to have a berth next to a white
person in a train, even if the
white person may be only a sewer
cleaner and the Negro a World
Boxing Champion or otherwise a
national hero.
This democratic example shows
Germany also how to solve the
problem Of travelling foreign Jews.
In the worlds freest country
(USA) members of a despised race
are seated with their racial com
rades and not whites even if they
flaunt a British passport or a
french citizenship certificate
How the Germans humiliate us
in their pretended imitation OF
us. We find no pleasure in Their
sarcastic remarks about our be
loved country, but we must bow
shamefully before the truth
though it was not spoken in love
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15

MT. CALVARY COMMUNITY
CHURCH
Rev. X. w. Johnson, pastor
RomeIl Halter, reporter

Sunday school opened at $3.50
with the officers in place. We had
a large body present. Our sub
ject of the Lesson was Gods
Promise to Jeroboam.
IL o'clock service vas opened
by he devotion sister. Our pastor
led us in a universal prayer for
the sick, bereved, cripple, blind,
Lame and less fortunate ones.
Our pastor brought the message
from these words. Sub: BE Of
Good Cheer. Text St. John 1888.
Our hearts did burn as be spoke
to US. He spoke as the Lord spoke
IT. Welcome to our services at all
times.
The union opened at 6:15 P. NJ.
Sister Jackson presiding as presi-
dent. A very interesting discus
sion was had on the lesson. The
lesson was found in the 7th chap
ter of st. Matthews.
The evening service was opened
by the devotion sisters after which
the choir marched in led by The
pastor of the church. The pastor
then took charge of the services.
The Cotton Blossom Singers,
from Pine Wood, Mississippi gave
US a couple numbers which were
very enjoyable. Also a couple of
numbers were rendered by the
Spiritual Four. The Cotton Bios
som Singers will sing again Wed.
night at Mt. Calvary.
The healing service then follow
ed by our pastor. Many were
helped by this service. The mes
sage from these words. Sub. A new
Building. Text, End and 9th chap
ter | verse. A wonderful spiritual
feast was held. You are welcome
to our services at all times.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
Race Problems
Linked with Spec
ial Issues of Day.
HASTE Tells N. A.
A. C, P, Conference

Richmond, Va. July 10 -Jud-
ge William HASTE told the thir-
tieth annual N. A.. A. C. P. confer
ence meeting here last week that
there is need sto make common
cause between the so-called Ne
gro problem and other social prob
lens" in our country today if we
+ to move forward in the van
guard of the new day.
The former federal judge, who
recently resigned his post in the
Virgin Islands to accept the dean
ship of the Howard university
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15

were held at the Court of Peace
at the New York Worlds Fair.
I'VE are a land of many cultures
and many races and everyone, the
Scandinavian and the Italian, the
German and the Jew, the Briton
and the Slav, the Negro and the
Indian has contributed his full
share of mind and muscle to the
upbuilding of our American civil
lization," the hard-hitting New
Dealer told the graduates eve
must take pride in everything
worth while that our various eth
mic groups have given us and we
must never-if we are to remain
free, peaceful and united-permit
the spread of poisonous and idiotic
notions of superior and inferior
Americans. We are all Americans,
members of the same common
wealth fellow workers in the same
society"
More than $4,000 persons at
tended the dramatic and beautiful
services which marked the gradua-
tion of the $500 Americans, most
OF them foreign-born of the Adult
Education Glasses in English and
Citizenship
Ickes in his address referred to
the vital connections between de-
mocracy and education
Democracy means the polit-
zeal freedom of the person; edu-
cation implies intellectual free
dom, freedom from prejudice, from
bad taste, from self-deception. To
be ignorant and at the same time
free is a contradiction in terms.
Deception has always battoned up
on darkness
A similar note was struck by
Governor Lehman and Mayor La
Guardia, who also addressed the
graduates. Governor Lehman point
ed out:
"Our nation is composed of peo-
pie of different stocks and many
love of liberty"
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
Md WcSternC ME'S
To Gather At \. c.
SEVERAL BISHOPS AND
LEADERS EXPECTED

Topeka, Kansas, July - (ANP)
According to the Rev. G.. E.
Chapman, general secretary of
public relations department, the
annual jubilee of the Kansas-Mis-
souri, annual CINE conference has
been set for June 20 at st. Peters
CINE church in Kansas City, Rev.
D. w. Bass, general director of
the jubilee is also the entertaining
pastor-host.
According to the two presiding
elders, Revs. l.. E. B. Rosser and
G. E. Chapman, of the Missouri
and Kansas districts, every eff
fort will be put forth to excel
previous sessions of the jubilee.
Announcement was also made that
Gov. Payne Rather, Topeka, has
been extended invitation to adj
dress the Jubilee. He Is expected
to accept and will likely give one
of the feature addresses of the
session. Several other outstanding
leaders are expected.
Leadership training classes and
the big songfest Sunday after
noon will be two of the main at
fractions. There will be the usual
oratorical declamatory and musi-
cal programs characteristic of
previous sessions of the jubilee,
according to the announcement.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
Disorderly at Allen
Uni. Trustee Meet
CHURCH OFFICIAL
CONDEMNS FACULTY
AND STUDENTS FOR
THEIR ATTITUDES

Columbia, S. C. July 10 AMP
DR.. L. Fl. Hemingway, secre-
tary of Church Extension of the
AME church with his office in
Washington, D. C. was "hooded
and prevented from speaking be-
fore the Allen university trustees
by a bowling mob-spirited group
of lay trustees, and his speech
frustrated in the meeting of the
board of trustees last Wednesday
in Columbia.
Hemingway praised the eff
forts of South Carolina who had
just placed On the table $780, 900
for education the May Day En-
dowment collections from the field.
referred to the recent strike pull
ed at Allen and said that eft is
a sorry group of professors and
instructors In any college who
will allow the students to have a
strike and not stop it," This Great
ed a stir that virtually broke up
the trustees meeting.
The lay-delegates to the next
General Conference claim that
they will organize their forces
against the reelection of DR..
Hemmingway to his present place
as Church Extension head
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15

planning to have a free basket
dinner. Come out and enjoy the
program.
Evening star., 1939-03-05

The use of that of the Department
of Justice is the most restricted as
it is there especially to meet the
staff needs. Under the main library
is that of the Bureau of Prisons,
from which books are sent to the
Federal institutions for the use of
the prisoners. There are also those
of reference concerning prison sys-
TENS and criminology, which is at
tracing more and more attention.
Under the Department of Labor
is one of the largest and most i'm
portant collections of material on
labor and social welfare. Many of
the 10000 volumes deal with
Americanization, immigration, hous-
ing and the problems of women and
children.
Twelve libraries are under the
Navy Department, one of the most
important being that of the Naval
Observatory, which is founded on
a gift of zoo volumes from foreign
observatories at the time of its
organization in 1843. Its present
$4,000 include many rare books,
among them about 200 printed be-
fore 1000 and many of the 17th
century.
While the real purpose of the
library Is its usefulness to the staff,
many astronomers and mathemati-
clans have written their books there
and many theses for advanced de-
grees have been worked up in the
stimulating atmosphere.
At the State and War Depart
ments and the Treasury are found
tremendously important publca-
tions divided into IL groups under
the supervision of highly trained
specialists.
Among the independent Offices
more and more collections are being
built up and the number Of their
volumes runs high into the thou
sands. They cover hundreds Of sub
jects such as science at the Smith
sonian Institution, art at the Freer
Gallery, and zoology ut the National
Geological Park.
Evening star., 1939-03-05

They may study first editions, bind
ings of different countries and
periods, illustrations, illuminations,
autographs. see the smallest book
in the world and get vast fund
of other knowledge.
Students, graduate and under
graduate, throng the reading rooms
of this great library, of which they
share the ownership; they frequent
also the music division, which offers
untold treasurers in composition
and such precious things as musical
instruments of incalculable value.
In special division the blind stu
dent may continue his work.
If the historian wishes informa-
ton on the growth of the Govern
ment or any subject pertaining
thereto, the library in the Archives
Building would be the natural place
for him to go. The $4,000 books
and more than 5000 pamphlets are
open to those searching for records.
Watched by Crowd.
When the Government was moved
from Philadelphia in 1900, the
archives were placed in II packing
boxes which came by packet down
the coast and up the Potomac River
and Tiber Creek to the foot of the
Capitol, where they were unloaded
before the assembled crowd, num-
bering about 5000 persons.
Now the records in the District
of Columbia alone are estimated at
approximately 3,OO0,000,000 cubic
feet. From garrets, cellars, garages
and storerooms they are being gath
cred and deposited in the Archives
Building to be preserved for all
future generations.
Not only are records preserved,
but photographs and films illustrate
ing phases of our national life. The
best method of keeping these, the
problems of ink, paper, bindings,
fumigating and cleaning equipment
are studied, and in the library are
found many volumes dealing with
these scientific Investigations.
Among the books on our history
are found the writings of such illus
trious men as Washington, Jeffer-
son and Hamilton and biographies
of those who have had careers of
public service.
All Indian treaties are housed in
the Archives Building, and all
treaties with foreign nations will
eventually be there. The material
found here by the student is not
duplicated elsewhere.
Besides the libraries Just spoken
of. there are those attached to each
of the 10 departments and their
dependent bureaus. These, of course,
are specislised. A. IN example. the
Department Of Agriculture has "a
Evening star., 1939-03-05

Walter S. Cox and after being before
the court. for six weeks the informa-
ton filed by the Government was
quashed. Col. Cook, who was re-
sponsible for this method of pro-
cedure, afterward said: There has
always been a doubt as to whether
an information would lie in the
District"
In the meantime Gen. Brady had
resigned from Office, as had Mr.. Nc
Grew, the sixth auditor of the
Treasury, who had charge of the
Post Office accounts, and j. L..
French was let out of the service.
Second Trial.
The second trial began June 2,
1882, and the jury included: Fore
man, William Dickson, real estate
and claim agent; Matthew McNelly,
shoe dealer; John B. Mccarthy,
printer; Edwin ]. McLain, lawyer:
William K. Brown, teacher; Edwin
D. Doniphan, shoemaker: Henry A..
Olcott. livery stable clerk; William
Holmead, grocer: Thomas Martin,
barber; George w. Cox, dealer in
mems furnishing goods; Hugh T.
Murray, clerk; Zachariah Tobriner,
broker. Brown and Martin were
colored men. The John B. Mccarthy
was not the late neWspaperman.
Outsiders have always had a queer
idea of the District of Columbia. In
speaking of the difficulty of select
ing the jury one publication gave
vent to the statement that lit would
be an easy matter in almost every
other city. But Washington is a
city in which politics is almost the
only employment; and a case like
this agitates every stratum of So
ciety. There is no commercial or
manufacturing class upon which to
draw for an impartial jury. Every
person either has an Office or wants
one"
The trial continued until Septem-
Der II. when the jury brought In
verdict acquitting all the defend
ants except Miner and Rerdell, who
were held guilty. This verdict Judge
Wylie later set aside. Miner and
Rerdell were granted new trials,
the grounds being the unreasonable
ness of the verdict and the dragging
of the bribery matter into the de-
liberation of the jury room by Fore
man Dickson.
Jury Charges.
The trial had not ended, how
ever, without the accusation of jury
tampering, and even the judge used
very strong language in referring
to the attempts said to have been